Programs & Examples On #Emacs

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable, self-documenting text editor, which can be extended with Lisp code. Although Emacs is a general-purpose editor, questions may be on-topic here if they are about extending Emacs itself (usually by writing Emacs Lisp functions) or about specific programming modes. Otherwise (and perhaps also in those cases), consider asking your question on Emacs Stack Exchange.

Why should I use an IDE?

Code completion. It helps a lot with exploring code.

Differences between Emacs and Vim

(the text below is my opinion, it should not be taken as fact or an insult)

With Emacs you are expected to have it open 24/7 and live inside the program, almost everything you do can be done from there. You write your own extensions, use it for note-taking, organization, games, programming, shell access, file access, listening to music, web browsing. It takes weeks and weeks till you will be happy with it and then you will learn new stuff all the time. You will be annoyed when you don't have access to it and constantly change your config. You won't be able to use other peoples emacs versions easily and it won't just be installed. It uses Lisp, which is great. You can make it into anything you want it to be. (anything, at all)

With Vim, it's almost always pre-installed. It's fast. You open up a file do a quick edit and then quit. You can work with the basic setup if you are on someone else's machine. It's not quite so editable, but it's still far better than most text editors. It recognizes that most of the time you are reading/editing not typing and makes that portion faster. You don't suffer from emacs pinkie. It's not so infuriating. It's easier to learn.

Even though I use Emacs all day every day (and love it) unless you intend to spend a lot of time in the program you choose I would pick vim

How to replace a character with a newline in Emacs?

M-x replace-string RET ; RET C-q C-j.

  • C-q for quoted-insert,

  • C-j is a newline.

Cheers!

How do you 'redo' changes after 'undo' with Emacs?

Doom Emacs users, I hope you've scrolled this far or searched for 'doom' on the page...

  • Doom Emacs breaks the vanilla Emacs redo shortcut: C-g C-/ C-/ C-/ etc (or C-g C-_ C-_ C-_ etc) ...and instead that just keeps undoing.
  • Doom Emacs also breaks the undo-tree redo shortcut mentioned in one of the other answers as being useful for spacemacs etc: S-C-/ (AKA C-?) ...and instead that throws the error "C-? is not defined".

What you need is:

  • to be in evil-mode (C-z to toggle in and out of evil-mode) (in evil-mode should see blue cursor, not orange cursor) and
  • to be in 'command mode' AKA 'normal mode' (as opposed to 'insert mode') (Esc to switch to command mode) (should see block cursor, not line cursor), and then it's
  • u for undo and
  • C-r for redo

How can I reload .emacs after changing it?

You can use the command load-file (M-x load-file, then press return twice to accept the default filename, which is the current file being edited).

You can also just move the point to the end of any sexp and press C-xC-e to execute just that sexp. Usually it's not necessary to reload the whole file if you're just changing a line or two.

Set 4 Space Indent in Emacs in Text Mode

Add this to your .emacs file:

This will set the width that a tab is displayed to 2 characters (change the number 2 to whatever you want)

(setq default-tab-width 2)

To make sure that emacs is actually using tabs instead of spaces:

(global-set-key (kbd "TAB") 'self-insert-command)

As an aside, the default for emacs when backspacing over a tab is to convert it to spaces and then delete a space. This can be annoying. If you want it to just delete the tab, you can do this:

(setq c-backspace-function 'backward-delete-char)

Enjoy!

What are these ^M's that keep showing up in my files in emacs?

I ran into this issue a while back. The ^M represents a Carriage Return, and searching on Ctrl-Q Ctrl-M (This creates a literal ^M) will allow you get a handle on this character within Emacs. I did something along these lines:

M-x replace-string [ENTER] C-q C-m [ENTER] \n [ENTER]

Where does this come from: -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

In PyCharm, I'd leave it out. It turns off the UTF-8 indicator at the bottom with a warning that the encoding is hard-coded. Don't think you need the PyCharm comment mentioned above.

How do I make Git use the editor of my choice for commits?

For IntelliJ users

When i was trying to git rebase i was getting the following error: 'hint: Waiting for your editor to close the file... code -n -w: code: command not found error: There was a problem with the editor 'code -n -w'.'

The same error showed up when i was trying to associate IntelliJ with Git: enter image description here

The problem was that I did not have the command code added in my environment PATH variable. And i didn't want to use Visual Studio Code from my terminal. So that is why it prompted "command not found". I solved this by deleting

editor = code -n -w

from the core section in my .gitconfig file. Git worked properly again.

How to set the font size in Emacs?

I've got the following in my .emacs:

(defun fontify-frame (frame)
  (set-frame-parameter frame 'font "Monospace-11"))

;; Fontify current frame
(fontify-frame nil)
;; Fontify any future frames
(push 'fontify-frame after-make-frame-functions) 

You can subsitute any font of your choosing for "Monospace-11". The set of available options is highly system-dependent. Using M-x set-default-font and looking at the tab-completions will give you some ideas. On my system, with Emacs 23 and anti-aliasing enabled, can choose system fonts by name, e.g., Monospace, Sans Serif, etc.

Step-by-step debugging with IPython

You can use IPython's %pdb magic. Just call %pdb in IPython and when an error occurs, you're automatically dropped to ipdb. While you don't have the stepping immediately, you're in ipdb afterwards.

This makes debugging individual functions easy, as you can just load a file with %load and then run a function. You could force an error with an assert at the right position.

%pdb is a line magic. Call it as %pdb on, %pdb 1, %pdb off or %pdb 0. If called without argument it works as a toggle.

How do I control how Emacs makes backup files?

You can disable them altogether by

(setq make-backup-files nil)

How to open Emacs inside Bash

emacs hello.c -nw

This is to open a hello.c file using Emacs inside the terminal.

Java : Cannot format given Object as a Date

You have one DateFormat, but you need two: one for the input, and another for the output.

You've got one for the output, but I don't see anything that would match your input. When you give the input string to the output format, it's no surprise that you see that exception.

DateFormat inputDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-ddhh:mm:ss.SSS-Z");

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

If letters are always in the beginning or at the end, you can simply just use trim...no regex needed

$string = trim($string, "a..zA..Z"); // this also take care of lowercase

"AR3,373.31" --> "3,373.31"
"12.322,11T" --> "12.322,11"
"12.322,11"  --> "12.322,11"

Math.random() explanation

Here's a method which receives boundaries and returns a random integer. It is slightly more advanced (completely universal): boundaries can be both positive and negative, and minimum/maximum boundaries can come in any order.

int myRand(int i_from, int i_to) {
  return (int)(Math.random() * (Math.abs(i_from - i_to) + 1)) + Math.min(i_from, i_to);
}

In general, it finds the absolute distance between the borders, gets relevant random value, and then shifts the answer based on the bottom border.

string.Replace in AngularJs

In Javascript method names are camel case, so it's replace, not Replace:

$scope.newString = oldString.replace("stackover","NO");

Note that contrary to how the .NET Replace method works, the Javascript replace method replaces only the first occurrence if you are using a string as first parameter. If you want to replace all occurrences you need to use a regular expression so that you can specify the global (g) flag:

$scope.newString = oldString.replace(/stackover/g,"NO");

See this example.

Why can't static methods be abstract in Java?

Because "abstract" means: "Implements no functionality", and "static" means: "There is functionality even if you don't have an object instance". And that's a logical contradiction.

What are the differences between the urllib, urllib2, urllib3 and requests module?

urllib2 provides some extra functionality, namely the urlopen() function can allow you to specify headers (normally you'd have had to use httplib in the past, which is far more verbose.) More importantly though, urllib2 provides the Request class, which allows for a more declarative approach to doing a request:

r = Request(url='http://www.mysite.com')
r.add_header('User-Agent', 'awesome fetcher')
r.add_data(urllib.urlencode({'foo': 'bar'})
response = urlopen(r)

Note that urlencode() is only in urllib, not urllib2.

There are also handlers for implementing more advanced URL support in urllib2. The short answer is, unless you're working with legacy code, you probably want to use the URL opener from urllib2, but you still need to import into urllib for some of the utility functions.

Bonus answer With Google App Engine, you can use any of httplib, urllib or urllib2, but all of them are just wrappers for Google's URL Fetch API. That is, you are still subject to the same limitations such as ports, protocols, and the length of the response allowed. You can use the core of the libraries as you would expect for retrieving HTTP URLs, though.

Can anonymous class implement interface?

Casting anonymous types to interfaces has been something I've wanted for a while but unfortunately the current implementation forces you to have an implementation of that interface.

The best solution around it is having some type of dynamic proxy that creates the implementation for you. Using the excellent LinFu project you can replace

select new
{
  A = value.A,
  B = value.C + "_" + value.D
};

with

 select new DynamicObject(new
 {
   A = value.A,
   B = value.C + "_" + value.D
 }).CreateDuck<DummyInterface>();

JavaScript calculate the day of the year (1 - 366)

Date.prototype.dayOfYear= function(){
    var j1= new Date(this);
    j1.setMonth(0, 0);
    return Math.round((this-j1)/8.64e7);
}

alert(new Date().dayOfYear())

Get the first element of each tuple in a list in Python

If you don't want to use list comprehension by some reasons, you can use map and operator.itemgetter:

>>> from operator import itemgetter
>>> rows = [(1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6)]
>>> map(itemgetter(1), rows)
[2, 4, 6]
>>>

Efficiently finding the last line in a text file

with open('output.txt', 'r') as f:
    lines = f.read().splitlines()
    last_line = lines[-1]
    print last_line

List directory tree structure in python?

Similar to answers above, but for python3, arguably readable and arguably extensible:

from pathlib import Path

class DisplayablePath(object):
    display_filename_prefix_middle = '+--'
    display_filename_prefix_last = '+--'
    display_parent_prefix_middle = '    '
    display_parent_prefix_last = '¦   '

    def __init__(self, path, parent_path, is_last):
        self.path = Path(str(path))
        self.parent = parent_path
        self.is_last = is_last
        if self.parent:
            self.depth = self.parent.depth + 1
        else:
            self.depth = 0

    @property
    def displayname(self):
        if self.path.is_dir():
            return self.path.name + '/'
        return self.path.name

    @classmethod
    def make_tree(cls, root, parent=None, is_last=False, criteria=None):
        root = Path(str(root))
        criteria = criteria or cls._default_criteria

        displayable_root = cls(root, parent, is_last)
        yield displayable_root

        children = sorted(list(path
                               for path in root.iterdir()
                               if criteria(path)),
                          key=lambda s: str(s).lower())
        count = 1
        for path in children:
            is_last = count == len(children)
            if path.is_dir():
                yield from cls.make_tree(path,
                                         parent=displayable_root,
                                         is_last=is_last,
                                         criteria=criteria)
            else:
                yield cls(path, displayable_root, is_last)
            count += 1

    @classmethod
    def _default_criteria(cls, path):
        return True

    @property
    def displayname(self):
        if self.path.is_dir():
            return self.path.name + '/'
        return self.path.name

    def displayable(self):
        if self.parent is None:
            return self.displayname

        _filename_prefix = (self.display_filename_prefix_last
                            if self.is_last
                            else self.display_filename_prefix_middle)

        parts = ['{!s} {!s}'.format(_filename_prefix,
                                    self.displayname)]

        parent = self.parent
        while parent and parent.parent is not None:
            parts.append(self.display_parent_prefix_middle
                         if parent.is_last
                         else self.display_parent_prefix_last)
            parent = parent.parent

        return ''.join(reversed(parts))

Example usage:

paths = DisplayablePath.make_tree(Path('doc'))
for path in paths:
    print(path.displayable())

Example output:

doc/
+-- _static/
¦   +-- embedded/
¦   ¦   +-- deep_file
¦   ¦   +-- very/
¦   ¦       +-- deep/
¦   ¦           +-- folder/
¦   ¦               +-- very_deep_file
¦   +-- less_deep_file
+-- about.rst
+-- conf.py
+-- index.rst

Notes

  • This uses recursion. It will raise a RecursionError on really deep folder trees
  • The tree is lazily evaluated. It should behave well on really wide folder trees. Immediate children of a given folder are not lazily evaluated, though.

Edit:

  • Added bonus! criteria callback for filtering paths.

Adding values to an array in java

I suggest you step through the code in your debugger as debugging programs is what it is for.

What I would expect you would see is that every time the code loops int x = 0; is set.

Clear git local cache

All .idea files that are explicitly ignored are still showing up to commit

you have to remove them from the staging area

git rm --cached .idea

now you have to commit those changes and they will be ignored from this point on.
Once git start to track changes it will not "stop" tracking them even if they were added to the .gitignore file later on.

You must explicitly remove them and then commit your removal manually in order to fully ignore them.


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Accessing a resource via codebehind in WPF

Not exactly direct answer, but strongly related:

In case the resources are in a different file - for example ResourceDictionary.xaml

You can simply add x:Class to it:

<ResourceDictionary x:Class="Namespace.NewClassName"
                    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
                    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" >
    <ds:MyCollection x:Key="myKey" x:Name="myName" />
</ResourceDictionary>

And then use it in code behind:

var res = new Namespace.NewClassName();
var col = res["myKey"];

AngularJS - Value attribute on an input text box is ignored when there is a ng-model used?

Overriding the input directive does seem to do the job. I made some minor alterations to Dan Hunsaker's code:

  • Added a check for ngModel before trying to use $parse().assign() on fields without a ngModel attributes.
  • Corrected the assign() function param order.
app.directive('input', function ($parse) {
  return {
    restrict: 'E',
    require: '?ngModel',
    link: function (scope, element, attrs) {
      if (attrs.ngModel && attrs.value) {
        $parse(attrs.ngModel).assign(scope, attrs.value);
      }
    }
  };
});

Python Request Post with param data

params is for GET-style URL parameters, data is for POST-style body information. It is perfectly legal to provide both types of information in a request, and your request does so too, but you encoded the URL parameters into the URL already.

Your raw post contains JSON data though. requests can handle JSON encoding for you, and it'll set the correct Content-Type header too; all you need to do is pass in the Python object to be encoded as JSON into the json keyword argument.

You could split out the URL parameters as well:

params = {'sessionKey': '9ebbd0b25760557393a43064a92bae539d962103', 'format': 'xml', 'platformId': 1}

then post your data with:

import requests

url = 'http://192.168.3.45:8080/api/v2/event/log'

data = {"eventType": "AAS_PORTAL_START", "data": {"uid": "hfe3hf45huf33545", "aid": "1", "vid": "1"}}
params = {'sessionKey': '9ebbd0b25760557393a43064a92bae539d962103', 'format': 'xml', 'platformId': 1}

requests.post(url, params=params, json=data)

The json keyword is new in requests version 2.4.2; if you still have to use an older version, encode the JSON manually using the json module and post the encoded result as the data key; you will have to explicitly set the Content-Type header in that case:

import requests
import json

headers = {'content-type': 'application/json'}
url = 'http://192.168.3.45:8080/api/v2/event/log'

data = {"eventType": "AAS_PORTAL_START", "data": {"uid": "hfe3hf45huf33545", "aid": "1", "vid": "1"}}
params = {'sessionKey': '9ebbd0b25760557393a43064a92bae539d962103', 'format': 'xml', 'platformId': 1}

requests.post(url, params=params, data=json.dumps(data), headers=headers)

LabelEncoder: TypeError: '>' not supported between instances of 'float' and 'str'

This is due to the series df[cat] containing elements that have varying data types e.g.(strings and/or floats). This could be due to the way the data is read, i.e. numbers are read as float and text as strings or the datatype was float and changed after the fillna operation.

