Programs & Examples On #Fibers

Fibers are primitives for implementing light weight cooperative concurrency in Ruby. Fibers appeared in Ruby 1.9.

How to wrap async function calls into a sync function in Node.js or Javascript?

Javascript is a single threaded language, you don't want to block your whole server! Async code eliminates, race conditions by making dependencies explicit.

Learn to love asynchronous code!

Have a look at promises for asynchronous code without creating a pyramid of callback hell. I recommend the promiseQ library for node.js

httpGet(url.parse("http://example.org/")).then(function (res) {
    console.log(res.statusCode);  // maybe 302
    return httpGet(url.parse(res.headers["location"]));
}).then(function (res) {
    console.log(res.statusCode);  // maybe 200
});

http://howtonode.org/promises

EDIT: this is by far my most controversial answer, node now has yield keyword, which allows you to treat async code as if it were sychronous. http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/how-yield-will-transform-node

What does Ruby have that Python doesn't, and vice versa?

Python has docstrings and ruby doesn't... Or if it doesn't, they are not accessible as easily as in python.

Ps. If im wrong, pretty please, leave an example? I have a workaround that i could monkeypatch into classes quite easily but i'd like to have docstring kinda of a feature in "native way".

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

How about creating a new list and adding elements you want to that new list. You cannot remove elements while iterating through a list

How to find the default JMX port number?

Now I need to connect that application from my local computer, but I don't know the JMX port number of the remote computer. Where can I find it? Or, must I restart that application with some VM parameters to specify the port number?

By default JMX does not publish on a port unless you specify the arguments from this page: How to activate JMX...

-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote # no longer required for JDK6
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=9010
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.local.only=false # careful with security implications
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false # careful with security implications

If you are running you should be able to access any of those system properties to see if they have been set:

if (System.getProperty("com.sun.management.jmxremote") == null) {
    System.out.println("JMX remote is disabled");
} else [
    String portString = System.getProperty("com.sun.management.jmxremote.port");
    if (portString != null) {
        System.out.println("JMX running on port "
            + Integer.parseInt(portString));
    }
}

Depending on how the server is connected, you might also have to specify the following parameter. As part of the initial JMX connection, jconsole connects up to the RMI port to determine which port the JMX server is running on. When you initially start up a JMX enabled application, it looks its own hostname to determine what address to return in that initial RMI transaction. If your hostname is not in /etc/hosts or if it is set to an incorrect interface address then you can override it with the following:

-Djava.rmi.server.hostname=<IP address>

As an aside, my SimpleJMX package allows you to define both the JMX server and the RMI port or set them both to the same port. The above port defined with com.sun.management.jmxremote.port is actually the RMI port. This tells the client what port the JMX server is running on.

Java: is there a map function?

This is another functional lib with which you may use map: http://code.google.com/p/totallylazy/

sequence(1, 2).map(toString); // lazily returns "1", "2"

How to generate a random string of 20 characters

Here you go. Just specify the chars you want to allow on the first line.

char[] chars = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz".toCharArray();
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(20);
Random random = new Random();
for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++) {
    char c = chars[random.nextInt(chars.length)];
    sb.append(c);
}
String output = sb.toString();
System.out.println(output);

If you are using this to generate something sensitive like a password reset URL or session ID cookie or temporary password reset, be sure to use java.security.SecureRandom instead. Values produced by java.util.Random and java.util.concurrent.ThreadLocalRandom are mathematically predictable.

How to make exe files from a node.js app?

The solution I've used is Roger Wang's node-webkit.

This is a fantastic way to package nodejs apps and distribute them, it even gives you the option to "bundle" the whole app as a single executable. It supports windows, mac and linux.

Here are some docs on the various options for deploying node-webkit apps, but in a nutshell, you do the following:

  1. Zip up all your files, with a package.json in the root
  2. Change the extension from .zip to .nw
  3. copy /b nw.exe+app.nw app.exe

Just as an added note - I've shipped several production box/install cd applications using this, and it's worked great. Same app runs on windows, mac, linux and over the web.

Update: the project name has changed to 'nw.js' and is properly located here: nw.js

git visual diff between branches

If you use Eclipse you can visually compare your current branch on the workspace with another tag/branch:

Eclipse workspace compare

PHP - define constant inside a class

See Class Constants:

class MyClass
{
    const MYCONSTANT = 'constant value';

    function showConstant() {
        echo  self::MYCONSTANT. "\n";
    }
}

echo MyClass::MYCONSTANT. "\n";

$classname = "MyClass";
echo $classname::MYCONSTANT. "\n"; // As of PHP 5.3.0

$class = new MyClass();
$class->showConstant();

echo $class::MYCONSTANT."\n"; // As of PHP 5.3.0

In this case echoing MYCONSTANT by itself would raise a notice about an undefined constant and output the constant name converted to a string: "MYCONSTANT".


EDIT - Perhaps what you're looking for is this static properties / variables:

class MyClass
{
    private static $staticVariable = null;

    public static function showStaticVariable($value = null)
    {
        if ((is_null(self::$staticVariable) === true) && (isset($value) === true))
        {
            self::$staticVariable = $value;
        }

        return self::$staticVariable;
    }
}

MyClass::showStaticVariable(); // null
MyClass::showStaticVariable('constant value'); // "constant value"
MyClass::showStaticVariable('other constant value?'); // "constant value"
MyClass::showStaticVariable(); // "constant value"

Syntax behind sorted(key=lambda: ...)

One more example of usage sorted() function with key=lambda. Let's consider you have a list of tuples. In each tuple you have a brand, model and weight of the car and you want to sort this list of tuples by brand, model or weight. You can do it with lambda.

cars = [('citroen', 'xsara', 1100), ('lincoln', 'navigator', 2000), ('bmw', 'x5', 1700)]

print(sorted(cars, key=lambda car: car[0]))
print(sorted(cars, key=lambda car: car[1]))
print(sorted(cars, key=lambda car: car[2]))

Results:

[('bmw', 'x5', '1700'), ('citroen', 'xsara', 1100), ('lincoln', 'navigator', 2000)]
[('lincoln', 'navigator', 2000), ('bmw', 'x5', '1700'), ('citroen', 'xsara', 1100)]
[('citroen', 'xsara', 1100), ('bmw', 'x5', 1700), ('lincoln', 'navigator', 2000)]

Replace image src location using CSS

you can use: content:url("image.jpg")

<style>
.your-class-name{
    content: url("http://imgur.com/SZ8Cm.jpg");
}
</style>

<img class="your-class-name" src="..."/>

PHP namespaces and "use"

The use operator is for giving aliases to names of classes, interfaces or other namespaces. Most use statements refer to a namespace or class that you'd like to shorten:

use My\Full\Namespace;

is equivalent to:

use My\Full\Namespace as Namespace;
// Namespace\Foo is now shorthand for My\Full\Namespace\Foo

If the use operator is used with a class or interface name, it has the following uses:

// after this, "new DifferentName();" would instantiate a My\Full\Classname
use My\Full\Classname as DifferentName;

// global class - making "new ArrayObject()" and "new \ArrayObject()" equivalent
use ArrayObject;

The use operator is not to be confused with autoloading. A class is autoloaded (negating the need for include) by registering an autoloader (e.g. with spl_autoload_register). You might want to read PSR-4 to see a suitable autoloader implementation.

Get program path in VB.NET?

Try this: My.Application.Info.DirectoryPath [MSDN]

This is using the My feature of VB.NET. This particular property is available for all non-web project types, since .NET Framework 2.0, including Console Apps as you require.

As long as you trust Microsoft to continue to keep this working correctly for all the above project types, this is simpler to use than accessing the other "more direct" solutions.

Dim appPath As String = My.Application.Info.DirectoryPath

Android: Proper Way to use onBackPressed() with Toast

I just had this issue and solved it by adding the following method:

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
        case android.R.id.home:
             // click on 'up' button in the action bar, handle it here
             return true;

        default:
            return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }
}    

Convert string to hex-string in C#

few Unicode alternatives

var s = "0";

var s1 = string.Concat(s.Select(c => $"{(int)c:x4}"));  // left padded with 0 - "0030d835dfcfd835dfdad835dfe5d835dff0d835dffb"

var sL = BitConverter.ToString(Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(s)).Replace("-", "");       // Little Endian "300035D8CFDF35D8DADF35D8E5DF35D8F0DF35D8FBDF"
var sB = BitConverter.ToString(Encoding.BigEndianUnicode.GetBytes(s)).Replace("-", ""); // Big Endian "0030D835DFCFD835DFDAD835DFE5D835DFF0D835DFFB"

// no encodding "300035D8CFDF35D8DADF35D8E5DF35D8F0DF35D8FBDF"
byte[] b = new byte[s.Length * sizeof(char)];
Buffer.BlockCopy(s.ToCharArray(), 0, b, 0, b.Length);
var sb = BitConverter.ToString(b).Replace("-", "");

API Gateway CORS: no 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header

In Python you can do it as in the code below:

{ "statusCode" : 200,
'headers': 
    {'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'Access-Control-Allow-Origin': "*"
     },
"body": json.dumps(
    {
    "temperature" : tempArray,
    "time": timeArray
    })
 }

Mockito: List Matchers with generics

Before Java 8 (versions 7 or 6) I use the new method ArgumentMatchers.anyList:

import static org.mockito.Mockito.*;
import org.mockito.ArgumentMatchers;

verify(mock, atLeastOnce()).process(ArgumentMatchers.<Bar>anyList());

scrollIntoView Scrolls just too far

Here's my 2 cents.

I've also had the issue of the scrollIntoView scrolling a bit past the element, so I created a script (native javascript) that prepends an element to the destination, positioned it a bit to the top with css and scrolled to that one. After scrolling, I remove the created elements again.

HTML:

//anchor tag that appears multiple times on the page
<a href="#" class="anchors__link js-anchor" data-target="schedule">
    <div class="anchors__text">
        Scroll to the schedule
    </div>
</a>

//The node we want to scroll to, somewhere on the page
<div id="schedule">
    //html
</div>

Javascript file:

(() => {
    'use strict';

    const anchors = document.querySelectorAll('.js-anchor');

    //if there are no anchors found, don't run the script
    if (!anchors || anchors.length <= 0) return;

    anchors.forEach(anchor => {
        //get the target from the data attribute
        const target = anchor.dataset.target;

        //search for the destination element to scroll to
        const destination = document.querySelector(`#${target}`);
        //if the destination element does not exist, don't run the rest of the code
        if (!destination) return;

        anchor.addEventListener('click', (e) => {
            e.preventDefault();
            //create a new element and add the `anchors__generated` class to it
            const generatedAnchor = document.createElement('div');
            generatedAnchor.classList.add('anchors__generated');

            //get the first child of the destination element, insert the generated element before it. (so the scrollIntoView function scrolls to the top of the element instead of the bottom)
            const firstChild = destination.firstChild;
            destination.insertBefore(generatedAnchor, firstChild);

            //finally fire the scrollIntoView function and make it animate "smoothly"
            generatedAnchor.scrollIntoView({
                behavior: "smooth",
                block: "start",
                inline: "start"
            });

            //remove the generated element after 1ms. We need the timeout so the scrollIntoView function has something to scroll to.
            setTimeout(() => {
                destination.removeChild(generatedAnchor);
            }, 1);
        })
    })
})();

CSS:

.anchors__generated {
    position: relative;
    top: -100px;
}

Hope this helps anyone!

Using <style> tags in the <body> with other HTML

BREAKING BAD NEWS for "style in body" lovers: W3C has recently lost the HTML war against WHATWG, whose versionless HTML "Living Standard" has now become the official one, which, alas, does not allow STYLE in the BODY. The short-lived happy days are over. ;) The W3C validator also works by the WHATWG specs now. (Thanks @FrankConijn for the heads-up!)

(Note: this is the case "as of today", but since there's no versioning, links can become invalid at any moment without notice or control. Unless you're willing to link to its individual source commits at GitHub, you basically can no longer make stable references to the new official HTML standard, AFAIK. Please correct me if there's a canonical way of doing this properly.)

OBSOLETED GOOD NEWS:

Yay, STYLE is finally valid in BODY, as of HTML5.2! (And scoped is gone, too.)

From the W3C specs (relish the last line!):

4.2.6. The style element

...

Contexts in which this element can be used:

Where metadata content is expected.

In a noscript element that is a child of a head element.

In the body, where flow content is expected.


META SIDE-NOTE:

The mere fact that despite the damages of the "browser war" we still had to keep developing against two ridiculously competing "official" HTML "standards" (quotes for 1 standard + 1 standard < 1 standard) means that the "fallback to in-the-trenches common sense" approach to web development has never really ceased to apply.

This may finally change now, but citing the conventional wisdom: web authors/developers and thus, in turn, browsers should ultimately decide what should (and shouldn't) be in the specifications, when there's no good reason against what's already been done in reality. And most browsers have long supported STYLE in BODY (in one way or another; see e.g. the scoped attr.), despite its inherent performance (and possibly other) penalties (which we should decide to pay or not, not the specs.). So, for one, I'll keep betting on them, and not going to give up hope. ;) If WHATWG has the same respect for reality/authors as they claim, they may just end up doing here what the W3C did.

Using new line(\n) in string and rendering the same in HTML

I had the following problem where I was fetching data from a database and wanted to display a string containing \n. None of the solutions above worked for me and I finally came up with a solution: https://stackoverflow.com/a/61484190/7251208

Pass array to where in Codeigniter Active Record

From the Active Record docs:

$this->db->where_in();

Generates a WHERE field IN ('item', 'item') SQL query joined with AND if appropriate

$names = array('Frank', 'Todd', 'James');
$this->db->where_in('username', $names);
// Produces: WHERE username IN ('Frank', 'Todd', 'James')

CSS selectors ul li a {...} vs ul > li > a {...}

to answer to your second question - performance IS affected - if you are using those selectors with a single (no nested) ul:

<ul>
    <li>jjj</li>
    <li>jjj</li>    
    <li>jjj</li>
</ul>

the child selector ul > li is more performant than ul li because it is more specific. the browser traverse the dom "right to left", so when it finds a li it then looks for a any ul as a parent in the case of a child selector, while it has to traverse the whole dom tree to find any ul ancestors in case of the descendant selector

What is the best or most commonly used JMX Console / Client

Alternatively, constructing a JMX console yourself doesn't need to be hard. Just plug in Jolokia and create a web page getting the attributes that you're interested in. Admittedly, it doesn't allow you to do trend analysis, but it does allow you to construct something that is really geared towards your purpose.

