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How to store date/time and timestamps in UTC time zone with JPA and Hibernate

I encountered just the same problem when I wanted to store the dates in the DB as UTC and avoid using varchar and explicit String <-> java.util.Date conversions, or setting my whole Java app in the UTC time zone (because this could lead to another unexpected issues, if the JVM is shared across many applications).

So, there is an open source project DbAssist, which allows you to easily fix the read/write as UTC date from the database. Since you are using JPA Annotations to map the fields in the entity, all you have to do is to include the following dependency to your Maven pom file:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.montrosesoftware</groupId>
    <artifactId>DbAssist-5.2.2</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

Then you apply the fix (for Hibernate + Spring Boot example) by adding @EnableAutoConfiguration annotation before the Spring application class. For other setups installation instructions and more use examples, just refer to the project's github.

The good thing is that you don't have to modify the entities at all; you can leave their java.util.Date fields as they are.

5.2.2 has to correspond to the Hibernate version you are using. I am not sure, which version you are using in your project, but the full list of provided fixes is available on the wiki page of the project's github. The reason why the fix is different for various Hibernate versions is because Hibernate creators changed the API a couple of times between the releases.

Internally, the fix uses hints from divestoclimb, Shane and a few other sources in order to create a custom UtcDateType. Then it maps the standard java.util.Date with the custom UtcDateType which handles all the necessary time zone handling. The mapping of the types is achieved using @Typedef annotation in the provided package-info.java file.

@TypeDef(name = "UtcDateType", defaultForType = Date.class, typeClass = UtcDateType.class),
package com.montrosesoftware.dbassist.types;

You can find an article here which explains why such a time shift occurs at all and what are the approaches to solve it.

Javascript Array of Functions

Maybe it can helps to someone.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head lang="en">
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title></title>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        window.manager = {
            curHandler: 0,
            handlers  : []
        };

        manager.run = function (n) {
            this.handlers[this.curHandler](n);
        };

        manager.changeHandler = function (n) {
            if (n >= this.handlers.length || n < 0) {
                throw new Error('n must be from 0 to ' + (this.handlers.length - 1), n);
            }
            this.curHandler = n;
        };

        var a = function (n) {
            console.log("Handler a. Argument value is " + n);
        };

        var b = function (n) {
            console.log("Handler b. Argument value is " + n);
        };

        var c = function foo(n) {
            for (var i=0; i<n; i++) {
                console.log(i);
            }
        };

        manager.handlers.push(a);
        manager.handlers.push(b);
        manager.handlers.push(c);
    </script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="button" onclick="window.manager.run(2)" value="Run handler with parameter 2">
<input type="button" onclick="window.manager.run(4)" value="Run handler with parameter 4">
<p>
<div>
    <select name="featured" size="1" id="item1">
        <option value="0">First handler</option>
        <option value="1">Second handler</option>
        <option value="2">Third handler</option>
    </select>
    <input type="button" onclick="manager.changeHandler(document.getElementById('item1').value);" value="Change handler">
</div>
</p>
</body>
</html>

Deleting all files in a directory with Python

I realize this is old; however, here would be how to do so using just the os module...

def purgedir(parent):
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(parent):                                      
        for item in files:
            # Delete subordinate files                                                 
            filespec = os.path.join(root, item)
            if filespec.endswith('.bak'):
                os.unlink(filespec)
        for item in dirs:
            # Recursively perform this operation for subordinate directories   
            purgedir(os.path.join(root, item))

Material effect on button with background color

There are two approaches explained in the great tutorial be Alex Lockwood: http://www.androiddesignpatterns.com/2016/08/coloring-buttons-with-themeoverlays-background-tints.html:

Approach #1: Modifying the button’s background color w/ a ThemeOverlay

<!-- res/values/themes.xml -->
<style name="RedButtonLightTheme" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light">
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/googred500</item>
</style>

<Button
    style="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Button.Colored"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:theme="@style/RedButtonLightTheme"/>

Approach #2: Setting the AppCompatButton’s background tint

<!-- res/color/btn_colored_background_tint.xml -->
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <!-- Disabled state. -->
    <item android:state_enabled="false"
          android:color="?attr/colorButtonNormal"
          android:alpha="?android:attr/disabledAlpha"/>

    <!-- Enabled state. -->
    <item android:color="?attr/colorAccent"/>

</selector>

<android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatButton
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    app:backgroundTint="@color/btn_colored_background_tint"/>

Unix - copy contents of one directory to another

Try this:

cp Folder1/* Folder2/

jQuery UI DatePicker - Change Date Format

you should use data-date-format="yyyy-mm-dd" in your input field html and initial data picker in JQuery just like simple

$("#issue_date").datepicker({ 
    dateFormat: "yy-mm-dd",
    changeMonth: true,
    changeYear: true
});

! [rejected] master -> master (fetch first)

Please try this command to solve it -

git push origin master --force

Or

 git push origin master -f

How to read html from a url in python 3

Reading an html page with urllib is fairly simple to do. Since you want to read it as a single string I will show you.

Import urllib.request:

#!/usr/bin/python3.5

import urllib.request

Prepare our request

request = urllib.request.Request('http://www.w3schools.com')

Always use a "try/except" when requesting a web page as things can easily go wrong. urlopen() requests the page.

try:
    response = urllib.request.urlopen(request)
except:
    print("something wrong")

Type is a great function that will tell us what 'type' a variable is. Here, response is a http.response object.

print(type(response))

The read function for our response object will store the html as bytes to our variable. Again type() will verify this.

htmlBytes = response.read()

print(type(htmlBytes))

Now we use the decode function for our bytes variable to get a single string.

htmlStr = htmlBytes.decode("utf8")

print(type(htmlStr))

If you do want to split up this string into separate lines, you can do so with the split() function. In this form we can easily iterate through to print out the entire page or do any other processing.

htmlSplit = htmlStr.split('\n')

print(type(htmlSplit))

for line in htmlSplit:
    print(line)

Hopefully this provides a little more detailed of an answer. Python documentation and tutorials are great, I would use that as a reference because it will answer most questions you might have.

lodash: mapping array to object

Another way with lodash 4.17.2

_.chain(params)
    .keyBy('name')
    .mapValues('input')
    .value();

or

_.mapValues(_.keyBy(params, 'name'), 'input')

or with _.reduce

_.reduce(
    params,
    (acc, { name, input }) => ({ ...acc, [name]: input }),
    {}
)

CSS :not(:last-child):after selector

You can try this, I know is not the answers you are looking for but the concept is the same.

Where you are setting the styles for all the children and then removing it from the last child.

Code Snippet

li
  margin-right: 10px

  &:last-child
    margin-right: 0

Image

enter image description here

C# removing items from listbox

You can use following code too:

 foreach (var item in listBox1.Items.Cast<string>().ToList())
 {
     string removelistitem = "OBJECT";
     if (item.Contains(removelistitem))
     {
        listBox1.Items.Remove(item);
     }
 }

c# dictionary one key many values

You can also use;

 List<KeyValuePair<string, string>> Mappings;

Angularjs: Get element in controller

You can pass in the element to the controller, just like the scope:

function someControllerFunc($scope, $element){

}

How to Copy Contents of One Canvas to Another Canvas Locally

Actually you don't have to create an image at all. drawImage() will accept a Canvas as well as an Image object.

//grab the context from your destination canvas
var destCtx = destinationCanvas.getContext('2d');

//call its drawImage() function passing it the source canvas directly
destCtx.drawImage(sourceCanvas, 0, 0);

Way faster than using an ImageData object or Image element.

Note that sourceCanvas can be a HTMLImageElement, HTMLVideoElement, or a HTMLCanvasElement. As mentioned by Dave in a comment below this answer, you cannot use a canvas drawing context as your source. If you have a canvas drawing context instead of the canvas element it was created from, there is a reference to the original canvas element on the context under context.canvas.

Here is a jsPerf to demonstrate why this is the only right way to clone a canvas: http://jsperf.com/copying-a-canvas-element

scp with port number specified

for use another port on scp command use capital P like this

scp -P port-number source-file/directory user@domain:/destination

ya ali

How to make correct date format when writing data to Excel

Old question but still relevant. I've generated a dictionary that gets the appropriate datetime format for each region, here is the helper class I generated:

https://github.com/anakic/ExcelDateTimeFormatHelper/blob/master/FormatHelper.cs

FWIW this is how I went about it:

  1. opened excel, manually entered a datetime into the first cell of a workbook
  2. opened the regions dialog in control panel
  3. used Spy to find out the HWND's of the regions combobox and the apply button so I can use SetForegroundWindow and SendKey to change the region (couldn't find how to change region through the Windows API)
  4. iterated through all regions and for each region asked Excel for the NumberFormat of the cell that contained the date, saved this data to into a file

How to uncheck a checkbox in pure JavaScript?

You will need to assign an ID to the checkbox:

<input id="checkboxId" type="checkbox" checked="" name="copyNewAddrToBilling">

and then in JavaScript:

document.getElementById("checkboxId").checked = false;

How to set my phpmyadmin user session to not time out so quickly?

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 <your_new_timeout> 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.

How to set HTTP header to UTF-8 using PHP which is valid in W3C validator?

PHP sends headers automatically if set up to use internal encoding:

ini_set('default_charset', 'utf-8');

QuotaExceededError: Dom exception 22: An attempt was made to add something to storage that exceeded the quota

Update (2016-11-01)

I was using AmplifyJS mentioned below to work around this issue. However, for Safari in Private browsing, it was falling back to a memory-based storage. In my case, it was not appropriate because it means the storage is cleared on refresh, even if the user is still in private browsing.

Also, I have noticed a number of users who are always browsing in Private mode on iOS Safari. For that reason, a better fallback for Safari is to use cookies (if available). By default, cookies are still accessible even in private browsing. Of course, they are cleared when exiting the private browsing, but they are not cleared on refresh.

I found the local-storage-fallback library. From the documentation:

Purpose

With browser settings like "Private Browsing" it has become a problem to rely on a working window.localStorage, even in newer browsers. Even though it may exist, it will throw exceptions when trying to use setItem or getItem. This module will run appropriate checks to see what browser storage mechanism might be available, and then expose it. It uses the same API as localStorage so it should work as a drop-in replacement in most cases.

Beware of the gotchas:

  • CookieStorage has storage limits. Be careful here.
  • MemoryStorage will not persist between page loads. This is more or less a stop-gap to prevent page crashes, but may be sufficient for websites that don't do full page loads.

TL;DR:

Use local-storage-fallback (unified API with .getItem(prop) and .setItem(prop, val)):

Check and use appropriate storage adapter for browser (localStorage, sessionStorage, cookies, memory)

Original answer

To add upon previous answers, one possible workaround would be to change the storage method. There are a few librairies such as AmplifyJS and PersistJS which can help. Both libs allow persistent client-side storage through several backends.

For AmplifyJS

localStorage

  • IE 8+
  • Firefox 3.5+
  • Safari 4+
  • Chrome
  • Opera 10.5+
  • iPhone 2+
  • Android 2+

sessionStorage

  • IE 8+
  • Firefox 2+
  • Safari 4+
  • Chrome
  • Opera 10.5+
  • iPhone 2+
  • Android 2+

globalStorage

  • Firefox 2+

userData

  • IE 5 - 7
  • userData exists in newer versions of IE as well, but due to quirks in IE 9's implementation, we don't register userData if localStorage is supported.

memory

  • An in-memory store is provided as a fallback if none of the other storage types are available.

For PersistentJS

  • flash: Flash 8 persistent storage.
  • gears: Google Gears-based persistent storage.
  • localstorage: HTML5 draft storage.
  • globalstorage: HTML5 draft storage (old spec).
  • ie: Internet Explorer userdata behaviors.
  • cookie: Cookie-based persistent storage.

They offer an abstraction layer so you don't have to worry about choosing the storage type. Keep in mind there might be some limitations (such as size limits) depending on the storage type though. Right now, I am using AmplifyJS, but I still have to do some more testing on iOS 7/Safari/etc. to see if it actually solves the problem.

how to stop Javascript forEach?

    var f = "how to stop Javascript forEach?".split(' ');
    f.forEach(function (a,b){
        console.info(b+1);
        if (a == 'stop') {
            console.warn("\tposition: \'stop\'["+(b+1)+"] \r\n\tall length: " + (f.length)); 
            f.length = 0; //<--!!!
        }
    });

How to get all groups that a user is a member of?

This is the simplest way to just get the names:

Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership "YourUserName"

# Returns distinguishedName : CN=users,OU=test,DC=SomeWhere GroupCategory : Security GroupScope : Global name : testGroup objectClass : group objectGUID : 2130ed49-24c4-4a17-88e6-dd4477d15a4c SamAccountName : testGroup SID : S-1-5-21-2114067515-1964795913-1973001494-71628

Add a select statement to trim the response or to get every user in an OU every group they are a user of:

foreach ($user in (get-aduser -SearchScope Subtree -SearchBase $oupath -filter * -Properties samaccountName, MemberOf | select samaccountName)){ Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership $user.samaccountName | select name}

Maven: Failed to read artifact descriptor

This error is basically saying that maven couldn't read a certain dependency from local repository. It might happend because a jar file didn't get downloaded correctly. So, go to your maven local repository and make sure there isn't any .lastUpdated extension file.

receiving json and deserializing as List of object at spring mvc controller

@RequestMapping(
         value="person", 
         method=RequestMethod.POST,
         consumes="application/json",
         produces="application/json")
@ResponseBody
public List<String> savePerson(@RequestBody Person[] personArray) {
    List<String> response = new ArrayList<String>();
    for (Person person: personArray) {
        personService.save(person);
        response.add("Saved person: " + person.toString());
    }
    return response;
}

We can use Array as shown above.

how to list all sub directories in a directory

FolderBrowserDialog fbd = new FolderBrowserDialog();

        DialogResult result = fbd.ShowDialog();

        string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(fbd.SelectedPath);
        string[] dirs = Directory.GetDirectories(fbd.SelectedPath);

        foreach (string item2 in dirs)
        {
            FileInfo f = new FileInfo(item2);

            listBox1.Items.Add(f.Name);

        }

        foreach (string item in files)
        {
            FileInfo f = new FileInfo(item);

            listBox1.Items.Add(f.Name);

        }

Quickly reading very large tables as dataframes

This was previously asked on R-Help, so that's worth reviewing.

One suggestion there was to use readChar() and then do string manipulation on the result with strsplit() and substr(). You can see the logic involved in readChar is much less than read.table.

I don't know if memory is an issue here, but you might also want to take a look at the HadoopStreaming package. This uses Hadoop, which is a MapReduce framework designed for dealing with large data sets. For this, you would use the hsTableReader function. This is an example (but it has a learning curve to learn Hadoop):

str <- "key1\t3.9\nkey1\t8.9\nkey1\t1.2\nkey1\t3.9\nkey1\t8.9\nkey1\t1.2\nkey2\t9.9\nkey2\"
cat(str)
cols = list(key='',val=0)
con <- textConnection(str, open = "r")
hsTableReader(con,cols,chunkSize=6,FUN=print,ignoreKey=TRUE)
close(con)

The basic idea here is to break the data import into chunks. You could even go so far as to use one of the parallel frameworks (e.g. snow) and run the data import in parallel by segmenting the file, but most likely for large data sets that won't help since you will run into memory constraints, which is why map-reduce is a better approach.

