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npm install doesn't create node_modules directory

my problem was to copy the whole source files contains .idea directory and my webstorm terminal commands were run on the original directory of the source
I delete the .idea directory and it worked fine

How to get host name with port from a http or https request

If you want the original URL just use the method as described by jthalborn. If you want to rebuild the url do like David Levesque explained, here is a code snippet for it:

final javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest req = (javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest) ...;
final int serverPort = req.getServerPort();
if ((serverPort == 80) || (serverPort == 443)) {
  // No need to add the server port for standard HTTP and HTTPS ports, the scheme will help determine it.
  url = String.format("%s://%s/...", req.getScheme(), req.getServerName(), ...);
} else {
  url = String.format("%s://%s:%s...", req.getScheme(), req.getServerName(), serverPort, ...);
}

You still need to consider the case of a reverse-proxy:

Could use constants for the ports but not sure if there is a reliable source for them, default ports:

Most developers will know about port 80 and 443 anyways, so constants are not that helpful.

Also see this similar post.

Best way to find the months between two dates

#This definition gives an array of months between two dates.
import datetime
def MonthsBetweenDates(BeginDate, EndDate):
    firstyearmonths = [mn for mn in range(BeginDate.month, 13)]<p>
    lastyearmonths = [mn for mn in range(1, EndDate.month+1)]<p>
    months = [mn for mn in range(1, 13)]<p>
    numberofyearsbetween = EndDate.year - BeginDate.year - 1<p>
    return firstyearmonths + months * numberofyearsbetween + lastyearmonths<p>

#example
BD = datetime.datetime.strptime("2000-35", '%Y-%j')
ED = datetime.datetime.strptime("2004-200", '%Y-%j')
MonthsBetweenDates(BD, ED)

Why use ICollection and not IEnumerable or List<T> on many-many/one-many relationships?

What I have done in the past is declare my inner class collections using IList<Class>, ICollection<Class>or IEnumerable<Class> (if static list) depending on whether or not I will have to do any number of the following in a method in my repository: enumerate, sort/order or modify. When I just need to enumerate (and maybe sort) over objects then I create a temp List<Class>to work with the collection within an IEnumerable method. I think this practice would only be effective if the collection is relatively small, but it may be good practice in general, idk. Please correct me if there is evidence as to why this would not good practice.

Styling twitter bootstrap buttons

Basically, the buttons in Twitter Bootstrap are controlled in CSS by ".btn{}". What you have to do is go to the CSS file and find where it says "btn" and change the color settings. However, it's not as simple as just doing that since you also have to change what color the button changes into when you highlight it, etc. To do THAT, you have to look for other tags in CSS like ".btn:hover{}", etc.

Changing it requires changing of the CSS. Here is a quick link to that file:

https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/dist/css/bootstrap.css

How to convert a normal Git repository to a bare one?

Please also consider to use

git clone --mirror path_to_source_repository

From the documentation:

Set up a mirror of the source repository. This implies --bare. Compared to --bare, --mirror not only maps local branches of the source to local branches of the target, it maps all refs (including remote-tracking branches, notes etc.) and sets up a refspec configuration such that all these refs are overwritten by a git remote update in the target repository.

How do I combine a background-image and CSS3 gradient on the same element?

For my responsive design, my drop-box down-arrow on the right side of the box (vertical accordion), accepted percentage as position. Initially the down-arrow was "position: absolute; right: 13px;". With the 97% positioning it worked like charm as follows:

> background: #ffffff;
> background-image: url(PATH-TO-arrow_down.png); /*fall back - IE */
> background-position: 97% center; /*fall back - IE */
> background-repeat: no-repeat; /*fall back - IE */
> background-image: url(PATH-TO-arrow_down.png)  no-repeat  97%  center;  
> background: url(PATH-TO-arrow_down.png) no-repeat 97% center,  -moz-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 1%, #eaeaea 100%); 
> background: url(PATH-TO-arrow_down.png) no-repeat 97% center,  -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(1%,#ffffff), color-stop(100%,#eaeaea)); 
> background: url(PATH-TO-arrow_down.png) no-repeat 97% center,  -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 1%,#eaeaea 100%); 
> background: url(PATH-TO-arrow_down.png) no-repeat 97% center,  -o-linear-gradient(top, #ffffff 1%,#eaeaea 100%);<br />
> filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#ffffff', endColorstr='#eaeaea',GradientType=0 ); 

P.S. Sorry, don't know how to handle the filters.

Appending a line to a file only if it does not already exist

Using sed: It will insert at the end of line. You can also pass in variables as usual of course.

grep -qxF "port=9033" $light.conf
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
  sed -i "$ a port=9033" $light.conf
else
    echo "port=9033 already added"
fi

Using oneliner sed

grep -qxF "port=9033" $lightconf || sed -i "$ a port=9033" $lightconf

Using echo may not work under root, but will work like this. But it will not let you automate things if you are looking to do it since it might ask for password.

I had a problem when I was trying to edit from the root for a particular user. Just adding the $username before was a fix for me.

grep -qxF "port=9033" light.conf
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
  sudo -u $user_name echo "port=9033" >> light.conf
else
    echo "already there"    
fi

sql query with multiple where statements

Can we see the structure of your table? If I am understanding this, then the assumption made by the query is that a record can be only meta_key - 'lat' or meta_key = 'long' not both because each row only has one meta_key column and can only contain 1 corresponding value, not 2. That would explain why you don't get results when you connect the with an AND; it's impossible.

How do I find a particular value in an array and return its index?

#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>

int main()
{
     int arr[5] = {4, 1, 3, 2, 6};
     int x = -1;
     std::vector<int> testVector(arr, arr + sizeof(arr) / sizeof(int) );

     std::vector<int>::iterator it = std::find(testVector.begin(), testVector.end(), 3);
     if (it != testVector.end())
     {
          x = it - testVector.begin();
     }
     return 0;
}

Or you can just build a vector in a normal way, without creating it from an array of ints and then use the same solution as shown in my example.

Faster way to zero memory than with memset?

If I remember correctly (from a couple of years ago), one of the senior developers was talking about a fast way to bzero() on PowerPC (specs said we needed to zero almost all the memory on power up). It might not translate well (if at all) to x86, but it could be worth exploring.

The idea was to load a data cache line, clear that data cache line, and then write the cleared data cache line back to memory.

For what it is worth, I hope it helps.

Why do I keep getting Delete 'cr' [prettier/prettier]?

Try setting the "endOfLine":"auto" in your .prettierrc file (inside the object)

Or set

"prettier/prettier": ["error", {
     ..
    "endOfLine":"auto"
     ..
  }],

inside the rules object of the eslintrc file.

If you are using windows machine endOfLine can be "crlf" basing on your git config.

How to find minimum value from vector?

Try this with

 std::min_element(v.begin(),v.end())

Writing outputs to log file and console

Try this, it will do the work:

log_file=$curr_dir/log_file.txt
exec > >(tee -a ${log_file} )
exec 2> >(tee -a ${log_file} >&2)

How to convert a string into double and vice versa?

olliej's rounding method is wrong for negative numbers

  • 2.4 rounded is 2 (olliej's method gets this right)
  • -2.4 rounded is -2 (olliej's method returns -1)

Here's an alternative

  int myInt = (int)(myDouble + (myDouble>0 ? 0.5 : -0.5))

You could of course use a rounding function from math.h

How can I get list of values from dict?

out: dict_values([{1:a, 2:b}])

in:  str(dict.values())[14:-3]    
out: 1:a, 2:b

Purely for visual purposes. Does not produce a useful product... Only useful if you want a long dictionary to print in a paragraph type form.

How to use the DropDownList's SelectedIndexChanged event

You should add AutoPostBack="true" to DropDownList1

                <asp:DropDownList ID="ddmanu" runat="server" AutoPostBack="true"
                    DataSourceID="Sql_fur_model_manu"    
                    DataTextField="manufacturer" DataValueField="manufacturer" 
                    onselectedindexchanged="ddmanu_SelectedIndexChanged">
                </asp:DropDownList>

$(document).ready equivalent without jQuery

Nowadays you should use modules. Put your code into the default function of a module and import the function into a script element.

client.js:

export default function ()
{
  alert ("test");
}

index.html:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>test</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <script type="module">
      import main from './client.js';
      main ();
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

Spring boot - Not a managed type

Put this in your Application.java file

@ComponentScan(basePackages={"com.nervy.dialer"})
@EntityScan(basePackages="domain")

time.sleep -- sleeps thread or process?

Only the thread unless your process has a single thread.

Android 8.0: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Not allowed to start service Intent

The permitted situations are a temporary whitelist where the background service behaves the same as before Android O.

Under certain circumstances, a background app is placed on a temporary whitelist for several minutes. While an app is on the whitelist, it can launch services without limitation, and its background services are permitted to run. An app is placed on the whitelist when it handles a task that's visible to the user, such as:

  • Handling a high-priority Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) message.
  • Receiving a broadcast, such as an SMS/MMS message.
  • Executing a PendingIntent from a notification.
  • Starting a VpnService before the VPN app promotes itself to the foreground.

Source: https://developer.android.com/about/versions/oreo/background.html

So in other words if your background service does not meet the whitelist requirements you have to use the new JobScheduler. It's basically the same as a background service, but it gets called periodically instead of running in the background continuously.

If you're using an IntentService, you can change to a JobIntentService. See @kosev's answer below.

Keras, how do I predict after I trained a model?

Your can use your tokenizer and pad sequencing for a new piece of text. This is followed by model prediction. This will return the prediction as a numpy array plus the label itself.

For example:

new_complaint = ['Your service is not good']
seq = tokenizer.texts_to_sequences(new_complaint)
padded = pad_sequences(seq, maxlen=maxlen)
pred = model.predict(padded)
print(pred, labels[np.argmax(pred)])

How to change collation of database, table, column?

The following query will generate ALTER queries that change the collation for all appropriate columns in all tables to a certain type (utf8_general_ci in my example below).

SELECT concat
        (
            'ALTER TABLE ', 
                t1.TABLE_SCHEMA, 
                '.', 
                t1.table_name, 
                ' MODIFY ', 
                t1.column_name, 
                ' ', 
                t1.data_type, 
                '(' , 
                    CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH, 
                ')', 
                ' CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;'
        )
from 
    information_schema.columns t1
where 
    t1.TABLE_SCHEMA like 'you_db_name_goes_here' AND
    t1.COLLATION_NAME IS NOT NULL AND
    t1.COLLATION_NAME NOT IN ('utf8_general_ci');

Java Array Sort descending?

For discussions above, here is an easy example to sort the primitive arrays in descending order.

import java.util.Arrays;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int[] nums = { 5, 4, 1, 2, 9, 7, 3, 8, 6, 0 };
        Arrays.sort(nums);

        // reverse the array, just like dumping the array!
        // swap(1st, 1st-last) <= 1st: 0, 1st-last: nums.length - 1
        // swap(2nd, 2nd-last) <= 2nd: i++,  2nd-last: j--
        // swap(3rd, 3rd-last) <= 3rd: i++,  3rd-last: j--
        //
        for (int i = 0, j = nums.length - 1, tmp; i < j; i++, j--) {
            tmp = nums[i];
            nums[i] = nums[j];
            nums[j] = tmp;
        }

        // dump the array (for Java 4/5/6/7/8/9)
        for (int i = 0; i < nums.length; i++) {
            System.out.println("nums[" + i + "] = " + nums[i]);
        }
    }
}

Output:

nums[0] = 9
nums[1] = 8
nums[2] = 7
nums[3] = 6
nums[4] = 5
nums[5] = 4
nums[6] = 3
nums[7] = 2
nums[8] = 1
nums[9] = 0

BAT file to map to network drive without running as admin

I tried to create a mapped network driver via 'net use' with admin privilege but failed, it does not show. And if I add it through UI, it disappeared after reboot, now I made that through powershell. So, I think you can run powershell scripts from a .bat file, and the script is

New-PSDrive -Name "P" -PSProvider "FileSystem" -Root "\\Server01\Public"

add -persist at the end, you will create a persisted mapped network drive

New-PSDrive -Name "P" -PSProvider "FileSystem" -Root "\\Server01\Scripts" -Persist

for more details, refer New-PSDrive - Microsoft Docs

Getting all request parameters in Symfony 2

Since you are in a controller, the action method is given a Request parameter.

You can access all POST data with $request->request->all();. This returns a key-value pair array.

When using GET requests you access data using $request->query->all();

MVC 4 Razor adding input type date

 @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.EntryDate, new{ type = "date" })

 or type = "time"

 it will display a calendar
 it will not work if you give @Html.EditorFor()

UIView bottom border?

I wrote a general method that will add a border on whichever sides you wish in any UIView. You can define thickness, color, margins and zOrder for each side.

