Programs & Examples On #Documentation generation

A documentation generator is a programming tool that generates documentation intended for programmers (API documentation) or end users (End-user Guide), or both, from a set of specially commented source code files, and in some cases, binary files.

How do I create documentation with Pydoc?

pydoc is fantastic for generating documentation, but the documentation has to be written in the first place. You must have docstrings in your source code as was mentioned by RocketDonkey in the comments:

"""
This example module shows various types of documentation available for use
with pydoc.  To generate HTML documentation for this module issue the
command:

    pydoc -w foo

"""

class Foo(object):
    """
    Foo encapsulates a name and an age.
    """
    def __init__(self, name, age):
        """
        Construct a new 'Foo' object.

        :param name: The name of foo
        :param age: The ageof foo
        :return: returns nothing
        """
        self.name = name
        self.age = age

def bar(baz):
    """
    Prints baz to the display.
    """
    print baz

if __name__ == '__main__':
    f = Foo('John Doe', 42)
    bar("hello world")

The first docstring provides instructions for creating the documentation with pydoc. There are examples of different types of docstrings so you can see how they look when generated with pydoc.

How to document a method with parameter(s)?

Conventions:

Tools:


Update: Since Python 3.5 you can use type hints which is a compact, machine-readable syntax:

from typing import Dict, Union

def foo(i: int, d: Dict[str, Union[str, int]]) -> int:
    """
    Explanation: this function takes two arguments: `i` and `d`.
    `i` is annotated simply as `int`. `d` is a dictionary with `str` keys
    and values that can be either `str` or `int`.

    The return type is `int`.

    """

The main advantage of this syntax is that it is defined by the language and that it's unambiguous, so tools like PyCharm can easily take advantage from it.

Swift Error: Editor placeholder in source file

Error is straight forward and its because of wrong placeholders you have used in function call. Inside init you are not passing any parameters to your function. It should be this way

destination = Node("some key", neighbors: [edge1 , edge2], visited: true, lat: 23.45, long: 45.67) // fill up with your dummy values

Or you can just initialise with default method

destination = Node()

UPDATE

Add empty initialiser in your Node class

init() {

}

No resource found that matches the given name '@style/ Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar'

The @android did not work for me. When I use android (without the @) it works like a charm.

Example:

<style name="CustomActionBarTheme"
       parent="android:style/Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar">

JSON ValueError: Expecting property name: line 1 column 2 (char 1)

I encountered another problem that returns the same error.

Single quote issue

I used a json string with single quotes :

{
    'property': 1
}

But json.loads accepts only double quotes for json properties :

{
    "property": 1
}

Final comma issue

json.loads doesn't accept a final comma:

{
  "property": "text", 
  "property2": "text2",
}

Solution: ast to solve single quote and final comma issues

You can use ast (part of standard library for both Python 2 and 3) for this processing. Here is an example :

import ast
# ast.literal_eval() return a dict object, we must use json.dumps to get JSON string
import json

# Single quote to double with ast.literal_eval()
json_data = "{'property': 'text'}"
json_data = ast.literal_eval(json_data)
print(json.dumps(json_data))
# Displays : {"property": "text"}

# ast.literal_eval() with double quotes
json_data = '{"property": "text"}'
json_data = ast.literal_eval(json_data)
print(json.dumps(json_data))
# Displays : {"property": "text"}

# ast.literal_eval() with final coma
json_data = "{'property': 'text', 'property2': 'text2',}"
json_data = ast.literal_eval(json_data)
print(json.dumps(json_data))
# Displays : {"property2": "text2", "property": "text"}

Using ast will prevent you from single quote and final comma issues by interpet the JSON like Python dictionnary (so you must follow the Python dictionnary syntax). It's a pretty good and safely alternative of eval() function for literal structures.

Python documentation warned us of using large/complex string :

Warning It is possible to crash the Python interpreter with a sufficiently large/complex string due to stack depth limitations in Python’s AST compiler.

json.dumps with single quotes

To use json.dumps with single quotes easily you can use this code:

import ast
import json

data = json.dumps(ast.literal_eval(json_data_single_quote))

ast documentation

ast Python 3 doc

ast Python 2 doc

Tool

If you frequently edit JSON, you may use CodeBeautify. It helps you to fix syntax error and minify/beautify JSON.

I hope it helps.

Post values from a multiple select

try this : here select is your select element

let select = document.getElementsByClassName('lstSelected')[0],
    options = select.options,
    len = options.length,
    data='',
    i=0;
while (i<len){
    if (options[i].selected)
        data+= "&" + select.name + '=' + options[i].value;
    i++;
}
return data;

Data is in the form of query string i.e.name=value&name=anotherValue

Configuring angularjs with eclipse IDE

  1. Make sure the project is extracted on your hard disk.
  2. In Eclipse go to the menu: File->New->Project.
  3. Select "General->Project" and click on the next button.
  4. Enter the project name in the "Project name:" field
  5. Disable "Use default location" Click on the "Browse ..." button and select the folder that contains the project (the one from step 1)
  6. Click on the "Finish" button
  7. Right-click with the mouse on you're new project and click "Configure->Convert to AngularJS Project.."
  8. Enable you're project goodies and click on the "OK" button.

Matplotlib connect scatterplot points with line - Python

I think @Evert has the right answer:

plt.scatter(dates,values)
plt.plot(dates, values)
plt.show()

Which is pretty much the same as

plt.plot(dates, values, '-o')
plt.show()

or whatever linestyle you prefer.

What is the string concatenation operator in Oracle?

It is ||, for example:

select 'Mr ' || ename from emp;

The only "interesting" feature I can think of is that 'x' || null returns 'x', not null as you might perhaps expect.

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

You can use schemas in Access.

Sub ListAccessTables2(strDBPath)
   Dim cnnDB As ADODB.Connection
   Dim rstList As ADODB.Recordset

   Set cnnDB = New ADODB.Connection

   ' Open the connection.
   With cnnDB
      .Provider = "Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0"
      .Open strDBPath
   End With

   ' Open the tables schema rowset.
   Set rstList = cnnDB.OpenSchema(adSchemaTables)

   ' Loop through the results and print the
   ' names and types in the Immediate pane.
   With rstList
      Do While Not .EOF
         If .Fields("TABLE_TYPE") <> "VIEW" Then
            Debug.Print .Fields("TABLE_NAME") & vbTab & _
               .Fields("TABLE_TYPE")
         End If
         .MoveNext
      Loop
   End With
   cnnDB.Close
   Set cnnDB = Nothing
End Sub

From: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa165325(office.10).aspx

Java rounding up to an int using Math.ceil

int total = (int) Math.ceil((double)157/32);

Maximum filename length in NTFS (Windows XP and Windows Vista)?

199 on Windows XP NTFS, I just checked.

This is not theory but from just trying on my laptop. There may be mitigating effects, but it physically won't let me make it bigger.

Is there some other setting limiting this, I wonder? Try it for yourself.

How to get number of rows inserted by a transaction

In case you need further info for your log/audit you can OUTPUT clause: This way, not only you keep the number of rows affected, but also what records.

As an example of the Output Clause during inserts: SQL Server list of insert identities

DECLARE @InsertedIDs table(ID int);

INSERT INTO YourTable
    OUTPUT INSERTED.ID
        INTO @InsertedIDs 
    SELECT ...

HTH

What is the regex for "Any positive integer, excluding 0"

Try this:

^[1-9]\d*$

...and some padding to exceed 30 character SO answer limit :-).

Here is Demo

New og:image size for Facebook share?

According to facebooks best practices it is like this (2016)

Image Sizes

Use images that are at least 1200 x 630 pixels for the best display on high resolution devices. At the minimum, you should use images that are 600 x 315 pixels to display link page posts with larger images. Images can be up to 8MB in size. enter image description here

Small Images

If your image is smaller than 600 x 315 px, it will still display in the link page post, but the size will be much smaller. enter image description here

We've also redesigned link page posts so that the aspect ratio for images is the same across desktop and mobile News Feed. Try to keep your images as close to 1.91:1 aspect ratio as possible to display the full image in News Feed without any cropping.

Minimum Image Size

The minimum image size is 200 x 200 pixels. If you try to use an image smaller than this you will see an error in the Sharing Debugger.

Game Apps Images

There are two different image sizes to use for game apps:

Open Graph Stories Images appear in a square format. Image ratios for these apps should be 600 x 600 px. Non-open Graph Stories Images appear in a rectangular format. You should use a 1.91:1 image ratio, such as 600 x 314 px.

Show just the current branch in Git

You may be interested in the output of

git symbolic-ref HEAD

In particular, depending on your needs and layout you may wish to do

basename $(git symbolic-ref HEAD)

or

git symbolic-ref HEAD | cut -d/ -f3-

and then again there is the .git/HEAD file which may also be of interest for you.

How can I replace the deprecated set_magic_quotes_runtime in php?

Check if it's on first. That should get rid of the warning and it'll ensure that if your code is run on older versions of PHP that magic quotes are indeed off.

Don't just remove that line of code as suggested by others unless you can be 100% sure that the code will never be run on anything before PHP 5.3.

<?php
// Check if magic_quotes_runtime is active
if(get_magic_quotes_runtime())
{
    // Deactivate
    set_magic_quotes_runtime(false);
}
?>

get_magic_quotes_runtime is NOT deprecated in PHP 5.3.
Source: http://us2.php.net/get_magic_quotes_runtime/

How to run .jar file by double click on Windows 7 64-bit?

http://www.wikihow.com/Run-a-.Jar-Java-File

  1. Assuming you've loaded the Java JRE and/or Java SDK, then
  2. To do associations, go to "My Computer", click on one of your drives (C: for instance).
  3. When it is shown, choose "Tools" »» "Folder options" (or Properties... it's in different places depending on the Windows version).
  4. Open Windows Explorer (just open any folder) to get the "Tools" -> "Folder options" window.
  5. When you get the "Folder options" window, click on the tab "File types". You should be able to either edit or add JAR files (.jar extension)
  6. Change the program used to open JAR files. In the file select window, go to the folder where the JRE is installed (should be C:/Program Files/Java/..., mark "Always open with", and select the javaw.exe file.

Is there a way to rollback my last push to Git?

First you need to determine the revision ID of the last known commit. You can use HEAD^ or HEAD~{1} if you know you need to reverse exactly one commit.

git reset --hard <revision_id_of_last_known_good_commit>
git push --force

How to create a 100% screen width div inside a container in bootstrap?

The reason why your full-width-div doesn't stretch 100% to your screen it's because of its parent "container" which occupies only about 80% of the screen.

If you want to make it stretch 100% to the screen either you make the "full-width-div" position fixed or use the "container-fluid" class instead of "container".

see Bootstrap 3 docs: http://getbootstrap.com/css/#grid

enabling cross-origin resource sharing on IIS7

I can't post comments so I have to put this in a separate answer, but it's related to the accepted answer by Shah.

I initially followed Shahs answer (thank you!) by re configuring the OPTIONSVerbHandler in IIS, but my settings were restored when I redeployed my application.

I ended up removing the OPTIONSVerbHandler in my Web.config instead.

<handlers>
    <remove name="OPTIONSVerbHandler"/>
</handlers>

Viewing root access files/folders of android on windows

Obviously, you'll need a rooted android device. Then set up an FTP server and transfer the files.

HashMap to return default value for non-found keys?

You can simply create a new class that inherits HashMap and add getDefault method. Here is a sample code:

public class DefaultHashMap<K,V> extends HashMap<K,V> {
    public V getDefault(K key, V defaultValue) {
        if (containsKey(key)) {
            return get(key);
        }

        return defaultValue;
    }
}

I think that you should not override get(K key) method in your implementation, because of the reasons specified by Ed Staub in his comment and because you will break the contract of Map interface (this can potentially lead to some hard-to-find bugs).

jQuery: Currency Format Number

Please find in the below code what I developed to support internationalization. It formats the given numeric value to language specific format. In the given example I have used ‘en’ while have tested for ‘es’, ‘fr’ and other countries where in the format varies. It not only stops user from keying characters but formats the value on tab out. Have created components for Number as well as for Decimal format. Apart from this have created parseNumber(value, locale) and parseDecimal(value, locale) functions which will parse the formatted data for any other business purposes. The said function will accept the formatted data and will return the non-formatted value. I have used JQuery validator plugin in the below shared code.

HTML:

<tr>
                            <td>
                                <label class="control-label">
                                    Number Field:
                                </label>
                                <div class="inner-addon right-addon">                                        
                                    <input type="text" id="numberField" 
                                           name="numberField"
                                           class="form-control"
                                           autocomplete="off"
                                           maxlength="17"
                                           data-rule-required="true"
                                           data-msg-required="Cannot be blank."
                                           data-msg-maxlength="Exceeding the maximum limit of 13 digits. Example: 1234567890123"
                                           data-rule-numberExceedsMaxLimit="en"
                                           data-msg-numberExceedsMaxLimit="Exceeding the maximum limit of 13 digits. Example: 1234567890123"
                                           onkeydown="return isNumber(event, 'en')"
                                           onkeyup="return updateField(this)"
                                           onblur="numberFormatter(this,                                                           
                                                       'en', 
                                                       'Invalid character(s) found. Please enter valid characters.')">
                                </div>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <label class="control-label">
                                    Decimal Field:
                                </label>
                                <div class="inner-addon right-addon">                                        
                                    <input type="text" id="decimalField" 
                                           name="decimalField"
                                           class="form-control"
                                           autocomplete="off"
                                           maxlength="20"
                                           data-rule-required="true"
                                           data-msg-required="Cannot be blank."
                                           data-msg-maxlength="Exceeding the maximum limit of 16 digits. Example: 1234567890123.00"
                                           data-rule-decimalExceedsMaxLimit="en"
                                           data-msg-decimalExceedsMaxLimit="Exceeding the maximum limit of 16 digits. Example: 1234567890123.00"
                                           onkeydown="return isDecimal(event, 'en')"
                                           onkeyup="return updateField(this)"
                                           onblur="decimalFormatter(this,
                                               'en', 
                                               'Invalid character(s) found. Please enter valid characters.')">
                                </div>
                            </td>
                        </tr>

JavaScript:

            /* 
     * @author: dinesh.lomte
     */
    /* Holds the maximum limit of digits to be entered in number field. */
    var numericMaxLimit = 13;
    /* Holds the maximum limit of digits to be entered in decimal field. */
    var decimalMaxLimit = 16;

    /**
     * 
     * @param {type} value
     * @param {type} locale
     * @returns {Boolean}
     */
    parseDecimal = function(value, locale) {

        value = value.trim();
        if (isNull(value)) {
            return 0.00;
        }
        if (isNull(locale)) {
            return value;
        }
        if (getNumberFormat(locale)[0] === '.') {
            value = value.replace(/\./g, '');
        } else {
            value = value.replace(
                    new RegExp(getNumberFormat(locale)[0], 'g'), '');
        }
        if (getNumberFormat(locale)[1] === ',') {
            value = value.replace(
                    new RegExp(getNumberFormat(locale)[1], 'g'), '.');
        }
        return value;
    };

    /**
     * 
     * @param {type} element
     * @param {type} locale
     * @param {type} nanMessage
     * @returns {Boolean}
     */
    decimalFormatter = function (element, locale, nanMessage) {

        showErrorMessage(element.id, false, null);
        if (isNull(element.id) || isNull(element.value) || isNull(locale)) {
            return true;
        }
        var value = element.value.trim();
        value = value.replace(/\s/g, '');
        value = parseDecimal(value, locale);
        var numberFormatObj = new Intl.NumberFormat(locale,
                {   minimumFractionDigits: 2,
                    maximumFractionDigits: 2
                }
        );
        if (numberFormatObj.format(value) === 'NaN') {
            showErrorMessage(element.id, true, nanMessage);
            setFocus(element.id);
            return false;
        }
        element.value =
                numberFormatObj.format(value);
        return true;
    };

    /**
     * 
     * @param {type} element
     * @param {type} locale
     * @param {type} nanMessage
     * @returns {Boolean}
     */
    numberFormatter = function (element, locale, nanMessage) {

        showErrorMessage(element.id, false, null);
        if (isNull(element.id) || isNull(element.value) || isNull(locale)) {
            return true;
        }
        var value = element.value.trim();    
        var format = getNumberFormat(locale);
        if (hasDecimal(value, format[1])) {
            showErrorMessage(element.id, true, nanMessage);
            setFocus(element.id);
            return false;
        }
        value = value.replace(/\s/g, '');
        value = parseNumber(value, locale);
        var numberFormatObj = new Intl.NumberFormat(locale,
                {   minimumFractionDigits: 0,
                    maximumFractionDigits: 0
                }
        );
        if (numberFormatObj.format(value) === 'NaN') {
            showErrorMessage(element.id, true, nanMessage);
            setFocus(element.id);
            return false;
        }
        element.value =
                numberFormatObj.format(value);
        return true;
    };

    /**
     * 
     * @param {type} id
     * @param {type} flag
     * @param {type} message
     * @returns {undefined}
     */
    showErrorMessage = function(id, flag, message) {

        if (flag) {
            // only add if not added
            if ($('#'+id).parent().next('.app-error-message').length === 0) {
                var errorTag = '<div class=\'app-error-message\'>' + message + '</div>';
                $('#'+id).parent().after(errorTag);
            }
        } else {
            // remove it
            $('#'+id).parent().next(".app-error-message").remove(); 
        }
    };

    /**
     * 
     * @param {type} id             
     * @returns
     */
    setFocus = function(id) {

        id = id.trim();
        if (isNull(id)) {
            return;
        }
        setTimeout(function() {
            document.getElementById(id).focus();
        }, 10);
    };

    /**
     * 
     * @param {type} value
     * @param {type} locale
     * @returns {Array}
     */
    parseNumber = function(value, locale) {

        value = value.trim();
        if (isNull(value)) {
            return 0;
        }    
        if (isNull(locale)) {
            return value;
        }
        if (getNumberFormat(locale)[0] === '.') {
            return value.replace(/\./g, '');
        }
        return value.replace(
                new RegExp(getNumberFormat(locale)[0], 'g'), '');
    };

