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Invalid character in identifier

Similar to the previous answers, the problem is some character (possibly invisible) that the Python interpreter doesn't recognize. Because this is often due to copy-pasting code, re-typing the line is one option.

But if you don't want to re-type the line, you can paste your code into this tool or something similar (Google "show unicode characters online"), and it will reveal any non-standard characters. For example,

s='    values ??=  list(analysis.values ??())'

becomes

s='    values U+200B U+200B?? =  list(analysis.values U+200B U+200B ??())'

You can then delete the non-standard characters from the string.

Which JRE am I using?

 System.out.println(System.getProperty("java.vendor"));
 System.out.println(System.getProperty("java.vendor.url"));
 System.out.println(System.getProperty("java.version"));

 Sun Microsystems Inc.
 http://java.sun.com/
 1.6.0_11

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/environment/sysprop.html

error: invalid initialization of non-const reference of type ‘int&’ from an rvalue of type ‘int’

C++03 3.10/1 says: "Every expression is either an lvalue or an rvalue." It's important to remember that lvalueness versus rvalueness is a property of expressions, not of objects.

Lvalues name objects that persist beyond a single expression. For example, obj , *ptr , ptr[index] , and ++x are all lvalues.

Rvalues are temporaries that evaporate at the end of the full-expression in which they live ("at the semicolon"). For example, 1729 , x + y , std::string("meow") , and x++ are all rvalues.

The address-of operator requires that its "operand shall be an lvalue". if we could take the address of one expression, the expression is an lvalue, otherwise it's an rvalue.

 &obj; //  valid
 &12;  //invalid

Sync data between Android App and webserver

@Grantismo gives a great overview of Android sync components.

SyncManagerAndroid library provides a simple 2-way sync implementation to plug into the Android Sync framework (AbstractThreadedSyncAdapter.OnPerformSync).

https://github.com/sschendel/SyncManagerAndroid

Generating combinations in c++

A simple way using std::next_permutation:

#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>
#include <vector>

int main() {
    int n, r;
    std::cin >> n;
    std::cin >> r;

    std::vector<bool> v(n);
    std::fill(v.end() - r, v.end(), true);

    do {
        for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
            if (v[i]) {
                std::cout << (i + 1) << " ";
            }
        }
        std::cout << "\n";
    } while (std::next_permutation(v.begin(), v.end()));
    return 0;
}

or a slight variation that outputs the results in an easier to follow order:

#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>
#include <vector>

int main() {
   int n, r;
   std::cin >> n;
   std::cin >> r;

   std::vector<bool> v(n);
   std::fill(v.begin(), v.begin() + r, true);

   do {
       for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
           if (v[i]) {
               std::cout << (i + 1) << " ";
           }
       }
       std::cout << "\n";
   } while (std::prev_permutation(v.begin(), v.end()));
   return 0;
}

A bit of explanation:

It works by creating a "selection array" (v), where we place r selectors, then we create all permutations of these selectors, and print the corresponding set member if it is selected in in the current permutation of v.


You can implement it if you note that for each level r you select a number from 1 to n.

In C++, we need to 'manually' keep the state between calls that produces results (a combination): so, we build a class that on construction initialize the state, and has a member that on each call returns the combination while there are solutions: for instance

#include <iostream>
#include <iterator>
#include <vector>
#include <cstdlib>

using namespace std;

struct combinations
{
    typedef vector<int> combination_t;

    // initialize status
   combinations(int N, int R) :
       completed(N < 1 || R > N),
       generated(0),
       N(N), R(R)
   {
       for (int c = 1; c <= R; ++c)
           curr.push_back(c);
   }

   // true while there are more solutions
   bool completed;

   // count how many generated
   int generated;

   // get current and compute next combination
   combination_t next()
   {
       combination_t ret = curr;

       // find what to increment
       completed = true;
       for (int i = R - 1; i >= 0; --i)
           if (curr[i] < N - R + i + 1)
           {
               int j = curr[i] + 1;
               while (i <= R-1)
                   curr[i++] = j++;
               completed = false;
               ++generated;
               break;
           }

       return ret;
   }

private:

   int N, R;
   combination_t curr;
};

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    int N = argc >= 2 ? atoi(argv[1]) : 5;
    int R = argc >= 3 ? atoi(argv[2]) : 2;
    combinations cs(N, R);
    while (!cs.completed)
    {
        combinations::combination_t c = cs.next();
        copy(c.begin(), c.end(), ostream_iterator<int>(cout, ","));
        cout << endl;
    }
    return cs.generated;
}

test output:

1,2,
1,3,
1,4,
1,5,
2,3,
2,4,
2,5,
3,4,
3,5,
4,5,

Find the host name and port using PSQL commands

SELECT CURRENT_USER usr, :'HOST' host, inet_server_port() port;

This uses psql's built in HOST variable, documented here

And postgres System Information Functions, documented here

Javascript - Regex to validate date format

@mplungjan, @eduard-luca

function isDate(str) {    
    var parms = str.split(/[\.\-\/]/);
    var yyyy = parseInt(parms[2],10);
    var mm   = parseInt(parms[1],10);
    var dd   = parseInt(parms[0],10);
    var date = new Date(yyyy,mm-1,dd,12,0,0,0);
    return mm === (date.getMonth()+1) && 
        dd === date.getDate() && 
        yyyy === date.getFullYear();
}

new Date() uses local time, hour 00:00:00 will show the last day when we have "Summer Time" or "DST (Daylight Saving Time)" events.

Example:

new Date(2010,9,17)
Sat Oct 16 2010 23:00:00 GMT-0300 (BRT)

Another alternative is to use getUTCDate().

pythonic way to do something N times without an index variable?

What about a simple while loop?

while times > 0:
    do_something()
    times -= 1

You already have the variable; why not use it?

What are the Differences Between "php artisan dump-autoload" and "composer dump-autoload"?

php artisan dump-autoload was deprecated on Laravel 5, so you need to use composer dump-autoload

How to get .pem file from .key and .crt files?

I needed to do this for an AWS ELB. After getting beaten up by the dialog many times, finally this is what worked for me:

openssl rsa -in server.key -text > private.pem
openssl x509 -inform PEM -in server.crt > public.pem

Thanks NCZ

Edit: As @floatingrock says

With AWS, don't forget to prepend the filename with file://. So it'll look like:

 aws iam upload-server-certificate --server-certificate-name blah --certificate-body file://path/to/server.crt --private-key file://path/to/private.key --path /cloudfront/static/

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/iam/upload-server-certificate.html

PHP, pass array through POST

Why are you sending it through a post if you already have it on the server (PHP) side?

Why not just save the array to s $_SESSION variable so you can use it when the form gets submitted, that might make it more "secure" since then the client cannot change the variables by editing the source.

It all depends on what you really want to do.

Converting a view to Bitmap without displaying it in Android?

view.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(view.getDrawingCache());
view.setDrawingCacheEnabled(false);

Method to find string inside of the text file. Then getting the following lines up to a certain limit

I am doing something similar but in C++. What you need to do is read the lines in one at a time and parse them (go over the words one by one). I have an outter loop that goes over all the lines and inside that is another loop that goes over all the words. Once the word you need is found, just exit the loop and return a counter or whatever you want.

This is my code. It basically parses out all the words and adds them to the "index". The line that word was in is then added to a vector and used to reference the line (contains the name of the file, the entire line and the line number) from the indexed words.

ifstream txtFile;
txtFile.open(path, ifstream::in);
char line[200];
//if path is valid AND is not already in the list then add it
if(txtFile.is_open() && (find(textFilePaths.begin(), textFilePaths.end(), path) == textFilePaths.end())) //the path is valid
{
    //Add the path to the list of file paths
    textFilePaths.push_back(path);
    int lineNumber = 1;
    while(!txtFile.eof())
    {
        txtFile.getline(line, 200);
        Line * ln = new Line(line, path, lineNumber);
        lineNumber++;
        myList.push_back(ln);
        vector<string> words = lineParser(ln);
        for(unsigned int i = 0; i < words.size(); i++)
        {
            index->addWord(words[i], ln);
        }
    }
    result = true;
}

Node.js: get path from the request

req.protocol + '://' + req.get('host') + req.originalUrl

or

req.protocol + '://' + req.headers.host + req.originalUrl // I like this one as it survives from proxy server, getting the original host name

Subtract two dates in Java

Assuming that you're constrained to using Date, you can do the following:

Date diff = new Date(d2.getTime() - d1.getTime());

Here you're computing the differences in milliseconds since the "epoch", and creating a new Date object at an offset from the epoch. Like others have said: the answers in the duplicate question are probably better alternatives (if you aren't tied down to Date).

Difference between JPanel, JFrame, JComponent, and JApplet

Those classes are common extension points for Java UI designs. First off, realize that they don't necessarily have much to do with each other directly, so trying to find a relationship between them might be counterproductive.

JApplet - A base class that let's you write code that will run within the context of a browser, like for an interactive web page. This is cool and all but it brings limitations which is the price for it playing nice in the real world. Normally JApplet is used when you want to have your own UI in a web page. I've always wondered why people don't take advantage of applets to store state for a session so no database or cookies are needed.

JComponent - A base class for objects which intend to interact with Swing.

JFrame - Used to represent the stuff a window should have. This includes borders (resizeable y/n?), titlebar (App name or other message), controls (minimize/maximize allowed?), and event handlers for various system events like 'window close' (permit app to exit yet?).

JPanel - Generic class used to gather other elements together. This is more important with working with the visual layout or one of the provided layout managers e.g. gridbaglayout, etc. For example, you have a textbox that is bigger then the area you have reserved. Put the textbox in a scrolling pane and put that pane into a JPanel. Then when you place the JPanel, it will be more manageable in terms of layout.

TCPDF ERROR: Some data has already been output, can't send PDF file

This problem is when apache/php show errors.

This data(html) destroy pdf output.

You must off display errors in php.ini.

Trying to fire the onload event on script tag

You should set the src attribute after the onload event, f.ex:

el.onload = function() { //...
el.src = script;

You should also append the script to the DOM before attaching the onload event:

$body.append(el);
el.onload = function() { //...
el.src = script;

Remember that you need to check readystate for IE support. If you are using jQuery, you can also try the getScript() method: http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.getScript/

Check if a number is a perfect square

If you want to loop over a range and do something for every number that is NOT a perfect square, you could do something like this:

def non_squares(upper):
    next_square = 0
    diff = 1
    for i in range(0, upper):
        if i == next_square:
            next_square += diff
            diff += 2
            continue
        yield i

If you want to do something for every number that IS a perfect square, the generator is even easier:

(n * n for n in range(upper))

Difference between Static and final?

Static is something that any object in a class can call, that inherently belongs to an object type.

A variable can be final for an entire class, and that simply means it cannot be changed anymore. It can only be set once, and trying to set it again will result in an error being thrown. It is useful for a number of reasons, perhaps you want to declare a constant, that can't be changed.

Some example code:

class someClass
{
   public static int count=0;
   public final String mName;

   someClass(String name)
   {
     mname=name;
     count=count+1;
   }

  public static void main(String args[])
  {
    someClass obj1=new someClass("obj1");
    System.out.println("count="+count+" name="+obj1.mName);
    someClass obj2=new someClass("obj2");
    System.out.println("count="+count+" name="+obj2.mName);
  }
}

Wikipedia contains the complete list of java keywords.

Can I grep only the first n lines of a file?

head -10 log.txt | grep -A 2 -B 2 pattern_to_search

-A 2: print two lines before the pattern.

-B 2: print two lines after the pattern.

head -10 log.txt # read the first 10 lines of the file.

How do I determine the dependencies of a .NET application?

To browse .NET code dependencies, you can use the capabilities of the tool NDepend. The tool proposes:

For example such query can look like:

from m in Methods 
let depth = m.DepthOfIsUsing("NHibernate.NHibernateUtil.Entity(Type)") 
where depth  >= 0 && m.IsUsing("System.IDisposable")
orderby depth
select new { m, depth }

And its result looks like: (notice the code metric depth, 1 is for direct callers, 2 for callers of direct callers...) (notice also the Export to Graph button to export the query result to a Call Graph)

NDepend dependencies browsing through C# LINQ query

The dependency graph looks like:

NDepend Dependency Graph

The dependency matrix looks like:

NDepend Dependency Matrix

The dependency matrix is de-facto less intuitive than the graph, but it is more suited to browse complex sections of code like:

NDepend Matrix vs Graph

Disclaimer: I work for NDepend

Defining an abstract class without any abstract methods

YES You can create abstract class with out any abstract method the best example of abstract class without abstract method is HttpServlet
Abstract Method is a method which have no body, If you declared at least one method into the class, the class must be declared as an abstract its mandatory BUT if you declared the abstract class its not mandatory to declared the abstract method inside the class.

You cannot create objects of abstract class, which means that it cannot be instantiated.

Is there a way to pass optional parameters to a function?

If you want give some default value to a parameter assign value in (). like (x =10). But important is first should compulsory argument then default value.

eg.

(y, x =10)

but

(x=10, y) is wrong

Convert line endings

Doing this with POSIX is tricky:

  • POSIX Sed does not support \r or \15. Even if it did, the in place option -i is not POSIX

  • POSIX Awk does support \r and \15, however the -i inplace option is not POSIX

  • d2u and dos2unix are not POSIX utilities, but ex is

  • POSIX ex does not support \r, \15, \n or \12

To remove carriage returns:

awk 'BEGIN{RS="^$";ORS="";getline;gsub("\r","");print>ARGV[1]}' file

To add carriage returns:

awk 'BEGIN{RS="^$";ORS="";getline;gsub("\n","\r&");print>ARGV[1]}' file

TypeError: 'bool' object is not callable

You do cls.isFilled = True. That overwrites the method called isFilled and replaces it with the value True. That method is now gone and you can't call it anymore. So when you try to call it again you get an error, since it's not there anymore.

