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How to check for a valid URL in Java?

I'd love to post this as a comment to Tendayi Mawushe's answer, but I'm afraid there is not enough space ;)

This is the relevant part from the Apache Commons UrlValidator source:

/**
 * This expression derived/taken from the BNF for URI (RFC2396).
 */
private static final String URL_PATTERN =
        "/^(([^:/?#]+):)?(//([^/?#]*))?([^?#]*)(\\?([^#]*))?(#(.*))?/";
//         12            3  4          5       6   7        8 9

/**
 * Schema/Protocol (ie. http:, ftp:, file:, etc).
 */
private static final int PARSE_URL_SCHEME = 2;

/**
 * Includes hostname/ip and port number.
 */
private static final int PARSE_URL_AUTHORITY = 4;

private static final int PARSE_URL_PATH = 5;

private static final int PARSE_URL_QUERY = 7;

private static final int PARSE_URL_FRAGMENT = 9;

You can easily build your own validator from there.

How to mute an html5 video player using jQuery

Are you using the default controls boolean attribute on the video tag? If so, I believe all the supporting browsers have mute buttons. If you need to wire it up, set .muted to true on the element in javascript (use .prop for jquery because it's an IDL attribute.) The speaker icon on the volume control is the mute button on chrome,ff, safari, and opera for example

Get the latest date from grouped MySQL data

This should work:

SELECT model, date FROM doc GROUP BY model ORDER BY date DESC

It just sort the dates from last to first and by grouping it only grabs the first one.

Bootstrap 3 select input form inline

I think I've accidentally found a solution. The only thing to do is inserting an empty <span class="input-group-addon"></span> between the <input> and the <select>.

Additionally you can make it "invisible" by reducing its width, horizontal padding and borders:

_x000D_
_x000D_
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>_x000D_
_x000D_
<div class="input-group">_x000D_
    <span class="input-group-addon" title="* Price" id="priceLabel">Price</span>_x000D_
    <input type="number" id="searchbygenerals_priceFrom" name="searchbygenerals[priceFrom]" required="required" class="form-control" value="0">_x000D_
    <span class="input-group-addon">-</span>_x000D_
    <input type="number" id="searchbygenerals_priceTo" name="searchbygenerals[priceTo]" required="required" class="form-control" value="0">_x000D_
  _x000D_
    <!-- insert this line -->_x000D_
    <span class="input-group-addon" style="width:0px; padding-left:0px; padding-right:0px; border:none;"></span>_x000D_
  _x000D_
    <select id="searchbygenerals_currency" name="searchbygenerals[currency]" class="form-control">_x000D_
        <option value="1">HUF</option>_x000D_
        <option value="2">EUR</option>_x000D_
    </select>_x000D_
</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Tested on Chrome and FireFox.

Using CSS to insert text

Just code it like this:

.OwnerJoe {
  //other things here
  &:before{
    content: "Joe's Task: ";
  }
}

Rails 4 image-path, image-url and asset-url no longer work in SCSS files

I had a similar problem, trying to add a background image with inline css. No need to specify the images folder due to the way asset sync works.

This worked for me:

background-image: url('/assets/image.jpg');

How to set button click effect in Android?

Making a minor addition to Andràs answer:

You can use postDelayed to make the color filter last for a small period of time to make it more noticeable:

        @Override
        public boolean onTouch(final View v, MotionEvent event) {
            switch (event.getAction()) {
                case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN: {
                    v.getBackground().setColorFilter(color, PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_ATOP);
                    v.invalidate();
                    break;
                }
                case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP: {
                    v.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
                        @Override
                        public void run() {
                            v.getBackground().clearColorFilter();
                            v.invalidate();
                        }
                    }, 100L);
                    break;
                }
            }
            return false;
        }

You can change the value of the delay 100L to suit your needs.

How to get the caller class in Java

Since I currently have the same problem here is what I do:

  1. I prefer com.sun.Reflection instead of stackTrace since a stack trace is only producing the name not the class (including the classloader) itself.

  2. The method is deprecated but still around in Java 8 SDK.

// Method descriptor #124 (I)Ljava/lang/Class; (deprecated) // Signature: (I)Ljava/lang/Class<*>; @java.lang.Deprecated public static native java.lang.Class getCallerClass(int arg0);

  1. The method without int argument is not deprecated

// Method descriptor #122 ()Ljava/lang/Class; // Signature: ()Ljava/lang/Class<*>; @sun.reflect.CallerSensitive public static native java.lang.Class getCallerClass();

Since I have to be platform independent bla bla including Security Restrictions, I just create a flexible method:

  1. Check if com.sun.Reflection is available (security exceptions disable this mechanism)

  2. If 1 is yes then get the method with int or no int argument.

  3. If 2 is yes call it.

If 3. was never reached, I use the stack trace to return the name. I use a special result object that contains either the class or the string and this object tells exactly what it is and why.

[Summary] I use stacktrace for backup and to bypass eclipse compiler warnings I use reflections. Works very good. Keeps the code clean, works like a charm and also states the problems involved correctly.

I use this for quite a long time and today I searched a related question so

Making a request to a RESTful API using python

So you want to pass data in body of a GET request, better would be to do it in POST call. You can achieve this by using both Requests.

Raw Request

GET http://ES_search_demo.com/document/record/_search?pretty=true HTTP/1.1
Host: ES_search_demo.com
Content-Length: 183
User-Agent: python-requests/2.9.0
Connection: keep-alive
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate

{
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "must": [
        {
          "text": {
            "record.document": "SOME_JOURNAL"
          }
        },
        {
          "text": {
            "record.articleTitle": "farmers"
          }
        }
      ],
      "must_not": [],
      "should": []
    }
  },
  "from": 0,
  "size": 50,
  "sort": [],
  "facets": {}
}

Sample call with Requests

import requests

def consumeGETRequestSync():
data = '{
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "must": [
        {
          "text": {
            "record.document": "SOME_JOURNAL"
          }
        },
        {
          "text": {
            "record.articleTitle": "farmers"
          }
        }
      ],
      "must_not": [],
      "should": []
    }
  },
  "from": 0,
  "size": 50,
  "sort": [],
  "facets": {}
}'
url = 'http://ES_search_demo.com/document/record/_search?pretty=true'
headers = {"Accept": "application/json"}
# call get service with headers and params
response = requests.get(url,data = data)
print "code:"+ str(response.status_code)
print "******************"
print "headers:"+ str(response.headers)
print "******************"
print "content:"+ str(response.text)

consumeGETRequestSync()

IE Enable/Disable Proxy Settings via Registry

The problem is that IE won't reset the proxy settings until it either

  1. closes, or
  2. has its configuration refreshed.

Below is the code that I've used to get this working:

function Refresh-System
{
  $signature = @'
[DllImport("wininet.dll", SetLastError = true, CharSet=CharSet.Auto)]
public static extern bool InternetSetOption(IntPtr hInternet, int dwOption, IntPtr lpBuffer, int dwBufferLength);
'@

$INTERNET_OPTION_SETTINGS_CHANGED   = 39
$INTERNET_OPTION_REFRESH            = 37
$type = Add-Type -MemberDefinition $signature -Name wininet -Namespace pinvoke -PassThru
$a = $type::InternetSetOption(0, $INTERNET_OPTION_SETTINGS_CHANGED, 0, 0)
$b = $type::InternetSetOption(0, $INTERNET_OPTION_REFRESH, 0, 0)
return $a -and $b
}

Android Studio: Unable to start the daemon process

Try deleting your .gradle from C:\Users\<username> directory and try again.

Webpack how to build production code and how to use it

Use these plugins to optimize your production build:

  new webpack.optimize.CommonsChunkPlugin('common'),
  new webpack.optimize.DedupePlugin(),
  new webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin(),
  new webpack.optimize.AggressiveMergingPlugin()

I recently came to know about compression-webpack-plugin which gzips your output bundle to reduce its size. Add this as well in the above listed plugins list to further optimize your production code.

new CompressionPlugin({
      asset: "[path].gz[query]",
      algorithm: "gzip",
      test: /\.js$|\.css$|\.html$/,
      threshold: 10240,
      minRatio: 0.8
})

Server side dynamic gzip compression is not recommended for serving static client-side files because of heavy CPU usage.

How to replace multiple white spaces with one white space

This question isn't as simple as other posters have made it out to be (and as I originally believed it to be) - because the question isn't quite precise as it needs to be.

There's a difference between "space" and "whitespace". If you only mean spaces, then you should use a regex of " {2,}". If you mean any whitespace, that's a different matter. Should all whitespace be converted to spaces? What should happen to space at the start and end?

For the benchmark below, I've assumed that you only care about spaces, and you don't want to do anything to single spaces, even at the start and end.

Note that correctness is almost always more important than performance. The fact that the Split/Join solution removes any leading/trailing whitespace (even just single spaces) is incorrect as far as your specified requirements (which may be incomplete, of course).

The benchmark uses MiniBench.

using System;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using MiniBench;

internal class Program
{
    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {

        int size = int.Parse(args[0]);
        int gapBetweenExtraSpaces = int.Parse(args[1]);

        char[] chars = new char[size];
        for (int i=0; i < size/2; i += 2)
        {
            // Make sure there actually *is* something to do
            chars[i*2] = (i % gapBetweenExtraSpaces == 1) ? ' ' : 'x';
            chars[i*2 + 1] = ' ';
        }
        // Just to make sure we don't have a \0 at the end
        // for odd sizes
        chars[chars.Length-1] = 'y';

        string bigString = new string(chars);
        // Assume that one form works :)
        string normalized = NormalizeWithSplitAndJoin(bigString);


        var suite = new TestSuite<string, string>("Normalize")
            .Plus(NormalizeWithSplitAndJoin)
            .Plus(NormalizeWithRegex)
            .RunTests(bigString, normalized);

        suite.Display(ResultColumns.All, suite.FindBest());
    }

    private static readonly Regex MultipleSpaces = 
        new Regex(@" {2,}", RegexOptions.Compiled);

    static string NormalizeWithRegex(string input)
    {
        return MultipleSpaces.Replace(input, " ");
    }

    // Guessing as the post doesn't specify what to use
    private static readonly char[] Whitespace =
        new char[] { ' ' };

    static string NormalizeWithSplitAndJoin(string input)
    {
        string[] split = input.Split
            (Whitespace, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
        return string.Join(" ", split);
    }
}

A few test runs:

c:\Users\Jon\Test>test 1000 50
============ Normalize ============
NormalizeWithSplitAndJoin  1159091 0:30.258 22.93
NormalizeWithRegex        26378882 0:30.025  1.00

c:\Users\Jon\Test>test 1000 5
============ Normalize ============
NormalizeWithSplitAndJoin  947540 0:30.013 1.07
NormalizeWithRegex        1003862 0:29.610 1.00


c:\Users\Jon\Test>test 1000 1001
============ Normalize ============
NormalizeWithSplitAndJoin  1156299 0:29.898 21.99
NormalizeWithRegex        23243802 0:27.335  1.00

Here the first number is the number of iterations, the second is the time taken, and the third is a scaled score with 1.0 being the best.

That shows that in at least some cases (including this one) a regular expression can outperform the Split/Join solution, sometimes by a very significant margin.

However, if you change to an "all whitespace" requirement, then Split/Join does appear to win. As is so often the case, the devil is in the detail...

Remove carriage return in Unix

There's a utility called dos2unix that exists on many systems, and can be easily installed on most.

Set a DateTime database field to "Now"

An alternative to GETDATE() is CURRENT_TIMESTAMP. Does the exact same thing.

How do you completely remove the button border in wpf?

Why don't you set both Background & BorderBrush by same brush

 <Style TargetType="{x:Type Button}" >
        <Setter Property="Background" Value="{StaticResource marginBackGround}"></Setter>
        <Setter Property="BorderBrush" Value="{StaticResource marginBackGround}"></Setter>            
 </Style>

<LinearGradientBrush  x:Key="marginBackGround" EndPoint=".5,1" StartPoint="0.5,0">
    <GradientStop Color="#EE82EE" Offset="0"/>
    <GradientStop Color="#7B30B6" Offset="0.5"/>
    <GradientStop Color="#510088" Offset="0.5"/>
    <GradientStop Color="#76209B" Offset="0.9"/>
    <GradientStop Color="#C750B9" Offset="1"/>
</LinearGradientBrush>

extract date only from given timestamp in oracle sql

Use the function cast() to convert from timestamp to date

select to_char(cast(sysdate as date),'DD-MM-YYYY') from dual;

For more info of function cast oracle11g http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28286/functions016.htm#SQLRF51256

shuffling/permutating a DataFrame in pandas

Sampling randomizes, so just sample the entire data frame.

df.sample(frac=1)

Function not defined javascript

There are a couple of things to check:

  • In FireBug, see if there are any loading errors that would indicate that your script is badly formatted and the functions do not get registered.
  • You can also try typing "proceedToSecond" into the FireBug console to see if the function gets defined
  • One thing you may try is removing the space around the @type attribute to the script tag: it should be <script type="text/javascript"> instead of <script type = "text/javascript">

Copy file(s) from one project to another using post build event...VS2010

xcopy "$(ProjectDir)Views\Home\Index.cshtml" "$(SolutionDir)MEFMVCPOC\Views\Home"

and if you want to copy entire folders:

xcopy /E /Y "$(ProjectDir)Views" "$(SolutionDir)MEFMVCPOC\Views"

Update: here's the working version

xcopy "$(ProjectDir)Views\ModuleAHome\Index.cshtml" "$(SolutionDir)MEFMVCPOC\Views\ModuleAHome\" /Y /I

Here are some commonly used switches with xcopy:

  • /I - treat as a directory if copying multiple files.
  • /Q - Do not display the files being copied.
  • /S - Copy subdirectories unless empty.
  • /E - Copy empty subdirectories.
  • /Y - Do not prompt for overwrite of existing files.
  • /R - Overwrite read-only files.