/*
 view: the view to draw border around
 thickness: thickness of the border on the given side
 color: color of the border on the given side
 margin: space between the border's outer edge and the view's frame edge on the given side.
 zOrder: defines the order to add the borders to the view.  The borders will be added by zOrder from lowest to highest, thus making the highest priority border visible when two borders overlap at the corners.
*/

    +(void) drawBorderAroundUIView:(UIView *) view thicknessLeft:(CGFloat) thicknessLeft colorLeft:(UIColor *)colorLeft marginLeft:(CGFloat) marginLeft zOrderLeft:(int) zOrderLeft thicknessRight:(CGFloat) thicknessRight colorRight:(UIColor *)colorRight marginRight:(CGFloat) marginRight zOrderRight:(int) zOrderRight thicknessTop:(CGFloat) thicknessTop colorTop:(UIColor *)colorTop marginTop:(CGFloat) marginTop zOrderTop:(int) zOrderTop thicknessBottom:(CGFloat) thicknessBottom colorBottom:(UIColor *)colorBottom marginBottom:(CGFloat) marginBottom zOrderBottom:(int) zOrderBottom{
    //make margins be the outside edge and make positive margin represent a smaller rectangle
    marginBottom = -1 * marginBottom - thicknessBottom;
    marginTop = -1 * marginTop - thicknessTop;
    marginLeft = -1 * marginLeft - thicknessLeft;
    marginRight = -1 * marginRight - thicknessRight;

    //get reference points for corners
    CGPoint upperLeftCorner = CGPointZero;
    CGPoint lowerLeftCorner = CGPointMake(upperLeftCorner.x, upperLeftCorner.y + view.frame.size.height);
    CGPoint upperRightCorner = CGPointMake(upperLeftCorner.x + view.frame.size.width, upperLeftCorner.y);

    //left
    CALayer *leftBorder = [CALayer layer];
    leftBorder.frame = CGRectMake(upperLeftCorner.x - thicknessLeft - marginLeft, upperLeftCorner.y - thicknessTop - marginTop, thicknessLeft, view.frame.size.height + marginTop + marginBottom + thicknessBottom + thicknessTop);
    leftBorder.backgroundColor = colorLeft.CGColor;

    //right
    CALayer *rightBorder = [CALayer layer];
    rightBorder.frame = CGRectMake(upperRightCorner.x + marginRight, upperRightCorner.y - thicknessTop - marginTop, thicknessRight, view.frame.size.height + marginTop + marginBottom + thicknessBottom + thicknessTop);
    rightBorder.backgroundColor = colorRight.CGColor;

    //top
    CALayer *topBorder = [CALayer layer];
    topBorder.frame = CGRectMake(upperLeftCorner.x - thicknessLeft - marginLeft, upperLeftCorner.y - thicknessTop - marginTop, view.frame.size.width + marginLeft + marginRight + thicknessLeft + thicknessRight, thicknessTop);
    topBorder.backgroundColor = colorTop.CGColor;

    //bottom
    CALayer *bottomBorder = [CALayer layer];
    bottomBorder.frame = CGRectMake(upperLeftCorner.x - thicknessLeft - marginLeft, lowerLeftCorner.y + marginBottom, view.frame.size.width + marginLeft + marginRight + thicknessLeft + thicknessRight, thicknessBottom);
    bottomBorder.backgroundColor = colorBottom.CGColor;

    //define dictionary keys to be used for adding borders in order of zOrder
    NSString *borderDK = @"border";
    NSString *zOrderDK = @"zOrder";

    //storing borders in dictionaries in preparation to add them in order of zOrder
    NSDictionary *leftBorderDictionary = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:leftBorder, borderDK, [NSNumber numberWithInt:zOrderLeft], zOrderDK, nil];
    NSDictionary *rightBorderDictionary = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:rightBorder, borderDK, [NSNumber numberWithInt:zOrderRight], zOrderDK, nil];
    NSDictionary *topBorderDictionary = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:topBorder, borderDK, [NSNumber numberWithInt:zOrderTop], zOrderDK, nil];
    NSDictionary *bottomBorderDictionary = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:bottomBorder, borderDK, [NSNumber numberWithInt:zOrderBottom], zOrderDK, nil];

    NSMutableArray *borders = [NSMutableArray arrayWithObjects:leftBorderDictionary, rightBorderDictionary, topBorderDictionary, bottomBorderDictionary, nil];

    //add borders in order of zOrder (lowest -> highest).  Thus the highest zOrder will be added last so it will be on top.
    while (borders.count)
    {
        //look for the next lowest zOrder border to add
        NSDictionary *nextBorderToLayDown = [borders objectAtIndex:0];
        for (int indexOfBorder = 0; indexOfBorder < borders.count; indexOfBorder++)
        {
            NSDictionary *borderAtIndex = [borders objectAtIndex:indexOfBorder];
            if ([[borderAtIndex objectForKey:zOrderDK] intValue] < [[nextBorderToLayDown objectForKey:zOrderDK] intValue])
            {
                nextBorderToLayDown = borderAtIndex;
            }
        }
        //add the border to the view
        [view.layer addSublayer:[nextBorderToLayDown objectForKey:borderDK]];
        [borders removeObject:nextBorderToLayDown];
    }
}

Calling a javascript function recursively

I know this is an old question, but I thought I'd present one more solution that could be used if you'd like to avoid using named function expressions. (Not saying you should or should not avoid them, just presenting another solution)

  var fn = (function() {
    var innerFn = function(counter) {
      console.log(counter);

      if(counter > 0) {
        innerFn(counter-1);
      }
    };

    return innerFn;
  })();

  console.log("running fn");
  fn(3);

  var copyFn = fn;

  console.log("running copyFn");
  copyFn(3);

  fn = function() { console.log("done"); };

  console.log("fn after reassignment");
  fn(3);

  console.log("copyFn after reassignment of fn");
  copyFn(3);

Work on a remote project with Eclipse via SSH

I tried ssh -X but it was unbearably slow.

I also tried RSE, but it didn't even support building the project with a Makefile (I'm being told that this has changed since I posted my answer, but I haven't tried that out)

I read that NX is faster than X11 forwarding, but I couldn't get it to work.

Finally, I found out that my server supports X2Go (the link has install instructions if yours does not). Now I only had to:

  • download and unpack Eclipse on the server,
  • install X2Go on my local machine (sudo apt-get install x2goclient on Ubuntu),
  • configure the connection (host, auto-login with ssh key, choose to run Eclipse).

Everything is just as if I was working on a local machine, including building, debugging, and code indexing. And there are no noticeable lags.

Force "portrait" orientation mode

Set force Portrait or Landscape mode, Add lines respectively.

Import below line:

import android.content.pm.ActivityInfo;

Add Below line just above setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

For Portrait:

setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);//Set Portrait

For Landscap:

setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE);//Set Landscape

This will definitely work.

How to simulate POST request?

It would be helpful if you provided more information - e.g. what OS your using, what you want to accomplish, etc. But, generally speaking cURL is a very powerful command-line tool I frequently use (in linux) for imitating HTML requests:

For example:

curl --data "post1=value1&post2=value2&etc=valetc" http://host/resource

OR, for a RESTful API:

curl -X POST -d @file http://host/resource

You can check out more information here-> http://curl.haxx.se/


EDITs:

OK. So basically you're looking to stress test your REST server? Then cURL really isn't helpful unless you want to write your own load-testing program, even then sockets would be the way to go. I would suggest you check out Gatling. The Gatling documentation explains how to set up the tool, and from there your can run all kinds of GET, POST, PUT and DELETE requests.

Unfortunately, short of writing your own program - i.e. spawning a whole bunch of threads and inundating your REST server with different types of requests - you really have to rely on a stress/load-testing toolkit. Just using a REST client to send requests isn't going to put much stress on your server.


More EDITs

So in order to simulate a post request on a socket, you basically have to build the initial socket connection with the server. I am not a C# guy, so I can't tell you exactly how to do that; I'm sure there are 1001 C# socket tutorials on the web. With most RESTful APIs you usually need to provide a URI to tell the server what to do. For example, let's say your API manages a library, and you are using a POST request to tell the server to update information about a book with an id of '34'. Your URI might be

http://localhost/library/book/34

Therefore, you should open a connection to localhost on port 80 (or 8080, or whatever port your server is on), and pass along an HTML request header. Going with the library example above, your request header might look as follows:

POST library/book/34 HTTP/1.0\r\n
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest\r\n
Content-Type: text/html\r\n
Referer: localhost\r\n
Content-length: 36\r\n\r\n
title=Learning+REST&author=Some+Name

From here, the server should shoot back a response header, followed by whatever the API is programed to tell the client - usually something to say the POST succeeded or failed. To stress test your API, you should essentially do this over and over again by creating a threaded process.

Also, if you are posting JSON data, you will have to alter your header and content accordingly. Frankly, if you are looking to do this quick and clean, I would suggest using python (or perl) which has several libraries for creating POST, PUT, GET and DELETE request, as well as POSTing and PUTing JSON data. Otherwise, you might end up doing more programming than stress testing. Hope this helps!

good example of Javadoc

How about the JDK source code, but accessed through a 3rd party like docjar? For example, the Collections source.

That way, there's no big download.

VBA Macro On Timer style to run code every set number of seconds, i.e. 120 seconds

My solution:

Option Explicit
Public datHora As Date

Function Cronometro(action As Integer) As Integer 
'This return the seconds between two >calls
Cronometro = 0
  If action = 1 Then 'Start
    datHora = Now
  End If
  If action = 2 Then 'Time until that moment
    Cronometro = DateDiff("s", datHora, Now)
  End If
End Function

How to use? Easy...

dummy= Cronometro(1) ' This starts the timer

seconds= Cronometro(2) ' This returns the seconds between the first call and this one

How to add a button dynamically using jquery

Try this

function test()
{
   $("body").append("<input type='button' id='field' />");
}

ng-repeat: access key and value for each object in array of objects

Here is another way, without the need for nesting the repeaters.

From the Angularjs docs:

It is possible to get ngRepeat to iterate over the properties of an object using the following syntax:

<div ng-repeat="(key, value) in steps"> {{key}} : {{value}} </div>

Error: Argument is not a function, got undefined

To fix this problem, I had to discover that I misspelled the name of the controller in the declaration of Angular routes:

.when('/todo',{
            templateUrl: 'partials/todo.html',
            controller: 'TodoCtrl'
        })

Spring cron expression for every day 1:01:am

Try with:

@Scheduled(cron = "0 1 1 * * ?")

Below you can find the example patterns from the spring forum:

* "0 0 * * * *" = the top of every hour of every day.
* "*/10 * * * * *" = every ten seconds.
* "0 0 8-10 * * *" = 8, 9 and 10 o'clock of every day.
* "0 0 8,10 * * *" = 8 and 10 o'clock of every day.
* "0 0/30 8-10 * * *" = 8:00, 8:30, 9:00, 9:30 and 10 o'clock every day.
* "0 0 9-17 * * MON-FRI" = on the hour nine-to-five weekdays
* "0 0 0 25 12 ?" = every Christmas Day at midnight

Cron expression is represented by six fields:

second, minute, hour, day of month, month, day(s) of week

(*) means match any

*/X means "every X"

? ("no specific value") - useful when you need to specify something in one of the two fields in which the character is allowed, but not the other. For example, if I want my trigger to fire on a particular day of the month (say, the 10th), but I don't care what day of the week that happens to be, I would put "10" in the day-of-month field and "?" in the day-of-week field.

PS: In order to make it work, remember to enable it in your application context: https://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/3.2.x/spring-framework-reference/html/scheduling.html#scheduling-annotation-support

How to center HTML5 Videos?

Try this:

video {
display:block;
margin:0 auto;
}

Using SHA1 and RSA with java.security.Signature vs. MessageDigest and Cipher

Code below (taken from my blog article - http://todayguesswhat.blogspot.com/2021/01/manually-verifying-rsa-sha-signature-in.html ) is hopefully helpful in understanding what is present in a standard SHA with RSA signature. This should work in standard Oracle JDK and does not require Bouncy Castle libraries. It is using the sun.security classes to process the decrypted signature contents - you could just as easily manually parse.

In the example below, the message digest algorithm is SHA-512 which produces a 64 byte (512-bit) checksum.

SHA-1 would be pretty similar - but producing a 20-byte (160-bit) checksum.

import java.security.KeyPair;
import java.security.KeyPairGenerator;
import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.security.PrivateKey;
import java.security.PublicKey;
import java.security.Signature;

import java.util.Arrays;

import javax.crypto.Cipher;

import sun.security.util.DerInputStream;
import sun.security.util.DerValue;

public class RSASignatureVerification
{
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
    {
        KeyPairGenerator generator = KeyPairGenerator.getInstance("RSA");
        generator.initialize(2048);

        KeyPair keyPair = generator.generateKeyPair();
        PrivateKey privateKey = keyPair.getPrivate();
        PublicKey publicKey = keyPair.getPublic();

        String data = "hello oracle";
        byte[] dataBytes = data.getBytes("UTF8");

        Signature signer = Signature.getInstance("SHA512withRSA");
        signer.initSign(privateKey);

        signer.update(dataBytes);

        byte[] signature = signer.sign(); // signature bytes of the signing operation's result.

        Signature verifier = Signature.getInstance("SHA512withRSA");
        verifier.initVerify(publicKey);
        verifier.update(dataBytes);

        boolean verified = verifier.verify(signature);
        if (verified)
        {
            System.out.println("Signature verified!");
        }

/*
    The statement that describes signing to be equivalent to RSA encrypting the
    hash of the message using the private key is a greatly simplified view
    The decrypted signatures bytes likely convey a structure (ASN.1) encoded
    using DER with the hash just one component of the structure.
*/

        // lets try decrypt signature and see what is in it ...
        Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("RSA");
        cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, publicKey);

        byte[] decryptedSignatureBytes = cipher.doFinal(signature);

/*
    sample value of decrypted signature which was 83 bytes long

    30 51 30 0D 06 09 60 86 48 01 65 03 04 02 03 05
    00 04 40 51 00 41 75 CA 3B 2B 6B C0 0A 3F 99 E3
    6B 7A 01 DC F2 9B 36 E6 0D D4 31 89 53 A3 D9 80
    6D AE DD 45 7E 55 45 01 FC C8 73 D2 DD 8D E5 B9
    E0 71 57 13 41 D0 CD FF CA 58 01 03 A3 DD 95 A1
    C1 EE C8

    Taking above sample bytes ...
    0x30 means A SEQUENCE - which contains an ordered field of one or more types.
    It is encoded into a TLV triplet that begins with a Tag byte of 0x30.
    DER uses T,L,V (tag bytes, length bytes, value bytes) format

    0x51 is the length = 81 decimal (13 bytes)

    the 0x30 (48 decimal) that follows begins a second sequence

    https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3447#page-43
    the DER encoding T of the DigestInfo value is equal to the following for SHA-512
    0D 06 09 60 86 48 01 65 03 04 02 03 05 00 04 40 || H
    where || is concatenation and H is the hash value.

    0x0D is the length = 13 decimal (13 bytes)

    0x06 means an OBJECT_ID tag
    0x09 means the object id is 9 bytes ...

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-au/windows/win32/seccertenroll/about-object-identifier?redirectedfrom=MSDN

    taking 2.16.840.1.101.3.4.2.3 (object id for SHA512 Hash Algorithm)

    The first two nodes of the OID are encoded onto a single byte.
    The first node is multiplied by the decimal 40 and the result is added to the value of the second node
    2 * 40 + 16 = 96 decimal = 60 hex
    Node values less than or equal to 127 are encoded on one byte.
    1 101 3 4 2 3 corresponds to in hex 01 65 03 04 02 03
    Node values greater than or equal to 128 are encoded on multiple bytes.
    Bit 7 of the leftmost byte is set to one. Bits 0 through 6 of each byte contains the encoded value.
    840 decimal = 348 hex
    -> 0000 0011 0100 1000
    set bit 7 of the left most byte to 1, ignore bit 7 of the right most byte,
    shifting right nibble of leftmost byte to the left by 1 bit
    -> 1000 0110 X100 1000 in hex 86 48

    05 00          ; NULL (0 Bytes)

    04 40          ; OCTET STRING (0x40 Bytes = 64 bytes
    SHA512 produces a 512-bit (64-byte) hash value

    51 00 41 ... C1 EE C8 is the 64 byte hash value
*/

        // parse DER encoded data
        DerInputStream derReader = new DerInputStream(decryptedSignatureBytes);

        byte[] hashValueFromSignature = null;

        // obtain sequence of entities
        DerValue[] seq = derReader.getSequence(0);
        for (DerValue v : seq)
        {
            if (v.getTag() == 4)
            {
                hashValueFromSignature = v.getOctetString(); // SHA-512 checksum extracted from decrypted signature bytes
            }
        }

        MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-512");
        md.update(dataBytes);

        byte[] hashValueCalculated = md.digest();

        boolean manuallyVerified = Arrays.equals(hashValueFromSignature, hashValueCalculated);
        if (manuallyVerified)
        {
            System.out.println("Signature manually verified!");
        }
        else
        {
            System.out.println("Signature could NOT be manually verified!");
        }
    }
}

jQuery send HTML data through POST

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Visual Studio Code always asking for git credentials

All I had to do was to run this command:

git config --global credential.helper wincred

Then I was prompted for password twice.