    /**
     * 
     * @param {type} locale
     * @returns {Array}
     */
    getNumberFormat = function(locale) {

        var format = [];
        var numberFormatObj = new Intl.NumberFormat(locale,
                {   minimumFractionDigits: 2,
                    maximumFractionDigits: 2
                }
        );
        var value = numberFormatObj.format('132617.07');
        format[0] = value.charAt(3);
        format[1] = value.charAt(7);
        return format;
    };

    /**
     * 
     * @param {type} value
     * @param {type} fractionFormat
     * @returns {Boolean}
     */
    hasDecimal = function(value, fractionFormat) {

        value = value.trim();
        if (isNull(value) || isNull(fractionFormat)) {
            return false;
        }
        if (value.indexOf(fractionFormat) >= 1) {
            return true;
        }
    };

    /**
     * 
     * @param {type} event
     * @param {type} locale
     * @returns {Boolean}
     */
    isNumber = function(event, locale) {

        var keyCode = event.which ? event.which : event.keyCode;
        // Validating if user has pressed shift character
        if (keyCode === 16) {
            return false;
        }
        if (isNumberKey(keyCode)) {        
            return true;
        }
        var numberFormatter = [32, 110, 188, 190];
        if (keyCode === 32
                && isNull(getNumberFormat(locale)[0]) === isNull(getFormat(keyCode))) {
            return true;
        }
        if (numberFormatter.indexOf(keyCode) >= 0
                && getNumberFormat(locale)[0] === getFormat(keyCode)) {        
            return true;
        }    
        return false;
    };

    /**
     * 
     * @param {type} event
     * @param {type} locale
     * @returns {Boolean}
     */
    isDecimal = function(event, locale) {

        var keyCode = event.which ? event.which : event.keyCode;
        // Validating if user has pressed shift character
        if (keyCode === 16) {
            return false;
        }
        if (isNumberKey(keyCode)) {
            return true;
        }
        var numberFormatter = [32, 110, 188, 190];
        if (keyCode === 32
                && isNull(getNumberFormat(locale)[0]) === isNull(getFormat(keyCode))) {
            return true;
        }
        if (numberFormatter.indexOf(keyCode) >= 0
                && (getNumberFormat(locale)[0] === getFormat(keyCode)
                    || getNumberFormat(locale)[1] === getFormat(keyCode))) {
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    };

    /**
     * 
     * @param {type} keyCode
     * @returns {Boolean}
     */
    isNumberKey = function(keyCode) {

        if ((keyCode >= 48 && keyCode <= 57)
                || (keyCode >= 96 && keyCode <= 105)) {        
            return true;
        }
        var keys = [8, 9, 13, 35, 36, 37, 39, 45, 46, 109, 144, 173, 189];
        if (keys.indexOf(keyCode) !== -1) {        
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    };

    /**
     * 
     * @param {type} keyCode
     * @returns {JSON@call;parse.numberFormatter.value|String}
     */
    getFormat = function(keyCode) {

        var jsonString = '{"numberFormatter" : [{"key":"32", "value":" ", "description":"space"}, {"key":"188", "value":",", "description":"comma"}, {"key":"190", "value":".", "description":"dot"}, {"key":"110", "value":".", "description":"dot"}]}';
        var jsonObject = JSON.parse(jsonString);
        for (var key in jsonObject.numberFormatter) {
            if (jsonObject.numberFormatter.hasOwnProperty(key)
                    && keyCode === parseInt(jsonObject.numberFormatter[key].key)) {
                return jsonObject.numberFormatter[key].value;
            }
        }
        return '';
    };

    /**
     * 
     * @type String
     */
    var jsonString = '{"shiftCharacterNumberMap" : [{"char":")", "number":"0"}, {"char":"!", "number":"1"}, {"char":"@", "number":"2"}, {"char":"#", "number":"3"}, {"char":"$", "number":"4"}, {"char":"%", "number":"5"}, {"char":"^", "number":"6"}, {"char":"&", "number":"7"}, {"char":"*", "number":"8"}, {"char":"(", "number":"9"}]}';

    /**
     * 
     * @param {type} value
     * @returns {JSON@call;parse.shiftCharacterNumberMap.number|String}
     */
    getShiftCharSpecificNumber = function(value) {

        var jsonObject = JSON.parse(jsonString);
        for (var key in jsonObject.shiftCharacterNumberMap) {
            if (jsonObject.shiftCharacterNumberMap.hasOwnProperty(key)
                    && value === jsonObject.shiftCharacterNumberMap[key].char) {
                return jsonObject.shiftCharacterNumberMap[key].number;
            }
        }
        return '';
    };

    /**
     * 
     * @param {type} value
     * @returns {Boolean}
     */
    isShiftSpecificChar = function(value) {

        var jsonObject = JSON.parse(jsonString);
        for (var key in jsonObject.shiftCharacterNumberMap) {
            if (jsonObject.shiftCharacterNumberMap.hasOwnProperty(key)
                    && value === jsonObject.shiftCharacterNumberMap[key].char) {
                return true;
            }
        }
        return false;
    };

    /**
     * 
     * @param {type} element
     * @returns {undefined}
     */
    updateField = function(element) {

        var value = element.value;

        for (var index = 0; index < value.length; index++) {
            if (!isShiftSpecificChar(value.charAt(index))) {
                continue;
            }
            element.value = value.replace(
                    value.charAt(index),
                    getShiftCharSpecificNumber(value.charAt(index)));
        }
    };

    /**
     * 
     * @param {type} value
     * @param {type} element
     * @param {type} params
     */
    jQuery.validator.addMethod('numberExceedsMaxLimit', function(value, element, params) {

        value = parseInt(parseNumber(value, params));
        if (value.toString().length > numericMaxLimit) {
            showErrorMessage(element.id, false, null);
            setFocus(element.id);
            return false;
        }    
        return true;
    }, 'Exceeding the maximum limit of 13 digits. Example: 1234567890123.');

    /**
     * 
     * @param {type} value
     * @param {type} element
     * @param {type} params
     */
    jQuery.validator.addMethod('decimalExceedsMaxLimit', function(value, element, params) {

        value = parseFloat(parseDecimal(value, params)).toFixed(2);    
        if (value.toString().substring(
                0, value.toString().lastIndexOf('.')).length > numericMaxLimit
                || value.toString().length > decimalMaxLimit) {
            showErrorMessage(element.id, false, null);
            setFocus(element.id);
            return false;
        }    
        return true;
    }, 'Exceeding the maximum limit of 16 digits. Example: 1234567890123.00.');

    /**
     * @param {type} id
     * @param {type} locale
     * @returns {boolean}
     */
    isNumberExceedMaxLimit = function(id, locale) {

        var value = parseInt(parseNumber(
                document.getElementById(id).value, locale));
        if (value.toString().length > numericMaxLimit) {
            setFocus(id);
            return true;
        }    
        return false;
    };

    /**
     * @param {type} id
     * @param {type} locale
     * @returns {boolean}
     */
    isDecimalExceedsMaxLimit = function(id, locale) {

        var value = parseFloat(parseDecimal(
                document.getElementById(id).value, locale)).toFixed(2);
        if (value.toString().substring(
                0, value.toString().lastIndexOf('.')).length > numericMaxLimit
                || value.toString().length > decimalMaxLimit) {
            setFocus(id);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    };

Select top 10 records for each category

This works on SQL Server 2005 (edited to reflect your clarification):

select *
from Things t
where t.ThingID in (
    select top 10 ThingID
    from Things tt
    where tt.Section = t.Section and tt.ThingDate = @Date
    order by tt.DateEntered desc
    )
    and t.ThingDate = @Date
order by Section, DateEntered desc

Apply function to each column in a data frame observing each columns existing data type

building on @ltamar's answer:
Use summary and munge the output into something useful!

library(tidyr)
library(dplyr)

df %>% 
  summary %>% 
  data.frame %>%
  select(-Var1) %>%
  separate(data=.,col=Freq,into = c('metric','value'),sep = ':') %>%
  rename(column_name=Var2) %>%
  mutate(value=as.numeric(value),
         metric = trimws(metric,'both') 
  ) %>%  
  filter(!is.na(value)) -> metrics

It's not pretty and it is certainly not fast but it gets the job done!

hash function for string

First, is 40 collisions for 130 words hashed to 0..99 bad? You can't expect perfect hashing if you are not taking steps specifically for it to happen. An ordinary hash function won't have fewer collisions than a random generator most of the time.

A hash function with a good reputation is MurmurHash3.

Finally, regarding the size of the hash table, it really depends what kind of hash table you have in mind, especially, whether buckets are extensible or one-slot. If buckets are extensible, again there is a choice: you choose the average bucket length for the memory/speed constraints that you have.

'str' object does not support item assignment in Python

Python strings are immutable so what you are trying to do in C will be simply impossible in python. You will have to create a new string.

I would like to read some characters from a string and put it into other string.

Then use a string slice:

>>> s1 = 'Hello world!!'
>>> s2 = s1[6:12]
>>> print s2
world!

add scroll bar to table body

you can wrap the content of the <tbody> in a scrollable <div> :

html

....
<tbody>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2">
      <div class="scrollit">
        <table>
          <tr>
            <td>January</td>
            <td>$100</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td>February</td>
            <td>$80</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td>January</td>
            <td>$100</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td>February</td>
            <td>$80</td>
          </tr>
          ...

css

.scrollit {
    overflow:scroll;
    height:100px;
}

see my jsfiddle, forked from yours: http://jsfiddle.net/VTNax/2/

ES6 modules in the browser: Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token import

it worked for me adding type="module" to the script importing my mjs:

<script type="module">
import * as module from 'https://rawgit.com/abernier/7ce9df53ac9ec00419634ca3f9e3f772/raw/eec68248454e1343e111f464e666afd722a65fe2/mymod.mjs'

console.log(module.default()) // Prints: Hi from the default export!
</script>

See demo: https://codepen.io/abernier/pen/wExQaa

ImportError: No module named Image

On a system with both Python 2 and 3 installed and with pip2-installed Pillow failing to provide Image, it is possible to install PIL for Python 2 in a way that will solve ImportError: No module named Image:

easy_install-2.7 --user PIL

or

sudo easy_install-2.7 PIL

Update style of a component onScroll in React.js

to help out anyone here who noticed the laggy behavior / performance issues when using Austins answer, and wants an example using the refs mentioned in the comments, here is an example I was using for toggling a class for a scroll up / down icon:

In the render method:

<i ref={(ref) => this.scrollIcon = ref} className="fa fa-2x fa-chevron-down"></i>

In the handler method:

if (this.scrollIcon !== null) {
  if(($(document).scrollTop() + $(window).height() / 2) > ($('body').height() / 2)){
    $(this.scrollIcon).attr('class', 'fa fa-2x fa-chevron-up');
  }else{
    $(this.scrollIcon).attr('class', 'fa fa-2x fa-chevron-down');
  }
}

And add / remove your handlers the same way as Austin mentioned:

componentDidMount(){
  window.addEventListener('scroll', this.handleScroll);
},
componentWillUnmount(){
  window.removeEventListener('scroll', this.handleScroll);
},

docs on the refs.

Git pushing to remote branch

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

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

git push

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

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

How to make Twitter Bootstrap tooltips have multiple lines?

If you're using Twitter Bootstrap Tooltip on non-link element, you can specify, that you want a multi-line tooltip directly in HTML code, without Javascript, using just the data parameter:

<span rel="tooltip" data-html="true" data-original-title="1<br />2<br />3">5</span>

This is just an alternative version of costales' answer. All the glory goes to him! :]

pow (x,y) in Java

Additionally for what was said, if you want integer powers of two, then 1 << x (or 1L << x) is a faster way to calculate 2x than Math.pow(2,x) or a multiplication loop, and is guaranteed to give you an int (or long) result.

It only uses the lowest 5 (or 6) bits of x (i.e. x & 31 (or x & 63)), though, shifting between 0 and 31 (or 63) bits.

PHP Function Comments

Functions:

/**
 * Does something interesting
 *
 * @param Place   $where  Where something interesting takes place
 * @param integer $repeat How many times something interesting should happen
 * 
 * @throws Some_Exception_Class If something interesting cannot happen
 * @author Monkey Coder <[email protected]>
 * @return Status
 */ 

Classes:

/**
 * Short description for class
 *
 * Long description for class (if any)...
 *
 * @copyright  2006 Zend Technologies
 * @license    http://www.zend.com/license/3_0.txt   PHP License 3.0
 * @version    Release: @package_version@
 * @link       http://dev.zend.com/package/PackageName
 * @since      Class available since Release 1.2.0
 */ 

Sample File:

<?php

/**
 * Short description for file
 *
 * Long description for file (if any)...
 *
 * PHP version 5.6
 *
 * LICENSE: This source file is subject to version 3.01 of the PHP license
 * that is available through the world-wide-web at the following URI:
 * http://www.php.net/license/3_01.txt.  If you did not receive a copy of
 * the PHP License and are unable to obtain it through the web, please
 * send a note to [email protected] so we can mail you a copy immediately.
 *
 * @category   CategoryName
 * @package    PackageName
 * @author     Original Author <[email protected]>
 * @author     Another Author <[email protected]>
 * @copyright  1997-2005 The PHP Group
 * @license    http://www.php.net/license/3_01.txt  PHP License 3.01
 * @version    SVN: $Id$
 * @link       http://pear.php.net/package/PackageName
 * @see        NetOther, Net_Sample::Net_Sample()
 * @since      File available since Release 1.2.0
 * @deprecated File deprecated in Release 2.0.0
 */

/**
 * This is a "Docblock Comment," also known as a "docblock."  The class'
 * docblock, below, contains a complete description of how to write these.
 */
require_once 'PEAR.php';

// {{{ constants

/**
 * Methods return this if they succeed
 */
define('NET_SAMPLE_OK', 1);

// }}}
// {{{ GLOBALS

/**
 * The number of objects created
 * @global int $GLOBALS['_NET_SAMPLE_Count']
 */
$GLOBALS['_NET_SAMPLE_Count'] = 0;

// }}}
// {{{ Net_Sample

/**
 * An example of how to write code to PEAR's standards
 *
 * Docblock comments start with "/**" at the top.  Notice how the "/"
 * lines up with the normal indenting and the asterisks on subsequent rows
 * are in line with the first asterisk.  The last line of comment text
 * should be immediately followed on the next line by the closing asterisk
 * and slash and then the item you are commenting on should be on the next
 * line below that.  Don't add extra lines.  Please put a blank line
 * between paragraphs as well as between the end of the description and
 * the start of the @tags.  Wrap comments before 80 columns in order to
 * ease readability for a wide variety of users.
 *
 * Docblocks can only be used for programming constructs which allow them
 * (classes, properties, methods, defines, includes, globals).  See the
 * phpDocumentor documentation for more information.
 * http://phpdoc.org/tutorial_phpDocumentor.howto.pkg.html
 *
 * The Javadoc Style Guide is an excellent resource for figuring out
 * how to say what needs to be said in docblock comments.  Much of what is
 * written here is a summary of what is found there, though there are some
 * cases where what's said here overrides what is said there.
 * http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/writingdoccomments/index.html#styleguide
 *
 * The first line of any docblock is the summary.  Make them one short
 * sentence, without a period at the end.  Summaries for classes, properties
 * and constants should omit the subject and simply state the object,
 * because they are describing things rather than actions or behaviors.
 *
 * Below are the tags commonly used for classes. @category through @version
 * are required.  The remainder should only be used when necessary.
 * Please use them in the order they appear here.  phpDocumentor has
 * several other tags available, feel free to use them.
 *
 * @category   CategoryName
 * @package    PackageName
 * @author     Original Author <[email protected]>
 * @author     Another Author <[email protected]>
 * @copyright  1997-2005 The PHP Group
 * @license    http://www.php.net/license/3_01.txt  PHP License 3.01
 * @version    Release: @package_version@
 * @link       http://pear.php.net/package/PackageName
 * @see        NetOther, Net_Sample::Net_Sample()
 * @since      Class available since Release 1.2.0
 * @deprecated Class deprecated in Release 2.0.0
 */
class Net_Sample
{
    // {{{ properties

    /**
     * The status of foo's universe
     * Potential values are 'good', 'fair', 'poor' and 'unknown'.
     * @var string $foo
     */
    public $foo = 'unknown';

    /**
     * The status of life
     * Note that names of private properties or methods must be
     * preceeded by an underscore.
     * @var bool $_good
     */
    private $_good = true;

    // }}}
    // {{{ setFoo()