The solution is use a different name for the variable than you do for the method.

Display an image into windows forms

There could be many reasons for this. A few that come up quickly to my mind:

  1. Did you call this routine AFTER InitializeComponent()?
  2. Is the path syntax you are using correct? Does it work if you try it in the debugger? Try using backslash (\) instead of Slash (/) and see.
  3. This may be due to side-effects of some other code in your form. Try using the same code in a blank Form (with just the constructor and this function) and check.

Ajax call Into MVC Controller- Url Issue

Starting from Rob's answer, I am currently using the following syntax.Since the question has received a lot of attention,I decided to share it with you :

var requrl = '@Url.Action("Action", "Controller", null, Request.Url.Scheme, null)';
  $.ajax({
   type: "POST",
   url: requrl,
   data: "{queryString:'" + searchVal + "'}",
   contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
   dataType: "html",
   success: function (data) {
   alert("here" + data.d.toString());
   }
  });

Exclude Blank and NA in R

Don't know exactly what kind of dataset you have, so I provide general answer.

x <- c(1,2,NA,3,4,5)
y <- c(1,2,3,NA,6,8)
my.data <- data.frame(x, y)
> my.data
   x  y
1  1  1
2  2  2
3 NA  3
4  3 NA
5  4  6
6  5  8
# Exclude rows with NA values
my.data[complete.cases(my.data),]
  x y
1 1 1
2 2 2
5 4 6
6 5 8

Android getResources().getDrawable() deprecated API 22

You can use

ContextCompat.getDrawable(getApplicationContext(),R.drawable.example);

that's work for me

Set Locale programmatically

Put this code in your activity

 if (id==R.id.uz)
    {
        LocaleHelper.setLocale(MainActivity.this, mLanguageCode);

        //It is required to recreate the activity to reflect the change in UI.
        recreate();
        return true;
    }
    if (id == R.id.ru) {

        LocaleHelper.setLocale(MainActivity.this, mLanguageCode);

        //It is required to recreate the activity to reflect the change in UI.
        recreate();
    }

How to run a program in Atom Editor?

If you know how to launch your program from the command line then you can run it from the platformio-ide-terminal package's terminal. See platformio-ide-terminal provides an embedded terminal within the Atom text editor. So you can issue commands, including commands to run your Java program, from within it. To install this package you can use APM with the command:

$ apm install platformio-ide-terminal --no-confirm

Alternatively, you can install it from the command palette with:

  • Pressing Ctrl+Shift+P. I am assuming this is the appropriate keyboard shortcut for your platform, as you have dealt ith questions about Ubuntu in the past.
  • Type Install Packages and Themes.
  • Search for the platformio-ide-terminal.
  • Install it.

what does "error : a nonstatic member reference must be relative to a specific object" mean?

EncodeAndSend is not a static function, which means it can be called on an instance of the class CPMSifDlg. You cannot write this:

 CPMSifDlg::EncodeAndSend(/*...*/);  //wrong - EncodeAndSend is not static

It should rather be called as:

 CPMSifDlg dlg; //create instance, assuming it has default constructor!
 dlg.EncodeAndSend(/*...*/);   //correct 

Java simple code: java.net.SocketException: Unexpected end of file from server

In my case url contained wrong chars like spaces . Overall log your url and in some cases use browser.

How to return a value from a Form in C#?

First you have to define attribute in form2(child) you will update this attribute in form2 and also from form1(parent) :

 public string Response { get; set; }

 private void OkButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
 {
    Response = "ok";
 }

 private void CancelButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
 {
    Response = "Cancel";
 }

Calling of form2(child) from form1(parent):

  using (Form2 formObject= new Form2() )
  {
     formObject.ShowDialog();

      string result = formObject.Response; 
      //to update response of form2 after saving in result
      formObject.Response="";

      // do what ever with result...
      MessageBox.Show("Response from form2: "+result); 
  }

Add and remove attribute with jquery

Once you remove the ID "page_navigation" that element no longer has an ID and so cannot be found when you attempt to access it a second time.

The solution is to cache a reference to the element:

$(document).ready(function(){
    // This reference remains available to the following functions
    // even when the ID is removed.
    var page_navigation = $("#page_navigation1");

    $("#add").click(function(){
        page_navigation.attr("id","page_navigation1");
    });     

    $("#remove").click(function(){
        page_navigation.removeAttr("id");
    });     
});

How to convert List<Integer> to int[] in Java?

Unfortunately, I don't believe there really is a better way of doing this due to the nature of Java's handling of primitive types, boxing, arrays and generics. In particular:

  • List<T>.toArray won't work because there's no conversion from Integer to int
  • You can't use int as a type argument for generics, so it would have to be an int-specific method (or one which used reflection to do nasty trickery).

I believe there are libraries which have autogenerated versions of this kind of method for all the primitive types (i.e. there's a template which is copied for each type). It's ugly, but that's the way it is I'm afraid :(

Even though the Arrays class came out before generics arrived in Java, it would still have to include all the horrible overloads if it were introduced today (assuming you want to use primitive arrays).

Fetch API with Cookie

Fetch does not use cookie by default. To enable cookie, do this:

fetch(url, {
  credentials: "same-origin"
}).then(...).catch(...);

AngularJS : Clear $watch

If you have too much watchers and you need to clear all of them, you can push them into an array and destroy every $watch in a loop.

var watchers = [];
watchers.push( $scope.$watch('watch-xxx', function(newVal){
   //do something
}));    

for(var i = 0; i < watchers.length; ++i){
    if(typeof watchers[i] === 'function'){
        watchers[i]();
    }
}

watchers = [];

"Correct" way to specifiy optional arguments in R functions

I would tend to prefer using NULL for the clarity of what is required and what is optional. One word of warning about using default values that depend on other arguments, as suggested by Jthorpe. The value is not set when the function is called, but when the argument is first referenced! For instance:

foo <- function(x,y=length(x)){
    x <- x[1:10]
    print(y)
}
foo(1:20) 
#[1] 10

On the other hand, if you reference y before changing x:

foo <- function(x,y=length(x)){
    print(y)
    x <- x[1:10]
}
foo(1:20) 
#[1] 20

This is a bit dangerous, because it makes it hard to keep track of what "y" is being initialized as if it's not called early on in the function.

Redirecting Output from within Batch file

Adding the following lines at the bottom of your batch file will grab everything just as displayed inside the CMD window and export into a text file:

powershell -c "$wshell = New-Object -ComObject wscript.shell; $wshell.SendKeys('^a')
powershell -c "$wshell = New-Object -ComObject wscript.shell; $wshell.SendKeys('^c')
powershell Get-Clipboard > MyLog.txt

It basically performs a select all -> copy into clipboard -> paste into text file.

Getting return value from stored procedure in C#

This Line of code returns Store StoredProcedure returned value from SQL Server

cmd.Parameters.Add("@id", System.Data.SqlDbType.Int).Direction = System.Data.ParameterDirection.ReturnValue;                
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();

Atfer Execution of query value will returned from SP

id = (int)cmd.Parameters["@id"].Value;

Install Windows Service created in Visual Studio

Here is an alternate way to make the installer and get rid of that error message. Also it seems that VS2015 express does not have the "Add Installer" menu item.

You simply need to create a class and add the below code and add the reference System.Configuration.Install.dll.

using System.Configuration.Install;
using System.ServiceProcess;
using System.ComponentModel;


namespace SAS
{
    [RunInstaller(true)]
    public class MyProjectInstaller : Installer
    {
        private ServiceInstaller serviceInstaller1;
        private ServiceProcessInstaller processInstaller;

        public MyProjectInstaller()
        {
            // Instantiate installer for process and service.
            processInstaller = new ServiceProcessInstaller();
            serviceInstaller1 = new ServiceInstaller();

            // The service runs under the system account.
            processInstaller.Account = ServiceAccount.LocalSystem;

            // The service is started manually.
            serviceInstaller1.StartType = ServiceStartMode.Manual;

            // ServiceName must equal those on ServiceBase derived classes.
            serviceInstaller1.ServiceName = "SAS Service";

            // Add installer to collection. Order is not important if more than one service.
            Installers.Add(serviceInstaller1);
            Installers.Add(processInstaller);
        }
    }
}

How do you get the length of a string?

You don't need to use jquery.

var myString = 'abc';
var n = myString.length;

n will be 3.

"A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time" using WebClient

In my case I got this error because my domain was not listed in Hosts file on Server. If in future anyone else is facing the same issue, try making entry in Host file and check.

Path : C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
FileName: hosts

How do I get the size of a java.sql.ResultSet?

Give column a name..

String query = "SELECT COUNT(*) as count FROM

Reference that column from the ResultSet object into an int and do your logic from there..

PreparedStatement statement = connection.prepareStatement(query);
statement.setString(1, item.getProductId());
ResultSet resultSet = statement.executeQuery();
while (resultSet.next()) {
    int count = resultSet.getInt("count");
    if (count >= 1) {
        System.out.println("Product ID already exists.");
    } else {
        System.out.println("New Product ID.");
    }
}

Pythonic way to find maximum value and its index in a list?

I think the accepted answer is great, but why don't you do it explicitly? I feel more people would understand your code, and that is in agreement with PEP 8:

max_value = max(my_list)
max_index = my_list.index(max_value)

This method is also about three times faster than the accepted answer:

import random
from datetime import datetime
import operator

def explicit(l):
    max_val = max(l)
    max_idx = l.index(max_val)
    return max_idx, max_val

def implicit(l):
    max_idx, max_val = max(enumerate(l), key=operator.itemgetter(1))
    return max_idx, max_val

if __name__ == "__main__":
    from timeit import Timer
    t = Timer("explicit(l)", "from __main__ import explicit, implicit; "
          "import random; import operator;"
          "l = [random.random() for _ in xrange(100)]")
    print "Explicit: %.2f usec/pass" % (1000000 * t.timeit(number=100000)/100000)

    t = Timer("implicit(l)", "from __main__ import explicit, implicit; "
          "import random; import operator;"
          "l = [random.random() for _ in xrange(100)]")
    print "Implicit: %.2f usec/pass" % (1000000 * t.timeit(number=100000)/100000)

Results as they run in my computer:

Explicit: 8.07 usec/pass
Implicit: 22.86 usec/pass

Other set:

Explicit: 6.80 usec/pass
Implicit: 19.01 usec/pass

Task.Run with Parameter(s)?

It's unclear if the original problem was the same problem I had: wanting to max CPU threads on computation inside a loop while preserving the iterator's value and keeping inline to avoid passing a ton of variables to a worker function.

for (int i = 0; i < 300; i++)
{
    Task.Run(() => {
        var x = ComputeStuff(datavector, i); // value of i was incorrect
        var y = ComputeMoreStuff(x);
        // ...
    });
}

I got this to work by changing the outer iterator and localizing its value with a gate.

for (int ii = 0; ii < 300; ii++)
{
    System.Threading.CountdownEvent handoff = new System.Threading.CountdownEvent(1);
    Task.Run(() => {
        int i = ii;
        handoff.Signal();

        var x = ComputeStuff(datavector, i);
        var y = ComputeMoreStuff(x);
        // ...

    });
    handoff.Wait();
}

How to assign multiple classes to an HTML container?

From the standard

7.5.2 Element identifiers: the id and class attributes

Attribute definitions

id = name [CS]
This attribute assigns a name to an element. This name must be unique in a document.

class = cdata-list [CS]
This attribute assigns a class name or set of class names to an element. Any number of elements may be assigned the same class name or names. Multiple class names must be separated by white space characters.

Yes, just put a space between them.

<article class="column wrapper">

Of course, there are many things you can do with CSS inheritance. Here is an article for further reading.

CSS table layout: why does table-row not accept a margin?

Have you tried setting the bottom margin to .row div, i.e. to your "cells"? When you work with actual HTML tables, you cannot set margins to rows, too - only to cells.

There is an error in XML document (1, 41)

I had the same thing. All came down to a "d" instead of a "D" in a tag name in the schema.

What to use instead of "addPreferencesFromResource" in a PreferenceActivity?

To add more information to the correct answer above, after reading an example from Android-er I found you can easily convert your preference activity into a preference fragment. If you have the following activity:

public class MyPreferenceActivity extends PreferenceActivity
{
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(final Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.my_preference_screen);
    }
}

The only changes you have to make is to create an internal fragment class, move the addPreferencesFromResources() into the fragment, and invoke the fragment from the activity, like this:

public class MyPreferenceActivity extends PreferenceActivity
{
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(final Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        getFragmentManager().beginTransaction().replace(android.R.id.content, new MyPreferenceFragment()).commit();
    }

    public static class MyPreferenceFragment extends PreferenceFragment
    {
        @Override
        public void onCreate(final Bundle savedInstanceState)
        {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
            addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.my_preference_screen);
        }
    }
}

There may be other subtleties to making more complex preferences from fragments; if so, I hope someone notes them here.

Converting XDocument to XmlDocument and vice versa

You could try writing the XDocument to an XmlWriter piped to an XmlReader for an XmlDocument.

If I understand the concepts properly, a direct conversion is not possible (the internal structure is different / simplified with XDocument). But then, I might be wrong...

Running java with JAVA_OPTS env variable has no effect

I don't know of any JVM that actually checks the JAVA_OPTS environment variable. Usually this is used in scripts which launch the JVM and they usually just add it to the java command-line.

The key thing to understand here is that arguments to java that come before the -jar analyse.jar bit will only affect the JVM and won't be passed along to your program. So, modifying the java line in your script to:

java $JAVA_OPTS -jar analyse.jar $*

Should "just work".

