Programs & Examples On #Gemstone

jQuery remove options from select

find() takes a selector, not a value. This means you need to use it in the same way you would use the regular jQuery function ($('selector')).

Therefore you need to do something like this:

$(this).find('[value="X"]').remove();

See the jQuery find docs.

Keylistener in Javascript

Did you check the small Mousetrap library?

Mousetrap is a simple library for handling keyboard shortcuts in JavaScript.

How do I resolve "Run-time error '429': ActiveX component can't create object"?

The file msrdo20.dll is missing from the installation.

According to the Support Statement for Visual Basic 6.0 on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 this file should be distributed with the application.

I'm not sure why it isn't, but my solution is to place the file somewhere on the machine, and register it using regsvr32 in the command line, eg:

regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\msrdo20.dll

In an ideal world you would package this up with the redistributable.

Add custom icons to font awesome

Depends on what you have. If your svg icon is just a path, then it's easy enough to add that glyph by just copying the 'd' attribute to a new <glyph> element. However, the path needs to be scaled to the font's coordinate system (the EM-square, which typically is [0,0,2048,2048] - the standard for Truetype fonts) and aligned with the baseline you want.

Not all browsers support svg fonts however, so you're going to have to convert it to other formats too if you want it to work everywhere.

Fontforge can import svg files (select a glyph slot, File > Import and then select your svg image), and you can then convert to all the relevant font formats (svg, truetype, woff etc).

R numbers from 1 to 100

Your mistake is looking for range, which gives you the range of a vector, for example:

range(c(10, -5, 100))

gives

 -5 100

Instead, look at the : operator to give sequences (with a step size of one):

1:100

or you can use the seq function to have a bit more control. For example,

##Step size of 2
seq(1, 100, by=2)

or

##length.out: desired length of the sequence
seq(1, 100, length.out=5)

Can't access 127.0.0.1

Just one command did the work

netsh http add iplisten 127.0.0.1

What is the difference between max-device-width and max-width for mobile web?

max-width is the width of the target display area, e.g. the browser; max-device-width is the width of the device's entire rendering area, i.e. the actual device screen.

• If you are using the max-device-width, when you change the size of the browser window on your desktop, the CSS style won't change to different media query setting;

• If you are using the max-width, when you change the size of the browser on your desktop, the CSS will change to different media query setting and you might be shown with the styling for mobiles, such as touch-friendly menus.

Limiting double to 3 decimal places

If your purpose in truncating the digits is for display reasons, then you just just use an appropriate formatting when you convert the double to a string.

Methods like String.Format() and Console.WriteLine() (and others) allow you to limit the number of digits of precision a value is formatted with.

Attempting to "truncate" floating point numbers is ill advised - floating point numbers don't have a precise decimal representation in many cases. Applying an approach like scaling the number up, truncating it, and then scaling it down could easily change the value to something quite different from what you'd expected for the "truncated" value.

If you need precise decimal representations of a number you should be using decimal rather than double or float.

Force “landscape” orientation mode

I had the same problem, it was a missing manifest.json file, if not found the browser decide with orientation is best fit, if you don't specify the file or use a wrong path.

I fixed just calling the manifest.json correctly on html headers.

My html headers:

<meta name="application-name" content="App Name">
<meta name="mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black" />
<link rel="manifest" href="manifest.json">
<meta name="msapplication-starturl" content="/">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">
<meta name="theme-color" content="#">
<meta name="msapplication-TileColor" content="#">
<meta name="msapplication-config" content="browserconfig.xml">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="192x192" href="android-chrome-192x192.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="180x180" href="apple-touch-icon.png">
<link rel="mask-icon" href="safari-pinned-tab.svg" color="#ffffff">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">

And the manifest.json file content:

{
  "display": "standalone",
  "orientation": "portrait",
  "start_url": "/",
  "theme_color": "#000000",
  "background_color": "#ffffff",
  "icons": [
  {
    "src": "android-chrome-192x192.png",
    "sizes": "192x192",
    "type": "image/png"
  }
}

To generate your favicons and icons use this webtool: https://realfavicongenerator.net/

To generate your manifest file use: https://tomitm.github.io/appmanifest/

My PWA Works great, hope it helps!

Programmatically Add CenterX/CenterY Constraints

The ObjectiveC equivalent is:

    myView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = NO;

    [[myView.centerXAnchor constraintEqualToAnchor:self.view.centerXAnchor] setActive:YES];

    [[myView.centerYAnchor constraintEqualToAnchor:self.view.centerYAnchor] setActive:YES];

How to set default value for form field in Symfony2?

Default values are set by configuring corresponding entity. Before binding the entity to form set its color field to "#0000FF":

// controller action
$project = new Project();
$project->setColor('#0000FF');
$form = $this->createForm(new ProjectType(), $project);

Can a CSV file have a comment?

If you need something like:

  ¦ A                              ¦ B
--+--------------------------------+---
1 ¦ #My comment, something else    ¦
2 ¦ 1                              ¦ 2

Your CSV may contain the following lines:

"#My comment, something else"
1,2

Pay close attention at the 'quotes' in the first line.

When converting your text to columns using the Excel wizard, remember checking the 'Treat consecutive delimiters as one', setting it to use 'quotes' as delimiter.

Thus, Excel will split the text at the commas, keeping the 'comment' line as a single column value (and it will remove the quotes).

Java SSLHandshakeException "no cipher suites in common"

Having had this exception myself, I delved into the JRE source code. It became apparent that the message is rather misleading. It could mean what it says, but it more generally means that the server doesn't have the data it needs to respond to the client in the requested way. This can happen, for example, if certificates are missing from the keystore, or haven't been generated with the an appropriate algoritm. Indeed, given the cipher suites that are installed by default, one would have to go to some lengths to really get this exception because of lack of common cipher suites. In my particular case I'd generated the certificates with the default algorithm of DSA, when what I needed to get the server to work with Firefox was RSA.

Android SDK Manager Not Installing Components

If you use SDK Manager in Eclipse:

Option 1: Right-click on eclipse.exe and select "Run As Administrator".

Option 2: If you don't want to start Eclipse.exe as Administrator just install/copy Eclipse installation files from "C:\program files\Eclipse ADT Bundle\" to some unprotected folder, like "D:\android\". Run "D:\android\eclipse\eclipse.exe", select menu item "Window => Preferences => Android" and change "SDK Location" to "D:\android\sdk\". After that you'll be able to install new packages in Android SDK Manager.

What is the equivalent of the C# 'var' keyword in Java?

I know this is older but why not create a var class and create constructors with different types and depending on what constructors gets invoked you get var with different type. You could even build in methods to convert one type to another.

What does axis in pandas mean?

one of easy ways to remember axis 1 (columns), vs axis 0 (rows) is the output you expect.

  • if you expect an output for each row you use axis='columns',
  • on the other hand if you want an output for each column you use axis='rows'.

In SSRS, why do I get the error "item with same key has already been added" , when I'm making a new report?

I have experience this issue in past. Based on that I can say that generally we get this issue if your dataset has multiple fieldnames that points to same field source. Take a look into following posts for detail error description

http://www.bi-rootdata.com/2012/09/an-error-occurred-during-report.html

http://www.bi-rootdata.com/2012/09/an-item-with-same-key-has-already-been.html

In your case, you should check your all field names returned by Sp prc_RPT_Select_BI_Completes_Data_View and make sure that all fields has unique name.

I want to add a JSONObject to a JSONArray and that JSONArray included in other JSONObject

JSONArray successObject=new JSONArray();
JSONObject dataObject=new JSONObject();
successObject.put(dataObject.toString());

This works for me.

Set a variable if undefined in JavaScript

I needed to "set a variable if undefined" in several places. I created a function using @Alnitak answer. Hopefully it helps someone.

function setDefaultVal(value, defaultValue){
   return (value === undefined) ? defaultValue : value;
}  

Usage:

hasPoints = setDefaultVal(this.hasPoints, true);

How to submit a form using PhantomJS

I figured it out. Basically it's an async issue. You can't just submit and expect to render the subsequent page immediately. You have to wait until the onLoad event for the next page is triggered. My code is below:

var page = new WebPage(), testindex = 0, loadInProgress = false;

page.onConsoleMessage = function(msg) {
  console.log(msg);
};

page.onLoadStarted = function() {
  loadInProgress = true;
  console.log("load started");
};

page.onLoadFinished = function() {
  loadInProgress = false;
  console.log("load finished");
};

var steps = [
  function() {
    //Load Login Page
    page.open("https://website.com/theformpage/");
  },
  function() {
    //Enter Credentials
    page.evaluate(function() {

      var arr = document.getElementsByClassName("login-form");
      var i;

      for (i=0; i < arr.length; i++) { 
        if (arr[i].getAttribute('method') == "POST") {

          arr[i].elements["email"].value="mylogin";
          arr[i].elements["password"].value="mypassword";
          return;
        }
      }
    });
  }, 
  function() {
    //Login
    page.evaluate(function() {
      var arr = document.getElementsByClassName("login-form");
      var i;

      for (i=0; i < arr.length; i++) {
        if (arr[i].getAttribute('method') == "POST") {
          arr[i].submit();
          return;
        }
      }

    });
  }, 
  function() {
    // Output content of page to stdout after form has been submitted
    page.evaluate(function() {
      console.log(document.querySelectorAll('html')[0].outerHTML);
    });
  }
];


interval = setInterval(function() {
  if (!loadInProgress && typeof steps[testindex] == "function") {
    console.log("step " + (testindex + 1));
    steps[testindex]();
    testindex++;
  }
  if (typeof steps[testindex] != "function") {
    console.log("test complete!");
    phantom.exit();
  }
}, 50);

SQL conditional SELECT

Sounds like they want the ability to return only allowed fields, which means the number of fields returned also has to be dynamic. This will work with 2 variables. Anything more than that will be getting confusing.

IF (selectField1 = true AND selectField2 = true)
BEGIN
   SELECT Field1, Field2
   FROM Table
END
ELSE IF (selectField1 = true)
BEGIN
   SELECT Field1
   FROM Table
END
ELSE IF (selectField2 = true)
BEGIN
   SELECT Field2
   FROM Table
END

Dynamic SQL will help with multiples. This examples is assuming atleast 1 column is true.

DECLARE @sql varchar(MAX)
SET @sql = 'SELECT '
IF (selectField1 = true)
BEGIN
   SET @sql = @sql + 'Field1, '
END
IF (selectField2 = true)
BEGIN
   SET @sql = @sql + 'Field2, '
END
...
-- DROP ', '
@sql = SUBSTRING(@sql, 1, LEN(@sql)-2)

SET @sql = @sql + ' FROM Table'

EXEC(@sql)

How can I get the last day of the month in C#?

DateTime.DaysInMonth(DateTime.Now.Year, DateTime.Now.Month)

To the power of in C?

Actually in C, you don't have an power operator. You will need to manually run a loop to get the result. Even the exp function just operates in that way only. But if you need to use that function, include the following header

#include <math.h>

then you can use pow().

How do I loop through a list by twos?

The simplest in my opinion is just this:

it = iter([1,2,3,4,5,6])
for x, y in zip(it, it):
    print x, y

Out: 1 2
     3 4
     5 6

No extra imports or anything. And very elegant, in my opinion.

How to scroll the page when a modal dialog is longer than the screen?

fixed positioning alone should have fixed that problem but another good workaround to avoid this issue is to place your modal divs or elements at the bottom of the page not within your sites layout. Most modal plugins give their modal positioning absolute to allow the user keep main page scrolling.

<html>
        <body>
        <!-- Put all your page layouts and elements


        <!-- Let the last element be the modal elemment  -->
        <div id="myModals">
        ...
        </div>

        </body>
</html>

Retrieving subfolders names in S3 bucket from boto3

Below piece of code returns ONLY the 'subfolders' in a 'folder' from s3 bucket.

import boto3
bucket = 'my-bucket'
#Make sure you provide / in the end
prefix = 'prefix-name-with-slash/'  

client = boto3.client('s3')
result = client.list_objects(Bucket=bucket, Prefix=prefix, Delimiter='/')
for o in result.get('CommonPrefixes'):
    print 'sub folder : ', o.get('Prefix')

For more details, you can refer to https://github.com/boto/boto3/issues/134

Bootstrap modal: is not a function

This warning may also be shown if jQuery is declared more than once in your code. The second jQuery declaration prevents bootstrap.js from working correctly.

<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.0.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/bootstrap.js"></script>
...
<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.0.min.js"></script>

Color picker utility (color pipette) in Ubuntu

You can install the package gcolor2 for this:

sudo apt-get install gcolor2

Then:

Applications -> Graphics -> GColor2

How do I get the total Json record count using JQuery?

Why would you want length in this case?

If you do want to check for length, have the server return a JSON array with key-value pairs like this:

[
  {key:value},
  {key:value}
]

In JSON, [ and ] represents an array (with a length property), { and } represents a object (without a length property). You can iterate through the members of a object, but you will get functions as well, making a length check of the numbers of members useless except for iterating over them.

Relative instead of Absolute paths in Excel VBA

I think the problem is that opening the file without a path will only work if your "current directory" is set correctly.

Try typing "Debug.Print CurDir" in the Immediate Window - that should show the location for your default files as set in Tools...Options.

I'm not sure I'm completely happy with it, perhaps because it's somewhat of a legacy VB command, but you could do this:

ChDir ThisWorkbook.Path

I think I'd prefer to use ThisWorkbook.Path to construct a path to the HTML file. I'm a big fan of the FileSystemObject in the Scripting Runtime (which always seems to be installed), so I'd be happier to do something like this (after setting a reference to Microsoft Scripting Runtime):

Const HTML_FILE_NAME As String = "my_input.html"

With New FileSystemObject
    With .OpenTextFile(.BuildPath(ThisWorkbook.Path, HTML_FILE_NAME), ForReading)
        ' Now we have a TextStream object that we can use to read the file
    End With
End With

Find which commit is currently checked out in Git

Use git show, which also shows you the commit message, and defaults to the current commit when given no arguments.