    /**
     * Registers the status of foo's universe
     *
     * Summaries for methods should use 3rd person declarative rather
     * than 2nd person imperative, beginning with a verb phrase.
     *
     * Summaries should add description beyond the method's name. The
     * best method names are "self-documenting", meaning they tell you
     * basically what the method does.  If the summary merely repeats
     * the method name in sentence form, it is not providing more
     * information.
     *
     * Summary Examples:
     *   + Sets the label              (preferred)
     *   + Set the label               (avoid)
     *   + This method sets the label  (avoid)
     *
     * Below are the tags commonly used for methods.  A @param tag is
     * required for each parameter the method has.  The @return
     * and @access tags are mandatory.  The @throws tag is required if
     * the method uses exceptions.  @static is required if the method can
     * be called statically.  The remainder should only be used when
     * necessary.  Please use them in the order they appear here.
     * phpDocumentor has several other tags available, feel free to use
     * them.
     *
     * The @param tag contains the data type, then the parameter's
     * name, followed by a description.  By convention, the first noun in
     * the description is the data type of the parameter.  Articles like
     * "a", "an", and  "the" can precede the noun.  The descriptions
     * should start with a phrase.  If further description is necessary,
     * follow with sentences.  Having two spaces between the name and the
     * description aids readability.
     *
     * When writing a phrase, do not capitalize and do not end with a
     * period:
     *   + the string to be tested
     *
     * When writing a phrase followed by a sentence, do not capitalize the
     * phrase, but end it with a period to distinguish it from the start
     * of the next sentence:
     *   + the string to be tested. Must use UTF-8 encoding.
     *
     * Return tags should contain the data type then a description of
     * the data returned.  The data type can be any of PHP's data types
     * (int, float, bool, string, array, object, resource, mixed)
     * and should contain the type primarily returned.  For example, if
     * a method returns an object when things work correctly but false
     * when an error happens, say 'object' rather than 'mixed.'  Use
     * 'void' if nothing is returned.
     *
     * Here's an example of how to format examples:
     * <code>
     * require_once 'Net/Sample.php';
     *
     * $s = new Net_Sample();
     * if (PEAR::isError($s)) {
     *     echo $s->getMessage() . "\n";
     * }
     * </code>
     *
     * Here is an example for non-php example or sample:
     * <samp>
     * pear install net_sample
     * </samp>
     *
     * @param string $arg1 the string to quote
     * @param int    $arg2 an integer of how many problems happened.
     *                     Indent to the description's starting point
     *                     for long ones.
     *
     * @return int the integer of the set mode used. FALSE if foo
     *             foo could not be set.
     * @throws exceptionclass [description]
     *
     * @access public
     * @static
     * @see Net_Sample::$foo, Net_Other::someMethod()
     * @since Method available since Release 1.2.0
     * @deprecated Method deprecated in Release 2.0.0
     */
    function setFoo($arg1, $arg2 = 0)
    {
        /*
         * This is a "Block Comment."  The format is the same as
         * Docblock Comments except there is only one asterisk at the
         * top.  phpDocumentor doesn't parse these.
         */
        if ($arg1 == 'good' || $arg1 == 'fair') {
            $this->foo = $arg1;
            return 1;
        } elseif ($arg1 == 'poor' && $arg2 > 1) {
            $this->foo = 'poor';
            return 2;
        } else {
            return false;
        }
    }

    // }}}
}

// }}}

/*
 * Local variables:
 * tab-width: 4
 * c-basic-offset: 4
 * c-hanging-comment-ender-p: nil
 * End:
 */

?>

Source: PEAR Docblock Comment standards

C# create simple xml file

I'd recommend serialization,

public class Person
{
      public  string FirstName;
      public  string MI;
      public  string LastName;
}

static void Serialize()
{
      clsPerson p = new Person();
      p.FirstName = "Jeff";
      p.MI = "A";
      p.LastName = "Price";
      System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer x = new System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(p.GetType());
      x.Serialize(System.Console.Out, p);
      System.Console.WriteLine();
      System.Console.WriteLine(" --- Press any key to continue --- ");
      System.Console.ReadKey();
}

You can further control serialization with attributes.
But if it is simple, you could use XmlDocument:

using System;
using System.Xml;

public class GenerateXml {
    private static void Main() {
        XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
        XmlNode docNode = doc.CreateXmlDeclaration("1.0", "UTF-8", null);
        doc.AppendChild(docNode);

        XmlNode productsNode = doc.CreateElement("products");
        doc.AppendChild(productsNode);

        XmlNode productNode = doc.CreateElement("product");
        XmlAttribute productAttribute = doc.CreateAttribute("id");
        productAttribute.Value = "01";
        productNode.Attributes.Append(productAttribute);
        productsNode.AppendChild(productNode);

        XmlNode nameNode = doc.CreateElement("Name");
        nameNode.AppendChild(doc.CreateTextNode("Java"));
        productNode.AppendChild(nameNode);
        XmlNode priceNode = doc.CreateElement("Price");
        priceNode.AppendChild(doc.CreateTextNode("Free"));
        productNode.AppendChild(priceNode);

        // Create and add another product node.
        productNode = doc.CreateElement("product");
        productAttribute = doc.CreateAttribute("id");
        productAttribute.Value = "02";
        productNode.Attributes.Append(productAttribute);
        productsNode.AppendChild(productNode);
        nameNode = doc.CreateElement("Name");
        nameNode.AppendChild(doc.CreateTextNode("C#"));
        productNode.AppendChild(nameNode);
        priceNode = doc.CreateElement("Price");
        priceNode.AppendChild(doc.CreateTextNode("Free"));
        productNode.AppendChild(priceNode);

        doc.Save(Console.Out);
    }
}

And if it needs to be fast, use XmlWriter:

public static void WriteXML()
{
    // Create an XmlWriterSettings object with the correct options.
    System.Xml.XmlWriterSettings settings = new System.Xml.XmlWriterSettings();
    settings.Indent = true;
    settings.IndentChars = "    "; //  "\t";
    settings.OmitXmlDeclaration = false;
    settings.Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;

    using (System.Xml.XmlWriter writer = System.Xml.XmlWriter.Create("data.xml", settings))
    {

        writer.WriteStartDocument();
        writer.WriteStartElement("books");

        for (int i = 0; i < 100; ++i)
        {
            writer.WriteStartElement("book");
            writer.WriteElementString("item", "Book "+ (i+1).ToString());
            writer.WriteEndElement();
        }

        writer.WriteEndElement();

        writer.Flush();
        writer.Close();
    } // End Using writer 

}

And btw, the fastest way to read XML is XmlReader:

public static void ReadXML()
{
    using (System.Xml.XmlReader xmlReader = System.Xml.XmlReader.Create("http://www.ecb.int/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml"))
    {
        while (xmlReader.Read())
        {
            if ((xmlReader.NodeType == System.Xml.XmlNodeType.Element) && (xmlReader.Name == "Cube"))
            {
                if (xmlReader.HasAttributes)
                    System.Console.WriteLine(xmlReader.GetAttribute("currency") + ": " + xmlReader.GetAttribute("rate"));
            }

        } // Whend 

    } // End Using xmlReader

    System.Console.ReadKey();
}

And the most convenient way to read XML is to just deserialize the XML into a class.
This also works for creating the serialization classes, btw.
You can generate the class from XML with Xml2CSharp:
https://xmltocsharp.azurewebsites.net/

How to run mysql command on bash?

Use double quotes while using BASH variables.

mysql --user="$user" --password="$password" --database="$database" --execute="DROP DATABASE $user; CREATE DATABASE $database;"

BASH doesn't expand variables in single quotes.

How to clear all input fields in bootstrap modal when clicking data-dismiss button?

If you are using a form in the modal then you can use

$("#form_id").trigger("reset");

PostgreSQL : cast string to date DD/MM/YYYY

In case you need to convert the returned date of a select statement to a specific format you may use the following:

select to_char(DATE (*date_you_want_to_select*)::date, 'DD/MM/YYYY') as "Formated Date"

How to compare two dates?

Other answers using datetime and comparisons also work for time only, without a date.

For example, to check if right now it is more or less than 8:00 a.m., we can use:

import datetime

eight_am = datetime.time( 8,0,0 ) # Time, without a date

And later compare with:

datetime.datetime.now().time() > eight_am  

which will return True

PG::ConnectionBad - could not connect to server: Connection refused

Locate your postgres file it could be in /usr/local/var/postgres/ or in /usr/var/postgres/ and then delete the postmaster.pid file present in that folder.

How to select the first element in the dropdown using jquery?

if you want to check the text of selected option regardless if its the 1st child.

var a = $("#select_id option:selected").text();
alert(a); //check if the value is correct.
if(a == "value") {-- execute code --}

Python os.path.join on Windows

answering to your comment : "the others '//' 'c:', 'c:\\' did not work (C:\\ created two backslashes, C:\ didn't work at all)"

On windows using os.path.join('c:', 'sourcedir') will automatically add two backslashes \\ in front of sourcedir.

To resolve the path, as python works on windows also with forward slashes -> '/', simply add .replace('\\','/') with os.path.join as below:-

os.path.join('c:\\', 'sourcedir').replace('\\','/')

e.g: os.path.join('c:\\', 'temp').replace('\\','/')

output : 'C:/temp'

Conversion from 12 hours time to 24 hours time in java

Try this to calculate time difference between two times.

first it will convert 12 hours time into 24 hours then it will take diff between two times

String a = "09/06/18 01:55:33 AM";
            String b = "07/06/18 05:45:33 PM";
            String [] b2 = b.split(" ");
            String [] a2 = a.split(" ");
            SimpleDateFormat displayFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss");
            SimpleDateFormat parseFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm:ss a");
            String time1 = null ;
            String time2 = null ;
            if ( a.contains("PM") && b.contains("AM")) {
                 
                 Date date = parseFormat.parse(a2[1]+" PM");
                 time1 = displayFormat.format(date);
                 time2 = b2[1];
            }else if (b.contains("PM") && a.contains("AM")) {
                Date date = parseFormat.parse(a2[1]+" PM");
                time1 = a2[1];
                time2 = displayFormat.format(date);
            }else if (a.contains("PM") && b.contains("PM")){
                Date datea = parseFormat.parse(a2[1]+" PM");
                Date dateb = parseFormat.parse(b2[1]+" PM");
                time1 = displayFormat.format(datea);
                time2 = displayFormat.format(dateb);
            }   
            System.out.println(time1);
            System.out.println(time2);      
            SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss");
            Date date1 = format.parse(time1);
            Date date2 = format.parse(time2);
            long difference = date2.getTime() - date1.getTime(); 
            System.out.println(difference);
            System.out.println("Duration: "+DurationFormatUtils.formatDuration(difference, "HH:mm"));

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How to sum all values in a column in Jaspersoft iReport Designer?

It is quite easy to solve your task. You should create and use a new variable for summing values of the "Doctor Payment" column.

In your case the variable can be declared like this:

<variable name="total" class="java.lang.Integer" calculation="Sum">
    <variableExpression><![CDATA[$F{payment}]]></variableExpression>
</variable>
  • the Calculation type is Sum;
  • the Reset type is Report;
  • the Variable expression is $F{payment}, where $F{payment} is the name of a field contains sum (Doctor Payment).

The working example.

CSV datasource:

doctor_id,payment
A1,123
B1,223
C2,234
D3,678
D1,343

The template:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jasperReport ...>
    <queryString>
        <![CDATA[]]>
    </queryString>
    <field name="doctor_id" class="java.lang.String"/>
    <field name="payment" class="java.lang.Integer"/>
    <variable name="total" class="java.lang.Integer" calculation="Sum">
        <variableExpression><![CDATA[$F{payment}]]></variableExpression>
    </variable>
    <columnHeader>
        <band height="20" splitType="Stretch">
            <staticText>
                <reportElement x="0" y="0" width="100" height="20"/>
                <box leftPadding="10"/>
                <textElement textAlignment="Center" verticalAlignment="Middle">
                    <font size="10" isBold="true" isItalic="true"/>
                </textElement>
                <text><![CDATA[Doctor ID]]></text>
            </staticText>
            <staticText>
                <reportElement x="100" y="0" width="100" height="20"/>
                <box leftPadding="10"/>
                <textElement textAlignment="Center" verticalAlignment="Middle">
                    <font size="10" isBold="true" isItalic="true"/>
                </textElement>
                <text><![CDATA[Doctor Payment]]></text>
            </staticText>
        </band>
    </columnHeader>
    <detail>
        <band height="20" splitType="Stretch">
            <textField>
                <reportElement x="0" y="0" width="100" height="20"/>
                <box leftPadding="10"/>
                <textElement/>
                <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[$F{doctor_id}]]></textFieldExpression>
            </textField>
            <textField>
                <reportElement x="100" y="0" width="100" height="20"/>
                <box leftPadding="10"/>
                <textElement/>
                <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[$F{payment}]]></textFieldExpression>
            </textField>
        </band>
    </detail>
    <summary>
        <band height="20">
            <staticText>
                <reportElement x="0" y="0" width="100" height="20"/>
                <box leftPadding="10"/>
                <textElement>
                    <font isBold="true"/>
                </textElement>
                <text><![CDATA[Total]]></text>
            </staticText>
            <textField>
                <reportElement x="100" y="0" width="100" height="20"/>
                <box leftPadding="10"/>
                <textElement>
                    <font isBold="true" isItalic="true"/>
                </textElement>
                <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[$V{total}]]></textFieldExpression>
            </textField>
        </band>
    </summary>
</jasperReport>

The result will be:

Generated report via iReport's preview


You can find a lot of info in the JasperReports Ultimate Guide.

Get the selected option id with jQuery

var id = $(this).find('option:selected').attr('id');

then you do whatever you want with selectedIndex

I've reedited my answer ... since selectedIndex isn't a good variable to give example...

Checking the equality of two slices

This is just example using reflect.DeepEqual() that is given in @VictorDeryagin's answer.

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "reflect"
)

func main() {
    a := []int {4,5,6}
    b := []int {4,5,6}
    c := []int {4,5,6,7}

    fmt.Println(reflect.DeepEqual(a, b))
    fmt.Println(reflect.DeepEqual(a, c))

}

Result:

true
false

Try it in Go Playground

SqlServer: Login failed for user

In my case, I had to activate the option "SQL Server and Windows Authentication mode", follow all steps below:

1 - Right-click on your server enter image description here

2 - Go to option Security

3 - Check the option "SQL Server and Windows Authentication mode"

4 - Click on the Ok button enter image description here

5 - Restart your SQL Express Service ("Windows Key" on the keyboard and write "Services", and then Enter key) enter image description here

After that, I could log in with user and password

How to set downloading file name in ASP.NET Web API

EDIT: As mentioned in a comment, My answer doesn't account for characters that need to be escaped like a ;. You should use the accepted answer Darin made if your file name could contain a semi-colon.

Add a Response.AddHeader to set the file name

Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=*FILE_NAME*");

Just change FILE_NAME to the name of the file.

Declaring static constants in ES6 classes?

It is also possible to use Object.freeze on you class(es6)/constructor function(es5) object to make it immutable:

class MyConstants {}
MyConstants.staticValue = 3;
MyConstants.staticMethod = function() {
  return 4;
}
Object.freeze(MyConstants);
// after the freeze, any attempts of altering the MyConstants class will have no result
// (either trying to alter, add or delete a property)
MyConstants.staticValue === 3; // true
MyConstants.staticValue = 55; // will have no effect
MyConstants.staticValue === 3; // true

MyConstants.otherStaticValue = "other" // will have no effect
MyConstants.otherStaticValue === undefined // true

delete MyConstants.staticMethod // false
typeof(MyConstants.staticMethod) === "function" // true

Trying to alter the class will give you a soft-fail (won't throw any errors, it will simply have no effect).

Adding new line of data to TextBox

Because you haven't specified what front end (GUI technology) you're using it would be hard to make a specific recommendation. In WPF you could create a listbox and for each new line of chat add a new listboxitem to the end of the collection. This link provides some suggestions as to how you may achieve the same result in a winforms environment.

Clicking a checkbox with ng-click does not update the model

.task{ng:{repeat:'task in model.tasks'}}
  %input{type:'checkbox',ng:{model:'$parent.model.tasks[$index].enabled'}}

Get Cell Value from Excel Sheet with Apache Poi

You have to use the FormulaEvaluator, as shown here. This will return a value that is either the value present in the cell or the result of the formula if the cell contains such a formula :

FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("/somepath/test.xls");
Workbook wb = new HSSFWorkbook(fis); //or new XSSFWorkbook("/somepath/test.xls")
Sheet sheet = wb.getSheetAt(0);
FormulaEvaluator evaluator = wb.getCreationHelper().createFormulaEvaluator();

// suppose your formula is in B3
CellReference cellReference = new CellReference("B3"); 
Row row = sheet.getRow(cellReference.getRow());
Cell cell = row.getCell(cellReference.getCol()); 

if (cell!=null) {
    switch (evaluator.evaluateFormulaCell(cell)) {
        case Cell.CELL_TYPE_BOOLEAN:
            System.out.println(cell.getBooleanCellValue());
            break;
        case Cell.CELL_TYPE_NUMERIC:
            System.out.println(cell.getNumericCellValue());
            break;
        case Cell.CELL_TYPE_STRING:
            System.out.println(cell.getStringCellValue());
            break;
        case Cell.CELL_TYPE_BLANK:
            break;
        case Cell.CELL_TYPE_ERROR:
            System.out.println(cell.getErrorCellValue());
            break;

        // CELL_TYPE_FORMULA will never occur
        case Cell.CELL_TYPE_FORMULA: 
            break;
    }
}

if you need the exact contant (ie the formla if the cell contains a formula), then this is shown here.

Edit : Added a few example to help you.

first you get the cell (just an example)

Row row = sheet.getRow(rowIndex+2);    
Cell cell = row.getCell(1);   

If you just want to set the value into the cell using the formula (without knowing the result) :

 String formula ="ABS((1-E"+(rowIndex + 2)+"/D"+(rowIndex + 2)+")*100)";    
 cell.setCellFormula(formula);    
 cell.setCellStyle(this.valueRightAlignStyleLightBlueBackground);

if you want to change the message if there is an error in the cell, you have to change the formula to do so, something like

IF(ISERR(ABS((1-E3/D3)*100));"N/A"; ABS((1-E3/D3)*100))

(this formula check if the evaluation return an error and then display the string "N/A", or the evaluation if this is not an error).

if you want to get the value corresponding to the formula, then you have to use the evaluator.

Hope this help,
Guillaume

When should I use h:outputLink instead of h:commandLink?

The <h:outputLink> renders a fullworthy HTML <a> element with the proper URL in the href attribute which fires a bookmarkable GET request. It cannot directly invoke a managed bean action method.

<h:outputLink value="destination.xhtml">link text</h:outputLink>

The <h:commandLink> renders a HTML <a> element with an onclick script which submits a (hidden) POST form and can invoke a managed bean action method. It's also required to be placed inside a <h:form>.

<h:form>
    <h:commandLink value="link text" action="destination" />
</h:form>

The ?faces-redirect=true parameter on the <h:commandLink>, which triggers a redirect after the POST (as per the Post-Redirect-Get pattern), only improves bookmarkability of the target page when the link is actually clicked (the URL won't be "one behind" anymore), but it doesn't change the href of the <a> element to be a fullworthy URL. It still remains #.

<h:form>
    <h:commandLink value="link text" action="destination?faces-redirect=true" />
</h:form>

Since JSF 2.0, there's also the <h:link> which can take a view ID (a navigation case outcome) instead of an URL. It will generate a HTML <a> element as well with the proper URL in href.