ASP.NET MVC Dropdown List From SelectList

Try this, just an example:

u.UserTypeOptions = new SelectList(new[]
    {
        new { ID="1", Name="name1" },
        new { ID="2", Name="name2" },
        new { ID="3", Name="name3" },
    }, "ID", "Name", 1);

Or

u.UserTypeOptions = new SelectList(new List<SelectListItem>
    {
        new SelectListItem { Selected = true, Text = string.Empty, Value = "-1"},
        new SelectListItem { Selected = false, Text = "Homeowner", Value = "2"},
        new SelectListItem { Selected = false, Text = "Contractor", Value = "3"},
    },"Value","Text");

How do I check if a cookie exists?

_x000D_
_x000D_
var cookie = 'cookie1=s; cookie1=; cookie2=test';
var cookies = cookie.split('; ');
cookies.forEach(function(c){
  if(c.match(/cookie1=.+/))
   console.log(true);
});
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Execute a terminal command from a Cocoa app

kent's article gave me a new idea. this runCommand method doesn't need a script file, just runs a command by a line:

- (NSString *)runCommand:(NSString *)commandToRun
{
    NSTask *task = [[NSTask alloc] init];
    [task setLaunchPath:@"/bin/sh"];

    NSArray *arguments = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:
                          @"-c" ,
                          [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", commandToRun],
                          nil];
    NSLog(@"run command:%@", commandToRun);
    [task setArguments:arguments];

    NSPipe *pipe = [NSPipe pipe];
    [task setStandardOutput:pipe];

    NSFileHandle *file = [pipe fileHandleForReading];

    [task launch];

    NSData *data = [file readDataToEndOfFile];

    NSString *output = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
    return output;
}

You can use this method like this:

NSString *output = runCommand(@"ps -A | grep mysql");

How to Consolidate Data from Multiple Excel Columns All into One Column

Take a look at Blockspring - you do need to install the plugin, but then it's just another function you call like this:

=BLOCKSPRING("twodee-array-reduce","input_array",D5:F7)

The source code and other details are here. If this doesn't suit and/or you want to build off my solution, you can fork my function (Python) or use another supported scripting language (Ruby, R, JS, etc...).

How is Pythons glob.glob ordered?

It is probably not sorted at all and uses the order at which entries appear in the filesystem, i.e. the one you get when using ls -U. (At least on my machine this produces the same order as listing glob matches).

How do I check to see if a value is an integer in MySQL?

Here is the simple solution for it assuming the data type is varchar

select * from calender where year > 0

It will return true if the year is numeric else false

How to fix corrupt HDFS FIles

start all daemons and run the command as "hadoop namenode -recover -force" stop the daemons and start again.. wait some time to recover data.

How does the "this" keyword work?

Probably the most detailed and comprehensive article on this is the following:

Gentle explanation of 'this' keyword in JavaScript

The idea behind this is to understand that the function invocation types have the significant importance on setting this value.


When having troubles identifying this, do not ask yourself:

Where is this taken from?

but do ask yourself:

How is the function invoked?

For an arrow function (special case of context transparency) ask yourself:

What value has this where the arrow function is defined?

This mindset is correct when dealing with this and will save you from headache.

What's the difference between SCSS and Sass?

Sass (Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets) have two syntaxes:

  • a newer: SCSS (Sassy CSS)
  • and an older, original: indent syntax, which is the original Sass and is also called Sass.

So they are both part of Sass preprocessor with two different possible syntaxes.

The most important difference between SCSS and original Sass:

SCSS:

  • Syntax is similar to CSS (so much that every regular valid CSS3 is also valid SCSS, but the relationship in the other direction obviously does not happen)

  • Uses braces {}

  • Uses semi-colons ;
  • Assignment sign is :
  • To create a mixin it uses the @mixin directive
  • To use mixin it precedes it with the @include directive
  • Files have the .scss extension.

Original Sass:

  • Syntax is similar to Ruby
  • No braces
  • No strict indentation
  • No semi-colons
  • Assignment sign is = instead of :
  • To create a mixin it uses the = sign
  • To use mixin it precedes it with the + sign
  • Files have the .sass extension.

Some prefer Sass, the original syntax - while others prefer SCSS. Either way, but it is worth noting that Sass’s indented syntax has not been and will never be deprecated.

Conversions with sass-convert:

# Convert Sass to SCSS
$ sass-convert style.sass style.scss

# Convert SCSS to Sass
$ sass-convert style.scss style.sass

The Sass and SCSS documentation

How to set cell spacing and UICollectionView - UICollectionViewFlowLayout size ratio?

Swift 4

let collectionViewLayout = collectionView.collectionViewLayout as? UICollectionViewFlowLayout
collectionViewLayout?.sectionInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 20, 0, 40) 
collectionViewLayout?.invalidateLayout()

How do I get video durations with YouTube API version 3?

Youtube data 3 API , duration string to seconds conversion in Python

Example:

convert_YouTube_duration_to_seconds('P2DT1S')
172801

convert_YouTube_duration_to_seconds('PT2H12M51S')
7971

def convert_YouTube_duration_to_seconds(duration):
   day_time = duration.split('T')
   day_duration = day_time[0].replace('P', '')
   day_list = day_duration.split('D')
   if len(day_list) == 2:
      day = int(day_list[0]) * 60 * 60 * 24
      day_list = day_list[1]
   else:
      day = 0
      day_list = day_list[0]
   hour_list = day_time[1].split('H')
   if len(hour_list) == 2:
      hour = int(hour_list[0]) * 60 * 60
      hour_list = hour_list[1]
   else:
      hour = 0
      hour_list = hour_list[0]
   minute_list = hour_list.split('M')
   if len(minute_list) == 2:
      minute = int(minute_list[0]) * 60
      minute_list = minute_list[1]
   else:
      minute = 0
      minute_list = minute_list[0]
   second_list = minute_list.split('S')
   if len(second_list) == 2:
      second = int(second_list[0])
   else:
      second = 0
   return day + hour + minute + second

Python convert csv to xlsx

Simple two line code solution using pandas

  import pandas as pd

  read_file = pd.read_csv ('File name.csv')
  read_file.to_excel ('File name.xlsx', index = None, header=True)

Access multiple elements of list knowing their index

Alternatives:

>>> map(a.__getitem__, b)
[1, 5, 5]

>>> import operator
>>> operator.itemgetter(*b)(a)
(1, 5, 5)

How to create dictionary and add key–value pairs dynamically?

Since you've stated that you want a dictionary object (and not an array like I assume some understood) I think this is what you are after:

var input = [{key:"key1", value:"value1"},{key:"key2", value:"value2"}];

var result = {};

for(var i = 0; i < input.length; i++)
{
    result[input[i].key] = input[i].value;
}

console.log(result); // Just for testing

SQL Server database backup restore on lower version

You'd have to use the Import/Export wizards in SSMS to migrate everything

There is no "downgrade" possible using backup/restore or detach/attach. Therefore what you have to do is:

  1. Backup the database from the server running the new SSMS/SQL version.
  2. Import data from the generated .bak file, by expanding the "Tasks" menu(after right-clicking the target database) and selecting the "Import Data" option.

What does %>% mean in R

matrix multiplication, see the following example:

> A <- matrix (c(1,3,4, 5,8,9, 1,3,3), 3,3)
> A
     [,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,]    1    5    1
[2,]    3    8    3
[3,]    4    9    3
> 
> B <- matrix (c(2,4,5, 8,9,2, 3,4,5), 3,3)
> 
> B
     [,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,]    2    8    3
[2,]    4    9    4
[3,]    5    2    5
> 
> 
> A %*% B
     [,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,]   27   55   28
[2,]   53  102   56
[3,]   59  119   63

> B %*% A
     [,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,]   38  101   35
[2,]   47  128   43
[3,]   31   86   26

Also see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_multiplication

If this does not follow the size of matrix rule you will get the error:

> A <- matrix(c(1,2,3,4,5,6), 3,2)
    > A
     [,1] [,2]
[1,]    1    4
[2,]    2    5
[3,]    3    6

> B <- matrix (c(3,1,3,4,4,4,4,4,3), 3,3)

> B
         [,1] [,2] [,3]
    [1,]    3    4    4
    [2,]    1    4    4
    [3,]    3    4    3
    > A%*%B
    Error in A %*% B : non-conformable arguments

webpack command not working

I had to reinstall webpack to get it working with my local version of webpack, e.g:

$ npm uninstall webpack
$ npm i -D webpack

How to center a table of the screen (vertically and horizontally)

I've been using this little cheat for a while now. You might enjoy it. nest the table you want to center in another table:

<table height=100% width=100%>
<td align=center valign=center>

(add your table here)

</td>
</table>

the align and valign put the table exactly in the middle of the screen, no matter what else is going on.

How to concatenate two layers in keras?

You're getting the error because result defined as Sequential() is just a container for the model and you have not defined an input for it.

Given what you're trying to build set result to take the third input x3.

first = Sequential()
first.add(Dense(1, input_shape=(2,), activation='sigmoid'))

second = Sequential()
second.add(Dense(1, input_shape=(1,), activation='sigmoid'))

third = Sequential()
# of course you must provide the input to result which will be your x3
third.add(Dense(1, input_shape=(1,), activation='sigmoid'))

# lets say you add a few more layers to first and second.
# concatenate them
merged = Concatenate([first, second])

# then concatenate the two outputs

result = Concatenate([merged,  third])

ada_grad = Adagrad(lr=0.1, epsilon=1e-08, decay=0.0)

result.compile(optimizer=ada_grad, loss='binary_crossentropy',
               metrics=['accuracy'])

However, my preferred way of building a model that has this type of input structure would be to use the functional api.

Here is an implementation of your requirements to get you started:

from keras.models import Model
from keras.layers import Concatenate, Dense, LSTM, Input, concatenate
from keras.optimizers import Adagrad

first_input = Input(shape=(2, ))
first_dense = Dense(1, )(first_input)

second_input = Input(shape=(2, ))
second_dense = Dense(1, )(second_input)

merge_one = concatenate([first_dense, second_dense])

third_input = Input(shape=(1, ))
merge_two = concatenate([merge_one, third_input])

model = Model(inputs=[first_input, second_input, third_input], outputs=merge_two)
ada_grad = Adagrad(lr=0.1, epsilon=1e-08, decay=0.0)
model.compile(optimizer=ada_grad, loss='binary_crossentropy',
               metrics=['accuracy'])

To answer the question in the comments:

  1. How are result and merged connected? Assuming you mean how are they concatenated.

Concatenation works like this:

  a        b         c
a b c   g h i    a b c g h i
d e f   j k l    d e f j k l

i.e rows are just joined.

  1. Now, x1 is input to first, x2 is input into second and x3 input into third.

How to make an embedded Youtube video automatically start playing?

You have to use

<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zGPuazETKkI?autoplay=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

?autoplay=1

and not

&autoplay=1

its the first URL param so its added with a ?

How do I compare if a string is not equal to?

Either != or ne will work, but you need to get the accessor syntax and nested quotes sorted out.

<c:if test="${content.contentType.name ne 'MCE'}">
    <%-- snip --%>
</c:if>

Disabling Strict Standards in PHP 5.4

As the commenters have stated the best option is to fix the errors, but with limited time or knowledge, that's not always possible. In your php.ini change

error_reporting = E_ALL

to

error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_STRICT

If you don't have access to the php.ini, you can potentially put this in your .htaccess file:

php_value error_reporting 30711

This is the E_ALL value (32767) and the removing the E_STRICT (2048) and E_NOTICE (8) values.

If you don't have access to the .htaccess file or it's not enabled, you'll probably need to put this at the top of the PHP section of any script that gets loaded from a browser call:

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_STRICT & ~E_NOTICE);

One of those should help you be able to use the software. The notices and strict stuff are indicators of problems or potential problems though and you may find some of the code is not working correctly in PHP 5.4.

Correct use of flush() in JPA/Hibernate

Probably the exact details of em.flush() are implementation-dependent. In general anyway, JPA providers like Hibernate can cache the SQL instructions they are supposed to send to the database, often until you actually commit the transaction. For example, you call em.persist(), Hibernate remembers it has to make a database INSERT, but does not actually execute the instruction until you commit the transaction. Afaik, this is mainly done for performance reasons.

In some cases anyway you want the SQL instructions to be executed immediately; generally when you need the result of some side effects, like an autogenerated key, or a database trigger.

What em.flush() does is to empty the internal SQL instructions cache, and execute it immediately to the database.

Bottom line: no harm is done, only you could have a (minor) performance hit since you are overriding the JPA provider decisions as regards the best timing to send SQL instructions to the database.

Get PostGIS version

Other way to get the minor version is:

SELECT extversion
FROM pg_catalog.pg_extension
WHERE extname='postgis'

Detect Android phone via Javascript / jQuery

Take a look at that : http://davidwalsh.name/detect-android

JavaScript:

var ua = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
var isAndroid = ua.indexOf("android") > -1; //&& ua.indexOf("mobile");
if(isAndroid) {
  // Do something!
  // Redirect to Android-site?
  window.location = 'http://android.davidwalsh.name';
}

PHP:

$ua = strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
if(stripos($ua,'android') !== false) { // && stripos($ua,'mobile') !== false) {
  header('Location: http://android.davidwalsh.name');
  exit();
}

Edit : As pointed out in some comments, this will work in 99% of the cases, but some edge cases are not covered. If you need a much more advanced and bulletproofed solution in JS, you should use platform.js : https://github.com/bestiejs/platform.js

Get a UTC timestamp

As wizzard pointed out, the correct method is,

new Date().getTime();

or under Javascript 1.5, just

Date.now();

From the documentation,

The value returned by the getTime method is the number of milliseconds since 1 January 1970 00:00:00 UTC.

If you wanted to make a time stamp without milliseconds you can use,

Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000);

I wanted to make this an answer so the correct method is more visible.

You can compare ExpExc's and Narendra Yadala's results to the method above at http://jsfiddle.net/JamesFM/bxEJd/, and verify with http://www.unixtimestamp.com/ or by running date +%s on a Unix terminal.

jQuery add class .active on menu

Use window.location.pathname and compare it with your links. You can do something like this:

$('a[href="~/' + currentSiteVar + '/"').addClass('active');

But first you have to prepare currentSiteVar to put it into selecor.

jQuery - Fancybox: But I don't want scrollbars!