In other words

pandas data type 'Object' indicates mixed types rather than str type

so using the following line:

df[cat] = le.fit_transform(df[cat].astype(str))


should help

Is there any way to show a countdown on the lockscreen of iphone?

Or you could figure out the exacting amount of hours and minutes and have that displayed by puttin it into the timer app that already exist in every iphone :)

how to hide the content of the div in css

Best way to hide in html/css using display:none;

Example

<div id="divSample" class="hideClass">hi..</div>
<style>
.hideClass
{display:none;}
</style>

DbEntityValidationException - How can I easily tell what caused the error?

Actually, this is just the validation issue, EF will validate the entity properties first before making any changes to the database. So, EF will check whether the property's value is out of range, like when you designed the table. Table_Column_UserName is varchar(20). But, in EF, you entered a value that longer than 20. Or, in other cases, if the column does not allow to be a Null. So, in the validation process, you have to set a value to the not null column, no matter whether you are going to make the change on it. I personally, like the Leniel Macaferi answer. It can show you the detail of the validation issues

How to create JSON object Node.js

The JavaScript Object() constructor makes an Object that you can assign members to.

myObj = new Object()
myObj.key = value;
myObj[key2] = value2;   // Alternative

Laravel Migration Change to Make a Column Nullable

For Laravel 4.2, Unnawut's answer above is the best one. But if you are using table prefix, then you need to alter your code a little.

function up()
{
    $table_prefix = DB::getTablePrefix();
    DB::statement('ALTER TABLE `' . $table_prefix . 'throttle` MODIFY `user_id` INTEGER UNSIGNED NULL;');
}

And to make sure you can still rollback your migration, we'll do the down() as well.

function down()
{
    $table_prefix = DB::getTablePrefix();
    DB::statement('ALTER TABLE `' . $table_prefix . 'throttle` MODIFY `user_id` INTEGER UNSIGNED NOT NULL;');
}

How to pass parameter to a promise function

Try this:

function someFunction(username, password) {
      return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
        // Do something with the params username and password...
        if ( /* everything turned out fine */ ) {
          resolve("Stuff worked!");
        } else {
          reject(Error("It didn't work!"));
        }
      });
    }
    
    someFunction(username, password)
      .then((result) => {
        // Do something...
      })
      .catch((err) => {
        // Handle the error...
      });

Convert a secure string to plain text

In PS 7, you can use ConvertFrom-SecureString and -AsPlainText:

 $UnsecurePassword = ConvertFrom-SecureString -SecureString $SecurePassword -AsPlainText

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.security/ConvertFrom-SecureString?view=powershell-7#parameters

ConvertFrom-SecureString
           [-SecureString] <SecureString>
           [-AsPlainText]
           [<CommonParameters>]

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2

#!/usr/bin/python

# encoding=utf8

Try This to starting of python file

Wrapping a react-router Link in an html button

Many of the solutions have focused on complicating things.

Using withRouter is a really long solution for something as simple as a button that links to somewhere else in the App.

If you are going for S.P.A. (single page application), the easiest answer I have found is to use with the button's equivalent className.

This ensures you are maintaining shared state / context without reloading your entire app as is done with

import { NavLink } from 'react-router-dom'; // 14.6K (gzipped: 5.2 K)

// Where link.{something} is the imported data
<NavLink className={`bx--btn bx--btn--primary ${link.className}`} to={link.href} activeClassName={'active'}>
    {link.label}
</NavLink>

// Simplified version:
<NavLink className={'bx--btn bx--btn--primary'} to={'/myLocalPath'}>
    Button without using withRouter
</NavLink>

How to sort dates from Oldest to Newest in Excel?

Here's how to sort unsorted dates:

Drag down the column to select the dates you want to sort.

Click Home tab > arrow under Sort & Filter, and then click Sort Oldest to Newest, or Sort Newest to Oldest.

NOTE: If the results aren't what you expected, the column might have dates that are stored as text instead of dates. Convert dates stored as text to dates.

Using Docker-Compose, how to execute multiple commands

* UPDATE *

I figured the best way to run some commands is to write a custom Dockerfile that does everything I want before the official CMD is ran from the image.

docker-compose.yaml:

version: '3'

# Can be used as an alternative to VBox/Vagrant
services:

  mongo:
    container_name: mongo
    image: mongo
    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: deploy/local/Dockerfile.mongo
    ports:
      - "27017:27017"
    volumes:
      - ../.data/mongodb:/data/db

Dockerfile.mongo:

FROM mongo:3.2.12

RUN mkdir -p /fixtures

COPY ./fixtures /fixtures

RUN (mongod --fork --syslog && \
     mongoimport --db wcm-local --collection clients --file /fixtures/clients.json && \
     mongoimport --db wcm-local --collection configs --file /fixtures/configs.json && \
     mongoimport --db wcm-local --collection content --file /fixtures/content.json && \
     mongoimport --db wcm-local --collection licenses --file /fixtures/licenses.json && \
     mongoimport --db wcm-local --collection lists --file /fixtures/lists.json && \
     mongoimport --db wcm-local --collection properties --file /fixtures/properties.json && \
     mongoimport --db wcm-local --collection videos --file /fixtures/videos.json)

This is probably the cleanest way to do it.

* OLD WAY *

I created a shell script with my commands. In this case I wanted to start mongod, and run mongoimport but calling mongod blocks you from running the rest.

docker-compose.yaml:

version: '3'

services:
  mongo:
    container_name: mongo
    image: mongo:3.2.12
    ports:
      - "27017:27017"
    volumes:
      - ./fixtures:/fixtures
      - ./deploy:/deploy
      - ../.data/mongodb:/data/db
    command: sh /deploy/local/start_mongod.sh

start_mongod.sh:

mongod --fork --syslog && \
mongoimport --db wcm-local --collection clients --file /fixtures/clients.json && \
mongoimport --db wcm-local --collection configs --file /fixtures/configs.json && \
mongoimport --db wcm-local --collection content --file /fixtures/content.json && \
mongoimport --db wcm-local --collection licenses --file /fixtures/licenses.json && \
mongoimport --db wcm-local --collection lists --file /fixtures/lists.json && \
mongoimport --db wcm-local --collection properties --file /fixtures/properties.json && \
mongoimport --db wcm-local --collection videos --file /fixtures/videos.json && \
pkill -f mongod && \
sleep 2 && \
mongod

So this forks mongo, does monogimport and then kills the forked mongo which is detached, and starts it up again without detaching. Not sure if there is a way to attach to a forked process but this does work.

NOTE: If you strictly want to load some initial db data this is the way to do it:

mongo_import.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Import from fixtures

# Used in build and docker-compose mongo (different dirs)
DIRECTORY=../deploy/local/mongo_fixtures
if [[ -d "/fixtures" ]]; then
    DIRECTORY=/fixtures
fi
echo ${DIRECTORY}

mongoimport --db wcm-local --collection clients --file ${DIRECTORY}/clients.json && \
mongoimport --db wcm-local --collection configs --file ${DIRECTORY}/configs.json && \
mongoimport --db wcm-local --collection content --file ${DIRECTORY}/content.json && \
mongoimport --db wcm-local --collection licenses --file ${DIRECTORY}/licenses.json && \
mongoimport --db wcm-local --collection lists --file ${DIRECTORY}/lists.json && \
mongoimport --db wcm-local --collection properties --file ${DIRECTORY}/properties.json && \
mongoimport --db wcm-local --collection videos --file ${DIRECTORY}/videos.json

mongo_fixtures/*.json files were created via mongoexport command.

docker-compose.yaml

version: '3'

services:
  mongo:
    container_name: mongo
    image: mongo:3.2.12
    ports:
      - "27017:27017"
    volumes:
      - mongo-data:/data/db:cached
      - ./deploy/local/mongo_fixtures:/fixtures
      - ./deploy/local/mongo_import.sh:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/mongo_import.sh


volumes:
  mongo-data:
    driver: local

OpenCV - DLL missing, but it's not?

Just for your information,after add the "PATH",for my win7 i need to reboot it to get it work.

Remove substring from the string

If you are using Rails there's also remove.

E.g. "Testmessage".remove("message") yields "Test".

Warning: this method removes all occurrences

Adding css class through aspx code behind

Assuming your div has some CSS classes already...

<div id="classMe" CssClass="first"></div>

The following won't replace existing definitions:

ClassMe.CssClass += " second";

And if you are not sure until the very last moment...

string classes = ClassMe.CssClass;
ClassMe.CssClass += (classes == "") ? "second" : " second";

OAuth 2.0 Authorization Header

For those looking for an example of how to pass the OAuth2 authorization (access token) in the header (as opposed to using a request or body parameter), here is how it's done:

Authorization: Bearer 0b79bab50daca910b000d4f1a2b675d604257e42

Script to get the HTTP status code of a list of urls?

I found a tool "webchk” written in Python. Returns a status code for a list of urls. https://pypi.org/project/webchk/

Output looks like this:

? webchk -i ./dxieu.txt | grep '200'
http://salesforce-case-status.dxi.eu/login ... 200 OK (0.108)
https://support.dxi.eu/hc/en-gb ... 200 OK (0.389)
https://support.dxi.eu/hc/en-gb ... 200 OK (0.401)

Hope that helps!

"Unmappable character for encoding UTF-8" error

For IntelliJ users, this is pretty easy once you find out what the original encoding was. You can select the encoding from the bottom right corner of your Window, you will be prompted with a dialog box saying:

The encoding you've chosen ('[encoding type]') may change the contents of '[Your file]'. Do you want to reload the file from disk or convert the text and save in the new encoding?

So if you happen to have a few characters saved in some odd encoding, what you should do is first select 'Reload' to load the file all in the encoding of the bad characters. For me this turned the ? characters into their proper value.

IntelliJ can tell if you most likely did not pick the right encoding and will warn you. Revert back and try again.

Once you can see the bad characters go away, change the encoding select box in the bottom right corner back to the format you originally intended (if you are Googling this error message, that will likely be UTF-8). This time select the 'Convert' button on the dialog.

For me, I needed to reload as 'windows-1252', then convert back to 'UTF-8'. The offending characters were single quotes (‘ and ’) likely pasted in from a Word doc (or e-mail) with the wrong encoding, and the above actions will convert them to UTF-8.

How to process images of a video, frame by frame, in video streaming using OpenCV and Python

Use this:

import cv2
cap = cv2.VideoCapture('path to video file')
count = 0
while cap.isOpened():
    ret,frame = cap.read()
    cv2.imshow('window-name', frame)
    cv2.imwrite("frame%d.jpg" % count, frame)
    count = count + 1
    if cv2.waitKey(10) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
        break

cap.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows() # destroy all opened windows

What does $ mean before a string?

$ is short-hand for String.Format and is used with string interpolations, which is a new feature of C# 6. As used in your case, it does nothing, just as string.Format() would do nothing.

It is comes into its own when used to build strings with reference to other values. What previously had to be written as:

var anInt = 1;
var aBool = true;
var aString = "3";
var formated = string.Format("{0},{1},{2}", anInt, aBool, aString);

Now becomes:

var anInt = 1;
var aBool = true;
var aString = "3";
var formated = $"{anInt},{aBool},{aString}";

There's also an alternative - less well known - form of string interpolation using $@ (the order of the two symbols is important). It allows the features of a @"" string to be mixed with $"" to support string interpolations without the need for \\ throughout your string. So the following two lines:

var someDir = "a";
Console.WriteLine($@"c:\{someDir}\b\c");

will output:

c:\a\b\c

if-else statement inside jsx: ReactJS

For this we can use ternary operator or if there is only one condition then "&&" operator .Like this:-

//This is for if else

render() {

return (   
    <View style={styles.container}>
      {this.state == 'news') ?
           <Text>data</Text>
        : null}
    </View>
)

}

//This is only for if or only for one condition

render() {

return (   
    <View style={styles.container}>
      {this.state == 'news') &&
           <Text>data</Text>
        }
    </View>
)

}

How to call a function after delay in Kotlin?

I recommended using SingleThread because you do not have to kill it after using. Also, "stop()" method is deprecated in Kotlin language.

private fun mDoThisJob(){

    Executors.newSingleThreadScheduledExecutor().scheduleAtFixedRate({
        //TODO: You can write your periodical job here..!

    }, 1, 1, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
}

Moreover, you can use it for periodical job. It is very useful. If you would like to do job for each second, you can set because parameters of it:

Executors.newSingleThreadScheduledExecutor().scheduleAtFixedRate(Runnable command, long initialDelay, long period, TimeUnit unit);

TimeUnit values are: NANOSECONDS, MICROSECONDS, MILLISECONDS, SECONDS, MINUTES, HOURS, DAYS.

@canerkaseler

Get Folder Size from Windows Command Line

Here comes a powershell code I write to list size and file count for all folders under current directory. Feel free to re-use or modify per your need.

$FolderList = Get-ChildItem -Directory
foreach ($folder in $FolderList)
{
    set-location $folder.FullName
    $size = Get-ChildItem -Recurse | Measure-Object -Sum Length
    $info = $folder.FullName + "    FileCount: " + $size.Count.ToString() + "   Size: " + [math]::Round(($size.Sum / 1GB),4).ToString() + " GB"
    write-host $info
}

JPA 2.0, Criteria API, Subqueries, In Expressions

Below is the pseudo-code for using sub-query using Criteria API.

CriteriaBuilder criteriaBuilder = entityManager.getCriteriaBuilder();
CriteriaQuery<Object> criteriaQuery = criteriaBuilder.createQuery();
Root<EMPLOYEE> from = criteriaQuery.from(EMPLOYEE.class);
Path<Object> path = from.get("compare_field"); // field to map with sub-query
from.fetch("name");
from.fetch("id");
CriteriaQuery<Object> select = criteriaQuery.select(from);

Subquery<PROJECT> subquery = criteriaQuery.subquery(PROJECT.class);
Root fromProject = subquery.from(PROJECT.class);
subquery.select(fromProject.get("requiredColumnName")); // field to map with main-query
subquery.where(criteriaBuilder.and(criteriaBuilder.equal("name",name_value),criteriaBuilder.equal("id",id_value)));

select.where(criteriaBuilder.in(path).value(subquery));

TypedQuery<Object> typedQuery = entityManager.createQuery(select);
List<Object> resultList = typedQuery.getResultList();

Also it definitely needs some modification as I have tried to map it according to your query. Here is a link http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-typesafejpa/ which explains concept nicely.

Sqlite in chrome

Chrome supports WebDatabase API (which is powered by sqlite), but looks like W3C stopped its development.

How to find out if an installed Eclipse is 32 or 64 bit version?