How to pass command line arguments to a rake task

You can specify formal arguments in rake by adding symbol arguments to the task call. For example:

require 'rake'

task :my_task, [:arg1, :arg2] do |t, args|
  puts "Args were: #{args} of class #{args.class}"
  puts "arg1 was: '#{args[:arg1]}' of class #{args[:arg1].class}"
  puts "arg2 was: '#{args[:arg2]}' of class #{args[:arg2].class}"
end

task :invoke_my_task do
  Rake.application.invoke_task("my_task[1, 2]")
end

# or if you prefer this syntax...
task :invoke_my_task_2 do
  Rake::Task[:my_task].invoke(3, 4)
end

# a task with prerequisites passes its 
# arguments to it prerequisites
task :with_prerequisite, [:arg1, :arg2] => :my_task #<- name of prerequisite task

# to specify default values, 
# we take advantage of args being a Rake::TaskArguments object
task :with_defaults, :arg1, :arg2 do |t, args|
  args.with_defaults(:arg1 => :default_1, :arg2 => :default_2)
  puts "Args with defaults were: #{args}"
end

Then, from the command line:

> rake my_task[1,false]
Args were: {:arg1=>"1", :arg2=>"false"} of class Rake::TaskArguments
arg1 was: '1' of class String
arg2 was: 'false' of class String

> rake "my_task[1, 2]"
Args were: {:arg1=>"1", :arg2=>"2"}

> rake invoke_my_task
Args were: {:arg1=>"1", :arg2=>"2"}

> rake invoke_my_task_2
Args were: {:arg1=>3, :arg2=>4}

> rake with_prerequisite[5,6]
Args were: {:arg1=>"5", :arg2=>"6"}

> rake with_defaults
Args with defaults were: {:arg1=>:default_1, :arg2=>:default_2}

> rake with_defaults['x','y']
Args with defaults were: {:arg1=>"x", :arg2=>"y"}

As demonstrated in the second example, if you want to use spaces, the quotes around the target name are necessary to keep the shell from splitting up the arguments at the space.

Looking at the code in rake.rb, it appears that rake does not parse task strings to extract arguments for prerequisites, so you can't do task :t1 => "dep[1,2]". The only way to specify different arguments for a prerequisite would be to invoke it explicitly within the dependent task action, as in :invoke_my_task and :invoke_my_task_2.

Note that some shells (like zsh) require you to escape the brackets: rake my_task\['arg1'\]

Generating a SHA-256 hash from the Linux command line

echo -n works and is unlikely to ever disappear due to massive historical usage, however per recent versions of the POSIX standard, new conforming applications are "encouraged to use printf".

Understanding the Linux oom-killer's logs

Memory management in Linux is a bit tricky to understand, and I can't say I fully understand it yet, but I'll try to share a little bit of my experience and knowledge.

Short answer to your question: Yes there are other stuff included than whats in the list.

What's being shown in your list is applications run in userspace. The kernel uses memory for itself and modules, on top of that it also has a lower limit of free memory that you can't go under. When you've reached that level it will try to free up resources, and when it can't do that anymore, you end up with an OOM problem.

From the last line of your list you can read that the kernel reports a total-vm usage of: 1498536kB (1,5GB), where the total-vm includes both your physical RAM and swap space. You stated you don't have any swap but the kernel seems to think otherwise since your swap space is reported to be full (Total swap = 524284kB, Free swap = 0kB) and it reports a total vmem size of 1,5GB.

Another thing that can complicate things further is memory fragmentation. You can hit the OOM killer when the kernel tries to allocate lets say 4096kB of continous memory, but there are no free ones availible.

Now that alone probably won't help you solve the actual problem. I don't know if it's normal for your program to require that amount of memory, but I would recommend to try a static code analyzer like cppcheck to check for memory leaks or file descriptor leaks. You could also try to run it through Valgrind to get a bit more information out about memory usage.

SSL Connection / Connection Reset with IISExpress

The problem that I was experiencing had to do with me, at some point in time, enabling HSTS for localhost and not realizing that this would break my http://localhost:someport in IIS Express.

HSTS tells the browser (Chrome in my case) to ALWAYS request a URL using HTTPS. So therefor even though I hadnt even enabled SSL for my MVC 5 app, the browser would still try to access my site using HTTPS in the URL instead of HTTP.

The fix?

  1. Surf to chrome://net-internals/#hsts
  2. In the delete section, enter "localhost" and delete the record from Chrome.

Angular 2 beta.17: Property 'map' does not exist on type 'Observable<Response>'

If you are using angular4 the use below import. it should work .

import 'rxjs/add/operator/map';

If you are using angular5/6 then use map with pipe and import below one

import { map } from "rxjs/operators";

Where can I view Tomcat log files in Eclipse?

if you're after the catalina.out log and you are using eclispe with tomcat, this works for me:

  • create catelina.out some where in your computer. In my case, I put it in logs directory of my tomcat install directory e.g: /opt/apache-tomcat-7.0.83/logs/catena.out
  • go to your eclipse, in the servers tab, double-click on the Tomcat Server. You will get a screen called Overview.
  • Click on "Open launch configuration". Then click on the "Common" tab.
  • At standard input and output section, check "output file", click on file system and then selected the folder where your create your catelina.out.
  • Finally, restart the Tomcat server.

Remove spacing between table cells and rows

It looks like the DOCTYPE is causing the image to display as an inline element. If I add display: block to the image, problem solved.

What is the regular expression to allow uppercase/lowercase (alphabetical characters), periods, spaces and dashes only?

Check out the basics of regular expressions in a tutorial. All it requires is two anchors and a repeated character class:

^[a-zA-Z ._-]*$

If you use the case-insensitive modifier, you can shorten this to

^[a-z ._-]*$

Note that the space is significant (it is just a character like any other).

C# How can I check if a URL exists/is valid?

Here is another option

public static bool UrlIsValid(string url)
{
    bool br = false;
    try {
        IPHostEntry ipHost = Dns.Resolve(url);
        br = true;
    }
    catch (SocketException se) {
        br = false;
    }
    return br;
}

Clicking submit button of an HTML form by a Javascript code

document.getElementById('loginSubmit').submit();

or, use the same code as the onclick handler:

changeAction('submitInput','loginForm');
document.forms['loginForm'].submit();

(Though that onclick handler is kind of stupidly-written: document.forms['loginForm'] could be replaced with this.)

How to use hex color values

Warning "'scanHexInt32' was deprecated in iOS 13.0" was fixed.

The sample should work on Swift2.2 and above(Swift2.x, Swift3.x, Swift4.x, Swift5.x):

extension UIColor {

    // hex sample: 0xf43737
    convenience init(_ hex: Int, alpha: Double = 1.0) {
        self.init(red: CGFloat((hex >> 16) & 0xFF) / 255.0, green: CGFloat((hex >> 8) & 0xFF) / 255.0, blue: CGFloat((hex) & 0xFF) / 255.0, alpha: CGFloat(255 * alpha) / 255)
    }

    convenience init(_ hexString: String, alpha: Double = 1.0) {
        let hex = hexString.trimmingCharacters(in: CharacterSet.alphanumerics.inverted)
        var int = UInt64()
        Scanner(string: hex).scanHexInt64(&int)

        let r, g, b: UInt64
        switch hex.count {
        case 3: // RGB (12-bit)
            (r, g, b) = ((int >> 8) * 17, (int >> 4 & 0xF) * 17, (int & 0xF) * 17)
        case 6: // RGB (24-bit)
            (r, g, b) = (int >> 16, int >> 8 & 0xFF, int & 0xFF)
        default:
            (r, g, b) = (1, 1, 0)
        }

        self.init(red: CGFloat(r) / 255, green: CGFloat(g) / 255, blue: CGFloat(b) / 255, alpha: CGFloat(255 * alpha) / 255)
    }

    convenience init(r: CGFloat, g: CGFloat, b: CGFloat, a: CGFloat = 1) {
        self.init(red: (r / 255), green: (g / 255), blue: (b / 255), alpha: a)
    }
}

Use them like below:

UIColor(0xF54A45)
UIColor(0xF54A45, alpha: 0.7)
UIColor("#f44")
UIColor("#f44", alpha: 0.7)
UIColor("#F54A45")
UIColor("#F54A45", alpha: 0.7)
UIColor("F54A45")
UIColor("F54A45", alpha: 0.7)
UIColor(r: 245.0, g: 73, b: 69)
UIColor(r: 245.0, g: 73, b: 69, a: 0.7)

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How can I generate a tsconfig.json file?

Setup a ts project as following steps:

  • install typescript yarn global add typescript
  • create a package.json: run yarn init or setting defaults yarn init -yp
  • create a tsconfig.json: run tsc --init
  • (*optional) add tslint.json

The project structure seems like:

¦  package.json
¦  tsconfig.json
¦  tslint.json
¦  yarn.lock
¦
+-dist
¦      index.js
¦
+-src
       index.ts

Using jQuery, Restricting File Size Before Uploading

I encountered the same issue. You have to use ActiveX or Flash (or Java). The good thing is that it doesn't have to be invasive. I have a simple ActiveX method that will return the size of the to-be-uploaded file.

If you go with Flash, you can even do some fancy js/css to cusomize the uploading experience--only using Flash (as a 1x1 "movie") to access it's file uploading features.

How to SUM and SUBTRACT using SQL?

I think this is what you're looking for. NEW_BAL is the sum of QTYs subtracted from the balance:

SELECT   master_table.ORDERNO,
         master_table.ITEM,
         SUM(master_table.QTY),
         stock_bal.BAL_QTY,
         (stock_bal.BAL_QTY - SUM(master_table.QTY)) AS NEW_BAL
FROM     master_table INNER JOIN
         stock_bal ON master_bal.ITEM = stock_bal.ITEM
GROUP BY master_table.ORDERNO,
         master_table.ITEM

If you want to update the item balance with the new balance, use the following:

UPDATE stock_bal
SET    BAL_QTY = BAL_QTY - (SELECT   SUM(QTY)
                            FROM     master_table
                            GROUP BY master_table.ORDERNO,
                                     master_table.ITEM)

This assumes you posted the subtraction backward; it subtracts the quantities in the order from the balance, which makes the most sense without knowing more about your tables. Just swap those two to change it if I was wrong:

(SUM(master_table.QTY) - stock_bal.BAL_QTY) AS NEW_BAL

Android eclipse DDMS - Can't access data/data/ on phone to pull files

No one seems to understand that a retail Nexus One even after being rooted still will not let you browse the file system using DDMS File Explorer. We are talking about real phones here and not the emulator. If you happen to have a Nexus One Developer Phone you can browse the file system using DDMS Filer Explorer, but a retail Nexus One that has been rooted you can't. Got it?

So I hope that answers the question of not being able to use the DDMS File Explorer to browse the file system of a rooted retail Nexus One. After rooting a retail Nexus One there is still something that remains to be done to use DDMS to use the File Explorer to browse the phones File System. I don't know what it is. Maybe someone else knowns.

Why doesn't GCC optimize a*a*a*a*a*a to (a*a*a)*(a*a*a)?

Because Floating Point Math is not Associative. The way you group the operands in floating point multiplication has an effect on the numerical accuracy of the answer.

As a result, most compilers are very conservative about reordering floating point calculations unless they can be sure that the answer will stay the same, or unless you tell them you don't care about numerical accuracy. For example: the -fassociative-math option of gcc which allows gcc to reassociate floating point operations, or even the -ffast-math option which allows even more aggressive tradeoffs of accuracy against speed.

Creating a search form in PHP to search a database?

try this out let me know what happens.

Form:

<form action="form.php" method="post"> 
Search: <input type="text" name="term" /><br /> 
<input type="submit" value="Submit" /> 
</form> 

Form.php:

$term = mysql_real_escape_string($_REQUEST['term']);    

$sql = "SELECT * FROM liam WHERE Description LIKE '%".$term."%'";
$r_query = mysql_query($sql);

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($r_query)){ 
echo 'Primary key: ' .$row['PRIMARYKEY']; 
echo '<br /> Code: ' .$row['Code']; 
echo '<br /> Description: '.$row['Description']; 
echo '<br /> Category: '.$row['Category']; 
echo '<br /> Cut Size: '.$row['CutSize'];  
} 

Edit: Cleaned it up a little more.

Final Cut (my test file):

<?php
$db_hostname = 'localhost';
$db_username = 'demo';
$db_password = 'demo';
$db_database = 'demo';

// Database Connection String
$con = mysql_connect($db_hostname,$db_username,$db_password);
if (!$con)
  {
  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
  }

mysql_select_db($db_database, $con);
?>

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8" />
        <title></title>
    </head>
    <body>
<form action="" method="post">  
Search: <input type="text" name="term" /><br />  
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />  
</form>  
<?php
if (!empty($_REQUEST['term'])) {

$term = mysql_real_escape_string($_REQUEST['term']);     

$sql = "SELECT * FROM liam WHERE Description LIKE '%".$term."%'"; 
$r_query = mysql_query($sql); 

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($r_query)){  
echo 'Primary key: ' .$row['PRIMARYKEY'];  
echo '<br /> Code: ' .$row['Code'];  
echo '<br /> Description: '.$row['Description'];  
echo '<br /> Category: '.$row['Category'];  
echo '<br /> Cut Size: '.$row['CutSize'];   
}  

}
?>
    </body>
</html>

What exactly should be set in PYTHONPATH?

For most installations, you should not set these variables since they are not needed for Python to run. Python knows where to find its standard library.

The only reason to set PYTHONPATH is to maintain directories of custom Python libraries that you do not want to install in the global default location (i.e., the site-packages directory).

Make sure to read: http://docs.python.org/using/cmdline.html#environment-variables

Any way to generate ant build.xml file automatically from Eclipse?

Right-click on an Eclipse project then "Export" then "General" then "Ant build files". I don't think it is possible to customise the output format though.

Visual Studio setup problem - 'A problem has been encountered while loading the setup components. Canceling setup.'

You should look for the MSI setup logs in the temp directory of your system. They will contain detailed inforamtion about why the setup failed. I had a similar installation problem with Visual Studio 2008 which I was able to resolve by studying the logs.