Remove the quotes around your height and width values:

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function() {
        $("a#regForm").fancybox({
            'titleShow'  : false,
            'autoscale' : true,
            'width'  : 450,
            'height'  : 700,
            'transitionIn'  : 'elastic',
            'transitionOut' : 'elastic'
            }); 
        });
    </script>

Receiving login prompt using integrated windows authentication

Have you tried logging in with your domain prefix, e.g. DOMAIN\Username? IIS 6 defaults to using the host computer as the default domain so specifying the domain at logon may solve the problem.

How do I create/edit a Manifest file?

In Visual Studio 2010 (until 2019 and possibly future versions) you can add the manifest file to your project.

Right click your project file on the Solution Explorer, select Add, then New item (or CTRL+SHIFT+A). There you can find Application Manifest File.

The file name is app.manifest.

Input length must be multiple of 16 when decrypting with padded cipher

This is a very old question, but my answer may help someone.

  • In the encrypt method, don't forget to encode your string to Base64
  • In the decrypt method, don't forget to decode your string to Base64

Below is the working code

    import java.util.Arrays;
    import java.util.Base64;

    import javax.crypto.Cipher;
    import javax.crypto.SecretKey;
    import javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec;

    public class EncryptionDecryptionUtil {

    public static String encrypt(final String secret, final String data) {


        byte[] decodedKey = Base64.getDecoder().decode(secret);

        try {
            Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES");
            // rebuild key using SecretKeySpec
            SecretKey originalKey = new SecretKeySpec(Arrays.copyOf(decodedKey, 16), "AES");
            cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, originalKey);
            byte[] cipherText = cipher.doFinal(data.getBytes("UTF-8"));
            return Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(cipherText);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(
                    "Error occured while encrypting data", e);
        }

    }

    public static String decrypt(final String secret,
            final String encryptedString) {


        byte[] decodedKey = Base64.getDecoder().decode(secret);

        try {
            Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES");
            // rebuild key using SecretKeySpec
            SecretKey originalKey = new SecretKeySpec(Arrays.copyOf(decodedKey, 16), "AES");
            cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, originalKey);
            byte[] cipherText = cipher.doFinal(Base64.getDecoder().decode(encryptedString));
            return new String(cipherText);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(
                    "Error occured while decrypting data", e);
        }
    }


    public static void main(String[] args) {

        String data = "This is not easy as you think";
        String key = "---------------------------------";
        String encrypted = encrypt(key, data);
        System.out.println(encrypted);
        System.out.println(decrypt(key, encrypted));
      }
  }

For Generating Key you can use below class

    import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import java.security.SecureRandom;
import java.util.Base64;

import javax.crypto.KeyGenerator;
import javax.crypto.SecretKey;

public class SecretKeyGenerator {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException {

        KeyGenerator keyGenerator = KeyGenerator.getInstance("AES");

        SecureRandom secureRandom = new SecureRandom();
        int keyBitSize = 256;
        keyGenerator.init(keyBitSize, secureRandom);

        SecretKey secretKey = keyGenerator.generateKey();

 System.out.println(Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(secretKey.getEncoded()));
    }

}

Regular expression that doesn't contain certain string

I the following code I had to replace add a GET-parameter to all references to JS-files EXCEPT one.

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/login/css/ABC.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="/localization/DEF.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="/login/jslib/GHI.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="/login/jslib/md5.js"></script>
sendRequest('/application/srvc/EXCEPTION.js', handleChallengeResponse, null);
sendRequest('/application/srvc/EXCEPTION.js",handleChallengeResponse, null);

This is the Matcher used:

(?<!EXCEPTION)(\.js)

What that does is look for all occurences of ".js" and if they are preceeded by the "EXCEPTION" string, discard that result from the result array. That's called negative lookbehind. Since I spent a day on finding out how to do this I thought I should share.

How do I find the parent directory in C#?

IO.Path.GetFullPath(@"..\..")

If you clear the "bin\Debug\" in the Project properties -> Build -> Output path, then you can just use AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory

Putting HTML inside Html.ActionLink(), plus No Link Text?

A custom HtmlHelper extension is another option. Note: ParameterDictionary is my own type. You could substitute a RouteValueDictionary but you'd have to construct it differently.

public static string ActionLinkSpan( this HtmlHelper helper, string linkText, string actionName, string controllerName, object htmlAttributes )
{
    TagBuilder spanBuilder = new TagBuilder( "span" );
    spanBuilder.InnerHtml = linkText;

    return BuildNestedAnchor( spanBuilder.ToString(), string.Format( "/{0}/{1}", controllerName, actionName ), htmlAttributes );
}

private static string BuildNestedAnchor( string innerHtml, string url, object htmlAttributes )
{
    TagBuilder anchorBuilder = new TagBuilder( "a" );
    anchorBuilder.Attributes.Add( "href", url );
    anchorBuilder.MergeAttributes( new ParameterDictionary( htmlAttributes ) );
    anchorBuilder.InnerHtml = innerHtml;

    return anchorBuilder.ToString();
}

JavaScript - onClick to get the ID of the clicked button

(I think the id attribute needs to start with a letter. Could be wrong.)

You could go for event delegation...

<div onClick="reply_click()">
    <button id="1"></button>
    <button id="2"></button>
    <button id="3"></button>
</div>

function reply_click(e) {
    e = e || window.event;
    e = e.target || e.srcElement;
    if (e.nodeName === 'BUTTON') {
        alert(e.id);
    }
}

...but that requires you to be relatively comfortable with the wacky event model.

How Can I Truncate A String In jQuery?

From: jQuery text truncation (read more style)

Try this:

var title = "This is your title";

var shortText = jQuery.trim(title).substring(0, 10)
    .split(" ").slice(0, -1).join(" ") + "...";

And you can also use a plugin:

As a extension of String

String.prototype.trimToLength = function(m) {
  return (this.length > m) 
    ? jQuery.trim(this).substring(0, m).split(" ").slice(0, -1).join(" ") + "..."
    : this;
};

Use as

"This is your title".trimToLength(10);

View tabular file such as CSV from command line

Here's a (probably too) simple option:

sed "s/,/\t/g" filename.csv | less

How can I define an array of objects?

Some tslint rules are disabling use of [], example message: Array type using 'T[]' is forbidden for non-simple types. Use 'Array<T>' instead.

Then you would write it like:

var userTestStatus: Array<{ id: number, name: string }> = Array(
    { "id": 0, "name": "Available" },
    { "id": 1, "name": "Ready" },
    { "id": 2, "name": "Started" }
);

How to connect Android app to MySQL database?

The one way is by using webservice, simply write a webservice method in PHP or any other language . And From your android app by using http client request and response , you can hit the web service method which will return whatever you want.

For PHP You can create a webservice like this. Assuming below we have a php file in the server. And the route of the file is yourdomain.com/api.php

if(isset($_GET['api_call'])){
    switch($_GET['api_call']){
       case 'userlogin':
           //perform your userlogin task here
       break; 
    }
}

Now you can use Volley or Retrofit to send a network request to the above PHP Script and then, actually the php script will handle the database operation.

In this case the PHP script is called a RESTful API.

You can learn all the operation at MySQL from this tutorial. Android MySQL Tutorial to Perform CRUD.

How to install mod_ssl for Apache httpd?

Are any other LoadModule commands referencing modules in the /usr/lib/httpd/modules folder? If so, you should be fine just adding LoadModule ssl_module /usr/lib/httpd/modules/mod_ssl.so to your conf file.

Otherwise, you'll want to copy the mod_ssl.so file to whatever directory the other modules are being loaded from and reference it there.

Error: "setFile(null,false) call failed" when using log4j

Try executing your command with sudo(Super User), this worked for me :)
Run : $ sudo your_command
After than enter the super user password. Thats All..

How do you do a deep copy of an object in .NET?

    public static object CopyObject(object input)
    {
        if (input != null)
        {
            object result = Activator.CreateInstance(input.GetType());
            foreach (FieldInfo field in input.GetType().GetFields(Consts.AppConsts.FullBindingList))
            {
                if (field.FieldType.GetInterface("IList", false) == null)
                {
                    field.SetValue(result, field.GetValue(input));
                }
                else
                {
                    IList listObject = (IList)field.GetValue(result);
                    if (listObject != null)
                    {
                        foreach (object item in ((IList)field.GetValue(input)))
                        {
                            listObject.Add(CopyObject(item));
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            return result;
        }
        else
        {
            return null;
        }
    }

This way is a few times faster than BinarySerialization AND this does not require the [Serializable] attribute.

Save results to csv file with Python

I know the question is asking about your "csv" package implementation, but for your information, there are options that are much simpler — numpy, for instance.

import numpy as np
np.savetxt('data.csv', (col1_array, col2_array, col3_array), delimiter=',')

(This answer posted 6 years later, for posterity's sake.)

In a different case similar to what you're asking about, say you have two columns like this:

names = ['Player Name', 'Foo', 'Bar']
scores = ['Score', 250, 500]

You could save it like this:

np.savetxt('scores.csv', [p for p in zip(names, scores)], delimiter=',', fmt='%s')

scores.csv would look like this:

Player Name,Score
Foo,250
Bar,500

Selenium: Can I set any of the attribute value of a WebElement in Selenium?

    JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;        
    js.executeScript("document.getElementsByClassName('featured-heading')[0].setAttribute('style', 'background-color: green')");

I could add an attribute using the above code in java

How to know if a DateTime is between a DateRange in C#

I’ve found the following library to be the most helpful when doing any kind of date math. I’m still amazed nothing like this is part of the .Net framework.

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/168662/Time-Period-Library-for-NET

How do I use arrays in C++?

Arrays on the type level

An array type is denoted as T[n] where T is the element type and n is a positive size, the number of elements in the array. The array type is a product type of the element type and the size. If one or both of those ingredients differ, you get a distinct type:

#include <type_traits>

static_assert(!std::is_same<int[8], float[8]>::value, "distinct element type");
static_assert(!std::is_same<int[8],   int[9]>::value, "distinct size");

Note that the size is part of the type, that is, array types of different size are incompatible types that have absolutely nothing to do with each other. sizeof(T[n]) is equivalent to n * sizeof(T).

Array-to-pointer decay

The only "connection" between T[n] and T[m] is that both types can implicitly be converted to T*, and the result of this conversion is a pointer to the first element of the array. That is, anywhere a T* is required, you can provide a T[n], and the compiler will silently provide that pointer:

                  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
the_actual_array: |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   int[8]
                  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
                    ^
                    |
                    |
                    |
                    |  pointer_to_the_first_element   int*

This conversion is known as "array-to-pointer decay", and it is a major source of confusion. The size of the array is lost in this process, since it is no longer part of the type (T*). Pro: Forgetting the size of an array on the type level allows a pointer to point to the first element of an array of any size. Con: Given a pointer to the first (or any other) element of an array, there is no way to detect how large that array is or where exactly the pointer points to relative to the bounds of the array. Pointers are extremely stupid.

Arrays are not pointers

The compiler will silently generate a pointer to the first element of an array whenever it is deemed useful, that is, whenever an operation would fail on an array but succeed on a pointer. This conversion from array to pointer is trivial, since the resulting pointer value is simply the address of the array. Note that the pointer is not stored as part of the array itself (or anywhere else in memory). An array is not a pointer.

static_assert(!std::is_same<int[8], int*>::value, "an array is not a pointer");

One important context in which an array does not decay into a pointer to its first element is when the & operator is applied to it. In that case, the & operator yields a pointer to the entire array, not just a pointer to its first element. Although in that case the values (the addresses) are the same, a pointer to the first element of an array and a pointer to the entire array are completely distinct types:

static_assert(!std::is_same<int*, int(*)[8]>::value, "distinct element type");

The following ASCII art explains this distinction:

      +-----------------------------------+
      | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ |
+---> | |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | | int[8]
|     | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ |
|     +---^-------------------------------+
|         |
|         |
|         |
|         |  pointer_to_the_first_element   int*
|
|  pointer_to_the_entire_array              int(*)[8]

Note how the pointer to the first element only points to a single integer (depicted as a small box), whereas the pointer to the entire array points to an array of 8 integers (depicted as a large box).

The same situation arises in classes and is maybe more obvious. A pointer to an object and a pointer to its first data member have the same value (the same address), yet they are completely distinct types.

If you are unfamiliar with the C declarator syntax, the parenthesis in the type int(*)[8] are essential:

  • int(*)[8] is a pointer to an array of 8 integers.
  • int*[8] is an array of 8 pointers, each element of type int*.

Accessing elements

C++ provides two syntactic variations to access individual elements of an array. Neither of them is superior to the other, and you should familiarize yourself with both.

Pointer arithmetic

Given a pointer p to the first element of an array, the expression p+i yields a pointer to the i-th element of the array. By dereferencing that pointer afterwards, one can access individual elements:

std::cout << *(x+3) << ", " << *(x+7) << std::endl;

If x denotes an array, then array-to-pointer decay will kick in, because adding an array and an integer is meaningless (there is no plus operation on arrays), but adding a pointer and an integer makes sense:

   +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
x: |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   int[8]
   +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     ^           ^               ^
     |           |               |
     |           |               |
     |           |               |
x+0  |      x+3  |          x+7  |     int*

(Note that the implicitly generated pointer has no name, so I wrote x+0 in order to identify it.)

If, on the other hand, x denotes a pointer to the first (or any other) element of an array, then array-to-pointer decay is not necessary, because the pointer on which i is going to be added already exists:

   +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   int[8]
   +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     ^           ^               ^
     |           |               |
     |           |               |
   +-|-+         |               |
x: | | |    x+3  |          x+7  |     int*
   +---+

Note that in the depicted case, x is a pointer variable (discernible by the small box next to x), but it could just as well be the result of a function returning a pointer (or any other expression of type T*).