Set custom HTML5 required field validation message

This works well for me:

jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
    var intputElements = document.getElementsByTagName("INPUT");
    for (var i = 0; i < intputElements.length; i++) {
        intputElements[i].oninvalid = function (e) {
            e.target.setCustomValidity("");
            if (!e.target.validity.valid) {
                if (e.target.name == "email") {
                    e.target.setCustomValidity("Please enter a valid email address.");
                } else {
                    e.target.setCustomValidity("Please enter a password.");
                }
            }
        }
    }
});

and the form I'm using it with (truncated):

<form id="welcome-popup-form" action="authentication" method="POST">
    <input type="hidden" name="signup" value="1">
    <input type="email" name="email" id="welcome-email" placeholder="Email" required></div>
    <input type="password" name="passwd" id="welcome-passwd" placeholder="Password" required>
    <input type="submit" id="submitSignup" name="signup" value="SUBMIT" />
</form>

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Regular expression to match URLs in Java

Try the following regex string instead. Your test was probably done in a case-sensitive manner. I have added the lowercase alphas as well as a proper string beginning placeholder.

String regex = "^(https?|ftp|file)://[-a-zA-Z0-9+&@#/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-a-zA-Z0-9+&@#/%=~_|]";

This works too:

String regex = "\\b(https?|ftp|file)://[-a-zA-Z0-9+&@#/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-a-zA-Z0-9+&@#/%=~_|]";

Note:

String regex = "<\\b(https?|ftp|file)://[-a-zA-Z0-9+&@#/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-a-zA-Z0-9+&@#/%=~_|]>"; // matches <http://google.com>

String regex = "<^(https?|ftp|file)://[-a-zA-Z0-9+&@#/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-a-zA-Z0-9+&@#/%=~_|]>"; // does not match <http://google.com>

Create a 3D matrix

If you want to define a 3D matrix containing all zeros, you write

A = zeros(8,4,20);

All ones uses ones, all NaN's uses NaN, all false uses false instead of zeros.

If you have an existing 2D matrix, you can assign an element in the "3rd dimension" and the matrix is augmented to contain the new element. All other new matrix elements that have to be added to do that are set to zero.

For example

B = magic(3); %# creates a 3x3 magic square
B(2,1,2) = 1; %# and you have a 3x3x2 array

jQuery hover and class selector

test.html

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
    <head>
        <title>jQuery Test</title>
        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="test.css" />
        <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="test.js"></script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id="menu">
            <div class="menuItem"><a href=#>Bla</a></div>
            <div class="menuItem"><a href=#>Bla</a></div>
            <div class="menuItem"><a href=#>Bla</a></div>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

test.css

.menuItem
{

    display: inline;
    height: 30px;
    width: 100px;
    background-color: #000;

}

test.js

$( function(){

    $('.menuItem').hover( function(){

        $(this).css('background-color', '#F00');

    },
    function(){

        $(this).css('background-color', '#000');

    });

});

Works :-)

ImportError: No Module named simplejson

On Ubuntu/Debian, you can install it with apt-get install python-simplejson

Copy data into another table

INSERT INTO table1 (col1, col2, col3)
SELECT column1, column2, column3
FROM table2                                        

Using the passwd command from within a shell script

For me on Raspbian it works only this way (old password added):

#!/usr/bin/env bash

username="pi"
password="Szevasz123"
new_ps="Szevasz1234"

passwd ${username} << EOD
${password}
${new_ps}
${new_ps}
EOD

Java generics - why is "extends T" allowed but not "implements T"?

The answer is in here :

To declare a bounded type parameter, list the type parameter's name, followed by the extends keyword, followed by its upper bound […]. Note that, in this context, extends is used in a general sense to mean either extends (as in classes) or implements (as in interfaces).

So there you have it, it's a bit confusing, and Oracle knows it.

How to run JUnit test cases from the command line

Personally I would use the Maven surefire JUnit runner to do that.

How to set x axis values in matplotlib python?

The scaling on your example figure is a bit strange but you can force it by plotting the index of each x-value and then setting the ticks to the data points:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
x = [0.00001,0.001,0.01,0.1,0.5,1,5]
# create an index for each tick position
xi = list(range(len(x)))
y = [0.945,0.885,0.893,0.9,0.996,1.25,1.19]
plt.ylim(0.8,1.4)
# plot the index for the x-values
plt.plot(xi, y, marker='o', linestyle='--', color='r', label='Square') 
plt.xlabel('x')
plt.ylabel('y') 
plt.xticks(xi, x)
plt.title('compare')
plt.legend() 
plt.show()

What is the best way to use a HashMap in C++?

For those of us trying to figure out how to hash our own classes whilst still using the standard template, there is a simple solution:

  1. In your class you need to define an equality operator overload ==. If you don't know how to do this, GeeksforGeeks has a great tutorial https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/operator-overloading-c/

  2. Under the standard namespace, declare a template struct called hash with your classname as the type (see below). I found a great blogpost that also shows an example of calculating hashes using XOR and bitshifting, but that's outside the scope of this question, but it also includes detailed instructions on how to accomplish using hash functions as well https://prateekvjoshi.com/2014/06/05/using-hash-function-in-c-for-user-defined-classes/

namespace std {

  template<>
  struct hash<my_type> {
    size_t operator()(const my_type& k) {
      // Do your hash function here
      ...
    }
  };

}
  1. So then to implement a hashtable using your new hash function, you just have to create a std::map or std::unordered_map just like you would normally do and use my_type as the key, the standard library will automatically use the hash function you defined before (in step 2) to hash your keys.
#include <unordered_map>

int main() {
  std::unordered_map<my_type, other_type> my_map;
}

How can I find an element by CSS class with XPath?

I'm just providing this as an answer, as Tomalak provided as a comment to meder's answer a long time ago

//div[contains(concat(' ', @class, ' '), ' Test ')]

store return json value in input hidden field

It looks like the return value is in an array? That's somewhat strange... and also be aware that certain browsers will allow that to be parsed from a cross-domain request (which isn't true when you have a top-level JSON object).

Anyway, if that is an array wrapper, you'll want something like this:

$('#my-hidden-field').val(theObject[0].id);

You can later retrieve it through a simple .val() call on the same field. This honestly looks kind of strange though. The hidden field won't persist across page requests, so why don't you just keep it in your own (pseudo-namespaced) value bucket? E.g.,

$MyNamespace = $MyNamespace || {};
$MyNamespace.myKey = theObject;

This will make it available to you from anywhere, without any hacky input field management. It's also a lot more efficient than doing DOM modification for simple value storage.

In Java, how do I parse XML as a String instead of a file?

I'm using this method

public Document parseXmlFromString(String xmlString){
    DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
    InputStream inputStream = new    ByteArrayInputStream(xmlString.getBytes());
    org.w3c.dom.Document document = builder.parse(inputStream);
    return document;
}

Usage of @see in JavaDoc?

The @see tag is a bit different than the @link tag,
limited in some ways and more flexible in others:

different JavaDoc link types Different JavaDoc link types

  1. Displays the member name for better learning, and is refactorable; the name will update when renaming by refactor
  2. Refactorable and customizable; your text is displayed instead of the member name
  3. Displays name, refactorable
  4. Refactorable, customizable
  5. A rather mediocre combination that is:
  • Refactorable, customizable, and stays in the See Also section
  • Displays nicely in the Eclipse hover
  • Displays the link tag and its formatting when generated
  • When using multiple @see items, commas in the description make the output confusing
  1. Completely illegal; causes unexpected content and illegal character errors in the generator

See the results below:

JavaDoc generation results with different link types JavaDoc generation results with different link types

Best regards.

String Padding in C

#include <iostream>
#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<string.h>

using namespace std;

int main() {
    // your code goes here
    int pi_length=11; //Total length 
    char *str1;
    const char *padding="0000000000000000000000000000000000000000";
    const char *myString="Monkey";

    int padLen = pi_length - strlen(myString); //length of padding to apply

    if(padLen < 0) padLen = 0;   

    str1= (char *)malloc(100*sizeof(char));

    sprintf(str1,"%*.*s%s", padLen, padLen, padding, myString);

    printf("%s --> %d \n",str1,strlen(str1));

    return 0;
}

how to compare two elements in jquery

a.is(b)

and to check if they are not equal use

!a.is(b)

as for

$b = $('#a')
....
$('#a')[0] == $b[0] // not always true

maybe class added to the element or removed from it after the first assignment

I want to execute shell commands from Maven's pom.xml

Thanks! Tomer Ben David. it helped me. as I am doing pip install in demo folder as you mentioned npm install

<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
            <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.3.2</version>
            <executions>
              <execution>
                <goals>
                  <goal>exec</goal>
                </goals>
              </execution>
            </executions>
            <configuration>
              <executable>pip</executable>
              <arguments><argument>install</argument></arguments>                            
             <workingDirectory>${project.build.directory}/Demo</workingDirectory>
            </configuration>

Android - implementing startForeground for a service?

Add given code Service class for "OS >= Build.VERSION_CODES.O" in onCreate()

@Override
public void onCreate(){
    super.onCreate();

     .................................
     .................................

    //For creating the Foreground Service
    NotificationManager notificationManager = (NotificationManager) getSystemService(NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
    String channelId = Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.O ? getNotificationChannel(notificationManager) : "";
    NotificationCompat.Builder notificationBuilder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this, channelId);
    Notification notification = notificationBuilder.setOngoing(true)
            .setSmallIcon(R.mipmap.ic_launcher)
           // .setPriority(PRIORITY_MIN)
            .setCategory(NotificationCompat.CATEGORY_SERVICE)
            .build();

    startForeground(110, notification);
}



@RequiresApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.O)
private String getNotificationChannel(NotificationManager notificationManager){
    String channelId = "channelid";
    String channelName = getResources().getString(R.string.app_name);
    NotificationChannel channel = new NotificationChannel(channelId, channelName, NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_HIGH);
    channel.setImportance(NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_NONE);
    channel.setLockscreenVisibility(Notification.VISIBILITY_PRIVATE);
    notificationManager.createNotificationChannel(channel);
    return channelId;
}

Add this permission in manifest file:

 <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE" />

How to add,set and get Header in request of HttpClient?

You can test-drive this code exactly as is using the public GitHub API (don't go over the request limit):

public class App {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

        CloseableHttpClient client = HttpClients.custom().build();

        // (1) Use the new Builder API (from v4.3)
        HttpUriRequest request = RequestBuilder.get()
                .setUri("https://api.github.com")
                // (2) Use the included enum
                .setHeader(HttpHeaders.CONTENT_TYPE, "application/json")
                // (3) Or your own
                .setHeader("Your own very special header", "value")
                .build();

        CloseableHttpResponse response = client.execute(request);

        // (4) How to read all headers with Java8
        List<Header> httpHeaders = Arrays.asList(response.getAllHeaders());
        httpHeaders.stream().forEach(System.out::println);

        // close client and response
    }
}

Is it possible to set UIView border properties from interface builder?

If you want to save time, just use two UIViews on top of each other, the one at the back being the border color, and the one in front smaller, giving the bordered effect. I don't think this is an elegant solution either, but if Apple cared a little more then you shouldn't have to do this.

Routing for custom ASP.NET MVC 404 Error page

Try this in web.config to replace IIS error pages. This is the best solution I guess, and it sends out the correct status code too.

<system.webServer>
  <httpErrors errorMode="Custom" existingResponse="Replace">
    <remove statusCode="404" subStatusCode="-1" />
    <remove statusCode="500" subStatusCode="-1" />
    <error statusCode="404" path="Error404.html" responseMode="File" />
    <error statusCode="500" path="Error.html" responseMode="File" />
  </httpErrors>
</system.webServer>

More info from Tipila - Use Custom Error Pages ASP.NET MVC

SQL Server copy all rows from one table into another i.e duplicate table

select * into x_history from your_table_here;
truncate table your_table_here;

Convert String to Type in C#

If you really want to get the type by name you may use the following:

System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies().SelectMany(x => x.GetTypes()).First(x => x.Name == "theassembly");

Note that you can improve the performance of this drastically the more information you have about the type you're trying to load.

Best way to format multiple 'or' conditions in an if statement (Java)

I use this kind of pattern often. It's very compact:

// Define a constant in your class. Use a HashSet for performance
private static final Set<Integer> values = new HashSet<Integer>(Arrays.asList(12, 16, 19));

// In your method:
if (values.contains(x)) {
    ...
}

A HashSet is used here to give good look-up performance - even very large hash sets are able to execute contains() extremely quickly.

If performance is not important, you can code the gist of it into one line:

if (Arrays.asList(12, 16, 19).contains(x))

but know that it will create a new ArrayList every time it executes.

Classes vs. Modules in VB.NET

It is acceptable to use Module. Module is not used as a replacement for Class. Module serves its own purpose. The purpose of Module is to use as a container for

  • extension methods,
  • variables that are not specific to any Class, or
  • variables that do not fit properly in any Class.

Module is not like a Class since you cannot

  • inherit from a Module,
  • implement an Interface with a Module,
  • nor create an instance of a Module.

Anything inside a Module can be directly accessed within the Module assembly without referring to the Module by its name. By default, the access level for a Module is Friend.

Toggle show/hide on click with jQuery

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js</script>        <script>
$(document).ready(function(){
  $("button").click(function(){
    $("p").toggle();
  });
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p>Welcome !!!</p>
<button>Toggle between hide() and show()</button>
</body>
</html>

Correct owner/group/permissions for Apache 2 site files/folders under Mac OS X?

On my 10.6 system:

vhosts folder:
 owner:root
 group:wheel
 permissions:755

vhost.conf files:
 owner:root
 group:wheel
 permissions:644

How to create a simple http proxy in node.js?