Bootstrap control with multiple "data-toggle"

Not yet. However, it has been suggested that someone add this feature one day.

The following bootstrap Github issue shows a perfect example of what you are wishing for. It is possible- but not without writing your own workaround code at this stage though.

Check it out... :-)

https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/7011

Why can't radio buttons be "readonly"?

A fairly simple option would be to create a javascript function called on the form's "onsubmit" event to enable the radiobutton back so that it's value is posted with the rest of the form.
It does not seem to be an omission on HTML specs, but a design choice (a logical one, IMHO), a radiobutton can't be readonly as a button can't be, if you don't want to use it, then disable it.

What does InitializeComponent() do, and how does it work in WPF?

Looking at the code always helps too. That is, you can actually take a look at the generated partial class (that calls LoadComponent) by doing the following:

  1. Go to the Solution Explorer pane in the Visual Studio solution that you are interested in.
  2. There is a button in the tool bar of the Solution Explorer titled 'Show All Files'. Toggle that button.
  3. Now, expand the obj folder and then the Debug or Release folder (or whatever configuration you are building) and you will see a file titled YourClass.g.cs.

The YourClass.g.cs ... is the code for generated partial class. Again, if you open that up you can see the InitializeComponent method and how it calls LoadComponent ... and much more.

HTTP client timeout and server timeout

go to the url about:config and paste each line:

network.http.keep-alive.timeout;10
network.http.connection-retry-timeout;10
network.http.pipelining.read-timeout;5
network.http.connection-timeout;10

"Could not run curl-config: [Errno 2] No such file or directory" when installing pycurl

I had this issue on Mac and it was related to the openssl package being an older version of what it was required by pycurl. pycurl can use other ssl libraries rather than openssl as per my understanding of it. Verify which ssl library you're using and update as it is very likely to fix the issue.

I fixed this by:

  • running brew upgrade
  • downloaded the latest pycurl-x.y.z.tar.gz from http://pycurl.io/
  • extracted the package above and change directory into it
  • ran python setup.py --with-openssl install as openssl is the library I have installed. If you're ssl library is either gnutls or nss then will have to use --with-gnutls or --with-nss accordingly. You'll be able to find more installation info in their github repository.

Python: count repeated elements in the list

yourList = ["a", "b", "a", "c", "c", "a", "c"]

expected outputs {a: 3, b: 1,c:3}

duplicateFrequencies = {}
for i in set(yourList):
    duplicateFrequencies[i] = yourList.count(i)

Cheers!! Reference

Difference between objectForKey and valueForKey?

As said, the objectForKey: datatype is :(id)aKey whereas the valueForKey: datatype is :(NSString *)key.

For example:

 NSDictionary *dict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[NSArray arrayWithObject:@"123"],[NSNumber numberWithInteger:5], nil];

 NSLog(@"objectForKey : --- %@",[dict objectForKey:[NSNumber numberWithInteger:5]]);  
    //This will work fine and prints (    123    )  

 NSLog(@"valueForKey  : --- %@",[dict valueForKey:[NSNumber numberWithInteger:5]]); 
    //it gives warning "Incompatible pointer types sending 'NSNumber *' to parameter of type 'NSString *'"   ---- This will crash on runtime. 

So, valueForKey: will take only a string value and is a KVC method, whereas objectForKey: will take any type of object.

The value in objectForKey will be accessed by the same kind of object.

Convert form data to JavaScript object with jQuery

serializeArray already does exactly that. You just need to massage the data into your required format:

function objectifyForm(formArray) {
    //serialize data function
    var returnArray = {};
    for (var i = 0; i < formArray.length; i++){
        returnArray[formArray[i]['name']] = formArray[i]['value'];
    }
    return returnArray;
}

Watch out for hidden fields which have the same name as real inputs as they will get overwritten.

Spring Boot Rest Controller how to return different HTTP status codes?

Try this code:

@RequestMapping(value = "/validate", method = RequestMethod.GET, produces = "application/json")
public ResponseEntity<ErrorBean> validateUser(@QueryParam("jsonInput") final String jsonInput) {
    int numberHTTPDesired = 400;
    ErrorBean responseBean = new ErrorBean();
    responseBean.setError("ERROR");
    responseBean.setMensaje("Error in validation!");

    return new ResponseEntity<ErrorBean>(responseBean, HttpStatus.valueOf(numberHTTPDesired));
}

Escaping single quote in PHP when inserting into MySQL

You should be escaping each of these strings (in both snippets) with mysql_real_escape_string().

http://us3.php.net/mysql-real-escape-string

The reason your two queries are behaving differently is likely because you have magic_quotes_gpc turned on (which you should know is a bad idea). This means that strings gathered from $_GET, $_POST and $_COOKIES are escaped for you (i.e., "O'Brien" -> "O\'Brien").

Once you store the data, and subsequently retrieve it again, the string you get back from the database will not be automatically escaped for you. You'll get back "O'Brien". So, you will need to pass it through mysql_real_escape_string().

How do I use a Boolean in Python?

True ... and False obviously.

Otherwise, None evaluates to False, as does the integer 0 and also the float 0.0 (although I wouldn't use floats like that). Also, empty lists [], empty tuplets (), and empty strings '' or "" evaluate to False.

Try it yourself with the function bool():

bool([])
bool(['a value'])
bool('')
bool('A string')
bool(True)  # ;-)
bool(False)
bool(0)
bool(None)
bool(0.0)
bool(1)

etc..

Removing Conda environment

This worked for me:

conda env remove --name tensorflow

How to create a DB link between two oracle instances

Creation of DB Link

CREATE DATABASE LINK dblinkname
CONNECT TO $usename
IDENTIFIED BY $password
USING '$sid';

(Note: sid is being passed between single quotes above. )

Example Queries for above DB Link

select * from tableA@dblinkname;

insert into tableA(select * from tableA@dblinkname);

Twitter Bootstrap 3: how to use media queries?

As of Bootstrap v3.3.6 the following media queries are used which corresponds with the documentation that outlines the responsive classes that are available (http://getbootstrap.com/css/#responsive-utilities).

/* Extra Small Devices, .visible-xs-* */
@media (max-width: 767px) {}

/* Small Devices, .visible-sm-* */
@media (min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 991px) {}

/* Medium Devices, .visible-md-* */
@media (min-width: 992px) and (max-width: 1199px) {}

/* Large Devices, .visible-lg-* */
@media (min-width: 1200px) {}

Media queries extracted from the Bootstrap GitHub repository from the following less files:-

https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/v3.3.6/less/responsive-utilities.less https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/v3.3.6/less/variables.less

SELECT inside a COUNT

SELECT a AS current_a, COUNT(*) AS b,
   (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM t WHERE a = current_a AND c = 'const' ) as d
   from t group by a order by b desc

How to compare two files in Notepad++ v6.6.8

Update:

  • for Notepad++ 7.5 and above use Compare v2.0.0
  • for Notepad++ 7.7 and above use Compare v2.0.0 for Notepad++ 7.7, if you need to install manually follow the description below, otherwise use "Plugin Admin".

I use Compare plugin 2 for notepad++ 7.5 and newer versions. Notepad++ 7.5 and newer versions does not have plugin manager. You have to download and install plugins manually. And YES it matters if you use 64bit or 32bit (86x).

So Keep in mind, if you use 64 bit version of Notepad++, you should also use 64 bit version of plugin, and the same valid for 32bit.

I wrote a guideline how to install it:

  1. Start your Notepad++ as administrator mode.
  2. Press F1 to find out if your Notepad++ is 64bit or 32bit (86x), hence you need to download the correct plugin version. Download Compare-plugin 2.
  3. Unzip Compare-plugin in temporary folder.
  4. Import plugin from the temporary folder.
  5. The plugin should appear under Plugins menu.

Note:
It is also possible to drag and drop the plugin .dll file directly in plugin folder.
64bit: %programfiles%\Notepad++\plugins
32bit: %programfiles(x86)%\Notepad++\plugins

Update Thanks to @TylerH with this update: Notepad++ Now has "Plugin Admin" as a replacement for the old Plugin Manager. But this method (answer) is still valid for adding plugins manually for almost any Notepad++ plugins.

Disclaimer: the link of this guideline refer to my personal web site.

CodeIgniter - How to return Json response from controller

return $this->output
            ->set_content_type('application/json')
            ->set_status_header(500)
            ->set_output(json_encode(array(
                    'text' => 'Error 500',
                    'type' => 'danger'
            )));

back button callback in navigationController in iOS

I end up with this solutions. As we tap back button viewDidDisappear method called. we can check by calling isMovingFromParentViewController selector which return true. we can pass data back (Using Delegate).hope this help someone.

-(void)viewDidDisappear:(BOOL)animated{

    if (self.isMovingToParentViewController) {

    }
    if (self.isMovingFromParentViewController) {
       //moving back
        //pass to viewCollection delegate and update UI
        [self.delegateObject passBackSavedData:self.dataModel];

    }
}

Creating Dynamic button with click event in JavaScript

this:

element.setAttribute("onclick", alert("blabla"));

should be:

element.onclick = function () {
  alert("blabla");
}

Because you call alert instead push alert as string in attribute

Create a basic matrix in C (input by user !)

You need to dynamically allocate your matrix. For instance:

int* mat;
int dimx,dimy;
scanf("%d", &dimx);
scanf("%d", &dimy);
mat = malloc(dimx * dimy * sizeof(int));

This creates a linear array which can hold the matrix. At this point you can decide whether you want to access it column or row first. I would suggest making a quick macro which calculates the correct offset in the matrix.

Prevent Caching in ASP.NET MVC for specific actions using an attribute

Output Caching in MVC

[OutputCache(NoStore = true, Duration = 0, Location="None", VaryByParam = "*")]

OR
[OutputCache(NoStore = true, Duration = 0, VaryByParam = "None")]

How to detect when a UIScrollView has finished scrolling

I only just found this question, which is pretty much the same I asked: How to know exactly when a UIScrollView's scrolling has stopped?

Though didEndDecelerating works when scrolling, panning with stationary release does not register.

I eventually found a solution. didEndDragging has a parameter WillDecelerate, which is false in the stationary release situation.

By checking for !decelerate in DidEndDragging, combined with didEndDecelerating, you get both situations that are the end of scrolling.

How do I download a file from the internet to my linux server with Bash

I guess you could use curl and wget, but since Oracle requires you to check of some checkmarks this will be painfull to emulate with the tools mentioned. You would have to download the page with the license agreement and from looking at it figure out what request is needed to get to the actual download.

Of course you could simply start a browser, but this might not qualify as 'from the command line'. So you might want to look into lynx, a text based browser.

What's the most concise way to read query parameters in AngularJS?

Just a precision to Ellis Whitehead's answer. $locationProvider.html5Mode(true); won't work with new version of angularjs without specifying the base URL for the application with a <base href=""> tag or setting the parameter requireBase to false

From the doc :

If you configure $location to use html5Mode (history.pushState), you need to specify the base URL for the application with a tag or configure $locationProvider to not require a base tag by passing a definition object with requireBase:false to $locationProvider.html5Mode():

$locationProvider.html5Mode({
  enabled: true,
  requireBase: false
});

How to Consolidate Data from Multiple Excel Columns All into One Column

You didn't mention if you are using Excel 2003 or 2007, but you may run into an issue with the # of rows in Excel 2003 being capped at 65,536. If you are using 2007, the limit is 1,048,576.

Also, can I ask what your end goal is for your analysis? If you need to perform many statistical calculations on your data, I would recommend moving out of the Excel environment into something that is more directly suited for data manipulation and analysis, such as R.

There are a variety of options for connecting R to Excel, including

  1. RExcel
  2. RODBC
  3. Other options in the R manual

Regardless of what you choose to use to move data in/out of R, the code to change from wide to long format is pretty trivial. I enjoy the melt() function from the reshape package. That code would look like:

library(reshape)
#Fake data, 4 columns, 20k rows
df <- data.frame(foo = rnorm(20000)
    , bar = rlnorm(20000)
    , fee = rnorm(20000)
    , fie = rlnorm(20000)
)
#Create new object with 1 column, 80k rows
df.m <- melt(df)

From there, you can perform any number of statistical or graphing operations. If you use the RExcel plugin above, you can fire all of this up and run it within Excel itself. The R community is very active and can help address any and all questions you may encounter.

Good luck!

Can the "IN" operator use LIKE-wildcards (%) in Oracle?

Somewhat convoluted, but:

Select * from myTable m
join (SELECT a.COLUMN_VALUE || b.COLUMN_VALUE status
FROM   (TABLE(Sys.Dbms_Debug_Vc2coll('Done', 'Finished except', 'In Progress'))) a
JOIN (Select '%' COLUMN_VALUE from dual) b on 1=1) params
on params.status like m.status;

This was a solution for a very unique problem, but it might help someone. Essentially there is no "in like" statement and there was no way to get an index for the first variable_n characters of the column, so I made this to make a fast dynamic "in like" for use in SSRS.

The list content ('Done', 'Finished except', 'In Progress') can be variable.

MySQL Error 1093 - Can't specify target table for update in FROM clause

According to the Mysql UPDATE Syntax linked by @CheekySoft, it says right at the bottom.

Currently, you cannot update a table and select from the same table in a subquery.

I guess you are deleting from store_category while still selecting from it in the union.

jQuery if div contains this text, replace that part of the text

You can use the text method and pass a function that returns the modified text, using the native String.prototype.replace method to perform the replacement:

?$(".text_div").text(function () {
    return $(this).text().replace("contains", "hello everyone"); 
});?????

Here's a working example.

How to comment out particular lines in a shell script

Yes (although it's a nasty hack). You can use a heredoc thus:

#!/bin/sh

# do valuable stuff here
touch /tmp/a

# now comment out all the stuff below up to the EOF
echo <<EOF
...
...
...
EOF

What's this doing ? A heredoc feeds all the following input up to the terminator (in this case, EOF) into the nominated command. So you can surround the code you wish to comment out with

echo <<EOF
...
EOF

and it'll take all the code contained between the two EOFs and feed them to echo (echo doesn't read from stdin so it all gets thrown away).

Note that with the above you can put anything in the heredoc. It doesn't have to be valid shell code (i.e. it doesn't have to parse properly).

This is very nasty, and I offer it only as a point of interest. You can't do the equivalent of C's /* ... */

How can I reorder my divs using only CSS?

Ordering only for mobile and keep the native order for desktop:

// html

<div>
  <div class="gridInverseMobile1">First</div>
  <div class="gridInverseMobile1">Second</div>
</div>

// css

@media only screen and (max-width: 960px) {
  .gridInverseMobile1 {
    order: 2;
    -webkit-order: 2;
  }
  .gridInverseMobile2 {
    order: 1;
    -webkit-order: 1;
  }
}

Result:

Desktop: First | Second
Mobile: Second | First

source: https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_order.asp

Can you have if-then-else logic in SQL?