Indexing operator

Since the syntax *(x+i) is a bit clumsy, C++ provides the alternative syntax x[i]:

std::cout << x[3] << ", " << x[7] << std::endl;

Due to the fact that addition is commutative, the following code does exactly the same:

std::cout << 3[x] << ", " << 7[x] << std::endl;

The definition of the indexing operator leads to the following interesting equivalence:

&x[i]  ==  &*(x+i)  ==  x+i

However, &x[0] is generally not equivalent to x. The former is a pointer, the latter an array. Only when the context triggers array-to-pointer decay can x and &x[0] be used interchangeably. For example:

T* p = &array[0];  // rewritten as &*(array+0), decay happens due to the addition
T* q = array;      // decay happens due to the assignment

On the first line, the compiler detects an assignment from a pointer to a pointer, which trivially succeeds. On the second line, it detects an assignment from an array to a pointer. Since this is meaningless (but pointer to pointer assignment makes sense), array-to-pointer decay kicks in as usual.

Ranges

An array of type T[n] has n elements, indexed from 0 to n-1; there is no element n. And yet, to support half-open ranges (where the beginning is inclusive and the end is exclusive), C++ allows the computation of a pointer to the (non-existent) n-th element, but it is illegal to dereference that pointer:

   +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+....
x: |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   .   int[8]
   +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+....
     ^                               ^
     |                               |
     |                               |
     |                               |
x+0  |                          x+8  |     int*

For example, if you want to sort an array, both of the following would work equally well:

std::sort(x + 0, x + n);
std::sort(&x[0], &x[0] + n);

Note that it is illegal to provide &x[n] as the second argument since this is equivalent to &*(x+n), and the sub-expression *(x+n) technically invokes undefined behavior in C++ (but not in C99).

Also note that you could simply provide x as the first argument. That is a little too terse for my taste, and it also makes template argument deduction a bit harder for the compiler, because in that case the first argument is an array but the second argument is a pointer. (Again, array-to-pointer decay kicks in.)

php codeigniter count rows

To count all rows in a table:

Controller:

function id_cont() {
   $news_data = new news_model();
   $ids=$news_data->data_model();
   print_r($ids);
}

Model:

function data_model() {
    $this->db->select('*');
    $this->db->from('news_data');
    $id = $this->db->get()->num_rows();
    return $id;
}

cor shows only NA or 1 for correlations - Why?

The NA can actually be due to 2 reasons. One is that there is a NA in your data. Another one is due to there being one of the values being constant. This results in standard deviation being equal to zero and hence the cor function returns NA.

How do I set the colour of a label (coloured text) in Java?

Just wanted to add on to what @aioobe mentioned above...

In that approach you use HTML to color code your text. Though this is one of the most frequently used ways to color code the label text, but is not the most efficient way to do it.... considering that fact that each label will lead to HTML being parsed, rendering, etc. If you have large UI forms to be displayed, every millisecond counts to give a good user experience.

You may want to go through the below and give it a try....

Jide OSS (located at https://jide-oss.dev.java.net/) is a professional open source library with a really good amount of Swing components ready to use. They have a much improved version of JLabel named StyledLabel. That component solves your problem perfectly... See if their open source licensing applies to your product or not.

This component is very easy to use. If you want to see a demo of their Swing Components you can run their WebStart demo located at www.jidesoft.com (http://www.jidesoft.com/products/1.4/jide_demo.jnlp). All of their offerings are demo'd... and best part is that the StyledLabel is compared with JLabel (HTML and without) in terms of speed! :-)

A screenshot of the perf test can be seen at (http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/9113/styledlabelperformance.png)

How do I catch an Ajax query post error?

A simple way is to implement ajaxError:

Whenever an Ajax request completes with an error, jQuery triggers the ajaxError event. Any and all handlers that have been registered with the .ajaxError() method are executed at this time.

For example:

$('.log').ajaxError(function() {
  $(this).text('Triggered ajaxError handler.');
});

I would suggest reading the ajaxError documentation. It does more than the simple use-case demonstrated above - mainly its callback accepts a number of parameters:

$('.log').ajaxError(function(e, xhr, settings, exception) {
  if (settings.url == 'ajax/missing.html') {
    $(this).text('Triggered ajaxError handler.');
  }
});

How to check SQL Server version

Here is what i have done to find the version Here is what i have done to find the version: just write SELECT @@version and it will give you the version.

Can't find keyplane that supports type 4 for keyboard iPhone-Portrait-NumberPad; using 3876877096_Portrait_iPhone-Simple-Pad_Default

Okay here's a simple fix for getting 'done' button to show and work in an app in both iOS 9, iOS 8 and below when I got similar error. It could be observed after running an app and viewing it via 'View's Hierarchy' (i.e. clicking on the 'View Hierarchy' icon from Debug Area bar while app is running on device and inspecting your views in Storyboard), that the keyboard is presented on different windows in iOS 9 compared to iOS 8 and below versions and have to be accounted for. addButtonToKeyboard

- (id)addButtonToKeyboard
{
if (!doneButton)
{
   // create custom button
    UIButton * doneButton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
    doneButton.frame = CGRectMake(-2, 163, 106, 53);
    doneButton.adjustsImageWhenHighlighted = NO;
    [doneButton setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"DoneUp.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
    [doneButton setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"DoneDown.png"] forState:UIControlStateHighlighted];
    [doneButton addTarget:self action:@selector(saveNewLead:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
}

NSArray *windows = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] windows];
//Check to see if running below iOS 9,then return the second window which bears the keyboard   
if ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] floatValue] < 9.0) {
return windows[windows.count - 2];
}
else {
UIWindow* keyboardWithDoneButtonWindow = [ windows lastObject];
return keyboardWithDoneButtonWindow;
    }
}

And this is how you could removeKeyboardButton from keyboard if you want.

- (void)removeKeyboardButton {

id windowTemp = [self addButtonToKeyboard];

if (windowTemp) {

    for (UIView *doneButton in [windowTemp subviews]) {
        if ([doneButton isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]]) {
            [doneButton setHidden:TRUE];
        }
    }
  }
}

How do I write dispatch_after GCD in Swift 3, 4, and 5?

This worked for me in Swift 3

let time1 = 8.23
let time2 = 3.42

// Delay 2 seconds


DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 2.0) {
    print("Sum of times: \(time1 + time2)")
}

Lightweight Javascript DB for use in Node.js

LevelUP aims to expose the features of LevelDB in a Node.js-friendly way.

https://github.com/rvagg/node-levelup

You can also look at UnQLite. with a node.js binding node-unqlite

https://github.com/symisc/unqlite

Difference between == and ===

Read more about Bitwise and Bit Shift Operators

>>      Signed right shift
>>>     Unsigned right shift

The bit pattern is given by the left-hand operand, and the number of positions to shift by the right-hand operand. The unsigned right shift operator >>> shifts a zero into the leftmost position,

while the leftmost position after >> depends on sign extension.

In simple words >>> always shifts a zero into the leftmost position whereas >> shifts based on sign of the number i.e. 1 for negative number and 0 for positive number.


For example try with negative as well as positive numbers.

int c = -153;
System.out.printf("%32s%n",Integer.toBinaryString(c >>= 2));
System.out.printf("%32s%n",Integer.toBinaryString(c <<= 2));
System.out.printf("%32s%n",Integer.toBinaryString(c >>>= 2));
System.out.println(Integer.toBinaryString(c <<= 2));

System.out.println();

c = 153;
System.out.printf("%32s%n",Integer.toBinaryString(c >>= 2));
System.out.printf("%32s%n",Integer.toBinaryString(c <<= 2));
System.out.printf("%32s%n",Integer.toBinaryString(c >>>= 2));
System.out.printf("%32s%n",Integer.toBinaryString(c <<= 2));

output:

11111111111111111111111111011001
11111111111111111111111101100100
  111111111111111111111111011001
11111111111111111111111101100100

                          100110
                        10011000
                          100110
                        10011000

Selecting option by text content with jQuery

I know this question is too old, but still, I think this approach would be cleaner:

cat = $.URLDecode(cat);
$('#cbCategory option:contains("' + cat + '")').prop('selected', true);

In this case you wont need to go over the entire options with each(). Although by that time prop() didn't exist so for older versions of jQuery use attr().


UPDATE

You have to be certain when using contains because you can find multiple options, in case of the string inside cat matches a substring of a different option than the one you intend to match.

Then you should use:

cat = $.URLDecode(cat);
$('#cbCategory option')
    .filter(function(index) { return $(this).text() === cat; })
    .prop('selected', true);

django order_by query set, ascending and descending

Reserved.objects.filter(client=client_id).order_by('-check_in')

Notice the - before check_in.

Django Documentation

HTML combo box with option to type an entry

Given that the HTML datalist tag is still not fully supported, an alternate approach that I used is the Dojo Toolkit ComboBox. It was easier to implement and better documented than other options I've explored. It also plays nicely with existing frameworks. In my case, I added this combobox to an existing website that's based on Codeigniter and Bootstrap with no problems You just need to be sure to apply the Dojo theme (e.g. class="claro") to the combo's parent element instead of the body tag to avoid styling conflicts.

First, include the CSS for one of the Dojo themes (such as 'Claro'). It's important that the CSS file is included prior to the JS files below.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/dojo/1.9.6/dijit/themes/claro/claro.css" />

Next, include jQuery and Dojo Toolkit via CDN

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/dojo/1.10.3/dojo/dojo.js"></script>

Next, you can just follow Dojo's sample code or use the sample below to get a working combobox.

<body>
    <!-- Dojo Dijit ComboBox with 'Claro' theme -->
    <div class="claro"><input id="item_name_1" class=""/></div>

    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).ready(function () {
            //In this example, dataStore is simply an array of JSON-encoded id/name pairs
            dataStore = [{"id":"43","name":"Domain Name Renewal"},{"id":"42","name":"Hosting Renewal"}];

            require(
                [ "dojo/store/Memory", "dijit/form/ComboBox", "dojo/domReady!"], 
                function (Memory, ComboBox) {
                    var stateStore = new Memory({
                        data: dataStore
                    });

                    var combo = new ComboBox({
                        id: "item_name_1",
                        name: "desc_1",
                        store: stateStore,
                        searchAttr: "name"},                        
                        "item_name_1"
                        ).startup();

                });

        });

    </script>
</body>

Change MySQL root password in phpMyAdmin

I had to do 2 steps:

  • follow Tiep Phan solution ... edit config.inc.php file ...

  • follow Mahmoud Zalt solution ... change password within phpmyadmin

Java decimal formatting using String.format?

java.text.NumberFormat is probably what you want.

How do I pass a datetime value as a URI parameter in asp.net mvc?

Split out the Year, Month, Day Hours and Mins

routes.MapRoute(
            "MyNewRoute",
            "{controller}/{action}/{Year}/{Month}/{Days}/{Hours}/{Mins}",
            new { controller="YourControllerName", action="YourActionName"}
        );

Use a cascading If Statement to Build up the datetime from the parameters passed into the Action

    ' Build up the date from the passed url or use the current date
    Dim tCurrentDate As DateTime = Nothing
    If Year.HasValue Then
        If Month.HasValue Then
            If Day.HasValue Then
                tCurrentDate = New Date(Year, Month, Day)
            Else
                tCurrentDate = New Date(Year, Month, 1)
            End If
        Else
            tCurrentDate = New Date(Year, 1, 1)
        End If
    Else
        tCurrentDate = StartOfThisWeek(Date.Now)
    End If

(Apologies for the vb.net but you get the idea :P)

How to format a java.sql.Timestamp(yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S) to a date(yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss)

You do not need to use substring at all since your format doesn't hold that info.

SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
String fechaStr = "2013-10-10 10:49:29.10000";  
Date fechaNueva = format.parse(fechaStr);

System.out.println(format.format(fechaNueva)); // Prints 2013-10-10 10:49:29

What's sizeof(size_t) on 32-bit vs the various 64-bit data models?

EDIT: Thanks for the comments - I looked it up in the C99 standard, which says in section 6.5.3.4:

The value of the result is implementation-defined, and its type (an unsigned integer type) is size_t, defined in <stddef.h> (and other headers)

So, the size of size_t is not specified, only that it has to be an unsigned integer type. However, an interesting specification can be found in chapter 7.18.3 of the standard:

limit of size_t

SIZE_MAX 65535

Which basically means that, irrespective of the size of size_t, the allowed value range is from 0-65535, the rest is implementation dependent.

What to do about Eclipse's "No repository found containing: ..." error messages?

2019 Eclipse/CCS

After trying many of the above techniques described here I noticed this post by Edwin landwealths

The long and short of it is to add the infamous tail "/" and ALSO change "http" to "https". This fixed my issue immediately.

Check if specific input file is empty

    if (!$_FILES['image']['size'][0] == 0){ //}

Calling another method java GUI

I'm not sure what you're trying to do, but here's something to consider: c(); won't do anything. c is an instance of the class checkbox and not a method to be called. So consider this:

public class FirstWindow extends JFrame {      public FirstWindow() {         checkbox c = new checkbox();         c.yourMethod(yourParameters); // call the method you made in checkbox     } }  public class checkbox extends JFrame {      public checkbox(yourParameters) {          // this is the constructor method used to initialize instance variables     }      public void yourMethod() // doesn't have to be void     {         // put your code here     } } 

"use database_name" command in PostgreSQL

You must specify the database to use on connect; if you want to use psql for your script, you can use "\c name_database"

user_name=# CREATE DATABASE testdatabase; 
user_name=# \c testdatabase 

At this point you might see the following output

You are now connected to database "testdatabase" as user "user_name".
testdatabase=#

Notice how the prompt changes. Cheers, have just been hustling looking for this too, too little information on postgreSQL compared to MySQL and the rest in my view.