Here's a proxy server using request that handles redirects. Use it by hitting your proxy URL http://domain.com:3000/?url=[your_url]

var http = require('http');
var url = require('url');
var request = require('request');

http.createServer(onRequest).listen(3000);

function onRequest(req, res) {

    var queryData = url.parse(req.url, true).query;
    if (queryData.url) {
        request({
            url: queryData.url
        }).on('error', function(e) {
            res.end(e);
        }).pipe(res);
    }
    else {
        res.end("no url found");
    }
}

How to create range in Swift?

Xcode 8 beta 2 • Swift 3

let myString = "Hello World"
let myRange = myString.startIndex..<myString.index(myString.startIndex, offsetBy: 5)
let mySubString = myString.substring(with: myRange)   // Hello

Xcode 7 • Swift 2.0

let myString = "Hello World"
let myRange = Range<String.Index>(start: myString.startIndex, end: myString.startIndex.advancedBy(5))

let mySubString = myString.substringWithRange(myRange)   // Hello

or simply

let myString = "Hello World"
let myRange = myString.startIndex..<myString.startIndex.advancedBy(5)
let mySubString = myString.substringWithRange(myRange)   // Hello

HTML5 Canvas: Zooming

Building on the suggestion of using drawImage you could also combine this with scale function.

So before you draw the image scale the context to the zoom level you want:

ctx.scale(2, 2) // Doubles size of anything draw to canvas.

I've created a small example here http://jsfiddle.net/mBzVR/4/ that uses drawImage and scale to zoom in on mousedown and out on mouseup.

Increasing the timeout value in a WCF service

Different timeouts mean different things. When you're working on the client.. you're probably looking mostly at the SendTimeout - check this reference - wonderful and relevant explanation: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wcf/thread/84551e45-19a2-4d0d-bcc0-516a4041943d/

It says:

Brief summary of binding timeout knobs...

Client side:

SendTimeout is used to initialize the OperationTimeout, which governs the whole interaction for sending a message (including receiving a reply message in a request-reply case).  This timeout also applies when sending reply messages from a CallbackContract method.
OpenTimeout and CloseTimeout are used when opening and closing channels (when no explicit timeout value is passed).
ReceiveTimeout is not used.

Server side:

Send, Open, and Close Timeout same as on client (for Callbacks).
ReceiveTimeout is used by ServiceFramework layer to initialize the session-idle timeout.

Debian 8 (Live-CD) what is the standard login and password?

Although this is an old question, I had the same question when using the Standard console version. The answer can be found in the Debian Live manual under the section 10.1 Customizing the live user. It says:

It is also possible to change the default username "user" and the default password "live".

I tried the username user and password live and it did work. If you want to run commands as root you can preface each command with sudo

How do I call an Angular.js filter with multiple arguments?

If you want to call your filter inside ng-options the code will be as follows:

ng-options="productSize as ( productSize | sizeWithPrice: product )  for productSize in productSizes track by productSize.id"

where the filter is sizeWithPriceFilter and it has two parameters product and productSize

Connect to mysql in a docker container from the host

If your Docker MySQL host is running correctly you can connect to it from local machine, but you should specify host, port and protocol like this:

mysql -h localhost -P 3306 --protocol=tcp -u root

Change 3306 to port number you have forwarded from Docker container (in your case it will be 12345).

Because you are running MySQL inside Docker container, socket is not available and you need to connect through TCP. Setting "--protocol" in the mysql command will change that.

MySql ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

For security reason mysql -u root wont work untill you pass -p in command so try with below way

 mysql -u root -p[Enter]
 //enter your localhost password

Case Statement Equivalent in R

A case statement actually might not be the right approach here. If this is a factor, which is likely is, just set the levels of the factor appropriately.

Say you have a factor with the letters A to E, like this.

> a <- factor(rep(LETTERS[1:5],2))
> a
 [1] A B C D E A B C D E
Levels: A B C D E

To join levels B and C and name it BC, just change the names of those levels to BC.

> levels(a) <- c("A","BC","BC","D","E")
> a
 [1] A  BC BC D  E  A  BC BC D  E 
Levels: A BC D E

The result is as desired.

How to list all available Kafka brokers in a cluster?

On MacOS, can try:

brew tap let-us-go/zkcli
brew install zkcli

zkcli ls /brokers/ids
zkcli get /brokers/ids/1

exception.getMessage() output with class name

My guess is that you've got something in method1 which wraps one exception in another, and uses the toString() of the nested exception as the message of the wrapper. I suggest you take a copy of your project, and remove as much as you can while keeping the problem, until you've got a short but complete program which demonstrates it - at which point either it'll be clear what's going on, or we'll be in a better position to help fix it.

Here's a short but complete program which demonstrates RuntimeException.getMessage() behaving correctly:

public class Test {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            failingMethod();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("Error: " + e.getMessage());
        }
    }       

    private static void failingMethod() {
        throw new RuntimeException("Just the message");
    }
}

Output:

Error: Just the message

Can the Unix list command 'ls' output numerical chmod permissions?

you can just use GNU find.

find . -printf "%m:%f\n"

Get sum of MySQL column in PHP

MySQL 5.6 (LAMP) . column_value is the column you want to add up. table_name is the table.

Method #1

$qry = "SELECT column_value AS count
        FROM table_name ";

$res = $db->query($qry);

$total = 0;
while ($rec = $db->fetchAssoc($res)) {
    $total += $rec['count'];
}
echo "Total: " . $total . "\n";

Method #2

$qry = "SELECT SUM(column_value) AS count 
        FROM table_name ";

$res = $db->query($qry);

$total = 0;
$rec = $db->fetchAssoc($res);
$total = $rec['count'];

echo "Total: " . $total . "\n";

Method #3 -SQLi

$qry = "SELECT SUM(column_value) AS count 
        FROM table_name ";

$res = $conn->query($sql);

$total = 0;
$rec = row = $res->fetch_assoc();
$total = $rec['count'];

echo "Total: " . $total . "\n";

Method #4: Depreciated (don't use)

$res = mysql_query('SELECT SUM(column_value) AS count FROM table_name'); 
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res); 
$sum = $row['count'];

Order discrete x scale by frequency/value

The best way for me was using vector with categories in order I need as limits parameter to scale_x_discrete. I think it is pretty simple and straightforward solution.

ggplot(mtcars, aes(factor(cyl))) + 
  geom_bar() + 
  scale_x_discrete(limits=c(8,4,6))

enter image description here

Handler "ExtensionlessUrlHandler-Integrated-4.0" has a bad module "ManagedPipelineHandler" in its module list

Make sure that you have set your application-site version from v2.0 to v4.0 in IIS Manager:

Application Pools > Your Application > Advanced Settings > .NET Framework Version

After that, install your ASP.NET.

For 32-Bit OS (Windows):

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe -i

For 64-Bit OS (Windows):

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe -i

Restart your application-site in IIS Manager and enjoy.

Can't import Numpy in Python

I was trying to import numpy in python 3.2.1 on windows 7.

Followed suggestions in above answer for numpy-1.6.1.zip as below after unzipping it

cd numpy-1.6
python setup.py install

but got an error with a statement as below

unable to find vcvarsall.bat

For this error I found a related question here which suggested installing mingW. MingW was taking some time to install.

In the meanwhile tried to install numpy 1.6 again using the direct windows installer available at this link the file name is "numpy-1.6.1-win32-superpack-python3.2.exe"

Installation went smoothly and now I am able to import numpy without using mingW.

Long story short try using windows installer for numpy, if one is available.

How do I use variables in Oracle SQL Developer?

Try this it will work, it's better create a procedure, if procedure is not possible you can use this script.

with param AS(
SELECT 1234 empid
FROM dual)
 SELECT *
  FROM Employees, param
  WHERE EmployeeID = param.empid;
END;

Access And/Or exclusions

Seeing that it appears you are running using the SQL syntax, try with the correct wild card.

SELECT * FROM someTable WHERE (someTable.Field NOT LIKE '%RISK%') AND (someTable.Field NOT LIKE '%Blah%') AND someTable.SomeOtherField <> 4; 

Format an Excel column (or cell) as Text in C#?

Use your WorkSheet.Columns.NumberFormat, and set it to string "@", here is the sample:

Excel._Worksheet workSheet = (Excel._Worksheet)_Excel.Worksheets.Add();
//set columns format to text format
workSheet.Columns.NumberFormat = "@";

Note: this text format will apply for your hole excel sheet!

If you want a particular column to apply the text format, for example, the first column, you can do this:

workSheet.Columns[0].NumberFormat = "@";

or this will apply the specified range of woorkSheet to text format:

workSheet.get_Range("A1", "D1").NumberFormat = "@";

difference between System.out.println() and System.err.println()

In Java System.out.println() will print to the standard out of the system you are using. On the other hand, System.err.println() will print to the standard error.

If you are using a simple Java console application, both outputs will be the same (the command line or console) but you can reconfigure the streams so that for example, System.out still prints to the console but System.err writes to a file.

Also, IDEs like Eclipse show System.err in red text and System.out in black text by default.

Changing font size and direction of axes text in ggplot2

Adding to previous solutions, you can also specify the font size relative to the base_size included in themes such as theme_bw() (where base_size is 11) using the rel() function.

For example:

ggplot(mtcars, aes(disp, mpg)) +
  geom_point() +
  theme_bw() +
  theme(axis.text.x=element_text(size=rel(0.5), angle=90))

how to instanceof List<MyType>?

if(!myList.isEmpty() && myList.get(0) instanceof MyType){
    // MyType object
}

Why shouldn't I use "Hungarian Notation"?

Hungarian Notation can be useful in languages without compile-time type checking, as it would allow developer to quickly remind herself of how the particular variable is used. It does nothing for performance or behavior. It is supposed to improve code readability and is mostly a matter a taste and coding style. For this very reason it is criticized by many developers -- not everybody has the same wiring in the brain.

For the compile-time type-checking languages it is mostly useless -- scrolling up a few lines should reveal the declaration and thus type. If you global variables or your code block spans for much more than one screen, you have grave design and reusability issues. Thus one of the criticisms is that Hungarian Notation allows developers to have bad design and easily get away with it. This is probably one of the reasons for hatered.

On the other hand, there can be cases where even compile-time type-checking languages would benefit from Hungarian Notation -- void pointers or HANDLE's in win32 API. These obfuscates the actual data type, and there might be a merit to use Hungarian Notation there. Yet, if one can know the type of data at build time, why not to use the appropriate data type.

In general, there are no hard reasons not to use Hungarian Notation. It is a matter of likes, policies, and coding style.

Angular 2 Cannot find control with unspecified name attribute on formArrays

In my case I solved the issue by putting the name of the formControl in double and sinlge quotes so that it is interpreted as a string:

[formControlName]="'familyName'"

similar to below:

formControlName="familyName"

Is it possible to use "return" in stored procedure?

Use FUNCTION:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test_function
RETURN VARCHAR2 IS

BEGIN
  RETURN 'This is being returned from a function';
END test_function;

Where is GACUTIL for .net Framework 4.0 in windows 7?

If you've got VS2010 installed, you ought to find a .NET 4.0 gacutil at

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools

The 7.0A Windows SDK should have been installed alongside VS2010 - 6.0A will have been installed with VS2008, and hence won't have .NET 4.0 support.

Matplotlib discrete colorbar

You could follow this example:

#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
Use a pcolor or imshow with a custom colormap to make a contour plot.

Since this example was initially written, a proper contour routine was
added to matplotlib - see contour_demo.py and
http://matplotlib.sf.net/matplotlib.pylab.html#-contour.
"""

from pylab import *


delta = 0.01
x = arange(-3.0, 3.0, delta)
y = arange(-3.0, 3.0, delta)
X,Y = meshgrid(x, y)
Z1 = bivariate_normal(X, Y, 1.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0)
Z2 = bivariate_normal(X, Y, 1.5, 0.5, 1, 1)
Z = Z2 - Z1 # difference of Gaussians

cmap = cm.get_cmap('PiYG', 11)    # 11 discrete colors

im = imshow(Z, cmap=cmap, interpolation='bilinear',
            vmax=abs(Z).max(), vmin=-abs(Z).max())
axis('off')
colorbar()

show()

which produces the following image:

poormans_contour

Number format in excel: Showing % value without multiplying with 100

Pretty easy to do this across multiple cells, without having to add '%' to each individually.

Select all the cells you want to change to percent, right Click, then format Cells, choose Custom. Type in 0.0\%.

Mixed mode assembly is built against version ‘v2.0.50727' of the runtime

Try to use another config file (not the one from your project) and RESTART Visual Studio:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TestWindow\vstest.executionengine.x86.exe.config
(32-bit)

or

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TestWindow\vstest.executionengine.exe.config
(64-bit)

CSS ''background-color" attribute not working on checkbox inside <div>

We can provide background color from the css file. Try this one,

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <style>
            input[type="checkbox"] {
                width: 25px;
                height: 25px;
                background: gray;
                -webkit-appearance: none;
                -moz-appearance: none;
                appearance: none;
                border: none;
                outline: none;
                position: relative;
                left: -5px;
                top: -5px;
                cursor: pointer;
            }
            input[type="checkbox"]:checked {
                background: blue;
            }
            .checkbox-container {
                position: absolute;
                display: inline-block;
                margin: 20px;
                width: 25px;
                height: 25px;
                overflow: hidden;
            }
        </style>    
    </head>
    <body>
        <div class="checkbox-container">
            <input type="checkbox" />
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

Javascript to check whether a checkbox is being checked or unchecked

Also make sure you test it both in firefox and IE. There are some nasty bugs with JS manipulated checkboxes.

How to solve WAMP and Skype conflict on Windows 7?

