Programs & Examples On #Directshow

The Microsoft DirectShow application programming interface (API) is a media-streaming architecture for Microsoft Windows. Using DirectShow, your applications can perform high-quality video and audio playback or capture.

PHP __get and __set magic methods

From the PHP manual:

  • __set() is run when writing data to inaccessible properties.
  • __get() is utilized for reading data from inaccessible properties.

This is only called on reading/writing inaccessible properties. Your property however is public, which means it is accessible. Changing the access modifier to protected solves the issue.

How can I use jQuery to move a div across the screen

Just a quick little function I drummed up that moves DIVs from their current spot to a target spot, one pixel step at a time. I tried to comment as best as I could, but the part you're interested in, is in example 1 and example 2, right after [$(function() { // jquery document.ready]. Put your bounds checking code there, and then exit the interval if conditions are met. Requires jQuery.

First the Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/pnYWY/

First the DIVs...

<style>
  .moveDiv {
    position:absolute;
    left:20px;
    top:20px;
    width:10px;
    height:10px;
    background-color:#ccc;
  }

  .moveDivB {
    position:absolute;
    left:20px;
    top:20px;
    width:10px;
    height:10px;
    background-color:#ccc;
  }
</style>


<div class="moveDiv"></div>
<div class="moveDivB"></div>

example 1) Start

// first animation (fire right away)
var myVar = setInterval(function(){
    $(function() { // jquery document.ready

        // returns true if it just took a step
        // returns false if the div has arrived
        if( !move_div_step(55,25,'.moveDiv') )
        {
            // arrived...
            console.log('arrived'); 
            clearInterval(myVar);
        }

    });
},50); // set speed here in ms for your delay

example 2) Delayed Start

// pause and then fire an animation..
setTimeout(function(){
    var myVarB = setInterval(function(){
        $(function() { // jquery document.ready
            // returns true if it just took a step
            // returns false if the div has arrived
            if( !move_div_step(25,55,'.moveDivB') )
            {
                // arrived...
                console.log('arrived'); 
                clearInterval(myVarB);
            }
        });
    },50); // set speed here in ms for your delay
},5000);// set speed here for delay before firing

Now the Function:

function move_div_step(xx,yy,target) // takes one pixel step toward target
{
    // using a line algorithm to move a div one step toward a given coordinate.
    var div_target = $(target);

    // get current x and current y
    var x = div_target.position().left; // offset is relative to document; position() is relative to parent;
    var y = div_target.position().top;

    // if x and y are = to xx and yy (destination), then div has arrived at it's destination.
    if(x == xx && y == yy)
        return false;

    // find the distances travelled
    var dx = xx - x;
    var dy = yy - y;

    // preventing time travel
    if(dx < 0)          dx *= -1;
    if(dy < 0)          dy *= -1;

    // determine speed of pixel travel...
    var sx=1, sy=1;

    if(dx > dy)         sy = dy/dx;
    else if(dy > dx)    sx = dx/dy;

    // find our one...
    if(sx == sy) // both are one..
    {
        if(x <= xx) // are we going forwards?
        {
            x++; y++;
        }
        else  // .. we are going backwards.
        {
            x--; y--;
        }       
    }
    else if(sx > sy) // x is the 1
    {
        if(x <= xx) // are we going forwards..?
            x++;
        else  // or backwards?
            x--;

        y += sy;
    }
    else if(sy > sx) // y is the 1 (eg: for every 1 pixel step in the y dir, we take 0.xxx step in the x
    {
        if(y <= yy) // going forwards?
            y++;
        else  // .. or backwards?
            y--;

        x += sx;
    }

    // move the div
    div_target.css("left", x);
    div_target.css("top",  y);

    return true;
}  // END :: function move_div_step(xx,yy,target)

How to filter object array based on attributes?

use filter

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var json = {
    homes: [{
            "home_id": "1",
            "price": "925",
            "sqft": "1100",
            "num_of_beds": "2",
            "num_of_baths": "2.0",
        }, {
            "home_id": "2",
            "price": "1425",
            "sqft": "1900",
            "num_of_beds": "4",
            "num_of_baths": "2.5",
        },
         
    ]
}


let filter = 
  json.homes.filter(d => 
  
    d.price >= 1000 & 
    d.sqft >= 500 & 
    d.num_of_beds >=2 & 
    d.num_of_baths >= 2.5
)

console.log(filter)
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Use of var keyword in C#

"The only thing you can really say about my taste is that it is old fashioned, and in time yours will be too." -Tolkien.

Manually raising (throwing) an exception in Python

In Python3 there are 4 different syntaxes for rasing exceptions:

1. raise exception 
2. raise exception (args) 
3. raise
4. raise exception (args) from original_exception

1. raise exception vs. 2. raise exception (args)

If you use raise exception (args) to raise an exception then the args will be printed when you print the exception object - as shown in the example below.

  #raise exception (args)
    try:
        raise ValueError("I have raised an Exception")
    except ValueError as exp:
        print ("Error", exp)     # Output -> Error I have raised an Exception 



  #raise execption 
    try:
        raise ValueError
    except ValueError as exp:
        print ("Error", exp)     # Output -> Error 

3.raise

raise statement without any arguments re-raises the last exception. This is useful if you need to perform some actions after catching the exception and then want to re-raise it. But if there was no exception before, raise statement raises TypeError Exception.

def somefunction():
    print("some cleaning")

a=10
b=0 
result=None

try:
    result=a/b
    print(result)

except Exception:            #Output ->
    somefunction()           #some cleaning
    raise                    #Traceback (most recent call last):
                             #File "python", line 8, in <module>
                             #ZeroDivisionError: division by zero

4. raise exception (args) from original_exception

This statement is used to create exception chaining in which an exception that is raised in response to another exception can contain the details of the original exception - as shown in the example below.

class MyCustomException(Exception):
pass

a=10
b=0 
reuslt=None
try:
    try:
        result=a/b

    except ZeroDivisionError as exp:
        print("ZeroDivisionError -- ",exp)
        raise MyCustomException("Zero Division ") from exp

except MyCustomException as exp:
        print("MyException",exp)
        print(exp.__cause__)

Output:

ZeroDivisionError --  division by zero
MyException Zero Division 
division by zero

MySQL error 2006: mysql server has gone away

This might be a problem of your .sql file size.

If you are using xampp. Go to the xampp control panel -> Click MySql config -> Open my.ini.

Increase the packet size.

max_allowed_packet = 2M -> 10M

Reset the database (purge all), then seed a database

on Rails 6 you can now do something like

rake db:seed:replant This Truncates tables of each database for current environment and loads the seeds

https://blog.saeloun.com/2019/09/30/rails-6-adds-db-seed-replant-task-and-db-truncate_all.html

$ rails db:seed:replant --trace
** Invoke db:seed:replant (first_time)
** Invoke db:load_config (first_time)
** Invoke environment (first_time)
** Execute environment
** Execute db:load_config
** Invoke db:truncate_all (first_time)
** Invoke db:load_config
** Invoke db:check_protected_environments (first_time)
** Invoke db:load_config
** Execute db:check_protected_environments
** Execute db:truncate_all
** Invoke db:seed (first_time)
** Invoke db:load_config
** Execute db:seed
** Invoke db:abort_if_pending_migrations (first_time)
** Invoke db:load_config
** Execute db:abort_if_pending_migrations
** Execute db:seed:replant

How can I increase a scrollbar's width using CSS?

Yes.

If the scrollbar is not the browser scrollbar, then it will be built of regular HTML elements (probably divs and spans) and can thus be styled (or will be Flash, Java, etc and can be customized as per those environments).

The specifics depend on the DOM structure used.

Display UIViewController as Popup in iPhone

Swift 4:

To add an overlay, or the popup view You can also use the Container View with which you get a free View Controller ( you get the Container View from the usual object palette/library)

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Steps:

  1. Have a View (ViewForContainer in the pic) that holds this Container View, to dim it when the contents of Container View are displayed. Connect the outlet inside the first View Controller

  2. Hide this View when 1st VC loads

  3. Unhide when Button is clicked enter image description here

  4. To dim this View when the Container View content is displayed, set the Views Background to Black and opacity to 30%

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You will get this effect when you click on the Button enter image description here

How to declare array of zeros in python (or an array of a certain size)

Well I would like to help you by posting a sample program and its output

Program :-

t=input("")

x=[None]*t

y=[[None]*t]*t

for i in range(1,t+1):

      x[i-1]=i;
      for j in range(1,t+1):
            y[i-1][j-1]=j;

print x

print y

Output :-

2

[1, 2]

[[1, 2], [1, 2]]

I hope this clears some very basic concept of yours regarding their declaration. To initialize them with some other specific values,like initializing them with 0..you can declare them as :

x=[0]*10

Hope it helps..!! ;)

How to find the size of an int[]?

when u pass any array to some function. u are just passing it's starting address, so for it to work u have to pass it size also for it to work properly. it's the same reason why we pass argc with argv[] in command line arguement.

How to round the minute of a datetime object

Other solution:

def round_time(timestamp=None, lapse=0):
    """
    Round a timestamp to a lapse according to specified minutes

    Usage:

    >>> import datetime, math
    >>> round_time(datetime.datetime(2010, 6, 10, 3, 56, 23), 0)
    datetime.datetime(2010, 6, 10, 3, 56)
    >>> round_time(datetime.datetime(2010, 6, 10, 3, 56, 23), 1)
    datetime.datetime(2010, 6, 10, 3, 57)
    >>> round_time(datetime.datetime(2010, 6, 10, 3, 56, 23), -1)
    datetime.datetime(2010, 6, 10, 3, 55)
    >>> round_time(datetime.datetime(2019, 3, 11, 9, 22, 11), 3)
    datetime.datetime(2019, 3, 11, 9, 24)
    >>> round_time(datetime.datetime(2019, 3, 11, 9, 22, 11), 3*60)
    datetime.datetime(2019, 3, 11, 12, 0)
    >>> round_time(datetime.datetime(2019, 3, 11, 10, 0, 0), 3)
    datetime.datetime(2019, 3, 11, 10, 0)

    :param timestamp: Timestamp to round (default: now)
    :param lapse: Lapse to round in minutes (default: 0)
    """
    t = timestamp or datetime.datetime.now()  # type: Union[datetime, Any]
    surplus = datetime.timedelta(seconds=t.second, microseconds=t.microsecond)
    t -= surplus
    try:
        mod = t.minute % lapse
    except ZeroDivisionError:
        return t
    if mod:  # minutes % lapse != 0
        t += datetime.timedelta(minutes=math.ceil(t.minute / lapse) * lapse - t.minute)
    elif surplus != datetime.timedelta() or lapse < 0:
        t += datetime.timedelta(minutes=(t.minute / lapse + 1) * lapse - t.minute)
    return t

Hope this helps!

What's the fastest way in Python to calculate cosine similarity given sparse matrix data?

def norm(vector):
    return sqrt(sum(x * x for x in vector))    

def cosine_similarity(vec_a, vec_b):
        norm_a = norm(vec_a)
        norm_b = norm(vec_b)
        dot = sum(a * b for a, b in zip(vec_a, vec_b))
        return dot / (norm_a * norm_b)

This method seems to be somewhat faster than using sklearn's implementation if you pass in one pair of vectors at a time.

Use find command but exclude files in two directories

Try something like

find . \( -type f -name \*_peaks.bed -print \) -or \( -type d -and \( -name tmp -or -name scripts \) -and -prune \)

and don't be too surprised if I got it a bit wrong. If the goal is an exec (instead of print), just substitute it in place.

Convert decimal to hexadecimal in UNIX shell script

In zsh you can do this sort of thing:

% typeset -i 16 y
% print $(( [#8] x = 32, y = 32 ))
8#40
% print $x $y
8#40 16#20
% setopt c_bases
% print $y
0x20

Example taken from zsh docs page about Arithmetic Evaluation.

I believe Bash has similar capabilities.

How do I get the raw request body from the Request.Content object using .net 4 api endpoint

In your comment on @Kenneth's answer you're saying that ReadAsStringAsync() is returning empty string.

That's because you (or something - like model binder) already read the content, so position of internal stream in Request.Content is on the end.

What you can do is this:

public static string GetRequestBody()
{
    var bodyStream = new StreamReader(HttpContext.Current.Request.InputStream);
    bodyStream.BaseStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
    var bodyText = bodyStream.ReadToEnd();
    return bodyText;
}

Pass Arraylist as argument to function

The answer is already posted but note that this will pass the ArrayList by reference. So if you make any changes to the list in the function it will be affected to the original list also.

<access-modfier> <returnType> AnalyseArray(ArrayList<Integer> list)
{
//analyse the list
//return value
}

call it like this:

x=AnalyseArray(list);

or pass a copy of ArrayList:

x=AnalyseArray(list.clone());

How to do constructor chaining in C#

There's another important point in constructor chaining: order. Why? Let's say that you have an object being constructed at runtime by a framework that expects it's default constructor. If you want to be able to pass in values while still having the ability to pass in constructor argments when you want, this is extremely useful.

I could for instance have a backing variable that gets set to a default value by my default constructor but has the ability to be overwritten.

public class MyClass
{
  private IDependency _myDependency;
  MyClass(){ _myDependency = new DefaultDependency(); }
  MYClass(IMyDependency dependency) : this() {
    _myDependency = dependency; //now our dependency object replaces the defaultDependency
  }
}

Private properties in JavaScript ES6 classes

Private fields (and methods) are being implemented in the ECMA standard. You can start using them today with babel 7 and stage 3 preset.

class Something {
  #property;

  constructor(){
    this.#property = "test";
  }

  #privateMethod() {
    return 'hello world';
  }

  getPrivateMessage() {
      return this.#property;
  }
}

const instance = new Something();
console.log(instance.property); //=> undefined
console.log(instance.privateMethod); //=> undefined
console.log(instance.getPrivateMessage()); //=> test

How to convert an XML file to nice pandas dataframe?

You can easily use xml (from the Python standard library) to convert to a pandas.DataFrame. Here's what I would do (when reading from a file replace xml_data with the name of your file or file object):

import pandas as pd
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
import io

def iter_docs(author):
    author_attr = author.attrib
    for doc in author.iter('document'):
        doc_dict = author_attr.copy()
        doc_dict.update(doc.attrib)
        doc_dict['data'] = doc.text
        yield doc_dict

xml_data = io.StringIO(u'''\
<author type="XXX" language="EN" gender="xx" feature="xx" web="foobar.com">
    <documents count="N">
        <document KEY="e95a9a6c790ecb95e46cf15bee517651" web="www.foo_bar_exmaple.com"><![CDATA[A large text with lots of strings and punctuations symbols [...]
]]>
        </document>
        <document KEY="bc360cfbafc39970587547215162f0db" web="www.foo_bar_exmaple.com"><![CDATA[A large text with lots of strings and punctuations symbols [...]
]]>
        </document>
        <document KEY="19e71144c50a8b9160b3f0955e906fce" web="www.foo_bar_exmaple.com"><![CDATA[A large text with lots of strings and punctuations symbols [...]
]]>
        </document>
        <document KEY="21d4af9021a174f61b884606c74d9e42" web="www.foo_bar_exmaple.com"><![CDATA[A large text with lots of strings and punctuations symbols [...]
]]>
        </document>
        <document KEY="28a45eb2460899763d709ca00ddbb665" web="www.foo_bar_exmaple.com"><![CDATA[A large text with lots of strings and punctuations symbols [...]
]]>
        </document>
        <document KEY="a0c0712a6a351f85d9f5757e9fff8946" web="www.foo_bar_exmaple.com"><![CDATA[A large text with lots of strings and punctuations symbols [...]
]]>
        </document>
        <document KEY="626726ba8d34d15d02b6d043c55fe691" web="www.foo_bar_exmaple.com"><![CDATA[A large text with lots of strings and punctuations symbols [...]
]]>
        </document>
        <document KEY="2cb473e0f102e2e4a40aa3006e412ae4" web="www.foo_bar_exmaple.com"><![CDATA[A large text with lots of strings and punctuations symbols [...] [...]
]]>
        </document>
    </documents>
</author>
''')

etree = ET.parse(xml_data) #create an ElementTree object 
doc_df = pd.DataFrame(list(iter_docs(etree.getroot())))

If there are multiple authors in your original document or the root of your XML is not an author, then I would add the following generator:

def iter_author(etree):
    for author in etree.iter('author'):
        for row in iter_docs(author):
            yield row

and change doc_df = pd.DataFrame(list(iter_docs(etree.getroot()))) to doc_df = pd.DataFrame(list(iter_author(etree)))

Have a look at the ElementTree tutorial provided in the xml library documentation.

Bi-directional Map in Java?

You could insert both the key,value pair and its inverse into your map structure, but would have to convert the Integer to a string:

map.put("theKey", "theValue");
map.put("theValue", "theKey");

Using map.get("theValue") will then return "theKey".

It's a quick and dirty way that I've made constant maps, which will only work for a select few datasets:

  • Contains only 1 to 1 pairs
  • Set of values is disjoint from the set of keys (1->2, 2->3 breaks it)

If you want to keep <Integer, String> you could maintain a second <String, Integer> map to "put" the value -> key pairs.

What is the fastest way to create a checksum for large files in C#

As Anton Gogolev noted, FileStream reads 4096 bytes at a time by default, But you can specify any other value using the FileStream constructor:

new FileStream(file, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite, 16 * 1024 * 1024)

Note that Brad Abrams from Microsoft wrote in 2004:

there is zero benefit from wrapping a BufferedStream around a FileStream. We copied BufferedStream’s buffering logic into FileStream about 4 years ago to encourage better default performance

source

How can you speed up Eclipse?

Eclipse loads plug-ins lazily, and most common plug-ins, like Subclipse, don't do anything if you don't use them. They don't slow Eclipse down at all during run time, and it won't help you to disable them. In fact, Mylyn was shown to reduce Eclipse's memory footprint when used correctly.

I run Eclipse with tons of plug-ins without any performance penalty at all.

  • Try disabling compiler settings that you perhaps don't need (e.g. the sub-options under "parameter is never read).
  • Which version of Eclipse are you using? Older versions were known to be slow if you upgraded them over and over again, because they got their plug-ins folder inflated with duplicate plug-ins (with different versions). This is not a problem in version 3.4.
  • Use working-sets. They work better than closing projects, particularly if you need to switch between sets of projects all the time.

It's not only the memory that you need to increase with the -Xmx switch, it's also the perm gen size. I think that problem was solved in Eclipse 3.4.

Enforcing the type of the indexed members of a Typescript object?

A quick update: since Typescript 2.1 there is a built in type Record<T, K> that acts like a dictionary.

In this case you could declare stuff like so:

var stuff: Record<string, any> = {};

You could also limit/specify potential keys by unioning literal types:

var stuff: Record<'a'|'b'|'c', string|boolean> = {};

Here's a more generic example using the record type from the docs:

// For every properties K of type T, transform it to U
function mapObject<K extends string, T, U>(obj: Record<K, T>, f: (x: T) => U): Record<K, U>

const names = { foo: "hello", bar: "world", baz: "bye" };
const lengths = mapObject(names, s => s.length);  // { foo: number, bar: number, baz: number }

TypeScript 2.1 Documentation on Record<T, K>

The only disadvantage I see to using this over {[key: T]: K} is that you can encode useful info on what sort of key you are using in place of "key" e.g. if your object only had prime keys you could hint at that like so: {[prime: number]: yourType}.