Next time it worked without prompting me for password.

What's the difference between getPath(), getAbsolutePath(), and getCanonicalPath() in Java?

The big thing to get your head around is that the File class tries to represent a view of what Sun like to call "hierarchical pathnames" (basically a path like c:/foo.txt or /usr/muggins). This is why you create files in terms of paths. The operations you are describing are all operations upon this "pathname".

  • getPath() fetches the path that the File was created with (../foo.txt)
  • getAbsolutePath() fetches the path that the File was created with, but includes information about the current directory if the path is relative (/usr/bobstuff/../foo.txt)
  • getCanonicalPath() attempts to fetch a unique representation of the absolute path to the file. This eliminates indirection from ".." and "." references (/usr/foo.txt).

Note I say attempts - in forming a Canonical Path, the VM can throw an IOException. This usually occurs because it is performing some filesystem operations, any one of which could fail.

Convert NVARCHAR to DATETIME in SQL Server 2008

alter table your_table
alter column LoginDate datetime;

SQLFiddle demo

How to use "like" and "not like" in SQL MSAccess for the same field?

If you're doing it in VBA (and not in a query) then: where field like "AA" and field not like "BB" then would not work.

You'd have to use: where field like "AA" and field like "BB" = false then

Send mail via CMD console

Scenario: Your domain: mydomain.com Domain you wish to send to: theirdomain.com

1. Determine the mail server you're sending to. Open a CMD prompt Type

NSLOOKUP 
 set q=mx 
 theirdomain.com

Response:

Non-authoritative answer: 
theirdomain.com MX preference = 50, mail exchanger = mail.theirdomain.com 
Nslookup_big

EDIT Be sure to type exit to terminate NSLOOKUP.

2. Connect to their mail server

SMTP communicates over port 25. We will now try to use TELNET to connect to their mail server "mail.theirdomain.com"

Open a CMD prompt

TELNET MAIL.THEIRDOMAIN.COM 25

You should see something like this as a response:

220 mx.google.com ESMTP 6si6253627yxg.6

Be aware that different servers will come up with different greetings but you should get SOMETHING. If nothing comes up at this point there are 2 possible problems. Port 25 is being blocked at your firewall, or their server is not responding. Try a different domain, if that works then it's not you.

3. Send an Email

Now, use simple SMTP commands to send a test email. This is very important, you CANNOT use the backspace key, it will work onscreen but not be interpreted correctly. You have to type these commands perfectly.

ehlo mydomain.com 
mail from:<[email protected]> 
rcpt to:<[email protected]> 
data 
This is a test, please do not respond
. 
quit

So, what does that all mean? EHLO - introduce yourself to the mail server HELO can also be used but EHLO tells the server to use the extended command set (not that we're using that).

MAIL FROM - who's sending the email. Make sure to place this is the greater than/less than brackets as many email servers will require this (Postini).

RCPT TO - who you're sending it to. Again you need to use the brackets. See Step #4 on how to test relaying mail!

DATA - tells the SMTP server that what follows is the body of your email. Make sure to hit "Enter" at the end.

. - the period alone on the line tells the SMTP server you're all done with the data portion and it's clear to send the email.

quit - exits the TELNET session.

4. Test SMTP relay Testing SMTP relay is very easy, and simply requires a small change to the above commands. See below:

ehlo mydomain.com 
mail from:<[email protected]> 
rcpt to:<[email protected]> 
data 
This is a test, please do not respond 
. 
quit

See the difference? On the RCPT TO line, we're sending to a domain that is not controlled by the SMTP server we're sending to. You will get an immediate error is SMTP relay is turned off. If you're able to continue and send an email, then relay is allowed by that server.

How to reset Django admin password?

Another way to get the user name (and most of the information) is to access the database directly and read the info from the tables.

Chrome & Safari Error::Not allowed to load local resource: file:///D:/CSS/Style.css

The solution is already answered here above (long ago).

But the implicit question "why does it work in FF and IE but not in Chrome and Safari" is found in the error text "Not allowed to load local resource": Chrome and Safari seem to use a more strict implementation of sandboxing (for security reasons) than the other two (at this time 2011).

This applies for local access. In a (normal) server environment (apache ...) the file would simply not have been found.

Flutter- wrapping text

Try Wrap widget to wrap text as text grows:

Example:

Wrap(
  direction: Axis.vertical, //Vertical || Horizontal
  children: <Widget>[
    Text(
      'Your Text',
      style: TextStyle(fontSize: 30),
    ),
    Text(
      'Your Text',
      style: TextStyle(fontSize: 30),
    ),
  ],
),

Opening Chrome From Command Line

Use the start command as follows.

start "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" http://www.google.com

It will be better to close chrome instances before you open a new one. You can do that as follows:

taskkill /IM chrome.exe
start "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" http://www.google.com

That'll work for you.

Using a global variable with a thread

In a function:

a += 1

will be interpreted by the compiler as assign to a => Create local variable a, which is not what you want. It will probably fail with a a not initialized error since the (local) a has indeed not been initialized:

>>> a = 1
>>> def f():
...     a += 1
... 
>>> f()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<stdin>", line 2, in f
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'a' referenced before assignment

You might get what you want with the (very frowned upon, and for good reasons) global keyword, like so:

>>> def f():
...     global a
...     a += 1
... 
>>> a
1
>>> f()
>>> a
2

In general however, you should avoid using global variables which become extremely quickly out of hand. And this is especially true for multithreaded programs, where you don't have any synchronization mechanism for your thread1 to know when a has been modified. In short: threads are complicated, and you cannot expect to have an intuitive understanding of the order in which events are happening when two (or more) threads work on the same value. The language, compiler, OS, processor... can ALL play a role, and decide to modify the order of operations for speed, practicality or any other reason.

The proper way for this kind of thing is to use Python sharing tools (locks and friends), or better, communicate data via a Queue instead of sharing it, e.g. like this:

from threading import Thread
from queue import Queue
import time

def thread1(threadname, q):
    #read variable "a" modify by thread 2
    while True:
        a = q.get()
        if a is None: return # Poison pill
        print a

def thread2(threadname, q):
    a = 0
    for _ in xrange(10):
        a += 1
        q.put(a)
        time.sleep(1)
    q.put(None) # Poison pill

queue = Queue()
thread1 = Thread( target=thread1, args=("Thread-1", queue) )
thread2 = Thread( target=thread2, args=("Thread-2", queue) )

thread1.start()
thread2.start()
thread1.join()
thread2.join()

403 Forbidden error when making an ajax Post request in Django framework

With SSL/https and with CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY = False, I still don't have csrftoken in the cookie, either using the getCookie(name) function proposed in django Doc or the jquery.cookie.js proposed by fivef.

Wtower summary is perfect and I thought it would work after removing CSRF_COOKIE_HTTPONLY from settings.py but it does'nt in https!

Why csrftoken is not visible in document.cookie???

Instead of getting

"django_language=fr; csrftoken=rDrGI5cp98MnooPIsygWIF76vuYTkDIt"

I get only

"django_language=fr"

WHY? Like SSL/https removes X-CSRFToken from headers I thought it was due to the proxy header params of Nginx but apparently not... Any idea?

Unlike django doc Notes, it seems impossible to work with csrf_token in cookies with https. The only way to pass csrftoken is through the DOM by using {% csrf_token %} in html and get it in jQuery by using

var csrftoken = $('input[name="csrfmiddlewaretoken"]').val();

It is then possible to pass it to ajax either by header (xhr.setRequestHeader), either by params.

"Eliminate render-blocking CSS in above-the-fold content"

Consider using a package to automatically generate inline styles from your css files. A good one is Grunt Critical or Critical css for Laravel.

Are one-line 'if'/'for'-statements good Python style?

Python lets you put the indented clause on the same line if it's only one line:

if "exam" in example: print "yes!"

def squared(x): return x * x

class MyException(Exception): pass

Finding an item in a List<> using C#

item = objects.Find(obj => obj.property==myValue);

How to change the button text of <input type="file" />?

I did it like this for my project:

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  color:#000;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.btn-block {_x000D_
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  width: 100%;_x000D_
  padding: 15px 0;_x000D_
  margin-bottom: 10px;_x000D_
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  text-align: center;_x000D_
}
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<label for="fileUpload" class="btn btn-primary btn-block btn-outlined">Your text</label>_x000D_
<input type="file" id="fileUpload"style="display: none;">
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Error 500: Premature end of script headers

The "Premature end of script headers" error message is probably the most loathed and common error message you'll find. What the error actually means, is that the script stopped for whatever reason before it returned any output to the web server. A common cause of this for script writers is to fail to set a content type before printing output code. In Perl for example, before printing any HTML it is necessary to tell the Perl script to set the content type to text/html, this is done by sending a header, like so:

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

(source; http://htmlfixit.com/cgi-tutes/tutorial_Common_Web_dev_error_messages_and_what_they_mean.php#premature

Loop through files in a directory using PowerShell

Other answers are great, I just want to add... a different approach usable in PowerShell: Install GNUWin32 utils and use grep to view the lines / redirect the output to file http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/

This overwrites the new file every time:

grep "step[49]" logIn.log > logOut.log 

This appends the log output, in case you overwrite the logIn file and want to keep the data:

grep "step[49]" logIn.log >> logOut.log 

Note: to be able to use GNUWin32 utils globally you have to add the bin folder to your system path.

Copy multiple files in Python

def recursive_copy_files(source_path, destination_path, override=False):
    """
    Recursive copies files from source  to destination directory.
    :param source_path: source directory
    :param destination_path: destination directory
    :param override if True all files will be overridden otherwise skip if file exist
    :return: count of copied files
    """
    files_count = 0
    if not os.path.exists(destination_path):
        os.mkdir(destination_path)
    items = glob.glob(source_path + '/*')
    for item in items:
        if os.path.isdir(item):
            path = os.path.join(destination_path, item.split('/')[-1])
            files_count += recursive_copy_files(source_path=item, destination_path=path, override=override)
        else:
            file = os.path.join(destination_path, item.split('/')[-1])
            if not os.path.exists(file) or override:
                shutil.copyfile(item, file)
                files_count += 1
    return files_count

GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM problem when working with terminal and MacFusion

My Problem was that I was not in the correct git directory that I just cloned.

Why is the Java main method static?

When you execute the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) with the java command,

java ClassName argument1 argument2 ...

When you execute your application, you specify its class name as an argument to the java command, as above

the JVM attempts to invoke the main method of the class you specify

—at this point, no objects of the class have been created.

Declaring main as static allows the JVM to invoke main without creating an instance of the class.

let's back to the command

ClassName is a command-line argument to the JVM that tells it which class to execute. Following the ClassName, you can also specify a list of Strings (separated by spaces) as command-line arguments that the JVM will pass to your application. -Such arguments might be used to specify options (e.g., a filename) to run the application- this is why there is a parameter called String[] args in the main

References:Java™ How To Program (Early Objects), Tenth Edition

How do you performance test JavaScript code?

The golden rule is to NOT under ANY circumstances lock your users browser. After that, I usually look at execution time, followed by memory usage (unless you're doing something crazy, in which case it could be a higher priority).

Android: No Activity found to handle Intent error? How it will resolve

if (intent.resolveActivity(getPackageManager()) == null) {
    Utils.showToast(activity, no_app_available_to_complete_this_task);
} else {
    startActivityForResult(intent, 1);
}

How to pause / sleep thread or process in Android?

  class MyActivity{
    private final Handler handler = new Handler();
    private Runnable yourRunnable;
    protected void onCreate(@Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
       // ....
       this.yourRunnable = new Runnable() {
               @Override
               public void run() {
                   //code
               }
            };

        this.handler.postDelayed(this.yourRunnable, 2000);
       }


     @Override
  protected void onDestroy() {
      // to avoid memory leaks
      this.handler.removeCallbacks(this.yourRunnable);
      }
    }

And to be double sure you can be combined it with the "static class" method as described in the tronman answer

I keep getting "Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token o"

Another hints for Unexpected token errors. There are two major differences between javascript objects and json:

  1. json data must be always quoted with double quotes.
  2. keys must be quoted

Correct JSON

 {
    "english": "bag",
    "kana": "kaban",
    "kanji": "K"
}

Error JSON 1

 {
    'english': 'bag',
    'kana': 'kaban',
    'kanji': 'K'
 }

Error JSON 2

 {
    english: "bag",
    kana: "kaban",
    kanji: "K"
}

Remark

This is not a direct answer for that question. But it's an answer for Unexpected token errors. So it may be help others who stumple upon that question.

Spring CrudRepository findByInventoryIds(List<Long> inventoryIdList) - equivalent to IN clause

For any method in a Spring CrudRepository you should be able to specify the @Query yourself. Something like this should work:

@Query( "select o from MyObject o where inventoryId in :ids" )
List<MyObject> findByInventoryIds(@Param("ids") List<Long> inventoryIdList);

check if file exists on remote host with ssh

Can't get much simpler than this :)

ssh host "test -e /path/to/file"
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
    # your file exists
fi

As suggested by dimo414, this can be collapsed to:

if ssh host "test -e /path/to/file"; then
    # your file exists
fi

error : expected unqualified-id before return in c++

if (chapeau) {

You forgot the ending brace to this if statement, so the subsequent else if is considered a syntax error. You need to add the brace when the if statement body is complete:

if (chapeau) {
    cout << "le Professeur Violet";
}
else if (moustaches) {
    cout << "le Colonel Moutarde";
}
// ...

.htaccess not working on localhost with XAMPP

Just had a similar issue

Resolved it by checking in httpd.conf

     # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
     # It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
     #   Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
     #
     AllowOverride All   <--- make sure this is not set to "None"

It is worth bearing in mind I tried (from Mark's answer) the "put garbage in the .htaccess" which did give a server error - but even though it was being read, it wasn't being acted on due to no overrides allowed.

Could not find module "@angular-devkit/build-angular"

I struggled with the same problem just a minute ago. My project was generated using the v 1.6.0 of angular-cli.

1. npm update -g @angular/cli

2. editing my package.json changing the line
    "@angular/cli": "1.6.0",
      to
    "@angular/cli": "^1.6.0",

3. npm update

I hope my help is effective ?

Unable to load AWS credentials from the /AwsCredentials.properties file on the classpath

Try this for the file format:

[default]
aws_access_key_id=<your access key>
aws_secret_access_key=<your secret access key>

I saved this file as ~/.aws/credentials with ProfileCredentialsProvider().