I constructed something in just a few lines: http://nxt.flotsam.nl/ears-and-eyes.html

CSS way to horizontally align table

<style>
    .abc {
        text-align: center;
    }
</style>

<table class="abc">
    <tr>
        <td>Item1</td>
        <td>Item2</td>
    </tr>
</table>

Triggering a checkbox value changed event in DataGridView

Try hooking into the CellContentClick event. The DataGridViewCellEventArgs will have a ColumnIndex and a RowIndex so you can know if a ChecboxCell was in fact clicked. The good thing about this event is that it will only fire if the actual checkbox itself was clicked. If you click on the white area of the cell around the checkbox, it won't fire. This way, you're pretty much guaranteed that the checkbox value was changed when this event fires. You can then call Invalidate() to trigger your drawing event, as well as a call to EndEdit() to trigger the end of the row's editing if you need that.

How to change Java version used by TOMCAT?

If you use the standard scripts to launch Tomcat (i.e. you haven't installed Tomcat as a windows service), you can use the setenv.bat file, to set your JRE_HOME version.

On Windows, create the file %CATALINA_BASE%\bin\setenv.bat, with content:

set "JRE_HOME=%ProgramFiles%\Java\jre1.6.0_20"

exit /b 0

And that should be it.

You can test this using %CATALINA_BASE%\bin\configtest.bat (Disclaimer: I've only checked this with a Tomcat7 installation).

Further Reading:

Adding a column after another column within SQL

Assuming MySQL (EDIT: posted before the SQL variant was supplied):

ALTER TABLE myTable ADD myNewColumn VARCHAR(255) AFTER myOtherColumn

The AFTER keyword tells MySQL where to place the new column. You can also use FIRST to flag the new column as the first column in the table.

How can I sort generic list DESC and ASC?

I was checking all the answer above and wanted to add one more additional information. I wanted to sort the list in DESC order and I was searching for the solution which is faster for bigger inputs and I was using this method earlier :-

li.Sort();
li.Reverse();

but my test cases were failing for exceeding time limits, so below solution worked for me:-

li.Sort((a, b) => b.CompareTo(a));

So Ultimately the conclusion is that 2nd way of Sorting list in Descending order is bit faster than the previous one.

HTTP POST using JSON in Java

It's probably easiest to use HttpURLConnection.

http://www.xyzws.com/Javafaq/how-to-use-httpurlconnection-post-data-to-web-server/139

You'll use JSONObject or whatever to construct your JSON, but not to handle the network; you need to serialize it and then pass it to an HttpURLConnection to POST.

m2eclipse not finding maven dependencies, artifacts not found

Okay I fixed this thing. Had to first convert the projects to Maven Projects, then remove them from the Eclipse workspace, and then re-import them.

AngularJS - Trigger when radio button is selected

In newer versions of angular (I'm using 1.3) you can basically set the model and the value and the double binding do all the work this example works like a charm:

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angular.module('radioExample', []).controller('ExampleController', ['$scope', function($scope) {_x000D_
  $scope.color = {_x000D_
    name: 'blue'_x000D_
  };_x000D_
}]);
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<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.3.15/angular.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<html>_x000D_
<body ng-app="radioExample">_x000D_
<form name="myForm" ng-controller="ExampleController">_x000D_
  <input type="radio" ng-model="color.name" value="red">  Red <br/>_x000D_
  <input type="radio" ng-model="color.name" value="green"> Green <br/>_x000D_
  <input type="radio" ng-model="color.name" value="blue"> Blue <br/>_x000D_
  <tt>color = {{color.name}}</tt><br/>_x000D_
 </form>_x000D_
  </body>_x000D_
</html>
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How do I install the OpenSSL libraries on Ubuntu?

How could I have figured that out for myself (other than asking this question here)? Can I somehow tell apt-get to list all packages, and grep for ssl? Or do I need to know the "lib*-dev" naming convention?

If you're linking with -lfoo then the library is likely libfoo.so. The library itself is probably part of the libfoo package, and the headers are in the libfoo-dev package as you've discovered.

Some people use the GUI "synaptic" app (sudo synaptic) to (locate and) install packages, but I prefer to use the command line. One thing that makes it easier to find the right package from the command line is the fact that apt-get supports bash completion.

Try typing sudo apt-get install libssl and then hit tab to see a list of matching package names (which can help when you need to select the correct version of a package that has multiple versions or other variations available).

Bash completion is actually very useful... for example, you can also get a list of commands that apt-get supports by typing sudo apt-get and then hitting tab.

How to find the most recent file in a directory using .NET, and without looping?

Here's a version that gets the most recent file from each subdirectory

List<string> reports = new List<string>();    
DirectoryInfo directory = new DirectoryInfo(ReportsRoot);
directory.GetFiles("*.xlsx", SearchOption.AllDirectories).GroupBy(fl => fl.DirectoryName)
.ForEach(g => reports.Add(g.OrderByDescending(fi => fi.LastWriteTime).First().FullName));

Using Razor within JavaScript

You're trying to jam a square peg in a round hole.

Razor was intended as an HTML-generating template language. You may very well get it to generate JavaScript code, but it wasn't designed for that.

For instance: What if Model.Title contains an apostrophe? That would break your JavaScript code, and Razor won't escape it correctly by default.

It would probably be more appropriate to use a String generator in a helper function. There will likely be fewer unintended consequences of that approach.

500.21 Bad module "ManagedPipelineHandler" in its module list

Please follow these steps:

1) Run the command prompt as administrator.

2) Type either of the two lines below in the command prompt:

%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe -i

or

%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis.exe -i

Installing R on Mac - Warning messages: Setting LC_CTYPE failed, using "C"

  1. Open Terminal
  2. Write or paste in: defaults write org.R-project.R force.LANG en_US.UTF-8
  3. Close Terminal (including any RStudio window)
  4. Start R

For someone runs R in a docker environment (under root), try to run R with below command,

LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 R
# instead of just `R`

How does strtok() split the string into tokens in C?

strtok doesn't change the parameter itself (str). It stores that pointer (in a local static variable). It can then change what that parameter points to in subsequent calls without having the parameter passed back. (And it can advance that pointer it has kept however it needs to perform its operations.)

From the POSIX strtok page:

This function uses static storage to keep track of the current string position between calls.

There is a thread-safe variant (strtok_r) that doesn't do this type of magic.

A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?

I came to this post by way of better understanding the inference of the infamous quote from Mac Lane's Category Theory For the Working Mathematician.

In describing what something is, it's often equally useful to describe what it's not.

The fact that Mac Lane uses the description to describe a Monad, one might imply that it describes something unique to monads. Bear with me. To develop a broader understanding of the statement, I believe it needs to be made clear that he is not describing something that is unique to monads; the statement equally describes Applicative and Arrows among others. For the same reason we can have two monoids on Int (Sum and Product), we can have several monoids on X in the category of endofunctors. But there is even more to the similarities.

Both Monad and Applicative meet the criteria:

  • endo => any arrow, or morphism that starts and ends in the same place
  • functor => any arrow, or morphism between two Categories

    (e.g., in day to day Tree a -> List b, but in Category Tree -> List)

  • monoid => single object; i.e., a single type, but in this context, only in regards to the external layer; so, we can't have Tree -> List, only List -> List.

The statement uses "Category of..." This defines the scope of the statement. As an example, the Functor Category describes the scope of f * -> g *, i.e., Any functor -> Any functor, e.g., Tree * -> List * or Tree * -> Tree *.

What a Categorical statement does not specify describes where anything and everything is permitted.

In this case, inside the functors, * -> * aka a -> b is not specified which means Anything -> Anything including Anything else. As my imagination jumps to Int -> String, it also includes Integer -> Maybe Int, or even Maybe Double -> Either String Int where a :: Maybe Double; b :: Either String Int.

So the statement comes together as follows:

  • functor scope :: f a -> g b (i.e., any parameterized type to any parameterized type)
  • endo + functor :: f a -> f b (i.e., any one parameterized type to the same parameterized type) ... said differently,
  • a monoid in the category of endofunctor

So, where is the power of this construct? To appreciate the full dynamics, I needed to see that the typical drawings of a monoid (single object with what looks like an identity arrow, :: single object -> single object), fails to illustrate that I'm permitted to use an arrow parameterized with any number of monoid values, from the one type object permitted in Monoid. The endo, ~ identity arrow definition of equivalence ignores the functor's type value and both the type and value of the most inner, "payload" layer. Thus, equivalence returns true in any situation where the functorial types match (e.g., Nothing -> Just * -> Nothing is equivalent to Just * -> Just * -> Just * because they are both Maybe -> Maybe -> Maybe).

Sidebar: ~ outside is conceptual, but is the left most symbol in f a. It also describes what "Haskell" reads-in first (big picture); so Type is "outside" in relation to a Type Value. The relationship between layers (a chain of references) in programming is not easy to relate in Category. The Category of Set is used to describe Types (Int, Strings, Maybe Int etc.) which includes the Category of Functor (parameterized Types). The reference chain: Functor Type, Functor values (elements of that Functor's set, e.g., Nothing, Just), and in turn, everything else each functor value points to. In Category the relationship is described differently, e.g., return :: a -> m a is considered a natural transformation from one Functor to another Functor, different from anything mentioned thus far.

Back to the main thread, all in all, for any defined tensor product and a neutral value, the statement ends up describing an amazingly powerful computational construct born from its paradoxical structure:

  • on the outside it appears as a single object (e.g., :: List); static
  • but inside, permits a lot of dynamics
    • any number of values of the same type (e.g., Empty | ~NonEmpty) as fodder to functions of any arity. The tensor product will reduce any number of inputs to a single value... for the external layer (~fold that says nothing about the payload)
    • infinite range of both the type and values for the inner most layer

In Haskell, clarifying the applicability of the statement is important. The power and versatility of this construct, has absolutely nothing to do with a monad per se. In other words, the construct does not rely on what makes a monad unique.

When trying to figure out whether to build code with a shared context to support computations that depend on each other, versus computations that can be run in parallel, this infamous statement, with as much as it describes, is not a contrast between the choice of Applicative, Arrows and Monads, but rather is a description of how much they are the same. For the decision at hand, the statement is moot.

This is often misunderstood. The statement goes on to describe join :: m (m a) -> m a as the tensor product for the monoidal endofunctor. However, it does not articulate how, in the context of this statement, (<*>) could also have also been chosen. It truly is a an example of six/half dozen. The logic for combining values are exactly alike; same input generates the same output from each (unlike the Sum and Product monoids for Int because they generate different results when combining Ints).

So, to recap: A monoid in the category of endofunctors describes:

   ~t :: m * -> m * -> m *
   and a neutral value for m *

(<*>) and (>>=) both provide simultaneous access to the two m values in order to compute the the single return value. The logic used to compute the return value is exactly the same. If it were not for the different shapes of the functions they parameterize (f :: a -> b versus k :: a -> m b) and the position of the parameter with the same return type of the computation (i.e., a -> b -> b versus b -> a -> b for each respectively), I suspect we could have parameterized the monoidal logic, the tensor product, for reuse in both definitions. As an exercise to make the point, try and implement ~t, and you end up with (<*>) and (>>=) depending on how you decide to define it forall a b.

If my last point is at minimum conceptually true, it then explains the precise, and only computational difference between Applicative and Monad: the functions they parameterize. In other words, the difference is external to the implementation of these type classes.

In conclusion, in my own experience, Mac Lane's infamous quote provided a great "goto" meme, a guidepost for me to reference while navigating my way through Category to better understand the idioms used in Haskell. It succeeds at capturing the scope of a powerful computing capacity made wonderfully accessible in Haskell.

However, there is irony in how I first misunderstood the statement's applicability outside of the monad, and what I hope conveyed here. Everything that it describes turns out to be what is similar between Applicative and Monads (and Arrows among others). What it doesn't say is precisely the small but useful distinction between them.

- E

Changing Fonts Size in Matlab Plots

If you want to change font size for all the text in a figure, you can use findall to find all text handles, after which it's easy:

figureHandle = gcf;
%# make all text in the figure to size 14 and bold
set(findall(figureHandle,'type','text'),'fontSize',14,'fontWeight','bold')

Call ASP.NET function from JavaScript?

The Microsoft AJAX library will accomplish this. You could also create your own solution that involves using AJAX to call your own aspx (as basically) script files to run .NET functions.

I suggest the Microsoft AJAX library. Once installed and referenced, you just add a line in your page load or init:

Ajax.Utility.RegisterTypeForAjax(GetType(YOURPAGECLASSNAME))

Then you can do things like:

<Ajax.AjaxMethod()> _
Public Function Get5() AS Integer
    Return 5
End Function

Then, you can call it on your page as:

PageClassName.Get5(javascriptCallbackFunction);

The last parameter of your function call must be the javascript callback function that will be executed when the AJAX request is returned.

How to use comparison operators like >, =, < on BigDecimal

You can use method named compareTo, x.compareTo(y). It will return 0 if x and y are equal, 1 if x is greater than y and -1 if x is smaller than y

How do you dismiss the keyboard when editing a UITextField

Create a function hidekeyboard and link it to the textfield in the .xib file and select DidEndOnExit

-(IBAction)Hidekeyboard    
{    
      textfield_name.resignFirstResponder;    
}  

Get size of folder or file

You need FileUtils#sizeOfDirectory(File) from commons-io.

Note that you will need to manually check whether the file is a directory as the method throws an exception if a non-directory is passed to it.

