Programs & Examples On #Dbgrid

How to add an onchange event to a select box via javascript?

yourSelect.setAttribute( "onchange", "yourFunction()" );

python re.split() to split by spaces, commas, and periods, but not in cases like 1,000 or 1.50

Use a negative lookahead and a negative lookbehind:

> s = "one two 3.4 5,6 seven.eight nine,ten"
> parts = re.split('\s|(?<!\d)[,.](?!\d)', s)
['one', 'two', '3.4', '5,6', 'seven', 'eight', 'nine', 'ten']

In other words, you always split by \s (whitespace), and only split by commas and periods if they are not followed (?!\d) or preceded (?<!\d) by a digit.

DEMO.

EDIT: As per @verdesmarald comment, you may want to use the following instead:

> s = "one two 3.4 5,6 seven.eight nine,ten,1.2,a,5"
> print re.split('\s|(?<!\d)[,.]|[,.](?!\d)', s)
['one', 'two', '3.4', '5,6', 'seven', 'eight', 'nine', 'ten', '1.2', 'a', '5']

This will split "1.2,a,5" into ["1.2", "a", "5"].

DEMO.

What is the difference between <section> and <div>?

The section tag provides a more semantic syntax for html. div is a generic tag for a section. When you use section tag for appropriate content, it can be used for search engine optimization also. section tag also makes it easy for html parsing. for more info, refer. http://blog.whatwg.org/is-not-just-a-semantic

How to style an asp.net menu with CSS

I remember the StaticSelectedStyle-CssClass attribute used to work in ASP.NET 2.0. And in .NET 4.0 if you change the Menu control's RenderingMode attribute "Table" (thus making it render the menu as s and sub-s like it did back '05) it will at least write your specified StaticSelectedStyle-CssClass into the proper html element.

That may be enough for you page to work like you want. However my work-around for the selected menu item in ASP 4.0 (when leaving RenderingMode to its default), is to mimic the control's generated "selected" CSS class but give mine the "!important" CSS declaration so my styles take precedence where needed.

For instance by default the Menu control renders an "li" element and child "a" for each menu item and the selected menu item's "a" element will contain class="selected" (among other control generated CSS class names including "static" if its a static menu item), therefore I add my own selector to the page (or in a separate stylesheet file) for "static" and "selected" "a" tags like so:

a.selected.static
{
background-color: #f5f5f5 !important;
border-top: Red 1px solid !important;
border-left: Red 1px solid !important;
border-right: Red 1px solid !important;
} 

Python Replace \\ with \

r'a\\nb'.replace('\\\\', '\\')

or

'a\nb'.replace('\n', '\\n')

PySpark: multiple conditions in when clause

when in pyspark multiple conditions can be built using &(for and) and | (for or).

Note:In pyspark t is important to enclose every expressions within parenthesis () that combine to form the condition

%pyspark
dataDF = spark.createDataFrame([(66, "a", "4"), 
                                (67, "a", "0"), 
                                (70, "b", "4"), 
                                (71, "d", "4")],
                                ("id", "code", "amt"))
dataDF.withColumn("new_column",
       when((col("code") == "a") | (col("code") == "d"), "A")
      .when((col("code") == "b") & (col("amt") == "4"), "B")
      .otherwise("A1")).show()

In Spark Scala code (&&) or (||) conditions can be used within when function

//scala
val dataDF = Seq(
      (66, "a", "4"), (67, "a", "0"), (70, "b", "4"), (71, "d", "4"
      )).toDF("id", "code", "amt")
dataDF.withColumn("new_column",
       when(col("code") === "a" || col("code") === "d", "A")
      .when(col("code") === "b" && col("amt") === "4", "B")
      .otherwise("A1")).show()

=======================

Output:
+---+----+---+----------+
| id|code|amt|new_column|
+---+----+---+----------+
| 66|   a|  4|         A|
| 67|   a|  0|         A|
| 70|   b|  4|         B|
| 71|   d|  4|         A|
+---+----+---+----------+

This code snippet is copied from sparkbyexamples.com

Right Align button in horizontal LinearLayout

I know this question was asked awhile ago, but I have done this before and it allows for more control when aligning items.If you look at it like web programming, it helps. You just nest another LinearLayout that will contain your button inside of it. You can then change the gravity of the button's layout and make it go to the right while the TextView is still on the left.

Try this code:

<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"             
android:orientation="horizontal" 
android:layout_marginTop="35dp">

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/lblExpenseCancel"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="@string/cancel" 
    android:textColor="#404040"         
    android:layout_marginLeft="10dp" 
    android:textSize="20sp" 
    android:layout_marginTop="9dp"/>

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:gravity="right"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/btnAddExpense"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="45dp"
        android:background="@drawable/stitch_button"
        android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"                    
        android:text="@string/add" 
        android:layout_gravity="right" 
        android:layout_marginRight="15dp"/>

</LinearLayout>

You may have to play with the padding on the nested layout so that it acts how you want it.

How do you find out the caller function in JavaScript?

It's safer to use *arguments.callee.caller since arguments.caller is deprecated...

Login credentials not working with Gmail SMTP

I ran into a similar problem and stumbled on this question. I got an SMTP Authentication Error but my user name / pass was correct. Here is what fixed it. I read this:

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255

In a nutshell, google is not allowing you to log in via smtplib because it has flagged this sort of login as "less secure", so what you have to do is go to this link while you're logged in to your google account, and allow the access:

https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps

Once that is set (see my screenshot below), it should work.

Less Secure Apps

Login now works:

smtpserver = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 587)
smtpserver.ehlo()
smtpserver.starttls()
smtpserver.ehlo()
smtpserver.login('[email protected]', 'me_pass')

Response after change:

(235, '2.7.0 Accepted')

Response prior:

smtplib.SMTPAuthenticationError: (535, '5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at\n5.7.8 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=14257 g66sm2224117qgf.37 - gsmtp')

Still not working? If you still get the SMTPAuthenticationError but now the code is 534, its because the location is unknown. Follow this link:

https://accounts.google.com/DisplayUnlockCaptcha

Click continue and this should give you 10 minutes for registering your new app. So proceed to doing another login attempt now and it should work.

This doesn't seem to work right away you may be stuck for a while getting this error in smptlib:

235 == 'Authentication successful'
503 == 'Error: already authenticated'

The message says to use the browser to sign in:

SMTPAuthenticationError: (534, '5.7.9 Please log in with your web browser and then try again. Learn more at\n5.7.9 https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=78754 qo11sm4014232igb.17 - gsmtp')

After enabling 'lesssecureapps', go for a coffee, come back, and try the 'DisplayUnlockCaptcha' link again. From user experience, it may take up to an hour for the change to kick in. Then try the sign-in process again.

UPDATE:: See my answer here: How to send an email with Gmail as provider using Python?

Loading cross-domain endpoint with AJAX

Just put this in the header of your PHP Page and it ill work without API:

header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *'); //allow everybody  

or

header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://codesheet.org'); //allow just one domain 

or

$http_origin = $_SERVER['HTTP_ORIGIN'];  //allow multiple domains

$allowed_domains = array(
  'http://codesheet.org',
  'http://stackoverflow.com'
);

if (in_array($http_origin, $allowed_domains))
{  
    header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin: $http_origin");
}

Passing variables in remote ssh command

It is also possible to pass environment variables explicitly through ssh. It does require some server-side set-up through, so this this not a universal answer.

In my case, I wanted to pass a backup repository encryption key to a command on the backup storage server without having that key stored there, but note that any environment variable is visible in ps! The solution of passing the key on stdin would work as well, but I found it too cumbersome. In any case, here's how to pass an environment variable through ssh:

On the server, edit the sshd_config file, typically /etc/ssh/sshd_config and add an AcceptEnv directive matching the variables you want to pass. See man sshd_config. In my case, I want to pass variables to borg backup so I chose:

AcceptEnv BORG_*

Now, on the client use the -o SendEnv option to send environment variables. The following command line sets the environment variable BORG_SECRET and then flags it to be sent to the client machine (called backup). It then runs printenv there and filters the output for BORG variables:

$ BORG_SECRET=magic-happens ssh -o SendEnv=BORG_SECRET backup printenv | egrep BORG
BORG_SECRET=magic-happens

How to get week numbers from dates?

I think the problem is that the week calculation somehow uses the first day of the year. I don't understand the internal mechanics, but you can see what I mean with this example:

library(data.table)

dd <- seq(as.IDate("2013-12-20"), as.IDate("2014-01-20"), 1)
# dd <- seq(as.IDate("2013-12-01"), as.IDate("2014-03-31"), 1)

dt <- data.table(i = 1:length(dd),
                 day = dd,
                 weekday = weekdays(dd),
                 day_rounded = round(dd, "weeks"))
## Now let's add the weekdays for the "rounded" date
dt[ , weekday_rounded := weekdays(day_rounded)]
## This seems to make internal sense with the "week" calculation
dt[ , weeknumber := week(day)]
dt 

    i        day   weekday day_rounded weekday_rounded weeknumber
1:  1 2013-12-20    Friday  2013-12-17         Tuesday         51
2:  2 2013-12-21  Saturday  2013-12-17         Tuesday         51
3:  3 2013-12-22    Sunday  2013-12-17         Tuesday         51
4:  4 2013-12-23    Monday  2013-12-24         Tuesday         52
5:  5 2013-12-24   Tuesday  2013-12-24         Tuesday         52
6:  6 2013-12-25 Wednesday  2013-12-24         Tuesday         52
7:  7 2013-12-26  Thursday  2013-12-24         Tuesday         52
8:  8 2013-12-27    Friday  2013-12-24         Tuesday         52
9:  9 2013-12-28  Saturday  2013-12-24         Tuesday         52
10: 10 2013-12-29    Sunday  2013-12-24         Tuesday         52
11: 11 2013-12-30    Monday  2013-12-31         Tuesday         53
12: 12 2013-12-31   Tuesday  2013-12-31         Tuesday         53
13: 13 2014-01-01 Wednesday  2014-01-01       Wednesday          1
14: 14 2014-01-02  Thursday  2014-01-01       Wednesday          1
15: 15 2014-01-03    Friday  2014-01-01       Wednesday          1
16: 16 2014-01-04  Saturday  2014-01-01       Wednesday          1
17: 17 2014-01-05    Sunday  2014-01-01       Wednesday          1
18: 18 2014-01-06    Monday  2014-01-01       Wednesday          1
19: 19 2014-01-07   Tuesday  2014-01-08       Wednesday          2
20: 20 2014-01-08 Wednesday  2014-01-08       Wednesday          2
21: 21 2014-01-09  Thursday  2014-01-08       Wednesday          2
22: 22 2014-01-10    Friday  2014-01-08       Wednesday          2
23: 23 2014-01-11  Saturday  2014-01-08       Wednesday          2
24: 24 2014-01-12    Sunday  2014-01-08       Wednesday          2
25: 25 2014-01-13    Monday  2014-01-08       Wednesday          2
26: 26 2014-01-14   Tuesday  2014-01-15       Wednesday          3
27: 27 2014-01-15 Wednesday  2014-01-15       Wednesday          3
28: 28 2014-01-16  Thursday  2014-01-15       Wednesday          3
29: 29 2014-01-17    Friday  2014-01-15       Wednesday          3
30: 30 2014-01-18  Saturday  2014-01-15       Wednesday          3
31: 31 2014-01-19    Sunday  2014-01-15       Wednesday          3
32: 32 2014-01-20    Monday  2014-01-15       Wednesday          3
     i        day   weekday day_rounded weekday_rounded weeknumber

My workaround is this function: https://github.com/geneorama/geneorama/blob/master/R/round_weeks.R

round_weeks <- function(x){
    require(data.table)
    dt <- data.table(i = 1:length(x),
                     day = x,
                     weekday = weekdays(x))
    offset <- data.table(weekday = c('Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 
                                     'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday'),
                         offset = -(0:6))
    dt <- merge(dt, offset, by="weekday")
    dt[ , day_adj := day + offset]
    setkey(dt, i)
    return(dt[ , day_adj])
}

Of course, you can easily change the offset to make Monday first or whatever. The best way to do this would be to add an offset to the offset... but I haven't done that yet.

I provided a link to my simple geneorama package, but please don't rely on it too much because it's likely to change and not very documented.

Simplest way to do a recursive self-join?

SQL 2005 or later, CTEs are the standard way to go as per the examples shown.

SQL 2000, you can do it using UDFs -

CREATE FUNCTION udfPersonAndChildren
(
    @PersonID int
)
RETURNS @t TABLE (personid int, initials nchar(10), parentid int null)
AS
begin
    insert into @t 
    select * from people p      
    where personID=@PersonID

    while @@rowcount > 0
    begin
      insert into @t 
      select p.*
      from people p
        inner join @t o on p.parentid=o.personid
        left join @t o2 on p.personid=o2.personid
      where o2.personid is null
    end

    return
end

(which will work in 2005, it's just not the standard way of doing it. That said, if you find that the easier way to work, run with it)

If you really need to do this in SQL7, you can do roughly the above in a sproc but couldn't select from it - SQL7 doesn't support UDFs.

Failed to execute 'postMessage' on 'DOMWindow': The target origin provided does not match the recipient window's origin ('null')

In My Case, Im trying to pass messages from Salesforce Marketing Cloud Custom Activity(Domain 1) to Heroku(Domain 2) on load.

The Error Appeared in console, when I loaded my original html page from where message is being passed.

Issue I noticed after reading many blogs is that, the receiver page is not loaded yet. i.e

I need to debug from my receiver page not from sender page.

Simple but glad if it helps anyone.

How to count items in JSON data

import json

json_data = json.dumps({
  "result":[
    {
      "run":[
        {
          "action":"stop"
        },
        {
          "action":"start"
        },
        {
          "action":"start"
        }
      ],
      "find": "true"
    }
  ]
})

item_dict = json.loads(json_data)
print len(item_dict['result'][0]['run'])

Convert it in dict.

How to add a form load event (currently not working)

You got half of the answer! Now that you created the event handler, you need to hook it to the form so that it actually gets called when the form is loading. You can achieve that by doing the following:

 public class ProgramViwer : Form{
  public ProgramViwer()
  {
       InitializeComponent();
       Load += new EventHandler(ProgramViwer_Load);
  }
  private void ProgramViwer_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
  {
       formPanel.Controls.Clear();
       formPanel.Controls.Add(wel);
  }
}

How can I get table names from an MS Access Database?

Getting a list of tables:

SELECT 
    Table_Name = Name, 
FROM 
    MSysObjects 
WHERE 
    (Left([Name],1)<>"~") 
    AND (Left([Name],4) <> "MSys") 
    AND ([Type] In (1, 4, 6)) 
ORDER BY 
    Name

IIS: Where can I find the IIS logs?

I have found the IIS Log files at the following location.

C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\

which help to fix my issue.

