Programs & Examples On #Finally

Questions related to the finally block in try-catch construct.

In Java, what purpose do the keywords `final`, `finally` and `finalize` fulfil?

final

final can be used to mark a variable "unchangeable"

private final String name = "foo";  //the reference name can never change

final can also make a method not "overrideable"

public final String toString() {  return "NULL"; }

final can also make a class not "inheritable". i.e. the class can not be subclassed.

public final class finalClass {...}
public class classNotAllowed extends finalClass {...} // Not allowed

finally

finally is used in a try/catch statement to execute code "always"

lock.lock();
try {
  //do stuff
} catch (SomeException se) {
  //handle se
} finally {
  lock.unlock(); //always executed, even if Exception or Error or se
}

Java 7 has a new try with resources statement that you can use to automatically close resources that explicitly or implicitly implement java.io.Closeable or java.lang.AutoCloseable

finalize

finalize is called when an object is garbage collected. You rarely need to override it. An example:

protected void finalize() {
  //free resources (e.g. unallocate memory)
  super.finalize();
}

Does C++ support 'finally' blocks? (And what's this 'RAII' I keep hearing about?)

In C++ the finally is NOT required because of RAII.

RAII moves the responsibility of exception safety from the user of the object to the designer (and implementer) of the object. I would argue this is the correct place as you then only need to get exception safety correct once (in the design/implementation). By using finally you need to get exception safety correct every time you use an object.

Also IMO the code looks neater (see below).

Example:

A database object. To make sure the DB connection is used it must be opened and closed. By using RAII this can be done in the constructor/destructor.

C++ Like RAII

void someFunc()
{
    DB    db("DBDesciptionString");
    // Use the db object.

} // db goes out of scope and destructor closes the connection.
  // This happens even in the presence of exceptions.

The use of RAII makes using a DB object correctly very easy. The DB object will correctly close itself by the use of a destructor no matter how we try and abuse it.

Java Like Finally

void someFunc()
{
    DB      db = new DB("DBDesciptionString");
    try
    {
        // Use the db object.
    }
    finally
    {
        // Can not rely on finaliser.
        // So we must explicitly close the connection.
        try
        {
            db.close();
        }
        catch(Throwable e)
        {
           /* Ignore */
           // Make sure not to throw exception if one is already propagating.
        }
    }
}

When using finally the correct use of the object is delegated to the user of the object. i.e. It is the responsibility of the object user to correctly to explicitly close the DB connection. Now you could argue that this can be done in the finaliser, but resources may have limited availability or other constraints and thus you generally do want to control the release of the object and not rely on the non deterministic behavior of the garbage collector.

Also this is a simple example.
When you have multiple resources that need to be released the code can get complicated.

A more detailed analysis can be found here: http://accu.org/index.php/journals/236

Java Try Catch Finally blocks without Catch

Java versions before version 7 allow for these three combinations of try-catch-finally...

try - catch
try - catch - finally
try - finally

finally block will be always executed no matter of what's going on in the try or/and catch block. so if there is no catch block, the exception won't be handled here.

However, you will still need an exception handler somewhere in your code - unless you want your application to crash completely of course. It depends on the architecture of your application exactly where that handler is.

  • Java try block must be followed by either catch or finally block.
  • For each try block there can be zero or more catch blocks, but only one finally block.
  • The finally block will not be executed if program exits(either by calling System.exit() or by causing a fatal error that causes the process to abort).

Try-catch-finally-return clarification

Here is some code that show how it works.

class Test
{
    public static void main(String args[]) 
    { 
        System.out.println(Test.test()); 
    }

    public static String test()
    {
        try {
            System.out.println("try");
            throw new Exception();
        } catch(Exception e) {
            System.out.println("catch");
            return "return"; 
        } finally {  
            System.out.println("finally");
            return "return in finally"; 
        }
    }
}

The results is:

try
catch
finally
return in finally

How to quickly and conveniently create a one element arraylist

Yet another alternative is double brace initialization, e.g.

new ArrayList<String>() {{ add(s); }};

but it is inefficient and obscure. Therefore only suitable:

  • in code that doesn't mind memory leaks, such as most unit tests and other short-lived programs;
  • and if none of the other solutions apply, which I think implies you've scrolled all the way down here looking to populate a different type of container than the ArrayList in the question.

document.getElementById().value and document.getElementById().checked not working for IE

For non-grouped elements, name and id should be same. In this case you gave name as 'sp' and id as 'sp_100'. Don't do that, do it like this:

HTML:

<input type="hidden" id="msg" name="msg" value="" style="display:none"/>
<input type="checkbox" name="sp" value="100" id="sp">

Javascript:

var Msg="abc";
document.getElementById('msg').value = Msg;
document.getElementById('sp').checked = true;

For more details

please visit : http://www.impressivewebs.com/avoiding-problems-with-javascript-getelementbyid-method-in-internet-explorer-7/

How to replace a substring of a string

You need to create the variable to assign the new value to, like this:

String str = string.replaceAll("abcd","dddd");

What is the difference between SQL, PL-SQL and T-SQL?

SQL is a standard and there are many database vendors like Microsoft,Oracle who implements this standard using their own proprietary language.

Microsoft uses T-SQL to implement SQL standard to interact with data whereas oracle uses PL/SQL.

SecurityException during executing jnlp file (Missing required Permissions manifest attribute in main jar)

JAR File Manifest Attributes for Security

The JAR file manifest contains information about the contents of the JAR file, including security and configuration information.

Add the attributes to the manifest before the JAR file is signed.
See Modifying a Manifest File in the Java Tutorial for information on adding attributes to the JAR manifest file.

Permissions Attribute

The Permissions attribute is used to verify that the permissions level requested by the RIA when it runs matches the permissions level that was set when the JAR file was created.

Use this attribute to help prevent someone from re-deploying an application that is signed with your certificate and running it at a different privilege level. Set this attribute to one of the following values:

  • sandbox - runs in the security sandbox and does not require additional permissions.

  • all-permissions - requires access to the user's system resources.

Changes to Security Slider:

The following changes to Security Slider were included in this release(7u51):

  • Block Self-Signed and Unsigned applets on High Security Setting
  • Require Permissions Attribute for High Security Setting
  • Warn users of missing Permissions Attributes for Medium Security Setting

For more information, see Java Control Panel documentation.

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sample MANIFEST.MF

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Ant-Version: Apache Ant 1.8.3
Created-By: 1.7.0_51-b13 (Oracle Corporation)
Trusted-Only: true
Class-Path: lib/plugin.jar
Permissions: sandbox
Codebase: http://myweb.de http://www.myweb.de
Application-Name: summary-applet

mysqli::query(): Couldn't fetch mysqli

Reason of the error is wrong initialization of the mysqli object. True construction would be like this:

$DBConnect = new mysqli("localhost","root","","Ladle");

Reading a file line by line in Go

// strip '\n' or read until EOF, return error if read error  
func readline(reader io.Reader) (line []byte, err error) {   
    line = make([]byte, 0, 100)                              
    for {                                                    
        b := make([]byte, 1)                                 
        n, er := reader.Read(b)                              
        if n > 0 {                                           
            c := b[0]                                        
            if c == '\n' { // end of line                    
                break                                        
            }                                                
            line = append(line, c)                           
        }                                                    
        if er != nil {                                       
            err = er                                         
            return                                           
        }                                                    
    }                                                        
    return                                                   
}                                    

How can I test that a variable is more than eight characters in PowerShell?

Use the length property of the [String] type:

if ($dbUserName.length -gt 8) {
    Write-Output "Please enter more than 8 characters."
    $dbUserName = Read-Host "Re-enter database username"
}

Please note that you have to use -gt instead of > in your if condition. PowerShell uses the following comparison operators to compare values and test conditions:

  • -eq = equals
  • -ne = not equals
  • -lt = less than
  • -gt = greater than
  • -le = less than or equals
  • -ge = greater than or equals

Body of Http.DELETE request in Angular2

Below is a relevant code example for Angular 4/5 with the new HttpClient.

import { HttpClient } from '@angular/common/http';
import { HttpHeaders } from '@angular/common/http';

public removeItem(item) {
    let options = {
      headers: new HttpHeaders({
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
      }),
      body: item,
    };

    return this._http
      .delete('/api/menu-items', options)
      .map((response: Response) => response)
      .toPromise()
      .catch(this.handleError);
  }

Input from the keyboard in command line application

I have now been able to get Keyboard input in Swift by using the following:

In my main.swift file I declared a variable i and assigned to it the function GetInt() which I defined in Objective C. Through a so called Bridging Header where I declared the function prototype for GetInt I could link to main.swift. Here are the files:

main.swift:

var i: CInt = GetInt()
println("Your input is \(i) ");

Bridging Header:

#include "obj.m"

int GetInt();

obj.m:

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import <stdio.h>
#import <stdlib.h>

int GetInt()
{
    int i;
    scanf("%i", &i);
    return i;
}

In obj.m it is possible to include the c standard output and input, stdio.h, as well as the c standard library stdlib.h which enables you to program in C in Objective-C, which means there is no need for including a real swift file like user.c or something like that.

Hope I could help,

Edit: It is not possible to get String input through C because here I am using the CInt -> the integer type of C and not of Swift. There is no equivalent Swift type for the C char*. Therefore String is not convertible to string. But there are fairly enough solutions around here to get String input.

Raul

How to set MimeBodyPart ContentType to "text/html"?

There is a method setText() which takes 3 arguments :

public void setText(String text, String charset, String subtype)
    throws MessagingException

Parameters:

text - the text content to set
charset - the charset to use for the text
subtype - the MIME subtype to use (e.g., "html")

NOTE: the subtype takes text after / in MIME types so for ex.

  • text/html would be html
  • text/css would be css
  • and so on..

How do detect Android Tablets in general. Useragent?

You can try this script out since you do not want to target the Xoom only. I don't have a Xoom, but should work.

function mobile_detect(mobile,tablet,mobile_redirect,tablet_redirect,debug) {
var ismobile = (/iphone|ipod|android|blackberry|opera|mini|windows\sce|palm|smartphone|iemobile/i.test(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase()));
var istablet = (/ipad|android|android 3.0|xoom|sch-i800|playbook|tablet|kindle/i.test(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase()));

if (debug == true) {
    alert(navigator.userAgent);
}

if (ismobile && mobile==true) {
    if (debug == true) {
        alert("Mobile Browser");
    }
    window.location = mobile_redirect;
} else if (istablet && tablet==true) {
    if (debug == true) {
        alert("Tablet Browser");
    }
    window.location = tablet_redirect;
}
}

I created a project on github. Check it out - https://github.com/codefuze/js-mobile-tablet-redirect. Feel free to submit issues if there is anything wrong!

In which case do you use the JPA @JoinTable annotation?

It's the only solution to map a ManyToMany association : you need a join table between the two entities tables to map the association.

It's also used for OneToMany (usually unidirectional) associations when you don't want to add a foreign key in the table of the many side and thus keep it independent of the one side.

Search for @JoinTable in the hibernate documentation for explanations and examples.

When tracing out variables in the console, How to create a new line?

The worst thing of using just

console.log({'some stuff': 2} + '\n' + 'something')

is that all stuff are converted to the string and if you need object to show you may see next:

[object Object]

Thus my variant is the next code:

console.log({'some stuff': 2},'\n' + 'something');

Flutter: Run method on Widget build complete

If you want to do this only once, then do it because The framework will call initState() method exactly once for each State object it creates.

 @override
  void initState() {
    super.initState();
    WidgetsBinding.instance
        .addPostFrameCallback((_) => executeAfterBuildComplete(context));
  }

If you want to do this again and again like on back or navigate to a next screen and etc..., then do it because didChangeDependencies() Called when a dependency of this State object changes.

For example, if the previous call to build referenced an InheritedWidget that later changed, the framework would call this method to notify this object about the change.

This method is also called immediately after initState. It is safe to call BuildContext.dependOnInheritedWidgetOfExactType from this method.

 @override
  void didChangeDependencies() {
    super.didChangeDependencies();
    WidgetsBinding.instance
        .addPostFrameCallback((_) => executeAfterBuildComplete(context));
  }

This is the your Callback function

executeAfterBuildComplete([BuildContext context]){
    print("Build Process Complete");
  }

java SSL and cert keystore

SSL properties are set at the JVM level via system properties. Meaning you can either set them when you run the program (java -D....) Or you can set them in code by doing System.setProperty.

The specific keys you have to set are below:

javax.net.ssl.keyStore- Location of the Java keystore file containing an application process's own certificate and private key. On Windows, the specified pathname must use forward slashes, /, in place of backslashes.

javax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword - Password to access the private key from the keystore file specified by javax.net.ssl.keyStore. This password is used twice: To unlock the keystore file (store password), and To decrypt the private key stored in the keystore (key password).

javax.net.ssl.trustStore - Location of the Java keystore file containing the collection of CA certificates trusted by this application process (trust store). On Windows, the specified pathname must use forward slashes, /, in place of backslashes, \.

If a trust store location is not specified using this property, the SunJSSE implementation searches for and uses a keystore file in the following locations (in order):

  1. $JAVA_HOME/lib/security/jssecacerts
  2. $JAVA_HOME/lib/security/cacerts

javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword - Password to unlock the keystore file (store password) specified by javax.net.ssl.trustStore.

javax.net.ssl.trustStoreType - (Optional) For Java keystore file format, this property has the value jks (or JKS). You do not normally specify this property, because its default value is already jks.

javax.net.debug - To switch on logging for the SSL/TLS layer, set this property to ssl.

How to configure encoding in Maven?

In my case I was using the maven-dependency-plugin so in order to resolve the issue I had to add the following property:

  <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>

See Apache Maven Resources Plugin / Specifying a character encoding scheme

ASP.NET Core Identity - get current user

I have put something like this in my Controller class and it worked:

IdentityUser user = await userManager.FindByNameAsync(HttpContext.User.Identity.Name);

where userManager is an instance of Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.UserManager class (with all weird setup that goes with it).

How do I filter date range in DataTables?

Here is my solution, there is no way to use momemt.js.Here is DataTable with Two DatePickers for DateRange (To and From) Filter.

$.fn.dataTable.ext.search.push(
  function (settings, data, dataIndex) {
    var min = $('#min').datepicker("getDate");
    var max = $('#max').datepicker("getDate");
    var startDate = new Date(data[4]);
    if (min == null && max == null) { return true; }
    if (min == null && startDate <= max) { return true; }
    if (max == null && startDate >= min) { return true; }
    if (startDate <= max && startDate >= min) { return true; }
    return false;
  }
);
  

    

How to get the hostname of the docker host from inside a docker container on that host without env vars

You can pass it as an environment variable like this. Generally Node is the host that it is running in. The hostname is defaulted to the host name of the node when it is created.

docker service create -e 'FOO={{.Node.Hostname}}' nginx  

Then you can do docker ps to get the process ID and look at the env

$ docker exec -it c81640b6d1f1 env                                                                                                                                    PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
HOSTNAME=c81640b6d1f1
TERM=xterm
FOO=docker-desktop
NGINX_VERSION=1.17.4
NJS_VERSION=0.3.5
PKG_RELEASE=1~buster
HOME=/root

An example of usage would be with metricbeats so you know which node is having system issues which I put in https://github.com/trajano/elk-swarm:

  metricbeat:
    image: docker.elastic.co/beats/metricbeat:7.4.0
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro
      - /sys/fs/cgroup:/hostfs/sys/fs/cgroup:ro
      - /proc:/hostfs/proc:ro
      - /:/hostfs:ro
    user: root
    hostname: "{{.Node.Hostname}}"
    command:
      - -E
      - |
        metricbeat.modules=[
          {
            module:docker,
            hosts:[unix:///var/run/docker.sock],
            period:10s,
            enabled:true
          }
        ] 
      - -E
      - processors={1:{add_docker_metadata:{host:unix:///var/run/docker.sock}}} 
      - -E
      - output.elasticsearch.enabled=false
      - -E
      - output.logstash.enabled=true
      - -E
      - output.logstash.hosts=["logstash:5044"]
    deploy:
      mode: global

Android fastboot waiting for devices

The short version of the page linked by D Shu (and without the horrible popover ads) is that this "waiting for device" problem happens when the USB device node is not accessible to your current user. The USB id is different in fastboot mode, so you can easily have permission to it in adb but not in fastboot.

