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Space between Column's children in Flutter

There are many ways of doing it, I'm listing a few here.

  1. Use Container and give some height:

    Column(
      children: <Widget>[
        Widget1(),
        Container(height: 10), // set height
        Widget2(),
      ],
    )
    
  2. Use Spacer

    Column(
      children: <Widget>[
        Widget1(),
        Spacer(), // use Spacer
        Widget2(),
      ],
    )
    
  3. Use Expanded

    Column(
      children: <Widget>[
        Widget1(),
        Expanded(child: SizedBox()), // use Expanded
        Widget2(),
      ],
    )
    
  4. Use mainAxisAlignment

    Column(
      mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.spaceAround, // mainAxisAlignment
      children: <Widget>[
        Widget1(),
        Widget2(),
      ],
    )
    
  5. Use Wrap

    Wrap(
      direction: Axis.vertical, // make sure to set this
      spacing: 20, // set your spacing
      children: <Widget>[
        Widget1(),
        Widget2(),
      ],
    )
    

Convert seconds to HH-MM-SS with JavaScript?

You can also use Sugar.

Date.create().reset().set({seconds: 180}).format('{mm}:{ss}');

This example returns '03:00'.

Causes of getting a java.lang.VerifyError

VerifyError means that the class file contains bytecode that is syntactically correct but violates some semantic restriction e.g. a jump target that crosses method boundaries.

Basically, a VerifyError can only occur when there is a compiler bug, or when the class file gets corrupted in some other way (e.g. through faulty RAM or a failing HD).

Try compiling with a different JDK version and on a different machine.

Remove all special characters from a string

This should do what you're looking for:

function clean($string) {
   $string = str_replace(' ', '-', $string); // Replaces all spaces with hyphens.

   return preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9\-]/', '', $string); // Removes special chars.
}

Usage:

echo clean('a|"bc!@£de^&$f g');

Will output: abcdef-g

Edit:

Hey, just a quick question, how can I prevent multiple hyphens from being next to each other? and have them replaced with just 1?

function clean($string) {
   $string = str_replace(' ', '-', $string); // Replaces all spaces with hyphens.
   $string = preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9\-]/', '', $string); // Removes special chars.

   return preg_replace('/-+/', '-', $string); // Replaces multiple hyphens with single one.
}

How do I find a default constraint using INFORMATION_SCHEMA?

The script below lists all the default constraints and the default values for the user tables in the database in which it is being run:

SELECT  
        b.name AS TABLE_NAME,
        d.name AS COLUMN_NAME,
        a.name AS CONSTRAINT_NAME,
        c.text AS DEFAULT_VALUE
FROM sys.sysobjects a INNER JOIN
        (SELECT name, id
         FROM sys.sysobjects 
         WHERE xtype = 'U') b on (a.parent_obj = b.id)
                      INNER JOIN sys.syscomments c ON (a.id = c.id)
                      INNER JOIN sys.syscolumns d ON (d.cdefault = a.id)                                          
 WHERE a.xtype = 'D'        
 ORDER BY b.name, a.name

WebView showing ERR_CLEARTEXT_NOT_PERMITTED although site is HTTPS

When you call "https://darkorbit.com/" your server figures that it's missing "www" so it redirects the call to "http://www.darkorbit.com/" and then to "https://www.darkorbit.com/", your WebView call is blocked at the first redirection as it's a "http" call. You can call "https://www.darkorbit.com/" instead and it will solve the issue.

MySQL: update a field only if condition is met

Another variation:

UPDATE test
SET field = IF ( {condition}, {new value}, field )
WHERE id = 123

This will update the field with {new value} only if {condition} is met

Could not load file or assembly "System.Net.Http, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"

Changing the binding information in my web.config (or app.config) - while a "hack" in my view, allows you to move forward with your project after a NuGet package update whacks your application and gives you the System.Net.Http error.

Set oldVersion="0.0.0.0-4.1.1.0" and newVersion="4.0.0.0" as follows

<dependentAssembly>
    <assemblyIdentity name="System.Net.Http" publicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11d50a3a" culture="neutral" />
    <bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-4.1.1.0" newVersion="4.0.0.0" />
</dependentAssembly>

"Parse Error : There is a problem parsing the package" while installing Android application

And just to help possible new readers, another reason may be errors in the manifest file. I had mistyped android:service as android.service and ran into the same error...

phpMyAdmin says no privilege to create database, despite logged in as root user

I solved my issue like that. You need the change auth_type 'config' to 'http'. My older settings auth_type is 'config' then i changed to 'http' and problem solved.

When you changed that area and enter the phpMyAdmin, browser asks you a user and password. You just enter 'root' and dont fill the password area and press enter.

/* Authentication type and info */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'http';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysqli';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = true;
$cfg['Lang'] = '';

What does AND 0xFF do?

it clears the all the bits that are not in the first byte

How to check if a given directory exists in Ruby

File.exist?("directory")

Dir[] returns an array, so it will never be nil. If you want to do it your way, you could do

Dir["directory"].empty?

which will return true if it wasn't found.

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."

Start HTML5 video at a particular position when loading?

You have to wait until the browser knows the duration of the video before you can seek to a particular time. So, I think you want to wait for the 'loadedmetadata' event something like this:

document.getElementById('vid1').addEventListener('loadedmetadata', function() {
  this.currentTime = 50;
}, false);

Stash only one file out of multiple files that have changed with Git?

Since Git 2.13 (Q2 2017), you can stash individual files, with git stash push:

git stash push [-m <message>] [--] [<pathspec>...]

When pathspec is given to 'git stash push', the new stash records the modified states only for the files that match the pathspec See "Stash changes to specific files" for more.

Simplified example:

 git stash push path/to/file

The test case for this feature shows a few more options off:

test_expect_success 'stash with multiple pathspec arguments' '
    >foo &&
    >bar &&
    >extra &&
    git add foo bar extra &&

    git stash push -- foo bar &&   

    test_path_is_missing bar &&
    test_path_is_missing foo &&
    test_path_is_file extra &&

    git stash pop &&
    test_path_is_file foo &&
    test_path_is_file bar &&
    test_path_is_file extra

The original answer (below, June 2010) was about manually selecting what you want to stash.

Casebash comments:

This (the stash --patch original solution) is nice, but often I've modified a lot of files so using patch is annoying

bukzor's answer (upvoted, November 2011) suggests a more practical solution, based on
git add + git stash --keep-index.
Go see and upvote his answer, which should be the official one (instead of mine).

About that option, chhh points out an alternative workflow in the comments:

you should "git reset --soft" after such a stash to get your clear staging back:
In order to get to the original state - which is a clear staging area and with only some select un-staged modifications, one could softly reset the index to get (without committing anything like you - bukzor - did).


(Original answer June 2010: manual stash)

Yet, git stash save --patch could allows you to achieve the partial stashing you are after:

With --patch, you can interactively select hunks from in the diff between HEAD and the working tree to be stashed.
The stash entry is constructed such that its index state is the same as the index state of your repository, and its worktree contains only the changes you selected interactively. The selected changes are then rolled back from your worktree.

However that will save the full index (which may not be what you want since it might include other files already indexed), and a partial worktree (which could look like the one you want to stash).

git stash --patch --no-keep-index

might be a better fit.


If --patch doesn't work, a manual process might:

For one or several files, an intermediate solution would be to:

  • copy them outside the Git repo
    (Actually, eleotlecram proposes an interesting alternative)
  • git stash
  • copy them back
  • git stash # this time, only the files you want are stashed
  • git stash pop stash@{1} # re-apply all your files modifications
  • git checkout -- afile # reset the file to the HEAD content, before any local modifications

At the end of that rather cumbersome process, you will have only one or several files stashed.

The total number of locks exceeds the lock table size

It is worth saying that the figure used for this setting is in BYTES - found that out the hard way!

SFTP in Python? (platform independent)

There are a bunch of answers that mention pysftp, so in the event that you want a context manager wrapper around pysftp, here is a solution that is even less code that ends up looking like the following when used

path = "sftp://user:p@[email protected]/path/to/file.txt"

# Read a file
with open_sftp(path) as f:
    s = f.read() 
print s

# Write to a file
with open_sftp(path, mode='w') as f:
    f.write("Some content.") 

The (fuller) example: http://www.prschmid.com/2016/09/simple-opensftp-context-manager-for.html

This context manager happens to have auto-retry logic baked in in the event you can't connect the first time around (which surprisingly happens more often than you'd expect in a production environment...)

The context manager gist for open_sftp: https://gist.github.com/prschmid/80a19c22012e42d4d6e791c1e4eb8515

React proptype array with shape

Yes, you need to use PropTypes.arrayOf instead of PropTypes.array in the code, you can do something like this:

import PropTypes from 'prop-types';

MyComponent.propTypes = {
  annotationRanges: PropTypes.arrayOf(
    PropTypes.shape({
      start: PropTypes.string.isRequired,
      end: PropTypes.number.isRequired
    }).isRequired
  ).isRequired
}

Also for more details about proptypes, visit Typechecking With PropTypes here

How to compare only Date without Time in DateTime types in Linq to SQL with Entity Framework?

DateTime econvertedDate = Convert.ToDateTime(end_date);
DateTime sconvertedDate = Convert.ToDateTime(start_date);

TimeSpan age = econvertedDate.Subtract(sconvertedDate);
Int32 diff = Convert.ToInt32(age.TotalDays);

The diff value represents the number of days for the age. If the value is negative the start date falls after the end date. This is a good check.

What is the bit size of long on 64-bit Windows?

This article on MSDN references a number of type aliases (available on Windows) that are a bit more explicit with respect to their width:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa505945.aspx

For instance, although you can use ULONGLONG to reference a 64-bit unsigned integral value, you can also use UINT64. (The same goes for ULONG and UINT32.) Perhaps these will be a bit clearer?

Angular-Material DateTime Picker Component?

For as long as there is no official date and time picker from angular itself, I would advise to make a combination of the default angular date picker and this Angular Material Timepicker. I've chosen that one because all the other ones I found at this time lack support for issues, are outdated or are not functioning well in the most recent angular versions. This guy seems to be very responsive.

I've wrapped them both in one component so that it looks like it is one unit. You just have to make sure to do a few things:

When no input has been given yet, I would advise:

  • On-click of the component, the datepicker should always be triggered first.
  • After the datepicker closes, have the timepicker automatically popup.
  • Use touchUi = true on the datepicker, so that both the datepicker and the timepicker come as a dialog after each other.
  • Make sure the datepicker also shows up when clicking on the form (instead of only on the icon which is the default).
  • Use this solution to use the timepicker also in a material form, when placing them behind each other, it looks like it is one form.

After a value has been given, it is clear that one part contains the time and the other part contains the date. At that moment it is clear that the user has to click on the time to change the time, and on the date to change the date. But before that, so when both fields are empty (and 'attached' to each other as one field) you should make sure the user cannot be confused by doing above recommendations.

My component is not complete yet, I will try to remember myself to share the code later. Shoot a comment if this question is more then a month old or so.

Edit: Result

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<div fxLayout="row">
  <div *ngIf="!dateOnly" [formGroup]="timeFormGroup">
    <mat-form-field>
      <input matInput [ngxTimepicker]="endTime" [format]="24"  placeholder="{{placeholderTime}}" formControlName="endTime" />
    </mat-form-field>
    <ngx-material-timepicker #endTime (timeSet)="timeChange($event)" [minutesGap]="10"></ngx-material-timepicker>
  </div>
  <div>
    <mat-form-field>
      <input id="pickerId" matInput [matDatepicker]="datepicker" placeholder="{{placeholderDate}}" [formControl]="dateForm"
             [min]="config.minDate" [max]="config.maxDate" (dateChange)="dateChange($event)">
      <mat-datepicker-toggle matSuffix [for]="datepicker"></mat-datepicker-toggle>
      <mat-datepicker #datepicker [disabled]="disabled" [touchUi]="config.touchUi" startView="{{config.startView}}"></mat-datepicker>
    </mat-form-field>
  </div>
</div>
import { Component, OnInit, Input, EventEmitter, Output } from '@angular/core';
import { FormControl, FormGroup } from '@angular/forms';
import { DateAdapter, MatDatepickerInputEvent } from '@angular/material';

import * as moment_ from 'moment';

const moment = moment_;

import { MAT_MOMENT_DATE_ADAPTER_OPTIONS } from '@angular/material-moment-adapter';

class DateConfig {
  startView: 'month' | 'year' | 'multi-year';
  touchUi: boolean;
  minDate: moment_.Moment;
  maxDate: moment_.Moment;
}

@Component({
  selector: 'cb-datetimepicker',
  templateUrl: './cb-datetimepicker.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./cb-datetimepicker.component.scss'],
})
export class DatetimepickerComponent implements OnInit {

  @Input() disabled: boolean;
  @Input() placeholderDate: string;
  @Input() placeholderTime: string;
  @Input() model: Date;
  @Input() purpose: string;
  @Input() dateOnly: boolean;

  @Output() dateUpdate = new EventEmitter<Date>();

  public pickerId: string = "_" + Math.random().toString(36).substr(2, 9);

  public dateForm: FormControl;
  public timeFormGroup: FormGroup;
  public endTime: FormControl;

  public momentDate: moment_.Moment;
  public config: DateConfig;

  //myGroup: FormGroup;


  constructor(private adapter : DateAdapter<any>) { }

  ngOnInit() {

    this.adapter.setLocale("nl-NL");//todo: configurable
    this.config = new DateConfig();
    if (this.purpose === "birthday") {
      this.config.startView = 'multi-year';
      this.config.maxDate = moment().add('year', -15);
      this.config.minDate = moment().add('year', -90);
      this.dateOnly = true;
    } //add more configurations
    else {
      this.config.startView = 'month';
      this.config.maxDate = moment().add('year', 100);
      this.config.minDate = moment().add('year', -100);
    }


    if (window.screen.width < 767) {
      this.config.touchUi = true;
    }



    if (this.model) {
      var mom = moment(this.model);
      if (mom.isBefore(moment('1900-01-01'))) {
        this.momentDate = moment();
      } else {
        this.momentDate = mom;
      }
    } else {
      this.momentDate = moment();
    }

    this.dateForm = new FormControl(this.momentDate);
    if (this.disabled) {
      this.dateForm.disable();
    }
    this.endTime = new FormControl(this.momentDate.format("HH:mm"));

    this.timeFormGroup = new FormGroup({
      endTime: this.endTime
    });


  }


  public dateChange(date: MatDatepickerInputEvent<any>) {

    if (moment.isMoment(date.value)) {
      this.momentDate = moment(date.value);
      if (this.dateOnly) {
        this.momentDate = this.momentDate.utc(true);
      } 
      var newDate = this.momentDate.toDate();
      this.model = newDate;
      this.dateUpdate.emit(newDate);
    }

    console.log("datechange",date);
  }

  public timeChange(time: string) {

    var splitted = time.split(':');
    var hour = splitted[0];
    var minute = splitted[1];

    console.log("time change", time);
   this.momentDate = this.momentDate.set('hour', parseInt(hour));
    this.momentDate = this.momentDate.set('minute', parseInt(minute));

    var newDate = this.momentDate.toDate();
    this.model = newDate;
    this.dateUpdate.emit(newDate);
  }
}

One important source: https://github.com/Agranom/ngx-material-timepicker/issues/126

I think it still deserves some tweaks, as I think it can work a bit better when I would have more time creating this. Most importantly I tried to solve the UTC issue as well, so all dates should be shown in local time but should be sent to the server in UTC format (or at least saved with the correct timezone added to it).

