Programs & Examples On #Embedded language

Anything related to languages (designed to be) embedded in other applications and their implementations. DO NOT use this tag to mark questions related to embedded devices, unless it also relates to embedding a language in a bigger application.

What's the key difference between HTML 4 and HTML 5?

HTML 5 invites you give add a lot of semantic value to your code. What's more, there are natives solution to embed multimedia content.

The rest is important, but it's more technical sugar that will save you from doing the same stuff with a client programming language.

ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN failed because one or more objects access this column

As already written in answers you need to drop constraints (created automatically by sql) related to all columns that you are trying to delete.

Perform followings steps to do the needful.

  1. Get Name of all Constraints using sp_helpconstraint which is a system stored procedure utility - execute following exec sp_helpconstraint '<your table name>'
  2. Once you get the name of the constraint then copy that constraint name and execute next statement i.e alter table <your_table_name> drop constraint <constraint_name_that_you_copied_in_1> (It'll be something like this only or similar format)
  3. Once you delete the constraint then you can delete 1 or more columns by using conventional method i.e Alter table <YourTableName> Drop column column1, column2 etc

How to pass a value to razor variable from javascript variable?

here is my solution that works:

in my form i use:

@using (Html.BeginForm("RegisterOrder", "Account", FormMethod.Post, new { @class = "form", role = "form" }))
  {

   @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Email, new { @class = "form-control" })

   @Html.HiddenFor(m => m.quantity, new { id = "quantity", Value = 0 })

  }

in my file.js I get the quantity from a GET request and pass the variable as follows to the form:

    $http({
        method: 'Get',
        url: "https://xxxxxxx.azurewebsites.net/api/quantity/" + usr
    })
        .success(function (data){

            setQuantity(data.number);

            function setQuantity(number) {
                $('#quantity').val(number);
            }

        });

Set scroll position

You can use window.scrollTo(), like this:

window.scrollTo(0, 0); // values are x,y-offset

Unable to find a @SpringBootConfiguration when doing a JpaTest

Configuration is attached to the application class, so the following will set up everything correctly:

@SpringBootTest(classes = Application.class)

Example from the JHipster project here.

Remove querystring from URL

An easy way to get this is:

function getPathFromUrl(url) {
  return url.split("?")[0];
}

For those who also wish to remove the hash (not part of the original question) when no querystring exists, that requires a little bit more:

function stripQueryStringAndHashFromPath(url) {
  return url.split("?")[0].split("#")[0];
}

EDIT

@caub (originally @crl) suggested a simpler combo that works for both query string and hash (though it uses RegExp, in case anyone has a problem with that):

function getPathFromUrl(url) {
  return url.split(/[?#]/)[0];
}

How can I undo a mysql statement that I just executed?

Basically: If you're doing a transaction just do a rollback. Otherwise, you can't "undo" a MySQL query.

How can I clear the terminal in Visual Studio Code?

To clear Terminal in VS Code simply press Ctrl + Shift + P key together this will open a command palette and type command Terminal: Clear. Also you will go to View in taskbar upper left corner of vs code and open Command pallete.

This will clear the terminal easily & work for any directory you have open in your terminal. This is for Windows, also try if it works for Mac.

This is command is work in all VS code versions include latest version 1.52.1

How to create a new variable in a data.frame based on a condition?

If you have a very limited number of levels, you could try converting y into factor and change its levels.

> xy <- data.frame(x = c(1, 2, 4), y = c(1, 4, 5))
> xy$w <- as.factor(xy$y)
> levels(xy$w) <- c("good", "fair", "bad")
> xy
  x y    w
1 1 1 good
2 2 4 fair
3 4 5  bad

How to install MySQLdb package? (ImportError: No module named setuptools)

This was sort of tricky for me too, I did the following which worked pretty well.

  • Download the appropriate Python .egg for setuptools (ie, for Python 2.6, you can get it here. Grab the correct one from the PyPI site here.)
  • chmod the egg to be executable: chmod a+x [egg] (ie, for Python 2.6, chmod a+x setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg)
  • Run ./[egg] (ie, for Python 2.6, ./setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg)

Not sure if you'll need to use sudo if you're just installing it for you current user. You'd definitely need it to install it for all users.

How to generate a random String in Java

I think the following class code will help you. It supports multithreading but you can do some improvement like remove sync block and and sync to getRandomId() method.

public class RandomNumberGenerator {

private static final Set<String> generatedNumbers = new HashSet<String>();

public RandomNumberGenerator() {
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
    final int maxLength = 7;
    final int maxTry = 10;

    for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
        System.out.println(i + ". studentId=" + RandomNumberGenerator.getRandomId(maxLength, maxTry));
    }
}

public static String getRandomId(final int maxLength, final int maxTry) {
    final Random random = new Random(System.nanoTime());
    final int max = (int) Math.pow(10, maxLength);
    final int maxMin = (int) Math.pow(10, maxLength-1);
    int i = 0;
    boolean unique = false;
    int randomId = -1;
    while (i < maxTry) {
        randomId = random.nextInt(max - maxMin - 1) + maxMin;

        synchronized (generatedNumbers) {
            if (generatedNumbers.contains(randomId) == false) {
                unique = true;
                break;
            }
        }
        i++;
    }
    if (unique == false) {
        throw new RuntimeException("Cannot generate unique id!");
    }

    synchronized (generatedNumbers) {
        generatedNumbers.add(String.valueOf(randomId));
    }

    return String.valueOf(randomId);
}

}

C#: How to access an Excel cell?

I think, that you have to declare the associated sheet!

Try something like this

objsheet(1).Cells[i,j].Value;

Why are elementwise additions much faster in separate loops than in a combined loop?

Imagine you are working on a machine where n was just the right value for it only to be possible to hold two of your arrays in memory at one time, but the total memory available, via disk caching, was still sufficient to hold all four.

Assuming a simple LIFO caching policy, this code:

for(int j=0;j<n;j++){
    a[j] += b[j];
}
for(int j=0;j<n;j++){
    c[j] += d[j];
}

would first cause a and b to be loaded into RAM and then be worked on entirely in RAM. When the second loop starts, c and d would then be loaded from disk into RAM and operated on.

the other loop

for(int j=0;j<n;j++){
    a[j] += b[j];
    c[j] += d[j];
}

will page out two arrays and page in the other two every time around the loop. This would obviously be much slower.

You are probably not seeing disk caching in your tests but you are probably seeing the side effects of some other form of caching.


There seems to be a little confusion/misunderstanding here so I will try to elaborate a little using an example.

Say n = 2 and we are working with bytes. In my scenario we thus have just 4 bytes of RAM and the rest of our memory is significantly slower (say 100 times longer access).

Assuming a fairly dumb caching policy of if the byte is not in the cache, put it there and get the following byte too while we are at it you will get a scenario something like this:

  • With

    for(int j=0;j<n;j++){
     a[j] += b[j];
    }
    for(int j=0;j<n;j++){
     c[j] += d[j];
    }
    
  • cache a[0] and a[1] then b[0] and b[1] and set a[0] = a[0] + b[0] in cache - there are now four bytes in cache, a[0], a[1] and b[0], b[1]. Cost = 100 + 100.

  • set a[1] = a[1] + b[1] in cache. Cost = 1 + 1.
  • Repeat for c and d.
  • Total cost = (100 + 100 + 1 + 1) * 2 = 404

  • With

    for(int j=0;j<n;j++){
     a[j] += b[j];
     c[j] += d[j];
    }
    
  • cache a[0] and a[1] then b[0] and b[1] and set a[0] = a[0] + b[0] in cache - there are now four bytes in cache, a[0], a[1] and b[0], b[1]. Cost = 100 + 100.

  • eject a[0], a[1], b[0], b[1] from cache and cache c[0] and c[1] then d[0] and d[1] and set c[0] = c[0] + d[0] in cache. Cost = 100 + 100.
  • I suspect you are beginning to see where I am going.
  • Total cost = (100 + 100 + 100 + 100) * 2 = 800

This is a classic cache thrash scenario.

How to define several include path in Makefile

Make's substitutions feature is nice and helped me to write

%.i: src/%.c $(INCLUDE)
        gcc -E $(CPPFLAGS) $(INCLUDE:%=-I %) $< > $@

You might find this useful, because it asks make to check for changes in include folders too

CSS3 transition on click using pure CSS

You can also affect differente DOM elements using :target pseudo class. If an element is the destination of an anchor target it will get the :target pseudo element.

<style>
p { color:black; }
p:target { color:red; }
</style>

<a href="#elem">Click me</a>
<p id="elem">And I will change</p>

Here is a fiddle : https://jsfiddle.net/k86b81jv/

How do detect Android Tablets in general. Useragent?

The 51Degrees beta, 1.0.1.6 and the latest stable release 1.0.2.2 (4/28/2011) now have the ability to sniff for tablet. Basically along the lines of:

string capability = Request.Browser["is_tablet"];

Hope this helps you.

How to get/generate the create statement for an existing hive table?

As of Hive 0.10 this patch-967 implements SHOW CREATE TABLE which "shows the CREATE TABLE statement that creates a given table, or the CREATE VIEW statement that creates a given view."

Usage:

SHOW CREATE TABLE myTable;

Checking if a list is empty with LINQ

I just wrote up a quick test, try this:

 IEnumerable<Object> myList = new List<Object>();

 Stopwatch watch = new Stopwatch();

 int x;

 watch.Start();
 for (var i = 0; i <= 1000000; i++)
 {
    if (myList.Count() == 0) x = i; 
 }
 watch.Stop();

 Stopwatch watch2 = new Stopwatch();

 watch2.Start();
 for (var i = 0; i <= 1000000; i++)
 {
     if (!myList.Any()) x = i;
 }
 watch2.Stop();

 Console.WriteLine("myList.Count() = " + watch.ElapsedMilliseconds.ToString());
 Console.WriteLine("myList.Any() = " + watch2.ElapsedMilliseconds.ToString());
 Console.ReadLine();

The second is almost three times slower :)

Trying the stopwatch test again with a Stack or array or other scenarios it really depends on the type of list it seems - because they prove Count to be slower.

So I guess it depends on the type of list you're using!

(Just to point out, I put 2000+ objects in the List and count was still faster, opposite with other types)

Abort a Git Merge

Truth be told there are many, many resources explaining how to do this already out on the web:

Git: how to reverse-merge a commit?

Git: how to reverse-merge a commit?

Undoing Merges, from Git's blog (retrieved from archive.org's Wayback Machine)

So I guess I'll just summarize some of these:

  1. git revert <merge commit hash>
    This creates an extra "revert" commit saying you undid a merge

  2. git reset --hard <commit hash *before* the merge>
    This reset history to before you did the merge. If you have commits after the merge you will need to cherry-pick them on to afterwards.

But honestly this guide here is better than anything I can explain, with diagrams! :)

Hiding user input on terminal in Linux script

I always like to use Ansi escape characters:

echo -e "Enter your password: \x1B[8m"
echo -e "\x1B[0m"

8m makes text invisible and 0m resets text to "normal." The -e makes Ansi escapes possible.

The only caveat is that you can still copy and paste the text that is there, so you probably shouldn't use this if you really want security.

It just lets people not look at your passwords when you type them in. Just don't leave your computer on afterwards. :)


NOTE:

The above is platform independent as long as it supports Ansi escape sequences.

However, for another Unix solution, you could simply tell read to not echo the characters...

printf "password: "
let pass $(read -s)
printf "\nhey everyone, the password the user just entered is $pass\n"

Clearing <input type='file' /> using jQuery

An easy way is changing the input type and change it back again.

Something like this:

var input = $('#attachments');
input.prop('type', 'text');
input.prop('type', 'file')

How can I check if character in a string is a letter? (Python)

This works:

word = str(input("Enter string:"))
notChar = 0
isChar = 0
for char in word:
    if not char.isalpha():
        notChar += 1
    else:
        isChar += 1
print(isChar, " were letters; ", notChar, " were not letters.")

Detect whether a Python string is a number or a letter

Check if string is positive digit (integer) and alphabet

You may use str.isdigit() and str.isalpha() to check whether given string is positive integer and alphabet respectively.

Sample Results:

# For alphabet
>>> 'A'.isdigit()
False
>>> 'A'.isalpha()
True

# For digit
>>> '1'.isdigit()
True
>>> '1'.isalpha()
False

Check for strings as positive/negative - integer/float

str.isdigit() returns False if the string is a negative number or a float number. For example:

# returns `False` for float
>>> '123.3'.isdigit()
False
# returns `False` for negative number
>>> '-123'.isdigit()
False

If you want to also check for the negative integers and float, then you may write a custom function to check for it as:

def is_number(n):
    try:
        float(n)   # Type-casting the string to `float`.
                   # If string is not a valid `float`, 
                   # it'll raise `ValueError` exception
    except ValueError:
        return False
    return True

Sample Run:

>>> is_number('123')    # positive integer number
True

>>> is_number('123.4')  # positive float number
True
 
>>> is_number('-123')   # negative integer number
True

>>> is_number('-123.4') # negative `float` number
True

>>> is_number('abc')    # `False` for "some random" string
False

Discard "NaN" (not a number) strings while checking for number

The above functions will return True for the "NAN" (Not a number) string because for Python it is valid float representing it is not a number. For example:

>>> is_number('NaN')
True

In order to check whether the number is "NaN", you may use math.isnan() as:

>>> import math
>>> nan_num = float('nan')

>>> math.isnan(nan_num)
True

Or if you don't want to import additional library to check this, then you may simply check it via comparing it with itself using ==. Python returns False when nan float is compared with itself. For example:

# `nan_num` variable is taken from above example
>>> nan_num == nan_num
False

Hence, above function is_number can be updated to return False for "NaN" as:

def is_number(n):
    is_number = True
    try:
        num = float(n)
        # check for "nan" floats
        is_number = num == num   # or use `math.isnan(num)`
    except ValueError:
        is_number = False
    return is_number

Sample Run:

>>> is_number('Nan')   # not a number "Nan" string
False

>>> is_number('nan')   # not a number string "nan" with all lower cased
False

>>> is_number('123')   # positive integer
True

>>> is_number('-123')  # negative integer
True

>>> is_number('-1.12') # negative `float`
True

>>> is_number('abc')   # "some random" string
False

Allow Complex Number like "1+2j" to be treated as valid number

The above function will still return you False for the complex numbers. If you want your is_number function to treat complex numbers as valid number, then you need to type cast your passed string to complex() instead of float(). Then your is_number function will look like:

def is_number(n):
    is_number = True
    try:
        #      v type-casting the number here as `complex`, instead of `float`
        num = complex(n)
        is_number = num == num
    except ValueError:
        is_number = False
    return is_number

Sample Run:

>>> is_number('1+2j')    # Valid 
True                     #      : complex number 

>>> is_number('1+ 2j')   # Invalid 
False                    #      : string with space in complex number represetantion
                         #        is treated as invalid complex number

>>> is_number('123')     # Valid
True                     #      : positive integer

>>> is_number('-123')    # Valid 
True                     #      : negative integer

>>> is_number('abc')     # Invalid 
False                    #      : some random string, not a valid number

>>> is_number('nan')     # Invalid
False                    #      : not a number "nan" string

PS: Each operation for each check depending on the type of number comes with additional overhead. Choose the version of is_number function which fits your requirement.

