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Android "elevation" not showing a shadow

I spent some time working on it and finally realized that when the background is dark, shadow is not visible

Purpose of Unions in C and C++

The behaviour may be undefined, but that just means there isn't a "standard". All decent compilers offer #pragmas to control packing and alignment, but may have different defaults. The defaults will also change depending on the optimisation settings used.

Also, unions are not just for saving space. They can help modern compilers with type punning. If you reinterpret_cast<> everything the compiler can't make assumptions about what you are doing. It may have to throw away what it knows about your type and start again (forcing a write back to memory, which is very inefficient these days compared to CPU clock speed).

How do I retrieve a textbox value using JQuery?

Just Additional Info which took me long time to find.what if you were using the field name and not id for identifying the form field. You do it like this:

For radio button:

var inp= $('input:radio[name=PatientPreviouslyReceivedDrug]:checked').val();

For textbox:

var txt=$('input:text[name=DrugDurationLength]').val();

How to change Format of a Cell to Text using VBA

Well this should change your format to text.

Worksheets("Sheetname").Activate
Worksheets("SheetName").Columns(1).Select 'or Worksheets("SheetName").Range("A:A").Select
Selection.NumberFormat = "@"

Get current directory name (without full path) in a Bash script

Use the basename program. For your case:

% basename "$PWD"
bin

Java - How to create new Entry (key, value)

If you are using Clojure, you have another option:

(defn map-entry
  [k v]
  (clojure.lang.MapEntry/create k v))

How can I get the timezone name in JavaScript?

You can simply write your own code by using the mapping table here: http://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/

or, use moment-timezone library: http://momentjs.com/timezone/docs/

See zone.name; // America/Los_Angeles

or, this library: https://github.com/Canop/tzdetect.js

Placing border inside of div and not on its edge

If you use box-sizing: border-box means not only border, padding,margin, etc. All element will come inside of the parent element.

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    -webkit-box-sizing: border-box;_x000D_
    width: 150px;_x000D_
    height:100%;_x000D_
    border: 20px solid #f00;_x000D_
    background-color: #00f;_x000D_
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    padding: 10px;_x000D_
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Error 1053 the service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion

I had this problem, it took about a day to fix. For me the problem was that my code skipped the "main content" and effectively ran a couple of lines then finished. And this caused the error for me. It is a C# console application which installs a Windows Service, as soon as it tried to run it with the ServiceController (sc.Run() ) then it would give this error for me.

After I fixed the code to go to the main content, it would run the intended code:

ServiceBase.Run(new ServiceHost());

Then it stopped showing up.

As lots of people have already said, the error could be anything, and the solutions people provide may or may not solve it. If they don't solve it (like the Release instead of Debug, adding generatePublisherEvidence=false into your config, etc), then chances are that the problem is with your own code.

Try and get your code to run without using sc.Run() (i.e. make the code run that sc.Run() would have executed).

Redirecting Output from within Batch file

Adding the following lines at the bottom of your batch file will grab everything just as displayed inside the CMD window and export into a text file:

powershell -c "$wshell = New-Object -ComObject wscript.shell; $wshell.SendKeys('^a')
powershell -c "$wshell = New-Object -ComObject wscript.shell; $wshell.SendKeys('^c')
powershell Get-Clipboard > MyLog.txt

It basically performs a select all -> copy into clipboard -> paste into text file.

Best way to call a JSON WebService from a .NET Console

WebClient to fetch the contents from the remote url and JavaScriptSerializer or Json.NET to deserialize the JSON into a .NET object. For example you define a model class which will reflect the JSON structure and then:

using (var client = new WebClient())
{
    var json = client.DownloadString("http://example.com/json");
    var serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
    SomeModel model = serializer.Deserialize<SomeModel>(json);
    // TODO: do something with the model
}

There are also some REST client frameworks you may checkout such as RestSharp.

The backend version is not supported to design database diagrams or tables

You only get that message if you try to use Designer or diagrams. If you use t-SQL it works fine:

Select * 

into newdb.dbo.newtable
from olddb.dbo.yourtable

where olddb.dbo.yourtable has been created in 2008 exactly as you want the table to be in 2012

How do I instantiate a Queue object in java?

Queue is an interface; you can't explicitly construct a Queue. You'll have to instantiate one of its implementing classes. Something like:

Queue linkedList = new LinkedList();

Here's a link to the Java tutorial on this subject.

How can I add a table of contents to a Jupyter / JupyterLab notebook?

I recently created a small extension to Jupyter named jupyter-navbar. It searches for headers written in markdown cells, and displays links to them in the sidebar in a hierarchical fashion. The sidebar is resizable and collapsible. See screenshot below.

It is easy to install, and takes advantage of the 'custom' JS and CSS codes that get executed whenever a notebook is opened, so you don't need to manually run it.

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How to extract 1 screenshot for a video with ffmpeg at a given time?

Use the -ss option:

ffmpeg -ss 01:23:45 -i input -vframes 1 -q:v 2 output.jpg
  • For JPEG output use -q:v to control output quality. Full range is a linear scale of 1-31 where a lower value results in a higher quality. 2-5 is a good range to try.

  • The select filter provides an alternative method for more complex needs such as selecting only certain frame types, or 1 per 100, etc.

  • Placing -ss before the input will be faster. See FFmpeg Wiki: Seeking and this excerpt from the ffmpeg cli tool documentation:

-ss position (input/output)

When used as an input option (before -i), seeks in this input file to position. Note the in most formats it is not possible to seek exactly, so ffmpeg will seek to the closest seek point before position. When transcoding and -accurate_seek is enabled (the default), this extra segment between the seek point and position will be decoded and discarded. When doing stream copy or when -noaccurate_seek is used, it will be preserved.

When used as an output option (before an output filename), decodes but discards input until the timestamps reach position.

position may be either in seconds or in hh:mm:ss[.xxx] form.

Why does sed not replace all occurrences?

You should add the g modifier so that sed performs a global substitution of the contents of the pattern buffer:

echo dog dog dos | sed -e 's:dog:log:g'

For a fantastic documentation on sed, check http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html. This global flag is explained here: http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html#uh-6

The official documentation for GNU sed is available at http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/

wkhtmltopdf: cannot connect to X server

solution for Centos7:

yum -y install xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi \
               xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 \
&& rpm -Uvh http://download.gna.org/wkhtmltopdf/0.12/0.12.2.1/wkhtmltox-0.12.2.1_linux-centos7-amd64.rpm

We run into this problem inside docker containers and the above install has wkhtmltopdf with patched QT

The way to check a HDFS directory's size?

To get the size of the directory hdfs dfs -du -s -h /$yourDirectoryName can be used. hdfs dfsadmin -report can be used to see a quick cluster level storage report.

Program to find largest and second largest number in array

If you need to find the largest and second largest element in an existing array, see the answers above (Schwern's answer contains the approach I would've used).

However; needing to find the largest and second largest element in an existing array typically indicates a design flaw. Entire arrays don't magically appear - they come from somewhere, which means that the most efficient approach is to keep track of "current largest and current second largest" while the array is being created.

For example; for your original code the data is coming from the user; and by keeping track of "largest and second largest value that the user entered" inside of the loop that gets values from the user the overhead of tracking the information will be hidden by the time spent waiting for the user to press key/s, you no longer need to do a search afterwards while the user is waiting for results, and you no longer need an array at all.

It'd be like this:

int main() {
    int largest1 = 0, largest2 = 0, i, temp;

    printf("enter number of elements you want in array");
    scanf("%d", &n);
    printf("enter elements");
    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
        scanf("%d", &temp);
        if(temp >= largest1) {
            largest2 = largest1;
            largest1 = temp;
        } else if(temp > largest2) {
            largest2 = temp;
        }
    }
    printf("First and second largest number is %d and %d ", largest1, largest2);
}

Java and HTTPS url connection without downloading certificate

But why don't I have to install a certificate locally for the site?

Well the code that you are using is explicitly designed to accept the certificate without doing any checks whatsoever. This is not good practice ... but if that is what you want to do, then (obviously) there is no need to install a certificate that your code is explicitly ignoring.

Shouldn't I have to install a certificate locally and load it for this program or is it downloaded behind the covers?

No, and no. See above.

Is the traffic between the client to the remote site still encrypted in transmission?

Yes it is. However, the problem is that since you have told it to trust the server's certificate without doing any checks, you don't know if you are talking to the real server, or to some other site that is pretending to be the real server. Whether this is a problem depends on the circumstances.


If we used the browser as an example, typically a browser doesn't ask the user to explicitly install a certificate for each ssl site visited.

The browser has a set of trusted root certificates pre-installed. Most times, when you visit an "https" site, the browser can verify that the site's certificate is (ultimately, via the certificate chain) secured by one of those trusted certs. If the browser doesn't recognize the cert at the start of the chain as being a trusted cert (or if the certificates are out of date or otherwise invalid / inappropriate), then it will display a warning.

Java works the same way. The JVM's keystore has a set of trusted certificates, and the same process is used to check the certificate is secured by a trusted certificate.

Does the java https client api support some type of mechanism to download certificate information automatically?

No. Allowing applications to download certificates from random places, and install them (as trusted) in the system keystore would be a security hole.

Get only the date in timestamp in mysql

$date= new DateTime($row['your_date']) ;  
echo $date->format('Y-m-d');

Java - Check Not Null/Empty else assign default value

I know the question is really old, but with generics one can add a more generalized method with will work for all types.

public static <T> T getValueOrDefault(T value, T defaultValue) {
    return value == null ? defaultValue : value;
}

Lost connection to MySQL server during query?

Multiprocessing and Django DB don't play well together.

I ended up closing Django DB connection first thing in the new process.

So that one will have no references to the connection used by the parent.

from multiprocessing import Pool

multi_core_arg = [[1,2,3], [4,5,6], [7,8,9]]
n_cpu = 4
pool = Pool(n_cpu)
pool.map(_etl_, multi_core_arg)
pool.close()
pool.join()

def _etl_(x):
    from django.db import connection 
    connection.close() 
    print(x)

OR

Process.start() calls a function which starts with

Some other suggest to use

from multiprocessing.dummy import Pool as ThreadPool

It solved my (2013, Lost connection) problem, but thread use GIL, when doing IO, to will release it when IO finish.

Comparatively, Process spawn a group of workers that communication each other, which may be slower.

I recommend you to time it. A side tips is to use joblib which is backed by scikit-learn project. some performance result shows it out perform the native Pool().. although it leave the responsibility to coder to verify the true run time cost.

Table 'mysql.user' doesn't exist:ERROR

My solution was to run

mysql_upgrade -u root

Scenario: I updated the MySQL version on my Mac with 'homebrew upgrade'. Afterwards, some stuff worked, but other commands raised the error described in the question.

Set android shape color programmatically

My Kotlin extension function version based on answers above with Compat:

fun Drawable.overrideColor_Ext(context: Context, colorInt: Int) {
    val muted = this.mutate()
    when (muted) {
        is GradientDrawable -> muted.setColor(ContextCompat.getColor(context, colorInt))
        is ShapeDrawable -> muted.paint.setColor(ContextCompat.getColor(context, colorInt))
        is ColorDrawable -> muted.setColor(ContextCompat.getColor(context, colorInt))
        else -> Log.d("Tag", "Not a valid background type")
    }
}

How to program a fractal?

If complex numbers give you a headache, there is a broad range of fractals that can be formulated using an L-system. This requires a couple of layers interacting, but each is interesting in it own right.

First you need a turtle. Forward, Back, Left, Right, Pen-up, Pen-down. There are lots of fun shapes to be made with turtle graphics using turtle geometry even without an L-system driving it. Search for "LOGO graphics" or "Turtle graphics". A full LOGO system is in fact a Lisp programming environment using an unparenthesized Cambridge Polish syntax. But you don't have to go nearly that far to get some pretty pictures using the turtle concept.

Then you need a layer to execute an L-system. L-systems are related to Post-systems and Semi-Thue systems, and like virii, they straddle the border of Turing Completeness. The concept is string-rewriting. It can be implemented as a macro-expansion or a procedure set with extra controls to bound the recursion. If using macro-expansion (as in the example below), you will still need a procedure set to map symbols to turtle commands and a procedure to iterate through the string or array to run the encoded turtle program. For a bounded-recursion procedure set (eg.), you embed the turtle commands in the procedures and either add recursion-level checks to each procedure or factor it out to a handler function.

Here's an example of a Pythagoras' Tree in postscript using macro-expansion and a very abbreviated set of turtle commands. For some examples in python and mathematica, see my code golf challenge.

ps l-system pythagoras tree luser-droog

Git error: "Host Key Verification Failed" when connecting to remote repository

What worked for me was to first add my SSH key of the new computer, I followed these instructions from GitLab - add SSH key. Note that since I'm on Win10, I had to do all these commands in Git Bash on Windows (it didn't work in regular DOS cmd Shell).

Then again in Git Bash, I had to do a git clone of the repo that I had problems with, and in my case I had to clone it to a different name since I already had it locally and didn't want to lose my commits. For example

git clone ssh://git@gitServerUrl/myRepo.git myRepo2

Then I got the prompt to add it to known hosts list, the question might be this one:

Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?

I typed "yes" and it finally worked, you should typically get a message similar to this:

Warning: Permanently added '[your repo link]' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.

Note: if you are on Windows, make sure that you use Git Bash for all the commands, this did not work in regular cmd shell or powershell, I really had to do this in Git Bash.

Lastly I deleted the second clone repo (myRepo2 in the example) and went back to my first repo and I could finally do all the Git stuff like normal in my favorite editor VSCode.

How to create an 2D ArrayList in java?

The best way is to use a List within a List:

List<List<String>> listOfLists = new ArrayList<List<String>>();  

Move div to new line

I've found that you can move div elements to the next line simply by setting the property Display: block;

On each div.

jasmine: Async callback was not invoked within timeout specified by jasmine.DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_INTERVAL

Instead of

beforeEach(() => {..

use

beforeEach(fakeAsync(() => {..

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:

Unix - copy contents of one directory to another

Quite simple, with a * wildcard.

cp -r Folder1/* Folder2/

But according to your example recursion is not needed so the following will suffice:

cp Folder1/* Folder2/

EDIT:

Or skip the mkdir Folder2 part and just run:

cp -r Folder1 Folder2

UIImage resize (Scale proportion)

This fixes the math to scale to the max size in both width and height rather than just one depending on the width and height of the original.

- (UIImage *) scaleProportionalToSize: (CGSize)size
{
    float widthRatio = size.width/self.size.width;
    float heightRatio = size.height/self.size.height;

    if(widthRatio > heightRatio)
    {
        size=CGSizeMake(self.size.width*heightRatio,self.size.height*heightRatio);
    } else {
        size=CGSizeMake(self.size.width*widthRatio,self.size.height*widthRatio);
    }

    return [self scaleToSize:size];
}

RunAs A different user when debugging in Visual Studio

I'm using the following method based on @Watki02's answer:

  1. Shift r-click the application to debug
  2. Run as different user
  3. Attach the debugger to the application

That way you can keep your visual studio instance as your own user whilst debugging from the other.

How to list all Git tags?

git tag

should be enough. See git tag man page


You also have:

git tag -l <pattern>

List tags with names that match the given pattern (or all if no pattern is given).
Typing "git tag" without arguments, also lists all tags.


More recently ("How to sort git tags?", for Git 2.0+)

git tag --sort=<type>

Sort in a specific order.

Supported type is:

  • "refname" (lexicographic order),
  • "version:refname" or "v:refname" (tag names are treated as versions).

Prepend "-" to reverse sort order.


That lists both:

  • annotated tags: full objects stored in the Git database. They’re checksummed; contain the tagger name, e-mail, and date; have a tagging message; and can be signed and verified with GNU Privacy Guard (GPG).
  • lightweight tags: simple pointer to an existing commit

Note: the git ready article on tagging disapproves of lightweight tag.

Without arguments, git tag creates a “lightweight” tag that is basically a branch that never moves.
Lightweight tags are still useful though, perhaps for marking a known good (or bad) version, or a bunch of commits you may need to use in the future.
Nevertheless, you probably don’t want to push these kinds of tags.

Normally, you want to at least pass the -a option to create an unsigned tag, or sign the tag with your GPG key via the -s or -u options.