Go to the Eclipse base folder ? open eclipse.ini ? you will find the below line at line no 4:

plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_64_1.1.200.v20150204-1316 plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_1.1.200.v20120913-144807

As you can see, line 1 is of 64-bit Eclipse. It contains x86_64 and line 2 is of 32-bit Eclipse. It contains x_86.

For 32-bit Eclipse only x86 will be present and for 64-bit Eclipse x86_64 will be present.

Get the full URL in PHP

Here's a solution using a ternary statement, keeping the code minimal:

$url = "http" . (($_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] == 443) ? "s" : "") . "://" . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

This is the smallest and easiest way to do this, assuming one's web server is using the standard port 443 for HTTPS.

WebSockets protocol vs HTTP

Why is the WebSockets protocol better?

I don't think we can compare them side by side like who is better. That won't be a fair comparison simply because they are solving two different problems. Their requirements are different. It will be like comparing apples to oranges. They are different.

HTTP is a request-response protocol. The client (browser) wants something, the server gives it. That is. If the data client wants is big, the server might send streaming data to void unwanted buffer problems. Here the main requirement or problem is how to make the request from clients and how to response the resources(hypertext) they request. That is where HTTP shine.

In HTTP, only client requests. The server only responds.

WebSocket is not a request-response protocol where only the client can request. It is a socket(very similar to TCP socket). Mean once the connection is open, either side can send data until the underlining TCP connection is closed. It is just like a normal socket. The only difference with TCP socket is WebSocket can be used on the web. On the web, we have many restrictions on a normal socket. Most firewalls will block other ports than 80 and 433 that HTTP used. Proxies and intermediaries will be problematic as well. So to make the protocol easier to deploy to existing infrastructures WebSocket use HTTP handshake to upgrade. That means when the first time connection is going to open, the client sent an HTTP request to tell the server saying "That is not HTTP request, please upgrade to WebSocket protocol".

Upgrade: websocket
Connection: Upgrade
Sec-WebSocket-Key: x3JJHMbDL1EzLkh9GBhXDw==
Sec-WebSocket-Protocol: chat, superchat
Sec-WebSocket-Version: 13

Once the server understands the request and upgraded to WebSocket protocol, none of the HTTP protocols applied anymore.

So my answer is Neither one is better than each other. They are completely different.

Why was it implemented instead of updating the HTTP protocol?

Well, we can make everything under the name called HTTP as well. But shall we? If they are two different things, I will prefer two different names. So do Hickson and Michael Carter .

try/catch with InputMismatchException creates infinite loop

You need to call next(); when you get the error. Also it is advisable to use hasNextInt()

       catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("Error!");
           input.next();// Move to next other wise exception
        }

Before reading integer value you need to make sure scanner has one. And you will not need exception handling like that.

    Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
    int n1 = 0, n2 = 0;
    boolean bError = true;
    while (bError) {
        if (scanner.hasNextInt())
            n1 = scanner.nextInt();
        else {
            scanner.next();
            continue;
        }
        if (scanner.hasNextInt())
            n2 = scanner.nextInt();
        else {
            scanner.next();
            continue;
        }
        bError = false;
    }
    System.out.println(n1);
    System.out.println(n2);

Javadoc of Scanner

When a scanner throws an InputMismatchException, the scanner will not pass the token that caused the exception, so that it may be retrieved or skipped via some other method.

AJAX post error : Refused to set unsafe header "Connection"

Remove these two lines:

xmlHttp.setRequestHeader("Content-length", params.length);
xmlHttp.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");

XMLHttpRequest isn't allowed to set these headers, they are being set automatically by the browser. The reason is that by manipulating these headers you might be able to trick the server into accepting a second request through the same connection, one that wouldn't go through the usual security checks - that would be a security vulnerability in the browser.

Structs in Javascript

The real problem is that structures in a language are supposed to be value types not reference types. The proposed answers suggest using objects (which are reference types) in place of structures. While this can serve its purpose, it sidesteps the point that a programmer would actual want the benefits of using value types (like a primitive) in lieu of reference type. Value types, for one, shouldn't cause memory leaks.

How to connect to mysql with laravel?

In Laravel 5, there is a .env file,

It looks like

APP_ENV=local
APP_DEBUG=true
APP_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY

DB_HOST=YOUR_HOST
DB_DATABASE=YOUR_DATABASE
DB_USERNAME=YOUR_USERNAME
DB_PASSWORD=YOUR_PASSWORD

CACHE_DRIVER=file
SESSION_DRIVER=file
QUEUE_DRIVER=sync

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=mailtrap.io
MAIL_PORT=2525
MAIL_USERNAME=null
MAIL_PASSWORD=null

Edit that .env There is .env.sample is there , try to create from that if no such .env file found.

Can I exclude some concrete urls from <url-pattern> inside <filter-mapping>?

I used an approach described by Eric Daugherty: I created a special servlet that always answers with 403 code and put its mapping before the general one.

Mapping fragment:

  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>generalServlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>project.servlet.GeneralServlet</servlet-class>
  </servlet>
 <servlet>
    <servlet-name>specialServlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>project.servlet.SpecialServlet</servlet-class>
 </servlet>
 <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>specialServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/resources/restricted/*</url-pattern>
 </servlet-mapping>
 <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>generalServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/resources/*</url-pattern>
 </servlet-mapping>

And the servlet class:

public class SpecialServlet extends HttpServlet {
    public SpecialServlet() {
        super();
    }
    protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
        response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_FORBIDDEN);
    }
    protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
        response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_FORBIDDEN);
    }
}

Javascript reduce() on Object

What you actually want in this case are the Object.values. Here is a concise ES6 implementation with that in mind:

const add = {
  a: {value:1},
  b: {value:2},
  c: {value:3}
}

const total = Object.values(add).reduce((t, {value}) => t + value, 0)

console.log(total) // 6

or simply:

const add = {
  a: 1,
  b: 2,
  c: 3
}

const total = Object.values(add).reduce((t, n) => t + n)

console.log(total) // 6

how to achieve transfer file between client and server using java socket

Reading quickly through the source it seems that you're not far off. The following link should help (I did something similar but for FTP). For a file send from server to client, you start off with a file instance and an array of bytes. You then read the File into the byte array and write the byte array to the OutputStream which corresponds with the InputStream on the client's side.

http://www.rgagnon.com/javadetails/java-0542.html

Edit: Here's a working ultra-minimalistic file sender and receiver. Make sure you understand what the code is doing on both sides.

package filesendtest;

import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;

class TCPServer {

    private final static String fileToSend = "C:\\test1.pdf";

    public static void main(String args[]) {

        while (true) {
            ServerSocket welcomeSocket = null;
            Socket connectionSocket = null;
            BufferedOutputStream outToClient = null;

            try {
                welcomeSocket = new ServerSocket(3248);
                connectionSocket = welcomeSocket.accept();
                outToClient = new BufferedOutputStream(connectionSocket.getOutputStream());
            } catch (IOException ex) {
                // Do exception handling
            }

            if (outToClient != null) {
                File myFile = new File( fileToSend );
                byte[] mybytearray = new byte[(int) myFile.length()];

                FileInputStream fis = null;

                try {
                    fis = new FileInputStream(myFile);
                } catch (FileNotFoundException ex) {
                    // Do exception handling
                }
                BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(fis);

                try {
                    bis.read(mybytearray, 0, mybytearray.length);
                    outToClient.write(mybytearray, 0, mybytearray.length);
                    outToClient.flush();
                    outToClient.close();
                    connectionSocket.close();

                    // File sent, exit the main method
                    return;
                } catch (IOException ex) {
                    // Do exception handling
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

package filesendtest;

import java.io.*;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.net.*;

class TCPClient {

    private final static String serverIP = "127.0.0.1";
    private final static int serverPort = 3248;
    private final static String fileOutput = "C:\\testout.pdf";

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        byte[] aByte = new byte[1];
        int bytesRead;

        Socket clientSocket = null;
        InputStream is = null;

        try {
            clientSocket = new Socket( serverIP , serverPort );
            is = clientSocket.getInputStream();
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            // Do exception handling
        }

        ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

        if (is != null) {

            FileOutputStream fos = null;
            BufferedOutputStream bos = null;
            try {
                fos = new FileOutputStream( fileOutput );
                bos = new BufferedOutputStream(fos);
                bytesRead = is.read(aByte, 0, aByte.length);

                do {
                        baos.write(aByte);
                        bytesRead = is.read(aByte);
                } while (bytesRead != -1);

                bos.write(baos.toByteArray());
                bos.flush();
                bos.close();
                clientSocket.close();
            } catch (IOException ex) {
                // Do exception handling
            }
        }
    }
}

Related

Byte array of unknown length in java

Edit: The following could be used to fingerprint small files before and after transfer (use SHA if you feel it's necessary):

public static String md5String(File file) {
    try {
        InputStream fin = new FileInputStream(file);
        java.security.MessageDigest md5er = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
        byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
        int read;
        do {
            read = fin.read(buffer);
            if (read > 0) {
                md5er.update(buffer, 0, read);
            }
        } while (read != -1);
        fin.close();
        byte[] digest = md5er.digest();
        if (digest == null) {
            return null;
        }
        String strDigest = "0x";
        for (int i = 0; i < digest.length; i++) {
            strDigest += Integer.toString((digest[i] & 0xff)
                    + 0x100, 16).substring(1).toUpperCase();
        }
        return strDigest;
    } catch (Exception e) {
        return null;
    }
}

Clicking URLs opens default browser

in some cases you might need an override of onLoadResource if you get a redirect which doesn't trigger the url loading method. in this case i tried the following:

@Override
public void onLoadResource(WebView view, String url)
{
    if (url.equals("http://redirectexample.com"))
    {
        //do your own thing here
    }
    else
    {
        super.onLoadResource(view, url);
    }           
}

How to determine the version of android SDK installed in computer?

You can check following path for Windows 10

C:\Users{user-name}\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\platforms

Also, you can check from android studio

File > Project Structure > SDK Location > Android SDK Location

How to solve munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer error in C++

This happens when the pointer passed to free() is not valid or has been modified somehow. I don't really know the details here. The bottom line is that the pointer passed to free() must be the same as returned by malloc(), realloc() and their friends. It's not always easy to spot what the problem is for a novice in their own code or even deeper in a library. In my case, it was a simple case of an undefined (uninitialized) pointer related to branching.

The free() function frees the memory space pointed to by ptr, which must have been returned by a previous call to malloc(), calloc() or realloc(). Otherwise, or if free(ptr) has already been called before, undefined behavior occurs. If ptr is NULL, no operation is performed. GNU 2012-05-10 MALLOC(3)

char *words; // setting this to NULL would have prevented the issue

if (condition) {
    words = malloc( 512 );

    /* calling free sometime later works here */

    free(words)
} else {

    /* do not allocate words in this branch */
}

/* free(words);  -- error here --
*** glibc detected *** ./bin: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0xb________ ***/

There are many similar questions here about the related free() and rellocate() functions. Some notable answers providing more details:

*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x0a03c978 ***
*** glibc detected *** sendip: free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x09da25e8 ***
glibc detected, realloc(): invalid pointer


IMHO running everything in a debugger (Valgrind) is not the best option because errors like this are often caused by inept or novice programmers. It's more productive to figure out the issue manually and learn how to avoid it in the future.

Android DialogFragment vs Dialog

Use Dialog for simple yes or no dialogs.

When you need more complex views in which you need get hold of the lifecycle such as oncreate, request permissions, any life cycle override I would use a dialog fragment. Thus you separate the permissions and any other code the dialog needs to operate without having to communicate with the calling activity.

Spring Boot and how to configure connection details to MongoDB?

Here is How you can do in Spring Boot 2.0 by creating custom MongoClient adding Providing more control for Connection ,

Please follow github Link for Full Source Code

@Configuration
@EnableMongoRepositories(basePackages = { "com.frugalis.repository" })
@ComponentScan(basePackages = { "com.frugalis.*" })
@PropertySource("classpath:application.properties")
public class MongoJPAConfig extends AbstractMongoConfiguration {

    @Value("${com.frugalis.mongo.database}")
    private String database;
    @Value("${com.frugalis.mongo.server}")
    private String host;
    @Value("${com.frugalis.mongo.port}")
    private String port;
    @Value("${com.frugalis.mongo.username}")
    private String username;
    @Value("${com.frugalis.mongo.password}")
    private String password;


    @Override
    protected String getDatabaseName() {
        return database;
    }

    @Override
    protected String getMappingBasePackage() {
        return "com.frugalis.entity.mongo";
    }

    @Bean
    public MongoTemplate mongoTemplate() throws Exception {
        return new MongoTemplate(mongoClient(), getDatabaseName());
    }

    @Override
    @Bean
    public MongoClient mongoClient() {

        List<MongoCredential> allCred = new ArrayList<MongoCredential>();
        System.out.println("???????????????????"+username+" "+database+" "+password+" "+host+" "+port);
        allCred.add(MongoCredential.createCredential(username, database, password.toCharArray()));
        MongoClient client = new MongoClient((new ServerAddress(host, Integer.parseInt(port))), allCred);
        client.setWriteConcern(WriteConcern.ACKNOWLEDGED);

        return client;
    }} 

Extending from two classes

You can only Extend a single class. And implement Interfaces from many sources.

Extending multiple classes is not available. The only solution I can think of is not inheriting either class but instead having an internal variable of each class and doing more of a proxy by redirecting the requests to your object to the object that you want them to go to.

 public class CustomActivity extends Activity {

     private AnotherClass mClass;

     protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
         super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
         mClass = new AnotherClass(this);
     }

     //Implement each method you want to use.
     public String getInfoFromOtherClass()
     {
        return mClass.getInfoFromOtherClass();
     }
 }

this is the best solution I have come up with. You can get the functionality from both classes and Still only actually be of one class type.

The drawback is that you cannot fit into the Mold of the Internal class using a cast.

Multiple linear regression in Python

You can use the function below and pass it a DataFrame:

def linear(x, y=None, show=True):
    """
    @param x: pd.DataFrame
    @param y: pd.DataFrame or pd.Series or None
              if None, then use last column of x as y
    @param show: if show regression summary
    """
    import statsmodels.api as sm

    xy = sm.add_constant(x if y is None else pd.concat([x, y], axis=1))
    res = sm.OLS(xy.ix[:, -1], xy.ix[:, :-1], missing='drop').fit()

    if show: print res.summary()
    return res

Are PHP short tags acceptable to use?

They're not recommended because it's a PITA if you ever have to move your code to a server where it's not supported (and you can't enable it). As you say, lots of shared hosts do support shorttags but "lots" isn't all of them. If you want to share your scripts, it's best to use the full syntax.

I agree that <? and <?= are easier on programmers than <?php and <?php echo but it is possible to do a bulk find-and-replace as long as you use the same form each time (and don't chuck in spaces (eg: <? php or <? =)

I don't buy readability as a reason at all. Most serious developers have the option of syntax highlighting available to them.

