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Update just one gem with bundler

The way to do this is to run the following command:

bundle update --source gem-name

Reading a JSP variable from JavaScript

 
<%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
    <script 
src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"> 


    <title>JSP Page</title>
    <script>
       $(document).ready(function(){
          <% String name = "phuongmychi.github.io" ;%> // jsp vari
         var name = "<%=name %>" // call var to js
         $("#id").html(name); //output to html

       });
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <h1 id='id'>!</h1>
</body>

How to split comma separated string using JavaScript?

Use

YourCommaSeparatedString.split(',');

Creating a PDF from a RDLC Report in the Background

 
 private void PDFExport(LocalReport report)
    {           
        string[] streamids;
        string minetype;
        string encod;
        string fextension;
        string deviceInfo =
          "<DeviceInfo>" +
          "  <OutputFormat>EMF</OutputFormat>" +
          "  <PageWidth>8.5in</PageWidth>" +
          "  <PageHeight>11in</PageHeight>" +
          "  <MarginTop>0.25in</MarginTop>" +
          "  <MarginLeft>0.25in</MarginLeft>" +
          "  <MarginRight>0.25in</MarginRight>" +
          "  <MarginBottom>0.25in</MarginBottom>" +
          "</DeviceInfo>";
        Warning[] warnings;
        byte[] rpbybe = report.Render("PDF", deviceInfo, out minetype, out encod, out fextension, out streamids,
           out warnings);
        using(FileStream fs=new FileStream("E:\\newwwfg.pdf",FileMode.Create))
        {
            fs.Write(rpbybe , 0, rpbybe .Length);
        }

}

How do I create a transparent Activity on Android?

Declare your activity in the manifest like this:

 <activity   
     android:name=".yourActivity"    
     android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Translucent.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen"/>

And add a transparent background to your layout.

How do function pointers in C work?

Another good use for function pointers:
Switching between versions painlessly

They're very handy to use for when you want different functions at different times, or different phases of development. For instance, I'm developing an application on a host computer that has a console, but the final release of the software will be put on an Avnet ZedBoard (which has ports for displays and consoles, but they are not needed/wanted for the final release). So during development, I will use printf to view status and error messages, but when I'm done, I don't want anything printed. Here's what I've done:

version.h

// First, undefine all macros associated with version.h
#undef DEBUG_VERSION
#undef RELEASE_VERSION
#undef INVALID_VERSION


// Define which version we want to use
#define DEBUG_VERSION       // The current version
// #define RELEASE_VERSION  // To be uncommented when finished debugging

#ifndef __VERSION_H_      /* prevent circular inclusions */
    #define __VERSION_H_  /* by using protection macros */
    void board_init();
    void noprintf(const char *c, ...); // mimic the printf prototype
#endif

// Mimics the printf function prototype. This is what I'll actually 
// use to print stuff to the screen
void (* zprintf)(const char*, ...); 

// If debug version, use printf
#ifdef DEBUG_VERSION
    #include <stdio.h>
#endif

// If both debug and release version, error
#ifdef DEBUG_VERSION
#ifdef RELEASE_VERSION
    #define INVALID_VERSION
#endif
#endif

// If neither debug or release version, error
#ifndef DEBUG_VERSION
#ifndef RELEASE_VERSION
    #define INVALID_VERSION
#endif
#endif

#ifdef INVALID_VERSION
    // Won't allow compilation without a valid version define
    #error "Invalid version definition"
#endif

In version.c I will define the 2 function prototypes present in version.h

version.c

#include "version.h"

/*****************************************************************************/
/**
* @name board_init
*
* Sets up the application based on the version type defined in version.h.
* Includes allowing or prohibiting printing to STDOUT.
*
* MUST BE CALLED FIRST THING IN MAIN
*
* @return    None
*
*****************************************************************************/
void board_init()
{
    // Assign the print function to the correct function pointer
    #ifdef DEBUG_VERSION
        zprintf = &printf;
    #else
        // Defined below this function
        zprintf = &noprintf;
    #endif
}

/*****************************************************************************/
/**
* @name noprintf
*
* simply returns with no actions performed
*
* @return   None
*
*****************************************************************************/
void noprintf(const char* c, ...)
{
    return;
}

Notice how the function pointer is prototyped in version.h as

void (* zprintf)(const char *, ...);

When it is referenced in the application, it will start executing wherever it is pointing, which has yet to be defined.

In version.c, notice in the board_init()function where zprintf is assigned a unique function (whose function signature matches) depending on the version that is defined in version.h

zprintf = &printf; zprintf calls printf for debugging purposes

or

zprintf = &noprint; zprintf just returns and will not run unnecessary code

Running the code will look like this:

mainProg.c

#include "version.h"
#include <stdlib.h>
int main()
{
    // Must run board_init(), which assigns the function
    // pointer to an actual function
    board_init();

    void *ptr = malloc(100); // Allocate 100 bytes of memory
    // malloc returns NULL if unable to allocate the memory.

    if (ptr == NULL)
    {
        zprintf("Unable to allocate memory\n");
        return 1;
    }

    // Other things to do...
    return 0;
}

The above code will use printf if in debug mode, or do nothing if in release mode. This is much easier than going through the entire project and commenting out or deleting code. All that I need to do is change the version in version.h and the code will do the rest!

UILabel is not auto-shrinking text to fit label size

This is how I get UILabel Autoshrink work (especially for height of label font fitting in 4s device from 6s Plus Storyboard) in iOS 9.2, Xcode 7.2 ...

enter image description here

  • Number of lines is 0
  • Line Breaks: Clip
  • Autoshrink: Minimum Font Scale 0.25

In angular $http service, How can I catch the "status" of error?

Since $http.get returns a 'promise' with the extra convenience methods success and error (which just wrap the result of then) you should be able to use (regardless of your Angular version):

$http.get('/someUrl')
    .then(function success(response) {
        console.log('succeeded', response); // supposed to have: data, status, headers, config, statusText
    }, function error(response) {
        console.log('failed', response); // supposed to have: data, status, headers, config, statusText
    })

Not strictly an answer to the question, but if you're getting bitten by the "my version of Angular is different than the docs" issue you can always dump all of the arguments, even if you don't know the appropriate method signature:

$http.get('/someUrl')
  .success(function(data, foo, bar) {
    console.log(arguments); // includes data, status, etc including unlisted ones if present
  })
  .error(function(baz, foo, bar, idontknow) {
    console.log(arguments); // includes data, status, etc including unlisted ones if present
  });

Then, based on whatever you find, you can 'fix' the function arguments to match.

Capitalize the first letter of string in AngularJs

I like the answer from @TrampGuy

CSS is always (well, not always) a better choice, so: text-transform: capitalize; is certainly the way to go.

But what if your content is all uppercase to begin with? If you try text-transform: capitalize; on content like "FOO BAR" you'll still get "FOO BAR" in your display. To get around that issue you could put the text-transform: capitalize; in your css, but also lowercase your string, so:

<ul>
  <li class="capitalize">{{ foo.awesome_property | lowercase }}</li>
</ul>

where we are using @TrampGuy's capitalize class:

.capitalize {
  text-transform: capitalize;
}

So, pretending that foo.awsome_property would normally print "FOO BAR", it will now print the desired "Foo Bar".

Android open camera from button

I know it is a bit late of a reply but you can use the below syntax as it worked with me just fine

Camera=(Button)findViewById(R.id.CameraID);
Camera.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            Intent Intent3=new   Intent(MediaStore.INTENT_ACTION_STILL_IMAGE_CAMERA);
            startActivity(Intent3); 
        }
    });

Multi-threading in VBA

I was looking for something similar and the official answer is no. However, I was able to find an interesting concept by Daniel at ExcelHero.com.

Basically, you need to create worker vbscripts to execute the various things you want and have it report back to excel. For what I am doing, retrieving HTML data from various website, it works great!

Take a look:

http://www.excelhero.com/blog/2010/05/multi-threaded-vba.html

Running npm command within Visual Studio Code

Same thing was happening to me after I installed Node.js. Node and npm was recognized in PowerShell and Command Prompt but not in VS Code. I fixed it by adding the Node.js install path to the system's environment PATH variable. The node.js install path on my system was:

C:\Program Files\nodejs

Where I find the node.exe that is needed. The user's PATH variable already had the Node.js install path but for some reason VS Code needs the Node.js install path in the system's PATH variables.

Windows 10 instructions:

  1. Windows key and type "environment"
  2. Select "Edit the system environment variables"
  3. Click button labelled "Environment Variables..."
  4. In "System variables" section edit the "Path" variable
  5. Add Node.js install path to the list (C:\Program Files\nodejs)

The other answers were great but this is another way to fix it that worked for me without needing to install stuff, run as admin, or change the default settings.

No submodule mapping found in .gitmodule for a path that's not a submodule

After looking at my .gitmodules, it turned out I did have an uppercase letter where I should not have. So keep in mind, the .gitmodules directories are case sensitive

How can I check if mysql is installed on ubuntu?

In an RPM-based Linux, you can check presence of MySQL like this:

rpm -qa | grep mysql

For debian or other dpkg-based systems, check like this: *

dpkg -l mysql-server libmysqlclientdev*

*

flutter run: No connected devices

I had an emulator running but the VSC ide could not connect to it. So I enabled developer mode in the emulator and the debugging options as well. Voila, It worked!

Usage of @see in JavaDoc?

I use @see to annotate methods of an interface implementation class where the description of the method is already provided in the javadoc of the interface. When we do that I notice that Eclipse pulls up the interface's documentation even when I am looking up method on the implementation reference during code complete

SQL Statement using Where clause with multiple values

 
SELECT PersonName, songName, status
FROM table
WHERE name IN ('Holly', 'Ryan')

If you are using parametrized Stored procedure:

  1. Pass in comma separated string
  2. Use special function to split comma separated string into table value variable
  3. Use INNER JOIN ON t.PersonName = newTable.PersonName using a table variable which contains passed in names

setTimeout in for-loop does not print consecutive values

Well, another working solution based on Cody's answer but a little more general can be something like this:

function timedAlert(msg, timing){
    setTimeout(function(){
        alert(msg);    
    }, timing);
}

function yourFunction(time, counter){
    for (var i = 1; i <= counter; i++) {
        var msg = i, timing = i * time * 1000; //this is in seconds
        timedAlert (msg, timing);
    };
}

yourFunction(timeInSeconds, counter); // well here are the values of your choice.

File tree view in Notepad++

You can add it from the notepad++ toolbar Plugins > Plugin Manager > Show Plugin Manager. Then select the Explorer plugin and click the Install button.

Get list of all input objects using JavaScript, without accessing a form object

 
var inputs = document.getElementsByTagName('input');
for (var i = 0; i < inputs.length; ++i) {
  // ...
}

How to count digits, letters, spaces for a string in Python?

 

# Write a Python program that accepts a string and calculate the number of digits 
# andletters.

    stre =input("enter the string-->")
    countl = 0
    countn = 0
    counto = 0
    for i in stre:
        if i.isalpha():
            countl += 1
        elif i.isdigit():
            countn += 1
        else:
            counto += 1
    print("The number of letters are --", countl)
    print("The number of numbers are --", countn)
    print("The number of characters are --", counto)

Links not going back a directory?

You need to give a relative file path of <a href="../index.html">Home</a>

Alternately you can specify a link from the root of your site with <a href="/pages/en/index.html">Home</a>

.. and . have special meanings in file paths, .. means up one directory and . means current directory.

so <a href="index.html">Home</a> is the same as <a href="./index.html">Home</a>

Where can I download Spring Framework jars without using Maven?

Please edit to keep this list of mirrors current

I found this maven repo where you could download from directly a zip file containing all the jars you need.

Alternate solution: Maven

The solution I prefer is using Maven, it is easy and you don't have to download each jar alone. You can do it with the following steps:

  1. Create an empty folder anywhere with any name you prefer, for example spring-source

  2. Create a new file named pom.xml

  3. Copy the xml below into this file

  4. Open the spring-source folder in your console

  5. Run mvn install

  6. After download finished, you'll find spring jars in /spring-source/target/dependencies

    <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>spring-source-download</groupId>
  <artifactId>SpringDependencies</artifactId>
  <version>1.0</version>
  <properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
  </properties>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
      <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
      <version>3.2.4.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.8</version>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>download-dependencies</id>
            <phase>generate-resources</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
              <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/dependencies</outputDirectory>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
</project>

Also, if you need to download any other spring project, just copy the dependency configuration from its corresponding web page.

For example, if you want to download Spring Web Flow jars, go to its web page, and add its dependency configuration to the pom.xml dependencies, then run mvn install again.

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework.webflow</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-webflow</artifactId>
  <version>2.3.2.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

Call and receive output from Python script in Java?

I've looked for different libraries like Jepp or Jython, but most seem to be very out of date.

Jython is not "a library"; it's an implementation of the Python language on top of the Java Virtual Machine. It is definitely not out of date; the most recent release was Feb. 24 of this year. It implements Python 2.5, which means you will be missing a couple of more recent features, but it is honestly not much different from 2.7.

Note: the actual communication between Java and Python is not a requirement of the aforementioned assignment, so this isn't doing my homework for me. This is, however, the only way I can think of to easily perform what needs to be done.

This seems extremely unlikely for a school assignment. Please tell us more about what you're really trying to do. Usually, school assignments specify exactly what languages you'll be using for what, and I've never heard of one that involved more than one language at all. If it did, they'd tell you if you needed to set up this kind of communication, and how they intended you to do it.