WARNING: This method (as of commons-io 2.4) has a bug and may throw IllegalArgumentException if the directory is concurrently modified.

How to increase executionTimeout for a long-running query?

To set timeout on a per page level, you could use this simple code:

Page.Server.ScriptTimeout = 60;

Note: 60 means 60 seconds, this time-out applies only if the debug attribute in the compilation element is False.

How do I raise the same Exception with a custom message in Python?

This is the function I use to modify the exception message in Python 2.7 and 3.x while preserving the original traceback. It requires six

def reraise_modify(caught_exc, append_msg, prepend=False):
    """Append message to exception while preserving attributes.

    Preserves exception class, and exception traceback.

    Note:
        This function needs to be called inside an except because
        `sys.exc_info()` requires the exception context.

    Args:
        caught_exc(Exception): The caught exception object
        append_msg(str): The message to append to the caught exception
        prepend(bool): If True prepend the message to args instead of appending

    Returns:
        None

    Side Effects:
        Re-raises the exception with the preserved data / trace but
        modified message
    """
    ExceptClass = type(caught_exc)
    # Keep old traceback
    traceback = sys.exc_info()[2]
    if not caught_exc.args:
        # If no args, create our own tuple
        arg_list = [append_msg]
    else:
        # Take the last arg
        # If it is a string
        # append your message.
        # Otherwise append it to the
        # arg list(Not as pretty)
        arg_list = list(caught_exc.args[:-1])
        last_arg = caught_exc.args[-1]
        if isinstance(last_arg, str):
            if prepend:
                arg_list.append(append_msg + last_arg)
            else:
                arg_list.append(last_arg + append_msg)
        else:
            arg_list += [last_arg, append_msg]
    caught_exc.args = tuple(arg_list)
    six.reraise(ExceptClass,
                caught_exc,
                traceback)

Write-back vs Write-Through caching?

maybe this article can help you link here

Write-through: Write is done synchronously both to the cache and to the backing store.

Write-back (or Write-behind): Writing is done only to the cache. A modified cache block is written back to the store, just before it is replaced.

Write-through: When data is updated, it is written to both the cache and the back-end storage. This mode is easy for operation but is slow in data writing because data has to be written to both the cache and the storage.

Write-back: When data is updated, it is written only to the cache. The modified data is written to the back-end storage only when data is removed from the cache. This mode has fast data write speed but data will be lost if a power failure occurs before the updated data is written to the storage.

Switch/toggle div (jQuery)

I think this works:

$(document).ready(function(){

    // Hide (collapse) the toggle containers on load
    $(".toggle_container").hide();

    // Switch the "Open" and "Close" state per click then 
    // slide up/down (depending on open/close state)
    $("h2.trigger").click(function(){
        $(this).toggleClass("active").next().slideToggle("slow");
        return false; // Prevent the browser jump to the link anchor
    });
});

How to remove default chrome style for select Input?

-webkit-appearance: none;

and add your own style

How to Convert an int to a String?

You have two options:

1) Using String.valueOf() method:

int sdRate=5;
text_Rate.setText(String.valueOf(sdRate));  //faster!, recommended! :)

2) adding an empty string:

int sdRate=5;
text_Rate.setText("" + sdRate)); 

Casting is not an option, will throw a ClassCastException

int sdRate=5;
text_Rate.setText(String.valueOf((String)sdRate)); //EXCEPTION!

Android Button click go to another xml page

Change your FirstyActivity to:

@Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        Button btn_go=(Button)findViewById(R.id.YOUR_BUTTON_ID);
            btn_go.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                  Log.i("clicks","You Clicked B1");
              Intent i=new Intent(
                     MainActivity.this,
                     MainActivity2.class);
              startActivity(i);
            }
        }
    });

}

Hope it will help you.

ITextSharp HTML to PDF?

It has ability to convert HTML file in to pdf.

Required namespace for conversions are:

using iTextSharp.text;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;

and for conversion and download file :

// Create a byte array that will eventually hold our final PDF
Byte[] bytes;

// Boilerplate iTextSharp setup here

// Create a stream that we can write to, in this case a MemoryStream
using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
{
    // Create an iTextSharp Document which is an abstraction of a PDF but **NOT** a PDF
    using (var doc = new Document())
    {
        // Create a writer that's bound to our PDF abstraction and our stream
        using (var writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, ms))
        {
            // Open the document for writing
            doc.Open();

            string finalHtml = string.Empty;

            // Read your html by database or file here and store it into finalHtml e.g. a string
            // XMLWorker also reads from a TextReader and not directly from a string
            using (var srHtml = new StringReader(finalHtml))
            {
                // Parse the HTML
                iTextSharp.tool.xml.XMLWorkerHelper.GetInstance().ParseXHtml(writer, doc, srHtml);
            }

            doc.Close();
        }
    }

    // After all of the PDF "stuff" above is done and closed but **before** we
    // close the MemoryStream, grab all of the active bytes from the stream
    bytes = ms.ToArray();
}

// Clear the response
Response.Clear();
MemoryStream mstream = new MemoryStream(bytes);

// Define response content type
Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";

// Give the name of file of pdf and add in to header
Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=invoice.pdf");
Response.Buffer = true;
mstream.WriteTo(Response.OutputStream);
Response.End();

How do I set a conditional breakpoint in gdb, when char* x points to a string whose value equals "hello"?

break x if ((int)strcmp(y, "hello")) == 0

On some implementations gdb might not know the return type of strcmp. That means you would have to cast, otherwise it would always evaluate to true!

Assembly - JG/JNLE/JL/JNGE after CMP

The command JG simply means: Jump if Greater. The result of the preceding instructions is stored in certain processor flags (in this it would test if ZF=0 and SF=OF) and jump instruction act according to their state.

How do you grep a file and get the next 5 lines

You want:

grep -A 5 '19:55' file

From man grep:

Context Line Control

-A NUM, --after-context=NUM

Print NUM lines of trailing context after matching lines.  
Places a line containing a gup separator (described under --group-separator) 
between contiguous groups of matches.  With the -o or --only-matching
option, this has no effect and a warning is given.

-B NUM, --before-context=NUM

Print NUM lines of leading context before matching lines.  
Places a line containing a group separator (described under --group-separator) 
between contiguous groups of matches.  With the -o or --only-matching
option, this has no effect and a warning is given.

-C NUM, -NUM, --context=NUM

Print NUM lines of output context.  Places a line containing a group separator
(described under --group-separator) between contiguous groups of matches.  
With the -o or --only-matching option,  this  has  no effect and a warning
is given.

--group-separator=SEP

Use SEP as a group separator. By default SEP is double hyphen (--).

--no-group-separator

Use empty string as a group separator.

postgresql duplicate key violates unique constraint

Intro

I also encountered this problem and the solution proposed by @adamo was basically the right solution. However, I had to invest a lot of time in the details, which is why I am now writing a new answer in order to save this time for others.

Case

My case was as follows: There was a table that was filled with data using an app. Now a new entry had to be inserted manually via SQL. After that the sequence was out of sync and no more records could be inserted via the app.

Solution

As mentioned in the answer from @adamo, the sequence must be synchronized manually. For this purpose the name of the sequence is needed. For Postgres, the name of the sequence can be determined with the command PG_GET_SERIAL_SEQUENCE. Most examples use lower case table names. In my case the tables were created by an ORM middleware (like Hibernate or Entity Framework Core etc.) and their names all started with a capital letter.

In an e-mail from 2004 (link) I got the right hint.

(Let's assume for all examples, that Foo is the table's name and Foo_id the related column.)

Command to get the sequence name:

SELECT PG_GET_SERIAL_SEQUENCE('"Foo"', 'Foo_id');

So, the table name must be in double quotes, surrounded by single quotes.

1. Validate, that the sequence is out-of-sync

SELECT CURRVAL(PG_GET_SERIAL_SEQUENCE('"Foo"', 'Foo_id')) AS "Current Value", MAX("Foo_id") AS "Max Value" FROM "Foo";

When the Current Value is less than Max Value, your sequence is out-of-sync.

2. Correction

SELECT SETVAL((SELECT PG_GET_SERIAL_SEQUENCE('"Foo"', 'Foo_id')), (SELECT (MAX("Foo_id") + 1) FROM "Foo"), FALSE);

Return the characters after Nth character in a string

Another formula option is to use REPLACE function to replace the first n characters with nothing, e.g. if n = 4

=REPLACE(A1,1,4,"")

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

A quick function worked for Python 3

Python 3.6.9 (default, Nov  7 2019, 10:44:02) 
[GCC 8.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> capitalizeFirtChar = lambda s: s[:1].upper() + s[1:]
>>> print(capitalizeFirtChar('??????? ????? ????????. ???????? ?? ?????? ? ??????????????!'))
??????? ????? ????????. ???????? ?? ?????? ? ??????????????!
>>> print(capitalizeFirtChar('??? ???? ?????? ???????! ??? ???? ?????? ????? ???.'))
??? ???? ?????? ???????! ??? ???? ?????? ????? ???.
>>> print(capitalizeFirtChar('faith and Labour make Dreams come true.'))
Faith and Labour make Dreams come true.

Declare an empty two-dimensional array in Javascript?

If we don’t use ES2015 and don’t have fill(), just use .apply()

See https://stackoverflow.com/a/47041157/1851492

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let Array2D = (r, c, fill) => Array.apply(null, new Array(r)).map(function() {return Array.apply(null, new Array(c)).map(function() {return fill})})_x000D_
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console.log(JSON.stringify(Array2D(3,4,0)));_x000D_
console.log(JSON.stringify(Array2D(4,5,1)));
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How good is Java's UUID.randomUUID?

Wikipedia has a very good answer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#Collisions

the number of random version 4 UUIDs which need to be generated in order to have a 50% probability of at least one collision is 2.71 quintillion, computed as follows:

...

This number is equivalent to generating 1 billion UUIDs per second for about 85 years, and a file containing this many UUIDs, at 16 bytes per UUID, would be about 45 exabytes, many times larger than the largest databases currently in existence, which are on the order of hundreds of petabytes.

...

Thus, for there to be a one in a billion chance of duplication, 103 trillion version 4 UUIDs must be generated.

How do I login and authenticate to Postgresql after a fresh install?

If your database client connects with TCP/IP and you have ident auth configured in your pg_hba.conf check that you have an identd installed and running. This is mandatory even if you have only local clients connecting to "localhost".

Also beware that nowadays the identd may have to be IPv6 enabled for Postgresql to welcome clients which connect to localhost.

What is the difference between docker-compose ports vs expose

Ports

The ports section will publish ports on the host. Docker will setup a forward for a specific port from the host network into the container. By default this is implemented with a userspace proxy process (docker-proxy) that listens on the first port, and forwards into the container, which needs to listen on the second point. If the container is not listening on the destination port, you will still see something listening on the host, but get a connection refused if you try to connect to that host port, from the failed forward into your container.

Note, the container must be listening on all network interfaces since this proxy is not running within the container's network namespace and cannot reach 127.0.0.1 inside the container. The IPv4 method for that is to configure your application to listen on 0.0.0.0.

Also note that published ports do not work in the opposite direction. You cannot connect to a service on the host from the container by publishing a port. Instead you'll find docker errors trying to listen to the already-in-use host port.

Expose

Expose is documentation. It sets metadata on the image, and when running, on the container too. Typically you configure this in the Dockerfile with the EXPOSE instruction, and it serves as documentation for the users running your image, for them to know on which ports by default your application will be listening. When configured with a compose file, this metadata is only set on the container. You can see the exposed ports when you run a docker inspect on the image or container.

There are a few tools that rely on exposed ports. In docker, the -P flag will publish all exposed ports onto ephemeral ports on the host. There are also various reverse proxies that will default to using an exposed port when sending traffic to your application if you do not explicitly set the container port.

Other than those external tools, expose has no impact at all on the networking between containers. You only need a common docker network, and connecting to the container port, to access one container from another. If that network is user created (e.g. not the default bridge network named bridge), you can use DNS to connect to the other containers.

How to change font of UIButton with Swift

If you need to change only size (Swift 4.0):

button.titleLabel?.font = button.titleLabel?.font.withSize(12)

How do I align a number like this in C?

#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
 int i,j,n,b;
 printf("Enter no of rows ");
 scanf("%d",&n);
 b=n;
 for(i=1;i<=n;++i)
 {
    for(j=1;j<=i;j++)
    {
        printf("%*d",b,j);
        b=1;
    }
        b=n;
    b=b-i;
    printf("\n");


 }
 return 0;
}

Select multiple value in DropDownList using ASP.NET and C#

Take a look at the ListBox control to allow multi-select.

<asp:ListBox runat="server" ID="lblMultiSelect" SelectionMode="multiple">
            <asp:ListItem Text="opt1" Value="opt1" />
            <asp:ListItem Text="opt2" Value="opt2" />
            <asp:ListItem Text="opt3" Value="opt3" />
</asp:ListBox> 

in the code behind

foreach(ListItem listItem in lblMultiSelect.Items)
    {
       if (listItem.Selected)
       {
          var val = listItem.Value;
          var txt = listItem.Text; 
       }
    }

Getting Current date, time , day in laravel

You can set the timezone on you AppServicesProvider in Provider Folder

public function boot()
{
    Schema::defaultStringLength(191);
    date_default_timezone_set('Africa/Lagos');
}

and then use Import Carbon\Carbon and simply use Carbon::now() //To get the current time, if you need to format it check out their documentation for more options based on your preferences enter link description here

Compiling LaTex bib source

You have to run 'bibtex':

latex paper.tex
bibtex paper
latex paper.tex
latex paper.tex
dvipdf paper.dvi

Experimental decorators warning in TypeScript compilation

I corrected the warning by removing "baseUrl": "", from the tsconfig.json file

Getting HTML elements by their attribute names

In jQuery this is so:

$("span['property'=v:name]"); // for selecting your span element

What are libtool's .la file for?

