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CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER set to true doesnt work on hosting server

If you set CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER to true or 1 then the return value from curl_exec will be the actual result from the successful operation. In other words it will not return TRUE on success. Although it will return FALSE on failure.

As described in the Return Values section of curl-exec PHP manual page: http://php.net/manual/function.curl-exec.php

You should enable the CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION option for redirects but this would be a problem if your server is in safe_mode and/or open_basedir is in effect which can cause issues with curl as well.

How to get the filename without the extension from a path in Python?

On Windows system I used drivername prefix as well, like:

>>> s = 'c:\\temp\\akarmi.txt'
>>> print(os.path.splitext(s)[0])
c:\temp\akarmi

So because I do not need drive letter or directory name, I use:

>>> print(os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(s))[0])
akarmi

How to name and retrieve a stash by name in git?

This answer owes much to Klemen Slavic. I would have just commented on the accepted answer but I don't have enough rep yet :(

You could also add a git alias to find the stash ref and use it in other aliases for show, apply, drop, etc.

[alias]
    sgrep = "!f() { ref=$(git --no-pager stash list | grep "$1" | cut -d: -f1 | head -n1); echo ${ref:-<no_match>}; }; f"
    sshow = "!f() { git stash show $(git sgrep "$1") -p; }; f"
    sapply = "!f() { git stash apply $(git sgrep "$1"); }; f"
    sdrop = "!f() { git stash drop $(git sgrep "$1"); }; f"

Note that the reason for the ref=$( ... ); echo ${ref:-<no_match>}; pattern is so a blank string is not returned which would cause sshow, sapply and sdrop to target the latest stash instead of fail as one would expect.

How to create jobs in SQL Server Express edition

The functionality of creating SQL Agent Jobs is not available in SQL Server Express Edition. An alternative is to execute a batch file that executes a SQL script using Windows Task Scheduler.

In order to do this first create a batch file named sqljob.bat

sqlcmd -S servername -U username -P password -i <path of sqljob.sql>

Replace the servername, username, password and path with yours.

Then create the SQL Script file named sqljob.sql

USE [databasename]
--T-SQL commands go here
GO

Replace the [databasename] with your database name. The USE and GO is necessary when you write the SQL script.

sqlcmd is a command-line utility to execute SQL scripts. After creating these two files execute the batch file using Windows Task Scheduler.

NB: An almost same answer was posted for this question before. But I felt it was incomplete as it didn't specify about login information using sqlcmd.

How to set username and password for SmtpClient object in .NET?

Since not all of my clients use authenticated SMTP accounts, I resorted to using the SMTP account only if app key values are supplied in web.config file.

Here is the VB code:

sSMTPUser = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("SMTPUser")
sSMTPPassword = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("SMTPPassword")

If sSMTPUser.Trim.Length > 0 AndAlso sSMTPPassword.Trim.Length > 0 Then
    NetClient.Credentials = New System.Net.NetworkCredential(sSMTPUser, sSMTPPassword)

    sUsingCredentialMesg = "(Using Authenticated Account) " 'used for logging purposes
End If

NetClient.Send(Message)

Where do I put image files, css, js, etc. in Codeigniter?

I just wanted to add that the problem may be even simpler -

I've been scratching my head for hours with this problem - I have read all the solutions, nothing worked. Then I managed to check the actual file name.

I had "image.jpg.jpg" rather than "image.jpg".

If you use $ ls public/..path to image assets../ you can quickly check the file names.

Sounds stupid but I never thought to look at something so simple as file name given the all the technical advice here.

Xcode Error: "The app ID cannot be registered to your development team."

I had the issue with different development teams. I just checked the schema signings and picked the correct development team for the schemas that I needed:

Ss from Xcode

CSS display:table-row does not expand when width is set to 100%

If you're using display:table-row etc., then you need proper markup, which includes a containing table. Without it your original question basically provides the equivalent bad markup of:

<tr style="width:100%">
    <td>Type</td>
    <td style="float:right">Name</td>
</tr>

Where's the table in the above? You can't just have a row out of nowhere (tr must be contained in either table, thead, tbody, etc.)

Instead, add an outer element with display:table, put the 100% width on the containing element. The two inside cells will automatically go 50/50 and align the text right on the second cell. Forget floats with table elements. It'll cause so many headaches.

markup:

<div class="view-table">
    <div class="view-row">
        <div class="view-type">Type</div>
        <div class="view-name">Name</div>                
    </div>
</div>

CSS:

.view-table
{
    display:table;
    width:100%;
}
.view-row,
{
    display:table-row;
}
.view-row > div
{
    display: table-cell;
}
.view-name 
{
    text-align:right;
}

Can't create handler inside thread that has not called Looper.prepare()

that's what i did.

new Handler(Looper.getMainLooper()).post(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        Toast(...);
    }
});

Visual components are "locked" to changes from outside threads. So, since the toast shows stuff on the main screen that is managed by the main thread, you need to run this code on that thread. Hope that helps:)

How to set default value to the input[type="date"]

1 - @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
    <input type="date" "myDate">
    @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

    var today = new Date();
    $('#myDate').val(today.getFullYear() + '-' + ('0' + (today.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2) + '-' + ('0' + today.getDate()).slice(-2));

2 - @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
   <input type="datatime-local" id="myLocalDataTime" step="1">
    @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

var today = new Date();
$('#myLocalDataTime').val(today.getFullYear() + '-' + ('0' + (today.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2) + '-' + ('0' + today.getDate()).slice(-2)+'T'+today.getHours()+':'+today.getMinutes());

XPath OR operator for different nodes

If you want to select only one of two nodes with union operator, you can use this solution: (//bookstore/book/title | //bookstore/city/zipcode/title)[1]

Storing JSON in database vs. having a new column for each key

some time joins on the table will be an overhead. lets say for OLAP. if i have two tables one is ORDERS table and other one is ORDER_DETAILS. For getting all the order details we have to join two tables this will make the query slower when no of rows in the tables increase lets say in millions or so.. left/right join is too slower than inner join. I Think if we add JSON string/Object in the respective ORDERS entry JOIN will be avoided. add report generation will be faster...

How can I take a screenshot/image of a website using Python?

You can use Google Page Speed API to achieve your task easily. In my current project, I have used Google Page Speed API`s query written in Python to capture screenshots of any Web URL provided and save it to a location. Have a look.

import urllib2
import json
import base64
import sys
import requests
import os
import errno

#   The website's URL as an Input
site = sys.argv[1]
imagePath = sys.argv[2]

#   The Google API.  Remove "&strategy=mobile" for a desktop screenshot
api = "https://www.googleapis.com/pagespeedonline/v1/runPagespeed?screenshot=true&strategy=mobile&url=" + urllib2.quote(site)

#   Get the results from Google
try:
    site_data = json.load(urllib2.urlopen(api))
except urllib2.URLError:
    print "Unable to retreive data"
    sys.exit()

try:
    screenshot_encoded =  site_data['screenshot']['data']
except ValueError:
    print "Invalid JSON encountered."
    sys.exit()

#   Google has a weird way of encoding the Base64 data
screenshot_encoded = screenshot_encoded.replace("_", "/")
screenshot_encoded = screenshot_encoded.replace("-", "+")

#   Decode the Base64 data
screenshot_decoded = base64.b64decode(screenshot_encoded)

if not os.path.exists(os.path.dirname(impagepath)):
    try:
        os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(impagepath))
        except  OSError as exc:
            if exc.errno  != errno.EEXIST:
                raise

#   Save the file
with open(imagePath, 'w') as file_:
    file_.write(screenshot_decoded)

Unfortunately, following are the drawbacks. If these do not matter, you can proceed with Google Page Speed API. It works well.

  • The maximum width is 320px
  • According to Google API Quota, there is a limit of 25,000 requests per day

How can I make Bootstrap 4 columns all the same height?

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In jQuery, how do I get the value of a radio button when they all have the same name?

DEMO : https://jsfiddle.net/ipsjolly/xygr065w/

$(function(){
    $("#submit").click(function(){      
        alert($('input:radio:checked').val());
    });
 });

Github "Updates were rejected because the remote contains work that you do not have locally."

If you are using Visual S2019, Create a new local branch as shown in following, and then push the changes to the repo.

VS2019 local branch

Error:java: invalid source release: 8 in Intellij. What does it mean?

For Gradle users having this issues, if nothing above helps this is what solved my problem - apply this declarations in your build.gradle files:

targetCompatibility = 1.6 //or 1.7;1.8 and so on
sourceCompatibility = 1.6 //or 1.7;1.8 and so on

Problem solved!

FromBody string parameter is giving null

After a long nightmare of fiddling with Google and trying out the wrong code in Stack Overflow I discovered changing ([FromBody] string model) to ([FromBody] object model) does wonders please not i am using .NET 4.0 yes yes i know it s old but ...

How to use phpexcel to read data and insert into database?

      if($query)
       {
        // try to export to excel the whole data ---
        //initialize php excel first  
        ob_end_clean();
        //--- create php excel object ---
        $objPHPExcel = new PHPExcel();
        //define cachemethod
        ini_set('memory_limit', '3500M');
        $cacheMethod   = PHPExcel_CachedObjectStorageFactory::cache_to_phpTemp;
        $cacheSettings = array('memoryCacheSize' => '800MB');
        //set php excel settings
        PHPExcel_Settings::setCacheStorageMethod(
                $cacheMethod,$cacheSettings
              );


        $objPHPExcel->getProperties()->setTitle("export")->setDescription("none");

        $objPHPExcel->setActiveSheetIndex(0);

        // Field names in the first row
        $fields = $query->list_fields();
        $col = 0;
        foreach ($fields as $field)
        {
            $objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValueByColumnAndRow($col, 1, $field);
            $col++;
        }

        // Fetching the table data
        $row = 2;
        foreach($query->result() as $data)
        {
            $col = 0;
            foreach ($fields as $field)
            {
                $objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValueByColumnAndRow($col, $row, $data->$field);
                $col++;
            }

            $row++;
        }

        $objPHPExcel->setActiveSheetIndex(0);
        //redirect to cleint browser
        header('Content-Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet');
        header('Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=Provinces.xlsx');
        header('Cache-Control: max-age=0');

        $objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'Excel2007');
        $objWriter->save('php://output');
     }

Can iterators be reset in Python?

This is perhaps orthogonal to the original question, but one could wrap the iterator in a function that returns the iterator.

def get_iter():
    return iterator

To reset the iterator just call the function again. This is of course trivial if the function when the said function takes no arguments.

In the case that the function requires some arguments, use functools.partial to create a closure that can be passed instead of the original iterator.

def get_iter(arg1, arg2):
   return iterator
from functools import partial
iter_clos = partial(get_iter, a1, a2)

This seems to avoid the caching that tee (n copies) or list (1 copy) would need to do

Background color of text in SVG

No, you can not add background color to SVG elements. You can do it programmatically with d3.

var text = d3.select("text");
var bbox = text.node().getBBox();
var padding = 2;
var rect = self.svg.insert("rect", "text")
    .attr("x", bbox.x - padding)
    .attr("y", bbox.y - padding)
    .attr("width", bbox.width + (padding*2))
    .attr("height", bbox.height + (padding*2))
    .style("fill", "red");

Finding element's position relative to the document

I suggest using

element.getBoundingClientRect()

as proposed here instead of manual offset calculation through offsetLeft, offsetTop and offsetParent. as proposed here Under some circumstances* the manual traversal produces invalid results. See this Plunker: http://plnkr.co/pC8Kgj

*When element is inside of a scrollable parent with static (=default) positioning.

Check if DataRow exists by column name in c#?

if (drMyRow.Table.Columns["ColNameToCheck"] != null)
{
   doSomethingUseful;
{
else { return; }

Although the DataRow does not have a Columns property, it does have a Table that the column can be checked for.

How can I get all sequences in an Oracle database?

You may not have permission to dba_sequences. So you can always just do:

select * from user_sequences;

jQuery if statement to check visibility

Yes you can use .is(':visible') in jquery. But while the code is running under the safari browser .is(':visible') is won't work.

So please use the below code

if( $(".example").offset().top > 0 )

The above line will work both IE as well as safari also.

how to output every line in a file python

Firstly, as @l33tnerd said, f.close should be outside the for loop.

Secondly, you are only calling readline once, before the loop. That only reads the first line. The trick is that in Python, files act as iterators, so you can iterate over the file without having to call any methods on it, and that will give you one line per iteration:

 if data.find('!masters') != -1:
     f = open('masters.txt')
     for line in f:
           print line,
           sck.send('PRIVMSG ' + chan + " " + line)
     f.close()

Finally, you were referring to the variable lines inside the loop; I assume you meant to refer to line.

Edit: Oh and you need to indent the contents of the if statement.

How to truncate text in Angular2?

Truncate Pipe with optional params:

  • limit - string max length
  • completeWords - Flag to truncate at the nearest complete word, instead of character
  • ellipsis - appended trailing suffix

-

import { Pipe, PipeTransform } from '@angular/core';

@Pipe({
  name: 'truncate'
})
export class TruncatePipe implements PipeTransform {
  transform(value: string, limit = 25, completeWords = false, ellipsis = '...') {
    if (completeWords) {
      limit = value.substr(0, limit).lastIndexOf(' ');
    }
    return value.length > limit ? value.substr(0, limit) + ellipsis : value;
  }
}

Don't forget to add a module entry.

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    TruncatePipe
  ]
})
export class AppModule {}

Usage

Example String:

public longStr = 'A really long string that needs to be truncated';

Markup:

  <h1>{{longStr | truncate }}</h1> 
  <!-- Outputs: A really long string that... -->

  <h1>{{longStr | truncate : 12 }}</h1> 
  <!-- Outputs: A really lon... -->

  <h1>{{longStr | truncate : 12 : true }}</h1> 
  <!-- Outputs: A really... -->

  <h1>{{longStr | truncate : 12 : false : '***' }}</h1> 
  <!-- Outputs: A really lon*** -->

Setting default checkbox value in Objective-C?

Documentation on UISwitch says:

[mySwitch setOn:NO]; 

In Interface Builder, select your switch and in the Attributes inspector you'll find State which can be set to on or off.

How to get parameter on Angular2 route in Angular way?

As of Angular 6+, this is handled slightly differently than in previous versions. As @BeetleJuice mentions in the answer above, paramMap is new interface for getting route params, but the execution is a bit different in more recent versions of Angular. Assuming this is in a component:

private _entityId: number;

constructor(private _route: ActivatedRoute) {
    // ...
}

ngOnInit() {
    // For a static snapshot of the route...
    this._entityId = this._route.snapshot.paramMap.get('id');

    // For subscribing to the observable paramMap...
    this._route.paramMap.pipe(
        switchMap((params: ParamMap) => this._entityId = params.get('id'))
    );

    // Or as an alternative, with slightly different execution...
    this._route.paramMap.subscribe((params: ParamMap) =>  {
        this._entityId = params.get('id');
    });
}

I prefer to use both because then on direct page load I can get the ID param, and also if navigating between related entities the subscription will update properly.

Source in Angular Docs

How do I get a file's last modified time in Perl?

my @array = stat($filehandle);

The modification time is stored in Unix format in $array[9].

Or explicitly:

my ($dev, $ino, $mode, $nlink, $uid, $gid, $rdev, $size,
    $atime, $mtime, $ctime, $blksize, $blocks) = stat($filepath);

  0 dev      Device number of filesystem
  1 ino      inode number
  2 mode     File mode  (type and permissions)
  3 nlink    Number of (hard) links to the file
  4 uid      Numeric user ID of file's owner
  5 gid      Numeric group ID of file's owner
  6 rdev     The device identifier (special files only)
  7 size     Total size of file, in bytes
  8 atime    Last access time in seconds since the epoch
  9 mtime    Last modify time in seconds since the epoch
 10 ctime    inode change time in seconds since the epoch
 11 blksize  Preferred block size for file system I/O
 12 blocks   Actual number of blocks allocated

The epoch was at 00:00 January 1, 1970 GMT.

More information is in stat.

Access VBA | How to replace parts of a string with another string

I was reading this thread and would like to add information even though it is surely no longer timely for the OP.

