How to add a bot to a Telegram Group?
Edit: now there is yet an easier way to do this - when creating your group, just mention the full bot name (eg. @UniversalAgent1Bot) and it will list it as you type. Then you can just tap on it to add it.
Old answer:
- Create a new group from the menu. Don't add any bots yet
- Find the bot (for instance you can go to Contacts and search for it)
- Tap to open
- Tap the bot name on the top bar. Your page becomes like this:
- Now, tap the triple ... and you will get the Add to Group button:
- Now select your group and add the bot - and confirm the addition
PHP "php://input" vs $_POST
If post data is malformed, $_POST will not contain anything. Yet, php://input will have the malformed string.
For example there is some ajax applications, that do not form correct post key-value sequence for uploading a file, and just dump all the file as post data, without variable names or anything.
$_POST will be empty, $_FILES empty also, and php://input will contain exact file, written as a string.
What is let-* in Angular 2 templates?
The Angular microsyntax lets you configure a directive in a compact, friendly string. The microsyntax parser translates that string into attributes on the <ng-template>
. The let keyword declares a template input variable that you reference within the template.
How to get current relative directory of your Makefile?
Here is one-liner to get absolute path to your Makefile
file using shell syntax:
SHELL := /bin/bash
CWD := $(shell cd -P -- '$(shell dirname -- "$0")' && pwd -P)
And here is version without shell based on @0xff answer:
CWD := $(abspath $(patsubst %/,%,$(dir $(abspath $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST))))))
Test it by printing it, like:
cwd:
@echo $(CWD)
How to check if a string contains a substring in Bash
As Paul mentioned in his performance comparison:
if echo "abcdefg" | grep -q "bcdef"; then
echo "String contains is true."
else
echo "String contains is not true."
fi
This is POSIX compliant like the 'case "$string" in' the answer provided by Marcus, but it is slightly easier to read than the case statement answer. Also note that this will be much much slower than using a case statement. As Paul pointed out, don't use it in a loop.
Dynamically set value of a file input
It is not possible to dynamically change the value of a file field, otherwise you could set it to "c:\yourfile" and steal files very easily.
However there are many solutions to a multi-upload system. I'm guessing that you're wanting to have a multi-select open dialog.
Perhaps have a look at http://www.plupload.com/ - it's a very flexible solution to multiple file uploads, and supports drop zones e.t.c.
OpenJDK8 for windows
Go to this link
Download version tar.gz for windows and just extract files to the folder by your needs.
On the left pane, you can select which version of openjdk to download
Tutorial:
unzip as expected. You need to set system variable PATH to include your directory with openjdk so you can type java -version in console.
JDK vs OpenJDK
How to POST request using RestSharp
This way works fine for me:
var request = new RestSharp.RestRequest("RESOURCE", RestSharp.Method.POST) { RequestFormat = RestSharp.DataFormat.Json }
.AddBody(BODY);
var response = Client.Execute(request);
// Handle response errors
HandleResponseErrors(response);
if (Errors.Length == 0)
{ }
else
{ }
Hope this helps! (Although it is a bit late)
How to remove underline from a link in HTML?
This will remove all underlines from all links:
a {text-decoration: none; }
If you have specific links that you want to apply this to, give them a class name, like nounderline
and do this:
a.nounderline {text-decoration: none; }
That will apply only to those links and leave all others unaffected.
This code belongs in the <head>
of your document or in a stylesheet:
<head>
<style type="text/css">
a.nounderline {text-decoration: none; }
</style>
</head>
And in the body:
<a href="#" class="nounderline">Link</a>
Installing OpenCV 2.4.3 in Visual C++ 2010 Express
1. Installing OpenCV 2.4.3
First, get OpenCV 2.4.3 from sourceforge.net. Its a self-extracting so just double click to start the installation. Install it in a directory, say C:\
.
Wait until all files get extracted. It will create a new directory C:\opencv
which
contains OpenCV header files, libraries, code samples, etc.
Now you need to add the directory C:\opencv\build\x86\vc10\bin
to your system PATH. This directory contains OpenCV DLLs required for running your code.
Open Control Panel → System → Advanced system settings → Advanced Tab → Environment variables...
On the System Variables section, select Path (1), Edit (2), and type C:\opencv\build\x86\vc10\bin;
(3), then click Ok.
On some computers, you may need to restart your computer for the system to recognize the environment path variables.
This will completes the OpenCV 2.4.3 installation on your computer.
2. Create a new project and set up Visual C++
Open Visual C++ and select File → New → Project... → Visual C++ → Empty Project. Give a name for your project (e.g: cvtest
) and set the project location (e.g: c:\projects
).
Click Ok. Visual C++ will create an empty project.
Make sure that "Debug" is selected in the solution configuration combobox. Right-click cvtest
and select Properties → VC++ Directories.
Select Include Directories to add a new entry and type C:\opencv\build\include
.
Click Ok to close the dialog.
Back to the Property dialog, select Library Directories to add a new entry and type C:\opencv\build\x86\vc10\lib
.
Click Ok to close the dialog.
Back to the property dialog, select Linker → Input → Additional Dependencies to add new entries. On the popup dialog, type the files below:
opencv_calib3d243d.lib
opencv_contrib243d.lib
opencv_core243d.lib
opencv_features2d243d.lib
opencv_flann243d.lib
opencv_gpu243d.lib
opencv_haartraining_engined.lib
opencv_highgui243d.lib
opencv_imgproc243d.lib
opencv_legacy243d.lib
opencv_ml243d.lib
opencv_nonfree243d.lib
opencv_objdetect243d.lib
opencv_photo243d.lib
opencv_stitching243d.lib
opencv_ts243d.lib
opencv_video243d.lib
opencv_videostab243d.lib
Note that the filenames end with "d" (for "debug"). Also note that if you have installed another version of OpenCV (say 2.4.9) these filenames will end with 249d instead of 243d (opencv_core249d.lib..etc).
Click Ok to close the dialog. Click Ok on the project properties dialog to save all settings.
NOTE:
These steps will configure Visual C++ for the "Debug" solution. For "Release" solution (optional), you need to
repeat adding the OpenCV directories and in Additional
Dependencies section, use:
opencv_core243.lib
opencv_imgproc243.lib
...
instead of:
opencv_core243d.lib
opencv_imgproc243d.lib
...
You've done setting up Visual C++, now is the time to write the real code. Right click your project and select Add → New Item... → Visual C++ → C++ File.
Name your file (e.g: loadimg.cpp
) and click Ok. Type the code below in the editor:
#include <opencv2/highgui/highgui.hpp>
#include <iostream>
using namespace cv;
using namespace std;
int main()
{
Mat im = imread("c:/full/path/to/lena.jpg");
if (im.empty())
{
cout << "Cannot load image!" << endl;
return -1;
}
imshow("Image", im);
waitKey(0);
}
The code above will load c:\full\path\to\lena.jpg
and display the image. You can
use any image you like, just make sure the path to the image is correct.
Type F5 to compile the code, and it will display the image in a nice window.
And that is your first OpenCV program!
3. Where to go from here?
Now that your OpenCV environment is ready, what's next?
- Go to the samples dir →
c:\opencv\samples\cpp
.
- Read and compile some code.
- Write your own code.
Android: Difference between Parcelable and Serializable?
I am late in answer, but posting with hope that it will help others.
In terms of Speed, Parcelable > Serializable
. But, Custom Serializable is exception. It is almost in range of Parcelable or even more faster.
Reference : https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/customized-serialization-and-deserialization-in-java/
Example :
Custom Class to be serialized
class MySerialized implements Serializable {
String deviceAddress = "MyAndroid-04";
transient String token = "AABCDS"; // sensitive information which I do not want to serialize
private void writeObject(ObjectOutputStream oos) throws Exception {
oos.defaultWriteObject();
oos.writeObject("111111" + token); // Encrypted token to be serialized
}
private void readObject(ObjectInputStream ois) throws Exception {
ois.defaultReadObject();
token = ((String) ois.readObject()).subString(6); // Decrypting token
}
}
C# code to validate email address
I use this single liner method which does the work for me-
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
public bool IsValidEmail(string source)
{
return new EmailAddressAttribute().IsValid(source);
}
Per the comments, this will "fail" if the source
(the email address) is null.
public static bool IsValidEmailAddress(this string address) => address != null && new EmailAddressAttribute().IsValid(address);
Most efficient way to check for DBNull and then assign to a variable?
