Programs & Examples On #Drb

Why does C++ code for testing the Collatz conjecture run faster than hand-written assembly?

If you think a 64-bit DIV instruction is a good way to divide by two, then no wonder the compiler's asm output beat your hand-written code, even with -O0 (compile fast, no extra optimization, and store/reload to memory after/before every C statement so a debugger can modify variables).

See Agner Fog's Optimizing Assembly guide to learn how to write efficient asm. He also has instruction tables and a microarch guide for specific details for specific CPUs. See also the tag wiki for more perf links.

See also this more general question about beating the compiler with hand-written asm: Is inline assembly language slower than native C++ code?. TL:DR: yes if you do it wrong (like this question).

Usually you're fine letting the compiler do its thing, especially if you try to write C++ that can compile efficiently. Also see is assembly faster than compiled languages?. One of the answers links to these neat slides showing how various C compilers optimize some really simple functions with cool tricks. Matt Godbolt's CppCon2017 talk “What Has My Compiler Done for Me Lately? Unbolting the Compiler's Lid” is in a similar vein.


even:
    mov rbx, 2
    xor rdx, rdx
    div rbx

On Intel Haswell, div r64 is 36 uops, with a latency of 32-96 cycles, and a throughput of one per 21-74 cycles. (Plus the 2 uops to set up RBX and zero RDX, but out-of-order execution can run those early). High-uop-count instructions like DIV are microcoded, which can also cause front-end bottlenecks. In this case, latency is the most relevant factor because it's part of a loop-carried dependency chain.

shr rax, 1 does the same unsigned division: It's 1 uop, with 1c latency, and can run 2 per clock cycle.

For comparison, 32-bit division is faster, but still horrible vs. shifts. idiv r32 is 9 uops, 22-29c latency, and one per 8-11c throughput on Haswell.


As you can see from looking at gcc's -O0 asm output (Godbolt compiler explorer), it only uses shifts instructions. clang -O0 does compile naively like you thought, even using 64-bit IDIV twice. (When optimizing, compilers do use both outputs of IDIV when the source does a division and modulus with the same operands, if they use IDIV at all)

GCC doesn't have a totally-naive mode; it always transforms through GIMPLE, which means some "optimizations" can't be disabled. This includes recognizing division-by-constant and using shifts (power of 2) or a fixed-point multiplicative inverse (non power of 2) to avoid IDIV (see div_by_13 in the above godbolt link).

gcc -Os (optimize for size) does use IDIV for non-power-of-2 division, unfortunately even in cases where the multiplicative inverse code is only slightly larger but much faster.


Helping the compiler

(summary for this case: use uint64_t n)

First of all, it's only interesting to look at optimized compiler output. (-O3). -O0 speed is basically meaningless.

Look at your asm output (on Godbolt, or see How to remove "noise" from GCC/clang assembly output?). When the compiler doesn't make optimal code in the first place: Writing your C/C++ source in a way that guides the compiler into making better code is usually the best approach. You have to know asm, and know what's efficient, but you apply this knowledge indirectly. Compilers are also a good source of ideas: sometimes clang will do something cool, and you can hand-hold gcc into doing the same thing: see this answer and what I did with the non-unrolled loop in @Veedrac's code below.)

This approach is portable, and in 20 years some future compiler can compile it to whatever is efficient on future hardware (x86 or not), maybe using new ISA extension or auto-vectorizing. Hand-written x86-64 asm from 15 years ago would usually not be optimally tuned for Skylake. e.g. compare&branch macro-fusion didn't exist back then. What's optimal now for hand-crafted asm for one microarchitecture might not be optimal for other current and future CPUs. Comments on @johnfound's answer discuss major differences between AMD Bulldozer and Intel Haswell, which have a big effect on this code. But in theory, g++ -O3 -march=bdver3 and g++ -O3 -march=skylake will do the right thing. (Or -march=native.) Or -mtune=... to just tune, without using instructions that other CPUs might not support.

My feeling is that guiding the compiler to asm that's good for a current CPU you care about shouldn't be a problem for future compilers. They're hopefully better than current compilers at finding ways to transform code, and can find a way that works for future CPUs. Regardless, future x86 probably won't be terrible at anything that's good on current x86, and the future compiler will avoid any asm-specific pitfalls while implementing something like the data movement from your C source, if it doesn't see something better.

Hand-written asm is a black-box for the optimizer, so constant-propagation doesn't work when inlining makes an input a compile-time constant. Other optimizations are also affected. Read https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/DontUseInlineAsm before using asm. (And avoid MSVC-style inline asm: inputs/outputs have to go through memory which adds overhead.)

In this case: your n has a signed type, and gcc uses the SAR/SHR/ADD sequence that gives the correct rounding. (IDIV and arithmetic-shift "round" differently for negative inputs, see the SAR insn set ref manual entry). (IDK if gcc tried and failed to prove that n can't be negative, or what. Signed-overflow is undefined behaviour, so it should have been able to.)

You should have used uint64_t n, so it can just SHR. And so it's portable to systems where long is only 32-bit (e.g. x86-64 Windows).


BTW, gcc's optimized asm output looks pretty good (using unsigned long n): the inner loop it inlines into main() does this:

 # from gcc5.4 -O3  plus my comments

 # edx= count=1
 # rax= uint64_t n

.L9:                   # do{
    lea    rcx, [rax+1+rax*2]   # rcx = 3*n + 1
    mov    rdi, rax
    shr    rdi         # rdi = n>>1;
    test   al, 1       # set flags based on n%2 (aka n&1)
    mov    rax, rcx
    cmove  rax, rdi    # n= (n%2) ? 3*n+1 : n/2;
    add    edx, 1      # ++count;
    cmp    rax, 1
    jne   .L9          #}while(n!=1)

  cmp/branch to update max and maxi, and then do the next n

The inner loop is branchless, and the critical path of the loop-carried dependency chain is:

  • 3-component LEA (3 cycles)
  • cmov (2 cycles on Haswell, 1c on Broadwell or later).

Total: 5 cycle per iteration, latency bottleneck. Out-of-order execution takes care of everything else in parallel with this (in theory: I haven't tested with perf counters to see if it really runs at 5c/iter).

The FLAGS input of cmov (produced by TEST) is faster to produce than the RAX input (from LEA->MOV), so it's not on the critical path.

Similarly, the MOV->SHR that produces CMOV's RDI input is off the critical path, because it's also faster than the LEA. MOV on IvyBridge and later has zero latency (handled at register-rename time). (It still takes a uop, and a slot in the pipeline, so it's not free, just zero latency). The extra MOV in the LEA dep chain is part of the bottleneck on other CPUs.

The cmp/jne is also not part of the critical path: it's not loop-carried, because control dependencies are handled with branch prediction + speculative execution, unlike data dependencies on the critical path.


Beating the compiler

GCC did a pretty good job here. It could save one code byte by using inc edx instead of add edx, 1, because nobody cares about P4 and its false-dependencies for partial-flag-modifying instructions.

It could also save all the MOV instructions, and the TEST: SHR sets CF= the bit shifted out, so we can use cmovc instead of test / cmovz.

 ### Hand-optimized version of what gcc does
.L9:                       #do{
    lea     rcx, [rax+1+rax*2] # rcx = 3*n + 1
    shr     rax, 1         # n>>=1;    CF = n&1 = n%2
    cmovc   rax, rcx       # n= (n&1) ? 3*n+1 : n/2;
    inc     edx            # ++count;
    cmp     rax, 1
    jne     .L9            #}while(n!=1)

See @johnfound's answer for another clever trick: remove the CMP by branching on SHR's flag result as well as using it for CMOV: zero only if n was 1 (or 0) to start with. (Fun fact: SHR with count != 1 on Nehalem or earlier causes a stall if you read the flag results. That's how they made it single-uop. The shift-by-1 special encoding is fine, though.)

Avoiding MOV doesn't help with the latency at all on Haswell (Can x86's MOV really be "free"? Why can't I reproduce this at all?). It does help significantly on CPUs like Intel pre-IvB, and AMD Bulldozer-family, where MOV is not zero-latency. The compiler's wasted MOV instructions do affect the critical path. BD's complex-LEA and CMOV are both lower latency (2c and 1c respectively), so it's a bigger fraction of the latency. Also, throughput bottlenecks become an issue, because it only has two integer ALU pipes. See @johnfound's answer, where he has timing results from an AMD CPU.

Even on Haswell, this version may help a bit by avoiding some occasional delays where a non-critical uop steals an execution port from one on the critical path, delaying execution by 1 cycle. (This is called a resource conflict). It also saves a register, which may help when doing multiple n values in parallel in an interleaved loop (see below).

LEA's latency depends on the addressing mode, on Intel SnB-family CPUs. 3c for 3 components ([base+idx+const], which takes two separate adds), but only 1c with 2 or fewer components (one add). Some CPUs (like Core2) do even a 3-component LEA in a single cycle, but SnB-family doesn't. Worse, Intel SnB-family standardizes latencies so there are no 2c uops, otherwise 3-component LEA would be only 2c like Bulldozer. (3-component LEA is slower on AMD as well, just not by as much).

So lea rcx, [rax + rax*2] / inc rcx is only 2c latency, faster than lea rcx, [rax + rax*2 + 1], on Intel SnB-family CPUs like Haswell. Break-even on BD, and worse on Core2. It does cost an extra uop, which normally isn't worth it to save 1c latency, but latency is the major bottleneck here and Haswell has a wide enough pipeline to handle the extra uop throughput.

Neither gcc, icc, nor clang (on godbolt) used SHR's CF output, always using an AND or TEST. Silly compilers. :P They're great pieces of complex machinery, but a clever human can often beat them on small-scale problems. (Given thousands to millions of times longer to think about it, of course! Compilers don't use exhaustive algorithms to search for every possible way to do things, because that would take too long when optimizing a lot of inlined code, which is what they do best. They also don't model the pipeline in the target microarchitecture, at least not in the same detail as IACA or other static-analysis tools; they just use some heuristics.)


Simple loop unrolling won't help; this loop bottlenecks on the latency of a loop-carried dependency chain, not on loop overhead / throughput. This means it would do well with hyperthreading (or any other kind of SMT), since the CPU has lots of time to interleave instructions from two threads. This would mean parallelizing the loop in main, but that's fine because each thread can just check a range of n values and produce a pair of integers as a result.

Interleaving by hand within a single thread might be viable, too. Maybe compute the sequence for a pair of numbers in parallel, since each one only takes a couple registers, and they can all update the same max / maxi. This creates more instruction-level parallelism.

The trick is deciding whether to wait until all the n values have reached 1 before getting another pair of starting n values, or whether to break out and get a new start point for just one that reached the end condition, without touching the registers for the other sequence. Probably it's best to keep each chain working on useful data, otherwise you'd have to conditionally increment its counter.


You could maybe even do this with SSE packed-compare stuff to conditionally increment the counter for vector elements where n hadn't reached 1 yet. And then to hide the even longer latency of a SIMD conditional-increment implementation, you'd need to keep more vectors of n values up in the air. Maybe only worth with 256b vector (4x uint64_t).

I think the best strategy to make detection of a 1 "sticky" is to mask the vector of all-ones that you add to increment the counter. So after you've seen a 1 in an element, the increment-vector will have a zero, and +=0 is a no-op.

Untested idea for manual vectorization

# starting with YMM0 = [ n_d, n_c, n_b, n_a ]  (64-bit elements)
# ymm4 = _mm256_set1_epi64x(1):  increment vector
# ymm5 = all-zeros:  count vector

.inner_loop:
    vpaddq    ymm1, ymm0, xmm0
    vpaddq    ymm1, ymm1, xmm0
    vpaddq    ymm1, ymm1, set1_epi64(1)     # ymm1= 3*n + 1.  Maybe could do this more efficiently?

    vprllq    ymm3, ymm0, 63                # shift bit 1 to the sign bit

    vpsrlq    ymm0, ymm0, 1                 # n /= 2

    # FP blend between integer insns may cost extra bypass latency, but integer blends don't have 1 bit controlling a whole qword.
    vpblendvpd ymm0, ymm0, ymm1, ymm3       # variable blend controlled by the sign bit of each 64-bit element.  I might have the source operands backwards, I always have to look this up.

    # ymm0 = updated n  in each element.

    vpcmpeqq ymm1, ymm0, set1_epi64(1)
    vpandn   ymm4, ymm1, ymm4         # zero out elements of ymm4 where the compare was true

    vpaddq   ymm5, ymm5, ymm4         # count++ in elements where n has never been == 1

    vptest   ymm4, ymm4
    jnz  .inner_loop
    # Fall through when all the n values have reached 1 at some point, and our increment vector is all-zero

    vextracti128 ymm0, ymm5, 1
    vpmaxq .... crap this doesn't exist
    # Actually just delay doing a horizontal max until the very very end.  But you need some way to record max and maxi.

You can and should implement this with intrinsics instead of hand-written asm.


Algorithmic / implementation improvement:

Besides just implementing the same logic with more efficient asm, look for ways to simplify the logic, or avoid redundant work. e.g. memoize to detect common endings to sequences. Or even better, look at 8 trailing bits at once (gnasher's answer)

@EOF points out that tzcnt (or bsf) could be used to do multiple n/=2 iterations in one step. That's probably better than SIMD vectorizing; no SSE or AVX instruction can do that. It's still compatible with doing multiple scalar ns in parallel in different integer registers, though.

So the loop might look like this:

goto loop_entry;  // C++ structured like the asm, for illustration only
do {
   n = n*3 + 1;
  loop_entry:
   shift = _tzcnt_u64(n);
   n >>= shift;
   count += shift;
} while(n != 1);

This may do significantly fewer iterations, but variable-count shifts are slow on Intel SnB-family CPUs without BMI2. 3 uops, 2c latency. (They have an input dependency on the FLAGS because count=0 means the flags are unmodified. They handle this as a data dependency, and take multiple uops because a uop can only have 2 inputs (pre-HSW/BDW anyway)). This is the kind that people complaining about x86's crazy-CISC design are referring to. It makes x86 CPUs slower than they would be if the ISA was designed from scratch today, even in a mostly-similar way. (i.e. this is part of the "x86 tax" that costs speed / power.) SHRX/SHLX/SARX (BMI2) are a big win (1 uop / 1c latency).

It also puts tzcnt (3c on Haswell and later) on the critical path, so it significantly lengthens the total latency of the loop-carried dependency chain. It does remove any need for a CMOV, or for preparing a register holding n>>1, though. @Veedrac's answer overcomes all this by deferring the tzcnt/shift for multiple iterations, which is highly effective (see below).

We can safely use BSF or TZCNT interchangeably, because n can never be zero at that point. TZCNT's machine-code decodes as BSF on CPUs that don't support BMI1. (Meaningless prefixes are ignored, so REP BSF runs as BSF).

TZCNT performs much better than BSF on AMD CPUs that support it, so it can be a good idea to use REP BSF, even if you don't care about setting ZF if the input is zero rather than the output. Some compilers do this when you use __builtin_ctzll even with -mno-bmi.

They perform the same on Intel CPUs, so just save the byte if that's all that matters. TZCNT on Intel (pre-Skylake) still has a false-dependency on the supposedly write-only output operand, just like BSF, to support the undocumented behaviour that BSF with input = 0 leaves its destination unmodified. So you need to work around that unless optimizing only for Skylake, so there's nothing to gain from the extra REP byte. (Intel often goes above and beyond what the x86 ISA manual requires, to avoid breaking widely-used code that depends on something it shouldn't, or that is retroactively disallowed. e.g. Windows 9x's assumes no speculative prefetching of TLB entries, which was safe when the code was written, before Intel updated the TLB management rules.)

Anyway, LZCNT/TZCNT on Haswell have the same false dep as POPCNT: see this Q&A. This is why in gcc's asm output for @Veedrac's code, you see it breaking the dep chain with xor-zeroing on the register it's about to use as TZCNT's destination when it doesn't use dst=src. Since TZCNT/LZCNT/POPCNT never leave their destination undefined or unmodified, this false dependency on the output on Intel CPUs is a performance bug / limitation. Presumably it's worth some transistors / power to have them behave like other uops that go to the same execution unit. The only perf upside is interaction with another uarch limitation: they can micro-fuse a memory operand with an indexed addressing mode on Haswell, but on Skylake where Intel removed the false dep for LZCNT/TZCNT they "un-laminate" indexed addressing modes while POPCNT can still micro-fuse any addr mode.


