Programs & Examples On #Envdte

EnvDTE is an assembly-wrapped COM library containing the objects and members for Visual Studio core automation.

Searching for UUIDs in text with regex

In python re, you can span from numberic to upper case alpha. So..

import re
test = "01234ABCDEFGHIJKabcdefghijk01234abcdefghijkABCDEFGHIJK"
re.compile(r'[0-f]+').findall(test) # Bad: matches all uppercase alpha chars
## ['01234ABCDEFGHIJKabcdef', '01234abcdef', 'ABCDEFGHIJK']
re.compile(r'[0-F]+').findall(test) # Partial: does not match lowercase hex chars
## ['01234ABCDEF', '01234', 'ABCDEF']
re.compile(r'[0-F]+', re.I).findall(test) # Good
## ['01234ABCDEF', 'abcdef', '01234abcdef', 'ABCDEF']
re.compile(r'[0-f]+', re.I).findall(test) # Good
## ['01234ABCDEF', 'abcdef', '01234abcdef', 'ABCDEF']
re.compile(r'[0-Fa-f]+').findall(test) # Good (with uppercase-only magic)
## ['01234ABCDEF', 'abcdef', '01234abcdef', 'ABCDEF']
re.compile(r'[0-9a-fA-F]+').findall(test) # Good (with no magic)
## ['01234ABCDEF', 'abcdef', '01234abcdef', 'ABCDEF']

That makes the simplest Python UUID regex:

re_uuid = re.compile("[0-F]{8}-([0-F]{4}-){3}[0-F]{12}", re.I)

I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to use timeit to compare the performance of these.

Enjoy. Keep it Pythonic™!

NOTE: Those spans will also match :;<=>?@' so, if you suspect that could give you false positives, don't take the shortcut. (Thank you Oliver Aubert for pointing that out in the comments.)

Best way to make WPF ListView/GridView sort on column-header clicking?

I wrote a set of attached properties to automatically sort a GridView, you can check it out here. It doesn't handle the up/down arrow, but it could easily be added.

<ListView ItemsSource="{Binding Persons}"
          IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem="True"
          util:GridViewSort.AutoSort="True">
    <ListView.View>
        <GridView>
            <GridView.Columns>
                <GridViewColumn Header="Name"
                                DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Name}"
                                util:GridViewSort.PropertyName="Name"/>
                <GridViewColumn Header="First name"
                                DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding FirstName}"
                                util:GridViewSort.PropertyName="FirstName"/>
                <GridViewColumn Header="Date of birth"
                                DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding DateOfBirth}"
                                util:GridViewSort.PropertyName="DateOfBirth"/>
            </GridView.Columns>
        </GridView>
    </ListView.View>
</ListView>

How to hide Soft Keyboard when activity starts

Above answers are also correct. I just want to give a brief that there's two ways to hide the keyboard when starting the activity, from manifest.xml. eg:

<activity
..........
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"
..........
/>
  • The above way always hide it when entering the activity.

or

<activity
..........
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateUnchanged"
..........
/>
  • This one says don't change it (e.g. don't show it if it isn't already shown, but if it was open when entering the activity, leave it open).

javascript windows alert with redirect function

You could do this:

echo "<script>alert('Successfully Updated'); window.location = './edit.php';</script>";

Check if two lists are equal

Enumerable.SequenceEqual(FirstList.OrderBy(fElement => fElement), 
                         SecondList.OrderBy(sElement => sElement))

How to get a .csv file into R?

You mention that you will call on each vertical column so that you can perform calculations. I assume that you just want to examine each single variable. This can be done through the following.

df <- read.csv("myRandomFile.csv", header=TRUE)

df$ID

df$GRADES

df$GPA

Might be helpful just to assign the data to a variable.

var3 <- df$GPA

Search for highest key/index in an array

This should work fine

$arr = array( 1 => "A", 10 => "B", 5 => "C" );
max(array_keys($arr));

Cannot make a static reference to the non-static method fxn(int) from the type Two

Since the main method is static and the fxn() method is not, you can't call the method without first creating a Two object. So either you change the method to:

public static int fxn(int y) {
    y = 5;
    return y;
}

or change the code in main to:

Two two = new Two();
x = two.fxn(x);

Read more on static here in the Java Tutorials.

How can I use LTRIM/RTRIM to search and replace leading/trailing spaces?

To remove spaces... please use LTRIM/RTRIM

 LTRIM(String)
 RTRIM(String)

The String parameter that is passed to the functions can be a column name, a variable, a literal string or the output of a user defined function or scalar query.

SELECT LTRIM(' spaces at start')
SELECT RTRIM(FirstName) FROM Customers

Read more: http://rockingshani.blogspot.com/p/sq.html#ixzz33SrLQ4Wi

Vertically align text next to an image?

You probably want this:

<div>
   <img style="width:30px; height:30px;">
   <span style="vertical-align:50%; line-height:30px;">Didn't work.</span>
</div>

As others have suggested, try vertical-align on the image:

<div>
   <img style="width:30px; height:30px; vertical-align:middle;">
   <span>Didn't work.</span>
</div>

CSS isn't annoying. You just don't read the documentation. ;P

PHP preg_match - only allow alphanumeric strings and - _ characters

\w\- is probably the best but here just another alternative
Use [:alnum:]

if(!preg_match("/[^[:alnum:]\-_]/",$str)) echo "valid";

demo1 | demo2

Group a list of objects by an attribute

Java 8 groupingBy Collector

Probably it's late but I like to share an improved idea to this problem. This is basically the same of @Vitalii Fedorenko's answer but more handly to play around.

You can just use the Collectors.groupingBy() by passing the grouping logic as function parameter and you will get the splitted list with the key parameter mapping. Note that using Optional is used to avoid the unwanted NPE when the provided list is null

public static <E, K> Map<K, List<E>> groupBy(List<E> list, Function<E, K> keyFunction) {
    return Optional.ofNullable(list)
            .orElseGet(ArrayList::new)
            .stream()
            .collect(Collectors.groupingBy(keyFunction));
}

Now you can groupBy anything with this. For the use case here in the question

Map<String, List<Student>> map = groupBy(studlist, Student::getLocation);

Maybe you would like to look into this also Guide to Java 8 groupingBy Collector

Prevent flicker on webkit-transition of webkit-transform

Add this css property to the element being flickered:

-webkit-transform-style: preserve-3d;

(And a big thanks to Nathan Hoad: http://nathanhoad.net/how-to-stop-css-animation-flicker-in-webkit)

How to git commit a single file/directory

you try if You are in Master branch git commit -m "Commit message" -- filename.ext

How to read HDF5 files in Python

What you need to do is create a dataset. If you take a look at the quickstart guide, it shows you that you need to use the file object in order to create a dataset. So, f.create_dataset and then you can read the data. This is explained in the docs.

How to clear all data in a listBox?

If your listbox is connected to a LIST as the data source, listbox.Items.Clear() will not work.

I typically create a file named "DataAccess.cs" containing a separate class for code that uses or changes data pertaining to my form. The following is a code snippet from the DataAccess class that clears or removes all items in the list "exampleItems"

public List<ExampleItem> ClearExampleItems()
       {
           List<ExampleItem> exampleItems = new List<ExampleItem>();
           exampleItems.Clear();
           return examplelistItems;
        }

ExampleItem is also in a separate class named "ExampleItem.cs"

using System;

namespace        // The namespace is automatically added by Visual Studio
{
    public class ExampleItem
    {
        public int ItemId { get; set; }
        public string ItemType { get; set; }
        public int ItemNumber { get; set; }
        public string ItemDescription { get; set; }

        public string FullExampleItem 
        {
            get
            {
                return $"{ItemId} {ItemType} {ItemNumber} {ItemDescription}";
            }
        }
    }
}

In the code for your Window Form, the following code fragments reference your listbox:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Linq;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace        // The namespace is automatically added by Visual Studio
{
    
    public partial class YourFormName : Form
    {
        
        List<ExampleItem> exampleItems = new List<ExampleItem>();

        public YourFormName()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            // Connect listbox to LIST
            UpdateExampleItemsBinding();
        }

        private void UpdateUpdateItemsBinding()
        {
            ExampleItemsListBox.DataSource = exampleItems;
            ExampleItemsListBox.DisplayMember = "FullExampleItem";
        }

        private void buttonClearListBox_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            DataAccess db = new DataAccess();
            exampleItems = db.ClearExampleItems();
            
            UpdateExampleItemsBinding();
        }
    }
}

This solution specifically addresses a Windows Form listbox with the datasource connected to a list.

Using pip behind a proxy with CNTLM

For windows users: if you want to install Flask-MongoAlchemy then use the following code

pip install Flask-MongoAlchemy --proxy="http://example.com:port"**

Why do we use volatile keyword?

Consider this code,

int some_int = 100;

while(some_int == 100)
{
   //your code
}

When this program gets compiled, the compiler may optimize this code, if it finds that the program never ever makes any attempt to change the value of some_int, so it may be tempted to optimize the while loop by changing it from while(some_int == 100) to something which is equivalent to while(true) so that the execution could be fast (since the condition in while loop appears to be true always). (if the compiler doesn't optimize it, then it has to fetch the value of some_int and compare it with 100, in each iteration which obviously is a little bit slow.)

However, sometimes, optimization (of some parts of your program) may be undesirable, because it may be that someone else is changing the value of some_int from outside the program which compiler is not aware of, since it can't see it; but it's how you've designed it. In that case, compiler's optimization would not produce the desired result!

So, to ensure the desired result, you need to somehow stop the compiler from optimizing the while loop. That is where the volatile keyword plays its role. All you need to do is this,

volatile int some_int = 100; //note the 'volatile' qualifier now!

In other words, I would explain this as follows:

volatile tells the compiler that,

"Hey compiler, I'm volatile and, you know, I can be changed by some XYZ that you're not even aware of. That XYZ could be anything. Maybe some alien outside this planet called program. Maybe some lightning, some form of interrupt, volcanoes, etc can mutate me. Maybe. You never know who is going to change me! So O you ignorant, stop playing an all-knowing god, and don't dare touch the code where I'm present. Okay?"

Well, that is how volatile prevents the compiler from optimizing code. Now search the web to see some sample examples.


Quoting from the C++ Standard ($7.1.5.1/8)

[..] volatile is a hint to the implementation to avoid aggressive optimization involving the object because the value of the object might be changed by means undetectable by an implementation.[...]

Related topic:

Does making a struct volatile make all its members volatile?

How do you append rows to a table using jQuery?

Maybe this is the answer you are looking for. It finds the last instance of <tr /> and appends the new row after it:

<script type="text/javascript">
    $('a').click(function() {
        $('#myTable tr:last').after('<tr class="child"><td>blahblah<\/td></tr>');
    });
</script>

Is there a typical state machine implementation pattern?

switch() is a powerful and standard way of implementing state machines in C, but it can decrease maintainability down if you have a large number of states. Another common method is to use function pointers to store the next state. This simple example implements a set/reset flip-flop:

/* Implement each state as a function with the same prototype */
void state_one(int set, int reset);
void state_two(int set, int reset);

/* Store a pointer to the next state */
void (*next_state)(int set, int reset) = state_one;

/* Users should call next_state(set, reset). This could
   also be wrapped by a real function that validated input
   and dealt with output rather than calling the function
   pointer directly. */

/* State one transitions to state one if set is true */
void state_one(int set, int reset) {
    if(set)
        next_state = state_two;
}

/* State two transitions to state one if reset is true */
void state_two(int set, int reset) {
    if(reset)
        next_state = state_one;
}

Batch Renaming of Files in a Directory

I prefer writing small one liners for each replace I have to do instead of making a more generic and complex code. E.g.:

This replaces all underscores with hyphens in any non-hidden file in the current directory

import os
[os.rename(f, f.replace('_', '-')) for f in os.listdir('.') if not f.startswith('.')]

How to generate service reference with only physical wsdl file

There are two ways to go about this. You can either use the IDE to generate a WSDL, or you can do it via the command line.

1. To create it via the IDE:

In the solution explorer pane, right click on the project that you would like to add the Service to:

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Then, you can enter the path to your service WSDL and hit go:

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2. To create it via the command line:

Open a VS 2010 Command Prompt (Programs -> Visual Studio 2010 -> Visual Studio Tools)
Then execute:

WSDL /verbose C:\path\to\wsdl

WSDL.exe will then output a .cs file for your consumption.

If you have other dependencies that you received with the file, such as xsd's, add those to the argument list:

WSDL /verbose C:\path\to\wsdl C:\path\to\some\xsd C:\path\to\some\xsd

If you need VB output, use /language:VB in addition to the /verbose.

Datagridview full row selection but get single cell value

Just Use: dataGridView1.CurrentCell.Value.ToString()

        private void dataGridView1_MouseDoubleClick(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
        {
            MessageBox.Show(dataGridView1.CurrentCell.Value.ToString());
        }

or

 // dataGrid1.Rows[yourRowIndex ].Cells[yourColumnIndex].Value.ToString()

 //Example1:yourRowIndex=dataGridView1.CurrentRow.Index (from selectedRow );
 dataGrid1.Rows[dataGridView1.CurrentRow.Index].Cells[2].Value.ToString()

 //Example2:yourRowIndex=3,yourColumnIndex=2 (select by programmatically )
  dataGrid1.Rows[3].Cells[2].Value.ToString()

Regex for Mobile Number Validation

This regex is very short and sweet for working.

/^([+]\d{2})?\d{10}$/

Ex: +910123456789 or 0123456789

-> /^ and $/ is for starting and ending
-> The ? mark is used for conditional formatting where before question mark is available or not it will work
-> ([+]\d{2}) this indicates that the + sign with two digits '\d{2}' here you can place digit as per country
-> after the ? mark '\d{10}' this says that the digits must be 10 of length change as per your country mobile number length

This is how this regex for mobile number is working.
+ sign is used for world wide matching of number.

if you want to add the space between than you can use the

[ ]

here the square bracket represents the character sequence and a space is character for searching in regex.
for the space separated digit you can use this regex

/^([+]\d{2}[ ])?\d{10}$/

Ex: +91 0123456789

Thanks ask any question if you have.

How to kill MySQL connections

While you can't kill all open connections with a single command, you can create a set of queries to do that for you if there are too many to do by hand.

This example will create a series of KILL <pid>; queries for all some_user's connections from 192.168.1.1 to my_db.

SELECT 
CONCAT('KILL ', id, ';') 
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PROCESSLIST 
WHERE `User` = 'some_user' 
AND `Host` = '192.168.1.1';
AND `db` = 'my_db';

http to https through .htaccess

The below code, when added to the .htaccess file, will automatically redirect any traffic destined for http: to https:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
    RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]
</IfModule>

If your project is in Laravel add the two lines

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]

just below RewriteEngine On. Finally your .htaccess file will look like the following.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
        Options -MultiViews -Indexes
    </IfModule>

    RewriteEngine On

    RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
    RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L]

    # Handle Authorization Header
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
    RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]

    # Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
    RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=301]

    # Handle Front Controller...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Visite here to more information

How to programmatically empty browser cache?