BiggerDon above points out the difficulty of rote replacing "North" with "N". A similar problem exists with "Avenue" to "Ave" (e.g. "Avenue of the Americas" becomes "Ave of the Americas": still understandable, but probably not what the OP wants.

The replace() function is entirely context-free, but addresses are not. A complete solution needs to have additional logic to interpret the context correctly, and then apply replace() as needed.

Databases commonly contain addresses, and so I wanted to point out that the generalized version of the OP's problem as applied to addresses within the United States has been addressed (humor!) by the Coding Accuracy Support System (CASS). CASS is a database tool that accepts a U.S. address and completes or corrects it to meet a standard set by the U.S. Postal Service. The Wikipedia entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_address_verification has the basics, and more information is available at the Post Office: https://ribbs.usps.gov/index.cfm?page=address_info_systems

How do I determine k when using k-means clustering?

You can choose the number of clusters by visually inspecting your data points, but you will soon realize that there is a lot of ambiguity in this process for all except the simplest data sets. This is not always bad, because you are doing unsupervised learning and there's some inherent subjectivity in the labeling process. Here, having previous experience with that particular problem or something similar will help you choose the right value.

If you want some hint about the number of clusters that you should use, you can apply the Elbow method:

First of all, compute the sum of squared error (SSE) for some values of k (for example 2, 4, 6, 8, etc.). The SSE is defined as the sum of the squared distance between each member of the cluster and its centroid. Mathematically:

SSE=?Ki=1?x?cidist(x,ci)2

If you plot k against the SSE, you will see that the error decreases as k gets larger; this is because when the number of clusters increases, they should be smaller, so distortion is also smaller. The idea of the elbow method is to choose the k at which the SSE decreases abruptly. This produces an "elbow effect" in the graph, as you can see in the following picture:

enter image description here

In this case, k=6 is the value that the Elbow method has selected. Take into account that the Elbow method is an heuristic and, as such, it may or may not work well in your particular case. Sometimes, there are more than one elbow, or no elbow at all. In those situations you usually end up calculating the best k by evaluating how well k-means performs in the context of the particular clustering problem you are trying to solve.

Is there a difference between PhoneGap and Cordova commands?

This first choice might be a confusing one but it’s really very simple. PhoneGap is a product owned by Adobe which currently includes additional build services, and it may or may not eventually offer additional services and/or charge payments for use in the future. Cordova is owned and maintained by Apache, and will always be maintained as an open source project. Currently they both have a very similar API. I would recommend going with Cordova, unless you require the additional PhoneGap build services.

PowerShell try/catch/finally

That is very odd.

I went through ItemNotFoundException's base classes and tested the following multiple catches to see what would catch it:

try {
  remove-item C:\nonexistent\file.txt -erroraction stop
}
catch [System.Management.Automation.ItemNotFoundException] {
  write-host 'ItemNotFound'
}
catch [System.Management.Automation.SessionStateException] {
  write-host 'SessionState'
}
catch [System.Management.Automation.RuntimeException] {
  write-host 'RuntimeException'
}
catch [System.SystemException] {
  write-host 'SystemException'
}
catch [System.Exception] {
  write-host 'Exception'
}
catch {
  write-host 'well, darn'
}

As it turns out, the output was 'RuntimeException'. I also tried it with a different exception CommandNotFoundException:

try {
  do-nonexistent-command
}
catch [System.Management.Automation.CommandNotFoundException] {
  write-host 'CommandNotFoundException'
}
catch {
  write-host 'well, darn'
}

That output 'CommandNotFoundException' correctly.

I vaguely remember reading elsewhere (though I couldn't find it again) of problems with this. In such cases where exception filtering didn't work correctly, they would catch the closest Type they could and then use a switch. The following just catches Exception instead of RuntimeException, but is the switch equivalent of my first example that checks all base types of ItemNotFoundException:

try {
  Remove-Item C:\nonexistent\file.txt -ErrorAction Stop
}
catch [System.Exception] {
  switch($_.Exception.GetType().FullName) {
    'System.Management.Automation.ItemNotFoundException' {
      write-host 'ItemNotFound'
    }
    'System.Management.Automation.SessionStateException' {
      write-host 'SessionState'
    }
    'System.Management.Automation.RuntimeException' {
      write-host 'RuntimeException'
    }
    'System.SystemException' {
      write-host 'SystemException'
    }
    'System.Exception' {
      write-host 'Exception'
    }
    default {'well, darn'}
  }
}

This writes 'ItemNotFound', as it should.

How to test an Oracle Stored Procedure with RefCursor return type?

create or replace procedure my_proc(  v_number IN number,p_rc OUT SYS_REFCURSOR )
as
begin
open p_rc
for select 1 col1
     from dual;
 end;
 /

and then write a function lie this which calls your stored procedure

 create or replace function my_proc_test(v_number IN NUMBER) RETURN sys_refcursor
 as
 p_rc sys_refcursor;
 begin
 my_proc(v_number,p_rc);
 return p_rc;
 end
 /

then you can run this SQL query in the SQLDeveloper editor.

 SELECT my_proc_test(3) FROM DUAL;

you will see the result in the console right click on it and cilck on single record view and edit the result you can see the all the records that were returned by the ref cursor.

SQL Server : login success but "The database [dbName] is not accessible. (ObjectExplorer)"

In my case, restarting SQL Server Service was enough to resolve the issue.

Can't connect to Postgresql on port 5432

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

How can I read a large text file line by line using Java?

The clear way to achieve this,

For example:

If you have dataFile.txt on your current directory

import java.io.*;
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;

public class readByLine
{
    public readByLine() throws FileNotFoundException
    {
        Scanner linReader = new Scanner(new File("dataFile.txt"));

        while (linReader.hasNext())
        {
            String line = linReader.nextLine();
            System.out.println(line);
        }
        linReader.close();

    }

    public static void main(String args[])  throws FileNotFoundException
    {
        new readByLine();
    }
}

The output like as below, enter image description here

how to play video from url

please check this link : http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html

videoview can't support some codec .

i suggested you to use mediaplayer , when get "sorry , can't play video"

What is the yield keyword used for in C#?

One major point about Yield keyword is Lazy Execution. Now what I mean by Lazy Execution is to execute when needed. A better way to put it is by giving an example

Example: Not using Yield i.e. No Lazy Execution.

public static IEnumerable<int> CreateCollectionWithList()
{
    var list =  new List<int>();
    list.Add(10);
    list.Add(0);
    list.Add(1);
    list.Add(2);
    list.Add(20);

    return list;
}

Example: using Yield i.e. Lazy Execution.

public static IEnumerable<int> CreateCollectionWithYield()
{
    yield return 10;
    for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) 
    {
        yield return i;
    }

    yield return 20;
}

Now when I call both methods.

var listItems = CreateCollectionWithList();
var yieldedItems = CreateCollectionWithYield();

you will notice listItems will have a 5 items inside it (hover your mouse on listItems while debugging). Whereas yieldItems will just have a reference to the method and not the items. That means it has not executed the process of getting items inside the method. A very efficient a way of getting data only when needed. Actual implementation of yield can seen in ORM like Entity Framework and NHibernate etc.

How can I restore the MySQL root user’s full privileges?

If the GRANT ALL doesn't work, try:

  1. Stop mysqld and restart it with the --skip-grant-tables option.
  2. Connect to the mysqld server with just: mysql (i.e. no -p option, and username may not be required).
  3. Issue the following commands in the mysql client:

    UPDATE mysql.user SET Grant_priv='Y', Super_priv='Y' WHERE User='root';

    FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

After that, you should be able to run GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'root'@'localhost'; and have it work.

How to encode a URL in Swift

XCODE 8, SWIFT 3.0

From grokswift

Creating URLs from strings is a minefield for bugs. Just miss a single / or accidentally URL encode the ? in a query and your API call will fail and your app won’t have any data to display (or even crash if you didn’t anticipate that possibility). Since iOS 8 there’s a better way to build URLs using NSURLComponents and NSURLQueryItems.

func createURLWithComponents() -> URL? {
    var urlComponents = URLComponents()
    urlComponents.scheme = "http"
    urlComponents.host = "maps.googleapis.com"
    urlComponents.path = "/maps/api/geocode/json"

    let addressQuery = URLQueryItem(name: "address", value: "American Tourister, Abids Road, Bogulkunta, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India")
    urlComponents.queryItems = [addressQuery]

    return urlComponents.url
}

Below is the code to access url using guard statement.

guard let url = createURLWithComponents() else {
            print("invalid URL")
            return nil
      }
      print(url)

Output:

http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=American%20Tourister,%20Abids%20Road,%20Bogulkunta,%20Hyderabad,%20Andhra%20Pradesh,%20India

Read More: Building URLs With NSURLComponents and NSURLQueryItems

Database Diagram Support Objects cannot be Installed ... no valid owner

You should consider SQL authentication account for database ownership; then you don't have to worry about accounts coming and going, databases or instances moving to different servers, and your next PC name change. I have several systems where we use:

ALTER AUTHORIZATION ON DATABASE::Ariha TO [sa];

Or if you want to change the owner to that local Administrator account, then it should be:

ALTER AUTHORIZATION ON DATABASE::Ariha TO [DevPC\Administrator];

Because renaming the machine to DevPC has eliminated the local account that used to be named WIN-ND...\Administrator and this has also invalidated the current owner of the database.

If SELECT @@SERVERNAME; is not accurate (it should say DevPC), then in order to ensure that your server rename has taken hold within SQL Server, you may also want to issue the following:

EXEC sys.sp_dropserver @server = N'old server name';
GO
EXEC sys.sp_addserver @server = N'DevPC', @local = N'local';
GO

Save string to the NSUserDefaults?

more precisely

-(void)saveToUserDefaults:(NSString*)myString
{
    NSUserDefaults *standardUserDefaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];

    if (standardUserDefaults) {
        [standardUserDefaults setObject:myString forKey:@"timestamps"];
        [standardUserDefaults synchronize];
    }
}

Why is there no Char.Empty like String.Empty?

If you want to remove characters that satisfy a specific condition, you may use this:

string s = "SoMEthInG";
s = new string(s.Where(c => char.IsUpper(c)).ToArray());

(This will leave only the uppercase characters in the string.)

In other words, you may "use" the string as an IEnumerable<char>, make changes on it and then convert it back to a string as shown above.

Again, this enables to not only remove a specific char because of the lambda expression, although you can do so if you change the lambda expression like this: c => c != 't'.

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

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

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

To stop the loop you can use

clearInterval(intervalId) 

Undo a particular commit in Git that's been pushed to remote repos

I don't like the auto-commit that git revert does, so this might be helpful for some.

If you just want the modified files not the auto-commit, you can use --no-commit

% git revert --no-commit <commit hash>

which is the same as the -n

% git revert -n <commit hash>

How to select a dropdown value in Selenium WebDriver using Java

Actually select does select but not placing the selected values to the respective field . Where wondered the below snippet works perfectly

driver.findElement(By.name("period")).sendKeys("Last 52 Weeks");

Creating a BAT file for python script

If this is a BAT file in a different directory than the current directory, you may see an error like "python: can't open file 'somescript.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory". This can be fixed by specifying an absolute path to the BAT file using %~dp0 (the drive letter and path of that batch file).

@echo off
python %~dp0\somescript.py %*

(This way you can ignore the c:\ or whatever, because perhaps you may want to move this script)

Class 'ViewController' has no initializers in swift

For me was a declaration incomplete. For example:

var isInverted: Bool

Instead the correct way:

var isInverted: Bool = false

How can I set size of a button?

The following bit of code does what you ask for. Just make sure that you assign enough space so that the text on the button becomes visible

JFrame frame = new JFrame("test");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
JPanel panel = new JPanel(new GridLayout(4,4,4,4));

for(int i=0 ; i<16 ; i++){
    JButton btn = new JButton(String.valueOf(i));
    btn.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(40, 40));
    panel.add(btn);
}
frame.setContentPane(panel);
frame.pack();
frame.setVisible(true);

The X and Y (two first parameters of the GridLayout constructor) specify the number of rows and columns in the grid (respectively). You may leave one of them as 0 if you want that value to be unbounded.

Edit

I've modified the provided code and I believe it now conforms to what is desired:

JFrame frame = new JFrame("Colored Trails");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

JPanel mainPanel = new JPanel();
mainPanel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(mainPanel, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));

JPanel firstPanel = new JPanel();
firstPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(4, 4));
firstPanel.setMaximumSize(new Dimension(400, 400));
JButton btn;
for (int i=1; i<=4; i++) {
    for (int j=1; j<=4; j++) {
        btn = new JButton();
        btn.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(100, 100));
        firstPanel.add(btn);
    }
}

JPanel secondPanel = new JPanel();
secondPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(5, 13));
secondPanel.setMaximumSize(new Dimension(520, 200));
for (int i=1; i<=5; i++) {
    for (int j=1; j<=13; j++) {
        btn = new JButton();
        btn.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(40, 40));
        secondPanel.add(btn);
    }
}

mainPanel.add(firstPanel);
mainPanel.add(secondPanel);
frame.setContentPane(mainPanel);

frame.setSize(520,600);
frame.setMinimumSize(new Dimension(520,600));
frame.setVisible(true);

Basically I now set the preferred size of the panels and a minimum size for the frame.

Eclipse plugin for generating a class diagram

Must it be an Eclipse plug-in? I use doxygen, just supply your code folder, it handles the rest.

How to get the selected radio button value using js

you can use this

$('input[name="field_value"]:checked').val(); 

or, for older version of jquery

$('input[@name="field_value"]:checked').val();

System.IO.IOException: file used by another process

 System.Drawing.Image FileUploadPhoto = System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(location1);
                                 FileUploadPhoto.Save(location2);
                                 FileUploadPhoto.Dispose();

How can I plot a histogram such that the heights of the bars sum to 1 in matplotlib?

I know this answer is too late considering the question is dated 2010 but I came across this question as I was facing a similar problem myself. As already stated in the answer, normed=True means that the total area under the histogram is equal to 1 but the sum of heights is not equal to 1. However, I wanted to, for convenience of physical interpretation of a histogram, make one with sum of heights equal to 1.

I found a hint in the following question - Python: Histogram with area normalized to something other than 1

But I was not able to find a way of making bars mimic the histtype="step" feature hist(). This diverted me to : Matplotlib - Stepped histogram with already binned data

If the community finds it acceptable I should like to put forth a solution which synthesises ideas from both the above posts.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Let X be the array whose histogram needs to be plotted.
nx, xbins, ptchs = plt.hist(X, bins=20)
plt.clf() # Get rid of this histogram since not the one we want.

nx_frac = nx/float(len(nx)) # Each bin divided by total number of objects.
width = xbins[1] - xbins[0] # Width of each bin.
x = np.ravel(zip(xbins[:-1], xbins[:-1]+width))
y = np.ravel(zip(nx_frac,nx_frac))

plt.plot(x,y,linestyle="dashed",label="MyLabel")
#... Further formatting.

This has worked wonderfully for me though in some cases I have noticed that the left most "bar" or the right most "bar" of the histogram does not close down by touching the lowest point of the Y-axis. In such a case adding an element 0 at the begging or the end of y achieved the necessary result.

Just thought I'd share my experience. Thank you.

What is the purpose of using -pedantic in GCC/G++ compiler?

<-ansi is an obsolete switch that requests the compiler to compile according to the 30-year-old obsolete revision of C standard, ISO/IEC 9899:1990, which is essentially a rebranding of the ANSI standard X3.159-1989 "Programming Language C. Why obsolete? Because after C90 was published by ISO, ISO has been in charge of the C standardization, and any technical corrigenda to C90 have been standardized by ISO. Thus it is more apt to use the -std=c90.

Without this switch, the recent GCC C compilers will conform to the C language standardized in ISO/IEC 9899:2011, or the newest 2018 revision.

Unfortunately there are some lazy compiler vendors that believe it is acceptable to stick to an older obsolete standard revision, for which the standardization document is not even available from standard bodies.

Using the switch helps ensuring that the code should compile in these obsolete compilers.


The -pedantic is an interesting one. In absence of -pedantic, even when a specific standard is requested, GCC will still allow some extensions that are not acceptable in the C standard. Consider for example the program

struct test {
    int zero_size_array[0];
};

The C11 draft n1570 paragraph 6.7.6.2p1 says:

In addition to optional type qualifiers and the keyword static, the [ and ] may delimit an expression or *. If they delimit an expression (which specifies the size of an array), the expression shall have an integer type. If the expression is a constant expression, it shall have a value greater than zero.[...]

