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SQLite Reset Primary Key Field

If you want to reset every RowId via content provider try this

rowCounter=1;
do {            
            rowId = cursor.getInt(0);
            ContentValues values;
            values = new ContentValues();
            values.put(Table_Health.COLUMN_ID,
                       rowCounter);
            updateData2DB(context, values, rowId);
            rowCounter++;

        while (cursor.moveToNext());

public static void updateData2DB(Context context, ContentValues values, int rowId) {
    Uri uri;
    uri = Uri.parseContentProvider.CONTENT_URI_HEALTH + "/" + rowId);
    context.getContentResolver().update(uri, values, null, null);
}

Android Viewpager as Image Slide Gallery

I made a library named AndroidImageSlider, you can have a try.

enter image description here

Binding Combobox Using Dictionary as the Datasource

I used Sorin Comanescu's solution, but hit a problem when trying to get the selected value. My combobox was a toolstrip combobox. I used the "combobox" property, which exposes a normal combobox.

I had a

 Dictionary<Control, string> controls = new Dictionary<Control, string>();

Binding code (Sorin Comanescu's solution - worked like a charm):

 controls.Add(pictureBox1, "Image");
 controls.Add(dgvText, "Text");
 cbFocusedControl.ComboBox.DataSource = new BindingSource(controls, null);
 cbFocusedControl.ComboBox.ValueMember = "Key";
 cbFocusedControl.ComboBox.DisplayMember = "Value";

The problem was that when I tried to get the selected value, I didn't realize how to retrieve it. After several attempts I got this:

 var control = ((KeyValuePair<Control, string>) cbFocusedControl.ComboBox.SelectedItem).Key

Hope it helps someone else!

Convert float to string with precision & number of decimal digits specified?

Here a solution using only std. However, note that this only rounds down.

    float number = 3.14159;
    std::string num_text = std::to_string(number);
    std::string rounded = num_text.substr(0, num_text.find(".")+3);

For rounded it yields:

3.14

The code converts the whole float to string, but cuts all characters 2 chars after the "."

How can I get the source code of a Python function?

While I'd generally agree that inspect is a good answer, I'd disagree that you can't get the source code of objects defined in the interpreter. If you use dill.source.getsource from dill, you can get the source of functions and lambdas, even if they are defined interactively. It also can get the code for from bound or unbound class methods and functions defined in curries... however, you might not be able to compile that code without the enclosing object's code.

>>> from dill.source import getsource
>>> 
>>> def add(x,y):
...   return x+y
... 
>>> squared = lambda x:x**2
>>> 
>>> print getsource(add)
def add(x,y):
  return x+y

>>> print getsource(squared)
squared = lambda x:x**2

>>> 
>>> class Foo(object):
...   def bar(self, x):
...     return x*x+x
... 
>>> f = Foo()
>>> 
>>> print getsource(f.bar)
def bar(self, x):
    return x*x+x

>>> 

How do I link a JavaScript file to a HTML file?

You can add script tags in your HTML document, ideally inside the which points to your javascript files. Order of the script tags are important. Load the jQuery before your script files if you want to use jQuery from your script.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="relative/path/to/your/javascript.js"></script>

Then in your javascript file you can refer to jQuery either using $ sign or jQuery. Example:

jQuery.each(arr, function(i) { console.log(i); }); 

Replace one character with another in Bash

Use inline shell string replacement. Example:

foo="  "

# replace first blank only
bar=${foo/ /.}

# replace all blanks
bar=${foo// /.}

See http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/string-manipulation.html for more details.

How to upper case every first letter of word in a string?

sString = sString.toLowerCase();
sString = Character.toString(sString.charAt(0)).toUpperCase()+sString.substring(1);

How to insert current datetime in postgresql insert query

For current datetime, you can use now() function in postgresql insert query.

You can also refer following link.

insert statement in postgres for data type timestamp without time zone NOT NULL,.

Inheritance and Overriding __init__ in python

You don't really have to call the __init__ methods of the base class(es), but you usually want to do it because the base classes will do some important initializations there that are needed for rest of the classes methods to work.

For other methods it depends on your intentions. If you just want to add something to the base classes behavior you will want to call the base classes method additionally to your own code. If you want to fundamentally change the behavior, you might not call the base class' method and implement all the functionality directly in the derived class.

What is a classpath and how do I set it?

When programming in Java, you make other classes available to the class you are writing by putting something like this at the top of your source file:

import org.javaguy.coolframework.MyClass;

Or sometimes you 'bulk import' stuff by saying:

import org.javaguy.coolframework.*;

So later in your program when you say:

MyClass mine = new MyClass();

The Java Virtual Machine will know where to find your compiled class.

It would be impractical to have the VM look through every folder on your machine, so you have to provide the VM a list of places to look. This is done by putting folder and jar files on your classpath.

Before we talk about how the classpath is set, let's talk about .class files, packages, and .jar files.

First, let's suppose that MyClass is something you built as part of your project, and it is in a directory in your project called output. The .class file would be at output/org/javaguy/coolframework/MyClass.class (along with every other file in that package). In order to get to that file, your path would simply need to contain the folder 'output', not the whole package structure, since your import statement provides all that information to the VM.

Now let's suppose that you bundle CoolFramework up into a .jar file, and put that CoolFramework.jar into a lib directory in your project. You would now need to put lib/CoolFramework.jar into your classpath. The VM will look inside the jar file for the org/javaguy/coolframework part, and find your class.

So, classpaths contain:

  • JAR files, and
  • Paths to the top of package hierarchies.

How do you set your classpath?

The first way everyone seems to learn is with environment variables. On a unix machine, you can say something like:

export CLASSPATH=/home/myaccount/myproject/lib/CoolFramework.jar:/home/myaccount/myproject/output/

On a Windows machine you have to go to your environment settings and either add or modify the value that is already there.

The second way is to use the -cp parameter when starting Java, like this:

java -cp "/home/myaccount/myproject/lib/CoolFramework.jar:/home/myaccount/myproject/output/"  MyMainClass

A variant of this is the third way which is often done with a .sh or .bat file that calculates the classpath and passes it to Java via the -cp parameter.

There is a "gotcha" with all of the above. On most systems (Linux, Mac OS, UNIX, etc) the colon character (':') is the classpath separator. In windowsm the separator is the semicolon (';')

So what's the best way to do it?

Setting stuff globally via environment variables is bad, generally for the same kinds of reasons that global variables are bad. You change the CLASSPATH environment variable so one program works, and you end up breaking another program.

The -cp is the way to go. I generally make sure my CLASSPATH environment variable is an empty string where I develop, whenever possible, so that I avoid global classpath issues (some tools aren't happy when the global classpath is empty though - I know of two common, mega-thousand dollar licensed J2EE and Java servers that have this kind of issue with their command-line tools).

Explicitly select items from a list or tuple

I just want to point out, even syntax of itemgetter looks really neat, but it's kinda slow when perform on large list.

import timeit
from operator import itemgetter
start=timeit.default_timer()
for i in range(1000000):
    itemgetter(0,2,3)(myList)
print ("Itemgetter took ", (timeit.default_timer()-start))

Itemgetter took 1.065209062149279

start=timeit.default_timer()
for i in range(1000000):
    myList[0],myList[2],myList[3]
print ("Multiple slice took ", (timeit.default_timer()-start))

Multiple slice took 0.6225321444745759

How do I remove the passphrase for the SSH key without having to create a new key?

On the Mac you can store the passphrase for your private ssh key in your Keychain, which makes the use of it transparent. If you're logged in, it is available, when you are logged out your root user cannot use it. Removing the passphrase is a bad idea because anyone with the file can use it.

ssh-keygen -K

Add this to ~/.ssh/config

UseKeychain yes

How to make custom error pages work in ASP.NET MVC 4

There seem to be a number of steps here jumbled together. I'll put forward what I did from scratch.

  1. Create the ErrorPage controller

    public class ErrorPageController : Controller
    {
        public ActionResult Index()
        {
            return View();
        }
    
        public ActionResult Oops(int id)
        {
            Response.StatusCode = id;
            return View();
        }
    }
    
  2. Add views for these two actions (right click -> Add View). These should appear in a folder called ErrorPage.

  3. Inside App_Start open up FilterConfig.cs and comment out the error handling filter.

    public static void RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilterCollection filters)
    {
        // Remove this filter because we want to handle errors ourselves via the ErrorPage controller
        //filters.Add(new HandleErrorAttribute());
    }
    
  4. Inside web.config add the following <customerErrors> entries, under System.Web

    <customErrors mode="On" defaultRedirect="~/ErrorPage/Oops">
        <error redirect="~/ErrorPage/Oops/404" statusCode="404" />
        <error redirect="~/ErrorPage/Oops/500" statusCode="500" />
    </customErrors>
    
  5. Test (of course). Throw an unhandled exception in your code and see it go to the page with id 500, and then use a URL to a page that does not exist to see 404.

How to turn off word wrapping in HTML?

white-space: nowrap;: Will never break text, will keep other defaults

white-space: pre;: Will never break text, will keep multiple spaces after one another as multiple spaces, will break if explicitly written to break(pressing enter in html etc)

How to slice a Pandas Data Frame by position?

I can see at least three options:

1.

df[:10]

2. Using head

df.head(10)

For negative values of n, this function returns all rows except the last n rows, equivalent to df[:-n] [Source].

3. Using iloc

df.iloc[:10]

how to prevent css inherit

While this isn't currently available, this fascinating article discusses the use of the Shadow DOM, which is a technique used by browsers to limit how far cascading style sheets cascade, so to speak. He doesn't provide any APIs, as it seems that there are no current libraries able to provide access to this part of the DOM, but it's worth a look. There are links to mailing lists at the bottom of the article if this intrigues you.

Excel VBA Loop on columns

Just use the Cells function and loop thru columns. Cells(Row,Column)

How do you run a command for each line of a file?

if you have a nice selector (for example all .txt files in a dir) you could do:

for i in *.txt; do chmod 755 "$i"; done

bash for loop

or a variant of yours:

while read line; do chmod 755 "$line"; done < file.txt

Specify path to node_modules in package.json

In short: It is not possible, and as it seems won't ever be supported (see here https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/775).

There are some hacky work-arrounds with using the CLI or ENV-Variables (see the current selected answer), .npmrc-Config-Files or npm link - what they all have in common: They are never just project-specific, but always some kind of global Solutions.

For me, none of those solutions are really clean because contributors to your project always need to create some special configuration or have some special knowledge - they can't just npm install and it works.

So: Either you will have to put your package.json in the same directory where you want your node_modules installed, or live with the fact that they will always be in the root-dir of your project.

JUnit test for System.out.println()

Based on @dfa's answer and another answer that shows how to test System.in, I would like to share my solution to give an input to a program and test its output.

As a reference, I use JUnit 4.12.

Let's say we have this program that simply replicates input to output:

import java.util.Scanner;

public class SimpleProgram {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
        System.out.print(scanner.next());
        scanner.close();
    }
}

To test it, we can use the following class:

import static org.junit.Assert.*;

import java.io.*;

import org.junit.*;

public class SimpleProgramTest {
    private final InputStream systemIn = System.in;
    private final PrintStream systemOut = System.out;

    private ByteArrayInputStream testIn;
    private ByteArrayOutputStream testOut;

    @Before
    public void setUpOutput() {
        testOut = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        System.setOut(new PrintStream(testOut));
    }

    private void provideInput(String data) {
        testIn = new ByteArrayInputStream(data.getBytes());
        System.setIn(testIn);
    }

    private String getOutput() {
        return testOut.toString();
    }

    @After
    public void restoreSystemInputOutput() {
        System.setIn(systemIn);
        System.setOut(systemOut);
    }

    @Test
    public void testCase1() {
        final String testString = "Hello!";
        provideInput(testString);

        SimpleProgram.main(new String[0]);

        assertEquals(testString, getOutput());
    }
}

I won't explain much, because I believe the code is readable and I cited my sources.

When JUnit runs testCase1(), it is going to call the helper methods in the order they appear:

  1. setUpOutput(), because of the @Before annotation
  2. provideInput(String data), called from testCase1()
  3. getOutput(), called from testCase1()
  4. restoreSystemInputOutput(), because of the @After annotation

I didn't test System.err because I didn't need it, but it should be easy to implement, similar to testing System.out.

Mongoose: CastError: Cast to ObjectId failed for value "[object Object]" at path "_id"

I also encountered this mongoose error CastError: Cast to ObjectId failed for value \"583fe2c488cf652d4c6b45d1\" at path \"_id\" for model User

So I run npm list command to verify the mongodb and mongoose version in my local. Heres the report: ......
......
+-- [email protected]
+-- [email protected]
.....

It seems there's an issue on this mongodb version so what I did is I uninstall and try to use different version such as 2.2.16

$ npm uninstall mongodb, it will delete the mongodb from your node_modules directory. After that install the lower version of mongodb.
$ npm install [email protected]
Finally, I restart the app and the CastError is gone!!

Plotting histograms from grouped data in a pandas DataFrame

I write this answer because I was looking for a way to plot together the histograms of different groups. What follows is not very smart, but it works fine for me. I use Numpy to compute the histogram and Bokeh for plotting. I think it is self-explanatory, but feel free to ask for clarifications and I'll be happy to add details (and write it better).

figures = {
    'Transit': figure(title='Transit', x_axis_label='speed [km/h]', y_axis_label='frequency'),
    'Driving': figure(title='Driving', x_axis_label='speed [km/h]', y_axis_label='frequency')
}

cols = {'Vienna': 'red', 'Turin': 'blue', 'Rome': 'Orange'}
for gr in df_trips.groupby(['locality', 'means']):
    locality = gr[0][0]
    means = gr[0][1]
    fig = figures[means]
    h, b = np.histogram(pd.DataFrame(gr[1]).speed.values)
    fig.vbar(x=b[1:], top=h, width=(b[1]-b[0]), legend_label=locality, fill_color=cols[locality], alpha=0.5)

show(gridplot([
    [figures['Transit']],
    [figures['Driving']],
]))

Online Internet Explorer Simulators

Use wine - it has IE6 with Gecko support built into it. More information here.

How would you do a "not in" query with LINQ?

For people who start with a group of in-memory objects and are querying against a database, I've found this to be the best way to go:

var itemIds = inMemoryList.Select(x => x.Id).ToArray();
var otherObjects = context.ItemList.Where(x => !itemIds.Contains(x.Id));

This produces a nice WHERE ... IN (...) clause in SQL.

Google Chrome redirecting localhost to https

Tried everything mentioned (browser preferences, hsts, etc.) but nothing worked for me.

I solved it by adding a trailing .localhost to the host aliases.

Like this:

127.0.0.1    myproject.localhost
127.0.0.1    dev.project.localhost

How to get value by key from JObject?

You can also get the value of an item in the jObject like this:

JToken value;
if (json.TryGetValue(key, out value))
{
   DoSomething(value);
}

C# LINQ select from list

In likeness of how I found this question using Google, I wanted to take it one step further. Lets say I have a string[] states and a db Entity of StateCounties and I just want the states from the list returned and not all of the StateCounties.

I would write:

db.StateCounties.Where(x => states.Any(s => x.State.Equals(s))).ToList();

I found this within the sample of CheckBoxList for nu-get.

Best way to script remote SSH commands in Batch (Windows)

As an alternative option you could install OpenSSH http://www.mls-software.com/opensshd.html and then simply ssh user@host -pw password -m command_run

Edit: After a response from user2687375 when installing, select client only. Once this is done you should be able to initiate SSH from command.

Then you can create an ssh batch script such as

ECHO OFF
CLS
:MENU
ECHO.
ECHO ........................
ECHO SSH servers
ECHO ........................
ECHO.
ECHO 1 - Web Server 1
ECHO 2 - Web Server 2
ECHO E - EXIT
ECHO.

SET /P M=Type 1 - 2 then press ENTER:
IF %M%==1 GOTO WEB1
IF %M%==2 GOTO WEB2
IF %M%==E GOTO EOF

REM ------------------------------
REM SSH Server details
REM ------------------------------

:WEB1
CLS
call ssh [email protected]
cmd /k

:WEB2
CLS
call ssh [email protected]
cmd /k

Why does configure say no C compiler found when GCC is installed?

Try specifying CC while configuring:

CC=/usr/bin/gcc ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/sphinx

Also check if your compiler produces executables. The following should produce an a.out:

echo "int main(){0;}" | gcc -x c -

How to call a function after a div is ready?

To do something after certain div load from function .load(). I think this exactly what you need:

  $('#divIDer').load(document.URL +  ' #divIDer',function() {

       // call here what you want .....


       //example
       $('#mydata').show();
  });

How to use an output parameter in Java?

You can either use:

  • return X. this will return only one value.

  • return object. will return a full object. For example your object might include X, Y, and Z values.

  • pass array. arrays are passed by reference. i.e. if you pass array of integers, modified the array inside the method, then the original code will see the changes.

Example on passing Array.

void methodOne{
    int [] arr = {1,2,3};
    methodTwo(arr);
    ...//print arr here
}
void methodTwo(int [] arr){
    for (int i=0; i<arr.length;i++){
         arr[i]+=3;
    }
}

This will print out: 4,5,6.

