Programs & Examples On #Flash

For questions on Adobe's cross-platform multimedia runtime used to embed animations, video, and interactive applications into web pages. For questions related to memory, use the tag [flash-memory].

Best way to determine user's locale within browser

I did a bit of research regarding this & I have summarised my findings so far in below table

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So the recommended solution is to write a a server side script to parse the Accept-Language header & pass it to client for setting the language of the website. It's weird that why the server would be needed to detect the language preference of client but that's how it is as of now There are other various hacks available to detect the language but reading the Accept-Language header is the recommended solution as per my understanding.

How to embed fonts in HTML?

And it's unlikely too -- EOT is a fairly restrictive format that is supported only by IE. Both Safari 3.1 and Firefox 3.1 (well the current alpha) and possibly Opera 9.6 support true type font (ttf) embedding, and at least Safari supports SVG fonts through the same mechanism. A list apart had a good discussion about this a while back.

Want custom title / image / description in facebook share link from a flash app

You can't, it just doesn't support it.

I have to ask, why those calculations need to happen Only inside the flash app?

You have to be navigating to an URL that clearly relates to the metadata you get from the flash app. Otherwise how would the flash app know to get the values depending on the URL you hit.

Options are:

  • calculate on the page: When serving the page you need to do those same calculations on the server and send the title, etc on the page metadata.
  • send metadata in the query string to your site: If you really must keep the calculation off the server, an alternative trick would be to explicitly set the metadata in the URL the users click to get to your site from Facebook. When processing the page, you just copy it back in the metadata sections (don't forget to encode appropriately). That is clearly limited because of the url size restrictions.
  • send the calculation results in the query string to your site: if those calculations just give you a couple numbers that are used in the metadata, you could include just that in the query string of the URL the users click back to your site. That's more likely to not give you problems with URL sizes.

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Why is this upvoted? It's wrong. You CAN - it IS supported to add custom title, description and images to your share. I do it all the time. – Dustin Fineout 3 hours ago

The OP very clearly stated that he already knew you could serve that from a page, but wanted to pass the values directly to facebook (not through the target page).

Besides, note that I gave 3 different options to work around the issue, one of which is what you posted as an answer later. Your option isn't how the OP was trying to do it, its just a workaround because of facebook restrictions.

Finally, just as I did, you should mention that particular solution is flawed because you can easily hit the URL size restriction.

differences between using wmode="transparent", "opaque", or "window" for an embedded object on a webpage

Here is some weak adobe documentation on different flash 9 wmode settings.

A note of caution on wmode transparent is here in the adobe bug trac.

And new for flash 10, are two new wmodes: gpu and direct. Please refer to Adobe Knowledge Base about wmode.

How do you decompile a swf file

Get the Sothink SWF decompiler. Not free, but worth it. Recently used it to decompile an SWF that I had lost the fla for, and I could completely round-trip swf-fla and back!
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How can I detect if Flash is installed and if not, display a hidden div that informs the user?

You should also be able to use..

swfobject.getFlashPlayerVersion().major === 0

with the swfobject-Plugin.

Assign command output to variable in batch file

This post has a method to achieve this

from (zvrba) You can do it by redirecting the output to a file first. For example:

echo zz > bla.txt
set /p VV=<bla.txt
echo %VV%

Can someone post a well formed crossdomain.xml sample?

If you're using webservices, you'll also need the 'allow-http-request-headers-from' element. Here's our default, development, 'allow everything' policy.

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<cross-domain-policy>
  <site-control permitted-cross-domain-policies="master-only"/>
  <allow-access-from domain="*"/>
  <allow-http-request-headers-from domain="*" headers="*"/>
</cross-domain-policy>

How to add link to flash banner

@Michiel is correct to create a button but the code for ActionScript 3 it is a little different - where movieClipName is the name of your 'button'.

movieClipName.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, callLink);
function callLink:void {
  var url:String = "http://site";
  var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);
  try {
    navigateToURL(request, '_blank');
  } catch (e:Error) {
    trace("Error occurred!");
  }
}

source: http://scriptplayground.com/tutorials/as/getURL-in-Actionscript-3/

Flash CS4 refuses to let go

Flash still has the ASO file, which is the compiled byte code for your classes. On Windows, you can see the ASO files here:

C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Flash CS4\en\Configuration\Classes\aso

On a Mac, the directory structure is similar in /Users/username/Library/Application Support/


You can remove those files by hand, or in Flash you can select Control->Delete ASO files to remove them.

Error #2032: Stream Error

Just to clarify my comment (it's illegible in a single line)

I think the best answer is the comment by Mike Chambers in this link (http://www.judahfrangipane.com/blog/2007/02/15/error-2032-stream-error/) by Hunter McMillen.

A note from Mike Chambers:

If you run into this using URLLoader, listen for the:

flash.events.HTTPStatusEvent.HTTP_STATUS

and in AIR :

flash.events.HTTPStatusEvent.HTTP_RESPONSE_STATUS

It should give you some more information (such as the status code being returned from the server).

Cross Browser Flash Detection in Javascript

Detecting and embedding Flash within a web document is a surprisingly difficult task.

I was very disappointed with the quality and non-standards compliant markup generated from both SWFObject and Adobe's solutions. Additionally, my testing found Adobe's auto updater to be inconsistent and unreliable.

The JavaScript Flash Detection Library (Flash Detect) and JavaScript Flash HTML Generator Library (Flash TML) are a legible, maintainable and standards compliant markup solution.

-"Luke read the source!"

How to make an embedded video not autoplay

A couple of wires are crossed here. The various autoplay settings that you're working with only affect whether the SWF's root timeline starts out paused or not. So if your SWF had a timeline animation, or if it had an embedded video on the root timeline, then these settings would do what you're after.

However, the SWF you're working with almost certainly has only one frame on its timeline, so these settings won't affect playback at all. That one frame contains some flavor of video playback component, which contains ActionScript that controls how the video behaves. To get that player component to start of paused, you'll have to change the settings of the component itself.

Without knowing more about where the content came from it's hard to say more, but when one publishes from Flash, video player components normally include a parameter for whether to autoplay. If your SWF is being published by an application other than Flash (Captivate, I suppose, but I'm not up on that) then your best bet would be to check the settings for that app. Anyway it's not something you can control from the level of the HTML page. (Unless you were talking to the SWF from JavaScript, and for that to work the video component would have to be designed to allow it.)

How to detect when a youtube video finishes playing?

What you may want to do is include a script on all pages that does the following ... 1. find the youtube-iframe : searching for it by width and height by title or by finding www.youtube.com in its source. You can do that by ... - looping through the window.frames by a for-in loop and then filter out by the properties

  1. inject jscript in the iframe of the current page adding the onYoutubePlayerReady must-include-function http://shazwazza.com/post/Injecting-JavaScript-into-other-frames.aspx

  2. Add the event listeners etc..

Hope this helps

How to embed a video into GitHub README.md?

For simple animations you can use an animated gif. I'm using one in this README file for instance.

How to embed a SWF file in an HTML page?

Use the <embed> element:

<embed src="file.swf" width="854" height="480"></embed>

Show Error on the tip of the Edit Text Android

I got the solution of my problem Hope this will help others also.I have used onTextChnaged it invokes When an object of a type is attached to an Editable, its methods will be called when the text is changed.

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    TextView emailId;
    ImageView continuebooking;
    EditText firstName;
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        emailId = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.emailid);
        continuebooking = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.continuebooking);
        firstName= (EditText)findViewById(R.id.firstName);
        emailId.setText("[email protected]");
        setTittle();
        continuebooking.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View arg0) {

                if(firstName.getText().toString().trim().equalsIgnoreCase("")){
                    firstName.setError("Enter FirstName");
                }

            }
        });
        firstName.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {

            @Override
            public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
                firstName.setError(null);

            }

            @Override
            public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count,
                    int after) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub

            }

            @Override
            public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
                firstName.setError(null);

            }
        });
    }

Custom Drawable for ProgressBar/ProgressDialog

Try setting:

android:indeterminateDrawable="@drawable/progress" 

It worked for me. Here is also the code for progress.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rotate xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:pivotX="50%" android:pivotY="50%" android:fromDegrees="0"
    android:toDegrees="360">

    <shape android:shape="ring" android:innerRadiusRatio="3"
        android:thicknessRatio="8" android:useLevel="false">

        <size android:width="48dip" android:height="48dip" />

        <gradient android:type="sweep" android:useLevel="false"
            android:startColor="#4c737373" android:centerColor="#4c737373"
            android:centerY="0.50" android:endColor="#ffffd300" />

    </shape>

</rotate> 

Unable to copy a file from obj\Debug to bin\Debug

in my case problem was in web config. I just removed

<system.web>
    <hostingEnvironment shadowCopyBinAssemblies="false" />
  </system.web>

What is the reason for java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No enum const class even though iterating through values() works just fine?

That's because you defined your own version of name for your enum, and getByName doesn't use that.

getByName("COLUMN_HEADINGS") would probably work.

How can I truncate a datetime in SQL Server?

Just for the sake of a more complete answer, here's a working way for truncating to any of the date parts down and including minutes (replace GETDATE() with the date to truncate).

This is different from the accepted answer in that you can use not only dd (days), but any of the date parts (see here):

dateadd(minute, datediff(minute, 0, GETDATE()), 0)

Note that in the expression above, the 0 is a constant date on the beginning of a year (1900-01-01). If you need to truncate to smaller parts, such as to seconds or milliseconds, you need to take a constant date which is closer to the date to be truncated to avoid an overflow.

Disable Button in Angular 2

Change ng-disabled="!contractTypeValid" to [disabled]="!contractTypeValid"

How to echo (or print) to the js console with php

There are much better ways to print variable's value in PHP. One of them is to use buildin var_dump() function. If you want to use var_dump(), I would also suggest to install Xdebug (from https://xdebug.org) since it generates much more readable printouts.

The idea of printing values to browser console is somewhat bizarre, but if you really want to use it, there is very useful Google Chrome extension, PHP Console, which should satisfy all your needs. You can find it at consle.com It works well also in Vivaldi and in Opera (though you will need "Download Chrome Extension" extension to install it). The extension is accompanied by PHP library you use in your code.

ASP.NET Core Identity - get current user

If you are using Bearing Token Auth, the above samples do not return an Application User.

Instead, use this:

ClaimsPrincipal currentUser = this.User;
var currentUserName = currentUser.FindFirst(ClaimTypes.NameIdentifier).Value;
ApplicationUser user = await _userManager.FindByNameAsync(currentUserName);

This works in apsnetcore 2.0. Have not tried in earlier versions.

Merge/flatten an array of arrays

Sheer Magic of ES6

const flat = A => A.reduce((A, a) => Array.isArray(a) ? [...A, ...flat(a)] : [...A, a], []);

What is the meaning of git reset --hard origin/master?

git reset --hard origin/master

says: throw away all my staged and unstaged changes, forget everything on my current local branch and make it exactly the same as origin/master.

You probably wanted to ask this before you ran the command. The destructive nature is hinted at by using the same words as in "hard reset".

mongodb service is not starting up

1 - disable fork option in /etc/mongodb.conf if enabled

2 - Repair your database

mongod --repair --dbpath DBPATH

3 - kill current mongod process

Find mongo processes

ps -ef | grep mongo

you'll get mongod PID

mongodb   PID     1  0 06:26 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/mongod --config /etc/mongodb.conf

Stop current mongod process

kill -9 PID

4 - start mongoDB service

service mongodb start

Installing OpenCV for Python on Ubuntu, getting ImportError: No module named cv2.cv

If you want as simple as possible, install from the repository:

sudo apt-get install python-opencv libopencv-dev python-numpy python-dev

Get HTML code using JavaScript with a URL

You can use fetch to do that:

fetch('some_url')
    .then(function (response) {
        switch (response.status) {
            // status "OK"
            case 200:
                return response.text();
            // status "Not Found"
            case 404:
                throw response;
        }
    })
    .then(function (template) {
        console.log(template);
    })
    .catch(function (response) {
        // "Not Found"
        console.log(response.statusText);
    });

Asynchronous with arrow function version:

(async () => {
    var response = await fetch('some_url');
    switch (response.status) {
        // status "OK"
        case 200:
            var template = await response.text();

            console.log(template);
            break;
        // status "Not Found"
        case 404:
            console.log('Not Found');
            break;
    }
})();

get the value of DisplayName attribute

From within a view that has Class1 as it's strongly typed view model:

ModelMetadata.FromLambdaExpression<Class1, string>(x => x.Name, ViewData).DisplayName;

How to easily import multiple sql files into a MySQL database?

In Windows, open a terminal, go to the content folder and write:

copy /b *.sql all_files.sql

This concate all files in only one, making it really quick to import with PhpMyAdmin.

In Linux and macOS, as @BlackCharly pointed out, this will do the trick:

cat *.sql  > .all_files.sql

Important Note: Doing it directly should go well, but it could end up with you stuck in a loop with a massive output file getting bigger and bigger due to the system adding the file to itself. To avoid it, two possible solutions.

A) Put the result in a separate directory to be safe (Thanks @mosh):

mkdir concatSql
cat *.sql  > ./concatSql/all_files.sql

B) Concat them in a file with a different extension and then change it the name. (Thanks @William Turrell)

cat *.sql  > all_files.sql1
mv all_files.sql1 all_files.sql

Wait for shell command to complete

Either link the shell to an object, have the batch job terminate the shell object (exit) and have the VBA code continue once the shell object = Nothing?

Or have a look at this: Capture output value from a shell command in VBA?

.htaccess - how to force "www." in a generic way?

If you want to redirect all non-www requests to your site to the www version, all you need to do is add the following code to your .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

Total number of items defined in an enum

For Visual Basic:

[Enum].GetNames(typeof(MyEnum)).Length did not work with me, but [Enum].GetNames(GetType(Animal_Type)).length did.

using BETWEEN in WHERE condition

You might also encounter an error message. "Operand type clash: date is incompatible with int.

Use single quotes around the dates. E.g.: $this->db->where("$accommodation BETWEEN '$minvalue' AND '$maxvalue'");

Get records with max value for each group of grouped SQL results

There's a super-simple way to do this in mysql:

select * 
from (select * from mytable order by `Group`, age desc, Person) x
group by `Group`

This works because in mysql you're allowed to not aggregate non-group-by columns, in which case mysql just returns the first row. The solution is to first order the data such that for each group the row you want is first, then group by the columns you want the value for.

You avoid complicated subqueries that try to find the max() etc, and also the problems of returning multiple rows when there are more than one with the same maximum value (as the other answers would do)

Note: This is a mysql-only solution. All other databases I know will throw an SQL syntax error with the message "non aggregated columns are not listed in the group by clause" or similar. Because this solution uses undocumented behavior, the more cautious may want to include a test to assert that it remains working should a future version of MySQL change this behavior.

Version 5.7 update:

Since version 5.7, the sql-mode setting includes ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY by default, so to make this work you must not have this option (edit the option file for the server to remove this setting).