I personally favour this syntax, which uses the explicit IsDbNull method exposed by IDataRecord
, and caches the column index to avoid a duplicate string lookup.
Expanded for readability, it goes something like:
int columnIndex = row.GetOrdinal("Foo");
string foo; // the variable we're assigning based on the column value.
if (row.IsDBNull(columnIndex)) {
foo = String.Empty; // or whatever
} else {
foo = row.GetString(columnIndex);
}
Rewritten to fit on a single line for compactness in DAL code - note that in this example we're assigning int bar = -1
if row["Bar"]
is null.
int i; // can be reused for every field.
string foo = (row.IsDBNull(i = row.GetOrdinal("Foo")) ? null : row.GetString(i));
int bar = (row.IsDbNull(i = row.GetOrdinal("Bar")) ? -1 : row.GetInt32(i));
The inline assignment can be confusing if you don't know it's there, but it keeps the entire operation on one line, which I think enhances readability when you're populating properties from multiple columns in one block of code.
Java: How to Indent XML Generated by Transformer
I used the Xerces (Apache) library instead of messing with Transformer. Once you add the library add the code below.
OutputFormat format = new OutputFormat(document);
format.setLineWidth(65);
format.setIndenting(true);
format.setIndent(2);
Writer outxml = new FileWriter(new File("out.xml"));
XMLSerializer serializer = new XMLSerializer(outxml, format);
serializer.serialize(document);
Finding duplicate values in a SQL table
In case you work with Oracle, this way would be preferable:
create table my_users(id number, name varchar2(100), email varchar2(100));
insert into my_users values (1, 'John', '[email protected]');
insert into my_users values (2, 'Sam', '[email protected]');
insert into my_users values (3, 'Tom', '[email protected]');
insert into my_users values (4, 'Bob', '[email protected]');
insert into my_users values (5, 'Tom', '[email protected]');
commit;
select *
from my_users
where rowid not in (select min(rowid) from my_users group by name, email);
Split by comma and strip whitespace in Python
I know this has already been answered, but if you end doing this a lot, regular expressions may be a better way to go:
>>> import re
>>> re.sub(r'\s', '', string).split(',')
['blah', 'lots', 'of', 'spaces', 'here']
The \s
matches any whitespace character, and we just replace it with an empty string ''
. You can find more info here: http://docs.python.org/library/re.html#re.sub
Finding the max/min value in an array of primitives using Java
int[] arr = {1, 2, 3};
List<Integer> list = Arrays.stream(arr).boxed().collect(Collectors.toList());
int max_ = Collections.max(list);
int i;
if (max_ > 0) {
for (i = 1; i < Collections.max(list); i++) {
if (!list.contains(i)) {
System.out.println(i);
break;
}
}
if(i==max_){
System.out.println(i+1);
}
} else {
System.out.println("1");
}
}
Is there a way to create and run javascript in Chrome?
You can also open your js file path in the chrome browser which will only display text.
However you can dynamically create the page by including:
var script = document.createElement('script');
script.type = 'text/javascript';
script.src = 'myjs.js';
document.head.appendChild(script);
Now you can have access to the js variables and functions in the console.
Now when you explore the elements it should have included.
So not i guess you dont need a html file.
Getting the length of two-dimensional array
Assuming that the length is same for each array in the second dimension, you can use
public class B {
public static void main(String [] main){
int [] [] nir= new int [2] [3];
System.out.println(nir[0].length);
}
}
Get only records created today in laravel
You can use whereRaw('date(created_at) = curdate()')
if timezone is not a concern or whereRaw('date(created_at) = ?', [Carbon::now()->format('Y-m-d')] )
otherwise.
Since the created_at
field is a timestamp, you need to get only the date part of it and ignore the time part.
Java - How do I make a String array with values?
You want to initialize an array. (For more info - Tutorial)
int []ar={11,22,33};
String []stringAr={"One","Two","Three"};
From the JLS
The []
may appear as part of the type at the beginning of the declaration, or as part of the declarator for a particular variable, or both, as in this example:
byte[] rowvector, colvector, matrix[];
This declaration is equivalent to:
byte rowvector[], colvector[], matrix[][];
How do CSS triangles work?
CSS Triangles: A Tragedy in Five Acts
As alex said, borders of equal width butt up against each other at 45 degree angles:
When you have no top border, it looks like this:
Then you give it a width of 0...
...and a height of 0...
...and finally, you make the two side borders transparent:
That results in a triangle.
Does C# have an equivalent to JavaScript's encodeURIComponent()?
For a Windows Store App, you won't have HttpUtility. Instead, you have:
For an URI, before the '?':
- System.Uri.EscapeUriString("example.com/Stack Overflow++?")
- -> "example.com/Stack%20Overflow++?"
For an URI query name or value, after the '?':
- System.Uri.EscapeDataString("Stack Overflow++")
- -> "Stack%20Overflow%2B%2B"
For a x-www-form-urlencoded query name or value, in a POST content:
- System.Net.WebUtility.UrlEncode("Stack Overflow++")
- -> "Stack+Overflow%2B%2B"
How to remove array element in mongodb?
This below code will remove the complete object element from the array, where the phone number is '+1786543589455'
db.collection.update(
{ _id: id },
{ $pull: { 'contact': { number: '+1786543589455' } } }
);
Bootstrap footer at the bottom of the page
When using bootstrap 4 or 5, flexbox could be used to achieve desired effect:
<body class="d-flex flex-column min-vh-100">
<header>HEADER</header>
<content>CONTENT</content>
<footer class="mt-auto"></footer>
</body>
Please check the examples: Bootstrap 4 Bootstrap 5
In bootstrap 3 and without use of bootstrap. The simplest and cross browser solution for this problem is to set a minimal height for body
object. And then set absolute
position for the footer with bottom: 0
rule.
body {
min-height: 100vh;
position: relative;
margin: 0;
padding-bottom: 100px; //height of the footer
box-sizing: border-box;
}
footer {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
height: 100px;
}
Please check this example:
Bootstrap 3
SQL join: selecting the last records in a one-to-many relationship
Without getting into the code first, the logic/algorithm goes below:
Go to the transaction
table with multiple records for the same client
.
Select records of clientID
and the latestDate
of client's activity using group by clientID
and max(transactionDate)
select clientID, max(transactionDate) as latestDate
from transaction
group by clientID
inner join
the transaction
table with the outcome from Step 2, then you will have the full records of the transaction
table with only each client's latest record.
select * from
transaction t
inner join (
select clientID, max(transactionDate) as latestDate
from transaction
group by clientID) d
on t.clientID = d.clientID and t.transactionDate = d.latestDate)
You can use the result from step 3 to join any table you want to get different results.
Consider defining a bean of type 'package' in your configuration [Spring-Boot]
To fix errors like:
It happened to me that the LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean
class did not have the setPackagesToScan
method. Then I proceeded to use the @EntityScan
annotation which doesn't work correctly.
Later I could find the method setPackagesToScan()
but in another module, so the problem came from the dependency which did not have this method because it was an old version.
This method can be found in the spring-data-jpa or spring-orm dependency of updated versions:
From:
implementation("org.springframework", "spring-orm", "2.5.1")
To:
implementation("org.springframework", "spring-orm", "5.2.9.RELEASE")
Or to:
implementation("org.springframework.data", "spring-data-jpa", "2.3.4.RELEASE")
In addition, it was not necessary to add other annotations other than that of
@SprintBootApplication
.
@SpringBootApplication
open class MoebiusApplication : SpringBootServletInitializer()
@Bean
open fun entityManagerFactory() : LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean {
val em = LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean()
em.dataSource = dataSource()
em.setPackagesToScan("app.mobius.domain.entity")
...
}
GL
Source
How to allow Cross domain request in apache2
Ubuntu Apache2 solution that worked for me
.htaccess edit did not work for me I had to modify the conf file.
nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/mydomain.xyz.conf
my config that worked to allow CORS Support
<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName mydomain.xyz
ServerAlias www.mydomain.xyz
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /var/www/mydomain.xyz/public
### following three lines are for CORS support
Header add Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
Header add Access-Control-Allow-Headers "origin, x-requested-with, content-type"
Header add Access-Control-Allow-Methods "PUT, GET, POST, DELETE, OPTIONS"
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain.xyz/fullchain.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain.xyz/privkey.pem
</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>
then type the following command
a2enmod headers
make sure cache is clear before trying
Simple Digit Recognition OCR in OpenCV-Python
OCR which stands for Optical Character Recognition is a computer vision technique used to identify the different types of handwritten digits that are used in common mathematics. To perform OCR in OpenCV we will use the KNN algorithm which detects the nearest k neighbors of a particular data point and then classifies that data point based on the class type detected for n neighbors.