The C standard requires that the array length be greater than zero; and this paragraph is in the constraints; the standard says the following 5.1.1.3p1:

A conforming implementation shall produce at least one diagnostic message (identified in an implementation-defined manner) if a preprocessing translation unit or translation unit contains a violation of any syntax rule or constraint, even if the behavior is also explicitly specified as undefined or implementation-defined. Diagnostic messages need not be produced in other circumstances.9)

However, if you compile the program with gcc -c -std=c90 pedantic_test.c, no warning is produced.

-pedantic causes the compiler to actually comply to the C standard; so now it will produce a diagnostic message, as is required by the standard:

gcc -c -pedantic -std=c90 pedantic_test.c
pedantic_test.c:2:9: warning: ISO C forbids zero-size array ‘zero_size_array’ [-Wpedantic]
     int zero_size_array[0];
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Thus for maximal portability, specifying the standard revision is not enough, you must also use -pedantic (or -pedantic-errors) to ensure that GCC actually does comply to the letter of the standard.


The last part of the question was about using -ansi with C++. ANSI never standardized the C++ language - only adopting it from ISO, so this makes about as much sense as saying "English as standardized by France". However GCC still seems to accept it for C++, as stupid as it sounds.

How do I add python3 kernel to jupyter (IPython)

Following command works for me, on macOS Sierra(10.12.3)

python3 -m pip install ipykernel
python3 -m ipykernel install --user

check it with jupyter kernelspec list Available kernels: python3 /Users/admin/Library/Jupyter/kernels/python3 python2 /anaconda2/share/jupyter/kernels/python2

What's the best UI for entering date of birth?

I would suggest using a drop down menu for each field, making sure to label each as day, month and year. A date picker might also help, but if the user doesn't have JavaScript enabled, it won't work.

How to check if a date is greater than another in Java?

Parse the string into date, then compare using compareTo, before or after

Date d = new Date();
d.compareTo(anotherDate)

i.e

Date date1 = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy").parse(date1string)
Date date2 = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy").parse(date2string)

date1.compareTo(date2);

Copying the comment provided below by @MuhammadSaqib to complete this answer.

Returns the value 0 if the argument Date is equal to this Date; a value less than 0 if this Date is before the Date argument, and a value greater than 0 if this Date is after the Date argument. and NullPointerException - if anotherDate is null.

javadoc for compareTo http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Date.html#compareTo(java.util.Date)

What does Maven do, in theory and in practice? When is it worth to use it?

What it does

Maven is a "build management tool", it is for defining how your .java files get compiled to .class, packaged into .jar (or .war or .ear) files, (pre/post)processed with tools, managing your CLASSPATH, and all others sorts of tasks that are required to build your project. It is similar to Apache Ant or Gradle or Makefiles in C/C++, but it attempts to be completely self-contained in it that you shouldn't need any additional tools or scripts by incorporating other common tasks like downloading & installing necessary libraries etc.

It is also designed around the "build portability" theme, so that you don't get issues as having the same code with the same buildscript working on one computer but not on another one (this is a known issue, we have VMs of Windows 98 machines since we couldn't get some of our Delphi applications compiling anywhere else). Because of this, it is also the best way to work on a project between people who use different IDEs since IDE-generated Ant scripts are hard to import into other IDEs, but all IDEs nowadays understand and support Maven (IntelliJ, Eclipse, and NetBeans). Even if you don't end up liking Maven, it ends up being the point of reference for all other modern builds tools.

Why you should use it

There are three things about Maven that are very nice.

  1. Maven will (after you declare which ones you are using) download all the libraries that you use and the libraries that they use for you automatically. This is very nice, and makes dealing with lots of libraries ridiculously easy. This lets you avoid "dependency hell". It is similar to Apache Ant's Ivy.

  2. It uses "Convention over Configuration" so that by default you don't need to define the tasks you want to do. You don't need to write a "compile", "test", "package", or "clean" step like you would have to do in Ant or a Makefile. Just put the files in the places in which Maven expects them and it should work off of the bat.

  3. Maven also has lots of nice plug-ins that you can install that will handle many routine tasks from generating Java classes from an XSD schema using JAXB to measuring test coverage with Cobertura. Just add them to your pom.xml and they will integrate with everything else you want to do.

The initial learning curve is steep, but (nearly) every professional Java developer uses Maven or wishes they did. You should use Maven on every project although don't be surprised if it takes you a while to get used to it and that sometimes you wish you could just do things manually, since learning something new sometimes hurts. However, once you truly get used to Maven you will find that build management takes almost no time at all.

How to Start

The best place to start is "Maven in 5 Minutes". It will get you start with a project ready for you to code in with all the necessary files and folders set-up (yes, I recommend using the quickstart archetype, at least at first).

After you get started you'll want a better understanding over how the tool is intended to be used. For that "Better Builds with Maven" is the most thorough place to understand the guts of how it works, however, "Maven: The Complete Reference" is more up-to-date. Read the first one for understanding, but then use the second one for reference.

Android Image View Pinch Zooming

Custom zoom view in Kotlin

 import android.content.Context
 import android.graphics.Matrix
 import android.graphics.PointF
 import android.util.AttributeSet
 import android.util.Log
 import android.view.MotionEvent
 import android.view.ScaleGestureDetector
 import android.view.ScaleGestureDetector.SimpleOnScaleGestureListener
 import androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatImageView

 class ZoomImageview : AppCompatImageView {
var matri: Matrix? = null
var mode = NONE

// Remember some things for zooming
var last = PointF()
var start = PointF()
var minScale = 1f
var maxScale = 3f
lateinit var m: FloatArray
var viewWidth = 0
var viewHeight = 0
var saveScale = 1f
protected var origWidth = 0f
protected var origHeight = 0f
var oldMeasuredWidth = 0
var oldMeasuredHeight = 0
var mScaleDetector: ScaleGestureDetector? = null
var contex: Context? = null

constructor(context: Context) : super(context) {
    sharedConstructing(context)
}

constructor(context: Context, attrs: AttributeSet?) : super(context, attrs) {
    sharedConstructing(context)
}

private fun sharedConstructing(context: Context) {
    super.setClickable(true)
    this.contex= context
    mScaleDetector = ScaleGestureDetector(context, ScaleListener())
    matri = Matrix()
    m = FloatArray(9)
    imageMatrix = matri
    scaleType = ScaleType.MATRIX
    setOnTouchListener { v, event ->
        mScaleDetector!!.onTouchEvent(event)
        val curr = PointF(event.x, event.y)
        when (event.action) {
            MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN -> {
                last.set(curr)
                start.set(last)
                mode = DRAG
            }
            MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE -> if (mode == DRAG) {
                val deltaX = curr.x - last.x
                val deltaY = curr.y - last.y
                val fixTransX = getFixDragTrans(deltaX, viewWidth.toFloat(), origWidth * saveScale)
                val fixTransY = getFixDragTrans(deltaY, viewHeight.toFloat(), origHeight * saveScale)
                matri!!.postTranslate(fixTransX, fixTransY)
                fixTrans()
                last[curr.x] = curr.y
            }
            MotionEvent.ACTION_UP -> {
                mode = NONE
                val xDiff = Math.abs(curr.x - start.x).toInt()
                val yDiff = Math.abs(curr.y - start.y).toInt()
                if (xDiff < CLICK && yDiff < CLICK) performClick()
            }
            MotionEvent.ACTION_POINTER_UP -> mode = NONE
        }
        imageMatrix = matri
        invalidate()
        true // indicate event was handled
    }
}

fun setMaxZoom(x: Float) {
    maxScale = x
}

private inner class ScaleListener : SimpleOnScaleGestureListener() {
    override fun onScaleBegin(detector: ScaleGestureDetector): Boolean {
        mode = ZOOM
        return true
    }

    override fun onScale(detector: ScaleGestureDetector): Boolean {
        var mScaleFactor = detector.scaleFactor
        val origScale = saveScale
        saveScale *= mScaleFactor
        if (saveScale > maxScale) {
            saveScale = maxScale
            mScaleFactor = maxScale / origScale
        } else if (saveScale < minScale) {
            saveScale = minScale
            mScaleFactor = minScale / origScale
        }
        if (origWidth * saveScale <= viewWidth || origHeight * saveScale <= viewHeight) matri!!.postScale(mScaleFactor, mScaleFactor, viewWidth / 2.toFloat(), viewHeight / 2.toFloat()) else matri!!.postScale(mScaleFactor, mScaleFactor, detector.focusX, detector.focusY)
        fixTrans()
        return true
    }
}

fun fixTrans() {
    matri!!.getValues(m)
    val transX = m[Matrix.MTRANS_X]
    val transY = m[Matrix.MTRANS_Y]
    val fixTransX = getFixTrans(transX, viewWidth.toFloat(), origWidth * saveScale)
    val fixTransY = getFixTrans(transY, viewHeight.toFloat(), origHeight * saveScale)
    if (fixTransX != 0f || fixTransY != 0f) matri!!.postTranslate(fixTransX, fixTransY)
}

fun getFixTrans(trans: Float, viewSize: Float, contentSize: Float): Float {
    val minTrans: Float
    val maxTrans: Float
    if (contentSize <= viewSize) {
        minTrans = 0f
        maxTrans = viewSize - contentSize
    } else {
        minTrans = viewSize - contentSize
        maxTrans = 0f
    }
    if (trans < minTrans) return -trans + minTrans
    if (trans > maxTrans) return -trans + maxTrans
    return 0f
}

fun getFixDragTrans(delta: Float, viewSize: Float, contentSize: Float): Float {
    if (contentSize <= viewSize) {
        return 0f
    } else {
        return delta
    }
}

override fun onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec: Int, heightMeasureSpec: Int) {
    super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec)
    viewWidth = MeasureSpec.getSize(widthMeasureSpec)
    viewHeight = MeasureSpec.getSize(heightMeasureSpec)
    //
    // Rescales image on rotation
    //
    if (oldMeasuredHeight == viewWidth && oldMeasuredHeight == viewHeight || viewWidth == 0 || viewHeight == 0) return
    oldMeasuredHeight = viewHeight
    oldMeasuredWidth = viewWidth
    if (saveScale == 1f) {
        //Fit to screen.
        val scale: Float
        val drawable = drawable
        if (drawable == null || drawable.intrinsicWidth == 0 || drawable.intrinsicHeight == 0) return
        val bmWidth = drawable.intrinsicWidth
        val bmHeight = drawable.intrinsicHeight
        Log.d("bmSize", "bmWidth: $bmWidth bmHeight : $bmHeight")
        val scaleX = viewWidth.toFloat() / bmWidth.toFloat()
        val scaleY = viewHeight.toFloat() / bmHeight.toFloat()
        scale = Math.min(scaleX, scaleY)
        matri!!.setScale(scale, scale)
        // Center the image
        var redundantYSpace = viewHeight.toFloat() - scale * bmHeight.toFloat()
        var redundantXSpace = viewWidth.toFloat() - scale * bmWidth.toFloat()
        redundantYSpace /= 2.toFloat()
        redundantXSpace /= 2.toFloat()
        matri!!.postTranslate(redundantXSpace, redundantYSpace)
        origWidth = viewWidth - 2 * redundantXSpace
        origHeight = viewHeight - 2 * redundantYSpace
        imageMatrix = matri
    }
    fixTrans()
}

companion object {
    // We can be in one of these 3 states
    const val NONE = 0
    const val DRAG = 1
    const val ZOOM = 2
    const val CLICK = 3
}
 }

How can I get the full object in Node.js's console.log(), rather than '[Object]'?

You need to use util.inspect():

const util = require('util')

console.log(util.inspect(myObject, {showHidden: false, depth: null}))

// alternative shortcut
console.log(util.inspect(myObject, false, null, true /* enable colors */))

Outputs

{ a: 'a',  b: { c: 'c', d: { e: 'e', f: { g: 'g', h: { i: 'i' } } } } }

See util.inspect() docs.

Python - Using regex to find multiple matches and print them out

Using regexes for this purpose is the wrong approach. Since you are using python you have a really awesome library available to extract parts from HTML documents: BeautifulSoup.

Multiple glibc libraries on a single host

I am not sure that the question is still relevant, but there is another way of fixing the problem: Docker. One can install an almost empty container of the Source Distribution (The Distribution used for development) and copy the files into the Container. That way You do not need to create the filesystem needed for chroot.

Split string into list in jinja?

You can’t run arbitrary Python code in jinja; it doesn’t work like JSP in that regard (it just looks similar). All the things in jinja are custom syntax.

For your purpose, it would make most sense to define a custom filter, so you could for example do the following:

The grass is {{ variable1 | splitpart(0, ',') }} and the boat is {{  splitpart(1, ',') }}
Or just:
The grass is {{ variable1 | splitpart(0) }} and the boat is {{  splitpart(1) }}

The filter function could then look like this:

def splitpart (value, index, char = ','):
    return value.split(char)[index]

An alternative, which might make even more sense, would be to split it in the controller and pass the splitted list to the view.

best way to preserve numpy arrays on disk

There is now a HDF5 based clone of pickle called hickle!

https://github.com/telegraphic/hickle

import hickle as hkl 

data = { 'name' : 'test', 'data_arr' : [1, 2, 3, 4] }

# Dump data to file
hkl.dump( data, 'new_data_file.hkl' )

# Load data from file
data2 = hkl.load( 'new_data_file.hkl' )

print( data == data2 )

EDIT:

There also is the possibility to "pickle" directly into a compressed archive by doing:

import pickle, gzip, lzma, bz2

pickle.dump( data, gzip.open( 'data.pkl.gz',   'wb' ) )
pickle.dump( data, lzma.open( 'data.pkl.lzma', 'wb' ) )
pickle.dump( data,  bz2.open( 'data.pkl.bz2',  'wb' ) )

compression


Appendix

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pickle, os, time
import gzip, lzma, bz2, h5py

compressions = [ 'pickle', 'h5py', 'gzip', 'lzma', 'bz2' ]
labels = [ 'pickle', 'h5py', 'pickle+gzip', 'pickle+lzma', 'pickle+bz2' ]
size = 1000

data = {}

# Random data
data['random'] = np.random.random((size, size))

# Not that random data
data['semi-random'] = np.zeros((size, size))
for i in range(size):
    for j in range(size):
        data['semi-random'][i,j] = np.sum(data['random'][i,:]) + np.sum(data['random'][:,j])

# Not random data
data['not-random'] = np.arange( size*size, dtype=np.float64 ).reshape( (size, size) )

sizes = {}

for key in data:

    sizes[key] = {}

    for compression in compressions:

        if compression == 'pickle':
            time_start = time.time()
            pickle.dump( data[key], open( 'data.pkl', 'wb' ) )
            time_tot = time.time() - time_start
            sizes[key]['pickle'] = ( os.path.getsize( 'data.pkl' ) * 10**(-6), time_tot )
            os.remove( 'data.pkl' )

        elif compression == 'h5py':
            time_start = time.time()
            with h5py.File( 'data.pkl.{}'.format(compression), 'w' ) as h5f:
                h5f.create_dataset('data', data=data[key])
            time_tot = time.time() - time_start
            sizes[key][compression] = ( os.path.getsize( 'data.pkl.{}'.format(compression) ) * 10**(-6), time_tot)
            os.remove( 'data.pkl.{}'.format(compression) )

        else:
            time_start = time.time()
            pickle.dump( data[key], eval(compression).open( 'data.pkl.{}'.format(compression), 'wb' ) )
            time_tot = time.time() - time_start
            sizes[key][ labels[ compressions.index(compression) ] ] = ( os.path.getsize( 'data.pkl.{}'.format(compression) ) * 10**(-6), time_tot )
            os.remove( 'data.pkl.{}'.format(compression) )


f, ax_size = plt.subplots()
ax_time = ax_size.twinx()

x_ticks = labels
x = np.arange( len(x_ticks) )

y_size = {}
y_time = {}
for key in data:
    y_size[key] = [ sizes[key][ x_ticks[i] ][0] for i in x ]
    y_time[key] = [ sizes[key][ x_ticks[i] ][1] for i in x ]

width = .2
viridis = plt.cm.viridis

p1 = ax_size.bar( x-width, y_size['random']       , width, color = viridis(0)  )
p2 = ax_size.bar( x      , y_size['semi-random']  , width, color = viridis(.45))
p3 = ax_size.bar( x+width, y_size['not-random']   , width, color = viridis(.9) )

p4 = ax_time.bar( x-width, y_time['random']  , .02, color = 'red')
ax_time.bar( x      , y_time['semi-random']  , .02, color = 'red')
ax_time.bar( x+width, y_time['not-random']   , .02, color = 'red')

ax_size.legend( (p1, p2, p3, p4), ('random', 'semi-random', 'not-random', 'saving time'), loc='upper center',bbox_to_anchor=(.5, -.1), ncol=4 )
ax_size.set_xticks( x )
ax_size.set_xticklabels( x_ticks )

f.suptitle( 'Pickle Compression Comparison' )
ax_size.set_ylabel( 'Size [MB]' )
ax_time.set_ylabel( 'Time [s]' )

f.savefig( 'sizes.pdf', bbox_inches='tight' )

