Programs & Examples On #Drop shadow

Drop shadow for PNG image in CSS

You can't do this reliably across all browsers. Microsoft no longer supports DX filters as of IE10+, so none of the solutions here work fully:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh801215(v=vs.85).aspx

The only property that works reliably across all browsers is box-shadow, and this just puts the border on your element (e.g. a div), resulting in a square border:

box-shadow: horizontalOffset verticalOffset blurDistance spreadDistance color inset;

e.g.

box-shadow: -2px 6px 12px 6px #CCCED0;

If you happen to have an image that is 'square' but with uniform rounded corners, the drop shadow works with border-radius, so you could always emulate the rounded corners of your image in your div.

Here's the Microsoft documentation for box-shadow:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg589484(v=vs.85).aspx

Accessing variables from other functions without using global variables

If there's a chance that you will reuse this code, then I would probably make the effort to go with an object-oriented perspective. Using the global namespace can be dangerous -- you run the risk of hard to find bugs due to variable names that get reused. Typically I start by using an object-oriented approach for anything more than a simple callback so that I don't have to do the re-write thing. Any time that you have a group of related functions in javascript, I think, it's a candidate for an object-oriented approach.

Hide the browse button on a input type=file

the best way for it

<input type="file" id="file">
<label for="file" class="file-trigger">Click Me</label> 

And you can style your "label" element

#file { 
   display: none;
}
.file-trigger {
/* your style */
}

preventDefault() on an <a> tag

Set the href attribute as href="javascript:;"

<ul class="product-info">
  <li>
   <a href="javascript:;">YOU CLICK THIS TO SHOW/HIDE</a>
  <div class="toggle">
    <p>CONTENT TO SHOW/HIDE</p>
  </div>
 </li>
</ul>

Calling a rest api with username and password - how to

Here is the solution for Rest API

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        BaseClient clientbase = new BaseClient("https://website.com/api/v2/", "username", "password");
        BaseResponse response = new BaseResponse();
        BaseResponse response = clientbase.GetCallV2Async("Candidate").Result;
    }


    public async Task<BaseResponse> GetCallAsync(string endpoint)
    {
        try
        {
            HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync(endpoint + "/").ConfigureAwait(false);
            if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
            {
                baseresponse.ResponseMessage = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
                baseresponse.StatusCode = (int)response.StatusCode;
            }
            else
            {
                baseresponse.ResponseMessage = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
                baseresponse.StatusCode = (int)response.StatusCode;
            }
            return baseresponse;
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            baseresponse.StatusCode = 0;
            baseresponse.ResponseMessage = (ex.Message ?? ex.InnerException.ToString());
        }
        return baseresponse;
    }
}


public class BaseResponse
{
    public int StatusCode { get; set; }
    public string ResponseMessage { get; set; }
}

public class BaseClient
{
    readonly HttpClient client;
    readonly BaseResponse baseresponse;

    public BaseClient(string baseAddress, string username, string password)
    {
        HttpClientHandler handler = new HttpClientHandler()
        {
            Proxy = new WebProxy("http://127.0.0.1:8888"),
            UseProxy = false,
        };

        client = new HttpClient(handler);
        client.BaseAddress = new Uri(baseAddress);
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
        var byteArray = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(username + ":" + password);

        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new System.Net.Http.Headers.AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", Convert.ToBase64String(byteArray));

        baseresponse = new BaseResponse();

    }
}

How do you implement a re-try-catch?

following is my solution with very simple approach!

               while (true) {
                    try {
                        /// Statement what may cause an error;
                        break;
                    } catch (Exception e) {

                    }
                }

How to get a list of column names on Sqlite3 database?

-(NSMutableDictionary*)tableInfo:(NSString *)table
{
  sqlite3_stmt *sqlStatement;
  NSMutableDictionary *result = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
  const char *sql = [[NSString stringWithFormat:@"pragma table_info('%s')",[table UTF8String]] UTF8String];
  if(sqlite3_prepare(db, sql, -1, &sqlStatement, NULL) != SQLITE_OK)
  {
    NSLog(@"Problem with prepare statement tableInfo %@",[NSString stringWithUTF8String:(const char *)sqlite3_errmsg(db)]);

  }
  while (sqlite3_step(sqlStatement)==SQLITE_ROW)
  {
    [result setObject:@"" forKey:[NSString stringWithUTF8String:(char*)sqlite3_column_text(sqlStatement, 1)]];

  }

  return result;
  }

Error:Unknown host services.gradle.org. You may need to adjust the proxy settings in Gradle

For some reason, using a shared machine, I couldn`t figure out where this proxy properties is comming from.

So a workaround to fix this is add in you project gradle.properties the following (empty properties). So It will override top hierarchy configuration:

systemProp.http.proxyPort=
systemProp.http.proxyUser=
systemProp.http.proxyPassword=
systemProp.https.proxyPassword=
systemProp.https.proxyHost=
systemProp.http.proxyHost=
systemProp.https.proxyPort=
systemProp.https.proxyUser=

if block inside echo statement?

You can always use the ( <condition> ? <value if true> : <value if false> ) syntax (it's called the ternary operator - thanks to Mark for remining me :) ).

If <condition> is true, the statement would be evaluated as <value if true>. If not, it would be evaluated as <value if false>

For instance:

$fourteen = 14;
$twelve = 12;
echo "Fourteen is ".($fourteen > $twelve ? "more than" : "not more than")." twelve";

This is the same as:

$fourteen = 14;
$twelve = 12;
if($fourteen > 12) {
  echo "Fourteen is more than twelve";
}else{
  echo "Fourteen is not more than twelve";
}

UITapGestureRecognizer - single tap and double tap

Swift 3 solution:

let singleTap = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action:#selector(self.singleTapAction(_:)))
singleTap.numberOfTapsRequired = 1
view.addGestureRecognizer(singleTap)

let doubleTap = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action:#selector(self.doubleTapAction(_:)))
doubleTap.numberOfTapsRequired = 2
view.addGestureRecognizer(doubleTap)

singleTap.require(toFail: doubleTap)

In the code line singleTap.require(toFail: doubleTap) we are forcing the single tap to wait and ensure that the tap event is not a double tap.

PHP Get Highest Value from Array

Try it.

$data = array("a"=>1,"b"=>2,"c"=>4,"d"=>5); $maxKey = current(array_keys($data, max($data))); var_dump($maxKey);

How do I select child elements of any depth using XPath?

If you are using the XmlDocument and XmlNode.

Say:

XmlNode f = root.SelectSingleNode("//form[@id='myform']");

Use:

XmlNode s = f.SelectSingleNode(".//input[@type='submit']");

It depends on the tool that you use. But .// will select any child, any depth from a reference node.

Negative list index?

List indexes of -x mean the xth item from the end of the list, so n[-1] means the last item in the list n. Any good Python tutorial should have told you this.

It's an unusual convention that only a few other languages besides Python have adopted, but it is extraordinarily useful; in any other language you'll spend a lot of time writing n[n.length-1] to access the last item of a list.

How do I trim a file extension from a String in Java?

Use a regex. This one replaces the last dot, and everything after it.

String baseName = fileName.replaceAll("\\.[^.]*$", "");

You can also create a Pattern object if you want to precompile the regex.

Is there a way to automatically build the package.json file for Node.js projects

npm add <package-name>

The above command will add the package to the node modules and update the package.json file

How to detect shake event with android?

Since SensorListener is deprecated so use the following code:

/* put this into your activity class */
private SensorManager mSensorManager;
private float mAccel; // acceleration apart from gravity
private float mAccelCurrent; // current acceleration including gravity
private float mAccelLast; // last acceleration including gravity

private final SensorEventListener mSensorListener = new SensorEventListener() {

  public void onSensorChanged(SensorEvent se) {
    float x = se.values[0];
    float y = se.values[1];
    float z = se.values[2];
    mAccelLast = mAccelCurrent;
    mAccelCurrent = (float) Math.sqrt((double) (x*x + y*y + z*z));
    float delta = mAccelCurrent - mAccelLast;
    mAccel = mAccel * 0.9f + delta; // perform low-cut filter
  }

  public void onAccuracyChanged(Sensor sensor, int accuracy) {
  }
};

@Override
protected void onResume() {
  super.onResume();
  mSensorManager.registerListener(mSensorListener, mSensorManager.getDefaultSensor(Sensor.TYPE_ACCELEROMETER), SensorManager.SENSOR_DELAY_NORMAL);
}

@Override
protected void onPause() {
  mSensorManager.unregisterListener(mSensorListener);
  super.onPause();
}

Then:

/* do this in onCreate */
mSensorManager = (SensorManager) getSystemService(Context.SENSOR_SERVICE);
mSensorManager.registerListener(mSensorListener, mSensorManager.getDefaultSensor(Sensor.TYPE_ACCELEROMETER), SensorManager.SENSOR_DELAY_NORMAL);
mAccel = 0.00f;
mAccelCurrent = SensorManager.GRAVITY_EARTH;
mAccelLast = SensorManager.GRAVITY_EARTH;

The question with full details could be found here:

Android: I want to shake it

How do you get the Git repository's name in some Git repository?

Unfortunately, it seems that Git has no such command built in. But you can easily add it yourself with Git aliases and some shell magic.

As pointed out by this answer, you can use git rev-parse --show-toplevel to show the root of your current Git folder.

If you want to use this regularly, it's probably more convenient to define it as an alias. For this, used git config alias.root '!echo "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)"'. After this, you can use git root to see the root folder of the repository you're currently in.

If you want to use another subcommand name than root, simply replace the second part of alias.root in the above command with whatever you want.

For details on aliases in Git, see also the git config man page.

Is it safe to shallow clone with --depth 1, create commits, and pull updates again?

Note that Git 1.9/2.0 (Q1 2014) has removed that limitation.
See commit 82fba2b, from Nguy?n Thái Ng?c Duy (pclouds):

Now that git supports data transfer from or to a shallow clone, these limitations are not true anymore.

The documentation now reads:

--depth <depth>::

Create a 'shallow' clone with a history truncated to the specified number of revisions.

That stems from commits like 0d7d285, f2c681c, and c29a7b8 which support clone, send-pack /receive-pack with/from shallow clones.
smart-http now supports shallow fetch/clone too.

All the details are in "shallow.c: the 8 steps to select new commits for .git/shallow".

Update June 2015: Git 2.5 will even allow for fetching a single commit!
(Ultimate shallow case)


Update January 2016: Git 2.8 (Mach 2016) now documents officially the practice of getting a minimal history.
See commit 99487cf, commit 9cfde9e (30 Dec 2015), commit 9cfde9e (30 Dec 2015), commit bac5874 (29 Dec 2015), and commit 1de2e44 (28 Dec 2015) by Stephen P. Smith (``).
(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit 7e3e80a, 20 Jan 2016)

This is "Documentation/user-manual.txt"

A <<def_shallow_clone,shallow clone>> is created by specifying the git-clone --depth switch.
The depth can later be changed with the git-fetch --depth switch, or full history restored with --unshallow.

Merging inside a <<def_shallow_clone,shallow clone>> will work as long as a merge base is in the recent history.
Otherwise, it will be like merging unrelated histories and may have to result in huge conflicts.
This limitation may make such a repository unsuitable to be used in merge based workflows.

Update 2020:

  • git 2.11.1 introduced option git fetch --shallow-exclude= to prevent fetching all history
  • git 2.11.1 introduced option git fetch --shallow-since= to prevent fetching old commits.

For more on the shallow clone update process, see "How to update a git shallow clone?".


As commented by Richard Michael:

to backfill history: git pull --unshallow

And Olle Härstedt adds in the comments:

To backfill part of the history: git fetch --depth=100.

Which Android phones out there do have a gyroscope?

Since I have recently developed an Android application using gyroscope data (steady compass), I tried to collect a list with such devices. This is not an exhaustive list at all, but it is what I have so far:

*** Phones:

  • HTC Sensation
  • HTC Sensation XL
  • HTC Evo 3D
  • HTC One S
  • HTC One X
  • Huawei Ascend P1
  • Huawei Ascend X (U9000)
  • Huawei Honor (U8860)
  • LG Nitro HD (P930)
  • LG Optimus 2x (P990)
  • LG Optimus Black (P970)
  • LG Optimus 3D (P920)
  • Samsung Galaxy S II (i9100)
  • Samsung Galaxy S III (i9300)
  • Samsung Galaxy R (i9103)
  • Samsung Google Nexus S (i9020)
  • Samsung Galaxy Nexus (i9250)
  • Samsung Galaxy J3 (2017) model
  • Samsung Galaxy Note (n7000)
  • Sony Xperia P (LT22i)
  • Sony Xperia S (LT26i)

*** Tablets:

  • Acer Iconia Tab A100 (7")
  • Acer Iconia Tab A500 (10.1")
  • Asus Eee Pad Transformer (TF101)
  • Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime (TF201)
  • Motorola Xoom (mz604)
  • Samsung Galaxy Tab (p1000)
  • Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 plus (p6200)
  • Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (p7100)
  • Sony Tablet P
  • Sony Tablet S
  • Toshiba Thrive 7"
  • Toshiba Trhive 10"

Hope the list keeps growing and hope that gyros will be soon available on mid and low price smartphones.

IsNullOrEmpty with Object

object MyObject = null;

if (MyObject != null && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(MyObject.ToString())) { ... }

Draw a connecting line between two elements

VisJS supports this with its Arrows example, that supports draggable elements.

It also supports editable connections, with its Interaction Events example.

How to copy a file from one directory to another using PHP?

You could use the copy() function :

// Will copy foo/test.php to bar/test.php
// overwritting it if necessary
copy('foo/test.php', 'bar/test.php');


Quoting a couple of relevant sentences from its manual page :

Makes a copy of the file source to dest.

If the destination file already exists, it will be overwritten.

Finding which process was killed by Linux OOM killer

Try this out:

grep "Killed process" /var/log/syslog

In Bash, how do I add a string after each line in a file?

I prefer echo. using pure bash:

cat file | while read line; do echo ${line}$string; done

How I can print to stderr in C?

Some examples of formatted output to stdout and stderr:

printf("%s", "Hello world\n");              // "Hello world" on stdout (using printf)
fprintf(stdout, "%s", "Hello world\n");     // "Hello world" on stdout (using fprintf)
fprintf(stderr, "%s", "Stack overflow!\n"); // Error message on stderr (using fprintf)

Command output redirect to file and terminal

It is worth mentioning that 2>&1 means that standard error will be redirected too, together with standard output. So

someCommand | tee someFile

gives you just the standard output in the file, but not the standard error: standard error will appear in console only. To get standard error in the file too, you can use

someCommand 2>&1 | tee someFile

(source: In the shell, what is " 2>&1 "? ). Finally, both the above commands will truncate the file and start clear. If you use a sequence of commands, you may want to get output&error of all of them, one after another. In this case you can use -a flag to "tee" command:

someCommand 2>&1 | tee -a someFile

What is the Ruby <=> (spaceship) operator?