Please check whether this helps:

select TOP 1
    product, 
    price 
from 
    table1 
where 
    (project=1 OR Customer=2 OR company=3) AND
    price IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY company 

Generate an integer sequence in MySQL

I found this solution on the web

SET @row := 0;
SELECT @row := @row + 1 as row, t.*
FROM some_table t, (SELECT @row := 0) r

Single query, fast, and does exactly what I wanted: now I can "number" the "selections" found from a complex query with unique numbers starting at 1 and incrementing once for each row in the result.

I think this will also work for the issue listed above: adjust the initial starting value for @row and add a limit clause to set the maximum.

BTW: I think that the "r" is not really needed.

ddsp

Simple calculations for working with lat/lon and km distance?

http://www.jstott.me.uk/jcoord/ - use this library

            LatLng lld1 = new LatLng(40.718119, -73.995667);
            LatLng lld2 = new LatLng(51.499981, -0.125313);
            Double distance = lld1.distance(lld2);
            Log.d(TAG, "Distance in kilometers " + distance);

The following sections have been defined but have not been rendered for the layout page "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml": "Scripts"

I think our solution was sufficiently different from everyone elses so I'll document it here.

We have setup of Main layout, an intermediary layout and then the final action page render. Main.cshtml <- Config.cshtml <- Action.cshtml

Only when web.config had customErrors='On/RemoteOnly' we got a custom error and no exception nor Application_Error was called. I could catch this on Layout = null line in the Error.cshtml. Exception was as in the question, missing scripts section.

We did have it defined in Main.cshtml (with required:false) and Action.cshtml didn't have anything that wrote into the scripts section.

Solution was to add @section scripts { @RenderSection("scripts", false) } to Config.cshtml.

ExecuteNonQuery doesn't return results

You use EXECUTENONQUERY() for INSERT,UPDATE and DELETE.

But for SELECT you must use EXECUTEREADER().........

Update query PHP MySQL

Here i updated two variables and present date and time

$id = "1";
$title = "phpmyadmin";

 $sql=  mysql_query("UPDATE table_name SET id ='".$id."', title = '".$title."',now() WHERE id = '".$id."' ");

now() function update current date and time.

note: For update query we have define the particular id otherwise it update whole table defaulty

When should I use git pull --rebase?

I don't think there's ever a reason not to use pull --rebase -- I added code to Git specifically to allow my git pull command to always rebase against upstream commits.

When looking through history, it is just never interesting to know when the guy/gal working on the feature stopped to synchronise up. It might be useful for the guy/gal while he/she is doing it, but that's what reflog is for. It's just adding noise for everyone else.

How to use Monitor (DDMS) tool to debug application

I think that I got a solution for this. You don't have to start monitor but you can use DDMS instead almost like in Eclipse.

Start Android Studio-> pick breakpoint-> Run-> Debug-> Go to %sdk\tools in Terminal window and run ddms.bat to run DDMS without Monitor running (since it won't let you run ADB). You can now start profiling or debug step-by-step.

Hope this helps you.

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Setting the JVM via the command line on Windows

If you have 2 installations of the JVM. Place the version upfront. Linux : export PATH=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/bin:$PATH

This eliminates the ambiguity.

Bootstrap 3 Glyphicons are not working

I was having the same issue and couldn't find any information about it except in the hidden comments on this page. My font files were loading just fine according to Chrome, but the icons weren't displaying properly. I'm making this an answer so it will hopefully help others.

Something was wrong with the font files that I downloaded from Bootstrap 3's customizer tool. To get the correct fonts, go to the Bootstrap homepage and download the full .zip file. Extract the four font files from there to your fonts directory and everything should work.

Sort arrays of primitive types in descending order

I think it would be best not to re-invent the wheel and use Arrays.sort().

Yes, I saw the "descending" part. The sorting is the hard part, and you want to benefit from the simplicity and speed of Java's library code. Once that's done, you simply reverse the array, which is a relatively cheap O(n) operation. Here's some code I found to do this in as little as 4 lines:

for (int left=0, right=b.length-1; left<right; left++, right--) {
    // exchange the first and last
    int temp = b[left]; b[left]  = b[right]; b[right] = temp;
}

WCF Service Returning "Method Not Allowed"

The basic intrinsic types (e.g. byte, int, string, and arrays) will be serialized automatically by WCF. Custom classes, like your UploadedFile, won't be.

So, a silly question (but I have to ask it...): is UploadedFile marked as a [DataContract]? If not, you'll need to make sure that it is, and that each of the members in the class that you want to send are marked with [DataMember].

Unlike remoting, where marking a class with [XmlSerializable] allowed you to serialize the whole class without bothering to mark the members that you wanted serialized, WCF needs you to mark up each member. (I believe this is changing in .NET 3.5 SP1...)

A tremendous resource for WCF development is what we know in our shop as "the fish book": Programming WCF Services by Juval Lowy. Unlike some of the other WCF books around, which are a bit dry and academic, this one takes a practical approach to building WCF services and is actually useful. Thoroughly recommended.

How to make ConstraintLayout work with percentage values?

It may be useful to have a quick reference here.

Placement of views

Use a guideline with app:layout_constraintGuide_percent like this:

<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.Guideline
    android:id="@+id/guideline"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    app:layout_constraintGuide_percent="0.5"/>

And then you can use this guideline as anchor points for other views.

or

Use bias with app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias and/or app:layout_constraintVertical_bias to modify view location when the available space allows

<Button
    ...
    app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.25"
    ...
    />

Size of views

Another percent based value is height and/or width of elements, with app:layout_constraintHeight_percent and/or app:layout_constraintWidth_percent:

<Button
    ...
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    app:layout_constraintWidth_percent="0.5"
    ...
    />

Letsencrypt add domain to existing certificate

I was able to setup a SSL certificated for a domain AND multiple subdomains by using using --cert-name combined with --expand options.

See official certbot-auto documentation at https://certbot.eff.org/docs/using.html

Example:

certbot-auto certonly --cert-name mydomain.com.br \
--renew-by-default -a webroot -n --expand \
--webroot-path=/usr/share/nginx/html \
-d mydomain.com.br \
-d www.mydomain.com.br \
-d aaa1.com.br \
-d aaa2.com.br \
-d aaa3.com.br

Recursive query in SQL Server

Something like this (not tested)

with match_groups as (

  select product_id, 
         matching_product_id,
         product_id as group_id
  from matches
  where product_id not in (select matching_product_id from matches)

  union all

  select m.product_id, m.matching_product_id, p.group_id
  from matches m
    join match_groups p on m.product_id = p.matching_product_id
)
select group_id, product_id
from match_groups
order by group_id;

Circular dependency in Spring

The Spring container is able to resolve Setter-based circular dependencies but gives a runtime exception BeanCurrentlyInCreationException in case of Constructor-based circular dependencies. In case of Setter-based circular dependency, the IOC container handles it differently from a typical scenario wherein it would fully configure the collaborating bean before injecting it. For eg., if Bean A has a dependency on Bean B and Bean B on Bean C, the container fully initializes C before injecting it to B and once B is fully initialized it is injected to A. But in case of circular dependency, one of the beans is injected to the other before it is fully initialized.

OVER_QUERY_LIMIT in Google Maps API v3: How do I pause/delay in Javascript to slow it down?

Using "setInterval" & "clearInterval" fixes the problem:

function drawMarkers(map, markers) {
    var _this = this,
        geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder(),
        geocode_filetrs;

    _this.key = 0;

    _this.interval = setInterval(function() {
        _this.markerData = markers[_this.key];

        geocoder.geocode({ address: _this.markerData.address }, yourCallback(_this.markerData));

        _this.key++;

        if ( ! markers[_this.key]) {
            clearInterval(_this.interval);
        }

    }, 300);
}

Valid to use <a> (anchor tag) without href attribute?

The <a>nchor element is simply an anchor to or from some content. Originally the HTML specification allowed for named anchors (<a name="foo">) and linked anchors (<a href="#foo">).

The named anchor format is less commonly used, as the fragment identifier is now used to specify an [id] attribute (although for backwards compatibility you can still specify [name] attributes). An <a> element without an [href] attribute is still valid.

As far as semantics and styling is concerned, the <a> element isn't a link (:link) unless it has an [href] attribute. A side-effect of this is that an <a> element without [href] won't be in the tabbing order by default.

The real question is whether the <a> element alone is an appropriate representation of a <button>. On a semantic level, there is a distinct difference between a link and a button.

A button is something that when clicked causes an action to occur.

A link is a button that causes a change in navigation in the current document. The navigation that occurs could be moving within the document in the case of fragment identifiers (#foo) or moving to a new document in the case of urls (/bar).

As links are a special type of button, they have often had their actions overridden to perform alternative functions. Continuing to use an anchor as a button is ok from a consistency standpoint, although it's not quite accurate semantically.

If you're concerned about the semantics and accessibility of using an <a> element (or <span>, or <div>) as a button, you should add the following attributes:

<a role="button" tabindex="0" ...>...</a>

The button role tells the user that the particular element is being treated as a button as an override for whatever semantics the underlying element may have had.

For <span> and <div> elements, you may want to add JavaScript key listeners for Space or Enter to trigger the click event. <a href> and <button> elements do this by default, but non-button elements do not. Sometimes it makes more sense to bind the click trigger to a different key. For example, a "help" button in a web app might be bound to F1.

How to sign an android apk file

For users of IntelliJ IDEA or Android Studio make these steps:
* From the menu Build/Generate signed APK
* You need to create a keystore path. From the dialog click Create new. You will create a jks file that includes your keys. Select folder, define a password. So your keystore ok.
* Create new key by for your application by using alias, key password, your name etc.
* Click next.
* From the dialog either select Proguard or not.

Your signed APK file is ready.

Help file: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/webhelp/generate-signed-apk-wizard.html

Swift 3: Display Image from URL

Use extension for UIImageView to Load URL Images.

let imageCache = NSCache<NSString, UIImage>()

extension UIImageView {

    func imageURLLoad(url: URL) {

        DispatchQueue.global().async { [weak self] in
            func setImage(image:UIImage?) {
                DispatchQueue.main.async {
                    self?.image = image
                }
            }
            let urlToString = url.absoluteString as NSString
            if let cachedImage = imageCache.object(forKey: urlToString) {
                setImage(image: cachedImage)
            } else if let data = try? Data(contentsOf: url), let image = UIImage(data: data) {
                DispatchQueue.main.async {
                    imageCache.setObject(image, forKey: urlToString)
                    setImage(image: image)
                }
            }else {
                setImage(image: nil)
            }
        }
    }
}

exit application when click button - iOS

You can use exit method to quit an ios app :

exit(0);

You should say same alert message and ask him to quit

Another way is by using [[NSThread mainThread] exit]

However you should not do this way

According to Apple, your app should not terminate on its own. Since the user did not hit the Home button, any return to the Home screen gives the user the impression that your app crashed. This is confusing, non-standard behavior and should be avoided.

Can I set background image and opacity in the same property?

You can use CSS psuedo selector ::after to achieve this. Here is a working demo.

enter image description here

_x000D_
_x000D_
.bg-container{_x000D_
  width: 100%;_x000D_
  height: 300px;_x000D_
  border: 1px solid #000;_x000D_
  position: relative;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.bg-container .content{_x000D_
  position: absolute;_x000D_
  z-index:999;_x000D_
  text-align: center;_x000D_
  width: 100%;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.bg-container::after{_x000D_
  content: "";_x000D_
  position: absolute;_x000D_
  top: 0px;_x000D_
  left: 0px;_x000D_
  width: 100%;_x000D_
  height: 100%;_x000D_
  z-index:-99;_x000D_
  background-image: url(https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hp53k.jpg);_x000D_
  background-size: cover;_x000D_
  opacity: 0.4;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<div class="bg-container">_x000D_
   <div class="content">_x000D_
     <h1>Background Opacity 0.4</h1>_x000D_
   </div>_x000D_
</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

How to forward declare a template class in namespace std?

there is a limited alternative you can use

header:

class std_int_vector;

class A{
    std_int_vector* vector;
public:
    A();
    virtual ~A();
};

cpp:

#include "header.h"
#include <vector>
class std_int_vector: public std::vectror<int> {}

A::A() : vector(new std_int_vector()) {}
[...]

not tested in real programs, so expect it to be non-perfect.

XAMPP Start automatically on Windows 7 startup

I just placed a short-cut to the XAMPP control panel in my startup folder. That works just fine on Window 7. Start -> All Programs -> Startup. There is also an option to start XAMPP control panel minimized, that is very useful for getting a clean unobstructed view of your desktop at start-up.**

Python read JSON file and modify

There is really quite a number of ways to do this and all of the above are in one way or another valid approaches... Let me add a straightforward proposition. So assuming your current existing json file looks is this....

{
     "name":"myname"
}

And you want to bring in this new json content (adding key "id")

{
     "id": "134",
     "name": "myname"
 }

My approach has always been to keep the code extremely readable with easily traceable logic. So first, we read the entire existing json file into memory, assuming you are very well aware of your json's existing key(s).

import json 

# first, get the absolute path to json file
PATH_TO_JSON = 'data.json' #  assuming same directory (but you can work your magic here with os.)

# read existing json to memory. you do this to preserve whatever existing data. 
with open(PATH_TO_JSON,'r') as jsonfile:
    json_content = json.load(jsonfile) # this is now in memory! you can use it outside 'open'

Next, we use the 'with open()' syntax again, with the 'w' option. 'w' is a write mode which lets us edit and write new information to the file. Here s the catch that works for us ::: any existing json with the same target write name will be erased automatically.

So what we can do now, is simply write to the same filename with the new data

# add the id key-value pair (rmbr that it already has the "name" key value)
json_content["id"] = "134"

with open(PATH_TO_JSON,'w') as jsonfile:
    json.dump(json_content, jsonfile, indent=4) # you decide the indentation level

And there you go! data.json should be good to go for an good old POST request

R: numeric 'envir' arg not of length one in predict()

There are several problems here:

  1. The newdata argument of predict() needs a predictor variable. You should thus pass it values for Coupon, instead of Total, which is the response variable in your model.

  2. The predictor variable needs to be passed in as a named column in a data frame, so that predict() knows what the numbers its been handed represent. (The need for this becomes clear when you consider more complicated models, having more than one predictor variable).

  3. For this to work, your original call should pass df in through the data argument, rather than using it directly in your formula. (This way, the name of the column in newdata will be able to match the name on the RHS of the formula).

With those changes incorporated, this will work:

model <- lm(Total ~ Coupon, data=df)
new <- data.frame(Coupon = df$Coupon)
predict(model, newdata = new, interval="confidence")

Reloading/refreshing Kendo Grid

In a recent project, I had to update the Kendo UI Grid based on some calls, that were happening on some dropdown selects. Here is what I ended up using:

$.ajax({
        url: '/api/....',
        data: { myIDSArray: javascriptArrayOfIDs },
        traditional: true,
        success: function(result) {
            searchResults = result;
        }
    }).done(function() {
        var dataSource = new kendo.data.DataSource({ data: searchResults });
        var grid = $('#myKendoGrid').data("kendoGrid");
        dataSource.read();
        grid.setDataSource(dataSource);
    });

Hopefully this will save you some time.

open() in Python does not create a file if it doesn't exist

My answer:

file_path = 'myfile.dat'
try:
    fp = open(file_path)
except IOError:
    # If not exists, create the file
    fp = open(file_path, 'w+')

Can I set max_retries for requests.request?