How can you strip non-ASCII characters from a string? (in C#)

I found the following slightly altered range useful for parsing comment blocks out of a database, this means that you won't have to contend with tab and escape characters which would cause a CSV field to become upset.

parsememo = Regex.Replace(parsememo, @"[^\u001F-\u007F]", string.Empty);

If you want to avoid other special characters or particular punctuation check the ascii table

'LIKE ('%this%' OR '%that%') and something=else' not working

Instead of using LIKE, use REGEXP. For example:

SELECT * WHERE value REGEXP 'THIS|THAT'

mysql> SELECT 'pi' REGEXP 'pi|apa';                     -> 1
mysql> SELECT 'axe' REGEXP 'pi|apa';                    -> 0
mysql> SELECT 'apa' REGEXP 'pi|apa';                    -> 1
mysql> SELECT 'apa' REGEXP '^(pi|apa)$';                -> 1
mysql> SELECT 'pi' REGEXP '^(pi|apa)$';                 -> 1
mysql> SELECT 'pix' REGEXP '^(pi|apa)$';                -> 0

Refer: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/regexp.html

Double vs. BigDecimal?

There are two main differences from double:

  • Arbitrary precision, similarly to BigInteger they can contain number of arbitrary precision and size
  • Base 10 instead of Base 2, a BigDecimal is n*10^scale where n is an arbitrary large signed integer and scale can be thought of as the number of digits to move the decimal point left or right

The reason you should use BigDecimal for monetary calculations is not that it can represent any number, but that it can represent all numbers that can be represented in decimal notion and that include virtually all numbers in the monetary world (you never transfer 1/3 $ to someone).

Preferred method to store PHP arrays (json_encode vs serialize)

JSON is better if you want to backup Data and restore it on a different machine or via FTP.

For example with serialize if you store data on a Windows server, download it via FTP and restore it on a Linux one it could not work any more due to the charachter re-encoding, because serialize stores the length of the strings and in the Unicode > UTF-8 transcoding some 1 byte charachter could became 2 bytes long making the algorithm crash.

Disable button in jQuery

Use .prop instead (and clean up your selector string):

function disable(i){
    $("#rbutton_"+i).prop("disabled",true);
}

generated HTML:

<button id="rbutton_1" onclick="disable(1)">Click me</button>
<!-- wrap your onclick in quotes -->

But the "best practices" approach is to use JavaScript event binding and this instead:

_x000D_
_x000D_ 
$('.rbutton').on('click',function() {_x000D_
    $(this).prop("disabled",true);_x000D_
});
_x000D_ 
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<button class="rbutton">Click me</button>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

http://jsfiddle.net/mblase75/2Nfu4/

how to run vibrate continuously in iphone?

Read the Apple Human Interaction Guidelines for iPhone. I believe this is not approved behavior in an app.

How to solve time out in phpmyadmin?

If even after repeated upload you still get timeout error, pleasechange your settings in

\phpmyadmin\libraries\config.default.php

from $cfg['ExecTimeLimit'] = 300; to $cfg['ExecTimeLimit'] = 0; and restart. Now there is no execution time limit (trust we are talking about local server).

Source : Change Script time out in phpmyadmin

How to set radio button checked as default in radiogroup?

you should check the radiobutton in the radiogroup like this:

radiogroup.check(IdOfYourButton)

Of course you first have to set an Id to your radiobuttons

EDIT: i forgot, radioButton.getId() works as well, thx Ramesh

EDIT2: 

android:checkedButton="@+id/my_radiobtn"

works in radiogroup xml

How do you test your Request.QueryString[] variables?

Use int.TryParse instead to get rid of the try-catch block:

if (!int.TryParse(Request.QueryString["id"], out id))
{
  // error case
}

What are the safe characters for making URLs?

There are two sets of characters you need to watch out for: reserved and unsafe.

The reserved characters are:

  • ampersand ("&")
  • dollar ("$")
  • plus sign ("+")
  • comma (",")
  • forward slash ("/")
  • colon (":")
  • semi-colon (";")
  • equals ("=")
  • question mark ("?")
  • 'At' symbol ("@")
  • pound ("#").

The characters generally considered unsafe are:

  • space (" ")
  • less than and greater than ("<>")
  • open and close brackets ("[]")
  • open and close braces ("{}")
  • pipe ("|")
  • backslash ("")
  • caret ("^")
  • percent ("%")

I may have forgotten one or more, which leads to me echoing Carl V's answer. In the long run you are probably better off using a "white list" of allowed characters and then encoding the string rather than trying to stay abreast of characters that are disallowed by servers and systems.

How do you read a CSV file and display the results in a grid in Visual Basic 2010?

Use the TextFieldParser class built into the .Net framework.

Here's some code copied from an MSDN forum post by Paul Clement. It converts the CSV into a new in-memory DataTable and then binds the DataGridView to the DataTable

    Dim TextFileReader As New Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO.TextFieldParser("C:\Documents and Settings\...\My Documents\My Database\Text\SemiColonDelimited.txt")

    TextFileReader.TextFieldType = FileIO.FieldType.Delimited
    TextFileReader.SetDelimiters(";")

    Dim TextFileTable As DataTable = Nothing

    Dim Column As DataColumn
    Dim Row As DataRow
    Dim UpperBound As Int32
    Dim ColumnCount As Int32
    Dim CurrentRow As String()

    While Not TextFileReader.EndOfData
        Try
            CurrentRow = TextFileReader.ReadFields()
            If Not CurrentRow Is Nothing Then
                ''# Check if DataTable has been created
                If TextFileTable Is Nothing Then
                    TextFileTable = New DataTable("TextFileTable")
                    ''# Get number of columns
                    UpperBound = CurrentRow.GetUpperBound(0)
                    ''# Create new DataTable
                    For ColumnCount = 0 To UpperBound
                        Column = New DataColumn()
                        Column.DataType = System.Type.GetType("System.String")
                        Column.ColumnName = "Column" & ColumnCount
                        Column.Caption = "Column" & ColumnCount
                        Column.ReadOnly = True
                        Column.Unique = False
                        TextFileTable.Columns.Add(Column)
                    Next
                End If
                Row = TextFileTable.NewRow
                For ColumnCount = 0 To UpperBound
                    Row("Column" & ColumnCount) = CurrentRow(ColumnCount).ToString
                Next
                TextFileTable.Rows.Add(Row)
            End If
        Catch ex As _
        Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO.MalformedLineException
            MsgBox("Line " & ex.Message & _
            "is not valid and will be skipped.")
        End Try
    End While
    TextFileReader.Dispose()
    frmMain.DataGrid1.DataSource = TextFileTable

The iOS Simulator deployment targets is set to 7.0, but the range of supported deployment target version for this platform is 8.0 to 12.1

You can setup your podfile to automatically match the deployment target of all the podfiles to your current project deployment target like this :

post_install do |pi|
    pi.pods_project.targets.each do |t|
      t.build_configurations.each do |config|
        config.build_settings['IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET'] = '9.0'
      end
    end
end

Parsing a JSON array using Json.Net

You can get at the data values like this:

string json = @"
[ 
    { ""General"" : ""At this time we do not have any frequent support requests."" },
    { ""Support"" : ""For support inquires, please see our support page."" }
]";

JArray a = JArray.Parse(json);

foreach (JObject o in a.Children<JObject>())
{
    foreach (JProperty p in o.Properties())
    {
        string name = p.Name;
        string value = (string)p.Value;
        Console.WriteLine(name + " -- " + value);
    }
}

Fiddle: https://dotnetfiddle.net/uox4Vt

Creating a SearchView that looks like the material design guidelines

The first screenshot in your question is not a public widget. The support SearchView (android.support.v7.widget.SearchView) mimics Android 5.0 Lollipop's SearchView (android.widget.SearchView). Your second screenshot is used by other material designed apps like Google Play.

The SearchView in your first screenshot is used in Drive, YouTube and other closed source Google Apps. Fortunately, it is also used in the Android 5.0 Dialer. You can try to backport the view, but it uses some 5.0 APIs.

The classes which you will want to look at are:

SearchEditTextLayout, AnimUtils, and DialtactsActivity to understand how to use the View. You will also need resources from ContactsCommon.

Best of luck.

Access denied for user 'homestead'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

in my case, after restarting my server the problem was gone.

exit/close the "php artisan serve" command and

re-run the command "php artisan serve" command.

How to show Bootstrap table with sort icon

BOOTSTRAP 4

you can use a combination of

  • fa-chevron-down, fa-chevron-up

  • fa-sort-down, fa-sort-up

<th class="text-center">
    <div class="btn-group" role="group">
        <button type="button" class="btn btn-xs btn-link py-0 pl-0 pr-1">
             Some Text OR icon
        </button>
        <div class="btn-group-vertical">
            <a href="?sort=asc" class="btn btn-xs btn-link p-0">
                <i class="fas fa-sort-up"></i>
            </a>
            <a href="?sort=desc" class="btn btn-xs btn-link p-0">
                <i class="fas fa-sort-down"></i>
            </a>
        </div>
    </div>
</th>

Where Is Machine.Config?

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG

Getting the folder name from a path

I used this code snippet to get the directory for a path when no filename is in the path:

for example "c:\tmp\test\visual";

string dir = @"c:\tmp\test\visual";
Console.WriteLine(dir.Replace(Path.GetDirectoryName(dir) + Path.DirectorySeparatorChar, ""));

Output:

visual

How to style input and submit button with CSS?

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>CSS3 Button</title>
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<a href="#" class="btn">Push</a>
</div>
</body>
</html>

CSS styling

a.btn {
display: block; width: 250px; height: 60px; padding: 40px 0 0 0; margin: 0 auto;

background: #398525; /* old browsers */
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #8DD297 0%, #398525 100%); /* firefox */
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,#8DD297), color-stop(100%,#398525)); /* webkit */

box-shadow: inset 0px 0px 6px #fff;
-webkit-box-shadow: inset 0px 0px 6px #fff;
border: 1px solid #5ea617;
border-radius: 10px;
}

How to use mongoimport to import csv

Make sure to copy the .csv file to /usr/local/bin or whatever folder your mondodb is in

Bootstrap carousel resizing image

add this to your css:

.carousel-inner > .item > img, .carousel-inner > .item > a > img {
    width: 100%;
}

How can I repeat a character in Bash?

 
repeat() {
    # $1=number of patterns to repeat
    # $2=pattern
    printf -v "TEMP" '%*s' "$1"
    echo ${TEMP// /$2}
}

Use of alloc init instead of new

There are a bunch of reasons here: http://macresearch.org/difference-between-alloc-init-and-new

Some selected ones are:

  • new doesn't support custom initializers (like initWithString)
  • alloc-init is more explicit than new

General opinion seems to be that you should use whatever you're comfortable with.

LINQ to Entities does not recognize the method

If anyone is looking for a VB.Net answer (as I was initially), here it is:

Public Function IsSatisfied() As Expression(Of Func(Of Charity, String, String, Boolean))

Return Function(charity, name, referenceNumber) (String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(name) Or
                                                         charity.registeredName.ToLower().Contains(name.ToLower()) Or
                                                         charity.alias.ToLower().Contains(name.ToLower()) Or
                                                         charity.charityId.ToLower().Contains(name.ToLower())) And
                                                    (String.IsNullOrEmpty(referenceNumber) Or
                                                     charity.charityReference.ToLower().Contains(referenceNumber.ToLower()))
End Function

Redirect HTTP to HTTPS on default virtual host without ServerName

I have use mkcert to create infinites *.dev.net subdomains & localhost with valid HTTPS/SSL certs (Windows 10 XAMPP & Linux Debian 10 Apache2)

I create the certs on Windows with mkcert v1.4.0 (execute CMD as Administrator):

mkcert -install
mkcert localhost "*.dev.net"

This create in Windows 10 this files (I will install it first in Windows 10 XAMPP)

localhost+1.pem
localhost+1-key.pem

Overwrite the XAMPP default certs:

copy "localhost+1.pem" C:\xampp\apache\conf\ssl.crt\server.crt
copy "localhost+1-key.pem"  C:\xampp\apache\conf\ssl.key\server.key

Now, in Apache2 for Debian 10, activate SSL & vhost_alias

a2enmod vhosts_alias
a2enmod ssl
a2ensite default-ssl
systemctl restart apache2

For vhost_alias add this Apache2 config:

nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/999-vhosts_alias.conf

With this content:

<VirtualHost *:80>
   UseCanonicalName Off
   ServerAlias *.dev.net
   VirtualDocumentRoot "/var/www/html/%0/"
</VirtualHost>

Add the site:

a2ensite 999-vhosts_alias

Copy the certs to /root/mkcert by SSH and let overwrite the Debian ones:

systemctl stop apache2

mv /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem.bak
mv /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key.bak

cp "localhost+1.pem" /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
cp "localhost+1-key.pem" /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key

chown root:ssl-cert /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
chmod 640 /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key

systemctl start apache2

Edit the SSL config

nano /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/default-ssl.conf

At the start edit the file with this content:

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
    <VirtualHost *:443>

            UseCanonicalName Off
            ServerAlias *.dev.net
            ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

            # DocumentRoot /var/www/html/
            VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/html/%0/

...

Last restart:

systemctl restart apache2

NOTE: don´t forget to create the folders for your subdomains in /var/www/html/

/var/www/html/subdomain1.dev.net
/var/www/html/subdomain2.dev.net
/var/www/html/subdomain3.dev.net

The type initializer for 'CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument' threw an exception

For one full day i searched online and i found a solution on my own. The same scenario, the application works fine in developer machine but when deployed it is throwing the exception "crystaldecisions.crystalreports.engine.reportdocument threw an exception" Details: sys.io.filenotfoundexcep crystaldecisions.reportappserver.commlayer version 13.0.2000 is missing

My IDE: MS VS 2010 Ultimate, CR V13.0.10

Solution:

  1. i set x86 for my application, then i set x64 for my setup application

  2. Prerequisite: i Placed the supporting CR runtime file CRRuntime_32bit_13_0_10.msi, CRRuntime_64bit_13_0_10.msi in the following directory C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages\Crystal Reports for .NET Framework 4.0

  3. Include merge module file to the setup project. Here is version is not serious thing because i use 13.0.10 soft, 13.0.16 merge module file File i included: CRRuntime_13_0_16.msm This file is found one among the set msm files.