Normal arguments vs. keyword arguments

Using Python 3 you can have both required and non-required keyword arguments:


Optional: (default value defined for param 'b')

def func1(a, *, b=42):
    ...
func1(value_for_a) # b is optional and will default to 42

Required (no default value defined for param 'b'):

def func2(a, *, b):
    ... 
func2(value_for_a, b=21) # b is set to 21 by the function call
func2(value_for_a) # ERROR: missing 1 required keyword-only argument: 'b'`

This can help in cases where you have many similar arguments next to each other especially if they are of the same type, in that case I prefer using named arguments or I create a custom class if arguments belong together.

Match linebreaks - \n or \r\n?

In PCRE \R matches \n, \r and \r\n.

How to extend a class in python?

Another way to extend (specifically meaning, add new methods, not change existing ones) classes, even built-in ones, is to use a preprocessor that adds the ability to extend out of/above the scope of Python itself, converting the extension to normal Python syntax before Python actually gets to see it.

I've done this to extend Python 2's str() class, for instance. str() is a particularly interesting target because of the implicit linkage to quoted data such as 'this' and 'that'.

Here's some extending code, where the only added non-Python syntax is the extend:testDottedQuad bit:

extend:testDottedQuad
def testDottedQuad(strObject):
    if not isinstance(strObject, basestring): return False
    listStrings = strObject.split('.')
    if len(listStrings) != 4: return False
    for strNum in listStrings:
        try:    val = int(strNum)
        except: return False
        if val < 0: return False
        if val > 255: return False
    return True

After which I can write in the code fed to the preprocessor:

if '192.168.1.100'.testDottedQuad():
    doSomething()

dq = '216.126.621.5'
if not dq.testDottedQuad():
    throwWarning();

dqt = ''.join(['127','.','0','.','0','.','1']).testDottedQuad()
if dqt:
    print 'well, that was fun'

The preprocessor eats that, spits out normal Python without monkeypatching, and Python does what I intended it to do.

Just as a c preprocessor adds functionality to c, so too can a Python preprocessor add functionality to Python.

My preprocessor implementation is too large for a stack overflow answer, but for those who might be interested, it is here on GitHub.

Which version of Python do I have installed?

In a Python IDE, just copy and paste in the following code and run it (the version will come up in the output area):

import sys
print(sys.version)

Java NIO: What does IOException: Broken pipe mean?

What causes a "broken pipe", and more importantly, is it possible to recover from that state?

It is caused by something causing the connection to close. (It is not your application that closed the connection: that would have resulted in a different exception.)

It is not possible to recover the connection. You need to open a new one.

If it cannot be recovered, it seems this would be a good sign that an irreversible problem has occurred and that I should simply close this socket connection. Is that a reasonable assumption?

Yes it is. Once you've received that exception, the socket won't ever work again. Closing it is is the only sensible thing to do.

Is there ever a time when this IOException would occur while the socket connection is still being properly connected in the first place (rather than a working connection that failed at some point)?

No. (Or at least, not without subverting proper behavior of the OS'es network stack, the JVM and/or your application.)


Is it wise to always call SocketChannel.isConnected() before attempting a SocketChannel.write() ...

In general, it is a bad idea to call r.isXYZ() before some call that uses the (external) resource r. There is a small chance that the state of the resource will change between the two calls. It is a better idea to do the action, catch the IOException (or whatever) resulting from the failed action and take whatever remedial action is required.

In this particular case, calling isConnected() is pointless. The method is defined to return true if the socket was connected at some point in the past. It does not tell you if the connection is still live. The only way to determine if the connection is still alive is to attempt to use it; e.g. do a read or write.

How to force an entire layout View refresh?

Try this

view.requestLayout();

Send a base64 image in HTML email

Support, unfortunately, is brutal at best. Here's a post on the topic:

https://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/email-marketing/2013/02/embedded-images-in-html-email/

And the post content: enter image description here

How do I convert a factor into date format?

You can try lubridate package which makes life much easier

library(lubridate)

mdy_hms(mydate)

The above will change the date format to POSIXct

A sample working example:

> data <- "1/15/2006 01:15:00"
> library(lubridate)
> mydate <- mdy_hms(data)
> mydate
[1] "2006-01-15 01:15:00 UTC"
> class(mydate)
[1] "POSIXct" "POSIXt" 

For case with factor use as.character

data <- factor("1/15/2006 01:15:00")
library(lubridate)
mydate <- mdy_hms(as.character(data))

How can I indent multiple lines in Xcode?

Here are the shortcuts, to format the code in XCode

  1. Format entire code (entire class/controller)

    Select the entire code and press control+I on mac to format your code.

  2. Format particular block of code

    Select the code and press:

    • ?+] for right move (indent)
    • ?+[ for left move (un-indent)

Note: as per @JavierGiovannini sugesstion you can do using Editor Menu option

  1. Select your code and navigate to Editor > Structure > Re-Indent

How to start and stop android service from a adb shell?

You may get an error "*Error: app is in background *" while using

adb shell am startservice 

in Oreo (26+). This requires services in the foreground. Use the following.

adb shell am start-foreground-service com.some.package.name/.YourServiceSubClassName

To get total number of columns in a table in sql

The below query will display all the tables and corresponding column count in a database schema

SELECT Table_Name, count(*) as [No.of Columns]
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE table_schema = 'dbo' -- schema name
group by table_name

Prepare for Segue in Swift

Swift 4, Swift 3

override func prepare(for segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: Any?) {
    if segue.identifier == "MySegueId" {
        if let nextViewController = segue.destination as? NextViewController {
                nextViewController.valueOfxyz = "XYZ" //Or pass any values
                nextViewController.valueOf123 = 123
        }
    }
}

ImportError: No module named psycopg2

Please try to run the command import psycopg2 on the python console. If you get the error then check the sys.path where the python look for the install module. If the parent directory of the python-psycopg2-2.4.5-1.rhel5.x86_64 is there in the sys.path or not. If its not in the sys.path then run export PYTHONPATH=<parent directory of python-psycopg2-2.4.5-1.rhel5.x86_64> before running the openerp server.

How do you keep parents of floated elements from collapsing?

I usually use the overflow: auto trick; although that's not, strictly speaking, the intended use for overflow, it is kinda related - enough to make it easy to remember, certainly. The meaning of float: left itself has been extended for various uses more significantly than overflow is in this example, IMO.

Jquery-How to grey out the background while showing the loading icon over it

I reworked the example you provided in the js fiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/zravs3hp/

Step 1 :

I renamed your container div to overlay, as semantically this div is not a container, but an overlay. I also placed the loader div as a child of this overlay div.

The resulting html is :

<div class="overlay">
    <div id="loading-img"></div>
</div>


<div class="content">
    <div>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Ea velit provident sint aliquid eos omnis aperiam officia architecto error incidunt nemo obcaecati adipisci doloremque dicta neque placeat natus beatae cupiditate minima ipsam quaerat explicabo non reiciendis qui sit. ...</div>
    <button id="button">Submit</button>
</div>

The css of the overlay is the following

.overlay {
    background: #e9e9e9;  <- I left your 'gray' background
    display: none;        <- Not displayed by default
    position: absolute;   <- This and the following properties will
    top: 0;                  make the overlay, the element will expand
    right: 0;                so as to cover the whole body of the page
    bottom: 0;
    left: 0;
    opacity: 0.5;
}

Step 2 :

I added some dummy text so as to have something to overlay.

Step 3 :

Then, in the click handler we just need to show the overlay :

$("#button").click(function () {
    $(".overlay").show();
});

java.util.NoSuchElementException: No line found

Your real problem is that you are calling "sc.nextLine()" MORE TIMES than the number of lines.

For example, if you have only TEN input lines, then you can ONLY call "sc.nextLine()" TEN times.

Every time you call "sc.nextLine()", one input line will be consumed. If you call "sc.nextLine()" MORE TIMES than the number of lines, you will have an exception called

      "java.util.NoSuchElementException: No line found".

If you have to call "sc.nextLine()" n times, then you have to have at least n lines.

Try to change your code to match the number of times you call "sc.nextLine()" with the number of lines, and I guarantee that your problem will be solved.

mvn command is not recognized as an internal or external command

You have written three paths above. The first path (path to maven) should be pointing to the bin directory.

Path to Maven: C:\apache-maven-3.1.0\apache-maven-3.1.0\bin;

Below are right. Above path should be corrected.

M2_HOME:C:\apache-maven-3.1.0\apache-maven-3.1.0;

PATH: Other things,C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.7.0_40\bin,C:\apache-maven-3.1.0\apache-maven-3.1.0\bin;

Value does not fall within the expected range

In case of WSS 3.0 recently I experienced same issue. It was because of column that was accessed from code was not present in the wss list.

How do I get the domain originating the request in express.js?

Recently faced a problem with fetching 'Origin' request header, then I found this question. But pretty confused with the results, req.get('host') is deprecated, that's why giving Undefined. Use,

    req.header('Origin');
    req.header('Host');
    // this method can be used to access other request headers like, 'Referer', 'User-Agent' etc.

How can I create 2 separate log files with one log4j config file?

Try the following configuration:

log4j.rootLogger=TRACE, stdout

log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d [%24F:%t:%L] - %m%n

log4j.appender.debugLog=org.apache.log4j.FileAppender
log4j.appender.debugLog.File=logs/debug.log
log4j.appender.debugLog.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.debugLog.layout.ConversionPattern=%d [%24F:%t:%L] - %m%n

log4j.appender.reportsLog=org.apache.log4j.FileAppender
log4j.appender.reportsLog.File=logs/reports.log
log4j.appender.reportsLog.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.reportsLog.layout.ConversionPattern=%d [%24F:%t:%L] - %m%n

log4j.category.debugLogger=TRACE, debugLog
log4j.additivity.debugLogger=false

log4j.category.reportsLogger=DEBUG, reportsLog
log4j.additivity.reportsLogger=false

Then configure the loggers in the Java code accordingly:

static final Logger debugLog = Logger.getLogger("debugLogger");
static final Logger resultLog = Logger.getLogger("reportsLogger");

Do you want output to go to stdout? If not, change the first line of log4j.properties to:

log4j.rootLogger=OFF

and get rid of the stdout lines.

Create ul and li elements in javascript.

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

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

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

function createList(spacecrafts){

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

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

return listView;
}

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

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

Bootstrap 3 - How to load content in modal body via AJAX?

In the case where you need to update the same modal with content from different Ajax / API calls here's a working solution.

$('.btn-action').click(function(){
    var url = $(this).data("url"); 
    $.ajax({
        url: url,
        dataType: 'json',
        success: function(res) {

            // get the ajax response data
            var data = res.body;

            // update modal content here
            // you may want to format data or 
            // update other modal elements here too
            $('.modal-body').text(data);

            // show modal
            $('#myModal').modal('show');

        },
        error:function(request, status, error) {
            console.log("ajax call went wrong:" + request.responseText);
        }
    });
});

Bootstrap 3 Demo
Bootstrap 4 Demo

How to convert milliseconds to "hh:mm:ss" format?

 public String millsToDateFormat(long mills) {

    Date date = new Date(mills);
    DateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss");
    String dateFormatted = formatter.format(date);
    return dateFormatted; //note that it will give you the time in GMT+0
}

Create random list of integers in Python

All the random methods end up calling random.random() so the best way is to call it directly:

[int(1000*random.random()) for i in xrange(10000)]

For example,

  • random.randint calls random.randrange.
  • random.randrange has a bunch of overhead to check the range before returning istart + istep*int(self.random() * n).

NumPy is much faster still of course.

Accessing a matrix element in the "Mat" object (not the CvMat object) in OpenCV C++

For cv::Mat_<T> mat just use mat(row, col)

Accessing elements of a matrix with specified type cv::Mat_< _Tp > is more comfortable, as you can skip the template specification. This is pointed out in the documentation as well.

code:

cv::Mat1d mat0 = cv::Mat1d::zeros(3, 4);
std::cout << "mat0:\n" << mat0 << std::endl;
std::cout << "element: " << mat0(2, 0) << std::endl;
std::cout << std::endl;

cv::Mat1d mat1 = (cv::Mat1d(3, 4) <<
    1, NAN, 10.5, NAN,
    NAN, -99, .5, NAN,
    -70, NAN, -2, NAN);
std::cout << "mat1:\n" << mat1 << std::endl;
std::cout << "element: " << mat1(0, 2) << std::endl;
std::cout << std::endl;

cv::Mat mat2 = cv::Mat(3, 4, CV_32F, 0.0);
std::cout << "mat2:\n" << mat2 << std::endl;
std::cout << "element: " << mat2.at<float>(2, 0) << std::endl;
std::cout << std::endl;

output:

mat0:
[0, 0, 0, 0;
 0, 0, 0, 0;
 0, 0, 0, 0]
element: 0

mat1:
[1, nan, 10.5, nan;
 nan, -99, 0.5, nan;
 -70, nan, -2, nan]
element: 10.5

mat2:
[0, 0, 0, 0;
 0, 0, 0, 0;
 0, 0, 0, 0]
element: 0

ValueError: unsupported format character while forming strings

For anyone checking this using python 3:

If you want to print the following output "100% correct":

python 3.8: print("100% correct")
python 3.7 and less: print("100%% correct")


A neat programming workaround for compatibility across diff versions of python is shown below:

Note: If you have to use this, you're probably experiencing many other errors... I'd encourage you to upgrade / downgrade python in relevant machines so that they are all compatible.

DevOps is a notable exception to the above -- implementing the following code would indeed be appropriate for specific DevOps / Debugging scenarios.

import sys

if version_info.major==3:
    if version_info.minor>=8:
        my_string = "100% correct"
    else:
        my_string = "100%% correct"

# Finally
print(my_string)

What is the best way to iterate over multiple lists at once?

You can use zip:

>>> a = [1, 2, 3]
>>> b = ['a', 'b', 'c']
>>> for x, y in zip(a, b):
...   print x, y
... 
1 a
2 b
3 c

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

There could be a global variable, likely set with argparse from sys.argv, that stands for whether the program should be verbose or not. Then a decorator could be written such that if verbosity was on, then the standard input would be diverted into the null device as long as the function were to run:

import os
from contextlib import redirect_stdout
verbose = False

def louder(f):
    def loud_f(*args, **kwargs):
        if not verbose:
            with open(os.devnull, 'w') as void:
                with redirect_stdout(void):
                    return f(*args, **kwargs)
        return f(*args, **kwargs)
    return loud_f

@louder
def foo(s):
    print(s*3)

foo("bar")

This answer is inspired by this code; actually, I was going to just use it as a module in my program, but I got errors I couldn't understand, so I adapted a portion of it.

The downside of this solution is that verbosity is binary, unlike with logging, which allows for finer-tuning of how verbose the program can be. Also, all print calls are diverted, which might be unwanted for.

Find Number of CPUs and Cores per CPU using Command Prompt

In order to check the absence of physical sockets run:

wmic cpu get SocketDesignation

Java HTTPS client certificate authentication

I think the fix here was the keystore type, pkcs12(pfx) always have private key and JKS type can exist without private key. Unless you specify in your code or select a certificate thru browser, the server have no way of knowing it is representing a client on the other end.

How to handle iframe in Selenium WebDriver using java

You need to first find iframe. You can do so using following statement.

WebElement iFrame= driver.findElement(By.tagName("iframe"));

Then, you can swith to it using switchTo method on you WebDriver object.

driver.switchTo().frame(iFrame);

And to move back to the parent frame, you can either use switchTo().parentFrame() or if you want to get back to the main (or most parent) frame, you can use switchTo().defaultContent();.

driver.switchTo().parentFrame();    // to move back to parent frame
driver.switchTo().defaultContent(); // to move back to most parent or main frame

Hope it helps.

wget can't download - 404 error

You will also get a 404 error if you are using ipv6 and the server only accepts ipv4.

