Programs & Examples On #Fluid

Fluid is a an XML-based templating system for TYPO3. With Fluid, all the code for the view logic moves to the template - e.g. loops, if/else switches and similar.

Is there a way to use max-width and height for a background image?

Unfortunately there's no min (or max)-background-size in CSS you can only use background-size. However if you are seeking a responsive background image you can use Vmin and Vmaxunits for the background-size property to achieve something similar.

example:

#one {
    background:url('../img/blahblah.jpg') no-repeat;
    background-size:10vmin 100%;
}

that will set the height to 10% of the whichever smaller viewport you have whether vertical or horizontal, and will set the width to 100%.

Read more about css units here: https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_units.asp

What are the main performance differences between varchar and nvarchar SQL Server data types?

If you are using NVARCHAR just because a system stored procedure requires it, the most frequent occurrence being inexplicably sp_executesql, and your dynamic SQL is very long, you would be better off from performance perspective doing all string manipulations (concatenation, replacement etc.) in VARCHAR then converting the end result to NVARCHAR and feeding it into the proc parameter. So no, do not always use NVARCHAR!

Twitter Bootstrap 3: how to use media queries?

We use the following media queries in our Less files to create the key breakpoints in our grid system.

/* Small devices (tablets, 768px and up) */
@media (min-width: @screen-sm-min) { ... }

/* Medium devices (desktops, 992px and up) */
@media (min-width: @screen-md-min) { ... }

/* Large devices (large desktops, 1200px and up) */
@media (min-width: @screen-lg-min) { ... }

see also on Bootstrap

How to efficiently calculate a running standard deviation?

How big is your array? Unless it is zillions of elements long, don't worry about looping through it twice. The code is simple and easily tested.

My preference would be to use the numpy array maths extension to convert your array of arrays into a numpy 2D array and get the standard deviation directly:

>>> x = [ [ 1, 2, 4, 3, 4, 5 ], [ 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 ] ] * 10
>>> import numpy
>>> a = numpy.array(x)
>>> a.std(axis=0) 
array([ 1. ,  1. ,  0.5,  1.5,  1.5,  1.5])
>>> a.mean(axis=0)
array([ 2. ,  3. ,  4.5,  4.5,  5.5,  6.5])

If that's not an option and you need a pure Python solution, keep reading...

If your array is

x = [ 
      [ 1, 2, 4, 3, 4, 5 ],
      [ 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 ],
      ....
]

Then the standard deviation is:

d = len(x[0])
n = len(x)
sum_x = [ sum(v[i] for v in x) for i in range(d) ]
sum_x2 = [ sum(v[i]**2 for v in x) for i in range(d) ]
std_dev = [ sqrt((sx2 - sx**2)/N)  for sx, sx2 in zip(sum_x, sum_x2) ]

If you are determined to loop through your array only once, the running sums can be combined.

sum_x  = [ 0 ] * d
sum_x2 = [ 0 ] * d
for v in x:
   for i, t in enumerate(v):
   sum_x[i] += t
   sum_x2[i] += t**2

This isn't nearly as elegant as the list comprehension solution above.

How to use sed to remove the last n lines of a file

With the answers here you'd have already learnt that sed is not the best tool for this application.

However I do think there is a way to do this in using sed; the idea is to append N lines to hold space untill you are able read without hitting EOF. When EOF is hit, print the contents of hold space and quit.

sed -e '$!{N;N;N;N;N;N;H;}' -e x

The sed command above will omit last 5 lines.

Read/Write String from/to a File in Android

I'm a bit of a beginner and struggled getting this to work today.

Below is the class that I ended up with. It works but I was wondering how imperfect my solution is. Anyway, I was hoping some of you more experienced folk might be willing to have a look at my IO class and give me some tips. Cheers!

public class HighScore {
    File data = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath() + File.separator);
    File file = new File(data, "highscore.txt");
    private int highScore = 0;

    public int readHighScore() {
        try {
            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));
            try {
                highScore = Integer.parseInt(br.readLine());
                br.close();
            } catch (NumberFormatException | IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            try {
                file.createNewFile();
            } catch (IOException ioe) {
                ioe.printStackTrace();
            }
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return highScore;
    }

    public void writeHighScore(int highestScore) {
        try {
            BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(file));
            bw.write(String.valueOf(highestScore));
            bw.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Solving a "communications link failure" with JDBC and MySQL

If you are using hibernate, this error can be caused for keeping open a Session object more time than wait_timeout

I've documented a case in here for those who are interested.

print memory address of Python variable

There is no way to get the memory address of a value in Python 2.7 in general. In Jython or PyPy, the implementation doesn't even know your value's address (and there's not even a guarantee that it will stay in the same place—e.g., the garbage collector is allowed to move it around if it wants).

However, if you only care about CPython, id is already returning the address. If the only issue is how to format that integer in a certain way… it's the same as formatting any integer:

>>> hex(33)
0x21
>>> '{:#010x}'.format(33) # 32-bit
0x00000021
>>> '{:#018x}'.format(33) # 64-bit
0x0000000000000021

… and so on.

However, there's almost never a good reason for this. If you actually need the address of an object, it's presumably to pass it to ctypes or similar, in which case you should use ctypes.addressof or similar.

zsh compinit: insecure directories

This fixed it for me:

$ sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions

Credit: a post on zsh mailing list


EDIT: As pointed out by @biocyberman in the comments. You may need to update the owner of site-functions as well:

$ sudo chown -R root:root /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions

On my machine (OSX 10.9), I do not need to do this but YMMV.

EDIT2: On OSX 10.11, only this worked:

$ sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/local/share/zsh
$ sudo chown -R root:staff /usr/local/share/zsh

Also user:staff is the correct default permission on OSX.

How to calculate md5 hash of a file using javascript

The following snippet shows an example, which can archive a throughput of 400 MB/s while reading and hashing the file.

It is using a library called hash-wasm, which is based on WebAssembly and calculates the hash faster than js-only libraries. As of 2020, all modern browsers support WebAssembly.

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const chunkSize = 64 * 1024 * 1024;
const fileReader = new FileReader();
let hasher = null;

function hashChunk(chunk) {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    fileReader.onload = async(e) => {
      const view = new Uint8Array(e.target.result);
      hasher.update(view);
      resolve();
    };

    fileReader.readAsArrayBuffer(chunk);
  });
}

const readFile = async(file) => {
  if (hasher) {
    hasher.init();
  } else {
    hasher = await hashwasm.createMD5();
  }

  const chunkNumber = Math.floor(file.size / chunkSize);

  for (let i = 0; i <= chunkNumber; i++) {
    const chunk = file.slice(
      chunkSize * i,
      Math.min(chunkSize * (i + 1), file.size)
    );
    await hashChunk(chunk);
  }

  const hash = hasher.digest();
  return Promise.resolve(hash);
};

const fileSelector = document.getElementById("file-input");
const resultElement = document.getElementById("result");

fileSelector.addEventListener("change", async(event) => {
  const file = event.target.files[0];

  resultElement.innerHTML = "Loading...";
  const start = Date.now();
  const hash = await readFile(file);
  const end = Date.now();
  const duration = end - start;
  const fileSizeMB = file.size / 1024 / 1024;
  const throughput = fileSizeMB / (duration / 1000);
  resultElement.innerHTML = `
    Hash: ${hash}<br>
    Duration: ${duration} ms<br>
    Throughput: ${throughput.toFixed(2)} MB/s
  `;
});
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<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/hash-wasm"></script>
<!-- defines the global `hashwasm` variable -->

<input type="file" id="file-input">
<div id="result"></div>
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Initialize empty vector in structure - c++

How about

user r = {"",{}};

or

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

or

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

or

user r;

Tooltips with Twitter Bootstrap

I think your question boils down to what proper selector to use when setting up your tooltips, and the answer to that is almost whatever you want. If you want to use a class to trigger your tooltips you can do that, take the following for example:

<a href="#" class="link" data-original-title="first tooltip">Hover me for a tooltip</a>

Then you can trigger all links with the .link class attached as tooltips like so:

$('.link').tooltip()

Now, to answer your question as to why the bootstrap developers did not use a class to trigger tooltips that is because it is not needed exactly, you can pretty much use any selectors you want to target your tooltips, such as (my personal favorite) the rel attribute. With this attribute you can target all links or elements with the rel property set to tooltip, like so:

$('[rel=tooltip]').tooltip() 

And your links would look like something like this:

<a href="#" rel="tooltip" data-original-title="first tooltip">Hover me for a tooltip</a>

Of course, you can also use a container class or id to target your tooltips inside an specific container that you want to single out with an specific option or to separate from the rest of your content and you can use it like so:

$('#example').tooltip({
    selector: "a[rel=tooltip]"
})

This selector will target all of your tooltips with the rel attribute "within" your #example div, this way you can add special styles or options to that section alone. In short, you can pretty much use any valid selector to target your tooltips and there is no need to dirty your markup with an extra class to target them.

Visualizing decision tree in scikit-learn

Here is the minimal code to have a nice looking graph with just 3 lines of code :

from sklearn import tree
import pydotplus

dot_data=tree.export_graphviz(dt,filled=True,rounded=True)
graph=pydotplus.graph_from_dot_data(dot_data)
graph.write_png('tree.png')    
plt.imshow(plt.imread('tree.png'))

I have added the plt.imgshow to view the graph it Jupyter Notebook. You can ignore it if you are only interested in saving the png file.

I installed the following dependencies:

pip3 install graphviz
pip3 install pydotplus

For MacOs the pip version of Graphviz did not work. Following Graphviz's official documentation I installed it with brew and everything worked fine.

brew install graphviz

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How to create an infinite loop in Windows batch file?

Unlimited loop in one-line command for use in cmd windows:

FOR /L %N IN () DO @echo Oops

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libstdc++-6.dll not found

I just had this issue.. I just added the MinGW\bin directory to the path environment variable, and it solved the issue.

How to set variables in HIVE scripts

You can export the variable in shell script export CURRENT_DATE="2012-09-16"

Then in hiveql you like SELECT * FROM foo WHERE day >= '${env:CURRENT_DATE}'

What exactly are DLL files, and how do they work?

DLLs (Dynamic Link Libraries) contain resources used by one or more applications or services. They can contain classes, icons, strings, objects, interfaces, and pretty much anything a developer would need to store except a UI.

Printing integer variable and string on same line in SQL

Double check if you have set and initial value for int and decimal values to be printed.

This sample is printing an empty line

declare @Number INT
print 'The number is : ' + CONVERT(VARCHAR, @Number)

And this sample is printing -> The number is : 1

declare @Number INT = 1
print 'The number is : ' + CONVERT(VARCHAR, @Number)

Lining up labels with radio buttons in bootstrap

Since Bootstrap 3 you have to use checkbox-inline and radio-inline classes on the label.

This takes care of vertical alignment.

<label class="checkbox-inline">
    <input type="checkbox" id="inlineCheckbox1" value="option1"> 1
</label>
<label class="radio-inline">
    <input type="radio" name="inlineRadioOptions" id="inlineRadio1" value="option1"> 1
</label>

Understanding Spring @Autowired usage

TL;DR

The @Autowired annotation spares you the need to do the wiring by yourself in the XML file (or any other way) and just finds for you what needs to be injected where and does that for you.

Full explanation

The @Autowired annotation allows you to skip configurations elsewhere of what to inject and just does it for you. Assuming your package is com.mycompany.movies you have to put this tag in your XML (application context file):

<context:component-scan base-package="com.mycompany.movies" />

This tag will do an auto-scanning. Assuming each class that has to become a bean is annotated with a correct annotation like @Component (for simple bean) or @Controller (for a servlet control) or @Repository (for DAO classes) and these classes are somewhere under the package com.mycompany.movies, Spring will find all of these and create a bean for each one. This is done in 2 scans of the classes - the first time it just searches for classes that need to become a bean and maps the injections it needs to be doing, and on the second scan it injects the beans. Of course, you can define your beans in the more traditional XML file or with an @Configuration class (or any combination of the three).

The @Autowired annotation tells Spring where an injection needs to occur. If you put it on a method setMovieFinder it understands (by the prefix set + the @Autowired annotation) that a bean needs to be injected. In the second scan, Spring searches for a bean of type MovieFinder, and if it finds such bean, it injects it to this method. If it finds two such beans you will get an Exception. To avoid the Exception, you can use the @Qualifier annotation and tell it which of the two beans to inject in the following manner:

@Qualifier("redBean")
class Red implements Color {
   // Class code here
}

@Qualifier("blueBean")
class Blue implements Color {
   // Class code here
}

Or if you prefer to declare the beans in your XML, it would look something like this:

<bean id="redBean" class="com.mycompany.movies.Red"/>

<bean id="blueBean" class="com.mycompany.movies.Blue"/>

In the @Autowired declaration, you need to also add the @Qualifier to tell which of the two color beans to inject:

@Autowired
@Qualifier("redBean")
public void setColor(Color color) {
  this.color = color;
}

If you don't want to use two annotations (the @Autowired and @Qualifier) you can use @Resource to combine these two:

@Resource(name="redBean")
public void setColor(Color color) {
  this.color = color;
}

The @Resource (you can read some extra data about it in the first comment on this answer) spares you the use of two annotations and instead, you only use one.

I'll just add two more comments:

  1. Good practice would be to use @Inject instead of @Autowired because it is not Spring-specific and is part of the JSR-330 standard.
  2. Another good practice would be to put the @Inject / @Autowired on a constructor instead of a method. If you put it on a constructor, you can validate that the injected beans are not null and fail fast when you try to start the application and avoid a NullPointerException when you need to actually use the bean.

Update: To complete the picture, I created a new question about the @Configuration class.

Program to find largest and smallest among 5 numbers without using array

Let max will hold the maximum of 5 numbers. Assign the first number to max. Take the 2nd number and compare it with max if the the 2nd number is greater than max then assign it to max else do nothing. Next take the 3rd number and compare it with max , if the 3rd number is greater than max assign it to max else do nothing. Do the same for 4th and 5th number. Finally max will hold the maximum of 5 number.

How do I add a newline to command output in PowerShell?

Or, just set the output field separator (OFS) to double newlines, and then make sure you get a string when you send it to file:

$OFS = "`r`n`r`n"
"$( gci -path hklm:\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall | 
    ForEach-Object -Process { write-output $_.GetValue('DisplayName') } )" | 
 out-file addrem.txt

Beware to use the ` and not the '. On my keyboard (US-English Qwerty layout) it's located left of the 1.
(Moved here from the comments - Thanks Koen Zomers)

pretty-print JSON using JavaScript

The simplest way to display an object for debugging purposes:

console.log("data",data) // lets you unfold the object manually

If you want to display the object in the DOM, you should consider that it could contain strings that would be interpreted as HTML. Therefore, you need to do some escaping...

var s = JSON.stringify(data,null,2) // format
var e = new Option(s).innerHTML // escape
document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend','<pre>'+e+'</pre>') // display

Json.NET serialize object with root name

A very simple approach for me is just to create 2 classes.

public class ClassB
{
    public string id{ get; set; }
    public string name{ get; set; }
    public int status { get; set; }
    public DateTime? updated_at { get; set; }
}

public class ClassAList
{
    public IList<ClassB> root_name{ get; set; } 
}

And when you going to do serialization:

var classAList = new ClassAList();
//...
//assign some value
//...
var jsonString = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(classAList)

Lastly, you will see your desired result as the following:

{
  "root_name": [
    {
      "id": "1001",
      "name": "1000001",
      "status": 1010,
      "updated_at": "2016-09-28 16:10:48"
    },
    {
      "id": "1002",
      "name": "1000002",
      "status": 1050,
      "updated_at": "2016-09-28 16:55:55"
    }
  ]
}

Hope this helps!

