Programs & Examples On #Effective java

Effective Java is a book by Joshua Bloch "designed to help Java programmers make the most effective use of the Java programming language and its fundamental libraries"

What is an AssertionError? In which case should I throw it from my own code?

I'm really late to party here, but most of the answers seem to be about the whys and whens of using assertions in general, rather than using AssertionError in particular.

assert and throw new AssertionError() are very similar and serve the same conceptual purpose, but there are differences.

  1. throw new AssertionError() will throw the exception regardless of whether assertions are enabled for the jvm (i.e., through the -ea switch).
  2. The compiler knows that throw new AssertionError() will exit the block, so using it will let you avoid certain compiler errors that assert will not.

For example:

    {
        boolean b = true;
        final int n;
        if ( b ) {
            n = 5;
        } else {
            throw new AssertionError();
        }
        System.out.println("n = " + n);
    }

    {
        boolean b = true;
        final int n;
        if ( b ) {
            n = 5;
        } else {
            assert false;
        }
        System.out.println("n = " + n);
    }

The first block, above, compiles just fine. The second block does not compile, because the compiler cannot guarantee that n has been initialized by the time the code tries to print it out.

How much should a function trust another function

Typically this is bad practice. Since it is possible to call addEdge before addNode and have a NullPointerException (NPE) thrown, addEdge should check if the result is null and throw a more descriptive Exception. In my opinion, the only time it is acceptable not to check for nulls is when you expect the result to never be null, in which case, an NPE is plenty descriptive.

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

In Visual Studio for Mac and C# you can use:

Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("<Variable_name>", "<Value>");

But you will need the following namespace

using System.Collections;

you can check the full list of variables with this:

foreach (DictionaryEntry de in Environment.GetEnvironmentVariables())
            Console.WriteLine("  {0} = {1}", de.Key, de.Value);

Accessing JSON object keys having spaces

The answer of Pardeep Jain can be useful for static data, but what if we have an array in JSON?

For example, we have i values and get the value of id field

alert(obj[i].id); //works!

But what if we need key with spaces?

In this case, the following construction can help (without point between [] blocks):

alert(obj[i]["No. of interfaces"]); //works too!

MVC Razor view nested foreach's model

You could add a Category partial and a Product partial, each would take a smaller part of the main model as it's own model, i.e. Category's model type might be an IEnumerable, you would pass in Model.Theme to it. The Product's partial might be an IEnumerable that you pass Model.Products into (from within the Category partial).

I'm not sure if that would be the right way forward, but would be interested in knowing.

EDIT

Since posting this answer, I've used EditorTemplates and find this the easiest way to handle repeating input groups or items. It handles all your validation message problems and form submission/model binding woes automatically.

What does a circled plus mean?

It's an exclusive or (XOR). If I remember correctly, when doing bitwise mathematics the dot (.) means AND and the plus (+) means OR. Putting a circle around the plus to mean XOR is consistent with the style used for OR.

illegal character in path

Your path includes " at the beginning and at the end. Drop the quotes, and it'll be ok.

The \" at the beginning and end of what you see in VS Debugger is what tells us that the quotes are literally in the string.

Iframe transparent background

I've used this creating an IFrame through Javascript and it worked for me:

// IFrame points to the IFrame element, obviously
IFrame.src = 'about: blank';
IFrame.style.backgroundColor = "transparent";
IFrame.frameBorder = "0";
IFrame.allowTransparency="true";

Not sure if it makes any difference, but I set those properties before adding the IFrame to the DOM. After adding it to the DOM, I set its src to the real URL.

JQuery: if div is visible

You can use .is(':visible')

Selects all elements that are visible.

For example:

if($('#selectDiv').is(':visible')){

Also, you can get the div which is visible by:

$('div:visible').callYourFunction();

Live example:

_x000D_
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console.log($('#selectDiv').is(':visible'));_x000D_
console.log($('#visibleDiv').is(':visible'));
_x000D_
#selectDiv {_x000D_
  display: none;  _x000D_
}
_x000D_
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<div id="selectDiv"></div>_x000D_
<div id="visibleDiv"></div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

How to check object is nil or not in swift?

I ended up writing utility function for nil check

func isObjectNotNil(object:AnyObject!) -> Bool
{
    if let _:AnyObject = object
    {
        return true
    }

    return false
}

Does the same job & code looks clean!

Usage

var someVar:NSNumber? 

if isObjectNotNil(someVar)
{
   print("Object is NOT nil")
}
else
{
   print("Object is nil")
}

Android: How do bluetooth UUIDs work?

UUID is similar in notion to port numbers in Internet. However, the difference between Bluetooth and the Internet is that, in Bluetooth, port numbers are assigned dynamically by the SDP (service discovery protocol) server during runtime where each UUID is given a port number. Other devices will ask the SDP server, who is registered under a reserved port number, about the available services on the device and it will reply with different services distinguishable from each other by being registered under different UUIDs.

Issue pushing new code in Github

I struggled with this error for more than an hour! Below is what helped me resolve it. All this while my working directory was the repo i had cloned on my system.

If you are doing adding files to your existing repository** 1. I pulled everything which I had added to my repository to my GitHub folder:

git pull


Output was- some readme file file1 file2

  1. I copied (drag and drop) my new files (the files which I wanted to push) to my cloned repository (GitHub repo). When you will ls this repo you should see your old and new files.

eg. some readme file file1 file2 newfile1 newfile2

  1. git add "newfile1" "newfile2"

  2. [optional] git status this will assure you if the files you want to add are staged properly or not output was


On branch master Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'. Changes to be committed: (use "git reset HEAD ..." to unstage)

    new file:   newfile1
    new file:   newfile2

5.git commit -m "whatever description you want to give" 6.git push

And all my new files along with the older ones were seen in my repo.

How do I extend a class with c# extension methods?

Use an extension method.

Ex:

namespace ExtensionMethods
{
    public static class MyExtensionMethods
    {
        public static DateTime Tomorrow(this DateTime date)
        {
            return date.AddDays(1);
        }    
    }
}

Usage:

DateTime.Now.Tomorrow();

or

AnyObjectOfTypeDateTime.Tomorrow();

Implementing a slider (SeekBar) in Android

For future readers!

Starting from material components android 1.2.0-alpha01, you have slider component

ex:

<com.google.android.material.slider.Slider
        android:id="@+id/slider"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:valueFrom="20f"
        android:valueTo="70f"
        android:stepSize="10" />

Floating elements within a div, floats outside of div. Why?

W3Schools recommendation:

put overflow: auto on parent element and it will "color" whole background including elements margins. Also floating elements will stay inside of border.

http://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_layout_clearfix

LoDash: Get an array of values from an array of object properties

And if you need to extract several properties from each object, then

let newArr = _.map(arr, o => _.pick(o, ['name', 'surname', 'rate']));

GIT vs. Perforce- Two VCS will enter... one will leave

The command that sold me on git personally was bisect. I don't think that this feature is available in any other version control system as of now.

That being said, if people are used to a GUI client for source control they are not going to be impressed with git. Right now the only full-featured client is command-line.

Creating a copy of an object in C#

You could do:

class myClass : ICloneable
{
    public String test;
    public object Clone()
    {
        return this.MemberwiseClone();
    }
}

then you can do

myClass a = new myClass();
myClass b = (myClass)a.Clone();

N.B. MemberwiseClone() Creates a shallow copy of the current System.Object.

Read environment variables in Node.js

If you want to use a string key generated in your Node.js program, say, var v = 'HOME', you can use process.env[v].

Otherwise, process.env.VARNAME has to be hardcoded in your program.

What is the difference between __dirname and ./ in node.js?

The gist

In Node.js, __dirname is always the directory in which the currently executing script resides (see this). So if you typed __dirname into /d1/d2/myscript.js, the value would be /d1/d2.

By contrast, . gives you the directory from which you ran the node command in your terminal window (i.e. your working directory) when you use libraries like path and fs. Technically, it starts out as your working directory but can be changed using process.chdir().

The exception is when you use . with require(). The path inside require is always relative to the file containing the call to require.

For example...

Let's say your directory structure is

/dir1
  /dir2
    pathtest.js

and pathtest.js contains

var path = require("path");
console.log(". = %s", path.resolve("."));
console.log("__dirname = %s", path.resolve(__dirname));

and you do

cd /dir1/dir2
node pathtest.js

you get

. = /dir1/dir2
__dirname = /dir1/dir2

Your working directory is /dir1/dir2 so that's what . resolves to. Since pathtest.js is located in /dir1/dir2 that's what __dirname resolves to as well.

However, if you run the script from /dir1

cd /dir1
node dir2/pathtest.js

you get

. = /dir1
__dirname = /dir1/dir2

In that case, your working directory was /dir1 so that's what . resolved to, but __dirname still resolves to /dir1/dir2.

Using . inside require...

If inside dir2/pathtest.js you have a require call into include a file inside dir1 you would always do

require('../thefile')

because the path inside require is always relative to the file in which you are calling it. It has nothing to do with your working directory.

How to remove "disabled" attribute using jQuery?

This question specifically mentions jQuery, but if you are looking to accomplish this without jQuery, the equivalent in vanilla JavaScript is:

elem.removeAttribute('disabled');

Creating a very simple linked list

A Linked List, at its core is a bunch of Nodes linked together.

So, you need to start with a simple Node class:

public class Node {
    public Node next;
    public Object data;
}

Then your linked list will have as a member one node representing the head (start) of the list:

public class LinkedList {
    private Node head;
}

Then you need to add functionality to the list by adding methods. They usually involve some sort of traversal along all of the nodes.

public void printAllNodes() {
    Node current = head;
    while (current != null) 
    {
        Console.WriteLine(current.data);
        current = current.next;
    }
}

Also, inserting new data is another common operation:

public void Add(Object data) {
    Node toAdd = new Node();
    toAdd.data = data;
    Node current = head;
    // traverse all nodes (see the print all nodes method for an example)
    current.next = toAdd;
}

This should provide a good starting point.

What's better at freeing memory with PHP: unset() or $var = null

It works in a different way for variables copied by reference:

$a = 5;
$b = &$a;
unset($b); // just say $b should not point to any variable
print $a; // 5

$a = 5;
$b = &$a;
$b = null; // rewrites value of $b (and $a)
print $a; // nothing, because $a = null

Converting a PDF to PNG

As this page also lists alternative tools I'll mention xpdf which has command line tools ready compiled for Linux/Windows/Mac. Supports transparency. Is free for commercial use - opposed to Ghostscript which has truly outrageous pricing.

In a test on a huge PDF file it was 7.5% faster than Ghostscript.

(It also has PDF to text and HTML converters)

git pull fails "unable to resolve reference" "unable to update local ref"

Explanation: It appears your remote repo (in Github / bitbucket) branches were removed ,though your local references were not updated and pointing to non existent references.

In order to solve this issue:

git fetch --prune
git fetch --all
git pull

For extra reading - Reference from Github documentation :

git-fetch - Download objects and refs from another repository

--all Fetch all remotes.

--prune After fetching, remove any remote tracking branches which no longer exist on the remote.

Execute another jar in a Java program

.jar isn't executable. Instantiate classes or make call to any static method.

EDIT: Add Main-Class entry while creating a JAR.

>p.mf (content of p.mf)

Main-Class: pk.Test

>Test.java

package pk;
public class Test{
  public static void main(String []args){
    System.out.println("Hello from Test");
  }
}

Use Process class and it's methods,

public class Exec
{
   public static void main(String []args) throws Exception
    {
        Process ps=Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[]{"java","-jar","A.jar"});
        ps.waitFor();
        java.io.InputStream is=ps.getInputStream();
        byte b[]=new byte[is.available()];
        is.read(b,0,b.length);
        System.out.println(new String(b));
    }
}

Create ul and li elements in javascript.

Great then. Let's create a simple function that takes an array and prints our an ordered listview/list inside a div tag.

Step 1: Let's say you have an div with "contentSectionID" id.<div id="contentSectionID"></div>

Step 2: We then create our javascript function that returns a list component and takes in an array:

function createList(spacecrafts){

var listView=document.createElement('ol');

for(var i=0;i<spacecrafts.length;i++)
{
    var listViewItem=document.createElement('li');
    listViewItem.appendChild(document.createTextNode(spacecrafts[i]));
    listView.appendChild(listViewItem);
}

return listView;
}

Step 3: Finally we select our div and create a listview in it:

document.getElementById("contentSectionID").appendChild(createList(myArr));

File 'app/hero.ts' is not a module error in the console, where to store interfaces files in directory structure with angular2?

I had a similar issue. I wrote hero instead of Hero

import the following:

import { Hero } from '../Hero';

Excel VBA - read cell value from code

I think you need this ..

Dim n as Integer   

For n = 5 to 17
  msgbox cells(n,3) '--> sched waste
  msgbox cells(n,4) '--> type of treatm
  msgbox format(cells(n,5),"dd/MM/yyyy") '--> Lic exp
  msgbox cells(n,6) '--> email col
Next

How do I find the duplicates in a list and create another list with them?

I came across this question whilst looking in to something related - and wonder why no-one offered a generator based solution? Solving this problem would be:

>>> print list(getDupes_9([1,2,3,2,1,5,6,5,5,5]))
[1, 2, 5]

I was concerned with scalability, so tested several approaches, including naive items that work well on small lists, but scale horribly as lists get larger (note- would have been better to use timeit, but this is illustrative).

I included @moooeeeep for comparison (it is impressively fast: fastest if the input list is completely random) and an itertools approach that is even faster again for mostly sorted lists... Now includes pandas approach from @firelynx -- slow, but not horribly so, and simple. Note - sort/tee/zip approach is consistently fastest on my machine for large mostly ordered lists, moooeeeep is fastest for shuffled lists, but your mileage may vary.