How to list the contents of a package using YUM?

rpm -ql [packageName]

Example

# rpm -ql php-fpm

/etc/php-fpm.conf
/etc/php-fpm.d
/etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf
/etc/sysconfig/php-fpm
...
/run/php-fpm
/usr/lib/systemd/system/php-fpm.service
/usr/sbin/php-fpm
/usr/share/doc/php-fpm-5.6.0
/usr/share/man/man8/php-fpm.8.gz
...
/var/lib/php/sessions
/var/log/php-fpm

No need to install yum-utils, or to know the location of the rpm file.

How can I make PHP display the error instead of giving me 500 Internal Server Error

Check the error_reporting, display_errors and display_startup_errors settings in your php.ini file. They should be set to E_ALL and "On" respectively (though you should not use display_errors on a production server, so disable this and use log_errors instead if/when you deploy it). You can also change these settings (except display_startup_errors) at the very beginning of your script to set them at runtime (though you may not catch all errors this way):

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', 'On');

After that, restart server.

Jersey client: How to add a list as query parameter

GET Request with JSON Query Param

package com.rest.jersey.jerseyclient;
import com.sun.jersey.api.client.Client;
import com.sun.jersey.api.client.ClientResponse;
import com.sun.jersey.api.client.WebResource;

public class JerseyClientGET {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {               

            String BASE_URI="http://vaquarkhan.net:8080/khanWeb";               
            Client client = Client.create();    
            WebResource webResource = client.resource(BASE_URI);

            ClientResponse response = webResource.accept("application/json").get(ClientResponse.class);

            /*if (response.getStatus() != 200) {
               throw new RuntimeException("Failed : HTTP error code : "
                + response.getStatus());
            }
*/
            String output = webResource.path("/msg/sms").queryParam("search","{\"name\":\"vaquar\",\"surname\":\"khan\",\"ext\":\"2020\",\"age\":\"34\""}").get(String.class);
            //String output = response.getEntity(String.class);

            System.out.println("Output from Server .... \n");
            System.out.println(output);                         

        } catch (Exception e) {

            e.printStackTrace();    
        }    
    }    
}

Post Request :

package com.rest.jersey.jerseyclient;

import com.rest.jersey.dto.KhanDTOInput;
import com.sun.jersey.api.client.Client;
import com.sun.jersey.api.client.ClientResponse;
import com.sun.jersey.api.client.WebResource;
import com.sun.jersey.api.client.config.ClientConfig;
import com.sun.jersey.api.client.config.DefaultClientConfig;
import com.sun.jersey.api.json.JSONConfiguration;

public class JerseyClientPOST {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {

            KhanDTOInput khanDTOInput = new KhanDTOInput("vaquar", "khan", "20", "E", null, "2222", "8308511500");                      

            ClientConfig clientConfig = new DefaultClientConfig();

            clientConfig.getFeatures().put( JSONConfiguration.FEATURE_POJO_MAPPING, Boolean.TRUE);

            Client client = Client.create(clientConfig);

               // final HTTPBasicAuthFilter authFilter = new HTTPBasicAuthFilter(username, password);
               // client.addFilter(authFilter);
               // client.addFilter(new LoggingFilter());

            //
            WebResource webResource = client
                    .resource("http://vaquarkhan.net:12221/khanWeb/messages/sms/api/v1/userapi");

              ClientResponse response = webResource.accept("application/json")
                .type("application/json").put(ClientResponse.class, khanDTOInput);


            if (response.getStatus() != 200) {
                throw new RuntimeException("Failed : HTTP error code :" + response.getStatus());
            }

            String output = response.getEntity(String.class);

            System.out.println("Server response .... \n");
            System.out.println(output);

        } catch (Exception e) {

            e.printStackTrace();

        }    
    }    
}

What's the best way to convert a number to a string in JavaScript?

It seems similar results when using node.js. I ran this script:

let bar;
let foo = ["45","foo"];

console.time('string concat testing');
for (let i = 0; i < 10000000; i++) {
    bar = "" + foo;
}
console.timeEnd('string concat testing');


console.time("string obj testing");
for (let i = 0; i < 10000000; i++) {
    bar = String(foo);
}
console.timeEnd("string obj testing");

console.time("string both");
for (let i = 0; i < 10000000; i++) {
    bar = "" + foo + "";
}
console.timeEnd("string both");

and got the following results:

? node testing.js
string concat testing: 2802.542ms
string obj testing: 3374.530ms
string both: 2660.023ms

Similar times each time I ran it.

jQuery checkbox event handling

$('#myform input:checkbox').click(
 function(e){
   alert($(this).is(':checked'))
 }
)

Understanding Popen.communicate

Your second bit of code starts the first bit of code as a subprocess with piped input and output. It then closes its input and tries to read its output.

The first bit of code tries to read from standard input, but the process that started it closed its standard input, so it immediately reaches an end-of-file, which Python turns into an exception.

Check if a string contains a string in C++

Actually, you can try to use boost library,I think std::string doesn't supply enough method to do all the common string operation.In boost,you can just use the boost::algorithm::contains:

#include <string>
#include <boost/algorithm/string.hpp>

int main() {
    std::string s("gengjiawen");
    std::string t("geng");
    bool b = boost::algorithm::contains(s, t);
    std::cout << b << std::endl;
    return 0;
}

AngularJS access parent scope from child controller

From a child component you can access the properties and methods of the parent component with 'require'. Here is an example:

Parent:

.component('myParent', mymodule.MyParentComponent)
...
controllerAs: 'vm',
...
var vm = this;
vm.parentProperty = 'hello from parent';

Child:

require: {
    myParentCtrl: '^myParent'
},
controllerAs: 'vm',
...
var vm = this;
vm.myParentCtrl.parentProperty = 'hello from child';

Return value in SQL Server stored procedure

Try to call your proc in this way:

DECLARE @UserIDout int

EXEC YOURPROC @EmailAddress = 'sdfds', @NickName = 'sdfdsfs', ..., @UserId = @UserIDout OUTPUT

SELECT @UserIDout 

Java 'file.delete()' Is not Deleting Specified File

Since the directory is not empty, file.delete() returns false, always.

I used

file.deleteRecursively()

which is available in Kotlin and would delete the completely directly and return the boolean response just as file.delete() does.

Input button target="_blank" isn't causing the link to load in a new window/tab

Another solution, using JQUERY, would be to write a function that is invoked when the user clicks the button. This function creates a new <A> element, with target='blank', appends this to the document, 'clicks' it then removes it.

So as far as the user is concerned, they clicked a button, but behind the scenes, an <A> element with target='_blank' was clicked.

<input type="button" id='myButton' value="facebook">

$(document).on('ready', function(){
     $('#myButton').on('click',function(){
         var link = document.createElement("a");
         link.href = 'http://www.facebook.com/';
         link.style = "visibility:hidden";
         link.target = "_blank";
         document.body.appendChild(link);
         link.click();
         document.body.removeChild(link); 
     });
});

JsFiddle : https://jsfiddle.net/ragDaniel/tf991u4g/2/

Access And/Or exclusions

Seeing that it appears you are running using the SQL syntax, try with the correct wild card.

SELECT * FROM someTable WHERE (someTable.Field NOT LIKE '%RISK%') AND (someTable.Field NOT LIKE '%Blah%') AND someTable.SomeOtherField <> 4; 

WebRTC vs Websockets: If WebRTC can do Video, Audio, and Data, why do I need Websockets?

Security is one aspect you missed.

With Websockets the data has to go via a central webserver which typically sees all the traffic and can access it.

With WebRTC the data is end-to-end encrypted and does not pass through a server (except sometimes TURN servers are needed, but they have no access to the body of the messages they forward).

Depending on your application this may or may not matter.

If you are sending large amounts of data, the saving in cloud bandwidth costs due to webRTC's P2P architecture may be worth considering too.

PPT to PNG with transparent background

One workaround that I have done is:

  • Ctrl + a to select everything in the slide
  • Ctrl + c to copy it
  • open GIMP (probably works in Photoshop or other software)
  • make a new image with a transparent background
  • Ctrl + v to paste all the vectors/text into the image
  • Export the image to a PNG or whatever format

It looks pretty much exactly the same as in Powerpoint, and the vectors/text are very clean with their transparency edges.

How can I get the current page's full URL on a Windows/IIS server?

Reverse Proxy Support!

Something a little more robust. Note It'll only work on 5.3 or greater.

/*
 * Compatibility with multiple host headers.
 * Support of "Reverse Proxy" configurations.
 *
 * Michael Jett <[email protected]>
 */

function base_url() {

    $protocol = @$_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO'] 
              ?: @$_SERVER['REQUEST_SCHEME']
              ?: ((isset($_SERVER["HTTPS"]) && $_SERVER["HTTPS"] == "on") ? "https" : "http");

    $port = @intval($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PORT'])
          ?: @intval($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"])
          ?: (($protocol === 'https') ? 443 : 80);

    $host = @explode(":", $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])[0]
          ?: @$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']
          ?: @$_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'];

    // Don't include port if it's 80 or 443 and the protocol matches
    $port = ($protocol === 'https' && $port === 443) || ($protocol === 'http' && $port === 80) ? '' : ':' . $port;

    return sprintf('%s://%s%s/%s', $protocol, $host, $port, @trim(reset(explode("?", $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])), '/'));
}

Permission denied error on Github Push

Another way to get this error, is if you have duplicate or conflicting ~/.ssh/* entries. First check what is on your ssh key-chain with:

$ ssh-add -l
2048 SHA256:<hash1> [email protected] (RSA)
2048 SHA256:<hash2> [email protected] (RSA)
2048 SHA256:<hash3> [email protected] (RSA)

As you can see there are two emails which are the same, and easy for you to get confused. Then check your config file:

$ cat ~/.ssh/config

# GitHub: [email protected]
Host github_ex
 HostName github.com
 PreferredAuthentications publickey
 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/github_ex

# GitHub: [email protected]
Host github
 HostName github.com
 PreferredAuthentications publickey
 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/github

# Bitbucket: [email protected]
Host bitbucket
 HostName bitbucket.org
 PreferredAuthentications publickey
 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/bitbuc

Here you see that you have two different email accounts to github but same HostName. Someone is bound to get confused, including your git.

To resolve, manually remove (after copying) the (default) files:

cd ~/.ssh
rm id_rsa
rm id_rsa.pub

Now copy back the one you want to use, for example Host github:

cp -a github id_rsa
cp -a github.pub id_rsa.pub

Then try again.

For some reason, removing keys with ssh-add -d id_rsa didn't work as expected, as it seem that key-chain is cached.

I need to round a float to two decimal places in Java

If you're looking for currency formatting (which you didn't specify, but it seems that is what you're looking for) try the NumberFormat class. It's very simple:

double d = 2.3d;
NumberFormat formatter = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance();
String output = formatter.format(d);

Which will output (depending on locale):

$2.30

Also, if currency isn't required (just the exact two decimal places) you can use this instead:

NumberFormat formatter = NumberFormat.getNumberInstance();
formatter.setMinimumFractionDigits(2);
formatter.setMaximumFractionDigits(2);
String output = formatter.format(d);

Which will output 2.30

How to set data attributes in HTML elements

To keep jQuery and the DOM in sync, a simple option may be

$('#mydiv').data('myval',20).attr('data-myval',20);        

Why does GitHub recommend HTTPS over SSH?

Also see: the official Which remote URL should I use? answer on help.github.com.

EDIT:

It seems that it's no longer necessary to have write access to a public repo to use an SSH URL, rendering my original explanation invalid.

ORIGINAL:

Apparently the main reason for favoring HTTPS URLs is that SSH URL's won't work with a public repo if you don't have write access to that repo.

The use of SSH URLs is encouraged for deployment to production servers, however - presumably the context here is services like Heroku.

How can I convert a std::string to int?

 int stringToInt(std::string value) {    
 if(value.length() == 0 ) return 0; //tu zmiana..

 if (value.find(  std::string("NULL") ) != std::string::npos) {
     return 0;
  }
 
  if (value.find(  std::string("null") ) != std::string::npos) {
     return 0;
  }
 
 
int i;
std::stringstream stream1;
stream1.clear();
stream1.str(value);
stream1 >> i;
return i;

};

How to set a JVM TimeZone Properly

Setting environment variable TZ should also works

ex: export TZ=Asia/Shanghai

JavaScript hashmap equivalent

If performance is not critical (e.g., the amount of keys is relatively small) and you don't want to pollute your (or maybe not your) objects with additional fields like _hash, _id, etc., then you can make use of the fact that Array.prototype.indexOf employs strict equality. Here is a simple implementation:

var Dict = (function(){
    // Internet Explorer 8 and earlier does not have any Array.prototype.indexOf
    function indexOfPolyfill(val) {
      for (var i = 0, l = this.length; i < l; ++i) {
        if (this[i] === val) {
          return i;
        }
      }
      return -1;
    }

    function Dict(){
      this.keys = [];
      this.values = [];
      if (!this.keys.indexOf) {
        this.keys.indexOf = indexOfPolyfill;
      }
    };

    Dict.prototype.has = function(key){
      return this.keys.indexOf(key) != -1;
    };

    Dict.prototype.get = function(key, defaultValue){
      var index = this.keys.indexOf(key);
      return index == -1 ? defaultValue : this.values[index];
    };

    Dict.prototype.set = function(key, value){
      var index = this.keys.indexOf(key);
      if (index == -1) {
        this.keys.push(key);
        this.values.push(value);
      } else {
        var prevValue = this.values[index];
        this.values[index] = value;
        return prevValue;
      }
    };

    Dict.prototype.delete = function(key){
      var index = this.keys.indexOf(key);
      if (index != -1) {
        this.keys.splice(index, 1);
        return this.values.splice(index, 1)[0];
      }
    };

    Dict.prototype.clear = function(){
      this.keys.splice(0, this.keys.length);
      this.values.splice(0, this.values.length);
    };

    return Dict;
})();

Example of usage:

var a = {}, b = {},
    c = { toString: function(){ return '1'; } },
    d = 1, s = '1', u = undefined, n = null,
    dict = new Dict();

// Keys and values can be anything
dict.set(a, 'a');
dict.set(b, 'b');
dict.set(c, 'c');
dict.set(d, 'd');
dict.set(s, 's');
dict.set(u, 'u');
dict.set(n, 'n');

dict.get(a); // 'a'
dict.get(b); // 'b'
dict.get(s); // 's'
dict.get(u); // 'u'
dict.get(n); // 'n'
// etc.