How to Create an excel dropdown list that displays text with a numeric hidden value

There are two types of drop down lists available (I am not sure since which version).

ActiveX Drop Down
You can set the column widths, so your hidden column can be set to 0.

Form Drop Down
You could set the drop down range to a hidden sheet and reference the cell adjacent to the selected item. This would also work with the ActiveX type control.

Ansible: How to delete files and folders inside a directory?

Created an overall rehauled and fail-safe implementation from all comments and suggestions:

# collect stats about the dir
- name: check directory exists
  stat:
    path: '{{ directory_path }}'
  register: dir_to_delete

# delete directory if condition is true
- name: purge {{directory_path}}
  file:
    state: absent
    path: '{{ directory_path  }}'
  when: dir_to_delete.stat.exists and dir_to_delete.stat.isdir

# create directory if deleted (or if it didn't exist at all)
- name: create directory again
  file:
    state: directory
    path: '{{ directory_path }}'
  when: dir_to_delete is defined or dir_to_delete.stat.exist == False

Reading a string with scanf

I think that this below is accurate and it may help. Feel free to correct it if you find any errors. I'm new at C.

char str[]  
  1. array of values of type char, with its own address in memory
  2. array of values of type char, with its own address in memory as many consecutive addresses as elements in the array
  3. including termination null character '\0' &str, &str[0] and str, all three represent the same location in memory which is address of the first element of the array str

    char *strPtr = &str[0]; //declaration and initialization

alternatively, you can split this in two:

char *strPtr; strPtr = &str[0];
  1. strPtr is a pointer to a char
  2. strPtr points at array str
  3. strPtr is a variable with its own address in memory
  4. strPtr is a variable that stores value of address &str[0]
  5. strPtr own address in memory is different from the memory address that it stores (address of array in memory a.k.a &str[0])
  6. &strPtr represents the address of strPtr itself

I think that you could declare a pointer to a pointer as:

char **vPtr = &strPtr;  

declares and initializes with address of strPtr pointer

Alternatively you could split in two:

char **vPtr;
*vPtr = &strPtr
  1. *vPtr points at strPtr pointer
  2. *vPtr is a variable with its own address in memory
  3. *vPtr is a variable that stores value of address &strPtr
  4. final comment: you can not do str++, str address is a const, but you can do strPtr++

How to use pagination on HTML tables?

you can use this function . Its taken from https://convertintowordpress.com/simple-jquery-table-pagination-code/

function pagination(){
    var req_num_row=10;
    var $tr=jQuery('tbody tr');
    var total_num_row=$tr.length;
    var num_pages=0;
    if(total_num_row % req_num_row ==0){
        num_pages=total_num_row / req_num_row;
    }
    if(total_num_row % req_num_row >=1){
        num_pages=total_num_row / req_num_row;
        num_pages++;
        num_pages=Math.floor(num_pages++);
    }
    for(var i=1; i<=num_pages; i++){
        jQuery('#pagination').append("<a href='#' class='btn'>"+i+"</a>");
    }
    $tr.each(function(i){
        jQuery(this).hide();
        if(i+1 <= req_num_row){
            $tr.eq(i).show();
        }

    });
    jQuery('#pagination a').click(function(e){
        e.preventDefault();
        $tr.hide();
        var page=jQuery(this).text();
        var temp=page-1;
        var start=temp*req_num_row;
        //alert(start);

        for(var i=0; i< req_num_row; i++){

            $tr.eq(start+i).show();

        }
    });
}

Calculate age given the birth date in the format YYYYMMDD

I believe that sometimes the readability is more important in this case. Unless we are validating 1000s of fields, this should be accurate and fast enough:

_x000D_
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function is18orOlder(dateString) {
  const dob = new Date(dateString);
  const dobPlus18 = new Date(dob.getFullYear() + 18, dob.getMonth(), dob.getDate());
  
  return dobPlus18 .valueOf() <= Date.now();
}

// Testing:
console.log(is18orOlder('01/01/1910')); // true
console.log(is18orOlder('01/01/2050')); // false

// When I'm posting this on 10/02/2020, so:
console.log(is18orOlder('10/08/2002')); // true
console.log(is18orOlder('10/19/2002'))  // false
_x000D_
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I like this approach instead of using a constant for how many ms are in a year, and later messing with the leap years, etc. Just letting the built-in Date to do the job.

Update, posting this snippet since one may found it useful. Since I'm enforcing a mask on the input field, to have the format of mm/dd/yyyy and already validating if the date is valid, in my case, this works too to validate 18+ years:

 function is18orOlder(dateString) {
   const [month, date, year] = value.split('/');
   return new Date(+year + 13, +month, +date).valueOf() <= Date.now();
}

Tool to generate JSON schema from JSON data

generate-schema (NPM | Github) takes a JSON Object generates schemas from it, one output is JSON Schema, it's written in Node.js and comes with a REPL and ClI tool for piping files into.

Full Disclosure: I'm the author :)

What are the differences between a HashMap and a Hashtable in Java?

Note, that a lot of the answers state that Hashtable is synchronised. In practice this buys you very little. The synchronization is on the accessor / mutator methods will stop two threads adding or removing from the map concurrently, but in the real world you will often need additional synchronisation.

A very common idiom is to "check then put" — i.e. look for an entry in the Map, and add it if it does not already exist. This is not in any way an atomic operation whether you use Hashtable or HashMap.

An equivalently synchronised HashMap can be obtained by:

Collections.synchronizedMap(myMap);

But to correctly implement this logic you need additional synchronisation of the form:

synchronized(myMap) {
    if (!myMap.containsKey("tomato"))
        myMap.put("tomato", "red");
}

Even iterating over a Hashtable's entries (or a HashMap obtained by Collections.synchronizedMap) is not thread safe unless you also guard the Map from being modified through additional synchronization.

Implementations of the ConcurrentMap interface (for example ConcurrentHashMap) solve some of this by including thread safe check-then-act semantics such as:

ConcurrentMap.putIfAbsent(key, value);

Could not load file or assembly "System.Net.Http, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"

The only way that cleanly solved this issue for me (.NET 4.6.1) was to not only add a Nuget reference to System.Net.Http V4.3.4 for the project that actually used System.Net.Http, but also to the startup project (a test project in my case).

(Which is strange, because the correct System.Net.Http.dll existed in the bin directory of the test project and the .config assemblyBingings looked OK, too.)

Create a table without a header in Markdown

You may be able to hide a heading if you can add the following CSS:

<style>
    th {
        display: none;
    }
</style>

This is a bit heavy-handed and doesn’t distinguish between tables, but it may do for a simple task.

How to add headers to a multicolumn listbox in an Excel userform using VBA

Here is my approach to solve the problem:

This solution requires you to add a second ListBox element and place it above the first one.

Like this:

Add an additional ListBox

Then you call the function CreateListBoxHeader to make the alignment correct and add header items.

Result:

Call the function CreateListBoxHeader

Code:

  Public Sub CreateListBoxHeader(body As MSForms.ListBox, header As MSForms.ListBox, arrHeaders)
            ' make column count match
            header.ColumnCount = body.ColumnCount
            header.ColumnWidths = body.ColumnWidths

        ' add header elements
        header.Clear
        header.AddItem
        Dim i As Integer
        For i = 0 To UBound(arrHeaders)
            header.List(0, i) = arrHeaders(i)
        Next i

        ' make it pretty
        body.ZOrder (1)
        header.ZOrder (0)
        header.SpecialEffect = fmSpecialEffectFlat
        header.BackColor = RGB(200, 200, 200)
        header.Height = 10

        ' align header to body (should be done last!)
        header.Width = body.Width
        header.Left = body.Left
        header.Top = body.Top - (header.Height - 1)
End Sub

Usage:

Private Sub UserForm_Activate()
    Call CreateListBoxHeader(Me.listBox_Body, Me.listBox_Header, Array("Header 1", "Header 2"))
End Sub

How to enable production mode?

For those doing the upgrade path without also switching to TypeScript use:

ng.core.enableProdMode()

For me (in javascript) this looks like:

var upgradeAdapter = new ng.upgrade.UpgradeAdapter();
ng.core.enableProdMode()
upgradeAdapter.bootstrap(document.body, ['fooApp']);

Extract MSI from EXE

I'm guessing this question was mainly about InstallShield given the tags, but in case anyone comes here with the same problem for WiX-based packages (and possibly others), just call the installer with /extract, like so:

C:\> installer.exe /extract

That'll place the MSI in the folder alongside the installer.

Different between parseInt() and valueOf() in java?

From this forum:

parseInt() returns primitive integer type (int), whereby valueOf returns java.lang.Integer, which is the object representative of the integer. There are circumstances where you might want an Integer object, instead of primitive type.

Of course, another obvious difference is that intValue is an instance method whereby parseInt is a static method.

How to insert current datetime in postgresql insert query

You can of course format the result of current_timestamp(). Please have a look at the various formatting functions in the official documentation.

Checking cin input stream produces an integer

You can use the variables name itself to check if a value is an integer. for example:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main (){

int firstvariable;
int secondvariable;
float float1;
float float2;

cout << "Please enter two integers and then press Enter:" << endl;
cin >> firstvariable;
cin >> secondvariable;

if(firstvariable && secondvariable){
    cout << "Time for some simple mathematical operations:\n" << endl;

    cout << "The sum:\n " << firstvariable << "+" << secondvariable 
    <<"="<< firstvariable + secondvariable << "\n " << endl;
}else{
    cout << "\n[ERROR\tINVALID INPUT]\n"; 
    return 1; 
} 
return 0;    
}

Angular, Http GET with parameter?

Having something like this:

let headers = new Headers();
headers.append('Content-Type', 'application/json');
headers.append('projectid', this.id);
let params = new URLSearchParams();
params.append("someParamKey", this.someParamValue)

this.http.get('http://localhost:63203/api/CallCenter/GetSupport', { headers: headers, search: params })

Of course, appending every param you need to params. It gives you a lot more flexibility than just using a URL string to pass params to the request.

EDIT(28.09.2017): As Al-Mothafar stated in a comment, search is deprecated as of Angular 4, so you should use params

EDIT(02.11.2017): If you are using the new HttpClient there are now HttpParams, which look and are used like this:

let params = new HttpParams().set("paramName",paramValue).set("paramName2", paramValue2); //Create new HttpParams

And then add the params to the request in, basically, the same way:

this.http.get(url, {headers: headers, params: params}); 
//No need to use .map(res => res.json()) anymore

More in the docs for HttpParams and HttpClient

How to clear/remove observable bindings in Knockout.js?

I have found that if the view model contains many div bindings the best way to clear the ko.applyBindings(new someModelView); is to use: ko.cleanNode($("body")[0]); This allows you to call a new ko.applyBindings(new someModelView2); dynamically without the worry of the previous view model still being binded.

Python equivalent for HashMap

You need a dict:

my_dict = {'cheese': 'cake'}

Example code (from the docs):

>>> a = dict(one=1, two=2, three=3)
>>> b = {'one': 1, 'two': 2, 'three': 3}
>>> c = dict(zip(['one', 'two', 'three'], [1, 2, 3]))
>>> d = dict([('two', 2), ('one', 1), ('three', 3)])
>>> e = dict({'three': 3, 'one': 1, 'two': 2})
>>> a == b == c == d == e
True

You can read more about dictionaries here.

Update only specific fields in a models.Model

Usually, the correct way of updating certain fields in one or more model instances is to use the update() method on the respective queryset. Then you do something like this:

affected_surveys = Survey.objects.filter(
    # restrict your queryset by whatever fits you
    # ...
    ).update(active=True)

This way, you don't need to call save() on your model anymore because it gets saved automatically. Also, the update() method returns the number of survey instances that were affected by your update.

Why are interface variables static and final by default?

Since interface doesn't have a direct object, the only way to access them is by using a class/interface and hence that is why if interface variable exists, it should be static otherwise it wont be accessible at all to outside world. Now since it is static, it can hold only one value and any classes that implements it can change it and hence it will be all mess.

Hence if at all there is an interface variable, it will be implicitly static, final and obviously public!!!

fix java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out

I don't think it's enough merely to get the response. I think you need to read it (get the entity and read it via EntityUtils.consume()).

e.g. (from the doc)

     System.out.println("<< Response: " + response.getStatusLine());
     System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity()));

iFrame src change event detection?

Since version 3.0 of Jquery you might get an error

TypeError: url.indexOf is not a function

Which can be easily fix by doing

$('#iframe').on('load', function() {
    alert('frame has (re)loaded ');
});

Python mysqldb: Library not loaded: libmysqlclient.18.dylib

On new El Capitan installation where SIP(rootless prevents access to usr/lib/) is on by default and you cannot create the symlink unless you are in recovery mode. As @yannisxu said you can disable SIP and do your symlink to /usr/lib/local and this will work.

you can use the following command on MAC OSX El Capitan instead of turning off SIP:

sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib /usr/local/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib

There used to be an option where you can login as root and this can disable SIP but in the final release that is now obsolete, you can read more about it here: https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/4686

Question:

There is a nvram boot-args command available in Developer Beta 1 which can disable SIP when run with root privileges:

nvram boot-args="rootless=0"

Will this option of disabling SIP also be available in the El Capitan release version? Or is this strictly for the Developer Builds?

Answer:

This nvram boot-args command will be going away. It will not be available in the El Capitan release version and may disappear before the end of the Developer Betas. Keep an eye on the release notes for future Developer Betas.

Multiple "order by" in LINQ

This should work for you:

var movies = _db.Movies.OrderBy(c => c.Category).ThenBy(n => n.Name)

What is the difference between Integrated Security = True and Integrated Security = SSPI?

Note that connection strings are specific to what and how you are connecting to data. These are connecting to the same database but the first is using .NET Framework Data Provider for SQL Server. Integrated Security=True will not work for OleDb.

  • Data Source=.;Initial Catalog=aspnetdb;Integrated Security=True
  • Provider=SQLOLEDB;Data Source=.;Integrated Security=SSPI;Initial Catalog=aspnetdb

When in doubt use the Visual Studio Server Explorer Data Connections.

Could not reserve enough space for object heap

32-bit Java requires contiguous free space in memory to run. If you specify a large heap size, there may not be so much contiguous free space in memory even if you have much more free space available than necessary.

Installing a 64-bit version of Java helps in these cases, the contiguous memory requirements only applies to 32-bit Java.

window.location.href and window.open () methods in JavaScript

window.open is a method; you can open new window, and can customize it. window.location.href is just a property of the current window.

How to select a radio button by default?

They pretty much got it there... just like a checkbox, all you have to do is add the attribute checked="checked" like so:

<input type="radio" checked="checked">

...and you got it.

Cheers!

How to call a MySQL stored procedure from within PHP code?