Advantages

  • very quick simple to test for 'any' duplicates using the same code

Assumptions

  • Duplicates should be reported once only
  • Duplicate order does not need to be preserved
  • Duplicate might be anywhere in the list

Fastest solution, 1m entries:

def getDupes(c):
        '''sort/tee/izip'''
        a, b = itertools.tee(sorted(c))
        next(b, None)
        r = None
        for k, g in itertools.izip(a, b):
            if k != g: continue
            if k != r:
                yield k
                r = k

Approaches tested

import itertools
import time
import random

def getDupes_1(c):
    '''naive'''
    for i in xrange(0, len(c)):
        if c[i] in c[:i]:
            yield c[i]

def getDupes_2(c):
    '''set len change'''
    s = set()
    for i in c:
        l = len(s)
        s.add(i)
        if len(s) == l:
            yield i

def getDupes_3(c):
    '''in dict'''
    d = {}
    for i in c:
        if i in d:
            if d[i]:
                yield i
                d[i] = False
        else:
            d[i] = True

def getDupes_4(c):
    '''in set'''
    s,r = set(),set()
    for i in c:
        if i not in s:
            s.add(i)
        elif i not in r:
            r.add(i)
            yield i

def getDupes_5(c):
    '''sort/adjacent'''
    c = sorted(c)
    r = None
    for i in xrange(1, len(c)):
        if c[i] == c[i - 1]:
            if c[i] != r:
                yield c[i]
                r = c[i]

def getDupes_6(c):
    '''sort/groupby'''
    def multiple(x):
        try:
            x.next()
            x.next()
            return True
        except:
            return False
    for k, g in itertools.ifilter(lambda x: multiple(x[1]), itertools.groupby(sorted(c))):
        yield k

def getDupes_7(c):
    '''sort/zip'''
    c = sorted(c)
    r = None
    for k, g in zip(c[:-1],c[1:]):
        if k == g:
            if k != r:
                yield k
                r = k

def getDupes_8(c):
    '''sort/izip'''
    c = sorted(c)
    r = None
    for k, g in itertools.izip(c[:-1],c[1:]):
        if k == g:
            if k != r:
                yield k
                r = k

def getDupes_9(c):
    '''sort/tee/izip'''
    a, b = itertools.tee(sorted(c))
    next(b, None)
    r = None
    for k, g in itertools.izip(a, b):
        if k != g: continue
        if k != r:
            yield k
            r = k

def getDupes_a(l):
    '''moooeeeep'''
    seen = set()
    seen_add = seen.add
    # adds all elements it doesn't know yet to seen and all other to seen_twice
    for x in l:
        if x in seen or seen_add(x):
            yield x

def getDupes_b(x):
    '''iter*/sorted'''
    x = sorted(x)
    def _matches():
        for k,g in itertools.izip(x[:-1],x[1:]):
            if k == g:
                yield k
    for k, n in itertools.groupby(_matches()):
        yield k

def getDupes_c(a):
    '''pandas'''
    import pandas as pd
    vc = pd.Series(a).value_counts()
    i = vc[vc > 1].index
    for _ in i:
        yield _

def hasDupes(fn,c):
    try:
        if fn(c).next(): return True    # Found a dupe
    except StopIteration:
        pass
    return False

def getDupes(fn,c):
    return list(fn(c))

STABLE = True
if STABLE:
    print 'Finding FIRST then ALL duplicates, single dupe of "nth" placed element in 1m element array'
else:
    print 'Finding FIRST then ALL duplicates, single dupe of "n" included in randomised 1m element array'
for location in (50,250000,500000,750000,999999):
    for test in (getDupes_2, getDupes_3, getDupes_4, getDupes_5, getDupes_6,
                 getDupes_8, getDupes_9, getDupes_a, getDupes_b, getDupes_c):
        print 'Test %-15s:%10d - '%(test.__doc__ or test.__name__,location),
        deltas = []
        for FIRST in (True,False):
            for i in xrange(0, 5):
                c = range(0,1000000)
                if STABLE:
                    c[0] = location
                else:
                    c.append(location)
                    random.shuffle(c)
                start = time.time()
                if FIRST:
                    print '.' if location == test(c).next() else '!',
                else:
                    print '.' if [location] == list(test(c)) else '!',
                deltas.append(time.time()-start)
            print ' -- %0.3f  '%(sum(deltas)/len(deltas)),
        print
    print

The results for the 'all dupes' test were consistent, finding "first" duplicate then "all" duplicates in this array:

Finding FIRST then ALL duplicates, single dupe of "nth" placed element in 1m element array
Test set len change :    500000 -  . . . . .  -- 0.264   . . . . .  -- 0.402  
Test in dict        :    500000 -  . . . . .  -- 0.163   . . . . .  -- 0.250  
Test in set         :    500000 -  . . . . .  -- 0.163   . . . . .  -- 0.249  
Test sort/adjacent  :    500000 -  . . . . .  -- 0.159   . . . . .  -- 0.229  
Test sort/groupby   :    500000 -  . . . . .  -- 0.860   . . . . .  -- 1.286  
Test sort/izip      :    500000 -  . . . . .  -- 0.165   . . . . .  -- 0.229  
Test sort/tee/izip  :    500000 -  . . . . .  -- 0.145   . . . . .  -- 0.206  *
Test moooeeeep      :    500000 -  . . . . .  -- 0.149   . . . . .  -- 0.232  
Test iter*/sorted   :    500000 -  . . . . .  -- 0.160   . . . . .  -- 0.221  
Test pandas         :    500000 -  . . . . .  -- 0.493   . . . . .  -- 0.499  

When the lists are shuffled first, the price of the sort becomes apparent - the efficiency drops noticeably and the @moooeeeep approach dominates, with set & dict approaches being similar but lessor performers:

Finding FIRST then ALL duplicates, single dupe of "n" included in randomised 1m element array
Test set len change :    500000 -  . . . . .  -- 0.321   . . . . .  -- 0.473  
Test in dict        :    500000 -  . . . . .  -- 0.285   . . . . .  -- 0.360  
Test in set         :    500000 -  . . . . .  -- 0.309   . . . . .  -- 0.365  
Test sort/adjacent  :    500000 -  . . . . .  -- 0.756   . . . . .  -- 0.823  
Test sort/groupby   :    500000 -  . . . . .  -- 1.459   . . . . .  -- 1.896  
Test sort/izip      :    500000 -  . . . . .  -- 0.786   . . . . .  -- 0.845  
Test sort/tee/izip  :    500000 -  . . . . .  -- 0.743   . . . . .  -- 0.804  
Test moooeeeep      :    500000 -  . . . . .  -- 0.234   . . . . .  -- 0.311  *
Test iter*/sorted   :    500000 -  . . . . .  -- 0.776   . . . . .  -- 0.840  
Test pandas         :    500000 -  . . . . .  -- 0.539   . . . . .  -- 0.540  

Troubleshooting BadImageFormatException

For anyone who may arrive here at a later time...
For Desktop solution I got BadImageFormatException exception.
All project's build options was fine (all x86). But StartUp project of solution was changed to some other project(class library project).

Changing StartUp project to the original(.exe application project) was a solution in my case

What is setup.py?

To make it simple, setup.py is run as "__main__" when you call the install functions the other answers mentioned. Inside setup.py, you should put everything needed to install your package.

Common setup.py functions

The following two sections discuss two things many setup.py modules have.

setuptools.setup

This function allows you to specify project attributes like the name of the project, the version.... Most importantly, this function allows you to install other functions if they're packaged properly. See this webpage for an example of setuptools.setup

These attributes of setuptools.setup enable installing these types of packages:

  • Packages that are imported to your project and listed in PyPI using setuptools.findpackages:

    packages=find_packages(exclude=["docs","tests", ".gitignore", "README.rst","DESCRIPTION.rst"])

  • Packages not in PyPI, but can be downloaded from a URL using dependency_links

    dependency_links=["http://peak.telecommunity.com/snapshots/",]

Custom functions

In an ideal world, setuptools.setup would handle everything for you. Unfortunately this isn't always the case. Sometimes you have to do specific things, like installing dependencies with the subprocess command, to get the system you're installing on in the right state for your package. Try to avoid this, these functions get confusing and often differ between OS and even distribution.

Errors in SQL Server while importing CSV file despite varchar(MAX) being used for each column

This answer may not apply universally, but it fixed the occurrence of this error I was encountering when importing a small text file. The flat file provider was importing based on fixed 50-character text columns in the source, which was incorrect. No amount of remapping the destination columns affected the issue.

To solve the issue, in the "Choose a Data Source" for the flat-file provider, after selecting the file, a "Suggest Types.." button appears beneath the input column list. After hitting this button, even if no changes were made to the enusing dialog, the Flat File provider then re-queried the source .csv file and then correctly determined the lengths of the fields in the source file.

Once this was done, the import proceeded with no further issues.

Reading column names alone in a csv file

import pandas as pd
data = pd.read_csv("data.csv")
cols = data.columns

Remove the last character from a string

First, I try without a space, rtrim($arraynama, ","); and get an error result.

Then I add a space and get a good result:

$newarraynama = rtrim($arraynama, ", ");

What is the difference between 127.0.0.1 and localhost

The main difference is that the connection can be made via Unix Domain Socket, as stated here: localhost vs. 127.0.0.1

How to do a SOAP Web Service call from Java class?

I found a much simpler alternative way to generating soap message. Given a Person Object:

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonInclude;

@JsonInclude(JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL)
public class Person {
  private String name;
  private int age;
  private String address; //setter and getters below
}

Below is a simple Soap Message Generator:

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationFeature;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializationFeature;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype.jsr310.JavaTimeModule;
import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.XmlMapper;

@Slf4j
public class SoapGenerator {

  protected static final ObjectMapper XML_MAPPER = new XmlMapper()
      .enable(DeserializationFeature.READ_UNKNOWN_ENUM_VALUES_AS_NULL)
      .configure(DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES, false)
      .configure(SerializationFeature.WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS, false)
      .registerModule(new JavaTimeModule());

  private static final String SOAP_BODY_OPEN = "<soap:Body>";
  private static final String SOAP_BODY_CLOSE = "</soap:Body>";
  private static final String SOAP_ENVELOPE_OPEN = "<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\">";
  private static final String SOAP_ENVELOPE_CLOSE = "</soap:Envelope>";

  public static String soapWrap(String xml) {
    return SOAP_ENVELOPE_OPEN + SOAP_BODY_OPEN + xml + SOAP_BODY_CLOSE + SOAP_ENVELOPE_CLOSE;
  }

  public static String soapUnwrap(String xml) {
    return StringUtils.substringBetween(xml, SOAP_BODY_OPEN, SOAP_BODY_CLOSE);
  }
}

You can use by:

 public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{
        Person p = new Person();
        p.setName("Test");
        p.setAge(12);

        String xml = SoapGenerator.soapWrap(XML_MAPPER.writeValueAsString(p));
        log.info("Generated String");
        log.info(xml);
      }

What rules does software version numbering follow?

The usual method I have seen is X.Y.Z, which generally corresponds to major.minor.patch:

  • Major version numbers change whenever there is some significant change being introduced. For example, a large or potentially backward-incompatible change to a software package.
  • Minor version numbers change when a new, minor feature is introduced or when a set of smaller features is rolled out.
  • Patch numbers change when a new build of the software is released to customers. This is normally for small bug-fixes or the like.

Other variations use build numbers as an additional identifier. So you may have a large number for X.Y.Z.build if you have many revisions that are tested between releases. I use a couple of packages that are identified by year/month or year/release. Thus, a release in the month of September of 2010 might be 2010.9 or 2010.3 for the 3rd release of this year.

There are many variants to versioning. It all boils down to personal preference.

For the "1.3v1.1", that may be two different internal products, something that would be a shared library / codebase that is rev'd differently from the main product; that may indicate version 1.3 for the main product, and version 1.1 of the internal library / package.

How to set username and password for SmtpClient object in .NET?

SmtpClient MyMail = new SmtpClient();
MailMessage MyMsg = new MailMessage();
MyMail.Host = "mail.eraygan.com";
MyMsg.Priority = MailPriority.High;
MyMsg.To.Add(new MailAddress(Mail));
MyMsg.Subject = Subject;
MyMsg.SubjectEncoding = Encoding.UTF8;
MyMsg.IsBodyHtml = true;
MyMsg.From = new MailAddress("username", "displayname");
MyMsg.BodyEncoding = Encoding.UTF8;
MyMsg.Body = Body;
MyMail.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
NetworkCredential MyCredentials = new NetworkCredential("username", "password");
MyMail.Credentials = MyCredentials;
MyMail.Send(MyMsg);

How to round each item in a list of floats to 2 decimal places?

Another option which doesn't require numpy is:

precision = 2  
myRoundedList = [int(elem*(10**precision)+delta)/(10.0**precision) for elem in myList]

# delta=0 for floor
# delta = 0.5 for round
# delta = 1 for ceil

How do I create a circle or square with just CSS - with a hollow center?

Try This

_x000D_
_x000D_
div.circle {_x000D_
  -moz-border-radius: 50px/50px;_x000D_
  -webkit-border-radius: 50px 50px;_x000D_
  border-radius: 50px/50px;_x000D_
  border: solid 21px #f00;_x000D_
  width: 50px;_x000D_
  height: 50px;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
div.square {_x000D_
  border: solid 21px #f0f;_x000D_
  width: 50px;_x000D_
  height: 50px;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<div class="circle">_x000D_
  <img/>_x000D_
</div>_x000D_
 <hr/>_x000D_
<div class="square">_x000D_
  <img/>_x000D_
</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

More here

"Actual or formal argument lists differs in length"

You try to instantiate an object of the Friends class like this:

Friends f = new Friends(friendsName, friendsAge);

The class does not have a constructor that takes parameters. You should either add the constructor, or create the object using the constructor that does exist and then use the set-methods. For example, instead of the above:

Friends f = new Friends();
f.setName(friendsName);
f.setAge(friendsAge);

How do you overcome the svn 'out of date' error?

Are you moving it using svn mv, or just mv? I think using just mv may cause this issue.

Calculate difference between two dates (number of days)?

For a and b as two DateTime types:

DateTime d = DateTime.Now;
DateTime c = DateTime.Now;
c = d.AddDays(145);
string cc;
Console.WriteLine(d);
Console.WriteLine(c);
var t = (c - d).Days;
Console.WriteLine(t);
cc = Console.ReadLine();

How to resolve the "ADB server didn't ACK" error?

On my end, I used Resource Monitor to see which application was still listening to port 5037 after all the Eclipse and adb restart were unsuccessful for me.

Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools >
Resource Monitor > Network > Listening Ports

This eventually showed that java.exe was listening to port 5037, hence, preventing adb from doing so. I killed java.exe, immediately start adb (with adb start-server) and received a confirmation that adb was able to start:

android-sdks\platform-tools>adb start-server
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *

HTTP Error 403.14 - Forbidden The Web server is configured to not list the contents

I faced similar issue. My controller name was documents. It manages uploaded documents. It was working fine and started showing this error after completion of code. The mistake I did is - Created a folder 'Documents' to save the uploaded files. So controller name and folder name were same - which made the issue.

Vibrate and Sound defaults on notification

Notification Vibrate

mBuilder.setVibrate(new long[] { 1000, 1000});

Sound

mBuilder.setSound(Settings.System.DEFAULT_NOTIFICATION_URI);

for more sound option

Search for an item in a Lua list

This is a swiss-armyknife function you can use:

function table.find(t, val, recursive, metatables, keys, returnBool)
    if (type(t) ~= "table") then
        return nil
    end

    local checked = {}
    local _findInTable
    local _checkValue
    _checkValue = function(v)
        if (not checked[v]) then
            if (v == val) then
                return v
            end
            if (recursive and type(v) == "table") then
                local r = _findInTable(v)
                if (r ~= nil) then
                    return r
                end
            end
            if (metatables) then
                local r = _checkValue(getmetatable(v))
                if (r ~= nil) then
                    return r
                end
            end
            checked[v] = true
        end
        return nil
    end
    _findInTable = function(t)
        for k,v in pairs(t) do
            local r = _checkValue(t, v)
            if (r ~= nil) then
                return r
            end
            if (keys) then
                r = _checkValue(t, k)
                if (r ~= nil) then
                    return r
                end
            end
        end
        return nil
    end

    local r = _findInTable(t)
    if (returnBool) then
        return r ~= nil
    end
    return r
end

You can use it to check if a value exists:

local myFruit = "apple"
if (table.find({"apple", "pear", "berry"}, myFruit)) then
    print(table.find({"apple", "pear", "berry"}, myFruit)) -- 1

You can use it to find the key:

local fruits = {
    apple = {color="red"},
    pear = {color="green"},
}
local myFruit = fruits.apple
local fruitName = table.find(fruits, myFruit)
print(fruitName) -- "apple"

I hope the recursive parameter speaks for itself.