As ThiefMaster mentions in the comments, as of PHP 5.4, <?= ... ?> tags are supported everywhere, regardless of shorttags settings. This should mean they're safe to use in portable code but that does mean there's then a dependency on PHP 5.4+. If you want to support pre-5.4 and can't guarantee shorttags, you'll still need to use <?php echo ... ?>.

Also, you need to know that ASP tags <% , %> , <%= , and script tag are removed from PHP 7. So if you would like to support long-term portable code and would like switching to the most modern tools consider changing that parts of code.

Center an element with "absolute" position and undefined width in CSS?

HTML

<div id='parent'>
  <div id='centered-child'></div>
</div>

CSS

#parent {
  position: relative;
}
#centered-child {
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
  top: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  margin: auto auto;
}

http://jsfiddle.net/f51rptfy/

how to count the spaces in a java string?

This program will definitely help you.

class SpaceCount
{

    public static int spaceCount(String s)
    { int a=0;
        char ch[]= new char[s.length()];
        for(int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) 

        {  ch[i]= s.charAt(i);
            if( ch[i]==' ' )
            a++;
                }   
        return a;
    }


    public static void main(String... s)
    {
        int m = spaceCount("Hello I am a Java Developer");
        System.out.println("The number of words in the String are :  "+m);

    }
}

TreeMap sort by value

A TreeMap is always sorted by the keys, anything else is impossible. A Comparator merely allows you to control how the keys are sorted.

If you want the sorted values, you have to extract them into a List and sort that.

How to get the height of a body element

I believe that the body height being returned is the visible height. If you need the total page height, you could wrap your div tags in a containing div and get the height of that.

Convert array of JSON object strings to array of JS objects

If you really have:

var s = ['{"Select":"11", "PhotoCount":"12"}','{"Select":"21", "PhotoCount":"22"}'];

then simply:

var objs = $.map(s, $.parseJSON);

Here's a demo.

Export and import table dump (.sql) using pgAdmin

If you have Git bash installed, you can do something like this:

/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/PostgreSQL/9.3/bin/psql -U <pg_role_name> -d <pg_database_name> < <path_to_your>.sql

Using jQuery to compare two arrays of Javascript objects

I was also looking for this today and found: http://www.breakingpar.com/bkp/home.nsf/0/87256B280015193F87256BFB0077DFFD

Don't know if that's a good solution though they do mention some performance considerations taken into account.

I like the idea of a jQuery helper method. @David I'd rather see your compare method to work like:

jQuery.compare(a, b)

I doesn't make sense to me to be doing:

$(a).compare(b)

where a and b are arrays. Normally when you $(something) you'd be passing a selector string to work with DOM elements.

Also regarding sorting and 'caching' the sorted arrays:

  • I don't think sorting once at the start of the method instead of every time through the loop is 'caching'. The sort will still happen every time you call compare(b). That's just semantics, but...
  • for (var i = 0; t[i]; i++) { ...this loop finishes early if your t array contains a false value in it somewhere, so $([1, 2, 3, 4]).compare([1, false, 2, 3]) returns true!
  • More importantly the array sort() method sorts the array in place, so doing var b = t.sort() ...doesn't create a sorted copy of the original array, it sorts the original array and also assigns a reference to it in b. I don't think the compare method should have side-effects.

It seems what we need to do is to copy the arrays before working on them. The best answer I could find for how to do that in a jQuery way was by none other than John Resig here on SO! What is the most efficient way to deep clone an object in JavaScript? (see comments on his answer for the array version of the object cloning recipe)

In which case I think the code for it would be:

jQuery.extend({
    compare: function (arrayA, arrayB) {
        if (arrayA.length != arrayB.length) { return false; }
        // sort modifies original array
        // (which are passed by reference to our method!)
        // so clone the arrays before sorting
        var a = jQuery.extend(true, [], arrayA);
        var b = jQuery.extend(true, [], arrayB);
        a.sort(); 
        b.sort();
        for (var i = 0, l = a.length; i < l; i++) {
            if (a[i] !== b[i]) { 
                return false;
            }
        }
        return true;
    }
});

var a = [1, 2, 3];
var b = [2, 3, 4];
var c = [3, 4, 2];

jQuery.compare(a, b);
// false

jQuery.compare(b, c);
// true

// c is still unsorted [3, 4, 2]

How to deserialize a list using GSON or another JSON library in Java?

Be careful using the answer provide by @DevNG. Arrays.asList() returns internal implementation of ArrayList that doesn't implement some useful methods like add(), delete(), etc. If you call them an UnsupportedOperationException will be thrown. In order to get real ArrayList instance you need to write something like this:

List<Video> = new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList(videoArray));

What is the correct way to declare a boolean variable in Java?

In your example, You don't need to. As a standard programming practice, all variables being referred to inside some code block, say for example try{} catch(){}, and being referred to outside the block as well, you need to declare the variables outside the try block first e.g.

This is helpful when your equals method call throws some exception e.g. NullPointerException;

     boolean isMatch = false;

     try{
         isMatch = email1.equals (email2);
      }catch(NullPointerException npe){
         .....
      }
      System.out.print("Match=="+isMatch);
      if(isMatch){
        ......
      }

IF statement: how to leave cell blank if condition is false ("" does not work)

I think all you need to do is to set the value of NOT TRUE condition to make it show any error then you filter the errors with IFNA().

Here is what your formula should look like =ifna(IF(A1=1,B1,NA()))

Here is a sheet that returns blanks from if condition : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15kWd7oPWQmGgYD_PLz9YpIldwnKWoXPHtHQAT3ulqVc/edit?usp=sharing

Android ImageView Animation

I have found out, that if you use the .getWidth/2 etc... that it won't work you need to get the number of pixels the image is and divide it by 2 yourself and then just type in the number for the last 2 arguments.

so say your image was a 120 pixel by 120 pixel square, ur x and y would equal 60 pixels. so in your code, you would right:

RotateAnimation anim = new RotateAnimation(0f, 350f, 60f, 60f);
anim.setInterpolator(new LinearInterpolator());
anim.setRepeatCount(Animation.INFINITE);
anim.setDuration(700);

and now your image will pivot round its center.

mailto link multiple body lines

  1. Use a single body parameter within the mailto string
  2. Use %0D%0A as newline

The mailto URI Scheme is specified by by RFC2368 (July 1998) and RFC6068 (October 2010).
Below is an extract of section 5 of this last RFC:

[...] line breaks in the body of a message MUST be encoded with "%0D%0A".
Implementations MAY add a final line break to the body of a message even if there is no trailing "%0D%0A" in the body [...]

See also in section 6 the example from the same RFC:

<mailto:[email protected]?body=send%20current-issue%0D%0Asend%20index>

The above mailto body corresponds to:

send current-issue
send index

Onclick event to remove default value in a text input field

u can use placeholder and when u write a text on the search box placeholder will hidden. Thanks

<input placeholder="Search" type="text" />

HTTP Error 500.30 - ANCM In-Process Start Failure

In my case it was database connection problem. This error needs to be more clear. I hope they will do it in the future. Basically it is a problem at ConfigureServices function in Startup. My advise is try to add all lines try catch in ConfigureServices function and you can findout where is problem.

Creating an empty Pandas DataFrame, then filling it?

Here's a couple of suggestions:

Use date_range for the index:

import datetime
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

todays_date = datetime.datetime.now().date()
index = pd.date_range(todays_date-datetime.timedelta(10), periods=10, freq='D')

columns = ['A','B', 'C']

Note: we could create an empty DataFrame (with NaNs) simply by writing:

df_ = pd.DataFrame(index=index, columns=columns)
df_ = df_.fillna(0) # with 0s rather than NaNs

To do these type of calculations for the data, use a numpy array:

data = np.array([np.arange(10)]*3).T

Hence we can create the DataFrame:

In [10]: df = pd.DataFrame(data, index=index, columns=columns)

In [11]: df
Out[11]: 
            A  B  C
2012-11-29  0  0  0
2012-11-30  1  1  1
2012-12-01  2  2  2
2012-12-02  3  3  3
2012-12-03  4  4  4
2012-12-04  5  5  5
2012-12-05  6  6  6
2012-12-06  7  7  7
2012-12-07  8  8  8
2012-12-08  9  9  9

Set bootstrap modal body height by percentage

Instead of using a %, the units vh set it to a percent of the viewport (browser window) size.

I was able to set a modal with an image and text beneath to be responsive to the browser window size using vh.

If you just want the content to scroll, you could leave out the part that limits the size of the modal body.

/*When the modal fills the screen it has an even 2.5% on top and bottom*/
/*Centers the modal*/
.modal-dialog {
  margin: 2.5vh auto;
}

/*Sets the maximum height of the entire modal to 95% of the screen height*/
.modal-content {
  max-height: 95vh;
  overflow: scroll;
}

/*Sets the maximum height of the modal body to 90% of the screen height*/
.modal-body {
  max-height: 90vh;
}
/*Sets the maximum height of the modal image to 69% of the screen height*/
.modal-body img {
  max-height: 69vh;
}

How to add items to a spinner in Android?

This code basically reads a JSON array object and convert each row into an option in the spinner that is passed as a parameter:

public ArrayAdapter<String> getArrayAdapterFromArrayListForSpinner(ArrayList<JSONObject> aArrayList, String aField)
{
    ArrayAdapter<String> aArrayAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(context, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item);
    aArrayAdapter.setDropDownViewResource(R.layout.multiline_spinner_dropdown_item); //android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item
    try {
        for (int i = 0; i < aArrayList.size(); i++)
        {
            aArrayAdapter.add(aArrayList.get(i).getString(aField)); 
        }
    } catch (JSONException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        ShowMessage("Error while reading the JSON list");
    }
    return aArrayAdapter;       
}

Save string to the NSUserDefaults?

In Swift 4.0.3 Xcode 9

============set  Data in UserDefaults =========

  UserDefaults.standard.set(userName, forKey: "userName")
  UserDefaults.standard.synchronize()

============Get Data in UserDefaults =========

  let userName = UserDefaults.standard.string(forKey: "userName")
  print(userName ?? "Gera")

  userNameTextField.text = ""+userName!

Enter key press in C#

Try this:

private void textBox1_KeyPress(object sender, KeyPressEventArgs e)
{
        switch (e.Key.ToString())
        {
                case "Return":
                        MessageBox.Show(" Enter pressed ");
                        break;
         }
}

How to have git log show filenames like svn log -v

Another useful command would be git diff-tree <hash> where hash can be also a hash range (denoted by <old>..<new>notation). An output example:

$ git diff-tree  HEAD
:040000 040000 8e09a be406 M myfile

The fields are:

source mode, dest mode, source hash, dest hash, status, filename

Statuses are the ones you would expect: D (deleted), A (added), M (modified) etc. See man page for full description.

How to create nested directories using Mkdir in Golang?

This way you don't have to use any magic numbers:

os.MkdirAll(newPath, os.ModePerm)

Also, rather than using + to create paths, you can use:

import "path/filepath"
path := filepath.Join(someRootPath, someSubPath)

The above uses the correct separators automatically on each platform for you.

Fastest way to remove first char in a String

I know this is hyper-optimization land, but it seemed like a good excuse to kick the wheels of BenchmarkDotNet. The result of this test (on .NET Core even) is that Substring is ever so slightly faster than Remove, in this sample test: 19.37ns vs 22.52ns for Remove. So some ~16% faster.

using System;
using BenchmarkDotNet.Attributes;

namespace BenchmarkFun
{
    public class StringSubstringVsRemove
    {
        public readonly string SampleString = " My name is Daffy Duck.";

        [Benchmark]
        public string StringSubstring() => SampleString.Substring(1);

        [Benchmark]
        public string StringRemove() => SampleString.Remove(0, 1);

        public void AssertTestIsValid()
        {
            string subsRes = StringSubstring();
            string remvRes = StringRemove();

            if (subsRes == null
                || subsRes.Length != SampleString.Length - 1
                || subsRes != remvRes) {
                throw new Exception("INVALID TEST!");
            }
        }
    }

    class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            // let's make sure test results are really equal / valid
            new StringSubstringVsRemove().AssertTestIsValid();

            var summary = BenchmarkRunner.Run<StringSubstringVsRemove>();
        }
    }
}

Results:

BenchmarkDotNet=v0.11.4, OS=Windows 10.0.17763.253 (1809/October2018Update/Redstone5)
Intel Core i7-6700HQ CPU 2.60GHz (Skylake), 1 CPU, 8 logical and 4 physical cores
.NET Core SDK=3.0.100-preview-010184
  [Host]     : .NET Core 3.0.0-preview-27324-5 (CoreCLR 4.6.27322.0, CoreFX 4.7.19.7311), 64bit RyuJIT
  DefaultJob : .NET Core 3.0.0-preview-27324-5 (CoreCLR 4.6.27322.0, CoreFX 4.7.19.7311), 64bit RyuJIT

|          Method |     Mean |     Error |    StdDev |
|---------------- |---------:|----------:|----------:|
| StringSubstring | 19.37 ns | 0.3940 ns | 0.3493 ns |
|    StringRemove | 22.52 ns | 0.4062 ns | 0.3601 ns |

Question mark characters displaying within text, why is this?

This is going to be something to do with character encodings.

Are you sure the mirrored site has the same properties with regards to character encodings as your main server?

Depending on what sort of server you have, this may be a property of the server process itself, or it could be an environment variable.

For example, if this is a UNIX environment, perhaps try comparing LANG or LC_ALL?

See also here

Round up to Second Decimal Place in Python

Here's a simple way to do it that I don't see in the other answers.

To round up to the second decimal place:

>>> n = 0.022499999999999999
>>> 
>>> -(-n//.01) * .01
0.03
>>> 

Other value:

>>> n = 0.1111111111111000
>>> 
>>> -(-n//.01) * .01
0.12
>>> 

With floats there's the occasional value with some minute imprecision, which can be corrected for if you're displaying the values for instance:

>>> n = 10.1111111111111000
>>> 
>>> -(-n//0.01) * 0.01
10.120000000000001
>>> 
>>> f"{-(-n//0.01) * 0.01:.2f}"
'10.12'
>>> 

A simple roundup function with a parameter to specify precision:

>>> roundup = lambda n, p: -(-n//10**-p) * 10**-p
>>> 
>>> # Or if you want to ensure truncation using the f-string method:
>>> roundup = lambda n, p: float(f"{-(-n//10**-p) * 10**-p:.{p}f}")
>>> 
>>> roundup(0.111111111, 2)
0.12
>>> roundup(0.111111111, 3)
0.112

Convert HTML string to image

Thanks all for your responses. I used HtmlRenderer external dll (library) to achieve the same and found below code for the same.

Here is the code for this

public void ConvertHtmlToImage()
{
   Bitmap m_Bitmap = new Bitmap(400, 600);
   PointF point = new PointF(0, 0);
   SizeF maxSize = new System.Drawing.SizeF(500, 500);
   HtmlRenderer.HtmlRender.Render(Graphics.FromImage(m_Bitmap),
                                           "<html><body><p>This is some html code</p>"
                                           + "<p>This is another html line</p></body>",
                                            point, maxSize);

   m_Bitmap.Save(@"C:\Test.png", ImageFormat.Png);
}

Changing the resolution of a VNC session in linux

I think that depends on your window manager.