<h:link value="link text" outcome="destination" />

So, if it's for pure and bookmarkable page-to-page navigation like the SO username link, then use <h:outputLink> or <h:link>. That's also better for SEO since bots usually doesn't cipher POST forms nor JS code. Also, UX will be improved as the pages are now bookmarkable and the URL is not "one behind" anymore.

When necessary, you can do the preprocessing job in the constructor or @PostConstruct of a @RequestScoped or @ViewScoped @ManagedBean which is attached to the destination page in question. You can make use of @ManagedProperty or <f:viewParam> to set GET parameters as bean properties.

See also:

Fatal error: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array in

Controller (Example: User.php)

<?php
defined('BASEPATH') or exit('No direct script access allowed');

class Users extends CI_controller
{

    // Table
    protected  $table = 'users';

    function index()
    {
        $data['users'] = $this->model->ra_object($this->table);
        $this->load->view('users_list', $data);
    }
}

View (Example: users_list.php)

<table>
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>Name</th>
            <th>Surname</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>

    <tbody>
        <?php foreach($users as $user) : ?>
            <tr>
            <td><?php echo $user->name; ?></td>
            <td><?php echo $user->surname; ?></th>
        </tr>
        <?php endforeach; ?>
    </tbody>
</table>
<!-- // User table -->

Get screen width and height in Android

This set of utilities to work with the Size abstraction in Android.

It contains a class SizeFromDisplay.java You can use it like this:

ISize size = new SizeFromDisplay(getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay());
size.width();
size.hight();

Can we have functions inside functions in C++?

You can't have local functions in C++. However, C++11 has lambdas. Lambdas are basically variables that work like functions.

A lambda has the type std::function (actually that's not quite true, but in most cases you can suppose it is). To use this type, you need to #include <functional>. std::function is a template, taking as template argument the return type and the argument types, with the syntax std::function<ReturnType(ArgumentTypes)>. For example, std::function<int(std::string, float)> is a lambda returning an int and taking two arguments, one std::string and one float. The most common one is std::function<void()>, which returns nothing and takes no arguments.

Once a lambda is declared, it is called just like a normal function, using the syntax lambda(arguments).

To define a lambda, use the syntax [captures](arguments){code} (there are other ways of doing it, but I won't mention them here). arguments is what arguments the lambda takes, and code is the code that should be run when the lambda is called. Usually you put [=] or [&] as captures. [=] means that you capture all variables in the scope in which the value is defined by value, which means that they will keep the value that they had when the lambda was declared. [&] means that you capture all variables in the scope by reference, which means that they will always have their current value, but if they are erased from memory the program will crash. Here are some examples:

#include <functional>
#include <iostream>

int main(){
    int x = 1;

    std::function<void()> lambda1 = [=](){
        std::cout << x << std::endl;
    };
    std::function<void()> lambda2 = [&](){
        std::cout << x << std::endl;
    };

    x = 2;
    lambda1();    //Prints 1 since that was the value of x when it was captured and x was captured by value with [=]
    lambda2();    //Prints 2 since that's the current value of x and x was captured by reference with [&]

    std::function<void()> lambda3 = [](){}, lambda4 = [](){};    //I prefer to initialize these since calling an uninitialized lambda is undefined behavior.
                                                                 //[](){} is the empty lambda.

    {
        int y = 3;    //y will be deleted from the memory at the end of this scope
        lambda3 = [=](){
            std::cout << y << endl;
        };
        lambda4 = [&](){
            std::cout << y << endl;
        };
    }

    lambda3();    //Prints 3, since that's the value y had when it was captured

    lambda4();    //Causes the program to crash, since y was captured by reference and y doesn't exist anymore.
                  //This is a bit like if you had a pointer to y which now points nowhere because y has been deleted from the memory.
                  //This is why you should be careful when capturing by reference.

    return 0;
}

You can also capture specific variables by specifying their names. Just specifying their name will capture them by value, specifying their name with a & before will capture them by reference. For example, [=, &foo] will capture all variables by value except foo which will be captured by reference, and [&, foo] will capture all variables by reference except foo which will be captured by value. You can also capture only specific variables, for example [&foo] will capture foo by reference and will capture no other variables. You can also capture no variables at all by using []. If you try to use a variable in a lambda that you didn't capture, it won't compile. Here is an example:

#include <functional>

int main(){
    int x = 4, y = 5;

    std::function<void(int)> myLambda = [y](int z){
        int xSquare = x * x;    //Compiler error because x wasn't captured
        int ySquare = y * y;    //OK because y was captured
        int zSquare = z * z;    //OK because z is an argument of the lambda
    };

    return 0;
}

You can't change the value of a variable that was captured by value inside a lambda (variables captured by value have a const type inside the lambda). To do so, you need to capture the variable by reference. Here is an exampmle:

#include <functional>

int main(){
    int x = 3, y = 5;
    std::function<void()> myLambda = [x, &y](){
        x = 2;    //Compiler error because x is captured by value and so it's of type const int inside the lambda
        y = 2;    //OK because y is captured by reference
    };
    x = 2;    //This is of course OK because we're not inside the lambda
    return 0;
}

Also, calling uninitialized lambdas is undefined behavior and will usually cause the program to crash. For example, never do this:

std::function<void()> lambda;
lambda();    //Undefined behavior because lambda is uninitialized

Examples

Here is the code for what you wanted to do in your question using lambdas:

#include <functional>    //Don't forget this, otherwise you won't be able to use the std::function type

int main(){
    std::function<void()> a = [](){
        // code
    }
    a();
    return 0;
}

Here is a more advanced example of a lambda:

#include <functional>    //For std::function
#include <iostream>      //For std::cout

int main(){
    int x = 4;
    std::function<float(int)> divideByX = [x](int y){
        return (float)y / (float)x;    //x is a captured variable, y is an argument
    }
    std::cout << divideByX(3) << std::endl;    //Prints 0.75
    return 0;
}

Getting the inputstream from a classpath resource (XML file)

someClassWithinYourSourceDir.getClass().getResourceAsStream();

Convert from List into IEnumerable format

You don't need to convert it. List<T> implements the IEnumerable<T> interface so it is already an enumerable.

This means that it is perfectly fine to have the following:

public IEnumerable<Book> GetBooks()
{
    List<Book> books = FetchEmFromSomewhere();    
    return books;
}

as well as:

public void ProcessBooks(IEnumerable<Book> books)
{
    // do something with those books
}

which could be invoked:

List<Book> books = FetchEmFromSomewhere();    
ProcessBooks(books);

How to PUT a json object with an array using curl

Although the original post had other issues (i.e. the missing "-d"), the error message is more generic.

curl: (3) [globbing] nested braces not supported at pos X

This is because curly braces {} and square brackets [] are special globbing characters in curl. To turn this globbing off, use the "-g" option.

As an example, the following Solr facet query will fail without the "-g" to turn off curl globbing: curl -g 'http://localhost:8983/solr/query?json.facet={x:{terms:"myfield"}}'

How to write new line character to a file in Java

bufferedWriter.write(text + "\n"); This method can work, but the new line character can be different between platforms, so alternatively, you can use this method:

bufferedWriter.write(text);
bufferedWriter.newline();

How do I know if jQuery has an Ajax request pending?

$.active returns the number of active Ajax requests.

More info here

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 7: ordinal not in range(128)

You need to encode Unicode explicitly before writing to a file, otherwise Python does it for you with the default ASCII codec.

Pick an encoding and stick with it:

f.write(printinfo.encode('utf8') + '\n')

or use io.open() to create a file object that'll encode for you as you write to the file:

import io

f = io.open(filename, 'w', encoding='utf8')

You may want to read:

before continuing.

How to import a bak file into SQL Server Express

I had the same error. What worked for me is when you go for the SMSS GUI option, look at General, Files in Options settings. After I did that (replace DB, set location) all went well.

How can I change text color via keyboard shortcut in MS word 2010

Alt+H, then type letters FC, then pick the color.

TypeError: 'DataFrame' object is not callable

It seems you need DataFrame.var:

Normalized by N-1 by default. This can be changed using the ddof argument

var1 = credit_card.var()

Sample:

#random dataframe
np.random.seed(100)
credit_card = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randint(10, size=(5,5)), columns=list('ABCDE'))
print (credit_card)
   A  B  C  D  E
0  8  8  3  7  7
1  0  4  2  5  2
2  2  2  1  0  8
3  4  0  9  6  2
4  4  1  5  3  4

var1 = credit_card.var()
print (var1)
A     8.8
B    10.0
C    10.0
D     7.7
E     7.8
dtype: float64

var2 = credit_card.var(axis=1)
print (var2)
0     4.3
1     3.8
2     9.8
3    12.2
4     2.3
dtype: float64

If need numpy solutions with numpy.var:

print (np.var(credit_card.values, axis=0))
[ 7.04  8.    8.    6.16  6.24]

print (np.var(credit_card.values, axis=1))
[ 3.44  3.04  7.84  9.76  1.84]

Differences are because by default ddof=1 in pandas, but you can change it to 0:

var1 = credit_card.var(ddof=0)
print (var1)
A    7.04
B    8.00
C    8.00
D    6.16
E    6.24
dtype: float64

var2 = credit_card.var(ddof=0, axis=1)
print (var2)
0    3.44
1    3.04
2    7.84
3    9.76
4    1.84
dtype: float64

C# Validating input for textbox on winforms

With WinForms you can use the ErrorProvider in conjunction with the Validating event to handle the validation of user input. The Validating event provides the hook to perform the validation and ErrorProvider gives a nice consistent approach to providing the user with feedback on any error conditions.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.errorprovider.aspx

How to break line in JavaScript?

Here you are ;-)

<script type="text/javascript">
    alert("Hello there.\nI am on a second line ;-)")
</script>

How to compare two dates in Objective-C

Here's the Swift variant on Pascal's answer:

extension NSDate {

    func isLaterThanOrEqualTo(date:NSDate) -> Bool {
        return !(self.compare(date) == NSComparisonResult.OrderedAscending)
    }

    func isEarlierThanOrEqualTo(date:NSDate) -> Bool {
        return !(self.compare(date) == NSComparisonResult.OrderedDescending)
    }

    func isLaterThan(date:NSDate) -> Bool {
        return (self.compare(date) == NSComparisonResult.OrderedDescending)
    }

    func isEarlierThan(date:NSDate) -> Bool {
        return (self.compare(date) == NSComparisonResult.OrderedAscending)
    }
}

Which can be used as:

self.expireDate.isEarlierThanOrEqualTo(NSDate())

Convert string to float?

String s = "3.14";
float f = Float.parseFloat(s);

Python: Remove division decimal

def division(a, b):
    return a / b if a % b else a // b

How do I terminate a thread in C++11?

I guess the thread that needs to be killed is either in any kind of waiting mode, or doing some heavy job. I would suggest using a "naive" way.

Define some global boolean:

std::atomic_bool stop_thread_1 = false;

Put the following code (or similar) in several key points, in a way that it will cause all functions in the call stack to return until the thread naturally ends:

if (stop_thread_1)
    return;

Then to stop the thread from another (main) thread:

stop_thread_1 = true;
thread1.join ();
stop_thread_1 = false; //(for next time. this can be when starting the thread instead)

Visual studio code terminal, how to run a command with administrator rights?

Step 1: Restart VS Code as an adminstrator

(click the windows key, search for "Visual Studio Code", right click, and you'll see the administrator option)

Step 2: In your VS code powershell terminal run Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

Creating a new database and new connection in Oracle SQL Developer

Open Oracle SQLDeveloper

Right click on connection tab and select new connection

Enter HR_ORCL in connection name and HR for the username and password.

Specify localhost for your Hostname and enter ORCL for the SID.

Click Test.

The status of the connection Test Successfully.

The connection was not saved however click on Save button to save the connection. And then click on Connect button to connect your database.

The connection is saved and you see the connection list.

Create a mocked list by mockito

We can mock list properly for foreach loop. Please find below code snippet and explanation.

This is my actual class method where I want to create test case by mocking list. this.nameList is a list object.

public void setOptions(){
    // ....
    for (String str : this.nameList) {
        str = "-"+str;
    }
    // ....
}

The foreach loop internally works on iterator, so here we crated mock of iterator. Mockito framework has facility to return pair of values on particular method call by using Mockito.when().thenReturn(), i.e. on hasNext() we pass 1st true and on second call false, so that our loop will continue only two times. On next() we just return actual return value.

@Test
public void testSetOptions(){
    // ...
    Iterator<SampleFilter> itr = Mockito.mock(Iterator.class);
    Mockito.when(itr.hasNext()).thenReturn(true, false);
    Mockito.when(itr.next()).thenReturn(Mockito.any(String.class);  

    List mockNameList = Mockito.mock(List.class);
    Mockito.when(mockNameList.iterator()).thenReturn(itr);
    // ...
}

In this way we can avoid sending actual list to test by using mock of list.

Why is @font-face throwing a 404 error on woff files?

I was experiencing this same symptom - 404 on woff files in Chrome - and was running an application on a Windows Server with IIS 6.

If you are in the same situation you can fix it by doing the following:

Solution 1

"Simply add the following MIME type declarations via IIS Manager (HTTP Headers tab of website properties): .woff application/x-woff"

Update: according to MIME Types for woff fonts and Grsmto the actual MIME type is application/x-font-woff (for Chrome at least). x-woff will fix Chrome 404s, x-font-woff will fix Chrome warnings.

As of 2017: Woff fonts have now been standardised as part of the RFC8081 specification to the mime type font/woff and font/woff2.

IIS 6 MIME Types

Thanks to Seb Duggan: http://sebduggan.com/posts/serving-web-fonts-from-iis

Solution 2

You can also add the MIME types in the web config:

  <system.webServer>
    <staticContent>
      <remove fileExtension=".woff" /> <!-- In case IIS already has this mime type -->
      <mimeMap fileExtension=".woff" mimeType="font/woff" />
    </staticContent>    
  </system.webServer>

Cannot find firefox binary in PATH. Make sure firefox is installed. OS appears to be: VISTA

This code simply worked for me

System.setProperty("webdriver.firefox.bin", "C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Firefox 54\\firefox.exe");
String Firefoxdriverpath = "C:\\Users\\Hp\\Downloads\\geckodriver-v0.18.0-win64\\geckodriver.exe";
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", Firefoxdriverpath);
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.firefox();
capabilities.setCapability("marionette", true);
driver = new FirefoxDriver(capabilities);

How to programmatically set the ForeColor of a label to its default?

You can also use

lblExamlple.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.FromArgb(0,255,0);

Which is the fastest algorithm to find prime numbers?

i wrote it today in C,compiled with tcc, figured out during preparation of compititive exams several years back. don't know if anyone already have wrote it alredy. it really fast(but you should decide whether it is fast or not). took one or two minuts to findout about 1,00,004 prime numbers between 10 and 1,00,00,000 on i7 processor with average 32% CPU use. as you know, only those can be prime which have last digit either 1,3,7 or 9 and to check if that number is prime or not, you have to divide that number by previously found prime numbers only. so first take group of four number = {1,3,7,9}, test it by dividing by known prime numbers, if reminder is non zero then number is prime, add it to prime number array. then add 10 to group so it becomes {11,13,17,19} and repeat the process.

#include <stdio.h>
int main() {    
    int nums[4]={1,3,7,9};
    int primes[100000];
    primes[0]=2;
    primes[1]=3;
    primes[2]=5;
    primes[3]=7;
    int found = 4;
    int got = 1;
    int m=0;
    int upto = 1000000;
    for(int i=0;i<upto;i++){
        //printf("iteration number: %d\n",i);
        for(int j=0;j<4;j++){
            m = nums[j]+10;
            //printf("m = %d\n",m);
            nums[j] = m;
            got = 1;
            for(int k=0;k<found;k++){
                //printf("testing with %d\n",primes[k]);
                if(m%primes[k]==0){
                    got = 0;
                    //printf("%d failed for %d\n",m,primes[k]);
                    break;
                }
            }
            if(got==1){
                //printf("got new prime: %d\n",m);
                primes[found]= m;
                found++;
            }
        }
    }
    printf("found total %d prime numbers between 1 and %d",found,upto*10);
    return 0;
}

get launchable activity name of package from adb

Since Android 7.0 you can use adb shell cmd package resolve-activity command to get the default activity of an installed app like this:

adb shell "cmd package resolve-activity --brief com.google.android.calculator | tail -n 1"
com.google.android.calculator/com.android.calculator2.Calculator

PHP Warning: POST Content-Length of 8978294 bytes exceeds the limit of 8388608 bytes in Unknown on line 0

Already restarted your Webserver?

This will force php to reload the php.ini

Error:Execution failed for task ':ProjectName:mergeDebugResources'. > Crunching Cruncher *some file* failed, see logs

Close android studio and open it again. Then try compiling the same code. I was getting the same error and it worked for me. Hope it helps.

Compare two date formats in javascript/jquery

try with new Date(obj).getTime()

if( new Date(fit_start_time).getTime() > new Date(fit_end_time).getTime() )
{
    alert(fit_start_time + " is greater."); // your code
}
else if( new Date(fit_start_time).getTime() < new Date(fit_end_time).getTime() )
{
    alert(fit_end_time + " is greater."); // your code
}
else
{
    alert("both are same!"); // your code
}

VBA for clear value in specific range of cell and protected cell from being wash away formula

Not sure its faster with VBA - the fastest way to do it in the normal Excel programm would be:

  1. Ctrl-G
  2. A1:X50 Enter
  3. Delete

Unless you have to do this very often, entering and then triggering the VBAcode is more effort.

And in case you only want to delete formulas or values, you can insert Ctrl-G, Alt-S to select Goto Special and here select Formulas or Values.

Git: "Not currently on any branch." Is there an easy way to get back on a branch, while keeping the changes?

The following method may work:

git rebase HEAD master
git checkout master

This will rebase your current HEAD changes on top of the master. Then you can switch the branch.


Alternative way is to checkout the branch first:

git checkout master

Then Git should display SHA1 of your detached commits, then you can cherry pick them, e.g.

git cherry-pick YOURSHA1

Or you can also merge the latest one:

git merge YOURSHA1

To see all of your commits from different branches (to make sure you've them), run: git reflog.