To use ipv4, make a request adding -4:

wget -4 http://www.php.net/get/php-5.4.13.tar.gz/from/this/mirror

Smooth GPS data

Mapped to CoffeeScript if anyones interested. **edit -> sorry using backbone too, but you get the idea.

Modified slightly to accept a beacon with attribs

{latitude: item.lat,longitude: item.lng,date: new Date(item.effective_at),accuracy: item.gps_accuracy}

MIN_ACCURACY = 1

# mapped from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1134579/smooth-gps-data

class v.Map.BeaconFilter

  constructor: ->
    _.extend(this, Backbone.Events)

  process: (decay,beacon) ->

    accuracy     = Math.max beacon.accuracy, MIN_ACCURACY

    unless @variance?
      # if variance nil, inititalise some values
      @variance     = accuracy * accuracy
      @timestamp_ms = beacon.date.getTime();
      @lat          = beacon.latitude
      @lng          = beacon.longitude

    else

      @timestamp_ms = beacon.date.getTime() - @timestamp_ms

      if @timestamp_ms > 0
        # time has moved on, so the uncertainty in the current position increases
        @variance += @timestamp_ms * decay * decay / 1000;
        @timestamp_ms = beacon.date.getTime();

      # Kalman gain matrix K = Covarariance * Inverse(Covariance + MeasurementVariance)
      # NB: because K is dimensionless, it doesn't matter that variance has different units to lat and lng
      _k  = @variance / (@variance + accuracy * accuracy)
      @lat = _k * (beacon.latitude  - @lat)
      @lng = _k * (beacon.longitude - @lng)

      @variance = (1 - _k) * @variance

    [@lat,@lng]

Strip HTML from strings in Python

I'm parsing Github readmes and I find that the following really works well:

import re
import lxml.html

def strip_markdown(x):
    links_sub = re.sub(r'\[(.+)\]\([^\)]+\)', r'\1', x)
    bold_sub = re.sub(r'\*\*([^*]+)\*\*', r'\1', links_sub)
    emph_sub = re.sub(r'\*([^*]+)\*', r'\1', bold_sub)
    return emph_sub

def strip_html(x):
    return lxml.html.fromstring(x).text_content() if x else ''

And then

readme = """<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kootenpv/sky/master/resources/skylogo.png" />

            sky is a web scraping framework, implemented with the latest python versions in mind (3.4+). 
            It uses the asynchronous `asyncio` framework, as well as many popular modules 
            and extensions.

            Most importantly, it aims for **next generation** web crawling where machine intelligence 
            is used to speed up the development/maintainance/reliability of crawling.

            It mainly does this by considering the user to be interested in content 
            from *domains*, not just a collection of *single pages*
            ([templating approach](#templating-approach))."""

strip_markdown(strip_html(readme))

Removes all markdown and html correctly.

How do I read the contents of a Node.js stream into a string variable?

Streams don't have a simple .toString() function (which I understand) nor something like a .toStringAsync(cb) function (which I don't understand).

So I created my own helper function:

var streamToString = function(stream, callback) {
  var str = '';
  stream.on('data', function(chunk) {
    str += chunk;
  });
  stream.on('end', function() {
    callback(str);
  });
}

// how to use:
streamToString(myStream, function(myStr) {
  console.log(myStr);
});

Best timestamp format for CSV/Excel?

The earlier suggestion to use "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss" is fine, though I believe Excel has much finer time resolution than that. I find this post rather credible (follow the thread and you'll see lots of arithmetic and experimenting with Excel), and if it's correct, you'll have your milliseconds. You can just tack on decimal places at the end, i.e. "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss.000".

You should be aware that Excel may not necessarily format the data (without human intervention) in such a way that you will see all of that precision. On my computer at work, when I set up a CSV with "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss.000" data (by hand using Notepad), I get "mm:ss.0" in the cell and "m/d/yyyy  hh:mm:ss AM/PM" in the formula bar.

For maximum information[1] conveyed in the cells without human intervention, you may want to split up your timestamp into a date portion and a time portion, with the time portion only to the second. It looks to me like Excel wants to give you at most three visible "levels" (where fractions of a second are their own level) in any given cell, and you want seven: years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds, and fractions of a second.

Or, if you don't need the timestamp to be human-readable but you want it to be as accurate as possible, you might prefer just to store a big number (internally, Excel is just using the number of days, including fractional days, since an "epoch" date).


[1]That is, numeric information. If you want to see as much information as possible but don't care about doing calculations with it, you could make up some format which Excel will definitely parse as a string, and thus leave alone; e.g. "yyyymmdd.hhmmss.000".

How to iterate over the files of a certain directory, in Java?

I guess there are so many ways to make what you want. Here's a way that I use. With the commons.io library you can iterate over the files in a directory. You must use the FileUtils.iterateFiles method and you can process each file.

You can find the information here: http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-io/download_io.cgi

Here's an example:

Iterator it = FileUtils.iterateFiles(new File("C:/"), null, false);
        while(it.hasNext()){
            System.out.println(((File) it.next()).getName());
        }

You can change null and put a list of extentions if you wanna filter. Example: {".xml",".java"}

Extract file basename without path and extension in bash

Just an alternative that I came up with to extract an extension, using the posts in this thread with my own small knowledge base that was more familiar to me.

ext="$(rev <<< "$(cut -f "1" -d "." <<< "$(rev <<< "file.docx")")")"

Note: Please advise on my use of quotes; it worked for me but I might be missing something on their proper use (I probably use too many).

Cookie blocked/not saved in IFRAME in Internet Explorer

I got it to work, but the solution is a bit complex, so bear with me.

What's happening

As it is, Internet Explorer gives lower level of trust to IFRAME pages (IE calls this "third-party" content). If the page inside the IFRAME doesn't have a Privacy Policy, its cookies are blocked (which is indicated by the eye icon in status bar, when you click on it, it shows you a list of blocked URLs).

the evil eye
(source: piskvor.org)

In this case, when cookies are blocked, session identifier is not sent, and the target script throws a 'session not found' error.

(I've tried setting the session identifier into the form and loading it from POST variables. This would have worked, but for political reasons I couldn't do that.)

It is possible to make the page inside the IFRAME more trusted: if the inner page sends a P3P header with a privacy policy that is acceptable to IE, the cookies will be accepted.

How to solve it

Create a p3p policy

A good starting point is the W3C tutorial. I've gone through it, downloaded the IBM Privacy Policy Editor and there I created a representation of the privacy policy and gave it a name to reference it by (here it was policy1).

NOTE: at this point, you actually need to find out if your site has a privacy policy, and if not, create it - whether it collects user data, what kind of data, what it does with it, who has access to it, etc. You need to find this information and think about it. Just slapping together a few tags will not cut it. This step cannot be done purely in software, and may be highly political (e.g. "should we sell our click statistics?").

(e.g. "the site is operated by ACME Ltd., it uses anonymous per-session identifiers for its operation, collects user data only if explicitly permitted and only for the following purposes, the data is stored only as long as necessary, only our company has access to it, etc. etc.").

(When editing with this tool, it's possible to view errors/omissions in the policy. Also very useful is the tab "HTML Policy": at the bottom, it has a "Policy Evaluation" - a quick check if the policy will be blocked by IE's default settings)

The Editor exports to a .p3p file, which is an XML representation of the above policy. Also, it can export a "compact version" of this policy.

Link to the policy

Then a Policy Reference file (http://example.com/w3c/p3p.xml) was needed (an index of privacy policies the site uses):

<META>
  <POLICY-REFERENCES>
    <POLICY-REF about="/w3c/example-com.p3p#policy1">
      <INCLUDE>/</INCLUDE>
      <COOKIE-INCLUDE/>
    </POLICY-REF>
  </POLICY-REFERENCES>
</META>

The <INCLUDE> shows all URIs that will use this policy (in my case, the whole site). The policy file I've exported from the Editor was uploaded to http://example.com/w3c/example-com.p3p

Send the compact header with responses

I've set the webserver at example.com to send the compact header with responses, like this:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK 
P3P: policyref="/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="IDC DSP COR IVAi IVDi OUR TST"
// ... other headers and content

policyref is a relative URI to the Policy Reference file (which in turn references the privacy policies), CP is the compact policy representation. Note that the combination of P3P headers in the example may not be applicable on your specific website; your P3P headers MUST truthfully represent your own privacy policy!

Profit!

In this configuration, the Evil Eye does not appear, the cookies are saved even in the IFRAME, and the application works.

Edit: What NOT to do, unless you like defending from lawsuits

Several people have suggested "just slap some tags into your P3P header, until the Evil Eye gives up".

The tags are not only a bunch of bits, they have real world meanings, and their use gives you real world responsibilities!

For example, pretending that you never collect user data might make the browser happy, but if you actually collect user data, the P3P is conflicting with reality. Plain and simple, you are purposefully lying to your users, and that might be criminal behavior in some countries. As in, "go to jail, do not collect $200".

A few examples (see p3pwriter for the full set of tags):

  • NOI : "Web Site does not collected identified data." (as soon as there's any customization, a login, or any data collection (***** Analytics, anyone?), you must acknowledge it in your P3P)
  • STP: Information is retained to meet the stated purpose. This requires information to be discarded at the earliest time possible. Sites MUST have a retention policy that establishes a destruction time table. The retention policy MUST be included in or linked from the site's human-readable privacy policy." (so if you send STP but don't have a retention policy, you may be committing fraud. How cool is that? Not at all.)

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm not willing to go to court to see if the P3P header is really legally binding or if you can promise your users anything without actually willing to honor your promises.

How to get the last char of a string in PHP?

Siemano, get only php files from selected directory:

$dir    = '/home/zetdoa/ftp/domeny/MY_DOMAIN/projekty/project';
$files = scandir($dir, 1);


foreach($files as $file){
  $n = substr($file, -3);
  if($n == 'php'){
    echo $file.'<br />';
  }
}

How do I check whether an array contains a string in TypeScript?

TS has many utility methods for arrays which are available via the prototype of Arrays. There are multiple which can achieve this goal but the two most convenient for this purpose are:

  1. Array.indexOf() Takes any value as an argument and then returns the first index at which a given element can be found in the array, or -1 if it is not present.
  2. Array.includes() Takes any value as an argument and then determines whether an array includes a this value. The method returning true if the value is found, otherwise false.

Example:

const channelArray: string[] = ['one', 'two', 'three'];

console.log(channelArray.indexOf('three'));      // 2
console.log(channelArray.indexOf('three') > -1); // true
console.log(channelArray.indexOf('four') > -1);  // false
console.log(channelArray.includes('three'));     // true

Hiding a form and showing another when a button is clicked in a Windows Forms application

i believe the following code will only run after form1 is closed

 while (true)
    {
        if (form1.Visible == false)
            form2.Show();
    }

Why not start your form2 from form1 instead?

Form2 form2 = new Form2();
 private void button1_Click_1(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (richTextBox1.Text != null)
        {
            form1.Visible=false;
            form2.Show();

        }
        else MessageBox.Show("Insert Attributes First !");

    }

What is the difference between VFAT and FAT32 file systems?

Copied from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc750354.aspx

What's FAT?

FAT may sound like a strange name for a file system, but it's actually an acronym for File Allocation Table. Introduced in 1981, FAT is ancient in computer terms. Because of its age, most operating systems, including Microsoft Windows NT®, Windows 98, the Macintosh OS, and some versions of UNIX, offer support for FAT.

The FAT file system limits filenames to the 8.3 naming convention, meaning that a filename can have no more than eight characters before the period and no more than three after. Filenames in a FAT file system must also begin with a letter or number, and they can't contain spaces. Filenames aren't case sensitive.

What About VFAT?

Perhaps you've also heard of a file system called VFAT. VFAT is an extension of the FAT file system and was introduced with Windows 95. VFAT maintains backward compatibility with FAT but relaxes the rules. For example, VFAT filenames can contain up to 255 characters, spaces, and multiple periods. Although VFAT preserves the case of filenames, it's not considered case sensitive.

When you create a long filename (longer than 8.3) with VFAT, the file system actually creates two different filenames. One is the actual long filename. This name is visible to Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT (4.0 and later). The second filename is called an MS-DOS® alias. An MS-DOS alias is an abbreviated form of the long filename. The file system creates the MS-DOS alias by taking the first six characters of the long filename (not counting spaces), followed by the tilde [~] and a numeric trailer. For example, the filename Brien's Document.txt would have an alias of BRIEN'~1.txt.

An interesting side effect results from the way VFAT stores its long filenames. When you create a long filename with VFAT, it uses one directory entry for the MS-DOS alias and another entry for every 13 characters of the long filename. In theory, a single long filename could occupy up to 21 directory entries. The root directory has a limit of 512 files, but if you were to use the maximum length long filenames in the root directory, you could cut this limit to a mere 24 files. Therefore, you should use long filenames very sparingly in the root directory. Other directories aren't affected by this limit.

You may be wondering why we're discussing VFAT. The reason is it's becoming more common than FAT, but aside from the differences I mentioned above, VFAT has the same limitations. When you tell Windows NT to format a partition as FAT, it actually formats the partition as VFAT. The only time you'll have a true FAT partition under Windows NT 4.0 is when you use another operating system, such as MS-DOS, to format the partition.

FAT32

FAT32 is actually an extension of FAT and VFAT, first introduced with Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 (OSR2). FAT32 greatly enhances the VFAT file system but it does have its drawbacks.

The greatest advantage to FAT32 is that it dramatically increases the amount of free hard disk space. To illustrate this point, consider that a FAT partition (also known as a FAT16 partition) allows only a certain number of clusters per partition. Therefore, as your partition size increases, the cluster size must also increase. For example, a 512-MB FAT partition has a cluster size of 8K, while a 2-GB partition has a cluster size of 32K.

This may not sound like a big deal until you consider that the FAT file system only works in single cluster increments. For example, on a 2-GB partition, a 1-byte file will occupy the entire cluster, thereby consuming 32K, or roughly 32,000 times the amount of space that the file should consume. This rule applies to every file on your hard disk, so you can see how much space can be wasted.

Converting a partition to FAT32 reduces the cluster size (and overcomes the 2-GB partition size limit). For partitions 8 GB and smaller, the cluster size is reduced to a mere 4K. As you can imagine, it's not uncommon to gain back hundreds of megabytes by converting a partition to FAT32, especially if the partition contains a lot of small files.

Note: This section of the quote/ article (1999) is out of date. Updated info quote below.

As I mentioned, FAT32 does have limitations. Unfortunately, it isn't compatible with any operating system other than Windows 98 and the OSR2 version of Windows 95. However, Windows 2000 will be able to read FAT32 partitions.

The other disadvantage is that your disk utilities and antivirus software must be FAT32-aware. Otherwise, they could interpret the new file structure as an error and try to correct it, thus destroying data in the process.

Finally, I should mention that converting to FAT32 is a one-way process. Once you've converted to FAT32, you can't convert the partition back to FAT16. Therefore, before converting to FAT32, you need to consider whether the computer will ever be used in a dual-boot environment. I should also point out that although other operating systems such as Windows NT can't directly read a FAT32 partition, they can read it across the network. Therefore, it's no problem to share information stored on a FAT32 partition with other computers on a network that run older operating systems.