Example of Mockito's argumentCaptor

Here I am giving you a proper example of one callback method . so suppose we have a method like method login() :

 public void login() {
    loginService = new LoginService();
    loginService.login(loginProvider, new LoginListener() {
        @Override
        public void onLoginSuccess() {
            loginService.getresult(true);
        }

        @Override
        public void onLoginFaliure() {
            loginService.getresult(false);

        }
    });
    System.out.print("@@##### get called");
}

I also put all the helper class here to make the example more clear: loginService class

public class LoginService implements Login.getresult{
public void login(LoginProvider loginProvider,LoginListener callback){

    String username  = loginProvider.getUsername();
    String pwd  = loginProvider.getPassword();
    if(username != null && pwd != null){
        callback.onLoginSuccess();
    }else{
        callback.onLoginFaliure();
    }

}

@Override
public void getresult(boolean value) {
    System.out.print("login success"+value);
}}

and we have listener LoginListener as :

interface LoginListener {
void onLoginSuccess();

void onLoginFaliure();

}

now I just wanted to test the method login() of class Login

 @Test
public void loginTest() throws Exception {
    LoginService service = mock(LoginService.class);
    LoginProvider provider = mock(LoginProvider.class);
    whenNew(LoginProvider.class).withNoArguments().thenReturn(provider);
    whenNew(LoginService.class).withNoArguments().thenReturn(service);
    when(provider.getPassword()).thenReturn("pwd");
    when(provider.getUsername()).thenReturn("username");
    login.getLoginDetail("username","password");

    verify(provider).setPassword("password");
    verify(provider).setUsername("username");

    verify(service).login(eq(provider),captor.capture());

    LoginListener listener = captor.getValue();

    listener.onLoginSuccess();

    verify(service).getresult(true);

also dont forget to add annotation above the test class as

@RunWith(PowerMockRunner.class)
@PrepareForTest(Login.class)

Any shortcut to initialize all array elements to zero?

If you are using Float or Integer then you can assign default value like this ...

Integer[] data = new Integer[20];
Arrays.fill(data,new Integer(0));

How do I find the date a video (.AVI .MP4) was actually recorded?

For me the mtime (modification time) is also earlier than the create date in a lot of (most) cases since, as you say, any reorganisation modifies the create time. However, the mtime AFAIUI is an accurate reflection of when the file contents were actually changed so should be an accurate record of video capture date.

After discovering this metadata failure for movie files, I am going to be renaming my videos based on their mtime so I have this stored in a more robust way!

How to change the version of the 'default gradle wrapper' in IntelliJ IDEA?

The easiest way is to execute the following command from the command line (see Upgrading the Gradle Wrapper in documentation):

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version 5.5

Moreover, you can use --distribution-type parameter with either bin or all value to choose a distribution type. Use all distribution type to avoid a hint from IntelliJ IDEA or Android Studio that will offer you to download Gradle with sources:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version 5.5 --distribution-type all

Or you can create a custom wrapper task

task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
    gradleVersion = '5.5'
}

and run ./gradlew wrapper.

adding child nodes in treeview

It's not that bad, but you forgot to call treeView2.EndUpdate() in your addParentNode_Click() method.
You can also call treeView2.ExpandAll() at the end of your addChildNode_Click() method to see your child node directly.

private void addParentNode_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) {
  treeView2.BeginUpdate();
  //treeView2.Nodes.Clear();
  string yourParentNode;
  yourParentNode = textBox1.Text.Trim();
  treeView2.Nodes.Add(yourParentNode);
  treeView2.EndUpdate();
}

private void addChildNode_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) {
  if (treeView2.SelectedNode != null) {
    string yourChildNode;
    yourChildNode = textBox1.Text.Trim();
    treeView2.SelectedNode.Nodes.Add(yourChildNode);
    treeView2.ExpandAll();
  }
}

I don't know if it was a mistake or not but there was 2 TreeViews. I changed it to only 1 TreeView...

EDIT: Answer to the additional question:
You can declare the variable holding the child node name outside of the if clause:

private void addChildNode_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) {
  var childNode = textBox1.Text.Trim();
  if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(childNode)) {
    TreeNode parentNode = treeView2.SelectedNode ?? treeView2.Nodes[0];
    if (parentNode != null) {
      parentNode.Nodes.Add(childNode);
      treeView2.ExpandAll();
    }
  }
}

Note: see http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/csharp2/nullable.html for info about the ?? operator.

How can I save a base64-encoded image to disk?

You can use a third-party library like base64-img or base64-to-image.

  1. base64-img
const base64Img = require('base64-img');

const data = 'data:image/png;base64,...';
const destpath = 'dir/to/save/image';
const filename = 'some-filename';

base64Img.img(data, destpath, filename, (err, filepath) => {}); // Asynchronous using

const filepath = base64Img.imgSync(data, destpath, filename); // Synchronous using
  1. base64-to-image
const base64ToImage = require('base64-to-image');

const base64Str = 'data:image/png;base64,...';
const path = 'dir/to/save/image/'; // Add trailing slash
const optionalObj = { fileName: 'some-filename', type: 'png' };

const { imageType, fileName } = base64ToImage(base64Str, path, optionalObj); // Only synchronous using

Extract the maximum value within each group in a dataframe

Using sqldf and standard sql to get the maximum values grouped by another variable

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sqldf/sqldf.pdf

library(sqldf)
sqldf("select max(Value),Gene from df1 group by Gene")

or

Using the excellent Hmisc package for a groupby application of function (max) https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/Hmisc/versions/4.0-3/topics/summarize

library(Hmisc)
summarize(df1$Value,df1$Gene,max)

use localStorage across subdomains

If you're using the iframe and postMessage solution just for this particular problem, I think it might be less work (both code-wise and computation-wise) to just store the data in a subdomain-less cookie and, if it's not already in localStorage on load, grab it from the cookie.

Pros:

  • Doesn't need the extra iframe and postMessage set up.

Cons:

  • Will make the data available across all subdomains (not just www) so if you don't trust all the subdomains it may not work for you.
  • Will send the data to the server on each request. Not great, but depending on your scenario, maybe still less work than the iframe/postMessage solution.
  • If you're doing this, why not just use the cookies directly? Depends on your context.
  • 4K max cookie size, total across all cookies for the domain (Thanks to Blake for pointing this out in comments)

I agree with other commenters though, this seems like it should be a specifiable option for localStorage so work-arounds aren't required.

PHP error: Notice: Undefined index:

Assure you have used method="post" in the form you are sending data from.

W3WP.EXE using 100% CPU - where to start?

If your CPU is spiking to 100% and staying there, it's quite likely that you either have a deadlock scenario or an infinite loop. A profiler seems like a good choice for finding an infinite loop. Deadlocks are much more difficult to track down, however.

How to set menu to Toolbar in Android

You can achieve this by two methods

  1. Using XML
  2. Using java

Using XML Add this attribute to toolbar XML app:menu = "menu_name"

Using java By overriding onCreateOptionMenu(Menu menu)

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity { 

  private Toolbar toolbar;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        toolbar = findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
        setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
}
@Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.demo_menu,menu);
        return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
    }
}

for more details or implementating click on the menu go through this article https://bedevelopers.tech/android-toolbar-implementation-using-android-studio/

Multiline input form field using Bootstrap

I think the problem is that you are using type="text" instead of textarea. What you want is:

<textarea class="span6" rows="3" placeholder="What's up?" required></textarea>

To clarify, a type="text" will always be one row, where-as a textarea can be multiple.

how do I make a single legend for many subplots with matplotlib?

While rather late to the game, I'll give another solution here as this is still one of the first links to show up on google. Using matplotlib 2.2.2, this can be achieved using the gridspec feature. In the example below the aim is to have four subplots arranged in a 2x2 fashion with the legend shown at the bottom. A 'faux' axis is created at the bottom to place the legend in a fixed spot. The 'faux' axis is then turned off so only the legend shows. Result: https://i.stack.imgur.com/5LUWM.png.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.gridspec as gridspec

#Gridspec demo
fig = plt.figure()
fig.set_size_inches(8,9)
fig.set_dpi(100)

rows   = 17 #the larger the number here, the smaller the spacing around the legend
start1 = 0
end1   = int((rows-1)/2)
start2 = end1
end2   = int(rows-1)

gspec = gridspec.GridSpec(ncols=4, nrows=rows)

axes = []
axes.append(fig.add_subplot(gspec[start1:end1,0:2]))
axes.append(fig.add_subplot(gspec[start2:end2,0:2]))
axes.append(fig.add_subplot(gspec[start1:end1,2:4]))
axes.append(fig.add_subplot(gspec[start2:end2,2:4]))
axes.append(fig.add_subplot(gspec[end2,0:4]))

line, = axes[0].plot([0,1],[0,1],'b')           #add some data
axes[-1].legend((line,),('Test',),loc='center') #create legend on bottommost axis
axes[-1].set_axis_off()                         #don't show bottommost axis

fig.tight_layout()
plt.show()

using OR and NOT in solr query

Just to add another unexpected case, here is query that wasn't returning expected results:

*:* AND ( ( field_a:foo AND field_b:bar ) OR !field_b:bar )

field_b in my case is something I perform faceting on, and needed to target the query term "foo" only on that type (bar)

I had to insert another *:* after the or condition to get this to work, like so:

*:* AND ( ( field_a:foo AND field_b:bar ) OR ( *:* AND !field_b:bar ) )

edit: this is in solr 6.6.3

How to get started with Windows 7 gadgets

Here's an excellent article by Scott Allen: Developing Gadgets for the Windows Sidebar

This site, Windows 7/Vista Sidebar Gadgets, has links to many gadget resources.

How do I add a placeholder on a CharField in Django?

The other methods are all good. However, if you prefer to not specify the field (e.g. for some dynamic method), you can use this:

def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
    super(MyForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
    self.fields['email'].widget.attrs['placeholder'] = self.fields['email'].label or '[email protected]'

It also allows the placeholder to depend on the instance for ModelForms with instance specified.

Getting Exception(org.apache.poi.openxml4j.exception - no content type [M1.13]) when reading xlsx file using Apache POI?

Pretty sure that this exception is thrown when the Excel file is either password protected or the file itself is corrupted. If you just want to read a .xlsx file, try my code below. It's a lot more shorter and easier to read.

import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.WorkbookFactory;
import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Workbook;
import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Sheet;
//.....

static final String excelLoc = "C:/Documents and Settings/Users/Desktop/testing.xlsx";

public static void ReadExcel() {
InputStream inputStream = null;
   try {
        inputStream = new FileInputStream(new File(excelLoc));
        Workbook wb = WorkbookFactory.create(inputStream);
        int numberOfSheet = wb.getNumberOfSheets();

        for (int i = 0; i < numberOfSheet; i++) {
             Sheet sheet = wb.getSheetAt(i);
             //.... Customize your code here
             // To get sheet name, try -> sheet.getSheetName()
        }
   } catch {}
}

Force file download with php using header()

Here is a snippet from me in testing... obviously passing via get to the script may not be the best... should post or just send an id and grab guid from db... anyhow.. this worked. I take the URL and convert it to a path.

// Initialize a file URL to the variable
$file = $_GET['url'];
$file = str_replace(Polepluginforrvms_Plugin::$install_url, $DOC_ROOT.'/pole-permitter/', $file );

$quoted = sprintf('"%s"', addcslashes(basename($file), '"\\'));
$size   = filesize($file);

header( "Content-type: application/octet-stream" );
header( "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename={$quoted}" );
header( "Content-length: " . $size );
header( "Pragma: no-cache" );
header( "Expires: 0" );
readfile( "{$file}" );

fatal error LNK1169: one or more multiply defined symbols found in game programming

You can't put variable definitions in header files, as these will then be a part of all source file you include the header into.

The #pragma once is just to protect against multiple inclusions in the same source file, not against multiple inclusions in multiple source files.

You could declare the variables as extern in the header file, and then define them in a single source file. Or you could declare the variables as const in the header file and then the compiler and linker will manage it.

Div height 100% and expands to fit content

Just add these two line in your css id #some_div

display: block;
overflow: auto;

After that you will get what your are looking for !

How can I detect when the mouse leaves the window?

This worked for me. A combination of some of the answers here. And I included the code showing a model only once. And the model goes away when clicked anywhere else.

<script>
    var leave = 0
    //show modal when mouse off of page
    $("html").mouseleave(function() {
       //check for first time
       if (leave < 1) {
          modal.style.display = "block";
          leave = leave + 1;
       }
    });

    // Get the modal with id="id01"
       var modal = document.getElementById('id01');

    // When the user clicks anywhere outside of the modal, close it
       window.onclick = function(event) {
          if (event.target == modal) {
             modal.style.display = "none";
          }
       }
</script>

MySQL 1062 - Duplicate entry '0' for key 'PRIMARY'

Set AUTO_INCREMENT to PRIMARY KEY

LINQ - Full Outer Join

My clean solution for situation that key is unique in both enumerables:

 private static IEnumerable<TResult> FullOuterJoin<Ta, Tb, TKey, TResult>(
            IEnumerable<Ta> a, IEnumerable<Tb> b,
            Func<Ta, TKey> key_a, Func<Tb, TKey> key_b,
            Func<Ta, Tb, TResult> selector)
        {
            var alookup = a.ToLookup(key_a);
            var blookup = b.ToLookup(key_b);
            var keys = new HashSet<TKey>(alookup.Select(p => p.Key));
            keys.UnionWith(blookup.Select(p => p.Key));
            return keys.Select(key => selector(alookup[key].FirstOrDefault(), blookup[key].FirstOrDefault()));
        }

so

    var ax = new[] {
        new { id = 1, first_name = "ali" },
        new { id = 2, first_name = "mohammad" } };
    var bx = new[] {
        new { id = 1, last_name = "rezaei" },
        new { id = 3, last_name = "kazemi" } };

    var list = FullOuterJoin(ax, bx, a => a.id, b => b.id, (a, b) => "f: " + a?.first_name + " l: " + b?.last_name).ToArray();

outputs:

f: ali l: rezaei
f: mohammad l:
f:  l: kazemi

JQuery create a form and add elements to it programmatically

Using Jquery

Rather than creating temp variables it can be written in a continuous flow pattern as follows:

$('</form>', { action: url, method: 'POST' }).append(
    $('<input>', {type: 'hidden', id: 'id_field_1', name: 'name_field_1', value: val_field_1}),
    $('<input>', {type: 'hidden', id: 'id_field_2', name: 'name_field_2', value: val_field_2}),
).appendTo('body').submit();

Keep SSH session alive

I wanted a one-time solution:

ssh -o ServerAliveInterval=60 [email protected]

Stored it in an alias:

alias sshprod='ssh -v -o ServerAliveInterval=60 [email protected]'

Now can connect like this:

me@MyMachine:~$ sshprod

How to specify the bottom border of a <tr>?

Try the following instead:

<html>
 <head>
  <title>Table row styling</title>
  <style type="text/css">
    .bb td, .bb th {
     border-bottom: 1px solid black !important;
    }
  </style>
 </head>
 <body>
  <table>
    <tr class="bb">
      <td>This</td>
      <td>should</td>
      <td>work</td>
    </tr>
  </table>
 </body>
</html>

Should I return EXIT_SUCCESS or 0 from main()?