How to compare only date in moment.js

Meanwhile you can use the isSameOrAfter method:

moment('2010-10-20').isSameOrAfter('2010-10-20', 'day');

Docs: https://momentjs.com/docs/#/query/is-same-or-after/

Resolving IP Address from hostname with PowerShell

You can use this code if you have a bunch of hosts in text file

$a = get-content "C:\Users\host.txt"(file path) 

foreach ($i in $a )
    {
$i + "`n" + "==========================";[System.Net.Dns]::GetHostAddresses($i) 

}

Please run `npm cache clean`

This error can be due to many many things.

The key here seems the hint about error reading. I see you are working on a flash drive or something similar? Try to run the install on a local folder owned by your current user.

You could also try with sudo, that might solve a permission problem if that's the case.

Another reason why it cannot read could be because it has not downloaded correctly, or saved correctly. A little problem in your network could have caused that, and the cache clean would remove the files and force a refetch but that does not solve your problem. That means it would be more on the save part, maybe it didn't save because of permissions, maybe it didn't not save correctly because it was lacking disk space...

How to parse JSON and access results

The main problem with your example code is that the $result variable you use to store the output of curl_exec() does not contain the body of the HTTP response - it contains the value true. If you try to print_r() that, it will just say "1".

The curl_exec() reference explains:

Return Values

Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. However, if the CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER option is set, it will return the result on success, FALSE on failure.

So if you want to get the HTTP response body in your $result variable, you must first run

curl_setopt($cURL, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

After that, you can call json_decode() on $result, as other answers have noted.

On a general note - the curl library for PHP is useful and has a lot of features to handle the minutia of HTTP protocol (and others), but if all you want is to GET some resource or even POST to some URL, and read the response - then file_get_contents() is all you'll ever need: it is much simpler to use and have much less surprising behavior to worry about.

Create a variable name with "paste" in R?

See ?assign.

> assign(paste("tra.", 1, sep = ""), 5)
> tra.1
  [1] 5

How to give spacing between buttons using bootstrap

HTML:

<input id="id_ok" class="btn btn-space" value="OK" type="button">
<input id="id_cancel" class="btn btn-space" value="Cancel" type="button">

CSS:

.btn-space {
    margin-right: 5px;
}

Python: How to keep repeating a program until a specific input is obtained?

Easier way:

#required_number = 18

required_number=input("Insert a number: ")
while required_number != 18
    print("Oops! Something is wrong")
    required_number=input("Try again: ")
if required_number == '18'
    print("That's right!")

#continue the code

When should I use a List vs a LinkedList

Essentially, a List<> in .NET is a wrapper over an array. A LinkedList<> is a linked list. So the question comes down to, what is the difference between an array and a linked list, and when should an array be used instead of a linked list. Probably the two most important factors in your decision of which to use would come down to:

  • Linked lists have much better insertion/removal performance, so long as the insertions/removals are not on the last element in the collection. This is because an array must shift all remaining elements that come after the insertion/removal point. If the insertion/removal is at the tail end of the list however, this shift is not needed (although the array may need to be resized, if its capacity is exceeded).
  • Arrays have much better accessing capabilities. Arrays can be indexed into directly (in constant time). Linked lists must be traversed (linear time).

Git Clone: Just the files, please?

git --work-tree=/tmp/files_without_dot_git clone --depth=1 \
  https://git.yourgit.your.com/myawesomerepo.git \
  /tmp/deleteme_contents_of_dot_git

Both the directories in /tmp are created on the fly. No need to pre-create these.

How to remove an app with active device admin enabled on Android?

Enter vault password and inside vault right top corner options icon is there. Press on it. In that ->settings->vault admin rites to be unselected. Work done. U can uninstall app now.

How to use code to open a modal in Angular 2?

The below answer is in reference to the latest ng-bootstrap

Install

npm install --save @ng-bootstrap/ng-bootstrap

app.module.ts

import {NgbModule} from '@ng-bootstrap/ng-bootstrap';

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    ...
  ],
  imports: [
    ...

    NgbModule

  ],
  providers: [],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

Component Controller

import { TemplateRef, ViewChild } from '@angular/core';
import { NgbModal } from '@ng-bootstrap/ng-bootstrap';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-app-registration',
  templateUrl: './app-registration.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./app-registration.component.css']
})

export class AppRegistrationComponent implements OnInit {

  @ViewChild('editModal') editModal : TemplateRef<any>; // Note: TemplateRef

  constructor(private modalService: NgbModal) { }

  openModal(){
    this.modalService.open(this.editModal);
  }

}

Component HTML

<ng-template #editModal let-modal>

<div class="modal-header">
  <h4 class="modal-title" id="modal-basic-title">Edit Form</h4>
  <button type="button" class="close" aria-label="Close" (click)="modal.dismiss()">
    <span aria-hidden="true">&times;</span>
  </button>
</div>

<div class="modal-body">
  
  <form>
    <div class="form-group">
      <label for="dateOfBirth">Date of birth</label>
      <div class="input-group">
        <input id="dateOfBirth" class="form-control" placeholder="yyyy-mm-dd" name="dp" ngbDatepicker #dp="ngbDatepicker">
        <div class="input-group-append">
          <button class="btn btn-outline-secondary calendar" (click)="dp.toggle()" type="button"></button>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </form>

</div>

<div class="modal-footer">
  <button type="button" class="btn btn-outline-dark" (click)="modal.close()">Save</button>
</div>

</ng-template>

Why does printf not flush after the call unless a newline is in the format string?

To immediately flush call fflush(stdout) or fflush(NULL) (NULL means flush everything).

String.contains in Java

I will answer your question using a math analogy:

In this instance, the number 0 will represent no value. If you pick a random number, say 15, how many times can 0 be subtracted from 15? Infinite times because 0 has no value, thus you are taking nothing out of 15. Do you have difficulty accepting that 15 - 0 = 15 instead of ERROR? So if we switch this analogy back to Java coding, the String "" represents no value. Pick a random string, say "hello world", how many times can "" be subtracted from "hello world"?

Sending emails in Node.js?

npm has a few packages, but none have reached 1.0 yet. Best picks from npm list mail:

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags

The W3C explains parsing in a pseudo regexp form:
W3C Link

Follow the var links for QName, S, and Attribute to get a clearer picture.
Based on that you can create a pretty good regexp to handle things like stripping tags.

#pragma mark in Swift?

In Objective-C code Xcode detects comments like // MARK: - foo which is a bit more portable than #pragma. But these do not seem to be picked up, too (yet?).

Edit: Fixed in Xcode 6 beta 4.

How do I run pip on python for windows?

I have a Mac, but luckily this should work the same way:

pip is a command-line thing. You don't run it in python.

For example, on my Mac, I just say:

$pip install somelib

pretty easy!

How do I use Spring Boot to serve static content located in Dropbox folder?

You can place your folder in the root of the ServletContext.

Then specify a relative or absolute path to this directory in application.yml:

spring:
  resources:
    static-locations: file:some_temp_files/

The resources in this folder will be available (for downloading, for example) at:

http://<host>:<port>/<context>/your_file.csv

What are some great online database modeling tools?

The DB Designer Fork project claims that it can generate FireBird sql scripts.

Working with $scope.$emit and $scope.$on

How can I send my $scope object from one controller to another using .$emit and .$on methods?

You can send any object you want within the hierarchy of your app, including $scope.

Here is a quick idea about how broadcast and emit work.

Notice the nodes below; all nested within node 3. You use broadcast and emit when you have this scenario.

Note: The number of each node in this example is arbitrary; it could easily be the number one; the number two; or even the number 1,348. Each number is just an identifier for this example. The point of this example is to show nesting of Angular controllers/directives.

                 3
           ------------
           |          |
         -----     ------
         1   |     2    |
      ---   ---   ---  ---
      | |   | |   | |  | |

Check out this tree. How do you answer the following questions?

Note: There are other ways to answer these questions, but here we'll discuss broadcast and emit. Also, when reading below text assume each number has it's own file (directive, controller) e.x. one.js, two.js, three.js.

How does node 1 speak to node 3?

In file one.js

scope.$emit('messageOne', someValue(s));

In file three.js - the uppermost node to all children nodes needed to communicate.

scope.$on('messageOne', someValue(s));

How does node 2 speak to node 3?

In file two.js

scope.$emit('messageTwo', someValue(s));

In file three.js - the uppermost node to all children nodes needed to communicate.

scope.$on('messageTwo', someValue(s));

How does node 3 speak to node 1 and/or node 2?

In file three.js - the uppermost node to all children nodes needed to communicate.

scope.$broadcast('messageThree', someValue(s));

In file one.js && two.js whichever file you want to catch the message or both.

scope.$on('messageThree', someValue(s));

How does node 2 speak to node 1?

In file two.js

scope.$emit('messageTwo', someValue(s));

In file three.js - the uppermost node to all children nodes needed to communicate.

scope.$on('messageTwo', function( event, data ){
  scope.$broadcast( 'messageTwo', data );
});

In file one.js

scope.$on('messageTwo', someValue(s));

HOWEVER

When you have all these nested child nodes trying to communicate like this, you will quickly see many $on's, $broadcast's, and $emit's.

Here is what I like to do.

In the uppermost PARENT NODE ( 3 in this case... ), which may be your parent controller...

So, in file three.js

scope.$on('pushChangesToAllNodes', function( event, message ){
  scope.$broadcast( message.name, message.data );
});

Now in any of the child nodes you only need to $emit the message or catch it using $on.

NOTE: It is normally quite easy to cross talk in one nested path without using $emit, $broadcast, or $on, which means most use cases are for when you are trying to get node 1 to communicate with node 2 or vice versa.

How does node 2 speak to node 1?

In file two.js

scope.$emit('pushChangesToAllNodes', sendNewChanges());

function sendNewChanges(){ // for some event.
  return { name: 'talkToOne', data: [1,2,3] };
}

In file three.js - the uppermost node to all children nodes needed to communicate.

We already handled this one remember?

In file one.js

scope.$on('talkToOne', function( event, arrayOfNumbers ){
  arrayOfNumbers.forEach(function(number){
    console.log(number);
  });
});

You will still need to use $on with each specific value you want to catch, but now you can create whatever you like in any of the nodes without having to worry about how to get the message across the parent node gap as we catch and broadcast the generic pushChangesToAllNodes.

Hope this helps...

How to update an object in a List<> in C#

Just to add to CKoenig's response. His answer will work as long as the class you're dealing with is a reference type (like a class). If the custom object were a struct, this is a value type, and the results of .FirstOrDefault will give you a local copy of that, which will mean it won't persist back to the collection, as this example shows:

struct MyStruct
{
    public int TheValue { get; set; }
}

Test code:

List<MyStruct> coll = new List<MyStruct> {
                                            new MyStruct {TheValue = 10},
                                            new MyStruct {TheValue = 1},
                                            new MyStruct {TheValue = 145},
                                            };
var found = coll.FirstOrDefault(c => c.TheValue == 1);
found.TheValue = 12;

foreach (var myStruct in coll)
{
    Console.WriteLine(myStruct.TheValue);
}
Console.ReadLine();

The output is 10,1,145

Change the struct to a class and the output is 10,12,145

HTH

How can I detect window size with jQuery?

//get dimensions 
var height = $(window).height();
var width = $(window).width();

//refresh on resize
$(window).resize(function() {
  location.reload(true)
});

not sure if you wanted to tinker with the dimensions of elements or actually refresh the page. so here a bunch of different things pick what you want. you can even put the height and width in the resize event if you really wanted.

Dockerfile copy keep subdirectory structure

Remove star from COPY, with this Dockerfile:

FROM ubuntu
COPY files/ /files/
RUN ls -la /files/*

Structure is there:

$ docker build .
Sending build context to Docker daemon 5.632 kB
Sending build context to Docker daemon 
Step 0 : FROM ubuntu
 ---> d0955f21bf24
Step 1 : COPY files/ /files/
 ---> 5cc4ae8708a6
Removing intermediate container c6f7f7ec8ccf
Step 2 : RUN ls -la /files/*
 ---> Running in 08ab9a1e042f
/files/folder1:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 13 16:04 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May 13 16:05 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    0 May 13 16:04 file1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    0 May 13 16:04 file2

/files/folder2:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 13 16:04 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May 13 16:05 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    0 May 13 16:04 file1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    0 May 13 16:04 file2
 ---> 03ff0a5d0e4b
Removing intermediate container 08ab9a1e042f
Successfully built 03ff0a5d0e4b

Error: Failed to lookup view in Express

This error really just has to do with the file Path,thats all you have to check,for me my parent folder was "Layouts" but my actual file was layout.html,my path had layouts on both,once i corrected that error was gone.

JavaScript: client-side vs. server-side validation

If you are doing light validation, it is best to do it on the client. It will save the network traffic which will help your server perform better. If if it complicated validation that involves pulling data from a database or something, like passwords, then it best to do it on the server where the data can be securely checked.

Get access to parent control from user control - C#

A generic way to get a parent of a control that I have used is:

public static T GetParentOfType<T>(this Control control)
{
    const int loopLimit = 100; // could have outside method
    var current = control;
    var i = 0;

    do
    {
        current = current.Parent;

        if (current == null) throw new Exception("Could not find parent of specified type");
        if (i++ > loopLimit) throw new Exception("Exceeded loop limit");

    } while (current.GetType() != typeof(T));

    return (T)Convert.ChangeType(current, typeof(T));
}

It needs a bit of work (e.g. returning null if not found or error) ... but hopefully could help someone.

Usage:

var parent = currentControl.GetParentOfType<TypeWanted>();

Enjoy!

Can Keras with Tensorflow backend be forced to use CPU or GPU at will?

This worked for me (win10), place before you import keras:

import os
os.environ['CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES'] = '-1'

Default instance name of SQL Server Express

The default instance name after installing is,

Server name:

.\SQLExpress

Authentication:

Windows Authentication

Note: The period in the server Name field means your local machine. For remote machines, use the machine name instead of the period.

This video also helps you to Find your sql server name (instance) for Management Studio .

PHP function to make slug (URL string)

I wrote this based on Maerlyn's response. This function will work regardless of the character encoding on the page. It also won't turn single quotes in to dashes :)

function slugify ($string) {
    $string = utf8_encode($string);
    $string = iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $string);   
    $string = preg_replace('/[^a-z0-9- ]/i', '', $string);
    $string = str_replace(' ', '-', $string);
    $string = trim($string, '-');
    $string = strtolower($string);

    if (empty($string)) {
        return 'n-a';
    }

    return $string;
}

How do I enable MSDTC on SQL Server?

Can also see here on how to turn on MSDTC from the Control Panel's services.msc.

On the server where the trigger resides, you need to turn the MSDTC service on. You can this by clicking START > SETTINGS > CONTROL PANEL > ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS > SERVICES. Find the service called 'Distributed Transaction Coordinator' and RIGHT CLICK (on it and select) > Start.

Call Class Method From Another Class

You can call a function from within a class with:

A().method1()

"Parser Error Message: Could not load type" in Global.asax

Delete the .vs directory from the solution root. Clean. Rebuild.

This issue drives me bonkers once in awhile and I inevitably end up here paging through answers. I suspect there are multiple causes that can produce this exception, this once works for me.

Use dynamic variable names in JavaScript

what they mean is no, you can't. there is no way to get it done. so it was possible you could do something like this

function create(obj, const){
// where obj is an object and const is a variable name
function const () {}

const.prototype.myProperty = property_value;
// .. more prototype

return new const();

}

having a create function just like the one implemented in ECMAScript 5.

Java String declaration

There is a small difference between both.

Second declaration assignates the reference associated to the constant SOMEto the variable str

First declaration creates a new String having for value the value of the constant SOME and assignates its reference to the variable str.

In the first case, a second String has been created having the same value that SOME which implies more inititialization time. As a consequence, you should avoid it. Furthermore, at compile time, all constants SOMEare transformed into the same instance, which uses far less memory.

As a consequence, always prefer second syntax.

How to join entries in a set into one string?

I wrote a method that handles the following edge-cases:

  • Set size one. A ", ".join({'abc'}) will return "a, b, c". My desired output was "abc".
  • Set including integers.
  • Empty set should returns ""
def set_to_str(set_to_convert, separator=", "):
        set_size = len(set_to_convert)
        if not set_size:
            return ""
        elif set_size == 1:
            (element,) = set_to_convert
            return str(element)
        else:
            return separator.join(map(str, set_to_convert))

How to export data as CSV format from SQL Server using sqlcmd?

Usually sqlcmd comes with bcp utility (as part of mssql-tools) which exports into CSV by default.

Usage:

bcp {dbtable | query} {in | out | queryout | format} datafile

For example:

bcp.exe MyTable out data.csv

To dump all tables into corresponding CSV files, here is the Bash script:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Script to dump all tables from SQL Server into CSV files via bcp.
# @file: bcp-dump.sh
server="sql.example.com" # Change this.
user="USER" # Change this.
pass="PASS" # Change this.
dbname="DBNAME" # Change this.
creds="-S '$server' -U '$user' -P '$pass' -d '$dbname'"
sqlcmd $creds -Q 'SELECT * FROM sysobjects sobjects' > objects.lst
sqlcmd $creds -Q 'SELECT * FROM information_schema.routines' > routines.lst
sqlcmd $creds -Q 'sp_tables' | tail -n +3 | head -n -2 > sp_tables.lst
sqlcmd $creds -Q 'SELECT name FROM sysobjects sobjects WHERE xtype = "U"' | tail -n +3 | head -n -2 > tables.lst

for table in $(<tables.lst); do
  sqlcmd $creds -Q "exec sp_columns $table" > $table.desc && \
  bcp $table out $table.csv -S $server -U $user -P $pass -d $dbname -c
done

How can I hash a password in Java?

Among all the standard hash schemes, LDAP ssha is the most secure one to use,

http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/347.html

I would just follow the algorithms specified there and use MessageDigest to do the hash.

You need to store the salt in your database as you suggested.