Reloading module giving NameError: name 'reload' is not defined

For python2 and python3 compatibility, you can use:

# Python 2 and 3
from imp import reload
reload(mymodule)

Setting the default ssh key location

man ssh gives me this options would could be useful.

-i identity_file Selects a file from which the identity (private key) for RSA or DSA authentication is read. The default is ~/.ssh/identity for protocol version 1, and ~/.ssh/id_rsa and ~/.ssh/id_dsa for pro- tocol version 2. Identity files may also be specified on a per- host basis in the configuration file. It is possible to have multiple -i options (and multiple identities specified in config- uration files).

So you could create an alias in your bash config with something like

alias ssh="ssh -i /path/to/private_key"

I haven't looked into a ssh configuration file, but like the -i option this too could be aliased

-F configfile Specifies an alternative per-user configuration file. If a configuration file is given on the command line, the system-wide configuration file (/etc/ssh/ssh_config) will be ignored. The default for the per-user configuration file is ~/.ssh/config.

Reset the database (purge all), then seed a database

As of Rails 5, the rake commandline tool has been aliased as rails so now

rails db:reset instead of rake db:reset

will work just as well

Format number to 2 decimal places

How about CAST(2229.999 AS DECIMAL(6,2)) to get a decimal with 2 decimal places

How to position a table at the center of div horizontally & vertically

Centering is one of the biggest issues in CSS. However, some tricks exist:

To center your table horizontally, you can set left and right margin to auto:

<style>
  #test {
    width:100%;
    height:100%;
  }
  table {
    margin: 0 auto; /* or margin: 0 auto 0 auto */
  }
</style>

To center it vertically, the only way is to use javascript:

var tableMarginTop = Math.round( (testHeight - tableHeight) / 2 );
$('table').css('margin-top', tableMarginTop) # with jQuery
$$('table')[0].setStyle('margin-top', tableMarginTop) # with Mootools

No vertical-align:middle is possible as a table is a block and not an inline element.

Edit

Here is a website that sums up CSS centering solutions: http://howtocenterincss.com/

How to store a byte array in Javascript

You could store the data in an array of strings of some large fixed size. It should be efficient to access any particular character in that array of strings, and to treat that character as a byte.

It would be interesting to see the operations you want to support, perhaps expressed as an interface, to make the question more concrete.

How to retrieve all keys (or values) from a std::map and put them into a vector?

The best non-sgi, non-boost STL solution is to extend map::iterator like so:

template<class map_type>
class key_iterator : public map_type::iterator
{
public:
    typedef typename map_type::iterator map_iterator;
    typedef typename map_iterator::value_type::first_type key_type;

    key_iterator(const map_iterator& other) : map_type::iterator(other) {} ;

    key_type& operator *()
    {
        return map_type::iterator::operator*().first;
    }
};

// helpers to create iterators easier:
template<class map_type>
key_iterator<map_type> key_begin(map_type& m)
{
    return key_iterator<map_type>(m.begin());
}
template<class map_type>
key_iterator<map_type> key_end(map_type& m)
{
    return key_iterator<map_type>(m.end());
}

and then use them like so:

        map<string,int> test;
        test["one"] = 1;
        test["two"] = 2;

        vector<string> keys;

//      // method one
//      key_iterator<map<string,int> > kb(test.begin());
//      key_iterator<map<string,int> > ke(test.end());
//      keys.insert(keys.begin(), kb, ke);

//      // method two
//      keys.insert(keys.begin(),
//           key_iterator<map<string,int> >(test.begin()),
//           key_iterator<map<string,int> >(test.end()));

        // method three (with helpers)
        keys.insert(keys.begin(), key_begin(test), key_end(test));

        string one = keys[0];

Why .NET String is immutable?

Imagine being an OS working with a string that some other thread was modifying behind your back. How could you validate anything without making a copy?

How do I detect if a user is already logged in Firebase?

This works:

async function IsLoggedIn(): Promise<boolean> {
  try {
    await new Promise((resolve, reject) =>
      app.auth().onAuthStateChanged(
        user => {
          if (user) {
            // User is signed in.
            resolve(user)
          } else {
            // No user is signed in.
            reject('no user logged in')
          }
        },
        // Prevent console error
        error => reject(error)
      )
    )
    return true
  } catch (error) {
    return false
  }
}

How to find out the MySQL root password

In your "hostname".err file inside the data folder MySQL works on, try to look for a string that starts with:

"A temporary password is generated for roor@localhost "

you can use

less /mysql/data/dir/hostname.err 

then slash command followed by the string you wish to look for

/"A temporary password"

Then press n, to go to the Next result.

C# Numeric Only TextBox Control

You might want to try int.TryParse(string, out int) in the KeyPress(object, KeyPressEventArgs) event to check for numeric values. For the other problem you could use regular expressions instead.

Creating a daemon in Linux

I can stop at the first requirement "A daemon which cannot be stopped ..."

Not possible my friend; however, you can achieve the same with a much better tool, a kernel module.

http://www.infoq.com/articles/inotify-linux-file-system-event-monitoring

All daemons can be stopped. Some are more easily stopped than others. Even a daemon pair with the partner in hold down, respawning the partner if lost, can be stopped. You just have to work a little harder at it.

Generating a random hex color code with PHP

As of PHP 5.3, you can use openssl_random_pseudo_bytes():

$hex_string = bin2hex(openssl_random_pseudo_bytes(3));

I'm getting an error "invalid use of incomplete type 'class map'

I am just providing another case where you can get this error message. The solution will be the same as Adam has mentioned above. This is from a real code and I renamed the class name.

class FooReader {
  public:
     /** Constructor */
     FooReader() : d(new FooReaderPrivate(this)) { }  // will not compile here
     .......
  private:
     FooReaderPrivate* d;
};

====== In a separate file =====
class FooReaderPrivate {
  public:
     FooReaderPrivate(FooReader*) : parent(p) { }
  private:
     FooReader* parent;
};

The above will no pass the compiler and get error: invalid use of incomplete type FooReaderPrivate. You basically have to put the inline portion into the *.cpp implementation file. This is OK. What I am trying to say here is that you may have a design issue. Cross reference of two classes may be necessary some cases, but I would say it is better to avoid them at the start of the design. I would be wrong, but please comment then I will update my posting.

text flowing out of div

It's due to the fact that you have one long word without spaces. You can use the word-wrap property to cause the text to break:

#w74 { word-wrap: break-word; }

It has fairly good browser support, too. See documentation about it here.

Getting current device language in iOS?

@amir response in Swift :

// Get language prefered by user
let langageRegion = NSLocale.preferredLanguages().first!
let languageDic = NSLocale.componentsFromLocaleIdentifier(langageRegion)
let language = languageDic[NSLocaleLanguageCode]

Maven home (M2_HOME) not being picked up by IntelliJ IDEA

In case you don't want to use the M2_HOME and want to direct the IntelliJ to the maven installation you can simply set it by:

  • goto File => Setting => Maven => Maven home directory
  • point to your maven build directory e.g. /usr/local/maven/apache-maven-3.0.4

A better way is to have a symlink e.g. 'latest' for the latest version and point your IntelliJ to use that for consistency, given latest points to the latest version of maven installed on your box.

Is the Javascript date object always one day off?

If you want to get hour 0 of some date in the local time zone, pass the individual date parts to the Date constructor.

new Date(2011,08,24); // month value is 0 based, others are 1 based.

Regular expression to match characters at beginning of line only

Beginning of line or beginning of string?

Start and end of string

/^CTR.*$/

/ = delimiter
^ = start of string
CTR = literal CTR
$ = end of string
.* = zero or more of any character except newline

Start and end of line

/^CTR.*$/m

/ = delimiter
^ = start of line
CTR = literal CTR
$ = end of line
.* = zero or more of any character except newline
m = enables multi-line mode, this sets regex to treat every line as a string, so ^ and $ will match start and end of line

While in multi-line mode you can still match the start and end of the string with \A\Z permanent anchors

/\ACTR.*\Z/m

\A = means start of string
CTR = literal CTR
.* = zero or more of any character except newline
\Z = end of string
m = enables multi-line mode

As such, another way to match the start of the line would be like this:

/(\A|\r|\n|\r\n)CTR.*/

or

/(^|\r|\n|\r\n)CTR.*/

\r = carriage return / old Mac OS newline
\n = line-feed / Unix/Mac OS X newline
\r\n = windows newline

Note, if you are going to use the backslash \ in some program string that supports escaping, like the php double quotation marks "" then you need to escape them first

so to run \r\nCTR.* you would use it as "\\r\\nCTR.*"

How to use OAuth2RestTemplate?

In the answer from @mariubog (https://stackoverflow.com/a/27882337/1279002) I was using password grant types too as in the example but needed to set the client authentication scheme to form. Scopes were not supported by the endpoint for password and there was no need to set the grant type as the ResourceOwnerPasswordResourceDetails object sets this itself in the constructor.

...

public ResourceOwnerPasswordResourceDetails() {
    setGrantType("password");
}

...

The key thing for me was the client_id and client_secret were not being added to the form object to post in the body if resource.setClientAuthenticationScheme(AuthenticationScheme.form); was not set.

See the switch in: org.springframework.security.oauth2.client.token.auth.DefaultClientAuthenticationHandler.authenticateTokenRequest()

Finally, when connecting to Salesforce endpoint the password token needed to be appended to the password.

@EnableOAuth2Client
@Configuration
class MyConfig {

@Value("${security.oauth2.client.access-token-uri}")
private String tokenUrl;

@Value("${security.oauth2.client.client-id}")
private String clientId;

@Value("${security.oauth2.client.client-secret}")
private String clientSecret;

@Value("${security.oauth2.client.password-token}")
private String passwordToken;

@Value("${security.user.name}")
private String username;

@Value("${security.user.password}")
private String password;


@Bean
protected OAuth2ProtectedResourceDetails resource() {

    ResourceOwnerPasswordResourceDetails resource = new ResourceOwnerPasswordResourceDetails();

    resource.setAccessTokenUri(tokenUrl);
    resource.setClientId(clientId);
    resource.setClientSecret(clientSecret);
    resource.setClientAuthenticationScheme(AuthenticationScheme.form);
    resource.setUsername(username);
    resource.setPassword(password + passwordToken);

    return resource;
}

@Bean
 public OAuth2RestOperations restTemplate() {
    return new OAuth2RestTemplate(resource(), new DefaultOAuth2ClientContext(new DefaultAccessTokenRequest()));
    }
}


@Service
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
class MyService {
    @Autowired
    private OAuth2RestOperations restTemplate;

    public MyService() {
        restTemplate.getAccessToken();
    }
}

Postgresql - change the size of a varchar column to lower length

There's a description of how to do this at Resize a column in a PostgreSQL table without changing data. You have to hack the database catalog data. The only way to do this officially is with ALTER TABLE, and as you've noted that change will lock and rewrite the entire table while it's running.

Make sure you read the Character Types section of the docs before changing this. All sorts of weird cases to be aware of here. The length check is done when values are stored into the rows. If you hack a lower limit in there, that will not reduce the size of existing values at all. You would be wise to do a scan over the whole table looking for rows where the length of the field is >40 characters after making the change. You'll need to figure out how to truncate those manually--so you're back some locks just on oversize ones--because if someone tries to update anything on that row it's going to reject it as too big now, at the point it goes to store the new version of the row. Hilarity ensues for the user.

VARCHAR is a terrible type that exists in PostgreSQL only to comply with its associated terrible part of the SQL standard. If you don't care about multi-database compatibility, consider storing your data as TEXT and add a constraint to limits its length. Constraints you can change around without this table lock/rewrite problem, and they can do more integrity checking than just the weak length check.

Javascript get object key name

Change alert(buttons[i].text); to alert(i);

Using Tempdata in ASP.NET MVC - Best practice

Just be aware of TempData persistence, it's a bit tricky. For example if you even simply read TempData inside the current request, it would be removed and consequently you don't have it for the next request. Instead, you can use Peek method. I would recommend reading this cool article:

MVC Tempdata , Peek and Keep confusion

Running JAR file on Windows 10

How do I run an executable JAR file? If you have a jar file called Example.jar, follow these rules:

Open a notepad.exe.
Write : java -jar Example.jar.
Save it with the extension .bat.
Copy it to the directory which has the .jar file.
Double click it to run your .jar file.

What is newline character -- '\n'

Try this:

$ sed -e $'s/\n/\n\n/g' states

Including a groovy script in another groovy

After some investigation I have come to the conclusion that the following approach seems the best.

some/subpackage/Util.groovy

@GrabResolver(name = 'nexus', root = 'https://local-nexus-server:8443/repository/maven-public', m2Compatible = true)
@Grab('com.google.errorprone:error_prone_annotations:2.1.3')
@Grab('com.google.guava:guava:23.0')
@GrabExclude('com.google.errorprone:error_prone_annotations')

import com.google.common.base.Strings

class Util {
    void msg(int a, String b, Map c) {
        println 'Message printed by msg method inside Util.groovy'
        println "Print 5 asterisks using the Guava dependency ${Strings.repeat("*", 5)}"
        println "Arguments are a=$a, b=$b, c=$c"
    }
}

example.groovy

#!/usr/bin/env groovy
Class clazz = new GroovyClassLoader().parseClass("${new File(getClass().protectionDomain.codeSource.location.path).parent}/some/subpackage/Util.groovy" as File)
GroovyObject u = clazz.newInstance()
u.msg(1, 'b', [a: 'b', c: 'd'])

In order to run the example.groovy script, add it to your system path and type from any directory:

example.groovy

The script prints:

Message printed by msg method inside Util.groovy
Print 5 asterisks using the Guava dependency *****
Arguments are a=1, b=b, c=[a:b, c:d]

The above example was tested in the following environment: Groovy Version: 2.4.13 JVM: 1.8.0_151 Vendor: Oracle Corporation OS: Linux

The example demonstrates the following:

  • How to use a Util class inside a groovy script.
  • A Util class calling the Guava third party library by including it as a Grape dependency (@Grab('com.google.guava:guava:23.0')).
  • The Util class can reside in a subdirectory.
  • Passing arguments to a method within the Util class.

Additional comments/suggestions:

  • Always use a groovy class instead of groovy script for reusable functionality within your groovy scripts. The above example uses the Util class defined in the Util.groovy file. Using groovy scripts for reusable functionality is problematic. For example, if using a groovy script then the Util class would have to be instantiated at the bottom of the script with new Util(), but most importantly it would have to be placed in a file named anything but Util.groovy. Refer to Scripts versus classes for more details about the differences between groovy scripts and groovy classes.
  • In the above example I use the path "${new File(getClass().protectionDomain.codeSource.location.path).parent}/some/subpackage/Util.groovy" instead of "some/subpackage/Util.groovy". This will guarantee that the Util.groovy file will always be found in relation to the groovy script's location (example.groovy) and not the current working directory. For example, using "some/subpackage/Util.groovy" would result in searching at WORK_DIR/some/subpackage/Util.groovy.
  • Follow the Java class naming convention to name your groovy scripts. I personally prefer a small deviation where the scripts start with a lower letter instead of a capital one. For example, myScript.groovy is a script name, and MyClass.groovy is a class name. Naming my-script.groovy will result in runtime errors in certain scenarios because the resulting class will not have a valid Java class name.
  • In the JVM world in general the relevant functionality is named JSR 223: Scripting for the Java. In groovy in particular the functionality is named Groovy integration mechanisms. In fact, the same approach can be used in order to call any JVM language from within Groovy or Java. Some notable examples of such JVM languages are Groovy, Java, Scala, JRuby, and JavaScript (Rhino).

encapsulation vs abstraction real world example

Encapsulation helps in adhering to Single Responsibility principle and Abstraction helps in adhering to Code to Interface and not to implement.