How to find column names for all tables in all databases in SQL Server

Some minor improvements

->previous answers weren't showing all results

->possible to filter on column name by setting the column name variable

DECLARE @columnname nvarchar(150)
SET @columnname=''

DECLARE @SQL varchar(max)
SET @SQL=''
SELECT @SQL=@SQL+'UNION
select 
'''+d.name+'.''+sh.name+''.''+o.name COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS as name,c.name COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS as columnname,c.column_id
from '+d.name+'.sys.columns            c
    inner join '+d.name+'.sys.objects  o on c.object_id=o.object_id
    INNER JOIN '+d.name+'.sys.schemas  sh on o.schema_id=sh.schema_id
    where c.name like ''%'+@columnname+'%'' and sh.name<>''sys'' 
'
FROM sys.databases d
SELECT @SQL=RIGHT(@SQL,LEN(@SQL)-5)+'order by 1,3'
--print @SQL
EXEC (@SQL)

How to read a PEM RSA private key from .NET

The stuff between the

-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY---- 

and

-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY----- 

is the base64 encoding of a PKCS#8 PrivateKeyInfo (unless it says RSA ENCRYPTED PRIVATE KEY in which case it is a EncryptedPrivateKeyInfo).

It is not that hard to decode manually, but otherwise your best bet is to P/Invoke to CryptImportPKCS8.


Update: The CryptImportPKCS8 function is no longer available for use as of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista. Instead, use the PFXImportCertStore function.

how to increase MaxReceivedMessageSize when calling a WCF from C#

Change the customBinding in the web.config to use larger defaults. I picked 2MB as it is a reasonable size. Of course setting it to 2GB (as your code suggests) will work but it does leave you more vulnerable to attacks. Pick a size that is larger than your largest request but isn't overly large.

Check this : Using Large Message Requests in Silverlight with WCF

<system.serviceModel>
   <behaviors>
     <serviceBehaviors>
       <behavior name="TestLargeWCF.Web.MyServiceBehavior">
         <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true"/>
         <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="false"/>
       </behavior>
     </serviceBehaviors>
   </behaviors>
   <bindings>
     <customBinding>
       <binding name="customBinding0">
         <binaryMessageEncoding />
         <!-- Start change -->
         <httpTransport maxReceivedMessageSize="2097152"
                        maxBufferSize="2097152"
                        maxBufferPoolSize="2097152"/>
         <!-- Stop change -->
       </binding>
     </customBinding>
   </bindings>
   <serviceHostingEnvironment aspNetCompatibilityEnabled="true"/>
   <services>
     <service behaviorConfiguration="Web.MyServiceBehavior" name="TestLargeWCF.Web.MyService">
       <endpoint address=""
                binding="customBinding"
                bindingConfiguration="customBinding0"
                contract="TestLargeWCF.Web.MyService"/>
       <endpoint address="mex"
                binding="mexHttpBinding"
                contract="IMetadataExchange"/>
     </service>
   </services>
 </system.serviceModel> 

How can I send JSON response in symfony2 controller

Since Symfony 3.1 you can use JSON Helper http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/controller.html#json-helper

public function indexAction()
{
// returns '{"username":"jane.doe"}' and sets the proper Content-Type header
return $this->json(array('username' => 'jane.doe'));

// the shortcut defines three optional arguments
// return $this->json($data, $status = 200, $headers = array(), $context = array());
}

How to check whether a pandas DataFrame is empty?

I use the len function. It's much faster than empty. len(df.index) is even faster.

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(10000, 4), columns=list('ABCD'))

def empty(df):
    return df.empty

def lenz(df):
    return len(df) == 0

def lenzi(df):
    return len(df.index) == 0

'''
%timeit empty(df)
%timeit lenz(df)
%timeit lenzi(df)

10000 loops, best of 3: 13.9 µs per loop
100000 loops, best of 3: 2.34 µs per loop
1000000 loops, best of 3: 695 ns per loop

len on index seems to be faster
'''

How to get back to the latest commit after checking out a previous commit?

git reflog //find the hash of the commit that you want to checkout
git checkout <commit number>>

TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -: 'str' and 'int'

For future reference Python is strongly typed. Unlike other dynamic languages, it will not automagically cast objects from one type or the other (say from str to int) so you must do this yourself. You'll like that in the long-run, trust me!

Java: Enum parameter in method

You can use an enum in said parameters like this:

public enum Alignment { LEFT, RIGHT }
private static String drawCellValue(
int maxCellLength, String cellValue, Alignment align) {}

then you can use either a switch or if statement to actually do something with said parameter.

switch(align) {
case LEFT: //something
case RIGHT: //something
default: //something
}

if(align == Alignment.RIGHT) { /*code*/}

How do I bind a List<CustomObject> to a WPF DataGrid?

You should do it in the xaml code:

<DataGrid ItemsSource="{Binding list}" [...]>
  [...]
</DataGrid>

I would advise you to use an ObservableCollection as your backing collection, as that would propagate changes to the datagrid, as it implements INotifyCollectionChanged.

File name without extension name VBA

Using the Split function seems more elegant than InStr and Left, in my opinion.

Private Sub CommandButton2_Click()


Dim ThisFileName As String
Dim BaseFileName As String

Dim FileNameArray() As String

ThisFileName = ThisWorkbook.Name
FileNameArray = Split(ThisFileName, ".")
BaseFileName = FileNameArray(0)

MsgBox "Base file name is " & BaseFileName

End Sub

OpenCV !_src.empty() in function 'cvtColor' error

If the path is correct and the name of the image is OK, but you are still getting the error

use:

from skimage import io

img = io.imread(file_path)

instead of:

cv2.imread(file_path)

The function imread loads an image from the specified file and returns it. If the image cannot be read (because of missing file, improper permissions, unsupported or invalid format), the function returns an empty matrix ( Mat::data==NULL ).

Get the filePath from Filename using Java

I'm not sure I understand you completely, but if you wish to get the absolute file path provided that you know the relative file name, you can always do this:

System.out.println("File path: " + new File("Your file name").getAbsolutePath());

The File class has several more methods you might find useful.

Downgrade npm to an older version

npm install -g npm@4

This will install the latest version on the major release 4, no no need to specify version number. Replace 4 with whatever major release you want.

Remove carriage return from string

Assign your string to a variable and then replace the line break and carriage return characters with nothing, like this:

 myString = myString.Replace(vbCrLf, "")

How to install PyQt5 on Windows?

If you have python installed completely, it can save you the hassle. All you need to do is enter the following command in your respective shell:

pip install pyqt5

And contrary to popular belief, AS LONG AS YOU HAVE PIP INSTALLED, you can do this on virtually any OS... Hope this helped!

How to start Fragment from an Activity

You Can Start Activity and attach RecipientsFragment on it , but you cant start Fragment

Calling filter returns <filter object at ... >

It looks like you're using python 3.x. In python3, filter, map, zip, etc return an object which is iterable, but not a list. In other words,

filter(func,data) #python 2.x

is equivalent to:

list(filter(func,data)) #python 3.x

I think it was changed because you (often) want to do the filtering in a lazy sense -- You don't need to consume all of the memory to create a list up front, as long as the iterator returns the same thing a list would during iteration.

If you're familiar with list comprehensions and generator expressions, the above filter is now (almost) equivalent to the following in python3.x:

( x for x in data if func(x) ) 

As opposed to:

[ x for x in data if func(x) ]

in python 2.x

Changing position of the Dialog on screen android

I used this code to show the dialog at the bottom of the screen:

Dialog dlg = <code to create custom dialog>;

Window window = dlg.getWindow();
WindowManager.LayoutParams wlp = window.getAttributes();

wlp.gravity = Gravity.BOTTOM;
wlp.flags &= ~WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_DIM_BEHIND;
window.setAttributes(wlp);

This code also prevents android from dimming the background of the dialog, if you need it. You should be able to change the gravity parameter to move the dialog about


private void showPictureialog() {
    final Dialog dialog = new Dialog(this,
            android.R.style.Theme_Translucent_NoTitleBar);

    // Setting dialogview
    Window window = dialog.getWindow();
    window.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER);

    window.setLayout(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT);
    dialog.setTitle(null);
    dialog.setContentView(R.layout.selectpic_dialog);
    dialog.setCancelable(true);

    dialog.show();
}

you can customize you dialog based on gravity and layout parameters change gravity and layout parameter on the basis of your requirenment

C++ auto keyword. Why is it magic?

For variables, specifies that the type of the variable that is being declared will be automatically deduced from its initializer. For functions, specifies that the return type is a trailing return type or will be deduced from its return statements (since C++14).

Syntax

auto variable initializer   (1) (since C++11)

auto function -> return type    (2) (since C++11)

auto function   (3) (since C++14)

decltype(auto) variable initializer (4) (since C++14)

decltype(auto) function (5) (since C++14)

auto :: (6) (concepts TS)

cv(optional) auto ref(optional) parameter   (7) (since C++14)

Explanation

1) When declaring variables in block scope, in namespace scope, in initialization statements of for loops, etc., the keyword auto may be used as the type specifier. Once the type of the initializer has been determined, the compiler determines the type that will replace the keyword auto using the rules for template argument deduction from a function call (see template argument deduction#Other contexts for details). The keyword auto may be accompanied by modifiers, such as const or &, which will participate in the type deduction. For example, given const auto& i = expr;, the type of i is exactly the type of the argument u in an imaginary template template<class U> void f(const U& u) if the function call f(expr) was compiled. Therefore, auto&& may be deduced either as an lvalue reference or rvalue reference according to the initializer, which is used in range-based for loop. If auto is used to declare multiple variables, the deduced types must match. For example, the declaration auto i = 0, d = 0.0; is ill-formed, while the declaration auto i = 0, *p = &i; is well-formed and the auto is deduced as int.

2) In a function declaration that uses the trailing return type syntax, the keyword auto does not perform automatic type detection. It only serves as a part of the syntax.

3) In a function declaration that does not use the trailing return type syntax, the keyword auto indicates that the return type will be deduced from the operand of its return statement using the rules for template argument deduction.

4) If the declared type of the variable is decltype(auto), the keyword auto is replaced with the expression (or expression list) of its initializer, and the actual type is deduced using the rules for decltype.

5) If the return type of the function is declared decltype(auto), the keyword auto is replaced with the operand of its return statement, and the actual return type is deduced using the rules for decltype.

6) A nested-name-specifier of the form auto:: is a placeholder that is replaced by a class or enumeration type following the rules for constrained type placeholder deduction.

7) A parameter declaration in a lambda expression. (since C++14) A function parameter declaration. (concepts TS)

Notes Until C++11, auto had the semantic of a storage duration specifier. Mixing auto variables and functions in one declaration, as in auto f() -> int, i = 0; is not allowed.

For more info : http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/auto

How do you get the length of a string?

In jQuery :

var len = jQuery('.selector').val().length; //or 
( var len = $('.selector').val().length;) //- If Element is Text Box

OR

var len = jQuery('.selector').html().length; //or
( var len = $('.selector').html().length; ) //- If Element is not Input Text Box

In JS :

var len = str.len;

How can I simulate a click to an anchor tag?

None of the above solutions address the generic intention of the original request. What if we don't know the id of the anchor? What if it doesn't have an id? What if it doesn't even have an href parameter (e.g. prev/next icon in a carousel)? What if we want to apply the action to multiple anchors with different models in an agnostic fashion? Here's an example that does something instead of a click, then later simulates the click (for any anchor or other tag):

var clicker = null;
$('a').click(function(e){ 
    clicker=$(this); // capture the clicked dom object
    /* ... do something ... */
    e.preventDefault(); // prevent original click action
});
clicker[0].click(); // this repeats the original click. [0] is necessary.

How to create a list of objects?

I think what you're of doing here is using a structure containing your class instances. I don't know the syntax for naming structures in python, but in perl I could create a structure obj.id[x] where x is an incremented integer. Then, I could just refer back to the specific class instance I needed by referencing the struct numerically. Is this anything in the direction of what you're trying to do?

Checking if a string is empty or null in Java

This way you check if the string is not null and not empty, also considering the empty spaces:

boolean isEmpty = str == null || str.trim().length() == 0;
if (isEmpty) {
    // handle the validation
}

Why is my element value not getting changed? Am I using the wrong function?

It's document.getElementById, not document.getElementsByID

I'm assuming you have <input id="Tue" ...> somewhere in your markup.

Adding an onclick event to a div element

I think You are using //--style="display:none"--// for hiding the div.

Use this code:

<script>
    function klikaj(i) {
        document.getElementById(i).style.display = 'block';
    }
</script>
<div id="thumb0" class="thumbs" onclick="klikaj('rad1')">Click Me..!</div>
<div id="rad1" class="thumbs" style="display:none">Helloooooo</div>

Add a column with a default value to an existing table in SQL Server

ALTER TABLE <table name> 
ADD <new column name> <data type> NOT NULL
GO
ALTER TABLE <table name> 
ADD CONSTRAINT <constraint name> DEFAULT <default value> FOR <new column name>
GO

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/fasterxml/jackson/core/JsonFactory

In my case problem was when i added com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat i put the version 2.11.0.

While all other Jackson dependencies were 2.8.0 and one of them was 2.11.0 and changing all to be 2.8.0 fixed it.

FYI, 2.11 is the latest but due to my legacy code, i kept it as 2.8 as well.

Before Fix [ERROR]

com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat version is 2.11.0    
com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat jackson-dataformat-xml 2.11.0
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
    <version>2.8.0</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
    <version>2.8.0</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
    <version>2.8.0</version>
</dependency>

After Fix [WORKED] com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat version is 2.8.0

com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat jackson-dataformat-xml 2.8.0
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
    <version>2.8.0</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
    <version>2.8.0</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
    <version>2.8.0</version>
</dependency>

Best way to initialize (empty) array in PHP

In ECMAScript implementations (for instance, ActionScript or JavaScript), Array() is a constructor function and [] is part of the array literal grammar. Both are optimized and executed in completely different ways, with the literal grammar not being dogged by the overhead of calling a function.

PHP, on the other hand, has language constructs that may look like functions but aren't treated as such. Even with PHP 5.4, which supports [] as an alternative, there is no difference in overhead because, as far as the compiler/parser is concerned, they are completely synonymous.

// Before 5.4, you could only write
$array = array(
    "foo" => "bar",
    "bar" => "foo",
);

// As of PHP 5.4, the following is synonymous with the above
$array = [
    "foo" => "bar",
    "bar" => "foo",
];

If you need to support older versions of PHP, use the former syntax. There's also an argument for readability but, being a long-time JS developer, the latter seems rather natural to me. I actually made the mistake of trying to initialise arrays using [] when I was first learning PHP.

This change to the language was originally proposed and rejected due to a majority vote against by core developers with the following reason:

This patch will not be accepted because slight majority of the core developers voted against. Though if you take a accumulated mean between core developers and userland votes seems to show the opposite it would be irresponsible to submit a patch witch is not supported or maintained in the long run.

However, it appears there was a change of heart leading up to 5.4, perhaps influenced by the implementations of support for popular databases like MongoDB (which use ECMAScript syntax).

Jquery change background color

try putting a delay on the last color fade.

$("p#44.test").delay(3000).css("background-color","red");

What are valid values for the id attribute in HTML?
ID's cannot start with digits!!!

Why is a primary-foreign key relation required when we can join without it?

You need two columns of the same type, one on each table, to JOIN on. Whether they're primary and foreign keys or not doesn't matter.

Change the background color in a twitter bootstrap modal?

Add the following CSS;

.modal .modal-dialog .modal-content{  background-color: #d4c484; }

<div class="modal fade">
<div class="modal-dialog" role="document">
<div class="modal-content">
...
...

How do I enable TODO/FIXME/XXX task tags in Eclipse?

There are apparently distributions or custom builds in which the ability to set Task Tags for non-Java files is not present. This post mentions that ColdFusion Builder (built on Eclipse) does not let you set non-Java Task Tags, but the beta version of CF Builder 2 does. (I know the OP wasn't using CF Builder, but I am, and I was wondering about this question myself ... because he didn't see the ability to set non-Java tags, I thought others might be in the same position.)