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//The code below should be put in the "js" folder with the name "clear-browser-cache.js"_x000D_
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(function () {_x000D_
    var process_scripts = false;_x000D_
    var rep = /.*\?.*/,_x000D_
    links = document.getElementsByTagName('link'),_x000D_
    scripts = document.getElementsByTagName('script');_x000D_
    var value = document.getElementsByName('clear-browser-cache');_x000D_
    for (var i = 0; i < value.length; i++) {_x000D_
        var val = value[i],_x000D_
            outerHTML = val.outerHTML;_x000D_
        var check = /.*value="true".*/;_x000D_
        if (check.test(outerHTML)) {_x000D_
            process_scripts = true;_x000D_
        }_x000D_
    }_x000D_
    for (var i = 0; i < links.length; i++) {_x000D_
        var link = links[i],_x000D_
        href = link.href;_x000D_
        if (rep.test(href)) {_x000D_
            link.href = href + '&' + Date.now();_x000D_
        }_x000D_
        else {_x000D_
            link.href = href + '?' + Date.now();_x000D_
        }_x000D_
    }_x000D_
    if (process_scripts) {_x000D_
        for (var i = 0; i < scripts.length; i++) {_x000D_
            var script = scripts[i],_x000D_
            src = script.src;_x000D_
            if (src !== "") {_x000D_
                if (rep.test(src)) {_x000D_
                    script.src = src + '&' + Date.now();_x000D_
                }_x000D_
                else {_x000D_
                    script.src = src + '?' + Date.now();_x000D_
                }_x000D_
            }_x000D_
        }_x000D_
    }_x000D_
})();
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At the end of the tah head, place the line at the code below_x000D_
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    < script name="clear-browser-cache" src='js/clear-browser-cache.js' value="true" >< /script >
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_x000D_

How is attr_accessible used in Rails 4?

An update for Rails 5:

gem 'protected_attributes' 

doesn't seem to work anymore. But give:

gem 'protected_attributes_continued'

a try.

Find out time it took for a python script to complete execution

Use the timeit module. It's very easy. Run your example.py file so it is active in the Python Shell, you should now be able to call your function in the shell. Try it out to check it works

>>>fun(input)
output

Good, that works, now import timeit and set up a timer

>>>import timeit
>>>t = timeit.Timer('example.fun(input)','import example')
>>>

Now we have our timer set up we can see how long it takes

>>>t.timeit(number=1)
some number here

And there we go, it will tell you how many seconds (or less) it took to execute that function. If it's a simple function then you can increase it to t.timeit(number=1000) (or any number!) and then divide the answer by the number to get the average.

I hope this helps.

Why is there no ForEach extension method on IEnumerable?

Partially it's because the language designers disagree with it from a philosophical perspective.

  • Not having (and testing...) a feature is less work than having a feature.
  • It's not really shorter (there's some passing function cases where it is, but that wouldn't be the primary use).
  • It's purpose is to have side effects, which isn't what linq is about.
  • Why have another way to do the same thing as a feature we've already got? (foreach keyword)

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ericlippert/2009/05/18/foreach-vs-foreach/

Checking for #N/A in Excel cell from VBA code

First check for an error (N/A value) and then try the comparisation against cvErr(). You are comparing two different things, a value and an error. This may work, but not always. Simply casting the expression to an error may result in similar problems because it is not a real error only the value of an error which depends on the expression.

If IsError(ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("Publish").Range("G4").offset(offsetCount, 0).Value) Then
  If (ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("Publish").Range("G4").offset(offsetCount, 0).Value <> CVErr(xlErrNA)) Then
    'do something
  End If
End If

querySelectorAll with multiple conditions

Is it possible to make a search by querySelectorAll using multiple unrelated conditions?

Yes, because querySelectorAll accepts full CSS selectors, and CSS has the concept of selector groups, which lets you specify more than one unrelated selector. For instance:

var list = document.querySelectorAll("form, p, legend");

...will return a list containing any element that is a form or p or legend.

CSS also has the other concept: Restricting based on more criteria. You just combine multiple aspects of a selector. For instance:

var list = document.querySelectorAll("div.foo");

...will return a list of all div elements that also (and) have the class foo, ignoring other div elements.

You can, of course, combine them:

var list = document.querySelectorAll("div.foo, p.bar, div legend");

...which means "Include any div element that also has the foo class, any p element that also has the bar class, and any legend element that's also inside a div."

How do I compile and run a program in Java on my Mac?

Other solutions are good enough to answer your query. However, if you are looking for just one command to do that for you -

Create a file name "run", in directory where your Java files are. And save this in your file -

javac "$1.java"
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
  echo "--------Run output-------"
  java "$1"
fi

give this file run permission by running -

chmod 777 

Now you can run any of your files by merely running -

./run <yourfilename> (don't add .java in filename)

Is it possible to use pip to install a package from a private GitHub repository?

You may try

pip install [email protected]/my_name/my_repo.git

without ssh:.... That works for me.

Using std::max_element on a vector<double>

min/max_element return the iterator to the min/max element, not the value of the min/max element. You have to dereference the iterator in order to get the value out and assign it to a double. That is:

cLower = *min_element(C.begin(), C.end());

Convert all data frame character columns to factors

I used to do a simple for loop. As @A5C1D2H2I1M1N2O1R2T1 answer, lapply is a nice solution. But if you convert all the columns, you will need a data.frame before, otherwise you will end up with a list. Little execution time differences.

 mm2N=mm2New[,10:18]
 str(mm2N)
'data.frame':   35487 obs. of  9 variables:
 $ bb    : int  4 6 2 3 3 2 5 2 1 2 ...
 $ vabb  : int  -3 -3 -2 -2 -3 -1 0 0 3 3 ...
 $ bb55  : int  7 6 3 4 4 4 9 2 5 4 ...
 $ vabb55: int  -3 -1 0 -1 -2 -2 -3 0 -1 3 ...
 $ zr    : num  0 -2 -1 1 -1 -1 -1 1 1 0 ...
 $ z55r  : num  -2 -2 0 1 -2 -2 -2 1 -1 1 ...
 $ fechar: num  0 -1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 ...
 $ varr  : num  3 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 3 ...
 $ minmax: int  3 0 4 6 6 6 0 6 6 1 ...

 # For solution
 t1=Sys.time()
 for(i in 1:ncol(mm2N)) mm2N[,i]=as.factor(mm2N[,i])
 Sys.time()-t1
Time difference of 0.2020121 secs
 str(mm2N)
'data.frame':   35487 obs. of  9 variables:
 $ bb    : Factor w/ 6 levels "1","2","3","4",..: 4 6 2 3 3 2 5 2 1 2 ...
 $ vabb  : Factor w/ 7 levels "-3","-2","-1",..: 1 1 2 2 1 3 4 4 7 7 ...
 $ bb55  : Factor w/ 8 levels "2","3","4","5",..: 6 5 2 3 3 3 8 1 4 3 ...
 $ vabb55: Factor w/ 7 levels "-3","-2","-1",..: 1 3 4 3 2 2 1 4 3 7 ...
 $ zr    : Factor w/ 5 levels "-2","-1","0",..: 3 1 2 4 2 2 2 4 4 3 ...
 $ z55r  : Factor w/ 5 levels "-2","-1","0",..: 1 1 3 4 1 1 1 4 2 4 ...
 $ fechar: Factor w/ 3 levels "-1","0","1": 2 1 3 2 3 3 2 2 3 2 ...
 $ varr  : Factor w/ 5 levels "1","2","3","4",..: 3 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 3 ...
 $ minmax: Factor w/ 7 levels "0","1","2","3",..: 4 1 5 7 7 7 1 7 7 2 ...

 #lapply solution
 mm2N=mm2New[,10:18]
 t1=Sys.time()
 mm2N <- lapply(mm2N, as.factor)
 Sys.time()-t1
Time difference of 0.209012 secs
 str(mm2N)
List of 9
 $ bb    : Factor w/ 6 levels "1","2","3","4",..: 4 6 2 3 3 2 5 2 1 2 ...
 $ vabb  : Factor w/ 7 levels "-3","-2","-1",..: 1 1 2 2 1 3 4 4 7 7 ...
 $ bb55  : Factor w/ 8 levels "2","3","4","5",..: 6 5 2 3 3 3 8 1 4 3 ...
 $ vabb55: Factor w/ 7 levels "-3","-2","-1",..: 1 3 4 3 2 2 1 4 3 7 ...
 $ zr    : Factor w/ 5 levels "-2","-1","0",..: 3 1 2 4 2 2 2 4 4 3 ...
 $ z55r  : Factor w/ 5 levels "-2","-1","0",..: 1 1 3 4 1 1 1 4 2 4 ...
 $ fechar: Factor w/ 3 levels "-1","0","1": 2 1 3 2 3 3 2 2 3 2 ...
 $ varr  : Factor w/ 5 levels "1","2","3","4",..: 3 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 3 ...
 $ minmax: Factor w/ 7 levels "0","1","2","3",..: 4 1 5 7 7 7 1 7 7 2 ...

 #data.frame lapply solution
 mm2N=mm2New[,10:18]
 t1=Sys.time()
 mm2N <- data.frame(lapply(mm2N, as.factor))
 Sys.time()-t1
Time difference of 0.2010119 secs
 str(mm2N)
'data.frame':   35487 obs. of  9 variables:
 $ bb    : Factor w/ 6 levels "1","2","3","4",..: 4 6 2 3 3 2 5 2 1 2 ...
 $ vabb  : Factor w/ 7 levels "-3","-2","-1",..: 1 1 2 2 1 3 4 4 7 7 ...
 $ bb55  : Factor w/ 8 levels "2","3","4","5",..: 6 5 2 3 3 3 8 1 4 3 ...
 $ vabb55: Factor w/ 7 levels "-3","-2","-1",..: 1 3 4 3 2 2 1 4 3 7 ...
 $ zr    : Factor w/ 5 levels "-2","-1","0",..: 3 1 2 4 2 2 2 4 4 3 ...
 $ z55r  : Factor w/ 5 levels "-2","-1","0",..: 1 1 3 4 1 1 1 4 2 4 ...
 $ fechar: Factor w/ 3 levels "-1","0","1": 2 1 3 2 3 3 2 2 3 2 ...
 $ varr  : Factor w/ 5 levels "1","2","3","4",..: 3 3 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 3 ...
 $ minmax: Factor w/ 7 levels "0","1","2","3",..: 4 1 5 7 7 7 1 7 7 2 ...

Checking for empty or null List<string>

What about using an extension method?

public static bool AnyOrNotNull<T>(this IEnumerable<T> source)
{
  if (source != null && source.Any())
    return true;
  else
    return false;
}

Found a swap file by the name

Accepted answer fails to mention how to delete the .swp file.

Hit "D" when the prompt comes up and it will remove it.

In my case, after I hit D it left the latest saved version intact and deleted the .swp which got created because I exited VIM incorrectly

Visual Studio 2013 error MS8020 Build tools v140 cannot be found

That's the platform toolset for VS2015. You uninstalled it, therefore it is no longer available.

To change your Platform Toolset:

  1. Right click your project, go to Properties.
  2. Under Configuration Properties, go to General.
  3. Change your Platform Toolset to one of the available ones.

Upload a file to Amazon S3 with NodeJS

Upload CSV/Excel

const fs = require('fs');
const AWS = require('aws-sdk');

const s3 = new AWS.S3({
    accessKeyId: XXXXXXXXX,
    secretAccessKey: XXXXXXXXX
});

const absoluteFilePath = "C:\\Project\\test.xlsx";

const uploadFile = () => {
  fs.readFile(absoluteFilePath, (err, data) => {
     if (err) throw err;
     const params = {
         Bucket: 'testBucket', // pass your bucket name
         Key: 'folderName/key.xlsx', // file will be saved in <folderName> folder
         Body: data
     };
      s3.upload(params, function (s3Err, data) {
                    if (s3Err) throw s3Err
                    console.log(`File uploaded successfully at ${data.Location}`);
                    debugger;
                });
  });
};

uploadFile();

Tkinter scrollbar for frame

We can add scroll bar even without using Canvas. I have read it in many other post we can't add vertical scroll bar in frame directly etc etc. But after doing many experiment found out way to add vertical as well as horizontal scroll bar :). Please find below code which is used to create scroll bar in treeView and frame.

f = Tkinter.Frame(self.master,width=3)
f.grid(row=2, column=0, columnspan=8, rowspan=10, pady=30, padx=30)
f.config(width=5)
self.tree = ttk.Treeview(f, selectmode="extended")
scbHDirSel =tk.Scrollbar(f, orient=Tkinter.HORIZONTAL, command=self.tree.xview)
scbVDirSel =tk.Scrollbar(f, orient=Tkinter.VERTICAL, command=self.tree.yview)
self.tree.configure(yscrollcommand=scbVDirSel.set, xscrollcommand=scbHDirSel.set)           
self.tree["columns"] = (self.columnListOutput)
self.tree.column("#0", width=40)
self.tree.heading("#0", text='SrNo', anchor='w')
self.tree.grid(row=2, column=0, sticky=Tkinter.NSEW,in_=f, columnspan=10, rowspan=10)
scbVDirSel.grid(row=2, column=10, rowspan=10, sticky=Tkinter.NS, in_=f)
scbHDirSel.grid(row=14, column=0, rowspan=2, sticky=Tkinter.EW,in_=f)
f.rowconfigure(0, weight=1)
f.columnconfigure(0, weight=1)

Is there a way to ignore a single FindBugs warning?

The FindBugs initial approach involves XML configuration files aka filters. This is really less convenient than the PMD solution but FindBugs works on bytecode, not on the source code, so comments are obviously not an option. Example:

<Match>
   <Class name="com.mycompany.Foo" />
   <Method name="bar" />
   <Bug pattern="DLS_DEAD_STORE_OF_CLASS_LITERAL" />
</Match>

However, to solve this issue, FindBugs later introduced another solution based on annotations (see SuppressFBWarnings) that you can use at the class or at the method level (more convenient than XML in my opinion). Example (maybe not the best one but, well, it's just an example):

@edu.umd.cs.findbugs.annotations.SuppressFBWarnings(
    value="HE_EQUALS_USE_HASHCODE", 
    justification="I know what I'm doing")

Note that since FindBugs 3.0.0 SuppressWarnings has been deprecated in favor of @SuppressFBWarnings because of the name clash with Java's SuppressWarnings.

How to build and use Google TensorFlow C++ api

If you are thinking into using Tensorflow c++ api on a standalone package you probably will need tensorflow_cc.so ( There is also a c api version tensorflow.so ) to build the c++ version you can use:

bazel build -c opt //tensorflow:libtensorflow_cc.so

Note1: If you want to add intrinsics support you can add this flags as: --copt=-msse4.2 --copt=-mavx

Note2: If you are thinking into using OpenCV on your project as well, there is an issue when using both libs together (tensorflow issue) and you should use --config=monolithic.

After building the library you need to add it to your project. To do that you can include this paths:

tensorflow
tensorflow/bazel-tensorflow/external/eigen_archive
tensorflow/bazel-tensorflow/external/protobuf_archive/src
tensorflow/bazel-genfiles

And link the library to your project:

tensorflow/bazel-bin/tensorflow/libtensorflow_framework.so (unused if you build with --config=monolithic)
tensorflow/bazel-bin/tensorflow/libtensorflow_cc.so

And when you are building your project you should also specify to your compiler that you are going to use c++11 standards.

Side Note: Paths relative to tensorflow version 1.5 (You may need to check if in your version anything changed).

Also this link helped me a lot into finding all this infos: link

Destroy or remove a view in Backbone.js

I had to be absolutely sure the view was not just removed from DOM but also completely unbound from events.

destroy_view: function() {

    // COMPLETELY UNBIND THE VIEW
    this.undelegateEvents();

    this.$el.removeData().unbind(); 

    // Remove view from DOM
    this.remove();  
    Backbone.View.prototype.remove.call(this);

}

Seemed like overkill to me, but other approaches did not completely do the trick.

How to read data from excel file using c#

Save the Excel file to CSV, and read the resulting file with C# using a CSV reader library like FileHelpers.

HTTP response header content disposition for attachments

neither use inline; nor attachment; just use

response.setContentType("text/xml");
response.setHeader( "Content-Disposition", "filename=" + filename );

or

response.setHeader( "Content-Disposition", "filename=\"" + filename + "\"" );

or

response.setHeader( "Content-Disposition", "filename=\"" + 
  filename.substring(0, filename.lastIndexOf('.')) + "\"");

How do you implement a circular buffer in C?

First, the headline. You don't need modulo arithmetic to wrap the buffer if you use bit ints to hold the head & tail "pointers", and size them so they are perfectly in synch. IE: 4096 stuffed into a 12-bit unsigned int is 0 all by itself, unmolested in any way. Eliminating modulo arithmetic, even for powers of 2, doubles the speed - almost exactly.