Display all dataframe columns in a Jupyter Python Notebook

If you want to show all the rows set like bellow

pd.options.display.max_rows = None

If you want to show all columns set like bellow

pd.options.display.max_columns = None

Regular Expression - 2 letters and 2 numbers in C#

Just for fun, here's a non-regex (more readable/maintainable for simpletons like me) solution:

string myString = "AB12";

if( Char.IsLetter(myString, 0) && 
    Char.IsLetter(myString, 1) && 
    Char.IsNumber(myString, 2) &&
    Char.IsNumber(myString, 3)) {
    // First two are letters, second two are numbers
}
else {
    // Validation failed
}

EDIT

It seems that I've misunderstood the requirements. The code below will ensure that the first two characters and last two characters of a string validate (so long as the length of the string is > 3)

string myString = "AB12";

if(myString.Length > 3) {    
    if( Char.IsLetter(myString, 0) && 
        Char.IsLetter(myString, 1) && 
        Char.IsNumber(myString, (myString.Length - 2)) &&
        Char.IsNumber(myString, (myString.Length - 1))) {
        // First two are letters, second two are numbers
      }
      else {
        // Validation failed
    }
}
else {
   // Validation failed
}

Angular get object from array by Id

getDimensions(id) {
    var obj = questions.filter(function(node) {
        return node.id==id;
    });

    return obj;   
}

How do I sort an observable collection?

A variation is where you sort the collection in place using a selection sort algorithm. Elements are moved into place using the Move method. Each move will fire the CollectionChanged event with NotifyCollectionChangedAction.Move (and also PropertyChanged with property name Item[]).

This algorithm has some nice properties:

  • The algorithm can be implemented as a stable sort.
  • The number of items moved in the collection (e.g. CollectionChanged events fired) is almost always less than other similar algorithms like insertion sort and bubble sort.

The algorithm is quite simple. The collection is iterated to find the smallest element which is then moved to the start of the collection. The process is repeated starting at the second element and so on until all elements have been moved into place. The algorithm is not terribly efficient but for anything you are going to display in a user interface it shouldn't matter. However, in terms of the number of move operations it is quite efficient.

Here is an extension method that for simplicity requires that the elements implement IComparable<T>. Other options are using an IComparer<T> or a Func<T, T, Int32>.

public static class ObservableCollectionExtensions {

  public static void Sort<T>(this ObservableCollection<T> collection) where T : IComparable<T> {
    if (collection == null)
      throw new ArgumentNullException("collection");

    for (var startIndex = 0; startIndex < collection.Count - 1; startIndex += 1) {
      var indexOfSmallestItem = startIndex;
      for (var i = startIndex + 1; i < collection.Count; i += 1)
        if (collection[i].CompareTo(collection[indexOfSmallestItem]) < 0)
          indexOfSmallestItem = i;
      if (indexOfSmallestItem != startIndex)
        collection.Move(indexOfSmallestItem, startIndex);
    }
  }

}

Sorting a collection is simply a matter of invoking the extension method:

var collection = new ObservableCollection<String>(...);
collection.Sort();

ORA-12516, TNS:listener could not find available handler

You opened a lot of connections and that's the issue. I think in your code, you did not close the opened connection.

A database bounce could temporarily solve, but will re-appear when you do consecutive execution. Also, it should be verified the number of concurrent connections to the database. If maximum DB processes parameter has been reached this is a common symptom.

Courtesy of this thread: https://community.oracle.com/thread/362226?tstart=-1

Threads vs Processes in Linux

Linux (and indeed Unix) gives you a third option.

Option 1 - processes

Create a standalone executable which handles some part (or all parts) of your application, and invoke it separately for each process, e.g. the program runs copies of itself to delegate tasks to.

Option 2 - threads

Create a standalone executable which starts up with a single thread and create additional threads to do some tasks

Option 3 - fork

Only available under Linux/Unix, this is a bit different. A forked process really is its own process with its own address space - there is nothing that the child can do (normally) to affect its parent's or siblings address space (unlike a thread) - so you get added robustness.

However, the memory pages are not copied, they are copy-on-write, so less memory is usually used than you might imagine.

Consider a web server program which consists of two steps:

  1. Read configuration and runtime data
  2. Serve page requests

If you used threads, step 1 would be done once, and step 2 done in multiple threads. If you used "traditional" processes, steps 1 and 2 would need to be repeated for each process, and the memory to store the configuration and runtime data duplicated. If you used fork(), then you can do step 1 once, and then fork(), leaving the runtime data and configuration in memory, untouched, not copied.

So there are really three choices.

jQuery UI Datepicker - Multiple Date Selections

I have now spent quite some time trying to find a good date picker that support interval ranges, and eventually found this one:

http://keith-wood.name/datepick.html

I believe this may be the best jquery date picker for selecting a range or multiple dates, and it is claimed to have been the base for the jQuery UI datepicker, and I see no reason to doubt that since it seems to be really powerful, and also good documented !

Fatal error: Class 'Illuminate\Foundation\Application' not found

I just fixed this problem (Different Case with same error),
The answer above I tried may not work because My case were different but produced the same error.
I think my vendor libraries were jumbled,
I get this error by:
1. Pull from remote git, master branch is codeigniter then I do composer update on master branch, I wanted to work on laravel branch then I checkout and do composer update so I get the error,

Fatal error: Class 'Illuminate\Foundation\Application' not found in C:\cms\bootstrap\app.php on line 14

Solution: I delete the project on local and do a clone again, after that I checkout to my laravel file work's branch and do composer update then it is fixed.

Prevent wrapping of span or div

Try this:

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    white-space: normal;_x000D_
}
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    <span class="slide">More content. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</span>_x000D_
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</div>
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Note that you can omit .slideContainer { overflow-x: scroll; } (which browsers may or may not support when you read this), and you'll get a scrollbar on the window instead of on this container.

The key here is display: inline-block. This has decent cross-browser support nowadays, but as usual, it's worth testing in all target browsers to be sure.

CSS position absolute full width problem

Make #site_nav_global_primary positioned as fixed and set width to 100 % and desired height.

jQuery jump or scroll to certain position, div or target on the page from button onclick

I would style a link to look like a button, because that way there is a no-js fallback.


So this is how you could animate the jump using jquery. No-js fallback is a normal jump without animation.

Original example:

jsfiddle

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});
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}
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<div id="ploop">ploop</div>
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New example with actual button styles for the links, just to prove a point.

Everything is essentially the same, except that I changed the class .jumper to .button and I added css styling to make the links look like buttons.

Button styles example

Get the filePath from Filename using Java

Correct solution with "File" class to get the directory - the "path" of the file:

String path = new File("C:\\Temp\\your directory\\yourfile.txt").getParent();

which will return:

path = "C:\\Temp\\your directory"

delete all from table

There is a mySQL bug report from 2004 that still seems to have some validity. It seems that in 4.x, this was fastest:

DROP table_name
CREATE TABLE table_name

TRUNCATE table_name was DELETE FROM internally back then, providing no performance gain.

This seems to have changed, but only in 5.0.3 and younger. From the bug report:

[11 Jan 2005 16:10] Marko Mäkelä

I've now implemented fast TRUNCATE TABLE, which will hopefully be included in MySQL 5.0.3.

Get current URL with jQuery?

For the host name only, use:

window.location.hostname

Convert HTML5 into standalone Android App

You could use PhoneGap.

http://phonegap.com/

http://docs.phonegap.com/en/2.1.0/guide_getting-started_android_index.md.html#Getting%20Started%20with%20Android

This has the benefit of being a cross-platform solution. Be warned though that you may need to pay subscription fees. The simplest solution is to just embed a WebView as detailed in @Enigma's answer.

What's the difference between .NET Core, .NET Framework, and Xamarin?

You should use .NET Core, instead of .NET Framework or Xamarin, in the following 6 typical scenarios according to the documentation here.

1. Cross-Platform needs

Clearly, if your goal is to have an application (web/service) that should be able to run across platforms (Windows, Linux and MacOS), the best choice in the .NET ecosystem is to use .NET Core as its runtime (CoreCLR) and libraries are cross-platform. The other choice is to use the Mono Project.

Both choices are open source, but .NET Core is directly and officially supported by Microsoft and will have a heavy investment moving forward.

When using .NET Core across platforms, the best development experience exists on Windows with the Visual Studio IDE which supports many productivity features including project management, debugging, source control, refactoring, rich editing including Intellisense, testing and much more. But rich development is also supported using Visual Studio Code on Mac, Linux and Windows including intellisense and debugging. Even third party editors like Sublime, Emacs, VI and more work well and can get editor intellisense using the open source Omnisharp project.

2. Microservices

When you are building a microservices oriented system composed of multiple independent, dynamically scalable, stateful or stateless microservices, the great advantage that you have here is that you can use different technologies/frameworks/languages at a microservice level. That allows you to use the best approach and technology per micro areas in your system, so if you want to build very performant and scalable microservices, you should use .NET Core. Eventually, if you need to use any .NET Framework library that is not compatible with .NET Core, there’s no issue, you can build that microservice with the .NET Framework and in the future you might be able to substitute it with the .NET Core.

The infrastructure platform you could use are many. Ideally, for large and complex microservice systems, you should use Azure Service Fabric. But for stateless microservices you can also use other products like Azure App Service or Azure Functions.

Note that as of June 2016, not every technology within Azure supports the .NET Core, but .NET Core support in Azure will be increasing dramatically now that .NET Core is RTM released.

3. Best performant and scalable systems

When your system needs the best possible performance and scalability so you get the best responsiveness no matter how many users you have, then is where .NET Core and ASP.NET Core really shine. The more you can do with the same amount of infrastructure/hardware, the richer the experience you’ll have for your end users – at a lower cost.

The days of Moore’s law performance improvements for single CPUs does not apply anymore; yet you need to do more while your system is growing and need higher scalability and performance for everyday’ s more demanding users which are growing exponentially in numbers. You need to get more efficient, optimize everywhere, and scale better across clusters of machines, VMs and CPU cores, ultimately. It is not just a matter of user’s satisfaction; it can also make a huge difference in cost/TCO. This is why it is important to strive for performance and scalability.

As mentioned, if you can isolate small pieces of your system as microservices or any other loosely-coupled approach, it’ll be better as you’ll be able to not just evolve each small piece/microservice independently and have a better long-term agility and maintenance, but also you’ll be able to use any other technology at a microservice level if what you need to do is not compatible with .NET Core. And eventually you’d be able to refactor it and bring it to .NET Core when possible.

4. Command line style development for Mac, Linux or Windows.

This approach is optional when using .NET Core. You can also use the full Visual Studio IDE, of course. But if you are a developer that wants to develop with lightweight editors and heavy use of command line, .NET Core is designed for CLI. It provides simple command line tools available on all supported platforms, enabling developers to build and test applications with a minimal installation on developer, lab or production machines. Editors like Visual Studio Code use the same command line tools for their development experiences. And IDE’s like Visual Studio use the same CLI tools but hide them behind a rich IDE experience. Developers can now choose the level they want to interact with the tool chain from CLI to editor to IDE.

5. Need side by side of .NET versions per application level.

If you want to be able to install applications with dependencies on different versions of frameworks in .NET, you need to use .NET Core which provides 100% side-by side as explained previously in this document.

6. Windows 10 UWP .NET apps.

In addition, you may also want to read:

  1. When should I NOT use .NET Core?
  2. When should I still use .NET Framework 4.x, instead of .NET Core?
  3. When should I use Xamarin, instead of .NET Core?

Laravel Blade html image

as of now, you can use

<img src="{{ asset('images/foo.png') }}" alt="tag">

How to add item to the beginning of List<T>?

Use Insert method of List<T>:

List.Insert Method (Int32, T): Inserts an element into the List at the specified index.

var names = new List<string> { "John", "Anna", "Monica" };
names.Insert(0, "Micheal"); // Insert to the first element

Excel data validation with suggestions/autocomplete

ExtendOffice.com offers a VBA solution that worked for me in Excel 2016. Here's my description of the steps. I included additional details to make it easier. I also modified the VBA code slightly. If this doesn't work for you, retry the steps or check out the instructions on the ExtendOffice page.

  1. Add data validation to a cell (or range of cells). Allow = List. Source = [the range with the values you want for the auto-complete / drop-down]. Click OK. You should now have a drop-down but with a weak auto-complete feature.

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  2. With a cell containing your newly added data validation, insert an ActiveX combo box (NOT a form control combo box). This is done from the Developer ribbon. If you don't have the Developer ribbon you will need to add it from the Excel options menu.

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  3. From the Developer tab in the Controls section, click "Design Mode". Select the combo box you just inserted. Then in the same ribbon section click "Properties". In the Properties window, change the name of the combo box to "TempComboBox".

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  4. Press ALT + F11 to go to the Visual Basic Editor. On the left-hand side, double click the worksheet with your data validation to open the code for that sheet. Copy and paste the following code onto the sheet. NOTE: I modified the code slightly so that it works even with Option Explicit enabled at the top of the sheet.

    Option Explicit
    
    Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal target As Range)
    'Update by Extendoffice: 2018/9/21
    ' Update by Chris Brackett 2018-11-30
    
    Dim xWs As Worksheet
    Set xWs = Application.ActiveSheet
    
    On Error Resume Next
    
    Dim xCombox As OLEObject
    Set xCombox = xWs.OLEObjects("TempCombo")
    
    ' Added this to auto select all text when activating the combox box.
    xCombox.SetFocus
    
    With xCombox
        .ListFillRange = vbNullString
        .LinkedCell = vbNullString
        .Visible = False
    End With
    
    
    Dim xStr As String
    Dim xArr
    
    
    If target.Validation.Type = xlValidateList Then
        ' The target cell contains Data Validation.
    
        target.Validation.InCellDropdown = False
    
    
        ' Cancel the "SelectionChange" event.
        Dim Cancel As Boolean
        Cancel = True
    
    
        xStr = target.Validation.Formula1
        xStr = Right(xStr, Len(xStr) - 1)
    
        If xStr = vbNullString Then Exit Sub
    
        With xCombox
            .Visible = True
            .Left = target.Left
            .Top = target.Top
            .Width = target.Width + 5
            .Height = target.Height + 5
            .ListFillRange = xStr
    
            If .ListFillRange = vbNullString Then
                xArr = Split(xStr, ",")
                Me.TempCombo.List = xArr
            End If
    
            .LinkedCell = target.Address
    
        End With
    
        xCombox.Activate
        Me.TempCombo.DropDown
    
    End If
    End Sub
    
    Private Sub TempCombo_KeyDown( _
                    ByVal KeyCode As MSForms.ReturnInteger, _
                    ByVal Shift As Integer)
        Select Case KeyCode
            Case 9  ' Tab key
                Application.ActiveCell.Offset(0, 1).Activate
            Case 13 ' Pause key
                Application.ActiveCell.Offset(1, 0).Activate
        End Select
    End Sub
    
  5. Make sure the the "Microsoft Forms 2.0 Object Library" is referenced. In the Visual Basic Editor, go to Tools > References, check the box next to that library (if not already checked) and click OK. To verify that it worked, go to Debug > Compile VBA Project.

  6. Finally, save your project and click in a cell with the data validation you added. You should see a combo box with a drop-down list of suggestions that updates with each letter you type.

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How do I get the last character of a string?

The code:

public class Test {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        String string = args[0];
        System.out.println("last character: " +
                           string.substring(string.length() - 1)); 
    }
}

The output of java Test abcdef:

last character: f

AWS - Disconnected : No supported authentication methods available (server sent :publickey)

During ssh session my connection broke, since then I cannot ssh my SRV, I had started a new instance, and I'm able to ssh the new instance (with the same key).

