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asp.net Button OnClick event not firing

Add validation groups for your validator elements. This allows you distinguish between different groups which to include in validation. Add validation group also to your submit button

Any easy way to use icons from resources?

After adding the ICO file to your apps resources, you can use references it using My.Resources.YourIconNameWithoutExtension

For example if I had a file called Logo-square.ico added to my apps resources, I can set it to an icon with:

NotifyIcon1.Icon = My.Resources.Logo_square

Angular 5 ngHide ngShow [hidden] not working

If you add [hidden]="true" to div, the actual thing that happens is adding a class [hidden] to this element conditionally with display: none

Please check the style of the element in the browser to ensure no other style affect the display property of an element like this:

enter image description here

If you found display of [hidden] class is overridden, you need to add this css code to your style:

[hidden] {
    display: none !important;
}

Convert a string to a double - is this possible?

Why is floatval the best option for financial comparison data? bc functions only accurately turn strings into real numbers.

Auto start print html page using javascript

<body onload="window.print()"> or window.onload = function() { window.print(); }

Read text from response

If you http request is Post and request.Accept = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"; then i think you can to get text of respone by code bellow:

var contentEncoding = response.Headers["content-encoding"];
                        if (contentEncoding != null && contentEncoding.Contains("gzip")) // cause httphandler only request gzip
                        {
                            // using gzip stream reader
                            using (var responseStreamReader = new StreamReader(new GZipStream(response.GetResponseStream(), CompressionMode.Decompress)))
                            {
                                strResponse = responseStreamReader.ReadToEnd();
                            }
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            // using ordinary stream reader
                            using (var responseStreamReader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
                            {
                                strResponse = responseStreamReader.ReadToEnd();
                            }
                        }

How to impose maxlength on textArea in HTML using JavaScript

This is much easier:

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Generate random array of floats between a range

There may already be a function to do what you're looking for, but I don't know about it (yet?). In the meantime, I would suggess using:

ran_floats = numpy.random.rand(50) * (13.3-0.5) + 0.5

This will produce an array of shape (50,) with a uniform distribution between 0.5 and 13.3.

You could also define a function:

def random_uniform_range(shape=[1,],low=0,high=1):
    """
    Random uniform range

    Produces a random uniform distribution of specified shape, with arbitrary max and
    min values. Default shape is [1], and default range is [0,1].
    """
    return numpy.random.rand(shape) * (high - min) + min

EDIT: Hmm, yeah, so I missed it, there is numpy.random.uniform() with the same exact call you want! Try import numpy; help(numpy.random.uniform) for more information.

Downgrade npm to an older version

Before doing that Download Node Js 8.11.3 from the URL: download

Open command prompt and run this:

npm install -g [email protected]

use this version this is the stable version which works along with cordova 7.1.0

for installing cordova use : • npm install -g [email protected]

• Run command

• Cordova platform remove android (if you have old android code or code is having some issue)

• Cordova platform add android : for building android app in cordova Running: Corodva run android

Push an associative item into an array in JavaScript

To make something like associative array in JavaScript you have to use objects. ?

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var obj = {}; // {} will create an object
var name = "name";
var val = 2;
obj[name] = val;
console.log(obj);
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DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/bz8pK/1/

How to convert a boolean array to an int array

Numpy arrays have an astype method. Just do y.astype(int).

Note that it might not even be necessary to do this, depending on what you're using the array for. Bool will be autopromoted to int in many cases, so you can add it to int arrays without having to explicitly convert it:

>>> x
array([ True, False,  True], dtype=bool)
>>> x + [1, 2, 3]
array([2, 2, 4])

Use Device Login on Smart TV / Console

They change it again. At this moment documentation does not fit actual situation.

Commonly all works as expected with one small difference. Login from Devices config now moves to Products -> Facebook Login.

So you need to:

  • get your App id from headline,
  • get Client Token from app Settings -> Advanced. There is also Native or desktop app? question/config. I turn it on.
  • Add product (just click on Add product and then Get started on Facebook login. Move back to your app config, click to newly added Facebook login and you'll see your Login from Devices config.

How to convert a unix timestamp (seconds since epoch) to Ruby DateTime?

This tells you the date of the number of seconds in future from the moment you execute the code.

time = Time.new + 1000000000 #date in 1 billion seconds

puts(time)

according to the current time I am answering the question it prints 047-05-14 05:16:16 +0000 (1 billion seconds in future)

or if you want to count billion seconds from a particular time, it's in format Time.mktime(year, month,date,hours,minutes)

time = Time.mktime(1987,8,18,6,45) + 1000000000

puts("I would be 1 Billion seconds old on: "+time)

Parse JSON String into List<string>

Try this:

using System;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
using System.Collections.Generic;
public class Program
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        List<Man> Men = new List<Man>();

        Man m1 = new Man();
        m1.Number = "+1-9169168158";
        m1.Message = "Hello Bob from 1";
        m1.UniqueCode = "0123";
        m1.State = 0;

        Man m2 = new Man();
        m2.Number = "+1-9296146182";
        m2.Message = "Hello Bob from 2";
        m2.UniqueCode = "0125";
        m2.State = 0;

        Men.AddRange(new Man[] { m1, m2 });

        string result = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(Men);
        Console.WriteLine(result);  

        List<Man> NewMen = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<Man>>(result);
        foreach(Man m in NewMen) Console.WriteLine(m.Message);
    }
}
public class Man
{
    public string Number{get;set;}
    public string Message {get;set;}
    public string UniqueCode {get;set;}
    public int State {get;set;}
}

Alternate background colors for list items

Since you using standard HTML you will need to define separate class for and manual set the rows to the classes.

How to convert UTC timestamp to device local time in android

The code in your example looks fine at first glance. BTW, if the server timestamp is in UTC (i.e. it's an epoch timestamp) then you should not have to apply the current timezone offset. In other words if the server timestamp is in UTC then you can simply get the difference between the server timestamp and the system time (System.currentTimeMillis()) as the system time is in UTC (epoch).

I would check that the timestamp coming from your server is what you expect. If the timestamp from the server does not convert into the date you expect (in the local timezone) then the difference between the timestamp and the current system time will not be what you expect.

Use Calendar to get the current timezone. Initialize a SimpleDateFormatter with the current timezone; then log the server timestamp and verify if it's the date you expect:

Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
TimeZone tz = cal.getTimeZone();

/* debug: is it local time? */
Log.d("Time zone: ", tz.getDisplayName());

/* date formatter in local timezone */
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss");
sdf.setTimeZone(tz);

/* print your timestamp and double check it's the date you expect */
long timestamp = cursor.getLong(columnIndex);
String localTime = sdf.format(new Date(timestamp * 1000)); // I assume your timestamp is in seconds and you're converting to milliseconds?
Log.d("Time: ", localTime);

If the server time that is printed is not what you expect then your server time is not in UTC.

If the server time that is printed is the date that you expect then you should not have to apply the rawoffset to it. So your code would be simpler (minus all the debug logging):

long timestamp = cursor.getLong(columnIndex);
Log.d("Server time: ", timestamp);

/* log the device timezone */
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
TimeZone tz = cal.getTimeZone();
Log.d("Time zone: ", tz.getDisplayName());

/* log the system time */
Log.d("System time: ", System.currentTimeMillis());

CharSequence relTime = DateUtils.getRelativeTimeSpanString(
    timestamp * 1000,
    System.currentTimeMillis(),
    DateUtils.MINUTE_IN_MILLIS);

((TextView) view).setText(relTime);

Script Tag - async & defer

Async is suitable if your script doesn’t contains DOM manipulation and other scripts doesn’t depend upon on this. Eg: bootstrap cdn,jquery

Defer is suitable if your script contains DOM manipulation and other scripts depend upon on this.

Eg: <script src=”createfirst.js”> //let this will create element <script src=”showfirst.js”> //after createfirst create element it will show that.

Thus make it: Eg: <script defer src=”createfirst.js”> //let this will create element <script defer src=”showfirst.js”> //after createfirst create element it will

This will execute scripts in order.

But if i made: Eg: <script async src=”createfirst.js”> //let this will create element <script defer src=”showfirst.js”> //after createfirst create element it will

Then, this code might result unexpected results. Coz: if html parser access createfirst script.It won’t stop DOM creation and starts downloading code from src .Once src got resolved/code got downloaded, it will execute immediately parallel with DOM.

What if showfirst.js execute first than createfirst.js.This might be possible if createfirst takes long time (Assume after DOM parsing finished).Then, showfirst will execute immediately.

Why can't I reference System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations?

I searched for help on this topic as I came across the same issue.

Although the following may not be the Answer to the question asked originally in 2012 it may be a solution for those who come across this thread.

A way to solve this is to check where your project is within the solution. It turns out for my instance (I was trying to install a NuGet package but it wouldn't and the listed error came up) that my project file was not included within the solution directory although showing in the solution explorer. I deleted the project from the directory out of scope and re-added the project but this time within the correct location.

Read a variable in bash with a default value

 
name=Ricardo
echo "Please enter your name: $name \c"
read newname
[ -n "$newname" ] && name=$newname

Set the default; print it; read a new value; if there is a new value, use it in place of the default. There is (or was) some variations between shells and systems on how to suppress a newline at the end of a prompt. The '\c' notation seems to work on MacOS X 10.6.3 with a 3.x bash, and works on most variants of Unix derived from System V, using Bourne or Korn shells.

Also note that the user would probably not realize what is going on behind the scenes; their new data would be entered after the name already on the screen. It might be better to format it:

echo "Please enter your name ($name): \c"

Pass mouse events through absolutely-positioned element

 
pointer-events: none;

Is a CSS property that makes events "pass through" the element to which it is applied and makes the event occur on the element "below".

See for details: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/pointer-events

It is not supported up to IE 11; all other vendors support it since quite some time (global support was ~92% in 12/'16): http://caniuse.com/#feat=pointer-events (thanks to @s4y for providing the link in the comments).

Strings in C, how to get subString

I think it's easy way... but I don't know how I can pass the result variable directly then I create a local char array as temp and return it.

char* substr(char *buff, uint8_t start,uint8_t len, char* substr)
{
    strncpy(substr, buff+start, len);
    substr[len] = 0;
    return substr;
}

How to get a unix script to run every 15 seconds?

Won't running this in the background do it?

#!/bin/sh
while [ 1 ]; do
    echo "Hell yeah!" &
    sleep 15
done

This is about as efficient as it gets. The important part only gets executed every 15 seconds and the script sleeps the rest of the time (thus not wasting cycles).

SQL Server Profiler - How to filter trace to only display events from one database?

Under Trace properties > Events Selection tab > select show all columns. Now under column filters, you should see the database name. Enter the database name for the Like section and you should see traces only for that database.

Changing cell color using apache poi

checkout the example here

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/trunk/src/examples/src/org/apache/poi/ss/examples/BusinessPlan.java

style.setFillForegroundColor(IndexedColors.LIGHT_CORNFLOWER_BLUE.getIndex());

Firefox Add-on RESTclient - How to input POST parameters?

I tried the methods mentioned in some other answers, but they look like workarounds to me. Using Firefox Add-on RESTclient to send HTTP POST requests with parameters is not straightforward in my opinion, at least for the version I'm currently using, 2.0.1.

Instead, try using other free open source tools, such as Apache JMeter. It is simple and straightforward (see the screenshot as below)

enter image description here

How do Common Names (CN) and Subject Alternative Names (SAN) work together?

CABForum Baseline Requirements

I see no one has mentioned the section in the Baseline Requirements yet. I feel they are important.

Q: SSL - How do Common Names (CN) and Subject Alternative Names (SAN) work together?
A: Not at all. If there are SANs, then CN can be ignored. -- At least if the software that does the checking adheres very strictly to the CABForum's Baseline Requirements.

(So this means I can't answer the "Edit" to your question. Only the original question.)

CABForum Baseline Requirements, v. 1.2.5 (as of 2 April 2015), page 9-10:

9.2.2 Subject Distinguished Name Fields
a. Subject Common Name Field
Certificate Field: subject:commonName (OID 2.5.4.3)
Required/Optional: Deprecated (Discouraged, but not prohibited)
Contents: If present, this field MUST contain a single IP address or Fully-Qualified Domain Name that is one of the values contained in the Certificate’s subjectAltName extension (see Section 9.2.1).

EDIT: Links from @Bruno's comment

RFC 2818: HTTP Over TLS, 2000, Section 3.1: Server Identity:

If a subjectAltName extension of type dNSName is present, that MUST be used as the identity. Otherwise, the (most specific) Common Name field in the Subject field of the certificate MUST be used. Although the use of the Common Name is existing practice, it is deprecated and Certification Authorities are encouraged to use the dNSName instead.

RFC 6125: Representation and Verification of Domain-Based Application Service Identity within Internet Public Key Infrastructure Using X.509 (PKIX) Certificates in the Context of Transport Layer Security (TLS), 2011, Section 6.4.4: Checking of Common Names:

[...] if and only if the presented identifiers do not include a DNS-ID, SRV-ID, URI-ID, or any application-specific identifier types supported by the client, then the client MAY as a last resort check for a string whose form matches that of a fully qualified DNS domain name in a Common Name field of the subject field (i.e., a CN-ID).

How do I find duplicate values in a table in Oracle?

Aggregate the column by COUNT, then use a HAVING clause to find values that appear greater than one time.

SELECT column_name, COUNT(column_name)
FROM table_name
GROUP BY column_name
HAVING COUNT(column_name) > 1;

Rounded table corners CSS only

This is css3, only recent non-IE<9 browser will support it.

Check out here, it derives the round property for all available browsers

Add animated Gif image in Iphone UIImageView

This doesn't meet the requirement of using a UIImageView, but maybe this would simplify things for you. Have you considered using a UIWebView? 

NSString *gifUrl = @"http://gifs.com";
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString: gifUrl];
[webView loadRequest: [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url]

If you want, instead of linking to a URL that requires Internet, you could import an HTML file into your Xcode project and set the root in the string.

Dropping a connected user from an Oracle 10g database schema

To find the sessions, as a DBA use

select sid,serial# from v$session where username = '<your_schema>'

If you want to be sure only to get the sessions that use SQL Developer, you can add and program = 'SQL Developer'. If you only want to kill sessions belonging to a specific developer, you can add a restriction on os_user

Then kill them with

alter system kill session '<sid>,<serial#>'

(e.g. alter system kill session '39,1232')

A query that produces ready-built kill-statements could be

select 'alter system kill session ''' || sid || ',' || serial# || ''';' from v$session where username = '<your_schema>'

This will return one kill statement per session for that user - something like:

alter system kill session '375,64855';

alter system kill session '346,53146';

Subtracting time.Duration from time in Go

There's time.ParseDuration which will happily accept negative durations, as per manual. Otherwise put, there's no need to negate a duration where you can get an exact duration in the first place.