Error: The 'brew link' step did not complete successfully

My problem had a slightly different solution. The directory in which brew wanted to create the symlinks were not owned by the current user.

ls -la /usr/local/bin/lib/node | grep node yielded:

drwxr-xr-x    3 24561  wheel   102 May  4  2012 node
drwxr-xr-x    7 24561  wheel   238 Sep 18 16:37 node_modules

For me, the following fixed it:

sudo chown $(users) /usr/local/bin/lib/node_modules
sudo chown $(users) /usr/local/bin/lib/node

ps. $(users) will get expanded to your username, went a little out of my way to help out lazy copy pasters ;)

python capitalize first letter only

As seeing here answered by Chen Houwu, it's possible to use string package:

import string
string.capwords("they're bill's friends from the UK")
>>>"They're Bill's Friends From The Uk"

Git on Bitbucket: Always asked for password, even after uploading my public SSH key

In the HTTP request case, it is also and alternatively possible to paste the credentials (with password) directly into the url:

http://username:[email protected]/...

This will save the pain to give your credentials every times again. Simple modify your .git/config (the url).

How to pass a type as a method parameter in Java

I had a similar question, so I worked up a complete runnable answer below. What I needed to do is pass a class (C) to an object (O) of an unrelated class and have that object (O) emit new objects of class (C) back to me when I asked for them.

The example below shows how this is done. There is a MagicGun class that you load with any subtype of the Projectile class (Pebble, Bullet or NuclearMissle). The interesting is you load it with subtypes of Projectile, but not actual objects of that type. The MagicGun creates the actual object when it's time to shoot.

The Output

You've annoyed the target!
You've holed the target!
You've obliterated the target!
click
click

The Code

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class PassAClass {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        MagicGun gun = new MagicGun();
        gun.loadWith(Pebble.class);
        gun.loadWith(Bullet.class);
        gun.loadWith(NuclearMissle.class);
        //gun.loadWith(Object.class);   // Won't compile -- Object is not a Projectile
        for(int i=0; i<5; i++){
            try {
                String effect = gun.shoot().effectOnTarget();
                System.out.printf("You've %s the target!\n", effect);
            } catch (GunIsEmptyException e) {
                System.err.printf("click\n");
            }
        }
    }
}

class MagicGun {
    /**
     * projectiles holds a list of classes that extend Projectile. Because of erasure, it
     * can't hold be a List<? extends Projectile> so we need the SuppressWarning. However
     * the only way to add to it is the "loadWith" method which makes it typesafe. 
     */
    private @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes") List<Class> projectiles = new ArrayList<Class>();
    /**
     * Load the MagicGun with a new Projectile class.
     * @param projectileClass The class of the Projectile to create when it's time to shoot.
     */
    public void loadWith(Class<? extends Projectile> projectileClass){
        projectiles.add(projectileClass);
    }
    /**
     * Shoot the MagicGun with the next Projectile. Projectiles are shot First In First Out.
     * @return A newly created Projectile object.
     * @throws GunIsEmptyException
     */
    public Projectile shoot() throws GunIsEmptyException{
        if (projectiles.isEmpty())
            throw new GunIsEmptyException();
        Projectile projectile = null;
        // We know it must be a Projectile, so the SuppressWarnings is OK
        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") Class<? extends Projectile> projectileClass = projectiles.get(0);
        projectiles.remove(0);
        try{
            // http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/Language-Basics/ObjectReflectioncreatenewinstance.htm
            projectile = projectileClass.newInstance();
        } catch (InstantiationException e) {
            System.err.println(e);
        } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
            System.err.println(e);
        }
        return projectile;
    }
}

abstract class Projectile {
    public abstract String effectOnTarget();
}

class Pebble extends Projectile {
    @Override public String effectOnTarget() {
        return "annoyed";
    }
}

class Bullet extends Projectile {
    @Override public String effectOnTarget() {
        return "holed";
    }
}

class NuclearMissle extends Projectile {
    @Override public String effectOnTarget() {
        return "obliterated";
    }
}

class GunIsEmptyException extends Exception {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 4574971294051632635L;
}

Eloquent Collection: Counting and Detect Empty

I think you try something like

  @if(!$result->isEmpty())
         // $result is not empty
    @else
        // $result is empty
    @endif

or also use

if (!$result) { }
if ($result) { } 

The HTTP request is unauthorized with client authentication scheme 'Negotiate'. The authentication header received from the server was 'NTLM'

For me the solution was besides using "Ntlm" as credential type:

    XxxSoapClient xxxClient = new XxxSoapClient();
    ApplyCredentials(userName, password, xxxClient.ClientCredentials);

    private static void ApplyCredentials(string userName, string password, ClientCredentials clientCredentials)
    {
        clientCredentials.UserName.UserName = userName;
        clientCredentials.UserName.Password = password;
        clientCredentials.Windows.ClientCredential.UserName = userName;
        clientCredentials.Windows.ClientCredential.Password = password;
        clientCredentials.Windows.AllowNtlm = true;
        clientCredentials.Windows.AllowedImpersonationLevel = System.Security.Principal.TokenImpersonationLevel.Impersonation;
    }  

How to deal with http status codes other than 200 in Angular 2

Yes you can handle with the catch operator like this and show alert as you want but firstly you have to import Rxjs for the same like this way

import {Observable} from 'rxjs/Rx';

return this.http.request(new Request(this.requestoptions))
            .map((res: Response) => {
                if (res) {
                    if (res.status === 201) {
                        return [{ status: res.status, json: res }]
                    }
                    else if (res.status === 200) {
                        return [{ status: res.status, json: res }]
                    }
                }
            }).catch((error: any) => {
                if (error.status === 500) {
                    return Observable.throw(new Error(error.status));
                }
                else if (error.status === 400) {
                    return Observable.throw(new Error(error.status));
                }
                else if (error.status === 409) {
                    return Observable.throw(new Error(error.status));
                }
                else if (error.status === 406) {
                    return Observable.throw(new Error(error.status));
                }
            });
    }

also you can handel error (with err block) that is throw by catch block while .map function,

like this -

...
.subscribe(res=>{....}
           err => {//handel here});

Update

as required for any status without checking particluar one you can try this: -

return this.http.request(new Request(this.requestoptions))
            .map((res: Response) => {
                if (res) {
                    if (res.status === 201) {
                        return [{ status: res.status, json: res }]
                    }
                    else if (res.status === 200) {
                        return [{ status: res.status, json: res }]
                    }
                }
            }).catch((error: any) => {
                if (error.status < 400 ||  error.status ===500) {
                    return Observable.throw(new Error(error.status));
                }
            })
            .subscribe(res => {...},
                       err => {console.log(err)} );

How to downgrade tensorflow, multiple versions possible?

Pay attention: you cannot install arbitrary versions of tensorflow, they have to correspond to your python installation, which isn't conveyed by most of the answers here. This is also true for the current wheels like https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/windows/gpu/tensorflow_gpu-1.1.0-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl (from this answer above). For this example, the cp35-cp35m hints that it is for Python 3.5.x

A huge list of different wheels/compatibilities can be found here on github. By using this, you can downgrade to almost every availale version in combination with the respective for python. For example:

pip install tensorflow==2.0.0

(note that previous to installing Python 3.7.8 alongside version 3.8.3 in my case, you would get

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tensorflow==2.0.0 (from versions: 2.2.0rc1, 2.2.0rc2, 2.2.0rc3, 2.2.0rc4, 2.2.0, 2.3.0rc0, 2.3.0rc1)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for tensorflow==2.0.0

this also holds true for other non-compatible combinations.)

This should also be useful for legacy CPU without AVX support or GPUs with a compute capability that's too low.


If you only need the most recent releases (which it doesn't sound like in your question) a list of urls for the current wheel packages is available on this tensorflow page. That's from this SO-answer.

Note: This link to a list of different versions didn't work for me.

Rails 4 - Strong Parameters - Nested Objects

I found this suggestion useful in my case:

  def product_params
    params.require(:product).permit(:name).tap do |whitelisted|
      whitelisted[:data] = params[:product][:data]
    end
  end

Check this link of Xavier's comment on github.

This approach whitelists the entire params[:measurement][:groundtruth] object.

Using the original questions attributes:

  def product_params
    params.require(:measurement).permit(:name, :groundtruth).tap do |whitelisted|
      whitelisted[:groundtruth] = params[:measurement][:groundtruth]
    end
  end

How to assign the output of a Bash command to a variable?

Try:

pwd=`pwd`

or

pwd=$(pwd)

Notice no spaces after the equals sign.

Also as Mr. Weiss points out; you don't assign to $pwd, you assign to pwd.

Git push rejected after feature branch rebase

Instead of using -f or --force developers should use

--force-with-lease

Why? Because it checks the remote branch for changes which is absolutely a good idea. Let's imagine that James and Lisa are working on the same feature branch and Lisa has pushed a commit. James now rebases his local branch and is rejected when trying to push. Of course James thinks this is due to rebase and uses --force and would rewrite all Lisa's changes. If James had used --force-with-lease he would have received a warning that there are commits done by someone else. I don't see why anyone would use --force instead of --force-with-lease when pushing after a rebase.

WebView and Cookies on Android

My problem is cookies are not working "within" the same session. –

Burak: I had the same problem. Enabling cookies fixed the issue.

CookieManager.getInstance().setAcceptCookie(true);

What is the "N+1 selects problem" in ORM (Object-Relational Mapping)?

Supplier with a one-to-many relationship with Product. One Supplier has (supplies) many Products.

***** Table: Supplier *****
+-----+-------------------+
| ID  |       NAME        |
+-----+-------------------+
|  1  |  Supplier Name 1  |
|  2  |  Supplier Name 2  |
|  3  |  Supplier Name 3  |
|  4  |  Supplier Name 4  |
+-----+-------------------+

***** Table: Product *****
+-----+-----------+--------------------+-------+------------+
| ID  |   NAME    |     DESCRIPTION    | PRICE | SUPPLIERID |
+-----+-----------+--------------------+-------+------------+
|1    | Product 1 | Name for Product 1 |  2.0  |     1      |
|2    | Product 2 | Name for Product 2 | 22.0  |     1      |
|3    | Product 3 | Name for Product 3 | 30.0  |     2      |
|4    | Product 4 | Name for Product 4 |  7.0  |     3      |
+-----+-----------+--------------------+-------+------------+

Factors:

  • Lazy mode for Supplier set to “true” (default)

  • Fetch mode used for querying on Product is Select

  • Fetch mode (default): Supplier information is accessed

  • Caching does not play a role for the first time the

  • Supplier is accessed

Fetch mode is Select Fetch (default)

// It takes Select fetch mode as a default
Query query = session.createQuery( "from Product p");
List list = query.list();
// Supplier is being accessed
displayProductsListWithSupplierName(results);

select ... various field names ... from PRODUCT
select ... various field names ... from SUPPLIER where SUPPLIER.id=?
select ... various field names ... from SUPPLIER where SUPPLIER.id=?
select ... various field names ... from SUPPLIER where SUPPLIER.id=?

Result:

  • 1 select statement for Product
  • N select statements for Supplier

This is N+1 select problem!

Curl command line for consuming webServices?

Posting a string:

curl -d "String to post" "http://www.example.com/target"

Posting the contents of a file:

curl -d @soap.xml "http://www.example.com/target"

Iterate through DataSet

foreach (DataTable table in dataSet.Tables)
{
    foreach (DataRow row in table.Rows)
    {
        foreach (object item in row.ItemArray)
        {
            // read item
        }
    }
}

Or, if you need the column info:

foreach (DataTable table in dataSet.Tables)
{
    foreach (DataRow row in table.Rows)
    {
        foreach (DataColumn column in table.Columns)
        {
            object item = row[column];
            // read column and item
        }
    }
}

Set UITableView content inset permanently

This is how it can be fixed easily through Storyboard (iOS 11 and Xcode 9.1):

Select Table View > Size Inspector > Content Insets: Never

Xampp-mysql - "Table doesn't exist in engine" #1932

If you have copied & Pasted files from an old backup folder to new then its simple. Just copy the old ibdata1 into your new one. You can find it from \xampp\mysql\data

right align an image using CSS HTML

There are a few different ways to do this but following is a quick sample of one way.

<img src="yourimage.jpg" style="float:right" /><div style="clear:both">Your text here.</div>

I used inline styles for this sample but you can easily place these in a stylesheet and reference the class or id.

Setting up connection string in ASP.NET to SQL SERVER

You can also use this, it's simpler. The only thing you need to set is "YourDataBaseName".

  <connectionStrings>
    <add name="ConnStringDb1" connectionString="Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=YourDataBaseName;Integrated Security=True;" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
  </connectionStrings>

Where to place the connection string

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>  
  <configuration>  
    <connectionStrings>  
      <clear />  
      <add name="Name"   
       providerName="System.Data.ProviderName"   
       connectionString="Valid Connection String;" />  
    </connectionStrings>  
  </configuration>  

What is C# equivalent of <map> in C++?

Take a look at the Dictionary class in System::Collections::Generic.

Dictionary<myComplex, int> myMap = new Dictionary<myComplex, int>();

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

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

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

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

xaml

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

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

.cs

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

        double xChange = 1, yChange = 1;

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

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

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

Pandas rename column by position?

You can do this:

df.rename(columns={ df.columns[1]: "whatever" })

how to git commit a whole folder?

When you “add” something in Git, you add it to the staging area. When you commit, you then commit what’s in the staging area, meaning it’s possible to commit only a sub-set of changed files at any one time.

In your case, you want to add the folder to the staging area, and then just do a normal commit:

$ git add foldername
$ git commit -m 'Helpful commit message'

What does the "+" (plus sign) CSS selector mean?

"+" is the adjacent sibling selector. It will select any p DIRECTLY AFTER a p (not a child or parent though, a sibling).

How to get input text value on click in ReactJS

There are two ways to go about doing this.

  1. Create a state in the constructor that contains the text input. Attach an onChange event to the input box that updates state each time. Then onClick you could just alert the state object.

  2. handleClick: function() { alert(this.refs.myInput.value); },

getApplication() vs. getApplicationContext()

Compare getApplication() and getApplicationContext().

getApplication returns an Application object which will allow you to manage your global application state and respond to some device situations such as onLowMemory() and onConfigurationChanged().

getApplicationContext returns the global application context - the difference from other contexts is that for example, an activity context may be destroyed (or otherwise made unavailable) by Android when your activity ends. The Application context remains available all the while your Application object exists (which is not tied to a specific Activity) so you can use this for things like Notifications that require a context that will be available for longer periods and independent of transient UI objects.

I guess it depends on what your code is doing whether these may or may not be the same - though in normal use, I'd expect them to be different.

Difference between View and ViewGroup in Android

  1. A ViewGroup is a special view that can contain other views (called children.) The view group is the base class for layouts and views containers. This class also defines the ViewGroup.LayoutParams class which serves as the base class for layouts parameters.

    View class represents the basic building block for user interface components. A View occupies a rectangular area on the screen and is responsible for drawing and event handling. View is the base class for widgets, which are used to create interactive UI components (buttons, text fields, etc.).

  2. Example : ViewGroup (LinearLayout), View (TextView)

Reference

Getting a browser's name client-side

In c# you your browser name using:

System.Web.HttpBrowserCapabilities browser = Request.Browser;

For details see a link.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/3yekbd5b%28v=vs.100%29.aspx

and in Client side:

JQuery:

jQuery.browser

For details see a link:

http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.browser/

Python function overloading

Python 3.8 added functools.singledispatchmethod

Transform a method into a single-dispatch generic function.

To define a generic method, decorate it with the @singledispatchmethod decorator. Note that the dispatch happens on the type of the first non-self or non-cls argument, create your function accordingly:

from functools import singledispatchmethod


class Negator:
    @singledispatchmethod
    def neg(self, arg):
        raise NotImplementedError("Cannot negate a")

    @neg.register
    def _(self, arg: int):
        return -arg

    @neg.register
    def _(self, arg: bool):
        return not arg


negator = Negator()
for v in [42, True, "Overloading"]:
    neg = negator.neg(v)
    print(f"{v=}, {neg=}")

Output

v=42, neg=-42
v=True, neg=False
NotImplementedError: Cannot negate a

@singledispatchmethod supports nesting with other decorators such as @classmethod. Note that to allow for dispatcher.register, singledispatchmethod must be the outer most decorator. Here is the Negator class with the neg methods being class bound:

from functools import singledispatchmethod


class Negator:
    @singledispatchmethod
    @staticmethod
    def neg(arg):
        raise NotImplementedError("Cannot negate a")

    @neg.register
    def _(arg: int) -> int:
        return -arg

    @neg.register
    def _(arg: bool) -> bool:
        return not arg


for v in [42, True, "Overloading"]:
    neg = Negator.neg(v)
    print(f"{v=}, {neg=}")

Output:

v=42, neg=-42
v=True, neg=False
NotImplementedError: Cannot negate a

The same pattern can be used for other similar decorators: staticmethod, abstractmethod, and others.