To fix it (on Ubuntu; other systems may be slightly different):

Run lsusb -v | less and find the relevant section which will look something like this:

Bus 001 Device 027: ID 18d1:4e30 Google Inc. 
Couldn't open device, some information will be missing
Device Descriptor:
...
  idVendor           0x18d1 Google Inc.

Now do

sudo vi /etc/udev/rules.d/11-android.rules

it's ok if that file does not yet exist; create it with a line like this, inserting your own username and vendor id:

SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="18d1", MODE="0640", OWNER="mbp"

then

sudo service udev restart

then verify the device node permissions have changed:

ls -Rl /dev/bus/usb

The even shorter cheesy version is to just run fastboot as root. But then you need to run every command that talks to the device as root, which tends to cause other complications. Simpler just to fix the permissions in the long run.

Optimum way to compare strings in JavaScript?

Well in JavaScript you can check two strings for values same as integers so yo can do this:

  • "A" < "B"
  • "A" == "B"
  • "A" > "B"

And therefore you can make your own function that checks strings the same way as the strcmp().

So this would be the function that does the same:

function strcmp(a, b)
{   
    return (a<b?-1:(a>b?1:0));  
}

Why SpringMVC Request method 'GET' not supported?

if You are using browser it default always works on get, u can work with postman tool,otherwise u can change it to getmapping.hope this will works

How to specify a editor to open crontab file? "export EDITOR=vi" does not work

To quote the man:

The -e option is used to edit the current crontab using the editor specified by the VISUAL or EDITOR environment variables

Most often if you run crontab -e from X, you have VISUAL set; that's what is used. Try this:

VISUAL=vi crontab -e

It just worked for me :)

How to print a list with integers without the brackets, commas and no quotes?

Something like this should do it:

for element in list_:
   sys.stdout.write(str(element))

Compare cell contents against string in Excel

If a case-insensitive comparison is acceptable, just use =:

=IF(A1="ENG",1,0)

How to pass the -D System properties while testing on Eclipse?

Yes this is the way:

Right click on your program, select run -> run configuration then on vm argument

-Denv=EnvironmentName -Dcucumber.options="--tags @ifThereisAnyTag"

Then you can apply and close.

Best way to store date/time in mongodb

The best way is to store native JavaScript Date objects, which map onto BSON native Date objects.

> db.test.insert({date: ISODate()})
> db.test.insert({date: new Date()})
> db.test.find()
{ "_id" : ObjectId("..."), "date" : ISODate("2014-02-10T10:50:42.389Z") }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("..."), "date" : ISODate("2014-02-10T10:50:57.240Z") }

The native type supports a whole range of useful methods out of the box, which you can use in your map-reduce jobs, for example.

If you need to, you can easily convert Date objects to and from Unix timestamps1), using the getTime() method and Date(milliseconds) constructor, respectively.

1) Strictly speaking, the Unix timestamp is measured in seconds. The JavaScript Date object measures in milliseconds since the Unix epoch.

Getting a map() to return a list in Python 3.x

New and neat in Python 3.5:

[*map(chr, [66, 53, 0, 94])]

Thanks to Additional Unpacking Generalizations

UPDATE

Always seeking for shorter ways, I discovered this one also works:

*map(chr, [66, 53, 0, 94]),

Unpacking works in tuples too. Note the comma at the end. This makes it a tuple of 1 element. That is, it's equivalent to (*map(chr, [66, 53, 0, 94]),)

It's shorter by only one char from the version with the list-brackets, but, in my opinion, better to write, because you start right ahead with the asterisk - the expansion syntax, so I feel it's softer on the mind. :)

Excel VBA, error 438 "object doesn't support this property or method

The Error is here

lastrow = wsPOR.Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row + 1

wsPOR is a workbook and not a worksheet. If you are working with "Sheet1" of that workbook then try this

lastrow = wsPOR.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("A" & _
          wsPOR.Sheets("Sheet1").Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row + 1

Similarly

wsPOR.Range("A2:G" & lastrow).Select

should be

wsPOR.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("A2:G" & lastrow).Select

Smooth scrolling when clicking an anchor link

I did this for both "/xxxxx#asdf" and "#asdf" href anchors

$("a[href*=#]").on('click', function(event){
    var href = $(this).attr("href");
    if ( /(#.*)/.test(href) ){
      var hash = href.match(/(#.*)/)[0];
      var path = href.match(/([^#]*)/)[0];

      if (window.location.pathname == path || path.length == 0){
        event.preventDefault();
        $('html,body').animate({scrollTop:$(this.hash).offset().top}, 1000);
        window.location.hash = hash;
      }
    }
});

How to change the port of Tomcat from 8080 to 80?

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, in Amazon EC2. The following steps resolved this issue for me:

1. Edit server.xml and change port="8080" to "80"

sudo vi /var/lib/tomcat7/conf/server.xml

<Connector connectionTimeout="20000" port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" redirectPort="8443"/>

2. Edit tomcat7 file (if the file is not created then you need to create it)

sudo vi /etc/default/tomcat7

uncomment and change #AUTHBIND=no to yes

3. Install authbind

sudo apt-get install authbind

4. Run the following commands to provide tomcat7 read+execute on port 80.

sudo touch /etc/authbind/byport/80
sudo chmod 500 /etc/authbind/byport/80
sudo chown tomcat7 /etc/authbind/byport/80

5. Restart tomcat:

sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat7 restart

What is special about /dev/tty?

/dev/tty is a synonym for the controlling terminal (if any) of the current process. As jtl999 says, it's a character special file; that's what the c in the ls -l output means.

man 4 tty or man -s 4 tty should give you more information, or you can read the man page online here.

Incidentally, pwd > /dev/tty doesn't necessarily print to the shell's stdout (though it is the pwd command's standard output). If the shell's standard output has been redirected to something other than the terminal, /dev/tty still refers to the terminal.

You can also read from /dev/tty, which will normally read from the keyboard.

bootstrap initially collapsed element

When you expand or collapse accordion it just adds/removes a class "in" and sets the height:auto or 0 to the accordion div.

Demo

So in your accordion when you define it just remove "in" class from the div as below. Whenever you expand an accorion it just adds the "in" class to make it visible.

If you render the page with "in" bootstrap looks for the class and it will make the div's height:auto, if it not present it will be at zero height.

<div id="collapseOne" class="accordion-body collapse">

Return multiple values to a method caller

You can use three different ways

1. ref / out parameters

using ref:

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    int a = 10;
    int b = 20;
    int add = 0;
    int multiply = 0;
    Add_Multiply(a, b, ref add, ref multiply);
    Console.WriteLine(add);
    Console.WriteLine(multiply);
}

private static void Add_Multiply(int a, int b, ref int add, ref int multiply)
{
    add = a + b;
    multiply = a * b;
}

using out:

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    int a = 10;
    int b = 20;
    int add;
    int multiply;
    Add_Multiply(a, b, out add, out multiply);
    Console.WriteLine(add);
    Console.WriteLine(multiply);
}

private static void Add_Multiply(int a, int b, out int add, out int multiply)
{
    add = a + b;
    multiply = a * b;
}

2. struct / class

using struct:

struct Result
{
    public int add;
    public int multiply;
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
    int a = 10;
    int b = 20;
    var result = Add_Multiply(a, b);
    Console.WriteLine(result.add);
    Console.WriteLine(result.multiply);
}

private static Result Add_Multiply(int a, int b)
{
    var result = new Result
    {
        add = a * b,
        multiply = a + b
    };
    return result;
}

using class:

class Result
{
    public int add;
    public int multiply;
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
    int a = 10;
    int b = 20;
    var result = Add_Multiply(a, b);
    Console.WriteLine(result.add);
    Console.WriteLine(result.multiply);
}

private static Result Add_Multiply(int a, int b)
{
    var result = new Result
    {
        add = a * b,
        multiply = a + b
    };
    return result;
}

3. Tuple

Tuple class

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    int a = 10;
    int b = 20;
    var result = Add_Multiply(a, b);
    Console.WriteLine(result.Item1);
    Console.WriteLine(result.Item2);
}

private static Tuple<int, int> Add_Multiply(int a, int b)
{
    var tuple = new Tuple<int, int>(a + b, a * b);
    return tuple;
}

C# 7 Tuples

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    int a = 10;
    int b = 20;
    (int a_plus_b, int a_mult_b) = Add_Multiply(a, b);
    Console.WriteLine(a_plus_b);
    Console.WriteLine(a_mult_b);
}

private static (int a_plus_b, int a_mult_b) Add_Multiply(int a, int b)
{
    return(a + b, a * b);
}

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

Either use the

$(document).on "page:load", attachRatingHandler

or use jQuery's .on function to achieve the same effect

$(document).on 'click', 'span.star', attachRatingHandler

see here for more details: http://srbiv.github.io/2013/04/06/rails-4-my-first-run-in-with-turbolinks.html

How to draw a filled triangle in android canvas?

Don't moveTo() after each lineTo()

In other words, remove every moveTo() except the first one.

Seriously, if I just copy-paste OP's code and remove the unnecessary moveTo() calls, it works.

Nothing else needs to be done.


EDIT: I know the OP already posted his "final working solution", but he didn't state why it works. The actual reason was quite surprising to me, so I felt the need to add an answer.

Linux : Search for a Particular word in a List of files under a directory

You can use this command:

grep -rn "string" *

n for showing line number with the filename r for recursive

How can I get Apache gzip compression to work?

In my case i have used following code for enabling gzip compression in apache web server.

  # Compress HTML File, CSS File, JavaScript File, Text File, XML File and Fonts
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/json
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-httpd-php
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/otf
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/ttf

I have taken reference from http://www.tutsway.com/enable-gzip-compression-using-htacess.php.

Android Viewpager as Image Slide Gallery

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

enter image description here

Where does linux store my syslog?

On my Ubuntu machine, I can see the output at /var/log/syslog.

On a RHEL/CentOS machine, the output is found in /var/log/messages.

This is controlled by the rsyslog service, so if this is disabled for some reason you may need to start it with systemctl start rsyslog.

As noted by others, your syslog() output would be logged by the /var/log/syslog file.
You can see system, user, and other logs at /var/log.

For more details: here's an interesting link.

Fill remaining vertical space with CSS using display:flex

Make it simple : DEMO

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  background: tomato;_x000D_
  /* no flex rules, it will grow */_x000D_
}_x000D_
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div {_x000D_
  flex: 1;  /* 1 and it will fill whole space left if no flex value are set to other children*/_x000D_
  background: gold;_x000D_
  overflow: auto;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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footer {_x000D_
  background: lightgreen;_x000D_
  min-height: 60px;  /* min-height has its purpose :) , unless you meant height*/_x000D_
}
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  <header>_x000D_
    header: sized to content_x000D_
    <br/>(but is it really?)_x000D_
  </header>_x000D_
  <div>_x000D_
    main content: fills remaining space<br> x_x000D_
    <br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>_x000D_
    <!-- uncomment to see it break -->_x000D_
    x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br> x_x000D_
    <br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br> x_x000D_
    <br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br> x_x000D_
    <br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>_x000D_
    <!-- -->_x000D_
  </div>_x000D_
  <footer>_x000D_
    footer: fixed height in px_x000D_
  </footer>_x000D_
</section>
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Full screen version

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section {_x000D_
  display: flex;_x000D_
  flex-flow: column;_x000D_
  height: 100vh;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
header {_x000D_
  background: tomato;_x000D_
  /* no flex rules, it will grow */_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
div {_x000D_
  flex: 1;_x000D_
  /* 1 and it will fill whole space left if no flex value are set to other children*/_x000D_
  background: gold;_x000D_
  overflow: auto;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
footer {_x000D_
  background: lightgreen;_x000D_
  min-height: 60px;_x000D_
  /* min-height has its purpose :) , unless you meant height*/_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
body {_x000D_
  margin: 0;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<section>_x000D_
  <header>_x000D_
    header: sized to content_x000D_
    <br/>(but is it really?)_x000D_
  </header>_x000D_
  <div>_x000D_
    main content: fills remaining space<br> x_x000D_
    <br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>_x000D_
    <!-- uncomment to see it break -->_x000D_
    x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br> x_x000D_
    <br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br> x_x000D_
    <br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br> x_x000D_
    <br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>x<br>_x000D_
    <!-- -->_x000D_
  </div>_x000D_
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  </footer>_x000D_
</section>
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ASP.NET MVC How to pass JSON object from View to Controller as Parameter

Edit:

This method should no longer be needed with the arrival of MVC 3, as it will be handled automatically - http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/07/27/introducing-asp-net-mvc-3-preview-1.aspx


You can use this ObjectFilter:

    public class ObjectFilter : ActionFilterAttribute {

    public string Param { get; set; }
    public Type RootType { get; set; }

    public override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext) {
        if ((filterContext.HttpContext.Request.ContentType ?? string.Empty).Contains("application/json")) {
            object o =
            new DataContractJsonSerializer(RootType).ReadObject(filterContext.HttpContext.Request.InputStream);
            filterContext.ActionParameters[Param] = o;
        }

    }
}

You can then apply it to your controller methods like so:

    [ObjectFilter(Param = "postdata", RootType = typeof(ObjectToSerializeTo))]
    public JsonResult ControllerMethod(ObjectToSerializeTo postdata) { ... }

So basically, if the content type of the post is "application/json" this will spring into action and will map the values to the object of type you specify.

How do I initialize Kotlin's MutableList to empty MutableList?

I do like below to :

var book: MutableList<Books> = mutableListOf()

/** Returns a new [MutableList] with the given elements. */

public fun <T> mutableListOf(vararg elements: T): MutableList<T>
    = if (elements.size == 0) ArrayList() else ArrayList(ArrayAsCollection(elements, isVarargs = true))

What do I use for a max-heap implementation in Python?