It's a general comparison operator. It returns either a -1, 0, or +1 depending on whether its receiver is less than, equal to, or greater than its argument.

How to prevent a file from direct URL Access?

For me this was the only thing that worked and it worked great:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}@@%{HTTP_REFERER} !^([^@])@@https?://\1/.
RewriteRule .(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|tif|pdf|wav|wmv|wma|avi|mov|mp4|m4v|mp3|zip?)$ - [F]

found it at: https://simplefilelist.com/how-can-i-prevent-direct-url-access-to-my-files-from-outside-my-website/

How to import/include a CSS file using PHP code and not HTML code?

You can also do the following:

  1. Create a php file in includes folder, name it bootstrap_css.php for example
  2. paste the css code files to file created above

     <?php 
      $minCss=' <link href="bootstrap/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">';
    
     $business = '<link href="bootstrap/css/modern-business.css" rel="stylesheet">';
    
      echo $minCss;
      echo $business;
    ?>
    
  3. in the html header, include the css files as follows

     <?php include_once 'includes/bootstrap_css.php'; ?>
    

'Malformed UTF-8 characters, possibly incorrectly encoded' in Laravel

I found the answer to this problem here

Just do

mb_convert_encoding($data['name'], 'UTF-8', 'UTF-8');

How do I pass multiple parameters in Objective-C?

Yes; the Objective-C method syntax is like this for a couple of reasons; one of these is so that it is clear what the parameters you are specifying are. For example, if you are adding an object to an NSMutableArray at a certain index, you would do it using the method:

- (void)insertObject:(id)anObject atIndex:(NSUInteger)index;

This method is called insertObject:atIndex: and it is clear that an object is being inserted at a specified index.

In practice, adding a string "Hello, World!" at index 5 of an NSMutableArray called array would be called as follows:

NSString *obj = @"Hello, World!";
int index = 5;

[array insertObject:obj atIndex:index];

This also reduces ambiguity between the order of the method parameters, ensuring that you pass the object parameter first, then the index parameter. This becomes more useful when using functions that take a large number of arguments, and reduces error in passing the arguments.

Furthermore, the method naming convention is such because Objective-C doesn't support overloading; however, if you want to write a method that does the same job, but takes different data-types, this can be accomplished; take, for instance, the NSNumber class; this has several object creation methods, including:

  • + (id)numberWithBool:(BOOL)value;
  • + (id)numberWithFloat:(float)value;
  • + (id)numberWithDouble:(double)value;

In a language such as C++, you would simply overload the number method to allow different data types to be passed as the argument; however, in Objective-C, this syntax allows several different variants of the same function to be implemented, by changing the name of the method for each variant of the function.

What's the fastest way to convert String to Number in JavaScript?

A fast way to convert strings to an integer is to use a bitwise or, like so:

x | 0

While it depends on how it is implemented, in theory it should be relatively fast (at least as fast as +x) since it will first cast x to a number and then perform a very efficient or.

exception in initializer error in java when using Netbeans

I found that I had bound jFormattedCheckBox1.foreground to jCheckBox1[${selected}].... this was the problem. Thank you for your help.

It seems that a color should not be able to be bound to a boolean. I guess bindings are an advanced feature?

I found the problem by deleting all of the controls, then running, then undoing and then deleting one at a time. When I found the offending control, I examined the properties.

Creating a chart in Excel that ignores #N/A or blank cells

If you use PowerPivot and PivotChart, you will exclude non-existing rows.

how to change the dist-folder path in angular-cli after 'ng build'

Another option would be to set the webroot path to the angular cli dist folder. In your Program.cs when configuring the WebHostBuilder just say

.UseWebRoot(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() + "\\Frontend\\dist")

or whatever the path to your dist dir is.

Best Free Text Editor Supporting *More Than* 4GB Files?

Emacs can handle huge file sizes and you can use it on Windows or *nix.

Change value of input and submit form in JavaScript

My problem turned out to be that I was assigning as document.getElementById("myinput").Value = '1';

Notice the capital V in Value? Once I changed it to small case, i.e., value, the data started posting. Odd as it was not giving any JavaScript errors either.

MySQL my.cnf file - Found option without preceding group

What worked for me:

  • Open my.ini with Notepad++
  • Encoding --> convert to ANSI
  • save

Could not connect to SMTP host: smtp.gmail.com, port: 465, response: -1

In my case it was Avast Antivirus interfering with the connection. Actions to disable this feature: Avast -> Settings-> Components -> Mail Shield (Customize) -> SSL scanning -> uncheck "Scan SSL connections".

Forward host port to docker container

As stated in one of the comments, this works for Mac (probably for Windows/Linux too):

I WANT TO CONNECT FROM A CONTAINER TO A SERVICE ON THE HOST

The host has a changing IP address (or none if you have no network access). We recommend that you connect to the special DNS name host.docker.internal which resolves to the internal IP address used by the host. This is for development purpose and will not work in a production environment outside of Docker Desktop for Mac.

You can also reach the gateway using gateway.docker.internal.

Quoted from https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/networking/

This worked for me without using --net=host.

SQLite equivalent to ISNULL(), NVL(), IFNULL() or COALESCE()

For the equivalent of NVL() and ISNULL() use:

IFNULL(column, altValue)

column : The column you are evaluating.

altValue : The value you want to return if 'column' is null.

Example:

SELECT IFNULL(middle_name, 'N/A') FROM person;

*Note: The COALESCE() function works the same as it does for other databases.

Sources:

Twitter Bootstrap vs jQuery UI?

We have used both and we like Bootstrap for its simplicity and the pace at which it's being developed and enhanced. The problem with jQuery UI is that it's moving at a snail's pace. It's taking years to roll out common features like Menubar, Tree control and DataGrid which are in planning/development stage for ever. We waited waited waited and finally given up and used other libraries like ExtJS for our product http://dblite.com.

Bootstrap has come up with quite a comprehensive set of features in a very short period of time and I am sure it will outpace jQuery UI pretty soon.

So I see no point in using something that will eventually be outdated...

connecting to phpMyAdmin database with PHP/MySQL

The database is a MySQL database, not a phpMyAdmin database. phpMyAdmin is only PHP code that connects to the DB.

mysql_connect('localhost', 'username', 'password') or die (mysql_error());
mysql_select_database('db_name') or die (mysql_error());

// now you are connected

How to make a GridLayout fit screen size

Grid Layout

       <GridLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_weight="3"
        android:columnCount="2"
        android:padding="10dp"
        android:rowCount="3"
        android:background="@drawable/background_down"
        android:layout_height="0dp">


        <androidx.cardview.widget.CardView
            android:layout_height="0dp"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_columnWeight="1"
            android:layout_rowWeight="1"
            android:layout_margin="10dp"
            android:elevation="10dp"
            app:cardCornerRadius="15dp"
            >
            <LinearLayout
                android:weightSum="3"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:orientation="vertical"
                >

                <ImageView
                    android:layout_weight="2"
                    android:layout_width="50dp"
                    android:layout_height="50dp"
                    android:layout_margin="15dp"
                    android:src="@drawable/user" />

                <TextView
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:text="Users"
                    android:textSize="16sp"
                    android:layout_marginStart="15dp"
                    android:layout_marginLeft="15dp" />
            </LinearLayout>

        </androidx.cardview.widget.CardView>
        <androidx.cardview.widget.CardView
            android:layout_height="0dp"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_columnWeight="1"
            android:layout_rowWeight="1"
            android:layout_margin="10dp"
            android:elevation="10dp"
            app:cardCornerRadius="15dp"
            >
            <LinearLayout
                android:weightSum="3"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:orientation="vertical"
                >

                <ImageView
                    android:layout_weight="2"
                    android:layout_width="50dp"
                    android:layout_height="50dp"
                    android:layout_margin="15dp"
                    android:src="@drawable/addusers" />

                <TextView
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:text="Add Users"
                    android:textSize="16sp"
                    android:layout_marginStart="15dp"
                    android:layout_marginLeft="15dp" />
            </LinearLayout>


        </androidx.cardview.widget.CardView>

        <androidx.cardview.widget.CardView
            android:layout_height="0dp"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_columnWeight="1"
            android:layout_rowWeight="1"
            android:layout_margin="10dp"
            android:elevation="10dp"
            app:cardCornerRadius="15dp"
            >
            <LinearLayout
                android:weightSum="3"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:orientation="vertical"
                >

                <ImageView
                    android:layout_weight="2"
                    android:layout_width="50dp"
                    android:layout_height="50dp"
                    android:layout_margin="15dp"
                    android:src="@drawable/newspaper" />

                <TextView
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:text="Report"
                    android:textSize="16sp"
                    android:layout_marginStart="15dp"
                    android:layout_marginLeft="15dp" />
            </LinearLayout>



        </androidx.cardview.widget.CardView>
        <androidx.cardview.widget.CardView
            android:layout_height="0dp"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_columnWeight="1"
            android:layout_rowWeight="1"
            android:layout_margin="10dp"
            android:elevation="10dp"
            app:cardCornerRadius="5dp"
            >
            <LinearLayout
                android:weightSum="3"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:orientation="vertical"
                >

                <ImageView
                    android:layout_weight="2"
                    android:layout_width="50dp"
                    android:layout_height="50dp"
                    android:layout_margin="15dp"
                    android:src="@drawable/settings" />

                <TextView
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:text="Settings"
                    android:textSize="16sp"
                    android:layout_marginStart="15dp"
                    android:layout_marginLeft="15dp" />
            </LinearLayout>


        </androidx.cardview.widget.CardView>

    </GridLayout>

Full tutorials can be found here .

[Android Grid Layout With CardView and OnItemClickListener][2]

How to connect to MySQL Database?

Another library to consider is MySqlConnector, https://mysqlconnector.net/. Mysql.Data is under a GPL license, whereas MySqlConnector is MIT.

How to edit the size of the submit button on a form?

Using CSS you can set a style for that specific button using the id (#) selector:

#search {
    width: 20em;  height: 2em;
}

or if you want all submit buttons to be a particular size:

input[type=submit] {
    width: 20em;  height: 2em;
}

or if you want certain classes of button to be a particular style you can use CSS classes:

<input type="submit" id="search" value="Search" class="search" />

and

input.search {
    width: 20em;  height: 2em;
}

I use ems as the measurement unit because they tend to scale better.

Get element inside element by class and ID - JavaScript

If this needs to work in IE 7 or lower you need to remember that getElementsByClassName does not exist in all browsers. Because of this you can create your own getElementsByClassName or you can try this.

var fooDiv = document.getElementById("foo");

for (var i = 0, childNode; i <= fooDiv.childNodes.length; i ++) {
    childNode = fooDiv.childNodes[i];
    if (/bar/.test(childNode.className)) {
        childNode.innerHTML = "Goodbye world!";
    }
}

Style the first <td> column of a table differently

The :nth-child() and :nth-of-type() pseudo-classes allows you to select elements with a formula.

The syntax is :nth-child(an+b), where you replace a and b by numbers of your choice.

For instance, :nth-child(3n+1) selects the 1st, 4th, 7th etc. child.

td:nth-child(3n+1) {  
  /* your stuff here */
}

:nth-of-type() works the same, except that it only considers element of the given type ( in the example).

Get text of the selected option with jQuery

Also u can consider this

$('#select_2').find('option:selected').text();

which might be a little faster solution though I am not sure.

Generating random numbers with normal distribution in Excel

Use the NORMINV function together with RAND():

=NORMINV(RAND(),10,7)

To keep your set of random values from changing, select all the values, copy them, and then paste (special) the values back into the same range.


Sample output (column A), 500 numbers generated with this formula:

enter image description here

How to pass data to all views in Laravel 5?

You can either create your own service provider (ViewServiceProvider name is common) or you can use the existing AppServiceProvider.

In your selected provider, put your code in the boot method.

public function boot() {
    view()->share('data', [1, 2, 3]);
}

This will make a $data variable accessible in all your views.

If you rather want to use the facade instead of the helper, change view()-> to View:: but don't forget to have use View; at the top of your file.

How to loop through a checkboxlist and to find what's checked and not checked?

I think the best way to do this is to use CheckedItems:

 foreach (DataRowView objDataRowView in CheckBoxList.CheckedItems)
 {
     // use objDataRowView as you wish                
 }

Can I call jQuery's click() to follow an <a> link if I haven't bound an event handler to it with bind or click already?

To open hyperlink in the same tab, use:

$(document).on('click', "a.classname", function() {
    var form = $("<form></form>");
    form.attr(
    {
        id     : "formid",
        action : $(this).attr("href"),
        method : "GET",
    });

    $("body").append(form);
    $("#formid").submit();
    $("#formid").remove();
    return false;
});

Sass nth-child nesting

You're trying to do &(2), &(4) which won't work

#romtest {
  .detailed {
    th {
      &:nth-child(2) {//your styles here}
      &:nth-child(4) {//your styles here}
      &:nth-child(6) {//your styles here}
      }
  }
}

Retrieve the position (X,Y) of an HTML element relative to the browser window

The libraries go to some lengths to get accurate offsets for an element.
here's a simple function that does the job in every circumstances that I've tried.

function getOffset( el ) {
    var _x = 0;
    var _y = 0;
    while( el && !isNaN( el.offsetLeft ) && !isNaN( el.offsetTop ) ) {
        _x += el.offsetLeft - el.scrollLeft;
        _y += el.offsetTop - el.scrollTop;
        el = el.offsetParent;
    }
    return { top: _y, left: _x };
}
var x = getOffset( document.getElementById('yourElId') ).left; 

How to see the CREATE VIEW code for a view in PostgreSQL?

Kept having to return here to look up pg_get_viewdef (how to remember that!!), so searched for a more memorable command... and got it:

\d+ viewname

You can see similar sorts of commands by typing \? at the pgsql command line.

Bonus tip: The emacs command sql-postgres makes pgsql a lot more pleasant (edit, copy, paste, command history).

Send JSON data from Javascript to PHP?