E.g. when you need to substract an hour and a half, you can do that like so:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "time"
)

func main() {
    now := time.Now()

    fmt.Println("now:", now)

    duration, _ := time.ParseDuration("-1.5h")

    then := now.Add(duration)

    fmt.Println("then:", then)
}

https://play.golang.org/p/63p-T9uFcZo

shared global variables in C

You put the declaration in a header file, e.g.

 extern int my_global;

In one of your .c files you define it at global scope.

int my_global;

Every .c file that wants access to my_global includes the header file with the extern in.

Jquery resizing image

So much code here, but I think this is the best answer

function resize() {
            var input = $("#picture");
            var maxWidth = 300;
            var maxHeight = 300;
            var width = input.width();
            var height = input.height();
            var ratioX = (maxWidth / width);
            var ratioY = (maxHeight / height);
            var ratio = Math.min(ratioX, ratioY);

            var newWidth  = (width * ratio);
            var newHeight = (height * ratio);
            input.css("width", newWidth);
            input.css("height", newHeight);
};

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version CXXABI_1.3.8' not found

I had the same problem on my Ubuntu 14.04 when tried to install TopTracker. I got such errors:

/usr/share/toptracker/bin/TopTracker: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version 'CXXABI_1.3.8' not found (required by /usr/share/toptracker/bin/TopTracker) /usr/share/toptracker/bin/TopTracker: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version 'GLIBCXX_3.4.21' not found (required by /usr/share/toptracker/bin/TopTracker) /usr/share/toptracker/bin/TopTracker: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version 'CXXABI_1.3.9' not found (required by /usr/share/toptracker/bin/TopTracker)

But I then installed gcc 4.9 version and problem gone:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gcc-4.9 g++-4.9

Install Node.js on Ubuntu

Simply follow the instructions given here:

Example install:

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties python g++ make
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs

It installs current stable Node on the current stable Ubuntu. Quantal (12.10) users may need to install the software-properties-common package for the add-apt-repository command to work: sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

As of Node.js v0.10.0, the nodejs package from Chris Lea's repo includes both npm and nodejs-dev.

Don't give sudo apt-get install nodejs npm. Just sudo apt-get install nodejs.

iOS 9 not opening Instagram app with URL SCHEME

iOS 9 has made a small change to the handling of URL scheme. You must whitelist the url's that your app will call out to using the LSApplicationQueriesSchemes key in your Info.plist.

Please see post here: http://awkwardhare.com/post/121196006730/quick-take-on-ios-9-url-scheme-changes

The main conclusion is that:

If you call the “canOpenURL” method on a URL that is not in your whitelist, it will return “NO”, even if there is an app installed that has registered to handle this scheme. A “This app is not allowed to query for scheme xxx” syslog entry will appear.

If you call the “openURL” method on a URL that is not in your whitelist, it will fail silently. A “This app is not allowed to query for scheme xxx” syslog entry will appear.

The author also speculates that this is a bug with the OS and Apple will fix this in a subsequent release.

What issues should be considered when overriding equals and hashCode in Java?

There are some issues worth noticing if you're dealing with classes that are persisted using an Object-Relationship Mapper (ORM) like Hibernate, if you didn't think this was unreasonably complicated already!

Lazy loaded objects are subclasses

If your objects are persisted using an ORM, in many cases you will be dealing with dynamic proxies to avoid loading object too early from the data store. These proxies are implemented as subclasses of your own class. This means thatthis.getClass() == o.getClass() will return false. For example:

Person saved = new Person("John Doe");
Long key = dao.save(saved);
dao.flush();
Person retrieved = dao.retrieve(key);
saved.getClass().equals(retrieved.getClass()); // Will return false if Person is loaded lazy

If you're dealing with an ORM, using o instanceof Person is the only thing that will behave correctly.

Lazy loaded objects have null-fields

ORMs usually use the getters to force loading of lazy loaded objects. This means that person.name will be null if person is lazy loaded, even if person.getName() forces loading and returns "John Doe". In my experience, this crops up more often in hashCode() and equals().

If you're dealing with an ORM, make sure to always use getters, and never field references in hashCode() and equals().

Saving an object will change its state

Persistent objects often use a id field to hold the key of the object. This field will be automatically updated when an object is first saved. Don't use an id field in hashCode(). But you can use it in equals().

A pattern I often use is

if (this.getId() == null) {
    return this == other;
}
else {
    return this.getId().equals(other.getId());
}

But: you cannot include getId() in hashCode(). If you do, when an object is persisted, its hashCode changes. If the object is in a HashSet, you'll "never" find it again.

In my Person example, I probably would use getName() for hashCode and getId() plus getName() (just for paranoia) for equals(). It's okay if there are some risk of "collisions" for hashCode(), but never okay for equals().

hashCode() should use the non-changing subset of properties from equals()

JDBC ODBC Driver Connection

As mentioned in the comments to the question, the JDBC-ODBC Bridge is - as the name indicates - only a mechanism for the JDBC layer to "talk to" the ODBC layer. Even if you had a JDBC-ODBC Bridge on your Mac you would also need to have

  • an implementation of ODBC itself, and
  • an appropriate ODBC driver for the target database (ACE/Jet, a.k.a. "Access")

So, for most people, using JDBC-ODBC Bridge technology to manipulate ACE/Jet ("Access") databases is really a practical option only under Windows. It is also important to note that the JDBC-ODBC Bridge will be has been removed in Java 8 (ref: here).

There are other ways of manipulating ACE/Jet databases from Java, such as UCanAccess and Jackcess. Both of these are pure Java implementations so they work on non-Windows platforms. For details on how to use UCanAccess see

Manipulating an Access database from Java without ODBC

Django development IDE

I really like E Text Editor as it's pretty much a "port" of TextMate to Windows. Obviously Django being based on Python, the support for auto-completion is limited (there's nothing like intellisense that would require a dedicated IDE with knowledge of the intricacies of each library), but the use of snippets and "word-completion" helps a lot. Also, it has support for both Django Python files and the template files, and CSS, HTML, etc.

I've been using E Text Editor for a long time now, and I can tell you that it beats both PyDev and Komodo Edit hands down when it comes to working with Django. For other kinds of projects, PyDev and Komodo might be more adequate though.

Difference between Amazon EC2 and AWS Elastic Beanstalk

First off, EC2 and Elastic Compute Cloud are the same thing.

Next, AWS encompasses the range of Web Services that includes EC2 and Elastic Beanstalk. It also includes many others such as S3, RDS, DynamoDB, and all the others.

EC2

EC2 is Amazon's service that allows you to create a server (AWS calls these instances) in the AWS cloud. You pay by the hour and only what you use. You can do whatever you want with this instance as well as launch n number of instances.

Elastic Beanstalk

Elastic Beanstalk is one layer of abstraction away from the EC2 layer. Elastic Beanstalk will setup an "environment" for you that can contain a number of EC2 instances, an optional database, as well as a few other AWS components such as a Elastic Load Balancer, Auto-Scaling Group, Security Group. Then Elastic Beanstalk will manage these items for you whenever you want to update your software running in AWS. Elastic Beanstalk doesn't add any cost on top of these resources that it creates for you. If you have 10 hours of EC2 usage, then all you pay is 10 compute hours.

Running Wordpress

For running Wordpress, it is whatever you are most comfortable with. You could run it straight on a single EC2 instance, you could use a solution from the AWS Marketplace, or you could use Elastic Beanstalk.

What to pick?

In the case that you want to reduce system operations and just focus on the website, then Elastic Beanstalk would be the best choice for that. Elastic Beanstalk supports a PHP stack (as well as others). You can keep your site in version control and easily deploy to your environment whenever you make changes. It will also setup an Autoscaling group which can spawn up more EC2 instances if traffic is growing.

Here's the first result off of Google when searching for "elastic beanstalk wordpress": https://www.otreva.com/blog/deploying-wordpress-amazon-web-services-aws-ec2-rds-via-elasticbeanstalk/

Last non-empty cell in a column

An alternative solution without array formulas, possibly more robust than that of a previous answer with a (hint to a) solution without array formulas, is

=INDEX(A:A,INDEX(MAX(($A:$A<>"")*(ROW(A:A))),0))

See this answer as an example. Kudos to Brad and barry houdini, who helped solving this question.

Possible reasons for preferring a non-array formula are given in:

  1. An official Microsoft page (look for "Disadvantages of using array formulas").
    Array formulas can seem magical, but they also have some disadvantages:

    • You may occasionally forget to press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER. Remember to press this key combination whenever you enter or edit an array formula.
    • Other users may not understand your formulas. Array formulas are relatively undocumented, so if other people need to modify your workbooks, you should either avoid array formulas or make sure those users understand how to change them.
    • Depending on the processing speed and memory of your computer, large array formulas can slow down calculations.

  2. Array Formula Heresy.

How do I get Month and Date of JavaScript in 2 digit format?

If you want a format like "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss", then this might be quicker:

var date = new Date().toISOString().substr(0, 19);
// toISOString() will give you YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ

Or the commonly used MySQL datetime format "YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss":

var date2 = new Date().toISOString().substr(0, 19).replace('T', ' ');

I hope this helps

Find the most frequent number in a NumPy array

In Python 3 the following should work:

max(set(a), key=lambda x: a.count(x))

How to get difference between two rows for a column field?

If you really want to be sure of orders, use "Row_Number()" and compare next record of current record (take a close look at "on" clause)

T1.ID + 1 = T2.ID

You are basically joining next row with current row, without specifying "min" or doing "top". If you have a small number of records, other solutions by "Dems" or "Quassanoi" will work fine.

with T2 as (
    select  ID = ROW_NUMBER() over (order by rowInt),
            rowInt, Value
    from    myTable
)
select  T1.RowInt, T1.Value, Diff = IsNull(T2.Value, 0) - T1.Value
from    (   SELECT  ID = ROW_NUMBER() over (order by rowInt), *
            FROM    myTable ) T1
        left join T2 on T1.ID + 1 = T2.ID
ORDER BY T1.ID

How to import a class from default package

Classes in the default package cannot be imported by classes in packages. This is why you should not use the default package.

Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture or the neutral culture

I had the same issue when trying to run an update-database command on EF. Turns out the migration that was throwing the exception had the .resx file excluded from the project. I just right-clicked the .resx file and clicked "Include In Project". Problem solved.

Problems installing the devtools package

For ubuntu users, run this command in your terminal [Tested in UBUNTU 16.04]

sudo apt-get -y install libcurl4-openssl-dev

post this install libraries the way you usually do in R using

install.packages("package name")

Passing multiple values for a single parameter in Reporting Services

I ran into a problem with the otherwise wonderful fn_MVParam. SSRS 2005 sent data with an apostrophe as 2 quotes.

I added one line to fix this.

select @RepParam = replace(@RepParam,'''''','''')

My version of the fn also uses varchar instead of nvarchar.

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[fn_MVParam]
   (
    @RepParam varchar(MAX),
    @Delim char(1)= ','
   )
RETURNS @Values TABLE (Param varchar(MAX)) AS
/*
  Usage:  Use this in your report SP 
     where ID in (SELECT Param FROM fn_MVParam(@PlanIDList,','))
*/

BEGIN

   select @RepParam = replace(@RepParam,'''''','''')
   DECLARE @chrind INT
   DECLARE @Piece varchar(MAX)
   SELECT @chrind = 1
   WHILE @chrind > 0
      BEGIN
         SELECT @chrind = CHARINDEX(@Delim,@RepParam)
         IF @chrind > 0
            SELECT @Piece = LEFT(@RepParam,@chrind - 1)
         ELSE
            SELECT @Piece = @RepParam
         INSERT @VALUES(Param) VALUES(@Piece)
         SELECT @RepParam = RIGHT(@RepParam,DATALENGTH(@RepParam) - @chrind)
         IF DATALENGTH(@RepParam) = 0 BREAK
      END
   RETURN
END

Missing visible-** and hidden-** in Bootstrap v4

The user Klaro suggested to restore the old visibility classes, which is a good idea. Unfortunately, their solution did not work in my project.

I think that it is a better idea to restore the old mixin of bootstrap, because it is covering all breakpoints which can be individually defined by the user.

Here is the code:

// Restore Bootstrap 3 "hidden" utility classes.
@each $bp in map-keys($grid-breakpoints) {
  .hidden-#{$bp}-up {
    @include media-breakpoint-up($bp) {
      display: none !important;
    }
  }
  .hidden-#{$bp}-down {
    @include media-breakpoint-down($bp) {
      display: none !important;
    }
  }
  .hidden-#{$bp}-only{
    @include media-breakpoint-only($bp){
      display:none !important;
    }
  }
}

In my case, I have inserted this part in a _custom.scss file which is included at this point in the bootstrap.scss:

/*!
 * Bootstrap v4.0.0-beta (https://getbootstrap.com)
 * Copyright 2011-2017 The Bootstrap Authors
 * Copyright 2011-2017 Twitter, Inc.
 * Licensed under MIT (https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/LICENSE)
 */

@import "functions";
@import "variables";
@import "mixins";
@import "custom"; // <-- my custom file for overwriting default vars and adding the snippet from above
@import "print";
@import "reboot";
[..]

How to format a number as percentage in R?

Here's my solution for defining a new function (mostly so I can play around with Curry and Compose :-) ):

library(roxygen)
printpct <- Compose(function(x) x*100, Curry(sprintf,fmt="%1.2f%%"))

How to disable PHP Error reporting in CodeIgniter?

Change CI index.php file to:

if ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'local_server_name') {
    define('ENVIRONMENT', 'development');
} else {
    define('ENVIRONMENT', 'production');
}

if (defined('ENVIRONMENT')){
    switch (ENVIRONMENT){
        case 'development':
            error_reporting(E_ALL);
        break;

        case 'testing':
        case 'production':
            error_reporting(0);
        break;

        default:
            exit('The application environment is not set correctly.');
    }
}

IF PHP errors are off, but any MySQL errors are still going to show, turn these off in the /config/database.php file. Set the db_debug option to false:

$db['default']['db_debug'] = FALSE;

Also, you can use active_group as development and production to match the environment https://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/database/configuration.html

$active_group = 'development';


$db['development']['hostname'] = 'localhost';
$db['development']['username'] = '---';
$db['development']['password'] = '---';
$db['development']['database'] = '---';
$db['development']['dbdriver'] = 'mysql';
$db['development']['dbprefix'] = '';
$db['development']['pconnect'] = TRUE;

$db['development']['db_debug'] = TRUE;

$db['development']['cache_on'] = FALSE;
$db['development']['cachedir'] = '';
$db['development']['char_set'] = 'utf8';
$db['development']['dbcollat'] = 'utf8_general_ci';
$db['development']['swap_pre'] = '';
$db['development']['autoinit'] = TRUE;
$db['development']['stricton'] = FALSE;



$db['production']['hostname'] = 'localhost';
$db['production']['username'] = '---';
$db['production']['password'] = '---';
$db['production']['database'] = '---';
$db['production']['dbdriver'] = 'mysql';
$db['production']['dbprefix'] = '';
$db['production']['pconnect'] = TRUE;

$db['production']['db_debug'] = FALSE;

$db['production']['cache_on'] = FALSE;
$db['production']['cachedir'] = '';
$db['production']['char_set'] = 'utf8';
$db['production']['dbcollat'] = 'utf8_general_ci';
$db['production']['swap_pre'] = '';
$db['production']['autoinit'] = TRUE;
$db['production']['stricton'] = FALSE;

Removing specific rows from a dataframe

This boils down to two distinct steps:

  1. Figure out when your condition is true, and hence compute a vector of booleans, or, as I prefer, their indices by wrapping it into which()
  2. Create an updated data.frame by excluding the indices from the previous step.