According to http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2008/04/14/what-about-those-la-files, they're needed to handle dependencies. But using pkg-config may be a better option:

In a perfect world, every static library needing dependencies would have its own .pc file for pkg-config, and every package trying to statically link to that library would be using pkg-config --static to get the libraries to link to.

What's a standard way to do a no-op in python?

Use pass for no-op:

if x == 0:
  pass
else:
  print "x not equal 0"

And here's another example:

def f():
  pass

Or:

class c:
  pass

How to replace a whole line with sed?

sed -i.bak 's/\(aaa=\).*/\1"xxx"/g' your_file

Java Spring Boot: How to map my app root (“/”) to index.html?

You can add a RedirectViewController like:

@Configuration
public class WebConfiguration implements WebMvcConfigurer {

    @Override
    public void addViewControllers(ViewControllerRegistry registry) {
        registry.addRedirectViewController("/", "/index.html");
    }
}

Grouping functions (tapply, by, aggregate) and the *apply family

In the collapse package recently released on CRAN, I have attempted to compress most of the common apply functionality into just 2 functions:

  1. dapply (Data-Apply) applies functions to rows or (default) columns of matrices and data.frames and (default) returns an object of the same type and with the same attributes (unless the result of each computation is atomic and drop = TRUE). The performance is comparable to lapply for data.frame columns, and about 2x faster than apply for matrix rows or columns. Parallelism is available via mclapply (only for MAC).

Syntax:

dapply(X, FUN, ..., MARGIN = 2, parallel = FALSE, mc.cores = 1L, 
       return = c("same", "matrix", "data.frame"), drop = TRUE)

Examples:

# Apply to columns:
dapply(mtcars, log)
dapply(mtcars, sum)
dapply(mtcars, quantile)
# Apply to rows:
dapply(mtcars, sum, MARGIN = 1)
dapply(mtcars, quantile, MARGIN = 1)
# Return as matrix:
dapply(mtcars, quantile, return = "matrix")
dapply(mtcars, quantile, MARGIN = 1, return = "matrix")
# Same for matrices ...
  1. BY is a S3 generic for split-apply-combine computing with vector, matrix and data.frame method. It is significantly faster than tapply, by and aggregate (an also faster than plyr, on large data dplyr is faster though).

Syntax:

BY(X, g, FUN, ..., use.g.names = TRUE, sort = TRUE,
   expand.wide = FALSE, parallel = FALSE, mc.cores = 1L,
   return = c("same", "matrix", "data.frame", "list"))

Examples:

# Vectors:
BY(iris$Sepal.Length, iris$Species, sum)
BY(iris$Sepal.Length, iris$Species, quantile)
BY(iris$Sepal.Length, iris$Species, quantile, expand.wide = TRUE) # This returns a matrix 
# Data.frames
BY(iris[-5], iris$Species, sum)
BY(iris[-5], iris$Species, quantile)
BY(iris[-5], iris$Species, quantile, expand.wide = TRUE) # This returns a wider data.frame
BY(iris[-5], iris$Species, quantile, return = "matrix") # This returns a matrix
# Same for matrices ...

Lists of grouping variables can also be supplied to g.

Talking about performance: A main goal of collapse is to foster high-performance programming in R and to move beyond split-apply-combine alltogether. For this purpose the package has a full set of C++ based fast generic functions: fmean, fmedian, fmode, fsum, fprod, fsd, fvar, fmin, fmax, ffirst, flast, fNobs, fNdistinct, fscale, fbetween, fwithin, fHDbetween, fHDwithin, flag, fdiff and fgrowth. They perform grouped computations in a single pass through the data (i.e. no splitting and recombining).

Syntax:

fFUN(x, g = NULL, [w = NULL,] TRA = NULL, [na.rm = TRUE,] use.g.names = TRUE, drop = TRUE)

Examples:

v <- iris$Sepal.Length
f <- iris$Species

# Vectors
fmean(v)             # mean
fmean(v, f)          # grouped mean
fsd(v, f)            # grouped standard deviation
fsd(v, f, TRA = "/") # grouped scaling
fscale(v, f)         # grouped standardizing (scaling and centering)
fwithin(v, f)        # grouped demeaning

w <- abs(rnorm(nrow(iris)))
fmean(v, w = w)      # Weighted mean
fmean(v, f, w)       # Weighted grouped mean
fsd(v, f, w)         # Weighted grouped standard-deviation
fsd(v, f, w, "/")    # Weighted grouped scaling
fscale(v, f, w)      # Weighted grouped standardizing
fwithin(v, f, w)     # Weighted grouped demeaning

# Same using data.frames...
fmean(iris[-5], f)                # grouped mean
fscale(iris[-5], f)               # grouped standardizing
fwithin(iris[-5], f)              # grouped demeaning

# Same with matrices ...

In the package vignettes I provide benchmarks. Programming with the fast functions is significantly faster than programming with dplyr or data.table, especially on smaller data, but also on large data.

Bad Request - Invalid Hostname IIS7

Don't forget to bind to the IPv6 address as well! I was trying to add a site on 127.0.0.1 using localhost and got the bad request/invalid hostname error. When I pinged localhost it resolved to ::1 since IPv6 was enabled so I just had to add the additional binding to fix the issue.

IIS Site Bindings

Reflection generic get field value

I use the reflections in the toString() implementation of my preference class to see the class members and values (simple and quick debugging).

The simplified code I'm using:

@Override
public String toString() {
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

    Class<?> thisClass = null;
    try {
        thisClass = Class.forName(this.getClass().getName());

        Field[] aClassFields = thisClass.getDeclaredFields();
        sb.append(this.getClass().getSimpleName() + " [ ");
        for(Field f : aClassFields){
            String fName = f.getName();
            sb.append("(" + f.getType() + ") " + fName + " = " + f.get(this) + ", ");
        }
        sb.append("]");
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    return sb.toString();
}

I hope that it will help someone, because I also have searched.

Javascript: Extend a Function

There are several ways to go about this, it depends what your purpose is, if you just want to execute the function as well and in the same context, you can use .apply():

function init(){
  doSomething();
}
function myFunc(){
  init.apply(this, arguments);
  doSomethingHereToo();
}

If you want to replace it with a newer init, it'd look like this:

function init(){
  doSomething();
}
//anytime later
var old_init = init;
init = function() {
  old_init.apply(this, arguments);
  doSomethingHereToo();
};

Removing a Fragment from the back stack

You add to the back state from the FragmentTransaction and remove from the backstack using FragmentManager pop methods:

FragmentManager manager = getActivity().getSupportFragmentManager();
FragmentTransaction trans = manager.beginTransaction();
trans.remove(myFrag);
trans.commit();
manager.popBackStack();

How to return a resultset / cursor from a Oracle PL/SQL anonymous block that executes Dynamic SQL?

You can write a PL/SQL function to return that cursor (or you could put that function in a package if you have more code related to this):

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION get_allitems
  RETURN SYS_REFCURSOR
AS
  my_cursor SYS_REFCURSOR;
BEGIN
  OPEN my_cursor FOR SELECT * FROM allitems;
  RETURN my_cursor;
END get_allitems;

This will return the cursor.

Make sure not to put your SELECT-String into quotes in PL/SQL when possible. Putting it in strings means that it can not be checked at compile time, and that it has to be parsed whenever you use it.


If you really need to use dynamic SQL you can put your query in single quotes:

  OPEN my_cursor FOR 'SELECT * FROM allitems';

This string has to be parsed whenever the function is called, which will usually be slower and hides errors in your query until runtime.

Make sure to use bind-variables where possible to avoid hard parses:

  OPEN my_cursor FOR 'SELECT * FROM allitems WHERE id = :id' USING my_id;

Are there any disadvantages to always using nvarchar(MAX)?

As of SQL Server 2019, NVARCHAR(MAX) still does not support SCSU “Unicode compression” — even when stored using In-Row data storage. SCSU was added in SQL Server 2008 and applies to any ROW/PAGE-compressed tables and indices.

As such, NVARCHAR(MAX) can take up to twice as much physical disk space as a NVARCHAR(1..4000) field with the same text content+ — even when not stored in the LOB. The non-SCSU waste depends on data and language represented.

Unicode Compression Implementation:

SQL Server uses an implementation of the Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode (SCSU) algorithm to compress Unicode values that are stored in row or page compressed objects. For these compressed objects, Unicode compression is automatic for nchar(n) and nvarchar(n) columns [and is never used with nvarchar(max)].

On the other hand, PAGE compression (since 2014) still applies to NVARCHAR(MAX) columns if they are written as In-Row data.. so lack of SCSU feels like a “missing optimization”. Unlike SCSU, page compression results can vary dramatically based on shared leading prefixes (ie. duplicate values).

However, it may still be “faster” to use NVARCHAR(MAX) even with the higher IO costs with functions like OPENJSON due to avoiding the implicit conversion. This is implicit conversion overhead depends on the relative cost of usage and if the field is touched before or after filtering. This same conversion issue exists when using 2019’s UTF-8 collation in a VARCHAR(MAX) column.

Using NVARCHAR(1-4000) also requires N*2 bytes of the ~8000 byte row quota, while NVARCHAR(MAX) only requires 24 bytes. Overall design and usage need to be considered together to account for specific implementation details.

+In my database / data / schema, by using two columns (coalesced on read) it was possible to reduce disk space usage by ~40% while still supporting overflowing text values. SCSU, while with its flaws, is an amazingly clever and underutilized method of storing Unicode more space-efficiently.

How can I remove a key from a Python dictionary?

Another way is by using items() + dict comprehension.

items() coupled with dict comprehension can also help us achieve the task of key-value pair deletion, but it has the drawback of not being an in place dict technique. Actually a new dict if created except for the key we don’t wish to include.

test_dict = {"sai" : 22, "kiran" : 21, "vinod" : 21, "sangam" : 21}

# Printing dictionary before removal
print ("dictionary before performing remove is : " + str(test_dict))

# Using items() + dict comprehension to remove a dict. pair
# removes  vinod
new_dict = {key:val for key, val in test_dict.items() if key != 'vinod'}

# Printing dictionary after removal
print ("dictionary after remove is : " + str(new_dict))

Output:

dictionary before performing remove is : {'sai': 22, 'kiran': 21, 'vinod': 21, 'sangam': 21}
dictionary after remove is : {'sai': 22, 'kiran': 21, 'sangam': 21}

How to compare dates in datetime fields in Postgresql?

When you compare update_date >= '2013-05-03' postgres casts values to the same type to compare values. So your '2013-05-03' was casted to '2013-05-03 00:00:00'.

So for update_date = '2013-05-03 14:45:00' your expression will be that:

'2013-05-03 14:45:00' >= '2013-05-03 00:00:00' AND '2013-05-03 14:45:00' <= '2013-05-03 00:00:00'

This is always false

To solve this problem cast update_date to date:

select * from table where update_date::date >= '2013-05-03' AND update_date::date <= '2013-05-03' -> Will return result

Differences between git pull origin master & git pull origin/master

git pull origin master will fetch all the changes from the remote's master branch and will merge it into your local.We generally don't use git pull origin/master.We can do the same thing by git merge origin/master.It will merge all the changes from "cached copy" of origin's master branch into your local branch.In my case git pull origin/master is throwing the error.

String's Maximum length in Java - calling length() method

As mentioned in Takahiko Kawasaki's answer, java represents Unicode strings in the form of modified UTF-8 and in JVM-Spec CONSTANT_UTF8_info Structure, 2 bytes are allocated to length (and not the no. of characters of String).
To extend the answer, the ASM jvm bytecode library's putUTF8 method, contains this:

public ByteVector putUTF8(final String stringValue) {
    int charLength = stringValue.length();
    if (charLength > 65535) {   
   // If no. of characters> 65535, than however UTF-8 encoded length, wont fit in 2 bytes.
      throw new IllegalArgumentException("UTF8 string too large");
    }
    for (int i = 0; i < charLength; ++i) {
      char charValue = stringValue.charAt(i);
      if (charValue >= '\u0001' && charValue <= '\u007F') {
        // Unicode code-point encoding in utf-8 fits in 1 byte.
        currentData[currentLength++] = (byte) charValue;
      } else {
        // doesnt fit in 1 byte.
        length = currentLength;
        return encodeUtf8(stringValue, i, 65535);
      }
    }
    ...
}

But when code-point mapping > 1byte, it calls encodeUTF8 method:

final ByteVector encodeUtf8(final String stringValue, final int offset, final int maxByteLength /*= 65535 */) {
    int charLength = stringValue.length();
    int byteLength = offset;
    for (int i = offset; i < charLength; ++i) {
      char charValue = stringValue.charAt(i);
      if (charValue >= 0x0001 && charValue <= 0x007F) {
        byteLength++;
      } else if (charValue <= 0x07FF) {
        byteLength += 2;
      } else {
        byteLength += 3;
      }
    }
   ...
}

In this sense, the max string length is 65535 bytes, i.e the utf-8 encoding length. and not char count
You can find the modified-Unicode code-point range of JVM, from the above utf8 struct link.

Python pip install fails: invalid command egg_info

Looks like the default easy_install is broken in its current location:

$ which easy_install /usr/bin/easy_install

A way to overcome this is to use the easy_install in site packages. For example:

$ sudo python /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/easy_install.py boto

AddRange to a Collection

You could add your IEnumerable range to a list then set the ICollection = to the list.

        IEnumerable<T> source;

        List<item> list = new List<item>();
        list.AddRange(source);

        ICollection<item> destination = list;

How do you add a JToken to an JObject?

Just adding .First to your bananaToken should do it:
foodJsonObj["food"]["fruit"]["orange"].Parent.AddAfterSelf(bananaToken .First);
.First basically moves past the { to make it a JProperty instead of a JToken.

@Brian Rogers, Thanks I forgot the .Parent. Edited

How to check if an array element exists?

You can use either the language construct isset, or the function array_key_exists.

isset should be a bit faster (as it's not a function), but will return false if the element exists and has the value NULL.