Detail blog to fix this issue is : http://goo.gl/JXWqfJ

You can solve this problem by following two ways:
A) Start your WAMP befor you login to skype. So that WAMP will take over the the port and there will be no conflict with the port number. And you are able to use Skype as well as WAMP.
But this is not the permanent solution for your problem. Whenever you want to start WAMP you need to signout Skype first and than only you are able to start WAMP. Which is really i don’t like.

B) Second option is to change the port of Skype itself, so that it will not conflict with WAMP. Following screen/steps will help you to solve this problem:
1) SignIn to Skype.
2) Got to the Tools -> options
3) Select the “Advanced” -> Connection
4) Unchecked “Use port 80 and 443 as alternatives for incoming connections” checkbox and click save.
5) Now Signout and SignIn again to skype. (this change will take affect only you relogin to skype)
Now every time you start WAMP will not conflict with skype.

Why do I need 'b' to encode a string with Base64?

base64 encoding takes 8-bit binary byte data and encodes it uses only the characters A-Z, a-z, 0-9, +, /* so it can be transmitted over channels that do not preserve all 8-bits of data, such as email.

Hence, it wants a string of 8-bit bytes. You create those in Python 3 with the b'' syntax.

If you remove the b, it becomes a string. A string is a sequence of Unicode characters. base64 has no idea what to do with Unicode data, it's not 8-bit. It's not really any bits, in fact. :-)

In your second example:

>>> encoded = base64.b64encode('data to be encoded')

All the characters fit neatly into the ASCII character set, and base64 encoding is therefore actually a bit pointless. You can convert it to ascii instead, with

>>> encoded = 'data to be encoded'.encode('ascii')

Or simpler:

>>> encoded = b'data to be encoded'

Which would be the same thing in this case.


* Most base64 flavours may also include a = at the end as padding. In addition, some base64 variants may use characters other than + and /. See the Variants summary table at Wikipedia for an overview.

Emulating a do-while loop in Bash

Two simple solutions:

  1. Execute your code once before the while loop

    actions() {
       check_if_file_present
       # Do other stuff
    }
    
    actions #1st execution
    while [ current_time <= $cutoff ]; do
       actions # Loop execution
    done
    
  2. Or:

    while : ; do
        actions
        [[ current_time <= $cutoff ]] || break
    done
    

Check if an element is present in an array

In lodash you can use _.includes (which also aliases to _.contains)

You can search the whole array:

_.includes([1, 2, 3], 1); // true

You can search the array from a starting index:

_.includes([1, 2, 3], 1, 1);  // false (begins search at index 1)

Search a string:

_.includes('pebbles', 'eb');  // true (string contains eb)

Also works for checking simple arrays of objects:

_.includes({ 'user': 'fred', 'age': 40 }, 'fred');    // true
_.includes({ 'user': 'fred', 'age': false }, false);  // true

One thing to note about the last case is it works for primitives like strings, numbers and booleans but cannot search through arrays or objects

_.includes({ 'user': 'fred', 'age': {} }, {});   // false
_.includes({ 'user': [1,2,3], 'age': {} }, 3);   // false

Meaning of "[: too many arguments" error from if [] (square brackets)

Just bumped into this post, by getting the same error, trying to test if two variables are both empty (or non-empty). That turns out to be a compound comparison - 7.3. Other Comparison Operators - Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide; and I thought I should note the following:

  • I used -e thinking it means "empty" at first; but that means "file exists" - use -z for testing empty variable (string)
  • String variables need to be quoted
  • For compound logical AND comparison, either:
    • use two tests and && them: [ ... ] && [ ... ]
    • or use the -a operator in a single test: [ ... -a ... ]

Here is a working command (searching through all txt files in a directory, and dumping those that grep finds contain both of two words):

find /usr/share/doc -name '*.txt' | while read file; do \
  a1=$(grep -H "description" $file); \
  a2=$(grep -H "changes" $file); \
  [ ! -z "$a1" -a ! -z "$a2"  ] && echo -e "$a1 \n $a2" ; \
done

Edit 12 Aug 2013: related problem note:

Note that when checking string equality with classic test (single square bracket [), you MUST have a space between the "is equal" operator, which in this case is a single "equals" = sign (although two equals' signs == seem to be accepted as equality operator too). Thus, this fails (silently):

$ if [ "1"=="" ] ; then echo A; else echo B; fi 
A
$ if [ "1"="" ] ; then echo A; else echo B; fi 
A
$ if [ "1"="" ] && [ "1"="1" ] ; then echo A; else echo B; fi 
A
$ if [ "1"=="" ] && [ "1"=="1" ] ; then echo A; else echo B; fi 
A

... but add the space - and all looks good:

$ if [ "1" = "" ] ; then echo A; else echo B; fi 
B
$ if [ "1" == "" ] ; then echo A; else echo B; fi 
B
$ if [ "1" = "" -a "1" = "1" ] ; then echo A; else echo B; fi 
B
$ if [ "1" == "" -a "1" == "1" ] ; then echo A; else echo B; fi 
B

How to configure WAMP (localhost) to send email using Gmail?

As an alternative to PHPMailer, Pear's Mail and others you could use the Zend's library

  $config = array('auth' => 'login',
                   'ssl' => 'ssl',
                   'port'=> 465,
                   'username' => '[email protected]',
                   'password' => 'XXXXXXX');

 $transport = new Zend_Mail_Transport_Smtp('smtp.gmail.com', $config);
 $mail = new Zend_Mail();
 $mail->setBodyText('This is the text of the mail.');
 $mail->setFrom('[email protected]', 'Some Sender');
 $mail->addTo('[email protected]', 'Some Recipient');
 $mail->setSubject('TestSubj');
 $mail->send($transport); 

That is my set up in localhost server and I can able to see incoming mail to my mail box.

Angular2 material dialog has issues - Did you add it to @NgModule.entryComponents?

You need to add dynamically created components to entryComponents inside your @NgModule

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent,
    LoginComponent,
    DashboardComponent,
    HomeComponent,
    DialogResultExampleDialog        
  ],
  entryComponents: [DialogResultExampleDialog]

Note: In some cases entryComponents under lazy loaded modules will not work, as a workaround put them in your app.module (root)

How to update std::map after using the find method?

I would use the operator[].

map <char, int> m1;

m1['G'] ++;  // If the element 'G' does not exist then it is created and 
             // initialized to zero. A reference to the internal value
             // is returned. so that the ++ operator can be applied.

// If 'G' did not exist it now exist and is 1.
// If 'G' had a value of 'n' it now has a value of 'n+1'

So using this technique it becomes really easy to read all the character from a stream and count them:

map <char, int>                m1;
std::ifstream                  file("Plop");
std::istreambuf_iterator<char> end;

for(std::istreambuf_iterator<char> loop(file); loop != end; ++loop)
{
    ++m1[*loop]; // prefer prefix increment out of habbit
}

recyclerview No adapter attached; skipping layout

I had this error, and I tried to fix for a while until I found the solution.

I made a private method buildRecyclerView, and I called it twice, first on onCreateView and then after my callback (in which I fetch data from an API). This is my method buildRecyclerView in my Fragment:

private void buildRecyclerView(View v) {
        mRecyclerView = v.findViewById(R.id.recycler_view_loan);
        mLayoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(getActivity());
        ((LinearLayoutManager) mLayoutManager).setOrientation(LinearLayoutManager.VERTICAL);
        mRecyclerView.setLayoutManager(mLayoutManager);
        mAdapter = new LoanAdapter(mExampleList);
        mRecyclerView.setLayoutManager(mLayoutManager);
        mRecyclerView.setAdapter(mAdapter);
}

Besides, I have to modify the method get-Item-Count in my adapter, because On on-Create-View the list is null and it through an error. So, my get-Item-Count is the following:

@Override
    public int getItemCount() {
        try {
            return mLoanList.size();
        } catch (Exception ex){return 0;}

    }

Font Awesome icon inside text input element

I found the easiest way using bootstrap 4.

<div class="input-group mb-3">
    <div class="input-group-prepend">
    <span class="input-group-text"><i class="fa fa-user"></i></span></div>
    <input type="text"/>
</div>

How to change port number in vue-cli project

Best way is to update the serve script command in your package.json file. Just append --port 3000 like so:

"scripts": {
  "serve": "vue-cli-service serve --port 3000",
  "build": "vue-cli-service build",
  "inspect": "vue-cli-service inspect",
  "lint": "vue-cli-service lint"
},

SQL Greater than, Equal to AND Less Than

declare @starttime datetime = '2012-03-07 22:58:00'

SELECT BookingId, StartTime
FROM Booking
WHERE ABS( DATEDIFF( minute, StartTime, @starttime ) ) <= 60

The property 'value' does not exist on value of type 'HTMLElement'

This work for me:

let inputValue = (swal.getPopup().querySelector('#inputValue ')as HTMLInputElement).value

Is it possible to run .APK/Android apps on iPad/iPhone devices?

There is another option not mentioned previously:

  • Pieceable Viewer has unfortunately stopped its service at December 31, 2012 but open-sourced its software. You need to compile your iOS application for the emulator and Pieceable's software will embed it in a webpage which hosts the application. This webpage can be used to run the iOS application. See Pieceable's for more details.

ImageView in android XML layout with layout_height="wrap_content" has padding top & bottom

I had a simular issue and resolved it using android:adjustViewBounds="true" on the ImageView.

<ImageView
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:adjustViewBounds="true"
    android:contentDescription="@string/banner_alt"
    android:src="@drawable/banner_portrait" />

How do I open a Visual Studio project in design view?

My problem, it showed an error called "The class Form1 can be designed, but is not the first class in the file. Visual Studio requires that designers use the first class in the file. Move the class code so that it is the first class in the file and try loading the designer again. ". So I moved the Form class to the first one and it worked. :)

Creating a UICollectionView programmatically

You can handle custom cell in uicollection view see below code.enter image description here

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
  UINib *nib2 = [UINib nibWithNibName:@"YourCustomCell" bundle:nil];
    [CollectionVW registerNib:nib2 forCellWithReuseIdentifier:@"YourCustomCell"];


    UICollectionViewFlowLayout *flowLayout = [[UICollectionViewFlowLayout alloc] init];
    [flowLayout setItemSize:CGSizeMake(200, 230)];
    flowLayout.minimumInteritemSpacing = 0;
    [flowLayout setScrollDirection:UICollectionViewScrollDirectionVertical];
    [CollectionVW setCollectionViewLayout:flowLayout];

    [CollectionVW reloadData];
}

#pragma mark - COLLECTIONVIEW
#pragma mark Collection View CODE

-(NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInCollectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView
{
    return 1;
}

- (NSInteger)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView numberOfItemsInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
    return Array.count;
}

- (UICollectionViewCell *)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView cellForItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    static NSString *cellIdentifier = @"YourCustomCell";
    YourCustomCell *cell = (YourCustomCell *)[collectionView dequeueReusableCellWithReuseIdentifier:cellIdentifier forIndexPath:indexPath];

    cell.MainIMG.image=[UIImage imageNamed:[Array objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]];


    return cell;
}

-(void)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView didSelectItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
}

#pragma mark Collection view layout things
// Layout: Set cell size
- (CGSize)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView layout:(UICollectionViewLayout*)collectionViewLayout sizeForItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    CGSize mElementSize;
    mElementSize=CGSizeMake(kScreenWidth/3.4, 150);
    return mElementSize;
}


- (CGFloat)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView layout:(UICollectionViewLayout*)collectionViewLayout minimumLineSpacingForSectionAtIndex:(NSInteger)section
{
    return 5.0;
}

// Layout: Set Edges
- (UIEdgeInsets)collectionView: (UICollectionView *)collectionView layout:(UICollectionViewLayout*)collectionViewLayout insetForSectionAtIndex:(NSInteger)section
{
    if (isIphone5 || isiPhone4)
    {
        return UIEdgeInsetsMake(15,15,5,15);  // top, left, bottom, right
    }
    else if (isIphone6)
    {
        return UIEdgeInsetsMake(15,15,5,15);  // top, left, bottom, right
    }
    else if (isIphone6P)
    {
        return UIEdgeInsetsMake(15,15,5,15);  // top, left, bottom, right
    }

    return UIEdgeInsetsMake(15,15,5,15);  // top, left, bottom, right
}

Can I change the Android startActivity() transition animation?

For fadeIn and fadeOut, only add this after super.onCreate(savedInstanceState) in your new Activity class. You don't need to create something else (No XML, no anim folder, no extra function).

overridePendingTransition(R.anim.abc_fade_in,R.anim.abc_fade_out);

What is Bit Masking?

A mask defines which bits you want to keep, and which bits you want to clear.

Masking is the act of applying a mask to a value. This is accomplished by doing:

  • Bitwise ANDing in order to extract a subset of the bits in the value
  • Bitwise ORing in order to set a subset of the bits in the value
  • Bitwise XORing in order to toggle a subset of the bits in the value

Below is an example of extracting a subset of the bits in the value:

Mask:   00001111b
Value:  01010101b

Applying the mask to the value means that we want to clear the first (higher) 4 bits, and keep the last (lower) 4 bits. Thus we have extracted the lower 4 bits. The result is:

Mask:   00001111b
Value:  01010101b
Result: 00000101b

Masking is implemented using AND, so in C we get:

uint8_t stuff(...) {
  uint8_t mask = 0x0f;   // 00001111b
  uint8_t value = 0x55;  // 01010101b
  return mask & value;
}

Here is a fairly common use-case: Extracting individual bytes from a larger word. We define the high-order bits in the word as the first byte. We use two operators for this, &, and >> (shift right). This is how we can extract the four bytes from a 32-bit integer:

void more_stuff(uint32_t value) {             // Example value: 0x01020304
    uint32_t byte1 = (value >> 24);           // 0x01020304 >> 24 is 0x01 so
                                              // no masking is necessary
    uint32_t byte2 = (value >> 16) & 0xff;    // 0x01020304 >> 16 is 0x0102 so
                                              // we must mask to get 0x02
    uint32_t byte3 = (value >> 8)  & 0xff;    // 0x01020304 >> 8 is 0x010203 so
                                              // we must mask to get 0x03
    uint32_t byte4 = value & 0xff;            // here we only mask, no shifting
                                              // is necessary
    ...
}

Notice that you could switch the order of the operators above, you could first do the mask, then the shift. The results are the same, but now you would have to use a different mask:

uint32_t byte3 = (value & 0xff00) >> 8;

Should I initialize variable within constructor or outside constructor

One thing, regardless of how you initialize the field, use of the final qualifier, if possible, will ensure the visibility of the field's value in a multi-threaded environment.