Updated mentioned in comment by Doktor-J (assimilated to update out of date answer in case comment is ever lost):

I'd just like to point out that most modern operating systems (WinXP/Vista/7/8, MacOS X, most if not all Linux variants) can read FAT32, contrary to what the second-to-last paragraph suggests.

The original article was written in 1999, and being posted on a Microsoft website, probably wasn't concerned with non-Microsoft operating systems anyways.

The operating systems "excluded" by that paragraph are probably the original Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 3.1, DOS, etc.

Click a button with XPath containing partial id and title in Selenium IDE

Now that you have provided your HTML sample, we're able to see that your XPath is slightly wrong. While it's valid XPath, it's logically wrong.

You've got:

//*[contains(@id, 'ctl00_btnAircraftMapCell')]//*[contains(@title, 'Select Seat')]

Which translates into:

Get me all the elements that have an ID that contains ctl00_btnAircraftMapCell. Out of these elements, get any child elements that have a title that contains Select Seat.

What you actually want is:

//a[contains(@id, 'ctl00_btnAircraftMapCell') and contains(@title, 'Select Seat')]

Which translates into:

Get me all the anchor elements that have both: an id that contains ctl00_btnAircraftMapCell and a title that contains Select Seat.

Java: How to resolve java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/JAXBException

I also stumpled accross the ClassNotFoundException:javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter using Java 11 and

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.jsonwebtoken</groupId>
    <artifactId>jjwt</artifactId>
    <version>0.9.1</version>
</dependency>

I tried all this stuff around adding javax.xml.bind:jaxb-api or spring boot jakarta.xml.bind-api .. I found a hint for fixes in jjwt version 0.10.0 .. but most importantly, the jjwt package is now split !

Thus, check this reference: https://github.com/jwtk/jjwt/issues/510

Simply, if you use

Java11 and jjwt 0.9.x and you face the ClassNotFoundException:javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter issue,

go for

jjwt version 0.11.x, but use the splitted packages: https://github.com/jwtk/jjwt#install

You maven wont find a higher version for jjwt dependency, since they split the packages.

Cheers.

How to switch to the new browser window, which opens after click on the button?

This script helps you to switch over from a Parent window to a Child window and back cntrl to Parent window

String parentWindow = driver.getWindowHandle();
Set<String> handles =  driver.getWindowHandles();
   for(String windowHandle  : handles)
       {
       if(!windowHandle.equals(parentWindow))
          {
          driver.switchTo().window(windowHandle);
         <!--Perform your operation here for new window-->
         driver.close(); //closing child window
         driver.switchTo().window(parentWindow); //cntrl to parent window
          }
       }

Can't open file 'svn/repo/db/txn-current-lock': Permission denied

for example on debian

sudo gpasswd -a svn-admin www-data
sudo chgrp -R www-data svn/
sudo chmod -R g=rwsx svn/

SMTP error 554

Just had this issue with an Outlook client going through a Exchange server to an external address on Windows XP. Clearing the temp files seemed to do the trick.

printf with std::string?

Use std::printf and c_str() example:

std::printf("Follow this command: %s", myString.c_str());

Multiple file-extensions searchPattern for System.IO.Directory.GetFiles

look like this demo:

void Main()
{
    foreach(var f in GetFilesToProcess("c:\\", new[] {".xml", ".txt"}))
        Debug.WriteLine(f);
}
private static IEnumerable<string> GetFilesToProcess(string path, IEnumerable<string> extensions)
{
   return Directory.GetFiles(path, "*.*")
       .Where(f => extensions.Contains(Path.GetExtension(f).ToLower()));
}

Why not inherit from List<T>?

There are some good answers here. I would add to them the following points.

What is the correct C# way of representing a data structure, which, "logically" (that is to say, "to the human mind") is just a list of things with a few bells and whistles?

Ask any ten non-computer-programmer people who are familiar with the existence of football to fill in the blank:

A football team is a particular kind of _____

Did anyone say "list of football players with a few bells and whistles", or did they all say "sports team" or "club" or "organization"? Your notion that a football team is a particular kind of list of players is in your human mind and your human mind alone.

List<T> is a mechanism. Football team is a business object -- that is, an object that represents some concept that is in the business domain of the program. Don't mix those! A football team is a kind of team; it has a roster, a roster is a list of players. A roster is not a particular kind of list of players. A roster is a list of players. So make a property called Roster that is a List<Player>. And make it ReadOnlyList<Player> while you're at it, unless you believe that everyone who knows about a football team gets to delete players from the roster.

Is inheriting from List<T> always unacceptable?

Unacceptable to who? Me? No.

When is it acceptable?

When you're building a mechanism that extends the List<T> mechanism.

What must a programmer consider, when deciding whether to inherit from List<T> or not?

Am I building a mechanism or a business object?

But that's a lot of code! What do I get for all that work?

You spent more time typing up your question that it would have taken you to write forwarding methods for the relevant members of List<T> fifty times over. You're clearly not afraid of verbosity, and we are talking about a very small amount of code here; this is a few minutes work.

UPDATE

I gave it some more thought and there is another reason to not model a football team as a list of players. In fact it might be a bad idea to model a football team as having a list of players too. The problem with a team as/having a list of players is that what you've got is a snapshot of the team at a moment in time. I don't know what your business case is for this class, but if I had a class that represented a football team I would want to ask it questions like "how many Seahawks players missed games due to injury between 2003 and 2013?" or "What Denver player who previously played for another team had the largest year-over-year increase in yards ran?" or "Did the Piggers go all the way this year?"

That is, a football team seems to me to be well modeled as a collection of historical facts such as when a player was recruited, injured, retired, etc. Obviously the current player roster is an important fact that should probably be front-and-center, but there may be other interesting things you want to do with this object that require a more historical perspective.

node.js http 'get' request with query string parameters

I have been struggling with how to add query string parameters to my URL. I couldn't make it work until I realized that I needed to add ? at the end of my URL, otherwise it won't work. This is very important as it will save you hours of debugging, believe me: been there...done that.

Below, is a simple API Endpoint that calls the Open Weather API and passes APPID, lat and lon as query parameters and return weather data as a JSON object. Hope this helps.

//Load the request module
var request = require('request');

//Load the query String module
var querystring = require('querystring');

// Load OpenWeather Credentials
var OpenWeatherAppId = require('../config/third-party').openWeather;

router.post('/getCurrentWeather', function (req, res) {
    var urlOpenWeatherCurrent = 'http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?'
    var queryObject = {
        APPID: OpenWeatherAppId.appId,
        lat: req.body.lat,
        lon: req.body.lon
    }
    console.log(queryObject)
    request({
        url:urlOpenWeatherCurrent,
        qs: queryObject
    }, function (error, response, body) {
        if (error) {
            console.log('error:', error); // Print the error if one occurred

        } else if(response && body) {
            console.log('statusCode:', response && response.statusCode); // Print the response status code if a response was received
            res.json({'body': body}); // Print JSON response.
        }
    })
})  

Or if you want to use the querystring module, make the following changes

var queryObject = querystring.stringify({
    APPID: OpenWeatherAppId.appId,
    lat: req.body.lat,
    lon: req.body.lon
});

request({
   url:urlOpenWeatherCurrent + queryObject
}, function (error, response, body) {...})

Save current directory in variable using Bash?

One more variant:

export PATH=$PATH:\`pwd`:/foo/bar

onclick go full screen

Short personal bookmarklet version

javascript: document.body.webkitRequestFullScreen(); 

go fullscreen ? You can drag this link to your bookmark bar to create the bookmarklet, but you have to edit its URL afterwards: Delete everything before javascript, including the single slash: http://delete_me/javascript:[…]

This works for me in Google Chrome. You have to test whether it works in your environment and otherwise use a different wording of the function call, e.g. javascript:document.body.requestFullScreen(); – see the other answers for the possible variants.

Based on the answers by @Zuul and @default – thanks!

Getting value from a cell from a gridview on RowDataBound event

Label lblSecret = ((Label)e.Row.FindControl("lblSecret"));

Box shadow in IE7 and IE8

use this for fixing issue with shadow box

filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.dropShadow (OffX='2', OffY='2', Color='#F13434', Positive='true');

Spring mvc @PathVariable

@PathVariable used to fetch the value from URL

for example: To get some question

www.stackoverflow.com/questions/19803731

Here some question id is passed as a parameter in URL

Now to fetch this value in controller all you have to do is just to pass @PathVariable in the method parameter

@RequestMapping(value = " /questions/{questionId}", method=RequestMethod.GET)
    public String getQuestion(@PathVariable String questionId){
    //return question details
}

How to execute a command prompt command from python

Taking some inspiration from Daren Thomas's answer (and edit), try this:

proc = subprocess.Popen('dir C:\\', shell=True, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
out, err = proc.communicate()

out will now contain the text output.

They key nugget here is that the subprocess module already provides you shell integration with shell=True, so you don't need to call cmd.exe directly.

As a reminder, if you're in Python 3, this is going to be bytes, so you may want to do out.decode() to convert to a string.

Ansible playbook shell output

If you need a specific exit status, Ansible provides a way to do that via callback plugins.

Example. It's a very good option if you need a 100% accurate exit status.

If not, you can always use the Debug Module, which is the standard for this cases of use.

Cheers

Removing carriage return and new-line from the end of a string in c#

This is what I got to work for me.

s.Replace("\r","").Replace("\n","")

expand/collapse table rows with JQuery

A JavaScript accordion does the trick.

This fiddle by W3Schools makes a simple task even more simple using nothing but javascript, which i partially reproduce below.

<head>
<style>
button.accordion {
    background-color: #eee;
    color: #444;
    font-size: 15px;
    cursor: pointer;
}

button.accordion.active, button.accordion:hover {
    background-color: #ddd; 
}

div.panel {
    padding: 0 18px;
    display: none;
    background-color: white;
}

div.panel.show {
    display: block;
}
</style>
</head><body>
<script>
var acc = document.getElementsByClassName("accordion");
var i;

for (i = 0; i < acc.length; i++) {
    acc[i].onclick = function(){
    this.classList.toggle("active");
    this.nextElementSibling.classList.toggle("show");
  }
}
</script>
...
<button class="accordion">Section 1</button>
<div class="panel">
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</p>
</div>
...
<button class="accordion">Table</button>
<div class="panel">
  <p><table name="detail_table">...</table></p>
</div>
...
<button class="accordion"><table name="button_table">...</table></button>
<div class="panel">
  <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</p>
  <table name="detail_table">...</table>
  <img src=...></img>
</div>
...
</body></html>

if using php, don't forget to convert " to '. You can also use tables of data inside the button and it will still work.

access key and value of object using *ngFor

There's a real nice library that does this among other nice pipes. It's called ngx-pipes.

For example, keys pipe returns keys for an object, and values pipe returns values for an object:

keys pipe

<div *ngFor="let key of {foo: 1, bar: 2} | keys">{{key}}</div> 
<!-- Output: 'foo' and 'bar -->

values pipe

<div *ngFor="let value of {foo: 1, bar: 2} | values">{{value}}</div>
<!-- Output: 1 and 2 -->

No need to create your own custom pipe :)

Linking static libraries to other static libraries

Note before you read the rest: The shell script shown here is certainly not safe to use and well tested. Use at your own risk!

I wrote a bash script to accomplish that task. Suppose your library is lib1 and the one you need to include some symbols from is lib2. The script now runs in a loop, where it first checks which undefined symbols from lib1 can be found in lib2. It then extracts the corresponding object files from lib2 with ar, renames them a bit, and puts them into lib1. Now there may be more missing symbols, because the stuff you included from lib2 needs other stuff from lib2, which we haven't included yet, so the loop needs to run again. If after some passes of the loop there are no changes anymore, i.e. no object files from lib2 added to lib1, the loop can stop.

Note, that the included symbols are still reported as undefined by nm, so I'm keeping track of the object files, that were added to lib1, themselves, in order to determine whether the loop can be stopped.

#! /bin/bash

lib1="$1"
lib2="$2"

if [ ! -e $lib1.backup ]; then
    echo backing up
    cp $lib1 $lib1.backup
fi

remove_later=""

new_tmp_file() {
    file=$(mktemp)
    remove_later="$remove_later $file"
    eval $1=$file
}
remove_tmp_files() {
    rm $remove_later
}
trap remove_tmp_files EXIT

find_symbols() {
    nm $1 $2 | cut -c20- | sort | uniq 
}

new_tmp_file lib2symbols
new_tmp_file currsymbols

nm $lib2 -s --defined-only > $lib2symbols

prefix="xyz_import_"
pass=0
while true; do
    ((pass++))
    echo "Starting pass #$pass"
    curr=$lib1
    find_symbols $curr "--undefined-only" > $currsymbols
    changed=0
    for sym in $(cat $currsymbols); do
        for obj in $(egrep "^$sym in .*\.o" $lib2symbols | cut -d" " -f3); do
            echo "  Found $sym in $obj."
            if [ -e "$prefix$obj" ]; then continue; fi
            echo "    -> Adding $obj to $lib1"
            ar x $lib2 $obj
            mv $obj "$prefix$obj"
            ar -r -s $lib1 "$prefix$obj"
            remove_later="$remove_later $prefix$obj"
            ((changed=changed+1))
        done
    done
    echo "Found $changed changes in pass #$pass"

    if [[ $changed == 0 ]]; then break; fi
done

I named that script libcomp, so you can call it then e.g. with

./libcomp libmylib.a libwhatever.a

where libwhatever is where you want to include symbols from. However, I think it's safest to copy everything into a separate directory first. I wouldn't trust my script so much (however, it worked for me; I could include libgsl.a into my numerics library with that and leave out that -lgsl compiler switch).

How to do a background for a label will be without color?

You are right. but here is the simplest way for making the back color of the label transparent In the properties window of that label select Web.. In Web select Transparent :)

T-SQL split string

ALTER FUNCTION [dbo].func_split_string
(
    @input as varchar(max),
    @delimiter as varchar(10) = ";"

)
RETURNS @result TABLE
(
    id smallint identity(1,1),
    csv_value varchar(max) not null
)
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @pos AS INT;
    DECLARE @string AS VARCHAR(MAX) = '';

    WHILE LEN(@input) > 0
    BEGIN           
        SELECT @pos = CHARINDEX(@delimiter,@input);

        IF(@pos<=0)
            select @pos = len(@input)

        IF(@pos <> LEN(@input))
            SELECT @string = SUBSTRING(@input, 1, @pos-1);
        ELSE
            SELECT @string = SUBSTRING(@input, 1, @pos);

        INSERT INTO @result SELECT @string

        SELECT @input = SUBSTRING(@input, @pos+len(@delimiter), LEN(@input)-@pos)       
    END
    RETURN  
END

How to count the number of letters in a string without the spaces?

def count_letter(string):
    count = 0
    for i in range(len(string)):
        if string[i].isalpha():
            count += 1
    return count


print(count_letter('The grey old fox is an idiot.'))

WebView showing ERR_CLEARTEXT_NOT_PERMITTED although site is HTTPS

Solution:

Add the below line in your application tag:

android:usesCleartextTraffic="true"

As shown below:

<application
    ....
    android:usesCleartextTraffic="true"
    ....>

UPDATE: If you have network security config such as: android:networkSecurityConfig="@xml/network_security_config"

No Need to set clear text traffic to true as shown above, instead use the below code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<network-security-config>
    <domain-config cleartextTrafficPermitted="true">
        ....
        ....
    </domain-config>

    <base-config cleartextTrafficPermitted="false"/>
</network-security-config>  

Set the cleartextTrafficPermitted to true

Hope it helps.

Is there a way to specify how many characters of a string to print out using printf()?