That being said, Charles Bailey points out that a 'git tag -m "..."' actually implies a proper (unsigned annotated) tag (option '-a'), and not a lightweight one. So you are good with your initial command.


This differs from:

git show-ref --tags -d

Which lists tags with their commits (see "Git Tag list, display commit sha1 hashes").
Note the -d in order to dereference the annotated tag object (which have their own commit SHA1) and display the actual tagged commit.

Similarly, git show --name-only <aTag> would list the tag and associated commit.

How to extract text from the PDF document?

I know that this topic is quite old, but this need is still alive. I read many documents, forum and script and build a new advanced one which supports compressed and uncompressed pdf :

https://gist.github.com/smalot/6183152

Hope it helps everone

How to iterate over array of objects in Handlebars?

I meant in the template() call..

You just need to pass the results as an object. So instead of calling

var html = template(data);

do

var html = template({apidata: data});

and use {{#each apidata}} in your template code

demo at http://jsfiddle.net/KPCh4/4/
(removed some leftover if code that crashed)

Find most frequent value in SQL column

For use with SQL Server.

As there is no limit command support in that.

Yo can use the top 1 command to find the maximum occurring value in the particular column in this case (value)

SELECT top1 
    `value`,
    COUNT(`value`) AS `value_occurrence` 
FROM     
    `my_table`
GROUP BY 
    `value`
ORDER BY 
    `value_occurrence` DESC;

Nesting optgroups in a dropdownlist/select

I have written a beautiful, nested select. Maybe it will help you.

https://jsfiddle.net/nomorepls/tg13w5r7/1/

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function on_change_select(e) {
  alert(e.value, e.title, e.option, e.select);
}

$(document).ready(() => {
  // NESTED SELECT

  $(document).on('click', '.nested-cell', function() {
    $(this).next('div').toggle('medium');
  });

  $(document).on('change', 'input[name="nested-select-hidden-radio"]', function() {
    const parent = $(this).closest(".nested-select");
    const value = $(this).attr('value');
    const title = $(this).attr('title');
    const executer = parent.attr('executer');
    if (executer) {
      const event = new Object();
      event.value = value;
      event.title = title;
      event.option = $(this);
      event.select = parent;
      window[executer].apply(null, [event]);
    }
    parent.attr('value', value);
    parent.parent().slideToggle();
    const button = parent.parent().prev();
    button.toggleClass('active');
    button.addClass('selected');
    button.children('.nested-select-title').html(title);
  });

  $(document).on('click', '.nested-select-button', function() {
    const button = $(this);
    let select = button.parent().children('.nested-select-wrapper');

    if (!button.hasClass('active')) {
      select = select.detach();
      if (button.height() + button.offset().top + $(window).height() * 0.4 > $(window).height()) {
        select.insertBefore(button);
        select.css('margin-top', '-44vh');
        select.css('top', '0');
      } else {
        select.insertAfter(button);
        select.css('margin-top', '');
        select.css('top', '40px');
      }
    }
    select.slideToggle();
    button.toggleClass('active');
  });
});
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.container {
  width: 200px;
  position: relative;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
  height: auto;
}

.nested-select-box {
  font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
  display: block;
  position: relative;
  width: 100%;
  height: fit-content;
  cursor: pointer;
  color: #2196f3;
  height: 40px;
  font-size: small;
  /* z-index: 2000; */
}

.nested-select-box .nested-select-button {
  border: 1px solid #2196f3;
  position: absolute;
  width: calc(100% - 20px);
  padding: 0 10px;
  min-height: 40px;
  word-wrap: break-word;
  margin: 0 auto;
  overflow: hidden;
}

.nested-select-box.danger .nested-select-button {
  border: 1px solid rgba(250, 33, 33, 0.678);
}

.nested-select-box .nested-select-button .nested-select-title {
  padding-right: 25px;
  padding-left: 25px;
  width: calc(100% - 50px);
  margin: auto;
  height: fit-content;
  text-align: center;
  vertical-align: middle;
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  left: 0;
}

.nested-select-box .nested-select-button.selected .nested-select-title {
  bottom: unset;
  top: 5px;
}

.nested-select-box .nested-select-button .nested-select-title-icon {
  position: absolute;
  height: 20px;
  width: 20px;
  top: 10px;
  bottom: 10px;
  right: 7px;
  transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;
}

.nested-select-box .nested-select-button.active .nested-select-title-icon {
  -moz-transform: scale(-1, -1);
  -o-transform: scale(-1, -1);
  -webkit-transform: scale(-1, -1);
  transform: scale(-1, -1);
}

.nested-select-box .nested-select-button .nested-select-title-icon::before,
.nested-select-box .nested-select-button .nested-select-title-icon::after {
  content: "";
  background-color: #2196f3;
  position: absolute;
  width: 70%;
  height: 2px;
  transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;
  top: 9px;
}

.nested-select-box .nested-select-button .nested-select-title-icon::before {
  transform: rotate(45deg);
  left: -1.6px;
}

.nested-select-box .nested-select-button .nested-select-title-icon::after {
  transform: rotate(-45deg);
  left: 7px;
}

.nested-select-box .nested-select-wrapper {
  width: 100%;
  top: 40px;
  position: relative;
  border: 1px solid #2196f3;
  background: #ffffff;
  z-index: 2005;
  opacity: 1;
}

.nested-select {
  font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
  display: inline-block;
  overflow-y: scroll;
  max-height: 40vh;
  width: calc(100% - 10px);
  padding: 5px;
  -ms-overflow-style: none;
  scrollbar-width: none;
}

.nested-select::-webkit-scrollbar {
  display: none;
}

.nested-select a,
.nested-select span {
  padding: 0 5px;
  border-radius: 3px;
  cursor: pointer;
  text-align: start;
}

.nested-select a:hover {
  background-color: #62b2f3;
  color: #ffffff;
}

.nested-select span:hover {
  background-color: #c4c4c4;
  color: #ffffff;
}

.nested-select input[type="radio"] {
  display: none;
}

.nested-select input[type="radio"]+span {
  display: block;
}

.nested-select input[type="radio"]:checked+span {
  background-color: #2196f3;
  color: #ffffff;
}

.nested-select div {
  margin-left: 15px;
}

.nested-select label>span:before,
.nested-select a:before {
  content: "\2022";
  margin-right: 5px;
}

.nested-select a {
  display: block;
}
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<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="container">
  <div class="nested-select-box w-100">
    <div class="nested-select-button">
      <p class="nested-select-title">
        Account
      </p>
      <span class="nested-select-title-icon"></span>
    </div>
    <div class="nested-select-wrapper" style="display: none;">
      <div class="nested-select" executer="on_change_select">

        <label>
        <input title="Accounting and legal services" value="1565142000000891539" type="radio" name="nested-select-hidden-radio">
        <span>Accounting and legal services</span>
      </label>



        <label>
        <input title="Advertising agencies" value="1565142000000891341" type="radio" name="nested-select-hidden-radio">
        <span>Advertising agencies</span>
      </label>



        <a class="nested-cell">Advertising And Marketing</a>
        <div>



          <label>
          <input title="Advertising agencies" value="1565142000000891341" type="radio" name="nested-select-hidden-radio">
          <span>Advertising agencies</span>
        </label>



          <a class="nested-cell">Adwords - traffic</a>
          <div>



            <label>
            <input title="Adwords - traffic: Charters and general search" value="1565142000003929177" type="radio" name="nested-select-hidden-radio">
            <span>Adwords - traffic: Charters and general search</span>
          </label>



            <label>
            <input title="Adwords - traffic: Distance course" value="1565142000007821291" type="radio" name="nested-select-hidden-radio">
            <span>Adwords - traffic: Distance course</span>
          </label>



            <label>
            <input title="Adwords - traffic: Events" value="1565142000003929189" type="radio" name="nested-select-hidden-radio">
            <span>Adwords - traffic: Events</span>
          </label>



            <label>
            <input title="Adwords - traffic: Practices" value="1565142000003929165" type="radio" name="nested-select-hidden-radio">
            <span>Adwords - traffic: Practices</span>
          </label>



            <label>
            <input title="Adwords - traffic: Sailing tours" value="1565142000003929183" type="radio" name="nested-select-hidden-radio">
            <span>Adwords - traffic: Sailing tours</span>
          </label>



            <label>
            <input title="Adwords - traffic: Theoretical courses" value="1565142000003929171" type="radio" name="nested-select-hidden-radio">
            <span>Adwords - traffic: Theoretical courses</span>
          </label>



          </div>



          <label>
          <input title="Branded products" value="1565142000000891533" type="radio" name="nested-select-hidden-radio">
          <span>Branded products</span>
        </label>



          <label>
          <input title="Business cards" value="1565142000005438323" type="radio" name="nested-select-hidden-radio">
          <span>Business cards</span>
        </label>



          <a class="nested-cell">Facebook, Instagram - traffic</a>
          <div>



            <label>
            <input title="Facebook, Instagram - traffic: Charters and general search" value="1565142000003929145" type="radio" name="nested-select-hidden-radio">
            <span>Facebook, Instagram - traffic: Charters and general search</span>
          </label>



            <label>
            <input title="Facebook, Instagram - traffic: Distance course" value="1565142000007821285" type="radio" name="nested-select-hidden-radio">
            <span>Facebook, Instagram - traffic: Distance course</span>
          </label>



            <label>
            <input title="Facebook, Instagram - traffic: Events" value="1565142000003929157" type="radio" name="nested-select-hidden-radio">
            <span>Facebook, Instagram - traffic: Events</span>
          </label>



            <label>
            <input title="Facebook, Instagram - traffic: Practices" value="1565142000003929133" type="radio" name="nested-select-hidden-radio">
            <span>Facebook, Instagram - traffic: Practices</span>
          </label>



            <label>
            <input title="Facebook, Instagram - traffic: Sailing tours" value="1565142000003929151" type="radio" name="nested-select-hidden-radio">
            <span>Facebook, Instagram - traffic: Sailing tours</span>
          </label>



            <label>
            <input title="Facebook, Instagram - traffic: Theoretical courses" value="1565142000003929139" type="radio" name="nested-select-hidden-radio">
            <span>Facebook, Instagram - traffic: Theoretical courses</span>
          </label>



          </div>



          <label>
          <input title="Offline Advertising (posters, banners, partnerships)" value="1565142000000891377" type="radio" name="nested-select-hidden-radio">
          <span>Offline Advertising (posters, banners, partnerships)</span>
        </label>



          <label>
          <input title="Photos, video etc." value="1565142000000891371" type="radio" name="nested-select-hidden-radio">
          <span>Photos, video etc.</span>
        </label>



          <label>
          <input title="Prize fund" value="1565142000001404931" type="radio" name="nested-select-hidden-radio">
          <span>Prize fund</span>
        </label>



          <label>
          <input title="SEO" value="1565142000000891365" type="radio" name="nested-select-hidden-radio">
          <span>SEO</span>
        </label>



          <label>
          <input title="SMM Content creation (texts, copywriting)" value="1565142000000891389" type="radio" name="nested-select-hidden-radio">
          <span>SMM Content creation (texts, copywriting)</span>
        </label>



          <a class="nested-cell">YouTube</a>
          <div>



            <label>
            <input title="YouTube: travel expenses" value="1565142000008100163" type="radio" name="nested-select-hidden-radio">
            <span>YouTube: travel expenses</span>
          </label>



            <label>
            <input title="Youtube: video editing" value="1565142000008100157" type="radio" name="nested-select-hidden-radio">
            <span>Youtube: video editing</span>
          </label>



          </div>



        </div>

      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>
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graphing an equation with matplotlib

This is because in line

graph(x**3+2*x-4, range(-10, 11))

x is not defined.

The easiest way is to pass the function you want to plot as a string and use eval to evaluate it as an expression.

So your code with minimal modifications will be

import numpy as np  
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt  
def graph(formula, x_range):  
    x = np.array(x_range)  
    y = eval(formula)
    plt.plot(x, y)  
    plt.show()

and you can call it as

graph('x**3+2*x-4', range(-10, 11))

Running Node.Js on Android

Dory - node.js

Great New Application
No Need to root your Phone and You Can Run your js File From anywere.

  • node.js runtime(run ES2015/ES6, ES2016 javascript and node.js APIs in android)
  • API Documents and instant code run from doc
  • syntax highlighting code editor
  • npm supports
  • linux terminal(toybox 0.7.4). node.js REPL and npm command in shell (add '--no-bin-links' option if you execute npm in /sdcard)
  • StartOnBoot / LiveReload
  • native node.js binary and npm are included. no need to be online.

Update instruction to node js 8 (async await)

  1. Download node.js v8.3.0 arm zip file and unzip.

  2. copy 'node' to android's sdcard(/sdcard or /sdcard/path/to/...)

  3. open the shell(check it out in the app's menu)

  4. cd /data/user/0/io.tmpage.dorynode/files/bin (or, just type cd && cd .. && cd files/bin )

  5. rm node

  6. cp /sdcard/node .

  7. (chmod a+x node

(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.tempage.dorynode&hl=en)

What is the difference between public, protected, package-private and private in Java?

private-protected-public-perfect-analogy-for-the-variable-data-types

Following block diagram explain how data members of base class are inherited when derived class access mode is private.

enter image description here

Note: Declaring data members with private access specifier is known as data hiding.

Source : Access Specifiers – Private, Public and Protected

What is a stack trace, and how can I use it to debug my application errors?

To understand the name: A stack trace is a a list of Exceptions( or you can say a list of "Cause by"), from the most surface Exception(e.g. Service Layer Exception) to the deepest one (e.g. Database Exception). Just like the reason we call it 'stack' is because stack is First in Last out (FILO), the deepest exception was happened in the very beginning, then a chain of exception was generated a series of consequences, the surface Exception was the last one happened in time, but we see it in the first place.

Key 1:A tricky and important thing here need to be understand is : the deepest cause may not be the "root cause", because if you write some "bad code", it may cause some exception underneath which is deeper than its layer. For example, a bad sql query may cause SQLServerException connection reset in the bottem instead of syndax error, which may just in the middle of the stack.

-> Locate the root cause in the middle is your job. enter image description here

Key 2:Another tricky but important thing is inside each "Cause by" block, the first line was the deepest layer and happen first place for this block. For instance,

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.example.myproject.Book.getTitle(Book.java:16)
           at com.example.myproject.Author.getBookTitles(Author.java:25)
               at com.example.myproject.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:14)

Book.java:16 was called by Auther.java:25 which was called by Bootstrap.java:14, Book.java:16 was the root cause. Here attach a diagram sort the trace stack in chronological order. enter image description here

SSH to AWS Instance without key pairs

Recently, AWS added a feature called Sessions Manager to the Systems Manager service that allows one to SSH into an instance without needing to setup a private key or opening up port 22. I believe authentication is done with IAM and optionally MFA.

You can find out more about it here:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-session-manager/

Immutable array in Java

There is one way to make an immutable array in Java:

final String[] IMMUTABLE = new String[0];

Arrays with 0 elements (obviously) cannot be mutated.

This can actually come in handy if you are using the List.toArray method to convert a List to an array. Since even an empty array takes up some memory, you can save that memory allocation by creating a constant empty array, and always passing it to the toArray method. That method will allocate a new array if the array you pass doesn't have enough space, but if it does (the list is empty), it will return the array you passed, allowing you to reuse that array any time you call toArray on an empty List.

final static String[] EMPTY_STRING_ARRAY = new String[0];

List<String> emptyList = new ArrayList<String>();
return emptyList.toArray(EMPTY_STRING_ARRAY); // returns EMPTY_STRING_ARRAY

Generate a Hash from string in Javascript

I'm a bit surprised nobody has talked about the new SubtleCrypto API yet.

To get an hash from a string, you can use the subtle.digest method :

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  let strBuf = new TextEncoder('utf-8').encode(str);_x000D_
  return crypto.subtle.digest(algo, strBuf)_x000D_
    .then(hash => {_x000D_
      window.hash = hash;_x000D_
      // here hash is an arrayBuffer, _x000D_
      // so we'll connvert it to its hex version_x000D_
      let result = '';_x000D_
      const view = new DataView(hash);_x000D_
      for (let i = 0; i < hash.byteLength; i += 4) {_x000D_
        result += ('00000000' + view.getUint32(i).toString(16)).slice(-8);_x000D_
      }_x000D_
      return result;_x000D_
    });_x000D_
}_x000D_
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getHash('hello world')_x000D_
  .then(hash => {_x000D_
    console.log(hash);_x000D_
  });
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Calling a function in jQuery with click()

$("#closeLink").click(closeIt);

Let's say you want to call your function passing some args to it i.e., closeIt(1, false). Then, you should build an anonymous function and call closeIt from it.