Data Used
This data contains 5000 handwritten digits where there are 500 digits for every type of digit. Each digit is of 20×20 pixel dimensions. We will split the data such that 250 digits are for training and 250 digits are for testing for every class.
Below is the implementation.
import numpy as np
import cv2
image = cv2.imread( 'digits.png' )
gray_img = cv2.cvtColor(image,
cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
divisions = list (np.hsplit(i, 100 ) for i in np.vsplit(gray_img, 50 ))
NP_array = np.array(divisions)
train_data = NP_array[:,: 50 ].reshape( - 1 , 400 ).astype(np.float32)
test_data = NP_array[:, 50 : 100 ].reshape( - 1 , 400 ).astype(np.float32)
k = np.arange( 10 )
train_labels = np.repeat(k, 250 )[:,np.newaxis]
test_labels = np.repeat(k, 250 )[:,np.newaxis]
knn = cv2.ml.KNearest_create()
knn.train(train_data,
cv2.ml.ROW_SAMPLE,
train_labels)
ret, output ,neighbours,
distance = knn.findNearest(test_data, k = 3 )
matched = output = = test_labels
correct_OP = np.count_nonzero(matched)
accuracy = (correct_OP * 100.0 ) / (output.size)
print (accuracy)
|
Output
91.64
Well, I decided to workout myself on my question to solve the above problem. What I wanted is to implement a simple OCR using KNearest or SVM features in OpenCV. And below is what I did and how. (it is just for learning how to use KNearest for simple OCR purposes).
1) My first question was about letter_recognition.data
file that comes with OpenCV samples. I wanted to know what is inside that file.
It contains a letter, along with 16 features of that letter.
And this SOF
helped me to find it. These 16 features are explained in the paper Letter Recognition Using Holland-Style Adaptive Classifiers
.
(Although I didn't understand some of the features at the end)
2) Since I knew, without understanding all those features, it is difficult to do that method. I tried some other papers, but all were a little difficult for a beginner.
So I just decided to take all the pixel values as my features. (I was not worried about accuracy or performance, I just wanted it to work, at least with the least accuracy)
I took the below image for my training data:
(I know the amount of training data is less. But, since all letters are of the same font and size, I decided to try on this).
To prepare the data for training, I made a small code in OpenCV. It does the following things:
- It loads the image.
- Selects the digits (obviously by contour finding and applying constraints on area and height of letters to avoid false detections).
- Draws the bounding rectangle around one letter and wait for
key press manually
. This time we press the digit key ourselves corresponding to the letter in the box.
- Once the corresponding digit key is pressed, it resizes this box to 10x10 and saves all 100 pixel values in an array (here, samples) and corresponding manually entered digit in another array(here, responses).
- Then save both the arrays in separate
.txt
files.
At the end of the manual classification of digits, all the digits in the training data (train.png
) are labeled manually by ourselves, image will look like below:
Below is the code I used for the above purpose (of course, not so clean):
import sys
import numpy as np
import cv2
im = cv2.imread('pitrain.png')
im3 = im.copy()
gray = cv2.cvtColor(im,cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
blur = cv2.GaussianBlur(gray,(5,5),0)
thresh = cv2.adaptiveThreshold(blur,255,1,1,11,2)
contours,hierarchy = cv2.findContours(thresh,cv2.RETR_LIST,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
samples = np.empty((0,100))
responses = []
keys = [i for i in range(48,58)]
for cnt in contours:
if cv2.contourArea(cnt)>50:
[x,y,w,h] = cv2.boundingRect(cnt)
if h>28:
cv2.rectangle(im,(x,y),(x+w,y+h),(0,0,255),2)
roi = thresh[y:y+h,x:x+w]
roismall = cv2.resize(roi,(10,10))
cv2.imshow('norm',im)
key = cv2.waitKey(0)
if key == 27:
sys.exit()
elif key in keys:
responses.append(int(chr(key)))
sample = roismall.reshape((1,100))
samples = np.append(samples,sample,0)
responses = np.array(responses,np.float32)
responses = responses.reshape((responses.size,1))
print "training complete"
np.savetxt('generalsamples.data',samples)
np.savetxt('generalresponses.data',responses)
Now we enter in to training and testing part.
For the testing part, I used the below image, which has the same type of letters I used for the training phase.
For training we do as follows:
- Load the
.txt
files we already saved earlier
- create an instance of the classifier we are using (it is KNearest in this case)
- Then we use KNearest.train function to train the data
For testing purposes, we do as follows:
- We load the image used for testing
- process the image as earlier and extract each digit using contour methods
- Draw a bounding box for it, then resize it to 10x10, and store its pixel values in an array as done earlier.
- Then we use KNearest.find_nearest() function to find the nearest item to the one we gave. ( If lucky, it recognizes the correct digit.)
I included last two steps (training and testing) in single code below:
import cv2
import numpy as np
samples = np.loadtxt('generalsamples.data',np.float32)
responses = np.loadtxt('generalresponses.data',np.float32)
responses = responses.reshape((responses.size,1))
model = cv2.KNearest()
model.train(samples,responses)
im = cv2.imread('pi.png')
out = np.zeros(im.shape,np.uint8)
gray = cv2.cvtColor(im,cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
thresh = cv2.adaptiveThreshold(gray,255,1,1,11,2)
contours,hierarchy = cv2.findContours(thresh,cv2.RETR_LIST,cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
for cnt in contours:
if cv2.contourArea(cnt)>50:
[x,y,w,h] = cv2.boundingRect(cnt)
if h>28:
cv2.rectangle(im,(x,y),(x+w,y+h),(0,255,0),2)
roi = thresh[y:y+h,x:x+w]
roismall = cv2.resize(roi,(10,10))
roismall = roismall.reshape((1,100))
roismall = np.float32(roismall)
retval, results, neigh_resp, dists = model.find_nearest(roismall, k = 1)
string = str(int((results[0][0])))
cv2.putText(out,string,(x,y+h),0,1,(0,255,0))
cv2.imshow('im',im)
cv2.imshow('out',out)
cv2.waitKey(0)
And it worked, below is the result I got:
Here it worked with 100% accuracy. I assume this is because all the digits are of the same kind and the same size.
But anyway, this is a good start to go for beginners (I hope so).
Best way to retrieve variable values from a text file?
Use ConfigParser.
Your config:
[myvars]
var_a: 'home'
var_b: 'car'
var_c: 15.5
Your python code:
import ConfigParser
config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
config.read("config.ini")
var_a = config.get("myvars", "var_a")
var_b = config.get("myvars", "var_b")
var_c = config.get("myvars", "var_c")
How to source virtualenv activate in a Bash script
You can also do this using a subshell to better contain your usage - here's a practical example:
#!/bin/bash
commandA --args
# Run commandB in a subshell and collect its output in $VAR
# NOTE
# - PATH is only modified as an example
# - output beyond a single value may not be captured without quoting
# - it is important to discard (or separate) virtualenv activation stdout
# if the stdout of commandB is to be captured
#
VAR=$(
PATH="/opt/bin/foo:$PATH"
. /path/to/activate > /dev/null # activate virtualenv
commandB # tool from /opt/bin/ which requires virtualenv
)
# Use the output from commandB later
commandC "$VAR"
This style is especially helpful when
- a different version of
commandA
or commandC
exists under /opt/bin
commandB
exists in the system PATH
or is very common
- these commands fail under the virtualenv
- one needs a variety of different virtualenvs
C - Convert an uppercase letter to lowercase
In ASCII the upper and lower case alphabet are 0x20 apart from each other, so this is another way to do it.