You can call a stored procedure using the following syntax:

$result = mysql_query('CALL getNodeChildren(2)');

How to parse a query string into a NameValueCollection in .NET

A lot of the answers are providing custom examples because of the accepted answer's dependency on System.Web. From the Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client NuGet package there is a UriExtensions.ParseQueryString, method that can also be used:

var uri = new Uri("https://stackoverflow.com/a/22167748?p1=6&p2=7&p3=8");
NameValueCollection query = uri.ParseQueryString();

So if you want to avoid the System.Web dependency and don't want to roll your own, this is a good option.

Visual Studio 2017 - Could not load file or assembly 'System.Runtime, Version=4.1.0.0' or one of its dependencies

Seems like the issue is caused when there is version conflict between packages.config and app.config. In app.config you have assembly binding redirects automatically generated by thing called "AutoGenerateBindingRedirects". When enabled each time you download nuget package it will, additionaly to making new entry in packages.config, add this binding redirect information to app.config, what's the purpose of this is explained here: Assembly Binding redirect: How and Why?

There you can read what user @Evk wrote:

Why are binding redirects needed at all? Suppose you have application A that references library B, and also library C of version 1.1.2.5. Library B in turn also references library C, but of version 1.1.1.0. Now we have a conflict, because you cannot load different versions of the same assembly at runtime. To resolve this conflict you might use binding redirect, usually to the new version

So, QUICK FIX: Remove all entries in app.config.

In my case just by doing that program started working, but it will probably work only if you don't have any version conflicts of the same assembly at runtime.

If you do have such conflict you should fix these version numbers in app.config to match actually used versions of assemblies, but manual process is painful, so I suggest to auto-generate them again by opening Package Manager Console and perform packages reinstallation by typing Update-Package -reinstall

How does DateTime.Now.Ticks exactly work?

Not really an answer to your question as asked, but thought I'd chip in about your general objective.

There already is a method to generate random file names in .NET.

See System.Path.GetTempFileName and GetRandomFileName.

Alternatively, it is a common practice to use a GUID to name random files.

How to restore SQL Server 2014 backup in SQL Server 2008

It is a pretty old post, but I just had to do it today. I just right-clicked database from SQL2014 and selected Export Data option and that helped me to move data to SQL2012.

What difference is there between WebClient and HTTPWebRequest classes in .NET?

WebClient is a higher-level abstraction built on top of HttpWebRequest to simplify the most common tasks. For instance, if you want to get the content out of an HttpWebResponse, you have to read from the response stream:

var http = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://example.com");
var response = http.GetResponse();

var stream = response.GetResponseStream();
var sr = new StreamReader(stream);
var content = sr.ReadToEnd();

With WebClient, you just do DownloadString:

var client = new WebClient();
var content = client.DownloadString("http://example.com");

Note: I left out the using statements from both examples for brevity. You should definitely take care to dispose your web request objects properly.

In general, WebClient is good for quick and dirty simple requests and HttpWebRequest is good for when you need more control over the entire request.

JavaScript Loading Screen while page loads

To build further upon the ajax part which you may or may not use (from the comments)

a simple way to load another page and replace it with your current one is:

<script>
    $(document).ready( function() {
        $.ajax({
            type: 'get',
            url: 'http://pageToLoad.from',
            success: function(response) {
                // response = data which has been received and passed on to the 'success' function.
                $('body').html(response);
            }
        });
    });
<script>

calling java methods in javascript code

Java is a server side language, whereas javascript is a client side language. Both cannot communicate. If you have setup some server side script using Java you could use AJAX on the client in order to send an asynchronous request to it and thus invoke any possible Java functions. For example if you use jQuery as js framework you may take a look at the $.ajax() method. Or if you wanted to do it using plain javascript, here's a tutorial.

Unable to capture screenshot. Prevented by security policy. Galaxy S6. Android 6.0

You must have either disabled, froze or uninstalled FaceProvider in settings>applications>all
This will only happen if it's frozen, either uninstall it, or enable it.

Load CSV file with Spark

Spark 2.0.0+

You can use built-in csv data source directly:

spark.read.csv(
    "some_input_file.csv", header=True, mode="DROPMALFORMED", schema=schema
)

or

(spark.read
    .schema(schema)
    .option("header", "true")
    .option("mode", "DROPMALFORMED")
    .csv("some_input_file.csv"))

without including any external dependencies.

Spark < 2.0.0:

Instead of manual parsing, which is far from trivial in a general case, I would recommend spark-csv:

Make sure that Spark CSV is included in the path (--packages, --jars, --driver-class-path)

And load your data as follows:

(df = sqlContext
    .read.format("com.databricks.spark.csv")
    .option("header", "true")
    .option("inferschema", "true")
    .option("mode", "DROPMALFORMED")
    .load("some_input_file.csv"))

It can handle loading, schema inference, dropping malformed lines and doesn't require passing data from Python to the JVM.

Note:

If you know the schema, it is better to avoid schema inference and pass it to DataFrameReader. Assuming you have three columns - integer, double and string:

from pyspark.sql.types import StructType, StructField
from pyspark.sql.types import DoubleType, IntegerType, StringType

schema = StructType([
    StructField("A", IntegerType()),
    StructField("B", DoubleType()),
    StructField("C", StringType())
])

(sqlContext
    .read
    .format("com.databricks.spark.csv")
    .schema(schema)
    .option("header", "true")
    .option("mode", "DROPMALFORMED")
    .load("some_input_file.csv"))

JUnit 4 compare Sets

Using Hamcrest:

assertThat( set1, both(everyItem(isIn(set2))).and(containsInAnyOrder(set1)));

This works also when the sets have different datatypes, and reports on the difference instead of just failing.

How to use random in BATCH script?

now featuring all the colors of the dos rainbow

@(IF not "%1" == "max" (start /MAX cmd /Q /C %0 max&X)
  ELSE set C=1&set D=A&wmic process where name="cmd.exe" CALL setpriority "REALTIME">NUL)&CLS
:Y
set V=%D%

(IF %V% EQU 10 set V=A) 
    & (IF %V% EQU 11 set V=B)
    & (IF %V% EQU 12 set V=C)
    & (IF %V% EQU 13 set V=D) 
    & (IF %V% EQU 14 set V=E)
    & (IF %V% EQU 15 set V=F)
title %random%6%random%%random%%random%%random%9%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%&color %V%&ECHO %random%%C%%random%%random%%random%%random%6%random%9%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%
&(IF %C% EQU 46 (TIMEOUT /T 1 /NOBREAK>nul&set C=1&CLS&IF %D% EQU 15 (set D=1)ELSE set /A D=%D%+1)
  ELSE set /A C=%C%+1)&goto Y

Prepare for Segue in Swift

For Swift 2.3,swift3,and swift4:

Create a perform Segue at didSelectRowAtindexPath

For Ex:

   self.performSegue(withIdentifier: "uiView", sender: self)

After that Create a prepareforSegue function to catch the Destination segue and pass the value:

Ex:

  override func prepare(for segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: Any?) {

       if segue.identifier == "uiView"{

        let destView = segue.destination as! WebViewController
        let indexpath = self.newsTableView.indexPathForSelectedRow
        let indexurl = tableDatalist[(indexpath?.row)!].link
        destView.UrlRec = indexurl

        //let url =

    }
    }

You need to create a variable named UrlRec in Destination ViewController

How to generate javadoc comments in Android Studio

Here is an example of a JavaDoc comment from Oracle:

/**
 * Returns an Image object that can then be painted on the screen. 
 * The url argument must specify an absolute {@link URL}. The name
 * argument is a specifier that is relative to the url argument. 
 * <p>
 * This method always returns immediately, whether or not the 
 * image exists. When this applet attempts to draw the image on
 * the screen, the data will be loaded. The graphics primitives 
 * that draw the image will incrementally paint on the screen. 
 *
 * @param  url  an absolute URL giving the base location of the image
 * @param  name the location of the image, relative to the url argument
 * @return      the image at the specified URL
 * @see         Image
 */
 public Image getImage(URL url, String name) {
        try {
            return getImage(new URL(url, name));
        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
            return null;
        }
 }

The basic format can be auto generated in either of the following ways:

  • Position the cursor above the method and type /** + Enter
  • Position the cursor on the method name and press Alt + Enter > click Add JavaDoc enter image description here

Deleting all files from a folder using PHP?

$dir = 'your/directory/';
foreach(glob($dir.'*.*') as $v){
    unlink($v);
}

Reliable method to get machine's MAC address in C#

This method will determine the MAC address of the Network Interface used to connect to the specified url and port.

All the answers here are not capable of achieving this goal.

I wrote this answer years ago (in 2014). So I decided to give it a little "face lift". Please look at the updates section

    /// <summary>
    /// Get the MAC of the Netowrk Interface used to connect to the specified url.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="allowedURL">URL to connect to.</param>
    /// <param name="port">The port to use. Default is 80.</param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    private static PhysicalAddress GetCurrentMAC(string allowedURL, int port = 80)
    {
        //create tcp client
        var client = new TcpClient();

        //start connection
        client.Client.Connect(new IPEndPoint(Dns.GetHostAddresses(allowedURL)[0], port));

        //wai while connection is established
        while(!client.Connected)
        {
            Thread.Sleep(500);
        }

        //get the ip address from the connected endpoint
        var ipAddress = ((IPEndPoint)client.Client.LocalEndPoint).Address;

        //if the ip is ipv4 mapped to ipv6 then convert to ipv4
        if(ipAddress.IsIPv4MappedToIPv6)
            ipAddress = ipAddress.MapToIPv4();        

        Debug.WriteLine(ipAddress);

        //disconnect the client and free the socket
        client.Client.Disconnect(false);
        
        //this will dispose the client and close the connection if needed
        client.Close();

        var allNetworkInterfaces = NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces();

        //return early if no network interfaces found
        if(!(allNetworkInterfaces?.Length > 0))
            return null;

        foreach(var networkInterface in allNetworkInterfaces)
        {
            //get the unicast address of the network interface
            var unicastAddresses = networkInterface.GetIPProperties().UnicastAddresses;
           
            //skip if no unicast address found
            if(!(unicastAddresses?.Count > 0))
                continue;

            //compare the unicast addresses to see 
            //if any match the ip address used to connect over the network
            for(var i = 0; i < unicastAddresses.Count; i++)
            {
                var unicastAddress = unicastAddresses[i];

                //this is unlikely but if it is null just skip
                if(unicastAddress.Address == null)
                    continue;
                
                var ipAddressToCompare = unicastAddress.Address;

                Debug.WriteLine(ipAddressToCompare);

                //if the ip is ipv4 mapped to ipv6 then convert to ipv4
                if(ipAddressToCompare.IsIPv4MappedToIPv6)
                    ipAddressToCompare = ipAddressToCompare.MapToIPv4();

                Debug.WriteLine(ipAddressToCompare);

                //skip if the ip does not match
                if(!ipAddressToCompare.Equals(ipAddress))
                    continue;

                //return the mac address if the ip matches
                return networkInterface.GetPhysicalAddress();
            }
              
        }

        //not found so return null
        return null;
    }

To call it you need to pass a URL to connect to like this:

var mac = GetCurrentMAC("www.google.com");

You can also specify a port number. If not specified default is 80.

UPDATES:

2020

  • Added comments to explain the code.
  • Corrected to be used with newer operating systems that use IPV4 mapped to IPV6 ( like windows 10 ).
  • Reduced nesting.
  • Upgraded the code use "var".

How to use color picker (eye dropper)?

Currently, the eyedropper tool is not working in my version of Chrome (as described above), though it worked for me in the past. I hear it is being updated in the latest version of Chrome.

However, I'm able to grab colors easily in Firefox.

  1. Open page in Firefox
  2. Hamburger Menu -> Web Developer -> Eyedropper
  3. Drag eyedropper tool over the image... Click.
    Color is copied to your clipboard, and eyedropper tool goes away.
  4. Paste color code

In case you cannot get the eyedropper tool to work in Chrome, this is a good work around.
I also find it easier to access :-)

How to close jQuery Dialog within the dialog?

Adding this link in the open

$(this).parent().appendTo($("form:first"));

works perfectly.

How does the "final" keyword in Java work? (I can still modify an object.)

First of all, the place in your code where you are initializing (i.e. assigning for the first time) foo is here:

foo = new ArrayList();

foo is an object (with type List) so it is a reference type, not a value type (like int). As such, it holds a reference to a memory location (e.g. 0xA7D2A834) where your List elements are stored. Lines like this

foo.add("foo"); // Modification-1

do not change the value of foo (which, again, is just a reference to a memory location). Instead, they just add elements into that referenced memory location. To violate the final keyword, you would have to try to re-assign foo as follows again:

foo = new ArrayList();

That would give you a compilation error.


Now, with that out of the way, think about what happens when you add the static keyword.

When you do NOT have the static keyword, each object that instantiates the class has its own copy of foo. Therefore, the constructor assigns a value to a blank, fresh copy of the foo variable, which is perfectly fine.

However, when you DO have the static keyword, only one foo exists in memory that is associated with the class. If you were to create two or more objects, the constructor would be attempting to re-assign that one foo each time, violating the final keyword.

How to use sed to remove all double quotes within a file

Additional comment. Yes this works:

    sed 's/\"//g' infile.txt  > outfile.txt

(however with batch gnu sed, will just print to screen)

In batch scripting (GNU SED), this was needed:

    sed 's/\x22//g' infile.txt  > outfile.txt

Iterating through populated rows

For the benefit of anyone searching for similar, see worksheet .UsedRange,
e.g. ? ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Rows.Count
and loops such as
For Each loopRow in Sheets(1).UsedRange.Rows: Print loopRow.Row: Next

How to center an element in the middle of the browser window?

I had a lot of problems with centring and alignment until I found Flexbox as a recommendation in a guide.

A Complete Guide to Flexbox

I'll post a snippet (that works with Chrome) here for convenience:

<head>
    <style type="text/css">
        html
        {
            width: 100%;
            height: 100%;
        }

        body
        {
            display: flex;
            justify-content: center;
            align-items: center;
        }
    </style>
</head>

<body>
    This is text!
</body>

For more details, please refer to the article.

The transaction log for database is full. To find out why space in the log cannot be reused, see the log_reuse_wait_desc column in sys.databases

As an aside, it is always a good practice (and possibly a solution for this type of issue) to delete a large number of rows by using batches:

WHILE EXISTS (SELECT 1 
              FROM   YourTable 
              WHERE  <yourCondition>) 
  DELETE TOP(10000) FROM YourTable 
  WHERE  <yourCondition>

How to upgrade R in ubuntu?

Since R is already installed, you should be able to upgrade it with this method. First of all, you may want to have the packages you installed in the previous version in the new one,so it is convenient to check this post. Then, follow the instructions from here

  1. Open the sources.list file:

     sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list    
    
  2. Add a line with the source from where the packages will be retrieved. For example:

     deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ version/
    

    Replace https://cloud.r-project.org with whatever mirror you would like to use, and replace version/ with whatever version of Ubuntu you are using (eg, trusty/, xenial/, and so on). If you're getting a "Malformed line error", check to see if you have a space between /ubuntu/ and version/.