Improvements to ideas / code from other answers:

@hidefromkgb's answer has a nice observation that you're guaranteed to be able to do one right shift after a 3n+1. You can compute this more even more efficiently than just leaving out the checks between steps. The asm implementation in that answer is broken, though (it depends on OF, which is undefined after SHRD with a count > 1), and slow: ROR rdi,2 is faster than SHRD rdi,rdi,2, and using two CMOV instructions on the critical path is slower than an extra TEST that can run in parallel.

I put tidied / improved C (which guides the compiler to produce better asm), and tested+working faster asm (in comments below the C) up on Godbolt: see the link in @hidefromkgb's answer. (This answer hit the 30k char limit from the large Godbolt URLs, but shortlinks can rot and were too long for goo.gl anyway.)

Also improved the output-printing to convert to a string and make one write() instead of writing one char at a time. This minimizes impact on timing the whole program with perf stat ./collatz (to record performance counters), and I de-obfuscated some of the non-critical asm.


@Veedrac's code

I got a minor speedup from right-shifting as much as we know needs doing, and checking to continue the loop. From 7.5s for limit=1e8 down to 7.275s, on Core2Duo (Merom), with an unroll factor of 16.

code + comments on Godbolt. Don't use this version with clang; it does something silly with the defer-loop. Using a tmp counter k and then adding it to count later changes what clang does, but that slightly hurts gcc.

See discussion in comments: Veedrac's code is excellent on CPUs with BMI1 (i.e. not Celeron/Pentium)

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src_dir=$base_dir/src/main/java
ic_api_cp=$base_dir/target/classes

while read f
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Eclipse C++ : "Program "g++" not found in PATH"

I had similar problem and I solved it by:

Installing g++ The GNU C++ compiler using Ubuntu Software Center

Changing in: Window -> Preferences -> C/C++ -> Build -> Settings -> Discovery -> CDT GCC Build in Complier Settings [Shared] from: ${COMMAND} -E -P -v -dD "${INPUTS}" to: /usr/bin/${COMMAND} -E -P -v -dD "${INPUTS}"

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import base64
coded_string = '''Q5YACgA...'''
base64.b64decode(coded_string)

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You can use nonHistorySelectors option from jquery mobile where you do not want to track history. You can find the detailed documentation here http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0a4.1/#docs/api/globalconfig.html

Clear contents of cells in VBA using column reference

I found this an easy way of cleaning in a shape between the desired row and column. I am not sure if this is what you are looking for. Hope it helps.

Sub sbClearCellsOnlyData()
Range("A1:C10").ClearContents
End Sub

Why do I get a SyntaxError for a Unicode escape in my file path?

This usually happens in Python 3. One of the common reasons would be that while specifying your file path you need "\\" instead of "\". As in:

filePath = "C:\\User\\Desktop\\myFile"

For Python 2, just using "\" would work.

Javascript checkbox onChange

function calc()
{
  if (document.getElementById('xxx').checked) 
  {
      document.getElementById('totalCost').value = 10;
  } else {
      calculate();
  }
}

HTML

<input type="checkbox" id="xxx" name="xxx" onclick="calc();"/>

simulate background-size:cover on <video> or <img>

Guys I have a better solution its short and works perfectly to me. I used it to video. And its perfectly emulates the cover option in css.

Javascript

    $(window).resize(function(){
            //use the aspect ration of your video or image instead 16/9
            if($(window).width()/$(window).height()>16/9){
                $("video").css("width","100%");
                $("video").css("height","auto");
            }
            else{
                $("video").css("width","auto");
                $("video").css("height","100%");
            }
    });

If you flip the if, else you will get contain.

And here is the css. (You don't need to use it if you don't want center positioning, the parent div must be "position:relative")

CSS

video {
position: absolute;
-webkit-transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%);
top: 50%;
left: 50%;}

Using Linq select list inside list

list.Where(m => m.application == "applicationName" && 
           m.users.Any(u => u.surname=="surname"));

if you want to filter users as TimSchmelter commented, you can use

list.Where(m => m.application == "applicationName")
    .Select(m => new Model
    {
        application = m.application,
        users = m.users.Where(u => u.surname=="surname").ToList()
    });

Twitter Bootstrap add active class to li

This did the job for me including active main dropdowns and the active childrens (thanks to 422):

$(document).ready(function () {
    var url = window.location;
    // Will only work if string in href matches with location
    $('ul.nav a[href="' + url + '"]').parent().addClass('active');

    // Will also work for relative and absolute hrefs
    $('ul.nav a').filter(function () {
        return this.href == url;
    }).parent().addClass('active').parent().parent().addClass('active');
});

MySQL - DATE_ADD month interval

BETWEEN ... AND

If expr is greater than or equal to min and expr is less than or equal to max, BETWEEN returns 1, otherwise it returns 0.

The important part here is EQUAL to max., which 1st of July is.

How to backup MySQL database in PHP?

I would recommend using mysqldump and from php use the system command as suggested in the article you found.

Remove scrollbars from textarea

I was able to get rid of my scroll bar on the body of text by removing my max-height attribute of my class.

Add data to JSONObject

The accepted answer by Francisco Spaeth works and is easy to follow. However, I think that method of building JSON sucks! This was really driven home for me as I converted some Python to Java where I could use dictionaries and nested lists, etc. to build JSON with ridiculously greater ease.

What I really don't like is having to instantiate separate objects (and generally even name them) to build up these nestings. If you have a lot of objects or data to deal with, or your use is more abstract, that is a real pain!

I tried getting around some of that by attempting to clear and reuse temp json objects and lists, but that didn't work for me because all the puts and gets, etc. in these Java objects work by reference not value. So, I'd end up with JSON objects containing a bunch of screwy data after still having some ugly (albeit differently styled) code.

So, here's what I came up with to clean this up. It could use further development, but this should help serve as a base for those of you looking for more reasonable JSON building code:

import java.util.AbstractMap.SimpleEntry;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import org.json.simple.JSONObject;

//  create and initialize an object 
public static JSONObject buildObject( final SimpleEntry... entries ) { 
    JSONObject object = new JSONObject();
    for( SimpleEntry e : entries ) object.put( e.getKey(), e.getValue() );
    return object;
}

//  nest a list of objects inside another                          
public static void putObjects( final JSONObject parentObject, final String key,
                               final JSONObject... objects ) { 
    List objectList = new ArrayList<JSONObject>();
    for( JSONObject o : objects ) objectList.add( o );
    parentObject.put( key, objectList );
}   

Implementation example:

JSONObject jsonRequest = new JSONObject();
putObjects( jsonRequest, "parent1Key",
    buildObject( 
        new SimpleEntry( "child1Key1", "someValue" )
      , new SimpleEntry( "child1Key2", "someValue" ) 
    )
  , buildObject( 
        new SimpleEntry( "child2Key1", "someValue" )
      , new SimpleEntry( "child2Key2", "someValue" ) 
    )
);      

Calling the base class constructor from the derived class constructor

The constructor of PetStore will call a constructor of Farm; there's no way you can prevent it. If you do nothing (as you've done), it will call the default constructor (Farm()); if you need to pass arguments, you'll have to specify the base class in the initializer list:

PetStore::PetStore()
    : Farm( neededArgument )
    , idF( 0 )
{
}

(Similarly, the constructor of PetStore will call the constructor of nameF. The constructor of a class always calls the constructors of all of its base classes and all of its members.)

How to convert a PIL Image into a numpy array?

Convert Numpy to PIL image and PIL to Numpy

import numpy as np
from PIL import Image

def pilToNumpy(img):
    return np.array(img)

def NumpyToPil(img):
    return Image.fromarray(img)

How to get the next auto-increment id in mysql

mysql_insert_id();

That's it :)

What are XAND and XOR

OMG, a XAND gate does exist. My dad is taking a technological class for a job and there IS an XAND gate. People are saying that both OR and AND are complete opposites, so they expand that to the exclusive-gate logic:

XOR: One or another, but not both.

Xand: One and another, but not both.

This is incorrect. If you're going to change from XOR to XAND, you have to flip every instance of 'AND' and 'OR':

XOR: One or another, but not both.

XAND: One and another, but not one.

So, XAND is true when and only when both inputs are equal, either if the inputs are 0/0 or 1/1

Laravel - Return json along with http status code

laravel 7.* You don't have to speicify JSON RESPONSE cause it's automatically converted it to JSON

return response(['Message'=>'Wrong Credintals'], 400);

'Field required a bean of type that could not be found.' error spring restful API using mongodb

you have to import spring-boot-starter-data-jpa as dependeny if you use spring boot

sudo service mongodb restart gives "unrecognized service error" in ubuntu 14.0.4

You need to make sure the file (ex. /etc/init.d/mongodb) has execute permissions.

chmod +x /etc/init.d/mongodb

Java: splitting the filename into a base and extension

I know others have mentioned String.split, but here is a variant that only yields two tokens (the base and the extension):

String[] tokens = fileName.split("\\.(?=[^\\.]+$)");

For example:

"test.cool.awesome.txt".split("\\.(?=[^\\.]+$)");

Yields:

["test.cool.awesome", "txt"]

The regular expression tells Java to split on any period that is followed by any number of non-periods, followed by the end of input. There is only one period that matches this definition (namely, the last period).

Technically Regexically speaking, this technique is called zero-width positive lookahead.


BTW, if you want to split a path and get the full filename including but not limited to the dot extension, using a path with forward slashes,

    String[] tokens = dir.split(".+?/(?=[^/]+$)");

For example:

    String dir = "/foo/bar/bam/boozled"; 
    String[] tokens = dir.split(".+?/(?=[^/]+$)");
    // [ "/foo/bar/bam/" "boozled" ] 

Set HTTP header for one request

Try this, perhaps it works ;)

.factory('authInterceptor', function($location, $q, $window) {


return {
    request: function(config) {
      config.headers = config.headers || {};

      config.headers.Authorization = 'xxxx-xxxx';

      return config;
    }
  };
})

.config(function($httpProvider) {
  $httpProvider.interceptors.push('authInterceptor');
})

And make sure your back end works too, try this. I'm using RESTful CodeIgniter.

class App extends REST_Controller {
    var $authorization = null;

    public function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();
        header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *');
        header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers: X-API-KEY, Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept, Access-Control-Request-Method, Authorization");
        header("Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, OPTIONS, PUT, DELETE");
        if ( "OPTIONS" === $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] ) {
            die();
        }

        if(!$this->input->get_request_header('Authorization')){
            $this->response(null, 400);    
        }

        $this->authorization = $this->input->get_request_header('Authorization');
    }

}

Java 8 stream map to list of keys sorted by values

You have to sort with a custom comparator based on the value of the entry. Then select all the keys before collecting

countByType.entrySet()
           .stream()
           .sorted((e1, e2) -> e1.getValue().compareTo(e2.getValue())) // custom Comparator
           .map(e -> e.getKey())
           .collect(Collectors.toList());

Popup window in winform c#

Just create another form (let's call it formPopup) using Visual Studio. In a button handler write the following code:

var formPopup = new Form();
formPopup.Show(this); // if you need non-modal window

If you need a non-modal window use: formPopup.Show();. If you need a dialog (so your code will hang on this invocation until you close the opened form) use: formPopup.ShowDialog()

How to bind multiple values to a single WPF TextBlock?

Use a ValueConverter

[ValueConversion(typeof(string), typeof(String))]
public class MyConverter: IValueConverter
{
    public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
    {
        return string.Format("{0}:{1}", (string) value, (string) parameter);
    }

    public object ConvertBack(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
    {

        return DependencyProperty.UnsetValue;
    }
}

and in the markup

<src:MyConverter x:Key="MyConverter"/>

. . .

<TextBlock Text="{Binding Name, Converter={StaticResource MyConverter Parameter=ID}}" />

How to get and set the current web page scroll position?

The currently accepted answer is incorrect - document.documentElement.scrollTop always returns 0 on Chrome. This is because WebKit uses body for keeping track of scrolling, whereas Firefox and IE use html.

To get the current position, you want:

document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.body.scrollTop

You can set the current position to 1000px down the page like so:

document.documentElement.scrollTop = document.body.scrollTop = 1000;

Or, using jQuery (animate it while you're at it!):

$("html, body").animate({ scrollTop: "1000px" });

Difference between Visual Basic 6.0 and VBA

Actually VBA can be used to compile DLLs. The Office 2000 and Office XP Developer editions included a VBA editor that could be used for making DLLs for use as COM Addins.

This functionality was removed in later versions (2003 and 2007) with the advent of the VSTO (VS Tools for Office) software, although obviously you could still create COM addins in a similar fashion without the use of VSTO (or VS.Net) by using VB6 IDE.

How to make zsh run as a login shell on Mac OS X (in iTerm)?

chsh -s $(which zsh)

You'll be prompted for your password, but once you update your settings any new iTerm/Terminal sessions you start on that machine will default to zsh.

Formatting DataBinder.Eval data

After some searching on the Internet I found that it is in fact very much possible to call a custom method passing the DataBinder.Eval value.

The custom method can be written in the code behind file, but has to be declared public or protected. In my question above, I had mentioned that I tried to write the custom method in the code behind but was getting a run time error. The reason for this was that I had declared the method to be private.

So, in summary the following is a good way to use DataBinder.Eval value to get your desired output:

default.aspx

<asp:Label ID="lblNewsDate" runat="server" Text='<%# GetDateInHomepageFormat(DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "publishedDate")) )%>'></asp:Label>

default.aspx.cs code:

public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
{

    protected string GetDateInHomepageFormat(DateTime d)
    {

        string retValue = "";

        // Do all processing required and return value

        return retValue;
    }
}

Hope this helps others as well.

PHP: Return all dates between two dates in an array

// will return dates array
function returnBetweenDates( $startDate, $endDate ){
    $startStamp = strtotime(  $startDate );
    $endStamp   = strtotime(  $endDate );

    if( $endStamp > $startStamp ){
        while( $endStamp >= $startStamp ){

            $dateArr[] = date( 'Y-m-d', $startStamp );

            $startStamp = strtotime( ' +1 day ', $startStamp );

        }
        return $dateArr;    
    }else{
        return $startDate;
    }

}

returnBetweenDates( '2014-09-16', '2014-09-26' );

// print_r( returnBetweenDates( '2014-09-16', '2014-09-26' ) );

it will return array like below:

Array
(
    [0] => 2014-09-16
    [1] => 2014-09-17
    [2] => 2014-09-18
    [3] => 2014-09-19
    [4] => 2014-09-20
    [5] => 2014-09-21
    [6] => 2014-09-22
    [7] => 2014-09-23
    [8] => 2014-09-24
    [9] => 2014-09-25
    [10] => 2014-09-26
)

Convert dd-mm-yyyy string to date

You can just:

var f = new Date(from.split('-').reverse().join('/'));

SVN undo delete before commit

The simplest solution I could find was to delete the parent directory from the working copy (with rm -rf, not svn delete), and then run svn update in the grandparent. Eg, if you deleted a/b/c, rm -rf a/b, cd a, svn up. That brings everything back. Of course, this is only a good solution if you have no other uncommitted changes in the parent directory that you want to keep.

Hopefully this page will be at the top of the results next time I google this question. It would be even better if someone suggested a cleaner method, of course.

"SSL certificate verify failed" using pip to install packages

Thank you for the solution. In my case the file %appdata%\pip\pip.ini was not present. I created it manually with this content:

[global]
trusted-host = pypi.python.org files.pythonhosted.org pypi.org pypi.io

Cannot find JavaScriptSerializer in .Net 4.0

Did you include a reference to System.Web.Extensions? If you click on your first link it says which assembly it's in.

How display only years in input Bootstrap Datepicker?

Try this

_x000D_
_x000D_
$("#datepicker").datepicker({_x000D_
    format: "yyyy",_x000D_
    viewMode: "years", _x000D_
    minViewMode: "years"_x000D_
});
_x000D_
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap-datepicker/1.6.4/js/bootstrap-datepicker.js"></script>_x000D_
<link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bootstrap-datepicker/1.6.4/css/bootstrap-datepicker.css" rel="stylesheet"/>_x000D_
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_
<input type="text" id="datepicker" />
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

$("#datepicker").datepicker( {
    format: " yyyy", // Notice the Extra space at the beginning
    viewMode: "years", 
    minViewMode: "years"
});

SyntaxError: Unexpected token o in JSON at position 1

Give a try catch like this, this will parse it if its stringified or else will take the default value

let example;
   try {
   example  = JSON.parse(data)
  } catch(e) {
    example = data
  }

How to count TRUE values in a logical vector

Another option which hasn't been mentioned is to use which:

length(which(z))

Just to actually provide some context on the "which is faster question", it's always easiest just to test yourself. I made the vector much larger for comparison:

z <- sample(c(TRUE,FALSE),1000000,rep=TRUE)
system.time(sum(z))
   user  system elapsed 
   0.03    0.00    0.03
system.time(length(z[z==TRUE]))
   user  system elapsed 
   0.75    0.07    0.83 
system.time(length(which(z)))
   user  system elapsed 
   1.34    0.28    1.64 
system.time(table(z)["TRUE"])
   user  system elapsed 
  10.62    0.52   11.19 

So clearly using sum is the best approach in this case. You may also want to check for NA values as Marek suggested.