The basic way is:

printf ("Here are the first 8 chars: %.8s\n", "A string that is more than 8 chars");

The other, often more useful, way is:

printf ("Here are the first %d chars: %.*s\n", 8, 8, "A string that is more than 8 chars");

Here, you specify the length as an int argument to printf(), which treats the '*' in the format as a request to get the length from an argument.

You can also use the notation:

printf ("Here are the first 8 chars: %*.*s\n",
        8, 8, "A string that is more than 8 chars");

This is also analogous to the "%8.8s" notation, but again allows you to specify the minimum and maximum lengths at runtime - more realistically in a scenario like:

printf("Data: %*.*s Other info: %d\n", minlen, maxlen, string, info);

The POSIX specification for printf() defines these mechanisms.

VBA: Counting rows in a table (list object)

You can use this:

    Range("MyTable[#Data]").Rows.Count

You have to distinguish between a table which has either one row of data or no data, as the previous code will return "1" for both cases. Use this to test for an empty table:

    If WorksheetFunction.CountA(Range("MyTable[#Data]"))

How to make a Qt Widget grow with the window size?

You need to change the default layout type of top level QWidget object from Break layout type to other layout types (Vertical Layout, Horizontal Layout, Grid Layout, Form Layout). For example: enter image description here

To something like this:

enter image description here

How to Convert Int to Unsigned Byte and Back

If you just need to convert an expected 8-bit value from a signed int to an unsigned value, you can use simple bit shifting:

int signed = -119;  // 11111111 11111111 11111111 10001001

/**
 * Use unsigned right shift operator to drop unset bits in positions 8-31
 */
int psuedoUnsigned = (signed << 24) >>> 24;  // 00000000 00000000 00000000 10001001 -> 137 base 10

/** 
 * Convert back to signed by using the sign-extension properties of the right shift operator
 */
int backToSigned = (psuedoUnsigned << 24) >> 24; // back to original bit pattern

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/op3.html

If using something other than int as the base type, you'll obviously need to adjust the shift amount: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/datatypes.html

Also, bear in mind that you can't use byte type, doing so will result in a signed value as mentioned by other answerers. The smallest primitive type you could use to represent an 8-bit unsigned value would be a short.

How to change css property using javascript

Use document.getElementsByClassName('className').style = your_style.

var d = document.getElementsByClassName("left1");
d.className = d.className + " otherclass";

Use single quotes for JS strings contained within an html attribute's double quotes

Example

<div class="somelclass"></div>

then document.getElementsByClassName('someclass').style = "NewclassName";

<div class='someclass'></div>

then document.getElementsByClassName("someclass").style = "NewclassName";

This is personal experience.

Django - what is the difference between render(), render_to_response() and direct_to_template()?

From django docs:

render() is the same as a call to render_to_response() with a context_instance argument that that forces the use of a RequestContext.

direct_to_template is something different. It's a generic view that uses a data dictionary to render the html without the need of the views.py, you use it in urls.py. Docs here

Check if all values in list are greater than a certain number

You can use all():

my_list1 = [30,34,56]
my_list2 = [29,500,43]
if all(i >= 30 for i in my_list1):
    print 'yes'
if all(i >= 30 for i in my_list2):
    print 'no'

Note that this includes all numbers equal to 30 or higher, not strictly above 30.

Finding the layers and layer sizes for each Docker image

You can first find the image ID using:

$ docker images -a

Then find the image's layers and their sizes:

$ docker history --no-trunc <Image ID>

Note: I'm using Docker version 1.13.1

$ docker -v
Docker version 1.13.1, build 092cba3

Does a `+` in a URL scheme/host/path represent a space?

use encodeURIComponent function to fix url, it works on Browser and node.js

res.redirect("/signin?email="+encodeURIComponent("[email protected]"));


> encodeURIComponent("http://a.com/a+b/c")
'http%3A%2F%2Fa.com%2Fa%2Bb%2Fc'

Advantages of using display:inline-block vs float:left in CSS

There is one characteristic about inline-block which may not be straight-forward though. That is that the default value for vertical-align in CSS is baseline. This may cause some unexpected alignment behavior. Look at this article.

http://www.brunildo.org/test/inline-block.html

Instead, when you do a float:left, the divs are independent of each other and you can align them using margin easily.

Removing certain characters from a string in R

This should work

gsub('\u009c','','\u009cYes yes for ever for ever the boys ')
"Yes yes for ever for ever the boys "

Here 009c is the hexadecimal number of unicode. You must always specify 4 hexadecimal digits. If you have many , one solution is to separate them by a pipe:

gsub('\u009c|\u00F0','','\u009cYes yes \u00F0for ever for ever the boys and the girls')

"Yes yes for ever for ever the boys and the girls"

How to parse a string to an int in C++?

You can use the a stringstream from the C++ standard libraray:

stringstream ss(str);
int x;
ss >> x;

if(ss) { // <-- error handling
  // use x
} else {
  // not a number
}

The stream state will be set to fail if a non-digit is encountered when trying to read an integer.

See Stream pitfalls for pitfalls of errorhandling and streams in C++.

AJAX in Chrome sending OPTIONS instead of GET/POST/PUT/DELETE?

If it is possible pass the params through regular GET/POST with a different name and let your server side code handles it.

I had a similar issue with my own proxy to bypass CORS and I got the same error of POST->OPTION in Chrome. It was the Authorization header in my case ("x-li-format" and "X-UserName" here in your case.) I ended up passing it in a dummy format (e.g. AuthorizatinJack in GET) and I changed the code for my proxy to turn that into a header when making the call to the destination. Here it is in PHP:

if (isset($_GET['AuthorizationJack'])) {
    $request_headers[] = "Authorization: Basic ".$_GET['AuthorizationJack'];
}

Microsoft Advertising SDK doesn't deliverer ads

I only use MicrosoftAdvertising.Mobile and Microsoft.Advertising.Mobile.UI and I am served ads. The SDK should only add the DLLs not reference itself.

Note: You need to explicitly set width and height Make sure the phone dialer, and web browser capabilities are enabled

Followup note: Make sure that after you've removed the SDK DLL, that the xmlns references are not still pointing to it. The best route to take here is

  1. Remove the XAML for the ad
  2. Remove the xmlns declaration (usually at the top of the page, but sometimes will be declared in the ad itself)
  3. Remove the bad DLL (the one ending in .SDK )
  4. Do a Clean and then Build (clean out anything remaining from the DLL)
  5. Add the xmlns reference (actual reference is below)
  6. Add the ad to the page (example below)

Here is the xmlns reference:

xmlns:AdNamepace="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Advertising.Mobile.UI;assembly=Microsoft.Advertising.Mobile.UI" 

Then the ad itself:

<AdNamespace:AdControl x:Name="myAd" Height="80" Width="480"                    AdUnitId="yourAdUnitIdHere" ApplicationId="yourIdHere"/> 

Trying to get property of non-object in

Your error

Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in C:\wamp\www\phone\pages\init.php on line 22

Your comment

@22 is <?php echo $sidemenu->mname."<br />";?>

$sidemenu is not an object, and you are trying to access one of its properties.

That is the reason for your error.

jQuery UI autocomplete with item and id

At last i did it Thanks alot friends, and a special thanks to Mr https://stackoverflow.com/users/87015/salman-a because of his code i was able to solve it properly. finally my code is looking like this as i am using groovy grails i hope this will help somebody there.. Thanks alot

html code looks like this in my gsp page

  <input id="populate-dropdown" name="nameofClient" type="text">
  <input id="wilhaveid" name="idofclient" type="text">

script Function is like this in my gsp page

  <script>
        $( "#populate-dropdown").on('input', function() {
            $.ajax({
                url:'autoCOmp',
                data: {inputField: $("#populate-dropdown").val()},
                success: function(resp){
                    $('#populate-dropdown').autocomplete({
                        source:resp,
                        select: function (event, ui) {
                            $("#populate-dropdown").val(ui.item.label);
                            $("#wilhaveid").val(ui.item.value);
                             return false;
                        }
                    })
                }
            });
        });
    </script>

And my controller code is like this

   def autoCOmp(){
    println(params)
    def c = Client.createCriteria()
    def results = c.list {
        like("nameOfClient", params.inputField+"%")
    }

    def itemList = []
    results.each{
        itemList  << [value:it.id,label:it.nameOfClient]
    }
    println(itemList)
    render itemList as JSON
}

One more thing i have not set id field hidden because at first i was checking that i am getting the exact id , you can keep it hidden just put type=hidden instead of text for second input item in html

Thanks !

Can I save input from form to .txt in HTML, using JAVASCRIPT/jQuery, and then use it?

You cannot save it as local file without using server side logic. But if that fits your needs, you could look at local storage of html5 or us a javascript plugin as jStorage

How do I generate a random int number?

The easiest way is probably just Random.range(1, 3) This would generate a number between 1 and 2.

openCV program compile error "libopencv_core.so.2.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" in ubuntu 12.04

You haven't put the shared library in a location where the loader can find it. look inside the /usr/local/opencv and /usr/local/opencv2 folders and see if either of them contains any shared libraries (files beginning in lib and usually ending in .so). when you find them, create a file called /etc/ld.so.conf.d/opencv.conf and write to it the paths to the folders where the libraries are stored, one per line.

for example, if the libraries were stored under /usr/local/opencv/libopencv_core.so.2.4 then I would write this to my opencv.conf file:

/usr/local/opencv/

Then run

sudo ldconfig -v

If you can't find the libraries, try running

sudo updatedb && locate libopencv_core.so.2.4

in a shell. You don't need to run updatedb if you've rebooted since compiling OpenCV.

References:

About shared libraries on Linux: http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/notes/rpath.html

About adding the OpenCV shared libraries: http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/InstallGuide_Linux

How can I combine two HashMap objects containing the same types?

Java 8 alternative one-liner for merging two maps:

defaultMap.forEach((k, v) -> destMap.putIfAbsent(k, v));

The same with method reference:

defaultMap.forEach(destMap::putIfAbsent);

Or idemponent for original maps solution with third map:

Map<String, Integer> map3 = new HashMap<String, Integer>(map2);
map1.forEach(map3::putIfAbsent);

And here is a way to merge two maps into fast immutable one with Guava that does least possible intermediate copy operations:

ImmutableMap.Builder<String, Integer> builder = ImmutableMap.<String, Integer>builder();
builder.putAll(map1);
map2.forEach((k, v) -> {if (!map1.containsKey(k)) builder.put(k, v);});
ImmutableMap<String, Integer> map3 = builder.build();

See also Merge two maps with Java 8 for cases when values present in both maps need to be combined with mapping function.

Why does z-index not work?

Make sure that this element you would like to control with z-index does not have a parent with z-index property, because element is in a lower stacking context due to its parent’s z-index level.

Here's an example:

<section class="content">            
    <div class="modal"></div>
</section>

<div class="side-tab"></div>

// CSS //
.content {
    position: relative;
    z-index: 1;
}

.modal {
    position: fixed;
    z-index: 100;
}

.side-tab {
    position: fixed;
    z-index: 5;
}

In the example above, the modal has a higher z-index than the content, although the content will appear on top of the modal because "content" is the parent with a z-index property.

Here's an article that explains 4 reasons why z-index might not work: https://coder-coder.com/z-index-isnt-working/

Fatal error: [] operator not supported for strings

this was available in php 5.6 in php 7+ you should declare the array first

$users = array(); // not $users = ";
$users[] = "762";

How to find a text inside SQL Server procedures / triggers?

Just wrote this for generic full outer cross ref

create table #XRefDBs(xtype varchar(2),SourceDB varchar(100), Object varchar(100), RefDB varchar(100))

declare @sourcedbname varchar(100),
        @searchfordbname varchar(100),
        @sql nvarchar(4000)
declare curs cursor for
    select name 
    from sysdatabases
    where dbid>4
open curs
fetch next from curs into @sourcedbname
while @@fetch_status=0
    begin
    print @sourcedbname
    declare curs2 cursor for 
        select name 
        from sysdatabases
        where dbid>4
        and name <> @sourcedbname
    open curs2
    fetch next from curs2 into @searchfordbname
    while @@fetch_status=0
        begin
        print @searchfordbname
        set @sql = 
        'INSERT INTO #XRefDBs (xtype,SourceDB,Object, RefDB)
        select DISTINCT o.xtype,'''+@sourcedbname+''', o.name,'''+@searchfordbname+'''
        from '+@sourcedbname+'.dbo.syscomments c
        join '+@sourcedbname+'.dbo.sysobjects o on c.id=o.id
        where o.xtype in (''V'',''P'',''FN'',''TR'')
        and (text like ''%'+@searchfordbname+'.%''
          or text like ''%'+@searchfordbname+'].%'')'
        print @sql
        exec sp_executesql @sql
        fetch next from curs2 into @searchfordbname
        end
    close curs2
    deallocate curs2
    fetch next from curs into @sourcedbname
    end
close curs
deallocate curs

select * from #XRefDBs

Text File Parsing in Java

While calling/invoking your programme you can use this command : java [-options] className [args...]
in place of [-options] provide more memory e.g -Xmx1024m or more. but this is just a workaround, u have to change ur parsing mechanism.

Delete specific line from a text file?

The best way to do this is to open the file in text mode, read each line with ReadLine(), and then write it to a new file with WriteLine(), skipping the one line you want to delete.

There is no generic delete-a-line-from-file function, as far as I know.

Create an array with random values

ES5:

function randomArray(length, max) {
    return Array.apply(null, Array(length)).map(function() {
        return Math.round(Math.random() * max);
    });
}

ES6:

randomArray = (length, max) => [...new Array(length)]
    .map(() => Math.round(Math.random() * max));

Which comment style should I use in batch files?

After I realized that I could use label :: to make comments and comment out code REM just looked plain ugly to me. As has been mentioned the double-colon can cause problems when used inside () blocked code, but I've discovered a work-around by alternating between the labels :: and :space

:: This, of course, does
:: not cause errors.

(
  :: But
   : neither
  :: does
   : this.
)

It's not ugly like REM, and actually adds a little style to your code.

So outside of code blocks I use :: and inside them I alternate between :: and :.

By the way, for large hunks of comments, like in the header of your batch file, you can avoid special commands and characters completely by simply gotoing over your comments. This let's you use any method or style of markup you want, despite that fact that if CMD ever actually tried to processes those lines it'd throw a hissy.

@echo off
goto :TopOfCode

=======================================================================
COOLCODE.BAT

Useage:
  COOLCODE [/?] | [ [/a][/c:[##][a][b][c]] INPUTFILE OUTPUTFILE ]

Switches:
       /?    - This menu
       /a    - Some option
       /c:## - Where ## is which line number to begin the processing at.
         :a  - Some optional method of processing
         :b  - A third option for processing
         :c  - A forth option
  INPUTFILE  - The file to process.
  OUTPUTFILE - Store results here.

 Notes:
   Bla bla bla.

:TopOfCode
CODE
.
.
.

Use what ever notation you wish *'s, @'s etc.