EXIT_FAILURE, either in a return statement in main or as an argument to exit(), is the only portable way to indicate failure in a C or C++ program. exit(1) can actually signal successful termination on VMS, for example.

If you're going to be using EXIT_FAILURE when your program fails, then you might as well use EXIT_SUCCESS when it succeeds, just for the sake of symmetry.

On the other hand, if the program never signals failure, you can use either 0 or EXIT_SUCCESS. Both are guaranteed by the standard to signal successful completion. (It's barely possible that EXIT_SUCCESS could have a value other than 0, but it's equal to 0 on every implementation I've ever heard of.)

Using 0 has the minor advantage that you don't need #include <stdlib.h> in C, or #include <cstdlib> in C++ (if you're using a return statement rather than calling exit()) -- but for a program of any significant size you're going to be including stdlib directly or indirectly anyway.

For that matter, in C starting with the 1999 standard, and in all versions of C++, reaching the end of main() does an implicit return 0; anyway, so you might not need to use either 0 or EXIT_SUCCESS explicitly. (But at least in C, I consider an explicit return 0; to be better style.)

(Somebody asked about OpenVMS. I haven't used it in a long time, but as I recall odd status values generally denote success while even values denote failure. The C implementation maps 0 to 1, so that return 0; indicates successful termination. Other values are passed unchanged, so return 1; also indicates successful termination. EXIT_FAILURE would have a non-zero even value.)

How to import a Python class that is in a directory above?

@gimel's answer is correct if you can guarantee the package hierarchy he mentions. If you can't -- if your real need is as you expressed it, exclusively tied to directories and without any necessary relationship to packaging -- then you need to work on __file__ to find out the parent directory (a couple of os.path.dirname calls will do;-), then (if that directory is not already on sys.path) prepend temporarily insert said dir at the very start of sys.path, __import__, remove said dir again -- messy work indeed, but, "when you must, you must" (and Pyhon strives to never stop the programmer from doing what must be done -- just like the ISO C standard says in the "Spirit of C" section in its preface!-).

Here is an example that may work for you:

import sys
import os.path
sys.path.append(
    os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), os.path.pardir)))

import module_in_parent_dir

Adding ID's to google map markers

Just adding another solution that works for me.. You can simply append it in the marker options:

var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
    map: map, 
    position: position,

    // Custom Attributes / Data / Key-Values
    store_id: id,
    store_address: address,
    store_type: type
});

And then retrieve them with:

marker.get('store_id');
marker.get('store_address');
marker.get('store_type');

Name does not exist in the current context

I also faced a similar issue. The reason was that I had the changes done in the .aspx page but not the designer page and hence I got the mentioned error. When the reference was created in the designer page I was able to build the solution.

Number of days between past date and current date in Google spreadsheet

The following seemed to work well for me:

=DATEDIF(B2, Today(), "D")

Check if a file exists with wildcard in shell script

Update: For bash scripts, the most direct and performant approach is:

if compgen -G "${PROJECT_DIR}/*.png" > /dev/null; then
    echo "pattern exists!"
fi

This will work very speedily even in directories with millions of files and does not involve a new subshell.

Source


The simplest should be to rely on ls return value (it returns non-zero when the files do not exist):

if ls /path/to/your/files* 1> /dev/null 2>&1; then
    echo "files do exist"
else
    echo "files do not exist"
fi

I redirected the ls output to make it completely silent.


EDIT: Since this answer has got a bit of attention (and very useful critic remarks as comments), here is an optimization that also relies on glob expansion, but avoids the use of ls:

for f in /path/to/your/files*; do

    ## Check if the glob gets expanded to existing files.
    ## If not, f here will be exactly the pattern above
    ## and the exists test will evaluate to false.
    [ -e "$f" ] && echo "files do exist" || echo "files do not exist"

    ## This is all we needed to know, so we can break after the first iteration
    break
done

This is very similar to @grok12's answer, but it avoids the unnecessary iteration through the whole list.

c# open a new form then close the current form?

You weren't specific, but it looks like you were trying to do what I do in my Win Forms apps: start with a Login form, then after successful login, close that form and put focus on a Main form. Here's how I do it:

  1. make frmMain the startup form; this is what my Program.cs looks like:

    [STAThread]
    static void Main()
    {
        Application.EnableVisualStyles();
        Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
        Application.Run(new frmMain());
    }
    
  2. in my frmLogin, create a public property that gets initialized to false and set to true only if a successful login occurs:

    public bool IsLoggedIn { get; set; }
    
  3. my frmMain looks like this:

    private void frmMain_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        frmLogin frm = new frmLogin();
        frm.IsLoggedIn = false;
        frm.ShowDialog();
    
        if (!frm.IsLoggedIn)
        {
            this.Close();
            Application.Exit();
            return;
        }
    

No successful login? Exit the application. Otherwise, carry on with frmMain. Since it's the startup form, when it closes, the application ends.

jQuery looping .each() JSON key/value not working

With a simple JSON object, you don't need jQuery:

for (var i in json) {
   for (var j in json[i]) {
     console.log(json[i][j]);
   }
}

Selecting pandas column by location

You could use label based using .loc or index based using .iloc method to do column-slicing including column ranges:

In [50]: import pandas as pd

In [51]: import numpy as np

In [52]: df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(4,4), columns = list('abcd'))

In [53]: df
Out[53]: 
          a         b         c         d
0  0.806811  0.187630  0.978159  0.317261
1  0.738792  0.862661  0.580592  0.010177
2  0.224633  0.342579  0.214512  0.375147
3  0.875262  0.151867  0.071244  0.893735

In [54]: df.loc[:, ["a", "b", "d"]] ### Selective columns based slicing
Out[54]: 
          a         b         d
0  0.806811  0.187630  0.317261
1  0.738792  0.862661  0.010177
2  0.224633  0.342579  0.375147
3  0.875262  0.151867  0.893735

In [55]: df.loc[:, "a":"c"] ### Selective label based column ranges slicing
Out[55]: 
          a         b         c
0  0.806811  0.187630  0.978159
1  0.738792  0.862661  0.580592
2  0.224633  0.342579  0.214512
3  0.875262  0.151867  0.071244

In [56]: df.iloc[:, 0:3] ### Selective index based column ranges slicing
Out[56]: 
          a         b         c
0  0.806811  0.187630  0.978159
1  0.738792  0.862661  0.580592
2  0.224633  0.342579  0.214512
3  0.875262  0.151867  0.071244

Sending intent to BroadcastReceiver from adb

You need not specify receiver. You can use adb instead.

adb shell am broadcast -a com.whereismywifeserver.intent.TEST 
--es sms_body "test from adb"

For more arguments such as integer extras, see the documentation.

C# string reference type?

Above answers are helpful, I'd just like to add an example that I think is demonstrating clearly what happens when we pass parameter without the ref keyword, even when that parameter is a reference type:

MyClass c = new MyClass(); c.MyProperty = "foo";

CNull(c); // only a copy of the reference is sent 
Console.WriteLine(c.MyProperty); // still foo, we only made the copy null
CPropertyChange(c); 
Console.WriteLine(c.MyProperty); // bar


private void CNull(MyClass c2)
        {          
            c2 = null;
        }
private void CPropertyChange(MyClass c2) 
        {
            c2.MyProperty = "bar"; // c2 is a copy, but it refers to the same object that c does (on heap) and modified property would appear on c.MyProperty as well.
        }

Comparing Class Types in Java

It prints true on my machine. And it should, otherwise nothing in Java would work as expected. (This is explained in the JLS: 4.3.4 When Reference Types Are the Same)

Do you have multiple classloaders in place?


Ah, and in response to this comment:

I realise I have a typo in my question. I should be like this:

MyImplementedObject obj = new MyImplementedObject ();
if(obj.getClass() == MyObjectInterface.class) System.out.println("true");

MyImplementedObject implements MyObjectInterface So in other words, I am comparing it with its implemented objects.

OK, if you want to check that you can do either:

if(MyObjectInterface.class.isAssignableFrom(obj.getClass()))

or the much more concise

if(obj instanceof MyobjectInterface)

SQL Server Group by Count of DateTime Per Hour?

How about this? Assuming SQL Server 2008:

SELECT CAST(StartDate as date) AS ForDate,
       DATEPART(hour,StartDate) AS OnHour,
       COUNT(*) AS Totals
FROM #Events
GROUP BY CAST(StartDate as date),
       DATEPART(hour,StartDate)

For pre-2008:

SELECT DATEADD(day,datediff(day,0,StartDate),0)   AS ForDate,
       DATEPART(hour,StartDate) AS OnHour,
       COUNT(*) AS Totals
FROM #Events
GROUP BY CAST(StartDate as date),
       DATEPART(hour,StartDate)

This results in :

ForDate                 | OnHour | Totals
-----------------------------------------
2011-08-09 00:00:00.000     12       3

Join String list elements with a delimiter in one step

You can use : org.springframework.util.StringUtils;

String stringDelimitedByComma = StringUtils.collectionToCommaDelimitedString(myList);

Why doesn't Git ignore my specified file?

I tried most commands above on VS Code terminal and I got errors like:

fatal: pathspec '[dir]/[file]' did not match any files

I opened the project on GitHub Desktop and ignored from there and it worked.

Apply a theme to an activity in Android?

Before you call setContentView(), call setTheme(android.R.style...) and just replace the ... with the theme that you want(Theme, Theme_NoTitleBar, etc.).

Or if your theme is a custom theme, then replace the entire thing, so you get setTheme(yourThemesResouceId)

javascript: using a condition in switch case

You've way overcomplicated that. Write it with if statements instead like this:

if(liCount == 0)
    setLayoutState('start');
else if(liCount<=5)
    setLayoutState('upload1Row');
else if(liCount<=10)
    setLayoutState('upload2Rows');

$('#UploadList').data('jsp').reinitialise();

Or, if ChaosPandion is trying to optimize as much as possible:

setLayoutState(liCount == 0 ? 'start' :
               liCount <= 5 ? 'upload1Row' :
               liCount <= 10 ? 'upload2Rows' :
               null);

$('#UploadList').data('jsp').reinitialise();

Bootstrap modal: close current, open new

if you use mdb use this code

    var visible_modal = $('.modal.show').attr('id'); // modalID or undefined
    if (visible_modal) { // modal is active
        $('#' + visible_modal).modal('hide'); // close modal
    }

WCF error - There was no endpoint listening at

I had the same issue. For me I noticed that the https is using another Certificate which was invalid in terms of expiration date. Not sure why it happened. I changed the Https port number and a new self signed cert. WCFtestClinet could connect to the server via HTTPS!

.htaccess mod_rewrite - how to exclude directory from rewrite rule

If you want to remove a particular directory from the rule (meaning, you want to remove the directory foo) ,you can use :

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/foo/$
RewriteRule !index\.php$ /index.php [L]

The rewriteRule above will rewrite all requestes to /index.php excluding requests for /foo/ .

To exclude all existent directries, you will need to use the following condition above your rule :

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

the following rule

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule !index\.php$ /index.php [L]

rewrites everything (except directries) to /index.php .

When to use throws in a Java method declaration?

In the example you gave, the method will never throw an IOException, therefore the declaration is wrong (but valid). My guess is that the original method threw the IOException, but it was then updated to handle the exception within but the declaration was not changed.

How do I check CPU and Memory Usage in Java?

If you are looking specifically for memory in JVM:

Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime();

NumberFormat format = NumberFormat.getInstance();

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
long maxMemory = runtime.maxMemory();
long allocatedMemory = runtime.totalMemory();
long freeMemory = runtime.freeMemory();

sb.append("free memory: " + format.format(freeMemory / 1024) + "<br/>");
sb.append("allocated memory: " + format.format(allocatedMemory / 1024) + "<br/>");
sb.append("max memory: " + format.format(maxMemory / 1024) + "<br/>");
sb.append("total free memory: " + format.format((freeMemory + (maxMemory - allocatedMemory)) / 1024) + "<br/>");

However, these should be taken only as an estimate...

Connect to Active Directory via LDAP

DC is your domain. If you want to connect to the domain example.com than your dc's are: DC=example,DC=com

You actually don't need any hostname or ip address of your domain controller (There could be plenty of them).

Just imagine that you're connecting to the domain itself. So for connecting to the domain example.com you can simply write

DirectoryEntry directoryEntry = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://example.com");

And you're done.

You can also specify a user and a password used to connect:

DirectoryEntry directoryEntry = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://example.com", "username", "password");

Also be sure to always write LDAP in upper case. I had some trouble and strange exceptions until I read somewhere that I should try to write it in upper case and that solved my problems.

The directoryEntry.Path Property allows you to dive deeper into your domain. So if you want to search a user in a specific OU (Organizational Unit) you can set it there.

DirectoryEntry directoryEntry = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://example.com");
directoryEntry.Path = "LDAP://OU=Specific Users,OU=All Users,OU=Users,DC=example,DC=com";

This would match the following AD hierarchy:

  • com
    • example
      • Users
        • All Users
          • Specific Users

Simply write the hierarchy from deepest to highest.

Now you can do plenty of things

For example search a user by account name and get the user's surname:

DirectoryEntry directoryEntry = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://example.com");
DirectorySearcher searcher = new DirectorySearcher(directoryEntry) {
    PageSize = int.MaxValue,
    Filter = "(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(sAMAccountName=AnAccountName))"
};

searcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("sn");

var result = searcher.FindOne();

if (result == null) {
    return; // Or whatever you need to do in this case
}

string surname;

if (result.Properties.Contains("sn")) {
    surname = result.Properties["sn"][0].ToString();
}

Capturing standard out and error with Start-Process

IMPORTANT:

We have been using the function as provided above by LPG.

However, this contains a bug you might encounter when you start a process that generates a lot of output. Due to this you might end up with a deadlock when using this function. Instead use the adapted version below:

Function Execute-Command ($commandTitle, $commandPath, $commandArguments)
{
  Try {
    $pinfo = New-Object System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo
    $pinfo.FileName = $commandPath
    $pinfo.RedirectStandardError = $true
    $pinfo.RedirectStandardOutput = $true
    $pinfo.UseShellExecute = $false
    $pinfo.Arguments = $commandArguments
    $p = New-Object System.Diagnostics.Process
    $p.StartInfo = $pinfo
    $p.Start() | Out-Null
    [pscustomobject]@{
        commandTitle = $commandTitle
        stdout = $p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd()
        stderr = $p.StandardError.ReadToEnd()
        ExitCode = $p.ExitCode
    }
    $p.WaitForExit()
  }
  Catch {
     exit
  }
}

Further information on this issue can be found at MSDN:

A deadlock condition can result if the parent process calls p.WaitForExit before p.StandardError.ReadToEnd and the child process writes enough text to fill the redirected stream. The parent process would wait indefinitely for the child process to exit. The child process would wait indefinitely for the parent to read from the full StandardError stream.