int lower(int a)
{
if ((a >= 0x41) && (a <= 0x5A))
a |= 0x20;
return a;
}
PostgreSQL Autoincrement
You have to be careful not to insert directly into your SERIAL or sequence field, otherwise your write will fail when the sequence reaches the inserted value:
-- Table: "test"
-- DROP TABLE test;
CREATE TABLE test
(
"ID" SERIAL,
"Rank" integer NOT NULL,
"GermanHeadword" "text" [] NOT NULL,
"PartOfSpeech" "text" NOT NULL,
"ExampleSentence" "text" NOT NULL,
"EnglishGloss" "text"[] NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT "PKey" PRIMARY KEY ("ID", "Rank")
)
WITH (
OIDS=FALSE
);
-- ALTER TABLE test OWNER TO postgres;
INSERT INTO test("Rank", "GermanHeadword", "PartOfSpeech", "ExampleSentence", "EnglishGloss")
VALUES (1, '{"der", "die", "das", "den", "dem", "des"}', 'art', 'Der Mann küsst die Frau und das Kind schaut zu', '{"the", "of the" }');
INSERT INTO test("ID", "Rank", "GermanHeadword", "PartOfSpeech", "ExampleSentence", "EnglishGloss")
VALUES (2, 1, '{"der", "die", "das"}', 'pron', 'Das ist mein Fahrrad', '{"that", "those"}');
INSERT INTO test("Rank", "GermanHeadword", "PartOfSpeech", "ExampleSentence", "EnglishGloss")
VALUES (1, '{"der", "die", "das"}', 'pron', 'Die Frau, die nebenen wohnt, heißt Renate', '{"that", "who"}');
SELECT * from test;
How to ignore SSL certificate errors in Apache HttpClient 4.0
For the record, tested with httpclient 4.3.6 and compatible with Executor of fluent api:
CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.custom().
setHostnameVerifier(new AllowAllHostnameVerifier()).
setSslcontext(new SSLContextBuilder().loadTrustMaterial(null, new TrustStrategy()
{
public boolean isTrusted(X509Certificate[] arg0, String arg1) throws CertificateException
{
return true;
}
}).build()).build();
Proper way to initialize C++ structs
In C++ classes/structs are identical (in terms of initialization).
A non POD struct may as well have a constructor so it can initialize members.
If your struct is a POD then you can use an initializer.
struct C
{
int x;
int y;
};
C c = {0}; // Zero initialize POD
Alternatively you can use the default constructor.
C c = C(); // Zero initialize using default constructor
C c{}; // Latest versions accept this syntax.
C* c = new C(); // Zero initialize a dynamically allocated object.
// Note the difference between the above and the initialize version of the constructor.
// Note: All above comments apply to POD structures.
C c; // members are random
C* c = new C; // members are random (more officially undefined).
I believe valgrind is complaining because that is how C++ used to work. (I am not exactly sure when C++ was upgraded with the zero initialization default construction). Your best bet is to add a constructor that initializes the object (structs are allowed constructors).
As a side note:
A lot of beginners try to value init:
C c(); // Unfortunately this is not a variable declaration.
C c{}; // This syntax was added to overcome this confusion.
// The correct way to do this is:
C c = C();
A quick search for the "Most Vexing Parse" will provide a better explanation than I can.
Calculating how many days are between two dates in DB2?
I faced the same problem in Derby IBM DB2 embedded database in a java desktop application, and after a day of searching I finally found how it's done :
SELECT days (table1.datecolomn) - days (current date) FROM table1 WHERE days (table1.datecolomn) - days (current date) > 5
for more information check this site
Removing header column from pandas dataframe
Haven't seen this solution yet so here's how I did it without using read_csv:
df.rename(columns={'A':'','B':''})
If you rename all your column names to empty strings your table will return without a header.
And if you have a lot of columns in your table you can just create a dictionary first instead of renaming manually:
df_dict = dict.fromkeys(df.columns, '')
df.rename(columns = df_dict)
How do I strip all spaces out of a string in PHP?
If you know the white space is only due to spaces, you can use:
$string = str_replace(' ','',$string);
But if it could be due to space, tab...you can use:
$string = preg_replace('/\s+/','',$string);
Regex AND operator
Example of a Boolean (AND) plus Wildcard search, which I'm using inside a javascript Autocomplete plugin:
String to match: "my word"
String to search: "I'm searching for my funny words inside this text"
You need the following regex: /^(?=.*my)(?=.*word).*$/im
Explaining:
^ assert position at start of a line
?= Positive Lookahead
.* matches any character (except newline)
() Groups
$ assert position at end of a line
i modifier: insensitive. Case insensitive match (ignores case of [a-zA-Z])
m modifier: multi-line. Causes ^ and $ to match the begin/end of each line (not only begin/end of string)
Test the Regex here: https://regex101.com/r/iS5jJ3/1
So, you can create a javascript function that:
- Replace regex reserved characters to avoid errors
- Split your string at spaces
- Encapsulate your words inside regex groups
- Create a regex pattern
- Execute the regex match
Example:
_x000D_
_x000D_
function fullTextCompare(myWords, toMatch){_x000D_
//Replace regex reserved characters_x000D_
myWords=myWords.replace(/[-\/\\^$*+?.()|[\]{}]/g, '\\$&');_x000D_
//Split your string at spaces_x000D_
arrWords = myWords.split(" ");_x000D_
//Encapsulate your words inside regex groups_x000D_
arrWords = arrWords.map(function( n ) {_x000D_
return ["(?=.*"+n+")"];_x000D_
});_x000D_
//Create a regex pattern_x000D_
sRegex = new RegExp("^"+arrWords.join("")+".*$","im");_x000D_
//Execute the regex match_x000D_
return(toMatch.match(sRegex)===null?false:true);_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
//Using it:_x000D_
console.log(_x000D_
fullTextCompare("my word","I'm searching for my funny words inside this text")_x000D_
);_x000D_
_x000D_
//Wildcards:_x000D_
console.log(_x000D_
fullTextCompare("y wo","I'm searching for my funny words inside this text")_x000D_
);
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_
javascript regex - look behind alternative?
Let's suppose you want to find all int
not preceded by unsigned
:
With support for negative look-behind:
(?<!unsigned )int
Without support for negative look-behind:
((?!unsigned ).{9}|^.{0,8})int
Basically idea is to grab n preceding characters and exclude match with negative look-ahead, but also match the cases where there's no preceeding n characters. (where n is length of look-behind).
So the regex in question:
(?<!filename)\.js$
would translate to:
((?!filename).{8}|^.{0,7})\.js$
You might need to play with capturing groups to find exact spot of the string that interests you or you want't to replace specific part with something else.
django: TypeError: 'tuple' object is not callable
You're missing comma (,
) inbetween:
>>> ((1,2) (2,3))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'tuple' object is not callable
Put comma:
>>> ((1,2), (2,3))
((1, 2), (2, 3))
What is the bower (and npm) version syntax?
In a nutshell, the syntax for Bower version numbers (and NPM's) is called SemVer, which is short for 'Semantic Versioning'. You can find documentation for the detailed syntax of SemVer as used in Bower and NPM on the API for the semver parser within Node/npm. You can learn more about the underlying spec (which does not mention ~
or other syntax details) at semver.org.
There's a super-handy visual semver calculator you can play with, making all of this much easier to grok and test.
SemVer isn't just a syntax! It has some pretty interesting things to say about the right ways to publish API's, which will help to understand what the syntax means. Crucially:
Once you identify your public API, you communicate changes to it with specific increments to your version number. Consider a version format of X.Y.Z (Major.Minor.Patch). Bug fixes not affecting the API increment the patch version, backwards compatible API additions/changes increment the minor version, and backwards incompatible API changes increment the major version.
So, your specific question about ~
relates to that Major.Minor.Patch schema. (As does the related caret operator ^
.) You can use ~
to narrow the range of versions you're willing to accept to either:
- subsequent patch-level changes to the same minor version ("bug fixes not affecting the API"), or:
- subsequent minor-level changes to the same major version ("backwards compatible API additions/changes")
For example: to indicate you'll take any subsequent patch-level changes on the 1.2.x tree, starting with 1.2.0, but less than 1.3.0, you could use:
"angular": "~1.2"
or:
"angular": "~1.2.0"
This also gets you the same results as using the .x
syntax:
"angular": "1.2.x"
But, you can use the tilde/~
syntax to be even more specific: if you're only willing to accept patch-level changes starting with 1.2.4, but still less than 1.3.0, you'd use:
"angular": "~1.2.4"
Moving left, towards the major version, if you use...
"angular": "~1"
... it's the same as...
"angular": "1.x"
or:
"angular": "^1.0.0"
...and matches any minor- or patch-level changes above 1.0.0, and less than 2.0:
Note that last variation above: it's called a 'caret range'. The caret looks an awful lot like a >
, so you'd be excused for thinking it means "any version greater than 1.0.0". (I've certainly slipped on that.) Nope!