ORA-00979 not a group by expression

Same error also come when UPPER or LOWER keyword not used in both place in select expression and group by expression .

Wrong :-

select a , count(*) from my_table group by UPPER(a) .

Right :-

select UPPER(a) , count(*) from my_table group by UPPER(a) .

Write string to output stream

Wrap your OutputStream with a PrintWriter and use the print methods on that class. They take in a String and do the work for you.

Convert an array to string

You probably want something like this overload of String.Join:

String.Join<T> Method (String, IEnumerable<T>)

Docs:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd992421.aspx

In your example, you'd use

String.Join("", Client);

How do I check if there are duplicates in a flat list?

I found this to do the best performance because it short-circuit the operation when the first duplicated it found, then this algorithm has time and space complexity O(n) where n is the list's length:

def has_duplicated_elements(iterable):
    """ Given an `iterable`, return True if there are duplicated entries. """
    clean_elements_set = set()
    clean_elements_set_add = clean_elements_set.add

    for possible_duplicate_element in iterable:

        if possible_duplicate_element in clean_elements_set:
            return True

        else:
            clean_elements_set_add( possible_duplicate_element )

    return False

Generate 'n' unique random numbers within a range

You could use the random.sample function from the standard library to select k elements from a population:

import random
random.sample(range(low, high), n)

In case of a rather large range of possible numbers, you could use itertools.islice with an infinite random generator:

import itertools
import random

def random_gen(low, high):
    while True:
        yield random.randrange(low, high)

gen = random_gen(1, 100)
items = list(itertools.islice(gen, 10))  # Take first 10 random elements

After the question update it is now clear that you need n distinct (unique) numbers.

import itertools
import random

def random_gen(low, high):
    while True:
        yield random.randrange(low, high)

gen = random_gen(1, 100)

items = set()

# Try to add elem to set until set length is less than 10
for x in itertools.takewhile(lambda x: len(items) < 10, gen):
    items.add(x)

How to unnest a nested list

the first case can also be easily done as:

A=A[0]

My Routes are Returning a 404, How can I Fix Them?

the simple Commands with automatic loads the dependencies

composer dump-autoload

and still getting that your some important files are missing so go here to see whole procedure

https://codingexpertise.blogspot.com/2018/11/laravel-new.html

How to use this boolean in an if statement?

The problem here is

if (stop = true) is an assignation not a comparision.

Try if (stop == true)

Also take a look to the Top Ten Errors Java Programmers Make.

C# nullable string error

String is a reference type, so you don't need to (and cannot) use Nullable<T> here. Just declare typeOfContract as string and simply check for null after getting it from the query string. Or use String.IsNullOrEmpty if you want to handle empty string values the same as null.

Convert JSON String to JSON Object c#

string result = await resp.Content.ReadAsStringAsync(); List _Resp = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List>(result); //List _objList = new List((IEnumerable)_Resp);

            IList usll = _Resp.Select(a => a.lttsdata).ToList();
            // List<ListViewClass> _objList = new List<ListViewClass>((IEnumerable<ListViewClass>)_Resp);
            //IList usll = _objList.OrderBy(a=> a.ReqID).ToList();
            Lv.ItemsSource = usll;

What is the 'instanceof' operator used for in Java?

Most people have correctly explained the "What" of this question but no one explained "How" correctly.

So here's a simple illustration:

String s = new String("Hello");
if (s instanceof String) System.out.println("s is instance of String"); // True
if (s instanceof Object) System.out.println("s is instance of Object"); // True
//if (s instanceof StringBuffer) System.out.println("s is instance of StringBuffer"); // Compile error
Object o = (Object)s;
if (o instanceof StringBuffer) System.out.println("o is instance of StringBuffer"); //No error, returns False
else System.out.println("Not an instance of StringBuffer"); // 
if (o instanceof String) System.out.println("o is instance of String"); //True

Outputs:

s is instance of String
s is instance of Object
Not an instance of StringBuffer
o is instance of String

The reason for compiler error when comparing s with StringBuffer is well explained in docs:

You can use it to test if an object is an instance of a class, an instance of a subclass, or an instance of a class that implements a particular interface.

which implies the LHS must either be an instance of RHS or of a Class that either implements RHS or extends RHS.

How to use use instanceof then?
Since every Class extends Object, type-casting LHS to object will always work in your favour:

String s = new String("Hello");
if ((Object)s instanceof StringBuffer) System.out.println("Instance of StringBuffer"); //No compiler error now :)
else System.out.println("Not an instance of StringBuffer");

Outputs:

Not an instance of StringBuffer

How to process SIGTERM signal gracefully?

I think you are near to a possible solution.

Execute mainloop in a separate thread and extend it with the property shutdown_flag. The signal can be caught with signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, handler) in the main thread (not in a separate thread). The signal handler should set shutdown_flag to True and wait for the thread to end with thread.join()

What is the difference between spark.sql.shuffle.partitions and spark.default.parallelism?

spark.default.parallelism is the default number of partition set by spark which is by default 200. and if you want to increase the number of partition than you can apply the property spark.sql.shuffle.partitions to set number of partition in the spark configuration or while running spark SQL.

Normally this spark.sql.shuffle.partitions it is being used when we have a memory congestion and we see below error: spark error:java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Size exceeds Integer.MAX_VALUE

so set your can allocate a partition as 256 MB per partition and that you can use to set for your processes.

also If number of partitions is near to 2000 then increase it to more than 2000. As spark applies different logic for partition < 2000 and > 2000 which will increase your code performance by decreasing the memory footprint as data default is highly compressed if >2000.

Break when a value changes using the Visual Studio debugger

You can also choose to break explicitly in code:

// Assuming C#
if (condition)
{
    System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Break();
}

From MSDN:

Debugger.Break: If no debugger is attached, users are asked if they want to attach a debugger. If yes, the debugger is started. If a debugger is attached, the debugger is signaled with a user breakpoint event, and the debugger suspends execution of the process just as if a debugger breakpoint had been hit.

This is only a fallback, though. Setting a conditional breakpoint in Visual Studio, as described in other comments, is a better choice.

Configure cron job to run every 15 minutes on Jenkins

1) Your cron is wrong. If you want to run job every 15 mins on Jenkins use this:

H/15 * * * *

2) Warning from Jenkins Spread load evenly by using ‘...’ rather than ‘...’ came with JENKINS-17311:

To allow periodically scheduled tasks to produce even load on the system, the symbol H (for “hash”) should be used wherever possible. For example, using 0 0 * * * for a dozen daily jobs will cause a large spike at midnight. In contrast, using H H * * * would still execute each job once a day, but not all at the same time, better using limited resources.

Examples:

  • H/15 * * * * - every fifteen minutes (perhaps at :07, :22, :37, :52):
  • H(0-29)/10 * * * * - every ten minutes in the first half of every hour (three times, perhaps at :04, :14, :24)
  • H 9-16/2 * * 1-5 - once every two hours every weekday (perhaps at 10:38 AM, 12:38 PM, 2:38 PM, 4:38 PM)
  • H H 1,15 1-11 * - once a day on the 1st and 15th of every month except December

Difference between rake db:migrate db:reset and db:schema:load

As far as I understand, it is going to drop your database and re-create it based on your db/schema.rb file. That is why you need to make sure that your schema.rb file is always up to date and under version control.

Function is not defined - uncaught referenceerror

One more thing. In my experience this error occurred because there was another error previous to the Function is not defined - uncaught referenceerror.

So, look through the console to see if a previous error exists and if so, correct any that exist. You might be lucky in that they were the problem.

iOS Swift - Get the Current Local Time and Date Timestamp

you can even create a function to return different time stamps depending on your necessity:

func dataatual(_ tipo:Int) -> String {
        let date = Date()
        let formatter = DateFormatter()
        if tipo == 1{
            formatter.dateFormat = "dd/MM/yyyy"
        } else if tipo == 2{
            formatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm"
        } else {
            formatter.dateFormat = "dd-MM-yyyy"
        }

        return formatter.string(from: date)
    } 

How to check if a database exists in SQL Server?

IF EXISTS (SELECT name FROM master.sys.databases WHERE name = N'YourDatabaseName')
  Do your thing...

By the way, this came directly from SQL Server Studio, so if you have access to this tool, I recommend you start playing with the various "Script xxxx AS" functions that are available. Will make your life easier! :)

String isNullOrEmpty in Java?

If you are doing android development, you can use:

TextUtils.isEmpty (CharSequence str) 

Added in API level 1 Returns true if the string is null or 0-length.

Convert XML to JSON (and back) using Javascript

You can also use txml. It can parse into a DOM made of simple objects and stringify. In the result, the content will be trimmed. So formating of the original with whitespaces will be lost. But this could be used very good to minify HTML.

const xml = require('txml');
const data = `
<tag>tag content</tag>
<tag2>another content</tag2>
<tag3>
  <insideTag>inside content</insideTag>
  <emptyTag />
</tag3>`;

const dom = xml(data); // the dom can be JSON.stringified

xml.stringify(dom); // this will return the dom into an xml-string

Disclaimer: I am the author of txml, the fastest xml parser in javascript.

Select n random rows from SQL Server table

This is a combination of the initial seed idea and a checksum, which looks to me to give properly random results without the cost of NEWID():

SELECT TOP [number] 
FROM table_name
ORDER BY RAND(CHECKSUM(*) * RAND())

How do I delete all messages from a single queue using the CLI?

I guess its late but for others reference, this can be done with pika

import pika
host_ip = #host ip
channel = pika.BlockingConnection(pika.ConnectionParameters(host_ip,
                                                        5672,
                                                        "/",
credentials=pika.PlainCredentials("username","pwd"))).channel()
print "deleting queue..", channel.queue_delete(queue=queue_name)

(WAMP/XAMP) send Mail using SMTP localhost

Here's the steps to achieve this:

  • Download the sendmail.zip through this link

    • Now, extract the folder and put it to C:/wamp/. Make sure that these four files are present: sendmail.exe, libeay32.dll, ssleay32.ddl and sendmail.ini.
    • Open sendmail.ini and set the configuration as follows:

    • smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com

    • smtp_port=465
    • smtp_ssl=ssl
    • default_domain=localhost
    • error_logfile=error.log
    • debug_logfile=debug.log
    • auth_username=[your_gmail_account_username]@gmail.com
    • auth_password=[your_gmail_account_password]
    • pop3_server=
    • pop3_username=
    • pop3_password=
    • force_sender=
    • force_recipient=
    • hostname=localhost

    • Access your email account. Click the Gear Tool > Settings > Forwarding and POP/IMAP > IMAP access. Click "Enable IMAP", then save your changes.

    • Run your WAMP Server. Enable ssl_module under Apache Module.

    • Next, enable php_openssl and php_sockets under PHP.

    • Open php.ini and configure it as the codes below. Basically, you just have to set the sendmail_path.

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/smtp
;SMTP =
; http://php.net/smtp-port
;smtp_port = 25

; For Win32 only.
; http://php.net/sendmail-from
;sendmail_from = [email protected]
; For Unix only.  You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
; http://php.net/sendmail-path
sendmail_path = "C:\wamp\sendmail\sendmail.exe -t -i"
  • Restart Wamp Server

I hope this will work for you..

UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode characters

I fixed it by adding .encode("utf-8") to soup.

That means that print(soup) becomes print(soup.encode("utf-8")).

How to replace a substring of a string

You are probably not assigning it after doing the replacement or replacing the wrong thing. Try :

String haystack = "abcd=0; efgh=1";
String result = haystack.replaceAll("abcd","dddd");

How to drop a unique constraint from table column?

I had the same problem. I'm using DB2. What I have done is a bit not too professional solution, but it works in every DBMS:

  1. Add a column with the same definition without the unique contraint.
  2. Copy the values from the original column to the new
  3. Drop the original column (so DBMS will remove the constraint as well no matter what its name was)
  4. And finally rename the new one to the original
  5. And a reorg at the end (only in DB2)
ALTER TABLE USERS ADD COLUMN LOGIN_OLD VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL DEFAULT '';
UPDATE USERS SET LOGIN_OLD=LOGIN;
ALTER TABLE USERS DROP COLUMN LOGIN;
ALTER TABLE USERS RENAME COLUMN LOGIN_OLD TO LOGIN;

CALL SYSPROC.ADMIN_CMD('REORG TABLE USERS');

The syntax of the ALTER commands may be different in other DBMS

jquery live hover

As of jQuery 1.4.1, the hover event works with live(). It basically just binds to the mouseenter and mouseleave events, which you can do with versions prior to 1.4.1 just as well:

$("table tr")
    .mouseenter(function() {
        // Hover starts
    })
    .mouseleave(function() {
        // Hover ends
    });

This requires two binds but works just as well.

AngularJS check if form is valid in controller

The BusinessCtrl is initialised before the createBusinessForm's FormController. Even if you have the ngController on the form won't work the way you wanted. You can't help this (you can create your ngControllerDirective, and try to trick the priority.) this is how angularjs works.

See this plnkr for example: http://plnkr.co/edit/WYyu3raWQHkJ7XQzpDtY?p=preview

Regex Explanation ^.*$

"^.*$"

literally just means select everything

"^"  // anchors to the beginning of the line
".*" // zero or more of any character
"$"  // anchors to end of line

How long to brute force a salted SHA-512 hash? (salt provided)

I want to know the time to brute force for when the password is a dictionary word and also when it is not a dictionary word.

Dictionary password

Ballpark figure: there are about 1,000,000 English words, and if a hacker can compute about 10,000 SHA-512 hashes a second (update: see comment by CodesInChaos, this estimate is very low), 1,000,000 / 10,000 = 100 seconds. So it would take just over a minute to crack a single-word dictionary password for a single user. If the user concatenates two dictionary words, you're in the area of a few days, but still very possible if the attacker is cares enough. More than that and it starts getting tough.