The metatables parameter allows you to search metatables as well.

The keys parameter makes the function look for keys in the list. Of course that would be useless in Lua (you can just do fruits[key]) but together with recursive and metatables, it becomes handy.

The returnBool parameter is a safe-guard for when you have tables that have false as a key in a table (Yes that's possible: fruits = {false="apple"})

nginx: send all requests to a single html page

I think this will do it for you:

location / {
    try_files /base.html =404;
}

How to use conditional statement within child attribute of a Flutter Widget (Center Widget)

Lol after months of using ?: I just find out that I can use this:

Column(
     children: [
       if (true) Text('true') else Text('false'),
     ],
   )

How do I discard unstaged changes in Git?

git clean -df

Cleans the working tree by recursively removing files that are not under version control, starting from the current directory.

-d: Remove untracked directories in addition to untracked files

-f: Force (might be not necessary depending on clean.requireForce setting)

Run git help clean to see the manual

How I could add dir to $PATH in Makefile?

Path changes appear to be persistent if you set the SHELL variable in your makefile first:

SHELL := /bin/bash
PATH := bin:$(PATH)

test all:
    x

I don't know if this is desired behavior or not.

ipynb import another ipynb file

The issue is that a notebooks is not a plain python file. The steps to import the .ipynb file are outlined in the following: Importing notebook

I am pasting the code, so if you need it...you can just do a quick copy and paste. Notice that at the end I have the import primes statement. You'll have to change that of course. The name of my file is primes.ipynb. From this point on you can use the content inside that file as you would do regularly.

Wish there was a simpler method, but this is straight from the docs.
Note: I am using jupyter not ipython.

import io, os, sys, types
from IPython import get_ipython
from nbformat import current
from IPython.core.interactiveshell import InteractiveShell


def find_notebook(fullname, path=None):
    """find a notebook, given its fully qualified name and an optional path

    This turns "foo.bar" into "foo/bar.ipynb"
    and tries turning "Foo_Bar" into "Foo Bar" if Foo_Bar
    does not exist.
    """
    name = fullname.rsplit('.', 1)[-1]
    if not path:
        path = ['']
    for d in path:
        nb_path = os.path.join(d, name + ".ipynb")
        if os.path.isfile(nb_path):
            return nb_path
        # let import Notebook_Name find "Notebook Name.ipynb"
        nb_path = nb_path.replace("_", " ")
        if os.path.isfile(nb_path):
            return nb_path


class NotebookLoader(object):
    """Module Loader for Jupyter Notebooks"""
    def __init__(self, path=None):
        self.shell = InteractiveShell.instance()
        self.path = path

    def load_module(self, fullname):
        """import a notebook as a module"""
        path = find_notebook(fullname, self.path)

        print ("importing Jupyter notebook from %s" % path)

        # load the notebook object
        with io.open(path, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
            nb = current.read(f, 'json')


        # create the module and add it to sys.modules
        # if name in sys.modules:
        #    return sys.modules[name]
        mod = types.ModuleType(fullname)
        mod.__file__ = path
        mod.__loader__ = self
        mod.__dict__['get_ipython'] = get_ipython
        sys.modules[fullname] = mod

        # extra work to ensure that magics that would affect the user_ns
        # actually affect the notebook module's ns
        save_user_ns = self.shell.user_ns
        self.shell.user_ns = mod.__dict__

        try:
        for cell in nb.worksheets[0].cells:
            if cell.cell_type == 'code' and cell.language == 'python':
                # transform the input to executable Python
                code = self.shell.input_transformer_manager.transform_cell(cell.input)
                # run the code in themodule
                exec(code, mod.__dict__)
        finally:
            self.shell.user_ns = save_user_ns
        return mod


class NotebookFinder(object):
    """Module finder that locates Jupyter Notebooks"""
    def __init__(self):
        self.loaders = {}

    def find_module(self, fullname, path=None):
        nb_path = find_notebook(fullname, path)
        if not nb_path:
            return

        key = path
        if path:
            # lists aren't hashable
            key = os.path.sep.join(path)

        if key not in self.loaders:
            self.loaders[key] = NotebookLoader(path)
        return self.loaders[key]

sys.meta_path.append(NotebookFinder())

import primes

How do I enable MSDTC on SQL Server?

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

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

How do I get which JRadioButton is selected from a ButtonGroup

I got similar problem and solved with this:

import java.util.Enumeration;
import javax.swing.AbstractButton;
import javax.swing.ButtonGroup;

public class GroupButtonUtils {

    public String getSelectedButtonText(ButtonGroup buttonGroup) {
        for (Enumeration<AbstractButton> buttons = buttonGroup.getElements(); buttons.hasMoreElements();) {
            AbstractButton button = buttons.nextElement();

            if (button.isSelected()) {
                return button.getText();
            }
        }

        return null;
    }
}

It returns the text of the selected button.

Android ListView with onClick items

listview.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener(){

    @Override
    public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?>adapter,View v, int position){
    Intent intent;
    switch(position){
      case 0:
        intent = new Intent(Activity.this,firstActivity.class);
        break;
      case 1:
        intent = new Intent(Activity.this,secondActivity.class);
        break;
     case 2:
        intent = new Intent(Activity.this,thirdActivity.class);
        break;
    //add more if you have more items in listview
   //0 is the first item 1 second and so on...
    }
    startActivity(intent);
  }

});

TypeError: You provided an invalid object where a stream was expected. You can provide an Observable, Promise, Array, or Iterable

I've had this error when there's been different RxJS-versions across projects. The internal checks in RxJS fails because there are several different Symbol_observable. Eventually this function throws once called from a flattening operator like switchMap.

Try importing symbol-observable in some entry point.

// main index.ts
import 'symbol-observable';

How to create a directory and give permission in single command

According to mkdir's man page...

mkdir -m 777 dirname

Change primary key column in SQL Server

Necromancing.
It looks you have just as good a schema to work with as me... Here is how to do it correctly:

In this example, the table name is dbo.T_SYS_Language_Forms, and the column name is LANG_UID

-- First, chech if the table exists...
IF 0 < (
    SELECT COUNT(*) FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES 
    WHERE TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE'
    AND TABLE_SCHEMA = 'dbo'
    AND TABLE_NAME = 'T_SYS_Language_Forms'
)
BEGIN
    -- Check for NULL values in the primary-key column
    IF 0 = (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM T_SYS_Language_Forms WHERE LANG_UID IS NULL)
    BEGIN
        ALTER TABLE T_SYS_Language_Forms ALTER COLUMN LANG_UID uniqueidentifier NOT NULL 

        -- No, don't drop, FK references might already exist...
        -- Drop PK if exists 
        -- ALTER TABLE T_SYS_Language_Forms DROP CONSTRAINT pk_constraint_name 
        --DECLARE @pkDropCommand nvarchar(1000) 
        --SET @pkDropCommand = N'ALTER TABLE T_SYS_Language_Forms DROP CONSTRAINT ' + QUOTENAME((SELECT CONSTRAINT_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS 
        --WHERE CONSTRAINT_TYPE = 'PRIMARY KEY' 
        --AND TABLE_SCHEMA = 'dbo' 
        --AND TABLE_NAME = 'T_SYS_Language_Forms' 
        ----AND CONSTRAINT_NAME = 'PK_T_SYS_Language_Forms' 
        --))
        ---- PRINT @pkDropCommand 
        --EXECUTE(@pkDropCommand) 

        -- Instead do
        -- EXEC sp_rename 'dbo.T_SYS_Language_Forms.PK_T_SYS_Language_Forms1234565', 'PK_T_SYS_Language_Forms';


        -- Check if they keys are unique (it is very possible they might not be) 
        IF 1 >= (SELECT TOP 1 COUNT(*) AS cnt FROM T_SYS_Language_Forms GROUP BY LANG_UID ORDER BY cnt DESC)
        BEGIN

            -- If no Primary key for this table
            IF 0 =  
            (
                SELECT COUNT(*) FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS 
                WHERE CONSTRAINT_TYPE = 'PRIMARY KEY' 
                AND TABLE_SCHEMA = 'dbo' 
                AND TABLE_NAME = 'T_SYS_Language_Forms' 
                -- AND CONSTRAINT_NAME = 'PK_T_SYS_Language_Forms' 
            )
                ALTER TABLE T_SYS_Language_Forms ADD CONSTRAINT PK_T_SYS_Language_Forms PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED (LANG_UID ASC)
            ;

            -- Adding foreign key
            IF 0 = (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.REFERENTIAL_CONSTRAINTS WHERE CONSTRAINT_NAME = 'FK_T_ZO_SYS_Language_Forms_T_SYS_Language_Forms') 
                ALTER TABLE T_ZO_SYS_Language_Forms WITH NOCHECK ADD CONSTRAINT FK_T_ZO_SYS_Language_Forms_T_SYS_Language_Forms FOREIGN KEY(ZOLANG_LANG_UID) REFERENCES T_SYS_Language_Forms(LANG_UID); 
        END -- End uniqueness check
        ELSE
            PRINT 'FSCK, this column has duplicate keys, and can thus not be changed to primary key...' 
    END -- End NULL check
    ELSE
        PRINT 'FSCK, need to figure out how to update NULL value(s)...' 
END 

jQuery date formatting

An alternative would be simple js date() function, if you don't want to use jQuery/jQuery plugin:

e.g.:

var formattedDate = new Date("yourUnformattedOriginalDate");
var d = formattedDate.getDate();
var m =  formattedDate.getMonth();
m += 1;  // JavaScript months are 0-11
var y = formattedDate.getFullYear();

$("#txtDate").val(d + "." + m + "." + y);

see: 10 ways to format time and date using JavaScript

If you want to add leading zeros to day/month, this is a perfect example: Javascript add leading zeroes to date

and if you want to add time with leading zeros try this: getMinutes() 0-9 - how to with two numbers?

CSS Grid Layout not working in IE11 even with prefixes

IE11 uses an older version of the Grid specification.

The properties you are using don't exist in the older grid spec. Using prefixes makes no difference.

Here are three problems I see right off the bat.


repeat()

The repeat() function doesn't exist in the older spec, so it isn't supported by IE11.

You need to use the correct syntax, which is covered in another answer to this post, or declare all row and column lengths.

Instead of:

.grid {
  display: -ms-grid;
  display: grid;
  -ms-grid-columns: repeat( 4, 1fr );
      grid-template-columns: repeat( 4, 1fr );
  -ms-grid-rows: repeat( 4, 270px );
      grid-template-rows: repeat( 4, 270px );
  grid-gap: 30px;
}

Use:

.grid {
  display: -ms-grid;
  display: grid;
  -ms-grid-columns: 1fr 1fr 1fr 1fr;             /* adjusted */
      grid-template-columns:  repeat( 4, 1fr );
  -ms-grid-rows: 270px 270px 270px 270px;        /* adjusted */
      grid-template-rows: repeat( 4, 270px );
  grid-gap: 30px;
}

Older spec reference: https://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-grid-layout-20110407/#grid-repeating-columns-and-rows


span

The span keyword doesn't exist in the older spec, so it isn't supported by IE11. You'll have to use the equivalent properties for these browsers.

Instead of:

.grid .grid-item.height-2x {
  -ms-grid-row: span 2;
      grid-row: span 2;
}
.grid .grid-item.width-2x {
  -ms-grid-column: span 2;
      grid-column: span 2;
}

Use:

.grid .grid-item.height-2x {
  -ms-grid-row-span: 2;          /* adjusted */
      grid-row: span 2;
}
.grid .grid-item.width-2x {
  -ms-grid-column-span: 2;       /* adjusted */
      grid-column: span 2;
}

Older spec reference: https://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-grid-layout-20110407/#grid-row-span-and-grid-column-span


grid-gap

The grid-gap property, as well as its long-hand forms grid-column-gap and grid-row-gap, don't exist in the older spec, so they aren't supported by IE11. You'll have to find another way to separate the boxes. I haven't read the entire older spec, so there may be a method. Otherwise, try margins.


grid item auto placement

There was some discussion in the old spec about grid item auto placement, but the feature was never implemented in IE11. (Auto placement of grid items is now standard in current browsers).

So unless you specifically define the placement of grid items, they will stack in cell 1,1.

Use the -ms-grid-row and -ms-grid-column properties.

Dynamically change color to lighter or darker by percentage CSS (Javascript)

See my comment on Ctford's reply.

I'd think the easy way to lighten a color would be to take each of the RGB components, add to 0xff and divide by 2. If that doesn't give the exact results you want, take 0xff minus the current value times some constant and then add back to the current value. For example if you want to shift 1/3 of the way toward white, take (0xff - current)/3+current.

You'd have to play with it to see what results you got. I would worry that with this simple a formula, a factor big enough to make dark colors fade nicely might make light colors turn completely white, while a factor small enough to make light colors only lighten a little might make dark colors not lighten enough.

Still, I think going by a fraction of the distance to white is more promising than a fixed number of steps.

Why doesn't calling a Python string method do anything unless you assign its output?

This is because strings are immutable in Python.

Which means that X.replace("hello","goodbye") returns a copy of X with replacements made. Because of that you need replace this line:

X.replace("hello", "goodbye")

with this line:

X = X.replace("hello", "goodbye")

More broadly, this is true for all Python string methods that change a string's content "in-place", e.g. replace,strip,translate,lower/upper,join,...

You must assign their output to something if you want to use it and not throw it away, e.g.

X  = X.strip(' \t')
X2 = X.translate(...)
Y  = X.lower()
Z  = X.upper()
A  = X.join(':')
B  = X.capitalize()
C  = X.casefold()

and so on.

"com.jcraft.jsch.JSchException: Auth fail" with working passwords

Example case, when I get file from remote server and save it in local machine
package connector;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

import com.jcraft.jsch.ChannelSftp;
import com.jcraft.jsch.JSch;
import com.jcraft.jsch.JSchException;
import com.jcraft.jsch.Session;
import com.jcraft.jsch.SftpException;

public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws JSchException, SftpException, IOException {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        String username = "XXXXXX";
        String host = "XXXXXX";
        String passwd = "XXXXXX";
        JSch conn = new JSch();
        Session session = null;
        session = conn.getSession(username, host, 22);
        session.setPassword(passwd);
        session.setConfig("StrictHostKeyChecking", "no");
        session.connect();

        ChannelSftp channel = null;
        channel = (ChannelSftp)session.openChannel("sftp");
        channel.connect();

        channel.cd("/tmp/qtmp");

        InputStream in = channel.get("testScp");
        String lf = "OBJECT_FILE";
        FileOutputStream tergetFile = new FileOutputStream(lf);

        int c;
        while ( (c= in.read()) != -1 ) {
            tergetFile.write(c);
        } 

        in.close();
        tergetFile.close();

        channel.disconnect();
        session.disconnect();   

    }

}

estimating of testing effort as a percentage of development time

Gartner in Oct 2006 states that testing typically consumes between 10% and 35% of work on a system integration project. I assume that it applies to the waterfall method. This is quite a wide range - but there are many dependencies on the amount of customisations to a standard product and the number of systems to be integrated.