While installing this Merge module will add the necessary dll in the following dir C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\Crystal Reports for .NET Framework 4.0\Common\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\win32_x86\dotnet

dll file version will not cause any issues.

In your developer machine you confirm it same.

I need reputation points, if this answer is useful kindly mark it useful(+1)

Using a dictionary to count the items in a list

Simply use list property count\

i = ['apple','red','apple','red','red','pear']
d = {x:i.count(x) for x in i}
print d

output : 

{'pear': 1, 'apple': 2, 'red': 3}

Return HTTP status code 201 in flask

you can also use flask_api for sending response

from flask_api import status

@app.route('/your-api/')
def empty_view(self):
    content = {'your content here'}
    return content, status.HTTP_201_CREATED

you can find reference here http://www.flaskapi.org/api-guide/status-codes/

jQuery - Disable Form Fields

try this

$("#inp").focus(function(){$("#sel").attr('disabled','true');});

$("#inp").blur(function(){$("#sel").removeAttr('disabled');});

vice versa for the select also.

PHP Curl UTF-8 Charset

Simple: When you use curl it encodes the string to utf-8 you just need to decode them..

Description

string utf8_decode ( string $data )

This function decodes data , assumed to be UTF-8 encoded, to ISO-8859-1.

Left-pad printf with spaces

 
int space = 40;
printf("%*s", space, "Hello");

This statement will reserve a row of 40 characters, print string at the end of the row (removing extra spaces such that the total row length is constant at 40). Same can be used for characters and integers as follows:

printf("%*d", space, 10);
printf("%*c", space, 'x');

This method using a parameter to determine spaces is useful where a variable number of spaces is required. These statements will still work with integer literals as follows:

printf("%*d", 10, 10);
printf("%*c", 20, 'x');
printf("%*s", 30, "Hello");

Hope this helps someone like me in future.

How do I query for all dates greater than a certain date in SQL Server?

Try enclosing your date into a character string.

 select * 
 from dbo.March2010 A
 where A.Date >= '2010-04-01';

Creating a directory in /sdcard fails

There are Many Things You Need to worry about 1.If you are using Android Bellow Marshmallow then you have to set permesions in Manifest File. 2. If you are using later Version of Android means from Marshmallow to Oreo now Either you have to go to the App Info and Set there manually App permission for Storage. if you want to Set it at Run Time you can do that by below code

public  boolean isStoragePermissionGranted() {
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 23) {
    if (checkSelfPermission(android.Manifest.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE)
            == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {
        Log.v(TAG,"Permission is granted");
        return true;
    } else {

        Log.v(TAG,"Permission is revoked");
        ActivityCompat.requestPermissions(this, new String[]{Manifest.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE}, 1);
        return false;
    }
}
else { //permission is automatically granted on sdk<23 upon installation
    Log.v(TAG,"Permission is granted");
    return true;
}

}

Where can I download an offline installer of Cygwin?

may this post can solve your problem

see Full Installation Answer on that: What is the current full install size of Cygwin?

How to Set user name and Password of phpmyadmin

You can simply open the phpmyadmin page from your browser, then open any existing database -> go to Privileges tab, click on your root user and then a popup window will appear, you can set your password there.. Hope this Helps.

Moving Panel in Visual Studio Code to right side

VSCode 1.42 (January 2020) introduces:

Panel on the left/right

The panel can now be moved to the left side of the editor with the setting:

"workbench.panel.defaultLocation": "left"

This removes the command View: Toggle Panel Position (workbench.action.togglePanelPosition) in favor of the following new commands:

  • View: Move Panel Left (workbench.action.positionPanelLeft)
  • View: Move Panel Right (workbench.action.positionPanelRight)
  • View: Move Panel To Bottom (workbench.action.positionPanelBottom)

How to get names of classes inside a jar file?

You can use the 

jar tf example.jar

How to get param from url in angular 4?

Check parameters from URL string or as :param in your routeConfig

downstream.component.ts

...
import {Router,ActivatedRoute} from '@angular/router';
...    
export class DownstreamComponent  {
    constructor(
    private route: ActivatedRoute,
    private router: Router
) {
    if(this.route.snapshot.queryParams) 
      console.log(this.route.snapshot.params); // e.g. :param1 in routeConfig
    if(this.route.snapshot.queryParamMap.get('param1'))
      console.log(this.route.snapshot.queryParamMap.get('param1')); // e.g. in URI ?param1=blah
}

}

Keras, how do I predict after I trained a model?

model.predict() expects the first parameter to be a numpy array. You supply a list, which does not have the shape attribute a numpy array has.

Otherwise your code looks fine, except that you are doing nothing with the prediction. Make sure you store it in a variable, for example like this:

prediction = model.predict(np.array(tk.texts_to_sequences(text)))
print(prediction)

take(1) vs first()

Operators first() and take(1) aren't the same.

The first() operator takes an optional predicate function and emits an error notification when no value matched when the source completed.

For example this will emit an error:

import { EMPTY, range } from 'rxjs';
import { first, take } from 'rxjs/operators';

EMPTY.pipe(
  first(),
).subscribe(console.log, err => console.log('Error', err));

... as well as this:

range(1, 5).pipe(
  first(val => val > 6),
).subscribe(console.log, err => console.log('Error', err));

While this will match the first value emitted:

range(1, 5).pipe(
  first(),
).subscribe(console.log, err => console.log('Error', err));

On the other hand take(1) just takes the first value and completes. No further logic is involved.

range(1, 5).pipe(
  take(1),
).subscribe(console.log, err => console.log('Error', err));

Then with empty source Observable it won't emit any error:

EMPTY.pipe(
  take(1),
).subscribe(console.log, err => console.log('Error', err));

Jan 2019: Updated for RxJS 6

How do I force Maven to use my local repository rather than going out to remote repos to retrieve artifacts?

The dependency has a snapshot version. For snapshots, Maven will check the local repository and if the artifact found in the local repository is too old, it will attempt to find an updated one in the remote repositories. That is probably what you are seeing.

Note that this behavior is controlled by the updatePolicy directive in the repository configuration (which is daily by default for snapshot repositories).

:first-child not working as expected

For that particular case you can use:

.detail_container > ul + h1{ 
    color: blue; 
}

But if you need that same selector on many cases, you should have a class for those, like BoltClock said.

Eclipse: stop code from running (java)

Open the Console view, locate the console for your running app and hit the Big Red Button.

Alternatively if you open the Debug perspective you will see all running apps in (by default) the top left. You can select the one that's causing you grief and once again hit the Big Red Button.enter image description here

Filtering a spark dataframe based on date

I find the most readable way to express this is using a sql expression:

df.filter("my_date < date'2015-01-01'")

we can verify this works correctly by looking at the physical plan from .explain()

+- *(1) Filter (isnotnull(my_date#22) && (my_date#22 < 16436))

How does Task<int> become an int?

Does an implicit conversion occur between Task<> and int?

Nope. This is just part of how async/await works.

Any method declared as async has to have a return type of:

  • void (avoid if possible)
  • Task (no result beyond notification of completion/failure)
  • Task<T> (for a logical result of type T in an async manner)

The compiler does all the appropriate wrapping. The point is that you're asynchronously returning urlContents.Length - you can't make the method just return int, as the actual method will return when it hits the first await expression which hasn't already completed. So instead, it returns a Task<int> which will complete when the async method itself completes.

Note that await does the opposite - it unwraps a Task<T> to a T value, which is how this line works:

string urlContents = await getStringTask;

... but of course it unwraps it asynchronously, whereas just using Result would block until the task had completed. (await can unwrap other types which implement the awaitable pattern, but Task<T> is the one you're likely to use most often.)

This dual wrapping/unwrapping is what allows async to be so composable. For example, I could write another async method which calls yours and doubles the result:

public async Task<int> AccessTheWebAndDoubleAsync()
{
    var task = AccessTheWebAsync();
    int result = await task;
    return result * 2;
}

(Or simply return await AccessTheWebAsync() * 2; of course.)

How to add a column in TSQL after a specific column?

In SQL Enterprise Management Studio, open up your table, add the column where you want it, and then -- instead of saving the change -- generate the change script. You can see how it's done in SQL.

In short, what others have said is right. SQL Management studio pulls all your data into a temp table, drops the table, recreates it with columns in the right order, and puts the temp table data back in there. There is no simple syntax for adding a column in a specific position.

Drop primary key using script in SQL Server database

The answer I got is that variables and subqueries will not work and we have to user dynamic SQL script. The following works:

DECLARE @SQL VARCHAR(4000)
SET @SQL = 'ALTER TABLE dbo.Student DROP CONSTRAINT |ConstraintName| '

SET @SQL = REPLACE(@SQL, '|ConstraintName|', ( SELECT   name
                                               FROM     sysobjects
                                               WHERE    xtype = 'PK'
                                                        AND parent_obj =        OBJECT_ID('Student')))

EXEC (@SQL)

Import and insert sql.gz file into database with putty

If you have scp then:

To move your file from local to remote:

$scp /home/user/file.gz user@ipaddress:path/to/file.gz

To move your file from remote to local:

$scp user@ipaddress:path/to/file.gz /home/user/file.gz

To export your mysql file without login in to remote system:

$mysqldump -h ipaddressofremotehost -Pportnumber -u usernameofmysql -p  databasename | gzip -9 > databasename.sql.gz

To import your mysql file withoug login in to remote system:

$gunzip < databasename.sql.gz | mysql -h ipaddressofremotehost -Pportnumber -u usernameofmysql -p

Note: Make sure you have network access to the ipaddress of remote host

To check network access:

$ping ipaddressofremotehost

What does --net=host option in Docker command really do?

After the docker installation you have 3 networks by default:

docker network ls
NETWORK ID          NAME                DRIVER              SCOPE
f3be8b1ef7ce        bridge              bridge              local
fbff927877c1        host                host                local
023bb5940080        none                null                local

I'm trying to keep this simple. So if you start a container by default it will be created inside the bridge (docker0) network.

$ docker run -d jenkins
1498e581cdba        jenkins             "/bin/tini -- /usr..."   3 minutes ago       Up 3 minutes        8080/tcp, 50000/tcp   friendly_bell

In the dockerfile of jenkins the ports 8080 and 50000 are exposed. Those ports are opened for the container on its bridge network. So everything inside that bridge network can access the container on port 8080 and 50000. Everything in the bridge network is in the private range of "Subnet": "172.17.0.0/16", If you want to access them from the outside you have to map the ports with -p 8080:8080. This will map the port of your container to the port of your real server (the host network). So accessing your server on 8080 will route to your bridgenetwork on port 8080.

Now you also have your host network. Which does not containerize the containers networking. So if you start a container in the host network it will look like this (it's the first one):

CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                 NAMES
1efd834949b2        jenkins             "/bin/tini -- /usr..."   6 minutes ago       Up 6 minutes                              eloquent_panini
1498e581cdba        jenkins             "/bin/tini -- /usr..."   10 minutes ago      Up 10 minutes       8080/tcp, 50000/tcp   friendly_bell

The difference is with the ports. Your container is now inside your host network. So if you open port 8080 on your host you will acces the container immediately. 

$ sudo iptables -I INPUT 5 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 8080 -j ACCEPT

I've opened port 8080 in my firewall and when I'm now accesing my server on port 8080 I'm accessing my jenkins. I think this blog is also useful to understand it better.

How do I fix a "Expected Primary-expression before ')' token" error?

showInventory(player); is passing a type as parameter. That's illegal, you need to pass an object.

For example, something like:

player p;
showInventory(p);

I'm guessing you have something like this:

int main()
{
   player player;
   toDo();
}

which is awful. First, don't name the object the same as your type. Second, in order for the object to be visible inside the function, you'll need to pass it as parameter:

int main()
{
   player p;
   toDo(p);
}

and 

std::string toDo(player& p) 
{
    //....
    showInventory(p);
    //....
}

Hidden Features of Java

When working in Swing I like the hidden Ctrl - Shift - F1 feature.

It dumps the component tree of the current window.
(Assuming you have not bound that keystroke to something else.)

How to execute the start script with Nodemon

In package json:

"scripts": {
  "start": "node index",
  "dev": "nodemon index"
},

"devDependencies": {
  "nodemon": "^2.0.2"
}

And in the terminal for developing:

npm run dev

And for starting the server regular:

npm start

Setting up JUnit with IntelliJ IDEA

Basically, you only need junit.jar on the classpath - and here's a quick way to do it:

  1. Make sure you have a source folder (e.g. test) marked as a Test Root.

  2. Create a test, for example like this:

    public class MyClassTest {
    @Test
    public void testSomething() {

    }
}

  3. Since you haven't configured junit.jar (yet), the @Test annotation will be marked as an error (red), hit f2 to navigate to it.

  4. Hit alt-enter and choose Add junit.jar to the classpath

There, you're done! Right-click on your test and choose Run 'MyClassTest' to run it and see the test results.

Maven Note: Altervatively, if you're using maven, at step 4 you can instead choose the option Add Maven Dependency..., go to the Search for artifact pane, type junit and take whichever version (e.g. 4.8 or 4.9).

Sanitizing strings to make them URL and filename safe?

I recommend* URLify for PHP (480+ stars on Github) - "the PHP port of URLify.js from the Django project. Transliterates non-ascii characters for use in URLs".

Basic usage:

To generate slugs for URLs:

<?php

echo URLify::filter (' J\'étudie le français ');
// "jetudie-le-francais"

echo URLify::filter ('Lo siento, no hablo español.');
// "lo-siento-no-hablo-espanol"

?>

To generate slugs for file names:

<?php

echo URLify::filter ('????.jpg', 60, "", true);
// "foto.jpg"

?>

*None of the other suggestions matched my criteria:

  • Should be installable via composer
  • Should not depend on iconv since it behaves differently on different systems
  • Should be extendable to allow overrides and custom character replacements
  • Popular (for instance many stars on Github)
  • Has tests

As a bonus, URLify also removes certain words and strips away all characters not transliterated.