  3. Fetch the secure APT key:

     gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key E298A3A825C0D65DFD57CBB651716619E084DAB9
    

or

    gpg --hkp://keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-key E298A3A825C0D65DFD57CBB651716619E084DAB9
  1. Add it to keyring:

     gpg -a --export E084DAB9 | sudo apt-key add -
    
  2. Update your sources and upgrade your installation:

     sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
    
  3. Install the new version

     sudo apt-get install r-base-dev
    
  4. Recover your old packages following the solution that best suits to you (see this). For instance, to recover all the packages (not only those from CRAN) the idea is:

-- copy the packages from R-oldversion/library to R-newversion/library, (do not overwrite a package if it already exists in the new version!).

-- Run the R command update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE, ask=FALSE).

Appending to an existing string

you can also use the following:

s.concat("world")

How can I remove a child node in HTML using JavaScript?

You have to remove any event handlers you've set on the node before you remove it, to avoid memory leaks in IE

Digital Certificate: How to import .cer file in to .truststore file using?

# Copy the certificate into the directory Java_home\Jre\Lib\Security
# Change your directory to Java_home\Jre\Lib\Security>
# Import the certificate to a trust store.

keytool -import -alias ca -file somecert.cer -keystore cacerts -storepass changeit [Return]

Trust this certificate: [Yes]

changeit is the default truststore password

How do I apply a style to all children of an element

Instead of the * selector you can use the :not(selector) with the > selector and set something that definitely wont be a child.

Edit: I thought it would be faster but it turns out I was wrong. Disregard.

Example:

.container > :not(marquee){
        color:red;
    }


<div class="container">
    <p></p>
    <span></span>
<div>

adding multiple entries to a HashMap at once in one statement

You can use Google Guava's ImmutableMap. This works as long as you don't care about modifying the Map later (you can't call .put() on the map after constructing it using this method):

import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;

// For up to five entries, use .of()
Map<String, Integer> littleMap = ImmutableMap.of(
    "One", Integer.valueOf(1),
    "Two", Integer.valueOf(2),
    "Three", Integer.valueOf(3)
);

// For more than five entries, use .builder()
Map<String, Integer> bigMap = ImmutableMap.<String, Integer>builder()
    .put("One", Integer.valueOf(1))
    .put("Two", Integer.valueOf(2))
    .put("Three", Integer.valueOf(3))
    .put("Four", Integer.valueOf(4))
    .put("Five", Integer.valueOf(5))
    .put("Six", Integer.valueOf(6))
    .build();

See also: http://docs.guava-libraries.googlecode.com/git/javadoc/com/google/common/collect/ImmutableMap.html

A somewhat related question: ImmutableMap.of() workaround for HashMap in Maps?

How to write LDAP query to test if user is member of a group?

You should be able to create a query with this filter here:

(&(objectClass=user)(sAMAccountName=yourUserName)
  (memberof=CN=YourGroup,OU=Users,DC=YourDomain,DC=com))

and when you run that against your LDAP server, if you get a result, your user "yourUserName" is indeed a member of the group "CN=YourGroup,OU=Users,DC=YourDomain,DC=com

Try and see if this works!

If you use C# / VB.Net and System.DirectoryServices, this snippet should do the trick:

DirectoryEntry rootEntry = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://dc=yourcompany,dc=com");

DirectorySearcher srch = new DirectorySearcher(rootEntry);
srch.SearchScope = SearchScope.Subtree;

srch.Filter = "(&(objectClass=user)(sAMAccountName=yourusername)(memberOf=CN=yourgroup,OU=yourOU,DC=yourcompany,DC=com))";

SearchResultCollection res = srch.FindAll();

if(res == null || res.Count <= 0) {
    Console.WriteLine("This user is *NOT* member of that group");
} else {
    Console.WriteLine("This user is INDEED a member of that group");
}

Word of caution: this will only test for immediate group memberships, and it will not test for membership in what is called the "primary group" (usually "cn=Users") in your domain. It does not handle nested memberships, e.g. User A is member of Group A which is member of Group B - that fact that User A is really a member of Group B as well doesn't get reflected here.

Marc

is there a function in lodash to replace matched item

function findAndReplace(arr, find, replace) {
  let i;
  for(i=0; i < arr.length && arr[i].id != find.id; i++) {}
  i < arr.length ? arr[i] = replace : arr.push(replace);
}

Now let's test performance for all methods:

_x000D_
_x000D_
// TC's first approach_x000D_
function first(arr, a, b) {_x000D_
  _.each(arr, function (x, idx) {_x000D_
    if (x.id === a.id) {_x000D_
      arr[idx] = b;_x000D_
      return false;_x000D_
    }_x000D_
  });_x000D_
}_x000D_
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// solution with merge_x000D_
function second(arr, a, b) {_x000D_
  const match = _.find(arr, a);_x000D_
  if (match) {_x000D_
    _.merge(match, b);_x000D_
  } else {_x000D_
    arr.push(b);_x000D_
  }_x000D_
}_x000D_
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// most voted solution_x000D_
function third(arr, a, b) {_x000D_
  const match = _.find(arr, a);_x000D_
  if (match) {_x000D_
    var index = _.indexOf(arr, _.find(arr, a));_x000D_
    arr.splice(index, 1, b);_x000D_
  } else {_x000D_
    arr.push(b);_x000D_
  }_x000D_
}_x000D_
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// my approach_x000D_
function fourth(arr, a, b){_x000D_
  let l;_x000D_
  for(l=0; l < arr.length && arr[l].id != a.id; l++) {}_x000D_
  l < arr.length ? arr[l] = b : arr.push(b);_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
function test(fn, times, el) {_x000D_
  const arr = [], size = 250;_x000D_
  for (let i = 0; i < size; i++) {_x000D_
    arr[i] = {id: i, name: `name_${i}`, test: "test"};_x000D_
  }_x000D_
_x000D_
  let start = Date.now();_x000D_
  _.times(times, () => {_x000D_
    const id = Math.round(Math.random() * size);_x000D_
    const a = {id};_x000D_
    const b = {id, name: `${id}_name`};_x000D_
    fn(arr, a, b);_x000D_
  });_x000D_
  el.innerHTML = Date.now() - start;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
test(first, 1e5, document.getElementById("first"));_x000D_
test(second, 1e5, document.getElementById("second"));_x000D_
test(third, 1e5, document.getElementById("third"));_x000D_
test(fourth, 1e5, document.getElementById("fourth"));
_x000D_
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.14.1/lodash.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<div>_x000D_
  <ol>_x000D_
    <li><b id="first"></b> ms [TC's first approach]</li>_x000D_
    <li><b id="second"></b> ms [solution with merge]</li>_x000D_
    <li><b id="third"></b> ms [most voted solution]</li>_x000D_
    <li><b id="fourth"></b> ms [my approach]</li>_x000D_
  </ol>_x000D_
<div>
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How to copy a huge table data into another table in SQL Server

Simple Insert/Select sp's work great until the row count exceeds 1 mil. I've watched tempdb file explode trying to insert/select 20 mil + rows. The simplest solution is SSIS setting the batch row size buffer to 5000 and commit size buffer to 1000.

How to check if a file is empty in Bash?

Misspellings are irritating, aren't they? Check your spelling of empty, but then also try this:

#!/bin/bash -e

if [ -s diff.txt ]
then
        rm -f empty.txt
        touch full.txt
else
        rm -f full.txt
        touch empty.txt
fi

I like shell scripting a lot, but one disadvantage of it is that the shell cannot help you when you misspell, whereas a compiler like your C++ compiler can help you.

Notice incidentally that I have swapped the roles of empty.txt and full.txt, as @Matthias suggests.

How can I use jQuery to move a div across the screen

Use jQuery

html

<div id="b">&nbsp;</div>

css

div#b {
    position: fixed;
    top:40px;
    left:0;
    width: 40px;
    height: 40px;
    background: url(http://www.wiredforwords.com/IMAGES/FlyingBee.gif) 0 0 no-repeat;
}

script

var b = function($b,speed){


    $b.animate({
        "left": "50%"
    }, speed);
};

$(function(){
    b($("#b"), 5000);
});

see jsfiddle http://jsfiddle.net/vishnurajv/Q4Jsh/

How can I divide two integers to get a double?

Complementing the @NoahD's answer

To have a greater precision you can cast to decimal:

(decimal)100/863
//0.1158748551564310544611819235

Or:

Decimal.Divide(100, 863)
//0.1158748551564310544611819235

Double are represented allocating 64 bits while decimal uses 128

(double)100/863
//0.11587485515643106

In depth explanation of "precision"

For more details about the floating point representation in binary and its precision take a look at this article from Jon Skeet where he talks about floats and doubles and this one where he talks about decimals.

Combine two or more columns in a dataframe into a new column with a new name

Instead of

  • paste (default spaces),
  • paste0 (force the inclusion of missing NA as character) or
  • unite (constrained to 2 columns and 1 separator),

I'd suggest an alternative as flexible as paste0 but more careful with NA: stringr::str_c

library(tidyverse)

# check the missing value!!
df <- tibble(
  n = c(2, 2, 8),
  s = c("aa", "aa", NA_character_),
  b = c(TRUE, FALSE, TRUE)
)

df %>% 
  mutate(
    paste = paste(n,"-",s,".",b),
    paste0 = paste0(n,"-",s,".",b),
    str_c = str_c(n,"-",s,".",b)
  ) %>% 

  # convert missing value to ""
  mutate(
    s_2=str_replace_na(s,replacement = "")
  ) %>% 
  mutate(
    str_c_2 = str_c(n,"-",s_2,".",b)
  )
#> # A tibble: 3 x 8
#>       n s     b     paste          paste0     str_c      s_2   str_c_2   
#>   <dbl> <chr> <lgl> <chr>          <chr>      <chr>      <chr> <chr>     
#> 1     2 aa    TRUE  2 - aa . TRUE  2-aa.TRUE  2-aa.TRUE  "aa"  2-aa.TRUE 
#> 2     2 aa    FALSE 2 - aa . FALSE 2-aa.FALSE 2-aa.FALSE "aa"  2-aa.FALSE
#> 3     8 <NA>  TRUE  8 - NA . TRUE  8-NA.TRUE  <NA>       ""    8-.TRUE

Created on 2020-04-10 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)

extra note from str_c documentation

Like most other R functions, missing values are "infectious": whenever a missing value is combined with another string the result will always be missing. Use str_replace_na() to convert NA to "NA"

How to filter specific apps for ACTION_SEND intent (and set a different text for each app)

This solution shows a list of applications in a ListView dialog that resembles the chooser:

screenshot

It is up to you to:

  1. obtain the list of relevant application packages
  2. given a package name, invoke the relevant intent

The adapter class:

import java.util.List;

import android.content.Context;
import android.content.pm.ApplicationInfo;
import android.content.pm.PackageManager;
import android.content.pm.PackageManager.NameNotFoundException;
import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable;
import android.util.TypedValue;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class ChooserArrayAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<String> {
    PackageManager mPm;
    int mTextViewResourceId;
    List<String> mPackages;

    public ChooserArrayAdapter(Context context, int resource, int textViewResourceId, List<String> packages) {
        super(context, resource, textViewResourceId, packages);
        mPm = context.getPackageManager();
        mTextViewResourceId = textViewResourceId;
        mPackages = packages;
    }

    @Override
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        String pkg = mPackages.get(position);
        View view = super.getView(position, convertView, parent);

        try {
            ApplicationInfo ai = mPm.getApplicationInfo(pkg, 0);

            CharSequence appName = mPm.getApplicationLabel(ai);
            Drawable appIcon = mPm.getApplicationIcon(pkg);

            TextView textView = (TextView) view.findViewById(mTextViewResourceId);
            textView.setText(appName);
            textView.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(appIcon, null, null, null);
            textView.setCompoundDrawablePadding((int) TypedValue.applyDimension(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_DIP, 12, getContext().getResources().getDisplayMetrics()));
        } catch (NameNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        return view;
    }

}

and its usage:

    void doXxxButton() {
        final List<String> packages = ...;
        if (packages.size() > 1) {
            ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ChooserArrayAdapter(MyActivity.this, android.R.layout.select_dialog_item, android.R.id.text1, packages);

            new AlertDialog.Builder(MyActivity.this)
            .setTitle(R.string.app_list_title)
            .setAdapter(adapter, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int item ) {
                    invokeApplication(packages.get(item));
                }
            })
            .show();
        } else if (packages.size() == 1) {
            invokeApplication(packages.get(0));
        }
    }

    void invokeApplication(String packageName) {
        // given a package name, create an intent and fill it with data
        ...
        startActivityForResult(intent, rq);
    }

ITextSharp HTML to PDF?

It has ability to convert HTML file in to pdf.

Required namespace for conversions are:

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

and for conversion and download file :

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

// Boilerplate iTextSharp setup here

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

            string finalHtml = string.Empty;

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

            doc.Close();
        }
    }

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

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

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

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

Django ManyToMany filter()

another way to do this is by going through the intermediate table. I'd express this within the Django ORM like this:

UserZone = User.zones.through

# for a single zone
users_in_zone = User.objects.filter(
  id__in=UserZone.objects.filter(zone=zone1).values('user'))

# for multiple zones
users_in_zones = User.objects.filter(
  id__in=UserZone.objects.filter(zone__in=[zone1, zone2, zone3]).values('user'))

it would be nice if it didn't need the .values('user') specified, but Django (version 3.0.7) seems to need it.

the above code will end up generating SQL that looks something like:

SELECT * FROM users WHERE id IN (SELECT user_id FROM userzones WHERE zone_id IN (1,2,3))

which is nice because it doesn't have any intermediate joins that could cause duplicate users to be returned

What is the difference between ApplicationContext and WebApplicationContext in Spring MVC?

Web application context, specified by the WebApplicationContext interface, is a Spring application context for a web applications. It has all the properties of a regular Spring application context, given that the WebApplicationContext interface extends the ApplicationContext interface, and add a method for retrieving the standard Servlet API ServletContext for the web application.

In addition to the standard Spring bean scopes singleton and prototype, there are three additional scopes available in a web application context:

  • request - scopes a single bean definition to the lifecycle of a single HTTP request; that is, each HTTP request has its own instance of a bean created off the back of a single bean definition
  • session - scopes a single bean definition to the lifecycle of an HTTP Session
  • application - scopes a single bean definition to the lifecycle of a ServletContext

Turning multiple lines into one comma separated line

xargs -a your_file | sed 's/ /,/g'

This is a shorter way.

Total size of the contents of all the files in a directory

stat's "%s" format gives you the actual number of bytes in a file.

 find . -type f |
 xargs stat --format=%s |
 awk '{s+=$1} END {print s}'

Feel free to substitute your favourite method for summing numbers.

Rotate and translate

Something that may get missed: in my chaining project, it turns out a space separated list also needs a space separated semicolon at the end.

In other words, this doesn't work:

transform: translate(50%, 50%) rotate(90deg);

but this does:

transform: translate(50%, 50%) rotate(90deg) ; //has a space before ";"

Show Console in Windows Application?