How do I create a branch?

If you even plan on merging your branch, I highly suggest you look at this:

Svnmerge.py

I hear Subversion 1.5 builds more of the merge tracking in, I have no experience with that. My project is on 1.4.x and svnmerge.py is a life saver!

Is there a way to take a screenshot using Java and save it to some sort of image?

Toolkit returns pixels based on PPI, as a result, a screenshot is not created for the entire screen when using PPI> 100% in Windows. I propose to do this:

DisplayMode displayMode = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment().getScreenDevices()[0].getDisplayMode();
Rectangle screenRectangle = new Rectangle(displayMode.getWidth(), displayMode.getHeight());
BufferedImage screenShot = new Robot().createScreenCapture(screenRectangle);

How to apply a patch generated with git format-patch?

Note: You can first preview what your patch will do:

First the stats:

git apply --stat a_file.patch

Then a dry run to detect errors:

git apply --check a_file.patch

Finally, you can use git am to apply your patch as a commit. This also allows you to sign off an applied patch.
This can be useful for later reference.

git am --signoff < a_file.patch 

See an example in this article:

In your git log, you’ll find that the commit messages contain a “Signed-off-by” tag. This tag will be read by Github and others to provide useful info about how the commit ended up in the code.

Example

How to apply font anti-alias effects in CSS?

Works the best. If you want to use it sitewide, without having to add this syntax to every class or ID, add the following CSS to your css body:

body { 
    -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
    text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.004);
    background: url('./images/background.png');
    text-align: left;
    margin: auto;

}

How to escape indicator characters (i.e. : or - ) in YAML

Quotes:

"url: http://www.example-site.com/"

To clarify, I meant “quote the value” and originally thought the entire thing was the value. If http://www.example-site.com/ is the value, just quote it like so:

url: "http://www.example-site.com/"

Pyinstaller setting icons don't change

That's error of a module in pyinstaller. The stuff would be sth like this, right:

File "c:\users\p-stu\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\utils\win32\icon.py", line 234, in CopyIcons
    except win32api.error as W32E:
AttrubuteError: module 'win32ctypes.pywin32.win32api' has no attribute 'error'

GridLayout and Row/Column Span Woe

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" >

    <GridLayout
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_centerInParent="true"
        android:columnCount="8"
        android:rowCount="7" >

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="50dip"
            android:layout_height="50dip"
            android:layout_columnSpan="2"
            android:layout_rowSpan="2"
            android:background="#a30000"
            android:gravity="center"
            android:text="1"
            android:textColor="@android:color/white"
            android:textSize="20dip" />

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="50dip"
            android:layout_height="25dip"
            android:layout_columnSpan="2"
            android:layout_rowSpan="1"
            android:background="#0c00a3"
            android:gravity="center"
            android:text="2"
            android:textColor="@android:color/white"
            android:textSize="20dip" />

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="25dip"
            android:layout_height="100dip"
            android:layout_columnSpan="1"
            android:layout_rowSpan="4"
            android:background="#00a313"
            android:gravity="center"
            android:text="3"
            android:textColor="@android:color/white"
            android:textSize="20dip" />

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="75dip"
            android:layout_height="50dip"
            android:layout_columnSpan="3"
            android:layout_rowSpan="2"
            android:background="#a29100"
            android:gravity="center"
            android:text="4"
            android:textColor="@android:color/white"
            android:textSize="20dip" />

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="75dip"
            android:layout_height="25dip"
            android:layout_columnSpan="3"
            android:layout_rowSpan="1"
            android:background="#a500ab"
            android:gravity="center"
            android:text="5"
            android:textColor="@android:color/white"
            android:textSize="20dip" />

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="50dip"
            android:layout_height="25dip"
            android:layout_columnSpan="2"
            android:layout_rowSpan="1"
            android:background="#00a9ab"
            android:gravity="center"
            android:text="6"
            android:textColor="@android:color/white"
            android:textSize="20dip" />
    </GridLayout>

</RelativeLayout>

ScreenShot

Support for "border-radius" in IE

The answer to this question has changed since it was asked a year ago. (This question is currently one of the top results for Googling "border-radius ie".)

IE9 will support border-radius.

There is a platform preview available which supports border-radius. You will need Windows Vista or Windows 7 to run the preview (and IE9 when it is released).

How to show text in combobox when no item selected?

I realize this is an old thread, but just wanted to let others who might search for an answer to this question know, in the current version of Visual Studio (2015), there is a property called "Placeholder Text" that does what jotbek originally asked about. Use the Properties box, under "Common" properties.

How to enable Auto Logon User Authentication for Google Chrome

If you add your site to "Local Intranet" in

Chrome > Options > Under the Hood > Change Proxy Settings > Security (tab) > Local Intranet/Sites > Advanced.

Add you site URL here and it will work.

Update for New Version of Chrome

Chrome > Settings > Advanced > System > Open Proxy Settings > Security (tab) > Local Intranet > Sites (button) > Advanced.

SQL Server "AFTER INSERT" trigger doesn't see the just-inserted row

Triggers cannot modify the changed data (Inserted or Deleted) otherwise you could get infinite recursion as the changes invoked the trigger again. One option would be for the trigger to roll back the transaction.

Edit: The reason for this is that the standard for SQL is that inserted and deleted rows cannot be modified by the trigger. The underlying reason for is that the modifications could cause infinite recursion. In the general case, this evaluation could involve multiple triggers in a mutually recursive cascade. Having a system intelligently decide whether to allow such updates is computationally intractable, essentially a variation on the halting problem.

The accepted solution to this is not to permit the trigger to alter the changing data, although it can roll back the transaction.

create table Foo (
       FooID int
      ,SomeField varchar (10)
)
go

create trigger FooInsert
    on Foo after insert as
    begin
        delete inserted
         where isnumeric (SomeField) = 1
    end
go


Msg 286, Level 16, State 1, Procedure FooInsert, Line 5
The logical tables INSERTED and DELETED cannot be updated.

Something like this will roll back the transaction.

create table Foo (
       FooID int
      ,SomeField varchar (10)
)
go

create trigger FooInsert
    on Foo for insert as
    if exists (
       select 1
         from inserted 
        where isnumeric (SomeField) = 1) begin
              rollback transaction
    end
go

insert Foo values (1, '1')

Msg 3609, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
The transaction ended in the trigger. The batch has been aborted.

How to convert Nvarchar column to INT

CONVERT takes the column name, not a string containing the column name; your current expression tries to convert the string A.my_NvarcharColumn to an integer instead of the column content.

SELECT convert (int, N'A.my_NvarcharColumn') FROM A;

should instead be

SELECT convert (int, A.my_NvarcharColumn) FROM A;

Simple SQLfiddle here.

Handler vs AsyncTask vs Thread

If we look at the source code, we will see AsyncTask and Handler is purely written in Java. (There are some exceptions, though. But that is not an important point)

So there is no magic in AsyncTask or Handler. These classes make our life easier as a developer.

For example: If Program A calls method A(), method A() could run in a different thread with Program A. We can easily verify by following code:

Thread t = Thread.currentThread();    
int id = t.getId();

Why should we use a new thread for some tasks? You can google for it. Many many reasons,e.g: lifting heavily, long-running works.

So, what are the differences between Thread, AsyncTask, and Handler?

AsyncTask and Handler are written in Java (internally they use a Thread), so everything we can do with Handler or AsyncTask, we can achieve using a Thread too.

What can Handler and AsyncTask really help?

The most obvious reason is communication between the caller thread and the worker thread. (Caller Thread: A thread which calls the Worker Thread to perform some tasks. A caller thread doesn't necessarily have to be the UI thread). Of course, we can communicate between two threads in other ways, but there are many disadvantages (and dangers) because of thread safety.

That is why we should use Handler and AsyncTask. These classes do most of the work for us, we only need to know which methods to override.

The difference between Handler and AsyncTask is: Use AsyncTask when Caller thread is a UI Thread. This is what android document says:

AsyncTask enables proper and easy use of the UI thread. This class allows to perform background operations and publish results on the UI thread without having to manipulate threads and/or handlers

I want to emphasize two points:

1) Easy use of the UI thread (so, use when caller thread is UI Thread).

2) No need to manipulate handlers. (means: You can use Handler instead of AsyncTask, but AsyncTask is an easier option).

There are many things in this post I haven't said yet, for example: what is UI Thread, or why it's easier. You must know some methods behind each class and use it, you will completely understand the reason why.

@: when you read the Android document, you will see:

Handler allows you to send and process Message and Runnable objects associated with a thread's MessageQueue

This description might seem strange at first. We only need to understand that each thread has each message queue (like a to-do list), and the thread will take each message and do it until the message queue is empty (just like we finish our work and go to bed). So, when Handler communicates, it just gives a message to caller thread and it will wait to process.

Complicated? Just remember that Handler can communicate with the caller thread safely.

Linking a UNC / Network drive on an html page

Alternative (Insert tooltip to user):

<style>
    a.tooltips {
        position: relative;
        display: inline;
    }
    a.tooltips span {
        position: absolute;
        width: 240px;
        color: #FFFFFF;
        background: #000000;
        height: 30px;
        line-height: 30px;
        text-align: center;
        visibility: hidden;
        border-radius: 6px;
    }
    a.tooltips span:after {
        content: '';
        position: absolute;
        top: 100%;
        left: 50%;
        margin-left: -8px;
        width: 0;
        height: 0;
        border-top: 8px solid #000000;
        border-right: 8px solid transparent;
        border-left: 8px solid transparent;
    }
    a:hover.tooltips span {
        visibility: visible;
        opacity: 0.8;
        bottom: 30px;
        left: 50%;
        margin-left: -76px;
        z-index: 999;
    }
</style>
<a class="tooltips" href="#">\\server\share\docs<span>Copy link and open in Explorer</span></a>

What is the difference between a 'closure' and a 'lambda'?

It depends on whether a function uses external variable or not to perform operation.

External variables - variables defined outside the scope of a function.

  • Lambda expressions are stateless because It depends on parameters, internal variables or constants to perform operations.

    Function<Integer,Integer> lambda = t -> {
        int n = 2
        return t * n 
    }
    
  • Closures hold state because it uses external variables (i.e. variable defined outside the scope of the function body) along with parameters and constants to perform operations.

    int n = 2
    
    Function<Integer,Integer> closure = t -> {
        return t * n 
    }
    

When Java creates closure, it keeps the variable n with the function so it can be referenced when passed to other functions or used anywhere.

clearing a char array c

It depends on how you want to view the array. If you are viewing the array as a series of chars, then the only way to clear out the data is to touch every entry. memset is probably the most effective way to achieve this.

On the other hand, if you are choosing to view this as a C/C++ null terminated string, setting the first byte to 0 will effectively clear the string.

Python - How do you run a .py file?

If you want to run .py files in Windows, Try installing Git bash Then download python(Required Version) from python.org and install in the main c drive folder

For me, its :

"C:\Python38"

then open Git Bash and go to the respective folder where your .py file is stored :

For me, its :

File Location : "Downloads" File Name : Train.py

So i changed my Current working Directory From "C:/User/(username)/" to "C:/User/(username)/Downloads"

then i will run the below command

" /c/Python38/python Train.py "

and it will run successfully.

But if it give the below error :

from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'sklearn'

Then Do not panic :

and use this command :

" /c/Python38/Scripts/pip install sklearn "

and after it has installed sklearn go back and run the previous command :

" /c/Python38/python Train.py "

and it will run successfully.

!!!!HAPPY LEARNING !!!!

script to map network drive

Does this not work (assuming "ROUTERNAME" is the user name the router expects)?

net use Z: "\\10.0.1.1\DRIVENAME" /user:"ROUTERNAME" "PW"

Alternatively, you can use use a small VBScript:

Option Explicit
Dim u, p, s, l
Dim Network: Set Network= CreateObject("WScript.Network")

l = "Z:"
s = "\\10.0.1.1\DRIVENAME"

u = "ROUTERNAME"
p = "PW"

Network.MapNetworkDrive l, s, False, u, p

Re-ordering factor levels in data frame

Assuming your dataframe is mydf:

mydf$task <- factor(mydf$task, levels = c("up", "down", "left", "right", "front", "back"))

Execution failed for task :':app:mergeDebugResources'. Android Studio

For me upgrading gradle version and plugin to the latest version did the trick.

filter items in a python dictionary where keys contain a specific string

input = {"A":"a", "B":"b", "C":"c"}
output = {k:v for (k,v) in input.items() if key_satifies_condition(k)}

What is the most efficient way to create HTML elements using jQuery?

If you have a lot of HTML content (more than just a single div), you might consider building the HTML into the page within a hidden container, then updating it and making it visible when needed. This way, a large portion of your markup can be pre-parsed by the browser and avoid getting bogged down by JavaScript when called. Hope this helps!

How can I install a CPAN module into a local directory?

local::lib will help you. It will convince "make install" (and "Build install") to install to a directory you can write to, and it will tell perl how to get at those modules.

In general, if you want to use a module that is in a blib/ directory, you want to say perl -Mblib ... where ... is how you would normally invoke your script.

What are the differences between virtual memory and physical memory?

See here: Physical Vs Virtual Memory

Virtual memory is stored on the hard drive and is used when the RAM is filled. Physical memory is limited to the size of the RAM chips installed in the computer. Virtual memory is limited by the size of the hard drive, so virtual memory has the capability for more storage.

How to get primary key column in Oracle?

Save the following script as something like findPK.sql.

set verify off
accept TABLE_NAME char prompt 'Table name>'

SELECT cols.column_name
FROM all_constraints cons NATURAL JOIN all_cons_columns cols
WHERE cons.constraint_type = 'P' AND table_name = UPPER('&TABLE_NAME');

It can then be called using

@findPK

How to use subprocess popen Python

subprocess.Popen takes a list of arguments:

from subprocess import Popen, PIPE

process = Popen(['swfdump', '/tmp/filename.swf', '-d'], stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
stdout, stderr = process.communicate()

There's even a section of the documentation devoted to helping users migrate from os.popen to subprocess.

What are database constraints?

Constraints are part of a database schema definition.

A constraint is usually associated with a table and is created with a CREATE CONSTRAINT or CREATE ASSERTION SQL statement.

They define certain properties that data in a database must comply with. They can apply to a column, a whole table, more than one table or an entire schema. A reliable database system ensures that constraints hold at all times (except possibly inside a transaction, for so called deferred constraints).

Common kinds of constraints are:

  • not null - each value in a column must not be NULL
  • unique - value(s) in specified column(s) must be unique for each row in a table
  • primary key - value(s) in specified column(s) must be unique for each row in a table and not be NULL; normally each table in a database should have a primary key - it is used to identify individual records
  • foreign key - value(s) in specified column(s) must reference an existing record in another table (via it's primary key or some other unique constraint)
  • check - an expression is specified, which must evaluate to true for constraint to be satisfied

How to make type="number" to positive numbers only

With text type of input you can use this for a better validation,

return (event.keyCode? (event.keyCode == 69 ? false : event.keyCode >= 48 && event.keyCode <= 57) : (event.charCode >= 48 && event.charCode <= 57))? true : event.preventDefault();

What is a elegant way in Ruby to tell if a variable is a Hash or an Array?

