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How do I remove files saying "old mode 100755 new mode 100644" from unstaged changes in Git?

I just ran into this issue when diffing my branch with master. Git returned one 'mode' error when I expected my branch to be identical to master. I fixed by deleting the file and then merging master in again.

First I ran the diff:

git checkout my-branch
git diff master

This returned:

diff --git a/bin/script.sh b/bin/script.sh
old mode 100755
new mode 100644

I then ran the following to fix:

rm bin/script.sh
git merge -X theirs master

After this, git diff returned no differences between my-branch and master.

How to get index using LINQ?

Simply do :

int index = List.FindIndex(your condition);

E.g.

int index = cars.FindIndex(c => c.ID == 150);

How to get file_get_contents() to work with HTTPS?

In my case, the issue was due to WAMP using a different php.ini for CLI than Apache, so your settings made through the WAMP menu don't apply to CLI. Just modify the CLI php.ini and it works.

Changing CSS for last <li>

One alternative for IE7+ and other browsers may be to use :first-child instead, and invert your styles.

For example, if you're setting the margin on each li:

ul li {
  margin-bottom: 1em;
}
ul li:last-child {
  margin-bottom: 0;
}

You could replace it with this:

ul li {
  margin-top: 1em;
}
ul li:first-child {
  margin-top: 0;
}

This will work well for some other cases like borders.

According to sitepoint, :first-child buggy, but only to the extent that it will select some root elements (the doctype or html), and may not change styles if other elements are inserted.

What is the correct way to restore a deleted file from SVN?

I always seem to use svn copy as a server operation so not sure if it works with two working paths.

Here is an example of restoring a deleted file into a local working copy of the project:

svn copy https://repos/project/modules/module.js@3502 modules/module.js

While being inside the project directory. This works as well for restoring entire directories.

Using psql to connect to PostgreSQL in SSL mode

Found the following options useful to provide all the files for a self signed postgres instance

psql "host={hostname} sslmode=prefer sslrootcert={ca-cert.pem} sslcert={client-cert.pem} sslkey={client-key.pem} port={port} user={user} dbname={db}"

Move view with keyboard using Swift

Easiest way that doesn't even require any code:

  1. Download KeyboardLayoutConstraint.swift and add (drag & drop) the file into your project, if you're not using the Spring animation framework already.
  2. In your storyboard, create a bottom constraint for the View or Textfield, select the constraint (double-click it) and in the Identity Inspector, change its class from NSLayoutConstraint to KeyboardLayoutConstraint.
  3. Done!

The object will auto-move up with the keyboard, in sync.

PersistenceContext EntityManager injection NullPointerException

If you have any NamedQueries in your entity classes, then check the stack trace for compilation errors. A malformed query which cannot be compiled can cause failure to load the persistence context.

How do you get the Git repository's name in some Git repository?

Here's mine:

git remote --verbose | grep origin | grep fetch | cut -f2 | cut -d' ' -f1

no better than the others, but I made it a bash function so I can drop in the remote name if it isn't origin.

grurl () {
  xx_remote=$1
  [ -z "$xx_remote" ] && xx_remote=origin
  git remote --verbose | grep "$1" | grep fetch | cut -f2 | cut -d' ' -f1
  unset xx_remote
}

Wavy shape with css

I like ThomasA's answer, but wanted a more realistic context with the wave being used to separate two divs. So I created a more complete demo where the separator SVG gets positioned perfectly between the two divs.

css wavy divider in CSS

Now I thought it would be cool to take it further. What if we could do this all in CSS without the need for the inline SVG? The point being to avoid extra markup. Here's how I did it:

Two simple <div>:

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#A {_x000D_
  background: #0074D9;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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#B {_x000D_
  background: #7FDBFF;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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#A::after {_x000D_
  content: "";_x000D_
  position: relative;_x000D_
  left: -3rem;_x000D_
  /* padding * -1 */_x000D_
  top: calc( 3rem - 4rem / 2);_x000D_
  /* padding - height/2 */_x000D_
  float: left;_x000D_
  display: block;_x000D_
  height: 4rem;_x000D_
  width: 100vw;_x000D_
  background: hsla(0, 0%, 100%, 0.5);_x000D_
  background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 70 500 60' preserveAspectRatio='none'%3E%3Crect x='0' y='0' width='500' height='500' style='stroke: none; fill: %237FDBFF;' /%3E%3Cpath d='M0,100 C150,200 350,0 500,100 L500,00 L0,0 Z' style='stroke: none; fill: %230074D9;'%3E%3C/path%3E%3C/svg%3E");_x000D_
  background-size: 100% 100%;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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/** Cosmetics **/_x000D_
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* {_x000D_
  margin: 0;_x000D_
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#B {_x000D_
  padding: 3rem;_x000D_
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div {_x000D_
  font-family: monospace;_x000D_
  font-size: 1.2rem;_x000D_
  line-height: 1.2;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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#A {_x000D_
  color: white;_x000D_
}
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<div id="A">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vivamus nec quam tincidunt, iaculis mi non, hendrerit felis. Nulla pretium lectus et arcu tempus, quis luctus ex imperdiet. In facilisis nulla suscipit ornare finibus. …_x000D_
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<div id="B" class="wavy">… In iaculis fermentum lacus vel porttitor. Vestibulum congue elementum neque eget feugiat. Donec suscipit diam ligula, aliquam consequat tellus sagittis porttitor. Sed sodales leo nisl, ut consequat est ornare eleifend. Cras et semper mi, in porta nunc.</div>
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Demo Wavy divider (with CSS pseudo-elements to avoid extra markup)

It was a bit trickier to position than with an inline SVG but works just as well. (Could use CSS custom properties or pre-processor variables to keep the height and padding easy to read.)

To edit the colors, you need to edit the URL-encoded SVG itself.

Pay attention (like in the first demo) to a change in the viewBox to get rid of unwanted spaces in the SVG. (Another option would be to draw a different SVG.)

Another thing to pay attention to here is the background-size set to 100% 100% to get it to stretch in both directions.

Component is not part of any NgModule or the module has not been imported into your module

if you are using lazy loading then must load that module in any router module , like in app-routing.module.ts {path:'home',loadChildren:'./home.module#HomeModule'}

Using the passwd command from within a shell script

Tested this on a CentOS VMWare image that I keep around for this sort of thing. Note that you probably want to avoid putting passwords as command-line arguments, because anybody on the entire machine can read them out of 'ps -ef'.

That said, this will work:

user="$1"
password="$2"
adduser $user
echo $password | passwd --stdin $user

Convert a python 'type' object to a string

>>> class A(object): pass

>>> e = A()
>>> e
<__main__.A object at 0xb6d464ec>
>>> print type(e)
<class '__main__.A'>
>>> print type(e).__name__
A
>>> 

what do you mean by convert into a string? you can define your own repr and str_ methods:

>>> class A(object):
    def __repr__(self):
        return 'hei, i am A or B or whatever'

>>> e = A()
>>> e
hei, i am A or B or whatever
>>> str(e)
hei, i am A or B or whatever

or i dont know..please add explainations ;)

What in layman's terms is a Recursive Function using PHP

An example would be to print every file in any subdirectories of a given directory (if you have no symlinks inside these directories which may break the function somehow). A pseudo-code of printing all files looks like this:

function printAllFiles($dir) {
    foreach (getAllDirectories($dir) as $f) {
        printAllFiles($f); // here is the recursive call
    }
    foreach (getAllFiles($dir) as $f) {
        echo $f;
    }
}

The idea is to print all sub directories first and then the files of the current directory. This idea get applied to all sub directories, and thats the reason for calling this function recursively for all sub directories.

If you want to try this example you have to check for the special directories . and .., otherwise you get stuck in calling printAllFiles(".") all the time. Additionally you must check what to print and what your current working directory is (see opendir(), getcwd(), ...).

How to split a data frame?

Splitting the data frame seems counter-productive. Instead, use the split-apply-combine paradigm, e.g., generate some data

df = data.frame(grp=sample(letters, 100, TRUE), x=rnorm(100))

then split only the relevant columns and apply the scale() function to x in each group, and combine the results (using split<- or ave)

df$z = 0
split(df$z, df$grp) = lapply(split(df$x, df$grp), scale)
## alternative: df$z = ave(df$x, df$grp, FUN=scale)

This will be very fast compared to splitting data.frames, and the result remains usable in downstream analysis without iteration. I think the dplyr syntax is

library(dplyr)
df %>% group_by(grp) %>% mutate(z=scale(x))

In general this dplyr solution is faster than splitting data frames but not as fast as split-apply-combine.

Change a Git remote HEAD to point to something besides master

Update: This only works for the local copy of the repository (the "client"). Please see others' comments below.

With a recent version of git (Feb 2014), the correct procedure would be:

git remote set-head $REMOTE_NAME $BRANCH

So for example, switching the head on remote origin to branch develop would be:

git remote set-head origin develop

sqlalchemy: how to join several tables by one query?

This function will produce required table as list of tuples.

def get_documents_by_user_email(email):
    query = session.query(
       User.email, 
       User.name, 
       Document.name, 
       DocumentsPermissions.readAllowed, 
       DocumentsPermissions.writeAllowed,
    )
    join_query = query.join(Document).join(DocumentsPermissions)

    return join_query.filter(User.email == email).all()

user_docs = get_documents_by_user_email(email)

What are all codecs and formats supported by FFmpeg?

ffmpeg -codecs

should give you all the info about the codecs available.

You will see some letters next to the codecs:

Codecs:
 D..... = Decoding supported
 .E.... = Encoding supported
 ..V... = Video codec
 ..A... = Audio codec
 ..S... = Subtitle codec
 ...I.. = Intra frame-only codec
 ....L. = Lossy compression
 .....S = Lossless compression

How to set the default value of an attribute on a Laravel model

You can set Default attribute in Model also>

protected $attributes = [
        'status' => self::STATUS_UNCONFIRMED,
        'role_id' => self::ROLE_PUBLISHER,
    ];

You can find the details in these links

1.) How to set a default attribute value for a Laravel / Eloquent model?

2.) https://laracasts.com/index.php/discuss/channels/eloquent/eloquent-help-generating-attribute-values-before-creating-record


You can also Use Accessors & Mutators for this You can find the details in the Laravel documentation 1.) https://laravel.com/docs/4.2/eloquent#accessors-and-mutators

2.) https://scotch.io/tutorials/automatically-format-laravel-database-fields-with-accessors-and-mutators

3.) Universal accessors and mutators in Laravel 4

Convert string to JSON Object

Combining Saurabh Chandra Patel's answer with Molecular Man's observation, you should have something like this:

JSON.parse('{"TeamList" : [{"teamid" : "1","teamname" : "Barcelona"}]}');

Check box size change with CSS

You might want to do this.

input[type=checkbox] {

 -ms-transform: scale(2); /* IE */
 -moz-transform: scale(2); /* FF */
 -webkit-transform: scale(2); /* Safari and Chrome */
 -o-transform: scale(2); /* Opera */
  padding: 10px;
}

How to import Swagger APIs into Postman?

  • Click on the orange button ("choose files")
  • Browse to the Swagger doc (swagger.yaml)
  • After selecting the file, a new collection gets created in POSTMAN. It will contain folders based on your endpoints.

You can also get some sample swagger files online to verify this(if you have errors in your swagger doc).

How is CountDownLatch used in Java Multithreading?

As mentioned in JavaDoc (https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/CountDownLatch.html), CountDownLatch is a synchronization aid, introduced in Java 5. Here the synchronization does not mean restricting access to a critical section. But rather sequencing actions of different threads. The type of synchronization achieved through CountDownLatch is similar to that of Join. Assume that there is a thread "M" which needs to wait for other worker threads "T1", "T2", "T3" to complete its tasks Prior to Java 1.5, the way this can be done is, M running the following code

    T1.join();
    T2.join();
    T3.join();

The above code makes sure that thread M resumes its work after T1, T2, T3 completes its work. T1, T2, T3 can complete their work in any order. The same can be achieved through CountDownLatch, where T1,T2, T3 and thread M share same CountDownLatch object.
"M" requests : countDownLatch.await();
where as "T1","T2","T3" does countDownLatch.countdown();

One disadvantage with the join method is that M has to know about T1, T2, T3. If there is a new worker thread T4 added later, then M has to be aware of it too. This can be avoided with CountDownLatch. After implementation the sequence of action would be [T1,T2,T3](the order of T1,T2,T3 could be anyway) -> [M]

How to capture Enter key press?

Form approach

As scoota269 says, you should use onSubmit instead, cause pressing enter on a textbox will most likey trigger a form submit (if inside a form)

<form action="#" onsubmit="handle">
    <input type="text" name="txt" />
</form>

<script>
    function handle(e){
        e.preventDefault(); // Otherwise the form will be submitted

        alert("FORM WAS SUBMITTED");
    }
</script>

Textbox approach

If you want to have an event on the input-field then you need to make sure your handle() will return false, otherwise the form will get submitted.

<form action="#">
    <input type="text" name="txt" onkeypress="handle(event)" />
</form>

<script>
    function handle(e){
        if(e.keyCode === 13){
            e.preventDefault(); // Ensure it is only this code that runs

            alert("Enter was pressed was presses");
        }
    }
</script>

Razor Views not seeing System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper

Just started looking into the issue myself and this is what it look like in my case. If you have the correct values in your web config then Its just a bug in MVC4. http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/727729/viewbag-not-recognized-in-asp-net-mvc-4-project

(grep) Regex to match non-ASCII characters?

You can use this regex:

[^\w \xC0-\xFF]

Case ask, the options is Multiline.

Get loop count inside a Python FOR loop

Agree with Nick. Here is more elaborated code.

#count=0
for idx, item in enumerate(list):
    print item
    #count +=1
    #if count % 10 == 0:
    if (idx+1) % 10 == 0:
        print 'did ten'

I have commented out the count variable in your code.

HTML table with horizontal scrolling (first column fixed)

Based on skube's approach, I found the minimal set of CSS I needed was:

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.horizontal-scroll-except-first-column {_x000D_
  width: 100%;_x000D_
  overflow: auto;_x000D_
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.horizontal-scroll-except-first-column > table {_x000D_
  margin-left: 8em;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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.horizontal-scroll-except-first-column > table > * > tr > th:first-child,_x000D_
.horizontal-scroll-except-first-column > table > * > tr > td:first-child {_x000D_
  position: absolute;_x000D_
  width: 8em;_x000D_
  margin-left: -8em;_x000D_
  background: #ccc;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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.horizontal-scroll-except-first-column > table > * > tr > th,_x000D_
.horizontal-scroll-except-first-column > table > * > tr > td {_x000D_
  /* Without this, if a cell wraps onto two lines, the first column_x000D_
   * will look bad, and may need padding. */_x000D_
  white-space: nowrap;_x000D_
}
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<div class="horizontal-scroll-except-first-column">_x000D_
  <table>_x000D_
    <tbody>_x000D_
      <tr>_x000D_
        <td>FIXED</td> <td>22222</td> <td>33333</td> <td>44444</td> <td>55555</td> <td>66666</td> <td>77777</td> <td>88888</td> <td>99999</td> <td>AAAAA</td> <td>BBBBB</td> <td>CCCCC</td> <td>DDDDD</td> <td>EEEEE</td> <td>FFFFF</td>_x000D_
      </tr>_x000D_
    </tbody>_x000D_
  </table>_x000D_
</div>
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How do I add PHP code/file to HTML(.html) files?