I'm a windows user, so this might be a wrong guess, but: Isn't there something called X-Server running on linux machines - at least on ones that might be interesting targets for VNC - that you can connect to with "X-Clients"?

VNC just takes everything that's on the screen and "tunnels it through your network". If I'm not totally wrong then the "X" protocol should give you the chance to use your client's desktop resolution.

Give X-Server on Wikipedia a try, that might give you a rough overview.

Bootstrap dropdown sub menu missing

I bumped with this issue a few days ago. I tried many solutions and none really worked for me on the end i ended up creating an extenion/override of the dropdown code of bootstrap. It is a copy of the original code with changes to the closeMenus function.

I think it is a good solution since it doesn't affects the core classes of bootstrap js.

You can check it out on gihub: https://github.com/djokodonev/bootstrap-multilevel-dropdown

When to use IList and when to use List

You should use the interface only if you need it, e.g., if your list is casted to an IList implementation other than List. This is true when, for example, you use NHibernate, which casts ILists into an NHibernate bag object when retrieving data.

If List is the only implementation that you will ever use for a certain collection, feel free to declare it as a concrete List implementation.

How can I hide a TD tag using inline JavaScript or CSS?

.hide{

visibility: hidden

}

<td class="hide"/>

Edit- Just for you

The difference between display and visibility is this.

"display": has many properties or values, but the ones you're focused on are "none" and "block". "none" is like a hide value, and "block" is like show. If you use the "none" value you will totally hide what ever html tag you have applied this css style. If you use "block" you will see the html tag and it's content. very simple.

"visibility": has many values, but we want to know more about the "hidden" and "visible" values. "hidden" will work in the same way as the "block" value for display, but this will hide tag and it's content, but it will not hide the phisical space of that tag. For example, if you have a couple of text lines, then and image (picture) and then a table with three columns and two rows with icons and text. Now if you apply the visibility css with the hidden value to the image, the image will disappear but the space the image was using will remaing in it's place, in other words, you will end with a big space (hole) between the text and the table. Now if you use the "visible" value your target tag and it's elements will be visible again.

Store mysql query output into a shell variable

You have the pipe the other way around and you need to echo the query, like this:

myvariable=$(echo "SELECT A, B, C FROM table_a" | mysql db -u $user -p $password)

Another alternative is to use only the mysql client, like this

myvariable=$(mysql db -u $user -p $password -se "SELECT A, B, C FROM table_a")

(-s is required to avoid the ASCII-art)

Now, BASH isn't the most appropriate language to handle this type of scenarios, especially handling strings and splitting SQL results and the like. You have to work a lot to get things that would be very, very simple in Perl, Python or PHP.

For example, how will you get each of A, B and C on their own variable? It's certainly doable, but if you do not understand pipes and echo (very basic shell stuff), it will not be an easy task for you to do, so if at all possible I'd use a better suited language.

How to get the first column of a pandas DataFrame as a Series?

You can get the first column as a Series by following code:

x[x.columns[0]]

Can you detect "dragging" in jQuery?

Make sure you set the element's draggable attribute to false so you don't have side effects when listening to mouseup events:

<div class="thing" draggable="false">text</div>

Then, you can use jQuery:

$(function() {
  var pressed, pressX, pressY,
      dragged,
      offset = 3; // helps detect when the user really meant to drag

  $(document)
  .on('mousedown', '.thing', function(e) {
    pressX = e.pageX;
    pressY = e.pageY;
    pressed = true;
  })
  .on('mousemove', '.thing', function(e) {
    if (!pressed) return;
    dragged = Math.abs(e.pageX - pressX) > offset ||
              Math.abs(e.pageY - pressY) > offset;
  })
  .on('mouseup', function() {
    dragged && console.log('Thing dragged');
    pressed = dragged = false;
  });
});

How do I count occurrence of duplicate items in array

You can do it using foreach loop.

          $arrayVal = array(1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3,4,4,5,6,4,5,6,88);
          $set_array = array();
          foreach ($array as $value) {
            $set_array[$value]++;
          }
           print_r($set_array);

Output :-

  Array( [1] => 3
             [2] => 3
             [3] => 3
             [4] => 3
             [5] => 2
             [6] => 2
             [88] => 1
            )

How to convert SecureString to System.String?

I derived from This answer by sclarke81. I like his answer and I'm using the derivative but sclarke81's has a bug. I don't have reputation so I can't comment. The problem seems small enough that it didn't warrant another answer and I could edit it. So I did. It got rejected. So now we have another answer.

sclarke81 I hope you see this (in finally):

Marshal.Copy(new byte[length], 0, insecureStringPointer, length);

should be:

Marshal.Copy(new byte[length * 2], 0, insecureStringPointer, length * 2);

And the full answer with the bug fix:


    /// 
    /// Allows a decrypted secure string to be used whilst minimising the exposure of the
    /// unencrypted string.
    /// 
    /// Generic type returned by Func delegate.
    /// The string to decrypt.
    /// 
    /// Func delegate which will receive the decrypted password as a string object
    /// 
    /// Result of Func delegate
    /// 
    /// This method creates an empty managed string and pins it so that the garbage collector
    /// cannot move it around and create copies. An unmanaged copy of the the secure string is
    /// then created and copied into the managed string. The action is then called using the
    /// managed string. Both the managed and unmanaged strings are then zeroed to erase their
    /// contents. The managed string is unpinned so that the garbage collector can resume normal
    /// behaviour and the unmanaged string is freed.
    /// 
    public static T UseDecryptedSecureString(this SecureString secureString, Func action)
    {
        int length = secureString.Length;
        IntPtr sourceStringPointer = IntPtr.Zero;

        // Create an empty string of the correct size and pin it so that the GC can't move it around.
        string insecureString = new string('\0', length);
        var insecureStringHandler = GCHandle.Alloc(insecureString, GCHandleType.Pinned);

        IntPtr insecureStringPointer = insecureStringHandler.AddrOfPinnedObject();

        try
        {
            // Create an unmanaged copy of the secure string.
            sourceStringPointer = Marshal.SecureStringToBSTR(secureString);

            // Use the pointers to copy from the unmanaged to managed string.
            for (int i = 0; i < secureString.Length; i++)
            {
                short unicodeChar = Marshal.ReadInt16(sourceStringPointer, i * 2);
                Marshal.WriteInt16(insecureStringPointer, i * 2, unicodeChar);
            }

            return action(insecureString);
        }
        finally
        {
            // Zero the managed string so that the string is erased. Then unpin it to allow the
            // GC to take over.
            Marshal.Copy(new byte[length * 2], 0, insecureStringPointer, length * 2);
            insecureStringHandler.Free();

            // Zero and free the unmanaged string.
            Marshal.ZeroFreeBSTR(sourceStringPointer);
        }
    }

    /// 
    /// Allows a decrypted secure string to be used whilst minimising the exposure of the
    /// unencrypted string.
    /// 
    /// The string to decrypt.
    /// 
    /// Func delegate which will receive the decrypted password as a string object
    /// 
    /// Result of Func delegate
    /// 
    /// This method creates an empty managed string and pins it so that the garbage collector
    /// cannot move it around and create copies. An unmanaged copy of the the secure string is
    /// then created and copied into the managed string. The action is then called using the
    /// managed string. Both the managed and unmanaged strings are then zeroed to erase their
    /// contents. The managed string is unpinned so that the garbage collector can resume normal
    /// behaviour and the unmanaged string is freed.
    /// 
    public static void UseDecryptedSecureString(this SecureString secureString, Action action)
    {
        UseDecryptedSecureString(secureString, (s) =>
        {
            action(s);
            return 0;
        });
    }
}

Query to convert from datetime to date mysql

Use the DATE function:

SELECT DATE(orders.date_purchased) AS date

Differentiate between function overloading and function overriding

Function overloading - functions with same name, but different number of arguments

Function overriding - concept of inheritance. Functions with same name and same number of arguments. Here the second function is said to have overridden the first

How can I convert bigint (UNIX timestamp) to datetime in SQL Server?

For GMT, here is the easiest way:

Select dateadd(s, @UnixTime+DATEDIFF (S, GETUTCDATE(), GETDATE()), '1970-01-01')

iTunes Connect: How to choose a good SKU?

As others have noted, "SKU" stands for stock keeping unit. Here's what I find currently (3 February 2017) in the Apple documentation regarding the "SKU Number:"

SKU Number

A unique ID for your app in the Apple system that is not seen by users. You can use letters, numbers, hyphens, periods, and underscores. The SKU can’t
start with a hyphen, period, or underscore. Use a value that is meaningful to your organization. Can’t be edited after saving the iTunes Connect record.

(internet archive link:) iTunes Connect Properties

Enabling refreshing for specific html elements only

Try this in your script:

$("#YourElement").html(htmlData);

I do this in my table refreshment.

Rollback transaction after @Test

The answers mentioning adding @Transactional are correct, but for simplicity you could just have your test class extends AbstractTransactionalJUnit4SpringContextTests.

How to show MessageBox on asp.net?

One of the options is to use the Javascript.

Here is a quick reference where you can start from.

Javascript alert messages

Select Multiple Fields from List in Linq

var result = listObject.Select( i => new{ i.category_name, i.category_id } )

This uses anonymous types so you must the var keyword, since the resulting type of the expression is not known in advance.

Fill SVG path element with a background-image

You can do it by making the background into a pattern:

<defs>
  <pattern id="img1" patternUnits="userSpaceOnUse" width="100" height="100">
    <image href="wall.jpg" x="0" y="0" width="100" height="100" />
  </pattern>
</defs>

Adjust the width and height according to your image, then reference it from the path like this:

<path d="M5,50
         l0,100 l100,0 l0,-100 l-100,0
         M215,100
         a50,50 0 1 1 -100,0 50,50 0 1 1 100,0
         M265,50
         l50,100 l-100,0 l50,-100
         z"
  fill="url(#img1)" />

Working example

The target principal name is incorrect. Cannot generate SSPI context

I was logging into Windows 10 with a PIN instead of a password. I logged out and logged back in with my password instead and was able to get in to SQL Server via Management Studio.

Query Mongodb on month, day, year... of a datetime

Use the $expr operator which allows the use of aggregation expressions within the query language. This will give you the power to use the Date Aggregation Operators in your query as follows:

month = 11
db.mydatabase.mycollection.find({ 
    "$expr": { 
        "$eq": [ { "$month": "$date" }, month ] 
    } 
})

or

day = 17
db.mydatabase.mycollection.find({ 
    "$expr": { 
        "$eq": [ { "$dayOfMonth": "$date" }, day ] 
    } 
})

You could also run an aggregate operation with the aggregate() function that takes in a $redact pipeline:

month = 11
db.mydatabase.mycollection.aggregate([
    {
        "$redact": {
            "$cond": [
                { "$eq": [ { "$month": "$date" }, month ] },
                "$$KEEP",
                "$$PRUNE"
            ]
        }
    }
])

For the other request

day = 17
db.mydatabase.mycollection.aggregate([
    {
        "$redact": {
            "$cond": [
                { "$eq": [ { "$dayOfMonth": "$date" }, day ] },
                "$$KEEP",
                "$$PRUNE"
            ]
        }
    }
])

Using OR

month = 11
day = 17
db.mydatabase.mycollection.aggregate([
    {
        "$redact": {
            "$cond": [
                { 
                    "$or": [ 
                        { "$eq": [ { "$month": "$date" }, month ] },
                        { "$eq": [ { "$dayOfMonth": "$date" }, day ] }
                    ] 
                },
                "$$KEEP",
                "$$PRUNE"
            ]
        }
    }
])

Using AND

var month = 11,
    day = 17;
db.collection.aggregate([
    {
        "$redact": {
            "$cond": [
                { 
                    "$and": [ 
                        { "$eq": [ { "$month": "$createdAt" }, month ] },
                        { "$eq": [ { "$dayOfMonth": "$createdAt" }, day ] }
                    ] 
                },
                "$$KEEP",
                "$$PRUNE"
            ]
        }
    }
])

The $redact operator incorporates the functionality of $project and $match pipeline and will return all documents match the condition using $$KEEP and discard from the pipeline those that don't match using the $$PRUNE variable.

How to split page into 4 equal parts?

try this... obviously you need to set each div to 25%. You then will need to add your content as needed :) Hope that helps.

 <html>
   <head>
   <title>CSS devide window by 25% horizontally</title>
   <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
   <style type="text/css" media="screen"> 
     body {
     margin:0;
     padding:0;
     height:100%;
     }
     #top_div
     {
       height:25%;
       width:100%;
       background-color:#009900;
       margin:auto;
       text-align:center;
     }
     #mid1_div
     {
       height:25%;
       width:100%;
       background-color:#990000;
       margin:auto;
       text-align:center;
       color:#FFFFFF;
     }
     #mid2_div
     {
       height:25%;
       width:100%;
       background-color:#000000;
       margin:auto;
       text-align:center;
       color:#FFFFFF;
     }
     #bottom_div
     {
       height:25%;
       width:100%;
       background-color:#990000;
       margin:auto;
       text-align:center;
       color:#FFFFFF;
     }
   </style>
   </head>
   <body>
     <div id="top_div">Top- height is 25% of window height</div>
     <div id="mid1_div">Middle 1 - height is 25% of window height</div>
     <div id="mid2_div">Middle 2 - height is 25% of window height</div>
     <div id="bottom_div">Bottom - height is 25% of window height</div>
   </body>
 </html>

Tested and works fine, copy the code above into a HTML file, and open with your browser.

What are NR and FNR and what does "NR==FNR" imply?

Look up NR and FNR in the awk manual and then ask yourself what is the condition under which NR==FNR in the following example:

$ cat file1
a
b
c

$ cat file2
d
e

$ awk '{print FILENAME, NR, FNR, $0}' file1 file2
file1 1 1 a
file1 2 2 b
file1 3 3 c
file2 4 1 d
file2 5 2 e

CSV file written with Python has blank lines between each row

When using Python 3 the empty lines can be avoid by using the codecs module. As stated in the documentation, files are opened in binary mode so no change of the newline kwarg is necessary. I was running into the same issue recently and that worked for me:

with codecs.open( csv_file,  mode='w', encoding='utf-8') as out_csv:
     csv_out_file = csv.DictWriter(out_csv)

What is the difference between "is None" and "== None"

The answer is explained here.

To quote:

A class is free to implement comparison any way it chooses, and it can choose to make comparison against None mean something (which actually makes sense; if someone told you to implement the None object from scratch, how else would you get it to compare True against itself?).

Practically-speaking, there is not much difference since custom comparison operators are rare. But you should use is None as a general rule.

Find out a Git branch creator

List remote Git branches by author sorted by committer date:

git for-each-ref --format='%(committerdate) %09 %(authorname) %09 %(refname)' --sort=committerdate

Java function for arrays like PHP's join()?