I mounted the old volume to the new machine, and check the .ssh/authorized_key and couldn't find any problem with permission or content.

Background image jumps when address bar hides iOS/Android/Mobile Chrome

The solution I came up with when having similar problem was to set height of element to window.innerHeight every time touchmove event was fired.

var lastHeight = '';

$(window).on('resize', function () {
    // remove height when normal resize event is fired and content redrawn
    if (lastHeight) {
        $('#bg1').height(lastHeight = '');
    }
}).on('touchmove', function () {
    // when window height changes adjust height of the div
    if (lastHeight != window.innerHeight) {
        $('#bg1').height(lastHeight = window.innerHeight);
    }
});

This makes the element span exactly 100% of the available screen at all times, no more and no less. Even during address bar hiding or showing.

Nevertheless it's a pity that we have to come up with that kind of patches, where simple position: fixed should work.

How to loop through all the files in a directory in c # .net?

try below code

Directory.GetFiles(txtFolderPath.Text, "*ProfileHandler.cs",SearchOption.AllDirectories)

how to read a long multiline string line by line in python

This answer fails in a couple of edge cases (see comments). The accepted solution above will handle these. str.splitlines() is the way to go. I will leave this answer nevertheless as reference.

Old (incorrect) answer:

s =  \
"""line1
line2
line3
"""

lines = s.split('\n')
print(lines)
for line in lines:
    print(line)

SQLAlchemy: What's the difference between flush() and commit()?

Why flush if you can commit?

As someone new to working with databases and sqlalchemy, the previous answers - that flush() sends SQL statements to the DB and commit() persists them - were not clear to me. The definitions make sense but it isn't immediately clear from the definitions why you would use a flush instead of just committing.

Since a commit always flushes (https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/13/orm/session_basics.html#committing) these sound really similar. I think the big issue to highlight is that a flush is not permanent and can be undone, whereas a commit is permanent, in the sense that you can't ask the database to undo the last commit (I think)

@snapshoe highlights that if you want to query the database and get results that include newly added objects, you need to have flushed first (or committed, which will flush for you). Perhaps this is useful for some people although I'm not sure why you would want to flush rather than commit (other than the trivial answer that it can be undone).

In another example I was syncing documents between a local DB and a remote server, and if the user decided to cancel, all adds/updates/deletes should be undone (i.e. no partial sync, only a full sync). When updating a single document I've decided to simply delete the old row and add the updated version from the remote server. It turns out that due to the way sqlalchemy is written, order of operations when committing is not guaranteed. This resulted in adding a duplicate version (before attempting to delete the old one), which resulted in the DB failing a unique constraint. To get around this I used flush() so that order was maintained, but I could still undo if later the sync process failed.

See my post on this at: Is there any order for add versus delete when committing in sqlalchemy

Similarly, someone wanted to know whether add order is maintained when committing, i.e. if I add object1 then add object2, does object1 get added to the database before object2 Does SQLAlchemy save order when adding objects to session?

Again, here presumably the use of a flush() would ensure the desired behavior. So in summary, one use for flush is to provide order guarantees (I think), again while still allowing yourself an "undo" option that commit does not provide.

Autoflush and Autocommit

Note, autoflush can be used to ensure queries act on an updated database as sqlalchemy will flush before executing the query. https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/13/orm/session_api.html#sqlalchemy.orm.session.Session.params.autoflush

Autocommit is something else that I don't completely understand but it sounds like its use is discouraged: https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/13/orm/session_api.html#sqlalchemy.orm.session.Session.params.autocommit

Memory Usage

Now the original question actually wanted to know about the impact of flush vs. commit for memory purposes. As the ability to persist or not is something the database offers (I think), simply flushing should be sufficient to offload to the database - although committing shouldn't hurt (actually probably helps - see below) if you don't care about undoing.

sqlalchemy uses weak referencing for objects that have been flushed: https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/13/orm/session_state_management.html#session-referencing-behavior

This means if you don't have an object explicitly held onto somewhere, like in a list or dict, sqlalchemy won't keep it in memory.

However, then you have the database side of things to worry about. Presumably flushing without committing comes with some memory penalty to maintain the transaction. Again, I'm new to this but here's a link that seems to suggest exactly this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/15305650/764365

In other words, commits should reduce memory usage, although presumably there is a trade-off between memory and performance here. In other words, you probably don't want to commit every single database change, one at a time (for performance reasons), but waiting too long will increase memory usage.

Matrix Multiplication in pure Python?

def matrixmult (A, B):
    C = [[0 for row in range(len(A))] for col in range(len(B[0]))]
    for i in range(len(A)):
        for j in range(len(B[0])):
            for k in range(len(B)):
                C[i][j] += A[i][k]*B[k][j]
    return C

at second line you should change

C = [[0 for row in range(len(B[0]))] for col in range(len(A))]

XPath:: Get following Sibling

You can go for identifying a list of elements with xPath:

//td[text() = ' Color Digest ']/following-sibling::td[1]

This will give you a list of two elements, than you can use the 2nd element as your intended one. For example:

List<WebElement> elements = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//td[text() = ' Color Digest ']/following-sibling::td[1]"))

Now, you can use the 2nd element as your intended element, which is elements.get(1)

How to create PDF files in Python

It depends on what format your image files are in, but for a project here at work I used the tiff2pdf tool in LibTIFF from RemoteSensing.org. Basically just used subprocess to call tiff2pdf.exe with the appropriate argument to read the kind of tiff I had and output the kind of pdf I wanted. If they aren't tiffs you could probably convert them to tiffs using PIL, or maybe find a tool more specific to your image type (or more generic if the images will be diverse) like ReportLab mentioned above.

PHP CURL CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER ignored

According to documentation: to verify host or peer certificate you need to specify alternate certificates with the CURLOPT_CAINFO option or a certificate directory can be specified with the CURLOPT_CAPATH option.

Also look at CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST:

  • 1 to check the existence of a common name in the SSL peer certificate.
  • 2 to check the existence of a common name and also verify that it matches the hostname provided.

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);

Adding a month to a date in T SQL

select * from Reference where reference_dt = DateAdd(month,1,another_date_reference)

Break string into list of characters in Python

You can do this using list:

new_list = list(fL)

Be aware that any spaces in the line will be included in this list, to the best of my knowledge.

Use of True, False, and None as return values in Python functions

Use if foo or if not foo. There isn't any need for either == or is for that.

For checking against None, is None and is not None are recommended. This allows you to distinguish it from False (or things that evaluate to False, like "" and []).

Whether get_attr should return None would depend on the context. You might have an attribute where the value is None, and you wouldn't be able to do that. I would interpret None as meaning "unset", and a KeyError would mean the key does not exist in the file.

List file names based on a filename pattern and file content?

grep LMN20113456 LMN2011*

or if you want to search recursively through subdirectories:

find . -type f -name 'LMN2011*' -exec grep LMN20113456 {} \;

How to Customize the time format for Python logging?

From the official documentation regarding the Formatter class:

The constructor takes two optional arguments: a message format string and a date format string.

So change

# create formatter
formatter = logging.Formatter("%(asctime)s;%(levelname)s;%(message)s")

to

# create formatter
formatter = logging.Formatter("%(asctime)s;%(levelname)s;%(message)s",
                              "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

compare two list and return not matching items using linq

You could do something like:

HashSet<int> sentIDs = new HashSet<int>(SentList.Select(s => s.MsgID));

var results = MsgList.Where(m => !sentIDs.Contains(m.MsgID));

This will return all messages in MsgList which don't have a matching ID in SentList.

calculating execution time in c++

OVERVIEW

I have written a simple semantic hack for this using @AshutoshMehraresponse. You code looks really readable this way!

MACRO

#include <time.h>

#ifndef SYSOUT_F
#define SYSOUT_F(f, ...)      _RPT1( 0, f, __VA_ARGS__ ) // For Visual studio
#endif

#ifndef speedtest__             
#define speedtest__(data)   for (long blockTime = NULL; (blockTime == NULL ? (blockTime = clock()) != NULL : false); SYSOUT_F(data "%.9fs", (double) (clock() - blockTime) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC))
#endif

USAGE

speedtest__("Block Speed: ")
{
    // The code goes here
}

OUTPUT

Block Speed: 0.127000000s

NameError: uninitialized constant (rails)

I had this problem because I changed the name of the class in a model, and it did not match the name of the file.

"Model class names use CamelCase. These are singular, and will map automatically to the plural database table name.

Model files go in app/models/#{singular_model_name}.rb."

https://gist.github.com/iangreenleaf/b206d09c587e8fc6399e#model

How to write log file in c#?

Add log to file with Static Class

 public static class LogWriter
        {
            private static string m_exePath = string.Empty;
            public static void LogWrite(string logMessage)
            {
                m_exePath = Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location);
                if (!File.Exists(m_exePath + "\\" + "log.txt"))
                    File.Create(m_exePath + "\\" + "log.txt");

                try
                {
                    using (StreamWriter w = File.AppendText(m_exePath + "\\" + "log.txt"))
                        AppendLog(logMessage, w);
                }
                catch (Exception ex)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
                }

            }

            private static void AppendLog(string logMessage, TextWriter txtWriter)
            {
                try
                {
                    txtWriter.Write("\r\nLog Entry : ");
                    txtWriter.WriteLine("{0} {1}", DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString(),DateTime.Now.ToLongDateString());
                    txtWriter.WriteLine("  :");
                    txtWriter.WriteLine("  :{0}", logMessage);
                    txtWriter.WriteLine("-------------------------------");
                }
                catch (Exception ex)
                {
                }
            }
        }

How can I create an Asynchronous function in Javascript?

Next to the great answer by @pimvdb, and just in case you where wondering, async.js does not offer truly asynchronous functions either. Here is a (very) stripped down version of the library's main method:

function asyncify(func) { // signature: func(array)
    return function (array, callback) {
        var result;
        try {
            result = func.apply(this, array);
        } catch (e) {
            return callback(e);
        }
        /* code ommited in case func returns a promise */
        callback(null, result);
    };
}

So the function protects from errors and gracefully hands it to the callback to handle, but the code is as synchronous as any other JS function.

ImportError: No module named pythoncom

$ pip3 install pypiwin32

Sometimes using pip3 also works if just pip by itself is not working.

URL to load resources from the classpath in Java

I've created a class which helps to reduce errors in setting up custom handlers and takes advantage of the system property so there are no issues with calling a method first or not being in the right container. There's also an exception class if you get things wrong:

CustomURLScheme.java:
/*
 * The CustomURLScheme class has a static method for adding cutom protocol
 * handlers without getting bogged down with other class loaders and having to
 * call setURLStreamHandlerFactory before the next guy...
 */
package com.cybernostics.lib.net.customurl;

import java.net.URLStreamHandler;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

/**
 * Allows you to add your own URL handler without running into problems
 * of race conditions with setURLStream handler.
 * 
 * To add your custom protocol eg myprot://blahblah:
 * 
 * 1) Create a new protocol package which ends in myprot eg com.myfirm.protocols.myprot
 * 2) Create a subclass of URLStreamHandler called Handler in this package
 * 3) Before you use the protocol, call CustomURLScheme.add(com.myfirm.protocols.myprot.Handler.class);
 * @author jasonw
 */
public class CustomURLScheme
{

    // this is the package name required to implelent a Handler class
    private static Pattern packagePattern = Pattern.compile( "(.+\\.protocols)\\.[^\\.]+" );

    /**
     * Call this method with your handlerclass
     * @param handlerClass
     * @throws Exception 
     */
    public static void add( Class<? extends URLStreamHandler> handlerClass ) throws Exception
    {
        if ( handlerClass.getSimpleName().equals( "Handler" ) )
        {
            String pkgName = handlerClass.getPackage().getName();
            Matcher m = packagePattern.matcher( pkgName );

            if ( m.matches() )
            {
                String protocolPackage = m.group( 1 );
                add( protocolPackage );
            }
            else
            {
                throw new CustomURLHandlerException( "Your Handler class package must end in 'protocols.yourprotocolname' eg com.somefirm.blah.protocols.yourprotocol" );
            }

        }
        else
        {
            throw new CustomURLHandlerException( "Your handler class must be called 'Handler'" );
        }
    }

    private static void add( String handlerPackage )
    {
        // this property controls where java looks for
        // stream handlers - always uses current value.
        final String key = "java.protocol.handler.pkgs";

        String newValue = handlerPackage;
        if ( System.getProperty( key ) != null )
        {
            final String previousValue = System.getProperty( key );
            newValue += "|" + previousValue;
        }
        System.setProperty( key, newValue );
    }
}


CustomURLHandlerException.java:
/*
 * Exception if you get things mixed up creating a custom url protocol
 */
package com.cybernostics.lib.net.customurl;

/**
 *
 * @author jasonw
 */
public class CustomURLHandlerException extends Exception
{

    public CustomURLHandlerException(String msg )
    {
        super( msg );
    }

}

Returning JSON from PHP to JavaScript?

Php has an inbuilt JSON Serialising function.

json_encode

json_encode

Please use that if you can and don't suffer Not Invented Here syndrome.

Use Toast inside Fragment

To help another people with my same problem, the complete answer to Use Toast inside Fragment is:

Activity activity = getActivity();

@Override
public void onClick(View arg0) {

    Toast.makeText(activity,"Text!",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}

@selector() in Swift?

For future readers, I found that I experienced a problem and was getting an unrecognised selector sent to instance error that was caused by marking the target func as private.

The func MUST be publicly visible to be called by an object with a reference to a selector.

Parse time of format hh:mm:ss

As per Basil Bourque's comment, this is the updated answer for this question, taking into account the new API of Java 8:

    String myDateString = "13:24:40";
    LocalTime localTime = LocalTime.parse(myDateString, DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("HH:mm:ss"));
    int hour = localTime.get(ChronoField.CLOCK_HOUR_OF_DAY);
    int minute = localTime.get(ChronoField.MINUTE_OF_HOUR);
    int second = localTime.get(ChronoField.SECOND_OF_MINUTE);

    //prints "hour: 13, minute: 24, second: 40":
    System.out.println(String.format("hour: %d, minute: %d, second: %d", hour, minute, second));

Remarks:

  • since the OP's question contains a concrete example of a time instant containing only hours, minutes and seconds (no day, month, etc.), the answer above only uses LocalTime. If wanting to parse a string that also contains days, month, etc. then LocalDateTime would be required. Its usage is pretty much analogous to that of LocalTime.
  • since the time instant int OP's question doesn't contain any information about timezone, the answer uses the LocalXXX version of the date/time classes (LocalTime, LocalDateTime). If the time string that needs to be parsed also contains timezone information, then ZonedDateTime needs to be used.

====== Below is the old (original) answer for this question, using pre-Java8 API: =====

I'm sorry if I'm gonna upset anyone with this, but I'm actually gonna answer the question. The Java API's are pretty huge, I think it's normal that someone might miss one now and then.

A SimpleDateFormat might do the trick here:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

It should be something like:

String myDateString = "13:24:40";
//SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm:ss");
//the above commented line was changed to the one below, as per Grodriguez's pertinent comment:
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss");
Date date = sdf.parse(myDateString);

Calendar calendar = GregorianCalendar.getInstance(); // creates a new calendar instance
calendar.setTime(date);   // assigns calendar to given date 
int hour = calendar.get(Calendar.HOUR);
int minute; /... similar methods for minutes and seconds

The gotchas you should be aware of:

  • the pattern you pass to SimpleDateFormat might be different then the one in my example depending on what values you have (are the hours in 12 hours format or in 24 hours format, etc). Look at the documentation in the link for details on this

  • Once you create a Date object out of your String (via SimpleDateFormat), don't be tempted to use Date.getHour(), Date.getMinute() etc. They might appear to work at times, but overall they can give bad results, and as such are now deprecated. Use the calendar instead as in the example above.