$("#closeLink").click(function() {
    closeIt(1, false);
});

jQuery UI dialog box not positioned center screen

Digging up an old grave here but for new Google searchers.

You can maintain the position of the model window when the users scrolls by adding this event to your dialog. This will change it from absolutely positioned to fixed. No need to monitor scrolling events.

open: function(event, ui) {
    $(this).parent().css('position', 'fixed');
}

How to add 20 minutes to a current date?

Add it in milliseconds:

var currentDate = new Date();
var twentyMinutesLater = new Date(currentDate.getTime() + (20 * 60 * 1000));

How to search for an element in an stl list?

You use std::find from <algorithm>, which works equally well for std::list and std::vector. std::vector does not have its own search/find function.

#include <list>
#include <algorithm>

int main()
{
    std::list<int> ilist;
    ilist.push_back(1);
    ilist.push_back(2);
    ilist.push_back(3);

    std::list<int>::iterator findIter = std::find(ilist.begin(), ilist.end(), 1);
}

Note that this works for built-in types like int as well as standard library types like std::string by default because they have operator== provided for them. If you are using using std::find on a container of a user-defined type, you should overload operator== to allow std::find to work properly: EqualityComparable concept

How to edit an Android app?

Generally speaking, a software product isn't your "property already", as you said in the comment. Most of the times (I won't be irresponsible to say anything in open), it's licensed to you. A license to use some thing is not the same thing as owning (property rights) that very same thing.

That's because there are authorship, copyright, intellectual property rights applicable to it. I don't know how things work in United States (or in your country), but it's generally accepted that the work of a mind, a creative work, must not be changed in its nature as such to make the expression of art to be different than that expression that the author intended. That applies for example, in some cases, to architectural work (in most countries, you can't change the appearance of a building to "desfigure" the work of art of the architect, without his prior consent). Exceptions are made, obviously, when the author expressly authorizes such changes (e.g., Creative Commons licenses, open source licenses etc.).

Anyway, that's why you see in most EULAs the typical sentence: "this software is licensed, not sold". That's the purpose and reason why.

Now that you understand the reasons why you can't wander around changing other people's art, let me be technical.

There are possible ways to decompile Java programs. You can use dex2jar, it provides a somewhat good start for you to start looking for things and changes. And perhaps rebuild the code by mounting back the pieces together. Good luck, as most people obfuscate their codes to make that harder.

However, let me say that it's still forbidden to change programs, as I said above. And it's extremely unethical. It makes me sad that people do that with no scruples (not saying it's your case, just warning you). It shouldn't need people to be at the other side to understand that. Or maybe that's just me, who lives in a country where piracy is rampant.

The tools are always out there. But the conscience, unfortunately, not always.

edit: in case it isn't clear enough already, I do NOT approve the use of these programs. I use them myself to check how hard my own applications are to be reverse engineered. But I also think that explaning is always better than denial (better be here).

In VBA get rid of the case sensitivity when comparing words?

It is a bit of hack but will do the task.

Function equalsIgnoreCase(str1 As String, str2 As String) As Boolean
    equalsIgnoreCase = LCase(str1) = LCase(str2)
End Function

How to create composite primary key in SQL Server 2008

create table my_table (
     column_a integer not null,
     column_b integer not null,
     column_c varchar(50),
     primary key (column_a, column_b)
);

Shell script to get the process ID on Linux

Its pretty simple. Simply Run Any Program like this :- x= gedit & echo $! this will give you PID of this process. then do this kill -9 $x

Static methods in Python?

Perhaps the simplest option is just to put those functions outside of the class:

class Dog(object):
    def __init__(self, name):
        self.name = name

    def bark(self):
        if self.name == "Doggy":
            return barking_sound()
        else:
            return "yip yip"

def barking_sound():
    return "woof woof"

Using this method, functions which modify or use internal object state (have side effects) can be kept in the class, and the reusable utility functions can be moved outside.

Let's say this file is called dogs.py. To use these, you'd call dogs.barking_sound() instead of dogs.Dog.barking_sound.

If you really need a static method to be part of the class, you can use the staticmethod decorator.

How to save SELECT sql query results in an array in C# Asp.net

Normally i use a class for this:

public class ClassName
{
    public string Col1 { get; set; }
    public int Col2 { get; set; }
}

Now you can use a loop to fill a list and ToArray if you really need an array:

ClassName[] allRecords = null;
string sql = @"SELECT col1,col2
               FROM  some table";
using (var command = new SqlCommand(sql, con))
{
    con.Open();
    using (var reader = command.ExecuteReader())
    {
        var list = new List<ClassName>();
        while (reader.Read())
            list.Add(new ClassName { Col1 = reader.GetString(0), Col2 = reader.GetInt32(1) });
        allRecords = list.ToArray();
    }
}

Note that i've presumed that the first column is a string and the second an integer. Just to demonstrate that C# is typesafe and how you use the DataReader.GetXY methods.

Allow Access-Control-Allow-Origin header using HTML5 fetch API

I know this is an older post, but I found what worked for me to fix this error was using the IP address of my server instead of using the domain name within my fetch request. So for example:

#(original) var request = new Request('https://davidwalsh.name/demo/arsenal.json');
#use IP instead
var request = new Request('https://0.0.0.0/demo/arsenal.json');

fetch(request).then(function(response) {
    // Convert to JSON
    return response.json();
}).then(function(j) {
    // Yay, `j` is a JavaScript object
    console.log(JSON.stringify(j));
}).catch(function(error) {
    console.log('Request failed', error)
});

The difference between sys.stdout.write and print?

It is preferable when dynamic printing is useful, for instance, to give information in a long process:

import time, sys
Iterations = 555
for k in range(Iterations+1):

    # Some code to execute here ...

    percentage = k / Iterations
    time_msg = "\rRunning Progress at {0:.2%} ".format(percentage)
    sys.stdout.write(time_msg)
    sys.stdout.flush()
    time.sleep(0.01)

changing textbox border colour using javascript

document.getElementById("fName").style.border="1px solid black";

How do I fix the indentation of selected lines in Visual Studio

I like Ctrl+K, Ctrl+D, which indents the whole document.

jQuery select by attribute using AND and OR operators

The and operator in a selector is just an empty string, and the or operator is the comma.

There is however no grouping or priority, so you have to repeat one of the conditions:

a=$('[myc=blue][myid="1"],[myc=blue][myid="3"]');

Detect IE version (prior to v9) in JavaScript

Detect IE in JS using conditional comments

// ----------------------------------------------------------
// A short snippet for detecting versions of IE in JavaScript
// without resorting to user-agent sniffing
// ----------------------------------------------------------
// If you're not in IE (or IE version is less than 5) then:
//     ie === undefined
// If you're in IE (>=5) then you can determine which version:
//     ie === 7; // IE7
// Thus, to detect IE:
//     if (ie) {}
// And to detect the version:
//     ie === 6 // IE6
//     ie > 7 // IE8, IE9 ...
//     ie < 9 // Anything less than IE9
// ----------------------------------------------------------

// UPDATE: Now using Live NodeList idea from @jdalton

var ie = (function(){

    var undef,
        v = 3,
        div = document.createElement('div'),
        all = div.getElementsByTagName('i');

    while (
        div.innerHTML = '<!--[if gt IE ' + (++v) + ']><i></i><![endif]-->',
        all[0]
    );

    return v > 4 ? v : undef;

}());

List<T> or IList<T>

A principle of TDD and OOP generally is programming to an interface not an implementation.

In this specific case since you're essentially talking about a language construct, not a custom one it generally won't matter, but say for example that you found List didn't support something you needed. If you had used IList in the rest of the app you could extend List with your own custom class and still be able to pass that around without refactoring.

The cost to do this is minimal, why not save yourself the headache later? It's what the interface principle is all about.

check if jquery has been loaded, then load it if false

Try this :

<script>
  window.jQuery || document.write('<script src="js/jquery.min.js"><\/script>')
</script>

This checks if jQuery is available or not, if not it will add one dynamically from path specified.

Ref: Simulate an "include_once" for jQuery

OR

include_once equivalent for js. Ref: https://raw.github.com/kvz/phpjs/master/functions/language/include_once.js

function include_once (filename) {
  // http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net
  // +   original by: Legaev Andrey
  // +   improved by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
  // +   improved by: Michael White (http://getsprink.com)
  // +      input by: Brett Zamir (http://brett-zamir.me)
  // +   bugfixed by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
  // +   bugfixed by: Brett Zamir (http://brett-zamir.me)
  // -    depends on: include
  // %        note 1: Uses global: php_js to keep track of included files (though private static variable in namespaced version)
  // *     example 1: include_once('http://www.phpjs.org/js/phpjs/_supporters/pj_test_supportfile_2.js');
  // *     returns 1: true
  var cur_file = {};
  cur_file[this.window.location.href] = 1;

  // BEGIN STATIC
  try { // We can't try to access on window, since it might not exist in some environments, and if we use "this.window"
    //    we risk adding another copy if different window objects are associated with the namespaced object
    php_js_shared; // Will be private static variable in namespaced version or global in non-namespaced
    //   version since we wish to share this across all instances
  } catch (e) {
    php_js_shared = {};
  }
  // END STATIC
  if (!php_js_shared.includes) {
    php_js_shared.includes = cur_file;
  }
  if (!php_js_shared.includes[filename]) {
    if (this.include(filename)) {
      return true;
    }
  } else {
    return true;
  }
  return false;
}

Delete commit on gitlab

We've had similar problem and it was not enough to only remove commit and force push to GitLab.
It was still available in GitLab interface using url:

https://gitlab.example.com/<group>/<project>/commit/<commit hash>

We've had to remove project from GitLab and recreate it to get rid of this commit in GitLab UI.

How to fix ReferenceError: primordials is not defined in node

I was also getting error on Node 12/13 with Gulp 3, moving to Node 11 worked.

Including another class in SCSS

Looks like @mixin and @include are not needed for a simple case like this.

One can just do:

.myclass {
  font-weight: bold;
  font-size: 90px;
}

.myotherclass {
  @extend .myclass;
  color: #000000;
}

Git keeps prompting me for a password

This happened to me when I upgraded to macOS v10.12 (Sierra). Looks like the SSH agent got cleared upon upgrade.

$ ssh-add -L
The agent has no identities.

Simply running ssh-add located my existing identity. I entered the password and was good to go again.

How to link to a <div> on another page?

Create an anchor:

<a name="anchor" id="anchor"></a> 

then link to it:

<a href="http://server/page.html#anchor">Link text</a>

Ignore invalid self-signed ssl certificate in node.js with https.request?

Adding to @Armand answer:

Add the following environment variable:

NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0 e.g. with export:

export NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0 (with great thanks to Juanra)

If you on windows usage:

set NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0

Thanks to: @weagle08

How to enable back/left swipe gesture in UINavigationController after setting leftBarButtonItem?

it works for me Swift 3:

    func gestureRecognizer(_ gestureRecognizer: UIGestureRecognizer, shouldBeRequiredToFailBy otherGestureRecognizer: UIGestureRecognizer) -> Bool {
        return true
    }

and in ViewDidLoad:

    self.navigationController?.interactivePopGestureRecognizer?.delegate = self
    self.navigationController?.interactivePopGestureRecognizer?.isEnabled = true

how to read a long multiline string line by line in python

What about using .splitlines()?

for line in textData.splitlines():
    print(line)
    lineResult = libLAPFF.parseLine(line)

IOException: The process cannot access the file 'file path' because it is being used by another process

The error indicates another process is trying to access the file. Maybe you or someone else has it open while you are attempting to write to it. "Read" or "Copy" usually doesn't cause this, but writing to it or calling delete on it would.

There are some basic things to avoid this, as other answers have mentioned:

  1. In FileStream operations, place it in a using block with a FileShare.ReadWrite mode of access.

    For example:

    using (FileStream stream = File.Open(path, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.ReadWrite))
    {
    }
    

    Note that FileAccess.ReadWrite is not possible if you use FileMode.Append.

  2. I ran across this issue when I was using an input stream to do a File.SaveAs when the file was in use. In my case I found, I didn't actually need to save it back to the file system at all, so I ended up just removing that, but I probably could've tried creating a FileStream in a using statement with FileAccess.ReadWrite, much like the code above.

  3. Saving your data as a different file and going back to delete the old one when it is found to be no longer in use, then renaming the one that saved successfully to the name of the original one is an option. How you test for the file being in use is accomplished through the

    List<Process> lstProcs = ProcessHandler.WhoIsLocking(file);
    

    line in my code below, and could be done in a Windows service, on a loop, if you have a particular file you want to watch and delete regularly when you want to replace it. If you don't always have the same file, a text file or database table could be updated that the service always checks for file names, and then performs that check for processes & subsequently performs the process kills and deletion on it, as I describe in the next option. Note that you'll need an account user name and password that has Admin privileges on the given computer, of course, to perform the deletion and ending of processes.

  4. When you don't know if a file will be in use when you are trying to save it, you can close all processes that could be using it, like Word, if it's a Word document, ahead of the save.

    If it is local, you can do this:

    ProcessHandler.localProcessKill("winword.exe");
    

    If it is remote, you can do this:

    ProcessHandler.remoteProcessKill(computerName, txtUserName, txtPassword, "winword.exe");
    

    where txtUserName is in the form of DOMAIN\user.

  5. Let's say you don't know the process name that is locking the file. Then, you can do this:

    List<Process> lstProcs = new List<Process>();
    lstProcs = ProcessHandler.WhoIsLocking(file);
    
    foreach (Process p in lstProcs)
    {
        if (p.MachineName == ".")
            ProcessHandler.localProcessKill(p.ProcessName);
        else
            ProcessHandler.remoteProcessKill(p.MachineName, txtUserName, txtPassword, p.ProcessName);
    }
    

    Note that file must be the UNC path: \\computer\share\yourdoc.docx in order for the Process to figure out what computer it's on and p.MachineName to be valid.