Disable PHP in directory (including all sub-directories) with .htaccess

On production I prefer to redirect the requests to .php files under the directories where PHP processing should be disabled to a home page or to 404 page. This won't reveal any source code (why search engines should index uploaded malicious code?) and will look more friendly for visitors and even for evil hackers trying to exploit the stuff. Also it can be implemented in mostly in any context - vhost or .htaccess. Something like this:

<DirectoryMatch "^${docroot}/(image|cache|upload)/">
    <FilesMatch "\.php$">
        # use one of the redirections
        #RedirectMatch temp "(.*)" "http://${servername}/404/"
        RedirectMatch temp "(.*)" "http://${servername}"
    </FilesMatch>
</DirectoryMatch>

Adjust the directives as you need.

Mask for an Input to allow phone numbers?

Reactive Form


See at Stackblitz

Addition to the @Günter Zöchbauer's answer above, I tried as follows and it seems to be working but I'm not sure whether it is a efficient way.

I use valueChanges observable to listen for change events in the reactive form by subscribing to it. For special handling of backspace, I get the data from subscribe and check it with userForm.value.phone(from [formGroup]="userForm"). Because, at that moment, the data changes to the new value but the latter refers to the previous value because of not setting yet. If the data is less than previous value then the user should remove character from input. In this case, change pattern as follows:

from : newVal = newVal.replace(/^(\d{0,3})/, '($1)');

to : newVal = newVal.replace(/^(\d{0,3})/, '($1');

Otherwise, as Günter Zöchbauer mentioned above, deleting of non-numeric characters is not recognized because when we remove parentheses from input, digits still remain the same and added again parentheses from pattern match.

Controller:

import { Component,OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { FormGroup,FormBuilder,AbstractControl,Validators } from '@angular/forms';
@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  templateUrl: './app.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./app.component.css']
})
export class AppComponent implements OnInit{

  constructor(private fb:FormBuilder) { 
    this.createForm();
  }

  createForm(){
    this.userForm = this.fb.group({
      phone:['',[Validators.pattern(/^\(\d{3}\)\s\d{3}-\d{4}$/),Validators.required]],
    });
  }

  ngOnInit() {
   this.phoneValidate();
  }

  phoneValidate(){
    const phoneControl:AbstractControl = this.userForm.controls['phone'];

    phoneControl.valueChanges.subscribe(data => {
    /**the most of code from @Günter Zöchbauer's answer.*/

    /**we remove from input but: 
       @preInputValue still keep the previous value because of not setting.
    */
    let preInputValue:string = this.userForm.value.phone;
    let lastChar:string = preInputValue.substr(preInputValue.length - 1);

    var newVal = data.replace(/\D/g, '');
    //when removed value from input
    if (data.length < preInputValue.length) {

      /**while removing if we encounter ) character,
         then remove the last digit too.*/
      if(lastChar == ')'){
         newVal = newVal.substr(0,newVal.length-1); 
      }
      if (newVal.length == 0) {
        newVal = '';
      } 
      else if (newVal.length <= 3) {
        /**when removing, we change pattern match.
        "otherwise deleting of non-numeric characters is not recognized"*/
        newVal = newVal.replace(/^(\d{0,3})/, '($1');
      } else if (newVal.length <= 6) {
        newVal = newVal.replace(/^(\d{0,3})(\d{0,3})/, '($1) $2');
      } else {
        newVal = newVal.replace(/^(\d{0,3})(\d{0,3})(.*)/, '($1) $2-$3');
      }
    //when typed value in input
    } else{


    if (newVal.length == 0) {
      newVal = '';
    } 
    else if (newVal.length <= 3) {
      newVal = newVal.replace(/^(\d{0,3})/, '($1)');
    } else if (newVal.length <= 6) {
      newVal = newVal.replace(/^(\d{0,3})(\d{0,3})/, '($1) $2');
    } else {
      newVal = newVal.replace(/^(\d{0,3})(\d{0,3})(.*)/, '($1) $2-$3');
    }

  }
    this.userForm.controls['phone'].setValue(newVal,{emitEvent: false});
  });
 }

}

Template:

<form [formGroup]="userForm"  novalidate>
  <div class="form-group">
    <label for="tel">Tel:</label>
    <input id="tel" formControlName="phone" maxlength="14">
  </div>
  <button [disabled]="userForm.status == 'INVALID'" type="submit">Send</button>
</form>

UPDATE

Is there a way to preserve cursor position while backspacing in the middle of the string? Currently, it jumps back to the end.

Define an id <input id="tel" formControlName="phone" #phoneRef> and renderer2#selectRootElement to get the native element in the component.

So we can get the cursor position using:

let start = this.renderer.selectRootElement('#tel').selectionStart;
let end = this.renderer.selectRootElement('#tel').selectionEnd;

and then we can apply it after the input is updated to new value:

this.userForm.controls['phone'].setValue(newVal,{emitEvent: false});
//keep cursor the appropriate position after setting the input above.
this.renderer.selectRootElement('#tel').setSelectionRange(start,end);

UPDATE 2

It's probably better to put this sort of logic inside a directive rather than in the component

I also put the logic into a directive. This makes it easier to apply it to other elements.

See at Stackblitz

Note: It is specific to (123) 123-4567 pattern.

Connect to external server by using phpMyAdmin

You can use the phpmyadmin setup page (./phpmyadmin/setup) to generate a new config file (config.inc.php) for you. This file is found at the root of the phpMyAdmin directory.

Just create the config folder as prompted in setup page, add your servers, then click the 'Save' button. This will create a new config file in the config folder you just created.

You now have only to move the config.inc.php file to the main phpMyAdmin folder, or just copy the lines concerning the servers if you got some old configuration done already you'd like to keep.

Don't forget to delete the config folder afterwards.

google maps v3 marker info window on mouseover

Thanks to duncan answer, I end up with this:

marker.addListener('mouseover', () => infoWindow.open(map, marker))
marker.addListener('mouseout', () => infoWindow.close())

How do you get the index of the current iteration of a foreach loop?

Unless your collection can return the index of the object via some method, the only way is to use a counter like in your example.

However, when working with indexes, the only reasonable answer to the problem is to use a for loop. Anything else introduces code complexity, not to mention time and space complexity.

Inserting string at position x of another string

Well just a small change 'cause the above solution outputs

"I want anapple"

instead of

"I want an apple"

To get the output as

"I want an apple"

use the following modified code

var output = a.substr(0, position) + " " + b + a.substr(position);

When to use which design pattern?

Usually the process is the other way around. Do not go looking for situations where to use design patterns, look for code that can be optimized. When you have code that you think is not structured correctly. try to find a design pattern that will solve the problem.

Design patterns are meant to help you solve structural problems, do not go design your application just to be able to use design patterns.

How to get the selected item from ListView?

Using setOnItemClickListener is the correct answer, but if you have a keyboard you can change selection even with arrows (no click is performed), so, you need to implement also setOnItemSelectedListener :

myListView.setOnItemSelectedListener(new AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener() {
            @Override
            public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> adapterView, View view, int position, long l) {
     MyObject tmp=(MyObject) adapterView.getItemAtPosition(position);
         }
            @Override
            public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> adapterView) {
                // your stuff
            }
        });

Go to first line in a file in vim?

If you are using gvim, you could just hit Ctrl + Home to go the first line. Similarly, Ctrl + End goes to the last line.

Android image caching

As Thunder Rabbit suggested, ImageDownloader is the best one for the job. I also found a slight variation of the class at:

http://theandroidcoder.com/utilities/android-image-download-and-caching/

The main difference between the two is that the ImageDownloader uses the Android caching system, and the modified one uses internal and external storage as caching, keeping the cached images indefinitely or until the user removes it manually. The author also mentions Android 2.1 compatibility.

'invalid value encountered in double_scalars' warning, possibly numpy

It looks like a floating-point calculation error. Check the numpy.seterr function to get more information about where it happens.

tar: add all files and directories in current directory INCLUDING .svn and so on

You can fix the . form by using --exclude:

tar -czf workspace.tar.gz --exclude=workspace.tar.gz .

Adding git branch on the Bash command prompt

Follow the steps as below: (Linux)

Edit the file ~/.bashrc, to enter following lines at its end (In case, of Mac, file would be ~/.bash_profile)

# Git branch in prompt.
parse_git_branch() {
    git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/ (\1)/'
}
export PS1="\u@\h \W\[\033[32m\]\$(parse_git_branch)\[\033[00m\] $ "

Now, start the new terminal window, and try entering to any git-repo. The current branch would be shown, with the prompt.

4 More Info - MAC/Linux

Comparing two .jar files

  1. Rename .jar to .zip
  2. Extract
  3. Decompile class files with jad
  4. Recursive diff

Get filename in batch for loop

When Command Extensions are enabled (Windows XP and newer, roughly), you can use the syntax %~nF (where F is the variable and ~n is the request for its name) to only get the filename.

FOR /R C:\Directory %F in (*.*) do echo %~nF

should echo only the filenames.

PHP preg replace only allow numbers

This should do what you want:

preg_replace("/[^0-9]/", "",$c);

jquery ajax function not working

my html and js code

<script>
$(".editTest23").change(function () {

        var test_date = $(this).data('');id
        // alert(status_id);    

        $.ajax({
            type: "POST",
            url: "Doctor/getTestData",
            data: {
                test_data: test_date,
            },
            dataType: "text",
            success: function (data) {
                $('#prepend_here_test1').html(data);
            }
        });
        // you have missed this bracket
        return false;
    });
</script>

in php code

    foreach($patitent_data as $result){

        $result_html .="<tr class='test_record'>\
        <td><input type='text' name='test_name' value='$result->test_name' class='form-control'></td>\
        <td><textarea class='form-control' name='instruction'> $result->instruction </textarea>\
        </td>\
        <td><button class='close remove_test_record' aria-hidden='true'>&times;</button></td>\
     </tr>";
    }

    echo json_encode($result_html)

Rails Object to hash

You could definitely use the attributes to return all attributes but you could add an instance method to Post, call it "to_hash" and have it return the data you would like in a hash. Something like

def to_hash
 { name: self.name, active: true }
end

What is the difference between HTML tags <div> and <span>?

Remember, basically and them self doesn't perform any function either. They are not specific about functionality just by their tags.

They can only be customized with the help of CSS.

Now that coming to your question:

SPAN tag together with some styling will be useful on having hold inside a line, say in a paragraph, in the html. This is kind of line level or statement level in HTML.

Example:

<p>Am writing<span class="time">this answer</span> in my free time of my day.</p>

DIV tag functionality as said can only be visible backed with styling, can have hold of large chunks of HTML code.

DIV is Block level

Example:

    <div class="large-time">
    <p>Am writing <span class="time"> this answer</span> in my free time of my day. 
    </p>
    </div>

Both have their time and case when to be used, based on your requirement.

Hope am clear with the answer. Thank you.

How do I wait until Task is finished in C#?

async Task<int> AccessTheWebAsync()  
{   
    // You need to add a reference to System.Net.Http to declare client.  
    HttpClient client = new HttpClient();  

    // GetStringAsync returns a Task<string>. That means that when you await the  
    // task you'll get a string (urlContents).  
    Task<string> getStringTask = 

    client.GetStringAsync("http://msdn.microsoft.com");  

    // You can do work here that doesn't rely on the string from GetStringAsync.  
    DoIndependentWork();  

    // The await operator suspends AccessTheWebAsync.  
    //  - AccessTheWebAsync can't continue until getStringTask is complete.  
    //  - Meanwhile, control returns to the caller of AccessTheWebAsync.  
    //  - Control resumes here when getStringTask is complete.   
    //  - The await operator then retrieves the string result from 
    getStringTask.  
    string urlContents = await getStringTask;  

    // The return statement specifies an integer result.  
    // Any methods that are awaiting AccessTheWebenter code hereAsync retrieve the length 
    value.  
    return urlContents.Length;  
}  

CSS Animation onClick

Try this:

<div>
 <p onclick="startAnimation()">Start</p><!--O botão para iniciar (start)-->
 <div id="animation">Hello!</div> <!--O elemento que você quer animar-->
</div>

<style>
@keyframes animationName {
from {margin-left:-30%;}
}
</style>

<script>
function startAnimation() {
    document.getElementById("animation").style.animation = "animationName 2s linear 1";
}
</script>

Sending string via socket (python)

import socket
from threading import *

serversocket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
host = "192.168.1.3"
port = 8000
print (host)
print (port)
serversocket.bind((host, port))

class client(Thread):
    def __init__(self, socket, address):
        Thread.__init__(self)
        self.sock = socket
        self.addr = address
        self.start()

    def run(self):
        while 1:
            print('Client sent:', self.sock.recv(1024).decode())
            self.sock.send(b'Oi you sent something to me')

serversocket.listen(5)
print ('server started and listening')
while 1:
    clientsocket, address = serversocket.accept()
    client(clientsocket, address)

This is a very VERY simple design for how you could solve it. First of all, you need to either accept the client (server side) before going into your while 1 loop because in every loop you accept a new client, or you do as i describe, you toss the client into a separate thread which you handle on his own from now on.

Select N random elements from a List<T> in C#

I think the selected answer is correct and pretty sweet. I implemented it differently though, as I also wanted the result in random order.

    static IEnumerable<SomeType> PickSomeInRandomOrder<SomeType>(
        IEnumerable<SomeType> someTypes,
        int maxCount)
    {
        Random random = new Random(DateTime.Now.Millisecond);

        Dictionary<double, SomeType> randomSortTable = new Dictionary<double,SomeType>();

        foreach(SomeType someType in someTypes)
            randomSortTable[random.NextDouble()] = someType;

        return randomSortTable.OrderBy(KVP => KVP.Key).Take(maxCount).Select(KVP => KVP.Value);
    }

Convert tabs to spaces in Notepad++

There is no 'Edit Components' tab in the preferences setup. You need to go 'Language Menu/Tab Settings', there is an option in there to control tab behavior. You can even set it to work differently depending on the language of the file.

how to create inline style with :before and :after

If you really need it inline, for example because you are loading some user-defined colors dynamically, you can always add a <style> element right before your content.

<style>#project-slide-1:before { color: #ff0000; }</style>
<div id="project-slide-1" class="project-slide"> ... </div>

Example use case with PHP and some (wordpress inspired) dummy functions:

<style>#project-slide-<?php the_ID() ?>:before { color: <?php the_field('color') ?>; }</style>
<div id="project-slide-<?php the_ID() ?>" class="project-slide"> ... </div>

Since HTML 5.2 it is valid to place style elements inside the body, although it is still recommend to place style elements in the head.

Reference: https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/document-metadata.html#the-style-element

How can you tell if a value is not numeric in Oracle?

From Oracle DB 12c Release 2 you could use VALIDATE_CONVERSION function:

VALIDATE_CONVERSION determines whether expr can be converted to the specified data type. If expr can be successfully converted, then this function returns 1; otherwise, this function returns 0. If expr evaluates to null, then this function returns 1. If an error occurs while evaluating expr, then this function returns the error.

 IF (VALIDATE_CONVERSION(value AS NUMBER) = 1) THEN
     ...
 END IF;

db<>fiddle demo

CSS to select/style first word

There isn't a plain CSS method for this. You might have to go with JavaScript + Regex to pop in a span.

Ideally, there would be a pseudo-element for first-word, but you're out of luck as that doesn't appear to work. We do have :first-letter and :first-line.

You might be able to use a combination of :after or :before to get at it without using a span.