Here is an example:

R> set.seed(42)
R> DF <- data.frame(sub=rep(1:4, each=4), day=sample(1:4, 16, replace=TRUE))
R> DF
   sub day
1    1   4
2    1   4
3    1   2
4    1   4
5    2   3
6    2   3
7    2   3
8    2   1
9    3   3
10   3   3
11   3   2
12   3   3
13   4   4
14   4   2
15   4   2
16   4   4
R> ind <- which(with( DF, sub==2 & day==3 ))
R> ind
[1] 5 6 7
R> DF <- DF[ -ind, ]
R> table(DF)
   day
sub 1 2 3 4
  1 0 1 0 3
  2 1 0 0 0
  3 0 1 3 0
  4 0 2 0 2
R>

And we see that sub==2 has only one entry remaining with day==1.

Edit The compound condition can be done with an 'or' as follows:

ind <- which(with( DF, (sub==1 & day==2) | (sub=3 & day=4) ))

and here is a new full example

R> set.seed(1)
R> DF <- data.frame(sub=rep(1:4, each=5), day=sample(1:4, 20, replace=TRUE))
R> table(DF)
   day
sub 1 2 3 4
  1 1 2 1 1
  2 1 0 2 2
  3 2 1 1 1
  4 0 2 1 2
R> ind <- which(with( DF, (sub==1 & day==2) | (sub==3 & day==4) ))
R> ind
[1]  1  2 15
R> DF <- DF[-ind, ]
R> table(DF)
   day
sub 1 2 3 4
  1 1 0 1 1
  2 1 0 2 2
  3 2 1 1 0
  4 0 2 1 2
R>

SSIS how to set connection string dynamically from a config file

These answers are right, but old and works for Depoloyement Package Model. What I Actually needed is to change the server name, database name of a connection manager and i found this very helpful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yLAwTHH_GA

Better for people using SQL Server 2012-2014-2016 ... with Deployment Project Model

load and execute order of scripts

The browser will execute the scripts in the order it finds them. If you call an external script, it will block the page until the script has been loaded and executed.

To test this fact:

// file: test.php
sleep(10);
die("alert('Done!');");

// HTML file:
<script type="text/javascript" src="test.php"></script>

Dynamically added scripts are executed as soon as they are appended to the document.

To test this fact:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        var s = document.createElement('script');
        s.type = "text/javascript";
        s.src = "link.js"; // file contains alert("hello!");
        document.body.appendChild(s);
        alert("appended");
    </script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        alert("final");
    </script>
</body>
</html>

Order of alerts is "appended" -> "hello!" -> "final"

If in a script you attempt to access an element that hasn't been reached yet (example: <script>do something with #blah</script><div id="blah"></div>) then you will get an error.

Overall, yes you can include external scripts and then access their functions and variables, but only if you exit the current <script> tag and start a new one.

How can I capitalize the first letter of each word in a string using JavaScript?

In ECMAScript 6, a one-line answer using the arrow function:

const captialize = words => words.split(' ').map( w =>  w.substring(0,1).toUpperCase()+ w.substring(1)).join(' ')

How can you find out which process is listening on a TCP or UDP port on Windows?

Based on answers with info and kill, for me it is useful to combine them in one command. And you can run this from cmd to get information about process that listen on given port (example 8080):

for /f "tokens=3 delims=LISTENING" %i  in ('netstat -ano ^| findStr "8080" ^| findStr "["') do @tasklist /nh /fi "pid eq %i"

Or if you want to kill it:

for /f "tokens=3 delims=LISTENING" %i  in ('netstat -ano ^| findStr "8080" ^| findStr "["') do @Taskkill /F /IM %i

You can also put those command into a bat file (they will be slightly different - replace %i for %%i):

File portInfo.bat

for /f "tokens=3 delims=LISTENING" %%i  in (
    'netstat -ano ^| findStr "%1" ^| findStr "["'
) do @tasklist /nh /fi "pid eq %%i"

File portKill.bat

for /f "tokens=3 delims=LISTENING" %%i  in (
    'netstat -ano ^| findStr "%1" ^| findStr "["'
) do @Taskkill /F /IM %%i

Then you from cmd you can do this:

portInfo.bat 8080

or

portKill.bat 8080

How to kill MySQL connections

As above mentioned, there is no special command to do it. However, if all those connection are inactive, using 'flush tables;' is able to release all those connection which are not active.

Retrieve list of tasks in a queue in Celery

To retrieve tasks from backend, use this

from amqplib import client_0_8 as amqp
conn = amqp.Connection(host="localhost:5672 ", userid="guest",
                       password="guest", virtual_host="/", insist=False)
chan = conn.channel()
name, jobs, consumers = chan.queue_declare(queue="queue_name", passive=True)

Flutter - Wrap text on overflow, like insert ellipsis or fade

Depending on your situation, I think this is the best approach below.

final maxWidth = MediaQuery.of(context).size.width * 0.4;
Container(
        textAlign: TextAlign.center),
        child: Text('This is long text',
        constraints: BoxConstraints(maxWidth: maxWidth),
),

How to convert Javascript datetime to C# datetime?

You were almost right, there's just need one little fix to be made:

var a = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc)
    .AddMilliseconds(1310522400000)
    .ToLocalTime();

Remove a git commit which has not been pushed

Remove the last commit before push

git reset --soft HEAD~1

1 means the last commit, if you want to remove two last use 2, and so forth*

How do I resize a Google Map with JavaScript after it has loaded?

for Google Maps v3, you need to trigger the resize event differently:

google.maps.event.trigger(map, "resize");

See the documentation for the resize event (you'll need to search for the word 'resize'): http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/v3/reference.html#event

Update

This answer has been here a long time, so a little demo might be worthwhile & although it uses jQuery, there's no real need to do so.

_x000D_
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$(function() {
  var mapOptions = {
    zoom: 8,
    center: new google.maps.LatLng(-34.397, 150.644)
  };
  var map = new google.maps.Map($("#map-canvas")[0], mapOptions);

  // listen for the window resize event & trigger Google Maps to update too
  $(window).resize(function() {
    // (the 'map' here is the result of the created 'var map = ...' above)
    google.maps.event.trigger(map, "resize");
  });
});
_x000D_ 
html,
body {
  height: 100%;
}
#map-canvas {
  min-width: 200px;
  width: 50%;
  min-height: 200px;
  height: 80%;
  border: 1px solid blue;
}
_x000D_ 
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?v=3.exp&dummy=.js"></script>
Google Maps resize demo
<div id="map-canvas"></div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

UPDATE 2018-05-22

With a new renderer release in version 3.32 of Maps JavaScript API the resize event is no longer a part of Map class.

The documentation states

When the map is resized, the map center is fixed

  • The full-screen control now preserves center.

  • There is no longer any need to trigger the resize event manually.

source: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/new-renderer

google.maps.event.trigger(map, "resize"); doesn't have any effect starting from version 3.32

How to close activity and go back to previous activity in android

 
{ getApplicationContext.finish();   }

Try this method..

HTML-Tooltip position relative to mouse pointer

We can achieve the same using "Directive" in Angularjs.

            //Bind mousemove event to the element which will show tooltip
            $("#tooltip").mousemove(function(e) {
                //find X & Y coodrinates
                x = e.clientX,
                y = e.clientY;

                //Set tooltip position according to mouse position
                tooltipSpan.style.top = (y + 20) + 'px';
                tooltipSpan.style.left = (x + 20) + 'px';
            });

You can check this post for further details. http://www.ufthelp.com/2014/12/Tooltip-Directive-AngularJS.html

ERROR 1067 (42000): Invalid default value for 'created_at'

You can do it like this:

 CREATE TABLE `ttt` (
  `id` INT(11) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `t1` TIMESTAMP  NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
  `t2` TIMESTAMP  NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
  `t3` TIMESTAMP  NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
  `t4` TIMESTAMP  NULL DEFAULT 0,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=INNODB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
  • Because the TIMESTAMP value is stored as Epoch Seconds, the timestamp value '1970-01-01 00:00:00' (UTC) is reserved since the second #0 is used to represent '0000-00-00 00:00:00'.
  • In MariaDB 5.5 and before there could only be one TIMESTAMP column per table that had CURRENT_TIMESTAMP defined as its default value. This limit has no longer applied since MariaDB 10.0.

see: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/timestamp/

sample

MariaDB []> insert into ttt (id) VALUES (1),(2),(3);
Query OK, 3 rows affected (0.01 sec)
Records: 3  Duplicates: 0  Warnings: 0

MariaDB []> select * from ttt;
+----+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+
| id | t1                  | t2                  | t3                  | t4                  |
+----+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+
|  1 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | 2000-01-01 12:01:02 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
|  2 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | 2000-01-01 12:01:02 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
|  3 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | 2000-01-01 12:01:02 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
+----+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

MariaDB []>

Running Selenium WebDriver python bindings in chrome

You need to make sure the standalone ChromeDriver binary (which is different than the Chrome browser binary) is either in your path or available in the webdriver.chrome.driver environment variable.

see http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver for full information on how wire things up.

Edit:

Right, seems to be a bug in the Python bindings wrt reading the chromedriver binary from the path or the environment variable. Seems if chromedriver is not in your path you have to pass it in as an argument to the constructor.

import os
from selenium import webdriver

chromedriver = "/Users/adam/Downloads/chromedriver"
os.environ["webdriver.chrome.driver"] = chromedriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver)
driver.get("http://stackoverflow.com")
driver.quit()

How to return a part of an array in Ruby?

Ruby 2.6 Beginless/Endless Ranges

(..1)
# or
(...1)


(1..)
# or
(1...)


[1,2,3,4,5,6][..3]
=> [1, 2, 3, 4]

[1,2,3,4,5,6][...3]
 => [1, 2, 3]


ROLES = %w[superadmin manager admin contact user]
ROLES[ROLES.index('admin')..]
=> ["admin", "contact", "user"]

How do I convert a String to an InputStream in Java?

You could use a StringReader and convert the reader to an input stream using the solution in this other stackoverflow post.

C++ deprecated conversion from string constant to 'char*'

A reason for this problem (which is even harder to detect than the issue with char* str = "some string" - which others have explained) is when you are using constexpr.

constexpr char* str = "some string";

It seems that it would behave similar to const char* str, and so would not cause a warning, as it occurs before char*, but it instead behaves as char* const str.

Details

Constant pointer, and pointer to a constant. The difference between const char* str, and char* const str can be explained as follows.

  1. const char* str : Declare str to be a pointer to a const char. This means that the data to which this pointer is pointing to it constant. The pointer can be modified, but any attempt to modify the data would throw a compilation error.
    1. str++ ; : VALID. We are modifying the pointer, and not the data being pointed to.
    2. *str = 'a'; : INVALID. We are trying to modify the data being pointed to.
  2. char* const str : Declare str to be a const pointer to char. This means that point is now constant, but the data being pointed too is not. The pointer cannot be modified but we can modify the data using the pointer.
    1. str++ ; : INVALID. We are trying to modify the pointer variable, which is a constant.
    2. *str = 'a'; : VALID. We are trying to modify the data being pointed to. In our case this will not cause a compilation error, but will cause a runtime error, as the string will most probably will go into a read only section of the compiled binary. This statement would make sense if we had dynamically allocated memory, eg. char* const str = new char[5];.
  3. const char* const str : Declare str to be a const pointer to a const char. In this case we can neither modify the pointer, nor the data being pointed to.
    1. str++ ; : INVALID. We are trying to modify the pointer variable, which is a constant.
    2. *str = 'a'; : INVALID. We are trying to modify the data pointed by this pointer, which is also constant.

In my case the issue was that I was expecting constexpr char* str to behave as const char* str, and not char* const str, since visually it seems closer to the former.

Also, the warning generated for constexpr char* str = "some string" is slightly different from char* str = "some string".

  1. Compiler warning for constexpr char* str = "some string": ISO C++11 does not allow conversion from string literal to 'char *const'
  2. Compiler warning for char* str = "some string": ISO C++11 does not allow conversion from string literal to 'char *'.

Tip

You can use C gibberish ? English converter to convert C declarations to easily understandable English statements, and vice versa. This is a C only tool, and thus wont support things (like constexpr) which are exclusive to C++.

How to split a dos path into its components in Python

I use the following as since it uses the os.path.basename function it doesn't add any slashes to the returned list. It also works with any platform's slashes: i.e window's \\\\ or unix's /. And furthermore, it doesn't add the \\\\\\\\ that windows uses for server paths :)

def SplitPath( split_path ):
    pathSplit_lst   = []
    while os.path.basename(split_path):
        pathSplit_lst.append( os.path.basename(split_path) )
        split_path = os.path.dirname(split_path)
    pathSplit_lst.reverse()
    return pathSplit_lst

So for:

\\\\\\\server\\\\folder1\\\\folder2\\\\folder3\\\\folder4

You get:

['server','folder1','folder2','folder3','folder4']

Named regular expression group "(?P<group_name>regexp)": what does "P" stand for?

Pattern! The group names a (sub)pattern for later use in the regex. See the documentation here for details about how such groups are used.

Getting Error - ORA-01858: a non-numeric character was found where a numeric was expected

The error you are getting is either because you are doing TO_DATE on a column that's already a date, and you're using a format mask that is different to your nls_date_format parameter[1] or because the event_occurrence column contains data that isn't a number.

You need to a) correct your query so that it's not using TO_DATE on the date column, and b) correct your data, if event_occurrence is supposed to be just numbers.

And fix the datatype of that column to make sure you can only store numbers.



[1] What Oracle does when you do: TO_DATE(date_column, non_default_format_mask) is: TO_DATE(TO_CHAR(date_column, nls_date_format), non_default_format_mask)

Generally, the default nls_date_format parameter is set to dd-MON-yy, so in your query, what is likely to be happening is your date column is converted to a string in the format dd-MON-yy, and you're then turning it back to a date using the format MMDD. The string is not in this format, so you get an error.

Get all mysql selected rows into an array

  1. Loop through the results and place each one in an array

  2. use mysqli_fetch_all() to get them all at one time

ssh script returns 255 error

I was stumped by this. Once I got passed the 255 problem... I ended up with a mysterious error code 1. This is the foo to get that resolved:

 pssh -x '-tt' -h HOSTFILELIST -P "sudo yum -y install glibc"

-P means write the output out as you go and is optional. But the -x '-tt' trick is what forces a psuedo tty to be allocated.

You can get a clue what the error code 1 means this if you try:

ssh AHOST "sudo yum -y install glibc"

You may see:

[slc@bastion-ci ~]$ ssh MYHOST "sudo yum -y install glibc"
sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo
[slc@bastion-ci ~]$ echo $?
1

Notice the return code for this is 1, which is what pssh is reporting to you.