Corrupt jar file

The problem might be that there are more than 65536 files in your JAR: Why java complains about jar files with lots of entries? The fix is described in this question's answer.

Bound method error

I think you meant print test.sorted_word_list instead of print test.sort_word_list.

In addition list.sort() sorts a list in place and returns None, so you probably want to change sort_word_list() to do the following:

self.sorted_word_list = sorted(self.word_list)

You should also consider either renaming your num_words() function, or changing the attribute that the function assigns to, because currently you overwrite the function with an integer on the first call.

Access Denied for User 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) - No Privileges?

Try out the following steps to overcome this issue:

  1. Open terminal / command prompt and navigate to the bin folder of the MySQL installation folder. Then run the command mysqld --console.
  2. If you can see that line 171010 14:58:22 [Note] --secure-file-priv is set to NULL. Operations related to importing and exporting data are disabled, after executing the above command from the command prompt.
  3. Then you need to check that the mysqld is either blocked by the Windows Firewall or another program.
  4. If it's blocked by Windows Firewall then need to unblock from it and save settings.
  5. To unblock the mysqld or mysql application, follow the below steps:
    1. Go to command prompt and type wf.msc to open the firewall settings.
    2. Click on Allow an app or feature through Windows Firewall.
    3. Check the mysqld or mysqld instances are available in the list and check the checkbox for the domain, public and private and save the settings.
  6. Return to the bin folder and try the command from step 1 again.
  7. It should work fine and not show any errors.

It should be possible to run the MySQL console without any problems now!

How to deal with INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_INCONSISTENT_CERTIFICATES without uninstall?

Nothing from above worked for me. The problem for me was that I had wrong source in my Java Build Path for android-support-v7-appcompat. When you go to Project> Build Path> Configure Build Path>. Under the Source tab make sure you have android-support-v7-appcompat/gen , android-support-v7-appcompat/libs and android-support-v7-appcompat/src and nothing else. Click OK and it should work.

Flutter - Layout a Grid

There are few named constructors in GridView for different scenarios,

Constructors

  1. GridView
  2. GridView.builder
  3. GridView.count
  4. GridView.custom
  5. GridView.extent

Below is a example of GridView constructor:

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

void main() => runApp(
  MaterialApp(
    home: ExampleGrid(),
  ),
);

class ExampleGrid extends StatelessWidget {
  List<String> images = [
    "https://uae.microless.com/cdn/no_image.jpg",
    "https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81aF3Ob-2KL._UX679_.jpg",
    "https://www.boostmobile.com/content/dam/boostmobile/en/products/phones/apple/iphone-7/silver/device-front.png.transform/pdpCarousel/image.jpg",
    "https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSgUgs8_kmuhScsx-J01d8fA1mhlCR5-1jyvMYxqCB8h3LCqcgl9Q",
    "https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB11tA5aiAKL1JjSZFoq6ygCFXaw/Unlocked-Samsung-GALAXY-S2-I9100-Mobile-Phone-Android-Wi-Fi-GPS-8-0MP-camera-Core-4.jpg_640x640.jpg",
    "https://media.ed.edmunds-media.com/gmc/sierra-3500hd/2018/td/2018_gmc_sierra-3500hd_f34_td_411183_1600.jpg",
    "https://hips.hearstapps.com/amv-prod-cad-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/16q1/665019/2016-chevrolet-silverado-2500hd-high-country-diesel-test-review-car-and-driver-photo-665520-s-original.jpg",
    "https://www.galeanasvandykedodge.net/assets/stock/ColorMatched_01/White/640/cc_2018DOV170002_01_640/cc_2018DOV170002_01_640_PSC.jpg",
    "https://media.onthemarket.com/properties/6191869/797156548/composite.jpg",
    "https://media.onthemarket.com/properties/6191840/797152761/composite.jpg",
  ];
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      body: GridView(
        physics: BouncingScrollPhysics(), // if you want IOS bouncing effect, otherwise remove this line
        gridDelegate: SliverGridDelegateWithFixedCrossAxisCount(crossAxisCount: 2),//change the number as you want
        children: images.map((url) {
          return Card(child: Image.network(url));
        }).toList(),
      ),
    );
  }
}

If you want your GridView items to be dynamic according to the content, you can few lines to do that but the simplest way to use StaggeredGridView package. I have provided an answer with example here.

Below is an example for a GridView.count:

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

void main() => runApp(
      MaterialApp(
        home: ExampleGrid(),
      ),
    );

class ExampleGrid extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      body: GridView.count(
        crossAxisCount: 4,
        children: List.generate(40, (index) {
          return Card(
            child: Image.network("https://robohash.org/$index"),
          ); //robohash.org api provide you different images for any number you are giving
        }),
      ),
    );
  }
}

Screenshot for above snippet:

Flutter gridview example by blasanka using card widget and robohash api

Example for a SliverGridView:

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

void main() => runApp(
      MaterialApp(
        home: ExampleGrid(),
      ),
    );

class ExampleGrid extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      body: CustomScrollView(
        primary: false,
        slivers: <Widget>[
          SliverPadding(
            padding: const EdgeInsets.all(20.0),
            sliver: SliverGrid.count(
              crossAxisSpacing: 10.0,
              crossAxisCount: 2,
              children: List.generate(20, (index) {
                return Card(child: Image.network("https://robohash.org/$index"));
              }),
            ),
          ),
        ],
      )
    );
  }
}

App crashing when trying to use RecyclerView on android 5.0

using fragment

writing code in onCreateView()

RecyclerView recyVideo = view.findViewById(R.id.recyVideoFag);

using activity

writing code in onCreate() RecyclerView recyVideo = findViewById(R.id.recyVideoFag);

Nested routes with react router v4 / v5

A complete answer for React Router v5.


const Router = () => {
  return (
    <Switch>
      <Route path={"/"} component={LandingPage} exact />
      <Route path={"/games"} component={Games} />
      <Route path={"/game-details/:id"} component={GameDetails} />
      <Route
        path={"/dashboard"}
        render={({ match: { path } }) => (
          <Dashboard>
            <Switch>
              <Route
                exact
                path={path + "/"}
                component={DashboardDefaultContent}
              />
              <Route path={`${path}/inbox`} component={Inbox} />
              <Route
                path={`${path}/settings-and-privacy`}
                component={SettingsAndPrivacy}
              />
              <Redirect exact from={path + "/*"} to={path} />
            </Switch>
          </Dashboard>
        )}
      />
      <Route path="/not-found" component={NotFound} />
      <Redirect exact from={"*"} to={"/not-found"} />
    </Switch>
  );
};

export default Router;
const Dashboard = ({ children }) => {
  return (
    <Grid
      container
      direction="row"
      justify="flex-start"
      alignItems="flex-start"
    >
      <DashboardSidebarNavigation />
      {children}
    </Grid>
  );
};

export default Dashboard;

Github repo is here. https://github.com/webmasterdevlin/react-router-5-demo

How to calculate an angle from three points?

I ran into a similar problem recently, only I needed to differentiate between a positive and negative angles. In case this is of use to anyone, I recommend the code snippet I grabbed from this mailing list about detecting rotation over a touch event for Android:

 @Override
 public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent e) {
    float x = e.getX();
    float y = e.getY();
    switch (e.getAction()) {
    case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:
       //find an approximate angle between them.

       float dx = x-cx;
       float dy = y-cy;
       double a=Math.atan2(dy,dx);

       float dpx= mPreviousX-cx;
       float dpy= mPreviousY-cy;
       double b=Math.atan2(dpy, dpx);

       double diff  = a-b;
       this.bearing -= Math.toDegrees(diff);
       this.invalidate();
    }
    mPreviousX = x;
    mPreviousY = y;
    return true;
 }

How to get height of Keyboard?

The method by ZAFAR007 updated for Swift 5 in Xcode 10

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(keyboardWillShow), name: UIResponder.keyboardWillShowNotification, object: nil)

}




@objc func keyboardWillShow(notification: NSNotification) {

    if let keyboardSize = (notification.userInfo?[UIResponder.keyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey] as? NSValue)?.cgRectValue {
        let keyboardHeight : Int = Int(keyboardSize.height)
        print("keyboardHeight",keyboardHeight)
    }

}

How to concatenate text from multiple rows into a single text string in SQL server?

In MySQL, there is a function, GROUP_CONCAT(), which allows you to concatenate the values from multiple rows. Example:

SELECT 1 AS a, GROUP_CONCAT(name ORDER BY name ASC SEPARATOR ', ') AS people 
FROM users 
WHERE id IN (1,2,3) 
GROUP BY a

"The breakpoint will not currently be hit. The source code is different from the original version." What does this mean?

Maybe the dlls are being loaded from GAC.

You can uninstall the dll from gac, admin permission are required.

gacutil -u YourDll

How to write a cron that will run a script every day at midnight?

You can execute shell script in two ways,either by using cron job or by writing a shell script

Lets assume your script name is "yourscript.sh"

First check the user permission of the script. use below command to check user permission of the script

ll script.sh

If the script is in root,then use below command

sudo crontab -e

Second if the script holds the user "ubuntu", then use below command

crontab -e

Add the following line in your crontab:-

55 23 * * * /path/to/yourscript.sh

Another way of doing this is to write a script and run it in the backgroud

Here is the script where you have to put your script name(eg:- youscript.sh) which is going to run at 23:55pm everyday

#!/bin/bash while true do /home/modassir/yourscript.sh sleep 1d done

save it in a file (lets name it "every-day.sh")

sleep 1d - means it waits for one day and then it runs again.

now give the permission to your script.use below command:-

chmod +x every-day.sh

now, execute this shell script in the background by using "nohup". This will keep executing the script even after you logout from your session.

use below command to execute the script.

nohup ./every-day.sh &

Note:- to run "yourscript.sh" at 23:55pm everyday,you have to execute "every-day.sh" script at exactly 23:55pm.

Bootstrap 3 - Responsive mp4-video

Simply add class="img-responsive" to the video tag. I'm doing this on a current project, and it works. It doesn't need to be wrapped in anything.

<video class="img-responsive" src="file.mp4" autoplay loop/>

Xcode 4: create IPA file instead of .xcarchive

Same issue. I solved setting the "skip install" flag to YES for each external projects, leaving the other targets of the main project unchanged.

I also had to go to "Edit scheme…", choose the "Archiving" panel and set the correct build setting for my ad-hoc purpose.

Then a simple Product -> Archive -> Share made the expected job.

How to error handle 1004 Error with WorksheetFunction.VLookup?

Instead of WorksheetFunction.Vlookup, you can use Application.Vlookup. If you set a Variant equal to this it returns Error 2042 if no match is found. You can then test the variant - cellNum in this case - with IsError:

Sub test()
Dim ws As Worksheet: Set ws = Sheets("2012")
Dim rngLook As Range: Set rngLook = ws.Range("A:M")
Dim currName As String
Dim cellNum As Variant

'within a loop
currName = "Example"
cellNum = Application.VLookup(currName, rngLook, 13, False)
If IsError(cellNum) Then
    MsgBox "no match"
Else
    MsgBox cellNum
End If
End Sub

The Application versions of the VLOOKUP and MATCH functions allow you to test for errors without raising the error. If you use the WorksheetFunction version, you need convoluted error handling that re-routes your code to an error handler, returns to the next statement to evaluate, etc. With the Application functions, you can avoid that mess.

The above could be further simplified using the IIF function. This method is not always appropriate (e.g., if you have to do more/different procedure based on the If/Then) but in the case of this where you are simply trying to determinie what prompt to display in the MsgBox, it should work:

cellNum = Application.VLookup(currName, rngLook, 13, False)
MsgBox IIF(IsError(cellNum),"no match", cellNum)

Consider those methods instead of On Error ... statements. They are both easier to read and maintain -- few things are more confusing than trying to follow a bunch of GoTo and Resume statements.

Syntax error near unexpected token 'fi'

As well as having then on a new line, you also need a space before and after the [, which is a special symbol in BASH.

#!/bin/bash
echo "start\n"
for f in *.jpg
do
  fname=$(basename "$f")
  echo "fname is $fname\n"
  fname="${filename%.*}"
  echo "fname is $fname\n"
  if [ $((fname %  2)) -eq 1 ]
  then
    echo "removing $fname\n"
    rm "$f"
  fi
done

What is the difference between @Inject and @Autowired in Spring Framework? Which one to use under what condition?

The key difference(noticed when reading the Spring Docs) between @Autowired and @Inject is that, @Autowired has the 'required' attribute while the @Inject has no 'required' attribute.

Remove ALL styling/formatting from hyperlinks

You can simply define a style for links, which would override a:hover, a:visited etc.:

a {
  color: blue;
  text-decoration: none; /* no underline */
}

You can also use the inherit value if you want to use attributes from parent styles instead:

body {
  color: blue;
}
a {
  color: inherit; /* blue colors for links too */
  text-decoration: inherit; /* no underline */
}

How to make multiple divs display in one line but still retain width?

You can use display:inline-block.

This property allows a DOM element to have all the attributes of a block element, but keeping it inline. There's some drawbacks, but most of the time it's good enough. Why it's good and why it may not work for you.

EDIT: The only modern browser that has some problems with it is IE7. See Quirksmode.org

No mapping found for HTTP request with URI Spring MVC

Try passing the Model object in your index method and it will work-

@RequestMapping("/")

public String index(org.springframework.ui.Model model) {

 return "index";

    }

Actually the spring container looks for a Model object in the mapping method. If it finds the same it will pass the returning String as view to the View resolver.

Hope this helps.

"Bitmap too large to be uploaded into a texture"

All rendering is based on OpenGL, so no you can't go over this limit (GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE depends on the device, but the minimum is 2048x2048, so any image lower than 2048x2048 will fit).

With such big images, if you want to zoom in out, and in a mobile, you should setup a system similar to what you see in google maps for example. With the image split in several pieces, and several definitions.

Or you could scale down the image before displaying it (see user1352407's answer on this question).

And also, be careful to which folder you put the image into, Android can automatically scale up images. Have a look at Pilot_51's answer below on this question.

Find out time it took for a python script to complete execution

What I usually do is use clock() or time() from the time library. clock measures interpreter time, while time measures system time. Additional caveats can be found in the docs.

For example,

def fn():
    st = time()
    dostuff()
    print 'fn took %.2f seconds' % (time() - st)

Or alternatively, you can use timeit. I often use the time approach due to how fast I can bang it out, but if you're timing an isolate-able piece of code, timeit comes in handy.

From the timeit docs,

def test():
    "Stupid test function"
    L = []
    for i in range(100):
        L.append(i)

if __name__=='__main__':
    from timeit import Timer
    t = Timer("test()", "from __main__ import test")
    print t.timeit()

Then to convert to minutes, you can simply divide by 60. If you want the script runtime in an easily readable format, whether it's seconds or days, you can convert to a timedelta and str it:

runtime = time() - st
print 'runtime:', timedelta(seconds=runtime)

and that'll print out something of the form [D day[s], ][H]H:MM:SS[.UUUUUU]. You can check out the timedelta docs.

And finally, if what you're actually after is profiling your code, Python makes available the profile library as well.

How to include js file in another js file?