Say I have a class for Car : Service Provider Class and Driver Class : Service Consumer Class.

For Abstraction : we define abstract Class for CAR and define all the abstract methods in it , which are function available in the car like : changeGear(), applyBrake().

Now the actual Car (Concrete Class i.e. like Mercedes , BMW will implement these methods in their own way and abstract the execution and end user will still apply break and change gear for particular concrete car instance and polymorphically the execution will happen as defined in concrete class.

For Encapsulation : Now say Mercedes come up with new feature/technology: Anti Skid Braking, while implementing the applyBrake(), it will encapsulate this feature in applyBrake() method and thus providing cohesion, and service consumer will still access by same method applyBrake() of the car object. Thus Encapsulation lets further in same concrete class implementation.

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

What do you mean timestamp? If you mean milliseconds since the Unix epoch:

GregorianCalendar cal = new GregorianCalendar(2007, 9 - 1, 23);
long millis = cal.getTimeInMillis();

If you want an actual java.sql.Timestamp object:

Timestamp ts = new Timestamp(millis);

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problems

Check Following : 1) Package names 2) Import Statements (import every required packages) 3) Proper set of braces ,i.e { } 4) Check Syntax too.. i.e semicolons,commas,etc.

How to strip HTML tags with jQuery?

If you want to keep the innerHTML of the element and only strip the outermost tag, you can do this:

$(".contentToStrip").each(function(){
  $(this).replaceWith($(this).html());
});

How can one see content of stack with GDB?

info frame to show the stack frame info

To read the memory at given addresses you should take a look at x

x/x $esp for hex x/d $esp for signed x/u $esp for unsigned etc. x uses the format syntax, you could also take a look at the current instruction via x/i $eip etc.

What's the difference between equal?, eql?, ===, and ==?

I would like to expand on the === operator.

=== is not an equality operator!

Not.

Let's get that point really across.

You might be familiar with === as an equality operator in Javascript and PHP, but this just not an equality operator in Ruby and has fundamentally different semantics.

So what does === do?

=== is the pattern matching operator!

  • === matches regular expressions
  • === checks range membership
  • === checks being instance of a class
  • === calls lambda expressions
  • === sometimes checks equality, but mostly it does not

So how does this madness make sense?

  • Enumerable#grep uses === internally
  • case when statements use === internally
  • Fun fact, rescue uses === internally

That is why you can use regular expressions and classes and ranges and even lambda expressions in a case when statement.

Some examples

case value
when /regexp/
  # value matches this regexp
when 4..10
  # value is in range
when MyClass
  # value is an instance of class
when ->(value) { ... }
  # lambda expression returns true
when a, b, c, d
  # value matches one of a through d with `===`
when *array
  # value matches an element in array with `===`
when x
  # values is equal to x unless x is one of the above
end

All these example work with pattern === value too, as well as with grep method.

arr = ['the', 'quick', 'brown', 'fox', 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13]
arr.grep(/[qx]/)                                                                                                                            
# => ["quick", "fox"]
arr.grep(4..10)
# => [5, 8]
arr.grep(String)
# => ["the", "quick", "brown", "fox"]
arr.grep(1)
# => [1, 1]

PHP date yesterday

date() itself is only for formatting, but it accepts a second parameter.

date("F j, Y", time() - 60 * 60 * 24);

To keep it simple I just subtract 24 hours from the unix timestamp.

A modern oop-approach is using DateTime

$date = new DateTime();
$date->sub(new DateInterval('P1D'));
echo $date->format('F j, Y') . "\n";

Or in your case (more readable/obvious)

$date = new DateTime();
$date->add(DateInterval::createFromDateString('yesterday'));
echo $date->format('F j, Y') . "\n";

(Because DateInterval is negative here, we must add() it here)

See also: DateTime::sub() and DateInterval

get enum name from enum value

Say we have:

public enum MyEnum {
  Test1, Test2, Test3
}

To get the name of a enum variable use name():

MyEnum e = MyEnum.Test1;
String name = e.name(); // Returns "Test1"

To get the enum from a (string) name, use valueOf():

String name = "Test1";
MyEnum e = Enum.valueOf(MyEnum.class, name);

If you require integer values to match enum fields, extend the enum class:

public enum MyEnum {
  Test1(1), Test2(2), Test3(3);

  public final int value;

  MyEnum(final int value) {
     this.value = value;
  }
}

Now you can use:

MyEnum e = MyEnum.Test1;
int value = e.value; // = 1

And lookup the enum using the integer value:

MyEnum getValue(int value) {
  for(MyEnum e: MyEunm.values()) {
    if(e.value == value) {
      return e;
    }
  }
  return null;// not found
}

Update statement with inner join on Oracle

UPDATE table1 t1
SET t1.value = 
    (select t2.CODE from table2 t2 
     where t1.value = t2.DESC) 
WHERE t1.UPDATETYPE='blah';

How to use switch statement inside a React component?

I'm not a big fan of any of the current answers, because they are either too verbose, or require you to jump around the code to understand what is going on.

I prefer doing this in a more react component centred way, by creating a <Switch/>. The job of this component is to take a prop, and only render children whose child prop matches this one. So in the example below I have created a test prop on the switch, and compared it to a value prop on the children, only rendering the ones that match.

Example:

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const Switch = props => {
  const { test, children } = props
  // filter out only children with a matching prop
  return children.find(child => {
    return child.props.value === test
  })      
}

const Sample = props => {
  const someTest = true
  return (
    <Switch test={someTest}>
      <div value={false}>Will display if someTest is false</div>
      <div value={true}>Will display if someTest is true</div>
    </Switch>
  )
}

ReactDOM.render(
  <Sample/>,
  document.getElementById("react")
);
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<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react-dom/16.6.3/umd/react-dom.production.min.js"></script>
<div id="react"></div>
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You can make the switch as simple or as complex as you want. Don't forget to perform more robust checking of the children and their value props.

Illegal character in path at index 16

I had a similar problem for xml. Just passing the error and solution (edited Jonathon version).

Code:

HttpGet xmlGet = new HttpGet( xmlContent );

Xml format:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<employee>
    <code>CA</code>
    <name>Cath</name>
    <salary>300</salary>
</employee>

Error:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal character in path at index 0: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<contents>
    <portalarea>CA</portalarea>
    <portalsubarea>Cath</portalsubarea>
    <direction>Navigator</direction>
</contents>
    at java.net.URI.create(URI.java:859)
    at org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet.<init>(HttpGet.java:69)
    at de.vogella.jersey.first.Hello.validate(Hello.java:56)

Not Exactly perfect Solution: ( error vanished for that instance )

String theXml = URLEncoder.encode( xmlContent, "UTF-8" );
HttpGet xmlGet = new HttpGet( theXml );

Any idea What i should be doing ? It just cleared passed but had problem while doing this

HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute( xmlGet );

How do I attach events to dynamic HTML elements with jQuery?

Sometimes doing this (the top-voted answer) is not always enough:

$('body').on('click', 'a.myclass', function() {
    // do something
});

This can be an issue because of the order event handlers are fired. If you find yourself doing this, but it is causing issues because of the order in which it is handled.. You can always wrap that into a function, that when called "refreshes" the listener.

For example:

function RefreshSomeEventListener() {
    // Remove handler from existing elements
    $("#wrapper .specific-selector").off(); 

    // Re-add event handler for all matching elements
    $("#wrapper .specific-selector").on("click", function() {
        // Handle event.
    }
}

Because it is a function, whenever I set up my listener this way, I typically call it on document ready:

$(document).ready(function() {
    // Other ready commands / code

    // Call our function to setup initial listening
    RefreshSomeEventListener();
});

Then, whenever you add some dynamically added element, call that method again:

function SomeMethodThatAddsElement() {
    // Some code / AJAX / whatever.. Adding element dynamically

    // Refresh our listener, so the new element is taken into account
    RefreshSomeEventListener();
}

Hopefully this helps!

Regards,

What does the "map" method do in Ruby?

#each

#each runs a function for each element in an array. The following two code excerpts are equivalent:

x = 10
["zero", "one", "two"].each{|element|
    x++
    puts element
}
x = 10
array = ["zero", "one", "two"]

for i in 0..2
    x++
    puts array[i]
end

#map

#map applies a function to each element of an array, returning the resulting array. The following are equivalent:

array = ["zero", "one", "two"]
newArray = array.map{|element| element.capitalize()}
array = ["zero", "one", "two"]

newArray = []
array.each{|element|
    newArray << element.capitalize()
}

#map!

#map! is like #map, but modifies the array in place. The following are equivalent:

array = ["zero", "one", "two"]
array.map!{|element| element.capitalize()}
array = ["zero", "one", "two"]
array = array.map{|element| element.capitalize()}

AVD Manager - Cannot Create Android Virtual Device

I had trouble creating an AVD.

Either:

  • re-start eclipse after installing SDK versions from the SDK manager, or
  • you should run the "AVD Manager.exe" outside of Eclipse

SQL Server: use CASE with LIKE

One of the first things you need to learn about SQL (and relational databases) is that you shouldn't store multiple values in a single field.

You should create another table and store one value per row.

This will make your querying easier, and your database structure better.

select 
    case when exists (select countryname from itemcountries where yourtable.id=itemcountries.id and countryname = @country) then 'national' else 'regional' end
from yourtable

Php, wait 5 seconds before executing an action

use:

sleep(NUMBER_OF_SECONDS);

Show/Hide Div on Scroll

Try this code

$('window').scrollDown(function(){$(#div).hide()});

$('window').scrollUp(function(){ $(#div).show() });

How to enable CORS in ASP.net Core WebAPI

  • In ConfigureServices add services.AddCors(); BEFORE services.AddMvc();

  • Add UseCors in Configure

     app.UseCors(builder => builder
         .AllowAnyOrigin()
         .AllowAnyMethod()
         .AllowAnyHeader());   
     app.UseMvc();
    

Main point is that add app.UseCors, before app.UseMvc().

Make sure you declare the CORS functionality before MVC so the middleware fires before the MVC pipeline gets control and terminates the request.

After the above method works you can change it configure a specific ORIGIN to accept api calls and avoid leaving your API so open to anyone

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    services.AddCors(options => options.AddPolicy("ApiCorsPolicy", builder =>
    {
        builder.WithOrigins("http://localhost:4200").AllowAnyMethod().AllowAnyHeader();
    }));

    services.AddMvc();
}

In the configure method tell CORS to use the policy you just created:

app.UseCors("ApiCorsPolicy");
app.UseMvc();

I just found this compact article on the subject - https://dzone.com/articles/cors-in-net-core-net-core-security-part-vi

How to troubleshoot an "AttributeError: __exit__" in multiproccesing in Python?

The reason behind this error is : Flask app is already running, hasn't shut down and in middle of that we try to start another instance by: with app.app_context(): #Code Before we use this with statement we need to make sure that scope of the previous running app is closed.

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 23: ordinal not in range(128)

When you get a UnicodeEncodeError, it means that somewhere in your code you convert directly a byte string to a unicode one. By default in Python 2 it uses ascii encoding, and utf8 encoding in Python3 (both may fail because not every byte is valid in either encoding)

To avoid that, you must use explicit decoding.

If you may have 2 different encoding in your input file, one of them accepts any byte (say UTF8 and Latin1), you can try to first convert a string with first and use the second one if a UnicodeDecodeError occurs.

def robust_decode(bs):
    '''Takes a byte string as param and convert it into a unicode one.
First tries UTF8, and fallback to Latin1 if it fails'''
    cr = None
    try:
        cr = bs.decode('utf8')
    except UnicodeDecodeError:
        cr = bs.decode('latin1')
    return cr

If you do not know original encoding and do not care for non ascii character, you can set the optional errors parameter of the decode method to replace. Any offending byte will be replaced (from the standard library documentation):

Replace with a suitable replacement character; Python will use the official U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER for the built-in Unicode codecs on decoding and ‘?’ on encoding.

bs.decode(errors='replace')

How can I render HTML from another file in a React component?

You can use the dangerouslySetInnerHTML property to inject arbitrary HTML:

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ReactDOM.render(React.createElement(MyComponent), document.getElementById('app'))
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<div id="app"></div>
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You could even componentize this template behavior (untested):

class TemplateComponent extends React.Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props)
    this.html = require(props.template)
  }

  render() {
    return <div dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{__html: this.html}}/>
  }

}

TemplateComponent.propTypes = {
  template: React.PropTypes.string.isRequired
}

// use like
<TemplateComponent template='./template.html'/>

And with this, template.html (in the same directory) looks something like (again, untested):

// ./template.html
module.exports = '<h1>Hello, world!</h1>'

The ALTER TABLE statement conflicted with the FOREIGN KEY constraint

Clean your data from your tables and then make relation between them.

Java FileReader encoding issue

Yes, you need to specify the encoding of the file you want to read.

Yes, this means that you have to know the encoding of the file you want to read.

No, there is no general way to guess the encoding of any given "plain text" file.

The one-arguments constructors of FileReader always use the platform default encoding which is generally a bad idea.

Since Java 11 FileReader has also gained constructors that accept an encoding: new FileReader(file, charset) and new FileReader(fileName, charset).

In earlier versions of java, you need to use new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(pathToFile), <encoding>).

Visual Studio Code Tab Key does not insert a tab

I had accidentally enabled a different mode for the tab key. Fixed it by pressing Ctrl+Shift(for Mac only)+M.

From the Visual Studio Code Keybinding docs:

| Key      | Command                                 | Command id                       |
| Ctrl + M | Toggle Use of Tab Key for Setting Focus | editor.action.toggleTabFocusMode |

The current tab control mode should also show up in the status bar:

enter image description here

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

The main difference between logging in with a postgres user or any other user created by us, is that when using the postgres user it is NOT necessary to specify the host with -h and instead for another user if.

Login with postgres user

$ psql -U postgres 

Creation and login with another user

# CREATE ROLE usertest LOGIN PASSWORD 'pwtest';
# CREATE DATABASE dbtest WITH OWNER = usertest;
# SHOW port;
# \q

$ psql -h localhost -d dbtest -U usertest -p 5432

GL

Source

How to flush output of print function?