Comparing to ECMAScript 6 WeakMap, it has two issues: O(n) search time and non-weakness (i.e., it will cause memory leak if you don't use delete or clear to release keys).

How to import load a .sql or .csv file into SQLite?

if you are using it in windows, be sure to add the path to the db in "" and also to use double slash \ in the path to make sure windows understands it.

How to verify if nginx is running or not?

Not sure which guide you are following, but if you check out this page,

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-nginx-on-ubuntu-14-04-lts

It uses another command

ip addr show eth0 | grep inet | awk '{ print $2; }' | sed 's/\/.*$//' 

and also indicates what result is expected.

Is there an equivalent of lsusb for OS X

I typically run this command to list USB devices on Mac OS X, along with details about them:

ioreg -p IOUSB -l -w 0

How to group by week in MySQL?

Just ad this in the select :

DATE_FORMAT($yourDate, \'%X %V\') as week

And

group_by(week);

Update query with PDO and MySQL

Your update syntax is incorrect. Please check Update Syntax for the correct syntax.

$sql = "UPDATE `access_users` set `contact_first_name` = :firstname,  `contact_surname` = :surname, `contact_email` = :email, `telephone` = :telephone";

Setting a JPA timestamp column to be generated by the database?

I do not think that every database has auto-update timestamps (e.g. Postgres). So I've decided to update this field manually everywhere in my code. This will work with every database:

thingy.setLastTouched(new Date());
HibernateUtil.save(thingy);

There are reasons to use triggers, but for most projects, this is not one of them. Triggers dig you even deeper into a specific database implementation.

MySQL 5.6.28 (Ubuntu 15.10, OpenJDK 64-Bit 1.8.0_66) seems to be very forgiving, not requiring anything beyond

@Column(name="LastTouched")

MySQL 5.7.9 (CentOS 6, OpenJDK 64-Bit 1.8.0_72) only works with

@Column(name="LastTouched", insertable=false, updatable=false)

not:

FAILED: removing @Temporal
FAILED: @Column(name="LastTouched", nullable=true)
FAILED: @Column(name="LastTouched", columnDefinition="TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP")

My other system info (identical in both environments)

  • hibernate-entitymanager 5.0.2
  • hibernate-validator 5.2.2
  • mysql-connector-java 5.1.38

How can I view the shared preferences file using Android Studio?

This is an old post, but I though I should put a graphical answer here as the question is about viewing the SharedPreferences.xml using Android Studio. So here it goes.

Go to the Tools -> Android Device Monitor. Open the device monitor by clicking it.

enter image description here

Then you need to select the File Explorer tab in the device monitor. Find the data folder and find another data folder inside it. It will contain a folder having the name of your application package and there will be the desired SharedPreferences.xml.

enter image description here

Select the SharedPreferences.xml file and then pull and save the file in your computer using the button marked at the top-right corner of the image above.

I've used a device emulator.

tqdm in Jupyter Notebook prints new progress bars repeatedly

If the other tips here don't work and - just like me - you're using the pandas integration through progress_apply, you can let tqdm handle it:

from tqdm.autonotebook import tqdm
tqdm.pandas()

df.progress_apply(row_function, axis=1)

The main point here lies in the tqdm.autonotebook module. As stated in their instructions for use in IPython Notebooks, this makes tqdm choose between progress bar formats used in Jupyter notebooks and Jupyter consoles - for a reason still lacking further investigations on my side, the specific format chosen by tqdm.autonotebook works smoothly in pandas, while all others didn't, for progress_apply specifically.

What is the difference between DTR/DSR and RTS/CTS flow control?

  • DTR - Data Terminal Ready
  • DSR - Data Set Ready
  • RTS - Request To Send
  • CTS - Clear To Send

There are multiple ways of doing things because there were never any protocols built into the standards. You use whatever ad-hoc "standard" your equipment implements.

Just based on the names, RTS/CTS would seem to be a natural fit. However, it's backwards from the needs that developed over time. These signals were created at a time when a terminal would batch-send a screen full of data, but the receiver might not be ready, thus the need for flow control. Later the problem would be reversed, as the terminal couldn't keep up with data coming from the host, but the RTS/CTS signals go the wrong direction - the interface isn't orthogonal, and there's no corresponding signals going the other way. Equipment makers adapted as best they could, including using the DTR and DSR signals.

EDIT

To add a bit more detail, its a two level hierarchy so "officially" both must happen for communication to take place. The behavior is defined in the original CCITT (now ITU-T) standard V.28.

enter image description here

The DCE is a modem connecting between the terminal and telephone network. In the telephone network was another piece of equipment which split off to the data network, eg. X.25.

The modem has three states: Powered off, Ready (Data Set Ready is true), and connected (Data Carrier Detect)

The terminal can't do anything until the modem is connected.

When the modem wants to send data, it raises RTS and the modem grants the request with CTS. The modem lowers CTS when its internal buffer is full.

So nostalgic!

HashSet vs. List performance

You're looking at this wrong. Yes a linear search of a List will beat a HashSet for a small number of items. But the performance difference usually doesn't matter for collections that small. It's generally the large collections you have to worry about, and that's where you think in terms of Big-O. However, if you've measured a real bottleneck on HashSet performance, then you can try to create a hybrid List/HashSet, but you'll do that by conducting lots of empirical performance tests - not asking questions on SO.

Count number of rows per group and add result to original data frame

One simple line in base R:

df$count = table(interaction(df[, (c("name", "type"))]))[interaction(df[, (c("name", "type"))])]

Same in two lines, for clarity/efficiency:

fact = interaction(df[, (c("name", "type"))])
df$count = table(fact)[fact]

nodemon not found in npm

You can resolve this problem by adding nodemon to your package.json:

npm install nodemon --save-dev

The problem happens when nodemon does not exist in /node_modules/.bin.

Added --save-dev since it's required during development only.

Sorting data based on second column of a file

For tab separated values the code below can be used

sort -t$'\t' -k2 -n

-r can be used for getting data in descending order.
-n for numerical sort
-k, --key=POS1[,POS2] where k is column in file
For descending order below is the code

sort -t$'\t' -k2 -rn

Open new Terminal Tab from command line (Mac OS X)

If you are using iTerm this command will open a new tab:

osascript -e 'tell application "iTerm" to activate' -e 'tell application "System Events" to tell process "iTerm" to keystroke "t" using command down'

What is the most compatible way to install python modules on a Mac?

Regarding which python version to use, Mac OS usually ships an old version of python. It's a good idea to upgrade to a newer version. You can download a .dmg from http://www.python.org/download/ . If you do that, remember to update the path. You can find the exact commands here http://farmdev.com/thoughts/66/python-3-0-on-mac-os-x-alongside-2-6-2-5-etc-/

Asynchronously wait for Task<T> to complete with timeout

If you use a BlockingCollection to schedule the task, the producer can run the potentially long running task and the consumer can use the TryTake method which has timeout and cancellation token built in.

How to use multiprocessing pool.map with multiple arguments?

Another simple alternative is to wrap your function parameters in a tuple and then wrap the parameters that should be passed in tuples as well. This is perhaps not ideal when dealing with large pieces of data. I believe it would make copies for each tuple.

from multiprocessing import Pool

def f((a,b,c,d)):
    print a,b,c,d
    return a + b + c +d

if __name__ == '__main__':
    p = Pool(10)
    data = [(i+0,i+1,i+2,i+3) for i in xrange(10)]
    print(p.map(f, data))
    p.close()
    p.join()

Gives the output in some random order:

0 1 2 3
1 2 3 4
2 3 4 5
3 4 5 6
4 5 6 7
5 6 7 8
7 8 9 10
6 7 8 9
8 9 10 11
9 10 11 12
[6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26, 30, 34, 38, 42]

What key in windows registry disables IE connection parameter "Automatically Detect Settings"?

I'm aware that this question is a bit old, but I consider that my small update could help other programmers.

I didn't want to modify WhoIsRich's answer because it's really great, but I adapted it to fulfill my needs:

  1. If the Automatically Detect Settings is checked then uncheck it.
  2. If the Automatically Detect Settings is unchecked then check it.

    On Error Resume Next
    
    Set oReg   = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\default:StdRegProv")
    sKeyPath   = "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Connections"
    sValueName = "DefaultConnectionSettings"
    
    ' Get registry value where each byte is a different setting.
    oReg.GetBinaryValue &H80000001, sKeyPath, sValueName, bValue
    
    ' Check byte to see if detect is currently on.
    If (bValue(8) And 8) = 8 Then
        ' To change the value to Off.
        bValue(8) = bValue(8) And Not 8
    ' Check byte to see if detect is currently off.
    ElseIf (bValue(8) And 8) = 0 Then
        ' To change the value to On.
        bValue(8) = bValue(8) Or 8
    End If
    
    'Write back settings value
    oReg.SetBinaryValue &H80000001, sKeyPath, sValueName, bValue
    
    Set oReg = Nothing
    

Finally, you only need to save it in a .VBS file (VBScript) and run it.

vbscript

Add a link to an image in a css style sheet

You don't add links to style sheets. They are for describing the style of the page. You would change your mark-up or add JavaScript to navigate when the image is clicked.

Based only on your style you would have:

<a href="home.com" id="logo"></a>

Parse string to DateTime in C#

You can also use XmlConvert.ToDateString

var dateStr = "2011-03-21 13:26";
var parsedDate = XmlConvert.ToDateTime(dateStr, "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm");

It is good to specify the date kind, the code is:

var anotherParsedDate = DateTime.ParseExact(dateStr, "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, DateTimeStyles.AssumeUniversal);

More details on different parsing options http://amir-shenodua.blogspot.ie/2017/06/datetime-parsing-in-net.html

Creating a LINQ select from multiple tables

You must create a new anonymous type:

 select new { op, pg }

Refer to the official guide.

MVC which submit button has been pressed

<input name="submit" type="submit" id="submit" value="Save" />
<input name="process" type="submit" id="process" value="Process" />

And in your controller action:

public ActionResult SomeAction(string submit)
{
    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(submit))
    {
        // Save was pressed
    }
    else
    {
        // Process was pressed
    }
}

How to remove leading and trailing zeros in a string? Python

str.strip is the best approach for this situation, but more_itertools.strip is also a general solution that strips both leading and trailing elements from an iterable:

Code

import more_itertools as mit


iterables = ["231512-n\n","  12091231000-n00000","alphanum0000", "00alphanum"]
pred = lambda x: x in {"0", "\n", " "}
list("".join(mit.strip(i, pred)) for i in iterables)
# ['231512-n', '12091231000-n', 'alphanum', 'alphanum']

Details

Notice, here we strip both leading and trailing "0"s among other elements that satisfy a predicate. This tool is not limited to strings.

See also docs for more examples of

more_itertools is a third-party library installable via > pip install more_itertools.

Cannot redeclare function php

You (or Joomla) is likely including this file multiple times. Enclose your function in a conditional block:

if (!function_exists('parseDate')) {
    // ... proceed to declare your function
}

Make div scrollable

Place this into your DIV style

overflow:scroll;

Single Line Nested For Loops

The best source of information is the official Python tutorial on list comprehensions. List comprehensions are nearly the same as for loops (certainly any list comprehension can be written as a for-loop) but they are often faster than using a for loop.

Look at this longer list comprehension from the tutorial (the if part filters the comprehension, only parts that pass the if statement are passed into the final part of the list comprehension (here (x,y)):

>>> [(x, y) for x in [1,2,3] for y in [3,1,4] if x != y]
[(1, 3), (1, 4), (2, 3), (2, 1), (2, 4), (3, 1), (3, 4)]

It's exactly the same as this nested for loop (and, as the tutorial says, note how the order of for and if are the same).

>>> combs = []
>>> for x in [1,2,3]:
...     for y in [3,1,4]:
...         if x != y:
...             combs.append((x, y))
...
>>> combs
[(1, 3), (1, 4), (2, 3), (2, 1), (2, 4), (3, 1), (3, 4)]

The major difference between a list comprehension and a for loop is that the final part of the for loop (where you do something) comes at the beginning rather than at the end.

On to your questions:

What type must object be in order to use this for loop structure?

An iterable. Any object that can generate a (finite) set of elements. These include any container, lists, sets, generators, etc.

What is the order in which i and j are assigned to elements in object?

They are assigned in exactly the same order as they are generated from each list, as if they were in a nested for loop (for your first comprehension you'd get 1 element for i, then every value from j, 2nd element into i, then every value from j, etc.)

Can it be simulated by a different for loop structure?

Yes, already shown above.

Can this for loop be nested with a similar or different structure for loop? And how would it look?

Sure, but it's not a great idea. Here, for example, gives you a list of lists of characters:

[[ch for ch in word] for word in ("apple", "banana", "pear", "the", "hello")]

How to correctly link php-fpm and Nginx Docker containers?

I know it is kind an old post, but I've had the same problem and couldn't understand why your code didn't work. After a LOT of tests I've found out why.

It seems like fpm receives the full path from nginx and tries to find the files in the fpm container, so it must be the exactly the same as server.root in the nginx config, even if it doesn't exist in the nginx container.

To demonstrate:

docker-compose.yml

nginx:
    build: .
    ports:
        - "80:80"
    links:
        - fpm
fpm:
    image: php:fpm
    ports:
        - ":9000"

    # seems like fpm receives the full path from nginx
    # and tries to find the files in this dock, so it must
    # be the same as nginx.root
    volumes:
        - ./:/complex/path/to/files/

/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf

server {
    listen  80;

    # this path MUST be exactly as docker-compose.fpm.volumes,
    # even if it doesn't exist in this dock.
    root /complex/path/to/files;

    location / {
        try_files $uri /index.php$is_args$args;
    }

    location ~ ^/.+\.php(/|$) {
        fastcgi_pass fpm:9000;
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    }
}

Dockerfile

FROM nginx:latest
COPY ./default.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/

How to detect the character encoding of a text file?