Random password

If the password is a truly random sequence of alpha-numeric characters, upper and lower case, then the number of possible passwords of length N is 60^N (there are 60 possible characters). We'll do the calculation the other direction this time; we'll ask: What length of password could we crack given a specific length of time? Just use this formula:

N = Log60(t * 10,000) where t is the time spent calculating hashes in seconds (again assuming 10,000 hashes a second).

1 minute:    3.2
5 minute:    3.6
30 minutes:  4.1
2 hours:     4.4
3 days:      5.2

So given a 3 days we'd be able to crack the password if it's 5 characters long.

This is all very ball-park, but you get the idea. Update: see comment below, it's actually possible to crack much longer passwords than this.

What's going on here?

Let's clear up some misconceptions:

  • The salt doesn't make it slower to calculate hashes, it just means they have to crack each user's password individually, and pre-computed hash tables (buzz-word: rainbow tables) are made completely useless. If you don't have a precomputed hash-table, and you're only cracking one password hash, salting doesn't make any difference.

  • SHA-512 isn't designed to be hard to brute-force. Better hashing algorithms like BCrypt, PBKDF2 or SCrypt can be configured to take much longer to compute, and an average computer might only be able to compute 10-20 hashes a second. Read This excellent answer about password hashing if you haven't already.

  • update: As written in the comment by CodesInChaos, even high entropy passwords (around 10 characters) could be bruteforced if using the right hardware to calculate SHA-512 hashes.


Notes on accepted answer:

The accepted answer as of September 2014 is incorrect and dangerously wrong:

In your case, breaking the hash algorithm is equivalent to finding a collision in the hash algorithm. That means you don't need to find the password itself (which would be a preimage attack)... Finding a collision using a birthday attack takes O(2^n/2) time, where n is the output length of the hash function in bits.

The birthday attack is completely irrelevant to cracking a given hash. And this is in fact a perfect example of a preimage attack. That formula and the next couple of paragraphs result in dangerously high and completely meaningless values for an attack time. As demonstrated above it's perfectly possible to crack salted dictionary passwords in minutes.

The low entropy of typical passwords makes it possible that there is a relatively high chance of one of your users using a password from a relatively small database of common passwords...

That's why generally hashing and salting alone is not enough, you need to install other safety mechanisms as well. You should use an artificially slowed down entropy-enducing method such as PBKDF2 described in PKCS#5...

Yes, please use an algorithm that is slow to compute, but what is "entropy-enducing"? Putting a low entropy password through a hash doesn't increase entropy. It should preserve entropy, but you can't make a rubbish password better with a hash, it doesn't work like that. A weak password put through PBKDF2 is still a weak password.

Android: textview hyperlink

Very simple way to do this---

In your Activity--

 TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.site);
 tv.setText(Html.fromHtml("<a href=http://www.stackoverflow.com> STACK OVERFLOW "));
 tv.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());

Then you will get just the Tag, not the whole link..

Hope it will help you...

Find a class somewhere inside dozens of JAR files?

A bit late to the party, but nevertheless...

I've been using JarBrowser to find in which jar a particular class is present. It's got an easy to use GUI which allows you to browse through the contents of all the jars in the selected path.

Why should we typedef a struct so often in C?

Let's start with the basics and work our way up.

Here is an example of Structure definition:

struct point
  {
    int x, y;
  };

Here the name point is optional.

A Structure can be declared during its definition or after.

Declaring during definition

struct point
  {
    int x, y;
  } first_point, second_point;

Declaring after definition

struct point
  {
    int x, y;
  };
struct point first_point, second_point;

Now, carefully note the last case above; you need to write struct point to declare Structures of that type if you decide to create that type at a later point in your code.

Enter typedef. If you intend to create new Structure ( Structure is a custom data-type) at a later time in your program using the same blueprint, using typedef during its definition might be a good idea since you can save some typing moving forward.

typedef struct point
  {
    int x, y;
  } Points;

Points first_point, second_point;

A word of caution while naming your custom type

Nothing prevents you from using _t suffix at the end of your custom type name but POSIX standard reserves the use of suffix _t to denote standard library type names.

How do I comment on the Windows command line?

Powershell

For powershell, use #:

PS C:\> echo foo # This is a comment
foo

How to unmount, unrender or remove a component, from itself in a React/Redux/Typescript notification message

instead of using

ReactDOM.unmountComponentAtNode(ReactDOM.findDOMNode(this).parentNode);

try using

ReactDOM.unmountComponentAtNode(document.getElementById('root'));

What is inf and nan?

Inf is infinity, it's a "bigger than all the other numbers" number. Try subtracting anything you want from it, it doesn't get any smaller. All numbers are < Inf. -Inf is similar, but smaller than everything.

NaN means not-a-number. If you try to do a computation that just doesn't make sense, you get NaN. Inf - Inf is one such computation. Usually NaN is used to just mean that some data is missing.

How do I declare and initialize an array in Java?

I find it is helpful if you understand each part:

Type[] name = new Type[5];

Type[] is the type of the variable called name ("name" is called the identifier). The literal "Type" is the base type, and the brackets mean this is the array type of that base. Array types are in turn types of their own, which allows you to make multidimensional arrays like Type[][] (the array type of Type[]). The keyword new says to allocate memory for the new array. The number between the bracket says how large the new array will be and how much memory to allocate. For instance, if Java knows that the base type Type takes 32 bytes, and you want an array of size 5, it needs to internally allocate 32 * 5 = 160 bytes.

You can also create arrays with the values already there, such as

int[] name = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};

which not only creates the empty space but fills it with those values. Java can tell that the primitives are integers and that there are 5 of them, so the size of the array can be determined implicitly.

download csv file from web api in angular js

Rather than use Ajax / XMLHttpRequest / $http to invoke your WebApi method, use an html form. That way the browser saves the file using the filename and content type information in the response headers, and you don't need to work around javascript's limitations on file handling. You might also use a GET method rather than a POST as the method returns data. Here's an example form:

<form name="export" action="/MyController/Export" method="get" novalidate>
    <input name="id" type="id" ng-model="id" placeholder="ID" />
    <input name="fileName" type="text" ng-model="filename" placeholder="file name" required />
    <span class="error" ng-show="export.fileName.$error.required">Filename is required!</span>
    <button type="submit" ng-disabled="export.$invalid">Export</button>
</form>

How to convert a string to integer in C?

There is strtol which is better IMO. Also I have taken a liking in strtonum, so use it if you have it (but remember it's not portable):

long long
     strtonum(const char *nptr, long long minval, long long maxval,
     const char **errstr);

You might also be interested in strtoumax and strtoimax which are standard functions in C99. For example you could say:

uintmax_t num = strtoumax(s, NULL, 10);
if (num == UINTMAX_MAX && errno == ERANGE)
    /* Could not convert. */

Anyway, stay away from atoi:

The call atoi(str) shall be equivalent to:

(int) strtol(str, (char **)NULL, 10)

except that the handling of errors may differ. If the value cannot be represented, the behavior is undefined.

Logging best practices

I have to join the chorus recommending log4net, in my case coming from a platform flexibility (desktop .Net/Compact Framework, 32/64-bit) point of view.

However, wrapping it in a private-label API is a major anti-pattern. log4net.ILogger is the .Net counterpart of the Commons Logging wrapper API already, so coupling is already minimized for you, and since it is also an Apache library, that's usually not even a concern because you're not giving up any control: fork it if you must.

Most house wrapper libraries I've seen also commit one or more of a litany of faults:

  1. Using a global singleton logger (or equivalently a static entry point) which loses the fine resolution of the recommended logger-per-class pattern for no other selectivity gain.
  2. Failing to expose the optional Exception argument, leading to multiple problems:
    • It makes an exception logging policy even more difficult to maintain, so nothing is done consistently with exceptions.
    • Even with a consistent policy, formatting the exception away into a string loses data prematurely. I've written a custom ILayout decorator that performs detailed drill-down on an exception to determine the chain of events.
  3. Failing to expose the IsLevelEnabled properties, which discards the ability to skip formatting code when areas or levels of logging are turned off.

bash string equality

There's no difference, == is a synonym for = (for the C/C++ people, I assume). See here, for example.

You could double-check just to be really sure or just for your interest by looking at the bash source code, should be somewhere in the parsing code there, but I couldn't find it straightaway.

Reset/remove CSS styles for element only

There's a brand new solution found to this problem.

Use all: revert or all: unset.

From MDN:

The revert keyword works exactly the same as unset in many cases. The only difference is for properties that have values set by the browser or by custom stylesheets created by users (set on the browser side).

You need "A css rule available that would remove any styles previously set in the stylesheet for a particular element."

So, if the element have a class name like remove-all-styles:

Eg:

HTML:

<div class="remove-all-styles other-classe another-class"> 
   <!-- content -->
   <p class="text-red other-some-styles"> My text </p>
</div>

With CSS:

  .remove-all-styles {
    all: revert;
  }

Will reset all styles applied by other-class, another-class and all other inherited and applied styles to that div.

Or in your case:

/* mobile first */
.element {
   margin: 0 10;
   transform: translate3d(0, 0, 0);
   z-index: 50;
   display: block;
   etc..
   etc..
}

@media only screen and (min-width: 980px) {
  .element {
    all: revert;
  }
}

Will do.

Here we used one cool CSS property with another cool CSS value.

  1. revert

Actually revert, as the name says, reverts that property to its user or user-agent style.

  1. all

And when we use revert with the all property, all CSS properties applied to that element will be reverted to user/user-agent styles.

Click here to know difference between author, user, user-agent styles.

For ex: if we want to isolate embedded widgets/components from the styles of the page that contains them, we could write:

.isolated-component {
 all: revert;
}

Which will reverts all author styles (ie developer CSS) to user styles (styles which a user of our website set - less likely scenario) or to user-agent styles itself if no user styles set.

More details here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/revert

And only issue is the support: only Safari 9.1 and iOS Safari 9.3 have support for revert value at the time of writing.

So I'll say use this style and fallback to any other answers.

Delete topic in Kafka 0.8.1.1

There is actually a solution without touching those bin/kafka-*.sh: If you have installed kafdrop, then simply do:

url -XPOST http://your-kafdrop-domain/topic/THE-TOPIC-YOU-WANT-TO-DELETE/delete

How to ping ubuntu guest on VirtualBox

If you start tinkering with VirtualBox network settings, watch out for this: you might make new network adapters (eth1, eth2), yet have your /etc/network/interfaces still configured for eth0.

Diagnose:

ethtool -i eth0
Cannot get driver information: no such device

Find your interfaces:

ls /sys/class/net
eth1 eth2 lo

Fix it:

Edit /etc/networking/interfaces and replace eth0 with the appropriate interface name (e.g eth1, eth2, etc.)

:%s/eth0/eth2/g

Fatal error: Call to undefined function sqlsrv_connect()

When you install third-party extensions you need to make sure that all the compilation parameters match:

  • PHP version
  • Architecture (32/64 bits)
  • Compiler (VC9, VC10, VC11...)
  • Thread safety

Common glitches includes:

  • Editing the wrong php.ini file (that's typical with bundles); the right path is shown in phpinfo().
  • Forgetting to restart Apache.
  • Not being able to see the startup errors; those should show up in Apache logs, but you can also use the command line to diagnose it, e.g.:

    php -d display_startup_errors=1 -d error_reporting=-1 -d display_errors -c "C:\Path\To\php.ini" -m
    

If everything's right you should see sqlsrv in the command output and/or phpinfo() (depending on what SAPI you're configuring):

[PHP Modules]
bcmath
calendar
Core
[...]
SPL
sqlsrv
standard
[...]

phpinfo()

Get client IP address via third party web service

    $.ajax({
        url: '//freegeoip.net/json/',
        type: 'POST',
        dataType: 'jsonp',
        success: function(location) {
            alert(location.ip);
        }
    });

This will work https too

Why is width: 100% not working on div {display: table-cell}?

I figured this one out. I know this will help someone someday.

How to Vertically & Horizontally Center a Div Over a Relatively Positioned Image

The key was a 3rd wrapper. I would vote up any answer that uses less wrappers.

HTML

<div class="wrapper">
    <img src="my-slide.jpg">
    <div class="outer-wrapper">
        <div class="table-wrapper">
            <div class="table-cell-wrapper">
                <h1>My Title</h1>
                <p>Subtitle</p>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

CSS

html, body {
margin: 0; padding: 0;
width: 100%; height: 100%;
}

ul {
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    list-style-position: outside;
    margin: 0; padding: 0;
}

li {
    width: 100%;
    display: table;
}

img {
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
}

.outer-wrapper {
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  margin: 0; padding: 0;
}

.table-wrapper {
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  display: table;
  vertical-align: middle;
  text-align: center;
}

.table-cell-wrapper {
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;  
  display: table-cell;
  vertical-align: middle;
  text-align: center;
}

You can see the working jsFiddle here.

How to set a radio button in Android

Use this code

    ((RadioButton)findViewById(R.id.radio3)).setChecked(true);

mistake -> don't forget to give () for whole before setChecked() -> If u forget to do that setChecked() is not available for this radio button

How do I get the base URL with PHP?

Simple and easy trick:

$host  = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
$host_upper = strtoupper($host);
$path   = rtrim(dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']), '/\\');
$baseurl = "http://" . $host . $path . "/";

URL looks like this: http://example.com/folder/

What is the best free memory leak detector for a C/C++ program and its plug-in DLLs?

My freely available memory profiler MemPro allows you to compare 2 snapshots and gives stack traces for all of the allocations.

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

Integrated Security = False : User ID and Password are specified in the connection. Integrated Security = true : the current Windows account credentials are used for authentication.

Integrated Security = SSPI : this is equivalant to true.

We can avoid the username and password attributes from the connection string and use the Integrated Security

How can I get current date in Android?