If you want to test if an object is strictly or extends a Hash, use:

value = {}
value.is_a?(Hash) || value.is_a?(Array) #=> true

But to make value of Ruby's duck typing, you could do something like:

value = {}
value.respond_to?(:[]) #=> true

It is useful when you only want to access some value using the value[:key] syntax.

Please note that Array.new["key"] will raise a TypeError.

How do I change data-type of pandas data frame to string with a defined format?

If you could reload this, you might be able to use dtypes argument.

pd.read_csv(..., dtype={'COL_NAME':'str'})

What is the difference between XML and XSD?

XSD:
XSD (XML Schema Definition) specifies how to formally describe the elements in an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document.
Xml:
XML was designed to describe data.It is independent from software as well as hardware.
It enhances the following things.
-Data sharing.
-Platform independent.
-Increasing the availability of Data.

Differences:

  1. XSD is based and written on XML.

  2. XSD defines elements and structures that can appear in the document, while XML does not.

  3. XSD ensures that the data is properly interpreted, while XML does not.

  4. An XSD document is validated as XML, but the opposite may not always be true.

  5. XSD is better at catching errors than XML.

An XSD defines elements that can be used in the documents, relating to the actual data with which it is to be encoded.
for eg:
A date that is expressed as 1/12/2010 can either mean January 12 or December 1st. Declaring a date data type in an XSD document, ensures that it follows the format dictated by XSD.

Animate a custom Dialog

I've been struggling with Dialog animation today, finally got it working using styles, so here is an example.

To start with, the most important thing — I probably had it working 5 different ways today but couldn't tell because... If your devices animation settings are set to "No Animations" (Settings ? Display ? Animation) then the dialogs won't be animated no matter what you do!

The following is a stripped down version of my styles.xml. Hopefully it is self-explanatory. This should be located in res/values.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <style name="PauseDialog" parent="@android:style/Theme.Dialog">
        <item name="android:windowAnimationStyle">@style/PauseDialogAnimation</item>
    </style>

    <style name="PauseDialogAnimation">
        <item name="android:windowEnterAnimation">@anim/spin_in</item>
        <item name="android:windowExitAnimation">@android:anim/slide_out_right</item>
    </style>
</resources>

The windowEnterAnimation is one of my animations and is located in res\anim. The windowExitAnimation is one of the animations that is part of the Android SDK.

Then when I create the Dialog in my activities onCreateDialog(int id) method I do the following.

Dialog dialog = new Dialog(this, R.style.PauseDialog);

// Setting the title and layout for the dialog
dialog.setTitle(R.string.pause_menu_label);
dialog.setContentView(R.layout.pause_menu);

Alternatively you could set the animations the following way instead of using the Dialog constructor that takes a theme.

Dialog dialog = new Dialog(this);
dialog.getWindow().getAttributes().windowAnimations = R.style.PauseDialogAnimation;

Align printf output in Java

You can try the below example. Do use '-' before the width to ensure left indentation. By default they will be right indented; which may not suit your purpose.

System.out.printf("%2d. %-20s $%.2f%n",  i + 1, BOOK_TYPE[i], COST[i]);

Format String Syntax: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Formatter.html#syntax

Formatting Numeric Print Output: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/data/numberformat.html

PS: This could go as a comment to DwB's answer, but i still don't have permissions to comment and so answering it.

'printf' vs. 'cout' in C++

Two points not otherwise mentioned here that I find significant:

1) cout carries a lot of baggage if you're not already using the STL. It adds over twice as much code to your object file as printf. This is also true for string, and this is the major reason I tend to use my own string library.

2) cout uses overloaded << operators, which I find unfortunate. This can add confusion if you're also using the << operator for its intended purpose (shift left). I personally don't like to overload operators for purposes tangential to their intended use.

Bottom line: I'll use cout (and string) if I'm already using the STL. Otherwise, I tend to avoid it.

Object passed as parameter to another class, by value or reference?

I found the other examples unclear, so I did my own test which confirmed that a class instance is passed by reference and as such actions done to the class will affect the source instance.

In other words, my Increment method modifies its parameter myClass everytime its called.

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        MyClass myClass = new MyClass();
        Console.WriteLine(myClass.Value);  // Displays 1
        Increment(myClass);
        Console.WriteLine(myClass.Value);  // Displays 2
        Increment(myClass);
        Console.WriteLine(myClass.Value);  // Displays 3           
        Increment(myClass);
        Console.WriteLine(myClass.Value);  // Displays 4
        Console.WriteLine("Hit Enter to exit.");
        Console.ReadLine();
    }

    public static void Increment(MyClass myClassRef)
    {
        myClassRef.Value++;
    }
}

public class MyClass
{
    public int Value {get;set;}
    public MyClass()
    {
        Value = 1;
    }
}

Passing command line arguments in Visual Studio 2010?

  • Right click your project in Solution Explorer and select Properties from the menu
  • Go to Configuration Properties -> Debugging
  • Set the Command Arguments in the property list.

Adding Command Line Arguments

React: Expected an assignment or function call and instead saw an expression

In my case the problem was the line with default instructions in switch block:

  handlePageChange = ({ btnType}) => {
    let { page } = this.state;
    switch (btnType) {
      case 'next':
        this.updatePage(page + 1);
        break;
      case 'prev':
        this.updatePage(page - 1);
        break;
      default: null;
    } 
  }

Instead of

default: null;

The line

default: ;

worked for me.

How to check if JavaScript object is JSON

you can also try to parse the data and then check if you got object:

var testIfJson = JSON.parse(data);
if (typeOf testIfJson == "object")
{
//Json
}
else
{
//Not Json
}

Error:Execution failed for task ':app:transformClassesWithJarMergingForDebug'

For me the issue was caused by com.google.android.exoplayer conflicting with com.facebook.android:audience-network-sdk.

I fixed the problem by excluding the exoplayer library from the audience-network-sdk :

compile ('com.facebook.android:audience-network-sdk:4.24.0') {
    exclude group: 'com.google.android.exoplayer'
}

MySQL - force not to use cache for testing speed of query

You can also run the follow command to reset the query cache.

RESET QUERY CACHE

Transposing a 1D NumPy array

numpy 1D array --> column/row matrix:

>>> a=np.array([1,2,4])
>>> a[:, None]    # col
array([[1],
       [2],
       [4]])
>>> a[None, :]    # row, or faster `a[None]`
array([[1, 2, 4]])

And as @joe-kington said, you can replace None with np.newaxis for readability.

Oracle Trigger ORA-04098: trigger is invalid and failed re-validation

Oracle will try to recompile invalid objects as they are referred to. Here the trigger is invalid, and every time you try to insert a row it will try to recompile the trigger, and fail, which leads to the ORA-04098 error.

You can select * from user_errors where type = 'TRIGGER' and name = 'NEWALERT' to see what error(s) the trigger actually gets and why it won't compile. In this case it appears you're missing a semicolon at the end of the insert line:

INSERT INTO Users (userID, firstName, lastName, password)
VALUES ('how', 'im', 'testing', 'this trigger')

So make it:

CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER newAlert
AFTER INSERT OR UPDATE ON Alerts
  BEGIN
        INSERT INTO Users (userID, firstName, lastName, password)
        VALUES ('how', 'im', 'testing', 'this trigger');
  END;           
/

If you get a compilation warning when you do that you can do show errors if you're in SQL*Plus or SQL Developer, or query user_errors again.

Of course, this assumes your Users tables does have those column names, and they are all varchar2... but presumably you'll be doing something more interesting with the trigger really.

JWT authentication for ASP.NET Web API

I think you should use some 3d party server to support the JWT token and there is no out of the box JWT support in WEB API 2.

However there is an OWIN project for supporting some format of signed token (not JWT). It works as a reduced OAuth protocol to provide just a simple form of authentication for a web site.

You can read more about it e.g. here.

It's rather long, but most parts are details with controllers and ASP.NET Identity that you might not need at all. Most important are

Step 9: Add support for OAuth Bearer Tokens Generation

Step 12: Testing the Back-end API

There you can read how to set up endpoint (e.g. "/token") that you can access from frontend (and details on the format of the request).

Other steps provide details on how to connect that endpoint to the database, etc. and you can chose the parts that you require.

How to center a checkbox in a table cell?

Make sure that your <td> is not display: block;

Floating will do this, but much easier to just: display: inline;

How to debug "ImagePullBackOff"?

I forgot to push the image tagged 1.0.8 to the ECR (AWS images hub)... If you are using Helm and upgrade by:

helm upgrade minta-user ./src/services/user/helm-chart

make sure that image tag inside values.yaml is pushed (to ECR or Docker Hub, etc) for example: (this is my helm-chart/values.yaml)

replicaCount: 1

image:
   repository:dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/minta-user
   tag: 1.0.8

you need to make sure that the image:1.0.8 is pushed!

How can I parse a YAML file from a Linux shell script?

You could use an equivalent of yq that is written in golang:

./go-yg -yamlFile /home/user/dev/ansible-firefox/defaults/main.yml -key
firefox_version

returns:

62.0.3

What does the line "#!/bin/sh" mean in a UNIX shell script?

If the file that this script lives in is executable, the hash-bang (#!) tells the operating system what interpreter to use to run the script. In this case it's /bin/sh, for example.

There's a Wikipedia article about it for more information.

How to tell if a <script> tag failed to load

This is how I used a promise to detect loading errors that are emited on the window object:

<script type='module'>
window.addEventListener('error', function(error) {
  let url = error.filename
  url = url.substring(0, (url.indexOf("#") == -1) ? url.length : url.indexOf("#"));
  url = url.substring(0, (url.indexOf("?") == -1) ? url.length : url.indexOf("?"));
  url = url.substring(url.lastIndexOf("/") + 1, url.length);
  window.scriptLoadReject && window.scriptLoadReject[url] && window.scriptLoadReject[url](error);
}, true);
window.boot=function boot() {
  const t=document.createElement('script');
  t.id='index.mjs';
  t.type='module';
  new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    window.scriptLoadReject = window.scriptLoadReject || {};
    window.scriptLoadReject[t.id] = reject;
    t.addEventListener('error', reject);
    t.addEventListener('load', resolve); // Careful load is sometimes called even if errors prevent your script from running! This promise is only meant to catch errors while loading the file.
  }).catch((value) => {
    document.body.innerHTML='Error loading ' + t.id + '! Please reload this webpage.<br/>If this error persists, please try again later.<div><br/>' + t.id + ':' + value.lineno + ':' + value.colno + '<br/>' + (value && value.message);
  });
  t.src='./index.mjs'+'?'+new Date().getTime();
  document.head.appendChild(t);
};
</script>
<script nomodule>document.body.innerHTML='This website needs ES6 Modules!<br/>Please enable ES6 Modules and then reload this webpage.';</script>
</head>

<body onload="boot()" style="margin: 0;border: 0;padding: 0;text-align: center;">
  <noscript>This website needs JavaScript!<br/>Please enable JavaScript and then reload this webpage.</noscript>

C# - Multiple generic types in one list

public abstract class Metadata
{
}

// extend abstract Metadata class
public class Metadata<DataType> : Metadata where DataType : struct
{
    private DataType mDataType;
}

Can one do a for each loop in java in reverse order?

For a list, you could use the Google Guava Library:

for (String item : Lists.reverse(stringList))
{
    // ...
}

Note that Lists.reverse doesn't reverse the whole collection, or do anything like it - it just allows iteration and random access, in the reverse order. This is more efficient than reversing the collection first.

To reverse an arbitrary iterable, you'd have to read it all and then "replay" it backwards.

(If you're not already using it, I'd thoroughly recommend you have a look at the Guava. It's great stuff.)

Show spinner GIF during an $http request in AngularJS?

This works well for me:

HTML:

  <div id="loader" class="ng-hide" ng-show="req.$$state.pending">
    <img class="ajax-loader" 
         width="200" 
         height="200" 
         src="/images/spinner.gif" />
  </div>

Angular:

  $scope.req = $http.get("/admin/view/"+id).success(function(data) {          
      $scope.data = data;
  });

While the promise returned from $http is pending, ng-show will evaluate it to be "truthy". This is automatically updated once the promise is resolved... which is exactly what we want.

How can I return the difference between two lists?

You can use CollectionUtils from Apache Commons Collections 4.0:

new ArrayList<>(CollectionUtils.subtract(a, b))

Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:exec-maven-plugin:1.2:java (default-cli)

Your problem is that you have declare twice the exec-maven-plugin :

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
    <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.2.1</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <goals>
                <goal>java</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
    <configuration>
        <mainClass>C:\apache-camel-2.11.0\examples\camel-example-smooks-  
      integration\src\main\java\example\Main< /mainClass>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

...

< plugin>
    < groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
    < artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    < version>1.2</version>
< /plugin>

What is the __del__ method, How to call it?

I wrote up the answer for another question, though this is a more accurate question for it.

How do constructors and destructors work?

Here is a slightly opinionated answer.

Don't use __del__. This is not C++ or a language built for destructors. The __del__ method really should be gone in Python 3.x, though I'm sure someone will find a use case that makes sense. If you need to use __del__, be aware of the basic limitations per http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html:

  • __del__ is called when the garbage collector happens to be collecting the objects, not when you lose the last reference to an object and not when you execute del object.
  • __del__ is responsible for calling any __del__ in a superclass, though it is not clear if this is in method resolution order (MRO) or just calling each superclass.
  • Having a __del__ means that the garbage collector gives up on detecting and cleaning any cyclic links, such as losing the last reference to a linked list. You can get a list of the objects ignored from gc.garbage. You can sometimes use weak references to avoid the cycle altogether. This gets debated now and then: see http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2009-October/006194.html.
  • The __del__ function can cheat, saving a reference to an object, and stopping the garbage collection.
  • Exceptions explicitly raised in __del__ are ignored.
  • __del__ complements __new__ far more than __init__. This gets confusing. See http://www.algorithm.co.il/blogs/programming/python-gotchas-1-del-is-not-the-opposite-of-init/ for an explanation and gotchas.
  • __del__ is not a "well-loved" child in Python. You will notice that sys.exit() documentation does not specify if garbage is collected before exiting, and there are lots of odd issues. Calling the __del__ on globals causes odd ordering issues, e.g., http://bugs.python.org/issue5099. Should __del__ called even if the __init__ fails? See http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2000-March/thread.html#2423 for a long thread.

But, on the other hand:

And my pesonal reason for not liking the __del__ function.

  • Everytime someone brings up __del__ it devolves into thirty messages of confusion.
  • It breaks these items in the Zen of Python:
    • Simple is better than complicated.
    • Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
    • Errors should never pass silently.
    • In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
    • There should be one – and preferably only one – obvious way to do it.
    • If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.

So, find a reason not to use __del__.

When should use Readonly and Get only properties

Methods suggest something has to happen to return the value, properties suggest that the value is already there. This is a rule of thumb, sometimes you might want a property that does a little work (i.e. Count), but generally it's a useful way to decide.

How to get the size of a file in MB (Megabytes)?

Since Java 7 you can use java.nio.file.Files.size(Path p).