Several answers are here but nobody has posted usefull code.

Here is my code that detects all encodings that Microsoft detects in Framework 4 in the StreamReader class.

Obviously you must call this function immediately after opening the stream before reading anything else from the stream because the BOM are the first bytes in the stream.

This function requires a Stream that can seek (for example a FileStream). If you have a Stream that cannot seek you must write a more complicated code that returns a Byte buffer with the bytes that have already been read but that are not BOM.

/// <summary>
/// UTF8    : EF BB BF
/// UTF16 BE: FE FF
/// UTF16 LE: FF FE
/// UTF32 BE: 00 00 FE FF
/// UTF32 LE: FF FE 00 00
/// </summary>
public static Encoding DetectEncoding(Stream i_Stream)
{
    if (!i_Stream.CanSeek || !i_Stream.CanRead)
        throw new Exception("DetectEncoding() requires a seekable and readable Stream");

    // Try to read 4 bytes. If the stream is shorter, less bytes will be read.
    Byte[] u8_Buf = new Byte[4];
    int s32_Count = i_Stream.Read(u8_Buf, 0, 4);
    if (s32_Count >= 2)
    {
        if (u8_Buf[0] == 0xFE && u8_Buf[1] == 0xFF)
        {
            i_Stream.Position = 2;
            return new UnicodeEncoding(true, true);
        }

        if (u8_Buf[0] == 0xFF && u8_Buf[1] == 0xFE)
        {
            if (s32_Count >= 4 && u8_Buf[2] == 0 && u8_Buf[3] == 0)
            {
                i_Stream.Position = 4;
                return new UTF32Encoding(false, true);
            }
            else
            {
                i_Stream.Position = 2;
                return new UnicodeEncoding(false, true);
            }
        }

        if (s32_Count >= 3 && u8_Buf[0] == 0xEF && u8_Buf[1] == 0xBB && u8_Buf[2] == 0xBF)
        {
            i_Stream.Position = 3;
            return Encoding.UTF8;
        }

        if (s32_Count >= 4 && u8_Buf[0] == 0 && u8_Buf[1] == 0 && u8_Buf[2] == 0xFE && u8_Buf[3] == 0xFF)
        {
            i_Stream.Position = 4;
            return new UTF32Encoding(true, true);
        }
    }

    i_Stream.Position = 0;
    return Encoding.Default;
}

What is a constant reference? (not a reference to a constant)

As it mentioned in another answers, a reference is inherently const.

int &ref = obj;

Once you initialized a reference with an object, you can't unbound this reference with its object it refers to. A reference works just like an alias.

When you declare a const reference, it is nothing but a reference which refers to a const object.

const int &ref = obj;

The declarative sentences above like const and int is determining the available features of the object which will be referenced by the reference. To be more clear, I want to show you the pointer equivalent of a const reference;

const int *const ptr = &obj;

So the above line of code is equivalent to a const reference in its working way. Additionally, there is a one last point which I want to mention;

A reference must be initialized only with an object

So when you do this, you are going to get an error;

int  &r = 0; // Error: a nonconst reference cannot be initialized to a literal

This rule has one exception. If the reference is declared as const, then you can initialize it with literals as well;

const int  &r = 0; // a valid approach

svn cleanup: sqlite: database disk image is malformed

Throughout my researches, I've found 2 viable solutions.

  1. If you're using any type of connections, ssh, samba, mounting, disconnect/unmount and reconnect/remount. Try again, this often resolved the problem for me. After that you can do svn cleanup or just keep on working normally (depending on when the problem appeared). Rebooting my computer also fixed the problem once... yes it's dumb I know!

  2. Some times all there is to do is to rm -rf your files (or if you're not familiar with the term, just delete your svn folder), and recheckout your svn repository once again. Please note that this does not always solve the problem and you might also have changes you don't want to lose. Which is why I use it as the second option.

Hope this helps you guys!

Error in styles_base.xml file - android app - No resource found that matches the given name 'android:Widget.Material.ActionButton'

I've just solved these exact errors myself. The key it seems is that your project.properties file in your appcompat library project should use whatever the highest version of the API that your particular appcompat project has been written for (in your case it looks like v21). Easiest way I've found to tell is to look for the highest 'values-v**' folder inside the res folder (eg. values-v21).

To clarify, in addition to the instructions at Support Library Setup, your appcompat/project.properties file should have in it: target=android-21 (mine came with 19 instead).

Also ensure that you have the 'SDK Platform' to match that version installed (eg for v21 install Android 5.0 SDK Platform).

See also appcompat-v7:21.0.0': No resource found that matches the given name: attr 'android:actionModeShareDrawable'

Alternatively if you don't want to use the appcompat at all, (I think) all you need to do is right click your project > Properties > Android > Library > Remove the reference to the appcompat. The errors will still show up for the appcompat project, but shouldn't affect your project after that.

Don't reload application when orientation changes

http://animeshrivastava.blogspot.in/2017/08/activity-lifecycle-oncreate-beating_3.html

@Override
protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle b)
{
        super.onSaveInstanceState(b);
    String str="Screen Change="+String.valueOf(screenChange)+"....";
        Toast.makeText(ctx,str+"You are changing orientation...",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    screenChange=true;

}

How can you test if an object has a specific property?

Just to clarify given the following object

$Object

With the following properties

type        : message
user        : [email protected]
text        : 
ts          : 11/21/2016 8:59:30 PM

The following are true

$Object.text -eq $NULL
$Object.NotPresent -eq $NULL

-not $Object.text
-not $Object.NotPresent

So the earlier answers that explicitly check for the property by name is the most correct way to verify that that property is not present.

Maven: How to run a .java file from command line passing arguments

In addition to running it with mvn exec:java, you can also run it with mvn exec:exec

mvn exec:exec -Dexec.executable="java" -Dexec.args="-classpath %classpath your.package.MainClass"

Show hide fragment in android

From my code, comparing to above solution, the simplest way is to define a layout which contains the fragment, then you could hide or unhide the fragment by controlling the layout attribute which is align with the general way of view. No additional code needed in this case and the additional deployment attributes of the fragment could be moved to the outer layout.

<LinearLayout style="@style/StHorizontalLinearView"
    >

    <fragment
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="390dp"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        />

</LinearLayout>

Visibility of global variables in imported modules

The easiest solution to this particular problem would have been to add another function within the module that would have stored the cursor in a variable global to the module. Then all the other functions could use it as well.

module1:

cursor = None

def setCursor(cur):
    global cursor
    cursor = cur

def method(some, args):
    global cursor
    do_stuff(cursor, some, args)

main program:

import module1

cursor = get_a_cursor()
module1.setCursor(cursor)
module1.method()

How to convert PDF files to images

The PDF engine used in Google Chrome, called PDFium, is open source under the "BSD 3-clause" license. I believe this allows redistribution when used in a commercial product.

There is a .NET wrapper for it called PdfiumViewer (NuGet) which works well to the extent I have tried it. It is under the Apache license which also allows redistribution.

(Note that this is NOT the same 'wrapper' as https://pdfium.patagames.com/ which requires a commercial license*)

(There is one other PDFium .NET wrapper, PDFiumSharp, but I have not evaluated it.)

In my opinion, so far, this may be the best choice of open-source (free as in beer) PDF libraries to do the job which do not put restrictions on the closed-source / commercial nature of the software utilizing them. I don't think anything else in the answers here satisfy that criteria, to the best of my knowledge.

What's the difference between "app.render" and "res.render" in express.js?

along with these two variants, there is also jade.renderFile which generates html that need not be passed to the client.

usage-

var jade = require('jade');

exports.getJson = getJson;

function getJson(req, res) {
    var html = jade.renderFile('views/test.jade', {some:'json'});
    res.send({message: 'i sent json'});
}

getJson() is available as a route in app.js.

fastest MD5 Implementation in JavaScript

I would suggest you use CryptoJS in this case.

Basically CryptoJS is a growing collection of standard and secure cryptographic algorithms implemented in JavaScript using best practices and patterns. They are fast, and they have a consistent and simple interface.

So if you want to calculate the MD5 hash of your password string then do as follows:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/crypto-js/3.1.9-1/core.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/crypto-js/3.1.9-1/md5.js"></script>
<script>
    var passhash = CryptoJS.MD5(password).toString();

    $.post(
      'includes/login.php', 
      { user: username, pass: passhash },
      onLogin, 
      'json' );
</script>

So this script will post the hash of your password string to the server.

For further info and support on other hash calculating algorithms you can visit:

http://code.google.com/p/crypto-js/

ORA-12514 TNS:listener does not currently know of service requested in connect descriptor

In my circumstances the error was due to the fact the listener did not have the db's service registered. I solved this by registering the services. Example:

My descriptor in tnsnames.ora:

LOCALDB =
  (DESCRIPTION =
    (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = localhost)(PORT = 1521))
    (CONNECT_DATA =
      (SERVER = DEDICATED)
      (SERVICE_NAME = LOCALDB)
    )
  )

So, I proceed to register the service in the listener.ora manually:

SID_LIST_LISTENER =
    (SID_DESC =
      (GLOBAL_DBNAME = LOCALDB)
      (ORACLE_HOME = C:\Oracle\product\11.2.0\dbhome_1)
      (SID_NAME = LOCALDB)
    )

Finally, restart the listener by command:

> lsnrctl stop
> lsnrctl start

Done!

How to correctly use Html.ActionLink with ASP.NET MVC 4 Areas

How I redirect to an area is add it as a parameter

@Html.Action("Action", "Controller", new { area = "AreaName" })

for the href portion of a link I use

@Url.Action("Action", "Controller", new { area = "AreaName" })

Get device token for push notification

In order to get the device token use following code but you can get the device token only using physical device. If you have mandatory to send the device token then while using simulator you can put the below condition.

  if(!(TARGET_IPHONE_SIMULATOR))
    {
        [infoDict setValue:[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] valueForKey:@"DeviceToken"] forKey:@"device_id"];
    }
    else
    {
        [infoDict setValue:@"e79c2b66222a956ce04625b22e3cad3a63e91f34b1a21213a458fadb2b459385" forKey:@"device_id"];
    }



- (void)application:(UIApplication*)application didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken:(NSData*)deviceToken
{
    NSLog(@"My token is: %@", deviceToken);
    NSString * deviceTokenString = [[[[deviceToken description] stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString: @"<" withString: @""] stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString: @">" withString: @""]   stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString: @" " withString: @""];
    NSLog(@"the generated device token string is : %@",deviceTokenString);
    [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setObject:deviceTokenString forKey:@"DeviceToken"];
}

CSS force new line

or you can use:

a {
    display: inline-block;
  }

Add disabled attribute to input element using Javascript

You can get the DOM element, and set the disabled property directly.

$(".shownextrow").click(function() { 
  $(this).closest("tr").next().show()
          .find('.longboxsmall').hide()[0].disabled = 'disabled';
});

or if there's more than one, you can use each() to set all of them:

$(".shownextrow").click(function() { 
  $(this).closest("tr").next().show()
          .find('.longboxsmall').each(function() {
               this.style.display = 'none';
               this.disabled = 'disabled';
          });
});

Is there a way to style a TextView to uppercase all of its letters?

PixlUI project allows you to use textAllCaps in any textview or subclass of textview including: Button, EditText AutoCompleteEditText Checkbox RadioButton and several others.

You will need to create your textviews using the pixlui version rather than the ones from the android source, meaning you have to do this:

<com.neopixl.pixlui.components.textview.TextView

        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/hello_world"
        pixlui:textAllCaps="true" />

PixlUI also allows you to set a custom typeface/font which you put in your assets folder.

I'm working on a Gradle fork of the PixlUI framework which uses gradle and allows one to specify textAllCaps as well as the typeface from styles rather than requiring them inline as the original project does.

How can I get my Android device country code without using GPS?

The checked answer has deprecated code. You need to implement this:

String locale;
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {
    locale = context.getResources().getConfiguration().getLocales().get(0).getCountry();
} else {
    locale = context.getResources().getConfiguration().locale.getCountry();
}

Redirect from a view to another view

That's not how ASP.NET MVC is supposed to be used. You do not redirect from views. You redirect from the corresponding controller action:

public ActionResult SomeAction()
{
    ...
    return RedirectToAction("SomeAction", "SomeController");
}

Now since I see that in your example you are attempting to redirect to the LogOn action, you don't really need to do this redirect manually, but simply decorate the controller action that requires authentication with the [Authorize] attribute:

[Authorize]
public ActionResult SomeProtectedAction()
{
    ...
}

Now when some anonymous user attempts to access this controller action, the Forms Authentication module will automatically intercept the request much before it hits the action and redirect the user to the LogOn action that you have specified in your web.config (loginUrl).

Is it possible to include one CSS file in another?

@import("/path-to-your-styles.css");

That is the best way to include a css stylesheet within a css stylesheet using css.

Why does intellisense and code suggestion stop working when Visual Studio is open?

I spent a lot of time researching the same problem. Some solutions related this bug with some referenced assemblies. Others said that Microsoft.Windows.Design.Extension.dll and .Interactivity.dll should be in the references of the project. But none of these solutions worked for me.

I think it is a bug in Visual Studio 2012, Microsoft has to fix it.

How to create a printable Twitter-Bootstrap page

In case someone is looking for a solution for Bootstrap v2.X.X here. I am leaving the solution I was using. This is not fully tested on all browsers however it could be a good start.

1) make sure the media attribute of bootstrap-responsive.css is screen.

<link href="/css/bootstrap-responsive.min.css" rel="stylesheet" media="screen" />

2) create a print.css and make sure its media attribute print

<link href="/css/print.css" rel="stylesheet" media="print" />

3) inside print.css, add the "width" of your website in html & body

html, 
body {
    width: 1200px !important;
}

4.) reproduce the necessary media query classes in print.css because they were inside bootstrap-responsive.css and we have disabled it when printing.