I found this -x -tt trick here. Also note that turning on verbose mode (pssh --verbose) for these cases does nothing to help you.

Is it possible to opt-out of dark mode on iOS 13?

Add this to info.plist

<key>UIUserInterfaceStyle</key>
    <string>Light</string>

raw_input function in Python

raw_input is a form of input that takes the argument in the form of a string whereas the input function takes the value depending upon your input. Say, a=input(5) returns a as an integer with value 5 whereas a=raw_input(5) returns a as a string of "5"

How do I rename a Git repository?

A Git repository doesn't have a name. You can just rename the directory containing your worktree if you want.

Jenkins/Hudson - accessing the current build number?

As per Jenkins Documentation,

BUILD_NUMBER

is used. This number is identify how many times jenkins run this build process $BUILD_NUMBER is general syntax for it.

Toggle show/hide on click with jQuery

The toggle-event is deprecated in version 1.8, and removed in version 1.9

Try this...

$('#myelement').toggle(
   function () {
      $('#another-element').show("slide", {
          direction: "right"
      }, 1000);
   },
   function () {
      $('#another-element').hide("slide", {
          direction: "right"
      }, 1000);
});

Note: This method signature was deprecated in jQuery 1.8 and removed in jQuery 1.9. jQuery also provides an animation method named .toggle() that toggles the visibility of elements. Whether the animation or the event method is fired depends on the set of arguments passed, jQuery docs.

The .toggle() method is provided for convenience. It is relatively straightforward to implement the same behavior by hand, and this can be necessary if the assumptions built into .toggle() prove limiting. For example, .toggle() is not guaranteed to work correctly if applied twice to the same element. Since .toggle() internally uses a click handler to do its work, we must unbind click to remove a behavior attached with .toggle(), so other click handlers can be caught in the crossfire. The implementation also calls .preventDefault() on the event, so links will not be followed and buttons will not be clicked if .toggle() has been called on the element, jQuery docs

You toggle between visibility using show and hide with click. You can put condition on visibility if element is visible then hide else show it. Note you will need jQuery UI to use addition effects with show / hide like direction.

Live Demo

$( "#myelement" ).click(function() {     
    if($('#another-element:visible').length)
        $('#another-element').hide("slide", { direction: "right" }, 1000);
    else
        $('#another-element').show("slide", { direction: "right" }, 1000);        
});

Or, simply use toggle instead of click. By using toggle you wont need a condition (if-else) statement. as suggested by T.J.Crowder.

Live Demo

$( "#myelement" ).click(function() {     
   $('#another-element').toggle("slide", { direction: "right" }, 1000);
});

How to bind bootstrap popover on dynamic elements

Try this HTML

<a href="#" data-toggle="popover" data-popover-target="#popover-content-1">Do Popover 1</a>
<a href="#" data-toggle="popover" data-popover-target="#popover-content-2">Do Popover</a>

<div id="popover-content-1" style="display: none">Content 1</div>
<div id="popover-content-2" style="display: none">Content 2</div>

jQuery:

$(function() {
  $('[data-toggle="popover"]').each(function(i, obj) {
    var popover_target = $(this).data('popover-target');
    $(this).popover({
        html: true,
        trigger: 'focus',
        placement: 'right',
        content: function(obj) {
            return $(popover_target).html();
        }
    });
  });
});

Differences between ConstraintLayout and RelativeLayout

The Conclusion I can make is

1) We can do UI design without touching the xml part of code, to be honest I feel google has copied how UI is designed in iOS apps, it will make sense if you are familiar with UI development in iOS, but in relative layout its hard to set the constraints without touching the xml design.

2) Secondly it has flat view hierarchy unlike other layouts, so does better performance than relative layout which you might have seen from other answers

3) It also have extra things apart from what relative layout has, such as circular relative positioning where we can position another view relative to this one at certain radius with certain angle which cant do in relative layout

I am saying it again, designing UI using constraint layout is same as designing UI in iOS, so in future if you work on iOS you will find it easier if you have used constraint layout

Why do I have to define LD_LIBRARY_PATH with an export every time I run my application?

What you also can do, if it's something you installed on your system, is to add the directory that contains the shared libraries to your /etc/ld.so.conf file, or make a new file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/

(I've both checked RHEL5 and Ubuntu distribution so I think it's generic for linux)

The ldconfig program will make sure they are system-wide included.

See the following link for more information: www.dwheeler.com/secure-programs/Secure-Programs-HOWTO/dlls.html

Performance of FOR vs FOREACH in PHP

I'm not sure this is so surprising. Most people who code in PHP are not well versed in what PHP is actually doing at the bare metal. I'll state a few things, which will be true most of the time:

  1. If you're not modifying the variable, by-value is faster in PHP. This is because it's reference counted anyway and by-value gives it less to do. It knows the second you modify that ZVAL (PHP's internal data structure for most types), it will have to break it off in a straightforward way (copy it and forget about the other ZVAL). But you never modify it, so it doesn't matter. References make that more complicated with more bookkeeping it has to do to know what to do when you modify the variable. So if you're read-only, paradoxically it's better not the point that out with the &. I know, it's counter intuitive, but it's also true.

  2. Foreach isn't slow. And for simple iteration, the condition it's testing against — "am I at the end of this array" — is done using native code, not PHP opcodes. Even if it's APC cached opcodes, it's still slower than a bunch of native operations done at the bare metal.

  3. Using a for loop "for ($i=0; $i < count($x); $i++) is slow because of the count(), and the lack of PHP's ability (or really any interpreted language) to evaluate at parse time whether anything modifies the array. This prevents it from evaluating the count once.

  4. But even once you fix it with "$c=count($x); for ($i=0; $i<$c; $i++) the $i<$c is a bunch of Zend opcodes at best, as is the $i++. In the course of 100000 iterations, this can matter. Foreach knows at the native level what to do. No PHP opcodes needed to test the "am I at the end of this array" condition.

  5. What about the old school "while(list(" stuff? Well, using each(), current(), etc. are all going to involve at least 1 function call, which isn't slow, but not free. Yes, those are PHP opcodes again! So while + list + each has its costs as well.

For these reasons foreach is understandably the best option for simple iteration.

And don't forget, it's also the easiest to read, so it's win-win.

How to force uninstallation of windows service

One thing that has caught me out in the past is that if you have the services viewer running then that prevents the services from being fully deleted, so close that beforehand

find: missing argument to -exec

Both {} and && will cause problems due to being expanded by the command line. I would suggest trying:

find /home/me/download/ -type f -name "*.rm" -exec ffmpeg -i \{} -sameq \{}.mp3 \; -exec rm \{} \;

What is the difference between method overloading and overriding?

Method overriding is when a child class redefines the same method as a parent class, with the same parameters. For example, the standard Java class java.util.LinkedHashSet extends java.util.HashSet. The method add() is overridden in LinkedHashSet. If you have a variable that is of type HashSet, and you call its add() method, it will call the appropriate implementation of add(), based on whether it is a HashSet or a LinkedHashSet. This is called polymorphism.

Method overloading is defining several methods in the same class, that accept different numbers and types of parameters. In this case, the actual method called is decided at compile-time, based on the number and types of arguments. For instance, the method System.out.println() is overloaded, so that you can pass ints as well as Strings, and it will call a different version of the method.

Strange out of memory issue while loading an image to a Bitmap object

I think best way to avoid the OutOfMemoryError is to face it and understand it.

I made an app to intentionally cause OutOfMemoryError, and monitor memory usage.

After I've done a lot of experiments with this App, I've got the following conclusions:

I'm gonna talk about SDK versions before Honey Comb first.

  1. Bitmap is stored in native heap, but it will get garbage collected automatically, calling recycle() is needless.

  2. If {VM heap size} + {allocated native heap memory} >= {VM heap size limit for the device}, and you are trying to create bitmap, OOM will be thrown.

    NOTICE: VM HEAP SIZE is counted rather than VM ALLOCATED MEMORY.

  3. VM Heap size will never shrink after grown, even if the allocated VM memory is shrinked.

  4. So you have to keep the peak VM memory as low as possible to keep VM Heap Size from growing too big to save available memory for Bitmaps.

  5. Manually call System.gc() is meaningless, the system will call it first before trying to grow the heap size.

  6. Native Heap Size will never shrink too, but it's not counted for OOM, so no need to worry about it.

Then, let's talk about SDK Starts from Honey Comb.

  1. Bitmap is stored in VM heap, Native memory is not counted for OOM.

  2. The condition for OOM is much simpler: {VM heap size} >= {VM heap size limit for the device}.

  3. So you have more available memory to create bitmap with the same heap size limit, OOM is less likely to be thrown.

Here is some of my observations about Garbage Collection and Memory Leak.

You can see it yourself in the App. If an Activity executed an AsyncTask that was still running after the Activity was destroyed, the Activity will not get garbage collected until the AsyncTask finish.

This is because AsyncTask is an instance of an anonymous inner class, it holds a reference of the Activity.

Calling AsyncTask.cancel(true) will not stop the execution if the task is blocked in an IO operation in background thread.

Callbacks are anonymous inner classes too, so if a static instance in your project holds them and do not release them, memory would be leaked.

If you scheduled a repeating or delayed task, for example a Timer, and you do not call cancel() and purge() in onPause(), memory would be leaked.

The developers of this app have not set up this app properly for Facebook Login?

This is because you didn't make your Facebook app live. For this go to:

Facebook developer page->Select your app->you will see top of the right your live option is disable and click to enable it->It will refer to you in "basic setting section"->You have to add "privacy policy url" and "Terms and services url" also you may select app category->then save the setting.

Note: You can use any blogspot or website to make your privacy policy also terms and condition page.Both I gave same url which worked.

Toggle button for Facebook app live

Background position, margin-top?

 
 background-image: url(/images/poster.png);
 background-position: center;
 background-position-y: 50px;
 background-repeat: no-repeat;

How could I convert data from string to long in c#

You can also use long.TryParse and long.Parse.

long l1;
l1 = long.Parse("1100.25");
//or
long.TryParse("1100.25", out l1);

Is there a good jQuery Drag-and-drop file upload plugin?

If you are still looking for one, I just released mine: http://github.com/weixiyen/jquery-filedrop

Works for Firefox 3.6 right now. I decided not to do the Chrome hack for now and let Webkit catch up with FileReader() in the next versions of Safari and Chrome.

This plugin is future compatible.

FileReader() is the official standard over something like XHR.getAsBinary() which is deprecated according to mozilla.

It's also the only HTML5 desktop drag+drop plugin out there that I know of which allows you to send extra data along with the file, including data that can be calculated at the time of upload with a callback function.

How do you delete an ActiveRecord object?

If you are using Rails 5 and above, the following solution will work.

#delete based on id
user_id = 50
User.find(id: user_id).delete_all

#delete based on condition
threshold_age = 20
User.where(age: threshold_age).delete_all

https://www.rubydoc.info/docs/rails/ActiveRecord%2FNullRelation:delete_all

Read CSV file column by column

Well, how about this !!

This code calculates both row and column count in a csv file. Try this out !!

    static int[] getRowsColsNo() {
    Scanner scanIn = null;
    int rows = 0;
    int cols = 0;
    String InputLine = "";
    try {
        scanIn = new Scanner(new BufferedReader(
                new FileReader("filename.csv")));
        scanIn.useDelimiter(",");
        while (scanIn.hasNextLine()) {
            InputLine = scanIn.nextLine();
            String[] InArray = InputLine.split(",");
            rows++;
            cols = InArray.length;
        }

    } catch (Exception e) {
        System.out.println(e);
    }
    return new int[] { rows, cols };
}

How do I find and replace all occurrences (in all files) in Visual Studio Code?

Update for 2020

If you are using the search feature to search across files (Ctrl + Shift + F) it can be easy to miss how to convert your search to a search and replace within the UI.

Here's a typical search result:

search result image

To convert this to a search and replace you need to click the arrow icon to the left of the search input field. This will open the replace options as seen below. Note the arrow icon is now pointed down.

search and replace image

The keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + H will also work as well to access the search and replace.

Link to VSCode docs on search and replace: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/codebasics#_search-and-replace

How do I shrink my SQL Server Database?

I think you can remove all your log with switch from full to simple recovery. Right click on your Database and select Properties and select Options and change

  • Recovery mode to Simple
  • Containment type to None

Switching from full to simple

How to hash a password

I use a hash and a salt for my password encryption (it's the same hash that Asp.Net Membership uses):

private string PasswordSalt
{
   get
   {
      var rng = new RNGCryptoServiceProvider();
      var buff = new byte[32];
      rng.GetBytes(buff);
      return Convert.ToBase64String(buff);
   }
}

private string EncodePassword(string password, string salt)
{
   byte[] bytes = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(password);
   byte[] src = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(salt);
   byte[] dst = new byte[src.Length + bytes.Length];
   Buffer.BlockCopy(src, 0, dst, 0, src.Length);
   Buffer.BlockCopy(bytes, 0, dst, src.Length, bytes.Length);
   HashAlgorithm algorithm = HashAlgorithm.Create("SHA1");
   byte[] inarray = algorithm.ComputeHash(dst);
   return Convert.ToBase64String(inarray);
}

How do I free my port 80 on localhost Windows?

Skype likes to use port 80 and blocks IIS. That was my prob.

Print "hello world" every X seconds

For small applications it is fine to use Timer and TimerTask as Rohit mentioned but in web applications I would use Quartz Scheduler to schedule jobs and to perform such periodic jobs.

See tutorials for Quartz scheduling.

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

An old thread, but a useful one... so here's some additional code.

First, in response to Craig's point about the regex being overly greedy and failing for sheet names containing a single quote, this should do the trick (replace 'SHEETNAME'!A1 with your own sheet & cell reference):

=IF(TODAY()=TODAY(), SUBSTITUTE(REGEXREPLACE(CELL("address",'SHEETNAME'!A1),"'?(.+?)'?!\$.*","$1"),"''","'", ""), "")

It uses a lazy match (the ".+?") to find a character string (squotes included) that may or may not be enclosed by squotes but is definitely terminated by bang dollar ("!$") followed by any number of characters. Google Sheets actually protects squotes within a sheet name by appending another squote (as in ''), so the SUBSTITUTE is needed to reduce these back to single squotes.

The formula also allows for sheet names that contain bangs ("!"), but will fail for names using bang dollars ("!$") - if you really need to make your sheet names to look like full absolute cell references then put a separating character between the bang and the dollar (such as a space).

Note that it will only work correctly when pointed at a different sheet from the one that the formula resides! This is because CELL("address" returns just the cell reference (not the sheet name) when used on the same sheet. If you need a sheet to show its own name then put the formula in a cell on another sheet, point it at your target sheet, and then reference the formula cell from the target sheet. I often have a "Meta" sheet in my workbooks to hold settings, common values, database matching criteria, etc so that's also where I put this formula.

As others have said many times above, Google Sheets will only notice changes to the sheet name if you set the workbook's recalculation to "On change and every minute" which you can find on the File|Settings|Calculation menu. It can take up to a whole minute for the change to be picked up.