Dropdown using javascript onchange

It does not work because your script in JSFiddle is running inside it's own scope (see the "OnLoad" drop down on the left?).

One way around this is to bind your event handler in javascript (where it should be):

document.getElementById('optionID').onchange = function () {
    document.getElementById("message").innerHTML = "Having a Baby!!";
};

Another way is to modify your code for the fiddle environment and explicitly declare your function as global so it can be found by your inline event handler:

window.changeMessage() {
    document.getElementById("message").innerHTML = "Having a Baby!!";
};

?

How do you properly determine the current script directory?

Would

import os
cwd = os.getcwd()

do what you want? I'm not sure what exactly you mean by the "current script directory". What would the expected output be for the use cases you gave?

Checking oracle sid and database name

The V$ views are mainly dynamic views of system metrics. They are used for performance tuning, session monitoring, etc. So access is limited to DBA users by default, which is why you're getting ORA-00942.

The easiest way of finding the database name is:

select * from global_name;

This view is granted to PUBLIC, so anybody can query it.

Git pushing to remote branch

git push --set-upstream origin <branch_name>_test

--set-upstream sets the association between your local branch and the remote. You only have to do it the first time. On subsequent pushes you can just do:

git push

If you don't have origin set yet, use:

git remote add origin <repository_url> then retry the above command.

Is there any pythonic way to combine two dicts (adding values for keys that appear in both)?

Additionally, please note a.update( b ) is 2x faster than a + b

from collections import Counter
a = Counter({'menu': 20, 'good': 15, 'happy': 10, 'bar': 5})
b = Counter({'menu': 1, 'good': 1, 'bar': 3})

%timeit a + b;
## 100000 loops, best of 3: 8.62 µs per loop
## The slowest run took 4.04 times longer than the fastest. This could mean that an intermediate result is being cached.

%timeit a.update(b)
## 100000 loops, best of 3: 4.51 µs per loop

Sorting using Comparator- Descending order (User defined classes)

package com.test;

import java.util.Arrays;

public class Person implements Comparable {

private int age;

private Person(int age) {
    super();
    this.age = age;
}

public int getAge() {
    return age;
}

public void setAge(int age) {
    this.age = age;
}

@Override
public int compareTo(Object o) {
    Person other = (Person)o;
    if (this == other)
        return 0;
    if (this.age < other.age) return 1;
    else if (this.age == other.age) return 0;
    else return -1;

}

public static void main(String[] args) {

    Person[] arr = new Person[4];
    arr[0] = new Person(50);
    arr[1] = new Person(20);
    arr[2] = new Person(10);
    arr[3] = new Person(90);

    Arrays.sort(arr);

    for (int i=0; i < arr.length; i++ ) {
        System.out.println(arr[i].age);
    }
}

}

Here is one way of doing it.

How should I load files into my Java application?

I haven't had a problem just using Unix-style path separators, even on Windows (though it is good practice to check File.separatorChar).

The technique of using ClassLoader.getResource() is best for read-only resources that are going to be loaded from JAR files. Sometimes, you can programmatically determine the application directory, which is useful for admin-configurable files or server applications. (Of course, user-editable files should be stored somewhere in the System.getProperty("user.home") directory.)

How to check if datetime happens to be Saturday or Sunday in SQL Server 2008

ok i figure out :

DECLARE @dayName VARCHAR(9), @weekenda VARCHAR(9), @free INT
SET @weekenda =DATENAME(dw,GETDATE())

IF (@weekenda='Saturday' OR @weekenda='Sunday')
SET @free=1
ELSE
SET @free=0

than i use : .......... OR free=1

Pod install is staying on "Setting up CocoaPods Master repo"

pod setup --verbose 

I am running the above mentioned command right now but as mentioned by @Joe Blow, it shows absolutely no information on the progress.

But if you open the Activity Monitor on Mac (Task Manager on Windows?), under the 'Network' tab you will see a process named 'git-remote-https' and it shows the size of 'Received Bytes' increasing. After downloading about 300MB it stopped and then I could see further progress in the Terminal window.

Property 'json' does not exist on type 'Object'

UPDATE: for rxjs > v5.5

As mentioned in some of the comments and other answers, by default the HttpClient deserializes the content of a response into an object. Some of its methods allow passing a generic type argument in order to duck-type the result. Thats why there is no json() method anymore.

import {throwError} from 'rxjs';
import {catchError, map} from 'rxjs/operators';

export interface Order {
  // Properties
}

interface ResponseOrders {
  results: Order[];
}

@Injectable()
export class FooService {
 ctor(private http: HttpClient){}

 fetch(startIndex: number, limit: number): Observable<Order[]> {
    let params = new HttpParams();
    params = params.set('startIndex',startIndex.toString()).set('limit',limit.toString());
    // base URL should not have ? in it at the en
    return this.http.get<ResponseOrders >(this.baseUrl,{
       params
    }).pipe(
       map(res => res.results || []),
       catchError(error => _throwError(error.message || error))
    );
} 

Notice that you could easily transform the returned Observable to a Promise by simply invoking toPromise().

ORIGINAL ANSWER:

In your case, you can

Assumming that your backend returns something like:

{results: [{},{}]}

in JSON format, where every {} is a serialized object, you would need the following:

// Somewhere in your src folder

export interface Order {
  // Properties
}

import { HttpClient, HttpParams } from '@angular/common/http';
import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Observable';
import 'rxjs/add/operator/catch';
import 'rxjs/add/operator/map';

import { Order } from 'somewhere_in_src';    

@Injectable()
export class FooService {
 ctor(private http: HttpClient){}

 fetch(startIndex: number, limit: number): Observable<Order[]> {
    let params = new HttpParams();
    params = params.set('startIndex',startIndex.toString()).set('limit',limit.toString());
    // base URL should not have ? in it at the en
    return this.http.get(this.baseUrl,{
       params
    })
    .map(res => res.results as Order[] || []); 
   // in case that the property results in the res POJO doesnt exist (res.results returns null) then return empty array ([])
  }
} 

I removed the catch section, as this could be archived through a HTTP interceptor. Check the docs. As example:

https://gist.github.com/jotatoledo/765c7f6d8a755613cafca97e83313b90

And to consume you just need to call it like:

// In some component for example
this.fooService.fetch(...).subscribe(data => ...); // data is Order[]

Sending email from Command-line via outlook without having to click send

You can use cURL and CRON to run .php files at set times.

Here's an example of what cURL needs to run the .php file:

curl http://localhost/myscript.php

Then setup the CRON job to run the above cURL:

nano -w /var/spool/cron/root
or
crontab -e

Followed by:

01 * * * * /usr/bin/curl http://www.yoursite.com/script.php

For more info about, check out this post: https://www.scalescale.com/tips/nginx/execute-php-scripts-automatically-using-cron-curl/

For more info about cURL: What is cURL in PHP?

For more info about CRON: http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/scheduling-tasks-with-cron-jobs--net-8800

Also, if you would like to learn about setting up a CRON job on your hosted server, just inquire with your host provider, and they may have a GUI for setting it up in the c-panel (such as http://godaddy.com, or http://1and1.com/ )

NOTE: Technically I believe you can setup a CRON job to run the .php file directly, but I'm not certain.

Best of luck with the automatic PHP running :-)

Angular: 'Cannot find a differ supporting object '[object Object]' of type 'object'. NgFor only supports binding to Iterables such as Arrays'

Remember to pipe Observables to async, like *ngFor item of items$ | async, where you are trying to *ngFor item of items$ where items$ is obviously an Observable because you notated it with the $ similar to items$: Observable<IValuePair>, and your assignment may be something like this.items$ = this.someDataService.someMethod<IValuePair>() which returns an Observable of type T.

Adding to this... I believe I have used notation like *ngFor item of (items$ | async)?.someProperty

plot a circle with pyplot

If you want to plot a set of circles, you might want to see this post or this gist(a bit newer). The post offered a function named circles.

The function circles works like scatter, but the sizes of plotted circles are in data unit.

Here's an example:

from pylab import *
figure(figsize=(8,8))
ax=subplot(aspect='equal')

#plot one circle (the biggest one on bottom-right)
circles(1, 0, 0.5, 'r', alpha=0.2, lw=5, edgecolor='b', transform=ax.transAxes)

#plot a set of circles (circles in diagonal)
a=arange(11)
out = circles(a, a, a*0.2, c=a, alpha=0.5, edgecolor='none')
colorbar(out)

xlim(0,10)
ylim(0,10)

enter image description here

Convert a String representation of a Dictionary to a dictionary?

string = "{'server1':'value','server2':'value'}"

#Now removing { and }
s = string.replace("{" ,"")
finalstring = s.replace("}" , "")

#Splitting the string based on , we get key value pairs
list = finalstring.split(",")

dictionary ={}
for i in list:
    #Get Key Value pairs separately to store in dictionary
    keyvalue = i.split(":")

    #Replacing the single quotes in the leading.
    m= keyvalue[0].strip('\'')
    m = m.replace("\"", "")
    dictionary[m] = keyvalue[1].strip('"\'')

print dictionary

What is System, out, println in System.out.println() in Java

System is a final class from the java.lang package.

out is a class variable of type PrintStream declared in the System class.

println is a method of the PrintStream class.

Go to "next" iteration in JavaScript forEach loop

You can simply return if you want to skip the current iteration.

Since you're in a function, if you return before doing anything else, then you have effectively skipped execution of the code below the return statement.

nginx - read custom header from upstream server

I was facing the same issue. I tried both $http_my_custom_header and $sent_http_my_custom_header but it did not work for me.

Although solved this issue by using $upstream_http_my_custom_header.

Hibernate-sequence doesn't exist

Just in case someone pulls their hair out with this problem like I did today, I couldn't resolve this error until I changed

spring.jpa.hibernate.dll-auto=create

to

spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto=create

Benefits of EBS vs. instance-store (and vice-versa)

EBS is like the virtual disk of a VM:

  • Durable, instances backed by EBS can be freely started and stopped (saving money)
  • Can be snapshotted at any point in time, to get point-in-time backups
  • AMIs can be created from EBS snapshots, so the EBS volume becomes a template for new systems

Instance storage is:

  • Local, so generally faster
  • Non-networked, in normal cases EBS I/O comes at the cost of network bandwidth (except for EBS-optimized instances, which have separate EBS bandwidth)
  • Has limited I/O per second IOPS. Even provisioned I/O maxes out at a few thousand IOPS
  • Fragile. As soon as the instance is stopped, you lose everything in instance storage.

Here's where to use each:

  • Use EBS for the backing OS partition and permanent storage (DB data, critical logs, application config)
  • Use instance storage for in-process data, noncritical logs, and transient application state. Example: external sort storage, tempfiles, etc.
  • Instance storage can also be used for performance-critical data, when there's replication between instances (NoSQL DBs, distributed queue/message systems, and DBs with replication)
  • Use S3 for data shared between systems: input dataset and processed results, or for static data used by each system when lauched.
  • Use AMIs for prebaked, launchable servers

ng-mouseover and leave to toggle item using mouse in angularjs

I'd probably change your example to look like this:

<ul ng-repeat="task in tasks">
  <li ng-mouseover="enableEdit(task)" ng-mouseleave="disableEdit(task)">{{task.name}}</li>
  <span ng-show="task.editable"><a>Edit</a></span>
</ul>

//js
$scope.enableEdit = function(item){
  item.editable = true;
};

$scope.disableEdit = function(item){
  item.editable = false;
};

I know it's a subtle difference, but makes the domain a little less bound to UI actions. Mentally it makes it easier to think about an item being editable rather than having been moused over.

Example jsFiddle.

A tool to convert MATLAB code to Python

There's also oct2py which can call .m files within python

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/oct2py

It requires GNU Octave, which is highly compatible with MATLAB.

https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/

Converting Epoch time into the datetime

If you have epoch in milliseconds a possible solution is convert to seconds:

import time
time.ctime(milliseconds/1000)

For more time functions: https://docs.python.org/3/library/time.html#functions

What is the string length of a GUID?

22 bytes, if you do it like this:

System.Guid guid = System.Guid.NewGuid();
byte[] guidbytes = guid.ToByteArray();
string uuid = Convert.ToBase64String(guidbytes).Trim('=');

ajax jquery simple get request

var settings = {
        "async": true,
        "crossDomain": true,
        "url": "<your URL Here>",
        "method": "GET",
        "headers": {
            "content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
        },
        "data": {
            "username": "[email protected]",
            "password": "12345678"
        }
    }

    $.ajax(settings).done(function (response) {
        console.log(response);
    });

Docker container will automatically stop after "docker run -d"

Maybe it is just me but on CentOS 7.3.1611 and Docker 1.12.6 but I ended up having to use a combination of the answers posted by @VonC & @Christopher Simon to get this working reliably. Nothing I did before this would stop the container from exiting after it ran CMD successfully. I am starting oracle-xe-11Gr2 and sshd.