.hidden{display:none;visibility:hidden}
.visible-phone{display:none!important}
.visible-tablet{display:none!important}
.hidden-desktop{display:none!important}
.visible-desktop{display:inherit!important}

Here is full version of print.css:

html, 
body {
    width: 1200px !important;
}

.hidden{display:none;visibility:hidden}
.visible-phone{display:none!important}
.visible-tablet{display:none!important}
.hidden-desktop{display:none!important}
.visible-desktop{display:inherit!important}

Apply function to each element of a list

Sometimes you need to apply a function to the members of a list in place. The following code worked for me:

>>> def func(a, i):
...     a[i] = a[i].lower()
>>> a = ['TEST', 'TEXT']
>>> list(map(lambda i:func(a, i), range(0, len(a))))
[None, None]
>>> print(a)
['test', 'text']

Please note, the output of map() is passed to the list constructor to ensure the list is converted in Python 3. The returned list filled with None values should be ignored, since our purpose was to convert list a in place

What are -moz- and -webkit-?

What are -moz- and -webkit-?

CSS properties starting with -webkit-, -moz-, -ms- or -o- are called vendor prefixes.


Why do different browsers add different prefixes for the same effect?

A good explanation of vendor prefixes comes from Peter-Paul Koch of QuirksMode:

Originally, the point of vendor prefixes was to allow browser makers to start supporting experimental CSS declarations.

Let's say a W3C working group is discussing a grid declaration (which, incidentally, wouldn't be such a bad idea). Let's furthermore say that some people create a draft specification, but others disagree with some of the details. As we know, this process may take ages.

Let's furthermore say that Microsoft as an experiment decides to implement the proposed grid. At this point in time, Microsoft cannot be certain that the specification will not change. Therefore, instead of adding the grid to its CSS, it adds -ms-grid.

The vendor prefix kind of says "this is the Microsoft interpretation of an ongoing proposal." Thus, if the final definition of the grid is different, Microsoft can add a new CSS property grid without breaking pages that depend on -ms-grid.


UPDATE AS OF THE YEAR 2016

As this post 3 years old, it's important to mention that now most vendors do understand that these prefixes are just creating un-necessary duplicate code and that the situation where you need to specify 3 different CSS rules to get one effect working in all browser is an unwanted one.

As mentioned in this glossary about Mozilla's view on Vendor Prefix on May 3, 2016,

Browser vendors are now trying to get rid of vendor prefix for experimental features. They noticed that Web developers were using them on production Web sites, polluting the global space and making it more difficult for underdogs to perform well.

For example, just a few years ago, to set a rounded corner on a box you had to write:

-moz-border-radius: 10px 5px;
-webkit-border-top-left-radius: 10px;
-webkit-border-top-right-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-bottom-right-radius: 10px;
-webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 5px;
border-radius: 10px 5px;

But now that browsers have come to fully support this feature, you really only need the standardized version:

border-radius: 10px 5px;

Finding the right rules for all browsers

As still there's no standard for common CSS rules that work on all browsers, you can use tools like caniuse.com to check support of a rule across all major browsers.

You can also use pleeease.io/play. Pleeease is a Node.js application that easily processes your CSS. It simplifies the use of preprocessors and combines them with best postprocessors. It helps create clean stylesheets, support older browsers and offers better maintainability.

Input:

a {
  column-count: 3;
  column-gap: 10px;
  column-fill: auto;
}

Output:

a {
  -webkit-column-count: 3;
     -moz-column-count: 3;
          column-count: 3;
  -webkit-column-gap: 10px;
     -moz-column-gap: 10px;
          column-gap: 10px;
  -webkit-column-fill: auto;
     -moz-column-fill: auto;
          column-fill: auto;
}

Change Bootstrap input focus blue glow

I landed to this thread looking for the way to disable glow altogether. Many answers were overcomplicated for my purpose. For easy solution, I just needed one line of CSS as follows.

input, textarea, button {outline: none; }

Why is setTimeout(fn, 0) sometimes useful?

The other thing this does is push the function invocation to the bottom of the stack, preventing a stack overflow if you are recursively calling a function. This has the effect of a while loop but lets the JavaScript engine fire other asynchronous timers.

Codeigniter LIKE with wildcard(%)

If you do not want to use the wildcard (%) you can pass to the optional third argument the option 'none'.

$this->db->like('title', 'match', 'none'); 
// Produces: WHERE title LIKE 'match'

Where to download visual studio express 2005?

Small tip for you. Microsoft frequently has 'launch parties' or 'launch events' in which they frequently distribute licensed, not for resale copies, of that product. I've gotten the last two versions of VS (2005 and 2008) by attending my local .NET user group chapter during those days.

PHP code is not being executed, instead code shows on the page

Reinstalling the mcrypt module worked for me.

$sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt
$sudo php5enmod mcrypt

How can I do width = 100% - 100px in CSS?

<div style="width: 200px; border: 1px solid red;">
    <br>
    <div style="margin: 0px 50px 0px 50px; border: 1px solid blue;">
        <br>
    </div>
    <br>
</div>

How to display list items on console window in C#

Assuming the items override ToString appropriately:

public void WriteToConsole(IEnumerable items)
{
    foreach (object o in items)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(o);
    }
}

(There'd be no advantage in using generics in this loop - we'd end up calling Console.WriteLine(object) anyway, so it would still box just as it does in the foreach part in this case.)

EDIT: The answers using List<T>.ForEach are very good.

My loop above is more flexible in the case where you have an arbitrary sequence (e.g. as the result of a LINQ expression), but if you definitely have a List<T> I'd say that List<T>.ForEach is a better option.

One advantage of List<T>.ForEach is that if you have a concrete list type, it will use the most appropriate overload. For example:

List<int> integers = new List<int> { 1, 2, 3 };
List<string> strings = new List<string> { "a", "b", "c" };

integers.ForEach(Console.WriteLine);
strings.ForEach(Console.WriteLine);

When writing out the integers, this will use Console.WriteLine(int), whereas when writing out the strings it will use Console.WriteLine(string). If no specific overload is available (or if you're just using a generic List<T> and the compiler doesn't know what T is) it will use Console.WriteLine(object).

Note the use of Console.WriteLine as a method group, by the way. This is more concise than using a lambda expression, and actually slightly more efficient (as the delegate will just be a call to Console.WriteLine, rather than a call to a method which in turn just calls Console.WriteLine).

iFrame Height Auto (CSS)

You have to use absolute position along with your desired height. in your CSS, do the following:

#id-of-iFrame {
    position: absolute;
    height: 100%;
}

Understanding the main method of python

Python does not have a defined entry point like Java, C, C++, etc. Rather it simply executes a source file line-by-line. The if statement allows you to create a main function which will be executed if your file is loaded as the "Main" module rather than as a library in another module.

To be clear, this means that the Python interpreter starts at the first line of a file and executes it. Executing lines like class Foobar: and def foobar() creates either a class or a function and stores them in memory for later use.

error: Error parsing XML: not well-formed (invalid token) ...?

Verify that you don't have any spaces or tabs before

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

also refresh and clean your project in eclipse.

I get this error every now and then and the above suggestions fix the issue 99% of the time

Java: Convert String to TimeStamp

first convert your date string to date then convert it to timestamp by using following set of line

Date date=new Date();
Timestamp timestamp = new Timestamp(date.getTime());//instead of date put your converted date
Timestamp myTimeStamp= timestamp;

How to get package name from anywhere?

For those who are using Gradle, as @Billda mentioned, you can get the package name via:

BuildConfig.APPLICATION_ID

This gives you the package name declared in your app gradle:

android {
    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.domain.www"
    }
}

If you are interested to get the package name used by your java classes (which sometimes is different than applicationId), you can use

BuildConfig.class.getPackage().toString()

If you are confused which one to use, read here:

Note: The application ID used to be directly tied to your code's package name; so some Android APIs use the term "package name" in their method names and parameter names, but this is actually your application ID. For example, the Context.getPackageName() method returns your application ID. There's no need to ever share your code's true package name outside your app code.

using stored procedure in entity framework

You need to create a model class that contains all stored procedure properties like below. Also because Entity Framework model class needs primary key, you can create a fake key by using Guid.

public class GetFunctionByID
{
    [Key]
    public Guid? GetFunctionByID { get; set; }

    // All the other properties.
}

then register the GetFunctionByID model class in your DbContext.

public class FunctionsContext : BaseContext<FunctionsContext>
{
    public DbSet<App_Functions> Functions { get; set; }
    public DbSet<GetFunctionByID> GetFunctionByIds {get;set;}
}

When you call your stored procedure, just see below:

var functionId = yourIdParameter;
var result =  db.Database.SqlQuery<GetFunctionByID>("GetFunctionByID @FunctionId", new SqlParameter("@FunctionId", functionId)).ToList());

Responsive Bootstrap Jumbotron Background Image

The below code works for all the screens :

.jumbotron {
   background: url('backgroundimage.jpg') no-repeat center center fixed;
   -webkit-background-size: cover;
   -moz-background-size: cover;
   background-size: cover;
   -o-background-size: cover;
}

The cover property will resize the background image to cover the entire container, even if it has to stretch the image or cut a little bit off one of the edges.

Add more than one parameter in Twig path

Consider making your route:

_files_manage:
    pattern: /files/management/{project}/{user}
    defaults: { _controller: AcmeTestBundle:File:manage }

since they are required fields. It will make your url's prettier, and be a bit easier to manage.

Your Controller would then look like

 public function projectAction($project, $user)

Creating a timer in python

See Timer Objects from threading.

How about

from threading import Timer

def timeout():
    print("Game over")

# duration is in seconds
t = Timer(20 * 60, timeout)
t.start()

# wait for time completion
t.join()

Should you want pass arguments to the timeout function, you can give them in the timer constructor:

def timeout(foo, bar=None):
    print('The arguments were: foo: {}, bar: {}'.format(foo, bar))

t = Timer(20 * 60, timeout, args=['something'], kwargs={'bar': 'else'})

Or you can use functools.partial to create a bound function, or you can pass in an instance-bound method.

Export DataTable to Excel with Open Xml SDK in c#

I also wrote a C#/VB.Net "Export to Excel" library, which uses OpenXML and (more importantly) also uses OpenXmlWriter, so you won't run out of memory when writing large files.

Full source code, and a demo, can be downloaded here:

Export to Excel

It's dead easy to use. Just pass it the filename you want to write to, and a DataTable, DataSet or List<>.

CreateExcelFile.CreateExcelDocument(myDataSet, "MyFilename.xlsx");

And if you're calling it from an ASP.Net application, pass it the HttpResponse to write the file out to.

CreateExcelFile.CreateExcelDocument(myDataSet, "MyFilename.xlsx", Response);

How do I run a program with commandline arguments using GDB within a Bash script?

In addition to the answer of Hugo Ideler. When using arguments having themself prefix like -- or -, I was not sure to conflict with gdb one.

It seems gdb takes all after args option as arguments for the program.

At first I wanted to be sure, I ran gdb with quotes around your args, it is removed at launch.

This works too, but optional:

gdb --args executablename "--arg1" "--arg2" "--arg3"

This doesn't work :

gdb --args executablename "--arg1" "--arg2" "--arg3" -tui

In that case, -tui is used as my program parameter not as gdb one.

Detect Browser Language in PHP

why dont you keep it simple and clean

<?php
    $lang = substr($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'], 0, 2);
    $acceptLang = ['fr', 'it', 'en']; 
    $lang = in_array($lang, $acceptLang) ? $lang : 'en';
    require_once "index_{$lang}.php"; 

?>

Inner join of DataTables in C#

This is my code. Not perfect, but working good. I hope it helps somebody:

    static System.Data.DataTable DtTbl (System.Data.DataTable[] dtToJoin)
    {
        System.Data.DataTable dtJoined = new System.Data.DataTable();

        foreach (System.Data.DataColumn dc in dtToJoin[0].Columns)
            dtJoined.Columns.Add(dc.ColumnName);

        foreach (System.Data.DataTable dt in dtToJoin)
            foreach (System.Data.DataRow dr1 in dt.Rows)
            {
                System.Data.DataRow dr = dtJoined.NewRow();
                foreach (System.Data.DataColumn dc in dtToJoin[0].Columns)
                    dr[dc.ColumnName] = dr1[dc.ColumnName];

                dtJoined.Rows.Add(dr);
            }

        return dtJoined;
    }

Make virtualenv inherit specific packages from your global site-packages

You can use virtualenv --clear. which won't install any packages, then install the ones you want.

Ways to circumvent the same-origin policy

Well, I used curl in PHP to circumvent this. I have a webservice running in port 82.

<?php

$curl = curl_init();
$timeout = 30;
$ret = "";
$url="http://localhost:82/put_val?val=".$_GET["val"];
curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 20);
curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5");
curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$text = curl_exec($curl);
echo $text;

?>

Here is the javascript that makes the call to the PHP file

function getdata(obj1, obj2) {

    var xmlhttp;

    if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
            xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
    else
            xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");

    xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
    {
        if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200)
        {
                document.getElementById("txtHint").innerHTML=xmlhttp.responseText;
        }
    }
    xmlhttp.open("GET","phpURLFile.php?eqp="+obj1+"&val="+obj2,true);
    xmlhttp.send();
}

My HTML runs on WAMP in port 80. So there we go, same origin policy has been circumvented :-)

SharePoint : How can I programmatically add items to a custom list instance

To put it simple you will need to follow the step.

  1. You need to reference the Microsoft.SharePoint.dll to the application.
  2. Assuming the List Name is Test and it has only one Field "Title" here is the code.

            using (SPSite oSite=new SPSite("http://mysharepoint"))
        {
            using (SPWeb oWeb=oSite.RootWeb)
            {
                SPList oList = oWeb.Lists["Test"];
                SPListItem oSPListItem = oList.Items.Add();
                oSPListItem["Title"] = "Hello SharePoint";
                oSPListItem.Update();
            }
    
        }
    
  3. Note that you need to run this application in the Same server where the SharePoint is installed.

  4. You dont need to create a Custom Class for Custom Content Type

Get DataKey values in GridView RowCommand

I usually pass the RowIndex via CommandArgument and use it to retrieve the DataKey value I want.