How to pass form input value to php function

You need to look into Ajax; Start here this is the best way to stay on the current page and be able to send inputs to php.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script>
function showHint(str)
{
var xmlhttp;
if (str.length==0)
  { 
  document.getElementById("txtHint").innerHTML="";
  return;
  }
if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
  {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
  xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
  }
else
  {// code for IE6, IE5
  xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
  }
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
  {
  if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200)
    {
    document.getElementById("txtHint").innerHTML=xmlhttp.responseText;
    }
  }
xmlhttp.open("GET","gethint.php?q="+str,true);
xmlhttp.send();
}
</script>
</head>
<body>

<h3>Start typing a name in the input field below:</h3>
<form action=""> 
First name: <input type="text" id="txt1" onkeyup="showHint(this.value)" />
</form>
<p>Suggestions: <span id="txtHint"></span></p> 

</body>
</html>

This gets the users input on the textbox and opens the webpage gethint.php?q=ja from here the php script can do anything with $_GET['q'] and echo back to the page James, Jason....etc

Outputting data from unit test in Python

You can use simple print statements, or any other way of writing to stdout. You can also invoke the Python debugger anywhere in your tests.

If you use nose to run your tests (which I recommend), it will collect the stdout for each test and only show it to you if the test failed, so you don't have to live with the cluttered output when the tests pass.

nose also has switches to automatically show variables mentioned in asserts, or to invoke the debugger on failed tests. For example -s (--nocapture) prevents the capture of stdout.

Numpy converting array from float to strings

This is probably slower than what you want, but you can do:

>>> tostring = vectorize(lambda x: str(x))
>>> numpy.where(tostring(phis).astype('float64') != phis)
(array([], dtype=int64),)

It looks like it rounds off the values when it converts to str from float64, but this way you can customize the conversion however you like.

jquery clear input default value

$('.input').on('focus', function(){
    $(this).val('');
});

$('[type="submit"]').on('click', function(){
    $('.input').val('');
});

Installing R with Homebrew

You can also install R from this page:

https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/

It works out of the box

SQL GROUP BY CASE statement with aggregate function

While Shannon's answer is technically correct, it looks like overkill.

The simple solution is that you need to put your summation outside of the case statement. This should do the trick:

sum(CASE WHEN col1 > col2 THEN col3*col4 ELSE 0 END) AS some_product

Basically, your old code tells SQL to execute the sum(X*Y) for each line individually (leaving each line with its own answer that can't be grouped).

The code line I have written takes the sum product, which is what you want.

Add a UIView above all, even the navigation bar

Add you view as the subview of NavigationController.

[self.navigationController.navigationBar addSubview: overlayView)]

You can also add it over the window:

UIView *view = /* Your custom view */;
UIWindow *window = [UIApplication sharedApplication].keyWindow;
[window addSubview:view];

Hope this helps.. :)

Call break in nested if statements

Just remove the break. since it is already inside first if it will not execute else. It will exit anyway.

Why would an Enum implement an Interface?

I used an inner enum in an interface describing a strategy to keep instance control (each strategy is a Singleton) from there.

public interface VectorizeStrategy {

    /**
     * Keep instance control from here.
     * 
     * Concrete classes constructors should be package private.
     */
    enum ConcreteStrategy implements VectorizeStrategy {
        DEFAULT (new VectorizeImpl());

        private final VectorizeStrategy INSTANCE;

        ConcreteStrategy(VectorizeStrategy concreteStrategy) {
            INSTANCE = concreteStrategy;
        }

        @Override
        public VectorImageGridIntersections processImage(MarvinImage img) {
            return INSTANCE.processImage(img);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Should perform edge Detection in order to have lines, that can be vectorized.
     * 
     * @param img An Image suitable for edge detection.
     * 
     * @return the VectorImageGridIntersections representing img's vectors 
     * intersections with the grids.
     */
    VectorImageGridIntersections processImage(MarvinImage img);
}

The fact that the enum implements the strategy is convenient to allow the enum class to act as proxy for its enclosed Instance. which also implements the interface.

it's a sort of strategyEnumProxy :P the clent code looks like this:

VectorizeStrategy.ConcreteStrategy.DEFAULT.processImage(img);

If it didn't implement the interface it'd had been:

VectorizeStrategy.ConcreteStrategy.DEFAULT.getInstance().processImage(img);

Validate phone number using javascript

You can use this jquery plugin:

http://digitalbush.com/projects/masked-input-plugin/

Refer to demo tab, phone option.

How do you store Java objects in HttpSession?

The request object is not the session.

You want to use the session object to store. The session is added to the request and is were you want to persist data across requests. The session can be obtained from

HttpSession session = request.getSession(true);

Then you can use setAttribute or getAttribute on the session.

A more up to date tutorial on jsp sessions is: http://courses.coreservlets.com/Course-Materials/pdf/csajsp2/08-Session-Tracking.pdf

Simplest way to do a recursive self-join?

SQL 2005 or later, CTEs are the standard way to go as per the examples shown.

SQL 2000, you can do it using UDFs -

CREATE FUNCTION udfPersonAndChildren
(
    @PersonID int
)
RETURNS @t TABLE (personid int, initials nchar(10), parentid int null)
AS
begin
    insert into @t 
    select * from people p      
    where personID=@PersonID

    while @@rowcount > 0
    begin
      insert into @t 
      select p.*
      from people p
        inner join @t o on p.parentid=o.personid
        left join @t o2 on p.personid=o2.personid
      where o2.personid is null
    end

    return
end

(which will work in 2005, it's just not the standard way of doing it. That said, if you find that the easier way to work, run with it)

If you really need to do this in SQL7, you can do roughly the above in a sproc but couldn't select from it - SQL7 doesn't support UDFs.

How do I split a string, breaking at a particular character?

You don't need jQuery.

var s = 'john smith~123 Street~Apt 4~New York~NY~12345';
var fields = s.split(/~/);
var name = fields[0];
var street = fields[1];

How to create a CPU spike with a bash command

I think this one is more simpler. Open Terminal and type the following and press Enter.

yes > /dev/null &

To fully utilize modern CPUs, one line is not enough, you may need to repeat the command to exhaust all the CPU power.

To end all of this, simply put

killall yes

The idea was originally found here, although it was intended for Mac users, but this should work for *nix as well.

UTF-8 encoding in JSP page

i add this shell script to convert jsp files from IS

#!/bin/sh

###############################################
## this script file must be placed in the parent  
## folder of the to folders "in" and "out"
## in contain the input jsp files
## out will containt the generated jsp files
## 
###############################################

find in/ -name *.jsp | 
    while read line; do 
        outpath=`echo $line | sed -e 's/in/out/'` ;
        parentdir=`echo $outpath | sed -e 's/[^\/]*\.jsp$//'` ;
        mkdir -p $parentdir
        echo $outpath ;
        iconv -t UTF-8 -f ISO-8859-1 -o $outpath $line ;
    done 

How do I remove duplicates from a C# array?

int size = a.Length;
        for (int i = 0; i < size; i++)
        {
            for (int j = i + 1; j < size; j++)
            {
                if (a[i] == a[j])
                {
                    for (int k = j; k < size; k++)
                    {
                        if (k != size - 1)
                        {
                            int temp = a[k];
                            a[k] = a[k + 1];
                            a[k + 1] = temp;

                        }
                    }
                    j--;
                    size--;
                }
            }
        }

Git push/clone to new server

There are many ways to move repositories around, git bundle is a nice way if you have insufficient network availability. Since a Git repository is really just a directory full of files, you can "clone" a repository by making a copy of the .git directory in whatever way suits you best.

The most efficient way is to use an external repository somewhere (use GitHub or set up Gitosis), and then git push.

How to check whether the user uploaded a file in PHP?

You can use is_uploaded_file():

if(!file_exists($_FILES['myfile']['tmp_name']) || !is_uploaded_file($_FILES['myfile']['tmp_name'])) {
    echo 'No upload';
}

From the docs:

Returns TRUE if the file named by filename was uploaded via HTTP POST. This is useful to help ensure that a malicious user hasn't tried to trick the script into working on files upon which it should not be working--for instance, /etc/passwd.

This sort of check is especially important if there is any chance that anything done with uploaded files could reveal their contents to the user, or even to other users on the same system.

EDIT: I'm using this in my FileUpload class, in case it helps:

public function fileUploaded()
{
    if(empty($_FILES)) {
        return false;       
    } 
    $this->file = $_FILES[$this->formField];
    if(!file_exists($this->file['tmp_name']) || !is_uploaded_file($this->file['tmp_name'])){
        $this->errors['FileNotExists'] = true;
        return false;
    }   
    return true;
}

How should I have explained the difference between an Interface and an Abstract class?

1.1 Difference between Abstract class and interface

1.1.1. Abstract classes versus interfaces in Java 8
1.1.2. Conceptual Difference:

1.2 Interface Default Methods in Java 8

1.2.1. What is Default Method?
1.2.2. ForEach method compilation error solved using Default Method
1.2.3. Default Method and Multiple Inheritance Ambiguity Problems
1.2.4. Important points about java interface default methods:

1.3 Java Interface Static Method

1.3.1. Java Interface Static Method, code example, static method vs default method
1.3.2. Important points about java interface static method:

1.4 Java Functional Interfaces



1.1.1. Abstract classes versus interfaces in Java 8

Java 8 interface changes include static methods and default methods in interfaces. Prior to Java 8, we could have only method declarations in the interfaces. But from Java 8, we can have default methods and static methods in the interfaces.

After introducing Default Method, it seems that interfaces and abstract classes are same. However, they are still different concept in Java 8.

Abstract class can define constructor. They are more structured and can have a state associated with them. While in contrast, default method can be implemented only in the terms of invoking other interface methods, with no reference to a particular implementation's state. Hence, both use for different purposes and choosing between two really depends on the scenario context.

1.1.2. Conceptual Difference:

Abstract classes are valid for skeletal (i.e. partial) implementations of interfaces but should not exist without a matching interface.

So when abstract classes are effectively reduced to be low-visibility, skeletal implementations of interfaces, can default methods take this away as well? Decidedly: No! Implementing interfaces almost always requires some or all of those class-building tools which default methods lack. And if some interface doesn’t, it is clearly a special case, which should not lead you astray.

1.2 Interface Default Methods in Java 8

Java 8 introduces “Default Method” or (Defender methods) new feature, which allows developer to add new methods to the Interfaces without breaking the existing implementation of these Interface. It provides flexibility to allow Interface define implementation which will use as default in the situation where a concrete Class fails to provide an implementation for that method.

Let consider small example to understand how it works:

public interface OldInterface {
    public void existingMethod();
 
    default public void newDefaultMethod() {
        System.out.println("New default method"
               + " is added in interface");
    }
}

The following Class will compile successfully in Java JDK 8,

public class OldInterfaceImpl implements OldInterface {
    public void existingMethod() {
     // existing implementation is here…
    }
}

If you create an instance of OldInterfaceImpl:

OldInterfaceImpl obj = new OldInterfaceImpl ();
// print “New default method add in interface”
obj.newDefaultMethod(); 

1.2.1. Default Method:

Default methods are never final, can not be synchronized and can not override Object’s methods. They are always public, which severely limits the ability to write short and reusable methods.

Default methods can be provided to an Interface without affecting implementing Classes as it includes an implementation. If each added method in an Interface defined with implementation then no implementing Class is affected. An implementing Class can override the default implementation provided by the Interface.

Default methods enable to add new functionality to existing Interfaces without breaking older implementation of these Interfaces.

When we extend an interface that contains a default method, we can perform following,

  1. Not override the default method and will inherit the default method.
  2. Override the default method similar to other methods we override in subclass.
  3. Redeclare default method as abstract, which force subclass to override it.

1.2.2. ForEach method compilation error solved using Default Method

For Java 8, the JDK collections have been extended and forEach method is added to the entire collection (which work in conjunction with lambdas). With conventional way, the code looks like below,

public interface Iterable<T> {
    public void forEach(Consumer<? super T> consumer);
}

Since this result each implementing Class with compile errors therefore, a default method added with a required implementation in order that the existing implementation should not be changed.

The Iterable Interface with the Default method is below,

public interface Iterable<T> {
    public default void forEach(Consumer
                   <? super T> consumer) {
        for (T t : this) {
            consumer.accept(t);
        }
    }
}

The same mechanism has been used to add Stream in JDK Interface without breaking the implementing Classes.


1.2.3. Default Method and Multiple Inheritance Ambiguity Problems

Since java Class can implement multiple Interfaces and each Interface can define default method with same method signature, therefore, the inherited methods can conflict with each other.

Consider below example,

public interface InterfaceA {  
       default void defaultMethod(){  
           System.out.println("Interface A default method");  
    }  
}
 
public interface InterfaceB {
   default void defaultMethod(){
       System.out.println("Interface B default method");
   }
}
 
public class Impl implements InterfaceA, InterfaceB  {
}

The above code will fail to compile with the following error,

java: class Impl inherits unrelated defaults for defaultMethod() from types InterfaceA and InterfaceB

In order to fix this class, we need to provide default method implementation:

public class Impl implements InterfaceA, InterfaceB {
    public void defaultMethod(){
    }
}

Further, if we want to invoke default implementation provided by any of super Interface rather than our own implementation, we can do so as follows,

public class Impl implements InterfaceA, InterfaceB {
    public void defaultMethod(){
        // existing code here..
        InterfaceA.super.defaultMethod();
    }
}

We can choose any default implementation or both as part of our new method.

1.2.4. Important points about java interface default methods:

  1. Java interface default methods will help us in extending interfaces without having the fear of breaking implementation classes.
  2. Java interface default methods have bridge down the differences between interfaces and abstract classes.
  3. Java 8 interface default methods will help us in avoiding utility classes, such as all the Collections class method can be provided in the interfaces itself.
  4. Java interface default methods will help us in removing base implementation classes, we can provide default implementation and the implementation classes can chose which one to override.
  5. One of the major reason for introducing default methods in interfaces is to enhance the Collections API in Java 8 to support lambda expressions.
  6. If any class in the hierarchy has a method with same signature, then default methods become irrelevant. A default method cannot override a method from java.lang.Object. The reasoning is very simple, it’s because Object is the base class for all the java classes. So even if we have Object class methods defined as default methods in interfaces, it will be useless because Object class method will always be used. That’s why to avoid confusion, we can’t have default methods that are overriding Object class methods.
  7. Java interface default methods are also referred to as Defender Methods or Virtual extension methods.

Resource Link:

  1. When to use: Java 8+ interface default method, vs. abstract method
  2. Abstract class versus interface in the JDK 8 era
  3. Interface evolution via virtual extension methods

1.3 Java Interface Static Method

1.3.1. Java Interface Static Method, code example, static method vs default method

Java interface static method is similar to default method except that we can’t override them in the implementation classes. This feature helps us in avoiding undesired results incase of poor implementation in implementation classes. Let’s look into this with a simple example.

public interface MyData {

    default void print(String str) {
        if (!isNull(str))
            System.out.println("MyData Print::" + str);
    }

    static boolean isNull(String str) {
        System.out.println("Interface Null Check");

        return str == null ? true : "".equals(str) ? true : false;
    }
}

Now let’s see an implementation class that is having isNull() method with poor implementation.

public class MyDataImpl implements MyData {

    public boolean isNull(String str) {
        System.out.println("Impl Null Check");

        return str == null ? true : false;
    }
    
    public static void main(String args[]){
        MyDataImpl obj = new MyDataImpl();
        obj.print("");
        obj.isNull("abc");
    }
}

Note that isNull(String str) is a simple class method, it’s not overriding the interface method. For example, if we will add @Override annotation to the isNull() method, it will result in compiler error.

Now when we will run the application, we get following output.

Interface Null Check

Impl Null Check

If we make the interface method from static to default, we will get following output.