Just to add a note regarding NA values and the which function:

> which(c(T, F, NA, NULL, T, F))
[1] 1 4
> which(!c(T, F, NA, NULL, T, F))
[1] 2 5

Note that which only checks for logical TRUE, so it essentially ignores non-logical values.

Sync data between Android App and webserver

Look at parseplatform.org. it's opensource project.

(As well as you can go for commercial package available at back4app.com.)

It is a very straight forward and user friendly server side database service that gives a great android client side API

Get user info via Google API

This scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile has been deprecated now. Please look at https://developers.google.com/+/api/auth-migration#timetable.

New scope you will be using to get profile info is: profile or https://www.googleapis.com/auth/plus.login

and the endpoint is - https://www.googleapis.com/plus/v1/people/{userId} - userId can be just 'me' for currently logged in user.

Default value of function parameter

Default arguments must be specified with the first occurrence of the function name—typically, in the function prototype. If the function prototype is omitted because the function definition also serves as the prototype, then the default arguments should be specified in the function header.

How to remove a package from Laravel using composer?

Remove the package with

composer remove vendorname/packagename

you can check remove package from composer.json - docs

Or you can remove the package name from composer.json file and run composer update from within your project directory. I hope it helps.

How to Get the HTTP Post data in C#?

In the web browser, open up developer console (F12 in Chrome and IE), then open network tab and watch the request and response data. Another option - use Fiddler (http://fiddler2.com/).

When you get to see the POST request as it is being sent to your page, look into query string and headers. You will see whether your data comes in query string or as form - or maybe it is not being sent to your page at all.

UPDATE: sorry, had to look at MailGun APIs first, they do not go through your browser, requests come directly from their server. You'll have to debug and examine all members of Request.Params when you get the POST from MailGun.

How to convert DataTable to class Object?

You may want to have a look at the code here. Although it doesn't answer your question directly you could adapt the generic class types that are used to map between data classes and business objects.

Also by using generic you run the conversion process as quickly as possible.

What's the most efficient way to check if a record exists in Oracle?

What is the underlying logic you want to implement? If, for instance, you want to test for the existence of a record to determine to insert or update then a better choice would be to use MERGE instead.

If you expect the record to exist most of the time, this is probably the most efficient way of doing things (although the CASE WHEN EXISTS solution is likely to be just as efficient):

begin
    select null into dummy
    from sales
    where sales_type = 'Accessories'
    and rownum = 1;

    --  do things here when record exists
    ....        

exception
    when no_data_found then
        -- do things here when record doesn't exists
        .....
end;

You only need the ROWNUM line if SALES_TYPE is not unique. There's no point in doing a count when all you want to know is whether at least one record exists.

Negative matching using grep (match lines that do not contain foo)

grep -v is your friend:

grep --help | grep invert  

-v, --invert-match select non-matching lines

Also check out the related -L (the complement of -l).

-L, --files-without-match only print FILE names containing no match

how to use html2canvas and jspdf to export to pdf in a proper and simple way

I have made a jsfiddle for you.

 <canvas id="canvas" width="480" height="320"></canvas> 
      <button id="download">Download Pdf</button>

'

        html2canvas($("#canvas"), {
            onrendered: function(canvas) {         
                var imgData = canvas.toDataURL(
                    'image/png');              
                var doc = new jsPDF('p', 'mm');
                doc.addImage(imgData, 'PNG', 10, 10);
                doc.save('sample-file.pdf');
            }
        });

jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/rpaul/p4s5k59s/5/

Tested in Chrome38, IE11 and Firefox 33. Seems to have issues with Safari. However, Andrew got it working in Safari 8 on Mac OSx by switching to JPEG from PNG. For details, see his comment below.

How to create a toggle button in Bootstrap

Initial answer from 2013

An excellent (unofficial) Bootstrap Switch is available.

Classic 2013 Switch

<input type="checkbox" name="my-checkbox" checked>
$("[name='my-checkbox']").bootstrapSwitch();

It uses radio types or checkboxes as switches. A type attribute has been added since V.1.8.

Source code is available on Github.

Note from 2018

I would not recommend to use those kind of old Switch buttons now, as they always seemed to suffer of usability issues as pointed by many people.

Please consider having a look at modern Switches like this one from the React Component framework (not Bootstrap related, but can be integrated in Bootstrap grid and UI though).

Other implementations exist for Angular, View or jQuery.

Modern 2018 Switch

import '../assets/index.less'
import React from 'react'
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom'
import Switch from 'rc-switch'

class Switcher extends React.Component {
  state = {
    disabled: false,
  }

  toggle = () => {
    this.setState({
      disabled: !this.state.disabled,
    })
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <div style={{ margin: 20 }}>
        <Switch
          disabled={this.state.disabled}
          checkedChildren={'?'}
          unCheckedChildren={'?'}
        />
        </div>
      </div>
    )
  }
}

ReactDOM.render(<Switcher />, document.getElementById('__react-content'))

Native Bootstrap Switches

See ohkts11's answer below about the native Bootstrap switches.

Best way to find the intersection of multiple sets?

I believe the simplest thing to do is:

#assuming three sets
set1 = {1,2,3,4,5}
set2 = {2,3,8,9}
set3 = {2,10,11,12}

#intersection
set4 = set1 & set2 & set3

set4 will be the intersection of set1 , set2, set3 and will contain the value 2.

print(set4)

set([2])

PHP Converting Integer to Date, reverse of strtotime

Can you try this,

echo date("Y-m-d H:i:s", 1388516401);

As noted by theGame,

This means that you pass in a string value for the time, and optionally a value for the current time, which is a UNIX timestamp. The value that is returned is an integer which is a UNIX timestamp.

echo strtotime("2014-01-01 00:00:01");

This will return into the value 1388516401, which is the UNIX timestamp for the date 2014-01-01. This can be confirmed using the date() function as like below:

echo date('Y-m-d', 1198148400); // echos 2014-01-01

Splitting string into multiple rows in Oracle

There is a huge difference between the below two:

  • splitting a single delimited string
  • splitting delimited strings for multiple rows in a table.

If you do not restrict the rows, then the CONNECT BY clause would produce multiple rows and will not give the desired output.

Apart from Regular Expressions, a few other alternatives are using:

  • XMLTable
  • MODEL clause

Setup

SQL> CREATE TABLE t (
  2    ID          NUMBER GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY,
  3    text        VARCHAR2(100)
  4  );

Table created.

SQL>
SQL> INSERT INTO t (text) VALUES ('word1, word2, word3');

1 row created.

SQL> INSERT INTO t (text) VALUES ('word4, word5, word6');

1 row created.

SQL> INSERT INTO t (text) VALUES ('word7, word8, word9');

1 row created.

SQL> COMMIT;

Commit complete.

SQL>
SQL> SELECT * FROM t;

        ID TEXT
---------- ----------------------------------------------
         1 word1, word2, word3
         2 word4, word5, word6
         3 word7, word8, word9

SQL>

Using XMLTABLE:

SQL> SELECT id,
  2         trim(COLUMN_VALUE) text
  3  FROM t,
  4    xmltable(('"'
  5    || REPLACE(text, ',', '","')
  6    || '"'))
  7  /

        ID TEXT
---------- ------------------------
         1 word1
         1 word2
         1 word3
         2 word4
         2 word5
         2 word6
         3 word7
         3 word8
         3 word9

9 rows selected.

SQL>

Using MODEL clause:

SQL> WITH
  2  model_param AS
  3     (
  4            SELECT id,
  5                      text AS orig_str ,
  6                   ','
  7                          || text
  8                          || ','                                 AS mod_str ,
  9                   1                                             AS start_pos ,
 10                   Length(text)                                   AS end_pos ,
 11                   (Length(text) - Length(Replace(text, ','))) + 1 AS element_count ,
 12                   0                                             AS element_no ,
 13                   ROWNUM                                        AS rn
 14            FROM   t )
 15     SELECT   id,
 16              trim(Substr(mod_str, start_pos, end_pos-start_pos)) text
 17     FROM     (
 18                     SELECT *
 19                     FROM   model_param MODEL PARTITION BY (id, rn, orig_str, mod_str)
 20                     DIMENSION BY (element_no)
 21                     MEASURES (start_pos, end_pos, element_count)
 22                     RULES ITERATE (2000)
 23                     UNTIL (ITERATION_NUMBER+1 = element_count[0])
 24                     ( start_pos[ITERATION_NUMBER+1] = instr(cv(mod_str), ',', 1, cv(element_no)) + 1,
 25                     end_pos[iteration_number+1] = instr(cv(mod_str), ',', 1, cv(element_no) + 1) )
 26                 )
 27     WHERE    element_no != 0
 28     ORDER BY mod_str ,
 29           element_no
 30  /

        ID TEXT
---------- --------------------------------------------------
         1 word1
         1 word2
         1 word3
         2 word4
         2 word5
         2 word6
         3 word7
         3 word8
         3 word9

9 rows selected.

SQL>

Setting the zoom level for a MKMapView

Based on quentinadam's answer

Swift 5.1

// size refers to the width/height of your tile images, by default is 256.0
// Seems to get better results using round()
// frame.width is the width of the MKMapView

let zoom = round(log2(360 * Double(frame.width) / size / region.span.longitudeDelta))

How read Doc or Docx file in java?

Here is the code of ReadDoc/docx.java: This will read a dox/docx file and print its content to the console. you can customize it your way.

import java.io.*;
import org.apache.poi.hwpf.HWPFDocument;
import org.apache.poi.hwpf.extractor.WordExtractor;

public class ReadDocFile
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        File file = null;
        WordExtractor extractor = null;
        try
        {

            file = new File("c:\\New.doc");
            FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file.getAbsolutePath());
            HWPFDocument document = new HWPFDocument(fis);
            extractor = new WordExtractor(document);
            String[] fileData = extractor.getParagraphText();
            for (int i = 0; i < fileData.length; i++)
            {
                if (fileData[i] != null)
                    System.out.println(fileData[i]);
            }
        }
        catch (Exception exep)
        {
            exep.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

How to add a line break in an Android TextView?

Tried all the above, did some research of my own resulting in the following solution for rendering linefeed escape chars:

string = string.replace("\\\n", System.getProperty("line.separator"));
  1. Using the replace method you need to filter escaped linefeeds (e.g. '\\n')

  2. Only then each instance of line feed '\n' escape chars gets rendered into the actual linefeed

For this example I used a Google Apps Scripting noSQL database (ScriptDb) with JSON formatted data.

Cheers :D

"An exception occurred while processing your request. Additionally, another exception occurred while executing the custom error page..."

When publishing to IIS, by Web Deploy, I just checked the File Publish Options and executed. Now it works! After this deploy the checkboxes do not need to be checked. I don't think this can be a solutions for everybody, but it is the only thing I needed to do to solve my problem. Good luck.

How to reference Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel dll?

Use NuGet (VS 2013+):

The easiest way in any recent version of Visual Studio is to just use the NuGet package manager. (Even VS2013, with the NuGet Package Manager for Visual Studio 2013 extension.)

Right-click on "References" and choose "Manage NuGet Packages...", then just search for Excel.

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VS 2012:

Older versions of VS didn't have access to NuGet.

  • Right-click on "References" and select "Add Reference".
  • Select "Extensions" on the left.
  • Look for Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.
    (Note that you can just type "excel" into the search box in the upper-right corner.)

VS2012/2013 References


VS 2008 / 2010:

  • Right-click on "References" and select "Add Reference".
  • Select the ".NET" tab.
  • Look for Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.

VS 2010 References

Sort objects in ArrayList by date?

Use the below approach to identify dates are sort or not

SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MM-yyyy");

boolean  decendingOrder = true;
    for(int index=0;index<date.size() - 1; index++) {
        if(simpleDateFormat.parse(date.get(index)).getTime() < simpleDateFormat.parse(date.get(index+1)).getTime()) {
            decendingOrder = false;
            break;
        }
    }
    if(decendingOrder) {
        System.out.println("Date are in Decending Order");
    }else {
        System.out.println("Date not in Decending Order");
    }       
}   

How do you get the selected value of a Spinner?

To get just the string value within the spinner use the following:

spinner.getSelectedItem().toString();

Apply CSS rules if browser is IE

I prefer using a separate file for ie rules, as described earlier.

<!--[if IE]><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ie-style.css"/><![endif]-->

And inside it you can set up rules for different versions of ie using this:

.abc {...} /* ALL MSIE */
*html *.abc {...} /* MSIE 6 */
*:first-child+html .abc {...} /* MSIE 7 */

How to merge rows in a column into one cell in excel?

For Excel 2011 on Mac it's different. I did it as a three step process.

  1. Create a column of values in column A.
  2. In column B, to the right of the first cell, create a rule that uses the concatenate function on the column value and ",". For example, assuming A1 is the first row, the formula for B1 is =B1. For the next row to row N, the formula is =Concatenate(",",A2). You end up with:
QA
,Sekuli
,Testing
,Applitools
,Visual Testing
,Test Automation
,Selenium
  1. In column C create a formula that concatenates all previous values. Because it is additive you will get all at the end. The formula for cell C1 is =B1. For all other rows to N, the formula is =Concatenate(C1,B2). And you get:
QA,Sekuli
QA,Sekuli,Testing
QA,Sekuli,Testing,Applitools
QA,Sekuli,Testing,Applitools,Visual Testing
QA,Sekuli,Testing,Applitools,Visual Testing,Test Automation
QA,Sekuli,Testing,Applitools,Visual Testing,Test Automation,Selenium

The last cell of the list will be what you want. This is compatible with Excel on Windows or Mac.

Javascript: getFullyear() is not a function

You are overwriting the start date object with the value of a DOM Element with an id of Startdate.

This should work:

var start = new Date(document.getElementById('Stardate').value);

var y = start.getFullYear();

Can Python test the membership of multiple values in a list?

[x for x in ['a','b'] if x in ['b', 'a', 'foo', 'bar']]

The reason I think this is better than the chosen answer is that you really don't need to call the 'all()' function. Empty list evaluates to False in IF statements, non-empty list evaluates to True.

if [x for x in ['a','b'] if x in ['b', 'a', 'foo', 'bar']]:
    ...Do something...

Example:

>>> [x for x in ['a','b'] if x in ['b', 'a', 'foo', 'bar']]
['a', 'b']
>>> [x for x in ['G','F'] if x in ['b', 'a', 'foo', 'bar']]
[]

Calling multiple JavaScript functions on a button click

It isn't getting called because you have a return statement above it. In the following code:

function test(){
  return 1;
  doStuff();
}

doStuff() will never be called. What I would suggest is writing a wrapper function

function wrapper(){
   if (validateView()){
     showDiv();
     return true;
   }
}

and then call the wrapper function from your onclick handler.

Declare variable MySQL trigger

Agree with neubert about the DECLARE statements, this will fix syntax error. But I would suggest you to avoid using openning cursors, they may be slow.

For your task: use INSERT...SELECT statement which will help you to copy data from one table to another using only one query.

INSERT ... SELECT Syntax.

Refused to display 'url' in a frame because it set 'X-Frame-Options' to 'SAMEORIGIN'

I was facing this issue in Grafana and all I had to do was go to the config file and change allow_embedding to true and restart the server :)

How to find the index of an element in an array in Java?