Caret ranges are basically used to say that you care only about the left-most significant digit - usually the major version - and that you'll permit any minor- or patch-level changes that don't affect that left-most digit. Yet, unlike a tilde range that specifies a major version, caret ranges let you specify a precise minor/patch starting point. So, while ^1.0.0 === ~1
, a caret range such as ^1.2.3
lets you say you'll take any changes >=1.2.3 && <2.0.0
. You couldn't do that with a tilde range.
That all seems confusing at first, when you look at it up-close. But zoom out for a sec, and think about it this way: the caret simply lets you say that you're most concerned about whatever significant digit is left-most. The tilde lets you say you're most concerned about whichever digit is right-most. The rest is detail.
It's the expressive power of the tilde and the caret that explains why people use them much more than the simpler .x
syntax: they simply let you do more. That's why you'll see the tilde used often even where .x
would serve. As an example, see npm itself: its own package.json file includes lots of dependencies in ~2.4.0
format, rather than the 2.4.x
format it could use. By sticking to ~
, the syntax is consistent all the way down a list of 70+ versioned dependencies, regardless of which beginning patch number is acceptable.
Anyway, there's still more to SemVer, but I won't try to detail it all here. Check it out on the node semver package's readme. And be sure to use the semantic versioning calculator while you're practicing and trying to get your head around how SemVer works.
RE: Non-Consecutive Version Numbers: OP's final question seems to be about specifying non-consecutive version numbers/ranges (if I have edited it fairly). Yes, you can do that, using the common double-pipe "or" operator: ||
. Like so:
"angular": "1.2 <= 1.2.9 || >2.0.0"
Regex pattern including all special characters
I have defined one pattern to look for any of the ASCII Special Characters ranging between 032 to 126 except the alpha-numeric. You may use something like the one below:
To find any Special Character:
[ -\/:-@\[-\`{-~]
To find minimum of 1 and maximum of any count:
(?=.*[ -\/:-@\[-\`{-~]{1,})
These patterns have Special Characters ranging between 032 to 047, 058 to 064, 091 to 096, and 123 to 126.
bash string compare to multiple correct values
Maybe you should better use a case
for such lists:
case "$cms" in
wordpress|meganto|typo3)
do_your_else_case
;;
*)
do_your_then_case
;;
esac
I think for long such lists this is better readable.
If you still prefer the if
you can do it with single brackets in two ways:
if [ "$cms" != wordpress -a "$cms" != meganto -a "$cms" != typo3 ]; then
or
if [ "$cms" != wordpress ] && [ "$cms" != meganto ] && [ "$cms" != typo3 ]; then
How to implement WiX installer upgrade?
I'm using the latest version of WiX (3.0) and couldn't get the above working. But this did work:
<Product Id="*" UpgradeCode="PUT-GUID-HERE" ... >
<Upgrade Id="PUT-GUID-HERE">
<UpgradeVersion OnlyDetect="no" Property="PREVIOUSFOUND"
Minimum="1.0.0.0" IncludeMinimum="yes"
Maximum="99.0.0.0" IncludeMaximum="no" />
</Upgrade>
Note that PUT-GUID-HERE should be the same as the GUID that you have defined in the UpgradeCode property of the Product.
How to select the Date Picker In Selenium WebDriver
Do not inject javascript. That is a bad practice.
I would model the DatePicker as an element like textbox / select as shown below.
For the detailed answer - check here- http://www.testautomationguru.com/selenium-webdriver-automating-custom-controls-datepicker/
public class DatePicker {
private static final String dateFormat = "dd MMM yyyy";
@FindBy(css = "a.ui-datepicker-prev")
private WebElement prev;
@FindBy(css = "a.ui-datepicker-next")
private WebElement next;
@FindBy(css = "div.ui-datepicker-title")
private WebElement curDate;
@FindBy(css = "a.ui-state-default")
private List < WebElement > dates;
public void setDate(String date) {
long diff = this.getDateDifferenceInMonths(date);
int day = this.getDay(date);
WebElement arrow = diff >= 0 ? next : prev;
diff = Math.abs(diff);
//click the arrows
for (int i = 0; i < diff; i++)
arrow.click();
//select the date
dates.stream()
.filter(ele - > Integer.parseInt(ele.getText()) == day)
.findFirst()
.ifPresent(ele - > ele.click());
}
private int getDay(String date) {
DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern(dateFormat);
LocalDate dpToDate = LocalDate.parse(date, dtf);
return dpToDate.getDayOfMonth();
}
private long getDateDifferenceInMonths(String date) {
DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern(dateFormat);
LocalDate dpCurDate = LocalDate.parse("01 " + this.getCurrentMonthFromDatePicker(), dtf);
LocalDate dpToDate = LocalDate.parse(date, dtf);
return YearMonth.from(dpCurDate).until(dpToDate, ChronoUnit.MONTHS);
}
private String getCurrentMonthFromDatePicker() {
return this.curDate.getText();
}
}
jsonify a SQLAlchemy result set in Flask
Here's my answer if you're using the declarative base (with help from some of the answers already posted):
# in your models definition where you define and extend declarative_base()
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
...
Base = declarative_base()
Base.query = db_session.query_property()
...
# define a new class (call "Model" or whatever) with an as_dict() method defined
class Model():
def as_dict(self):
return { c.name: getattr(self, c.name) for c in self.__table__.columns }
# and extend both the Base and Model class in your model definition, e.g.
class Rating(Base, Model):
____tablename__ = 'rating'
id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
fullurl = db.Column(db.String())
url = db.Column(db.String())
comments = db.Column(db.Text)
...
# then after you query and have a resultset (rs) of ratings
rs = Rating.query.all()
# you can jsonify it with
s = json.dumps([r.as_dict() for r in rs], default=alchemyencoder)
print (s)
# or if you have a single row
r = Rating.query.first()
# you can jsonify it with
s = json.dumps(r.as_dict(), default=alchemyencoder)
# you will need this alchemyencoder where your are calling json.dumps to handle datetime and decimal format
# credit to Joonas @ http://codeandlife.com/2014/12/07/sqlalchemy-results-to-json-the-easy-way/
def alchemyencoder(obj):
"""JSON encoder function for SQLAlchemy special classes."""
if isinstance(obj, datetime.date):
return obj.isoformat()
elif isinstance(obj, decimal.Decimal):
return float(obj)
How do I make a request using HTTP basic authentication with PHP curl?
You want this:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username . ":" . $password);
Zend has a REST client and zend_http_client and I'm sure PEAR has some sort of wrapper.
But its easy enough to do on your own.
So the entire request might look something like this:
$ch = curl_init($host);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/xml', $additionalHeaders));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username . ":" . $password);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $payloadName);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$return = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
How to turn a String into a JavaScript function call?
I wanted to be able to take a function name as a string, call it, AND pass an argument to the function. I couldn't get the selected answer for this question to do that, but this answer explained it exactly, and here is a short demo.
function test_function(argument) {
alert('This function ' + argument);
}
functionName = 'test_function';
window[functionName]('works!');
This also works with multiple arguments.
How to calculate difference between two dates in oracle 11g SQL
You can use this:
SET FEEDBACK OFF;
SET SERVEROUTPUT ON;
DECLARE
V_START_DATE CHAR(17) := '28/03/16 17:20:00';
V_END_DATE CHAR(17) := '30/03/16 17:50:10';
V_DATE_DIFF VARCHAR2(17);
BEGIN
SELECT
(TO_NUMBER( SUBSTR(NUMTODSINTERVAL(TO_DATE(V_END_DATE , 'DD/MM/YY HH24:MI:SS') - TO_DATE(V_START_DATE, 'DD/MM/YY HH24:MI:SS'), 'DAY'), 02, 9)) * 24) +
(TO_NUMBER( SUBSTR(NUMTODSINTERVAL(TO_DATE(V_END_DATE , 'DD/MM/YY HH24:MI:SS') - TO_DATE(V_START_DATE, 'DD/MM/YY HH24:MI:SS'), 'DAY'), 12, 2))) ||
SUBSTR(NUMTODSINTERVAL(TO_DATE(V_END_DATE , 'DD/MM/YY HH24:MI:SS') - TO_DATE(V_START_DATE, 'DD/MM/YY HH24:MI:SS'), 'DAY'), 14, 6) AS "HH24:MI:SS"
INTO V_DATE_DIFF
FROM
DUAL;
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(V_DATE_DIFF);
END;
How do you split and unsplit a window/view in Eclipse IDE?