My spin.

public static String join(Object[] objects, String delimiter) {
  if (objects.length == 0) {
    return "";
  }
  int capacityGuess = (objects.length * objects[0].toString().length())
      + ((objects.length - 1) * delimiter.length());
  StringBuilder ret = new StringBuilder(capacityGuess);
  ret.append(objects[0]);
  for (int i = 1; i < objects.length; i++) {
    ret.append(delimiter);
    ret.append(objects[i]);
  }
  return ret.toString();
}

public static String join(Object... objects) {
  return join(objects, "");
}

How can I INSERT data into two tables simultaneously in SQL Server?

BEGIN TRANSACTION;

DECLARE @tblMapping table(sourceid int, destid int)

INSERT INTO [table1] ([data]) 
OUTPUT source.id, new.id
Select [data] from [external_table] source;

INSERT INTO [table2] ([table1_id], [data])
Select map.destid, source.[more data] 
from [external_table] source
    inner join @tblMapping map on source.id=map.sourceid;

COMMIT TRANSACTION;

Warning: comparison with string literals results in unspecified behaviour

There is a distinction between 'a' and "a":

  • 'a' means the value of the character a.
  • "a" means the address of the memory location where the string "a" is stored (which will generally be in the data section of your program's memory space). At that memory location, you will have two bytes -- the character 'a' and the null terminator for the string.

Pandas Replace NaN with blank/empty string

df = df.fillna('')

or just

df.fillna('', inplace=True)

This will fill na's (e.g. NaN's) with ''.

If you want to fill a single column, you can use:

df.column1 = df.column1.fillna('')

One can use df['column1'] instead of df.column1.

PHP convert date format dd/mm/yyyy => yyyy-mm-dd

Try Using DateTime::createFromFormat

$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/Y', "24/04/2012");
echo $date->format('Y-m-d');

Output

2012-04-24

EDIT:

If the date is 5/4/2010 (both D/M/YYYY or DD/MM/YYYY), this below method is used to convert 5/4/2010 to 2010-4-5 (both YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY-M-D) format.

$old_date = explode('/', '5/4/2010'); 
$new_data = $old_date[2].'-'.$old_date[1].'-'.$old_date[0];

OUTPUT:

2010-4-5

Nothing was returned from render. This usually means a return statement is missing. Or, to render nothing, return null

i solved the problem i exlained...for example in the file we render the other component,other component name is same with me method of current component such as:

const Login = () => {

}

render(
  <Login/>
)

..for solve this we must change the method name

Effects of the extern keyword on C functions

The reason it has no effect is because at the link-time the linker tries to resolve the extern definition (in your case extern int f()). It doesn't matter if it finds it in the same file or a different file, as long as it is found.

Hope this answers your question.

jQuery on window resize

Give your anonymous function a name, then:

$(window).on("resize", doResize);

http://api.jquery.com/category/events/

How to reference a method in javadoc?

You will find much information about JavaDoc at the Documentation Comment Specification for the Standard Doclet, including the information on the

{@link package.class#member label}

tag (that you are looking for). The corresponding example from the documentation is as follows

For example, here is a comment that refers to the getComponentAt(int, int) method:

Use the {@link #getComponentAt(int, int) getComponentAt} method.

The package.class part can be ommited if the referred method is in the current class.


Other useful links about JavaDoc are:

How can I programmatically get the MAC address of an iphone

This looks like a pretty clean solution: UIDevice BIdentifier

// Return the local MAC addy
// Courtesy of FreeBSD hackers email list
// Accidentally munged during previous update. Fixed thanks to erica sadun & mlamb.
- (NSString *) macaddress{

    int                 mib[6];
    size_t              len;
    char                *buf;
    unsigned char       *ptr;
    struct if_msghdr    *ifm;
    struct sockaddr_dl  *sdl;

    mib[0] = CTL_NET;
    mib[1] = AF_ROUTE;
    mib[2] = 0;
    mib[3] = AF_LINK;
    mib[4] = NET_RT_IFLIST;

    if ((mib[5] = if_nametoindex("en0")) == 0) {
        printf("Error: if_nametoindex error\n");
        return NULL;
    }

    if (sysctl(mib, 6, NULL, &len, NULL, 0) < 0) {
        printf("Error: sysctl, take 1\n");
        return NULL;
    }

    if ((buf = malloc(len)) == NULL) {
        printf("Could not allocate memory. error!\n");
        return NULL;
    }

    if (sysctl(mib, 6, buf, &len, NULL, 0) < 0) {
        printf("Error: sysctl, take 2");
        free(buf);
        return NULL;
    }

    ifm = (struct if_msghdr *)buf;
    sdl = (struct sockaddr_dl *)(ifm + 1);
    ptr = (unsigned char *)LLADDR(sdl);
    NSString *outstring = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X", 
                           *ptr, *(ptr+1), *(ptr+2), *(ptr+3), *(ptr+4), *(ptr+5)];
    free(buf);

    return outstring;
}

What do .c and .h file extensions mean to C?

The .c is the source file and .h is the header file.

How can I remove the search bar and footer added by the jQuery DataTables plugin?

var table = $("#datatable").DataTable({
   "paging": false,
   "ordering": false,
   "searching": false
});

Best practices for copying files with Maven

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

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

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

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

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

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

Close popup window

Your web_window variable must have gone out of scope when you tried to close the window. Add this line into your _openpageview function to test:

setTimeout(function(){web_window.close();},1000);

How do I drop a function if it already exists?

IF EXISTS 
(SELECT * FROM sys.objects 
WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'functionName') 
AND type in (N'FN', N'IF', N'TF', N'FS', N'FT'))

DROP FUNCTION functionName
GO

CSS center content inside div

You just do CSS changes for parent div

.parent-div { 
        text-align: center;
        display: block;
}

Removing trailing newline character from fgets() input

size_t ln = strlen(name) - 1;
if (*name && name[ln] == '\n') 
    name[ln] = '\0';

How to check if variable's type matches Type stored in a variable

The other answers all contain significant omissions.

The is operator does not check if the runtime type of the operand is exactly the given type; rather, it checks to see if the runtime type is compatible with the given type:

class Animal {}
class Tiger : Animal {}
...
object x = new Tiger();
bool b1 = x is Tiger; // true
bool b2 = x is Animal; // true also! Every tiger is an animal.

But checking for type identity with reflection checks for identity, not for compatibility

bool b5 = x.GetType() == typeof(Tiger); // true
bool b6 = x.GetType() == typeof(Animal); // false! even though x is an animal

or with the type variable
bool b7 = t == typeof(Tiger); // true
bool b8 = t == typeof(Animal); // false! even though x is an 

If that's not what you want, then you probably want IsAssignableFrom:

bool b9 = typeof(Tiger).IsAssignableFrom(x.GetType()); // true
bool b10 = typeof(Animal).IsAssignableFrom(x.GetType()); // true! A variable of type Animal may be assigned a Tiger.

or with the type variable
bool b11 = t.IsAssignableFrom(x.GetType()); // true
bool b12 = t.IsAssignableFrom(x.GetType()); // true! A 

How do I change the hover over color for a hover over table in Bootstrap?

HTML CODE:

<table class="table table-hover">
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>Firstname</th>
            <th>Lastname</th>
            <th>Email</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>John</td>
            <td>Doe</td>
            <td>[email protected]</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Mary</td>
            <td>Moe</td>
            <td>[email protected]</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>July</td>
            <td>Dooley</td>
            <td>[email protected]</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>

CSS CODE

.table-hover thead tr:hover th, .table-hover tbody tr:hover td {
    background-color: #D1D119;
}

The css code indicate that:

mouse over row:

.table-hover > thead > tr:hover

background color of th will change to #D1D119

th

Same action will happen for tbody

.table-hover tbody tr:hover td

Declaring multiple variables in JavaScript

It's just a matter of personal preference. There is no difference between these two ways, other than a few bytes saved with the second form if you strip out the white space.

How is a CRC32 checksum calculated?

A CRC is pretty simple; you take a polynomial represented as bits and the data, and divide the polynomial into the data (or you represent the data as a polynomial and do the same thing). The remainder, which is between 0 and the polynomial is the CRC. Your code is a bit hard to understand, partly because it's incomplete: temp and testcrc are not declared, so it's unclear what's being indexed, and how much data is running through the algorithm.

The way to understand CRCs is to try to compute a few using a short piece of data (16 bits or so) with a short polynomial -- 4 bits, perhaps. If you practice this way, you'll really understand how you might go about coding it.

If you're doing it frequently, a CRC is quite slow to compute in software. Hardware computation is much more efficient, and requires just a few gates.

Background blur with CSS

Use an empty element sized for the content as the background, and position the content over the blurred element.

#dialog_base{
  background:white;
  background:rgba(255,255,255,0.8);

  position: absolute;
  top: 40%;
  left: 50%;
  z-index: 50;
  margin-left: -200px;
  height: 200px;
  width: 400px;

  filter:blur(4px);
  -o-filter:blur(4px);
  -ms-filter:blur(4px);
  -moz-filter:blur(4px);
  -webkit-filter:blur(4px);
}

#dialog_content{
  background: transparent;
  position: absolute;
  top: 40%;
  left: 50%;
  margin-left -200px;
  overflow: hidden;
  z-index: 51;
}

The background element can be inside of the content element, but not the other way around.

<div id='dialog_base'></div>
<div id='dialog_content'>
    Some Content
    <!-- Alternatively with z-index: <div id='dialog_base'></div> -->
</div>

This is not easy if the content is not always consistently sized, but it works.

Changing an element's ID with jQuery

Your syntax is incorrect, you should pass the value as the second parameter:

jQuery(this).prev("li").attr("id","newId");

Call a Javascript function every 5 seconds continuously

For repeating an action in the future, there is the built in setInterval function that you can use instead of setTimeout.
It has a similar signature, so the transition from one to another is simple:

setInterval(function() {
    // do stuff
}, duration);

Implement touch using Python?

Looks like this is new as of Python 3.4 - pathlib.

from pathlib import Path

Path('path/to/file.txt').touch()

This will create a file.txt at the path.

--

Path.touch(mode=0o777, exist_ok=True)

Create a file at this given path. If mode is given, it is combined with the process’ umask value to determine the file mode and access flags. If the file already exists, the function succeeds if exist_ok is true (and its modification time is updated to the current time), otherwise FileExistsError is raised.

How can I override the OnBeforeUnload dialog and replace it with my own?

You can detect which button (ok or cancel) pressed by user, because the onunload function called only when the user choise leaveing the page. Althoug in this funcion the possibilities is limited, because the DOM is being collapsed. You can run javascript, but the ajax POST doesn't do anything therefore you can't use this methode for automatic logout. But there is a solution for that. The window.open('logout.php') executed in the onunload funcion, so the user will logged out with a new window opening.

function onunload = (){
    window.open('logout.php');
}

This code called when user leave the page or close the active window and user logged out by 'logout.php'. The new window close immediately when logout php consist of code:

window.close();

Else clause on Python while statement

Else is executed if while loop did not break.

I kinda like to think of it with a 'runner' metaphor.

The "else" is like crossing the finish line, irrelevant of whether you started at the beginning or end of the track. "else" is only not executed if you break somewhere in between.

runner_at = 0 # or 10 makes no difference, if unlucky_sector is not 0-10
unlucky_sector = 6
while runner_at < 10:
    print("Runner at: ", runner_at)
    if runner_at == unlucky_sector:
        print("Runner fell and broke his foot. Will not reach finish.")
        break
    runner_at += 1
else:
    print("Runner has finished the race!") # Not executed if runner broke his foot.

Main use cases is using this breaking out of nested loops or if you want to run some statements only if loop didn't break somewhere (think of breaking being an unusual situation).

For example, the following is a mechanism on how to break out of an inner loop without using variables or try/catch:

for i in [1,2,3]:
    for j in ['a', 'unlucky', 'c']:
        print(i, j)
        if j == 'unlucky':
            break
    else: 
        continue  # Only executed if inner loop didn't break.
    break         # This is only reached if inner loop 'breaked' out since continue didn't run. 

print("Finished")
# 1 a
# 1 b
# Finished

I lose my data when the container exits

I have got a much simpler answer to your question, run the following two commands

sudo docker run -t -d ubuntu --name mycontainername /bin/bash
sudo docker ps -a

the above ps -a command returns a list of all containers. Take the name of the container which references the image name - 'ubuntu' . docker auto generates names for the containers for example - 'lightlyxuyzx', that's if you don't use the --name option.

The -t and -d options are important, the created container is detached and can be reattached as given below with the -t option.

With --name option, you can name your container in my case 'mycontainername'.

sudo docker exec -ti mycontainername bash

and this above command helps you login to the container with bash shell. From this point on any changes you make in the container is automatically saved by docker. For example - apt-get install curl inside the container You can exit the container without any issues, docker auto saves the changes.

On the next usage, All you have to do is, run these two commands every time you want to work with this container.

This Below command will start the stopped container:

sudo docker start mycontainername

sudo docker exec -ti mycontainername bash

Another example with ports and a shared space given below:

docker run -t -d --name mycontainername -p 5000:5000 -v ~/PROJECTS/SPACE:/PROJECTSPACE 7efe2989e877 /bin/bash

In my case: 7efe2989e877 - is the imageid of a previous container running which I obtained using

docker ps -a

Loading resources using getClass().getResource()

You can request a path in this format:

/package/path/to/the/resource.ext

Even the bytes for creating the classes in memory are found this way:

my.Class -> /my/Class.class

and getResource will give you a URL which can be used to retrieve an InputStream.

But... I'd recommend using directly getClass().getResourceAsStream(...) with the same argument, because it returns directly the InputStream and don't have to worry about creating a (probably complex) URL object that has to know how to create the InputStream.

In short: try using getResourceAsStream and some constructor of ImageIcon that uses an InputStream as an argument.

Classloaders

Be careful if your app has many classloaders. If you have a simple standalone application (no servers or complex things) you shouldn't worry. I don't think it's the case provided ImageIcon was capable of finding it.

Edit: classpath

getResource is—as mattb says—for loading resources from the classpath (from your .jar or classpath directory). If you are bundling an app it's nice to have altogether, so you could include the icon file inside the jar of your app and obtain it this way.

How do I get the currently-logged username from a Windows service in .NET?

Try WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent(). You need to add reference to System.Security.Principal

How can I list ALL DNS records?

host -a works well, similar to dig any.

EG:

$ host -a google.com
Trying "google.com"
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10403
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 18, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0


;; QUESTION SECTION:
;google.com.            IN  ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
google.com.     1165    IN  TXT "v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ip4:216.73.93.70/31 ip4:216.73.93.72/31 ~all"
google.com.     53965   IN  SOA ns1.google.com. dns-admin.google.com. 2014112500 7200 1800 1209600 300
google.com.     231 IN  A   173.194.115.73
google.com.     231 IN  A   173.194.115.78
google.com.     231 IN  A   173.194.115.64
google.com.     231 IN  A   173.194.115.65
google.com.     231 IN  A   173.194.115.66
google.com.     231 IN  A   173.194.115.67
google.com.     231 IN  A   173.194.115.68
google.com.     231 IN  A   173.194.115.69
google.com.     231 IN  A   173.194.115.70
google.com.     231 IN  A   173.194.115.71
google.com.     231 IN  A   173.194.115.72
google.com.     128 IN  AAAA    2607:f8b0:4000:809::1001
google.com.     40766   IN  NS  ns3.google.com.
google.com.     40766   IN  NS  ns4.google.com.
google.com.     40766   IN  NS  ns1.google.com.
google.com.     40766   IN  NS  ns2.google.com.