How to wrap text in textview in Android

You need to add your TextView in a ScrollView with something like this :

<ScrollView android:id="@+id/SCROLL_VIEW"  
android:layout_height="150px"   
android:layout_width="fill_parent">  

<TextView   
   android:id="@+id/TEXT_VIEW"   
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"   
   android:layout_width="wrap_content"   
   android:text="This text view should act as header This text view should act as header This text view should act as header This text view should act as header This text view should act as header This text view should act as header This text view should act as header" />  
 </ScrollView>

Sleeping in a batch file

Depending on your compatibility needs, either use ping:

ping -n <numberofseconds+1> localhost >nul 2>&1

e.g. to wait 5 seconds, use

ping -n 6 localhost >nul 2>&1

or on Windows 7 or later use timeout:

timeout 6 >nul

Renaming files in a folder to sequential numbers

Sorted by time, limited to jpg, leading zeroes and a basename (in case you likely want one):

ls -t *.jpg | cat -n |                                           \
while read n f; do mv "$f" "$(printf thumb_%04d.jpg $n)"; done

(all on one line, without the \)

How to insert close button in popover for Bootstrap

$popover = $el.popover({
  html: true
  placement: 'left'
  content: 'Do you want to a <b>review</b>? <a href="#" onclick="">Yes</a> <a href="#">No</a>'
  trigger: 'manual'
  container: $container // to contain the popup code
});

$popover.on('shown', function() {
  $container.find('.popover-content a').click( function() {
    $popover.popover('destroy')
  });
});

$popover.popover('show')'

Ignore parent padding

Your parent is 120px wide - that is 100 width + 20 padding on each side so you need to make your line 120px wide. Here's the code. Next time note that padding adds up to element width.

#parent
{
    width: 100px;
    padding: 10px;
    background-color: Red;
}

hr
{
    width: 120px;
    margin:0 -10px;
    position:relative;
}

unary operator expected in shell script when comparing null value with string

Why all people want to use '==' instead of simple '=' ? It is bad habit! It used only in [[ ]] expression. And in (( )) too. But you may use just = too! It work well in any case. If you use numbers, not strings use not parcing to strings and then compare like strings but compare numbers. like that

let -i i=5 # garantee that i is nubmber
test $i -eq 5 && echo "$i is equal 5" || echo "$i not equal 5"

It's match better and quicker. I'm expert in C/C++, Java, JavaScript. But if I use bash i never use '==' instead '='. Why you do so?

How to update a single library with Composer?

If you just want to update a few packages and not all, you can list them as such:

php composer.phar update vendor/package:2.* vendor/package2:dev-master

You can also use wildcards to update a bunch of packages at once:

php composer.phar update vendor/*
  • --prefer-source: Install packages from source when available.
  • --prefer-dist: Install packages from dist when available.
  • --ignore-platform-reqs: ignore php, hhvm, lib-* and ext-* requirements and force the installation even if the local machine does not fulfill these. See also the platform config option.
  • --dry-run: Simulate the command without actually doing anything.
  • --dev: Install packages listed in require-dev (this is the default behavior).
  • --no-dev: Skip installing packages listed in require-dev. The autoloader generation skips the autoload-dev rules.
  • --no-autoloader: Skips autoloader generation.
  • --no-scripts: Skips execution of scripts defined in composer.json.
  • --no-plugins: Disables plugins.
  • --no-progress: Removes the progress display that can mess with some terminals or scripts which don't handle backspace characters.
  • --optimize-autoloader (-o): Convert PSR-0/4 autoloading to classmap to get a faster autoloader. This is recommended especially for production, but can take a bit of time to run so it is currently not done by default.
  • --lock: Only updates the lock file hash to suppress warning about the lock file being out of date.
  • --with-dependencies: Add also all dependencies of whitelisted packages to the whitelist.
  • --prefer-stable: Prefer stable versions of dependencies.
  • --prefer-lowest: Prefer lowest versions of dependencies. Useful for testing minimal versions of requirements, generally used with --prefer-stable.

Converting an int to a binary string representation in Java?

public static string intToBinary(int n)
{
    String s = "";
    while (n > 0)
    {
        s =  ( (n % 2 ) == 0 ? "0" : "1") +s;
        n = n / 2;
    }
    return s;
}

Match exact string

"^" For the begining of the line "$" for the end of it. Eg.:

var re = /^abc$/;

Would match "abc" but not "1abc" or "abc1". You can learn more at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Regular_Expressions

How can I autoformat/indent C code in vim?

I wanted to add, that in order to prevent it from being messed up in the first place you can type :set paste before pasting. After pasting, you can type :set nopaste for things like js-beautify and indenting to work again.

How to resize an image with OpenCV2.0 and Python2.6

You could use the GetSize function to get those information, cv.GetSize(im) would return a tuple with the width and height of the image. You can also use im.depth and img.nChan to get some more information.

And to resize an image, I would use a slightly different process, with another image instead of a matrix. It is better to try to work with the same type of data:

size = cv.GetSize(im)
thumbnail = cv.CreateImage( ( size[0] / 10, size[1] / 10), im.depth, im.nChannels)
cv.Resize(im, thumbnail)

Hope this helps ;)

Julien

Calculate the display width of a string in Java

If you just want to use AWT, then use Graphics.getFontMetrics (optionally specifying the font, for a non-default one) to get a FontMetrics and then FontMetrics.stringWidth to find the width for the specified string.

For example, if you have a Graphics variable called g, you'd use:

int width = g.getFontMetrics().stringWidth(text);

For other toolkits, you'll need to give us more information - it's always going to be toolkit-dependent.

Facebook Android Generate Key Hash

I. Create key hash debug for facebook

Add code to print out the key hash for facebook

    try {
        PackageInfo info = getPackageManager().getPackageInfo(
                "com.google.shoppingvn", PackageManager.GET_SIGNATURES);
        for (Signature signature : info.signatures) {
            MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA");
            md.update(signature.toByteArray());
            Log.i("KeyHash:",
                    Base64.encodeToString(md.digest(), Base64.DEFAULT));
        }
    } catch (NameNotFoundException e) {

    } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {

    }

II. Create key hash release for facebook

  1. Download openssl-0.9.8e_X64

  2. Make a openssl folder in C drive

  3. Extract Zip files into openssl folder

  4. Start -> Run: cmd (press enter)

  5. (press) cd C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_45\bin. Note: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_45\bin: is path to jdk folder in your computer

  6. (press) keytool -exportcert -alias gci -keystore D:\folder\keystorerelease | C:\openssl\bin\openssl sha1 -binary | C:\openssl\bin\openssl base64. Note: D:\folder\keystorerelease: is path to your keystorerelease

  7. Enter keystore password: This is password when your register keystorerelease.

    Then you will have a key hash: jDehABCDIQEDWAYz5Ow4sjsxLSw=

  8. Login facebook. Access to Manage Apps. Paste key hash to your app on developers.facebook.com

How to get POSTed JSON in Flask?

You may note that request.json or request.get_json() works only when the "Content-type: application/json" has been added in the header of the request. If you are unable to change the client request configuration, so you can get the body as json like this:

data = json.loads(request.data)

How to set Java SDK path in AndroidStudio?

1) File >>> Project Structure OR press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S

2) In SDK Location Tab you will find SDK Location:

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3) Change your Project SDK location to the one you have installed

4) Sync your project

React Native - Image Require Module using Dynamic Names

First, create a file with image required - React native images must be loaded this way.

assets/index.js

export const friendsandfoe = require('./friends-and-foe.png'); 
export const lifeanddeath = require('./life-and-death.png'); 
export const homeandgarden = require('./home-and-garden.png');

Now import all your assets

App.js

import * as All  from '../../assets';

You can now use your image as an interpolated value where imageValue (coming in from backend) is the same as named local file ie: 'homeandgarden':

<Image style={styles.image} source={All[`${imageValue}`]}></Image>

How to return an array from a function?

int* test();

but it would be "more C++" to use vectors:

std::vector< int > test();

EDIT
I'll clarify some point. Since you mentioned C++, I'll go with new[] and delete[] operators, but it's the same with malloc/free.

In the first case, you'll write something like:

int* test() {
    return new int[size_needed];
}

but it's not a nice idea because your function's client doesn't really know the size of the array you are returning, although the client can safely deallocate it with a call to delete[].

int* theArray = test();
for (size_t i; i < ???; ++i) { // I don't know what is the array size!
    // ...
}
delete[] theArray; // ok.

A better signature would be this one:

int* test(size_t& arraySize) {
    array_size = 10;
    return new int[array_size];
}

And your client code would now be:

size_t theSize = 0;
int* theArray = test(theSize);
for (size_t i; i < theSize; ++i) { // now I can safely iterate the array
    // ...
}
delete[] theArray; // still ok.

Since this is C++, std::vector<T> is a widely-used solution:

std::vector<int> test() {
    std::vector<int> vector(10);
    return vector;
}

Now you don't have to call delete[], since it will be handled by the object, and you can safely iterate it with:

std::vector<int> v = test();
std::vector<int>::iterator it = v.begin();
for (; it != v.end(); ++it) {
   // do your things
}

which is easier and safer.

How to store Java Date to Mysql datetime with JPA

Probably because your java date has a different format from mysql format (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS)

do this

 DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss");
 Date date = new Date();
 System.out.println(dateFormat.format(date));

Install pip in docker

This command worked fine for me:

RUN apt-get -y install python3-pip

How to calculate the SVG Path for an arc (of a circle)

ES6 version:

const angleInRadians = angleInDegrees => (angleInDegrees - 90) * (Math.PI / 180.0);

const polarToCartesian = (centerX, centerY, radius, angleInDegrees) => {
    const a = angleInRadians(angleInDegrees);
    return {
        x: centerX + (radius * Math.cos(a)),
        y: centerY + (radius * Math.sin(a)),
    };
};

const arc = (x, y, radius, startAngle, endAngle) => {
    const fullCircle = endAngle - startAngle === 360;
    const start = polarToCartesian(x, y, radius, endAngle - 0.01);
    const end = polarToCartesian(x, y, radius, startAngle);
    const arcSweep = endAngle - startAngle <= 180 ? '0' : '1';

    const d = [
        'M', start.x, start.y,
        'A', radius, radius, 0, arcSweep, 0, end.x, end.y,
    ].join(' ');

    if (fullCircle) d.push('z');
    return d;
};

Regular expression: zero or more occurrences of optional character /

/*

If your delimiters are slash-based, escape it:

\/*

* means "0 or more of the previous repeatable pattern", which can be a single character, a character class or a group.

Open file dialog box in JavaScript

First add in the head tags:

<script>
   function showDialog(openFileDialog) {
       document.getElementById(openFileDialog).click();
   }
   function fileName(openFileDialog) {
       return document.getElementById(openFileDialog).value;
   }
   function hasFile(openFileDialog) {
       return document.getElementById(openFileDialog).value != "";
   }
   function fileNameWithoutFakePath(openFileDialog) {
       var fileName = document.getElementById(openFileDialog).value;
       return fileName.substr(fileName.lastIndexOf('\\') + 1);
   }
   function fakePathWithoutFileName(openFileDialog) {
       var fileName = document.getElementById(openFileDialog).value;
       return fileName.substr(0, fileName.lastIndexOf('\\'));
   }
</script>

if you already have script tags, just add these functions above.

In your body or form tags adding:

<input type="file" style="display:none" id="yourDesiredOrFavoriteNameForTheNewOpenFileDialogInstance"/>

No matter where in your html, is just like that you've created a new instance of type OpenFileDialog class as global variable, whose name is the id of the element, no matter where in your code or xaml, but in your script or code, you can't type his name, and then read a property or call a function, because there are global functions that do those that are not defined in the element input type="file". You just have to give these functions the id of the hidden input type="file" which is the name of the OpenFileDialog instance as string.

To ease your life in creating open file dialogs instances to your html, you can make a function that does it:

function createAndAddNewOpenFileDialog(name) {
     document.getElementById("yourBodyOrFormId").innerHtml += "<input type='file' style='display:none' id='" + name + "'/>"
}

and if you want to remove open file dialog, then you can make and use the following function:

function removeOpenFileDialog(name) {
    var html = document.getElementById("yourBodyOrFormId").innerHtml;
    html = html.replace("<input type='file' style='display:none' id='" + name + "'/>", "");
    document.getElementById("yourBodyOrFormId").innerHtml = html;
}

but before you remove open file dialog, ensure that it exists by making and using the following function:

function doesOpenFileDialogExist(name) {
    return document.getElementById("yourBodyOrFormId").innerHtml.indexOf("<input type='file' style='display:none' id='" + name + "'/>") != -1
}

and if you don't want to create and add the open file dialogs in the body or form tags in the html, because this is adding hidden input type="file"s, then you can do it in script using the create function above:

function yourBodyOrFormId_onload() {
    createAndAddNewOpenFileDialog("openFileDialog1");
    createAndAddNewOpenFileDialog("openFileDialog2");
    createAndAddNewOpenFileDialog("openFileDialog3");
    createAndAddNewOpenFileDialog("File Upload");
    createAndAddNewOpenFileDialog("Image Upload");
    createAndAddNewOpenFileDialog("bla");
    //etc and rest of your code
}

Ensure that near your body or form tags, you added:

onload="yourBodyOrFormId_onload()"

You don't have to do this line above, if you did it already.

TIP: You can add to your project or website new JScript File, if you don't have yet, and in this file you can put all the open file dialog functions away from the script tags and the html or web form page, and use them in your html or web form page from this JScript file, but don't forget before to link the html or web form page to the JScript File of course. You can do it just by dragging the JScript file to your html page in the head tags. If your page is web form and not simple html, and you don't have head tags, then put it anywhere so that it can work. Don't forget to define global variable in that JScript File, whose value will be your body or form id as string. After you linked the JScript file to your html or web form page, you can onload event of your body of form, set the value of that variable to your body or form id. Then in the JScript File, you don't have to give to the document the id of the body or form of one page anymore, just give it the value of that variable. You can call that variable bodyId or formId or bodyOrFormId or any other name you want.

Good luck man!

How do you use the "WITH" clause in MySQL?

Mysql Developers Team announced that version 8.0 will have Common Table Expressions in MySQL (CTEs). So it will be possible to write queries like this:


WITH RECURSIVE my_cte AS
(
  SELECT 1 AS n
  UNION ALL
  SELECT 1+n FROM my_cte WHERE n<10
)
SELECT * FROM my_cte;
+------+
| n    |
+------+
|    1 |
|    2 |
|    3 |
|    4 |
|    5 |
|    6 |
|    7 |
|    8 |
|    9 |
|   10 |
+------+
10 rows in set (0,00 sec)

bootstrap datepicker setDate format dd/mm/yyyy

"As with bootstrap’s own plugins, datepicker provides a data-api that can be used to instantiate datepickers without the need for custom javascript..."

Boostrap DatePicker Documentation

Maybe you want to set format without DatePicker instance, for that, you have to add the property data-date-format="DateFormat" to main Div tag, for example:

<div class="input-group date" data-provide="datepicker" data-date-format="yyyy-mm-dd">
    <div class="input-group-addon">
        <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-th"></span>
    </div>

    <input type="text" name="YourName" id="YourId" class="YourClass">
</div>

How can I get the name of an object in Python?