Simple example on JavaScript for HTML input-fields (sending to server JSON, parsing JSON in PHP and sending back to client) using AJAX:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head lang="en">
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
</head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<body>
<div align="center">
    <label for="LName">Last Name</label>
    <input type="text" class="form-control" name="LName" id="LName" maxlength="15"
           placeholder="Last name"/>
</div>
<br/>

<div align="center">
    <label for="Age">Age</label>
    <input type="text" class="form-control" name="Age" id="Age" maxlength="3"
           placeholder="Age"/>
</div>
<br/>

<div align="center">
    <button type="submit" name="submit_show" id="submit_show" value="show" onclick="actionSend()">Show
    </button>
</div>

<div id="result">
</div>

<script>
    var xmlhttp;

    function actionSend() {
        if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
            xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
        }
        else {// code for IE6, IE5
            xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
        }
        var values = $("input").map(function () {
            return $(this).val();
        }).get();
        var myJsonString = JSON.stringify(values);
        xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = respond;
        xmlhttp.open("POST", "ajax-test.php", true);
        xmlhttp.send(myJsonString);
    }

    function respond() {
        if (xmlhttp.readyState == 4 && xmlhttp.status == 200) {
            document.getElementById('result').innerHTML = xmlhttp.responseText;
        }
    }

</script>

</body>
</html>

PHP file ajax-test.php :

<?php

$str_json = file_get_contents('php://input'); //($_POST doesn't work here)
$response = json_decode($str_json, true); // decoding received JSON to array

$lName = $response[0];
$age = $response[1];

echo '
<div align="center">
<h5> Received data: </h5>
<table border="1" style="border-collapse: collapse;">
 <tr> <th> First Name</th> <th> Age</th> </tr>
 <tr>
 <td> <center> '.$lName.'<center></td>
 <td> <center> '.$age.'</center></td>
 </tr>
 </table></div>
 ';
?>

How do I pull my project from github?

You Can do by Two ways,

1. Cloning the Remote Repo to your Local host

example: git clone https://github.com/user-name/repository.git

2. Pulling the Remote Repo to your Local host

First you have to create a git local repo by,

example: git init or git init repo-name then, git pull https://github.com/user-name/repository.git

That's all, All commits and branch in the remote repo now available in the local repository of your computer.

Happy Coding, cheers -:)

Jquery find nearest matching element

var otherInput = $(this).closest('.row').find('.inputQty');

That goes up to a row level, then back down to .inputQty.

How to change port number in vue-cli project

An alternative approach with vue-cli version 3 is to add a .env file in the root project directory (along side package.json) with the contents:

PORT=3000

Running npm run serve will now indicate the app is running on port 3000.

Reverse a string without using reversed() or [::-1]?

We can first convert string into a list and then reverse the string after that use ".join" method to again convert list to single string.

text="Youknowwhoiam"
lst=list(text)
lst.reverse()
print("".join(lst))

It will first convert "youknowwhoiam" into ['Y', 'o', 'u', 'k', 'n', 'o', 'w', 'w', 'h', 'o', 'i', 'a', 'm']

After it will reverse the list into ['m', 'a', 'i', 'o', 'h', 'w', 'w', 'o', 'n', 'k', 'u', 'o', 'Y']

In last it will convert list into single word "maiohwwonkuoY "

For more explanation in brief just run this code:-

text="Youknowwhoiam"
lst=list(text)
print (lst)
lst.reverse()
print(lst)
print("".join(lst))

Priority queue in .Net

The following implementation of a PriorityQueue uses SortedSet from the System library.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace CDiggins
{
    interface IPriorityQueue<T, K> where K : IComparable<K>
    {
        bool Empty { get; }
        void Enqueue(T x, K key);
        void Dequeue();
        T Top { get; }
    }

    class PriorityQueue<T, K> : IPriorityQueue<T, K> where K : IComparable<K>
    {
        SortedSet<Tuple<T, K>> set;

        class Comparer : IComparer<Tuple<T, K>> {
            public int Compare(Tuple<T, K> x, Tuple<T, K> y) {
                return x.Item2.CompareTo(y.Item2);
            }
        }

        PriorityQueue() { set = new SortedSet<Tuple<T, K>>(new Comparer()); }
        public bool Empty { get { return set.Count == 0;  } }
        public void Enqueue(T x, K key) { set.Add(Tuple.Create(x, key)); }
        public void Dequeue() { set.Remove(set.Max); }
        public T Top { get { return set.Max.Item1; } }
    }
}

Facebook login message: "URL Blocked: This redirect failed because the redirect URI is not whitelisted in the app’s Client OAuth Settings."

Login Helper of your site

$loginUrl = $helper->getLoginUrl('xyz.com/user_by_facebook/', $permissions);

and in facebook application dashboard (Under products tab : Facebook Login )

Valid OAuth redirect URIs should also be same to xyz.com/user_by_facebook/

as mentioned earlier while making request from web

How to set the timeout for a TcpClient?

One thing to take note of is that it is possible for the BeginConnect call to fail before the timeout expires. This may happen if you are attempting a local connection. Here's a modified version of Jon's code...

        var client = new TcpClient();
        var result = client.BeginConnect("remotehost", Port, null, null);

        result.AsyncWaitHandle.WaitOne(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1));
        if (!client.Connected)
        {
            throw new Exception("Failed to connect.");
        }

        // we have connected
        client.EndConnect(result);

How to convert "0" and "1" to false and true

Or if the Boolean value is not been returned, you can do something like this:

bool boolValue = (returnValue == "1");

How to get current user, and how to use User class in MVC5?

In .Net MVC5 core 2.2, I use HttpContext.User.Identity.Name . It worked for me.

Determining complexity for recursive functions (Big O notation)

We can prove it mathematically which is something I was missing in the above answers.

It can dramatically help you understand how to calculate any method. I recommend reading it from top to bottom to fully understand how to do it:

  1. T(n) = T(n-1) + 1 It means that the time it takes for the method to finish is equal to the same method but with n-1 which is T(n-1) and we now add + 1 because it's the time it takes for the general operations to be completed (except T(n-1)). Now, we are going to find T(n-1) as follow: T(n-1) = T(n-1-1) + 1. It looks like we can now form a function that can give us some sort of repetition so we can fully understand. We will place the right side of T(n-1) = ... instead of T(n-1) inside the method T(n) = ... which will give us: T(n) = T(n-1-1) + 1 + 1 which is T(n) = T(n-2) + 2 or in other words we need to find our missing k: T(n) = T(n-k) + k. The next step is to take n-k and claim that n-k = 1 because at the end of the recursion it will take exactly O(1) when n<=0. From this simple equation we now know that k = n - 1. Let's place k in our final method: T(n) = T(n-k) + k which will give us: T(n) = 1 + n - 1 which is exactly n or O(n).
  2. Is the same as 1. You can test it your self and see that you get O(n).
  3. T(n) = T(n/5) + 1 as before, the time for this method to finish equals to the time the same method but with n/5 which is why it is bounded to T(n/5). Let's find T(n/5) like in 1: T(n/5) = T(n/5/5) + 1 which is T(n/5) = T(n/5^2) + 1. Let's place T(n/5) inside T(n) for the final calculation: T(n) = T(n/5^k) + k. Again as before, n/5^k = 1 which is n = 5^k which is exactly as asking what in power of 5, will give us n, the answer is log5n = k (log of base 5). Let's place our findings in T(n) = T(n/5^k) + k as follow: T(n) = 1 + logn which is O(logn)
  4. T(n) = 2T(n-1) + 1 what we have here is basically the same as before but this time we are invoking the method recursively 2 times thus we multiple it by 2. Let's find T(n-1) = 2T(n-1-1) + 1 which is T(n-1) = 2T(n-2) + 1. Our next place as before, let's place our finding: T(n) = 2(2T(n-2)) + 1 + 1 which is T(n) = 2^2T(n-2) + 2 that gives us T(n) = 2^kT(n-k) + k. Let's find k by claiming that n-k = 1 which is k = n - 1. Let's place k as follow: T(n) = 2^(n-1) + n - 1 which is roughly O(2^n)
  5. T(n) = T(n-5) + n + 1 It's almost the same as 4 but now we add n because we have one for loop. Let's find T(n-5) = T(n-5-5) + n + 1 which is T(n-5) = T(n - 2*5) + n + 1. Let's place it: T(n) = T(n-2*5) + n + n + 1 + 1) which is T(n) = T(n-2*5) + 2n + 2) and for the k: T(n) = T(n-k*5) + kn + k) again: n-5k = 1 which is n = 5k + 1 that is roughly n = k. This will give us: T(n) = T(0) + n^2 + n which is roughly O(n^2).

I now recommend reading the rest of the answers which now, will give you a better perspective. Good luck winning those big O's :)

How do I find all of the symlinks in a directory tree?

What I do is create a script in my bin directory that is like an alias. For example I have a script named lsd ls -l | grep ^d

you could make one lsl ls -lR | grep ^l

Just chmod them +x and you are good to go.

How to use SQL Select statement with IF EXISTS sub query?

Use CASE:

SELECT 
  TABEL1.Id, 
  CASE WHEN EXISTS (SELECT Id FROM TABLE2 WHERE TABLE2.ID = TABLE1.ID)
       THEN 'TRUE' 
       ELSE 'FALSE'
  END AS NewFiled  
FROM TABLE1

If TABLE2.ID is Unique or a Primary Key, you could also use this:

SELECT 
  TABEL1.Id, 
  CASE WHEN TABLE2.ID IS NOT NULL
       THEN 'TRUE' 
       ELSE 'FALSE'
  END AS NewFiled  
FROM TABLE1
  LEFT JOIN Table2
    ON TABLE2.ID = TABLE1.ID

How do you properly determine the current script directory?

Hopefully this helps:- If you run a script/module from anywhere you'll be able to access the __file__ variable which is a module variable representing the location of the script.

On the other hand, if you're using the interpreter you don't have access to that variable, where you'll get a name NameError and os.getcwd() will give you the incorrect directory if you're running the file from somewhere else.

This solution should give you what you're looking for in all cases:

from inspect import getsourcefile
from os.path import abspath
abspath(getsourcefile(lambda:0))

I haven't thoroughly tested it but it solved my problem.

What is deserialize and serialize in JSON?

JSON is a format that encodes objects in a string. Serialization means to convert an object into that string, and deserialization is its inverse operation (convert string -> object).

When transmitting data or storing them in a file, the data are required to be byte strings, but complex objects are seldom in this format. Serialization can convert these complex objects into byte strings for such use. After the byte strings are transmitted, the receiver will have to recover the original object from the byte string. This is known as deserialization.

Say, you have an object:

{foo: [1, 4, 7, 10], bar: "baz"}

serializing into JSON will convert it into a string:

'{"foo":[1,4,7,10],"bar":"baz"}'

which can be stored or sent through wire to anywhere. The receiver can then deserialize this string to get back the original object. {foo: [1, 4, 7, 10], bar: "baz"}.

Selecting data frame rows based on partial string match in a column

I notice that you mention a function %like% in your current approach. I don't know if that's a reference to the %like% from "data.table", but if it is, you can definitely use it as follows.

Note that the object does not have to be a data.table (but also remember that subsetting approaches for data.frames and data.tables are not identical):

library(data.table)
mtcars[rownames(mtcars) %like% "Merc", ]
iris[iris$Species %like% "osa", ]

If that is what you had, then perhaps you had just mixed up row and column positions for subsetting data.


If you don't want to load a package, you can try using grep() to search for the string you're matching. Here's an example with the mtcars dataset, where we are matching all rows where the row names includes "Merc":

mtcars[grep("Merc", rownames(mtcars)), ]
             mpg cyl  disp  hp drat   wt qsec vs am gear carb
# Merc 240D   24.4   4 146.7  62 3.69 3.19 20.0  1  0    4    2
# Merc 230    22.8   4 140.8  95 3.92 3.15 22.9  1  0    4    2
# Merc 280    19.2   6 167.6 123 3.92 3.44 18.3  1  0    4    4
# Merc 280C   17.8   6 167.6 123 3.92 3.44 18.9  1  0    4    4
# Merc 450SE  16.4   8 275.8 180 3.07 4.07 17.4  0  0    3    3
# Merc 450SL  17.3   8 275.8 180 3.07 3.73 17.6  0  0    3    3
# Merc 450SLC 15.2   8 275.8 180 3.07 3.78 18.0  0  0    3    3

And, another example, using the iris dataset searching for the string osa:

irisSubset <- iris[grep("osa", iris$Species), ]
head(irisSubset)
#   Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
# 1          5.1         3.5          1.4         0.2  setosa
# 2          4.9         3.0          1.4         0.2  setosa
# 3          4.7         3.2          1.3         0.2  setosa
# 4          4.6         3.1          1.5         0.2  setosa
# 5          5.0         3.6          1.4         0.2  setosa
# 6          5.4         3.9          1.7         0.4  setosa

For your problem try:

selectedRows <- conservedData[grep("hsa-", conservedData$miRNA), ]

Escape single quote character for use in an SQLite query

In bash scripts, I found that escaping double quotes around the value was necessary for values that could be null or contained characters that require escaping (like hyphens).

In this example, columnA's value could be null or contain hyphens.:

sqlite3 $db_name "insert into foo values (\"$columnA\", $columnB)";

inverting image in Python with OpenCV

You can use "tilde" operator to do it:

import cv2
image = cv2.imread("img.png")
image = ~image
cv2.imwrite("img_inv.png",image)

This is because the "tilde" operator (also known as unary operator) works doing a complement dependent on the type of object

for example for integers, its formula is:

x + (~x) = -1

but in this case, opencv use an "uint8 numpy array object" for its images so its range is from 0 to 255

so if we apply this operator to an "uint8 numpy array object" like this:

import numpy as np
x1 = np.array([25,255,10], np.uint8) #for example
x2 = ~x1
print (x2)

we will have as a result:

[230 0 245]

because its formula is:

x2 = 255 - x1

and that is exactly what we want to do to solve the problem.

Java String new line

If you simply want to print a newline in the console you can use ´\n´ for newlines.

If you want to break text in swing components you can use html:

String s = "<html>first line<br />second line</html>";

How to set value in @Html.TextBoxFor in Razor syntax?

It is going to write the value of your property model.Destination

This is by design. You'll want to populate your Destination property with the value you want in your controller before returning your view.

add to array if it isn't there already

Try adding as key instead of value:

Adding an entry

function addEntry($entry) {
    $this->entries[$entry] = true;
}

Getting all entries

function getEntries() {
    return array_keys($this->enties);
}

What is the difference between JOIN and UNION?

In the abstract, they are similar, in that two tables or result sets are being combined , but UNION is really for combining result sets with the SAME NUMBER OF COLUMNS with the COLUMNS HAVING SIMILAR DATA TYPES. The STRUCTURE is the same, only new rows are being added.

In joins, you can combine tables/result sets with any possible structure, including a cartesian join where there are NO shared/similar columns.

How to get Activity's content view?

You can get the view Back if you put an ID to your Layout.

<RelativeLayout
    android:id="@+id/my_relative_layout_id"

And call it from findViewById ...

How do I write dispatch_after GCD in Swift 3, 4, and 5?

You can use

DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + .microseconds(100)) {
        // Code
    }

How can I split a delimited string into an array in PHP?