How to tell CRAN to install package dependencies automatically?

On your own system, try

install.packages("foo", dependencies=...)

with the dependencies= argument is documented as

dependencies: logical indicating to also install uninstalled packages
      which these packages depend on/link to/import/suggest (and so
      on recursively).  Not used if ‘repos = NULL’.  Can also be a
      character vector, a subset of ‘c("Depends", "Imports",
      "LinkingTo", "Suggests", "Enhances")’.

      Only supported if ‘lib’ is of length one (or missing), so it
      is unambiguous where to install the dependent packages.  If
      this is not the case it is ignored, with a warning.

      The default, ‘NA’, means ‘c("Depends", "Imports",
      "LinkingTo")’.

      ‘TRUE’ means (as from R 2.15.0) to use ‘c("Depends",
      "Imports", "LinkingTo", "Suggests")’ for ‘pkgs’ and
      ‘c("Depends", "Imports", "LinkingTo")’ for added
      dependencies: this installs all the packages needed to run
      ‘pkgs’, their examples, tests and vignettes (if the package
      author specified them correctly).

so you probably want a value TRUE.

In your package, list what is needed in Depends:, see the Writing R Extensions manual which is pretty clear on this.

Reloading module giving NameError: name 'reload' is not defined

reload is a builtin in Python 2, but not in Python 3, so the error you're seeing is expected.

If you truly must reload a module in Python 3, you should use either:

R Not in subset

The expression df1$id %in% idNums1 produces a logical vector. To negate it, you need to negate the whole vector:

!(df1$id %in% idNums1)

How to make android listview scrollable?

Listview so have inbuild scrolling capabilities. So you can not use listview inside scrollview. Encapsulate it in any other layout like LinearLayout or RelativeLayout.

C# Return Different Types?

You could just return an Object as all types are descended from Object.

public Object GetAnything()
{
     Hello hello = new Hello();
     Computer computer = new Computer();
     Radio radio = new Radio();

     return radio; or return computer; or return hello //should be possible?!      
}

You could then cast to its relevant type:

Hello hello = (Hello)GetAnything();

If you didn't know what the type was going to be then you could use the is keyword.

Object obj = GetAnything();
if (obj is Hello) {
    // Do something
}

This being said I would be reluctant to write code like that. It would be much better to have an interface which is implemented by each of your classes.

public ISpeak GetAnything()
{
     Hello hello = new Hello();
     Computer computer = new Computer();
     Radio radio = new Radio();

     return radio; or return computer; or return hello //should be possible?!      
}

interface ISpeak 
{
   void Speak();
}

and have each of your classes implement the interface:

public class Hello : ISpeak
{
    void Speak() {
        Console.WriteLine("Hello");
    }
}

You could then do something like:

GetAnything().Speak();

Remove last specific character in a string c#

Try below

Something..TrimEnd(",".ToCharArray());

Actionbar notification count icon (badge) like Google has

I don't like ActionView based solutions, my idea is:

  1. create a layout with TextView, that TextView will be populated by application
  2. when you need to draw a MenuItem:

    2.1. inflate layout

    2.2. call measure() & layout() (otherwise view will be 0px x 0px, it's too small for most use cases)

    2.3. set the TextView's text

    2.4. make "screenshot" of the view

    2.6. set MenuItem's icon based on bitmap created on 2.4

  3. profit!

so, result should be something like enter image description here

  1. create layout here is a simple example
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/counterPanel"
    android:layout_width="32dp"
    android:layout_height="32dp"
    android:background="@drawable/ic_menu_gallery">
    <RelativeLayout
        android:id="@+id/counterValuePanel"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" >

        <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/counterBackground"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:background="@drawable/unread_background" />

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/count"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="1"
            android:textSize="8sp"
            android:layout_centerInParent="true"
            android:textColor="#FFFFFF" />
    </RelativeLayout>
</FrameLayout>

@drawable/unread_background is that green TextView's background, @drawable/ic_menu_gallery is not really required here, it's just to preview layout's result in IDE.

  1. add code into onCreateOptionsMenu/onPrepareOptionsMenu

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_main, menu);
    
        MenuItem menuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.testAction);
        menuItem.setIcon(buildCounterDrawable(count, R.drawable.ic_menu_gallery));
    
        return true;
    }
    
  2. Implement build-the-icon method:

    private Drawable buildCounterDrawable(int count, int backgroundImageId) {
        LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(this);
        View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.counter_menuitem_layout, null);
        view.setBackgroundResource(backgroundImageId);
    
        if (count == 0) {
            View counterTextPanel = view.findViewById(R.id.counterValuePanel);
            counterTextPanel.setVisibility(View.GONE);
        } else {
            TextView textView = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.count);
            textView.setText("" + count);
        }
    
        view.measure(
                View.MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(0, View.MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED),
                View.MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(0, View.MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED));
        view.layout(0, 0, view.getMeasuredWidth(), view.getMeasuredHeight());
    
        view.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
        view.setDrawingCacheQuality(View.DRAWING_CACHE_QUALITY_HIGH);
        Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(view.getDrawingCache());
        view.setDrawingCacheEnabled(false);
    
        return new BitmapDrawable(getResources(), bitmap);
    }
    

The complete code is here: https://github.com/cvoronin/ActionBarMenuItemCounter

Meaning of = delete after function declaration

  1. = 0 means that a function is pure virtual and you cannot instantiate an object from this class. You need to derive from it and implement this method
  2. = delete means that the compiler will not generate those constructors for you. AFAIK this is only allowed on copy constructor and assignment operator. But I am not too good at the upcoming standard.

Why does my Eclipse keep not responding?

I kept running into this problem every time I tried opening eclipse. I resolved it by unplugging my android device's USB from my laptop, and eclipse worked again.

Why does modern Perl avoid UTF-8 by default?

I think you misunderstand Unicode and its relationship to Perl. No matter which way you store data, Unicode, ISO-8859-1, or many other things, your program has to know how to interpret the bytes it gets as input (decoding) and how to represent the information it wants to output (encoding). Get that interpretation wrong and you garble the data. There isn't some magic default setup inside your program that's going to tell the stuff outside your program how to act.

You think it's hard, most likely, because you are used to everything being ASCII. Everything you should have been thinking about was simply ignored by the programming language and all of the things it had to interact with. If everything used nothing but UTF-8 and you had no choice, then UTF-8 would be just as easy. But not everything does use UTF-8. For instance, you don't want your input handle to think that it's getting UTF-8 octets unless it actually is, and you don't want your output handles to be UTF-8 if the thing reading from them can't handle UTF-8. Perl has no way to know those things. That's why you are the programmer.

I don't think Unicode in Perl 5 is too complicated. I think it's scary and people avoid it. There's a difference. To that end, I've put Unicode in Learning Perl, 6th Edition, and there's a lot of Unicode stuff in Effective Perl Programming. You have to spend the time to learn and understand Unicode and how it works. You're not going to be able to use it effectively otherwise.

Foreign key constraint may cause cycles or multiple cascade paths?

This is because Emplyee might have Collection of other entity say Qualifications and Qualification might have some other collection Universities e.g.

public class Employee{
public virtual ICollection<Qualification> Qualifications {get;set;}

}

public class Qualification{

public Employee Employee {get;set;}

public virtual ICollection<University> Universities {get;set;}

}

public class University{

public Qualification Qualification {get;set;}

}

On DataContext it could be like below

protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder){

modelBuilder.Entity<Qualification>().HasRequired(x=> x.Employee).WithMany(e => e.Qualifications);
modelBuilder.Entity<University>.HasRequired(x => x.Qualification).WithMany(e => e.Universities);

}

in this case there is chain from Employee to Qualification and From Qualification to Universities. So it was throwing same exception to me.

It worked for me when I changed

    modelBuilder.Entity<Qualification>().**HasRequired**(x=> x.Employee).WithMany(e => e.Qualifications); 

To

    modelBuilder.Entity<Qualification>().**HasOptional**(x=> x.Employee).WithMany(e => e.Qualifications);

Alternative for PHP_excel

For Writing Excel

  • PEAR's PHP_Excel_Writer (xls only)
  • php_writeexcel from Bettina Attack (xls only)
  • XLS File Generator commercial and xls only
  • Excel Writer for PHP from Sourceforge (spreadsheetML only)
  • Ilia Alshanetsky's Excel extension now on github (xls and xlsx, and requires commercial libXL component)
  • PHP's COM extension (requires a COM enabled spreadsheet program such as MS Excel or OpenOffice Calc running on the server)
  • The Open Office alternative to COM (PUNO) (requires Open Office installed on the server with Java support enabled)
  • PHP-Export-Data by Eli Dickinson (Writes SpreadsheetML - the Excel 2003 XML format, and CSV)
  • Oliver Schwarz's php-excel (SpreadsheetML)
  • Oliver Schwarz's original version of php-excel (SpreadsheetML)
  • excel_xml (SpreadsheetML, despite its name)... link reported as broken
  • The tiny-but-strong (tbs) project includes the OpenTBS tool for creating OfficeOpenXML documents (OpenDocument and OfficeOpenXML formats)
  • SimpleExcel Claims to read and write Microsoft Excel XML / CSV / TSV / HTML / JSON / etc formats
  • KoolGrid xls spreadsheets only, but also doc and pdf
  • PHP_XLSXWriter OfficeOpenXML
  • PHP_XLSXWriter_plus OfficeOpenXML, fork of PHP_XLSXWriter
  • php_writeexcel xls only (looks like it's based on PEAR SEW)
  • spout OfficeOpenXML (xlsx) and CSV
  • Slamdunk/php-excel (xls only) looks like an updated version of the old PEAR Spreadsheet Writer

For Reading Excel

A new C++ Excel extension for PHP, though you'll need to build it yourself, and the docs are pretty sparse when it comes to trying to find out what functionality (I can't even find out from the site what formats it supports, or whether it reads or writes or both.... I'm guessing both) it offers is phpexcellib from SIMITGROUP.

All claim to be faster than PHPExcel from codeplex or from github, but (with the exception of COM, PUNO Ilia's wrapper around libXl and spout) they don't offer both reading and writing, or both xls and xlsx; may no longer be supported; and (while I haven't tested Ilia's extension) only COM and PUNO offers the same degree of control over the created workbook.

How to set seekbar min and max value

Seek Bar has methods for setting max values but not for setting min value here i write a code for setting minimum seek bar value when we add this code then your seek bar values not less then mim value try this its work fine for me

/* This methods call after seek bar value change */

            public void onProgressChanged(SeekBar seekBar, int progress,
                boolean fromUser) {
            /* Check the current seekbar value is greather than min value*/
            if (progress < MIN_VALUE) {
                /* if seek bar value is lesser than min value then set min value to seek bar */
                seekBar.setProgress(MIN_VALUE);
            }

        }

How to return more than one value from a function in Python?

Return as a tuple, e.g.

def foo (a):
    x=a
    y=a*2
    return (x,y)

Tomcat 7.0.43 "INFO: Error parsing HTTP request header"

Check, if you are not accidentally requesting HTTPS protocol instead of HTTP.

I have overlooked that I was requesting https://localhost:... instead of http://localhost:... and it resulted to this weird message..

CSS checkbox input styling

Trident provides the ::-ms-check pseudo-element for checkbox and radio button controls. For example:

<input type="checkbox">
<input type="radio">

::-ms-check {
    color: red;
    background: black;
    padding: 1em;
}

This displays as follows in IE10 on Windows 8:

enter image description here

Getting Keyboard Input

Add line:

import java.util.Scanner;

Then create an object of Scanner class:

Scanner s = new Scanner(System.in);

Now you can call any time:

int a = Integer.parseInt(s.nextLine());

This will store integer value from your keyboard.

Class 'DOMDocument' not found

For Centos 7 and php 7.1:
yum install php71w-xml
apachectl restart

Which version of CodeIgniter am I currently using?

For CodeIgniter 4, use the following:

<?php    
    echo \CodeIgniter\CodeIgniter::CI_VERSION;
?>

What is the correct way to create a single-instance WPF application?

Please check the proposed solution from here that uses a semaphore to determine if an existing instance is already running, works for a WPF application and can pass arguments from second instance to the first already running instance by using a TcpListener and a TcpClient:

It works also for .NET Core, not only for .NET Framework.

Sending data through POST request from a node.js server to a node.js server

You can also use Requestify, a really cool and very simple HTTP client I wrote for nodeJS + it supports caching.

Just do the following for executing a POST request:

var requestify = require('requestify');

requestify.post('http://example.com', {
    hello: 'world'
})
.then(function(response) {
    // Get the response body (JSON parsed or jQuery object for XMLs)
    response.getBody();
});

setting the id attribute of an input element dynamically in IE: alternative for setAttribute method

Forget setAttribute(): it's badly broken and doesn't always do what you might expect in old IE (IE <= 8 and compatibility modes in later versions). Use the element's properties instead. This is generally a good idea, not just for this particular case. Replace your code with the following, which will work in all major browsers:

var hiddenInput = document.createElement("input");
hiddenInput.id = "uniqueIdentifier";
hiddenInput.type = "hidden";                     
hiddenInput.value = ID;
hiddenInput.className = "ListItem";

Update

The nasty hack in the second code block in the question is unnecessary, and the code above works fine in all major browsers, including IE 6. See http://www.jsfiddle.net/timdown/aEvUT/. The reason why you get null in your alert() is that when it is called, the new input is not yet in the document, hence the document.getElementById() call cannot find it.

Ionic android build Error - Failed to find 'ANDROID_HOME' environment variable

In my Case: I have put the correct path for Android and java but still getting the error.

The problem was that I have added the Android platform using sudo command.sudo ionic cordova platform android.

To solve my problem: First I have removed the platform android by running command

sudo ionic cordova platform rm android

then add the android platform again with out sudoionic cordova platform add android but i get the error of permissions.

To resolve the error run command

sudo chmod -R 777 {Path-of-your-project}

in my case sudo chmod -R 777 ~/codebase/IonicProject Then run command

ionic cordova platform add android

or

ionic cordova run android

CURRENT_TIMESTAMP in milliseconds

In PostgreSQL we use this approach:

SELECT round(EXTRACT (EPOCH FROM now())::float*1000)

How to add two strings as if they were numbers?

try

var x = parseFloat(num1) + parseFloat(num2) ;

or, depending on your needs:

var x = parseInt(num1) + parseInt(num2) ;

http://www.javascripter.net/faq/convert2.htm

You might want to pick up the book Javascript: The Good Parts, by Douglas Crockford. Javascript has a rather sizeable colleciton of gotchas! This book goes a long way towards clarifying them. See also

and Mr. Crockford's excellent essay, Javascript: The World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language.

BadValue Invalid or no user locale set. Please ensure LANG and/or LC_* environment variables are set correctly

Generating locales

Missing locales are generated with locale-gen:

locale-gen en_US.UTF-8

Alternatively a locale file can be created manually with localedef:[1]

localedef -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8

Setting Locale Settings

The locale settings can be set (to en_US.UTF-8 in the example) as follows:

export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
dpkg-reconfigure locales

The dpkg-reconfigure locales command will open a dialog under Debian for selecting the desired locale. This dialog will not appear under Ubuntu. The Configure Locales in Ubuntu article shows how to find the information regarding Ubuntu.

HTML input - name vs. id

In HTML4.01:

Name Attribute

  • Valid only on <a>, <form>, <iframe>, <img>, <map>, <input>, <select>, <textarea>
  • Name does not have to be unique, and can be used to group elements together such as radio buttons & checkboxes
  • Can not be referenced in URL, although as JavaScript and PHP can see the URL there are workarounds
  • Is referenced in JS with getElementsByName()
  • Shares the same namespace as the id attribute
  • Must begin with a letter
  • According to specs is case sensitive, but most modern browsers don't seem to follow this
  • Used on form elements to submit information. Only input tags with a name attribute are submitted to the server

Id Attribute

  • Valid on any element except <base>, <html>, <head>, <meta>, <param>, <script>, <style>, <title>
  • Each Id should be unique in the page as rendered in the browser, which may or may not be all in the same file
  • Can be used as anchor reference in URL
  • Is referenced in CSS or URL with # sign
  • Is referenced in JS with getElementById(), and jQuery by $(#<id>)
  • Shares same name space as name attribute
  • Must contain at least one character
  • Must begin with a letter
  • Must not contain anything other than letters, numbers, underscores (_), dashes (-), colons (:), or periods (.)
  • Is case insensitive

In (X)HTML5, everything is the same except:

Name Attribute

  • Not valid on <form> anymore
  • XHTML says it must be all lowercase, but most browsers don't follow that

Id Attribute

  • Valid on any element
  • XHTML says it must be all lowercase, but most browsers don't follow that

This question was written when HTML4.01 was the norm, and many browsers and features were different from today.

INSERT IF NOT EXISTS ELSE UPDATE?

I think it's worth pointing out that there can be some unexpected behaviour here if you don't thoroughly understand how PRIMARY KEY and UNIQUE interact.

As an example, if you want to insert a record only if the NAME field isn't currently taken, and if it is, you want a constraint exception to fire to tell you, then INSERT OR REPLACE will not throw and exception and instead will resolve the UNIQUE constraint itself by replacing the conflicting record (the existing record with the same NAME). Gaspard's demonstrates this really well in his answer above.