    Below is the class these functions use, which requires adding a reference to System.Management. The code was originally written by Eric J.:

    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.Linq;
    using System.Text;
    using System.Threading.Tasks;
    using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
    using System.Diagnostics;
    using System.Management;
    
    namespace MyProject
    {
        public static class ProcessHandler
        {
            [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
            struct RM_UNIQUE_PROCESS
            {
                public int dwProcessId;
                public System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComTypes.FILETIME ProcessStartTime;
            }
    
            const int RmRebootReasonNone = 0;
            const int CCH_RM_MAX_APP_NAME = 255;
            const int CCH_RM_MAX_SVC_NAME = 63;
    
            enum RM_APP_TYPE
            {
                RmUnknownApp = 0,
                RmMainWindow = 1,
                RmOtherWindow = 2,
                RmService = 3,
                RmExplorer = 4,
                RmConsole = 5,
                RmCritical = 1000
            }
    
            [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential, CharSet = CharSet.Unicode)]
            struct RM_PROCESS_INFO
            {
                public RM_UNIQUE_PROCESS Process;
    
                [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValTStr, SizeConst = CCH_RM_MAX_APP_NAME + 1)]
                public string strAppName;
    
                [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.ByValTStr, SizeConst = CCH_RM_MAX_SVC_NAME + 1)]
                public string strServiceShortName;
    
                public RM_APP_TYPE ApplicationType;
                public uint AppStatus;
                public uint TSSessionId;
                [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)]
                public bool bRestartable;
            }
    
            [DllImport("rstrtmgr.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode)]
            static extern int RmRegisterResources(uint pSessionHandle,
                                                UInt32 nFiles,
                                                string[] rgsFilenames,
                                                UInt32 nApplications,
                                                [In] RM_UNIQUE_PROCESS[] rgApplications,
                                                UInt32 nServices,
                                                string[] rgsServiceNames);
    
            [DllImport("rstrtmgr.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
            static extern int RmStartSession(out uint pSessionHandle, int dwSessionFlags, string strSessionKey);
    
            [DllImport("rstrtmgr.dll")]
            static extern int RmEndSession(uint pSessionHandle);
    
            [DllImport("rstrtmgr.dll")]
            static extern int RmGetList(uint dwSessionHandle,
                                        out uint pnProcInfoNeeded,
                                        ref uint pnProcInfo,
                                        [In, Out] RM_PROCESS_INFO[] rgAffectedApps,
                                        ref uint lpdwRebootReasons);
    
            /// <summary>
            /// Find out what process(es) have a lock on the specified file.
            /// </summary>
            /// <param name="path">Path of the file.</param>
            /// <returns>Processes locking the file</returns>
            /// <remarks>See also:
            /// http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa373661(v=vs.85).aspx
            /// http://wyupdate.googlecode.com/svn-history/r401/trunk/frmFilesInUse.cs (no copyright in code at time of viewing)
            /// 
            /// </remarks>
            static public List<Process> WhoIsLocking(string path)
            {
                uint handle;
                string key = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
                List<Process> processes = new List<Process>();
    
                int res = RmStartSession(out handle, 0, key);
                if (res != 0) throw new Exception("Could not begin restart session.  Unable to determine file locker.");
    
                try
                {
                    const int ERROR_MORE_DATA = 234;
                    uint pnProcInfoNeeded = 0,
                        pnProcInfo = 0,
                        lpdwRebootReasons = RmRebootReasonNone;
    
                    string[] resources = new string[] { path }; // Just checking on one resource.
    
                    res = RmRegisterResources(handle, (uint)resources.Length, resources, 0, null, 0, null);
    
                    if (res != 0) throw new Exception("Could not register resource.");
    
                    //Note: there's a race condition here -- the first call to RmGetList() returns
                    //      the total number of process. However, when we call RmGetList() again to get
                    //      the actual processes this number may have increased.
                    res = RmGetList(handle, out pnProcInfoNeeded, ref pnProcInfo, null, ref lpdwRebootReasons);
    
                    if (res == ERROR_MORE_DATA)
                    {
                        // Create an array to store the process results
                        RM_PROCESS_INFO[] processInfo = new RM_PROCESS_INFO[pnProcInfoNeeded];
                        pnProcInfo = pnProcInfoNeeded;
    
                        // Get the list
                        res = RmGetList(handle, out pnProcInfoNeeded, ref pnProcInfo, processInfo, ref lpdwRebootReasons);
                        if (res == 0)
                        {
                            processes = new List<Process>((int)pnProcInfo);
    
                            // Enumerate all of the results and add them to the 
                            // list to be returned
                            for (int i = 0; i < pnProcInfo; i++)
                            {
                                try
                                {
                                    processes.Add(Process.GetProcessById(processInfo[i].Process.dwProcessId));
                                }
                                // catch the error -- in case the process is no longer running
                                catch (ArgumentException) { }
                            }
                        }
                        else throw new Exception("Could not list processes locking resource.");
                    }
                    else if (res != 0) throw new Exception("Could not list processes locking resource. Failed to get size of result.");
                }
                finally
                {
                    RmEndSession(handle);
                }
    
                return processes;
            }
    
            public static void remoteProcessKill(string computerName, string userName, string pword, string processName)
            {
                var connectoptions = new ConnectionOptions();
                connectoptions.Username = userName;
                connectoptions.Password = pword;
    
                ManagementScope scope = new ManagementScope(@"\\" + computerName + @"\root\cimv2", connectoptions);
    
                // WMI query
                var query = new SelectQuery("select * from Win32_process where name = '" + processName + "'");
    
                using (var searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(scope, query))
                {
                    foreach (ManagementObject process in searcher.Get()) 
                    {
                        process.InvokeMethod("Terminate", null);
                        process.Dispose();
                    }
                }            
            }
    
            public static void localProcessKill(string processName)
            {
                foreach (Process p in Process.GetProcessesByName(processName))
                {
                    p.Kill();
                }
            }
    
            [DllImport("kernel32.dll")]
            public static extern bool MoveFileEx(string lpExistingFileName, string lpNewFileName, int dwFlags);
    
            public const int MOVEFILE_DELAY_UNTIL_REBOOT = 0x4;
    
        }
    }
    

Convert tuple to list and back

You have a tuple of tuples.
To convert every tuple to a list:

[list(i) for i in level] # list of lists

--- OR ---

map(list, level)

And after you are done editing, just convert them back:

tuple(tuple(i) for i in edited) # tuple of tuples

--- OR --- (Thanks @jamylak)

tuple(itertools.imap(tuple, edited))

You can also use a numpy array:

>>> a = numpy.array(level1)
>>> a
array([[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1],
       [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1],
       [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1],
       [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1],
       [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1],
       [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]])

For manipulating:

if clicked[0] == 1:
    x = (mousey + cameraY) // 60 # For readability
    y = (mousex + cameraX) // 60 # For readability
    a[x][y] = 1

In Python try until no error

e = ''
while e == '':
    try:
        response = ur.urlopen('https://https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MrMe42/Joe-Bot-Home-Assistant/mac/Joe.py')
        e = ' '
    except:
        print('Connection refused. Retrying...')
        time.sleep(1)

This should work. It sets e to '' and the while loop checks to see if it is still ''. If there is an error caught be the try statement, it prints that the connection was refused, waits 1 second and then starts over. It will keep going until there is no error in try, which then sets e to ' ', which kills the while loop.

Scroll to bottom of div?

using jQuery animate:

$('#DebugContainer').stop().animate({
  scrollTop: $('#DebugContainer')[0].scrollHeight
}, 800);

Integer expression expected error in shell script

Try this:

If [ $a -lt 4 ] || [ $a -gt 64 ] ; then \n
     Something something \n
elif [ $a -gt 4 ] || [ $a -lt 64 ] ; then \n
     Something something \n
else \n
    Yes it works for me :) \n

node.js string.replace doesn't work?

According to the Javascript standard, String.replace isn't supposed to modify the string itself. It just returns the modified string. You can refer to the Mozilla Developer Network documentation for more info.

You can always just set the string to the modified value:

variableABC = variableABC.replace('B', 'D')

Edit: The code given above is to only replace the first occurrence.

To replace all occurrences, you could do:

 variableABC = variableABC.replace(/B/g, "D");  

To replace all occurrences and ignore casing

 variableABC = variableABC.replace(/B/gi, "D");  

How to make a loop in x86 assembly language?

.model small
.stack 100h
.code 
Main proc
Mov cx , 30 ; //that number control the loop 30 means the loop will 
;excite 30 time 
Ioopfront:
Mov ah , 1
Int 21h 
Loop loopfront; 

this cod will take 30 character

Things possible in IntelliJ that aren't possible in Eclipse?

In IntelliJ, one can jump through a history of the last places edited with "Last Edit Location". Eclipse has a similar feature but Eclipse only goes back to one level of edit location.

Having the history rather than just the one level that Eclipse offers is a great productivity feature: it acts as a form of auto-bookmarking, since you often want to jump back to the places where you have been making changes. I use this ability several times a day, and feel the pain of not having it when I am asked to use Eclipse for something.

Cygwin Make bash command not found

You probably have not installed make. Restart the cygwin installer, search for make, select it and it should be installed. By default the cygwin installer does not install everything for what I remember.

How to create timer events using C++ 11?

If you are on Windows, you can use the CreateThreadpoolTimer function to schedule a callback without needing to worry about thread management and without blocking the current thread.

template<typename T>
static void __stdcall timer_fired(PTP_CALLBACK_INSTANCE, PVOID context, PTP_TIMER timer)
{
    CloseThreadpoolTimer(timer);
    std::unique_ptr<T> callable(reinterpret_cast<T*>(context));
    (*callable)();
}

template <typename T>
void call_after(T callable, long long delayInMs)
{
    auto state = std::make_unique<T>(std::move(callable));
    auto timer = CreateThreadpoolTimer(timer_fired<T>, state.get(), nullptr);
    if (!timer)
    {
        throw std::runtime_error("Timer");
    }

    ULARGE_INTEGER due;
    due.QuadPart = static_cast<ULONGLONG>(-(delayInMs * 10000LL));

    FILETIME ft;
    ft.dwHighDateTime = due.HighPart;
    ft.dwLowDateTime = due.LowPart;

    SetThreadpoolTimer(timer, &ft, 0 /*msPeriod*/, 0 /*msWindowLength*/);
    state.release();
}

int main()
{
    auto callback = []
    {
        std::cout << "in callback\n";
    };

    call_after(callback, 1000);
    std::cin.get();
}

iPhone UITextField - Change placeholder text color

Also in your storyboard, without single line of code

enter image description here

SSL cert "err_cert_authority_invalid" on mobile chrome only

I guess you should install CA certificate form one if authority canter:

ssl_trusted_certificate ssl/SSL_CA_Bundle.pem;

How to negate specific word in regex?

You could either use a negative look-ahead or look-behind:

^(?!.*?bar).*
^(.(?<!bar))*?$

Or use just basics:

^(?:[^b]+|b(?:$|[^a]|a(?:$|[^r])))*$

These all match anything that does not contain bar.

Get textarea text with javascript or Jquery

To get the value from a textarea with an id you just have to do

Edited

$("#area1").val();

If you are having more than one element with the same id in the document then the HTML is invalid.

Return anonymous type results?

In C# 7 you can now use tuples!... which eliminates the need to create a class just to return the result.

Here is a sample code:

public List<(string Name, string BreedName)> GetDogsWithBreedNames()
{
    var db = new DogDataContext(ConnectString);
    var result = from d in db.Dogs
             join b in db.Breeds on d.BreedId equals b.BreedId
             select new
             {
                Name = d.Name,
                BreedName = b.BreedName
             }.ToList();

    return result.Select(r => (r.Name, r.BreedName)).ToList();
}

You might need to install System.ValueTuple nuget package though.

what is the multicast doing on 224.0.0.251?

If you don't have avahi installed then it's probably cups.

what is the use of fflush(stdin) in c programming

it clears stdin buffer before reading. From the man page:

For output streams, fflush() forces a write of all user-space buffered data for the given output or update stream via the stream's underlying write function. For input streams, fflush() discards any buffered data that has been fetched from the underlying file, but has not been consumed by the application.

Note: This is Linux-specific, using fflush() on input streams is undefined by the standard, however, most implementations behave the same as in Linux.

What is the significance of load factor in HashMap?

For HashMap DEFAULT_INITIAL_CAPACITY = 16 and DEFAULT_LOAD_FACTOR = 0.75f it means that MAX number of ALL Entries in the HashMap = 16 * 0.75 = 12. When the thirteenth element will be added capacity (array size) of HashMap will be doubled! Perfect illustration answered this question: enter image description here image is taken from here:

https://javabypatel.blogspot.com/2015/10/what-is-load-factor-and-rehashing-in-hashmap.html

Parse date without timezone javascript

(new Date().toString()).replace(/ \w+-\d+ \(.*\)$/,"")

This will have output: Tue Jul 10 2018 19:07:11

(new Date("2005-07-08T11:22:33+0000").toString()).replace(/ \w+-\d+ \(.*\)$/,"")

This will have output: Fri Jul 08 2005 04:22:33

Note: The time returned will depend on your local timezone

Can I define a class name on paragraph using Markdown?

If your environment is JavaScript, use markdown-it along with the plugin markdown-it-attrs:

const md = require('markdown-it')();
const attrs = require('markdown-it-attrs');
md.use(attrs);

const src = 'paragraph {.className #id and=attributes}';

// render
let res = md.render(src);
console.log(res);

Output

<p class="className" id="id" and="attributes">paragraph</p>

jsfiddle

Note: Be aware of the security aspect when allowing attributes in your markdown!

Disclaimer, I'm the author of markdown-it-attrs.

Ansible: deploy on multiple hosts in the same time

I played a long time with things like ls -1 | xargs -P to parallelize my playbooks runs. But to get a prettier display, and simplicity I wrote a simple Python tool to do it, ansible-parallel.

It goes like this:

pip install ansible-parallel
ansible-parallel *.yml

To answer precisely to the original question (how to run some tasks first, and the rest in parallel), it can be solved by removing the 3 includes and running:

ansible-playbook say_hi.yml
ansible-parallel load_balancers.yml webservers.yml dbservers.yml

AngularJS : How to watch service variables?

I came to this question but it turned out my problem was that I was using setInterval when I should have been using the angular $interval provider. This is also the case for setTimeout (use $timeout instead). I know it's not the answer to the OP's question, but it might help some, as it helped me.

iOS app 'The application could not be verified' only on one device

The application could not be verified" , in your device there could be already an app installed with the same bundle identifier.

So Simple solution Just delete the App & try again.. ....

How to disable EditText in Android

You can try the following method :

 private void disableEditText(EditText editText) {
    editText.setFocusable(false);
    editText.setEnabled(false);
    editText.setCursorVisible(false);
    editText.setKeyListener(null);
    editText.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT); 
 }

Enabled EditText :

Enabled EditText

Disabled EditText :

Disabled EditText

It works for me and hope it helps you.

Bootstrap table striped: How do I change the stripe background colour?

Add the following CSS style after loading Bootstrap:

.table-striped>tbody>tr:nth-child(odd)>td, 
.table-striped>tbody>tr:nth-child(odd)>th {
   background-color: red; // Choose your own color here
 }

slf4j: how to log formatted message, object array, exception

In addition to @Ceki 's answer, If you are using logback and setup a config file in your project (usually logback.xml), you can define the log to plot the stack trace as well using

<encoder>
    <pattern>%date |%-5level| [%thread] [%file:%line] - %msg%n%ex{full}</pattern> 
</encoder>

the %ex in pattern is what makes the difference

Spark DataFrame groupBy and sort in the descending order (pyspark)

By far the most convenient way is using this:

df.orderBy(df.column_name.desc())

Doesn't require special imports.

Show data on mouseover of circle

This concise example demonstrates common way how to create custom tooltip in d3.

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var w = 500;_x000D_
var h = 150;_x000D_
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var dataset = [5, 10, 15, 20, 25];_x000D_
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// firstly we create div element that we can use as_x000D_
// tooltip container, it have absolute position and_x000D_
// visibility: hidden by default_x000D_
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var tooltip = d3.select("body")_x000D_
  .append("div")_x000D_
  .attr('class', 'tooltip');_x000D_
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var svg = d3.select("body")_x000D_
  .append("svg")_x000D_
  .attr("width", w)_x000D_
  .attr("height", h);_x000D_
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// here we add some circles on the page_x000D_
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var circles = svg.selectAll("circle")_x000D_
  .data(dataset)_x000D_
  .enter()_x000D_
  .append("circle");_x000D_
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circles.attr("cx", function(d, i) {_x000D_
    return (i * 50) + 25;_x000D_
  })_x000D_
  .attr("cy", h / 2)_x000D_
  .attr("r", function(d) {_x000D_
    return d;_x000D_
  })_x000D_
  _x000D_
  // we define "mouseover" handler, here we change tooltip_x000D_
  // visibility to "visible" and add appropriate test_x000D_
  _x000D_
  .on("mouseover", function(d) {_x000D_
    return tooltip.style("visibility", "visible").text('radius = ' + d);_x000D_
  })_x000D_
  _x000D_
  // we move tooltip during of "mousemove"_x000D_
  _x000D_
  .on("mousemove", function() {_x000D_
    return tooltip.style("top", (event.pageY - 30) + "px")_x000D_
      .style("left", event.pageX + "px");_x000D_
  })_x000D_
  _x000D_
  // we hide our tooltip on "mouseout"_x000D_
  _x000D_
  .on("mouseout", function() {_x000D_
    return tooltip.style("visibility", "hidden");_x000D_
  });
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.tooltip {_x000D_
    position: absolute;_x000D_
    z-index: 10;_x000D_
    visibility: hidden;_x000D_
    background-color: lightblue;_x000D_
    text-align: center;_x000D_
    padding: 4px;_x000D_
    border-radius: 4px;_x000D_
    font-weight: bold;_x000D_
    color: orange;_x000D_
}
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<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/d3/4.11.0/d3.min.js"></script>
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java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol

Try instead of db.parse(xml):

Document doc = db.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(**xml**)));

Getting "NoSuchMethodError: org.hamcrest.Matcher.describeMismatch" when running test in IntelliJ 10.5

I have a gradle project and when my build.gradle dependencies section looks like this:

dependencies {
    implementation group: 'org.apache.commons', name: 'commons-lang3', version: '3.8.1'

    testImplementation group: 'org.mockito', name: 'mockito-all', version: '1.10.19'
    testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.12'
//    testCompile group: 'org.mockito', name: 'mockito-core', version: '2.23.4'

    compileOnly 'org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.4'
    apt 'org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.4'
}

it leads to this exception:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.hamcrest.Matcher.describeMismatch(Ljava/lang/Object;Lorg/hamcrest/Description;)V

    at org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat(MatcherAssert.java:18)
    at org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat(MatcherAssert.java:8)

to fix this issue, I've substituted "mockito-all" with "mockito-core".

dependencies {
    implementation group: 'org.apache.commons', name: 'commons-lang3', version: '3.8.1'

//    testImplementation group: 'org.mockito', name: 'mockito-all', version: '1.10.19'
    testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.12'
    testCompile group: 'org.mockito', name: 'mockito-core', version: '2.23.4'

    compileOnly 'org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.4'
    apt 'org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.4'
}

The explanation between mockito-all and mockito-core can be found here: https://solidsoft.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/beyond-the-mockito-refcard-part-3-mockito-core-vs-mockito-all-in-mavengradle-based-projects/

mockito-all.jar besides Mockito itself contains also (as of 1.9.5) two dependencies: Hamcrest and Objenesis (let’s omit repackaged ASM and CGLIB for a moment). The reason was to have everything what is needed inside an one JAR to just put it on a classpath. It can look strange, but please remember than Mockito development started in times when pure Ant (without dependency management) was the most popular build system for Java projects and the all external JARs required by a project (i.e. our project’s dependencies and their dependencies) had to be downloaded manually and specified in a build script.