In simple way you can go with explode($delimiter, $string);

But in a broad way, with Manual Programming :

        $string = "ab,cdefg,xyx,ht623";
        $resultArr = [];
        $strLength = strlen($string);
        $delimiter = ',';
        $j = 0;
        $tmp = '';
        for ($i = 0; $i < $strLength; $i++) {
            if($delimiter === $string[$i]) {
                $j++;
                $tmp = '';
                continue;
            }
            $tmp .= $string[$i];
            $resultArr[$j] = $tmp;
        }

Outpou : print_r($resultArr);

Array
(
    [0] => ab
    [1] => cdefg
    [2] => xyx
    [3] => ht623
)

How to create and show common dialog (Error, Warning, Confirmation) in JavaFX 2.0?

Recently released JDK 1.8.0_40 added support for JavaFX dialogs, alerts, etc. For example, to show a confirmation dialog, one would use the Alert class:

Alert alert = new Alert(AlertType.CONFIRMATION, "Delete " + selection + " ?", ButtonType.YES, ButtonType.NO, ButtonType.CANCEL);
alert.showAndWait();

if (alert.getResult() == ButtonType.YES) {
    //do stuff
}

Here's a list of added classes in this release:

Sort a two dimensional array based on one column

class ArrayComparator implements Comparator<Comparable[]> {
    private final int columnToSort;
    private final boolean ascending;

    public ArrayComparator(int columnToSort, boolean ascending) {
        this.columnToSort = columnToSort;
        this.ascending = ascending;
    }

    public int compare(Comparable[] c1, Comparable[] c2) {
        int cmp = c1[columnToSort].compareTo(c2[columnToSort]);
        return ascending ? cmp : -cmp;
    }
}

This way you can handle any type of data in those arrays (as long as they're Comparable) and you can sort any column in ascending or descending order.

String[][] data = getData();
Arrays.sort(data, new ArrayComparator(0, true));

PS: make sure you check for ArrayIndexOutOfBounds and others.

EDIT: The above solution would only be helpful if you are able to actually store a java.util.Date in the first column or if your date format allows you to use plain String comparison for those values. Otherwise, you need to convert that String to a Date, and you can achieve that using a callback interface (as a general solution). Here's an enhanced version:

class ArrayComparator implements Comparator<Object[]> {
    private static Converter DEFAULT_CONVERTER = new Converter() {
        @Override
        public Comparable convert(Object o) {
            // simply assume the object is Comparable
            return (Comparable) o;
        }
    };
    private final int columnToSort;
    private final boolean ascending;
    private final Converter converter;


    public ArrayComparator(int columnToSort, boolean ascending) {
        this(columnToSort, ascending, DEFAULT_CONVERTER);
    }

    public ArrayComparator(int columnToSort, boolean ascending, Converter converter) {
        this.columnToSort = columnToSort;
        this.ascending = ascending;
        this.converter = converter;
    }

    public int compare(Object[] o1, Object[] o2) {
        Comparable c1 = converter.convert(o1[columnToSort]);
        Comparable c2 = converter.convert(o2[columnToSort]);
        int cmp = c1.compareTo(c2);
        return ascending ? cmp : -cmp;
    }

}

interface Converter {
    Comparable convert(Object o);
}

class DateConverter implements Converter {
    private static final DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy.MM.dd hh:mm");

    @Override
    public Comparable convert(Object o) {
        try {
            return df.parse(o.toString());
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException(e);
        }
    }
}

And at this point, you can sort on your first column with:

Arrays.sort(data, new ArrayComparator(0, true, new DateConverter());

I skipped the checks for nulls and other error handling issues.

I agree this is starting to look like a framework already. :)

Last (hopefully) edit: I only now realize that your date format allows you to use plain String comparison. If that is the case, you don't need the "enhanced version".

How can I remove a character from a string using JavaScript?

return this.substr(0, index) + char + this.substr(index + char.length);

char.length is zero. You need to add 1 in this case in order to skip character.

Maintaining the final state at end of a CSS3 animation

Use animation-fill-mode: forwards;

animation-fill-mode: forwards;

The element will retain the style values that is set by the last keyframe (depends on animation-direction and animation-iteration-count).

Note: The @keyframes rule is not supported in Internet Explorer 9 and earlier versions.

Working example

_x000D_
_x000D_
div {_x000D_
  width: 100px;_x000D_
  height: 100px;_x000D_
  background: red;_x000D_
  position :relative;_x000D_
  -webkit-animation: mymove 3ss forwards; /* Safari 4.0 - 8.0 */_x000D_
  animation: bubble 3s forwards;_x000D_
  /* animation-name: bubble; _x000D_
  animation-duration: 3s;_x000D_
  animation-fill-mode: forwards; */_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
/* Safari */_x000D_
@-webkit-keyframes bubble  {_x000D_
  0%   { transform:scale(0.5); opacity:0.0; left:0}_x000D_
    50%  { transform:scale(1.2); opacity:0.5; left:100px}_x000D_
    100% { transform:scale(1.0); opacity:1.0; left:200px}_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
/* Standard syntax */_x000D_
@keyframes bubble  {_x000D_
   0%   { transform:scale(0.5); opacity:0.0; left:0}_x000D_
    50%  { transform:scale(1.2); opacity:0.5; left:100px}_x000D_
    100% { transform:scale(1.0); opacity:1.0; left:200px}_x000D_
}
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<h1>The keyframes </h1>_x000D_
<div></div>
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How to see the proxy settings on windows?

You can figure out which proxy server you're using by accessing some websites with a browser and then running the DOS command:

netstat

and you'll see some connections in the Foreign Address column on port 80 or 8080 (common proxy server ports). Ideally you will be able to identify the proxy server by its naming convention.

[see also https://stackoverflow.com/a/8161865/3195477]

Windows Application has stopped working :: Event Name CLR20r3

Download and install SAP Crystal Reports Runtime engine for .net (32 bit or 64 bit) depending on your os version. Should work there after

What does Html.HiddenFor do?

It creates a hidden input on the form for the field (from your model) that you pass it.

It is useful for fields in your Model/ViewModel that you need to persist on the page and have passed back when another call is made but shouldn't be seen by the user.

Consider the following ViewModel class:

public class ViewModel
{
    public string Value { get; set; }
    public int Id { get; set; }
}

Now you want the edit page to store the ID but have it not be seen:

<% using(Html.BeginForm() { %>
    <%= Html.HiddenFor(model.Id) %><br />
    <%= Html.TextBoxFor(model.Value) %>
<% } %>

This results in the equivalent of the following HTML:

<form name="form1">
    <input type="hidden" name="Id">2</input>
    <input type="text" name="Value" value="Some Text" />
</form>

Warning: mysqli_query() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli, resource given

You are using improper syntax. If you read the docs mysqli_query() you will find that it needs two parameter.

mixed mysqli_query ( mysqli $link , string $query [, int $resultmode = MYSQLI_STORE_RESULT ] )

mysql $link generally means, the resource object of the established mysqli connection to query the database.

So there are two ways of solving this problem

mysqli_query();

$myConnection= mysqli_connect("$db_host","$db_username","$db_pass", "mrmagicadam") or die ("could not connect to mysql"); 
$sqlCommand="SELECT id, linklabel FROM pages ORDER BY pageorder ASC";
$query=mysqli_query($myConnection, $sqlCommand) or die(mysqli_error($myConnection));

Or, Using mysql_query() (This is now obselete)

$myConnection= mysql_connect("$db_host","$db_username","$db_pass") or die ("could not connect to mysql");
mysql_select_db("mrmagicadam") or die ("no database");        
$sqlCommand="SELECT id, linklabel FROM pages ORDER BY pageorder ASC";
$query=mysql_query($sqlCommand) or die(mysql_error());

As pointed out in the comments, be aware of using die to just get the error. It might inadvertently give the viewer some sensitive information .

How to use EOF to run through a text file in C?

I would suggest you to use fseek-ftell functions.

FILE *stream = fopen("example.txt", "r");

if(!stream) {
    puts("I/O error.\n");
    return;
}

fseek(stream, 0, SEEK_END);
long size = ftell(stream);
fseek(stream, 0, SEEK_SET);

while(1) {

    if(ftell(stream) == size) {
        break;
    }

    /* INSERT ROUTINE */

}

fclose(stream);

'cout' was not declared in this scope

Put the following code before int main():

using namespace std;

And you will be able to use cout.

For example:

#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
int main(){
    char t = 'f';
    char *t1;
    char **t2;
    cout<<t;        
    return 0;
}

Now take a moment and read up on what cout is and what is going on here: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/iostream/cout/


Further, while its quick to do and it works, this is not exactly a good advice to simply add using namespace std; at the top of your code. For detailed correct approach, please read the answers to this related SO question.

PHP: Inserting Values from the Form into MySQL

<!DOCTYPE html>
<?php
$con = new mysqli("localhost","root","","form");

?>



<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
 //$("form").submit(function(e){

     $("#btn1").click(function(e){
     e.preventDefault();
    // alert('here');
        $(".apnew").append('<input type="text" placeholder="Enter youy Name" name="e1[]"/><br>');

    });
    //}
});
</script>

</head>

<body>
<h2><b>Register Form<b></h2>
<form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<table>
<tr><td>Name:</td><td><input type="text" placeholder="Enter youy Name" name="e1[]"/>
<div class="apnew"></div><button id="btn1">Add</button></td></tr>
<tr><td>Image:</td><td><input type="file"  name="e5[]" multiple="" accept="image/jpeg,image/gif,image/png,image/jpg"/></td></tr>

<tr><td>Address:</td><td><textarea  cols="20" rows="4" name="e2"></textarea></td></tr>
<tr><td>Contact:</td><td><div id="textnew"><input  type="number"  maxlength="10" name="e3"/></div></td></tr>
<tr><td>Gender:</td><td><input type="radio"  name="r1" value="Male" checked="checked"/>Male<input type="radio"  name="r1" value="feale"/>Female</td></tr>
<tr><td><input  id="submit" type="submit" name="t1" value="save" /></td></tr>
</table>
<?php
//echo '<pre>';print_r($_FILES);exit();
if(isset($_POST['t1']))
{
$values = implode(", ", $_POST['e1']);
$imgarryimp=array();
foreach($_FILES["e5"]["tmp_name"] as $key=>$val){


move_uploaded_file($_FILES["e5"]["tmp_name"][$key],"images/".$_FILES["e5"]["name"][$key]);

                     $fname = $_FILES['e5']['name'][$key];
                     $imgarryimp[]=$fname;
                     //echo $fname;

                     if(strlen($fname)>0)
                      {
                         $img = $fname;
                      }
                      $d="insert into form(name,address,contact,gender,image)values('$values','$_POST[e2]','$_POST[e3]','$_POST[r1]','$img')";

       if($con->query($d)==TRUE)
         {
         echo "Yoy Data Save Successfully!!!";
         }
}
exit;





                      // echo $values;exit;
                      //foreach($_POST['e1'] as $row) 
    //{ 

    $d="insert into form(name,address,contact,gender,image)values('$values','$_POST[e2]','$_POST[e3]','$_POST[r1]','$img')";

       if($con->query($d)==TRUE)
         {
         echo "Yoy Data Save Successfully!!!";
         }
    //}
    //exit;


}
?>

</form>

<table>
<?php 
$t="select * from form";
$y=$con->query($t);
foreach ($y as $q);
{
?>
<tr>
<td>Name:<?php echo $q['name'];?></td>
<td>Address:<?php echo $q['address'];?></td>
<td>Contact:<?php echo $q['contact'];?></td>
<td>Gender:<?php echo $q['gender'];?></td>
</tr>
<?php }?>
</table>

</body>
</html>

String compare in Perl with "eq" vs "=="

Maybe the condition you are using is incorrect:

$str1 == "taste" && $str2 == "waste"

The program will enter into THEN part only when both of the stated conditions are true.

You can try with $str1 == "taste" || $str2 == "waste". This will execute the THEN part if anyone of the above conditions are true.

How to read xml file contents in jQuery and display in html elements?

Get the XML using Ajax call, find the main element, loop through all the element and append data in table.

Sample code

 //ajax call to load XML and parse it
        $.ajax({
            type: 'GET',
            url: 'https://res.cloudinary.com/dmsxwwfb5/raw/upload/v1591716537/book.xml',           // The file path.
            dataType: 'xml',    
            success: function(xml) {
               //find all book tags, loop them and append to table body
                $(xml).find('book').each(function() {
                    
                    // Append new data to the tbody element.
                    $('#tableBody').append(
                        '<tr>' +
                            '<td>' +
                                $(this).find('author').text() + '</td> ' +
                            '<td>' +
                                $(this).find('title').text() + '</td> ' +
                            '<td>' +
                                $(this).find('genre').text() + '</td> ' +
                                '<td>' +
                                $(this).find('price').text() + '</td> ' +
                                '<td>' +
                                $(this).find('description').text() + '</td> ' +
                        '</tr>');
                });
            }
        });

Fiddle link: https://jsfiddle.net/pn9xs8hf/2/

Source: Read XML using jQuery & load it in HTML Table

Base64 String throwing invalid character error

string stringToDecrypt = HttpContext.Current.Request.QueryString.ToString()

//change to string stringToDecrypt = HttpUtility.UrlDecode(HttpContext.Current.Request.QueryString.ToString())

What is the common header format of Python files?

I strongly favour minimal file headers, by which I mean just:

  • The hashbang (#! line) if this is an executable script
  • Module docstring
  • Imports, grouped in the standard way, eg:
  import os    # standard library
  import sys

  import requests  # 3rd party packages

  from mypackage import (  # local source
      mymodule,
      myothermodule,
  )

ie. three groups of imports, with a single blank line between them. Within each group, imports are sorted. The final group, imports from local source, can either be absolute imports as shown, or explicit relative imports.

Everything else is a waste of time, visual space, and is actively misleading.

If you have legal disclaimers or licencing info, it goes into a separate file. It does not need to infect every source code file. Your copyright should be part of this. People should be able to find it in your LICENSE file, not random source code.

Metadata such as authorship and dates is already maintained by your source control. There is no need to add a less-detailed, erroneous, and out-of-date version of the same info in the file itself.

I don't believe there is any other data that everyone needs to put into all their source files. You may have some particular requirement to do so, but such things apply, by definition, only to you. They have no place in “general headers recommended for everyone”.

How to get value from form field in django framework?

You can do this after you validate your data.

if myform.is_valid():
  data = myform.cleaned_data
  field = data['field']

Also, read the django docs. They are perfect.