You can modify .htaccess like others said, but the fastest solution is to rename the file extension to .php

How to find where gem files are installed

You can trick gem open into displaying the gem path:

VISUAL=echo gem open gem-name

Example:

VISUAL=echo gem open rails
=> /usr/local/opt/asdf/installs/ruby/2.4.3/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0/gems/rails-5.1.4

It just works, and no third party gem is necessary.

Google Maps: Auto close open InfoWindows?

Here is what I used if you are using many markers in a for loop (Django here). You can set an index on each marker and set that index every time you open a window. Closing the previously saved index:

markers = Array();
infoWindows = Array();
var prev_infowindow =false;
{% for obj in objects %}
var contentString = 'your content'
var infowindow = new google.maps.InfoWindow({
            content: contentString,
          });
var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
               position: {lat: {{ obj.lat }}, lng: {{ obj.lon }}},
               map: map,
               title: '{{ obj.name }}',
               infoWindowIndex : {{ forloop.counter0 }}
          });
google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click',
            function(event)
            {
           if( prev_infowindow ) {
               infoWindows[prev_infowindow].close();
                }
                prev_infowindow = this.infoWindowIndex;
                infoWindows[this.infoWindowIndex].open(map, this);
            }
        );

        infoWindows.push(infowindow);
        markers.push(marker);

      {% endfor %}

Why do you need to put #!/bin/bash at the beginning of a script file?

It is called a shebang. It consists of a number sign and an exclamation point character (#!), followed by the full path to the interpreter such as /bin/bash. All scripts under UNIX and Linux execute using the interpreter specified on a first line.

Uncaught SoapFault exception: [HTTP] Error Fetching http headers

There is an issue in php version less than 5.2.6. You may need to upgrade the version of php.

Log exception with traceback

My job recently tasked me with logging all the tracebacks/exceptions from our application. I tried numerous techniques that others had posted online such as the one above but settled on a different approach. Overriding traceback.print_exception.

I have a write up at http://www.bbarrows.com/ That would be much easier to read but Ill paste it in here as well.

When tasked with logging all the exceptions that our software might encounter in the wild I tried a number of different techniques to log our python exception tracebacks. At first I thought that the python system exception hook, sys.excepthook would be the perfect place to insert the logging code. I was trying something similar to:

import traceback
import StringIO
import logging
import os, sys

def my_excepthook(excType, excValue, traceback, logger=logger):
    logger.error("Logging an uncaught exception",
                 exc_info=(excType, excValue, traceback))

sys.excepthook = my_excepthook  

This worked for the main thread but I soon found that the my sys.excepthook would not exist across any new threads my process started. This is a huge issue because most everything happens in threads in this project.

After googling and reading plenty of documentation the most helpful information I found was from the Python Issue tracker.

The first post on the thread shows a working example of the sys.excepthook NOT persisting across threads (as shown below). Apparently this is expected behavior.

import sys, threading

def log_exception(*args):
    print 'got exception %s' % (args,)
sys.excepthook = log_exception

def foo():
    a = 1 / 0

threading.Thread(target=foo).start()

The messages on this Python Issue thread really result in 2 suggested hacks. Either subclass Thread and wrap the run method in our own try except block in order to catch and log exceptions or monkey patch threading.Thread.run to run in your own try except block and log the exceptions.

The first method of subclassing Thread seems to me to be less elegant in your code as you would have to import and use your custom Thread class EVERYWHERE you wanted to have a logging thread. This ended up being a hassle because I had to search our entire code base and replace all normal Threads with this custom Thread. However, it was clear as to what this Thread was doing and would be easier for someone to diagnose and debug if something went wrong with the custom logging code. A custome logging thread might look like this:

class TracebackLoggingThread(threading.Thread):
    def run(self):
        try:
            super(TracebackLoggingThread, self).run()
        except (KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit):
            raise
        except Exception, e:
            logger = logging.getLogger('')
            logger.exception("Logging an uncaught exception")

The second method of monkey patching threading.Thread.run is nice because I could just run it once right after __main__ and instrument my logging code in all exceptions. Monkey patching can be annoying to debug though as it changes the expected functionality of something. The suggested patch from the Python Issue tracker was:

def installThreadExcepthook():
    """
    Workaround for sys.excepthook thread bug
    From
http://spyced.blogspot.com/2007/06/workaround-for-sysexcepthook-bug.html

(https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1230540&group_id=5470).
    Call once from __main__ before creating any threads.
    If using psyco, call psyco.cannotcompile(threading.Thread.run)
    since this replaces a new-style class method.
    """
    init_old = threading.Thread.__init__
    def init(self, *args, **kwargs):
        init_old(self, *args, **kwargs)
        run_old = self.run
        def run_with_except_hook(*args, **kw):
            try:
                run_old(*args, **kw)
            except (KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit):
                raise
            except:
                sys.excepthook(*sys.exc_info())
        self.run = run_with_except_hook
    threading.Thread.__init__ = init

It was not until I started testing my exception logging I realized that I was going about it all wrong.

To test I had placed a

raise Exception("Test")

somewhere in my code. However, wrapping a a method that called this method was a try except block that printed out the traceback and swallowed the exception. This was very frustrating because I saw the traceback bring printed to STDOUT but not being logged. It was I then decided that a much easier method of logging the tracebacks was just to monkey patch the method that all python code uses to print the tracebacks themselves, traceback.print_exception. I ended up with something similar to the following:

def add_custom_print_exception():
    old_print_exception = traceback.print_exception
    def custom_print_exception(etype, value, tb, limit=None, file=None):
        tb_output = StringIO.StringIO()
        traceback.print_tb(tb, limit, tb_output)
        logger = logging.getLogger('customLogger')
        logger.error(tb_output.getvalue())
        tb_output.close()
        old_print_exception(etype, value, tb, limit=None, file=None)
    traceback.print_exception = custom_print_exception

This code writes the traceback to a String Buffer and logs it to logging ERROR. I have a custom logging handler set up the 'customLogger' logger which takes the ERROR level logs and send them home for analysis.

if (boolean == false) vs. if (!boolean)

The first form, when used with an API that returns Boolean and compared against Boolean.FALSE, will never throw a NullPointerException.

The second form, when used with the java.util.Map interface, also, will never throw a NullPointerException because it returns a boolean and not a Boolean.

If you aren't concerned about consistent coding idioms, then you can pick the one you like, and in this concrete case it really doesn't matter. If you do care about consistent coding, then consider what you want to do when you check a Boolean that may be NULL.

How to format a Date in MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss format in JavaScript?

Try something like this

var d = new Date,
    dformat = [d.getMonth()+1,
               d.getDate(),
               d.getFullYear()].join('/')+' '+
              [d.getHours(),
               d.getMinutes(),
               d.getSeconds()].join(':');

If you want leading zero's for values < 10, use this number extension

Number.prototype.padLeft = function(base,chr){
    var  len = (String(base || 10).length - String(this).length)+1;
    return len > 0? new Array(len).join(chr || '0')+this : this;
}
// usage
//=> 3..padLeft() => '03'
//=> 3..padLeft(100,'-') => '--3' 

Applied to the previous code:

var d = new Date,
    dformat = [(d.getMonth()+1).padLeft(),
               d.getDate().padLeft(),
               d.getFullYear()].join('/') +' ' +
              [d.getHours().padLeft(),
               d.getMinutes().padLeft(),
               d.getSeconds().padLeft()].join(':');
//=> dformat => '05/17/2012 10:52:21'

See this code in jsfiddle

[edit 2019] Using ES20xx, you can use a template literal and the new padStart string extension.

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console.log(`${_x000D_
    (dt.getMonth()+1).toString().padStart(2, '0')}/${_x000D_
    dt.getDate().toString().padStart(2, '0')}/${_x000D_
    dt.getFullYear().toString().padStart(4, '0')} ${_x000D_
    dt.getHours().toString().padStart(2, '0')}:${_x000D_
    dt.getMinutes().toString().padStart(2, '0')}:${_x000D_
    dt.getSeconds().toString().padStart(2, '0')}`_x000D_
);
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See also

Redirect website after certain amount of time

Use this simple javascript code to redirect page to another page using specific interval of time...

Please add this code into your web site page, which is you want to redirect :

<script type="text/javascript">
(function(){
   setTimeout(function(){
     window.location="http://brightwaay.com/";
   },3000); /* 1000 = 1 second*/
})();
</script>

Get installed applications in a system

I agree that enumerating through the registry key is the best way.

Note, however, that the key given, @"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall", will list all applications in a 32-bit Windows installation, and 64-bit applications in a Windows 64-bit installation.

In order to also see 32-bit applications installed on a Windows 64-bit installation, you would also need to enumeration the key @"SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall".

Get column value length, not column max length of value

LENGTH() does return the string length (just verified). I suppose that your data is padded with blanks - try

SELECT typ, LENGTH(TRIM(t1.typ))
FROM AUTA_VIEW t1;

instead.

As OraNob mentioned, another cause could be that CHAR is used in which case LENGTH() would also return the column width, not the string length. However, the TRIM() approach also works in this case.

How to fix the error; 'Error: Bootstrap tooltips require Tether (http://github.hubspot.com/tether/)'

For webpack 1 or 2 with Bootstrap 4 you need

new webpack.ProvidePlugin({
   $: 'jquery',
   jQuery: 'jquery',
   Tether: 'tether'
})

Regex date validation for yyyy-mm-dd

you can test this expression:

^\d{4}[\-\/\s]?((((0[13578])|(1[02]))[\-\/\s]?(([0-2][0-9])|(3[01])))|(((0[469])|(11))[\-\/\s]?(([0-2][0-9])|(30)))|(02[\-\/\s]?[0-2][0-9]))$

Description:
validates a yyyy-mm-dd, yyyy mm dd, or yyyy/mm/dd date

makes sure day is within valid range for the month - does NOT validate Feb. 29 on a leap year, only that Feb. Can have 29 days

Matches (tested) : 0001-12-31 | 9999 09 30 | 2002/03/03

How to add meta tag in JavaScript

Like this ?

<script>
var meta = document.createElement('meta');
meta.setAttribute('http-equiv', 'X-UA-Compatible');
meta.setAttribute('content', 'IE=Edge');
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(meta);
</script>

The smallest difference between 2 Angles

This gives a signed angle for any angles:

a = targetA - sourceA
a = (a + 180) % 360 - 180

Beware in many languages the modulo operation returns a value with the same sign as the dividend (like C, C++, C#, JavaScript, full list here). This requires a custom mod function like so:

mod = (a, n) -> a - floor(a/n) * n

Or so:

mod = (a, n) -> (a % n + n) % n

If angles are within [-180, 180] this also works:

a = targetA - sourceA
a += (a>180) ? -360 : (a<-180) ? 360 : 0

In a more verbose way:

a = targetA - sourceA
a -= 360 if a > 180
a += 360 if a < -180

Exporting to .xlsx using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel SaveAs Error

myBook.Saved = true;
myBook.SaveCopyAs(xlsFileName);
myBook.Close(null, null, null);
myExcel.Workbooks.Close();
myExcel.Quit();

Post an object as data using Jquery Ajax

Is not necessary to pass the data as JSON string, you can pass the object directly, without defining contentType or dataType, like this:

$.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: "TelephoneNumbers.aspx/DeleteNumber",
    data: data0,

    success: function(data)
    {
        alert('Done');
    }
});

How to print bytes in hexadecimal using System.out.println?

byte test[] = new byte[3];
test[0] = 0x0A;
test[1] = 0xFF;
test[2] = 0x01;

for (byte theByte : test)
{
  System.out.println(Integer.toHexString(theByte));
}

NOTE: test[1] = 0xFF; this wont compile, you cant put 255 (FF) into a byte, java will want to use an int.

you might be able to do...

test[1] = (byte) 0xFF;

I'd test if I was near my IDE (if I was near my IDE I wouln't be on Stackoverflow)

Whats the CSS to make something go to the next line in the page?

Have the element display as a block:

display: block;

Is there a simple way to convert C++ enum to string?

X-macros are the best solution. Example:

#include <iostream>

enum Colours {
#   define X(a) a,
#   include "colours.def"
#   undef X
    ColoursCount
};

char const* const colours_str[] = {
#   define X(a) #a,
#   include "colours.def"
#   undef X
    0
};

std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, enum Colours c)
{
    if (c >= ColoursCount || c < 0) return os << "???";
    return os << colours_str[c];
}

int main()
{
    std::cout << Red << Blue << Green << Cyan << Yellow << Magenta << std::endl;
}

colours.def:

X(Red)
X(Green)
X(Blue)
X(Cyan)
X(Yellow)
X(Magenta)

However, I usually prefer the following method, so that it's possible to tweak the string a bit.

#define X(a, b) a,
#define X(a, b) b,

X(Red, "red")
X(Green, "green")
// etc.

How to convert signed to unsigned integer in python

To get the value equivalent to your C cast, just bitwise and with the appropriate mask. e.g. if unsigned long is 32 bit:

>>> i = -6884376
>>> i & 0xffffffff
4288082920

or if it is 64 bit:

>>> i & 0xffffffffffffffff
18446744073702667240

Do be aware though that although that gives you the value you would have in C, it is still a signed value, so any subsequent calculations may give a negative result and you'll have to continue to apply the mask to simulate a 32 or 64 bit calculation.

This works because although Python looks like it stores all numbers as sign and magnitude, the bitwise operations are defined as working on two's complement values. C stores integers in twos complement but with a fixed number of bits. Python bitwise operators act on twos complement values but as though they had an infinite number of bits: for positive numbers they extend leftwards to infinity with zeros, but negative numbers extend left with ones. The & operator will change that leftward string of ones into zeros and leave you with just the bits that would have fit into the C value.

Displaying the values in hex may make this clearer (and I rewrote to string of f's as an expression to show we are interested in either 32 or 64 bits):

>>> hex(i)
'-0x690c18'
>>> hex (i & ((1 << 32) - 1))
'0xff96f3e8'
>>> hex (i & ((1 << 64) - 1)
'0xffffffffff96f3e8L'

For a 32 bit value in C, positive numbers go up to 2147483647 (0x7fffffff), and negative numbers have the top bit set going from -1 (0xffffffff) down to -2147483648 (0x80000000). For values that fit entirely in the mask, we can reverse the process in Python by using a smaller mask to remove the sign bit and then subtracting the sign bit:

>>> u = i & ((1 << 32) - 1)
>>> (u & ((1 << 31) - 1)) - (u & (1 << 31))
-6884376

Or for the 64 bit version:

>>> u = 18446744073702667240
>>> (u & ((1 << 63) - 1)) - (u & (1 << 63))
-6884376

This inverse process will leave the value unchanged if the sign bit is 0, but obviously it isn't a true inverse because if you started with a value that wouldn't fit within the mask size then those bits are gone.

How can I add a PHP page to WordPress?

The widely accepted answer by Adam Hopkinson is not a fully automated method of creating a page! It requires a user to manually create a page in the back-end of WordPress (in the wp-admin dash). The problem with that is, a good plugin should have a fully automated setup. It should not require clients to manually create pages.

Also, some of the other widely accepted answers here involve creating a static page outside of WordPress, which then include only some of the WordPress functionality to achieve the themed header and footer. While that method may work in some cases, this can make integrating these pages with WordPress very difficult without having all its functionality included.

I think the best, fully automated, approach would be to create a page using wp_insert_post and have it reside in the database. An example and a great discussion about that, and how to prevent accidental deletion of the page by a user, can be found here: wordpress-automatically-creating-page

Frankly, I'm surprised this approach hasn't already been mentioned as an answer to this popular question (it has been posted for 7 years).