Resurrecting a very old thread yet again, since none of the answers here worked very well for me.

I found a simple way that seems pretty robust and simple. It worked for me. The idea:

  • Compile your project as a Windows Application. There might be a parent console when your executable starts, but maybe not. The goal is to re-use the existing console if one exists, or create a new one if not.
  • AttachConsole(-1) will look for the console of the parent process. If there is one, it attaches to it and you're finished. (I tried this and it worked properly when calling my application from cmd)
  • If AttachConsole returned false, there is no parent console. Create one with AllocConsole.

Example:

static class Program
{
    [DllImport( "kernel32.dll", SetLastError = true )]
    static extern bool AllocConsole();

    [DllImport( "kernel32", SetLastError = true )]
    static extern bool AttachConsole( int dwProcessId );

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        bool consoleMode = Boolean.Parse(args[0]);
        if (consoleMode)
        {
           if (!AttachConsole(-1))
              AllocConsole();
           Console.WriteLine("consolemode started");
           // ...
        } 
        else
        {
           Application.EnableVisualStyles();
           Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
           Application.Run(new Form1());
        }
    }
}

A word of caution : it seems that if you try writing to the console prior to attaching or allocing a console, this approach doesn't work. My guess is the first time you call Console.Write/WriteLine, if there isn't already a console then Windows automatically creates a hidden console somewhere for you. (So perhaps Anthony's ShowConsoleWindow answer is better after you've already written to the console, and my answer is better if you've not yet written to the console). The important thing to note is that this doesn't work:

static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Welcome to the program");   //< this ruins everything
        bool consoleMode = Boolean.Parse(args[0]);
        if (consoleMode)
        {
           if (!AttachConsole(-1))
              AllocConsole();
           Console.WriteLine("consolemode started");   //< this doesn't get displayed on the parent console
           // ...
        } 
        else
        {
           Application.EnableVisualStyles();
           Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
           Application.Run(new Form1());
        }
    }

Show a child form in the centre of Parent form in C#

The parent probably isn't yet set when you are trying to access it.

Try this:

loginForm = new SubLogin();
loginForm.Show(this);
loginForm.CenterToParent()

Python os.path.join() on a list

The problem is, os.path.join doesn't take a list as argument, it has to be separate arguments.

This is where *, the 'splat' operator comes into play...

I can do

>>> s = "c:/,home,foo,bar,some.txt".split(",")
>>> os.path.join(*s)
'c:/home\\foo\\bar\\some.txt'

Change font color and background in html on mouseover

You'd better use CSS for this:

td{
    background-color:black;
    color:white;
}
td:hover{
    background-color:white;
    color:black;
}

If you want to use these styles for only a specific set of elements, you should give your td a class (or an ID, if it's the only element which'll have that style).

Example :

HTML

<td class="whiteHover"></td>

CSS

.whiteHover{
    /* Same style as above */
}

Here's a reference on MDN for :hover pseudo class.

Should composer.lock be committed to version control?

If you update your libs, you want to commit the lockfile too. It basically states that your project is locked to those specific versions of the libs you are using.

If you commit your changes, and someone pulls your code and updates the dependencies, the lockfile should be unmodified. If it is modified, it means that you have a new version of something.

Having it in the repository assures you that each developer is using the same versions.

How to multiply individual elements of a list with a number?

In NumPy it is quite simple

import numpy as np
P=2.45
S=[22, 33, 45.6, 21.6, 51.8]
SP = P*np.array(S)

I recommend taking a look at the NumPy tutorial for an explanation of the full capabilities of NumPy's arrays:

https://scipy.github.io/old-wiki/pages/Tentative_NumPy_Tutorial

Excel function to get first word from sentence in other cell

A1                   A2 
Toronto<b> is nice   =LEFT(A1,(FIND("<",A1,1)-1))

Not sure if the syntax is correct but the forumla in A2 will work for you,

adding and removing classes in angularJs using ng-click

If you prefer separation of concerns such that logic for adding and removing classes happens on the controller, you can do this

controller

 (function() {
    angular.module('MyApp', []).controller('MyController', MyController);

    function MyController() {
      var vm = this;
      vm.tab = 0;

      vm.setTab = function(val) {
          vm.tab = val;
       };
      vm.toggleClass = function(val) {
          return val === vm.tab;
           };
        }
    })();

HTML

<div ng-app="MyApp">
  <ul class="" ng-controller="MyController as myCtrl">
    <li ng-click="myCtrl.setTab(0)" ng-class="{'highlighted':myCtrl.toggleClass(0)}">One</li>
    <li ng-click="myCtrl.setTab(1)" ng-class="{'highlighted':myCtrl.toggleClass(1)}">Two</li>
    <li ng-click="myCtrl.setTab(2)" ng-class="{'highlighted':myCtrl.toggleClass(2)}">Three</li>
   <li ng-click="myCtrl.setTab(3)" ng-class="{'highlighted':myCtrl.toggleClass(3)}">Four</li>
 </ul>

CSS

.highlighted {
   background-color: green;
   color: white;
}

Excel VBA: Copying multiple sheets into new workbook

Try do something like this (the problem was that you trying to use MyBook.Worksheets, but MyBook is not a Workbook object, but string, containing workbook name. I've added new varible Set WB = ActiveWorkbook, so you can use WB.Worksheets instead MyBook.Worksheets):

Sub NewWBandPasteSpecialALLSheets()
   MyBook = ActiveWorkbook.Name ' Get name of this book
   Workbooks.Add ' Open a new workbook
   NewBook = ActiveWorkbook.Name ' Save name of new book

   Workbooks(MyBook).Activate ' Back to original book

   Set WB = ActiveWorkbook

   Dim SH As Worksheet

   For Each SH In WB.Worksheets

       SH.Range("WholePrintArea").Copy

       Workbooks(NewBook).Activate

       With SH.Range("A1")
        .PasteSpecial (xlPasteColumnWidths)
        .PasteSpecial (xlFormats)
        .PasteSpecial (xlValues)

       End With

     Next

End Sub

But your code doesn't do what you want: it doesen't copy something to a new WB. So, the code below do it for you:

Sub NewWBandPasteSpecialALLSheets()
   Dim wb As Workbook
   Dim wbNew As Workbook
   Dim sh As Worksheet
   Dim shNew As Worksheet

   Set wb = ThisWorkbook
   Workbooks.Add ' Open a new workbook
   Set wbNew = ActiveWorkbook

   On Error Resume Next

   For Each sh In wb.Worksheets
      sh.Range("WholePrintArea").Copy

      'add new sheet into new workbook with the same name
      With wbNew.Worksheets

          Set shNew = Nothing
          Set shNew = .Item(sh.Name)

          If shNew Is Nothing Then
              .Add After:=.Item(.Count)
              .Item(.Count).Name = sh.Name
              Set shNew = .Item(.Count)
          End If
      End With

      With shNew.Range("A1")
          .PasteSpecial (xlPasteColumnWidths)
          .PasteSpecial (xlFormats)
          .PasteSpecial (xlValues)
      End With
   Next
End Sub

104, 'Connection reset by peer' socket error, or When does closing a socket result in a RST rather than FIN?

Don't use wsgiref for production. Use Apache and mod_wsgi, or something else.

We continue to see these connection resets, sometimes frequently, with wsgiref (the backend used by the werkzeug test server, and possibly others like the Django test server). Our solution was to log the error, retry the call in a loop, and give up after ten failures. httplib2 tries twice, but we needed a few more. They seem to come in bunches as well - adding a 1 second sleep might clear the issue.

We've never seen a connection reset when running through Apache and mod_wsgi. I don't know what they do differently, (maybe they just mask them), but they don't appear.

When we asked the local dev community for help, someone confirmed that they see a lot of connection resets with wsgiref that go away on the production server. There's a bug there, but it is going to be hard to find it.

How to use placeholder as default value in select2 framework

$selectElement.select2({
    minimumResultsForSearch: -1,
    placeholder: 'SelectRelatives'}).on('select2-opening', function() {                                                                       $(this).closest('li').find('input').attr('placeholder','Select Relative');                            
});

How to fix Hibernate LazyInitializationException: failed to lazily initialize a collection of roles, could not initialize proxy - no Session

You need to either add fetch=FetchType.EAGER inside your ManyToMany annotations to automatically pull back child entities:

@ManyToMany(fetch = FetchType.EAGER)

A better option would be to implement a spring transactionManager by adding the following to your spring configuration file:

<bean id="transactionManager"
    class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">
    <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
</bean>

<tx:annotation-driven />

You can then add an @Transactional annotation to your authenticate method like so:

@Transactional
public Authentication authenticate(Authentication authentication)

This will then start a db transaction for the duration of the authenticate method allowing any lazy collection to be retrieved from the db as and when you try to use them.

importing a CSV into phpmyadmin

In phpMyAdmin, click the table, and then click the Import tab at the top of the page.

Browse and open the csv file. Leave the charset as-is. Uncheck partial import unless you have a HUGE dataset (or slow server). The format should already have selected “CSV” after selecting your file, if not then select it (not using LOAD DATA). If you want to clear the whole table before importing, check “Replace table data with file”. Optionally check “Ignore duplicate rows” if you think you have duplicates in the CSV file. Now the important part, set the next four fields to these values:

Fields terminated by: ,
Fields enclosed by: “
Fields escaped by: \
Lines terminated by: auto

Currently these match the defaults except for “Fields terminated by”, which defaults to a semicolon.

Now click the Go button, and it should run successfully.

Serialize object to query string in JavaScript/jQuery

Alternatively YUI has http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/api/classes/QueryString.html#method_stringify.

For example:

var data = { one: 'first', two: 'second' };
var result = Y.QueryString.stringify(data);

Pass a datetime from javascript to c# (Controller)

var Ihours = Math.floor(TotMin / 60);          

var Iminutes = TotMin % 60; var TotalTime = Ihours+":"+Iminutes+':00';

   $.ajax({
            url: ../..,
            cache: false,
            type: "POST",                
            data: JSON.stringify({objRoot: TotalTime}) ,
            dataType: 'json',
            contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
            success: function (response) {

            },
            error: function (er) {
                console.log(er);
            }
        });

Executors.newCachedThreadPool() versus Executors.newFixedThreadPool()

If you are not worried about an unbounded queue of Callable/Runnable tasks, you can use one of them. As suggested by bruno, I too prefer newFixedThreadPool to newCachedThreadPool over these two.

But ThreadPoolExecutor provides more flexible features compared to either newFixedThreadPool or newCachedThreadPool

ThreadPoolExecutor(int corePoolSize, int maximumPoolSize, long keepAliveTime, 
TimeUnit unit, BlockingQueue<Runnable> workQueue, ThreadFactory threadFactory,
RejectedExecutionHandler handler)

Advantages:

  1. You have full control of BlockingQueue size. It's not un-bounded, unlike the earlier two options. I won't get an out of memory error due to a huge pile-up of pending Callable/Runnable tasks when there is unexpected turbulence in the system.

  2. You can implement custom Rejection handling policy OR use one of the policies:

    1. In the default ThreadPoolExecutor.AbortPolicy, the handler throws a runtime RejectedExecutionException upon rejection.

    2. In ThreadPoolExecutor.CallerRunsPolicy, the thread that invokes execute itself runs the task. This provides a simple feedback control mechanism that will slow down the rate that new tasks are submitted.

    3. In ThreadPoolExecutor.DiscardPolicy, a task that cannot be executed is simply dropped.

    4. In ThreadPoolExecutor.DiscardOldestPolicy, if the executor is not shut down, the task at the head of the work queue is dropped, and then execution is retried (which can fail again, causing this to be repeated.)

  3. You can implement a custom Thread factory for the below use cases:

    1. To set a more descriptive thread name
    2. To set thread daemon status
    3. To set thread priority

How to get past the login page with Wget?

I use this chrome extension. It'll give you the wget command for any download link you open.

How do I configure Apache 2 to run Perl CGI scripts?

If you have successfully installed Apache web server and Perl please follow the following steps to run cgi script using perl on ubuntu systems.

Before starting with CGI scripting it is necessary to configure apache server in such a way that it recognizes the CGI directory (where the cgi programs are saved) and allow for the execution of programs within that directory.

  1. In Ubuntu cgi-bin directory usually resides in path /usr/lib , if not present create the cgi-bin directory using the following command.cgi-bin should be in this path itself.

     mkdir /usr/lib/cgi-bin
    
  2. Issue the following command to check the permission status of the directory.

     ls -l /usr/lib | less
    

Check whether the permission looks as “drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-11-23 09:08 cgi- bin” if yes go to step 3.

If not issue the following command to ensure the appropriate permission for our cgi-bin directory.

     sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib/cgi-bin
     sudo chmod root.root /usr/lib/cgi-bin
  1. Give execution permission to cgi-bin directory

     sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib/cgi-bin
    

Thus your cgi-bin directory is ready to go. This is where you put all your cgi scripts for execution. Our next step is configure apache to recognize cgi-bin directory and allow execution of all programs in it as cgi scripts.

Configuring Apache to run CGI script using perl

  1. A directive need to be added in the configuration file of apache server so it knows the presence of CGI and the location of its directories. Initially go to location of configuration file of apache and open it with your favorite text editor

    cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/ 
    sudo gedit 000-default.conf
    
  2. Copy the below content to the file 000-default.conf between the line of codes “DocumentRoot /var/www/html/” and “ErrorLog $ {APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log”

    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
    <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
    AllowOverride None
    Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
    Require all granted
    

  3. Restart apache server with the following code

    sudo service apache2 restart
    
  4. Now we need to enable cgi module which is present in newer versions of ubuntu by default

    sudo a2enmod cgi.load
    sudo a2enmod cgid.load
    
  5. At this point we can reload the apache webserver so that it reads the configuration files again.

    sudo service apache2 reload
    

The configuration part of apache is over now let us check it with a sample cgi perl program.

Testing it out

  1. Go to the cgi-bin directory and create a cgi file with extension .pl

    cd /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
    sudo gedit test.pl
    
  2. Copy the following code on test.pl and save it.

    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
    print “Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n”;
    print “CGI working perfectly!! \n”;
    
  3. Now give the test.pl execution permission.

    sudo chmod 755 test.pl
    
  4. Now open that file in your web browser http://Localhost/cgi-bin/test.pl

  5. If you see the output “CGI working perfectly” you are ready to go.Now dump all your programs into the cgi-bin directory and start using them.

NB: Don't forget to give your new programs in cgi-bin, chmod 755 permissions so as to run it successfully without any internal server errors.

How to enter a formula into a cell using VBA?

I would do it like this:

Worksheets("EmployeeCosts").Range("B" & var1a).Formula = _
Replace("=SUM(H5:H{SOME_VAR})","{SOME_VAR}",var1a)

In case you have some more complex formula it will be handy

How can get the text of a div tag using only javascript (no jQuery)

You'll probably want to try textContent instead of innerHTML.