That's not even valid syntax. And you're trying to compare to a string. For arrays you would have to walk the array yourself:

public class T {
  public static void main( String args[] ) {
    char[] list = {'m', 'e', 'y'};

    int index = -1;

    for (int i = 0; (i < list.length) && (index == -1); i++) {
        if (list[i] == 'e') {
            index = i;
        }
    }

    System.out.println(index);
  }
}

If you are using a collection, such as ArrayList<Character> you can also use the indexOf() method:

ArrayList<Character> list = new ArrayList<Character>();
list.add('m');
list.add('e');
list.add('y');

System.out.println(list.indexOf('e'));

There is also the Arrays class which shortens above code:

List list = Arrays.asList(new Character[] { 'm', 'e', 'y' });
System.out.println(list.indexOf('e'));

What's the best way to add a full screen background image in React Native

I solved my background image issue using this code.

import React from 'react';
import { StyleSheet, Text, View,Alert,ImageBackground } from 'react-native';

import { TextInput,Button,IconButton,Colors,Avatar } from 'react-native-paper';

class SignInScreen extends React.Component {

    state = {
       UsernameOrEmail  : '',
       Password : '',
     }
    render() {
      return (
             <ImageBackground  source={require('../assets/icons/background3.jpg')} style {styles.backgroundImage}>
              <Text>React Native App</Text>
            </ImageBackground>
          );
    }
  }


    export default SignInScreen;

    const styles = StyleSheet.create({
     backgroundImage: {
      flex: 1,
      resizeMode: 'cover', // or 'stretch'
     }
   });

How do I close a single buffer (out of many) in Vim?

Use:

  • :ls - to list buffers
  • :bd#n - to close buffer where #n is the buffer number (use ls to get it)

Examples:

  • to delete buffer 2:

    :bd2
    

Changing the color of a clicked table row using jQuery

Create a css class that applies the row color, and use jQuery to toggle the class on/off:

CSS:

.selected {
    background-color: blue;
}

jQuery:

$('#data tr').on('click', function() {
    $(this).toggleClass('selected');
});

The first click will add the class (making the background color blue), and the next click will remove the class, reverting it to whatever it was before. Repeat!

In terms of the two CSS classes you already have, I would change the .nonhighlighted class to apply to all rows of the table by default, then toggle the .highlighted on and off:

<style type="text/css">

.highlighted {
    background: red;
}

#data tr {
    background: white;
}

</style>

$('#data tr').on('click', function() {
    $(this).toggleClass('highlighted');
});

Postgresql: error "must be owner of relation" when changing a owner object

Thanks to Mike's comment, I've re-read the doc and I've realised that my current user (i.e. userA that already has the create privilege) wasn't a direct/indirect member of the new owning role...

So the solution was quite simple - I've just done this grant:

grant userB to userA;

That's all folks ;-)


Update:

Another requirement is that the object has to be owned by user userA before altering it...

Closure in Java 7

A closure is a block of code that can be referenced (and passed around) with access to the variables of the enclosing scope.

Since Java 1.1, anonymous inner class have provided this facility in a highly verbose manner. They also have a restriction of only being able to use final (and definitely assigned) local variables. (Note, even non-final local variables are in scope, but cannot be used.)

Java SE 8 is intended to have a more concise version of this for single-method interfaces*, called "lambdas". Lambdas have much the same restrictions as anonymous inner classes, although some details vary randomly.

Lambdas are being developed under Project Lambda and JSR 335.

*Originally the design was more flexible allowing Single Abstract Methods (SAM) types. Unfortunately the new design is less flexible, but does attempt to justify allowing implementation within interfaces.

How to show image using ImageView in Android

If you want to display an image file on the phone, you can do this:

private ImageView mImageView;
mImageView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.imageViewId);
mImageView.setImageBitmap(BitmapFactory.decodeFile("pathToImageFile"));

If you want to display an image from your drawable resources, do this:

private ImageView mImageView;
mImageView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.imageViewId);
mImageView.setImageResource(R.drawable.imageFileId);

You'll find the drawable folder(s) in the project res folder. You can put your image files there.

MVC - Set selected value of SelectList

I needed a dropdown in a editable grid myself with preselected dropdown values. Afaik, the selectlist data is provided by the controller to the view, so it is created before the view consumes it. Once the view consumes the SelectList, I hand it over to a custom helper that uses the standard DropDownList helper. So, a fairly light solution imo. Guess it fits in the ASP.Net MVC spirit at the time of writing; when not happy roll your own...

public static string DropDownListEx(this HtmlHelper helper, string name, SelectList selectList, object selectedValue)
{
    return helper.DropDownList(name, new SelectList(selectList.Items, selectList.DataValueField, selectList.DataTextField, selectedValue));
}

Add space between two particular <td>s

my choice was to add a td between the two td tags and set the width to 25px. It can be more or less to your liking. This may be cheesy but it is simple and it works.

Import .bak file to a database in SQL server

You can simply restore these database backup files using native SQL Server methods, or you can use ApexSQL Restore tool to quickly virtually attach the files and access them as fully restored databases.

Disclaimer: I work as a Product Support Engineer at ApexSQL

HRESULT: 0x800A03EC on Worksheet.range

I don't understand the issue. But here is the thing that solved my issue.

Go to Excel Options > Save > Save Files in this format > Select "Excel Workbook(*.xlsx)". Previously, my WorkBooks were opening in [Compatibuility Mode] And now they are opening in normal mode. Range function works fine with that.

PowerShell script to check the status of a URL

$request = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create('http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20259251/powershell-script-to-check-the-status-of-a-url')

$response = $request.GetResponse()

$response.StatusCode

$response.Close()

Inserting string at position x of another string

Maybe it's even better if you determine position using indexOf() like this:

function insertString(a, b, at)
{
    var position = a.indexOf(at); 

    if (position !== -1)
    {
        return a.substr(0, position) + b + a.substr(position);    
    }  

    return "substring not found";
}

then call the function like this:

insertString("I want apple", "an ", "apple");

Note, that I put a space after the "an " in the function call, rather than in the return statement.

How to open the command prompt and insert commands using Java?

The following works for me on Snow Leopard:

Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();
String[] testArgs = {"touch", "TEST"};
rt.exec(testArgs);

Thing is, if you want to read the output of that command, you need to read the input stream of the process. For instance,

Process pr = rt.exec(arguments);
BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(pr.getInputStream()));

Allows you to read the line-by-line output of the command pretty easily.

The problem might also be that MS-DOS does not interpret your order of arguments to mean "start a new command prompt". Your array should probably be:

{"start", "cmd.exe", "\c"}

To open commands in the new command prompt, you'd have to use the Process reference. But I'm not sure why you'd want to do that when you can just use exec, as the person before me commented.

How to style HTML5 range input to have different color before and after slider?

If you use first answer, there is a problem with thumb. In chrome if you want the thumb to be larger than the track, then the box shadow overlaps the track with the height of the thumb.

Just sumup all these answers and wrote normally working slider with larger slider thumb: jsfiddle

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const slider = document.getElementById("myinput")
const min = slider.min
const max = slider.max
const value = slider.value

slider.style.background = `linear-gradient(to right, red 0%, red ${(value-min)/(max-min)*100}%, #DEE2E6 ${(value-min)/(max-min)*100}%, #DEE2E6 100%)`

slider.oninput = function() {
  this.style.background = `linear-gradient(to right, red 0%, red ${(this.value-this.min)/(this.max-this.min)*100}%, #DEE2E6 ${(this.value-this.min)/(this.max-this.min)*100}%, #DEE2E6 100%)`
};
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#myinput {
  border-radius: 8px;
  height: 4px;
  width: 150px;
  outline: none;
  -webkit-appearance: none;
}

input[type='range']::-webkit-slider-thumb {
  width: 6px;
  -webkit-appearance: none;
  height: 12px;
  background: black;
  border-radius: 2px;
}
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<div class="chrome">
  <input id="myinput" type="range" min="0" value="25" max="200" />
</div>
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Mailbox unavailable. The server response was: 5.7.1 Unable to relay for [email protected]

Aahh got it... I got it working :)

Thanks Christopher, your suggesion is correct.

But, finding "Default SMTP Virtual Server" was tricky ;)

Even if you use IIS7 to deploy your web site, you have to open IIS6 Manager to configure SMTP server (why?).

I configured SMTP server as follows to make things work:

  1. Open IIS6 Manager using Control Panel --> Administrative Tools.
  2. Open SMTP Virtual Server properties.
  3. On General tab, Set IP address of the Web server instead of "All Unassigned".
  4. In Access tab, click on Relay button, this will open Relay Restrictions dialog.
  5. In relay computers list, add the loopback IP address i.e 127.0.0.1 and IP address of the Web server, so that they can pass/relay emails through the SMTP server.

How to get a string between two characters?

String result = s.substring(s.indexOf("(") + 1, s.indexOf(")"));

Fragment onCreateView and onActivityCreated called twice

Ok, Here's what I found out.

What I didn't understand is that all fragments that are attached to an activity when a config change happens (phone rotates) are recreated and added back to the activity. (which makes sense)

What was happening in the TabListener constructor was the tab was detached if it was found and attached to the activity. See below:

mFragment = mActivity.getFragmentManager().findFragmentByTag(mTag);
    if (mFragment != null && !mFragment.isDetached()) {
        Log.d(TAG, "constructor: detaching fragment " + mTag);
        FragmentTransaction ft = mActivity.getFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
        ft.detach(mFragment);
        ft.commit();
    }

Later in the activity onCreate the previously selected tab was selected from the saved instance state. See below:

if (savedInstanceState != null) {
    bar.setSelectedNavigationItem(savedInstanceState.getInt("tab", 0));
    Log.d(TAG, "FragmentTabs.onCreate tab: " + savedInstanceState.getInt("tab"));
    Log.d(TAG, "FragmentTabs.onCreate number: " + savedInstanceState.getInt("number"));
}

When the tab was selected it would be reattached in the onTabSelected callback.

public void onTabSelected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {
    if (mFragment == null) {
        mFragment = Fragment.instantiate(mActivity, mClass.getName(), mArgs);
        Log.d(TAG, "onTabSelected adding fragment " + mTag);
        ft.add(android.R.id.content, mFragment, mTag);
    } else {
        Log.d(TAG, "onTabSelected attaching fragment " + mTag);
        ft.attach(mFragment);
    }
}

The fragment being attached is the second call to the onCreateView and onActivityCreated methods. (The first being when the system is recreating the acitivity and all attached fragments) The first time the onSavedInstanceState Bundle would have saved data but not the second time.

The solution is to not detach the fragment in the TabListener constructor, just leave it attached. (You still need to find it in the FragmentManager by it's tag) Also, in the onTabSelected method I check to see if the fragment is detached before I attach it. Something like this:

public void onTabSelected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {
            if (mFragment == null) {
                mFragment = Fragment.instantiate(mActivity, mClass.getName(), mArgs);
                Log.d(TAG, "onTabSelected adding fragment " + mTag);
                ft.add(android.R.id.content, mFragment, mTag);
            } else {

                if(mFragment.isDetached()) {
                    Log.d(TAG, "onTabSelected attaching fragment " + mTag);
                    ft.attach(mFragment);
                } else {
                    Log.d(TAG, "onTabSelected fragment already attached " + mTag);
                }
            }
        }

How to check if memcache or memcached is installed for PHP?

It may be relevant to see if it's running in PHP via command line as well-

<path-to-php-binary>php -i | grep memcache

Python Error: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'NoneType'

In your giant elif chain, you skipped 13. You might want to throw an error if you hit the end of the chain without returning anything, to catch numbers you missed and incorrect calls of the function:

...
elif x == 90:
    return 6
else:
    raise ValueError(x)

Android API 21 Toolbar Padding

Make your toolbar like:

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="@+id/menuToolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_margin="0dp"
android:background="@color/white"
android:contentInsetLeft="10dp"
android:contentInsetRight="10dp"
android:contentInsetStart="10dp"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:padding="0dp"
app:contentInsetLeft="10dp"
app:contentInsetRight="10dp"
app:contentInsetStart="10dp"></android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>

You need to add

contentInset

attribute to add spacing

please follow this link for more - Android Tips

Receiving "fatal: Not a git repository" when attempting to remote add a Git repo

Below error seems like Gits didn't find .git file in current directory so throwing error message.

Therefore change to directory to repository directory where you have checkout the code from git and then run this command.

  • $ git checkout

What does Visual Studio mean by normalize inconsistent line endings?

There'a an add-in for Visual Studio 2008 that converts the end of line format when a file is saved. You can download it here: http://grebulon.com/software/stripem.php

How to extract duration time from ffmpeg output?

For those who want to perform the same calculations with no additional software in Windows, here is the script for command line script:

set input=video.ts

ffmpeg -i "%input%" 2> output.tmp

rem search "  Duration: HH:MM:SS.mm, start: NNNN.NNNN, bitrate: xxxx kb/s"
for /F "tokens=1,2,3,4,5,6 delims=:., " %%i in (output.tmp) do (
    if "%%i"=="Duration" call :calcLength %%j %%k %%l %%m
)
goto :EOF

:calcLength
set /A s=%3
set /A s=s+%2*60
set /A s=s+%1*60*60
set /A VIDEO_LENGTH_S = s
set /A VIDEO_LENGTH_MS = s*1000 + %4
echo Video duration %1:%2:%3.%4 = %VIDEO_LENGTH_MS%ms = %VIDEO_LENGTH_S%s

Same answer posted here: How to crop last N seconds from a TS video

What is the Gradle artifact dependency graph command?

gradlew -q :app:dependencies > dependencies.txt

Will write all dependencies to the file dependencies.txt

How do I solve the INSTALL_FAILED_DEXOPT error?

Make sure you have all the SDK's you need installed and Gradle is targeting the right version.

I was having the same issue, but it was caused by me updating my device to Android 5.0 and then forgetting to change all my builds to target it.

How do you add an action to a button programmatically in xcode

Try this:

Swift 4

myButton.addTarget(self,
                   action: #selector(myAction),
                   for: .touchUpInside)

Objective-C

[myButton addTarget:self 
             action:@selector(myAction) 
   forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];

You can find a rich source of information in Apple's Documentation. Have a look at the UIButton's documentation, it will reveal that UIButton is a descendant of UIControl, which implements the method to add targets.

--

You'll need to pay attention to whether add colon or not after myAction in action:@selector(myAction)

Here's the reference.

Where do I mark a lambda expression async?

To mark a lambda async, simply prepend async before its argument list:

// Add a command to delete the current Group
contextMenu.Commands.Add(new UICommand("Delete this Group", async (contextMenuCmd) =>
{
    SQLiteUtils slu = new SQLiteUtils();
    await slu.DeleteGroupAsync(groupName);
}));

How to change the project in GCP using CLI commands

You should actually use the project ID and not the name as the other answers imply.

Example:

gcloud projects list

PROJECT_ID              NAME                  PROJECT_NUMBER
something-staging-2587  something-staging     804012817122
something-production-24 something-production  392181605736

Then:

gcloud config set project something-staging-2587

It's also the same thing when using just the --project flag with one of the commands:

gcloud --project something-staging-2587 compute ssh my_vm

If you use the name it will silently accept it but then you'll always get connection or permission issues when trying to deploy something to the project.

File Explorer in Android Studio

This works on Android Studio 1.x:

  • Tools --> Android --> Android Device Monitor (this open the ADM)
  • Window --> Show View
  • Search for File Explorer then press the OK Button
  • The File Explorer Tab is now open on the View

Render a string in HTML and preserve spaces and linebreaks

As you mentioned on @Developer 's answer, I would probably HTML-encode on user input. If you are worried about XSS, you probably never need the user's input in it's original form, so you might as well escape it (and replace spaces and newlines while you are at it).

Note that escaping on input means you should either use @Html.Raw or create an MvcHtmlString to render that particular input.

You can also try

System.Security.SecurityElement.Escape(userInput)

but I think it won't escape spaces either. So in that case, I suggest just do a .NET

System.Security.SecurityElement.Escape(userInput).Replace(" ", "&nbsp;").Replace("\n", "<br>")

on user input. And if you want to dig deeper into usability, perhaps you can do an XML parse of the user's input (or play with regular expressions) to only allow a predefined set of tags. For instance, allow

<p>, <span>, <strong>

... but don't allow

<script> or <iframe>

How to build jars from IntelliJ properly?

Here are 2 examples with maven project, step by step:

Method 1: Build jar with maven and pom.xml

  1. File, new, project, maven
  2. create a package , create a java program inside that package enter image description here
  3. at pom.xml, add maven-jar-plugin.

        <plugin>
            <!-- Build an executable JAR -->
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.1.0</version>
            <configuration>
                <archive>
                    <manifest>
                        <addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
                        <classpathPrefix>lib/</classpathPrefix>
                        <mainClass>somePackage.sample</mainClass>
                    </manifest>
                </archive>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
    

screen capture: enter image description here 4. open maven project box by click on the search icon and type maven, enter image description here

  1. click on clean, then click on install enter image description here

  2. your jar file will show up inside the target folder enter image description here

  3. test your jar using java -jar

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Method 2: Build jar with maven without pom.xml change

  1. File, new, project, maven
  2. create a package , create a java program inside that package (same as above)
  3. File -> Project Structure -> Project Settings -> Artifacts -> Click green plus sign -> Jar -> From modules with dependencies

Very important!