Passing struct to function

You need to specify a type on person:

void addStudent(struct student person) {
...
}

Also, you can typedef your struct to avoid having to type struct every time you use it:

typedef struct student{
...
} student_t;

void addStudent(student_t person) {
...
}

Why isn't textarea an input[type="textarea"]?

Maybe this is going a bit too far back but…

Also, I’d like to suggest that multiline text fields have a different type (e.g. “textarea") than single-line fields ("text"), as they really are different types of things, and imply different issues (semantics) for client-side handling.

Marc Andreessen, 11 October 1993

How to delete and update a record in Hive

The CLI told you where is your mistake : delete WHAT? from student ...

Delete : How to delete/truncate tables from Hadoop-Hive?

Update : Update , SET option in Hive

No mapping found for HTTP request with URI.... in DispatcherServlet with name

Make sure

<mvc:annotation-driven/>
<context:component-scan base-package="com.hireartists.web.controllers"/>

points to proper package that contains controllers.

How to restart Activity in Android

This is the way I do it.

        val i = Intent(context!!, MainActivity::class.java)
        i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK)
        startActivity(i)

How to make rectangular image appear circular with CSS

I presume that your problem with background-image is that it would be inefficient with a source for each image inside a stylesheet. My suggestion is to set the source inline:

<div style = 'background-image: url(image.gif)'></div>

div {
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-position: 50%;
    border-radius: 50%;
    width: 100px;
    height: 100px;
}

Fiddle

is there any IE8 only css hack?

Doing something like this should work for you.

<!--[if IE 8]> 
<div id="IE8">
<![endif]--> 

*Your content* 

<!--[if IE 8]> 
</div>
<![endif]--> 

Then your CSS can look like this:

#IE8 div.something
{ 
    color: purple; 
}

Running JAR file on Windows 10

How do I run an executable JAR file? If you have a jar file called Example.jar, follow these rules:

Open a notepad.exe.
Write : java -jar Example.jar.
Save it with the extension .bat.
Copy it to the directory which has the .jar file.
Double click it to run your .jar file.

How do I convert a string to enum in TypeScript?

If you provide string values to your enum, a straight cast works just fine.

enum Color {
  Green = "Green",
  Red = "Red"
}

const color = "Green";
const colorEnum = color as Color;

CORS error :Request header field Authorization is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Headers in preflight response

The res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*'); wouldn't work with Autorization header. Just enable pre-flight request, using cors library:

var express = require('express')
var cors = require('cors')
var app = express()
app.use(cors())
app.options('*', cors())

Do you have to put Task.Run in a method to make it async?

First, let's clear up some terminology: "asynchronous" (async) means that it may yield control back to the calling thread before it starts. In an async method, those "yield" points are await expressions.

This is very different than the term "asynchronous", as (mis)used by the MSDN documentation for years to mean "executes on a background thread".

To futher confuse the issue, async is very different than "awaitable"; there are some async methods whose return types are not awaitable, and many methods returning awaitable types that are not async.

Enough about what they aren't; here's what they are:

  • The async keyword allows an asynchronous method (that is, it allows await expressions). async methods may return Task, Task<T>, or (if you must) void.
  • Any type that follows a certain pattern can be awaitable. The most common awaitable types are Task and Task<T>.

So, if we reformulate your question to "how can I run an operation on a background thread in a way that it's awaitable", the answer is to use Task.Run:

private Task<int> DoWorkAsync() // No async because the method does not need await
{
  return Task.Run(() =>
  {
    return 1 + 2;
  });
}

(But this pattern is a poor approach; see below).

But if your question is "how do I create an async method that can yield back to its caller instead of blocking", the answer is to declare the method async and use await for its "yielding" points:

private async Task<int> GetWebPageHtmlSizeAsync()
{
  var client = new HttpClient();
  var html = await client.GetAsync("http://www.example.com/");
  return html.Length;
}

So, the basic pattern of things is to have async code depend on "awaitables" in its await expressions. These "awaitables" can be other async methods or just regular methods returning awaitables. Regular methods returning Task/Task<T> can use Task.Run to execute code on a background thread, or (more commonly) they can use TaskCompletionSource<T> or one of its shortcuts (TaskFactory.FromAsync, Task.FromResult, etc). I don't recommend wrapping an entire method in Task.Run; synchronous methods should have synchronous signatures, and it should be left up to the consumer whether it should be wrapped in a Task.Run:

private int DoWork()
{
  return 1 + 2;
}

private void MoreSynchronousProcessing()
{
  // Execute it directly (synchronously), since we are also a synchronous method.
  var result = DoWork();
  ...
}

private async Task DoVariousThingsFromTheUIThreadAsync()
{
  // I have a bunch of async work to do, and I am executed on the UI thread.
  var result = await Task.Run(() => DoWork());
  ...
}

I have an async/await intro on my blog; at the end are some good followup resources. The MSDN docs for async are unusually good, too.

python - find index position in list based of partial string

indices = [i for i, s in enumerate(mylist) if 'aa' in s]

cocoapods - 'pod install' takes forever

Updated answer for 2019 - the cocoa pods team moved to using their own CDN which solves this issue, which was due to GitHub rate limiting, as described here: https://blog.cocoapods.org/CocoaPods-1.7.2/

TL;DR You need to change the source line in your Podfile to this:

source 'https://cdn.cocoapods.org/'

Copy all the lines to clipboard

Click the left mouse button, drag across the section you want to copy and release. The code automatically gets copied to clipboard.

Why does GitHub recommend HTTPS over SSH?

It's possible to argue that using SSHs key to authenticate is less secure because we tend to change our password more periodically than we generate new SSH keys.

Servers that limit the lifespan for which they'll honor given SSH keys can help force users toward the practice of refreshing SSH-keys periodically.

How to generate service reference with only physical wsdl file

This may be the easiest method

  • Right click on the project and select "Add Service Reference..."
  • In the Address: box, enter the physical path (C:\test\project....) of the downloaded/Modified wsdl.
  • Hit Go

python numpy/scipy curve fitting

I suggest you to start with simple polynomial fit, scipy.optimize.curve_fit tries to fit a function f that you must know to a set of points.

This is a simple 3 degree polynomial fit using numpy.polyfit and poly1d, the first performs a least squares polynomial fit and the second calculates the new points:

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

points = np.array([(1, 1), (2, 4), (3, 1), (9, 3)])
# get x and y vectors
x = points[:,0]
y = points[:,1]

# calculate polynomial
z = np.polyfit(x, y, 3)
f = np.poly1d(z)

# calculate new x's and y's
x_new = np.linspace(x[0], x[-1], 50)
y_new = f(x_new)

plt.plot(x,y,'o', x_new, y_new)
plt.xlim([x[0]-1, x[-1] + 1 ])
plt.show()

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Could not load type from assembly error

I want to mention additional things and make a conclusion.

Commonly, As Otherones explained, This exception will raise when there is a problem with loading expected type (in an existing assembly) in runtime. More specific, Whenever there is loaded assembly that is stale (and not contains the requiring type). Or when an assembly with different version or build is already loaded that not contains the expected type.

Also, I must mention that It seems Rarely, But It is possible to be runtime limitation or a compiler bug (suppose compiler not negated about something and just compiled problematic code), But runtime throws System.TypeLoadException exception. Yes; this actually occurred for me!

An Example (witch occurred for me)

Consider an struct that defines a nullable field of its own type inside itself. Defining such the filed non-nullable, will take you a compile-time error and prevents you from build (Obviously This behavior has a logical reason). But what about nullable struct filed? Actually, nullable value-types is Nullable<T> at behind. As c# compiler not prevented me from defining in this way, I tried it and the project built. But I get runtime exception System.TypeLoadException: 'Could not load type 'SomeInfo' from assembly ... ', And It seems to be Problem in loading the part of my code (otherwise, we may say: the compiler not-truly performed compilation process at least) for me in my environment:

public struct SomeInfo
{
   public SomeInfo? Parent { get; } 
   
   public string info { get; }
}

My environment specs:

  • Visual Studio 2019 16.4.4
  • Language Version: c# 7.3
  • Project type: netstandard 2.0.3 library
  • Runtime: classic DotNetFramework 4.6.1

(I checked and ensured that the compiled assembly is up to date And actually is newly compiled. Even, I throwed away all bin directory and refreshed the whole project. Even I created a new project in a fresh solution and tested, But such the struct generates the exception.)

It seems to be a runtime limitation (logically or technically) or bug or a same problem else, because Visual Studio not prevents me from compile And Also other newer parts of my codes (excluding this struct) are executing fine. Changing the struct to a class, the compiled assembly contains and executes the type as well.

I have no any idea to explain in-detail why this behavior occurs in my environment, But I faced this situation.

Conclusion

Check the situations:

  • When a same (probably older) assembly already exists in GAC that is overriding the referenced assembly.

  • When re-compilation was need but not performed automatically (therefore the referenced assembly is not updated) and there is needs to perform build manually or fix solution build configuration.

  • When a custom tool or middleware or third-party executable (such as tests runner tool or IIS) loaded an older version of that assembly from cached things and there is need to cleaning somethings up or causing to reset somethings.

  • When an Unappropriated Configuration caused demanding a no longer existing type by a custom tool or middleware or a third-party executable that loads the assembly and there is need to update configuration or cleaning somethings up (such as removing an http handler in web.config file on IIS deployment as @Brian-Moeskau said)

  • When there is a logical or technical problem for runtime to execute the compiled assembly, (for example when compiler was compiled a problematic code that the in-using runtime cannot understand or execute it), as I faced.

How to draw rounded rectangle in Android UI?

<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:padding="10dp"
  android:shape="rectangle">
    <solid android:color="@color/colorAccent" /> 
    <corners
      android:bottomLeftRadius="500dp"
      android:bottomRightRadius="500dp"
      android:topLeftRadius="500dp"
      android:topRightRadius="500dp" />
</shape>

Now, in which element you want to use this shape just add: android:background="@drawable/custom_round_ui_shape"

Create a new XML in drawable named "custom_round_ui_shape"

How to get the size of the current screen in WPF?

If you use any full screen window (having its WindowState = WindowState.Maximized, WindowStyle = WindowStyle.None), you can wrap its contents in System.Windows.Controls.Canvas like this:

<Canvas Name="MyCanvas" Width="auto" Height="auto">
...
</Canvas>

Then you can use MyCanvas.ActualWidth and MyCanvas.ActualHeight to get the resolution of the current screen, with DPI settings taken into account and in device independent units. It doesn't add any margins as the maximized window itself does.

(Canvas accepts UIElements as children, so you should be able to use it with any content.)

How does one convert a HashMap to a List in Java?

Assuming you have:

HashMap<Key, Value> map; // Assigned or populated somehow.

For a list of values:

List<Value> values = new ArrayList<Value>(map.values());

For a list of keys:

List<Key> keys = new ArrayList<Key>(map.keySet());

Note that the order of the keys and values will be unreliable with a HashMap; use a LinkedHashMap if you need to preserve one-to-one correspondence of key and value positions in their respective lists.

How do I use an INSERT statement's OUTPUT clause to get the identity value?

You can either have the newly inserted ID being output to the SSMS console like this:

INSERT INTO MyTable(Name, Address, PhoneNo)
OUTPUT INSERTED.ID
VALUES ('Yatrix', '1234 Address Stuff', '1112223333')

You can use this also from e.g. C#, when you need to get the ID back to your calling app - just execute the SQL query with .ExecuteScalar() (instead of .ExecuteNonQuery()) to read the resulting ID back.

Or if you need to capture the newly inserted ID inside T-SQL (e.g. for later further processing), you need to create a table variable:

DECLARE @OutputTbl TABLE (ID INT)

INSERT INTO MyTable(Name, Address, PhoneNo)
OUTPUT INSERTED.ID INTO @OutputTbl(ID)
VALUES ('Yatrix', '1234 Address Stuff', '1112223333')

This way, you can put multiple values into @OutputTbl and do further processing on those. You could also use a "regular" temporary table (#temp) or even a "real" persistent table as your "output target" here.

How do you count the number of occurrences of a certain substring in a SQL varchar?

If we know there is a limitation on LEN and space, why cant we replace the space first? Then we know there is no space to confuse LEN.

len(replace(@string, ' ', '-')) - len(replace(replace(@string, ' ', '-'), ',', ''))

How to get the filename without the extension in Java?

Below is reference from https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/tradefederation/+/master/src/com/android/tradefed/util/FileUtil.java

/**
 * Gets the base name, without extension, of given file name.
 * <p/>
 * e.g. getBaseName("file.txt") will return "file"
 *
 * @param fileName
 * @return the base name
 */
public static String getBaseName(String fileName) {
    int index = fileName.lastIndexOf('.');
    if (index == -1) {
        return fileName;
    } else {
        return fileName.substring(0, index);
    }
}

CSS table column autowidth

use auto and min or max width like this:

td {
max-width:50px;
width:auto;
min-width:10px;
}

How can I check if string contains characters & whitespace, not just whitespace?

The regular expression I ended up using for when I want to allow spaces in the middle of my string, but not at the beginning or end was this:

[\S]+(\s[\S]+)*

or

^[\S]+(\s[\S]+)*$

So, I know this is an old question, but you could do something like:

if (/^\s+$/.test(myString)) {
    //string contains characters and white spaces
}

or you can do what nickf said and use:

if (/\S/.test(myString)) {
    // string is not empty and not just whitespace
}

How to declare strings in C

Strings in C are represented as arrays of characters.

char *p = "String";

You are declaring a pointer that points to a string stored some where in your program (modifying this string is undefined behavior) according to the C programming language 2 ed.

char p2[] = "String";

You are declaring an array of char initialized with the string "String" leaving to the compiler the job to count the size of the array.

char p3[5] = "String";

You are declaring an array of size 5 and initializing it with "String". This is an error be cause "String" don't fit in 5 elements.

char p3[7] = "String"; is the correct declaration ('\0' is the terminating character in c strings).

http://c-faq.com/~scs/cclass/notes/sx8.html

Image library for Python 3

As of March 30, 2012, I have tried and failed to get the sloonz fork on GitHub to open images. I got it to compile ok, but it didn't actually work. I also tried building gohlke's library, and it compiled also but failed to open any images. Someone mentioned PythonMagick above, but it only compiles on Windows. See PythonMagick on the wxPython wiki.

PIL was last updated in 2009, and while it's website says they are working on a Python 3 port, it's been 3 years, and the mailing list has gone cold.

To solve my Python 3 image manipulation problem, I am using subprocess.call() to execute ImageMagick shell commands. This method works.

See the subprocess module documentation.

How do I pass environment variables to Docker containers?

For Amazon AWS ECS/ECR, you should manage your environment variables (especially secrets) via a private S3 bucket. See blog post How to Manage Secrets for Amazon EC2 Container Service–Based Applications by Using Amazon S3 and Docker.

Applying an ellipsis to multiline text

You can achieve this by a few lines of CSS and JS.