Dockerfile

...
RUN ssh-keygen -t rsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key -N '' && systemctl enable sshd
...
CMD /etc/init.d/oracle-xe start && /sbin/sshd && tail -f /dev/null

Then adding -d -t and -i to run

docker run --shm-size=2g --name oracle-db -d -t -i -p 5022:22 -p 5080:8080 -p 1521:1521 centos-oracle:7.3.1611 

Finally after hours of bashing my head against the wall

ssh -v [email protected] -p 5022
...
[email protected]'s password: 
debug1: Authentication succeeded (password).

For whatever reason the above will exit after executing CMD if the tail -f is removed, or any of the -t -d -i options are omitted.

Convert file: Uri to File in Android

File imageToUpload = new File(new URI(androidURI.toString())); works if this is a file u have created in the external storage.

For example file:///storage/emulated/0/(some directory and file name)

How to check if an object is a certain type

Some more details in relation with the response from Cody Gray. As it took me some time to digest it I though it might be usefull to others.

First, some definitions:

  1. There are TypeNames, which are string representations of the type of an object, interface, etc. For example, Bar is a TypeName in Public Class Bar, or in Dim Foo as Bar. TypeNames could be seen as "labels" used in the code to tell the compiler which type definition to look for in a dictionary where all available types would be described.
  2. There are System.Type objects which contain a value. This value indicates a type; just like a String would take some text or an Int would take a number, except we are storing types instead of text or numbers. Type objects contain the type definitions, as well as its corresponding TypeName.

Second, the theory:

  1. Foo.GetType() returns a Type object which contains the type for the variable Foo. In other words, it tells you what Foo is an instance of.
  2. GetType(Bar) returns a Type object which contains the type for the TypeName Bar.
  3. In some instances, the type an object has been Cast to is different from the type an object was first instantiated from. In the following example, MyObj is an Integer cast into an Object:

    Dim MyVal As Integer = 42 Dim MyObj As Object = CType(MyVal, Object)

So, is MyObj of type Object or of type Integer? MyObj.GetType() will tell you it is an Integer.

  1. But here comes the Type Of Foo Is Bar feature, which allows you to ascertain a variable Foo is compatible with a TypeName Bar. Type Of MyObj Is Integer and Type Of MyObj Is Object will both return True. For most cases, TypeOf will indicate a variable is compatible with a TypeName if the variable is of that Type or a Type that derives from it. More info here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/language-reference/operators/typeof-operator#remarks

The test below illustrate quite well the behaviour and usage of each of the mentionned keywords and properties.

Public Sub TestMethod1()

    Dim MyValInt As Integer = 42
    Dim MyValDble As Double = CType(MyValInt, Double)
    Dim MyObj As Object = CType(MyValDble, Object)

    Debug.Print(MyValInt.GetType.ToString) 'Returns System.Int32
    Debug.Print(MyValDble.GetType.ToString) 'Returns System.Double
    Debug.Print(MyObj.GetType.ToString) 'Returns System.Double

    Debug.Print(MyValInt.GetType.GetType.ToString) 'Returns System.RuntimeType
    Debug.Print(MyValDble.GetType.GetType.ToString) 'Returns System.RuntimeType
    Debug.Print(MyObj.GetType.GetType.ToString) 'Returns System.RuntimeType

    Debug.Print(GetType(Integer).GetType.ToString) 'Returns System.RuntimeType
    Debug.Print(GetType(Double).GetType.ToString) 'Returns System.RuntimeType
    Debug.Print(GetType(Object).GetType.ToString) 'Returns System.RuntimeType

    Debug.Print(MyValInt.GetType = GetType(Integer)) '# Returns True
    Debug.Print(MyValInt.GetType = GetType(Double)) 'Returns False
    Debug.Print(MyValInt.GetType = GetType(Object)) 'Returns False

    Debug.Print(MyValDble.GetType = GetType(Integer)) 'Returns False
    Debug.Print(MyValDble.GetType = GetType(Double)) '# Returns True
    Debug.Print(MyValDble.GetType = GetType(Object)) 'Returns False

    Debug.Print(MyObj.GetType = GetType(Integer)) 'Returns False
    Debug.Print(MyObj.GetType = GetType(Double)) '# Returns True
    Debug.Print(MyObj.GetType = GetType(Object)) 'Returns False

    Debug.Print(TypeOf MyObj Is Integer) 'Returns False
    Debug.Print(TypeOf MyObj Is Double) '# Returns True
    Debug.Print(TypeOf MyObj Is Object) '# Returns True


End Sub

EDIT

You can also use Information.TypeName(Object) to get the TypeName of a given object. For example,

Dim Foo as Bar
Dim Result as String
Result = TypeName(Foo)
Debug.Print(Result) 'Will display "Bar"

Cleaning up old remote git branches

Here is bash script that can do it for you. It's modified version of http://snippets.freerobby.com/post/491644841/remove-merged-branches-in-git script. My modification enables it to support different remote locations.

#!/bin/bash

current_branch=$(git branch --no-color 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/\1/')
if [ "$current_branch" != "master" ]; then
  echo "WARNING: You are on branch $current_branch, NOT master."
fi
echo -e "Fetching merged branches...\n"

git remote update --prune
remote_branches=$(git branch -r --merged | grep -v '/master$' | grep -v "/$current_branch$")
local_branches=$(git branch --merged | grep -v 'master$' | grep -v "$current_branch$")
if [ -z "$remote_branches" ] && [ -z "$local_branches" ]; then
  echo "No existing branches have been merged into $current_branch."
else
  echo "This will remove the following branches:"
  if [ -n "$remote_branches" ]; then
echo "$remote_branches"
  fi
  if [ -n "$local_branches" ]; then
echo "$local_branches"
  fi
  read -p "Continue? (y/n): " -n 1 choice
  echo
  if [ "$choice" == "y" ] || [ "$choice" == "Y" ]; then
    remotes=`echo "$remote_branches" | sed 's/\(.*\)\/\(.*\)/\1/g' | sort -u`
# Remove remote branches
for remote in $remotes
do
        branches=`echo "$remote_branches" | grep "$remote/" | sed 's/\(.*\)\/\(.*\)/:\2 /g' | tr -d '\n'`
        git push $remote $branches 
done

# Remove local branches
git branch -d `git branch --merged | grep -v 'master$' | grep -v "$current_branch$" | sed 's/origin\///g' | tr -d '\n'`
  else
echo "No branches removed."
  fi
fi

Apache Server (xampp) doesn't run on Windows 10 (Port 80)

With Windows 10 IIS runs on Port 80 by default which can be changed:

Run appwiz.cpl use Turn Windows features on or off and install the IIS Manager Console.

Turn Windows features on or off -> Internet Information Services -> Web Management Tools -> IIS Management Console

Run InetMgr.exe and go to "Connections -> Sites" and open with right-mouse click the context menu on the default entry "Default Website". In Context Menu select "Bindings" to open the Server address and port configuration.

"Connections -> Sites" -> "Default Website Bindings"

Server address and port configuration

Chaning Default Port to 8080

https://technet.microsoft.com/library/hh831681.aspx#Site_Bingings

How can you run a command in bash over and over until success?

while [ -n $(passwd) ]; do
        echo "Try again";
done;

How do you check what version of SQL Server for a database using TSQL?

Try

SELECT @@MICROSOFTVERSION / 0x01000000 AS MajorVersionNumber

For more information see: Querying for version/edition info

What is JSON and why would I use it?

The JSON format is often used for serializing and transmitting structured data over a network connection. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, serving as an alternative to XML.

How to plot two histograms together in R?

Here is an even simpler solution using base graphics and alpha-blending (which does not work on all graphics devices):

set.seed(42)
p1 <- hist(rnorm(500,4))                     # centered at 4
p2 <- hist(rnorm(500,6))                     # centered at 6
plot( p1, col=rgb(0,0,1,1/4), xlim=c(0,10))  # first histogram
plot( p2, col=rgb(1,0,0,1/4), xlim=c(0,10), add=T)  # second

The key is that the colours are semi-transparent.

Edit, more than two years later: As this just got an upvote, I figure I may as well add a visual of what the code produces as alpha-blending is so darn useful:

enter image description here

svn list of files that are modified in local copy

I couldn't get svn status -q to work. Assuming you are on a linux box, to see only the files that are modified, run: svn status | grep 'M ' On windows I am not sure what you would do, maybe something with 'FindStr'

How can I use break or continue within for loop in Twig template?

A way to be able to use {% break %} or {% continue %} is to write TokenParsers for them.

I did it for the {% break %} token in the code below. You can, without much modifications, do the same thing for the {% continue %}.

  • AppBundle\Twig\AppExtension.php:

    namespace AppBundle\Twig;
    
    class AppExtension extends \Twig_Extension
    {
        function getTokenParsers() {
            return array(
                new BreakToken(),
            );
        }
    
        public function getName()
        {
            return 'app_extension';
        }
    }
    
  • AppBundle\Twig\BreakToken.php:

    namespace AppBundle\Twig;
    
    class BreakToken extends \Twig_TokenParser
    {
        public function parse(\Twig_Token $token)
        {
            $stream = $this->parser->getStream();
            $stream->expect(\Twig_Token::BLOCK_END_TYPE);
    
            // Trick to check if we are currently in a loop.
            $currentForLoop = 0;
    
            for ($i = 1; true; $i++) {
                try {
                    // if we look before the beginning of the stream
                    // the stream will throw a \Twig_Error_Syntax
                    $token = $stream->look(-$i);
                } catch (\Twig_Error_Syntax $e) {
                    break;
                }
    
                if ($token->test(\Twig_Token::NAME_TYPE, 'for')) {
                    $currentForLoop++;
                } else if ($token->test(\Twig_Token::NAME_TYPE, 'endfor')) {
                    $currentForLoop--;
                }
            }
    
    
            if ($currentForLoop < 1) {
                throw new \Twig_Error_Syntax(
                    'Break tag is only allowed in \'for\' loops.',
                    $stream->getCurrent()->getLine(),
                    $stream->getSourceContext()->getName()
                );
            }
    
            return new BreakNode();
        }
    
        public function getTag()
        {
            return 'break';
        }
    }
    
  • AppBundle\Twig\BreakNode.php:

    namespace AppBundle\Twig;
    
    class BreakNode extends \Twig_Node
    {
        public function compile(\Twig_Compiler $compiler)
        {
            $compiler
                ->write("break;\n")
            ;
        }
    }
    

Then you can simply use {% break %} to get out of loops like this:

{% for post in posts %}
    {% if post.id == 10 %}
        {% break %}
    {% endif %}
    <h2>{{ post.heading }}</h2>
{% endfor %}

To go even further, you may write token parsers for {% continue X %} and {% break X %} (where X is an integer >= 1) to get out/continue multiple loops like in PHP.

Differences between Html.TextboxFor and Html.EditorFor in MVC and Razor

This is one of the basic differences not mentioned in previous comments:
Readonly property will work with textbox for and it will not work with EditorFor.

@Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.DateSoldOn, new { @readonly = "readonly" })

Above code works, where as with following you can't make control to readonly.

@Html.EditorFor(model => model.DateSoldOn, new { @readonly = "readonly" })

How to install a python library manually

Here is the official FAQ on installing Python Modules: http://docs.python.org/install/index.html

There are some tips which might help you.

Is it possible to make an HTML anchor tag not clickable/linkable using CSS?

You can use this css:

.inactiveLink {
   pointer-events: none;
   cursor: default;
}

And then assign the class to your html code:

<a style="" href="page.html" class="inactiveLink">page link</a>

It makes the link not clickeable and the cursor style an arrow, not a hand as the links have.

or use this style in the html:

<a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" href="page.html">page link</a>

but I suggest the first approach.

How to modify a text file?

Wrote a small class for doing this cleanly.

import tempfile

class FileModifierError(Exception):
    pass

class FileModifier(object):

    def __init__(self, fname):
        self.__write_dict = {}
        self.__filename = fname
        self.__tempfile = tempfile.TemporaryFile()
        with open(fname, 'rb') as fp:
            for line in fp:
                self.__tempfile.write(line)
        self.__tempfile.seek(0)

    def write(self, s, line_number = 'END'):
        if line_number != 'END' and not isinstance(line_number, (int, float)):
            raise FileModifierError("Line number %s is not a valid number" % line_number)
        try:
            self.__write_dict[line_number].append(s)
        except KeyError:
            self.__write_dict[line_number] = [s]

    def writeline(self, s, line_number = 'END'):
        self.write('%s\n' % s, line_number)

    def writelines(self, s, line_number = 'END'):
        for ln in s:
            self.writeline(s, line_number)

    def __popline(self, index, fp):
        try:
            ilines = self.__write_dict.pop(index)
            for line in ilines:
                fp.write(line)
        except KeyError:
            pass

    def close(self):
        self.__exit__(None, None, None)

    def __enter__(self):
        return self

    def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback):
        with open(self.__filename,'w') as fp:
            for index, line in enumerate(self.__tempfile.readlines()):
                self.__popline(index, fp)
                fp.write(line)
            for index in sorted(self.__write_dict):
                for line in self.__write_dict[index]:
                    fp.write(line)
        self.__tempfile.close()

Then you can use it this way:

with FileModifier(filename) as fp:
    fp.writeline("String 1", 0)
    fp.writeline("String 2", 20)
    fp.writeline("String 3")  # To write at the end of the file

XAMPP - Error: MySQL shutdown unexpectedly

First you need to keep copy of following somewhere in your hard disk.

C:\xampp\mysql\backup

C:\xampp\mysql\data

After that

Copy every thing inside "C:\xampp\mysql\backup" and paste and replace it in
"C:\xampp\mysql\data"

Now your mysql will work in phpmyadmin but your tables will show "Table not found in engine"

For this you will have to go to the copy of "backup and data folders" which have created in your hard disk and there in the data folder copy "ibdata1" file and past and replace in the "C:\xampp\mysql\data".