The MANIFEST.MF needs to be in your resources folder and the Main.Class needs to refer to {package}-{class-name-that-contains-main-class}

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  1. then click build on menu , build artifacts, build

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  1. find the jar in the out folder

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  1. run it :)

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Return index of highest value in an array

Function taken from http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.max.php

function max_key($array) {
    foreach ($array as $key => $val) {
        if ($val == max($array)) return $key; 
    }
}

$arr = array (
    '11' => 14,
    '10' => 9,
    '12' => 7,
    '13' => 7,
    '14' => 4,
    '15' => 6
);

die(var_dump(max_key($arr)));

Works like a charm

Javascript, Change google map marker color

You can use the strokeColor property:

var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
    id: "some-id",
    icon: {
        path: google.maps.SymbolPath.FORWARD_CLOSED_ARROW,
        strokeColor: "red",
        scale: 3
    },
    map: map,
    title: "some-title",
    position: myLatlng
});

See this page for other possibilities.

Format Instant to String

The Instant class doesn't contain Zone information, it only stores timestamp in milliseconds from UNIX epoch, i.e. 1 Jan 1070 from UTC. So, formatter can't print a date because date always printed for concrete time zone. You should set time zone to formatter and all will be fine, like this :

Instant instant = Instant.ofEpochMilli(92554380000L);
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofLocalizedDateTime(FormatStyle.SHORT).withLocale(Locale.UK).withZone(ZoneOffset.UTC);
assert formatter.format(instant).equals("07/12/72 05:33");
assert instant.toString().equals("1972-12-07T05:33:00Z");

Bootstrap 3 : Vertically Center Navigation Links when Logo Increasing The Height of Navbar

Bootstrap sets the height of the navbar automatically to 50px. The padding above and below links is set to 15px. I think that bootstrap is adding padding to your logo.

You can either remove some of the padding above and below your logo or you can add more padding above and below links.

Adding more padding should look something like this:

nav.navbar-inverse>li>a {
 padding-top: 25px;
 padding-bottom: 25px;
}

Formatting numbers (decimal places, thousands separators, etc) with CSS

You cannot use CSS for this purpose. I recommend using JavaScript if it's applicable. Take a look at this for more information: JavaScript equivalent to printf/string.format

Also As Petr mentioned you can handle it on server-side but it's totally depends on your scenario.

What's the best way to add a drop shadow to my UIView

You can set shadow to your view from storyboard also

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Best Java obfuscator?

Check out my article Protect Your Java Code - Through Obfuscators And Beyond [Archived] for a discussion of obfuscation vs three other ways to make the reverse engineering of your apps more expensive, and a collection of links to tools and further reading materials.

How can I count the number of matches for a regex?

Use the below code to find the count of number of matches that the regex finds in your input

        Pattern p = Pattern.compile(regex, Pattern.MULTILINE | Pattern.DOTALL);// "regex" here indicates your predefined regex.
        Matcher m = p.matcher(pattern); // "pattern" indicates your string to match the pattern against with
        boolean b = m.matches();
        if(b)
        count++;
        while (m.find())
        count++;

This is a generalized code not specific one though, tailor it to suit your need

Please feel free to correct me if there is any mistake.

What are the retransmission rules for TCP?

What exactly are the rules for requesting retransmission of lost data?

The receiver does not request the retransmission. The sender waits for an ACK for the byte-range sent to the client and when not received, resends the packets, after a particular interval. This is ARQ (Automatic Repeat reQuest). There are several ways in which this is implemented.

Stop-and-wait ARQ
Go-Back-N ARQ
Selective Repeat ARQ

are detailed in the RFC 3366.

At what time frequency are the retransmission requests performed?

The retransmissions-times and the number of attempts isn't enforced by the standard. It is implemented differently by different operating systems, but the methodology is fixed. (One of the ways to fingerprint OSs perhaps?)

The timeouts are measured in terms of the RTT (Round Trip Time) times. But this isn't needed very often due to Fast-retransmit which kicks in when 3 Duplicate ACKs are received.

Is there an upper bound on the number?

Yes there is. After a certain number of retries, the host is considered to be "down" and the sender gives up and tears down the TCP connection.

Is there functionality for the client to indicate to the server to forget about the whole TCP segment for which part went missing when the IP packet went missing?

The whole point is reliable communication. If you wanted the client to forget about some part, you wouldn't be using TCP in the first place. (UDP perhaps?)

Error: Could not find gradle wrapper within Android SDK. Might need to update your Android SDK - Android

After cordova upgrade to 7.0.x, the gradle path has been changed as discussed above. To get it working before official fix comes out, just manually install the gradle and set it in your Environment.

  1. Go https://gradle.org/install download the Binary packages
  2. Unzip it,remember the path, eg., My one at: E:\Gradle
  3. Set the environment variables, like on Windows add E:\Gradle\bin

That's it.

How to create an Observable from static data similar to http one in Angular?

This way you can create Observable from data, in my case I need to maintain shopping cart:

service.ts

export class OrderService {
    cartItems: BehaviorSubject<Array<any>> = new BehaviorSubject([]);
    cartItems$ = this.cartItems.asObservable();

    // I need to maintain cart, so add items in cart

    addCartData(data) {
        const currentValue = this.cartItems.value; // get current items in cart
        const updatedValue = [...currentValue, data]; // push new item in cart

        if(updatedValue.length) {
          this.cartItems.next(updatedValue); // notify to all subscribers
        }
      }
}

Component.ts

export class CartViewComponent implements OnInit {
    cartProductList: any = [];
    constructor(
        private order: OrderService
    ) { }

    ngOnInit() {
        this.order.cartItems$.subscribe(items => {
            this.cartProductList = items;
        });
    }
}

Disable sorting on last column when using jQuery DataTables

Read here

http://www.craiglotter.co.za/2010/04/19/how-to-disable-sorting-on-a-column-in-jquery-datatables-plugin/

$('#example').dataTable({
    "aoColumns": [
        null,
        null,
        { "bSortable": false }, // <-- disable sorting for column 3
        null
     ]
});

http://datatables.net/usage/columns under bSortable You can specify which columns to disable using aoColumnDefs and aTargets

$('#example').dataTable({
    "aoColumnDefs": [
        { 
          "bSortable": false, 
          "aTargets": [ -1 ] // <-- gets last column and turns off sorting
         } 
     ]
});        

http://live.datatables.net/aqoxob/edit#source

Get a timestamp in C in microseconds?

timespec_get from C11 returns up to nanoseconds, rounded to the resolution of the implementation.

#include <time.h>
struct timespec ts;
timespec_get(&ts, TIME_UTC);
struct timespec {
    time_t   tv_sec;        /* seconds */
    long     tv_nsec;       /* nanoseconds */
};

More details here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/36095407/895245

Multiline for WPF TextBox

Contrary to @Andre Luus, setting Height="Auto" will not make the TextBox stretch. The solution I found was to set VerticalAlignment="Stretch"

Query to list all users of a certain group

If the DC is Win2k3 SP2 or above, you can use something like:

(&(objectCategory=user)(memberOf:1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941:=CN=GroupOne,OU=Security Groups,OU=Groups,DC=example,DC=com))

to get the nested group membership.

Source: https://ldapwiki.com/wiki/Active%20Directory%20Group%20Related%20Searches

Printing Java Collections Nicely (toString Doesn't Return Pretty Output)

Should work for any collection except Map, but it's easy to support, too. Modify code to pass these 3 chars as arguments if needed.

static <T> String seqToString(Iterable<T> items) {
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    sb.append('[');
    boolean needSeparator = false;
    for (T x : items) {
        if (needSeparator)
            sb.append(' ');
        sb.append(x.toString());
        needSeparator = true;
    }
    sb.append(']');
    return sb.toString();
}

I want to show all tables that have specified column name

SELECT t.name AS table_name,
SCHEMA_NAME(schema_id) AS schema_name,
c.name AS column_name,*
FROM sys.tables AS t
INNER JOIN sys.columns c ON t.OBJECT_ID = c.OBJECT_ID 
WHERE c.name LIKE '%YOUR_COLUMN%' 
ORDER BY schema_name, table_name;

In depth article by SQL Authority

Can lambda functions be templated?

C++11 lambdas can't be templated as stated in other answers but decltype() seems to help when using a lambda within a templated class or function.

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

template<typename T>
void boring_template_fn(T t){
    auto identity = [](decltype(t) t){ return t;};
    std::cout << identity(t) << std::endl;
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    std::string s("My string");
    boring_template_fn(s);
    boring_template_fn(1024);
    boring_template_fn(true);
}

Prints:

My string
1024
1

I've found this technique is helps when working with templated code but realize it still means lambdas themselves can't be templated.

What's the best practice to round a float to 2 decimals?

Here is a shorter implementation comparing to @Jav_Rock's

   /**
     * Round to certain number of decimals
     * 
     * @param d
     * @param decimalPlace the numbers of decimals
     * @return
     */

    public static float round(float d, int decimalPlace) {
         return BigDecimal.valueOf(d).setScale(decimalPlace,BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_UP).floatValue();
    }



    System.out.println(round(2.345f,2));//two decimal digits, //2.35

Set active tab style with AngularJS

Came here for solution .. though above solutions are working fine but found them little bit complex unnecessary. For people who still looking for a easy and neat solution, it will do the task perfectly.

<section ng-init="tab=1">
                <ul class="nav nav-tabs">
                    <li ng-class="{active: tab == 1}"><a ng-click="tab=1" href="#showitem">View Inventory</a></li>
                    <li ng-class="{active: tab == 2}"><a ng-click="tab=2" href="#additem">Add new item</a></li>
                    <li ng-class="{active: tab == 3}"><a ng-click="tab=3" href="#solditem">Sold item</a></li>
                </ul>
            </section>

What does "request for member '*******' in something not a structure or union" mean?

It also happens if you're trying to access an instance when you have a pointer, and vice versa:

struct foo
{
  int x, y, z;
};

struct foo a, *b = &a;

b.x = 12;  /* This will generate the error, should be b->x or (*b).x */

As pointed out in a comment, this can be made excruciating if someone goes and typedefs a pointer, i.e. includes the * in a typedef, like so:

typedef struct foo* Foo;

Because then you get code that looks like it's dealing with instances, when in fact it's dealing with pointers:

Foo a_foo = get_a_brand_new_foo();
a_foo->field = FANTASTIC_VALUE;

Note how the above looks as if it should be written a_foo.field, but that would fail since Foo is a pointer to struct. I strongly recommend against typedef:ed pointers in C. Pointers are important, don't hide your asterisks. Let them shine.

Play audio as microphone input

Just as there are printer drivers that do not connect to a printer at all but rather write to a PDF file, analogously there are virtual audio drivers available that do not connect to a physical microphone at all but can pipe input from other sources such as files or other programs.

I hope I'm not breaking any rules by recommending free/donation software, but VB-Audio Virtual Cable should let you create a pair of virtual input and output audio devices. Then you could play an MP3 into the virtual output device and then set the virtual input device as your "microphone". In theory I think that should work.

If all else fails, you could always roll your own virtual audio driver. Microsoft provides some sample code but unfortunately it is not applicable to the older Windows XP audio model. There is probably sample code available for XP too.

Fastest way to reset every value of std::vector<int> to 0

If it's just a vector of integers, I'd first try:

memset(&my_vector[0], 0, my_vector.size() * sizeof my_vector[0]);

It's not very C++, so I'm sure someone will provide the proper way of doing this. :)

How to make child process die after parent exits?

I'm trying to solve the same problem, and since my program must run on OS X, the Linux-only solution didn't work for me.

I came to the same conclusion as the other people on this page -- there isn't a POSIX-compatible way of notifying a child when a parent dies. So I kludged up the next-best thing -- having the child poll.

When a parent process dies (for any reason) the child's parent process becomes process 1. If the child simply polls periodically, it can check if its parent is 1. If it is, the child should exit.

This isn't great, but it works, and it's easier than the TCP socket/lockfile polling solutions suggested elsewhere on this page.

C++ auto keyword. Why is it magic?

For variables, specifies that the type of the variable that is being declared will be automatically deduced from its initializer. For functions, specifies that the return type is a trailing return type or will be deduced from its return statements (since C++14).

Syntax

auto variable initializer   (1) (since C++11)

auto function -> return type    (2) (since C++11)

auto function   (3) (since C++14)

decltype(auto) variable initializer (4) (since C++14)

decltype(auto) function (5) (since C++14)

auto :: (6) (concepts TS)

cv(optional) auto ref(optional) parameter   (7) (since C++14)

Explanation

1) When declaring variables in block scope, in namespace scope, in initialization statements of for loops, etc., the keyword auto may be used as the type specifier. Once the type of the initializer has been determined, the compiler determines the type that will replace the keyword auto using the rules for template argument deduction from a function call (see template argument deduction#Other contexts for details). The keyword auto may be accompanied by modifiers, such as const or &, which will participate in the type deduction. For example, given const auto& i = expr;, the type of i is exactly the type of the argument u in an imaginary template template<class U> void f(const U& u) if the function call f(expr) was compiled. Therefore, auto&& may be deduced either as an lvalue reference or rvalue reference according to the initializer, which is used in range-based for loop. If auto is used to declare multiple variables, the deduced types must match. For example, the declaration auto i = 0, d = 0.0; is ill-formed, while the declaration auto i = 0, *p = &i; is well-formed and the auto is deduced as int.

2) In a function declaration that uses the trailing return type syntax, the keyword auto does not perform automatic type detection. It only serves as a part of the syntax.

3) In a function declaration that does not use the trailing return type syntax, the keyword auto indicates that the return type will be deduced from the operand of its return statement using the rules for template argument deduction.

4) If the declared type of the variable is decltype(auto), the keyword auto is replaced with the expression (or expression list) of its initializer, and the actual type is deduced using the rules for decltype.

5) If the return type of the function is declared decltype(auto), the keyword auto is replaced with the operand of its return statement, and the actual return type is deduced using the rules for decltype.

6) A nested-name-specifier of the form auto:: is a placeholder that is replaced by a class or enumeration type following the rules for constrained type placeholder deduction.

7) A parameter declaration in a lambda expression. (since C++14) A function parameter declaration. (concepts TS)

Notes Until C++11, auto had the semantic of a storage duration specifier. Mixing auto variables and functions in one declaration, as in auto f() -> int, i = 0; is not allowed.

For more info : http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/auto

How to ignore the first line of data when processing CSV data?

I would use tail to get rid of the unwanted first line:

tail -n +2 $INFIL | whatever_script.py 

How to create a new text file using Python

# Method 1
f = open("Path/To/Your/File.txt", "w")   # 'r' for reading and 'w' for writing
f.write("Hello World from " + f.name)    # Write inside file 
f.close()                                # Close file 

# Method 2
with open("Path/To/Your/File.txt", "w") as f:   # Opens file and casts as f 
    f.write("Hello World form " + f.name)       # Writing
    # File closed automatically

There are many more methods but these two are most common. Hope this helped!

Printing list elements on separated lines in Python

print("\n".join(sys.path))

(The outer parentheses are included for Python 3 compatibility and are usually omitted in Python 2.)

How do I copy an object in Java?

Other than explicitly copying, another approach is to make the object immutable (no set or other mutator methods). In this way the question never arises. Immutability becomes more difficult with larger objects, but that other side of that is that it pushes you in the direction of splitting into coherent small objects and composites.

C# "No suitable method found to override." -- but there is one

I ran into a similar situation with code that WAS working , then was not.

Turned while dragging / dropping code within a file, I moved an object into another set of braces. Took longer to figure out than I care to admit.

Bit once I move the code back into its proper place, the error resolved.

Monad in plain English? (For the OOP programmer with no FP background)

I'll try to make the shortest definition I can manage using OOP terms:

A generic class CMonadic<T> is a monad if it defines at least the following methods:

class CMonadic<T> { 
    static CMonadic<T> create(T t);  // a.k.a., "return" in Haskell
    public CMonadic<U> flatMap<U>(Func<T, CMonadic<U>> f); // a.k.a. "bind" in Haskell
}

and if the following laws apply for all types T and their possible values t

left identity:

CMonadic<T>.create(t).flatMap(f) == f(t)

right identity

instance.flatMap(CMonadic<T>.create) == instance

associativity:

instance.flatMap(f).flatMap(g) == instance.flatMap(t => f(t).flatMap(g))

Examples:

A List monad may have:

List<int>.create(1) --> [1]

And flatMap on the list [1,2,3] could work like so:

intList.flatMap(x => List<int>.makeFromTwoItems(x, x*10)) --> [1,10,2,20,3,30]

Iterables and Observables can also be made monadic, as well as Promises and Tasks.