On the Button:

CommandArgument='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container, "RowIndex") %>'

On the Server Event

int rowIndex = int.Parse(e.CommandArgument.ToString());
string val = (string)this.grid.DataKeys[rowIndex]["myKey"];

Python: IndexError: list index out of range

I think you mean to put the rolling of the random a,b,c, etc within the loop:

a = None # initialise
while not (a in winning_numbers):
    # keep rolling an a until you get one not in winning_numbers
    a = random.randint(1,30)
    winning_numbers.append(a)

Otherwise, a will be generated just once, and if it is in winning_numbers already, it won't be added. Since the generation of a is outside the while (in your code), if a is already in winning_numbers then too bad, it won't be re-rolled, and you'll have one less winning number.

That could be what causes your error in if guess[i] == winning_numbers[i]. (Your winning_numbers isn't always of length 5).

Should I use scipy.pi, numpy.pi, or math.pi?

One thing to note is that not all libraries will use the same meaning for pi, of course, so it never hurts to know what you're using. For example, the symbolic math library Sympy's representation of pi is not the same as math and numpy:

import math
import numpy
import scipy
import sympy

print(math.pi == numpy.pi)
> True
print(math.pi == scipy.pi)
> True
print(math.pi == sympy.pi)
> False

Validating URL in Java

There is a way to perform URL validation in strict accordance to standards in Java without resorting to third-party libraries:

boolean isValidURL(String url) {
  try {
    new URI(url).parseServerAuthority();
    return true;
  } catch (URISyntaxException e) {
    return false;
  }
}

The constructor of URI checks that url is a valid URI, and the call to parseServerAuthority ensures that it is a URL (absolute or relative) and not a URN.

Copy Paste in Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

Ok, it's developed finally and now you are able to use Ctrl+Shift+C/V to Copy/Paste as of Windows 10 Insider build #17643.

You'll need to enable the "Use Ctrl+Shift+C/V as Copy/Paste" option in the Console "Options" properties page:

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referenced in blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/

Checking if a key exists in a JavaScript object?

Here's a helper function I find quite useful

This keyExists(key, search) can be used to easily lookup a key within objects or arrays!

Just pass it the key you want to find, and search obj (the object or array) you want to find it in.

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_x000D_
function keyExists(key, search) {_x000D_
        if (!search || (search.constructor !== Array && search.constructor !== Object)) {_x000D_
            return false;_x000D_
        }_x000D_
        for (var i = 0; i < search.length; i++) {_x000D_
            if (search[i] === key) {_x000D_
                return true;_x000D_
            }_x000D_
        }_x000D_
        return key in search;_x000D_
    }_x000D_
_x000D_
// How to use it:_x000D_
// Searching for keys in Arrays_x000D_
console.log(keyExists('apple', ['apple', 'banana', 'orange'])); // true_x000D_
console.log(keyExists('fruit', ['apple', 'banana', 'orange'])); // false_x000D_
_x000D_
// Searching for keys in Objects_x000D_
console.log(keyExists('age', {'name': 'Bill', 'age': 29 })); // true_x000D_
console.log(keyExists('title', {'name': 'Jason', 'age': 29 })); // false
_x000D_
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It's been pretty reliable and works well cross-browser.

How to merge two arrays of objects by ID using lodash?

Create dictionaries for both arrays using _.keyBy(), merge the dictionaries, and convert the result to an array with _.values(). In this way, the order of the arrays doesn't matter. In addition, it can also handle arrays of different length.

_x000D_
_x000D_
const ObjectId = (id) => id; // mock of ObjectId_x000D_
const arr1 = [{"member" : ObjectId("57989cbe54cf5d2ce83ff9d8"),"bank" : ObjectId("575b052ca6f66a5732749ecc"),"country" : ObjectId("575b0523a6f66a5732749ecb")},{"member" : ObjectId("57989cbe54cf5d2ce83ff9d6"),"bank" : ObjectId("575b052ca6f66a5732749ecc"),"country" : ObjectId("575b0523a6f66a5732749ecb")}];_x000D_
const arr2 = [{"member" : ObjectId("57989cbe54cf5d2ce83ff9d6"),"name" : 'xxxxxx',"age" : 25},{"member" : ObjectId("57989cbe54cf5d2ce83ff9d8"),"name" : 'yyyyyyyyyy',"age" : 26}];_x000D_
_x000D_
const merged = _(arr1) // start sequence_x000D_
  .keyBy('member') // create a dictionary of the 1st array_x000D_
  .merge(_.keyBy(arr2, 'member')) // create a dictionary of the 2nd array, and merge it to the 1st_x000D_
  .values() // turn the combined dictionary to array_x000D_
  .value(); // get the value (array) out of the sequence_x000D_
_x000D_
console.log(merged);
_x000D_
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.14.0/lodash.min.js"></script>
_x000D_
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_x000D_

Using ES6 Map

Concat the arrays, and reduce the combined array to a Map. Use Object#assign to combine objects with the same member to a new object, and store in map. Convert the map to an array with Map#values and spread:

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_x000D_
const ObjectId = (id) => id; // mock of ObjectId_x000D_
const arr1 = [{"member" : ObjectId("57989cbe54cf5d2ce83ff9d8"),"bank" : ObjectId("575b052ca6f66a5732749ecc"),"country" : ObjectId("575b0523a6f66a5732749ecb")},{"member" : ObjectId("57989cbe54cf5d2ce83ff9d6"),"bank" : ObjectId("575b052ca6f66a5732749ecc"),"country" : ObjectId("575b0523a6f66a5732749ecb")}];_x000D_
const arr2 = [{"member" : ObjectId("57989cbe54cf5d2ce83ff9d6"),"name" : 'xxxxxx',"age" : 25},{"member" : ObjectId("57989cbe54cf5d2ce83ff9d8"),"name" : 'yyyyyyyyyy',"age" : 26}];_x000D_
_x000D_
const merged = [...arr1.concat(arr2).reduce((m, o) => _x000D_
  m.set(o.member, Object.assign(m.get(o.member) || {}, o))_x000D_
, new Map()).values()];_x000D_
_x000D_
console.log(merged);
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Importing PNG files into Numpy?

This can also be done with the Image class of the PIL library:

from PIL import Image
import numpy as np

im_frame = Image.open(path_to_file + 'file.png')
np_frame = np.array(im_frame.getdata())

Note: The .getdata() might not be needed - np.array(im_frame) should also work

Return list of items in list greater than some value

You can use a list comprehension to filter it:

j2 = [i for i in j if i >= 5]

If you actually want it sorted like your example was, you can use sorted:

j2 = sorted(i for i in j if i >= 5)

or call sort on the final list:

j2 = [i for i in j if i >= 5]
j2.sort()

C# nullable string error

System.String is a reference type and already "nullable".

Nullable<T> and the ? suffix are for value types such as Int32, Double, DateTime, etc.

load jquery after the page is fully loaded

My guess is that you load jQuery in the <head> section of your page. While this is not harmful, it slows down page load. Try using this pattern to speed up initial loading time of the DOM-Tree:

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
    <title></title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">

    <!-- CSS -->
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="">
</head>

<body>
    <!-- PAGE CONTENT -->

    <!-- JS -->
    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.2.min.js"></script>
    <script>
        $(function() {
            $('body').append('<p>I can happily use jQuery</p>');
        });
    </script>
</body>

</html>

Just add your scripts at the end of your <body>tag.

There are some scripts that need to be in the head due to practical reasons, the most prominent library being Modernizr

Sum up a column from a specific row down

If you don't mind using OFFSET(), which is a volatile function that recalculates everytime a cell is changed, then this is a good solution that is both dynamic and reusable:

=OFFSET($COL:$COL, ROW(), 1, 1048576 - ROW(), 1)

where $COL is the letter of the column you are going to operate upon, and ROW() is the row function that dynamically selects the same row as the cell containing this formula. You could also replace the ROW() function with a static number ($ROW).

=OFFSET($COL:$COL, $ROW, 1, 1048576 - $ROW, 1)

You could further clean up the formula by defining a named constant for the 1048576 as 'maxRows'. This can be done in the 'Define Name' menu of the Formulas tab.

=OFFSET($COL:$COL, $ROW, 1, maxRows - $ROW, 1)

A quick example: to Sum from C6 to the end of column C, you could do:

=SUM(OFFSET(C:C, 6, 1, maxRows - 6, 1))

or =SUM(OFFSET(C:C, ROW(), 1, maxRows - ROW(),1))

In Git, what is the difference between origin/master vs origin master?

origin is a name for remote git url. There can be many more remotes example below.

bangalore => bangalore.example.com:project.git

boston => boston.example.com:project.git

as far as origin/master (example bangalore/master) goes, it is pointer to "master" commit on bangalore site . You see it in your clone.

It is possible that remote bangalore has advanced since you have done "fetch" or "pull"

how to remove the first two columns in a file using shell (awk, sed, whatever)

You can do it with cut:

cut -d " " -f 3- input_filename > output_filename

Explanation:

  • cut: invoke the cut command
  • -d " ": use a single space as the delimiter (cut uses TAB by default)
  • -f: specify fields to keep
  • 3-: all the fields starting with field 3
  • input_filename: use this file as the input
  • > output_filename: write the output to this file.

Alternatively, you can do it with awk:

awk '{$1=""; $2=""; sub("  ", " "); print}' input_filename > output_filename

Explanation:

  • awk: invoke the awk command
  • $1=""; $2="";: set field 1 and 2 to the empty string
  • sub(...);: clean up the output fields because fields 1 & 2 will still be delimited by " "
  • print: print the modified line
  • input_filename > output_filename: same as above.

What is the meaning of <> in mysql query?

In MySQL, <> means Not Equal To, just like !=.

mysql> SELECT '.01' <> '0.01';
        -> 1
mysql> SELECT .01 <> '0.01';
        -> 0
mysql> SELECT 'zapp' <> 'zappp';
        -> 1

see the docs for more info

forEach is not a function error with JavaScript array

You can use childNodes instead of children, childNodes is also more reliable considering browser compatibility issues, more info here:

parent.childNodes.forEach(function (child) {
    console.log(child)
});

or using spread operator:

[...parent.children].forEach(function (child) {
    console.log(child)
});

Why does the html input with type "number" allow the letter 'e' to be entered in the field?

The E stands for the exponent, and it is used to shorten long numbers. Since the input is a math input and exponents are in math to shorten great numbers, so that's why there is an E.

It is displayed like this: 4e.

Links: 1 and 2

How to get values and keys from HashMap?

You give 1 Dollar, it gives you a cheese burger. You give the String and it gives you the Tab. Use the GET method of HashMap to get what you want.

HashMap.get("String");

How different is Objective-C from C++?

Obj-C has much more dynamic capabilities in the language itself, whereas C++ is more focused on compile-time capabilities with some dynamic capabilities.

In, C++ parametric polymorphism is checked at compile-time, whereas in Obj-C, parametric polymorphism is achieved through dynamic dispatch and is not checked at compile-time.

Obj-C is very dynamic in nature. You can add methods to a class during run-time. Also, it has introspection at run-time to look at classes. In C++, the definition of class can't change, and all introspection must be done at compile-time. Although, the dynamic nature of Obj-C could be achieved in C++ using a map of functions(or something like that), it is still more verbose than in Obj-C.

In C++, there is a lot more checks that can be done at compile time. For example, using a variant type(like a union) the compiler can enforce that all cases are written or handled. So you don't forget about handling the edge cases of a problem. However, all these checks come at a price when compiling. Obj-C is much faster at compiling than C++.

Replace CRLF using powershell

Alternative solution that won't append a spurious CR-LF:

$original_file ='C:\Users\abc\Desktop\File\abc.txt'
$text = [IO.File]::ReadAllText($original_file) -replace "`r`n", "`n"
[IO.File]::WriteAllText($original_file, $text)

How to fill DataTable with SQL Table

The answers above are correct, but I thought I would expand another answer by offering a way to do the same if you require to pass parameters into the query.

The SqlDataAdapter is quick and simple, but only works if you're filling a table with a static request ie: a simple SELECT without parameters.

Here is my way to do the same, but using a parameter to control the data I require in my table. And I use it to populate a DropDownList.

//populate the Programs dropdownlist according to the student's study year / preference
DropDownList ddlPrograms = (DropDownList)DetailsView1.FindControl("ddlPrograms");
if (ddlPrograms != null)
{
    using (SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["ATCNTV1ConnectionString"].ConnectionString))
    {
        try
        {
            con.Open();
            SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand();
            cmd.Connection = con;
            cmd.CommandText = "SELECT ProgramID, ProgramName FROM tblPrograms WHERE ProgramCatID > 0 AND ProgramStatusID = (CASE WHEN @StudyYearID = 'VPR' THEN 10 ELSE 7 END) AND ProgramID NOT IN (23,112,113) ORDER BY ProgramName";
            cmd.Parameters.Add("@StudyYearID", SqlDbType.Char).Value = "11";
            DataTable wsPrograms = new DataTable();
            wsPrograms.Load(cmd.ExecuteReader());

            //populate the Programs ddl list
            ddlPrograms.DataSource = wsPrograms;
            ddlPrograms.DataTextField = "ProgramName";
            ddlPrograms.DataValueField = "ProgramID";
            ddlPrograms.DataBind();
            ddlPrograms.Items.Insert(0, new ListItem("<Select Program>", "0"));
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            // Handle the error
        }
    }
}

Enjoy

Send data from activity to fragment in Android

Also You can access activity data from fragment:

Activity:

public class MyActivity extends Activity {

    private String myString = "hello";

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

    public String getMyData() {
        return myString;
    }
}

Fragment:

public class MyFragment extends Fragment {

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        MyActivity activity = (MyActivity) getActivity();
        String myDataFromActivity = activity.getMyData();
        return view;
    }
}

How to analyze information from a Java core dump?

If you are using an IBM JVM, download the IBM Thread and Monitor Dump Analyzer. It is an excellent tool. It provides thread detail and can point out deadlocks, etc. The following blog post provides a nice overview on how to use it.

phpMyAdmin - The MySQL Extension is Missing

Some linux distributions have a php_mysql and php_mysqli package to install.