Here is a test case with tons of foreign characters being transliterated properly using URLify: https://gist.github.com/motin/a65e6c1cc303e46900d10894bf2da87f

How to navigate to to different directories in the terminal (mac)?

To check that the file you're trying to open actually exists, you can change directories in terminal using cd. To change to ~/Desktop/sass/css: cd ~/Desktop/sass/css. To see what files are in the directory: ls.

If you want information about either of those commands, use the man page: man cd or man ls, for example.

Google for "basic unix command line commands" or similar; that will give you numerous examples of moving around, viewing files, etc in the command line.

On Mac OS X, you can also use open to open a finder window: open . will open the current directory in finder. (open ~/Desktop/sass/css will open the ~/Desktop/sass/css).

Round a double to 2 decimal places

If you really want the same double, but rounded in the way you want you can use BigDecimal, for example

new BigDecimal(myValue).setScale(2, RoundingMode.HALF_UP).doubleValue();

Powershell script to check if service is started, if not then start it

A potentially simpler solution:

get-service "servicename*" | Where {$_.Status -eq 'Stopped'} | start-service

Alternative to google finance api

Updating answer a bit

1. Try Twelve Data API

For beginners try to run the following query with a JSON response:

https://api.twelvedata.com/time_series?symbol=AAPL&interval=1min&apikey=demo&source=docs

NO more real time Alpha Vantage API

For beginners you can try to get a JSON output from query such as

https://www.alphavantage.co/query?function=TIME_SERIES_DAILY&symbol=MSFT&apikey=demo

DON'T Try Yahoo Finance API (it is DEPRECATED or UNAVAILABLE NOW).

For beginners, you can generate a CSV with a simple API call:

http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=AAPL+GOOG+MSFT&f=sb2b3jk

(This will generate and save a CSV for AAPL, GOOG, and MSFT)

Note that you must append the format to the query string (f=..). For an overview of all of the formats see this page.

For more examples, visit this page.

For XML and JSON-based data, you can do the following:

Don't use YQL (Yahoo Query Language)

For example:

http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/?q=select%20*%20from%20yahoo.finance
.quotes%20where%20symbol%20in%20(%22YHOO%22%2C%22AAPL%22%2C%22GOOG%22%2C%22
MSFT%22)%0A%09%09&env=http%3A%2F%2Fdatatables.org%2Falltables.env

2. Use the webservice

For example, to get all stock quotes in XML:

http://finance.yahoo.com/webservice/v1/symbols/allcurrencies/quote

To get all stock quotes in JSON, just add format=JSON to the end of the URL:

http://finance.yahoo.com/webservice/v1/symbols/allcurrencies/quote?format=json

Alternatives:

  1. Currency API

    • 165+ real time currency rates, including few cryptos. Docs here.

  2. Financial Content API

  3. IEX

  4. Open Exchange Rates

  5. Polygon

  6. XE API

  7. Xignite API

  8. currencylayer API

  9. Other APIs - discussed at programmableWeb

How to get the first element of the List or Set?

In Java >=8 you could also use the Streaming API:

Optional<String> first = set.stream().findFirst();

(Useful if the Set/List may be empty.)

Continuous Integration vs. Continuous Delivery vs. Continuous Deployment

Neither the question nor the answers really fit my simple way of thinking about it. I'm a consultant and have synchronized these definitions with a number of Dev teams and DevOps people, but am curious about how it matches with the industry at large:

Basically I think of the agile practice of continuous delivery like a continuum:

Not continuous (everything manual) 0% ----> 100% Continuous Delivery of Value (everything automated)

Steps towards continuous delivery:

Zero. Nothing is automated when devs check in code... You're lucky if they have compiled, run, or performed any testing prior to check-in.

  1. Continuous Build: automated build on every check-in, which is the first step, but does nothing to prove functional integration of new code.

  2. Continuous Integration (CI): automated build and execution of at least unit tests to prove integration of new code with existing code, but preferably integration tests (end-to-end).

  3. Continuous Deployment (CD): automated deployment when code passes CI at least into a test environment, preferably into higher environments when quality is proven either via CI or by marking a lower environment as PASSED after manual testing. I.E., testing may be manual in some cases, but promoting to next environment is automatic.

  4. Continuous Delivery: automated publication and release of the system into production. This is CD into production plus any other configuration changes like setup for A/B testing, notification to users of new features, notifying support of new version and change notes, etc.

EDIT: I would like to point out that there's a difference between the concept of "continuous delivery" as referenced in the first principle of the Agile Manifesto (http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html) and the practice of Continuous Delivery, as seems to be referenced by the context of the question. The principle of continuous delivery is that of striving to reduce the Inventory waste as described in Lean thinking (http://www.miconleansixsigma.com/8-wastes.html). The practice of Continuous Delivery (CD) by agile teams has emerged in the many years since the Agile Manifesto was written in 2001. This agile practice directly addresses the principle, although they are different things and apparently easily confused.

Can I use if (pointer) instead of if (pointer != NULL)?

Yes, Both are functionally the same thing. But in C++ you should switch to nullptr in the place of NULL;

Finding smallest value in an array most efficiently

 
int small=a[0];
for (int x: a.length)
{
    if(a[x]<small)
        small=a[x];
}

Do C# Timers elapse on a separate thread?

For System.Timers.Timer:

See Brian Gideon's answer below

For System.Threading.Timer:

MSDN Documentation on Timers states:

The System.Threading.Timer class makes callbacks on a ThreadPool thread and does not use the event model at all.

So indeed the timer elapses on a different thread.

How to install PIP on Python 3.6?

This what worked for me on Amazon Linux

sudo yum list | grep python3

sudo yum install python36.x86_64 python36-tools.x86_64

$ python3 --version Python 3.6.8

$ pip -V pip 9.0.3 from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (python 2.7)

]$ sudo python3.6 -m pip install --upgrade pip Collecting pip Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/d8/f3/413bab4ff08e1fc4828dfc59996d721917df8e8583ea85385d51125dceff/pip-19.0.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.4MB) 100% |¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦| 1.4MB 969kB/s Installing collected packages: pip Found existing installation: pip 9.0.3 Uninstalling pip-9.0.3: Successfully uninstalled pip-9.0.3 Successfully installed pip-19.0.3

$ pip -V pip 19.0.3 from /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip (python 3.6)

CSS to select/style first word

Here's a bit of JavaScript and jQuery I threw together to wrap the first word of each paragraph with a <span> tag.

$(function() {
    $('#content p').each(function() {
        var text = this.innerHTML;
        var firstSpaceIndex = text.indexOf(" ");
        if (firstSpaceIndex > 0) {
            var substrBefore = text.substring(0,firstSpaceIndex);
            var substrAfter = text.substring(firstSpaceIndex, text.length)
            var newText = '<span class="firstWord">' + substrBefore + '</span>' + substrAfter;
            this.innerHTML = newText;
        } else {
            this.innerHTML = '<span class="firstWord">' + text + '</span>';
        }
    });
});

You can then use CSS to create a style for .firstWord.

It's not perfect, as it doesn't account for every type of whitespace; however, I'm sure it could accomplish what you're after with a few tweaks.

Keep in mind that this code will only execute after page load, so it may take a split second to see the effect.

Invert "if" statement to reduce nesting

The idea of only returning at the end of a function came back from the days before languages had support for exceptions. It enabled programs to rely on being able to put clean-up code at the end of a method, and then being sure it would be called and some other programmer wouldn't hide a return in the method that caused the cleanup code to be skipped. Skipped cleanup code could result in a memory or resource leak.

However, in a language that supports exceptions, it provides no such guarantees. In a language that supports exceptions, the execution of any statement or expression can cause a control flow that causes the method to end. This means clean-up must be done through using the finally or using keywords.

Anyway, I'm saying I think a lot of people quote the 'only return at the end of a method' guideline without understanding why it was ever a good thing to do, and that reducing nesting to improve readability is probably a better aim.

How to get started with Windows 7 gadgets

Here's an excellent article by Scott Allen: Developing Gadgets for the Windows Sidebar

This site, Windows 7/Vista Sidebar Gadgets, has links to many gadget resources.

is vs typeof

They don't do the same thing. The first one works if obj is of type ClassA or of some subclass of ClassA. The second one will only match objects of type ClassA. The second one will be faster since it doesn't have to check the class hierarchy.

For those who want to know the reason, but don't want to read the article referenced in is vs typeof.

Getting PEAR to work on XAMPP (Apache/MySQL stack on Windows)

Try adding the drive letter:

include_path='.;c:\xampplite\php\pear\PEAR'

also verify that PEAR.php is actually there, it might be in \php\ instead:

include_path='.;c:\xampplite\php'

Jackson how to transform JsonNode to ArrayNode without casting?

In Java 8 you can do it like this:

import java.util.*;
import java.util.stream.*;

List<JsonNode> datasets = StreamSupport
    .stream(datasets.get("datasets").spliterator(), false)
    .collect(Collectors.toList())

Checking for duplicate strings in JavaScript array

The following code uses a unique-filter (checks if every occurrence of an item is the first occurence) to compare the number of unique items in an array with the total number of items: if both are equal, the array only contains unique elements, otherwise there are some duplicates.

var firstUnique = (value, index, array) => array.indexOf(value) === index;
var numUnique = strArray.filter(firstUnique).length;
var allUnique = strArray.length === numUnique;

How can I generate a 6 digit unique number?

 
<?php
$file = 'count.txt';

//get the number from the file
$uniq = file_get_contents($file);

//add +1
$id = $uniq + 1 ;

// add that new value to text file again for next use
file_put_contents($file, $id);

// your unique id ready
echo $id;
?>

i hope this will work fine. i use the same technique in my website.

Generate random numbers following a normal distribution in C/C++

A quick and easy method is just to sum a number of evenly distributed random numbers and take their average. See the Central Limit Theorem for a full explanation of why this works.

Console.log not working at all

In my case I was developing a Polymer WebComponent, which is included using <link rel="import"> into the main HTML document. Turns out that the WebComponent HTML file was being cached for some reason, even though I had changed it since the cached version.

To solve it I opened the Developer Console (in Chrome), right clicked on the reload arrow next to the URL bar and selected "Empty cache and hard reload" - problem solved.

Letsencrypt add domain to existing certificate

This is how i registered my domain:

sudo letsencrypt --apache -d mydomain.com

Then it was possible to use the same command with additional domains and follow the instructions:

sudo letsencrypt --apache -d mydomain.com,x.mydomain.com,y.mydomain.com

how to set windows service username and password through commandline

This works:

sc.exe config "[servicename]" obj= "[.\username]" password= "[password]"

Where each of the [bracketed] items are replaced with the true arguments. (Keep the quotes, but don't keep the brackets.)

Just keep in mind that:

  • The spacing in the above example matters. obj= "foo" is correct; obj="foo" is not.
  • '.' is an alias to the local machine, you can specify a domain there (or your local computer name) if you wish.
  • Passwords aren't validated until the service is started
  • Quote your parameters, as above. You can sometimes get by without quotes, but good luck.

Renaming Columns in an SQL SELECT Statement

 
select column1 as xyz,
      column2 as pqr,
.....

from TableName;

How do I convert a date/time to epoch time (unix time/seconds since 1970) in Perl?

Possibly one of the better examples of 'There's More Than One Way To Do It", with or without the help of CPAN.

If you have control over what you get passed as a 'date/time', I'd suggest going the DateTime route, either by using a specific Date::Time::Format subclass, or using DateTime::Format::Strptime if there isn't one supporting your wacky date format (see the datetime FAQ for more details). In general, Date::Time is the way to go if you want to do anything serious with the result: few classes on CPAN are quite as anal-retentive and obsessively accurate.

If you're expecting weird freeform stuff, throw it at Date::Parse's str2time() method, which'll get you a seconds-since-epoch value you can then have your wicked way with, without the overhead of Date::Manip.

Initializing a dictionary in python with a key value and no corresponding values

It would be good to know what your purpose is, why you want to initialize the keys in the first place. I am not sure you need to do that at all.

1) If you want to count the number of occurrences of keys, you can just do:

Definition = {}
# ...
Definition[key] = Definition.get(key, 0) + 1

2) If you want to get None (or some other value) later for keys that you did not encounter, again you can just use the get() method:

Definition.get(key)  # returns None if key not stored
Definition.get(key, default_other_than_none)

3) For all other purposes, you can just use a list of the expected keys, and check if the keys found later match those.

For example, if you only want to store values for those keys:

expected_keys = ['apple', 'banana']
# ...
if key_found in expected_keys:
    Definition[key_found] = value

Or if you want to make sure all expected keys were found:

assert(all(key in Definition for key in expected_keys))

How can I get npm start at a different directory?

npm start --prefix path/to/your/app

& inside package.json add the following script

"scripts": {
   "preinstall":"cd $(pwd)"
}

jQuery autohide element after 5 seconds

 
$(function() {
    // setTimeout() function will be fired after page is loaded
    // it will wait for 5 sec. and then will fire
    // $("#successMessage").hide() function
    setTimeout(function() {
        $("#successMessage").hide('blind', {}, 500)
    }, 5000);
});

Note: In order to make you jQuery function work inside setTimeout you should wrap it inside

function() { ... }

How do I tell matplotlib that I am done with a plot?