How to show DatePickerDialog on Button click?

it works for me. if you want to enable future time for choose, you have to delete maximum date. You need to to do like followings.

 btnDate.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                       @Override
                       public void onClick(View v) {
                              DialogFragment newFragment = new DatePickerFragment();
                                    newFragment.show(getSupportFragmentManager(), "datePicker");
                            }
                        });

            public static class DatePickerFragment extends DialogFragment
                        implements DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener {

                    @Override
                    public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
                        final Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
                        int year = c.get(Calendar.YEAR);
                        int month = c.get(Calendar.MONTH);
                        int day = c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
                        DatePickerDialog dialog = new DatePickerDialog(getActivity(), this, year, month, day);
                        dialog.getDatePicker().setMaxDate(c.getTimeInMillis());
                        return  dialog;
                    }

                    public void onDateSet(DatePicker view, int year, int month, int day) {
                       btnDate.setText(ConverterDate.ConvertDate(year, month + 1, day));
                    }
                }

Copying sets Java

With Java 8 you can use stream and collect to copy the items:

Set<Item> newSet = oldSet.stream().collect(Collectors.toSet());

Or you can collect to an ImmutableSet (if you know that the set should not change):

Set<Item> newSet = oldSet.stream().collect(ImmutableSet.toImmutableSet());

How to remove square brackets from list in Python?

def listToStringWithoutBrackets(list1):
    return str(list1).replace('[','').replace(']','')

How can I generate an INSERT script for an existing SQL Server table that includes all stored rows?

Yes, use the commercial but inexpensive SSMS Tools Pack addin which has a nifty "Generate Insert statements from resultsets, tables or database" feature

Getting the length of two-dimensional array

int secondDimensionSize = nir[0].length;

Each element of the first dimension is actually another array with the length of the second dimension.

SSRS Conditional Formatting Switch or IIF

To dynamically change the color of a text box goto properties, goto font/Color and set the following expression

=SWITCH(Fields!CurrentRiskLevel.Value = "Low", "Green",
Fields!CurrentRiskLevel.Value = "Moderate", "Blue",
Fields!CurrentRiskLevel.Value = "Medium", "Yellow",
Fields!CurrentRiskLevel.Value = "High", "Orange",
Fields!CurrentRiskLevel.Value = "Very High", "Red"
)

Same way for tolerance

=SWITCH(Fields!Tolerance.Value = "Low", "Red",
Fields!Tolerance.Value = "Moderate", "Orange",
Fields!Tolerance.Value = "Medium", "Yellow",
Fields!Tolerance.Value = "High", "Blue",
Fields!Tolerance.Value = "Very High", "Green")

Javascript date.getYear() returns 111 in 2011?

From what I've read on Mozilla's JS pages, getYear is deprecated. As pointed out many times, getFullYear() is the way to go. If you're really wanting to use getYear() add 1900 to it.

var now = new Date(),
    year = now.getYear() + 1900;

How to Resize a Bitmap in Android?

/**
 * Kotlin method for Bitmap scaling
 * @param bitmap the bitmap to be scaled
 * @param pixel  the target pixel size
 * @param width  the width
 * @param height the height
 * @param max    the max(height, width)
 * @return the scaled bitmap
 */
fun scaleBitmap(bitmap:Bitmap, pixel:Float, width:Int, height:Int, max:Int):Bitmap {
    val scale = px / max
    val h = Math.round(scale * height)
    val w = Math.round(scale * width)
    return Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(bitmap, w, h, true)
  }

How to get full path of selected file on change of <input type=‘file’> using javascript, jquery-ajax?

You can use the following code to get a working local URL for the uploaded file:

<script type="text/javascript">    
    var path = (window.URL || window.webkitURL).createObjectURL(file);
    console.log('path', path);
</script>

Make div scrollable

Place this into your DIV style

overflow:scroll;

Add table row in jQuery

Pure JS is quite short in your case

myTable.firstChild.innerHTML += '<tr><td>my data</td><td>more data</td></tr>'

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function add() {_x000D_
  myTable.firstChild.innerHTML+=`<tr><td>date</td><td>${+new Date}</td></tr>`_x000D_
}
_x000D_
td {border: 1px solid black;}
_x000D_
<button onclick="add()">Add</button><br>_x000D_
<table id="myTable"><tbody></tbody> </table>
_x000D_
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(if we remove <tbody> and firstChild it will also works but wrap every row with <tbody>)

How do I navigate to another page when PHP script is done?

if ($done)
{
    header("Location: /url/to/the/other/page");
    exit;
}

Disable activity slide-in animation when launching new activity?

IMHO this answer here solve issue in the most elegant way..

Developer should create a style,

<style name="noAnimTheme" parent="android:Theme">
  <item name="android:windowAnimationStyle">@null</item>
</style>

then in manifest set it as theme for activity or whole application.

<activity android:name=".ui.ArticlesActivity" android:theme="@style/noAnimTheme">
</activity>

Voila! Nice and easy..

P.S. credits to original author please

Pass props in Link react-router

Route:

<Route state={this.state} exact path="/customers/:id" render={(props) => <PageCustomer {...props} state={this.state} />} />

And then can access params in your PageCustomer component like this: this.props.match.params.id.

For example an api call in PageCustomer component:

axios({
   method: 'get',
   url: '/api/customers/' + this.props.match.params.id,
   data: {},
   headers: {'X-Requested-With': 'XMLHttpRequest'}
 })

SQL Server loop - how do I loop through a set of records

Just another approach if you are fine using temp tables.I have personally tested this and it will not cause any exception (even if temp table does not have any data.)

CREATE TABLE #TempTable
(
    ROWID int identity(1,1) primary key,
    HIERARCHY_ID_TO_UPDATE int,
)

--create some testing data
--INSERT INTO #TempTable VALUES(1)
--INSERT INTO #TempTable VALUES(2)
--INSERT INTO #TempTable VALUES(4)
--INSERT INTO #TempTable VALUES(6)
--INSERT INTO #TempTable VALUES(8)

DECLARE @MAXID INT, @Counter INT

SET @COUNTER = 1
SELECT @MAXID = COUNT(*) FROM #TempTable

WHILE (@COUNTER <= @MAXID)
BEGIN
    --DO THE PROCESSING HERE 
    SELECT @HIERARCHY_ID_TO_UPDATE = PT.HIERARCHY_ID_TO_UPDATE
    FROM #TempTable AS PT
    WHERE ROWID = @COUNTER

    SET @COUNTER = @COUNTER + 1
END


IF (OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#TempTable') IS NOT NULL)
BEGIN
    DROP TABLE #TempTable
END

Why is “while ( !feof (file) )” always wrong?

feof() is not very intuitive. In my very humble opinion, the FILE's end-of-file state should be set to true if any read operation results in the end of file being reached. Instead, you have to manually check if the end of file has been reached after each read operation. For example, something like this will work if reading from a text file using fgetc():

#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  FILE *in = fopen("testfile.txt", "r");

  while(1) {
    char c = fgetc(in);
    if (feof(in)) break;
    printf("%c", c);
  }

  fclose(in);
  return 0;
}

It would be great if something like this would work instead:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  FILE *in = fopen("testfile.txt", "r");

  while(!feof(in)) {
    printf("%c", fgetc(in));
  }

  fclose(in);
  return 0;
}

How to keep the console window open in Visual C++?

Simply add a Breakpoint to the closing bracket of your _tmain method. This is the easier way plus you don't have to add code in order to debug.

Merging two arrayLists into a new arrayList, with no duplicates and in order, in Java

I'm not sure why your current code is failing (what is the Exception you get?), but I would like to point out this approach performs O(N-squared). Consider pre-sorting your input arrays (if they are not defined to be pre-sorted) and merging the sorted arrays:

http://www.algolist.net/Algorithms/Merge/Sorted_arrays

Sorting is generally O(N logN) and the merge is O(m+n).

Removing multiple keys from a dictionary safely

If you also need to retrieve the values for the keys you are removing, this would be a pretty good way to do it:

values_removed = [d.pop(k, None) for k in entities_to_remove]

You could of course still do this just for the removal of the keys from d, but you would be unnecessarily creating the list of values with the list comprehension. It is also a little unclear to use a list comprehension just for the function's side effect.

How to check variable type at runtime in Go language

The answer by @Darius is the most idiomatic (and probably more performant) method. One limitation is that the type you are checking has to be of type interface{}. If you use a concrete type it will fail.

An alternative way to determine the type of something at run-time, including concrete types, is to use the Go reflect package. Chaining TypeOf(x).Kind() together you can get a reflect.Kind value which is a uint type: http://golang.org/pkg/reflect/#Kind

You can then do checks for types outside of a switch block, like so:

import (
    "fmt"
    "reflect"
)

// ....

x := 42
y := float32(43.3)
z := "hello"

xt := reflect.TypeOf(x).Kind()
yt := reflect.TypeOf(y).Kind()
zt := reflect.TypeOf(z).Kind()

fmt.Printf("%T: %s\n", xt, xt)
fmt.Printf("%T: %s\n", yt, yt)
fmt.Printf("%T: %s\n", zt, zt)

if xt == reflect.Int {
    println(">> x is int")
}
if yt == reflect.Float32 {
    println(">> y is float32")
}
if zt == reflect.String {
    println(">> z is string")
}

Which prints outs:

reflect.Kind: int
reflect.Kind: float32
reflect.Kind: string
>> x is int
>> y is float32
>> z is string

Again, this is probably not the preferred way to do it, but it's good to know alternative options.

Count immediate child div elements using jQuery

In response to mrCoders answer using jsperf why not just use the dom node ?

var $foo = $('#foo');
var count = $foo[0].childElementCount

You can try the test here: http://jsperf.com/jquery-child-ele-size/7

This method gets 46,095 op/s while the other methods at best 2000 op/s

Convert pandas DataFrame into list of lists

EDIT: as_matrix is deprecated since version 0.23.0

You can use the built in values or to_numpy (recommended option) method on the dataframe:

In [8]:
df.to_numpy()

Out[8]:
array([[  0.9,   7. ,   5.2, ...,  13.3,  13.5,   8.9],
   [  0.9,   7. ,   5.2, ...,  13.3,  13.5,   8.9],
   [  0.8,   6.1,   5.4, ...,  15.9,  14.4,   8.6],
   ..., 
   [  0.2,   1.3,   2.3, ...,  16.1,  16.1,  10.8],
   [  0.2,   1.3,   2.4, ...,  16.5,  15.9,  11.4],
   [  0.2,   1.3,   2.4, ...,  16.5,  15.9,  11.4]])

If you explicitly want lists and not a numpy array add .tolist():

df.to_numpy().tolist()

List all liquibase sql types

For checking type conversions in version 3, you can go to their github and check into the different liquibase types and check the method toDatabaseDataType. For example, for Boolean, you can check here:

https://github.com/liquibase/liquibase/blob/master/liquibase-core/src/main/java/liquibase/datatype/core/BooleanType.java

For version 2.0.x, the conversion seems to be into database specific classes. For example, for Mysql:

https://github.com/liquibase/liquibase/blob/2_0_x/liquibase-core/src/main/java/liquibase/database/typeconversion/core/MySQLTypeConverter.java

refresh both the External data source and pivot tables together within a time schedule

Auto Refresh Workbook for example every 5 sec. Apply to module

Public Sub Refresh()
'refresh
ActiveWorkbook.RefreshAll

alertTime = Now + TimeValue("00:00:05") 'hh:mm:ss
    Application.OnTime alertTime, "Refresh"

End Sub

Apply to Workbook on Open

Private Sub Workbook_Open()
alertTime = Now + TimeValue("00:00:05") 'hh:mm:ss
Application.OnTime alertTime, "Refresh"
End Sub

:)

Formatting a Date String in React Native

The beauty of the React Native is that it supports lots of JS libraries like Moment.js. Using moment.js would be a better/easier way to handle date/time instead coding from scratch

just run this in the terminal (yarn add moment also works if using React's built-in package manager):

npm install moment --save

And in your React Native js page:

import Moment from 'moment';

render(){
    Moment.locale('en');
    var dt = '2016-05-02T00:00:00';
    return(<View> {Moment(dt).format('d MMM')} </View>) //basically you can do all sorts of the formatting and others
}

You may check the moment.js official docs here https://momentjs.com/docs/

How to make python Requests work via socks proxy

I installed pysocks and monkey patched create_connection in urllib3, like this:

import socks
import socket
socks.setdefaultproxy(socks.PROXY_TYPE_SOCKS4, "127.0.0.1", 1080)

def create_connection(address, timeout=socket._GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT,
                      source_address=None, socket_options=None):
    """Connect to *address* and return the socket object.

    Convenience function.  Connect to *address* (a 2-tuple ``(host,
    port)``) and return the socket object.  Passing the optional
    *timeout* parameter will set the timeout on the socket instance
    before attempting to connect.  If no *timeout* is supplied, the
    global default timeout setting returned by :func:`getdefaulttimeout`
    is used.  If *source_address* is set it must be a tuple of (host, port)
    for the socket to bind as a source address before making the connection.
    An host of '' or port 0 tells the OS to use the default.
    """

    host, port = address
    if host.startswith('['):
        host = host.strip('[]')
    err = None
    for res in socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, socket.SOCK_STREAM):
        af, socktype, proto, canonname, sa = res
        sock = None
        try:
            sock = socks.socksocket(af, socktype, proto)

            # If provided, set socket level options before connecting.
            # This is the only addition urllib3 makes to this function.
            urllib3.util.connection._set_socket_options(sock, socket_options)

            if timeout is not socket._GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT:
                sock.settimeout(timeout)
            if source_address:
                sock.bind(source_address)
            sock.connect(sa)
            return sock

        except socket.error as e:
            err = e
            if sock is not None:
                sock.close()
                sock = None

    if err is not None:
        raise err

    raise socket.error("getaddrinfo returns an empty list")

# monkeypatch
urllib3.util.connection.create_connection = create_connection

How to set ObjectId as a data type in mongoose

Unlike traditional RBDMs, mongoDB doesn't allow you to define any random field as the primary key, the _id field MUST exist for all standard documents.

For this reason, it doesn't make sense to create a separate uuid field.

In mongoose, the ObjectId type is used not to create a new uuid, rather it is mostly used to reference other documents.

Here is an example:

var mongoose = require('mongoose');

var Schema = mongoose.Schema,
    ObjectId = Schema.ObjectId;
var Schema_Product = new Schema({
    categoryId  : ObjectId, // a product references a category _id with type ObjectId
    title       : String,
    price       : Number
});

As you can see, it wouldn't make much sense to populate categoryId with a ObjectId.

However, if you do want a nicely named uuid field, mongoose provides virtual properties that allow you to proxy (reference) a field.

Check it out:

var mongoose = require('mongoose');

var Schema = mongoose.Schema,
    ObjectId = Schema.ObjectId;
var Schema_Category = new Schema({
    title       : String,
    sortIndex   : String
});

Schema_Category.virtual('categoryId').get(function() {
    return this._id;
});

So now, whenever you call category.categoryId, mongoose just returns the _id instead.