Python has names which are mapped to objects in a hashmap called a namespace. At any instant in time, a name always refers to exactly one object, but a single object can be referred to by any arbitrary number of names. Given a name, it is very efficient for the hashmap to look up the single object which that name refers to. However given an object, which as mentioned can be referred to by multiple names, there is no efficient way to look up the names which refer to it. What you have to do is iterate through all the names in the namespace and check each one individually and see if it maps to your given object. This can easily be done with a list comprehension:

[k for k,v in locals().items() if v is myobj]

This will evaluate to a list of strings containting the names of all local "variables" which are currently mapped to the object myobj.

>>> a = 1
>>> this_is_also_a = a
>>> this_is_a = a
>>> b = "ligma"
>>> c = [2,3, 534]
>>> [k for k,v in locals().items() if v is a]

['a', 'this_is_also_a', 'this_is_a']

Of course locals() can be substituted with any dict that you want to search for names that point to a given object. Obviously this search can be slow for very large namespaces because they must be traversed in their entirety.

How in node to split string by newline ('\n')?

It looks like regex /\r\n|\r|\n/ handles CR, LF, and CRLF line endings, their mixed sequences, and keeps all the empty lines inbetween. Try that!

_x000D_
_x000D_
    function splitLines(t) { return t.split(/\r\n|\r|\n/); }

    // single newlines
    console.log(splitLines("AAA\rBBB\nCCC\r\nDDD"));
    // double newlines
    console.log(splitLines("EEE\r\rFFF\n\nGGG\r\n\r\nHHH"));
    // mixed sequences
    console.log(splitLines("III\n\r\nJJJ\r\r\nKKK\r\n\nLLL\r\n\rMMM"));
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

You should get these arrays as a result:

[ "AAA", "BBB", "CCC", "DDD" ]
[ "EEE", "", "FFF", "", "GGG", "", "HHH" ]
[ "III", "", "JJJ", "", "KKK", "", "LLL", "", "MMM" ]

You can also teach that regex to recognize other legit Unicode line terminators by adding |\xHH or |\uHHHH parts, where H's are hexadecimal digits of the additional terminator character codepoint (as seen in Wikipedia article as U+HHHH).

How can I determine the status of a job?

SELECT sj.name
  FROM msdb..sysjobactivity aj
  JOIN msdb..sysjobs sj
    on sj.job_id = aj.job_id
 WHERE aj.stop_execution_date  IS NULL     -- job hasn't stopped running
   AND aj.start_execution_date IS NOT NULL -- job is currently running
   AND sj.name = '<your Job Name>'
   AND NOT EXISTS( -- make sure this is the most recent run
                   select 1
                     from msdb..sysjobactivity new
                    where new.job_id = aj.job_id
                      and new.start_execution_date > aj.start_execution_date ) )
print 'running'

Real mouse position in canvas

Refer this question: The mouseEvent.offsetX I am getting is much larger than actual canvas size .I have given a function there which will exactly suit in your situation

C++ Get name of type in template

I just leave it there. If someone will still need it, then you can use this:

template <class T>
bool isString(T* t) { return false;  } // normal case returns false

template <>
bool isString(char* t) { return true; }  // but for char* or String.c_str() returns true
.
.
.

This will only CHECK type not GET it and only for 1 type or 2.

Chrome's remote debugging (USB debugging) not working for Samsung Galaxy S3 running android 4.3

For me, the menu item Inspect Devices wasn't available (not shown at all). But, simply browsing to chrome://inspect/#devices showed me my device and I was able to use the port forward etc. I have no idea why the menu item is not displayed.

Phone: Android Galaxy S4

OS: Mac OS X

Rails 4: how to use $(document).ready() with turbo-links

$(document).ready(ready)  

$(document).on('turbolinks:load', ready)

How to specify the current directory as path in VBA?

If the path you want is the one to the workbook running the macro, and that workbook has been saved, then

ThisWorkbook.Path

is what you would use.

Convert JSON to DataTable

One doesn't always know the type into which to deserialize. So it would be handy to be able to take any JSON (that contains some array) and dynamically produce a table from that.

An issue can arise however, where the deserializer doesn't know where to look for the array to tabulate. When this happens, we get an error message similar to the following:

Unexpected JSON token when reading DataTable. Expected StartArray, got StartObject. Path '', line 1, position 1.

Even if we give it come encouragement or prepare our json accordingly, then "object" types within the array can still prevent tabulation from occurring, where the deserializer doesn't know how to represent the objects in terms of rows, etc. In this case, errors similar to the following occur:

Unexpected JSON token when reading DataTable: StartObject. Path '[0].__metadata', line 3, position 19.

The below example JSON includes both of these problematic features:

{
  "results":
  [
    {
      "Enabled": true,
      "Id": 106,
      "Name": "item 1",
    },
    {
      "Enabled": false,
      "Id": 107,
      "Name": "item 2",
      "__metadata": { "Id": 4013 }
    }
  ]
}

So how can we resolve this, and still maintain the flexibility of not knowing the type into which to derialize?

Well here is a simple approach I came up with (assuming you are happy to ignore the object-type properties, such as __metadata in the above example):

using Newtonsoft.Json;
using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;
using System.Data;
using System.Linq;
...

public static DataTable Tabulate(string json)
{
    var jsonLinq = JObject.Parse(json);

    // Find the first array using Linq
    var srcArray = jsonLinq.Descendants().Where(d => d is JArray).First();
    var trgArray = new JArray();
    foreach (JObject row in srcArray.Children<JObject>())
    {
        var cleanRow = new JObject();
        foreach (JProperty column in row.Properties())
        {
            // Only include JValue types
            if (column.Value is JValue)
            {
                cleanRow.Add(column.Name, column.Value);
            }
        }

        trgArray.Add(cleanRow);
    }

    return JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<DataTable>(trgArray.ToString());
}

I know this could be more "LINQy" and has absolutely zero exception handling, but hopefully the concept is conveyed.

We're starting to use more and more services at my work that spit back JSON, so freeing ourselves of strongly-typing everything, is my obvious preference because I'm lazy!

How to close a Java Swing application from the code

I guess a EXIT_ON_CLOSE

frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

before System.exit(0) is better since you can write a Window Listener to make some cleaning operations before actually leaving the app.

That window listener allows you to defined:

public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
    displayMessage("WindowListener method called: windowClosing.");
    //A pause so user can see the message before
    //the window actually closes.
    ActionListener task = new ActionListener() {
        boolean alreadyDisposed = false;
        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
            if (frame.isDisplayable()) {
                alreadyDisposed = true;
                frame.dispose();
            }
        }
    };
    Timer timer = new Timer(500, task); //fire every half second
    timer.setInitialDelay(2000);        //first delay 2 seconds
    timer.setRepeats(false);
    timer.start();
}

public void windowClosed(WindowEvent e) {
    //This will only be seen on standard output.
    displayMessage("WindowListener method called: windowClosed.");
}

How can I use tabs for indentation in IntelliJ IDEA?

For those who are having trouble indenting phpstorm here I have a tip and I hope they help ...

First you have to go to file-> settings-> keymap-> select-> windows. enter image description here enter image description here

If they are on the windows machine. If you are on mac and choose macos.

Center align "span" text inside a div

You are giving the span a 100% width resulting in it expanding to the size of the parent. This means you can’t center-align it, as there is no room to move it.

You could give the span a set width, then add the margin:0 auto again. This would center-align it.

.left 
{
   background-color: #999999;
   height: 50px;
   width: 24.5%;
}
span.panelTitleTxt 
{
   display:block;
   width:100px;
   height: 100%;
   margin: 0 auto;
}

Regex: Check if string contains at least one digit

you could use look-ahead assertion for this:

^(?=.*\d).+$

Rock, Paper, Scissors Game Java

Why not check for what the user entered and then ask the user to enter correct input again?

eg:

//Get player's play from input-- note that this is 
// stored as a string 
System.out.println("Enter your play: "); 
response = scan.next();
if(response=="R"||response=="P"||response=="S"){
  personPlay = response;
}else{
  System.out.println("Invaild Input")
}

for the other modifications, please check my total code at pastebin

PHP cURL, extract an XML response

$sXML = download_page('http://alanstorm.com/atom');
// Comment This    
// $oXML = new SimpleXMLElement($sXML);
// foreach($oXML->entry as $oEntry){
//  echo $oEntry->title . "\n";
// }
// Use json encode
$xml = simplexml_load_string($sXML);
$json = json_encode($xml);
$arr = json_decode($json,true);
print_r($arr);

How to run a .awk file?

If you put #!/bin/awk -f on the first line of your AWK script it is easier. Plus editors like Vim and ... will recognize the file as an AWK script and you can colorize. :)

#!/bin/awk -f
BEGIN {}  # Begin section
{}        # Loop section
END{}     # End section

Change the file to be executable by running:

chmod ugo+x ./awk-script

and you can then call your AWK script like this:

`$ echo "something" | ./awk-script`

How to convert a string or integer to binary in Ruby?

You have Integer#to_s(base) and String#to_i(base) available to you.

Integer#to_s(base) converts a decimal number to a string representing the number in the base specified:

9.to_s(2) #=> "1001"

while the reverse is obtained with String#to_i(base):

"1001".to_i(2) #=> 9

Static Initialization Blocks

It is a common misconception to think that a static block has only access to static fields. For this I would like to show below piece of code that I quite often use in real-life projects (copied partially from another answer in a slightly different context):

public enum Language { 
  ENGLISH("eng", "en", "en_GB", "en_US"),   
  GERMAN("de", "ge"),   
  CROATIAN("hr", "cro"),   
  RUSSIAN("ru"),
  BELGIAN("be",";-)");

  static final private Map<String,Language> ALIAS_MAP = new HashMap<String,Language>(); 
  static { 
    for (Language l:Language.values()) { 
      // ignoring the case by normalizing to uppercase
      ALIAS_MAP.put(l.name().toUpperCase(),l); 
      for (String alias:l.aliases) ALIAS_MAP.put(alias.toUpperCase(),l); 
    } 
  } 

  static public boolean has(String value) { 
    // ignoring the case by normalizing to uppercase
    return ALIAS_MAP.containsKey(value.toUpper()); 
  } 

  static public Language fromString(String value) { 
    if (value == null) throw new NullPointerException("alias null"); 
    Language l = ALIAS_MAP.get(value); 
    if (l == null) throw new IllegalArgumentException("Not an alias: "+value); 
    return l; 
  } 

  private List<String> aliases; 
  private Language(String... aliases) { 
    this.aliases = Arrays.asList(aliases); 
  } 
} 

Here the initializer is used to maintain an index (ALIAS_MAP), to map a set of aliases back to the original enum type. It is intended as an extension to the built-in valueOf method provided by the Enum itself.

As you can see, the static initializer accesses even the private field aliases. It is important to understand that the static block already has access to the Enum value instances (e.g. ENGLISH). This is because the order of initialization and execution in the case of Enum types, just as if the static private fields have been initialized with instances before the static blocks have been called:

  1. The Enum constants which are implicit static fields. This requires the Enum constructor and instance blocks, and instance initialization to occur first as well.
  2. static block and initialization of static fields in the order of occurrence.

This out-of-order initialization (constructor before static block) is important to note. It also happens when we initialize static fields with the instances similarly to a Singleton (simplifications made):

public class Foo {
  static { System.out.println("Static Block 1"); }
  public static final Foo FOO = new Foo();
  static { System.out.println("Static Block 2"); }
  public Foo() { System.out.println("Constructor"); }
  static public void main(String p[]) {
    System.out.println("In Main");
    new Foo();
  }
}

What we see is the following output:

Static Block 1
Constructor
Static Block 2
In Main
Constructor

Clear is that the static initialization actually can happen before the constructor, and even after:

Simply accessing Foo in the main method, causes the class to be loaded and the static initialization to start. But as part of the Static initialization we again call the constructors for the static fields, after which it resumes static initialization, and completes the constructor called from within the main method. Rather complex situation for which I hope that in normal coding we would not have to deal with.

For more info on this see the book "Effective Java".

Reference alias (calculated in SELECT) in WHERE clause

It's actually possible to effectively define a variable that can be used in both the SELECT, WHERE and other clauses.

A cross join doesn't necessarily allow for appropriate binding to the referenced table columns, however OUTER APPLY does - and treats nulls more transparently.

SELECT
    vars.BalanceDue
FROM
    Entity e
OUTER APPLY (
    SELECT
        -- variables   
        BalanceDue = e.EntityTypeId,
        Variable2 = ...some..long..complex..expression..etc...
    ) vars
WHERE
    vars.BalanceDue > 0

Kudos to Syed Mehroz Alam.

How to "Open" and "Save" using java

First off, you'll want to go through Oracle's tutorial to learn how to do basic I/O in Java.

After that, you will want to look at the tutorial on how to use a file chooser.

Call an activity method from a fragment

In kotlin you can call activity method from fragment like below:

var mainActivity: MainActivity = activity as MainActivity
        mainActivity.showToast() //Calling show toast method of activity

Adding and removing style attribute from div with jquery

To completely remove the style attribute of the voltaic_holder span, do this:

$("#voltaic_holder").removeAttr("style");

To add an attribute, do this:

$("#voltaic_holder").attr("attribute you want to add", "value you want to assign to attribute");

To remove only the top style, do this:

$("#voltaic_holder").css("top", "");

How to initialise a string from NSData in Swift

import Foundation
var string = NSString(data: NSData?, encoding: UInt)

Consider defining a bean of type 'package' in your configuration [Spring-Boot]

It might help somebody. I had the same problem, same error message, same everything. I tried solutions from other answers, didn't help until I realised that the bean I am using has the same name as the one that is actually been autowired. It happened in the midst of refactor, thus I had to rename the class, which resulted positively. Cheers

Javascript: Setting location.href versus location

You might set location directly because it's slightly shorter. If you're trying to be terse, you can usually omit the window. too.

URL assignments to both location.href and location are defined to work in JavaScript 1.0, back in Netscape 2, and have been implemented in every browser since. So take your pick and use whichever you find clearest.

Update using LINQ to SQL

LINQ is a query tool (Q = Query) - so there is no magic LINQ way to update just the single row, except through the (object-oriented) data-context (in the case of LINQ-to-SQL). To update data, you need to fetch it out, update the record, and submit the changes:

using(var ctx = new FooContext()) {
    var obj = ctx.Bars.Single(x=>x.Id == id);
    obj.SomeProp = 123;
    ctx.SubmitChanges();
}

Or write an SP that does the same in TSQL, and expose the SP through the data-context:

using(var ctx = new FooContext()) {
    ctx.UpdateBar(id, 123);
}

image size (drawable-hdpi/ldpi/mdpi/xhdpi)

Tablets supports tvdpi and for that scaling factor is 1.33 times dimensions of medium dpi

    ldpi | mdpi | tvdpi | hdpi | xhdpi | xxhdpi | xxxhdpi
    0.75 | 1    | 1.33  | 1.5  | 2     | 3      | 4

This means that if you generate a 400x400 image for xxxhdpi devices, you should generate the same resource in 300x300 for xxhdpi, 200x200 for xhdpi, 133x133 for tvdpi, 150x150 for hdpi, 100x100 for mdpi, and 75x75 for ldpi devices

TypeError: 'dict_keys' object does not support indexing

In Python 2 dict.keys() return a list, whereas in Python 3 it returns a generator.

You could only iterate over it's values else you may have to explicitly convert it to a list i.e. pass it to a list function.

Get the first element of an array

As Mike pointed out (the easiest possible way):

$arr = array( 4 => 'apple', 7 => 'orange', 13 => 'plum' )
echo reset($arr); // Echoes "apple"

If you want to get the key: (execute it after reset)

echo key($arr); // Echoes "4"

From PHP's documentation:

mixed reset ( array &$array );

Description:

reset() rewinds array's internal pointer to the first element and returns the value of the first array element, or FALSE if the array is empty.

How do I copy an object in Java?