As stated from David Cournapeau, use figure().

import matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.mlab as mlab

plt.figure()
x = [1,10]
y = [30, 1000]
plt.loglog(x, y, basex=10, basey=10, ls="-")
plt.savefig("first.ps")


plt.figure()
x = [10,100]
y = [10, 10000]
plt.loglog(x, y, basex=10, basey=10, ls="-")
plt.savefig("second.ps")

Or subplot(121) / subplot(122) for the same plot, different position.

import matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.mlab as mlab

plt.subplot(121)
x = [1,10]
y = [30, 1000]
plt.loglog(x, y, basex=10, basey=10, ls="-")

plt.subplot(122)
x = [10,100]
y = [10, 10000]
plt.loglog(x, y, basex=10, basey=10, ls="-")
plt.savefig("second.ps")

CGContextDrawImage draws image upside down when passed UIImage.CGImage

Swift 3 CoreGraphics Solution

If you want to use CG for whatever your reason might be, instead of UIImage, this Swift 3 construction based on previous answers did solve the issue for me:

if let cgImage = uiImage.cgImage {
    cgContext.saveGState()
    cgContext.translateBy(x: 0.0, y: cgRect.size.height)
    cgContext.scaleBy(x: 1.0, y: -1.0)
    cgContext.draw(cgImage, in: cgRect)
    cgContext.restoreGState()
}

Fix GitLab error: "you are not allowed to push code to protected branches on this project"?

This is considered as features in Gitlab.

Maintainer / Owner access is never able to force push again for default & protected branch, as stated in this docs enter image description here

How to set placeholder value using CSS?

Change your meta tag to the one below and use placeholder attribute inside your HTML input tag.

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<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />_x000D_
<input type="text" placeholder="Placeholder text" />?
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Import module from subfolder

Had problems even when init.py existed in subfolder and all that was missing was adding 'as' after import

from folder.file import Class as Class
import folder.file as functions

Convert date from String to Date format in Dataframes

you can also do this query...!

sqlContext.sql("""
select from_unixtime(unix_timestamp('08/26/2016', 'MM/dd/yyyy'), 'yyyy:MM:dd') as new_format
""").show()

enter image description here

Callback to a Fragment from a DialogFragment

Updated:

I made a library based on my gist code that generates those casting for you by using @CallbackFragment and @Callback.

https://github.com/zeroarst/callbackfragment.

And the example give you the example that send a callback from a fragment to another fragment.

Old answer:

I made a BaseCallbackFragment and annotation @FragmentCallback. It currently extends Fragment, you can change it to DialogFragment and will work. It checks the implementations with the following order: getTargetFragment() > getParentFragment() > context (activity).

Then you just need to extend it and declare your interfaces in your fragment and give it the annotation, and the base fragment will do the rest. The annotation also has a parameter mandatory for you to determine whether you want to force the fragment to implement the callback.

public class EchoFragment extends BaseCallbackFragment {

    private FragmentInteractionListener mListener;

    @FragmentCallback
    public interface FragmentInteractionListener {
        void onEcho(EchoFragment fragment, String echo);
    }
}

https://gist.github.com/zeroarst/3b3f32092d58698a4568cdb0919c9a93

How to bind Close command to a button

I think that in real world scenarios a simple click handler is probably better than over-complicated command-based systems but you can do something like that:

using RelayCommand from this article http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd419663.aspx

public class MyCommands
{
    public static readonly ICommand CloseCommand =
        new RelayCommand( o => ((Window)o).Close() );
}

<Button Content="Close Window"
        Command="{X:Static local:MyCommands.CloseCommand}"
        CommandParameter="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource FindAncestor, 
                           AncestorType={x:Type Window}}}"/>

How to install numpy on windows using pip install?

 
py -m pip install numpy

Worked for me!

Javascript change font color

Consider changing your markup to this:

<span id="someId">onlineff</span>

Then you can use this script:

var x = document.getElementById('someId');
x.style.color = '#00FF00';

see it here: http://jsfiddle.net/2ANmM/

Setting the default ssh key location

man ssh gives me this options would could be useful.

-i identity_file Selects a file from which the identity (private key) for RSA or DSA authentication is read. The default is ~/.ssh/identity for protocol version 1, and ~/.ssh/id_rsa and ~/.ssh/id_dsa for pro- tocol version 2. Identity files may also be specified on a per- host basis in the configuration file. It is possible to have multiple -i options (and multiple identities specified in config- uration files).

So you could create an alias in your bash config with something like

alias ssh="ssh -i /path/to/private_key"

I haven't looked into a ssh configuration file, but like the -i option this too could be aliased

-F configfile Specifies an alternative per-user configuration file. If a configuration file is given on the command line, the system-wide configuration file (/etc/ssh/ssh_config) will be ignored. The default for the per-user configuration file is ~/.ssh/config.

Remove non-numeric characters (except periods and commas) from a string

You could use filter_var to remove all illegal characters except digits, dot and the comma.

  • The FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_FLOAT filter is used to remove all non-numeric character from the string.
  • FILTER_FLAG_ALLOW_FRACTION is allowing fraction separator " . "
  • The purpose of FILTER_FLAG_ALLOW_THOUSAND to get comma from the string.

Code

$var1 = '12.322,11T';

echo filter_var($var1, FILTER_SANITIZE_NUMBER_FLOAT, FILTER_FLAG_ALLOW_FRACTION | FILTER_FLAG_ALLOW_THOUSAND);

Output

12.322,11

To read more about filter_var() and Sanitize filters

align 3 images in same row with equal spaces?

The modern approach: flexbox

Simply add the following CSS to the container element (here, the div):

div {
  display: flex;
  justify-content: space-between;
}

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div {_x000D_
  display: flex;_x000D_
  justify-content: space-between;_x000D_
}
_x000D_ 
<div>_x000D_
 <img src="http://placehold.it/100x100" alt=""  /> _x000D_
 <img src="http://placehold.it/100x100" alt=""  />_x000D_
 <img src="http://placehold.it/100x100" alt="" />_x000D_
</div>
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The old way (for ancient browsers - prior to flexbox)

Use text-align: justify; on the container element.

Then stretch the content to take up 100% width

MARKUP

<div>
 <img src="http://placehold.it/100x100" alt=""  /> 
 <img src="http://placehold.it/100x100" alt=""  />
 <img src="http://placehold.it/100x100" alt="" />
</div>

CSS

div {
    text-align: justify;
}

div img {
    display: inline-block;
    width: 100px;
    height: 100px;
}

div:after {
    content: '';
    display: inline-block;
    width: 100%;
}

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div {_x000D_
    text-align: justify;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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div img {_x000D_
    display: inline-block;_x000D_
    width: 100px;_x000D_
    height: 100px;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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div:after {_x000D_
    content: '';_x000D_
    display: inline-block;_x000D_
    width: 100%;_x000D_
}
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<div>_x000D_
 <img src="http://placehold.it/100x100" alt=""  /> _x000D_
 <img src="http://placehold.it/100x100" alt=""  />_x000D_
 <img src="http://placehold.it/100x100" alt="" />_x000D_
</div>
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HTML5 best practices; section/header/aside/article elements

„line 23. Is this div right? or must this be a section?“

Neither – there is a main tag for that purpose, which is only allowed once per page and should be used as a wrapper for the main content (in contrast to a sidebar or a site-wide header).

<main>
    <!-- The main content -->
</main>

http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/grouping-content.html#the-main-element

How to Use Order By for Multiple Columns in Laravel 4?

Simply invoke orderBy() as many times as you need it. For instance:

User::orderBy('name', 'DESC')
    ->orderBy('email', 'ASC')
    ->get();

Produces the following query:

SELECT * FROM `users` ORDER BY `name` DESC, `email` ASC

Counter in foreach loop in C#

Your understanding of foreach is incomplete.

It works with any type that exposes IEnumerable (or implements a GetEnumerable method) and uses the returned IEnumerator to iterate over the items in the collection.

How the Enumerator does this (using an index, yield statement or magic) is an implementation detail.

In order to achieve what you want, you should use a for loop:

for (int i = 0; i < mylist.Count; i++)
{
}

Note:

Getting the number of items in a list is slightly different depending on the type of list

For Collections: Use Count   [property]
For Arrays:      Use Length  [property]
For IEnumerable: Use Count() [Linq method]

Reset local repository branch to be just like remote repository HEAD

I did:

git branch -D master
git checkout master

to totally reset branch

note, you should checkout to another branch to be able to delete required branch

Python strptime() and timezones?

I recommend using python-dateutil. Its parser has been able to parse every date format I've thrown at it so far.

>>> from dateutil import parser
>>> parser.parse("Tue Jun 22 07:46:22 EST 2010")
datetime.datetime(2010, 6, 22, 7, 46, 22, tzinfo=tzlocal())
>>> parser.parse("Fri, 11 Nov 2011 03:18:09 -0400")
datetime.datetime(2011, 11, 11, 3, 18, 9, tzinfo=tzoffset(None, -14400))
>>> parser.parse("Sun")
datetime.datetime(2011, 12, 18, 0, 0)
>>> parser.parse("10-11-08")
datetime.datetime(2008, 10, 11, 0, 0)

and so on. No dealing with strptime() format nonsense... just throw a date at it and it Does The Right Thing.

Update: Oops. I missed in your original question that you mentioned that you used dateutil, sorry about that. But I hope this answer is still useful to other people who stumble across this question when they have date parsing questions and see the utility of that module.

How to make canvas responsive

this seems to be working :

#canvas{
  border: solid 1px blue; 
  width:100%;
}

SELECT only rows that contain only alphanumeric characters in MySQL

Change the REGEXP to Like

SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE column_name like '%[^a-zA-Z0-9]%'

this one works fine

How do I check out an SVN project into Eclipse as a Java project?

If it wasn't checked in as a Java Project, you can add the java nature as shown here.

How to clear mysql screen console in windows?

I used the command line client prompt and to clear the screen I typed:-

system cls

Is there any option to limit mongodb memory usage?

This question has been asked a couple times ...

See this related question/answer (quoted below) ... how to release the caching which is used by Mongodb?

MongoDB will (at least seem) to use up a lot of available memory, but it actually leaves it up to the OS's VMM to tell it to release the memory (see Caching in the MongoDB docs.)

You should be able to release any and all memory by restarting MongoDB.

However, to some extent MongoDB isn't really "using" the memory.

For example from the MongoDB docs Checking Server Memory Usage ...

Depending on the platform you may see the mapped files as memory in the process, but this is not strictly correct. Unix top may show way more memory for mongod than is really appropriate. The Operating System (the virtual memory manager specifically, depending on OS) manages the memory where the "Memory Mapped Files" reside. This number is usually shown in a program like "free -lmt".

It is called "cached" memory.

MongoDB uses the LRU (Least Recently Used) cache algorithm to determine which "pages" to release, you will find some more information in these two questions ...

How to convert a byte array to a hex string in Java?

We don't need to use any external library or to write code based on loops and constants.
Is enough just this:

byte[] theValue = .....
String hexaString = new BigInteger(1, theValue).toString(16);

How to get text and a variable in a messagebox

 
MsgBox("Variable {0} " , variable)

How to clamp an integer to some range?

 
sorted((minval, value, maxval))[1]

for example:

>>> minval=3
>>> maxval=7
>>> for value in range(10):
...   print sorted((minval, value, maxval))[1]
... 
3
3
3
3
4
5
6
7
7
7

Dynamic function name in javascript?

I struggled a lot with this issue. @Albin solution worked like a charm while developing, but it did not work when I changed it to production. After some debugging I realized how to achieve what I needed. I'm using ES6 with CRA (create-react-app), which means it's bundled by Webpack.

Lets say you have a file that exports the functions you need:

myFunctions.js

export function setItem(params) {
  // ...
}

export function setUser(params) {
  // ...
}

export function setPost(params) {
  // ...
}

export function setReply(params) {
  // ...
}

And you need to dynamically call these functions elsewhere:

myApiCalls.js

import * as myFunctions from 'path_to/myFunctions';
/* note that myFunctions is imported as an array,
 * which means its elements can be easily accessed
 * using an index. You can console.log(myFunctions).
 */

function accessMyFunctions(res) {
  // lets say it receives an API response
  if (res.status === 200 && res.data) {
    const { data } = res;
    // I want to read all properties in data object and 
    // call a function based on properties names.
    for (const key in data) {
      if (data.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
        // you can skip some properties that are usually embedded in
        // a normal response
        if (key !== 'success' && key !== 'msg') {
          // I'm using a function to capitalize the key, which is
          // used to dynamically create the function's name I need.
          // Note that it does not create the function, it's just a
          // way to access the desired index on myFunctions array.
          const name = `set${capitalizeFirstLetter(key)}`;
          // surround it with try/catch, otherwise all unexpected properties in
          // data object will break your code.
          try {
            // finally, use it.
            myFunctions[name](data[key]);
          } catch (error) {
            console.log(name, 'does not exist');
            console.log(error);
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Display curl output in readable JSON format in Unix shell script

A few solutions to choose from:

json_pp: command utility available in Linux systems for JSON decoding/encoding

echo '{"type":"Bar","id":"1","title":"Foo"}' | json_pp -json_opt pretty,canonical
{
   "id" : "1",
   "title" : "Foo",
   "type" : "Bar"
}

You may want to keep the -json_opt pretty,canonical argument for predictable ordering.

: lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor. It is written in portable C, and it has zero runtime dependencies.

echo '{"type":"Bar","id":"1","title":"Foo"}' | jq '.'
{
  "type": "Bar",
  "id": "1",
  "title": "Foo"
}

The simplest jq program is the expression ., which takes the input and produces it unchanged as output.

For additinal jq options check the manual

with :

echo '{"type":"Bar","id":"1","title":"Foo"}' | python -m json.tool
{
    "id": "1",
    "title": "Foo",
    "type": "Bar"
}

with and :

echo '{"type":"Bar","id":"1","title":"Foo"}' | node -e "console.log( JSON.stringify( JSON.parse(require('fs').readFileSync(0) ), 0, 1 ))"
{
 "type": "Bar",
 "id": "1",
 "title": "Foo"
}

Ping all addresses in network, windows

Some things seem appeared to have changed in batch scripts on Windows 8, and the solution above by DGG now causes the Command Prompt to crash.