On the other hand mockito-core.jar is just Mockito classes (also with repackaged ASM and CGLIB). When using it with Maven or Gradle required dependencies (Hamcrest and Objenesis) are managed by those tools (downloaded automatically and put on a test classpath). It allows to override used versions (for example if our projects uses never, but backward compatible version), but what is more important those dependencies are not hidden inside mockito-all.jar what allows to detected possible version incompatibility with dependency analyze tools. This is much better solution when dependency managed tool is used in a project.

iOS: How to store username/password within an app?

To update this question:

For those using Swift checkout this drag and drop swift implementation by Mihai Costea supporting access groups:

https://github.com/macostea/KeychainItemWrapper.swift/blob/master/KeychainItemWrapper.swift

Before using the keychain: consider twice before storing passwords. In many cases storing an authentication token (such as a persistence session id) and the email or account name might be enough. You can easily invalidate authentication tokens to block unauthorized access, requiring the user to login again on the compromised device but not requiring reset password and having to login again on all devices (we are not only using Apple are we?).

PHP - Indirect modification of overloaded property

I was receiving this notice for doing this:

$var = reset($myClass->my_magic_property);

This fixed it:

$tmp = $myClass->my_magic_property;
$var = reset($tmp);

Changing iframe src with Javascript

Maybe this can be helpful... It's plain html - no javascript:

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<p>Click on link bellow to change iframe content:</p>_x000D_
<a href="http://www.bing.com" target="search_iframe">Bing</a> -_x000D_
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org" target="search_iframe">Wikipedia</a> -_x000D_
<a href="http://google.com" target="search_iframe">Google</a> (not allowed in inframe)_x000D_
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<iframe src="http://en.wikipedia.org" width="100%" height="100%" name="search_iframe"></iframe>
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By the way some sites do not allow you to open them in iframe (security reasons - clickjacking)

Way to insert text having ' (apostrophe) into a SQL table

try this

INSERT INTO exampleTbl VALUES('he doesn''t work for me')

Android ImageView Zoom-in and Zoom-Out

The other implementations here all have some kind of a flaw. so i basically mixed them up and came up with this.

Create a custom view like this:

ZoomableImageView.java:

import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.Matrix;
import android.graphics.PointF;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.view.ScaleGestureDetector;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.ImageView;

public class ZoomableImageView extends ImageView
{
    Matrix matrix = new Matrix();

    static final int NONE = 0;
    static final int DRAG = 1;
    static final int ZOOM = 2;
    static final int CLICK = 3;
    int mode = NONE;

    PointF last = new PointF();
    PointF start = new PointF();
    float minScale = 1f;
    float maxScale = 4f;
    float[] m;

    float redundantXSpace, redundantYSpace;
    float width, height;
    float saveScale = 1f;
    float right, bottom, origWidth, origHeight, bmWidth, bmHeight;

    ScaleGestureDetector mScaleDetector;
    Context context;

    public ZoomableImageView(Context context, AttributeSet attr)
    {
        super(context, attr);
        super.setClickable(true);
        this.context = context;
        mScaleDetector = new ScaleGestureDetector(context, new ScaleListener());
        matrix.setTranslate(1f, 1f);
        m = new float[9];
        setImageMatrix(matrix);
        setScaleType(ScaleType.MATRIX);

        setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener()
        {

            @Override
            public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event)
            {
                mScaleDetector.onTouchEvent(event);

                matrix.getValues(m);
                float x = m[Matrix.MTRANS_X];
                float y = m[Matrix.MTRANS_Y];
                PointF curr = new PointF(event.getX(), event.getY());

                switch (event.getAction())
                {
                    //when one finger is touching
                    //set the mode to DRAG
                    case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
                        last.set(event.getX(), event.getY());
                        start.set(last);
                        mode = DRAG;
                        break;
                    //when two fingers are touching
                    //set the mode to ZOOM
                    case MotionEvent.ACTION_POINTER_DOWN:
                        last.set(event.getX(), event.getY());
                        start.set(last);
                        mode = ZOOM;
                        break;
                    //when a finger moves
                    //If mode is applicable move image
                    case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:
                        //if the mode is ZOOM or
                        //if the mode is DRAG and already zoomed
                        if (mode == ZOOM || (mode == DRAG && saveScale > minScale))
                        {
                            float deltaX = curr.x - last.x;// x difference
                            float deltaY = curr.y - last.y;// y difference
                            float scaleWidth = Math.round(origWidth * saveScale);// width after applying current scale
                            float scaleHeight = Math.round(origHeight * saveScale);// height after applying current scale
                            //if scaleWidth is smaller than the views width
                            //in other words if the image width fits in the view
                            //limit left and right movement
                            if (scaleWidth < width)
                            {
                                deltaX = 0;
                                if (y + deltaY > 0)
                                    deltaY = -y;
                                else if (y + deltaY < -bottom)
                                    deltaY = -(y + bottom);
                            }
                            //if scaleHeight is smaller than the views height
                            //in other words if the image height fits in the view
                            //limit up and down movement
                            else if (scaleHeight < height)
                            {
                                deltaY = 0;
                                if (x + deltaX > 0)
                                    deltaX = -x;
                                else if (x + deltaX < -right)
                                    deltaX = -(x + right);
                            }
                            //if the image doesnt fit in the width or height
                            //limit both up and down and left and right
                            else
                            {
                                if (x + deltaX > 0)
                                    deltaX = -x;
                                else if (x + deltaX < -right)
                                    deltaX = -(x + right);

                                if (y + deltaY > 0)
                                    deltaY = -y;
                                else if (y + deltaY < -bottom)
                                    deltaY = -(y + bottom);
                            }
                            //move the image with the matrix
                            matrix.postTranslate(deltaX, deltaY);
                            //set the last touch location to the current
                            last.set(curr.x, curr.y);
                        }
                        break;
                    //first finger is lifted
                    case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
                        mode = NONE;
                        int xDiff = (int) Math.abs(curr.x - start.x);
                        int yDiff = (int) Math.abs(curr.y - start.y);
                        if (xDiff < CLICK && yDiff < CLICK)
                            performClick();
                        break;
                    // second finger is lifted
                    case MotionEvent.ACTION_POINTER_UP:
                        mode = NONE;
                        break;
                }
                setImageMatrix(matrix);
                invalidate();
                return true;
            }

        });
    }

    @Override
    public void setImageBitmap(Bitmap bm)
    {
        super.setImageBitmap(bm);
        bmWidth = bm.getWidth();
        bmHeight = bm.getHeight();
    }

    public void setMaxZoom(float x)
    {
        maxScale = x;
    }

    private class ScaleListener extends ScaleGestureDetector.SimpleOnScaleGestureListener
    {

        @Override
        public boolean onScaleBegin(ScaleGestureDetector detector)
        {
            mode = ZOOM;
            return true;
        }

        @Override
        public boolean onScale(ScaleGestureDetector detector)
        {
            float mScaleFactor = detector.getScaleFactor();
            float origScale = saveScale;
            saveScale *= mScaleFactor;
            if (saveScale > maxScale)
            {
                saveScale = maxScale;
                mScaleFactor = maxScale / origScale;
            }
            else if (saveScale < minScale)
            {
                saveScale = minScale;
                mScaleFactor = minScale / origScale;
            }
            right = width * saveScale - width - (2 * redundantXSpace * saveScale);
            bottom = height * saveScale - height - (2 * redundantYSpace * saveScale);
            if (origWidth * saveScale <= width || origHeight * saveScale <= height)
            {
                matrix.postScale(mScaleFactor, mScaleFactor, width / 2, height / 2);
                if (mScaleFactor < 1)
                {
                    matrix.getValues(m);
                    float x = m[Matrix.MTRANS_X];
                    float y = m[Matrix.MTRANS_Y];
                    if (mScaleFactor < 1)
                    {
                        if (Math.round(origWidth * saveScale) < width)
                        {
                            if (y < -bottom)
                                matrix.postTranslate(0, -(y + bottom));
                            else if (y > 0)
                                matrix.postTranslate(0, -y);
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            if (x < -right)
                                matrix.postTranslate(-(x + right), 0);
                            else if (x > 0)
                                matrix.postTranslate(-x, 0);
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            else
            {
                matrix.postScale(mScaleFactor, mScaleFactor, detector.getFocusX(), detector.getFocusY());
                matrix.getValues(m);
                float x = m[Matrix.MTRANS_X];
                float y = m[Matrix.MTRANS_Y];
                if (mScaleFactor < 1) {
                    if (x < -right)
                        matrix.postTranslate(-(x + right), 0);
                    else if (x > 0)
                        matrix.postTranslate(-x, 0);
                    if (y < -bottom)
                        matrix.postTranslate(0, -(y + bottom));
                    else if (y > 0)
                        matrix.postTranslate(0, -y);
                }
            }
            return true;
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected void onMeasure (int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec)
    {
        super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
        width = MeasureSpec.getSize(widthMeasureSpec);
        height = MeasureSpec.getSize(heightMeasureSpec);
        //Fit to screen.
        float scale;
        float scaleX =  width / bmWidth;
        float scaleY = height / bmHeight;
        scale = Math.min(scaleX, scaleY);
        matrix.setScale(scale, scale);
        setImageMatrix(matrix);
        saveScale = 1f;

        // Center the image
        redundantYSpace = height - (scale * bmHeight) ;
        redundantXSpace = width - (scale * bmWidth);
        redundantYSpace /= 2;
        redundantXSpace /= 2;

        matrix.postTranslate(redundantXSpace, redundantYSpace);

        origWidth = width - 2 * redundantXSpace;
        origHeight = height - 2 * redundantYSpace;
        right = width * saveScale - width - (2 * redundantXSpace * saveScale);
        bottom = height * saveScale - height - (2 * redundantYSpace * saveScale);
        setImageMatrix(matrix);
    }
}

Then add the image like this:

ZoomableImageView touch = (ZoomableImageView)findViewById(R.id.IMAGEID);
touch.setImageBitmap(bitmap);

Add the view like this in XML:

<PACKAGE.ZoomableImageView
android:id="@+id/IMAGEID"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"/>

Detecting touch screen devices with Javascript

This works for me:

function isTouchDevice(){
    return true == ("ontouchstart" in window || window.DocumentTouch && document instanceof DocumentTouch);
}

How to execute a file within the python interpreter?

python -c "exec(open('main.py').read())"

How to get subarray from array?

Take a look at Array.slice(begin, end)

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// slice from 1..3 - add 1 as the end index is not included

const ar2 = ar.slice(1, 3 + 1);

console.log(ar2);
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Styling twitter bootstrap buttons

In Twitter Bootstrap bootstrap 3.0.0, Twitter button is flat. You can customize it from http://getbootstrap.com/customize. Button color, border radious etc.

Also you can find the HTML code and others functionality http://twitterbootstrap.org/bootstrap-css-buttons.

Bootstrap 2.3.2 button is gradient but 3.0.0 ( new release ) flat and looks more cool.

and also you can find to customize the entire bootstrap looks and style form this resources: http://twitterbootstrap.org/top-5-customizing-bootstrap-resources/

Plotting a list of (x, y) coordinates in python matplotlib

As per this example:

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

N = 50
x = np.random.rand(N)
y = np.random.rand(N)

plt.scatter(x, y)
plt.show()

will produce:

enter image description here

To unpack your data from pairs into lists use zip:

x, y = zip(*li)

So, the one-liner:

plt.scatter(*zip(*li))

Converting time stamps in excel to dates

If your file is really big try to use following formula: =A1 / 86400 + 25569

A1 should be replaced to what your need. Should work faster than =(((COLUMN_ID_HERE/60)/60)/24)+DATE(1970,1,1) cause of less number of calculations needed.

How to tell whether a point is to the right or left side of a line

I wanted to provide with a solution inspired by physics.

Imagine a force applied along the line and you are measuring the torque of the force about the point. If the torque is positive (counterclockwise) then the point is to the "left" of the line, but if the torque is negative the point is the "right" of the line.

So if the force vector equals the span of the two points defining the line

fx = x_2 - x_1
fy = y_2 - y_1

you test for the side of a point (px,py) based on the sign of the following test

var torque = fx*(py-y_1)-fy*(px-x_1)
if  torque>0  then
     "point on left side"
else if torque <0 then
     "point on right side"  
else
     "point on line"
end if

using jQuery .animate to animate a div from right to left?

This worked for me

$("div").css({"left":"2000px"}).animate({"left":"0px"}, "slow");

How can I get double quotes into a string literal?

Escape the quotes with backslashes:

printf("She said \"time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana\"."); 

There are special escape characters that you can use in string literals, and these are denoted with a leading backslash.

Make div (height) occupy parent remaining height

I'm not sure it can be done purely with CSS, unless you're comfortable in sort of faking it with illusions. Maybe use Josh Mein's answer, and set #container to overflow:hidden.

For what it's worth, here's a jQuery solution:

var contH = $('#container').height(),
upH = $('#up').height();
$('#down').css('height' , contH - upH);

Graphical DIFF programs for linux

I have used Meld once, which seemed very nice, and I may try more often. vimdiff works well, if you know vim well. Lastly I would mention I've found xxdiff does a reasonable job for a quick comparison. There are many diff programs out there which do a good job.

ldconfig error: is not a symbolic link

You need to include the path of the libraries inside /etc/ld.so.conf, and rerun ldconfig to upate the list

Other possibility is to include in the env variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH the path to your library, and rerun the executable.

check the symbolic links if they point to a valid library ...

You can add the path directly in /etc/ld.so.conf, without include...

run ldconfig -p to see whether your library is well included in the cache.

Why my $.ajax showing "preflight is invalid redirect error"?

I had the same error, though the problem was that I had a typo in the url

url: 'http://api.example.com/TYPO'

The API had a redirect to another domain for all URL's that is wrong (404 errors).

So fixing the typo to the correct URL fixed it for me.

Refused to execute script, strict MIME type checking is enabled?

You have a <script> element that is trying to load some external JavaScript.

The URL you have given it points to a JSON file and not a JavaScript program.

The server is correctly reporting that it is JSON so the browser is aborting with that error message instead of trying to execute the JSON as JavaScript (which would throw an error).


Odds are that the underlying reason for this is that you are trying to make an Ajax request, have hit a cross origin error and have tried to fix it by telling jQuery that you are using JSONP. This only works if the URL provides JSONP (which is a different subset of JavaScript), which this one doesn't.