If you want a constraint exception to fire, you have to use an INSERT statement, and rely on a separate UPDATE command to update the record once you know the name isn't taken.

Update all objects in a collection using LINQ

I've tried a few variations on this, and I keep going back to this guy's solution.

http://www.hookedonlinq.com/UpdateOperator.ashx

Again, this is somebody else's solution. But I've compiled the code into a small library, and use it fairly regularly.

I'm going to paste his code here, for the off chance that his site(blog) ceases to exist at some point in the future. (There's nothing worse than seeing a post that says "Here is the exact answer you need", Click, and Dead URL.)

    public static class UpdateExtensions {

    public delegate void Func<TArg0>(TArg0 element);

    /// <summary>
    /// Executes an Update statement block on all elements in an IEnumerable<T> sequence.
    /// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="TSource">The source element type.</typeparam>
    /// <param name="source">The source sequence.</param>
    /// <param name="update">The update statement to execute for each element.</param>
    /// <returns>The numer of records affected.</returns>
    public static int Update<TSource>(this IEnumerable<TSource> source, Func<TSource> update)
    {
        if (source == null) throw new ArgumentNullException("source");
        if (update == null) throw new ArgumentNullException("update");
        if (typeof(TSource).IsValueType)
            throw new NotSupportedException("value type elements are not supported by update.");

        int count = 0;
        foreach (TSource element in source)
        {
            update(element);
            count++;
        }
        return count;
    }
}



int count = drawingObjects
        .Where(d => d.IsSelected && d.Color == Colors.Blue)
        .Update(e => { e.Color = Color.Red; e.Selected = false; } );

animating addClass/removeClass with jQuery

I was looking into this but wanted to have a different transition rate for in and out.

This is what I ended up doing:

//css
.addedClass {
    background: #5eb4fc;
}

// js
function setParentTransition(id, prop, delay, style, callback) {
    $(id).css({'-webkit-transition' : prop + ' ' + delay + ' ' + style});
    $(id).css({'-moz-transition' : prop + ' ' + delay + ' ' + style});
    $(id).css({'-o-transition' : prop + ' ' + delay + ' ' + style});
    $(id).css({'transition' : prop + ' ' + delay + ' ' + style});
    callback();
}
setParentTransition(id, 'background', '0s', 'ease', function() {
    $('#elementID').addClass('addedClass');
});

setTimeout(function() {
    setParentTransition(id, 'background', '2s', 'ease', function() {
        $('#elementID').removeClass('addedClass');
    });
});

This instantly turns the background color to #5eb4fc and then slowly fades back to normal over 2 seconds.

Here's a fiddle

Split string, convert ToList<int>() in one line

var numbers = sNumbers.Split(',').Select(Int32.Parse).ToList();

Regular Expression to reformat a US phone number in Javascript

thinking backwards

Take the last digits only (up to 10) ignoring first "1".

function formatUSNumber(entry = '') {
  const match = entry
    .replace(/\D+/g, '').replace(/^1/, '')
    .match(/([^\d]*\d[^\d]*){1,10}$/)[0]
  const part1 = match.length > 2 ? `(${match.substring(0,3)})` : match
  const part2 = match.length > 3 ? ` ${match.substring(3, 6)}` : ''
  const part3 = match.length > 6 ? `-${match.substring(6, 10)}` : ''    
  return `${part1}${part2}${part3}`
}

example input / output as you type

formatUSNumber('+1333')
// (333)

formatUSNumber('333')
// (333)

formatUSNumber('333444')
// (333) 444

formatUSNumber('3334445555')
// (333) 444-5555

Docker: Multiple Dockerfiles in project

In newer versions(>=1.8.0) of docker, you can do this

docker build -f Dockerfile.db .
docker build -f Dockerfile.web .

A big save.

EDIT: update versions per raksja's comment

EDIT: comment from @vsevolod: it's possible to get syntax highlighting in VS code by giving files .Dockerfile extension(instead of name) e.g. Prod.Dockerfile, Test.Dockerfile etc.

Rewrite URL after redirecting 404 error htaccess

Try this in your .htaccess:

.htaccess

ErrorDocument 404 http://example.com/404/
ErrorDocument 500 http://example.com/500/
# or map them to one error document:
# ErrorDocument 404 /pages/errors/error_redirect.php
# ErrorDocument 500 /pages/errors/error_redirect.php

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/404/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /pages/errors/404.php [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/500/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /pages/errors/500.php [L]

# or map them to one error document:
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/404/$ [OR]
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/500/$
#RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /pages/errors/error_redirect.php [L]

The ErrorDocument redirects all 404s to a specific URL, all 500s to another url (replace with your domain).

The Rewrite rules map that URL to your actual 404.php script. The RewriteCond regular expressions can be made more generic if you want, but I think you have to explicitly define all ErrorDocument codes you want to override.

Local Redirect:

Change .htaccess ErrorDocument to a file that exists (must exist, or you'll get an error):

ErrorDocument 404 /pages/errors/404_redirect.php

404_redirect.php

<?php
   header('Location: /404/');
   exit;
?>

Redirect based on error number

Looks like you'll need to specify an ErrorDocument line in .htaccess for every error you want to redirect (see: Apache ErrorDocument and Apache Custom Error). The .htaccess example above has multiple examples in it. You can use the following as the generic redirect script to replace 404_redirect.php above.

error_redirect.php

<?php
   $error_url = $_SERVER["REDIRECT_STATUS"] . '/';
   $error_path = $error_url . '.php';

   if ( ! file_exists($error_path)) {
      // this is the default error if a specific error page is not found
      $error_url = '404/';
   }

   header('Location: ' . $error_url);
   exit;
?>

Making a div vertically scrollable using CSS

Well the above answers have give a good explanations to half of the question. For the other half.

Why don't just hide the scroll bar itself. This way it will look more appealing as most of the people ( including me ) hate the scroll bar. You can use this code

::-webkit-scrollbar {
    width: 0px;  /* Remove scrollbar space */
    background: transparent;  /* Optional: just make scrollbar invisible */
}

What does 'stale file handle' in Linux mean?

When the directory is deleted, the inode for that directory (and the inodes for its contents) are recycled. The pointer your shell has to that directory's inode (and its contents's inodes) are now no longer valid. When the directory is restored from backup, the old inodes are not (necessarily) reused; the directory and its contents are stored on random inodes. The only thing that stays the same is that the parent directory reuses the same name for the restored directory (because you told it to).

Now if you attempt to access the contents of the directory that your original shell is still pointing to, it communicates that request to the file system as a request for the original inode, which has since been recycled (and may even be in use for something entirely different now). So you get a stale file handle message because you asked for some nonexistent data.

When you perform a cd operation, the shell reevaluates the inode location of whatever destination you give it. Now that your shell knows the new inode for the directory (and the new inodes for its contents), future requests for its contents will be valid.

What is the $$hashKey added to my JSON.stringify result

In my use case (feeding the resulting object to X2JS) the recommended approach

data = angular.toJson(source);

help to remove the $$hashKey properties, but the result could then no longer be processed by X2JS.

data = angular.copy(source);

removed the $$hashKey properties as well, but the result remained usable as a parameter for X2JS.

Customizing the template within a Directive

angular.module('formComponents', [])
  .directive('formInput', function() {
    return {
        restrict: 'E',
        compile: function(element, attrs) {
            var type = attrs.type || 'text';
            var required = attrs.hasOwnProperty('required') ? "required='required'" : "";
            var htmlText = '<div class="control-group">' +
                '<label class="control-label" for="' + attrs.formId + '">' + attrs.label + '</label>' +
                    '<div class="controls">' +
                    '<input type="' + type + '" class="input-xlarge" id="' + attrs.formId + '" name="' + attrs.formId + '" ' + required + '>' +
                    '</div>' +
                '</div>';
            element.replaceWith(htmlText);
        }
    };
})

Can Android do peer-to-peer ad-hoc networking?

my friend and I are currently developing a java library implementing the AODV protocol (multihop routing suitable for mobile networks), in our bachelor thesis. The final 'product' includes a easy way to create/join an adhoc network on several android devices and an interface through the library, to send and receive messages. Unfortunately each type of phone such as hero, nexsus one... have a phonedepended way for createing a adhoc network so currently we are only supporting a few phones).

this means that once this project is finished, people with rooted phones can implement their distributed applications (file sharing, games, ...) by simply including the library .jar file in their android projects.

it's all open source by the way

http://code.google.com/p/adhoc-on-android/

Send value of submit button when form gets posted

Use this instead:

<input id='tea-submit' type='submit' name = 'submit'    value = 'Tea'>
<input id='coffee-submit' type='submit' name = 'submit' value = 'Coffee'>

Insert picture into Excel cell

While my recommendation is to take advantage of the automation available from Doality.com specifically Picture Manager for Excel

The following vba code should meet your criteria. Good Luck!

Add a Button Control to your Excel Workbook and then double click on the button in order to get to the VBA Code -->

Sub Button1_Click()
    Dim filePathCell As Range
    Dim imageLocationCell As Range
    Dim filePath As String

    Set filePathCell = Application.InputBox(Prompt:= _
        "Please select the cell that contains the reference path to your image file", _
            Title:="Specify File Path", Type:=8)

     Set imageLocationCell = Application.InputBox(Prompt:= _
        "Please select the cell where you would like your image to be inserted.", _
            Title:="Image Cell", Type:=8)

    If filePathCell Is Nothing Then
       MsgBox ("Please make a selection for file path")
       Exit Sub
    Else
      If filePathCell.Cells.Count > 1 Then
        MsgBox ("Please select only a single cell that contains the file location")
        Exit Sub
      Else
        filePath = Cells(filePathCell.Row, filePathCell.Column).Value
      End If
    End If

    If imageLocationCell Is Nothing Then
       MsgBox ("Please make a selection for image location")
       Exit Sub
    Else
      If imageLocationCell.Cells.Count > 1 Then
        MsgBox ("Please select only a single cell where you want the image to be populated")
        Exit Sub
      Else
        InsertPic filePath, imageLocationCell
        Exit Sub
      End If
    End If
End Sub

Then create your Insert Method as follows:

Private Sub InsertPic(filePath As String, ByVal insertCell As Range)
    Dim xlShapes As Shapes
    Dim xlPic As Shape
    Dim xlWorksheet As Worksheet

    If IsEmpty(filePath) Or Len(Dir(filePath)) = 0 Then
        MsgBox ("File Path invalid")
        Exit Sub
    End If

    Set xlWorksheet = ActiveSheet

    Set xlPic = xlWorksheet.Shapes.AddPicture(filePath, msoFalse, msoCTrue, insertCell.top, insertCell.left, insertCell.width, insertCell.height)
    xlPic.LockAspectRatio = msoCTrue
End Sub

How do I replace text inside a div element?

If you really want us to just continue where you left off, you could do:

if (fieldNameElement)
    fieldNameElement.innerHTML = 'some HTML';

What is the purpose of Looper and how to use it?

Simplest Definition of Looper & Handler:

Looper is a class that turns a thread into a Pipeline Thread and Handler gives you a mechanism to push tasks into it from any other threads.

Details in general wording:

So a PipeLine Thread is a thread which can accept more tasks from other threads through a Handler.

The Looper is named so because it implements the loop – takes the next task, executes it, then takes the next one and so on. The Handler is called a handler because it is used to handle or accept that next task each time from any other thread and pass to Looper (Thread or PipeLine Thread).

Example:

A Looper and Handler or PipeLine Thread's very perfect example is to download more than one images or upload them to a server (Http) one by one in a single thread instead of starting a new Thread for each network call in the background.

Read more here about Looper and Handler and the definition of Pipeline Thread:

Android Guts: Intro to Loopers and Handlers

Is there an equivalent to e.PageX position for 'touchstart' event as there is for click event?

If you're not using jQuery... you need to access one of the event's TouchLists to get a Touch object which has pageX/Y clientX/Y etc.

Here are links to the relevant docs:

I'm using e.targetTouches[0].pageX in my case.

invalid_grant trying to get oAuth token from google

for me I had to make sure that the redirect_uri is an exact match to the one in the developer console Authorised redirect URIs, that fixed it for me, I was able to debug and know what exactly was the issue after switching from https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token to https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v4/token

I got a proper error:

{"error": "redirect_uri_mismatch",  "error_description": "Bad Request"}

What is the use of a private static variable in Java?

Static variables have a single value for all instances of a class.

If you were to make something like:

public class Person
{
    private static int numberOfEyes;
    private String name;
}

and then you wanted to change your name, that is fine, my name stays the same. If, however you wanted to change it so that you had 17 eyes then everyone in the world would also have 17 eyes.

ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Columns.Count - 8 what does it mean?

I think if you try:

Sub Macro3()
a = ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Columns.Count - 3
End Sub  

with a watch on a you will see it does make a difference.

Redirect Windows cmd stdout and stderr to a single file

Background info from MSKB

While the accepted answer to this question is correct, it really doesn't do much to explain why it works, and since the syntax is not immediately clear I did a quick google to find out what was actually going on. In the hopes that this information is helpful to others, I'm posting it here.

Taken from MS Support KB 110930.


From MSKB110930

Redirecting Error Messages from Command Prompt: STDERR/STDOUT

Summary

When redirecting output from an application using the '>' symbol, error messages still print to the screen. This is because error messages are often sent to the Standard Error stream instead of the Standard Out stream.

Output from a console (Command Prompt) application or command is often sent to two separate streams. The regular output is sent to Standard Out (STDOUT) and the error messages are sent to Standard Error (STDERR). When you redirect console output using the ">" symbol, you are only redirecting STDOUT. In order to redirect STDERR you have to specify '2>' for the redirection symbol. This selects the second output stream which is STDERR.

Example

The command dir file.xxx (where file.xxx does not exist) will display the following output:

Volume in drive F is Candy Cane Volume Serial Number is 34EC-0876

File Not Found

If you redirect the output to the NUL device using dir file.xxx > nul, you will still see the error message part of the output, like this:

File Not Found

To redirect (only) the error message to NUL, use the following command:

dir file.xxx 2> nul

Or, you can redirect the output to one place, and the errors to another.

dir file.xxx > output.msg 2> output.err

You can print the errors and standard output to a single file by using the "&1" command to redirect the output for STDERR to STDOUT and then sending the output from STDOUT to a file:

dir file.xxx 1> output.msg 2>&1

Escape double quote in VB string

Escaping quotes in VB6 or VBScript strings is simple in theory although often frightening when viewed. You escape a double quote with another double quote.

An example:

"c:\program files\my app\app.exe"

If I want to escape the double quotes so I could pass this to the shell execute function listed by Joe or the VB6 Shell function I would write it:

escapedString = """c:\program files\my app\app.exe"""

How does this work? The first and last quotes wrap the string and let VB know this is a string. Then each quote that is displayed literally in the string has another double quote added in front of it to escape it.

It gets crazier when you are trying to pass a string with multiple quoted sections. Remember, every quote you want to pass has to be escaped.

If I want to pass these two quoted phrases as a single string separated by a space (which is not uncommon):

"c:\program files\my app\app.exe" "c:\documents and settings\steve"

I would enter this:

escapedQuoteHell = """c:\program files\my app\app.exe"" ""c:\documents and settings\steve"""

I've helped my sysadmins with some VBScripts that have had even more quotes.

It's not pretty, but that's how it works.

Batch file to delete folders older than 10 days in Windows 7

FORFILES /S /D -10 /C "cmd /c IF @isdir == TRUE rd /S /Q @path"

I could not get Blorgbeard's suggestion to work, but I was able to get it to work with RMDIR instead of RD:

FORFILES /p N:\test /S /D -10 /C "cmd /c IF @isdir == TRUE RMDIR /S /Q @path"

Since RMDIR won't delete folders that aren't empty so I also ended up using this code to delete the files that were over 10 days and then the folders that were over 10 days old.

FOR /d %%K in ("n:\test*") DO (

FOR /d %%J in ("%%K*") DO (

FORFILES /P %%J /S /M . /D -10 /C "cmd /c del @file"

)

)

FORFILES /p N:\test /S /D -10 /C "cmd /c IF @isdir == TRUE RMDIR /S /Q @path"

I used this code to purge out the sub folders in the folders within test (example n:\test\abc\123 would get purged when empty, but n:\test\abc would not get purged

How to print something when running Puppet client?

Here is the puppet script with all the available puppet log functions.

log_levels.pp

node default {
  notice("try to run this script with -v and -d to see difference between log levels")
  notice("function documentation is available here: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/function.html")
  notice("--------------------------------------------------------------------------")

  debug("this is debug. visible only with -d or --debug")
  info("this is info. visible only with -v or --verbose or -d or --debug")
  alert("this is alert. always visible")
  crit("this is crit. always visible")
  emerg("this is emerg. always visible")
  err("this is err. always visible")
  warning("and this is warning. always visible")
  notice("this is notice. always visible")
  #fail will break execution
  fail("this is fail. always visible. fail will break execution process")

}

Script output (on puppet 2.7): different log levels colors

NB: puppet 3.x colours may alter (all the errors will be printed in red)!