Given innerHTML will return DOM content as a String and not exclusively the "text" in the div. It's fine if you know that your div contains only text but not suitable if every use case. For those cases, you'll probably have to use textContent instead of innerHTML

For example, considering the following markup:

<div id="test">
  Some <span class="foo">sample</span> text.
</div>

You'll get the following result:

var node = document.getElementById('test'),

htmlContent = node.innerHTML,
// htmlContent = "Some <span class="foo">sample</span> text."

textContent = node.textContent;
// textContent = "Some sample text."

See MDN for more details:

How to use sed/grep to extract text between two words?

You can use two s commands

$ echo "Here is a String" | sed 's/.*Here//; s/String.*//'
 is a 

Also works

$ echo "Here is a StringHere is a String" | sed 's/.*Here//; s/String.*//'
 is a

$ echo "Here is a StringHere is a StringHere is a StringHere is a String" | sed 's/.*Here//; s/String.*//'
 is a 

Difference between <input type='button' /> and <input type='submit' />

type='Submit' is set to forward & get the values on BACK-END (PHP, .NET etc). type='button' will reflect normal button behavior.

How to display 3 buttons on the same line in css

Do something like this,

HTML :

<div style="width:500px;">
    <button type="submit" class="msgBtn" onClick="return false;" >Save</button>
    <button type="submit" class="msgBtn2" onClick="return false;">Publish</button>
    <button class="msgBtnBack">Back</button>
</div>

CSS :

div button{
    display:inline-block;
}

Fiddle Demo

Or

HTML :

<div style="width:500px;" id="container">
    <div><button type="submit" class="msgBtn" onClick="return false;" >Save</button></div>
    <div><button type="submit" class="msgBtn2" onClick="return false;">Publish</button></div>
    <div><button class="msgBtnBack">Back</button></div>
</div>

CSS :

#container div{
    display:inline-block;
    width:130px;
}

Fiddle Demo

Should I put #! (shebang) in Python scripts, and what form should it take?

Use first

which python

This will give the output as the location where my python interpreter (binary) is present.

This output could be any such as

/usr/bin/python

or

/bin/python

Now appropriately select the shebang line and use it.

To generalize we can use:

#!/usr/bin/env

or

#!/bin/env

Center align a column in twitter bootstrap

If you cannot put 1 column, you can simply put 2 column in the middle... (I am just combining answers) For Bootstrap 3

<div class="row">
   <div class="col-lg-5 ">5 columns left</div>
   <div class="col-lg-2 col-centered">2 column middle</div>
   <div class="col-lg-5">5 columns right</div>
</div>

Even, you can text centered column by adding this to style:

.col-centered{
  display: block;
  margin-left: auto;
  margin-right: auto;
  text-align: center;
}

Additionally, there is another solution here

@AspectJ pointcut for all methods of a class with specific annotation

Something like that:

@Before("execution(* com.yourpackage..*.*(..))")
public void monitor(JoinPoint jp) {
    if (jp.getTarget().getClass().isAnnotationPresent(Monitor.class)) {
       // perform the monitoring actions
    }
}

Note that you must not have any other advice on the same class before this one, because the annotations will be lost after proxying.

Using an HTTP PROXY - Python

Python 3:

import urllib.request

htmlsource = urllib.request.FancyURLopener({"http":"http://127.0.0.1:8080"}).open(url).read().decode("utf-8")

Force index use in Oracle

There could be many reasons for Index not being used. Even after you specify hints, there are chances Oracle optimizer thinks otherwise and decide not to use Index. You need to go through the EXPLAIN PLAN part and see what is the cost of the statement with INDEX and without INDEX.

Assuming the Oracle uses CBO. Most often, if the optimizer thinks the cost is high with INDEX, even though you specify it in hints, the optimizer will ignore and continue for full table scan. Your first action should be checking DBA_INDEXES to know when the statistics are LAST_ANALYZED. If not analyzed, you can set table, index for analyze.

begin 
   DBMS_STATS.GATHER_INDEX_STATS ( OWNNAME=>user
                                 , INDNAME=>IndexName);
end;

For table.

begin 
   DBMS_STATS.GATHER_TABLE_STATS ( OWNNAME=>user
                                 , TABNAME=>TableName);
end;

In extreme cases, you can try setting up the statistics on your own.

update one table with data from another

Use the following block of query to update Table1 with Table2 based on ID:

UPDATE Table1, Table2 
SET Table1.DataColumn= Table2.DataColumn
where Table1.ID= Table2.ID;

This is the easiest and fastest way to tackle this problem.

Display a message in Visual Studio's output window when not debug mode?

The Trace.WriteLine method is a conditionally compiled method. That means that it will only be executed if the TRACE constant is defined when the code is compiled. By default in Visual Studio, TRACE is only defined in DEBUG mode.

Right Click on the Project and Select Properties. Go to the Compile tab. Select Release mode and add TRACE to the defined preprocessor constants. That should fix the issue for you.

How to get the title of HTML page with JavaScript?

Use document.title:

_x000D_
_x000D_
console.log(document.title)
_x000D_
<title>Title test</title>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

MDN Web Docs

Testing Spring's @RequestBody using Spring MockMVC

the following works for me,

  mockMvc.perform(
            MockMvcRequestBuilders.post("/api/test/url")
                    .contentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
                    .content(asJsonString(createItemForm)))
            .andExpect(status().isCreated());

  public static String asJsonString(final Object obj) {
    try {
        return new ObjectMapper().writeValueAsString(obj);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
}

Line Break in XML?

<description><![CDATA[first line<br/>second line<br/>]]></description>

Creating an empty bitmap and drawing though canvas in Android

This is probably simpler than you're thinking:

int w = WIDTH_PX, h = HEIGHT_PX;

Bitmap.Config conf = Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888; // see other conf types
Bitmap bmp = Bitmap.createBitmap(w, h, conf); // this creates a MUTABLE bitmap
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bmp);

// ready to draw on that bitmap through that canvas

Here's a series of tutorials I've found on the topic: Drawing with Canvas Series

How to leave space in HTML

You can use &nbsp;, aka a Non-Breaking Space.

It is essentially a standard space, the primary difference being that a browser should not break (or wrap) a line of text at the point that this &nbsp; occupies.

How should strace be used?

I use strace all the time to debug permission issues. The technique goes like this:

$ strace -e trace=open,stat,read,write gnome-calculator

Where gnome-calculator is the command that you want to run.

Force Java timezone as GMT/UTC

Wow. I know this is an ancient thread but all I can say is do not call TimeZone.setDefault() in any user-level code. This always sets the Timezone for the whole JVM and is nearly always a very bad idea. Learn to use the joda.time library or the new DateTime class in Java 8 which is very similar to the joda.time library.

Using python's eval() vs. ast.literal_eval()?

eval: This is very powerful, but is also very dangerous if you accept strings to evaluate from untrusted input. Suppose the string being evaluated is "os.system('rm -rf /')" ? It will really start deleting all the files on your computer.

ast.literal_eval: Safely evaluate an expression node or a string containing a Python literal or container display. The string or node provided may only consist of the following Python literal structures: strings, bytes, numbers, tuples, lists, dicts, sets, booleans, None, bytes and sets.

Syntax:

eval(expression, globals=None, locals=None)
import ast
ast.literal_eval(node_or_string)

Example:

# python 2.x - doesn't accept operators in string format
import ast
ast.literal_eval('[1, 2, 3]')  # output: [1, 2, 3]
ast.literal_eval('1+1') # output: ValueError: malformed string


# python 3.0 -3.6
import ast
ast.literal_eval("1+1") # output : 2
ast.literal_eval("{'a': 2, 'b': 3, 3:'xyz'}") # output : {'a': 2, 'b': 3, 3:'xyz'}
# type dictionary
ast.literal_eval("",{}) # output : Syntax Error required only one parameter
ast.literal_eval("__import__('os').system('rm -rf /')") # output : error

eval("__import__('os').system('rm -rf /')") 
# output : start deleting all the files on your computer.
# restricting using global and local variables
eval("__import__('os').system('rm -rf /')",{'__builtins__':{}},{})
# output : Error due to blocked imports by passing  '__builtins__':{} in global

# But still eval is not safe. we can access and break the code as given below
s = """
(lambda fc=(
lambda n: [
    c for c in 
        ().__class__.__bases__[0].__subclasses__() 
        if c.__name__ == n
    ][0]
):
fc("function")(
    fc("code")(
        0,0,0,0,"KABOOM",(),(),(),"","",0,""
    ),{}
)()
)()
"""
eval(s, {'__builtins__':{}})

In the above code ().__class__.__bases__[0] nothing but object itself. Now we instantiated all the subclasses, here our main enter code hereobjective is to find one class named n from it.

We need to code object and function object from instantiated subclasses. This is an alternative way from CPython to access subclasses of object and attach the system.

From python 3.7 ast.literal_eval() is now stricter. Addition and subtraction of arbitrary numbers are no longer allowed. link

PostgreSQL: Why psql can't connect to server?

I could resolve this by setting the right permissions to datadir. It should be

chmod 700 /var/lib/postgresql/10/main
chown postgres.postgres /var/lib/postgresql/10/main

Bootstrap modal opening on page load

Use a document.ready() event around your call.

$(document).ready(function () {

    $('#memberModal').modal('show');

});

jsFiddle updated - http://jsfiddle.net/uvnggL8w/1/

Enter key press in C#

Keeping in mind that

Keys.Return is different to Keys.Enter

//Makes it easier to Type user and password and press Enter, 
//Rather than using the mouse to Click the Button all the time
    private void Txt_Password_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
    {
        if(e.KeyCode == Keys.Return)
        {
            Btn_Login_Click(null, null);
        }
    }

Hope this help someone.

How to create a user in Django?

Have you confirmed that you are passing actual values and not None?

from django.shortcuts import render

def createUser(request):
    userName = request.REQUEST.get('username', None)
    userPass = request.REQUEST.get('password', None)
    userMail = request.REQUEST.get('email', None)

    # TODO: check if already existed
    if userName and userPass and userMail:
       u,created = User.objects.get_or_create(userName, userMail)
       if created:
          # user was created
          # set the password here
       else:
          # user was retrieved
    else:
       # request was empty

    return render(request,'home.html')

How can I convert String to Int?

You need to parse the string, and you also need to ensure that it is truly in the format of an integer.

The easiest way is this:

int parsedInt = 0;
if (int.TryParse(TextBoxD1.Text, out parsedInt))
{
   // Code for if the string was valid
}
else
{
   // Code for if the string was invalid
}

How to create Python egg file

You are reading the wrong documentation. You want this: https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/setuptools.html#develop-deploy-the-project-source-in-development-mode

  1. Creating setup.py is covered in the distutils documentation in Python's standard library documentation here. The main difference (for python eggs) is you import setup from setuptools, not distutils.

  2. Yep. That should be right.

  3. I don't think so. pyc files can be version and platform dependent. You might be able to open the egg (they should just be zip files) and delete .py files leaving .pyc files, but it wouldn't be recommended.

  4. I'm not sure. That might be “Development Mode”. Or are you looking for some “py2exe” or “py2app” mode?

How do I compare two columns for equality in SQL Server?

CASE WHEN is the better option

SELECT 
  CASE WHEN COLUMN1 = COLUMN2 
    THEN '1' 
    ELSE '0' 
  END 
  AS MyDesiredResult
FROM Table1
INNER JOIN Table2 ON Table1.PrimaryKey = Table2.ForeignKey

C convert floating point to int

Good guestion! -- where I have not yet found a satisfying answer for my case, the answer I provide here works for me, but may not be future proof...

If one uses gcc (clang?) and have -Werror and -Wbad-function-cast defined,

int val = (int)pow(10,9);

will result:

error: cast from function call of type 'double' to non-matching type 'int' [-Werror=bad-function-cast]

(for a good reason, overflow and where values are rounded needs to be thought out)

EDIT: 2020-08-30: So, my use case casting the value from function returning double to int, and chose pow() to represent that in place of a private function somewhere. Then I sidestepped thinking pow() more. (See comments more why pow() used below could be problematic...).

After properly thought out (that parameters to pow() are good), int val = pow(10,9); seems to work with gcc 9.2 x86-64 ...

but note:

printf("%d\n", pow(10,4));

may output e.g.

-1121380856

(did for me) where

int i = pow(10,4); printf("%d\n", i);

printed

10000

in one particular case I tried.

How to launch a Google Chrome Tab with specific URL using C#

If the user doesn't have Chrome, it will throw an exception like this:

    //chrome.exe http://xxx.xxx.xxx --incognito
    //chrome.exe http://xxx.xxx.xxx -incognito
    //chrome.exe --incognito http://xxx.xxx.xxx
    //chrome.exe -incognito http://xxx.xxx.xxx
    private static void Chrome(string link)
    {
        string url = "";

        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(link)) //if empty just run the browser
        {
            if (link.Contains('.')) //check if it's an url or a google search
            {
                url = link;
            }
            else
            {
                url = "https://www.google.com/search?q=" + link.Replace(" ", "+");
            }
        }

        try
        {
            Process.Start("chrome.exe", url + " --incognito");
        }
        catch (System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception e)
        {
            MessageBox.Show("Unable to find Google Chrome...",
                "chrome.exe not found!", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error);
        }
    }

IF EXIST C:\directory\ goto a else goto b problems windows XP batch files

If you want to rule out any problems with the else part, try removing the else and place the command on a new line. Like this:

IF EXIST D:\RPS_BACKUP\backups_temp\ goto tempexists
goto tempexistscontinue  

Where are Docker images stored on the host machine?

Images are stored inside /var/lib/docker and then under applicable storage driver directory.

Storage driver, being used, can be determined by executing docker info command.

Invariant Violation: _registerComponent(...): Target container is not a DOM element

the ready function can be used like this:

$(document).ready(function () {
  React.render(<App />, document.body);
});

If you don't want to use jQuery, you can use the onload function:

<body onload="initReact()">...</body>

Create Directory if it doesn't exist with Ruby

You are probably trying to create nested directories. Assuming foo does not exist, you will receive no such file or directory error for:

Dir.mkdir 'foo/bar'
# => Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - 'foo/bar'

To create nested directories at once, FileUtils is needed:

require 'fileutils'
FileUtils.mkdir_p 'foo/bar'
# => ["foo/bar"]

Edit2: you do not have to use FileUtils, you may do system call (update from @mu is too short comment):

> system 'mkdir', '-p', 'foo/bar' # worse version: system 'mkdir -p "foo/bar"'
=> true

But that seems (at least to me) as worse approach as you are using external 'tool' which may be unavailable on some systems (although I can hardly imagine system without mkdir, but who knows).

c++ bool question

Yes that is correct. "Boolean variables only have two possible values: true (1) and false (0)." cpp tutorial on boolean values

Java Date - Insert into database

The Answer by OscarRyz is correct, and should have been the accepted Answer. But now that Answer is out-dated.

java.time

In Java 8 and later, we have the new java.time package (inspired by Joda-Time, defined by JSR 310, with tutorial, extended by ThreeTen-Extra project).