Commentary:

Monads are not that complicated. The flatMap function is a lot like the more commonly encountered map. It receives a function argument (also known as delegate), which it may call (immediately or later, zero or more times) with a value coming from the generic class. It expects that passed function to also wrap its return value in the same kind of generic class. To help with that, it provides create, a constructor that can create an instance of that generic class from a value. The return result of flatMap is also a generic class of the same type, often packing the same values that were contained in the return results of one or more applications of flatMap to the previously contained values. This allows you to chain flatMap as much as you want:

intList.flatMap(x => List<int>.makeFromTwo(x, x*10))
       .flatMap(x => x % 3 == 0 
                   ? List<string>.create("x = " + x.toString()) 
                   : List<string>.empty())

It just so happens that this kind of generic class is useful as a base model for a huge number of things. This (together with the category theory jargonisms) is the reason why Monads seem so hard to understand or explain. They're a very abstract thing and only become obviously useful once they're specialized.

For example, you can model exceptions using monadic containers. Each container will either contain the result of the operation or the error that has occured. The next function (delegate) in the chain of flatMap callbacks will only be called if the previous one packed a value in the container. Otherwise if an error was packed, the error will continue to propagate through the chained containers until a container is found that has an error handler function attached via a method called .orElse() (such a method would be an allowed extension)

Notes: Functional languages allow you to write functions that can operate on any kind of a monadic generic class. For this to work, one would have to write a generic interface for monads. I don't know if its possible to write such an interface in C#, but as far as I know it isn't:

interface IMonad<T> { 
    static IMonad<T> create(T t); // not allowed
    public IMonad<U> flatMap<U>(Func<T, IMonad<U>> f); // not specific enough,
    // because the function must return the same kind of monad, not just any monad
}

Delete all rows in a table based on another table

This is old I know, but just a pointer to anyone using this ass a reference. I have just tried this and if you are using Oracle, JOIN does not work in DELETE statements. You get a the following message:

ORA-00933: SQL command not properly ended.

Swift's guard keyword

Like an if statement, guard executes statements based on a Boolean value of an expression. Unlike an if statement, guard statements only run if the conditions are not met. You can think of guard more like an Assert, but rather than crashing, you can gracefully exit.

refer to: http://ericcerney.com/swift-guard-statement/

How create a new deep copy (clone) of a List<T>?

You can use this:

var newList= JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<Book>>(list.toJson());

Writing a new line to file in PHP (line feed)

PHP_EOL is a predefined constant in PHP since PHP 4.3.10 and PHP 5.0.2. See the manual posting:

Using this will save you extra coding on cross platform developments.

IE.

$data = 'some data'.PHP_EOL;
$fp = fopen('somefile', 'a');
fwrite($fp, $data);

If you looped through this twice you would see in 'somefile':

some data
some data

iOS Detection of Screenshot?

I found the answer!! Taking a screenshot interrupts any touches that are on the screen. This is why snapchat requires holding to see the picture. Reference: http://tumblr.jeremyjohnstone.com/post/38503925370/how-to-detect-screenshots-on-ios-like-snapchat

How to copy a file along with directory structure/path using python?

To create all intermediate-level destination directories you could use os.makedirs() before copying:

import os
import shutil

srcfile = 'a/long/long/path/to/file.py'
dstroot = '/home/myhome/new_folder'


assert not os.path.isabs(srcfile)
dstdir =  os.path.join(dstroot, os.path.dirname(srcfile))

os.makedirs(dstdir) # create all directories, raise an error if it already exists
shutil.copy(srcfile, dstdir)

Is there a wikipedia API just for retrieve content summary?

There is actually a very nice prop called extracts that can be used with queries designed specifically for this purpose. Extracts allow you to get article extracts (truncated article text). There is a parameter called exintro that can be used to retrieve the text in the zeroth section (no additional assets like images or infoboxes). You can also retrieve extracts with finer granularity such as by a certain number of characters (exchars) or by a certain number of sentences(exsentences)

Here is a sample query http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&format=json&exintro=&titles=Stack%20Overflow and the API sandbox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&prop=extracts&format=json&exintro=&titles=Stack%20Overflow to experiment more with this query.

Please note that if you want the first paragraph specifically you still need to do some additionally parsing as suggested in the chosen answer. The difference here is that the response returned by this query is shorter than some of the other api queries suggested because you don't have additional assets such as images in the api response to parse.

Convert DataFrame column type from string to datetime, dd/mm/yyyy format

You can use the following if you want to specify tricky formats:

df['date_col'] =  pd.to_datetime(df['date_col'], format='%d/%m/%Y')

More details on format here:

Use NSInteger as array index

According to the error message, you declared myLoc as a pointer to an NSInteger (NSInteger *myLoc) rather than an actual NSInteger (NSInteger myLoc). It needs to be the latter.

How to set timer in android?

This is some simple code for a timer:

Timer timer = new Timer();
TimerTask t = new TimerTask() {       
    @Override
    public void run() {

        System.out.println("1");
    }
};
timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(t,1000,1000);

python numpy vector math

You can just use numpy arrays. Look at the numpy for matlab users page for a detailed overview of the pros and cons of arrays w.r.t. matrices.

As I mentioned in the comment, having to use the dot() function or method for mutiplication of vectors is the biggest pitfall. But then again, numpy arrays are consistent. All operations are element-wise. So adding or subtracting arrays and multiplication with a scalar all work as expected of vectors.

Edit2: Starting with Python 3.5 and numpy 1.10 you can use the @ infix-operator for matrix multiplication, thanks to pep 465.

Edit: Regarding your comment:

  1. Yes. The whole of numpy is based on arrays.

  2. Yes. linalg.norm(v) is a good way to get the length of a vector. But what you get depends on the possible second argument to norm! Read the docs.

  3. To normalize a vector, just divide it by the length you calculated in (2). Division of arrays by a scalar is also element-wise.

    An example in ipython:

    In [1]: import math
    
    In [2]: import numpy as np
    
    In [3]: a = np.array([4,2,7])
    
    In [4]: np.linalg.norm(a)
    Out[4]: 8.3066238629180749
    
    In [5]: math.sqrt(sum([n**2 for n in a]))
    Out[5]: 8.306623862918075
    
    In [6]: b = a/np.linalg.norm(a)
    
    In [7]: np.linalg.norm(b)
    Out[7]: 1.0
    

    Note that In [5] is an alternative way to calculate the length. In [6] shows normalizing the vector.

Multiple ping script in Python

To ping several hosts at once you could use subprocess.Popen():

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import os
import time
from subprocess import Popen, DEVNULL

p = {} # ip -> process
for n in range(1, 100): # start ping processes
    ip = "127.0.0.%d" % n
    p[ip] = Popen(['ping', '-n', '-w5', '-c3', ip], stdout=DEVNULL)
    #NOTE: you could set stderr=subprocess.STDOUT to ignore stderr also

while p:
    for ip, proc in p.items():
        if proc.poll() is not None: # ping finished
            del p[ip] # remove from the process list
            if proc.returncode == 0:
                print('%s active' % ip)
            elif proc.returncode == 1:
                print('%s no response' % ip)
            else:
                print('%s error' % ip)
            break

If you can run as a root you could use a pure Python ping script or scapy:

from scapy.all import sr, ICMP, IP, L3RawSocket, conf

conf.L3socket = L3RawSocket # for loopback interface
ans, unans = sr(IP(dst="127.0.0.1-99")/ICMP(), verbose=0) # make requests
ans.summary(lambda (s,r): r.sprintf("%IP.src% is alive"))

What is the difference between 'java', 'javaw', and 'javaws'?

See Java tools documentation for:

  1. The java tool launches a Java application. It does this by starting a Java runtime environment, loading a specified class, and invoking that class's main method.
  2. The javaw command is identical to java, except that with javaw there is no associated console window. Use javaw when you don't want a command prompt window to appear.

The javaws command launches Java Web Start, which is the reference implementation of the Java Network Launching Protocol (JNLP). Java Web Start launches Java applications/applets hosted on a network.

If a JNLP file is specified, javaws will launch the Java application/applet specified in the JNLP file.

The javaws launcher has a set of options that are supported in the current release. However, the options may be removed in a future release.

See also JDK 9 Release Notes Deprecated APIs, Features, and Options:

Java Deployment Technologies are deprecated and will be removed in a future release
Java Applet and WebStart functionality, including the Applet API, the Java plug-in, the Java Applet Viewer, JNLP and Java Web Start, including the javaws tool, are all deprecated in JDK 9 and will be removed in a future release.

Make div (height) occupy parent remaining height

Abstract

I didn't find a fully satisfying answer so I had to find it out myself.

My requirements:

  • the element should take exactly the remaining space either when its content size is smaller or bigger than the remaining space size (in the second case scrollbar should be shown);
  • the solution should work when the parent height is computed, and not specified;
  • calc() should not be used as the remaining element shouldn't know anything about another element sizes;
  • modern and familar layout technique such as flexboxes should be used.

The solution

  • Turn into flexboxes all direct parents with computed height (if any) and the next parent whose height is specified;
  • Specify flex-grow: 1 to all direct parents with computed height (if any) and the element so they will take up all remaining space when the element content size is smaller;
  • Specify flex-shrink: 0 to all flex items with fixed height so they won't become smaller when the element content size is bigger than the remaining space size;
  • Specify overflow: hidden to all direct parents with computed height (if any) to disable scrolling and forbid displaying overflow content;
  • Specify overflow: auto to the element to enable scrolling inside it.

JSFiddle (element has direct parents with computed height)

JSFiddle (simple case: no direct parents with computed height)

JavaScript push to array

It's not an array.

var json = {"cool":"34.33","alsocool":"45454"};
json.coolness = 34.33;

or

var json = {"cool":"34.33","alsocool":"45454"};
json['coolness'] = 34.33;

you could do it as an array, but it would be a different syntax (and this is almost certainly not what you want)

var json = [{"cool":"34.33"},{"alsocool":"45454"}];
json.push({"coolness":"34.33"});

Note that this variable name is highly misleading, as there is no JSON here. I would name it something else.

How do I free memory in C?

You actually can't manually "free" memory in C, in the sense that the memory is released from the process back to the OS ... when you call malloc(), the underlying libc-runtime will request from the OS a memory region. On Linux, this may be done though a relatively "heavy" call like mmap(). Once this memory region is mapped to your program, there is a linked-list setup called the "free store" that manages this allocated memory region. When you call malloc(), it quickly looks though the free-store for a free block of memory at the size requested. It then adjusts the linked list to reflect that there has been a chunk of memory taken out of the originally allocated memory pool. When you call free() the memory block is placed back in the free-store as a linked-list node that indicates its an available chunk of memory.

If you request more memory than what is located in the free-store, the libc-runtime will again request more memory from the OS up to the limit of the OS's ability to allocate memory for running processes. When you free memory though, it's not returned back to the OS ... it's typically recycled back into the free-store where it can be used again by another call to malloc(). Thus, if you make a lot of calls to malloc() and free() with varying memory size requests, it could, in theory, cause a condition called "memory fragmentation", where there is enough space in the free-store to allocate your requested memory block, but not enough contiguous space for the size of the block you've requested. Thus the call to malloc() fails, and you're effectively "out-of-memory" even though there may be plenty of memory available as a total amount of bytes in the free-store.

C++ Returning reference to local variable

A local variable is memory on the stack, that memory is not automatically invalidated when you go out of scope. From a Function deeper nested (higher on the stack in memory), its perfectly safe to access this memory.

Once the Function returns and ends though, things get dangerous. Usually the memory is not deleted or overwritten when you return, meaning the memory at that adresss is still containing your data - the pointer seems valid.

Until another function builds up the stack and overwrites it. This is why this can work for a while - and then suddenly cease to function after one particularly deeply nested set of functions, or a function with really huge sized or many local objects, reaches that stack-memory again.

It even can happen that you reach the same program part again, and overwrite your old local function variable with the new function variable. All this is very dangerous and should be heavily discouraged. Do not use pointers to local objects!

Declaring multiple variables in JavaScript

var variable1 = "Hello, World!";
var variable2 = "Testing...";
var variable3 = 42;

is more readable than:

var variable1 = "Hello, World!",
    variable2 = "Testing...",
    variable3 = 42;

But they do the same thing.

How can I get a specific parameter from location.search?

It took me a while to find the answer to this question. Most people seem to be suggesting regex solutions. I strongly prefer to use code that is tried and tested as opposed to regex that I or someone else thought up on the fly.

I use the parseUri library available here: http://stevenlevithan.com/demo/parseuri/js/

It allows you to do exactly what you are asking for:

var uri = 'http://localhost/search.php?year=2008';
var year = uri.queryKey['year'];
// year = '2008'

Read XML Attribute using XmlDocument

You can migrate to XDocument instead of XmlDocument and then use Linq if you prefer that syntax. Something like:

var q = (from myConfig in xDoc.Elements("MyConfiguration")
         select myConfig.Attribute("SuperString").Value)
         .First();

Why is visible="false" not working for a plain html table?

If you want use it, use runat="server" for that table. After that use tablename.visible=False in server side code.

CSS content property: is it possible to insert HTML instead of Text?

Unfortunately, this is not possible. Per the spec:

Generated content does not alter the document tree. In particular, it is not fed back to the document language processor (e.g., for reparsing).

In other words, for string values this means the value is always treated literally. It is never interpreted as markup, regardless of the document language in use.

As an example, using the given CSS with the following HTML:

<h1 class="header">Title</h1>

... will result in the following output:

<a href="#top">Back</a>Title

Python progression path - From apprentice to guru

One good way to further your Python knowledge is to dig into the source code of the libraries, platforms, and frameworks you use already.

For example if you're building a site on Django, many questions that might stump you can be answered by looking at how Django implements the feature in question.

This way you'll continue to pick up new idioms, coding styles, and Python tricks. (Some will be good and some will be bad.)

And when you see something Pythony that you don't understand in the source, hop over to the #python IRC channel and you'll find plenty of "language lawyers" happy to explain.

An accumulation of these little clarifications over years leads to a much deeper understanding of the language and all of its ins and outs.

How to find out if an item is present in a std::vector?

Here's a function that will work for any Container:

template <class Container> 
const bool contains(const Container& container, const typename Container::value_type& element) 
{
    return std::find(container.begin(), container.end(), element) != container.end();
}

Note that you can get away with 1 template parameter because you can extract the value_type from the Container. You need the typename because Container::value_type is a dependent name.

Deserialize JSON with C#

I agree with Icarus (would have commented if I could), but instead of using a CustomObject class, I would use a Dictionary (in case Facebook adds something).

private class MyFacebookClass
{
    public IList<IDictionary<string, string>> data { get; set; }
}

or

private class MyFacebookClass
{
    public IList<IDictionary<string, object>> data { get; set; }
}

How to set the height of table header in UITableView?

It works with me only if I set the footer/header of the tableview to nil first:

self.footer = self.searchTableView.tableFooterView;
CGRect frame = self.footer.frame;
frame.size.height = 200;
self.footer.frame = frame;
self.searchTableView.tableFooterView = nil;
self.searchTableView.tableFooterView = self.footer;

Make sure that self.footer is a strong reference to prevent the footer view from being deallocated

Most useful NLog configurations

Logging different levels depending on whether or not there is an error

This example allows you to get more information when there is an error in your code. Basically, it buffers messages and only outputs those at a certain log level (e.g. Warn) unless a certain condition is met (e.g. there has been an error, so the log level is >= Error), then it will output more info (e.g. all messages from log levels >= Trace). Because the messages are buffered, this lets you gather trace information about what happened before an Error or ErrorException was logged - very useful!