Razor View Without Layout

Procedure 1 : Control Layouts rendering by using _ViewStart file in the root directory of the Views folder

This method is the simplest way for beginners to control Layouts rendering in your ASP.NET MVC application. We can identify the controller and render the Layouts as par controller, to do this we can write our code in _ViewStart file in the root directory of the Views folder. Following is an example shows how it can be done.

 @{
 var controller = HttpContext.Current.Request.RequestContext.RouteData.Values["Controller"].ToString();
 string cLayout = "";
 if (controller == "Webmaster") {
 cLayout = "~/Views/Shared/_WebmasterLayout.cshtml";
 }
 else {
 cLayout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";
 }
 Layout = cLayout;
 }

Procedure 2 : Set Layout by Returning from ActionResult

One the the great feature of ASP.NET MVC is that, we can override the default layout rendering by returning the layout from the ActionResult. So, this is also a way to render different Layout in your ASP.NET MVC application. Following code sample show how it can be done.

public ActionResult Index()
{
 SampleModel model = new SampleModel();
 //Any Logic
 return View("Index", "_WebmasterLayout", model);
}

Procedure 3 : View - wise Layout (By defining Layout within each view on the top)

ASP.NET MVC provides us such a great feature & faxibility to override the default layout rendering by defining the layout on the view. To implement this we can write our code in following manner in each View.

@{
   Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_WebmasterLayout.cshtml";
}

Procedure 4 : Placing _ViewStart file in each of the directories

This is a very useful way to set different Layouts for each Controller in your ASP.NET MVC application. If we want to set default Layout for each directories than we can do this by putting _ViewStart file in each of the directories with the required Layout information as shown below:

@{
  Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_WebmasterLayout.cshtml";
}

Java: is there a map function?

Be very careful with Collections2.transform() from guava. That method's greatest advantage is also its greatest danger: its laziness.

Look at the documentation of Lists.transform(), which I believe applies also to Collections2.transform():

The function is applied lazily, invoked when needed. This is necessary for the returned list to be a view, but it means that the function will be applied many times for bulk operations like List.contains(java.lang.Object) and List.hashCode(). For this to perform well, function should be fast. To avoid lazy evaluation when the returned list doesn't need to be a view, copy the returned list into a new list of your choosing.

Also in the documentation of Collections2.transform() they mention you get a live view, that change in the source list affect the transformed list. This sort of behaviour can lead to difficult-to-track problems if the developer doesn't realize the way it works.

If you want a more classical "map", that will run once and once only, then you're better off with FluentIterable, also from Guava, which has an operation which is much more simple. Here is the google example for it:

FluentIterable
       .from(database.getClientList())
       .filter(activeInLastMonth())
       .transform(Functions.toStringFunction())
       .limit(10)
       .toList();

transform() here is the map method. It uses the same Function<> "callbacks" as Collections.transform(). The list you get back is read-only though, use copyInto() to get a read-write list.

Otherwise of course when java8 comes out with lambdas, this will be obsolete.

Refused to execute script, strict MIME type checking is enabled?

In my case it was a file not found, I typed the path to the javascript file incorrectly.

Get push notification while App in foreground iOS

In your app delegate use bellow code

import UIKit
import UserNotifications
@UIApplicationMain
class AppDelegate: UIResponder, UIApplicationDelegate, UNUserNotificationCenterDelegate {
 var currentToken: String?
 var window: UIWindow?
 func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
        // Override point for customization after application launch.
        application.registerForRemoteNotifications()
        let center = UNUserNotificationCenter.current()
        center.requestAuthorization(options: [.alert, .sound, .badge]) { (granted, error) in

            // Enable or disable features based on authorization.
            if granted == true
            {
                print("Allow")
                UIApplication.shared.registerForRemoteNotifications()
            }
            else
            {
                print("Don't Allow")
            }
        }
        UNUserNotificationCenter.current().delegate = self

        return true
    }
func application(_ application: UIApplication, didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken deviceToken: Data){
        let tokenParts = deviceToken.map { data -> String in
            return String(format: "%02.2hhx", data)
        }
        let token = tokenParts.joined()
        currentToken = token  //get device token to delegate variable

    }
 public class var shared: AppDelegate {
        return UIApplication.shared.delegate as! AppDelegate
    }
 func userNotificationCenter(_ center: UNUserNotificationCenter, willPresent notification: UNNotification, withCompletionHandler completionHandler: @escaping (UNNotificationPresentationOptions) -> Void) {
         completionHandler([.alert, .badge, .sound])
    }
}

Difference between "char" and "String" in Java

I would recommend you to read through the Java tutorial documentation hosted on Oracle's website whenever you are in doubt about anything related to Java.

You can get a clear understanding of the concepts by going through the following tutorials:

Can you force Visual Studio to always run as an Administrator in Windows 8?

This is a copy of my answer to a similar post on SuperUser:

Option 1 - Set VSLauncher.exe and DevEnv.exe to always run as admin

To have Visual Studio always run as admin when opening any .sln file:

  1. Navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\MSEnv\VSLauncher.exe.
  2. Right-click on VSLauncher.exe and choose Troubleshoot compatibility.
  3. Choose Troubleshoot program.
  4. Check off The program requires additional permissions and hit Next.
  5. Click the Test the program... button to launch VS.
  6. Click Next, then hit Yes, save these settings for this program, and then the close buton.

To have Visual Studio always run as an admin when just opening visual studio directly, do the same thing to the DevEnv.exe file(s). These file are located at:

Visual Studio 2010

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe

Visual Studio 2012

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe

Visual Studio 2013

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe

Visual Studio 2015

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe

Visual Studio 2017

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\[VS SKU]\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe

Option 2 - Use VSCommands extension for Visual Studio

Install the free VSCommands extension for Visual Studio (it's in the Visual Studio Extensions Gallery) and then configure it to always have Visual Studio start with admin privileges by going to Tools -> VSCommands -> Options -> IDE Enhancements -> General and check off Always start Visual Studio with elevated permissions and click the Save button.

Note: VSCommands is not currently available for VS 2015, but their site says they are working on updating it to support VS 2015.

My Opinion

I prefer Option 2 because:

  • it also allows you to easily turn off this functionality.
  • VSCommands comes with lots of other great features so I always have it installed anyways.
  • it's just easier to do than option 1.

XXHDPI and XXXHDPI dimensions in dp for images and icons in android

You can use a vector. Instead of worry about different screen sizes you only need to create an .svg file and import it to your project using Vector Asset Studio.

Simple if else onclick then do?

you call function on page load time but not call on button event, you will need to call function onclick event, you may add event inline element style or event bining

_x000D_
_x000D_
 function Choice(elem) {_x000D_
   var box = document.getElementById("box");_x000D_
   if (elem.id == "no") {_x000D_
     box.style.backgroundColor = "red";_x000D_
   } else if (elem.id == "yes") {_x000D_
     box.style.backgroundColor = "green";_x000D_
   } else {_x000D_
     box.style.backgroundColor = "purple";_x000D_
   };_x000D_
 };
_x000D_
<div id="box">dd</div>_x000D_
<button id="yes" onclick="Choice(this);">yes</button>_x000D_
<button id="no" onclick="Choice(this);">no</button>_x000D_
<button id="other" onclick="Choice(this);">other</button>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

or event binding,

_x000D_
_x000D_
window.onload = function() {_x000D_
  var box = document.getElementById("box");_x000D_
  document.getElementById("yes").onclick = function() {_x000D_
    box.style.backgroundColor = "red";_x000D_
  }_x000D_
  document.getElementById("no").onclick = function() {_x000D_
    box.style.backgroundColor = "green";_x000D_
  }_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<div id="box">dd</div>_x000D_
<button id="yes">yes</button>_x000D_
<button id="no">no</button>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

How can building a heap be O(n) time complexity?

Your analysis is correct. However, it is not tight.

It is not really easy to explain why building a heap is a linear operation, you should better read it.

A great analysis of the algorithm can be seen here.


The main idea is that in the build_heap algorithm the actual heapify cost is not O(log n)for all elements.

When heapify is called, the running time depends on how far an element might move down in tree before the process terminates. In other words, it depends on the height of the element in the heap. In the worst case, the element might go down all the way to the leaf level.

Let us count the work done level by level.

At the bottommost level, there are 2^(h)nodes, but we do not call heapify on any of these, so the work is 0. At the next to level there are 2^(h - 1) nodes, and each might move down by 1 level. At the 3rd level from the bottom, there are 2^(h - 2) nodes, and each might move down by 2 levels.

As you can see not all heapify operations are O(log n), this is why you are getting O(n).

How can I change the text inside my <span> with jQuery?

$('#abc span').html('A new text for the span.');

Git: add vs push vs commit

add -in git is used to tell git which files we want to commit, it puts files to the staging area

commit- in git is used to save files on to local machine so that if we make any changes or even delete the files we can still recover our committed files

push - if we commit our files on the local machine they are still prone to be lost if our local machine gets lost, gets damaged, etc, to keep our files safe or to share our files usually we want to keep our files on a remote repository like Github. To save on remote repositories we use push

example Staging a file named index.html git add index.html

Committing a file that is staged git commit -m 'name of your commit'

Pushing a file to Github git push origin master

Setting CSS pseudo-class rules from JavaScript

Switching stylesheets in and out is the way to do it. Here is a library to build stylesheets dynamically, so you can set styles on the fly:

http://www.4pmp.com/2009/11/dynamic-css-pseudo-class-styles-with-jquery/

How to get std::vector pointer to the raw data?

something.data() will return a pointer to the data space of the vector.

ConvergenceWarning: Liblinear failed to converge, increase the number of iterations

Explicitly specifying the max_iter resolves the warning as the default max_iter is 100. [For Logistic Regression].

 logreg = LogisticRegression(max_iter=1000)

Live video streaming using Java?

You can do this today in Java with the Red5 media server from Flash. If you want to also decode and encode video in Java, you can use the Xuggler project.

SQL Server Management Studio missing

If you have a copy of backup of SQL Server setup then you could add features (Management Tools Basic/Complete) as you requested.

Please use the below steps in Windows machine:

  1. Go to Control Panel -> Programs -> Program and Features -> Select your current version of Microsoft SQL Server
  2. Right Click, select Change/Uninstall
  3. Click Add features
  4. Select the backup copy folder
  5. Do the steps what you done for SQL Server installation until features selection
  6. Now select the features Management Tools Basic/Complete or both
  7. And go ahead with process for complete installation.
  8. Now you should get, SQL Server Management Studio and you can browse your databases.

How to find the day, month and year with moment.js

If you are looking for answer in string values , try this

var check = moment('date/utc format');
day = check.format('dddd') // => ('Monday' , 'Tuesday' ----)
month = check.format('MMMM') // => ('January','February.....)
year = check.format('YYYY') // => ('2012','2013' ...)  

Link to reload current page

For me, the answers previously provided here, were opening a new tab/window (probably because of my browser settings). But i wanted to reload/refresh on the same page. So, the above solutions did not work for me.

However, the good news is, the following (either of two) worked for me.

  1. <a onclick="javascript:window.location.reload();"> refresh</a>
  2. <a onclick="window.location.href=this">refresh</a>

How to create javascript delay function

Ah yes. Welcome to Asynchronous execution.

Basically, pausing a script would cause the browser and page to become unresponsive for 3 seconds. This is horrible for web apps, and so isn't supported.

Instead, you have to think "event-based". Use setTimeout to call a function after a certain amount of time, which will continue to run the JavaScript on the page during that time.

*ngIf and *ngFor on same element causing error

On other solution might be to put an empty array in your for loop in the case where you don't want to display it

<div *ngFor="let thing of show ? stuff : []">

Where "stuff" is an array of "thing" and "show" the boolean to display or not the content

Calling virtual functions inside constructors

As has been pointed out, the objects are created base-down upon construction. When the base object is being constructed, the derived object does not exist yet, so a virtual function override cannot work.

However, this can be solved with polymorphic getters that use static polymorphism instead of virtual functions if your getters return constants, or otherwise can be expressed in a static member function, This example uses CRTP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiously_recurring_template_pattern).

template<typename DerivedClass>
class Base
{
public:
    inline Base() :
    foo(DerivedClass::getFoo())
    {}

    inline int fooSq() {
        return foo * foo;
    }

    const int foo;
};

class A : public Base<A>
{
public:
    inline static int getFoo() { return 1; }
};

class B : public Base<B>
{
public:
    inline static int getFoo() { return 2; }
};

class C : public Base<C>
{
public:
    inline static int getFoo() { return 3; }
};

int main()
{
    A a;
    B b;
    C c;

    std::cout << a.fooSq() << ", " << b.fooSq() << ", " << c.fooSq() << std::endl;

    return 0;
}

With the use of static polymorphism, the base class knows which class' getter to call as the information is provided at compile-time.

Change old commit message on Git

It says:

When you save and exit the editor, it will rewind you back to that last commit in that list and drop you on the command line with the following message:

$ git rebase -i HEAD~3
Stopped at 7482e0d... updated the gemspec to hopefully work better
You can amend the commit now, with

It does not mean:

type again git rebase -i HEAD~3

Try to not typing git rebase -i HEAD~3 when exiting the editor, and it should work fine.
(otherwise, in your particular situation, a git rebase -i --abort might be needed to reset everything and allow you to try again)


As Dave Vogt mentions in the comments, git rebase --continue is for going to the next task in the rebasing process, after you've amended the first commit.

Also, Gregg Lind mentions in his answer the reword command of git rebase:

By replacing the command "pick" with the command "edit", you can tell git rebase to stop after applying that commit, so that you can edit the files and/or the commit message, amend the commit, and continue rebasing.

If you just want to edit the commit message for a commit, replace the command "pick" with the command "reword", since Git1.6.6 (January 2010).

It does the same thing ‘edit’ does during an interactive rebase, except it only lets you edit the commit message without returning control to the shell. This is extremely useful.
Currently if you want to clean up your commit messages you have to:

$ git rebase -i next

Then set all the commits to ‘edit’. Then on each one:

# Change the message in your editor.
$ git commit --amend
$ git rebase --continue

Using ‘reword’ instead of ‘edit’ lets you skip the git-commit and git-rebase calls.

How to handle login pop up window using Selenium WebDriver?

The following Selenium-Webdriver Java code should work well to handle the alert/pop up up window:

driver.switchTo().alert();
//Selenium-WebDriver Java Code for entering Username & Password as below:
driver.findElement(By.id("userID")).sendKeys("userName");
driver.findElement(By.id("password")).sendKeys("myPassword");
driver.switchTo().alert().accept();
driver.switchTo().defaultContent();

C# Example of AES256 encryption using System.Security.Cryptography.Aes

public class AesCryptoService
{
    private static byte[] Key = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(@"qwr{@^h`h&_`50/ja9!'dcmh3!uw<&=?");
    private static byte[] IV = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(@"9/\~V).A,lY&=t2b");


    public static string EncryptStringToBytes_Aes(string plainText)
    {
        if (plainText == null || plainText.Length <= 0)
            throw new ArgumentNullException("plainText");
        if (Key == null || Key.Length <= 0)
            throw new ArgumentNullException("Key");
        if (IV == null || IV.Length <= 0)
            throw new ArgumentNullException("IV");
        byte[] encrypted;


        using (AesCryptoServiceProvider aesAlg = new AesCryptoServiceProvider())
        {
            aesAlg.Key = Key;
            aesAlg.IV = IV;
            aesAlg.Mode = CipherMode.CBC;
            aesAlg.Padding = PaddingMode.PKCS7;

            ICryptoTransform encryptor = aesAlg.CreateEncryptor(aesAlg.Key, aesAlg.IV);

            using (MemoryStream msEncrypt = new MemoryStream())
            {
                using (CryptoStream csEncrypt = new CryptoStream(msEncrypt, encryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Write))
                {
                    using (StreamWriter swEncrypt = new StreamWriter(csEncrypt))
                    {
                        swEncrypt.Write(plainText);
                    }
                    encrypted = msEncrypt.ToArray();
                }
            }
        }
        
        return Convert.ToBase64String(encrypted);
    }


    
    public static string DecryptStringFromBytes_Aes(string Text)
    {
        if (Text == null || Text.Length <= 0)
            throw new ArgumentNullException("cipherText");
        if (Key == null || Key.Length <= 0)
            throw new ArgumentNullException("Key");
        if (IV == null || IV.Length <= 0)
            throw new ArgumentNullException("IV");

        string plaintext = null;
        byte[] cipherText = Convert.FromBase64String(Text.Replace(' ', '+'));

        using (AesCryptoServiceProvider aesAlg = new AesCryptoServiceProvider())
        {
            aesAlg.Key = Key;
            aesAlg.IV = IV;
            aesAlg.Mode = CipherMode.CBC;
            aesAlg.Padding = PaddingMode.PKCS7;


            ICryptoTransform decryptor = aesAlg.CreateDecryptor(aesAlg.Key, aesAlg.IV);

            using (MemoryStream msDecrypt = new MemoryStream(cipherText))
            {
                using (CryptoStream csDecrypt = new CryptoStream(msDecrypt, decryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Read))
                {
                    using (StreamReader srDecrypt = new StreamReader(csDecrypt))
                    {
                        plaintext = srDecrypt.ReadToEnd();
                    }
                }
            }

        }

        return plaintext;
    }
}

What is the python keyword "with" used for?