How to add image in Flutter

An alternative way to put images in your app (for me it just worked that way):

1 - Create an assets/images folder

2 - Add your image to the new folder

3 - Register the assets folder in pubspec.yaml

4 - Use this code:

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

void main() => runApp(MyApp());

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {

    var assetsImage = new AssetImage('assets/images/mountain.jpg'); //<- Creates an object that fetches an image.
    var image = new Image(image: assetsImage, fit: BoxFit.cover); //<- Creates a widget that displays an image.

    return MaterialApp(
      home: Scaffold(
        appBar: AppBar(
          title: Text("Climb your mountain!"),
          backgroundColor: Colors.amber[600], //<- background color to combine with the picture :-)
        ),
        body: Container(child: image), //<- place where the image appears
      ),
    );
  }
}

Climb your mountain!

PHP compare time

Simple way to compare time is :

$time = date('H:i:s',strtotime("11 PM"));
if($time < date('H:i:s')){
     // your code
}

grep a file, but show several surrounding lines?

For BSD or GNU grep you can use -B num to set how many lines before the match and -A num for the number of lines after the match.

grep -B 3 -A 2 foo README.txt

If you want the same number of lines before and after you can use -C num.

grep -C 3 foo README.txt

This will show 3 lines before and 3 lines after.

Send Post Request with params using Retrofit

This is a simple solution where we do not need to use JSON

public interface RegisterAPI {
@FormUrlEncoded
@POST("/RetrofitExample/insert.php")
public void insertUser(
        @Field("name") String name,
        @Field("username") String username,
        @Field("password") String password,
        @Field("email") String email,
        Callback<Response> callback);
}

method to send data

private void insertUser(){
    //Here we will handle the http request to insert user to mysql db
    //Creating a RestAdapter
    RestAdapter adapter = new RestAdapter.Builder()
            .setEndpoint(ROOT_URL) //Setting the Root URL
            .build(); //Finally building the adapter

    //Creating object for our interface
    RegisterAPI api = adapter.create(RegisterAPI.class);

    //Defining the method insertuser of our interface
    api.insertUser(

            //Passing the values by getting it from editTexts
            editTextName.getText().toString(),
            editTextUsername.getText().toString(),
            editTextPassword.getText().toString(),
            editTextEmail.getText().toString(),

            //Creating an anonymous callback
            new Callback<Response>() {
                @Override
                public void success(Response result, Response response) {
                    //On success we will read the server's output using bufferedreader
                    //Creating a bufferedreader object
                    BufferedReader reader = null;

                    //An string to store output from the server
                    String output = "";

                    try {
                        //Initializing buffered reader
                        reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(result.getBody().in()));

                        //Reading the output in the string
                        output = reader.readLine();
                    } catch (IOException e) {
                        e.printStackTrace();
                    }

                    //Displaying the output as a toast
                    Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, output, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                }

                @Override
                public void failure(RetrofitError error) {
                    //If any error occured displaying the error as toast
                    Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, error.toString(),Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                }
            }
    );
}

Now we can get the post request using php aur any other server side scripting.

Source Android Retrofit Tutorial

multiprocessing: How do I share a dict among multiple processes?

A general answer involves using a Manager object. Adapted from the docs:

from multiprocessing import Process, Manager

def f(d):
    d[1] += '1'
    d['2'] += 2

if __name__ == '__main__':
    manager = Manager()

    d = manager.dict()
    d[1] = '1'
    d['2'] = 2

    p1 = Process(target=f, args=(d,))
    p2 = Process(target=f, args=(d,))
    p1.start()
    p2.start()
    p1.join()
    p2.join()

    print d

Output:

$ python mul.py 
{1: '111', '2': 6}

Get $_POST from multiple checkboxes

Edit To reflect what @Marc said in the comment below.

You can do a loop through all the posted values.

HTML:

<input type="checkbox" name="check_list[]" value="<?=$rowid?>" />
<input type="checkbox" name="check_list[]" value="<?=$rowid?>" />
<input type="checkbox" name="check_list[]" value="<?=$rowid?>" />

PHP:

foreach($_POST['check_list'] as $item){
  // query to delete where item = $item
}

How can I get the session object if I have the entity-manager?

I was working in Wildfly but I was using

org.hibernate.Session session = ((org.hibernate.ejb.EntityManagerImpl) em.getDelegate()).getSession();

and the correct was

org.hibernate.Session session = (Session) manager.getDelegate();

Oracle SQL Developer and PostgreSQL

Oracle SQL Developer doesn't support connections to PostgreSQL. Use pgAdmin to connect to PostgreSQL instead, you can get it from the following URL http://www.pgadmin.org/download/windows.php

finding multiples of a number in Python

For the first ten multiples of 5, say

>>> [5*n for n in range(1,10+1)]
[5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50]

Can I hide the HTML5 number input’s spin box?

Only add this css to remove spinner on input of number

/* For Firefox */

input[type='number'] {
    -moz-appearance:textfield;
}



/* Webkit browsers like Safari and Chrome */

input[type=number]::-webkit-inner-spin-button,
input[type=number]::-webkit-outer-spin-button {
    -webkit-appearance: none;
    margin: 0;
}

Linq on DataTable: select specific column into datatable, not whole table

Here I get only three specific columns from mainDataTable and use the filter

DataTable checkedParams = mainDataTable.Select("checked = true").CopyToDataTable()
.DefaultView.ToTable(false, "lagerID", "reservePeriod", "discount");

How to perform OR condition in django queryset?

from django.db.models import Q
User.objects.filter(Q(income__gte=5000) | Q(income__isnull=True))

via Documentation

PostgreSQL return result set as JSON array?

Also if you want selected field from table and aggregated then as array .

SELECT json_agg(json_build_object('data_a',a,
                                  'data_b',b,
))  from t;

The result will come .

 [{'data_a':1,'data_b':'value1'}
  {'data_a':2,'data_b':'value2'}]

Language Books/Tutorials for popular languages

check out the programming section of wikibooks

Many of them are fully formed, and quite a few have more advanced sections (which are in varying states of completion) on specific functionality.

also, w3 schools has a great php tutorial and reference section

their html and css sections are good for reference too.

DataTable, How to conditionally delete rows

You could query the dataset and then loop the selected rows to set them as delete.

var rows = dt.Select("col1 > 5");
foreach (var row in rows)
    row.Delete();

... and you could also create some extension methods to make it easier ...

myTable.Delete("col1 > 5");

public static DataTable Delete(this DataTable table, string filter)
{
    table.Select(filter).Delete();
    return table;
}
public static void Delete(this IEnumerable<DataRow> rows)
{
    foreach (var row in rows)
        row.Delete();
}

How to programmatically round corners and set random background colors

You can better achieve it by using the DrawableCompat like this:

Drawable backgroundDrawable = view.getBackground();             
DrawableCompat.setTint(backgroundDrawable, newColor);

Enabling refreshing for specific html elements only

Try this:

_x000D_
_x000D_
function reload(){_x000D_
    var container = document.getElementById("yourDiv");_x000D_
    var content = container.innerHTML;_x000D_
    container.innerHTML= content; _x000D_
    _x000D_
   //this line is to watch the result in console , you can remove it later _x000D_
    console.log("Refreshed"); _x000D_
}
_x000D_
<a href="javascript: reload()">Click to Reload</a>_x000D_
    <div id="yourDiv">The content that you want to refresh/reload</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Hope it works. Let me know

How do I scroll to an element within an overflowed Div?

The accepted answer only works with direct children of the scrollable element, while the other answers didn't centered the child in the scrollable element.

Example HTML:

<div class="scrollable-box">
    <div class="row">
        <div class="scrollable-item">
            Child 1
        </div>
        <div class="scrollable-item">
            Child 2
        </div>
        <div class="scrollable-item">
            Child 3
        </div>
        <div class="scrollable-item">
            Child 4
        </div>
        <div class="scrollable-item">
            Child 5
        </div>
        <div class="scrollable-item">
            Child 6
        </div>
        <div class="scrollable-item">
            Child 7
        </div>
        <div class="scrollable-item">
            Child 8
        </div>
        <div class="scrollable-item">
            Child 9
        </div>
        <div class="scrollable-item">
            Child 10
        </div>
        <div class="scrollable-item">
            Child 11
        </div>
        <div class="scrollable-item">
            Child 12
        </div>
        <div class="scrollable-item">
            Child 13
        </div>
        <div class="scrollable-item">
            Child 14
        </div>
        <div class="scrollable-item">
            Child 15
        </div>
        <div class="scrollable-item">
            Child 16
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

<style>
.scrollable-box {
    width: 800px;
    height: 150px;
    overflow-x: hidden;
    overflow-y: scroll;
    border: 1px solid #444;
}
.scrollable-item {
    font-size: 20px;
    padding: 10px;
    text-align: center;
}
</style>

Build a small jQuery plugin:

$.fn.scrollDivToElement = function(childSel) {
    if (! this.length) return this;

    return this.each(function() {
        let parentEl = $(this);
        let childEl = parentEl.find(childSel);

        if (childEl.length > 0) {
            parentEl.scrollTop(
                parentEl.scrollTop() - parentEl.offset().top + childEl.offset().top - (parentEl.outerHeight() / 2) + (childEl.outerHeight() / 2)
            );
        }
    });
};

Usage:

$('.scrollable-box').scrollDivToElement('.scrollable-item:eq(12)');

Explanation:

  1. parentEl.scrollTop(...) sets current vertical position of the scroll bar.

  2. parentEl.scrollTop() gets the current vertical position of the scroll bar.

  3. parentEl.offset().top gets the current coordinates of the parentEl relative to the document.

  4. childEl.offset().top gets the current coordinates of the childEl relative to the document.

  5. parentEl.outerHeight() / 2 gets the outer height divided in half (because we want it centered) of the child element.

  6. when used:

$(parent).scrollDivToElement(child);

The parent is the scrollable div and it can be a string or a jQuery object of the DOM element.
The child is any child that you want to scroll to and it can be a string or a jQuery object of the DOM element.

Codepen demo

Finding local maxima/minima with Numpy in a 1D numpy array

Update: I wasn't happy with gradient so I found it more reliable to use numpy.diff. Please let me know if it does what you want.

Regarding the issue of noise, the mathematical problem is to locate maxima/minima if we want to look at noise we can use something like convolve which was mentioned earlier.

import numpy as np
from matplotlib import pyplot

a=np.array([10.3,2,0.9,4,5,6,7,34,2,5,25,3,-26,-20,-29],dtype=np.float)

gradients=np.diff(a)
print gradients


maxima_num=0
minima_num=0
max_locations=[]
min_locations=[]
count=0
for i in gradients[:-1]:
        count+=1

    if ((cmp(i,0)>0) & (cmp(gradients[count],0)<0) & (i != gradients[count])):
        maxima_num+=1
        max_locations.append(count)     

    if ((cmp(i,0)<0) & (cmp(gradients[count],0)>0) & (i != gradients[count])):
        minima_num+=1
        min_locations.append(count)


turning_points = {'maxima_number':maxima_num,'minima_number':minima_num,'maxima_locations':max_locations,'minima_locations':min_locations}  

print turning_points

pyplot.plot(a)
pyplot.show()

Single vs Double quotes (' vs ")

Using " instead of ' when:

<input value="user"/> //Standard html
<input value="user's choice"/> //Need to use single quote
<input onclick="alert('hi')"/> //When giving string as parameter for javascript function

Using ' instead of " when:

<input value='"User"'/> //Need to use double quote
var html = "<input name='username'/>" //When assigning html content to a javascript variable

How to get whole and decimal part of a number?

This code will split it up for you:

list($whole, $decimal) = explode('.', $your_number);

where $whole is the whole number and $decimal will have the digits after the decimal point.

MySQL dump by query

Combining much of above here is my real practical example, selecting records based on both meterid & timestamp. I have needed this command for years. Executes really quickly.

mysqldump -uuser -ppassword main_dbo trHourly --where="MeterID =5406 AND TIMESTAMP<'2014-10-13 05:00:00'" --no-create-info --skip-extended-insert | grep  '^INSERT' > 5406.sql

Basic authentication for REST API using spring restTemplate

Use setBasicAuth to define credentials

HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();
headers.setBasicAuth("myUsername", myPassword);

Then create the request like you prefer.

Example:

HttpEntity<String> request = new HttpEntity<String>(headers);
ResponseEntity<String> response = restTemplate.exchange(url, HttpMethod.GET, 
request, String.class);
String body = response.getBody();

How do I set the figure title and axes labels font size in Matplotlib?

Functions dealing with text like label, title, etc. accept parameters same as matplotlib.text.Text. For the font size you can use size/fontsize:

from matplotlib import pyplot as plt    

fig = plt.figure()
plt.plot(data)
fig.suptitle('test title', fontsize=20)
plt.xlabel('xlabel', fontsize=18)
plt.ylabel('ylabel', fontsize=16)
fig.savefig('test.jpg')

For globally setting title and label sizes, mpl.rcParams contains axes.titlesize and axes.labelsize. (From the page):

axes.titlesize      : large   # fontsize of the axes title
axes.labelsize      : medium  # fontsize of the x any y labels

(As far as I can see, there is no way to set x and y label sizes separately.)

And I see that axes.titlesize does not affect suptitle. I guess, you need to set that manually.

How to convert an integer to a string in any base?

Surprisingly, people were giving only solutions that convert to small bases (smaller than the length of the English alphabet). There was no attempt to give a solution which converts to any arbitrary base from 2 to infinity.

So here is a super simple solution:

def numberToBase(n, b):
    if n == 0:
        return [0]
    digits = []
    while n:
        digits.append(int(n % b))
        n //= b
    return digits[::-1]

so if you need to convert some super huge number to the base 577,

numberToBase(67854 ** 15 - 102, 577), will give you a correct solution: [4, 473, 131, 96, 431, 285, 524, 486, 28, 23, 16, 82, 292, 538, 149, 25, 41, 483, 100, 517, 131, 28, 0, 435, 197, 264, 455],

Which you can later convert to any base you want

How to get file creation & modification date/times in Python?

import os, time, datetime

file = "somefile.txt"
print(file)

print("Modified")
print(os.stat(file)[-2])
print(os.stat(file).st_mtime)
print(os.path.getmtime(file))

print()

print("Created")
print(os.stat(file)[-1])
print(os.stat(file).st_ctime)
print(os.path.getctime(file))

print()

modified = os.path.getmtime(file)
print("Date modified: "+time.ctime(modified))
print("Date modified:",datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(modified))
year,month,day,hour,minute,second=time.localtime(modified)[:-3]
print("Date modified: %02d/%02d/%d %02d:%02d:%02d"%(day,month,year,hour,minute,second))

print()

created = os.path.getctime(file)
print("Date created: "+time.ctime(created))
print("Date created:",datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(created))
year,month,day,hour,minute,second=time.localtime(created)[:-3]
print("Date created: %02d/%02d/%d %02d:%02d:%02d"%(day,month,year,hour,minute,second))

prints

somefile.txt
Modified
1429613446
1429613446.0
1429613446.0

Created
1517491049
1517491049.28306
1517491049.28306

Date modified: Tue Apr 21 11:50:46 2015
Date modified: 2015-04-21 11:50:46
Date modified: 21/04/2015 11:50:46

Date created: Thu Feb  1 13:17:29 2018
Date created: 2018-02-01 13:17:29.283060
Date created: 01/02/2018 13:17:29

Repeat command automatically in Linux

To minimize drift more easily, use:

while :; do sleep 1m & some-command; wait; done

there will still be a tiny amount of drift due to bash's time to run the loop structure and the sleep command to actually execute.

hint: ':' evals to 0 ie true.

Keyboard shortcut to clear cell output in Jupyter notebook

Just adding in for JupyterLab users. Ctrl, (advanced settings) and pasting the below in User References under keyboard shortcuts does the trick for me.

{
"shortcuts": [
        {
            "command": "notebook:hide-cell-outputs",
            "keys": [
                "H"
            ],
            "selector": ".jp-Notebook:focus"
        },
        {
            "command": "notebook:show-cell-outputs",
            "keys": [
                "Shift H"
            ],
            "selector": ".jp-Notebook:focus"
        }
    ]
}

Set Colorbar Range in matplotlib

Using vmin and vmax forces the range for the colors. Here's an example:

enter image description here

import matplotlib as m
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

cdict = {
  'red'  :  ( (0.0, 0.25, .25), (0.02, .59, .59), (1., 1., 1.)),
  'green':  ( (0.0, 0.0, 0.0), (0.02, .45, .45), (1., .97, .97)),
  'blue' :  ( (0.0, 1.0, 1.0), (0.02, .75, .75), (1., 0.45, 0.45))
}

cm = m.colors.LinearSegmentedColormap('my_colormap', cdict, 1024)

x = np.arange(0, 10, .1)
y = np.arange(0, 10, .1)
X, Y = np.meshgrid(x,y)

data = 2*( np.sin(X) + np.sin(3*Y) )

def do_plot(n, f, title):
    #plt.clf()
    plt.subplot(1, 3, n)
    plt.pcolor(X, Y, f(data), cmap=cm, vmin=-4, vmax=4)
    plt.title(title)
    plt.colorbar()

plt.figure()
do_plot(1, lambda x:x, "all")
do_plot(2, lambda x:np.clip(x, -4, 0), "<0")
do_plot(3, lambda x:np.clip(x, 0, 4), ">0")
plt.show()

How to solve time out in phpmyadmin?