The same URL with the additional query string parameter callback=the_name_of_your_callback_function does return JavaScript though.

Get file path of image on Android

Posting to Twitter needs the image's actual path on the device to be sent in the request to post. I was finding it mighty difficult to get the actual path and more often than not I would get the wrong path.

To counter that, once you have a Bitmap, I use that to get the URI from using the getImageUri(). Subsequently, I use the tempUri Uri instance to get the actual path as it is on the device.

This is production code and naturally tested. ;-)

protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {  
    if (requestCode == CAMERA_REQUEST && resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
        Bitmap photo = (Bitmap) data.getExtras().get("data"); 
        imageView.setImageBitmap(photo);
        knop.setVisibility(Button.VISIBLE);


        // CALL THIS METHOD TO GET THE URI FROM THE BITMAP
        Uri tempUri = getImageUri(getApplicationContext(), photo);

        // CALL THIS METHOD TO GET THE ACTUAL PATH
        File finalFile = new File(getRealPathFromURI(tempUri));

        System.out.println(mImageCaptureUri);
    }  
}

public Uri getImageUri(Context inContext, Bitmap inImage) {
    ByteArrayOutputStream bytes = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    inImage.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, bytes);
    String path = Images.Media.insertImage(inContext.getContentResolver(), inImage, "Title", null);
    return Uri.parse(path);
}

public String getRealPathFromURI(Uri uri) {
    Cursor cursor = getContentResolver().query(uri, null, null, null, null); 
    cursor.moveToFirst(); 
    int idx = cursor.getColumnIndex(MediaStore.Images.ImageColumns.DATA); 
    return cursor.getString(idx); 
}

REST API - Use the "Accept: application/json" HTTP Header

Basically I use Fiddler or Postman for testing API's.

In fiddler, in request header you need to specify instead of xml, html you need to change it to json. Eg: Accept: application/json. That should do the job.

Chrome sendrequest error: TypeError: Converting circular structure to JSON

As per the JSON docs at Mozilla, JSON.Stringify has a second parameter censor which can be used to filter/ignore children items while parsing the tree. However, perhaps you can avoid the circular references.

In Node.js we cannot. So we can do something like this:

function censor(censor) {
  var i = 0;

  return function(key, value) {
    if(i !== 0 && typeof(censor) === 'object' && typeof(value) == 'object' && censor == value) 
      return '[Circular]'; 

    if(i >= 29) // seems to be a harded maximum of 30 serialized objects?
      return '[Unknown]';

    ++i; // so we know we aren't using the original object anymore

    return value;  
  }
}

var b = {foo: {bar: null}};

b.foo.bar = b;

console.log("Censoring: ", b);

console.log("Result: ", JSON.stringify(b, censor(b)));

The result:

Censoring:  { foo: { bar: [Circular] } }
Result: {"foo":{"bar":"[Circular]"}}

Unfortunately there seems to be a maximum of 30 iterations before it automatically assumes it's circular. Otherwise, this should work. I even used areEquivalent from here, but JSON.Stringify still throws the exception after 30 iterations. Still, it's good enough to get a decent representation of the object at a top level, if you really need it. Perhaps somebody can improve upon this though? In Node.js for an HTTP request object, I'm getting:

{
"limit": null,
"size": 0,
"chunks": [],
"writable": true,
"readable": false,
"_events": {
    "pipe": [null, null],
    "error": [null]
},
"before": [null],
"after": [],
"response": {
    "output": [],
    "outputEncodings": [],
    "writable": true,
    "_last": false,
    "chunkedEncoding": false,
    "shouldKeepAlive": true,
    "useChunkedEncodingByDefault": true,
    "_hasBody": true,
    "_trailer": "",
    "finished": false,
    "socket": {
        "_handle": {
            "writeQueueSize": 0,
            "socket": "[Unknown]",
            "onread": "[Unknown]"
        },
        "_pendingWriteReqs": "[Unknown]",
        "_flags": "[Unknown]",
        "_connectQueueSize": "[Unknown]",
        "destroyed": "[Unknown]",
        "bytesRead": "[Unknown]",
        "bytesWritten": "[Unknown]",
        "allowHalfOpen": "[Unknown]",
        "writable": "[Unknown]",
        "readable": "[Unknown]",
        "server": "[Unknown]",
        "ondrain": "[Unknown]",
        "_idleTimeout": "[Unknown]",
        "_idleNext": "[Unknown]",
        "_idlePrev": "[Unknown]",
        "_idleStart": "[Unknown]",
        "_events": "[Unknown]",
        "ondata": "[Unknown]",
        "onend": "[Unknown]",
        "_httpMessage": "[Unknown]"
    },
    "connection": "[Unknown]",
    "_events": "[Unknown]",
    "_headers": "[Unknown]",
    "_headerNames": "[Unknown]",
    "_pipeCount": "[Unknown]"
},
"headers": "[Unknown]",
"target": "[Unknown]",
"_pipeCount": "[Unknown]",
"method": "[Unknown]",
"url": "[Unknown]",
"query": "[Unknown]",
"ended": "[Unknown]"
}

I created a small Node.js module to do this here: https://github.com/ericmuyser/stringy Feel free to improve/contribute!

WebView link click open default browser

I had to do the same thing today and I have found a very useful answer on StackOverflow that I want to share here in case someone else needs it.

Source (from sven)

webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient(){
    public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
        if (url != null && (url.startsWith("http://") || url.startsWith("https://"))) {
            view.getContext().startActivity(
                new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(url)));
            return true;
        } else {
            return false;
        }
    }
});

Convert CString to const char*

I recommendo to you use TtoC from ConvUnicode.h

const CString word= "hello";
const char* myFile = TtoC(path.GetString());

It is a macro to do conversions per Unicode

Unit testing click event in Angular

I'm using Angular 6. I followed Mav55's answer and it worked. However I wanted to make sure if fixture.detectChanges(); was really necessary so I removed it and it still worked. Then I removed tick(); to see if it worked and it did. Finally I removed the test from the fakeAsync() wrap, and surprise, it worked.

So I ended up with this:

it('should call onClick method', () => {
  const onClickMock = spyOn(component, 'onClick');
  fixture.debugElement.query(By.css('button')).triggerEventHandler('click', null);
  expect(onClickMock).toHaveBeenCalled();
});

And it worked just fine.

React Router Pass Param to Component

I used this to access the ID in my component:

<Route path="/details/:id" component={DetailsPage}/>

And in the detail component:

export default class DetailsPage extends Component {
  render() {
    return(
      <div>
        <h2>{this.props.match.params.id}</h2>
      </div>
    )
  }
}

This will render any ID inside an h2, hope that helps someone.

Using scanner.nextLine()

Rather than placing an extra scanner.nextLine() each time you want to read something, since it seems you want to accept each input on a new line, you might want to instead changing the delimiter to actually match only newlines (instead of any whitespace, as is the default)

import java.util.Scanner;

class ScannerTest {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
        scanner.useDelimiter("\\n");

        System.out.print("Enter an index: ");
        int index = scanner.nextInt();

        System.out.print("Enter a sentence: ");
        String sentence = scanner.next();

        System.out.println("\nYour sentence: " + sentence);
        System.out.println("Your index: " + index);
    }
}

Thus, to read a line of input, you only need scanner.next() that has the same behavior delimiter-wise of next{Int, Double, ...}

The difference with the "nextLine() every time" approach, is that the latter will accept, as an index also <space>3, 3<space> and 3<space>whatever while the former only accepts 3 on a line on its own

Android - R cannot be resolved to a variable

I've fixed the problem in my case very easy:
go to Build- Path->Configure Build Path->Order and Export and ensure that <project name>/gen folder is above <project name>/src
After fixing the order the error disappears.

How to draw polygons on an HTML5 canvas?

from http://www.scienceprimer.com/drawing-regular-polygons-javascript-canvas:

The following code will draw a hexagon. Change the number of sides to create different regular polygons.

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    Xcenter = 25,_x000D_
    Ycenter = 25;_x000D_
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ctx.moveTo (Xcenter +  size * Math.cos(0), Ycenter +  size *  Math.sin(0));          _x000D_
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for (var i = 1; i <= numberOfSides;i += 1) {_x000D_
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ctx.stroke();
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#hexagon { border: thin dashed red; }
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<canvas id="hexagon"></canvas>
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Electron: jQuery is not defined

Just install Jquery with following command.

npm install --save jquery

After that Please put belew line in js file which you want to use Jquery

let $ = require('jquery')

Create nice column output in python

Transposing the columns like that is a job for zip:

>>> a = [['a', 'b', 'c'], ['aaaaaaaaaa', 'b', 'c'], ['a', 'bbbbbbbbbb', 'c']]
>>> list(zip(*a))
[('a', 'aaaaaaaaaa', 'a'), ('b', 'b', 'bbbbbbbbbb'), ('c', 'c', 'c')]

To find the required length of each column, you can use max:

>>> trans_a = zip(*a)
>>> [max(len(c) for c in b) for b in trans_a]
[10, 10, 1]

Which you can use, with suitable padding, to construct strings to pass to print:

>>> col_lenghts = [max(len(c) for c in b) for b in trans_a]
>>> padding = ' ' # You might want more
>>> padding.join(s.ljust(l) for s,l in zip(a[0], col_lenghts))
'a          b          c'

Send data from activity to fragment in Android

I´ve found a lot of answers here @ stackoverflow.com but definitely this is the correct answer of:

"Sending data from activity to fragment in android".

Activity:

        Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
        String myMessage = "Stackoverflow is cool!";
        bundle.putString("message", myMessage );
        FragmentClass fragInfo = new FragmentClass();
        fragInfo.setArguments(bundle);
        transaction.replace(R.id.fragment_single, fragInfo);
        transaction.commit();

Fragment:

Reading the value in the fragment

        @Override
        public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        Bundle bundle = this.getArguments();
        String myValue = bundle.getString("message");
        ...
        ...
        ...
        }

or just

        @Override
        public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        String myValue = this.getArguments().getString("message");
        ...
        ...
        ...
        }

Forgot Oracle username and password, how to retrieve?

  1. Open your SQL command line and type the following:

    SQL> connect / as sysdba
    
  2. Once connected,you can enter the following query to get details of username and password:

    SQL> select username,password from dba_users;
    
  3. This will list down the usernames,but passwords would not be visible.But you can identify the particular username and then change the password for that user. For changing the password,use the below query:

    SQL> alter user username identified by password;
    
  4. Here username is the name of user whose password you want to change and password is the new password.

Server cannot set status after HTTP headers have been sent IIS7.5

I'll broadly agree with Vagrant on the cause:

  1. your action was executing, writing markup to response stream
  2. the stream was unbuffered forcing the response headers to get written before the markup writing could begin.
  3. Your view encountered a runtime error
  4. Exception handler kicks in trying to set the status code to something else non-200
  5. Fails because the headers have already been sent.

Where I disagree with Vagrant is the "cause no errors in binding" remedy - you could still encounter runtime errors in View binding e.g. null reference exceptions.

A better solution for this is to ensure that Response.BufferOutput = true; before any bytes are sent to the Response stream. e.g. in your controller action or On_Begin_Request in application. This enables server transfers, cookies/headers to be set etc. right the way up to naturally ending response, or calling end/flush.

Of course also check that buffer isn't being flushed/set to false further down in the stack too.

MSDN Reference: HttpResponse.BufferOutput

How to convert a plain object into an ES6 Map?

The answer by Nils describes how to convert objects to maps, which I found very useful. However, the OP was also wondering where this information is in the MDN docs. While it may not have been there when the question was originally asked, it is now on the MDN page for Object.entries() under the heading Converting an Object to a Map which states:

Converting an Object to a Map

The new Map() constructor accepts an iterable of entries. With Object.entries, you can easily convert from Object to Map:

const obj = { foo: 'bar', baz: 42 }; 
const map = new Map(Object.entries(obj));
console.log(map); // Map { foo: "bar", baz: 42 }

How do you find out the type of an object (in Swift)?

Swift 3 version:

type(of: yourObject)

Duplicate AssemblyVersion Attribute

When converting an older project to .NET Core, most of the information that was in the AssemblyInfo.cs can now be set on the project itself. Open the project properties and select the Package tab to see the new settings.

The Eric L. Anderson's post "Duplicate ‘System.Reflection.AssemblyCompanyAttribute’ attribute" describes 3 options :

  • remove the conflicting items from the AssemblyInfo.cs file,
  • completely delete the file or
  • disable GenerateAssemblyInfo (as suggested in another answer by Serge Semenov)

How do you remove all the options of a select box and then add one option and select it with jQuery?

Just one line to remove all options from the select tag and after you can add any options then make second line to add options.

$('.ddlsl').empty();

$('.ddlsl').append(new Option('Select all', 'all'));

One more short way but didn't tried

$('.ddlsl').empty().append(new Option('Select all', 'all'));

Installing a plain plugin jar in Eclipse 3.5

Since the advent of p2, you should be using the dropins directory instead.

To be completely clear create "plugins" under "/dropins" and make sure to restart eclipse with the "-clean" option.

Multiple scenarios @RequestMapping produces JSON/XML together with Accept or ResponseEntity

I've preferred using the params filter for parameter-centric content-type.. I believe that should work in conjunction with the produces attribute.

@GetMapping(value="/person/{id}/", 
            params="format=json",
            produces=MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE)
public ResponseEntity<Person> getPerson(@PathVariable Integer id){
    Person person = personMapRepository.findPerson(id);
    return ResponseEntity.ok(person);
} 
@GetMapping(value="/person/{id}/", 
            params="format=xml",
            produces=MediaType.APPLICATION_XML_VALUE)
public ResponseEntity<Person> getPersonXML(@PathVariable Integer id){
    return GetPerson(id); // delegate
}

Get all validation errors from Angular 2 FormGroup

This is solution with FormGroup inside supports ( like here )

Tested on: Angular 4.3.6

get-form-validation-errors.ts

import { AbstractControl, FormGroup, ValidationErrors } from '@angular/forms';

export interface AllValidationErrors {
  control_name: string;
  error_name: string;
  error_value: any;
}

export interface FormGroupControls {
  [key: string]: AbstractControl;
}

export function getFormValidationErrors(controls: FormGroupControls): AllValidationErrors[] {
  let errors: AllValidationErrors[] = [];
  Object.keys(controls).forEach(key => {
    const control = controls[ key ];
    if (control instanceof FormGroup) {
      errors = errors.concat(getFormValidationErrors(control.controls));
    }
    const controlErrors: ValidationErrors = controls[ key ].errors;
    if (controlErrors !== null) {
      Object.keys(controlErrors).forEach(keyError => {
        errors.push({
          control_name: key,
          error_name: keyError,
          error_value: controlErrors[ keyError ]
        });
      });
    }
  });
  return errors;
}

Using example:

if (!this.formValid()) {
  const error: AllValidationErrors = getFormValidationErrors(this.regForm.controls).shift();
  if (error) {
    let text;
    switch (error.error_name) {
      case 'required': text = `${error.control_name} is required!`; break;
      case 'pattern': text = `${error.control_name} has wrong pattern!`; break;
      case 'email': text = `${error.control_name} has wrong email format!`; break;
      case 'minlength': text = `${error.control_name} has wrong length! Required length: ${error.error_value.requiredLength}`; break;
      case 'areEqual': text = `${error.control_name} must be equal!`; break;
      default: text = `${error.control_name}: ${error.error_name}: ${error.error_value}`;
    }
    this.error = text;
  }
  return;
}

Cannot open solution file in Visual Studio Code

When you open a folder in VSCode, it will automatically scan the folder for typical project artifacts like project.json or solution files. From the status bar in the lower left side you can switch between solutions and projects.