Explanation from the Preshing on Programming blog:

It’s handy when you have two related operations which you’d like to execute as a pair, with a block of code in between. The classic example is opening a file, manipulating the file, then closing it:

 with open('output.txt', 'w') as f:
     f.write('Hi there!')

The above with statement will automatically close the file after the nested block of code. (Continue reading to see exactly how the close occurs.) The advantage of using a with statement is that it is guaranteed to close the file no matter how the nested block exits. If an exception occurs before the end of the block, it will close the file before the exception is caught by an outer exception handler. If the nested block were to contain a return statement, or a continue or break statement, the with statement would automatically close the file in those cases, too.

How to compress an image via Javascript in the browser?

I see two things missing from the other answers:

  • canvas.toBlob (when available) is more performant than canvas.toDataURL, and also async.
  • the file -> image -> canvas -> file conversion loses EXIF data; in particular, data about image rotation commonly set by modern phones/tablets.

The following script deals with both points:

// From https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLCanvasElement/toBlob, needed for Safari:
if (!HTMLCanvasElement.prototype.toBlob) {
    Object.defineProperty(HTMLCanvasElement.prototype, 'toBlob', {
        value: function(callback, type, quality) {

            var binStr = atob(this.toDataURL(type, quality).split(',')[1]),
                len = binStr.length,
                arr = new Uint8Array(len);

            for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
                arr[i] = binStr.charCodeAt(i);
            }

            callback(new Blob([arr], {type: type || 'image/png'}));
        }
    });
}

window.URL = window.URL || window.webkitURL;

// Modified from https://stackoverflow.com/a/32490603, cc by-sa 3.0
// -2 = not jpeg, -1 = no data, 1..8 = orientations
function getExifOrientation(file, callback) {
    // Suggestion from http://code.flickr.net/2012/06/01/parsing-exif-client-side-using-javascript-2/:
    if (file.slice) {
        file = file.slice(0, 131072);
    } else if (file.webkitSlice) {
        file = file.webkitSlice(0, 131072);
    }

    var reader = new FileReader();
    reader.onload = function(e) {
        var view = new DataView(e.target.result);
        if (view.getUint16(0, false) != 0xFFD8) {
            callback(-2);
            return;
        }
        var length = view.byteLength, offset = 2;
        while (offset < length) {
            var marker = view.getUint16(offset, false);
            offset += 2;
            if (marker == 0xFFE1) {
                if (view.getUint32(offset += 2, false) != 0x45786966) {
                    callback(-1);
                    return;
                }
                var little = view.getUint16(offset += 6, false) == 0x4949;
                offset += view.getUint32(offset + 4, little);
                var tags = view.getUint16(offset, little);
                offset += 2;
                for (var i = 0; i < tags; i++)
                    if (view.getUint16(offset + (i * 12), little) == 0x0112) {
                        callback(view.getUint16(offset + (i * 12) + 8, little));
                        return;
                    }
            }
            else if ((marker & 0xFF00) != 0xFF00) break;
            else offset += view.getUint16(offset, false);
        }
        callback(-1);
    };
    reader.readAsArrayBuffer(file);
}

// Derived from https://stackoverflow.com/a/40867559, cc by-sa
function imgToCanvasWithOrientation(img, rawWidth, rawHeight, orientation) {
    var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
    if (orientation > 4) {
        canvas.width = rawHeight;
        canvas.height = rawWidth;
    } else {
        canvas.width = rawWidth;
        canvas.height = rawHeight;
    }

    if (orientation > 1) {
        console.log("EXIF orientation = " + orientation + ", rotating picture");
    }

    var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
    switch (orientation) {
        case 2: ctx.transform(-1, 0, 0, 1, rawWidth, 0); break;
        case 3: ctx.transform(-1, 0, 0, -1, rawWidth, rawHeight); break;
        case 4: ctx.transform(1, 0, 0, -1, 0, rawHeight); break;
        case 5: ctx.transform(0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0); break;
        case 6: ctx.transform(0, 1, -1, 0, rawHeight, 0); break;
        case 7: ctx.transform(0, -1, -1, 0, rawHeight, rawWidth); break;
        case 8: ctx.transform(0, -1, 1, 0, 0, rawWidth); break;
    }
    ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0, rawWidth, rawHeight);
    return canvas;
}

function reduceFileSize(file, acceptFileSize, maxWidth, maxHeight, quality, callback) {
    if (file.size <= acceptFileSize) {
        callback(file);
        return;
    }
    var img = new Image();
    img.onerror = function() {
        URL.revokeObjectURL(this.src);
        callback(file);
    };
    img.onload = function() {
        URL.revokeObjectURL(this.src);
        getExifOrientation(file, function(orientation) {
            var w = img.width, h = img.height;
            var scale = (orientation > 4 ?
                Math.min(maxHeight / w, maxWidth / h, 1) :
                Math.min(maxWidth / w, maxHeight / h, 1));
            h = Math.round(h * scale);
            w = Math.round(w * scale);

            var canvas = imgToCanvasWithOrientation(img, w, h, orientation);
            canvas.toBlob(function(blob) {
                console.log("Resized image to " + w + "x" + h + ", " + (blob.size >> 10) + "kB");
                callback(blob);
            }, 'image/jpeg', quality);
        });
    };
    img.src = URL.createObjectURL(file);
}

Example usage:

inputfile.onchange = function() {
    // If file size > 500kB, resize such that width <= 1000, quality = 0.9
    reduceFileSize(this.files[0], 500*1024, 1000, Infinity, 0.9, blob => {
        let body = new FormData();
        body.set('file', blob, blob.name || "file.jpg");
        fetch('/upload-image', {method: 'POST', body}).then(...);
    });
};

Get absolute path to workspace directory in Jenkins Pipeline plugin

"WORKSPACE" environment variable works for the latest version of Jenkins Pipeline. You can use this in your Jenkins file: "${env.WORKSPACE}"

Sample use below:

def files = findFiles glob: '**/reports/*.json'
for (def i=0; i<files.length; i++) {
jsonFilePath = "${files[i].path}"       
jsonPath = "${env.WORKSPACE}" + "/" + jsonFilePath
echo jsonPath

hope that helps!!

A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client

The previous answers are great, but nobody said how to exclude a single field from being validated for HTML/JavaScript injections. I don't know about previous versions, but in MVC3 Beta you can do this:

[HttpPost, ValidateInput(true, Exclude = "YourFieldName")]
public virtual ActionResult Edit(int id, FormCollection collection)
{
    ...
}

This still validates all the fields except for the excluded one. The nice thing about this is that your validation attributes still validate the field, but you just don't get the "A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client" exceptions.

I've used this for validating a regular expression. I've made my own ValidationAttribute to see if the regular expression is valid or not. As regular expressions can contain something that looks like a script I applied the above code - the regular expression is still being checked if it's valid or not, but not if it contains scripts or HTML.

Concatenating two one-dimensional NumPy arrays

There are several possibilities for concatenating 1D arrays, e.g.,

numpy.r_[a, a],
numpy.stack([a, a]).reshape(-1),
numpy.hstack([a, a]),
numpy.concatenate([a, a])

All those options are equally fast for large arrays; for small ones, concatenate has a slight edge:

enter image description here

The plot was created with perfplot:

import numpy
import perfplot

perfplot.show(
    setup=lambda n: numpy.random.rand(n),
    kernels=[
        lambda a: numpy.r_[a, a],
        lambda a: numpy.stack([a, a]).reshape(-1),
        lambda a: numpy.hstack([a, a]),
        lambda a: numpy.concatenate([a, a]),
    ],
    labels=["r_", "stack+reshape", "hstack", "concatenate"],
    n_range=[2 ** k for k in range(19)],
    xlabel="len(a)",
)

How to center text vertically with a large font-awesome icon?

I just had to do this myself, you need to do it the other way around.

  • do not play with the vertical-align of your text
  • play with the vertical align of the font-awesome icon
<div>
  <span class="icon icon-2x icon-camera" style=" vertical-align: middle;"></span>
  <span class="my-text">hello world</span>
</div>

Of course you could not use inline styles and target it with your own css class. But this works in a copy paste fashion.

See here: Vertical alignment of text and icon in button

If it were up to me however, I would not use the icon-2x. And simply specify the font-size myself, as in the following

<div class='my-fancy-container'>
    <span class='my-icon icon-file-text'></span>
    <span class='my-text'>Hello World</span>
</div>
.my-icon {
    vertical-align: middle;
    font-size: 40px;
}

.my-text {
    font-family: "Courier-new";
}

.my-fancy-container {
    border: 1px solid #ccc;
    border-radius: 6px;
    display: inline-block;
    margin: 60px;
    padding: 10px;
}

for a working example, please see JsFiddle

What is the best way to left align and right align two div tags?

You can do it with few lines of CSS code. You can align all div's which you want to appear next to each other to right.

<div class="div_r">First Element</div>
<div class="div_r">Second Element</div>

<style>
.div_r{
float:right;
color:red;
}
</style>

What Ruby IDE do you prefer?

I started out with RadRails then moved to Aptana when they took it over, wasn't too bad. Got a macbook and have been using Textmate, never going back.

Button background as transparent

Selectors work only for drawables, not styles. Reference


First, to make the button background transparent use the following attribute as this will not affect the material design animations:

style="?attr/buttonBarButtonStyle"

There are many ways to style your button. Check out this tutorial.

Second, to make the text bold on pressed, use this java code:

btn.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {

        switch (event.getAction()) {
            // When the user clicks the Button
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
                btn.setTypeface(Typeface.DEFAULT_BOLD);
                break;

            // When the user releases the Button
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
                btn.setTypeface(Typeface.DEFAULT);
                break;
        }
        return false;
    }
});

multiple packages in context:component-scan, spring config

You can add multiple base packages (see axtavt's answer), but you can also filter what's scanned inside the base package:

<context:component-scan base-package="x.y.z">
   <context:include-filter type="regex" expression="(service|controller)\..*"/>
</context:component-scan>

CSS: how to add white space before element's content?

/* Most Accurate Setting if you only want
   to do this with CSS Pseudo Element */
p:before { 
   content: "\00a0";
   padding-right: 5px; /* If you need more space b/w contents */
}

Can you do a For Each Row loop using MySQL?

In the link you provided, thats not a loop in sql...

thats a loop in programming language

they are first getting list of all distinct districts, and then for each district executing query again.

What is the use of DesiredCapabilities in Selenium WebDriver?

You should read the documentation about DesiredCapabilities. There is also a different page for the ChromeDriver. Javadoc from Capabilities:

Capabilities: Describes a series of key/value pairs that encapsulate aspects of a browser.

Basically, the DesiredCapabilities help to set properties for the WebDriver. A typical usecase would be to set the path for the FirefoxDriver if your local installation doesn't correspond to the default settings.

Logging levels - Logback - rule-of-thumb to assign log levels

I mostly build large scale, high availability type systems, so my answer is biased towards looking at it from a production support standpoint; that said, we assign roughly as follows:

  • error: the system is in distress, customers are probably being affected (or will soon be) and the fix probably requires human intervention. The "2AM rule" applies here- if you're on call, do you want to be woken up at 2AM if this condition happens? If yes, then log it as "error".

  • warn: an unexpected technical or business event happened, customers may be affected, but probably no immediate human intervention is required. On call people won't be called immediately, but support personnel will want to review these issues asap to understand what the impact is. Basically any issue that needs to be tracked but may not require immediate intervention.

  • info: things we want to see at high volume in case we need to forensically analyze an issue. System lifecycle events (system start, stop) go here. "Session" lifecycle events (login, logout, etc.) go here. Significant boundary events should be considered as well (e.g. database calls, remote API calls). Typical business exceptions can go here (e.g. login failed due to bad credentials). Any other event you think you'll need to see in production at high volume goes here.

  • debug: just about everything that doesn't make the "info" cut... any message that is helpful in tracking the flow through the system and isolating issues, especially during the development and QA phases. We use "debug" level logs for entry/exit of most non-trivial methods and marking interesting events and decision points inside methods.

  • trace: we don't use this often, but this would be for extremely detailed and potentially high volume logs that you don't typically want enabled even during normal development. Examples include dumping a full object hierarchy, logging some state during every iteration of a large loop, etc.

As or more important than choosing the right log levels is ensuring that the logs are meaningful and have the needed context. For example, you'll almost always want to include the thread ID in the logs so you can follow a single thread if needed. You may also want to employ a mechanism to associate business info (e.g. user ID) to the thread so it gets logged as well. In your log message, you'll want to include enough info to ensure the message can be actionable. A log like " FileNotFound exception caught" is not very helpful. A better message is "FileNotFound exception caught while attempting to open config file: /usr/local/app/somefile.txt. userId=12344."

There are also a number of good logging guides out there... for example, here's an edited snippet from JCL (Jakarta Commons Logging):

  • error - Other runtime errors or unexpected conditions. Expect these to be immediately visible on a status console.
  • warn - Use of deprecated APIs, poor use of API, 'almost' errors, other runtime situations that are undesirable or unexpected, but not necessarily "wrong". Expect these to be immediately visible on a status console.
  • info - Interesting runtime events (startup/shutdown). Expect these to be immediately visible on a console, so be conservative and keep to a minimum.
  • debug - detailed information on the flow through the system. Expect these to be written to logs only.
  • trace - more detailed information. Expect these to be written to logs only.

How to generate Javadoc HTML files in Eclipse?

To quickly add a Javadoc use following shortcut:

Windows: alt + shift + J

Mac: ? + Alt + J

Depending on selected context, a Javadoc will be printed. To create Javadoc written by OP, select corresponding method and hit the shotcut keys.

Find text string using jQuery?

Normally jQuery selectors do not search within the "text nodes" in the DOM. However if you use the .contents() function, text nodes will be included, then you can use the nodeType property to filter only the text nodes, and the nodeValue property to search the text string.