Here's a regex I wrote to help with these conversions. This will only convert cases where the label is "key". To convert other labels simply change the first capturing group:

Find: \{\s*\[(key)\s*(+\s*:\s*(\w+)\s*\]\s*:\s*([^\}]+?)\s*;?\s*\}

Replace: Record<$2, $3>

How to fix a header on scroll

I have modified the Coop's answer. Please check the example FIDDLE Here's my edits:

$(window).scroll(function(){
  if ($(window).scrollTop() >= 330) {
    $('.sticky-header').addClass('fixed');
   }
   else {
    $('.sticky-header').removeClass('fixed');
   }
});

How to make a char string from a C macro's value?

He who is Shy* gave you the germ of an answer, but only the germ. The basic technique for converting a value into a string in the C pre-processor is indeed via the '#' operator, but a simple transliteration of the proposed solution gets a compilation error:

#define TEST_FUNC test_func
#define TEST_FUNC_NAME #TEST_FUNC

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
    puts(TEST_FUNC_NAME);
    return(0);
}

The syntax error is on the 'puts()' line - the problem is a 'stray #' in the source.

In section 6.10.3.2 of the C standard, 'The # operator', it says:

Each # preprocessing token in the replacement list for a function-like macro shall be followed by a parameter as the next preprocessing token in the replacement list.

The trouble is that you can convert macro arguments to strings -- but you can't convert random items that are not macro arguments.

So, to achieve the effect you are after, you most certainly have to do some extra work.

#define FUNCTION_NAME(name) #name
#define TEST_FUNC_NAME  FUNCTION_NAME(test_func)

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
    puts(TEST_FUNC_NAME);
    return(0);
}

I'm not completely clear on how you plan to use the macros, and how you plan to avoid repetition altogether. This slightly more elaborate example might be more informative. The use of a macro equivalent to STR_VALUE is an idiom that is necessary to get the desired result.

#define STR_VALUE(arg)      #arg
#define FUNCTION_NAME(name) STR_VALUE(name)

#define TEST_FUNC      test_func
#define TEST_FUNC_NAME FUNCTION_NAME(TEST_FUNC)

#include <stdio.h>

static void TEST_FUNC(void)
{
    printf("In function %s\n", TEST_FUNC_NAME);
}

int main(void)
{
    puts(TEST_FUNC_NAME);
    TEST_FUNC();
    return(0);
}

* At the time when this answer was first written, shoosh's name used 'Shy' as part of the name.

How to format an inline code in Confluence?

If you want to insert a large code block with optional line numbers, etc use the Code Macro (available under Macros -> Other).

Font scaling based on width of container

You may be you looking for something like this:

http://jsfiddle.net/sijav/dGsC9/4/
http://fiddle.jshell.net/sijav/dGsC9/4/show/

I have used flowtype, and it's working great (however it's JavaScript and not a pure CSS solution):

$('body').flowtype({
    minFont: 10,
    maxFont: 40,
    minimum: 500,
    maximum: 1200,
    fontRatio: 70
});

What does 'IISReset' do?

Here what's technet has to say about iisreset

You might need to restart Internet Information Services (IIS) before certain configuration changes take effect or when applications become unavailable. Restarting IIS is the same as first stopping IIS, and then starting it again, except it is accomplished with a single command.

How do I "shake" an Android device within the Android emulator to bring up the dev menu to debug my React Native app

Within your app in the Android Emulator press Command + M on macOS or Ctrl + M on Linux and Windows.

What is the difference between display: inline and display: inline-block?

splattne's answer probably covered most of everything so I won't repeat the same thing, but: inline and inline-block behave differently with the direction CSS property.

Within the next snippet you see one two (in order) is rendered, like it does in LTR layouts. I suspect the browser here auto-detected the English part as LTR text and rendered it from left to right.

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body {_x000D_
  text-align: right;_x000D_
  direction: rtl;_x000D_
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h2 {_x000D_
  display: block; /* just being explicit */_x000D_
}_x000D_
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span {_x000D_
  display: inline;_x000D_
}
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<h2>_x000D_
  ??? ????? ????_x000D_
  <span>one</span>_x000D_
  <span>two</span>_x000D_
</h2>
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However, if I go ahead and set display to inline-block, the browser appears to respect the direction property and render the elements from right to left in order, so that two one is rendered.

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body {_x000D_
  text-align: right;_x000D_
  direction: rtl;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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h2 {_x000D_
  display: block; /* just being explicit */_x000D_
}_x000D_
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span {_x000D_
  display: inline-block;_x000D_
}
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<h2>_x000D_
  ??? ????? ????_x000D_
  <span>one</span>_x000D_
  <span>two</span>_x000D_
</h2>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

I don't know if there are any other quirks to this, I only found about this empirically on Chrome.

Reading a file character by character in C

There are a number of things wrong with your code:

char *readFile(char *fileName)
{
    FILE *file;
    char *code = malloc(1000 * sizeof(char));
    file = fopen(fileName, "r");
    do 
    {
      *code++ = (char)fgetc(file);

    } while(*code != EOF);
    return code;
}
  1. What if the file is greater than 1,000 bytes?
  2. You are increasing code each time you read a character, and you return code back to the caller (even though it is no longer pointing at the first byte of the memory block as it was returned by malloc).
  3. You are casting the result of fgetc(file) to char. You need to check for EOF before casting the result to char.

It is important to maintain the original pointer returned by malloc so that you can free it later. If we disregard the file size, we can achieve this still with the following:

char *readFile(char *fileName)
{
    FILE *file = fopen(fileName, "r");
    char *code;
    size_t n = 0;
    int c;

    if (file == NULL)
        return NULL; //could not open file

    code = malloc(1000);

    while ((c = fgetc(file)) != EOF)
    {
        code[n++] = (char) c;
    }

    // don't forget to terminate with the null character
    code[n] = '\0';        

    return code;
}

There are various system calls that will give you the size of a file; a common one is stat.

How can I get a resource "Folder" from inside my jar File?

The following code returns the wanted "folder" as Path regardless of if it is inside a jar or not.

  private Path getFolderPath() throws URISyntaxException, IOException {
    URI uri = getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("folder").toURI();
    if ("jar".equals(uri.getScheme())) {
      FileSystem fileSystem = FileSystems.newFileSystem(uri, Collections.emptyMap(), null);
      return fileSystem.getPath("path/to/folder/inside/jar");
    } else {
      return Paths.get(uri);
    }
  }

Requires java 7+.

Split Java String by New Line

The above answers did not help me on Android, thanks to the Pshemo response that worked for me on Android. I will leave some of Pshemo's answer here :

split("\\\\n")

Mocking HttpClient in unit tests

Perhaps there would be some code to change in your current project but for new projects you should absolutely consider using Flurl.

https://flurl.dev

It is a HTTP client library for .NET with a fluent interface that specifically enables testability for code that uses it to make HTTP requests.

There are plenty of code samples on the website but in a nutshell you use it like this in your code.

Add the usings.

using Flurl;
using Flurl.Http;

Send a get request and read the response.

public async Task SendGetRequest()
{
   var response = await "https://example.com".GetAsync();
   // ...
}

In the unit tests Flurl acts as a mock that can be configured to behave as desired and also to verify the calls that were done.

using (var httpTest = new HttpTest())
{
   // Arrange
   httpTest.RespondWith("OK", 200);

   // Act
   await sut.SendGetRequest();

   // Assert
   httpTest.ShouldHaveCalled("https://example.com")
      .WithVerb(HttpMethod.Get);
}

How to format time since xxx e.g. “4 minutes ago” similar to Stack Exchange sites

My stab at this based on other answers.

function timeSince(date) {
    let minute = 60;
    let hour   = minute * 60;
    let day    = hour   * 24;
    let month  = day    * 30;
    let year   = day    * 365;

    let suffix = ' ago';

    let elapsed = Math.floor((Date.now() - date) / 1000);

    if (elapsed < minute) {
        return 'just now';
    }

    // get an array in the form of [number, string]
    let a = elapsed < hour  && [Math.floor(elapsed / minute), 'minute'] ||
            elapsed < day   && [Math.floor(elapsed / hour), 'hour']     ||
            elapsed < month && [Math.floor(elapsed / day), 'day']       ||
            elapsed < year  && [Math.floor(elapsed / month), 'month']   ||
            [Math.floor(elapsed / year), 'year'];

    // pluralise and append suffix
    return a[0] + ' ' + a[1] + (a[0] === 1 ? '' : 's') + suffix;
}

Property 'value' does not exist on type 'Readonly<{}>'

According to the official ReactJs documentation, you need to pass argument in the default format witch is:

P = {} // default for your props
S = {} // default for yout state

interface Component<P = {}, S = {}> extends ComponentLifecycle<P, S> { }

Or to define your own type like below: (just an exp)

interface IProps {
    clients: Readonly<IClientModel[]>;

    onSubmit: (data: IClientModel) => void;
}

interface IState {
   clients: Readonly<IClientModel[]>;
   loading: boolean;
}

class ClientsPage extends React.Component<IProps, IState> {
  // ...
}

typescript and react whats react component P S mean

how to statically type react components with typescript

Serializing class instance to JSON

Python3.x

The best aproach I could reach with my knowledge was this.
Note that this code treat set() too.
This approach is generic just needing the extension of class (in the second example).
Note that I'm just doing it to files, but it's easy to modify the behavior to your taste.

However this is a CoDec.

With a little more work you can construct your class in other ways. I assume a default constructor to instance it, then I update the class dict.

import json
import collections


class JsonClassSerializable(json.JSONEncoder):

    REGISTERED_CLASS = {}

    def register(ctype):
        JsonClassSerializable.REGISTERED_CLASS[ctype.__name__] = ctype

    def default(self, obj):
        if isinstance(obj, collections.Set):
            return dict(_set_object=list(obj))
        if isinstance(obj, JsonClassSerializable):
            jclass = {}
            jclass["name"] = type(obj).__name__
            jclass["dict"] = obj.__dict__
            return dict(_class_object=jclass)
        else:
            return json.JSONEncoder.default(self, obj)

    def json_to_class(self, dct):
        if '_set_object' in dct:
            return set(dct['_set_object'])
        elif '_class_object' in dct:
            cclass = dct['_class_object']
            cclass_name = cclass["name"]
            if cclass_name not in self.REGISTERED_CLASS:
                raise RuntimeError(
                    "Class {} not registered in JSON Parser"
                    .format(cclass["name"])
                )
            instance = self.REGISTERED_CLASS[cclass_name]()
            instance.__dict__ = cclass["dict"]
            return instance
        return dct

    def encode_(self, file):
        with open(file, 'w') as outfile:
            json.dump(
                self.__dict__, outfile,
                cls=JsonClassSerializable,
                indent=4,
                sort_keys=True
            )

    def decode_(self, file):
        try:
            with open(file, 'r') as infile:
                self.__dict__ = json.load(
                    infile,
                    object_hook=self.json_to_class
                )
        except FileNotFoundError:
            print("Persistence load failed "
                  "'{}' do not exists".format(file)
                  )


class C(JsonClassSerializable):

    def __init__(self):
        self.mill = "s"


JsonClassSerializable.register(C)


class B(JsonClassSerializable):

    def __init__(self):
        self.a = 1230
        self.c = C()


JsonClassSerializable.register(B)


class A(JsonClassSerializable):

    def __init__(self):
        self.a = 1
        self.b = {1, 2}
        self.c = B()

JsonClassSerializable.register(A)

A().encode_("test")
b = A()
b.decode_("test")
print(b.a)
print(b.b)
print(b.c.a)

Edit

With some more of research I found a way to generalize without the need of the SUPERCLASS register method call, using a metaclass

import json
import collections

REGISTERED_CLASS = {}

class MetaSerializable(type):

    def __call__(cls, *args, **kwargs):
        if cls.__name__ not in REGISTERED_CLASS:
            REGISTERED_CLASS[cls.__name__] = cls
        return super(MetaSerializable, cls).__call__(*args, **kwargs)


class JsonClassSerializable(json.JSONEncoder, metaclass=MetaSerializable):

    def default(self, obj):
        if isinstance(obj, collections.Set):
            return dict(_set_object=list(obj))
        if isinstance(obj, JsonClassSerializable):
            jclass = {}
            jclass["name"] = type(obj).__name__
            jclass["dict"] = obj.__dict__
            return dict(_class_object=jclass)
        else:
            return json.JSONEncoder.default(self, obj)

    def json_to_class(self, dct):
        if '_set_object' in dct:
            return set(dct['_set_object'])
        elif '_class_object' in dct:
            cclass = dct['_class_object']
            cclass_name = cclass["name"]
            if cclass_name not in REGISTERED_CLASS:
                raise RuntimeError(
                    "Class {} not registered in JSON Parser"
                    .format(cclass["name"])
                )
            instance = REGISTERED_CLASS[cclass_name]()
            instance.__dict__ = cclass["dict"]
            return instance
        return dct

    def encode_(self, file):
        with open(file, 'w') as outfile:
            json.dump(
                self.__dict__, outfile,
                cls=JsonClassSerializable,
                indent=4,
                sort_keys=True
            )

    def decode_(self, file):
        try:
            with open(file, 'r') as infile:
                self.__dict__ = json.load(
                    infile,
                    object_hook=self.json_to_class
                )
        except FileNotFoundError:
            print("Persistence load failed "
                  "'{}' do not exists".format(file)
                  )


class C(JsonClassSerializable):

    def __init__(self):
        self.mill = "s"


class B(JsonClassSerializable):

    def __init__(self):
        self.a = 1230
        self.c = C()


class A(JsonClassSerializable):

    def __init__(self):
        self.a = 1
        self.b = {1, 2}
        self.c = B()


A().encode_("test")
b = A()
b.decode_("test")
print(b.a)
# 1
print(b.b)
# {1, 2}
print(b.c.a)
# 1230
print(b.c.c.mill)
# s

Changing CSS Values with Javascript

I don't have rep enough to comment so I'll format an answer, yet it is only a demonstration of the issue in question.

It seems, when element styles are defined in stylesheets they are not visible to getElementById("someElement").style

This code illustrates the issue... Code from below on jsFiddle.

In Test 2, on the first call, the items left value is undefined, and so, what should be a simple toggle gets messed up. For my use I will define my important style values inline, but it does seem to partially defeat the purpose of the stylesheet.

Here's the page code...

<html>
  <head>
    <style type="text/css">
      #test2a{
        position: absolute;
        left: 0px;
        width: 50px;
        height: 50px;
        background-color: green;
        border: 4px solid black;
      }
      #test2b{
        position: absolute;
        left: 55px;
        width: 50px;
        height: 50px;
        background-color: yellow;
        margin: 4px;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>

  <!-- test1 -->
    Swap left positions function with styles defined inline.
    <a href="javascript:test1();">Test 1</a><br>
    <div class="container">
      <div id="test1a" style="position: absolute;left: 0px;width: 50px; height: 50px;background-color: green;border: 4px solid black;"></div>
      <div id="test1b" style="position: absolute;left: 55px;width: 50px; height: 50px;background-color: yellow;margin: 4px;"></div>
    </div>
    <script type="text/javascript">
     function test1(){
       var a = document.getElementById("test1a");
       var b = document.getElementById("test1b");
       alert(a.style.left + " - " + b.style.left);
       a.style.left = (a.style.left == "0px")? "55px" : "0px";
       b.style.left = (b.style.left == "0px")? "55px" : "0px";
     }
    </script>
  <!-- end test 1 -->

  <!-- test2 -->
    <div id="moveDownThePage" style="position: relative;top: 70px;">
    Identical function with styles defined in stylesheet.
    <a href="javascript:test2();">Test 2</a><br>
    <div class="container">
      <div id="test2a"></div>
      <div id="test2b"></div>
    </div>
    </div>
    <script type="text/javascript">
     function test2(){
       var a = document.getElementById("test2a");
       var b = document.getElementById("test2b");
       alert(a.style.left + " - " + b.style.left);
       a.style.left = (a.style.left == "0px")? "55px" : "0px";
       b.style.left = (b.style.left == "0px")? "55px" : "0px";
     }
    </script>
  <!-- end test 2 -->

  </body>
</html>

I hope this helps to illuminate the issue.

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How do I get a platform-dependent new line character?

In addition to the line.separator property, if you are using java 1.5 or later and the String.format (or other formatting methods) you can use %n as in

Calendar c = ...;
String s = String.format("Duke's Birthday: %1$tm %1$te,%1$tY%n", c); 
//Note `%n` at end of line                                  ^^

String s2 = String.format("Use %%n as a platform independent newline.%n"); 
//         %% becomes %        ^^
//                                        and `%n` becomes newline   ^^

See the Java 1.8 API for Formatter for more details.

MongoDB vs Firebase

  • Firebase is a real-time engine with backward connectivity. I.e. you might build a cross-platform app where clients subscribe to events on specific data and server actively informs clients about changes
  • The data layer is hosted for you. Mind that it is highly scalable. It's a nice kickstarter solution. Including auth management
  • Geo-Fire. Real-time geo coordinates solution.
  • Evident drawbacks of Firebase are:
    • You have to pay for it as soon as you start growing
    • You can't host datalayer (if owning data is critical or you develop an app for some separated subnet)

EDIT: here is a nice article how to replace Firebase in your app with Node.js+MongoDb. It shows how much work you would have to do on your own, and explains, IMHO, why a startup (small app) should begin with Firebase (if real-time updates to clients are required) and proceed with MongoDb (in any case self-written solution) if the project keeps evolving

EDIT 2: after being acquired by Google Firebase now offers various perks on top of its basic features which you would struggle to build on your own:

  • For development

    • Cloud Messaging: Deliver and receive messages across platforms reliably
    • File Storage: Easy file storage (including iOS)
    • Hosting: deliver static files from Firebase's servers (Included in Free plan)
    • Crash Reporting: Not a full logging service, but crucial help
  • For growth

What does "make oldconfig" do exactly in the Linux kernel makefile?

It's torture. Instead of including a generic conf file, they make you hit return 9000 times to generate one.

Throwing exceptions in a PHP Try Catch block

Just remove the throw from the catch block — change it to an echo or otherwise handle the error.

It's not telling you that objects can only be thrown in the catch block, it's telling you that only objects can be thrown, and the location of the error is in the catch block — there is a difference.

In the catch block you are trying to throw something you just caught — which in this context makes little sense anyway — and the thing you are trying to throw is a string.

A real-world analogy of what you are doing is catching a ball, then trying to throw just the manufacturer's logo somewhere else. You can only throw a whole object, not a property of the object.

How do I make an HTML text box show a hint when empty?

I'm using a simple, one line javascript solution which works great. Here is an example both for textbox and for textarea:

    <textarea onfocus="if (this.value == 'Text') { this.value = ''; }" onblur="if (this.value == '') { this.value = 'Text'; }">Text</textarea>

    <input type="text" value="Text" onfocus="if (this.value == 'Text') { this.value = ''; }" onblur="if (this.value == '') { this.value = 'Text'; }">

only "downside" is to validate at $_POST or in Javascript validation before doing anything with the value of the field. Meaning, checking that the field's value isn't "Text".