Running python -h, I see a command line option:

-u : unbuffered binary stdout and stderr; also PYTHONUNBUFFERED=x see man page for details on internal buffering relating to '-u'

Here is the relevant doc.

Delete multiple objects in django

You can delete any QuerySet you'd like. For example, to delete all blog posts with some Post model

Post.objects.all().delete()

and to delete any Post with a future publication date

Post.objects.filter(pub_date__gt=datetime.now()).delete()

You do, however, need to come up with a way to narrow down your QuerySet. If you just want a view to delete a particular object, look into the delete generic view.

EDIT:

Sorry for the misunderstanding. I think the answer is somewhere between. To implement your own, combine ModelForms and generic views. Otherwise, look into 3rd party apps that provide similar functionality. In a related question, the recommendation was django-filter.

How to create our own Listener interface in android?

I have created a Generic AsyncTask Listener which get result from AsycTask seperate class and give it to CallingActivity using Interface Callback.

new GenericAsyncTask(context,new AsyncTaskCompleteListener()
        {
             public void onTaskComplete(String response) 
             {
                 // do your work. 
             }
        }).execute();

Interface

interface AsyncTaskCompleteListener<T> {
   public void onTaskComplete(T result);
}

GenericAsyncTask

class GenericAsyncTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String> 
{
    private AsyncTaskCompleteListener<String> callback;

    public A(Context context, AsyncTaskCompleteListener<String> cb) {
        this.context = context;
        this.callback = cb;
    }

    protected void onPostExecute(String result) {
       finalResult = result;
       callback.onTaskComplete(result);
   }  
}

Have a look at this , this question for more details.

Installation Issue with matplotlib Python

Problem Cause

In mac os image rendering back end of matplotlib (what-is-a-backend to render using the API of Cocoa by default). There are Qt4Agg and GTKAgg and as a back-end is not the default. Set the back end of macosx that is differ compare with other windows or linux os.

Solution

  • I assume you have installed the pip matplotlib, there is a directory in your root called ~/.matplotlib.
  • Create a file ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc there and add the following code: backend: TkAgg

From this link you can try different diagrams.

How to change default Anaconda python environment

Load your "base" environment -- as OP's py34 -- when you load your terminal/shell.

If you use Bash, put the line:

conda activate py34

in your .bash_profile (or .bashrc):

$ echo 'conda activate py34' >> ~/.bash_profile

Every time you run a new terminal, conda environment py34 will be loaded.

jQuery get values of checked checkboxes into array

Do not use "each". It is used for operations and changes in the same element. Use "map" to extract data from the element body and using it somewhere else.

Maven error: Could not find or load main class org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher

I had a problem with surefire plugin itself. Going back to version 2.6 worked for me. Version 2.18/20/22.1 gave me the error. Now I tried version 3.0.0-M1 of surefire plugin and it works.

So something is wrong in surefire plgin between version 2.6 and 3.0.0. I assume there is something hardcoded as default which should not.

Unable to find velocity template resources

You can just use it like this:

Template t = ve.getTemplate("./src/main/resources/templates/email_html_new.vm");

It works.

setTimeout / clearTimeout problems

You need to declare timer outside the function. Otherwise, you get a brand new variable on each function invocation.

var timer;
function endAndStartTimer() {
  window.clearTimeout(timer);
  //var millisecBeforeRedirect = 10000; 
  timer = window.setTimeout(function(){alert('Hello!');},10000); 
}

YouTube embedded video: set different thumbnail

This tool gave me following results which helps me achieve the task as following code.

<div onclick="play();" id="vidwrap" style="height:315px;width:560px;background: black url('http://example.com/image.jpg') no-repeat center;overflow:hidden;cursor:pointer;"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
    function play(){
        document.getElementById('vidwrap').innerHTML = '<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xxxxxxxxx?autoplay=1" frameborder="0"></iframe>';
    }
</script>

How to modify memory contents using GDB?

The easiest is setting a program variable (see GDB: assignment):

(gdb) l
6       {
7           int i;
8           struct file *f, *ftmp;
9
(gdb) set variable i = 10
(gdb) p i
$1 = 10

Or you can just update arbitrary (writable) location by address:

(gdb) set {int}0x83040 = 4

There's more. Read the manual.

Warning: The method assertEquals from the type Assert is deprecated

When I use Junit4, import junit.framework.Assert; import junit.framework.TestCase; the warning info is :The type of Assert is deprecated

when import like this: import org.junit.Assert; import org.junit.Test; the warning has disappeared

possible duplicate of differences between 2 JUnit Assert classes

Event detect when css property changed using Jquery

You can use attrchange jQuery plugin. The main function of the plugin is to bind a listener function on attribute change of HTML elements.

Code sample:

$("#myDiv").attrchange({
    trackValues: true, // set to true so that the event object is updated with old & new values
    callback: function(evnt) {
        if(evnt.attributeName == "display") { // which attribute you want to watch for changes
            if(evnt.newValue.search(/inline/i) == -1) {

                // your code to execute goes here...
            }
        }
    }
});

Generate random int value from 3 to 6

Nice and simple, from Pinal Dave's site:

http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/04/29/sql-server-random-number-generator-script-sql-query/

DECLARE @Random INT;
DECLARE @Upper INT;
DECLARE @Lower INT
SET @Lower = 3 ---- The lowest random number
SET @Upper = 7 ---- One more than the highest random number
SELECT @Random = ROUND(((@Upper - @Lower -1) * RAND() + @Lower), 0)
SELECT @Random

(I did make a slight change to the @Upper- to include the upper number, added 1.)

How do I update a GitHub forked repository?

Here is GitHub's official document on Syncing a fork:

Syncing a fork

The Setup

Before you can sync, you need to add a remote that points to the upstream repository. You may have done this when you originally forked.

Tip: Syncing your fork only updates your local copy of the repository; it does not update your repository on GitHub.

$ git remote -v
# List the current remotes
origin  https://github.com/user/repo.git (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/user/repo.git (push)

$ git remote add upstream https://github.com/otheruser/repo.git
# Set a new remote

$ git remote -v
# Verify new remote
origin    https://github.com/user/repo.git (fetch)
origin    https://github.com/user/repo.git (push)
upstream  https://github.com/otheruser/repo.git (fetch)
upstream  https://github.com/otheruser/repo.git (push)

Syncing

There are two steps required to sync your repository with the upstream: first you must fetch from the remote, then you must merge the desired branch into your local branch.

Fetching

Fetching from the remote repository will bring in its branches and their respective commits. These are stored in your local repository under special branches.

$ git fetch upstream
# Grab the upstream remote's branches
remote: Counting objects: 75, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (53/53), done.
remote: Total 62 (delta 27), reused 44 (delta 9)
Unpacking objects: 100% (62/62), done.
From https://github.com/otheruser/repo
 * [new branch]      master     -> upstream/master

We now have the upstream's master branch stored in a local branch, upstream/master

$ git branch -va
# List all local and remote-tracking branches
* master                  a422352 My local commit
  remotes/origin/HEAD     -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/master   a422352 My local commit
  remotes/upstream/master 5fdff0f Some upstream commit

Merging

Now that we have fetched the upstream repository, we want to merge its changes into our local branch. This will bring that branch into sync with the upstream, without losing our local changes.

$ git checkout master
# Check out our local master branch
Switched to branch 'master'

$ git merge upstream/master
# Merge upstream's master into our own
Updating a422352..5fdff0f
Fast-forward
 README                    |    9 -------
 README.md                 |    7 ++++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 README
 create mode 100644 README.md

If your local branch didn't have any unique commits, git will instead perform a "fast-forward":

$ git merge upstream/master
Updating 34e91da..16c56ad
Fast-forward
 README.md                 |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Tip: If you want to update your repository on GitHub, follow the instructions here

Create patch or diff file from git repository and apply it to another different git repository

To produce patch for several commits, you should use format-patch git command, e.g.

git format-patch -k --stdout R1..R2

This will export your commits into patch file in mailbox format.

To generate patch for the last commit, run:

git format-patch -k --stdout HEAD^

Then in another repository apply the patch by am git command, e.g.

git am -3 -k file.patch

See: man git-format-patch and git-am.

Is it possible for UIStackView to scroll?

You can try ScrollableStackView : https://github.com/gurhub/ScrollableStackView

It's Objective-C and Swift compatible library. It's available through CocoaPods.

Sample Code (Swift)

import ScrollableStackView

var scrollable = ScrollableStackView(frame: view.frame)
view.addSubview(scrollable)

// add your views with 
let rectangle = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 100, height: 55))
rectangle.backgroundColor = UIColor.blue
scrollable.stackView.addArrangedSubview(rectangle)
// ...

Sample Code (Objective-C)

@import ScrollableStackView

ScrollableStackView *scrollable = [[ScrollableStackView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.frame];
scrollable.stackView.distribution = UIStackViewDistributionFillProportionally;
scrollable.stackView.alignment = UIStackViewAlignmentCenter;
scrollable.stackView.axis = UILayoutConstraintAxisVertical;
[self.view addSubview:scrollable];

UIView *rectangle = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 100, 55)];
[rectangle setBackgroundColor:[UIColor blueColor]];

// add your views with
[scrollable.stackView addArrangedSubview:rectangle]; 
// ...

How to check if an NSDictionary or NSMutableDictionary contains a key?

I like Fernandes' answer even though you ask for the obj twice.

This should also do (more or less the same as Martin's A).

id obj;

if ((obj=[dict objectForKey:@"blah"])) {
   // use obj
} else {
   // Do something else like creating the obj and add the kv pair to the dict
}

Martin's and this answer both work on iPad2 iOS 5.0.1 9A405

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

I ran into this page while wondering the same question.

As others have noted, it's simple enough to just grab the __name__ attribute from a function in order to determine the name of the function. It's marginally trickier with objects that don't have a sane way to determine __name__, i.e. base/primitive objects like basestring instances, ints, longs, etc.

Long story short, you could probably use the inspect module to make an educated guess about which one it is, but you would have to probably know what frame you're working in/traverse down the stack to find the right one. But I'd hate to imagine how much fun this would be trying to deal with eval/exec'ed code.

% python2 whats_my_name_again.py
needle => ''b''
['a', 'b']
[]
needle => '<function foo at 0x289d08ec>'
['c']
['foo']
needle => '<function bar at 0x289d0bfc>'
['f', 'bar']
[]
needle => '<__main__.a_class instance at 0x289d3aac>'
['e', 'd']
[]
needle => '<function bar at 0x289d0bfc>'
['f', 'bar']
[]
%

whats_my_name_again.py:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import inspect

class a_class:
    def __init__(self):
        pass

def foo():
    def bar():
        pass

    a = 'b'
    b = 'b'
    c = foo
    d = a_class()
    e = d
    f = bar

    #print('globals', inspect.stack()[0][0].f_globals)
    #print('locals', inspect.stack()[0][0].f_locals)

    assert(inspect.stack()[0][0].f_globals == globals())
    assert(inspect.stack()[0][0].f_locals == locals())

    in_a_haystack = lambda: value == needle and key != 'needle'

    for needle in (a, foo, bar, d, f, ):
        print("needle => '%r'" % (needle, ))
        print([key for key, value in locals().iteritems() if in_a_haystack()])
        print([key for key, value in globals().iteritems() if in_a_haystack()])


foo()

How can I check if a string is null or empty in PowerShell?

Note that the "if ($str)" and "IsNullOrEmpty" tests don't work comparably in all instances: an assignment of $str=0 produces false for both, and depending on intended program semantics, this could yield a surprise.

Making authenticated POST requests with Spring RestTemplate for Android

Ok found the answer. exchange() is the best way. Oddly the HttpEntity class doesn't have a setBody() method (it has getBody()), but it is still possible to set the request body, via the constructor.

// Create the request body as a MultiValueMap
MultiValueMap<String, String> body = new LinkedMultiValueMap<String, String>();     

body.add("field", "value");

// Note the body object as first parameter!
HttpEntity<?> httpEntity = new HttpEntity<Object>(body, requestHeaders);

ResponseEntity<MyModel> response = restTemplate.exchange("/api/url", HttpMethod.POST, httpEntity, MyModel.class);

Redirect stderr and stdout in Bash

Take a look here. Should be:

yourcommand &>filename

(redirects both stdout and stderr to filename).

Pass array to ajax request in $.ajax()

Just use the JSON.stringify method and pass it through as the "data" parameter for the $.ajax function, like follows:

$.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: "index.php",
    dataType: "json",
    data: JSON.stringify({ paramName: info }),
    success: function(msg){
        $('.answer').html(msg);
    }
});

You just need to make sure you include the JSON2.js file in your page...

Java command not found on Linux

I had these choices:

-----------------------------------------------
*  1           /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/java
 + 2           /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/java
   3           /home/ec2-user/local/java/jre1.7.0_25/bin/java

When I chose 3, it didn't work. When I chose 2, it did work.

SQL Developer is returning only the date, not the time. How do I fix this?

To expand on some of the previous answers, I found that Oracle DATE objects behave different from Oracle TIMESTAMP objects. In particular, if you set your NLS_DATE_FORMAT to include fractional seconds, the entire time portion is omitted.

  • Format "YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS" works as expected, for DATE and TIMESTAMP
  • Format "YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SSXFF" displays just the date portion for DATE, works as expected for TIMESTAMP

My personal preference is to set DATE to "YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS", and to set TIMESTAMP to "YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SSXFF".

check if a std::vector contains a certain object?

Checking if v contains the element x:

#include <algorithm>

if(std::find(v.begin(), v.end(), x) != v.end()) {
    /* v contains x */
} else {
    /* v does not contain x */
}

Checking if v contains elements (is non-empty):

if(!v.empty()){
    /* v is non-empty */
} else {
    /* v is empty */
}

TypeError: $(...).autocomplete is not a function

Try this code, Let $ be defined

(function ($, Drupal) {

  'use strict';

  Drupal.behaviors.module_name = {
    attach: function (context, settings) {
        jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
      $("#search_text").autocomplete({
          source:results,
          minLength:2,
          position: { offset:'-30 0' },  
          select: function(event, ui ) { 
                  goTo(ui.item.value);
                  return false;
          }        
        }); 
        });
   }
  };
})(jQuery, Drupal);

Multi-dimensional arraylist or list in C#?