I adapted this one from an example in the source code. I was thrown at first because I left out the AspNetBufferingWrapper (since mine isn't an ASP app) - it turns out that the PostFilteringWrapper requires some buffered target. Note that the target-ref element used in the above-linked example cannot be used in NLog 1.0 (I am using 1.0 Refresh for a .NET 4.0 app); it is necessary to put your target inside the wrapper block. Also note that the logic syntax (i.e. greater-than or less-than symbols, < and >) has to use the symbols, not the XML escapes for those symbols (i.e. &gt; and &lt;) or else NLog will error.

app.config:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
    <configSections>
        <section name="nlog" type="NLog.Config.ConfigSectionHandler, NLog"/>
    </configSections>

    <nlog xmlns="http://www.nlog-project.org/schemas/NLog.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          throwExceptions="true" internalLogToConsole="true" internalLogLevel="Warn" internalLogFile="nlog.log">
        <variable name="appTitle" value="My app"/>
        <variable name="csvPath" value="${specialfolder:folder=Desktop:file=${appTitle} log.csv}"/>

        <targets async="true">
            <!--The following will keep the default number of log messages in a buffer and write out certain levels if there is an error and other levels if there is not. Messages that appeared before the error (in code) will be included, since they are buffered.-->
            <wrapper-target xsi:type="BufferingWrapper" name="smartLog">
                <wrapper-target xsi:type="PostFilteringWrapper">
                    <!--<target-ref name="fileAsCsv"/>-->
                    <target xsi:type="File" fileName="${csvPath}"
                    archiveAboveSize="4194304" concurrentWrites="false" maxArchiveFiles="1" archiveNumbering="Sequence"
                    >
                        <layout xsi:type="CsvLayout" delimiter="Tab" withHeader="false">
                            <column name="time" layout="${longdate}" />
                            <column name="level" layout="${level:upperCase=true}"/>
                            <column name="message" layout="${message}" />
                            <column name="callsite" layout="${callsite:includeSourcePath=true}" />
                            <column name="stacktrace" layout="${stacktrace:topFrames=10}" />
                            <column name="exception" layout="${exception:format=ToString}"/>
                            <!--<column name="logger" layout="${logger}"/>-->
                        </layout>
                    </target>

                     <!--during normal execution only log certain messages--> 
                    <defaultFilter>level >= LogLevel.Warn</defaultFilter>

                     <!--if there is at least one error, log everything from trace level--> 
                    <when exists="level >= LogLevel.Error" filter="level >= LogLevel.Trace" />
                </wrapper-target>
            </wrapper-target>

        </targets>

        <rules>
            <logger name="*" minlevel="Trace" writeTo="smartLog"/>
        </rules>
    </nlog>
</configuration>

MIME types missing in IIS 7 for ASP.NET - 404.17

Fix:

I chose the "ISAPI & CGI Restrictions" after clicking the server name (not the site name) in IIS Manager, and right clicked the "ASP.NET v4.0.30319" lines and chose "Allow".

After turning on ASP.NET from "Programs and Features > Turn Windows features on or off", you must install ASP.NET from the Windows command prompt. The MIME types don't ever show up, but after doing this command, I noticed these extensions showed up under the IIS web site "Handler Mappings" section of IIS Manager.

C:\>cd C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319>dir aspnet_reg*
 Volume in drive C is Windows
 Volume Serial Number is 8EE6-5DD0

 Directory of C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319

03/18/2010  08:23 PM            19,296 aspnet_regbrowsers.exe
03/18/2010  08:23 PM            36,696 aspnet_regiis.exe
03/18/2010  08:23 PM           102,232 aspnet_regsql.exe
               3 File(s)        158,224 bytes
               0 Dir(s)  34,836,508,672 bytes free

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319>aspnet_regiis.exe -i
Start installing ASP.NET (4.0.30319).
.....
Finished installing ASP.NET (4.0.30319).

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319>

However, I still got this error. But if you do what I mentioned for the "Fix", this will go away.

HTTP Error 404.2 - Not Found
The page you are requesting cannot be served because of the ISAPI and CGI Restriction list settings on the Web server.

Get Image Height and Width as integer values?

Like this :

imageCreateFromPNG($var);
//I don't know where from you get your image, here it's in the png case
// and then :
list($width, $height) = getimagesize($image);
echo $width;
echo $height;

How to select a column name with a space in MySQL

I got here with an MS Access problem.

Backticks are good for MySQL, but they create weird errors, like "Invalid Query Name: Query1" in MS Access, for MS Access only, use square brackets:

It should look like this

SELECT Customer.[Customer ID], Customer.[Full Name] ...

How to transform numpy.matrix or array to scipy sparse matrix

In Python, the Scipy library can be used to convert the 2-D NumPy matrix into a Sparse matrix. SciPy 2-D sparse matrix package for numeric data is scipy.sparse

The scipy.sparse package provides different Classes to create the following types of Sparse matrices from the 2-dimensional matrix:

  1. Block Sparse Row matrix
  2. A sparse matrix in COOrdinate format.
  3. Compressed Sparse Column matrix
  4. Compressed Sparse Row matrix
  5. Sparse matrix with DIAgonal storage
  6. Dictionary Of Keys based sparse matrix.
  7. Row-based list of lists sparse matrix
  8. This class provides a base class for all sparse matrices.

CSR (Compressed Sparse Row) or CSC (Compressed Sparse Column) formats support efficient access and matrix operations.

Example code to Convert Numpy matrix into Compressed Sparse Column(CSC) matrix & Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) matrix using Scipy classes:

import sys                 # Return the size of an object in bytes
import numpy as np         # To create 2 dimentional matrix
from scipy.sparse import csr_matrix, csc_matrix 
# csr_matrix: used to create compressed sparse row matrix from Matrix
# csc_matrix: used to create compressed sparse column matrix from Matrix

create a 2-D Numpy matrix

A = np.array([[1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],\
              [0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 1],\
              [0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0]])
print("Dense matrix representation: \n", A)
print("Memory utilised (bytes): ", sys.getsizeof(A))
print("Type of the object", type(A))

Print the matrix & other details:

Dense matrix representation: 
 [[1 0 0 0 0 0]
 [0 0 2 0 0 1]
 [0 0 0 2 0 0]]
Memory utilised (bytes):  184
Type of the object <class 'numpy.ndarray'>

Converting Matrix A to the Compressed sparse row matrix representation using csr_matrix Class:

S = csr_matrix(A)
print("Sparse 'row' matrix: \n",S)
print("Memory utilised (bytes): ", sys.getsizeof(S))
print("Type of the object", type(S))

The output of print statements:

Sparse 'row' matrix:
(0, 0) 1
(1, 2) 2
(1, 5) 1
(2, 3) 2
Memory utilised (bytes): 56
Type of the object: <class 'scipy.sparse.csr.csc_matrix'>

Converting Matrix A to Compressed Sparse Column matrix representation using csc_matrix Class:

S = csc_matrix(A)
print("Sparse 'column' matrix: \n",S)
print("Memory utilised (bytes): ", sys.getsizeof(S))
print("Type of the object", type(S))

The output of print statements:

Sparse 'column' matrix:
(0, 0) 1
(1, 2) 2
(2, 3) 2
(1, 5) 1
Memory utilised (bytes): 56
Type of the object: <class 'scipy.sparse.csc.csc_matrix'>

As it can be seen the size of the compressed matrices is 56 bytes and the original matrix size is 184 bytes.

For a more detailed explanation and code examples please refer to this article: https://limitlessdatascience.wordpress.com/2020/11/26/sparse-matrix-in-machine-learning/

How to download a folder from github?

If you want to automate the steps, the suggestions here will work only to an extent.

I came across this tool called fetch and it worked quite fine for me. You can even specify the release. So, it takes a step to download and set it as executable, then fetch the required folder:

curl -sSLfo ./fetch \
https://github.com/gruntwork-io/fetch/releases/download/v0.3.12/fetch_linux_amd64
chmod +x ./fetch
./fetch --repo="https://github.com/foo/bar" --tag="${VERSION}" --source-path="/baz" /tmp/baz

Decompile Python 2.7 .pyc

UPDATE (2019-04-22) - It sounds like you want to use uncompyle6 nowadays rather than the answers I had mentioned originally.

This sounds like it works: http://code.google.com/p/unpyc/

Issue 8 says it supports 2.7: http://code.google.com/p/unpyc/updates/list

UPDATE (2013-09-03) - As noted in the comments and in other answers, you should look at https://github.com/wibiti/uncompyle2 or https://github.com/gstarnberger/uncompyle instead of unpyc.

How to find and restore a deleted file in a Git repository

Find the last commit that affected the given path. As the file isn't in the HEAD commit, this commit must have deleted it.

git rev-list -n 1 HEAD -- <file_path>

Then checkout the version at the commit before, using the caret (^) symbol:

git checkout <deleting_commit>^ -- <file_path>

Or in one command, if $file is the file in question.

git checkout $(git rev-list -n 1 HEAD -- "$file")^ -- "$file"

If you are using zsh and have the EXTENDED_GLOB option enabled, the caret symbol won't work. You can use ~1 instead.

git checkout $(git rev-list -n 1 HEAD -- "$file")~1 -- "$file"

filtering NSArray into a new NSArray in Objective-C

Based on an answer by Clay Bridges, here is an example of filtering using blocks (change yourArray to your array variable name and testFunc to the name of your testing function):

yourArray = [yourArray objectsAtIndexes:[yourArray indexesOfObjectsPassingTest:^BOOL(id obj, NSUInteger idx, BOOL *stop) {
    return [self testFunc:obj];
}]];

Get a file name from a path

C++11 variant (inspired by James Kanze's version) with uniform initialization and anonymous inline lambda.

std::string basename(const std::string& pathname)
{
    return {std::find_if(pathname.rbegin(), pathname.rend(),
                         [](char c) { return c == '/'; }).base(),
            pathname.end()};
}

It does not remove the file extension though.

Override default Spring-Boot application.properties settings in Junit Test

Spring Boot automatically loads src/test/resources/application.properties, if following annotations are used

@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@SpringBootTest

So, rename test.properties to application.properties to utilize auto configuration.

If you only need to load the properties file (into the Environment) you can also use the following, as explained here

@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(initializers = ConfigFileApplicationContextInitializer.class) 

[Update: Overriding certain properties for testing]

  1. Add src/main/resources/application-test.properties.
  2. Annotate test class with @ActiveProfiles("test").

This loads application.properties and then application-test.properties properties into application context for the test case, as per rules defined here.

Demo - https://github.com/mohnish82/so-spring-boot-testprops

What is Cache-Control: private?

RFC 2616, section 14.9.1:

Indicates that all or part of the response message is intended for a single user and MUST NOT be cached by a shared cache...A private (non-shared) cache MAY cache the response.


Browsers could use this information. Of course, the current "user" may mean many things: OS user, a browser user (e.g. Chrome's profiles), etc. It's not specified.

For me, a more concrete example of Cache-Control: private is that proxy servers (which typically have many users) won't cache it. It is meant for the end user, and no one else.


FYI, the RFC makes clear that this does not provide security. It is about showing the correct content, not securing content.

This usage of the word private only controls where the response may be cached, and cannot ensure the privacy of the message content.

Command-line tool for finding out who is locking a file

Handle should do the trick.

Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Handle is a utility that displays information about open handles for any process in the system. You can use it to see the programs that have a file open, or to see the object types and names of all the handles of a program.

JavaFX Panel inside Panel auto resizing

Also see here

@FXML
private void mnuUserLevel_onClick(ActionEvent event) {
    FXMLLoader loader = new FXMLLoader(getClass().getResource("DBedit.fxml"));
    loader.setController(new DBeditEntityUserlevel());

    try {
           Node n = (Node)loader.load();
           AnchorPane.setTopAnchor(n, 0.0);
           AnchorPane.setRightAnchor(n, 0.0);
           AnchorPane.setLeftAnchor(n, 0.0);
           AnchorPane.setBottomAnchor(n, 0.0);
           mainContent.getChildren().setAll(n);
    } catch (IOException e){
           System.out.println(e.getMessage());
    }
}

The scenario is to load a child fxml into parent AnchorPane. To make the child to stretch in accords to its parent use AnChorPane.setxxxAnchor command.

Create the perfect JPA entity

My 2 cents addition to the answers here are:

  1. With reference to Field or Property access (away from performance considerations) both are legitimately accessed by means of getters and setters, thus, my model logic can set/get them in the same manner. The difference comes to play when the persistence runtime provider (Hibernate, EclipseLink or else) needs to persist/set some record in Table A which has a foreign key referring to some column in Table B. In case of a Property access type, the persistence runtime system uses my coded setter method to assign the cell in Table B column a new value. In case of a Field access type, the persistence runtime system sets the cell in Table B column directly. This difference is not of importance in the context of a uni-directional relationship, yet it is a MUST to use my own coded setter method (Property access type) for a bi-directional relationship provided the setter method is well designed to account for consistency. Consistency is a critical issue for bi-directional relationships refer to this link for a simple example for a well-designed setter.

  2. With reference to Equals/hashCode: It is impossible to use the Eclipse auto-generated Equals/hashCode methods for entities participating in a bi-directional relationship, otherwise they will have a circular reference resulting in a stackoverflow Exception. Once you try a bidirectional relationship (say OneToOne) and auto-generate Equals() or hashCode() or even toString() you will get caught in this stackoverflow exception.

Warp \ bend effect on a UIView?

What you show looks like a mesh warp. That would be straightforward using OpenGL, but "straightforward OpenGL" is like straightforward rocket science.

I wrote an iOS app for my company called Face Dancerthat's able to do 60 fps mesh warp animations of video from the built-in camera using OpenGL, but it was a lot of work. (It does funhouse mirror type changes to faces - think "fat booth" live, plus lots of other effects.)

Bootstrap 4 card-deck with number of columns based on viewport

@Zim provided a great solution above (well deserved up-vote from me), however, it didn't quite fit what I needed since I was implementing this in Jekyll and wanted my card deck to automatically update every time I added a post to my site. Growing a card deck such as this with each new post is straight forward in Jekyll, the challenge was to correctly place the breakpoints. My solution make use of additional liquid tags and modulo mathematics.

While this question is old, I came across it and found it useful, and maybe someday someone will come along wanting to do this with Jekyll.

<div class = "container">
  <div class = "card-deck">

    {% for post in site.posts %}
      <div class = "card border-0 mt-2">
        <a href = "{{ post.url }}"><img src = "{{ site.baseurl }}{{ post.image }}" class = "mx-auto" alt = "..."></a>
        <div class = "card-body">
          <h5 class = "card-title"><a href = "{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a></h5>
          <span>Published: {{ post.date | date_to_long_string }} </span>
          <p class = "text-muted">{{ post.excerpt }}</p>
        </div>
        <div class = "card-footer bg-white border-0"><a href = "{{ post.url }}" class = "btn btn-primary">Read more</a></div>
      </div>

      <!-- Use modulo to add divs to handle break points -->
      {% assign sm = forloop.index | modulo: 2 %}
      {% assign md = forloop.index | modulo: 3 %}
      {% assign lg = forloop.index | modulo: 4 %}
      {% assign xl = forloop.index | modulo: 5 %}

      {% if sm == 0 %}
        <div class="w-100 d-none d-sm-block d-md-none"><!-- wrap every 2 on sm--></div>
      {% endif %}

      {% if md == 0 %}
        <div class="w-100 d-none d-md-block d-lg-none"><!-- wrap every 3 on md--></div>
      {% endif %}

      {% if lg == 0 %}
        <div class="w-100 d-none d-lg-block d-xl-none"><!-- wrap every 4 on lg--></div>
      {% endif %}

      {% if xl == 0 %}
        <div class="w-100 d-none d-xl-block"><!-- wrap every 5 on xl--></div>
      {% endif %}

    {% endfor %}
  </div>
</div>

This whole code block can be used directly in a website or saved in your Jekyll project _includes folder.

Set up Python 3 build system with Sublime Text 3

If you are using PyQt, then for normal work, you should add "shell":"true" value, this looks like:

{
  "cmd": ["c:/Python32/python.exe", "-u", "$file"],
  "file_regex": "^[ ]*File \"(...*?)\", line ([0-9]*)",
  "selector": "source.python",
  "shell":"true"
}

Terminating a script in PowerShell

I coincidentally found out that Break <UnknownLabel> (e.g. simply Break Script, where the label Script doesn't exists) appears to break out of the entire script (even from within a function) and keeps the host alive.
This way you could create a function that breaks the script from anywhere (e.g. a recursive loop) without knowing the current scope (and creating labels):

Function Quit($Text) {
    Write-Host "Quiting because: " $Text
    Break Script
} 

Write a formula in an Excel Cell using VBA

I don't know why, but if you use

(...)Formula = "=SUM(D2,E2)"

(',' instead of ';'), it works.

If you step through your sub in the VB script editor (F8), you can add Range("F2").Formula to the watch window and see what the formular looks like from a VB point of view. It seems that the formular shown in Excel itself is sometimes different from the formular that VB sees...

Get response from PHP file using AJAX

<?php echo 'apple'; ?> is pretty much literally all you need on the server.

as for the JS side, the output of the server-side script is passed as a parameter to the success handler function, so you'd have

success: function(data) {
   alert(data); // apple
}

HTML5 canvas ctx.fillText won't do line breaks?