    $('*', 'body')
        .andSelf()
        .contents()
        .filter(function(){
            return this.nodeType === 3;
        })
        .filter(function(){
            // Only match when contains 'simple string' anywhere in the text
            return this.nodeValue.indexOf('simple string') != -1;
        })
        .each(function(){
            // Do something with this.nodeValue
        });

Mailx send html message

If you use AIX try this This will attach a text file and include a HTML body If this does not work catch the output in the /var/spool/mqueue

#!/usr/bin/kWh
if (( $# < 1 ))
 then
  echo "\n\tSyntax: $(basename) MAILTO SUBJECT BODY.html ATTACH.txt "
  echo "\tmailzatt"
  exit
fi
export MAILTO=${[email protected]}
MAILFROM=$(whoami)
SUBJECT=${2-"mailzatt"}
export BODY=${3-/apps/bin/attch.txt}
export ATTACH=${4-/apps/bin/attch.txt}
export HST=$(hostname)
#export BODY="/wrk/stocksum/report.html"
#export ATTACH="/wrk/stocksum/Report.txt"
#export MAILPART=`uuidgen` ## Generates Unique ID
#export MAILPART_BODY=`uuidgen` ## Generates Unique ID
export MAILPART="==".$(date +%d%S)."===" ## Generates Unique ID
export MAILPART_BODY="==".$(date +%d%Sbody)."===" ## Generates Unique ID
(
echo "To: $MAILTO"
 echo "From: mailmate@$HST "
 echo "Subject: $SUBJECT"
 echo "MIME-Version: 1.0"
 echo "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"$MAILPART\""
 echo ""
 echo "--$MAILPART"
 echo "Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"$MAILPART_BODY\""
 echo ""
 echo ""
 echo "--$MAILPART_BODY"
 echo "Content-Type: text/html"
 echo "Content-Disposition: inline"
 cat $BODY
 echo ""
 echo "--$MAILPART_BODY--"
 echo ""
 echo "--$MAILPART"
 echo "Content-Type: text/plain"
 echo "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$(basename $ATTACH)\""
 echo ""
 cat $ATTACH
 echo ""
 echo "--${MAILPART}--"
  ) | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t

Hide particular div onload and then show div after click

You are missing # hash character before id selectors, this should work:

$(document).ready(function() {
    $("#div2").hide();

    $("#preview").click(function() {
      $("#div1").hide();
      $("#div2").show();
    });

});

Learn More about jQuery ID Selectors

Defining custom attrs

Currently the best documentation is the source. You can take a look at it here (attrs.xml).

You can define attributes in the top <resources> element or inside of a <declare-styleable> element. If I'm going to use an attr in more than one place I put it in the root element. Note, all attributes share the same global namespace. That means that even if you create a new attribute inside of a <declare-styleable> element it can be used outside of it and you cannot create another attribute with the same name of a different type.

An <attr> element has two xml attributes name and format. name lets you call it something and this is how you end up referring to it in code, e.g., R.attr.my_attribute. The format attribute can have different values depending on the 'type' of attribute you want.

  • reference - if it references another resource id (e.g, "@color/my_color", "@layout/my_layout")
  • color
  • boolean
  • dimension
  • float
  • integer
  • string
  • fraction
  • enum - normally implicitly defined
  • flag - normally implicitly defined

You can set the format to multiple types by using |, e.g., format="reference|color".

enum attributes can be defined as follows:

<attr name="my_enum_attr">
  <enum name="value1" value="1" />
  <enum name="value2" value="2" />
</attr>

flag attributes are similar except the values need to be defined so they can be bit ored together:

<attr name="my_flag_attr">
  <flag name="fuzzy" value="0x01" />
  <flag name="cold" value="0x02" />
</attr>

In addition to attributes there is the <declare-styleable> element. This allows you to define attributes a custom view can use. You do this by specifying an <attr> element, if it was previously defined you do not specify the format. If you wish to reuse an android attr, for example, android:gravity, then you can do that in the name, as follows.

An example of a custom view <declare-styleable>:

<declare-styleable name="MyCustomView">
  <attr name="my_custom_attribute" />
  <attr name="android:gravity" />
</declare-styleable>

When defining your custom attributes in XML on your custom view you need to do a few things. First you must declare a namespace to find your attributes. You do this on the root layout element. Normally there is only xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android". You must now also add xmlns:whatever="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto".

Example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  xmlns:whatever="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
  android:orientation="vertical"
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="fill_parent">

    <org.example.mypackage.MyCustomView
      android:layout_width="fill_parent"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:gravity="center"
      whatever:my_custom_attribute="Hello, world!" />
</LinearLayout>

Finally, to access that custom attribute you normally do so in the constructor of your custom view as follows.

public MyCustomView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
  super(context, attrs, defStyle);

  TypedArray a = context.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs, R.styleable.MyCustomView, defStyle, 0);

  String str = a.getString(R.styleable.MyCustomView_my_custom_attribute);

  //do something with str

  a.recycle();
}

The end. :)

How to print React component on click of a button?

You'll have to style your printout with @media print {} in the CSS but the simple code is:

export default class Component extends Component {

    print(){
        window.print();
    }


  render() {

  ...
  <span className="print"
              onClick={this.print}>
    PRINT
    </span>

  } 
}

Hope that's helpful!

.attr("disabled", "disabled") issue

UPDATED

DEMO: http://jsbin.com/uneti3/3

your code is wrong, it should be something like this:

 $(bla).click(function() { 
        var disable =  $target.toggleClass('open').hasClass('open');
       $target.prev().prop("disabled", disable);
  });

you are using the toggleClass function in wrong way

In c++ what does a tilde "~" before a function name signify?

This is a destructor. It's called when the object is destroyed (out of life scope or deleted).

To be clear, you have to use ~NameOfTheClass like for the constructor, other names are invalid.

How to emulate a BEFORE INSERT trigger in T-SQL / SQL Server for super/subtype (Inheritance) entities?

While Andriy's proposal will work well for INSERTs of a small number of records, full table scans will be done on the final join as both 'enumerated' and '@new_super' are not indexed, resulting in poor performance for large inserts.

This can be resolved by specifying a primary key on the @new_super table, as follows:

DECLARE @new_super TABLE (
  row_num INT IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED,
  super_id   int
);

This will result in the SQL optimizer scanning through the 'enumerated' table but doing an indexed join on @new_super to get the new key.

gcc: undefined reference to

However, avpicture_get_size is defined.

No, as the header (<libavcodec/avcodec.h>) just declares it.

The definition is in the library itself.

So you might like to add the linker option to link libavcodec when invoking gcc:

-lavcodec

Please also note that libraries need to be specified on the command line after the files needing them:

gcc -I$HOME/ffmpeg/include program.c -lavcodec

Not like this:

gcc -lavcodec -I$HOME/ffmpeg/include program.c

Referring to Wyzard's comment, the complete command might look like this:

gcc -I$HOME/ffmpeg/include program.c -L$HOME/ffmpeg/lib -lavcodec

For libraries not stored in the linkers standard location the option -L specifies an additional search path to lookup libraries specified using the -l option, that is libavcodec.x.y.z in this case.


For a detailed reference on GCC's linker option, please read here.

DataTable: How to get item value with row name and column name? (VB)

Try:

DataTable.Rows[RowNo].ItemArray[columnIndex].ToString()

(This is C# code. Change this to VB equivalent)

Creating a daemon in Linux

In Linux i want to add a daemon that cannot be stopped and which monitors filesystem changes. If any changes would be detected it should write the path to the console where it was started + a newline.

Daemons work in the background and (usually...) don't belong to a TTY that's why you can't use stdout/stderr in the way you probably want. Usually a syslog daemon (syslogd) is used for logging messages to files (debug, error,...).

Besides that, there are a few required steps to daemonize a process.


If I remember correctly these steps are:

  • fork off the parent process & let it terminate if forking was successful. -> Because the parent process has terminated, the child process now runs in the background.
  • setsid - Create a new session. The calling process becomes the leader of the new session and the process group leader of the new process group. The process is now detached from its controlling terminal (CTTY).
  • Catch signals - Ignore and/or handle signals.
  • fork again & let the parent process terminate to ensure that you get rid of the session leading process. (Only session leaders may get a TTY again.)
  • chdir - Change the working directory of the daemon.
  • umask - Change the file mode mask according to the needs of the daemon.
  • close - Close all open file descriptors that may be inherited from the parent process.

To give you a starting point: Look at this skeleton code that shows the basic steps. This code can now also be forked on GitHub: Basic skeleton of a linux daemon

/*
 * daemonize.c
 * This example daemonizes a process, writes a few log messages,
 * sleeps 20 seconds and terminates afterwards.
 */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <syslog.h>

static void skeleton_daemon()
{
    pid_t pid;

    /* Fork off the parent process */
    pid = fork();

    /* An error occurred */
    if (pid < 0)
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);

    /* Success: Let the parent terminate */
    if (pid > 0)
        exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);

    /* On success: The child process becomes session leader */
    if (setsid() < 0)
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);

    /* Catch, ignore and handle signals */
    //TODO: Implement a working signal handler */
    signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN);
    signal(SIGHUP, SIG_IGN);

    /* Fork off for the second time*/
    pid = fork();

    /* An error occurred */
    if (pid < 0)
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);

    /* Success: Let the parent terminate */
    if (pid > 0)
        exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);

    /* Set new file permissions */
    umask(0);

    /* Change the working directory to the root directory */
    /* or another appropriated directory */
    chdir("/");

    /* Close all open file descriptors */
    int x;
    for (x = sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX); x>=0; x--)
    {
        close (x);
    }

    /* Open the log file */
    openlog ("firstdaemon", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
}
int main()
{
    skeleton_daemon();

    while (1)
    {
        //TODO: Insert daemon code here.
        syslog (LOG_NOTICE, "First daemon started.");
        sleep (20);
        break;
    }

    syslog (LOG_NOTICE, "First daemon terminated.");
    closelog();

    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}


  • Compile the code: gcc -o firstdaemon daemonize.c
  • Start the daemon: ./firstdaemon
  • Check if everything is working properly: ps -xj | grep firstdaemon

  • The output should be similar to this one:

+------+------+------+------+-----+-------+------+------+------+-----+
| PPID | PID  | PGID | SID  | TTY | TPGID | STAT | UID  | TIME | CMD |
+------+------+------+------+-----+-------+------+------+------+-----+
|    1 | 3387 | 3386 | 3386 | ?   |    -1 | S    | 1000 | 0:00 | ./  |
+------+------+------+------+-----+-------+------+------+------+-----+

What you should see here is:

  • The daemon has no controlling terminal (TTY = ?)
  • The parent process ID (PPID) is 1 (The init process)
  • The PID != SID which means that our process is NOT the session leader
    (because of the second fork())
  • Because PID != SID our process can't take control of a TTY again

Reading the syslog:

  • Locate your syslog file. Mine is here: /var/log/syslog
  • Do a: grep firstdaemon /var/log/syslog

  • The output should be similar to this one:

  firstdaemon[3387]: First daemon started.
  firstdaemon[3387]: First daemon terminated.


A note: In reality you would also want to implement a signal handler and set up the logging properly (Files, log levels...).

Further reading:

How to determine MIME type of file in android?

I tried to use standard methods to determine the mime type, but I cannot retain the file extension using MimeTypeMap.getFileExtensionFromUrl(uri.getPath()). This method returned me an empty string. So I made a non-trivial solution to retain the file extension.

Here is the method returning the file extension:

private String getExtension(String fileName){
    char[] arrayOfFilename = fileName.toCharArray();
    for(int i = arrayOfFilename.length-1; i > 0; i--){
        if(arrayOfFilename[i] == '.'){
            return fileName.substring(i+1, fileName.length());
        }
    }
    return "";
}

And having retained the file extension, it is possible to get mime type like below:

public String getMimeType(File file) {
    String mimeType = "";
    String extension = getExtension(file.getName());
    if (MimeTypeMap.getSingleton().hasExtension(extension)) {
        mimeType = MimeTypeMap.getSingleton().getMimeTypeFromExtension(extension);
    }
    return mimeType;
}

How to suppress "unused parameter" warnings in C?

For the record, I like Job's answer above but I'm curious about a solution just using the variable name by itself in a "do-nothing" statement:

void foo(int x) {
    x; /* unused */
    ...
}

Sure, this has drawbacks; for instance, without the "unused" note it looks like a mistake rather than an intentional line of code.

The benefit is that no DEFINE is needed and it gets rid of the warning.

Are there any performance, optimization, or other differences?

Git status ignore line endings / identical files / windows & linux environment / dropbox / mled

Issue related to git commands on Windows operating system:

$ git add --all

warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in ...

The file will have its original line endings in your working directory.

Resolution:

$ git config --global core.autocrlf false     
$ git add --all 

No any warning messages come up.

Bootstrap 4 - Glyphicons migration?

You can use both Font Awesome and Github Octicons as a free alternative for Glyphicons.

Bootstrap 4 also switched from Less to Sass, so you might integerate the font's Sass (SCSS) into you build process, to create a single CSS file for your projects.

Also see https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.1/getting-started/build-tools/ to find out how to set up your tooling:

  1. Download and install Node, which we use to manage our dependencies.
  2. Navigate to the root /bootstrap directory and run npm install to install our local dependencies listed in package.json.
  3. Install Ruby, install Bundler with gem install bundler, and finally run bundle install. This will install all Ruby dependencies, such as Jekyll and plugins.

Font Awesome

  1. Download the files at https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/tree/fa-4
  2. Copy the font-awesome/scss folder into your /bootstrap folder
  3. Open your SCSS /bootstrap/bootstrap.scss and write down the following SCSS code at the end of this file:

    $fa-font-path: "../fonts"; @import "../font-awesome/scss/font-awesome.scss";

  4. Notice that you also have to copy the font file from font-awesome/fonts to dist/fonts or any other public folder set by $fa-font-path in the previous step

  5. Run: npm run dist to recompile your code with Font-Awesome

Github Octicons

  1. Download the files at https://github.com/github/octicons/
  2. Copy the octicons folder into your /bootstrap folder
  3. Open your SCSS /bootstrap/bootstrap.scss and write down the following SCSS code at the end of this file:

    $fa-font-path: "../fonts"; @import "../octicons/octicons/octicons.scss";

  4. Notice that you also have to copy the font file from font-awesome/fonts to dist/fonts or any other public folder set by $fa-font-path in the previous step

  5. Run: npm run dist to recompile your code with Octicons

Glyphicons

On the Bootstrap website you can read:

Includes over 250 glyphs in font format from the Glyphicon Halflings set. Glyphicons Halflings are normally not available for free, but their creator has made them available for Bootstrap free of cost. As a thank you, we only ask that you include a link back to Glyphicons whenever possible.

As I understand you can use these 250 glyphs free of cost restricted for Bootstrap but not limited to version 3 exclusive. So you can use them for Bootstrap 4 too.

  1. Copy the fonts files from: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap-sass/tree/master/assets/fonts/bootstrap
  2. Copy the https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap-sass/blob/master/assets/stylesheets/bootstrap/_glyphicons.scss file into your bootstrap/scss folder
  3. Open your scss /bootstrap/bootstrap.scss and write down the following SCSS code at the end of this file:
$bootstrap-sass-asset-helper: false;
$icon-font-name: 'glyphicons-halflings-regular';
$icon-font-svg-id: 'glyphicons_halflingsregular';
$icon-font-path: '../fonts/';
@import "glyphicons";
  1. Run: npm run dist to recompile your code with Glyphicons

Notice that Bootstrap 4 requires the post CSS Autoprefixer for compiling. When you are using a static Sass compiler to compile your CSS you should have to run the Autoprefixer afterwards.

You can find out more about mixing with the Bootstrap 4 SCSS in here.

You can also use Bower to install the fonts above. Using Bower Font Awesome installs your files in bower_components/components-font-awesome/ also notice that Github Octicons sets the octicons/octicons/octicons-.scss as the main file whilst you should use octicons/octicons/sprockets-octicons.scss.

All the above will compile all your CSS code including into a single file, which requires only one HTTP request. Alternatively you can also load the Font-Awesome font from CDN, which can be fast too in many situations. Both fonts on CDN also include the font files (using data-uri's, possible not supported for older browsers). So consider which solution best fits your situation depending on among others browsers to support.

For Font Awesome paste the following code into the <head> section of your site's HTML:

<link href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet">

Also try Yeoman generator to scaffold out a front-end Bootstrap 4 Web app to test Bootstrap 4 with Font Awesome or Github Octicons.

Converting int to bytes in Python 3

int (including Python2's long) can be converted to bytes using following function:

import codecs

def int2bytes(i):
    hex_value = '{0:x}'.format(i)
    # make length of hex_value a multiple of two
    hex_value = '0' * (len(hex_value) % 2) + hex_value
    return codecs.decode(hex_value, 'hex_codec')

The reverse conversion can be done by another one:

import codecs
import six  # should be installed via 'pip install six'

long = six.integer_types[-1]

def bytes2int(b):
    return long(codecs.encode(b, 'hex_codec'), 16)

Both functions work on both Python2 and Python3.