A cleaner way to gain higher control might be to package the retry stuff into a function and make that function retriable using a decorator and whitelist the exceptions.

I have created the same here: http://www.praddy.in/retry-decorator-whitelisted-exceptions/

Reproducing the code in that link :

def retry(exceptions, delay=0, times=2):
"""
A decorator for retrying a function call with a specified delay in case of a set of exceptions

Parameter List
-------------
:param exceptions:  A tuple of all exceptions that need to be caught for retry
                                    e.g. retry(exception_list = (Timeout, Readtimeout))
:param delay: Amount of delay (seconds) needed between successive retries.
:param times: no of times the function should be retried


"""
def outer_wrapper(function):
    @functools.wraps(function)
    def inner_wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
        final_excep = None  
        for counter in xrange(times):
            if counter > 0:
                time.sleep(delay)
            final_excep = None
            try:
                value = function(*args, **kwargs)
                return value
            except (exceptions) as e:
                final_excep = e
                pass #or log it

        if final_excep is not None:
            raise final_excep
    return inner_wrapper

return outer_wrapper

@retry(exceptions=(TimeoutError, ConnectTimeoutError), delay=0, times=3)
def call_api():

How to use an existing database with an Android application

If you are having pre built data base than copy it in asset folder and create an new class as DataBaseHelper which implements SQLiteOpenHelper Than use following code:

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;

import android.content.Context;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.database.SQLException;
import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase;
import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteOpenHelper;

public class DataBaseHelperClass extends SQLiteOpenHelper{
 //The Android's default system path of your application database.
private static String DB_PATH = "/data/data/package_name/databases/";
// Data Base Name.
private static final String DATABASE_NAME = "DBName.sqlite";
// Data Base Version.
private static final int DATABASE_VERSION = 1;
// Table Names of Data Base.
static final String TABLE_Name = "tableName";

public Context context;
static SQLiteDatabase sqliteDataBase;

/**
 * Constructor
 * Takes and keeps a reference of the passed context in order to access to the application assets and resources.
 * @param context
 * Parameters of super() are    1. Context
 *                              2. Data Base Name.
 *                              3. Cursor Factory.
 *                              4. Data Base Version.
 */
public DataBaseHelperClass(Context context) {       
    super(context, DATABASE_NAME, null ,DATABASE_VERSION);
    this.context = context;
}

/**
 * Creates a empty database on the system and rewrites it with your own database.
 * By calling this method and empty database will be created into the default system path
 * of your application so we are gonna be able to overwrite that database with our database.
 * */
public void createDataBase() throws IOException{
    //check if the database exists
    boolean databaseExist = checkDataBase();

    if(databaseExist){
        // Do Nothing.
    }else{
        this.getWritableDatabase();         
        copyDataBase(); 
    }// end if else dbExist
} // end createDataBase().

/**
 * Check if the database already exist to avoid re-copying the file each time you open the application.
 * @return true if it exists, false if it doesn't
 */
public boolean checkDataBase(){
    File databaseFile = new File(DB_PATH + DATABASE_NAME);
    return databaseFile.exists();        
}

/**
 * Copies your database from your local assets-folder to the just created empty database in the
 * system folder, from where it can be accessed and handled.
 * This is done by transferring byte stream.
 * */
private void copyDataBase() throws IOException{ 
    //Open your local db as the input stream
    InputStream myInput = context.getAssets().open(DATABASE_NAME); 
    // Path to the just created empty db
    String outFileName = DB_PATH + DATABASE_NAME; 
    //Open the empty db as the output stream
    OutputStream myOutput = new FileOutputStream(outFileName); 
    //transfer bytes from the input file to the output file
    byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
    int length;
    while ((length = myInput.read(buffer))>0){
        myOutput.write(buffer, 0, length);
    }

    //Close the streams
    myOutput.flush();
    myOutput.close();
    myInput.close(); 
}

/**
 * This method opens the data base connection.
 * First it create the path up till data base of the device.
 * Then create connection with data base.
 */
public void openDataBase() throws SQLException{      
    //Open the database
    String myPath = DB_PATH + DATABASE_NAME;
    sqliteDataBase = SQLiteDatabase.openDatabase(myPath, null, SQLiteDatabase.OPEN_READWRITE);  
}

/**
 * This Method is used to close the data base connection.
 */
@Override
public synchronized void close() { 
    if(sqliteDataBase != null)
        sqliteDataBase.close(); 
    super.close(); 
}

/**
* Apply your methods and class to fetch data using raw or queries on data base using 
* following demo example code as:
*/
public String getUserNameFromDB(){
    String query = "select User_First_Name From "+TABLE_USER_DETAILS;
    Cursor cursor = sqliteDataBase.rawQuery(query, null);
    String userName = null;
    if(cursor.getCount()>0){
        if(cursor.moveToFirst()){
    do{
                userName = cursor.getString(0);
            }while (cursor.moveToNext());
        }
    }
    return userName;
}


@Override
public void onCreate(SQLiteDatabase db) {
    // No need to write the create table query.
    // As we are using Pre built data base.
    // Which is ReadOnly.
}

@Override
public void onUpgrade(SQLiteDatabase db, int oldVersion, int newVersion) {
    // No need to write the update table query.
    // As we are using Pre built data base.
    // Which is ReadOnly.
    // We should not update it as requirements of application.
}   
}

Hope this will help you...

create a white rgba / CSS3

I believe

rgba( 0, 0, 0, 0.8 )

is equivalent in shade with #333.

Live demo: http://jsfiddle.net/8MVC5/1/

Read a text file using Node.js?

IMHO, fs.readFile() should be avoided because it loads ALL the file in memory and it won't call the callback until all the file has been read.

The easiest way to read a text file is to read it line by line. I recommend a BufferedReader:

new BufferedReader ("file", { encoding: "utf8" })
    .on ("error", function (error){
        console.log ("error: " + error);
    })
    .on ("line", function (line){
        console.log ("line: " + line);
    })
    .on ("end", function (){
        console.log ("EOF");
    })
    .read ();

For complex data structures like .properties or json files you need to use a parser (internally it should also use a buffered reader).

adding child nodes in treeview

Example of adding child nodes:

private void AddExampleNodes()
        {
            TreeNode node;

            node = treeView1.Nodes.Add("Master node");
            node.Nodes.Add("Child node");
            node.Nodes.Add("Child node 2");

            node = treeView1.Nodes.Add("Master node 2");
            node.Nodes.Add("mychild");
            node.Nodes.Add("mychild");
        }

IPC performance: Named Pipe vs Socket

One problem with sockets is that they do not have a way to flush the buffer. There is something called the Nagle algorithm which collects all data and flushes it after 40ms. So if it is responsiveness and not bandwidth you might be better off with a pipe.

You can disable the Nagle with the socket option TCP_NODELAY but then the reading end will never receive two short messages in one single read call.

So test it, i ended up with none of this and implemented memory mapped based queues with pthread mutex and semaphore in shared memory, avoiding a lot of kernel system calls (but today they aren't very slow anymore).

How to install grunt and how to build script with it

I got the same issue, but i solved it with changing my Grunt.js to Gruntfile.js Check your file name before typing grunt.cmd on windows cmd (if you're using windows).

Use string in switch case in java

Evaluating String variables with a switch statement have been implemented in Java SE 7, and hence it only works in java 7. You can also have a look at how this new feature is implemented in JDK 7.

Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at

The server at x3.chatforyoursite.com needs to output the following header:

Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://www.example.com

Where http://www.example.com is your website address. You should check your settings on chatforyoursite.com to see if you can enable this - if not their technical support would probably be the best way to resolve this. However to answer your question, you need the remote site to allow your site to access AJAX responses client side.

Get RETURN value from stored procedure in SQL

This should work for you. Infact the one which you are thinking will also work:-

 .......
 DECLARE @returnvalue INT

 EXEC @returnvalue = SP_One
 .....

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

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

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

Constant pointer vs Pointer to constant

Please refer the following link for better understanding about the difference between Const pointer and Pointer on a constant value.

constant pointer vs pointer on a constant value

How to set the size of button in HTML

If using the following HTML:

<button id="submit-button"></button>

Style can be applied through JS using the style object available on an HTMLElement.

To set height and width to 200px of the above example button, this would be the JS:

var myButton = document.getElementById('submit-button');
myButton.style.height = '200px';
myButton.style.width= '200px';

I believe with this method, you are not directly writing CSS (inline or external), but using JavaScript to programmatically alter CSS Declarations.

Creating an Array from a Range in VBA

If we do it just like this:

Dim myArr as Variant
myArr = Range("A1:A10")

the new array will be with two dimensions. Which is not always somehow comfortable to work with:

enter image description here

To get away of the two dimensions, when getting a single column to array, we may use the built-in Excel function “Transpose”. With it, the data becomes in one dimension:

enter image description here

If we have the data in a row, a single transpose will not do the job. We need to use the Transpose function twice:

enter image description here

Note: As you see from the screenshots, when generated this way, arrays start with 1, not with 0. Just be a bit careful.

Check if selected dropdown value is empty using jQuery

You need to use .change() event as well as using # to target element by id:

$('#EventStartTimeMin').change(function() {
    if($(this).val()===""){ 
        console.log('empty');    
    }
});

Fiddle Demo

How to find a value in an array of objects in JavaScript?

var getKeyByDinner = function(obj, dinner) {
    var returnKey = -1;

    $.each(obj, function(key, info) {
        if (info.dinner == dinner) {
           returnKey = key;
           return false; 
        };   
    });

    return returnKey;       

}

jsFiddle.

So long as -1 isn't ever a valid key.

Bundle ID Suffix? What is it?

If you don't have a company, leave your name, it doesn't matter as long as both bundle id in info.plist file and the one you've submitted in iTunes Connect match.

In Bundle ID Suffix you should write full name of bundle ID.

Example:

Bundle ID suffix = thebestapp (NOT CORRECT!!!!)

Bundle ID suffix = com.awesomeapps.thebestapp (CORRECT!!)

The reason for this is explained in the Developer Portal:

The App ID string contains two parts separated by a period (.) — an App ID Prefix (your Team ID by default, e.g. ABCDE12345), and an App ID Suffix (a Bundle ID search string, e.g. com.mycompany.appname). [emphasis added]

So in this case the suffix is the full string com.awesomeapps.thebestapp.

How to cast an object in Objective-C

Casting for inclusion is just as important as casting for exclusion for a C++ programmer. Type casting is not the same as with RTTI in the sense that you can cast an object to any type and the resulting pointer will not be nil.

How to compare pointers?

To sum up. If we want to see if two pointers point to the same memory location we can do that. Also if we want to compare the contents of the memory pointed to by two pointers we can do that too, just remeber to dereference them first.

If we have

int *a = something; 
int *b = something;

which are two pointers of the same type we can:

Compare memory address:

a==b

and compare contents:

*a==*b

How to list all the files in android phone by using adb shell?

just to add the full command:

adb shell ls -R | grep filename

this is actually a pretty fast lookup on Android

C#: HttpClient with POST parameters

As Ben said, you are POSTing your request ( HttpMethod.Post specified in your code )

The querystring (get) parameters included in your url probably will not do anything.

Try this:

string url = "http://myserver/method";    
string content = "param1=1&param2=2";
HttpClientHandler handler = new HttpClientHandler();
HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient(handler);
HttpRequestMessage request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, url);
HttpResponseMessage response = await httpClient.SendAsync(request,content);

HTH,

bovako

Easier way to debug a Windows service

This YouTube video by Fabio Scopel explains how to debug a Windows service quite nicely... the actual method of doing it starts at 4:45 in the video...

Here is the code explained in the video... in your Program.cs file, add the stuff for the Debug section...

namespace YourNamespace
{
    static class Program
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// The main entry point for the application.
        /// </summary>
        static void Main()
        {
#if DEBUG
            Service1 myService = new Service1();
            myService.OnDebug();
            System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(System.Threading.Timeout.Infinite);
#else
            ServiceBase[] ServicesToRun;
            ServicesToRun = new ServiceBase[]
            {
                new Service1()
            };
            ServiceBase.Run(ServicesToRun);
#endif

        }
    }
}

In your Service1.cs file, add the OnDebug() method...

    public Service1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    public void OnDebug()
    {
        OnStart(null);
    }

    protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
    {
        // your code to do something
    }

    protected override void OnStop()
    {
    }

How it works

Basically you have to create a public void OnDebug() that calls the OnStart(string[] args) as it's protected and not accessible outside. The void Main() program is added with #if preprocessor with #DEBUG.

Visual Studio defines DEBUG if project is compiled in Debug mode.This will allow the debug section(below) to execute when the condition is true

Service1 myService = new Service1();
myService.OnDebug();
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(System.Threading.Timeout.Infinite);

And it will run just like a console application, once things go OK you can change the mode Release and the regular else section will trigger the logic

How to show all shared libraries used by executables in Linux?

Check shared library dependencies of a program executable

To find out what libraries a particular executable depends on, you can use ldd command. This command invokes dynamic linker to find out library dependencies of an executable.

> $ ldd /path/to/program

Note that it is NOT recommended to run ldd with any untrusted third-party executable because some versions of ldd may directly invoke the executable to identify its library dependencies, which can be security risk.

Instead, a safer way to show library dependencies of an unknown application binary is to use the following command.

$ objdump -p /path/to/program | grep NEEDED

for more info

What does $_ mean in PowerShell?

$_ is an alias for automatic variable $PSItem (introduced in PowerShell V3.0; Usage information found here) which represents the current item from the pipe.

PowerShell (v6.0) online documentation for automatic variables is here.

How to validate GUID is a GUID

There is no guarantee that a GUID contains alpha characters. FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF is a valid GUID so is 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 and anything in between.