How can I enable MySQL's slow query log without restarting MySQL?

I think the problem is making sure that MySQL server has the rights to the file and can edit it.

If you can get it to have access to the file, then you can try setting:
SET GLOBAL slow_query_log = 1;

If not, you can always 'reload' the server after changing the configuration file. On linux its usually /etc/init.d/mysql reload

Insert data using Entity Framework model

I'm using EF6, and I find something strange,

Suppose Customer has constructor with parameter ,

if I use new Customer(id, "name"), and do

 using (var db = new EfContext("name=EfSample"))
 {
    db.Customers.Add( new Customer(id, "name") );
    db.SaveChanges();
 }

It run through without error, but when I look into the DataBase, I find in fact that the data Is NOT be Inserted,

But if I add the curly brackets, use new Customer(id, "name"){} and do

 using (var db = new EfContext("name=EfSample"))
 {
    db.Customers.Add( new Customer(id, "name"){} );
    db.SaveChanges();
 }

the data will then actually BE Inserted,

seems the Curly Brackets make the difference, I guess that only when add Curly Brackets, entity framework will recognize this is a real concrete data.

What is the size of ActionBar in pixels?

With the new v7 support library (21.0.0) the name in R.dimen has changed to @dimen/abc_action_bar_default_height_material.

When upgrading from a previous version of the support lib you should therefore use that value as the actionbar's height

Pass a password to ssh in pure bash

Since there were no exact answers to my question, I made some investigation why my code doesn't work when there are other solutions that works, and decided to post what I found to complete the subject.
As it turns out:

"ssh uses direct TTY access to make sure that the password is indeed issued by an interactive keyboard user." sshpass manpage

which answers the question, why the pipes don't work in this case. The obvious solution was to create conditions so that ssh "thought" that it is run in the regular terminal and since it may be accomplished by simple posix functions, it is beyond what simple bash offers.

“Origin null is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin” error for request made by application running from a file:// URL

Works for me on Google Chrome v5.0.375.127 (I get the alert):

$.get('http://www.panoramio.com/wapi/data/get_photos?v=1&key=dummykey&tag=test&offset=0&length=20&callback=?&minx=-30&miny=0&maxx=0&maxy=150',
function(json) {
    alert(json.photos[1].photoUrl);
});

Also I would recommend you using the $.getJSON() method instead as the previous doesn't work on IE8 (at least on my machine):

$.getJSON('http://www.panoramio.com/wapi/data/get_photos?v=1&key=dummykey&tag=test&offset=0&length=20&callback=?&minx=-30&miny=0&maxx=0&maxy=150', 
function(json) {
    alert(json.photos[1].photoUrl);
});

You may try it online from here.


UPDATE:

Now that you have shown your code I can see the problem with it. You are having both an anonymous function and inline function but both will be called processImages. That's how jQuery's JSONP support works. Notice how I am defining the callback=? so that you can use an anonymous function. You may read more about it in the documentation.

Another remark is that you shouldn't call eval. The parameter passed to your anonymous function will already be parsed into JSON by jQuery.

Is there a way to use SVG as content in a pseudo element :before or :after

To extend further this topic. In case you want to add Font Awesome 5 icons you need to add some extra CSS.

Icons by default have classes svg-inline--fa and fa-w-*.

There are also modifier classes like fa-lg, fa-rotate-* and other. You need to check svg-with-js.css file and find proper CSS for that.

You need to add your own color to css icon otherwise it will be black by default, for example fill='%23f00' where %23 is encoded #.

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h1::before{_x000D_
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  /* svg-inline--fa */_x000D_
  display:inline-block;_x000D_
  font-size:inherit;_x000D_
  height:1em;_x000D_
  overflow:visible;_x000D_
  vertical-align:-.125em;_x000D_
  _x000D_
  /* fa-w-14 */_x000D_
  width:.875em;_x000D_
  _x000D_
  /* Icon */_x000D_
  content:url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 448 512'%3E%3Cpath fill='%23f00' d='M400 256H152V152.9c0-39.6 31.7-72.5 71.3-72.9 40-.4 72.7 32.1 72.7 72v16c0 13.3 10.7 24 24 24h32c13.3 0 24-10.7 24-24v-16C376 68 307.5-.3 223.5 0 139.5.3 72 69.5 72 153.5V256H48c-26.5 0-48 21.5-48 48v160c0 26.5 21.5 48 48 48h352c26.5 0 48-21.5 48-48V304c0-26.5-21.5-48-48-48zM264 408c0 22.1-17.9 40-40 40s-40-17.9-40-40v-48c0-22.1 17.9-40 40-40s40 17.9 40 40v48z'%3E%3C/path%3E%3C/svg%3E");_x000D_
  _x000D_
  /* Margin */_x000D_
  margin-right:.75rem;_x000D_
}
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<h1>Lorem Ipsum</h1>
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How to determine device screen size category (small, normal, large, xlarge) using code?

In 2018, if you need Jeff's answer in Kotlin, here it is:

  private fun determineScreenSize(): String {
    // Thanks to https://stackoverflow.com/a/5016350/2563009.
    val screenLayout = resources.configuration.screenLayout
    return when {
      screenLayout and Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_MASK == Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_SMALL -> "Small"
      screenLayout and Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_MASK == Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_NORMAL -> "Normal"
      screenLayout and Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_MASK == Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_LARGE -> "Large"
      screenLayout and Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_MASK == Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_XLARGE -> "Xlarge"
      screenLayout and Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_MASK == Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_UNDEFINED -> "Undefined"
      else -> error("Unknown screenLayout: $screenLayout")
    }
  }

How to force a web browser NOT to cache images

Armin Ronacher has the correct idea. The problem is random strings can collide. I would use:

<img src="picture.jpg?1222259157.415" alt="">

Where "1222259157.415" is the current time on the server.
Generate time by Javascript with performance.now() or by Python with time.time()

standard_init_linux.go:190: exec user process caused "no such file or directory" - Docker

Suppose you face this issue while running your go binary with in alpine container. Export the following variable before building your bin

# CGO has to be disabled for alpine
export CGO_ENABLED=0

Then go build

Multiple file extensions in OpenFileDialog

Try:

Filter = "BMP|*.bmp|GIF|*.gif|JPG|*.jpg;*.jpeg|PNG|*.png|TIFF|*.tif;*.tiff"

Then do another round of copy/paste of all the extensions (joined together with ; as above) for "All graphics types":

Filter = "BMP|*.bmp|GIF|*.gif|JPG|*.jpg;*.jpeg|PNG|*.png|TIFF|*.tif;*.tiff|"
       + "All Graphics Types|*.bmp;*.jpg;*.jpeg;*.png;*.tif;*.tiff"

transparent navigation bar ios

You can apply Navigation Bar Image like below for Translucent.

Objective-C:

[self.navigationController.navigationBar setBackgroundImage:[UIImage new]
                     forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault]; //UIImageNamed:@"transparent.png"
self.navigationController.navigationBar.shadowImage = [UIImage new];////UIImageNamed:@"transparent.png"
self.navigationController.navigationBar.translucent = YES;
self.navigationController.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];

Swift 3:

self.navigationController?.navigationBar.setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), for: .default) //UIImage.init(named: "transparent.png")
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.shadowImage = UIImage()
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.isTranslucent = true
self.navigationController?.view.backgroundColor = .clear
    

Load RSA public key from file

Once you have your key stored in a PEM file, you can read it back easily using PemObject and PemReader classes provided by BouncyCastle, as shown in this this tutorial.

Create a PemFile class that encapsulates file handling:

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

import org.bouncycastle.util.io.pem.PemObject;
import org.bouncycastle.util.io.pem.PemReader;

public class PemFile {

    private PemObject pemObject;

    public PemFile(String filename) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
        PemReader pemReader = new PemReader(new InputStreamReader(
                new FileInputStream(filename)));
        try {
            this.pemObject = pemReader.readPemObject();
        } finally {
            pemReader.close();
        }
    }

    public PemObject getPemObject() {
        return pemObject;
    }
}

Then instantiate private and public keys as usual:

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.security.KeyFactory;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import java.security.NoSuchProviderException;
import java.security.PrivateKey;
import java.security.PublicKey;
import java.security.Security;
import java.security.spec.InvalidKeySpecException;
import java.security.spec.PKCS8EncodedKeySpec;
import java.security.spec.X509EncodedKeySpec;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider;

public class Main {

    protected final static Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(Main.class);

    public final static String RESOURCES_DIR = "src/main/resources/rsa-sample/";

    public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException,
            IOException, NoSuchAlgorithmException, NoSuchProviderException {
        Security.addProvider(new BouncyCastleProvider());
        LOGGER.info("BouncyCastle provider added.");

        KeyFactory factory = KeyFactory.getInstance("RSA", "BC");
        try {
            PrivateKey priv = generatePrivateKey(factory, RESOURCES_DIR
                    + "id_rsa");
            LOGGER.info(String.format("Instantiated private key: %s", priv));

            PublicKey pub = generatePublicKey(factory, RESOURCES_DIR
                    + "id_rsa.pub");
            LOGGER.info(String.format("Instantiated public key: %s", pub));
        } catch (InvalidKeySpecException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    private static PrivateKey generatePrivateKey(KeyFactory factory,
            String filename) throws InvalidKeySpecException,
            FileNotFoundException, IOException {
        PemFile pemFile = new PemFile(filename);
        byte[] content = pemFile.getPemObject().getContent();
        PKCS8EncodedKeySpec privKeySpec = new PKCS8EncodedKeySpec(content);
        return factory.generatePrivate(privKeySpec);
    }

    private static PublicKey generatePublicKey(KeyFactory factory,
            String filename) throws InvalidKeySpecException,
            FileNotFoundException, IOException {
        PemFile pemFile = new PemFile(filename);
        byte[] content = pemFile.getPemObject().getContent();
        X509EncodedKeySpec pubKeySpec = new X509EncodedKeySpec(content);
        return factory.generatePublic(pubKeySpec);
    }
}

Hope this helps.

Skip first line(field) in loop using CSV file?

Probably you want something like:

firstline = True
for row in kidfile:
    if firstline:    #skip first line
        firstline = False
        continue
    # parse the line

An other way to achive the same result is calling readline before the loop:

kidfile.readline()   # skip the first line
for row in kidfile:
    #parse the line

How to solve Permission denied (publickey) error when using Git?

In addition to Rufinus' reply, the shortcut to copy your ssh key to the clipboard in Windows is:

  • type id_rsa.pub | clip

Refs:

How do I decrease the size of my sql server log file?

  1. Ensure the database's backup mode is set to Simple (see here for an overview of the different modes). This will avoid SQL Server waiting for a transaction log backup before reusing space.

  2. Use dbcc shrinkfile or Management Studio to shrink the log files.

Step #2 will do nothing until the backup mode is set.

Regular expression for a string that does not start with a sequence

You could use a negative look-ahead assertion:

^(?!tbd_).+

Or a negative look-behind assertion:

(^.{1,3}$|^.{4}(?<!tbd_).*)

Or just plain old character sets and alternations:

^([^t]|t($|[^b]|b($|[^d]|d($|[^_])))).*

C# Creating and using Functions

Note: in C# the term "function" is often replaced by the term "method". For the sake of this question there is no difference, so I'll just use the term "function".

Thats not true. you may read about (func type+ Lambda expressions),( anonymous function"using delegates type"),(action type +Lambda expressions ),(Predicate type+Lambda expressions). etc...etc... this will work.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {

           int a;
           int b;
           int c;

           Console.WriteLine("Enter value of 'a':");
           a = Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine());

           Console.WriteLine("Enter value of 'b':");
           b = Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine());

           Func<int, int, int> funcAdd = (x, y) => x + y;
           c=funcAdd.Invoke(a, b);
           Console.WriteLine(Convert.ToString(c));

        }

     }
}

error: package javax.servlet does not exist

I got here with a similar problem with my Gradle build and fixed it in a similar way:

Unable to load class hudson.model.User due to missing dependency javax/servlet/ServletException

fixed with:

dependencies {
   implementation('javax.servlet:javax.servlet-api:3.0.1')
}

How to get the file-path of the currently executing javascript code

Regardless of whether its a script, a html file (for a frame, for example), css file, image, whatever, if you dont specify a server/domain the path of the html doc will be the default, so you could do, for example,

<script type=text/javascript src='/dir/jsfile.js'></script>

or

<script type=text/javascript src='../../scripts/jsfile.js'></script>

If you don't provide the server/domain, the path will be relative to either the path of the page or script of the main document's path

How to display errors for my MySQLi query?

Just simply add or die(mysqli_error($db)); at the end of your query, this will print the mysqli error.

 mysqli_query($db,"INSERT INTO stockdetails (`itemdescription`,`itemnumber`,`sellerid`,`purchasedate`,`otherinfo`,`numberofitems`,`isitdelivered`,`price`) VALUES ('$itemdescription','$itemnumber','$sellerid','$purchasedate','$otherinfo','$numberofitems','$numberofitemsused','$isitdelivered','$price')") or die(mysqli_error($db));

As a side note I'd say you are at risk of mysql injection, check here How can I prevent SQL injection in PHP?. You should really use prepared statements to avoid any risk.

AttributeError: can't set attribute in python

items[node.ind] = items[node.ind]._replace(v=node.v)

(Note: Don't be discouraged to use this solution because of the leading underscore in the function _replace. Specifically for namedtuple some functions have leading underscore which is not for indicating they are meant to be "private")

LINQ to SQL - How to select specific columns and return strongly typed list

Make a call to the DB searching with myid (Id of the row) and get back specific columns:

var columns = db.Notifications
                .Where(x => x.Id == myid)
                .Select(n => new { n.NotificationTitle, 
                                   n.NotificationDescription, 
                                   n.NotificationOrder });

Android selector & text color

Here is the example of selector. If you use eclipse , it does not suggest something when you click ctrl and space both :/ you must type it.

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:drawable="@drawable/btn_default_pressed" android:state_pressed="true" />
<item android:drawable="@drawable/btn_default_selected"
    android:state_focused="true"
    android:state_enabled="true"
    android:state_window_focused="true"  />
<item android:drawable="@drawable/btn_default_normal" />

You can look at for reference;

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/drawable-resource.html#StateList

Writing a dictionary to a csv file with one line for every 'key: value'

import csv

dict = {"Key Header":"Value Header", "key1":"value1", "key2":"value2"}

with open("test.csv", "w") as f:
    writer = csv.writer(f)
    for i in dict:
      writer.writerow([i, dict[i]])
f.close() 

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jQuery check if an input is type checkbox?

$("#myinput").attr('type') == 'checkbox'

Get all inherited classes of an abstract class

It may not be the elegant way but you can iterate all classes in the assembly and invoke Type.IsSubclassOf(AbstractDataExport) for each one.

Multiple argument IF statement - T-SQL

Your code is valid (with one exception). It is required to have code between BEGIN and END.

Replace

--do some work

with

print ''

I think maybe you saw "END and not "AND"

Validation of file extension before uploading file

I came here because I was sure none of the answers here were quite...poetic:

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function checkextension() {_x000D_
  var file = document.querySelector("#fUpload");_x000D_
  if ( /\.(jpe?g|png|gif)$/i.test(file.files[0].name) === false ) { alert("not an image!"); }_x000D_
}
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<input type="file" id="fUpload" onchange="checkextension()"/>
_x000D_
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How to use Fiddler to monitor WCF service

Standard WCF Tracing/Diagnostics

If for some reason you are unable to get Fiddler to work, or would rather log the requests another way, another option is to use the standard WCF tracing functionality. This will produce a file that has a nice viewer.