Use a deep cloning utility:

SomeObjectType copy = new Cloner().deepClone(someObject);

This will deep copy any java object, check it out at https://github.com/kostaskougios/cloning

Move an item inside a list?

l = list(...)
if item in l:
    l.remove(item) #  checks if the item to be moved is present in the list 
l.insert(new_index,item)

jquery disable form submit on enter

$(document).on('keyup keypress', 'form input[type="text"]', function(e) {
  if(e.which == 13) {
    e.preventDefault();
    return false;
  }
});

This solution works on all forms on website (also on forms inserted with ajax), preventing only Enters in input texts. Place it in a document ready function, and forget this problem for a life.

How to make an executable JAR file?

A jar file is simply a file containing a collection of java files. To make a jar file executable, you need to specify where the main Class is in the jar file. Example code would be as follows.

public class JarExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                // your logic here
            }
        });
    }
}

Compile your classes. To make a jar, you also need to create a Manifest File (MANIFEST.MF). For example,

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Main-Class: JarExample

Place the compiled output class files (JarExample.class,JarExample$1.class) and the manifest file in the same folder. In the command prompt, go to the folder where your files placed, and create the jar using jar command. For example (if you name your manifest file as jexample.mf)

jar cfm jarexample.jar jexample.mf *.class

It will create executable jarexample.jar.

Change hover color on a button with Bootstrap customization

This is the correct way to change btn color.

 .btn-primary:not(:disabled):not(.disabled).active, 
    .btn-primary:not(:disabled):not(.disabled):active, 
    .show>.btn-primary.dropdown-toggle{
        color: #fff;
        background-color: #F7B432;
        border-color: #F7B432;
    }

How to add jQuery to an HTML page?

You can include JQuery using any of the following:

  • Link Using jQuery with a CDN

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.3.min.js"></script>

  • Download Jquery From Here and include in your project
  • Download latest version using this link

Your code placement can look something like this

  • Your Jquery should be included before using it any where else it will throw an error

```

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.3.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
    $('input[type=radio]').change(function() {

    $('input[type=radio]').each(function(index) {
        $(this).closest('tr').removeClass('selected');
    });

        $(this).closest('tr').addClass('selected');
    });
});
</script>

```

Multiprocessing a for loop?

Alternatively

with Pool() as pool: 
    pool.map(fits.open, [name + '.fits' for name in datainput])

ImportError: Couldn't import Django

I solved this problem in a completely different way.

Package installer = Conda (Miniconda)
List of available envs = base, djenv(Django environment created for keeping project related modules).

When I was using the command line to activate the djenv using conda activate djenv, the base environment was already activated. I did not notice that and when djenv was activated, (djenv) was being displayed at the beginning of the prompt on the command line. When i tired executing , python manage.py migrate, this happened.
ImportError: Couldn't import Django. Are you sure it's installed and available on your PYTHONPATH environment variable? Did you forget to activate a virtual environment?

I deactivated the current environment, i.e conda deactivate. This deactivated djenv. Then, i deactivated the base environment.
After that, I again activated djenv. And the command worked like a charm!!

If someone is facing a similar issue, I hope you should consider trying this as well. Maybe it helps.

format a Date column in a Data Frame

try this package, works wonders, and was made for date/time...

library(lubridate)
Portfolio$Date2 <- mdy(Portfolio.all$Date2)

how to use the Box-Cox power transformation in R

According to the Box-cox transformation formula in the paper Box,George E. P.; Cox,D.R.(1964). "An analysis of transformations", I think mlegge's post might need to be slightly edited.The transformed y should be (y^(lambda)-1)/lambda instead of y^(lambda). (Actually, y^(lambda) is called Tukey transformation, which is another distinct transformation formula.)
So, the code should be:

(trans <- bc$x[which.max(bc$y)])
[1] 0.4242424
# re-run with transformation
mnew <- lm(((y^trans-1)/trans) ~ x) # Instead of mnew <- lm(y^trans ~ x) 

More information

Please correct me if I misunderstood it.

Does JavaScript have a built in stringbuilder class?

No, there is no built-in support for building strings. You have to use concatenation instead.

You can, of course, make an array of different parts of your string and then call join() on that array, but it then depends on how the join is implemented in the JavaScript interpreter you are using.

I made an experiment to compare the speed of str1+str2 method versus array.push(str1, str2).join() method. The code was simple:

var iIterations =800000;
var d1 = (new Date()).valueOf();
str1 = "";
for (var i = 0; i<iIterations; i++)
    str1 = str1 + Math.random().toString();
var d2 = (new Date()).valueOf();
log("Time (strings): " + (d2-d1));

var d3 = (new Date()).valueOf();
arr1 = [];
for (var i = 0; i<iIterations; i++)
    arr1.push(Math.random().toString());
var str2 = arr1.join("");
var d4 = (new Date()).valueOf();
log("Time (arrays): " + (d4-d3));

I tested it in Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.5.5, both on a Windows 7 x64.

In the beginning I tested on small number of iterations (some hundred, some thousand items). The results were unpredictable (sometimes string concatenation took 0 milliseconds, sometimes it took 16 milliseconds, the same for array joining).

When I increased the count to 50,000, the results were different in different browsers - in Internet Explorer the string concatenation was faster (94 milliseconds) and join was slower(125 milliseconds), while in Firefox the array join was faster (113 milliseconds) than string joining (117 milliseconds).

Then I increased the count to 500'000. Now the array.join() was slower than string concatenation in both browsers: string concatenation was 937 ms in Internet Explorer, 1155 ms in Firefox, array join 1265 in Internet Explorer, and 1207 ms in Firefox.

The maximum iteration count I could test in Internet Explorer without having "the script is taking too long to execute" was 850,000. Then Internet Explorer was 1593 for string concatenation and 2046 for array join, and Firefox had 2101 for string concatenation and 2249 for array join.

Results - if the number of iterations is small, you can try to use array.join(), as it might be faster in Firefox. When the number increases, the string1+string2 method is faster.

UPDATE

I performed the test on Internet Explorer 6 (Windows XP). The process stopped to respond immediately and never ended, if I tried the test on more than 100,000 iterations. On 40,000 iterations the results were

Time (strings): 59175 ms
Time (arrays): 220 ms

This means - if you need to support Internet Explorer 6, choose array.join() which is way faster than string concatenation.

Difference between java HH:mm and hh:mm on SimpleDateFormat

Please take a look here

HH is hour in a day (starting from 0 to 23)

hh are hours in am/pm format

kk is hour in day (starting from 1 to 24)

mm is minute in hour

ss are the seconds in a minute

How to calculate distance from Wifi router using Signal Strength?

Distance (km) = 10^((Free Space Path Loss – 92.45 – 20log10(f))/20)

How to refresh the data in a jqGrid?

This worked for me.

jQuery('#grid').jqGrid('clearGridData');
jQuery('#grid').jqGrid('setGridParam', {data: dataToLoad});
jQuery('#grid').trigger('reloadGrid');

Get ID of element that called a function

For others unexpectedly getting the Window element, a common pitfall:

<a href="javascript:myfunction(this)">click here</a>

which actually scopes this to the Window object. Instead:

<a href="javascript:nop()" onclick="myfunction(this)">click here</a>

passes the a object as expected. (nop() is just any empty function.)

How do I enable Java in Microsoft Edge web browser?

You cannot open Java Applets (nor any other NPAPI plugin) in Microsoft Edge - they aren't supported and won't be added in the future.

Further you should be aware that in the next release of Google Chrome (v45 - due September 2015) NPAPI plugins will also no longer be supported.

Work-arounds

There are a couple of things that you can do:

Use Internet Explorer 11
You will find that in Windows 10 you will already have Internet Explorer 11 installed. IE 11 continues to support NPAPI (incl Java Applets). IE11 is squirrelled away (c:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe). Just pin this exe to your task bar for easy access.

Use FireFox
You can also install and use a Firefox 32-bit Extended Support Release in Win10. Firefox have disabled NPAPI by default, but this can be overridden. This will only be supported until early 2018.

How to resolve "Server Error in '/' Application" error?

I had this error with VS 2015, in my case going to the project properties page, Web tab, and clicking on Create Virtual Directory button in Servers section solved it

Rename a file using Java

import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import static java.nio.file.StandardCopyOption.*;

Path yourFile = Paths.get("path_to_your_file\text.txt");

Files.move(yourFile, yourFile.resolveSibling("text1.txt"));

To replace an existing file with the name "text1.txt":

Files.move(yourFile, yourFile.resolveSibling("text1.txt"),REPLACE_EXISTING);

How to exclude 0 from MIN formula Excel

Throwing my hat in the ring:

1) First we execute the NOT function on a set of integers, evaluating non-zeros to 0 and zeros to 1

2) Then we search for the MAX in our original set of integers

3) Then we multiply each number in the set generated in step 1 by the MAX found in step 2, setting ones as 0 and zeros as MAX

4) Then we add the set generated in step 3 to our original set

5) Lastly we look for the MIN in the set generated in step 4

{=MIN((NOT(A1:A5000)* MAX(A1:A5000))+ A1:A5000)}

If you know the rough range of numbers, you can replace the MAX(RANGE) with a constant. This speeds things up slightly, still not enough to compete with the faster functions.


Also did a quick test run on data set of 5000 integers with formula being executed 5000 times.

{=SMALL(A1:A5000,COUNTIF(A1:A5000,0)+1)}

1.700859 Seconds Elapsed | 5,301,902 Ticks Elapsed

{=SMALL(A1:A5000,INDEX(FREQUENCY(A1:A5000,0),1)+1)}

1.935807 Seconds Elapsed | 6,034,279 Ticks Elapsed

{=MIN((NOT(A1:A5000)* MAX(A1:A5000))+ A1:A5000)}

3.127774 Seconds Elapsed | 9,749,865 Ticks Elapsed

{=MIN(If(A1:A5000>0,A1:A5000))}

3.287850 Seconds Elapsed | 10,248,852 Ticks Elapsed

{"=MIN(((A1:A5000=0)* MAX(A1:A5000))+ A1:A5000)"}

3.328824 Seconds Elapsed | 10,376,576 Ticks Elapsed

{=MIN(IF(A1:A5000=0,MAX(A1:A5000),A1:A5000))}

3.394730 Seconds Elapsed | 10,582,017 Ticks Elapsed

Get list of filenames in folder with Javascript

The current code will give a list of all files in a folder, assuming it's on the server side you want to list all files:

var fs = require('fs');
var files = fs.readdirSync('/assets/photos/');

What is the http-header "X-XSS-Protection"?

TL;DR: All well written web sites (/apps) must emit the header X-XSS-Protection: 0 and just forget about this feature. If you want to have extra security that better user agents can provide, use a strict Content-Security-Policy header.

Long answer:

HTTP header X-XSS-Protection is one of those things that Microsoft introduced in Internet Explorer 8.0 (MSIE 8) that was supposed to improve security of incorrectly written web sites.

The idea is to apply some kind of heuristics to try to detect reflection XSS attack and automatically neuter the attack.

The problematic part of this is "heuristics" and "neutering". The heuristics causes false positives and neutering cannot be safely done because it causes side-effects that can be used to implement XSS attacks and DoS attacks on perfectly safe web sites.

The bad part is that if a web site does not emit the header X-XSS-Protection then the browser will behave as if the header X-XSS-Protection: 1 had been emitted. The worst part is that this value is the least-safe value of all possible values for this header!

For a given secure web site (that is, the site does not have reflected XSS vulnerabilities) this "XSS protection" feature allows following attacks:

X-XSS-Protection: 1 allows attacker to selectively block parts of JavaScript and keep rest of the scripts running. This is possible because the heuristics of this feature are simply "if value of any GET parameter is found in the scripting part of the page source, the script will be automatically modified in user agent dependant way". In practice, the attacker can e.g. add parameter disablexss=<script src="framebuster.js" and the browser will automatically remove the string <script src="framebuster.js" from the actual page source. Note that the rest of the page continues run and the attacker just removed this part of page security. In practice, any JS in the page source can be modified. For some cases, a page without XSS vulnerability having reflected content can be used to run selected JavaScript on page due the neutering incorrectly turning plain text data into executable JavaScript code. (That is, turn textual data within a normal DOM text node into content of <script> tag and execute it!)

X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block allows attacker to leak data from the page source by using the behavior of the page as side-channel. For example, if the page contains JavaScript code along the lines of var csrf_secret="521231347843", the attacker simply adds an extra parameter e.g. leak=var%20csrf_secret="3 and if the page is NOT blocked, the 3 was incorrect first digit. The attacker tries again, this time leak=var%20csrf_secret="5 and the page loading will be aborted. This allows the attacker to know that the first digit of the secret is 5. The attacker then continues to guess the next digit. This allows easily brute-forcing of CSRF secrets or any other secret value in the <script> source.

In the end, if your site is full of XSS reflection attacks, using the default value of 1 will reduce the attack surface a little bit. However, if your site is secure and you don't emit X-XSS-Protection: 0, your site will be vulnerable with any browser that supports this feature. If you want defense in depth support from browsers against yet-unknown XSS vulnerabilities on your site, use a strict Content-Security-Policy header and keep sending 0 for this mis-feature. That doesn't open your site to any known vulnerabilities.

Currently this feature is enabled by default in MSIE, Safari and Google Chrome. This used to be enabled in Edge but Microsoft already removed this mis-feature from Edge. Mozilla Firefox never implemented this.

See also:

https://homakov.blogspot.com/2013/02/hacking-facebook-with-oauth2-and-chrome.html https://blog.innerht.ml/the-misunderstood-x-xss-protection/ http://p42.us/ie8xss/Abusing_IE8s_XSS_Filters.pdf https://www.slideshare.net/masatokinugawa/xxn-en https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=396544 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=498982

Nullable DateTime conversion

You can try this

var lastPostDate = reader[3] == DBNull.Value ?
                                default(DateTime?): 
                                Convert.ToDateTime(reader[3]);

ActiveMQ or RabbitMQ or ZeroMQ or

If you are also interested in commercial implementations, you should take a look at Nirvana from my-channels.

Nirvana is used heavily within the Financial Services industry for large scale low-latency trading and price distribution platforms.

There is support for a wide range of client programming languages across the enterprise, web and mobile domains.

The clustering capabilities are extremely advanced and worth a look if transparent HA or load balancing is important for you.

Nirvana is free to download for development purposes.

Where/how can I download (and install) the Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0 for Windows 8, 64 bit?

On modern Windows this driver isn't available by default anymore, but you can download as Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 Redistributable on the MS site. If your app is 32 bits be sure to download and install the 32 bits variant because to my knowledge the 32 and 64 bit variant cannot coexist.

Depending on how your app locates its db driver, that might be all that's needed. However, if you use an UDL file there's one extra step - you need to edit that file. Unfortunately, on a 64bits machine the wizard used to edit UDL files is 64 bits by default, it won't see the JET driver and just slap whatever driver it finds first in the UDL file. There are 2 ways to solve this issue:

  1. start the 32 bits UDL wizard like this: C:\Windows\syswow64\rundll32.exe "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\System\Ole DB\oledb32.dll",OpenDSLFile C:\path\to\your.udl. Note that I could use this technique on a Win7 64 Pro, but it didn't work on a Server 2008R2 (could be my mistake, just mentioning)
  2. open the UDL file in Notepad or another text editor, it should more or less have this format:

[oledb] ; Everything after this line is an OLE DB initstring Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\Path\To\The\database.mdb;Persist Security Info=False

That should allow your app to start correctly.

PHP - count specific array values

$array = array("Kyle","Ben","Sue","Phil","Ben","Mary","Sue","Ben");
$counts = array_count_values($array);
echo $counts['Ben'];

Alternative to a goto statement in Java

public class TestLabel {

    enum Label{LABEL1, LABEL2, LABEL3, LABEL4}

    /**
     * @param args
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        Label label = Label.LABEL1;

        while(true) {
            switch(label){
                case LABEL1:
                    print(label);

                case LABEL2:
                    print(label);
                    label = Label.LABEL4;
                    continue;

                case LABEL3:
                    print(label);
                    label = Label.LABEL1;
                    break;

                case LABEL4:
                    print(label);
                    label = Label.LABEL3;
                    continue;
            }
            break;
        }
    }

    public final static void print(Label label){
        System.out.println(label);
    }

How can I count the numbers of rows that a MySQL query returned?