If you are using .NET 4.0, you can use the answer above for the Guid.Parse and Guid.TryParse. Otherwise, you can do something like this:

public static bool TryParseGuid(string guidString, out Guid guid)
{
    if (guidString == null) throw new ArgumentNullException("guidString");
    try
    {
        guid = new Guid(guidString);
        return true;
    }
    catch (FormatException)
    {
        guid = default(Guid);
        return false;
    }
}

How to set up a Web API controller for multipart/form-data

This is what solved my problem
Add the following line to WebApiConfig.cs

config.Formatters.XmlFormatter.SupportedMediaTypes.Add(new System.Net.Http.Headers.MediaTypeHeaderValue("multipart/form-data"));

Using `window.location.hash.includes` throws “Object doesn't support property or method 'includes'” in IE11

According to the MDN reference page, includes is not supported on Internet Explorer. The simplest alternative is to use indexOf, like this:

if(window.location.hash.indexOf("?") >= 0) {
    ...
}

Android - Dynamically Add Views into View

To make @Mark Fisher's answer more clear, the inserted view being inflated should be a xml file under layout folder but without a layout (ViewGroup) like LinearLayout etc. inside. My example:

res/layout/my_view.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/i_am_id"
    android:text="my name"
    android:textSize="17sp"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_weight="1"/>

Then, the insertion point should be a layout like LinearLayout:

res/layout/activity_main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/aaa"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/insert_point"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent">

    </LinearLayout>

</RelativeLayout>

Then the code should be

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_shopping_cart);

    LayoutInflater inflater = getLayoutInflater();
    View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.my_view, null);
    ViewGroup main = (ViewGroup) findViewById(R.id.insert_point);
    main.addView(view, 0);
}

The reason I post this very similar answer is that when I tried to implement Mark's solution, I got stuck on what xml file should I use for insert_point and the child view. I used layout in the child view firstly and it was totally not working, which took me several hours to figure out. So hope my exploration can save others' time.

laravel Unable to prepare route ... for serialization. Uses Closure

the solustion when we use routes like this:

Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('welcome');
});

laravel call them Closure so you cant optimize routes uses as Closures you must route to controller to use php artisan optimize

What is an AssertionError? In which case should I throw it from my own code?

AssertionError is an Unchecked Exception which rises explicitly by programmer or by API Developer to indicate that assert statement fails.

assert(x>10);

Output:

AssertionError

If x is not greater than 10 then you will get runtime exception saying AssertionError.

How to make padding:auto work in CSS?

The simplest supported solution is to either use margin

.element {
  display: block;
  margin: 0px auto;
}

Or use a second container around the element that has this margin applied. This will somewhat have the effect of padding: 0px auto if it did exist.

CSS

.element_wrapper {
  display: block;
  margin: 0px auto;
}
.element {
  background: blue;
}

HTML

<div class="element_wrapper">
  <div class="element">
    Hello world
  </div>
</div>

Changing a specific column name in pandas DataFrame

A one liner does exist:

In [27]: df=df.rename(columns = {'two':'new_name'})

In [28]: df
Out[28]: 
  one three  new_name
0    1     a         9
1    2     b         8
2    3     c         7
3    4     d         6
4    5     e         5

Following is the docstring for the rename method.

Definition: df.rename(self, index=None, columns=None, copy=True, inplace=False)
Docstring:
Alter index and / or columns using input function or
functions. Function / dict values must be unique (1-to-1). Labels not
contained in a dict / Series will be left as-is.

Parameters
----------
index : dict-like or function, optional
    Transformation to apply to index values
columns : dict-like or function, optional
    Transformation to apply to column values
copy : boolean, default True
    Also copy underlying data
inplace : boolean, default False
    Whether to return a new DataFrame. If True then value of copy is
    ignored.

See also
--------
Series.rename

Returns
-------
renamed : DataFrame (new object)

Best practice to call ConfigureAwait for all server-side code

Brief answer to your question: No. You shouldn't call ConfigureAwait(false) at the application level like that.

TL;DR version of the long answer: If you are writing a library where you don't know your consumer and don't need a synchronization context (which you shouldn't in a library I believe), you should always use ConfigureAwait(false). Otherwise, the consumers of your library may face deadlocks by consuming your asynchronous methods in a blocking fashion. This depends on the situation.

Here is a bit more detailed explanation on the importance of ConfigureAwait method (a quote from my blog post):

When you are awaiting on a method with await keyword, compiler generates bunch of code in behalf of you. One of the purposes of this action is to handle synchronization with the UI (or main) thread. The key component of this feature is the SynchronizationContext.Current which gets the synchronization context for the current thread. SynchronizationContext.Current is populated depending on the environment you are in. The GetAwaiter method of Task looks up for SynchronizationContext.Current. If current synchronization context is not null, the continuation that gets passed to that awaiter will get posted back to that synchronization context.

When consuming a method, which uses the new asynchronous language features, in a blocking fashion, you will end up with a deadlock if you have an available SynchronizationContext. When you are consuming such methods in a blocking fashion (waiting on the Task with Wait method or taking the result directly from the Result property of the Task), you will block the main thread at the same time. When eventually the Task completes inside that method in the threadpool, it is going to invoke the continuation to post back to the main thread because SynchronizationContext.Current is available and captured. But there is a problem here: the UI thread is blocked and you have a deadlock!

Also, here are two great articles for you which are exactly for your question:

Finally, there is a great short video from Lucian Wischik exactly on this topic: Async library methods should consider using Task.ConfigureAwait(false).

Hope this helps.

Can a Windows batch file determine its own file name?

You can get the file name, but you can also get the full path, depending what you place between the '%~' and the '0'. Take your pick from

d -- drive
p -- path
n -- file name
x -- extension
f -- full path

E.g., from inside c:\tmp\foo.bat, %~nx0 gives you "foo.bat", whilst %~dpnx0 gives "c:\tmp\foo.bat". Note the pieces are always assembled in canonical order, so if you get cute and try %~xnpd0, you still get "c:\tmp\foo.bat"

Docker Compose wait for container X before starting Y

Not recommended for serious deployments, but here is essentially a "wait x seconds" command.

With docker-compose version 3.4 a start_period instruction has been added to healthcheck. This means we can do the following:

docker-compose.yml:

version: "3.4"
services:
  # your server docker container
  zmq_server:
    build:
      context: ./server_router_router
      dockerfile: Dockerfile

  # container that has to wait
  zmq_client:
    build:
      context: ./client_dealer/
      dockerfile: Dockerfile
    depends_on:
      - zmq_server
    healthcheck:
      test: "sh status.sh"
      start_period: 5s

status.sh:

#!/bin/sh

exit 0

What happens here is that the healthcheck is invoked after 5 seconds. This calls the status.sh script, which always returns "No problem". We just made zmq_client container wait 5 seconds before starting!

Note: It's important that you have version: "3.4". If the .4 is not there, docker-compose complains.

How to compare Boolean?

Try this:

if (Boolean.TRUE.equals(yourValue)) { ... }

As additional benefit this is null-safe.

What is the return value of os.system() in Python?

The return value of os.system is OS-dependant.

On Unix, the return value is a 16-bit number that contains two different pieces of information. From the documentation:

a 16-bit number, whose low byte is the signal number that killed the process, and whose high byte is the exit status (if the signal number is zero)

So if the signal number (low byte) is 0, it would, in theory, be safe to shift the result by 8 bits (result >> 8) to get the error code. The function os.WEXITSTATUS does exactly this. If the error code is 0, that usually means that the process exited without errors.

On Windows, the documentation specifies that the return value of os.system is shell-dependant. If the shell is cmd.exe (the default one), the value is the return code of the process. Again, 0 would mean that there weren't errors.

For others error codes:

Clear Application's Data Programmatically

I'm just putting the tutorial from the link ihrupin posted here in this post.

package com.hrupin.cleaner;

import java.io.File;

import android.app.Application;
import android.util.Log;

public class MyApplication extends Application {

    private static MyApplication instance;

    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
        super.onCreate();
        instance = this;
    }

    public static MyApplication getInstance() {
        return instance;
    }

    public void clearApplicationData() {
        File cacheDirectory = getCacheDir();
        File applicationDirectory = new File(cacheDirectory.getParent());
        if (applicationDirectory.exists()) {
            String[] fileNames = applicationDirectory.list();
            for (String fileName : fileNames) {
                if (!fileName.equals("lib")) {
                    deleteFile(new File(applicationDirectory, fileName));
                }
            }
        }
    }

    public static boolean deleteFile(File file) {
        boolean deletedAll = true;
        if (file != null) {
            if (file.isDirectory()) {
                String[] children = file.list();
                for (int i = 0; i < children.length; i++) {
                    deletedAll = deleteFile(new File(file, children[i])) && deletedAll;
                }
            } else {
                deletedAll = file.delete();
            }
        }

        return deletedAll;
    }
}

So if you want a button to do this you need to call MyApplication.getInstance(). clearApplicationData() from within an onClickListener

Update: Your SharedPreferences instance might hold onto your data and recreate the preferences file after you delete it. So your going to want to get your SharedPreferences object and

prefs.edit().clear().commit();

Update:

You need to add android:name="your.package.MyApplication" to the application tag inside AndroidManifest.xml if you had not done so. Else, MyApplication.getInstance() returns null, resulting a NullPointerException.

Consider marking event handler as 'passive' to make the page more responsive

For jquery-ui-dragable with jquery-ui-touch-punch I fixed it similar to Iván Rodríguez, but with one more event override for touchmove:

jQuery.event.special.touchstart = {
    setup: function( _, ns, handle ) {
        this.addEventListener('touchstart', handle, { passive: !ns.includes('noPreventDefault') });
    }
};
jQuery.event.special.touchmove = {
    setup: function( _, ns, handle ) {
        this.addEventListener('touchmove', handle, { passive: !ns.includes('noPreventDefault') });
    }
};

jQuery select child element by class with unknown path

According to this documentation, the find method will search down through the tree of elements until it finds the element in the selector parameters. So $(parentSelector).find(childSelector) is the fastest and most efficient way to do this.

How can I select the record with the 2nd highest salary in database Oracle?

This query helps me every time for problems like this. Replace N with position..

select *
from(
     select *
     from (select * from TABLE_NAME order by SALARY_COLUMN desc)
     where rownum <=N
    )
where SALARY_COLUMN <= all(
                select SALARY_COLUMN
                from (select * from TABLE_NAME order by SALARY_COLUMN desc)
                where rownum <=N
               );

How to parse a date?

We now have a more modern way to do this work.

java.time

The java.time framework is bundled with Java 8 and later. See Tutorial. These new classes are inspired by Joda-Time, defined by JSR 310, and extended by the ThreeTen-Extra project. They are a vast improvement over the troublesome old classes, java.util.Date/.Calendar et al.

Note that the 3-4 letter codes like EDT are neither standardized nor unique. Avoid them whenever possible. Learn to use ISO 8601 standard formats instead. The java.time framework may take a stab at translating, but many of the commonly used codes have duplicate values.

By the way, note how java.time by default generates strings using the ISO 8601 formats but extended by appending the name of the time zone in brackets.

String input = "Thu Jun 18 20:56:02 EDT 2009";
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern ( "EEE MMM d HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy" , Locale.ENGLISH );
ZonedDateTime zdt = formatter.parse ( input , ZonedDateTime :: from );

Dump to console.

System.out.println ( "zdt : " + zdt );

When run.

zdt : 2009-06-18T20:56:02-04:00[America/New_York]

Adjust Time Zone

For fun let's adjust to the India time zone.

ZonedDateTime zdtKolkata = zdt.withZoneSameInstant ( ZoneId.of ( "Asia/Kolkata" ) );

zdtKolkata : 2009-06-19T06:26:02+05:30[Asia/Kolkata]

Convert to j.u.Date

If you really need a java.util.Date object for use with classes not yet updated to the java.time types, convert. Note that you are losing the assigned time zone, but have the same moment automatically adjusted to UTC.

java.util.Date date = java.util.Date.from( zdt.toInstant() );

Woocommerce get products

Always use tax_query to get posts/products from a particular category or any other taxonomy. You can also get the products using ID/slug of particular taxonomy...

$the_query = new WP_Query( array(
    'post_type' => 'product',
    'tax_query' => array(
        array (
            'taxonomy' => 'product_cat',
            'field' => 'slug',
            'terms' => 'accessories',
        )
    ),
) );

while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) :
    $the_query->the_post();
    the_title(); echo "<br>";
endwhile;


wp_reset_postdata();

How to get the parents of a Python class?

If you want all the ancestors rather than just the immediate ones, use inspect.getmro:

import inspect
print inspect.getmro(cls)

Usefully, this gives you all ancestor classes in the "method resolution order" -- i.e. the order in which the ancestors will be checked when resolving a method (or, actually, any other attribute -- methods and other attributes live in the same namespace in Python, after all;-).

JFrame: How to disable window resizing?

Simply write one line in the constructor:

setResizable(false);

This will make it impossible to resize the frame.

How to recover Git objects damaged by hard disk failure?

Try the following commands at first (re-run again if needed):

$ git fsck --full
$ git gc
$ git gc --prune=today
$ git fetch --all
$ git pull --rebase

And then you you still have the problems, try can:

  • remove all the corrupt objects, e.g.

    fatal: loose object 91c5...51e5 (stored in .git/objects/06/91c5...51e5) is corrupt
    $ rm -v .git/objects/06/91c5...51e5
    
  • remove all the empty objects, e.g.

    error: object file .git/objects/06/91c5...51e5 is empty
    $ find .git/objects/ -size 0 -exec rm -vf "{}" \;
    
  • check a "broken link" message by:

    git ls-tree 2d9263c6d23595e7cb2a21e5ebbb53655278dff8
    

    This will tells you what file the corrupt blob came from!

  • to recover file, you might be really lucky, and it may be the version that you already have checked out in your working tree:

    git hash-object -w my-magic-file
    

    again, and if it outputs the missing SHA1 (4b945..) you're now all done!

  • assuming that it was some older version that was broken, the easiest way to do it is to do:

    git log --raw --all --full-history -- subdirectory/my-magic-file
    

    and that will show you the whole log for that file (please realize that the tree you had may not be the top-level tree, so you need to figure out which subdirectory it was in on your own), then you can now recreate the missing object with hash-object again.

  • to get a list of all refs with missing commits, trees or blobs:

    $ git for-each-ref --format='%(refname)' | while read ref; do git rev-list --objects $ref >/dev/null || echo "in $ref"; done
    

    It may not be possible to remove some of those refs using the regular branch -d or tag -d commands, since they will die if git notices the corruption. So use the plumbing command git update-ref -d $ref instead. Note that in case of local branches, this command may leave stale branch configuration behind in .git/config. It can be deleted manually (look for the [branch "$ref"] section).

  • After all refs are clean, there may still be broken commits in the reflog. You can clear all reflogs using git reflog expire --expire=now --all. If you do not want to lose all of your reflogs, you can search the individual refs for broken reflogs:

    $ (echo HEAD; git for-each-ref --format='%(refname)') | while read ref; do git rev-list -g --objects $ref >/dev/null || echo "in $ref"; done
    

    (Note the added -g option to git rev-list.) Then, use git reflog expire --expire=now $ref on each of those. When all broken refs and reflogs are gone, run git fsck --full in order to check that the repository is clean. Dangling objects are Ok.


Below you can find advanced usage of commands which potentially can cause lost of your data in your git repository if not used wisely, so make a backup before you accidentally do further damages to your git. Try on your own risk if you know what you're doing.


To pull the current branch on top of the upstream branch after fetching:

$ git pull --rebase

You also may try to checkout new branch and delete the old one:

$ git checkout -b new_master origin/master

To find the corrupted object in git for removal, try the following command:

while [ true ]; do f=`git fsck --full 2>&1|awk '{print $3}'|sed -r 's/(^..)(.*)/objects\/\1\/\2/'`; if [ ! -f "$f" ]; then break; fi; echo delete $f; rm -f "$f"; done

For OSX, use sed -E instead of sed -r.