Docs

See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/wcf/samples/tracing-and-message-logging

Configuration

Add the following to your config, make sure c:\logs exists, rebuild, and make requests:

  <system.serviceModel>
    <diagnostics>
      <!-- Enable Message Logging here. -->
      <!-- log all messages received or sent at the transport or service model levels -->
      <messageLogging logEntireMessage="true"
                      maxMessagesToLog="300"
                      logMessagesAtServiceLevel="true"
                      logMalformedMessages="true"
                      logMessagesAtTransportLevel="true" />
    </diagnostics>
  </system.serviceModel>

  <system.diagnostics>
    <sources>
      <source name="System.ServiceModel" switchValue="Information,ActivityTracing"
        propagateActivity="true">
        <listeners>
          <add name="xml" />
        </listeners>
      </source>
      <source name="System.ServiceModel.MessageLogging">
        <listeners>
          <add name="xml" />
        </listeners>
      </source>
    </sources>
    <sharedListeners>
      <add initializeData="C:\logs\TracingAndLogging-client.svclog" type="System.Diagnostics.XmlWriterTraceListener"
        name="xml" />
    </sharedListeners>
    <trace autoflush="true" />
  </system.diagnostics>

How to display and hide a div with CSS?

you can use any of the following five ways to hide element, depends upon your requirements.

Opacity

.hide {
  opacity: 0;
}

Visibility

.hide {
   visibility: hidden;
}

Display

.hide {
   display: none;
}

Position

.hide {
   position: absolute;
   top: -9999px;
   left: -9999px;
}

clip-path

.hide {
  clip-path: polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);
}

To show use any of the following: opacity: 1; visibility: visible; display: block;

Source : https://www.sitepoint.com/five-ways-to-hide-elements-in-css/

What does "SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'" mean in Python?

This error message means that you are attempting to use Python 3 to follow an example or run a program that uses the Python 2 print statement:

print "Hello, World!"

The statement above does not work in Python 3. In Python 3 you need to add parentheses around the value to be printed:

print("Hello, World!")

“SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'” is a new error message that was added in Python 3.4.2 primarily to help users that are trying to follow a Python 2 tutorial while running Python 3.

In Python 3, printing values changed from being a distinct statement to being an ordinary function call, so it now needs parentheses:

>>> print("Hello, World!")
Hello, World!

In earlier versions of Python 3, the interpreter just reports a generic syntax error, without providing any useful hints as to what might be going wrong:

>>> print "Hello, World!"
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    print "Hello, World!"
                        ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

As for why print became an ordinary function in Python 3, that didn't relate to the basic form of the statement, but rather to how you did more complicated things like printing multiple items to stderr with a trailing space rather than ending the line.

In Python 2:

>>> import sys
>>> print >> sys.stderr, 1, 2, 3,; print >> sys.stderr, 4, 5, 6
1 2 3 4 5 6

In Python 3:

>>> import sys
>>> print(1, 2, 3, file=sys.stderr, end=" "); print(4, 5, 6, file=sys.stderr)
1 2 3 4 5 6

Starting with the Python 3.6.3 release in September 2017, some error messages related to the Python 2.x print syntax have been updated to recommend their Python 3.x counterparts:

>>> print "Hello!"
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    print "Hello!"
                 ^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print("Hello!")?

Since the "Missing parentheses in call to print" case is a compile time syntax error and hence has access to the raw source code, it's able to include the full text on the rest of the line in the suggested replacement. However, it doesn't currently try to work out the appropriate quotes to place around that expression (that's not impossible, just sufficiently complicated that it hasn't been done).

The TypeError raised for the right shift operator has also been customised:

>>> print >> sys.stderr
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for >>: 'builtin_function_or_method' and '_io.TextIOWrapper'. Did you mean "print(<message>, file=<output_stream>)"?

Since this error is raised when the code runs, rather than when it is compiled, it doesn't have access to the raw source code, and hence uses meta-variables (<message> and <output_stream>) in the suggested replacement expression instead of whatever the user actually typed. Unlike the syntax error case, it's straightforward to place quotes around the Python expression in the custom right shift error message.

nginx missing sites-available directory

Well, I think nginx by itself doesn't have that in its setup, because the Ubuntu-maintained package does it as a convention to imitate Debian's apache setup. You could create it yourself if you wanted to emulate the same setup.

Create /etc/nginx/sites-available and /etc/nginx/sites-enabled and then edit the http block inside /etc/nginx/nginx.conf and add this line

include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;

Of course, all the files will be inside sites-available, and you'd create a symlink for them inside sites-enabled for those you want enabled.

How do I turn off PHP Notices?

I found this trick out recently. Whack an @ at the start of a line that may produce an warning/error.

As if by magic, they dissapear.

"This SqlTransaction has completed; it is no longer usable."... configuration error?

In my case , I've some codes which needs to execute after committing the transaction at the same try catch block.One of the code threw an error then try block handed over the error to it's catch block which contains the transaction rollback. It will show the similar error. For example look at the code structure below :

SqlTransaction trans = null;

try{
 trans = Con.BeginTransaction();
// your codes

  trans.Commit();
//your codes having errors

}
catch(Exception ex)
{
     trans.Rollback(); //transaction roll back
    // error message
}

finally
{ 
    // connection close
}

Hope it will someone :)

How can I get LINQ to return the object which has the max value for a given property?

This is an extension method derived from @Seattle Leonard 's answer:

 public static T GetMax<T,U>(this IEnumerable<T> data, Func<T,U> f) where U:IComparable
 {
     return data.Aggregate((i1, i2) => f(i1).CompareTo(f(i2))>0 ? i1 : i2);
 }

Java : Accessing a class within a package, which is the better way?

As already said, on runtime there is no difference (in the class file it is always fully qualified, and after loading and linking the class there are direct pointers to the referred method), and everything in the java.lang package is automatically imported, as is everything in the current package.

The compiler might have to search some microseconds longer, but this should not be a reason - decide for legibility for human readers.

By the way, if you are using lots of static methods (from Math, for example), you could also write

import static java.lang.Math.*;

and then use

sqrt(x)

directly. But only do this if your class is math heavy and it really helps legibility of bigger formulas, since the reader (as the compiler) first would search in the same class and maybe in superclasses, too. (This applies analogously for other static methods and static variables (or constants), too.)

Is there a way for non-root processes to bind to "privileged" ports on Linux?

Or patch your kernel and remove the check.

(Option of last resort, not recommended).

In net/ipv4/af_inet.c, remove the two lines that read

      if (snum && snum < PROT_SOCK && !capable(CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE))
              goto out;

and the kernel won't check privileged ports anymore.

Mockito test a void method throws an exception

If you ever wondered how to do it using the new BDD style of Mockito:

willThrow(new Exception()).given(mockedObject).methodReturningVoid(...));

And for future reference one may need to throw exception and then do nothing:

willThrow(new Exception()).willDoNothing().given(mockedObject).methodReturningVoid(...));

How can I convert radians to degrees with Python?

I like this method,use sind(x) or cosd(x)

import math

def sind(x):
    return math.sin(math.radians(x))

def cosd(x):
    return math.cos(math.radians(x))

Convert java.util.Date to String

Why don't you use Joda (org.joda.time.DateTime)? It's basically a one-liner.

Date currentDate = GregorianCalendar.getInstance().getTime();
String output = new DateTime( currentDate ).toString("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");

// output: 2014-11-14 14:05:09

The ALTER TABLE statement conflicted with the FOREIGN KEY constraint

the data you have entered a table(tbldomare) aren't match a data you have assigned primary key table. write between tbldomare and add this word (with nocheck) then execute your code.

for example you entered a table tbldomar this data

INSERT INTO tblDomare (PersNR,fNamn,eNamn,Erfarenhet)
Values (6811034679,'Bengt','Carlberg',10);

and you assigned a foreign key table to accept only 1,2,3.

you have two solutions one is delete the data you have entered a table then execute the code. another is write this word (with nocheck) put it between your table name and add like this

ALTER TABLE  tblDomare with nocheck
ADD FOREIGN KEY (PersNR)
REFERENCES tblBana(BanNR);

static and extern global variables in C and C++

When you #include a header, it's exactly as if you put the code into the source file itself. In both cases the varGlobal variable is defined in the source so it will work no matter how it's declared.

Also as pointed out in the comments, C++ variables at file scope are not static in scope even though they will be assigned to static storage. If the variable were a class member for example, it would need to be accessible to other compilation units in the program by default and non-class members are no different.

jQuery: Check if button is clicked

$('#submit1, #submit2').click(function () {
   if (this.id == 'submit1') {
      alert('Submit 1 clicked');
   }
   else if (this.id == 'submit2') {
      alert('Submit 2 clicked');
   }
});

Module 'tensorflow' has no attribute 'contrib'

If you want to use tf.contrib, you need to now copy and paste the source code from github into your script/notebook. It's annoying and doesn't always work. But that's the only workaround I've found. For example, if you wanted to use tf.contrib.opt.AdamWOptimizer, you have to copy and paste from here. https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/590d6eef7e91a6a7392c8ffffb7b58f2e0c8bc6b/tensorflow/contrib/opt/python/training/weight_decay_optimizers.py#L32

How to compile Tensorflow with SSE4.2 and AVX instructions?

I compiled a small Bash script for Mac (easily can be ported to Linux) to retrieve all CPU features and apply some of them to build TF. Im on TF master and use kinda often (couple times in a month).

https://gist.github.com/venik/9ba962c8b301b0e21f99884cbd35082f

Can't Autowire @Repository annotated interface in Spring Boot

You are scanning the wrong package:

@ComponentScan("**org**.pharmacy")

Where as it should be:

@ComponentScan("**com**.pharmacy")

Since your package names start with com and not org.

Visual Studio C# IntelliSense not automatically displaying

I have found that at times even verifying the settings under Options --> Statement Completion (the answer above) doesn't work. In this case, saving and restarting Visual Studio will re-enable Intellisense.

Finally, this link has a list of other ways to troubleshoot Intellisense, broken down by language (for more specific errors).

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/ecfczya1(v=vs.100).aspx

how to define ssh private key for servers fetched by dynamic inventory in files

I'm using the following configuration:

#site.yml:
- name: Example play
  hosts: all
  remote_user: ansible
  become: yes
  become_method: sudo
  vars:
    ansible_ssh_private_key_file: "/home/ansible/.ssh/id_rsa"

how to check the version of jar file?

Just to expand on the answers above, inside the META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file in the JAR, you will likely see a line: Manifest-Version: 1.0 ? This is NOT the jar versions number!

You need to look for Implementation-Version which, if present, is a free-text string so entirely up to the JAR's author as to what you'll find in there. See also Oracle docs and Package Version specificaion

How To Convert A Number To an ASCII Character?

I was googling about how to convert an int to char, that got me here. But my question was to convert for example int of 6 to char of '6'. For those who came here like me, this is how to do it:

int num = 6;
num.ToString().ToCharArray()[0];

How to solve the system.data.sqlclient.sqlexception (0x80131904) error

The datasource is by default .\SQLEXPRESS (its the instance where databases are placed by default) or if u changed the name of the instance during installation of sql server so i advise you to do this :

connectionString="Data Source=.\\yourInstance(defaulT Data source is SQLEXPRESS);
       Initial Catalog=databaseName;
       User ID=theuser if u use it;
       Password=thepassword if u use it;
       integrated security=true(if u don t use user and pass; else change it false)"

Without to knowing your instance, I could help with this one. Hope it helped

How to calculate the bounding box for a given lat/lng location?

You're looking for an ellipsoid formula.

The best place I've found to start coding is based on the Geo::Ellipsoid library from CPAN. It gives you a baseline to create your tests off of and to compare your results with its results. I used it as the basis for a similar library for PHP at my previous employer.

Geo::Ellipsoid

Take a look at the location method. Call it twice and you've got your bbox.

You didn't post what language you were using. There may already be a geocoding library available for you.

Oh, and if you haven't figured it out by now, Google maps uses the WGS84 ellipsoid.

What is Ruby's double-colon `::`?

:: Lets you access a constant, module, or class defined inside another class or module. It is used to provide namespaces so that method and class names don't conflict with other classes by different authors.

When you see ActiveRecord::Base in Rails it means that Rails has something like

module ActiveRecord
  class Base
  end
end

i.e. a class called Base inside a module ActiveRecord which is then referenced as ActiveRecord::Base (you can find this in the Rails source in activerecord-n.n.n/lib/active_record/base.rb)

A common use of :: is to access constants defined in modules e.g.

module Math
  PI = 3.141 # ...
end

puts Math::PI

The :: operator does not allow you to bypass visibility of methods marked private or protected.

Lombok added but getters and setters not recognized in Intellij IDEA

I fixed it by following steps:

  1. Installed previous version of Idea(12.16) and start it(idea 13 was launched)
  2. then i switch on window with idea 13 (it proposed to reread some config files. I agreed and restart my IDE). And then everithing became ok with tha latest version of IDEA

HTML table needs spacing between columns, not rows

<table cellpadding="pixels"cellspacing="pixels"></table>
<td align="position"valign="position"></td>

cellpadding="length in pixels" ~ The cellpadding attribute, used in the <table> tag, specifies how much blank space to display in between the content of each table cell and its respective border. The value is defined as a length in pixels. Hence, a cellpadding="10" attribute-value pair will display 10 pixels of blank space on all four sides of the content of each cell in that table.

cellspacing="length in pixels" ~ The cellspacing attribute, also used in the <table> tag, defines how much blank space to display in between adjacent table cells and in between table cells and the table border. The value is defined as a length in pixels. Hence, a cellspacing="10" attribute-value pair will horizontally and vertically separate all adjacent cells in the respective table by a length of 10 pixels. It will also offset all cells from the table's frame on all four sides by a length of 10 pixels.

INSERT with SELECT

Yes, absolutely, but check your syntax.

INSERT INTO courses (name, location, gid)
SELECT name, location, 1
FROM   courses
WHERE  cid = 2

You can put a constant of the same type as gid in its place, not just 1, of course. And, I just made up the cid value.

Android getActivity() is undefined

You want getActivity() inside your class. It's better to use

yourclassname.this.getActivity()

Try this. It's helpful for you.

How to store images in mysql database using php

if(isset($_POST['form1']))
{
    try
    {


        $user=$_POST['username'];

        $pass=$_POST['password'];
        $email=$_POST['email'];
        $roll=$_POST['roll'];
        $class=$_POST['class'];



        if(empty($user)) throw new Exception("Name can not empty");
        if(empty($pass)) throw new Exception("Password can not empty");
        if(empty($email)) throw new Exception("Email can not empty");
        if(empty($roll)) throw new Exception("Roll can not empty");
        if(empty($class)) throw new Exception("Class can not empty");


        $statement=$db->prepare("show table status like 'tbl_std_info'");
        $statement->execute();
        $result=$statement->fetchAll();
        foreach($result as $row)
        $new_id=$row[10];


        $up_file=$_FILES["image"]["name"];

        $file_basename=substr($up_file, 0 , strripos($up_file, "."));
        $file_ext=substr($up_file, strripos($up_file, ".")); 
        $f1="$new_id".$file_ext;

        if(($file_ext!=".png")&&($file_ext!=".jpg")&&($file_ext!=".jpeg")&&($file_ext!=".gif"))
        {
            throw new Exception("Only jpg, png, jpeg or gif Logo are allow to upload / Empty Logo Field");
        }
        move_uploaded_file($_FILES["image"]["tmp_name"],"../std_photo/".$f1);


        $statement=$db->prepare("insert into tbl_std_info (username,image,password,email,roll,class) value (?,?,?,?,?,?)");

        $statement->execute(array($user,$f1,$pass,$email,$roll,$class));


        $success="Registration Successfully Completed";

        echo $success;
    }
    catch(Exception $e)
    {
        $msg=$e->getMessage();
    }
}

AngularJS : ng-model binding not updating when changed with jQuery

Just use:

$('#selectedDueDate').val(dateText).trigger('input');

instead of:

$('#selectedDueDate').val(dateText);

HikariCP - connection is not available

From stack trace:

HikariPool: Timeout failure pool HikariPool-0 stats (total=20, active=20, idle=0, waiting=0) Means pool reached maximum connections limit set in configuration.