CSS:

        div.clip-context {
          max-height: 95px;
          word-break: break-all;
          white-space: normal;
          word-wrap: break-word; //Breaking unicode line for MS-Edge works with this property;
        }

JS:

        $(document).ready(function(){
             for(let c of $("div.clip-context")){
                    //If each of element content exceeds 95px its css height, extract some first 
                    //lines by specifying first length of its text content. 
                   if($(c).innerHeight() >= 95){
                        //Define text length for extracting, here 170.
                        $(c).text($(c).text().substr(0, 170)); 
                        $(c).append(" ...");
                   }
             }

        });

HTML:

        <div class="clip-context">
            (Here some text)
        </div>

How I can get and use the header file <graphics.h> in my C++ program?

graphics.h appears to something once bundled with Borland and/or Turbo C++, in the 90's.

http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/cpp/threads/17709/88149#post88149

It's unlikely that you will find any support for that file with modern compiler. For other graphics libraries check the list of "related" questions (questions related to this one). E.g., "A Simple, 2d cross-platform graphics library for c or c++?".

How can I insert into a BLOB column from an insert statement in sqldeveloper?

  1. insert into mytable(id, myblob) values (1,EMPTY_BLOB);
  2. SELECT * FROM mytable mt where mt.id=1 for update
  3. Click on the Lock icon to unlock for editing
  4. Click on the ... next to the BLOB to edit
  5. Select the appropriate tab and click open on the top left.
  6. Click OK and commit the changes.

When maven says "resolution will not be reattempted until the update interval of MyRepo has elapsed", where is that interval specified?

To finally answer the title question: It is (a client side setting) in (project, profile or settings)

[plugin]?[r|R]epository/[releases|snapshots]/updatePolicy

... tag.

The (currently, maven: 3.6.0, but I suppose "far backwards" compatible) possible values are :

/**
 * Never update locally cached data.
 */
public static final String UPDATE_POLICY_NEVER = "never";
/**
 * Always update locally cached data.
 */
public static final String UPDATE_POLICY_ALWAYS = "always";
/**
 * Update locally cached data once a day.
 */
public static final String UPDATE_POLICY_DAILY = "daily";
/**
 * Update locally cached data **every X minutes** as given by "interval:X".
 */
public static final String UPDATE_POLICY_INTERVAL = "interval";

The current (maven 3.6.0) evaluation of this tag is implemented as follows:

public boolean isUpdatedRequired( RepositorySystemSession session, long lastModified, String policy )
{
    boolean checkForUpdates;
    if ( policy == null )
    {
        policy = "";
    }
    if ( RepositoryPolicy.UPDATE_POLICY_ALWAYS.equals( policy ) )
    {
        checkForUpdates = true;
    }
    else if ( RepositoryPolicy.UPDATE_POLICY_DAILY.equals( policy ) )
    {
        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
        cal.set( Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 0 );
        cal.set( Calendar.MINUTE, 0 );
        cal.set( Calendar.SECOND, 0 );
        cal.set( Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0 );
        checkForUpdates = cal.getTimeInMillis() > lastModified;
    }
    else if ( policy.startsWith( RepositoryPolicy.UPDATE_POLICY_INTERVAL ) )
    {
        int minutes = getMinutes( policy );
        Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
        cal.add( Calendar.MINUTE, -minutes );
        checkForUpdates = cal.getTimeInMillis() > lastModified;
    }
    else
    {
        // assume "never"
        checkForUpdates = false;
        if ( !RepositoryPolicy.UPDATE_POLICY_NEVER.equals( policy ) )
        {
            LOGGER.warn( "Unknown repository update policy '{}', assuming '{}'",
                    policy, RepositoryPolicy.UPDATE_POLICY_NEVER );
        }
    }
    return checkForUpdates;
}

..with:

private int getMinutes( String policy )
{
    int minutes;
    try
    {
        String s = policy.substring( RepositoryPolicy.UPDATE_POLICY_INTERVAL.length() + 1 );
        minutes = Integer.valueOf( s );
    }
    catch ( RuntimeException e )
    {
        minutes = 24 * 60;
        LOGGER.warn( "Non-parseable repository update policy '{}', assuming '{}:1440'",
                policy, RepositoryPolicy.UPDATE_POLICY_INTERVAL );
    }
    return minutes;
}

...where lastModified is the (local file) "modified timestamp" of an/each underlying artifact.


In particular for the interval:x setting:

  • the colon : is not that strict - any "non-empty" character could do it (=, , ...).
  • negative values x < 0 should yield to "never".
  • interval:0 I would assume a "minutely" (0-59 secs. or above...) interval.
  • number format exceptions result in 24 * 60 minutes (~"daily").

..see: DefaultUpdatePolicyAnalyzer, DefaultMetadataResolver#resolveMetadata() and RepositoryPolicy

ZIP file content type for HTTP request

The standard MIME type for ZIP files is application/zip. The types for the files inside the ZIP does not matter for the MIME type.

As always, it ultimately depends on your server setup.

How do I give PHP write access to a directory?

I'm running Ubuntu, and as said above nobody:nobody does not work on Ubuntu. You get the error:

chown: invalid group: 'nobody:nobody'

Instead you should use the 'nogroup', like:

chown nobody:nogroup <dirname>

The name does not exist in the namespace error in XAML

If non of the answers worked

For me was .Net Framework version compatibility issue of the one i'm using was older then what is referencing

From properties => Application then target framework

SQL Server remove milliseconds from datetime

You just have to figure out the millisecond part of the date and subtract it out before comparison, like this:

select * 
from table 
where DATEADD(ms, -DATEPART(ms, date), date) > '2010-07-20 03:21:52'

Setting up PostgreSQL ODBC on Windows

First you download ODBC driver psqlodbc_09_01_0200-x64.zip then you installed it.After that go to START->Program->Administrative tools then you select Data Source ODBC then you double click on the same after that you select PostgreSQL 30 then you select configure then you provide proper details such as db name user Id host name password of the same database in this way you will configured your DSN connection.After That you will check SSL should be allow .

Then you go on next tab system DSN then you select ADD tabthen select postgreSQL_ANSI_64X ODBC after you that you have created PostgreSQL ODBC connection.

HTML embed autoplay="false", but still plays automatically

The problem is your plugin. To solve this is to only enter this address:

chrome://flags/#enable-NPAPI

Click activate NPAPI, and finally restart at the bottom of the page.

How to show another window from mainwindow in QT

  1. Implement a slot in your QMainWindow where you will open your new Window,
  2. Place a widget on your QMainWindow,
  3. Connect a signal from this widget to a slot from the QMainWindow (for example: if the widget is a QPushButton connect the signal click() to the QMainWindow custom slot you have created).

Code example:

MainWindow.h

// ...
include "newwindow.h"
// ...
public slots:
   void openNewWindow();
// ...
private:
   NewWindow *mMyNewWindow;
// ...
}

MainWindow.cpp

// ...
   MainWindow::MainWindow()
   {
      // ...
      connect(mMyButton, SIGNAL(click()), this, SLOT(openNewWindow()));
      // ...
   }
// ...
void MainWindow::openNewWindow()
{
   mMyNewWindow = new NewWindow(); // Be sure to destroy your window somewhere
   mMyNewWindow->show();
   // ...
}

This is an example on how display a custom new window. There are a lot of ways to do this.

How to get the number of columns from a JDBC ResultSet?

This will print the data in columns and comes to new line once last column is reached.

ResultSetMetaData resultSetMetaData = res.getMetaData();
int columnCount = resultSetMetaData.getColumnCount();
for(int i =1; i<=columnCount; i++){
                if(!(i==columnCount)){

                    System.out.print(res.getString(i)+"\t");
                }
                else{
                    System.out.println(res.getString(i));
                }

            }

Running Python from Atom

Download and Install package here: https://atom.io/packages/script

To execute the python command in atom use the below shortcuts:

For Windows/Linux, it's SHIFT + Ctrl + B OR Ctrl + SHIFT + B

If you're on Mac, press ? + I

Get bottom and right position of an element

// Returns bottom offset value + or - from viewport top
function offsetBottom(el, i) { i = i || 0; return $(el)[i].getBoundingClientRect().bottom }

// Returns right offset value
function offsetRight(el, i) { i = i || 0; return $(el)[i].getBoundingClientRect().right }

var bottom = offsetBottom('#logo');
var right = offsetRight('#logo');

This will find the distance from the top and left of your viewport to your element's exact edge and nothing beyond that. So say your logo was 350px and it had a left margin of 50px, variable 'right' will hold a value of 400 because that's the actual distance in pixels it took to get to the edge of your element, no matter if you have more padding or margin to the right of it.

If your box-sizing CSS property is set to border-box it will continue to work just as if it were set as the default content-box.

Retrieving Android API version programmatically

I generally prefer to add these codes in a function to get the Android version:

int whichAndroidVersion;

whichAndroidVersion= Build.VERSION.SDK_INT;
textView.setText("" + whichAndroidVersion); //If you don't use "" then app crashes.

For example, that code above will set the text into my textView as "29" now.

Setting an environment variable before a command in Bash is not working for the second command in a pipe

How about exporting the variable, but only inside the subshell?:

(export FOO=bar && somecommand someargs | somecommand2)

Keith has a point, to unconditionally execute the commands, do this:

(export FOO=bar; somecommand someargs | somecommand2)

How can I divide one column of a data frame through another?

There are a plethora of ways in which this can be done. The problem is how to make R aware of the locations of the variables you wish to divide.

Assuming

d <- read.table(text = "263807.0    1582
196190.5    1016
586689.0    3479
")
names(d) <- c("min", "count2.freq")
> d
       min count2.freq
1 263807.0        1582
2 196190.5        1016
3 586689.0        3479

My preferred way

To add the desired division as a third variable I would use transform()

> d <- transform(d, new = min / count2.freq)
> d
       min count2.freq      new
1 263807.0        1582 166.7554
2 196190.5        1016 193.1009
3 586689.0        3479 168.6373

The basic R way

If doing this in a function (i.e. you are programming) then best to avoid the sugar shown above and index. In that case any of these would do what you want

## 1. via `[` and character indexes
d[, "new"] <- d[, "min"] / d[, "count2.freq"]

## 2. via `[` with numeric indices
d[, 3] <- d[, 1] / d[, 2]

## 3. via `$`
d$new <- d$min / d$count2.freq

All of these can be used at the prompt too, but which is easier to read:

d <- transform(d, new = min / count2.freq)

or

d$new <- d$min / d$count2.freq ## or any of the above examples

Hopefully you think like I do and the first version is better ;-)

The reason we don't use the syntactic sugar of tranform() et al when programming is because of how they do their evaluation (look for the named variables). At the top level (at the prompt, working interactively) transform() et al work just fine. But buried in function calls or within a call to one of the apply() family of functions they can and often do break.

Likewise, be careful using numeric indices (## 2. above); if you change the ordering of your data, you will select the wrong variables.

The preferred way if you don't need replacement

If you are just wanting to do the division (rather than insert the result back into the data frame, then use with(), which allows us to isolate the simple expression you wish to evaluate

> with(d, min / count2.freq)
[1] 166.7554 193.1009 168.6373

This is again much cleaner code than the equivalent

> d$min / d$count2.freq
[1] 166.7554 193.1009 168.6373

as it explicitly states that "using d, execute the code min / count2.freq. Your preference may be different to mine, so I have shown all options.

How do I make case-insensitive queries on Mongodb?

An easy way would be to use $toLower as below.

db.users.aggregate([
    {
        $project: {
            name: { $toLower: "$name" }
        }
    },
    {
        $match: {
            name: the_name_to_search
        }
    }
])

How to use Bootstrap 4 in ASP.NET Core

Use nmp configuration file (add it to your web project) then add the needed packages in the same way we did using bower.json and save. Visual studio will download and install it. You'll find the package the under the nmp node of your project.

Java abstract interface

Why is it necessary for an interface to be "declared" abstract?

It's not.

public abstract interface Interface {
       \___.__/
           |
           '----> Neither this...

    public void interfacing();
    public abstract boolean interfacing(boolean really);
           \___.__/
               |
               '----> nor this, are necessary.
}

Interfaces and their methods are implicitly abstract and adding that modifier makes no difference.

Is there other rules that applies with an abstract interface?

No, same rules apply. The method must be implemented by any (concrete) implementing class.

If abstract is obsolete, why is it included in Java? Is there a history for abstract interface?

Interesting question. I dug up the first edition of JLS, and even there it says "This modifier is obsolete and should not be used in new Java programs".

Okay, digging even further... After hitting numerous broken links, I managed to find a copy of the original Oak 0.2 Specification (or "manual"). Quite interesting read I must say, and only 38 pages in total! :-)

Under Section 5, Interfaces, it provides the following example:

public interface Storing {
    void freezeDry(Stream s) = 0;
    void reconstitute(Stream s) = 0;
}

And in the margin it says

In the future, the " =0" part of declaring methods in interfaces may go away.

Assuming =0 got replaced by the abstract keyword, I suspect that abstract was at some point mandatory for interface methods!


Related article: Java: Abstract interfaces and abstract interface methods

Angularjs simple file download causes router to redirect

https://docs.angularjs.org/guide/$location#html-link-rewriting

In cases like the following, links are not rewritten; instead, the browser will perform a full page reload to the original link.

  • Links that contain target element Example:
    <a href="/ext/link?a=b" target="_self">link</a>

  • Absolute links that go to a different domain Example:
    <a href="http://angularjs.org/">link</a>

  • Links starting with '/' that lead to a different base path when base is defined Example:
    <a href="/not-my-base/link">link</a>

So in your case, you should add a target attribute like so...

<a target="_self" href="example.com/uploads/asd4a4d5a.pdf" download="foo.pdf">

Maven home (M2_HOME) not being picked up by IntelliJ IDEA

If M2_HOME is configured to point to the Maven home directory then:

  1. Go to File -> Settings
  2. Search for Maven
  3. Select Runner
  4. Insert in the field VM Options the following string:

    Dmaven.multiModuleProjectDirectory=$M2_HOME
    

Click Apply and OK

How to check if running in Cygwin, Mac or Linux?

Bash sets the shell variable OSTYPE. From man bash:

Automatically set to a string that describes the operating system on which bash is executing.

This has a tiny advantage over uname in that it doesn't require launching a new process, so will be quicker to execute.

However, I'm unable to find an authoritative list of expected values. For me on Ubuntu 14.04 it is set to 'linux-gnu'. I've scraped the web for some other values. Hence:

case "$OSTYPE" in
  linux*)   echo "Linux / WSL" ;;
  darwin*)  echo "Mac OS" ;; 
  win*)     echo "Windows" ;;
  msys*)    echo "MSYS / MinGW / Git Bash" ;;
  cygwin*)  echo "Cygwin" ;;
  bsd*)     echo "BSD" ;;
  solaris*) echo "Solaris" ;;
  *)        echo "unknown: $OSTYPE" ;;
esac

The asterisks are important in some instances - for example OSX appends an OS version number after the 'darwin'. The 'win' value is actually 'win32', I'm told - maybe there is a 'win64'?