Angular HTML binding

_x000D_
_x000D_
 <div [innerHTML]="HtmlPrint"></div><br>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

The innerHtml is a property of HTML-Elements, which allows you to set it’s html-content programatically. There is also a innerText property which defines the content as plain text.

The [attributeName]="value" box bracket , surrounding the attribute defines an Angular input-binding. That means, that the value of the property (in your case innerHtml) is bound to the given expression, when the expression-result changes, the property value changes too.

So basically [innerHtml] allows you to bind and dynamically change the html-conent of the given HTML-Element.

Addressing localhost from a VirtualBox virtual machine

In virtual Box as said upper, you can add this line hosts file

10.0.2.2   outer

but to save it, if you don't have administrators right in your VM just move hosts file to desktop, then edit it to add the line 10.0....outer, save the file, and move to its original place.

How do I get the current absolute URL in Ruby on Rails?

You can set a variable to URI.parse(current_url), I don't see this proposal here yet and it works for me.

Get skin path in Magento?

First of all it is not recommended to have php files with functions in design folder. You should create a new module or extend (copy from core to local a helper and add function onto that class) and do not change files from app/code/core.

To answer to your question you can use:

require(Mage::getBaseDir('design').'/frontend/default/mytheme/myfunc.php');

Best practice (as a start) will be to create in /app/code/local/Mage/Core/Helper/Extra.php a php file:

<?php
class Mage_Core_Helper_Extra extends Mage_Core_Helper_Abstract
{

    public function getSomething()
    {
        return 'Someting';
    }

}

And to use it in phtml files use:

$this->helper('core/extra')->getSomething();

Or in all the places:

Mage::helper('core/extra')->getSomething();

How do I run Python code from Sublime Text 2?

You can access the Python console via “View/Show console” or Ctrl+`.

Adding rows to dataset

To add rows to existing DataTable in Dataset:

DataRow drPartMtl = DSPartMtl.Tables[0].NewRow();
drPartMtl["Group"] = "Group";
drPartMtl["BOMPart"] = "BOMPart";
DSPartMtl.Tables[0].Rows.Add(drPartMtl);

How do I set specific environment variables when debugging in Visual Studio?

Starting with NUnit 2.5 you can use /framework switch e.g.:

nunit-console myassembly.dll /framework:net-1.1

This is from NUnit's help pages.

R plot: size and resolution

A reproducible example:

the_plot <- function()
{
  x <- seq(0, 1, length.out = 100)
  y <- pbeta(x, 1, 10)
  plot(
    x,
    y,
    xlab = "False Positive Rate",
    ylab = "Average true positive rate",
    type = "l"
  )
}

James's suggestion of using pointsize, in combination with the various cex parameters, can produce reasonable results.

png(
  "test.png",
  width     = 3.25,
  height    = 3.25,
  units     = "in",
  res       = 1200,
  pointsize = 4
)
par(
  mar      = c(5, 5, 2, 2),
  xaxs     = "i",
  yaxs     = "i",
  cex.axis = 2,
  cex.lab  = 2
)
the_plot()
dev.off()

Of course the better solution is to abandon this fiddling with base graphics and use a system that will handle the resolution scaling for you. For example,

library(ggplot2)

ggplot_alternative <- function()
{
  the_data <- data.frame(
    x <- seq(0, 1, length.out = 100),
    y = pbeta(x, 1, 10)
  )

ggplot(the_data, aes(x, y)) +
    geom_line() +
    xlab("False Positive Rate") +
    ylab("Average true positive rate") +
    coord_cartesian(0:1, 0:1)
}

ggsave(
  "ggtest.png",
  ggplot_alternative(),
  width = 3.25,
  height = 3.25,
  dpi = 1200
)

Spring Boot java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/servlet/Filter

It's not good to change the scope of your application dependencies. Putting the dependency as compile, will provide the dependency also in your artifact that will be installed somewere. The best think to do is configure the RUN configuration of your sping boot application by specifying as stated in documentation :

"Include dependencies with 'Provided' scope" "Enable this option to add dependencies with the Provided scope to the runtime classpath."

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git switch branch without discarding local changes

Use git stash

git stash

It pushes changes to a stack. When you want to pull them back use

git stash apply

You can even pull individual items out. To completely blow away the stash:

git stash clear

What is the difference between parseInt(string) and Number(string) in JavaScript?

parseInt("123qwe")

returns 123

Number("123qwe")

returns NaN

In other words parseInt() parses up to the first non-digit and returns whatever it had parsed. Number() wants to convert the entire string into a number, which can also be a float BTW.


EDIT #1: Lucero commented about the radix that can be used along with parseInt(). As far as that is concerned, please see THE DOCTOR's answer below (I'm not going to copy that here, the doc shall have a fair share of the fame...).


EDIT #2: Regarding use cases: That's somewhat written between the lines already. Use Number() in cases where you indirectly want to check if the given string completely represents a numeric value, float or integer. parseInt()/parseFloat() aren't that strict as they just parse along and stop when the numeric value stops (radix!), which makes it useful when you need a numeric value at the front "in case there is one" (note that parseInt("hui") also returns NaN). And the biggest difference is the use of radix that Number() doesn't know of and parseInt() may indirectly guess from the given string (that can cause weird results sometimes).

assign value using linq

Be aware that it only updates the first company it found with company id 1. For multiple

 (from c in listOfCompany where c.id == 1 select c).First().Name = "Whatever Name";

For Multiple updates

 from c in listOfCompany where c.id == 1 select c => {c.Name = "Whatever Name";  return c;}

Open JQuery Datepicker by clicking on an image w/ no input field

Having a hidden input field leads to problems with datepicker dialog positioning (dialog is horizontally centered). You could alter the dialog's margin, but there's a better way.

Just create an input field and "hide" it by setting it's opacity to 0 and making it 1px wide. Also position it near (or under) the button, or where ever you want the datepicker to appear.

Then attach the datepicker to the "hidden" input field and show it when user presses the button.

HTML:

<button id="date-button">Show Calendar</button>
<input type="text" name="date-field" id="date-field" value="">

CSS:

#date-button {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    z-index: 2;
    height 30px;
}

#date-field {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    z-index: 1;
    width: 1px;
    height: 32px; // height of the button + a little margin
    opacity: 0;
}

JS:

$(function() {
   $('#date-field').datepicker();

   $('#date-button').on('click', function() {
      $('#date-field').datepicker('show');
   });
});

Note: not tested with all browsers.

How to truncate milliseconds off of a .NET DateTime

The following will work for a DateTime that has fractional milliseconds, and also preserves the Kind property (Local, Utc or Undefined).

DateTime dateTime = ... anything ...
dateTime = new DateTime(
    dateTime.Ticks - (dateTime.Ticks % TimeSpan.TicksPerSecond), 
    dateTime.Kind
    );

or the equivalent and shorter:

dateTime = dateTime.AddTicks( - (dateTime.Ticks % TimeSpan.TicksPerSecond));

This could be generalized into an extension method:

public static DateTime Truncate(this DateTime dateTime, TimeSpan timeSpan)
{
    if (timeSpan == TimeSpan.Zero) return dateTime; // Or could throw an ArgumentException
    if (dateTime == DateTime.MinValue || dateTime == DateTime.MaxValue) return dateTime; // do not modify "guard" values
    return dateTime.AddTicks(-(dateTime.Ticks % timeSpan.Ticks));
}

which is used as follows:

dateTime = dateTime.Truncate(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(1)); // Truncate to whole ms
dateTime = dateTime.Truncate(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1)); // Truncate to whole second
dateTime = dateTime.Truncate(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1)); // Truncate to whole minute
...

Algorithm to calculate the number of divisors of a given number

Dmitriy is right that you'll want the Sieve of Atkin to generate the prime list but I don't believe that takes care of the whole issue. Now that you have a list of primes you'll need to see how many of those primes act as a divisor (and how often).

Here's some python for the algo Look here and search for "Subject: math - need divisors algorithm". Just count the number of items in the list instead of returning them however.

Here's a Dr. Math that explains what exactly it is you need to do mathematically.

Essentially it boils down to if your number n is:
n = a^x * b^y * c^z
(where a, b, and c are n's prime divisors and x, y, and z are the number of times that divisor is repeated) then the total count for all of the divisors is:
(x + 1) * (y + 1) * (z + 1).

Edit: BTW, to find a,b,c,etc you'll want to do what amounts to a greedy algo if I'm understanding this correctly. Start with your largest prime divisor and multiply it by itself until a further multiplication would exceed the number n. Then move to the next lowest factor and times the previous prime ^ number of times it was multiplied by the current prime and keep multiplying by the prime until the next will exceed n... etc. Keep track of the number of times you multiply the divisors together and apply those numbers into the formula above.

Not 100% sure about my algo description but if that isn't it it's something similar .

How to add hamburger menu in bootstrap

To create icon you can use Glyphicon in Bootstrap:

<a href="#" class="btn btn-info btn-sm">
    <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-menu-hamburger"></span>
</a>

And then control size of icon in css:

.glyphicon-menu-hamburger {
  font-size: npx;
}

How to resolve "git did not exit cleanly (exit code 128)" error on TortoiseGit?

on win7 64:

git-gui gives a good answer: a previous git has crashed and left a lock file. Manually remove. In my case, this was in .git/ref/heads/branchname.lock.

delete, and error 128 goes away. It surprises that tortoisegit doesn't give such an easy explanation.

What’s the difference between Response.Write() andResponse.Output.Write()?

Nothing, they are synonymous (Response.Write is simply a shorter way to express the act of writing to the response output).

If you are curious, the implementation of HttpResponse.Write looks like this:

public void Write(string s)
{
    this._writer.Write(s);
}

And the implementation of HttpResponse.Output is this:

public TextWriter Output
{
    get
    {
        return this._writer;
    }
}

So as you can see, Response.Write and Response.Output.Write are truly synonymous expressions.

Command to list all files in a folder as well as sub-folders in windows

An alternative to the above commands that is a little more bulletproof.

It can list all files irrespective of permissions or path length.

robocopy "C:\YourFolderPath" "C:\NULL" /E /L /NJH /NJS /FP /NS /NC /B /XJ

I have a slight issue with the use of C:\NULL which I have written about in my blog

https://theitronin.com/bulletproofdirectorylisting/

But nevertheless it's the most robust command I know.

Removing object from array in Swift 3

Extension for array to do it easily and allow chaining for Swift 4.2 and up:

public extension Array where Element: Equatable {
    @discardableResult
    public mutating func remove(_ item: Element) -> Array {
        if let index = firstIndex(where: { item == $0 }) {
            remove(at: index)
        }
        return self
    }

    @discardableResult
    public mutating func removeAll(_ item: Element) -> Array {
        removeAll(where: { item == $0 })
        return self
    }
}

Closing pyplot windows

Please use

plt.show(block=False)
plt.close('all')

Error: "dictionary update sequence element #0 has length 1; 2 is required" on Django 1.4

Here is the reproduced error.

>>> d = {}
>>> d.update([(1,)])
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: dictionary update sequence element #0 has length 1; 2 is required
>>> 
>>> d
{}
>>> 
>>> d.update([(1, 2)])
>>> d
{1: 2}
>>> 
>>> d.update('hello_some_string')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>  
ValueError: dictionary update sequence element #0 has length 1; 2 is required
>>> 

If you give the sequence and any element length is 1 and required two then we will get this kind of error. See the above code. First time I gave the sequence with tuple and it's length 1, then we got the error and dictionary is not updated. second time I gave inside tuple with with two elements, dictionary got updated.

Creating a generic method in C#

I like to start with a class like this class settings { public int X {get;set;} public string Y { get; set; } // repeat as necessary

 public settings()
 {
    this.X = defaultForX;
    this.Y = defaultForY;
    // repeat ...
 }
 public void Parse(Uri uri)
 {
    // parse values from query string.
    // if you need to distinguish from default vs. specified, add an appropriate property

 }

This has worked well on 100's of projects. You can use one of the many other parsing solutions to parse values.

how to display a div triggered by onclick event

Here you go:

div{
    display: none;
}

document.querySelector("button").addEventListener("click", function(){
    document.querySelector("div").style.display = "block";
});

<div>blah blah blah</div>
<button>Show</button>

LIVE DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/DerekL/p78Qq/

Python - Extracting and Saving Video Frames

This is Function which will convert most of the video formats to number of frames there are in the video. It works on Python3 with OpenCV 3+

import cv2
import time
import os

def video_to_frames(input_loc, output_loc):
    """Function to extract frames from input video file
    and save them as separate frames in an output directory.
    Args:
        input_loc: Input video file.
        output_loc: Output directory to save the frames.
    Returns:
        None
    """
    try:
        os.mkdir(output_loc)
    except OSError:
        pass
    # Log the time
    time_start = time.time()
    # Start capturing the feed
    cap = cv2.VideoCapture(input_loc)
    # Find the number of frames
    video_length = int(cap.get(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_COUNT)) - 1
    print ("Number of frames: ", video_length)
    count = 0
    print ("Converting video..\n")
    # Start converting the video
    while cap.isOpened():
        # Extract the frame
        ret, frame = cap.read()
        # Write the results back to output location.
        cv2.imwrite(output_loc + "/%#05d.jpg" % (count+1), frame)
        count = count + 1
        # If there are no more frames left
        if (count > (video_length-1)):
            # Log the time again
            time_end = time.time()
            # Release the feed
            cap.release()
            # Print stats
            print ("Done extracting frames.\n%d frames extracted" % count)
            print ("It took %d seconds forconversion." % (time_end-time_start))
            break

if __name__=="__main__":

    input_loc = '/path/to/video/00009.MTS'
    output_loc = '/path/to/output/frames/'
    video_to_frames(input_loc, output_loc)

It supports .mts and normal files like .mp4 and .avi. Tried and Tested on .mts files. Works like a Charm.

Custom date format with jQuery validation plugin

Here is an example for a new validation method that will validate almost any date format, including:

  • dd/mm/yy or dd/mm/yyyy
  • dd.mm.yy or dd.mm.yyyy
  • dd,mm,yy or dd,mm,yyyy
  • dd mm yy or dd mm yyyy
  • dd-mm-yy or dd-mm-yyyy

Then, when you pass the value to the php you can convert it with strtotime

Here is how to add the method:

    $.validator.addMethod("anyDate",
    function(value, element) {
        return value.match(/^(0?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[0-1])[/., -](0?[1-9]|1[0-2])[/., -](19|20)?\d{2}$/);
    },
    "Please enter a date in the format!"
);

Then you add the new filter with:

$('#myForm')
.validate({
    rules : {
        field: {
            anyDate: true
        }
    }
})

;

Cannot run emulator in Android Studio

I had the same error. The solution for me was change the ANDROID_HOME path. First I took a look into tools->android->sdk manager from Android Studio. In that window, we can see the path where Android Studio looks for the SDK: image

Then I opened a Windows CMD shell, executed:

echo %ANDROID_HOME%

but the path was different to the one in ANDROID STUDIO CONFIGURATION of the first step.

The solution was to change in user environment, the ANDROID_HOME, to the one of the first step: image

I finally closed the cmd shell, and opened another cmd shell to execute:

echo %ANDROID_HOME%

the path was updated, and I could run my emulator perfectly.

Need to find a max of three numbers in java

Two things: Change the variables x, y, z as int and call the method as Math.max(Math.max(x,y),z) as it accepts two parameters only.

In Summary, change below:

    String x = keyboard.nextLine();
    String y = keyboard.nextLine();
    String z = keyboard.nextLine();
    int max = Math.max(x,y,z);

to

    int x = keyboard.nextInt();
    int y = keyboard.nextInt();
    int z = keyboard.nextInt();
    int max =  Math.max(Math.max(x,y),z);

How to break out of while loop in Python?

What I would do is run the loop until the ans is Q

ans=(R)
while not ans=='Q':
    print('Your score is so far '+str(myScore)+'.')
    print("Would you like to roll or quit?")
    ans=input("Roll...")
    if ans=='R':
        R=random.randint(1, 8)
        print("You rolled a "+str(R)+".")
        myScore=R+myScore

What is the most efficient way to deep clone an object in JavaScript?

Assuming that you have only variables and not any functions in your object, you can just use:

var newObject = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(oldObject));

Converting an integer to a hexadecimal string in Ruby

Just in case you have a preference for how negative numbers are formatted:

p "%x" % -1   #=> "..f"
p -1.to_s(16) #=> "-1"

How do I revert an SVN commit?

I tried the above, (svn merge) and you're right, it does jack. However

svn update -r <revision> <target> [-R]

seems to work, but isn't permanent (my svn is simply showing an old revision). So I had to

mv <target> <target backup>
svn update <target>
mv <target backup> <target>
svn commit -m "Reverted commit on <target>" <target>

In my particular case my target is interfaces/AngelInterface.php. I made changes to the file, committed them, updated the build computer ran the phpdoc compiler and found my changes were a waste of time. svn log interfaces/AngelInterface.php shows my change as r22060 and the previous commit on that file was r22059. So I can svn update -r 22059 interfaces/AngelInterface.php and I end up with code as it was in -r22059 again. Then :-

mv interfaces/AngelInterface.php interfaces/AngelInterface.php~
svn update interfaces/AngelInterface.php
mv interfaces/AngelInterface.php~ interfaces/AngelInterface.php
svn commit -m "reverted -r22060" interfaces/AngelInterface.php

Alternatively I could do the same thing on a directory, by specifying . -R in place of interfaces/AngelInterface.php in all the above.

Remove git mapping in Visual Studio 2015

Removing .git hidden folder worked for me.

How to get input field value using PHP

Use PHP's $_POST or $_GET superglobals to retrieve the value of the input tag via the name of the HTML tag.

For Example, change the method in your form and then echo out the value by the name of the input:

Using $_GET method:

<form name="form" action="" method="get">
  <input type="text" name="subject" id="subject" value="Car Loan">
</form>

To show the value:

<?php echo $_GET['subject']; ?>

Using $_POST method:

<form name="form" action="" method="post">
  <input type="text" name="subject" id="subject" value="Car Loan">
</form>

To show the value:

<?php echo $_POST['subject']; ?>

How to crop an image using PIL?

There is a crop() method:

w, h = yourImage.size
yourImage.crop((0, 30, w, h-30)).save(...)