This is possible with the menu items Window>Editor>Toggle Split Editor.
Current shortcut for splitting is:
Azerty keyboard:
- Ctrl + _ for split horizontally, and
- Ctrl + { for split vertically.
Qwerty US keyboard:
- Ctrl + Shift + - (accessing _) for split horizontally, and
- Ctrl + Shift + [ (accessing {) for split vertically.
MacOS - Qwerty US keyboard:
- ⌘ + Shift + - (accessing _) for split horizontally, and
- ⌘ + Shift + [ (accessing {) for split vertically.
On any other keyboard if a required key is unavailable (like { on a german Qwertz keyboard), the following generic approach may work:
- Alt + ASCII code + Ctrl then release Alt
Example: ASCII for '{' = 123, so press 'Alt', '1', '2', '3', 'Ctrl' and release 'Alt', effectively typing '{' while 'Ctrl' is pressed, to split vertically.
Example of vertical split:
PS:
- The menu items Window>Editor>Toggle Split Editor were added with Eclipse Luna 4.4 M4, as mentioned by Lars Vogel in "Split editor implemented in Eclipse M4 Luna"
- The split editor is one of the oldest and most upvoted Eclipse bug! Bug 8009
- The split editor functionality has been developed in Bug 378298, and will be available as of Eclipse Luna M4. The Note & Newsworthy of Eclipse Luna M4 will contain the announcement.
MVC Razor view nested foreach's model
You can simply use EditorTemplates to do that, you need to create a directory named "EditorTemplates" in your controller's view folder and place a seperate view for each of your nested entities (named as entity class name)
Main view :
@model ViewModels.MyViewModels.Theme
@Html.LabelFor(Model.Theme.name)
@Html.EditorFor(Model.Theme.Categories)
Category view (/MyController/EditorTemplates/Category.cshtml) :
@model ViewModels.MyViewModels.Category
@Html.LabelFor(Model.Name)
@Html.EditorFor(Model.Products)
Product view (/MyController/EditorTemplates/Product.cshtml) :
@model ViewModels.MyViewModels.Product
@Html.LabelFor(Model.Name)
@Html.EditorFor(Model.Orders)
and so on
this way Html.EditorFor helper will generate element's names in an ordered manner and therefore you won't have any further problem for retrieving the posted Theme entity as a whole
ASP.NET MVC JsonResult Date Format
add jquery ui plugin in your page.
function JsonDateFormate(dateFormate, jsonDateTime) {
return $.datepicker.formatDate(dateFormate, eval('new ' + jsonDateTime.slice(1, -1)));
};
Better way to cast object to int
I am listing the difference in each of the casting ways. What a particular type of casting handles and it doesn't?
// object to int
// does not handle null
// does not handle NAN ("102art54")
// convert value to integar
int intObj = (int)obj;
// handles only null or number
int? nullableIntObj = (int?)obj; // null
Nullable<int> nullableIntObj1 = (Nullable<int>)obj; // null
// best way for casting from object to nullable int
// handles null
// handles other datatypes gives null("sadfsdf") // result null
int? nullableIntObj2 = obj as int?;
// string to int
// does not handle null( throws exception)
// does not string NAN ("102art54") (throws exception)
// converts string to int ("26236")
// accepts string value
int iVal3 = int.Parse("10120"); // throws exception value cannot be null;
// handles null converts null to 0
// does not handle NAN ("102art54") (throws exception)
// converts obj to int ("26236")
int val4 = Convert.ToInt32("10120");
// handle null converts null to 0
// handle NAN ("101art54") converts null to 0
// convert string to int ("26236")
int number;
bool result = int.TryParse(value, out number);
if (result)
{
// converted value
}
else
{
// number o/p = 0
}
Best dynamic JavaScript/JQuery Grid
My suggestion for dynamic JQuery Grid are below.
http://reconstrukt.com/ingrid/
https://github.com/mleibman/SlickGrid
http://www.datatables.net/index
Best one is :
DataTables is a plug-in for the jQuery Javascript library. It is a highly flexible tool, based upon the foundations of progressive enhancement, which will add advanced interaction controls to any HTML table.
Variable length pagination
On-the-fly filtering
Multi-column sorting with data type detection
Smart handling of column widths
Display data from almost any data source
DOM, Javascript array, Ajax file and server-side processing (PHP, C#, Perl, Ruby, AIR, Gears etc)
Scrolling options for table viewport
Fully internationalisable
jQuery UI ThemeRoller support
Rock solid - backed by a suite of 2600+ unit tests
Wide variety of plug-ins inc. TableTools, FixedColumns, KeyTable and more
Dynamic creation of tables
Ajax auto loading of data
Custom DOM positioning
Single column filtering
Alternative pagination types
Non-destructive DOM interaction
Sorting column(s) highlighting
Advanced data source options
Extensive plug-in support
Sorting, type detection, API functions, pagination and filtering
Fully themeable by CSS
Solid documentation
110+ pre-built examples
Full support for Adobe AIR
Displaying better error message than "No JSON object could be decoded"
For my particular version of this problem, I went ahead and searched the function declaration of load_json_file(path)
within the packaging.py
file, then smuggled a print
line into it:
def load_json_file(path):
data = open(path, 'r').read()
print data
try:
return Bunch(json.loads(data))
except ValueError, e:
raise MalformedJsonFileError('%s when reading "%s"' % (str(e),
path))
That way it would print the content of the json file before entering the try-catch, and that way – even with my barely existing Python knowledge – I was able to quickly figure out why my configuration couldn't read the json file.
(It was because I had set up my text editor to write a UTF-8 BOM … stupid)
Just mentioning this because, while maybe not a good answer to the OP's specific problem, this was a rather quick method in determining the source of a very oppressing bug. And I bet that many people will stumble upon this article who are searching a more verbose solution for a MalformedJsonFileError: No JSON object could be decoded when reading …
. So that might help them.
how to declare global variable in SQL Server..?
There is no way to declare a global variable in Transact-SQL. However, if all you want your variables for is to be accessible across batches of a single script, you can use the SQLCMD tool or the SQLCMD mode of SSMS and define that tool/mode-specific variables like this:
:setvar myvar 10
and then use them like this:
$(myvar)
To use SSMS's SQLCMD mode:
Generic type conversion FROM string
I am not sure whether I understood your intentions correctly, but let's see if this one helps.
public class TypedProperty<T> : Property where T : IConvertible
{
public T TypedValue
{
get { return (T)Convert.ChangeType(base.Value, typeof(T)); }
set { base.Value = value.ToString();}
}
}
How many bytes is unsigned long long?
Use the operator sizeof
, it will give you the size of a type expressed in byte. One byte is eight bits. See the following program:
#include <iostream>
int main(int,char**)
{
std::cout << "unsigned long long " << sizeof(unsigned long long) << "\n";
std::cout << "unsigned long long int " << sizeof(unsigned long long int) << "\n";
return 0;
}
What is a callback in java
In Java, callback methods are mainly used to address the "Observer Pattern", which is closely related to "Asynchronous Programming".
Although callbacks are also used to simulate passing methods as a parameter, like what is done in functional programming languages.
How to know if .keyup() is a character key (jQuery)
This helped for me:
$("#input").keyup(function(event) {
//use keyup instead keypress because:
//- keypress will not work on backspace and delete
//- keypress is called before the character is added to the textfield (at least in google chrome)
var searchText = $.trim($("#input").val());
var c= String.fromCharCode(event.keyCode);
var isWordCharacter = c.match(/\w/);
var isBackspaceOrDelete = (event.keyCode == 8 || event.keyCode == 46);
// trigger only on word characters, backspace or delete and an entry size of at least 3 characters
if((isWordCharacter || isBackspaceOrDelete) && searchText.length > 2)
{ ...
hidden field in php
Yes, you can access it through GET
and POST
(trying this simple task would have made you aware of that).
Yes, there are other ways, one of the other "preferred" ways is using sessions. When you would want to use hidden over session is kind of touchy, but any GET / POST data is easily manipulated by the end user. A session is a bit more secure given it is saved to a file on the server and it is much harder for the end user to manipulate without access through the program.
Best practice for REST token-based authentication with JAX-RS and Jersey
How token-based authentication works
In token-based authentication, the client exchanges hard credentials (such as username and password) for a piece of data called token. For each request, instead of sending the hard credentials, the client will send the token to the server to perform authentication and then authorization.