Other idea is to unpack all objects from pack files to regenerate all objects inside .git/objects, so try to run the following commands within your repository:

$ cp -fr .git/objects/pack .git/objects/pack.bak
$ for i in .git/objects/pack.bak/*.pack; do git unpack-objects -r < $i; done
$ rm -frv .git/objects/pack.bak

If above doesn't help, you may try to rsync or copy the git objects from another repo, e.g.

$ rsync -varu git_server:/path/to/git/.git local_git_repo/
$ rsync -varu /local/path/to/other-working/git/.git local_git_repo/
$ cp -frv ../other_repo/.git/objects .git/objects

To fix the broken branch when trying to checkout as follows:

$ git checkout -f master
fatal: unable to read tree 5ace24d474a9535ddd5e6a6c6a1ef480aecf2625

Try to remove it and checkout from upstream again:

$ git branch -D master
$ git checkout -b master github/master

In case if git get you into detached state, checkout the master and merge into it the detached branch.


Another idea is to rebase the existing master recursively:

$ git reset HEAD --hard
$ git rebase -s recursive -X theirs origin/master

See also:

Echo a blank (empty) line to the console from a Windows batch file

Any of the below three options works for you:

echo[

echo(

echo. 

For example:

@echo off
echo There will be a blank line below
echo[
echo Above line is blank
echo( 
echo The above line is also blank.
echo. 
echo The above line is also blank.

Create array of regex matches

        Set<String> keyList = new HashSet();
        Pattern regex = Pattern.compile("#\\{(.*?)\\}");
        Matcher matcher = regex.matcher("Content goes here");
        while(matcher.find()) {
            keyList.add(matcher.group(1)); 
        }
        return keyList;

Selenium Error - The HTTP request to the remote WebDriver timed out after 60 seconds

Arrrgh! Faced this on macOS today and the issue was as simple as - the pop-up window suggesting to install the new Appium version was showing on the remote CI build server.

Just VNC'ing to it and clicking "Install later" fixed it.

Why calling react setState method doesn't mutate the state immediately?

Simply putting - this.setState({data: value}) is asynchronous in nature that means it moves out of the Call Stack and only comes back to the Call Stack unless it is resolved.

Please read about Event Loop to have a clear picture about Asynchronous nature in JS and why it takes time to update -

https://medium.com/front-end-weekly/javascript-event-loop-explained-4cd26af121d4

Hence -

    this.setState({data:value});
    console.log(this.state.data); // will give undefined or unupdated value

as it takes time to update. To achieve the above process -

    this.setState({data:value},function () {
     console.log(this.state.data);
    });

Avoiding "resource is out of sync with the filesystem"

For the new Indigo version, the Preferences change to "Refresh on access", and with a detail explanation : Automatically refresh external workspace changes on access via the workspace.

As “resource is out of sync with the filesystem” this problem happens when I use external workspace, so after I select this option, problem solved.

performSelector may cause a leak because its selector is unknown

In your project Build Settings, under Other Warning Flags (WARNING_CFLAGS), add
-Wno-arc-performSelector-leaks

Now just make sure that the selector you are calling does not cause your object to be retained or copied.

How to vertically center a <span> inside a div?

To the parent div add a height say 50px. In the child span, add the line-height: 50px; Now the text in the span will be vertically center. This worked for me.

Performance differences between ArrayList and LinkedList

I want to add an additional piece of information her about the difference in performance.

We already know that due to the fact that ArrayList implementation is backed by an Object[] it's supports random access and dynamic resizing and LinkedList implementation uses references to head and tail to navigate it. It has no random access capabilities, but it supports dynamic resizing as well.

The first thing is that with an ArrayList, you can immediately access the index, whereas with a LinkedList, you have iterate down the object chain.

Secondly, inserting into ArrayList is generally slower because it has to grow once you hit its boundaries. It will have to create a new bigger array, and copy data from the original one.

But the interesting thing is that when you create an ArrayList that is already huge enough to fit all your inserts it will obviously not involve any array copying operations. Adding to it will be even faster than with LinkedList because LinkedList will have to deal with its pointers, while huge ArrayList just sets value at given index.

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Check out for more ArrayList and LinkedList differences.

How to randomly select rows in SQL?

In case someone wants a PostgreSQL solution:

select id, name
from customer
order by random()
limit 5;

How to resolve "local edit, incoming delete upon update" message

Try to resolve the conflict using

svn resolve --accept=working PATH

How do you add a timer to a C# console application

Here is the code to create a simple one second timer tick:

  using System;
  using System.Threading;

  class TimerExample
  {
      static public void Tick(Object stateInfo)
      {
          Console.WriteLine("Tick: {0}", DateTime.Now.ToString("h:mm:ss"));
      }

      static void Main()
      {
          TimerCallback callback = new TimerCallback(Tick);

          Console.WriteLine("Creating timer: {0}\n", 
                             DateTime.Now.ToString("h:mm:ss"));

          // create a one second timer tick
          Timer stateTimer = new Timer(callback, null, 0, 1000);

          // loop here forever
          for (; ; )
          {
              // add a sleep for 100 mSec to reduce CPU usage
              Thread.Sleep(100);
          }
      }
  }

And here is the resulting output:

    c:\temp>timer.exe
    Creating timer: 5:22:40

    Tick: 5:22:40
    Tick: 5:22:41
    Tick: 5:22:42
    Tick: 5:22:43
    Tick: 5:22:44
    Tick: 5:22:45
    Tick: 5:22:46
    Tick: 5:22:47

EDIT: It is never a good idea to add hard spin loops into code as they consume CPU cycles for no gain. In this case that loop was added just to stop the application from closing, allowing the actions of the thread to be observed. But for the sake of correctness and to reduce the CPU usage a simple Sleep call was added to that loop.

How to strip HTML tags from string in JavaScript?

cleanText = strInputCode.replace(/<\/?[^>]+(>|$)/g, "");

Distilled from this website (web.achive).

This regex looks for <, an optional slash /, one or more characters that are not >, then either > or $ (the end of the line)

Examples:

'<div>Hello</div>' ==> 'Hello'
 ^^^^^     ^^^^^^
'Unterminated Tag <b' ==> 'Unterminated Tag '
                  ^^

But it is not bulletproof:

'If you are < 13 you cannot register' ==> 'If you are '
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
'<div data="score > 42">Hello</div>' ==> ' 42">Hello'
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^          ^^^^^^

If someone is trying to break your application, this regex will not protect you. It should only be used if you already know the format of your input. As other knowledgable and mostly sane people have pointed out, to safely strip tags, you must use a parser.

If you do not have acccess to a convenient parser like the DOM, and you cannot trust your input to be in the right format, you may be better off using a package like sanitize-html, and also other sanitizers are available.

How to use adb pull command?

I don't think adb pull handles wildcards for multiple files. I ran into the same problem and did this by moving the files to a folder and then pulling the folder.

I found a link doing the same thing. Try following these steps.

How to copy selected files from Android with adb pull

TypeError: 'in <string>' requires string as left operand, not int

You simply need to make cab a string:

cab = '6176'

As the error message states, you cannot do <int> in <string>:

>>> 1 in '123'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'in <string>' requires string as left operand, not int
>>> 

because integers and strings are two totally different things and Python does not embrace implicit type conversion ("Explicit is better than implicit.").

In fact, Python only allows you to use the in operator with a right operand of type string if the left operand is also of type string:

>>> '1' in '123'  # Works!
True
>>>
>>> [] in '123'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'in <string>' requires string as left operand, not list
>>>
>>> 1.0 in '123'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'in <string>' requires string as left operand, not float
>>>
>>> {} in '123'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'in <string>' requires string as left operand, not dict
>>>

Javascript document.getElementById("id").value returning null instead of empty string when the element is an empty text box

try this...    
<script type="text/javascript">
    function test(){
    var av=document.getElementById("mytext").value;
    alert(av);
    }
    </script>

    <input type="text" value="" id="mytext">
    <input type="button" onclick="test()" value="go" />

set font size in jquery

Not saying this is better, just another way:

$("#elem")[0].style.fontSize="20px";

How do I select between the 1st day of the current month and current day in MySQL?

select * from <table>
where <dateValue> between last_day(curdate() - interval 1 month + interval 1 day)
                  and curdate();

pandas dataframe convert column type to string or categorical

Prior answers focused on nominal data (e.g. unordered). If there is a reason to impose order for an ordinal variable, then one would use:

# Transform to category
df['zipcode_category'] = df['zipcode_category'].astype('category')

# Add ordered category
df['zipcode_ordered'] = df['zipcode_category']

# Setup the ordering
df.zipcode_ordered.cat.set_categories(
    new_categories = [90211, 90210], ordered = True, inplace = True
)

# Output IDs
df['zipcode_ordered_id'] = df.zipcode_ordered.cat.codes
print(df)
#  zipcode_category zipcode_ordered  zipcode_ordered_id
#            90210           90210                   1
#            90211           90211                   0

More details on setting ordered categories can be found at the pandas website:

https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/user_guide/categorical.html#sorting-and-order

MySQL JDBC Driver 5.1.33 - Time Zone Issue

I have added the following line to my /etc/mysql/my.cnf file:

default_time_zone='+00:00'

Restarted the MySQL server:

systemctl restart mysql

And it works like a charm.

mongodb how to get max value from collections

You can also achieve this through aggregate pipeline.

db.collection.aggregate([{$sort:{age:-1}}, {$limit:1}])

how does multiplication differ for NumPy Matrix vs Array classes?

Reference from http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/tutorial/linalg.html

..., the use of the numpy.matrix class is discouraged, since it adds nothing that cannot be accomplished with 2D numpy.ndarray objects, and may lead to a confusion of which class is being used. For example,

>>> import numpy as np
>>> from scipy import linalg
>>> A = np.array([[1,2],[3,4]])
>>> A
    array([[1, 2],
           [3, 4]])
>>> linalg.inv(A)
array([[-2. ,  1. ],
      [ 1.5, -0.5]])
>>> b = np.array([[5,6]]) #2D array
>>> b
array([[5, 6]])
>>> b.T
array([[5],
      [6]])
>>> A*b #not matrix multiplication!
array([[ 5, 12],
      [15, 24]])
>>> A.dot(b.T) #matrix multiplication
array([[17],
      [39]])
>>> b = np.array([5,6]) #1D array
>>> b
array([5, 6])
>>> b.T  #not matrix transpose!
array([5, 6])
>>> A.dot(b)  #does not matter for multiplication
array([17, 39])

scipy.linalg operations can be applied equally to numpy.matrix or to 2D numpy.ndarray objects.

How can I easily convert DataReader to List<T>?

I know this question is old, and already answered, but...

Since SqlDataReader already implements IEnumerable, why is there a need to create a loop over the records?

I've been using the method below without any issues, nor without any performance issues: So far I have tested with IList, List(Of T), IEnumerable, IEnumerable(Of T), IQueryable, and IQueryable(Of T)

Imports System.Data.SqlClient
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Threading.Tasks

Public Class DataAccess
Implements IDisposable

#Region "   Properties  "

''' <summary>
''' Set the Query Type
''' </summary>
''' <value></value>
''' <remarks></remarks>
Public WriteOnly Property QueryType() As CmdType
    Set(ByVal value As CmdType)
        _QT = value
    End Set
End Property
Private _QT As CmdType

''' <summary>
''' Set the query to run
''' </summary>
''' <value></value>
''' <remarks></remarks>
Public WriteOnly Property Query() As String
    Set(ByVal value As String)
        _Qry = value
    End Set
End Property
Private _Qry As String

''' <summary>
''' Set the parameter names
''' </summary>
''' <value></value>
''' <remarks></remarks>
Public WriteOnly Property ParameterNames() As Object
    Set(ByVal value As Object)
        _PNs = value
    End Set
End Property
Private _PNs As Object

''' <summary>
''' Set the parameter values
''' </summary>
''' <value></value>
''' <remarks></remarks>
Public WriteOnly Property ParameterValues() As Object
    Set(ByVal value As Object)
        _PVs = value
    End Set
End Property
Private _PVs As Object

''' <summary>
''' Set the parameter data type
''' </summary>
''' <value></value>
''' <remarks></remarks>
Public WriteOnly Property ParameterDataTypes() As DataType()
    Set(ByVal value As DataType())
        _DTs = value
    End Set
End Property
Private _DTs As DataType()

''' <summary>
''' Check if there are parameters, before setting them
''' </summary>
''' <value></value>
''' <returns></returns>
''' <remarks></remarks>
Private ReadOnly Property AreParams() As Boolean
    Get
        If (IsArray(_PVs) And IsArray(_PNs)) Then
            If (_PVs.GetUpperBound(0) = _PNs.GetUpperBound(0)) Then
                Return True
            Else
                Return False
            End If
        Else
            Return False
        End If
    End Get
End Property

''' <summary>
''' Set our dynamic connection string
''' </summary>
''' <value></value>
''' <returns></returns>
''' <remarks></remarks>
Private ReadOnly Property _ConnString() As String
    Get
        If System.Diagnostics.Debugger.IsAttached OrElse My.Settings.AttachToBeta OrElse Not (Common.CheckPaid) Then
            Return My.Settings.DevConnString
        Else
            Return My.Settings.TurboKitsv2ConnectionString
        End If
    End Get
End Property

Private _Rdr As SqlDataReader
Private _Conn As SqlConnection
Private _Cmd As SqlCommand

#End Region

#Region "   Methods "

''' <summary>
''' Fire us up!
''' </summary>
''' <remarks></remarks>
Public Sub New()
    Parallel.Invoke(Sub()
                        _Conn = New SqlConnection(_ConnString)
                    End Sub,
                    Sub()
                        _Cmd = New SqlCommand
                    End Sub)
End Sub

''' <summary>
''' Get our results
''' </summary>
''' <returns></returns>
''' <remarks></remarks>
Public Function GetResults() As SqlDataReader
    Try
        Parallel.Invoke(Sub()
                            If AreParams Then
                                PrepareParams(_Cmd)
                            End If
                            _Cmd.Connection = _Conn
                            _Cmd.CommandType = _QT
                            _Cmd.CommandText = _Qry
                            _Cmd.Connection.Open()
                            _Rdr = _Cmd.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior.CloseConnection)
                        End Sub)
        If _Rdr.HasRows Then
            Return _Rdr
        Else
            Return Nothing
        End If
    Catch sEx As SqlException
        Return Nothing
    Catch ex As Exception
        Return Nothing
    End Try
End Function

''' <summary>
''' Prepare our parameters
''' </summary>
''' <param name="objCmd"></param>
''' <remarks></remarks>
Private Sub PrepareParams(ByVal objCmd As Object)
    Try
        Dim _DataSize As Long
        Dim _PCt As Integer = _PVs.GetUpperBound(0)