The next line: HikariPool-0 - Connection is not available, request timed out after 30000ms. Means pool waited 30000ms for free connection but your application not returned any connection meanwhile.

Mostly it is connection leak (connection is not closed after borrowing from pool), set leakDetectionThreshold to the maximum value that you expect SQL query would take to execute.

otherwise, your maximum connections 'at a time' requirement is higher than 20 !

WAMP Server doesn't load localhost

Solution(s) for this, found in the official wampserver.com forums:

SOLUTION #1:

This problem is caused by Windows (7) in combination with any software that also uses port 80 (like Skype or IIS (which is installed on most developer machines)). A video solution can be found here (34.500+ views, damn, this seems to be a big thing ! EDIT: The video now has ~60.000 views ;) )

To make it short: open command line tool, type "netstat -aon" and look for any lines that end of ":80". Note thatPID on the right side. This is the process id of the software which currently usesport 80. Press AltGr + Ctrl + Del to get into the Taskmanager. Switch to the tab where you can see all services currently running, ordered by PID. Search for that PID you just notices and stop that thing (right click). To prevent this in future, you should config the software's port settings (skype can do that).

SOLUTION #2:

left click the wamp icon in the taskbar, go to apache > httpd.conf and edit this file: change "listen to port .... 80" to 8080. Restart. Done !

SOLUTION #3:

Port 80 blocked by "Microsoft Web Deployment Service", simply deinstall this, more info here

By the way, it's not Microsoft's fault, it's a stupid usage of ports by most WAMP stacks.

IMPORTANT: you have to use localhost or 127.0.0.1 now with port 8080, this means 127.0.0.1:8080 or localhost:8080.

How to make <input type="file"/> accept only these types?

The value of the accept attribute is, as per HTML5 LC, a comma-separated list of items, each of which is a specific media type like image/gif, or a notation like image/* that refers to all image types, or a filename extension like .gif. IE 10+ and Chrome support all of these, whereas Firefox does not support the extensions. Thus, the safest way is to use media types and notations like image/*, in this case

<input type="file" name="foo" accept=
"application/msword, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint,
text/plain, application/pdf, image/*">

if I understand the intents correctly. Beware that browsers might not recognize the media type names exactly as specified in the authoritative registry, so some testing is needed.

selecting from multi-index pandas

Understanding how to access multi-indexed pandas DataFrame can help you with all kinds of task like that.

Copy paste this in your code to generate example:

# hierarchical indices and columns
index = pd.MultiIndex.from_product([[2013, 2014], [1, 2]],
                                   names=['year', 'visit'])
columns = pd.MultiIndex.from_product([['Bob', 'Guido', 'Sue'], ['HR', 'Temp']],
                                     names=['subject', 'type'])

# mock some data
data = np.round(np.random.randn(4, 6), 1)
data[:, ::2] *= 10
data += 37

# create the DataFrame
health_data = pd.DataFrame(data, index=index, columns=columns)
health_data

Will give you table like this:

enter image description here

Standard access by column

health_data['Bob']
type       HR   Temp
year visit      
2013    1   22.0    38.6
        2   52.0    38.3
2014    1   30.0    38.9
        2   31.0    37.3


health_data['Bob']['HR']
year  visit
2013  1        22.0
      2        52.0
2014  1        30.0
      2        31.0
Name: HR, dtype: float64

# filtering by column/subcolumn - your case:
health_data['Bob']['HR']==22
year  visit
2013  1         True
      2        False
2014  1        False
      2        False

health_data['Bob']['HR'][2013]    
visit
1    22.0
2    52.0
Name: HR, dtype: float64

health_data['Bob']['HR'][2013][1]
22.0

Access by row

health_data.loc[2013]
subject Bob Guido   Sue
type    HR  Temp    HR  Temp    HR  Temp
visit                       
1   22.0    38.6    40.0    38.9    53.0    37.5
2   52.0    38.3    42.0    34.6    30.0    37.7

health_data.loc[2013,1] 
subject  type
Bob      HR      22.0
         Temp    38.6
Guido    HR      40.0
         Temp    38.9
Sue      HR      53.0
         Temp    37.5
Name: (2013, 1), dtype: float64

health_data.loc[2013,1]['Bob']
type
HR      22.0
Temp    38.6
Name: (2013, 1), dtype: float64

health_data.loc[2013,1]['Bob']['HR']
22.0

Slicing multi-index

idx=pd.IndexSlice
health_data.loc[idx[:,1], idx[:,'HR']]
    subject Bob Guido   Sue
type    HR  HR  HR
year    visit           
2013    1   22.0    40.0    53.0
2014    1   30.0    52.0    45.0

RecyclerView vs. ListView

Following are few key points/differences between RecyclerView & ListView. Take your call wisely.

If ListView works for you, there is no reason to migrate. If you are writing a new UI, you might be better off with RecyclerView.

RecylerView has inbuilt ViewHolder, doesn't need to implement our own like in listView. It support notify at particular index as well

Things like animating the addition or removal of items are already implemented in the RecyclerView without you having to do anything

We can associate a layout manager with a RecyclerView, this can be used for getting random views in recycleview while this was limitation in ListView In a ListView, the only type of view available is the vertical ListView. There is no official way to even implement a horizontal ListView. Now using a RecyclerView, we can have a

i) LinearLayoutManager - which supports both vertical and horizontal lists, ii) StaggeredLayoutManager - which supports Pinterest like staggered lists, iii) GridLayoutManager - which supports displaying grids as seen in Gallery apps.

And the best thing is that we can do all these dynamically as we want.

Binding a WPF ComboBox to a custom list

To bind the data to ComboBox

List<ComboData> ListData = new List<ComboData>();
ListData.Add(new ComboData { Id = "1", Value = "One" });
ListData.Add(new ComboData { Id = "2", Value = "Two" });
ListData.Add(new ComboData { Id = "3", Value = "Three" });
ListData.Add(new ComboData { Id = "4", Value = "Four" });
ListData.Add(new ComboData { Id = "5", Value = "Five" });

cbotest.ItemsSource = ListData;
cbotest.DisplayMemberPath = "Value";
cbotest.SelectedValuePath = "Id";

cbotest.SelectedValue = "2";

ComboData looks like:

public class ComboData
{ 
  public int Id { get; set; } 
  public string Value { get; set; } 
}

(note that Id and Value have to be properties, not class fields)

Javascript replace with reference to matched group?

You can use replace instead of gsub.

"hello _there_".replace(/_(.*?)_/g, "<div>\$1</div>")

How to make HTTP Post request with JSON body in Swift

Perfect nRewik answer updated to 2019:

Make the dictionary:

let dic = [
    "username":u,
    "password":p,
    "gems":g ]

Assemble it like this:

var jsonData:Data?
do {
    jsonData = try JSONSerialization.data(
      withJSONObject: dic,
      options: .prettyPrinted)
} catch {
    print(error.localizedDescription)
}

Create the request exactly like this, notice it is a "post"

let url = URL(string: "https://blah.com/server/dudes/decide/this")!
var request = URLRequest(url: url)

request.setValue("application/json; charset=utf-8",
     forHTTPHeaderField: "Content-Type")
request.setValue("application/json; charset=utf-8",
     forHTTPHeaderField: "Accept") 
request.httpMethod = "POST"
request.httpBody = jsonData

Then send, checking for either a networking error (so, no bandwidth etc) or an error response from the server:

let task = URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: request) { data, response, error in
    guard let data = data, error == nil else {
        // check for fundamental networking error
        print("fundamental networking error=\(error)")
        return
    }

    if let httpStatus = response as? HTTPURLResponse, httpStatus.statusCode != 200 {
        // check for http errors
        print("statusCode should be 200, but is \(httpStatus.statusCode)")
        print("response = \(response)")
    }

    let responseString = String(data: data, encoding: .utf8)
    print("responseString = \(responseString)")

Fortunately it's now that easy.

How can I map True/False to 1/0 in a Pandas DataFrame?

This question specifically mentions a single column, so the currently accepted answer works. However, it doesn't generalize to multiple columns. For those interested in a general solution, use the following:

df.replace({False: 0, True: 1}, inplace=True)

This works for a DataFrame that contains columns of many different types, regardless of how many are boolean.

Cross-thread operation not valid: Control accessed from a thread other than the thread it was created on

Follow the simplest (in my opinion) way to modify objects from another thread:

using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Threading;

namespace TESTE
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            Action<string> DelegateTeste_ModifyText = THREAD_MOD;
            Invoke(DelegateTeste_ModifyText, "MODIFY BY THREAD");
        }

        private void THREAD_MOD(string teste)
        {
            textBox1.Text = teste;
        }
    }
}

How to load/reference a file as a File instance from the classpath

Try getting hold of a URL for your classpath resource:

URL url = this.getClass().getResource("/com/path/to/file.txt")

Then create a file using the constructor that accepts a URI:

File file = new File(url.toURI());

Javascript: How to loop through ALL DOM elements on a page?

As always the best solution is to use recursion:

loop(document);
function loop(node){
    // do some thing with the node here
    var nodes = node.childNodes;
    for (var i = 0; i <nodes.length; i++){
        if(!nodes[i]){
            continue;
        }

        if(nodes[i].childNodes.length > 0){
            loop(nodes[i]);
        }
    }
}

Unlike other suggestions, this solution does not require you to create an array for all the nodes, so its more light on the memory. More importantly, it finds more results. I am not sure what those results are, but when testing on chrome it finds about 50% more nodes compared to document.getElementsByTagName("*");

Assigning default values to shell variables with a single command in bash

For command line arguments:

VARIABLE="${1:-$DEFAULTVALUE}"

which assigns to VARIABLE the value of the 1st argument passed to the script or the value of DEFAULTVALUE if no such argument was passed. Qouting prevents globbing and word splitting.

Select distinct values from a table field

Say your model is 'Shop'

class Shop(models.Model):
    street = models.CharField(max_length=150)
    city = models.CharField(max_length=150)

    # some of your models may have explicit ordering
    class Meta:
        ordering = ('city')

Since you may have the Meta class ordering attribute set, you can use order_by() without parameters to clear any ordering when using distinct(). See the documentation under order_by()

If you don’t want any ordering to be applied to a query, not even the default ordering, call order_by() with no parameters.

and distinct() in the note where it discusses issues with using distinct() with ordering.

To query your DB, you just have to call:

models.Shop.objects.order_by().values('city').distinct()

It returns a dictionnary

or

models.Shop.objects.order_by().values_list('city').distinct()

This one returns a ValuesListQuerySet which you can cast to a list. You can also add flat=True to values_list to flatten the results.

See also: Get distinct values of Queryset by field

What is IPV6 for localhost and 0.0.0.0?

For use in a /etc/hosts file as a simple ad blocking technique to cause a domain to fail to resolve, the 0.0.0.0 address has been widely used because it causes the request to immediately fail without even trying, because it's not a valid or routable address. This is in comparison to using 127.0.0.1 in that place, where it will at least check to see if your own computer is listening on the requested port 80 before failing with 'connection refused.' Either of those addresses being used in the hosts file for the domain will stop any requests from being attempted over the actual network, but 0.0.0.0 has gained favor because it's more 'optimal' for the above reason. "127" IPs will attempt to hit your own computer, and any other IP will cause a request to be sent to the router to try to route it, but for 0.0.0.0 there's nowhere to even send a request to.

All that being said, having any IP listed in your hosts file for the domain to be blocked is sufficient, and you wouldn't need or want to also put an ipv6 address in your hosts file unless -- possibly -- you don't have ipv4 enabled at all. I'd be really surprised if that was the case, though. And still though, I think having the host appear in /etc/hosts with a bad ipv4 address when you don't have ipv4 enabled would still give you the result you are looking for which is for it to fail, instead of looking up the real DNS of say, adserver-example.com and getting back either a v4 or v6 IP.

"The system cannot find the file specified"

If you encounter this error in GoDaddy after deploying a .Net MVC web application..And your web.config is absolutely correct... Right click your data project select settings and make sure that the correct connection strings to the GoDaddy server is in use

ImportError: No module named scipy

I recommend you to remove scipy via

apt-get purge scipy

and then to install it by

pip install scipy

If you do both then you might confuse you deb package manager due to possibly differing versions.

How to make background of table cell transparent

You are giving colour to the background and then expecting it to be transparent? Remove background-color: #D8F0DA,

If you want #D8F0DA to be the colour of text, use color: #D8F0DA

How to change the display name for LabelFor in razor in mvc3?

@Html.LabelFor(model => model.SomekingStatus, "foo bar")

Initialising mock objects - MockIto

A little example for JUnit 5 Jupiter, the "RunWith" was removed you now need to use the Extensions using the "@ExtendWith" Annotation.

@ExtendWith(MockitoExtension.class)
class FooTest {

  @InjectMocks
  ClassUnderTest test = new ClassUnderTest();

  @Spy
  SomeInject bla = new SomeInject();
}

How can I go back/route-back on vue-router?

Use router.back() directly to go back/route-back programmatic on vue-router.

How to link 2 cell of excel sheet?

Just follow these Steps :

If you want the contents of, say, C1 to mirror the contents of cell A1, you just need to set the formula in C1 to =A1. From this point forward, anything you type in A1 will show up in C1 as well.

To Link Multiple Cells in Excel From Another Worksheet :

Step 1

Click the worksheet tab at the bottom of the screen that contains a range of precedent cells to which you want to link. A range is a block or group of adjacent cells. For example, assume you want to link a range of blank cells in “Sheet1” to a range of precedent cells in “Sheet2.” Click the “Sheet2” tab.

Step 2

Determine the precedent range’s width in columns and height in rows. In this example, assume cells A1 through A4 on “Sheet2” contain a list of numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4, respectively, which will be your precedent cells. This precedent range is one column wide by four rows high.

Step 3

Click the worksheet tab at the bottom of the screen that contains the blank cells in which you will insert a link. In this example, click the “Sheet1” tab.

Step 4

Select the range of blank cells you want to link to the precedent cells. This range must be the same size as the precedent range, but can be in a different location on the worksheet. Click and hold the mouse button on the top left cell of the range, drag the mouse cursor to the bottom right cell in the range and release the mouse button to select the range. In this example, assume you want to link cells C1 through C4 to the precedent range. Click and hold on cell C1, drag the mouse to cell C4 and release the mouse to highlight the range.

Step 5

Type “=,” the worksheet name containing the precedent cells, “!,” the top left cell of the precedent range, “:” and the bottom right cell of the precedent range. Press “Ctrl,” “Shift” and “Enter” simultaneously to complete the array formula. Each dependent cell is now linked to the cell in the precedent range that’s in the same respective location within the range. In this example, type “=Sheet2!A1:A4” and press “Ctrl,” “Shift” and “Enter” simultaneously. Cells C1 through C4 on “Sheet1” now contain the array formula “{=Sheet2!A1:A4}” surrounded by curly brackets, and show the same data as the precedent cells in “Sheet2.”