You can also create a "set" method so that you can set virtual properties, check out this link for more info

Multiple simultaneous downloads using Wget?

A new (but yet not released) tool is Mget. It has already many options known from Wget and comes with a library that allows you to easily embed (recursive) downloading into your own application.

To answer your question:

mget --num-threads=4 [url]

UPDATE

Mget is now developed as Wget2 with many bugs fixed and more features (e.g. HTTP/2 support).

--num-threads is now --max-threads.

jquery: $(window).scrollTop() but no $(window).scrollBottom()

I would say that a scrollBottom as a direct opposite of scrollTop should be:

var scrollBottom = $(document).height() - $(window).height() - $(window).scrollTop();

Here is a small ugly test that works for me:

// SCROLLTESTER START //
$('<h1 id="st" style="position: fixed; right: 25px; bottom: 25px;"></h1>').insertAfter('body');

$(window).scroll(function () {
  var st = $(window).scrollTop();
  var scrollBottom = $(document).height() - $(window).height() - $(window).scrollTop();

  $('#st').replaceWith('<h1 id="st" style="position: fixed; right: 25px; bottom: 25px;">scrollTop: ' + st + '<br>scrollBottom: ' + scrollBottom + '</h1>');
});
// SCROLLTESTER END //

How to implement a binary search tree in Python?

The problem, or at least one problem with your code is here:-

def insert(self,node,someNumber):
    if node is None:
        node = Node(someNumber)
    else:
        if node.data > someNumber:
            self.insert(node.rchild,someNumber)
        else:
            self.insert(node.rchild, someNumber)
    return

You see the statement "if node.data > someNumber:" and the associated "else:" statement both have the same code after them. i.e you do the same thing whether the if statement is true or false.

I'd suggest you probably intended to do different things here, perhaps one of these should say self.insert(node.lchild, someNumber) ?

Check if input value is empty and display an alert

You could create a function that checks every input in an input class like below

 function validateForm() {
  
    var anyFieldIsEmpty = jQuery(".myclass").filter(function () {
        return $.trim(this.value).length === 0;
    }).length > 0

    if (anyFieldIsEmpty) {
        alert("Fill all the necessary fields");
        var empty = $(".myclass").filter(function () {
            return $.trim(this.value).length === 0;
        })
        empty.css("border", "1px solid red");
        return false;
    } else {
        return true;
    }
}

What this does is it checks every input in 'myclass' and if empty it gives alert and colour the border of the input and user will recognize which input is not filled.

Fixed header, footer with scrollable content

Something like this

<html>
  <body style="height:100%; width:100%">
    <div id="header" style="position:absolute; top:0px; left:0px; height:200px; right:0px;overflow:hidden;"> 
    </div> 
    <div id="content" style="position:absolute; top:200px; bottom:200px; left:0px; right:0px; overflow:auto;"> 
    </div> 
    <div id="footer" style="position:absolute; bottom:0px; height:200px; left:0px; right:0px; overflow:hidden;"> 
    </div>
  </body>
</html> 

Yes/No message box using QMessageBox

Python equivalent code for a QMessageBox which consist of a question in it and Yes and No button. When Yes Button is clicked it will pop up another message box saying yes is clicked and same for No button also. You can push your own code after if block.

button_reply = QMessageBox.question(self,"Test", "Are you sure want to quit??", QMessageBox.Yes,QMessageBox.No,)

if button_reply == QMessageBox.Yes:
    QMessageBox.information(self, "Test", "Yes Button Was Clicked")
else :
    QMessageBox.information(self, "Test", "No Button Was Clicked")

Empty or Null value display in SSRS text boxes

Try this

=IIF(IsNothing(Fields!MyField.Value)=TRUE,"NA",Fields!MyFields.Value)

Auto margins don't center image in page

Under some circumstances (such as earlier versions of IE, Gecko, Webkit) and inheritance, elements with position:relative; will prevent margin:0 auto; from working, even if top, right, bottom, and left aren't set.

Setting the element to position:static; (the default) may fix it under these circumstances. Generally, block level elements with a specified width will respect margin:0 auto; using either relative or static positioning.

Upload Image using POST form data in Python-requests

In case if you were to pass the image as part of JSON along with other attributes, you can use the below snippet.
client.py

import base64
import json                    

import requests

api = 'http://localhost:8080/test'
image_file = 'sample_image.png'

with open(image_file, "rb") as f:
    im_bytes = f.read()        
im_b64 = base64.b64encode(im_bytes).decode("utf8")

headers = {'Content-type': 'application/json', 'Accept': 'text/plain'}
  
payload = json.dumps({"image": im_b64, "other_key": "value"})
response = requests.post(api, data=payload, headers=headers)
try:
    data = response.json()     
    print(data)                
except requests.exceptions.RequestException:
    print(response.text)

server.py

import io
import json                    
import base64                  
import logging             
import numpy as np
from PIL import Image

from flask import Flask, request, jsonify, abort

app = Flask(__name__)          
app.logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
  
  
@app.route("/test", methods=['POST'])
def test_method():         
    # print(request.json)      
    if not request.json or 'image' not in request.json: 
        abort(400)
             
    # get the base64 encoded string
    im_b64 = request.json['image']

    # convert it into bytes  
    img_bytes = base64.b64decode(im_b64.encode('utf-8'))

    # convert bytes data to PIL Image object
    img = Image.open(io.BytesIO(img_bytes))

    # PIL image object to numpy array
    img_arr = np.asarray(img)      
    print('img shape', img_arr.shape)

    # process your img_arr here    
    
    # access other keys of json
    # print(request.json['other_key'])

    result_dict = {'output': 'output_key'}
    return result_dict
  
  
def run_server_api():
    app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=8080)
  
  
if __name__ == "__main__":     
    run_server_api()

No value accessor for form control

In my case, I used Angular forms with contenteditable elements like div and had similar problems before.

I wrote ng-contenteditable module to resolve this problem.

cancelling a handler.postdelayed process

Another way is to handle the Runnable itself:

Runnable r = new Runnable {
    public void run() {
        if (booleanCancelMember != false) {
            //do what you need
        }
    }
}

Adding space/padding to a UILabel

If you want to add 2px padding around the textRect, just do this:

let insets = UIEdgeInsets(top: -2, left: -2, bottom: -2, right: -2)
label.frame = UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect(textRect, insets)

Open files in 'rt' and 'wt' modes

t indicates for text mode

https://docs.python.org/release/3.1.5/library/functions.html#open

on linux, there's no difference between text mode and binary mode, however, in windows, they converts \n to \r\n when text mode.

http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-textbinary.html

Center content in responsive bootstrap navbar

The original post was asking how to center the collapsed navbar. To center elements on the normal navbar, try this:

.navbar-nav {
    float:none;
    margin:0 auto;
    display: block;
    text-align: center;
}

.navbar-nav > li {
    display: inline-block;
    float:none;
}

RestSharp simple complete example

Changing

RestResponse response = client.Execute(request);

to

IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);

worked for me.

Read and parse a Json File in C#

string jsonFilePath = @"C:\MyFolder\myFile.json";
            
string json = File.ReadAllText(jsonFilePath);
Dictionary<string, object> json_Dictionary = (new JavaScriptSerializer()).Deserialize<Dictionary<string, object>>(json);

foreach (var item in json_Dictionary)
{
    // parse here
}

Error message 'java.net.SocketException: socket failed: EACCES (Permission denied)'

Try this:

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

And your activity namesmust be like this with capital letters:

<activity android:name=".Addfriend"/>
    <activity android:name=".UpdateDetails"/>
    <activity android:name=".Details"/>
    <activity android:name=".Updateimage"/>

Why I cannot cout a string?

If you are using linux system then you need to add

using namespace std;

Below headers

If windows then make sure you put headers correctly #include<iostream.h>

#include<string.h>

Refer this it work perfectly.

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

int main ()
{
std::string str="We think in generalities, but we live in details.";
                                       // (quoting Alfred N. Whitehead)

  std::string str2 = str.substr (3,5);     // "think"

   std::size_t pos = str.find("live");      // position of "live" in str

  std::string str3 = str.substr (pos);     
// get from "live" to the end

  std::cout << str2 << ' ' << str3 << '\n';

  return 0;
}

How to check Oracle patches are installed?

Maybe you need "sys." before:

select * from sys.registry$history;

How to SUM two fields within an SQL query

The sum function only gets the total of a column. In order to sum two values from different columns, convert the values to int and add them up using the +-Operator

Select (convert(int, col1)+convert(int, col2)) as summed from tbl1

Hope that helps.

What is difference between cacerts and keystore?

Cacerts are details of trusted signing authorities who can issue certs. This what most of the browsers have due to which certs determined to be authentic. Keystone has your service related certs to authenticate clients.

Calling a Fragment method from a parent Activity

I don't know about Java, but in C# (Xamarin.Android) there is no need to look up the fragment everytime you need to call the method, see below:

public class BrandActivity : Activity
{
    MyFragment myFragment;

    protected override void OnCreate(Bundle bundle)
    {       
        // ...
        myFragment = new MyFragment();      
        // ...
    }

    void someMethod()
    {
        myFragment.MyPublicMethod();
    }
}

public class MyFragment : Android.Support.V4.App.Fragment
{
    public override void OnCreate(Bundle bundle)
    {
        // ...
    }

    public override View OnCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle bundle)
    {
        // ...
    }

    public void MyPublicMethod()
    {
        // ...
    }   
}

I think in Java you can do the same.

How to resolve "Server Error in '/' Application" error?

It sounds like the admin has locked the "authentication" node of the web.config, which one can do in the global web.config pretty easily. Or, in a nutshell, this is working as designed.

ascending/descending in LINQ - can one change the order via parameter?

In addition to the beautiful solution given by @Jon Skeet, I also needed ThenBy and ThenByDescending, so I am adding it based on his solution:

    public static IOrderedEnumerable<TSource> ThenByWithDirection<TSource, TKey>(
         this IOrderedEnumerable<TSource> source, 
         Func<TSource, TKey> keySelector,  
         bool descending)
    {
        return descending ? 
               source.ThenByDescending(keySelector) :
               source.ThenBy(keySelector);
    }

Use css gradient over background image

The accepted answer works well. Just for completeness (and since I like it's shortness), I wanted to share how to to it with compass (SCSS/SASS):

body{
  $colorStart: rgba(0,0,0,0);
  $colorEnd: rgba(0,0,0,0.8);
  @include background-image(linear-gradient(to bottom, $colorStart, $colorEnd), url("bg.jpg"));
}

check if a string matches an IP address pattern in python?

update: The original answer bellow is good for 2011, but since 2012, one is likely better using Python's ipaddress stdlib module - besides checking IP validity for IPv4 and IPv6, it can do a lot of other things as well.</update>

It looks like you are trying to validate IP addresses. A regular expression is probably not the best tool for this.

If you want to accept all valid IP addresses (including some addresses that you probably didn't even know were valid) then you can use IPy (Source):

from IPy import IP
IP('127.0.0.1')

If the IP address is invalid it will throw an exception.

Or you could use socket (Source):

import socket
try:
    socket.inet_aton(addr)
    # legal
except socket.error:
    # Not legal

If you really want to only match IPv4 with 4 decimal parts then you can split on dot and test that each part is an integer between 0 and 255.

def validate_ip(s):
    a = s.split('.')
    if len(a) != 4:
        return False
    for x in a:
        if not x.isdigit():
            return False
        i = int(x)
        if i < 0 or i > 255:
            return False
    return True

Note that your regular expression doesn't do this extra check. It would accept 999.999.999.999 as a valid address.

Use of var keyword in C#

Sure, int is easy, but when the variable's type is IEnumerable<MyStupidLongNamedGenericClass<int, string>>, var makes things much easier.

push() a two-dimensional array

You have some errors in your code:

  1. Use myArray[i].push( 0 ); to add a new column. Your code (myArray[i][j].push(0);) would work in a 3-dimensional array as it tries to add another element to an array at position [i][j].
  2. You only expand (col-d)-many columns in all rows, even in those, which haven't been initialized yet and thus have no entries so far.

One correct, although kind of verbose version, would be the following:

var r = 3; //start from rows 3

var rows = 8;
var cols = 7;

// expand to have the correct amount or rows
for( var i=r; i<rows; i++ ) {
  myArray.push( [] );
}

// expand all rows to have the correct amount of cols
for (var i = 0; i < rows; i++)
{
    for (var j =  myArray[i].length; j < cols; j++)
    {
        myArray[i].push(0);
    }
}

Cassandra cqlsh - connection refused

Make sure that you also set "seeds" to the address which you provided at "listen_address"

difference between iframe, embed and object elements

One reason to use object over iframe is that object re-sizes the embedded content to fit the object dimensions. most notable on safari in iPhone 4s where screen width is 320px and the html from the embedded URL may set dimensions greater.

java.net.URL read stream to byte[]

It's important to specify timeouts, especially when the server takes to respond. With pure Java, without using any dependency:

public static byte[] copyURLToByteArray(final String urlStr,
        final int connectionTimeout, final int readTimeout) 
                throws IOException {
    final URL url = new URL(urlStr);
    final URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
    connection.setConnectTimeout(connectionTimeout);
    connection.setReadTimeout(readTimeout);
    try (InputStream input = connection.getInputStream();
            ByteArrayOutputStream output = new ByteArrayOutputStream()) {
        final byte[] buffer = new byte[8192];
        for (int count; (count = input.read(buffer)) > 0;) {
            output.write(buffer, 0, count);
        }
        return output.toByteArray();
    }
}

Using dependencies, e.g., HC Fluent:

public byte[] copyURLToByteArray(final String urlStr,
        final int connectionTimeout, final int readTimeout)
                throws IOException {
    return Request.Get(urlStr)
            .connectTimeout(connectionTimeout)
            .socketTimeout(readTimeout)
            .execute()
            .returnContent()
            .asBytes();
}

What is the difference between a database and a data warehouse?

Source for the Data warehouse can be cluster of Databases, because databases are used for Online Transaction process like keeping the current records..but in Data warehouse it stores historical data which are for Online analytical process.

iOS 7's blurred overlay effect using CSS?

Am not very sure about that, I believe that CSS isn't capable of doing this at the moment

However Chris Coyier has blogged about an old technique with multiple images to achieve such effect, http://css-tricks.com/blurry-background-effect/

How can I extract all values from a dictionary in Python?

dictionary_name={key1:value1,key2:value2,key3:value3}
dictionary_name.values()

HTTP response code for POST when resource already exists

More likely it is 400 Bad Request

6.5.1. 400 Bad Request


The 400 (Bad Request) status code indicates that the server cannot or will not process the request due to something that is perceived to be a client error (e.g., malformed request syntax, invalid request message framing, or deceptive request routing).