What are the calling conventions for UNIX & Linux system calls (and user-space functions) on i386 and x86-64

Calling conventions defines how parameters are passed in the registers when calling or being called by other program. And the best source of these convention is in the form of ABI standards defined for each these hardware. For ease of compilation, the same ABI is also used by userspace and kernel program. Linux/Freebsd follow the same ABI for x86-64 and another set for 32-bit. But x86-64 ABI for Windows is different from Linux/FreeBSD. And generally ABI does not differentiate system call vs normal "functions calls". Ie, here is a particular example of x86_64 calling conventions and it is the same for both Linux userspace and kernel: http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/09/06/stack-frame-layout-on-x86-64/ (note the sequence a,b,c,d,e,f of parameters):

A good rendering of calling conventions vs registers usage

Performance is one of the reasons for these ABI (eg, passing parameters via registers instead of saving into memory stacks)

For ARM there is various ABI:

http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.subset.swdev.abi/index.html

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Xcode/Conceptual/iPhoneOSABIReference/iPhoneOSABIReference.pdf

ARM64 convention:

http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0055b/IHI0055B_aapcs64.pdf

For Linux on PowerPC:

http://refspecs.freestandards.org/elf/elfspec_ppc.pdf

http://www.0x04.net/doc/elf/psABI-ppc64.pdf

And for embedded there is the PPC EABI:

http://www.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/app_note/PPCEABI.pdf

This document is good overview of all the different conventions:

http://www.agner.org/optimize/calling_conventions.pdf

Is Google Play Store supported in avd emulators?

If using the command line, you'll need to use one of the packages listed with

sdkmanager --list | grep "playstore"

Once that is installed you can use the appropriate package in

avdmanager create avd --force --name testAVD --abi google_apis_playstore/x86_64 --package "system-images;android-28;google_apis_playstore;x86_64" -d 19

Replace google_apis_playstore;x86_64 with the package you installed

How can I set a custom date time format in Oracle SQL Developer?

SQL Developer Version 4.1.0.19

Step 1: Go to Tools -> Preferences

Step 2: Select Database -> NLS

Step 3: Go to Date Format and Enter DD-MON-RR HH24: MI: SS

Step 4: Click OK.

UTF-8 encoding problem in Spring MVC

When you try to send special characters like è,à,ù, etc etc, may be you see in your Jsp Post page many characters like '£','Ä’ or ‘Æ’. To solve this problem in 99% of cases you may move in your web.xml this piece of code at the head of file:

   <filter>
        <filter-name>encodingFilter</filter-name>
        <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>encoding</param-name>
            <param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>forceEncoding</param-name>
            <param-value>true</param-value>
        </init-param>
    </filter>
    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>encodingFilter</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping>

For complete example see here : https://lentux-informatica.com/spring-mvc-utf-8-encoding-problem-solved/

How to add and get Header values in WebApi

Suppose we have a API Controller ProductsController : ApiController

There is a Get function which returns some value and expects some input header (for eg. UserName & Password)

[HttpGet]
public IHttpActionResult GetProduct(int id)
{
    System.Net.Http.Headers.HttpRequestHeaders headers = this.Request.Headers;
    string token = string.Empty;
    string pwd = string.Empty;
    if (headers.Contains("username"))
    {
        token = headers.GetValues("username").First();
    }
    if (headers.Contains("password"))
    {
        pwd = headers.GetValues("password").First();
    }
    //code to authenticate and return some thing
    if (!Authenticated(token, pwd)
        return Unauthorized();
    var product = products.FirstOrDefault((p) => p.Id == id);
    if (product == null)
    {
        return NotFound();
    }
    return Ok(product);
}

Now we can send the request from page using JQuery:

$.ajax({
    url: 'api/products/10',
    type: 'GET',
    headers: { 'username': 'test','password':'123' },
    success: function (data) {
        alert(data);
    },
    failure: function (result) {
        alert('Error: ' + result);
    }
});

Hope this helps someone ...

Replace text in HTML page with jQuery

The html replace idea is good, but if done to the document.body, the page will blink and ads will disappear.

My solution:
$("*:contains('purrfect')").each(function() { var replaced = $(this).html().replace(/purrfect/g, "purrfect"); $(this).html(replaced); });

How to refresh an access form

You can repaint and / or requery:

On the close event of form B:

Forms!FormA.Requery

Is this what you mean?

Laravel check if collection is empty

You can always count the collection. For example $mentor->intern->count() will return how many intern does a mentor have.

https://laravel.com/docs/5.2/collections#method-count

In your code you can do something like this

foreach($mentors as $mentor)
    @if($mentor->intern->count() > 0)
    @foreach($mentor->intern as $intern)
        <tr class="table-row-link" data-href="/werknemer/{!! $intern->employee->EmployeeId !!}">
            <td>{{ $intern->employee->FirstName }}</td>
            <td>{{  $intern->employee->LastName }}</td>
        </tr>
    @endforeach
    @else
        Mentor don't have any intern
    @endif
@endforeach

How to escape a JSON string to have it in a URL?

I was looking to do the same thing. problem for me was my url was getting way too long. I found a solution today using Bruno Jouhier's jsUrl.js library.

I haven't tested it very thoroughly yet. However, here is an example showing character lengths of the string output after encoding the same large object using 3 different methods:

  • 2651 characters using jQuery.param
  • 1691 characters using JSON.stringify + encodeURIComponent
  • 821 characters using JSURL.stringify

clearly JSURL has the most optimized format for urlEncoding a js object.

the thread at https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/nodejs/ivdZuGCF86Q shows benchmarks for encoding and parsing.

Note: After testing, it looks like jsurl.js library uses ECMAScript 5 functions such as Object.keys, Array.map, and Array.filter. Therefore, it will only work on modern browsers (no ie 8 and under). However, are polyfills for these functions that would make it compatible with more browsers.

Set iframe content height to auto resize dynamically

In the iframe: So that means you have to add some code in the iframe page. Simply add this script to your code IN THE IFRAME:

<body onload="parent.alertsize(document.body.scrollHeight);">

In the holding page: In the page holding the iframe (in my case with ID="myiframe") add a small javascript:

<script>
function alertsize(pixels){
    pixels+=32;
    document.getElementById('myiframe').style.height=pixels+"px";
}
</script>

What happens now is that when the iframe is loaded it triggers a javascript in the parent window, which in this case is the page holding the iframe.

To that JavaScript function it sends how many pixels its (iframe) height is.

The parent window takes the number, adds 32 to it to avoid scrollbars, and sets the iframe height to the new number.

That's it, nothing else is needed.


But if you like to know some more small tricks keep on reading...

DYNAMIC HEIGHT IN THE IFRAME? If you like me like to toggle content the iframe height will change (without the page reloading and triggering the onload). I usually add a very simple toggle script I found online:

<script>
function toggle(obj) {
    var el = document.getElementById(obj);
    if ( el.style.display != 'block' ) el.style.display = 'block';
    else el.style.display = 'none';
}
</script>

to that script just add:

<script>
function toggle(obj) {
    var el = document.getElementById(obj);
    if ( el.style.display != 'block' ) el.style.display = 'block';
    else el.style.display = 'none';
    parent.alertsize(document.body.scrollHeight); // ADD THIS LINE!
}
</script>

How you use the above script is easy:

<a href="javascript:toggle('moreheight')">toggle height?</a><br />
<div style="display:none;" id="moreheight">
more height!<br />
more height!<br />
more height!<br />
</div>

For those that like to just cut and paste and go from there here is the two pages. In my case I had them in the same folder, but it should work cross domain too (I think...)

Complete holding page code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>THE IFRAME HOLDER</title>
<script>
function alertsize(pixels){
    pixels+=32;
    document.getElementById('myiframe').style.height=pixels+"px";
}
</script>
</head>

<body style="background:silver;">
<iframe src='theiframe.htm' style='width:458px;background:white;' frameborder='0' id="myiframe" scrolling="auto"></iframe>
</body>
</html>

Complete iframe code: (this iframe named "theiframe.htm")

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>IFRAME CONTENT</title>
<script>
function toggle(obj) {
    var el = document.getElementById(obj);
    if ( el.style.display != 'block' ) el.style.display = 'block';
    else el.style.display = 'none';
    parent.alertsize(document.body.scrollHeight);
}
</script>
</head>

<body onload="parent.alertsize(document.body.scrollHeight);">
<a href="javascript:toggle('moreheight')">toggle height?</a><br />
<div style="display:none;" id="moreheight">
more height!<br />
more height!<br />
more height!<br />
</div>
text<br />
text<br />
text<br />
text<br />
text<br />
text<br />
text<br />
text<br />
THE END

</body>
</html>

Demo

Convert month name to month number in SQL Server

select  Convert(datetime, '01 ' +  Replace('OCT-12', '-', ' '),6)

HTML Tags in Javascript Alert() method

You can add HTML into an alert string, but it will not render as HTML. It will just be displayed as a plain string. Simple answer: no.

How do I delete everything in Redis?

If you're using the redis-rb gem then you can simply call:

your_redis_client.flushdb

Testing web application on Mac/Safari when I don't own a Mac

The best site to test website and see them realtime on MAC Safari is by using

Browserstack

They have like 25 free minutes of first time testing and then 10 free mins each day..You can even test your pages from your local PC by using their WEB TUNNEL Feature

I tested 7 to 8 pages in browserstack...And I think they have some java debugging tool in the upper right corner that is great help

Windows could not start the Apache2 on Local Computer - problem

For me, this was the result of having set the document root (in httpd.conf) to a directory that did not exist (I had just emptied htdocs of a previous project).

Use of Greater Than Symbol in XML

CDATA is a better general solution.

Most efficient way to check for DBNull and then assign to a variable?

Not that I've done this, but you could get around the double indexer call and still keep your code clean by using a static / extension method.

Ie.

public static IsDBNull<T>(this object value, T default)
{
    return (value == DBNull.Value)
        ? default
        : (T)value;
}

public static IsDBNull<T>(this object value)
{
    return value.IsDBNull(default(T));
}

Then:

IDataRecord record; // Comes from somewhere

entity.StringProperty = record["StringProperty"].IsDBNull<string>(null);
entity.Int32Property = record["Int32Property"].IsDBNull<int>(50);

entity.NoDefaultString = record["NoDefaultString"].IsDBNull<string>();
entity.NoDefaultInt = record["NoDefaultInt"].IsDBNull<int>();

Also has the benefit of keeping the null checking logic in one place. Downside is, of course, that it's an extra method call.

Just a thought.

Difference between volatile and synchronized in Java

It's important to understand that there are two aspects to thread safety.

  1. execution control, and
  2. memory visibility

The first has to do with controlling when code executes (including the order in which instructions are executed) and whether it can execute concurrently, and the second to do with when the effects in memory of what has been done are visible to other threads. Because each CPU has several levels of cache between it and main memory, threads running on different CPUs or cores can see "memory" differently at any given moment in time because threads are permitted to obtain and work on private copies of main memory.

Using synchronized prevents any other thread from obtaining the monitor (or lock) for the same object, thereby preventing all code blocks protected by synchronization on the same object from executing concurrently. Synchronization also creates a "happens-before" memory barrier, causing a memory visibility constraint such that anything done up to the point some thread releases a lock appears to another thread subsequently acquiring the same lock to have happened before it acquired the lock. In practical terms, on current hardware, this typically causes flushing of the CPU caches when a monitor is acquired and writes to main memory when it is released, both of which are (relatively) expensive.

Using volatile, on the other hand, forces all accesses (read or write) to the volatile variable to occur to main memory, effectively keeping the volatile variable out of CPU caches. This can be useful for some actions where it is simply required that visibility of the variable be correct and order of accesses is not important. Using volatile also changes treatment of long and double to require accesses to them to be atomic; on some (older) hardware this might require locks, though not on modern 64 bit hardware. Under the new (JSR-133) memory model for Java 5+, the semantics of volatile have been strengthened to be almost as strong as synchronized with respect to memory visibility and instruction ordering (see http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/pugh/java/memoryModel/jsr-133-faq.html#volatile). For the purposes of visibility, each access to a volatile field acts like half a synchronization.

Under the new memory model, it is still true that volatile variables cannot be reordered with each other. The difference is that it is now no longer so easy to reorder normal field accesses around them. Writing to a volatile field has the same memory effect as a monitor release, and reading from a volatile field has the same memory effect as a monitor acquire. In effect, because the new memory model places stricter constraints on reordering of volatile field accesses with other field accesses, volatile or not, anything that was visible to thread A when it writes to volatile field f becomes visible to thread B when it reads f.

-- JSR 133 (Java Memory Model) FAQ

So, now both forms of memory barrier (under the current JMM) cause an instruction re-ordering barrier which prevents the compiler or run-time from re-ordering instructions across the barrier. In the old JMM, volatile did not prevent re-ordering. This can be important, because apart from memory barriers the only limitation imposed is that, for any particular thread, the net effect of the code is the same as it would be if the instructions were executed in precisely the order in which they appear in the source.

One use of volatile is for a shared but immutable object is recreated on the fly, with many other threads taking a reference to the object at a particular point in their execution cycle. One needs the other threads to begin using the recreated object once it is published, but does not need the additional overhead of full synchronization and it's attendant contention and cache flushing.

// Declaration
public class SharedLocation {
    static public SomeObject someObject=new SomeObject(); // default object
    }

// Publishing code
// Note: do not simply use SharedLocation.someObject.xxx(), since although
//       someObject will be internally consistent for xxx(), a subsequent 
//       call to yyy() might be inconsistent with xxx() if the object was 
//       replaced in between calls.
SharedLocation.someObject=new SomeObject(...); // new object is published

// Using code
private String getError() {
    SomeObject myCopy=SharedLocation.someObject; // gets current copy
    ...
    int cod=myCopy.getErrorCode();
    String txt=myCopy.getErrorText();
    return (cod+" - "+txt);
    }
// And so on, with myCopy always in a consistent state within and across calls
// Eventually we will return to the code that gets the current SomeObject.

Speaking to your read-update-write question, specifically. Consider the following unsafe code:

public void updateCounter() {
    if(counter==1000) { counter=0; }
    else              { counter++; }
    }

Now, with the updateCounter() method unsynchronized, two threads may enter it at the same time. Among the many permutations of what could happen, one is that thread-1 does the test for counter==1000 and finds it true and is then suspended. Then thread-2 does the same test and also sees it true and is suspended. Then thread-1 resumes and sets counter to 0. Then thread-2 resumes and again sets counter to 0 because it missed the update from thread-1. This can also happen even if thread switching does not occur as I have described, but simply because two different cached copies of counter were present in two different CPU cores and the threads each ran on a separate core. For that matter, one thread could have counter at one value and the other could have counter at some entirely different value just because of caching.

What's important in this example is that the variable counter was read from main memory into cache, updated in cache and only written back to main memory at some indeterminate point later when a memory barrier occurred or when the cache memory was needed for something else. Making the counter volatile is insufficient for thread-safety of this code, because the test for the maximum and the assignments are discrete operations, including the increment which is a set of non-atomic read+increment+write machine instructions, something like:

MOV EAX,counter
INC EAX
MOV counter,EAX

Volatile variables are useful only when all operations performed on them are "atomic", such as my example where a reference to a fully formed object is only read or written (and, indeed, typically it's only written from a single point). Another example would be a volatile array reference backing a copy-on-write list, provided the array was only read by first taking a local copy of the reference to it.

Sublime Text 3, convert spaces to tabs

In my case, this line solved the problem:

"translate_tabs_to_spaces": false

how to run two commands in sudo?

The above answers won't let you quote inside the quotes. This solution will:

sudo -su nobody umask 0000 \; mkdir -p "$targetdir"

Both the umask command and the mkdir-command runs in with the 'nobody' user.

json_encode is returning NULL?

few day ago I have the SAME problem with 1 table.

Firstly try:

echo json_encode($rows);
echo json_last_error();  // returns 5 ?

If last line returns 5, problem is with your data. I know, your tables are in UTF-8, but not entered data. For example the input was in txt file, but created on Win machine with stupid encoding (in my case Win-1250 = CP1250) and this data has been entered into the DB.

Solution? Look for new data (excel, web page), edit source txt file via PSPad (or whatever else), change encoding to UTF-8, delete all rows and now put data from original. Save. Enter into DB.

You can also only change encoding to utf-8 and then change all rows manually (give cols with special chars - desc, ...). Good for slaves...

Creating a JSON array in C#

Also , with Anonymous types ( I prefer not to do this) -- this is just another approach.

void Main()
{
    var x = new
    {
        items = new[]
        {
            new
            {
                name = "command", index = "X", optional = "0"
            },
            new
            {
                name = "command", index = "X", optional = "0"
            }
        }
    };
    JavaScriptSerializer js = new JavaScriptSerializer(); //system.web.extension assembly....
    Console.WriteLine(js.Serialize(x));
}

result :

{"items":[{"name":"command","index":"X","optional":"0"},{"name":"command","index":"X","optional":"0"}]}

How to dynamically add a style for text-align using jQuery

You could also try the following to add an inline style to the element:

$(this).attr('style', 'text-align: center');

This should make sure that other styling rules aren't overriding what you thought would work. I believe inline styles usually get precedence.