Good Luck !!!

Asp.net MVC ModelState.Clear

I wanted to update or reset a value if it didn't quite validate, and ran into this problem.

The easy answer, ModelState.Remove, is.. problematic.. because if you are using helpers you don't really know the name (unless you stick by the naming convention). Unless perhaps you create a function that both your custom helper and your controller can use to get a name.

This feature should have been implemented as an option on the helper, where by default is does not do this, but if you wanted the unaccepted input to redisplay you could just say so.

But at least I understand the issue now ;).

Insert auto increment primary key to existing table

I was able to adapt these instructions take a table with an existing non-increment primary key, and add an incrementing primary key to the table and create a new composite primary key with both the old and new keys as a composite primary key using the following code:

DROP TABLE  IF EXISTS SAKAI_USER_ID_MAP;

CREATE TABLE SAKAI_USER_ID_MAP (
       USER_ID             VARCHAR (99) NOT NULL,
       EID                 VARCHAR (255) NOT NULL,
       PRIMARY KEY (USER_ID)
);

INSERT INTO SAKAI_USER_ID_MAP VALUES ('admin', 'admin');
INSERT INTO SAKAI_USER_ID_MAP VALUES ('postmaster', 'postmaster');

ALTER TABLE  SAKAI_USER_ID_MAP 
  DROP PRIMARY KEY, 
  ADD _USER_ID INT AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL FIRST, 
  ADD PRIMARY KEY ( _USER_ID, USER_ID );

When this is done, the _USER_ID field exists and has all number values for the primary key exactly as you would expect. With the "DROP TABLE" at the top, you can run this over and over to experiment with variations.

What I have not been able to get working is the situation where there are incoming FOREIGN KEYs that already point at the USER_ID field. I get this message when I try to do a more complex example with an incoming foreign key from another table.

#1025 - Error on rename of './zap/#sql-da07_6d' to './zap/SAKAI_USER_ID_MAP' (errno: 150)

I am guessing that I need to tear down all foreign keys before doing the ALTER table and then rebuild them afterwards. But for now I wanted to share this solution to a more challenging version of the original question in case others ran into this situation.

SQLite "INSERT OR REPLACE INTO" vs. "UPDATE ... WHERE"

REPLACE INTO table(column_list) VALUES(value_list);

is a shorter form of

INSERT OR REPLACE INTO table(column_list) VALUES(value_list);

For REPLACE to execute correctly your table structure must have unique rows, whether a simple primary key or a unique index.

REPLACE deletes, then INSERTs the record and will cause an INSERT Trigger to execute if you have them setup. If you have a trigger on INSERT, you may encounter issues.


This is a work around.. not checked the speed..

INSERT OR IGNORE INTO table (column_list) VALUES(value_list);

followed by

UPDATE table SET field=value,field2=value WHERE uniqueid='uniquevalue'

This method allows a replace to occur without causing a trigger.

In C# check that filename is *possibly* valid (not that it exists)

Several of the System.IO.Path methods will throw exceptions if the path or filename is invalid:

  • Path.IsPathRooted()
  • Path.GetFileName()

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.path_methods.aspx

What's the difference between "Request Payload" vs "Form Data" as seen in Chrome dev tools Network tab

In Chrome, request with 'Content-Type:application/json' shows as Request PayedLoad and sends data as json object.

But request with 'Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded' shows Form Data and sends data as Key:Value Pair, so if you have array of object in one key it flats that key's value:

{ Id: 1, 
name:'john', 
phones:[{title:'home',number:111111,...},
        {title:'office',number:22222,...}]
}

sends

{ Id: 1, 
name:'john', 
phones:[object object]
phones:[object object]
}

.bashrc at ssh login

I had similar situation like Hobhouse. I wanted to use command

 ssh myhost.com 'some_command'

and 'some_command' exists in '/var/some_location' so I tried to append '/var/some_location' in PATH environment by editing '$HOME/.bashrc'

but that wasn't working. because default .bashrc(Ubuntu 10.4 LTS) prevent from sourcing by code like below

# If not running interactively, don't do anything
[ -z "$PS1" ] && return

so If you want to change environment for ssh non-login shell. you should add code above that line.

In Java, how can I determine if a char array contains a particular character?

From NumberKeyListener source code. This method they use to check if char is contained in defined array of accepted characters:

protected static boolean ok(char[] accept, char c) {
    for (int i = accept.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
        if (accept[i] == c) {
            return true;
        }
    }

    return false;
}

It is similar to @ÓscarLópez solution. Might be a bit faster cause of absence of foreach iterator.

unsigned int vs. size_t

In short, size_t is never negative, and it maximizes performance because it's typedef'd to be the unsigned integer type that's big enough -- but not too big -- to represent the size of the largest possible object on the target platform.

Sizes should never be negative, and indeed size_t is an unsigned type. Also, because size_t is unsigned, you can store numbers that are roughly twice as big as in the corresponding signed type, because we can use the sign bit to represent magnitude, like all the other bits in the unsigned integer. When we gain one more bit, we are multiplying the range of numbers we can represents by a factor of about two.

So, you ask, why not just use an unsigned int? It may not be able to hold big enough numbers. In an implementation where unsigned int is 32 bits, the biggest number it can represent is 4294967295. Some processors, such as the IP16L32, can copy objects larger than 4294967295 bytes.

So, you ask, why not use an unsigned long int? It exacts a performance toll on some platforms. Standard C requires that a long occupy at least 32 bits. An IP16L32 platform implements each 32-bit long as a pair of 16-bit words. Almost all 32-bit operators on these platforms require two instructions, if not more, because they work with the 32 bits in two 16-bit chunks. For example, moving a 32-bit long usually requires two machine instructions -- one to move each 16-bit chunk.

Using size_t avoids this performance toll. According to this fantastic article, "Type size_t is a typedef that's an alias for some unsigned integer type, typically unsigned int or unsigned long, but possibly even unsigned long long. Each Standard C implementation is supposed to choose the unsigned integer that's big enough--but no bigger than needed--to represent the size of the largest possible object on the target platform."

How to insert values in table with foreign key using MySQL?

Case 1: Insert Row and Query Foreign Key

Here is an alternate syntax I use:

INSERT INTO tab_student 
   SET name_student = 'Bobby Tables',
       id_teacher_fk = (
       SELECT id_teacher
         FROM tab_teacher
        WHERE name_teacher = 'Dr. Smith')

I'm doing this in Excel to import a pivot table to a dimension table and a fact table in SQL so you can import to both department and expenses tables from the following:

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Case 2: Insert Row and Then Insert Dependant Row

Luckily, MySQL supports LAST_INSERT_ID() exactly for this purpose.

INSERT INTO tab_teacher
   SET name_teacher = 'Dr. Smith';
INSERT INTO tab_student 
   SET name_student = 'Bobby Tables',
       id_teacher_fk = LAST_INSERT_ID()

Best way to update data with a RecyclerView adapter

DiffUtil can the best choice for updating the data in the RecyclerView Adapter which you can find in the android framework. DiffUtil is a utility class that can calculate the difference between two lists and output a list of update operations that converts the first list into the second one.

Most of the time our list changes completely and we set new list to RecyclerView Adapter. And we call notifyDataSetChanged to update adapter. NotifyDataSetChanged is costly. DiffUtil class solves that problem now. It does its job perfectly!

What's the difference between F5 refresh and Shift+F5 in Google Chrome browser?

The difference is not just for Chrome but for most of the web browsers.

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F5 refreshes the web page and often reloads the same page from the cached contents of the web browser. However, reloading from cache every time is not guaranteed and it also depends upon the cache expiry.

Shift + F5 forces the web browser to ignore its cached contents and retrieve a fresh copy of the web page into the browser.

Shift + F5 guarantees loading of latest contents of the web page.
However, depending upon the size of page, it is usually slower than F5.

You may want to refer to: What requests do browsers' "F5" and "Ctrl + F5" refreshes generate?

Android OnClickListener - identify a button

Or you can try the same but without listeners. On your button XML definition:

android:onClick="ButtonOnClick"

And in your code define the method ButtonOnClick:

public void ButtonOnClick(View v) {
    switch (v.getId()) {
      case R.id.button1:
        doSomething1();
        break;
      case R.id.button2:
        doSomething2();
        break;
      }
}

'LIKE ('%this%' OR '%that%') and something=else' not working

Break out the LIKE clauses into 2 separate statements, i.e.:

(fieldname1 LIKE '%this%' or fieldname1 LIKE '%that%' ) and something=else

How to implement a ConfigurationSection with a ConfigurationElementCollection

If you are looking for a custom configuration section like following

<CustomApplicationConfig>
        <Credentials Username="itsme" Password="mypassword"/>
        <PrimaryAgent Address="10.5.64.26" Port="3560"/>
        <SecondaryAgent Address="10.5.64.7" Port="3570"/>
        <Site Id="123" />
        <Lanes>
          <Lane Id="1" PointId="north" Direction="Entry"/>
          <Lane Id="2" PointId="south" Direction="Exit"/>
        </Lanes> 
</CustomApplicationConfig>

then you can use my implementation of configuration section so to get started add System.Configuration assembly reference to your project

Look at the each nested elements I used, First one is Credentials with two attributes so lets add it first

Credentials Element

public class CredentialsConfigElement : System.Configuration.ConfigurationElement
    {
        [ConfigurationProperty("Username")]
        public string Username
        {
            get 
            {
                return base["Username"] as string;
            }
        }

        [ConfigurationProperty("Password")]
        public string Password
        {
            get
            {
                return base["Password"] as string;
            }
        }
    }

PrimaryAgent and SecondaryAgent

Both has the same attributes and seem like a Address to a set of servers for a primary and a failover, so you just need to create one element class for both of those like following

public class ServerInfoConfigElement : ConfigurationElement
    {
        [ConfigurationProperty("Address")]
        public string Address
        {
            get
            {
                return base["Address"] as string;
            }
        }

        [ConfigurationProperty("Port")]
        public int? Port
        {
            get
            {
                return base["Port"] as int?;
            }
        }
    }

I'll explain how to use two different element with one class later in this post, let us skip the SiteId as there is no difference in it. You just have to create one class same as above with one property only. let us see how to implement Lanes collection

it is splitted in two parts first you have to create an element implementation class then you have to create collection element class

LaneConfigElement

public class LaneConfigElement : ConfigurationElement
    {
        [ConfigurationProperty("Id")]
        public string Id
        {
            get
            {
                return base["Id"] as string;
            }
        }

        [ConfigurationProperty("PointId")]
        public string PointId
        {
            get
            {
                return base["PointId"] as string;
            }
        }

        [ConfigurationProperty("Direction")]
        public Direction? Direction
        {
            get
            {
                return base["Direction"] as Direction?;
            }
        }
    }

    public enum Direction
    { 
        Entry,
        Exit
    }

you can notice that one attribute of LanElement is an Enumeration and if you try to use any other value in configuration which is not defined in Enumeration application will throw an System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException on startup. Ok lets move on to Collection Definition

[ConfigurationCollection(typeof(LaneConfigElement), AddItemName = "Lane", CollectionType = ConfigurationElementCollectionType.BasicMap)]
    public class LaneConfigCollection : ConfigurationElementCollection
    {
        public LaneConfigElement this[int index]
        {
            get { return (LaneConfigElement)BaseGet(index); }
            set
            {
                if (BaseGet(index) != null)
                {
                    BaseRemoveAt(index);
                }
                BaseAdd(index, value);
            }
        }

        public void Add(LaneConfigElement serviceConfig)
        {
            BaseAdd(serviceConfig);
        }

        public void Clear()
        {
            BaseClear();
        }

        protected override ConfigurationElement CreateNewElement()
        {
            return new LaneConfigElement();
        }

        protected override object GetElementKey(ConfigurationElement element)
        {
            return ((LaneConfigElement)element).Id;
        }

        public void Remove(LaneConfigElement serviceConfig)
        {
            BaseRemove(serviceConfig.Id);
        }

        public void RemoveAt(int index)
        {
            BaseRemoveAt(index);
        }

        public void Remove(String name)
        {
            BaseRemove(name);
        }

    }

you can notice that I have set the AddItemName = "Lane" you can choose whatever you like for your collection entry item, i prefer to use "add" the default one but i changed it just for the sake of this post.

Now all of our nested Elements have been implemented now we should aggregate all of those in a class which has to implement System.Configuration.ConfigurationSection

CustomApplicationConfigSection

public class CustomApplicationConfigSection : System.Configuration.ConfigurationSection
    {
        private static readonly ILog log = LogManager.GetLogger(typeof(CustomApplicationConfigSection));
        public const string SECTION_NAME = "CustomApplicationConfig";

        [ConfigurationProperty("Credentials")]
        public CredentialsConfigElement Credentials
        {
            get
            {
                return base["Credentials"] as CredentialsConfigElement;
            }
        }

        [ConfigurationProperty("PrimaryAgent")]
        public ServerInfoConfigElement PrimaryAgent
        {
            get
            {
                return base["PrimaryAgent"] as ServerInfoConfigElement;
            }
        }

        [ConfigurationProperty("SecondaryAgent")]
        public ServerInfoConfigElement SecondaryAgent
        {
            get
            {
                return base["SecondaryAgent"] as ServerInfoConfigElement;
            }
        }

        [ConfigurationProperty("Site")]
        public SiteConfigElement Site
        {
            get
            {
                return base["Site"] as SiteConfigElement;
            }
        }

        [ConfigurationProperty("Lanes")]
        public LaneConfigCollection Lanes
        {
            get { return base["Lanes"] as LaneConfigCollection; }
        }
    }

Now you can see that we have two properties with name PrimaryAgent and SecondaryAgent both have the same type now you can easily understand why we had only one implementation class against these two element.

Before you can use this newly invented configuration section in your app.config (or web.config) you just need to tell you application that you have invented your own configuration section and give it some respect, to do so you have to add following lines in app.config (may be right after start of root tag).

<configSections>
    <section name="CustomApplicationConfig" type="MyNameSpace.CustomApplicationConfigSection, MyAssemblyName" />
  </configSections>

NOTE: MyAssemblyName should be without .dll e.g. if you assembly file name is myDll.dll then use myDll instead of myDll.dll

to retrieve this configuration use following line of code any where in your application

CustomApplicationConfigSection config = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.GetSection(CustomApplicationConfigSection.SECTION_NAME) as CustomApplicationConfigSection;

I hope above post would help you to get started with a bit complicated kind of custom config sections.

Happy Coding :)

****Edit**** To Enable LINQ on LaneConfigCollection you have to implement IEnumerable<LaneConfigElement>

And Add following implementation of GetEnumerator

public new IEnumerator<LaneConfigElement> GetEnumerator()
        {
            int count = base.Count;
            for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
            {
                yield return base.BaseGet(i) as LaneConfigElement;
            }
        }

for the people who are still confused about how yield really works read this nice article

Two key points taken from above article are

it doesn’t really end the method’s execution. yield return pauses the method execution and the next time you call it (for the next enumeration value), the method will continue to execute from the last yield return call. It sounds a bit confusing I think… (Shay Friedman)

Yield is not a feature of the .Net runtime. It is just a C# language feature which gets compiled into simple IL code by the C# compiler. (Lars Corneliussen)

Disabled href tag

$(document).ready(function() {
   $('a').click(function(e) {
     e.preventDefault();
  });
});

Fatal error: Call to a member function fetch_assoc() on a non-object

I happen to miss spaces in my query and this error comes.