Following up to Isaac Turner's excellent answer, I'd like put an example based on K Closest Points to the Origin using max heap.

from math import sqrt
import heapq


class MaxHeapObj(object):
    def __init__(self, val):
        self.val = val.distance
        self.coordinates = val.coordinates

    def __lt__(self, other):
        return self.val > other.val

    def __eq__(self, other):
        return self.val == other.val

    def __str__(self):
        return str(self.val)


class MinHeap(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self.h = []

    def heappush(self, x):
        heapq.heappush(self.h, x)

    def heappop(self):
        return heapq.heappop(self.h)

    def __getitem__(self, i):
        return self.h[i]

    def __len__(self):
        return len(self.h)


class MaxHeap(MinHeap):
    def heappush(self, x):
        heapq.heappush(self.h, MaxHeapObj(x))

    def heappop(self):
        return heapq.heappop(self.h).val

    def peek(self):
        return heapq.nsmallest(1, self.h)[0].val

    def __getitem__(self, i):
        return self.h[i].val


class Point():
    def __init__(self, x, y):
        self.distance = round(sqrt(x**2 + y**2), 3)
        self.coordinates = (x, y)


def find_k_closest(points, k):
    res = [Point(x, y) for (x, y) in points]
    maxh = MaxHeap()

    for i in range(k):
        maxh.heappush(res[i])

    for p in res[k:]:
        if p.distance < maxh.peek():
            maxh.heappop()
            maxh.heappush(p)

    res = [str(x.coordinates) for x in maxh.h]
    print(f"{k} closest points from origin : {', '.join(res)}")


points = [(10, 8), (-2, 4), (0, -2), (-1, 0), (3, 5), (-2, 3), (3, 2), (0, 1)]
find_k_closest(points, 3)

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

import os, time, datetime

file = "somefile.txt"
print(file)

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

print()

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

print()

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

print()

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

prints

somefile.txt
Modified
1429613446
1429613446.0
1429613446.0

Created
1517491049
1517491049.28306
1517491049.28306

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

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

git push rejected

First, attempt to pull from the same refspec that you are trying to push to.

If this does not work, you can force a git push by using git push -f <repo> <refspec>, but use caution: this method can cause references to be deleted on the remote repository.

Oracle 'Partition By' and 'Row_Number' keyword

I often use row_number() as a quick way to discard duplicate records from my select statements. Just add a where clause. Something like...

select a,b,rn 
  from (select a, b, row_number() over (partition by a,b order by a,b) as rn           
          from table) 
 where rn=1;

Update span tag value with JQuery

Tag ids must be unique. You are updating the span with ID 'ItemCostSpan' of which there are two. Give the span a class and get it using find.

    $("legend").each(function() {
        var SoftwareItem = $(this).text();
        itemCost = GetItemCost(SoftwareItem);
        $("input:checked").each(function() {               
            var Component = $(this).next("label").text();
            itemCost += GetItemCost(Component);
        });            
        $(this).find(".ItemCostSpan").text("Item Cost = $ " + itemCost);
    });

DNS caching in linux

On Linux (and probably most Unix), there is no OS-level DNS caching unless nscd is installed and running. Even then, the DNS caching feature of nscd is disabled by default at least in Debian because it's broken. The practical upshot is that your linux system very very probably does not do any OS-level DNS caching.

You could implement your own cache in your application (like they did for Squid, according to diegows's comment), but I would recommend against it. It's a lot of work, it's easy to get it wrong (nscd got it wrong!!!), it likely won't be as easily tunable as a dedicated DNS cache, and it duplicates functionality that already exists outside your application.

If an end user using your software needs to have DNS caching because the DNS query load is large enough to be a problem or the RTT to the external DNS server is long enough to be a problem, they can install a caching DNS server such as Unbound on the same machine as your application, configured to cache responses and forward misses to the regular DNS resolvers.

Find a line in a file and remove it

This solution uses a RandomAccessFile to only cache the portion of the file subsequent to the string to remove. It scans until it finds the String you want to remove. Then it copies all of the data after the found string, then writes it over the found string, and everything after. Last, it truncates the file size to remove the excess data.

public static long scanForString(String text, File file) throws IOException {
    if (text.isEmpty())
        return file.exists() ? 0 : -1;
    // First of all, get a byte array off of this string:
    byte[] bytes = text.getBytes(/* StandardCharsets.your_charset */);

    // Next, search the file for the byte array.
    try (DataInputStream dis = new DataInputStream(new FileInputStream(file))) {

        List<Integer> matches = new LinkedList<>();

        for (long pos = 0; pos < file.length(); pos++) {
            byte bite = dis.readByte();

            for (int i = 0; i < matches.size(); i++) {
                Integer m = matches.get(i);
                if (bytes[m] != bite)
                    matches.remove(i--);
                else if (++m == bytes.length)
                    return pos - m + 1;
                else
                    matches.set(i, m);
            }

            if (bytes[0] == bite)
                matches.add(1);
        }
    }
    return -1;
}

public static void remove(String text, File file) throws IOException {
    try (RandomAccessFile rafile = new RandomAccessFile(file, "rw");) {
        long scanForString = scanForString(text, file);
        if (scanForString == -1) {
            System.out.println("String not found.");
            return;
        }
        long remainderStartPos = scanForString + text.getBytes().length;
        rafile.seek(remainderStartPos);
        int remainderSize = (int) (rafile.length() - rafile.getFilePointer());
        byte[] bytes = new byte[remainderSize];
        rafile.read(bytes);
        rafile.seek(scanForString);

        rafile.write(bytes);
        rafile.setLength(rafile.length() - (text.length()));
    }
}

Usage:

File Contents: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Method Call: remove("ABC", new File("Drive:/Path/File.extension"));

Resulting Contents: DEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

This solution could easily be modified to remove with a certain, specifiable cacheSize, if memory is a concern. This would just involve iterating over the rest of the file to continually replace portions of size, cacheSize. Regardless, this solution is generally much better than caching an entire file in memory, or copying it to a temporary directory, etc.

Node - how to run app.js?

To run app.js file check "main": "app.js" in your package.json file.

Then run command $ node app.js That should run your app and check.

How to parse unix timestamp to time.Time

The time.Parse function does not do Unix timestamps. Instead you can use strconv.ParseInt to parse the string to int64 and create the timestamp with time.Unix:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "time"
    "strconv"
)

func main() {
    i, err := strconv.ParseInt("1405544146", 10, 64)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    tm := time.Unix(i, 0)
    fmt.Println(tm)
}

Output:

2014-07-16 20:55:46 +0000 UTC

Playground: http://play.golang.org/p/v_j6UIro7a

Edit:

Changed from strconv.Atoi to strconv.ParseInt to avoid int overflows on 32 bit systems.

ASP.NET Web API : Correct way to return a 401/unauthorised response

you can use follow code in asp.net core 2.0:

public IActionResult index()
{
     return new ContentResult() { Content = "My error message", StatusCode = (int)HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized };
}

Eclipse HotKey: how to switch between tabs?

How can I switch between opened windows in Eclipse

CTRL+F7 works here - Eclipse Photon on Windows.

Undefined reference to sqrt (or other mathematical functions)

I had the same issue, but I simply solved it by adding -lm after the command that runs my code. Example. gcc code.c -lm

How to force reloading php.ini file?

TL;DR; If you're still having trouble after restarting apache or nginx, also try restarting the php-fpm service.

The answers here don't always satisfy the requirement to force a reload of the php.ini file. On numerous occasions I've taken these steps to be rewarded with no update, only to find the solution I need after also restarting the php-fpm service. So if restarting apache or nginx doesn't trigger a php.ini update although you know the files are updated, try restarting php-fpm as well.

To restart the service:

Note: prepend sudo if not root

Using SysV Init scripts directly:

/etc/init.d/php-fpm restart        # typical
/etc/init.d/php5-fpm restart       # debian-style
/etc/init.d/php7.0-fpm restart     # debian-style PHP 7

Using service wrapper script

service php-fpm restart        # typical
service php5-fpm restart       # debian-style
service php7.0-fpm restart.    # debian-style PHP 7

Using Upstart (e.g. ubuntu):

restart php7.0-fpm         # typical (ubuntu is debian-based) PHP 7
restart php5-fpm           # typical (ubuntu is debian-based)
restart php-fpm            # uncommon

Using systemd (newer servers):

systemctl restart php-fpm.service        # typical
systemctl restart php5-fpm.service       # uncommon
systemctl restart php7.0-fpm.service     # uncommon PHP 7

Or whatever the equivalent is on your system.

The above commands taken directly from this server fault answer

How to validate an Email in PHP?

User data is very important for a good developer, so don't ask again and again for same data, use some logic to correct some basic error in data.

Before validation of Email: First you have to remove all illegal characters from email.

//This will Remove all illegal characters from email
$email = filter_var($email, FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);

after that validate your email address using this filter_var() function.

filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) // To Validate the email

For e.g.

<?php
$email = "[email protected]";

// Remove all illegal characters from email
$email = filter_var($email, FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);

// Validate email
if (filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
    echo $email." is a valid email address";
} else {
    echo $email." is not a valid email address";
}
?>

Programmatically navigate to another view controller/scene

In addition to the good answers above to set the navigation view controller on top of your screen on your app, you can add it to your AppDelegate.swift file inside the block as follows

 func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {

    window = UIWindow()
    window?.makeKeyAndVisible()
    window?.rootViewController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: LoginViewController())

    return true

}

Eclipse C++: Symbol 'std' could not be resolved

For MinGW this worked for me:

  • Right click project, select Properties
  • Go to C/C++ General - Paths and Symbols - Includes - GNU C++ - Include directories
  • Select Add...
  • Select Variables...
  • Select MINGW_HOME and click OK
  • Click Apply and OK

You should now see several MinGW paths in Includes in your project explorer.
The errors may not disappear instantly, you may need to refresh/build your project.


If you are using Cygwin, there could be an equivalent variable present.

get the data of uploaded file in javascript

you can use the new HTML 5 file api to read file contents

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Using_files_from_web_applications

but this won't work on every browser so you probably need a server side fallback.

How can I check if a background image is loaded?

I've located a solution that worked better for me, and which has the advantage of being usable with several images (case not illustrated in this example).

From @adeneo's answer on this question :

If you have an element with a background image, like this

<div id="test" style="background-image: url(link/to/image.png)"><div>

You can wait for the background to load by getting the image URL and using it for an image object in javascript with an onload handler

var src = $('#test').css('background-image');
var url = src.match(/\((.*?)\)/)[1].replace(/('|")/g,'');

var img = new Image();
img.onload = function() {
    alert('image loaded');
}
img.src = url;
if (img.complete) img.onload();

How to add default signature in Outlook

Outlook adds the signature to the new unmodified messages (you should not modify the body prior to that) when you call MailItem.Display (which causes the message to be displayed on the screen) or when you access the MailItem.GetInspector property - you do not have to do anything with the returned Inspector object, but Outlook will populate the message body with the signature.

Once the signature is added, read the HTMLBody property and merge it with the HTML string that you are trying to set. Note that you cannot simply concatenate 2 HTML strings - the strings need to be merged. E.g. if you want to insert your string at the top of the HTML body, look for the "<body" substring, then find the next occurrence of ">" (this takes care of the <body> element with attributes), then insert your HTML string after that ">".

Outlook Object Model does not expose signatures at all.

On a general note, the name of the signature is stored in the account profile data accessible through the IOlkAccountManager Extended MAPI interface. Since that interface is Extended MAPI, it can only be accessed using C++ or Delphi. You can see the interface and its data in OutlookSpy if you click the IOlkAccountManager button.
Once you have the signature name, you can read the HTML file from the file system (keep in mind that the folder name (Signatures in English) is localized.
Also keep in mind that if the signature contains images, they must also be added to the message as attachments and the <img> tags in the signature/message body adjusted to point the src attribute to the attachments rather than a subfolder of the Signatures folder where the images are stored.
It will also be your responsibility to merge the HTML styles from the signature HTML file with the styles of the message itself.

If using Redemption is an option, you can use its RDOAccount object (accessible in any language, including VBA). New message signature name is stored in the 0x0016001F property, reply signature is in 0x0017001F. You can also use the RDOAccount.ReplySignature and NewSignature properties.
Redemption also exposes RDOSignature.ApplyTo method that takes a pointer to the RDOMail object and inserts the signature at the specified location correctly merging the images and the styles:

set Session = CreateObject("Redemption.RDOSession")
Session.MAPIOBJECT = Application.Session.MAPIOBJECT
set Drafts = Session.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderDrafts)
set   Msg = Drafts.Items.Add
Msg.To =   "[email protected]"
Msg.Subject  = "testing signatures"
Msg.HTMLBody = "<html><body>some <b>bold</b> message text</body></html>"
set Account = Session.Accounts.GetOrder(2).Item(1)   'first mail account
if  Not (Account  Is  Nothing)  Then
     set Signature = Account.NewMessageSignature
     if  Not (Signature  Is  Nothing)  Then
       Signature.ApplyTo Msg,  false   'apply at the bottom
     End If
End If
Msg.Send

EDIT: as of July 2017, MailItem.GetInspector in Outlook 2016 no longer inserts the signature. Only MailItem.Display does.

How do I analyze a .hprof file?

If you want a fairly advanced tool to do some serious poking around, look at the Memory Analyzer project at Eclipse, contributed to them by SAP.

Some of what you can do is mind-blowingly good for finding memory leaks etc -- including running a form of limited SQL (OQL) against the in-memory objects, i.e.

SELECT toString(firstName) FROM com.yourcompany.somepackage.User

Totally brilliant.

Notepad++ - How can I replace blank lines

  1. Press Ctrl+H (Replace)

  2. Select Extended from SearchMode

  3. Put \r\n\r\n in Find What

  4. Put \r\n in ReplaceWith

  5. Click on Replace All

Replace multiple line breaks

How do I configure Notepad++ to use spaces instead of tabs?

In my Notepad++ 7.2.2, the Preferences section it's a bit different.

The option is located at: Settings / Preferences / Language / Replace by space as in the Screenshot.

Screenshot of the windows with preferences

How to iterate over a std::map full of strings in C++

Another worthy optimization is the c_str ( ) member of the STL string classes, which returns an immutable null terminated string that can be passed around as a LPCTSTR, e. g., to a custom function that expects a LPCTSTR. Although I haven't traced through the destructor to confirm it, I suspect that the string class looks after the memory in which it creates the copy.

fetch gives an empty response body

I just ran into this. As mentioned in this answer, using mode: "no-cors" will give you an opaque response, which doesn't seem to return data in the body.

opaque: Response for “no-cors” request to cross-origin resource. Severely restricted.

In my case I was using Express. After I installed cors for Express and configured it and removed mode: "no-cors", I was returned a promise. The response data will be in the promise, e.g.

fetch('http://example.com/api/node', {
  // mode: 'no-cors',
  method: 'GET',
  headers: {
    Accept: 'application/json',
  },
},
).then(response => {
  if (response.ok) {
    response.json().then(json => {
      console.log(json);
    });
  }
});

How do I remove trailing whitespace using a regular expression?

To remove trailing whitespace while also preserving whitespace-only lines, you want the regex to only remove trailing whitespace after non-whitespace characters. So you need to first check for a non-whitespace character. This means that the non-whitespace character will be included in the match, so you need to include it in the replacement.

Regex: ([^ \t\r\n])[ \t]+$

Replacement: \1 or $1, depending on the IDE

Android: alternate layout xml for landscape mode

By default, the layouts in /res/layout are applied to both portrait and landscape.

If you have for example

/res/layout/main.xml

you can add a new folder /res/layout-land, copy main.xml into it and make the needed adjustments.

orientation

See also http://www.androidpeople.com/android-portrait-amp-landscape-differeent-layouts and http://www.devx.com/wireless/Article/40792/1954 for some more options.

Appending items to a list of lists in python

import csv
cols = [' V1', ' I1'] # define your columns here, check the spaces!
data = [[] for col in cols] # this creates a list of **different** lists, not a list of pointers to the same list like you did in [[]]*len(positions) 
with open('data.csv', 'r') as f:
    for rec in csv.DictReader(f):
        for l, col in zip(data, cols):
            l.append(float(rec[col]))
print data

# [[3.0, 3.0], [0.01, 0.01]]

Change background image opacity

You can create several divs and do that:

<div style="width:100px; height:100px;">
   <div style="position:relative; top:0px; left:0px; width:100px; height:100px; opacity:0.3;"><img src="urltoimage" alt=" " /></div>
   <div style="position:relative; top:0px; left:0px; width:100px; height:100px;"> DIV with no opacity </div>
</div>

I did that couple times... Simple, yet effective...