To increase the phpMyAdmin Session Timeout, open config.inc.php in the root phpMyAdmin directory and add this setting (anywhere).

$cfg['LoginCookieValidity'] = <your_new_timeout>;

Where is some number larger than 1800.

Note:

Always keep on mind that a short cookie lifetime is all well and good for the development server. So do not do this on your production server.

Reference

How to restart tomcat 6 in ubuntu

if you are using extracted tomcat then,

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

if tomcat is installed then

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

Send message to specific client with socket.io and node.js

You can use

//send message only to sender-client

socket.emit('message', 'check this');

//or you can send to all listeners including the sender

io.emit('message', 'check this');

//send to all listeners except the sender

socket.broadcast.emit('message', 'this is a message');

//or you can send it to a room

socket.broadcast.to('chatroom').emit('message', 'this is the message to all');

How can I pad a value with leading zeros?

This method isn't faster, but it's fairly native.

zeroPad = function (num, count) {
    return [Math.pow(10, count - num.toString().length), num].join('').substr(1);
};

How to calculate age (in years) based on Date of Birth and getDate()

you should use
select FLOOR(DATEDIFF(CURDATE(),DATE(DOB))/365.25) from table_name;
here CURDATE() uses current date you can give own date in 'yyyy-mm-dd' format DATE(DOB) extract yyyy-mm-dd year from your column which is in DATETIME format here DOB is your column name (but you should alter table to modify the data type to be DATETIME in your case which is nvarchar) Note- this query is used in mysql this return age in whole year

Run Button is Disabled in Android Studio

just to go File -> Sync Project with Gradle files then it solves problem.

Create JSON object dynamically via JavaScript (Without concate strings)

This is what you need!

function onGeneratedRow(columnsResult)
{
    var jsonData = {};
    columnsResult.forEach(function(column) 
    {
        var columnName = column.metadata.colName;
        jsonData[columnName] = column.value;
    });
    viewData.employees.push(jsonData);
 }

HTML5 canvas ctx.fillText won't do line breaks?

Using javascript I developed a solution. It isn't beautiful but it worked for me:


function drawMultilineText(){

    // set context and formatting   
    var context = document.getElementById("canvas").getContext('2d');
    context.font = fontStyleStr;
    context.textAlign = "center";
    context.textBaseline = "top";
    context.fillStyle = "#000000";

    // prepare textarea value to be drawn as multiline text.
    var textval = document.getElementByID("textarea").value;
    var textvalArr = toMultiLine(textval);
    var linespacing = 25;
    var startX = 0;
    var startY = 0;

    // draw each line on canvas. 
    for(var i = 0; i < textvalArr.length; i++){
        context.fillText(textvalArr[i], x, y);
        y += linespacing;
    }
}

// Creates an array where the <br/> tag splits the values.
function toMultiLine(text){
   var textArr = new Array();
   text = text.replace(/\n\r?/g, '<br/>');
   textArr = text.split("<br/>");
   return textArr;
}

Hope that helps!

How do I set 'semi-bold' font via CSS? Font-weight of 600 doesn't make it look like the semi-bold I see in my Photoshop file

In CSS, for the font-weight property, the value: normal defaults to the numeric value 400, and bold to 700.

If you want to specify other weights, you need to give the number value. That number value needs to be supported for the font family that you are using.

For example you would define semi-bold like this:

font-weight: 600;

Here an JSFiddle using 'Open Sans' font family, loaded with the above weights.

How to remove list elements in a for loop in Python?

Probably a bit late to answer this but I just found this thread and I had created my own code for it previously...

    list = [1,2,3,4,5]
    deleteList = []
    processNo = 0
    for item in list:
        if condition:
            print item
            deleteList.insert(0, processNo)
        processNo += 1

    if len(deleteList) > 0:
        for item in deleteList:
            del list[item]

It may be a long way of doing it but seems to work well. I create a second list that only holds numbers that relate to the list item to delete. Note the "insert" inserts the list item number at position 0 and pushes the remainder along so when deleting the items, the list is deleted from the highest number back to the lowest number so the list stays in sequence.

How to convert time milliseconds to hours, min, sec format in JavaScript?

In my implementation I used Moment.js:

export default (value) => 
  const duration = moment.duration(value);

  const milliseconds = duration.milliseconds();
  const seconds = duration.seconds();
  const minutes = duration.minutes();
  const hours = duration.hours();
  const day = duration.days();

  const sDay = `${day}d `;
  const sHours = (hours < 10) ? `0${hours}h ` : `${hours}h `;
  const sMinutes = (minutes < 10) ? `0${minutes}' ` : `${minutes}' `;
  const sSeconds = (seconds < 10) ? `0${seconds}" ` : `${seconds}" `;
  const sMilliseconds = `${milliseconds}ms`;

  ...
}

Once got the strings, I composed them as I want.

Parsing JSON giving "unexpected token o" error

Your data is already an object. No need to parse it. The javascript interpreter has already parsed it for you.

var cur_ques_details ={"ques_id":15,"ques_title":"jlkjlkjlkjljl"};
document.write(cur_ques_details['ques_title']);

Install Application programmatically on Android

Do not forget to request permissions:

android.Manifest.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE 
android.Manifest.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

Add in AndroidManifest.xml the provider and permission:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES"/>
...
<application>
    ...
    <provider
        android:name="android.support.v4.content.FileProvider"
        android:authorities="${applicationId}"
        android:exported="false"
        android:grantUriPermissions="true">
        <meta-data
            android:name="android.support.FILE_PROVIDER_PATHS"
            android:resource="@xml/provider_paths"/>
    </provider>
</application>

Create XML file provider res/xml/provider_paths.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<paths xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <external-path
        name="external"
        path="." />
    <external-files-path
        name="external_files"
        path="." />
    <cache-path
        name="cache"
        path="." />
    <external-cache-path
        name="external_cache"
        path="." />
    <files-path
        name="files"
        path="." />
</paths>

Use below example code:

   public class InstallManagerApk extends AppCompatActivity {

    static final String NAME_APK_FILE = "some.apk";
    public static final int REQUEST_INSTALL = 0;

     @Override
    protected void onCreate(@Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        // required permission:
        // android.Manifest.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE 
        // android.Manifest.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

        installApk();

    }

    ...

    /**
     * Install APK File
     */
    private void installApk() {

        try {

            File filePath = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();// path to file apk
            File file = new File(filePath, LoadManagerApkFile.NAME_APK_FILE);

            Uri uri = getApkUri( file.getPath() ); // get Uri for  each SDK Android

            Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_INSTALL_PACKAGE);
            intent.setData( uri );
            intent.setFlags( Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK );
            intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_NOT_UNKNOWN_SOURCE, true);
            intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_RETURN_RESULT, true);
            intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_INSTALLER_PACKAGE_NAME, getApplicationInfo().packageName);

            if ( getPackageManager().queryIntentActivities(intent, 0 ) != null ) {// checked on start Activity

                startActivityForResult(intent, REQUEST_INSTALL);

            } else {
                throw new Exception("don`t start Activity.");
            }

        } catch ( Exception e ) {

            Log.i(TAG + ":InstallApk", "Failed installl APK file", e);
            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), e.getMessage(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG)
                .show();

        }

    }

    /**
     * Returns a Uri pointing to the APK to install.
     */
    private Uri getApkUri(String path) {

        // Before N, a MODE_WORLD_READABLE file could be passed via the ACTION_INSTALL_PACKAGE
        // Intent. Since N, MODE_WORLD_READABLE files are forbidden, and a FileProvider is
        // recommended.
        boolean useFileProvider = Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.N;

        String tempFilename = "tmp.apk";
        byte[] buffer = new byte[16384];
        int fileMode = useFileProvider ? Context.MODE_PRIVATE : Context.MODE_WORLD_READABLE;
        try (InputStream is = new FileInputStream(new File(path));
             FileOutputStream fout = openFileOutput(tempFilename, fileMode)) {

            int n;
            while ((n = is.read(buffer)) >= 0) {
                fout.write(buffer, 0, n);
            }

        } catch (IOException e) {
            Log.i(TAG + ":getApkUri", "Failed to write temporary APK file", e);
        }

        if (useFileProvider) {

            File toInstall = new File(this.getFilesDir(), tempFilename);
            return FileProvider.getUriForFile(this,  BuildConfig.APPLICATION_ID, toInstall);

        } else {

            return Uri.fromFile(getFileStreamPath(tempFilename));

        }

    }

    /**
     * Listener event on installation APK file
     */
    @Override
    protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, @Nullable Intent data) {
        super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);

        if(requestCode == REQUEST_INSTALL) {

            if (resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK) {
                Toast.makeText(this,"Install succeeded!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            } else if (resultCode == Activity.RESULT_CANCELED) {
                Toast.makeText(this,"Install canceled!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            } else {
                Toast.makeText(this,"Install Failed!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }

        }

    }

    ...

}

How to get default gateway in Mac OSX

You can try with:

route -n get default

It is not the same as GNU/Linux's route -n (or even ip route show) but is useful for checking the default route information. Also, you can check the route that packages will take to a particular host. E.g.

route -n get www.yahoo.com

The output would be similar to:

   route to: 98.137.149.56
destination: default
       mask: 128.0.0.0
    gateway: 5.5.0.1
  interface: tun0
      flags: <UP,GATEWAY,DONE,STATIC,PRCLONING>
 recvpipe  sendpipe  ssthresh  rtt,msec    rttvar  hopcount      mtu     expire
       0         0         0         0         0         0      1500         0

IMHO netstat -nr is what you need. Even MacOSX's Network utility app(*) uses the output of netstat to show routing information. Network utility screenshot displaying routing table information

I hope this helps :)

(*) You can start Network utility with open /Applications/Utilities/Network\ Utility.app

How to check if android checkbox is checked within its onClick method (declared in XML)?

<CheckBox
      android:id="@+id/checkBox1"
      android:layout_width="wrap_content"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:text="Fees Paid Rs100:"
      android:textColor="#276ca4"
      android:checked="false"
      android:onClick="checkbox_clicked" />

Main Activity from here

   public class RegistA extends Activity {
CheckBox fee_checkbox;
 @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
      super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
      setContentView(R.layout.activity_regist);
 fee_checkbox = (CheckBox)findViewById(R.id.checkBox1);// Fee Payment Check box
}

checkbox clicked

     public void checkbox_clicked(View v)
     {

         if(fee_checkbox.isChecked())
         {
            // true,do the task 

         }
         else
         {

         }

     }

Spaces in URLs?

They are indeed fools. If you look at RFC 3986 Appendix A, you will see that "space" is simply not mentioned anywhere in the grammar for defining a URL. Since it's not mentioned anywhere in the grammar, the only way to encode a space is with percent-encoding (%20).

In fact, the RFC even states that spaces are delimiters and should be ignored:

In some cases, extra whitespace (spaces, line-breaks, tabs, etc.) may have to be added to break a long URI across lines. The whitespace should be ignored when the URI is extracted.

and

For robustness, software that accepts user-typed URI should attempt to recognize and strip both delimiters and embedded whitespace.

Curiously, the use of + as an encoding for space isn't mentioned in the RFC, although it is reserved as a sub-delimeter. I suspect that its use is either just convention or covered by a different RFC (possibly HTTP).

How can I create a blank/hardcoded column in a sql query?

This should work on most databases. You can also select a blank string as your extra column like so:

Select
  Hat, Show, Boat, '' as SomeValue
From
  Objects

How to dynamically remove items from ListView on a button click?

      private List<DataValue> datavalue=new ArrayList<Datavalue>;

     @Override
    public View getView(int position, View view, ViewGroup viewGroup) {

            view.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View view) {

                datavalue.remove(position);
                notifyDataSetChanged();
            }
        });
    }
    }

org.apache.poi.POIXMLException: org.apache.poi.openxml4j.exceptions.InvalidFormatException:

Try this:

package my_default;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.util.Iterator;

import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Cell;
import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Row;
import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFCell;
import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFRow;
import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFSheet;
import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFWorkbook;

public class Test {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
        // Create Workbook instance holding reference to .xlsx file
        XSSFWorkbook workbook = new XSSFWorkbook();

        // Get first/desired sheet from the workbook
        XSSFSheet sheet = createSheet(workbook, "Sheet 1", false);

        // XSSFSheet sheet = workbook.getSheetAt(1);//Don't use this line
        // because you get Sheet index (1) is out of range (no sheets)

        //Write some information in the cells or do what you want
        XSSFRow row1 = sheet.createRow(0);
        XSSFCell r1c2 = row1.createCell(0);
        r1c2.setCellValue("NAME");
        XSSFCell r1c3 = row1.createCell(1);
        r1c3.setCellValue("AGE");


        //Save excel to HDD Drive
        File pathToFile = new File("D:\\test.xlsx");
        if (!pathToFile.exists()) {
            pathToFile.createNewFile();
        }
        FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(pathToFile);
        workbook.write(fos);
        fos.close();
        System.out.println("Done");
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

private static XSSFSheet createSheet(XSSFWorkbook wb, String prefix, boolean isHidden) {
    XSSFSheet sheet = null;
    int count = 0;

    for (int i = 0; i < wb.getNumberOfSheets(); i++) {
        String sName = wb.getSheetName(i);
        if (sName.startsWith(prefix))
            count++;
    }

    if (count > 0) {
        sheet = wb.createSheet(prefix + count);
    } else
        sheet = wb.createSheet(prefix);

    if (isHidden)
        wb.setSheetHidden(wb.getNumberOfSheets() - 1, XSSFWorkbook.SHEET_STATE_VERY_HIDDEN);

        return sheet;
    }

}

sending email via php mail function goes to spam

One thing that I have observed is likely the email address you're providing is not a valid email address at the domain. like [email protected]. The email should be existing at Google Domain. I had alot of issues before figuring that out myself... Hope it helps.

How to load CSS Asynchronously

Async CSS Loading Approaches

there are several ways to make a browser load CSS asynchronously, though none are quite as simple as you might expect.

<link rel="preload" href="mystyles.css" as="style" onload="this.rel='stylesheet'">

How to append something to an array?

You .push() that value in. Example: array.push(value);

#1273 - Unknown collation: 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci' cPanel

open the sql file on Notepad++ and ctrl + H. Then you put "utf8mb4" on search and "utf8" on replace. The issue will be fixed then.

WCF change endpoint address at runtime

This is a simple example of what I used for a recent test. You need to make sure that your security settings are the same on the server and client.

var myBinding = new BasicHttpBinding();
myBinding.Security.Mode = BasicHttpSecurityMode.None;
var myEndpointAddress = new EndpointAddress("http://servername:8732/TestService/");
client = new ClientTest(myBinding, myEndpointAddress);
client.someCall();

Differences between Ant and Maven

Ant is mainly a build tool.

Maven is a project and dependencies management tool (which of course builds your project as well).

Ant+Ivy is a pretty good combination if you want to avoid Maven.

How to read the output from git diff?

Lets take a look at example advanced diff from git history (in commit 1088261f in git.git repository):

diff --git a/builtin-http-fetch.c b/http-fetch.c
similarity index 95%
rename from builtin-http-fetch.c
rename to http-fetch.c
index f3e63d7..e8f44ba 100644
--- a/builtin-http-fetch.c
+++ b/http-fetch.c
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 #include "cache.h"
 #include "walker.h"

-int cmd_http_fetch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
+int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 {
+       const char *prefix;
        struct walker *walker;
        int commits_on_stdin = 0;
        int commits;
@@ -18,6 +19,8 @@ int cmd_http_fetch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
        int get_verbosely = 0;
        int get_recover = 0;

+       prefix = setup_git_directory();
+
        git_config(git_default_config, NULL);

        while (arg < argc && argv[arg][0] == '-') {

Lets analyze this patch line by line.

  • The first line

    diff --git a/builtin-http-fetch.c b/http-fetch.c
    is a "git diff" header in the form diff --git a/file1 b/file2. The a/ and b/ filenames are the same unless rename/copy is involved (like in our case). The --git is to mean that diff is in the "git" diff format.

  • Next are one or more extended header lines. The first three

    similarity index 95%
    rename from builtin-http-fetch.c
    rename to http-fetch.c
    tell us that the file was renamed from builtin-http-fetch.c to http-fetch.c and that those two files are 95% identical (which was used to detect this rename).

    The last line in extended diff header, which is
    index f3e63d7..e8f44ba 100644
    tell us about mode of given file (100644 means that it is ordinary file and not e.g. symlink, and that it doesn't have executable permission bit), and about shortened hash of preimage (the version of file before given change) and postimage (the version of file after change). This line is used by git am --3way to try to do a 3-way merge if patch cannot be applied itself.