Ex: $sql= "SELECT * FROM";
$sql .= "table1";

Though the example might look simple, when coding complex queries, the probability for this error is high. I was missing space before word "table1".

Best practices to test protected methods with PHPUnit

You seem to be aware already, but I'll just restate it anyway; It's a bad sign, if you need to test protected methods. The aim of a unit test, is to test the interface of a class, and protected methods are implementation details. That said, there are cases where it makes sense. If you use inheritance, you can see a superclass as providing an interface for the subclass. So here, you would have to test the protected method (But never a private one). The solution to this, is to create a subclass for testing purpose, and use this to expose the methods. Eg.:

class Foo {
  protected function stuff() {
    // secret stuff, you want to test
  }
}

class SubFoo extends Foo {
  public function exposedStuff() {
    return $this->stuff();
  }
}

Note that you can always replace inheritance with composition. When testing code, it's usually a lot easier to deal with code that uses this pattern, so you may want to consider that option.

How do I create a list of random numbers without duplicates?

The solution presented in this answer works, but it could become problematic with memory if the sample size is small, but the population is huge (e.g. random.sample(insanelyLargeNumber, 10)).

To fix that, I would go with this:

answer = set()
sampleSize = 10
answerSize = 0

while answerSize < sampleSize:
    r = random.randint(0,100)
    if r not in answer:
        answerSize += 1
        answer.add(r)

# answer now contains 10 unique, random integers from 0.. 100

How to set DateTime to null

DateTime is a non-nullable value type

DateTime? newdate = null;

You can use a Nullable<DateTime>

c# Nullable Datetime

Use jQuery to navigate away from page

window.location.href = "/somewhere/else";

How to detect Esc Key Press in React and how to handle it

Another way to accomplish this in a functional component, is to use useEffect and useFunction, like this:

import React, { useEffect } from 'react';

const App = () => {


  useEffect(() => {
    const handleEsc = (event) => {
       if (event.keyCode === 27) {
        console.log('Close')
      }
    };
    window.addEventListener('keydown', handleEsc);

    return () => {
      window.removeEventListener('keydown', handleEsc);
    };
  }, []);

  return(<p>Press ESC to console log "Close"</p>);
}

Instead of console.log, you can use useState to trigger something.

Increasing the maximum post size

I had been facing similar problem in downloading big files this works fine for me now:

safe_mode = off
max_input_time = 9000
memory_limit = 1073741824
post_max_size = 1073741824
file_uploads = On
upload_max_filesize = 1073741824
max_file_uploads = 100
allow_url_fopen = On

Hope this helps.

PHP + curl, HTTP POST sample code?

Curl Post + Error Handling + Set Headers [thanks to @mantas-d]:

function curlPost($url, $data=NULL, $headers = NULL) {
    $ch = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

    if(!empty($data)){
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
    }

    if (!empty($headers)) {
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
    }

    $response = curl_exec($ch);

    if (curl_error($ch)) {
        trigger_error('Curl Error:' . curl_error($ch));
    }

    curl_close($ch);
    return $response;
}


curlPost('google.com', [
    'username' => 'admin',
    'password' => '12345',
]);

How can I selectively merge or pick changes from another branch in Git?

1800 INFORMATION's answer is completely correct. As someone new to Git, though, "use git cherry-pick" wasn't enough for me to figure this out without a bit more digging on the Internet, so I thought I'd post a more detailed guide in case anyone else is in a similar boat.

My use case was wanting to selectively pull changes from someone else's GitHub branch into my own. If you already have a local branch with the changes, you only need to do steps 2 and 5-7.

  1. Create (if not created) a local branch with the changes you want to bring in.

    $ git branch mybranch <base branch>

  2. Switch into it.

    $ git checkout mybranch

  3. Pull down the changes you want from the other person's account. If you haven't already, you'll want to add them as a remote.

    $ git remote add repos-w-changes <git url>

  4. Pull down everything from their branch.

    $ git pull repos-w-changes branch-i-want

  5. View the commit logs to see which changes you want:

    $ git log

  6. Switch back to the branch you want to pull the changes into.

    $ git checkout originalbranch

  7. Cherry pick your commits, one by one, with the hashes.

    $ git cherry-pick -x hash-of-commit

How to convert file to base64 in JavaScript?

I have used this simple method and it's worked successfully

 function  uploadImage(e) {
  var file = e.target.files[0];
    let reader = new FileReader();
    reader.onload = (e) => {
    let image = e.target.result;
    console.log(image);
    };
  reader.readAsDataURL(file);
  
}

How to stop a function

A simple return statement will 'stop' or return the function; in precise terms, it 'returns' function execution to the point at which the function was called - the function is terminated without further action.

That means you could have a number of places throughout your function where it might return. Like this:

def player():
    # do something here
    check_winner_variable = check_winner()  # check something 
    if check_winner_variable == '1': 
        return
    second_test_variable = second_test()
    if second_test_variable == '1': 
        return
       
    # let the computer do something
    computer()

Initializing a static std::map<int, int> in C++

Best way is to use a function:

#include <map>

using namespace std;

map<int,int> create_map()
{
  map<int,int> m;
  m[1] = 2;
  m[3] = 4;
  m[5] = 6;
  return m;
}

map<int,int> m = create_map();

Gradle Sync failed could not find constraint-layout:1.0.0-alpha2

Support libraries for ConstraintLayout could not be installed/updated.

Just open Preferences > Appearance & Behavior > System Settings > Android and move to SDK Tools tab. Check the following fields and install.

Preferences

I have never set any passwords to my keystore and alias, so how are they created?

if you want to configure them in gradle it should look like

signingConfigs {
        debug {
            storeFile file('PATH_TO_HOME/.android/debug.keystore')
            storePassword 'android'                   
            keyAlias 'AndroidDebugKey'
            keyPassword 'android'                     
        }
        ...
}

How to change color in circular progress bar?

You can change color programmatically by using this code :

ProgressBar v = (ProgressBar) findViewById(R.id.progress);
v.getIndeterminateDrawable().setColorFilter(0xFFcc0000,
                        android.graphics.PorterDuff.Mode.MULTIPLY);

If you want to change ProgressDialog's progressbar color, u can use this :

mDilog.setOnShowListener(new OnShowListener() {
        @Override
        public void onShow(DialogInterface dialog) {
            ProgressBar v = (ProgressBar)mDilog.findViewById(android.R.id.progress);
            v.getIndeterminateDrawable().setColorFilter(0xFFcc0000,
                    android.graphics.PorterDuff.Mode.MULTIPLY);

        }
    });

java create date object using a value string

Here is the optimized solution to do it with SimpleDateFormat parse() method.

SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(
        "EEEE, dd/MM/yyyy/hh:mm:ss");
String strDate = formatter.format(new Date());

try {
    Date pDate = formatter.parse(strDate);
} catch (ParseException e) { // note: parse method can throw ParseException
    e.printStackTrace();
}

Few things to notice

  • We don't need to create a Calendar instance to get the current date & time instead use new Date()
  • Also it doesn't require 2 instances of SimpleDateFormat as found in the most voted answer for this question. It's just a waste of memory
  • Furthermore, catching a generic exception like Exception is a bad practice when we know that the parse method only stands a chance to throw a ParseException. We need to be as specific as possible when dealing with Exceptions. You can refer, throws Exception bad practice?

Accessing JPEG EXIF rotation data in JavaScript on the client side

https://github.com/blueimp/JavaScript-Load-Image is a modern javascript library that can not only extract the exif orientation flag - it can also correctly mirror/rotate JPEG images on the client side.

I just solved the same problem with this library: JS Client-Side Exif Orientation: Rotate and Mirror JPEG Images

How do I get the base URL with PHP?

I think the $_SERVER superglobal has the information you're looking for. It might be something like this:

echo $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']

You can see the relevant PHP documentation here.

How to set app icon for Electron / Atom Shell App

Updated package.json:

"build": {
  "appId": "com.my-website.my-app",
  "productName": "MyApp",
  "copyright": "Copyright © 2019 ${author}",
  "mac": {
    "icon": "./public/icons/mac/icon.icns",     <---------- set Mac Icons
    "category": "public.app-category.utilities"
  },
  "win": {
    "icon": "./public/icons/png/256x256.png" <---------- set Win Icon
  },
  "files": [
    "./build/**/*",
    "./dist/**/*",
    "./node_modules/**/*",
    "./public/**/*",       <---------- need for get access to icons
    "*.js"
  ],
  "directories": {
    "buildResources": "public" <---------- folder where placed icons
  }
},

After build application you can see icons. This solution don't show icons in developer mode. I don't setup icons in new BrowserWindow().

invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII) with Rails and Ruby 1.9

I just want to add my solution:

I use german umlauts like ö, ü, ä and got the same error.
@Jarek Zmudzinski just told you how it works, but here is mine:

Add this code to the top of your Controller: # encoding: UTF-8
(for example to use flash message with umlauts)

example of my Controller:

# encoding: UTF-8
class UserController < ApplicationController

Now you can use ö, ä ,ü, ß, "", etc.

How to hash some string with sha256 in Java?

Here is a slightly more performant way to turn the digest into a hex string:

private static final char[] hexArray = "0123456789abcdef".toCharArray();

public static String getSHA256(String data) {
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    try {
        MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-256");
        md.update(data.getBytes());
        byte[] byteData = md.digest();
        sb.append(bytesToHex(byteData);
    } catch(Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return sb.toString();
}

private static String bytesToHex(byte[] bytes) {
    char[] hexChars = new char[bytes.length * 2];
    for ( int j = 0; j < bytes.length; j++ ) {
        int v = bytes[j] & 0xFF;
        hexChars[j * 2] = hexArray[v >>> 4];
        hexChars[j * 2 + 1] = hexArray[v & 0x0F];
    }
    return String.valueOf(hexChars);
}

Does anyone know of a faster way in Java?

Drop shadow for PNG image in CSS

Here is ready glow hover animation code snippet for this:

http://codepen.io/widhi_allan/pen/ltaCq

-webkit-filter: drop-shadow(0px 0px 0px rgba(255,255,255,0.80));

Configuration Error: <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0"> ASP.NET MVC3

My problem was solved that way:

Your username is probably restricted, You must grant full access to the user.

  1. Right Click on Project and select Properties
  2. Click on Tab Security
  3. Click Edit button
  4. Found Current User and Permission for User Allow Full Control

jQuery: Setting select list 'selected' based on text, failing strangely

When an <option> isn't given a value="", the text becomes its value, so you can just use .val() on the <select> to set by value, like this:

var text1 = 'Monkey';
$("#mySelect1").val(text1);

var text2 = 'Mushroom pie';
$("#mySelect2").val(text2);

You can test it out here, if the example is not what you're after and they actually have a value, use the <option> element's .text property to .filter(), like this:

var text1 = 'Monkey';
$("#mySelect1 option").filter(function() {
    return this.text == text1; 
}).attr('selected', true);

var text2 = 'Mushroom pie';
$("#mySelect2 option").filter(function() {
    return this.text == text2; 
}).attr('selected', true);?

You can test that version here.

Get checkbox list values with jQuery

Since nobody has mentioned this..

If all you want is an array of values, an easier alternative would be to use the .map() method. Just remember to call .get() to convert the jQuery object to an array:

Example Here

var names = $('.parent input:checked').map(function () {
    return this.name;
}).get();

console.log(names);

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var names = $('.parent input:checked').map(function () {_x000D_
    return this.name;_x000D_
}).get();_x000D_
_x000D_
console.log(names);
_x000D_
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<div class="parent">_x000D_
    <input type="checkbox" name="name1" />_x000D_
    <input type="checkbox" name="name2" />_x000D_
    <input type="checkbox" name="name3" checked="checked" />_x000D_
    <input type="checkbox" name="name4" checked="checked" />_x000D_
    <input type="checkbox" name="name5" />_x000D_
</div>
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Pure JavaScript:

Example Here

var elements = document.querySelectorAll('.parent input:checked');
var names = Array.prototype.map.call(elements, function(el, i) {
    return el.name;
});

console.log(names);

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var elements = document.querySelectorAll('.parent input:checked');_x000D_
var names = Array.prototype.map.call(elements, function(el, i){_x000D_
    return el.name;_x000D_
});_x000D_
_x000D_
console.log(names);
_x000D_
<div class="parent">_x000D_
    <input type="checkbox" name="name1" />_x000D_
    <input type="checkbox" name="name2" />_x000D_
    <input type="checkbox" name="name3" checked="checked" />_x000D_
    <input type="checkbox" name="name4" checked="checked" />_x000D_
    <input type="checkbox" name="name5" />_x000D_
</div>
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How to get docker-compose to always re-create containers from fresh images?

The only solution that worked for me was this command :

docker-compose build --no-cache

This will automatically pull fresh image from repo and won't use the cache version that is prebuild with any parameters you've been using before.

Creating a file only if it doesn't exist in Node.js

As your intuition correctly guessed, the naive solution with a pair of exists / writeFile calls is wrong. Asynchronous code runs in unpredictable ways. And in given case it is

  • Is there a file a.txt? — No.
  • (File a.txt gets created by another program)
  • Write to a.txt if it's possible. — Okay.

But yes, we can do that in a single call. We're working with file system so it's a good idea to read developer manual on fs. And hey, here's an interesting part.

'w' - Open file for writing. The file is created (if it does not exist) or truncated (if it exists).

'wx' - Like 'w' but fails if path exists.

So all we have to do is just add wx to the fs.open call. But hey, we don't like fopen-like IO. Let's read on fs.writeFile a bit more.

fs.readFile(filename[, options], callback)#

filename String

options Object

encoding String | Null default = null

flag String default = 'r'

callback Function

That options.flag looks promising. So we try

fs.writeFile(path, data, { flag: 'wx' }, function (err) {
    if (err) throw err;
    console.log("It's saved!");
});

And it works perfectly for a single write. I guess this code will fail in some more bizarre ways yet if you try to solve your task with it. You have an atomary "check for a_#.jpg existence, and write there if it's empty" operation, but all the other fs state is not locked, and a_1.jpg file may spontaneously disappear while you're already checking a_5.jpg. Most* file systems are no ACID databases, and the fact that you're able to do at least some atomic operations is miraculous. It's very likely that wx code won't work on some platform. So for the sake of your sanity, use database, finally.

Some more info for the suffering

Imagine we're writing something like memoize-fs that caches results of function calls to the file system to save us some network/cpu time. Could we open the file for reading if it exists, and for writing if it doesn't, all in the single call? Let's take a funny look on those flags. After a while of mental exercises we can see that a+ does what we want: if the file doesn't exist, it creates one and opens it both for reading and writing, and if the file exists it does so without clearing the file (as w+ would). But now we cannot use it neither in (smth)File, nor in create(Smth)Stream functions. And that seems like a missing feature.

So feel free to file it as a feature request (or even a bug) to Node.js github, as lack of atomic asynchronous file system API is a drawback of Node. Though don't expect changes any time soon.

Edit. I would like to link to articles by Linus and by Dan Luu on why exactly you don't want to do anything smart with your fs calls, because the claim was left mostly not based on anything.

Difference between binary tree and binary search tree

To check wheather or not a given Binary Tree is Binary Search Tree here's is an Alternative Approach .