As the request contains duplicate value(value that already exists), it can be perceived as a client error. Need to change the request before the next try.
By considering these facts we can conclude as HTTP STATUS 400 Bad Request.

How to send a pdf file directly to the printer using JavaScript?

<?php

$browser_ver = get_browser(null,true);
//echo $browser_ver['browser'];

if($browser_ver['browser'] == 'IE') {
?>

<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>pdf print test</title>
<style>
    html { height:100%; }
</style>
<script>
    function printIt(id) {
        var pdf = document.getElementById("samplePDF");
        pdf.click();
        pdf.setActive();
        pdf.focus();
        pdf.print();
    }
</script>
</head>

<body style="margin:0; height:100%;">

<embed id="samplePDF" type="application/pdf" src="/pdfs/2010/dash_fdm350.pdf" width="100%" height="100%" />
<button onClick="printIt('samplePDF')">Print</button>


</body>
</html>

<?php
} else {
?>
<HTML>
<script Language="javascript">

function printfile(id) { 
    window.frames[id].focus();
    window.frames[id].print();
} 

</script>
<BODY marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">

<iframe src="/pdfs/2010/dash_fdm350.pdf" id="objAdobePrint" name="objAdobePrint" height="95%" width="100%" frameborder=0></iframe><br>

<input type="button" value="Print" onclick="javascript:printfile('objAdobePrint');">

</BODY>
</HTML>
<?php
}
?>

MySQL: selecting rows where a column is null

SQL NULL's special, and you have to do WHERE field IS NULL, as NULL cannot be equal to anything,

including itself (ie: NULL = NULL is always false).

See Rule 3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codd%27s_12_rules

"break;" out of "if" statement?

break interacts solely with the closest enclosing loop or switch, whether it be a for, while or do .. while type. It is frequently referred to as a goto in disguise, as all loops in C can in fact be transformed into a set of conditional gotos:

for (A; B; C) D;
// translates to
A;
goto test;
loop: D;
iter: C;
test: if (B) goto loop;
end:

while (B) D;          // Simply doesn't have A or C
do { D; } while (B);  // Omits initial goto test
continue;             // goto iter;
break;                // goto end;

The difference is, continue and break interact with virtual labels automatically placed by the compiler. This is similar to what return does as you know it will always jump ahead in the program flow. Switches are slightly more complicated, generating arrays of labels and computed gotos, but the way break works with them is similar.

The programming error the notice refers to is misunderstanding break as interacting with an enclosing block rather than an enclosing loop. Consider:

for (A; B; C) {
   D;
   if (E) {
       F;
       if (G) break;   // Incorrectly assumed to break if(E), breaks for()
       H;
   }
   I;
}
J;

Someone thought, given such a piece of code, that G would cause a jump to I, but it jumps to J. The intended function would use if (!G) H; instead.

How do I view / replay a chrome network debugger har file saved with content?

HAR import works seamlessly in Firefox: Open Web Developer -> Network Tab -> HAR -> Import ... (Top-right corner of web developer tool)

HAR Import Option

SQL Server : Columns to Rows

You can use the UNPIVOT function to convert the columns into rows:

select id, entityId,
  indicatorname,
  indicatorvalue
from yourtable
unpivot
(
  indicatorvalue
  for indicatorname in (Indicator1, Indicator2, Indicator3)
) unpiv;

Note, the datatypes of the columns you are unpivoting must be the same so you might have to convert the datatypes prior to applying the unpivot.

You could also use CROSS APPLY with UNION ALL to convert the columns:

select id, entityid,
  indicatorname,
  indicatorvalue
from yourtable
cross apply
(
  select 'Indicator1', Indicator1 union all
  select 'Indicator2', Indicator2 union all
  select 'Indicator3', Indicator3 union all
  select 'Indicator4', Indicator4 
) c (indicatorname, indicatorvalue);

Depending on your version of SQL Server you could even use CROSS APPLY with the VALUES clause:

select id, entityid,
  indicatorname,
  indicatorvalue
from yourtable
cross apply
(
  values
  ('Indicator1', Indicator1),
  ('Indicator2', Indicator2),
  ('Indicator3', Indicator3),
  ('Indicator4', Indicator4)
) c (indicatorname, indicatorvalue);

Finally, if you have 150 columns to unpivot and you don't want to hard-code the entire query, then you could generate the sql statement using dynamic SQL:

DECLARE @colsUnpivot AS NVARCHAR(MAX),
   @query  AS NVARCHAR(MAX)

select @colsUnpivot 
  = stuff((select ','+quotename(C.column_name)
           from information_schema.columns as C
           where C.table_name = 'yourtable' and
                 C.column_name like 'Indicator%'
           for xml path('')), 1, 1, '')

set @query 
  = 'select id, entityId,
        indicatorname,
        indicatorvalue
     from yourtable
     unpivot
     (
        indicatorvalue
        for indicatorname in ('+ @colsunpivot +')
     ) u'

exec sp_executesql @query;

Gridview row editing - dynamic binding to a DropDownList

The checked answer from balexandre works great. But, it will create a problem if adapted to some other situations.

I used it to change the value of two label controls - lblEditModifiedBy and lblEditModifiedOn - when I was editing a row, so that the correct ModifiedBy and ModifiedOn would be saved to the db on 'Update'.

When I clicked the 'Update' button, in the RowUpdating event it showed the new values I entered in the OldValues list. I needed the true "old values" as Original_ values when updating the database. (There's an ObjectDataSource attached to the GridView.)

The fix to this is using balexandre's code, but in a modified form in the gv_DataBound event:

protected void gv_DataBound(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    foreach (GridViewRow gvr in gv.Rows)
    {
        if (gvr.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow && (gvr.RowState & DataControlRowState.Edit) == DataControlRowState.Edit)
        {
            // Here you will get the Control you need like:
            ((Label)gvr.FindControl("lblEditModifiedBy")).Text = Page.User.Identity.Name;
            ((Label)gvr.FindControl("lblEditModifiedOn")).Text = DateTime.Now.ToString();
        }
    }
}

A more useful statusline in vim?

This is the one I use:

set statusline=
set statusline+=%7*\[%n]                                  "buffernr
set statusline+=%1*\ %<%F\                                "File+path
set statusline+=%2*\ %y\                                  "FileType
set statusline+=%3*\ %{''.(&fenc!=''?&fenc:&enc).''}      "Encoding
set statusline+=%3*\ %{(&bomb?\",BOM\":\"\")}\            "Encoding2
set statusline+=%4*\ %{&ff}\                              "FileFormat (dos/unix..) 
set statusline+=%5*\ %{&spelllang}\%{HighlightSearch()}\  "Spellanguage & Highlight on?
set statusline+=%8*\ %=\ row:%l/%L\ (%03p%%)\             "Rownumber/total (%)
set statusline+=%9*\ col:%03c\                            "Colnr
set statusline+=%0*\ \ %m%r%w\ %P\ \                      "Modified? Readonly? Top/bot.

Highlight on? function:

function! HighlightSearch()
  if &hls
    return 'H'
  else
    return ''
  endif
endfunction

Colors (adapted from ligh2011.vim):

hi User1 guifg=#ffdad8  guibg=#880c0e
hi User2 guifg=#000000  guibg=#F4905C
hi User3 guifg=#292b00  guibg=#f4f597
hi User4 guifg=#112605  guibg=#aefe7B
hi User5 guifg=#051d00  guibg=#7dcc7d
hi User7 guifg=#ffffff  guibg=#880c0e gui=bold
hi User8 guifg=#ffffff  guibg=#5b7fbb
hi User9 guifg=#ffffff  guibg=#810085
hi User0 guifg=#ffffff  guibg=#094afe

My StatusLine

Jenkins - Configure Jenkins to poll changes in SCM

I think your cron is not correct. According to what you described, you may need to change cron schedule to

*/5 * * * *

What you put in your schedule now mean it will poll the SCM at 5 past of every hour.

Hiding a password in a python script (insecure obfuscation only)

If you are working on a Unix system, take advantage of the netrc module in the standard Python library. It reads passwords from a separate text file (.netrc), which has the format decribed here.

Here is a small usage example:

import netrc

# Define which host in the .netrc file to use
HOST = 'mailcluster.loopia.se'

# Read from the .netrc file in your home directory
secrets = netrc.netrc()
username, account, password = secrets.authenticators( HOST )

print username, password

tsql returning a table from a function or store procedure

You need a special type of function known as a table valued function. Below is a somewhat long-winded example that builds a date dimension for a data warehouse. Note the returns clause that defines a table structure. You can insert anything into the table variable (@DateHierarchy in this case) that you want, including building a temporary table and copying the contents into it.

if object_id ('ods.uf_DateHierarchy') is not null
    drop function ods.uf_DateHierarchy
go

create function ods.uf_DateHierarchy (
       @DateFrom datetime
      ,@DateTo   datetime
) returns @DateHierarchy table (
        DateKey           datetime
       ,DisplayDate       varchar (20)
       ,SemanticDate      datetime
       ,MonthKey          int     
       ,DisplayMonth      varchar (10)
       ,FirstDayOfMonth   datetime
       ,QuarterKey        int
       ,DisplayQuarter    varchar (10)
       ,FirstDayOfQuarter datetime
       ,YearKey           int
       ,DisplayYear       varchar (10)
       ,FirstDayOfYear    datetime
) as begin
    declare @year            int
           ,@quarter         int
           ,@month           int
           ,@day             int
           ,@m1ofqtr         int
           ,@DisplayDate     varchar (20)
           ,@DisplayQuarter  varchar (10)
           ,@DisplayMonth    varchar (10)
           ,@DisplayYear     varchar (10)
           ,@today           datetime
           ,@MonthKey        int
           ,@QuarterKey      int
           ,@YearKey         int
           ,@SemanticDate    datetime
           ,@FirstOfMonth    datetime
           ,@FirstOfQuarter  datetime
           ,@FirstOfYear     datetime
           ,@MStr            varchar (2)
           ,@QStr            varchar (2)
           ,@Ystr            varchar (4)
           ,@DStr            varchar (2)
           ,@DateStr         varchar (10)


    -- === Previous ===================================================
    -- Special placeholder date of 1/1/1800 used to denote 'previous'
    -- so that naive date calculations sort and compare in a sensible
    -- order.
    --
    insert @DateHierarchy (
         DateKey
        ,DisplayDate
        ,SemanticDate
        ,MonthKey
        ,DisplayMonth
        ,FirstDayOfMonth
        ,QuarterKey
        ,DisplayQuarter
        ,FirstDayOfQuarter
        ,YearKey
        ,DisplayYear
        ,FirstDayOfYear
    ) values (
         '1800-01-01'
        ,'Previous'
        ,'1800-01-01'
        ,180001
        ,'Prev'
        ,'1800-01-01'
        ,18001
        ,'Prev'
        ,'1800-01-01'
        ,1800
        ,'Prev'
        ,'1800-01-01'
    )

    -- === Calendar Dates =============================================
    -- These are generated from the date range specified in the input
    -- parameters.
    --
    set @today = @Datefrom
    while @today <= @DateTo begin

        set @year = datepart (yyyy, @today)
        set @month = datepart (mm, @today)
        set @day = datepart (dd, @today)
        set @quarter = case when @month in (1,2,3) then 1
                            when @month in (4,5,6) then 2
                            when @month in (7,8,9) then 3
                            when @month in (10,11,12) then 4
                        end
        set @m1ofqtr = @quarter * 3 - 2 

        set @DisplayDate = left (convert (varchar, @today, 113), 11)
        set @SemanticDate = @today
        set @MonthKey = @year * 100 + @month
        set @DisplayMonth = substring (convert (varchar, @today, 113), 4, 8)
        set @Mstr = right ('0' + convert (varchar, @month), 2)
        set @Dstr = right ('0' + convert (varchar, @day), 2)
        set @Ystr = convert (varchar, @year)
        set @DateStr = @Ystr + '-' + @Mstr + '-01'
        set @FirstOfMonth = convert (datetime, @DateStr, 120)
        set @QuarterKey = @year * 10 + @quarter
        set @DisplayQuarter = 'Q' + convert (varchar, @quarter) + ' ' +
                                    convert (varchar, @year)
        set @QStr = right ('0' + convert (varchar, @m1ofqtr), 2)   
        set @DateStr = @Ystr + '-' + @Qstr + '-01' 
        set @FirstOfQuarter = convert (datetime, @DateStr, 120)
        set @YearKey = @year
        set @DisplayYear = convert (varchar, @year)
        set @DateStr = @Ystr + '-01-01'
        set @FirstOfYear = convert (datetime, @DateStr)


        insert @DateHierarchy (
             DateKey
            ,DisplayDate
            ,SemanticDate
            ,MonthKey
            ,DisplayMonth
            ,FirstDayOfMonth
            ,QuarterKey
            ,DisplayQuarter
            ,FirstDayOfQuarter
            ,YearKey
            ,DisplayYear
            ,FirstDayOfYear
        ) values (
             @today
            ,@DisplayDate
            ,@SemanticDate
            ,@Monthkey
            ,@DisplayMonth
            ,@FirstOfMonth
            ,@QuarterKey
            ,@DisplayQuarter
            ,@FirstOfQuarter
            ,@YearKey
            ,@DisplayYear
            ,@FirstOfYear
        )

        set @today = dateadd (dd, 1, @today)
    end

    -- === Specials ===================================================
    -- 'Ongoing', 'Error' and 'Not Recorded' set two years apart to
    -- avoid accidental collisions on 'Next Year' calculations.
    --
    insert @DateHierarchy (
         DateKey
        ,DisplayDate
        ,SemanticDate
        ,MonthKey
        ,DisplayMonth
        ,FirstDayOfMonth
        ,QuarterKey
        ,DisplayQuarter
        ,FirstDayOfQuarter
        ,YearKey
        ,DisplayYear
        ,FirstDayOfYear
    ) values (
         '9000-01-01'
        ,'Ongoing'
        ,'9000-01-01'
        ,900001
        ,'Ong.'
        ,'9000-01-01'
        ,90001
        ,'Ong.'
        ,'9000-01-01'
        ,9000
        ,'Ong.'
        ,'9000-01-01'
    )

    insert @DateHierarchy (
         DateKey
        ,DisplayDate
        ,SemanticDate
        ,MonthKey
        ,DisplayMonth
        ,FirstDayOfMonth
        ,QuarterKey
        ,DisplayQuarter
        ,FirstDayOfQuarter
        ,YearKey
        ,DisplayYear
        ,FirstDayOfYear
    ) values (
         '9100-01-01'
        ,'Error'
        ,null
        ,910001
        ,'Error'
        ,null
        ,91001
        ,'Error'
        ,null
        ,9100
        ,'Err'
        ,null
    )

    insert @DateHierarchy (
         DateKey
        ,DisplayDate
        ,SemanticDate
        ,MonthKey
        ,DisplayMonth
        ,FirstDayOfMonth
        ,QuarterKey
        ,DisplayQuarter
        ,FirstDayOfQuarter
        ,YearKey
        ,DisplayYear
        ,FirstDayOfYear
    ) values (
         '9200-01-01'
        ,'Not Recorded'
        ,null
        ,920001
        ,'N/R'
        ,null
        ,92001
        ,'N/R'
        ,null
        ,9200
        ,'N/R'
        ,null
    )

    return
end

go

How to install an npm package from GitHub directly?