For example, considering this array :

$a = array(
    123 => 'glop', 
    456 => null, 
);

And those three tests, relying on isset :

var_dump(isset($a[123]));
var_dump(isset($a[456]));
var_dump(isset($a[789]));

The first one will get you (the element exists, and is not null) :

boolean true

While the second one will get you (the element exists, but is null) :

boolean false

And the last one will get you (the element doesn't exist) :

boolean false


On the other hand, using array_key_exists like this :

var_dump(array_key_exists(123, $a));
var_dump(array_key_exists(456, $a));
var_dump(array_key_exists(789, $a));

You'd get those outputs :

boolean true
boolean true
boolean false

Because, in the two first cases, the element exists -- even if it's null in the second case. And, of course, in the third case, it doesn't exist.


For situations such as yours, I generally use isset, considering I'm never in the second case... But choosing which one to use is now up to you ;-)

For instance, your code could become something like this :

if (!isset(self::$instances[$instanceKey])) {
    $instances[$instanceKey] = $theInstance;
}

How can I get a collection of keys in a JavaScript dictionary?

A different approach would be to using multi-dimensional arrays:

var driversCounter = [
    ["one", 1], 
    ["two", 2], 
    ["three", 3], 
    ["four", 4], 
    ["five", 5]
]

and access the value by driverCounter[k][j], where j=0,1 in the case.
Add it in a drop down list by:

var dd = document.getElementById('your_dropdown_element');
for(i=0;i<driversCounter.length-1;i++)
{
    dd.options.add(opt);
    opt.text = driversCounter[i][0];
    opt.value = driversCounter[i][1];
}

Preventing multiple clicks on button

May be this will help and give the desired functionality :

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$('#disable').on('click', function(){_x000D_
    $('#disable').attr("disabled", true);_x000D_
});
_x000D_
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<button id="disable">Disable Me!</button>_x000D_
<p>Hello</p>
_x000D_
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Tooltip with HTML content without JavaScript

Pure CSS:

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.app-tooltip {_x000D_
  position: relative;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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.app-tooltip:before {_x000D_
  content: attr(data-title);_x000D_
  background-color: rgba(97, 97, 97, 0.9);_x000D_
  color: #fff;_x000D_
  font-size: 12px;_x000D_
  padding: 10px;_x000D_
  position: absolute;_x000D_
  bottom: -50px;_x000D_
  opacity: 0;_x000D_
  transition: all 0.4s ease;_x000D_
  font-weight: 500;_x000D_
  z-index: 2;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
.app-tooltip:after {_x000D_
  content: '';_x000D_
  position: absolute;_x000D_
  opacity: 0;_x000D_
  left: 5px;_x000D_
  bottom: -16px;_x000D_
  border-style: solid;_x000D_
  border-width: 0 10px 10px 10px;_x000D_
  border-color: transparent transparent rgba(97, 97, 97, 0.9) transparent;_x000D_
  transition: all 0.4s ease;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
.app-tooltip:hover:after,_x000D_
.app-tooltip:hover:before {_x000D_
  opacity: 1;_x000D_
}
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<div href="#" class="app-tooltip" data-title="Your message here"> Test here</div>
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How can I execute Shell script in Jenkinsfile?

Based on the number of views this question has, it looks like a lot of people are visiting this to see how to set up a job that executes a shell script.

These are the steps to execute a shell script in Jenkins:

  • In the main page of Jenkins select New Item.
  • Enter an item name like "my shell script job" and chose Freestyle project. Press OK.
  • On the configuration page, in the Build block click in the Add build step dropdown and select Execute shell.
  • In the textarea you can either paste a script or indicate how to run an existing script. So you can either say:

    #!/bin/bash
    
    echo "hello, today is $(date)" > /tmp/jenkins_test
    

    or just

    /path/to/your/script.sh
    
  • Click Save.

Now the newly created job should appear in the main page of Jenkins, together with the other ones. Open it and select Build now to see if it works. Once it has finished pick that specific build from the build history and read the Console output to see if everything happened as desired.

You can get more details in the document Create a Jenkins shell script job in GitHub.

Copy a variable's value into another

newVariable = originalVariable.valueOf();

for objects you can use, b = Object.assign({},a);

How to check if PHP array is associative or sequential?

Or you can just use this:

Arr::isAssoc($array)

which will check if array contains any non-numeric key or:

Arr:isAssoc($array, true)

to check if array is strictly sequencial (contains auto generated int keys 0 to n-1)

using this library.

Android: java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: start Intent

It's easy maybe you have error in the configuration.

For Example: Manifest.xml

enter image description here

But in my configuration have for default Activity .Splash

enter image description here

you need check this configuration and the file Manifest.xml

Good Luck

add onclick function to a submit button

  1. Create a hidden button with id="hiddenBtn" and type="submit" that do the submit
  2. Change current button to type="button"
  3. set onclick of the current button call a function look like below:

    function foo() { // do something before submit ... // trigger click event of the hidden button $('#hinddenBtn').trigger("click"); }

Why is semicolon allowed in this python snippet?

Semicolon (";") is only needed for separation of statements within a same block, such as if we have the following C code:

if(a>b)
{
largest=a;  //here largest and count are integer variables
count+=1;
}

It can be written in Python in either of the two forms:

if a>b:   
    largest=a
    count=count+1

Or

if a>b:    largest=a;count=count+1

In the above example you could have any number of statements within an if block and can be separated by ";" instead.

Hope that nothing is as simple as above explanation.

Where is Python's sys.path initialized from?

"Initialized from the environment variable PYTHONPATH, plus an installation-dependent default"

-- http://docs.python.org/library/sys.html#sys.path

How can I inject a property value into a Spring Bean which was configured using annotations?

Use Spring's "PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer" class

A simple example showing property file read dynamically as bean's property

<bean id="placeholderConfig"
        class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
    <property name="locations">
        <list>
            <value>/WEB-INF/classes/config_properties/dev/database.properties</value>
        </list>
    </property> 
</bean>

<bean id="devDataSource" class="com.mchange.v2.c3p0.ComboPooledDataSource" destroy-method="close">
    <property name="driverClass" value="${dev.app.jdbc.driver}"/>
    <property name="jdbcUrl" value="${dev.app.jdbc.url}"/>
    <property name="user" value="${dev.app.jdbc.username}"/>
    <property name="password" value="${dev.app.jdbc.password}"/>
    <property name="acquireIncrement" value="3"/>
    <property name="minPoolSize" value="5"/>
    <property name="maxPoolSize" value="10"/>
    <property name="maxStatementsPerConnection" value="11000"/>
    <property name="numHelperThreads" value="8"/>
    <property name="idleConnectionTestPeriod" value="300"/>
    <property name="preferredTestQuery" value="SELECT 0"/>
</bean> 

Property File

dev.app.jdbc.driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

dev.app.jdbc.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/addvertisement

dev.app.jdbc.username=root

dev.app.jdbc.password=root

HtmlEncode from Class Library

Just reference the System.Web assembly and then call: HttpServerUtility.HtmlEncode

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.httpserverutility.htmlencode.aspx

Using onBackPressed() in Android Fragments

I found a new way to do it without interfaces. You only need to add the below code to the Fragment’s onCreate() method:

//overriding the fragment's oncreate 
override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)

        //calling onBackPressedDispatcher and adding call back

        requireActivity().onBackPressedDispatcher.addCallback(this) {

      //do stuff here
            
        }
    }

jQuery - Increase the value of a counter when a button is clicked

It's just

var counter = 0;

$("#update").click(function() {
   counter++;
});

Copy multiple files in Python

import os
import shutil
os.chdir('C:\\') #Make sure you add your source and destination path below

dir_src = ("C:\\foooo\\")
dir_dst = ("C:\\toooo\\")

for filename in os.listdir(dir_src):
    if filename.endswith('.txt'):
        shutil.copy( dir_src + filename, dir_dst)
    print(filename)

Select columns in PySpark dataframe

You can use an array and unpack it inside the select:

cols = ['_2','_4','_5']
df.select(*cols).show()

Align two divs horizontally side by side center to the page using bootstrap css

To align two divs horizontally you just have to combine two classes of Bootstrap: Here's how:

<div class ="container-fluid">
  <div class ="row">
    <div class ="col-md-6 col-sm-6">
        First Div
    </div>
    <div class ="col-md-6 col-sm-6">
        Second Div
     </div>
  </div>
</div>

JavaScript string newline character?

Don't use "\n". Just try this:

var string = "this\
is a multi\
line\
string";

Just enter a back-slash and keep on truckin'! Works like a charm.

What are the Differences Between "php artisan dump-autoload" and "composer dump-autoload"?

php artisan dump-autoload was deprecated on Laravel 5, so you need to use composer dump-autoload

error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘{’ token

AST_NODE* Statement(AST_NODE* node)

is missing a semicolon (a major clue was the error message "In function ‘Statement’: ...") and so is line 24,

   return node

(Once you fix those, you will encounter other problems, some of which are mentioned by others here.)

Error: class X is public should be declared in a file named X.java

The name of the public class within a file has to be the same as the name of that file.

So if your file declares class WeatherArray, it needs to be named WeatherArray.java

How to always show scrollbar

As of now the best way is to use android:fadeScrollbars="false" in xml which is equivalent to ScrollView.setScrollbarFadingEnabled(false); in java code.

How can I access my localhost from my Android device?

finally done in Ubuntu , i am running nodejs server on localhost:8080

1) open terminal type ifconfig you will get ip something like this : inet addr:192.168.43.17

2) now simply put url address like this : "192.168.43.17:8080" (8080 port coming from localhost port number) ex : "192.168.43.17:8080/fetch"

How to show the text on a ImageButton?

You can use a LinearLayout instead of using Button it's an arrangement i used in my app

 <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_margin="20dp"
        android:background="@color/mainColor"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:padding="10dp">

        <ImageView
            android:layout_width="50dp"
            android:layout_height="50dp"
            android:background="@drawable/ic_cv"
            android:textColor="@color/offBack"
            android:textSize="20dp" />

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_margin="10dp"
            android:text="@string/cartyCv"
            android:textColor="@color/offBack"
            android:textSize="25dp" />

    </LinearLayout>

How to return PDF to browser in MVC?

I know this question is old but I thought I would share this as I could not find anything similar.

I wanted to create my views/models as normal using Razor and have them rendered as Pdfs.

This way I had control over the pdf presentation using standard html output rather than figuring out how to layout the document using iTextSharp.

The project and source code is available here with nuget installation instructions:

https://github.com/andyhutch77/MvcRazorToPdf

Install-Package MvcRazorToPdf

@JsonProperty annotation on field as well as getter/setter

In addition to existing good answers, note that Jackson 1.9 improved handling by adding "property unification", meaning that ALL annotations from difference parts of a logical property are combined, using (hopefully) intuitive precedence.

In Jackson 1.8 and prior, only field and getter annotations were used when determining what and how to serialize (writing JSON); and only and setter annotations for deserialization (reading JSON). This sometimes required addition of "extra" annotations, like annotating both getter and setter.

With Jackson 1.9 and above these extra annotations are NOT needed. It is still possible to add those; and if different names are used, one can create "split" properties (serializing using one name, deserializing using other): this is occasionally useful for sort of renaming.

How much RAM is SQL Server actually using?

The simplest way to see ram usage if you have RDP access / console access would be just launch task manager - click processes - show processes from all users, sort by RAM - This will give you SQL's usage.

As was mentioned above, to decrease the size (which will take effect immediately, no restart required) launch sql management studio, click the server, properties - memory and decrease the max. There's no exactly perfect number, but make sure the server has ram free for other tasks.

The answers about perfmon are correct and should be used, but they aren't as obvious a method as task manager IMHO.

The model backing the 'ApplicationDbContext' context has changed since the database was created

Below was the similar kind of error i encountered

The model backing the 'PsnlContext' context has changed since the database was created. Consider using Code First Migrations to update the database (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=238269).

I added the below section in the Application Start event of the Global.asax to solve the error

Database.SetInitializer (null);

This fixed the issue

What's the difference between session.persist() and session.save() in Hibernate?

I have done good research on the save() vs. persist() including running it on my local machine several times. All the previous explanations are confusing and incorrect. I compare save() and persist() methods below after a thorough research.

Save()

  1. Returns generated Id after saving. Its return type is Serializable;
  2. Saves the changes to the database outside of the transaction;
  3. Assigns the generated id to the entity you are persisting;
  4. session.save() for a detached object will create a new row in the table.

Persist()

  1. Does not return generated Id after saving. Its return type is void;
  2. Does not save the changes to the database outside of the transaction;
  3. Assigns the generated Id to the entity you are persisting;
  4. session.persist() for a detached object will throw a PersistentObjectException, as it is not allowed.

All these are tried/tested on Hibernate v4.0.1.

How do I modify a MySQL column to allow NULL?

You want the following:

ALTER TABLE mytable MODIFY mycolumn VARCHAR(255);

Columns are nullable by default. As long as the column is not declared UNIQUE or NOT NULL, there shouldn't be any problems.

How to create a GUID/UUID in Python

If you need to pass UUID for a primary key for your model or unique field then below code returns the UUID object -

 import uuid
 uuid.uuid4()

If you need to pass UUID as a parameter for URL you can do like below code -

import uuid
str(uuid.uuid4())

If you want the hex value for a UUID you can do the below one -

import uuid    
uuid.uuid4().hex

How do I set a fixed background image for a PHP file?

Your question doesn't have anything to do with PHP... just CSS.

Your CSS is correct, but your browser won't typically be able to open what you have put in for a URL. At a minimum, you'll need a file: path. It would be best to reference the file by its relative path.

Open two instances of a file in a single Visual Studio session

When working with Visual Studio 2013 and VB.NET I found that you can quite easily customize the menu and add the "New Window" command - there is no need to mess with the registry!

God only knows why Microsoft chose not to include the command for some languages...?

how to get rid of notification circle in right side of the screen?