Perhaps we could work together to populate a table of verified values here:

  • Linux Ubuntu (incl. WSL): linux-gnu
  • Cygwin 64-bit: cygwin
  • Msys/MINGW (Git Bash for Windows): msys

(Please append your value if it differs from existing entries)

Show a popup/message box from a Windows batch file

I would make a very simple VBScript file and call it using CScript to parse the command line parameters.

Something like the following saved in MessageBox.vbs:

Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments
messageText = objArgs(0)
MsgBox messageText

Which you would call like:

cscript MessageBox.vbs "This will be shown in a popup."

MsgBox reference if you are interested in going this route.

Process with an ID #### is not running in visual studio professional 2013 update 3

Deleting the hidden .vs folder didn't work for me since the port specified in my app was being used by another app. Doing the following worked for me:

  1. Went to properties and then click the web tab.
  2. Changed the port number in the Start Url and the Project URL.
  3. Clicked Create Virtual Directory.
  4. Save and Press F5.

add title attribute from css

As Quentin and other suggested this cannot totally be done with css(partially done with content attribute of css). Instead you should use javascript/jQuery to achieve this,

JS:

document.getElementsByClassName("mandatory")[0].title = "mandatory";

or using jQuery:

$('.mandatory').attr('title','mandatory');

_x000D_
_x000D_
document.getElementsByClassName('mandatory')[0].setAttribute('title', 'mandatory');_x000D_
_x000D_
$('.jmandatory').attr('title', 'jmandatory');
_x000D_
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
Place the Mouse Over the following elements to see the title,_x000D_
<br/><br/>_x000D_
<b><label class="mandatory">->Javascript Mandatory</label></b>_x000D_
<br/><br/>_x000D_
<b><label class="jmandatory">->jQuery Mandatory</label></b>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Oracle: How to filter by date and time in a where clause

Put it this way

where ("R"."TIME_STAMP">=TO_DATE ('03-02-2013 00:00:00', 'DD-MM-YYYY HH24:MI:SS')
   AND "R"."TIME_STAMP"<=TO_DATE ('09-02-2013 23:59:59', 'DD-MM-YYYY HH24:MI:SS')) 

Where R is table name.
TIME_STAMP is FieldName in Table R.

ssh server connect to host xxx port 22: Connection timed out on linux-ubuntu

My VPN connection was not enabled. I was trying all possible way to open up the Firwall and Ports until I realized, I am working from home and my VPN connection was down. But yes, Firewall and ssh configurations can be a reason.

How to split a string in two and store it in a field

I would suggest the following:

String[] parsedInput = str.split("\n"); String firstName = parsedInput[0].split(": ")[1]; String lastName = parsedInput[1].split(": ")[1]; myMap.put(firstName,lastName); 

How to add a reference programmatically

Here is how to get the Guid's programmatically! You can then use these guids/filepaths with an above answer to add the reference!

Reference: http://www.vbaexpress.com/kb/getarticle.php?kb_id=278

Sub ListReferencePaths()
'Lists path and GUID (Globally Unique Identifier) for each referenced library.
'Select a reference in Tools > References, then run this code to get GUID etc.
    Dim rw As Long, ref
    With ThisWorkbook.Sheets(1)
        .Cells.Clear
        rw = 1
        .Range("A" & rw & ":D" & rw) = Array("Reference","Version","GUID","Path")
        For Each ref In ThisWorkbook.VBProject.References
            rw = rw + 1
            .Range("A" & rw & ":D" & rw) = Array(ref.Description, _
                   "v." & ref.Major & "." & ref.Minor, ref.GUID, ref.FullPath)
        Next ref
        .Range("A:D").Columns.AutoFit
    End With
End Sub

Here is the same code but printing to the terminal if you don't want to dedicate a worksheet to the output.

Sub ListReferencePaths() 
 'Macro purpose:  To determine full path and Globally Unique Identifier (GUID)
 'to each referenced library.  Select the reference in the Tools\References
 'window, then run this code to get the information on the reference's library

On Error Resume Next 
Dim i As Long 

Debug.Print "Reference name" & " | " & "Full path to reference" & " | " & "Reference GUID" 

For i = 1 To ThisWorkbook.VBProject.References.Count 
  With ThisWorkbook.VBProject.References(i) 
    Debug.Print .Name & " | " & .FullPath  & " | " & .GUID 
  End With 
Next i 
On Error GoTo 0 
End Sub 

running a command as a super user from a python script

You have to use Popen like this:

cmd = ['sudo', 'apache2ctl', 'restart']
proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)

It expects a list.

Send HTML in email via PHP

The trick is to know the content id of the Image mime part when building the html body part. It boils down to making the img tag

https://github.com/horde/horde/blob/master/kronolith/lib/Kronolith.php

Look at the function buildMimeMessage for a working example.

Get program execution time in the shell

If you intend to use the times later to compute with, learn how to use the -f option of /usr/bin/time to output code that saves times. Here's some code I used recently to get and sort the execution times of a whole classful of students' programs:

fmt="run { date = '$(date)', user = '$who', test = '$test', host = '$(hostname)', times = { user = %U, system = %S, elapsed = %e } }"
/usr/bin/time -f "$fmt" -o $timefile command args...

I later concatenated all the $timefile files and pipe the output into a Lua interpreter. You can do the same with Python or bash or whatever your favorite syntax is. I love this technique.

How to fix error "ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python." when trying to install django-heroku using pip

You need to add the package containing the executable pg_config.

A prior answer should have details you need: pg_config executable not found

How to style SVG with external CSS?

What works for me: style tag with @import rule

<defs>
    <style type="text/css">
        @import url("svg-common.css");
    </style>
</defs>

Select SQL Server database size

There are already a lot of great answers here but it's worth mentioning a simple and quick way to get the SQL Server Database size with SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) using a standard report.

To run a report you need:

  1. right-click on the database
  2. go to Reports > Standard Reports > Disk Usage.

It prints a nice report:

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Where the Total space Reserved is the total size of the database on the disk and it includes the size of all data files and the size of all transaction log files.

Under the hood, SSMS uses dbo.sysfiles view or sys.database_files view (depending on the version of MSSQL) and some kind of this query to get the Total space Reserved value:

SELECT sum((convert(dec (19, 2),  
convert(bigint,SIZE))) * 8192 / 1048576.0) db_size_mb
FROM dbo.sysfiles;

Handling urllib2's timeout? - Python

In Python 2.7.3:

import urllib2
import socket

class MyException(Exception):
    pass

try:
    urllib2.urlopen("http://example.com", timeout = 1)
except urllib2.URLError as e:
    print type(e)    #not catch
except socket.timeout as e:
    print type(e)    #catched
    raise MyException("There was an error: %r" % e)

How can I check the current status of the GPS receiver?

You could try using LocationManager.addGpsStatusListener to get updated when the GPS status changes. It looks like GPS_EVENT_STARTED and GPS_EVENT_STOPPED might be what you're looking for.

Smooth scroll to div id jQuery

This script is a improvement of the script from Vector. I have made a little change to it. So this script works for every link with the class page-scroll in it.

At first without easing:

$("a.page-scroll").click(function() {
    var targetDiv = $(this).attr('href');
    $('html, body').animate({
        scrollTop: $(targetDiv).offset().top
    }, 1000);
});

For easing you will need Jquery UI:

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.11.4/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>

Add this to the script:

'easeOutExpo'

Final

$("a.page-scroll").click(function() {
    var targetDiv = $(this).attr('href');
    $('html, body').animate({
        scrollTop: $(targetDiv).offset().top
    }, 1000, 'easeOutExpo');
});

All the easings you can find here: Cheat Sheet.

Can you display HTML5 <video> as a full screen background?

I might be a bit late to answer this but this will be useful for new people looking for this answer.

The answers above are good, but to have a perfect video background you have to check at the aspect ratio as the video might cut or the canvas around get deformed when resizing the screen or using it on different screen sizes.

I got into this issue not long ago and I found the solution using media queries.

Here is a tutorial that I wrote on how to create a Fullscreen Video Background with only CSS

I will add the code here as well:

HTML:

<div class="videoBgWrapper">
    <video loop muted autoplay poster="img/videoframe.jpg" class="videoBg">
        <source src="videosfolder/video.webm" type="video/webm">
        <source src="videosfolder/video.mp4" type="video/mp4">
        <source src="videosfolder/video.ogv" type="video/ogg">
    </video>
</div>

CSS:

.videoBgWrapper {
    position: fixed;
    top: 0;
    right: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    left: 0;
    overflow: hidden;
    z-index: -100;
}
.videoBg{
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
}

@media (min-aspect-ratio: 16/9) {
  .videoBg{
    width: 100%;
    height: auto;
  }
}
@media (max-aspect-ratio: 16/9) {
  .videoBg {
    width: auto;
    height: 100%;
  }
}

I hope you find it useful.

String comparison technique used by Python

From the docs:

The comparison uses lexicographical ordering: first the first two items are compared, and if they differ this determines the outcome of the comparison; if they are equal, the next two items are compared, and so on, until either sequence is exhausted.

Also:

Lexicographical ordering for strings uses the Unicode code point number to order individual characters.

or on Python 2:

Lexicographical ordering for strings uses the ASCII ordering for individual characters.

As an example:

>>> 'abc' > 'bac'
False
>>> ord('a'), ord('b')
(97, 98)

The result False is returned as soon as a is found to be less than b. The further items are not compared (as you can see for the second items: b > a is True).

Be aware of lower and uppercase:

>>> [(x, ord(x)) for x in abc]
[('a', 97), ('b', 98), ('c', 99), ('d', 100), ('e', 101), ('f', 102), ('g', 103), ('h', 104), ('i', 105), ('j', 106), ('k', 107), ('l', 108), ('m', 109), ('n', 110), ('o', 111), ('p', 112), ('q', 113), ('r', 114), ('s', 115), ('t', 116), ('u', 117), ('v', 118), ('w', 119), ('x', 120), ('y', 121), ('z', 122)]
>>> [(x, ord(x)) for x in abc.upper()]
[('A', 65), ('B', 66), ('C', 67), ('D', 68), ('E', 69), ('F', 70), ('G', 71), ('H', 72), ('I', 73), ('J', 74), ('K', 75), ('L', 76), ('M', 77), ('N', 78), ('O', 79), ('P', 80), ('Q', 81), ('R', 82), ('S', 83), ('T', 84), ('U', 85), ('V', 86), ('W', 87), ('X', 88), ('Y', 89), ('Z', 90)]

Unable to compile simple Java 10 / Java 11 project with Maven

Boosting your maven-compiler-plugin to 3.8.0 seems to be necessary but not sufficient. If you're still having problems, you should also make sure your JAVA_HOME environment variable is set to Java 10 (or 11) if you're running from the command line. (The error message you get won't tell you this.) Or if you're running from an IDE, you need to make sure it is set to run maven with your current JDK.

What does this symbol mean in JavaScript?

See the documentation on MDN about expressions and operators and statements.

Basic keywords and general expressions

this keyword:

var x = function() vs. function x() — Function declaration syntax

(function(){})() — IIFE (Immediately Invoked Function Expression)

someFunction()() — Functions which return other functions

=> — Equal sign, greater than: arrow function expression syntax

|> — Pipe, greater than: Pipeline operator

function*, yield, yield* — Star after function or yield: generator functions

[], Array() — Square brackets: array notation

If the square brackets appear on the left side of an assignment ([a] = ...), or inside a function's parameters, it's a destructuring assignment.

{key: value} — Curly brackets: object literal syntax (not to be confused with blocks)

If the curly brackets appear on the left side of an assignment ({ a } = ...) or inside a function's parameters, it's a destructuring assignment.

`${}` — Backticks, dollar sign with curly brackets: template literals

// — Slashes: regular expression literals

$ — Dollar sign in regex replace patterns: $$, $&, $`, $', $n

() — Parentheses: grouping operator


Property-related expressions

obj.prop, obj[prop], obj["prop"] — Square brackets or dot: property accessors

?., ?.[], ?.() — Question mark, dot: optional chaining operator

:: — Double colon: bind operator

new operator

...iter — Three dots: spread syntax; rest parameters


Increment and decrement

++, -- — Double plus or minus: pre- / post-increment / -decrement operators


Unary and binary (arithmetic, logical, bitwise) operators

delete operator

void operator

+, - — Plus and minus: addition or concatenation, and subtraction operators; unary sign operators

|, &, ^, ~ — Single pipe, ampersand, circumflex, tilde: bitwise OR, AND, XOR, & NOT operators

% — Percent sign: remainder operator

&&, ||, ! — Double ampersand, double pipe, exclamation point: logical operators

?? — Double question mark: nullish-coalescing operator

** — Double star: power operator (exponentiation)


Equality operators

==, === — Equal signs: equality operators

!=, !== — Exclamation point and equal signs: inequality operators


Bit shift operators

<<, >>, >>> — Two or three angle brackets: bit shift operators


Conditional operator

?:… — Question mark and colon: conditional (ternary) operator


Assignment operators

= — Equal sign: assignment operator

%= — Percent equals: remainder assignment

+= — Plus equals: addition assignment operator

&&=, ||=, ??= — Double ampersand, pipe, or question mark, followed by equal sign: logical assignments

Destructuring


Comma operator

, — Comma operator


Control flow

{} — Curly brackets: blocks (not to be confused with object literal syntax)

Declarations

var, let, const — Declaring variables


Label

label: — Colon: labels


# — Hash (number sign): Private methods or private fields

How to change onClick handler dynamically?

If you want to pass variables from the current function, another way to do this is, for example:

document.getElementById("space1").onclick = new Function("lrgWithInfo('"+myVar+"')");

If you don't need to pass information from this function, it's just:

document.getElementById("space1").onclick = new Function("lrgWithInfo('13')");

How to set xlim and ylim for a subplot in matplotlib

You should use the OO interface to matplotlib, rather than the state machine interface. Almost all of the plt.* function are thin wrappers that basically do gca().*.

plt.subplot returns an axes object. Once you have a reference to the axes object you can plot directly to it, change its limits, etc.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

ax1 = plt.subplot(131)
ax1.scatter([1, 2], [3, 4])
ax1.set_xlim([0, 5])
ax1.set_ylim([0, 5])


ax2 = plt.subplot(132)
ax2.scatter([1, 2],[3, 4])
ax2.set_xlim([0, 5])
ax2.set_ylim([0, 5])

and so on for as many axes as you want.

or better, wrap it all up in a loop:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

DATA_x = ([1, 2],
          [2, 3],
          [3, 4])

DATA_y = DATA_x[::-1]

XLIMS = [[0, 10]] * 3
YLIMS = [[0, 10]] * 3

for j, (x, y, xlim, ylim) in enumerate(zip(DATA_x, DATA_y, XLIMS, YLIMS)):
    ax = plt.subplot(1, 3, j + 1)
    ax.scatter(x, y)
    ax.set_xlim(xlim)
    ax.set_ylim(ylim)

How can one tell the version of React running at runtime in the browser?