How to set background color of a View

Stating with Android 6 use ContextCompact

        view.setBackgroundColor( ContextCompat.getColor(this, R.color.your_color));

onActivityResult is not being called in Fragment

Solution 1:

Call startActivityForResult(intent, REQUEST_CODE); instead of getActivity().startActivityForResult(intent, REQUEST_CODE);.

Solution 2:

When startActivityForResult(intent, REQUEST_CODE); is called the activity's onActivityResult(requestCode,resultcode,intent) is invoked, and then you can call fragments onActivityResult() from here, passing the requestCode, resultCode and intent.

Find a string between 2 known values

For future reference, I found this code snippet at http://www.mycsharpcorner.com/Post.aspx?postID=15 If you need to search for different "tags" it works very well.

    public static string[] GetStringInBetween(string strBegin,
        string strEnd, string strSource,
        bool includeBegin, bool includeEnd)           
    {
        string[] result ={ "", "" };
        int iIndexOfBegin = strSource.IndexOf(strBegin);
        if (iIndexOfBegin != -1)
        {
            // include the Begin string if desired
            if (includeBegin)
                iIndexOfBegin -= strBegin.Length;
            strSource = strSource.Substring(iIndexOfBegin
                + strBegin.Length);
            int iEnd = strSource.IndexOf(strEnd);
            if (iEnd != -1)
            {
                // include the End string if desired
                if (includeEnd)
                    iEnd += strEnd.Length;
                result[0] = strSource.Substring(0, iEnd);
                // advance beyond this segment
                if (iEnd + strEnd.Length < strSource.Length)
                    result[1] = strSource.Substring(iEnd
                        + strEnd.Length);
            }
        }
        else
            // stay where we are
            result[1] = strSource;
        return result;
    }

T-SQL XOR Operator

From your comment:

Example: WHERE (Note is null) ^ (ID is null)

you could probably try:

where
   (case when Note is null then 1 else 0 end)
 <>(case when ID is null then 1 else 0 end)

Spring JPA and persistence.xml

If anyone wants to use purely Java configuration instead of xml configuration of hibernate, use this:

You can configure Hibernate without using persistence.xml at all in Spring like like this:

@Bean
public LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean entityManagerFactoryBean()
{
Map<String, Object> properties = new Hashtable<>();
properties.put("javax.persistence.schema-generation.database.action",
"none");
HibernateJpaVendorAdapter adapter = new HibernateJpaVendorAdapter();
adapter.setDatabasePlatform("org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect"); //you can change this if you have a different DB
LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean factory = new LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean();
factory.setJpaVendorAdapter(adapter);
factory.setDataSource(this.springJpaDataSource());
factory.setPackagesToScan("package name");
factory.setSharedCacheMode(SharedCacheMode.ENABLE_SELECTIVE);
factory.setValidationMode(ValidationMode.NONE);
factory.setJpaPropertyMap(properties);
return factory;
}

Since you are not using persistence.xml, you should create a bean that returns DataSource which you specify in the above method that sets the data source:

@Bean
public DataSource springJpaDataSource()
{
DriverManagerDataSource dataSource = new DriverManagerDataSource();
dataSource.setUrl("jdbc:mysql://localhost/SpringJpa");
dataSource.setUsername("tomcatUser");
dataSource.setPassword("password1234");
return dataSource;
}

Then you use @EnableTransactionManagement annotation over this configuration file. Now when you put that annotation, you have to create one last bean:

@Bean
public PlatformTransactionManager jpaTransactionManager()
{
return new JpaTransactionManager(
this.entityManagerFactoryBean().getObject());
}

Now, don't forget to use @Transactional Annotation over those method that deal with DB.

Lastly, don't forget to inject EntityManager in your repository (This repository class should have @Repository annotation over it).

What is the difference between ExecuteScalar, ExecuteReader and ExecuteNonQuery?

To add to what others posted:

ExecuteScalar conceptually returns the leftmost column from the first row of the resultset from the query; you could ExecuteScalar a SELECT * FROM staff, but you'd only get the first cell of the resulting rows Typically used for queries that return a single value. I'm not 100% sure about SQLServer but in Oracle, you wouldnt use it to run a FUNCTION (a database code that returns a single value) and expect it to give you the return value of the function even though functions return single values.. However, if youre running the function as part of a query, e.g. SELECT SUBSTR('abc', 1, 1) FROM DUAL then it would give the return value by virtue of the fact that the return value is stored in the top leftmost cell of the resulting rowset

ExecuteNonQuery would be used to run database stored procedures, functions and queries that modify data (INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE) or modify database structure (CREATE TABLE...). Typically the return value of the call is an indication of how many rows were affected by the operation but check the DB documentation to guarantee this

Pandas Split Dataframe into two Dataframes at a specific row

iloc

df1 = datasX.iloc[:, :72]
df2 = datasX.iloc[:, 72:]

(iloc docs)

How to set a Default Route (To an Area) in MVC

Locating the different building blocks is done in the request life cycle. One of the first steps in the ASP.NET MVC request life cycle is mapping the requested URL to the correct controller action method. This process is referred to as routing. A default route is initialized in the Global.asax file and describes to the ASP.NET MVC framework how to handle a request. Double-clicking on the Global.asax file in the MvcApplication1 project will display the following code:

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Web; using System.Web.Mvc; using System.Web.Routing;

namespace MvcApplication1 {

   public class GlobalApplication : System.Web.HttpApplication
   {
       public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
       {
           routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

           routes.MapRoute(
               "Default",                                          // Route name
               "{controller}/{action}/{id}",                       // URL with parameters
               new { controller = "Home", action = "Index",
                     id = "" }  // Parameter defaults
           );

       }

       protected void Application_Start()
       {
           RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
       }
   }

}

In the Application_Start() event handler, which is fired whenever the application is compiled or the web server is restarted, a route table is registered. The default route is named Default, and responds to a URL in the form of http://www.example.com/{controller}/{action}/{id}. The variables between { and } are populated with actual values from the request URL or with the default values if no override is present in the URL. This default route will map to the Home controller and to the Index action method, according to the default routing parameters. We won't have any other action with this routing map.

By default, all the possible URLs can be mapped through this default route. It is also possible to create our own routes. For example, let's map the URL http://www.example.com/Employee/Maarten to the Employee controller, the Show action, and the firstname parameter. The following code snippet can be inserted in the Global.asax file we've just opened. Because the ASP.NET MVC framework uses the first matching route, this code snippet should be inserted above the default route; otherwise the route will never be used.

routes.MapRoute(

   "EmployeeShow",                    // Route name
   "Employee/{firstname}",            // URL with parameters
    new {                             // Parameter defaults
       controller = "Employee",
       action = "Show", 
       firstname = "" 
   }  

);

Now, let's add the necessary components for this route. First of all, create a class named EmployeeController in the Controllers folder. You can do this by adding a new item to the project and selecting the MVC Controller Class template located under the Web | MVC category. Remove the Index action method, and replace it with a method or action named Show. This method accepts a firstname parameter and passes the data into the ViewData dictionary. This dictionary will be used by the view to display data.

The EmployeeController class will pass an Employee object to the view. This Employee class should be added in the Models folder (right-click on this folder and then select Add | Class from the context menu). Here's the code for the Employee class:

namespace MvcApplication1.Models {

   public class Employee
   {
       public string FirstName { get; set; }
       public string LastName { get; set; }
       public string Email { get; set; }
   }

} 

Concatenate two slices in Go

Appending to and copying slices

The variadic function append appends zero or more values x to s of type S, which must be a slice type, and returns the resulting slice, also of type S. The values x are passed to a parameter of type ...T where T is the element type of S and the respective parameter passing rules apply. As a special case, append also accepts a first argument assignable to type []byte with a second argument of string type followed by .... This form appends the bytes of the string.

append(s S, x ...T) S  // T is the element type of S

s0 := []int{0, 0}
s1 := append(s0, 2)        // append a single element     s1 == []int{0, 0, 2}
s2 := append(s1, 3, 5, 7)  // append multiple elements    s2 == []int{0, 0, 2, 3, 5, 7}
s3 := append(s2, s0...)    // append a slice              s3 == []int{0, 0, 2, 3, 5, 7, 0, 0}

Passing arguments to ... parameters

If f is variadic with final parameter type ...T, then within the function the argument is equivalent to a parameter of type []T. At each call of f, the argument passed to the final parameter is a new slice of type []T whose successive elements are the actual arguments, which all must be assignable to the type T. The length of the slice is therefore the number of arguments bound to the final parameter and may differ for each call site.

The answer to your question is example s3 := append(s2, s0...) in the Go Programming Language Specification. For example,

s := append([]int{1, 2}, []int{3, 4}...)

Iterate over object keys in node.js

For simple iteration of key/values, sometimes libraries like underscorejs can be your friend.

const _ = require('underscore');

_.each(a, function (value, key) {
    // handle
});

just for reference

Inserting a value into all possible locations in a list

If you want to insert a list into a list, you can do this:

>>> a = [1,2,3,4,5]
>>> for x in reversed(['a','b','c']): a.insert(2,x)
>>> a
[1, 2, 'a', 'b', 'c', 3, 4, 5]

getResources().getColor() is deprecated

You need to use ContextCompat.getColor(), which is part of the Support V4 Library (so it will work for all the previous API).

ContextCompat.getColor(context, R.color.my_color)

As specified in the documentation, "Starting in M, the returned color will be styled for the specified Context's theme". SO no need to worry about it.

You can add the Support V4 library by adding the following to the dependencies array inside your app build.gradle:

compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:23.0.1'

How do I pass parameters into a PHP script through a webpage?

Presumably you're passing the arguments in on the command line as follows:

php /path/to/wwwpublic/path/to/script.php arg1 arg2

... and then accessing them in the script thusly:

<?php
// $argv[0] is '/path/to/wwwpublic/path/to/script.php'
$argument1 = $argv[1];
$argument2 = $argv[2];
?>

What you need to be doing when passing arguments through HTTP (accessing the script over the web) is using the query string and access them through the $_GET superglobal:

Go to http://yourdomain.com/path/to/script.php?argument1=arg1&argument2=arg2

... and access:

<?php
$argument1 = $_GET['argument1'];
$argument2 = $_GET['argument2'];
?>

If you want the script to run regardless of where you call it from (command line or from the browser) you'll want something like the following:

EDIT: as pointed out by Cthulhu in the comments, the most direct way to test which environment you're executing in is to use the PHP_SAPI constant. I've updated the code accordingly:

<?php
if (PHP_SAPI === 'cli') {
    $argument1 = $argv[1];
    $argument2 = $argv[2];
}
else {
    $argument1 = $_GET['argument1'];
    $argument2 = $_GET['argument2'];
}
?>

How to clear cache of Eclipse Indigo

You can always create a new Eclipse workspace. The Eclipse.exe -clean option is not sufficient in some cases, for example, if the local history becomes a problem.

Edit:

Eclipse is mostly a collection of third party plugins. And each of those plugins can add some extra useful, useless or problematic information to the central Eclipse workspace meta-data folder.

The problem is that not every plugin participates during the user-issued cleanup routine. Therefore, I'd say that it is a problem in the system design of Eclipse, that it allows plugins to misbehave like this.

And therefore, I'd recommend to make yourself comfortable with the idea of using multiple workspaces and linking-in external project entities into each workspace. Because, this is the only workaround for the given system design, to handle faulty plugins that spam your workspace.

$.browser is undefined error

The .browser call has been removed in jquery 1.9 have a look at http://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/1.9/ for more details.

How to reset Android Studio

For MaxOSX:

rm -rfv ~/Library/Application\ Support/AndroidStudio*
rm -rfv ~/Library/Preferences/AndroidStudio*
rm -rfv ~/Library/Caches/AndroidStudio*
rm -rfv ~/Library/Logs/AndroidStudio*
rm -rfv ~/.AndroidStudio*

For Android Studio 1.2.2 version, config path is ~/Library/Application\ Support/AndroidStudio1.2/ and ~/Library/Preferences/AndroidStudio1.2, so it's better to rm matching prefix.

Vim delete blank lines

Found it, it's:

g/^\s*$/d

Source: Power of g at vim wikia

Brief explanation of :g

:[range]g/pattern/cmd

This acts on the specified [range] (default whole file), by executing the Ex command cmd for each line matching pattern (an Ex command is one starting with a colon such as :d for delete). Before executing cmd, "." is set to the current line.

How to use http.client in Node.js if there is basic authorization

You have to set the Authorization field in the header.

It contains the authentication type Basic in this case and the username:password combination which gets encoded in Base64:

var username = 'Test';
var password = '123';
var auth = 'Basic ' + Buffer.from(username + ':' + password).toString('base64');
// new Buffer() is deprecated from v6

// auth is: 'Basic VGVzdDoxMjM='

var header = {'Host': 'www.example.com', 'Authorization': auth};
var request = client.request('GET', '/', header);

Android Studio gradle takes too long to build

I had the same problem, even the gradle build ran for 8 hours and i was worried. But later on i changed the compile sdk version and minimum sdk version in build.gradle file like this.

Older:

android {
compileSdkVersion 25
buildToolsVersion "29.0.2"

defaultConfig {
    applicationId "com.uwebtechnology.salahadmin"
    minSdkVersion 9
    targetSdkVersion 25
}

New (Updated):

android 
{
  compileSdkVersion 28
   buildToolsVersion "25.0.2"

 defaultConfig {
    applicationId "com.uwebtechnology.salahadmin"
    minSdkVersion 15
    targetSdkVersion 28
 }

link with target="_blank" does not open in new tab in Chrome

Because JavaScript is handling the click event. When you click, the following code is called:

el.addEvent('click', function(e){
    if(obj.options.onOpen){
        new Event(e).stop();
        if(obj.options.open == i){
            obj.options.open = null;
            obj.options.onClose(this.href, i);
        }else{
            obj.options.open = i;
            obj.options.onOpen(this.href, i);
        }   
    }       
})

The onOpen manually changes the location.

Edit: Regarding your comment... If you can modify ImageMenu.js, you could update the script which calls onClose to pass the a element object (this, rather than this.href)

obj.options.onClose(this, i);

Then update your ImageMenu instance, with the following onOpen change:

window.addEvent('domready', function(){
    var myMenu = new ImageMenu($$('#imageMenu a'), {
        openWidth: 310,
        border: 2,
        onOpen: function(e, i) {
            if (e.target === '_blank') {
                window.open(e.href);    
            } else {
                location = e.href;
            }
        }
    });
});

This would check for the target property of the element to see if it's _blank, and then call window.open, if found.

If you'd prefer not to modify ImageMenu.js, another option would be to modify your links to identify them in your onOpen handler. Say something like:

<a href="http://www.foracure.org.au/#_b=1" target="_blank" style="width: 105px;"></a>

Then, update your onOpen call to:

onOpen: function(e, i) {
    if (e.indexOf('_b=1') > -1) {
        window.open(e);   
    } else {
        location = e;
    }
}

The only downside to this is the user sees the hash on hover.

Finally, if the number of links that you plan to open in a new window are low, you could create a map and check against that. Something like:

var linksThatOpenInANewWindow = {
    'http://www.foracure.org.au': 1
};

onOpen: function(e, i) {
    if (linksThatOpenInANewWindow[e] === 1) {
        window.open(e);   
    } else {
        location = e
    }
}

The only downside is maintenance, depending on the number of links.

Others have suggested modifying the link (using # or javascript:) and adding an inline event handler (onclick) - I don't recommend that at all as it breaks links when JS is disabled/not supported.

What is a 'Closure'?

Functions containing no free variables are called pure functions.

Functions containing one or more free variables are called closures.

var pure = function pure(x){
  return x 
  // only own environment is used
}

var foo = "bar"

var closure = function closure(){
  return foo 
  // foo is a free variable from the outer environment
}

src: https://leanpub.com/javascriptallongesix/read#leanpub-auto-if-functions-without-free-variables-are-pure-are-closures-impure

Display date in dd/mm/yyyy format in vb.net

I found this catered for dates in 21st Century that could be entered as dd/mm or dd/mm/yy. It is intended to print an attendance register and asks for the meeting date to start with.

Sub Print_Register()

Dim MeetingDate, Answer

    Sheets("Register").Select
    Range("A1").Select
GetDate:
    MeetingDate = DateValue(InputBox("Enter the date of the meeting." & Chr(13) & _
    "Note Format" & Chr(13) & "Format DD/MM/YY or DD/MM", "Meeting Date", , 10000, 10000))
    If MeetingDate = "" Then GoTo TheEnd
    If MeetingDate < 36526 Then MeetingDate = MeetingDate + 36526
    Range("Current_Meeting_Date") = MeetingDate
    Answer = MsgBox("Date OK?", 3)
    If Answer = 2 Then GoTo TheEnd
    If Answer = 7 Then GoTo GetDate
    ExecuteExcel4Macro "PRINT(1,,,1,,,,,,,,2,,,TRUE,,FALSE)"
TheEnd:
End Sub

Could not install Gradle distribution from 'https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.1-all.zip'

If you are on Windows, you can go to:

C:\Users\{your_name}\.gradle

And delete all the references of the gradle package you can find in those folders:

  1. caches
  2. daemon
  3. wrapper

Then re-open your project and sync gradle

error C2065: 'cout' : undeclared identifier

Are you sure it's compiling as C++? Check your file name (it should end in .cpp). Check your project settings.

There's simply nothing wrong with your program, and cout is in namespace std. Your installation of VS 2010 Beta 2 is defective, and I don't think it's just your installation.

I don't think VS 2010 is ready for C++ yet. The standard "Hello, World" program didn't work on Beta 1. I just tried creating a test Win32 console application, and the generated test.cpp file didn't have a main() function.

I've got a really, really bad feeling about VS 2010.

Getting the location from an IP address

You could download a free GeoIP database and lookup the IP address locally, or you could use a third party service and perform a remote lookup. This is the simpler option, as it requires no setup, but it does introduce additional latency.

One third party service you could use is mine, http://ipinfo.io. They provide hostname, geolocation, network owner and additional information, eg:

$ curl ipinfo.io/8.8.8.8
{
  "ip": "8.8.8.8",
  "hostname": "google-public-dns-a.google.com",
  "loc": "37.385999999999996,-122.0838",
  "org": "AS15169 Google Inc.",
  "city": "Mountain View",
  "region": "CA",
  "country": "US",
  "phone": 650
}

Here's a PHP example:

$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$details = json_decode(file_get_contents("http://ipinfo.io/{$ip}/json"));
echo $details->city; // -> "Mountain View"

You can also use it client-side. Here's a simple jQuery example:

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$.get("https://ipinfo.io/json", function (response) {_x000D_
    $("#ip").html("IP: " + response.ip);_x000D_
    $("#address").html("Location: " + response.city + ", " + response.region);_x000D_
    $("#details").html(JSON.stringify(response, null, 4));_x000D_
}, "jsonp");
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<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<h3>Client side IP geolocation using <a href="http://ipinfo.io">ipinfo.io</a></h3>_x000D_
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<hr/>_x000D_
<div id="ip"></div>_x000D_
<div id="address"></div>_x000D_
<hr/>Full response: <pre id="details"></pre>
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Postgresql -bash: psql: command not found

It can be due to psql not being in PATH

$ locate psql
/usr/lib/postgresql/9.6/bin/psql

Then create a link in /usr/bin

ln -s /usr/lib/postgresql/9.6/bin/psql /usr/bin/psql

Then try to execute psql it should work.