Javascript format date / time

I don't think that can be done RELIABLY with built in methods on the native Date object. The toLocaleString method gets close, but if I am remembering correctly, it won't work correctly in IE < 10. If you are able to use a library for this task, MomentJS is a really amazing library; and it makes working with dates and times easy. Otherwise, I think you will have to write a basic function to give you the format that you are after.

function formatDate(date) {
    var year = date.getFullYear(),
        month = date.getMonth() + 1, // months are zero indexed
        day = date.getDate(),
        hour = date.getHours(),
        minute = date.getMinutes(),
        second = date.getSeconds(),
        hourFormatted = hour % 12 || 12, // hour returned in 24 hour format
        minuteFormatted = minute < 10 ? "0" + minute : minute,
        morning = hour < 12 ? "am" : "pm";

    return month + "/" + day + "/" + year + " " + hourFormatted + ":" +
            minuteFormatted + morning;
}

The Use of Multiple JFrames: Good or Bad Practice?

It is not a good practice but even though you wish to use it you can use the singleton pattern as its good. I have used the singleton patterns in most of my project its good.

-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'

The characters '<', and '>', are to indicate a place-holder, you should remove them to read:

php /usr/local/solusvm/scripts/pass.php --type=admin --comm=change --username=ADMINUSERNAME

Updating state on props change in React Form

The new hooks way of doing this is to use useEffect instead of componentWillReceiveProps the old way:

componentWillReceiveProps(nextProps) {
  // You don't have to do this check first, but it can help prevent an unneeded render
  if (nextProps.startTime !== this.state.startTime) {
    this.setState({ startTime: nextProps.startTime });
  }
}

becomes the following in a functional hooks driven component:

// store the startTime prop in local state
const [startTime, setStartTime] = useState(props.startTime)
// 
useEffect(() => {
  if (props.startTime !== startTime) {
    setStartTime(props.startTime);
  }
}, [props.startTime]);

we set the state using setState, using useEffect we check for changes to the specified prop, and take the action to update the state on change of the prop.

How to add a fragment to a programmatically generated layout?

At some point, I suppose you will add your programatically created LinearLayout to some root layout that you defined in .xml. This is just a suggestion of mine and probably one of many solutions, but it works: Simply set an ID for the programatically created layout, and add it to the root layout that you defined in .xml, and then use the set ID to add the Fragment.

It could look like this:

LinearLayout rowLayout = new LinearLayout();
rowLayout.setId(whateveryouwantasid);
// add rowLayout to the root layout somewhere here

FragmentManager fragMan = getFragmentManager();
FragmentTransaction fragTransaction = fragMan.beginTransaction();   

Fragment myFrag = new ImageFragment();
fragTransaction.add(rowLayout.getId(), myFrag , "fragment" + fragCount);
fragTransaction.commit();

Simply choose whatever Integer value you want for the ID:

rowLayout.setId(12345);

If you are using the above line of code not just once, it would probably be smart to figure out a way to create unique-IDs, in order to avoid duplicates.

UPDATE:

Here is the full code of how it should be done: (this code is tested and works) I am adding two Fragments to a LinearLayout with horizontal orientation, resulting in the Fragments being aligned next to each other. Please also be aware, that I used a fixed height and width of 200dp, so that one Fragment does not use the full screen as it would with "match_parent".

MainActivity.java:

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    @SuppressLint("NewApi")
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);     

        LinearLayout fragContainer = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.llFragmentContainer);

        LinearLayout ll = new LinearLayout(this);
        ll.setOrientation(LinearLayout.HORIZONTAL);

        ll.setId(12345);

        getFragmentManager().beginTransaction().add(ll.getId(), TestFragment.newInstance("I am frag 1"), "someTag1").commit();
        getFragmentManager().beginTransaction().add(ll.getId(), TestFragment.newInstance("I am frag 2"), "someTag2").commit();

        fragContainer.addView(ll);
    }
}

TestFragment.java:

public class TestFragment extends Fragment {

    public static TestFragment newInstance(String text) {

        TestFragment f = new TestFragment();

        Bundle b = new Bundle();
        b.putString("text", text);
        f.setArguments(b);
        return f;
    }

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        View v =  inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment, container, false);

        ((TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.tvFragText)).setText(getArguments().getString("text"));     
        return v;
    }
}

activity_main.xml:

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/rlMain"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:padding="5dp"
    tools:context=".MainActivity" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/hello_world" />

    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/llFragmentContainer"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_below="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_marginTop="19dp"
        android:orientation="vertical" >
    </LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>

fragment.xml:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="200dp"
    android:layout_height="200dp" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/tvFragText"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_centerVertical="true"
        android:text="" />

</RelativeLayout>

And this is the result of the above code: (the two Fragments are aligned next to each other) result

Using different Web.config in development and production environment

On one project where we had 4 environments (development, test, staging and production) we developed a system where the application selected the appropriate configuration based on the machine name it was deployed to.

This worked for us because:

  • administrators could deploy applications without involving developers (a requirement) and without having to fiddle with config files (which they hated);
  • machine names adhered to a convention. We matched names using a regular expression and deployed to multiple machines in an environment; and
  • we used integrated security for connection strings. This means we could keep account names in our config files at design time without revealing any passwords.

It worked well for us in this instance, but probably wouldn't work everywhere.

Get Wordpress Category from Single Post

<div class="post_category">
        <?php $category = get_the_category();
             $allcategory = get_the_category(); 
        foreach ($allcategory as $category) {
        ?>
           <a class="btn"><?php echo $category->cat_name;; ?></a>
        <?php 
        }
        ?>
 </div>

Windows 7 SDK installation failure

You should really check the log. It seems that quite a few components can cause the Windows SDK installer to fail to install with this useless error message. For instance it could be the Visual C++ Redistributable Package as mentioned there.

Passing variable number of arguments around

Let's say you have a typical variadic function you've written. Because at least one argument is required before the variadic one ..., you have to always write an extra argument in usage.

Or do you?

If you wrap your variadic function in a macro, you need no preceding arg. Consider this example:

#define LOGI(...)
    ((void)__android_log_print(ANDROID_LOG_INFO, LOG_TAG, __VA_ARGS__))

This is obviously far more convenient, since you needn't specify the initial argument every time.

How can I fix MySQL error #1064?

TL;DR

Error #1064 means that MySQL can't understand your command. To fix it:

  • Read the error message. It tells you exactly where in your command MySQL got confused.

  • Examine your command. If you use a programming language to create your command, use echo, console.log(), or its equivalent to show the entire command so you can see it.

  • Check the manual. By comparing against what MySQL expected at that point, the problem is often obvious.

  • Check for reserved words. If the error occurred on an object identifier, check that it isn't a reserved word (and, if it is, ensure that it's properly quoted).

  1. Aaaagh!! What does #1064 mean?

    Error messages may look like gobbledygook, but they're (often) incredibly informative and provide sufficient detail to pinpoint what went wrong. By understanding exactly what MySQL is telling you, you can arm yourself to fix any problem of this sort in the future.

    As in many programs, MySQL errors are coded according to the type of problem that occurred. Error #1064 is a syntax error.

    • What is this "syntax" of which you speak? Is it witchcraft?

      Whilst "syntax" is a word that many programmers only encounter in the context of computers, it is in fact borrowed from wider linguistics. It refers to sentence structure: i.e. the rules of grammar; or, in other words, the rules that define what constitutes a valid sentence within the language.

      For example, the following English sentence contains a syntax error (because the indefinite article "a" must always precede a noun):

      This sentence contains syntax error a.

    • What does that have to do with MySQL?

      Whenever one issues a command to a computer, one of the very first things that it must do is "parse" that command in order to make sense of it. A "syntax error" means that the parser is unable to understand what is being asked because it does not constitute a valid command within the language: in other words, the command violates the grammar of the programming language.

      It's important to note that the computer must understand the command before it can do anything with it. Because there is a syntax error, MySQL has no idea what one is after and therefore gives up before it even looks at the database and therefore the schema or table contents are not relevant.

  2. How do I fix it?

    Obviously, one needs to determine how it is that the command violates MySQL's grammar. This may sound pretty impenetrable, but MySQL is trying really hard to help us here. All we need to do is…

    • Read the message!

      MySQL not only tells us exactly where the parser encountered the syntax error, but also makes a suggestion for fixing it. For example, consider the following SQL command:

      UPDATE my_table WHERE id=101 SET name='foo'
      

      That command yields the following error message:

      ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'WHERE id=101 SET name='foo'' at line 1

      MySQL is telling us that everything seemed fine up to the word WHERE, but then a problem was encountered. In other words, it wasn't expecting to encounter WHERE at that point.

      Messages that say ...near '' at line... simply mean that the end of command was encountered unexpectedly: that is, something else should appear before the command ends.

    • Examine the actual text of your command!

      Programmers often create SQL commands using a programming language. For example a php program might have a (wrong) line like this:

      $result = $mysqli->query("UPDATE " . $tablename ."SET name='foo' WHERE id=101");
      

      If you write this this in two lines

      $query = "UPDATE " . $tablename ."SET name='foo' WHERE id=101"
      $result = $mysqli->query($query);
      

      then you can add echo $query; or var_dump($query) to see that the query actually says

      UPDATE userSET name='foo' WHERE id=101
      

      Often you'll see your error immediately and be able to fix it.

    • Obey orders!

      MySQL is also recommending that we "check the manual that corresponds to our MySQL version for the right syntax to use". Let's do that.

      I'm using MySQL v5.6, so I'll turn to that version's manual entry for an UPDATE command. The very first thing on the page is the command's grammar (this is true for every command):

      UPDATE [LOW_PRIORITY] [IGNORE] table_reference
          SET col_name1={expr1|DEFAULT} [, col_name2={expr2|DEFAULT}] ...
          [WHERE where_condition]
          [ORDER BY ...]
          [LIMIT row_count]
      

      The manual explains how to interpret this syntax under Typographical and Syntax Conventions, but for our purposes it's enough to recognise that: clauses contained within square brackets [ and ] are optional; vertical bars | indicate alternatives; and ellipses ... denote either an omission for brevity, or that the preceding clause may be repeated.

      We already know that the parser believed everything in our command was okay prior to the WHERE keyword, or in other words up to and including the table reference. Looking at the grammar, we see that table_reference must be followed by the SET keyword: whereas in our command it was actually followed by the WHERE keyword. This explains why the parser reports that a problem was encountered at that point.

    A note of reservation

    Of course, this was a simple example. However, by following the two steps outlined above (i.e. observing exactly where in the command the parser found the grammar to be violated and comparing against the manual's description of what was expected at that point), virtually every syntax error can be readily identified.

    I say "virtually all", because there's a small class of problems that aren't quite so easy to spot—and that is where the parser believes that the language element encountered means one thing whereas you intend it to mean another. Take the following example:

    UPDATE my_table SET where='foo'
    

    Again, the parser does not expect to encounter WHERE at this point and so will raise a similar syntax error—but you hadn't intended for that where to be an SQL keyword: you had intended for it to identify a column for updating! However, as documented under Schema Object Names:

    If an identifier contains special characters or is a reserved word, you must quote it whenever you refer to it. (Exception: A reserved word that follows a period in a qualified name must be an identifier, so it need not be quoted.) Reserved words are listed at Section 9.3, “Keywords and Reserved Words”.

    [ deletia ]

    The identifier quote character is the backtick (“`”):

    mysql> SELECT * FROM `select` WHERE `select`.id > 100;

    If the ANSI_QUOTES SQL mode is enabled, it is also permissible to quote identifiers within double quotation marks:

    mysql> CREATE TABLE "test" (col INT);
    ERROR 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax...
    mysql> SET sql_mode='ANSI_QUOTES';
    mysql> CREATE TABLE "test" (col INT);
    Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

How to wait till the response comes from the $http request, in angularjs?

You should use promises for async operations where you don't know when it will be completed. A promise "represents an operation that hasn't completed yet, but is expected in the future." (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Promise)

An example implementation would be like:

myApp.factory('myService', function($http) {

    var getData = function() {

        // Angular $http() and then() both return promises themselves 
        return $http({method:"GET", url:"/my/url"}).then(function(result){

            // What we return here is the data that will be accessible 
            // to us after the promise resolves
            return result.data;
        });
    };


    return { getData: getData };
});


function myFunction($scope, myService) {
    var myDataPromise = myService.getData();
    myDataPromise.then(function(result) {  

       // this is only run after getData() resolves
       $scope.data = result;
       console.log("data.name"+$scope.data.name);
    });
}

Edit: Regarding Sujoys comment that What do I need to do so that myFuction() call won't return till .then() function finishes execution.

function myFunction($scope, myService) { 
    var myDataPromise = myService.getData(); 
    myDataPromise.then(function(result) { 
         $scope.data = result; 
         console.log("data.name"+$scope.data.name); 
    }); 
    console.log("This will get printed before data.name inside then. And I don't want that."); 
 }

Well, let's suppose the call to getData() took 10 seconds to complete. If the function didn't return anything in that time, it would effectively become normal synchronous code and would hang the browser until it completed.

With the promise returning instantly though, the browser is free to continue on with other code in the meantime. Once the promise resolves/fails, the then() call is triggered. So it makes much more sense this way, even if it might make the flow of your code a bit more complex (complexity is a common problem of async/parallel programming in general after all!)

Create a Bitmap/Drawable from file path

you can't access your drawables via a path, so if you want a human readable interface with your drawables that you can build programatically.

declare a HashMap somewhere in your class:

private static HashMap<String, Integer> images = null;

//Then initialize it in your constructor:

public myClass() {
  if (images == null) {
    images = new HashMap<String, Integer>();
    images.put("Human1Arm", R.drawable.human_one_arm);
    // for all your images - don't worry, this is really fast and will only happen once
  }
}

Now for access -

String drawable = "wrench";
// fill in this value however you want, but in the end you want Human1Arm etc
// access is fast and easy:
Bitmap wrench = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), images.get(drawable));
canvas.drawColor(Color .BLACK);
Log.d("OLOLOLO",Integer.toString(wrench.getHeight()));
canvas.drawBitmap(wrench, left, top, null);

How to set environment variables in Jenkins?

In my case, I needed to add the JMETER_HOME environment variable to be available via my Ant build scripts across all projects on my Jenkins server (Linux), in a way that would not interfere with my local build environment (Windows and Mac) in the build.xml script. Setting the environment variable via Manage Jenkins - Configure System - Global properties was the easiest and least intrusive way to accomplish this. No plug-ins are necessary.

Manage Jenkins Global Properties


The environment variable is then available in Ant via:

<property environment="env" />
<property name="jmeter.home" value="${env.JMETER_HOME}" />

This can be verified to works by adding:

<echo message="JMeter Home: ${jmeter.home}"/>

Which produces:

JMeter Home: ~/.jmeter

Get number days in a specified month using JavaScript?

Another possible option would be to use Datejs

Then you can do

Date.getDaysInMonth(2009, 9)     

Although adding a library just for this function is overkill, it's always nice to know all the options you have available to you :)

Start / Stop a Windows Service from a non-Administrator user account

It's significantly easier to grant management permissions to a service using one of these tools:

  • Group Policy
  • Security Template
  • subinacl.exe command-line tool.

Here's the MSKB article with instructions for Windows Server 2008 / Windows 7, but the instructions are the same for 2000 and 2003.

How to pass payload via JSON file for curl?

curl sends POST requests with the default content type of application/x-www-form-urlencoded. If you want to send a JSON request, you will have to specify the correct content type header:

$ curl -vX POST http://server/api/v1/places.json -d @testplace.json \
--header "Content-Type: application/json"

But that will only work if the server accepts json input. The .json at the end of the url may only indicate that the output is json, it doesn't necessarily mean that it also will handle json input. The API documentation should give you a hint on whether it does or not.

The reason you get a 401 and not some other error is probably because the server can't extract the auth_token from your request.

How to change Android version and code version number?

Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S in android studio or go to File > Project Structure... Select app on left side and select falvors tab on right side on default config change version code , name and etc... enter image description here

Creating random numbers with no duplicates

There is another way of doing "random" ordered numbers with LFSR, take a look at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_feedback_shift_register

with this technique you can achieve the ordered random number by index and making sure the values are not duplicated.

But these are not TRUE random numbers because the random generation is deterministic.

But depending your case you can use this technique reducing the amount of processing on random number generation when using shuffling.

Here a LFSR algorithm in java, (I took it somewhere I don't remeber):

public final class LFSR {
    private static final int M = 15;

    // hard-coded for 15-bits
    private static final int[] TAPS = {14, 15};

    private final boolean[] bits = new boolean[M + 1];

    public LFSR() {
        this((int)System.currentTimeMillis());
    }

    public LFSR(int seed) {
        for(int i = 0; i < M; i++) {
            bits[i] = (((1 << i) & seed) >>> i) == 1;
        }
    }

    /* generate a random int uniformly on the interval [-2^31 + 1, 2^31 - 1] */
    public short nextShort() {
        //printBits();

        // calculate the integer value from the registers
        short next = 0;
        for(int i = 0; i < M; i++) {
            next |= (bits[i] ? 1 : 0) << i;
        }

        // allow for zero without allowing for -2^31
        if (next < 0) next++;

        // calculate the last register from all the preceding
        bits[M] = false;
        for(int i = 0; i < TAPS.length; i++) {
            bits[M] ^= bits[M - TAPS[i]];
        }

        // shift all the registers
        for(int i = 0; i < M; i++) {
            bits[i] = bits[i + 1];
        }

        return next;
    }

    /** returns random double uniformly over [0, 1) */
    public double nextDouble() {
        return ((nextShort() / (Integer.MAX_VALUE + 1.0)) + 1.0) / 2.0;
    }

    /** returns random boolean */
    public boolean nextBoolean() {
        return nextShort() >= 0;
    }

    public void printBits() {
        System.out.print(bits[M] ? 1 : 0);
        System.out.print(" -> ");
        for(int i = M - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
            System.out.print(bits[i] ? 1 : 0);
        }
        System.out.println();
    }


    public static void main(String[] args) {
        LFSR rng = new LFSR();
        Vector<Short> vec = new Vector<Short>();
        for(int i = 0; i <= 32766; i++) {
            short next = rng.nextShort();
            // just testing/asserting to make 
            // sure the number doesn't repeat on a given list
            if (vec.contains(next))
                throw new RuntimeException("Index repeat: " + i);
            vec.add(next);
            System.out.println(next);
        }
    }
}

Add days to JavaScript Date

The easiest way to get this done is using date-fns library.

var addDays = require('date-fns/add_days')
addDays(date, amount)

The documentation is available in this link here. You can also get this done using moment.js. The reference link is here

Hope it helps!