10 million iterations of filling and draining a 4096 buffer of any type of data elements takes 52 seconds on my 3rd Gen i7 Dell XPS 8500 using Visual Studio 2010's C++ compiler with default inlining, and 1/8192nd of that to service a datum.

I'd RX rewriting the test loops in main() so they no longer control the flow - which is, and should be, controlled by the return values indicating the buffer is full or empty, and the attendant break; statements. IE: the filler and drainer should be able to bang against each other without corruption or instability. At some point I hope to multi-thread this code, whereupon that behavior will be crucial.

The QUEUE_DESC (queue descriptor) and initialization function forces all buffers in this code to be a power of 2. The above scheme will NOT work otherwise. While on the subject, note that QUEUE_DESC is not hard-coded, it uses a manifest constant (#define BITS_ELE_KNT) for its construction. (I'm assuming a power of 2 is sufficient flexibility here)

To make the buffer size run-time selectable, I tried different approaches (not shown here), and settled on using USHRTs for Head, Tail, EleKnt capable of managing a FIFO buffer[USHRT]. To avoid modulo arithmetic I created a mask to && with Head, Tail, but that mask turns out to be (EleKnt -1), so just use that. Using USHRTS instead of bit ints increased performance ~ 15% on a quiet machine. Intel CPU cores have always been faster than their buses, so on a busy, shared machine, packing your data structures gets you loaded and executing ahead of other, competing threads. Trade-offs.

Note the actual storage for the buffer is allocated on the heap with calloc(), and the pointer is at the base of the struct, so the struct and the pointer have EXACTLY the same address. IE; no offset required to be added to the struct address to tie up registers.

In that same vein, all of the variables attendant with servicing the buffer are physically adjacent to the buffer, bound into the same struct, so the compiler can make beautiful assembly language. You'll have to kill the inline optimization to see any assembly, because otherwise it gets crushed into oblivion.

To support the polymorphism of any data type, I've used memcpy() instead of assignments. If you only need the flexibility to support one random variable type per compile, then this code works perfectly.

For polymorphism, you just need to know the type and it's storage requirement. The DATA_DESC array of descriptors provides a way to keep track of each datum that gets put in QUEUE_DESC.pBuffer so it can be retrieved properly. I'd just allocate enough pBuffer memory to hold all of the elements of the largest data type, but keep track of how much of that storage a given datum is actually using in DATA_DESC.dBytes. The alternative is to reinvent a heap manager.

This means QUEUE_DESC's UCHAR *pBuffer would have a parallel companion array to keep track of data type, and size, while a datum's storage location in pBuffer would remain just as it is now. The new member would be something like DATA_DESC *pDataDesc, or, perhaps, DATA_DESC DataDesc[2^BITS_ELE_KNT] if you can find a way to beat your compiler into submission with such a forward reference. Calloc() is always more flexible in these situations.

You'd still memcpy() in Q_Put(),Q_Get, but the number of bytes actually copied would be determined by DATA_DESC.dBytes, not QUEUE_DESC.EleBytes. The elements are potentially all of different types/sizes for any given put or get.

I believe this code satisfies the speed and buffer size requirements, and can be made to satisfy the requirement for 6 different data types. I've left the many test fixtures in, in the form of printf() statements, so you can satisfy yourself (or not) that the code works properly. The random number generator demonstrates that the code works for any random head/tail combo.

enter code here
// Queue_Small.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application.
//
#include "stdafx.h"
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <limits.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <malloc.h>
#include <memory.h>
#include <math.h>

#define UCHAR unsigned char
#define ULONG unsigned long
#define USHRT unsigned short
#define dbl   double
/* Queue structure */
#define QUEUE_FULL_FLAG 1
#define QUEUE_EMPTY_FLAG -1
#define QUEUE_OK 0
//  
#define BITS_ELE_KNT    12  //12 bits will create 4.096 elements numbered 0-4095
//
//typedef struct    {
//  USHRT dBytes:8;     //amount of QUEUE_DESC.EleBytes storage used by datatype
//  USHRT dType :3; //supports 8 possible data types (0-7)
//  USHRT dFoo  :5; //unused bits of the unsigned short host's storage
// }    DATA_DESC;
//  This descriptor gives a home to all the housekeeping variables
typedef struct  {
    UCHAR   *pBuffer;   //  pointer to storage, 16 to 4096 elements
    ULONG Tail  :BITS_ELE_KNT;  //  # elements, with range of 0-4095
    ULONG Head  :BITS_ELE_KNT;  //  # elements, with range of 0-4095
    ULONG EleBytes  :8;     //  sizeof(elements) with range of 0-256 bytes
    // some unused bits will be left over if BITS_ELE_KNT < 12
    USHRT EleKnt    :BITS_ELE_KNT +1;// 1 extra bit for # elements (1-4096)
    //USHRT Flags   :(8*sizeof(USHRT) - BITS_ELE_KNT +1);   //  flags you can use
    USHRT   IsFull  :1;     // queue is full
    USHRT   IsEmpty :1;     // queue is empty
    USHRT   Unused  :1;     // 16th bit of USHRT
}   QUEUE_DESC;

//  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
//  Function prototypes
QUEUE_DESC *Q_Init(QUEUE_DESC *Q, int BitsForEleKnt, int DataTypeSz);
int Q_Put(QUEUE_DESC *Q, UCHAR *pNew);
int Q_Get(UCHAR *pOld, QUEUE_DESC *Q);
//  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
QUEUE_DESC *Q_Init(QUEUE_DESC *Q, int BitsForEleKnt, int DataTypeSz)    {
    memset((void *)Q, 0, sizeof(QUEUE_DESC));//init flags and bit integers to zero
    //select buffer size from powers of 2 to receive modulo 
    //                arithmetic benefit of bit uints overflowing
    Q->EleKnt   =   (USHRT)pow(2.0, BitsForEleKnt);
    Q->EleBytes =   DataTypeSz; // how much storage for each element?
    //  Randomly generated head, tail a test fixture only. 
    //      Demonstrates that the queue can be entered at a random point 
    //      and still perform properly. Normally zero
    srand(unsigned(time(NULL)));    // seed random number generator with current time
    Q->Head = Q->Tail = rand(); // supposed to be set to zero here, or by memset
    Q->Head = Q->Tail = 0;
    //  allocate queue's storage
    if(NULL == (Q->pBuffer = (UCHAR *)calloc(Q->EleKnt, Q->EleBytes)))  {
        return NULL;
    }   else    {
        return Q;
    }
}
//  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
int Q_Put(QUEUE_DESC *Q, UCHAR *pNew)   
{
    memcpy(Q->pBuffer + (Q->Tail * Q->EleBytes), pNew, Q->EleBytes);
    if(Q->Tail == (Q->Head + Q->EleKnt)) {
        //  Q->IsFull = 1;
        Q->Tail += 1;   
        return QUEUE_FULL_FLAG; //  queue is full
    }
    Q->Tail += 1;   //  the unsigned bit int MUST wrap around, just like modulo
    return QUEUE_OK; // No errors
}
//  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
int Q_Get(UCHAR *pOld, QUEUE_DESC *Q)   
{
    memcpy(pOld, Q->pBuffer + (Q->Head * Q->EleBytes), Q->EleBytes);
    Q->Head += 1;   //  the bit int MUST wrap around, just like modulo

    if(Q->Head == Q->Tail)      {
        //  Q->IsEmpty = 1;
        return QUEUE_EMPTY_FLAG; // queue Empty - nothing to get
    }
    return QUEUE_OK; // No errors
}
//
//  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])    {
//  constrain buffer size to some power of 2 to force faux modulo arithmetic
    int LoopKnt = 1000000;  //  for benchmarking purposes only
    int k, i=0, Qview=0;
    time_t start;
    QUEUE_DESC Queue, *Q;
    if(NULL == (Q = Q_Init(&Queue, BITS_ELE_KNT, sizeof(int)))) {
        printf("\nProgram failed to initialize. Aborting.\n\n");
        return 0;
    }

    start = clock();
    for(k=0; k<LoopKnt; k++)    {
        //printf("\n\n Fill'er up please...\n");
        //Q->Head = Q->Tail = rand();
        for(i=1; i<= Q->EleKnt; i++)    {
            Qview = i*i;
            if(QUEUE_FULL_FLAG == Q_Put(Q, (UCHAR *)&Qview))    {
                //printf("\nQueue is full at %i \n", i);
                //printf("\nQueue value of %i should be %i squared", Qview, i);
                break;
            }
            //printf("\nQueue value of %i should be %i squared", Qview, i);
        }
        //  Get data from queue until completely drained (empty)
        //
        //printf("\n\n Step into the lab, and see what's on the slab... \n");
        Qview = 0;
        for(i=1; i; i++)    {
            if(QUEUE_EMPTY_FLAG == Q_Get((UCHAR *)&Qview, Q))   {
                //printf("\nQueue value of %i should be %i squared", Qview, i);
                //printf("\nQueue is empty at %i", i);
                break;
            }
            //printf("\nQueue value of %i should be %i squared", Qview, i);
        }
        //printf("\nQueue head value is %i, tail is %i\n", Q->Head, Q->Tail);
    }
    printf("\nQueue time was %5.3f to fill & drain %i element queue  %i times \n", 
                     (dbl)(clock()-start)/(dbl)CLOCKS_PER_SEC,Q->EleKnt, LoopKnt);
    printf("\nQueue head value is %i, tail is %i\n", Q->Head, Q->Tail);
    getchar();
    return 0;
}

How do I run a class in a WAR from the command line?

You can do what Hudson (continuous integration project) does. you download a war which can be deployed in tomcat or to execute using

java -jar hudson.war

(Because it has an embedded Jetty engine, running it from command line cause a server to be launched.) Anyway by looking at hudson's manifest I understand that they put a Main class in the root for the archive. In your case your war layout should be look like:

under root:

  • mypackage/MyEntryPointClass.class
  • WEB-INF/lib
  • WEB-INF/classes
  • META-INF/MANIFEST.MF

while the manifest should include the following line:

Main-Class: mypackage.MyEntryPointClass

please notice that the mypackage/MyEntryPointClass.class is accessable from the command line only, and the classes under WEB-INF/classes are accessable from the application server only.

HTH

How to fix error "Updating Maven Project". Unsupported IClasspathEntry kind=4?

Try mvn clean install eclipse:eclipse -Dwtpversion=2.0 command on DOS command prompt. Suggesting you because , It worked for me!!

Java - No enclosing instance of type Foo is accessible

Declare the INNER class Thing as a static and it will work with no issues.

I remember I have the same issue with the inner class Dog when I declared it as class Dog { only. I got the same issue as you did. There were two solutions:

1- To declare the inner class Dog as static. Or

2- To move the inner class Dog to a new class by itself.

Here is the Example:

public class ReturnDemo {

public static void main(String[] args) {
    
    int z = ReturnDemo.calculate(10, 12);
    System.out.println("z = " + z);
    
    ReturnDemo.Dog dog = new Dog("Bosh", " Doggy");
    System.out.println( dog.getDog());
}


public static int calculate (int x, int y) {
    return x + y;
}

public void print( ) {
    System.out.println("void method");
    return;
}

public String getString() {
    return "Retrun String type value";
}


static class Dog {
    
private String breed;
private String name;

public Dog(String breed, String name) {
    super();
    this.breed = breed;
    this.name = name;
}

public Dog getDog() {
    // return Dog type;
    return this;
    
}

public String toString() {
    return "breed" + breed.concat("name: " + name);
}
}

}

How to pass model attributes from one Spring MVC controller to another controller?

You can resolve it by using org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.support.RedirectAttributes.

Here is my controller sample.

@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST)
    public String eligibilityPost(
            @ModelAttribute("form") @Valid EligibiltyForm form,
            Model model,
            RedirectAttributes redirectAttributes) {
        if(eligibilityService.validateEligibility(form)){
            redirectAttributes.addFlashAttribute("form", form);
            return "redirect:<redirect to your page>";
        }
       return "eligibility";
    }

read more on my blog at http://mayurshah.in/596/how-do-i-redirect-to-page-keeping-model-value

what does it mean "(include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php')"?

Many developers include files by pointing to a remote URL, even if the file is within the local system. For example:

<php include("http://example.com/includes/example_include.php"); ?>

With allow_url_include disabled, this method does not work. Instead, the file must be included with a local path, and there are three methods of doing this:

By using a relative path, such as ../includes/example_include.php. By using an absolute path (also known as relative-from-root), such as /home/username/example.com/includes/example_include.php.

By using the PHP environment variable $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'], which returns the absolute path to the web root directory. This is by far the best (and most portable) solution. The following example shows the environment variable in action.

Example Include

<?php include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/includes/example_include.php"); ?>

Gmail: 530 5.5.1 Authentication Required. Learn more at

You need to go here https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords

then select Gmail and then select device. then click on Generate. Simply Copy & Paste password which is generated by Google.

TextView bold via xml file?

use textstyle property as bold

android:textStyle = "bold";

create a text file using javascript

From a web page this cannot work since IE restricts the use of that object.

Finding out current index in EACH loop (Ruby)

x.each_with_index { |v, i| puts "current index...#{i}" }

plot.new has not been called yet

In my case, I was trying to call plot(x, y) and lines(x, predict(yx.lm), col="red") in two separate chunks in Rmarkdown file. It worked without problems when running chunk by chunk, but the corresponding document wouldn't knit. After I moved all plotting calls within one chunk, problem was resolved.

SQL Server 2008 Connection Error "No process is on the other end of the pipe"

One follow up to this. I had installed SQL Server 2014 with only Windows Authentication. After enabling Mixed Mode, I couldn't log in with a SQL user and got the same error message as the original poster. I verified that named pipes were enabled but still couldn't log in after several restarts. Using 127.0.0.1 instead of the hostname allowed me to log in, but interestingly, required a password reset prompt on first login:

SQL Server Password Reset Prompt

Once I reset the password the account worked. What's odd, is I specifically disabled password policy and expiration.

check the null terminating character in char*

You have used '/0' instead of '\0'. This is incorrect: the '\0' is a null character, while '/0' is a multicharacter literal.

Moreover, in C it is OK to skip a zero in your condition:

while (*(forward++)) {
    ...
}

is a valid way to check character, integer, pointer, etc. for being zero.

Attach (open) mdf file database with SQL Server Management Studio

i don't know if this answer can be found on the links above, but i just run SQL management studio as Administrator and worked. Hope it helps

Cheers

Rendering HTML elements to <canvas>

You won't get real HTML rendering to <canvas> per se currently, because canvas context does not have functions to render HTML elements.

There are some emulations:

html2canvas project http://html2canvas.hertzen.com/index.html (basically a HTML renderer attempt built on Javascript + canvas)

HTML to SVG to <canvas> might be possible depending on your use case:

https://github.com/miohtama/Krusovice/blob/master/src/tools/html2svg2canvas.js

Also if you are using Firefox you can hack some extended permissions and then render a DOM window to <canvas>

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/Canvas/Drawing_Graphics_with_Canvas?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Drawing_Graphics_with_Canvas#Rendering_Web_Content_Into_A_Canvas

How to handle AssertionError in Python and find out which line or statement it occurred on?

Use the traceback module:

import sys
import traceback

try:
    assert True
    assert 7 == 7
    assert 1 == 2
    # many more statements like this
except AssertionError:
    _, _, tb = sys.exc_info()
    traceback.print_tb(tb) # Fixed format
    tb_info = traceback.extract_tb(tb)
    filename, line, func, text = tb_info[-1]

    print('An error occurred on line {} in statement {}'.format(line, text))
    exit(1)

How to temporarily exit Vim and go back

If you are on a Unix system, Ctrl + Z will suspend Vim and give you a shell.