No internet on Android emulator - why and how to fix?

If you are using eclipse try:

Window > Preferences > Android > Launch

Default emulator options: -dns-server 8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4

Is it possible to sort a ES6 map object?

Short answer

 new Map([...map].sort((a, b) => 
   // Some sort function comparing keys with a[0] b[0] or values with a[1] b[1]
 ))

If you're expecting strings: As normal for .sort you need to return -1 if lower and 0 if equal; for strings, the recommended way is using .localeCompare() which does this correctly and automatically handles awkward characters like ä where the position varies by user locale.

So here's how to sort a map by string keys:

 new Map([...map].sort((a, b) => String(a[0]).localeCompare(b[0])))

...and by string values:

 new Map([...map].sort((a, b) => String(a[1]).localeCompare(b[1])))

In detail with examples

tldr: ...map.entries() is redundant, just ...map is fine; and a lazy .sort() without passing a sort function risks weird edge case bugs caused by string coercion.

The .entries() in [...map.entries()] (suggested in many answers) is redundant, probably adding an extra iteration of the map unless the JS engine optimises that away for you.

In the simple test case, you can do what the question asks for with:

new Map([...map].sort())

...which, if the keys are all strings, compares squashed and coerced comma-joined key-value strings like '2-1,foo' and '0-1,[object Object]', returning a new Map with the new insertion order:

Note: if you see only {} in SO's console output, look in your real browser console

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const map = new Map([
  ['2-1', 'foo'],
  ['0-1', { bar: 'bar' }],
  ['3-5', () => 'fuz'],
  ['3-2', [ 'baz' ]]
])

console.log(new Map([...map].sort()))
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HOWEVER, it's not a good practice to rely on coercion and stringification like this. You can get surprises like:

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const map = new Map([
  ['2', '3,buh?'],
  ['2,1', 'foo'],
  ['0,1', { bar: 'bar' }],
  ['3,5', () => 'fuz'],
  ['3,2', [ 'baz' ]],
])

// Compares '2,3,buh?' with '2,1,foo'
// Therefore sorts ['2', '3,buh?'] ******AFTER****** ['2,1', 'foo']
console.log('Buh?', new Map([...map].sort()))

// Let's see exactly what each iteration is using as its comparator
for (const iteration of map) {
  console.log(iteration.toString())
}
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Bugs like this are really hard to debug - don't risk it!

If you want to sort on keys or values, it's best to access them explicitly with a[0] and b[0] in the sort function, like this. Note that we should return -1 and 1 for before and after, not false or 0 as with raw a[0] > b[0] because that is treated as equals:

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const map = new Map([
  ['2,1', 'this is overwritten'],
  ['2,1', '0,1'],
  ['0,1', '2,1'],
  ['2,2', '3,5'],
  ['3,5', '2,1'],
  ['2', ',9,9']
])

const sortStringKeys = (a, b) => String(a[0]).localeCompare(b[0])
const sortStringValues = (a, b) => String(a[1]).localeCompare(b[1])

console.log('By keys:', new Map([...map].sort(sortStringKeys)))
console.log('By values:', new Map([...map].sort(sortStringValues)))
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no suitable HttpMessageConverter found for response type

In addition to all the answers, if you happen to receive in response text/html while you've expected something else (i.e. application/json), it may suggest that an error occurred on the server side (say 404) and the error page was returned instead of your data.

So it happened in my case. Hope it will save somebody's time.

How to select some rows with specific rownames from a dataframe?

You can also use this:

DF[paste0("stu",c(2,3,5,9)), ]

Listing contents of a bucket with boto3

Here is the solution

import boto3

s3=boto3.resource('s3')
BUCKET_NAME = 'Your S3 Bucket Name'
allFiles = s3.Bucket(BUCKET_NAME).objects.all()
for file in allFiles:
    print(file.key)

What is the right way to POST multipart/form-data using curl?

The following syntax fixes it for you:

curl -v -F key1=value1 -F upload=@localfilename URL

getting the reason why websockets closed with close code 1006

In my and possibly @BIOHAZARD case it was nginx proxy timeout. In default it's 60 sec without activity in socket

I changed it to 24h in nginx and it resolved problem

proxy_read_timeout 86400s;
proxy_send_timeout 86400s;

KeyListener, keyPressed versus keyTyped

private String message;
private ScreenManager s;


//Here is an example of code to add the keyListener() as suggested; modify 
public void init(){
Window w = s.getFullScreenWindow();
w.addKeyListener(this);

public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e){
    int keyCode = e.getKeyCode();
        if(keyCode == KeyEvent.VK_F5)
            message = "Pressed: " + KeyEvent.getKeyText(keyCode);
}

PostgreSQL error: Fatal: role "username" does not exist

Use the operating system user postgres to create your database - as long as you haven't set up a database role with the necessary privileges that corresponds to your operating system user of the same name (h9uest in your case):

sudo -u postgres -i

As recommended here or here.

Then try again. Type exit when done with operating as system user postgres.

Or execute the single command createuser as postgres with sudo, like demonstrated by drees in another answer.

The point is to use the operating system user matching the database role of the same name to be granted access via ident authentication. postgres is the default operating system user to have initialized the database cluster. The manual:

In order to bootstrap the database system, a freshly initialized system always contains one predefined role. This role is always a “superuser”, and by default (unless altered when running initdb) it will have the same name as the operating system user that initialized the database cluster. Customarily, this role will be named postgres. In order to create more roles you first have to connect as this initial role.

I have heard of odd setups with non-standard user names or where the operating system user does not exist. You'd need to adapt your strategy there.

Read about database roles and client authentication in the manual.

Read all contacts' phone numbers in android

I fixed my need belove

manifest permissions

        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CONTACTS" />
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_CONTACTS"/>
        <!-- Read Contacts from phone -->
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.read_contacts" />
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.read_phone_state" />
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CALL_LOG" />

Note: After giving permissions at manifest some mobile phones can deny if so you need to go Settings--> Applications--> find your application click on it and turn On the permissions needed

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 btn_readallcontacks.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View view) {
            Cursor phones = getContentResolver().query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI, null, null, null, null);
            List<User> userList = new ArrayList<User>();
            while (phones.moveToNext()) {
                User user = new User();
                user.setNamee(phones.getString(phones.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.DISPLAY_NAME)));
                user.setPhone(phones.getString(phones.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER)));
                userList.add(user);
                Log.d(TAG, "Name : " + user.getNamee().toString());
                Log.d(TAG, "Phone : " + user.getPhone().toString());
            }
            phones.close();
        }
    });

Can you install and run apps built on the .NET framework on a Mac?

Yes you can!

As of November 2016, Microsoft now has integrated .NET Core in it's official .NET Site

They even have a new Visual Studio app that runs on MacOS

Create Hyperlink in Slack

In addition to the ?ShiftU/CtrlShiftU solution, you can also add a link quickly by doing the following:

  1. Copy a URL to the clipboard
  2. Select the text in a slack message you are writing that you want to be a link
  3. Press ?V on Mac or CtrlV

I couldn't find it documented anywhere, but it works, and seems very handy.

How do you launch the JavaScript debugger in Google Chrome?

In Chrome 8.0.552 on a Mac, you can find this under menu View/Developer/JavaScript Console ... or you can use Alt+CMD+J.

jQuery Call to WebService returns "No Transport" error

i solve it by using dataType='jsonp' at the place of dataType='json'

How to display count of notifications in app launcher icon

This is sample and best way for showing badge on notification launcher icon.

Add This Class in your application

public class BadgeUtils {

    public static void setBadge(Context context, int count) {
        setBadgeSamsung(context, count);
        setBadgeSony(context, count);
    }

    public static void clearBadge(Context context) {
        setBadgeSamsung(context, 0);
        clearBadgeSony(context);
    }


    private static void setBadgeSamsung(Context context, int count) {
        String launcherClassName = getLauncherClassName(context);
        if (launcherClassName == null) {
            return;
        }
        Intent intent = new Intent("android.intent.action.BADGE_COUNT_UPDATE");
        intent.putExtra("badge_count", count);
        intent.putExtra("badge_count_package_name", context.getPackageName());
        intent.putExtra("badge_count_class_name", launcherClassName);
        context.sendBroadcast(intent);
    }

    private static void setBadgeSony(Context context, int count) {
        String launcherClassName = getLauncherClassName(context);
        if (launcherClassName == null) {
            return;
        }

        Intent intent = new Intent();
        intent.setAction("com.sonyericsson.home.action.UPDATE_BADGE");
        intent.putExtra("com.sonyericsson.home.intent.extra.badge.ACTIVITY_NAME", launcherClassName);
        intent.putExtra("com.sonyericsson.home.intent.extra.badge.SHOW_MESSAGE", true);
        intent.putExtra("com.sonyericsson.home.intent.extra.badge.MESSAGE", String.valueOf(count));
        intent.putExtra("com.sonyericsson.home.intent.extra.badge.PACKAGE_NAME", context.getPackageName());

        context.sendBroadcast(intent);
    }


    private static void clearBadgeSony(Context context) {
        String launcherClassName = getLauncherClassName(context);
        if (launcherClassName == null) {
            return;
        }

        Intent intent = new Intent();
        intent.setAction("com.sonyericsson.home.action.UPDATE_BADGE");
        intent.putExtra("com.sonyericsson.home.intent.extra.badge.ACTIVITY_NAME", launcherClassName);
        intent.putExtra("com.sonyericsson.home.intent.extra.badge.SHOW_MESSAGE", false);
        intent.putExtra("com.sonyericsson.home.intent.extra.badge.MESSAGE", String.valueOf(0));
        intent.putExtra("com.sonyericsson.home.intent.extra.badge.PACKAGE_NAME", context.getPackageName());

        context.sendBroadcast(intent);
    }

    private static String getLauncherClassName(Context context) {

        PackageManager pm = context.getPackageManager();

        Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
        intent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER);

        List<ResolveInfo> resolveInfos = pm.queryIntentActivities(intent, 0);
        for (ResolveInfo resolveInfo : resolveInfos) {
            String pkgName = resolveInfo.activityInfo.applicationInfo.packageName;
            if (pkgName.equalsIgnoreCase(context.getPackageName())) {
                String className = resolveInfo.activityInfo.name;
                return className;
            }
        }
        return null;
    }


}

==> MyGcmListenerService.java Use BadgeUtils class when notification comes.

public class MyGcmListenerService extends GcmListenerService { 

    private static final String TAG = "MyGcmListenerService"; 
    @Override
    public void onMessageReceived(String from, Bundle data) {

            String message = data.getString("Msg");
            String Type = data.getString("Type"); 
            Intent intent = new Intent(this, SplashActivity.class);
            intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
            PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0 /* Request code */, intent,
                    PendingIntent.FLAG_ONE_SHOT);

            Uri defaultSoundUri = RingtoneManager.getDefaultUri(RingtoneManager.TYPE_NOTIFICATION);

            NotificationCompat.BigTextStyle bigTextStyle= new NotificationCompat.BigTextStyle();

            bigTextStyle .setBigContentTitle(getString(R.string.app_name))
                    .bigText(message);
            NotificationCompat.Builder notificationBuilder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this)
                    .setSmallIcon(getNotificationIcon())
                    .setContentTitle(getString(R.string.app_name))
                    .setContentText(message)
                    .setStyle(bigTextStyle) 
                    .setAutoCancel(true)
                    .setSound(defaultSoundUri)
                    .setContentIntent(pendingIntent);

            int color = getResources().getColor(R.color.appColor);
            notificationBuilder.setColor(color);
            NotificationManager notificationManager =
                    (NotificationManager) getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);


            int unOpenCount=AppUtill.getPreferenceInt("NOTICOUNT",this);
            unOpenCount=unOpenCount+1;

            AppUtill.savePreferenceLong("NOTICOUNT",unOpenCount,this);  
            notificationManager.notify(unOpenCount /* ID of notification */, notificationBuilder.build()); 

// This is for bladge on home icon          
        BadgeUtils.setBadge(MyGcmListenerService.this,(int)unOpenCount);

    }


    private int getNotificationIcon() {
        boolean useWhiteIcon = (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP);
        return useWhiteIcon ? R.drawable.notification_small_icon : R.drawable.icon_launcher;
    }
}

And clear notification from preference and also with badge count

 public class SplashActivity extends AppCompatActivity { 
                @Override
                protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
                    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
                    setContentView(R.layout.activity_splash);

                    AppUtill.savePreferenceLong("NOTICOUNT",0,this);
                    BadgeUtils.clearBadge(this);
            }
    }
<uses-permission android:name="com.sonyericsson.home.permission.BROADCAST_BADGE" />

Error: No default engine was specified and no extension was provided

Just set view engine in your code.

var app = express(); 
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');

How to open a workbook specifying its path

You can also open a required file through a prompt, This helps when you want to select file from different path and different file.

Sub openwb()
Dim wkbk As Workbook
Dim NewFile As Variant

NewFile = Application.GetOpenFilename("microsoft excel files (*.xlsm*), *.xlsm*")

If NewFile <> False Then
Set wkbk = Workbooks.Open(NewFile)
End If
End Sub

What does status=canceled for a resource mean in Chrome Developer Tools?

For my case, I had an anchor with click event like

<a href="" onclick="somemethod($index, hour, $event)">

Inside click event I had some network call, Chrome cancelling the request. The anchor has href with "" means, it reloads the page and the same time it has click event with network call that gets cancelled. Whenever i replace the href with void like

<a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="somemethod($index, hour, $event)">

The problem went away!

Find an object in SQL Server (cross-database)

Easiest way is to hit up the information_schemas...

SELECT *
FROM information_schema.Tables
WHERE [Table_Name]='????'

SELECT *
FROM information_schema.Views
WHERE [Table_Name]='????'

SELECT *
FROM information_schema.Routines
WHERE [Routine_Name]='????'

How to render string with html tags in Angular 4+?

Use one way flow syntax property binding:

<div [innerHTML]="comment"></div>

From angular docs: "Angular recognizes the value as unsafe and automatically sanitizes it, which removes the <script> tag but keeps safe content such as the <b> element."

Hide axis values but keep axis tick labels in matplotlib

Not sure this is the best way, but you can certainly replace the tick labels like this:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
x = range(10)
y = range(10)
plt.plot(x,y)
plt.xticks(x," ")
plt.show()

In Python 3.4 this generates a simple line plot with no tick labels on the x-axis. A simple example is here: http://matplotlib.org/examples/ticks_and_spines/ticklabels_demo_rotation.html

This related question also has some better suggestions: Hiding axis text in matplotlib plots

I'm new to python. Your mileage may vary in earlier versions. Maybe others can help?

How to access first element of JSON object array?

'[{"event":"inbound","ts":1426249238}]' is a string, you cannot access any properties there. You will have to parse it to an object, with JSON.parse() and then handle it like a normal object

Tower of Hanoi: Recursive Algorithm

I made a small change to the code here, if you look at the output you can see the small parts pattern are repeating in the parent nodes (Think of it as fractal images)

def moveTower(height,fromPole, toPole, withPole, ar = ''):
    if height >= 1:
        print( "    "*(3-height), "moveTower:", height, fromPole, toPole, ar )
        moveTower(height-1,fromPole,withPole,toPole)
        moveDisk(fromPole,toPole,height)
        moveTower(height-1,withPole,toPole,fromPole, '*')
    #print(withPole)

def moveDisk(fp,tp,height):
    print("    "*(4-height), "moving disk", "~"*(height), "from",fp,"to",tp)


moveTower(3,"A","B","C")

And the output is:

 moveTower: 3 A B 
     moveTower: 2 A C 
         moveTower: 1 A B 
             moving disk ~ from A to B
         moving disk ~~ from A to C
         moveTower: 1 B C *
             moving disk ~ from B to C
     moving disk ~~~ from A to B
     moveTower: 2 C B *
         moveTower: 1 C A 
             moving disk ~ from C to A
         moving disk ~~ from C to B
         moveTower: 1 A B *
             moving disk ~ from A to B

Failed to fetch URL https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/addons_list-1.xml, reason: Connection to https://dl-ssl.google.com refused

Go to Internet Explorer, into options -> connections -> Lan settings. There should be an automatic config script option, copy the url, paste it into a browser, this downloads the config file, opened the file up in notepad and there will be a proxy address and a port number in there like 192.234.10.23:88 paste the address into the proxy field and the port (88) into the port field in the Android SDK manager Tools -> Options dialog.

How To: Execute command line in C#, get STD OUT results

Just for fun, here's my completed solution for getting PYTHON output - under a button click - with error reporting. Just add a button called "butPython" and a label called "llHello"...

    private void butPython(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        llHello.Text = "Calling Python...";
        this.Refresh();
        Tuple<String,String> python = GoPython(@"C:\Users\BLAH\Desktop\Code\Python\BLAH.py");
        llHello.Text = python.Item1; // Show result.
        if (python.Item2.Length > 0) MessageBox.Show("Sorry, there was an error:" + Environment.NewLine + python.Item2);
    }

    public Tuple<String,String> GoPython(string pythonFile, string moreArgs = "")
    {
        ProcessStartInfo PSI = new ProcessStartInfo();
        PSI.FileName = "py.exe";
        PSI.Arguments = string.Format("\"{0}\" {1}", pythonFile, moreArgs);
        PSI.CreateNoWindow = true;
        PSI.UseShellExecute = false;
        PSI.RedirectStandardError = true;
        PSI.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
        using (Process process = Process.Start(PSI))
            using (StreamReader reader = process.StandardOutput)
            {
                string stderr = process.StandardError.ReadToEnd(); // Error(s)!!
                string result = reader.ReadToEnd(); // What we want.
                return new Tuple<String,String> (result,stderr); 
            }
    }

How to hide Table Row Overflow?

wrap the table in a div with class="container"

div.container {
    width: 100%;
    overflow-x: auto;
}

then

#table_id tr td {
   white-space:nowrap;
}

result

overflow effect

Count occurrences of a char in a string using Bash

You can do it by combining tr and wc commands. For example, to count e in the string referee

echo "referee" | tr -cd 'e' | wc -c

output

4

Explanations: Command tr -cd 'e' removes all characters other than 'e', and Command wc -c counts the remaining characters.

Multiple lines of input are also good for this solution, like command cat mytext.txt | tr -cd 'e' | wc -c can counts e in the file mytext.txt, even thought the file may contain many lines.

*** Update ***

To solve the multiple spaces in from of the number (@tom10271), simply append a piped tr command:

 tr -d ' '

For example:

echo "referee" | tr -cd 'e' | wc -c | tr -d ' '

Chmod recursively

Give 0777 to all files and directories starting from the current path :

chmod -R 0777 ./

Unix ls command: show full path when using options

optimized from spacedrop answer ...

ls $(pwd)/*

and you can use ls options

ls -alrt $(pwd)/*

Importing class from another file

Your problem is basically that you never specified the right path to the file.