Now your tables data will be available.

What does this thread join code mean?

From oracle documentation page on Joins

The join method allows one thread to wait for the completion of another.

If t1 is a Thread object whose thread is currently executing,

t1.join() : causes the current thread to pause execution until t1's thread terminates.

If t2 is a Thread object whose thread is currently executing,

t2.join(); causes the current thread to pause execution until t2's thread terminates.

join API is low level API, which has been introduced in earlier versions of java. Lot of things have been changed over a period of time (especially with jdk 1.5 release) on concurrency front.

You can achieve the same with java.util.concurrent API. Some of the examples are

  1. Using invokeAll on ExecutorService
  2. Using CountDownLatch
  3. Using ForkJoinPool or newWorkStealingPool of Executors(since java 8)

Refer to related SE questions:

wait until all threads finish their work in java

How to generate xsd from wsdl

Follow these steps :

  1. Create a project using the WSDL.
  2. Choose your interface and open in interface viewer.
  3. Navigate to the tab 'WSDL Content'.
  4. Use the last icon under the tab 'WSDL Content' : 'Export the entire WSDL and included/imported files to a local directory'.
  5. select the folder where you want the XSDs to be exported to.

Note: SOAPUI will remove all relative paths and will save all XSDs to the same folder. Refer the screenshot : enter image description here

Correct way to handle conditional styling in React

First, I agree with you as a matter of style - I would also (and do also) conditionally apply classes rather than inline styles. But you can use the same technique:

<div className={{completed ? "completed" : ""}}></div>

For more complex sets of state, accumulate an array of classes and apply them:

var classes = [];

if (completed) classes.push("completed");
if (foo) classes.push("foo");
if (someComplicatedCondition) classes.push("bar");

return <div className={{classes.join(" ")}}></div>;

Convert timestamp to string

try this

SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss");
String string  = dateFormat.format(new Date());
System.out.println(string);

you can create any format see this

How to efficiently change image attribute "src" from relative URL to absolute using jQuery?

Instead of below code:

$(this).attr("src").replace(urlRelative, urlAbsolute);

Use this:

$(this).attr("src",urlAbsolute);

What is the most appropriate way to store user settings in Android application

shared preferences is easiest way to store our application data. but it is possible that anyone can clear our shared preferences data through application manager.so i don't think it is completely safe for our application.

Disable elastic scrolling in Safari

I had solved it on iPad. Try, if it works also on OSX.

body, html { position: fixed; }

Works only if you have content smaller then screen or you are using some layout framework (Angular Material in my case).

In Angular Material it is great, that you will disable over-scroll effect of whole page, but inner sections <md-content> can be still scrollable.

Can comments be used in JSON?

Yes, you can have comments. But I will not recommend whatever reason mentioned above.

I did some investigation, and I found all JSON require methods use the JSON.parse method. So I came to a solution: We can override or do monkey patching around JSON.parse.

Note: tested on Node.js only ;-)

var oldParse = JSON.parse;
JSON.parse = parse;
function parse(json){
    json = json.replace(/\/\*.+\*\//, function(comment){
        console.log("comment:", comment);
        return "";
    });
    return oldParse(json)
}

JSON file:

{
  "test": 1
  /* Hello, babe */
}

CUDA incompatible with my gcc version

If you encounter this error, please read the log file:

$ cat /var/log/cuda-installer.log 
[INFO]: Driver installation detected by command: apt list --installed | grep -e nvidia-driver-[0-9][0-9][0-9] -e nvidia-[0-9][0-9][0-9]
[INFO]: Cleaning up window
[INFO]: Complete
[INFO]: Checking compiler version...
[INFO]: gcc location: /usr/bin/gcc

[INFO]: gcc version: gcc version 9.2.1 20191008 (Ubuntu 9.2.1-9ubuntu2) 

[ERROR]: unsupported compiler version: 9.2.1. Use --override to override this check.

Just follow the suggestion in the log file:

sudo sh cuda_<version>_linux.run --override

Job done :)

I just installed CUDA 10.2 with gcc 9.2 on Kubuntu 19.10 using the --override option.

How to create a Calendar table for 100 years in Sql

 declare @date int
 WITH CTE_DatesTable
AS
(
  SELECT CAST('20000101' as date) AS [date]
  UNION ALL
  SELECT   DATEADD(dd, 1, [date])
  FROM CTE_DatesTable
  WHERE DATEADD(dd, 1, [date]) <= '21001231'
)
SELECT [DWDateKey]=[date],[DayDate]=datepart(dd,[date]),[DayOfWeekName]=datename(dw,[date]),[WeekNumber]=DATEPART( WEEK , [date]),[MonthNumber]=DATEPART( MONTH , [date]),[MonthName]=DATENAME( MONTH , [date]),[MonthShortName]=substring(LTRIM( DATENAME(MONTH,[date])),0, 4),[Year]=DATEPART(YY,[date]),[QuarterNumber]=DATENAME(quarter, [date]),[QuarterName]=DATENAME(quarter, [date]) into DimDate   FROM CTE_DatesTable

OPTION (MAXRECURSION 0);

How to trim a string after a specific character in java

You can use:

result = result.split("\n")[0];

Angularjs autocomplete from $http

I made an autocomplete directive and uploaded it to GitHub. It should also be able to handle data from an HTTP-Request.

Here's the demo: http://justgoscha.github.io/allmighty-autocomplete/ And here the documentation and repository: https://github.com/JustGoscha/allmighty-autocomplete

So basically you have to return a promise when you want to get data from an HTTP request, that gets resolved when the data is loaded. Therefore you have to inject the $qservice/directive/controller where you issue your HTTP Request.

Example:

function getMyHttpData(){
  var deferred = $q.defer();
  $http.jsonp(request).success(function(data){
    // the promise gets resolved with the data from HTTP
    deferred.resolve(data);
  });
  // return the promise
  return deferred.promise;
}

I hope this helps.

Bootstrap modal: close current, open new

I have exact same problem, and my solution is only if modal dialog have [role="dialog"] attribute :

/*
* Find and Close current "display:block" dialog,
* if another data-toggle=modal is clicked
*/
jQuery(document).on('click','[data-toggle*=modal]',function(){
  jQuery('[role*=dialog]').each(function(){
    switch(jQuery(this).css('display')){
      case('block'):{jQuery('#'+jQuery(this).attr('id')).modal('hide'); break;}
    }
  });
});

Find value in an array

This answer is for everyone that realizes the accepted answer does not address the question as it currently written.

The question asks how to find a value in an array. The accepted answer shows how to check whether a value exists in an array.

There is already an example using index, so I am providing an example using the select method.

1.9.3-p327 :012 > x = [1,2,3,4,5]
  => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] 
1.9.3-p327 :013 > x.select {|y| y == 1}
  => [1]

Is there a Social Security Number reserved for testing/examples?

I used this 457-55-5462 as testing SSN and it worked for me. I used it at paypal sandbox account. Hope it helps somebody

Right click to select a row in a Datagridview and show a menu to delete it

I have a new workaround to come in same result, but, with less code. for Winforms... That's example is in portuguese Follow up step by step

  1. Create a contextMenuStrip in your form and create one item
  2. Sign one event click (OnCancelarItem_Click) for this contextMenuStrip enter image description here
  3. Create a event 'UserDeletingRow' on gridview enter image description here and now... you've simulating on key press del from user

    you don't forget to enable delete on the gridview, right?!

enter image description here enter image description here and finally... enter image description here

Change visibility of ASP.NET label with JavaScript

Make sure the Visible property is set to true or the control won't render to the page. Then you can use script to manipulate it.

android View not attached to window manager

Above solution didn't work for me. So what I did is take ProgressDialog as globally and then add this to my activity

@Override
    protected void onDestroy() {
        if (progressDialog != null && progressDialog.isShowing())
            progressDialog.dismiss();
        super.onDestroy();
    }

so that in case if activity is destroyed then the ProgressDialog will also be destroy.

SVG Positioning

Everything in the g element is positioned relative to the current transform matrix.

To move the content, just put the transformation in the g element:

<g transform="translate(20,2.5) rotate(10)">
    <rect x="0" y="0" width="60" height="10"/>
</g>

Links: Example from the SVG 1.1 spec

StringLength vs MaxLength attributes ASP.NET MVC with Entity Framework EF Code First

MaxLengthAttribute means Max. length of array or string data allowed

StringLengthAttribute means Min. and max. length of characters that are allowed in a data field

Visit http://joeylicc.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/asp-net-mvc-model-validation-using-data-annotations/

DataGridView checkbox column - value and functionality

To test if the column is checked or not:

for (int i = 0; i < dgvName.Rows.Count; i++)
{
    if ((bool)dgvName.Rows[i].Cells[8].Value)
    {
    // Column is checked
    }
}

How to make an HTTP request + basic auth in Swift

In Swift 2:

extension NSMutableURLRequest {
    func setAuthorizationHeader(username username: String, password: String) -> Bool {
        guard let data = "\(username):\(password)".dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding) else { return false }

        let base64 = data.base64EncodedStringWithOptions([])
        setValue("Basic \(base64)", forHTTPHeaderField: "Authorization")
        return true
    }
}

Adding Http Headers to HttpClient

To set custom headers ON A REQUEST, build a request with the custom header before passing it to httpclient to send to http server. eg:

HttpClient client = HttpClients.custom().build();
HttpUriRequest request = RequestBuilder.get()
  .setUri(someURL)
  .setHeader(HttpHeaders.CONTENT_TYPE, "application/json")
  .build();
client.execute(request);

Default header is SET ON HTTPCLIENT to send on every request to the server.

FATAL ERROR: CALL_AND_RETRY_LAST Allocation failed - process out of memory

I lost some days with this problem.... until I found that in some file I was importing one static file, a built file. It make the build to never end. Something like:

import PropTypes from "../static/build/prop-types"; 

Fixing to the real source solved all the problem.

Sharing my solution. :)

Matplotlib/pyplot: How to enforce axis range?

Try putting the call to axis after all plotting commands.

Casting objects in Java

Casting is necessary to tell that you are calling a child and not a parent method. So it's ever downward. However if the method is already defined in the parent class and overriden in the child class, you don't any cast. Here an example:

class Parent{
   void method(){ System.out.print("this is the parent"); }
}

class Child extends Parent{
   @override
   void method(){ System.out.print("this is the child"); }
}
...
Parent o = new Child();
o.method();
((Child)o).method();  

The two method call will both print : "this is the child".

How to Merge Two Eloquent Collections?

$users = User::all();
$associates = Associate::all();

$userAndAssociate = $users->merge($associates);

How do I resolve "Cannot find module" error using Node.js?

Specify the path to the restler folder, which will be inside node_modules folder like : var rest = require('./node_modules/restler');

This worked for me.

Graphviz's executables are not found (Python 3.4)

when you add C:\Program Files (x86)\Graphviz2.38\bin to PATH, then you must close your IDE enviroment such as spyder and restart, you'll solve the "RuntimeError:make sure the Graphviz executables are on your systems' path"

What's the difference between ViewData and ViewBag?

Can I recommend to you to not use either?

If you want to "send" data to your screen, send a strongly typed object (A.K.A. ViewModel) because it's easier to test.

If you bind to some sort of "Model" and have random "viewbag" or "viewdata" items then it makes automated testing very difficult.

If you are using these consider how you might be able to restructure and just use ViewModels.

PHP: Calling another class' method

You would need to have an instance of ClassA within ClassB or have ClassB inherit ClassA

class ClassA {
    public function getName() {
      echo $this->name;
    }
}

class ClassB extends ClassA {
    public function getName() {
      parent::getName();
    }
}

Without inheritance or an instance method, you'd need ClassA to have a static method

class ClassA {
  public static function getName() {
    echo "Rawkode";
  }
}

--- other file ---

echo ClassA::getName();

If you're just looking to call the method from an instance of the class:

class ClassA {
  public function getName() {
    echo "Rawkode";
  }
}

--- other file ---

$a = new ClassA();
echo $a->getName();

Regardless of the solution you choose, require 'ClassA.php is needed.

Define global constants

In Angular 4, you can use environment class to keep all your globals.

You have environment.ts and environment.prod.ts by default.

For example

export const environment = {
  production: false,
  apiUrl: 'http://localhost:8000/api/'
};

And then on your service:

import { environment } from '../../environments/environment';
...
environment.apiUrl;

Java Object Null Check for method

This question is quite older. The Questioner might have been turned into an experienced Java Developer by this time. Yet I want to add some opinion here which would help beginners.

For JDK 7 users, Here using

Objects.requireNotNull(object[, optionalMessage]);

is not safe. This function throws NullPointerException if it finds null object and which is a RunTimeException.

That will terminate the whole program!!. So better check null using == or !=.

Also, use List instead of Array. Although access speed is same, yet using Collections over Array has some advantages like if you ever decide to change the underlying implementation later on, you can do it flexibly. For example, if you need synchronized access, you can change the implementation to a Vector without rewriting all your code.

public static double calculateInventoryTotal(List<Book> books) {
    if (books == null || books.isEmpty()) {
        return 0;
    }

    double total = 0;

    for (Book book : books) {
        if (book != null) {
            total += book.getPrice();
        }
    }
    return total;
}

Also, I would like to upvote @1ac0 answer. We should understand and consider the purpose of the method too while writing. Calling method could have further logics to implement based on the called method's returned data.

Also if you are coding with JDK 8, It has introduced a new way to handle null check and protect the code from NullPointerException. It defined a new class called Optional. Have a look at this for detail

Finally, Pardon my bad English.

Named capturing groups in JavaScript regex?