Type fg to go back. Note that Vim creates a swap file while editing, and suspending Vim wouldn't delete that file (you aren't exiting Vim after all). On dumb terminals, this method was pretty standard for edit-compile-edit cycles using vi. I just found out that for me, gVim minimizes on typing Z.

How do I retrieve an HTML element's actual width and height?

Here is the code for WKWebView what determines a height of specific Dom element (doesn't work properly for whole page)

let html = "<body><span id=\"spanEl\" style=\"font-family: '\(taskFont.fontName)'; font-size: \(taskFont.pointSize - 4.0)pt; color: rgb(\(red), \(blue), \(green))\">\(textValue)</span></body>"
webView.navigationDelegate = self
webView.loadHTMLString(taskHTML, baseURL: nil)

func webView(_ webView: WKWebView, didFinish navigation: WKNavigation!) {
    webView.evaluateJavaScript("document.getElementById(\"spanEl\").getBoundingClientRect().height;") { [weak self] (response, error) in
        if let nValue = response as? NSNumber {

        }
    }
}

Pip - Fatal error in launcher: Unable to create process using '"'

The same error, but in a different situation. I have a virtual environment, in which I ran, in the VE's \Scripts directory where pip.exe is:

pip freeze

I got the error message

Fatal error in launcher: Unable to create process using '"'

There is no space in my VE path (google that error). Then I tried python -m pip install --upgrade pip and got

Requirement already up-to-date: pip in o:\upsdowns\flask\lib\site-packages

so then I tried

python -m pip freeze

and that worked. I think it might be a path issue in the VE, but I'm OK with this workaround.

I'm adding this here because this page is high up when you google that errormessage. In other words, I didn't make a new question, even though my situation is quite different from the OP's. Possibly even, I got into that situation because I didn't add modules to the virtual environment "properly".

Anyway, I hope it helps some.

force css grid container to fill full screen of device

If you want the .wrapper to be fullscreen, just add the following in the wrapper class:

position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%;

You can also add top: 0 and left:0

How do I perform a Perl substitution on a string while keeping the original?

This is the idiom I've always used to get a modified copy of a string without changing the original:

(my $newstring = $oldstring) =~ s/foo/bar/g;

In perl 5.14.0 or later, you can use the new /r non-destructive substitution modifier:

my $newstring = $oldstring =~ s/foo/bar/gr; 

NOTE:
The above solutions work without g too. They also work with any other modifiers.

SEE ALSO:
perldoc perlrequick: Perl regular expressions quick start

What does this thread join code mean?

let's say our main thread starts the threads t1 and t2. Now, when t1.join() is called, the main thread suspends itself till thread t1 dies and then resumes itself. Similarly, when t2.join() executes, the main thread suspends itself again till the thread t2 dies and then resumes.

So, this is how it works.

Also, the while loop was not really needed here.

Connect to SQL Server Database from PowerShell

Assuming you can use integrated security, you can remove the user id and pass:

$SqlConnection.ConnectionString = "Server = $SQLServer; Database = $SQLDBName; Integrated Security = True;"

How to count occurrences of a column value efficiently in SQL?

If you're using Oracle, then a feature called analytics will do the trick. It looks like this:

select id, age, count(*) over (partition by age) from students;

If you aren't using Oracle, then you'll need to join back to the counts:

select a.id, a.age, b.age_count
  from students a
  join (select age, count(*) as age_count
          from students
         group by age) b
    on a.age = b.age

How to compare two dates?

Other answers using datetime and comparisons also work for time only, without a date.

For example, to check if right now it is more or less than 8:00 a.m., we can use:

import datetime

eight_am = datetime.time( 8,0,0 ) # Time, without a date

And later compare with:

datetime.datetime.now().time() > eight_am  

which will return True

Simpler way to check if variable is not equal to multiple string values?

An alternative that might make sense especially if this test is being made multiple times and you are running PHP 7+ and have installed the Set class is:

use Ds\Set;

$strings = new Set(['uk', 'in']);    
if (!$strings->contains($some_variable)) {

Or on any version of PHP you can use an associative array to simulate a set:

$strings = ['uk' => 1, 'in' => 1];
if (!isset($strings[$some_variable])) {

There is additional overhead in creating the set but each test then becomes an O(1) operation. Of course the savings becomes greater the longer the list of strings being compared is.

Where does npm install packages?

Not direct answer but may help ....

The npm also has a cache folder, which can be found by running npm config get cache (%AppData%/npm-cache on Windows).

The npm modules are first downloaded here and then copied to npm global folder (%AppData%/Roaming/npm on Windows) or project specific folder (your-project/node_modules).

So if you want to track npm packages, and some how, the list of all downloaded npm packages (if the npm cache is not cleaned) have a look at this folder. The folder structure is as {cache}/{name}/{version}

This may help also https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/cache

What is "git remote add ..." and "git push origin master"?

Git remote add origin:

It centralises your source code to the other projects.It is developed based on Linux, complete open source and make your code useful to the other git users.we call it as reference

Pushes your code into git repository using remote url of the git hub.

How to install iPhone application in iPhone Simulator

Select the platform to be iPhone Simulator then click Build and Go. If it builds correctly then it will launch the simulator and run. If it does not build ok then it will indicate errors at the bottom of the window on the right hand side.

If you only have the app file then you would need to manually install that into the simulator. The simulator was not designed to be used this way, but I'm sure it would be possible, even if it was incredibly difficult.

If you have the source code (.proj .m .h etc) files then it should be a simple case of build and go.

Resource blocked due to MIME type mismatch (X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff)

I've solved this problem by changing charset in js-files from UTF-8 without BOM to simple UTF-8 in Notepad++

Remove a file from the list that will be committed

Use stash; like this:

git add .
git reset Files/I/Want/To/Keep
git stash --keep-index
git commit -a -m "Done!"
git stash pop

If you accidentally commit a file, and want to rewrite your git history, use:

git reset HEAD~1 path/to/file
git commit -a -m "rollback"
git rebase -i HEAD~2

and squash to the two leading commits. You can write a helper script to do either of these if you have a known set of files you prefer not to automatically commit.

Vertical divider doesn't work in Bootstrap 3

I find using the pipe character with some top and bottom padding works well. Using a div with a border will require more CSS to vertically align it and get the horizontal spacing even with the other elements.

CSS

.divider-vertical {
    padding-top: 14px;
    padding-bottom: 14px;
}

HTML

<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
    <li class="active"><a href="#">Home</a></li>
    <li class="divider-vertical">&#124;</li>
    <li><a href="#">Faq</a></li>
    <li class="divider-vertical">&#124;</li>
    <li><a href="#">News</a></li>
    <li class="divider-vertical">&#124;</li>
    <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
</ul>

Simultaneously merge multiple data.frames in a list

The function eat of my package safejoin has such feature, if you give it a list of data.frames as a second input it will join them recursively to the first input.

Borrowing and extending the accepted answer's data :

x <- data_frame(i = c("a","b","c"), j = 1:3)
y <- data_frame(i = c("b","c","d"), k = 4:6)
z <- data_frame(i = c("c","d","a"), l = 7:9)
z2 <- data_frame(i = c("a","b","c"), l = rep(100L,3),l2 = rep(100L,3)) # for later

# devtools::install_github("moodymudskipper/safejoin")
library(safejoin)
eat(x, list(y,z), .by = "i")
# # A tibble: 3 x 4
#   i         j     k     l
#   <chr> <int> <int> <int>
# 1 a         1    NA     9
# 2 b         2     4    NA
# 3 c         3     5     7

We don't have to take all columns, we can use select helpers from tidyselect and choose (as we start from .x all .x columns are kept):

eat(x, list(y,z), starts_with("l") ,.by = "i")
# # A tibble: 3 x 3
#   i         j     l
#   <chr> <int> <int>
# 1 a         1     9
# 2 b         2    NA
# 3 c         3     7

or remove specific ones:

eat(x, list(y,z), -starts_with("l") ,.by = "i")
# # A tibble: 3 x 3
#   i         j     k
#   <chr> <int> <int>
# 1 a         1    NA
# 2 b         2     4
# 3 c         3     5

If the list is named the names will be used as prefixes :

eat(x, dplyr::lst(y,z), .by = "i")
# # A tibble: 3 x 4
#   i         j   y_k   z_l
#   <chr> <int> <int> <int>
# 1 a         1    NA     9
# 2 b         2     4    NA
# 3 c         3     5     7

If there are column conflicts the .conflict argument allows you to resolve it, for example by taking the first/second one, adding them, coalescing them, or nesting them.

keep first :

eat(x, list(y, z, z2), .by = "i", .conflict = ~.x)
# # A tibble: 3 x 4
#   i         j     k     l
#   <chr> <int> <int> <int>
# 1 a         1    NA     9
# 2 b         2     4    NA
# 3 c         3     5     7

keep last:

eat(x, list(y, z, z2), .by = "i", .conflict = ~.y)
# # A tibble: 3 x 4
#   i         j     k     l
#   <chr> <int> <int> <dbl>
# 1 a         1    NA   100
# 2 b         2     4   100
# 3 c         3     5   100

add:

eat(x, list(y, z, z2), .by = "i", .conflict = `+`)
# # A tibble: 3 x 4
#   i         j     k     l
#   <chr> <int> <int> <dbl>
# 1 a         1    NA   109
# 2 b         2     4    NA
# 3 c         3     5   107

coalesce:

eat(x, list(y, z, z2), .by = "i", .conflict = dplyr::coalesce)
# # A tibble: 3 x 4
#   i         j     k     l
#   <chr> <int> <int> <dbl>
# 1 a         1    NA     9
# 2 b         2     4   100
# 3 c         3     5     7

nest:

eat(x, list(y, z, z2), .by = "i", .conflict = ~tibble(first=.x, second=.y))
# # A tibble: 3 x 4
#   i         j     k l$first $second
#   <chr> <int> <int>   <int>   <int>
# 1 a         1    NA       9     100
# 2 b         2     4      NA     100
# 3 c         3     5       7     100

NA values can be replaced by using the .fill argument.

eat(x, list(y, z), .by = "i", .fill = 0)
# # A tibble: 3 x 4
#   i         j     k     l
#   <chr> <int> <dbl> <dbl>
# 1 a         1     0     9
# 2 b         2     4     0
# 3 c         3     5     7

By default it's an enhanced left_join but all dplyr joins are supported through the .mode argument, fuzzy joins are also supported through the match_fun argument (it's wrapped around the package fuzzyjoin) or giving a formula such as ~ X("var1") > Y("var2") & X("var3") < Y("var4") to the by argument.

Why do I get "Pickle - EOFError: Ran out of input" reading an empty file?

if path.exists(Score_file):
      try : 
         with open(Score_file , "rb") as prev_Scr:

            return Unpickler(prev_Scr).load()

    except EOFError : 

        return dict() 

Can't connect to Postgresql on port 5432

Remember to check firewall settings as well. after checking and double-checking my pg_hba.conf and postgres.conf files I finally found out that my firewall was overriding everything and therefore blocking connections

Using 24 hour time in bootstrap timepicker

<script>    
    $(function () {

        /* setting time */
        $("#timepicker").datetimepicker({
            format : "HH:mm:ss"
        });

    }    
</script>

Example bootstrap datetimepicker eonasdan

Why do Python's math.ceil() and math.floor() operations return floats instead of integers?

The source of your confusion is evident in your comment:

The whole point of ceil/floor operations is to convert floats to integers!

The point of the ceil and floor operations is to round floating-point data to integral values. Not to do a type conversion. Users who need to get integer values can do an explicit conversion following the operation.

Note that it would not be possible to implement a round to integral value as trivially if all you had available were a ceil or float operation that returned an integer. You would need to first check that the input is within the representable integer range, then call the function; you would need to handle NaN and infinities in a separate code path.

Additionally, you must have versions of ceil and floor which return floating-point numbers if you want to conform to IEEE 754.

How to extend an existing JavaScript array with another array, without creating a new array

Super simple, does not count on spread operators or apply, if that's an issue.

b.map(x => a.push(x));

After running some performance tests on this, it's terribly slow, but answers the question in regards to not creating a new array. Concat is significantly faster, even jQuery's $.merge() whoops it.

https://jsperf.com/merge-arrays19b/1

Create a date from day month and year with T-SQL

Or using just a single dateadd function:

DECLARE @day int, @month int, @year int
SELECT @day = 4, @month = 3, @year = 2011

SELECT dateadd(mm, (@year - 1900) * 12 + @month - 1 , @day - 1)

In Python, what is the difference between ".append()" and "+= []"?

let's take an example first

list1=[1,2,3,4]
list2=list1     (that means they points to same object)

if we do 
list1=list1+[5]    it will create a new object of list
print(list1)       output [1,2,3,4,5] 
print(list2)       output [1,2,3,4]

but if we append  then 
list1.append(5)     no new object of list created
print(list1)       output [1,2,3,4,5] 
print(list2)       output [1,2,3,4,5]

extend(list) also do the same work as append it just append a list instead of a 
single variable 

Change Activity's theme programmatically

user1462299's response works great, but if you include fragments, they will use the original activities theme. To apply the theme to all fragments as well you can override the getTheme() method of the Context instead:

@Override
public Resources.Theme getTheme() {
    Resources.Theme theme = super.getTheme();
    if(useAlternativeTheme){
        theme.applyStyle(R.style.AlternativeTheme, true);
    }
    // you could also use a switch if you have many themes that could apply
    return theme;
}

You do not need to call setTheme() in the onCreate() Method anymore. You are overriding every request to get the current theme within this context this way.

How to do case insensitive string comparison?

Since no answer clearly provided a simple code snippet for using RegExp, here's my attempt:

function compareInsensitive(str1, str2){ 
  return typeof str1 === 'string' && 
    typeof str2 === 'string' && 
    new RegExp("^" + str1.replace(/[-\/\\^$*+?.()|[\]{}]/g, '\\$&') + "$", "i").test(str2);
}

It has several advantages:

  1. Verifies parameter type (any non-string parameter, like undefined for example, would crash an expression like str1.toUpperCase()).
  2. Does not suffer from possible internationalization issues.
  3. Escapes the RegExp string.

How to get the exact local time of client?

In JavaScript? Just instantiate a new Date object

var now = new Date();

That will create a new Date object with the client's local time.

Convert seconds value to hours minutes seconds?

private String ConvertSecondToHHMMString(int secondtTime)
{
  TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC");
  SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss");
  df.setTimeZone(tz);
  String time = df.format(new Date(secondtTime*1000L));

  return time;

}

Simple way to convert datarow array to datatable

You need to clone the structure of Data table first then import rows using for loop

DataTable dataTable =dtExisting.Clone();
foreach (DataRow row in rowArray) {
   dataTable.ImportRow(row);
}

How to do Select All(*) in linq to sql

from row in TableA select row

Or just:

TableA

In method syntax, with other operators:

TableA.Where(row => row.IsInteresting) // no .Select(), returns the whole row.

Essentially, you already are selecting all columns, the select then transforms that to the columns you care about, so you can even do things like:

from user in Users select user.LastName+", "+user.FirstName

How to get char from string by index?

Previous answers cover about ASCII character at a certain index.

It is a little bit troublesome to get a Unicode character at a certain index in Python 2.

E.g., with s = '????????' which is <type 'str'>,

__getitem__, e.g., s[i] , does not lead you to where you desire. It will spit out semething like ?. (Many Unicode characters are more than 1 byte but __getitem__ in Python 2 is incremented by 1 byte.)

In this Python 2 case, you can solve the problem by decoding:

s = '????????'
s = s.decode('utf-8')
for i in range(len(s)):
    print s[i]

T-SQL stored procedure that accepts multiple Id values

You could use XML.

E.g.

declare @xmlstring as  varchar(100) 
set @xmlstring = '<args><arg value="42" /><arg2>-1</arg2></args>' 

declare @docid int 

exec sp_xml_preparedocument @docid output, @xmlstring

select  [id],parentid,nodetype,localname,[text]
from    openxml(@docid, '/args', 1) 

The command sp_xml_preparedocument is built in.