Try instead, from your main script:

from folder.file import Klasa

Or, with from folder import file:

from folder import file
k = file.Klasa()

Or again:

import folder.file as myModule
k = myModule.Klasa()

adb uninstall failed

You should have to manually delete apps. got to Setting-> Application Management -> Running application, tap on it and you can remove, stop apps from there.

javascript pushing element at the beginning of an array

For an uglier version of unshift use splice:

TheArray.splice(0, 0, TheNewObject);

How to pass a variable from Activity to Fragment, and pass it back?

thanks to @??s???? K and Terry ... it helps me a lot and works perfectly

From Activity you send data with intent as:

Bundle bundle = new Bundle(); 
bundle.putString("edttext", "From Activity"); 
// set Fragmentclass Arguments
Fragmentclass fragobj = new Fragmentclass();
fragobj.setArguments(bundle);

and in Fragment onCreateView method:

@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
        Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    // get arguments
    String strtext = getArguments().getString("edttext");    
    return inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment, container, false);
}

reference : Send data from activity to fragment in android

Are vectors passed to functions by value or by reference in C++

void foo(vector<int> test)

vector would be passed by value in this.

You have more ways to pass vectors depending on the context:-

1) Pass by reference:- This will let function foo change your contents of the vector. More efficient than pass by value as copying of vector is avoided.

2) Pass by const-reference:- This is efficient as well as reliable when you don't want function to change the contents of the vector.

postgresql duplicate key violates unique constraint

In my case carate table script is:

CREATE TABLE public."Survey_symptom_binds"
(
    id integer NOT NULL DEFAULT nextval('"Survey_symptom_binds_id_seq"'::regclass),
    survey_id integer,
    "order" smallint,
    symptom_id integer,
    CONSTRAINT "Survey_symptom_binds_pkey" PRIMARY KEY (id)
)

SO:

SELECT nextval('"Survey_symptom_binds_id_seq"'::regclass),
       MAX(id) 
  FROM public."Survey_symptom_binds"; 
  
SELECT nextval('"Survey_symptom_binds_id_seq"'::regclass) less than MAX(id) !!!

Try to fix the proble:

SELECT setval('"Survey_symptom_binds_id_seq"', (SELECT MAX(id) FROM public."Survey_symptom_binds")+1);

Good Luck every one!

How can I remove a trailing newline?

Try the method rstrip() (see doc Python 2 and Python 3)

>>> 'test string\n'.rstrip()
'test string'

Python's rstrip() method strips all kinds of trailing whitespace by default, not just one newline as Perl does with chomp.

>>> 'test string \n \r\n\n\r \n\n'.rstrip()
'test string'

To strip only newlines:

>>> 'test string \n \r\n\n\r \n\n'.rstrip('\n')
'test string \n \r\n\n\r '

There are also the methods strip(), lstrip() and strip():

>>> s = "   \n\r\n  \n  abc   def \n\r\n  \n  "
>>> s.strip()
'abc   def'
>>> s.lstrip()
'abc   def \n\r\n  \n  '
>>> s.rstrip()
'   \n\r\n  \n  abc   def'

Using Thymeleaf when the value is null

You've done twice the checking when you create

${someObject.someProperty != null} ? ${someObject.someProperty}

You should do it clean and simple as below.

<td th:text="${someObject.someProperty} ? ${someObject.someProperty} : 'null value!'"></td>

Remove duplicates from an array of objects in JavaScript

Simple solution with ES6 'reduce' and 'find' array helper methods

Works efficiently and perfectly fine!

"use strict";

var things = new Object();
things.thing = new Array();
things.thing.push({
    place: "here",
    name: "stuff"
});
things.thing.push({
    place: "there",
    name: "morestuff"
});
things.thing.push({
    place: "there",
    name: "morestuff"
});

// the logic is here

function removeDup(something) {
    return something.thing.reduce(function (prev, ele) {
        var found = prev.find(function (fele) {
            return ele.place === fele.place && ele.name === fele.name;
        });
        if (!found) {
            prev.push(ele);
        }
        return prev;
    }, []);
}
console.log(removeDup(things));

Side-by-side plots with ggplot2

Using tidyverse:

x <- rnorm(100)
eps <- rnorm(100,0,.2)
df <- data.frame(x, eps) %>% 
  mutate(p1 = 3*x+eps, p2 = 2*x+eps) %>% 
  tidyr::gather("plot", "value", 3:4) %>% 
  ggplot(aes(x = x , y = value)) + 
    geom_point() + 
    geom_smooth() + 
    facet_wrap(~plot, ncol =2)

df

enter image description here

How to install "make" in ubuntu?

I have no idea what linux distribution "ubuntu centOS" is. Ubuntu and CentOS are two different distributions.

To answer the question in the header: To install make in ubuntu you have to install build-essentials

sudo apt-get install build-essential

How to check if an element exists in the xml using xpath?

take look at my example

<tocheading language="EN"> 
     <subj-group> 
         <subject>Editors Choice</subject> 
         <subject>creative common</subject> 
     </subj-group> 
</tocheading> 

now how to check if creative common is exist

tocheading/subj-group/subject/text() = 'creative common'

hope this help you

Are strongly-typed functions as parameters possible in TypeScript?

Besides what other said, a common problem is to declare the types of the same function that is overloaded. Typical case is EventEmitter on() method which will accept multiple kind of listeners. Similar could happen When working with redux actions - and there you use the action type as literal to mark the overloading, In case of EventEmitters, you use the event name literal type:

interface MyEmitter extends EventEmitter {
  on(name:'click', l: ClickListener):void
  on(name:'move', l: MoveListener):void
  on(name:'die', l: DieListener):void
  //and a generic one
  on(name:string, l:(...a:any[])=>any):void
}

type ClickListener = (e:ClickEvent)=>void
type MoveListener = (e:MoveEvent)=>void
... etc

// will type check the correct listener when writing something like:
myEmitter.on('click', e=>...<--- autocompletion

How to check if a file exists in Ansible?

You can first check that the destination file exists or not and then make a decision based on the output of its result:

    tasks:
      - name: Check that the somefile.conf exists
        stat:
          path: /etc/file.txt
        register: stat_result

      - name: Create the file, if it doesnt exist already
        file:
          path: /etc/file.txt
          state: touch
        when: not stat_result.stat.exists

Oracle timestamp data type

Quite simply the number is the precision of the timestamp, the fraction of a second held in the column:

SQL> create table t23
  2  (ts0 timestamp(0)
  3   , ts3 timestamp(3)
  4  , ts6 timestamp(6)
  5  )
  6  /

Table created.

SQL> insert into t23 values (systimestamp, systimestamp, systimestamp)
  2  /

1 row created.

SQL> select * from t23
  2  /

TS0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TS3
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TS6
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
24-JAN-12 05.57.12 AM
24-JAN-12 05.57.12.003 AM
24-JAN-12 05.57.12.002648 AM


SQL> 

If we don't specify a precision then the timestamp defaults to six places.

SQL> alter table t23 add ts_def timestamp;

Table altered.

SQL> update t23      
  2  set ts_def = systimestamp
  3  /

1 row updated.

SQL> select * from t23
  2  /

TS0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TS3
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TS6
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TS_DEF
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
24-JAN-12 05.57.12 AM
24-JAN-12 05.57.12.003 AM
24-JAN-12 05.57.12.002648 AM
24-JAN-12 05.59.27.293305 AM


SQL> 

Note that I'm running on Linux so my TIMESTAMP column actually gives me precision to six places i.e. microseconds. This would also be the case on most (all?) flavours of Unix. On Windows the limit is three places i.e. milliseconds. (Is this still true of the most modern flavours of Windows - citation needed).

As might be expected, the documentation covers this. Find out more.


"when you create timestamp(9) this gives you nanos right"

Only if the OS supports it. As you can see, my OEL appliance does not:

SQL> alter table t23 add ts_nano timestamp(9)
  2  /

Table altered.

SQL> update t23 set ts_nano = systimestamp(9)
  2  /

1 row updated.

SQL> select * from t23
  2  /

TS0
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TS3
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TS6
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TS_DEF
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TS_NANO
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
24-JAN-12 05.57.12 AM
24-JAN-12 05.57.12.003 AM
24-JAN-12 05.57.12.002648 AM
24-JAN-12 05.59.27.293305 AM
24-JAN-12 08.28.03.990557000 AM


SQL> 

(Those trailing zeroes could be a coincidence but they aren't.)

Convert date to another timezone in JavaScript

Here is my code, it is working perfectly, you can try with give below demo:

_x000D_
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$(document).ready(function() {_x000D_
   //EST_x000D_
setInterval( function() {_x000D_
var estTime = new Date();_x000D_
 var currentDateTimeCentralTimeZone = new Date(estTime.toLocaleString('en-US', { timeZone: 'America/Chicago' }));_x000D_
var seconds = currentDateTimeCentralTimeZone.getSeconds();_x000D_
var minutes = currentDateTimeCentralTimeZone.getMinutes();_x000D_
var hours =  currentDateTimeCentralTimeZone.getHours()+1;//new Date().getHours();_x000D_
 var am_pm = currentDateTimeCentralTimeZone.getHours() >= 12 ? "PM" : "AM";_x000D_
_x000D_
if (hours < 10){_x000D_
     hours = "0" + hours;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
if (minutes < 10){_x000D_
     minutes = "0" + minutes;_x000D_
}_x000D_
if (seconds < 10){_x000D_
     seconds = "0" + seconds;_x000D_
}_x000D_
    var mid='PM';_x000D_
    if(hours==0){ //At 00 hours we need to show 12 am_x000D_
    hours=12;_x000D_
    }_x000D_
    else if(hours>12)_x000D_
    {_x000D_
    hours=hours%12;_x000D_
    mid='AM';_x000D_
    }_x000D_
    var x3 = hours+':'+minutes+':'+seconds +' '+am_pm_x000D_
// Add a leading zero to seconds value_x000D_
$("#sec").html(x3);_x000D_
},1000);_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_
});
_x000D_
<!DOCTYPE html>_x000D_
<html>_x000D_
<head>_x000D_
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
</head>_x000D_
<body>_x000D_
<p class="date_time"><strong id="sec"></strong></p>_x000D_
</body>_x000D_
</html>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

How to copy a collection from one database to another in MongoDB

In my case, I had to use a subset of attributes from the old collection in my new collection. So I ended up choosing those attributes while calling insert on the new collection.

db.<sourceColl>.find().forEach(function(doc) { 
    db.<newColl>.insert({
        "new_field1":doc.field1,
        "new_field2":doc.field2,
        ....
    })
});`

RegEx pattern any two letters followed by six numbers

[a-zA-Z]{2}\d{6}

[a-zA-Z]{2} means two letters \d{6} means 6 digits

If you want only uppercase letters, then:

[A-Z]{2}\d{6}

How to add a primary key to a MySQL table?

Existing Column

If you want to add a primary key constraint to an existing column all of the previously listed syntax will fail.

To add a primary key constraint to an existing column use the form:

ALTER TABLE `goods`
MODIFY COLUMN `id` INT(10) UNSIGNED PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT;

Open a selected file (image, pdf, ...) programmatically from my Android Application?

directly you can use this code it will open all type of files

Intent sharingIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
    Uri screenshotUri = Uri.fromFile(your_file);
    sharingIntent.setType("image/png");
    sharingIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, screenshotUri);
    String type = MimeTypeMap.getSingleton().getMimeTypeFromExtension(MimeTypeMap.getFileExtensionFromUrl(screenshotUri.toString()));
    sharingIntent.setDataAndType(screenshotUri, type == null ? "text/plain" : type);
    startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sharingIntent, "Share using"));

Conversion failed when converting from a character string to uniqueidentifier - Two GUIDs

MSDN Documentation Here

To add a bit of context to M.Ali's Answer you can convert a string to a uniqueidentifier using the following code

   SELECT CONVERT(uniqueidentifier,'DF215E10-8BD4-4401-B2DC-99BB03135F2E')

If that doesn't work check to make sure you have entered a valid GUID

How to display images from a folder using php - PHP

Here is a possible solution the solution #3 on my comments to blubill's answer:

yourscript.php
========================
<?php
    $dir = '/home/user/Pictures';
    $file_display = array('jpg', 'jpeg', 'png', 'gif');

    if (file_exists($dir) == false) 
    {
        echo 'Directory "', $dir, '" not found!';
    } 
    else 
    {
        $dir_contents = scandir($dir);

        foreach ($dir_contents as $file) 
        {
            $file_type = strtolower(end(explode('.', $file)));
            if ($file !== '.' && $file !== '..' && in_array($file_type, $file_display) == true)     
            {
                $name = basename($file);
                echo "<img src='img.php?name={$name}' />";
            }
        }
    }
?>


img.php
========================
<?php
    $name = $_GET['name'];
    $mimes = array
    (
        'jpg' => 'image/jpg',
        'jpeg' => 'image/jpg',
        'gif' => 'image/gif',
        'png' => 'image/png'
    );

    $ext = strtolower(end(explode('.', $name)));

    $file = '/home/users/Pictures/'.$name;
    header('content-type: '. $mimes[$ext]);
    header('content-disposition: inline; filename="'.$name.'";');
    readfile($file);
?>

Input text dialog Android

I found it cleaner and more reusable to extend AlertDialog.Builder to create a custom dialog class. This is for a dialog that asks the user to input a phone number. A preset phone number can also be supplied by calling setNumber() before calling show().

InputSenderDialog.java

public class InputSenderDialog extends AlertDialog.Builder {

    public interface InputSenderDialogListener{
        public abstract void onOK(String number);
        public abstract void onCancel(String number);
    }

    private EditText mNumberEdit;

    public InputSenderDialog(Activity activity, final InputSenderDialogListener listener) {
        super( new ContextThemeWrapper(activity, R.style.AppTheme) );

        @SuppressLint("InflateParams") // It's OK to use NULL in an AlertDialog it seems...
        View dialogLayout = LayoutInflater.from(activity).inflate(R.layout.dialog_input_sender_number, null);
        setView(dialogLayout);

        mNumberEdit = dialogLayout.findViewById(R.id.numberEdit);

        setPositiveButton("OK", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
                if( listener != null )
                    listener.onOK(String.valueOf(mNumberEdit.getText()));

            }
        });

        setNegativeButton("Cancel", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
                if( listener != null )
                    listener.onCancel(String.valueOf(mNumberEdit.getText()));
            }
        });
    }

    public InputSenderDialog setNumber(String number){
        mNumberEdit.setText( number );
        return this;
    }

    @Override
    public AlertDialog show() {
        AlertDialog dialog = super.show();
        Window window = dialog.getWindow();
        if( window != null )
            window.setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);
        return dialog;
    }
}

dialog_input_sender_number.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:padding="10dp">

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/title"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
        android:paddingBottom="20dp"
        android:text="Input phone number"
        android:textAppearance="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Large" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/numberLabel"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/title"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
        android:text="Phone number" />

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/numberEdit"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/numberLabel"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
        android:inputType="phone" >
        <requestFocus />
    </EditText>

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

Usage:

new InputSenderDialog(getActivity(), new InputSenderDialog.InputSenderDialogListener() {
    @Override
    public void onOK(final String number) {
        Log.d(TAG, "The user tapped OK, number is "+number);
    }

    @Override
    public void onCancel(String number) {
        Log.d(TAG, "The user tapped Cancel, number is "+number);
    }
}).setNumber(someNumberVariable).show();

logout and redirecting session in php

Use this instead:

<?
session_start();
session_unset();
session_destroy();

header("location:home.php");
exit();
?>

How to make <a href=""> link look like a button?

Try this code:

<code>

    <a href="#" class="button" > HOME </a>

    <style type="text/css">

        .button { background-color: #00CCFF; padding: 8px 16px; display: inline-block; text-decoration: none; color: #FFFFFF border-radius: 3px;}

        .button:hover { background-color: #0066FF; }

    </style>

</code>

Watch this (It will explain how to do it) - https://youtu.be/euti4HAJJfk

Maven: Non-resolvable parent POM

I had similar problem at my work.

Building the parent project without dependency created parent_project.pom file in the .m2 folder.

Then add the child module in the parent POM and run Maven build.

<modules>
    <module>module1</module>
    <module>module2</module>
    <module>module3</module>
    <module>module4</module>
</modules>

How to use Bootstrap in an Angular project?

I was looking for same answer and finally I found this link. You can find explained three different ways how to add bootstrap css into your angular 2 project. It helped me.

Here is the link: http://codingthesmartway.com/using-bootstrap-with-angular/

PDO mysql: How to know if insert was successful

PDOStatement->execute() returns true on success. There is also PDOStatement->errorCode() which you can check for errors.

Where to place the 'assets' folder in Android Studio?

Src/main/Assets

It might not show on your side bar if the app is selected. Click the drop-down at the top that says android and select packages. you will see it then.

PHP: HTTP or HTTPS?

This can get more complicated depending on where PHP sits in your environment, since your question is quite broad. This may depend on whether there's a load-balancer and how it's configured. Here are are a few related questions:

Visual C++ executable and missing MSVCR100d.dll

For me the problem appeared in this situation:

I installed VS2012 and did not need VS2010 anymore. I wanted to get my computer clean and also removed the VS2010 runtime executables, thinking that no other program would use it. Then I wanted to test my DLL by attaching it to a program (let's call it program X). I got the same error message. I thought that I did something wrong when compiling the DLL. However, the real problem was that I attached the DLL to program X, and program X was compiled in VS2010 with debug info. That is why the error was thrown. I recompiled program X in VS2012, and the error was gone.

Angularjs prevent form submission when input validation fails

Your forms are automatically put into $scope as an object. It can be accessed via $scope[formName]

Below is an example that will work with your original setup and without having to pass the form itself as a parameter in ng-submit.

var controller = function($scope) {

    $scope.login = {
        submit: function() {
            if($scope.loginform.$invalid) return false;

        }
    }

};

Working example: http://plnkr.co/edit/BEWnrP?p=preview

Is div inside list allowed?

Yes it is valid according to xhtml1-strict.dtd. The following XHTML passes the validation:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!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" lang="en">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<ul>
  <li><div>test</div></li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>

The type initializer for 'System.Data.Entity.Internal.AppConfig' threw an exception

I faced similar issue and changing defaultConnectionFactory to be SqlConnectionFactory helped me solve it.

Keep a line of text as a single line - wrap the whole line or none at all

You could also put non-breaking spaces (&nbsp;) in lieu of the spaces so that they're forced to stay together.

How do I wrap this line of text
-&nbsp;asked&nbsp;by&nbsp;Peter&nbsp;2&nbsp;days&nbsp;ago

How to attach source or JavaDoc in eclipse for any jar file e.g. JavaFX?

Above all answers are right but there is another method also which is very handy.

Pre-condition: Your project is Maven project Or converts it to Maven project.