In ES6 you can use array destructuring to catch your groups:

let text = '27 months';
let regex = /(\d+)\s*(days?|months?|years?)/;
let [, count, unit] = regex.exec(text) || [];

// count === '27'
// unit === 'months'

Notice:

  • the first comma in the last let skips the first value of the resulting array, which is the whole matched string
  • the || [] after .exec() will prevent a destructuring error when there are no matches (because .exec() will return null)

How to add a new project to Github using VS Code

Go to VS COde -> View -> Terminal

enter image description here

git init git add . git commit -m "FirstCommit" git remote add origin https://github.com/dotnetpiper/cdn git pull origin master git push -f origin master

Note : Some time git push -u origin master doesn't work anticipated.

How to git commit a single file/directory

Specify path after entered commit message, like:

git commit -m "commit message" path/to/file.extention

REST API 404: Bad URI, or Missing Resource?

404 Not Found technically means that uri does not currently map to a resource. In your example, I interpret a request to http://mywebsite/api/user/13 that returns a 404 to imply that this url was never mapped to a resource. To the client, that should be the end of conversation.

To address concerns with ambiguity, you can enhance your API by providing other response codes. For example, suppose you want to allow clients to issue GET requests the url http://mywebsite/api/user/13, you want to communicate that clients should use the canonical url http://mywebsite/restapi/user/13. In that case, you may want to consider issuing a permanent redirect by returning a 301 Moved Permanently and supply the canonical url in the Location header of the response. This tells the client that for future requests they should use the canonical url.

How to get the clicked link's href with jquery?

Suppose we have three anchor tags like ,

<a  href="ID=1" class="testClick">Test1.</a>
<br />
<a  href="ID=2" class="testClick">Test2.</a>
<br />
<a  href="ID=3" class="testClick">Test3.</a>

now in script

$(".testClick").click(function () {
        var anchorValue= $(this).attr("href");
        alert(anchorValue);
});

use this keyword instead of className (testClick)

How can I find script's directory?

You need to call os.path.realpath on __file__, so that when __file__ is a filename without the path you still get the dir path:

import os
print(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)))

MySQL skip first 10 results

LIMIT allow you to skip any number of rows. It has two parameters, and first of them - how many rows to skip

Prevent RequireJS from Caching Required Scripts

This is how I do it in Django / Flask (can be easily adapted to other languages / VCS systems):

In your config.py (I use this in python3, so you may need to tweak the encoding in python2)

import subprocess
GIT_HASH = subprocess.check_output(['git', 'rev-parse', 'HEAD']).strip().decode('utf-8')

Then in your template:

{% if config.DEBUG %}
     require.config({urlArgs: "bust=" + (new Date().getTime())});
{% else %}
    require.config({urlArgs: "bust=" + {{ config.GIT_HASH|tojson }}});
{% endif %}
  • Doesn't require manual build process
  • Only runs git rev-parse HEAD once when the app starts, and stores it in the config object

convert a JavaScript string variable to decimal/money

Yes -- parseFloat.

parseFloat(document.getElementById(amtid4).innerHTML);

For formatting numbers, use toFixed:

var num = parseFloat(document.getElementById(amtid4).innerHTML).toFixed(2);

num is now a string with the number formatted with two decimal places.

Curl: Fix CURL (51) SSL error: no alternative certificate subject name matches

it might save some time to somebody.

If you use GuzzleHttp and you face with this error message cURL error 60: SSL: no alternative certificate subject name matches target host name and you are fine with the 'insecure' solution (not recommended on production) then you have to add \GuzzleHttp\RequestOptions::VERIFY => false to the client configuration:

$this->client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client([
    'base_uri'                          => 'someAccessPoint',
    \GuzzleHttp\RequestOptions::HEADERS => [
        'User-Agent' => 'some-special-agent',
    ],
    'defaults'                          => [
        \GuzzleHttp\RequestOptions::CONNECT_TIMEOUT => 5,
        \GuzzleHttp\RequestOptions::ALLOW_REDIRECTS => true,
    ],
    \GuzzleHttp\RequestOptions::VERIFY  => false,
]);

which sets CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST to 0 and CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER to false in the CurlFactory::applyHandlerOptions() method

$conf[CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST] = 0;
$conf[CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER] = false;

From the GuzzleHttp documentation

verify

Describes the SSL certificate verification behavior of a request.

  • Set to true to enable SSL certificate verification and use the default CA bundle > provided by operating system.
  • Set to false to disable certificate verification (this is insecure!).
  • Set to a string to provide the path to a CA bundle to enable verification using a custom certificate.

Parse query string into an array

You can use the PHP string function parse_str() followed by foreach loop.

$str="pg_id=2&parent_id=2&document&video";
parse_str($str,$my_arr);
foreach($my_arr as $key=>$value){
  echo "$key => $value<br>";
}
print_r($my_arr);

Labels for radio buttons in rails form

Using true/false as the value will have the field pre-filled if the model passed to the form has this attribute already filled:

= f.radio_button(:public?, true)
= f.label(:public?, "yes", value: true)
= f.radio_button(:public?, false)
= f.label(:public?, "no", value: false)

Gaussian fit for Python

Actually, you do not need to do a first guess. Simply doing

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt  
from scipy.optimize import curve_fit
from scipy import asarray as ar,exp

x = ar(range(10))
y = ar([0,1,2,3,4,5,4,3,2,1])

n = len(x)                          #the number of data
mean = sum(x*y)/n                   #note this correction
sigma = sum(y*(x-mean)**2)/n        #note this correction

def gaus(x,a,x0,sigma):
    return a*exp(-(x-x0)**2/(2*sigma**2))

popt,pcov = curve_fit(gaus,x,y)
#popt,pcov = curve_fit(gaus,x,y,p0=[1,mean,sigma])

plt.plot(x,y,'b+:',label='data')
plt.plot(x,gaus(x,*popt),'ro:',label='fit')
plt.legend()
plt.title('Fig. 3 - Fit for Time Constant')
plt.xlabel('Time (s)')
plt.ylabel('Voltage (V)')
plt.show()

works fine. This is simpler because making a guess is not trivial. I had more complex data and did not manage to do a proper first guess, but simply removing the first guess worked fine :)

P.S.: use numpy.exp() better, says a warning of scipy

Is there a C# case insensitive equals operator?

Operator? NO, but I think you can change your culture so that string comparison is not case-sensitive.

// you'll want to change this...
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture
// and you'll want to custimize this
System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CompareInfo

I'm confident that it will change the way that strings are being compared by the equals operator.

How to put space character into a string name in XML?

The only way I could get multiple spaces in middle of string.

<string name="some_string">Before" &#x20; &#x20; &#x20;"After</string>

Before   After

Byte Array to Hex String

Consider the hex() method of the bytes type on Python 3.5 and up:

>>> array_alpha = [ 133, 53, 234, 241 ]
>>> print(bytes(array_alpha).hex())
8535eaf1

EDIT: it's also much faster than hexlify (modified @falsetru's benchmarks above)

from timeit import timeit
N = 10000
print("bytearray + hexlify ->", timeit(
    'binascii.hexlify(data).decode("ascii")',
    setup='import binascii; data = bytearray(range(255))',
    number=N,
))
print("byte + hex          ->", timeit(
    'data.hex()',
    setup='data = bytes(range(255))',
    number=N,
))

Result:

bytearray + hexlify -> 0.011218150997592602
byte + hex          -> 0.005952142993919551

Remove NaN from pandas series

A small usage of np.nan ! = np.nan

s[s==s]
Out[953]: 
0    1.0
1    2.0
2    3.0
3    4.0
5    5.0
dtype: float64

More Info

np.nan == np.nan
Out[954]: False

SQL Server: Best way to concatenate multiple columns?

Blockquote

Using concatenation in Oracle SQL is very easy and interesting. But don't know much about MS-SQL.

Blockquote

Here we go for Oracle : Syntax: SQL> select First_name||Last_Name as Employee from employees;

Result: EMPLOYEE

EllenAbel SundarAnde MozheAtkinson

Here AS: keyword used as alias. We can concatenate with NULL values. e.g. : columnm1||Null

Suppose any of your columns contains a NULL value then the result will show only the value of that column which has value.

You can also use literal character string in concatenation.

e.g. select column1||' is a '||column2 from tableName; Result: column1 is a column2. in between literal should be encolsed in single quotation. you cna exclude numbers.

NOTE: This is only for oracle server//SQL.

How to get the current time in YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:Sec.Millisecond format in Java?

The easiest way was to (prior to Java 8) use,

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS");

But SimpleDateFormat is not thread-safe. Neither java.util.Date. This will lead to leading to potential concurrency issues for users. And there are many problems in those existing designs. To overcome these now in Java 8 we have a separate package called java.time. This Java SE 8 Date and Time document has a good overview about it.

So in Java 8 something like below will do the trick (to format the current date/time),

LocalDateTime.now()
   .format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS"));

And one thing to note is it was developed with the help of the popular third party library joda-time,

The project has been led jointly by the author of Joda-Time (Stephen Colebourne) and Oracle, under JSR 310, and will appear in the new Java SE 8 package java.time.

But now the joda-time is becoming deprecated and asked the users to migrate to new java.time.

Note that from Java SE 8 onwards, users are asked to migrate to java.time (JSR-310) - a core part of the JDK which replaces this project

Anyway having said that,

If you have a Calendar instance you can use below to convert it to the new java.time,

    Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
    long longValue = calendar.getTimeInMillis();         

    LocalDateTime date =
            LocalDateTime.ofInstant(Instant.ofEpochMilli(longValue), ZoneId.systemDefault());
    String formattedString = date.format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS"));

    System.out.println(date.toString()); // 2018-03-06T15:56:53.634
    System.out.println(formattedString); // 2018-03-06 15:56:53.634

If you had a Date object,

    Date date = new Date();
    long longValue2 = date.getTime();

    LocalDateTime dateTime =
            LocalDateTime.ofInstant(Instant.ofEpochMilli(longValue2), ZoneId.systemDefault());
    String formattedString = dateTime.format(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS"));

    System.out.println(dateTime.toString()); // 2018-03-06T15:59:30.278
    System.out.println(formattedString);     // 2018-03-06 15:59:30.278

If you just had the epoch milliseconds,

LocalDateTime date =
        LocalDateTime.ofInstant(Instant.ofEpochMilli(epochLongValue), ZoneId.systemDefault());

Cannot uninstall angular-cli

Try to update via these steps found in the npm repo for the angular cli.

npm uninstall -g angular-cli
npm cache clean
npm install -g angular-cli@latest

There is also an angular cli migration guide. One other option (more involved) is to start a new project and migrate over by copying and pasting certain files. This can be found here in the "moving into the cli" section of the angular-cli github

Fixed footer in Bootstrap

Add this:

<div class="footer navbar-fixed-bottom">

https://stackoverflow.com/a/21604189

EDIT: class navbar-fixed-bottom has been changed to fixed-bottom as of Bootstrap v4-alpha.6.

http://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/components/navbar/#placement

Split array into chunks

my trick is to use parseInt(i/chunkSize) and parseInt(i%chunkSize) and then filling the array

_x000D_
_x000D_
// filling items_x000D_
let array = [];_x000D_
for(let i = 0; i< 543; i++)_x000D_
  array.push(i);_x000D_
 _x000D_
 // printing the splitted array_x000D_
 console.log(getSplittedArray(array, 50));_x000D_
 _x000D_
 // get the splitted array_x000D_
 function getSplittedArray(array, chunkSize){_x000D_
  let chunkedArray = [];_x000D_
  for(let i = 0; i<array.length; i++){_x000D_
    try{_x000D_
      chunkedArray[parseInt(i/chunkSize)][parseInt(i%chunkSize)] = array[i];_x000D_
    }catch(e){_x000D_
      chunkedArray[parseInt(i/chunkSize)] = [];_x000D_
      chunkedArray[parseInt(i/chunkSize)][parseInt(i%chunkSize)] = array[i];_x000D_
    }_x000D_
  }_x000D_
  return chunkedArray;_x000D_
 }
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Eclipse: How to build an executable jar with external jar?

As a good practice you can use an Ant Script (Eclipse comes with it) to generate your JAR file. Inside this JAR you can have all dependent libs.

You can even set the MANIFEST's Class-path header to point to files in your filesystem, it's not a good practice though.

Ant build.xml script example:

<project name="jar with libs" default="compile and build" basedir=".">
<!-- this is used at compile time -->
<path id="example-classpath">
    <pathelement location="${root-dir}" />
    <fileset dir="D:/LIC/xalan-j_2_7_1" includes="*.jar" />
</path>

<target name="compile and build">
    <!-- deletes previously created jar -->
    <delete file="test.jar" />

    <!-- compile your code and drop .class into "bin" directory -->
    <javac srcdir="${basedir}" destdir="bin" debug="true" deprecation="on">
        <!-- this is telling the compiler where are the dependencies -->
        <classpath refid="example-classpath" />
    </javac>

    <!-- copy the JARs that you need to "bin" directory  -->
    <copy todir="bin">
        <fileset dir="D:/LIC/xalan-j_2_7_1" includes="*.jar" />
    </copy>

    <!-- creates your jar with the contents inside "bin" (now with your .class and .jar dependencies) -->
    <jar destfile="test.jar" basedir="bin" duplicate="preserve">
        <manifest>
            <!-- Who is building this jar? -->
            <attribute name="Built-By" value="${user.name}" />
            <!-- Information about the program itself -->
            <attribute name="Implementation-Vendor" value="ACME inc." />
            <attribute name="Implementation-Title" value="GreatProduct" />
            <attribute name="Implementation-Version" value="1.0.0beta2" />
            <!-- this tells which class should run when executing your jar -->
            <attribute name="Main-class" value="ApplyXPath" />
        </manifest>
    </jar>
</target>