How to convert variable (object) name into String

You can use deparse and substitute to get the name of a function argument:

myfunc <- function(v1) {
  deparse(substitute(v1))
}

myfunc(foo)
[1] "foo"

could not extract ResultSet in hibernate

Another solution is add @JsonIgnore :

@OneToMany(mappedBy="catalog", fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
@JsonIgnore
private Set<Product> products = new HashSet<Product>(0);

You have not concluded your merge (MERGE_HEAD exists)

Best approach is to undo the merge and perform the merge again. Often you get the order of things messed up. Try and fix the conflicts and get yourself into a mess.

So undo do it and merge again.

Make sure that you have the appropriate diff tools setup for your environment. I am on a mac and use DIFFMERGE. I think DIFFMERGE is available for all environments. Instructions are here: Install DIFF Merge on a MAC

I have this helpful resolving my conflicts: Git Basic-Merge-Conflicts

Generic List - moving an item within the list

List<T>.Remove() and List<T>.RemoveAt() do not return the item that is being removed.

Therefore you have to use this:

var item = list[oldIndex];
list.RemoveAt(oldIndex);
list.Insert(newIndex, item);

Does :before not work on img elements?

I found a way to make this work in pure css:

The I'm just fake content-method

a pure CSS method to enable img:after.

You can check out the CodePen: I'm just fake content or see the source.

Source & Snippet

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img {_x000D_
    /* hide the default image */_x000D_
    height:0;_x000D_
    width:0;_x000D_
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    /* hide fake content */_x000D_
    font-size:0;_x000D_
    color:transparent;_x000D_
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    /* enable absolute position for pseudo elements */_x000D_
    position:relative;_x000D_
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    /* and this is just fake content */_x000D_
    content:"I'm just fake content";_x000D_
}_x000D_
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/* initial absolute position */_x000D_
img:before,_x000D_
img:after {_x000D_
    position:absolute;_x000D_
    top:0;_x000D_
    left:0;    _x000D_
}_x000D_
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/* img:before - chrome & others */_x000D_
img:before {_x000D_
    content:url(http://placekitten.com/g/250/250);_x000D_
}_x000D_
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/* img:before - firefox */_x000D_
body:not(:-moz-handler-blocked) img:before {_x000D_
    padding:125px;_x000D_
    background:url(http://placekitten.com/g/250/250) no-repeat;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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/* img:after */_x000D_
img:after {_x000D_
    /* width of img:before */_x000D_
    left:250px;_x000D_
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    content:url(http://lorempixel.com/350/200/city/1);_x000D_
}
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<img_x000D_
    alt="You are watching the ~ I'm just fake content ~ method"  _x000D_
/>
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Browser support

✓ Chrome 10+

✓ Firefox 11+

✓ Opera 9.8+

✓ Safari

No support

⊗ Internet Explorer 8 / 9

Please test in other browsers

Correct way to write loops for promise.

Given

  • asyncFn function
  • array of items

Required

  • promise chaining .then()'s in series (in order)
  • native es6

Solution

let asyncFn = (item) => {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    setTimeout( () => {console.log(item); resolve(true)}, 1000 )
  })
}

// asyncFn('a')
// .then(()=>{return async('b')})
// .then(()=>{return async('c')})
// .then(()=>{return async('d')})

let a = ['a','b','c','d']

a.reduce((previous, current, index, array) => {
  return previous                                    // initiates the promise chain
  .then(()=>{return asyncFn(array[index])})      //adds .then() promise for each item
}, Promise.resolve())

How to get Bitmap from an Uri?

  InputStream imageStream = null;
    try {
        imageStream = getContext().getContentResolver().openInputStream(uri);
    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    final Bitmap selectedImage = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(imageStream);

Getting the first and last day of a month, using a given DateTime object

You can do it

DateTime dt = DateTime.Now; 
DateTime firstDayOfMonth = new DateTime(dt.Year, date.Month, 1);
DateTime lastDayOfMonth = firstDayOfMonth.AddMonths(1).AddDays(-1);

How to run Selenium WebDriver test cases in Chrome

Download the updated version of the Google Chrome driver from Chrome Driver.

Please read the release note as well here.

If the Chrome browser is updated, then you need to download the new Chrome driver from the above link, because it would be compatible with the new browser version.

public class chrome
{

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/path/to/chromedriver");
        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

        driver.get("http://www.google.com");
    }

}

How to kill a while loop with a keystroke?

pyHook might help. http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/pyhook/index.php?title=PyHook_Tutorial#tocpyHook%5FTutorial4

See keyboard hooks; this is more generalized-- if you want specific keyboard interactions and not just using KeyboardInterrupt.

Also, in general (depending on your use) I think having the Ctrl-C option still available to kill your script makes sense.

See also previous question: Detect in python which keys are pressed

Split string in JavaScript and detect line break

You can use the split() function to break input on the basis of line break.

yourString.split("\n")

How to recover closed output window in netbeans?

If you run the server in normal mode you can recover the log by restarting the main project in debug mode. It seems that NB opens a new server log when the server run mode changes.

Ansible playbook shell output

If you need a specific exit status, Ansible provides a way to do that via callback plugins.

Example. It's a very good option if you need a 100% accurate exit status.

If not, you can always use the Debug Module, which is the standard for this cases of use.

Cheers

Mobile Redirect using htaccess

You can also try this. Credits to the original author who has since removed the script

/mobile.class.php

<?php
/*
=====================================================
Mobile version detection
-----------------------------------------------------
compliments of http://www.buchfelder.biz/
=====================================================
*/

$mobile = "http://www.stepforth.mobi";
$text = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
$var[0] = 'Mozilla/4.';
$var[1] = 'Mozilla/3.0';
$var[2] = 'AvantGo';
$var[3] = 'ProxiNet';
$var[4] = 'Danger hiptop 1.0';
$var[5] = 'DoCoMo/';
$var[6] = 'Google CHTML Proxy/';
$var[7] = 'UP.Browser/';
$var[8] = 'SEMC-Browser/';
$var[9] = 'J-PHONE/';
$var[10] = 'PDXGW/';
$var[11] = 'ASTEL/';
$var[12] = 'Mozilla/1.22';
$var[13] = 'Handspring';
$var[14] = 'Windows CE';
$var[15] = 'PPC';
$var[16] = 'Mozilla/2.0';
$var[17] = 'Blazer/';
$var[18] = 'Palm';
$var[19] = 'WebPro/';
$var[20] = 'EPOC32-WTL/';
$var[21] = 'Tungsten';
$var[22] = 'Netfront/';
$var[23] = 'Mobile Content Viewer/';
$var[24] = 'PDA';
$var[25] = 'MMP/2.0';
$var[26] = 'Embedix/';
$var[27] = 'Qtopia/';
$var[28] = 'Xiino/';
$var[29] = 'BlackBerry';
$var[30] = 'Gecko/20031007';
$var[31] = 'MOT-';
$var[32] = 'UP.Link/';
$var[33] = 'Smartphone';
$var[34] = 'portalmmm/';
$var[35] = 'Nokia';
$var[36] = 'Symbian';
$var[37] = 'AppleWebKit/413';
$var[38] = 'UPG1 UP/';
$var[39] = 'RegKing';
$var[40] = 'STNC-WTL/';
$var[41] = 'J2ME';
$var[42] = 'Opera Mini/';
$var[43] = 'SEC-';
$var[44] = 'ReqwirelessWeb/';
$var[45] = 'AU-MIC/';
$var[46] = 'Sharp';
$var[47] = 'SIE-';
$var[48] = 'SonyEricsson';
$var[49] = 'Elaine/';
$var[50] = 'SAMSUNG-';
$var[51] = 'Panasonic';
$var[52] = 'Siemens';
$var[53] = 'Sony';
$var[54] = 'Verizon';
$var[55] = 'Cingular';
$var[56] = 'Sprint';
$var[57] = 'AT&T;';
$var[58] = 'Nextel';
$var[59] = 'Pocket PC';
$var[60] = 'T-Mobile';    
$var[61] = 'Orange';
$var[62] = 'Casio';
$var[63] = 'HTC';
$var[64] = 'Motorola';
$var[65] = 'Samsung';
$var[66] = 'NEC';

$result = count($var);

for ($i=0;$i<$result;$i++)
{    
    $ausg = stristr($text, $var[$i]);    
    if(strlen($ausg)>0)
    {
        header("location: $mobile");
        exit;
    }

}
?>

Just edit the $mobile = "http://www.stepforth.mobi";

How to remove first 10 characters from a string?

str = "hello world!";
str.Substring(10, str.Length-10)

you will need to perform the length checks else this would throw an error

How to sort 2 dimensional array by column value?

The best approach would be to use the following, as there may be repetitive values in the first column.

var arr = [[12, 'AAA'], [12, 'BBB'], [12, 'CCC'],[28, 'DDD'], [18, 'CCC'],[12, 'DDD'],[18, 'CCC'],[28, 'DDD'],[28, 'DDD'],[58, 'BBB'],[68, 'BBB'],[78, 'BBB']];

arr.sort(function(a,b) {
    return a[0]-b[0]
});

JWT (JSON Web Token) library for Java

By referring to https://jwt.io/ you can find jwt implementations in many languages including java. Also the site provide some comparison between these implementation (the algorithms they support and ....).

For java these are mentioned libraries:

favicon not working in IE

I'm seeing different behaviors between Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 and between IE and Edge. I tested using www.microsoft.com.

Windows Server 2016 IE 11:
Favorites: site icon
Address bar: site icon
Browser tab: site icon

Windows 10 IE 11:
Favorites: site icon
Address bar: generic blue-E icon
Browser tab: generic blue-E icon

Windows 10 Edge:
Favorites: site icon
Address bar: no icon
Browser tab: site icon

What's the deal with Windows 10 IE showing the generic icon?

Select current date by default in ASP.Net Calendar control

I have tried above with above code but not working ,Here is solution to set current date selected in asp.net calendar control

dtpStartDate.SelectedDate = Convert.ToDateTime(DateTime.Now.Date);
dtpStartDate.VisibleDate = Convert.ToDateTime(DateTime.Now.ToString());

SQLite: How do I save the result of a query as a CSV file?

All the existing answers only work from the sqlite command line, which isn't ideal if you'd like to build a reusable script. Python makes it easy to build a script that can be executed programatically.

import pandas as pd
import sqlite3

conn = sqlite3.connect('your_cool_database.sqlite')

df = pd.read_sql('SELECT * from orders', conn)
df.to_csv('orders.csv', index = False)

You can customize the query to only export part of the sqlite table to the CSV file.

You can also run a single command to export all sqlite tables to CSV files:

for table in c.execute("SELECT name FROM sqlite_master WHERE type='table';").fetchall():
    t = table[0]
    df = pd.read_sql('SELECT * from ' + t, conn)
    df.to_csv(t + '_one_command.csv', index = False)

See here for more info.

Escape double quote in VB string

Escaping quotes in VB6 or VBScript strings is simple in theory although often frightening when viewed. You escape a double quote with another double quote.

An example:

"c:\program files\my app\app.exe"

If I want to escape the double quotes so I could pass this to the shell execute function listed by Joe or the VB6 Shell function I would write it:

escapedString = """c:\program files\my app\app.exe"""

How does this work? The first and last quotes wrap the string and let VB know this is a string. Then each quote that is displayed literally in the string has another double quote added in front of it to escape it.

It gets crazier when you are trying to pass a string with multiple quoted sections. Remember, every quote you want to pass has to be escaped.

If I want to pass these two quoted phrases as a single string separated by a space (which is not uncommon):

"c:\program files\my app\app.exe" "c:\documents and settings\steve"

I would enter this:

escapedQuoteHell = """c:\program files\my app\app.exe"" ""c:\documents and settings\steve"""

I've helped my sysadmins with some VBScripts that have had even more quotes.

It's not pretty, but that's how it works.

How open PowerShell as administrator from the run window

The easiest way to open an admin Powershell window in Windows 10 (and Windows 8) is to add a "Windows Powershell (Admin)" option to the "Power User Menu". Once this is done, you can open an admin powershell window via Win+X,A or by right-clicking on the start button and selecting "Windows Powershell (Admin)":

[Windows 10/Windows 8 Power User menu with "Windows Powershell (Admin)

Here's where you replace the "Command Prompt" option with a "Windows Powershell" option:

[Taskbar and Start Menu Properties: "Replace Command Prompt With Windows Powershell"

Visual C++ executable and missing MSVCR100d.dll

For me the problem appeared in this situation:

I installed VS2012 and did not need VS2010 anymore. I wanted to get my computer clean and also removed the VS2010 runtime executables, thinking that no other program would use it. Then I wanted to test my DLL by attaching it to a program (let's call it program X). I got the same error message. I thought that I did something wrong when compiling the DLL. However, the real problem was that I attached the DLL to program X, and program X was compiled in VS2010 with debug info. That is why the error was thrown. I recompiled program X in VS2012, and the error was gone.

What is the difference between an int and an Integer in Java and C#?

In Java, the 'int' type is a primitive, whereas the 'Integer' type is an object.

In C#, the 'int' type is the same as System.Int32 and is a value type (ie more like the java 'int'). An integer (just like any other value types) can be boxed ("wrapped") into an object.


The differences between objects and primitives are somewhat beyond the scope of this question, but to summarize:

Objects provide facilities for polymorphism, are passed by reference (or more accurately have references passed by value), and are allocated from the heap. Conversely, primitives are immutable types that are passed by value and are often allocated from the stack.

What are best practices that you use when writing Objective-C and Cocoa?

Try to avoid what I have now decided to call Newbiecategoryaholism. When newcomers to Objective-C discover categories they often go hog wild, adding useful little categories to every class in existence ("What? i can add a method to convert a number to roman numerals to NSNumber rock on!").

Don't do this.

Your code will be more portable and easier to understand with out dozens of little category methods sprinkled on top of two dozen foundation classes.

Most of the time when you really think you need a category method to help streamline some code you'll find you never end up reusing the method.

There are other dangers too, unless you're namespacing your category methods (and who besides the utterly insane ddribin is?) there is a chance that Apple, or a plugin, or something else running in your address space will also define the same category method with the same name with a slightly different side effect....

OK. Now that you've been warned, ignore the "don't do this part". But exercise extreme restraint.