RightclickOnProject > Configuration > Convert in to Maven Project

enter image description here - Now follow the steps:

1. Select any jar for which you want to download sources or javadocs.

2. RightClick > Maven > Download javadoc or Download javasources

enter image description here

How to format font style and color in echo

Are you trying to echo out a style or an inline style? An inline style would be like

echo "<p style=\"font-color: #ff0000;\">text here</p>";

numpy: most efficient frequency counts for unique values in an array

Most of simple problems get complicated because simple functionality like order() in R that gives a statistical result in both and descending order is missing in various python libraries. But if we devise our thinking that all such statistical ordering and parameters in python are easily found in pandas, we can can result sooner than looking in 100 different places. Also, development of R and pandas go hand-in-hand because they were created for same purpose. To solve this problem I use following code that gets me by anywhere:

unique, counts = np.unique(x, return_counts=True)
d = {'unique':unique, 'counts':count}  # pass the list to a dictionary
df = pd.DataFrame(d) #dictionary object can be easily passed to make a dataframe
df.sort_values(by = 'count', ascending=False, inplace = True)
df = df.reset_index(drop=True) #optional only if you want to use it further

Ruby's File.open gives "No such file or directory - text.txt (Errno::ENOENT)" error

Next to being in the wrong directory I just tripped about another variant:

I had a File.open(my_file).each {|line| puts line} exploding but there was something by that name in the directory I was working in (ls in the command line showed the name). I checked with a File.exists?(my_file) which strangely returned false. Explanation: my_file was a symlink which target didn't exist anymore! Since File.exists? will follow a symlink it will say false though the link is still there.

In HTML5, should the main navigation be inside or outside the <header> element?

I do not like putting the nav in the header. My reasoning is:

Logic

The header contains introductory information about the document. The nav is a menu that links to other documents. To my mind this means that the content of the nav belongs to the site rather than the document. An exception would be if the NAV held forward links.

Accessibility

I like to put menus at the end of the source code rather than the start. I use CSS to send it to the top of a computer screen or leave it at the end for text-speech browsers and small screens. This avoids the need for skip-links.

How do I install g++ on MacOS X?

That's the compiler that comes with Apple's XCode tools package. They've hacked on it a little, but basically it's just g++.

You can download XCode for free (well, mostly, you do have to sign up to become an ADC member, but that's free too) here: http://developer.apple.com/technology/xcode.html

Edit 2013-01-25: This answer was correct in 2010. It needs an update.

While XCode tools still has a command-line C++ compiler, In recent versions of OS X (I think 10.7 and later) have switched to clang/llvm (mostly because Apple wants all the benefits of Open Source without having to contribute back and clang is BSD licensed). Secondly, I think all you have to do to install XCode is to download it from the App store. I'm pretty sure it's free there.

So, in order to get g++ you'll have to use something like homebrew (seemingly the current way to install Open Source software on the Mac (though homebrew has a lot of caveats surrounding installing gcc using it)), fink (basically Debian's apt system for OS X/Darwin), or MacPorts (Basically, OpenBSDs ports system for OS X/Darwin) to get it.

Fink definitely has the right packages. On 2016-12-26, it had gcc 5 and gcc 6 packages.

I'm less familiar with how MacPorts works, though some initial cursory investigation indicates they have the relevant packages as well.

Setting up Gradle for api 26 (Android)

allprojects {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
        maven {
            url "https://maven.google.com"
        }
    }
}

android {
    compileSdkVersion 26
    buildToolsVersion "26.0.1"
    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.keshav.retroft2arrayinsidearrayexamplekeshav"
        minSdkVersion 15
        targetSdkVersion 26
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"
        testInstrumentationRunner "android.support.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
    }
    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }
    }
}
 compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:26.0.1'
    compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:26.0.1'
    compile 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:26.0.1'

HTML - Change\Update page contents without refreshing\reloading the page

jQuery will do the job. You can use either jQuery.ajax function, which is general one for performing ajax calls, or its wrappers: jQuery.get, jQuery.post for getting/posting data. Its very easy to use, for example, check out this tutorial, which shows how to use jQuery with PHP.

Help needed with Median If in Excel

Expanding on Brian Camire's Answer:

Using =MEDIAN(IF($A$1:$A$6="Airline",$B$1:$B$6,"")) with CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER will include blank cells in the calculation. Blank cells will be evaluated as 0 which results in a lower median value. The same is true if using the average funtion. If you don't want to include blank cells in the calculation, use a nested if statement like so:

=MEDIAN(IF($A$1:$A$6="Airline",IF($B$1:$B$6<>"",$B$1:$B$6)))

Don't forget to press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER to treat the formula as an "array formula".

php random x digit number

Please not that rand() does not generate a cryptographically secure value according to the docs:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.rand.php

This function does not generate cryptographically secure values, and should not be used for cryptographic purposes. If you need a cryptographically secure value, consider using random_int(), random_bytes(), or openssl_random_pseudo_bytes() instead.

Instead it is better to use random_int(), available on PHP 7 (See: http://php.net/manual/en/function.random-int.php).

So to extend @Marcus's answer, you should use:

function generateSecureRandomNumber($digits): int {
   return random_int(pow(10, $digits - 1), pow(10, $digits) - 1);
}

function generateSecureRandomNumberWithPadding($digits): string {
   $randomNumber = random_int(0, pow(10, $digits) - 1);
   return str_pad($randomNumber, $digits, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT);
}

Note that using rand() is fine if you don't need a secure random number.

How to fix: "No suitable driver found for jdbc:mysql://localhost/dbname" error when using pools?

From other stackoverflow thread:

"Second. Make sure that you have MySQL JDBC Driver aka Connector/J in JMeter's classpath. If you don't - download it, unpack and drop mysql-connector-java-x.xx.xx-bin.jar to JMeter's /lib folder. JMeter restart will be required to pick the library up"

Please be sure that .jar file is added directly to the lib folder.

Outline radius?

COMBINING BOX SHADOW AND OUTLINE.

A slight twist on Lea Hayes answer I found

input[type=text]:focus {
    box-shadow: 0 0 0 1pt red;
    outline-width: 1px;
    outline-color: red;
}

gets a really nice clean finish. No jumping in size which you get when using border-radius

Insert line after first match using sed

Maybe a bit late to post an answer for this, but I found some of the above solutions a bit cumbersome.

I tried simple string replacement in sed and it worked:

sed 's/CLIENTSCRIPT="foo"/&\nCLIENTSCRIPT2="hello"/' file

& sign reflects the matched string, and then you add \n and the new line.

As mentioned, if you want to do it in-place:

sed -i 's/CLIENTSCRIPT="foo"/&\nCLIENTSCRIPT2="hello"/' file

Another thing. You can match using an expression:

sed -i 's/CLIENTSCRIPT=.*/&\nCLIENTSCRIPT2="hello"/' file

Hope this helps someone

Usage of __slots__?

Another somewhat obscure use of __slots__ is to add attributes to an object proxy from the ProxyTypes package, formerly part of the PEAK project. Its ObjectWrapper allows you to proxy another object, but intercept all interactions with the proxied object. It is not very commonly used (and no Python 3 support), but we have used it to implement a thread-safe blocking wrapper around an async implementation based on tornado that bounces all access to the proxied object through the ioloop, using thread-safe concurrent.Future objects to synchronise and return results.

By default any attribute access to the proxy object will give you the result from the proxied object. If you need to add an attribute on the proxy object, __slots__ can be used.

from peak.util.proxies import ObjectWrapper

class Original(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self.name = 'The Original'

class ProxyOriginal(ObjectWrapper):

    __slots__ = ['proxy_name']

    def __init__(self, subject, proxy_name):
        # proxy_info attributed added directly to the
        # Original instance, not the ProxyOriginal instance
        self.proxy_info = 'You are proxied by {}'.format(proxy_name)

        # proxy_name added to ProxyOriginal instance, since it is
        # defined in __slots__
        self.proxy_name = proxy_name

        super(ProxyOriginal, self).__init__(subject)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    original = Original()
    proxy = ProxyOriginal(original, 'Proxy Overlord')

    # Both statements print "The Original"
    print "original.name: ", original.name
    print "proxy.name: ", proxy.name

    # Both statements below print 
    # "You are proxied by Proxy Overlord", since the ProxyOriginal
    # __init__ sets it to the original object 
    print "original.proxy_info: ", original.proxy_info
    print "proxy.proxy_info: ", proxy.proxy_info

    # prints "Proxy Overlord"
    print "proxy.proxy_name: ", proxy.proxy_name
    # Raises AttributeError since proxy_name is only set on 
    # the proxy object
    print "original.proxy_name: ", proxy.proxy_name

Get first row of dataframe in Python Pandas based on criteria

For the point that 'returns the value as soon as you find the first row/record that meets the requirements and NOT iterating other rows', the following code would work:

def pd_iter_func(df):
    for row in df.itertuples():
        # Define your criteria here
        if row.A > 4 and row.B > 3:
            return row

It is more efficient than Boolean Indexing when it comes to a large dataframe.

To make the function above more applicable, one can implements lambda functions:

def pd_iter_func(df: DataFrame, criteria: Callable[[NamedTuple], bool]) -> Optional[NamedTuple]:
    for row in df.itertuples():
        if criteria(row):
            return row

pd_iter_func(df, lambda row: row.A > 4 and row.B > 3)

As mentioned in the answer to the 'mirror' question, pandas.Series.idxmax would also be a nice choice.

def pd_idxmax_func(df, mask):
    return df.loc[mask.idxmax()]

pd_idxmax_func(df, (df.A > 4) & (df.B > 3))

Difference between AutoPostBack=True and AutoPostBack=False?

The AutoPostBack property is used to set or return whether or not an automatic post back occurs when the user presses "ENTER" or "TAB" in the TextBox control.

If this property is set to TRUE the automatic post back is enabled, otherwise FALSE. Default is FALSE.

How to execute an action before close metro app WinJS

If I am not mistaken, it will be onunload event.

"Occurs when the application is about to be unloaded." - MSDN

Adding a stylesheet to asp.net (using Visual Studio 2010)

Several things here.

First off, you're defining your CSS in 3 places!

In line, in the head and externally. I suggest you only choose one. I'm going to suggest externally.

I suggest you update your code in your ASP form from

<td style="background-color: #A3A3A3; color: #FFFFFF; font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;" 
        class="style6">

to this:

<td  class="style6">

And then update your css too

.style6
    {
        height: 79px; background-color: #A3A3A3; color: #FFFFFF; font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;
    }

This removes the inline.

Now, to move it from the head of the webForm.

<%@ Master Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="MasterPage.master.cs" Inherits="MasterPage" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title>AR Toolbox</title>
    <link rel="Stylesheet" href="css/master.css" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<table class="style1">
    <tr>
        <td class="style6">
            <asp:Menu ID="Menu1" runat="server">
                <Items>
                    <asp:MenuItem Text="Home" Value="Home"></asp:MenuItem>
                    <asp:MenuItem Text="About" Value="About"></asp:MenuItem>
                    <asp:MenuItem Text="Compliance" Value="Compliance">
                        <asp:MenuItem Text="Item 1" Value="Item 1"></asp:MenuItem>
                        <asp:MenuItem Text="Item 2" Value="Item 2"></asp:MenuItem>
                    </asp:MenuItem>
                    <asp:MenuItem Text="Tools" Value="Tools"></asp:MenuItem>
                    <asp:MenuItem Text="Contact" Value="Contact"></asp:MenuItem>
                </Items>
            </asp:Menu>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td class="style6">
            <img alt="South University'" class="style7" 
                src="file:///C:/Users/jnewnam/Documents/Visual%20Studio%202010/WebSites/WebSite1/img/suo_n_seal_hor_pantone.png" /></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td class="style2">
            <table class="style3">
                <tr>
                    <td>
                        &nbsp;</td>
                </tr>
            </table>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td style="color: #FFFFFF; background-color: #A3A3A3">
            This is the footer.</td>
    </tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Now, in a new file called master.css (in your css folder) add

ul {
list-style-type:none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}

li {
display:inline;
padding:20px;
}
.style1
{
    width: 100%;
}
.style2
{
    height: 459px;
}
.style3
{
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
}
.style6
{
    height: 79px; background-color: #A3A3A3; color: #FFFFFF; font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;
}
.style7
{
    width: 345px;
    height: 73px;
}

Android studio - Failed to find target android-18

I've had a similar problem occurr when I had both Eclipse, Android Studio and the standalone Android SDK installed (the problem lied where the AVD Manager couldn't find target images). I had been using Eclipse for Android development but have moved over to Android Studio, and quickly found that Android Studio couldn't find my previously created AVDs.

The problem could potentially lie in that Android Studio is looking at it's own Android SDK (found in C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Android\android-studio\sdk) and not a previously installed standalone SDK, which I had installed at C:\adt\sdk.

Renaming Android Studio's SDK folder, in C:\Users... (only rename it, just in case things break) then creating a symbolic link between the Android Studio SDK location and a standalone Android SDK fixes this issue.

I also used the Link Shell Extension (http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html) just to take the tedium out of creating symbolic links.

How to find a hash key containing a matching value

You can invert the hash. clients.invert["client_id"=>"2180"] returns "orange"

Is it really impossible to make a div fit its size to its content?

you can also use

word-break: break-all;

when nothing seems working this works always ;)

Creating a div element in jQuery

How about this? Here, pElement refers to the element you want this div inside (to be a child of! :).

$("pElement").append("<div></div");

You can easily add anything more to that div in the string - Attributes, Content, you name it. Do note, for attribute values, you need to use the right quotation marks.

Return HTML from ASP.NET Web API

Starting with AspNetCore 2.0, it's recommended to use ContentResult instead of the Produce attribute in this case. See: https://github.com/aspnet/Mvc/issues/6657#issuecomment-322586885

This doesn't rely on serialization nor on content negotiation.

[HttpGet]
public ContentResult Index() {
    return new ContentResult {
        ContentType = "text/html",
        StatusCode = (int)HttpStatusCode.OK,
        Content = "<html><body>Hello World</body></html>"
    };
}

How can I insert binary file data into a binary SQL field using a simple insert statement?

If you mean using a literal, you simply have to create a binary string:

insert into Files (FileId, FileData) values (1, 0x010203040506)

And you will have a record with a six byte value for the FileData field.


You indicate in the comments that you want to just specify the file name, which you can't do with SQL Server 2000 (or any other version that I am aware of).

You would need a CLR stored procedure to do this in SQL Server 2005/2008 or an extended stored procedure (but I'd avoid that at all costs unless you have to) which takes the filename and then inserts the data (or returns the byte string, but that can possibly be quite long).


In regards to the question of only being able to get data from a SP/query, I would say the answer is yes, because if you give SQL Server the ability to read files from the file system, what do you do when you aren't connected through Windows Authentication, what user is used to determine the rights? If you are running the service as an admin (God forbid) then you can have an elevation of rights which shouldn't be allowed.

How to get all registered routes in Express?

A function to log all routes in express 4 (can be easily tweaked for v3~)

function space(x) {
    var res = '';
    while(x--) res += ' ';
    return res;
}

function listRoutes(){
    for (var i = 0; i < arguments.length;  i++) {
        if(arguments[i].stack instanceof Array){
            console.log('');
            arguments[i].stack.forEach(function(a){
                var route = a.route;
                if(route){
                    route.stack.forEach(function(r){
                        var method = r.method.toUpperCase();
                        console.log(method,space(8 - method.length),route.path);
                    })
                }
            });
        }
    }
}

listRoutes(router, routerAuth, routerHTML);

Logs output:

GET       /isAlive
POST      /test/email
POST      /user/verify

PUT       /login
POST      /login
GET       /player
PUT       /player
GET       /player/:id
GET       /players
GET       /system
POST      /user
GET       /user
PUT       /user
DELETE    /user

GET       /
GET       /login

Made this into a NPM https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-list-routes

Given URL is not allowed by the Application configuration Facebook application error

I have a website with facebook login.
It has been stable and working for months. No code change has happened for weeks. Then, suddenly, the facebook login gives an error message:

Error
Given URL is not allowed by the Application configuration.: One or more of the given URLs is not allowed by the App's settings. It must match the Website URL or Canvas URL, or the domain must be a subdomain of one of the App's domains.

After debugging "for awhile", I reset my facebook app secret and it started to work again!

Spring,Request method 'POST' not supported

In Jsp:

action="profile/proffiesional"

In Controller

@RequestMapping(value = "proffessional", method = RequestMethod.POST)

Spelling MisMatch !

Add a auto increment primary key to existing table in oracle

If you have the column and the sequence, you first need to populate a new key for all the existing rows. Assuming you don't care which key is assigned to which row

UPDATE table_name
   SET new_pk_column = sequence_name.nextval;

Once that's done, you can create the primary key constraint (this assumes that either there is no existing primary key constraint or that you have already dropped the existing primary key constraint)

ALTER TABLE table_name
  ADD CONSTRAINT pk_table_name PRIMARY KEY( new_pk_column )

If you want to generate the key automatically, you'd need to add a trigger

CREATE TRIGGER trigger_name
  BEFORE INSERT ON table_name
  FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
  :new.new_pk_column := sequence_name.nextval;
END;

If you are on an older version of Oracle, the syntax is a bit more cumbersome

CREATE TRIGGER trigger_name
  BEFORE INSERT ON table_name
  FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
  SELECT sequence_name.nextval
    INTO :new.new_pk_column
    FROM dual;
END;

Uploading a file in Rails

Okay. If you do not want to store the file in database and store in the application, like assets (custom folder), you can define non-db instance variable defined by attr_accessor: document and use form_for - f.file_field to get the file,

In controller,

 @person = Person.new(person_params)

Here person_params return whitelisted params[:person] (define yourself)

Save file as,

dir = "#{Rails.root}/app/assets/custom_path"
FileUtils.mkdir(dir) unless File.directory? dir
document = @person.document.document_file_name # check document uploaded params
File.copy_stream(@font.document, "#{dir}/#{document}")

Note, Add this path in .gitignore & if you want to use this file again add this path asset_pathan of application by application.rb

Whenever form read file field, it get store in tmp folder, later you can store at your place, I gave example to store at assets

note: Storing files like this will increase the size of the application, better to store in the database using paperclip.

How to write header row with csv.DictWriter?

Another way to do this would be to add before adding lines in your output, the following line :

output.writerow(dict(zip(dr.fieldnames, dr.fieldnames)))

The zip would return a list of doublet containing the same value. This list could be used to initiate a dictionary.

Why should we typedef a struct so often in C?

It turns out that there are pros and cons. A useful source of information is the seminal book "Expert C Programming" (Chapter 3). Briefly, in C you have multiple namespaces: tags, types, member names and identifiers. typedef introduces an alias for a type and locates it in the tag namespace. Namely,

typedef struct Tag{
...members...
}Type;

defines two things. One Tag in the tag namespace and one Type in the type namespace. So you can do both Type myType and struct Tag myTagType. Declarations like struct Type myType or Tag myTagType are illegal. In addition, in a declaration like this:

typedef Type *Type_ptr;

we define a pointer to our Type. So if we declare:

Type_ptr var1, var2;
struct Tag *myTagType1, myTagType2;

then var1,var2 and myTagType1 are pointers to Type but myTagType2 not.