Because https://github.com/visionmedia/express is the URL of a web page and not an npm module. Use this flavor: git+{url}.git

git+https://github.com/visionmedia/express.git

or this flavor if you need SSH:

git+ssh://[email protected]/visionmedia/express.git

curl : (1) Protocol https not supported or disabled in libcurl

Got the answer HERE for windows, it says there that:

curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/api/twittervnext/tweet'

Woops, first try and already an error:

curl: (1) Protocol 'http not supported or disabled in libcurl

The reason for this error is kind of stupid, Windows doesn’t like it when you are using single quotes for commands. So the correct command is:

curl –XPUT "http://localhost:9200/api/twittervnext/tweet"

Python: Differentiating between row and column vectors

The excellent Pandas library adds features to numpy that make these kinds of operations more intuitive IMO. For example:

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd

# column
df = pd.DataFrame([1,2,3])

# row
df2 = pd.DataFrame([[1,2,3]])

You can even define a DataFrame and make a spreadsheet-like pivot table.

Cannot stop or restart a docker container

All the docker: start | restart | stop | rm --force | kill commands may not work if the container is stuck. You can always restart the docker daemon. However, if you have other containers running, that may not be the option. What you can do is:

ps aux | grep <<container id>> | awk '{print $1 $2}'

The output contains:

<<user>><<process id>>

Then kill the process associated with the container like so:

sudo kill -9 <<process id from above command>>

That will kill the container and you can start a new container with the right image.

How to start debug mode from command prompt for apache tomcat server?

For windows first set variables:

set JPDA_ADDRESS=8000
set JPDA_TRANSPORT=dt_socket

to start server in debug mode:

%TOMCAT_HOME%/bin/catalina.bat jpda start

For unix first export variables:

export JPDA_ADDRESS=8000
export JPDA_TRANSPORT=dt_socket

and to start server in debug mode:

%TOMCAT_HOME%/bin/catalina.sh jpda start

C# - How to get Program Files (x86) on Windows 64 bit

One way would be to look for the "ProgramFiles(x86)" environment variable:

String x86folder = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("ProgramFiles(x86)");

Remote Procedure call failed with sql server 2008 R2

This error occurs only after I have installed the Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 setup in my work machine.

Since it is being a WMI error, I recompiled the MOF file –> mofcomp.exe "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Shared\sqlmgmproviderxpsp2up.mof"

I also un-registered and re-registered the sql provider DLL –> regsvr32 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Shared\sqlmgmprovider.dll" but issue not resolved.

Solution:

I have applied SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 on my SQL 2008 R2 instance and that fixed the issue with Sql Server Configuration Manager. You can download setup from here... http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30437 .

Soft Edges using CSS?

You can use CSS gradient - although there are not consistent across browsers so You would have to code it for every one

Like that: CSS3 Transparency + Gradient

Gradient should be more transparent on top or on top right corner (depending on capabilities)

How to generate entire DDL of an Oracle schema (scriptable)?

The get_ddl procedure for a PACKAGE will return both spec AND body, so it will be better to change the query on the all_objects so the package bodies are not returned on the select.

So far I changed the query to this:

SELECT DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL(REPLACE(object_type, ' ', '_'), object_name, owner)
FROM all_OBJECTS
WHERE (OWNER = 'OWNER1')
and object_type not like '%PARTITION'
and object_type not like '%BODY'
order by object_type, object_name;

Although other changes might be needed depending on the object types you are getting...

Example use of "continue" statement in Python?

Let's say we want to print all numbers which are not multiples of 3 and 5

for x in range(0, 101):
    if x % 3 ==0 or x % 5 == 0:
        continue
        #no more code is executed, we go to the next number 
    print x

From Now() to Current_timestamp in Postgresql

select * from table where column_date > now()- INTERVAL '6 hours';

How to return HTTP 500 from ASP.NET Core RC2 Web Api?

For aspnetcore-3.1, you can also use Problem() like below;

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/web-api/handle-errors?view=aspnetcore-3.1

 [Route("/error-local-development")]
public IActionResult ErrorLocalDevelopment(
    [FromServices] IWebHostEnvironment webHostEnvironment)
{
    if (webHostEnvironment.EnvironmentName != "Development")
    {
        throw new InvalidOperationException(
            "This shouldn't be invoked in non-development environments.");
    }

    var context = HttpContext.Features.Get<IExceptionHandlerFeature>();

    return Problem(
        detail: context.Error.StackTrace,
        title: context.Error.Message);
}

Laravel 5 - How to access image uploaded in storage within View?

without site name

{{Storage::url($photoLink)}}

if you want to add site name to it example to append on api JSON felids

 public function getPhotoFullLinkAttribute()
{
    return env('APP_URL', false).Storage::url($this->attributes['avatar']) ;
}

Spring Boot: Cannot access REST Controller on localhost (404)

Same 404 response I got after service executed with the below code

@Controller
@RequestMapping("/duecreate/v1.0")
public class DueCreateController {

}

Response:

{
"timestamp": 1529692263422,
"status": 404,
"error": "Not Found",
"message": "No message available",
"path": "/duecreate/v1.0/status"
}

after changing it to below code I received proper response

@RestController
@RequestMapping("/duecreate/v1.0")
public class DueCreateController {

}

Response:

{
"batchId": "DUE1529673844630",
"batchType": null,
"executionDate": null,
"status": "OPEN"
}

PHP find difference between two datetimes

I collected many topics to make universal function with many outputs (years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds) with string or parse to int and direction +- if you need to know what side is direction of the difference.

Use example:



    $date1='2016-05-27 02:00:00';
    $format='Y-m-d H:i:s';

    echo timeDifference($date1, $format, '2017-08-30 00:01:59', $format); 
    #1 years 3 months 2 days 22 hours 1 minutes 59 seconds (string)

    echo timeDifference($date1, $format, '2017-08-30 00:01:59', $format,false, '%a days %h hours');
    #459 days 22 hours (string)

    echo timeDifference('2016-05-27 00:00:00', $format, '2017-08-30 00:01:59', $format,true, '%d days -> %H:%I:%S', true);
    #-3 days -> 00:01:59 (string)

    echo timeDifference($date1, $format, '2016-05-27 00:05:51', $format, false, 'seconds');
    #9 (string)

    echo timeDifference($date1, $format, '2016-05-27 07:00:00', $format, false, 'hours');
    #5 (string)

    echo timeDifference($date1, $format, '2016-05-27 07:00:00', $format, true, 'hours');
    #-5 (string)

    echo timeDifference($date1, $format, '2016-05-27 07:00:00', $format, true, 'hours',true);
    #-5 (int)

Function



    function timeDifference($date1_pm_checked, $date1_format,$date2, $date2_format, $plus_minus=false, $return='all', $parseInt=false)
    {
        $strtotime1=strtotime($date1_pm_checked);
        $strtotime2=strtotime($date2);
        $date1 = new DateTime(date($date1_format, $strtotime1));
        $date2 = new DateTime(date($date2_format, $strtotime2));
        $interval=$date1->diff($date2);

        $plus_minus=(empty($plus_minus)) ? '' : ( ($strtotime1 > $strtotime2) ? '+' : '-'); # +/-/no_sign before value 

        switch($return)
        {
            case 'y';
            case 'year';
            case 'years';
                $elapsed = $interval->format($plus_minus.'%y');
                break;

            case 'm';
            case 'month';
            case 'months';
                $elapsed = $interval->format($plus_minus.'%m');
                break;

            case 'a';
            case 'day';
            case 'days';
                $elapsed = $interval->format($plus_minus.'%a');
                break;

            case 'd';
                $elapsed = $interval->format($plus_minus.'%d');
                break;

            case 'h';       
            case 'hour';        
            case 'hours';       
                $elapsed = $interval->format($plus_minus.'%h');
                break;

            case 'i';
            case 'minute';
            case 'minutes';
                $elapsed = $interval->format($plus_minus.'%i');
                break;

            case 's';
            case 'second';
            case 'seconds';
                $elapsed = $interval->format($plus_minus.'%s');
                break;

            case 'all':
                $parseInt=false;
                $elapsed = $plus_minus.$interval->format('%y years %m months %d days %h hours %i minutes %s seconds');
                break;

            default:
                $parseInt=false;
                $elapsed = $plus_minus.$interval->format($return);
        }

        if($parseInt)
            return (int) $elapsed;
        else
            return $elapsed;

    }

Binding ConverterParameter

The ConverterParameter property can not be bound because it is not a dependency property.

Since Binding is not derived from DependencyObject none of its properties can be dependency properties. As a consequence, a Binding can never be the target object of another Binding.

There is however an alternative solution. You could use a MultiBinding with a multi-value converter instead of a normal Binding:

<Style TargetType="FrameworkElement">
    <Setter Property="Visibility">
        <Setter.Value>
            <MultiBinding Converter="{StaticResource AccessLevelToVisibilityConverter}">
                <Binding Path="Tag" RelativeSource="{RelativeSource Mode=FindAncestor,
                                                     AncestorType=UserControl}"/>
                <Binding Path="Tag" RelativeSource="{RelativeSource Mode=Self}"/>
            </MultiBinding>
        </Setter.Value>
    </Setter>
</Style>

The multi-value converter gets an array of source values as input:

public class AccessLevelToVisibilityConverter : IMultiValueConverter
{
    public object Convert(
        object[] values, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
    {
        return values.All(v => (v is bool && (bool)v))
            ? Visibility.Visible
            : Visibility.Hidden;
    }

    public object[] ConvertBack(
        object value, Type[] targetTypes, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
    {
        throw new NotSupportedException();
    }
}

Chrome Extension - Get DOM content

For those who tried gkalpak answer and it did not work,

be aware that chrome will add the content script to a needed page only when your extension enabled during chrome launch and also a good idea restart browser after making these changes

Lodash remove duplicates from array

Or simply Use union, for simple array.

_.union([1,2,3,3], [3,5])

// [1,2,3,5]

How to get the current working directory in Java?

This is the solution for me

File currentDir = new File("");

Animate change of view background color on Android

The documentation on XML powered animations is horrible. I've searched around hours just to animate the background color of a button when pressing... The sad thing is that the animation is only one attribute away: You can use exitFadeDuration in the selector:

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:exitFadeDuration="200">

    <item android:state_pressed="true">
        <shape android:tint="#3F51B5" />
    </item>

    <item>
        <shape android:tint="#F44336" />
    </item>

</selector>

Then just use it as background for your view. No Java/Kotlin code needed.

Using setattr() in python

I'm here in general only to find out that through dict it is necessary to work inside setattr XD

Set focus and cursor to end of text input field / string w. Jquery

You can do this using Input.setSelectionRange, part of the Range API for interacting with text selections and the text cursor:

var searchInput = $('#Search');

// Multiply by 2 to ensure the cursor always ends up at the end;
// Opera sometimes sees a carriage return as 2 characters.
var strLength = searchInput.val().length * 2;

searchInput.focus();
searchInput[0].setSelectionRange(strLength, strLength);

Demo: Fiddle

Should 'using' directives be inside or outside the namespace?

It is a better practice if those default using i.e. "references" used in your source solution should be outside the namespaces and those that are "new added reference" is a good practice is you should put it inside the namespace. This is to distinguish what references are being added.

How to determine the content size of a UIWebView?

Resurrecting this question because I found Ortwin's answer to only work MOST of the time...

The webViewDidFinishLoad method may be called more than once, and the first value returned by sizeThatFits is only some portion of what the final size should be. Then for whatever reason the next call to sizeThatFits when webViewDidFinishLoad fires again will incorrectly return the same value it did before! This will happen randomly for the same content as if it's some kind of concurrency problem. Maybe this behaviour has changed over time, because I'm building for iOS 5 and have also found that sizeToFit works in much the same way (although previously this didn't?)

I have settled on this simple solution:

- (void)webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)aWebView
{        
    CGFloat height = [[aWebView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:@"document.height"] floatValue];
    CGFloat width = [[aWebView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:@"document.width"] floatValue];
    CGRect frame = aWebView.frame;
    frame.size.height = height;
    frame.size.width = width;
    aWebView.frame = frame;
}

Swift (2.2):

func webViewDidFinishLoad(webView: UIWebView) {

    if let heightString = webView.stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString("document.height"),
        widthString = webView.stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString("document.width"),
        height = Float(heightString),
        width = Float(widthString) {

        var rect = webView.frame
        rect.size.height = CGFloat(height)
        rect.size.width = CGFloat(width)
        webView.frame = rect
    }
}

Update: I have found as mentioned in the comments this doesn't seem to catch the case where the content has shrunk. Not sure if it's true for all content and OS version, give it a try.

Android: set view style programmatically

Update: At the time of answering this question (mid 2012, API level 14-15), setting the view programmatically was not an option (even though there were some non-trivial workarounds) whereas this has been made possible after the more recent API releases. See @Blundell's answer for details.

OLD Answer:

You cannot set a view's style programmatically yet, but you may find this thread useful.

Return index of greatest value in an array

If you create a copy of the array and sort it descending, the first element of the copy will be the largest. Than you can find its index in the original array.

var sorted = [...arr].sort((a,b) => b - a)
arr.indexOf(sorted[0])

Time complexity is O(n) for the copy, O(n*log(n)) for sorting and O(n) for the indexOf.

If you need to do it faster, Ry's answer is O(n).

How do I revert to a previous package in Anaconda?

I know it was not available at the time, but now you could also use Anaconda navigator to install a specific version of packages in the environments tab.

jQuery equivalent of JavaScript's addEventListener method

Not all browsers support event capturing (for example, Internet Explorer versions less than 9 don't) but all do support event bubbling, which is why it is the phase used to bind handlers to events in all cross-browser abstractions, jQuery's included.

The nearest to what you are looking for in jQuery is using bind() (superseded by on() in jQuery 1.7+) or the event-specific jQuery methods (in this case, click(), which calls bind() internally anyway). All use the bubbling phase of a raised event.

Redirect echo output in shell script to logfile

You can add this line on top of your script:

#!/bin/bash
# redirect stdout/stderr to a file
exec &> logfile.txt

OR else to redirect only stdout use:

exec > logfile.txt