From command line to view react version, npm view react version

Custom seekbar (thumb size, color and background)

You can try progress bar instead of seek bar

<ProgressBar
    android:id="@+id/progressBar"
    style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleHorizontal"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="50dp"
    android:layout_marginBottom="35dp"
    />

Should I call Close() or Dispose() for stream objects?

The documentation says that these two methods are equivalent:

StreamReader.Close: This implementation of Close calls the Dispose method passing a true value.

StreamWriter.Close: This implementation of Close calls the Dispose method passing a true value.

Stream.Close: This method calls Dispose, specifying true to release all resources.

So, both of these are equally valid:

/* Option 1, implicitly calling Dispose */
using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(filename)) { 
   // do something
} 

/* Option 2, explicitly calling Close */
StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(filename)
try {
    // do something
}
finally {
    writer.Close();
}

Personally, I would stick with the first option, since it contains less "noise".

OS detecting makefile

Here's a simple solution that checks if you are in a Windows or posix-like (Linux/Unix/Cygwin/Mac) environment:

ifeq ($(shell echo "check_quotes"),"check_quotes")
   WINDOWS := yes
else
   WINDOWS := no
endif

It takes advantage of the fact that echo exists on both posix-like and Windows environments, and that in Windows the shell does not filter the quotes.

Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib/node_modules'

Similar to POsha's answer but this is what worked for me on ubuntu 19

sudo npm i -g ngrok --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root

From this link

https://github.com/inconshreveable/ngrok/issues/429

Removing Java 8 JDK from Mac

You just need to use these commands

sudo rm -rf /Library/Java/*
sudo rm -rf /Library/PreferencePanes/Java*
sudo rm -rf /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/Java*

Returning http 200 OK with error within response body

Even if I want to return a business logic error as HTTP code there is no such acceptable HTTP error code for that errors rather than using HTTP 200 because it will misrepresent the actual error.

So, HTTP 200 will be good for business logic errors. But all errors which are covered by HTTP error codes should use them.

Basically HTTP 200 means what server correctly processes user request (in case of there is no seats on the plane it is no matter because user request was correctly processed, it can even return just a number of seats available on the plane, so there will be no business logic errors at all or that business logic can be on client side. Business logic error is an abstract meaning, but HTTP error is more definite).

Convert Pandas Series to DateTime in a DataFrame

df=pd.read_csv("filename.csv" , parse_dates=["<column name>"])

type(df.<column name>)

example: if you want to convert day which is initially a string to a Timestamp in Pandas

df=pd.read_csv("weather_data2.csv" , parse_dates=["day"])

type(df.day)

The output will be pandas.tslib.Timestamp

Difference between onLoad and ng-init in angular

ng-init is a directive that can be placed inside div's, span's, whatever, whereas onload is an attribute specific to the ng-include directive that functions as an ng-init. To see what I mean try something like:

<span onload="a = 1">{{ a }}</span>
<span ng-init="b = 2">{{ b }}</span>

You'll see that only the second one shows up.

An isolated scope is a scope which does not prototypically inherit from its parent scope. In laymen's terms if you have a widget that doesn't need to read and write to the parent scope arbitrarily then you use an isolate scope on the widget so that the widget and widget container can freely use their scopes without overriding each other's properties.

How to get json key and value in javascript?

//By using jquery json parser    
var obj = $.parseJSON('{"name": "", "skills": "", "jobtitel": "Entwickler", "res_linkedin": "GwebSearch"}');
alert(obj['jobtitel']);

//By using javasript json parser
var t = JSON.parse('{"name": "", "skills": "", "jobtitel": "Entwickler", "res_linkedin": "GwebSearch"}');
alert(t['jobtitel'])

Check this jsfiddle

As of jQuery 3.0, $.parseJSON is deprecated. To parse JSON strings use the native JSON.parse method instead.

Source: http://api.jquery.com/jquery.parsejson/

how to create dynamic two dimensional array in java?

Scanner sc=new Scanner(System.in) ;
int p[][] = new int[n][] ;
for(int i=0 ; i<n ; i++)
{
    int m = sc.nextInt() ;      //Taking input from user in JAVA.
    p[i]=new int[m] ;       //Allocating memory block of 'm' int size block.

    for(int j=0 ; j<m ; j++)
    {
         p[i][j]=sc.nextInt();   //Initializing 2D array block.
    }
 }

Get textarea text with javascript or Jquery

You could use val().

var value = $('#area1').val();
$('#VAL_DISPLAY').html(value);

Trigger insert old values- values that was updated

ALTER trigger ETU on Employee FOR UPDATE AS insert into Log (EmployeeId, LogDate, OldName) select EmployeeId, getdate(), name from deleted go

Why is textarea filled with mysterious white spaces?

<textarea style="width:350px; 
 height:80px;" cols="42" rows="5" name="sitelink"
 ><?php if($siteLink_val) echo $siteLink_val; ?></textarea> 

Moving ...> down works for me.

permission denied - php unlink

The file permission is okay (0777) but i think your on the shared server, so to delete your file correctly use; 1. create a correct path to your file

// delete from folder
$filename = 'test.txt';
$ifile = '/newy/made/link/uploads/'. $filename; // this is the actual path to the file you want to delete.
unlink($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] .$ifile); // use server document root
// your file will be removed from the folder

That small code will do the magic and remove any selected file you want from any folder provided the actual file path is collect.

How to set default value for form field in Symfony2?

As Brian asked:

empty_data appears to only set the field to 1 when it is submitted with no value. What about when you want the form to default to displaying 1 in the input when no value is present?

you can set the default value with empty_value

$builder->add('myField', 'number', ['empty_value' => 'Default value'])

Inner join vs Where

Using JOIN makes the code easier to read, since it's self-explanatory.

There's no difference in speed(I have just tested it) and the execution plan is the same.

How to detect READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT is enabled?

SELECT is_read_committed_snapshot_on FROM sys.databases 
WHERE name= 'YourDatabase'

Return value:

  • 1: READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT option is ON. Read operations under the READ COMMITTED isolation level are based on snapshot scans and do not acquire locks.
  • 0 (default): READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT option is OFF. Read operations under the READ COMMITTED isolation level use Shared (S) locks.

How do I tell what type of value is in a Perl variable?

A scalar always holds a single element. Whatever is in a scalar variable is always a scalar. A reference is a scalar value.

If you want to know if it is a reference, you can use ref. If you want to know the reference type, you can use the reftype routine from Scalar::Util.

If you want to know if it is an object, you can use the blessed routine from Scalar::Util. You should never care what the blessed package is, though. UNIVERSAL has some methods to tell you about an object: if you want to check that it has the method you want to call, use can; if you want to see that it inherits from something, use isa; and if you want to see it the object handles a role, use DOES.

If you want to know if that scalar is actually just acting like a scalar but tied to a class, try tied. If you get an object, continue your checks.

If you want to know if it looks like a number, you can use looks_like_number from Scalar::Util. If it doesn't look like a number and it's not a reference, it's a string. However, all simple values can be strings.

If you need to do something more fancy, you can use a module such as Params::Validate.

How to programmatically add controls to a form in VB.NET

Yes.

Private Sub MyForm_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
    Dim MyTextbox as New Textbox
    With MyTextbox
       .Size = New Size(100,20)
       .Location = New Point(20,20)
    End With
    AddHandler MyTextbox.TextChanged, AddressOf MyTextbox_Changed
    Me.Controls.Add(MyTextbox)

'Without a help environment for an intelli sense substitution
'the address name and the methods name
'cannot be wrote in exchange for each other.
'Until an equality operation is prior for an exchange i have to work
'on an as is base substituted.

End Sub

Friend Sub MyTextbox_Changed(sender as Object, e as EventArgs)
   'Write code here.
End Sub

Space between border and content? / Border distance from content?

Add padding. Padding the element will increase the space between its content and its border. However, note that a box-shadow will begin outside the border, not the content, meaning you can't put space between the shadow and the box. Alternatively you could use :before or :after pseudo selectors on the element to create a slightly bigger box that you place the shadow on, like so: http://jsbin.com/aqemew/edit#source

How to declare Global Variables in Excel VBA to be visible across the Workbook

Your question is: are these not modules capable of declaring variables at global scope?

Answer: YES, they are "capable"

The only point is that references to global variables in ThisWorkbook or a Sheet module have to be fully qualified (i.e., referred to as ThisWorkbook.Global1, e.g.) References to global variables in a standard module have to be fully qualified only in case of ambiguity (e.g., if there is more than one standard module defining a variable with name Global1, and you mean to use it in a third module).

For instance, place in Sheet1 code

Public glob_sh1 As String

Sub test_sh1()
    Debug.Print (glob_mod)
    Debug.Print (ThisWorkbook.glob_this)
    Debug.Print (Sheet1.glob_sh1)
End Sub

place in ThisWorkbook code

Public glob_this As String

Sub test_this()
    Debug.Print (glob_mod)
    Debug.Print (ThisWorkbook.glob_this)
    Debug.Print (Sheet1.glob_sh1)
End Sub

and in a Standard Module code

Public glob_mod As String

Sub test_mod()
    glob_mod = "glob_mod"
    ThisWorkbook.glob_this = "glob_this"
    Sheet1.glob_sh1 = "glob_sh1"
    Debug.Print (glob_mod)
    Debug.Print (ThisWorkbook.glob_this)
    Debug.Print (Sheet1.glob_sh1)
End Sub

All three subs work fine.

PS1: This answer is based essentially on info from here. It is much worth reading (from the great Chip Pearson).

PS2: Your line Debug.Print ("Hello") will give you the compile error Invalid outside procedure.

PS3: You could (partly) check your code with Debug -> Compile VBAProject in the VB editor. All compile errors will pop.

PS4: Check also Put Excel-VBA code in module or sheet?.

PS5: You might be not able to declare a global variable in, say, Sheet1, and use it in code from other workbook (reading http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/gg264241%28v=office.15%29.aspx#sectionSection0; I did not test this point, so this issue is yet to be confirmed as such). But you do not mean to do that in your example, anyway.

PS6: There are several cases that lead to ambiguity in case of not fully qualifying global variables. You may tinker a little to find them. They are compile errors.

installing cPickle with python 3.5

cPickle comes with the standard library… in python 2.x. You are on python 3.x, so if you want cPickle, you can do this:

>>> import _pickle as cPickle

However, in 3.x, it's easier just to use pickle.

No need to install anything. If something requires cPickle in python 3.x, then that's probably a bug.

Where is Java's Array indexOf?

I don't recall of a "indexOf" on arrays other than coding it for yourself... though you could probably use one of the many java.util.Arrays#binarySearch(...) methods (see the Arrays javadoc) if your array contains primitive types

How many spaces will Java String.trim() remove?

String formattedStr=unformattedStr;
formattedStr=formattedStr.trim().replaceAll("\\s+", " ");

Make absolute positioned div expand parent div height

I had a similar problem. To solve this (instead of calculate the iframe's height using the body, document or window) I created a div that wraps the whole page content (a div with an id="page" for example) and then I used its height.

nodejs send html file to client

Try your code like this:

var app = express();
app.get('/test', function(req, res) {
    res.sendFile('views/test.html', {root: __dirname })
});
  1. Use res.sendFile instead of reading the file manually so express can handle setting the content-type properly for you.

  2. You don't need the app.engine line, as that is handled internally by express.

How can I get terminal output in python?

The easiest way is to use the library commands

import commands
print commands.getstatusoutput('echo "test" | wc')

Connect to network drive with user name and password

Use this code for Impersonation its tested in MVC.NET maybe for dot net core it required some change, If you want to dot net core let me know I will share.

 public static class ImpersonationAuthenticationNew
    {
        [DllImport("advapi32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
        private static extern bool LogonUser(string usernamee, string domain, string password, LogonType dwLogonType, LogonProvider dwLogonProvider, ref IntPtr phToken);
        [DllImport("kernel32.dll")]
        private static extern bool CloseHandle(IntPtr hObject);
        public static bool Login(string domain,string username, string password)
        {                
            IntPtr token = IntPtr.Zero;
            var IsSuccess = LogonUser(username, domain, password, LogonType.LOGON32_LOGON_NEW_CREDENTIALS, LogonProvider.LOGON32_PROVIDER_WINNT50, ref token);
            if (IsSuccess)
            {
                using (WindowsImpersonationContext person = new WindowsIdentity(token).Impersonate())
                {
                    var xIdentity = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent();
                    #region Start ImpersonationContext  Scope
                    try
                    {

                        // TYPE YOUR CODE HERE 

                    }
                    catch (Exception ex) { throw (ex); }
                    finally {
                        person.Undo();
                        CloseHandle(token);
                        return true;
                    }
                    #endregion
                }
            }
            return false;
        }
    }

    #region Enums
    public enum LogonType
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// This logon type is intended for users who will be interactively using the computer, such as a user being logged on  
        /// by a terminal server, remote shell, or similar process.
        /// This logon type has the additional expense of caching logon information for disconnected operations;
        /// therefore, it is inappropriate for some client/server applications,
        /// such as a mail server.
        /// </summary>
        LOGON32_LOGON_INTERACTIVE = 2,

        /// <summary>
        /// This logon type is intended for high performance servers to authenticate plaintext passwords.

        /// The LogonUser function does not cache credentials for this logon type.
        /// </summary>
        LOGON32_LOGON_NETWORK = 3,

        /// <summary>
        /// This logon type is intended for batch servers, where processes may be executing on behalf of a user without
        /// their direct intervention. This type is also for higher performance servers that process many plaintext
        /// authentication attempts at a time, such as mail or Web servers.
        /// The LogonUser function does not cache credentials for this logon type.
        /// </summary>
        LOGON32_LOGON_BATCH = 4,

        /// <summary>
        /// Indicates a service-type logon. The account provided must have the service privilege enabled.
        /// </summary>
        LOGON32_LOGON_SERVICE = 5,

        /// <summary>
        /// This logon type is for GINA DLLs that log on users who will be interactively using the computer.
        /// This logon type can generate a unique audit record that shows when the workstation was unlocked.
        /// </summary>
        LOGON32_LOGON_UNLOCK = 7,

        /// <summary>
        /// This logon type preserves the name and password in the authentication package, which allows the server to make
        /// connections to other network servers while impersonating the client. A server can accept plaintext credentials
        /// from a client, call LogonUser, verify that the user can access the system across the network, and still
        /// communicate with other servers.
        /// NOTE: Windows NT:  This value is not supported.
        /// </summary>
        LOGON32_LOGON_NETWORK_CLEARTEXT = 8,

        /// <summary>
        /// This logon type allows the caller to clone its current token and specify new credentials for outbound connections.
        /// The new logon session has the same local identifier but uses different credentials for other network connections.
        /// NOTE: This logon type is supported only by the LOGON32_PROVIDER_WINNT50 logon provider.
        /// NOTE: Windows NT:  This value is not supported.
        /// </summary>
        LOGON32_LOGON_NEW_CREDENTIALS = 9,
    }
    public enum LogonProvider
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Use the standard logon provider for the system.
        /// The default security provider is negotiate, unless you pass NULL for the domain name and the user name
        /// is not in UPN format. In this case, the default provider is NTLM.
        /// NOTE: Windows 2000/NT:   The default security provider is NTLM.
        /// </summary>
        LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT = 0,
        LOGON32_PROVIDER_WINNT35 = 1,
        LOGON32_PROVIDER_WINNT40 = 2,
        LOGON32_PROVIDER_WINNT50 = 3
    }
    #endregion

break statement in "if else" - java

Because your else isn't attached to anything. The if without braces only encompasses the single statement that immediately follows it.

if (choice==5)
{
    System.out.println("End of Game\n Thank you for playing with us!");
    break;
}
else
{
   System.out.println("Not a valid choice!\n Please try again...\n");
}

Not using braces is generally viewed as a bad practice because it can lead to the exact problems you encountered.