You can create a list of lists

   public class MultiDimList: List<List<string>> {  }

or a Dictionary of key-accessible Lists

   public class MultiDimDictList: Dictionary<string, List<int>>  { }
   MultiDimDictList myDicList = new MultiDimDictList ();
   myDicList.Add("ages", new List<int>()); 
   myDicList.Add("Salaries", new List<int>()); 
   myDicList.Add("AccountIds", new List<int>()); 

Generic versions, to implement suggestion in comment from @user420667

  public class MultiDimList<T>: List<List<T>> {  }

and for the dictionary,

   public class MultiDimDictList<K, T>: Dictionary<K, List<T>>  { }

  // to use it, in client code
   var myDicList = new MultiDimDictList<string, int> ();
   myDicList.Add("ages", new List<T>()); 
   myDicList["ages"].Add(23);
   myDicList["ages"].Add(32);
   myDicList["ages"].Add(18);

   myDicList.Add("salaries", new List<T>());
   myDicList["salaries"].Add(80000);
   myDicList["salaries"].Add(100000);

   myDicList.Add("accountIds", new List<T>()); 
   myDicList["accountIds"].Add(321123);
   myDicList["accountIds"].Add(342653);

or, even better, ...

   public class MultiDimDictList<K, T>: Dictionary<K, List<T>>  
   {
       public void Add(K key, T addObject)
       {
           if(!ContainsKey(key)) Add(key, new List<T>());
           if (!base[key].Contains(addObject)) base[key].Add(addObject);
       }           
   }


  // and to use it, in client code
    var myDicList = new MultiDimDictList<string, int> ();
    myDicList.Add("ages", 23);
    myDicList.Add("ages", 32);
    myDicList.Add("ages", 18);
    myDicList.Add("salaries", 80000);
    myDicList.Add("salaries", 110000);
    myDicList.Add("accountIds", 321123);
    myDicList.Add("accountIds", 342653);

EDIT: to include an Add() method for nested instance:

public class NestedMultiDimDictList<K, K2, T>: 
           MultiDimDictList<K, MultiDimDictList<K2, T>>: 
{
       public void Add(K key, K2 key2, T addObject)
       {
           if(!ContainsKey(key)) Add(key, 
                  new MultiDimDictList<K2, T>());
           if (!base[key].Contains(key2)) 
               base[key].Add(key2, addObject);
       }    
}

How to print third column to last column?

Well, you can easily accomplish the same effect using a regular expression. Assuming the separator is a space, it would look like:

awk '{ sub(/[^ ]+ +[^ ]+ +/, ""); print }'

Adding blur effect to background in swift

let blurEffect = UIBlurEffect(style: UIBlurEffect.Style.dark)
                    let blurEffectView = UIVisualEffectView(effect: blurEffect)
                    blurEffectView.backgroundColor = .black
                    blurEffectView.alpha = 0.5
                    blurEffectView.frame = topView.bounds
                    if !self.presenting {
                        blurEffectView.frame.origin.x = 0
                    } else {
                        blurEffectView.frame.origin.x = -topView.frame.width
                    }
                    blurEffectView.frame.origin.x = -topView.frame.width
                    blurEffectView.autoresizingMask = [.flexibleWidth, .flexibleHeight]
                    UIView.animate(withDuration: 0.2, delay: 0.0, options: [.curveEaseIn]) {
                        if !self.presenting {
                            blurEffectView.frame.origin.x = -topView.frame.width
                        } else {
                            blurEffectView.frame.origin.x = 0
                        }
                        view.addSubview(blurEffectView)
                    } completion: { (status) in
                        
                    }

"unmappable character for encoding" warning in Java

Try with: javac -encoding ISO-8859-1 file_name.java

svn over HTTP proxy

Ok, this should be really easy:

$ sudo vi /etc/subversion/servers

Edit the file:

[Global]
http-proxy-host=my.proxy.com
http-proxy-port=3128

Save it, run svn again and it will work.

How to generate gcc debug symbol outside the build target?

You need to use objcopy to separate the debug information:

objcopy --only-keep-debug "${tostripfile}" "${debugdir}/${debugfile}"
strip --strip-debug --strip-unneeded "${tostripfile}"
objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink="${debugdir}/${debugfile}" "${tostripfile}"

I use the bash script below to separate the debug information into files with a .debug extension in a .debug directory. This way I can tar the libraries and executables in one tar file and the .debug directories in another. If I want to add the debug info later on I simply extract the debug tar file and voila I have symbolic debug information.

This is the bash script:

#!/bin/bash

scriptdir=`dirname ${0}`
scriptdir=`(cd ${scriptdir}; pwd)`
scriptname=`basename ${0}`

set -e

function errorexit()
{
  errorcode=${1}
  shift
  echo $@
  exit ${errorcode}
}

function usage()
{
  echo "USAGE ${scriptname} <tostrip>"
}

tostripdir=`dirname "$1"`
tostripfile=`basename "$1"`


if [ -z ${tostripfile} ] ; then
  usage
  errorexit 0 "tostrip must be specified"
fi

cd "${tostripdir}"

debugdir=.debug
debugfile="${tostripfile}.debug"

if [ ! -d "${debugdir}" ] ; then
  echo "creating dir ${tostripdir}/${debugdir}"
  mkdir -p "${debugdir}"
fi
echo "stripping ${tostripfile}, putting debug info into ${debugfile}"
objcopy --only-keep-debug "${tostripfile}" "${debugdir}/${debugfile}"
strip --strip-debug --strip-unneeded "${tostripfile}"
objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink="${debugdir}/${debugfile}" "${tostripfile}"
chmod -x "${debugdir}/${debugfile}"

How to select all columns, except one column in pandas?

I think a nice solution is with the function filter of pandas and regex (match everything except "b"):

df.filter(regex="^(?!b$)")

What does `void 0` mean?

void is a reserved JavaScript keyword. It evaluates the expression and always returns undefined.

How do I use shell variables in an awk script?

It seems that the good-old ENVIRON built-in hash is not mentioned at all. An example of its usage:

$ X=Solaris awk 'BEGIN{print ENVIRON["X"], ENVIRON["TERM"]}'
Solaris rxvt

MySql Error: Can't update table in stored function/trigger because it is already used by statement which invoked this stored function/trigger

The correct syntax is:

FOR EACH ROW SET NEW.bname = CONCAT( UCASE( LEFT( NEW.bname, 1 ) )
                                   , LCASE( SUBSTRING( NEW.bname, 2 ) ) )

How do I close an Android alertdialog

Use setNegative button, no Positive button required! I promise you'll win x

How do I copy folder with files to another folder in Unix/Linux?

You are looking for the cp command. You need to change directories so that you are outside of the directory you are trying to copy.

If the directory you're copying is called dir1 and you want to copy it to your /home/Pictures folder:

cp -r dir1/ ~/Pictures/

Linux is case-sensitive and also needs the / after each directory to know that it isn't a file. ~ is a special character in the terminal that automatically evaluates to the current user's home directory. If you need to know what directory you are in, use the command pwd.

When you don't know how to use a Linux command, there is a manual page that you can refer to by typing:

man [insert command here]

at a terminal prompt.

Also, to auto complete long file paths when typing in the terminal, you can hit Tab after you've started typing the path and you will either be presented with choices, or it will insert the remaining part of the path.

How many bytes does one Unicode character take?

For UTF-16, the character needs four bytes (two code units) if it starts with 0xD800 or greater; such a character is called a "surrogate pair." More specifically, a surrogate pair has the form:

[0xD800 - 0xDBFF]  [0xDC00 - 0xDFF]

where [...] indicates a two-byte code unit with the given range. Anything <= 0xD7FF is one code unit (two bytes). Anything >= 0xE000 is invalid (except BOM markers, arguably).

See http://unicodebook.readthedocs.io/unicode_encodings.html, section 7.5.

How to get text from EditText?

String fname = ((EditText)findViewById(R.id.txtFirstName)).getText().toString();
String lname = ((EditText)findViewById(R.id.txtLastName)).getText().toString();
((EditText)findViewById(R.id.txtFullName)).setText(fname + " "+lname);

How to fix warning from date() in PHP"

This just happen to me because in the php.ini the date.timezone was not set!

;date.timezone=Europe/Berlin

Using the php date() function triggered that warning.

Prevent Sequelize from outputting SQL to the console on execution of query?

I am using Sequelize ORM 6.0.0 and am using "logging": false as the rest but posted my answer for latest version of the ORM.

const sequelize = new Sequelize(
        process.env.databaseName,
        process.env.databaseUser,
        process.env.password,
        {
            host: process.env.databaseHost,
            dialect: process.env.dialect,
            "logging": false,
            define: {
                // Table names won't be pluralized.
                freezeTableName: true,
                // All tables won't have "createdAt" and "updatedAt" Auto fields.
                timestamps: false
            }
        }
    );

Note: I am storing my secretes in a configuration file .env observing the 12-factor methodology.

Get the client IP address using PHP

In PHP 5.3 or greater, you can get it like this:

$ip = getenv('HTTP_CLIENT_IP')?:
getenv('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR')?:
getenv('HTTP_X_FORWARDED')?:
getenv('HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR')?:
getenv('HTTP_FORWARDED')?:
getenv('REMOTE_ADDR');

Equivalent of "continue" in Ruby

next

also, look at redo which redoes the current iteration.

How to display list items on console window in C#

You can also use List's inbuilt foreach, such as:

List<T>.ForEach(item => Console.Write(item));

This code also runs significantly faster!

The above code also makes you able to manipulate Console.WriteLine, such as doing:

List<T>.ForEach(item => Console.Write(item + ",")); //Put a,b etc.

What does it mean by select 1 from table?

If you mean something like

SELECT * FROM AnotherTable
  WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM table WHERE...) 

then it's a myth that the 1 is better than

SELECT * FROM AnotherTable
  WHERE EXISTS (SELECT * FROM table WHERE...) 

The 1 or * in the EXISTS is ignored and you can write this as per Page 191 of the ANSI SQL 1992 Standard:

SELECT * FROM AnotherTable
  WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 1/0 FROM table WHERE...) 

Pass array to where in Codeigniter Active Record

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

$this->db->where_in()
ex :  $this->db->where_in('id', array('1','2','3'));

Generates a WHERE field IN (‘item’, ‘item’) SQL query joined with OR if appropriate

$this->db->or_where_in()
ex :  $this->db->where_in('id', array('1','2','3'));

Finding last index of a string in Oracle

Use -1 as the start position:

INSTR('JD-EQ-0001', '-', -1)

ConcurrentHashMap vs Synchronized HashMap

Both are synchronized version of HashMap, with difference in their core functionality and their internal structure.

ConcurrentHashMap consist of internal segments which can be viewed as independent HashMaps Conceptually. All such segments can be locked by separate threads in high concurrent executions. So, multiple threads can get/put key-value pairs from ConcurrentHashMap without blocking/waiting for each other. This is implemented for higher throughput.

whereas

Collections.synchronizedMap(), we get a synchronized version of HashMap and it is accessed in blocking manner. This means if multiple threads try to access synchronizedMap at same time, they will be allowed to get/put key-value pairs one at a time in synchronized manner.

How do I target only Internet Explorer 10 for certain situations like Internet Explorer-specific CSS or Internet Explorer-specific JavaScript code?

You can use PHP to add a stylesheet for IE 10

Like:

if (stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'MSIE 10')) {
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../ie10.css" />
}

How to Upload Image file in Retrofit 2

Totally agree with @tir38 and @android_griezmann. This would be the version in kotlin:

interface servicesEndPoint {
@Multipart
@POST("user/updateprofile")
fun updateProfile(@Part("user_id") id:RequestBody, @Part("full_name") other:fullName, @Part image: MultipartBody.Part, @Part("other") other:RequestBody): Single<UploadPhotoResponse>

companion object {
        val API_BASE_URL = "YOUR_URL"

        fun create(): servicesPhotoEndPoint {
            val retrofit = Retrofit.Builder()
                .addCallAdapterFactory(RxJava2CallAdapterFactory.create())
                .addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create())
                .baseUrl(API_BASE_URL)
                .build()
            return retrofit.create(servicesPhotoEndPoint::class.java)
        }
    }
}

// pass it like this
val file = File(RealPathUtils.getRealPathFromURI_API19(context, uri))  
val requestFile: RequestBody = RequestBody.create(MediaType.parse("multipart/form-data"), file)

// MultipartBody.Part is used to send also the actual file name
val body: MultipartBody.Part = MultipartBody.Part.createFormData("image", file.name, requestFile)

// add another part within the multipart request
val fullName: RequestBody = RequestBody.create(MediaType.parse("multipart/form-data"), "Your Name")

servicesEndPoint.create().updateProfile(id, fullName, body, fullName)

To obtain the real path, use RealPathUtils. Check this class in the answers of @Harsh Bhavsar in this question: How to get the Full file path from URI.

To getRealPathFromURI_API19 you need permissions of READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

in querySelector: how to get the first and get the last elements? what traversal order is used in the dom?

:last is not part of the css spec, this is jQuery specific.

you should be looking for last-child

var first = div.querySelector('[move_id]:first-child');
var last  = div.querySelector('[move_id]:last-child');

How to round 0.745 to 0.75 using BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_UP?

Use BigDecimal.valueOf(double d) instead of new BigDecimal(double d). The last one has precision errors by float and double.

Spark java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

Did you dump your master gc log? So I met similar issue and I found SPARK_DRIVER_MEMORY only set the Xmx heap. The initial heap size remains 1G and the heap size never scale up to the Xmx heap.