If your SQL query has a LIMIT clause and you want to know how many results total are in that data set you can use SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS followed by SELECT FOUND_ROWS(); This returns the number of rows A LOT more efficiently that using COUNT(*)
Example (straight from MySQL docs):

mysql> SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS * FROM tbl_name
    -> WHERE id > 100 LIMIT 10;
mysql> SELECT FOUND_ROWS();

How to delete a module in Android Studio

Assuming the following:

  • You are working with Android Studio 1.2.1 or 1.2.2 (I don't have the latest yet, will edit this again when I do).
  • Your Project Tool Window is displaying one of the following views: "Project", "Packages", "Android" or "Project Files"

You can delete an Android Studio module as follows:

  1. In the Project Tool Window click the module you want to delete.
  2. Between the Tool Bar and the Project Tool Window the tool bar you will see two "chips" that represent the path to the selected module, similar to: your-project-name > selected-module-name
  3. Right click on the selected-module-name chip. A context menu with multiple sections will appear. In the third section from the bottom there will be a section that contains "Reformat Code..", "Optimize Imports..." and "Delete".
  4. Select "Delete" and follow any prompts.

Have bash script answer interactive prompts

There is a special build-in util for this - 'yes'.

To answer all questions with the same answer, you can run

yes [answer] |./your_script

Or you can put it inside your script have specific answer to each question

How to store a large (10 digits) integer?

you can use long or double.

How can I add a class attribute to an HTML element generated by MVC's HTML Helpers?

Current best practice in CSS development is to create more general selectors with modifiers that can be applied as widely as possible throughout the web site. I would try to avoid defining separate styles for individual page elements.

If the purpose of the CSS class on the <form/> element is to control the style of elements within the form, you could add the class attribute the existing <fieldset/> element which encapsulates any form by default in web pages generated by ASP.NET MVC. A CSS class on the form is rarely necessary.

Copy directory contents into a directory with python

I found this code working:

from distutils.dir_util import copy_tree

# copy subdirectory example
fromDirectory = "/a/b/c"
toDirectory = "/x/y/z"

copy_tree(fromDirectory, toDirectory)

Reference:

How to change letter spacing in a Textview?

For embedding HTML text in your textview you can use Html.fromHTML() syntax. More information you will get from http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/Html.html#fromHtml%28java.lang.String%29

Homebrew install specific version of formula?

Update on the Library/Formula/postgresql.rb line 8 to

http://ftp2.uk.postgresql.org/sites/ftp.postgresql.org/source/v8.4.6/postgresql-8.4.6.tar.bz2

And MD5 on line 9 to

fcc3daaf2292fa6bf1185ec45e512db6

Save and exit.

brew install postgres
initdb /usr/local/var/postgres

Now in this stage you might face the postgresql could not create shared memory segment error, to work around that update the /etc/sysctl.conf like this:

kern.sysv.shmall=65536
kern.sysv.shmmax=16777216

Try initdb /usr/local/var/postgres again, and it should run smooth.

To run postgresql on start

launchctl load -w /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/8.4.6/org.postgresql.postgres.plist

Hope that helps :)

What is the difference between `Enum.name()` and `Enum.toString()`?

Use toString() when you want to present information to a user (including a developer looking at a log). Never rely in your code on toString() giving a specific value. Never test it against a specific string. If your code breaks when someone correctly changes the toString() return, then it was already broken.

If you need to get the exact name used to declare the enum constant, you should use name() as toString may have been overridden.

How to remove duplicates from a list?

As others have mentioned, you are probably not implementing equals() correctly.

However, you should also note that this code is considered quite inefficient, since the runtime could be the number of elements squared.

You might want to consider using a Set structure instead of a List instead, or building a Set first and then turning it into a list.

Calculating time difference between 2 dates in minutes

Try this one:

select * from MyTab T where date_add(T.runTime, INTERVAL 20 MINUTE) < NOW()

NOTE: this should work if you're using MySQL DateTime format. If you're using Unix Timestamp (integer), then it would be even easier:

select * from MyTab T where UNIX_TIMESTAMP() - T.runTime > 20*60

UNIX_TIMESTAMP() function returns you current unix timestamp.

centos: Another MySQL daemon already running with the same unix socket

It may sometime arises when MySQL service does not shut down properly during the OS reboot. The /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock has been left. This prevents 'mysqld' from starting up.

These steps may help:

1: service mysqld start killall -9 mysqld_safe mysqld service mysqld start

2: rm /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock service mysqld start

jQuery select all except first

My answer is focused to a extended case derived from the one exposed at top.

Suppose you have group of elements from which you want to hide the child elements except first. As an example:

<html>
  <div class='some-group'>
     <div class='child child-0'>visible#1</div>
     <div class='child child-1'>xx</div>
     <div class='child child-2'>yy</div>
  </div>
  <div class='some-group'>
     <div class='child child-0'>visible#2</div>
     <div class='child child-1'>aa</div>
     <div class='child child-2'>bb</div>
  </div>
</html>
  1. We want to hide all .child elements on every group. So this will not help because will hide all .child elements except visible#1:

    $('.child:not(:first)').hide();
    
  2. The solution (in this extended case) will be:

    $('.some-group').each(function(i,group){
        $(group).find('.child:not(:first)').hide();
    });
    

Initializing a two dimensional std::vector

Use the std::vector::vector(count, value) constructor that accepts an initial size and a default value:

std::vector<std::vector<int> > fog(
    ROW_COUNT,
    std::vector<int>(COLUMN_COUNT)); // Defaults to zero initial value

If a value other than zero, say 4 for example, was required to be the default then:

std::vector<std::vector<int> > fog(
    ROW_COUNT,
    std::vector<int>(COLUMN_COUNT, 4));

I should also mention uniform initialization was introduced in C++11, which permits the initialization of vector, and other containers, using {}:

std::vector<std::vector<int> > fog { { 1, 1, 1 },
                                    { 2, 2, 2 } };
                           

how to add background image to activity?

You can set the "background image" to an activity by setting android:background xml attributes as followings:

(Here, for example, Take a LinearLayout for an activity and setting a background image for the layout(i.e. indirectly to an activity))

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout android:id="@+id/LinearLayout01" 
              android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
              android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
              xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
              android:background="@drawable/icon">
 </LinearLayout>

How can I add the sqlite3 module to Python?

You don't need to install sqlite3 module. It is included in the standard library (since Python 2.5).

Update div with jQuery ajax response html

You are setting the html of #showresults of whatever data is, and then replacing it with itself, which doesn't make much sense ?
I'm guessing you where really trying to find #showresults in the returned data, and then update the #showresults element in the DOM with the html from the one from the ajax call :

$('#submitform').click(function () {
    $.ajax({
        url: "getinfo.asp",
        data: {
            txtsearch: $('#appendedInputButton').val()
        },
        type: "GET",
        dataType: "html",
        success: function (data) {
            var result = $('<div />').append(data).find('#showresults').html();
            $('#showresults').html(result);
        },
        error: function (xhr, status) {
            alert("Sorry, there was a problem!");
        },
        complete: function (xhr, status) {
            //$('#showresults').slideDown('slow')
        }
    });
});

How do I do pagination in ASP.NET MVC?

Well, what is the data source? Your action could take a few defaulted arguments, i.e.

ActionResult Search(string query, int startIndex, int pageSize) {...}

defaulted in the routes setup so that startIndex is 0 and pageSize is (say) 20:

        routes.MapRoute("Search", "Search/{query}/{startIndex}",
                        new
                        {
                            controller = "Home", action = "Search",
                            startIndex = 0, pageSize = 20
                        });

To split the feed, you can use LINQ quite easily:

var page = source.Skip(startIndex).Take(pageSize);

(or do a multiplication if you use "pageNumber" rather than "startIndex")

With LINQ-toSQL, EF, etc - this should "compose" down to the database, too.

You should then be able to use action-links to the next page (etc):

<%=Html.ActionLink("next page", "Search", new {
                query, startIndex = startIndex + pageSize, pageSize }) %>

conversion from infix to prefix

I saw this method on youtube hence posting here.

given infix expression : (a–b)/c*(d + e – f / g)

reverse it :

)g/f-e+d(*c/)b-a(

read characters from left to right.
maintain one stack for operators

 1. if character is operand add operand to the output
 2. else if character is operator or )
   2.1 while operator on top of the stack has lower or **equal** precedence than this character pop
   2.2 add the popped character to the output.
   push the character on stack

 3. else if character is parenthesis ( 
    3.1 [ same as 2 till you encounter ) . pop ) as well
 4. // no element left to read
   4.1 pop operators from stack till it is not empty
   4.2 add them to the output. 

reverse the output and print.

credits : youtube

Select rows which are not present in other table

There are basically 4 techniques for this task, all of them standard SQL.

NOT EXISTS

Often fastest in Postgres.

SELECT ip 
FROM   login_log l 
WHERE  NOT EXISTS (
   SELECT  -- SELECT list mostly irrelevant; can just be empty in Postgres
   FROM   ip_location
   WHERE  ip = l.ip
   );

Also consider:

LEFT JOIN / IS NULL

Sometimes this is fastest. Often shortest. Often results in the same query plan as NOT EXISTS.

SELECT l.ip 
FROM   login_log l 
LEFT   JOIN ip_location i USING (ip)  -- short for: ON i.ip = l.ip
WHERE  i.ip IS NULL;

EXCEPT

Short. Not as easily integrated in more complex queries.

SELECT ip 
FROM   login_log

EXCEPT ALL  -- "ALL" keeps duplicates and makes it faster
SELECT ip
FROM   ip_location;

Note that (per documentation):

duplicates are eliminated unless EXCEPT ALL is used.

Typically, you'll want the ALL keyword. If you don't care, still use it because it makes the query faster.

NOT IN

Only good without NULL values or if you know to handle NULL properly. I would not use it for this purpose. Also, performance can deteriorate with bigger tables.

SELECT ip 
FROM   login_log
WHERE  ip NOT IN (
   SELECT DISTINCT ip  -- DISTINCT is optional
   FROM   ip_location
   );

NOT IN carries a "trap" for NULL values on either side:

Similar question on dba.SE targeted at MySQL:

Detect if PHP session exists

I use a combined version:

if(session_id() == '' || !isset($_SESSION)) {
    // session isn't started
    session_start();
}

How to send/receive SOAP request and response using C#?

The urls are different.

  • http://localhost/AccountSvc/DataInquiry.asmx

vs.

  • /acctinqsvc/portfolioinquiry.asmx

Resolve this issue first, as if the web server cannot resolve the URL you are attempting to POST to, you won't even begin to process the actions described by your request.

You should only need to create the WebRequest to the ASMX root URL, ie: http://localhost/AccountSvc/DataInquiry.asmx, and specify the desired method/operation in the SOAPAction header.

The SOAPAction header values are different.

  • http://localhost/AccountSvc/DataInquiry.asmx/ + methodName

vs.

  • http://tempuri.org/GetMyName

You should be able to determine the correct SOAPAction by going to the correct ASMX URL and appending ?wsdl

There should be a <soap:operation> tag underneath the <wsdl:operation> tag that matches the operation you are attempting to execute, which appears to be GetMyName.

There is no XML declaration in the request body that includes your SOAP XML.

You specify text/xml in the ContentType of your HttpRequest and no charset. Perhaps these default to us-ascii, but there's no telling if you aren't specifying them!

The SoapUI created XML includes an XML declaration that specifies an encoding of utf-8, which also matches the Content-Type provided to the HTTP request which is: text/xml; charset=utf-8

Hope that helps!

How to send an email with Python?

I recommend that you use the standard packages email and smtplib together to send email. Please look at the following example (reproduced from the Python documentation). Notice that if you follow this approach, the "simple" task is indeed simple, and the more complex tasks (like attaching binary objects or sending plain/HTML multipart messages) are accomplished very rapidly.

# Import smtplib for the actual sending function
import smtplib

# Import the email modules we'll need
from email.mime.text import MIMEText

# Open a plain text file for reading.  For this example, assume that
# the text file contains only ASCII characters.
with open(textfile, 'rb') as fp:
    # Create a text/plain message
    msg = MIMEText(fp.read())

# me == the sender's email address
# you == the recipient's email address
msg['Subject'] = 'The contents of %s' % textfile
msg['From'] = me
msg['To'] = you

# Send the message via our own SMTP server, but don't include the
# envelope header.
s = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
s.sendmail(me, [you], msg.as_string())
s.quit()

For sending email to multiple destinations, you can also follow the example in the Python documentation:

# Import smtplib for the actual sending function
import smtplib

# Here are the email package modules we'll need
from email.mime.image import MIMEImage
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart

# Create the container (outer) email message.
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['Subject'] = 'Our family reunion'
# me == the sender's email address
# family = the list of all recipients' email addresses
msg['From'] = me
msg['To'] = ', '.join(family)
msg.preamble = 'Our family reunion'

# Assume we know that the image files are all in PNG format
for file in pngfiles:
    # Open the files in binary mode.  Let the MIMEImage class automatically
    # guess the specific image type.
    with open(file, 'rb') as fp:
        img = MIMEImage(fp.read())
    msg.attach(img)

# Send the email via our own SMTP server.
s = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
s.sendmail(me, family, msg.as_string())
s.quit()

As you can see, the header To in the MIMEText object must be a string consisting of email addresses separated by commas. On the other hand, the second argument to the sendmail function must be a list of strings (each string is an email address).

So, if you have three email addresses: [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected], you can do as follows (obvious sections omitted):

to = ["[email protected]", "[email protected]", "[email protected]"]
msg['To'] = ",".join(to)
s.sendmail(me, to, msg.as_string())

the ",".join(to) part makes a single string out of the list, separated by commas.

From your questions I gather that you have not gone through the Python tutorial - it is a MUST if you want to get anywhere in Python - the documentation is mostly excellent for the standard library.

C# Validating input for textbox on winforms

With WinForms you can use the ErrorProvider in conjunction with the Validating event to handle the validation of user input. The Validating event provides the hook to perform the validation and ErrorProvider gives a nice consistent approach to providing the user with feedback on any error conditions.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.errorprovider.aspx

Convert varchar into datetime in SQL Server

I found this helpful for my conversion, without string manipulation. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/functions/cast-and-convert-transact-sql

CONVERT(VARCHAR(23), @lastUploadEndDate, 121)

yyyy-mm-dd hh:mi:ss.mmm(24h) was the format I needed.

How to ping ubuntu guest on VirtualBox

Using NAT (the default) this is not possible. Bridged Networking should allow it. If bridged does not work for you (this may be the case when your network adminstration does not allow multiple IP addresses on one physical interface), you could try 'Host-only networking' instead.

For configuration of Host-only here is a quote from the vbox manual(which is pretty good). http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html:

For host-only networking, like with internal networking, you may find the DHCP server useful that is built into VirtualBox. This can be enabled to then manage the IP addresses in the host-only network since otherwise you would need to configure all IP addresses statically.

In the VirtualBox graphical user interface, you can configure all these items in the global settings via "File" -> "Settings" -> "Network", which lists all host-only networks which are presently in use. Click on the network name and then on the "Edit" button to the right, and you can modify the adapter and DHCP settings.

Modulo operator with negative values

From ISO14882:2011(e) 5.6-4:

The binary / operator yields the quotient, and the binary % operator yields the remainder from the division of the first expression by the second. If the second operand of / or % is zero the behavior is undefined. For integral operands the / operator yields the algebraic quotient with any fractional part discarded; if the quotient a/b is representable in the type of the result, (a/b)*b + a%b is equal to a.

The rest is basic math:

(-7/3) => -2
-2 * 3 => -6
so a%b => -1

(7/-3) => -2
-2 * -3 => 6
so a%b => 1

Note that

If both operands are nonnegative then the remainder is nonnegative; if not, the sign of the remainder is implementation-defined.

from ISO14882:2003(e) is no longer present in ISO14882:2011(e)

RadioGroup: How to check programmatically

In your layout you can add android:checked="true" to CheckBox you want to be selected.

Or programmatically, you can use the setChecked method defined in the checkable interface:

RadioButton b = (RadioButton) findViewById(R.id.option1); b.setChecked(true);

Why I'm getting 'Non-static method should not be called statically' when invoking a method in a Eloquent model?

TL;DR. You can get around this by expressing your queries as MyModel::query()->find(10); instead of MyModel::find(10);.