Change image size with JavaScript

You can change the actual width/height attributes like this:

var theImg = document.getElementById('theImgId');
theImg.height = 150;
theImg.width = 150;

DynamoDB vs MongoDB NoSQL

For quick overview comparisons, I really like this website, that has many comparison pages, eg AWS DynamoDB vs MongoDB; http://db-engines.com/en/system/Amazon+DynamoDB%3BMongoDB

What port number does SOAP use?

There is no such thing as "SOAP protocol". SOAP is an XML schema.

It usually runs over HTTP (port 80), however.

How do I make a fixed size formatted string in python?

Sure, use the .format method. E.g.,

print('{:10s} {:3d}  {:7.2f}'.format('xxx', 123, 98))
print('{:10s} {:3d}  {:7.2f}'.format('yyyy', 3, 1.0))
print('{:10s} {:3d}  {:7.2f}'.format('zz', 42, 123.34))

will print

xxx        123    98.00
yyyy         3     1.00
zz          42   123.34

You can adjust the field sizes as desired. Note that .format works independently of print to format a string. I just used print to display the strings. Brief explanation:

10s format a string with 10 spaces, left justified by default

3d format an integer reserving 3 spaces, right justified by default

7.2f format a float, reserving 7 spaces, 2 after the decimal point, right justfied by default.

There are many additional options to position/format strings (padding, left/right justify etc), String Formatting Operations will provide more information.

Update for f-string mode. E.g.,

text, number, other_number = 'xxx', 123, 98
print(f'{text:10} {number:3d}  {other_number:7.2f}')

For right alignment

print(f'{text:>10} {number:3d}  {other_number:7.2f}')

Printing leading 0's in C

You will save yourself a heap of trouble (long term) if you store a ZIP Code as a character string, which it is, rather than a number, which it is not.

MongoDB Show all contents from all collections

I prefer another approach if you are using mongo shell:

First as the another answers: use my_database_name then:

db.getCollectionNames().map( (name) => ({[name]: db[name].find().toArray().length}) )

This query will show you something like this:

[
        {
                "agreements" : 60
        },
        {
                "libraries" : 45
        },
        {
                "templates" : 9
        },
        {
                "users" : 19
        }
]

You can use similar approach with db.getCollectionInfos() it is pretty useful if you have so much data & helpful as well.

Real escape string and PDO

Use prepared statements. Those keep the data and syntax apart, which removes the need for escaping MySQL data. See e.g. this tutorial.

Using unset vs. setting a variable to empty

Mostly you don't see a difference, unless you are using set -u:

/home/user1> var=""
/home/user1> echo $var

/home/user1> set -u
/home/user1> echo $var

/home/user1> unset var
/home/user1> echo $var
-bash: var: unbound variable

So really, it depends on how you are going to test the variable.

I will add that my preferred way of testing if it is set is:

[[ -n $var ]]  # True if the length of $var is non-zero

or

[[ -z $var ]]  # True if zero length

The total number of locks exceeds the lock table size

It is worth saying that the figure used for this setting is in BYTES - found that out the hard way!

Create Elasticsearch curl query for not null and not empty("")

You can use a bool combination query with must/must_not which gives great performance and returns all records where the field is not null and not empty.

bool must_not is like "NOT AND" which means field!="", bool must exist means its !=null.

so effectively enabling: where field1!=null and field1!=""

GET  IndexName/IndexType/_search
{
    "query": {
        "bool": {
            "must": [{
                "bool": {
                    "must_not": [{
                        "term": { "YourFieldName": ""}
                    }]
                }
            }, {
                "bool": {
                    "must": [{
                      "exists" : { "field" : "YourFieldName" }
                    }]
                }
            }]
        }   
    }
}

ElasticSearch Version:

  "version": {
    "number": "5.6.10",
    "lucene_version": "6.6.1"
  }

Apache HttpClient Interim Error: NoHttpResponseException

I have faced same issue, I resolved by adding "connection: close" as extention,

Step 1: create a new class ConnectionCloseExtension

import com.github.tomakehurst.wiremock.common.FileSource;
import com.github.tomakehurst.wiremock.extension.Parameters;
import com.github.tomakehurst.wiremock.extension.ResponseTransformer;
import com.github.tomakehurst.wiremock.http.HttpHeader;
import com.github.tomakehurst.wiremock.http.HttpHeaders;
import com.github.tomakehurst.wiremock.http.Request;
import com.github.tomakehurst.wiremock.http.Response;

public class ConnectionCloseExtension extends ResponseTransformer {
  @Override
  public Response transform(Request request, Response response, FileSource files, Parameters parameters) {
    return Response.Builder
        .like(response)
        .headers(HttpHeaders.copyOf(response.getHeaders())
            .plus(new HttpHeader("Connection", "Close")))
        .build();
  }

  @Override
  public String getName() {
    return "ConnectionCloseExtension";
  }
}

Step 2: set extension class in wireMockServer like below,

final WireMockServer wireMockServer = new WireMockServer(options()
                .extensions(ConnectionCloseExtension.class)
                .port(httpPort));

How to install lxml on Ubuntu

For Ubuntu 14.04

sudo apt-get install python-lxml

worked for me.

In laymans terms, what does 'static' mean in Java?

The static keyword can be used in several different ways in Java and in almost all cases it is a modifier which means the thing it is modifying is usable without an enclosing object instance.

Java is an object oriented language and by default most code that you write requires an instance of the object to be used.

public class SomeObject {
    public int someField;
    public void someMethod() { };
    public Class SomeInnerClass { };
}

In order to use someField, someMethod, or SomeInnerClass I have to first create an instance of SomeObject.

public class SomeOtherObject {
    public void doSomeStuff() {
        SomeObject anInstance = new SomeObject();
        anInstance.someField = 7;
        anInstance.someMethod();
        //Non-static inner classes are usually not created outside of the
        //class instance so you don't normally see this syntax
        SomeInnerClass blah = anInstance.new SomeInnerClass();
    }
}

If I declare those things static then they do not require an enclosing instance.

public class SomeObjectWithStaticStuff {
    public static int someField;
    public static void someMethod() { };
    public static Class SomeInnerClass { };
}

public class SomeOtherObject {
    public void doSomeStuff() {
        SomeObjectWithStaticStuff.someField = 7;
        SomeObjectWithStaticStuff.someMethod();
        SomeObjectWithStaticStuff.SomeInnerClass blah = new SomeObjectWithStaticStuff.SomeInnerClass();
        //Or you can also do this if your imports are correct
        SomeInnerClass blah2 = new SomeInnerClass();
    }
}

Declaring something static has several implications.

First, there can only ever one value of a static field throughout your entire application.

public class SomeOtherObject {
    public void doSomeStuff() {
        //Two objects, two different values
        SomeObject instanceOne = new SomeObject();
        SomeObject instanceTwo = new SomeObject();
        instanceOne.someField = 7;
        instanceTwo.someField = 10;
        //Static object, only ever one value
        SomeObjectWithStaticStuff.someField = 7;
        SomeObjectWithStaticStuff.someField = 10; //Redefines the above set
    }
}

The second issue is that static methods and inner classes cannot access fields in the enclosing object (since there isn't one).

public class SomeObjectWithStaticStuff {
    private int nonStaticField;
    private void nonStaticMethod() { };

    public static void someStaticMethod() {
        nonStaticField = 7; //Not allowed
        this.nonStaticField = 7; //Not allowed, can never use *this* in static
        nonStaticMethod(); //Not allowed
        super.someSuperMethod(); //Not allowed, can never use *super* in static
    }

    public static class SomeStaticInnerClass {

        public void doStuff() {
            someStaticField = 7; //Not allowed
            nonStaticMethod(); //Not allowed
            someStaticMethod(); //This is ok
        }

    }
}

The static keyword can also be applied to inner interfaces, annotations, and enums.

public class SomeObject {
    public static interface SomeInterface { };
    public static @interface SomeAnnotation { };
    public static enum SomeEnum { };
}

In all of these cases the keyword is redundant and has no effect. Interfaces, annotations, and enums are static by default because they never have a relationship to an inner class.

This just describes what they keyword does. It does not describe whether the use of the keyword is a bad idea or not. That can be covered in more detail in other questions such as Is using a lot of static methods a bad thing?

There are also a few less common uses of the keyword static. There are static imports which allow you to use static types (including interfaces, annotations, and enums not redundantly marked static) unqualified.

//SomeStaticThing.java
public class SomeStaticThing {
    public static int StaticCounterOne = 0;
}

//SomeOtherStaticThing.java
public class SomeOtherStaticThing {
    public static int StaticCounterTwo = 0;
}

//SomeOtherClass.java
import static some.package.SomeStaticThing.*;
import some.package.SomeOtherStaticThing.*;

public class SomeOtherClass {
    public void doStuff() {
        StaticCounterOne++; //Ok
        StaticCounterTwo++; //Not ok
        SomeOtherStaticThing.StaticCounterTwo++; //Ok
    }
}

Lastly, there are static initializers which are blocks of code that are run when the class is first loaded (which is usually just before a class is instantiated for the first time in an application) and (like static methods) cannot access non-static fields or methods.

public class SomeObject {

    private static int x;

    static {
        x = 7;
    }
}

Regex to match alphanumeric and spaces

The circumflex inside the square brackets means all characters except the subsequent range. You want a circumflex outside of square brackets.

Calling a rest api with username and password - how to

Here is the solution for Rest API

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        BaseClient clientbase = new BaseClient("https://website.com/api/v2/", "username", "password");
        BaseResponse response = new BaseResponse();
        BaseResponse response = clientbase.GetCallV2Async("Candidate").Result;
    }


    public async Task<BaseResponse> GetCallAsync(string endpoint)
    {
        try
        {
            HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync(endpoint + "/").ConfigureAwait(false);
            if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
            {
                baseresponse.ResponseMessage = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
                baseresponse.StatusCode = (int)response.StatusCode;
            }
            else
            {
                baseresponse.ResponseMessage = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
                baseresponse.StatusCode = (int)response.StatusCode;
            }
            return baseresponse;
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            baseresponse.StatusCode = 0;
            baseresponse.ResponseMessage = (ex.Message ?? ex.InnerException.ToString());
        }
        return baseresponse;
    }
}


public class BaseResponse
{
    public int StatusCode { get; set; }
    public string ResponseMessage { get; set; }
}

public class BaseClient
{
    readonly HttpClient client;
    readonly BaseResponse baseresponse;

    public BaseClient(string baseAddress, string username, string password)
    {
        HttpClientHandler handler = new HttpClientHandler()
        {
            Proxy = new WebProxy("http://127.0.0.1:8888"),
            UseProxy = false,
        };

        client = new HttpClient(handler);
        client.BaseAddress = new Uri(baseAddress);
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
        var byteArray = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(username + ":" + password);

        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new System.Net.Http.Headers.AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", Convert.ToBase64String(byteArray));

        baseresponse = new BaseResponse();

    }
}

How do I (or can I) SELECT DISTINCT on multiple columns?

SELECT DISTINCT a,b,c FROM t

is roughly equivalent to:

SELECT a,b,c FROM t GROUP BY a,b,c

It's a good idea to get used to the GROUP BY syntax, as it's more powerful.

For your query, I'd do it like this:

UPDATE sales
SET status='ACTIVE'
WHERE id IN
(
    SELECT id
    FROM sales S
    INNER JOIN
    (
        SELECT saleprice, saledate
        FROM sales
        GROUP BY saleprice, saledate
        HAVING COUNT(*) = 1 
    ) T
    ON S.saleprice=T.saleprice AND s.saledate=T.saledate
 )

Cannot deserialize the current JSON array (e.g. [1,2,3])

That's because the json you're getting is an array of your RootObject class, rather than a single instance, change your DeserialiseObject<RootObject> to be something like DeserialiseObject<RootObject[]> (un-tested).

You'll then have to either change your method to return a collection of RootObject or do some further processing on the deserialised object to return a single instance.

If you look at a formatted version of the response you provided:

[
   {
      "id":3636,
      "is_default":true,
      "name":"Unit",
      "quantity":1,
      "stock":"100000.00",
      "unit_cost":"0"
   },
   {
      "id":4592,
      "is_default":false,
      "name":"Bundle",
      "quantity":5,
      "stock":"100000.00",
      "unit_cost":"0"
   }
]

You can see two instances in there.

It is more efficient to use if-return-return or if-else-return?

Since the return statement terminates the execution of the current function, the two forms are equivalent (although the second one is arguably more readable than the first).

The efficiency of both forms is comparable, the underlying machine code has to perform a jump if the if condition is false anyway.

Note that Python supports a syntax that allows you to use only one return statement in your case:

return A+1 if A > B else A-1

How to install the current version of Go in Ubuntu Precise

On recent Ubuntu (20.10) sudo apt-get install golang works fine; it will install version 1.14.

How to submit an HTML form on loading the page?

You missed the closing tag for the input fields, and you can choose any one of the events, ex: onload, onclick etc.

(a) Onload event:

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
     $('#frm1').submit();
});
</script>

(b) Onclick Event:

<form name="frm1" id="frm1" action="../somePage" method="post">
    Please Waite... 
    <input type="hidden" name="uname" id="uname" value=<?php echo $uname;?> />
    <input type="hidden" name="price" id="price" value=<?php echo $price;?> />
    <input type="text" name="submit" id="submit" value="submit">
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
$('#submit').click(function(){
     $('#frm1').submit();
});
</script>

How to obtain image size using standard Python class (without using external library)?

While it's possible to call open(filename, 'rb') and check through the binary image headers for the dimensions, it seems much more useful to install PIL and spend your time writing great new software! You gain greater file format support and the reliability that comes from widespread usage. From the PIL documentation, it appears that the code you would need to complete your task would be:

from PIL import Image
im = Image.open('filename.png')
print 'width: %d - height: %d' % im.size # returns (width, height) tuple

As for writing code yourself, I'm not aware of a module in the Python standard library that will do what you want. You'll have to open() the image in binary mode and start decoding it yourself. You can read about the formats at:

Why javascript getTime() is not a function?

For all those who came here and did indeed use Date typed Variables, here is the solution I found. It does also apply to TypeScript.

I was facing this error because I tried to compare two dates using the following Method

var res = dat1.getTime() > dat2.getTime(); // or any other comparison operator

However Im sure I used a Date object, because Im using angularjs with typescript, and I got the data from a typed API call.

Im not sure why the error is raised, but I assume that because my Object was created by JSON deserialisation, possibly the getTime() method was simply not added to the prototype.

Solution

In this case, recreating a date-Object based on your dates will fix the issue.

var res = new Date(dat1).getTime() > new Date(dat2).getTime()

Edit:

I was right about this. Types will be cast to the according type but they wont be instanciated. Hence there will be a string cast to a date, which will obviously result in a runtime exception.