Passing "--conf "spark.driver.extraJavaOptions=-Xms20g" resolves my issue.

ps aux | grep java and the you'll see the follow log:=

24501 30.7 1.7 41782944 2318184 pts/0 Sl+ 18:49 0:33 /usr/java/latest/bin/java -cp /opt/spark/conf/:/opt/spark/jars/* -Xmx30g -Xms20g

filtering NSArray into a new NSArray in Objective-C

Based on an answer by Clay Bridges, here is an example of filtering using blocks (change yourArray to your array variable name and testFunc to the name of your testing function):

yourArray = [yourArray objectsAtIndexes:[yourArray indexesOfObjectsPassingTest:^BOOL(id obj, NSUInteger idx, BOOL *stop) {
    return [self testFunc:obj];
}]];

No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1

After six days I find the answer which make me crazy! The answer is disable proxy at web.config file:

<system.net>
  <defaultProxy> 
    <proxy usesystemdefault="False"/> 
  </defaultProxy>
</system.net>

Open application after clicking on Notification

This is the way that I have approached.

public class AppFCMService extends FirebaseMessagingService {

    private final static String TAG = "FCM Message";
    String notify, requstId, Notification;
    PendingIntent pendingIntent;

    @Override
    public void onMessageReceived(RemoteMessage remoteMessage) {
        Log.d(TAG, "From: " + remoteMessage.getFrom());
        Log.d(TAG, "Notification Message Body: " + remoteMessage.getNotification().getBody());
        //split string and getting order id from notification
        String Str = remoteMessage.getNotification().getBody();
        String[] tmp;
        tmp = Str.split(" ");
        String temp1 = tmp[0];
        String temp2 = tmp[1];
        String id = tmp[2];
        notify = temp1 + " " + temp2;
        requstId = id;
        showNotification(remoteMessage.getNotification().getBody());
    }

    private void showNotification(String messageBody) {
        // check whether session has been initiated or not
        if (new SessionHelper(getApplicationContext()).isLoggedIn()) {

            if (notify.equalsIgnoreCase("Travel request")) {

                Intent intent = new Intent(this, ViewTravelDetailsActivity.class);
                intent.putExtra("TravelRequestID", requstId);
                intent.putExtra("BackPress", "Notify");
                pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0, intent,
                        PendingIntent.FLAG_ONE_SHOT);

            } else if (notify.equalsIgnoreCase("Timesheet replied")) {

                Intent intent = new Intent(this, ViewReplyActivity.class);
                intent.putExtra("timesheetActivityID", requstId);
                intent.putExtra("BackPress", "Notify");
                intent.putExtra("RealmData", "DeleteRealm");
                intent.putExtra("isToday", "true");
                pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0, intent,
                        PendingIntent.FLAG_ONE_SHOT);
            } else {

                Intent intent = new Intent(this, Dashboard.class);
                intent.putExtra("timesheetActivityID", requstId);
                pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0, intent,
                        PendingIntent.FLAG_ONE_SHOT);
            }
        } else {

            Intent intent = new Intent(this, LoginActivity.class);
            intent.putExtra("timesheetActivityID", requstId);
            pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0, intent,
                    PendingIntent.FLAG_ONE_SHOT);
        }

        Bitmap notifyImage = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.mipmap.ic_launcher);
        Uri defaultSoundUri = RingtoneManager.getDefaultUri(RingtoneManager.TYPE_NOTIFICATION);
        NotificationCompat.Builder notificationBuilder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this)
                .setSmallIcon(R.mipmap.ic_launcher)
                .setLargeIcon(notifyImage)
                .setColor(Color.parseColor("#FFE74C3C"))
                .setContentTitle("TEST")
                .setContentText(messageBody)
                .setAutoCancel(true)
                .setSound(defaultSoundUri)
                .setContentIntent(pendingIntent);
        NotificationManager notificationManager =
                (NotificationManager) getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
        notificationManager.notify(0, notificationBuilder.build());
    }
}

C++ cast to derived class

First of all - prerequisite for downcast is that object you are casting is of the type you are casting to. Casting with dynamic_cast will check this condition in runtime (provided that casted object has some virtual functions) and throw bad_cast or return NULL pointer on failure. Compile-time casts will not check anything and will just lead tu undefined behaviour if this prerequisite does not hold.
Now analyzing your code:

DerivedType m_derivedType = m_baseType;

Here there is no casting. You are creating a new object of type DerivedType and try to initialize it with value of m_baseType variable.

Next line is not much better:

DerivedType m_derivedType = (DerivedType)m_baseType;

Here you are creating a temporary of DerivedType type initialized with m_baseType value.

The last line

DerivedType * m_derivedType = (DerivedType*) & m_baseType;

should compile provided that BaseType is a direct or indirect public base class of DerivedType. It has two flaws anyway:

  1. You use deprecated C-style cast. The proper way for such casts is
    static_cast<DerivedType *>(&m_baseType)
  2. The actual type of casted object is not of DerivedType (as it was defined as BaseType m_baseType; so any use of m_derivedType pointer will result in undefined behaviour.

Python 3 print without parenthesis

I finally figured out the regex to change these all in old Python2 example scripts. Otherwise use 2to3.py.

Try it out on Regexr.com, doesn't work in NP++(?):

find:     (?<=print)( ')(.*)(')
replace: ('$2')

for variables:

(?<=print)( )(.*)(\n)
('$2')\n

for label and variable:

(?<=print)( ')(.*)(',)(.*)(\n)
('$2',$4)\n

Detect if a Form Control option button is selected in VBA

If you are using a Form Control, you can get the same property as ActiveX by using OLEFormat.Object property of the Shape Object. Better yet assign it in a variable declared as OptionButton to get the Intellisense kick in.

Dim opt As OptionButton

With Sheets("Sheet1") ' Try to be always explicit
    Set opt = .Shapes("Option Button 1").OLEFormat.Object ' Form Control
    Debug.Pring opt.Value ' returns 1 (true) or -4146 (false)
End With

But then again, you really don't need to know the value.
If you use Form Control, you associate a Macro or sub routine with it which is executed when it is selected. So you just need to set up a sub routine that identifies which button is clicked and then execute a corresponding action for it.

For example you have 2 Form Control Option Buttons.

Sub CheckOptions()
    Select Case Application.Caller
    Case "Option Button 1"
    ' Action for option button 1
    Case "Option Button 2"
    ' Action for option button 2
    End Select
End Sub

In above code, you have only one sub routine assigned to both option buttons.
Then you test which called the sub routine by checking Application.Caller.
This way, no need to check whether the option button value is true or false.

Centering a button vertically in table cell, using Twitter Bootstrap

To fix this, i put this class on the webpage

<style>                        
    td.vcenter {
        vertical-align: middle !important;
        text-align: center !important;
    }
</style>

and this in my TemplateField

<asp:TemplateField ItemStyle-CssClass="vcenter">

as the CSS class points directly to the td (tabledata) element and has the !important statment at the end each setting. It will over rule bootsraps CSS class settings.

Hope it helps

The current .NET SDK does not support targeting .NET Standard 2.0 error in Visual Studio 2017 update 15.3

I just went through this trouble. In my case I had a working script

SET devenvPath=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
"%devenvPath%" mySolution.sln /Rebuild "DebugWithUT|AnyCpu" /Out mySolution.Build.log

Today I started getting this exact error. But now I remember installing VS2019 day before. Looks like it changed something for VS2017. I went to VS2017 Update, installed latest version/update and it fixed it back.

Java - removing first character of a string

Another solution, you can solve your problem using replaceAll with some regex ^.{1} (regex demo) for example :

String str = "Jamaica";
int nbr = 1;
str = str.replaceAll("^.{" + nbr + "}", "");//Output = amaica

AlertDialog.Builder with custom layout and EditText; cannot access view

In case any one wants it in Kotlin :

val dialogBuilder = AlertDialog.Builder(this)
// ...Irrelevant code for customizing the buttons and title
val dialogView = layoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.alert_label_editor, null)
dialogBuilder.setView(dialogView)

val editText =  dialogView.findViewById(R.id.label_field)
editText.setText("test label")
val alertDialog = dialogBuilder.create()
alertDialog.show()

Reposted @user370305's answer.

Need table of key codes for android and presenter

Keyboard(BT) commands can be passed through command prompt

open command prompt and write "adb shell input keyevent keycode"

examples:-

for "enter" write
adb shell input keyevent 23

up
adb shell input keyevent 19

down
adb shell input keyevent 20

left
adb shell input keyevent 21

right
adb shell input keyevent 22

keycode List:

0 -->  "KEYCODE_0" 
1 -->  "KEYCODE_SOFT_LEFT" 
2 -->  "KEYCODE_SOFT_RIGHT" 
3 -->  "KEYCODE_HOME" 
4 -->  "KEYCODE_BACK" 
5 -->  "KEYCODE_CALL" 
6 -->  "KEYCODE_ENDCALL" 
7 -->  "KEYCODE_0" 
8 -->  "KEYCODE_1" 
9 -->  "KEYCODE_2" 
10 -->  "KEYCODE_3" 
11 -->  "KEYCODE_4" 
12 -->  "KEYCODE_5" 
13 -->  "KEYCODE_6" 
14 -->  "KEYCODE_7" 
15 -->  "KEYCODE_8" 
16 -->  "KEYCODE_9" 
17 -->  "KEYCODE_STAR" 
18 -->  "KEYCODE_POUND" 
19 -->  "KEYCODE_DPAD_UP" 
20 -->  "KEYCODE_DPAD_DOWN" 
21 -->  "KEYCODE_DPAD_LEFT" 
22 -->  "KEYCODE_DPAD_RIGHT" 
23 -->  "KEYCODE_DPAD_CENTER" 
24 -->  "KEYCODE_VOLUME_UP" 
25 -->  "KEYCODE_VOLUME_DOWN" 
26 -->  "KEYCODE_POWER" 
27 -->  "KEYCODE_CAMERA" 
28 -->  "KEYCODE_CLEAR" 
29 -->  "KEYCODE_A" 
30 -->  "KEYCODE_B" 
31 -->  "KEYCODE_C" 
32 -->  "KEYCODE_D" 
33 -->  "KEYCODE_E" 
34 -->  "KEYCODE_F" 
35 -->  "KEYCODE_G" 
36 -->  "KEYCODE_H" 
37 -->  "KEYCODE_I" 
38 -->  "KEYCODE_J" 
39 -->  "KEYCODE_K" 
40 -->  "KEYCODE_L" 
41 -->  "KEYCODE_M" 
42 -->  "KEYCODE_N" 
43 -->  "KEYCODE_O" 
44 -->  "KEYCODE_P" 
45 -->  "KEYCODE_Q" 
46 -->  "KEYCODE_R" 
47 -->  "KEYCODE_S" 
48 -->  "KEYCODE_T" 
49 -->  "KEYCODE_U" 
50 -->  "KEYCODE_V" 
51 -->  "KEYCODE_W" 
52 -->  "KEYCODE_X" 
53 -->  "KEYCODE_Y" 
54 -->  "KEYCODE_Z" 
55 -->  "KEYCODE_COMMA" 
56 -->  "KEYCODE_PERIOD" 
57 -->  "KEYCODE_ALT_LEFT" 
58 -->  "KEYCODE_ALT_RIGHT" 
59 -->  "KEYCODE_SHIFT_LEFT" 
60 -->  "KEYCODE_SHIFT_RIGHT" 
61 -->  "KEYCODE_TAB" 
62 -->  "KEYCODE_SPACE" 
63 -->  "KEYCODE_SYM" 
64 -->  "KEYCODE_EXPLORER" 
65 -->  "KEYCODE_ENVELOPE" 
66 -->  "KEYCODE_ENTER" 
67 -->  "KEYCODE_DEL" 
68 -->  "KEYCODE_GRAVE" 
69 -->  "KEYCODE_MINUS" 
70 -->  "KEYCODE_EQUALS" 
71 -->  "KEYCODE_LEFT_BRACKET" 
72 -->  "KEYCODE_RIGHT_BRACKET" 
73 -->  "KEYCODE_BACKSLASH" 
74 -->  "KEYCODE_SEMICOLON" 
75 -->  "KEYCODE_APOSTROPHE" 
76 -->  "KEYCODE_SLASH" 
77 -->  "KEYCODE_AT" 
78 -->  "KEYCODE_NUM" 
79 -->  "KEYCODE_HEADSETHOOK" 
80 -->  "KEYCODE_FOCUS" 
81 -->  "KEYCODE_PLUS" 
82 -->  "KEYCODE_MENU" 
83 -->  "KEYCODE_NOTIFICATION" 
84 -->  "KEYCODE_SEARCH" 
85 -->  "KEYCODE_MEDIA_PLAY_PAUSE"
86 -->  "KEYCODE_MEDIA_STOP"
87 -->  "KEYCODE_MEDIA_NEXT"
88 -->  "KEYCODE_MEDIA_PREVIOUS"
89 -->  "KEYCODE_MEDIA_REWIND"
90 -->  "KEYCODE_MEDIA_FAST_FORWARD"
91 -->  "KEYCODE_MUTE"
92 -->  "KEYCODE_PAGE_UP"
93 -->  "KEYCODE_PAGE_DOWN"
94 -->  "KEYCODE_PICTSYMBOLS"
...
122 -->  "KEYCODE_MOVE_HOME"
123 -->  "KEYCODE_MOVE_END"

How to convert FormData (HTML5 object) to JSON

You can try this

formDataToJSON($('#form_example'));

# Create a function to convert the serialize and convert the form data
# to JSON
# @param : $('#form_example');
# @return a JSON Stringify
function formDataToJSON(form) {
    let obj = {};
    let formData = form.serialize();
    let formArray = formData.split("&");

    for (inputData of formArray){
        let dataTmp = inputData.split('=');
        obj[dataTmp[0]] = dataTmp[1];
    }
    return JSON.stringify(obj);
}

Error: Microsoft Visual C++ 10.0 is required (Unable to find vcvarsall.bat) when running Python script

I was able to fix this on Windows 7 64-bit running Python 3.4.3 by running the set command at a command prompt to determine the existing Visual Studio tools environment variable; in my case it was VS140COMNTOOLS for Visual Studio Community 2015.

Then run the following (substituting the variable on the right-hand side if yours has a different name):

set VS100COMNTOOLS=%VS140COMNTOOLS%

This allowed me to install the PyCrypto module that was previously giving me the same error as the OP.

For a more permanent solution, add this environment variable to your Windows environment via Control Panel ("Edit the system environment variables"), though you might need to use the actual path instead of the variable substitution.

HTML list-style-type dash

For anyone having this problem today, the solution is simply:

list-style: "- "

How can I debug a Perl script?

Use Eclipse with EPIC: It gives you a nice IDE with debugging possibilities, including the ability to place breakpoints and the Perl Expression View for inspecting the value of variables.

Correctly determine if date string is a valid date in that format

You can use DateTime::createFromFormat() for this purpose:

function validateDate($date, $format = 'Y-m-d')
{
    $d = DateTime::createFromFormat($format, $date);
    // The Y ( 4 digits year ) returns TRUE for any integer with any number of digits so changing the comparison from == to === fixes the issue.
    return $d && $d->format($format) === $date;
}

[Function taken from this answer. Also on php.net. Originally written by Glavic.]


Test cases:

var_dump(validateDate('2013-13-01'));  // false
var_dump(validateDate('20132-13-01')); // false
var_dump(validateDate('2013-11-32'));  // false
var_dump(validateDate('2012-2-25'));   // false
var_dump(validateDate('2013-12-01'));  // true
var_dump(validateDate('1970-12-01'));  // true
var_dump(validateDate('2012-02-29'));  // true
var_dump(validateDate('2012', 'Y'));   // true
var_dump(validateDate('12012', 'Y'));  // false

Demo!

boto3 client NoRegionError: You must specify a region error only sometimes

I believe, by default, boto picks the region which is set in aws cli. You can run command #aws configure and press enter (it shows what creds you have set in aws cli with region)twice to confirm your region.

"Conversion to Dalvik format failed with error 1" on external JAR

I solved the problem.

This is a JAR file conflict.

It seems that I have two JAR files on my buildpath that include the same package and classes.

smack.jar and android_maps_lib-1.0.2

Deleting this package from one of the JAR files solved the problem.

How to get the index of an element in an IEnumerable?

The best way to catch the position is by FindIndex This function is available only for List<>

Example

int id = listMyObject.FindIndex(x => x.Id == 15); 

If you have enumerator or array use this way

int id = myEnumerator.ToList().FindIndex(x => x.Id == 15); 

or

 int id = myArray.ToList().FindIndex(x => x.Id == 15); 

How do I remove whitespace from the end of a string in Python?

>>> "    xyz     ".rstrip()
'    xyz'

There is more about rstrip in the documentation.