In a few words, an authentication scheme based on tokens follow these steps:
- The client sends their credentials (username and password) to the server.
- The server authenticates the credentials and, if they are valid, generate a token for the user.
- The server stores the previously generated token in some storage along with the user identifier and an expiration date.
- The server sends the generated token to the client.
- The client sends the token to the server in each request.
- The server, in each request, extracts the token from the incoming request. With the token, the server looks up the user details to perform authentication.
- If the token is valid, the server accepts the request.
- If the token is invalid, the server refuses the request.
- Once the authentication has been performed, the server performs authorization.
- The server can provide an endpoint to refresh tokens.
Note: The step 3 is not required if the server has issued a signed token (such as JWT, which allows you to perform stateless authentication).
What you can do with JAX-RS 2.0 (Jersey, RESTEasy and Apache CXF)
This solution uses only the JAX-RS 2.0 API, avoiding any vendor specific solution. So, it should work with JAX-RS 2.0 implementations, such as Jersey, RESTEasy and Apache CXF.
It is worthwhile to mention that if you are using token-based authentication, you are not relying on the standard Java EE web application security mechanisms offered by the servlet container and configurable via application's web.xml
descriptor. It's a custom authentication.
Authenticating a user with their username and password and issuing a token
Create a JAX-RS resource method which receives and validates the credentials (username and password) and issue a token for the user:
@Path("/authentication")
public class AuthenticationEndpoint {
@POST
@Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
@Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED)
public Response authenticateUser(@FormParam("username") String username,
@FormParam("password") String password) {
try {
// Authenticate the user using the credentials provided
authenticate(username, password);
// Issue a token for the user
String token = issueToken(username);
// Return the token on the response
return Response.ok(token).build();
} catch (Exception e) {
return Response.status(Response.Status.FORBIDDEN).build();
}
}
private void authenticate(String username, String password) throws Exception {
// Authenticate against a database, LDAP, file or whatever
// Throw an Exception if the credentials are invalid
}
private String issueToken(String username) {
// Issue a token (can be a random String persisted to a database or a JWT token)
// The issued token must be associated to a user
// Return the issued token
}
}
If any exceptions are thrown when validating the credentials, a response with the status 403
(Forbidden) will be returned.
If the credentials are successfully validated, a response with the status 200
(OK) will be returned and the issued token will be sent to the client in the response payload. The client must send the token to the server in every request.
When consuming application/x-www-form-urlencoded
, the client must to send the credentials in the following format in the request payload:
username=admin&password=123456
Instead of form params, it's possible to wrap the username and the password into a class:
public class Credentials implements Serializable {
private String username;
private String password;
// Getters and setters omitted
}
And then consume it as JSON:
@POST
@Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
@Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
public Response authenticateUser(Credentials credentials) {
String username = credentials.getUsername();
String password = credentials.getPassword();
// Authenticate the user, issue a token and return a response
}
Using this approach, the client must to send the credentials in the following format in the payload of the request:
{
"username": "admin",
"password": "123456"
}
Extracting the token from the request and validating it
The client should send the token in the standard HTTP Authorization
header of the request. For example:
Authorization: Bearer <token-goes-here>
The name of the standard HTTP header is unfortunate because it carries authentication information, not authorization. However, it's the standard HTTP header for sending credentials to the server.
JAX-RS provides @NameBinding
, a meta-annotation used to create other annotations to bind filters and interceptors to resource classes and methods. Define a @Secured
annotation as following:
@NameBinding
@Retention(RUNTIME)
@Target({TYPE, METHOD})
public @interface Secured { }
The above defined name-binding annotation will be used to decorate a filter class, which implements ContainerRequestFilter
, allowing you to intercept the request before it be handled by a resource method. The ContainerRequestContext
can be used to access the HTTP request headers and then extract the token:
@Secured
@Provider
@Priority(Priorities.AUTHENTICATION)
public class AuthenticationFilter implements ContainerRequestFilter {
private static final String REALM = "example";
private static final String AUTHENTICATION_SCHEME = "Bearer";
@Override
public void filter(ContainerRequestContext requestContext) throws IOException {
// Get the Authorization header from the request
String authorizationHeader =
requestContext.getHeaderString(HttpHeaders.AUTHORIZATION);
// Validate the Authorization header
if (!isTokenBasedAuthentication(authorizationHeader)) {
abortWithUnauthorized(requestContext);
return;
}
// Extract the token from the Authorization header
String token = authorizationHeader
.substring(AUTHENTICATION_SCHEME.length()).trim();
try {
// Validate the token
validateToken(token);
} catch (Exception e) {
abortWithUnauthorized(requestContext);
}
}
private boolean isTokenBasedAuthentication(String authorizationHeader) {
// Check if the Authorization header is valid
// It must not be null and must be prefixed with "Bearer" plus a whitespace
// The authentication scheme comparison must be case-insensitive
return authorizationHeader != null && authorizationHeader.toLowerCase()
.startsWith(AUTHENTICATION_SCHEME.toLowerCase() + " ");
}
private void abortWithUnauthorized(ContainerRequestContext requestContext) {
// Abort the filter chain with a 401 status code response
// The WWW-Authenticate header is sent along with the response
requestContext.abortWith(
Response.status(Response.Status.UNAUTHORIZED)
.header(HttpHeaders.WWW_AUTHENTICATE,
AUTHENTICATION_SCHEME + " realm=\"" + REALM + "\"")
.build());
}
private void validateToken(String token) throws Exception {
// Check if the token was issued by the server and if it's not expired
// Throw an Exception if the token is invalid
}
}
If any problems happen during the token validation, a response with the status 401
(Unauthorized) will be returned. Otherwise the request will proceed to a resource method.
Securing your REST endpoints
To bind the authentication filter to resource methods or resource classes, annotate them with the @Secured
annotation created above. For the methods and/or classes that are annotated, the filter will be executed. It means that such endpoints will only be reached if the request is performed with a valid token.
If some methods or classes do not need authentication, simply do not annotate them:
@Path("/example")
public class ExampleResource {
@GET
@Path("{id}")
@Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
public Response myUnsecuredMethod(@PathParam("id") Long id) {
// This method is not annotated with @Secured
// The authentication filter won't be executed before invoking this method
...
}
@DELETE
@Secured
@Path("{id}")
@Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
public Response mySecuredMethod(@PathParam("id") Long id) {
// This method is annotated with @Secured
// The authentication filter will be executed before invoking this method
// The HTTP request must be performed with a valid token
...
}
}
In the example shown above, the filter will be executed only for the mySecuredMethod(Long)
method because it's annotated with @Secured
.
Identifying the current user
It's very likely that you will need to know the user who is performing the request agains your REST API. The following approaches can be used to achieve it:
Overriding the security context of the current request
Within your ContainerRequestFilter.filter(ContainerRequestContext)
method, a new SecurityContext
instance can be set for the current request. Then override the SecurityContext.getUserPrincipal()
, returning a Principal
instance:
final SecurityContext currentSecurityContext = requestContext.getSecurityContext();
requestContext.setSecurityContext(new SecurityContext() {
@Override
public Principal getUserPrincipal() {
return () -> username;
}
@Override
public boolean isUserInRole(String role) {
return true;
}
@Override
public boolean isSecure() {
return currentSecurityContext.isSecure();
}
@Override
public String getAuthenticationScheme() {
return AUTHENTICATION_SCHEME;
}
});
Use the token to look up the user identifier (username), which will be the Principal
's name.
Inject the SecurityContext
in any JAX-RS resource class:
@Context
SecurityContext securityContext;
The same can be done in a JAX-RS resource method:
@GET
@Secured
@Path("{id}")
@Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
public Response myMethod(@PathParam("id") Long id,
@Context SecurityContext securityContext) {
...
}
And then get the Principal
:
Principal principal = securityContext.getUserPrincipal();
String username = principal.getName();
Using CDI (Context and Dependency Injection)
If, for some reason, you don't want to override the SecurityContext
, you can use CDI (Context and Dependency Injection), which provides useful features such as events and producers.
Create a CDI qualifier:
@Qualifier
@Retention(RUNTIME)
@Target({ METHOD, FIELD, PARAMETER })
public @interface AuthenticatedUser { }
In your AuthenticationFilter
created above, inject an Event
annotated with @AuthenticatedUser
:
@Inject
@AuthenticatedUser
Event<String> userAuthenticatedEvent;
If the authentication succeeds, fire the event passing the username as parameter (remember, the token is issued for a user and the token will be used to look up the user identifier):
userAuthenticatedEvent.fire(username);
It's very likely that there's a class that represents a user in your application. Let's call this class User
.