The trick is, if you use interfaces with non primitive only data such as dates or functions, you will need to perform a mapping after your http request.

class Details {
    description: string;
    date: Date;
    score: number;
    approved: boolean;

    constructor(data: any) {
      Object.assign(this, data);
    }
}

and to perform the mapping:

public getDetails(id: number): Promise<Details> {
    return this.http
               .get<Details>(`${this.baseUrl}/api/details/${id}`)
               .map(response => new Details(response.json()))
               .toPromise();
}

for arrays use:

public getDetails(): Promise<Details[]> {
    return this.http
               .get<Details>(`${this.baseUrl}/api/details`)
               .map(response => {
                   const array = JSON.parse(response.json()) as any[];
                   const details = array.map(data => new Details(data));
                   return details;
               })
               .toPromise();
}

For credits and further information about this topic follow the link.

Data truncation: Data too long for column 'logo' at row 1

You are trying to insert data that is larger than allowed for the column logo.

Use following data types as per your need

TINYBLOB   :     maximum length of 255 bytes  
BLOB       :     maximum length of 65,535 bytes  
MEDIUMBLOB :     maximum length of 16,777,215 bytes  
LONGBLOB   :     maximum length of 4,294,967,295 bytes  

Use LONGBLOB to avoid this exception.

How to store a list in a column of a database table

Many SQL databases allow a table to contain a subtable as a component. The usual method is to allow the domain of one of the columns to be a table. This is in addition to using some convention like CSV to encode the substructure in ways unknown to the DBMS.

When Ed Codd was developing the relational model in 1969-1970, he specifically defined a normal form that would disallow this kind of nesting of tables. Normal form was later called First Normal Form. He then went on to show that for every database, there is a database in first normal form that expresses the same information.

Why bother with this? Well, databases in first normal form permit keyed access to all data. If you provide a table name, a key value into that table, and a column name, the database will contain at most one cell containing one item of data.

If you allow a cell to contain a list or a table or any other collection, now you can't provide keyed access to the sub items, without completely reworking the idea of a key.

Keyed access to all data is fundamental to the relational model. Without this concept, the model isn't relational. As to why the relational model is a good idea, and what might be the limitations of that good idea, you have to look at the 50 years worth of accumulated experience with the relational model.

How do I fix "Expected to return a value at the end of arrow function" warning?

The most upvoted answer, from Kris Selbekk, it is totally right. It is important to highlight though that it takes a functional approach, you will be looping through the this.props.comments array twice, the second time(looping) it will most probable skip a few elements that where filtered, but in case no comment was filtered you will loop through the whole array twice. If performance is not a concern in you project that is totally fine. In case performance is important a guard clause would be more appropriated as you would loop the array only once:

return this.props.comments.map((comment) => {
  if (!comment.hasComments) return null; 

  return (
    <div key={comment.id}>         
      <CommentItem className="MainComment"/>
        {this.props.comments.map(commentReply => {             
          if (commentReply.replyTo !== comment.id) return null;

          return <CommentItem className="SubComment"/>
        })} 
    </div>          
  ) 
}

The main reason I'm pointing this out is because as a Junior Developer I did a lot of those mistakes(like looping the same array multiple times), so I thought i was worth mention it here.

PS: I would refactor your react component even more, as I'm not in favour of heavy logic in the html part of a JSX, but that is out of the topic of this question.

Finding common rows (intersection) in two Pandas dataframes

In SQL, this problem could be solved by several methods:

select * from df1 where exists (select * from df2 where df2.user_id = df1.user_id)
union all
select * from df2 where exists (select * from df1 where df1.user_id = df2.user_id)

or join and then unpivot (possible in SQL server)

select
    df1.user_id,
    c.rating
from df1
    inner join df2 on df2.user_i = df1.user_id
    outer apply (
        select df1.rating union all
        select df2.rating
    ) as c

Second one could be written in pandas with something like:

>>> df1 = pd.DataFrame({"user_id":[1,2,3], "rating":[10, 15, 20]})
>>> df2 = pd.DataFrame({"user_id":[3,4,5], "rating":[30, 35, 40]})
>>>
>>> df4 = df[['user_id', 'rating_1']].rename(columns={'rating_1':'rating'})
>>> df = pd.merge(df1, df2, on='user_id', suffixes=['_1', '_2'])
>>> df3 = df[['user_id', 'rating_1']].rename(columns={'rating_1':'rating'})
>>> df4 = df[['user_id', 'rating_2']].rename(columns={'rating_2':'rating'})
>>> pd.concat([df3, df4], axis=0)
   user_id  rating
0        3      20
0        3      30

Java Timestamp - How can I create a Timestamp with the date 23/09/2007?

A more general answer would be to import java.util.Date, then when you need to set a timestamp equal to the current date, simply set it equal to new Date().

missing FROM-clause entry for table

SELECT 
   AcId, AcName, PldepPer, RepId, CustCatg, HardCode, BlockCust, CrPeriod, CrLimit, 
   BillLimit, Mode, PNotes, gtab82.memno 
FROM
   VCustomer AS v1
INNER JOIN   
   gtab82 ON gtab82.memacid = v1.AcId 
WHERE (AcGrCode = '204' OR CreDebt = 'True') 
AND Masked = 'false'
ORDER BY AcName

You typically only use an alias for a table name when you need to prefix a column with the table name due to duplicate column names in the joined tables and the table name is long or when the table is joined to itself. In your case you use an alias for VCustomer but only use it in the ON clause for uncertain reasons. You may want to review that aspect of your code.

How to listen for 'props' changes

You can use the watch mode to detect changes:

Do everything at atomic level. So first check if watch method itself is getting called or not by consoling something inside. Once it has been established that watch is getting called, smash it out with your business logic.

watch: { 
  myProp: function() {
   console.log('Prop changed')
  }
}

Check if an element contains a class in JavaScript?

See this Codepen link for faster and easy way of checking an element if it has a specific class using vanilla JavaScript~!

hasClass (Vanilla JS)

function hasClass(element, cls) {
    return (' ' + element.className + ' ').indexOf(' ' + cls + ' ') > -1;
}

How to call MVC Action using Jquery AJAX and then submit form in MVC?

Assuming that your button is in a form, you are not preventing the default behaviour of the button click from happening i.e. Your AJAX call is made in addition to the form submission; what you're very likely seeing is one of

  1. the form submission happens faster than the AJAX call returns
  2. the form submission causes the browser to abort the AJAX request and continues with submitting the form.

So you should prevent the default behaviour of the button click

$('#btnSave').click(function (e) {

    // prevent the default event behaviour    
    e.preventDefault();

    $.ajax({
        url: "/Home/SaveDetailedInfo",
        type: "POST",
        data: JSON.stringify({ 'Options': someData}),
        dataType: "json",
        traditional: true,
        contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
        success: function (data) {

            // perform your save call here

            if (data.status == "Success") {
                alert("Done");
            } else {
                alert("Error occurs on the Database level!");
            }
        },
        error: function () {
            alert("An error has occured!!!");
        }
    });
});

T-SQL Subquery Max(Date) and Joins

All other answers must work, but using your same syntax (and understanding why the error)

SELECT * FROM MyParts LEFT JOIN MyPrice ON MyParts.Partid = MyPrice.Partid WHERE 
MyPart.PriceDate = (SELECT MAX(MyPrice2.PriceDate) FROM MyPrice as MyPrice2 
WHERE MyPrice2.Partid =  MyParts.Partid)

Why would a "java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out" exception occur when URL is up?

There is a possibility that your IP/host are blocked by the remote host, especially if it thinks you are hitting it too hard.

How to find the size of an int[]?

when u pass any array to some function. u are just passing it's starting address, so for it to work u have to pass it size also for it to work properly. it's the same reason why we pass argc with argv[] in command line arguement.

Good Java graph algorithm library?

If you were using JGraph, you should give a try to JGraphT which is designed for algorithms. One of its features is visualization using the JGraph library. It's still developed, but pretty stable. I analyzed the complexity of JGraphT algorithms some time ago. Some of them aren't the quickest, but if you're going to implement them on your own and need to display your graph, then it might be the best choice. I really liked using its API, when I quickly had to write an app that was working on graph and displaying it later.

Redirecting output to $null in PowerShell, but ensuring the variable remains set

using a function:

function run_command ($command)
{
    invoke-expression "$command *>$null"
    return $_
}

if (!(run_command "dir *.txt"))
{
    if (!(run_command "dir *.doc"))
    {
        run_command "dir *.*"
    }
}

or if you like one-liners:

function run_command ($command) { invoke-expression "$command  "|out-null; return $_ }

if (!(run_command "dir *.txt")) { if (!(run_command "dir *.doc")) { run_command "dir *.*" } }

Why is "using namespace std;" considered bad practice?

There's a very simple answer: it's defensive programming. You know that the uses of std::size_t, std::cout, etc., could be made a little easier with using namespace std; - I hope you don't need to be convinced that such a directive has no place in a header! Within a translation unit, however, you might be tempted...

The types, classes, etc., that are part of the std namespace increase with each C++ revision. There are too many potential ambiguities if you relax the std:: qualifier. It is entirely reasonable to relax the qualifier for names within std that you will be using frequently, e.g., using std::fprintf;, or more probably, something like: using std::size_t; - but unless these are already well-understood parts of the language (or specifically, the std wrapping of the C library), just use the qualifier.

When you can use typedef, combined with auto and decltype inferencing, there's really nothing to be gained from a readability / maintainability perspective.

How do I code my submit button go to an email address

You might use Form tag with action attribute to submit the mailto.

Here is an example:

<form method="post" action="mailto:[email protected]" >
<input type="submit" value="Send Email" /> 
</form>

How to use the command update-alternatives --config java

If you want to switch the jdk on a regular basis (or update to a new one once it is released), it's very conveniant to use sdkman.

You can additional tools like maven with sdkman, too.

SQL - Rounding off to 2 decimal places

DECLARE @porcentaje FLOAT

SET @porcentaje = (CONVERT(DECIMAL,ABS(8700)) * 100) / CONVERT(DECIMAL,ABS(37020))

SELECT @porcentaje

How to handle Pop-up in Selenium WebDriver using Java

Do not make the situation complex. Use ID if they are available.

driver.get("http://www.rediff.com");
WebElement sign = driver.findElement(By.linkText("Sign in"));
sign.click();
WebElement email_id= driver.findElement(By.id("c_uname"));
email_id.sendKeys("hi");

What are the applications of binary trees?

  • Binary trees are used in Huffman coding, which are used as a compression code.
  • Binary trees are used in Binary search trees, which are useful for maintaining records of data without much extra space.

Is it possible to log all HTTP request headers with Apache?

If you're interested in seeing which specific headers a remote client is sending to your server, and you can cause the request to run a CGI script, then the simplest solution is to have your server script dump the environment variables into a file somewhere.

e.g. run the shell command "env > /tmp/headers" from within your script

Then, look for the environment variables that start with HTTP_...

You will see lines like:

HTTP_ACCEPT=text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING=gzip, deflate
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE=en-US,en;q=0.5
HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL=max-age=0

Each of those represents a request header.

Note that the header names are modified from the actual request. For example, "Accept-Language" becomes "HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE", and so on.

Service will not start: error 1067: the process terminated unexpectedly

I had this error, I looked into a log file C:\...\mysql\data\VM-IIS-Server.err and found this

2016-06-07 17:56:07 160c  InnoDB: Error: unable to create temporary file; errno: 2
2016-06-07 17:56:07 3392 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error.
2016-06-07 17:56:07 3392 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed.
2016-06-07 17:56:07 3392 [ERROR] Unknown/unsupported storage engine: InnoDB
2016-06-07 17:56:07 3392 [ERROR] Aborting

The first line says "unable to create temporary file", it sounds like "insufficient privileges", first I tried to give access to mysql folder for my current user - no effect, then after some wandering around I came up to control panel->Administration->Services->Right Clicked MysqlService->Properties->Log On, switched to "This account", entered my username/password, clicked OK, and it woked!

Implement specialization in ER diagram

So I assume your permissions table has a foreign key reference to admin_accounts table. If so because of referential integrity you will only be able to add permissions for account ids exsiting in the admin accounts table. Which also means that you wont be able to enter a user_account_id [assuming there are no duplicates!]

Spring: Why do we autowire the interface and not the implemented class?

How does spring know which polymorphic type to use.

As long as there is only a single implementation of the interface and that implementation is annotated with @Component with Spring's component scan enabled, Spring framework can find out the (interface, implementation) pair. If component scan is not enabled, then you have to define the bean explicitly in your application-config.xml (or equivalent spring configuration file).

Do I need @Qualifier or @Resource?

Once you have more than one implementation, then you need to qualify each of them and during auto-wiring, you would need to use the @Qualifier annotation to inject the right implementation, along with @Autowired annotation. If you are using @Resource (J2EE semantics), then you should specify the bean name using the name attribute of this annotation.

Why do we autowire the interface and not the implemented class?

Firstly, it is always a good practice to code to interfaces in general. Secondly, in case of spring, you can inject any implementation at runtime. A typical use case is to inject mock implementation during testing stage.

interface IA
{
  public void someFunction();
}


class B implements IA
{
  public void someFunction()
  {
    //busy code block
  }
  public void someBfunc()
  {
     //doing b things
  }
}


class C implements IA
{
  public void someFunction()
  {
    //busy code block
  }
  public void someCfunc()
  {
     //doing C things
  }
}

class MyRunner
{
     @Autowire
     @Qualifier("b") 
     IA worker;

     ....
     worker.someFunction();
}

Your bean configuration should look like this:

<bean id="b" class="B" />
<bean id="c" class="C" />
<bean id="runner" class="MyRunner" />

Alternatively, if you enabled component scan on the package where these are present, then you should qualify each class with @Component as follows:

interface IA
{
  public void someFunction();
}

@Component(value="b")
class B implements IA
{
  public void someFunction()
  {
    //busy code block
  }
  public void someBfunc()
  {
     //doing b things
  }
}


@Component(value="c")
class C implements IA
{
  public void someFunction()
  {
    //busy code block
  }
  public void someCfunc()
  {
     //doing C things
  }
}

@Component    
class MyRunner
{
     @Autowire
     @Qualifier("b") 
     IA worker;

     ....
     worker.someFunction();
}

Then worker in MyRunner will be injected with an instance of type B.

Cannot simply use PostgreSQL table name ("relation does not exist")

This is realy helpfull

SET search_path TO schema,public;

I digged this issues more, and found out about how to set this "search_path" by defoult for a new user in current database.

Open DataBase Properties then open Sheet "Variables" and simply add this variable for your user with actual value.

So now your user will get this schema_name by defoult and you could use tableName without schemaName.

How to update attributes without validation

try using

@record.assign_attributes({ ... })
@record.save(validate: false)

works for me

PHP - concatenate or directly insert variables in string

Between those two syntaxes, you should really choose the one you prefer :-)

Personally, I would go with your second solution in such a case (Variable interpolation), which I find easier to both write and read.

The result will be the same; and even if there are performance implications, those won't matter 1.


As a sidenote, so my answer is a bit more complete: the day you'll want to do something like this:

echo "Welcome $names!";

PHP will interpret your code as if you were trying to use the $names variable -- which doesn't exist. - note that it will only work if you use "" not '' for your string.

That day, you'll need to use {}:

echo "Welcome {$name}s!"

No need to fallback to concatenations.


Also note that your first syntax:

echo "Welcome ".$name."!";

Could probably be optimized, avoiding concatenations, using:

echo "Welcome ", $name, "!";

(But, as I said earlier, this doesn't matter much...)