Format bytes to kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes

This is Kohana's implementation, you could use it:

public static function bytes($bytes, $force_unit = NULL, $format = NULL, $si = TRUE)
{
    // Format string
    $format = ($format === NULL) ? '%01.2f %s' : (string) $format;

    // IEC prefixes (binary)
    if ($si == FALSE OR strpos($force_unit, 'i') !== FALSE)
    {
        $units = array('B', 'KiB', 'MiB', 'GiB', 'TiB', 'PiB');
        $mod   = 1024;
    }
    // SI prefixes (decimal)
    else
    {
        $units = array('B', 'kB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB', 'PB');
        $mod   = 1000;
    }

    // Determine unit to use
    if (($power = array_search((string) $force_unit, $units)) === FALSE)
    {
        $power = ($bytes > 0) ? floor(log($bytes, $mod)) : 0;
    }

    return sprintf($format, $bytes / pow($mod, $power), $units[$power]);
}

read.csv warning 'EOF within quoted string' prevents complete reading of file

I too had the similar problem. But in my case, the cause of the issue was due to the presence of apostrophes (i.e. single quotation marks) within some of the text values. This is especially frequent when working with data including texts in French, e.g. «L'autre jour».

So, the solution was simply to adjust the default setting of the quote argument to exclude the «'» symbol, and thus, using quote = "\"" (i.e. double quotation mark only), everything worked fine.

I hope that can help some of you. Cheers.

Set focus on TextBox in WPF from view model

I have found solution by editing code as per following. There is no need to set Binding property first False then True.

public static class FocusExtension
{

    public static bool GetIsFocused(DependencyObject obj)
    {
        return (bool)obj.GetValue(IsFocusedProperty);
    }


    public static void SetIsFocused(DependencyObject obj, bool value)
    {
        obj.SetValue(IsFocusedProperty, value);
    }


    public static readonly DependencyProperty IsFocusedProperty =
        DependencyProperty.RegisterAttached(
         "IsFocused", typeof(bool), typeof(FocusExtension),
         new UIPropertyMetadata(false, OnIsFocusedPropertyChanged));


    private static void OnIsFocusedPropertyChanged(DependencyObject d, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        if (d != null && d is Control)
        {
            var _Control = d as Control;
            if ((bool)e.NewValue)
            {
                // To set false value to get focus on control. if we don't set value to False then we have to set all binding
                //property to first False then True to set focus on control.
                OnLostFocus(_Control, null);
                _Control.Focus(); // Don't care about false values.
            }
        }
    }

    private static void OnLostFocus(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        if (sender != null && sender is Control)
        {
            (sender as Control).SetValue(IsFocusedProperty, false);
        }
    }
}

AddTransient, AddScoped and AddSingleton Services Differences

This image illustrates this concept well. Unfortunately, I could not find the original source of this image, but someone made it, he has shown this concept very well in the form of an image. enter image description here

Implicit function declarations in C

It should be considered an error. But C is an ancient language, so it's only a warning.
Compiling with -Werror (gcc) fixes this problem.

When C doesn't find a declaration, it assumes this implicit declaration: int f();, which means the function can receive whatever you give it, and returns an integer. If this happens to be close enough (and in case of printf, it is), then things can work. In some cases (e.g. the function actually returns a pointer, and pointers are larger than ints), it may cause real trouble.

Note that this was fixed in newer C standards (C99, C11). In these standards, this is an error. However, gcc doesn't implement these standards by default, so you still get the warning.

How to compare two dates along with time in java

Since Date implements Comparable<Date>, it is as easy as:

date1.compareTo(date2);

As the Comparable contract stipulates, it will return a negative integer/zero/positive integer if date1 is considered less than/the same as/greater than date2 respectively (ie, before/same/after in this case).

Note that Date has also .after() and .before() methods which will return booleans instead.

Is there a css cross-browser value for "width: -moz-fit-content;"?

Mozilla's MDN suggests something like the following [source]:

 p {
  width: intrinsic;           /* Safari/WebKit uses a non-standard name */
  width: -moz-max-content;    /* Firefox/Gecko */
  width: -webkit-max-content; /* Chrome */
}

How to update Android Studio automatically?

If you go to help>>check for updates it will tell you if there's an update.

You don't have to change from the stable channel. If you aren't offered an update and restart button, kindly close the window and try again. After about 4 or 5 checks like this, it will eventually show you update and restart button.

Why? because google.

How to access the elements of a 2D array?

Seems to work here:

>>> a=[[1,1],[2,1],[3,1]]
>>> a
[[1, 1], [2, 1], [3, 1]]
>>> a[1]
[2, 1]
>>> a[1][0]
2
>>> a[1][1]
1

Getting "unixtime" in Java

Avoid the Date object creation w/ System.currentTimeMillis(). A divide by 1000 gets you to Unix epoch.

As mentioned in a comment, you typically want a primitive long (lower-case-l long) not a boxed object long (capital-L Long) for the unixTime variable's type.

long unixTime = System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000L;

How to add/update an attribute to an HTML element using JavaScript?

Obligatory jQuery solution. Finds and sets the title attribute to foo. Note this selects a single element since I'm doing it by id, but you could easily set the same attribute on a collection by changing the selector.

$('#element').attr( 'title', 'foo' );

How to sort rows of HTML table that are called from MySQL

The easiest way to do this would be to put a link on your column headers, pointing to the same page. In the query string, put a variable so that you know what they clicked on, and then use ORDER BY in your SQL query to perform the ordering.

The HTML would look like this:

<th><a href="mypage.php?sort=type">Type:</a></th>
<th><a href="mypage.php?sort=desc">Description:</a></th>
<th><a href="mypage.php?sort=recorded">Recorded Date:</a></th>
<th><a href="mypage.php?sort=added">Added Date:</a></th>

And in the php code, do something like this:

<?php

$sql = "SELECT * FROM MyTable";

if ($_GET['sort'] == 'type')
{
    $sql .= " ORDER BY type";
}
elseif ($_GET['sort'] == 'desc')
{
    $sql .= " ORDER BY Description";
}
elseif ($_GET['sort'] == 'recorded')
{
    $sql .= " ORDER BY DateRecorded";
}
elseif($_GET['sort'] == 'added')
{
    $sql .= " ORDER BY DateAdded";
}

$>

Notice that you shouldn't take the $_GET value directly and append it to your query. As some user could got to MyPage.php?sort=; DELETE FROM MyTable;

Accessing last x characters of a string in Bash

Last three characters of string:

${string: -3}

or

${string:(-3)}

(mind the space between : and -3 in the first form).

Please refer to the Shell Parameter Expansion in the reference manual:

${parameter:offset}
${parameter:offset:length}

Expands to up to length characters of parameter starting at the character
specified by offset. If length is omitted, expands to the substring of parameter
starting at the character specified by offset. length and offset are arithmetic
expressions (see Shell Arithmetic). This is referred to as Substring Expansion.

If offset evaluates to a number less than zero, the value is used as an offset
from the end of the value of parameter. If length evaluates to a number less than
zero, and parameter is not ‘@’ and not an indexed or associative array, it is
interpreted as an offset from the end of the value of parameter rather than a
number of characters, and the expansion is the characters between the two
offsets. If parameter is ‘@’, the result is length positional parameters
beginning at offset. If parameter is an indexed array name subscripted by ‘@’ or
‘*’, the result is the length members of the array beginning with
${parameter[offset]}. A negative offset is taken relative to one greater than the
maximum index of the specified array. Substring expansion applied to an
associative array produces undefined results.

Note that a negative offset must be separated from the colon by at least one
space to avoid being confused with the ‘:-’ expansion. Substring indexing is
zero-based unless the positional parameters are used, in which case the indexing
starts at 1 by default. If offset is 0, and the positional parameters are used,
$@ is prefixed to the list.

Since this answer gets a few regular views, let me add a possibility to address John Rix's comment; as he mentions, if your string has length less than 3, ${string: -3} expands to the empty string. If, in this case, you want the expansion of string, you may use:

${string:${#string}<3?0:-3}

This uses the ?: ternary if operator, that may be used in Shell Arithmetic; since as documented, the offset is an arithmetic expression, this is valid.


Update for a POSIX-compliant solution

The previous part gives the best option when using Bash. If you want to target POSIX shells, here's an option (that doesn't use pipes or external tools like cut):

# New variable with 3 last characters removed
prefix=${string%???}
# The new string is obtained by removing the prefix a from string
newstring=${string#"$prefix"}

One of the main things to observe here is the use of quoting for prefix inside the parameter expansion. This is mentioned in the POSIX ref (at the end of the section):

The following four varieties of parameter expansion provide for substring processing. In each case, pattern matching notation (see Pattern Matching Notation), rather than regular expression notation, shall be used to evaluate the patterns. If parameter is '#', '*', or '@', the result of the expansion is unspecified. If parameter is unset and set -u is in effect, the expansion shall fail. Enclosing the full parameter expansion string in double-quotes shall not cause the following four varieties of pattern characters to be quoted, whereas quoting characters within the braces shall have this effect. In each variety, if word is omitted, the empty pattern shall be used.

This is important if your string contains special characters. E.g. (in dash),

$ string="hello*ext"
$ prefix=${string%???}
$ # Without quotes (WRONG)
$ echo "${string#$prefix}"
*ext
$ # With quotes (CORRECT)
$ echo "${string#"$prefix"}"
ext

Of course, this is usable only when then number of characters is known in advance, as you have to hardcode the number of ? in the parameter expansion; but when it's the case, it's a good portable solution.

How to convert a table to a data frame

I figured it out already:

as.data.frame.matrix(mytable) 

does what I need -- apparently, the table needs to somehow be converted to a matrix in order to be appropriately translated into a data frame. I found more details on this as.data.frame.matrix() function for contingency tables at the Computational Ecology blog.

Git error: src refspec master does not match any error: failed to push some refs

One classic root cause for this message is:

  • when the repo has been initialized (git init lis4368/assignments),
  • but no commit has ever been made

Ie, if you don't have added and committed at least once, there won't be a local master branch to push to.

Try first to create a commit:

  • either by adding (git add .) then git commit -m "first commit"
    (assuming you have the right files in place to add to the index)
  • or by create a first empty commit: git commit --allow-empty -m "Initial empty commit"

And then try git push -u origin master again.

See "Why do I need to explicitly push a new branch?" for more.

How to Create a script via batch file that will uninstall a program if it was installed on windows 7 64-bit or 32-bit

Assuming you're dealing with Windows 7 x64 and something that was previously installed with some sort of an installer, you can open regedit and search the keys under

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

(which references 32-bit programs) for part of the name of the program, or

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

(if it actually was a 64-bit program).

If you find something that matches your program in one of those, the contents of UninstallString in that key usually give you the exact command you are looking for (that you can run in a script).

If you don't find anything relevant in those registry locations, then it may have been "installed" by unzipping a file. Because you mentioned removing it by the Control Panel, I gather this likely isn't then case; if it's in the list of programs there, it should be in one of the registry keys I mentioned.

Then in a .bat script you can do

if exist "c:\program files\whatever\program.exe" (place UninstallString contents here)
if exist "c:\program files (x86)\whatever\program.exe" (place UninstallString contents here)

How do I convert a org.w3c.dom.Document object to a String?

A Scala version based on Zaz's answer.

  case class DocumentEx(document: Document) {
    def toXmlString(pretty: Boolean = false):Try[String] = {
      getStringFromDocument(document, pretty)
    }
  }

  implicit def documentToDocumentEx(document: Document):DocumentEx = {
    DocumentEx(document)
  }

  def getStringFromDocument(doc: Document, pretty:Boolean): Try[String] = {
    try
    {
      val domSource= new DOMSource(doc)
      val writer = new StringWriter()
      val result = new StreamResult(writer)
      val tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance()
      val transformer = tf.newTransformer()
      if (pretty)
        transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes")
      transformer.transform(domSource, result)
      Success(writer.toString);
    }
    catch {
      case ex: TransformerException =>
        Failure(ex)
    }
  }

With that, you can do either doc.toXmlString() or call the getStringFromDocument(doc) function.

complex if statement in python

if x == 80 or x == 443 or 1024 <= x <= 65535

should definitely do

Converting Epoch time into the datetime

This is what you need

In [1]: time.time()
Out[1]: 1347517739.44904

In [2]: time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", time.gmtime(time.time()))
Out[2]: '2012-09-13 06:31:43'

Please input a float instead of an int and that other TypeError should go away.

mend = time.gmtime(float(getbbb_class.end_time)).tm_hour

Laravel - htmlspecialchars() expects parameter 1 to be string, object given

You could use serialize

<input type="hidden" name="quotation[]" value="{{serialize($quotation)}}">

But best way in this case use the json_encode method in your blade and json_decode in controller.

Formatting text in a TextBlock

There are various Inline elements that can help you, for the simplest formatting options you can use Bold, Italic and Underline:

<TextBlock>
    Sample text with <Bold>bold</Bold>, <Italic>italic</Italic> and <Underline>underlined</Underline> words.
</TextBlock>

enter image description here

I think it is worth noting, that those elements are in fact just shorthands for Span elements with various properties set (i.e.: for Bold, the FontWeight property is set to FontWeights.Bold).

This brings us to our next option: the aforementioned Span element.

You can achieve the same effects with this element as above, but you are granted even more possibilities; you can set (among others) the Foreground or the Background properties:

<TextBlock>
    Sample text with <Span FontWeight="Bold">bold</Span>, <Span FontStyle="Italic">italic</Span> and <Span TextDecorations="Underline">underlined</Span> words. <Span Foreground="Blue">Coloring</Span> <Span Foreground="Red">is</Span> <Span Background="Cyan">also</Span> <Span Foreground="Silver">possible</Span>.
</TextBlock>

enter image description here

The Span element may also contain other elements like this:

<TextBlock>
    <Span FontStyle="Italic">Italic <Span Background="Yellow">text</Span> with some <Span Foreground="Blue">coloring</Span>.</Span>
</TextBlock>

enter image description here

There is another element, which is quite similar to Span, it is called Run. The Run cannot contain other inline elements while the Span can, but you can easily bind a variable to the Run's Text property:

<TextBlock>
    Username: <Run FontWeight="Bold" Text="{Binding UserName}"/>
</TextBlock>

enter image description here

Also, you can do the whole formatting from code-behind if you prefer:

TextBlock tb = new TextBlock();
tb.Inlines.Add("Sample text with ");
tb.Inlines.Add(new Run("bold") { FontWeight = FontWeights.Bold });
tb.Inlines.Add(", ");
tb.Inlines.Add(new Run("italic ") { FontStyle = FontStyles.Italic });
tb.Inlines.Add("and ");
tb.Inlines.Add(new Run("underlined") { TextDecorations = TextDecorations.Underline });
tb.Inlines.Add("words.");

Find files with size in Unix

Find can be used to print out the file-size in bytes with %s as a printf. %h/%f prints the directory prefix and filename respectively. \n forces a newline.