Secondly, if like me you happen to need an inter-operable formula that works on both Google Sheets and Excel (which for older versions at least doesn't have the REGEXREPLACE function), try:

=IF(IFERROR(INFO("release"), 0)=0, IF(TODAY()=TODAY(), SUBSTITUTE(REGEXREPLACE(CELL("address",'SHEETNAME'!A1),"'?(.+?)'?!\$.*","$1"),"''","'", ""), ""), MID(CELL("filename",'SHEETNAME'!A1),FIND("]",CELL("filename",'SHEETNAME'!A1))+1,255))

This uses INFO("release") to determine which platform we are on... Excel returns a number >0 whereas Google Sheets does not implement the INFO function and generates an error which the formula traps into a 0 and uses for numerical comparison. The Google code branch is as above.

For clarity and completeness, this is the Excel-only version (which does correctly return the name of the sheet it resides on):

=MID(CELL("filename",'SHEETNAME'!A1),FIND("]",CELL("filename",'SHEETNAME'!A1))+1,255)

It looks for the "]" filename terminator in the output of CELL("filename" and extracts the sheet name from the remaining part of the string using the MID function. Excel doesn't allow sheet names to contain "]" so this works for all possible sheet names. In the inter-operable version, Excel is happy to be fed a call to the non-existent REGEXREPLACE function because it never gets to execute the Google code branch.

Declaring a custom android UI element using XML

You can include any layout file in other layout file as-

             <RelativeLayout
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
                android:layout_marginRight="30dp" >

                <include
                    android:id="@+id/frnd_img_file"
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    layout="@layout/include_imagefile"/>

                <include
                    android:id="@+id/frnd_video_file"
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    layout="@layout/include_video_lay" />

                <ImageView
                    android:id="@+id/downloadbtn"
                    android:layout_width="30dp"
                    android:layout_height="30dp"
                    android:layout_centerInParent="true"
                    android:src="@drawable/plus"/>
            </RelativeLayout>

here the layout files in include tag are other .xml layout files in the same res folder.

How to join two sets in one line without using "|"

You can just unpack both sets into one like this:

>>> set_1 = {1, 2, 3, 4}
>>> set_2 = {3, 4, 5, 6}
>>> union = {*set_1, *set_2}
>>> union
{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}

The * unpacks the set. Unpacking is where an iterable (e.g. a set or list) is represented as every item it yields. This means the above example simplifies to {1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 4, 5, 6} which then simplifies to {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6} because the set can only contain unique items.

Getting an error "fopen': This function or variable may be unsafe." when compling

This is a warning for usual. You can either disable it by

#pragma warning(disable:4996)

or simply use fopen_s like Microsoft has intended.

But be sure to use the pragma before other headers.

How to make a DIV always float on the screen in top right corner?

Use position: fixed, and anchor it to the top and right sides of the page:

#fixed-div {
    position: fixed;
    top: 1em;
    right: 1em;
}

IE6 does not support position: fixed, however. If you need this functionality in IE6, this purely-CSS solution seems to do the trick. You'll need a wrapper <div> to contain some of the styles for it to work, as seen in the stylesheet.

Get month and year from a datetime in SQL Server 2005

 
---Lalmuni Demos---
create table Users
(
userid int,date_of_birth date
)
---insert values---
insert into Users values(4,'9/10/1991')

select DATEDIFF(year,date_of_birth, getdate()) - (CASE WHEN (DATEADD(year, DATEDIFF(year,date_of_birth, getdate()),date_of_birth)) > getdate() THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) as Years, 
MONTH(getdate() - (DATEADD(year, DATEDIFF(year, date_of_birth, getdate()), date_of_birth))) - 1 as Months, 
DAY(getdate() - (DATEADD(year, DATEDIFF(year,date_of_birth, getdate()), date_of_birth))) - 1 as Days,
from users

How to list the tables in a SQLite database file that was opened with ATTACH?

There is a command available for this on the SQLite command line:

.tables ?PATTERN?      List names of tables matching a LIKE pattern

Which converts to the following SQL:

SELECT name FROM sqlite_master
WHERE type IN ('table','view') AND name NOT LIKE 'sqlite_%'
UNION ALL
SELECT name FROM sqlite_temp_master
WHERE type IN ('table','view')
ORDER BY 1

Inject service in app.config

Alex provided the correct reason for not being able to do what you're trying to do, so +1. But you are encountering this issue because you're not quite using resolves how they're designed.

resolve takes either the string of a service or a function returning a value to be injected. Since you're doing the latter, you need to pass in an actual function:

resolve: {
  data: function (dbService) {
    return dbService.getData();
  }
}

When the framework goes to resolve data, it will inject the dbService into the function so you can freely use it. You don't need to inject into the config block at all to accomplish this.

Bon appetit!

How do I get the type of a variable?

If you have a variable 

int k;

You can get its type using 

cout << typeid(k).name() << endl;

See the following thread on SO: Similar question

How to set OnClickListener on a RadioButton in Android?

Hope this will help you...

RadioButton rb = (RadioButton) findViewById(R.id.yourFirstRadioButton);
rb.setOnClickListener(first_radio_listener);

and

OnClickListener first_radio_listener = new OnClickListener (){
 public void onClick(View v) {
   //Your Implementaions...
 }
};

Unfamiliar symbol in algorithm: what does ? mean?

yes, these are the well-known quantifiers used in math. Another example is ? which reads as "exists".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantification

HashMap: One Key, multiple Values

Try using collections to store the values of a key:

Map<Key, Collection<Value>>

you have to maintain the value list yourself

How to interpolate variables in strings in JavaScript, without concatenation?

I would use the back-tick ``.

let name1 = 'Geoffrey';
let msg1 = `Hello ${name1}`;
console.log(msg1); // 'Hello Geoffrey'

But if you don't know name1 when you create msg1.

For exemple if msg1 came from an API.

You can use :

let name2 = 'Geoffrey';
let msg2 = 'Hello ${name2}';
console.log(msg2); // 'Hello ${name2}'

const regexp = /\${([^{]+)}/g;
let result = msg2.replace(regexp, function(ignore, key){
    return eval(key);
});
console.log(result); // 'Hello Geoffrey'

It will replace ${name2} with his value.

Using column alias in WHERE clause of MySQL query produces an error

You can only use column aliases in GROUP BY, ORDER BY, or HAVING clauses.

Standard SQL doesn't allow you to refer to a column alias in a WHERE clause. This restriction is imposed because when the WHERE code is executed, the column value may not yet be determined.

Copied from MySQL documentation

As pointed in the comments, using HAVING instead may do the work. Make sure to give a read at this question too: WHERE vs HAVING.

bootstrap datepicker change date event doesnt fire up when manually editing dates or clearing date

Depending which date picker for Bootstrap you're using, this is a known bug currently with this one:

Code: https://github.com/uxsolutions/bootstrap-datepicker

(Docs: https://bootstrap-datepicker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)

Here's a bug report:

https://github.com/uxsolutions/bootstrap-datepicker/issues/1957

If anyone has a solution/workaround for this one, would be great if you'd include it.

How can I run a windows batch file but hide the command window?

Create a shortcut to your bat file by using the right-click and selecting Create shortcut. Right-click on the shortcut you created and click on properties. Click on the Run drop-down box and select Minimized.

How do I multiply each element in a list by a number?

Multiplying each element in my_list by k:

k = 5
my_list = [1,2,3,4]
result = list(map(lambda x: x * k, my_list))

resulting in: [5, 10, 15, 20]

Running Facebook application on localhost

A trick:

Use MAMPPRO and create: server name: the EXACT adress of you website (eg: helloworld.com) to your site on your disk

On Facebook: So you can keep your original Site URL as well (eg: helloworld.com)

Now you understand that when you type your website on the adress bar you are in local! ..and when you want to be online, just inactive the server on MAMP PRO..

:)

How to initialize a list with constructor?

In general don't expose List<T> publicly, and don't provide setters for collection properties. Also, you may want to copy the elements of the passed list (as shown below). Otherwise changes to the original list will affect the Human instance.

public class Human
{
    public Human()
    {
    }

    public Human(IEnumerable<ContactNumber> contactNumbers)
    {
        if (contactNumbers == null)
        {
            throw new ArgumentNullException("contactNumbers");
        }

        _contactNumbers.AddRange(contactNumbers);
    }

    public IEnumerable<ContactNumber> ContactNumbers
    {
        get { return _contactNumbers; }
    }

    private readonly List<ContactNumber> _contactNumbers = new List<ContactNumber>();
}

Another option is to use the list constructor that takes a collection and remove the field initializer.

VBA Check if variable is empty

How you test depends on the Property's DataType:

| Type                                 | Test                            | Test2
| Numeric (Long, Integer, Double etc.) | If obj.Property = 0 Then        | 
| Boolen (True/False)                  | If Not obj.Property Then        | If obj.Property = False Then
| Object                               | If obj.Property Is Nothing Then |
| String                               | If obj.Property = "" Then       | If LenB(obj.Property) = 0 Then
| Variant                              | If obj.Property = Empty Then    |

You can tell the DataType by pressing F2 to launch the Object Browser and looking up the Object. Another way would be to just use the TypeName function:MsgBox TypeName(obj.Property)

Are 64 bit programs bigger and faster than 32 bit versions?

I typically see a 30% speed improvement for compute-intensive code on x86-64 compared to x86. This is most likely due to the fact that we have 16 x 64 bit general purpose registers and 16 x SSE registers instead of 8 x 32 bit general purpose registers and 8 x SSE registers. This is with the Intel ICC compiler (11.1) on an x86-64 Linux - results with other compilers (e.g. gcc), or with other operating systems (e.g. Windows), may be different of course.

Recursive file search using PowerShell

Filter using wildcards:

Get-ChildItem -Filter CopyForBuild* -Include *.bat,*.cmd -Exclude *.old.cmd,*.old.bat -Recurse

Filtering using a regular expression:

Get-ChildItem -Path "V:\Myfolder" -Recurse
| Where-Object { $_.Name -match '\ACopyForBuild\.[(bat)|(cmd)]\Z' }

Split string in JavaScript and detect line break

You should try detect the first line.

Then the:

if(n == 0){
  line = words[n]+"\n";
}

I'm not sure, but maybe it helps.

How do I count a JavaScript object's attributes?

EDIT: this will case errors with jquery to happen, plus some other inconveniences. YOU SHOULD NOT USE IT: (perhaps if one could add a privaate method instead of a public property function, this would be OK, but don't have the time now). Community wikied

do not use:

Even though javascript's object by default doesn't have the count function, classes are easily extendable, and one can add it oneself:

Object.prototype.count = function () {
    var count = 0;
    for(var prop in this) {
        if(this.hasOwnProperty(prop))
            count = count + 1;
    }
    return count;
}

So that after that one can execute

var object = {'key1': 'val1', 'key2':'val2', 'key3':'val3'};
console.log(object.count()); // 3

As a conclusion, if you want count functionality in objects, you need to copy the code from code block 1, and paste it early in execution time ( before you call the count ).

Let me know if that works for you!

Regards, Pedro

Is there a "between" function in C#?

As @Hellfrost pointed out, it is literally nonsense to compare a number to two different numbers in "one operation", and I know of no C# operator that encapsulates this.

between = (0 < 5 && 5 < 10);

Is about the most-compact form I can think of.

You could make a somewhat "fluent"-looking method using extension (though, while amusing, I think it's overkill):

public static bool Between(this int x, int a, int b)
{
    return (a < x) && (x < b);
}

Use:

int x = 5;
bool b = x.Between(0,10);

How store a range from excel into a Range variable?

What is currentWorksheet? It works if you use the built-in ActiveSheet.

dataStartRow=1
dataStartCol=1
dataEndRow=4
dataEndCol=4
Set currentWorksheet=ActiveSheet
dataTable = currentWorksheet.Range(currentWorksheet.Cells(dataStartRow, dataStartCol), currentWorksheet.Cells(dataEndRow, dataEndCol))

how to check and set max_allowed_packet mysql variable

max_allowed_packet is set in mysql config, not on php side

[mysqld]
max_allowed_packet=16M

You can see it's curent value in mysql like this:

SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'max_allowed_packet';

You can try to change it like this, but it's unlikely this will work on shared hosting:

SET GLOBAL max_allowed_packet=16777216;

You can read about it here http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/packet-too-large.html

EDIT

The [mysqld] is necessary to make the max_allowed_packet working since at least mysql version 5.5.

Recently setup an instance on AWS EC2 with Drupal and Solr Search Engine, which required 32M max_allowed_packet. It you set the value under [mysqld_safe] (which is default settings came with the mysql installation) mode in /etc/my.cnf, it did no work. I did not dig into the problem. But after I change it to [mysqld] and restarted the mysqld, it worked.

Navigate to another page with a button in angular 2

Having the router link on the button seems to work fine for me:

<button class="nav-link" routerLink="/" (click)="hideMenu()">
     <i class="fa fa-home"></i> 
     <span>Home</span>
</button>

RestTemplate: How to send URL and query parameters together

One simple way to do that is:

String url = "http://test.com/Services/rest/{id}/Identifier"

UriComponents uriComponents = UriComponentsBuilder.fromUriString(url).build();
uriComponents = uriComponents.expand(Collections.singletonMap("id", "1234"));

and then adds the query params.

Check that a input to UITextField is numeric only

 
   #import "NSString+Extension.h"

//@interface NSString (Extension)
//
//- (BOOL) isAnEmail;
//- (BOOL) isNumeric;
//
//@end

@implementation NSString (Extension)
 - (BOOL) isNumeric
    {
        NSString *emailRegex = @"[0-9]+";
        NSPredicate *emailTest = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"SELF MATCHES %@", emailRegex];

        return [emailTest evaluateWithObject:self];

    //    NSString *localDecimalSymbol = [[NSLocale currentLocale] objectForKey:NSLocaleDecimalSeparator];
    //    NSMutableCharacterSet *decimalCharacterSet = [NSMutableCharacterSet characterSetWithCharactersInString:localDecimalSymbol];
    //    [decimalCharacterSet formUnionWithCharacterSet:[NSCharacterSet alphanumericCharacterSet]];
    //    
    //    NSCharacterSet* nonNumbers = [decimalCharacterSet invertedSet];
    //    NSRange r = [self rangeOfCharacterFromSet: nonNumbers];
    //    
    //    if (r.location == NSNotFound)
    //    {
    //        // check to see how many times the decimal symbol appears in the string. It should only appear once for the number to be numeric.
    //        int numberOfOccurances = [[self componentsSeparatedByString:localDecimalSymbol] count]-1;
    //        return (numberOfOccurances > 1) ? NO : YES;
    //    }
    //    else return NO;
    }

XPath: How to select elements based on their value?

The condition below:

//Element[@attribute1="abc" and @attribute2="xyz" and Data]

checks for the existence of the element Data within Element and not for element value Data.

Instead you can use

//Element[@attribute1="abc" and @attribute2="xyz" and text()="Data"]

Java JTable getting the data of the selected row

You can use the following code to get the value of the first column of the selected row of your table.

int column = 0;
int row = table.getSelectedRow();
String value = table.getModel().getValueAt(row, column).toString();

Accessing Redux state in an action creator?