  • Next is two-line unified diff header

    --- a/builtin-http-fetch.c
    +++ b/http-fetch.c
    Compared to diff -U result it doesn't have from-file-modification-time nor to-file-modification-time after source (preimage) and destination (postimage) file names. If file was created the source is /dev/null; if file was deleted, the target is /dev/null.
    If you set diff.mnemonicPrefix configuration variable to true, in place of a/ and b/ prefixes in this two-line header you can have instead c/, i/, w/ and o/ as prefixes, respectively to what you compare; see git-config(1)

  • Next come one or more hunks of differences; each hunk shows one area where the files differ. Unified format hunks starts with line like

    @@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
    or
    @@ -18,6 +19,8 @@ int cmd_http_fetch(int argc, const char **argv, ...
    It is in the format @@ from-file-range to-file-range @@ [header]. The from-file-range is in the form -<start line>,<number of lines>, and to-file-range is +<start line>,<number of lines>. Both start-line and number-of-lines refer to position and length of hunk in preimage and postimage, respectively. If number-of-lines not shown it means that it is 0.

    The optional header shows the C function where each change occurs, if it is a C file (like -p option in GNU diff), or the equivalent, if any, for other types of files.

  • Next comes the description of where files differ. The lines common to both files begin with a space character. The lines that actually differ between the two files have one of the following indicator characters in the left print column:

    • '+' -- A line was added here to the first file.
    • '-' -- A line was removed here from the first file.


    So, for example, first chunk

     #include "cache.h"
     #include "walker.h"
    
    -int cmd_http_fetch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
    +int main(int argc, const char **argv)
     {
    +       const char *prefix;
            struct walker *walker;
            int commits_on_stdin = 0;
            int commits;
    

    means that cmd_http_fetch was replaced by main, and that const char *prefix; line was added.

    In other words, before the change, the appropriate fragment of then 'builtin-http-fetch.c' file looked like this:

    #include "cache.h"
    #include "walker.h"
    
    int cmd_http_fetch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
    {
           struct walker *walker;
           int commits_on_stdin = 0;
           int commits;
    

    After the change this fragment of now 'http-fetch.c' file looks like this instead:

    #include "cache.h"
    #include "walker.h"
    
    int main(int argc, const char **argv)
    {
           const char *prefix;
           struct walker *walker;
           int commits_on_stdin = 0;
           int commits;
    
  • There might be

    \ No newline at end of file
    line present (it is not in example diff).

As Donal Fellows said it is best to practice reading diffs on real-life examples, where you know what you have changed.

References:

css display table cell requires percentage width

You just need to add 'table-layout: fixed;'

.table {
   display: table;
   height: 100px;
   width: 100%;
   table-layout: fixed;
}

http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_tab_table-layout.asp

CentOS: Copy directory to another directory

cp -r /home/server/folder/test /home/server/

Converting dd/mm/yyyy formatted string to Datetime

You can use "dd/MM/yyyy" format for using it in DateTime.ParseExact.

Converts the specified string representation of a date and time to its DateTime equivalent using the specified format and culture-specific format information. The format of the string representation must match the specified format exactly.

DateTime date = DateTime.ParseExact("24/01/2013", "dd/MM/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

Here is a DEMO.

For more informations, check out Custom Date and Time Format Strings

List comprehension with if statement

You got the order wrong. The if should be after the for (unless it is in an if-else ternary operator)

[y for y in a if y not in b]

This would work however:

[y if y not in b else other_value for y in a]

Non-conformable arrays error in code

The problem is that omega in your case is matrix of dimensions 1 * 1. You should convert it to a vector if you wish to multiply t(X) %*% X by a scalar (that is omega)

In particular, you'll have to replace this line:

omega   = rgamma(1,a0,1) / L0

with:

omega   = as.vector(rgamma(1,a0,1) / L0)

everywhere in your code. It happens in two places (once inside the loop and once outside). You can substitute as.vector(.) or c(t(.)). Both are equivalent.

Here's the modified code that should work:

gibbs = function(data, m01 = 0, m02 = 0, k01 = 0.1, k02 = 0.1, 
                     a0 = 0.1, L0 = 0.1, nburn = 0, ndraw = 5000) {
    m0      = c(m01, m02) 
    C0      = matrix(nrow = 2, ncol = 2) 
    C0[1,1] = 1 / k01 
    C0[1,2] = 0 
    C0[2,1] = 0 
    C0[2,2] = 1 / k02 
    beta    = mvrnorm(1,m0,C0) 
    omega   = as.vector(rgamma(1,a0,1) / L0)
    draws   = matrix(ncol = 3,nrow = ndraw) 
    it      = -nburn 

    while (it < ndraw) {
        it    = it + 1 
        C1    = solve(solve(C0) + omega * t(X) %*% X) 
        m1    = C1 %*% (solve(C0) %*% m0 + omega * t(X) %*% y)
        beta  = mvrnorm(1, m1, C1) 
        a1    = a0 + n / 2 
        L1    = L0 + t(y - X %*% beta) %*% (y - X %*% beta) / 2 
        omega = as.vector(rgamma(1, a1, 1) / L1)
        if (it > 0) { 
            draws[it,1] = beta[1]
            draws[it,2] = beta[2]
            draws[it,3] = omega
        }
    }
    return(draws)
}

What is the difference between Sublime text and Github's Atom

  1. How is Atom different from Sublime?
    • Atom is an open source text editor/IDE, built on JavaScript/HTML/CSS.
    • Sublime Text is a commercial product, built on C/C++ and Python.
    • Comparable to Atom is Adobe Brackets, another open source text editor/IDE built on JavaScript/HTML/CSS. Be minded that this makes Brackets more oriented towards Web development, specially in the front end.
    • Advantages of open source projects are faster rate of development and, of course, price.
  2. Does it include IDE features like build tools, function definition jumps, documentations, etc.?
    • The short answer is yes, yes, and yes. The app is completely modular. Open source will give people the freedom to fill the gaps on several of these features.
  3. Has anyone using Sublime got a Beta invitation to point out the differences?
    • Advantages of Atom is entry-level hackability, since it's built on the same code that powers Web sites.
    • Advantages of Sublime Text is performance, as it doesn't need to run on top of Node.js, and it's a more mature product, about to reach a stable version 3.
    • There are a long list of minor differences that can be included in the comments (I wish this markdown could be able to draw a table for comparisons, but that's another issue).
    • Because of Atom's rapid turnout, I am afraid some of differences I list here will become outdated over time. Per example, at the time of this writing, Atom is only available on the Macintosh while Sublime Text is already multiplatform.
  4. Can I use the themes, schemes and packages from Sublime as is, like Sublime could do with text mate.
    • The short answer is no, but because of Atom's hackability, it will be easy to retool packages from other editors to Atom.

Auto refresh code in HTML using meta tags

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="600; url=index.php">

600 is the amount of seconds between refresh cycles.

Automatically enter SSH password with script

The answer of @abbotto did not work for me, had to do some things differently:

  1. yum install sshpass changed to - rpm -ivh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/sshpass-1.05-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
  2. the command to use sshpass changed to - sshpass -p "pass" ssh user@mysite -p 2122

How to show empty data message in Datatables

If you want to customize the message that being shown on empty table use this:

$('#example').dataTable( {
    "oLanguage": {
        "sEmptyTable":     "My Custom Message On Empty Table"
    }
} );

Since Datatable 1.10 you can do the following:

$('#example').DataTable( {
    "language": {
        "emptyTable":     "My Custom Message On Empty Table"
    }
} );

For the complete availble datatables custom messages for the table take a look at the following link reference/option/language

Use tab to indent in textarea

I made one that you can access with any textarea element you like:

function textControl (element, event)
{
    if(event.keyCode==9 || event.which==9)
    {
        event.preventDefault();
        var s = element.selectionStart;
        element.value = element.value.substring(0,element.selectionStart) + "\t" + element.value.substring(element.selectionEnd);
        element.selectionEnd = s+1; 
    }
}

And the element would look like this:

<textarea onkeydown="textControl(this,event)"></textarea>

How to convert uint8 Array to base64 Encoded String?

function Uint8ToBase64(u8Arr){
  var CHUNK_SIZE = 0x8000; //arbitrary number
  var index = 0;
  var length = u8Arr.length;
  var result = '';
  var slice;
  while (index < length) {
    slice = u8Arr.subarray(index, Math.min(index + CHUNK_SIZE, length)); 
    result += String.fromCharCode.apply(null, slice);
    index += CHUNK_SIZE;
  }
  return btoa(result);
}

You can use this function if you have a very large Uint8Array. This is for Javascript, can be useful in case of FileReader readAsArrayBuffer.

Why does this code using random strings print "hello world"?

When an instance of java.util.Random is constructed with a specific seed parameter (in this case -229985452 or -147909649), it follows the random number generation algorithm beginning with that seed value.

Every Random constructed with the same seed will generate the same pattern of numbers every time.

How to access local files of the filesystem in the Android emulator?

In Android Studio 3.0 and later do this:

View > Tool Windows > Device File Explorer

HTML Tags in Javascript Alert() method

This is not possible.

Instead, you should create a fake window in Javascript, using something like jQuery UI Dialog.

What is the maximum length of a valid email address?

320

And the segments look like this

{64}@{255}

64 + 1 + 255 = 320

You should also read this if you are validating emails

http://haacked.com/archive/2007/08/21/i-knew-how-to-validate-an-email-address-until-i.aspx

Error handling in C code

I've used both approaches, and they both worked fine for me. Whichever one I use, I always try to apply this principle:

If the only possible errors are programmer errors, don't return an error code, use asserts inside the function.

An assertion that validates the inputs clearly communicates what the function expects, while too much error checking can obscure the program logic. Deciding what to do for all the various error cases can really complicate the design. Why figure out how functionX should handle a null pointer if you can instead insist that the programmer never pass one?

Box shadow in IE7 and IE8

in ie8 you can try

-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(Strength=5, Direction=135, Color='#c0c0c0')";
 filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(Strength=5, Direction=135, Color='#c0c0c0');

caveat: in ie8 you loose smooth fonts for some reason, they will look ragged

Using NSLog for debugging

Why do you have the brackets around digit? It should be

NSLog("%@", digit);

You're also missing an = in the first line...

NSString *digit = [[sender titlelabel] text];

How can I obfuscate (protect) JavaScript?

What i would do:

A. Troll the hacker!

This is will be in the second part my fake/obfuscated secret javascript code LAUNCHER. The one you see in the source code.

What does this code?

  1. loads the real code
  2. sets a custom header
  3. posts a custom variable

var ajax=function(a,b,d,c,e,f){
 e=new FormData();
 for(f in d){e.append(f,d[f]);};
 c=new XMLHttpRequest();
 c.open('POST',a);
 c.setRequestHeader("Troll1","lol");
 c.onload=b;
 c.send(e);
};
window.onload=function(){
 ajax('Troll.php',function(){
  (new Function(atob(this.response)))()
 },{'Troll2':'lol'});
}

B. Obfuscate the code a little

What is that?

  1. thats the same code as above in base64
  2. this is not the SECRET javascript code

(new Function(atob('dmFyIGFqYXg9ZnVuY3Rpb24oYSxiLGQsYyxlLGYpe2U9bmV3IEZvcm1EYXRhKCk7Zm9yKGYgaW4gZCl7ZS5hcHBlbmQoZixkW2ZdKTt9O2M9bmV3IFhNTEh0dHBSZXF1ZXN0KCk7Yy5vcGVuKCdQT1NUJyxhKTtjLnNldFJlcXVlc3RIZWFkZXIoIlRyb2xsMSIsImxvbCIpO2Mub25sb2FkPWI7Yy5zZW5kKGUpO307d2luZG93Lm9ubG9hZD1mdW5jdGlvbigpe2FqYXgoJ1Ryb2xsLnBocCcsZnVuY3Rpb24oKXsgKG5ldyBGdW5jdGlvbihhdG9iKHRoaXMucmVzcG9uc2UpKSkoKX0seydUcm9sbDInOidsb2wnfSk7fQ==')))()

C Create a hard to display php file with the real code inside

What does this php code?

  1. Checks for the right referrer (domain/dir/code of your launcher)
  2. Checks for the custom HEADER
  3. Checks for the custom POST variable

If everything is ok it will show you the right code else a fake code or ban ip, close page.. whatever.

<?php
$t1=apache_request_headers();
if(base64_encode($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])=='aHR0cDovL2hlcmUuaXMvbXkvbGF1bmNoZXIuaHRtbA=='&&$_POST['Troll2']=='lol'&&$t1['Troll1']='lol'){
 echo 'ZG9jdW1lbnQuYm9keS5hcHBlbmRDaGlsZChkb2N1bWVudC5jcmVhdGVFbGVtZW50KCdkaXYnKSkuaW5uZXJUZXh0PSdBd2Vzb21lJzsNCg==';//here is the SECRET javascript code
}else{
 echo 'd2luZG93Lm9wZW4oJycsICdfc2VsZicsICcnKTt3aW5kb3cuY2xvc2UoKTs=';
};
?>

base64 referrer = http://here.is/my/launcher.html

SECRET javascript = document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('div')).innerText='Awesome';

FAKE = window.open('', '_self', '');window.close();

Now .. if you define event handlers in the SECRET javascript it's probably accessible.. you need to define them outside with the launchcode and pointing to a nested SECRET function.

SO... is there a easy wayto get the code? document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('div')).innerText='Awesome';

I'm not sure if this works but i'm using chrome and checked Elements,Resources,Network,Sources,Timeline,Profiles,Audits but i didn't find the line above.

note1: if u open the Troll.php url from Inspect element->network in chrome you get the fake code.

note2: the whole code is written for modern browsers. polyfill needs alot more code.

EDIT

launcher.html

<!doctype html><html><head><meta charset="utf-8"><title></title><script src="data:application/javascript;base64,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"></script></head><body></body></html>

Troll.php

<?php $t1=apache_request_headers();if(/*base64_encode($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])=='PUT THE LAUNCHER REFERER HERE'&&*/$_POST['Troll2']=='lol'&&$t1['Troll1']='lol'){echo 'ZG9jdW1lbnQuYm9keS5hcHBlbmRDaGlsZChkb2N1bWVudC5jcmVhdGVFbGVtZW50KCdkaXYnKSkuaW5uZXJUZXh0PSdBd2Vzb21lJzsNCg==';}else{echo 'd2luZG93Lm9wZW4oJycsICdfc2VsZicsICcnKTt3aW5kb3cuY2xvc2UoKTs=';}; ?>

Difference between Convert.ToString() and .ToString()

  • Convert.Tostring() basically just calls the following value == null ? String.Empty: value.ToString()

  • (string)variable will only cast when there is an implicit or explicit operator on what you are casting

  • ToString() can be overriden by the type (it has control over what it does), if not it results in the name of the type

Obviously if an object is null, you can't access the instance member ToString(), it will cause an exception

How to check whether a str(variable) is empty or not?

if the variable contains text then:

len(variable) != 0

of it does not

len(variable) == 0

Fastest way to get the first object from a queryset in django?

r = list(qs[:1])
if r:
  return r[0]
return None

Cloning an Object in Node.js

None of the answers satisfied me, several don't work or are just shallow clones, answers from @clint-harris and using JSON.parse/stringify are good but quite slow. I found a module that does deep cloning fast: https://github.com/AlexeyKupershtokh/node-v8-clone

Jquery change background color

The .css() function doesn't queue behind running animations, it's instantaneous.

To match the behaviour that you're after, you'd need to do the following:

$(document).ready(function() {
  $("button").mouseover(function() {
    var p = $("p#44.test").css("background-color", "yellow");
    p.hide(1500).show(1500);
    p.queue(function() {
      p.css("background-color", "red");
    });
  });
});

The .queue() function waits for running animations to run out and then fires whatever's in the supplied function.

How does Python manage int and long?

It manages them because int and long are sibling class definitions. They have appropriate methods for +, -, *, /, etc., that will produce results of the appropriate class.

For example

>>> a=1<<30
>>> type(a)
<type 'int'>
>>> b=a*2
>>> type(b)
<type 'long'>

In this case, the class int has a __mul__ method (the one that implements *) which creates a long result when required.

How to execute function in SQL Server 2008

you may be create function before so, update your function again using.

Alter FUNCTION dbo.Afisho_rankimin(@emri_rest int)
RETURNS int
AS
  BEGIN
     Declare @rankimi int
     Select @rankimi=dbo.RESTORANTET.Rankimi
     From RESTORANTET
     Where  dbo.RESTORANTET.ID_Rest=@emri_rest
     RETURN @rankimi
END
GO

SELECT dbo.Afisho_rankimin(5) AS Rankimi
GO

The absolute uri: http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core cannot be resolved in either web.xml or the jar files deployed with this application

if you use spring boot check in application.propertiese this property is commented or remove it if exist.

server.tomcat.additional-tld-skip-patterns=*.jar

Github: Can I see the number of downloads for a repo?

Based on VonC and Michele Milidoni answers I've created this bookmarklet which displays downloads statistics of github hosted released binaries.

Note: Because of issues with browsers related to Content Security Policy implementation, bookmarklets can temporarily violate some CSP directives and basically may not function properly when running on github while CSP is enabled.

Though its highly discouraged, you can disable CSP in Firefox as a temporary workaround. Open up about:config and set security.csp.enable to false.

Print array without brackets and commas

I used join() function like:

i=new Array("Hi", "Hello", "Cheers", "Greetings");
i=i.join("");

Which Prints:
HiHelloCheersGreetings


See more: Javascript Join - Use Join to Make an Array into a String in Javascript

Create SQLite Database and table

The next link will bring you to a great tutorial, that helped me a lot!