Avoid Old Date-Time Classes

The old java.util.Date/.Calendar, SimpleDateFormat, and java.sql.Date classes are a confusing mess. For one thing, j.u.Date has date and time-of-day while j.s.Date is date-only without time-of-day. Oh, except that j.s.Date only pretends to not have a time-of-day. As a subclass of j.u.Date, j.s.Date inherits the time-of-day but automatically adjusts that time-of-day to midnight (00:00:00.000). Confusing? Yes. A bad hack, frankly.

For this and many more reasons, those old classes should be avoided, used only a last resort. Use java.time where possible, with Joda-Time as a fallback.

LocalDate

In java.time, the LocalDate class cleanly represents a date-only value without any time-of-day or time zone. That is what we need for this Question’s solution.

To get that LocalDate object, we parse the input string. But rather than use the old SimpleDateFormat class, java.time provides a new DateTimeFormatter class in the java.time.format package.

String input = "01/01/2009" ;
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern( "MM/dd/yyyy" ) ;
LocalDate localDate = LocalDate.parse( input, formatter ) ;

JDBC drivers compliant with JDBC 4.2 or later can use java.time types directly via the PreparedStatement::setObject and ResultSet::getObject methods.

PreparedStatement pstmt = connection.prepareStatement(
    "INSERT INTO USERS ( USER_ID, FIRST_NAME, LAST_NAME, SEX, DATE ) " +
    " VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ? )");

pstmt.setString( 1, userId );
pstmt.setString( 3, myUser.getLastName() ); 
pstmt.setString( 2, myUser.getFirstName() ); // please use "getFir…" instead of "GetFir…", per Java conventions.
pstmt.setString( 4, myUser.getSex() );
pstmt.setObject( 5, localDate ) ;  // Pass java.time object directly, without any need for java.sql.*. 

But until you have such an updated JDBC driver, fallback on using the java.sql.Date class. Fortunately, that old java.sql.Date class has been gifted by Java 8 with a new convenient conversion static method, valueOf( LocalDate ).

In the sample code of the sibling Answer by OscarRyz, replace its "sqlDate =" line with this one:

java.sql.Date sqlDate = java.sql.Date.valueOf( localDate ) ;

How to timeout a thread

I post you a piece of code which show a way how to solve the problem. As exemple I'm reading a file. You could use this method for another operation, but you need to implements the kill() method so that the main operation will be interrupted.

hope it helps


import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

/**
 * Main class
 * 
 * @author el
 * 
 */
public class Main {
    /**
     * Thread which perform the task which should be timed out.
     * 
     * @author el
     * 
     */
    public static class MainThread extends Thread {
        /**
         * For example reading a file. File to read.
         */
        final private File fileToRead;
        /**
         * InputStream from the file.
         */
        final private InputStream myInputStream;
        /**
         * Thread for timeout.
         */
        final private TimeOutThread timeOutThread;

        /**
         * true if the thread has not ended.
         */
        boolean isRunning = true;

        /**
         * true if all tasks where done.
         */
        boolean everythingDone = false;

        /**
         * if every thing could not be done, an {@link Exception} may have
         * Happens.
         */
        Throwable endedWithException = null;

        /**
         * Constructor.
         * 
         * @param file
         * @throws FileNotFoundException
         */
        MainThread(File file) throws FileNotFoundException {
            setDaemon(false);
            fileToRead = file;
            // open the file stream.
            myInputStream = new FileInputStream(fileToRead);
            // Instantiate the timeout thread.
            timeOutThread = new TimeOutThread(10000, this);
        }

        /**
         * Used by the {@link TimeOutThread}.
         */
        public void kill() {
            if (isRunning) {
                isRunning = false;
                if (myInputStream != null) {
                    try {
                        // close the stream, it may be the problem.
                        myInputStream.close();
                    } catch (IOException e) {
                        // Not interesting
                        System.out.println(e.toString());
                    }
                }
                synchronized (this) {
                    notify();
                }
            }
        }

        /**
         * The task which should be timed out.
         */
        @Override
        public void run() {
            timeOutThread.start();
            int bytes = 0;
            try {
                // do something
                while (myInputStream.read() >= 0) {
                    // may block the thread.
                    myInputStream.read();
                    bytes++;
                    // simulate a slow stream.
                    synchronized (this) {
                        wait(10);
                    }
                }
                everythingDone = true;
            } catch (IOException e) {
                endedWithException = e;
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                endedWithException = e;
            } finally {
                timeOutThread.kill();
                System.out.println("-->read " + bytes + " bytes.");
                isRunning = false;
                synchronized (this) {
                    notifyAll();
                }
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * Timeout Thread. Kill the main task if necessary.
     * 
     * @author el
     * 
     */
    public static class TimeOutThread extends Thread {
        final long timeout;
        final MainThread controlledObj;

        TimeOutThread(long timeout, MainThread controlledObj) {
            setDaemon(true);
            this.timeout = timeout;
            this.controlledObj = controlledObj;
        }

        boolean isRunning = true;

        /**
         * If we done need the {@link TimeOutThread} thread, we may kill it.
         */
        public void kill() {
            isRunning = false;
            synchronized (this) {
                notify();
            }
        }

        /**
         * 
         */
        @Override
        public void run() {
            long deltaT = 0l;
            try {
                long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
                while (isRunning && deltaT < timeout) {
                    synchronized (this) {
                        wait(Math.max(100, timeout - deltaT));
                    }
                    deltaT = System.currentTimeMillis() - start;
                }
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                // If the thread is interrupted,
                // you may not want to kill the main thread,
                // but probably yes.
            } finally {
                isRunning = false;
            }
            controlledObj.kill();
        }
    }

    /**
     * Start the main task and wait for the end.
     * 
     * @param args
     * @throws FileNotFoundException
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException {
        long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
        MainThread main = new MainThread(new File(args[0]));
        main.start();
        try {
            while (main.isRunning) {
                synchronized (main) {
                    main.wait(1000);
                }
            }
            long stop = System.currentTimeMillis();

            if (main.everythingDone)
                System.out.println("all done in " + (stop - start) + " ms.");
            else {
                System.out.println("could not do everything in "
                        + (stop - start) + " ms.");
                if (main.endedWithException != null)
                    main.endedWithException.printStackTrace();
            }
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            System.out.println("You've killed me!");
        }
    }
}

Regards

Read Excel sheet in Powershell

There is the possibility of making something really more cool!

# Powershell 
$xl = new-object -ComObject excell.application
$doc=$xl.workbooks.open("Filepath")
$doc.Sheets.item(1).rows |
% { ($_.value2 | Select-Object -first 3 | Select-Object -last 2) -join "," }

.mp4 file not playing in chrome

I too had the same issue. I changed the codec to H264-MPEG-4 AVC and the videos started working in HTML5/Chrome.

Option selected in converter: H264-MPEG-4 AVC, Codec visible in VLC player: H264-MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1)

Hope it helps...

Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [WinError 5] Access is denied:

This is worked in my case:

pip install --user --upgrade pip

Otherwise open command prompt with Run as administrator and do the same thing.

How to download all dependencies and packages to directory

The aptitude --download-only ... approach only works if you have a debian distro with internet connection in your hands.

If you don't, I think it is better to run the following script on the disconnected debian machine:

apt-get --print-uris --yes install <my_package_name> | grep ^\' | cut -d\' -f2 >downloads.list

move the downloads.list file into a connected linux (or non linux) machine, and run:

wget --input-file myurilist

this downloads all your files into the current directory.After that you can copy them on an USB key and install in your disconnected debian machine.

credits: http://www.tuxradar.com/answers/517

PS I basically copied the blog post because it was not very readable, and in case the post will disappear.

How to get cell value from DataGridView in VB.Net?

It is working for me

MsgBox(DataGridView1.CurrentRow.Cells(0).Value.ToString)

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Python MySQLdb TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting

Instead of this:

cur.execute( "SELECT * FROM records WHERE email LIKE '%s'", search )

Try this:

cur.execute( "SELECT * FROM records WHERE email LIKE %s", [search] )

See the MySQLdb documentation. The reasoning is that execute's second parameter represents a list of the objects to be converted, because you could have an arbitrary number of objects in a parameterized query. In this case, you have only one, but it still needs to be an iterable (a tuple instead of a list would also be fine).

How to "inverse match" with regex?

In perl you can do

process($line) if ($line =~ !/Andrea/);

Check if a div does NOT exist with javascript

That works with :

 var element = document.getElementById('myElem');
 if (typeof (element) != undefined && typeof (element) != null && typeof (element) != 'undefined') {
     console.log('element exists');
 }
 else{
     console.log('element NOT exists');
 }

Java 6 Unsupported major.minor version 51.0

The problem is because you haven't set JDK version properly.You should use jdk 7 for major number 51. Like this:

JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.7.0_79

PHP cURL GET request and request's body

you have done it the correct way using

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$body);

but i notice your missing

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,1);

OS X: equivalent of Linux's wget

1) on your mac type

nano /usr/bin/wget

2) paste the following in

#!/bin/bash
curl -L $1 -o $2

3) close then make it executable

chmod 777 /usr/bin/wget

That's it.

How to determine if a type implements an interface with C# reflection

Note that if you have a generic interface IMyInterface<T> then this will always return false:

  typeof(IMyInterface<>).IsAssignableFrom(typeof(MyType)) /* ALWAYS FALSE */

This doesn't work either:

  typeof(MyType).GetInterfaces().Contains(typeof(IMyInterface<>))  /* ALWAYS FALSE */

However, if MyType implements IMyInterface<MyType> this works and returns true:

  typeof(IMyInterface<MyType>).IsAssignableFrom(typeof(MyType))

However, you likely will not know the type parameter T at runtime. A somewhat hacky solution is:

  typeof(MyType).GetInterfaces()
                .Any(x=>x.Name == typeof(IMyInterface<>).Name)

Jeff's solution is a bit less hacky:

  typeof(MyType).GetInterfaces()
         .Any(i => i.IsGenericType 
             && i.GetGenericTypeDefinition() == typeof(IMyInterface<>));

Here's a extension method on Type that works for any case:

public static class TypeExtensions
{
    public static bool IsImplementing(this Type type, Type someInterface)
    {
        return type.GetInterfaces()
             .Any(i => i == someInterface 
                 || i.IsGenericType 
                    && i.GetGenericTypeDefinition() == someInterface);
    }
}

(Note that the above uses linq, which is probably slower than a loop.)

You can then do:

   typeof(MyType).IsImplementing(IMyInterface<>)

In an array of objects, fastest way to find the index of an object whose attributes match a search

Maybe you would like to use higher-order functions such as "map". Assuming you want search by 'field' attribute:

var elementPos = array.map(function(x) {return x.id; }).indexOf(idYourAreLookingFor);
var objectFound = array[elementPos];

DataSet panel (Report Data) in SSRS designer is gone

With a report (rdl) file selected in your solution, select View and then Report Data.

It is a shortcut of Ctrl+Alt+D.

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Remove duplicates from a List<T> in C#

Simply initialize a HashSet with a List of the same type:

var noDupes = new HashSet<T>(withDupes);

Or, if you want a List returned:

var noDupsList = new HashSet<T>(withDupes).ToList();

Are static methods inherited in Java?

You can override static methods, but if you try to use polymorphism, then they work according to class scope(Contrary to what we normally expect).

public class A {

    public static void display(){
        System.out.println("in static method of A");
    }
}

public class B extends A {

    void show(){
        display();
    }

     public static void display(){
        System.out.println("in static method of B");
    }

}
public class Test {

    public static void main(String[] args){
        B obj =new B();
        obj.show();

        A a_obj=new B();
        a_obj.display();


    }


}

IN first case, o/p is the "in static method of B" # successful override In 2nd case, o/p is "in static method of A" # Static method - will not consider polymorphism

Increment a value in Postgres

UPDATE totals 
   SET total = total + 1
WHERE name = 'bill';

If you want to make sure the current value is indeed 203 (and not accidently increase it again) you can also add another condition:

UPDATE totals 
   SET total = total + 1
WHERE name = 'bill'
  AND total = 203;

How to split a string between letters and digits (or between digits and letters)?

You could try to split on (?<=\D)(?=\d)|(?<=\d)(?=\D), like:

str.split("(?<=\\D)(?=\\d)|(?<=\\d)(?=\\D)");

It matches positions between a number and not-a-number (in any order).

  • (?<=\D)(?=\d) - matches a position between a non-digit (\D) and a digit (\d)
  • (?<=\d)(?=\D) - matches a position between a digit and a non-digit.

Make div stay at bottom of page's content all the time even when there are scrollbars

use fixed-bottom bootstrap class

<div id="footer" class="fixed-bottom w-100">

Convert row names into first column

dplyr::as_data_frame(df, rownames = "your_row_name") will give you even simpler result.

How can I concatenate two arrays in Java?

Just wanted to add, you can use System.arraycopy too:

import static java.lang.System.out;
import static java.lang.System.arraycopy;
import java.lang.reflect.Array;
class Playground {
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public static <T>T[] combineArrays(T[] a1, T[] a2) {
        T[] result = (T[]) Array.newInstance(a1.getClass().getComponentType(), a1.length+a2.length);
        arraycopy(a1,0,result,0,a1.length);
        arraycopy(a2,0,result,a1.length,a2.length);
        return result;
    }
    public static void main(String[ ] args) {
        String monthsString = "JANFEBMARAPRMAYJUNJULAUGSEPOCTNOVDEC";
        String[] months = monthsString.split("(?<=\\G.{3})");
        String daysString = "SUNMONTUEWEDTHUFRISAT";
        String[] days = daysString.split("(?<=\\G.{3})");
        for (String m : months) {
            out.println(m);
        }
        out.println("===");
         for (String d : days) {
            out.println(d);
        }
        out.println("===");
        String[] results = combineArrays(months, days);
        for (String r : results) {
            out.println(r);
        }
        out.println("===");
    }
}

Open a webpage in the default browser

As others have indicated, Process.Start() is the way to go here. However, there are a few quirks. It's worth your time to read this blog post:

http://faithlife.codes/blog/2008/01/using_processstart_to_link_to/

In summary, some browsers cause it to throw an exception for no good reason, the function can block for a while on non-UI thread so you need to make sure it happens near the end of whatever other actions you might perform at the same time, and you might want to change the cursor appearance while waiting for the browser to open.

How do you strip a character out of a column in SQL Server?

Use the "REPLACE" string function on the column in question:

UPDATE (yourTable)
SET YourColumn = REPLACE(YourColumn, '*', '')
WHERE (your conditions)

Replace the "*" with the character you want to strip out and specify your WHERE clause to match the rows you want to apply the update to.

Of course, the REPLACE function can also be used - as other answerer have shown - in a SELECT statement - from your question, I assumed you were trying to update a table.

Marc

How to get main window handle from process id?

Old question but appears to have a lot of traffic, here is a simple solution:

IntPtr GetMainWindowHandle(IntPtr aHandle) {
        return System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessById(aHandle.ToInt32()).MainWindowHandle;
}

Is it possible to make abstract classes in Python?