This stuff comes from ES file explorer

Just go into this app > settings

Then there is an option that says logging floating window, you just need to disable that and you will get rid of this infernal bubble for good

Socket accept - "Too many open files"

I had this problem too. You have a file handle leak. You can debug this by printing out a list of all the open file handles (on POSIX systems):

void showFDInfo()
{
   s32 numHandles = getdtablesize();

   for ( s32 i = 0; i < numHandles; i++ )
   {
      s32 fd_flags = fcntl( i, F_GETFD ); 
      if ( fd_flags == -1 ) continue;


      showFDInfo( i );
   }
}

void showFDInfo( s32 fd )
{
   char buf[256];

   s32 fd_flags = fcntl( fd, F_GETFD ); 
   if ( fd_flags == -1 ) return;

   s32 fl_flags = fcntl( fd, F_GETFL ); 
   if ( fl_flags == -1 ) return;

   char path[256];
   sprintf( path, "/proc/self/fd/%d", fd );

   memset( &buf[0], 0, 256 );
   ssize_t s = readlink( path, &buf[0], 256 );
   if ( s == -1 )
   {
        cerr << " (" << path << "): " << "not available";
        return;
   }
   cerr << fd << " (" << buf << "): ";

   if ( fd_flags & FD_CLOEXEC )  cerr << "cloexec ";

   // file status
   if ( fl_flags & O_APPEND   )  cerr << "append ";
   if ( fl_flags & O_NONBLOCK )  cerr << "nonblock ";

   // acc mode
   if ( fl_flags & O_RDONLY   )  cerr << "read-only ";
   if ( fl_flags & O_RDWR     )  cerr << "read-write ";
   if ( fl_flags & O_WRONLY   )  cerr << "write-only ";

   if ( fl_flags & O_DSYNC    )  cerr << "dsync ";
   if ( fl_flags & O_RSYNC    )  cerr << "rsync ";
   if ( fl_flags & O_SYNC     )  cerr << "sync ";

   struct flock fl;
   fl.l_type = F_WRLCK;
   fl.l_whence = 0;
   fl.l_start = 0;
   fl.l_len = 0;
   fcntl( fd, F_GETLK, &fl );
   if ( fl.l_type != F_UNLCK )
   {
      if ( fl.l_type == F_WRLCK )
         cerr << "write-locked";
      else
         cerr << "read-locked";
      cerr << "(pid:" << fl.l_pid << ") ";
   }
}

By dumping out all the open files you will quickly figure out where your file handle leak is.

If your server spawns subprocesses. E.g. if this is a 'fork' style server, or if you are spawning other processes ( e.g. via cgi ), you have to make sure to create your file handles with "cloexec" - both for real files and also sockets.

Without cloexec, every time you fork or spawn, all open file handles are cloned in the child process.

It is also really easy to fail to close network sockets - e.g. just abandoning them when the remote party disconnects. This will leak handles like crazy.

Intercept a form submit in JavaScript and prevent normal submission

<form onSubmit="return captureForm()"> that should do. Make sure that your captureForm() method returns false.

Find a line in a file and remove it

Using apache commons-io and Java 8 you can use

 List<String> lines = FileUtils.readLines(file);
 List<String> updatedLines = lines.stream().filter(s -> !s.contains(searchString)).collect(Collectors.toList());
 FileUtils.writeLines(file, updatedLines, false);

Best IDE for HTML5, Javascript, CSS, Jquery support with GUI building tools

Update for 2016

A lot of great editors have come out since my original answer. I currently use the following text editors: Sublime Text 3 (Mac/Windows), Visual Studio Code (Mac/Windows) and Atom (Mac/Windows). I also use the following IDEs: Visual Studio 2015 (Windows/Paid & Free Versions) and Jetrbrains WebStorm (Windows/Paid, tried the demo and liked it).

My preference is using Sublime Text 3.

Original Answer

Microsoft Web Matrix and Dreamweaver are great.

Visual Studio and Expression Web are also great but may be overkill for you.

For just plain text editors, Sublime Text 2 is really cool

Copying text to the clipboard using Java

This is the accepted answer written in a decorative way:

Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit()
        .getSystemClipboard()
        .setContents(
                new StringSelection(txtMySQLScript.getText()),
                null
        );

Catching multiple exception types in one catch block

A great way is to use set_exception_handler.

Warning!!! with PHP 7, you might get a white screen of death for fatal errors. For example, if you call a method on a non-object you would normally get Fatal error: Call to a member function your_method() on null and you would expect to see this if error reporting is on.

The above error will NOT be caught with catch(Exception $e). The above error will NOT trigger any custom error handler set by set_error_handler.

You must use catch(Error $e){ } to catch errors in PHP7. . This could help:

class ErrorHandler{
    public static function excep_handler($e)
    {
        print_r($e);
    }
}
set_exception_handler(array('ErrorHandler','excep_handler'));

An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host

This generally means that the remote side closed the connection (usually by sending a TCP/IP RST packet). If you're working with a third-party application, the likely causes are:

  • You are sending malformed data to the application (which could include sending an HTTPS request to an HTTP server)
  • The network link between the client and server is going down for some reason
  • You have triggered a bug in the third-party application that caused it to crash
  • The third-party application has exhausted system resources

It's likely that the first case is what's happening.

You can fire up Wireshark to see exactly what is happening on the wire to narrow down the problem.

Without more specific information, it's unlikely that anyone here can really help you much.

How to refresh or show immediately in datagridview after inserting?

Use LoadPatientRecords() after a successful insertion.

Try the below code

private void btnSubmit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
        if (btnSubmit.Text == "Clear")
        {
            btnSubmit.Text = "Submit";

            txtpFirstName.Focus();
        }
        else
        {
           btnSubmit.Text = "Clear";
           int result = AddPatientRecord();
           if (result > 0)
           {
               MessageBox.Show("Insert Successful");

               LoadPatientRecords();
           }
           else
               MessageBox.Show("Insert Fail");
         }
}

How to search for a part of a word with ElasticSearch

Using wilcards (*) prevent the calc of a score

Your password does not satisfy the current policy requirements

For MySql 8 you can use following script:

SET GLOBAL validate_password.LENGTH = 4;
SET GLOBAL validate_password.policy = 0;
SET GLOBAL validate_password.mixed_case_count = 0;
SET GLOBAL validate_password.number_count = 0;
SET GLOBAL validate_password.special_char_count = 0;
SET GLOBAL validate_password.check_user_name = 0;
ALTER USER 'user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'pass';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

2D arrays in Python

x=list()
def enter(n):
    y=list()
    for i in  range(0,n):
        y.append(int(input("Enter ")))
    return y
for i in range(0,2):
    x.insert(i,enter(2))
print (x)

here i made function to create 1-D array and inserted into another array as a array member. multiple 1-d array inside a an array, as the value of n and i changes u create multi dimensional arrays

How to do something to each file in a directory with a batch script

Command line usage:

for /f %f in ('dir /b c:\') do echo %f

Batch file usage:

for /f %%f in ('dir /b c:\') do echo %%f

Update: if the directory contains files with space in the names, you need to change the delimiter the for /f command is using. for example, you can use the pipe char.

for /f "delims=|" %%f in ('dir /b c:\') do echo %%f

Update 2: (quick one year and a half after the original answer :-)) If the directory name itself has a space in the name, you can use the usebackq option on the for:

for /f "usebackq delims=|" %%f in (`dir /b "c:\program files"`) do echo %%f

And if you need to use output redirection or command piping, use the escape char (^):

for /f "usebackq delims=|" %%f in (`dir /b "c:\program files" ^| findstr /i microsoft`) do echo %%f

Date validation with ASP.NET validator

Best option would be

Add a compare validator to the web form. Set its controlToValidate. Set its Type property to Date. Set its operator property to DataTypeCheck eg:

<asp:CompareValidator
    id="dateValidator" runat="server" 
    Type="Date"
    Operator="DataTypeCheck"
    ControlToValidate="txtDatecompleted" 
    ErrorMessage="Please enter a valid date.">
</asp:CompareValidator>

Xcode error - Thread 1: signal SIGABRT

SIGABRT is, as stated in other answers, a general uncaught exception. You should definitely learn a little bit more about Objective-C. The problem is probably in your UITableViewDelegate method didSelectRowAtIndexPath.

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath

I can't tell you much more until you show us something of the code where you handle the table data source and delegate methods.

What is the difference between MySQL, MySQLi and PDO?

There are (more than) three popular ways to use MySQL from PHP. This outlines some features/differences PHP: Choosing an API:

  1. (DEPRECATED) The mysql functions are procedural and use manual escaping.
  2. MySQLi is a replacement for the mysql functions, with object-oriented and procedural versions. It has support for prepared statements.
  3. PDO (PHP Data Objects) is a general database abstraction layer with support for MySQL among many other databases. It provides prepared statements, and significant flexibility in how data is returned.

I would recommend using PDO with prepared statements. It is a well-designed API and will let you more easily move to another database (including any that supports ODBC) if necessary.

How to start automatic download of a file in Internet Explorer?

For those trying to trigger the download using a dynamic link it's tricky to get it working consistently across browsers.

I had trouble in IE10+ downloading a PDF and used @dandavis' download function (https://github.com/rndme/download).

IE10+ needs msSaveBlob.

Sum of two input value by jquery

Because at least one value is a string the + operator is being interpreted as a string concatenation operator. The simplest fix for this is to indicate that you intend for the values to be interpreted as numbers.

var total = +a + +b;

and

$('#total_price').val(+a + +b);

Or, better, just pull them out as numbers to begin with:

var a = +$('input[name=service_price]').val();
var b = +$('input[name=modem_price]').val();
var total = a+b;
$('#total_price').val(a+b);

See Mozilla's Unary + documentation.

Note that this is only a good idea if you know the value is going to be a number anyway. If this is user input you must be more careful and probably want to use parseInt and other validation as other answers suggest.

How to validate IP address in Python?

I hope it's simple and pythonic enough:

def is_valid_ip(ip):
    m = re.match(r"^(\d{1,3})\.(\d{1,3})\.(\d{1,3})\.(\d{1,3})$", ip)
    return bool(m) and all(map(lambda n: 0 <= int(n) <= 255, m.groups()))

Adding elements to a C# array

You should take a look at the List object. Lists tend to be better at changing dynamically like you want. Arrays not so much...

How can I get zoom functionality for images?

You could also try out http://code.google.com/p/android-multitouch-controller/

The library is really great, although initially a little hard to grasp.

How to change Oracle default data pump directory to import dumpfile?

use DIRECTORY option.

Documentation here: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e22490/dp_import.htm#SUTIL907

  DIRECTORY

  Default: DATA_PUMP_DIR

  Purpose

  Specifies the default location in which the import job can find the dump file set and where it should create log and SQL files.

  Syntax and Description

  DIRECTORY=directory_object
  The directory_object is the name of a database directory object (not the file path of an actual directory). Upon installation, privileged users have access to a default directory object named DATA_PUMP_DIR. Users with access to the default DATA_PUMP_DIR directory object do not need to use the DIRECTORY parameter at all.

  A directory object specified on the DUMPFILE, LOGFILE, or SQLFILE parameter overrides any directory object that you specify for the DIRECTORY parameter. You must have Read access to the directory used for the dump file set and Write access to the directory used to create the log and SQL files.

  Example

  The following is an example of using the DIRECTORY parameter. You can create the expfull.dmp dump file used in this example by running the example provided for the Export FULL parameter. See "FULL".

  > impdp hr DIRECTORY=dpump_dir1 DUMPFILE=expfull.dmp 
  LOGFILE=dpump_dir2:expfull.log
  This command results in the import job looking for the expfull.dmp dump file in the directory pointed to by the dpump_dir1 directory object. The dpump_dir2 directory object specified on the LOGFILE parameter overrides the DIRECTORY parameter so that the log file is written to dpump_dir2.

How to define two angular apps / modules in one page?

Only one AngularJS application can be auto-bootstrapped per HTML document. The first ngApp found in the document will be used to define the root element to auto-bootstrap as an application. To run multiple applications in an HTML document you must manually bootstrap them using angular.bootstrap instead. AngularJS applications cannot be nested within each other. -- http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.directive:ngApp

See also

Uploading files to file server using webclient class

when you manually open the IP address (via the RUN command or mapping a network drive), your PC will send your credentials over the pipe and the file server will receive authorization from the DC.

When ASP.Net tries, then it is going to try to use the IIS worker user (unless impersonation is turned on which will list a few other issues). Traditionally, the IIS worker user does not have authorization to work across servers (or even in other folders on the web server).

Material Design not styling alert dialogs

AppCompat doesn't do that for dialogs (not yet at least)

EDIT: it does now. make sure to use android.support.v7.app.AlertDialog

Android Call an method from another class

Add this in MainActivity.

Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), Heightimage.class);
startActivity(intent);

How do I generate random integers within a specific range in Java?

To avoid repeating what have been said multiple times, I am showing an alternative for those that need a cryptographically stronger pseudo-random number generator by using the SecureRandom class, which extends the class Random. From source one can read:

This class provides a cryptographically strong random number generator (RNG). A cryptographically strong random number minimally complies with the statistical random number generator tests specified in FIPS 140-2, Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules, section 4.9.1. Additionally, SecureRandom must produce non-deterministic output. Therefore any seed material passed to a SecureRandom object must be unpredictable, and all SecureRandom output sequences must be cryptographically strong, as described in RFC 1750: Randomness Recommendations for Security.

A caller obtains a SecureRandom instance via the no-argument constructor or one of the getInstance methods:

  SecureRandom random = new SecureRandom();  

Many SecureRandom implementations are in the form of a pseudo-random number generator (PRNG), which means they use a deterministic algorithm to produce a pseudo-random sequence from a true random seed. Other implementations may produce true random numbers, and yet others may use a combination of both techniques.