How to SQLITE in C#

I nearly used everything in that article to create the SQLite database for my own C# Application.

Don't forget to download the SQLite.dll, and add it as a reference to your project. This can be done using NuGet and by adding the dll manually.

After you added the reference, refer to the dll from your code using the following line on top of your class:

using System.Data.SQLite;

You can find the dll's here:

SQLite DLL's

You can find the NuGet way here:

NuGet

Up next is the create script. Creating a database file:

SQLiteConnection.CreateFile("MyDatabase.sqlite");

SQLiteConnection m_dbConnection = new SQLiteConnection("Data Source=MyDatabase.sqlite;Version=3;");
m_dbConnection.Open();

string sql = "create table highscores (name varchar(20), score int)";

SQLiteCommand command = new SQLiteCommand(sql, m_dbConnection);
command.ExecuteNonQuery();

sql = "insert into highscores (name, score) values ('Me', 9001)";

command = new SQLiteCommand(sql, m_dbConnection);
command.ExecuteNonQuery();

m_dbConnection.Close();

After you created a create script in C#, I think you might want to add rollback transactions, it is safer and it will keep your database from failing, because the data will be committed at the end in one big piece as an atomic operation to the database and not in little pieces, where it could fail at 5th of 10 queries for example.

Example on how to use transactions:

 using (TransactionScope tran = new TransactionScope())
 {
     //Insert create script here.

     //Indicates that creating the SQLiteDatabase went succesfully, so the database can be committed.
     tran.Complete();
 }

How do I represent a time only value in .NET?

Here's a full featured TimeOfDay class.

This is overkill for simple cases, but if you need more advanced functionality like I did, this may help.

It can handle the corner cases, some basic math, comparisons, interaction with DateTime, parsing, etc.

Below is the source code for the TimeOfDay class. You can see usage examples and learn more here:

This class uses DateTime for most of its internal calculations and comparisons so that we can leverage all of the knowledge already embedded in DateTime.

// Author: Steve Lautenschlager, CambiaResearch.com
// License: MIT

using System;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

namespace Cambia
{
    public class TimeOfDay
    {
        private const int MINUTES_PER_DAY = 60 * 24;
        private const int SECONDS_PER_DAY = SECONDS_PER_HOUR * 24;
        private const int SECONDS_PER_HOUR = 3600;
        private static Regex _TodRegex = new Regex(@"\d?\d:\d\d:\d\d|\d?\d:\d\d");

        public TimeOfDay()
        {
            Init(0, 0, 0);
        }
        public TimeOfDay(int hour, int minute, int second = 0)
        {
            Init(hour, minute, second);
        }
        public TimeOfDay(int hhmmss)
        {
            Init(hhmmss);
        }
        public TimeOfDay(DateTime dt)
        {
            Init(dt);
        }
        public TimeOfDay(TimeOfDay td)
        {
            Init(td.Hour, td.Minute, td.Second);
        }

        public int HHMMSS
        {
            get
            {
                return Hour * 10000 + Minute * 100 + Second;
            }
        }
        public int Hour { get; private set; }
        public int Minute { get; private set; }
        public int Second { get; private set; }
        public double TotalDays
        {
            get
            {
                return TotalSeconds / (24d * SECONDS_PER_HOUR);
            }
        }
        public double TotalHours
        {
            get
            {
                return TotalSeconds / (1d * SECONDS_PER_HOUR);
            }
        }
        public double TotalMinutes
        {
            get
            {
                return TotalSeconds / 60d;
            }
        }
        public int TotalSeconds
        {
            get
            {
                return Hour * 3600 + Minute * 60 + Second;
            }
        }
        public bool Equals(TimeOfDay other)
        {
            if (other == null) { return false; }
            return TotalSeconds == other.TotalSeconds;
        }
        public override bool Equals(object obj)
        {
            if (obj == null) { return false; }
            TimeOfDay td = obj as TimeOfDay;
            if (td == null) { return false; }
            else { return Equals(td); }
        }
        public override int GetHashCode()
        {
            return TotalSeconds;
        }
        public DateTime ToDateTime(DateTime dt)
        {
            return new DateTime(dt.Year, dt.Month, dt.Day, Hour, Minute, Second);
        }
        public override string ToString()
        {
            return ToString("HH:mm:ss");
        }
        public string ToString(string format)
        {
            DateTime now = DateTime.Now;
            DateTime dt = new DateTime(now.Year, now.Month, now.Day, Hour, Minute, Second);
            return dt.ToString(format);
        }
        public TimeSpan ToTimeSpan()
        {
            return new TimeSpan(Hour, Minute, Second);
        }
        public DateTime ToToday()
        {
            var now = DateTime.Now;
            return new DateTime(now.Year, now.Month, now.Day, Hour, Minute, Second);
        }

        #region -- Static --
        public static TimeOfDay Midnight { get { return new TimeOfDay(0, 0, 0); } }
        public static TimeOfDay Noon { get { return new TimeOfDay(12, 0, 0); } }
        public static TimeOfDay operator -(TimeOfDay t1, TimeOfDay t2)
        {
            DateTime now = DateTime.Now;
            DateTime dt1 = new DateTime(now.Year, now.Month, now.Day, t1.Hour, t1.Minute, t1.Second);
            TimeSpan ts = new TimeSpan(t2.Hour, t2.Minute, t2.Second);
            DateTime dt2 = dt1 - ts;
            return new TimeOfDay(dt2);
        }
        public static bool operator !=(TimeOfDay t1, TimeOfDay t2)
        {
            if (ReferenceEquals(t1, t2)) { return true; }
            else if (ReferenceEquals(t1, null)) { return true; }
            else
            {
                return t1.TotalSeconds != t2.TotalSeconds;
            }
        }
        public static bool operator !=(TimeOfDay t1, DateTime dt2)
        {
            if (ReferenceEquals(t1, null)) { return false; }
            DateTime dt1 = new DateTime(dt2.Year, dt2.Month, dt2.Day, t1.Hour, t1.Minute, t1.Second);
            return dt1 != dt2;
        }
        public static bool operator !=(DateTime dt1, TimeOfDay t2)
        {
            if (ReferenceEquals(t2, null)) { return false; }
            DateTime dt2 = new DateTime(dt1.Year, dt1.Month, dt1.Day, t2.Hour, t2.Minute, t2.Second);
            return dt1 != dt2;
        }
        public static TimeOfDay operator +(TimeOfDay t1, TimeOfDay t2)
        {
            DateTime now = DateTime.Now;
            DateTime dt1 = new DateTime(now.Year, now.Month, now.Day, t1.Hour, t1.Minute, t1.Second);
            TimeSpan ts = new TimeSpan(t2.Hour, t2.Minute, t2.Second);
            DateTime dt2 = dt1 + ts;
            return new TimeOfDay(dt2);
        }
        public static bool operator <(TimeOfDay t1, TimeOfDay t2)
        {
            if (ReferenceEquals(t1, t2)) { return true; }
            else if (ReferenceEquals(t1, null)) { return true; }
            else
            {
                return t1.TotalSeconds < t2.TotalSeconds;
            }
        }
        public static bool operator <(TimeOfDay t1, DateTime dt2)
        {
            if (ReferenceEquals(t1, null)) { return false; }
            DateTime dt1 = new DateTime(dt2.Year, dt2.Month, dt2.Day, t1.Hour, t1.Minute, t1.Second);
            return dt1 < dt2;
        }
        public static bool operator <(DateTime dt1, TimeOfDay t2)
        {
            if (ReferenceEquals(t2, null)) { return false; }
            DateTime dt2 = new DateTime(dt1.Year, dt1.Month, dt1.Day, t2.Hour, t2.Minute, t2.Second);
            return dt1 < dt2;
        }
        public static bool operator <=(TimeOfDay t1, TimeOfDay t2)
        {
            if (ReferenceEquals(t1, t2)) { return true; }
            else if (ReferenceEquals(t1, null)) { return true; }
            else
            {
                if (t1 == t2) { return true; }
                return t1.TotalSeconds <= t2.TotalSeconds;
            }
        }
        public static bool operator <=(TimeOfDay t1, DateTime dt2)
        {
            if (ReferenceEquals(t1, null)) { return false; }
            DateTime dt1 = new DateTime(dt2.Year, dt2.Month, dt2.Day, t1.Hour, t1.Minute, t1.Second);
            return dt1 <= dt2;
        }
        public static bool operator <=(DateTime dt1, TimeOfDay t2)
        {
            if (ReferenceEquals(t2, null)) { return false; }
            DateTime dt2 = new DateTime(dt1.Year, dt1.Month, dt1.Day, t2.Hour, t2.Minute, t2.Second);
            return dt1 <= dt2;
        }
        public static bool operator ==(TimeOfDay t1, TimeOfDay t2)
        {
            if (ReferenceEquals(t1, t2)) { return true; }
            else if (ReferenceEquals(t1, null)) { return true; }
            else { return t1.Equals(t2); }
        }
        public static bool operator ==(TimeOfDay t1, DateTime dt2)
        {
            if (ReferenceEquals(t1, null)) { return false; }
            DateTime dt1 = new DateTime(dt2.Year, dt2.Month, dt2.Day, t1.Hour, t1.Minute, t1.Second);
            return dt1 == dt2;
        }
        public static bool operator ==(DateTime dt1, TimeOfDay t2)
        {
            if (ReferenceEquals(t2, null)) { return false; }
            DateTime dt2 = new DateTime(dt1.Year, dt1.Month, dt1.Day, t2.Hour, t2.Minute, t2.Second);
            return dt1 == dt2;
        }
        public static bool operator >(TimeOfDay t1, TimeOfDay t2)
        {
            if (ReferenceEquals(t1, t2)) { return true; }
            else if (ReferenceEquals(t1, null)) { return true; }
            else
            {
                return t1.TotalSeconds > t2.TotalSeconds;
            }
        }
        public static bool operator >(TimeOfDay t1, DateTime dt2)
        {
            if (ReferenceEquals(t1, null)) { return false; }
            DateTime dt1 = new DateTime(dt2.Year, dt2.Month, dt2.Day, t1.Hour, t1.Minute, t1.Second);
            return dt1 > dt2;
        }
        public static bool operator >(DateTime dt1, TimeOfDay t2)
        {
            if (ReferenceEquals(t2, null)) { return false; }
            DateTime dt2 = new DateTime(dt1.Year, dt1.Month, dt1.Day, t2.Hour, t2.Minute, t2.Second);
            return dt1 > dt2;
        }
        public static bool operator >=(TimeOfDay t1, TimeOfDay t2)
        {
            if (ReferenceEquals(t1, t2)) { return true; }
            else if (ReferenceEquals(t1, null)) { return true; }
            else
            {
                return t1.TotalSeconds >= t2.TotalSeconds;
            }
        }
        public static bool operator >=(TimeOfDay t1, DateTime dt2)
        {
            if (ReferenceEquals(t1, null)) { return false; }
            DateTime dt1 = new DateTime(dt2.Year, dt2.Month, dt2.Day, t1.Hour, t1.Minute, t1.Second);
            return dt1 >= dt2;
        }
        public static bool operator >=(DateTime dt1, TimeOfDay t2)
        {
            if (ReferenceEquals(t2, null)) { return false; }
            DateTime dt2 = new DateTime(dt1.Year, dt1.Month, dt1.Day, t2.Hour, t2.Minute, t2.Second);
            return dt1 >= dt2;
        }
        /// <summary>
        /// Input examples:
        /// 14:21:17            (2pm 21min 17sec)
        /// 02:15               (2am 15min 0sec)
        /// 2:15                (2am 15min 0sec)
        /// 2/1/2017 14:21      (2pm 21min 0sec)
        /// TimeOfDay=15:13:12  (3pm 13min 12sec)
        /// </summary>
        public static TimeOfDay Parse(string s)
        {
            // We will parse any section of the text that matches this
            // pattern: dd:dd or dd:dd:dd where the first doublet can
            // be one or two digits for the hour.  But minute and second
            // must be two digits.

            Match m = _TodRegex.Match(s);
            string text = m.Value;
            string[] fields = text.Split(':');
            if (fields.Length < 2) { throw new ArgumentException("No valid time of day pattern found in input text"); }
            int hour = Convert.ToInt32(fields[0]);
            int min = Convert.ToInt32(fields[1]);
            int sec = fields.Length > 2 ? Convert.ToInt32(fields[2]) : 0;

            return new TimeOfDay(hour, min, sec);
        }
        #endregion

        private void Init(int hour, int minute, int second)
        {
            if (hour < 0 || hour > 23) { throw new ArgumentException("Invalid hour, must be from 0 to 23."); }
            if (minute < 0 || minute > 59) { throw new ArgumentException("Invalid minute, must be from 0 to 59."); }
            if (second < 0 || second > 59) { throw new ArgumentException("Invalid second, must be from 0 to 59."); }
            Hour = hour;
            Minute = minute;
            Second = second;
        }
        private void Init(int hhmmss)
        {
            int hour = hhmmss / 10000;
            int min = (hhmmss - hour * 10000) / 100;
            int sec = (hhmmss - hour * 10000 - min * 100);
            Init(hour, min, sec);
        }
        private void Init(DateTime dt)
        {
            Init(dt.Hour, dt.Minute, dt.Second);
        }
    }
}

Find which version of package is installed with pip

I just sent a pull request in pip with the enhancement Hugo Tavares said:

(specloud as example)

$ pip show specloud

Package: specloud
Version: 0.4.4
Requires:
nose
figleaf
pinocchio

What is the memory consumption of an object in Java?

The rules about how much memory is consumed depend on the JVM implementation and the CPU architecture (32 bit versus 64 bit for example).

For the detailed rules for the SUN JVM check my old blog

Regards, Markus

How to convert flat raw disk image to vmdk for virtualbox or vmplayer?

Since the question mentions VirtualBox, this one works currently:

VBoxManage convertfromraw imagefile.dd vmdkname.vmdk --format VMDK

Run it without arguments for a few interesting details (notably the --variant flag):

VBoxManage convertfromraw

What is the facade design pattern?

There is a very good real-life example of the pattern - The car starter engine.

As drivers, we just turn the key on and the car get started. As simple as possible. Behind the scenes, many other car systems are involved (as battery, engine, fuel, etc.), in order the car to start successfully, but they are hidden behind the starter.

As you can see, the car starter is the Facade. It gives us easy to use interface, without worrying about the complexity of all other car systems.

Let's summarize:

The Facade pattern simplifies and hides the complexity of large code blocks or APIs, providing a cleaner, understandable and easy of use interface.

Current user in Magento?

Have a look at the helper class: Mage_Customer_Helper_Data

To simply get the customer name, you can write the following code:-

$customerName = Mage::helper('customer')->getCustomerName();

For more information about the customer's entity id, website id, email, etc. you can use getCustomer function. The following code shows what you can get from it:-

echo "<pre>"; print_r(Mage::helper('customer')->getCustomer()->getData()); echo "</pre>";

From the helper class, you can also get information about customer login url, register url, logout url, etc.

From the isLoggedIn function in the helper class, you can also check whether a customer is logged in or not.

jquery - return value using ajax result on success

Hi try async:false in your ajax call..

PostgreSQL Error: Relation already exists

There should be no single quotes here 'A'. Single quotes are for string literals: 'some value'.
Either use double quotes to preserve the upper case spelling of "A":

CREATE TABLE "A" ...

Or don't use quotes at all:

CREATE TABLE A ...

which is identical to

CREATE TABLE a ...

because all unquoted identifiers are folded to lower case automatically in PostgreSQL.


You could avoid problems with the index name completely by using simpler syntax:

CREATE TABLE csd_relationship (
    csd_relationship_id serial PRIMARY KEY,
    type_id integer NOT NULL,
    object_id integer NOT NULL
);

Does the same as your original query, only it avoids naming conflicts automatically. It picks the next free identifier automatically. More about the serial type in the manual.

XML parsing of a variable string in JavaScript

Updated answer for 2017

The following will parse an XML string into an XML document in all major browsers. Unless you need support for IE <= 8 or some obscure browser, you could use the following function:

function parseXml(xmlStr) {
   return new window.DOMParser().parseFromString(xmlStr, "text/xml");
}

If you need to support IE <= 8, the following will do the job:

var parseXml;

if (typeof window.DOMParser != "undefined") {
    parseXml = function(xmlStr) {
        return new window.DOMParser().parseFromString(xmlStr, "text/xml");
    };
} else if (typeof window.ActiveXObject != "undefined" &&
       new window.ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")) {
    parseXml = function(xmlStr) {
        var xmlDoc = new window.ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
        xmlDoc.async = "false";
        xmlDoc.loadXML(xmlStr);
        return xmlDoc;
    };
} else {
    throw new Error("No XML parser found");
}

Once you have a Document obtained via parseXml, you can use the usual DOM traversal methods/properties such as childNodes and getElementsByTagName() to get the nodes you want.