Traverse Tree In Inorder Fashion (i.e. Left Child --> Parent --> Right Child ) , Store Traversed Node Data in a temporary Variable lets say temp , just before storing into temp , Check wheather current Node's data is higher then previous one or not . Then just break it out , Tree is not Binary Search Tree else traverse untill end.

Below is an example with Java:

public static boolean isBinarySearchTree(Tree root)
{
    if(root==null)
        return false;

    isBinarySearchTree(root.left);
    if(tree.data<temp)
        return false;
    else
        temp=tree.data;
    isBinarySearchTree(root.right);
    return true;
}

Maintain temp variable outside

Creating for loop until list.length

In Python you can iterate over the list itself:

for item in my_list:
   #do something with item

or to use indices you can use xrange():

for i in xrange(1,len(my_list)):    #as indexes start at zero so you 
                                    #may have to use xrange(len(my_list))
    #do something here my_list[i]

There's another built-in function called enumerate(), which returns both item and index:

for index,item in enumerate(my_list):
    # do something here

examples:

In [117]: my_lis=list('foobar')

In [118]: my_lis
Out[118]: ['f', 'o', 'o', 'b', 'a', 'r']

In [119]: for item in my_lis:
    print item
   .....:     
f
o
o
b
a
r

In [120]: for i in xrange(len(my_lis)):
    print my_lis[i]
   .....:     
f
o
o
b
a
r

In [122]: for index,item in enumerate(my_lis):
    print index,'-->',item
   .....:     
0 --> f
1 --> o
2 --> o
3 --> b
4 --> a
5 --> r

Best way in asp.net to force https for an entire site?

I spent sometime looking for best practice that make sense and found the following which worked perfected for me. I hope this will save you sometime.

Using Config file (for example an asp.net website) https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/kaushal/2013/05/22/http-to-https-redirects-on-iis-7-x-and-higher/

or on your own server https://www.sslshopper.com/iis7-redirect-http-to-https.html

[SHORT ANSWER] Simply The code below goes inside

<system.webServer> 
 <rewrite>
     <rules>
       <rule name="HTTP/S to HTTPS Redirect" enabled="true" 
           stopProcessing="true">
       <match url="(.*)" />
        <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny">
        <add input="{SERVER_PORT_SECURE}" pattern="^0$" />
       </conditions>
       <action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}{REQUEST_URI}" 
        redirectType="Permanent" />
        </rule>
       </rules>
 </rewrite>

Recommended way to embed PDF in HTML?

You can also use Google PDF viewer for this purpose. As far as I know it's not an official Google feature (am I wrong on this?), but it works for me very nicely and smoothly. You need to upload your PDF somewhere before and just use its URL:

<iframe src="http://docs.google.com/gview?url=http://example.com/mypdf.pdf&embedded=true" style="width:718px; height:700px;" frameborder="0"></iframe>

What is important is that it doesn't need a Flash player, it uses JavaScript.

How can I force a long string without any blank to be wrapped?

Use a CSS method to force wrap a string that has no white-spaces. Three methods:

1) Use the CSS white-space property. To cover browser inconsistencies, you have to declare it several ways. So just put your looooong string into some block level element (e.g., div, pre, p) and give that element the following css:

some_block_level_tag {
    white-space: pre;           /* CSS 2.0 */
    white-space: pre-wrap;      /* CSS 2.1 */
    white-space: pre-line;      /* CSS 3.0 */
    white-space: -pre-wrap;     /* Opera 4-6 */
    white-space: -o-pre-wrap;   /* Opera 7 */
    white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; /* Mozilla */
    white-space: -hp-pre-wrap;  /* HP Printers */
    word-wrap: break-word;      /* IE 5+ */
}

2) use the force-wrap mixin from Compass.

3) I was just looking into this as well and I think might also work (but I need to test browser support more completely):

.break-me {
    word-wrap: break-word;
    overflow-wrap: break-word;
}

Reference: wrapping content

Maximum length of HTTP GET request

Technically, I have seen HTTP GET will have issues if the URL length goes beyond 2000 characters. In that case, it's better to use HTTP POST or split the URL.

How to create RecyclerView with multiple view type?

If the layouts for view types are only a few and binding logics are simple, follow Anton's solution.
But the code will be messy if you need to manage the complex layouts and binding logics.

I believe the following solution will be useful for someone who need to handle complex view types.

Base DataBinder class

abstract public class DataBinder<T extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder> {

    private DataBindAdapter mDataBindAdapter;

    public DataBinder(DataBindAdapter dataBindAdapter) {
        mDataBindAdapter = dataBindAdapter;
    }

    abstract public T newViewHolder(ViewGroup parent);

    abstract public void bindViewHolder(T holder, int position);

    abstract public int getItemCount();

......

}

The functions needed to define in this class are pretty much same as the adapter class when creating the single view type.
For each view type, create the class by extending this DataBinder.

Sample DataBinder class

public class Sample1Binder extends DataBinder<Sample1Binder.ViewHolder> {

    private List<String> mDataSet = new ArrayList();

    public Sample1Binder(DataBindAdapter dataBindAdapter) {
        super(dataBindAdapter);
    }

    @Override
    public ViewHolder newViewHolder(ViewGroup parent) {
        View view = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(
            R.layout.layout_sample1, parent, false);
        return new ViewHolder(view);
    }

    @Override
    public void bindViewHolder(ViewHolder holder, int position) {
        String title = mDataSet.get(position);
        holder.mTitleText.setText(title);
    }

    @Override
    public int getItemCount() {
        return mDataSet.size();
    }

    public void setDataSet(List<String> dataSet) {
        mDataSet.addAll(dataSet);
    }

    static class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {

        TextView mTitleText;

        public ViewHolder(View view) {
            super(view);
            mTitleText = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.title_type1);
        }
    }
}

In order to manage DataBinder classes, create adapter class.

Base DataBindAdapter class

abstract public class DataBindAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<RecyclerView.ViewHolder> {

    @Override
    public RecyclerView.ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
        return getDataBinder(viewType).newViewHolder(parent);
    }

    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(RecyclerView.ViewHolder viewHolder, int position) {
        int binderPosition = getBinderPosition(position);
        getDataBinder(viewHolder.getItemViewType()).bindViewHolder(viewHolder, binderPosition);
    }

    @Override
    public abstract int getItemCount();

    @Override
    public abstract int getItemViewType(int position);

    public abstract <T extends DataBinder> T getDataBinder(int viewType);

    public abstract int getPosition(DataBinder binder, int binderPosition);

    public abstract int getBinderPosition(int position);

......

}

Create the class by extending this base class, and then instantiate DataBinder classes and override abstract methods

  1. getItemCount
    Return the total item count of DataBinders

  2. getItemViewType
    Define the mapping logic between the adapter position and view type.

  3. getDataBinder
    Return the DataBinder instance based on the view type

  4. getPosition
    Define convert logic to the adapter position from the position in the specified DataBinder

  5. getBinderPosition
    Define convert logic to the position in the DataBinder from the adapter position

Hope this solution will be helpful.
I left more detail solution and samples in GitHub, so please refer the following link if you need.
https://github.com/yqritc/RecyclerView-MultipleViewTypesAdapter

Node.js Hostname/IP doesn't match certificate's altnames

I was getting this when streaming to ElasticSearch from a Lambda function in AWS. Smashed my head a against a wall trying to figure it out. In the end when setting the request.headers['Host'] I was adding in the https:// to the domain for ES - changing this to [es-domain-name].eu-west-1.es.amazonaws.com (without https://) worked straight away. Below is the code I used to get it working, hopefully save anyone else smashing their head against a wall...

import path from 'path';
import AWS from 'aws-sdk';

const { region, esEndpoint } = process.env;
const endpoint = new AWS.Endpoint(esEndpoint);
const httpClient = new AWS.HttpClient();
const credentials = new AWS.EnvironmentCredentials('AWS');

/**
 * Sends a request to Elasticsearch
 *
 * @param {string} httpMethod - The HTTP method, e.g. 'GET', 'PUT', 'DELETE', etc
 * @param {string} requestPath - The HTTP path (relative to the Elasticsearch domain), e.g. '.kibana'
 * @param {string} [payload] - An optional JavaScript object that will be serialized to the HTTP request body
 * @returns {Promise} Promise - object with the result of the HTTP response
 */
export function sendRequest ({ httpMethod, requestPath, payload }) {
    const request = new AWS.HttpRequest(endpoint, region);

    request.method = httpMethod;
    request.path = path.join(request.path, requestPath);
    request.body = payload;
    request.headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/json';
    request.headers['Host'] = '[es-domain-name].eu-west-1.es.amazonaws.com';
    request.headers['Content-Length'] = Buffer.byteLength(request.body);
    const signer = new AWS.Signers.V4(request, 'es');
    signer.addAuthorization(credentials, new Date());

    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
        httpClient.handleRequest(
            request,
            null,
            response => {
                const { statusCode, statusMessage, headers } = response;
                let body = '';
                response.on('data', chunk => {
                    body += chunk;
                });
                response.on('end', () => {
                    const data = {
                        statusCode,
                        statusMessage,
                        headers
                    };
                    if (body) {
                        data.body = JSON.parse(body);
                    }
                    resolve(data);
                });
            },
            err => {
                reject(err);
            }
        );
    });
}

Python URLLib / URLLib2 POST

u = urllib2.urlopen('http://myserver/inout-tracker', data)
h.request('POST', '/inout-tracker/index.php', data, headers)

Using the path /inout-tracker without a trailing / doesn't fetch index.php. Instead the server will issue a 302 redirect to the version with the trailing /.

Doing a 302 will typically cause clients to convert a POST to a GET request.

In Java, how to append a string more efficiently?

You should use the StringBuilder class.

StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();

stringBuilder.append("Some text");
stringBuilder.append("Some text");
stringBuilder.append("Some text");

String finalString = stringBuilder.toString();

In addition, please visit:

How do you easily create empty matrices javascript?

There is something about Array.fill I need to mention.

If you just use below method to create a 3x3 matrix.

Array(3).fill(Array(3).fill(0));

You will find that the values in the matrix is a reference.

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Optimized solution (prevent passing by reference):

If you want to pass by value rather than reference, you can leverage Array.map to create it.

Array(3).fill(null).map(() => Array(3).fill(0));

enter image description here

HTML Code for text checkbox '?'

?

this is a character . You can do copy/past without problem

Android Spinner: Get the selected item change event

It doesn't matter will you set OnItemSelectedListener in onCreate or onStart - it will still be called during of Activity creation or start (respectively).
So we can set it in onCreate (and NOT in onStart!).
Just add a flag to figure out first initialisation:

private Spinner mSpinner;
private boolean mSpinnerInitialized;

then in onCreate (or onCreateView) just:

mSpinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(new AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener() {
            public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> adapterView, View view, int i, long l) {
                if (!mSpinnerInitialized) {
                    mSpinnerInitialized = true;
                    return;
                }

                // do stuff
            }

            public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> adapterView) {
                return;
            }
        });

Illegal Escape Character "\"

Use "\\" to escape the \ character.

Possible to view PHP code of a website?

By using exploits or on badly configured servers it could be possible to download your PHP source. You could however either obfuscate and/or encrypt your code (using Zend Guard, Ioncube or a similar app) if you want to make sure your source will not be readable (to be accurate, obfuscation by itself could be reversed given enough time/resources, but I haven't found an IonCube or Zend Guard decryptor yet...).

How to map with index in Ruby?

Here are two more options for 1.8.6 (or 1.9) without using enumerator:

# Fun with functional
arr = ('a'..'g').to_a
arr.zip( (2..(arr.length+2)).to_a )
#=> [["a", 2], ["b", 3], ["c", 4], ["d", 5], ["e", 6], ["f", 7], ["g", 8]]

# The simplest
n = 1
arr.map{ |c| [c, n+=1 ] }
#=> [["a", 2], ["b", 3], ["c", 4], ["d", 5], ["e", 6], ["f", 7], ["g", 8]]

Avoid trailing zeroes in printf()

Hit the same issue, double precision is 15 decimal, and float precision is 6 decimal, so I wrote to 2 functions for them separately

#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <string>
#include <string.h>

std::string doublecompactstring(double d)
{
    char buf[128] = {0};
    if (isnan(d))
        return "NAN";
    sprintf(buf, "%.15f", d);
    // try to remove the trailing zeros
    size_t ccLen = strlen(buf);
    for(int i=(int)(ccLen -1);i>=0;i--)
    {
        if (buf[i] == '0')
            buf[i] = '\0';
        else
            break;
    }

    return buf;
}

std::string floatcompactstring(float d)
{
    char buf[128] = {0};
    if (isnan(d))
        return "NAN";
    sprintf(buf, "%.6f", d);
    // try to remove the trailing zeros
    size_t ccLen = strlen(buf);
    for(int i=(int)(ccLen -1);i>=0;i--)
    {
        if (buf[i] == '0')
            buf[i] = '\0';
        else
            break;
    }

    return buf;
}

int main(int argc, const char* argv[])
{
    double a = 0.000000000000001;
    float  b = 0.000001f;

    printf("a: %s\n", doublecompactstring(a).c_str());
    printf("b: %s\n", floatcompactstring(b).c_str());
    return 0;
}

output is

a: 0.000000000000001
b: 0.000001

Python sockets error TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str' with send function

You can change the send line to this:

c.send(b'Thank you for connecting')

The b makes it bytes instead.

Change package name for Android in React Native

Follow the simple steps to rename your app name and Package name in case you have not made any custom changes in android folder(ie. scenario where u just initialized the project)

  1. Simply change the name in the package.json file as you need and save it.
  2. Remove the folder named android
  3. run the command react-native upgrade

Note:As ivoteje50 mentioned in comment,Don't remove the android folder if you have already followed the official instructions to generate a keystore, since it will remove the keystore and you cannot sign a new app again.

How can I determine the direction of a jQuery scroll event?

I had problems with elastic scrolling (scroll bouncing, rubber-banding). Ignoring the down-scroll event if close to the page top worked for me.

var position = $(window).scrollTop();
$(window).scroll(function () {
    var scroll = $(window).scrollTop();
    var downScroll = scroll > position;
    var closeToTop = -120 < scroll && scroll < 120;
    if (downScroll && !closeToTop) {
        // scrolled down and not to close to top (to avoid Ipad elastic scroll-problems)
        $('.top-container').slideUp('fast');
        $('.main-header').addClass('padding-top');
    } else {
        // scrolled up
        $('.top-container').slideDown('fast');
        $('.main-header').removeClass('padding-top');
    }
    position = scroll;
});

Query to display all tablespaces in a database and datafiles

Neither databases, nor tablespaces nor data files belong to any user. Are you coming to this from an MS SQL background?

select tablespace_name, 
       file_name
from dba_tablespaces
order by tablespace_name, 
         file_name;

What is a callback URL in relation to an API?

Think of it as a letter. Sometimes you get a letter, say asking you to fill in a form then return the form in a pre-addressed envelope which is in the original envelope that was housing the form.

Once you have finished filling the form in, you put it in the provided return envelop and send it back.

The callbackUrl is like that return envelope. You are basically saying I am sending you this data. Once you are done with it, I am on this callbackUrl waiting for your response. So the API will process the data you have sent then look at the callback to send you the response.

This is useful because sometimes you may take ages to process some data and it makes no sense to have the caller wait for a response. For example, say your API allows users to send documents to it and virus scan them. Then you send a report after. The scan could take maybe 3minutes. The user cannot be waiting for 3minutes. So you acknowledge that you got the document and let the caller get on with other business while you do the scan then use the callbackUrl when done to tell them the result of the scan.