Just a quick addition to @TimGilbert's old-school answer...you can make your abstract base class's init() method throw an exception and that would prevent it from being instantiated, no?

>>> class Abstract(object):
...     def __init__(self):
...         raise NotImplementedError("You can't instantiate this class!")
...
>>> a = Abstract()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<stdin>", line 3, in __init__
NotImplementedError: You can't instantiate this class! 

SSRS - Checking whether the data is null

Or in your SQL query wrap that field with IsNull or Coalesce (SQL Server).

Either way works, I like to put that logic in the query so the report has to do less.

Center align with table-cell

This would be easier to do with flexbox. Using flexbox will let you not to specify the height of your content and can adjust automatically on the height it contains.

DEMO

here's the gist of the demo

.container{

  display: flex;
  height: 100%;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;

}

html

<div class="container">
  <div class='content'> //you can size this anyway you want
    put anything you want here,
  </div>
</div>

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Disable EditText blinking cursor

You can use following code for enabling and disabling edit text cursor by programmatically.

To Enable cursor

    editText.requestFocus();
    editText.setCursorVisible(true);

To Disable cursor

    editText.setCursorVisible(false);

Using XML enable disable cursor

   android:cursorVisible="false/true"
   android:focusable="false/true"

To make edit_text Selectable to (copy/cut/paste/select/select all)

   editText.setTextIsSelectable(true);

To focus on touch mode write following lines in XML

  android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
  android:clickable="true"
  android:focusable="true" 

programmatically

  editText.requestFocusFromTouch();

To clear focus on touch mode

  editText.clearFocus()

How to round a numpy array?

Numpy provides two identical methods to do this. Either use

np.round(data, 2)

or

np.around(data, 2)

as they are equivalent.

See the documentation for more information.


Examples:

>>> import numpy as np
>>> a = np.array([0.015, 0.235, 0.112])
>>> np.round(a, 2)
array([0.02, 0.24, 0.11])
>>> np.around(a, 2)
array([0.02, 0.24, 0.11])
>>> np.round(a, 1)
array([0. , 0.2, 0.1])

Check whether a request is GET or POST

Better use $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']:

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] === 'POST') {
    // …
}

Java NIO: What does IOException: Broken pipe mean?

Broken pipe simply means that the connection has failed. It is reasonable to assume that this is unrecoverable, and to then perform any required cleanup actions (closing connections, etc). I don't believe that you would ever see this simply due to the connection not yet being complete.

If you are using non-blocking mode then the SocketChannel.connect method will return false, and you will need to use the isConnectionPending and finishConnect methods to insure that the connection is complete. I would generally code based upon the expectation that things will work, and then catch exceptions to detect failure, rather than relying on frequent calls to "isConnected".

inner join in linq to entities

public IList<Splitting> get(Guid companyId, long customrId) {    
    var res=from c in Customers_data_source
            where c.CustomerId = customrId && c.CompanyID == companyId
            from s in Splittings_data_srouce
            where s.CustomerID = c.CustomerID
            select s;

    return res.ToList();
}

EXCEL VBA, inserting blank row and shifting cells

Sub Addrisk()

Dim rActive As Range
Dim Count_Id_Column as long

Set rActive = ActiveCell

Application.ScreenUpdating = False

with thisworkbook.sheets(1) 'change to "sheetname" or sheetindex
    for i = 1 to .range("A1045783").end(xlup).row
        if 'something'  = 'something' then
            .range("A" & i).EntireRow.Copy 'add thisworkbook.sheets(index_of_sheet) if you copy from another sheet
            .range("A" & i).entirerow.insert shift:= xldown 'insert and shift down, can also use xlup
            .range("A" & i + 1).EntireRow.paste 'paste is all, all other defs are less.
            'change I to move on to next row (will get + 1 end of iteration)
            i = i + 1
        end if

            On Error Resume Next
                .SpecialCells(xlCellTypeConstants).ClearContents
            On Error GoTo 0

        End With
    next i
End With

Application.CutCopyMode = False
Application.ScreenUpdating = True 're-enable screen updates

End Sub

How to access Session variables and set them in javascript?

first create a method in code behind to set session:

 [System.Web.Services.WebMethod]
 public static void SetSession(int id)
 {
     Page objp = new Page();
     objp.Session["IdBalanceSheet"] = id;
 }

then call it from client side:

function ChangeSession(values) {
     PageMethods.SetSession(values);
     }

you should set EnablePageMethods to true:

<asp:ScriptManager EnablePageMethods="true" ID="MainSM" runat="server" ScriptMode="Release" LoadScriptsBeforeUI="true"></asp:ScriptManager>

Getting strings recognized as variable names in R

Without any example data, it really is difficult to know exactly what you are wanting. For instance, I can't at all divine what your object set (or is it sets) looks like.

That said, does the following help at all?

set1 <- data.frame(x = 4:6, y = 6:4, z = c(1, 3, 5))

plot(1:10, type="n")
XX <- "set1"
with(eval(as.symbol(XX)), symbols(x, y, circles = z, add=TRUE))

EDIT:

Now that I see your real task, here is a one-liner that'll do everything you want without requiring any for() loops:

with(dat, symbols(sq, cu, circles = num,
                  bg = c("red", "blue")[(num>5) + 1]))

The one bit of code that may feel odd is the bit specifying the background color. Try out these two lines to see how it works:

c(TRUE, FALSE) + 1
# [1] 2 1
c("red", "blue")[c(F, F, T, T) + 1]
# [1] "red"  "red"  "blue" "blue"

Make header and footer files to be included in multiple html pages

It is also possible to load scripts and links into the header. I'll be adding it one of the examples above...

<!--load_essentials.js-->
document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css" />');
document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.3/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css" />');
document.write('<script src="js/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>');

document.getElementById("myHead").innerHTML =
"<span id='headerText'>Title</span>"
+ "<span id='headerSubtext'>Subtitle</span>";
document.getElementById("myNav").innerHTML =
"<ul id='navLinks'>"
+ "<li><a href='index.html'>Home</a></li>"
+ "<li><a href='about.html'>About</a>"
+ "<li><a href='donate.html'>Donate</a></li>"
+ "</ul>";
document.getElementById("myFooter").innerHTML =
"<p id='copyright'>Copyright &copy; " + new Date().getFullYear() + " You. All"
+ " rights reserved.</p>"
+ "<p id='credits'>Layout by You</p>"
+ "<p id='contact'><a href='mailto:[email protected]'>Contact Us</a> / "
+ "<a href='mailto:[email protected]'>Report a problem.</a></p>";

<!--HTML-->
<header id="myHead"></header>
<nav id="myNav"></nav>
Content
<footer id="myFooter"></footer>

<script src="load_essentials.js"></script>

How to solve Permission denied (publickey) error when using Git?

Its pretty straight forward. Type the below command

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "[email protected]"

Generate the SSH key. Open the file and copy the contents. Go to GitHub setting page , and click on SSH key . Click on Add new SSH key, and paste the contents here. That's it :) You shouldn't see the issue again.

sorting a List of Map<String, String>

Bit out of topic
this is a little util for watching sharedpreferences
based on upper answers
may be for someone this will be helpful

@SuppressWarnings("unused")
public void printAll() {
    Map<String, ?> prefAll = PreferenceManager
        .getDefaultSharedPreferences(context).getAll();
    if (prefAll == null) {
        return;
    }
    List<Map.Entry<String, ?>> list = new ArrayList<>();
    list.addAll(prefAll.entrySet());
    Collections.sort(list, new Comparator<Map.Entry<String, ?>>() {
        public int compare(final Map.Entry<String, ?> entry1, final Map.Entry<String, ?> entry2) {
            return entry1.getKey().compareTo(entry2.getKey());
        }
    });
    Timber.i("~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~");
    Timber.i("Printing all sharedPreferences");
    for(Map.Entry<String, ?> entry : list) {
        Timber.i("%s: %s", entry.getKey(), entry.getValue());
    }
    Timber.i("~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~");
}

jquery, find next element by class

In this case you need to go up to the <tr> then use .next(), like this:

$(obj).closest('tr').next().find('.class');

Or if there may be rows in-between without the .class inside, you can use .nextAll(), like this:

$(obj).closest('tr').nextAll(':has(.class):first').find('.class');

Initialize empty vector in structure - c++

How about

user r = {"",{}};

or

user r = {"",{'\0'}};

or

user r = {"",std::vector<unsigned char>()};

or

user r;

Concatenate multiple files but include filename as section headers

If the files all have the same name or can be matched by find, you can do (e.g.):

find . -name create.sh | xargs tail -n +1

to find, show the path of and cat each file.

OnClick in Excel VBA

I don't think so. But you can create a shape object ( or wordart or something similiar ) hook Click event and place the object to position of the specified cell.

Store text file content line by line into array

I would recommend using an ArrayList, which handles dynamic sizing, whereas an array will require a defined size up front, which you may not know. You can always turn the list back into an array.

BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("path/of/text"));
String str;

List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
while((str = in.readLine()) != null){
    list.add(str);
}

String[] stringArr = list.toArray(new String[0]);

Access-control-allow-origin with multiple domains

You can add this code to your asp.net webapi project

in file Global.asax

    protected void Application_BeginRequest()
{
    string origin = Request.Headers.Get("Origin");
    if (Request.HttpMethod == "OPTIONS")
    {
        Response.AddHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", origin);
        Response.AddHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "*");
        Response.AddHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "GET,POST,PUT,OPTIONS,DELETE");
        Response.StatusCode = 200;
        Response.End();
    }
    else
    {
        Response.AddHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", origin);
        Response.AddHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "*");
        Response.AddHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "GET,POST,PUT,OPTIONS,DELETE");
    }
}

Checking if a double (or float) is NaN in C++

A possible solution that would not depend on the specific IEEE representation for NaN used would be the following:

template<class T>
bool isnan( T f ) {
    T _nan =  (T)0.0/(T)0.0;
    return 0 == memcmp( (void*)&f, (void*)&_nan, sizeof(T) );
}

Best way in asp.net to force https for an entire site?

I'm going to throw my two cents in. IF you have access to IIS server side, then you can force HTTPS by use of the protocol bindings. For example, you have a website called Blah. In IIS you'd setup two sites: Blah, and Blah (Redirect). For Blah only configure the HTTPS binding (and FTP if you need to, make sure to force it over a secure connection as well). For Blah (Redirect) only configure the HTTP binding. Lastly, in the HTTP Redirect section for Blah (Redirect) make sure to set a 301 redirect to https://blah.com, with exact destination enabled. Make sure that each site in IIS is pointing to it's own root folder otherwise the Web.config will get all screwed up. Also make sure to have HSTS configured on your HTTPSed site so that subsequent requests by the browser are always forced to HTTPS and no redirects occur.

How can I scroll up more (increase the scroll buffer) in iTerm2?

Solution: In order to increase your buffer history on iterm bash terminal you've got two options:

Go to iterm -> Preferences -> Profiles -> Terminal Tab -> Scrollback Buffer (section)

Option 1. select the checkbox Unlimited scrollback

Option 2. type the selected Scrollback lines numbers you'd like your terminal buffer to cache (See image below)

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PHP find difference between two datetimes

John Conde does all the right procedures in his method but doesn't satisfy the final step in your question which is to format the result to your specifications.

This code (Demo) will display the raw difference, expose the trouble with trying to immediately format the raw difference, display my preparation steps, and finally present the correctly formatted result:

$datetime1 = new DateTime('2017-04-26 18:13:06');
$datetime2 = new DateTime('2011-01-17 17:13:00');  // change the millenium to see output difference
$diff = $datetime1->diff($datetime2);

// this will get you very close, but it will not pad the digits to conform with your expected format
echo "Raw Difference: ",$diff->format('%y years %m months %d days %h hours %i minutes %s seconds'),"\n";

// Notice the impact when you change $datetime2's millenium from '1' to '2'
echo "Invalid format: ",$diff->format('%Y-%m-%d %H:%i:%s'),"\n";  // only H does it right

$details=array_intersect_key((array)$diff,array_flip(['y','m','d','h','i','s']));

echo '$detail array: ';
var_export($details);
echo "\n";

array_map(function($v,$k)
    use(&$r)
    {
        $r.=($k=='y'?str_pad($v,4,"0",STR_PAD_LEFT):str_pad($v,2,"0",STR_PAD_LEFT));
        if($k=='y' || $k=='m'){$r.="-";}
        elseif($k=='d'){$r.=" ";}
        elseif($k=='h' || $k=='i'){$r.=":";}
    },$details,array_keys($details)
);
echo "Valid format: ",$r; // now all components of datetime are properly padded

Output:

Raw Difference: 6 years 3 months 9 days 1 hours 0 minutes 6 seconds
Invalid format: 06-3-9 01:0:6
$detail array: array (
  'y' => 6,
  'm' => 3,
  'd' => 9,
  'h' => 1,
  'i' => 0,
  's' => 6,
)
Valid format: 0006-03-09 01:00:06

Now to explain my datetime value preparation:

$details takes the diff object and casts it as an array. array_flip(['y','m','d','h','i','s']) creates an array of keys which will be used to remove all irrelevant keys from (array)$diff using array_intersect_key().

Then using array_map() my method iterates each value and key in $details, pads its left side to the appropriate length with 0's, and concatenates the $r (result) string with the necessary separators to conform with requested datetime format.

www-data permissions?

As stated in an article by Slicehost:

User setup

So let's start by adding the main user to the Apache user group:

sudo usermod -a -G www-data demo

That adds the user 'demo' to the 'www-data' group. Do ensure you use both the -a and the -G options with the usermod command shown above.

You will need to log out and log back in again to enable the group change.

Check the groups now:

groups
...
# demo www-data

So now I am a member of two groups: My own (demo) and the Apache group (www-data).

Folder setup

Now we need to ensure the public_html folder is owned by the main user (demo) and is part of the Apache group (www-data).

Let's set that up:

sudo chgrp -R www-data /home/demo/public_html

As we are talking about permissions I'll add a quick note regarding the sudo command: It's a good habit to use absolute paths (/home/demo/public_html) as shown above rather than relative paths (~/public_html). It ensures sudo is being used in the correct location.

If you have a public_html folder with symlinks in place then be careful with that command as it will follow the symlinks. In those cases of a working public_html folder, change each folder by hand.

Setgid

Good so far, but remember the command we just gave only affects existing folders. What about anything new?

We can set the ownership so anything new is also in the 'www-data' group.

The first command will change the permissions for the public_html directory to include the "setgid" bit:

sudo chmod 2750 /home/demo/public_html

That will ensure that any new files are given the group 'www-data'. If you have subdirectories, you'll want to run that command for each subdirectory (this type of permission doesn't work with '-R'). Fortunately new subdirectories will be created with the 'setgid' bit set automatically.

If we need to allow write access to Apache, to an uploads directory for example, then set the permissions for that directory like so:

sudo chmod 2770 /home/demo/public_html/domain1.com/public/uploads

The permissions only need to be set once as new files will automatically be assigned the correct ownership.