This would produce the output:

id  parentid    nodetype    localname   text
0   NULL        1           args        NULL
2   0           1           arg         NULL
3   2           2           value       NULL
5   3           3           #text       42
4   0           1           arg2        NULL
6   4           3           #text       -1

which has all (more?) of what you you need.

How to get value at a specific index of array In JavaScript?

You can just use []:

var valueAtIndex1 = myValues[1];

How to store arbitrary data for some HTML tags

This is how I do you ajax pages... its a pretty easy method...

    function ajax_urls() {
       var objApps= ['ads','user'];
        $("a.ajx").each(function(){
               var url = $(this).attr('href');
               for ( var i=0;i< objApps.length;i++ ) {
                   if (url.indexOf("/"+objApps[i]+"/")>-1) {
                      $(this).attr("href",url.replace("/"+objApps[i]+"/","/"+objApps[i]+"/#p="));
                   }
               }
           });
}

How this works is it basically looks at all URLs that have the class 'ajx' and it replaces a keyword and adds the # sign... so if js is turned off then the urls would act as they normally do... all "apps" (each section of the site) has its own keyword... so all i need to do is add to the js array above to add more pages...

So for example my current settings are set to:

 var objApps= ['ads','user'];

So if i have a url such as:

www.domain.com/ads/3923/bla/dada/bla

the js script would replace the /ads/ part so my URL would end up being

www.domain.com/ads/#p=3923/bla/dada/bla

Then I use jquery bbq plugin to load the page accordingly...

http://benalman.com/projects/jquery-bbq-plugin/

Is there a way in Pandas to use previous row value in dataframe.apply when previous value is also calculated in the apply?

First, create the derived value:

df.loc[0, 'C'] = df.loc[0, 'D']

Then iterate through the remaining rows and fill the calculated values:

for i in range(1, len(df)):
    df.loc[i, 'C'] = df.loc[i-1, 'C'] * df.loc[i, 'A'] + df.loc[i, 'B']


  Index_Date   A   B    C    D
0 2015-01-31  10  10   10   10
1 2015-02-01   2   3   23   22
2 2015-02-02  10  60  290  280

How to display multiple images in one figure correctly?

You could try the following:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

def plot_figures(figures, nrows = 1, ncols=1):
    """Plot a dictionary of figures.

    Parameters
    ----------
    figures : <title, figure> dictionary
    ncols : number of columns of subplots wanted in the display
    nrows : number of rows of subplots wanted in the figure
    """

    fig, axeslist = plt.subplots(ncols=ncols, nrows=nrows)
    for ind,title in zip(range(len(figures)), figures):
        axeslist.ravel()[ind].imshow(figures[title], cmap=plt.jet())
        axeslist.ravel()[ind].set_title(title)
        axeslist.ravel()[ind].set_axis_off()
    plt.tight_layout() # optional



# generation of a dictionary of (title, images)
number_of_im = 20
w=10
h=10
figures = {'im'+str(i): np.random.randint(10, size=(h,w)) for i in range(number_of_im)}

# plot of the images in a figure, with 5 rows and 4 columns
plot_figures(figures, 5, 4)

plt.show()

However, this is basically just copy and paste from here: Multiple figures in a single window for which reason this post should be considered to be a duplicate.

I hope this helps.

MySQL: When is Flush Privileges in MySQL really needed?

Privileges assigned through GRANT option do not need FLUSH PRIVILEGES to take effect - MySQL server will notice these changes and reload the grant tables immediately.

From MySQL documentation:

If you modify the grant tables directly using statements such as INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE, your changes have no effect on privilege checking until you either restart the server or tell it to reload the tables. If you change the grant tables directly but forget to reload them, your changes have no effect until you restart the server. This may leave you wondering why your changes seem to make no difference!

To tell the server to reload the grant tables, perform a flush-privileges operation. This can be done by issuing a FLUSH PRIVILEGES statement or by executing a mysqladmin flush-privileges or mysqladmin reload command.

If you modify the grant tables indirectly using account-management statements such as GRANT, REVOKE, SET PASSWORD, or RENAME USER, the server notices these changes and loads the grant tables into memory again immediately.

How to set time zone of a java.util.Date?

Use DateFormat. For example,

SimpleDateFormat isoFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss");
isoFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
Date date = isoFormat.parse("2010-05-23T09:01:02");

Change/Get check state of CheckBox

I know this is late info, but in jQuery, using .checked is possible and easy! If your element is something like:

<td>
    <input type="radio" name="bob" />
</td>

You can easily get/set checked state as such:

$("td").each(function()
{
    $(this).click(function()
    {
        var thisInput  = $(this).find("input[type=radio]");
        var checked = thisInput.is(":checked");
        thisInput[0].checked = (checked) ?  false : true;
    }
});

The secret is using the "[0]" array index identifier which is the ELEMENT of your jquery object! ENJOY!

How to get the path of the batch script in Windows?

That would be the %CD% variable.

@echo off
echo %CD%

%CD% returns the current directory the batch script is in.

How to show one layout on top of the other programmatically in my case?

Use a FrameLayout with two children. The two children will be overlapped. This is recommended in one of the tutorials from Android actually, it's not a hack...

Here is an example where a TextView is displayed on top of an ImageView:

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

  <ImageView  
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" 

    android:scaleType="center"
    android:src="@drawable/golden_gate" />

  <TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
    android:layout_marginBottom="20dip"
    android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal|bottom"

    android:padding="12dip"

    android:background="#AA000000"
    android:textColor="#ffffffff"

    android:text="Golden Gate" />

</FrameLayout>

Here is the result

What is pipe() function in Angular

You have to look to official ReactiveX documentation: https://github.com/ReactiveX/rxjs/blob/master/doc/pipeable-operators.md.

This is a good article about piping in RxJS: https://blog.hackages.io/rxjs-5-5-piping-all-the-things-9d469d1b3f44.

In short .pipe() allows chaining multiple pipeable operators.

Starting in version 5.5 RxJS has shipped "pipeable operators" and renamed some operators:

do -> tap
catch -> catchError
switch -> switchAll
finally -> finalize

create a white rgba / CSS3

The code you have is a white with low opacity.

If something white with a low opacity is above something black, you end up with a lighter shade of gray. Above red? Lighter red, etc. That is how opacity works.

Here is a simple demo.

If you want it to look 'more white', make it less opaque:

background:rgba(255,255,255, 0.9);

Demo

MomentJS getting JavaScript Date in UTC

Or simply:

Date.now

From MDN documentation:

The Date.now() method returns the number of milliseconds elapsed since January 1, 1970

Available since ECMAScript 5.1

It's the same as was mentioned above (new Date().getTime()), but more shortcutted version.

Execute Stored Procedure from a Function

Another option, in addition to using OPENQUERY and xp_cmdshell, is to use SQLCLR (SQL Server's "CLR Integration" feature). Not only is the SQLCLR option more secure than those other two methods, but there is also the potential benefit of being able to call the stored procedure in the current session such that it would have access to any session-based objects or settings, such as:

  • temporary tables
  • temporary stored procedures
  • CONTEXT_INFO

This can be achieved by using "context connection = true;" as the ConnectionString. Just keep in mind that all other restrictions placed on T-SQL User-Defined Functions will be enforced (i.e. cannot have any side-effects).

If you use a regular connection (i.e. not using the context connection), then it will operate as an independent call, just like it does when using the OPENQUERY and xp_cmdshell methods.

HOWEVER, please keep in mind that if you will be using a function that calls a stored procedure (regardless of which of the 3 noted methods you use) in a statement that affects more than 1 row, then the behavior cannot be expected to run once per row. As @MartinSmith mentioned in a comment on @MatBailie's answer, the Query Optimizer does not guarantee either the timing or number of executions of functions. But if you are using it in a SET @Variable = function(); statement or SELECT * FROM function(); query, then it should be ok.

An example of using a .NET / C# SQLCLR user-defined function to execute a stored procedure is shown in the following article (which I wrote):

Stairway to SQLCLR Level 2: Sample Stored Procedure and Function

Conditional WHERE clause with CASE statement in Oracle

You can write the where clause as:

where (case when (:stateCode = '') then (1)
            when (:stateCode != '') and (vw.state_cd in (:stateCode)) then 1
            else 0)
       end) = 1;

Alternatively, remove the case entirely:

where (:stateCode = '') or
      ((:stateCode != '') and vw.state_cd in (:stateCode));

Or, even better:

where (:stateCode = '') or vw.state_cd in (:stateCode)

Get first n characters of a string

I'm not sure if this is the fastest solution, but it looks like it is the shortest one:

$result = current(explode("\n", wordwrap($str, $width, "...\n")));

P.S. See some examples here https://stackoverflow.com/a/17852480/131337

How to open local files in Swagger-UI

I managed to load the local swagger.json specification using the following tools for Node.js and this will take hardly 5 minutes to finish

swagger-ui-dist

express

Follow below steps

  1. Create a folder as per your choice and copy your specification swagger.json to the newly created folder
  2. Create a file with the extension .js in my case swagger-ui.js in the same newly created folder and copy and save the following content in the file swagger-ui.js
const express = require('express')
const pathToSwaggerUi = require('swagger-ui-dist').absolutePath()
const app = express()

// this is will load swagger ui
app.use(express.static(pathToSwaggerUi))

// this will serve your swagger.json file using express
app.use(express.static(`${__dirname}`))

// use port of your choice
app.listen(5000)
  1. Install dependencies as npm install express and npm install swagger-ui-dist
  2. Run the express application using the command node swagger-ui.js
  3. Open browser and hit http://localhost/5000, this will load swagger ui with default URL as https://petstore.swagger.io/v2/swagger.json
  4. Now replace the default URL mentioned above with http://localhost:5000/swagger.json and click on the Explore button, this will load swagger specification from a local JSON file

You can use folder name, JSON file name, static public folder to serve swagger.json, port to serve as per your convenience

How are parameters sent in an HTTP POST request?

The content is put after the HTTP headers. The format of an HTTP POST is to have the HTTP headers, followed by a blank line, followed by the request body. The POST variables are stored as key-value pairs in the body.

You can see this in the raw content of an HTTP Post, shown below:

POST /path/script.cgi HTTP/1.0
From: [email protected]
User-Agent: HTTPTool/1.0
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 32

home=Cosby&favorite+flavor=flies

You can see this using a tool like Fiddler, which you can use to watch the raw HTTP request and response payloads being sent across the wire.

How to create a batch file to run cmd as administrator

Make a text using notepad or any text editor of you choice. Open notepad, write this short command "cmd.exe" without the quote aand save it as cmd.bat.

Click cmd.bat and choose "run as administrator".

Cannot find module '@angular/compiler'

Just to add to this. You will get this error too, when you are running ng serve not from within your project folder. So always make sure your bash runs from your project folder.

Managing SSH keys within Jenkins for Git

It looks like the github.com host which jenkins tries to connect to is not listed under the Jenkins user's $HOME/.ssh/known_hosts. Jenkins runs on most distros as the user jenkins and hence has its own .ssh directory to store the list of public keys and known_hosts.

The easiest solution I can think of to fix this problem is:

# Login as the jenkins user and specify shell explicity,
# since the default shell is /bin/false for most
# jenkins installations.
sudo su jenkins -s /bin/bash

cd SOME_TMP_DIR
# git clone YOUR_GITHUB_URL

# Allow adding the SSH host key to your known_hosts

# Exit from su
exit

Appending items to a list of lists in python

import csv
cols = [' V1', ' I1'] # define your columns here, check the spaces!
data = [[] for col in cols] # this creates a list of **different** lists, not a list of pointers to the same list like you did in [[]]*len(positions) 
with open('data.csv', 'r') as f:
    for rec in csv.DictReader(f):
        for l, col in zip(data, cols):
            l.append(float(rec[col]))
print data

# [[3.0, 3.0], [0.01, 0.01]]

How to count duplicate value in an array in javascript

simplified sheet.js answare

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console.log(counts)
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How do I get the position selected in a RecyclerView?

When using data binding and you need to know a RecyclerView click position from inside of an item's click listener:

Kotlin

    val recyclerView = view.parent as RecyclerView
    val position = recyclerView.getChildAdapterPosition(view)

Handling JSON Post Request in Go

You need to read from req.Body. The ParseForm method is reading from the req.Body and then parsing it in standard HTTP encoded format. What you want is to read the body and parse it in JSON format.

Here's your code updated.

package main

import (
    "encoding/json"
    "log"
    "net/http"
    "io/ioutil"
)

type test_struct struct {
    Test string
}

func test(rw http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
    body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(req.Body)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    log.Println(string(body))
    var t test_struct
    err = json.Unmarshal(body, &t)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    log.Println(t.Test)
}

func main() {
    http.HandleFunc("/test", test)
    log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":8082", nil))
}

Get value of a string after last slash in JavaScript

Try this:

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Display last git commit comment

git log -1 branch_name will show you the last message from the specified branch (i.e. not necessarily the branch you're currently on).

unix sort descending order

The presence of the n option attached to the -k5 causes the global -r option to be ignored for that field. You have to specify both n and r at the same level (globally or locally).

sort -t $'\t' -k5,5rn

or

sort -rn -t $'\t' -k5,5

How to detect the character encoding of a text file?

If your file starts with the bytes 60, 118, 56, 46 and 49, then you have an ambiguous case. It could be UTF-8 (without BOM) or any of the single byte encodings like ASCII, ANSI, ISO-8859-1 etc.

Fatal error: iostream: No such file or directory in compiling C program using GCC

Neither <iostream> nor <iostream.h> are standard C header files. Your code is meant to be C++, where <iostream> is a valid header. Use g++ (and a .cpp file extension) for C++ code.

Alternatively, this program uses mostly constructs that are available in C anyway. It's easy enough to convert the entire program to compile using a C compiler. Simply remove #include <iostream> and using namespace std;, and replace cout << endl; with putchar('\n');... I advise compiling using C99 (eg. gcc -std=c99)

mailto using javascript

I don't know if it helps, but using jQuery, to hide an email address, I did :

    $(function() {
        // planque l'adresse mail
        var mailSplitted 
            = ['mai', 'to:mye', 'mail@', 'addre', 'ss.fr'];

        var link = mailSplitted.join('');
        link = '<a href="' + link + '"</a>';
        $('mytag').wrap(link);
    });

I hope it helps.

How can I divide two integers stored in variables in Python?

Multiply by 1.

result = 1. * a / b

or, using the float function

result = float(a) / b

Calling JavaScript Function From CodeBehind

this works for me

object Json_Object=maintainerService.Convert_To_JSON(Jobitem);
ScriptManager.RegisterClientScriptBlock(this,GetType(), "Javascript", "SelectedJobsMaintainer("+Json_Object+"); ",true);

Show an image preview before upload

For background images, make sure to use url()

node.backgroundImage = 'url(' + e.target.result + ')';

Java time-based map/cache with expiring keys

If anybody needs a simple thing, following is a simple key-expiring set. It might be converted to a map easily.

public class CacheSet<K> {
    public static final int TIME_OUT = 86400 * 1000;

    LinkedHashMap<K, Hit> linkedHashMap = new LinkedHashMap<K, Hit>() {
        @Override
        protected boolean removeEldestEntry(Map.Entry<K, Hit> eldest) {
            final long time = System.currentTimeMillis();
            if( time - eldest.getValue().time > TIME_OUT) {
                Iterator<Hit> i = values().iterator();

                i.next();
                do {
                    i.remove();
                } while( i.hasNext() && time - i.next().time > TIME_OUT );
            }
            return false;
        }
    };


    public boolean putIfNotExists(K key) {
        Hit value = linkedHashMap.get(key);
        if( value != null ) {
            return false;
        }

        linkedHashMap.put(key, new Hit());
        return true;
    }

    private static class Hit {
        final long time;


        Hit() {
            this.time = System.currentTimeMillis();
        }
    }
}

.m2 , settings.xml in Ubuntu

Quoted from http://maven.apache.org/settings.html:

There are two locations where a settings.xml file may live:

The Maven install: $M2_HOME/conf/settings.xml

A user's install: ${user.home}/.m2/settings.xml

So, usually for a specific user you edit

/home/*username*/.m2/settings.xml

To set environment for all local users, you might think about changing the first path.