The following solution worked for me:

@echo off
set /a n=0
:repeat
set /a n+=1
echo 192.168.1.%n%
ping -n 1 -w 500 192.168.1.%n% | FIND /i "Reply">>ipaddresses.txt
if %n% lss 254 goto repeat
type ipaddresses.txt

Prevent overwriting a file using cmd if exist

Use the FULL path to the folder in your If Not Exist code. Then you won't even have to CD anymore:

If Not Exist "C:\Documents and Settings\John\Start Menu\Programs\SoftWareFolder\"

Export to csv/excel from kibana

FYI : How to download data in CSV from Kibana:

In Kibana--> 1. Go to 'Discover' in left side

  1. Select Index Field (based on your dashboard data) (*** In case if you are not sure which index to select-->go to management tab-->Saved Objects-->Dashboard-->select dashboard name-->scroll down to JSON-->you will see the Index name )

  2. left side you see all the variables available in the data-->click over the variable name that you want to have in csv-->click add-->this variable will be added on the right side of the columns avaliable

  3. Top right section of the kibana-->there is the time filter-->click -->select the duration for which you want the csv

  4. Top upper right -->Reporting-->save this time/variable selection with a new report-->click generate CSV

  5. Go to 'Management' in left side--> 'Reporting'-->download your csv

Getting a map() to return a list in Python 3.x

Why aren't you doing this:

[chr(x) for x in [66,53,0,94]]

It's called a list comprehension. You can find plenty of information on Google, but here's the link to the Python (2.6) documentation on list comprehensions. You might be more interested in the Python 3 documenation, though.

ActiveXObject in Firefox or Chrome (not IE!)

ActiveX resolved in Chrome!
Hello all this is not the solution but the successful workaround and I have implemented as well.
This required some implementation on client machine as well that why is most suitable for intranet environment and not recommended for public sites. Even though one can implement it for public sites as well the only problem is end user has to download/implement solution.
Lets understand the key problem
Chrome cannot communicate with ActiceX
Solution: Since Chorme cannot communicate with ActiveX but still it can communicate with the API hosted on the client machine. So develop API using .Net MVC or any other technology so that through Ajax call it can communicate with the API and API communicate with the ActiveX object situated on the client machine. Since API also resides in Client machine that why there is no problem in communication. This API works as mediator between Chrome browser and ActiveX.
During API implementation you might encounter CORS issues, Use JSONP to deal with it.
Pictorial view of the solution Pictorial view of the solution


Other solution : Use URI Scheme like MailTo: or MS-Word to deal with outlook and word application. If your requirement is different then you can implement your customized URI Scheme.

What is the best way to delete a component with CLI

If you looking for some command in CLI, Then ans is NO for now. But you can do manually by deleting the component folder and all the references.

QuotaExceededError: Dom exception 22: An attempt was made to add something to storage that exceeded the quota

Here is an expanded solution based on DrewT's answer above that uses cookies if localStorage is not available. It uses Mozilla's docCookies library:

function localStorageGet( pKey ) {
    if( localStorageSupported() ) {
        return localStorage[pKey];
    } else {
        return docCookies.getItem( 'localstorage.'+pKey );
    }
}

function localStorageSet( pKey, pValue ) {
    if( localStorageSupported() ) {
        localStorage[pKey] = pValue;
    } else {
        docCookies.setItem( 'localstorage.'+pKey, pValue );
    }
}

// global to cache value
var gStorageSupported = undefined;
function localStorageSupported() {
    var testKey = 'test', storage = window.sessionStorage;
    if( gStorageSupported === undefined ) {
        try {
            storage.setItem(testKey, '1');
            storage.removeItem(testKey);
            gStorageSupported = true;
        } catch (error) {
            gStorageSupported = false;
        }
    }
    return gStorageSupported;
}

In your source, just use:

localStorageSet( 'foobar', 'yes' );
...
var foo = localStorageGet( 'foobar' );
...

Use cell's color as condition in if statement (function)

I had a similar problem where I needed to only show a value from another Excel cell if the font was black. I created this function: `Option Explicit

Function blackFont(r As Range) As Boolean If r.Font.Color = 0 Then blackFont = True Else blackFont = False End If

End Function `

In my cell I have this formula: =IF(blackFont(Y51),Y51," ")

This worked well for me to test for a black font and only show the value in the Y51 cell if it had a black font.

How to install a specific version of Node on Ubuntu?

It is possible to install specific version of nodejs from nodejs official distribution with using dpkg.

For example, currently recent 4.x version is 4.2.4, but you can install previous 4.2.3 version.

curl -s -O https://deb.nodesource.com/node_4.x/pool/main/n/nodejs/nodejs_4.2.3-1nodesource1~trusty1_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install rlwrap
sudo dpkg -i nodejs_4.2.3-1nodesource1~trusty1_amd64.deb

concat scope variables into string in angular directive expression

 
<a ngHref="/path/{{obj.val1}}/{{obj.val2}}">{{obj.val1}}, {{obj.val2}}</a>

Why does the order in which libraries are linked sometimes cause errors in GCC?

I have seen this a lot, some of our modules link in excess of a 100 libraries of our code plus system & 3rd party libs.

Depending on different linkers HP/Intel/GCC/SUN/SGI/IBM/etc you can get unresolved functions/variables etc, on some platforms you have to list libraries twice.

For the most part we use structured hierarchy of libraries, core, platform, different layers of abstraction, but for some systems you still have to play with the order in the link command.

Once you hit upon a solution document it so the next developer does not have to work it out again.

My old lecturer used to say, "high cohesion & low coupling", it’s still true today.

Is it safe to clean docker/overlay2/

Docker uses /var/lib/docker to store your images, containers, and local named volumes. Deleting this can result in data loss and possibly stop the engine from running. The overlay2 subdirectory specifically contains the various filesystem layers for images and containers.

To cleanup unused containers and images, see docker system prune. There are also options to remove volumes and even tagged images, but they aren't enabled by default due to the possibility of data loss.

How to check whether a string is a valid HTTP URL?

Try that:

bool IsValidURL(string URL)
{
    string Pattern = @"^(?:http(s)?:\/\/)?[\w.-]+(?:\.[\w\.-]+)+[\w\-\._~:/?#[\]@!\$&'\(\)\*\+,;=.]+$";
    Regex Rgx = new Regex(Pattern, RegexOptions.Compiled | RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
    return Rgx.IsMatch(URL);
}

It will accept URL like that:

  • http(s)://www.example.com
  • http(s)://stackoverflow.example.com
  • http(s)://www.example.com/page
  • http(s)://www.example.com/page?id=1&product=2
  • http(s)://www.example.com/page#start
  • http(s)://www.example.com:8080
  • http(s)://127.0.0.1
  • 127.0.0.1
  • www.example.com
  • example.com

How to list only files and not directories of a directory Bash?

"find '-maxdepth' " does not work with my old version of bash, therefore I use:

for f in $(ls) ; do if [ -f $f ] ; then echo $f ; fi ; done

How to create a simple proxy in C#?

Agree to dr evil if you use HTTPListener you will have many problems, you have to parse requests and will be engaged to headers and ...

  1. Use tcp listener to listen to browser requests
  2. parse only the first line of the request and get the host domain and port to connect
  3. send the exact raw request to the found host on the first line of browser request
  4. receive the data from the target site(I have problem in this section)
  5. send the exact data received from the host to the browser

you see you dont need to even know what is in the browser request and parse it, only get the target site address from the first line first line usually likes this GET http://google.com HTTP1.1 or CONNECT facebook.com:443 (this is for ssl requests)

How to pass a file path which is in assets folder to File(String path)?

AFAIK, you can't create a File from an assets file because these are stored in the apk, that means there is no path to an assets folder.

But, you can try to create that File using a buffer and the AssetManager (it provides access to an application's raw asset files).

Try to do something like:

AssetManager am = getAssets();
InputStream inputStream = am.open("myfoldername/myfilename");
File file = createFileFromInputStream(inputStream);

private File createFileFromInputStream(InputStream inputStream) {

   try{
      File f = new File(my_file_name);
      OutputStream outputStream = new FileOutputStream(f);
      byte buffer[] = new byte[1024];
      int length = 0;

      while((length=inputStream.read(buffer)) > 0) {
        outputStream.write(buffer,0,length);
      }

      outputStream.close();
      inputStream.close();

      return f;
   }catch (IOException e) {
         //Logging exception
   }

   return null;
}

Let me know about your progress.

PHP upload image

Here is a basic example of how an image file with certain restrictions (listed below) can be uploaded to the server.

  • Existence of the image.
  • Image extension validation

  • Checks for image size.

    <?php
   $newfilename = "newfilename";

   if(isset($_FILES['image'])){
      $errors= array();
      $file_name = $_FILES['image']['name'];
      $file_size =$_FILES['image']['size'];
      $file_tmp =$_FILES['image']['tmp_name'];
      $file_type=$_FILES['image']['type'];
      $file_ext=strtolower(end(explode('.',$_FILES['image']['name'])));

      $expensions= array("jpeg","jpg","png");
      if(file_exists($file_name)) {
        echo "Sorry, file already exists.";
        }
      if(in_array($file_ext,$expensions)=== false){
         $errors[]="extension not allowed, please choose a JPEG or PNG file.";
      }

      if($file_size > 2097152){
         $errors[]='File size must be excately 2 MB';
      }

      if(empty($errors)==true){
        move_uploaded_file($file_tmp,"images/".$newfilename.".".$file_ext);
        echo "Success";
        echo "<script>window.close();</script>";

      }

      else{
         print_r($errors);
      }
   }
?>
<html>
   <body>

      <form action="" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
         <input type="file" name="image" />
         <input type="submit"/>
      </form>

   </body>
</html>

    Credit to this page.

Difference between char* and const char*?

In neither case can you modify a string literal, regardless of whether the pointer to that string literal is declared as char * or const char *.

However, the difference is that if the pointer is const char * then the compiler must give a diagnostic if you attempt to modify the pointed-to value, but if the pointer is char * then it does not.

IntelliJ cannot find any declarations

Ensure that the directory which contains your compiled classes and libraries is marked as sources Root.

How can I concatenate two arrays in Java?

Another way to think about the question. To concatenate two or more arrays, one have to do is to list all elements of each arrays, and then build a new array. This sounds like create a List<T> and then calls toArray on it. Some other answers uses ArrayList, and that's fine. But how about implement our own? It is not hard:

private static <T> T[] addAll(final T[] f, final T...o){
    return new AbstractList<T>(){

        @Override
        public T get(int i) {
            return i>=f.length ? o[i - f.length] : f[i];
        }

        @Override
        public int size() {
            return f.length + o.length;
        }

    }.toArray(f);
}

I believe the above is equivalent to solutions that uses System.arraycopy. However I think this one has its own beauty.

Raise error in a Bash script

There are a couple more ways with which you can approach this problem. Assuming one of your requirement is to run a shell script/function containing a few shell commands and check if the script ran successfully and throw errors in case of failures.

The shell commands in generally rely on exit-codes returned to let the shell know if it was successful or failed due to some unexpected events.

So what you want to do falls upon these two categories

  • exit on error
  • exit and clean-up on error

Depending on which one you want to do, there are shell options available to use. For the first case, the shell provides an option with set -e and for the second you could do a trap on EXIT

Should I use exit in my script/function?

Using exit generally enhances readability In certain routines, once you know the answer, you want to exit to the calling routine immediately. If the routine is defined in such a way that it doesn’t require any further cleanup once it detects an error, not exiting immediately means that you have to write more code.

So in cases if you need to do clean-up actions on script to make the termination of the script clean, it is preferred to not to use exit.

Should I use set -e for error on exit?

No!

set -e was an attempt to add "automatic error detection" to the shell. Its goal was to cause the shell to abort any time an error occurred, but it comes with a lot of potential pitfalls for example,

  • The commands that are part of an if test are immune. In the example, if you expect it to break on the test check on the non-existing directory, it wouldn't, it goes through to the else condition

    set -e
f() { test -d nosuchdir && echo no dir; }
f
echo survived

  • Commands in a pipeline other than the last one, are immune. In the example below, because the most recently executed (rightmost) command's exit code is considered ( cat) and it was successful. This could be avoided by setting by the set -o pipefail option but its still a caveat. 

    set -e
somecommand that fails | cat -
echo survived

Recommended for use - trap on exit

The verdict is if you want to be able to handle an error instead of blindly exiting, instead of using set -e, use a trap on the ERR pseudo signal.

The ERR trap is not to run code when the shell itself exits with a non-zero error code, but when any command run by that shell that is not part of a condition (like in if cmd, or cmd ||) exits with a non-zero exit status.

The general practice is we define an trap handler to provide additional debug information on which line and what cause the exit. Remember the exit code of the last command that caused the ERR signal would still be available at this point.

cleanup() {
    exitcode=$?
    printf 'error condition hit\n' 1>&2
    printf 'exit code returned: %s\n' "$exitcode"
    printf 'the command executing at the time of the error was: %s\n' "$BASH_COMMAND"
    printf 'command present on line: %d' "${BASH_LINENO[0]}"
    # Some more clean up code can be added here before exiting
    exit $exitcode
}

and we just use this handler as below on top of the script that is failing

trap cleanup ERR

Putting this together on a simple script that contained false on line 15, the information you would be getting as

error condition hit
exit code returned: 1
the command executing at the time of the error was: false
command present on line: 15

The trap also provides options irrespective of the error to just run the cleanup on shell completion (e.g. your shell script exits), on signal EXIT. You could also trap on multiple signals at the same time. The list of supported signals to trap on can be found on the trap.1p - Linux manual page

Another thing to notice would be to understand that none of the provided methods work if you are dealing with sub-shells are involved in which case, you might need to add your own error handling.