Example usage:

var xml = parseXml("<foo>Stuff</foo>");
alert(xml.documentElement.nodeName);

If you're using jQuery, from version 1.5 you can use its built-in parseXML() method, which is functionally identical to the function above.

var xml = $.parseXML("<foo>Stuff</foo>");
alert(xml.documentElement.nodeName);

How do I conditionally apply CSS styles in AngularJS?

You can use ternary expression. There are two ways to do this:

<div ng-style="myVariable > 100 ? {'color': 'red'} : {'color': 'blue'}"></div>

or...

<div ng-style="{'color': (myVariable > 100) ? 'red' : 'blue' }"></div>

How to compile C program on command line using MinGW?

I've had this problem and couldn't find why it kept happening. The reason is simple: Once you have set up the environment paths, you have to close the CMD window, and open it again for it be aware of new environment paths.

How can I convert a VBScript to an executable (EXE) file?

More info

To find a compiler, you'll have 1 per .net version installed, type in a command prompt.

dir c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\vbc.exe /a/s

Windows Forms

For a Windows Forms version (no console window and we don't get around to actually creating any forms - though you can if you want).

Compile line in a command prompt.

"C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\vbc.exe" /t:winexe "%userprofile%\desktop\VBS2Exe.vb"

Text for VBS2EXE.vb

Imports System.Windows.Forms 

Partial Class MyForm : Inherits Form 

Private Sub InitializeComponent() 


End Sub

Public Sub New() 

InitializeComponent() 

End Sub

Public Shared Sub Main() 

Dim sc as object 
Dim Scrpt as string

sc = createObject("MSScriptControl.ScriptControl")

Scrpt = "msgbox " & chr(34) & "Hi there I'm a form" & chr(34)

With SC 
.Language = "VBScript" 
.UseSafeSubset = False 
.AllowUI = True 
End With


sc.addcode(Scrpt)


End Sub

End Class

Using these optional parameters gives you an icon and manifest. A manifest allows you to specify run as normal, run elevated if admin, only run elevated.

/win32icon: Specifies a Win32 icon file (.ico) for the default Win32 resources.

/win32manifest: The provided file is embedded in the manifest section of the output PE.

In theory, I have UAC off so can't test, but put this text file on the desktop and call it vbs2exe.manifest, save as UTF-8.

The command line

"C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\vbc.exe" /t:winexe /win32manifest:"%userprofile%\desktop\VBS2Exe.manifest" "%userprofile%\desktop\VBS2Exe.vb"

The manifest

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> 
  <assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" 
  manifestVersion="1.0"> <assemblyIdentity version="1.0.0.0" 
  processorArchitecture="*" name="VBS2EXE" type="win32" /> 
  <description>Script to Exe</description> 
  <trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3"> 
  <security> <requestedPrivileges> 
  <requestedExecutionLevel level="requireAdministrator" 
  uiAccess="false" /> </requestedPrivileges> 
  </security> </trustInfo> </assembly>

Hopefully it will now ONLY run as admin.

Give Access To a Host's Objects

Here's an example giving the vbscript access to a .NET object.

Imports System.Windows.Forms 

Partial Class MyForm : Inherits Form 

Private Sub InitializeComponent() 


End Sub 

Public Sub New() 

InitializeComponent() 

End Sub 

Public Shared Sub Main() 

Dim sc as object
Dim Scrpt as string 

sc = createObject("MSScriptControl.ScriptControl") 

Scrpt = "msgbox " & chr(34) & "Hi there I'm a form" & chr(34) & ":msgbox meScript.state" 

With SC
.Language = "VBScript"
.UseSafeSubset = False
.AllowUI = True
.addobject("meScript", SC, true)
End With 


sc.addcode(Scrpt) 


End Sub 

End Class 

To Embed version info

Download vbs2exe.res file from https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=E2F0CE17A268A4FA!121 and put on desktop.

Download ResHacker from http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker

Open vbs2exe.res file in ResHacker. Edit away. Click Compile button. Click File menu - Save.

Type

"C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\vbc.exe" /t:winexe /win32manifest:"%userprofile%\desktop\VBS2Exe.manifest" /win32resource:"%userprofile%\desktop\VBS2Exe.res" "%userprofile%\desktop\VBS2Exe.vb"

Is it possible to style a mouseover on an image map using CSS?

Here's one that is pure css that uses the + next sibling selector, :hover, and pointer-events. It doesn't use an imagemap, technically, but the rect concept totally carries over:

_x000D_
_x000D_
.hotspot {_x000D_
    position: absolute;_x000D_
    border: 1px solid blue;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.hotspot + * {_x000D_
    pointer-events: none;_x000D_
    opacity: 0;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.hotspot:hover + * {_x000D_
    opacity: 1.0;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.wash {_x000D_
    position: absolute;_x000D_
    top: 0;_x000D_
    left: 0;_x000D_
    bottom: 0;_x000D_
    right: 0;_x000D_
    background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.6);_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<div style="position: relative; height: 188px; width: 300px;">_x000D_
    <img src="http://demo.cloudimg.io/s/width/300/sample.li/boat.jpg">_x000D_
        _x000D_
    <div class="hotspot" style="top: 50px; left: 50px; height: 30px; width: 30px;"></div>_x000D_
    <div>_x000D_
        <div class="wash"></div>_x000D_
        <div style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0;">A</div>_x000D_
    </div>_x000D_
        _x000D_
    <div class="hotspot" style="top: 100px; left: 120px; height: 30px; width: 30px;"></div>_x000D_
    <div>_x000D_
        <div class="wash"></div>_x000D_
        <div style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0;">B</div>_x000D_
    </div>_x000D_
</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Regular expression for only characters a-z, A-Z

With POSIX Bracket Expressions (not supported by Javascript) it can be done this way:

/[:alpha:]+/

Any alpha character A to Z or a to z.

or

/^[[:alpha:]]+$/s

to match strictly with spaces.

Responsively change div size keeping aspect ratio

That's my solution

<div class="main" style="width: 100%;">
    <div class="container">
        <div class="sizing"></div>
        <div class="content"></div>
    </div>
</div>

.main {
    width: 100%;
}
.container {
    width: 30%;
    float: right;
    position: relative;
}
.sizing {
    width: 100%;
    padding-bottom: 50%;
    visibility: hidden;
}
.content {
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    background-color: red;
    position: absolute;
    margin-top: -50%;
}

http://jsfiddle.net/aG4Fs/3/

Subtracting Dates in Oracle - Number or Interval Datatype?

Ok, I don't normally answer my own questions but after a bit of tinkering, I have figured out definitively how Oracle stores the result of a DATE subtraction.

When you subtract 2 dates, the value is not a NUMBER datatype (as the Oracle 11.2 SQL Reference manual would have you believe). The internal datatype number of a DATE subtraction is 14, which is a non-documented internal datatype (NUMBER is internal datatype number 2). However, it is actually stored as 2 separate two's complement signed numbers, with the first 4 bytes used to represent the number of days and the last 4 bytes used to represent the number of seconds.

An example of a DATE subtraction resulting in a positive integer difference:

select date '2009-08-07' - date '2008-08-08' from dual;

Results in:

DATE'2009-08-07'-DATE'2008-08-08'
---------------------------------
                              364

select dump(date '2009-08-07' - date '2008-08-08') from dual;

DUMP(DATE'2009-08-07'-DATE'2008
-------------------------------
Typ=14 Len=8: 108,1,0,0,0,0,0,0

Recall that the result is represented as a 2 seperate two's complement signed 4 byte numbers. Since there are no decimals in this case (364 days and 0 hours exactly), the last 4 bytes are all 0s and can be ignored. For the first 4 bytes, because my CPU has a little-endian architecture, the bytes are reversed and should be read as 1,108 or 0x16c, which is decimal 364.

An example of a DATE subtraction resulting in a negative integer difference:

select date '1000-08-07' - date '2008-08-08' from dual;

Results in:

DATE'1000-08-07'-DATE'2008-08-08'
---------------------------------
                          -368160

select dump(date '1000-08-07' - date '2008-08-08') from dual;

DUMP(DATE'1000-08-07'-DATE'2008-08-0
------------------------------------
Typ=14 Len=8: 224,97,250,255,0,0,0,0

Again, since I am using a little-endian machine, the bytes are reversed and should be read as 255,250,97,224 which corresponds to 11111111 11111010 01100001 11011111. Now since this is in two's complement signed binary numeral encoding, we know that the number is negative because the leftmost binary digit is a 1. To convert this into a decimal number we would have to reverse the 2's complement (subtract 1 then do the one's complement) resulting in: 00000000 00000101 10011110 00100000 which equals -368160 as suspected.

An example of a DATE subtraction resulting in a decimal difference:

select to_date('08/AUG/2004 14:00:00', 'DD/MON/YYYY HH24:MI:SS'
 - to_date('08/AUG/2004 8:00:00', 'DD/MON/YYYY HH24:MI:SS') from dual;

TO_DATE('08/AUG/200414:00:00','DD/MON/YYYYHH24:MI:SS')-TO_DATE('08/AUG/20048:00:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                             .25

The difference between those 2 dates is 0.25 days or 6 hours.

select dump(to_date('08/AUG/2004 14:00:00', 'DD/MON/YYYY HH24:MI:SS')
 - to_date('08/AUG/2004 8:00:00', 'DD/MON/YYYY HH24:MI:SS')) from dual;

DUMP(TO_DATE('08/AUG/200414:00:
-------------------------------
Typ=14 Len=8: 0,0,0,0,96,84,0,0

Now this time, since the difference is 0 days and 6 hours, it is expected that the first 4 bytes are 0. For the last 4 bytes, we can reverse them (because CPU is little-endian) and get 84,96 = 01010100 01100000 base 2 = 21600 in decimal. Converting 21600 seconds to hours gives you 6 hours which is the difference which we expected.

Hope this helps anyone who was wondering how a DATE subtraction is actually stored.


You get the syntax error because the date math does not return a NUMBER, but it returns an INTERVAL:

SQL> SELECT DUMP(SYSDATE - start_date) from test;

DUMP(SYSDATE-START_DATE)
-------------------------------------- 
Typ=14 Len=8: 188,10,0,0,223,65,1,0

You need to convert the number in your example into an INTERVAL first using the NUMTODSINTERVAL Function

For example:

SQL> SELECT (SYSDATE - start_date) DAY(5) TO SECOND from test;

(SYSDATE-START_DATE)DAY(5)TOSECOND
----------------------------------
+02748 22:50:04.000000

SQL> SELECT (SYSDATE - start_date) from test;

(SYSDATE-START_DATE)
--------------------
           2748.9515

SQL> select NUMTODSINTERVAL(2748.9515, 'day') from dual;

NUMTODSINTERVAL(2748.9515,'DAY')
--------------------------------
+000002748 22:50:09.600000000

SQL>

Based on the reverse cast with the NUMTODSINTERVAL() function, it appears some rounding is lost in translation.

jQuery Ajax error handling, show custom exception messages

$("#save").click(function(){
    $("#save").ajaxError(function(event,xhr,settings,error){
        $(this).html{'error: ' (xhr ?xhr.status : '')+ ' ' + (error ? error:'unknown') + 'page: '+settings.url);
    });
});

How to start MySQL with --skip-grant-tables?

Use the following command (notice the "d"): mysqld --skip-grant-tables

What is the difference between an Instance and an Object?

Instance: instance means just creating a reference(copy).

object: means when memory location is associated with the object (is a run-time entity of the class) by using the new operator.

In simple words, Instance refers to the copy of the object at a particular time whereas object refers to the memory address of the class.

How to assign an action for UIImageView object in Swift

You need to add a a gesture recognizer (For tap use UITapGestureRecognizer, for tap and hold use UILongPressGestureRecognizer) to your UIImageView.

let tap = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(YourClass.tappedMe))
imageView.addGestureRecognizer(tap)
imageView.isUserInteractionEnabled = true

And Implement the selector method like:

@objc func tappedMe()
{
    println("Tapped on Image")
}

Delete specified file from document directory

I checked your code. It's working for me. Check any error you are getting using the modified code below

- (void)removeImage:(NSString *)filename
{
  NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
  NSString *documentsPath = [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES) objectAtIndex:0];

  NSString *filePath = [documentsPath stringByAppendingPathComponent:filename];
  NSError *error;
  BOOL success = [fileManager removeItemAtPath:filePath error:&error];
  if (success) {
      UIAlertView *removedSuccessFullyAlert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Congratulations:" message:@"Successfully removed" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"Close" otherButtonTitles:nil];
      [removedSuccessFullyAlert show];
  }
  else
  {
      NSLog(@"Could not delete file -:%@ ",[error localizedDescription]);
  }
}

Handle Guzzle exception and get HTTP body

Guzzle 6.x

Per the docs, the exception types you may need to catch are:

  • GuzzleHttp\Exception\ClientException for 400-level errors
  • GuzzleHttp\Exception\ServerException for 500-level errors
  • GuzzleHttp\Exception\BadResponseException for both (it's their superclass)

Code to handle such errors thus now looks something like this:

$client = new GuzzleHttp\Client;
try {
    $client->get('http://google.com/nosuchpage');    
}
catch (GuzzleHttp\Exception\ClientException $e) {
    $response = $e->getResponse();
    $responseBodyAsString = $response->getBody()->getContents();
}

What is this weird colon-member (" : ") syntax in the constructor?

This is not obscure, it's the C++ initialization list syntax

Basically, in your case, x will be initialized with _x, y with _y, z with _z.

ASP.NET MVC DropDownListFor with model of type List<string>

I realize this question was asked a long time ago, but I came here looking for answers and wasn't satisfied with anything I could find. I finally found the answer here:

https://www.tutorialsteacher.com/mvc/htmlhelper-dropdownlist-dropdownlistfor

To get the results from the form, use the FormCollection and then pull each individual value out by it's model name thus:

yourRecord.FieldName = Request.Form["FieldNameInModel"];

As far as I could tell it makes absolutely no difference what argument name you give to the FormCollection - use Request.Form["NameFromModel"] to retrieve it.

No, I did not dig down to see how th4e magic works under the covers. I just know it works...

I hope this helps somebody avoid the hours I spent trying different approaches before I got it working.

Convert string to List<string> in one line?

Use the Stringify.Library nuget package

//Default delimiter is ,
var split = new StringConverter().ConvertTo<List<string>>(names);

//You can also have your custom delimiter for e.g. ;
var split = new StringConverter().ConvertTo<List<string>>(names, new ConverterOptions { Delimiter = ';' });

Present and dismiss modal view controller

presentModalViewController:

MainViewController *mainViewController=[[MainViewController alloc]init];
[self.navigationController presentModalViewController:mainViewController animated:YES];

dismissModalViewController:

[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];

UnicodeDecodeError, invalid continuation byte

In binary, 0xE9 looks like 1110 1001. If you read about UTF-8 on Wikipedia, you’ll see that such a byte must be followed by two of the form 10xx xxxx. So, for example:

>>> b'\xe9\x80\x80'.decode('utf-8')
u'\u9000'

But that’s just the mechanical cause of the exception. In this case, you have a string that is almost certainly encoded in latin 1. You can see how UTF-8 and latin 1 look different:

>>> u'\xe9'.encode('utf-8')
b'\xc3\xa9'
>>> u'\xe9'.encode('latin-1')
b'\xe9'

(Note, I'm using a mix of Python 2 and 3 representation here. The input is valid in any version of Python, but your Python interpreter is unlikely to actually show both unicode and byte strings in this way.)

Download file from an ASP.NET Web API method using AngularJS

Send your file as a base64 string.

 var element = angular.element('<a/>');
                         element.attr({
                             href: 'data:attachment/csv;charset=utf-8,' + encodeURI(atob(response.payload)),
                             target: '_blank',
                             download: fname
                         })[0].click();

If attr method not working in Firefox You can also use javaScript setAttribute method

How do I bind the enter key to a function in tkinter?

I found one good thing about using bind is that you get to know the trigger event: something like: "You clicked with event = [ButtonPress event state=Mod1 num=1 x=43 y=20]" due to the code below:

self.submit.bind('<Button-1>', self.parse)
def parse(self, trigger_event):
        print("You clicked with event = {}".format(trigger_event))

Comparing the following two ways of coding a button click:

btn = Button(root, text="Click me to submit", command=(lambda: reply(ent.get())))
btn = Button(root, text="Click me to submit")
btn.bind('<Button-1>', (lambda event: reply(ent.get(), e=event)))
def reply(name, e = None):
    messagebox.showinfo(title="Reply", message = "Hello {0}!\nevent = {1}".format(name, e))

The first one is using the command function which doesn't take an argument, so no event pass-in is possible. The second one is a bind function which can take an event pass-in and print something like "Hello Charles! event = [ButtonPress event state=Mod1 num=1 x=68 y=12]"

We can left click, middle click or right click a mouse which corresponds to the event number of 1, 2 and 3, respectively. Code:

btn = Button(root, text="Click me to submit")
buttonClicks = ["<Button-1>", "<Button-2>", "<Button-3>"]
for bc in buttonClicks:
    btn.bind(bc, lambda e : print("Button clicked with event = {}".format(e.num)))

Output:

Button clicked with event = 1
Button clicked with event = 2
Button clicked with event = 3

Get selected text from a drop-down list (select box) using jQuery

the following worked for me:

$.trim($('#dropdownId option:selected').html())