Setting size for icon in CSS

this works for me try it.

height:1rem;
font-size: 3.75em;

sort files by date in PHP

I use your exact proposed code with only some few additional lines. The idea is more or less the same of the one proposed by @elias, but in this solution there cannot be conflicts on the keys since each file in the directory has a different filename and so adding it to the key solves the conflicts. The first part of the key is the datetime string formatted in a manner such that I can lexicographically compare two of them.

if ($handle = opendir('.')) {
    $result = array();
    while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
        if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
            $lastModified = date('F d Y, H:i:s',filemtime($file));
            if(strlen($file)-strpos($file,".swf")== 4){
                $result [date('Y-m-d H:i:s',filemtime($file)).$file] =
                    "<tr><td><input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"box[]\"></td><td><a href=\"$file\" target=\"_blank\">$file</a></td><td>$lastModified</td></tr>";
            }
        }
    }
    closedir($handle);
    krsort($result);
    echo implode('', $result);
}

R object identification

I usually start out with some combination of:

typeof(obj)
class(obj)
sapply(obj, class)
sapply(obj, attributes)
attributes(obj)
names(obj)

as appropriate based on what's revealed. For example, try with:

obj <- data.frame(a=1:26, b=letters)
obj <- list(a=1:26, b=letters, c=list(d=1:26, e=letters))
data(cars)
obj <- lm(dist ~ speed, data=cars)

..etc.

If obj is an S3 or S4 object, you can also try methods or showMethods, showClass, etc. Patrick Burns' R Inferno has a pretty good section on this (sec #7).

EDIT: Dirk and Hadley mention str(obj) in their answers. It really is much better than any of the above for a quick and even detailed peek into an object.

How to run Nginx within a Docker container without halting?

It is also good idea to use supervisord or runit[1] for service management.

[1] https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker

How to get random value out of an array?

This will work nicely with in-line arrays. Plus, I think things are tidier and more reusable when wrapped up in a function.

function array_rand_value($a) {
    return $a[array_rand($a)];
}

Usage:

array_rand_value(array("a", "b", "c", "d"));

On PHP < 7.1.0, array_rand() uses rand(), so you wouldn't want to this function for anything related to security or cryptography. On PHP 7.1.0+, use this function without concern since rand() has been aliased to mt_rand().

Can I loop through a table variable in T-SQL?

look like this demo:

DECLARE @vTable TABLE (IdRow int not null primary key identity(1,1),ValueRow int);

-------Initialize---------
insert into @vTable select 345;
insert into @vTable select 795;
insert into @vTable select 565;
---------------------------

DECLARE @cnt int = 1;
DECLARE @max int = (SELECT MAX(IdRow) FROM @vTable);

WHILE @cnt <= @max
BEGIN
    DECLARE @tempValueRow int = (Select ValueRow FROM @vTable WHERE IdRow = @cnt);

    ---work demo----
    print '@tempValueRow:' + convert(varchar(10),@tempValueRow);
    print '@cnt:' + convert(varchar(10),@cnt);
    print'';
    --------------

    set @cnt = @cnt+1;
END

Version without idRow, using ROW_NUMBER

    DECLARE @vTable TABLE (ValueRow int);
-------Initialize---------
insert into @vTable select 345;
insert into @vTable select 795;
insert into @vTable select 565;
---------------------------

DECLARE @cnt int = 1;
DECLARE @max int = (select count(*) from @vTable);

WHILE @cnt <= @max
BEGIN
    DECLARE @tempValueRow int = (
        select ValueRow 
        from (select ValueRow
            , ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY (select 1)) as RowId 
            from @vTable
        ) T1 
    where t1.RowId = @cnt
    );

    ---work demo----
    print '@tempValueRow:' + convert(varchar(10),@tempValueRow);
    print '@cnt:' + convert(varchar(10),@cnt);
    print'';
    --------------

    set @cnt = @cnt+1;
END

How to get the start time of a long-running Linux process?

You can specify a formatter and use lstart, like this command:

ps -eo pid,lstart,cmd

The above command will output all processes, with formatters to get PID, command run, and date+time started.

Example (from Debian/Jessie command line)

$ ps -eo pid,lstart,cmd
  PID CMD                                          STARTED
    1 Tue Jun  7 01:29:38 2016 /sbin/init                  
    2 Tue Jun  7 01:29:38 2016 [kthreadd]                  
    3 Tue Jun  7 01:29:38 2016 [ksoftirqd/0]               
    5 Tue Jun  7 01:29:38 2016 [kworker/0:0H]              
    7 Tue Jun  7 01:29:38 2016 [rcu_sched]                 
    8 Tue Jun  7 01:29:38 2016 [rcu_bh]                    
    9 Tue Jun  7 01:29:38 2016 [migration/0]               
   10 Tue Jun  7 01:29:38 2016 [kdevtmpfs]                 
   11 Tue Jun  7 01:29:38 2016 [netns]                     
  277 Tue Jun  7 01:29:38 2016 [writeback]                 
  279 Tue Jun  7 01:29:38 2016 [crypto]                    
      ...

You can read ps's manpage or check Opengroup's page for the other formatters.

How to define Typescript Map of key value pair. where key is a number and value is an array of objects

The most simple way is to use Record type Record<number, productDetails >

interface productDetails {
   productId : number , 
   price : number , 
   discount : number
};

const myVar : Record<number, productDetails> = {
   1: {
       productId : number , 
       price : number , 
       discount : number
   }
}

.NET code to send ZPL to Zebra printers

This way you will be able to send ZPL to a printer no matter how it is connected (LPT, USB, Network Share...)

Create the RawPrinterHelper class (from the Microsoft article on How to send raw data to a printer by using Visual C# .NET):

using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Printing;
using System.IO;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

public class RawPrinterHelper
{
    // Structure and API declarions:
    [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential, CharSet=CharSet.Ansi)]
    public class DOCINFOA
    {
        [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)] public string pDocName;
        [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)] public string pOutputFile;
        [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)] public string pDataType;
    }
    [DllImport("winspool.Drv", EntryPoint="OpenPrinterA", SetLastError=true, CharSet=CharSet.Ansi, ExactSpelling=true, CallingConvention=CallingConvention.StdCall)]
    public static extern bool OpenPrinter([MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)] string szPrinter, out IntPtr hPrinter, IntPtr pd);

    [DllImport("winspool.Drv", EntryPoint="ClosePrinter", SetLastError=true, ExactSpelling=true, CallingConvention=CallingConvention.StdCall)]
    public static extern bool ClosePrinter(IntPtr hPrinter);

    [DllImport("winspool.Drv", EntryPoint="StartDocPrinterA", SetLastError=true, CharSet=CharSet.Ansi, ExactSpelling=true, CallingConvention=CallingConvention.StdCall)]
    public static extern bool StartDocPrinter( IntPtr hPrinter, Int32 level,  [In, MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStruct)] DOCINFOA di);

    [DllImport("winspool.Drv", EntryPoint="EndDocPrinter", SetLastError=true, ExactSpelling=true, CallingConvention=CallingConvention.StdCall)]
    public static extern bool EndDocPrinter(IntPtr hPrinter);

    [DllImport("winspool.Drv", EntryPoint="StartPagePrinter", SetLastError=true, ExactSpelling=true, CallingConvention=CallingConvention.StdCall)]
    public static extern bool StartPagePrinter(IntPtr hPrinter);

    [DllImport("winspool.Drv", EntryPoint="EndPagePrinter", SetLastError=true, ExactSpelling=true, CallingConvention=CallingConvention.StdCall)]
    public static extern bool EndPagePrinter(IntPtr hPrinter);

    [DllImport("winspool.Drv", EntryPoint="WritePrinter", SetLastError=true, ExactSpelling=true, CallingConvention=CallingConvention.StdCall)]
    public static extern bool WritePrinter(IntPtr hPrinter, IntPtr pBytes, Int32 dwCount, out Int32 dwWritten );

    // SendBytesToPrinter()
    // When the function is given a printer name and an unmanaged array
    // of bytes, the function sends those bytes to the print queue.
    // Returns true on success, false on failure.
    public static bool SendBytesToPrinter( string szPrinterName, IntPtr pBytes, Int32 dwCount)
    {
        Int32    dwError = 0, dwWritten = 0;
        IntPtr    hPrinter = new IntPtr(0);
        DOCINFOA    di = new DOCINFOA();
        bool    bSuccess = false; // Assume failure unless you specifically succeed.

        di.pDocName = "My C#.NET RAW Document";
        di.pDataType = "RAW";

        // Open the printer.
        if( OpenPrinter( szPrinterName.Normalize(), out hPrinter, IntPtr.Zero ) )
        {
            // Start a document.
            if( StartDocPrinter(hPrinter, 1, di) )
            {
                // Start a page.
                if( StartPagePrinter(hPrinter) )
                {
                    // Write your bytes.
                    bSuccess = WritePrinter(hPrinter, pBytes, dwCount, out dwWritten);
                    EndPagePrinter(hPrinter);
                }
                EndDocPrinter(hPrinter);
            }
            ClosePrinter(hPrinter);
        }
        // If you did not succeed, GetLastError may give more information
        // about why not.
        if( bSuccess == false )
        {
                dwError = Marshal.GetLastWin32Error();
        }
        return bSuccess;
    }

    public static bool SendFileToPrinter( string szPrinterName, string szFileName )
    {
        // Open the file.
        FileStream fs = new FileStream(szFileName, FileMode.Open);
        // Create a BinaryReader on the file.
        BinaryReader br = new BinaryReader(fs);
        // Dim an array of bytes big enough to hold the file's contents.
        Byte []bytes = new Byte[fs.Length];
        bool bSuccess = false;
        // Your unmanaged pointer.
        IntPtr pUnmanagedBytes = new IntPtr(0);
        int nLength;

        nLength = Convert.ToInt32(fs.Length);
        // Read the contents of the file into the array.
        bytes = br.ReadBytes( nLength );
        // Allocate some unmanaged memory for those bytes.
        pUnmanagedBytes = Marshal.AllocCoTaskMem(nLength);
        // Copy the managed byte array into the unmanaged array.
        Marshal.Copy(bytes, 0, pUnmanagedBytes, nLength);
        // Send the unmanaged bytes to the printer.
        bSuccess = SendBytesToPrinter(szPrinterName, pUnmanagedBytes, nLength);
        // Free the unmanaged memory that you allocated earlier.
        Marshal.FreeCoTaskMem(pUnmanagedBytes);
        return bSuccess;
    }
    public static bool SendStringToPrinter( string szPrinterName, string szString )
    {
        IntPtr pBytes;
        Int32 dwCount;
        // How many characters are in the string?
        dwCount = szString.Length;
        // Assume that the printer is expecting ANSI text, and then convert
        // the string to ANSI text.
        pBytes = Marshal.StringToCoTaskMemAnsi(szString);
        // Send the converted ANSI string to the printer.
        SendBytesToPrinter(szPrinterName, pBytes, dwCount);
        Marshal.FreeCoTaskMem(pBytes);
        return true;
    }
}

Call the print method:

private void BtnPrint_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
    string s = "^XA^LH30,30\n^FO20,10^ADN,90,50^AD^FDHello World^FS\n^XZ";

    PrintDialog pd  = new PrintDialog();
    pd.PrinterSettings = new PrinterSettings();
    if(DialogResult.OK == pd.ShowDialog(this))
    {
        RawPrinterHelper.SendStringToPrinter(pd.PrinterSettings.PrinterName, s);
    }
}

There are 2 gotchas I've come across that happen when you're sending txt files with ZPL codes to the printer:

  1. The file has to end with a new line character
  2. Encoding has to be set to Encoding.Default when reading ANSI txt files with special characters

    public static bool SendTextFileToPrinter(string szFileName, string printerName)
    {
        var sb = new StringBuilder();
    
        using (var sr = new StreamReader(szFileName, Encoding.Default))
        {
            while (!sr.EndOfStream)
            {
                sb.AppendLine(sr.ReadLine());
            }
        }
    
        return RawPrinterHelper.SendStringToPrinter(printerName, sb.ToString());
    }
    

Inserting HTML into a div

As alternative you can use insertAdjacentHTML - however I dig into and make some performance tests - (2019.09.13 Friday) MacOs High Sierra 10.13.6 on Chrome 76.0.3809 (64-bit), Safari 12.1.2 (13604.5.6), Firefox 69.0.0 (64-bit) ). The test F is only for reference - it is out of the question scope because we need to insert dynamically html - but in F I do it by 'hand' (in static way) - theoretically (as far I know) this should be the fastest way to insert new html elements.

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SUMMARY

  • The A innerHTML = (do not confuse with +=) is fastest (Safari 48k operations per second, Firefox 43k op/sec, Chrome 23k op/sec) The A is ~31% slower than ideal solution F only chrome but on safari and firefox is faster (!)
  • The B innerHTML +=... is slowest on all browsers (Chrome 95 op/sec, Firefox 88 op/sec, Sfari 84 op/sec)
  • The D jQuery is second slow on all browsers (Safari 14 op/sec, Firefox 11k op/sec, Chrome 7k op/sec)
  • The reference solution F (theoretically fastest) is not fastest on firefox and safari (!!!) - which is surprising
  • The fastest browser was Safari

More info about why innerHTML = is much faster than innerHTML += is here. You can perform test on your machine/browser HERE

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How to use localization in C#

In addition @Fredrik Mörk's great answer on strings, to add localization to a form do the following:

  • Set the form's property "Localizable" to true
  • Change the form's Language property to the language you want (from a nice drop-down with them all in)
  • Translate the controls in that form and move them about if need be (squash those really long full French sentences in!)

Edit: This MSDN article on Localizing Windows Forms is not the original one I linked ... but might shed more light if needed. (the old one has been taken away)

What is the cleanest way to get the progress of JQuery ajax request?

jQuery has already implemented promises, so it's better to use this technology and not move events logic to options parameter. I made a jQuery plugin that adds progress promise and now it's easy to use just as other promises:

$.ajax(url)
  .progress(function(){
    /* do some actions */
  })
  .progressUpload(function(){
    /* do something on uploading */
  });

Check it out at github

How can I detect when an Android application is running in the emulator?

Both the following are set to "google_sdk":

Build.PRODUCT
Build.MODEL

So it should be enough to use either one of the following lines.

"google_sdk".equals(Build.MODEL)

or

"google_sdk".equals(Build.PRODUCT)

List files in local git repo?

Try this command:

git ls-files 

This lists all of the files in the repository, including those that are only staged but not yet committed.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-ls-files.html

Adding parameter to ng-click function inside ng-repeat doesn't seem to work

Here is the ng repeat with ng click function and to append with slider

<script>
var app = angular.module('MyApp', [])
        app.controller('MyController', function ($scope) {
        $scope.employees = [
            { 'id': '001', 'name': 'Alpha', 'joinDate': '05/17/2015', 'age': 37 },
            { 'id': '002', 'name': 'Bravo', 'joinDate': '03/25/2016', 'age': 27 },
            { 'id': '003', 'name': 'Charlie', 'joinDate': '09/11/2015', 'age': 29 },
            { 'id': '004', 'name': 'Delta', 'joinDate': '09/11/2015', 'age': 19 },
            { 'id': '005', 'name': 'Echo', 'joinDate': '03/09/2014', 'age': 32 }
        ]

            //This will hide the DIV by default.
                $scope.IsVisible = false;
            $scope.ShowHide = function () {
                //If DIV is visible it will be hidden and vice versa.
                $scope.IsVisible = $scope.IsVisible ? false : true;
            }
        });
</script>
</head>

<body>

<div class="container" ng-app="MyApp" ng-controller="MyController">
<input type="checkbox" value="checkbox1" ng-click="ShowHide()" /> checkbox1
<div id="mixedSlider">
                    <div class="MS-content">
                        <div class="item"  ng-repeat="emps in employees"  ng-show = "IsVisible">
                          <div class="subitem">
        <p>{{emps.id}}</p>
        <p>{{emps.name}}</p>
        <p>{{emps.age}}</p>
        </div>
                        </div>


                    </div>
                    <div class="MS-controls">
                        <button class="MS-left"><i class="fa fa-angle-left" aria-hidden="true"></i></button>
                        <button class="MS-right"><i class="fa fa-angle-right" aria-hidden="true"></i></button>
                    </div>
                </div>
</div>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.min.js"></script> 
<script src="js/multislider.js"></script> 
<script>

        $('#mixedSlider').multislider({
            duration: 750,
            interval: false
        });
</script>

Is it possible to make an HTML anchor tag not clickable/linkable using CSS?