Impl Null Check

MyData Print::

Impl Null Check

Java interface static method is visible to interface methods only, if we remove the isNull() method from the MyDataImpl class, we won’t be able to use it for the MyDataImpl object. However like other static methods, we can use interface static methods using class name. For example, a valid statement will be:

boolean result = MyData.isNull("abc");

1.3.2. Important points about java interface static method:

  1. Java interface static method is part of interface, we can’t use it for implementation class objects.
  2. Java interface static methods are good for providing utility methods, for example null check, collection sorting etc.
  3. Java interface static method helps us in providing security by not allowing implementation classes to override them.
  4. We can’t define interface static method for Object class methods, we will get compiler error as “This static method cannot hide the instance method from Object”. This is because it’s not allowed in java, since Object is the base class for all the classes and we can’t have one class level static method and another instance method with same signature.
  5. We can use java interface static methods to remove utility classes such as Collections and move all of it’s static methods to the corresponding interface, that would be easy to find and use.

1.4 Java Functional Interfaces

Before I conclude the post, I would like to provide a brief introduction to Functional interfaces. An interface with exactly one abstract method is known as Functional Interface.

A new annotation @FunctionalInterface has been introduced to mark an interface as Functional Interface. @FunctionalInterface annotation is a facility to avoid accidental addition of abstract methods in the functional interfaces. It’s optional but good practice to use it.

Functional interfaces are long awaited and much sought out feature of Java 8 because it enables us to use lambda expressions to instantiate them. A new package java.util.function with bunch of functional interfaces are added to provide target types for lambda expressions and method references. We will look into functional interfaces and lambda expressions in the future posts.

Resource Location:

  1. Java 8 Interface Changes – static method, default method

How to change a field name in JSON using Jackson

Have you tried using @JsonProperty?

@Entity
public class City {
   @id
   Long id;
   String name;

   @JsonProperty("label")
   public String getName() { return name; }

   public void setName(String name){ this.name = name; }

   @JsonProperty("value")
   public Long getId() { return id; }

   public void setId(Long id){ this.id = id; }
}

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 3-6: invalid data

The solution to change the encoding to Latin1 / ISO-8859-1 solves an issue I observed with html2text.py as invoked on an output of tex4ht. I use that for an automated word count on LaTeX documents: tex4ht converts them to HTML, and then html2text.py strips them down to pure text for further counting through wc -w. Now, if, for example, a German "Umlaut" comes in through a literature database entry, that process would fail as html2text.py would complain e.g.

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 32243-32245: invalid data

Now these errors would then subsequently be particularly hard to track down, and essentially you want to have the Umlaut in your references section. A simple change inside html2text.py from

data = data.decode(encoding)

to

data = data.decode("ISO-8859-1")

solves that issue; if you're calling the script using the HTML file as first parameter, you can also pass the encoding as second parameter and spare the modification.

If statement in select (ORACLE)

In one line, answer is as below;

[ CASE WHEN COLUMN_NAME = 'VALUE' THEN 'SHOW_THIS' ELSE 'SHOW_OTHER' END as ALIAS ]

XAMPP MySQL password setting (Can not enter in PHPMYADMIN)

1.open your xampp dir ( c:/xampp )

2.to phpMyadmin dir [C:\xampp\phpMyAdmin]

3.open [ config.inc.php ] file with any text editor

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config'; //replace 'config' to ‘cookie’
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = true; //change ‘true’ to ‘false’.

last : save the file .

here is a video link in case you want to see it in Action [ click Here ]

How to prevent "The play() request was interrupted by a call to pause()" error?

I have encountered this issue recently as well - this could be a race condition between play() and pause(). It looks like there is a reference to this issue, or something related here.

As @Patrick points out, pause does not return a promise (or anything), so the above solution won't work. While MDN does not have docs on pause(), in the WC3 draft for Media Elements, it says:

media.pause()

Sets the paused attribute to true, loading the media resource if necessary.

So one might also check the paused attribute in their timeout callback.

Based on this great SO answer, here's a way you can check if the video is (or isn't) truly playing, so you can safely trigger a play() without the error.

var isPlaying = video.currentTime > 0 && !video.paused && !video.ended 
    && video.readyState > video.HAVE_CURRENT_DATA;

if (!isPlaying) {
  video.play();
}

Otherwise, @Patrick's answer should work.

How do I detect "shift+enter" and generate a new line in Textarea?

Use the jQuery hotkeys plugin and this code

jQuery(document).bind('keydown', 'shift+enter', 
         function (evt){ 
             $('textarea').val($('#textarea').val() + "\n");// use the right id here
             return true;
         }
);

Create a directly-executable cross-platform GUI app using Python

# I'd use tkinter for python 3

import tkinter

tk = tkinter.Tk()
tk.geometry("400x300+500+300")
l = Label(tk,text="")
l.pack()
e = Entry(tk)
e.pack()

def click():
    e['text'] = 'You clicked the button'

b = Button(tk,text="Click me",command=click)
b.pack()

tk.mainloop()

# After this I would you py2exe
# search for the use of this module on stakoverflow
# otherwise I could edit this to let you know how to do it

py2exe

Then you should use py2exe, for example, to bring in one folder all the files needed to run the app, even if the user has not python on his pc (I am talking of windows... for the apple os there is no need of an executable file, I think, as it come with python in it without any need of installing it.

Create this file

1) Create a setup.py

with this code:

from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe

setup(console=['l4h.py'])

save it in a folder

2) Put your program in the same folder of setup.py put in this folder the program you want to make it distribuitable: es: l4h.py

ps: change the name of the file (from l4h to anything you want, that is an example)

3) Run cmd from that folder (on the folder, right click + shift and choose start cmd here)
4) write in cmd:>python setup.py py2exe
5) in the dist folder there are all the files you need
6) you can zip it and distribute it

Pyinstaller

Install it from cmd

**

pip install pyinstaller

**

Run it from the cmd from the folder where the file is

**

pyinstaller file.py

**

Delete a row from a table by id

*<tr><a href="javascript:void(0);" class="remove">X</a></tr>*
<script type='text/javascript'>
  $("table").on('click', '.remove', function () {
       $(this).parent().parent('tr').remove();
  });

Install a Windows service using a Windows command prompt?

open Developer command prompt as Admin and navigate to

cd C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319

Now use path where is your .exe there

InstallUtil "D:\backup\WindowsService\WindowsService1\WindowsService1\obj\Debug\TestService.exe"

How to make all controls resize accordingly proportionally when window is maximized?

Just thought i'd share this with anyone who needs more clarity on how to achieve this:

myCanvas is a Canvas control and Parent to all other controllers. This code works to neatly resize to any resolution from 1366 x 768 upward. Tested up to 4k resolution 4096 x 2160

Take note of all the MainWindow property settings (WindowStartupLocation, SizeToContent and WindowState) - important for this to work correctly - WindowState for my user case requirement was Maximized

xaml

<Window x:Name="mainWindow" 
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    xmlns:local="clr-namespace:MyApp" 
    xmlns:ed="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/2010/drawing"
    xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008" xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" mc:Ignorable="d"
    x:Class="MyApp.MainWindow" 
     Title="MainWindow"  SizeChanged="MainWindow_SizeChanged"
    Width="1366" Height="768" WindowState="Maximized" WindowStartupLocation="CenterOwner" SizeToContent="WidthAndHeight">
  
    <Canvas x:Name="myCanvas" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="768" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="1356">
        <Image x:Name="maxresdefault_1_1__jpg" Source="maxresdefault-1[1].jpg" Stretch="Fill" Opacity="0.6" Height="767" Canvas.Left="-6" Width="1366"/>

        <Separator Margin="0" Background="#FF302D2D" Foreground="#FF111010" Height="0" Canvas.Left="-811" Canvas.Top="148" Width="766"/>
        <Separator Margin="0" Background="#FF302D2D" Foreground="#FF111010" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Width="210" Height="0" Canvas.Left="1653" Canvas.Top="102"/>
        <Image x:Name="imgscroll" Source="BcaKKb47i[1].png" Stretch="Fill" RenderTransformOrigin="0.5,0.5" Height="523" Canvas.Left="-3" Canvas.Top="122" Width="580">
            <Image.RenderTransform>
                <TransformGroup>
                    <ScaleTransform/>
                    <SkewTransform/>
                    <RotateTransform Angle="89.093"/>
                    <TranslateTransform/>
                </TransformGroup>
            </Image.RenderTransform>
        </Image>

.cs

 private void MainWindow_SizeChanged(object sender, SizeChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        myCanvas.Width = e.NewSize.Width;
        myCanvas.Height = e.NewSize.Height;

        double xChange = 1, yChange = 1;

        if (e.PreviousSize.Width != 0)
            xChange = (e.NewSize.Width / e.PreviousSize.Width);

        if (e.PreviousSize.Height != 0)
            yChange = (e.NewSize.Height / e.PreviousSize.Height);

        ScaleTransform scale = new ScaleTransform(myCanvas.LayoutTransform.Value.M11 * xChange, myCanvas.LayoutTransform.Value.M22 * yChange);
        myCanvas.LayoutTransform = scale;
        myCanvas.UpdateLayout();
    }

What is the difference between Release and Debug modes in Visual Studio?

The main difference is when compiled in debug mode, pdb files are also created which allow debugging (so you can step through the code when its running). This however means that the code isn't optimized as much.

How do you change library location in R?

This post is just to mention an additional option. In case you need to set custom R libs in your Linux shell script you may easily do so by

export R_LIBS="~/R/lib"

See R admin guide on complete list of options.

rsync - mkstemp failed: Permission denied (13)

I imagine a common error not currently mentioned above is trying to write to a mount space (e.g., /media/drivename) when the partition isn't mounted. That will produce this error as well.

If it's an encrypted drive set to auto-mount but doesn't, might be an issue of auto-unlocking the encrypted partition before attempting to write to the space where it is supposed to be mounted.

C split a char array into different variables

I came up with this.This seems to work best for me.It converts a string of number and splits it into array of integer:

void splitInput(int arr[], int sizeArr, char num[])
{
    for(int i = 0; i < sizeArr; i++)
        // We are subtracting 48 because the numbers in ASCII starts at 48.
        arr[i] = (int)num[i] - 48;
}

How do I make a text input non-editable?

Add readonly:

<input type="text" value="3" class="field left" readonly>

If you want the value to be not submitted in a form, instead add the disabled attribute.

<input type="text" value="3" class="field left" disabled>

There is no way to use CSS that always works to do this.

Why? CSS can't "disable" anything. You can still turn off display or visibility and use pointer-events: none but pointer-events doesn't work on versions of IE that came out earlier than IE 11.

MySQL: Curdate() vs Now()

Actually MySQL provide a lot of easy to use function in daily life without more effort from user side-

NOW() it produce date and time both in current scenario whereas CURDATE() produce date only, CURTIME() display time only, we can use one of them according to our need with CAST or merge other calculation it, MySQL rich in these type of function.

NOTE:- You can see the difference using query select NOW() as NOWDATETIME, CURDATE() as NOWDATE, CURTIME() as NOWTIME ;

What happens to a declared, uninitialized variable in C? Does it have a value?

The Value of num will be some garbage value from the main memory(RAM). its better if you initialize the variable just after creating.

issue ORA-00001: unique constraint violated coming in INSERT/UPDATE

Oracle's error message should be somewhat longer. It usually looks like this:

ORA-00001: unique constraint (TABLE_UK1) violated

The name in parentheses is the constrait name. It tells you which constraint was violated.

Sorting Directory.GetFiles()

You could write a custom IComparer interface to sort by creation date, and then pass it to Array.Sort. You probably also want to look at StrCmpLogical, which is what is used to do the sorting Explorer uses (sorting numbers correctly with text).

Get current date, given a timezone in PHP?

Set the default time zone first and get the date then, the date will be in the time zone you specify :

<?php 
 date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');
 $date= date('m-d-Y') ;
 ?>

http://php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone-set.php

Extract file name from path, no matter what the os/path format

fname = str("C:\Windows\paint.exe").split('\\')[-1:][0]

this will return : paint.exe

change the sep value of the split function regarding your path or OS.

How to extract the year from a Python datetime object?

The other answers to this question seem to hit it spot on. Now how would you figure this out for yourself without stack overflow? Check out IPython, an interactive Python shell that has tab auto-complete.

> ipython
import Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Nov  6 2007, 16:54:01)
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

IPython 0.8.2.svn.r2750 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
?         -> Introduction and overview of IPython's features.
%quickref -> Quick reference.
help      -> Python's own help system.
object?   -> Details about 'object'. ?object also works, ?? prints more.

In [1]: import datetime
In [2]: now=datetime.datetime.now()
In [3]: now.

press tab a few times and you'll be prompted with the members of the "now" object:

now.__add__           now.__gt__            now.__radd__          now.__sub__           now.fromordinal       now.microsecond       now.second            now.toordinal         now.weekday
now.__class__         now.__hash__          now.__reduce__        now.astimezone        now.fromtimestamp     now.min               now.strftime          now.tzinfo            now.year
now.__delattr__       now.__init__          now.__reduce_ex__     now.combine           now.hour              now.minute            now.strptime          now.tzname
now.__doc__           now.__le__            now.__repr__          now.ctime             now.isocalendar       now.month             now.time              now.utcfromtimestamp
now.__eq__            now.__lt__            now.__rsub__          now.date              now.isoformat         now.now               now.timetuple         now.utcnow
now.__ge__            now.__ne__            now.__setattr__       now.day               now.isoweekday        now.replace           now.timetz            now.utcoffset
now.__getattribute__  now.__new__           now.__str__           now.dst               now.max               now.resolution        now.today             now.utctimetuple

and you'll see that now.year is a member of the "now" object.

Private properties in JavaScript ES6 classes

I realize there are dozens of answers here. I want to share my solution, which ensures true private variables in ES6 classes and in older JS.

var MyClass = (function() {
    var $ = new WeakMap();
    function priv(self) {
       var r = $.get(self);
       if (!r) $.set(self, r={});
       return r;
    }

    return class { /* use $(this).prop inside your class */ } 
}();

Privacy is ensured by the fact that the outside world don't get access to $.

When the instance goes away, the WeakMap will release the data.

This definitely works in plain Javascript, and I believe they work in ES6 classes but I haven't tested that $ will be available inside the scope of member methods.

Using setTimeout to delay timing of jQuery actions

.html() only takes a string OR a function as an argument, not both. Try this:

 $("#showDiv").click(function () {
     $('#theDiv').show(1000, function () {
         setTimeout(function () {
             $('#theDiv').html(function () {
                 setTimeout(function () {
                     $('#theDiv').html('Here is some replacement text');
                 }, 0);
                 setTimeout(function () {
                     $('#theDiv').html('More replacement text goes here');
                 }, 2500);
             });
         }, 2500);
     });
 }); //click function ends

jsFiddle example

Using getline() in C++

I had similar problems. The one downside is that with cin.ignore(), you have to press enter 1 more time, which messes with the program.

What is difference between XML Schema and DTD?

Similarities between XSD and DTD

both specify elements, attributes, nesting, ordering, #occurences

Differences between XSD and DTD

XSD also has data types, (typed) pointers, namespaces, keys and more.... unlike DTD 

Moreover though XSD is little verbose its syntax is extension of XML, making it convenient to learn fast.

How do I remedy "The breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded for this document." warning?

Using Dependency Injection, Autofac in my case, to automatically resolve by scanning assemblies. One of the referenced assemblies was not getting resolved.

My fix was to directly reference a class from the assembly to force Visual Studio to load the assembly. Just having the assembly as a reference will not load the assembly when the application runs.

How should I validate an e-mail address?

Simplest way of Email Validation.