Path path = Paths.get("C:\\1.txt");

long expectedSizeInMB = 27;
long expectedSizeInBytes = 1024 * 1024 * expectedSizeInMB;

long sizeInBytes = -1;
try {
    sizeInBytes = Files.size(path);
} catch (IOException e) {
    System.err.println("Cannot get the size - " + e);
    return;
}

if (sizeInBytes > expectedSizeInBytes) {
    System.out.println("Bigger than " + expectedSizeInMB + " MB");
} else {
    System.out.println("Not bigger than " + expectedSizeInMB + " MB");
}

Transfer data from one HTML file to another

Assuming you are talking about this js in browser environment (unlike others like nodejs), Unfortunately I think what you are trying to do isn't possible simply because this is not the way it is supposed to work.

Html pages are delivered to the browser via HTTP Protocol, which is a 'stateless' protocol. If you still needed to pass values in between pages, there could be 3 approaches:

  1. Session Cookies
  2. HTML5 LocalStorage
  3. POST the variable in the url and retrieve them in next.html via window object

Bash script error [: !=: unary operator expected

Or for what seems like rampant overkill, but is actually simplistic ... Pretty much covers all of your cases, and no empty string or unary concerns.

In the case the first arg is '-v', then do your conditional ps -ef, else in all other cases throw the usage.

#!/bin/sh
case $1 in
  '-v') if [ "$1" = -v ]; then
         echo "`ps -ef | grep -v '\['`"
        else
         echo "`ps -ef | grep '\[' | grep root`"
        fi;;
     *) echo "usage: $0 [-v]"
        exit 1;; #It is good practice to throw a code, hence allowing $? check
esac

If one cares not where the '-v' arg is, then simply drop the case inside a loop. The would allow walking all the args and finding '-v' anywhere (provided it exists). This means command line argument order is not important. Be forewarned, as presented, the variable arg_match is set, thus it is merely a flag. It allows for multiple occurrences of the '-v' arg. One could ignore all other occurrences of '-v' easy enough.

#!/bin/sh

usage ()
 {
  echo "usage: $0 [-v]"
  exit 1
 }

unset arg_match

for arg in $*
 do
  case $arg in
    '-v') if [ "$arg" = -v ]; then
           echo "`ps -ef | grep -v '\['`"
          else
           echo "`ps -ef | grep '\[' | grep root`"
          fi
          arg_match=1;; # this is set, but could increment.
       *) ;;
  esac
done

if [ ! $arg_match ]
 then
  usage
fi

But, allow multiple occurrences of an argument is convenient to use in situations such as:

$ adduser -u:sam -s -f -u:bob -trace -verbose

We care not about the order of the arguments, and even allow multiple -u arguments. Yes, it is a simple matter to also allow:

$ adduser -u sam -s -f -u bob -trace -verbose

super() fails with error: TypeError "argument 1 must be type, not classobj" when parent does not inherit from object

If the python version is 3.X, it's okay.

I think your python version is 2.X, the super would work when adding this code

__metaclass__ = type

so the code is

__metaclass__ = type
class B:
    def meth(self, arg):
        print arg
class C(B):
    def meth(self, arg):
        super(C, self).meth(arg)
print C().meth(1)

Calculate age given the birth date in the format YYYYMMDD

You may use this for age restriction in your form -

function dobvalidator(birthDateString){
    strs = birthDateString.split("-");
    var dd = strs[0];
    var mm = strs[1];
    var yy = strs[2];

    var d = new Date();
    var ds = d.getDate();
    var ms = d.getMonth();
    var ys = d.getFullYear();
    var accepted_age = 18;

    var days = ((accepted_age * 12) * 30) + (ms * 30) + ds;
    var age = (((ys - yy) * 12) * 30) + ((12 - mm) * 30) + parseInt(30 - dd);

    if((days - age) <= '0'){
        console.log((days - age));
        alert('You are at-least ' + accepted_age);
    }else{
        console.log((days - age));
        alert('You are not at-least ' + accepted_age);
    }
}

Downloading folders from aws s3, cp or sync?

Using aws s3 cp from the AWS Command-Line Interface (CLI) will require the --recursive parameter to copy multiple files.

aws s3 cp s3://myBucket/dir localdir --recursive

The aws s3 sync command will, by default, copy a whole directory. It will only copy new/modified files.

aws s3 sync s3://mybucket/dir localdir

Just experiment to get the result you want.

Documentation:

How does Google reCAPTCHA v2 work behind the scenes?

Please remember that Google also use reCaptcha together with

Canvas fingerprinting 

to uniquely recognize User/Browsers without cookies!

Rounding a variable to two decimal places C#

Pay attention on fact that Round rounds.

So (I don't know if it matters in your industry or not), but:

float a = 12.345f;
Math.Round(a,2);

//result:12,35, and NOT 12.34 !

To make it more precise for your case we can do something like this:

int aInt = (int)(a*100);
float aFloat= aInt /100.0f;
//result:12,34 

PHP MySQL Query Where x = $variable

$result = mysqli_query($con,"SELECT `note` FROM `glogin_users` WHERE email = '".$email."'");
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
echo $row['note'];

typeof operator in C

It's a GNU extension. In a nutshell it's a convenient way to declare an object having the same type as another. For example:

int x;         /* Plain old int variable. */
typeof(x) y;   /* Same type as x. Plain old int variable. */

It works entirely at compile-time and it's primarily used in macros. One famous example of macro relying on typeof is container_of.

Erase whole array Python

It's simple:

array = []

will set array to be an empty list. (They're called lists in Python, by the way, not arrays)

If that doesn't work for you, edit your question to include a code sample that demonstrates your problem.

Failed to add the host to the list of know hosts

For anyone interested, this one worked for me in Ubuntu:

  1. Go to .ssh directory.

    $ cd ~/.ssh
    
  2. Remove the known_hosts file.

    $ rm known_hosts
    
  3. Re-push your Git changes.

Access-Control-Allow-Origin Multiple Origin Domains?

HTTP_ORIGIN is not used by all browsers. How secure is HTTP_ORIGIN? For me it comes up empty in FF.
I have the sites that I allow access to my site send over a site ID, I then check my DB for the record with that id and get the SITE_URL column value (www.yoursite.com).

header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://'.$row['SITE_URL']);

Even if the send over a valid site ID the request needs to be from the domain listed in my DB associated with that site ID.

asp.net mvc3 return raw html to view

public ActionResult Questionnaire()
{
    return Redirect("~/MedicalHistory.html");
}

Add custom header in HttpWebRequest

You use the Headers property with a string index:

request.Headers["X-My-Custom-Header"] = "the-value";

According to MSDN, this has been available since:

  • Universal Windows Platform 4.5
  • .NET Framework 1.1
  • Portable Class Library
  • Silverlight 2.0
  • Windows Phone Silverlight 7.0
  • Windows Phone 8.1

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.httpwebrequest.headers(v=vs.110).aspx

Comprehensive methods of viewing memory usage on Solaris

"top" is usually available on Solaris.

If not then revert to "vmstat" which is available on most UNIX system.

It should look something like this (from an AIX box)

vmstat

System configuration: lcpu=4 mem=12288MB ent=2.00

kthr    memory              page              faults              cpu
----- ----------- ------------------------ ------------ -----------------------
 r  b   avm   fre  re  pi  po  fr   sr  cy  in   sy  cs us sy id wa    pc    ec
 2  1 1614644 585722   0   0   1  22  104   0 808 29047 2767 12  8 77  3  0.45  22.3

the colums "avm" and "fre" tell you the total memory and free memery.

a "man vmstat" should get you the gory details.

How do you format an unsigned long long int using printf?

In Linux it is %llu and in Windows it is %I64u

Although I have found it doesn't work in Windows 2000, there seems to be a bug there!

Jenkins Slave port number for firewall

A slave isn't a server, it's a client type application. Network clients (almost) never use a specific port. Instead, they ask the OS for a random free port. This works much better since you usually run clients on many machines where the current configuration isn't known in advance. This prevents thousands of "client wouldn't start because port is already in use" bug reports every day.

You need to tell the security department that the slave isn't a server but a client which connects to the server and you absolutely need to have a rule which says client:ANY -> server:FIXED. The client port number should be >= 1024 (ports 1 to 1023 need special permissions) but I'm not sure if you actually gain anything by adding a rule for this - if an attacker can open privileged ports, they basically already own the machine.

If they argue, then ask them why they don't require the same rule for all the web browsers which people use in your company.

"SDK Platform Tools component is missing!"

Here is another alternative. Download it directly here: http://androidsdkoffline.blogspot.com.ng/p/android-sdk-tools.html.

The present version as of this writing is Android SDK Tools 25.1.7. Unzip it when the download is done and place it in your sdk folder. You can then download other missing files directly from the SDK Manager.

Getting new Twitter API consumer and secret keys

From the Twitter FAQ:

Most integrations with the API will require you to identify your application to Twitter by way of an API key. On the Twitter platform, the term "API key" usually refers to what's called an OAuth consumer key. This string identifies your application when making requests to the API. In OAuth 1.0a, your "API keys" probably refer to the combination of this consumer key and the "consumer secret," a string that is used to securely "sign" your requests to Twitter.

What is JNDI? What is its basic use? When is it used?

I will use one example to explain how JNDI can be used to configure database without any application developer knowing username and password of the database.

1) We have configured the data source in JBoss server's standalone-full.xml. Additionally, we can configure pool details also.

 <datasource jta="false" jndi-name="java:/DEV.DS" pool-name="DEV" enabled="true" use-ccm="false">
                <connection-url>jdbc:oracle:thin:@<IP>:1521:DEV</connection-url>
                <driver-class>oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver</driver-class>
                <driver>oracle</driver>
                <security>
                    <user-name>usname</user-name>
                    <password>pass</password>
                    </security>
                    <security>

 <security-domain>encryptedSecurityDomain</security-domain>
                    </security>

                <validation>
                    <validate-on-match>false</validate-on-match>
                    <background-validation>false</background-validation>
                    <background-validation-millis>1</background-validation-millis>
                </validation>
                <statement>
                    <prepared-statement-cache-size>0</prepared-statement-cache-size>
                    <share-prepared-statements>false</share-prepared-statements>
                    <pool>
                        <min-pool-size>5</min-pool-size>
                        <max-pool-size>10</max-pool-size>
                    </pool>
                </statement>
            </datasource>

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Now, this jndi-name and its associated datasource object will be available for our application.application.

2) We can retrieve this datasource object using JndiDataSourceLookup class.

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Spring will instantiate the datasource bean, after we provide the jndi-name.

Now, we can change the pool size, user name or password as per our environment or requirement, but it will not impact the application.

Note : encryptedSecurityDomain, we need to configure it separately in JBoss server like

<security-domain name="encryptedSecurityDomain" cache-type="default">
                    <authentication>
                        <login-module code="org.picketbox.datasource.security.SecureIdentityLoginModule" flag="required">
                            <module-option name="username" value="<usernamefordb>"/>
                            <module-option name="password" value="894c8a6aegc8d028ce169c596d67afd0"/>
                        </login-module>
                    </authentication>
                </security-domain>

This is one of the use cases. Hope it clarifies.

ASP.NET MVC Return Json Result?

It should be :

public async Task<ActionResult> GetSomeJsonData()
{
    var model = // ... get data or build model etc.

    return Json(new { Data = model }, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet); 
}

or more simply:

return Json(model, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet); 

I did notice that you are calling GetResources() from another ActionResult which wont work. If you are looking to get JSON back, you should be calling GetResources() from ajax directly...

ComboBox.SelectedText doesn't give me the SelectedText

All of the previous answers explain what the OP 'should' do. I am explaining what the .SelectedText property is.

The .SelectedText property is not the text in the combobox. It is the text that is highlighted. It is the same as .SelectedText property for a textbox.

The following picture shows that the .SelectedText property would be equal to "ort".

enter image description here

How to force HTTPS using a web.config file

I am using below code and it perfect works for me, hope it will help you.

<configuration>
<system.webServer>
    <rewrite>
        <rules>
            <rule name="Force redirect to https" stopProcessing="true">
                <match url="(.*)" />
                <conditions>
                    <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="^OFF$" />
                </conditions>
                <action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}{REQUEST_URI}" appendQueryString="false" />
            </rule>
        </rules>
    </rewrite>
</system.webServer>

jQuery ajax request with json response, how to?

You need to call the

$.parseJSON();

For example:

...
success: function(data){
       var json = $.parseJSON(data); // create an object with the key of the array
       alert(json.html); // where html is the key of array that you want, $response['html'] = "<a>something..</a>";
    },
    error: function(data){
       var json = $.parseJSON(data);
       alert(json.error);
    } ...

see this in http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.parseJSON/

if you still have the problem of slashes: search for security.magicquotes.disabling.php or: function.stripslashes.php

Note:

This answer here is for those who try to use $.ajax with the dataType property set to json and even that got the wrong response type. Defining the header('Content-type: application/json'); in the server may correct the problem, but if you are returning text/html or any other type, the $.ajax method should convert it to json. I make a test with older versions of jQuery and only after version 1.4.4 the $.ajax force to convert any content-type to the dataType passed. So if you have this problem, try to update your jQuery version.

No matching client found for package name (Google Analytics) - multiple productFlavors & buildTypes

I solved the same problem here is simple solution: when you create firebase connection follow these guidelines:

  • Add your application name in firebase

  • Add your application pakage name (write same pakage name ,you are using in app)

  • when firebase make google-services.json file just download it and paste it in your app folder

  • Sync your project Problem is solved :)

    Thank you

error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5:

error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5

If you see this, your distro probably has a newer version of libncurse installed. First find out what version of libncurses your distro has:

$ ls -1 /usr/lib/libncurses*
/usr/lib/libncurses.so
/usr/lib/libncurses++.so
/usr/lib/libncurses++w.so
/usr/lib/libncursesw.so
/usr/lib/libncurses++w.so.6
/usr/lib/libncursesw.so.6
/usr/lib/libncurses++w.so.6.0
/usr/lib/libncursesw.so.6.0

In this case, we are dealing with version 6, so we make two symlinks:

$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.6.0 /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.6.0 /usr/lib/libtinfo.so.5

After this, the program should run normally.

gem install: Failed to build gem native extension (can't find header files)

sudo apt-get install ruby-dev

This command solved the problem for me!

Apply style to parent if it has child with css

It's not possible with CSS3. There is a proposed CSS4 selector, $, to do just that, which could look like this (Selecting the li element):

ul $li ul.sub { ... }

See the list of CSS4 Selectors here.

As an alternative, with jQuery, a one-liner you could make use of would be this:

$('ul li:has(ul.sub)').addClass('has_sub');

You could then go ahead and style the li.has_sub in your CSS.

How to read a value from the Windows registry

RegQueryValueEx

This gives the value if it exists, and returns an error code ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND if the key doesn't exist.

(I can't tell if my link is working or not, but if you just google for "RegQueryValueEx" the first hit is the msdn documentation.)