        For i As Long = 0 To _PCt
            If IsArray(_DTs) Then
                Select Case _DTs(i)
                    Case 0, 33, 6, 9, 13, 19
                        _DataSize = 8
                    Case 1, 3, 7, 10, 12, 21, 22, 23, 25
                        _DataSize = Len(_PVs(i))
                    Case 2, 20
                        _DataSize = 1
                    Case 5
                        _DataSize = 17
                    Case 8, 17, 15
                        _DataSize = 4
                    Case 14
                        _DataSize = 16
                    Case 31
                        _DataSize = 3
                    Case 32
                        _DataSize = 5
                    Case 16
                        _DataSize = 2
                    Case 15
                End Select
                objCmd.Parameters.Add(_PNs(i), _DTs(i), _DataSize).Value = _PVs(i)
            Else
                objCmd.Parameters.AddWithValue(_PNs(i), _PVs(i))
            End If
        Next
    Catch ex As Exception
    End Try
End Sub

#End Region

#Region "IDisposable Support"

Private disposedValue As Boolean ' To detect redundant calls

' IDisposable
Protected Overridable Sub Dispose(ByVal disposing As Boolean)
    If Not Me.disposedValue Then
        If disposing Then
        End If
        Try
            Erase _PNs : Erase _PVs : Erase _DTs
            _Qry = String.Empty
            _Rdr.Close()
            _Rdr.Dispose()
            _Cmd.Parameters.Clear()
            _Cmd.Connection.Close()
            _Conn.Close()
            _Cmd.Dispose()
            _Conn.Dispose()
        Catch ex As Exception

        End Try
    End If
    Me.disposedValue = True
End Sub

' TODO: override Finalize() only if Dispose(ByVal disposing As Boolean) above has code to free unmanaged resources.
Protected Overrides Sub Finalize()
    ' Do not change this code.  Put cleanup code in Dispose(ByVal disposing As Boolean) above.
    Dispose(False)
    MyBase.Finalize()
End Sub

' This code added by Visual Basic to correctly implement the disposable pattern.
Public Sub Dispose() Implements IDisposable.Dispose
    ' Do not change this code.  Put cleanup code in Dispose(ByVal disposing As Boolean) above.
    Dispose(True)
    GC.SuppressFinalize(Me)
End Sub

#End Region

End Class

Strong Typing Class

Public Class OrderDCTyping
    Public Property OrderID As Long = 0
    Public Property OrderTrackingNumber As String = String.Empty
    Public Property OrderShipped As Boolean = False
    Public Property OrderShippedOn As Date = Nothing
    Public Property OrderPaid As Boolean = False
    Public Property OrderPaidOn As Date = Nothing
    Public Property TransactionID As String
End Class

Usage

Public Function GetCurrentOrders() As IEnumerable(Of OrderDCTyping)
    Try
        Using db As New DataAccess
            With db
                .QueryType = CmdType.StoredProcedure
                .Query = "[Desktop].[CurrentOrders]"
                Using _Results = .GetResults()
                    If _Results IsNot Nothing Then
                        _Qry = (From row In _Results.Cast(Of DbDataRecord)()
                                    Select New OrderDCTyping() With {
                                        .OrderID = Common.IsNull(Of Long)(row, 0, 0),
                                        .OrderTrackingNumber = Common.IsNull(Of String)(row, 1, String.Empty),
                                        .OrderShipped = Common.IsNull(Of Boolean)(row, 2, False),
                                        .OrderShippedOn = Common.IsNull(Of Date)(row, 3, Nothing),
                                        .OrderPaid = Common.IsNull(Of Boolean)(row, 4, False),
                                        .OrderPaidOn = Common.IsNull(Of Date)(row, 5, Nothing),
                                        .TransactionID = Common.IsNull(Of String)(row, 6, String.Empty)
                                    }).ToList()
                    Else
                        _Qry = Nothing
                    End If
                End Using
                Return _Qry
            End With
        End Using
    Catch ex As Exception
        Return Nothing
    End Try
End Function

Javascript: Setting location.href versus location

Like as has been said already, location is an object. But that person suggested using either. But, you will do better to use the .href version.

Objects have default properties which, if nothing else is specified, they are assumed. In the case of the location object, it has a property called .href. And by not specifying ANY property during the assignment, it will assume "href" by default.

This is all well and fine until a later object model version changes and there either is no longer a default property, or the default property is changed. Then your program breaks unexpectedly.

If you mean href, you should specify href.

Bash checking if string does not contain other string

As mainframer said, you can use grep, but i would use exit status for testing, try this:

#!/bin/bash
# Test if anotherstring is contained in teststring
teststring="put you string here"
anotherstring="string"

echo ${teststring} | grep --quiet "${anotherstring}"
# Exit status 0 means anotherstring was found
# Exit status 1 means anotherstring was not found

if [ $? = 1 ]
then
  echo "$anotherstring was not found"
fi

How to map a composite key with JPA and Hibernate?

The primary key class must define equals and hashCode methods

  1. When implementing equals you should use instanceof to allow comparing with subclasses. If Hibernate lazy loads a one to one or many to one relation, you will have a proxy for the class instead of the plain class. A proxy is a subclass. Comparing the class names would fail.
    More technically: You should follow the Liskows Substitution Principle and ignore symmetricity.
  2. The next pitfall is using something like name.equals(that.name) instead of name.equals(that.getName()). The first will fail, if that is a proxy.

http://www.laliluna.de/jpa-hibernate-guide/ch06s06.html

How to delete all files and folders in a folder by cmd call

try this, this will search all MyFolder under root dir and delete all folders named MyFolder

for /d /r "C:\Users\test" %%a in (MyFolder\) do if exist "%%a" rmdir /s /q "%%a"

How to get second-highest salary employees in a table

Try this: This will give dynamic results irrespective of no of rows

SELECT * FROM emp WHERE salary = (SELECT max(e1.salary) 
FROM emp e1 WHERE e1.salary < (SELECT Max(e2.salary) FROM emp e2))**

What are the differences between a multidimensional array and an array of arrays in C#?

In addition to the other answers, note that a multidimensional array is allocated as one big chunky object on the heap. This has some implications:

  1. Some multidimensional arrays will get allocated on the Large Object Heap (LOH) where their equivalent jagged array counterparts would otherwise not have.
  2. The GC will need to find a single contiguous free block of memory to allocate a multidimensional array, whereas a jagged array might be able to fill in gaps caused by heap fragmentation... this isn't usually an issue in .NET because of compaction, but the LOH doesn't get compacted by default (you have to ask for it, and you have to ask every time you want it).
  3. You'll want to look into <gcAllowVeryLargeObjects> for multidimensional arrays way before the issue will ever come up if you only ever use jagged arrays.

Passing an array to a query using a WHERE clause

Col. Shrapnel's SafeMySQL library for PHP provides type-hinted placeholders in its parametrised queries, and includes a couple of convenient placeholders for working with arrays. The ?a placeholder expands out an array to a comma-separated list of escaped strings*.

For example:

$someArray = [1, 2, 5];
$galleries = $db->getAll("SELECT * FROM galleries WHERE id IN (?a)", $someArray);

* Note that since MySQL performs automatic type coercion, it doesn't matter that SafeMySQL will convert the ids above to strings - you'll still get the correct result.

Is there a Google Sheets formula to put the name of the sheet into a cell?

I got this to finally work in a semi-automatic fashion without the use of scripts... but it does take up 3 cells to pull it off. Borrowing from a bit from previous answers, I start with a cell that has nothing more than =NOW() it in to show the time. For example, we'll put this into cell A1...

=NOW()

This function updates automatically every minute. In the next cell, put a pointer formula using the sheets own name to point to the previous cell. For example, we'll put this in A2...

='Sheet Name'!A1

Cell formatting aside, cell A1 and A2 should at this point display the same content... namely the current time.

And, the last cell is the part I'm borrowing from previous solutions using a regex expression to pull the fomula from the second cell and then strip out the name of the sheet from said formula. For example, we'll put this into cell A3...

=REGEXREPLACE(FORMULATEXT(A2),"='?([^']+)'?!.*","$1")

At this point, the resultant value displayed in A3 should be the name of the sheet.

From my experience, as soon as the name of the sheet is changed, the formula in A2 is immediately updated. However that's not enough to trigger A3 to update. But, every minute when cell A1 recalculates the time, the result of the formula in cell A2 is subsequently updated and then that in turn triggers A3 to update with the new sheet name. It's not a compact solution... but it does seem to work.

Change color of Back button in navigation bar

You should add this line

 self.navigationController?.navigationBar.topItem?.backBarButtonItem?.tintColor = .black

Converting NSString to NSDate (and back again)

The above examples aren't simply written for Swift 3.0+

Update - Swift 3.0+ - Convert Date To String

let date = Date() // insert your date data here
var dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd" // add custom format if you'd like 
var dateString = dateFormatter.string(from: date)

How to fix date format in ASP .NET BoundField (DataFormatString)?

very simple just add this to your bound field DataFormatString="{0: yyyy/MM/dd}"

Can I compile all .cpp files in src/ to .o's in obj/, then link to binary in ./?

Makefile part of the question

This is pretty easy, unless you don't need to generalize try something like the code below (but replace space indentation with tabs near g++)

SRC_DIR := .../src
OBJ_DIR := .../obj
SRC_FILES := $(wildcard $(SRC_DIR)/*.cpp)
OBJ_FILES := $(patsubst $(SRC_DIR)/%.cpp,$(OBJ_DIR)/%.o,$(SRC_FILES))
LDFLAGS := ...
CPPFLAGS := ...
CXXFLAGS := ...

main.exe: $(OBJ_FILES)
   g++ $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $^

$(OBJ_DIR)/%.o: $(SRC_DIR)/%.cpp
   g++ $(CPPFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS) -c -o $@ $<

Automatic dependency graph generation

A "must" feature for most make systems. With GCC in can be done in a single pass as a side effect of the compilation by adding -MMD flag to CXXFLAGS and -include $(OBJ_FILES:.o=.d) to the end of the makefile body:

CXXFLAGS += -MMD
-include $(OBJ_FILES:.o=.d)

And as guys mentioned already, always have GNU Make Manual around, it is very helpful.

How to read a CSV file into a .NET Datatable

We always used to use the Jet.OLEDB driver, until we started going to 64 bit applications. Microsoft has not and will not release a 64 bit Jet driver. Here's a simple solution we came up with that uses File.ReadAllLines and String.Split to read and parse the CSV file and manually load a DataTable. As noted above, it DOES NOT handle the situation where one of the column values contains a comma. We use this mostly for reading custom configuration files - the nice part about using CSV files is that we can edit them in Excel.

string CSVFilePathName = @"C:\test.csv";
string[] Lines = File.ReadAllLines(CSVFilePathName);
string[] Fields;
Fields = Lines[0].Split(new char[] { ',' });
int Cols = Fields.GetLength(0);
DataTable dt = new DataTable();
//1st row must be column names; force lower case to ensure matching later on.
for (int i = 0; i < Cols; i++)
    dt.Columns.Add(Fields[i].ToLower(), typeof(string));
DataRow Row;
for (int i = 1; i < Lines.GetLength(0); i++)
{
    Fields = Lines[i].Split(new char[] { ',' });
    Row = dt.NewRow();
    for (int f = 0; f < Cols; f++)
        Row[f] = Fields[f];
    dt.Rows.Add(Row);
}

Injecting @Autowired private field during testing

I believe in order to have auto-wiring work on your MyLauncher class (for myService), you will need to let Spring initialize it instead of calling the constructor, by auto-wiring myLauncher. Once that is being auto-wired (and myService is also getting auto-wired), Spring (1.4.0 and up) provides a @MockBean annotation you can put in your test. This will replace a matching single beans in context with a mock of that type. You can then further define what mocking you want, in a @Before method.

public class MyLauncherTest
    @MockBean
    private MyService myService;

    @Autowired
    private MyLauncher myLauncher;

    @Before
    private void setupMockBean() {
        doNothing().when(myService).someVoidMethod();
        doReturn("Some Value").when(myService).someStringMethod();
    }

    @Test
    public void someTest() {
        myLauncher.doSomething();
    }
}

Your MyLauncher class can then remain unmodified, and your MyService bean will be a mock whose methods return values as you defined:

@Component
public class MyLauncher {
    @Autowired
    MyService myService;

    public void doSomething() {
        myService.someVoidMethod();
        myService.someMethodThatCallsSomeStringMethod();
    }

    //other methods
}

A couple advantages of this over other methods mentioned is that:

  1. You don't need to manually inject myService.
  2. You don't need use the Mockito runner or rules.

dropping rows from dataframe based on a "not in" condition

You can use pandas.Dataframe.isin.

pandas.Dateframe.isin will return boolean values depending on whether each element is inside the list a or not. You then invert this with the ~ to convert True to False and vice versa.

import pandas as pd

a = ['2015-01-01' , '2015-02-01']

df = pd.DataFrame(data={'date':['2015-01-01' , '2015-02-01', '2015-03-01' , '2015-04-01', '2015-05-01' , '2015-06-01']})

print(df)
#         date
#0  2015-01-01
#1  2015-02-01
#2  2015-03-01
#3  2015-04-01
#4  2015-05-01
#5  2015-06-01

df = df[~df['date'].isin(a)]

print(df)
#         date
#2  2015-03-01
#3  2015-04-01
#4  2015-05-01
#5  2015-06-01

How to insert a character in a string at a certain position?

int yourInteger = 123450;
String s = String.format("%6.2f", yourInteger / 100.0);
System.out.println(s);

Command copy exited with code 4 when building - Visual Studio restart solves it

This can happen in multiple cases:

  1. When the complete string path is longer than 254 chars.
  2. When the name of the file to be copied is wrong.
  3. When the target path is wrong.
  4. When the readonly attribute is set on the copied file or target folder.

Convert integer value to matching Java Enum

This is what I use:

public enum Quality {ENOUGH,BETTER,BEST;
                     private static final int amount = EnumSet.allOf(Quality.class).size();
                     private static Quality[] val = new Quality[amount];
                     static{ for(Quality q:EnumSet.allOf(Quality.class)){ val[q.ordinal()]=q; } }
                     public static Quality fromInt(int i) { return val[i]; }
                     public Quality next() { return fromInt((ordinal()+1)%amount); }
                    }

"Insufficient Storage Available" even there is lot of free space in device memory

When it comes to areal device, the behavior of devices seem different to a different group of devices.

Some of the strange collection of the opinion I heard form different people is:

  • Restart your device after unplugging
  • Remove some apps from device and free at-least 100 MB
  • Try to install your app from the command line, ./adb install ~Application_path
  • Move your application to SD card storage or make it default in SD card in the Android manifest file, android:installLocation="preferExternal"
  • You got a lot of memory acquiring stuff in the Raw folder which installs a copy in phone memory while instating an APK file and the device doesn't have enough memory to load them
  • Root your device and install some good ROM which help to letting the device know about its remaining memory.

I hope one of them is relevant to you! ;)

Python Error: "ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack"

youre getting ''ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack'', because you only gave one value, the script (which is ex14.py in this case)

the problem is, that you forgot to add a name after you ran the .py file.

line 3 of your code is

script, user_name = argv

the script is ex14.py, you forgot to add a name after

so if your name was michael,so what you enter into the terminal should look something like:

> python ex14.py michael

make this change and the code runs perfectly

JPA Native Query select and cast object

You might want to try one of the following ways:

  • Using the method createNativeQuery(sqlString, resultClass)

    Native queries can also be defined dynamically using the EntityManager.createNativeQuery() API.