EDIT: Also, another tool that may help you is Jash (http://www.billyreisinger.com/jash/). It gives you a javascript command prompt so you can ensure you easily test javascript statements and make sure you're selecting the right element, etc.

ProgressDialog is deprecated.What is the alternate one to use?

In the progress dialog, user cannot do any kind of work. All the background processes are stopped during progress dialog. So, It is advisable to user progress-bar instead of progress dialog.

How to properly upgrade node using nvm

Node.JS to install a new version.

Step 1 : NVM Install

npm i -g nvm

Step 2 : NODE Newest version install

nvm install *.*.*(NodeVersion)

Step 3 : Selected Node Version

nvm use *.*.*(NodeVersion)

Finish

Turn on torch/flash on iPhone

From iOS 6.0 and above, toggling torch flash on/off,

- (void) toggleFlash {
    AVCaptureDevice *device = [AVCaptureDevice defaultDeviceWithMediaType:AVMediaTypeVideo];
    if ([device hasTorch] && [device hasFlash]){
        [device lockForConfiguration:nil];
        [device setFlashMode:(device.flashActive) ? AVCaptureFlashModeOff : AVCaptureFlashModeOn];
        [device setTorchMode:(device.torchActive) ? AVCaptureTorchModeOff : AVCaptureTorchModeOn];
        [device unlockForConfiguration];
    }
}

P.S. This approach is only suggestible if you don't have on/off function. Remember there's one more option Auto. i.e. AVCaptureFlashModeAuto and AVCaptureTorchModeAuto. To support auto mode as well, you've keep track of current mode and based on that change mode of flash & torch.

How do I tell if an object is a Promise?

Not an answer to the full question but I think it's worth to mention that in Node.js 10 a new util function called isPromise was added which checks if an object is a native Promise or not:

const utilTypes = require('util').types
const b_Promise = require('bluebird')

utilTypes.isPromise(Promise.resolve(5)) // true
utilTypes.isPromise(b_Promise.resolve(5)) // false

Differences between utf8 and latin1

UTF-8 is prepared for world domination, Latin1 isn't.

If you're trying to store non-Latin characters like Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Russian, etc using Latin1 encoding, then they will end up as mojibake. You may find the introductory text of this article useful (and even more if you know a bit Java).

Note that full 4-byte UTF-8 support was only introduced in MySQL 5.5. Before that version, it only goes up to 3 bytes per character, not 4 bytes per character. So, it supported only the BMP plane and not e.g. the Emoji plane. If you want full 4-byte UTF-8 support, upgrade MySQL to at least 5.5 or go for another RDBMS like PostgreSQL. In MySQL 5.5+ it's called utf8mb4.

How to convert string to double with proper cultureinfo

Convert.ToDouble(x) can also have a second parameter that indicates the CultureInfo and when you set it to System.Globalization.CultureInfo InvariantCulture the result will allways be the same.

C# - Multiple generic types in one list

I have also used a non-generic version, using the new keyword:

public interface IMetadata
{
    Type DataType { get; }

    object Data { get; }
}

public interface IMetadata<TData> : IMetadata
{
    new TData Data { get; }
}

Explicit interface implementation is used to allow both Data members:

public class Metadata<TData> : IMetadata<TData>
{
    public Metadata(TData data)
    {
       Data = data;
    }

    public Type DataType
    {
        get { return typeof(TData); }
    }

    object IMetadata.Data
    {
        get { return Data; }
    }

    public TData Data { get; private set; }
}

You could derive a version targeting value types:

public interface IValueTypeMetadata : IMetadata
{

}

public interface IValueTypeMetadata<TData> : IMetadata<TData>, IValueTypeMetadata where TData : struct
{

}

public class ValueTypeMetadata<TData> : Metadata<TData>, IValueTypeMetadata<TData> where TData : struct
{
    public ValueTypeMetadata(TData data) : base(data)
    {}
}

This can be extended to any kind of generic constraints.

How do I extract a substring from a string until the second space is encountered?

I would recommend a regular expression for this since it handles cases that you might not have considered.

var input = "o1 1232.5467 1232.5467 1232.5467 1232.5467 1232.5467 1232.5467";
var regex = new Regex(@"^(.*? .*?) ");
var match = regex.Match(input);
if (match.Success)
{
    Console.WriteLine(string.Format("'{0}'", match.Groups[1].Value));
}

How can I render HTML from another file in a React component?

You could do it if template is a react component.

Template.js

var React = require('react');

var Template = React.createClass({
    render: function(){
        return (<div>Mi HTML</div>);
    }
});

module.exports = Template;

MainComponent.js

var React = require('react');
var ReactDOM = require('react-dom');
var injectTapEventPlugin = require("react-tap-event-plugin");
var Template = require('./Template');

//Needed for React Developer Tools
window.React = React;

//Needed for onTouchTap
//Can go away when react 1.0 release
//Check this repo:
//https://github.com/zilverline/react-tap-event-plugin
injectTapEventPlugin();

var MainComponent = React.createClass({
    render: function() {
        return(
            <Template/>
        );
    }
});

// Render the main app react component into the app div.
// For more details see: https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/top-level-api.html#react.render
ReactDOM.render(
  <MainComponent />,
  document.getElementById('app')
 );

And if you are using Material-UI, for compatibility use Material-UI Components, no normal inputs.

Amazon S3 upload file and get URL

        System.out.println("Link : " + s3Object.getObjectContent().getHttpRequest().getURI());

with this you can retrieve the link of already uploaded file to S3 bucket.

The performance impact of using instanceof in Java

I also prefer an enum approach, but I would use a abstract base class to force the subclasses to implement the getType() method.

public abstract class Base
{
  protected enum TYPE
  {
    DERIVED_A, DERIVED_B
  }

  public abstract TYPE getType();

  class DerivedA extends Base
  {
    @Override
    public TYPE getType()
    {
      return TYPE.DERIVED_A;
    }
  }

  class DerivedB extends Base
  {
    @Override
    public TYPE getType()
    {
      return TYPE.DERIVED_B;
    }
  }
}

How do I write to a Python subprocess' stdin?

It might be better to use communicate:

from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, STDOUT
p = Popen(['myapp'], stdout=PIPE, stdin=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
stdout_data = p.communicate(input='data_to_write')[0]

"Better", because of this warning:

Use communicate() rather than .stdin.write, .stdout.read or .stderr.read to avoid deadlocks due to any of the other OS pipe buffers filling up and blocking the child process.

Screenshot sizes for publishing android app on Google Play

At last! I got the answer to this, the size to edit it in photoshop is: 379x674

You are welcome

HTML meta tag for content language

As a complement to other answers note that you can also put the lang attribute on various HTML tags inside a page. For example to give a hint to the spellchecker that the input text should be in english:

<input ... spellcheck="true" lang="en"> ...

See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_attributes/lang

Where does the iPhone Simulator store its data?

iOS 8 ~/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/[Device ID]/data/Applications/[appGUID]/Documents/

How to apply `git diff` patch without Git installed?

git diff > patchfile

and

patch -p1 < patchfile

work but as many people noticed in comments and other answers patch does not understand adds, deletes and renames. There is no option but git apply patchfile if you need handle file adds, deletes and renames.


EDIT December 2015

Latest versions of patch command (2.7, released in September 2012) support most features of the "diff --git" format, including renames and copies, permission changes, and symlink diffs (but not yet binary diffs) (release announcement).

So provided one uses current/latest version of patch there is no need to use git to be able to apply its diff as a patch.

Difference between 2 dates in seconds

$timeFirst  = strtotime('2011-05-12 18:20:20');
$timeSecond = strtotime('2011-05-13 18:20:20');
$differenceInSeconds = $timeSecond - $timeFirst;

You will then be able to use the seconds to find minutes, hours, days, etc.

subsetting a Python DataFrame

Creating an Empty Dataframe with known Column Name:

Names = ['Col1','ActivityID','TransactionID']
df = pd.DataFrame(columns = Names)

Creating a dataframe from csv:

df = pd.DataFrame('...../file_name.csv')

Creating a dynamic filter to subset a dtaframe:

i = 12
df[df['ActivitiID'] <= i]

Creating a dynamic filter to subset required columns of dtaframe

df[df['ActivityID'] == i][['TransactionID','ActivityID']]

how to measure running time of algorithms in python

For small algorithms you can use the module timeit from python documentation:

def test():
    "Stupid test function"
    L = []
    for i in range(100):
        L.append(i)

if __name__=='__main__':
    from timeit import Timer
    t = Timer("test()", "from __main__ import test")
    print t.timeit()

Less accurately but still valid you can use module time like this:

from time import time
t0 = time()
call_mifuntion_vers_1()
t1 = time()
call_mifunction_vers_2()
t2 = time()

print 'function vers1 takes %f' %(t1-t0)
print 'function vers2 takes %f' %(t2-t1)

How to turn off caching on Firefox?

After 2 hours of browsing for various alternatives, this is something that worked for me.

My requirement was disabling caching of js and css files in my spring secured web application. But at the same time caching these files "within" a particular session.

Passing a unique id with every request is one of the advised approaches.

And this is what I did :- Instead of

<script language="javascript" src="js/home.js"></script>

I used

<script language="javascript" src="js/home.js?id=${pageContext.session.id}"></script>

Any cons to the above approach are welcome. Security Issues ?

C# SQL Server - Passing a list to a stored procedure

CREATE TYPE [dbo].[StringList1] AS TABLE(
[Item] [NVARCHAR](MAX) NULL,
[counts][nvarchar](20) NULL);

create a TYPE as table and name it as"StringList1"

create PROCEDURE [dbo].[sp_UseStringList1]
@list StringList1 READONLY
AS
BEGIN
    -- Just return the items we passed in
    SELECT l.item,l.counts FROM @list l;
    SELECT l.item,l.counts into tempTable FROM @list l;
 End

The create a procedure as above and name it as "UserStringList1" s

String strConnection = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["DefaultConnection"].ConnectionString.ToString();
            SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(strConnection);
            con.Open();
            var table = new DataTable();

            table.Columns.Add("Item", typeof(string));
            table.Columns.Add("count", typeof(string));

            for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
            {
                table.Rows.Add(i.ToString(), (i+i).ToString());

            }
                SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("exec sp_UseStringList1 @list", con);


                    var pList = new SqlParameter("@list", SqlDbType.Structured);
                    pList.TypeName = "dbo.StringList1";
                    pList.Value = table;

                    cmd.Parameters.Add(pList);
                    string result = string.Empty;
                    string counts = string.Empty;
                    var dr = cmd.ExecuteReader();

                    while (dr.Read())
                    {
                        result += dr["Item"].ToString();
                        counts += dr["counts"].ToString();
                    }

in the c#,Try this

How do you send a Firebase Notification to all devices via CURL?

Your can send notification to all devices using "/topics/all"

https://fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send
Content-Type:application/json
Authorization:key=AIzaSyZ-1u...0GBYzPu7Udno5aA

{
  "to": "/topics/all",
  "notification":{ "title":"Notification title", "body":"Notification body", "sound":"default", "click_action":"FCM_PLUGIN_ACTIVITY", "icon":"fcm_push_icon" },
  "data": {
    "message": "This is a Firebase Cloud Messaging Topic Message!",
   }
}

How do I order my SQLITE database in descending order, for an android app?

This a terrible thing! It costs my a few hours! this is my table rows :

private String USER_ID = "user_id";
private String REMEMBER_UN = "remember_un";
private String REMEMBER_PWD = "remember_pwd";
private String HEAD_URL = "head_url";
private String USER_NAME = "user_name";
private String USER_PPU = "user_ppu";
private String CURRENT_TIME = "current_time";

Cursor c = db.rawQuery("SELECT * FROM " + TABLE +" ORDER BY " + CURRENT_TIME + " DESC",null);

Every time when I update the table , I will update the CURRENT_TIME for sort. But I found that it is not work.The result is not sorted what I want. Finally, I found that, the column "current_time" is the default row of sqlite.

The solution is, rename the column "cur_time" instead of "current_time".

Update a table using JOIN in SQL Server?

I had the same issue.. and you don't need to add a physical column.. cuz now you will have to maintain it.. what you can do is add a generic column in the select query:

EX:

select tb1.col1, tb1.col2, tb1.col3 ,
( 
select 'Match' from table2 as tbl2
where tbl1.col1 = tbl2.col1 and tab1.col2 = tbl2.col2
)  
from myTable as tbl1

Android Studio - ADB Error - "...device unauthorized. Please check the confirmation dialog on your device."

Below are the commands for Ubuntu user to authorise devices once developer option is ON.

sudo ~/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb kill-server

sudo ~/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb start-server

On Device:

  • Developer option activated
  • USB debugging checked

Connect your device now and you must only accept request, on your phone.

How do I configure modprobe to find my module?

You can make a symbolic link of your module to the standard path, so depmod will see it and you'll be able load it as any other module.

sudo ln -s /path/to/module.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`
sudo depmod -a
sudo modprobe module

If you add the module name to /etc/modules it will be loaded any time you boot.

Anyway I think that the proper configuration is to copy the module to the standard paths.

Laravel 5.2 - pluck() method returns array

I use laravel 7.x and I used this as a workaround:->get()->pluck('id')->toArray();

it gives back an array of ids [50,2,3] and this is the whole query I used:

   $article_tags = DB::table('tags')
    ->join('taggables', function ($join) use ($id) {
        $join->on('tags.id', '=', 'taggables.tag_id');
        $join->where([
            ['taggable_id', '=', $id],
            ['taggable_type','=','article']
        ]);
    })->select('tags.id')->get()->pluck('id')->toArray();

Ignore fields from Java object dynamically while sending as JSON from Spring MVC

Place @JsonIgnore on the field or its getter, or create a custom dto

@JsonIgnore
private String encryptedPwd;

or as mentioned above by ceekay annotate it with @JsonProperty where access attribute is set to write only

@JsonProperty( value = "password", access = JsonProperty.Access.WRITE_ONLY)
private String encryptedPwd;

Secure hash and salt for PHP passwords

I just want to point out that PHP 5.5 includes a password hashing API that provides a wrapper around crypt(). This API significantly simplifies the task of hashing, verifying and rehashing password hashes. The author has also released a compatibility pack (in the form of a single password.php file that you simply require to use), for those using PHP 5.3.7 and later and want to use this right now.

It only supports BCRYPT for now, but it aims to be easily extended to include other password hashing techniques and because the technique and cost is stored as part of the hash, changes to your prefered hashing technique/cost will not invalidate current hashes, the framework will automagically, use the correct technique/cost when validating. It also handles generating a "secure" salt if you do not explicitly define your own.

The API exposes four functions:

  • password_get_info() - returns information about the given hash
  • password_hash() - creates a password hash
  • password_needs_rehash() - checks if the given hash matches the given options. Useful to check if the hash conforms to your current technique/cost scheme allowing you to rehash if necessary
  • password_verify() - verifies that a password matches a hash

At the moment these functions accept the PASSWORD_BCRYPT and PASSWORD_DEFAULT password constants, which are synonymous at the moment, the difference being that PASSWORD_DEFAULT "may change in newer PHP releases when newer, stronger hashing algorithms are supported." Using PASSWORD_DEFAULT and password_needs_rehash() on login (and rehashing if necessary) should ensure that your hashes are reasonably resilient to brute-force attacks with little to no work for you.

EDIT: I just realised that this is mentioned briefly in Robert K's answer. I'll leave this answer here since I think it provides a bit more information about how it works and the ease of use it provides for those who don't know security.

SVN checkout the contents of a folder, not the folder itself

svn co svn://path destination

To specify current directory, use a "." for your destination directory:

svn checkout file:///home/landonwinters/svn/waterproject/trunk .

jQuery - Appending a div to body, the body is the object?

jQuery methods returns the set they were applied on.

Use .appendTo:

var $div = $('<div />').appendTo('body');
$div.attr('id', 'holdy');