Capture Image from Camera and Display in Activity

Here you can open camera or gallery and set the selected image into imageview

private static final String IMAGE_DIRECTORY = "/YourDirectName";
private Context mContext;
private CircleImageView circleImageView;  // imageview
private int GALLERY = 1, CAMERA = 2;

Add permissions in manifest

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="ANDROID.PERMISSION.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

In onCreate()

    requestMultiplePermissions(); // check permission 

    circleImageView = findViewById(R.id.profile_image);
    circleImageView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(View v) {
            showPictureDialog();
        }
    });

Show options dialog box (to select image from camera or gallery)

private void showPictureDialog() {
    AlertDialog.Builder pictureDialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
    pictureDialog.setTitle("Select Action");
    String[] pictureDialogItems = {"Select photo from gallery", "Capture photo from camera"};
    pictureDialog.setItems(pictureDialogItems,
            new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
                    switch (which) {
                        case 0:
                            choosePhotoFromGallary();
                            break;
                        case 1:
                            takePhotoFromCamera();
                            break;
                    }
                }
            });
    pictureDialog.show();
}

Get photo from Gallery

public void choosePhotoFromGallary() {
    Intent galleryIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK, android.provider.MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI);
    startActivityForResult(galleryIntent, GALLERY);
}

Get photo from Camera

private void takePhotoFromCamera() {
    Intent intent = new Intent(android.provider.MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
    startActivityForResult(intent, CAMERA);
}

Once the image is get selected or captured then ,

@Override
public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {

    super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
    if (resultCode == this.RESULT_CANCELED) {
        return;
    }
    if (requestCode == GALLERY) {
        if (data != null) {
            Uri contentURI = data.getData();
            try {
                Bitmap bitmap = MediaStore.Images.Media.getBitmap(this.getContentResolver(), contentURI);
                String path = saveImage(bitmap);
                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Image Saved!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                circleImageView.setImageBitmap(bitmap);

            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Failed!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        }

    } else if (requestCode == CAMERA) {
        Bitmap thumbnail = (Bitmap) data.getExtras().get("data");
        circleImageView.setImageBitmap(thumbnail);
        saveImage(thumbnail);
        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Image Saved!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }
}

Now its time to store the picture

public String saveImage(Bitmap myBitmap) {
    ByteArrayOutputStream bytes = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    myBitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 90, bytes);
    File wallpaperDirectory = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + IMAGE_DIRECTORY);
    if (!wallpaperDirectory.exists()) {  // have the object build the directory structure, if needed.
        wallpaperDirectory.mkdirs();
    }

    try {
        File f = new File(wallpaperDirectory, Calendar.getInstance().getTimeInMillis() + ".jpg");
        f.createNewFile();
        FileOutputStream fo = new FileOutputStream(f);
        fo.write(bytes.toByteArray());
        MediaScannerConnection.scanFile(this,
                new String[]{f.getPath()},
                new String[]{"image/jpeg"}, null);
        fo.close();
        Log.d("TAG", "File Saved::---&gt;" + f.getAbsolutePath());

        return f.getAbsolutePath();
    } catch (IOException e1) {
        e1.printStackTrace();
    }
    return "";
}

Request permission

    private void requestMultiplePermissions() {
    Dexter.withActivity(this)
            .withPermissions(
                    Manifest.permission.CAMERA,
                    Manifest.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE,
                    Manifest.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE)
            .withListener(new MultiplePermissionsListener() {
                @Override
                public void onPermissionsChecked(MultiplePermissionsReport report) {
                    if (report.areAllPermissionsGranted()) {  // check if all permissions are granted
                        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "All permissions are granted by user!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                    }

                    if (report.isAnyPermissionPermanentlyDenied()) { // check for permanent denial of any permission
                        // show alert dialog navigating to Settings
                        //openSettingsDialog();
                    }
                }

                @Override
                public void onPermissionRationaleShouldBeShown(List<PermissionRequest> permissions, PermissionToken token) {
                    token.continuePermissionRequest();
                }
            }).
            withErrorListener(new PermissionRequestErrorListener() {
                @Override
                public void onError(DexterError error) {
                    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Some Error! ", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                }
            })
            .onSameThread()
            .check();
}

Change the Textbox height?

public partial class MyTextBox : TextBox
{
    [DefaultValue(false)]
    [Browsable(true)]
    public override bool AutoSize
    {
        get
        {
            return base.AutoSize;
        }
        set
        {
            base.AutoSize = value;
        }
    }

    public MyTextBox()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        this.AutoSize = false;
    }
}

When to use Hadoop, HBase, Hive and Pig?

First of all we should get clear that Hadoop was created as a faster alternative to RDBMS. To process large amount of data at a very fast rate which earlier took a lot of time in RDBMS.

Now one should know the two terms :

  1. Structured Data : This is the data that we used in traditional RDBMS and is divided into well defined structures.

  2. Unstructured Data : This is important to understand, about 80% of the world data is unstructured or semi structured. These are the data which are on its raw form and cannot be processed using RDMS. Example : facebook, twitter data. (http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/unstructured-data-in-a-big-data-environment.html).

So, large amount of data was being generated in the last few years and the data was mostly unstructured, that gave birth to HADOOP. It was mainly used for very large amount of data that takes unfeasible amount of time using RDBMS. It had many drawbacks, that it could not be used for comparatively small data in real time but they have managed to remove its drawbacks in the newer version.

Before going further I would like to tell that a new Big Data tool is created when they see a fault on the previous tools. So, whichever tool you will see that is created has been done to overcome the problem of the previous tools.

Hadoop can be simply said as two things : Mapreduce and HDFS. Mapreduce is where the processing takes place and HDFS is the DataBase where data is stored. This structure followed WORM principal i.e. write once read multiple times. So, once we have stored data in HDFS, we cannot make changes. This led to the creation of HBASE, a NOSQL product where we can make changes in the data also after writing it once.

But with time we saw that Hadoop had many faults and for that we created different environment over the Hadoop structure. PIG and HIVE are two popular examples.

HIVE was created for people with SQL background. The queries written is similar to SQL named as HIVEQL. HIVE was developed to process completely structured data. It is not used for ustructured data.

PIG on the other hand has its own query language i.e. PIG LATIN. It can be used for both structured as well as unstructured data.

Moving to the difference as when to use HIVE and when to use PIG, I don't think anyone other than the architect of PIG could say. Follow the link : https://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/hadoop/comparing-pig-latin-sql-constructing-data-processing-pipelines-444.html

C++ String Concatenation operator<<

For string concatenation in C++, you should use the + operator.

nametext = "Your name is" + name;

How to query GROUP BY Month in a Year

You can use:

    select FK_Items,Sum(PoiQuantity) Quantity  from PurchaseOrderItems POI
    left join PurchaseOrder PO ON po.ID_PurchaseOrder=poi.FK_PurchaseOrder
    group by FK_Items,DATEPART(MONTH, TransDate)

Append to string variable

Ronal, to answer your question in the comment in my answer above:

function wasClicked(str)
{
  return str+' def';
}

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'ownerDocument' of undefined

Make sure you're passing a selector to jQuery, not some form of data:

$( '.my-selector' )

not:

$( [ 'my-data' ] )

Convert string to variable name in JavaScript

As far as eval vs. global variable solutions...

I think there are advantages to each but this is really a false dichotomy. If you are paranoid of the global namespace just create a temporary namespace & use the same technique.

var tempNamespace = {};
var myString = "myVarProperty";

tempNamespace[myString] = 5;

Pretty sure you could then access as tempNamespace.myVarProperty (now 5), avoiding using window for storage. (The string could also be put directly into the brackets)

Centering a background image, using CSS

simply replace

background-image:url(../images/images2.jpg) no-repeat;

with

background:url(../images/images2.jpg)  center;

Multiple line comment in Python

#Single line

'''
multi-line
comment
'''

"""
also, 
multi-line comment
"""

How to print environment variables to the console in PowerShell?

In addition to Mathias answer.

Although not mentioned in OP, if you also need to see the Powershell specific/related internal variables, you need to use Get-Variable:

$ Get-Variable

Name                           Value
----                           -----
$                              name
?                              True
^                              gci
args                           {}
ChocolateyTabSettings          @{AllCommands=False}
ConfirmPreference              High
DebugPreference                SilentlyContinue
EnabledExperimentalFeatures    {}
Error                          {System.Management.Automation.ParseException: At line:1 char:1...
ErrorActionPreference          Continue
ErrorView                      NormalView
ExecutionContext               System.Management.Automation.EngineIntrinsics
false                          False
FormatEnumerationLimit         4
...

These also include stuff you may have set in your profile startup script.

"use database_name" command in PostgreSQL

When you get a connection to PostgreSQL it is always to a particular database. To access a different database, you must get a new connection.

Using \c in psql closes the old connection and acquires a new one, using the specified database and/or credentials. You get a whole new back-end process and everything.

How to use operator '-replace' in PowerShell to replace strings of texts with special characters and replace successfully

If you've got V3, you can take advantage of auto-enumeration, the -Raw switch in Get-Content, and some of the new line contiunation syntax to simply it to this, using the string .replace() method instead of the -replace operator:

(Get-ChildItem "[FILEPATH]" -recurse).FullName |
  Foreach-Object {
   (Get-Content $_ -Raw).
     Replace('abt7d9epp4','w2svuzf54f').
     Replace('AccountName=adtestnego','AccountName=zadtestnego').
     Replace('AccountKey=eKkij32jGEIYIEqAR5RjkKgf4OTiMO6SAyF68HsR/Zd/KXoKvSdjlUiiWyVV2+OUFOrVsd7jrzhldJPmfBBpQA==','AccountKey=DdOegAhDmLdsou6Ms6nPtP37bdw6EcXucuT47lf9kfClA6PjGTe3CfN+WVBJNWzqcQpWtZf10tgFhKrnN48lXA==') |
   Set-Content $_
  }

Using the .replace() method uses literal strings for the replaced text argument (not regex), so you don't need to worry about escaping regex metacharacters in the text-to-replace argument.

Mobile overflow:scroll and overflow-scrolling: touch // prevent viewport "bounce"

There's a great blog post on this here:

http://www.kylejlarson.com/blog/2011/fixed-elements-and-scrolling-divs-in-ios-5/

Along with a demo here:

http://www.kylejlarson.com/files/iosdemo/

In summary, you can use the following on a div containing your main content:

.scrollable {
    position: absolute;
    top: 50px;
    left: 0;
    right: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    overflow: scroll;
    -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;
}

The problem I think you're describing is when you try to scroll up within a div that is already at the top - it then scrolls up the page instead of up the div and causes a bounce effect at the top of the page. I think your question is asking how to get rid of this?

In order to fix this, the author suggests that you use ScrollFix to auto increase the height of scrollable divs.

It's also worth noting that you can use the following to prevent the user from scrolling up e.g. in a navigation element:

document.addEventListener('touchmove', function(event) {
   if(event.target.parentNode.className.indexOf('noBounce') != -1 
|| event.target.className.indexOf('noBounce') != -1 ) {
    event.preventDefault(); }
}, false);

Unfortunately there are still some issues with ScrollFix (e.g. when using form fields), but the issues list on ScrollFix is a good place to look for alternatives. Some alternative approaches are discussed in this issue.

Other alternatives, also mentioned in the blog post, are Scrollability and iScroll

Mvn install or Mvn package

If you're not using a remote repository (like artifactory), use plain old: mvn clean install

Pretty old topic but AFAIK, if you run your own repository (eg: with artifactory) to share jar among your team(s), you might want to use

mvn clean deploy

instead.

This way, your continuous integration server can be sure that all dependencies are correctly pushed into your remote repository. If you missed one, mvn will not be able to find it into your CI local m2 repository.

How to implement the --verbose or -v option into a script?

My suggestion is to use a function. But rather than putting the if in the function, which you might be tempted to do, do it like this:

if verbose:
    def verboseprint(*args):
        # Print each argument separately so caller doesn't need to
        # stuff everything to be printed into a single string
        for arg in args:
           print arg,
        print
else:   
    verboseprint = lambda *a: None      # do-nothing function

(Yes, you can define a function in an if statement, and it'll only get defined if the condition is true!)

If you're using Python 3, where print is already a function (or if you're willing to use print as a function in 2.x using from __future__ import print_function) it's even simpler:

verboseprint = print if verbose else lambda *a, **k: None

This way, the function is defined as a do-nothing if verbose mode is off (using a lambda), instead of constantly testing the verbose flag.

If the user could change the verbosity mode during the run of your program, this would be the wrong approach (you'd need the if in the function), but since you're setting it with a command-line flag, you only need to make the decision once.

You then use e.g. verboseprint("look at all my verbosity!", object(), 3) whenever you want to print a "verbose" message.

Difference between onLoad and ng-init in angular

ng-init is a directive that can be placed inside div's, span's, whatever, whereas onload is an attribute specific to the ng-include directive that functions as an ng-init. To see what I mean try something like:

<span onload="a = 1">{{ a }}</span>
<span ng-init="b = 2">{{ b }}</span>

You'll see that only the second one shows up.

An isolated scope is a scope which does not prototypically inherit from its parent scope. In laymen's terms if you have a widget that doesn't need to read and write to the parent scope arbitrarily then you use an isolate scope on the widget so that the widget and widget container can freely use their scopes without overriding each other's properties.

How to subtract n days from current date in java?

You don't have to use Calendar. You can just play with timestamps :

Date d = initDate();//intialize your date to any date 
Date dateBefore = new Date(d.getTime() - n * 24 * 3600 * 1000 l ); //Subtract n days   

UPDATE DO NOT FORGET TO ADD "l" for long by the end of 1000.

Please consider the below WARNING:

Adding 1000*60*60*24 milliseconds to a java date will once in a great while add zero days or two days to the original date in the circumstances of leap seconds, daylight savings time and the like. If you need to be 100% certain only one day is added, this solution is not the one to use.

Optimal way to Read an Excel file (.xls/.xlsx)

Using OLE Query, it's quite simple (e.g. sheetName is Sheet1):

DataTable LoadWorksheetInDataTable(string fileName, string sheetName)
{           
    DataTable sheetData = new DataTable();
    using (OleDbConnection conn = this.returnConnection(fileName))
    {
       conn.Open();
       // retrieve the data using data adapter
       OleDbDataAdapter sheetAdapter = new OleDbDataAdapter("select * from [" + sheetName + "$]", conn);
       sheetAdapter.Fill(sheetData);
       conn.Close();
    }                        
    return sheetData;
}

private OleDbConnection returnConnection(string fileName)
{
    return new OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" + fileName + "; Jet OLEDB:Engine Type=5;Extended Properties=\"Excel 8.0;\"");
}

For newer Excel versions:

return new OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=" + fileName + ";Extended Properties=Excel 12.0;");

You can also use Excel Data Reader an open source project on CodePlex. Its works really well to export data from Excel sheets.

The sample code given on the link specified:

FileStream stream = File.Open(filePath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);

//1. Reading from a binary Excel file ('97-2003 format; *.xls)
IExcelDataReader excelReader = ExcelReaderFactory.CreateBinaryReader(stream);
//...
//2. Reading from a OpenXml Excel file (2007 format; *.xlsx)
IExcelDataReader excelReader = ExcelReaderFactory.CreateOpenXmlReader(stream);
//...
//3. DataSet - The result of each spreadsheet will be created in the result.Tables
DataSet result = excelReader.AsDataSet();
//...
//4. DataSet - Create column names from first row
excelReader.IsFirstRowAsColumnNames = true;
DataSet result = excelReader.AsDataSet();

//5. Data Reader methods
while (excelReader.Read())
{
//excelReader.GetInt32(0);
}

//6. Free resources (IExcelDataReader is IDisposable)
excelReader.Close();

Reference: How do I import from Excel to a DataSet using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel?