EditText TF;
public Button checkButton;

public final Pattern EMAIL_ADDRESS_PATTERN = Pattern.compile(
          "[a-zA-Z0-9+._%-+]{1,256}" +
          "@" +
          "[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,64}" +
          "(" +
          "." +
          "[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,25}" +
          ")+"
      );
 @Override
 public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);

   TF=(EditText) findViewById(R.id.TF);
   checkButton=(Button) findViewById(R.id.checkButton);

    checkButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
    public void onClick(View v) {
           String email=TF.getText().toString();
           if(checkEmail(email))
              Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"Valid Email Addresss", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
           else
              Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"Invalid Email Addresss", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }
    });
}
private boolean checkEmail(String email) {
    return EMAIL_ADDRESS_PATTERN.matcher(email).matches();
}}

How to convert Java String to JSON Object

You are passing into the JSONObject constructor an instance of a StringBuilder class.

This is using the JSONObject(Object) constructor, not the JSONObject(String) one.

Your code should be:

JSONObject jsonObj = new JSONObject(jsonString.toString());

How do I use $scope.$watch and $scope.$apply in AngularJS?

Just finish reading ALL the above, boring and sleepy (sorry but is true). Very technical, in-depth, detailed, and dry. Why am I writing? Because AngularJS is massive, lots of inter-connected concepts can turn anyone going nuts. I often asked myself, am I not smart enough to understand them? No! It's because so few can explain the tech in a for-dummie language w/o all the terminologies! Okay, let me try:

1) They are all event-driven things. (I hear the laugh, but read on)

If you don't know what event-driven is Then think you place a button on the page, hook it up w/ a function using "on-click", waiting for users to click on it to trigger the actions you plant inside the function. Or think of "trigger" of SQL Server / Oracle.

2) $watch is "on-click".

What's special about is it takes 2 functions as parameters, first one gives the value from the event, second one takes the value into consideration...

3) $digest is the boss who checks around tirelessly, bla-bla-bla but a good boss.

4) $apply gives you the way when you want to do it manually, like a fail-proof (in case on-click doesn't kick in, you force it to run.)

Now, let's make it visual. Picture this to make it even more easy to grab the idea:

In a restaurant,

- WAITERS

are supposed to take orders from customers, this is

$watch(
  function(){return orders;},
  function(){Kitchen make it;}
);

- MANAGER running around to make sure all waiters are awake, responsive to any sign of changes from customers. This is $digest()

- OWNER has the ultimate power to drive everyone upon request, this is $apply()

Could not load file or assembly 'System, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' or one of its dependencies

You are using .net 4? - Maybe on the clients there is only the ".net framework 4 client profile" installed. Try to install full package!! Download here

Unable to resolve host "<insert URL here>" No address associated with hostname

I got the same error and for the issue was that I was on VPN and I didn't realize that. After disconnecting the VPN and reconnecting the wifi resolved it.

How can I apply styles to multiple classes at once?

.abc, .xyz { margin-left: 20px; }

is what you are looking for.

How to perform a for-each loop over all the files under a specified path?

The for-loop will iterate over each (space separated) entry on the provided string.

You do not actually execute the find command, but provide it is as string (which gets iterated by the for-loop). Instead of the double quotes use either backticks or $():

for line in $(find . -iname '*.txt'); do 
     echo "$line"
     ls -l "$line"
done

Furthermore, if your file paths/names contains spaces this method fails (since the for-loop iterates over space separated entries). Instead it is better to use the method described in dogbanes answer.


To clarify your error:

As said, for line in "find . -iname '*.txt'"; iterates over all space separated entries, which are:

  • find
  • .
  • -iname
  • '*.txt' (I think...)

The first two do not result in an error (besides the undesired behavior), but the third is problematic as it executes:

ls -l -iname

A lot of (bash) commands can combine single character options, so -iname is the same as -i -n -a -m -e. And voila: your invalid option -- 'e' error!

Upgrade python in a virtualenv

I moved my home directory from one mac to another (Mountain Lion to Yosemite) and didn't realize about the broken virtualenv until I lost hold of the old laptop. I had the virtualenv point to Python 2.7 installed by brew and since Yosemite came with Python 2.7, I wanted to update my virtualenv to the system python. When I ran virtualenv on top of the existing directory, I was getting OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/Users/hdara/bin/python2.7/lib/python2.7/config' error. By trial and error, I worked around this issue by removing a few links and fixing up a few more manually. This is what I finally did (similar to what @Rockalite did, but simpler):

cd <virtualenv-root>
rm lib/python2.7/config
rm lib/python2.7/lib-dynload
rm include/python2.7
rm .Python
cd lib/python2.7
gfind . -type l -xtype l | while read f; do ln -s -f /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/${f#./} $f; done

After this, I was able to just run virtualenv on top of the existing directory.

What does Python's socket.recv() return for non-blocking sockets if no data is received until a timeout occurs?

Just to complete the existing answers, I'd suggest using select instead of nonblocking sockets. The point is that nonblocking sockets complicate stuff (except perhaps sending), so I'd say there is no reason to use them at all. If you regularly have the problem that your app is blocked waiting for IO, I would also consider doing the IO in a separate thread in the background.

How can I color Python logging output?

Look at the following solution. The stream handler should be the thing doing the colouring, then you have the option of colouring words rather than just the whole line (with the Formatter).

http://plumberjack.blogspot.com/2010/12/colorizing-logging-output-in-terminals.html

Java - Relative path of a file in a java web application

You may be able to simply access a pre-arranged file path on the system. This is preferable since files added to the webapp directory might be lost or the webapp may not be unpacked depending on system configuration.

In our server, we define a system property set in the App Server's JVM which points to the "home directory" for our app's external data. Of course this requires modification of the App Server's configuration (-DAPP_HOME=... added to JVM_OPTS at startup), we do it mainly to ease testing of code run outside the context of an App Server.

You could just as easily retrieve a path from the servlet config:

<web-app>
<context-param>
    <param-name>MyAppHome</param-name>
    <param-value>/usr/share/myapp</param-value>
</context-param>
...
</web-app>

Then retrieve this path and use it as the base path to read the file supplied by the client.

public class MyAppConfig implements ServletContextListener {

    // NOTE: static references are not a great idea, shown here for simplicity
    static File appHome;
    static File customerDataFile;

    public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent e) {

        appHome = new File(e.getServletContext().getInitParameter("MyAppHome"));
        File customerDataFile = new File(appHome, "SuppliedFile.csv");
    }
}

class DataProcessor {
    public void processData() {
        File dataFile = MyAppConfig.customerDataFile;
        // ...
    }
}

As I mentioned the most likely problem you'll encounter is security restrictions. Nothing guarantees webapps can ready any files above their webapp root. But there are generally simple methods for granting exceptions for specific paths to specific webapps.

Regardless of the code in which you then need to access this file, since you are running within a web application you are guaranteed this is initialized first, and can stash it's value somewhere convenient for the rest of your code to refer to, as in my example or better yet, just simply pass the path as a paramete to the code which needs it.

Concatenate chars to form String in java

If the size of the string is fixed, you might find easier to use an array of chars. If you have to do this a lot, it will be a tiny bit faster too.

char[] chars = new char[3];
chars[0] = 'i';
chars[1] = 'c';
chars[2] = 'e';
return new String(chars);

Also, I noticed in your original question, you use the Char class. If your chars are not nullable, it is better to use the lowercase char type.

Adobe Reader Command Line Reference

Call this after the print job has returned:

oShell.AppActivate "Adobe Reader"
oShell.SendKeys "%FX"

Forwarding port 80 to 8080 using NGINX

As simple as like this,

make sure to change example.com to your domain (or IP), and 8080 to your Node.js application port:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com;

    location / {
        proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header   Host $http_host;
        proxy_pass         "http://127.0.0.1:8080";
    }
}

Source: https://eladnava.com/binding-nodejs-port-80-using-nginx/

jQuery: get data attribute

You could use the .attr() function:

$(this).attr('data-fullText')

or if you lowercase the attribute name:

data-fulltext="This is a span element"

then you could use the .data() function:

$(this).data('fulltext')

The .data() function expects and works only with lowercase attribute names.

Arrays vs Vectors: Introductory Similarities and Differences

Those reference pretty much answered your question. Simply put, vectors' lengths are dynamic while arrays have a fixed size. when using an array, you specify its size upon declaration:

int myArray[100];
myArray[0]=1;
myArray[1]=2;
myArray[2]=3;

for vectors, you just declare it and add elements

vector<int> myVector;
myVector.push_back(1);
myVector.push_back(2);
myVector.push_back(3);
...

at times you wont know the number of elements needed so a vector would be ideal for such a situation.

Concatenating elements in an array to a string

I have just written the following:

public static String toDelimitedString(int[] ids, String delimiter)
{
    StringBuffer strb = new StringBuffer();
    for (int id : ids)
    {
      strb.append(String.valueOf(id) + delimiter);
    }
    return strb.substring(0, strb.length() - delimiter.length());
 }

How to play ringtone/alarm sound in Android

You could use this sample code:

Uri ringtoneUri = RingtoneManager.getDefaultUri(RingtoneManager.TYPE_ALARM);
Ringtone ringtoneSound = RingtoneManager.getRingtone(getApplicationContext(), ringtoneUri)

if (ringtoneSound != null) {
    ringtoneSound.play();
}

Embed image in a <button> element

Add new folder with name of Images in your project. Put some images into Images folder. Then it will work fine.

<input type="image" src="~/Images/Desert.jpg" alt="Submit" width="48" height="48">

Datatables - Search Box outside datatable

I had the same problem.

I tried all alternatives posted, but no work, I used a way that is not right but it worked perfectly.

Example search input

<input id="searchInput" type="text"> 

the jquery code

$('#listingData').dataTable({
  responsive: true,
  "bFilter": true // show search input
});
$("#listingData_filter").addClass("hidden"); // hidden search input

$("#searchInput").on("input", function (e) {
   e.preventDefault();
   $('#listingData').DataTable().search($(this).val()).draw();
});

Java: how to use UrlConnection to post request with authorization?

HTTP authorization does not differ between GET and POST requests, so I would first assume that something else is wrong. Instead of setting the Authorization header directly, I would suggest using the java.net.Authorization class, but I am not sure if it solves your problem. Perhaps your server is somehow configured to require a different authorization scheme than "basic" for post requests?

Obtaining only the filename when using OpenFileDialog property "FileName"

Use OpenFileDialog.SafeFileName

OpenFileDialog.SafeFileName Gets the file name and extension for the file selected in the dialog box. The file name does not include the path.

Passing data to a jQuery UI Dialog

This work for me:

<a href="#" onclick="sposta(100)">SPOSTA</a>

function sposta(id) {
        $("#sposta").data("id",id).dialog({
            autoOpen: true,
            modal: true,
            buttons: { "Sposta": function () { alert($(this).data('id')); } }
        });
    }

When you click on "Sposta" in dialog alert display 100

Could not load file or assembly ... The parameter is incorrect

I faced same error because application didn't find dependent frameworks in C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\ folder. I just repair my Visual studio which added required framework in above location and it working fine.

Converting NumPy array into Python List structure?

Use tolist():

import numpy as np
>>> np.array([[1,2,3],[4,5,6]]).tolist()
[[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]]

Note that this converts the values from whatever numpy type they may have (e.g. np.int32 or np.float32) to the "nearest compatible Python type" (in a list). If you want to preserve the numpy data types, you could call list() on your array instead, and you'll end up with a list of numpy scalars. (Thanks to Mr_and_Mrs_D for pointing that out in a comment.)

How do I load external fonts into an HTML document?

Regarding Jay Stevens answer: "The fonts available to use in an HTML file have to be present on the user's machine and accessible from the web browser, so unless you want to distribute the fonts to the user's machine via a separate external process, it can't be done." That's true.

But there is another way using javascript / canvas / flash - very good solution gives cufon: http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/ library that generates a very easy to use external fonts methods.

How to use Git Revert

The reason reset and revert tend to come up a lot in the same conversations is because different version control systems use them to mean different things.

In particular, people who are used to SVN or P4 who want to throw away uncommitted changes to a file will often reach for revert before being told that they actually want reset.

Similarly, the revert equivalent in other VCSes is often called rollback or something similar - but "rollback" can also mean "I want to completely discard the last few commits", which is appropriate for reset but not revert. So, there's a lot of confusion where people know what they want to do, but aren't clear on which command they should be using for it.

As for your actual questions about revert...

Okay, you're going to use git revert but how?

git revert first-bad-commit..last-bad-commit

And after running git revert do you have to do something else after? Do you have to commit the changes revert made or does revert directly commit to the repo or what??

By default, git revert prompts you for a commit message and then commits the results. This can be overridden. I quote the man page:

--edit

With this option, git revert will let you edit the commit message prior to committing the revert. This is the default if you run the command from a terminal.

--no-commit

Usually the command automatically creates some commits with commit log messages stating which commits were reverted. This flag applies the changes necessary to revert the named commits to your working tree and the index, but does not make the commits. In addition, when this option is used, your index does not have to match the HEAD commit. The revert is done against the beginning state of your index.

This is useful when reverting more than one commits' effect to your index in a row.

In particular, by default it creates a new commit for each commit you're reverting. You can use revert --no-commit to create changes reverting all of them without committing those changes as individual commits, then commit at your leisure.

How to do something before on submit?

Assuming you have a form like this:

<form id="myForm" action="foo.php" method="post">
   <input type="text" value="" />
   <input type="submit" value="submit form" />

</form>

You can attach a onsubmit-event with jQuery like this:

$('#myForm').submit(function() {
  alert('Handler for .submit() called.');
  return false;
});

If you return false the form won't be submitted after the function, if you return true or nothing it will submit as usual.

See the jQuery documentation for more info.

Bootstrap 3 - 100% height of custom div inside column

You need to set the height of every parent element of the one you want the height defined.

<html style="height: 100%;">
  <body style="height: 100%;">
    <div style="height: 100%;">
      <p>
        Make this division 100% height.
      </p>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

Article.

JsFiddle example

How to use timer in C?

You can use a time_t struct and clock() function from time.h.

Store the start time in a time_t struct by using clock() and check the elapsed time by comparing the difference between stored time and current time.

How to make remote REST call inside Node.js? any CURL?

How about using Request — Simplified HTTP client.

Edit February 2020: Request has been deprecated so you probably shouldn't use it any more.

Here's a GET:

var request = require('request');
request('http://www.google.com', function (error, response, body) {
    if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
        console.log(body) // Print the google web page.
     }
})

OP also wanted a POST:

request.post('http://service.com/upload', {form:{key:'value'}})

How can I remove a key and its value from an associative array?

Consider this array:

$arr = array("key1" => "value1", "key2" => "value2", "key3" => "value3", "key4" => "value4");
  • To remove an element using the array key:

    // To unset an element from array using Key:
    unset($arr["key2"]);
    var_dump($arr);
    // output: array(3) { ["key1"]=> string(6) "value1" ["key3"]=> string(6) "value3" ["key4"]=> string(6) "value4" }
    
  • To remove element by value:

    // remove an element by value:
    $arr = array_diff($arr, ["value1"]);
    var_dump($arr);
    // output: array(2) { ["key3"]=> string(6) "value3" ["key4"]=> string(6) "value4" } 
    

read more about array_diff: http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-diff.php

  • To remove an element by using index:

    array_splice($arr, 1, 1);
    var_dump($arr);
    // array(1) { ["key3"]=> string(6) "value3" } 
    

read more about array_splice: http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-splice.php