How to get logged-in user's name in Access vba?

Public Declare Function GetUserName Lib "advapi32.dll" 
    Alias "GetUserNameA" (ByVal lpBuffer As String, nSize As Long) As Long

....

Dim strLen As Long
Dim strtmp As String * 256
Dim strUserName As String

strLen = 255
GetUserName strtmp, strLen
strUserName = Trim$(TrimNull(strtmp))

Turns out question has been asked before: How can I get the currently logged-in windows user in Access VBA?

How to programmatically disable page scrolling with jQuery

For folks who have centered layouts (via margin:0 auto;), here's a mash-up of the position:fixed solution along with @tfe's proposed solution.

Use this solution if you're experiencing page-snapping (due to the scrollbar showing/hiding).

// lock scroll position, but retain settings for later
var scrollPosition = [
    window.pageXOffset || document.documentElement.scrollLeft || document.body.scrollLeft,
    window.pageYOffset || document.documentElement.scrollTop  || document.body.scrollTop
];
var $html = $('html'); // bow to the demon known as MSIE(v7)
$html.addClass('modal-noscroll');
$html.data('scroll-position', scrollPosition);
$html.data('margin-top', $html.css('margin-top'));
$html.css('margin-top', -1 * scrollPosition[1]);

…combined with…

// un-lock scroll position
var $html = $('html').removeClass('modal-noscroll');
var scrollPosition = $html.data('scroll-position');
var marginTop = $html.data('margin-top');
$html.css('margin-top', marginTop);
window.scrollTo(scrollPosition[0], scrollPosition[1])

…and finally, the CSS for .modal-noscroll

.modal-noscroll
{
    position: fixed;
    overflow-y: scroll;
    width: 100%;
}

I would venture to say this is more of a proper fix than any of the other solutions out there, but I haven't tested it that thoroughly yet… :P


Edit: please note that I have no clue how badly this might perform (read: blow up) on a touch device.

Get Android .apk file VersionName or VersionCode WITHOUT installing apk

Kotlin:

var ver: String = packageManager.getPackageInfo(packageName, 0).versionName

Requested bean is currently in creation: Is there an unresolvable circular reference?

i encountered this error in quite a stupid way

@Autowired
// private Bean bean;

public void myMethod() {
  return;
}

what happened is that I commented a line for some reason and left the annotation which made spring think that the method needs to be autowired

Alphabet range in Python

[chr(i) for i in range(ord('a'),ord('z')+1)]

Use CSS to automatically add 'required field' asterisk to form inputs

Here is a simple "CSS only" trick I created and am using to dynamically add a red asterisk on the labels of required form elements without losing browsers' default form validation.

The following code works perfectly on all the browsers and for all the main form elements.

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.form-group {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
}

label {
  order: 1;
  text-transform: capitalize;
  margin-bottom: 0.3em;
}

input,
select,
textarea {
  padding: 0.5em;
  order: 2;
}

input:required+label::after,
select:required+label::after,
textarea:required+label::after {
  content: " *";
  color: #e32;
}
_x000D_
<div class="form-group">
  <input class="form-control" name="first_name" id="first_name" type="text" placeholder="First Name" required>
  <label class="small mb-1" for="first_name">First Name</label>
</div>

<br>

<div class="form-group">
  <input class="form-control" name="last_name" id="last_name" type="text" placeholder="Last Name">
  <label class="small mb-1" for="last_name">Last Name</label>
</div>
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Important: You must preserve the order of elements that is the input element first and label element second. CSS is gonna handle it and transform it in the traditional way, that is the label first and input second.

Asyncio.gather vs asyncio.wait

A very important distinction, which is easy to miss, is the default bheavior of these two functions, when it comes to exceptions.


I'll use this example to simulate a coroutine that will raise exceptions, sometimes -

import asyncio
import random


async def a_flaky_tsk(i):
    await asyncio.sleep(i)  # bit of fuzz to simulate a real-world example

    if i % 2 == 0:
        print(i, "ok")
    else:
        print(i, "crashed!")
        raise ValueError

coros = [a_flaky_tsk(i) for i in range(10)]

await asyncio.gather(*coros) outputs -

0 ok
1 crashed!
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/dev/PycharmProjects/trading/xxx.py", line 20, in <module>
    asyncio.run(main())
  File "/Users/dev/.pyenv/versions/3.8.2/lib/python3.8/asyncio/runners.py", line 43, in run
    return loop.run_until_complete(main)
  File "/Users/dev/.pyenv/versions/3.8.2/lib/python3.8/asyncio/base_events.py", line 616, in run_until_complete
    return future.result()
  File "/Users/dev/PycharmProjects/trading/xxx.py", line 17, in main
    await asyncio.gather(*coros)
  File "/Users/dev/PycharmProjects/trading/xxx.py", line 12, in a_flaky_tsk
    raise ValueError
ValueError

As you can see, the coros after index 1 never got to execute.


But await asyncio.wait(coros) continues to execute tasks, even if some of them fail -

0 ok
1 crashed!
2 ok
3 crashed!
4 ok
5 crashed!
6 ok
7 crashed!
8 ok
9 crashed!
Task exception was never retrieved
future: <Task finished name='Task-10' coro=<a_flaky_tsk() done, defined at /Users/dev/PycharmProjects/trading/xxx.py:6> exception=ValueError()>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/dev/PycharmProjects/trading/xxx.py", line 12, in a_flaky_tsk
    raise ValueError
ValueError
Task exception was never retrieved
future: <Task finished name='Task-8' coro=<a_flaky_tsk() done, defined at /Users/dev/PycharmProjects/trading/xxx.py:6> exception=ValueError()>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/dev/PycharmProjects/trading/xxx.py", line 12, in a_flaky_tsk
    raise ValueError
ValueError
Task exception was never retrieved
future: <Task finished name='Task-2' coro=<a_flaky_tsk() done, defined at /Users/dev/PycharmProjects/trading/xxx.py:6> exception=ValueError()>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/dev/PycharmProjects/trading/xxx.py", line 12, in a_flaky_tsk
    raise ValueError
ValueError
Task exception was never retrieved
future: <Task finished name='Task-9' coro=<a_flaky_tsk() done, defined at /Users/dev/PycharmProjects/trading/xxx.py:6> exception=ValueError()>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/dev/PycharmProjects/trading/xxx.py", line 12, in a_flaky_tsk
    raise ValueError
ValueError
Task exception was never retrieved
future: <Task finished name='Task-3' coro=<a_flaky_tsk() done, defined at /Users/dev/PycharmProjects/trading/xxx.py:6> exception=ValueError()>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/dev/PycharmProjects/trading/xxx.py", line 12, in a_flaky_tsk
    raise ValueError
ValueError

Ofcourse, this behavior can be changed for both by using -

asyncio.gather(..., return_exceptions=True)

or,

asyncio.wait([...], return_when=asyncio.FIRST_EXCEPTION)


But it doesn't end here!

Notice: Task exception was never retrieved in the logs above.

asyncio.wait() won't re-raise exceptions from the child tasks until you await them individually. (The stacktrace in the logs are just messages, they cannot be caught!)

done, pending = await asyncio.wait(coros)
for tsk in done:
    try:
        await tsk
    except Exception as e:
        print("I caught:", repr(e))

Output -

0 ok
1 crashed!
2 ok
3 crashed!
4 ok
5 crashed!
6 ok
7 crashed!
8 ok
9 crashed!
I caught: ValueError()
I caught: ValueError()
I caught: ValueError()
I caught: ValueError()
I caught: ValueError()

On the other hand, to catch exceptions with asyncio.gather(), you must -

results = await asyncio.gather(*coros, return_exceptions=True)
for result_or_exc in results:
    if isinstance(result_or_exc, Exception):
        print("I caught:", repr(result_or_exc))

(Same output as before)

What is the difference between % and %% in a cmd file?

In DOS you couldn't use environment variables on the command line, only in batch files, where they used the % sign as a delimiter. If you wanted a literal % sign in a batch file, e.g. in an echo statement, you needed to double it.

This carried over to Windows NT which allowed environment variables on the command line, however for backwards compatibility you still need to double your % signs in a .cmd file.

Warn user before leaving web page with unsaved changes

Check out the JavaScript onbeforeunload event. It's non-standard JavaScript introduced by Microsoft, however it works in most browsers and their onbeforeunload documentation has more information and examples.

Styling a disabled input with css only

Use this CSS (jsFiddle example):

input:disabled.btn:hover,
input:disabled.btn:active,
input:disabled.btn:focus {
  color: green
}

You have to write the most outer element on the left and the most inner element on the right.

.btn:hover input:disabled would select any disabled input elements contained in an element with a class btn which is currently hovered by the user.

I would prefer :disabled over [disabled], see this question for a discussion: Should I use CSS :disabled pseudo-class or [disabled] attribute selector or is it a matter of opinion?


By the way, Laravel (PHP) generates the HTML - not the browser.

What's the difference between UTF-8 and UTF-8 without BOM?

Here are examples of the BOM usage that actually cause real problems and yet many people don't know about it.

BOM breaks scripts

Shell scripts, Perl scripts, Python scripts, Ruby scripts, Node.js scripts or any other executable that needs to be run by an interpreter - all start with a shebang line which looks like one of those:

#!/bin/sh
#!/usr/bin/python
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
#!/usr/bin/env node

It tells the system which interpreter needs to be run when invoking such a script. If the script is encoded in UTF-8, one may be tempted to include a BOM at the beginning. But actually the "#!" characters are not just characters. They are in fact a magic number that happens to be composed out of two ASCII characters. If you put something (like a BOM) before those characters, then the file will look like it had a different magic number and that can lead to problems.

See Wikipedia, article: Shebang, section: Magic number:

The shebang characters are represented by the same two bytes in extended ASCII encodings, including UTF-8, which is commonly used for scripts and other text files on current Unix-like systems. However, UTF-8 files may begin with the optional byte order mark (BOM); if the "exec" function specifically detects the bytes 0x23 and 0x21, then the presence of the BOM (0xEF 0xBB 0xBF) before the shebang will prevent the script interpreter from being executed. Some authorities recommend against using the byte order mark in POSIX (Unix-like) scripts,[14] for this reason and for wider interoperability and philosophical concerns. Additionally, a byte order mark is not necessary in UTF-8, as that encoding does not have endianness issues; it serves only to identify the encoding as UTF-8. [emphasis added]

BOM is illegal in JSON

See RFC 7159, Section 8.1:

Implementations MUST NOT add a byte order mark to the beginning of a JSON text.

BOM is redundant in JSON

Not only it is illegal in JSON, it is also not needed to determine the character encoding because there are more reliable ways to unambiguously determine both the character encoding and endianness used in any JSON stream (see this answer for details).

BOM breaks JSON parsers

Not only it is illegal in JSON and not needed, it actually breaks all software that determine the encoding using the method presented in RFC 4627:

Determining the encoding and endianness of JSON, examining the first four bytes for the NUL byte:

00 00 00 xx - UTF-32BE
00 xx 00 xx - UTF-16BE
xx 00 00 00 - UTF-32LE
xx 00 xx 00 - UTF-16LE
xx xx xx xx - UTF-8

Now, if the file starts with BOM it will look like this:

00 00 FE FF - UTF-32BE
FE FF 00 xx - UTF-16BE
FF FE 00 00 - UTF-32LE
FF FE xx 00 - UTF-16LE
EF BB BF xx - UTF-8

Note that:

  1. UTF-32BE doesn't start with three NULs, so it won't be recognized
  2. UTF-32LE the first byte is not followed by three NULs, so it won't be recognized
  3. UTF-16BE has only one NUL in the first four bytes, so it won't be recognized
  4. UTF-16LE has only one NUL in the first four bytes, so it won't be recognized

Depending on the implementation, all of those may be interpreted incorrectly as UTF-8 and then misinterpreted or rejected as invalid UTF-8, or not recognized at all.

Additionally, if the implementation tests for valid JSON as I recommend, it will reject even the input that is indeed encoded as UTF-8, because it doesn't start with an ASCII character < 128 as it should according to the RFC.

Other data formats

BOM in JSON is not needed, is illegal and breaks software that works correctly according to the RFC. It should be a nobrainer to just not use it then and yet, there are always people who insist on breaking JSON by using BOMs, comments, different quoting rules or different data types. Of course anyone is free to use things like BOMs or anything else if you need it - just don't call it JSON then.

For other data formats than JSON, take a look at how it really looks like. If the only encodings are UTF-* and the first character must be an ASCII character lower than 128 then you already have all the information needed to determine both the encoding and the endianness of your data. Adding BOMs even as an optional feature would only make it more complicated and error prone.

Other uses of BOM

As for the uses outside of JSON or scripts, I think there are already very good answers here. I wanted to add more detailed info specifically about scripting and serialization, because it is an example of BOM characters causing real problems.

Python to print out status bar and percentage

Building on some of the answers here and elsewhere, I've written this simple function which displays a progress bar and elapsed/estimated remaining time. Should work on most unix-based machines.

import time
import sys

percent = 50.0
start = time.time()
draw_progress_bar(percent, start)


def draw_progress_bar(percent, start, barLen=20):
sys.stdout.write("\r")
progress = ""
for i in range(barLen):
    if i < int(barLen * percent):
        progress += "="
    else:
        progress += " "

elapsedTime = time.time() - start;
estimatedRemaining = int(elapsedTime * (1.0/percent) - elapsedTime)

if (percent == 1.0):
    sys.stdout.write("[ %s ] %.1f%% Elapsed: %im %02is ETA: Done!\n" % 
        (progress, percent * 100, int(elapsedTime)/60, int(elapsedTime)%60))
    sys.stdout.flush()
    return
else:
    sys.stdout.write("[ %s ] %.1f%% Elapsed: %im %02is ETA: %im%02is " % 
        (progress, percent * 100, int(elapsedTime)/60, int(elapsedTime)%60,
         estimatedRemaining/60, estimatedRemaining%60))
    sys.stdout.flush()
    return

How do I use an image as a submit button?

<form id='formName' name='formName' onsubmit='redirect();return false;'>
        <div class="style7">
    <input type='text' id='userInput' name='userInput' value=''>
    <img src="BUTTON1.JPG" onclick="document.forms['formName'].submit();">
</div>
</form>

Building a fat jar using maven

Note: If you are a spring-boot application, read the end of answer

Add following plugin to your pom.xml The latest version can be found at

...
<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>CHOOSE LATEST VERSION HERE</version>
            <configuration>
                <descriptorRefs>
                    <descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
                </descriptorRefs>
            </configuration>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>assemble-all</id>
                    <phase>package</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>single</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>
...

After configuring this plug-in, running mvn package will produce two jars: one containing just the project classes, and a second fat jar with all dependencies with the suffix "-jar-with-dependencies".

if you want correct classpath setup at runtime then also add following plugin

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
        <archive>
            <manifest>
                <addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
                <mainClass>fully.qualified.MainClass</mainClass>
            </manifest>
        </archive>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

For spring boot application use just following plugin (choose appropriate version of it)

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
        <fork>true</fork>
        <mainClass>${start-class}</mainClass>
    </configuration>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <goals>
                <goal>repackage</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

Why is a primary-foreign key relation required when we can join without it?

You don't need a FK, you can join arbitrary columns.

But having a foreign key ensures that the join will actually succeed in finding something.

Foreign key give you certain guarantees that would be extremely difficult and error prone to implement otherwise.

For example, if you don't have a foreign key, you might insert a detail record in the system and just after you checked that the matching master record is present somebody else deletes it. So in order to prevent this you need to lock the master table, when ever you modify the detail table (and vice versa). If you don't need/want that guarantee, screw the FKs.

Depending on your RDBMS a foreign key also might improve performance of select (but also degrades performance of updates, inserts and deletes)

How to add white spaces in HTML paragraph

You can try it by adding &nbsp;

Best way to extract a subvector from a vector?

std::vector<T>(input_iterator, input_iterator), in your case foo = std::vector<T>(myVec.begin () + 100000, myVec.begin () + 150000);, see for example here

How to get the next auto-increment id in mysql

SELECT id FROM `table` ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1

Although I doubt in its productiveness but it's 100% reliable

Simple JavaScript problem: onClick confirm not preventing default action

I've had issue with IE7 and returning false before.

Check my answer here to another problem: Javascript not running on IE

Unit Testing C Code

First, look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unit_testing_frameworks#C

My company has a C library our customers use. We use CxxTest (a C++ unit test library) to test the code. CppUnit will also work. If you're stuck in C, I'd recommend RCUNIT (but CUnit is good too).

Is it possible to have a HTML SELECT/OPTION value as NULL using PHP?

In php 7 you can do:

$_POST['value'] ?? null;

If value is equal to '' as said in other answers it will also send you null.

What is the facade design pattern?

Facade hides the complexities of the system and provides an interface to the client from where the client can access the system.

public class Inventory {
public String checkInventory(String OrderId) {
    return "Inventory checked";
}
}

public class Payment {
public String deductPayment(String orderID) {
    return "Payment deducted successfully";
}
}


public class OrderFacade {
private Payment pymt = new Payment();
private Inventory inventry = new Inventory();

public void placeOrder(String orderId) {
    String step1 = inventry.checkInventory(orderId);
    String step2 = pymt.deductPayment(orderId);
    System.out
            .println("Following steps completed:" + step1
                    + " & " + step2);
   }
}

public class Client {
       public static void main(String args[]){
         OrderFacade orderFacade = new OrderFacade();
         orderFacade.placeOrder("OR123456");
         System.out.println("Order processing completed");
       }
  }