In the above-mentioned book, it mentions that typedefing structs are not very useful as it only saves the programmer from writing the word struct. However, I have an objection, like many other C programmers. Although it sometimes turns to obfuscate some names (that's why it is not advisable in large code bases like the kernel) when you want to implement polymorphism in C it helps a lot look here for details. Example:

typedef struct MyWriter_t{
    MyPipe super;
    MyQueue relative;
    uint32_t flags;
...
}MyWriter;

you can do:

void my_writer_func(MyPipe *s)
{
    MyWriter *self = (MyWriter *) s;
    uint32_t myFlags = self->flags;
...
}

So you can access an outer member (flags) by the inner struct (MyPipe) through casting. For me it is less confusing to cast the whole type than doing (struct MyWriter_ *) s; every time you want to perform such functionality. In these cases brief referencing is a big deal especially if you heavily employ the technique in your code.

Finally, the last aspect with typedefed types is the inability to extend them, in contrast to macros. If for example, you have:

#define X char[10] or
typedef char Y[10]

you can then declare

unsigned X x; but not
unsigned Y y;

We do not really care for this for structs because it does not apply to storage specifiers (volatile and const).

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

This is a very old post, I know, but this is also a common problem. All of the suggested methods are very nice but they will always point to a process, and there are many chances that we already know that our site is making problems, but we just want to know what specific page is spending too much time in processing. The most precise and simple tool in my opinion is IIS itself.

  1. Just click on your server in the left pane of IIS.
  2. Click on 'Worker Processes' in the main pane. you already see what application pool is taking too much CPU.
  3. Double click on this line (eventually refresh by clicking 'Show All') to see what pages consume too much CPU time ('Time elapsed' column) in this pool

Regex pattern inside SQL Replace function?

Here is a function I wrote to accomplish this based off of the previous answers.

CREATE FUNCTION dbo.RepetitiveReplace
(
    @P_String VARCHAR(MAX),
    @P_Pattern VARCHAR(MAX),
    @P_ReplaceString VARCHAR(MAX),
    @P_ReplaceLength INT = 1
)
RETURNS VARCHAR(MAX)
BEGIN
    DECLARE @Index INT;

    -- Get starting point of pattern
    SET @Index = PATINDEX(@P_Pattern, @P_String);

    while @Index > 0
    begin
        --replace matching charactger at index
        SET @P_String = STUFF(@P_String, PATINDEX(@P_Pattern, @P_String), @P_ReplaceLength, @P_ReplaceString);
        SET @Index = PATINDEX(@P_Pattern, @P_String);
    end

    RETURN @P_String;
END;

Gist

Edit:

Originally I had a recursive function here which does not play well with sql server as it has a 32 nesting level limit which would result in an error like the below any time you attempt to make 32+ replacements with the function. Instead of trying to make a server level change to allow more nesting (which could be dangerous like allow never ending loops) switching to a while loop makes a lot more sense.

Maximum stored procedure, function, trigger, or view nesting level exceeded (limit 32).

What is process.env.PORT in Node.js?

In some scenarios, port can only be designated by the environment and is saved in a user environment variable. Below is how node.js apps work with it.

The process object is a global that provides information about, and control over, the current Node.js process. As a global, it is always available to Node.js applications without using require().

The process.env property returns an object containing the user environment.

An example of this object looks like:

{
  TERM: 'xterm-256color',
  SHELL: '/usr/local/bin/bash',
  USER: 'maciej',
  PATH: '~/.bin/:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin',
  PWD: '/Users/maciej',
  EDITOR: 'vim',
  SHLVL: '1',
  HOME: '/Users/maciej',
  LOGNAME: 'maciej',
  _: '/usr/local/bin/node'
}

For example,

terminal: set a new user environment variable, not permanently

export MY_TEST_PORT=9999

app.js: read the new environment variable from node app

console.log(process.env.MY_TEST_PORT)

terminal: run the node app and get the value

$ node app.js
9999

Iterate through every file in one directory

I like this one, that hasn't been mentioned above.

require 'pathname'

Pathname.new('/my/dir').children.each do |path|
    puts path
end

The benefit is that you get a Pathname object instead of a string, that you can do useful stuff with and traverse further.

Pass props in Link react-router

After install react-router-dom

<Link
    to={{
      pathname: "/product-detail",
      productdetailProps: {
       productdetail: "I M passed From Props"
      }
   }}>
    Click To Pass Props
</Link>

and other end where the route is redirected do this

componentDidMount() {
            console.log("product props is", this.props.location.productdetailProps);
          }

Load view from an external xib file in storyboard

My full example is here, but I will provide a summary below.

Layout

Add a .swift and .xib file each with the same name to your project. The .xib file contains your custom view layout (using auto layout constraints preferably).

Make the swift file the xib file's owner.

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Add the following code to the .swift file and hook up the outlets and actions from the .xib file.

import UIKit
class ResuableCustomView: UIView {

    let nibName = "ReusableCustomView"
    var contentView: UIView?

    @IBOutlet weak var label: UILabel!
    @IBAction func buttonTap(_ sender: UIButton) {
        label.text = "Hi"
    }

    required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        super.init(coder: aDecoder)

        guard let view = loadViewFromNib() else { return }
        view.frame = self.bounds
        self.addSubview(view)
        contentView = view
    }

    func loadViewFromNib() -> UIView? {
        let bundle = Bundle(for: type(of: self))
        let nib = UINib(nibName: nibName, bundle: bundle)
        return nib.instantiate(withOwner: self, options: nil).first as? UIView
    }
}

Use it

Use your custom view anywhere in your storyboard. Just add a UIView and set the class name to your custom class name.

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For a while Christopher Swasey's approach was the best approach I had found. I asked a couple of the senior devs on my team about it and one of them had the perfect solution! It satisfies every one of the concerns that Christopher Swasey so eloquently addressed and it doesn't require boilerplate subclass code(my main concern with his approach). There is one gotcha, but other than that it is fairly intuitive and easy to implement.

  1. Create a custom UIView class in a .swift file to control your xib. i.e. MyCustomClass.swift
  2. Create a .xib file and style it as you want. i.e. MyCustomClass.xib
  3. Set the File's Owner of the .xib file to be your custom class (MyCustomClass)
  4. GOTCHA: leave the class value (under the identity Inspector) for your custom view in the .xib file blank. So your custom view will have no specified class, but it will have a specified File's Owner.
  5. Hook up your outlets as you normally would using the Assistant Editor.
    • NOTE: If you look at the Connections Inspector you will notice that your Referencing Outlets do not reference your custom class (i.e. MyCustomClass), but rather reference File's Owner. Since File's Owner is specified to be your custom class, the outlets will hook up and work propery.
  6. Make sure your custom class has @IBDesignable before the class statement.
  7. Make your custom class conform to the NibLoadable protocol referenced below.
    • NOTE: If your custom class .swift file name is different from your .xib file name, then set the nibName property to be the name of your .xib file.
  8. Implement required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) and override init(frame: CGRect) to call setupFromNib() like the example below.
  9. Add a UIView to your desired storyboard and set the class to be your custom class name (i.e. MyCustomClass).
  10. Watch IBDesignable in action as it draws your .xib in the storyboard with all of it's awe and wonder.

Here is the protocol you will want to reference:

public protocol NibLoadable {
    static var nibName: String { get }
}

public extension NibLoadable where Self: UIView {

    public static var nibName: String {
        return String(describing: Self.self) // defaults to the name of the class implementing this protocol.
    }

    public static var nib: UINib {
        let bundle = Bundle(for: Self.self)
        return UINib(nibName: Self.nibName, bundle: bundle)
    }

    func setupFromNib() {
        guard let view = Self.nib.instantiate(withOwner: self, options: nil).first as? UIView else { fatalError("Error loading \(self) from nib") }
        addSubview(view)
        view.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        view.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.safeAreaLayoutGuide.leadingAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
        view.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.safeAreaLayoutGuide.topAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
        view.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.safeAreaLayoutGuide.trailingAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
        view.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.safeAreaLayoutGuide.bottomAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
    }
}

And here is an example of MyCustomClass that implements the protocol (with the .xib file being named MyCustomClass.xib):

@IBDesignable
class MyCustomClass: UIView, NibLoadable {

    @IBOutlet weak var myLabel: UILabel!

    required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        super.init(coder: aDecoder)
        setupFromNib()
    }

    override init(frame: CGRect) {
        super.init(frame: frame)
        setupFromNib()
    }

}

NOTE: If you miss the Gotcha and set the class value inside your .xib file to be your custom class, then it will not draw in the storyboard and you will get a EXC_BAD_ACCESS error when you run the app because it gets stuck in an infinite loop of trying to initialize the class from the nib using the init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) method which then calls Self.nib.instantiate and calls the init again.

Floating Point Exception C++ Why and what is it?

for (i>0; i--;)

is probably wrong and should be

for (; i>0; i--)

instead. Note where I put the semicolons. The condition goes in the middle, not at the start.

How do I implement a progress bar in C#?

Some people may not like it, but this is what I do:

private void StartBackgroundWork() {
    if (Application.RenderWithVisualStyles)
        progressBar.Style = ProgressBarStyle.Marquee;
    else {
        progressBar.Style = ProgressBarStyle.Continuous;
        progressBar.Maximum = 100;
        progressBar.Value = 0;
        timer.Enabled = true;
    }
    backgroundWorker.RunWorkerAsync();
}

private void timer_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e) {
    if (progressBar.Value < progressBar.Maximum)
        progressBar.Increment(5);
    else
        progressBar.Value = progressBar.Minimum;
}

The Marquee style requires VisualStyles to be enabled, but it continuously scrolls on its own without needing to be updated. I use that for database operations that don't report their progress.

Singleton in Android

The most clean and modern way to use singletons in Android is just to use the Dependency Injection framework called Dagger 2. Here you have an explanation of possible scopes you can use. Singleton is one of these scopes. Dependency Injection is not that easy but you shall invest a bit of your time to understand it. It also makes testing easier.

What is "with (nolock)" in SQL Server?

WITH (NOLOCK) is the equivalent of using READ UNCOMMITED as a transaction isolation level. So, you stand the risk of reading an uncommitted row that is subsequently rolled back, i.e. data that never made it into the database. So, while it can prevent reads being deadlocked by other operations, it comes with a risk. In a banking application with high transaction rates, it's probably not going to be the right solution to whatever problem you're trying to solve with it IMHO.

Locate Git installation folder on Mac OS X

The installer from the git homepage installs into /usr/local/git by default. See also this answer. However, if you install XCode4, it will install a git version in /usr/bin. To ensure you can easily upgrade from the website and use the latest git version, edit either your profile information to place /usr/local/git/bin before /usr/bin in the $PATH or edit /etc/paths and insert /usr/local/git/bin as the first entry (see this answer).

How to write a multiline Jinja statement

According to the documentation: https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/2.10.x/templates/#line-statements you may use multi-line statements as long as the code has parens/brackets around it. Example:

{% if ( (foo == 'foo' or bar == 'bar') and 
        (fooo == 'fooo' or baar == 'baar') ) %}
    <li>some text</li>
{% endif %}

Edit: Using line_statement_prefix = '#'* the code would look like this:

# if ( (foo == 'foo' or bar == 'bar') and 
       (fooo == 'fooo' or baar == 'baar') )
    <li>some text</li>
# endif

*Here's an example of how you'd specify the line_statement_prefix in the Environment:

from jinja2 import Environment, PackageLoader, select_autoescape
env = Environment(
    loader=PackageLoader('yourapplication', 'templates'),
    autoescape=select_autoescape(['html', 'xml']),
    line_statement_prefix='#'
)

Or using Flask:

from flask import Flask
app = Flask(__name__, instance_relative_config=True, static_folder='static')
app.jinja_env.filters['zip'] = zip
app.jinja_env.line_statement_prefix = '#'

Verify if file exists or not in C#

Can't comment yet, but I just wanted to disagree/clarify with erikkallen.

You should not just catch the exception in the situation you've described. If you KNEW that the file should be there and due to some exceptional case, it wasn't, then it would be acceptable to just attempt to access the file and catch any exception that occurs.

In this case, however, you are receiving input from a user and have little reason to believe that the file exists. Here you should always use File.Exists().

I know it is cliché, but you should only use Exceptions for an exceptional event, not as part as the normal flow of your application. It is expensive and makes code more difficult to read/follow.

Unable to resolve host "<insert URL here>" No address associated with hostname

I got the same error and for the issue was that I was on VPN and I didn't realize that. After disconnecting the VPN and reconnecting the wifi resolved it.

iPad/iPhone hover problem causes the user to double click a link

Avoid changing of "display" style inside of hover css event. I had "display: block" in hover state. After removing ios went on lins by single tap. By the way it seems that latest IOS updates fixed this "feature"

Direct casting vs 'as' operator?

2 is useful for casting to a derived type.

Suppose a is an Animal:

b = a as Badger;
c = a as Cow;

if (b != null)
   b.EatSnails();
else if (c != null)
   c.EatGrass();

will get a fed with a minimum of casts.

Link and execute external JavaScript file hosted on GitHub

Above answers clearly answer the question but I want to provide another alternative - A different view/approach to solve the similar problem.

You can also use browser extension to remove X-Content-Type-Options response header for raw.githubusercontent.com files. There are couple of browser extensions to modify response headers.

  1. Requestly: Chrome + Firefox
  2. Modify Headers: Firefox

If you use Requestly, I can suggest two solutions

Solution 1: Use Modify Headers Rule and remove the response header

Steps

  1. Install Requestly from http://www.requestly.in
  2. Go to Rules Page
  3. Click on Add Icon to create a rule
  4. Select Modify Headers
  5. Give a Name and Descripton
  6. Select Remove -> Response -> X-Content-Type-Options
  7. In Source field, enter Url -> Contains -> raw.githubusercontent.com

Solution 2: Use Replace host Rule

  1. Install Requestly from http://www.requestly.in
  2. Go to Rules Page
  3. Click on Add Icon to create a rule
  4. Replace raw.githubusercontent.com with rawgit.com

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How to test

We created a simple JS Fiddle to test out if we can use raw github files as scripts in our code. Here is the Fiddle with the following code

<center id="msg"></center>

<script src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sachinjain024/practicebook/master/web-extensions-master/storage/background.js"></script>
<script>
try {
  if (typeof BG.Methods !== 'undefoned') {
    document.getElementById('msg').innerHTML = 'Script evaluated successfully!';
  }
} catch (e) {
  document.getElementById('msg').innerHTML = 'Problem evaluating script';
}
</script>

If you see Script evaluated successfully!, It means you are able to use raw github file in your code Otherwise Problem evaluating script indicates that there is some problem while executing script from raw github source.

I also wrote an article on Requestly blog about this. Please refer it for more details.

Hope it helps!!

Disclaimer: I am author of Requestly So you can blame for anything you don't like.

System.Net.WebException HTTP status code

You can try this code to get HTTP status code from WebException. It works in Silverlight too because SL does not have WebExceptionStatus.ProtocolError defined.

HttpStatusCode GetHttpStatusCode(WebException we)
{
    if (we.Response is HttpWebResponse)
    {
        HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)we.Response;
        return response.StatusCode;
    }
    return null;
}

Search for a string in all tables, rows and columns of a DB

The SSMS Tools PACK Add-In (Add-On) for Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio and Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express will do exactly what you need. On larger database it takes some time to search, but that is to be expected. It also includes a ton of cool features that should have be included with SQL Server Management Studio in the first place. Give it a try www.ssmstoolspack.com/

You do need to have SP2 for SQL Server Management Studio installed to run the tools.

How to change the background color of a UIButton while it's highlighted?

An handy generic extension in Swift:

extension UIButton {
    private func imageWithColor(color: UIColor) -> UIImage {
        let rect = CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0)
        UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(rect.size)
        let context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()

        CGContextSetFillColorWithColor(context, color.CGColor)
        CGContextFillRect(context, rect)

        let image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
        UIGraphicsEndImageContext()

        return image
    }

    func setBackgroundColor(color: UIColor, forUIControlState state: UIControlState) {
        self.setBackgroundImage(imageWithColor(color), forState: state)
    }
}

Swift 3.0

extension UIButton {
    private func imageWithColor(color: UIColor) -> UIImage? {
        let rect = CGRect(x: 0.0, y: 0.0, width: 1.0, height: 1.0)
        UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(rect.size)
        let context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()

        context?.setFillColor(color.cgColor)
        context?.fill(rect)

        let image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
        UIGraphicsEndImageContext()

        return image
    }

    func setBackgroundColor(_ color: UIColor, for state: UIControlState) {
        self.setBackgroundImage(imageWithColor(color: color), for: state)
    }
}

Rotating a Vector in 3D Space

If you want to rotate a vector you should construct what is known as a rotation matrix.

Rotation in 2D

Say you want to rotate a vector or a point by ?, then trigonometry states that the new coordinates are

    x' = x cos ? - y sin ?
    y' = x sin ? + y cos ?

To demo this, let's take the cardinal axes X and Y; when we rotate the X-axis 90° counter-clockwise, we should end up with the X-axis transformed into Y-axis. Consider

    Unit vector along X axis = <1, 0>
    x' = 1 cos 90 - 0 sin 90 = 0
    y' = 1 sin 90 + 0 cos 90 = 1
    New coordinates of the vector, <x', y'> = <0, 1>  ?  Y-axis

When you understand this, creating a matrix to do this becomes simple. A matrix is just a mathematical tool to perform this in a comfortable, generalized manner so that various transformations like rotation, scale and translation (moving) can be combined and performed in a single step, using one common method. From linear algebra, to rotate a point or vector in 2D, the matrix to be built is

    |cos ?   -sin ?| |x| = |x cos ? - y sin ?| = |x'|
    |sin ?    cos ?| |y|   |x sin ? + y cos ?|   |y'|

Rotation in 3D

That works in 2D, while in 3D we need to take in to account the third axis. Rotating a vector around the origin (a point) in 2D simply means rotating it around the Z-axis (a line) in 3D; since we're rotating around Z-axis, its coordinate should be kept constant i.e. 0° (rotation happens on the XY plane in 3D). In 3D rotating around the Z-axis would be

    |cos ?   -sin ?   0| |x|   |x cos ? - y sin ?|   |x'|
    |sin ?    cos ?   0| |y| = |x sin ? + y cos ?| = |y'|
    |  0       0      1| |z|   |        z        |   |z'|

around the Y-axis would be

    | cos ?    0   sin ?| |x|   | x cos ? + z sin ?|   |x'|
    |   0      1       0| |y| = |         y        | = |y'|
    |-sin ?    0   cos ?| |z|   |-x sin ? + z cos ?|   |z'|

around the X-axis would be

    |1     0           0| |x|   |        x        |   |x'|
    |0   cos ?    -sin ?| |y| = |y cos ? - z sin ?| = |y'|
    |0   sin ?     cos ?| |z|   |y sin ? + z cos ?|   |z'|

Note 1: axis around which rotation is done has no sine or cosine elements in the matrix.