1 - Unless you are doing hundreds of thousands of concatenations vs interpolations -- and it's probably not quite the case.

how to read all files inside particular folder

using System.IO;
...
foreach (string file in Directory.EnumerateFiles(folderPath, "*.xml"))
{
    string contents = File.ReadAllText(file);
}

Note the above uses a .NET 4.0 feature; in previous versions replace EnumerateFiles with GetFiles). Also, replace File.ReadAllText with your preferred way of reading xml files - perhaps XDocument, XmlDocument or an XmlReader.

How to create empty text file from a batch file?

type NUL > EmptyFile.txt

After reading the previous two posts, this blend of the two is what I came up with. It seems a little cleaner. There is no need to worry about redirecting the "1 file(s) copied." message to NUL, like the previous post does, and it looks nice next to the ECHO OutputLineFromLoop >> Emptyfile.txt that will usually follow in a batch file.

What is the difference between Numpy's array() and asarray() functions?

asarray(x) is like array(x, copy=False)

Use asarray(x) when you want to ensure that x will be an array before any other operations are done. If x is already an array then no copy would be done. It would not cause a redundant performance hit.

Here is an example of a function that ensure x is converted into an array first.

def mysum(x):
    return np.asarray(x).sum()

How can I create an array/list of dictionaries in python?

weightMatrix = [{'A':0,'C':0,'G':0,'T':0} for k in range(motifWidth)]

Determine the process pid listening on a certain port

netstat -nlp should tell you the PID of what's listening on which port.

Google drive limit number of download

Sorry, you can't view or download this file at this time is an error message that you may get when you try to download files on Google Drive.

Bandwidth limits

Limit                          Per hour            Per day
Download via web client        750 MB              1250 MB
Upload via web client          300 MB              500 MB

The explanation for the error message is simple: while users are free to share files publicly, or with a large number of users, quotas are in effect that limit availability.

If too many users view or download a file, it may be locked for a 24 hour period before the quota is reset. The period that a file is locked may be shorter according to Google.

If a file is particularly popular, it may take days or even longer before you manage to download it to your computer or place it on your Drive storage.

It could be a solution:

  1. Locate the "uc" part of the address, and replace it with "open", so that the beginning of the URL reads * https:// drive.google.com/open?*

  2. Load the address again once you have replaced uc with open in the address.

  3. This loads a new screen with controls at the top.

  4. Click on the "add to my drive" icon at the top right.

  5. Click on "add to my drive" again to open your Google Drive storage in a new tab in the browser.

  6. You should see the locked file on your drive now.

  7. Select it with a right-click, and then the "make a copy" option from the menu.

    8.Select the copy of the file with a right-click, and there download to download the file to your local system.

Basically, what this does is create a copy of the file on your own Drive account. Since you are the owner of the copied file, you may download it to your local system this way.

Please note that this works only if you are signed in to a Google Account. Also note that you are the owner of the copied file and will be held responsible for policy violations or other issues linked to the file.

Another option is: Any public folder in Drive can host files and provide direct links to the files.

How to create the hosting URL: https:// googledrive.com/host/FolderID (your id file)

This will provide a folder that will give direct links to files inside the folder. Note: hosting view will not display files created in Google Docs.

My solution:

I had the same problem, so I made a JSON file in Google Drive but the URL file (.mp3) is in Dropbox. It is working fantastic even though I have 40,000 active user. I used this solution because I did not have time to search too much! I wrote you the Dropbox Limits anyway but I did not get problems with it

Traffic limits DROPBOX

Links and file requests are automatically banned if they generate unusually large amounts of traffic.

Dropbox Basic (free) accounts:

20 GB per day: The total amount of traffic that all of your links and file requests combined can generate without getting banned 100,000 downloads per day: The total number of downloads that all of your links combined can generate

Dropbox Plus and Business accounts: About 200 GB per day: The total amount of traffic that all of your links and file requests combined can generate without getting banned There's no daily limit to the number of downloads that your links can generate If your account hits our limit, we'll send a message to the email address registered to your account. Your links will be temporarily disabled, and anyone who tries to access them will see an error page instead of your files.

P.S. If you need more information about my files and how did it and How to make the URL File from Dropbox, I hope help to the people is reading this! (I posted it before but Someone deleted my last post)!

How to install ADB driver for any android device?

I have found a solution by myself. I use the PDANet tool to find the driver automatically.

http://www.junefabrics.com/android/download.php

MySQL Query - Records between Today and Last 30 Days

You can also write this in mysql -

SELECT  DATE_FORMAT(create_date, '%m/%d/%Y')
FROM    mytable
WHERE   create_date < DATE_ADD(NOW(), INTERVAL -1 MONTH);

FIXED

How can I round down a number in Javascript?

Math.floor() will work, but it's very slow compared to using a bitwise OR operation:

var rounded = 34.923 | 0;
alert( rounded );
//alerts "34"

EDIT Math.floor() is not slower than using the | operator. Thanks to Jason S for checking my work.

Here's the code I used to test:

var a = [];
var time = new Date().getTime();
for( i = 0; i < 100000; i++ ) {
    //a.push( Math.random() * 100000  | 0 );
    a.push( Math.floor( Math.random() * 100000 ) );
}
var elapsed = new Date().getTime() - time;
alert( "elapsed time: " + elapsed );

Switch on Enum in Java

Article on Programming.Guide: Switch on enum


enum MyEnum { CONST_ONE, CONST_TWO }

class Test {
        public static void main(String[] args) {
            MyEnum e = MyEnum.CONST_ONE;

            switch (e) {
                case CONST_ONE: System.out.println(1); break;
                case CONST_TWO: System.out.println(2); break;
            }
        }
    }

Switches for strings are implemented in Java 7.

How to run shell script file using nodejs?

Also, you can use shelljs plugin. It's easy and it's cross-platform.

Install command:

npm install [-g] shelljs

What is shellJS

ShellJS is a portable (Windows/Linux/OS X) implementation of Unix shell commands on top of the Node.js API. You can use it to eliminate your shell script's dependency on Unix while still keeping its familiar and powerful commands. You can also install it globally so you can run it from outside Node projects - say goodbye to those gnarly Bash scripts!

An example of how it works:

var shell = require('shelljs');

if (!shell.which('git')) {
  shell.echo('Sorry, this script requires git');
  shell.exit(1);
}

// Copy files to release dir
shell.rm('-rf', 'out/Release');
shell.cp('-R', 'stuff/', 'out/Release');

// Replace macros in each .js file
shell.cd('lib');
shell.ls('*.js').forEach(function (file) {
  shell.sed('-i', 'BUILD_VERSION', 'v0.1.2', file);
  shell.sed('-i', /^.*REMOVE_THIS_LINE.*$/, '', file);
  shell.sed('-i', /.*REPLACE_LINE_WITH_MACRO.*\n/, shell.cat('macro.js'), file);
});
shell.cd('..');

// Run external tool synchronously
if (shell.exec('git commit -am "Auto-commit"').code !== 0) {
  shell.echo('Error: Git commit failed');
  shell.exit(1);
}

Also, you can use from the command line:

$ shx mkdir -p foo
$ shx touch foo/bar.txt
$ shx rm -rf foo

How to correctly set the ORACLE_HOME variable on Ubuntu 9.x?

Usually the msb file not found problems are the result of an environment setting problem, but in your case I'm a little suspicious of the installation (I've never used the apt-get + configure method).

To check the sanity of the installation:

  • ORACLE_HOME should be set to a directory path one level above the bin directory where sqlplus executable is found.
  • There should some .msb files under $ORACLE_HOME/sqlplus/mesg
  • There should be hundreds (not sure of the number with XE) of .msb files under $ORACLE_HOME (try find $ORACLE_HOME -name "*.msb" -print to show them)
  • Your PATH should include $ORACLE_HOME/bin.
  • All files under ORACLE_HOME should be owned by user:oracle group:dba.

Options for HTML scraping?

Another option for Perl would be Web::Scraper which is based on Ruby's Scrapi. In a nutshell, with nice and concise syntax, you can get a robust scraper directly into data structures.

What is the difference between Digest and Basic Authentication?

Let us see the difference between the two HTTP authentication using Wireshark (Tool to analyse packets sent or received) .

1. Http Basic Authentication

Basic

As soon as the client types in the correct username:password,as requested by the Web-server, the Web-Server checks in the Database if the credentials are correct and gives the access to the resource .

Here is how the packets are sent and received :

enter image description here In the first packet the Client fill the credentials using the POST method at the resource - lab/webapp/basicauth .In return the server replies back with http response code 200 ok ,i.e, the username:password were correct .

Detail of HTTP packet

Now , In the Authorization header it shows that it is Basic Authorization followed by some random string .This String is the encoded (Base64) version of the credentials admin:aadd (including colon ) .

2 . Http Digest Authentication(rfc 2069)

So far we have seen that the Basic Authentication sends username:password in plaintext over the network .But the Digest Auth sends a HASH of the Password using Hash algorithm.

Here are packets showing the requests made by the client and response from the server .

Digest

As soon as the client types the credentials requested by the server , the Password is converted to a response using an algorithm and then is sent to the server , If the server Database has same response as given by the client the server gives the access to the resource , otherwise a 401 error .

Detailed digest auth packet In the above Authorization , the response string is calculated using the values of Username,Realm,Password,http-method,URI and Nonce as shown in the image :

Response algorithm (colons are included)

Hence , we can see that the Digest Authentication is more Secure as it involve Hashing (MD5 encryption) , So the packet sniffer tools cannot sniff the Password although in Basic Auth the exact Password was shown on Wireshark.

node.js, socket.io with SSL

For enterprise applications it should be noted that you should not be handling https in your code. It should be auto upgraded via IIS or nginx. The app shouldn't know about what protocols are used.

Extract a substring using PowerShell

PS> $a = "-----start-------Hello World------end-------"
PS> $a.substring(17, 11)
         or
PS> $a.Substring($a.IndexOf('H'), 11)

$a.Substring(argument1, argument2) --> Here argument1 = Starting position of the desired alphabet and argument2 = Length of the substring you want as output.

Here 17 is the index of the alphabet 'H' and since we want to Print till Hello World, we provide 11 as the second argument

How to automatically start a service when running a docker container?

Simple! Add at the end of dockerfile:

ENTRYPOINT service mysql start && /bin/bash

Is it possible to force row level locking in SQL Server?

Use the ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS clause of ALTER/CREATE INDEX:

ALTER INDEX indexname ON tablename SET (ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = OFF);

Posting raw image data as multipart/form-data in curl

CURL OPERATION BETWEEN SERVER TO SERVER WITHOUT HTML FORM IN PHP USING MULTIPART/FORM-DATA

// files to upload

$filename = "https://example.s3.amazonaws.com/0.jpg";       

// URL to upload to (Destination server)

$url = "https://otherserver/image";

AND

    $curl = curl_init();

    curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
        CURLOPT_URL => $url,
        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
        CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
        CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
        //CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
        CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
        CURLOPT_POST => 1,
        CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => file_get_contents($filename),
        CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
            //"Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN",
            "Content-Type: multipart/form-data",
            "Content-Length: " . strlen(file_get_contents($filename)),
            "API-Key: abcdefghi" //Optional if required
        ),
    ));

   $response = curl_exec($curl);

    $info = curl_getinfo($curl);
//echo "code: ${info['http_code']}";

//print_r($info['request_header']);

    var_dump($response);
    $err = curl_error($curl);

    echo "error";
    var_dump($err);
    curl_close($curl);

Why use $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] instead of ""

In addition to above answers, another way of doing it is $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] or simply using an empty string is to use __DIR__.
OR
If you're on a lower PHP version (<5.3), a more common alternative is to use dirname(__FILE__)
Both returns the folder name of the file in context.

EDIT
As Boann pointed out that this returns the on-disk location of the file. WHich you would not ideally expose as a url. In that case dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) can return the folder name of the file in context.

Using Git with Visual Studio

In Jan 2013, Microsoft announced that they are adding full Git support into all their ALM products. They have published a plugin for Visual Studio 2012 that adds Git source control integration.

Alternatively, there is a project called Git Extensions that includes add-ins for Visual Studio 2005, 2008, 2010 and 2012, as well as Windows Explorer integration. It's regularly updated and having used it on a couple of projects, I've found it very useful.

Another option is Git Source Control Provider.

What is the difference between MVC and MVVM?

I made a Medium article for this.

MVVM

  1. View ? ViewModel ? Model

    • The view has a reference to the ViewModel but not vice versa.
    • The ViewModel has a reference to the Model but not vice versa.
    • The View has no reference to the Model and vice versa.
  2. If you are using a controller, it can have a reference to Views and ViewModels, though a Controller is not always necessary as demonstrated in SwiftUI.

  3. Data Binding: we create listeners for ViewModel Properties.
class CustomView: UIView {
  var viewModel = MyViewModel {
    didSet {
      self.color = viewModel.color
    }
  }

  convenience init(viewModel: MyViewModel) {
    self.viewModel = viewModel
  }
}


struct MyViewModel {
   var viewColor: UIColor {
      didSet {
         colorChanged?() // This is where the binding magic happens.
      }
   }

   var colorChanged: ((UIColor) -> Void)?
}


class MyViewController: UIViewController {

   let myViewModel = MyViewModel(viewColor: .green)
   let customView: CustomView!

   override func viewDidLoad() {
      super.viewDidLoad()

      // This is where the binder is assigned.
      myViewModel.colorChanged = { [weak self] color in 
        print("wow the color changed")
      }
      customView = CustomView(viewModel: myViewModel)
      self.view = customView
   }
}

differences in setup

  1. Business logic is held in the controller for MVC and the ViewModels for MVVM.
  2. Events are passed directly from the View to the controller in MVC while events are passed from the View to the ViewModel to the Controller (if there is one) for MVVM.

Common features

  1. Both MVVM and MVC do not allow the View to send messages directly to the Model/s.
  2. Both have models.
  3. Both have views.

Advantages of MVVM

  1. Because the ViewModels hold business logic, they are smaller concrete objects making them easy to unit tests. On the other hand, in MVC, the business logic is in the ViewController. How can you trust that a unit test of a view controller is comprehensively safe without testing all the methods and listeners simultaneously? You can't wholly trust the unit test results.
  2. In MVVM, because business logic is siphoned out of the Controller into atomic ViewModel units, the size of the ViewController shrinks and this makes the ViewController code more legible.

Advantages of MVC

  1. Providing business logic within the controller reduces the need for branching and therefore statements are more likely to run on the cache which is more performant over encapsulating business logic into ViewModels.
  2. Providing business logic in one place can accelerate the development process for simple applications, where tests are not required. I don't know when tests are not required.
  3. Providing business logic in the ViewController is easier to think about for new developers.

Hide a EditText & make it visible by clicking a menu

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.waist2height); {
        final EditText edit = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.editText);          
        final RadioButton rb1 = (RadioButton) findViewById(R.id.radioCM);
        final RadioButton rb2 = (RadioButton) findViewById(R.id.radioFT);                       
        if(rb1.isChecked()){    
            edit.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);              
        }
        else if(rb2.isChecked()){               
            edit.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
        }
}

what is the difference between ajax and jquery and which one is better?

AJAX is a way of sending information between browser and server without refreshing page. It can be done with or without library like jQuery.

It is easier with the library.

Here is a list of JavaScript libraries/frameworks commonly used in AJAX development.