Example

find . -size +10000k -printf "%h/%f,%s\n"

Output

./DOTT/extract/DOTT/TENTACLE.001,11358470
./DOTT/Day Of The Tentacle.nrg,297308316
./DOTT/foo.iso,297001116

Xcode stops working after set "xcode-select -switch"

You should be pointing it towards the Developer directory, not the Xcode application bundle. Run this:

sudo xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer

With recent versions of Xcode, you can go to Xcode ? Preferences… ? Locations and pick one of the options for Command Line Tools to set the location.

How can I change the color of AlertDialog title and the color of the line under it

Continuing from this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/15285514/1865860, I forked the nice github repo from @daniel-smith and made some improvements:

  • improved example Activity
  • improved layouts
  • fixed setItems method
  • added dividers into items_list
  • dismiss dialogs on click
  • support for disabled items in setItems methods
  • listItem touch feedback
  • scrollable dialog message

link: https://github.com/dentex/QustomDialog

Prevent textbox autofill with previously entered values

Please note that for Chrome to work properly it needs to be autocomplete="false"

Binding a WPF ComboBox to a custom list

To bind the data to ComboBox

List<ComboData> ListData = new List<ComboData>();
ListData.Add(new ComboData { Id = "1", Value = "One" });
ListData.Add(new ComboData { Id = "2", Value = "Two" });
ListData.Add(new ComboData { Id = "3", Value = "Three" });
ListData.Add(new ComboData { Id = "4", Value = "Four" });
ListData.Add(new ComboData { Id = "5", Value = "Five" });

cbotest.ItemsSource = ListData;
cbotest.DisplayMemberPath = "Value";
cbotest.SelectedValuePath = "Id";

cbotest.SelectedValue = "2";

ComboData looks like:

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

(note that Id and Value have to be properties, not class fields)

Understanding `scale` in R

log simply takes the logarithm (base e, by default) of each element of the vector.
scale, with default settings, will calculate the mean and standard deviation of the entire vector, then "scale" each element by those values by subtracting the mean and dividing by the sd. (If you use scale(x, scale=FALSE), it will only subtract the mean but not divide by the std deviation.)

Note that this will give you the same values

   set.seed(1)
   x <- runif(7)

   # Manually scaling
   (x - mean(x)) / sd(x)

   scale(x)

Remove Array Value By index in jquery

Use the splice method.

ArrayName.splice(indexValueOfArray,1);

This removes 1 item from the array starting at indexValueOfArray.

VBA, if a string contains a certain letter

If you are looping through a lot of cells, use the binary function, it is much faster. Using "<> 0" in place of "> 0" also makes it faster:

If InStrB(1, myString, "a", vbBinaryCompare) <> 0

Sort objects in ArrayList by date?

list.sort(Comparator.comparing(o -> o.getDateTime()));

The best answer IMHO from Tunaki using Java 8 lambda

Gerrit error when Change-Id in commit messages are missing

1) gitdir=$(git rev-parse --git-dir);

2) scp -p -P 29418 <username>@gerrit.xyz.se:hooks/commit-msg ${gitdir}/hooks/

a) I don't know how to execute step 1 in windows so skipped it and used hardcoded path in step 2 scp -p -P 29418 <username>@gerrit.xyz.se:hooks/commit-msg .git/hooks/

b) In case you get below error, manually create "hooks" directory in .git folder

protocol error: expected control record

c) if you have submodule let's say "XX" then you need to repeat step 2 there as well and this time replace ${gitdir} with that submodules path

d) In case scp is not recognized by windows give full path of scp

"C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\scp.exe"

e) .git folder is present in your project repo and it's hidden folder

Application Error - The connection to the server was unsuccessful. (file:///android_asset/www/index.html)

In your config.xml file add this line:

<preference name="loadUrlTimeoutValue" value="700000" />

Python ImportError: No module named wx

For Windows and MacOS, Simply install it with pip

pip install -U wxPython

Reference: Official site

TypeError: 'dict' object is not callable

You need to use:

number_map[int(x)]

Note the square brackets!

Index all *except* one item in python

Use np.delete ! It does not actually delete anything inplace

Example:

import numpy as np
a = np.array([[1,4],[5,7],[3,1]])                                       

# a: array([[1, 4],
#           [5, 7],
#           [3, 1]])

ind = np.array([0,1])                                                   

# ind: array([0, 1])

# a[ind]: array([[1, 4],
#                [5, 7]])

all_except_index = np.delete(a, ind, axis=0)                                              
# all_except_index: array([[3, 1]])

# a: (still the same): array([[1, 4],
#                             [5, 7],
#                             [3, 1]])

Converting from IEnumerable to List

You can do this very simply using LINQ.

Make sure this using is at the top of your C# file:

using System.Linq;

Then use the ToList extension method.

Example:

IEnumerable<int> enumerable = Enumerable.Range(1, 300);
List<int> asList = enumerable.ToList();

How can I create a dropdown menu from a List in Tkinter?

To create a "drop down menu" you can use OptionMenu in tkinter

Example of a basic OptionMenu:

from Tkinter import *

master = Tk()

variable = StringVar(master)
variable.set("one") # default value

w = OptionMenu(master, variable, "one", "two", "three")
w.pack()

mainloop()

More information (including the script above) can be found here.


Creating an OptionMenu of the months from a list would be as simple as:

from tkinter import *

OPTIONS = [
"Jan",
"Feb",
"Mar"
] #etc

master = Tk()

variable = StringVar(master)
variable.set(OPTIONS[0]) # default value

w = OptionMenu(master, variable, *OPTIONS)
w.pack()

mainloop()

In order to retrieve the value the user has selected you can simply use a .get() on the variable that we assigned to the widget, in the below case this is variable:

from tkinter import *

OPTIONS = [
"Jan",
"Feb",
"Mar"
] #etc

master = Tk()

variable = StringVar(master)
variable.set(OPTIONS[0]) # default value

w = OptionMenu(master, variable, *OPTIONS)
w.pack()

def ok():
    print ("value is:" + variable.get())

button = Button(master, text="OK", command=ok)
button.pack()

mainloop()

I would highly recommend reading through this site for further basic tkinter information as the above examples are modified from that site.

How to redirect cin and cout to files?

assuming your compiles prog name is x.exe and $ is the system shell or prompt

$ x <infile >outfile 

will take input from infile and will output to outfile .

Is it possible to do a sparse checkout without checking out the whole repository first?

Git clone has an option (--no-checkout or -n) that does what you want.

In your list of commands, just change:

git clone <path>

To this:

git clone --no-checkout <path>

You can then use the sparse checkout as stated in the question.

How to sort strings in JavaScript

You should use > or < and == here. So the solution would be:

list.sort(function(item1, item2) {
    var val1 = item1.attr,
        val2 = item2.attr;
    if (val1 == val2) return 0;
    if (val1 > val2) return 1;
    if (val1 < val2) return -1;
});

React native ERROR Packager can't listen on port 8081

You should kill all processes running on port 8081 by kill -9 $(lsof -i:8081)

Display HTML snippets in HTML

There are a few ways to escape everything in HTML, none of them nice.

Or you could put in an iframe that loads a plain old text file.

Creating a div element inside a div element in javascript

'b' should be in capital letter in document.getElementById modified code jsfiddle

function test()
{

var element = document.createElement("div");
element.appendChild(document.createTextNode('The man who mistook his wife for a hat'));
document.getElementById('lc').appendChild(element);
 //document.body.appendChild(element);
 }

What does ** (double star/asterisk) and * (star/asterisk) do for parameters?

* and ** have special usage in the function argument list. * implies that the argument is a list and ** implies that the argument is a dictionary. This allows functions to take arbitrary number of arguments

Function overloading in Javascript - Best practices

There are two ways you could approach this better:

  1. Pass a dictionary (associative array) if you want to leave a lot of flexibility

  2. Take an object as the argument and use prototype based inheritance to add flexibility.

Command line to remove an environment variable from the OS level configuration

From PowerShell you can use the .NET [System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable() method:

  • To remove a user environment variable named FOO:

    [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('FOO', $null, 'User')
    

Note that $null is used to better signal the intent to remove the variable, though technically it is effectively the same as passing '' in this case.

  • To remove a system (machine-level) environment variable named FOO - requires elevation (must be run as administrator):

    [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('FOO', $null, 'Machine')
    

Aside from faster execution, the advantage over the reg.exe-based method is that other applications are notified of the change, via a WM_SETTINGCHANGE message (though not all applications listen to that message).

Encoding URL query parameters in Java

Unfortunately, URLEncoder.encode() does not produce valid percent-encoding (as specified in RFC 3986).

URLEncoder.encode() encodes everything just fine, except space is encoded to "+". All the Java URI encoders that I could find only expose public methods to encode the query, fragment, path parts etc. - but don't expose the "raw" encoding. This is unfortunate as fragment and query are allowed to encode space to +, so we don't want to use them. Path is encoded properly but is "normalized" first so we can't use it for 'generic' encoding either.

Best solution I could come up with:

return URLEncoder.encode(raw, "UTF-8").replaceAll("\\+", "%20");

If replaceAll() is too slow for you, I guess the alternative is to roll your own encoder...

EDIT: I had this code in here first which doesn't encode "?", "&", "=" properly:

//don't use - doesn't properly encode "?", "&", "="
new URI(null, null, null, raw, null).toString().substring(1);

Stashing only staged changes in git - is it possible?

To prune an accidental change, especially the deletion of multiple files, do the following:

git add <stuff to keep> && git stash --keep-index && git stash drop

in other words, stash the crap and throw it away with the stash altogether.

Tested in git version 2.17.1

How to see the actual Oracle SQL statement that is being executed

Yep, that's definitely possible. The v$sql views contain that info. Something like this piece of code should point you in the right direction. I haven't tried that specific piece of code myself - nowhere near an Oracle DB right now.

[Edit] Damn two other answers already. Must type faster next time ;-)

How to pass object from one component to another in Angular 2?

From component

_x000D_
_x000D_
import { Component, OnInit, ViewChild} from '@angular/core';_x000D_
    import { HttpClient } from '@angular/common/http';_x000D_
    import { dataService } from "src/app/service/data.service";_x000D_
    @Component( {_x000D_
        selector: 'app-sideWidget',_x000D_
        templateUrl: './sideWidget.html',_x000D_
        styleUrls: ['./linked-widget.component.css']_x000D_
    } )_x000D_
    export class sideWidget{_x000D_
    TableColumnNames: object[];_x000D_
    SelectedtableName: string = "patient";_x000D_
    constructor( private LWTableColumnNames: dataService ) { _x000D_
       _x000D_
    }_x000D_
    _x000D_
    ngOnInit() {_x000D_
        this.http.post( 'getColumns', this.SelectedtableName )_x000D_
            .subscribe(_x000D_
            ( data: object[] ) => {_x000D_
                this.TableColumnNames = data;_x000D_
     this.LWTableColumnNames.refLWTableColumnNames = this.TableColumnNames; //this line of code will pass the value through data service_x000D_
            } );_x000D_
    _x000D_
    }    _x000D_
    }
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

DataService

_x000D_
_x000D_
import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';_x000D_
import { BehaviorSubject, Observable } from 'rxjs';_x000D_
_x000D_
@Injectable()_x000D_
export class dataService {_x000D_
    refLWTableColumnNames: object;//creating an object for the data_x000D_
}
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

To Component

_x000D_
_x000D_
import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';_x000D_
import { dataService } from "src/app/service/data.service";_x000D_
_x000D_
@Component( {_x000D_
    selector: 'app-linked-widget',_x000D_
    templateUrl: './linked-widget.component.html',_x000D_
    styleUrls: ['./linked-widget.component.css']_x000D_
} )_x000D_
export class LinkedWidgetComponent implements OnInit {_x000D_
_x000D_
    constructor(private LWTableColumnNames: dataService) { }_x000D_
_x000D_
    ngOnInit() {_x000D_
    console.log(this.LWTableColumnNames.refLWTableColumnNames);_x000D_
    }_x000D_
    createTable(){_x000D_
        console.log(this.LWTableColumnNames.refLWTableColumnNames);// calling the object from another component_x000D_
    }_x000D_
_x000D_
}
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

HTML how to clear input using javascript?

<script type="text/javascript">
    function clearThis(target){
        if(target.value=='[email protected]'){
        target.value= "";}
    }
    </script>

Is this really what your looking for?

multiple figure in latex with captions

Look at the Subfloats section of http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Floats,_Figures_and_Captions.

\begin{figure}[htp]
  \centering
  \label{figur}\caption{equation...}

  \subfloat[Subcaption 1]{\label{figur:1}\includegraphics[width=60mm]{explicit3185.eps}}
  \subfloat[Subcaption 2]{\label{figur:2}\includegraphics[width=60mm]{explicit3183.eps}}
  \\
  \subfloat[Subcaption 3]{\label{figur:3}\includegraphics[width=60mm]{explicit1501.eps}}
  \subfloat[Subcaption 4]{\label{figur:4}\includegraphics[width=60mm]{explicit23185.eps}}
  \\
  \subfloat[Subcaption 5]{\label{figur:5}\includegraphics[width=60mm]{explicit23183.eps}}
  \subfloat[Subcaption 6]{\label{figur:6}\includegraphics[width=60mm]{explicit21501.eps}}

\end{figure}

Embed HTML5 YouTube video without iframe?

Use the object tag:

<object data="http://iamawesome.com" type="text/html" width="200" height="200">
  <a href="http://iamawesome.com">access the page directly</a>
</object>

Ref: http://debug.ga/embedding-external-pages-without-iframes/

Subtract a value from every number in a list in Python?

You can use map() function:

a = list(map(lambda x: x - 13, a))

How to specify more spaces for the delimiter using cut?

One way around this is to go:

$ps axu | grep jboss | sed 's/\s\+/ /g' | cut -d' ' -f3

to replace multiple consecutive spaces with a single one.

Parse query string in JavaScript

Here's my version based loosely on Braceyard's version above but parsing into a 'dictionary' and support for search args without '='. In use it in my JQuery $(document).ready() function. The arguments are stored as key/value pairs in argsParsed, which you might want to save somewhere...

'use strict';

function parseQuery(search) {

    var args = search.substring(1).split('&');

    var argsParsed = {};

    var i, arg, kvp, key, value;

    for (i=0; i < args.length; i++) {

        arg = args[i];

        if (-1 === arg.indexOf('=')) {

            argsParsed[decodeURIComponent(arg).trim()] = true;
        }
        else {

            kvp = arg.split('=');

            key = decodeURIComponent(kvp[0]).trim();

            value = decodeURIComponent(kvp[1]).trim();

            argsParsed[key] = value;
        }
    }

    return argsParsed;
}

parseQuery(document.location.search);