To generate a random number between a min and max values inclusive:

public static int generate(SecureRandom secureRandom, int min, int max) {
        return min + secureRandom.nextInt((max - min) + 1);
}

for a given a min (inclusive) and max (exclusive) values:

return min + secureRandom.nextInt((max - min));

A running code example:

public class Main {

    public static int generate(SecureRandom secureRandom, int min, int max) {
        return min + secureRandom.nextInt((max - min) + 1);
    }

    public static void main(String[] arg) {
        SecureRandom random = new SecureRandom();
        System.out.println(generate(random, 0, 2 ));
    }
}

Source such as stackoverflow, baeldung, geeksforgeeks provide comparisons between Random and SecureRandom classes.

From baeldung one can read:

The most common way of using SecureRandom is to generate int, long, float, double or boolean values:

int randomInt = secureRandom.nextInt();
long randomLong = secureRandom.nextLong();
float randomFloat = secureRandom.nextFloat();
double randomDouble = secureRandom.nextDouble();
boolean randomBoolean = secureRandom.nextBoolean();

For generating int values we can pass an upper bound as a parameter:

int randomInt = secureRandom.nextInt(upperBound);

In addition, we can generate a stream of values for int, double and long:

IntStream randomIntStream = secureRandom.ints();
LongStream randomLongStream = secureRandom.longs();
DoubleStream randomDoubleStream = secureRandom.doubles();

For all streams we can explicitly set the stream size:

IntStream intStream = secureRandom.ints(streamSize);

This class offers several other options (e.g., choosing the underlying random number generator) that are out of the scope of this question.

Can't bind to 'routerLink' since it isn't a known property

You need to add RouterModule to imports of every @NgModule() where components use any component or directive from (in this case routerLink and <router-outlet>.

declarations: [] is to make components, directives, pipes, known inside the current module.

exports: [] is to make components, directives, pipes, available to importing modules. What is added to declarations only is private to the module. exports makes them public.

See also https://angular.io/api/router/RouterModule#usage-notes

Check if a given key already exists in a dictionary

Python 2 only: (and python 2.7 supports `in` already)

you can use the has_key() method:

if dict.has_key('xyz')==1:
    #update the value for the key
else:
    pass

Display a table/list data dynamically in MVC3/Razor from a JsonResult?

Add a View:

  1. Right-Click View Folder
  2. Click Add -> View
  3. Click Create a strongly-typed view
  4. Select your User class
  5. Select List as the Scaffold template

Add a controller and action method to call the view:

public ActionResult Index()
{
    var users = DataContext.GetUsers();
    return View(users);
}

"Untrusted App Developer" message when installing enterprise iOS Application

In iOS 9.1 and lower, go to Settings - General - Profiles - tap on your Profile - tap on Trust button.

Password Protect a SQLite DB. Is it possible?

You can use the built-in encryption of the sqlite .net provider (System.Data.SQLite). See more details at http://web.archive.org/web/20070813071554/http://sqlite.phxsoftware.com/forums/t/130.aspx

To encrypt an existing unencrypted database, or to change the password of an encrypted database, open the database and then use the ChangePassword() function of SQLiteConnection:

// Opens an unencrypted database
SQLiteConnection cnn = new SQLiteConnection("Data Source=c:\\test.db3");
cnn.Open();
// Encrypts the database. The connection remains valid and usable afterwards.
cnn.ChangePassword("mypassword");

To decrypt an existing encrypted database call ChangePassword() with a NULL or "" password:

// Opens an encrypted database
SQLiteConnection cnn = new SQLiteConnection("Data Source=c:\\test.db3;Password=mypassword");
cnn.Open();
// Removes the encryption on an encrypted database.
cnn.ChangePassword(null);

To open an existing encrypted database, or to create a new encrypted database, specify a password in the ConnectionString as shown in the previous example, or call the SetPassword() function before opening a new SQLiteConnection. Passwords specified in the ConnectionString must be cleartext, but passwords supplied in the SetPassword() function may be binary byte arrays.

// Opens an encrypted database by calling SetPassword()
SQLiteConnection cnn = new SQLiteConnection("Data Source=c:\\test.db3");
cnn.SetPassword(new byte[] { 0xFF, 0xEE, 0xDD, 0x10, 0x20, 0x30 });
cnn.Open();
// The connection is now usable

By default, the ATTACH keyword will use the same encryption key as the main database when attaching another database file to an existing connection. To change this behavior, you use the KEY modifier as follows:

If you are attaching an encrypted database using a cleartext password:

// Attach to a database using a different key than the main database
SQLiteConnection cnn = new SQLiteConnection("Data Source=c:\\test.db3");
cnn.Open();
cmd = new SQLiteCommand("ATTACH DATABASE 'c:\\pwd.db3' AS [Protected] KEY 'mypassword'", cnn);
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();

To attach an encrypted database using a binary password:

// Attach to a database encrypted with a binary key
SQLiteConnection cnn = new SQLiteConnection("Data Source=c:\\test.db3");
cnn.Open();
cmd = new SQLiteCommand("ATTACH DATABASE 'c:\\pwd.db3' AS [Protected] KEY X'FFEEDD102030'", cnn);
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();

How to check sbt version?

$ sbt sbtVersion

This prints the sbt version used in your current project, or if it is a multi-module project for each module.

$ sbt 'inspect sbtVersion'
[info] Set current project to jacek (in build file:/Users/jacek/)
[info] Setting: java.lang.String = 0.13.1
[info] Description:
[info]  Provides the version of sbt.  This setting should be not be modified.
[info] Provided by:
[info]  */*:sbtVersion
[info] Defined at:
[info]  (sbt.Defaults) Defaults.scala:68
[info] Delegates:
[info]  *:sbtVersion
[info]  {.}/*:sbtVersion
[info]  */*:sbtVersion
[info] Related:
[info]  */*:sbtVersion

You may also want to use sbt about that (copying Mark Harrah's comment):

The about command was added recently to try to succinctly print the most relevant information, including the sbt version.

When increasing the size of VARCHAR column on a large table could there be any problems?

Changing to Varchar(1200) from Varchar(200) should cause you no issue as it is only a metadata change and as SQL server 2008 truncates excesive blank spaces you should see no performance differences either so in short there should be no issues with making the change.

Where value in column containing comma delimited values

Although the tricky solution @tbaxter120 advised is good but I use this function and work like a charm, pString is a delimited string and pDelimiter is a delimiter character:

SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO

ALTER FUNCTION [dbo].[DelimitedSplit]
--===== Define I/O parameters
        (@pString NVARCHAR(MAX), @pDelimiter CHAR(1))
RETURNS TABLE WITH SCHEMABINDING AS
 RETURN
--===== "Inline" CTE Driven "Tally Table" produces values from 0 up to 10,000...
     -- enough to cover VARCHAR(8000)
  WITH E1(N) AS (
                 SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION ALL 
                 SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION ALL 
                 SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 1
                ),                          --10E+1 or 10 rows
       E2(N) AS (SELECT 1 FROM E1 a, E1 b), --10E+2 or 100 rows
       E4(N) AS (SELECT 1 FROM E2 a, E2 b), --10E+4 or 10,000 rows max
 cteTally(N) AS (--==== This provides the "base" CTE and limits the number of rows right up front
                     -- for both a performance gain and prevention of accidental "overruns"
                 SELECT TOP (ISNULL(DATALENGTH(@pString),0)) ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY (SELECT NULL)) FROM E4
                ),
cteStart(N1) AS (--==== This returns N+1 (starting position of each "element" just once for each delimiter)
                 SELECT 1 UNION ALL -- does away with 0 base CTE, and the OR condition in one go!
                 SELECT t.N+1 FROM cteTally t WHERE SUBSTRING(@pString,t.N,1) = @pDelimiter
                ),
cteLen(N1,L1) AS(--==== Return start and length (for use in substring)
                 SELECT s.N1,
                        ---ISNULL(NULLIF(CHARINDEX(@pDelimiter,@pString,s.N1),0)-s.N1,8000)
                        ISNULL(NULLIF(CHARINDEX(@pDelimiter,@pString,s.N1),0)-s.N1,50000)
                   FROM cteStart s
                )
--===== Do the actual split. The ISNULL/NULLIF combo handles the length for the final element when no delimiter is found.
 SELECT ItemNumber = ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY l.N1),
        Item       = SUBSTRING(@pString, l.N1, l.L1)
   FROM cteLen l

;

Then for example you can call it in where clause as below:

WHERE [fieldname] IN (SELECT LTRIM(RTRIM(Item)) FROM [dbo].[DelimitedSplit]('2,5,11', ','))

Hope this help.

How can strip whitespaces in PHP's variable?

$string = str_replace(" ", "", $string);

I believe preg_replace would be looking for something like [:space:]

Python Pandas merge only certain columns

This is to merge selected columns from two tables.

If table_1 contains t1_a,t1_b,t1_c..,id,..t1_z columns, and table_2 contains t2_a, t2_b, t2_c..., id,..t2_z columns, and only t1_a, id, t2_a are required in the final table, then

mergedCSV = table_1[['t1_a','id']].merge(table_2[['t2_a','id']], on = 'id',how = 'left')
# save resulting output file    
mergedCSV.to_csv('output.csv',index = False)

How to dump only specific tables from MySQL?

If you're in local machine then use this command

/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqldump -h127.0.0.1 --port = 3306 -u [username] -p [password] --databases [db_name] --tables [tablename] > /to/path/tablename.sql;

For remote machine, use below one

/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqldump -h [remoteip] --port = 3306 -u [username] -p [password] --databases [db_name] --tables [tablename] > /to/path/tablename.sql;

Visual Studio C# IntelliSense not automatically displaying

I have just come to about this problem while installing one of the extensions and its file was deleted by my anti virus so I just disabled my anti virus and reinstalled visual studio. Suggestions are working properly without any changes made after installation.

Where can I find the error logs of nginx, using FastCGI and Django?

Errors are stored in the nginx log file. You can specify it in the root of the nginx configuration file:

error_log  /var/log/nginx/nginx_error.log  warn;

On Mac OS X with Homebrew, the log file was found by default at the following location:

/usr/local/var/log/nginx

Open File Dialog, One Filter for Multiple Excel Extensions?

Use a semicolon

OpenFileDialog of = new OpenFileDialog();
of.Filter = "Excel Files|*.xls;*.xlsx;*.xlsm";

Tried to Load Angular More Than Once

In my case I was getting this error while using jquery as well as angular js on the page.

<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.3.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="js/angular.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="js/angular-route.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

I removed :

<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.3.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

And the warning disappeared.

Merge two rows in SQL

SELECT Q.FK
      ,ISNULL(T1.Field1, T2.Field2) AS Field
FROM (SELECT FK FROM Table1
        UNION
      SELECT FK FROM Table2) AS Q
LEFT JOIN Table1 AS T1 ON T1.FK = Q.FK
LEFT JOIN Table2 AS T2 ON T2.FK = Q.FK

If there is one table, write Table1 instead of Table2

How do I directly modify a Google Chrome Extension File? (.CRX)

Note that some zip programs have trouble unzipping a CRX like sathish described - if this is the case, try using 7-Zip - http://www.7-zip.org/

Extract filename and extension in Bash

You can also use a for loop and tr to extract the filename from the path...

for x in `echo $path | tr "/" " "`; do filename=$x; done

The tr replaces all "/" delimiters in path with spaces so making a list of strings, and the for loop scans through them leaving the last one in the filename variable.

How to calculate growth with a positive and negative number?

It is true that this calculation does not make sense in a strict mathematical perspective, however if we are checking financial data it is still a useful metric. The formula could be the following:

if(lastyear>0,(thisyear/lastyear-1),((thisyear+abs(lastyear)/abs(lastyear))

let's verify the formula empirically with simple numbers:

thisyear=50 lastyear=25 growth=100% makes sense

thisyear=25 lastyear=50 growth=-50% makes sense

thisyear=-25 lastyear=25 growth=-200% makes sense

thisyear=50 lastyear=-25 growth=300% makes sense

thisyear=-50 lastyear=-25 growth=-100% makes sense

thisyear=-25 lastyear=-50 growth=50% makes sense

again, it might not be mathematically correct, but if you need meaningful numbers (maybe to plug them in graphs or other formulas) it's a good alternative to N/A, especially when using N/A could screw all subsequent calculations.

Socket.IO - how do I get a list of connected sockets/clients?

v.10

var clients = io.nsps['/'].adapter.rooms['vse'];
/* 
'clients' will return something like:
Room {
sockets: { '3kiMNO8xwKMOtj3zAAAC': true, FUgvilj2VoJWB196AAAD: true },
length: 2 }
*/
var count = clients.length;  // 2
var sockets = clients.map((item)=>{  // all sockets room 'vse'
       return io.sockets.sockets[item];
      });
sample >>>
var handshake  = sockets[i].handshake; 
handshake.address  .time .issued ... etc.

Java 8 stream reverse order

cyclops-react StreamUtils has a reverse Stream method (javadoc).

  StreamUtils.reverse(Stream.of("1", "2", "20", "3"))
             .forEach(System.out::println);

It works by collecting to an ArrayList and then making use of the ListIterator class which can iterate in either direction, to iterate backwards over the list.

If you already have a List, it will be more efficient

  StreamUtils.reversedStream(Arrays.asList("1", "2", "20", "3"))
             .forEach(System.out::println);

How to move an element into another element?

my solution:

MOVE:

jQuery("#NodesToMove").detach().appendTo('#DestinationContainerNode')

COPY:

jQuery("#NodesToMove").appendTo('#DestinationContainerNode')

Note the usage of .detach(). When copying, be careful that you are not duplicating IDs.

How to reset index in a pandas dataframe?

data1.reset_index(inplace=True)

angular.element vs document.getElementById or jQuery selector with spin (busy) control

This worked for me well.

angular.forEach(element.find('div'), function(node)
{
  if(node.id == 'someid'){
    //do something
  }
  if(node.className == 'someclass'){
    //do something
  }
});

How to handle "Uncaught (in promise) DOMException: play() failed because the user didn't interact with the document first." on Desktop with Chrome 66?