In addition, using a switch here would make more sense.

int choice;
boolean keepGoing = true;
while(keepGoing)
{
    System.out.println("---> Your choice: ");
    choice = input.nextInt();
    switch(choice)
    {
        case 1: 
            playGame();
            break;
        case 2: 
            loadGame();
            break;
        // your other cases
        // ...
        case 5: 
            System.out.println("End of Game\n Thank you for playing with us!");
            keepGoing = false;
            break;
        default:
            System.out.println("Not a valid choice!\n Please try again...\n");
     }
 }         

Note that instead of an infinite for loop I used a while(boolean), making it easy to exit the loop. Another approach would be using break with labels.

How to get different colored lines for different plots in a single figure?

Matplotlib does this by default.

E.g.:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

x = np.arange(10)

plt.plot(x, x)
plt.plot(x, 2 * x)
plt.plot(x, 3 * x)
plt.plot(x, 4 * x)
plt.show()

Basic plot demonstrating color cycling

And, as you may already know, you can easily add a legend:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

x = np.arange(10)

plt.plot(x, x)
plt.plot(x, 2 * x)
plt.plot(x, 3 * x)
plt.plot(x, 4 * x)

plt.legend(['y = x', 'y = 2x', 'y = 3x', 'y = 4x'], loc='upper left')

plt.show()

Basic plot with legend

If you want to control the colors that will be cycled through:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

x = np.arange(10)

plt.gca().set_color_cycle(['red', 'green', 'blue', 'yellow'])

plt.plot(x, x)
plt.plot(x, 2 * x)
plt.plot(x, 3 * x)
plt.plot(x, 4 * x)

plt.legend(['y = x', 'y = 2x', 'y = 3x', 'y = 4x'], loc='upper left')

plt.show()

Plot showing control over default color cycling

If you're unfamiliar with matplotlib, the tutorial is a good place to start.

Edit:

First off, if you have a lot (>5) of things you want to plot on one figure, either:

  1. Put them on different plots (consider using a few subplots on one figure), or
  2. Use something other than color (i.e. marker styles or line thickness) to distinguish between them.

Otherwise, you're going to wind up with a very messy plot! Be nice to who ever is going to read whatever you're doing and don't try to cram 15 different things onto one figure!!

Beyond that, many people are colorblind to varying degrees, and distinguishing between numerous subtly different colors is difficult for more people than you may realize.

That having been said, if you really want to put 20 lines on one axis with 20 relatively distinct colors, here's one way to do it:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

num_plots = 20

# Have a look at the colormaps here and decide which one you'd like:
# http://matplotlib.org/1.2.1/examples/pylab_examples/show_colormaps.html
colormap = plt.cm.gist_ncar
plt.gca().set_prop_cycle(plt.cycler('color', plt.cm.jet(np.linspace(0, 1, num_plots))))

# Plot several different functions...
x = np.arange(10)
labels = []
for i in range(1, num_plots + 1):
    plt.plot(x, i * x + 5 * i)
    labels.append(r'$y = %ix + %i$' % (i, 5*i))

# I'm basically just demonstrating several different legend options here...
plt.legend(labels, ncol=4, loc='upper center', 
           bbox_to_anchor=[0.5, 1.1], 
           columnspacing=1.0, labelspacing=0.0,
           handletextpad=0.0, handlelength=1.5,
           fancybox=True, shadow=True)

plt.show()

Unique colors for 20 lines based on a given colormap

Why is conversion from string constant to 'char*' valid in C but invalid in C++

It's valid in C for historical reasons. C traditionally specified that the type of a string literal was char * rather than const char *, although it qualified it by saying that you're not actually allowed to modify it.

When you use a cast, you're essentially telling the compiler that you know better than the default type matching rules, and it makes the assignment OK.

prevent property from being serialized in web API

Works fine by just adding the: [IgnoreDataMember]

On top of the propertyp, like:

public class UserSettingsModel
{
    public string UserName { get; set; }
    [IgnoreDataMember]
    public DateTime Created { get; set; }
}

This works with ApiController. The code:

[Route("api/Context/UserSettings")]
    [HttpGet, HttpPost]
    public UserSettingsModel UserSettings()
    {
        return _contextService.GetUserSettings();
    }

git discard all changes and pull from upstream

git reset <hash>  # you need to know the last good hash, so you can remove all your local commits

git fetch upstream
git checkout master
git merge upstream/master
git push origin master -f

voila, now your fork is back to same as upstream.

Retrieve CPU usage and memory usage of a single process on Linux?

A variant of caf's answer: top -p <pid>

This auto-refreshes the CPU usage so it's good for monitoring.

Cannot read property 'addEventListener' of null

It's just bcz your JS gets loaded before the HTML part and so it can't find that element. Just put your whole JS code inside a function which will be called when the window gets loaded.

You can also put your Javascript code below the html.

Call PHP function from Twig template

Its not possible to access any PHP function inside Twig directly.

What you can do is write a Twig extension. A common structure is, writing a service with some utility functions, write a Twig extension as bridge to access the service from twig. The Twig extension will use the service and your controller can use the service too.

Take a look: http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/templating/twig_extension.html

Cheers.

How to get a table cell value using jQuery?

$('#mytable tr').each(function() {
    var customerId = $(this).find("td:first").html();    
});

What you are doing is iterating through all the trs in the table, finding the first td in the current tr in the loop, and extracting its inner html.

To select a particular cell, you can reference them with an index:

$('#mytable tr').each(function() {
    var customerId = $(this).find("td").eq(2).html();    
});

In the above code, I will be retrieving the value of the third row (the index is zero-based, so the first cell index would be 0)


Here's how you can do it without jQuery:

var table = document.getElementById('mytable'), 
    rows = table.getElementsByTagName('tr'),
    i, j, cells, customerId;

for (i = 0, j = rows.length; i < j; ++i) {
    cells = rows[i].getElementsByTagName('td');
    if (!cells.length) {
        continue;
    }
    customerId = cells[0].innerHTML;
}

?

Error reading JObject from JsonReader. Current JsonReader item is not an object: StartArray. Path

In this case that you know that you have all items in the first place on array you can parse the string to JArray and then parse the first item using JObject.Parse

var  jsonArrayString = @"
[
  {
    ""country"": ""India"",
    ""city"": ""Mall Road, Gurgaon"",
  },
  {
    ""country"": ""India"",
    ""city"": ""Mall Road, Kanpur"",
  }
]";
JArray jsonArray = JArray.Parse(jsonArrayString);
dynamic data = JObject.Parse(jsonArray[0].ToString());

Mercurial stuck "waiting for lock"

When waiting for lock on working directory, delete .hg/wlock.

How to validate GUID is a GUID

Based on the accepted answer I created an Extension method as follows:

public static Guid ToGuid(this string aString)
{
    Guid newGuid;

    if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(aString))
    {
        return MagicNumbers.defaultGuid;
    }

    if (Guid.TryParse(aString, out newGuid))
    {
        return newGuid;
    }

    return MagicNumbers.defaultGuid;
}

Where "MagicNumbers.defaultGuid" is just "an empty" all zero Guid "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000".

In my case returning that value as the result of an invalid ToGuid conversion was not a problem.

How do I programmatically get the GUID of an application in .NET 2.0

You should be able to read the GUID attribute of the assembly via reflection. This will get the GUID for the current assembly

Assembly asm = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
var attribs = (asm.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(GuidAttribute), true));
Console.WriteLine((attribs[0] as GuidAttribute).Value);

You can replace the GuidAttribute with other attributes as well, if you want to read things like AssemblyTitle, AssemblyVersion, etc.

You can also load another assembly (Assembly.LoadFrom and all) instead of getting the current assembly - if you need to read these attributes of external assemblies (for example, when loading a plugin).

How to $http Synchronous call with AngularJS

What about wrapping your call in a Promise.all() method i.e.

Promise.all([$http.get(url).then(function(result){....}, function(error){....}])

According to MDN

Promise.all waits for all fulfillments (or the first rejection)

Escape curly brace '{' in String.Format

Use double braces {{ or }} so your code becomes:

sb.AppendLine(String.Format("public {0} {1} {{ get; private set; }}", 
prop.Type, prop.Name));

// For prop.Type of "Foo" and prop.Name of "Bar", the result would be:
// public Foo Bar { get; private set; }

How to add icons to React Native app

You'll need different sized icons for iOS and Android, like Rockvic said. In addition, I recommend this site for generating different sized icons if anybody is interested. You don't need to download anything and it works perfectly.

https://resizeappicon.com/

Hope it helps.

How to get the IP address of the server on which my C# application is running on?

The LINQ solution:

Dns.GetHostEntry(Dns.GetHostName()).AddressList.Where(ip => ip.AddressFamily == AddressFamily.InterNetwork).Select(ip => ip.ToString()).FirstOrDefault() ?? ""

How can I programmatically invoke an onclick() event from a anchor tag while keeping the ‘this’ reference in the onclick function?

To trigger an event you basically just call the event handler for that element. Slight change from your code.

var a = document.getElementById("element");
var evnt = a["onclick"];

if (typeof(evnt) == "function") {
    evnt.call(a);
}

ffmpeg - Converting MOV files to MP4

The command to just stream it to a new container (mp4) needed by some applications like Adobe Premiere Pro without encoding (fast) is:

ffmpeg -i input.mov -qscale 0 output.mp4

Alternative as mentioned in the comments, which re-encodes with best quaility (-qscale 0):

ffmpeg -i input.mov -q:v 0 output.mp4

Sending images using Http Post

I usually do this in the thread handling the json response:

try {
  Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream((InputStream)new URL(imageUrl).getContent());
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
  e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
  e.printStackTrace();
}

If you need to do transformations on the image, you'll want to create a Drawable instead of a Bitmap.

Undo working copy modifications of one file in Git?

If you have not yet pushed or otherwise shared your commit:

git diff --stat HEAD^...HEAD | \
fgrep filename_snippet_to_revert | cut -d' ' -f2 | xargs git checkout HEAD^ --
git commit -a --amend

Disable building workspace process in Eclipse

You can switch to manual build so can control when this is done. Just make sure that Project > Build Automatically from the main menu is unchecked.

Simple way to query connected USB devices info in Python?

If you are working on windows, you can use pywin32 (old link: see update below).

I found an example here:

import win32com.client

wmi = win32com.client.GetObject ("winmgmts:")
for usb in wmi.InstancesOf ("Win32_USBHub"):
    print usb.DeviceID

Update Apr 2020:

'pywin32' release versions from 218 and up can be found here at github. Current version 227.

What is C# analog of C++ std::pair?

Tuples are available since .NET4.0 and support generics:

Tuple<string, int> t = new Tuple<string, int>("Hello", 4);

In previous versions you can use System.Collections.Generic.KeyValuePair<K, V> or a solution like the following:

public class Pair<T, U> {
    public Pair() {
    }

    public Pair(T first, U second) {
        this.First = first;
        this.Second = second;
    }

    public T First { get; set; }
    public U Second { get; set; }
};

And use it like this:

Pair<String, int> pair = new Pair<String, int>("test", 2);
Console.WriteLine(pair.First);
Console.WriteLine(pair.Second);

This outputs:

test
2

Or even this chained pairs:

Pair<Pair<String, int>, bool> pair = new Pair<Pair<String, int>, bool>();
pair.First = new Pair<String, int>();
pair.First.First = "test";
pair.First.Second = 12;
pair.Second = true;

Console.WriteLine(pair.First.First);
Console.WriteLine(pair.First.Second);
Console.WriteLine(pair.Second);

That outputs:

test
12
true

Reading my own Jar's Manifest

Why are you including the getClassLoader step? If you say "this.getClass().getResource()" you should be getting resources relative to the calling class. I've never used ClassLoader.getResource(), though from a quick look at the Java Docs it sounds like that will get you the first resource of that name found in any current classpath.

Java, How to get number of messages in a topic in apache kafka

Sometimes the interest is in knowing the number of messages in each partition, for example, when testing a custom partitioner.The ensuing steps have been tested to work with Kafka 0.10.2.1-2 from Confluent 3.2. Given a Kafka topic, kt and the following command-line:

$ kafka-run-class kafka.tools.GetOffsetShell \
  --broker-list host01:9092,host02:9092,host02:9092 --topic kt

That prints the sample output showing the count of messages in the three partitions:

kt:2:6138
kt:1:6123
kt:0:6137

The number of lines could be more or less depending on the number of partitions for the topic.

What's the difference between align-content and align-items?

The align-items property of flex-box aligns the items inside a flex container along the cross axis just like justify-content does along the main axis. (For the default flex-direction: row the cross axis corresponds to vertical and the main axis corresponds to horizontal. With flex-direction: column those two are interchanged respectively).

Here's an example of how align-items:center looks:

align-items: center

But align-content is for multi line flexible boxes. It has no effect when items are in a single line. It aligns the whole structure according to its value. Here's an example for align-content: space-around;: enter image description here

And here's how align-content: space-around; with align-items:center looks: enter image description here

Note the 3rd box and all other boxes in first line change to vertically centered in that line.

Here are some codepen links to play with:

http://codepen.io/asim-coder/pen/MKQWbb

http://codepen.io/asim-coder/pen/WrMNWR

Here's a super cool pen which shows and lets you play with almost everything in flexbox.

How to print VARCHAR(MAX) using Print Statement?

Uses Line Feeds and spaces as a good break point:

declare @sqlAll as nvarchar(max)
set @sqlAll = '-- Insert all your sql here'

print '@sqlAll - truncated over 4000'
print @sqlAll
print '   '
print '   '
print '   '

print '@sqlAll - split into chunks'
declare @i int = 1, @nextspace int = 0, @newline nchar(2)
set @newline = nchar(13) + nchar(10)


while Exists(Select(Substring(@sqlAll,@i,3000))) and (@i < LEN(@sqlAll))
begin
    while Substring(@sqlAll,@i+3000+@nextspace,1) <> ' ' and Substring(@sqlAll,@i+3000+@nextspace,1) <> @newline
    BEGIN
        set @nextspace = @nextspace + 1
    end
    print Substring(@sqlAll,@i,3000+@nextspace)
    set @i = @i+3000+@nextspace
    set @nextspace = 0
end
print '   '
print '   '
print '   '