I agree with @Bloomca. Passing the value needed from the store into the dispatch function as an argument seems simpler than exporting the store. I made an example here: 

import React from "react";
import {connect} from "react-redux";
import * as actions from '../actions';

class App extends React.Component {

  handleClick(){
    const data = this.props.someStateObject.data;
    this.props.someDispatchFunction(data);
  }

  render(){
    return (
      <div>       
      <div onClick={ this.handleClick.bind(this)}>Click Me!</div>      
      </div>
    );
  }
}


const mapStateToProps = (state) => {
  return { someStateObject: state.someStateObject };
};

const mapDispatchToProps = (dispatch) => {
  return {
    someDispatchFunction:(data) => { dispatch(actions.someDispatchFunction(data))},

  };
}


export default connect(mapStateToProps, mapDispatchToProps)(App);

Copy file(s) from one project to another using post build event...VS2010

I use it like this.

xcopy "$(TargetDir)$(TargetName).dll" "$(SolutionDir)Lib\TIRM\x86\" /F /Y 
xcopy "$(TargetDir)$(TargetName).lib" "$(SolutionDir)Lib\TIRM\x86\" /F /Y 


/F : Copy source is File   
/Y : Overwrite and don't ask me

Note the use of this. $(TargetDir) has already '\' "D:\MyProject\bin\" = $(TargetDir)

You can find macro in Command editor

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Tips for debugging .htaccess rewrite rules

Make sure that the syntax of each Regexp is correct

by testing against a set of test patterns to make sure that is a valid syntax and does what you intend with a fully range of test URIs.

See regexpCheck.php below for a simple script that you can add to a private/test directory in your site to help you do this. I've kept this brief rather than pretty. Just past this into a file regexpCheck.php in a test directory to use it on your website. This will help you build up any regexp and test it against a list of test cases as you do so. I am using the PHP PCRE engine here, but having had a look at the Apache source, this is basically identical to the one used in Apache. There are many HowTos and tutorials which provide templates and can help you build your regexp skills.

Listing 1 -- regexpCheck.php

<html><head><title>Regexp checker</title></head><body>
<?php 
    $a_pattern= isset($_POST['pattern']) ? $_POST['pattern'] : "";
    $a_ntests = isset($_POST['ntests']) ? $_POST['ntests'] : 1;
    $a_test   = isset($_POST['test']) ? $_POST['test'] : array();
    
    $res = array(); $maxM=-1; 
    foreach($a_test as $t ){
        $rtn = @preg_match('#'.$a_pattern.'#',$t,$m);
        if($rtn == 1){
            $maxM=max($maxM,count($m));
            $res[]=array_merge( array('matched'),  $m );
        } else {
            $res[]=array(($rtn === FALSE ? 'invalid' : 'non-matched'));
        }
    } 
?> <p>&nbsp; </p>
<form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];?>">
    <label for="pl">Regexp Pattern: </label>
    <input id="p" name="pattern" size="50" value="<?php echo htmlentities($a_pattern,ENT_QUOTES,"UTF-8");;?>" />
    <label for="n">&nbsp; &nbsp; Number of test vectors: </label>
    <input id="n" name="ntests"  size="3" value="<?php echo $a_ntests;?>"/>
    <input type="submit" name="go" value="OK"/><hr/><p>&nbsp;</p>
    <table><thead><tr><td><b>Test Vector</b></td><td>&nbsp; &nbsp; <b>Result</b></td>
<?php 
    for ( $i=0; $i<$maxM; $i++ ) echo "<td>&nbsp; &nbsp; <b>\$$i</b></td>";
    echo "</tr><tbody>\n";
    for( $i=0; $i<$a_ntests; $i++ ){
        echo '<tr><td>&nbsp;<input name="test[]" value="', 
            htmlentities($a_test[$i], ENT_QUOTES,"UTF-8"),'" /></td>';
        foreach ($res[$i] as $v) { echo '<td>&nbsp; &nbsp; ',htmlentities($v, ENT_QUOTES,"UTF-8"),'&nbsp; &nbsp; </td>';}
        echo "</tr>\n";
    }
?> </table></form></body></html>

EditorFor() and html properties

This is the cleanest and most elegant/simple way to get a solution here.

Brilliant blog post and no messy overkill in writing custom extension/helper methods like a mad professor.

http://geekswithblogs.net/michelotti/archive/2010/02/05/mvc-2-editor-template-with-datetime.aspx

Run javascript script (.js file) in mongodb including another file inside js

Use Load function 

load(filename)

You can directly call any .js file from the mongo shell, and mongo will execute the JavaScript.

Example : mongo localhost:27017/mydb myfile.js

This executes the myfile.js script in mongo shell connecting to mydb database with port 27017 in localhost.

For loading external js you can write 

load("/data/db/scripts/myloadjs.js")

Suppose we have two js file myFileOne.js and myFileTwo.js

myFileOne.js

print('From file 1');
load('myFileTwo.js');     // Load other js file .

myFileTwo.js

print('From file 2');

MongoShell

>mongo myFileOne.js

Output

From file 1
From file 2

How to check Network port access and display useful message?

With the latest versions of PowerShell, there is a new cmdlet, Test-NetConnection.

This cmdlet lets you, in effect, ping a port, like this:

Test-NetConnection -ComputerName <remote server> -Port nnnn

I know this is an old question, but if you hit this page (as I did) looking for this information, this addition may be helpful!

What is the use of the square brackets [] in sql statements?

Regardless of following a naming convention that avoids using reserved words, Microsoft does add new reserved words. Using brackets allows your code to be upgraded to a new SQL Server version, without first needing to edit Microsoft's newly reserved words out of your client code. That editing can be a significant concern. It may cause your project to be prematurely retired....

Brackets can also be useful when you want to Replace All in a script. If your batch contains a variable named @String and a column named [String], you can rename the column to [NewString], without renaming @String to @NewString.

How can I remove the last character of a string in python?

You could use String.rstrip.

result = string.rstrip('/')

Toggle display:none style with JavaScript

you can do this easily by using jquery using .css property... try this one: http://api.jquery.com/css/

What is the difference between instanceof and Class.isAssignableFrom(...)?

This thread provided me some insight into how instanceof differed from isAssignableFrom, so I thought I'd share something of my own.

I have found that using isAssignableFrom to be the only (probably not the only, but possibly the easiest) way to ask one's self if a reference of one class can take instances of another, when one has instances of neither class to do the comparison.

Hence, I didn't find using the instanceof operator to compare assignability to be a good idea when all I had were classes, unless I contemplated creating an instance from one of the classes; I thought this would be sloppy.

How to check version of python modules?

You can simply use subprocess.getoutput(python3 --version)

import subprocess as sp
print(sp.getoutput(python3 --version))

# or however it suits your needs!
py3_version = sp.getoutput(python3 --version)

def check_version(name, version):...

check_version('python3', py3_version)

For more information and ways to do this without depending on the __version__ attribute:

Assign output of os.system to a variable and prevent it from being displayed on the screen

You can also use subprocess.check_output() which raises an error when the subprocess returns anything other than exit code 0:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html#check_output()

HashMap(key: String, value: ArrayList) returns an Object instead of ArrayList?

The get method of the HashMap is returning an Object, but the variable current is expected to take a ArrayList:

ArrayList current = new ArrayList();
// ...
current = dictMap.get(dictCode);

For the above code to work, the Object must be cast to an ArrayList:

ArrayList current = new ArrayList();
// ...
current = (ArrayList)dictMap.get(dictCode);

However, probably the better way would be to use generic collection objects in the first place:

HashMap<String, ArrayList<Object>> dictMap =
    new HashMap<String, ArrayList<Object>>();

// Populate the HashMap.

ArrayList<Object> current = new ArrayList<Object>();      
if(dictMap.containsKey(dictCode)) {
    current = dictMap.get(dictCode);   
}

The above code is assuming that the ArrayList has a list of Objects, and that should be changed as necessary.

For more information on generics, The Java Tutorials has a lesson on generics.

How to finish current activity in Android

I tried using this example but it failed miserably. Every time I use to invoke finish()/ finishactivity() inside a handler, I end up with this menacing java.lang.IllegalAccess Exception. i'm not sure how did it work for the one who posed the question.

Instead the solution I found was that create a method in your activity such as 

void kill_activity()
{ 
    finish();
}

Invoke this method from inside the run method of the handler. This worked like a charm for me. Hope this helps anyone struggling with "how to close an activity from a different thread?".

Handling optional parameters in javascript

You should check type of received parameters. Maybe you should use arguments array since second parameter can sometimes be 'parameters' and sometimes 'callback' and naming it parameters might be misleading.

Unit tests vs Functional tests

  • A unit test tests an independent unit of behavior. What is a unit of behavior? It's the smallest piece of the system that can be independently unit tested. (This definition is actually circular, IOW it's really not a definition at all, but it seems to work quite well in practice, because you can sort-of understand it intuitively.)

  • A functional test tests an independent piece of functionality.

  • A unit of behavior is very small: while I absolutely dislike this stupid "one unit test per method" mantra, from a size perspective it is about right. A unit of behavior is something between a part of a method and maybe a couple of methods. At most an object, but not more than one.

  • A piece of functionality usually comprises many methods and cuts across several objects and often through multiple architectural layers.

  • A unit test would be something like: when I call the validate_country_code() function and pass it the country code 'ZZ' it should return false.

  • A functional test would be: when I fill out the shipping form with a country code of ZZ, I should be redirected to a help page which allows me to pick my country code out of a menu.

  • Unit tests are written by developers, for developers, from the developer's perspective.

  • Functional tests may be user facing, in which case they are written by developers together with users (or maybe with the right tools and right users even by the users themselves), for users, from the user's perspective. Or they may be developer facing (e.g. when they describe some internal piece of functionality that the user doesn't care about), in which case they are written by developers, for developers, but still from the user's perspective.

  • In the former case, the functional tests may also serve as acceptance tests and as an executable encoding of functional requirements or a functional specification, in the latter case, they may also serve as integration tests.

  • Unit tests change frequently, functional tests should never change within a major release.

Bootstrap close responsive menu "on click"

Just to spell out user1040259's solution, add this code to your $(document).ready(function() {}); 

    $('.nav').click( function() {
        $('.btn-navbar').addClass('collapsed');
        $('.nav-collapse').removeClass('in').css('height', '0');
    });

As they mention, this doesn't animate the move... but it does close the nav bar on item selection

How to convert numbers to words without using num2word library?

You can do this program in this way. The range is in between 0 to 99,999

def num_to_word(num):
    word_num = { "0": "zero", "00": "", "1" : "One" , "2" : "Two", "3" : "Three", "4" : "Four", "5" : "Five","6" : "Six", "7": "Seven", "8" : "eight", "9" : "Nine","01" : "One" , "02" : "Two", "03" : "Three", "04" : "Four", "05" : "Five","06" : "Six", "07": "Seven", "08" : "eight", "09" : "Nine", "10" : "Ten", "11": "Eleven", "12" :"Twelve", "13" : "Thirteen", "14" : "Fourteen", "15" : "Fifteen", "17":"Seventeen", "18" :"Eighteen", "19": "Nineteen", "20" : "Twenty", "30" : "Thirty", "40" : "Forty", "50" : "Fifty", "60" : "Sixty", "70": "seventy", "80" : "eighty", "90" : "ninety"}
    keys = []
    for k in word_num.keys():
        keys.append(k)

    if len(num) == 1:
        return(word_num[num[0]])
    elif len(num) == 2:
        c = 0
        for k in keys:
            if k == num[0] + num[1]:
                c += 1
        if c == 1:
            return(word_num[num[0] + num[1]])
        else:
            return(word_num[str(int(num[0]) * 10)] + " " + word_num[num[1]])
    elif len(num) == 3:
        c = 0
        for k in keys:
            if k == num[1] + num[2]:
                c += 1
        if c == 1:
            return(word_num[num[0]]+ " Hundred " + word_num[num[1] + num[2]])
        else:
            return(word_num[num[0]]+ " Hundred " + word_num[str(int(num[1]) * 10)] + " " + word_num[num[2]])
    elif len(num) == 4:
        c = 0
        for k in keys:
            if k == num[2] + num[3]:
                c += 1
        if c == 1:
            if num[1] == '0' :
                return(word_num[num[0]]+ " Thousand " + word_num[num[2] + num[3]])
            else:
                return(word_num[num[0]]+ " Thousand " + word_num[num[1]]+ " Hundred " + word_num[num[2] + num[3]])

        else:
            if num[1] == '0' :
                return(word_num[num[0]]+ " Thousand " + word_num[str(int(num[2]) * 10)] + " " + word_num[num[3]])
            else:
                return(word_num[num[0]]+ " Thousand " + word_num[num[1]]+ " Hundred " + word_num[str(int(num[2]) * 10)] + " " + word_num[num[3]])
    elif len(num) == 5:
        c = 0
        d = 0
        for k in keys:
            if k == num[3] + num[4]:
                c += 1
        for k in keys:
            if k == num[0] + num[1]:
                d += 1
        if d == 1:
            val = word_num[num[0] + num[1]] 
        else:
            val = word_num[str(int(num[0]) * 10)] + " " + word_num[num[1]]

        if c == 1:
            if num[1] == '0' :
                return(val + " Thousand " + word_num[num[3] + num[4]])
            else:
                return(val + " Thousand " + word_num[num[2]]+ " Hundred " + word_num[num[3] + num[4]])

        else:
            if num[1] == '0' :
                return(val + " Thousand " + word_num[str(int(num[3]) * 10)] + " " + word_num[num[4]])
            else:
                return(val + " Thousand " + word_num[num[2]]+ " Hundred " + word_num[str(int(num[3]) * 10)] + " " + word_num[num[4]])


num = [str(d) for d in input("Enter number: ")]
print(num_to_word(num).upper())

Request UAC elevation from within a Python script?

A variation on Jorenko's work above allows the elevated process to use the same console (but see my comment below):

def spawn_as_administrator():
    """ Spawn ourself with administrator rights and wait for new process to exit
        Make the new process use the same console as the old one.
          Raise Exception() if we could not get a handle for the new re-run the process
          Raise pywintypes.error() if we could not re-spawn
        Return the exit code of the new process,
          or return None if already running the second admin process. """
    #pylint: disable=no-name-in-module,import-error
    import win32event, win32api, win32process
    import win32com.shell.shell as shell
    if '--admin' in sys.argv:
        return None
    script = os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0])
    params = ' '.join([script] + sys.argv[1:] + ['--admin'])
    SEE_MASK_NO_CONSOLE = 0x00008000
    SEE_MASK_NOCLOSE_PROCESS = 0x00000040
    process = shell.ShellExecuteEx(lpVerb='runas', lpFile=sys.executable, lpParameters=params, fMask=SEE_MASK_NO_CONSOLE|SEE_MASK_NOCLOSE_PROCESS)
    hProcess = process['hProcess']
    if not hProcess:
        raise Exception("Could not identify administrator process to install drivers")
    # It is necessary to wait for the elevated process or else
    #  stdin lines are shared between 2 processes: they get one line each
    INFINITE = -1
    win32event.WaitForSingleObject(hProcess, INFINITE)
    exitcode = win32process.GetExitCodeProcess(hProcess)
    win32api.CloseHandle(hProcess)
    return exitcode

Deleting rows from parent and child tables

Two possible approaches.