In my case, I had to do this

 // Initialization in the dom
 // Consider the muted attribute
 <audio id="notification" src="path/to/sound.mp3" muted></audio>


 // in the js code unmute the audio once the event happened
 document.getElementById('notification').muted = false;
 document.getElementById('notification').play();

How can I catch a ctrl-c event?

For a Windows console app, you want to use SetConsoleCtrlHandler to handle CTRL+C and CTRL+BREAK.

See here for an example.

The view or its master was not found or no view engine supports the searched locations

Be careful if your model type is String because the second parameter of View(string, string) is masterName, not model. You may need to call the overload with object(model) as the second paramater:

Not correct :

protected ActionResult ShowMessageResult(string msg)
{
    return View("Message",msg);
}

Correct :

protected ActionResult ShowMessageResult(string msg)
{
    return View("Message",(object)msg);
}

OR (provided by bradlis7):

protected ActionResult ShowMessageResult(string msg)
{
    return View("Message",model:msg);
}

How to edit data in result grid in SQL Server Management Studio

  1. To be clear: The option "Value for Edit Top Rows command" has nothing to do with the fact if a result set is editable or not. It is just a way to limit the result set.

  2. Editing the result set of a query based on one and only one table is obviously always possible.

  3. The result set of a query based on more than one table is under following condition possible: You can edit the fields in the result set at once if they belong to one and only one based table in the query! If the fields are Primary Key, then you have to fulfill refresh/"Execute SQL" (Ctrl+R) after each row update, in order to be able to edit a row next time. If the fields are not Primary Key, then you do not need to fulfill refresh/"Execute SQL" (Ctrl+R).

I have tested it on SQL Server 2008 - 2016!

How do I extract the contents of an rpm?

Copy the .rpm file in a separate folder then run the following command $ yourfile.rpm | cpio -idmv

What's the simplest way to print a Java array?

if you are running jdk 8.

public static void print(int[] array) {
    StringJoiner joiner = new StringJoiner(",", "[", "]");
    Arrays.stream(array).forEach(element -> joiner.add(element + ""));
    System.out.println(joiner.toString());
}


int[] array = new int[]{7, 3, 5, 1, 3};
print(array);

output:

[7,3,5,1,3]

Jenkins, specifying JAVA_HOME

This is an old thread but for more recent Jenkins versions (in my case Jenkins 2.135) that require a particular java JDK the following should help:

Note: This is for Centos 7 , other distros may have differing directory locations although I believe they are correct for ubuntu also.

Modify /etc/sysconfig/jenkins and set variable JENKINS_JAVA_CMD="/<your desired jvm>/bin/java" (root access require)

Example:

JENKINS_JAVA_CMD="/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk/bin/java"

Restart Jenkins (if jenkins is run as a service sudo service jenkins stop then sudo service jenkins start)

The above fixed my Jenkins install not starting after I upgraded to Java 10 and Jenkins to 2.135

Disable-web-security in Chrome 48+

I'm seeing the same thing. A quick google found this question and a bug on the chromium forums. It seems that the --user-data-dir flag is now required. Edit to add user-data-dir guide

Regular expression to limit number of characters to 10

It very much depend on the program you're using. Different programs (Emacs, vi, sed, and Perl) use slightly different regular expressions. In this case, I'd say that in the first pattern, the last "+" should be removed.

extract digits in a simple way from a python string

If you're doing some sort of math with the numbers you might also want to know the units. Given your input restrictions (that the input string contains unit and value only), this should correctly return both (you'll just need to figure out how to convert units into common units for your math).

def unit_value(str):
    m = re.match(r'([^\d]*)(\d*\.?\d+)([^\d]*)', str)
    if m:
        g = m.groups()
        return ' '.join((g[0], g[2])).strip(), float(g[1])
    else:
        return int(str)

Select query to get data from SQL Server

you can use ExecuteScalar() in place of ExecuteNonQuery() to get a single result use it like this

Int32 result= (Int32) command.ExecuteScalar();
Console.WriteLine(String.Format("{0}", result));

It will execute the query, and returns the first column of the first row in the result set returned by the query. Additional columns or rows are ignored.

As you want only one row in return, remove this use of SqlDataReader from your code

using (SqlDataReader reader = command.ExecuteReader())
{
    // iterate your results here
    Console.WriteLine(String.Format("{0}",reader["id"]));
}

because it will again execute your command and effect your page performance.

Setting an int to Infinity in C++

You can also use INT_MAX:

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/climits/

it's equivalent to using numeric_limits.

jquery to loop through table rows and cells, where checkob is checked, concatenate

UPDATED

I've updated your demo: http://jsfiddle.net/terryyounghk/QS56z/18/

Also, I've changed two ^= to *=. See http://api.jquery.com/category/selectors/

And note the :checked selector. See http://api.jquery.com/checked-selector/

function createcodes() {

    //run through each row
    $('.authors-list tr').each(function (i, row) {

        // reference all the stuff you need first
        var $row = $(row),
            $family = $row.find('input[name*="family"]'),
            $grade = $row.find('input[name*="grade"]'),
            $checkedBoxes = $row.find('input:checked');

        $checkedBoxes.each(function (i, checkbox) {
            // assuming you layout the elements this way, 
            // we'll take advantage of .next()
            var $checkbox = $(checkbox),
                $line = $checkbox.next(),
                $size = $line.next();

            $line.val(
                $family.val() + ' ' + $size.val() + ', ' + $grade.val()
            );

        });

    });
}

HTML - how can I show tooltip ONLY when ellipsis is activated

You could possibly surround the span with another span, then simply test if the width of the original/inner span is greater than that of the new/outer span. Note that I say possibly -- it is roughly based on my situation where I had a span inside of a td so I don't actually know that if it will work with a span inside of a span.

Here though is my code for others who may find themselves in a position similar to mine; I'm copying/pasting it without modification even though it is in an Angular context, I don't think that detracts from the readability and the essential concept. I coded it as a service method because I needed to apply it in more than one place. The selector I've been passing in has been a class selector that will match multiple instances.

CaseService.applyTooltip = function(selector) {
    angular.element(selector).on('mouseenter', function(){
        var td = $(this)
        var span = td.find('span');

        if (!span.attr('tooltip-computed')) {
            //compute just once
            span.attr('tooltip-computed','1');

            if (span.width() > td.width()){
                span.attr('data-toggle','tooltip');
                span.attr('data-placement','right');
                span.attr('title', span.html());
            }
        }
    });
}

How to embed HTML into IPython output?

Related: While constructing a class, def _repr_html_(self): ... can be used to create a custom HTML representation of its instances:

class Foo:
    def _repr_html_(self):
        return "Hello <b>World</b>!"

o = Foo()
o

will render as:

Hello World!

For more info refer to IPython's docs.

An advanced example:

from html import escape # Python 3 only :-)

class Todo:
    def __init__(self):
        self.items = []

    def add(self, text, completed):
        self.items.append({'text': text, 'completed': completed})

    def _repr_html_(self):
        return "<ol>{}</ol>".format("".join("<li>{} {}</li>".format(
            "?" if item['completed'] else "?",
            escape(item['text'])
        ) for item in self.items))

my_todo = Todo()
my_todo.add("Buy milk", False)
my_todo.add("Do homework", False)
my_todo.add("Play video games", True)

my_todo

Will render:

  1. ? Buy milk
  2. ? Do homework
  3. ? Play video games

Add Favicon with React and Webpack

Here is all you need:

new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
    favicon: "./src/favicon.gif"
})

That is definitely after adding "favicon.gif" to the folder "src".

This will transfer the icon to your build folder and include it in your tag like this <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.gif">. This is safer than just importing with copyWebpackPLugin

Comparing two integer arrays in Java

If you know the arrays are of the same size it is provably faster to sort then compare

Arrays.sort(array1)
Arrays.sort(array2)
return Arrays.equals(array1, array2)

If you do not want to change the order of the data in the arrays then do a System.arraycopy first.

Could not find method android() for arguments

My issue was inside of my app.gradle. I ran into this issue when I moved

apply plugin: "com.android.application"

from the top line to below a line with

apply from:

I switched the plugin back to the top and violá

My exact error was

Could not find method android() for arguments [dotenv_wke4apph61tdae6bfodqe7sj$_run_closure1@5d9d91a5] on project ':app' of type org.gradle.api.Project.

The top of my app.gradle now looks like this

project.ext.envConfigFiles = [
        debug: ".env",
        release: ".env",
        anothercustombuild: ".env",
]


apply from: project(':react-native-config').projectDir.getPath() + "/dotenv.gradle"
apply plugin: "com.android.application"

HTTP Error 500.19 and error code : 0x80070021

On Windows 8.1, IIS 8.5 the solution for me was to register 4.5 from the control panel:

Programs and Features > Turn Windows features on or off > Information Information Services > World Wide Web Services > Application Development Features > Select ASP.NET 4.5

Click OK.

How can I run an external command asynchronously from Python?

Considering "I don't have to wait for it to return", one of the easiest solutions will be this:

subprocess.Popen( \
    [path_to_executable, arg1, arg2, ... argN],
    creationflags = subprocess.CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE,
).pid

But... From what I read this is not "the proper way to accomplish such a thing" because of security risks created by subprocess.CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE flag.

The key things that happen here is use of subprocess.CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE to create new console and .pid (returns process ID so that you could check program later on if you want to) so that not to wait for program to finish its job.

get UTC timestamp in python with datetime

I think the correct way to phrase your question is Is there a way to get the timestamp by specifying the date in UTC?, because timestamp is just a number which is absolute, not relative. The relative (or timezone aware) piece is the date.

I find pandas very convenient for timestamps, so:

import pandas as pd
dt1 = datetime(2008, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0)
ts1 = pd.Timestamp(dt1, tz='utc').timestamp()
# make sure you get back dt1
datetime.utcfromtimestamp(ts1)  

Get a list of checked checkboxes in a div using jQuery

function listselect() {
                var selected = [];
                $('.SelectPhone').prop('checked', function () {

                    selected.push($(this).val());
                });

                alert(selected.length);
     <input type="checkbox" name="SelectPhone" class="SelectPhone"  value="1" />
         <input type="checkbox" name="SelectPhone" class="SelectPhone"  value="2" />
         <input type="checkbox" name="SelectPhone" class="SelectPhone"  value="3" />
        <button onclick="listselect()">show count</button>

php static function

In the first class, sayHi() is actually an instance method which you are calling as a static method and you get away with it because sayHi() never refers to $this.

Static functions are associated with the class, not an instance of the class. As such, $this is not available from a static context ($this isn't pointing to any object).

Ruby objects and JSON serialization (without Rails)

To get the build in classes (like Array and Hash) to support as_json and to_json, you need to require 'json/add/core' (see the readme for details)

Alternating Row Colors in Bootstrap 3 - No Table

I find that if I specify .row:nth-of-type(..), my other row's elements (for other formatting, etc) also get alternating colours. So rather, I'd define in my css an entirely new class:

.row-striped:nth-of-type(odd){
  background-color: #efefef;
}

.row-striped:nth-of-type(even){
  background-color: #ffffff;
}

So now, the alternating row colours will only apply to the row container, when I specify its class as .row-striped, and not the elements inside the row.

<!-- this entire row container is #efefef -->
<div class="row row-striped">
    <div class="form-group">
        <div class="col-sm-8"><h5>Field Greens with strawberry vinegrette</h5></div>
        <div class="col-sm-4">
            <input type="number" type="number" step="1" min="0"></input><small>$30/salad</small>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

<!-- this entire row container is #ffffff -->
<div class="row row-striped">
    <div class="form-group">
        <div class="col-sm-8"><h5>Greek Salad</h5></div>
        <div class="col-sm-4">
            <input type="number" type="number" step="1" min="0"></input><small>$25/salad</small>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

How to work with complex numbers in C?

This code will help you, and it's fairly self-explanatory:

#include <stdio.h>      /* Standard Library of Input and Output */
#include <complex.h>    /* Standard Library of Complex Numbers */

int main() {

    double complex z1 = 1.0 + 3.0 * I;
    double complex z2 = 1.0 - 4.0 * I;

    printf("Working with complex numbers:\n\v");

    printf("Starting values: Z1 = %.2f + %.2fi\tZ2 = %.2f %+.2fi\n", creal(z1), cimag(z1), creal(z2), cimag(z2));

    double complex sum = z1 + z2;
    printf("The sum: Z1 + Z2 = %.2f %+.2fi\n", creal(sum), cimag(sum));

    double complex difference = z1 - z2;
    printf("The difference: Z1 - Z2 = %.2f %+.2fi\n", creal(difference), cimag(difference));

    double complex product = z1 * z2;
    printf("The product: Z1 x Z2 = %.2f %+.2fi\n", creal(product), cimag(product));

    double complex quotient = z1 / z2;
    printf("The quotient: Z1 / Z2 = %.2f %+.2fi\n", creal(quotient), cimag(quotient));

    double complex conjugate = conj(z1);
    printf("The conjugate of Z1 = %.2f %+.2fi\n", creal(conjugate), cimag(conjugate));

    return 0;
}

  with:

creal(z1): get the real part (for float crealf(z1), for long double creall(z1))

cimag(z1): get the imaginary part (for float cimagf(z1), for long double cimagl(z1))

Another important point to remember when working with complex numbers is that functions like cos(), exp() and sqrt() must be replaced with their complex forms, e.g. ccos(), cexp(), csqrt().

How to detect the end of loading of UITableView

Swift 2 solution:

// willDisplay function
override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, willDisplayCell cell: UITableViewCell, forRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) {
    let lastRowIndex = tableView.numberOfRowsInSection(0)
    if indexPath.row == lastRowIndex - 1 {
        fetchNewDataFromServer()
    }
}

// data fetcher function
func fetchNewDataFromServer() {
    if(!loading && !allDataFetched) {
        // call beginUpdates before multiple rows insert operation
        tableView.beginUpdates()
        // for loop
        // insertRowsAtIndexPaths
        tableView.endUpdates()
    }
}