You can only include a script file in an HTML page, not in another script file. That said, you can write JavaScript which loads your "included" script into the same page:

var imported = document.createElement('script');
imported.src = '/path/to/imported/script';
document.head.appendChild(imported);

There's a good chance your code depends on your "included" script, however, in which case it may fail because the browser will load the "imported" script asynchronously. Your best bet will be to simply use a third-party library like jQuery or YUI, which solves this problem for you.

// jQuery
$.getScript('/path/to/imported/script.js', function()
{
    // script is now loaded and executed.
    // put your dependent JS here.
});

Trigger an action after selection select2

//when a Department selecting
$('#department_id').on('select2-selecting', function (e) {
    console.log("Action Before Selected");
    var deptid=e.choice.id;
    var depttext=e.choice.text;
    console.log("Department ID "+deptid);
    console.log("Department Text "+depttext);
});

//when a Department removing
$('#department_id').on('select2-removing', function (e) {
    console.log("Action Before Deleted");
    var deptid=e.choice.id;
    var depttext=e.choice.text;
    console.log("Department ID "+deptid);
    console.log("Department Text "+depttext);
});

Read text file into string array (and write)

As of Go1.1 release, there is a bufio.Scanner API that can easily read lines from a file. Consider the following example from above, rewritten with Scanner:

package main

import (
    "bufio"
    "fmt"
    "log"
    "os"
)

// readLines reads a whole file into memory
// and returns a slice of its lines.
func readLines(path string) ([]string, error) {
    file, err := os.Open(path)
    if err != nil {
        return nil, err
    }
    defer file.Close()

    var lines []string
    scanner := bufio.NewScanner(file)
    for scanner.Scan() {
        lines = append(lines, scanner.Text())
    }
    return lines, scanner.Err()
}

// writeLines writes the lines to the given file.
func writeLines(lines []string, path string) error {
    file, err := os.Create(path)
    if err != nil {
        return err
    }
    defer file.Close()

    w := bufio.NewWriter(file)
    for _, line := range lines {
        fmt.Fprintln(w, line)
    }
    return w.Flush()
}

func main() {
    lines, err := readLines("foo.in.txt")
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatalf("readLines: %s", err)
    }
    for i, line := range lines {
        fmt.Println(i, line)
    }

    if err := writeLines(lines, "foo.out.txt"); err != nil {
        log.Fatalf("writeLines: %s", err)
    }
}

using .join method to convert array to string without commas

The .join() method has a parameter for the separator string. If you want it to be empty instead of the default comma, use

arr.join("");

Get integer value from string in swift

above answer didnt help me as my string value was "700.00"

with Swift 2.2 this works for me

let myString = "700.00"
let myInt = (myString as NSString).integerValue

I passed myInt to NSFormatterClass

let formatter = NSNumberFormatter()
formatter.numberStyle = .CurrencyStyle
formatter.maximumFractionDigits = 0

let priceValue = formatter.stringFromNumber(myInt!)!

//Now priceValue is ? 700

Thanks to this blog post.

How do I do a not equal in Django queryset filtering?

the field=value syntax in queries is a shorthand for field__exact=value. That is to say that Django puts query operators on query fields in the identifiers. Django supports the following operators:

exact
iexact
contains
icontains
in
gt
gte
lt
lte
startswith
istartswith
endswith
iendswith
range

date
year
iso_year
month
day
week
week_day
iso_week_day
quarter
time
hour
minute
second

isnull
regex
iregex

I'm sure by combining these with the Q objects as Dave Vogt suggests and using filter() or exclude() as Jason Baker suggests you'll get exactly what you need for just about any possible query.

How do I get the output of a shell command executed using into a variable from Jenkinsfile (groovy)?

quick answer is this:

sh "ls -l > commandResult"
result = readFile('commandResult').trim()

I think there exist a feature request to be able to get the result of sh step, but as far as I know, currently there is no other option.

EDIT: JENKINS-26133

EDIT2: Not quite sure since what version, but sh/bat steps now can return the std output, simply:

def output = sh returnStdout: true, script: 'ls -l'

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd1 in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)

For Python 3 users:

changing the encoding from 'ascii' to 'latin1' works.

Also, you can try finding the encoding automatically by reading the top 10000 bytes using the below snippet:

import chardet  
with open("dataset_path", 'rb') as rawdata:  
            result = chardet.detect(rawdata.read(10000))  
print(result)

How do I "decompile" Java class files?

All of the JAD links listed so far far seem to be broken, so I found this site. Works great (for Linux, at least)! On Ubuntu 11.10 I had to download the static one for whatever reason.

http://www.varaneckas.com/jad

Angular 2 - NgFor using numbers instead collections

A simplest way that i have tried

You can also create an array in your component file and you can call it with *ngFor directive by returning as an array .

Something like this ....

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-morning',
  templateUrl: './morning.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./morning.component.css']
})
export class MorningComponent implements OnInit {

  arr = [];
  i: number = 0;
  arra() {
    for (this.i = 0; this.i < 20; this.i++) {
      this.arr[this.i]=this.i;
    }
    return this.arr;
  }

  constructor() { }

  ngOnInit() {
  }

}

And this function can be used in your html template file

<p *ngFor="let a of arra(); let i= index">
value:{{a}} position:{{i}}
</p>

How to unload a package without restarting R

Just go to OUTPUT window, then click on Packages icon (it is located between Plot and Help icons). Remove "tick / check mark" from the package you wanted be unload.

For again using the package just put a "tick or Check mark" in front of package or use :

library (lme4)

Using Case/Switch and GetType to determine the object

In the MSDN blog post Many Questions: switch on type is some information on why .NET does not provide switching on types.

As usual - workarounds always exists.

This one isn't mine, but unfortunately I have lost the source. It makes switching on types possible, but I personally think it's quite awkward (the dictionary idea is better):

  public class Switch
  {
      public Switch(Object o)
      {
          Object = o;
      }

      public Object Object { get; private set; }
  }


  /// <summary>
  /// Extensions, because otherwise casing fails on Switch==null
  /// </summary>
  public static class SwitchExtensions
  {
      public static Switch Case<T>(this Switch s, Action<T> a)
            where T : class
      {
          return Case(s, o => true, a, false);
      }

      public static Switch Case<T>(this Switch s, Action<T> a,
           bool fallThrough) where T : class
      {
          return Case(s, o => true, a, fallThrough);
      }

      public static Switch Case<T>(this Switch s,
          Func<T, bool> c, Action<T> a) where T : class
      {
          return Case(s, c, a, false);
      }

      public static Switch Case<T>(this Switch s,
          Func<T, bool> c, Action<T> a, bool fallThrough) where T : class
      {
          if (s == null)
          {
              return null;
          }

          T t = s.Object as T;
          if (t != null)
          {
              if (c(t))
              {
                  a(t);
                  return fallThrough ? s : null;
              }
          }

          return s;
      }
  }

Usage:

 new Switch(foo)
     .Case<Fizz>
         (action => { doingSomething = FirstMethodCall(); })
     .Case<Buzz>
         (action => { return false; })

Insert multiple lines into a file after specified pattern using shell script

Using GNU sed:

sed "/cdef/aline1\nline2\nline3\nline4" input.txt

If you started with:

abcd
accd
cdef
line
web

this would produce:

abcd
accd
cdef
line1
line2
line3
line4
line
web

If you want to save the changes to the file in-place, say:

sed -i "/cdef/aline1\nline2\nline3\nline4" input.txt

Is there an easy way to add a border to the top and bottom of an Android View?

<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

<solid android:color="@color/light_grey1" />
<stroke
    android:width="1dip"
    android:color="@color/light_grey1" />

<corners
    android:bottomLeftRadius="0dp"
    android:bottomRightRadius="0dp"
    android:topLeftRadius="5dp"
    android:topRightRadius="5dp" />

    </shape>

Why shouldn't I use PyPy over CPython if PyPy is 6.3 times faster?

Because pypy is not 100% compatible, takes 8 gigs of ram to compile, is a moving target, and highly experimental, where cpython is stable, the default target for module builders for 2 decades (including c extensions that don't work on pypy), and already widely deployed.

Pypy will likely never be the reference implementation, but it is a good tool to have.

What is the difference between a pandas Series and a single-column DataFrame?

Series is a one-dimensional object that can hold any data type such as integers, floats and strings e.g

   import pandas as pd
   x = pd.Series([A,B,C]) 

0 A
1 B
2 C

The first column of Series is known as index i.e 0,1,2 the second column is your actual data i.e A,B,C

DataFrames is two-dimensional object that can hold series, list, dictionary

df=pd.DataFrame(rd(5,4),['A','B','C','D','E'],['W','X','Y','Z'])

RegEx to extract all matches from string using RegExp.exec

If you're able to use matchAll here's a trick:

Array.From has a 'selector' parameter so instead of ending up with an array of awkward 'match' results you can project it to what you really need:

Array.from(str.matchAll(regexp), m => m[0]);

If you have named groups eg. (/(?<firstname>[a-z][A-Z]+)/g) you could do this:

Array.from(str.matchAll(regexp), m => m.groups.firstName);

How to insert an element after another element in JavaScript without using a library?

This is the simplest way we can add an element after another one using vanilla javascript

var d1 = document.getElementById('one');
d1.insertAdjacentHTML('afterend', '<div id="two">two</div>');

Reference: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/insertAdjacentHTML

Regex pattern inside SQL Replace function?

If you are doing this just for a parameter coming into a Stored Procedure, you can use the following:

declare @badIndex int
set @badIndex = PatIndex('%[^0-9]%', @Param)
while @badIndex > 0
    set @Param = Replace(@Param, Substring(@Param, @badIndex, 1), '')
    set @badIndex = PatIndex('%[^0-9]%', @Param)

How to extract filename.tar.gz file

Check to make sure that the file is complete. This error message can occur if you only partially downloaded a file or if it has major issues. Check the MD5sum.

How can I get a JavaScript stack trace when I throw an exception?

Note that chromium/chrome (other browsers using V8), and also Firefox do have a convenient interface to get a stacktrace through a stack property on Error objects.

try {
   // Code throwing an exception
} catch(e) {
  console.log(e.stack);
}

It applies for the base exceptions as well as for the ones you throw yourself. (Considered that you use the Error class, which is anyway a good practice).

See details on V8 documentation

Changing the space between each item in Bootstrap navbar

Just remember that modifying the padding or margins on any bootstrap grid elements is likely to create overflowing elements at some point at lower screen-widths.

If that happens just remember to use CSS media queries and only include the margins at screen-widths that can handle it.

In keeping with the mobile-first approach of the framework you are working within (bootstrap) it is better to add the padding at widths which can handle it, rather than excluding it at widths which can't.

@media (min-width: 992px){
    .navbar li {
        margin-left : 1em;
        margin-right : 1em;
    }
}

Good NumericUpDown equivalent in WPF?

The Extended WPF Toolkit has one: NumericUpDown enter image description here

Application not picking up .css file (flask/python)

I have read multiple threads and none of them fixed the issue that people are describing and I have experienced too.

I have even tried to move away from conda and use pip, to upgrade to python 3.7, i have tried all coding proposed and none of them fixed.

And here is why (the problem):

by default python/flask search the static and the template in a folder structure like:

/Users/username/folder_one/folder_two/ProjectName/src/app_name/<static>
 and 
/Users/username/folder_one/folder_two/ProjectName/src/app_name/<template>

you can verify by yourself using the debugger on Pycharm (or anything else) and check the values on the app (app = Flask(name)) and search for teamplate_folder and static_folder

in order to fix this, you have to specify the values when creating the app something like this:

TEMPLATE_DIR = os.path.abspath('../templates')
STATIC_DIR = os.path.abspath('../static')

# app = Flask(__name__) # to make the app run without any
app = Flask(__name__, template_folder=TEMPLATE_DIR, static_folder=STATIC_DIR)

the path TEMPLATE_DIR and STATIC_DIR depend on where the file app is located. in my case, see the picture, it was located within a folder under src.

you can change the template and static folders as you wish and register on the app = Flask...

In truth, I have started experiencing the problem when messing around with folder and at times worked at times not. this fixes the problem once and for all

the html code looks like this:

<link href="{{ url_for('static', filename='libraries/css/bootstrap.css') }}" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" >

This the code

Here the structure of the folders

How do I temporarily disable triggers in PostgreSQL?

PostgreSQL knows the ALTER TABLE tblname DISABLE TRIGGER USER command, which seems to do what I need. See ALTER TABLE.

What does the "On Error Resume Next" statement do?

On Error Resume Next means that On Error, It will resume to the next line to resume.

e.g. if you try the Try block, That will stop the script if a error occurred

How do I read a resource file from a Java jar file?

Outside of your technique, why not use the standard Java JarFile class to get the references you want? From there most of your problems should go away.

matplotlib error - no module named tkinter

I had the same issue on Win x86/64 because my custom Python3.7 installation did not include Tcl packages, so just modify or re-install your python

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-370/

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How is VIP swapping + CNAMEs better than IP swapping + A records?

A VIP swap is an internal change to Azure's routers/load balancers, not an external DNS change. They're just routing traffic to go from one internal [set of] server[s] to another instead. Therefore the DNS info for mysite.cloudapp.net doesn't change at all. Therefore the change for people accessing via the IP bound to mysite.cloudapp.net (and CNAME'd by you) will see the change as soon as the VIP swap is complete.

Kill detached screen session

== ISSUE THIS COMMAND
[xxx@devxxx ~]$ screen -ls


== SCREEN RESPONDS
There are screens on:
        23487.pts-0.devxxx      (Detached)
        26727.pts-0.devxxx      (Attached)
2 Sockets in /tmp/uscreens/S-xxx.


== NOW KILL THE ONE YOU DONT WANT
[xxx@devxxx ~]$ screen -X -S 23487.pts-0.devxxx kill


== WANT PROOF?
[xxx@devxxx ~]$ screen -ls
There is a screen on:
        26727.pts-0.devxxx      (Attached)
1 Socket in /tmp/uscreens/S-xxx.

Android Studio not showing modules in project structure

Go to File->Project Structure-> Project Settings -> Modules.

Click on the green colored + and add new module. select Application module and set the content root to your project module.

Click next and then finish.

Reference

CSS hide scroll bar, but have element scrollable

if you use sass, you can try this

&::-webkit-scrollbar { 

}

How do I reflect over the members of dynamic object?

In the case of ExpandoObject, the ExpandoObject class actually implements IDictionary<string, object> for its properties, so the solution is as trivial as casting:

IDictionary<string, object> propertyValues = (IDictionary<string, object>)s;

Note that this will not work for general dynamic objects. In these cases you will need to drop down to the DLR via IDynamicMetaObjectProvider.

Copy array items into another array

Here's the ES6 way

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let dataArray1 = [1,2,3,4]_x000D_
let dataArray2 = [5,6,7,8]_x000D_
newArray = [...dataArray1, ...dataArray2]_x000D_
console.log(newArray)
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The above method is good to go for most of the cases and the cases it is not please consider concat, like you have hundred thousands of items in arrays.

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    let dataArray1 = [1,2,3,4]_x000D_
    let dataArray2 = [5,6,7,8]_x000D_
    let newArray = dataArray1.concat(dataArray2);_x000D_
    console.log(newArray)
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How to install node.js as windows service?

I'm not addressing the question directly, but providing an alternative that might also meet your requirement in a more node.js fashion way.

Functionally the requirements are:

  1. Have the logic (app) running in the background
  2. Be able to start/stop the logic
  3. Automatically start the logic when system boots up

These requirements can be satisfied by using a process manager (PM) and making the process manager start on system startup. Two good PMs that are Windows-friendly are:

To make the PM start automatically, the most simple way is to create a scheduled task with a "At Startup" trigger:

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What are the JavaScript KeyCodes?

One possible answer will be given when you run this snippet.

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document.write('<table>')_x000D_
for (var i = 0; i < 250; i++) {_x000D_
  document.write('<tr><td>' + i + '</td><td>' + String.fromCharCode(i) + '</td></tr>')_x000D_
}_x000D_
document.write('</table>')
_x000D_
td {_x000D_
  border: solid 1px;_x000D_
  padding: 1px 12px;_x000D_
  text-align: right;_x000D_
}_x000D_
table {_x000D_
  border-collapse: collapse;_x000D_
}_x000D_
* {_x000D_
  font-family: monospace;_x000D_
  font-size: 1.1em;_x000D_
}
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Check if list contains element that contains a string and get that element

You could use Linq's FirstOrDefault extension method:

string element = myList.FirstOrDefault(s => s.Contains(myString));

This will return the fist element that contains the substring myString, or null if no such element is found.

If all you need is the index, use the List<T> class's FindIndex method:

int index = myList.FindIndex(s => s.Contains(myString));

This will return the the index of fist element that contains the substring myString, or -1 if no such element is found.

Set a form's action attribute when submitting?

You can also set onSubmit attribute's value in form tag. You can set its value using Javascript.

Something like this:

<form id="whatever" name="whatever" onSubmit="return xyz();">
    Here is your entire form
    <input type="submit">
</form>;

<script type=text/javascript>
function xyz() {
  document.getElementById('whatever').action = 'whatever you want'
}
</script>

Remember that onSubmit has higher priority than action attribute. So whenever you specify onSubmit value, that operation will be performed first and then the form will move to action.

How can I open a .db file generated by eclipse(android) form DDMS-->File explorer-->data--->data-->packagename-->database?

Download this Sqlite manager its the easiest one to use Sqlite manager

and drag and drop your fetched file on its running instance

only drawback of this Sqlite Manager it stop responding if you run some SQL statement that has Syntax Error in it.

So i Use Firefox Plugin Side by side also which you can find at FireFox addons

how to upload file using curl with php

Use:

if (function_exists('curl_file_create')) { // php 5.5+
  $cFile = curl_file_create($file_name_with_full_path);
} else { // 
  $cFile = '@' . realpath($file_name_with_full_path);
}
$post = array('extra_info' => '123456','file_contents'=> $cFile);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$target_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
$result=curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);

You can also refer:

http://blog.derakkilgo.com/2009/06/07/send-a-file-via-post-with-curl-and-php/

Important hint for PHP 5.5+:

Now we should use https://wiki.php.net/rfc/curl-file-upload but if you still want to use this deprecated approach then you need to set curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SAFE_UPLOAD, false);

Can clearInterval() be called inside setInterval()?

Yes you can. You can even test it:

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var i = 0;_x000D_
var timer = setInterval(function() {_x000D_
  console.log(++i);_x000D_
  if (i === 5) clearInterval(timer);_x000D_
  console.log('post-interval'); //this will still run after clearing_x000D_
}, 200);
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In this example, this timer clears when i reaches 5.

List files ONLY in the current directory

instead of os.walk, just use os.listdir

Angular 2: How to write a for loop, not a foreach loop

Depending on the length of the wanted loop, maybe even a more "template-driven" solution:

<ul>
  <li *ngFor="let index of [0,1,2,3,4,5]">
    {{ index }}
  </li>
</ul>

What is App.config in C#.NET? How to use it?

At its simplest, the app.config is an XML file with many predefined configuration sections available and support for custom configuration sections. A "configuration section" is a snippet of XML with a schema meant to store some type of information.

Settings can be configured using built-in configuration sections such as connectionStrings or appSettings. You can add your own custom configuration sections; this is an advanced topic, but very powerful for building strongly-typed configuration files.

Web applications typically have a web.config, while Windows GUI/service applications have an app.config file.

Application-level config files inherit settings from global configuration files, e.g. the machine.config.

Reading from the App.Config

Connection strings have a predefined schema that you can use. Note that this small snippet is actually a valid app.config (or web.config) file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
    <connectionStrings>   
        <add name="MyKey" 
             connectionString="Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=ABC;"
             providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/>
    </connectionStrings>
</configuration>

Once you have defined your app.config, you can read it in code using the ConfigurationManager class. Don't be intimidated by the verbose MSDN examples; it's actually quite simple.

string connectionString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["MyKey"].ConnectionString;

Writing to the App.Config

Frequently changing the *.config files is usually not a good idea, but it sounds like you only want to perform one-time setup.

See: Change connection string & reload app.config at run time which describes how to update the connectionStrings section of the *.config file at runtime.

Note that ideally you would perform such configuration changes from a simple installer.

Location of the App.Config at Runtime

Q: Suppose I manually change some <value> in app.config, save it and then close it. Now when I go to my bin folder and launch the .exe file from here, why doesn't it reflect the applied changes?

A: When you compile an application, its app.config is copied to the bin directory1 with a name that matches your exe. For example, if your exe was named "test.exe", there should be a "text.exe.config" in your bin directory. You can change the configuration without a recompile, but you will need to edit the config file that was created at compile time, not the original app.config.

1: Note that web.config files are not moved, but instead stay in the same location at compile and deployment time. One exception to this is when a web.config is transformed.

.NET Core

New configuration options were introduced with .NET Core. The way that *.config files works does not appear to have changed, but developers are free to choose new, more flexible configuration paradigms.

Error occurred during initialization of VM Could not reserve enough space for object heap Could not create the Java virtual machine

If your computer is a 64bit, all you need to do is uninstall your Java x86 version and install a 64bit version. I had the same problem and this worked. Nothing further needs to be done.

Difference between a theta join, equijoin and natural join

Natural is a subset of Equi which is a subset of Theta.

If I use the = sign on a theta join is it exactly the same as just using a natural join???

Not necessarily, but it would be an Equi. Natural means you are matching on all similarly named columns, Equi just means you are using '=' exclusively (and not 'less than', like, etc)

This is pure academia though, you could work with relational databases for years and never hear anyone use these terms.

How do you disable browser Autocomplete on web form field / input tag?

Most of the answers didn't help as the browser was simply ignoring them. (Some of them were not cross-browser compatible). The fix that worked for me is:

<form autocomplete="off">
    <input type="text" autocomplete="new-password" />
    <input type="password" autocomplete="new-password" />
</form>

I set autofill="off" on the form tag and autofill="new-password" wherever the autofill was not necessary.

Explicit Return Type of Lambda

You can explicitly specify the return type of a lambda by using -> Type after the arguments list:

[]() -> Type { }

However, if a lambda has one statement and that statement is a return statement (and it returns an expression), the compiler can deduce the return type from the type of that one returned expression. You have multiple statements in your lambda, so it doesn't deduce the type.

Extracting date from a string in Python

For extracting the date from a string in Python; the best module available is the datefinder module.

You can use it in your Python project by following the easy steps given below.

Step 1: Install datefinder Package

pip install datefinder

Step 2: Use It In Your Project

import datefinder

input_string = "monkey 2010-07-10 love banana"
# a generator will be returned by the datefinder module. I'm typecasting it to a list. Please read the note of caution provided at the bottom.
matches = list(datefinder.find_dates(input_string))

if len(matches) > 0:
    # date returned will be a datetime.datetime object. here we are only using the first match.
    date = matches[0]
    print date
else:
    print 'No dates found'

note: if you are expecting a large number of matches; then typecasting to list won't be a recommended way as it will be having a big performance overhead.

How to change the display name for LabelFor in razor in mvc3?

Decorate the model property with the DisplayName attribute.

Spring + Web MVC: dispatcher-servlet.xml vs. applicationContext.xml (plus shared security)

To add to Kevin's answer, I find that in practice nearly all of your non-trivial Spring MVC applications will require an application context (as opposed to only the spring MVC dispatcher servlet context). It is in the application context that you should configure all non-web related concerns such as:

  • Security
  • Persistence
  • Scheduled Tasks
  • Others?

To make this a bit more concrete, here's an example of the Spring configuration I've used when setting up a modern (Spring version 4.1.2) Spring MVC application. Personally, I prefer to still use a WEB-INF/web.xml file but that's really the only xml configuration in sight.

WEB-INF/web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_1.xsd" version="3.1">
  
  <filter>
    <filter-name>openEntityManagerInViewFilter</filter-name>
    <filter-class>org.springframework.orm.jpa.support.OpenEntityManagerInViewFilter</filter-class>
  </filter>
  
  <filter>
    <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
    <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy
    </filter-class>
  </filter>
 
  <filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
  </filter-mapping>

  <filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>openEntityManagerInViewFilter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
  </filter-mapping>
  
  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>springMvc</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    <init-param>
      <param-name>contextClass</param-name>
      <param-value>org.springframework.web.context.support.AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <init-param>
      <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
      <param-value>com.company.config.WebConfig</param-value>
    </init-param>
  </servlet>
  
  <context-param>
    <param-name>contextClass</param-name>
    <param-value>org.springframework.web.context.support.AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext</param-value>
  </context-param>

  <context-param>
    <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
    <param-value>com.company.config.AppConfig</param-value>
  </context-param>

  <listener>
    <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
  </listener>

  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>springMvc</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>
  
  <session-config>
    <session-timeout>30</session-timeout>
  </session-config>

  <jsp-config>
    <jsp-property-group>
      <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>
      <scripting-invalid>true</scripting-invalid>
    </jsp-property-group>
  </jsp-config>
  
</web-app>

WebConfig.java

@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
@ComponentScan(basePackages = "com.company.controller")
public class WebConfig {

  @Bean
  public InternalResourceViewResolver getInternalResourceViewResolver() {
    InternalResourceViewResolver resolver = new InternalResourceViewResolver();
    resolver.setPrefix("/WEB-INF/views/");
    resolver.setSuffix(".jsp");
    return resolver;
  }
}

AppConfig.java

@Configuration
@ComponentScan(basePackages = "com.company")
@Import(value = {SecurityConfig.class, PersistenceConfig.class, ScheduleConfig.class})
public class AppConfig {
  // application domain @Beans here...
}

Security.java

@Configuration
@EnableWebSecurity
public class SecurityConfig extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {
  @Autowired
  private LdapUserDetailsMapper ldapUserDetailsMapper;

  @Override
    protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
    http.authorizeRequests()
      .antMatchers("/").permitAll()
      .antMatchers("/**/js/**").permitAll()
      .antMatchers("/**/images/**").permitAll()
      .antMatchers("/**").access("hasRole('ROLE_ADMIN')")
      .and().formLogin();

    http.logout().logoutRequestMatcher(new AntPathRequestMatcher("/logout"));
    }

  @Autowired
    public void configureGlobal(AuthenticationManagerBuilder auth) throws Exception {
      auth.ldapAuthentication()
      .userSearchBase("OU=App Users")
      .userSearchFilter("sAMAccountName={0}")
      .groupSearchBase("OU=Development")
      .groupSearchFilter("member={0}")
      .userDetailsContextMapper(ldapUserDetailsMapper)
      .contextSource(getLdapContextSource());
    }

  private LdapContextSource getLdapContextSource() {
    LdapContextSource cs = new LdapContextSource();
    cs.setUrl("ldaps://ldapServer:636");
    cs.setBase("DC=COMPANY,DC=COM");
    cs.setUserDn("CN=administrator,CN=Users,DC=COMPANY,DC=COM");
    cs.setPassword("password");
    cs.afterPropertiesSet();
    return cs;
  }
}

PersistenceConfig.java

@Configuration
@EnableTransactionManagement
@EnableJpaRepositories(transactionManagerRef = "getTransactionManager", entityManagerFactoryRef = "getEntityManagerFactory", basePackages = "com.company")
public class PersistenceConfig {

  @Bean
  public LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean getEntityManagerFactory(DataSource dataSource) {
    LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean lef = new LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean();
    lef.setDataSource(dataSource);
    lef.setJpaVendorAdapter(getHibernateJpaVendorAdapter());
    lef.setPackagesToScan("com.company");
    return lef;
  }

  private HibernateJpaVendorAdapter getHibernateJpaVendorAdapter() {
    HibernateJpaVendorAdapter hibernateJpaVendorAdapter = new HibernateJpaVendorAdapter();
    hibernateJpaVendorAdapter.setDatabase(Database.ORACLE);
    hibernateJpaVendorAdapter.setDatabasePlatform("org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle10gDialect");
    hibernateJpaVendorAdapter.setShowSql(false);
    hibernateJpaVendorAdapter.setGenerateDdl(false);
    return hibernateJpaVendorAdapter;
  }

  @Bean
  public JndiObjectFactoryBean getDataSource() {
    JndiObjectFactoryBean jndiFactoryBean = new JndiObjectFactoryBean();
    jndiFactoryBean.setJndiName("java:comp/env/jdbc/AppDS");
    return jndiFactoryBean;
  }

  @Bean
  public JpaTransactionManager getTransactionManager(DataSource dataSource) {
    JpaTransactionManager jpaTransactionManager = new JpaTransactionManager();
    jpaTransactionManager.setEntityManagerFactory(getEntityManagerFactory(dataSource).getObject());
    jpaTransactionManager.setDataSource(dataSource);
    return jpaTransactionManager;
  }
}

ScheduleConfig.java

@Configuration
@EnableScheduling
public class ScheduleConfig {
  @Autowired
  private EmployeeSynchronizer employeeSynchronizer;

  // cron pattern: sec, min, hr, day-of-month, month, day-of-week, year (optional)
  @Scheduled(cron="0 0 0 * * *")
  public void employeeSync() {
    employeeSynchronizer.syncEmployees();
  }
}

As you can see, the web configuration is only a small part of the overall spring web application configuration. Most web applications I've worked with have many concerns that lie outside of the dispatcher servlet configuration that require a full-blown application context bootstrapped via the org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener in the web.xml.

Proxy with urllib2

You can set proxies using environment variables.

import os
os.environ['http_proxy'] = '127.0.0.1'
os.environ['https_proxy'] = '127.0.0.1'

urllib2 will add proxy handlers automatically this way. You need to set proxies for different protocols separately otherwise they will fail (in terms of not going through proxy), see below.

For example:

proxy = urllib2.ProxyHandler({'http': '127.0.0.1'})
opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
urllib2.urlopen('http://www.google.com')
# next line will fail (will not go through the proxy) (https)
urllib2.urlopen('https://www.google.com')

Instead

proxy = urllib2.ProxyHandler({
    'http': '127.0.0.1',
    'https': '127.0.0.1'
})
opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
# this way both http and https requests go through the proxy
urllib2.urlopen('http://www.google.com')
urllib2.urlopen('https://www.google.com')

Python For loop get index

Use the enumerate() function to generate the index along with the elements of the sequence you are looping over:

for index, w in enumerate(loopme):
    print "CURRENT WORD IS", w, "AT CHARACTER", index 

How to access first element of JSON object array?

To answer your titular question, you use [0] to access the first element, but as it stands mandrill_events contains a string not an array, so mandrill_events[0] will just get you the first character, '['.

So either correct your source to:

var req = { mandrill_events: [{"event":"inbound","ts":1426249238}] };

and then req.mandrill_events[0], or if you're stuck with it being a string, parse the JSON the string contains:

var req = { mandrill_events: '[{"event":"inbound","ts":1426249238}]' };
var mandrill_events = JSON.parse(req.mandrill_events);
var result = mandrill_events[0];

Date Format in Swift

Swift 4, 4.2 and 5

func getFormattedDate(date: Date, format: String) -> String {
        let dateformat = DateFormatter()
        dateformat.dateFormat = format
        return dateformat.string(from: date)
}

let formatingDate = getFormattedDate(date: Date(), format: "dd-MMM-yyyy")
        print(formatingDate)

How should I store GUID in MySQL tables?

char(36) would be a good choice. Also MySQL's UUID() function can be used which returns a 36-character text format (hex with hyphens) which can be used for retrievals of such IDs from the db.