A more un-obtrusive way (assuming you use jQuery):

HTML:

<a id="my-link" href="page.html">page link</a>

Javascript:

$('#my-link').click(function(e)
{
    e.preventDefault();
});

The advantage of this is the clean separation between logic and presentation. If one day you decide that this link would do something else, you don't have to mess with the markup, just the JS.

Getting Database connection in pure JPA setup

The word pure doesn't match to the word hibernate.

EclipseLink

It's somewhat straightforward as described in above link.

  • Note that the EntityManager must be joined to a Transaction or the unwrap method will return null. (Not a good move at all.)
  • I'm not sure the responsibility of closing the connection.
// --------------------------------------------------------- EclipseLink
try {
    final Connection connection = manager.unwrap(Connection.class);
    if (connection != null) { // manage is not in any transaction
        return function.apply(connection);
    }
} catch (final PersistenceException pe) {
    logger.log(FINE, pe, () -> "failed to unwrap as a connection");
}

Hibernate

It should be, basically, done with following codes.

// using vendor specific APIs
final Session session = (Session) manager.unwrap(Session.class);
//return session.doReturningWork<R>(function::apply);
return session.doReturningWork(new ReturningWork<R>() {
    @Override public R execute(final Connection connection) {
        return function.apply(connection);
    }
});

Well, we (at least I) might don't want any vendor-specific dependencies. Proxy comes in rescue.

try {
    // See? You shouldn't fire me, ass hole!!!
    final Class<?> sessionClass
            = Class.forName("org.hibernate.Session");
    final Object session = manager.unwrap(sessionClass);
    final Class<?> returningWorkClass
            = Class.forName("org.hibernate.jdbc.ReturningWork");
    final Method executeMethod
            = returningWorkClass.getMethod("execute", Connection.class);
    final Object workProxy = Proxy.newProxyInstance(
            lookup().lookupClass().getClassLoader(),
            new Class[]{returningWorkClass},
            (proxy, method, args) -> {
                if (method.equals(executeMethod)) {
                    final Connection connection = (Connection) args[0];
                    return function.apply(connection);
                }
                return null;
            });
    final Method doReturningWorkMethod = sessionClass.getMethod(
            "doReturningWork", returningWorkClass);
    return (R) doReturningWorkMethod.invoke(session, workProxy);
} catch (final ReflectiveOperationException roe) {
    logger.log(Level.FINE, roe, () -> "failed to work with hibernate");
}

OpenJPA

I'm not sure OpenJPA already serves a way using unwrap(Connection.class) but can be done with the way described in one of above links.

It's not clear the responsibility of closing the connection. The document (one of above links) seems saying clearly but I'm not good at English.

try {
    final Class<?> k = Class.forName(
            "org.apache.openjpa.persistence.OpenJPAEntityManager");
    if (k.isInstance(manager)) {
        final Method m = k.getMethod("getConnection");
        try {
            try (Connection c = (Connection) m.invoke(manager)) {
                return function.apply(c);
            }
        } catch (final SQLException sqle) {
            logger.log(FINE, sqle, () -> "failed to work with openjpa");
        }
    }
} catch (final ReflectiveOperationException roe) {
    logger.log(Level.FINE, roe, () -> "failed to work with openjpa");
}

Logging in Scala

Writer, Monoid and a Monad implementation.

How to uninstall pip on OSX?

In my case I ran the following command and it worked (not that I was expecting it to):

sudo pip uninstall pip

Which resulted in:

Uninstalling pip-6.1.1:
  /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-6.1.1.dist-info/DESCRIPTION.rst
  /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-6.1.1.dist-info/METADATA
  /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-6.1.1.dist-info/RECORD
  <and all the other stuff>
  ...

  /usr/local/bin/pip
  /usr/local/bin/pip2
  /usr/local/bin/pip2.7
Proceed (y/n)? y
  Successfully uninstalled pip-6.1.1

c++ custom compare function for std::sort()

std::pair already has the required comparison operators, which perform lexicographical comparisons using both elements of each pair. To use this, you just have to provide the comparison operators for types for types K and V.

Also bear in mind that std::sort requires a strict weak ordeing comparison, and <= does not satisfy that. You would need, for example, a less-than comparison < for K and V. With that in place, all you need is

std::vector<pair<K,V>> items; 
std::sort(items.begin(), items.end()); 

If you really need to provide your own comparison function, then you need something along the lines of

template <typename K, typename V>
bool comparePairs(const std::pair<K,V>& lhs, const std::pair<K,V>& rhs)
{
  return lhs.first < rhs.first;
}

Unable to access JSON property with "-" dash

For ansible, and using hyphen, this worked for me:

    - name: free-ud-ssd-space-in-percent
      debug:
        var: clusterInfo.json.content["free-ud-ssd-space-in-percent"]

Is there a splice method for strings?

The method Louis's answer, as a String prototype function:

String.prototype.splice = function(index, count, add) {
  if (index < 0) {
    index = this.length + index;
    if (index < 0) {
      index = 0;
    }
  }
  return this.slice(0, index) + (add || "") + this.slice(index + count);
}

Example:

 > "Held!".splice(3,0,"lo Worl")
 < "Hello World!"

IllegalArgumentException or NullPointerException for a null parameter?

Actually, the question of throwing IllegalArgumentException or NullPointerException is in my humble view only a "holy war" for a minority with an incomlete understanding of exception handling in Java. In general, the rules are simple, and as follows:

  • argument constraint violations must be indicated as fast as possible (-> fast fail), in order to avoid illegal states which are much harder to debug
  • in case of an invalid null pointer for whatever reason, throw NullPointerException
  • in case of an illegal array/collection index, throw ArrayIndexOutOfBounds
  • in case of a negative array/collection size, throw NegativeArraySizeException
  • in case of an illegal argument that is not covered by the above, and for which you don't have another more specific exception type, throw IllegalArgumentException as a wastebasket
  • on the other hand, in case of a constraint violation WITHIN A FIELD that could not be avoided by fast fail for some valid reason, catch and rethrow as IllegalStateException or a more specific checked exception. Never let pass the original NullPointerException, ArrayIndexOutOfBounds, etc in this case!

There are at least three very good reasons against the case of mapping all kinds of argument constraint violations to IllegalArgumentException, with the third probably being so severe as to mark the practice bad style:

(1) A programmer cannot a safely assume that all cases of argument constraint violations result in IllegalArgumentException, because the large majority of standard classes use this exception rather as a wastebasket if there is no more specific kind of exception available. Trying to map all cases of argument constraint violations to IllegalArgumentException in your API only leads to programmer frustration using your classes, as the standard libraries mostly follow different rules that violate yours, and most of your API users will use them as well!

(2) Mapping the exceptions actually results in a different kind of anomaly, caused by single inheritance: All Java exceptions are classes, and therefore support single inheritance only. Therefore, there is no way to create an exception that is truly say both a NullPointerException and an IllegalArgumentException, as subclasses can only inherit from one or the other. Throwing an IllegalArgumentException in case of a null argument therefore makes it harder for API users to distinguish between problems whenever a program tries to programmatically correct the problem, for example by feeding default values into a call repeat!

(3) Mapping actually creates the danger of bug masking: In order to map argument constraint violations into IllegalArgumentException, you'll need to code an outer try-catch within every method that has any constrained arguments. However, simply catching RuntimeException in this catch block is out of the question, because that risks mapping documented RuntimeExceptions thrown by libery methods used within yours into IllegalArgumentException, even if they are no caused by argument constraint violations. So you need to be very specific, but even that effort doesn't protect you from the case that you accidentally map an undocumented runtime exception of another API (i.e. a bug) into an IllegalArgumentException of your API. Even the most careful mapping therefore risks masking programming errors of other library makers as argument constraint violations of your method's users, which is simply hillareous behavior!

With the standard practice on the other hand, the rules stay simple, and exception causes stay unmasked and specific. For the method caller, the rules are easy as well: - if you encounter a documented runtime exception of any kind because you passed an illegal value, either repeat the call with a default (for this specific exceptions are neccessary), or correct your code - if on the other hand you enccounter a runtime exception that is not documented to happen for a given set of arguments, file a bug report to the method's makers to ensure that either their code or their documentation is fixed.

EXC_BAD_ACCESS signal received

I got it because I wasn't using[self performSegueWithIdentifier:sender:] and -(void) prepareForSegue:(UIstoryboardSegue *) right

Better way to find control in ASP.NET

All the highlighted solutions are using recursion (which is performance costly). Here is cleaner way without recursion:

public T GetControlByType<T>(Control root, Func<T, bool> predicate = null) where T : Control 
{
    if (root == null) {
        throw new ArgumentNullException("root");
    }

    var stack = new Stack<Control>(new Control[] { root });

    while (stack.Count > 0) {
        var control = stack.Pop();
        T match = control as T;

        if (match != null && (predicate == null || predicate(match))) {
            return match;
        }

        foreach (Control childControl in control.Controls) {
           stack.Push(childControl);
        }
    }

    return default(T);
}

Change bootstrap navbar collapse breakpoint without using LESS

In bootstrap v4, the navigation can be collapsed sooner or later using different css classes

eg:

  • navbar-toggleable-sm
  • navbar-toggleable-md
  • navbar-toggleable-lg

With the button for the navigation:

  • hidden-sm-up
  • hidden-md-up
  • hidden-lg-up

wget can't download - 404 error

I had the same problem. Solved using single quotes like this:

$ wget 'http://www.icerts.com/images/logo.jpg'

wget version in use:

$ wget --version
GNU Wget 1.11.4 Red Hat modified

SQL Server - calculate elapsed time between two datetime stamps in HH:MM:SS format

DECLARE @EndTime AS DATETIME, @StartTime AS DATETIME

SELECT @StartTime = '2013-03-08 08:00:00', @EndTime = '2013-03-08 08:30:00'

SELECT CAST(@EndTime - @StartTime AS TIME)

Result: 00:30:00.0000000

Format result as you see fit.

Selenium WebDriver findElement(By.xpath()) not working for me

You should add the tag name in the xpath, like:

element = findElement(By.xpath("//input[@test-id='test-username']");

What's the easiest way to call a function every 5 seconds in jQuery?

You don't need jquery for this, in plain javascript, the following will work!

var intervalId = window.setInterval(function(){
  /// call your function here
}, 5000);

To stop the loop you can use

clearInterval(intervalId) 

How can I get a web site's favicon?

http://realfavicongenerator.net/favicon_checker?site=http://stackoverflow.com gives you favicon analysis stating which favicons are present in what size. You can process the page information to see which is the best quality favicon, and append it's filename to the URL to get it.

Import SQL file by command line in Windows 7

First open Your cmd pannel And enter mysql -u root -p (And Hit Enter) After cmd ask's for mysql password (if you have mysql password so enter now and hit enter again) now type source mysqldata.sql(Hit Enter) Your database will import without any error

for each inside a for each - Java

for (Tweet : tweets){ ...

should really be

for(Tweet tweet: tweets){...

How do I abort the execution of a Python script?

If the entire program should stop use sys.exit() otherwise just use an empty return.

Timestamp conversion in Oracle for YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS format

Use TO_TIMESTAMP function

TO_TIMESTAMP(date_string,'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS')

Maximum packet size for a TCP connection

This is an excellent question and I run in to this a lot at work actually. There are a lot of "technically correct" answers such as 65k and 1500. I've done a lot of work writing network interfaces and using 65k is silly, and 1500 can also get you in to big trouble. My work goes on a lot of different hardware / platforms / routers, and to be honest the place I start is 1400 bytes. If you NEED more than 1400 you can start to inch your way up, you can probably go to 1450 and sometimes to 1480'ish? If you need more than that then of course you need to split in to 2 packets, of which there are several obvious ways of doing..

The problem is that you're talking about creating a data packet and writing it out via TCP, but of course there's header data tacked on and so forth, so you have "baggage" that puts you to 1500 or beyond.. and also a lot of hardware has lower limits.

If you "push it" you can get some really weird things going on. Truncated data, obviously, or dropped data I've seen rarely. Corrupted data also rarely but certainly does happen.

Pip install - Python 2.7 - Windows 7

It is possible that in python 2.7 pip is installed by default. if it is not then you can execute

python -m ensurepip --default-pip

This worked for me.

Source: https://docs.python.org/2/installing/

Laravel - Form Input - Multiple select for a one to many relationship

My solution, it´s make with jquery-chosen and bootstrap, the id is for jquery chosen, tested and working, I had problems concatenating @foreach but now work with a double @foreach and double @if:

  <div class="form-group">
    <label for="tagLabel">Tags: </label>
    <select multiple class="chosen-tag" id="tagLabel" name="tag_id[]" required>
      @foreach($tags as $id => $name)
        @if (is_array(Request::old('tag_id')))
                <option value="{{ $id }}" 
                @foreach (Request::old('tag_id') as $idold)
                  @if($idold==$id)
                    selected
                  @endif 
                @endforeach
                style="padding:5px;">{{ $name }}</option>
        @else
          <option value="{{ $id }}" style="padding:5px;">{{ $name }}</option>
        @endif
      @endforeach
    </select>
  </div>

this is the code por jquery chosen (the blade.php code doesn´t need this code to work)

    $(".chosen-tag").chosen({
  placeholder_text_multiple: "Selecciona alguna etiqueta",
  no_results_text: "No hay resultados para la busqueda",
  search_contains: true,
  width: '500px'
});

how to call javascript function in html.actionlink in asp.net mvc?

This is a bit of an old post, but there is actually a way to do an onclick operator that calls a function instead of going anywhere in ASP.NET

helper.ActionLink("Choose", null, null, null, 
    new {@onclick = "Locations.Choose(" + location.Id + ")", @href="#"})

If you specify empty quotes or the like in the controller/action, it'll likely add a link to what you listed. You can do that, and do a return false in the onclick. You can read more about that at:

What's the effect of adding 'return false' to a click event listener?

If you're doing this onclick in an cshtml file, it'd be a bit cleaner to just specify the link yourself (a href...) instead of having the ActionLink handle it. If you're doing an HtmlHelper, like my example above is coming from, then I'd argue that calling ActionLink is an okay solution, or potentially better, is to use tagbuilder instead.

Node.js https pem error: routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line

I guess this is because your nodejs cert has expired. Type this line :
npm set registry http://registry.npmjs.org/
and after that try again with npm install . This actually solved my problem.

Linq order by, group by and order by each group?

I think you want an additional projection that maps each group to a sorted-version of the group:

.Select(group => group.OrderByDescending(student => student.Grade))

It also appears like you might want another flattening operation after that which will give you a sequence of students instead of a sequence of groups:

.SelectMany(group => group)

You can always collapse both into a single SelectMany call that does the projection and flattening together.


EDIT: As Jon Skeet points out, there are certain inefficiencies in the overall query; the information gained from sorting each group is not being used in the ordering of the groups themselves. By moving the sorting of each group to come before the ordering of the groups themselves, the Max query can be dodged into a simpler First query.