A simple tweak to Paresh's solution:

Date date = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();
SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy");
String formattedDate = df.format(date);

Google Maps Api v3 - find nearest markers

Use computeDistanceBetween() Google map API method to calculate near marker between your location and markers list on google map.

Steps:-

  1. Create marker on google map.
    function addMarker(location) { var marker = new google.maps.Marker({ title: 'User added marker', icon: { path: google.maps.SymbolPath.BACKWARD_CLOSED_ARROW, scale: 5 }, position: location, map: map }); }

  2. On Mouse click create event for getting lat, long of your location and pass that to find_closest_marker().

    function find_closest_marker(event) {
          var distances = [];
          var closest = -1;
          for (i = 0; i < markers.length; i++) {
            var d = google.maps.geometry.spherical.computeDistanceBetween(markers[i].position, event.latLng);
            distances[i] = d;
            if (closest == -1 || d < distances[closest]) {
              closest = i;
            }
          }
          alert('Closest marker is: ' + markers[closest].getTitle());
        }
    

visit this link follow the steps. You will able to get nearer marker to your location.

Using global variables between files?

Hai Vu answer works great, just one comment:

In case you are using the global in other module and you want to set the global dynamically, pay attention to import the other modules after you set the global variables, for example:

# settings.py
def init(arg):
    global myList
    myList = []
    mylist.append(arg)


# subfile.py
import settings

def print():
    settings.myList[0]


# main.py
import settings
settings.init("1st")     # global init before used in other imported modules
                         # Or else they will be undefined

import subfile    
subfile.print()          # global usage

convert string to specific datetime format?

  <%= string_to_datetime("2011-05-19 10:30:14") %>

  def string_to_datetime(string,format="%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
    DateTime.strptime(string, format).to_time unless string.blank?
  end

IIS: Where can I find the IIS logs?

I believe this is an easier way of knowing where your IIS logs are, rather than just assuming a default location:

Go to your IIS site, e.g. Default, click on it, and you should see "Logging" to the right if logging is enabled:

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Open it and you should see the folder right there:

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You are welcome!

Google Drive as FTP Server

I couldn't find a direct GDrive/DropBox solution. I'm also surprised there's no lazy solution for a free ftp host. Windows azure offers a ftp server "FTP connector" that's fairly easy to turn on at: https://portal.azure.com

You can get a free 1 GB account by selecting "View All" machine types during your deployment.

master branch and 'origin/master' have diverged, how to 'undiverge' branches'?

I prefer doing it more convenient and safer way.

# copying your commit(s) to separate branch
git checkout <last_sync_commit>
git checkout -b temp
git cherry-pick <last_local_commit>

git checkout master
git reset --soft HEAD~1 # or how many commits you have only on local machine
git stash               # safer, can be avoided using hard resetting on the above line
git pull
git cherry-pick <last_local_commit>

# deleting temporary branch
git branch -D temp

How do I drop a function if it already exists?

This works for any object, not just functions:

IF OBJECT_ID('YourObjectName') IS NOT NULL 

then just add your flavor of object, as in:

IF OBJECT_ID('YourFunction') IS NOT NULL
   DROP FUNCTION YourFunction

How to remove and clear all localStorage data

If you want to remove/clean all the values from local storage than use

localStorage.clear();

And if you want to remove the specific item from local storage than use the following code

localStorage.removeItem(key);

How to Bootstrap navbar static to fixed on scroll?

If I'm not wrong, what you're trying to achieve is called Sticky navbar.

With a few lines of jQuery and the scroll event is pretty easy to achieve:

$(document).ready(function() {

    var menu = $('.menu');
    var content = $('.content');
    var origOffsetY = menu.offset().top;

    function scroll() {
        if ($(window).scrollTop() >= origOffsetY) {
            menu.addClass('sticky');
            content.addClass('menu-padding');
        } else {
            menu.removeClass('sticky');
            content.removeClass('menu-padding');
        }
    }

    $(document).scroll();

});

I've done a quick working sample for you, hope it helps: http://jsfiddle.net/yeco/4EcFf/

To make it work with Bootstrap you only need to add or remove "navbar-fixed-top" instead of the "sticky" class in the jsfiddle .

Check whether a string is not null and not empty

If you don't want to include the whole library; just include the code you want from it. You'll have to maintain it yourself; but it's a pretty straight forward function. Here it is copied from commons.apache.org

    /**
 * <p>Checks if a String is whitespace, empty ("") or null.</p>
 *
 * <pre>
 * StringUtils.isBlank(null)      = true
 * StringUtils.isBlank("")        = true
 * StringUtils.isBlank(" ")       = true
 * StringUtils.isBlank("bob")     = false
 * StringUtils.isBlank("  bob  ") = false
 * </pre>
 *
 * @param str  the String to check, may be null
 * @return <code>true</code> if the String is null, empty or whitespace
 * @since 2.0
 */
public static boolean isBlank(String str) {
    int strLen;
    if (str == null || (strLen = str.length()) == 0) {
        return true;
    }
    for (int i = 0; i < strLen; i++) {
        if ((Character.isWhitespace(str.charAt(i)) == false)) {
            return false;
        }
    }
    return true;
}

Copy rows from one Datatable to another DataTable?

 private void CopyDataTable(DataTable table){
     // Create an object variable for the copy.
     DataTable copyDataTable;
     copyDataTable = table.Copy();
     // Insert code to work with the copy.
 }

Total memory used by Python process?

For Unix systems command time (/usr/bin/time) gives you that info if you pass -v. See Maximum resident set size below, which is the maximum (peak) real (not virtual) memory that was used during program execution:

$ /usr/bin/time -v ls /

    Command being timed: "ls /"
    User time (seconds): 0.00
    System time (seconds): 0.01
    Percent of CPU this job got: 250%
    Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:00.00
    Average shared text size (kbytes): 0
    Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0
    Average stack size (kbytes): 0
    Average total size (kbytes): 0
    Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 0
    Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
    Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0
    Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 315
    Voluntary context switches: 2
    Involuntary context switches: 0
    Swaps: 0
    File system inputs: 0
    File system outputs: 0
    Socket messages sent: 0
    Socket messages received: 0
    Signals delivered: 0
    Page size (bytes): 4096
    Exit status: 0

How to refer to relative paths of resources when working with a code repository

Try to use a filename relative to the current files path. Example for './my_file':

fn = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'my_file')

In Python 3.4+ you can also use pathlib:

fn = pathlib.Path(__file__).parent / 'my_file'

Creating a node class in Java

Welcome to Java! This Nodes are like a blocks, they must be assembled to do amazing things! In this particular case, your nodes can represent a list, a linked list, You can see an example here:

public class ItemLinkedList {
    private ItemInfoNode head;
    private ItemInfoNode tail;
    private int size = 0;

    public int getSize() {
        return size;
    }

    public void addBack(ItemInfo info) {
        size++;
        if (head == null) {
            head = new ItemInfoNode(info, null, null);
            tail = head;
        } else {
            ItemInfoNode node = new ItemInfoNode(info, null, tail);
            this.tail.next =node;
            this.tail = node;
        }
    }

    public void addFront(ItemInfo info) {
        size++;
        if (head == null) {
            head = new ItemInfoNode(info, null, null);
            tail = head;
        } else {
            ItemInfoNode node = new ItemInfoNode(info, head, null);
            this.head.prev = node;
            this.head = node;
        }
    }

    public ItemInfo removeBack() {
        ItemInfo result = null;
        if (head != null) {
            size--;
            result = tail.info;
            if (tail.prev != null) {
                tail.prev.next = null;
                tail = tail.prev;
            } else {
                head = null;
                tail = null;
            }
        }
        return result;
    }

    public ItemInfo removeFront() {
        ItemInfo result = null;
        if (head != null) {
            size--;
            result = head.info;
            if (head.next != null) {
                head.next.prev = null;
                head = head.next;
            } else {
                head = null;
                tail = null;
            }
        }
        return result;
    }

    public class ItemInfoNode {

        private ItemInfoNode next;
        private ItemInfoNode prev;
        private ItemInfo info;

        public ItemInfoNode(ItemInfo info, ItemInfoNode next, ItemInfoNode prev) {
            this.info = info;
            this.next = next;
            this.prev = prev;
        }

        public void setInfo(ItemInfo info) {
            this.info = info;
        }

        public void setNext(ItemInfoNode node) {
            next = node;
        }

        public void setPrev(ItemInfoNode node) {
            prev = node;
        }

        public ItemInfo getInfo() {
            return info;
        }

        public ItemInfoNode getNext() {
            return next;
        }

        public ItemInfoNode getPrev() {
            return prev;
        }
    }
}

EDIT:

Declare ItemInfo as this:

public class ItemInfo {
    private String name;
    private String rfdNumber;
    private double price;
    private String originalPosition;

    public ItemInfo(){
    }

    public ItemInfo(String name, String rfdNumber, double price, String originalPosition) {
        this.name = name;
        this.rfdNumber = rfdNumber;
        this.price = price;
        this.originalPosition = originalPosition;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public String getRfdNumber() {
        return rfdNumber;
    }

    public void setRfdNumber(String rfdNumber) {
        this.rfdNumber = rfdNumber;
    }

    public double getPrice() {
        return price;
    }

    public void setPrice(double price) {
        this.price = price;
    }

    public String getOriginalPosition() {
        return originalPosition;
    }

    public void setOriginalPosition(String originalPosition) {
        this.originalPosition = originalPosition;
    }
}

Then, You can use your nodes inside the linked list like this:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    ItemLinkedList list = new ItemLinkedList();
    for (int i = 1; i <= 10; i++) {
        list.addBack(new ItemInfo("name-"+i, "rfd"+i, i, String.valueOf(i)));

    }
    while (list.size() > 0){
        System.out.println(list.removeFront().getName());
    }
}

WPF Check box: Check changed handling

What about the Checked event? Combine that with AttachedCommandBehaviors or something similar, and a DelegateCommand to get a function fired in your viewmodel everytime that event is called.

What does (function($) {})(jQuery); mean?

Firstly, a code block that looks like (function(){})() is merely a function that is executed in place. Let's break it down a little.

1. (
2.    function(){}
3. )
4. ()

Line 2 is a plain function, wrapped in parenthesis to tell the runtime to return the function to the parent scope, once it's returned the function is executed using line 4, maybe reading through these steps will help

1. function(){ .. }
2. (1)
3. 2()

You can see that 1 is the declaration, 2 is returning the function and 3 is just executing the function.

An example of how it would be used.

(function(doc){

   doc.location = '/';

})(document);//This is passed into the function above

As for the other questions about the plugins:

Type 1: This is not a actually a plugin, it's an object passed as a function, as plugins tend to be functions.

Type 2: This is again not a plugin as it does not extend the $.fn object. It's just an extenstion of the jQuery core, although the outcome is the same. This is if you want to add traversing functions such as toArray and so on.

Type 3: This is the best method to add a plugin, the extended prototype of jQuery takes an object holding your plugin name and function and adds it to the plugin library for you.

C# Enum - How to Compare Value

Comparision:

if (userProfile.AccountType == AccountType.Retailer)
{
    //your code
}

In case to prevent the NullPointerException you could add the following condition before comparing the AccountType:

if(userProfile != null)
{
    if (userProfile.AccountType == AccountType.Retailer)
    {
       //your code
    }
}

or shorter version:

if (userProfile !=null && userProfile.AccountType == AccountType.Retailer)
{
    //your code
}

Check if a input box is empty

Even you don't need to measure the length of string. A ! operator can solve everything for you. Remember always: !(empty string) = true !(some string) = false

So you could write:

<input ng-model="somefield">
<span ng-show="!somefield">Sorry, the field is empty!</span>
<span ng-hide="!somefield">Thanks. Successfully validated!</span>

npm - how to show the latest version of a package

There is also another easy way to check the latest version without going to NPM if you are using VS Code.

In package.json file check for the module you want to know the latest version. Remove the current version already present there and do CTRL + space or CMD + space(mac).The VS code will show the latest versions

image shows the latest versions of modules in vscode

How to escape strings in SQL Server using PHP?

function ms_escape_string($data) {
        if ( !isset($data) or empty($data) ) return '';
        if ( is_numeric($data) ) return $data;

        $non_displayables = array(
            '/%0[0-8bcef]/',            // url encoded 00-08, 11, 12, 14, 15
            '/%1[0-9a-f]/',             // url encoded 16-31
            '/[\x00-\x08]/',            // 00-08
            '/\x0b/',                   // 11
            '/\x0c/',                   // 12
            '/[\x0e-\x1f]/'             // 14-31
        );
        foreach ( $non_displayables as $regex )
            $data = preg_replace( $regex, '', $data );
        $data = str_replace("'", "''", $data );
        return $data;
    }

Some of the code here was ripped off from CodeIgniter. Works well and is a clean solution.

EDIT: There are plenty of issues with that code snippet above. Please don't use this without reading the comments to know what those are. Better yet, please don't use this at all. Parameterized queries are your friends: http://php.net/manual/en/pdo.prepared-statements.php

How do I pass an object from one activity to another on Android?

Your object can also implement the Parcelable interface. Then you can use the Bundle.putParcelable() method and pass your object between activities within intent.

The Photostream application uses this approach and may be used as a reference.

Getting multiple selected checkbox values in a string in javascript and PHP

This code work fine for me, Here i contvert array to string with ~ sign

    <input type="checkbox" value="created" name="today_check"><strong>&nbsp;Created&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong>
    <input type="checkbox" value="modified" name="today_check"><strong>&nbsp;Modified&nbsp;</strong>    
 <a class="get_tody_btn">Submit</a>

<script type="text/javascript">
        $('.get_tody_btn').click(function(){
            var ck_string = "";
            $.each($("input[name='today_check']:checked"), function(){  
                ck_string += "~"+$(this).val();  
            });
            if (ck_string ){
                ck_string = ck_string .substring(1);
            }else{
                alert('Please choose atleast one value.');
            }


        });
    </script>