    String sql = "SELECT USER.* FROM USER_ AS USER WHERE ID = ?";
    
    Query query = em.createNativeQuery(sql, User.class);
    query.setParameter(1, id);
    User user = (User) query.getSingleResult();
    
  • Using the annotation @NamedNativeQuery

    Native queries are defined through the @NamedNativeQuery and @NamedNativeQueries annotations, or <named-native-query> XML element.

    @NamedNativeQuery(
        name="complexQuery",
        query="SELECT USER.* FROM USER_ AS USER WHERE ID = ?",
        resultClass=User.class
    )
    public class User { ... }
    
    Query query = em.createNamedQuery("complexQuery", User.class);
    query.setParameter(1, id);
    User user = (User) query.getSingleResult();
    

You can read more in the excellent open book Java Persistence (available in PDF).

-------
NOTE: With regard to use of getSingleResult(), see Why you should never use getSingleResult() in JPA.

Add CSS box shadow around the whole DIV

You're offsetting the shadow, so to get it to uniformly surround the box, don't offset it:

-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 3px #ccc;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 3px #ccc;
box-shadow: 0 0 3px #ccc;

Registry Key '...' has value '1.7', but '1.6' is required. Java 1.7 is Installed and the Registry is Pointing to it

The jar was compiled to be 1.6 compliant. That is why you get this error. Two resolutions:
1) Use Java 1.6

OR

2) Recompile the jar to be compliant for your environment 1.7

Git copy changes from one branch to another

Copy content of BranchA into BranchB

git checkout BranchA
git pull origin BranchB
git push -u origin BranchA

Regular expression to limit number of characters to 10

grep '^[0-9]\{1,16\}' | wc -l

Gives the counts with exact match count with limit

How to swap String characters in Java?

import java.io.*;
class swaping
{
     public static void main(String args[]) 
     {
         String name="premkumarg";
         int len=name.length();
         char[] c = name.toCharArray();
         for(int i=0;i<len-1;i=i+2)
         {
             char temp= c[i];
             c[i]=c[i+1];
             c[i+1]=temp;
         }

         System.out.println("Swapping string is: ");
         System.out.println(c);

    }
}

Plotting with ggplot2: "Error: Discrete value supplied to continuous scale" on categorical y-axis

In my case, you need to convert the column(you think this column is numeric, but actually not) to numeric

geom_segment(data=tmpp, 
   aes(x=start_pos, 
   y=lib.complexity, 
   xend=end_pos, 
   yend=lib.complexity)
)
# to 
geom_segment(data=tmpp, 
   aes(x=as.numeric(start_pos), 
   y=as.numeric(lib.complexity), 
   xend=as.numeric(end_pos), 
   yend=as.numeric(lib.complexity))
)

Check if event exists on element

You may use:

$("#foo").unbind('click');

to make sure all click events are unbinded, then attach your event

Where do I find the Instagram media ID of a image

Here is python solution to do this without api call.

def media_id_to_code(media_id):
    alphabet = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-_'
    short_code = ''
    while media_id > 0:
        remainder = media_id % 64
        media_id = (media_id-remainder)/64
        short_code = alphabet[remainder] + short_code
    return short_code


def code_to_media_id(short_code):
    alphabet = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-_'
    media_id = 0;
    for letter in short_code:
        media_id = (media_id*64) + alphabet.index(letter)

    return media_id

How to print Boolean flag in NSLog?

Here is how you can do it:

BOOL flag = NO;
NSLog(flag ? @"YES" : @"NO");

How to run server written in js with Node.js

If you are in a Linux container, such as on a Chromebook, you will need to manually browse to your localhost's address. I am aware the newer Chrome OS versions no longer have this problem, but on my Chromebook, I still had to manually browse to the localhost's address for your code to work.

To browse to your locahost's address, type this in command line: sudo ifconfig

and note the inet address under eth0.

Otherwise, as others have noted, simply type node.js filename and it will work as long as you point the browser to the proper address.

Hope this helps!

Hadoop/Hive : Loading data from .csv on a local machine

You can load local CSV file to Hive only if:

  1. You are doing it from one of the Hive cluster nodes.
  2. You installed Hive client on non-cluster node and using hive or beeline for upload.

changing the owner of folder in linux

Use chown to change ownership and chmod to change rights.

use the -R option to apply the rights for all files inside of a directory too.

Note that both these commands just work for directories too. The -R option makes them also change the permissions for all files and directories inside of the directory.

For example

sudo chown -R username:group directory

will change ownership (both user and group) of all files and directories inside of directory and directory itself.

sudo chown username:group directory

will only change the permission of the folder directory but will leave the files and folders inside the directory alone.

you need to use sudo to change the ownership from root to yourself.

Edit:

Note that if you use chown user: file (Note the left-out group), it will use the default group for that user.

Also You can change the group ownership of a file or directory with the command:

chgrp group_name file/directory_name

You must be a member of the group to which you are changing ownership to.

You can find group of file as follows

# ls -l file
-rw-r--r-- 1 root family 0 2012-05-22 20:03 file

# chown sujit:friends file

User 500 is just a normal user. Typically user 500 was the first user on the system, recent changes (to /etc/login.defs) has altered the minimum user id to 1000 in many distributions, so typically 1000 is now the first (non root) user.

What you may be seeing is a system which has been upgraded from the old state to the new state and still has some processes knocking about on uid 500. You can likely change it by first checking if your distro should indeed now use 1000, and if so alter the login.defs file yourself, the renumber the user account in /etc/passwd and chown/chgrp all their files, usually in /home/, then reboot.

But in answer to your question, no, you should not really be worried about this in all likelihood. It'll be showing as "500" instead of a username because o user in /etc/passwd has a uid set of 500, that's all.

Also you can show your current numbers using id i'm willing to bet it comes back as 1000 for you.

Selecting empty text input using jQuery

You could also do it by defining your own selector:

$.extend($.expr[':'],{
    textboxEmpty: function(el){
        return $(el).val() === "";
    }
});

And then access them like this:

alert($(':text:textboxEmpty').length); //alerts the number of text boxes in your selection

Twitter Bootstrap carousel different height images cause bouncing arrows

In case someone is feverishly googling to solve the bouncing images carousel thing, this helped me:

.fusion-carousel .fusion-carousel-item img {
    width: auto;
    height: 146px;
    max-height: 146px;
    object-fit: contain;
}

Pass variables by reference in JavaScript

Simple Object

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function foo(x) {
  // Function with other context
  // Modify `x` property, increasing the value
  x.value++;
}

// Initialize `ref` as object
var ref = {
  // The `value` is inside `ref` variable object
  // The initial value is `1`
  value: 1
};

// Call function with object value
foo(ref);
// Call function with object value again
foo(ref);

console.log(ref.value); // Prints "3"
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Custom Object

Object rvar

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 * Aux function to create by-references variables
 */
function rvar(name, value, context) {
  // If `this` is a `rvar` instance
  if (this instanceof rvar) {
    // Inside `rvar` context...
    
    // Internal object value
    this.value = value;
    
    // Object `name` property
    Object.defineProperty(this, 'name', { value: name });
    
    // Object `hasValue` property
    Object.defineProperty(this, 'hasValue', {
      get: function () {
        // If the internal object value is not `undefined`
        return this.value !== undefined;
      }
    });
    
    // Copy value constructor for type-check
    if ((value !== undefined) && (value !== null)) {
      this.constructor = value.constructor;
    }
    
    // To String method
    this.toString = function () {
      // Convert the internal value to string
      return this.value + '';
    };
  } else {
    // Outside `rvar` context...
    
    // Initialice `rvar` object
    if (!rvar.refs) {
      rvar.refs = {};
    }
    
    // Initialize context if it is not defined
    if (!context) {
      context = window;
    }
    
    // Store variable
    rvar.refs[name] = new rvar(name, value, context);
    
    // Define variable at context
    Object.defineProperty(context, name, {
      // Getter
      get: function () { return rvar.refs[name]; },
      // Setter
      set: function (v) { rvar.refs[name].value = v; },
      // Can be overrided?
      configurable: true
    });

    // Return object reference
    return context[name];
  }
}

// Variable Declaration

  // Declare `test_ref` variable
  rvar('test_ref_1');

  // Assign value `5`
  test_ref_1 = 5;
  // Or
  test_ref_1.value = 5;

  // Or declare and initialize with `5`:
  rvar('test_ref_2', 5);

// ------------------------------
// Test Code

// Test Function
function Fn1 (v) { v.value = 100; }

// Declare
rvar('test_ref_number');

// First assign
test_ref_number = 5;
console.log('test_ref_number.value === 5', test_ref_number.value === 5);

// Call function with reference
Fn1(test_ref_number);
console.log('test_ref_number.value === 100', test_ref_number.value === 100);

// Increase value
test_ref_number++;
console.log('test_ref_number.value === 101', test_ref_number.value === 101);

// Update value
test_ref_number = test_ref_number - 10;
console.log('test_ref_number.value === 91', test_ref_number.value === 91);

// Declare and initialize
rvar('test_ref_str', 'a');
console.log('test_ref_str.value === "a"', test_ref_str.value === 'a');

// Update value
test_ref_str += 'bc';
console.log('test_ref_str.value === "abc"', test_ref_str.value === 'abc');

// Declare other...
rvar('test_ref_number', 5);
test_ref_number.value === 5; // true

// Call function
Fn1(test_ref_number);
test_ref_number.value === 100; // true

// Increase value
test_ref_number++;
test_ref_number.value === 101; // true

// Update value
test_ref_number = test_ref_number - 10;
test_ref_number.value === 91; // true

test_ref_str.value === "a"; // true

// Update value
test_ref_str += 'bc';
test_ref_str.value === "abc"; // true 
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Use css gradient over background image

The accepted answer works well. Just for completeness (and since I like it's shortness), I wanted to share how to to it with compass (SCSS/SASS):

body{
  $colorStart: rgba(0,0,0,0);
  $colorEnd: rgba(0,0,0,0.8);
  @include background-image(linear-gradient(to bottom, $colorStart, $colorEnd), url("bg.jpg"));
}

How to measure time elapsed on Javascript?

The Date documentation states that :

The JavaScript date is based on a time value that is milliseconds since midnight January 1, 1970, UTC

Click on start button then on end button. It will show you the number of seconds between the 2 clicks.

The milliseconds diff is in variable timeDiff. Play with it to find seconds/minutes/hours/ or what you need

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function start() {_x000D_
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};_x000D_
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function end() {_x000D_
  endTime = new Date();_x000D_
  var timeDiff = endTime - startTime; //in ms_x000D_
  // strip the ms_x000D_
  timeDiff /= 1000;_x000D_
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  // get seconds _x000D_
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  console.log(seconds + " seconds");_x000D_
}
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<button onclick="end()">End</button>
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OR another way of doing it for modern browser

Using performance.now() which returns a value representing the time elapsed since the time origin. This value is a double with microseconds in the fractional.

The time origin is a standard time which is considered to be the beginning of the current document's lifetime.

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function start() {_x000D_
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};_x000D_
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function end() {_x000D_
  endTime = performance.now();_x000D_
  var timeDiff = endTime - startTime; //in ms _x000D_
  // strip the ms _x000D_
  timeDiff /= 1000; _x000D_
  _x000D_
  // get seconds _x000D_
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  console.log(seconds + " seconds");_x000D_
}
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<button onclick="end()">End</button>
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Specify path to node_modules in package.json

yes you can, just set the NODE_PATH env variable :

export NODE_PATH='yourdir'/node_modules

According to the doc :

If the NODE_PATH environment variable is set to a colon-delimited list of absolute paths, then node will search those paths for modules if they are not found elsewhere. (Note: On Windows, NODE_PATH is delimited by semicolons instead of colons.)

Additionally, node will search in the following locations:

1: $HOME/.node_modules

2: $HOME/.node_libraries

3: $PREFIX/lib/node

Where $HOME is the user's home directory, and $PREFIX is node's configured node_prefix.

These are mostly for historic reasons. You are highly encouraged to place your dependencies locally in node_modules folders. They will be loaded faster, and more reliably.

Source

DataTables: Cannot read property style of undefined

Funnily i was getting the following error for having one th-/th pair too many and still google directed me here. I'll leave it written down so people can find it.

jquery.dataTables.min.js:27 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'className' of undefined
at ua (jquery.dataTables.min.js:27)
at HTMLTableElement.<anonymous> (jquery.dataTables.min.js:127)
at Function.each (jquery.min.js:2)
at n.fn.init.each (jquery.min.js:2)
at n.fn.init.j (jquery.dataTables.min.js:116)
at HTMLDocument.<anonymous> (history:619)
at i (jquery.min.js:2)
at Object.fireWith [as resolveWith] (jquery.min.js:2)
at Function.ready (jquery.min.js:2)
at HTMLDocument.K (jquery.min.js:2)

Maximum number of rows in an MS Access database engine table?

We're not necessarily talking theoretical limits here, we're talking about real world limits of the 2GB max file size AND database schema.

  • Is your db a single table or multiple?
  • How many columns does each table have?
  • What are the datatypes?

The schema is on even footing with the row count in determining how many rows you can have.

We have used Access MDBs to store exports of MS-SQL data for statistical analysis by some of our corporate users. In those cases we've exported our core table structure, typically four tables with 20 to 150 columns varying from a hundred bytes per row to upwards of 8000 bytes per row. In these cases, we would bump up against a few hundred thousand rows of data were permissible PER MDB that we would ship them.

So, I just don't think that this question has an answer in absence of your schema.

Can I access constants in settings.py from templates in Django?

If it's a value you'd like to have for every request & template, using a context processor is more appropriate.

Here's how:

  1. Make a context_processors.py file in your app directory. Let's say I want to have the ADMIN_PREFIX_VALUE value in every context:

    from django.conf import settings # import the settings file
    
    def admin_media(request):
        # return the value you want as a dictionnary. you may add multiple values in there.
        return {'ADMIN_MEDIA_URL': settings.ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX}
    
  2. add your context processor to your settings.py file:

    TEMPLATES = [{
        # whatever comes before
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                # whatever comes before
                "your_app.context_processors.admin_media",
            ],
        }
    }]
    
  3. Use RequestContext in your view to add your context processors in your template. The render shortcut does this automatically:

    from django.shortcuts import render
    
    def my_view(request):
        return render(request, "index.html")
    
  4. and finally, in your template:

    ...
    <a href="{{ ADMIN_MEDIA_URL }}">path to admin media</a>
    ...
    

How do I concatenate text in a query in sql server?

You have to explicitly cast the string types to the same in order to concatenate them, In your case you may solve the issue by simply addig an 'N' in front of 'SomeText' (N'SomeText'). If that doesn't work, try Cast('SomeText' as nvarchar(8)).

Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE] even if app appears to not be installed

One simple way is rename your package name and run again