WebSockets vs. Server-Sent events/EventSource

According to caniuse.com:

You can use a client-only polyfill to extend support of SSE to many other browsers. This is less likely with WebSockets. Some EventSource polyfills:

If you need to support all the browsers, consider using a library like web-socket-js, SignalR or socket.io which support multiple transports such as WebSockets, SSE, Forever Frame and AJAX long polling. These often require modifications to the server side as well.

Learn more about SSE from:

Learn more about WebSockets from:

Other differences:

  • WebSockets supports arbitrary binary data, SSE only uses UTF-8

Disable/Enable Submit Button until all forms have been filled

I think this will be much simpler for beginners in JavaScript

    //The function checks if the password and confirm password match
    // Then disables the submit button for mismatch but enables if they match
            function checkPass()
            {
                //Store the password field objects into variables ...
                var pass1 = document.getElementById("register-password");
                var pass2 = document.getElementById("confirm-password");
                //Store the Confimation Message Object ...
                var message = document.getElementById('confirmMessage');
                //Set the colors we will be using ...
                var goodColor = "#66cc66";
                var badColor = "#ff6666";
                //Compare the values in the password field 
                //and the confirmation field
                if(pass1.value == pass2.value){
                    //The passwords match. 
                    //Set the color to the good color and inform
                    //the user that they have entered the correct password 
                    pass2.style.backgroundColor = goodColor;
                    message.style.color = goodColor;
                    message.innerHTML = "Passwords Match!"
 //Enables the submit button when there's no mismatch                   
                    var tabPom = document.getElementById("btnSignUp");
                    $(tabPom ).prop('disabled', false);
                }else{
                    //The passwords do not match.
                    //Set the color to the bad color and
                    //notify the user.
                    pass2.style.backgroundColor = badColor;
                    message.style.color = badColor;
                    message.innerHTML = "Passwords Do Not Match!"
 //Disables the submit button when there's mismatch       
                    var tabPom = document.getElementById("btnSignUp");
                    $(tabPom ).prop('disabled', true);
                }
            } 

How to check whether a given string is valid JSON in Java

public static boolean isJSONValid(String test) {
    try {
        isValidJSON(test);
        JsonFactory factory = new JsonFactory();
        JsonParser parser = factory.createParser(test);
        while (!parser.isClosed()) {
            parser.nextToken();
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        LOGGER.error("exception: ", e);
        return false;
    }
    return true;
}

private static void isValidJSON(String test) {
    try {
        new JSONObject(test);
    } catch (JSONException ex) {
        try {
            LOGGER.error("exception: ", ex);
            new JSONArray(test);
        } catch (JSONException ex1) {
            LOGGER.error("exception: ", ex1);
            throw new Exception("Invalid JSON.");
        }
    }
}

Above solution covers both the scenarios:

  • duplicate key
  • mismatched quotes or missing parentheses etc.

Append an empty row in dataframe using pandas

You can add it by appending a Series to the dataframe as follows. I am assuming by blank you mean you want to add a row containing only "Nan". You can first create a Series object with Nan. Make sure you specify the columns while defining 'Series' object in the -Index parameter. The you can append it to the DF. Hope it helps!

from numpy import nan as Nan
import pandas as pd

>>> df1 = pd.DataFrame({'A': ['A0', 'A1', 'A2', 'A3'],
...                     'B': ['B0', 'B1', 'B2', 'B3'],
...                     'C': ['C0', 'C1', 'C2', 'C3'],
...                     'D': ['D0', 'D1', 'D2', 'D3']},
...                     index=[0, 1, 2, 3])

>>> s2 = pd.Series([Nan,Nan,Nan,Nan], index=['A', 'B', 'C', 'D'])
>>> result = df1.append(s2)
>>> result
     A    B    C    D
0   A0   B0   C0   D0
1   A1   B1   C1   D1
2   A2   B2   C2   D2
3   A3   B3   C3   D3
4  NaN  NaN  NaN  NaN

Why use getters and setters/accessors?

One relatively modern advantage of getters/setters is that is makes it easier to browse code in tagged (indexed) code editors. E.g. If you want to see who sets a member, you can open the call hierarchy of the setter.

On the other hand, if the member is public, the tools don't make it possible to filter read/write access to the member. So you have to trudge though all uses of the member.

What is the use of "using namespace std"?

When you make a call to using namespace <some_namespace>; all symbols in that namespace will become visible without adding the namespace prefix. A symbol may be for instance a function, class or a variable.

E.g. if you add using namespace std; you can write just cout instead of std::cout when calling the operator cout defined in the namespace std.

This is somewhat dangerous because namespaces are meant to be used to avoid name collisions and by writing using namespace you spare some code, but loose this advantage. A better alternative is to use just specific symbols thus making them visible without the namespace prefix. Eg:

#include <iostream>
using std::cout;

int main() {
  cout << "Hello world!";
  return 0;
}

How to display two digits after decimal point in SQL Server

You can also Make use of the Following if you want to Cast and Round as well. That may help you or someone else.

SELECT CAST(ROUND(Column_Name, 2) AS DECIMAL(10,2), Name FROM Table_Name

How to track down access violation "at address 00000000"

You start looking near that code that you know ran, and you stop looking when you reach the code you know didn't run.

What you're looking for is probably some place where your program calls a function through a function pointer, but that pointer is null.

It's also possible you have stack corruption. You might have overwritten a function's return address with zero, and the exception occurs at the end of the function. Check for possible buffer overflows, and if you are calling any DLL functions, make sure you used the right calling convention and parameter count.

This isn't an ordinary case of using a null pointer, like an unassigned object reference or PChar. In those cases, you'll have a non-zero "at address x" value. Since the instruction occurred at address zero, you know the CPU's instruction pointer was not pointing at any valid instruction. That's why the debugger can't show you which line of code caused the problem — there is no line of code. You need to find it by finding the code that lead up to the place where the CPU jumped to the invalid address.

The call stack might still be intact, which should at least get you pretty close to your goal. If you have stack corruption, though, you might not be able to trust the call stack.

How to restart tomcat 6 in ubuntu

if you are using extracted tomcat then,

startup.sh and shutdown.sh are two script located in TOMCAT/bin/ to start and shutdown tomcat, You could use that

if tomcat is installed then

/etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 start
/etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 stop
/etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 restart

Sort a List of Object in VB.NET

try..

Dim sortedList = From entry In mylist Order By entry.name Ascending Select entry

mylist = sortedList.ToList

Winforms TableLayoutPanel adding rows programmatically

Here's my code for adding a new row to a two-column TableLayoutColumn:

private void AddRow(Control label, Control value)
{
    int rowIndex = AddTableRow();
    detailTable.Controls.Add(label, LabelColumnIndex, rowIndex);
    if (value != null)
    {
        detailTable.Controls.Add(value, ValueColumnIndex, rowIndex);
    }
}

private int AddTableRow()
{
    int index = detailTable.RowCount++;
    RowStyle style = new RowStyle(SizeType.AutoSize);
    detailTable.RowStyles.Add(style);
    return index;
}

The label control goes in the left column and the value control goes in the right column. The controls are generally of type Label and have their AutoSize property set to true.

I don't think it matters too much, but for reference, here is the designer code that sets up detailTable:

this.detailTable.ColumnCount = 2;
this.detailTable.ColumnStyles.Add(new System.Windows.Forms.ColumnStyle());
this.detailTable.ColumnStyles.Add(new System.Windows.Forms.ColumnStyle());
this.detailTable.Dock = System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle.Fill;
this.detailTable.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(0, 0);
this.detailTable.Name = "detailTable";
this.detailTable.RowCount = 1;
this.detailTable.RowStyles.Add(new System.Windows.Forms.RowStyle());
this.detailTable.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(266, 436);
this.detailTable.TabIndex = 0;

This all works just fine. You should be aware that there appear to be some problems with disposing controls from a TableLayoutPanel dynamically using the Controls property (at least in some versions of the framework). If you need to remove controls, I suggest disposing the entire TableLayoutPanel and creating a new one.

Best Practices for securing a REST API / web service

I've used OAuth a few times, and also used some other methods (BASIC/DIGEST). I wholeheartedly suggest OAuth. The following link is the best tutorial I've seen on using OAuth:

http://hueniverse.com/oauth/guide/

Masking password input from the console : Java

Console console = System.console();
String username = console.readLine("Username: ");
char[] password = console.readPassword("Password: ");

Python: Importing urllib.quote

This is how I handle this, without using exceptions.

import sys
if sys.version_info.major > 2:  # Python 3 or later
    from urllib.parse import quote
else:  # Python 2
    from urllib import quote

Python class returning value

the worked proposition for me is __call__ on class who create list of little numbers:

import itertools
    
class SmallNumbers:
    def __init__(self, how_much):
        self.how_much = int(how_much)
        self.work_list = ['0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9']
        self.generated_list = ['0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9']
        start = 10
        end = 100
        for cmb in range(2, len(str(self.how_much)) + 1):
            self.ListOfCombinations(is_upper_then=start, is_under_then=end, combinations=cmb)
            start *= 10
            end *= 10

    def __call__(self, number, *args, **kwargs):
        return self.generated_list[number]

    def ListOfCombinations(self, is_upper_then, is_under_then, combinations):
        multi_work_list = eval(str('self.work_list,') * combinations)
        nbr = 0
        for subset in itertools.product(*multi_work_list):
            if is_upper_then <= nbr < is_under_then:
                self.generated_list.append(''.join(subset))
                if self.how_much == nbr:
                    break
            nbr += 1

and to run it:

if __name__ == '__main__':
        sm = SmallNumbers(56)
        print(sm.generated_list)
        print(sm.generated_list[34], sm.generated_list[27], sm.generated_list[10])
        print('The Best', sm(15), sm(55), sm(49), sm(0))

result

['0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '10', '11', '12', '13', '14', '15', '16', '17', '18', '19', '20', '21', '22', '23', '24', '25', '26', '27', '28', '29', '30', '31', '32', '33', '34', '35', '36', '37', '38', '39', '40', '41', '42', '43', '44', '45', '46', '47', '48', '49', '50', '51', '52', '53', '54', '55', '56']
34 27 10
The Best 15 55 49 0

How to use jquery $.post() method to submit form values

Get the value of your textboxes using val() and store them in a variable. Pass those values through $.post. In using the $.Post Submit button you can actually remove the form.

<script>

    username = $("#username").val(); 
    password = $("#password").val();

    $("#post-btn").click(function(){        
        $.post("process.php", { username:username, password:password } ,function(data){
            alert(data);
        });
    });
</script>

Synchronous Requests in Node.js

Though asynchronous style may be the nature of node.js and generally you should not do this, there are some times you want to do this.

I'm writing a handy script to check an API and want not to mess it up with callbacks.

Javascript cannot execute synchronous requests, but C libraries can.

https://github.com/dhruvbird/http-sync

HTTP post XML data in C#

AlliterativeAlice's example helped me tremendously. In my case, though, the server I was talking to didn't like having single quotes around utf-8 in the content type. It failed with a generic "Server Error" and it took hours to figure out what it didn't like:

request.ContentType = "text/xml; encoding=utf-8";

Powershell Invoke-WebRequest Fails with SSL/TLS Secure Channel

Make sure you switch the SHELL first:

SHELL ["powershell", "-Command", "$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'; $ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue';"]

RUN [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12 
RUN Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing -Uri  'https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/download/v2.25.1.windows.1/Git-2.25.1-64-bit.exe' -OutFile 'outfile.exe'

Free easy way to draw graphs and charts in C++?

I've used this "portable plotter". It's very small, multiplatform, easy to use and you can plug it into different graphical libraries. pplot

(Only for the plots part)

If you use or plan to use Qt, another multiplatform solution is Qwt and Qchart

Skip first entry in for loop in python?

Well, your syntax isn't really Python to begin with.

Iterations in Python are over he contents of containers (well, technically it's over iterators), with a syntax for item in container. In this case, the container is the cars list, but you want to skip the first and last elements, so that means cars[1:-1] (python lists are zero-based, negative numbers count from the end, and : is slicing syntax.

So you want

for c in cars[1:-1]:
    do something with c

Insert 2 million rows into SQL Server quickly

I ran into this scenario recently (well over 7 million rows) and eneded up using sqlcmd via powershell (after parsing raw data into SQL insert statements) in segments of 5,000 at a time (SQL can't handle 7 million lines in one lump job or even 500,000 lines for that matter unless its broken down into smaller 5K pieces. You can then run each 5K script one after the other.) as I needed to leverage the new sequence command in SQL Server 2012 Enterprise. I couldn't find a programatic way to insert seven million rows of data quickly and efficiently with said sequence command.

Secondly, one of the things to look out for when inserting a million rows or more of data in one sitting is the CPU and memory consumption (mostly memory) during the insert process. SQL will eat up memory/CPU with a job of this magnitude without releasing said processes. Needless to say if you don't have enough processing power or memory on your server you can crash it pretty easily in a short time (which I found out the hard way). If you get to the point to where your memory consumption is over 70-75% just reboot the server and the processes will be released back to normal.

I had to run a bunch of trial and error tests to see what the limits for my server was (given the limited CPU/Memory resources to work with) before I could actually have a final execution plan. I would suggest you do the same in a test environment before rolling this out into production.

For Restful API, can GET method use json data?

To answer your question, yes you may pass JSON in the URI as part of a GET request (provided you URL-encode). However, considering your reason for doing this is due to the length of the URI, using JSON will be self-defeating (introducing more characters than required).

I suggest you send your parameters in body of a POST request, either in regular CGI style (param1=val1&param2=val2) or JSON (parsed by your API upon receipt)

Why shouldn't `&apos;` be used to escape single quotes?

&quot; is on the official list of valid HTML 4 entities, but &apos; is not.

From C.16. The Named Character Reference ':

The named character reference &apos; (the apostrophe, U+0027) was introduced in XML 1.0 but does not appear in HTML. Authors should therefore use &#39; instead of &apos; to work as expected in HTML 4 user agents.

How to open standard Google Map application from my application?

This is written in Kotlin, it will open the maps app if it's found and place the point and let you start the trip:

  val gmmIntentUri = Uri.parse("http://maps.google.com/maps?daddr=" + adapter.getItemAt(position).latitud + "," + adapter.getItemAt(position).longitud)
        val mapIntent = Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, gmmIntentUri)
        mapIntent.setPackage("com.google.android.apps.maps")
        if (mapIntent.resolveActivity(requireActivity().packageManager) != null) {
            startActivity(mapIntent)
        }

Replace requireActivity() with your Context.

MySQL Error 1215: Cannot add foreign key constraint

This also happens when the type of the columns is not the same.

e.g. if the column you are referring to is UNSIGNED INT and the column being referred is INT then you get this error.

What is an idempotent operation?

Idempotent Operations: Operations that have no side-effects if executed multiple times.
Example: An operation that retrieves values from a data resource and say, prints it

Non-Idempotent Operations: Operations that would cause some harm if executed multiple times. (As they change some values or states)
Example: An operation that withdraws from a bank account

Pretty-Print JSON in Java

In JSONLib you can use this:

String jsonTxt = JSONUtils.valueToString(json, 8, 4);

From the Javadoc: