Remove blank values from array using C#

You can use Linq in case you are using .NET 3.5 or later:

 test = test.Where(x => !string.IsNullOrEmpty(x)).ToArray();

If you can't use Linq then you can do it like this:

var temp = new List<string>();
foreach (var s in test)
{
    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(s))
        temp.Add(s);
}
test = temp.ToArray();

Save Screen (program) output to a file

Ctrl+A then Shift+H works for me. You can view the file screenlog.0 while the program is still running.

Does Google Chrome work with Selenium IDE (as Firefox does)?

If you want to harness Selenium IDE record & playback capabilities for Chrome browser there is an equivalent extension for Chrome called Scirocco. You can add it to Chrome by visiting here using your Chrome browser https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/scirocco

Scirocco is created by Sonix Asia and is not as polished as Selenium IDE for Firefox. It is in fact quite buggy in places. But it does what you ask.

How do I use updatePanel in asp.net without refreshing all page?

Read these tutorials Asp.net Update Panel and Introduction to the UpdatePanel Control

Simple and understandable

What is the best way to modify a list in a 'foreach' loop?

Here's how you can do that (quick and dirty solution. If you really need this kind of behavior, you should either reconsider your design or override all IList<T> members and aggregate the source list):

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace ConsoleApplication3
{
    public class ModifiableList<T> : List<T>
    {
        private readonly IList<T> pendingAdditions = new List<T>();
        private int activeEnumerators = 0;

        public ModifiableList(IEnumerable<T> collection) : base(collection)
        {
        }

        public ModifiableList()
        {
        }

        public new void Add(T t)
        {
            if(activeEnumerators == 0)
                base.Add(t);
            else
                pendingAdditions.Add(t);
        }

        public new IEnumerator<T> GetEnumerator()
        {
            ++activeEnumerators;

            foreach(T t in ((IList<T>)this))
                yield return t;

            --activeEnumerators;

            AddRange(pendingAdditions);
            pendingAdditions.Clear();
        }
    }

    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            ModifiableList<int> ints = new ModifiableList<int>(new int[] { 2, 4, 6, 8 });

            foreach(int i in ints)
                ints.Add(i * 2);

            foreach(int i in ints)
                Console.WriteLine(i * 2);
        }
    }
}

UnicodeDecodeError, invalid continuation byte

In binary, 0xE9 looks like 1110 1001. If you read about UTF-8 on Wikipedia, you’ll see that such a byte must be followed by two of the form 10xx xxxx. So, for example:

>>> b'\xe9\x80\x80'.decode('utf-8')
u'\u9000'

But that’s just the mechanical cause of the exception. In this case, you have a string that is almost certainly encoded in latin 1. You can see how UTF-8 and latin 1 look different:

>>> u'\xe9'.encode('utf-8')
b'\xc3\xa9'
>>> u'\xe9'.encode('latin-1')
b'\xe9'

(Note, I'm using a mix of Python 2 and 3 representation here. The input is valid in any version of Python, but your Python interpreter is unlikely to actually show both unicode and byte strings in this way.)

C# how to use enum with switch

You don't need to convert it

switch(op)
{
     case Operator.PLUS:
     {
        // your code 
        // for plus operator
        break;
     }
     case Operator.MULTIPLY:
     {
        // your code 
        // for MULTIPLY operator
        break;
     }
     default: break;
}

By the way, use brackets

Recursive Fibonacci

if(n==1 || n==0){
    return n;
}else{     
    return fib(n-1) + fib(n-2);
}

However, using recursion to get fibonacci number is bad practice, because function is called about 8.5 times than received number. E.g. to get fibonacci number of 30 (1346269) - function is called 7049122 times!

Java - Convert String to valid URI object

Well I tried using

String converted = URLDecoder.decode("toconvert","UTF-8");

I hope this is what you were actually looking for?

Using Jquery Ajax to retrieve data from Mysql

This answer was for @
Neha Gandhi but I modified it for  people who use pdo and mysqli sing mysql functions are not supported. Here is the new answer 

    <html>
<!--Save this as index.php-->
      <script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.js"></script>
        <script src="//ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.validate/1.9/jquery.validate.min.js"></script>
    
     <script type="text/javascript">
    
     $(document).ready(function() {
    
        $("#display").click(function() {                
    
          $.ajax({    //create an ajax request to display.php
            type: "GET",
            url: "display.php",             
            dataType: "html",   //expect html to be returned                
            success: function(response){                    
                $("#responsecontainer").html(response); 
                //alert(response);
            }
    
        });
    });
    });
    
    </script>
    
    <body>
    <h3 align="center">Manage Student Details</h3>
    <table border="1" align="center">
       <tr>
           <td> <input type="button" id="display" value="Display All Data" /> </td>
       </tr>
    </table>
    <div id="responsecontainer" align="center">
    
    </div>
    </body>
    </html>

<?php
// save this as display.php


    // show errors 
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
    //errors ends here 
// call the page for connecting to the db
require_once('dbconnector.php');
?>
<?php
$get_member =" SELECT 
empid, lastName, firstName, email, usercode, companyid, userid, jobTitle, cell, employeetype, address ,initials   FROM employees";
$user_coder1 = $con->prepare($get_member);
$user_coder1 ->execute();

echo "<table border='1' >
<tr>
<td align=center> <b>Roll No</b></td>
<td align=center><b>Name</b></td>
<td align=center><b>Address</b></td>
<td align=center><b>Stream</b></td></td>
<td align=center><b>Status</b></td>";

while($row =$user_coder1->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)){
$firstName = $row['firstName'];
$empid = $row['empid'];
$lastName =    $row['lastName'];
$cell =    $row['cell'];

    echo "<tr>";
    echo "<td align=center>$firstName</td>";
    echo "<td align=center>$empid</td>";
    echo "<td align=center>$lastName </td>";
    echo "<td align=center>$cell</td>";
    echo "<td align=center>$cell</td>";
    echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>";
?>

<?php
// save this as dbconnector.php
function connected_Db(){

    $dsn  = 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=mydb;charset=utf8';
    $opt  = array(
        PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE            => PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION,
        PDO::ATTR_DEFAULT_FETCH_MODE => PDO::FETCH_ASSOC
    );
    #echo "Yes we are connected";
    return new PDO($dsn,'username','password', $opt);
    
}
$con = connected_Db();
if($con){
//echo "me  is connected ";
}
else {
//echo "Connection faid ";
exit();
}
?>

How to get docker-compose to always re-create containers from fresh images?

I claimed 3.5gb space in ubuntu AWS through this.

clean docker

docker stop $(docker ps -qa) && docker system prune -af --volumes

build again

docker build .

docker-compose build

docker-compose up

Check if value already exists within list of dictionaries?

Following works out for me.

    #!/usr/bin/env python
    a = [{ 'main_color': 'red', 'second_color':'blue'},
    { 'main_color': 'yellow', 'second_color':'green'},
    { 'main_color': 'yellow', 'second_color':'blue'}]

    found_event = next(
            filter(
                lambda x: x['main_color'] == 'red',
                a
            ),
      #return this dict when not found
            dict(
                name='red',
                value='{}'
            )
        )

    if found_event:
        print(found_event)

    $python  /tmp/x
    {'main_color': 'red', 'second_color': 'blue'}

Replace deprecated preg_replace /e with preg_replace_callback

You can use an anonymous function to pass the matches to your function:

$result = preg_replace_callback(
    "/\{([<>])([a-zA-Z0-9_]*)(\?{0,1})([a-zA-Z0-9_]*)\}(.*)\{\\1\/\\2\}/isU",
    function($m) { return CallFunction($m[1], $m[2], $m[3], $m[4], $m[5]); },
    $result
);

Apart from being faster, this will also properly handle double quotes in your string. Your current code using /e would convert a double quote " into \".

Using OpenGl with C#?

You can OpenGL without a wrapper and use it natively in C#. Just as Jeff Mc said, you would have to import all the functions you need with DllImport.

What he left out is having to create context before you can use any of the OpenGL functions. It's not hard, but there are few other not-so-intuitive DllImports that need to be done.

I have created an example C# project in VS2012 with almost the bare minimum necessary to get OpenGL running on Windows box. It only paints the window blue, but it should be enough to get you started. The example can be found at http://www.glinos-labs.org/?q=programming-opengl-csharp. Look for the No Wrapper example at the bottom.

Delete all data rows from an Excel table (apart from the first)

I'm simply using this:

On Error Resume Next
Worksheets("Sheet1").ListObjects("Table1").DataBodyRange.Rows.Delete

The first line stays in all cases (it is cleared, of course).

Using jQuery how to get click coordinates on the target element

$('#something').click(function (e){
    var elm = $(this);
    var xPos = e.pageX - elm.offset().left;
    var yPos = e.pageY - elm.offset().top;

    console.log(xPos, yPos);
});

Could not load file or assembly '' or one of its dependencies

In my case in the bin folder was a non reference dll called Unity.MVC3 , i tried to search any reference to this in visual studio without success, so my solution was so easy as delete that dll from the bin folder.

What does $1 [QSA,L] mean in my .htaccess file?

If the following conditions are true, then rewrite the URL:
If the requested filename is not a directory,

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

and if the requested filename is not a regular file that exists,

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

and if the requested filename is not a symbolic link,

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l

then rewrite the URL in the following way:
Take the whole request filename and provide it as the value of a "url" query parameter to index.php. Append any query string from the original URL as further query parameters (QSA), and stop processing this .htaccess file (L).

RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]

Apache docs #flag_qsa

Another Example:

RewriteRule "/pages/(.+)" "/page.php?page=$1" [QSA]

With the [QSA] flag, a request for

/pages/123?one=two

will be mapped to

/page.php?page=123&one=two

react hooks useEffect() cleanup for only componentWillUnmount?

useEffect are isolated within its own scope and gets rendered accordingly. Image from https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-custom.html

enter image description here

Different ways of loading a file as an InputStream

Use MyClass.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(path) to load resource associated with your code. Use MyClass.class.getResourceAsStream(path) as a shortcut, and for resources packaged within your class' package.

Use Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(path) to get resources that are part of client code, not tightly bounds to the calling code. You should be careful with this as the thread context class loader could be pointing at anything.

Node.js getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND

in the options for the HTTP request, switch it to

var options = { host: 'eternagame.wikia.com', 
                path: '/wiki/EteRNA_Dictionary' };

I think that'll fix your problem.

jQuery equivalent to Prototype array.last()

SugarJS

It's not jQuery but another library you may find useful in addition to jQuery: Try SugarJS.

Sugar is a Javascript library that extends native objects with helpful methods. It is designed to be intuitive, unobtrusive, and let you do more with less code.

With SugarJS, you can do:

[1,2,3,4].last()    //  => 4

That means, your example does work out of the box:

var array = [1,2,3,4];
var lastEl = array.last();    //  => 4

More Info

Disable the postback on an <ASP:LinkButton>

You can do it too

...LinkButton ID="BtnForgotPassword" runat="server" OnClientClick="ChangeText('1');return false"...

And it stop the link button postback

Capture iframe load complete event

There is another consistent way (only for IE9+) in vanilla JavaScript for this:

const iframe = document.getElementById('iframe');
const handleLoad = () => console.log('loaded');

iframe.addEventListener('load', handleLoad, true)

And if you're interested in Observables this does the trick:

return Observable.fromEventPattern(
  handler => iframe.addEventListener('load', handler, true),
  handler => iframe.removeEventListener('load', handler)
);

How to get the caller's method name in the called method?

This seems to work just fine:

import sys
print sys._getframe().f_back.f_code.co_name

Detect Android phone via Javascript / jQuery

I think Michal's answer is the best, but we can take it a step further and dynamically load an Android CSS as per the original question:

var isAndroid = /(android)/i.test(navigator.userAgent);
if (isAndroid) {
    var css = document.createElement("link");
    css.setAttribute("rel", "stylesheet");
    css.setAttribute("type", "text/css");
    css.setAttribute("href", "/css/android.css");
    document.body.appendChild(css);
}

What do these three dots in React do?

Is usually called spread operator, it is use to expand wherever is required

example

const SomeStyle = {
   margin:10,
   background:#somehexa
}

you can use this where ever you requires it more about spread operator Spread syntax.

How can I switch themes in Visual Studio 2012

Also, you can use or create and share Visual Studio color schemes: https://studiostyl.es/

How to get the list of all installed color schemes in Vim?

You can see the list of color schemes under /usr/share/vim/vimNN/colors (with NN being the version, e.g. vim74 for vim 7.4).

This is explained here.

On the linux servers I use via ssh, TAB prints ^I and CTRLd prints ^D.

CakePHP select default value in SELECT input

 $this->Form->input('Leaf.id', array(
'type'=>'select',
'label'=>'Leaf',
'options'=>$leafs,
'value'=>2
));

This will select default second index position value from list of option in $leafs.

Java - How to create a custom dialog box?

Well, you essentially create a JDialog, add your text components and make it visible. It might help if you narrow down which specific bit you're having trouble with.

Library not loaded: libmysqlclient.16.dylib error when trying to run 'rails server' on OS X 10.6 with mysql2 gem

For me I had to manually uninstall mysql

brew uninstall mysql
rm -rf /usr/local/var/mysql
brew install mysql

How to stop a PowerShell script on the first error?

Redirecting stderr to stdout seems to also do the trick without any other commands/scriptblock wrappers although I can't find an explanation why it works that way..

# test.ps1

$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"

aws s3 ls s3://xxx
echo "==> pass"

aws s3 ls s3://xxx 2>&1
echo "shouldn't be here"

This will output the following as expected (the command aws s3 ... returns $LASTEXITCODE = 255)

PS> .\test.ps1

An error occurred (AccessDenied) when calling the ListObjectsV2 operation: Access Denied
==> pass

Count number of iterations in a foreach loop

$Contents = array(
    array('number'=>1), 
    array('number'=>2), 
    array('number'=>4), 
    array('number'=>4), 
    array('number'=>4), 
    array('number'=>5)
);

$counts = array();

foreach ($Contents as $item) {
    if (!isset($counts[$item['number']])) {
        $counts[$item['number']] = 0;
    }
    $counts[$item['number']]++;
}

echo $counts[4]; // output 3

How to select a specific node with LINQ-to-XML

I'd use something like:

dim customer = (from c in xmldoc...<Customer> 
                where c.<ID>.Value=22 
                select c).SingleOrDefault

Edit:

missed the c# tag, sorry......the example is in VB.NET

Javascript communication between browser tabs/windows

You can do this via local storage API. Note that this works only between 2 tabs. you can't put both sender and receiver on the same page:

On sender page:

localStorage.setItem("someKey", "someValue");

On the receiver page

    $(document).ready(function () {

        window.addEventListener('storage', storageEventHandler, false);

        function storageEventHandler(evt) {
            alert("storage event called key: " + evt.key);
        }
    });

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Declaring something static has several implications.

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

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

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

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

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

    public static class SomeStaticInnerClass {

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

    }
}

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

public class SomeObject {

    private static int x;

    static {
        x = 7;
    }
}

How to serialize an object into a string

How about persisting the object as a blob

When is null or undefined used in JavaScript?

You get undefined for the various scenarios:

You declare a variable with var but never set it.

var foo; 
alert(foo); //undefined.

You attempt to access a property on an object you've never set.

var foo = {};
alert(foo.bar); //undefined

You attempt to access an argument that was never provided.

function myFunction (foo) {
  alert(foo); //undefined.
}

As cwolves pointed out in a comment on another answer, functions that don't return a value.

function myFunction () {
}
alert(myFunction());//undefined

A null usually has to be intentionally set on a variable or property (see comments for a case in which it can appear without having been set). In addition a null is of type object and undefined is of type undefined.

I should also note that null is valid in JSON but undefined is not:

JSON.parse(undefined); //syntax error
JSON.parse(null); //null

What is the use of WPFFontCache Service in WPF? WPFFontCache_v0400.exe taking 100 % CPU all the time this exe is running, why?

Shortcut way: (windows xp)

1) click Start > run > services.msc

2) Scroll down to 'Windows Presentation Foundation Font Cache 4.0.0.0' and then right click and select properties

How do I setup the InternetExplorerDriver so it works

This is just to help somebody in future. When we initiate InternetExplorerDriver() instance in a java project it uses IEDriver.exe (downloaded by individuals) which tries to extract temporary files in user's TEMP folder when it's not in path then ur busted.

Safest way is to provide your own extract path as shown below

System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver.extractpath", "F:\\Study\\");
System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", "F:\\Study\\IEDriverServer.exe");
System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.logfile", "F:\\Study\\IEDriverServer.log");
InternetExplorerDriver d = new InternetExplorerDriver();
d.get("http://www.google.com");
d.quit();

Why is it said that "HTTP is a stateless protocol"?

HTTP is stateless. TCP is stateful. There is no so-called HTTP connection, but only HTTP request and HTTP response. We don't need anything to be maintained to make another HTTP request. A connection header that is "keep-alive" means the TCP will be reused by the subsequent HTTP requests and responses, instead of disconnecting and re-establishing TCP connection all the time.

LINQ: "contains" and a Lambda query

The Linq extension method Any could work for you...

buildingStatus.Any(item => item.GetCharValue() == v.Status)

How to turn off magic quotes on shared hosting?

If you're running PHP 5.3+ this will do the trick, place it at the topmost of your page:

if (get_magic_quotes_gpc() === 1)
{
    $_GET = json_decode(stripslashes(json_encode($_GET, JSON_HEX_APOS)), true);
    $_POST = json_decode(stripslashes(json_encode($_POST, JSON_HEX_APOS)), true);
    $_COOKIE = json_decode(stripslashes(json_encode($_COOKIE, JSON_HEX_APOS)), true);
    $_REQUEST = json_decode(stripslashes(json_encode($_REQUEST, JSON_HEX_APOS)), true);
}

Handles keys, values and multi-dimensional arrays.

How to store command results in a shell variable?

The syntax to store the command output into a variable is var=$(command).

So you can directly do:

result=$(ls -l | grep -c "rahul.*patle")

And the variable $result will contain the number of matches.

What is the boundary in multipart/form-data?

Is the ??? free to be defined by the user?

Yes.

or is it supplied by the HTML?

No. HTML has nothing to do with that. Read below.

Is it possible for me to define the ??? as abcdefg?

Yes.

If you want to send the following data to the web server:

name = John
age = 12

using application/x-www-form-urlencoded would be like this:

name=John&age=12

As you can see, the server knows that parameters are separated by an ampersand &. If & is required for a parameter value then it must be encoded.

So how does the server know where a parameter value starts and ends when it receives an HTTP request using multipart/form-data?

Using the boundary, similar to &.

For example:

--XXX
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="name"

John
--XXX
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="age"

12
--XXX--

In that case, the boundary value is XXX. You specify it in the Content-Type header so that the server knows how to split the data it receives.

So you need to:

Use a value that won't appear in the HTTP data sent to the server.
Be consistent and use the same value everywhere in the request message.

Please explain the exec() function and its family

Simplistically, in UNIX, you have the concept of processes and programs. A process is an environment in which a program executes.

The simple idea behind the UNIX "execution model" is that there are two operations you can do.

The first is to fork(), which creates a brand new process containing a duplicate (mostly) of the current program, including its state. There are a few differences between the two processes which allow them to figure out which is the parent and which is the child.

The second is to exec(), which replaces the program in the current process with a brand new program.

From those two simple operations, the entire UNIX execution model can be constructed.

To add some more detail to the above:

The use of fork() and exec() exemplifies the spirit of UNIX in that it provides a very simple way to start new processes.

The fork() call makes a near duplicate of the current process, identical in almost every way (not everything is copied over, for example, resource limits in some implementations, but the idea is to create as close a copy as possible). Only one process calls fork() but two processes return from that call - sounds bizarre but it's really quite elegant

The new process (called the child) gets a different process ID (PID) and has the PID of the old process (the parent) as its parent PID (PPID).

Because the two processes are now running exactly the same code, they need to be able to tell which is which - the return code of fork() provides this information - the child gets 0, the parent gets the PID of the child (if the fork() fails, no child is created and the parent gets an error code).

That way, the parent knows the PID of the child and can communicate with it, kill it, wait for it and so on (the child can always find its parent process with a call to getppid()).

The exec() call replaces the entire current contents of the process with a new program. It loads the program into the current process space and runs it from the entry point.

So, fork() and exec() are often used in sequence to get a new program running as a child of a current process. Shells typically do this whenever you try to run a program like find - the shell forks, then the child loads the find program into memory, setting up all command line arguments, standard I/O and so forth.

But they're not required to be used together. It's perfectly acceptable for a program to call fork() without a following exec() if, for example, the program contains both parent and child code (you need to be careful what you do, each implementation may have restrictions).

This was used quite a lot (and still is) for daemons which simply listen on a TCP port and fork a copy of themselves to process a specific request while the parent goes back to listening. For this situation, the program contains both the parent and the child code.

Similarly, programs that know they're finished and just want to run another program don't need to fork(), exec() and then wait()/waitpid() for the child. They can just load the child directly into their current process space with exec().

Some UNIX implementations have an optimized fork() which uses what they call copy-on-write. This is a trick to delay the copying of the process space in fork() until the program attempts to change something in that space. This is useful for those programs using only fork() and not exec() in that they don't have to copy an entire process space. Under Linux, fork() only makes a copy of the page tables and a new task structure, exec() will do the grunt work of "separating" the memory of the two processes.

If the exec is called following fork (and this is what happens mostly), that causes a write to the process space and it is then copied for the child process, before modifications are allowed.

Linux also has a vfork(), even more optimised, which shares just about everything between the two processes. Because of that, there are certain restrictions in what the child can do, and the parent halts until the child calls exec() or _exit().

The parent has to be stopped (and the child is not permitted to return from the current function) since the two processes even share the same stack. This is slightly more efficient for the classic use case of fork() followed immediately by exec().

Note that there is a whole family of exec calls (execl, execle, execve and so on) but exec in context here means any of them.

The following diagram illustrates the typical fork/exec operation where the bash shell is used to list a directory with the ls command:

+--------+
| pid=7  |
| ppid=4 |
| bash   |
+--------+
    |
    | calls fork
    V
+--------+             +--------+
| pid=7  |    forks    | pid=22 |
| ppid=4 | ----------> | ppid=7 |
| bash   |             | bash   |
+--------+             +--------+
    |                      |
    | waits for pid 22     | calls exec to run ls
    |                      V
    |                  +--------+
    |                  | pid=22 |
    |                  | ppid=7 |
    |                  | ls     |
    V                  +--------+
+--------+                 |
| pid=7  |                 | exits
| ppid=4 | <---------------+
| bash   |
+--------+
    |
    | continues
    V

Is it possible to use Java 8 for Android development?

Android uses a Java that branches off of Java 6.

As of Android SDK version 19, you can use Java 7 features by doing this. No full support for Java 8 (yet).

What HTTP traffic monitor would you recommend for Windows?

Microsoft Network Monitor (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=983b941d-06cb-4658-b7f6-3088333d062f)

Can I use an HTML input type "date" to collect only a year?

I try with this, no modifications on the css.

_x000D_

$(function() {_x000D_
  $('#datepicker').datepicker({_x000D_
    changeYear: true,_x000D_
    showButtonPanel: true,_x000D_
    dateFormat: 'yy',_x000D_
    onClose: function(dateText, inst) {_x000D_
      var year = $("#ui-datepicker-div .ui-datepicker-year :selected").val();_x000D_
      $(this).datepicker('setDate', new Date(year, 1));_x000D_
    }_x000D_
  });_x000D_
_x000D_
  $("#datepicker").focus(function() {_x000D_
    $(".ui-datepicker-month").hide();_x000D_
    $(".ui-datepicker-calendar").hide();_x000D_
  });_x000D_
_x000D_
});

_x000D_

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<p>Date: <input type="text" id="datepicker" /></p>

_x000D_

Example code jsfiddle

How can I use a custom font in Java?

If you want to use the font to draw with graphics2d or similar, this works:

InputStream stream = ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("roboto-bold.ttf")
Font font = Font.createFont(Font.TRUETYPE_FONT, stream).deriveFont(48f)

How to specify 64 bit integers in c

How to specify 64 bit integers in c

Going against the usual good idea to appending LL.

Appending LL to a integer constant will insure the type is at least as wide as long long. If the integer constant is octal or hex, the constant will become unsigned long long if needed.

If ones does not care to specify too wide a type, then LL is OK. else, read on.

long long may be wider than 64-bit.

Today, it is rare that long long is not 64-bit, yet C specifies long long to be at least 64-bit. So by using LL, in the future, code may be specifying, say, a 128-bit number.

C has Macros for integer constants which in the below case will be type int_least64_t

#include <stdint.h>
#include <inttypes.h>

int main(void) {
  int64_t big = INT64_C(9223372036854775807);
  printf("%" PRId64 "\n", big);
  uint64_t jenny = INT64_C(0x08675309) << 32;  // shift was done on at least 64-bit type 
  printf("0x%" PRIX64 "\n", jenny);
}

output

9223372036854775807
0x867530900000000

"The public type <<classname>> must be defined in its own file" error in Eclipse

You can have only one public class in a file else you will get the error what you are getting now and name of file must be the name of public class

javascript function wait until another function to finish

Following answer can help in this and other similar situations like synchronous AJAX call -

Working example

waitForMe().then(function(intentsArr){
  console.log('Finally, I can execute!!!');
},
function(err){
  console.log('This is error message.');
})

function waitForMe(){
    // Returns promise
    console.log('Inside waitForMe');
    return new Promise(function(resolve, reject){
        if(true){ // Try changing to 'false'
            setTimeout(function(){
                console.log('waitForMe\'s function succeeded');
                resolve();
            }, 2500);
        }
        else{
            setTimeout(function(){
                console.log('waitForMe\'s else block failed');
                resolve();
            }, 2500);
        }
    });
}

Accessing JPEG EXIF rotation data in JavaScript on the client side

I upload expansion code to show photo by android camera on html as normal on some img tag with right rotaion, especially for img tag whose width is wider than height. I know this code is ugly but you don't need to install any other packages. (I used above code to obtain exif rotation value, Thank you.)

function getOrientation(file, callback) {
  var reader = new FileReader();
  reader.onload = function(e) {

    var view = new DataView(e.target.result);
    if (view.getUint16(0, false) != 0xFFD8) return callback(-2);
    var length = view.byteLength, offset = 2;
    while (offset < length) {
      var marker = view.getUint16(offset, false);
      offset += 2;
      if (marker == 0xFFE1) {
        if (view.getUint32(offset += 2, false) != 0x45786966) return callback(-1);
        var little = view.getUint16(offset += 6, false) == 0x4949;
        offset += view.getUint32(offset + 4, little);
        var tags = view.getUint16(offset, little);
        offset += 2;
        for (var i = 0; i < tags; i++)
          if (view.getUint16(offset + (i * 12), little) == 0x0112)
            return callback(view.getUint16(offset + (i * 12) + 8, little));
      }
      else if ((marker & 0xFF00) != 0xFF00) break;
      else offset += view.getUint16(offset, false);
    }
    return callback(-1);
  };
  reader.readAsArrayBuffer(file);
}

var isChanged = false;
function rotate(elem, orientation) {
    if (isIPhone()) return;

    var degree = 0;
    switch (orientation) {
        case 1:
            degree = 0;
            break;
        case 2:
            degree = 0;
            break;
        case 3:
            degree = 180;
            break;
        case 4:
            degree = 180;
            break;
        case 5:
            degree = 90;
            break;
        case 6:
            degree = 90;
            break;
        case 7:
            degree = 270;
            break;
        case 8:
            degree = 270;
            break;
    }
    $(elem).css('transform', 'rotate('+ degree +'deg)')
    if(degree == 90 || degree == 270) {
        if (!isChanged) {
            changeWidthAndHeight(elem)
            isChanged = true
        }
    } else if ($(elem).css('height') > $(elem).css('width')) {
        if (!isChanged) {
            changeWidthAndHeightWithOutMargin(elem)
            isChanged = true
        } else if(degree == 180 || degree == 0) {
            changeWidthAndHeightWithOutMargin(elem)
            if (!isChanged)
                isChanged = true
            else
                isChanged = false
        }
    }
}


function changeWidthAndHeight(elem){
    var e = $(elem)
    var width = e.css('width')
    var height = e.css('height')
    e.css('width', height)
    e.css('height', width)
    e.css('margin-top', ((getPxInt(height) - getPxInt(width))/2).toString() + 'px')
    e.css('margin-left', ((getPxInt(width) - getPxInt(height))/2).toString() + 'px')
}

function changeWidthAndHeightWithOutMargin(elem){
    var e = $(elem)
    var width = e.css('width')
    var height = e.css('height')
    e.css('width', height)
    e.css('height', width)
    e.css('margin-top', '0')
    e.css('margin-left', '0')
}

function getPxInt(pxValue) {
    return parseInt(pxValue.trim("px"))
}

function isIPhone(){
    return (
        (navigator.platform.indexOf("iPhone") != -1) ||
        (navigator.platform.indexOf("iPod") != -1)
    );
}

and then use such as

$("#banner-img").change(function () {
    var reader = new FileReader();
    getOrientation(this.files[0], function(orientation) {
        rotate($('#banner-img-preview'), orientation, 1)
    });

    reader.onload = function (e) {
        $('#banner-img-preview').attr('src', e.target.result)
        $('#banner-img-preview').css('display', 'inherit')

    };

    // read the image file as a data URL.
    reader.readAsDataURL(this.files[0]);

});

How to change a text with jQuery

Could do it with :contains() selector as well:

$('#toptitle:contains("Profil")').text("New word");

example: http://jsfiddle.net/niklasvh/xPRzr/

string.IsNullOrEmpty(string) vs. string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(string)

It says it all IsNullOrEmpty() does not include white spacing while IsNullOrWhiteSpace() does!

IsNullOrEmpty() If string is:
-Null
-Empty

IsNullOrWhiteSpace() If string is:
-Null
-Empty
-Contains White Spaces Only

How can I verify if one list is a subset of another?

In python 3.5 you can do a [*set()][index] to get the element. It is much slower solution than other methods.

one = [1, 2, 3]
two = [9, 8, 5, 3, 2, 1]

result = set(x in two for x in one)

[*result][0] == True

or just with len and set

len(set(a+b)) == len(set(a))

How do I collapse sections of code in Visual Studio Code for Windows?

Collapsing is now supported in release 1.0:

Source Code Folding Shortcuts

There are new folding actions to collapse source code regions based on their folding level.

There are actions to fold level 1 (Ctrl+K Ctrl+1) to level 5 (Ctrl+K Ctrl+5). To unfold, use Unfold All (Ctrl+Shift+Alt+]).

The level folding actions do not apply to region containing the current cursor.

I had a problem finding the ] button on my keyboard (Norwegian layout), and in my case it was the Å button. (Or two buttons left and one down starting from the backspace button.)

Why do Sublime Text 3 Themes not affect the sidebar?

I thought I would put a note here that explains a basic misconception for a lot of people who are using these Text Editors... Sublime Text in particular (or at least that's the one I use, so I don't know how it works for other editors):

There are "Themes" and there are "Color Schemes". They are similar but affect different things. "Themes" actively change the entire UI, and can include a Color Scheme if you set it up that way. This typically includes the sidebar, and can also include options for the file tabs, and some even include icons for the sidebar as well. And then we have "Color Schemes" which only change the coding windows and nothing else... not the Sidebar, nor the File tabs, etc.

The confusion happens because some people call Color Schemes "Themes" which makes folks think that their "Theme" is going to change everything.... when technically, it's just a color scheme.

And an additional note: Themes don't automatically install for all users. When I install a Theme, I have to open my User preferences (under "preferences > Settings - User"), and then you have to add the line which says something like:

"theme": "Theme-Name.sublime-theme"

(where "Theme-Name" is the name of your theme).

This is different than just activating a color scheme. If you've chosen a color scheme via the dropdown menus in Sublime Text, you will see a line in there like this:

"color_scheme": "Packages/Color-Scheme-Name.tmTheme"

(where "Color-Scheme-Name" is the name of your color scheme).

Error: 'int' object is not subscriptable - Python

When you type x = 0 that is creating a new int variable (name) and assigning a zero to it.

When you type x[age1] that is trying to access the age1'th entry, as if x were an array.

mongod command not recognized when trying to connect to a mongodb server

First, make sure you have the environment variable set up. 1. Right click on my computer 2. properties 3. advanced system settings 4. environment variables 5. edit the PATH variable. and add ;"C:\mongoDb\bin\" to the PATH variable.

Path in the quotes may differ depending on your installation directory. Do not forget the last '\' as it was the main problem in my case.

How to map atan2() to degrees 0-360

Solution using Modulo

A simple solution that catches all cases.

degrees = (degrees + 360) % 360;  // +360 for implementations where mod returns negative numbers

Explanation

Positive: 1 to 180

If you mod any positive number between 1 and 180 by 360, you will get the exact same number you put in. Mod here just ensures these positive numbers are returned as the same value.

Negative: -180 to -1

Using mod here will return values in the range of 180 and 359 degrees.

Special cases: 0 and 360

Using mod means that 0 is returned, making this a safe 0-359 degrees solution.

What does 'index 0 is out of bounds for axis 0 with size 0' mean?

Essentially it means you don't have the index you are trying to reference. For example:

df = pd.DataFrame()
df['this']=np.nan
df['my']=np.nan
df['data']=np.nan
df['data'][0]=5 #I haven't yet assigned how long df[data] should be!
print(df)

will give me the error you are referring to, because I haven't told Pandas how long my dataframe is. Whereas if I do the exact same code but I DO assign an index length, I don't get an error:

df = pd.DataFrame(index=[0,1,2,3,4])
df['this']=np.nan
df['is']=np.nan
df['my']=np.nan
df['data']=np.nan
df['data'][0]=5 #since I've properly labelled my index, I don't run into this problem!
print(df)

Hope that answers your question!

"Agreeing to the Xcode/iOS license requires admin privileges, please re-run as root via sudo." when using GCC

Agreeing to the Xcode/iOS license requires admin privileges, please re-run as root via sudo.

A new version of OSX or XCode was installed and Apple wants you to agree to their Terms and Conditions. So just launch Xcode and "Agree" to them.

How do you stop tracking a remote branch in Git?

You can use this way to remove your remote branch

git remote remove <your remote branch name>

forcing web-site to show in landscape mode only

@Golmaal really answered this, I'm just being a bit more verbose.

<style type="text/css">
    #warning-message { display: none; }
    @media only screen and (orientation:portrait){
        #wrapper { display:none; }
        #warning-message { display:block; }
    }
    @media only screen and (orientation:landscape){
        #warning-message { display:none; }
    }
</style>

....

<div id="wrapper">
    <!-- your html for your website -->
</div>
<div id="warning-message">
    this website is only viewable in landscape mode
</div>

You have no control over the user moving the orientation however you can at least message them. This example will hide the wrapper if in portrait mode and show the warning message and then hide the warning message in landscape mode and show the portrait.

I don't think this answer is any better than @Golmaal , only a compliment to it. If you like this answer, make sure to give @Golmaal the credit.

Update

I've been working with Cordova a lot recently and it turns out you CAN control it when you have access to the native features.

Another Update

So after releasing Cordova it is really terrible in the end. It is better to use something like React Native if you want JavaScript. It is really amazing and I know it isn't pure web but the pure web experience on mobile kind of failed.

Android – Listen For Incoming SMS Messages

This is what i used!

public class SMSListener extends BroadcastReceiver {

    // Get the object of SmsManager
    final SmsManager sms = SmsManager.getDefault();
String mobile,body;

    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {

        // Retrieves a map of extended data from the intent.
        final Bundle bundle = intent.getExtras();

        try {

            if (bundle != null) {

                final Object[] pdusObj = (Object[]) bundle.get("pdus");

                for (int i = 0; i < pdusObj.length; i++) {

                    SmsMessage currentMessage = SmsMessage.createFromPdu((byte[]) pdusObj[i]);
                    String phoneNumber = currentMessage.getDisplayOriginatingAddress();

                    String senderNum = phoneNumber;
                    String message = currentMessage.getDisplayMessageBody();
                     mobile=senderNum.replaceAll("\\s","");
                     body=message.replaceAll("\\s","+");


                    Log.i("SmsReceiver", "senderNum: "+ senderNum + "; message: " + body);


                    // Show Alert
                    int duration = Toast.LENGTH_LONG;
                    Toast toast = Toast.makeText(context,
                            "senderNum: "+ mobile+ ", message: " + message, duration);
                    toast.show();

                } // end for loop
            } // bundle is null

        } catch (Exception e) {
            Log.e("SmsReceiver", "Exception smsReceiver" +e);

        }
    }
}

How to find the highest value of a column in a data frame in R?

Assuming that your data in data.frame called maxinozone, you can do this

max(maxinozone[1, ], na.rm = TRUE)

Index inside map() function

You will be able to get the current iteration's index for the map method through its 2nd parameter.

Example:

const list = [ 'h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o'];
list.map((currElement, index) => {
  console.log("The current iteration is: " + index);
  console.log("The current element is: " + currElement);
  console.log("\n");
  return currElement; //equivalent to list[index]
});

Output:

The current iteration is: 0 <br>The current element is: h

The current iteration is: 1 <br>The current element is: e

The current iteration is: 2 <br>The current element is: l

The current iteration is: 3 <br>The current element is: l 

The current iteration is: 4 <br>The current element is: o

Parameters

callback - Function that produces an element of the new Array, taking three arguments:

1) currentValue
The current element being processed in the array.

2) index
The index of the current element being processed in the array.

3) array
The array map was called upon.

How to open a local disk file with JavaScript?

You can't. New browsers like Firefox, Safari etc. block the 'file' protocol. It will only work on old browsers.

You'll have to upload the files you want.

Why this line xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" must be the first in the layout xml file?

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

This is form of xmlns:android ="@+/id". Now to refernce it we use for example

android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:text="Hello World!"

Another xmlns is

 xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

which is in form of xmlns:app = "@+/id" and its use is given below

 app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
 app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"

Mosaic Grid gallery with dynamic sized images

I think you can try "Google Grid Gallery", it based on aforementioned Masonry with some additions, like styles and viewer.

Return a `struct` from a function in C

struct emp {
    int id;
    char *name;
};

struct emp get() {
    char *name = "John";

    struct emp e1 = {100, name};

    return (e1);
}

int main() {

    struct emp e2 = get();

    printf("%s\n", e2.name);
}

works fine with newer versions of compilers. Just like id, content of the name gets copied to the assigned structure variable.

JsonParseException: Unrecognized token 'http': was expecting ('true', 'false' or 'null')

We have the following string which is a valid JSON ...

Clearly the JSON parser disagrees!

However, the exception says that the error is at "line 1: column 9", and there is no "http" token near the beginning of the JSON. So I suspect that the parser is trying to parse something different than this string when the error occurs.

You need to find what JSON is actually being parsed. Run the application within a debugger, set a breakpoint on the relevant constructor for JsonParseException ... then find out what is in the ByteArrayInputStream that it is attempting to parse.

C# refresh DataGridView when updating or inserted on another form

for refresh data gridview in any where you just need this code:

datagridview1.DataSource = "your DataSource";
datagridview1.Refresh();

What is the difference between Cloud, Grid and Cluster?

Cloud is a marketing term, with the bare minimum feature relating to fast automated provisioning of new servers. HA, utility billing, etc are all features people can lump on top to define it to their own liking.

Grid [Computing] is an extension of clusters where multiple loosely coupled systems are used to solve a single problem. They tend to be multi-tenant, sharing some likeness to Clouds, but tend to rely heavily upon custom frameworks that manage the interop between grid nodes.

Cluster hosting is a specialization of clusters where a load balancer is used to direct incoming traffic to one of many worker nodes. It predates grid computing and doesn't rely on a homogenous abstraction of the underlying nodes as much as Grid computing. A web farm tends to have very specialized machines dedicated to each component type and is far more optimized for that specific task.

For pure hosting, Grid computing is the wrong tool. If you have no idea what your traffic shape is, then a Cloud would be useful. For predictable usage that changes at a reasonable pace, then a traditional cluster is fine and the most efficient.

Bootstrap: how do I change the width of the container?

Add these piece of CSS in your css styling. Its better to add this after the bootstrap css file is added in order to overwrite the same.

html, body {
 height: 100%;
 max-width: 100%;
 overflow-x: hidden;
}`

Find nginx version?

My guess is it's not in your path.
in bash, try:
echo $PATH
and
sudo which nginx
And see if the folder containing nginx is also in your $PATH variable.
If not, either add the folder to your path environment variable, or create an alias (and put it in your .bashrc) ooor your could create a link i guess.
or sudo nginx -v if you just want that...

What is the difference between encrypting and signing in asymmetric encryption?

When encrypting, you use their public key to write a message and they use their private key to read it.

When signing, you use your private key to write message's signature, and they use your public key to check if it's really yours.

I want to use my private key to generate messages so only I can possibly be the sender.

I want my public key to be used to read the messages and I do not care who reads them

This is signing, it is done with your private key.

I want to be able to encrypt certain information and use it as a product key for my software.

I only care that I am the only one who can generate these.

If you only need to know it to yourself, you don't need to mess with keys to do this. You may just generate random data and keep it in a database.

But if you want people to know that the keys are really yours, you need to generate random data, keep in it a database AND sign it with your key.

I would like to include my public key in my software to decrypt/read the signature of the key.

You'll probably need to purchase a certificate for your public key from a commercial provider like Verisign or Thawte, so that people may check that no one had forged your software and replaced your public key with theirs.

Rownum in postgresql

Postgresql have limit.

Oracle's code:

select *
from
  tbl
where rownum <= 1000;

same in Postgresql's code:

select *
from
  tbl
limit 1000

Pagination response payload from a RESTful API

generally, I make by simple way, whatever, I create a restAPI endpoint for example "localhost/api/method/:lastIdObtained/:countDateToReturn" with theses parameters, you can do it a simple request. in the service, eg. .net

jsonData function(lastIdObtained,countDatetoReturn){
'... write your code as you wish..'
and into select query make a filter
select top countDatetoreturn tt.id,tt.desc
 from tbANyThing tt
where id > lastIdObtained
order by id
}

In Ionic, when I scroll from bottom to top, I pass the zero value, when I get the answer, I set the value of the last id obtained, and when I slide from top to bottom, I pass the last registration id I got

remove item from stored array in angular 2

You can delete the data from array

this.data.splice(index, 1);

Recommended website resolution (width and height)?

there are actually industry standards for widths (well according to yahoo at least). Their supported widths are 750, 950, 974, 100%

There are advantages of these widths for their predefined grids (column layouts) which work well with standard dimensions for advertisements if you were to include any.

Interesting talk too worth watching.

see YUI Base

Java: how to import a jar file from command line

you can try to export as "Runnable jar" in eclipse. I have also problems, when i export as "jar", but i have never problems when i export as "Runnable jar".

change PATH permanently on Ubuntu

Add the following line in your .profile file in your home directory (using vi ~/.profile):

PATH=$PATH:/home/me/play
export PATH

Then, for the change to take effect, simply type in your terminal:

$ . ~/.profile

What does the servlet <load-on-startup> value signify

Short Answer: value >= 0 means that the servlet is loaded when the web-app is deployed or when the server starts. value < 0 : servlet is loaded whenever the container feels like.

Long answer (from the spec):

The load-on-startup element indicates that this servlet should be loaded (instantiated and have its init() called) on the startup of the web application. The optional contents of these element must be an integer indicating the order in which the servlet should be loaded. If the value is a negative integer, or the element is not present, the container is free to load the servlet whenever it chooses. If the value is a positive 128 integer or 0, the container must load and initialize the servlet as the application is deployed. The container must guarantee that servlets marked with lower integers are loaded before servlets marked with higher integers. The container may choose the order of loading of servlets with the same load-on-start-up value.

How to retrieve value from elements in array using jQuery?

to read an array, you can also utilize "each" method of jQuery:

$.each($("input[name^='card']"), function(index, val){
    console.log(index + " : " + val);
});

bonus: you can also read objects through this method.

source

Dealing with timestamps in R

You want the (standard) POSIXt type from base R that can be had in 'compact form' as a POSIXct (which is essentially a double representing fractional seconds since the epoch) or as long form in POSIXlt (which contains sub-elements). The cool thing is that arithmetic etc are defined on this -- see help(DateTimeClasses)

Quick example:

R> now <- Sys.time()
R> now
[1] "2009-12-25 18:39:11 CST"
R> as.numeric(now)
[1] 1.262e+09
R> now + 10  # adds 10 seconds
[1] "2009-12-25 18:39:21 CST"
R> as.POSIXlt(now)
[1] "2009-12-25 18:39:11 CST"
R> str(as.POSIXlt(now))
 POSIXlt[1:9], format: "2009-12-25 18:39:11"
R> unclass(as.POSIXlt(now))
$sec
[1] 11.79

$min
[1] 39

$hour
[1] 18

$mday
[1] 25

$mon
[1] 11

$year
[1] 109

$wday
[1] 5

$yday
[1] 358

$isdst
[1] 0

attr(,"tzone")
[1] "America/Chicago" "CST"             "CDT"            
R>

As for reading them in, see help(strptime)

As for difference, easy too:

R> Jan1 <- strptime("2009-01-01 00:00:00", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
R> difftime(now, Jan1, unit="week")
Time difference of 51.25 weeks
R>

Lastly, the zoo package is an extremely versatile and well-documented container for matrix with associated date/time indices.

how to set the query timeout from SQL connection string

No. It's per command, not per connection.

Edit, May 2013

As requested in comment:

SQLCommand.CommandTimeout for command execution
There is no matching SQLConnection property (the questions says not the SqlConnection.ConnectionTimeout property

Some more notes about commands and execution time outs in SQL Server (DBA.SE). And more SO stuff: What happens to an uncommitted transaction when the connection is closed?

.NET DateTime to SqlDateTime Conversion

If you are checking for DBNULL, converting a SQL Datetime to a .NET DateTime should not be a problem. However, you can run into problems converting a .NET DateTime to a valid SQL DateTime.

SQL Server does not recognize dates prior to 1/1/1753. Thats the year England adopted the Gregorian Calendar. Usually checking for DateTime.MinValue is sufficient, but if you suspect that the data could have years before the 18th century, you need to make another check or use a different data type. (I often wonder what Museums use in their databases)

Checking for max date is not really necessary, SQL Server and .NET DateTime both have a max date of 12/31/9999 It may be a valid business rule but it won't cause a problem.

How to change Tkinter Button state from disabled to normal?

You simply have to set the state of the your button self.x to normal:

self.x['state'] = 'normal'

self.x.config(state="normal")

This code would go in the callback for the event that will cause the Button to be enabled.

Also, the right code should be:

self.x = Button(self.dialog, text="Download", state=DISABLED, command=self.download)
self.x.pack(side=LEFT)

The method pack in Button(...).pack() returns None, and you are assigning it to self.x. You actually want to assign the return value of Button(...) to self.x, and then, in the following line, use self.x.pack().

sprintf like functionality in Python

If you want something like the python3 print function but to a string:

def sprint(*args, **kwargs):
    sio = io.StringIO()
    print(*args, **kwargs, file=sio)
    return sio.getvalue()

>>> x = sprint('abc', 10, ['one', 'two'], {'a': 1, 'b': 2}, {1, 2, 3})
>>> x
"abc 10 ['one', 'two'] {'a': 1, 'b': 2} {1, 2, 3}\n"

or without the '\n' at the end:

def sprint(*args, end='', **kwargs):
    sio = io.StringIO()
    print(*args, **kwargs, end=end, file=sio)
    return sio.getvalue()

>>> x = sprint('abc', 10, ['one', 'two'], {'a': 1, 'b': 2}, {1, 2, 3})
>>> x
"abc 10 ['one', 'two'] {'a': 1, 'b': 2} {1, 2, 3}"

How do I check if a number is positive or negative in C#?

First parameter is stored in EAX register and result also.

function IsNegative(ANum: Integer): LongBool; assembler;
asm
   and eax, $80000000
end;

How to get value of checked item from CheckedListBox?

Cast it back to its original type, which will be a DataRowView if you're binding a table, and you can then get the Id and Text from the appropriate columns:

foreach(object itemChecked in checkedListBox1.CheckedItems)
{
     DataRowView castedItem = itemChecked as DataRowView;
     string comapnyName = castedItem["CompanyName"];
     int? id = castedItem["ID"];
}

find_spec_for_exe': can't find gem bundler (>= 0.a) (Gem::GemNotFoundException)

My problem was I'm using RVM and had the wrong Ruby version activated...

Hope this helps at least one person

Git: force user and password prompt

Since the question was labeled with Github, adding another remote like https_origin and add the https connection can force you always to enter the password:

git remote add https_origin https://github.com/.../...

Google Drive as FTP Server

With google-drive-ftp-adapter I have been able to access the My Drive area of Google Drive with the FileZilla FTP client. However, I have not been able to access the Shared with me area.

You can configure which Google account credentials it uses by changing the account property in the configuration.properties file from default to the desired Google account name. See the instructions at http://www.andresoviedo.org/google-drive-ftp-adapter/

Database Structure for Tree Data Structure

If anyone using MS SQL Server 2008 and higher lands on this question: SQL Server 2008 and higher has a new "hierarchyId" feature designed specifically for this task.

More info at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/hierarchical-data-sql-server

How do I declare a 2d array in C++ using new?

If your project is CLI (Common Language Runtime Support), then:

You can use the array class, not that one you get when you write:

#include <array>
using namespace std;

In other words, not the unmanaged array class you get when using the std namespace and when including the array header, not the unmanaged array class defined in the std namespace and in the array header, but the managed class array of the CLI.

with this class, you can create an array of any rank you want.

The following code below creates new two dimensional array of 2 rows and 3 columns and of type int, and I name it "arr":

array<int, 2>^ arr = gcnew array<int, 2>(2, 3);

Now you can access elements in the array, by name it and write only one squared parentheses [], and inside them, add the row and column, and separate them with the comma ,.

The following code below access an element in 2nd row and 1st column of the array I already created in previous code above:

arr[0, 1]

writing only this line is to read the value in that cell, i.e. get the value in this cell, but if you add the equal = sign, you are about to write the value in that cell, i.e. set the value in this cell. You also can use the +=, -=, *= and /= operators of course, for numbers only (int, float, double, __int16, __int32, __int64 and etc), but sure you know it already.

If your project is not CLI, then you can use the unmanaged array class of the std namespace, if you #include <array>, of course, but the problem is that this array class is different than the CLI array. Create array of this type is same like the CLI, except that you will have to remove the ^ sign and the gcnew keyword. But unfortunately the second int parameter in the <> parentheses specifies the length (i.e. size) of the array, not its rank!

There is no way to specify rank in this kind of array, rank is CLI array's feature only..

std array behaves like normal array in c++, that you define with pointer, for example int* and then: new int[size], or without pointer: int arr[size], but unlike the normal array of the c++, std array provides functions that you can use with the elements of the array, like fill, begin, end, size, and etc, but normal array provides nothing.

But still std array are one dimensional array, like the normal c++ arrays. But thanks to the solutions that the other guys suggest about how you can make the normal c++ one dimensional array to two dimensional array, we can adapt the same ideas to std array, e.g. according to Mehrdad Afshari's idea, we can write the following code:

array<array<int, 3>, 2> array2d = array<array<int, 3>, 2>();

This line of code creates a "jugged array", which is an one dimensional array that each of its cells is or points to another one dimensional array.

If all one dimensional arrays in one dimensional array are equal in their length/size, then you can treat the array2d variable as a real two dimensional array, plus you can use the special methods to treat rows or columns, depends on how you view it in mind, in the 2D array, that std array supports.

You also can use Kevin Loney's solution:

int *ary = new int[sizeX*sizeY];

// ary[i][j] is then rewritten as
ary[i*sizeY+j]

but if you use std array, the code must look different:

array<int, sizeX*sizeY> ary = array<int, sizeX*sizeY>();
ary.at(i*sizeY+j);

And still have the unique functions of the std array.

Note that you still can access the elements of the std array using the [] parentheses, and you don't have to call the at function. You also can define and assign new int variable that will calculate and keep the total number of elements in the std array, and use its value, instead of repeating sizeX*sizeY

You can define your own two dimensional array generic class, and define the constructor of the two dimensional array class to receive two integers to specify the number of rows and columns in the new two dimensional array, and define get function that receive two parameters of integer that access an element in the two dimensional array and returns its value, and set function that receives three parameters, that the two first are integers that specify the row and column in the two dimensional array, and the third parameter is the new value of the element. Its type depends on the type you chose in the generic class.

You will be able to implement all this by using either the normal c++ array (pointers or without) or the std array and use one of the ideas that other people suggested, and make it easy to use like the cli array, or like the two dimensional array that you can define, assign and use in C#.

Errors: Data path ".builders['app-shell']" should have required property 'class'

If your moving to angular 8 or 9 this will do the trick

ng update @angular/cli

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

Enum.valueOf() only checks the constant name, so you need to pass it "COLUMN_HEADINGS" instead of "columnHeadings". Your name property has nothing to do with Enum internals.

To address the questions/concerns in the comments:

The enum's "builtin" (implicitly declared) valueOf(String name) method will look up an enum constant with that exact name. If your input is "columnHeadings", you have (at least) three choices:

Forget about the naming conventions for a bit and just name your constants as it makes most sense: enum PropName { contents, columnHeadings, ...}. This is obviously the most convenient.
Convert your camelCase input into UPPER_SNAKE_CASE before calling valueOf, if you're really fond of naming conventions.
Implement your own lookup method instead of the builtin valueOf to find the corresponding constant for an input. This makes most sense if there are multiple possible mappings for the same set of constants.

Ideal way to cancel an executing AsyncTask

I don't like to force interrupt my async tasks with cancel(true) unnecessarily because they may have resources to be freed, such as closing sockets or file streams, writing data to the local database etc. On the other hand, I have faced situations in which the async task refuses to finish itself part of the time, for example sometimes when the main activity is being closed and I request the async task to finish from inside the activity's onPause() method. So it's not a matter of simply calling running = false. I have to go for a mixed solution: both call running = false, then giving the async task a few milliseconds to finish, and then call either cancel(false) or cancel(true).

if (backgroundTask != null) {
    backgroundTask.requestTermination();
    try {
        Thread.sleep((int)(0.5 * 1000));
    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    if (backgroundTask.getStatus() != AsyncTask.Status.FINISHED) {
        backgroundTask.cancel(false);
    }
    backgroundTask = null;
}

As a side result, after doInBackground() finishes, sometimes the onCancelled() method is called, and sometimes onPostExecute(). But at least the async task termination is guaranteed.

Two-way SSL clarification

Both certificates should exist prior to the connection. They're usually created by Certification Authorities (not necessarily the same). (There are alternative cases where verification can be done differently, but some verification will need to be made.)

The server certificate should be created by a CA that the client trusts (and following the naming conventions defined in RFC 6125).

The client certificate should be created by a CA that the server trusts.

It's up to each party to choose what it trusts.

There are online CA tools that will allow you to apply for a certificate within your browser and get it installed there once the CA has issued it. They need not be on the server that requests client-certificate authentication.

The certificate distribution and trust management is the role of the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), implemented via the CAs. The SSL/TLS client and servers and then merely users of that PKI.

When the client connects to a server that requests client-certificate authentication, the server sends a list of CAs it's willing to accept as part of the client-certificate request. The client is then able to send its client certificate, if it wishes to and a suitable one is available.

The main advantages of client-certificate authentication are:

The private information (the private key) is never sent to the server. The client doesn't let its secret out at all during the authentication.
A server that doesn't know a user with that certificate can still authenticate that user, provided it trusts the CA that issued the certificate (and that the certificate is valid). This is very similar to the way passports are used: you may have never met a person showing you a passport, but because you trust the issuing authority, you're able to link the identity to the person.

You may be interested in Advantages of client certificates for client authentication? (on Security.SE).

Android SDK location

Do you have a screen of the content of your folder? This is my setup:

Xamarin

Folder

I hope these screenshots can help you out.

File name without extension name VBA

Answer is here: I think this answer is good, please try it http://mariaevert.dk/vba/?p=162

how to set ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT to be considered for publishing an asp.net core application?

Create your appsettings.*.json files. (Examples: appsettings.Development.json, appsettings.Staging.json, appsettings.Production.json)
Add your variables to those files.
Create a separate publish profile for each environment, like you normally would.
Open PublishProfiles/Development.pubxml (naming will be based on what you named the Publish Profile).
Simply add a tag to the PublishProfile to set the EnvironmentName variable, the appsettings.*.json file naming convention does the rest.

    <PropertyGroup>
      <EnvironmentName>Development</EnvironmentName>
    </PropertyGroup>

Reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy/visual-studio-publish-profiles?view=aspnetcore-3.1

Refer to the “Set the Environment” section.

how to call scalar function in sql server 2008

You have a scalar valued function as opposed to a table valued function. The from clause is used for tables. Just query the value directly in the column list.

select dbo.fun_functional_score('01091400003')

How to make div go behind another div?

One possible could be like this,

HTML

<div class="box-left-mini">
    <div class="front">this div is infront</div>
    <div class="behind">
        this div is behind
    </div>
</div>

CSS

.box-left-mini{
float:left;
background-image:url(website-content/hotcampaign.png);
width:292px;
height:141px;
}
.front{
    background-color:lightgreen;
}
.behind{
    background-color:grey;
    position:absolute;
    width:100%;
    height:100%;
    top:0;
    z-index:-1;
}

http://jsfiddle.net/MgtWS/

But it really depends on the layout of your div elements i.e. if they are floating, or absolute positioned etc.

Initializing a two dimensional std::vector

There is no append method in std::vector, but if you want to make a vector containing A_NUMBER vectors of int, each of those containing other_number zeros, then you can do this:

std::vector<std::vector<int>> fog(A_NUMBER, std::vector<int>(OTHER_NUMBER));

Hide strange unwanted Xcode logs

My solution is to use the debugger command and/or Log Message in breakpoints.

And change the output of console from All Output to Debugger Output like

C# Pass Lambda Expression as Method Parameter

You should use a delegate type and specify that as your command parameter. You could use one of the built in delegate types - Action and Func.

In your case, it looks like your delegate takes two parameters, and returns a result, so you could use Func:

List<IJob> GetJobs(Func<FullTimeJob, Student, FullTimeJob> projection)

You could then call your GetJobs method passing in a delegate instance. This could be a method which matches that signature, an anonymous delegate, or a lambda expression.

P.S. You should use PascalCase for method names - GetJobs, not getJobs.

Oracle "ORA-01008: not all variables bound" Error w/ Parameters

It seems daft, but I think when you use the same bind variable twice you have to set it twice:

cmd.Parameters.Add("VarA", "24");
cmd.Parameters.Add("VarB", "test");
cmd.Parameters.Add("VarB", "test");
cmd.Parameters.Add("VarC", "1234");
cmd.Parameters.Add("VarC", "1234");

Certainly that's true with Native Dynamic SQL in PL/SQL:

SQL> begin
  2     execute immediate 'select * from emp where ename=:name and ename=:name'
  3     using 'KING';
  4  end;
  5  /
begin
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01008: not all variables bound


SQL> begin
  2     execute immediate 'select * from emp where ename=:name and ename=:name' 
  3     using 'KING', 'KING';
  4  end;
  5  /

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

Using Font Awesome icon for bullet points, with a single list item element

@Tama, you may want to check this answer: Using Font Awesome icons as bullets

Basically you can accomplish this by using only CSS without the need for the extra markup as suggested by FontAwesome and the other answers here.

In other words, you can accomplish what you need using the same basic markup you mentioned in your initial post:

<ul>
  <li>...</li>
  <li>...</li>
  <li>...</li>
</ul>

Thanks.

C# Test if user has write access to a folder

Most of the answers here does not check for write access. It just check if the user/group can 'Read Permission' (Read the ACE list of the file/directory).

Also iterating through ACE and checking if it matches the Security Identifier does not work because the user can be a member of a group from which he might get/lose privilege. Worse than that is nested groups.

I know this is an old thread but there is a better way for any one looking now.

Provided the user has Read Permission privilege is, one can use the Authz API to check Effective access.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/secauthz/using-authz-api

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/secauthz/checking-access-with-authz-api

Jackson how to transform JsonNode to ArrayNode without casting?

I would assume at the end of the day you want to consume the data in the ArrayNode by iterating it. For that:

Iterator<JsonNode> iterator = datasets.withArray("datasets").elements();
while (iterator.hasNext()) 
        System.out.print(iterator.next().toString() + " ");

or if you're into streams and lambda functions:

import com.google.common.collect.Streams;
Streams.stream(datasets.withArray("datasets").elements())
    .forEach( item -> System.out.print(item.toString()) )

How to prevent favicon.ico requests?

The easiest way to block these temporarily for testing purposes is to open up the inspect page in chrome by right-clicking anywhere on the page and clicking inspect or by pressing Ctrl+Shift+j and then going to the networking tab and then reloading the page which will send all the requests your page is supposed to make including that annoying favicon.ico. You can now simply right click the favicon.ico request and click "Block request URL".

All of the above answers are for devs who control the app source code. If you are a sysadmin, who's figuring our load-balancer or proxying configuration and is annoyed by this favicon.ico shenanigans, this simple trick does a better job. This answer is for Chrome, but I think there should be a similar alternative which you would figure out for Firefox/Opera/Tor/any other browser :)

Using gradle to find dependency tree

Note that you may need to do something like ./gradlew <module_directory>:<module_name>:dependencies if the module has extra directory before reach its build.gradle. When in doubt, do ./gradlew tasks --all to check the name.

Can you write virtual functions / methods in Java?

In Java, all public (non-private) variables & functions are Virtual by default. Moreover variables & functions using keyword final are not virtual.

How does tuple comparison work in Python?

I had some confusion before regarding integer comparsion, so I will explain it to be more beginner friendly with an example

a = ('A','B','C') # see it as the string "ABC" b = ('A','B','D')

A is converted to its corresponding ASCII ord('A') #65 same for other elements

So, >> a>b # True you can think of it as comparing between string (It is exactly, actually)

the same thing goes for integers too.

x = (1,2,2) # see it the string "123" y = (1,2,3) x > y # False

because (1 is not greater than 1, move to the next, 2 is not greater than 2, move to the next 2 is less than three -lexicographically -)

The key point is mentioned in the answer above

think of it as an element is before another alphabetically not element is greater than an element and in this case consider all the tuple elements as one string.

How do I pick randomly from an array?

Just use Array#sample:

[:foo, :bar].sample # => :foo, or :bar :-)

It is available in Ruby 1.9.1+. To be also able to use it with an earlier version of Ruby, you could require "backports/1.9.1/array/sample".

Note that in Ruby 1.8.7 it exists under the unfortunate name choice; it was renamed in later version so you shouldn't use that.

Although not useful in this case, sample accepts a number argument in case you want a number of distinct samples.

Sort hash by key, return hash in Ruby

I liked the solution in the earlier post.

I made a mini-class, called it class AlphabeticalHash. It also has a method called ap, which accepts one argument, a Hash, as input: ap variable. Akin to pp (pp variable)

But it will (try and) print in alphabetical list (its keys). Dunno if anyone else wants to use this, it's available as a gem, you can install it as such: gem install alphabetical_hash

For me, this is simple enough. If others need more functionality, let me know, I'll include it into the gem.

EDIT: Credit goes to Peter, who gave me the idea. :)

415 Unsupported Media Type - POST json to OData service in lightswitch 2012

It looks like this issue has to do with the difference between the Content-Type and Accept headers. In HTTP, Content-Type is used in request and response payloads to convey the media type of the current payload. Accept is used in request payloads to say what media types the server may use in the response payload.

So, having a Content-Type in a request without a body (like your GET request) has no meaning. When you do a POST request, you are sending a message body, so the Content-Type does matter.

If a server is not able to process the Content-Type of the request, it will return a 415 HTTP error. (If a server is not able to satisfy any of the media types in the request Accept header, it will return a 406 error.)

In OData v3, the media type "application/json" is interpreted to mean the new JSON format ("JSON light"). If the server does not support reading JSON light, it will throw a 415 error when it sees that the incoming request is JSON light. In your payload, your request body is verbose JSON, not JSON light, so the server should be able to process your request. It just doesn't because it sees the JSON light content type.

You could fix this in one of two ways:

Make the Content-Type "application/json;odata=verbose" in your POST request, or
Include the DataServiceVersion header in the request and set it be less than v3. For example:
```
DataServiceVersion: 2.0;
```

(Option 2 assumes that you aren't using any v3 features in your request payload.)

How can I multiply and divide using only bit shifting and adding?

This should work for multiplication:

.data

.text
.globl  main

main:

# $4 * $5 = $2

    addi $4, $0, 0x9
    addi $5, $0, 0x6

    add  $2, $0, $0 # initialize product to zero

Loop:   
    beq  $5, $0, Exit # if multiplier is 0,terminate loop
    andi $3, $5, 1 # mask out the 0th bit in multiplier
    beq  $3, $0, Shift # if the bit is 0, skip add
    addu $2, $2, $4 # add (shifted) multiplicand to product

Shift: 
    sll $4, $4, 1 # shift up the multiplicand 1 bit
    srl $5, $5, 1 # shift down the multiplier 1 bit
    j Loop # go for next  

Exit: #


EXIT: 
li $v0,10
syscall

How do I set log4j level on the command line?

These answers actually dissuaded me from trying the simplest possible thing! Simply specify a threshold for an appender (say, "console") in your log4j.configuration like so:

log4j.appender.console.threshold=${my.logging.threshold}

Then, on the command line, include the system property -Dlog4j.info -Dmy.logging.threshold=INFO. I assume that any other property can be parameterized in this way, but this is the easiest way to raise or lower the logging level globally.

Java Set retain order?

Set is just an interface. In order to retain order, you have to use a specific implementation of that interface and the sub-interface SortedSet, for example TreeSet or LinkedHashSet. You can wrap your Set this way:

Set myOrderedSet = new LinkedHashSet(mySet);

How can I define an interface for an array of objects with Typescript?

Here is one solution adapted to your example:

interface IenumServiceGetOrderByAttributes { 
  id: number; 
  label: string; 
  key: any 
}

interface IenumServiceGetOrderBy extends Array<IenumServiceGetOrderByAttributes> {

}

let result: IenumServiceGetOrderBy;

With this solution you can use all properties and methods of the Array (like: length, push(), pop(), splice() ...)

Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 1 Incorrect syntax near ' '

For the OP's command:

select compid,2, convert(datetime, '01/01/' + CONVERT(char(4),cal_yr) ,101) ,0,  Update_dt, th1, th2, th3_pc , Update_id, Update_dt,1
from  #tmp_CTF**

I get this error:

Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 2
Incorrect syntax near '*'.

when debugging something like this split the long line up so you'll get a better row number:

select compid
,2
, convert(datetime
, '01/01/' 
+ CONVERT(char(4)
,cal_yr) 
,101) 
,0
,  Update_dt
, th1
, th2
, th3_pc 
, Update_id
, Update_dt
,1
from  #tmp_CTF**

this now results in:

Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 16
Incorrect syntax near '*'.

which is probably just from the OP not putting the entire command in the question, or use [ ] braces to signify the table name:

from [#tmp_CTF**]

if that is the table name.

Rails: How to reference images in CSS within Rails 4

This worked for me:

background: #4C2516 url('imagename.png') repeat-y 0 0;

What is an unsigned char?

signed char and unsigned char both represent 1byte, but they have different ranges.

   Type        |      range
-------------------------------
signed char    |  -128 to +127
unsigned char  |     0 to 255

In signed char if we consider char letter = 'A', 'A' is represent binary of 65 in ASCII/Unicode, If 65 can be stored, -65 also can be stored. There are no negative binary values in ASCII/Unicode there for no need to worry about negative values.

Example

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    signed char char1 = 255;
    signed char char2 = -128;
    unsigned char char3 = 255;
    unsigned char char4 = -128;

    printf("Signed char(255) : %d\n",char1);
    printf("Unsigned char(255) : %d\n",char3);

    printf("\nSigned char(-128) : %d\n",char2);
    printf("Unsigned char(-128) : %d\n",char4);

    return 0;
}

Output -:

Signed char(255) : -1
Unsigned char(255) : 255

Signed char(-128) : -128
Unsigned char(-128) : 128

How to use Regular Expressions (Regex) in Microsoft Excel both in-cell and loops

To add to the valuable content, I would like to create this reminder on why sometimes RegEx within VBA is not ideal. Not all expressions are supported, but instead may throw an Error 5017 and may leave the author guessing (which I am a victim of myself).

Whilst we can find some sources on what is supported, it would be helpfull to know which metacharacters etc. are not supported. A more in-depth explaination can be found here. Mentioned in this source:

"Although "VBScript’s regular expression ... version 5.5 implements quite a few essential regex features that were missing in previous versions of VBScript. ... JavaScript and VBScript implement Perl-style regular expressions. However, they lack quite a number of advanced features available in Perl and other modern regular expression flavors:"

So, not supported are:

Start of String ancor \A, alternatively use the ^ caret to match postion before 1st char in string
End of String ancor \Z, alternatively use the $ dollar sign to match postion after last char in string
Positive LookBehind, e.g.: (?<=a)b (whilst postive LookAhead is supported)
Negative LookBehind, e.g.: (?<!a)b (whilst negative LookAhead is supported)
Atomic Grouping
Possessive Quantifiers
Unicode e.g.: \{uFFFF}
Named Capturing Groups. Alternatively use Numbered Capturing Groups
Inline modifiers, e.g.: /i (case sensitivity) or /g (global) etc. Set these through the RegExp object properties > RegExp.Global = True and RegExp.IgnoreCase = True if available.
Conditionals
Regular Expression Comments. Add these with regular ' comments in script

I already hit a wall more than once using regular expressions within VBA. Usually with LookBehind but sometimes I even forget the modifiers. I have not experienced all these above mentioned backdrops myself but thought I would try to be extensive referring to some more in-depth information. Feel free to comment/correct/add. Big shout out to regular-expressions.info for a wealth of information.

P.S. You have mentioned regular VBA methods and functions, and I can confirm they (at least to myself) have been helpful in their own ways where RegEx would fail.

How to use format() on a moment.js duration?

if you use angular add this to your filters:

.filter('durationFormat', function () {
    return function (value) {
        var days = Math.floor(value/86400000);
        value = value%86400000;
        var hours = Math.floor(value/3600000);
        value = value%3600000;
        var minutes = Math.floor(value/60000);
        value = value%60000;
        var seconds = Math.floor(value/1000);
        return (days? days + ' days ': '') + (hours? hours + ' hours ': '') + (minutes? minutes + ' minutes ': '') + (seconds? seconds + ' seconds ': '')
    }
})

usage example

<div> {{diff | durationFormat}} </div>

Passing variable number of arguments around

To pass the ellipses on, you have to convert them to a va_list and use that va_list in your second function. Specifically;

void format_string(char *fmt,va_list argptr, char *formatted_string);


void debug_print(int dbg_lvl, char *fmt, ...) 
{    
 char formatted_string[MAX_FMT_SIZE];

 va_list argptr;
 va_start(argptr,fmt);
 format_string(fmt, argptr, formatted_string);
 va_end(argptr);
 fprintf(stdout, "%s",formatted_string);
}

Perl: function to trim string leading and trailing whitespace

No, but you can use the s/// substitution operator and the \s whitespace assertion to get the same result.

How to create a new column in a select query

select A, B, 'c' as C
from MyTable

Undefined reference to `pow' and `floor'

All answers above are incomplete, the problem here lies in linker ld rather than compiler collect2: ld returned 1 exit status. When you are compiling your fib.c to object:

$ gcc -c fib.c
$ nm fib.o
0000000000000028 T fibo
                 U floor
                 U _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_
0000000000000000 T main
                 U pow
                 U printf

Where nm lists symbols from object file. You can see that this was compiled without an error, but pow, floor, and printf functions have undefined references, now if I will try to link this to executable:

$ gcc fib.o
fib.o: In function `fibo':
fib.c:(.text+0x57): undefined reference to `pow'
fib.c:(.text+0x84): undefined reference to `floor'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Im getting similar output you get. To solve that, I need to tell linker where to look for references to pow, and floor, for this purpose I will use linker -l flag with m which comes from libm.so library.

$ gcc fib.o -lm
$ nm a.out
0000000000201010 B __bss_start
0000000000201010 b completed.7697
                 w __cxa_finalize@@GLIBC_2.2.5
0000000000201000 D __data_start
0000000000201000 W data_start
0000000000000620 t deregister_tm_clones
00000000000006b0 t __do_global_dtors_aux
0000000000200da0 t 
__do_global_dtors_aux_fini_array_entry
0000000000201008 D __dso_handle
0000000000200da8 d _DYNAMIC
0000000000201010 D _edata
0000000000201018 B _end
0000000000000722 T fibo
0000000000000804 T _fini
                 U floor@@GLIBC_2.2.5
00000000000006f0 t frame_dummy
0000000000200d98 t __frame_dummy_init_array_entry
00000000000009a4 r __FRAME_END__
0000000000200fa8 d _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_
                 w __gmon_start__
000000000000083c r __GNU_EH_FRAME_HDR
0000000000000588 T _init
0000000000200da0 t __init_array_end
0000000000200d98 t __init_array_start
0000000000000810 R _IO_stdin_used
                 w _ITM_deregisterTMCloneTable
                 w _ITM_registerTMCloneTable
0000000000000800 T __libc_csu_fini
0000000000000790 T __libc_csu_init
                 U __libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.2.5
00000000000006fa T main
                 U pow@@GLIBC_2.2.5
                 U printf@@GLIBC_2.2.5
0000000000000660 t register_tm_clones
00000000000005f0 T _start
0000000000201010 D __TMC_END__

You can now see, functions pow, floor are linked to GLIBC_2.2.5.

Parameters order is important too, unless your system is configured to use shared librares by default, my system is not, so when I issue:

$ gcc -lm fib.o
fib.o: In function `fibo':
fib.c:(.text+0x57): undefined reference to `pow'
fib.c:(.text+0x84): undefined reference to `floor'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Note -lm flag before object file. So in conclusion, add -lm flag after all other flags, and parameters, to be sure.

Why do many examples use `fig, ax = plt.subplots()` in Matplotlib/pyplot/python

In addition to the answers above, you can check the type of object using type(plt.subplots()) which returns a tuple, on the other hand, type(plt.subplot()) returns matplotlib.axes._subplots.AxesSubplot which you can't unpack.

HTML5 Local storage vs. Session storage

performance wise, my (crude) measurements found no difference on 1000 writes and reads

security wise, intuitively it would seem the localStore might be shut down before the sessionStore, but have no concrete evidence - maybe someone else does?

functional wise, concur with digitalFresh above

Media Queries - In between two widths

just wanted to leave my .scss example here, I think its kinda best practice, especially I think if you do customization its nice to set the width only once! It is not clever to apply it everywhere, you will increase the human factor exponentially.

Im looking forward for your feedback!

// Set your parameters
$widthSmall: 768px;
$widthMedium: 992px;

// Prepare your "function"
@mixin in-between {
     @media (min-width:$widthSmall) and (max-width:$widthMedium) {
        @content;
     }
}


// Apply your "function"
main {
   @include in-between {
      //Do something between two media queries
      padding-bottom: 20px;
   }
}

The origin server did not find a current representation for the target resource or is not willing to disclose that one exists. on deploying to tomcat

Check to find the root cause by reading logs in the tomcat installation log folder if all the above answers failed.Read the catalina.out file to find out the exact cause. It might be database credentials error or class definition not found.

How exactly does <script defer="defer"> work?

This Boolean attribute is set to indicate to a browser that the script is meant to be executed after the document has been parsed. Since this feature hasn't yet been implemented by all other major browsers, authors should not assume that the script’s execution will actually be deferred. Never call document.write() from a defer script (since Gecko 1.9.2, this will blow away the document). The defer attribute shouldn't be used on scripts that don't have the src attribute. Since Gecko 1.9.2, the defer attribute is ignored on scripts that don't have the src attribute. However, in Gecko 1.9.1 even inline scripts are deferred if the defer attribute is set.

defer works with chrome , firefox , ie > 7 and Safari

ref: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/Element/script

php $_POST array empty upon form submission

Don't have an elegant solution at this point but wanted to share my findings for the future reference of others who encounter this problem. The source of the problem was 2 overriden php values in an .htaccess file. I had simply added these 2 values to increase the filesize limit for file uploads from the default 8MB to something larger -- I observed that simply having these 2 values in the htaccess file at all, whether larger or smaller than the default, caused the issue.

php_value post_max_size xxMB
php_value upload_max_filesize xxMB

I added additional variables to hopefully raise the limits for all the suhosin.post.xxx/suhosin.upload.xxx vars but these didn't have any effect with this problem unfortunately.

In summary, I can't really explain the "why" here, but have identified the root cause. My feeling is that this is ultimately a suhosin/htaccess issue, but unfortunately one that I wasn't able to resolve other than to remove the 2 php overridden values above.

Hope this helps someone in the future as I killed a handful of hours figuring this out. Thanks to all who took the time to help me with this (MrMage, Andrew)

Using COALESCE to handle NULL values in PostgreSQL

If you're using 0 and an empty string '' and null to designate undefined you've got a data problem. Just update the columns and fix your schema.

UPDATE pt.incentive_channel
SET   pt.incentive_marketing = NULL
WHERE pt.incentive_marketing = '';

UPDATE pt.incentive_channel
SET   pt.incentive_advertising = NULL
WHERE pt.incentive_marketing = '';

UPDATE pt.incentive_channel
SET   pt.incentive_channel = NULL
WHERE pt.incentive_marketing = '';

This will make joining and selecting substantially easier moving forward.

Where does Internet Explorer store saved passwords?

No guarantee, but I suspect IE uses the older Protected Storage API.

JS: Uncaught TypeError: object is not a function (onclick)

I was able to figure it out by following the answer in this thread: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8968495/1543447

Basically, I renamed all values, function names, and element names to different values so they wouldn't conflict - and it worked!

How to fix java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe?

The above answers illustrate the reason for this java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe: the other end closed the connection. I would like to share experience what happened when I encountered it:

in a client's request, the Content-Type header is mistakenly set larger than request body actually is (in fact there was no body at all)
the bottom service in tomcat socket was waiting for that sized body data (http is on TCP which ensures delivery by encapsulating and ...)
when 60 seconds expired, tomcat throws time out exception: Servlet.service() for servlet [dispatcherServlet] in context with path [] threw exception java.net.SocketTimeoutException: null
client receives a response with status code 500 because of the timeout exception.
client close connection (because it receives response).
tomcat throws java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe because client closed it.

Sometimes, tomcat does not throw broken pip exception, because timeout exception close the connection, why such a difference is confusing me too.

php - add + 7 days to date format mm dd, YYYY

echo date('d/m/Y', strtotime('+7 days'));

What is the difference between varchar and varchar2 in Oracle?

Taken from the latest stable Oracle production version 12.2: Data Types

The major difference is that VARCHAR2 is an internal data type and VARCHAR is an external data type. So we need to understand the difference between an internal and external data type...

Inside a database, values are stored in columns in tables. Internally, Oracle represents data in particular formats known as internal data types.

In general, OCI (Oracle Call Interface) applications do not work with internal data type representations of data, but with host language data types that are predefined by the language in which they are written. When data is transferred between an OCI client application and a database table, the OCI libraries convert the data between internal data types and external data types.

External types provide a convenience for the programmer by making it possible to work with host language types instead of proprietary data formats. OCI can perform a wide range of data type conversions when transferring data between an Oracle database and an OCI application. There are more OCI external data types than Oracle internal data types.

The VARCHAR2 data type is a variable-length string of characters with a maximum length of 4000 bytes. If the init.ora parameter max_string_size is default, the maximum length of a VARCHAR2 can be 4000 bytes. If the init.ora parameter max_string_size = extended, the maximum length of a VARCHAR2 can be 32767 bytes

The VARCHAR data type stores character strings of varying length. The first 2 bytes contain the length of the character string, and the remaining bytes contain the string. The specified length of the string in a bind or a define call must include the two length bytes, so the largest VARCHAR string that can be received or sent is 65533 bytes long, not 65535.

A quick test in a 12.2 database suggests that as an internal data type, Oracle still treats a VARCHAR as a pseudotype for VARCHAR2. It is NOT a SYNONYM which is an actual object type in Oracle.

SQL> select substr(banner,1,80) from v$version where rownum=1;
Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 12.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production    

SQL> create table test (my_char varchar(20));
Table created.

SQL> desc test
Name                 Null?    Type
MY_CHAR                       VARCHAR2(20)

There are also some implications of VARCHAR for ProC/C++ Precompiler options. For programmers who are interested, the link is at: Pro*C/C++ Programmer's Guide

How to check for file existence

Check out Pathname and in particular Pathname#exist?.

File and its FileTest module are perhaps simpler/more direct, but I find Pathname a nicer interface in general.

Window.open and pass parameters by post method

You could simply use target="_blank" on the form.

<form action="action.php" method="post" target="_blank">
    <input type="hidden" name="something" value="some value">
</form>

Add hidden inputs in the way you prefer, and then simply submit the form with JS.

Android Location Providers - GPS or Network Provider?

There are 3 location providers in Android.

They are:

gps –> (GPS, AGPS): Name of the GPS location provider. This provider determines location using satellites. Depending on conditions, this provider may take a while to return a location fix. Requires the permission android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION.

network –> (AGPS, CellID, WiFi MACID): Name of the network location provider. This provider determines location based on availability of cell tower and WiFi access points. Results are retrieved by means of a network lookup. Requires either of the permissions android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION or android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION.

passive –> (CellID, WiFi MACID): A special location provider for receiving locations without actually initiating a location fix. This provider can be used to passively receive location updates when other applications or services request them without actually requesting the locations yourself. This provider will return locations generated by other providers. Requires the permission android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION, although if the GPS is not enabled this provider might only return coarse fixes. This is what Android calls these location providers, however, the underlying technologies to make this stuff work is mapped to the specific set of hardware and telco provided capabilities (network service).

The best way is to use the “network” or “passive” provider first, and then fallback on “gps”, and depending on the task, switch between providers. This covers all cases, and provides a lowest common denominator service (in the worst case) and great service (in the best case).

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Article Reference : Android Location Providers - gps, network, passive By Nazmul Idris

Code Reference : https://stackoverflow.com/a/3145655/28557

-----------------------Update-----------------------

Now Android have Fused location provider

The Fused Location Provider intelligently manages the underlying location technology and gives you the best location according to your needs. It simplifies ways for apps to get the user’s current location with improved accuracy and lower power usage

Fused location provider provide three ways to fetch location

Last Location: Use when you want to know current location once.
Request Location using Listener: Use when application is on screen / frontend and require continues location.
Request Location using Pending Intent: Use when application in background and require continues location.

References :

Official site : http://developer.android.com/google/play-services/location.html

Fused location provider example: GIT : https://github.com/kpbird/fused-location-provider-example

http://blog.lemberg.co.uk/fused-location-provider

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How to encode the plus (+) symbol in a URL

The + character has a special meaning in a URL => it means whitespace - . If you want to use the literal + sign, you need to URL encode it to %2b:

body=Hi+there%2bHello+there

Here's an example of how you could properly generate URLs in .NET:

var uriBuilder = new UriBuilder("https://mail.google.com/mail");

var values = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);
values["view"] = "cm";
values["tf"] = "0";
values["to"] = "[email protected]";
values["su"] = "some subject";
values["body"] = "Hi there+Hello there";

uriBuilder.Query = values.ToString();

Console.WriteLine(uriBuilder.ToString());

The result

https://mail.google.com:443/mail?view=cm&tf=0&to=someemail%40somedomain.com&su=some+subject&body=Hi+there%2bHello+there

SVN "Already Locked Error"

I had the same problem. This problem is easily solved if you issue the Cleanup command from AnkhSVN.

Java: object to byte[] and byte[] to object converter (for Tokyo Cabinet)

You can use ObjectMapper

        ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
        ObjectClass object = objectMapper.readValue(data, ObjectClass.class);

How to use SVN, Branch? Tag? Trunk?

A lot of good comments here, but something that hasn't been mentioned is commit messages. These should be mandatory and meaningful. Especially with branching/merging. This will allow you to keep track of what changes are relevant to which bugs features.

for example svn commit . -m 'bug #201 fixed y2k bug in code' will tell anyone who looks at the history what that revision was for.

Some bug tracking systems (eg trac) can look in the repository for these messages and associate them with the tickets. Which makes working out what changes are associated with each ticket very easy.

Raw SQL Query without DbSet - Entity Framework Core

Not directly targeting the OP's scenario, but since I have been struggling with this, I'd like to drop these ex. methods that make it easier to execute raw SQL with the DbContext:

public static class DbContextCommandExtensions
{
  public static async Task<int> ExecuteNonQueryAsync(this DbContext context, string rawSql,
    params object[] parameters)
  {
    var conn = context.Database.GetDbConnection();
    using (var command = conn.CreateCommand())
    {
      command.CommandText = rawSql;
      if (parameters != null)
        foreach (var p in parameters)
          command.Parameters.Add(p);
      await conn.OpenAsync();
      return await command.ExecuteNonQueryAsync();
    }
  }

  public static async Task<T> ExecuteScalarAsync<T>(this DbContext context, string rawSql,
    params object[] parameters)
  {
    var conn = context.Database.GetDbConnection();
    using (var command = conn.CreateCommand())
    {
      command.CommandText = rawSql;
      if (parameters != null)
        foreach (var p in parameters)
          command.Parameters.Add(p);
      await conn.OpenAsync();
      return (T)await command.ExecuteScalarAsync();
    }
  }
}

Floating point vs integer calculations on modern hardware

Two points to consider -

Modern hardware can overlap instructions, execute them in parallel and reorder them to make best use of the hardware. And also, any significant floating point program is likely to have significant integer work too even if it's only calculating indices into arrays, loop counter etc. so even if you have a slow floating point instruction it may well be running on a separate bit of hardware overlapped with some of the integer work. My point being that even if the floating point instructions are slow that integer ones, your overall program may run faster because it can make use of more of the hardware.

As always, the only way to be sure is to profile your actual program.

Second point is that most CPUs these days have SIMD instructions for floating point that can operate on multiple floating point values all at the same time. For example you can load 4 floats into a single SSE register and the perform 4 multiplications on them all in parallel. If you can rewrite parts of your code to use SSE instructions then it seems likely it will be faster than an integer version. Visual c++ provides compiler intrinsic functions to do this, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x5c07e2a(v=VS.80).aspx for some information.

How to change the output color of echo in Linux

Use tput to calculate color codes. Avoid using the ANSI escape code (e.g. \E[31;1m for red) because it's less portable. Bash on OS X, for example, does not support it.

BLACK=`tput setaf 0`
RED=`tput setaf 1`
GREEN=`tput setaf 2`
YELLOW=`tput setaf 3`
BLUE=`tput setaf 4`
MAGENTA=`tput setaf 5`
CYAN=`tput setaf 6`
WHITE=`tput setaf 7`

BOLD=`tput bold`
RESET=`tput sgr0`

echo -e "hello ${RED}some red text${RESET} world"

How to download the latest artifact from Artifactory repository?

In case you need to download an artifact in a Dockerfile, instead of using wget or curl or the likes you can simply use the 'ADD' directive:

ADD ${ARTIFACT_URL} /opt/app/app.jar

Of course, the tricky part is determining the ARTIFACT_URL, but there's enough about that in all the other answers.

However, Docker best practises strongly discourage using ADD for this purpose and recommend using wget or curl.

paint() and repaint() in Java

The paint() method supports painting via a Graphics object.

The repaint() method is used to cause paint() to be invoked by the AWT painting thread.

How do you do a limit query in JPQL or HQL?

If you don't want to use setMaxResults, you can also use Query.scroll instead of list, and fetch the rows you desire. Useful for paging for instance.

Getting fb.me URL

I'm not aware of any way to programmatically create these URLs, but the existing username space (www.facebook.com/something) works on fb.me also (e.g. http://fb.me/facebook )

JavaScript load a page on button click

The answers here work to open the page in the same browser window/tab.

However, I wanted the page to open in a new window/tab when they click a button. (tab/window decision depends on the user's browser setting)

So here is how it worked to open the page in new tab/window:

<button type="button" onclick="window.open('http://www.example.com/', '_blank');">View Example Page</button>

It doesn't have to be a button, you can use anywhere. Notice the _blank that is used to open in new tab/window.

Reducing the gap between a bullet and text in a list item

You might try using:

li {list-style-position: inside; }

But I can't remember if that adjusts the space, or changes where the space occurs.

Edited

The above doesn't seem to make any substantial difference. There doesn't seem to be any way to decrease the space between the list-style-type marker and the text, though it can be increased using margin-left or text-indent.

Sorry I can't be of more use.

Edited

Just out of curiosity, how about 'faking' the bullet with a background image?

ul {list-style-type: none;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}

ul li {background: #fff url(path/to/bullet-image.png) 0 50% no-repeat;
       margin: 0;
       padding: 0 0 0 10px; /* change 10px to whatever you feel best suits you */
}

It might allow for more fine-tuning.

Flatten list of lists

>>> lis=[[180.0], [173.8], [164.2], [156.5], [147.2], [138.2]]
>>> [x[0] for x in lis]
[180.0, 173.8, 164.2, 156.5, 147.2, 138.2]

Getter and Setter of Model object in Angular 4

The way you declare the date property as an input looks incorrect but its hard to say if it's the only problem without seeing all your code. Rather than using @Input('date') declare the date property like so: private _date: string;. Also, make sure you are instantiating the model with the new keyword. Lastly, access the property using regular dot notation.

Check your work against this example from https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/classes.html :

let passcode = "secret passcode";

class Employee {
    private _fullName: string;

    get fullName(): string {
        return this._fullName;
    }

    set fullName(newName: string) {
        if (passcode && passcode == "secret passcode") {
            this._fullName = newName;
        }
        else {
            console.log("Error: Unauthorized update of employee!");
        }
    }
}

let employee = new Employee();
employee.fullName = "Bob Smith";
if (employee.fullName) {
    console.log(employee.fullName);
}

And here is a plunker demonstrating what it sounds like you're trying to do: https://plnkr.co/edit/OUoD5J1lfO6bIeME9N0F?p=preview

File path issues in R using Windows ("Hex digits in character string" error)

readClipboard() works directly too. Copy the path into your clipboard

C:\Users\surfcat\Desktop\2006_dissimilarity.csv

Then

readClipboard()

appears as

[1] "C:\\Users\\surfcat\\Desktop\\2006_dissimilarity.csv"

ReflectionException: Class ClassName does not exist - Laravel

I am not writing as the answer for this question. But I want to help others if they faced the same bug but the answers mentioned here not works. I also tried all the solutions mentioned here. But my problem was with the namespace I used. The path was wrong.

The namespace I used is:

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

But actually the controller reside inside a folder named 'FrontEnd'

so the solution is change the namespace to:

namespace App\Http\Controllers\Frontend;

How to get video duration, dimension and size in PHP?

If you have FFMPEG installed on your server (http://www.mysql-apache-php.com/ffmpeg-install.htm), it is possible to get the attributes of your video using the command "-vstats" and parsing the result with some regex - as shown in the example below. Then, you need the PHP funtion filesize() to get the size.

$ffmpeg_path = 'ffmpeg'; //or: /usr/bin/ffmpeg , or /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg - depends on your installation (type which ffmpeg into a console to find the install path)
$vid = 'PATH/TO/VIDEO'; //Replace here!

 if (file_exists($vid)) {

    $finfo = finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME_TYPE);
    $mime_type = finfo_file($finfo, $vid); // check mime type
    finfo_close($finfo);

    if (preg_match('/video\/*/', $mime_type)) {

        $video_attributes = _get_video_attributes($vid, $ffmpeg_path);

        print_r('Codec: ' . $video_attributes['codec'] . '<br/>');

        print_r('Dimension: ' . $video_attributes['width'] . ' x ' . $video_attributes['height'] . ' <br/>');

        print_r('Duration: ' . $video_attributes['hours'] . ':' . $video_attributes['mins'] . ':'
                . $video_attributes['secs'] . '.' . $video_attributes['ms'] . '<br/>');

        print_r('Size:  ' . _human_filesize(filesize($vid)));

    } else {
        print_r('File is not a video.');
    }
} else {
    print_r('File does not exist.');
}

function _get_video_attributes($video, $ffmpeg) {

    $command = $ffmpeg . ' -i ' . $video . ' -vstats 2>&1';
    $output = shell_exec($command);

    $regex_sizes = "/Video: ([^,]*), ([^,]*), ([0-9]{1,4})x([0-9]{1,4})/"; // or : $regex_sizes = "/Video: ([^\r\n]*), ([^,]*), ([0-9]{1,4})x([0-9]{1,4})/"; (code from @1owk3y)
    if (preg_match($regex_sizes, $output, $regs)) {
        $codec = $regs [1] ? $regs [1] : null;
        $width = $regs [3] ? $regs [3] : null;
        $height = $regs [4] ? $regs [4] : null;
    }

    $regex_duration = "/Duration: ([0-9]{1,2}):([0-9]{1,2}):([0-9]{1,2}).([0-9]{1,2})/";
    if (preg_match($regex_duration, $output, $regs)) {
        $hours = $regs [1] ? $regs [1] : null;
        $mins = $regs [2] ? $regs [2] : null;
        $secs = $regs [3] ? $regs [3] : null;
        $ms = $regs [4] ? $regs [4] : null;
    }

    return array('codec' => $codec,
        'width' => $width,
        'height' => $height,
        'hours' => $hours,
        'mins' => $mins,
        'secs' => $secs,
        'ms' => $ms
    );
}

function _human_filesize($bytes, $decimals = 2) {
    $sz = 'BKMGTP';
    $factor = floor((strlen($bytes) - 1) / 3);
    return sprintf("%.{$decimals}f", $bytes / pow(1024, $factor)) . @$sz[$factor];
}

Android - Using Custom Font

Make sure to paste the above code into onCreate() after your call to the super and the call to setContentView(). This small detail kept my hung up for awhile.

How to install Cmake C compiler and CXX compiler

The approach I use is to start the "Visual Studio Command Prompt" which can be found in the Start menu. E.g. my visual studio 2010 Express install has a shortcute Visual Studio Command Prompt (2010) at Start Menu\Programs\Microsoft Visual Studio 2010\Visual Studio Tools.

This shortcut prepares an environment by calling a script vcvarsall.bat where the compiler, linker, etc. are setup from the right Visual Studio installation.

Alternatively, if you already have a prompt open, you can prepare the environment by calling a similar script:

:: For x86 (using the VS100COMNTOOLS env-var)
call "%VS100COMNTOOLS%"\..\..\VC\bin\vcvars32.bat

:: For amd64 (using the full path)
call C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin\amd64\vcvars64.bat

However:

Your output (with the '$' prompt) suggests that you are attempting to run CMake from a MSys shell. In that case it might be better to run CMake for MSys or MinGW, by explicitly specifying a makefile generator:

cmake -G"MSYS Makefiles"
cmake -G"MinGW Makefiles"

Run cmake --help to get a list of all possible generators.

Python 3.2 Unable to import urllib2 (ImportError: No module named urllib2)

In python 3 urllib2 was merged into urllib. See also another Stack Overflow question and the urllib PEP 3108.

To make Python 2 code work in Python 3:

try:
    import urllib.request as urllib2
except ImportError:
    import urllib2

Get selected value of a dropdown's item using jQuery

For single select dom elements, to get the currently selected value:

$('#dropDownId').val();

To get the currently selected text:

$('#dropDownId :selected').text();

Show week number with Javascript?

It looks like this function I found at weeknumber.net is pretty accurate and easy to use.

// This script is released to the public domain and may be used, modified and
// distributed without restrictions. Attribution not necessary but appreciated.
// Source: http://weeknumber.net/how-to/javascript 

// Returns the ISO week of the date.
Date.prototype.getWeek = function() {
  var date = new Date(this.getTime());
  date.setHours(0, 0, 0, 0);
  // Thursday in current week decides the year.
  date.setDate(date.getDate() + 3 - (date.getDay() + 6) % 7);
  // January 4 is always in week 1.
  var week1 = new Date(date.getFullYear(), 0, 4);
  // Adjust to Thursday in week 1 and count number of weeks from date to week1.
  return 1 + Math.round(((date.getTime() - week1.getTime()) / 86400000 - 3 + (week1.getDay() + 6) % 7) / 7);
}

If you're lucky like me and need to find the week number of the month a little adjust will do it:

// Returns the week in the month of the date.
Date.prototype.getWeekOfMonth = function() {
  var date = new Date(this.getTime());
  date.setHours(0, 0, 0, 0);
  // Thursday in current week decides the year.
  date.setDate(date.getDate() + 3 - (date.getDay() + 6) % 7);
  // January 4 is always in week 1.
  var week1 = new Date(date.getFullYear(), date.getMonth(), 4);
  // Adjust to Thursday in week 1 and count number of weeks from date to week1.
  return 1 + Math.round(((date.getTime() - week1.getTime()) / 86400000 - 3 + (week1.getDay() + 6) % 7) / 7);
}

Full width image with fixed height

Set the image's width to 100%, and the image's height will adjust itself:

<img style="width:100%;" id="image" src="...">

If you have a custom CSS, then:

HTML:

<img id="image" src="...">

CSS:

#image
{
    width: 100%;
}

Also, you could do File -> View Source next time, or maybe Google.

How to hide a div after some time period?

_x000D_

$().ready(function(){_x000D_
_x000D_
  $('div.alert').delay(1500);_x000D_
   $('div.alert').hide(1000);_x000D_
});

_x000D_

div.alert{_x000D_
color: green;_x000D_
background-color: rgb(50,200,50, .5);_x000D_
padding: 10px;_x000D_
text-align: center;_x000D_
}

_x000D_

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
_x000D_
<div class="alert"><p>Inserted Successfully . . .</p></div>

_x000D_

jQuery load more data on scroll

Have you heard about the jQuery Waypoint plugin.

Below is the simple way of calling a waypoints plugin and having the page load more Content once you reaches the bottom on scroll :

$(document).ready(function() {
    var $loading = $("<div class='loading'><p>Loading more items&hellip;</p></div>"),
    $footer = $('footer'),
    opts = {
        offset: '100%'
    };

    $footer.waypoint(function(event, direction) {
        $footer.waypoint('remove');
        $('body').append($loading);
        $.get($('.more a').attr('href'), function(data) {
            var $data = $(data);
            $('#container').append($data.find('.article'));
            $loading.detach();
            $('.more').replaceWith($data.find('.more'));
            $footer.waypoint(opts);
        });
    }, opts);
});

Calculate correlation with cor(), only for numerical columns

Another option would be to just use the excellent corrr package https://github.com/drsimonj/corrr and do

require(corrr)
require(dplyr)

myData %>% 
   select(x,y,z) %>%  # or do negative or range selections here
   correlate() %>%
   rearrange() %>%  # rearrange by correlations
   shave() # Shave off the upper triangle for a cleaner result

Steps 3 and 4 are entirely optional and are just included to demonstrate the usefulness of the package.

Programmatically navigate to another view controller/scene

You can do navigation between view controllers using code with the help of storyboard and storyboardId of the view controller. This code is for Swift 3:

let signUpVC = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil).instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "SignUp")
self.navigationController?.pushViewController(signUpVC, animated: true)

What method in the String class returns only the first N characters?

Whenever I have to do string manipulations in C#, I miss the good old Left and Right functions from Visual Basic, which are much simpler to use than Substring.

So in most of my C# projects, I create extension methods for them:

public static class StringExtensions
{
    public static string Left(this string str, int length)
    {
        return str.Substring(0, Math.Min(length, str.Length));
    }

    public static string Right(this string str, int length)
    {
        return str.Substring(str.Length - Math.Min(length, str.Length));
    }
}

Note:
The Math.Min part is there because Substring throws an ArgumentOutOfRangeException when the input string's length is smaller than the requested length, as already mentioned in some comments under previous answers.

Usage:

string longString = "Long String";

// returns "Long";
string left1 = longString.Left(4);

// returns "Long String";
string left2 = longString.Left(100);

How to get numeric value from a prompt box?

JavaScript will "convert" numeric string to integer, if you perform calculations on it (as JS is weakly typed). But you can convert it yourself using parseInt or parseFloat.

Just remember to put radix in parseInt!

In case of integer inputs:

var x = parseInt(prompt("Enter a Value", "0"), 10);
var y = parseInt(prompt("Enter a Value", "0"), 10);

In case of float:

var x = parseFloat(prompt("Enter a Value", "0"));
var y = parseFloat(prompt("Enter a Value", "0"));

PHP preg_replace special characters

$newstr = preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9\']/', '_', "There wouldn't be any");
$newstr = str_replace("'", '', $newstr);

I put them on two separate lines to make the code a little more clear.

Note: If you're looking for Unicode support, see Filip's answer below. It will match all characters that register as letters in addition to A-z.

Best Free Text Editor Supporting More Than 4GB Files?

EmEditor should handle this. As their site claims:

EmEditor is now able to open even larger than 248 GB (or 2.1 billion lines) by opening a portion of the file with the new custom bar - Large File Controller. The Large File Controller allows you to specify the beginning point, end point, and range of the file to be opened. It also allows you to stop the opening of the file and monitor the real size of the file and the size of the temporary disk available.

Not free though..

How do you run a single query through mysql from the command line?

here's how you can do it with a cool shell trick:

mysql -uroot -p -hslavedb.mydomain.com mydb_production <<< 'select * from users'

'<<<' instructs the shell to take whatever follows it as stdin, similar to piping from echo.

use the -t flag to enable table-format output

submit form on click event using jquery

Why not simply use the submit button to run the code you want. If your function returns false, it will cancel the submission.

$("#testForm").submit(function() {
    /* Do Something */
    return false;
});

How to convert a data frame column to numeric type?

Since (still) nobody got check-mark, I assume that you have some practical issue in mind, mostly because you haven't specified what type of vector you want to convert to numeric. I suggest that you should apply transform function in order to complete your task.

Now I'm about to demonstrate certain "conversion anomaly":

# create dummy data.frame
d <- data.frame(char = letters[1:5], 
                fake_char = as.character(1:5), 
                fac = factor(1:5), 
                char_fac = factor(letters[1:5]), 
                num = 1:5, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

Let us have a glance at data.frame

> d
  char fake_char fac char_fac num
1    a         1   1        a   1
2    b         2   2        b   2
3    c         3   3        c   3
4    d         4   4        d   4
5    e         5   5        e   5

and let us run:

> sapply(d, mode)
       char   fake_char         fac    char_fac         num 
"character" "character"   "numeric"   "numeric"   "numeric" 
> sapply(d, class)
       char   fake_char         fac    char_fac         num 
"character" "character"    "factor"    "factor"   "integer"

Now you probably ask yourself "Where's an anomaly?" Well, I've bumped into quite peculiar things in R, and this is not the most confounding thing, but it can confuse you, especially if you read this before rolling into bed.

Here goes: first two columns are character. I've deliberately called 2^nd one fake_char. Spot the similarity of this character variable with one that Dirk created in his reply. It's actually a numerical vector converted to character. 3^rd and 4^th column are factor, and the last one is "purely" numeric.

If you utilize transform function, you can convert the fake_char into numeric, but not the char variable itself.

> transform(d, char = as.numeric(char))
  char fake_char fac char_fac num
1   NA         1   1        a   1
2   NA         2   2        b   2
3   NA         3   3        c   3
4   NA         4   4        d   4
5   NA         5   5        e   5
Warning message:
In eval(expr, envir, enclos) : NAs introduced by coercion

but if you do same thing on fake_char and char_fac, you'll be lucky, and get away with no NA's:

> transform(d, fake_char = as.numeric(fake_char), 
               char_fac = as.numeric(char_fac))

  char fake_char fac char_fac num
1    a         1   1        1   1
2    b         2   2        2   2
3    c         3   3        3   3
4    d         4   4        4   4
5    e         5   5        5   5

If you save transformed data.frame and check for mode and class, you'll get:

> D <- transform(d, fake_char = as.numeric(fake_char), 
                    char_fac = as.numeric(char_fac))

> sapply(D, mode)
       char   fake_char         fac    char_fac         num 
"character"   "numeric"   "numeric"   "numeric"   "numeric" 
> sapply(D, class)
       char   fake_char         fac    char_fac         num 
"character"   "numeric"    "factor"   "numeric"   "integer"

So, the conclusion is: Yes, you can convert character vector into a numeric one, but only if it's elements are "convertible" to numeric. If there's just one character element in vector, you'll get error when trying to convert that vector to numerical one.

And just to prove my point:

> err <- c(1, "b", 3, 4, "e")
> mode(err)
[1] "character"
> class(err)
[1] "character"
> char <- as.numeric(err)
Warning message:
NAs introduced by coercion 
> char
[1]  1 NA  3  4 NA

And now, just for fun (or practice), try to guess the output of these commands:

> fac <- as.factor(err)
> fac
???
> num <- as.numeric(fac)
> num
???

Kind regards to Patrick Burns! =)

$watch an object

The reason why your code doesn't work is because $watch by default does reference check. So in a nutshell it make sure that the object which is passed to it is new object. But in your case you are just modifying some property of form object not creating a new one. In order to make it work you can pass true as the third parameter.

$scope.$watch('form', function(newVal, oldVal){
    console.log('invoked');
}, true);

It will work but You can use $watchCollection which will be more efficient then $watch because $watchCollection will watch for shallow properties on form object. E.g.

$scope.$watchCollection('form', function (newVal, oldVal) {
    console.log(newVal, oldVal);
});

How do I use PHP to get the current year?

<?php date_default_timezone_set("Asia/Kolkata");?><?=date("Y");?>

You can use this in footer sections to get dynamic copyright year

Pro JavaScript programmer interview questions (with answers)

Because JavaScript is such a small language, yet with incredible complexity, you should be able to ask relatively basic questions and find out if they are really that good based on their answers. For instance, my standard first question to gauge the rest of the interview is:

In JavaScript, what is the difference between var x = 1 and x = 1? Answer in as much or as little detail as you feel comfortable.

Novice JS programmers might have a basic answer about locals vs globals. Intermediate JS guys should definitely have that answer, and should probably mention function-level scope. Anyone calling themselves an "advanced" JS programmer should be prepared to talk about locals, implied globals, the window object, function-scope, declaration hoisting, and scope chains. Furthermore, I'd love to hear about [[DontDelete]], hoisting precedence (parameters vs var vs function), and undefined.

Another good question is to ask them to write a sum() function that accepts any number of arguments, and returns their sum. Then, ask them to use that function (without modification) to sum all the values in an array. They should write a function that looks like this:

function sum() {
  var i, l, result = 0;
  for (i = 0, l = arguments.length; i < l; i++) {
    result += arguments[i];
  }
  return result;
}
sum(1,2,3); // 6

And they should invoke it on your array like this (context for apply can be whatever, I usually use null in that case):

var data = [1,2,3];
sum.apply(null, data); // 6

If they've got those answers, they probably know their JavaScript. You should then proceed to asking them about non-JS specific stuff like testing, workflows, version control, etc. to find out if they're a good programmer.

How do you write a migration to rename an ActiveRecord model and its table in Rails?

In Rails 4 all I had to do was the def change

def change
  rename_table :old_table_name, :new_table_name
end

And all of my indexes were taken care of for me. I did not need to manually update the indexes by removing the old ones and adding new ones.

And it works using the change for going up or down in regards to the indexes as well.

Replace a string in a file with nodejs

<p>Please click in the following {{link}} to verify the account</p>


function renderHTML(templatePath: string, object) {
    const template = fileSystem.readFileSync(path.join(Application.staticDirectory, templatePath + '.html'), 'utf8');
    return template.match(/\{{(.*?)\}}/ig).reduce((acc, binding) => {
        const property = binding.substring(2, binding.length - 2);
        return `${acc}${template.replace(/\{{(.*?)\}}/, object[property])}`;
    }, '');
}

renderHTML(templateName, { link: 'SomeLink' })

for sure you can improve the reading template function to read as stream and compose the bytes by line to make it more efficient

entity object cannot be referenced by multiple instances of IEntityChangeTracker. while adding related objects to entity in Entity Framework 4.1

In my case, I was using the ASP.NET Identity Framework. I had used the built in UserManager.FindByNameAsync method to retrieve an ApplicationUser entity. I then tried to reference this entity on a newly created entity on a different DbContext. This resulted in the exception you originally saw.

I solved this by creating a new ApplicationUser entity with only the Id from the UserManager method and referencing that new entity.

Get a list of resources from classpath directory

The most robust mechanism for listing all resources in the classpath is currently to use this pattern with ClassGraph, because it handles the widest possible array of classpath specification mechanisms, including the new JPMS module system. (I am the author of ClassGraph.)

List<String> resourceNames;
try (ScanResult scanResult = new ClassGraph().whitelistPaths("x/y/z").scan()) {
    resourceNames = scanResult.getAllResources().getNames();
}

uppercase first character in a variable with bash

just for fun here you are :

foo="bar";    

echo $foo | awk '{$1=toupper(substr($1,0,1))substr($1,2)}1'
# or
echo ${foo^}
# or
echo $foo | head -c 1 | tr [a-z] [A-Z]; echo $foo | tail -c +2
# or
echo ${foo:1} | sed -e 's/^./\B&/'

How to change ViewPager's page?

Supplemental answer

I was originally having trouble getting a reference to the ViewPager from other class methods because the addOnTabSelectedListener made an anonymous inner class, which in turn required the ViewPager variable to be declared final. The solution was to use a class member variable and not use the anonymous inner class.

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    TabLayout tabLayout;
    ViewPager viewPager;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
        setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

        tabLayout = (TabLayout) findViewById(R.id.tab_layout);
        tabLayout.addTab(tabLayout.newTab().setText("Tab 1"));
        tabLayout.addTab(tabLayout.newTab().setText("Tab 2"));
        tabLayout.addTab(tabLayout.newTab().setText("Tab 3"));
        tabLayout.setTabGravity(TabLayout.GRAVITY_FILL);

        viewPager = (ViewPager) findViewById(R.id.pager);
        final PagerAdapter adapter = new PagerAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager(), tabLayout.getTabCount());
        viewPager.setAdapter(adapter);
        viewPager.addOnPageChangeListener(new TabLayout.TabLayoutOnPageChangeListener(tabLayout));

        // don't use an anonymous inner class here
        tabLayout.addOnTabSelectedListener(tabListener);

    }

    TabLayout.OnTabSelectedListener tabListener = new TabLayout.OnTabSelectedListener() {

        @Override
        public void onTabSelected(TabLayout.Tab tab) {
            viewPager.setCurrentItem(tab.getPosition());
        }

        @Override
        public void onTabUnselected(TabLayout.Tab tab) {

        }

        @Override
        public void onTabReselected(TabLayout.Tab tab) {

        }
    };

    // The view pager can now be accessed here, too.
    public void someMethod() {
        viewPager.setCurrentItem(0);
    }

}

Exporting PDF with jspdf not rendering CSS

Slight change to @rejesh-yadav wonderful answer.

html2canvas now returns a promise.

html2canvas(document.body).then(function (canvas) {
    var img = canvas.toDataURL("image/png");
    var doc = new jsPDF();
    doc.addImage(img, 'JPEG', 10, 10);
    doc.save('test.pdf');        
});

Hope this helps some!

Format number to always show 2 decimal places

You can try this code:

    function FormatNumber(number, numberOfDigits = 2) {
        try {
            return new Intl.NumberFormat('en-US').format(parseFloat(number).toFixed(2));
        } catch (error) {
            return 0;
        }
    }

    var test1 = FormatNumber('1000000.4444');
    alert(test1); // 1,000,000.44

    var test2 = FormatNumber(100000000000.55555555, 4);
    alert(test2); // 100,000,000,000.56

Android Recyclerview vs ListView with Viewholder

More from Bill Phillip's article (go read it!) but i thought it was important to point out the following.

In ListView, there was some ambiguity about how to handle click events: Should the individual views handle those events, or should the ListView handle them through OnItemClickListener? In RecyclerView, though, the ViewHolder is in a clear position to act as a row-level controller object that handles those kinds of details.

We saw earlier that LayoutManager handled positioning views, and ItemAnimator handled animating them. ViewHolder is the last piece: it’s responsible for handling any events that occur on a specific item that RecyclerView displays.

How to get the last value of an ArrayList

If you use a LinkedList instead , you can access the first element and the last one with just getFirst() and getLast() (if you want a cleaner way than size() -1 and get(0))

Implementation

Declare a LinkedList

LinkedList<Object> mLinkedList = new LinkedList<>();

Then this are the methods you can use to get what you want, in this case we are talking about FIRST and LAST element of a list

/**
     * Returns the first element in this list.
     *
     * @return the first element in this list
     * @throws NoSuchElementException if this list is empty
     */
    public E getFirst() {
        final Node<E> f = first;
        if (f == null)
            throw new NoSuchElementException();
        return f.item;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the last element in this list.
     *
     * @return the last element in this list
     * @throws NoSuchElementException if this list is empty
     */
    public E getLast() {
        final Node<E> l = last;
        if (l == null)
            throw new NoSuchElementException();
        return l.item;
    }

    /**
     * Removes and returns the first element from this list.
     *
     * @return the first element from this list
     * @throws NoSuchElementException if this list is empty
     */
    public E removeFirst() {
        final Node<E> f = first;
        if (f == null)
            throw new NoSuchElementException();
        return unlinkFirst(f);
    }

    /**
     * Removes and returns the last element from this list.
     *
     * @return the last element from this list
     * @throws NoSuchElementException if this list is empty
     */
    public E removeLast() {
        final Node<E> l = last;
        if (l == null)
            throw new NoSuchElementException();
        return unlinkLast(l);
    }

    /**
     * Inserts the specified element at the beginning of this list.
     *
     * @param e the element to add
     */
    public void addFirst(E e) {
        linkFirst(e);
    }

    /**
     * Appends the specified element to the end of this list.
     *
     * <p>This method is equivalent to {@link #add}.
     *
     * @param e the element to add
     */
    public void addLast(E e) {
        linkLast(e);
    }

So , then you can use

mLinkedList.getLast();

to get the last element of the list.

Laravel - Session store not set on request

Laravel [5.4]

My solution was to use global session helper: session()

Its functionality is a little bit harder than $request->session().

writing:

session(['key'=>'value']);

pushing:

session()->push('key', $notification);

retrieving:

session('key');

Programs & Examples On #Font linking

Remove blank values from array using C#

Save Screen (program) output to a file

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UnicodeDecodeError, invalid continuation byte

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Replace deprecated preg_replace /e with preg_replace_callback

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Delete all data rows from an Excel table (apart from the first)

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What does $1 [QSA,L] mean in my .htaccess file?

react hooks useEffect() cleanup for only componentWillUnmount?

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SugarJS

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javascript function wait until another function to finish

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mongod command not recognized when trying to connect to a mongodb server

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forcing web-site to show in landscape mode only

@Golmaal really answered this, I'm just being a bit more verbose.

Android – Listen For Incoming SMS Messages

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