  1. If you have a foreign key, declare it as on-delete-cascade and delete the parent rows older than 30 days. All the child rows will be deleted automatically.

  2. Based on your description, it looks like you know the parent rows that you want to delete and need to delete the corresponding child rows. Have you tried SQL like this?

      delete from child_table
      where parent_id in (
           select parent_id from parent_table
                where updd_tms != (sysdate-30)

    -- now delete the parent table records

    delete from parent_table
where updd_tms != (sysdate-30);

---- Based on your requirement, it looks like you might have to use PL/SQL. I'll see if someone can post a pure SQL solution to this (in which case that would definitely be the way to go).

declare
    v_sqlcode number;
    PRAGMA EXCEPTION_INIT(foreign_key_violated, -02291);
begin
    for v_rec in (select parent_id, child id from child_table
                         where updd_tms != (sysdate-30) ) loop

    -- delete the children
    delete from child_table where child_id = v_rec.child_id;

    -- delete the parent. If we get foreign key violation, 
    -- stop this step and continue the loop
    begin
       delete from parent_table
          where parent_id = v_rec.parent_id;
    exception
       when foreign_key_violated
         then null;
    end;
 end loop;
end;
/

Contains case insensitive

There are a couple of approaches here.

If you want to perform a case-insensitive check for just this instance, do something like the following.

if (referrer.toLowerCase().indexOf("Ral".toLowerCase()) == -1) {
    ...

Alternatively, if you're performing this check regularly, you can add a new indexOf()-like method to String, but make it case insensitive.

String.prototype.indexOfInsensitive = function (s, b) {
    return this.toLowerCase().indexOf(s.toLowerCase(), b);
}

// Then invoke it
if (referrer.indexOfInsensitive("Ral") == -1) { ...

'True' and 'False' in Python

is compares identity. A string will never be identical to a not-string.

== is equality. But a string will never be equal to either True or False.

You want neither.

path = '/bla/bla/bla'

if path:
    print "True"
else:
    print "False"

Cause of a process being a deadlock victim

Although @Remus Rusanu's is already an excelent answer, in case one is looking forward a better insight on SQL Server's Deadlock causes and trace strategies, I would suggest you to read Brad McGehee's How to Track Down Deadlocks Using SQL Server 2005 Profiler

How to display an image from a path in asp.net MVC 4 and Razor view?

In your View try like this 

  <img src= "@Url.Content(Model.ImagePath)" alt="Image" />

PHP check whether property exists in object or class

property_exists( mixed $class , string $property )

if (property_exists($ob, 'a'))

isset( mixed $var [, mixed $... ] )

if (isset($ob->a))

isset() will return false if property is null

Example 1:

$ob->a = null
var_dump(isset($ob->a)); // false

Example 2: 

class Foo
{
   public $bar = null;
}

$foo = new Foo();

var_dump(property_exists($foo, 'bar')); // true
var_dump(isset($foo->bar)); // false

Insert current date into a date column using T-SQL?

 
UPDATE Table
SET DateColumn=GETDATE()
WHERE UserID=@UserID

If you're inserting into a table, and will always need to put the current date, I would recommend setting GETDATE() as the default value for that column, and don't allow NULLs

Remove padding from columns in Bootstrap 3

None of the above solutions worked perfectly for me. Following this answer I was able to create something that works for me. Here I am also using a media query to limit this to small screens only.

@media (max-width: @screen-sm) {
    [class*="col-"] {
      padding-left: 0;
      padding-right: 0;
    }
    .row {
      margin-left: 0;
      margin-right: 0;
    }
    .container-fluid {
      margin: 0;
      padding: 0;
    }
}

shorthand c++ if else statement

The basic syntax for using ternary operator is like this:

(condition) ? (if_true) : (if_false)

For you case it is like this:

number < 0 ? bigInt.sign = 0 : bigInt.sign = 1;

Installing RubyGems in Windows

Another way is to let chocolatey manage your ruby package (and any other package), that way you won't have to put ruby in your path manually:

Install chocolatey first by opening your favourite command prompt and executing:

@powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy unrestricted -Command "iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET PATH=%PATH%;%systemdrive%\chocolatey\bin

then all you need to do is type

cinst ruby

In your command prompt and the package installs.

Using a package manager provides overall more control, I'd recommend this for every package that can be installed via chocolatey.

What is the correct SQL type to store a .Net Timespan with values > 24:00:00?

I would store the timespan.TotalSeconds in a float and then retrieve it using Timespan.FromSeconds(totalSeconds).

Depending on the resolution you need you could use TotalMilliseconds, TotalMinutes, TotalDays.

You could also adjust the precision of your float in the database.

It's not an exact value... but the nice thing about this is that it's easy to read and calculate in simple queries.

Is there a C++ gdb GUI for Linux?

Qt Creator seems like good stuff. A colleague showed me one way set it up for debugging:

  • Create a new project, "Import of Makefile-based Project".
  • Point it to your root project folder (it will index sources under it, and it is impressively fast).
  • Go to project settings and add a run configuration, then specify the executable you want to debug, and its arguments.
  • Qt Creator seems to insist on building your project before debugging it. If you don't want that, or don't use make, just go to projects -> build (Left panel), then, on the right panel in "Build Steps", remove all the steps, including the step by default when you created the project.

That may seem like a bit much work for debugging an app I had already compiled, but it is worth it. The debugger shows threads, stacks and local variables in a similar way to Visual Studio and even uses many of the same keyboard shortcuts. It seems to handle templates well, at least std::string and std::map. Attaching to existing processes and core dumps seems to be supported, though I haven't tested it yet.

Keep in mind that I used it for less than and hour now, but I'm impressed so far.

Set formula to a range of cells

I would update the formula in C1. Then copy the formula from C1 and paste it till C10...

Not sure about a more elegant solution

Range("C1").Formula = "=A1+B1"
Range("C1").Copy
Range("C1:C10").Pastespecial(XlPasteall)

Select2() is not a function

For me, select2.min.js file worked instead of select2.full.min.js. I have manually define files which I have copied from dist folder that I got from github page. Also make sure that you have one jQuery(document).ready(...) definition and jquery file imported before select2 file.

CSS3 Transparency + Gradient

Yes. You can use rgba in both webkit and moz gradient declarations:

/* webkit example */
background-image: -webkit-gradient(
  linear, left top, left bottom, from(rgba(50,50,50,0.8)),
  to(rgba(80,80,80,0.2)), color-stop(.5,#333333)
);

(src)

/* mozilla example - FF3.6+ */
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(
  rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7) 0%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 95%
);

(src)

Apparently you can even do this in IE, using an odd "extended hex" syntax. The first pair (in the example 55) refers to the level of opacity:

/* approximately a 33% opacity on blue */
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(
  startColorstr=#550000FF, endColorstr=#550000FF
);

/* IE8 uses -ms-filter for whatever reason... */
-ms-filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(
  startColorstr=#550000FF, endColorstr=#550000FF
);

(src)

How to add button inside input

I found a great code for you:

HTML

<form class="form-wrapper cf">
    <input type="text" placeholder="Search here..." required>
    <button type="submit">Search</button>
</form>

CSS

/*Clearing Floats*/
.cf:before, .cf:after {
    content:"";
    display:table;
}

.cf:after {
    clear:both;
}

.cf {
    zoom:1;
}    
/* Form wrapper styling */
.form-wrapper {
    width: 450px;
    padding: 15px;
    margin: 150px auto 50px auto;
    background: #444;
    background: rgba(0,0,0,.2);
    border-radius: 10px;
    box-shadow: 0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,.4) inset, 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.2);
}

/* Form text input */

.form-wrapper input {
    width: 330px;
    height: 20px;
    padding: 10px 5px;
    float: left;   
    font: bold 15px 'lucida sans', 'trebuchet MS', 'Tahoma';
    border: 0;
    background: #eee;
    border-radius: 3px 0 0 3px;     
}

.form-wrapper input:focus {
    outline: 0;
    background: #fff;
    box-shadow: 0 0 2px rgba(0,0,0,.8) inset;
}

.form-wrapper input::-webkit-input-placeholder {
   color: #999;
   font-weight: normal;
   font-style: italic;
}

.form-wrapper input:-moz-placeholder {
    color: #999;
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: italic;
}

.form-wrapper input:-ms-input-placeholder {
    color: #999;
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: italic;
}   

/* Form submit button */
.form-wrapper button {
    overflow: visible;
    position: relative;
    float: right;
    border: 0;
    padding: 0;
    cursor: pointer;
    height: 40px;
    width: 110px;
    font: bold 15px/40px 'lucida sans', 'trebuchet MS', 'Tahoma';
    color: #fff;
    text-transform: uppercase;
    background: #d83c3c;
    border-radius: 0 3px 3px 0;     
    text-shadow: 0 -1px 0 rgba(0, 0 ,0, .3);
}  

.form-wrapper button:hover {    
    background: #e54040;
}  

.form-wrapper button:active,
.form-wrapper button:focus {  
    background: #c42f2f;
    outline: 0;  
}

.form-wrapper button:before { /* left arrow */
    content: '';
    position: absolute;
    border-width: 8px 8px 8px 0;
    border-style: solid solid solid none;
    border-color: transparent #d83c3c transparent;
    top: 12px;
    left: -6px;
}

.form-wrapper button:hover:before {
    border-right-color: #e54040;
}

.form-wrapper button:focus:before,
.form-wrapper button:active:before {
        border-right-color: #c42f2f;
}     

.form-wrapper button::-moz-focus-inner { /* remove extra button spacing for Mozilla Firefox */
    border: 0;
    padding: 0;
}

Demo: On fiddle Source: Speckyboy

Is it possible to auto-format your code in Dreamweaver?

Following works perfectly for me: -*click on COMMAND and click on APPLY SOURCE FORMATTING - *And click on Clean Up HTML

Thank you PEKA

Create a simple HTTP server with Java?

I'm suprised this example is'nt here:

http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-core-ga/httpcore/examples/org/apache/http/examples/ElementalHttpServer.java

EDIT >> The above link is not reachable. Here is an excerpt from the POST example followed by the link to the HTTP examples.

 if (!conn.isOpen()) {
        Socket socket = new Socket(host.getHostName(), host.getPort());
        conn.bind(socket);
    }
    BasicHttpEntityEnclosingRequest request = new
    BasicHttpEntityEnclosingRequest("POST",
    "/servlets-examples/servlet/RequestInfoExample");
    request.setEntity(requestBodies[i]);
    System.out.println(">> Request URI: " + request.getRequestLine().getUri());
    httpexecutor.preProcess(request, httpproc, coreContext);
    HttpResponse response = httpexecutor.execute(request, conn, coreContext);
    httpexecutor.postProcess(response, httpproc, coreContext);
    System.out.println("<< Response: " + response.getStatusLine());
    System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity()));
    System.out.println("==============");
    if (!connStrategy.keepAlive(response, coreContext)) {
    conn.close();
    } else {
    System.out.println("Connection kept alive...");
    }

http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-core-ga/httpcore/examples/org/apache/http/examples/

Fatal error: Call to a member function prepare() on null

It looks like your $pdo variable is not initialized. I can't see in the code you've uploaded where you are initializing it.

Make sure you create a new PDO object in the global scope before calling the class methods. (You should declare it in the global scope because of how you implemented the methods inside the Category class).

$pdo = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=test', $user, $pass);

How to determine whether a Pandas Column contains a particular value

Simple condition:

if any(str(elem) in ['a','b'] for elem in df['column'].tolist()):

How can I add or update a query string parameter?

I realize this question is old and has been answered to death, but here's my stab at it. I'm trying to reinvent the wheel here because I was using the currently accepted answer and the mishandling of URL fragments recently bit me in a project.

The function is below. It's quite long, but it was made to be as resilient as possible. I would love suggestions for shortening/improving it. I put together a small jsFiddle test suite for it (or other similar functions). If a function can pass every one of the tests there, I say it's probably good to go.

Update: I came across a cool function for using the DOM to parse URLs, so I incorporated that technique here. It makes the function shorter and more reliable. Props to the author of that function.

/**
 * Add or update a query string parameter. If no URI is given, we use the current
 * window.location.href value for the URI.
 * 
 * Based on the DOM URL parser described here:
 * http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/parsing-urls-with-the-dom/
 *
 * @param   (string)    uri     Optional: The URI to add or update a parameter in
 * @param   (string)    key     The key to add or update
 * @param   (string)    value   The new value to set for key
 *
 * Tested on Chrome 34, Firefox 29, IE 7 and 11
 */
function update_query_string( uri, key, value ) {

    // Use window URL if no query string is provided
    if ( ! uri ) { uri = window.location.href; }

    // Create a dummy element to parse the URI with
    var a = document.createElement( 'a' ), 

        // match the key, optional square brackets, an equals sign or end of string, the optional value
        reg_ex = new RegExp( key + '((?:\\[[^\\]]*\\])?)(=|$)(.*)' ),

        // Setup some additional variables
        qs,
        qs_len,
        key_found = false;

    // Use the JS API to parse the URI 
    a.href = uri;

    // If the URI doesn't have a query string, add it and return
    if ( ! a.search ) {

        a.search = '?' + key + '=' + value;

        return a.href;
    }

    // Split the query string by ampersands
    qs = a.search.replace( /^\?/, '' ).split( /&(?:amp;)?/ );
    qs_len = qs.length; 

    // Loop through each query string part
    while ( qs_len > 0 ) {

        qs_len--;

        // Remove empty elements to prevent double ampersands
        if ( ! qs[qs_len] ) { qs.splice(qs_len, 1); continue; }

        // Check if the current part matches our key
        if ( reg_ex.test( qs[qs_len] ) ) {

            // Replace the current value
            qs[qs_len] = qs[qs_len].replace( reg_ex, key + '$1' ) + '=' + value;

            key_found = true;
        }
    }   

    // If we haven't replaced any occurrences above, add the new parameter and value
    if ( ! key_found ) { qs.push( key + '=' + value ); }

    // Set the new query string
    a.search = '?' + qs.join( '&' );

    return a.href;
}

Get safe area inset top and bottom heights

 
UIWindow *window = [[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] window]; 
CGFloat fBottomPadding = window.safeAreaInsets.bottom;

Sending JSON object to Web API

 
var model = JSON.stringify({ 
    'ID': 0, 
    'ProductID': $('#ID').val(), 
    'PartNumber': $('#part-number').val(),
    'VendorID': $('#Vendors').val()
})

$.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    dataType: "json",
    contentType: "application/json",
    url: "/api/PartSourceAPI/",
    data: model,
    success: function (data) {
        alert('success');
    },
    error: function (error) {
        jsonValue = jQuery.parseJSON(error.responseText);
        jError('An error has occurred while saving the new part source: ' + jsonValue, { TimeShown: 3000 });
    }
});

var model = JSON.stringify({      'ID': 0,     ...': 5,      'PartNumber': 6,     'VendorID': 7 }) // output is "{"ID":0,"ProductID":5,"PartNumber":6,"VendorID":7}"

your data is something like this "{"model": "ID":0,"ProductID":6,"PartNumber":7,"VendorID":8}}" web api controller cannot bind it to Your model

What bitrate is used for each of the youtube video qualities (360p - 1080p), in regards to flowplayer?