To the best of my knowledge, starting PhpStorm 2017.2 code inspection fails for methods such as MyModel::where(), MyModel::find(), etc (check this thread). This could get quite annoying, when you try let's say to use PhpStorm's Git integration before committing your code, PhpStorm won't stop complaining about these static method call warnings.

One elegant way (IMOO) to get around this is to explicitly call ::query() wherever it makes sense to. This will let you benefit from a free auto-completion and a nice query formatting.

Examples

Snippet where inspection complains about static method calls

$myModel = MyModel::find(10); // static call complaint

// another poorly formatted query with code inspection complaints
$myFilteredModels = MyModel::where('is_beautiful', true)
    ->where('is_not_smart', false)
    ->get();

Well formatted code with no complaints

$myModel = MyModel::query()->find(10);

// a nicely formatted query with no complaints
$myFilteredModels = MyModel::query()
    ->where('is_beautiful', true)
    ->where('is_not_smart', false)
    ->get();

Read a HTML file into a string variable in memory

What kind of processing are you trying to do? You can do XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument(); followed by doc.Load(filename). Then the XML document can be parsed in memory.

Read here for more information on XmlDocument:

cannot be cast to java.lang.Comparable

I faced a similar kind of issue while using a custom object as a key in Treemap. Whenever you are using a custom object as a key in hashmap then you override two function equals and hashcode, However if you are using ContainsKey method of Treemap on this object then you need to override CompareTo method as well otherwise you will be getting this error Someone using a custom object as a key in hashmap in kotlin should do like following

 data class CustomObjectKey(var key1:String = "" , var 
 key2:String = ""):Comparable<CustomObjectKey?>
 {
override fun compareTo(other: CustomObjectKey?): Int {
    if(other == null)
        return -1
   // suppose you want to do comparison based on key 1 
    return this.key1.compareTo((other)key1)
}

override fun equals(other: Any?): Boolean {
    if(other == null)
        return false
    return this.key1 == (other as CustomObjectKey).key1
}

override fun hashCode(): Int {
    return this.key1.hashCode()
} 
}

What to do on TransactionTooLargeException

I have also lived TransactionTooLargeException. Firstly I have worked on understand where it occurs. I know the reason why it occurs. Every of us know because of large content. My problem was like that and I solved. Maybe this solution can be useful for anybody. I have an app that get content from api. I am getting result from API in first screen and send it to second screen. I can send this content to second screen in successful. After second screen if I want to go third screen this exception occurs. Each of my screen is created from Fragment. I noticed that when I leave from second screen. It saves its bundle content. if this content is too large this exception happens. My solution is after I got content from bundle I clear it.

class SecondFragment : BaseFragment() {

    lateinit var myContent: MyContent

    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        myContent = arguments?.getParcelable("mycontent")
        arguments?.clear()
    }

Initializing C dynamic arrays

Instead of using

int * p;
p = {1,2,3};

we can use

int * p;
p =(int[3]){1,2,3};

In a Dockerfile, How to update PATH environment variable?

This is discouraged (if you want to create/distribute a clean Docker image), since the PATH variable is set by /etc/profile script, the value can be overridden.

head /etc/profile:

if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then
  PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"
else
  PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games"
fi
export PATH

At the end of the Dockerfile, you could add:

RUN echo "export PATH=$PATH" > /etc/environment

So PATH is set for all users.

How to make a cross-module variable?

I wanted to post an answer that there is a case where the variable won't be found.

Cyclical imports may break the module behavior.

For example:

first.py

import second
var = 1

second.py

import first
print(first.var)  # will throw an error because the order of execution happens before var gets declared.

main.py

import first

On this is example it should be obvious, but in a large code-base, this can be really confusing.

Woocommerce get products

<?php
$args     = array( 'post_type' => 'product', 'category' => 34, 'posts_per_page' => -1 );
$products = get_posts( $args ); 
?>

This should grab all the products you want, I may have the post type wrong though I can't quite remember what woo-commerce uses for the post type. It will return an array of products

HTML5 Email Validation

You can follow this pattern also

<form action="/action_page.php">
  E-mail: <input type="email" name="email" pattern="[a-z0-9._%+-]+@[a-z0-9.-]+\.[a-z]{2,}$">
  <input type="submit">
</form>

Ref : In W3Schools

How to use variables in a command in sed?

Say:

sed "s|\$ROOT|${HOME}|" abc.sh

Note:

  • Use double quotes so that the shell would expand variables.
  • Use a separator different than / since the replacement contains /
  • Escape the $ in the pattern since you don't want to expand it.

EDIT: In order to replace all occurrences of $ROOT, say

sed "s|\$ROOT|${HOME}|g" abc.sh

How to do a case sensitive search in WHERE clause (I'm using SQL Server)?

Can be done via changing the Collation. By default it is case insensitive.

Excerpt from the link:

SELECT 1
FROM dbo.Customers
WHERE   CustID = @CustID COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS
    AND CustPassword = @CustPassword COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS

Or, change the columns to be case sensitive.

Get each line from textarea

$array = explode("\n", $text);
for($i=0; $i < count($array); $i++)
{
    echo $line;
    if($i < count($array)-1)
    {
         echo '<br />';
    }
}

JQuery Redirect to URL after specified time

I have made a simple demo that prompts for X number of seconds and redirects to set url. If you don't want to wait until the end of the count, just click on the counter to redirect with no time. Simple counter that will count down while pulsing time in the midle of the page. You can run it onclick or while some page is loaded.

LIVE DEMO ONLOAD

LIVE DEMO ONCLICK

I also made github repo for this: https://github.com/GlupiJas/redirect-counter-plugin

JS CODE EXAMPLE:

// FUNCTION CODE
function gjCountAndRedirect(secounds, url)
{

        $('#gj-counter-num').text(secounds);

        $('#gj-counter-box').show();

    var interval = setInterval(function()
    {

        secounds = secounds - 1;

        $('#gj-counter-num').text(secounds);

        if(secounds == 0)
        {

            clearInterval(interval);
            window.location = url;
            $('#gj-counter-box').hide();

        }

    }, 1000);

    $('#gj-counter-box').click(function() //comment it out -if you dont want to allo count skipping
    {
        clearInterval(interval);
        window.location = url;

    });
}

// USE EXAMPLE
$(document).ready(function() {
    //var
    var gjCountAndRedirectStatus = false; //prevent from seting multiple Interval

    //call
    $('h1').click(function(){
        if(gjCountAndRedirectStatus == false)
        {
            gjCountAndRedirect(10, document.URL);
            gjCountAndRedirectStatus = true;
        }
    });

});

JavaScript TypeError: Cannot read property 'style' of null

Your missing a ' after night. right here getElementById('Night

Reload the page after ajax success

use this Reload page

success: function(data){
   if(data.success == true){ // if true (1)
      setTimeout(function(){// wait for 5 secs(2)
           location.reload(); // then reload the page.(3)
      }, 5000); 
   }
}

How can I get the max (or min) value in a vector?

Using c++11/c++0x compile flags, you can

auto it = max_element(std::begin(cloud), std::end(cloud)); // c++11

Otherwise, write your own:

template <typename T, size_t N> const T* mybegin(const T (&a)[N]) { return a; }    
template <typename T, size_t N> const T* myend  (const T (&a)[N]) { return a+N; }

See it live at http://ideone.com/aDkhW:

#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>

template <typename T, size_t N> const T* mybegin(const T (&a)[N]) { return a; }    
template <typename T, size_t N> const T* myend  (const T (&a)[N]) { return a+N; }

int main()
{
    const int cloud[] = { 1,2,3,4,-7,999,5,6 };

    std::cout << *std::max_element(mybegin(cloud), myend(cloud)) << '\n';
    std::cout << *std::min_element(mybegin(cloud), myend(cloud)) << '\n';
}

Oh, and use std::minmax_element(...) if you need both at once :/

How to calculate number of days between two given dates?

Without using datetime object in python.

# A date has day 'd', month 'm' and year 'y' 
class Date:
    def __init__(self, d, m, y):
            self.d = d
            self.m = m
            self.y = y

# To store number of days in all months from 
# January to Dec. 
monthDays = [31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30,
                                            31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31 ]

# This function counts number of leap years 
# before the given date 
def countLeapYears(d):

    years = d.y

    # Check if the current year needs to be considered 
    # for the count of leap years or not 
    if (d.m <= 2) :
            years-= 1

    # An year is a leap year if it is a multiple of 4, 
    # multiple of 400 and not a multiple of 100. 
    return int(years / 4 - years / 100 + years / 400 )


# This function returns number of days between two 
# given dates 
def getDifference(dt1, dt2) :

    # COUNT TOTAL NUMBER OF DAYS BEFORE FIRST DATE 'dt1' 

    # initialize count using years and day 
    n1 = dt1.y * 365 + dt1.d

    # Add days for months in given date 
    for i in range(0, dt1.m - 1) :
            n1 += monthDays[i]

    # Since every leap year is of 366 days, 
    # Add a day for every leap year 
    n1 += countLeapYears(dt1)

    # SIMILARLY, COUNT TOTAL NUMBER OF DAYS BEFORE 'dt2' 

    n2 = dt2.y * 365 + dt2.d
    for i in range(0, dt2.m - 1) :
            n2 += monthDays[i]
    n2 += countLeapYears(dt2)

    # return difference between two counts 
    return (n2 - n1)


# Driver program 
dt1 = Date(31, 12, 2018 )
dt2 = Date(1, 1, 2019 )

print(getDifference(dt1, dt2), "days")

Unable to connect PostgreSQL to remote database using pgAdmin

If you're using PostgreSQL 8 or above, you may need to modify the listen_addresses setting in /etc/postgresql/8.4/main/postgresql.conf.

Try adding the line:

listen_addresses = *

which will tell PostgreSQL to listen for connections on all network interfaces.

If not explicitly set, this setting defaults to localhost which means it will only accept connections from the same machine.

What is the difference between <%, <%=, <%# and -%> in ERB in Rails?

<% %>

Executes the ruby code within the brackets.

<%= %>

Prints something into erb file.

<%== %>

Equivalent to <%= raw %>. Prints something verbatim (i.e. w/o escaping) into erb file. (Taken from Ruby on Rails Guides.)

<% -%>

Avoids line break after expression.

<%# %>

Comments out code within brackets; not sent to client (as opposed to HTML comments).

Visit Ruby Doc for more infos about ERB.

sql: check if entry in table A exists in table B

SELECT *
FROM   B
WHERE  NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 
                   FROM   A 
                   WHERE  A.ID = B.ID)

Is there a way to delete all the data from a topic or delete the topic before every run?

Don't think it is supported yet. Take a look at this JIRA issue "Add delete topic support".

To delete manually:

  1. Shutdown the cluster
  2. Clean kafka log dir (specified by the log.dir attribute in kafka config file ) as well the zookeeper data
  3. Restart the cluster

For any given topic what you can do is

  1. Stop kafka
  2. Clean kafka log specific to partition, kafka stores its log file in a format of "logDir/topic-partition" so for a topic named "MyTopic" the log for partition id 0 will be stored in /tmp/kafka-logs/MyTopic-0 where /tmp/kafka-logs is specified by the log.dir attribute
  3. Restart kafka

This is NOT a good and recommended approach but it should work. In the Kafka broker config file the log.retention.hours.per.topic attribute is used to define The number of hours to keep a log file before deleting it for some specific topic

Also, is there a way the messages gets deleted as soon as the consumer reads it?

From the Kafka Documentation :

The Kafka cluster retains all published messages—whether or not they have been consumed—for a configurable period of time. For example if the log retention is set to two days, then for the two days after a message is published it is available for consumption, after which it will be discarded to free up space. Kafka's performance is effectively constant with respect to data size so retaining lots of data is not a problem.

In fact the only metadata retained on a per-consumer basis is the position of the consumer in in the log, called the "offset". This offset is controlled by the consumer: normally a consumer will advance its offset linearly as it reads messages, but in fact the position is controlled by the consumer and it can consume messages in any order it likes. For example a consumer can reset to an older offset to reprocess.

For finding the start offset to read in Kafka 0.8 Simple Consumer example they say

Kafka includes two constants to help, kafka.api.OffsetRequest.EarliestTime() finds the beginning of the data in the logs and starts streaming from there, kafka.api.OffsetRequest.LatestTime() will only stream new messages.

You can also find the example code there for managing the offset at your consumer end.

    public static long getLastOffset(SimpleConsumer consumer, String topic, int partition,
                                 long whichTime, String clientName) {
    TopicAndPartition topicAndPartition = new TopicAndPartition(topic, partition);
    Map<TopicAndPartition, PartitionOffsetRequestInfo> requestInfo = new HashMap<TopicAndPartition, PartitionOffsetRequestInfo>();
    requestInfo.put(topicAndPartition, new PartitionOffsetRequestInfo(whichTime, 1));
    kafka.javaapi.OffsetRequest request = new kafka.javaapi.OffsetRequest(requestInfo, kafka.api.OffsetRequest.CurrentVersion(),clientName);
    OffsetResponse response = consumer.getOffsetsBefore(request);

    if (response.hasError()) {
        System.out.println("Error fetching data Offset Data the Broker. Reason: " + response.errorCode(topic, partition) );
        return 0;
    }
    long[] offsets = response.offsets(topic, partition);
    return offsets[0];
}

Absolute and Flexbox in React Native

The first step would be to add

position: 'absolute',

then if you want the element full width, add

left: 0,
right: 0,

then, if you want to put the element in the bottom, add

bottom: 0,
// don't need set top: 0

if you want to position the element at the top, replace bottom: 0 by top: 0

What is the difference between char * const and const char *?

// Some more complex constant variable/pointer declaration.
// Observing cases when we get error and warning would help
// understanding it better.

int main(void)
{
  char ca1[10]= "aaaa"; // char array 1
  char ca2[10]= "bbbb"; // char array 2

  char *pca1= ca1;
  char *pca2= ca2;

  char const *ccs= pca1;
  char * const csc= pca2;
  ccs[1]='m';  // Bad - error: assignment of read-only location ‘*(ccs + 1u)’
  ccs= csc;    // Good

  csc[1]='n';  // Good
  csc= ccs;    // Bad - error: assignment of read-only variable ‘csc’

  char const **ccss= &ccs;     // Good
  char const **ccss1= &csc;    // Bad - warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type

  char * const *cscs= &csc;    // Good
  char * const *cscs1= &ccs;   // Bad - warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type

  char ** const cssc=   &pca1; // Good
  char ** const cssc1=  &ccs;  // Bad - warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
  char ** const cssc2=  &csc;  // Bad - warning: initialization discards ‘const’
                               //                qualifier from pointer target type

  *ccss[1]= 'x'; // Bad - error: assignment of read-only location ‘**(ccss + 8u)’
  *ccss= ccs;    // Good
  *ccss= csc;    // Good
  ccss= ccss1;   // Good
  ccss= cscs;    // Bad - warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type

  *cscs[1]= 'y'; // Good
  *cscs= ccs;    // Bad - error: assignment of read-only location ‘*cscs’
  *cscs= csc;    // Bad - error: assignment of read-only location ‘*cscs’
  cscs= cscs1;   // Good
  cscs= cssc;    // Good

  *cssc[1]= 'z'; // Good
  *cssc= ccs;    // Bad - warning: assignment discards ‘const’
                 //                qualifier from pointer target type
  *cssc= csc;    // Good
  *cssc= pca2;   // Good
  cssc= ccss;    // Bad - error: assignment of read-only variable ‘cssc’
  cssc= cscs;    // Bad - error: assignment of read-only variable ‘cssc’
  cssc= cssc1;   // Bad - error: assignment of read-only variable ‘cssc’
}

Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' while attempting to grant privileges. How do I grant privileges?

This happened to me when I tried to install a higher MySQL version than the one coming with the distribution.

I erased the old version then installed the new one (rpm -e ... then rpm -i MySQL-server* ) But did not realize that the files in /var/lib/mysql were still from the older version (with differences as explained by Marc Alff - thanks!)

I could have done an mysql_upgrade, but as I wanted to start from scratch I did:

# su - mysql
$ rm -rf /var/lib/mysql/*
$ mysql_install_db
# /etc/init.d/mysql start

Then set root password (/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password), and all worked as expected with the GRANT commands...