How to find a hash key containing a matching value

You could use hashname.key(valuename)

Or, an inversion may be in order. new_hash = hashname.invert will give you a new_hash that lets you do things more traditionally.

Using PropertyInfo to find out the property type

Use PropertyInfo.PropertyType to get the type of the property.

public bool ValidateData(object data)
{
    foreach (PropertyInfo propertyInfo in data.GetType().GetProperties())
    {
        if (propertyInfo.PropertyType == typeof(string))
        {
            string value = propertyInfo.GetValue(data, null);

            if value is not OK
            {
                return false;
            }
        }
    }            

    return true;
}

How to check if an object is defined?

If a class type is not defined, you'll get a compiler error if you try to use the class, so in that sense you should have to check.

If you have an instance, and you want to ensure it's not null, simply check for null:

if (value != null)
{
    // it's not null. 
}

How do you modify the web.config appSettings at runtime?

Try This:

using System;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Web.Configuration;

namespace SampleApplication.WebConfig
{
    public partial class webConfigFile : System.Web.UI.Page
    {
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            //Helps to open the Root level web.config file.
            Configuration webConfigApp = WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration("~");
            //Modifying the AppKey from AppValue to AppValue1
            webConfigApp.AppSettings.Settings["ConnectionString"].Value = "ConnectionString";
            //Save the Modified settings of AppSettings.
            webConfigApp.Save();
        }
    }
}

iOS: set font size of UILabel Programmatically

If you are looking for swift code:

var titleLabel = UILabel()
titleLabel.font = UIFont(name: "HelveticaNeue-UltraLight",
                         size: 20.0)

What is the best way to add options to a select from a JavaScript object with jQuery?

if (data.length != 0) {
    var opts = "";
    for (i in data)
        opts += "<option value='"+data[i][value]+"'>"+data[i][text]+"</option>";

    $("#myselect").empty().append(opts);
}

This manipulates the DOM only once after first building a giant string.

Java, Shifting Elements in an Array

Instead of shifting by one position you can make this function more general using module like this.

int[] original = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 };
int[] reordered = new int[original.length];
int shift = 1;

for(int i=0; i<original.length;i++)
     reordered[i] = original[(shift+i)%original.length];

How to export data from Excel spreadsheet to Sql Server 2008 table

In SQL Server 2016 the wizard is a separate app. (Important: Excel wizard is only available in the 32-bit version of the wizard!). Use the MSDN page for instructions:

On the Start menu, point to All Programs, point toMicrosoft SQL Server , and then click Import and Export Data.
—or—
In SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT), right-click the SSIS Packages folder, and then click SSIS Import and Export Wizard.
—or—
In SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT), on the Project menu, click SSIS Import and Export Wizard.
—or—
In SQL Server Management Studio, connect to the Database Engine server type, expand Databases, right-click a database, point to Tasks, and then click Import Data or Export data.
—or—
In a command prompt window, run DTSWizard.exe, located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\DTS\Binn.

After that it should be pretty much the same (possibly with minor variations in the UI) as in @marc_s's answer.

Pods stuck in Terminating status

In my case the --force option didn't quite work. I could still see the pod ! It was stuck in Terminating/Unknown mode. So after running

kubectl delete pods <pod> -n redis --grace-period=0 --force

I ran

kubectl patch pod <pod> -p '{"metadata":{"finalizers":null}}'

How to do integer division in javascript (Getting division answer in int not float)?

var answer = Math.floor(x)

I sincerely hope this will help future searchers when googling for this common question.

How can I wait for set of asynchronous callback functions?

You can use jQuery's Deferred object along with the when method.

deferredArray = [];
forloop {
    deferred = new $.Deferred();
    ajaxCall(function() {
      deferred.resolve();
    }
    deferredArray.push(deferred);
}

$.when(deferredArray, function() {
  //this code is called after all the ajax calls are done
});

How can we programmatically detect which iOS version is device running on?

To get more specific version number information with major and minor versions separated:

NSString* versionString = [UIDevice currentDevice].systemVersion;
NSArray* vN = [versionString componentsSeparatedByString:@"."];

The array vN will contain the major and minor versions as strings, but if you want to do comparisons, version numbers should be stored as numbers (ints). You can add this code to store them in the C-array* versionNumbers:

int versionNumbers[vN.count];
for (int i = 0; i < sizeof(versionNumbers)/sizeof(versionNumbers[0]); i++)
    versionNumbers[i] = [[vN objectAtIndex:i] integerValue];

* C-arrays used here for more concise syntax.

Converting a Uniform Distribution to a Normal Distribution

function distRandom(){
  do{
    x=random(DISTRIBUTION_DOMAIN);
  }while(random(DISTRIBUTION_RANGE)>=distributionFunction(x));
  return x;
}

How to implement endless list with RecyclerView?

This is how I do it, simple and short:

    recyclerView.addOnScrollListener(new RecyclerView.OnScrollListener()
    {
        @Override
        public void onScrolled(RecyclerView recyclerView, int dx, int dy)
        {
            if(!recyclerView.canScrollVertically(1) && dy != 0)
            {
                // Load more results here

            }
        }
    });

Read the current full URL with React?

window.location.href is what you're looking for.

What is .Net Framework 4 extended?

It's the part of the .NET Framework that isn't contained within the Client Profile. See MSDN for more info; specifically:

The .NET Framework is made up of the .NET Framework 4 Client Profile and .NET Framework 4 Extended components that exist separately in Programs and Features.

Best practices for adding .gitignore file for Python projects?

Covers most of the general stuff -

# Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
__pycache__/
*.py[cod]
*$py.class

# C extensions
*.so

# Distribution / packaging
.Python
build/
develop-eggs/
dist/
downloads/
eggs/
.eggs/
lib/
lib64/
parts/
sdist/
var/
wheels/
*.egg-info/
.installed.cfg
*.egg
MANIFEST

# PyInstaller
#  Usually these files are written by a python script from a template
#  before PyInstaller builds the exe, so as to inject date/other infos into it.
*.manifest
*.spec

# Installer logs
pip-log.txt
pip-delete-this-directory.txt

# Unit test / coverage reports
htmlcov/
.tox/
.coverage
.coverage.*
.cache
nosetests.xml
coverage.xml
*.cover
.hypothesis/
.pytest_cache/

# Translations
*.mo
*.pot

# Django stuff:
*.log
local_settings.py
db.sqlite3

# Flask stuff:
instance/
.webassets-cache

# Scrapy stuff:
.scrapy

# Sphinx documentation
docs/_build/

# PyBuilder
target/

# Jupyter Notebook
.ipynb_checkpoints

# pyenv
.python-version

# celery beat schedule file
celerybeat-schedule

# SageMath parsed files
*.sage.py

# Environments
.env
.venv
env/
venv/
ENV/
env.bak/
venv.bak/

# Spyder project settings
.spyderproject
.spyproject

# Rope project settings
.ropeproject

# mkdocs documentation
/site

# mypy
.mypy_cache/

Reference: python .gitignore

Checking Maven Version

you can use just

     <dependency>
        <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
        <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
        <version></version>
    </dependency>

How to start a background process in Python?

Both capture output and run on background with threading

As mentioned on this answer, if you capture the output with stdout= and then try to read(), then the process blocks.

However, there are cases where you need this. For example, I wanted to launch two processes that talk over a port between them, and save their stdout to a log file and stdout.

The threading module allows us to do that.

First, have a look at how to do the output redirection part alone in this question: Python Popen: Write to stdout AND log file simultaneously

Then:

main.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import os
import subprocess
import sys
import threading

def output_reader(proc, file):
    while True:
        byte = proc.stdout.read(1)
        if byte:
            sys.stdout.buffer.write(byte)
            sys.stdout.flush()
            file.buffer.write(byte)
        else:
            break

with subprocess.Popen(['./sleep.py', '0'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE) as proc1, \
     subprocess.Popen(['./sleep.py', '10'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE) as proc2, \
     open('log1.log', 'w') as file1, \
     open('log2.log', 'w') as file2:
    t1 = threading.Thread(target=output_reader, args=(proc1, file1))
    t2 = threading.Thread(target=output_reader, args=(proc2, file2))
    t1.start()
    t2.start()
    t1.join()
    t2.join()

sleep.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import sys
import time

for i in range(4):
    print(i + int(sys.argv[1]))
    sys.stdout.flush()
    time.sleep(0.5)

After running:

./main.py

stdout get updated every 0.5 seconds for every two lines to contain:

0
10
1
11
2
12
3
13

and each log file contains the respective log for a given process.

Inspired by: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2017/interacting-with-a-long-running-child-process-in-python/

Tested on Ubuntu 18.04, Python 3.6.7.

Automapper missing type map configuration or unsupported mapping - Error

Notice the Categoies_7314E98C41152985A4218174DDDF658046BC82AB0ED9E1F0440514D79052F84D class in the exception? That's an Entity Framework proxy. I would recommend you disposing of your EF context to ensure that all your objects are eagerly loaded from the database and no such proxies exist:

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult _EditCategory(CategoriesViewModel viewModel)
{
    Categoies category = null;
    using (var ctx = new MyentityFrameworkContext())
    {
        category = ctx.Categoies.Find(viewModel.Id);
    }
    AutoMapper.Mapper.Map<CategoriesViewModel, Categoies>(viewModel, category);
    //category = AutoMapper.Mapper.Map<CategoriesViewModel, Categoies>(viewModel, category);
    entity.SaveChanges();
}

If the entity retrieval is performed inside a data access layer (which of course is the correct way) make sure you dispose your EF context before returning instances from your DAL.

Is Fortran easier to optimize than C for heavy calculations?

The languages have similar feature-sets. The performance difference comes from the fact that Fortran says aliasing is not allowed, unless an EQUIVALENCE statement is used. Any code that has aliasing is not valid Fortran, but it is up to the programmer and not the compiler to detect these errors. Thus Fortran compilers ignore possible aliasing of memory pointers and allow them to generate more efficient code. Take a look at this little example in C:

void transform (float *output, float const * input, float const * matrix, int *n)
{
    int i;
    for (i=0; i<*n; i++)
    {
        float x = input[i*2+0];
        float y = input[i*2+1];
        output[i*2+0] = matrix[0] * x + matrix[1] * y;
        output[i*2+1] = matrix[2] * x + matrix[3] * y;
    }
}

This function would run slower than the Fortran counterpart after optimization. Why so? If you write values into the output array, you may change the values of matrix. After all, the pointers could overlap and point to the same chunk of memory (including the int pointer!). The C compiler is forced to reload the four matrix values from memory for all computations.

In Fortran the compiler can load the matrix values once and store them in registers. It can do so because the Fortran compiler assumes pointers/arrays do not overlap in memory.

Fortunately, the restrict keyword and strict-aliasing have been introduced to the C99 standard to address this problem. It's well supported in most C++ compilers these days as well. The keyword allows you to give the compiler a hint that the programmer promises that a pointer does not alias with any other pointer. The strict-aliasing means that the programmer promises that pointers of different type will never overlap, for example a double* will not overlap with an int* (with the specific exception that char* and void* can overlap with anything).

If you use them you will get the same speed from C and Fortran. However, the ability to use the restrict keyword only with performance critical functions means that C (and C++) programs are much safer and easier to write. For example, consider the invalid Fortran code: CALL TRANSFORM(A(1, 30), A(2, 31), A(3, 32), 30), which most Fortran compilers will happily compile without any warning but introduces a bug that only shows up on some compilers, on some hardware and with some optimization options.

Rails: How can I set default values in ActiveRecord?

I use the attribute-defaults gem

From the documentation: run sudo gem install attribute-defaults and add require 'attribute_defaults' to your app.

class Foo < ActiveRecord::Base
  attr_default :age, 18
  attr_default :last_seen do
    Time.now
  end
end

Foo.new()           # => age: 18, last_seen => "2014-10-17 09:44:27"
Foo.new(:age => 25) # => age: 25, last_seen => "2014-10-17 09:44:28"

TypeError: got multiple values for argument

I had the same problem that is really easy to make, but took me a while to see through.

I had copied the declaration to where I was using it and had left the 'self' argument there, but it took me ages to realise that.

I had

self.myFunction(self, a, b, c='123')

but it should have been

self.myFunction(a, b, c='123')

Render HTML in React Native

React Native has updated the WebView component to allow for direct html rendering. Here's an example that works for me

var htmlCode = "<b>I am rendered in a <i>WebView</i></b>";

<WebView
  ref={'webview'}
  automaticallyAdjustContentInsets={false}
  style={styles.webView}
  html={htmlCode} />

How to add comments into a Xaml file in WPF?

Just a tip:

In Visual Studio to comment a text, you can highlight the text you want to comment, and then use Ctrl + K followed by Ctrl + C. To uncomment, you can use Ctrl + K followed by Ctrl + U.

Back to previous page with header( "Location: " ); in PHP

Just try this in Javascript:

 $previous = "javascript:history.go(-1)";

Or you can try it in PHP:

if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])) {
    $previous = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
}

How to create an Array with AngularJS's ng-model

How to create an array of inputs with ng-model

Use the ng-repeat directive:

<ol>
  <li ng-repeat="n in [] | range:count">
    <input name="telephone-{{$index}}"
           ng-model="telephones[$index].value" >
  </li>
</ol>

The DEMO

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angular.module("app",[])_x000D_
.controller("ctrl",function($scope){_x000D_
  $scope.count = 3;_x000D_
  $scope.telephones = [];_x000D_
})_x000D_
.filter("range",function() {_x000D_
  return (x,n) => Array.from({length:n},(x,index)=>(index));_x000D_
})
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<script src="//unpkg.com/angular/angular.js"></script>_x000D_
<body ng-app="app" ng-controller="ctrl">_x000D_
    <button>_x000D_
      Array length_x000D_
      <input type="number" ng-model="count" _x000D_
             ng-change="telephones.length=count">_x000D_
    </button>_x000D_
    <ol>_x000D_
      <li ng-repeat="n in [] | range:count">_x000D_
        <input name="telephone-{{$index}}"_x000D_
               ng-model="telephones[$index].value" >_x000D_
      </li>_x000D_
    </ol>  _x000D_
    {{telephones}}_x000D_
</body>
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How do I check if file exists in jQuery or pure JavaScript?

I use this script to check if a file exists (also it handles the cross origin issue):

$.ajax(url, {
       method: 'GET',
       dataType: 'jsonp'
         })
   .done(function(response) { 
        // exists code 
    }).fail(function(response) { 
        // doesnt exist
    })

Note that the following syntax error is thrown when the file being checked doesn't contain JSON.

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token <

How to copy directory recursively in python and overwrite all?

You can use distutils.dir_util.copy_tree. It works just fine and you don't have to pass every argument, only src and dst are mandatory.

However in your case you can't use a similar tool likeshutil.copytree because it behaves differently: as the destination directory must not exist this function can't be used for overwriting its contents.

If you want to use the cp tool as suggested in the question comments beware that using the subprocess module is currently the recommended way for spawning new processes as you can see in the documentation of the os.system function.

.jar error - could not find or load main class

Had this problem couldn't find the answer so i went looking on other threads, I found that i was making my app with 1.8 but for some reason my jre was out dated even though i remember updating it. I downloaded the lastes jre 8 and the jar file runs perfectly. Hope this helps.

Common MySQL fields and their appropriate data types

In my experience, first name/last name fields should be at least 48 characters -- there are names from some countries such as Malaysia or India that are very long in their full form.

Phone numbers and postcodes you should always treat as text, not numbers. The normal reason given is that there are postcodes that begin with 0, and in some countries, phone numbers can also begin with 0. But the real reason is that they aren't numbers -- they're identifiers that happen to be made up of numerical digits (and that's ignoring countries like Canada that have letters in their postcodes). So store them in a text field.

In MySQL you can use VARCHAR fields for this type of information. Whilst it sounds lazy, it means you don't have to be too concerned about the right minimum size.

Numpy `ValueError: operands could not be broadcast together with shape ...`

If X and beta do not have the same shape as the second term in the rhs of your last line (i.e. nsample), then you will get this type of error. To add an array to a tuple of arrays, they all must be the same shape.

I would recommend looking at the numpy broadcasting rules.