Looking at this official google link: Youtube Live encoder settings, bitrates and resolutions they have this table:

                   240p       360p        480p        720p        1080p
Resolution      426 x 240   640 x 360   854x480     1280x720    1920x1080
Video Bitrates                   
Maximum         700 Kbps    1000 Kbps   2000 Kbps   4000 Kbps   6000 Kbps
Recommended     400 Kbps    750 Kbps    1000 Kbps   2500 Kbps   4500 Kbps
Minimum         300 Kbps    400 Kbps    500 Kbps    1500 Kbps   3000 Kbps

It would appear as though this is the case, although the numbers dont sync up to the google table above:

// the bitrates, video width and file names for this clip
      bitrates: [
        { url: "bbb-800.mp4", width: 480, bitrate: 800 }, //360p video
        { url: "bbb-1200.mp4", width: 720, bitrate: 1200 }, //480p video
        { url: "bbb-1600.mp4", width: 1080, bitrate: 1600 } //720p video
      ],

iFrame Height Auto (CSS)

hjpotter92

Add this to your section:

<script>
  function resizeIframe(obj) {
    obj.style.height = obj.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight + 'px';
  }
</script>

And change your iframe to this:

<iframe src="..." frameborder="0" scrolling="no" onload="resizeIframe(this)" />

It is posted Here

It does however use javascript, but it is simple and easy to use code that will fix your problem.

How to remove all of the data in a table using Django

Inside a manager:

def delete_everything(self):
    Reporter.objects.all().delete()

def drop_table(self):
    cursor = connection.cursor()
    table_name = self.model._meta.db_table
    sql = "DROP TABLE %s;" % (table_name, )
    cursor.execute(sql)

Why use @PostConstruct?

Consider the following scenario:

public class Car {
  @Inject
  private Engine engine;  

  public Car() {
    engine.initialize();  
  }
  ...
}

Since Car has to be instantiated prior to field injection, the injection point engine is still null during the execution of the constructor, resulting in a NullPointerException.

This problem can be solved either by JSR-330 Dependency Injection for Java constructor injection or JSR 250 Common Annotations for the Java @PostConstruct method annotation.

@PostConstruct

JSR-250 defines a common set of annotations which has been included in Java SE 6.

The PostConstruct annotation is used on a method that needs to be executed after dependency injection is done to perform any initialization. This method MUST be invoked before the class is put into service. This annotation MUST be supported on all classes that support dependency injection.

JSR-250 Chap. 2.5 javax.annotation.PostConstruct

The @PostConstruct annotation allows for the definition of methods to be executed after the instance has been instantiated and all injects have been performed.

public class Car {
  @Inject
  private Engine engine;  

  @PostConstruct
  public void postConstruct() {
    engine.initialize();  
  }
  ...
}

Instead of performing the initialization in the constructor, the code is moved to a method annotated with @PostConstruct.

The processing of post-construct methods is a simple matter of finding all methods annotated with @PostConstruct and invoking them in turn.

private  void processPostConstruct(Class type, T targetInstance) {
  Method[] declaredMethods = type.getDeclaredMethods();

  Arrays.stream(declaredMethods)
      .filter(method -> method.getAnnotation(PostConstruct.class) != null) 
      .forEach(postConstructMethod -> {
         try {
           postConstructMethod.setAccessible(true);
           postConstructMethod.invoke(targetInstance, new Object[]{});
        } catch (IllegalAccessException | IllegalArgumentException | InvocationTargetException ex) {      
          throw new RuntimeException(ex);
        }
      });
}

The processing of post-construct methods has to be performed after instantiation and injection have been completed.

How to Concatenate Numbers and Strings to Format Numbers in T-SQL?

If you are using SQL Server 2012+ you can use CONCAT function in which we don't have to do any explicit conversion

SET @ActualWeightDIMS = Concat(@Actual_Dims_Lenght, 'x', @Actual_Dims_Width, 'x' 
                        , @Actual_Dims_Height)

Difference between Activity and FragmentActivity

A FragmentActivity is a subclass of Activity that was built for the Android Support Package.

The FragmentActivity class adds a couple new methods to ensure compatibility with older versions of Android, but other than that, there really isn't much of a difference between the two. Just make sure you change all calls to getLoaderManager() and getFragmentManager() to getSupportLoaderManager() and getSupportFragmentManager() respectively.

Convert string to integer type in Go?

If you control the input data, you can use the mini version

package main

import (
    "testing"
    "strconv"
)

func Atoi (s string) int {
    var (
        n uint64
        i int
        v byte
    )   
    for ; i < len(s); i++ {
        d := s[i]
        if '0' <= d && d <= '9' {
            v = d - '0'
        } else if 'a' <= d && d <= 'z' {
            v = d - 'a' + 10
        } else if 'A' <= d && d <= 'Z' {
            v = d - 'A' + 10
        } else {
            n = 0; break        
        }
        n *= uint64(10) 
        n += uint64(v)
    }
    return int(n)
}

func BenchmarkAtoi(b *testing.B) {
    for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
        in := Atoi("9999")
        _ = in
    }   
}

func BenchmarkStrconvAtoi(b *testing.B) {
    for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
        in, _ := strconv.Atoi("9999")
        _ = in
    }   
}

the fastest option (write your check if necessary). Result :

Path>go test -bench=. atoi_test.go
goos: windows
goarch: amd64
BenchmarkAtoi-2                 100000000               14.6 ns/op
BenchmarkStrconvAtoi-2          30000000                51.2 ns/op
PASS
ok      path     3.293s

Associative arrays in Shell scripts

several years ago I wrote script library for bash which supported associative arrays among other features (logging, configuration files, extended support for command line argument, generate help, unit testing, etc). The library contains a wrapper for associative arrays and automatically switches to appropriate model (internal for bash4 and emulate for previous versions). It was called shell-framework and hosted at origo.ethz.ch but today the resource is closed. If someone still needs it I can share it with you.

Alternative to file_get_contents?

If you have it available, using curl is your best option.

You can see if it is enabled by doing phpinfo() and searching the page for curl.

If it is enabled, try this:

$curl_handle=curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, SITE_PATH . 'cms/data.php');
$xml_file = curl_exec($curl_handle);
curl_close($curl_handle);

database vs. flat files

What types of files is not mentioned. If they're media files, go ahead with flat files. You probably just need a DB for tags and some way to associate the "external BLOBs" to the records in the DB. But if full text search is something you need, there's no other way to go but migrate to a full DB.

Another thing, your filesystem might provide the ceiling as far as number of physical files are concerned.

How do I center text vertically and horizontally in Flutter?

I think a more flexible option would be to wrap the Text() with Align() like so:

Align(
  alignment: Alignment.center, // Align however you like (i.e .centerRight, centerLeft)
  child: Text("My Text"),
),

Using Center() seems to ignore TextAlign entirely on the Text widget. It will not align TextAlign.left or TextAlign.right if you try, it will remain in the center.

Connecting an input stream to an outputstream

BUFFER_SIZE is the size of chucks to read in. Should be > 1kb and < 10MB.

private static final int BUFFER_SIZE = 2 * 1024 * 1024;
private void copy(InputStream input, OutputStream output) throws IOException {
    try {
        byte[] buffer = new byte[BUFFER_SIZE];
        int bytesRead = input.read(buffer);
        while (bytesRead != -1) {
            output.write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
            bytesRead = input.read(buffer);
        }
    //If needed, close streams.
    } finally {
        input.close();
        output.close();
    }
}

How would I run an async Task<T> method synchronously?

Simply calling .Result; or .Wait() is a risk for deadlocks as many have said in comments. Since most of us like oneliners you can use these for .Net 4.5<

Acquiring a value via an async method:

var result = Task.Run(() => asyncGetValue()).Result;

Syncronously calling an async method

Task.Run(() => asyncMethod()).Wait();

No deadlock issues will occur due to the use of Task.Run.

Source:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/32429753/3850405

what is the difference between GROUP BY and ORDER BY in sql

ORDER BY alters the order in which items are returned.

GROUP BY will aggregate records by the specified columns which allows you to perform aggregation functions on non-grouped columns (such as SUM, COUNT, AVG, etc).

TABLE:
ID NAME
1  Peter
2  John
3  Greg
4  Peter

SELECT *
FROM TABLE
ORDER BY NAME

= 
3 Greg
2 John
1 Peter
4 Peter

SELECT Count(ID), NAME
FROM TABLE
GROUP BY NAME

= 
1 Greg
1 John 
2 Peter

SELECT NAME
FROM TABLE
GROUP BY NAME
HAVING Count(ID) > 1

=
Peter

How Big can a Python List Get?

According to the source code, the maximum size of a list is PY_SSIZE_T_MAX/sizeof(PyObject*).

PY_SSIZE_T_MAX is defined in pyport.h to be ((size_t) -1)>>1

On a regular 32bit system, this is (4294967295 / 2) / 4 or 536870912.

Therefore the maximum size of a python list on a 32 bit system is 536,870,912 elements.

As long as the number of elements you have is equal or below this, all list functions should operate correctly.

Getting the first character of a string with $str[0]

 
$str = 'abcdef';
echo $str[0];                 // a

SSH to Vagrant box in Windows?

You must patch some Vagrant code by modifying only one file, ssh.rb.

All the info is here: https://gist.github.com/2843680

vagrant ssh will now work also in Windows, just like in Linux.

EDIT: In newer Versions this became unnecessary. You still have to add the path to your ssh.exe to your PATH Variable:

Search for ssh.exe on your computer, copy the Path (i.e. C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin), open System Preferences, find the Environment variable Settings, click on the Path Variable, add the path, separating the existing paths using ;.

Is it possible to move/rename files in Git and maintain their history?

I would like to rename/move a project subtree in Git moving it from

/project/xyz

to

/components/xyz

If I use a plain git mv project components, then all the commit history for the xyz project gets lost.

No (8 years later, Git 2.19, Q3 2018), because Git will detect the directory rename, and this is now better documented.

See commit b00bf1c, commit 1634688, commit 0661e49, commit 4d34dff, commit 983f464, commit c840e1a, commit 9929430 (27 Jun 2018), and commit d4e8062, commit 5dacd4a (25 Jun 2018) by Elijah Newren (newren).
(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit 0ce5a69, 24 Jul 2018)

That is now explained in Documentation/technical/directory-rename-detection.txt:

Example:

When all of x/a, x/b and x/c have moved to z/a, z/b and z/c, it is likely that x/d added in the meantime would also want to move to z/d by taking the hint that the entire directory 'x' moved to 'z'.

But they are many other cases, like:

one side of history renames x -> z, and the other renames some file to x/e, causing the need for the merge to do a transitive rename.

To simplify directory rename detection, those rules are enforced by Git:

a couple basic rules limit when directory rename detection applies:

  1. If a given directory still exists on both sides of a merge, we do not consider it to have been renamed.
  2. If a subset of to-be-renamed files have a file or directory in the way (or would be in the way of each other), "turn off" the directory rename for those specific sub-paths and report the conflict to the user.
  3. If the other side of history did a directory rename to a path that your side of history renamed away, then ignore that particular rename from the other side of history for any implicit directory renames (but warn the user).

You can see a lot of tests in t/t6043-merge-rename-directories.sh, which also point out that:

  • a) If renames split a directory into two or more others, the directory with the most renames, "wins".
  • b) Avoid directory-rename-detection for a path, if that path is the source of a rename on either side of a merge.
  • c) Only apply implicit directory renames to directories if the other side of history is the one doing the renaming.

What is the point of "final class" in Java?

final class can avoid breaking the public API when you add new methods

Suppose that on version 1 of your Base class you do:

public class Base {}

and a client does:

class Derived extends Base {
    public int method() { return 1; }
}

Then if in version 2 you want to add a method method to Base:

class Base {
    public String method() { return null; }
}

it would break the client code.

If we had used final class Base instead, the client wouldn't have been able to inherit, and the method addition wouldn't break the API.

Why XML-Serializable class need a parameterless constructor

First of all, this what is written in documentation. I think it is one of your class fields, not the main one - and how you want deserialiser to construct it back w/o parameterless construction ?

I think there is a workaround to make constructor private.

What's the difference between SCSS and Sass?

SCSS is the new syntax for Sass. In Extension wise, .sass for the SASS while .scss for the SCSS. Here SCSS has more logical and complex approach for coding than SASS. Therefore, for a newbie to software field the better choice is SCSS.

Symfony - generate url with parameter in controller

If you want absolute urls, you have the third parameter.

$product_url = $this->generateUrl('product_detail', 
    array(
        'slug' => 'slug'
    ),
    UrlGeneratorInterface::ABSOLUTE_URL
);

Remember to include UrlGeneratorInterface.

use Symfony\Component\Routing\Generator\UrlGeneratorInterface;

Drop-down menu that opens up/upward with pure css

If we are use chosen dropdown list, then we can use below css(No JS/JQuery require)

<select chosen="{width: '100%'}" ng- 
   model="modelName" class="form-control input- 
   sm"
   ng- 
   options="persons.persons as 
   persons.persons for persons in 
   jsonData"
   ng- 
   change="anyFunction(anyParam)" 
   required>
   <option value=""> </option>
</select>
<style>   
.chosen-container .chosen-drop {
    border-bottom: 0;
    border-top: 1px solid #aaa;
    top: auto;
    bottom: 40px;
}

.chosen-container.chosen-with-drop .chosen-single {
    border-top-left-radius: 0px;
    border-top-right-radius: 0px;

    border-bottom-left-radius: 5px;
    border-bottom-right-radius: 5px;

    background-image: none;
}

.chosen-container.chosen-with-drop .chosen-drop {
    border-bottom-left-radius: 0px;
    border-bottom-right-radius: 0px;

    border-top-left-radius: 5px;
    border-top-right-radius: 5px;

    box-shadow: none;

    margin-bottom: -16px;
}
</style>

How to run JUnit test cases from the command line

Alternatively you can use the following methods in JunitCore class http://junit.sourceforge.net/javadoc/org/junit/runner/JUnitCore.html

run (with Request , Class classes and Runner) or runClasses from your java file.

How to use JavaScript to change the form action

Try this:

var frm = document.getElementById('search-theme-form') || null;
if(frm) {
   frm.action = 'whatever_you_need.ext' 
}

C# equivalent of C++ map<string,double>

Although System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary matches the tag "hashmap" and will work well in your example, it is not an exact equivalent of C++'s std::map - std::map is an ordered collection.

If ordering is important you should use SortedDictionary.