Determining 32 vs 64 bit in C++

Try this:
#ifdef _WIN64
// 64 bit code
#elif _WIN32
// 32 bit code
#else
   if(sizeof(void*)==4)

       // 32 bit code
   else 

       // 64 bit code   
#endif

Firefox 'Cross-Origin Request Blocked' despite headers

Try this, it should solve your issue

  1. In your config.php, add www pre in your domain.com. For example:

    HTTP define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://domain name with www/');
    HTTPS define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'http://domain name with www/');
    
  2. Add this to your .htaccess file

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} OPTIONS RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1 [R=200,L]
    

Hibernate: hbm2ddl.auto=update in production?

I agree with Vladimir. The administrators in my company would definitely not appreciate it if I even suggested such a course.

Further, creating an SQL script in stead of blindly trusting Hibernate gives you the opportunity to remove fields which are no longer in use. Hibernate does not do that.

And I find comparing the production schema with the new schema gives you even better insight to wat you changed in the data model. You know, of course, because you made it, but now you see all the changes in one go. Even the ones which make you go like "What the heck?!".

There are tools which can make a schema delta for you, so it isn't even hard work. And then you know exactly what's going to happen.

How can I recognize touch events using jQuery in Safari for iPad? Is it possible?

jQuery Core doesn't have anything special, but you can read on jQuery Mobile Events page about different touch events, which also work on other than iOS devices as well.

They are:

  • tap
  • taphold
  • swipe
  • swipeleft
  • swiperight

Notice also, that during scroll events (based on touch on mobile devices) iOS devices freezes DOM manipulation while scrolling.

How to do date/time comparison

Use the time package to work with time information in Go.

Time instants can be compared using the Before, After, and Equal methods. The Sub method subtracts two instants, producing a Duration. The Add method adds a Time and a Duration, producing a Time.

Play example:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "time"
)

func inTimeSpan(start, end, check time.Time) bool {
    return check.After(start) && check.Before(end)
}

func main() {
    start, _ := time.Parse(time.RFC822, "01 Jan 15 10:00 UTC")
    end, _ := time.Parse(time.RFC822, "01 Jan 16 10:00 UTC")

    in, _ := time.Parse(time.RFC822, "01 Jan 15 20:00 UTC")
    out, _ := time.Parse(time.RFC822, "01 Jan 17 10:00 UTC")

    if inTimeSpan(start, end, in) {
        fmt.Println(in, "is between", start, "and", end, ".")
    }

    if !inTimeSpan(start, end, out) {
        fmt.Println(out, "is not between", start, "and", end, ".")
    }
}

Ignoring upper case and lower case in Java

Use String#toLowerCase() or String#equalsIgnoreCase() methods

Some examples:

    String abc    = "Abc".toLowerCase();
    boolean isAbc = "Abc".equalsIgnoreCase("ABC");

javax.faces.application.ViewExpiredException: View could not be restored

Have you tried adding lines below to your web.xml?

<context-param>
   <param-name>com.sun.faces.enableRestoreView11Compatibility</param-name>
   <param-value>true</param-value>
</context-param>

I found this to be very effective when I encountered this issue.

What is the meaning of @_ in Perl?

perldoc perlvar is the first place to check for any special-named Perl variable info.

Quoting:

@_: Within a subroutine the array @_ contains the parameters passed to that subroutine.

More details can be found in perldoc perlsub (Perl subroutines) linked from the perlvar:

Any arguments passed in show up in the array @_ .

Therefore, if you called a function with two arguments, those would be stored in $_[0] and $_[1].

The array @_ is a local array, but its elements are aliases for the actual scalar parameters. In particular, if an element $_[0] is updated, the corresponding argument is updated (or an error occurs if it is not updatable).

If an argument is an array or hash element which did not exist when the function was called, that element is created only when (and if) it is modified or a reference to it is taken. (Some earlier versions of Perl created the element whether or not the element was assigned to.) Assigning to the whole array @_ removes that aliasing, and does not update any arguments.

One line if/else condition in linux shell scripting

To summarize the other answers, for general use:

Multi-line if...then statement

if [ foo ]; then
    a; b
elif [ bar ]; then
    c; d
else
    e; f
fi

Single-line version

if [ foo ]; then a && b; elif [ bar ]; c && d; else e && f; fi

Using the OR operator

( foo && a && b ) || ( bar && c && d ) || e && f;

Notes

Remember that the AND and OR operators evaluate whether or not the result code of the previous operation was equal to true/success (0). So if a custom function returns something else (or nothing at all), you may run into problems with the AND/OR shorthand. In such cases, you may want to replace something like ( a && b ) with ( [ a == 'EXPECTEDRESULT' ] && b ), etc.

Also note that ( and [ are technically commands, so whitespace is required around them.

Instead of a group of && statements like then a && b; else, you could also run statements in a subshell like then $( a; b ); else, though this is less efficient. The same is true for doing something like result1=$( foo; a; b ); result2=$( bar; c; d ); [ "$result1" -o "$result2" ] instead of ( foo && a && b ) || ( bar && c && d ). Though at that point you'd be getting more into less-compact, multi-line stuff anyway.

How do I make a transparent border with CSS?

hey this is the best solution I ever experienced.. this is CSS3

use following property to your div or anywhere you wanna put border trasparent

e.g.

div_class { 
 border: 10px solid #999;
 background-clip: padding-box; /* Firefox 4+, Opera, for IE9+, Chrome */
}

this will work..

Scrolling to an Anchor using Transition/CSS3

You can find the answer to your question on the following page:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/17633941/2359161

Here is the JSFiddle that was given:

http://jsfiddle.net/YYPKM/3/

Note the scrolling section at the end of the CSS, specifically:

_x000D_
_x000D_
/*_x000D_
 *Styling_x000D_
 */_x000D_
_x000D_
html,body {_x000D_
    width: 100%;_x000D_
    height: 100%;_x000D_
    position: relative; _x000D_
}_x000D_
body {_x000D_
overflow: hidden;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
header {_x000D_
background: #fff; _x000D_
position: fixed; _x000D_
left: 0; top: 0; _x000D_
width:100%;_x000D_
height: 3.5rem;_x000D_
z-index: 10; _x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
nav {_x000D_
width: 100%;_x000D_
padding-top: 0.5rem;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
nav ul {_x000D_
list-style: none;_x000D_
width: inherit; _x000D_
margin: 0; _x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_
ul li:nth-child( 3n + 1), #main .panel:nth-child( 3n + 1) {_x000D_
background: rgb( 0, 180, 255 );_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
ul li:nth-child( 3n + 2), #main .panel:nth-child( 3n + 2) {_x000D_
background: rgb( 255, 65, 180 );_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
ul li:nth-child( 3n + 3), #main .panel:nth-child( 3n + 3) {_x000D_
background: rgb( 0, 255, 180 );_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
ul li {_x000D_
display: inline-block; _x000D_
margin: 0 8px;_x000D_
margin: 0 0.5rem;_x000D_
padding: 5px 8px;_x000D_
padding: 0.3rem 0.5rem;_x000D_
border-radius: 2px; _x000D_
line-height: 1.5;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
ul li a {_x000D_
color: #fff;_x000D_
text-decoration: none;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
.panel {_x000D_
width: 100%;_x000D_
height: 500px;_x000D_
z-index:0; _x000D_
-webkit-transform: translateZ( 0 );_x000D_
transform: translateZ( 0 );_x000D_
-webkit-transition: -webkit-transform 0.6s ease-in-out;_x000D_
transition: transform 0.6s ease-in-out;_x000D_
-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden;_x000D_
backface-visibility: hidden;_x000D_
_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
.panel h1 {_x000D_
font-family: sans-serif;_x000D_
font-size: 64px;_x000D_
font-size: 4rem;_x000D_
color: #fff;_x000D_
position:relative;_x000D_
line-height: 200px;_x000D_
top: 33%;_x000D_
text-align: center;_x000D_
margin: 0;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
/*_x000D_
 *Scrolling_x000D_
 */_x000D_
_x000D_
a[ id= "servicios" ]:target ~ #main article.panel {_x000D_
-webkit-transform: translateY( 0px);_x000D_
transform: translateY( 0px );_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
a[ id= "galeria" ]:target ~ #main article.panel {_x000D_
-webkit-transform: translateY( -500px );_x000D_
transform: translateY( -500px );_x000D_
}_x000D_
a[ id= "contacto" ]:target ~ #main article.panel {_x000D_
-webkit-transform: translateY( -1000px );_x000D_
transform: translateY( -1000px );_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<a id="servicios"></a>_x000D_
<a id="galeria"></a>_x000D_
<a id="contacto"></a>_x000D_
<header class="nav">_x000D_
<nav>_x000D_
    <ul>_x000D_
        <li><a href="#servicios"> Servicios </a> </li>_x000D_
        <li><a href="#galeria"> Galeria </a> </li>_x000D_
        <li><a href="#contacto">Contacta  nos </a> </li>_x000D_
    </ul>_x000D_
</nav>_x000D_
</header>_x000D_
_x000D_
<section id="main">_x000D_
<article class="panel" id="servicios">_x000D_
    <h1> Nuestros Servicios</h1>_x000D_
</article>_x000D_
_x000D_
<article class="panel" id="galeria">_x000D_
    <h1> Mustra de nuestro trabajos</h1>_x000D_
</article>_x000D_
_x000D_
<article class="panel" id="contacto">_x000D_
    <h1> Pongamonos en contacto</h1>_x000D_
</article>_x000D_
</section>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

How can I get the line number which threw exception?

If you don't have the .PBO file:

C#

public int GetLineNumber(Exception ex)
{
    var lineNumber = 0;
    const string lineSearch = ":line ";
    var index = ex.StackTrace.LastIndexOf(lineSearch);
    if (index != -1)
    {
        var lineNumberText = ex.StackTrace.Substring(index + lineSearch.Length);
        if (int.TryParse(lineNumberText, out lineNumber))
        {
        }
    }
    return lineNumber;
}

Vb.net

Public Function GetLineNumber(ByVal ex As Exception)
    Dim lineNumber As Int32 = 0
    Const lineSearch As String = ":line "
    Dim index = ex.StackTrace.LastIndexOf(lineSearch)
    If index <> -1 Then
        Dim lineNumberText = ex.StackTrace.Substring(index + lineSearch.Length)
        If Int32.TryParse(lineNumberText, lineNumber) Then
        End If
    End If
    Return lineNumber
End Function

Or as an extentions on the Exception class

public static class MyExtensions
{
    public static int LineNumber(this Exception ex)
    {
        var lineNumber = 0;
        const string lineSearch = ":line ";
        var index = ex.StackTrace.LastIndexOf(lineSearch);
        if (index != -1)
        {
            var lineNumberText = ex.StackTrace.Substring(index + lineSearch.Length);
            if (int.TryParse(lineNumberText, out lineNumber))
            {
            }
        }
        return lineNumber;
    }
}   

LINQ .Any VS .Exists - What's the difference?

When you correct the measurements - as mentioned above: Any and Exists, and adding average - we'll get following output:

Executing search Exists() 1000 times ... 
Average Exists(): 35566,023
Fastest Exists() execution: 32226 

Executing search Any() 1000 times ... 
Average Any(): 58852,435
Fastest Any() execution: 52269 ticks

Benchmark finished. Press any key.

C++: what regex library should I use?

Boost.Regex is very good and is slated to become part of the C++0x standard (it's already in TR1).

Personally, I find Boost.Xpressive much nicer to work with. It is a header-only library and it has some nice features such as static regexes (regexes compiled at compile time).

Update: If you're using a C++11 compliant compiler (gcc 4.8 is NOT!), use std::regex unless you have good reason to use something else.

How to handle the modal closing event in Twitter Bootstrap?

If you want specifically do something when click on close button exactly like you described:

<a href="#" class="btn close_link" data-dismiss="modal">Close</a>

you need to attach an event using css selector:

$(document).on('click', '[data-dismiss="modal"]', function(){what you want to do})

But if you want to do something when modal close, you can use the already wrote tips

This Row already belongs to another table error when trying to add rows?

Why don't you just use CopyToDataTable

DataTable dt = (DataTable)Session["dtAllOrders"];
DataTable dtSpecificOrders = new DataTable();

DataTable orderRows = dt.Select("CustomerID = 2").CopyToDataTable();

Real time face detection OpenCV, Python

Your line:

img = cv2.rectangle(img,(x,y),(x+w,y+h),(255,0,0),2) 

will draw a rectangle in the image, but the return value will be None, so img changes to None and cannot be drawn.

Try

cv2.rectangle(img,(x,y),(x+w,y+h),(255,0,0),2) 

Query to get the names of all tables in SQL Server 2008 Database

sys.tables

Contains all tables. so exec this query to get all tables with details.

SELECT * FROM sys.tables

enter image description here

or simply select Name from sys.tables to get the name of all tables.

SELECT Name From sys.tables

Convert np.array of type float64 to type uint8 scaling values

you can use skimage.img_as_ubyte(yourdata) it will make you numpy array ranges from 0->255

from skimage import img_as_ubyte

img = img_as_ubyte(data)
cv2.imshow("Window", img)

response.sendRedirect() from Servlet to JSP does not seem to work

Instead of using

response.sendRedirect("/demo.jsp");

Which does a permanent redirect to an absolute URL path,

Rather use RequestDispatcher. Example:

RequestDispatcher dispatcher = request.getRequestDispatcher("demo.jsp");
dispatcher.forward(request, response);

Run all SQL files in a directory

@echo off
cd C:\Program Files (x86)\MySQL\MySQL Workbench 6.0 CE

for %%a in (D:\abc\*.sql) do (
echo %%a
mysql --host=ip --port=3306 --user=uid--password=ped < %%a
)

Step1: above lines copy into note pad save it as bat.

step2: In d drive abc folder in all Sql files in queries executed in sql server.

step3: Give your ip, user id and password.

How to get GET (query string) variables in Express.js on Node.js?

In Express it's already done for you and you can simply use req.query for that:

var id = req.query.id; // $_GET["id"]

Otherwise, in NodeJS, you can access req.url and the builtin url module to url.parse it manually:

var url = require('url');
var url_parts = url.parse(request.url, true);
var query = url_parts.query;

passing JSON data to a Spring MVC controller

Add the following dependencies

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId> 
    <artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId>
    <version>1.9.7</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId> 
    <artifactId>jackson-core-asl</artifactId>
    <version>1.9.7</version>
</dependency>

Modify request as follows

$.ajax({ 
    url:urlName,    
    type:"POST", 
    contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
    data: jsonString, //Stringified Json Object
    async: false,    //Cross-domain requests and dataType: "jsonp" requests do not support synchronous operation
    cache: false,    //This will force requested pages not to be cached by the browser          
    processData:false, //To avoid making query String instead of JSON
    success: function(resposeJsonObject){
        // Success Message Handler
    }
});

Controller side

@RequestMapping(value = urlPattern , method = RequestMethod.POST)
public @ResponseBody Person save(@RequestBody Person jsonString) {

   Person person=personService.savedata(jsonString);
   return person;
}

@RequestBody - Covert Json object to java
@ResponseBody- convert Java object to json

How do operator.itemgetter() and sort() work?

a = []
a.append(["Nick", 30, "Doctor"])
a.append(["John",  8, "Student"])
a.append(["Paul",  8,"Car Dealer"])
a.append(["Mark", 66, "Retired"])
print a

[['Nick', 30, 'Doctor'], ['John', 8, 'Student'], ['Paul', 8, 'Car Dealer'], ['Mark', 66, 'Retired']]

def _cmp(a,b):     

    if a[1]<b[1]:
        return -1
    elif a[1]>b[1]:
        return 1
    else:
        return 0

sorted(a,cmp=_cmp)

[['John', 8, 'Student'], ['Paul', 8, 'Car Dealer'], ['Nick', 30, 'Doctor'], ['Mark', 66, 'Retired']]

def _key(list_ele):

    return list_ele[1]

sorted(a,key=_key)

[['John', 8, 'Student'], ['Paul', 8, 'Car Dealer'], ['Nick', 30, 'Doctor'], ['Mark', 66, 'Retired']]
>>> 

Using PHP with Socket.io

I haven't tried it yet, but you should be able to do this with ReactPHP and this socket component. Looks just like Node, but in PHP.