  • On a sub-shell with set -e wouldn't work. The false is restricted to the sub-shell and never gets propagated to the parent shell. To do the error handling here, add your own logic to do (false) || false

    set -e
(false)
echo survived

  • The same happens with trap also. The logic below wouldn't work for the reasons mentioned above.

    trap 'echo error' ERR
(false)

Posting JSON data via jQuery to ASP .NET MVC 4 controller action

//simple json object in asp.net mvc

var model = {"Id": "xx", "Name":"Ravi"};
$.ajax({    url: 'test/[ControllerName]',
                        type: "POST",
                        data: model,
                        success: function (res) {
                            if (res != null) {
                                alert("done.");
                            }
                        },
                        error: function (res) {

                        }
                    });


//model in c#
public class MyModel
{
 public string Id {get; set;}
 public string Name {get; set;}
}

//controller in asp.net mvc


public ActionResult test(MyModel model)
{
 //now data in your model 
}

Python Pandas : group by in group by and average?

If you want to first take mean on the combination of ['cluster', 'org'] and then take mean on cluster groups, you can use:

In [59]: (df.groupby(['cluster', 'org'], as_index=False).mean()
            .groupby('cluster')['time'].mean())
Out[59]:
cluster
1          15
2          54
3           6
Name: time, dtype: int64

If you want the mean of cluster groups only, then you can use:

In [58]: df.groupby(['cluster']).mean()
Out[58]:
              time
cluster
1        12.333333
2        54.000000
3         6.000000

You can also use groupby on ['cluster', 'org'] and then use mean():

In [57]: df.groupby(['cluster', 'org']).mean()
Out[57]:
               time
cluster org
1       a    438886
        c        23
2       d      9874
        h        34
3       w         6

prevent iphone default keyboard when focusing an <input>

I asked a similar question here and got a fantastic answer - use the iPhone native datepicker - it's great.

How to turn off iPhone keypad for a specified input field on web page

Synopsis / pseudo-code:

if small screen mobile device 

  set field type to "date" - e.g. document.getElementById('my_field').type = "date";
  // input fields of type "date" invoke the iPhone datepicker.

else

  init datepicker - e.g. $("#my_field").datepicker();

The reason for dynamically setting the field type to "date" is that Opera will pop up its own native datepicker otherwise, and I'm assuming you want to show the datepicker consistently on desktop browsers.

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

 
var http = require("http");
var url = "http://api.example.com/api/v1/?param1=1&param2=2";

var options = {
    host: "http://api.example.com",
    port: 80,
    method: "GET",
    path: url,//I don't know for some reason i have to use full url as a path
    auth: username + ':' + password
};

http.get(options, function(rs) {
    var result = "";
    rs.on('data', function(data) {
        result += data;
    });
    rs.on('end', function() {
        console.log(result);
    });
});

How to include css files in Vue 2

Try using the @ symbol before the url string. Import your css in the following manner:

import Vue from 'vue'

require('@/assets/styles/main.css')

In your App.vue file you can do this to import a css file in the style tag

<template>
  <div>
  </div>
</template>

<style scoped src="@/assets/styles/mystyles.css">
</style>

performing HTTP requests with cURL (using PROXY)

From man curl:

-x, --proxy <[protocol://][user:password@]proxyhost[:port]>

     Use the specified HTTP proxy. 
     If the port number is not specified, it is assumed at port 1080.

General way:

export http_proxy=http://your.proxy.server:port/

Then you can connect through proxy from (many) application.

And, as per comment below, for https:

export https_proxy=https://your.proxy.server:port/

How to grep, excluding some patterns?

/*You might be looking something like this?

grep -vn "gloom" `grep -l "loom" ~/projects/**/trunk/src/**/*.@(h|cpp)`

The BACKQUOTES are used like brackets for commands, so in this case with -l enabled, the code in the BACKQUOTES will return you the file names, then with -vn to do what you wanted: have filenames, linenumbers, and also the actual lines.

UPDATE Or with xargs

grep -l "loom" ~/projects/**/trunk/src/**/*.@(h|cpp) | xargs grep -vn "gloom"

Hope that helps.*/

Please ignore what I've written above, it's rubbish. 

grep -n "loom" `grep -l "loom" tt4.txt` | grep -v "gloom"

               #this part gets the filenames with "loom"
#this part gets the lines with "loom"
                                          #this part gets the linenumber,
                                          #filename and actual line

How to convert file to base64 in JavaScript?

Try the solution using the FileReader class:

function getBase64(file) {
   var reader = new FileReader();
   reader.readAsDataURL(file);
   reader.onload = function () {
     console.log(reader.result);
   };
   reader.onerror = function (error) {
     console.log('Error: ', error);
   };
}

var file = document.querySelector('#files > input[type="file"]').files[0];
getBase64(file); // prints the base64 string

Notice that .files[0] is a File type, which is a sublcass of Blob. Thus it can be used with FileReader.
See the complete working example.

MongoDB query multiple collections at once

As mentioned before in MongoDB you can't JOIN between collections.

For your example a solution could be:

var myCursor = db.users.find({admin:1});
var user_id = myCursor.hasNext() ? myCursor.next() : null;
db.posts.find({owner_id : user_id._id});

See the reference manual - cursors section: http://es.docs.mongodb.org/manual/core/cursors/

Other solution would be to embed users in posts collection, but I think for most web applications users collection need to be independent for security reasons. Users collection might have Roles, permissons, etc.

posts
{
 "content":"Some content",
 "user":{"_id":"12345", "admin":1},
 "via":"facebook"
},
{
 "content":"Some other content",
 "user":{"_id":"123456789", "admin":0},
 "via":"facebook"
}

and then:

db.posts.find({user.admin: 1 });

How to upload a file using Java HttpClient library working with PHP

An update for those trying to use MultipartEntity...

org.apache.http.entity.mime.MultipartEntity is deprecated in 4.3.1.

You can use MultipartEntityBuilder to create the HttpEntity object.

File file = new File();

HttpEntity httpEntity = MultipartEntityBuilder.create()
    .addBinaryBody("file", file, ContentType.create("image/jpeg"), file.getName())
    .build();

For Maven users the class is available in the following dependency (almost the same as fervisa's answer, just with a later version).

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
  <artifactId>httpmime</artifactId>
  <version>4.3.1</version>
</dependency>

How to iterate through an ArrayList of Objects of ArrayList of Objects?

Edit:

Well, he edited his post.

If an Object inherits Iterable, you are given the ability to use the for-each loop as such:

for(Object object : objectListVar) {
     //code here
}

So in your case, if you wanted to update your Guns and their Bullets:

for(Gun g : guns) {
     //invoke any methods of each gun
     ArrayList<Bullet> bullets = g.getBullets()
     for(Bullet b : bullets) {
          System.out.println("X: " + b.getX() + ", Y: " + b.getY());
          //update, check for collisions, etc
     }
}

First get your third Gun object:

Gun g = gunList.get(2);

Then iterate over the third gun's bullets:

ArrayList<Bullet> bullets = g.getBullets();

for(Bullet b : bullets) {
     //necessary code here
}

Save PHP array to MySQL?

check out the implode function, since the values are in an array, you want to put the values of the array into a mysql query that inserts the values into a table.

$query = "INSERT INto hardware (specifications) VALUES (".implode(",",$specifications).")";

If the values in the array are text values, you will need to add quotes

$query = "INSERT INto hardware (specifications) VALUES ("'.implode("','",$specifications)."')";

mysql_query($query);

Also, if you don't want duplicate values, switch the "INto" to "IGNORE" and only unique values will be inserted into the table.

grep output to show only matching file

-l (that's a lower-case L).

Spring mvc @PathVariable

suppose you want to write a url to fetch some order, you can say

www.mydomain.com/order/123

where 123 is orderId.

So now the url you will use in spring mvc controller would look like

/order/{orderId}

Now order id can be declared a path variable

@RequestMapping(value = " /order/{orderId}", method=RequestMethod.GET)
public String getOrder(@PathVariable String orderId){
//fetch order
}

if you use url www.mydomain.com/order/123, then orderId variable will be populated by value 123 by spring

Also note that PathVariable differs from requestParam as pathVariable is part of URL. The same url using request param would look like www.mydomain.com/order?orderId=123

API DOC
Spring Official Reference

What are the most widely used C++ vector/matrix math/linear algebra libraries, and their cost and benefit tradeoffs?

Okay, I think I know what you're looking for. It appears that GGT is a pretty good solution, as Reed Copsey suggested.

Personally, we rolled our own little library, because we deal with rational points a lot - lots of rational NURBS and Beziers.

It turns out that most 3D graphics libraries do computations with projective points that have no basis in projective math, because that's what gets you the answer you want. We ended up using Grassmann points, which have a solid theoretical underpinning and decreased the number of point types. Grassmann points are basically the same computations people are using now, with the benefit of a robust theory. Most importantly, it makes things clearer in our minds, so we have fewer bugs. Ron Goldman wrote a paper on Grassmann points in computer graphics called "On the Algebraic and Geometric Foundations of Computer Graphics".

Not directly related to your question, but an interesting read.

The imported project "C:\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" was not found

In my case, I opened my .csproj file in notepad and removed the following three lines. Worked like a charm:

<Import Project="..\packages\Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform.1.0.0\build\Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform.props" Condition="Exists('..\packages\Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform.1.0.0\build\Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform.props')" />
<Import Project="..\packages\Microsoft.Net.Compilers.1.0.0\build\Microsoft.Net.Compilers.props" Condition="Exists('..\packages\Microsoft.Net.Compilers.1.0.0\build\Microsoft.Net.Compilers.props')" />
<Import Project="..\packages\Microsoft.Net.Compilers.1.3.2\build\Microsoft.Net.Compilers.props" Condition="Exists('..\packages\Microsoft.Net.Compilers.1.3.2\build\Microsoft.Net.Compilers.props')" />

Removing special characters VBA Excel

What do you consider "special" characters, just simple punctuation? You should be able to use the Replace function: Replace("p.k","."," "). 

Sub Test()
Dim myString as String
Dim newString as String

myString = "p.k"

newString = replace(myString, ".", " ")

MsgBox newString

End Sub

If you have several characters, you can do this in a custom function or a simple chained series of Replace functions, etc.

  Sub Test()
Dim myString as String
Dim newString as String

myString = "!p.k"

newString = Replace(Replace(myString, ".", " "), "!", " ")

'## OR, if it is easier for you to interpret, you can do two sequential statements:
'newString = replace(myString, ".", " ")
'newString = replace(newString, "!", " ")

MsgBox newString

End Sub

If you have a lot of potential special characters (non-English accented ascii for example?) you can do a custom function or iteration over an array.

Const SpecialCharacters As String = "!,@,#,$,%,^,&,*,(,),{,[,],},?"  'modify as needed
Sub test()
Dim myString as String
Dim newString as String
Dim char as Variant
myString = "!p#*@)k{kdfhouef3829J"
newString = myString
For each char in Split(SpecialCharacters, ",")
    newString = Replace(newString, char, " ")
Next
End Sub

Multiple HttpPost method in Web API controller

 
public class Journal : ApiController
{
    public MyResult Get(journal id)
    {
        return null;
    }
}

public class Journal : ApiController
{

    public MyResult Get(journal id, publication id)
    {
        return null;
    }
}

I am not sure whether overloading get/post method violates the concept of restfull api,but it workds. If anyone could've enlighten on this matter. What if I have a uri as 

uri:/api/journal/journalid
uri:/api/journal/journalid/publicationid

so as you might seen my journal sort of aggregateroot, though i can define another controller for publication solely and pass id number of publication in my url however this gives much more sense. since my publication would not exist without journal itself.

How to make a JFrame button open another JFrame class in Netbeans?

 
JFrame.setVisible(true);

You can either use setVisible(false) or dispose() method to disappear current form.

navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition sometimes works sometimes doesn't

here is my solution thanks to a closure :

  function geoloc(success, fail){
    var is_echo = false;
    if(navigator && navigator.geolocation) {
      navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(
        function(pos) {
          if (is_echo){ return; }
          is_echo = true;
          success(pos.coords.latitude,pos.coords.longitude);
        }, 
        function() {
          if (is_echo){ return; }
          is_echo = true;
          fail();
        }
      );
    } else {
      fail();
    }
  }

  function success(lat, lng){
    alert(lat + " , " + lng);
  }
  function fail(){
    alert("failed");
  }

  geoloc(success, fail);

Best practices for copying files with Maven

For a simple copy-tasks I can recommend copy-rename-maven-plugin. It's straight forward and simple to use:

<project>
  ...
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>com.coderplus.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>copy-rename-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>1.0</version>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>copy-file</id>
            <phase>generate-sources</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>copy</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
              <sourceFile>src/someDirectory/test.environment.properties</sourceFile>
              <destinationFile>target/someDir/environment.properties</destinationFile>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
</project>

If you would like to copy more than one file, replace the <sourceFile>...</destinationFile> part with 

<fileSets>
  <fileSet>
    <sourceFile>src/someDirectory/test.environment.properties</sourceFile>
    <destinationFile>target/someDir/environment.properties</destinationFile>
  </fileSet>
  <fileSet>
    <sourceFile>src/someDirectory/test.logback.xml</sourceFile>
    <destinationFile>target/someDir/logback.xml</destinationFile>
  </fileSet>                
</fileSets>

Furthermore you can specify multiple executions in multiple phases if needed, the second goal is "rename", which simply does what it says while the rest of the configuration stays the same. For more usage examples refer to the Usage-Page.

Note: This plugin can only copy files, not directories. (Thanks to @james.garriss for finding this limitation.)