How do I position a div relative to the mouse pointer using jQuery?

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">

  var cX = 0;
  var cY = 0;
  var rX = 0;
  var rY = 0;

  function UpdateCursorPosition(e) {
    cX = e.pageX;
    cY = e.pageY;
  }

  function UpdateCursorPositionDocAll(e) {
    cX = event.clientX;
    cY = event.clientY;
  }
  if (document.all) {
    document.onmousemove = UpdateCursorPositionDocAll;
  } else {
    document.onmousemove = UpdateCursorPosition;
  }

  function AssignPosition(d) {
    if (self.pageYOffset) {
      rX = self.pageXOffset;
      rY = self.pageYOffset;
    } else if (document.documentElement && document.documentElement.scrollTop) {
      rX = document.documentElement.scrollLeft;
      rY = document.documentElement.scrollTop;
    } else if (document.body) {
      rX = document.body.scrollLeft;
      rY = document.body.scrollTop;
    }
    if (document.all) {
      cX += rX;
      cY += rY;
    }
    d.style.left = (cX + 10) + "px";
    d.style.top = (cY + 10) + "px";
  }

  function HideContent(d) {
    if (d.length < 1) {
      return;
    }
    document.getElementById(d).style.display = "none";
  }

  function ShowContent(d) {
    if (d.length < 1) {
      return;
    }
    var dd = document.getElementById(d);
    AssignPosition(dd);
    dd.style.display = "block";
  }

  function ReverseContentDisplay(d) {
    if (d.length < 1) {
      return;
    }
    var dd = document.getElementById(d);
    AssignPosition(dd);
    if (dd.style.display == "none") {
      dd.style.display = "block";
    } else {
      dd.style.display = "none";
    }
  }
  //-->
</script>


<a onmouseover="ShowContent('uniquename3'); return true;" onmouseout="HideContent('uniquename3'); return true;" href="javascript:ShowContent('uniquename3')">
[show on mouseover, hide on mouseout]
</a>
<div id="uniquename3" style="display:none;
position:absolute;
border-style: solid;
background-color: white;
padding: 5px;">
  Content goes here.
</div>

C++ Structure Initialization

If you want to make it clear what each initializer value is, just split it up on multiple lines, with a comment on each:

address temp_addres = {
  0,  // street_no
  nullptr,  // street_name
  "Hamilton",  // city
  "Ontario",  // prov
  nullptr,  // postal_code
};

What's the difference between ClusterIP, NodePort and LoadBalancer service types in Kubernetes?

Lets assume you created a Ubuntu VM on your local machine. It's IP address is 192.168.1.104.

You login into VM, and installed Kubernetes. Then you created a pod where nginx image running on it.

1- If you want to access this nginx pod inside your VM, you will create a ClusterIP bound to that pod for example:

$ kubectl expose deployment nginxapp --name=nginxclusterip --port=80 --target-port=8080

Then on your browser you can type ip address of nginxclusterip with port 80, like:

http://10.152.183.2:80

2- If you want to access this nginx pod from your host machine, you will need to expose your deployment with NodePort. For example:

$ kubectl expose deployment nginxapp --name=nginxnodeport --port=80 --target-port=8080 --type=NodePort

Now from your host machine you can access to nginx like:

http://192.168.1.104:31865/

In my dashboard they appear as:

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Below is a diagram shows basic relationship.

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How to manually set REFERER header in Javascript?

You cannot set Referer header manually but you can use location.href to set the referer header to the link used in href but it will cause reloading of the page.

How to update nested state properties in React

There are many libraries to help with this. For example, using immutability-helper:

import update from 'immutability-helper';

const newState = update(this.state, {
  someProperty: {flag: {$set: false}},
};
this.setState(newState);

Using lodash/fp set:

import {set} from 'lodash/fp';

const newState = set(["someProperty", "flag"], false, this.state);

Using lodash/fp merge:

import {merge} from 'lodash/fp';

const newState = merge(this.state, {
  someProperty: {flag: false},
});

Detect if PHP session exists

The original code is from Sabry Suleiman.

Made it a bit prettier:

function is_session_started() {

    if ( php_sapi_name() === 'cli' )
        return false;

    return version_compare( phpversion(), '5.4.0', '>=' )
        ? session_status() === PHP_SESSION_ACTIVE
        : session_id() !== '';
}

First condition checks the Server API in use. If Command Line Interface is used, the function returns false.

Then we return the boolean result depending on the PHP version in use.

In ancient history you simply needed to check session_id(). If it's an empty string, then session is not started. Otherwise it is.

Since 5.4 to at least the current 8.0 the norm is to check session_status(). If it's not PHP_SESSION_ACTIVE, then either the session isn't started yet (PHP_SESSION_NONE) or sessions are not available altogether (PHP_SESSION_DISABLED).

C++ convert string to hexadecimal and vice versa

I think there is a much simpler and more elegant solution. Some of the above-mentioned methods may even throw unhandled exceptions in some cases. Here is a fool-proof (as in never goes wrong) and very fast code. Just try it and compare the results in terms of speed and compactness:

#include <string>

// Convert string of chars to its representative string of hex numbers
void stream2hex(const std::string str, std::string& hexstr, bool capital = false)
{
    hexstr.resize(str.size() * 2);
    const size_t a = capital ? 'A' - 1 : 'a' - 1;

    for (size_t i = 0, c = str[0] & 0xFF; i < hexstr.size(); c = str[i / 2] & 0xFF)
    {
        hexstr[i++] = c > 0x9F ? (c / 16 - 9) | a : c / 16 | '0';
        hexstr[i++] = (c & 0xF) > 9 ? (c % 16 - 9) | a : c % 16 | '0';
    }
}

// Convert string of hex numbers to its equivalent char-stream
void hex2stream(const std::string hexstr, std::string& str)
{
    str.resize((hexstr.size() + 1) / 2);

    for (size_t i = 0, j = 0; i < str.size(); i++, j++)
    {
        str[i] = (hexstr[j] & '@' ? hexstr[j] + 9 : hexstr[j]) << 4, j++;
        str[i] |= (hexstr[j] & '@' ? hexstr[j] + 9 : hexstr[j]) & 0xF;
    }
}

Test the code:

#include <iostream>
int main()
{
    std::string s = "Hello World!";
    std::cout << "original string: " << s << '\n';
    stream2hex(s, s);
    std::cout << "hex format: " << s << '\n';
    hex2stream(s, s);
    std::cout << "original one: " << s << '\n';
}

and the result is:

original string: Hello World!
hex format: 48656C6C6F20576F726C6421
original one: Hello World!

How to extract the hostname portion of a URL in JavaScript

Use document.location object and its host or hostname properties.

alert(document.location.hostname); // alerts "stackoverflow.com"

Create iOS Home Screen Shortcuts on Chrome for iOS

The is no API for adding a shortcut to the home screen in iOS, so no third-party browser is capable of providing that functionality.

How do I minimize the command prompt from my bat file

One option is to find one of the various utilities that can change the window state of the currently running console window and make a call to it from within the batch script.

You can run it as the first thing in your batch script. Here are two such tools:

min.exe http://www.paulsadowski.com/wsh/cmdprogs.htm

cmdow http://www.commandline.co.uk/cmdow/index.html

How to use subList()

I've implemented and tested this one; it should cover most bases:

public static <T> List<T> safeSubList(List<T> list, int fromIndex, int toIndex) {
    int size = list.size();
    if (fromIndex >= size || toIndex <= 0 || fromIndex >= toIndex) {
        return Collections.emptyList();
    }

    fromIndex = Math.max(0, fromIndex);
    toIndex = Math.min(size, toIndex);

    return list.subList(fromIndex, toIndex);
}

Javascript - get array of dates between 2 dates

I use moment.js and Twix.js they provide a very great support for date and time manpulation

var itr = moment.twix(new Date('2012-01-15'),new Date('2012-01-20')).iterate("days");
var range=[];
while(itr.hasNext()){
    range.push(itr.next().toDate())
}
console.log(range);

I have this running on http://jsfiddle.net/Lkzg1bxb/

What is the difference between <html lang="en"> and <html lang="en-US">?

<html lang="en">
<html lang="en-US">

The first lang tag only specifies a language code. The second specifies a language code, followed by a country code.

What other values can follow the dash? According to w3.org "Any two-letter subcode is understood to be a [ISO3166] country code." so does that mean any value listed under the alpha-2 code is an accepted value?

Yes, however the value may or may not have any real meaning.

<html lang="en-US"> essentially means "this page is in the US style of English." In a similar way, <html lang="en-GB"> would mean "this page is in the United Kingdom style of English."

If you really wanted to specify an invalid combination, you could. It wouldn't mean much, but <html lang="en-ES"> is valid according to the specification, as I understand it. However, that language/country combination won't do much since English isn't commonly spoken in Spain.

I mean does this somehow further help the browser to display the page?

It doesn't help the browser to display the page, but it is useful for search engines, screen readers, and other things that might read and try to interpret the page, besides human beings.

Instantiating a generic type

You basically have two choices:

1.Require an instance:

public Navigation(T t) {     this("", "", t); } 

2.Require a class instance:

public Navigation(Class<T> c) {     this("", "", c.newInstance()); } 

You could use a factory pattern, but ultimately you'll face this same issue, but just push it elsewhere in the code.

Accessing an array out of bounds gives no error, why?

when you declare int array[2]; you reserve 2 memory spaces of 4 bytes each(32bit program). if you type array[4] in your code it still corresponds to a valid call but only at run time will it throw an unhandled exception. C++ uses manual memory management. This is actually a security flaw that was used for hacking programs

this can help understanding:

int * somepointer;

somepointer[0]=somepointer[5];

does linux shell support list data structure?

It supports lists, but not as a separate data structure (ignoring arrays for the moment).

The for loop iterates over a list (in the generic sense) of white-space separated values, regardless of how that list is created, whether literally:

for i in 1 2 3; do
    echo "$i"
done

or via parameter expansion:

listVar="1 2 3"
for i in $listVar; do
    echo "$i"
done

or command substitution:

for i in $(echo 1; echo 2; echo 3); do
    echo "$i"
done

An array is just a special parameter which can contain a more structured list of value, where each element can itself contain whitespace. Compare the difference:

array=("item 1" "item 2" "item 3")
for i in "${array[@]}"; do   # The quotes are necessary here
    echo "$i"
done

list='"item 1" "item 2" "item 3"'
for i in $list; do
    echo $i
done
for i in "$list"; do
    echo $i
done
for i in ${array[@]}; do
    echo $i
done

changing default x range in histogram matplotlib

plt.hist(hmag, 30, range=[6.5, 12.5], facecolor='gray', align='mid')

Download a div in a HTML page as pdf using javascript

Your solution requires some ajax method to pass the html to a back-end server that has a html to pdf facility and then returning the pdf output generated back to the browser.

First setting up the client side code, we will setup the jquery code as

   var options = {
            "url": "/pdf/generate/convert_to_pdf.php",
            "data": "data=" + $("#content").html(),
            "type": "post",
        }
   $.ajax(options)

Then intercept the data from the html2pdf generation script (somewhere from the internet).
convert_to_pdf.php (given as url in JQUERY code) looks like this -

<?php
    $html = $_POST['data'];
    $pdf = html2pdf($html);
    
    header("Content-Type: application/pdf"); //check this is the proper header for pdf
    header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='some.pdf';");
    echo $pdf;
?>

Use sed to replace all backslashes with forward slashes

for just translating one char into another throughout a string, tr is the best tool:

tr '\\' '/'

the MySQL service on local computer started and then stopped

If you have changed data directory (the path to the database root in my.ini) to an external hard drive, make sure that the hard drive is connected.

Create a tag in a GitHub repository

For creating git tag you can simply run git tag <tagname> command by replacing with the actual name of the tag. Here is a complete tutorial on the basics of managing git tags: https://www.drupixels.com/blog/git-tags-create-push-remote-checkout-and-much-more

How to grant remote access permissions to mysql server for user?

Try:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'Pa55w0rd' WITH GRANT OPTION;

How to open standard Google Map application from my application?

I have a sample app where I prepare the intent and just pass the CITY_NAME in the intent to the maps marker activity which eventually calculates longitude and latitude by Geocoder using CITY_NAME.

Below is the code snippet of starting the maps marker activity and the complete MapsMarkerActivity.

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
    // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
    // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
    int id = item.getItemId();

    //noinspection SimplifiableIfStatement
    if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
        return true;
    } else if (id == R.id.action_refresh) {
        Log.d(APP_TAG, "onOptionsItemSelected Refresh selected");
        new MainActivityFragment.FetchWeatherTask().execute(CITY, FORECAS_DAYS);
        return true;
    } else if (id == R.id.action_map) {
        Log.d(APP_TAG, "onOptionsItemSelected Map selected");
        Intent intent = new Intent(this, MapsMarkerActivity.class);
        intent.putExtra("CITY_NAME", CITY);
        startActivity(intent);
        return true;
    }

    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}

public class MapsMarkerActivity extends AppCompatActivity
        implements OnMapReadyCallback {

    private String cityName = "";

    private double longitude;

    private double latitude;

    static final int numberOptions = 10;

    String [] optionArray = new String[numberOptions];

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        // Retrieve the content view that renders the map.
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_map);
        // Get the SupportMapFragment and request notification
        // when the map is ready to be used.
        SupportMapFragment mapFragment = (SupportMapFragment) getSupportFragmentManager()
                .findFragmentById(R.id.map);
        mapFragment.getMapAsync(this);

        // Test whether geocoder is present on platform
        if(Geocoder.isPresent()){
            cityName = getIntent().getStringExtra("CITY_NAME");
            geocodeLocation(cityName);
        } else {
            String noGoGeo = "FAILURE: No Geocoder on this platform.";
            Toast.makeText(this, noGoGeo, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            return;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Manipulates the map when it's available.
     * The API invokes this callback when the map is ready to be used.
     * This is where we can add markers or lines, add listeners or move the camera. In this case,
     * we just add a marker near Sydney, Australia.
     * If Google Play services is not installed on the device, the user receives a prompt to install
     * Play services inside the SupportMapFragment. The API invokes this method after the user has
     * installed Google Play services and returned to the app.
     */
    @Override
    public void onMapReady(GoogleMap googleMap) {
        // Add a marker in Sydney, Australia,
        // and move the map's camera to the same location.
        LatLng sydney = new LatLng(latitude, longitude);
        // If cityName is not available then use
        // Default Location.
        String markerDisplay = "Default Location";
        if (cityName != null
                && cityName.length() > 0) {
            markerDisplay = "Marker in " + cityName;
        }
        googleMap.addMarker(new MarkerOptions().position(sydney)
                .title(markerDisplay));
        googleMap.moveCamera(CameraUpdateFactory.newLatLng(sydney));
    }

    /**
     * Method to geocode location passed as string (e.g., "Pentagon"), which
     * places the corresponding latitude and longitude in the variables lat and lon.
     *
     * @param placeName
     */
    private void geocodeLocation(String placeName){

        // Following adapted from Conder and Darcey, pp.321 ff.
        Geocoder gcoder = new Geocoder(this);

        // Note that the Geocoder uses synchronous network access, so in a serious application
        // it would be best to put it on a background thread to prevent blocking the main UI if network
        // access is slow. Here we are just giving an example of how to use it so, for simplicity, we
        // don't put it on a separate thread.  See the class RouteMapper in this package for an example
        // of making a network access on a background thread. Geocoding is implemented by a backend
        // that is not part of the core Android framework, so we use the static method
        // Geocoder.isPresent() to test for presence of the required backend on the given platform.

        try{
            List<Address> results = null;
            if(Geocoder.isPresent()){
                results = gcoder.getFromLocationName(placeName, numberOptions);
            } else {
                Log.i(MainActivity.APP_TAG, "No Geocoder found");
                return;
            }
            Iterator<Address> locations = results.iterator();
            String raw = "\nRaw String:\n";
            String country;
            int opCount = 0;
            while(locations.hasNext()){
                Address location = locations.next();
                if(opCount == 0 && location != null){
                    latitude = location.getLatitude();
                    longitude = location.getLongitude();
                }
                country = location.getCountryName();
                if(country == null) {
                    country = "";
                } else {
                    country =  ", " + country;
                }
                raw += location+"\n";
                optionArray[opCount] = location.getAddressLine(0)+", "
                        +location.getAddressLine(1)+country+"\n";
                opCount ++;
            }
            // Log the returned data
            Log.d(MainActivity.APP_TAG, raw);
            Log.d(MainActivity.APP_TAG, "\nOptions:\n");
            for(int i=0; i<opCount; i++){
                Log.i(MainActivity.APP_TAG, "("+(i+1)+") "+optionArray[i]);
            }
            Log.d(MainActivity.APP_TAG, "latitude=" + latitude + ";longitude=" + longitude);
        } catch (Exception e){
            Log.d(MainActivity.APP_TAG, "I/O Failure; do you have a network connection?",e);
        }
    }
}

Links expire so i have pasted complete code above but just in case if you would like to see complete code then its available at : https://github.com/gosaliajigar/CSC519/tree/master/CSC519_HW4_89753

What is the non-jQuery equivalent of '$(document).ready()'?