How to force a line break on a Javascript concatenated string?

You can't have multiple lines in a text box, you need a textarea. Then it works with \n between the values.

Where is the Global.asax.cs file?

That's because you created a Web Site instead of a Web Application. The cs/vb files can only be seen in a Web Application, but in a website you can't have a separate cs/vb file.

Edit: In the website you can add a cs file behavior like..

<%@ Application CodeFile="Global.asax.cs" Inherits="ApplicationName.MyApplication" Language="C#" %>

~/Global.asax.cs:

namespace ApplicationName
{
    public partial class MyApplication : System.Web.HttpApplication
    {
        protected void Application_Start()
        {
        }
    }
}

No authenticationScheme was specified, and there was no DefaultChallengeScheme found with default authentification and custom authorization

Many answer above are correct but same time convoluted with other aspects of authN/authZ. What actually resolves the exception in question is this line:

services.AddScheme<YourAuthenticationOptions, YourAuthenticationHandler>(YourAuthenticationSchemeName, options =>
    {
        options.YourProperty = yourValue;
    })

make: *** No rule to make target `all'. Stop

Your makefile should ideally be named makefile, not make. Note that you can call your makefile anything you like, but as you found, you then need the -f option with make to specify the name of the makefile. Using the default name of makefile just makes life easier.

How do you follow an HTTP Redirect in Node.js?

Make another request based on response.headers.location:

      const request = function(url) {
        lib.get(url, (response) => {
          var body = [];
          if (response.statusCode == 302) {
            body = [];
            request(response.headers.location);
          } else {
            response.on("data", /*...*/);
            response.on("end", /*...*/);
          };
        } ).on("error", /*...*/);
      };
      request(url);

How do I watch a file for changes?

Well after a bit of hacking of Tim Golden's script, I have the following which seems to work quite well:

import os

import win32file
import win32con

path_to_watch = "." # look at the current directory
file_to_watch = "test.txt" # look for changes to a file called test.txt

def ProcessNewData( newData ):
    print "Text added: %s"%newData

# Set up the bits we'll need for output
ACTIONS = {
  1 : "Created",
  2 : "Deleted",
  3 : "Updated",
  4 : "Renamed from something",
  5 : "Renamed to something"
}
FILE_LIST_DIRECTORY = 0x0001
hDir = win32file.CreateFile (
  path_to_watch,
  FILE_LIST_DIRECTORY,
  win32con.FILE_SHARE_READ | win32con.FILE_SHARE_WRITE,
  None,
  win32con.OPEN_EXISTING,
  win32con.FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS,
  None
)

# Open the file we're interested in
a = open(file_to_watch, "r")

# Throw away any exising log data
a.read()

# Wait for new data and call ProcessNewData for each new chunk that's written
while 1:
  # Wait for a change to occur
  results = win32file.ReadDirectoryChangesW (
    hDir,
    1024,
    False,
    win32con.FILE_NOTIFY_CHANGE_LAST_WRITE,
    None,
    None
  )

  # For each change, check to see if it's updating the file we're interested in
  for action, file in results:
    full_filename = os.path.join (path_to_watch, file)
    #print file, ACTIONS.get (action, "Unknown")
    if file == file_to_watch:
        newText = a.read()
        if newText != "":
            ProcessNewData( newText )

It could probably do with a load more error checking, but for simply watching a log file and doing some processing on it before spitting it out to the screen, this works well.

Thanks everyone for your input - great stuff!

What is the difference between require() and library()?

?library

and you will see:

library(package) and require(package) both load the package with name package and put it on the search list. require is designed for use inside other functions; it returns FALSE and gives a warning (rather than an error as library() does by default) if the package does not exist. Both functions check and update the list of currently loaded packages and do not reload a package which is already loaded. (If you want to reload such a package, call detach(unload = TRUE) or unloadNamespace first.) If you want to load a package without putting it on the search list, use requireNamespace.

MD5 hashing in Android

A solution above using DigestUtils didn't work for me. In my version of Apache commons (the latest one for 2013) there is no such class.

I found another solution here in one blog. It works perfect and doesn't need Apache commons. It looks a little shorter than the code in accepted answer above.

public static String getMd5Hash(String input) {
    try {
        MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
        byte[] messageDigest = md.digest(input.getBytes());
        BigInteger number = new BigInteger(1, messageDigest);
        String md5 = number.toString(16);

        while (md5.length() < 32)
            md5 = "0" + md5;

        return md5;
    } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
        Log.e("MD5", e.getLocalizedMessage());
        return null;
    }
}

You will need these imports:

import java.math.BigInteger;
import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;

jQuery check/uncheck radio button onclick

$(document).ready(function(){ $("input:radio:checked").data("chk",true);

$("input:radio").click(function(){
    $("input[name='"+$(this).attr("name")+"']:radio").not(this).removeData("chk");

    $(this).data("chk",!$(this).data("chk"));

    $(this).prop("checked",$(this).data("chk"));
});

});

Clearing coverage highlighting in Eclipse

If you remove the coverage session, also the coverage coloring will disappear. For this, hit Remove Session or Remove All Sessions in the Coverage view's toolbar.

http://eclemma.org/faq.html

How to show x and y axes in a MATLAB graph?

This should work in Matlab:

set(gca, 'XAxisLocation', 'origin')

Options are: bottom, top, origin.

For Y.axis:

YAxisLocation; left, right, origin

What is the purpose of Node.js module.exports and how do you use it?

module.exports is the object that's actually returned as the result of a require call.

The exports variable is initially set to that same object (i.e. it's a shorthand "alias"), so in the module code you would usually write something like this:

let myFunc1 = function() { ... };
let myFunc2 = function() { ... };
exports.myFunc1 = myFunc1;
exports.myFunc2 = myFunc2;

to export (or "expose") the internally scoped functions myFunc1 and myFunc2.

And in the calling code you would use:

const m = require('./mymodule');
m.myFunc1();

where the last line shows how the result of require is (usually) just a plain object whose properties may be accessed.

NB: if you overwrite exports then it will no longer refer to module.exports. So if you wish to assign a new object (or a function reference) to exports then you should also assign that new object to module.exports


It's worth noting that the name added to the exports object does not have to be the same as the module's internally scoped name for the value that you're adding, so you could have:

let myVeryLongInternalName = function() { ... };
exports.shortName = myVeryLongInternalName;
// add other objects, functions, as required

followed by:

const m = require('./mymodule');
m.shortName(); // invokes module.myVeryLongInternalName

Easy way to get a test file into JUnit

You can try doing:

String myResource = IOUtils.toString(this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("yourfile.xml")).replace("\n","");

Windows shell command to get the full path to the current directory?

Quote the Windows help for the set command (set /?):

If Command Extensions are enabled, then there are several dynamic
environment variables that can be expanded but which don't show up in
the list of variables displayed by SET.  These variable values are
computed dynamically each time the value of the variable is expanded.
If the user explicitly defines a variable with one of these names, then
that definition will override the dynamic one described below:

%CD% - expands to the current directory string.

%DATE% - expands to current date using same format as DATE command.

%TIME% - expands to current time using same format as TIME command.

%RANDOM% - expands to a random decimal number between 0 and 32767.

%ERRORLEVEL% - expands to the current ERRORLEVEL value

%CMDEXTVERSION% - expands to the current Command Processor Extensions
    version number.

%CMDCMDLINE% - expands to the original command line that invoked the
    Command Processor.

Note the %CD% - expands to the current directory string. part.

How to sort strings in JavaScript

You should use > or < and == here. So the solution would be:

list.sort(function(item1, item2) {
    var val1 = item1.attr,
        val2 = item2.attr;
    if (val1 == val2) return 0;
    if (val1 > val2) return 1;
    if (val1 < val2) return -1;
});

Create list of single item repeated N times

>>> [5] * 4
[5, 5, 5, 5]

Be careful when the item being repeated is a list. The list will not be cloned: all the elements will refer to the same list!

>>> x=[5]
>>> y=[x] * 4
>>> y
[[5], [5], [5], [5]]
>>> y[0][0] = 6
>>> y
[[6], [6], [6], [6]]

Laravel Eloquent limit and offset

$collection = collect([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]);

$chunk = $collection->forPage(2, 3);

$chunk->all();

In NetBeans how do I change the Default JDK?

If I remember correctly, you'll need to set the netbeans_jdkhome property in your netbeans config file. Should be in your etc/netbeans.conf file.

byte[] to hex string

Hex, Linq-fu:

string.Concat(ba.Select(b => b.ToString("X2")).ToArray())

UPDATE with the times

As noted by @RubenBartelink, the code that don't have a conversion of IEnumerable<string> to an array: ba.Select(b => b.ToString("X2")) does not work prior to 4.0, the same code is now working on 4.0.

This code...

byte[] ba = { 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 };

string s = string.Concat(ba.Select(b => b.ToString("X2")));
string t = string.Concat(ba.Select(b => b.ToString("X2")).ToArray());

Console.WriteLine (s);
Console.WriteLine (t);

...prior to .NET 4.0, the output is:

System.Linq.Enumerable+<CreateSelectIterator>c__Iterator10`2[System.Byte,System.String]
010204081020

On .NET 4.0 onwards, string.Concat has an overload that accepts IEnumerable. Hence on 4.0, the above code will have same output for both variables s and t

010204081020
010204081020

Prior to 4.0, ba.Select(b => b.ToString("X2")) goes to overload (object arg0), the way for the IEnumerable<string> to go to a proper overload, i.e. (params string[] values), is we need to convert the IEnumerable<string> to string array. Prior to 4.0, string.Concat has 10 overload functions, on 4.0 it is now 12

Android ViewPager with bottom dots

viewPager.addOnPageChangeListener(new OnPageChangeListener() {
            @Override
            public void onPageSelected(int position) {

                switch (position) {
    case 0:
        img_page1.setImageResource(R.drawable.dot_selected);
        img_page2.setImageResource(R.drawable.dot);
        img_page3.setImageResource(R.drawable.dot);
        img_page4.setImageResource(R.drawable.dot);
        break;

    case 1:
        img_page1.setImageResource(R.drawable.dot);
        img_page2.setImageResource(R.drawable.dot_selected);
        img_page3.setImageResource(R.drawable.dot);
        img_page4.setImageResource(R.drawable.dot);
        break;

    case 2:
        img_page1.setImageResource(R.drawable.dot);
        img_page2.setImageResource(R.drawable.dot);
        img_page3.setImageResource(R.drawable.dot_selected);
        img_page4.setImageResource(R.drawable.dot);
        break;

    case 3:
        img_page1.setImageResource(R.drawable.dot);
        img_page2.setImageResource(R.drawable.dot);
        img_page3.setImageResource(R.drawable.dot);
        img_page4.setImageResource(R.drawable.dot_selected);
        break;

    default:
        break;
    }


            }

            @Override
            public void onPageScrolled(int arg0, float arg1, int arg2) {

            }

            @Override
            public void onPageScrollStateChanged(int arg0) {

            }
        });

Update an outdated branch against master in a Git repo

Update the master branch, which you need to do regardless.

Then, one of:

  1. Rebase the old branch against the master branch. Solve the merge conflicts during rebase, and the result will be an up-to-date branch that merges cleanly against master.

  2. Merge your branch into master, and resolve the merge conflicts.

  3. Merge master into your branch, and resolve the merge conflicts. Then, merging from your branch into master should be clean.

None of these is better than the other, they just have different trade-off patterns.

I would use the rebase approach, which gives cleaner overall results to later readers, in my opinion, but that is nothing aside from personal taste.

To rebase and keep the branch you would:

git checkout <branch> && git rebase <target>

In your case, check out the old branch, then

git rebase master 

to get it rebuilt against master.

Boolean operators ( &&, -a, ||, -o ) in Bash

-a and -o are the older and/or operators for the test command. && and || are and/or operators for the shell. So (assuming an old shell) in your first case,

[ "$1" = 'yes' ] && [ -r $2.txt ]

The shell is evaluating the and condition. In your second case,

[ "$1" = 'yes' -a $2 -lt 3 ]

The test command (or builtin test) is evaluating the and condition.

Of course in all modern or semi-modern shells, the test command is built in to the shell, so there really isn't any or much difference. In modern shells, the if statement can be written:

[[ $1 == yes && -r $2.txt ]]

Which is more similar to modern programming languages and thus is more readable.

How to correctly catch change/focusOut event on text input in React.js?

You'd need to be careful as onBlur has some caveats in IE11 (How to use relatedTarget (or equivalent) in IE?, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MouseEvent/relatedTarget).

There is, however, no way to use onFocusOut in React as far as I can tell. See the issue on their github https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/6410 if you need more information.

How to delete a file from SD card?

Recursively delete all children of the file ...

public static void DeleteRecursive(File fileOrDirectory) {
    if (fileOrDirectory.isDirectory()) {
        for (File child : fileOrDirectory.listFiles()) {
            DeleteRecursive(child);
        }
    }

    fileOrDirectory.delete();
}

Printing a java map Map<String, Object> - How?

I'm sure there's some nice library that does this sort of thing already for you... But to just stick with the approach you're already going with, Map#entrySet gives you a combined Object with the key and the value. So something like:

for (Map.Entry<String, Object> entry : map.entrySet()) {
    System.out.println(entry.getKey() + ":" + entry.getValue().toString());
}

will do what you're after.


If you're using java 8, there's also the new streaming approach.

map.forEach((key, value) -> System.out.println(key + ":" + value));

How to draw a graph in PHP?

By far the easiest solution is to just use the Google Chart API http://code.google.com/apis/chart/

You can make bar graphs, pie charts, use 3D, and it's as easy as building a url with some parameters. See the simple example below.

This Pie Chart is really easy to make

converting numbers in to words C#

public static string NumberToWords(int number)
{
    if (number == 0)
        return "zero";

    if (number < 0)
        return "minus " + NumberToWords(Math.Abs(number));

    string words = "";

    if ((number / 1000000) > 0)
    {
        words += NumberToWords(number / 1000000) + " million ";
        number %= 1000000;
    }

    if ((number / 1000) > 0)
    {
        words += NumberToWords(number / 1000) + " thousand ";
        number %= 1000;
    }

    if ((number / 100) > 0)
    {
        words += NumberToWords(number / 100) + " hundred ";
        number %= 100;
    }

    if (number > 0)
    {
        if (words != "")
            words += "and ";

        var unitsMap = new[] { "zero", "one", "two", "three", "four", "five", "six", "seven", "eight", "nine", "ten", "eleven", "twelve", "thirteen", "fourteen", "fifteen", "sixteen", "seventeen", "eighteen", "nineteen" };
        var tensMap = new[] { "zero", "ten", "twenty", "thirty", "forty", "fifty", "sixty", "seventy", "eighty", "ninety" };

        if (number < 20)
            words += unitsMap[number];
        else
        {
            words += tensMap[number / 10];
            if ((number % 10) > 0)
                words += "-" + unitsMap[number % 10];
        }
    }

    return words;
}