JavaScript: Collision detection

hittest.js; detect two transparent PNG images (pixel) colliding.

Demo and download link

HTML code

<img id="png-object-1" src="images/object1.png" />
<img id="png-object-2" src="images/object2.png" />

Init function

var pngObject1Element = document.getElementById( "png-object-1" );
var pngObject2Element = document.getElementById( "png-object-2" );

var object1HitTest = new HitTest( pngObject1Element );

Basic usage

if( object1HitTest.toObject( pngObject2Element ) ) {
    // Collision detected
}

Use Ant for running program with command line arguments

If you do not want to handle separate properties for each possible argument, I suggest you'd use:

<arg line="${args}"/>

You can check if the property is not set using a specific target with an unless attribute and inside do:

<input message="Type the desired command line arguments:" addProperty="args"/>

Putting it all together gives:

<target name="run" depends="compile, input-runargs" description="run the project">
  <!-- You can use exec here, depending on your needs -->
  <java classname="Main">
    <arg line="${args}"/>
  </java>
</target>
<target name="input-runargs" unless="args" description="prompts for command line arguments if necessary">
  <input addProperty="args" message="Type the desired command line arguments:"/>
</target>

You can use it as follows:

ant
ant run
ant run -Dargs='--help'

The first two commands will prompt for the command-line arguments, whereas the latter won't.

Loop over array dimension in plpgsql

Since PostgreSQL 9.1 there is the convenient FOREACH:

DO
$do$
DECLARE
   m   varchar[];
   arr varchar[] := array[['key1','val1'],['key2','val2']];
BEGIN
   FOREACH m SLICE 1 IN ARRAY arr
   LOOP
      RAISE NOTICE 'another_func(%,%)',m[1], m[2];
   END LOOP;
END
$do$

Solution for older versions:

DO
$do$
DECLARE
   arr varchar[] := '{{key1,val1},{key2,val2}}';
BEGIN
   FOR i IN array_lower(arr, 1) .. array_upper(arr, 1)
   LOOP
      RAISE NOTICE 'another_func(%,%)',arr[i][1], arr[i][2];
   END LOOP;
END
$do$

Also, there is no difference between varchar[] and varchar[][] for the PostgreSQL type system. I explain in more detail here.

The DO statement requires at least PostgreSQL 9.0, and LANGUAGE plpgsql is the default (so you can omit the declaration).

Should I check in folder "node_modules" to Git when creating a Node.js app on Heroku?

I was going to leave this after this comment: Should I check in folder "node_modules" to Git when creating a Node.js app on Heroku?

But Stack Overflow was formatting it weirdly.

If you don't have identical machines and are checking in node_modules, do a .gitignore on the native extensions. Our .gitignore looks like:

# Ignore native extensions in the node_modules folder (things changed by npm rebuild)
node_modules/**/*.node
node_modules/**/*.o
node_modules/**/*.a
node_modules/**/*.mk
node_modules/**/*.gypi
node_modules/**/*.target
node_modules/**/.deps/
node_modules/**/build/Makefile
node_modules/**/**/build/Makefile

Test this by first checking everything in, and then have another developer do the following:

rm -rf node_modules
git checkout -- node_modules
npm rebuild
git status

Ensure that no files changed.

Bootstrap collapse animation not smooth

In case anybody else comes across this problem, as I just have, the answer is to wrap the content which you want to collapse inside a div and collapse the wrapper div rather than the content itself.

_x000D_
_x000D_
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />_x000D_
_x000D_
<div class="form-group">_x000D_
    <a for="collapseOne" data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapseOne" aria-expanded="true" aria-controls="collapseOne" class="btn btn-primary">+ addInfo</a>_x000D_
    <div id="collapseOne" class="collapse">_x000D_
        <textarea class="form-control" rows="4"></textarea>_x000D_
    </div>_x000D_
</div>_x000D_
_x000D_
<div class="form-group">_x000D_
    <a for="collapseTwo" data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapseTwo" aria-expanded="true" aria-controls="collapseOne" class="btn btn-info">+ subtitle</a>_x000D_
    <input type="text" class="form-control collapse" id="collapseTwo">_x000D_
</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Referring to a table in LaTeX

You must place the label after a caption in order to for label to store the table's number, not the chapter's number.

\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{| p{5cm} | p{5cm} | p{5cm} |}
  -- cut --
\end{tabular}
\caption{My table}
\label{table:kysymys}
\end{table}

Table \ref{table:kysymys} on page \pageref{table:kysymys} refers to the ...

What is ANSI format?

Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as ANSI encoding. Colloquially the term ANSI is used for several different encodings:

  1. ISO 8859-1
  2. Windows CP1252
  3. Current system encoding on a Windows machine (in Win32 API terminology).

How can I throw CHECKED exceptions from inside Java 8 streams?

I use this kind of wrapping exception:

public class CheckedExceptionWrapper extends RuntimeException {
    ...
    public <T extends Exception> CheckedExceptionWrapper rethrow() throws T {
        throw (T) getCause();
    }
}

It will require handling these exceptions statically:

void method() throws IOException, ServletException {
    try { 
        list.stream().forEach(object -> {
            ...
            throw new CheckedExceptionWrapper(e);
            ...            
        });
    } catch (CheckedExceptionWrapper e){
        e.<IOException>rethrow();
        e.<ServletExcepion>rethrow();
    }
}

Try it online!

Though exception will be anyway re-thrown during first rethrow() call (oh, Java generics...), this way allows to get a strict statical definition of possible exceptions (requires to declare them in throws). And no instanceof or something is needed.

Create a Dropdown List for MVC3 using Entity Framework (.edmx Model) & Razor Views && Insert A Database Record to Multiple Tables

Don't pass db models directly to your views. You're lucky enough to be using MVC, so encapsulate using view models.

Create a view model class like this:

public class EmployeeAddViewModel
{
    public Employee employee { get; set; }
    public Dictionary<int, string> staffTypes { get; set; }
    // really? a 1-to-many for genders
    public Dictionary<int, string> genderTypes { get; set; }

    public EmployeeAddViewModel() { }
    public EmployeeAddViewModel(int id)
    {
        employee = someEntityContext.Employees
            .Where(e => e.ID == id).SingleOrDefault();

        // instantiate your dictionaries

        foreach(var staffType in someEntityContext.StaffTypes)
        {
            staffTypes.Add(staffType.ID, staffType.Type);
        }

        // repeat similar loop for gender types
    }
}

Controller:

[HttpGet]
public ActionResult Add()
{
    return View(new EmployeeAddViewModel());
}

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Add(EmployeeAddViewModel vm)
{
    if(ModelState.IsValid)
    {
        Employee.Add(vm.Employee);
        return View("Index"); // or wherever you go after successful add
    }

    return View(vm);
}

Then, finally in your view (which you can use Visual Studio to scaffold it first), change the inherited type to ShadowVenue.Models.EmployeeAddViewModel. Also, where the drop down lists go, use:

@Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.employee.staffTypeID,
    new SelectList(model.staffTypes, "ID", "Type"))

and similarly for the gender dropdown

@Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.employee.genderID,
    new SelectList(model.genderTypes, "ID", "Gender"))

Update per comments

For gender, you could also do this if you can be without the genderTypes in the above suggested view model (though, on second thought, maybe I'd generate this server side in the view model as IEnumerable). So, in place of new SelectList... below, you would use your IEnumerable.

@Html.DropDownListFor(model => model.employee.genderID,
    new SelectList(new SelectList()
    {
        new { ID = 1, Gender = "Male" },
        new { ID = 2, Gender = "Female" }
    }, "ID", "Gender"))

Finally, another option is a Lookup table. Basically, you keep key-value pairs associated with a Lookup type. One example of a type may be gender, while another may be State, etc. I like to structure mine like this:

ID | LookupType | LookupKey | LookupValue | LookupDescription | Active
1  | Gender     | 1         | Male        | male gender       | 1
2  | State      | 50        | Hawaii      | 50th state        | 1
3  | Gender     | 2         | Female      | female gender     | 1
4  | State      | 49        | Alaska      | 49th state        | 1
5  | OrderType  | 1         | Web         | online order      | 1

I like to use these tables when a set of data doesn't change very often, but still needs to be enumerated from time to time.

Hope this helps!

Is there a way to use two CSS3 box shadows on one element?

Box shadows can use commas to have multiple effects, just like with background images (in CSS3).

Good beginners tutorial to socket.io?

To start with Socket.IO I suggest you read first the example on the main page:

http://socket.io/

On the server side, read the "How to use" on the GitHub source page:

https://github.com/Automattic/socket.io

And on the client side:

https://github.com/Automattic/socket.io-client

Finally you need to read this great tutorial:

http://howtonode.org/websockets-socketio

Hint: At the end of this blog post, you will have some links pointing on source code that could be some help.

Case-insensitive search

ES6+:

let string="Stackoverflow is the BEST";
let searchstring="best";


let found = string.toLowerCase()
                  .includes(searchstring.toLowerCase());

includes() returns true if searchString appears at one or more positions or false otherwise.

Format Date output in JSF

If you use OmniFaces you can also use it's EL functions like of:formatDate() to format Date objects. You would use it like this:

<h:outputText value="#{of:formatDate(someBean.dateField, 'dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm')}" />

This way you can not only use it for output but also to pass it on to other JSF components.

how to print a string to console in c++

"Visual Studio does not support std::cout as debug tool for non-console applications"
- from Marius Amado-Alves' answer to "How can I see cout output in a non-console application?"

Which means if you use it, Visual Studio shows nothing in the "output" window (in my case VS2008)

Adding extra zeros in front of a number using jQuery?

str could be a number or a string.

formatting("hi",3);
function formatting(str,len)
{
   return ("000000"+str).slice(-len);
}

Add more zeros if needs large digits

Form inline inside a form horizontal in twitter bootstrap?

For bootstrap 3 example above works but is overcomplicated, rather than using form-group use form-inline for the fields you want inline.

Eg:

<div class="form-group">
     <label>CVV</label>
     <input type="text" size="4" class="form-control" />
</div>

<div class="form-inline">
      <label>Expiration (MM/YYYY)</label><br>
      <input type="text" size="2" class="form-control" /> / <input type="text" size="4" class="form-control" />
</div>

How do I implement a progress bar in C#?

This will Helpfull.Easy to implement,100% tested.

for(int i=1;i<linecount;i++)
{
 progressBar1.Value = i * progressBar1.Maximum / linecount;  //show process bar counts
 LabelTotal.Text = i.ToString() + " of " + linecount; //show number of count in lable
 int presentage = (i * 100) / linecount;
 LabelPresentage.Text = presentage.ToString() + " %"; //show precentage in lable
 Application.DoEvents(); keep form active in every loop
}

In TensorFlow, what is the difference between Session.run() and Tensor.eval()?

eval() can not handle the list object

tf.reset_default_graph()

a = tf.Variable(0.2, name="a")
b = tf.Variable(0.3, name="b")
z = tf.constant(0.0, name="z0")
for i in range(100):
    z = a * tf.cos(z + i) + z * tf.sin(b - i)
grad = tf.gradients(z, [a, b])

init = tf.global_variables_initializer()

with tf.Session() as sess:
    init.run()
    print("z:", z.eval())
    print("grad", grad.eval())

but Session.run() can

print("grad", sess.run(grad))

correct me if I am wrong

How to append text to an existing file in Java?

Create a function anywhere in your project and simply call that function where ever you need it.

Guys you got to remember that you guys are calling active threads that you are not calling asynchronously and since it would likely be a good 5 to 10 pages to get it done right. Why not spend more time on your project and forget about writing anything already written. Properly

    //Adding a static modifier would make this accessible anywhere in your app

    public Logger getLogger()
    {
       return java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger("MyLogFileName");
    }
    //call the method anywhere and append what you want to log 
    //Logger class will take care of putting timestamps for you
    //plus the are ansychronously done so more of the 
    //processing power will go into your application

    //from inside a function body in the same class ...{...

    getLogger().log(Level.INFO,"the text you want to append");

    ...}...
    /*********log file resides in server root log files********/

three lines of code two really since the third actually appends text. :P

SQL Left Join first match only

Depending on the nature of the duplicate rows, it looks like all you want is to have case-sensitivity on those columns. Setting the collation on these columns should be what you're after:

SELECT DISTINCT p.IDNO COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS, p.FirstName COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS, p.LastName COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
FROM people P

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms184391.aspx

Content Type text/xml; charset=utf-8 was not supported by service

Again, I stress that namespace, svc name and contract must be correctly specified in web.config file:

 <service name="NAMESPACE.SvcFileName">
    <endpoint contract="NAMESPACE.IContractName" />
  </service>

Example:

<service name="MyNameSpace.FileService">
<endpoint contract="MyNameSpace.IFileService" />
</service>

(Unrelevant tags ommited in these samples)

REST HTTP status codes for failed validation or invalid duplicate

I recommend status code 422, "Unprocessable Entity".

11.2. 422 Unprocessable Entity

The 422 (Unprocessable Entity) status code means the server understands the content type of the request entity (hence a 415(Unsupported Media Type) status code is inappropriate), and the syntax of the request entity is correct (thus a 400 (Bad Request) status code is inappropriate) but was unable to process the contained instructions. For example, this error condition may occur if an XML request body contains well-formed (i.e., syntactically correct), but semantically erroneous, XML instructions.

Example JavaScript code to parse CSV data

Regular expressions to the rescue! These few lines of code handle properly quoted fields with embedded commas, quotes, and newlines based on the RFC 4180 standard.

function parseCsv(data, fieldSep, newLine) {
    fieldSep = fieldSep || ',';
    newLine = newLine || '\n';
    var nSep = '\x1D';
    var qSep = '\x1E';
    var cSep = '\x1F';
    var nSepRe = new RegExp(nSep, 'g');
    var qSepRe = new RegExp(qSep, 'g');
    var cSepRe = new RegExp(cSep, 'g');
    var fieldRe = new RegExp('(?<=(^|[' + fieldSep + '\\n]))"(|[\\s\\S]+?(?<![^"]"))"(?=($|[' + fieldSep + '\\n]))', 'g');
    var grid = [];
    data.replace(/\r/g, '').replace(/\n+$/, '').replace(fieldRe, function(match, p1, p2) {
        return p2.replace(/\n/g, nSep).replace(/""/g, qSep).replace(/,/g, cSep);
    }).split(/\n/).forEach(function(line) {
        var row = line.split(fieldSep).map(function(cell) {
            return cell.replace(nSepRe, newLine).replace(qSepRe, '"').replace(cSepRe, ',');
        });
        grid.push(row);
    });
    return grid;
}

const csv = 'A1,B1,C1\n"A ""2""","B, 2","C\n2"';
const separator = ',';      // field separator, default: ','
const newline = ' <br /> '; // newline representation in case a field contains newlines, default: '\n' 
var grid = parseCsv(csv, separator, newline);
// expected: [ [ 'A1', 'B1', 'C1' ], [ 'A "2"', 'B, 2', 'C <br /> 2' ] ]

You don't need a parser-generator such as lex/yacc. The regular expression handles RFC 4180 properly thanks to positive lookbehind, negative lookbehind, and positive lookahead.

Clone/download code at https://github.com/peterthoeny/parse-csv-js

How do I pick 2 random items from a Python set?

Use the random module: http://docs.python.org/library/random.html

import random
random.sample(set([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]), 2)

This samples the two values without replacement (so the two values are different).

Where to download Microsoft Visual c++ 2003 redistributable

Another way:

using Unofficial (Full Size: 26.1 MB) VC++ All in one that contained your needed files:

http://www.wincert.net/forum/topic/9790-aio-microsoft-visual-bcfj-redistributable-x86x64/

OR (Smallest 5.10 MB) Microsoft Visual Basic/C++ Runtimes 1.1.1 RePacked Here:

http://www.wincert.net/forum/topic/9794-bonus-microsoft-visual-basicc-runtimes-111/