The code for word-wrapping (breaking at spaces) provided by @Gaby Petrioli is very helpful. I've extended his code to provide support for newline characters \n. Also, often times it's useful to have the dimensions of the bounding box, so multiMeasureText() returns both the width and the height.

You can see the code here: http://jsfiddle.net/jeffchan/WHgaY/76/

How to get a thread and heap dump of a Java process on Windows that's not running in a console

Inorder to take thread dump/heap dump from a child java process in windows, you need to identify the child process Id as first step.

By issuing the command: jps you will be able get all java process Ids that are running on your windows machine. From this list you need to select child process Id. Once you have child process Id, there are various options to capture thread dump and heap dumps.

Capturing Thread Dumps:

There are 8 options to capture thread dumps:

  1. jstack
  2. kill -3
  3. jvisualVM
  4. JMC
  5. Windows (Ctrl + Break)
  6. ThreadMXBean
  7. APM Tools
  8. jcmd

Details about each option can be found in this article. Once you have capture thread dumps, you can use tools like fastThread, Samuraito analyze thread dumps.

Capturing Heap Dumps:

There are 7 options to capture heap dumps:

  1. jmap

  2. -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError

  3. jcmd

  4. JVisualVM

  5. JMX

  6. Programmatic Approach

  7. Administrative consoles

Details about each option can be found in this article. Once you have captured heap dump, you may use tools like Eclipse Memory Analysis tool, HeapHero to analyze the captured heap dumps.

Class file has wrong version 52.0, should be 50.0

If you are using javac to compile, and you get this error, then remove all the .class files

rm *.class     # On Unix-based systems

and recompile.

javac fileName.java

Determining 32 vs 64 bit in C++

"Compiled in 64 bit" is not well defined in C++.

C++ sets only lower limits for sizes such as int, long and void *. There is no guarantee that int is 64 bit even when compiled for a 64 bit platform. The model allows for e.g. 23 bit ints and sizeof(int *) != sizeof(char *)

There are different programming models for 64 bit platforms.

Your best bet is a platform specific test. Your second best, portable decision must be more specific in what is 64 bit.

How to predict input image using trained model in Keras?

keras predict_classes (docs) outputs A numpy array of class predictions. Which in your model case, the index of neuron of highest activation from your last(softmax) layer. [[0]] means that your model predicted that your test data is class 0. (usually you will be passing multiple image, and the result will look like [[0], [1], [1], [0]] )

You must convert your actual label (e.g. 'cancer', 'not cancer') into binary encoding (0 for 'cancer', 1 for 'not cancer') for binary classification. Then you will interpret your sequence output of [[0]] as having class label 'cancer'

Retrieve only the queried element in an object array in MongoDB collection

MongoDB 2.2's new $elemMatch projection operator provides another way to alter the returned document to contain only the first matched shapes element:

db.test.find(
    {"shapes.color": "red"}, 
    {_id: 0, shapes: {$elemMatch: {color: "red"}}});

Returns:

{"shapes" : [{"shape": "circle", "color": "red"}]}

In 2.2 you can also do this using the $ projection operator, where the $ in a projection object field name represents the index of the field's first matching array element from the query. The following returns the same results as above:

db.test.find({"shapes.color": "red"}, {_id: 0, 'shapes.$': 1});

MongoDB 3.2 Update

Starting with the 3.2 release, you can use the new $filter aggregation operator to filter an array during projection, which has the benefit of including all matches, instead of just the first one.

db.test.aggregate([
    // Get just the docs that contain a shapes element where color is 'red'
    {$match: {'shapes.color': 'red'}},
    {$project: {
        shapes: {$filter: {
            input: '$shapes',
            as: 'shape',
            cond: {$eq: ['$$shape.color', 'red']}
        }},
        _id: 0
    }}
])

Results:

[ 
    {
        "shapes" : [ 
            {
                "shape" : "circle",
                "color" : "red"
            }
        ]
    }
]

What are some uses of template template parameters?

Here is a simple example taken from 'Modern C++ Design - Generic Programming and Design Patterns Applied' by Andrei Alexandrescu:

He uses a classes with template template parameters in order to implement the policy pattern:

// Library code
template <template <class> class CreationPolicy>
class WidgetManager : public CreationPolicy<Widget>
{
   ...
};

He explains: Typically, the host class already knows, or can easily deduce, the template argument of the policy class. In the example above, WidgetManager always manages objects of type Widget, so requiring the user to specify Widget again in the instantiation of CreationPolicy is redundant and potentially dangerous.In this case, library code can use template template parameters for specifying policies.

The effect is that the client code can use 'WidgetManager' in a more elegant way:

typedef WidgetManager<MyCreationPolicy> MyWidgetMgr;

Instead of the more cumbersome, and error prone way that a definition lacking template template arguments would have required:

typedef WidgetManager< MyCreationPolicy<Widget> > MyWidgetMgr;

How to fix Hibernate LazyInitializationException: failed to lazily initialize a collection of roles, could not initialize proxy - no Session

The reason is that when you use lazy load, the session is closed.

There are two solutions.

  1. Don't use lazy load.

    Set lazy=false in XML or Set @OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.EAGER) In annotation.

  2. Use lazy load.

    Set lazy=true in XML or Set @OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.LAZY) In annotation.

    and add OpenSessionInViewFilter filter in your web.xml

Detail See my post.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/27286187/1808417

Python __call__ special method practical example

One common example is the __call__ in functools.partial, here is a simplified version (with Python >= 3.5):

class partial:
    """New function with partial application of the given arguments and keywords."""

    def __new__(cls, func, *args, **kwargs):
        if not callable(func):
            raise TypeError("the first argument must be callable")
        self = super().__new__(cls)

        self.func = func
        self.args = args
        self.kwargs = kwargs
        return self

    def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        return self.func(*self.args, *args, **self.kwargs, **kwargs)

Usage:

def add(x, y):
    return x + y

inc = partial(add, y=1)
print(inc(41))  # 42

How to import local packages in go?

Local package is a annoying problem in go.

For some projects in our company we decide not use sub packages at all.

  • $ glide install
  • $ go get
  • $ go install

All work.

For some projects we use sub packages, and import local packages with full path:

import "xxxx.gitlab.xx/xxgroup/xxproject/xxsubpackage

But if we fork this project, then the subpackages still refer the original one.

Using jquery to delete all elements with a given id

All your elements should have a unique IDs, so there should not be more than one element with #myid

An "id" is a unique identifier. Each time this attribute is used in a document it must have a different value. If you are using this attribute as a hook for style sheets it may be more appropriate to use classes (which group elements) than id (which are used to identify exactly one element).

Neverthless, try this:

$("span[id=myid]").remove();

Handling urllib2's timeout? - Python

There are very few cases where you want to use except:. Doing this captures any exception, which can be hard to debug, and it captures exceptions including SystemExit and KeyboardInterupt, which can make your program annoying to use..

At the very simplest, you would catch urllib2.URLError:

try:
    urllib2.urlopen("http://example.com", timeout = 1)
except urllib2.URLError, e:
    raise MyException("There was an error: %r" % e)

The following should capture the specific error raised when the connection times out:

import urllib2
import socket

class MyException(Exception):
    pass

try:
    urllib2.urlopen("http://example.com", timeout = 1)
except urllib2.URLError, e:
    # For Python 2.6
    if isinstance(e.reason, socket.timeout):
        raise MyException("There was an error: %r" % e)
    else:
        # reraise the original error
        raise
except socket.timeout, e:
    # For Python 2.7
    raise MyException("There was an error: %r" % e)

How to make a <ul> display in a horizontal row

#ul_top_hypers li {
  display: flex;
}

SSH to Vagrant box in Windows?

you can using emulator terminal cmder for windows.

Follow below the steps for instalation:

  1. Access cmder.net;
  2. Click in Download Full;
  3. Unzip
  4. (optional) Place your own executable files into the bin folder to be injected into your PATH.
  5. Run Cmder (Cmder.exe)

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Terminal cmder on Windows

Now execute command required for settings VM vagrant, for connect only execute the command vagrant ssh; Watch cmder offers ssh client embedded.

I hope this helps.

ORACLE convert number to string

Using the FM format model modifier to get close, as you won't get the trailing zeros after the decimal separator; but you will still get the separator itself, e.g. 50.. You can use rtrim to get rid of that:

select to_char(a, '99D90'),
    to_char(a, '90D90'),
    to_char(a, 'FM90D99'),
    rtrim(to_char(a, 'FM90D99'), to_char(0, 'D'))
from (
    select 50 a from dual
    union all select 50.57 from dual
    union all select 5.57 from dual
    union all select 0.35 from dual
    union all select 0.4 from dual
)
order by a;

TO_CHA TO_CHA TO_CHA RTRIM(
------ ------ ------ ------
   .35   0.35 0.35   0.35
   .40   0.40 0.4    0.4
  5.57   5.57 5.57   5.57
 50.00  50.00 50.    50
 50.57  50.57 50.57  50.57

Note that I'm using to_char(0, 'D') to generate the character to trim, to match the decimal separator - so it looks for the same character, , or ., as the first to_char adds.

The slight downside is that you lose the alignment. If this is being used elsewhere it might not matter, but it does then you can also wrap it in an lpad, which starts to make it look a bit complicated:

...
lpad(rtrim(to_char(a, 'FM90D99'), to_char(0, 'D')), 6)
...

TO_CHA TO_CHA TO_CHA RTRIM( LPAD(RTRIM(TO_CHAR(A,'FM
------ ------ ------ ------ ------------------------
   .35   0.35 0.35   0.35     0.35
   .40   0.40 0.4    0.4       0.4
  5.57   5.57 5.57   5.57     5.57
 50.00  50.00 50.    50         50
 50.57  50.57 50.57  50.57   50.57

Select all DIV text with single mouse click

_x000D_
_x000D_
function selectText(containerid) {_x000D_
    if (document.selection) { // IE_x000D_
        var range = document.body.createTextRange();_x000D_
        range.moveToElementText(document.getElementById(containerid));_x000D_
        range.select();_x000D_
    } else if (window.getSelection) {_x000D_
        var range = document.createRange();_x000D_
        range.selectNode(document.getElementById(containerid));_x000D_
        window.getSelection().removeAllRanges();_x000D_
        window.getSelection().addRange(range);_x000D_
    }_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<div id="selectable" onclick="selectText('selectable')">http://example.com/page.htm</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Now you have to pass the ID as an argument, which in this case is "selectable", but it's more global, allowing you to use it anywhere multiple times without using, as chiborg mentioned, jQuery.

How to store file name in database, with other info while uploading image to server using PHP?

You have an ID for each photo so my suggestion is you rename the photo. For example you rename it by the date

<?php
 $date = getdate();
 $name .= $date[hours];
 $name .= $date[minutes];
 $name .= $date[seconds];
 $name .= $date[year];
 $name .= $date[mon];
 $name .= $date[mday];
?>

note: don't forget the file extension of your file or you can generate random string for the photo, but I would not recommend that. I would also recommend you to check the file extension before you upload it to your directory.

<?php 
if ((($_FILES["photo"]["type"] == "image/jpeg")
            || ($_FILES["photo"]["type"] == "image/pjpg"))
            && ($_FILES["photo"]["size"] < 100000000))
            {
                move_uploaded_file($_FILES["photo"]["tmp_name"], $target.$name);

                if(mysql_query("your query"))
                {
                    //success handling
                }
                else 
                {
                    //failed handling
                }
            }
            else
            {
                //error handling
            }
?>

Hope this might help.

How to read connection string in .NET Core?

The way that I found to resolve this was to use AddJsonFile in a builder at Startup (which allows it to find the configuration stored in the appsettings.json file) and then use that to set a private _config variable

public Startup(IHostingEnvironment env)
    {
        var builder = new ConfigurationBuilder()
            .SetBasePath(env.ContentRootPath)
            .AddJsonFile("appsettings.json", optional: true, reloadOnChange: true)
            .AddJsonFile($"appsettings.{env.EnvironmentName}.json", optional: true)
            .AddEnvironmentVariables();
        _config = builder.Build();
    }

And then I could set the configuration string as follows:

var connectionString = _config.GetConnectionString("DbContextSettings:ConnectionString"); 

This is on dotnet core 1.1

Moment.js with ReactJS (ES6)

I'm using moment in my react project

import moment from 'moment'

state = {
    startDate: moment()
};
render() {
    const selectedDate = this.state.startDate.format("Do MMMM YYYY");
    return(
     <Fragment>
       {selectedDate)
     </Fragment>
   );
}

Maximum number of records in a MySQL database table

In InnoDB, with a limit on table size of 64 terabytes and a MySQL row-size limit of 65,535 there can be 1,073,741,824 rows. That would be minimum number of records utilizing maximum row-size limit. However, more records can be added if the row size is smaller .

Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' while attempting to grant privileges. How do I grant privileges?

One simple solution which always works for me when faced with mysql "access denied" errors: use sudo.

sudo mysql -u root

Then the necessary permissions exist for GRANT commands.

Why are iframes considered dangerous and a security risk?

As soon as you're displaying content from another domain, you're basically trusting that domain not to serve-up malware.

There's nothing wrong with iframes per se. If you control the content of the iframe, they're perfectly safe.

Git: How to pull a single file from a server repository in Git?

This can be the solution:

git fetch

git checkout origin/master -- FolderPathName/fileName

Thanks.

Throughput and bandwidth difference?

Here is another example to help you imagine what the difference could be depending on the situation.

Imagine

  • You have a 1 MB file (say a photo) that you would like to share with 3 friends.
  • Each of them, however, uses different cloud storage application - Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive and Dropbox. Therefore they all create a folder and give you access so you can upload the file to their folder.
  • You open the URLs to these three folders in your browser (say in 3 different tabs) and drag-n-drop the file (more or less at the same time) to each tab so to upload it.
  • You are connected to the Internet via a fiber-optic cable which gives you the ability to transfer at speed of 1 Gb per second (i.e. this is your bandwidth - the max capacity that you can utilise your connection).

Knowing that, theoretically (assuming no data lost, no big protocol overhead, connection to the cloud storage services offers at least the same bandwidth, etc.) you can transfer one 1 MB file over the 1 Gbps connection for roughly: 1MB / 1 Gbps = 1 x 10^3 x 8 / 1x10^9 which gives about 8x10^-6 seconds or say roughly 10 ms. Now, you have 1 file that you want to upload to 3 destinations, your connection bandwidth is big enough so you can transfer the same file to 3 destinations at the same time (we can also assume you have a modern laptop equipped with multi-core CPU so data transfer over the 3 connections to Google Drive, MS OneDrive and Dropbox can be done in parallel). Therefore, instead of waiting for 30ms to transfer the same file to 3 different destinations you only have to wait for 10ms as you have a very good bandwidth.

Now let's consider what protocol is being used and what implications that brings. As you use your browser to upload the file, the protocol that is being used is HTTP/S which is running on top of the TCP protocol. An important property of the TCP protocol is that it makes sure that a batch of data has reached any destination successfully before sending the next batch of data. That is being done by the TCP sender waiting for acknowledgement (for short an ACK) that the first batch of data has been received before it starts sending the second batch of data. What this means is that if it takes 0.5s to transfer 1 batch of data one direction and then 0.5s to received an ACK then you need to wait for 1 second until 1 batch of data is transferred and successfully confirmed to have been received (again, let's assume no data lost, therefore no need to re-transfer the same batch). Because of this round trip needed by the TCP protocol there appears to be a blocker. The blocker is the delay you experience for one round trip which includes transferring 1 batch of data and its successful acknowledgement. With that in mind we need to see how big is one batch of data. This can vary but it's usually 64KB. So your actual traffic to 1 destination (i.e, the throughput) is bound by this delay (i.e., latency) and the batch size by the following equation:

throughput = batch size / latency

In our example the throughput is 64KB/s and as we can split 1 MB in roughly 15.6 batches of 64KB size, you will need about 15.6 seconds to transfer 1 MB of file. That is a major slowdown compared to the bandwidth-only based calculations we made early.

Empty an array in Java / processing

You can simply assign null to the reference. (This will work for any type of array, not just ints)

int[] arr = new int[]{1, 2, 3, 4};
arr = null;

This will 'clear out' the array. You can also assign a new array to that reference if you like:

int[] arr = new int[]{1, 2, 3, 4};
arr = new int[]{6, 7, 8, 9};

If you are worried about memory leaks, don't be. The garbage collector will clean up any references left by the array.

Another example:

float[] arr = ;// some array that you want to clear
arr = new float[arr.length];

This will create a new float[] initialized to the default value for float.