SSL Connection / Connection Reset with IISExpress

If you're using URLRewrite to force SSL connections in your web.config, it's probably rewriting your localhost address to force https. If debugging with SSL enabled isn't important to you and you're using URLRewrite, consider adding <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="localhost" negate="true" /> into your web.config file's rewrite section. It will stop the rewrite for any localhost addresses but leave it in place in a production environment. If you're not using URLRewrite or need to debug using SSL, http://www.hanselman.com/blog/WorkingWithSSLAtDevelopmentTimeIsEasierWithIISExpress.aspx might help. It's for VS2010, but should suffice for VS2013 as well.

Efficient way to rotate a list in python

It depends on what you want to have happen when you do this:

>>> shift([1,2,3], 14)

You might want to change your:

def shift(seq, n):
    return seq[n:]+seq[:n]

to:

def shift(seq, n):
    n = n % len(seq)
    return seq[n:] + seq[:n]

Playing m3u8 Files with HTML Video Tag

 
<html>
<body>
    <video width="600" height="400" controls>
        <source src="index.m3u8" type="application/x-mpegURL">
    </video>
</body>

Stream HLS or m3u8 files using above code. it works for desktop: ms edge browser (not working with desktop chrome) and mobile: chrome,opera mini browser.

To play on all browser use flash based media player. media player to support all browser

Update MySQL using HTML Form and PHP

Use mysqli instead of mysql, and you need to pass the database name or schema:

before:

$conn = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass);

after:

$conn = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass, $myDBname);

Use 'class' or 'typename' for template parameters?

I prefer to use typename because I'm not a fan of overloaded keywords (jeez - how many different meanings does static have for various different contexts?).

How can I add new dimensions to a Numpy array?

This worked for me:

image = image[..., None]

C: How to free nodes in the linked list?

You could always do it recursively like so:

void freeList(struct node* currentNode)
{
    if(currentNode->next) freeList(currentNode->next);
    free(currentNode);
}

How to save a spark DataFrame as csv on disk?

I had similar issue where i had to save the contents of the dataframe to a csv file of name which i defined. df.write("csv").save("<my-path>") was creating directory than file. So have to come up with the following solutions. Most of the code is taken from the following dataframe-to-csv with little modifications to the logic. 

def saveDfToCsv(df: DataFrame, tsvOutput: String, sep: String = ",", header: Boolean = false): Unit = {
    val tmpParquetDir = "Posts.tmp.parquet"

    df.repartition(1).write.
        format("com.databricks.spark.csv").
        option("header", header.toString).
        option("delimiter", sep).
        save(tmpParquetDir)

    val dir = new File(tmpParquetDir)
    val newFileRgex = tmpParquetDir + File.separatorChar + ".part-00000.*.csv"
    val tmpTsfFile = dir.listFiles.filter(_.toPath.toString.matches(newFileRgex))(0).toString
    (new File(tmpTsvFile)).renameTo(new File(tsvOutput))

    dir.listFiles.foreach( f => f.delete )
    dir.delete
    }

How do you calculate program run time in python?

Quick alternative

import timeit

start = timeit.default_timer()

#Your statements here

stop = timeit.default_timer()

print('Time: ', stop - start)

Setting the value of checkbox to true or false with jQuery

Use $('#id-of-the-checkbox').prop('checked', true_or_false);

In case you are using an ancient jQuery version, you'll need to use .attr('checked', 'checked') to check and .removeAttr('checked') to uncheck.

Android Bluetooth Example

I have also used following link as others have suggested you for bluetooth communication.

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/bluetooth.html

The thing is all you need is a class BluetoothChatService.java

this class has following threads:

  1. Accept
  2. Connecting
  3. Connected

Now when you call start function of the BluetoothChatService like:

mChatService.start();

It starts accept thread which means it will start looking for connection.

Now when you call 

mChatService.connect(<deviceObject>,false/true);

Here first argument is device object that you can get from paired devices list or when you scan for devices you will get all the devices in range you can pass that object to this function and 2nd argument is a boolean to make secure or insecure connection.

connect function will start connecting thread which will look for any device which is running accept thread.

When such a device is found both accept thread and connecting thread will call connected function in BluetoothChatService:

connected(mmSocket, mmDevice, mSocketType);

this method starts connected thread in both the devices: Using this socket object connected thread obtains the input and output stream to the other device. And calls read function on inputstream in a while loop so that it's always trying read from other device so that whenever other device send a message this read function returns that message.

BluetoothChatService also has a write method which takes byte[] as input and calls write method on connected thread.

mChatService.write("your message".getByte());

write method in connected thread just write this byte data to outputsream of the other device.

public void write(byte[] buffer) {
   try {
       mmOutStream.write(buffer);
    // Share the sent message back to the UI Activity
    // mHandler.obtainMessage(
    // BluetoothGameSetupActivity.MESSAGE_WRITE, -1, -1,
    // buffer).sendToTarget();
    } catch (IOException e) {
    Log.e(TAG, "Exception during write", e);
     }
}

Now to communicate between two devices just call write function on mChatService and handle the message that you will receive on the other device.

C++/CLI Converting from System::String^ to std::string

Check out System::Runtime::InteropServices::Marshal::StringToCoTaskMemUni() and its friends.

Sorry can't post code now; I don't have VS on this machine to check it compiles before posting.

Making a drop down list using swift?

Unfortunately if you're looking to apply UIPopoverController in iOS9, you'll get a deprecated class warning. Instead you need to set your desired view's UIModalPresentationPopover property to achieve the same result.

Popover

In a horizontally regular environment, a presentation style where the content is displayed in a popover view. The background content is dimmed and taps outside the popover cause the popover to be dismissed. If you do not want taps to dismiss the popover, you can assign one or more views to the passthroughViews property of the associated UIPopoverPresentationController object, which you can get from the popoverPresentationController property.

In a horizontally compact environment, this option behaves the same as UIModalPresentationFullScreen.

Available in iOS 8.0 and later.

Reference: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiviewcontroller/1621355-modalpresentationstyle

open resource with relative path in Java

Supply the path relative to the classloader, not the class you're getting the loader from. For instance:

resourcesloader.class.getClassLoader().getResource("package1/resources/repository/SSL-Key/cert.jks").toString();

How to store Query Result in variable using mysql

use this 

 SELECT weight INTO @x FROM p_status where tcount=['value'] LIMIT 1;

tested and workes fine...

How to use Tomcat 8.5.x and TomEE 7.x with Eclipse?

For Tomcat 8.5.x users

You've to change the ServerInfo.properties file of Tomcat's /lib/catalina.jar file.

ServerInfo.properties file contains the following code

server.info=Apache Tomcat/8.5.4
server.number=8.5.4.0
server.built=Jul 6 2016 08:43:30 UTC

Just open the ServerInfo.properties file by opening the catalina.jar with winrar from your Tomcat's lib folder

ServerInfo.properties file location in catalina.jar is /org/apache/catalina/util/ServerInfo.properties

Notice : shutdown the Tomcat server(if it's already opened by cmd) before doing these things otherwise your file doesn't change and your winrar shows error.

Then change the following code in ServerInfo.properties

server.info=Apache Tomcat/8.0.8.5.4
server.number=8.5.4.0
server.built=Jul 6 2016 08:43:30 UTC

Restart your eclipse(if opened). Now it'll work...

ScreenShot of eclipse

Howto: Clean a mysql InnoDB storage engine?

Here is a more complete answer with regard to InnoDB. It is a bit of a lengthy process, but can be worth the effort.

Keep in mind that /var/lib/mysql/ibdata1 is the busiest file in the InnoDB infrastructure. It normally houses six types of information:

InnoDB Architecture

InnoDB Architecture

Many people create multiple ibdata files hoping for better disk-space management and performance, however that belief is mistaken.

Can I run OPTIMIZE TABLE ?

Unfortunately, running OPTIMIZE TABLE against an InnoDB table stored in the shared table-space file ibdata1 does two things:

  • Makes the table’s data and indexes contiguous inside ibdata1
  • Makes ibdata1 grow because the contiguous data and index pages are appended to ibdata1

You can however, segregate Table Data and Table Indexes from ibdata1 and manage them independently.

Can I run OPTIMIZE TABLE with innodb_file_per_table ?

Suppose you were to add innodb_file_per_table to /etc/my.cnf (my.ini). Can you then just run OPTIMIZE TABLE on all the InnoDB Tables?

Good News : When you run OPTIMIZE TABLE with innodb_file_per_table enabled, this will produce a .ibd file for that table. For example, if you have table mydb.mytable witha datadir of /var/lib/mysql, it will produce the following:

  • /var/lib/mysql/mydb/mytable.frm
  • /var/lib/mysql/mydb/mytable.ibd

The .ibd will contain the Data Pages and Index Pages for that table. Great.

Bad News : All you have done is extract the Data Pages and Index Pages of mydb.mytable from living in ibdata. The data dictionary entry for every table, including mydb.mytable, still remains in the data dictionary (See the Pictorial Representation of ibdata1). YOU CANNOT JUST SIMPLY DELETE ibdata1 AT THIS POINT !!! Please note that ibdata1 has not shrunk at all.

InnoDB Infrastructure Cleanup

To shrink ibdata1 once and for all you must do the following:

  1. Dump (e.g., with mysqldump) all databases into a .sql text file (SQLData.sql is used below)

  2. Drop all databases (except for mysql and information_schema) CAVEAT : As a precaution, please run this script to make absolutely sure you have all user grants in place:

    mkdir /var/lib/mysql_grants
cp /var/lib/mysql/mysql/* /var/lib/mysql_grants/.
chown -R mysql:mysql /var/lib/mysql_grants

  3. Login to mysql and run SET GLOBAL innodb_fast_shutdown = 0; (This will completely flush all remaining transactional changes from ib_logfile0 and ib_logfile1)

  4. Shutdown MySQL

  5. Add the following lines to /etc/my.cnf (or my.ini on Windows)

    [mysqld]
innodb_file_per_table
innodb_flush_method=O_DIRECT
innodb_log_file_size=1G
innodb_buffer_pool_size=4G

    (Sidenote: Whatever your set for innodb_buffer_pool_size, make sure innodb_log_file_size is 25% of innodb_buffer_pool_size.

    Also: innodb_flush_method=O_DIRECT is not available on Windows)

  6. Delete ibdata* and ib_logfile*, Optionally, you can remove all folders in /var/lib/mysql, except /var/lib/mysql/mysql.

  7. Start MySQL (This will recreate ibdata1 [10MB by default] and ib_logfile0 and ib_logfile1 at 1G each).

  8. Import SQLData.sql

Now, ibdata1 will still grow but only contain table metadata because each InnoDB table will exist outside of ibdata1. ibdata1 will no longer contain InnoDB data and indexes for other tables.

For example, suppose you have an InnoDB table named mydb.mytable. If you look in /var/lib/mysql/mydb, you will see two files representing the table:

  • mytable.frm (Storage Engine Header)
  • mytable.ibd (Table Data and Indexes)

With the innodb_file_per_table option in /etc/my.cnf, you can run OPTIMIZE TABLE mydb.mytable and the file /var/lib/mysql/mydb/mytable.ibd will actually shrink.

I have done this many times in my career as a MySQL DBA. In fact, the first time I did this, I shrank a 50GB ibdata1 file down to only 500MB!

Give it a try. If you have further questions on this, just ask. Trust me; this will work in the short term as well as over the long haul.

CAVEAT

At Step 6, if mysql cannot restart because of the mysql schema begin dropped, look back at Step 2. You made the physical copy of the mysql schema. You can restore it as follows:

mkdir /var/lib/mysql/mysql
cp /var/lib/mysql_grants/* /var/lib/mysql/mysql
chown -R mysql:mysql /var/lib/mysql/mysql

Go back to Step 6 and continue

UPDATE 2013-06-04 11:13 EDT

With regard to setting innodb_log_file_size to 25% of innodb_buffer_pool_size in Step 5, that's blanket rule is rather old school.

Back on July 03, 2006, Percona had a nice article why to choose a proper innodb_log_file_size. Later, on Nov 21, 2008, Percona followed up with another article on how to calculate the proper size based on peak workload keeping one hour's worth of changes.

I have since written posts in the DBA StackExchange about calculating the log size and where I referenced those two Percona articles.

Personally, I would still go with the 25% rule for an initial setup. Then, as the workload can more accurate be determined over time in production, you could resize the logs during a maintenance cycle in just minutes.

Removing numbers from string

If i understand your question right, one way to do is break down the string in chars and then check each char in that string using a loop whether it's a string or a number and then if string save it in a variable and then once the loop is finished, display that to the user

The server principal is not able to access the database under the current security context in SQL Server MS 2012

I spent quite a while wrestling with this problem and then I realized I was making a simple mistake in the fact that I had forgotten which particular database I was targeting my connection to. I was using the standard SQL Server connection window to enter the credentials:

SQL Server Connection Window

I had to check the Connection Properties tab to verify that I was choosing the correct database to connect to. I had accidentally left the Connect to database option here set to a selection from a previous session. This is why I was unable to connect to the database I thought I was trying to connect to.

Connection Properties

Note that you need to click the Options >> button in order for the Connection Properties and other tabs to show up.

How to change an input button image using CSS?

Here's a simpler solution but with no extra surrounding div:

<input type="submit" value="Submit">

The CSS uses a basic image replacement technique. For bonus points, it shows using an image sprite:

<style>
    input[type="submit"] {
        border: 0;
        background: url('sprite.png') no-repeat -40px left;
        text-indent: -9999em;
        line-height:3000;
        width: 50px;
        height: 20px;
    }
</style>

Source: http://work.arounds.org/issue/21/using-css-sprites-with-input-type-submit-buttons/

CSS list item width/height does not work

Inline items cannot have a width. You have to use display: block or display:inline-block, but the latter is not supported everywhere.

Concatenate string with field value in MySQL

Have you tried using the concat() function?

ON tableTwo.query = concat('category_id=',tableOne.category_id)