In plain vanilla JavaScript, with no libraries? It's an error. $ is simply an identifier, and is undefined unless you define it.

jQuery defines $ as it's own "everything object" (also known as jQuery so you can use it without conflicting with other libraries). If you're not using jQuery (or some other library that defines it), then $ will not be defined.

Or are you asking what the equivalent is in plain JavaScript? In that case, you probably want window.onload, which isn't exactly equivalent, but is the quickest and easiest way to get close to the same effect in vanilla JavaScript.

Why can't Python import Image from PIL?

For me, I had typed image with a lower case "i" instead of Image. So I did:

from PIL import Image NOT from PIL import image

Moment.js - two dates difference in number of days

const FindDate = (date, allDate) => {
        
    // moment().diff only works on moment(). Make sure both date and elements in allDate array are in moment format
    let nearestDate = -1; 
    
    allDate.some(d => {
        const currentDate = moment(d)
        const difference = currentDate.diff(d); // Or d.diff(date) depending on what you're trying to find
        if(difference >= 0){
            nearestDate = d
        }
    });
    
    console.log(nearestDate)
}

Using a BOOL property

There's no benefit to using properties with primitive types. @property is used with heap allocated NSObjects like NSString*, NSNumber*, UIButton*, and etc, because memory managed accessors are created for free. When you create a BOOL, the value is always allocated on the stack and does not require any special accessors to prevent memory leakage. isWorking is simply the popular way of expressing the state of a boolean value.

In another OO language you would make a variable private bool working; and two accessors: SetWorking for the setter and IsWorking for the accessor.

Java: Check if command line arguments are null

@jjnguy's answer is correct in most circumstances. You won't ever see a null String in the argument array (or a null array) if main is called by running the application is run from the command line in the normal way.

However, if some other part of the application calls a main method, it is conceivable that it might pass a null argument or null argument array.

However(2), this is clearly a highly unusual use-case, and it is an egregious violation of the implied contract for a main entry-point method. Therefore, I don't think you should bother checking for null argument values in main. In the unlikely event that they do occur, it is acceptable for the calling code to get a NullPointerException. After all, it is a bug in the caller to violate the contract.

Space between two divs

You can try something like the following:

h1{
   margin-bottom:<x>px;
}
div{
   margin-bottom:<y>px;
}
div:last-of-type{
   margin-bottom:0;
}

or instead of the first h1 rule:

div:first-of-type{
   margin-top:<x>px;
}

or even better use the adjacent sibling selector. With the following selector, you could cover your case in one rule:

div + div{
   margin-bottom:<y>px;
}

Respectively, h1 + div would control the first div after your header, giving you additional styling options.

What are advantages of Artificial Neural Networks over Support Vector Machines?

One thing to note is that the two are actually very related. Linear SVMs are equivalent to single-layer NN's (i.e., perceptrons), and multi-layer NNs can be expressed in terms of SVMs. See here for some details.

Vim delete blank lines

Found it, it's:

g/^\s*$/d

Source: Power of g at vim wikia

Brief explanation of :g

:[range]g/pattern/cmd

This acts on the specified [range] (default whole file), by executing the Ex command cmd for each line matching pattern (an Ex command is one starting with a colon such as :d for delete). Before executing cmd, "." is set to the current line.

How to use continue in jQuery each() loop?

$('.submit').filter(':checked').each(function() {
    //This is same as 'continue'
    if(something){
        return true;
    }
    //This is same as 'break'
    if(something){
        return false;
    }
});

Adding Multiple Values in ArrayList at a single index

import java.util.*;
public class HelloWorld{

 public static void main(String []args){
  List<String> threadSafeList = new ArrayList<String>();
    threadSafeList.add("A");
    threadSafeList.add("D");
    threadSafeList.add("F");

Set<String> threadSafeList1 = new TreeSet<String>();
    threadSafeList1.add("B");
    threadSafeList1.add("C");
    threadSafeList1.add("E");
    threadSafeList1.addAll(threadSafeList);


 List mainList = new ArrayList();   
 mainList.addAll(Arrays.asList(threadSafeList1));
 Iterator<String> mainList1 = mainList.iterator();
 while(mainList1.hasNext()){
 System.out.printf("total : %s %n", mainList1.next());
 }
}
}

How to insert TIMESTAMP into my MySQL table?

You do not need to insert the current timestamp manually as MySQL provides this facility to store it automatically. When the MySQL table is created, simply do this:

  • select TIMESTAMP as your column type
  • set the Default value to CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
  • then just insert any rows into the table without inserting any values for the time column

You'll see the current timestamp is automatically inserted when you insert a row. Please see the attached picture. enter image description here

C++ Array of pointers: delete or delete []?

The second one is correct under the circumstances (well, the least wrong, anyway).

Edit: "least wrong", as in the original code shows no good reason to be using new or delete in the first place, so you should probably just use:

std::vector<Monster> monsters;

The result will be simpler code and cleaner separation of responsibilities.

jQuery find events handlers registered with an object

Another way to do it is to just use jQuery to grab the element, then go through actual Javascript to get and set and play with the event handlers. For instance:

var oldEventHandler = $('#element')[0].onclick;
// Remove event handler
$('#element')[0].onclick = null;
// Switch it back
$('#element')[0].onclick = oldEventHandler;

Is Task.Result the same as .GetAwaiter.GetResult()?

If a task faults, the exception is re-thrown when the continuation code calls awaiter.GetResult(). Rather than calling GetResult, we could simply access the Result property of the task. The benefit of calling GetResult is that if the task faults, the exception is thrown directly without being wrapped in AggregateException, allowing for simpler and cleaner catch blocks.

For nongeneric tasks, GetResult() has a void return value. Its useful function is then solely to rethrow exceptions.

source : c# 7.0 in a Nutshell

How to convert .pem into .key?

I assume you want the DER encoded version of your PEM private key.

openssl rsa -outform der -in private.pem -out private.key

How to find when a web page was last updated

This is a Pythonic way to do it:

import httplib
import yaml
c = httplib.HTTPConnection(address)
c.request('GET', url_path)
r = c.getresponse()
# get the date into a datetime object
lmd = r.getheader('last-modified')
if lmd != None:
   cur_data = { url: datetime.strptime(lmd, '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z') }
else:
   print "Hmmm, no last-modified data was returned from the URL."
   print "Returned header:"
   print yaml.dump(dict(r.getheaders()), default_flow_style=False)

The rest of the script includes an example of archiving a page and checking for changes against the new version, and alerting someone by email.

ValueError: object too deep for desired array while using convolution

np.convolve() takes one dimension array. You need to check the input and convert it into 1D.

You can use the np.ravel(), to convert the array to one dimension.

How to resolve Error : Showing a modal dialog box or form when the application is not running in UserInteractive mode is not a valid operation

You also encounter this if you run an Application on a Scheduled Task in Non-Interactive mode.

As soon as you show a Dialog it throws the error:

Showing a modal dialog box or form when the application is not running in UserInteractive mode is not a valid operation. Specify the ServiceNotification or DefaultDesktopOnly style to display a notification from a service application.

You can see its a MessageBox causing the problem in the stack trace:

at System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.ShowCore(IWin32Window owner, String text, String caption, MessageBoxButtons buttons, MessageBoxIcon icon,  MessageBoxDefaultButton defaultButton, MessageBoxOptions options, Boolean showHelp)  

Solution

If you're running your app on a Scheduled Task send an email instead of showing a Dialog.

How to scp in Python?

If you are on *nix you can use sshpass

sshpass -p password scp -o User=username -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no src dst:/path

Apply vs transform on a group object

you can use zscore to analyze the data in column C and D for outliers, where zscore is the series - series.mean / series.std(). Use apply too create a user defined function for difference between C and D creating a new resulting dataframe. Apply uses the group result set.

from scipy.stats import zscore

columns = ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D']
records = [
['foo', 'one', 0.162003, 0.087469],
['bar', 'one', -1.156319, -1.5262719999999999],
['foo', 'two', 0.833892, -1.666304],     
['bar', 'three', -2.026673, -0.32205700000000004],
['foo', 'two', 0.41145200000000004, -0.9543709999999999],
['bar', 'two', 0.765878, -0.095968],
['foo', 'one', -0.65489, 0.678091],
['foo', 'three', -1.789842, -1.130922]
]
df = pd.DataFrame.from_records(records, columns=columns)
print(df)

standardize=df.groupby('A')['C','D'].transform(zscore)
print(standardize)
outliersC= (standardize['C'] <-1.1) | (standardize['C']>1.1)
outliersD= (standardize['D'] <-1.1) | (standardize['D']>1.1)

results=df[outliersC | outliersD]
print(results)

   #Dataframe results
   A      B         C         D
   0  foo    one  0.162003  0.087469
   1  bar    one -1.156319 -1.526272
   2  foo    two  0.833892 -1.666304
   3  bar  three -2.026673 -0.322057
   4  foo    two  0.411452 -0.954371
   5  bar    two  0.765878 -0.095968
   6  foo    one -0.654890  0.678091
   7  foo  three -1.789842 -1.130922
 #C and D transformed Z score
           C         D
 0  0.398046  0.801292
 1 -0.300518 -1.398845
 2  1.121882 -1.251188
 3 -1.046514  0.519353
 4  0.666781 -0.417997
 5  1.347032  0.879491
 6 -0.482004  1.492511
 7 -1.704704 -0.624618

 #filtering using arbitrary ranges -1 and 1 for the z-score
      A      B         C         D
 1  bar    one -1.156319 -1.526272
 2  foo    two  0.833892 -1.666304
 5  bar    two  0.765878 -0.095968
 6  foo    one -0.654890  0.678091
 7  foo  three -1.789842 -1.130922


 >>>>>>>>>>>>> Part 2

 splitting = df.groupby('A')

 #look at how the data is grouped
 for group_name, group in splitting:
     print(group_name)

 def column_difference(gr):
      return gr['C']-gr['D']

 grouped=splitting.apply(column_difference)
 print(grouped)

 A     
 bar  1    0.369953
      3   -1.704616
      5    0.861846
 foo  0    0.074534
      2    2.500196
      4    1.365823
      6   -1.332981
      7   -0.658920

How do I set up access control in SVN?

Although I would suggest the Apache approach is better, SVN Serve works fine and is pretty straightforward.

Assuming your repository is called "my_repo", and it is stored in C:\svn_repos:

  1. Create a file called "passwd" in "C:\svn_repos\my_repo\conf". This file should look like:

    [Users]
    username = password
    john = johns_password
    steve = steves_password
    
  2. In C:\svn_repos\my_repo\conf\svnserve.conf set:

    [general]
    password-db = passwd
    auth-access=read
    auth-access=write
    

This will force users to log in to read or write to this repository.

Follow these steps for each repository, only including the appropriate users in the passwd file for each repository.

How do I put my website's logo to be the icon image in browser tabs?

<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="114x114" href="${resource(dir: 'images', file: 
'apple-touch-icon-retina.png')}">

or you can use this one

<link rel="shortcut icon" sizes="114x114" href="${resource(dir: 'images', file: 'favicon.ico')}"
type="image/x-icon">

How can I define fieldset border color?

If you don't want 3D border use:

border:#f00 1px solid;

tmux status bar configuration

I used tmux-powerline to fully pimp my tmux status bar. I was googling for a way to change to background of the status bar when your typing a tmux command. When I stumbled on this post I thought I should mention it for completeness.

Update: This project is in a maintenance mode and no future functionality is likely to be added. tmux-powerline, with all other powerline projects, is replaced by the new unifying powerline. However this project is still functional and can serve as a lightweight alternative for non-python users.

.attr('checked','checked') does not work

$('.checkbox').prop('checked',true); 
$('.checkbox').prop('checked',false);

... works perfectly with jquery1.9.1

Tar archiving that takes input from a list of files

For me on AIX, it worked as follows:

tar -L List.txt -cvf BKP.tar

How can I add a Google search box to my website?

Figured it out, folks! for the NAME of the text box, you have to use "q". I had "g" just for my own personal preferences. But apparently it has to be "q".

Anyone know why?

Using "margin: 0 auto;" in Internet Explorer 8

Form controls are replaced elements in CSS.

10.3.4 Block-level, replaced elements in normal flow

The used value of 'width' is determined as for inline replaced elements. Then the rules for non-replaced block-level elements are applied to determine the margins.

So the form control should not be stretched to 100% width.

However, it should be centered. It looks like an ordinary bug in IE8. It centers the element if you set specific width:

<input type="submit" style="display: block; width:100px; margin: 0 auto;" />

Reference member variables as class members

Is there a name to describe this idiom?

In UML it is called aggregation. It differs from composition in that the member object is not owned by the referring class. In C++ you can implement aggregation in two different ways, through references or pointers.

I am assuming it is to prevent the possibly large overhead of copying a big complex object?

No, that would be a really bad reason to use this. The main reason for aggregation is that the contained object is not owned by the containing object and thus their lifetimes are not bound. In particular the referenced object lifetime must outlive the referring one. It might have been created much earlier and might live beyond the end of the lifetime of the container. Besides that, the state of the referenced object is not controlled by the class, but can change externally. If the reference is not const, then the class can change the state of an object that lives outside of it.

Is this generally good practice? Are there any pitfalls to this approach?

It is a design tool. In some cases it will be a good idea, in some it won't. The most common pitfall is that the lifetime of the object holding the reference must never exceed the lifetime of the referenced object. If the enclosing object uses the reference after the referenced object was destroyed, you will have undefined behavior. In general it is better to prefer composition to aggregation, but if you need it, it is as good a tool as any other.

Shared folder between MacOSX and Windows on Virtual Box

Using a Windows 10 guest, after I performed steps 1 through 3 from @xinampc's answer, I had to open a new File Explorer and navigated to This PC > CD Drive (D:) VirtualBox Guest Additions to run VBoxWindowsAdditions. After I ran that and went through the command prompts, Windows rebooted and I was able to see VBOXSVR under Network.