Note 2: This method of performing rotations follows the Euler angle rotation system, which is simple to teach and easy to grasp. This works perfectly fine for 2D and for simple 3D cases; but when rotation needs to be performed around all three axes at the same time then Euler angles may not be sufficient due to an inherent deficiency in this system which manifests itself as Gimbal lock. People resort to Quaternions in such situations, which is more advanced than this but doesn't suffer from Gimbal locks when used correctly.

I hope this clarifies basic rotation.

Rotation not Revolution

The aforementioned matrices rotate an object at a distance r = v(x² + y²) from the origin along a circle of radius r; lookup polar coordinates to know why. This rotation will be with respect to the world space origin a.k.a revolution. Usually we need to rotate an object around its own frame/pivot and not around the world's i.e. local origin. This can also be seen as a special case where r = 0. Since not all objects are at the world origin, simply rotating using these matrices will not give the desired result of rotating around the object's own frame. You'd first translate (move) the object to world origin (so that the object's origin would align with the world's, thereby making r = 0), perform the rotation with one (or more) of these matrices and then translate it back again to its previous location. The order in which the transforms are applied matters. Combining multiple transforms together is called concatenation or composition.

Composition

I urge you to read about linear and affine transformations and their composition to perform multiple transformations in one shot, before playing with transformations in code. Without understanding the basic maths behind it, debugging transformations would be a nightmare. I found this lecture video to be a very good resource. Another resource is this tutorial on transformations that aims to be intuitive and illustrates the ideas with animation (caveat: authored by me!).

Rotation around Arbitrary Vector

A product of the aforementioned matrices should be enough if you only need rotations around cardinal axes (X, Y or Z) like in the question posted. However, in many situations you might want to rotate around an arbitrary axis/vector. The Rodrigues' formula (a.k.a. axis-angle formula) is a commonly prescribed solution to this problem. However, resort to it only if you’re stuck with just vectors and matrices. If you're using Quaternions, just build a quaternion with the required vector and angle. Quaternions are a superior alternative for storing and manipulating 3D rotations; it's compact and fast e.g. concatenating two rotations in axis-angle representation is fairly expensive, moderate with matrices but cheap in quaternions. Usually all rotation manipulations are done with quaternions and as the last step converted to matrices when uploading to the rendering pipeline. See Understanding Quaternions for a decent primer on quaternions.

Functional, Declarative, and Imperative Programming

At the time of writing this, the top voted answers on this page are imprecise and muddled on the declarative vs. imperative definition, including the answer that quotes Wikipedia. Some answers are conflating the terms in different ways.

Refer also to my explanation of why spreadsheet programming is declarative, regardless that the formulas mutate the cells.

Also, several answers claim that functional programming must be a subset of declarative. On that point it depends if we differentiate "function" from "procedure". Lets handle imperative vs. declarative first.

Definition of declarative expression

The only attribute that can possibly differentiate a declarative expression from an imperative expression is the referential transparency (RT) of its sub-expressions. All other attributes are either shared between both types of expressions, or derived from the RT.

A 100% declarative language (i.e. one in which every possible expression is RT) does not (among other RT requirements) allow the mutation of stored values, e.g. HTML and most of Haskell.

Definition of RT expression

RT is often referred to as having "no side-effects". The term effects does not have a precise definition, so some people don't agree that "no side-effects" is the same as RT. RT has a precise definition:

An expression e is referentially transparent if for all programs p every occurrence of e in p can be replaced with the result of evaluating e, without affecting the observable result of p.

Since every sub-expression is conceptually a function call, RT requires that the implementation of a function (i.e. the expression(s) inside the called function) may not access the mutable state that is external to the function (accessing the mutable local state is allowed). Put simply, the function (implementation) should be pure.

Definition of pure function

A pure function is often said to have "no side-effects". The term effects does not have a precise definition, so some people don't agree.

Pure functions have the following attributes.

  • the only observable output is the return value.
  • the only output dependency is the arguments.
  • arguments are fully determined before any output is generated.

Remember that RT applies to expressions (which includes function calls) and purity applies to (implementations of) functions.

An obscure example of impure functions that make RT expressions is concurrency, but this is because the purity is broken at the interrupt abstraction layer. You don't really need to know this. To make RT expressions, you call pure functions.

Derivative attributes of RT

Any other attribute cited for declarative programming, e.g. the citation from 1999 used by Wikipedia, either derives from RT, or is shared with imperative programming. Thus proving that my precise definition is correct.

Note, immutability of external values is a subset of the requirements for RT.

  • Declarative languages don't have looping control structures, e.g. for and while, because due to immutability, the loop condition would never change.

  • Declarative languages don't express control-flow other than nested function order (a.k.a logical dependencies), because due to immutability, other choices of evaluation order do not change the result (see below).

  • Declarative languages express logical "steps" (i.e. the nested RT function call order), but whether each function call is a higher level semantic (i.e. "what to do") is not a requirement of declarative programming. The distinction from imperative is that due to immutability (i.e. more generally RT), these "steps" cannot depend on mutable state, rather only the relational order of the expressed logic (i.e. the order of nesting of the function calls, a.k.a. sub-expressions).

For example, the HTML paragraph <p> cannot be displayed until the sub-expressions (i.e. tags) in the paragraph have been evaluated. There is no mutable state, only an order dependency due to the logical relationship of tag hierarchy (nesting of sub-expressions, which are analogously nested function calls).

  • Thus there is the derivative attribute of immutability (more generally RT), that declarative expressions, express only the logical relationships of the constituent parts (i.e. of the sub-expression function arguments) and not mutable state relationships.

Evaluation order

The choice of evaluation order of sub-expressions can only give a varying result when any of the function calls are not RT (i.e. the function is not pure), e.g. some mutable state external to a function is accessed within the function.

For example, given some nested expressions, e.g. f( g(a, b), h(c, d) ), eager and lazy evaluation of the function arguments will give the same results if the functions f, g, and h are pure.

Whereas, if the functions f, g, and h are not pure, then the choice of evaluation order can give a different result.

Note, nested expressions are conceptually nested functions, since expression operators are just function calls masquerading as unary prefix, unary postfix, or binary infix notation.

Tangentially, if all identifiers, e.g. a, b, c, d, are immutable everywhere, state external to the program cannot be accessed (i.e. I/O), and there is no abstraction layer breakage, then functions are always pure.

By the way, Haskell has a different syntax, f (g a b) (h c d).

Evaluation order details

A function is a state transition (not a mutable stored value) from the input to the output. For RT compositions of calls to pure functions, the order-of-execution of these state transitions is independent. The state transition of each function call is independent of the others, due to lack of side-effects and the principle that an RT function may be replaced by its cached value. To correct a popular misconception, pure monadic composition is always declarative and RT, in spite of the fact that Haskell's IO monad is arguably impure and thus imperative w.r.t. the World state external to the program (but in the sense of the caveat below, the side-effects are isolated).

Eager evaluation means the functions arguments are evaluated before the function is called, and lazy evaluation means the arguments are not evaluated until (and if) they are accessed within the function.

Definition: function parameters are declared at the function definition site, and function arguments are supplied at the function call site. Know the difference between parameter and argument.

Conceptually, all expressions are (a composition of) function calls, e.g. constants are functions without inputs, unary operators are functions with one input, binary infix operators are functions with two inputs, constructors are functions, and even control statements (e.g. if, for, while) can be modeled with functions. The order that these argument functions (do not confuse with nested function call order) are evaluated is not declared by the syntax, e.g. f( g() ) could eagerly evaluate g then f on g's result or it could evaluate f and only lazily evaluate g when its result is needed within f.

Caveat, no Turing complete language (i.e. that allows unbounded recursion) is perfectly declarative, e.g. lazy evaluation introduces memory and time indeterminism. But these side-effects due to the choice of evaluation order are limited to memory consumption, execution time, latency, non-termination, and external hysteresis thus external synchronization.

Functional programming

Because declarative programming cannot have loops, then the only way to iterate is functional recursion. It is in this sense that functional programming is related to declarative programming.

But functional programming is not limited to declarative programming. Functional composition can be contrasted with subtyping, especially with respect to the Expression Problem, where extension can be achieved by either adding subtypes or functional decomposition. Extension can be a mix of both methodologies.

Functional programming usually makes the function a first-class object, meaning the function type can appear in the grammar anywhere any other type may. The upshot is that functions can input and operate on functions, thus providing for separation-of-concerns by emphasizing function composition, i.e. separating the dependencies among the subcomputations of a deterministic computation.

For example, instead of writing a separate function (and employing recursion instead of loops if the function must also be declarative) for each of an infinite number of possible specialized actions that could be applied to each element of a collection, functional programming employs reusable iteration functions, e.g. map, fold, filter. These iteration functions input a first-class specialized action function. These iteration functions iterate the collection and call the input specialized action function for each element. These action functions are more concise because they no longer need to contain the looping statements to iterate the collection.

However, note that if a function is not pure, then it is really a procedure. We can perhaps argue that functional programming that uses impure functions, is really procedural programming. Thus if we agree that declarative expressions are RT, then we can say that procedural programming is not declarative programming, and thus we might argue that functional programming is always RT and must be a subset of declarative programming.

Parallelism

This functional composition with first-class functions can express the depth in the parallelism by separating out the independent function.

Brent’s Principle: computation with work w and depth d can be implemented in a p-processor PRAM in time O(max(w/p, d)).

Both concurrency and parallelism also require declarative programming, i.e. immutability and RT.

So where did this dangerous assumption that Parallelism == Concurrency come from? It’s a natural consequence of languages with side-effects: when your language has side-effects everywhere, then any time you try to do more than one thing at a time you essentially have non-determinism caused by the interleaving of the effects from each operation. So in side-effecty languages, the only way to get parallelism is concurrency; it’s therefore not surprising that we often see the two conflated.

FP evaluation order

Note the evaluation order also impacts the termination and performance side-effects of functional composition.

Eager (CBV) and lazy (CBN) are categorical duels[10], because they have reversed evaluation order, i.e. whether the outer or inner functions respectively are evaluated first. Imagine an upside-down tree, then eager evaluates from function tree branch tips up the branch hierarchy to the top-level function trunk; whereas, lazy evaluates from the trunk down to the branch tips. Eager doesn't have conjunctive products ("and", a/k/a categorical "products") and lazy doesn't have disjunctive coproducts ("or", a/k/a categorical "sums")[11].

Performance

  • Eager

As with non-termination, eager is too eager with conjunctive functional composition, i.e. compositional control structure does unnecessary work that isn't done with lazy. For example, eager eagerly and unnecessarily maps the entire list to booleans, when it is composed with a fold that terminates on the first true element.

This unnecessary work is the cause of the claimed "up to" an extra log n factor in the sequential time complexity of eager versus lazy, both with pure functions. A solution is to use functors (e.g. lists) with lazy constructors (i.e. eager with optional lazy products), because with eager the eagerness incorrectness originates from the inner function. This is because products are constructive types, i.e. inductive types with an initial algebra on an initial fixpoint[11]

  • Lazy

As with non-termination, lazy is too lazy with disjunctive functional composition, i.e. coinductive finality can occur later than necessary, resulting in both unnecessary work and non-determinism of the lateness that isn't the case with eager[10][11]. Examples of finality are state, timing, non-termination, and runtime exceptions. These are imperative side-effects, but even in a pure declarative language (e.g. Haskell), there is state in the imperative IO monad (note: not all monads are imperative!) implicit in space allocation, and timing is state relative to the imperative real world. Using lazy even with optional eager coproducts leaks "laziness" into inner coproducts, because with lazy the laziness incorrectness originates from the outer function (see the example in the Non-termination section, where == is an outer binary operator function). This is because coproducts are bounded by finality, i.e. coinductive types with a final algebra on an final object[11].

Lazy causes indeterminism in the design and debugging of functions for latency and space, the debugging of which is probably beyond the capabilities of the majority of programmers, because of the dissonance between the declared function hierarchy and the runtime order-of-evaluation. Lazy pure functions evaluated with eager, could potentially introduce previously unseen non-termination at runtime. Conversely, eager pure functions evaluated with lazy, could potentially introduce previously unseen space and latency indeterminism at runtime.

Non-termination

At compile-time, due to the Halting problem and mutual recursion in a Turing complete language, functions can't generally be guaranteed to terminate.

  • Eager

With eager but not lazy, for the conjunction of Head "and" Tail, if either Head or Tail doesn't terminate, then respectively either List( Head(), Tail() ).tail == Tail() or List( Head(), Tail() ).head == Head() is not true because the left-side doesn't, and right-side does, terminate.

Whereas, with lazy both sides terminate. Thus eager is too eager with conjunctive products, and non-terminates (including runtime exceptions) in those cases where it isn't necessary.

  • Lazy

With lazy but not eager, for the disjunction of 1 "or" 2, if f doesn't terminate, then List( f ? 1 : 2, 3 ).tail == (f ? List( 1, 3 ) : List( 2, 3 )).tail is not true because the left-side terminates, and right-side doesn't.

Whereas, with eager neither side terminates so the equality test is never reached. Thus lazy is too lazy with disjunctive coproducts, and in those cases fails to terminate (including runtime exceptions) after doing more work than eager would have.

[10] Declarative Continuations and Categorical Duality, Filinski, sections 2.5.4 A comparison of CBV and CBN, and 3.6.1 CBV and CBN in the SCL.

[11] Declarative Continuations and Categorical Duality, Filinski, sections 2.2.1 Products and coproducts, 2.2.2 Terminal and initial objects, 2.5.2 CBV with lazy products, and 2.5.3 CBN with eager coproducts.

TypeError: 'float' object not iterable

use

range(count)

int and float are not iterable

How to show a GUI message box from a bash script in linux?

Zenity is really the exact tool that I think that you are looking for.

or

zenity --help

Javascript: 'window' is not defined

It is from an external js file and it is the only file linked to the page.

OK.

When I double click this file I get the following error

Sounds like you're double-clicking/running a .js file, which will attempt to run the script outside the browser, like a command line script. And that would explain this error:

Windows Script Host Error: 'window' is not defined Code: 800A1391

... not an error you'll see in a browser. And of course, the browser is what supplies the window object.

ADDENDUM: As a course of action, I'd suggest opening the relevant HTML file and taking a peek at the console. If you don't see anything there, it's likely your window.onload definition is simply being hit after the browser fires the window.onload event.

update listview dynamically with adapter

add and remove methods are easier to use. They update the data in the list and call notifyDataSetChanged in background.

Sample code:

adapter.add("your object");
adapter.remove("your object");

How can I set the current working directory to the directory of the script in Bash?

The following also works:

cd "${0%/*}"

The syntax is thoroughly described in this StackOverflow answer.

How to filter WooCommerce products by custom attribute

You can use the WooCommerce Layered Nav widget, which allows you to use different sets of attributes as filters for products. Here's the "official" description:

Shows a custom attribute in a widget which lets you narrow down the list of products when viewing product categories.

If you look into plugins/woocommerce/widgets/widget-layered_nav.php, you can see the way it operates with the attributes in order to set filters. The URL then looks like this:

http://yoursite.com/shop/?filtering=1&filter_min-kvadratura=181&filter_max-kvadratura=108&filter_obem-ohlajdane=111

... and the digits are actually the id-s of the different attribute values, that you want to set.

Java Constructor Inheritance

David's answer is correct. I'd like to add that you might be getting a sign from God that your design is messed up, and that "Son" ought not to be a subclass of "Super", but that, instead, Super has some implementation detail best expressed by having the functionality that Son provides, as a strategy of sorts.

EDIT: Jon Skeet's answer is awesomest.

Why did Servlet.service() for servlet jsp throw this exception?

The problem is in your JSP, most likely you are calling a method on an object that is null at runtime.

It is happening in the _jspInit() call, which is a little more unusual... the problem code is probably a method declaration like <%! %>


Update: I've only reproduced this by overriding the _jspInit() method. Is that what you're doing? If so, it's not recommended - that's why it starts with an _.

Get method arguments using Spring AOP?

you can get method parameter and its value and if annotated with a annotation with following code:

Map<String, Object> annotatedParameterValue = getAnnotatedParameterValue(MethodSignature.class.cast(jp.getSignature()).getMethod(), jp.getArgs()); ....

private Map<String, Object> getAnnotatedParameterValue(Method method, Object[] args) {
        Map<String, Object> annotatedParameters = new HashMap<>();
        Annotation[][] parameterAnnotations = method.getParameterAnnotations();
        Parameter[] parameters = method.getParameters();

        int i = 0;
        for (Annotation[] annotations : parameterAnnotations) {
            Object arg = args[i];
            String name = parameters[i++].getDeclaringExecutable().getName();
            for (Annotation annotation : annotations) {
                if (annotation instanceof AuditExpose) {
                    annotatedParameters.put(name, arg);
                }
            }
        }
        return annotatedParameters;
    }

Making authenticated POST requests with Spring RestTemplate for Android

Very useful I had a slightly different scenario where I the request xml was itself the body of the POST and not a param. For that the following code can be used - Posting as an answer just in case anyone else having similar issue will benefit.

    final HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();
    headers.add("header1", "9998");
    headers.add("username", "xxxxx");
    headers.add("password", "xxxxx");
    headers.add("header2", "yyyyyy");
    headers.add("header3", "zzzzz");
    headers.setContentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML);
    headers.setAccept(Arrays.asList(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML));
    final HttpEntity<MyXmlbeansRequestDocument> httpEntity = new HttpEntity<MyXmlbeansRequestDocument>(
            MyXmlbeansRequestDocument.Factory.parse(request), headers);
    final ResponseEntity<MyXmlbeansResponseDocument> responseEntity = restTemplate.exchange(url, HttpMethod.POST, httpEntity,MyXmlbeansResponseDocument.class);
    log.info(responseEntity.getBody());

Full width layout with twitter bootstrap

Because the accepted answer isn't on the same planet as BS3, I'll share what I'm using to achieve nearly full-width capabilities.

First off, this is cheating. It's not really fluid width - but it appears to be - depending on the size of the screen viewing the site.

The problem with BS3 and fluid width sites is that they have taken this "mobile first" approach, which requires that they define every freaking screen width up to what they consider to be desktop (1200px) I'm working on a laptop with a 1900px wide screen - so I end up with 350px on either side of the content at what BS3 thinks is a desktop sized width.

They have defined 10 screen widths (really only 5, but anyway). I don't really feel comfortable changing those, because they are common widths. So, I chose to define some extra widths for BS to choose from when deciding the width of the container class.

The way I use BS is to take all of the Bootstrap provided LESS files, omit the variables.less file to provide my own, and add one of my own to the end to override the things I want to change. Within my less file, I add the following to achieve 2 common screen width settings:

@media screen and (min-width: 1600px) {
    .container {
        max-width: (1600px - @grid-gutter-width);
    }
}
@media screen and (min-width: 1900px) {
    .container {
        max-width: (1900px - @grid-gutter-width);
    }
}

These two settings set the example for what you need to do to achieve different screen widths. Here, you get full width at 1600px, and 1900px. Any less than 1600 - BS falls back to the 1200px width, then to 768px and so forth - down to phone size.

If you have larger to support, just create more @media screen statements like these. If you're building the CSS instead, you'll want to determine what gutter width was used and subtract it from your target screen width.

Update:

Bootstrap 3.0.1 and up (so far) - it's as easy as setting @container-large-desktop to 100%