Create a CDI bean to handle the authentication event, find a User
instance with the correspondent username and assign it to the authenticatedUser
producer field:
@RequestScoped
public class AuthenticatedUserProducer {
@Produces
@RequestScoped
@AuthenticatedUser
private User authenticatedUser;
public void handleAuthenticationEvent(@Observes @AuthenticatedUser String username) {
this.authenticatedUser = findUser(username);
}
private User findUser(String username) {
// Hit the the database or a service to find a user by its username and return it
// Return the User instance
}
}
The authenticatedUser
field produces a User
instance that can be injected into container managed beans, such as JAX-RS services, CDI beans, servlets and EJBs. Use the following piece of code to inject a User
instance (in fact, it's a CDI proxy):
@Inject
@AuthenticatedUser
User authenticatedUser;
Note that the CDI @Produces
annotation is different from the JAX-RS @Produces
annotation:
Be sure you use the CDI @Produces
annotation in your AuthenticatedUserProducer
bean.
The key here is the bean annotated with @RequestScoped
, allowing you to share data between filters and your beans. If you don't wan't to use events, you can modify the filter to store the authenticated user in a request scoped bean and then read it from your JAX-RS resource classes.
Compared to the approach that overrides the SecurityContext
, the CDI approach allows you to get the authenticated user from beans other than JAX-RS resources and providers.
Supporting role-based authorization
Please refer to my other answer for details on how to support role-based authorization.
Issuing tokens
A token can be:
- Opaque: Reveals no details other than the value itself (like a random string)
- Self-contained: Contains details about the token itself (like JWT).
See details below:
Random string as token
A token can be issued by generating a random string and persisting it to a database along with the user identifier and an expiration date. A good example of how to generate a random string in Java can be seen here. You also could use:
Random random = new SecureRandom();
String token = new BigInteger(130, random).toString(32);
JWT (JSON Web Token)
JWT (JSON Web Token) is a standard method for representing claims securely between two parties and is defined by the RFC 7519.
It's a self-contained token and it enables you to store details in claims. These claims are stored in the token payload which is a JSON encoded as Base64. Here are some claims registered in the RFC 7519 and what they mean (read the full RFC for further details):
iss
: Principal that issued the token.
sub
: Principal that is the subject of the JWT.
exp
: Expiration date for the token.
nbf
: Time on which the token will start to be accepted for processing.
iat
: Time on which the token was issued.
jti
: Unique identifier for the token.
Be aware that you must not store sensitive data, such as passwords, in the token.
The payload can be read by the client and the integrity of the token can be easily checked by verifying its signature on the server. The signature is what prevents the token from being tampered with.
You won't need to persist JWT tokens if you don't need to track them. Althought, by persisting the tokens, you will have the possibility of invalidating and revoking the access of them. To keep the track of JWT tokens, instead of persisting the whole token on the server, you could persist the token identifier (jti
claim) along with some other details such as the user you issued the token for, the expiration date, etc.
When persisting tokens, always consider removing the old ones in order to prevent your database from growing indefinitely.
Using JWT
There are a few Java libraries to issue and validate JWT tokens such as:
To find some other great resources to work with JWT, have a look at http://jwt.io.
Handling token revocation with JWT
If you want to revoke tokens, you must keep the track of them. You don't need to store the whole token on server side, store only the token identifier (that must be unique) and some metadata if you need. For the token identifier you could use UUID.
The jti
claim should be used to store the token identifier on the token. When validating the token, ensure that it has not been revoked by checking the value of the jti
claim against the token identifiers you have on server side.
For security purposes, revoke all the tokens for a user when they change their password.
Additional information
- It doesn't matter which type of authentication you decide to use. Always do it on the top of a HTTPS connection to prevent the man-in-the-middle attack.
- Take a look at this question from Information Security for more information about tokens.
- In this article you will find some useful information about token-based authentication.
How to get the path of a running JAR file?
Here's upgrade to other comments, that seem to me incomplete for the specifics of
using a relative "folder" outside .jar file (in the jar's same
location):
String path =
YourMainClassName.class.getProtectionDomain().
getCodeSource().getLocation().getPath();
path =
URLDecoder.decode(
path,
"UTF-8");
BufferedImage img =
ImageIO.read(
new File((
new File(path).getParentFile().getPath()) +
File.separator +
"folder" +
File.separator +
"yourfile.jpg"));
CSS - Expand float child DIV height to parent's height
Please set parent div to overflow: hidden
then in child divs you can set a large amount for padding-bottom. for example
padding-bottom: 5000px
then margin-bottom: -5000px
and then all child divs will be the height of the parent.
Of course this wont work if you are trying to put content in the parent div (outside of other divs that is)
_x000D_
_x000D_
.parent{_x000D_
border: 1px solid black;_x000D_
overflow: hidden;_x000D_
height: auto;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.child{_x000D_
float: left;_x000D_
padding-bottom: 1500px;_x000D_
margin-bottom: -1500px;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.child1{_x000D_
background: red;_x000D_
padding-right: 10px; _x000D_
}_x000D_
.child2{_x000D_
background: green;_x000D_
padding-left: 10px;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<div class="parent">_x000D_
<div class="child1 child">_x000D_
One line text in child1_x000D_
</div>_x000D_
<div class="child2 child">_x000D_
Three line text in child2<br />_x000D_
Three line text in child2<br />_x000D_
Three line text in child2_x000D_
</div>_x000D_
</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/Tareqdhk/DAFEC/
How do I create a pause/wait function using Qt?
Small +1 to kshark27's answer to make it dynamic:
#include <QTime>
void delay( int millisecondsToWait )
{
QTime dieTime = QTime::currentTime().addMSecs( millisecondsToWait );
while( QTime::currentTime() < dieTime )
{
QCoreApplication::processEvents( QEventLoop::AllEvents, 100 );
}
}
Is an empty href valid?
it's valid but
like UpTheCreek said
'There are some downsides to each approach'
if you're calling ajax through an tag
leave the href="" like this will keep the page reloading
and the ajax code will never be called ...
just got this thought would be good to share
How to reload current page in ReactJS?
This is my code .This works for me
componentDidMount(){
axios.get('http://localhost:5000/supplier').then(
response => {
console.log(response)
this.setState({suppliers:response.data.data})
}
)
.catch(error => {
console.log(error)
})
}
componentDidUpdate(){
this.componentDidMount();
}
window.location.reload(); I think this thing is not good for react js
Asynchronous Process inside a javascript for loop
Any recommendation on how to fix this?
Several. You can use bind:
for (i = 0; i < j; i++) {
asycronouseProcess(function (i) {
alert(i);
}.bind(null, i));
}
Or, if your browser supports let (it will be in the next ECMAScript version, however Firefox already supports it since a while) you could have:
for (i = 0; i < j; i++) {
let k = i;
asycronouseProcess(function() {
alert(k);
});
}
Or, you could do the job of bind
manually (in case the browser doesn't support it, but I would say you can implement a shim in that case, it should be in the link above):
for (i = 0; i < j; i++) {
asycronouseProcess(function(i) {
return function () {
alert(i)
}
}(i));
}
I usually prefer let
when I can use it (e.g. for Firefox add-on); otherwise bind
or a custom currying function (that doesn't need a context object).
How to write the code for the back button?
In my application,above javascript function didnt work,because i had many procrosses inside one page.so following code worked for me hope it helps you guys.
function redirection()
{
<?php $send=$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];?>
var redirect_to="<?php echo $send;?>";
window.location = redirect_to;
}
Gray out image with CSS?
Considering filter:expression is a Microsoft extension to CSS, so it will only work in Internet Explorer. If you want to grey it out, I would recommend that you set it's opacity to 50% using a bit of javascript.
http://lyxus.net/mv would be a good place to start, because it discusses an opacity
script that works with Firefox, Safari, KHTML, Internet Explorer and CSS3 capable browsers.
You might also want to give it a grey border.
How can I make a div stick to the top of the screen once it's been scrolled to?
Not an exact solution but a great alternative to consider
this CSS ONLY Top of screen scroll bar. Solved all the problem with ONLY CSS, NO JavaScript, NO JQuery, No Brain work (lol).
Enjoy my fiddle :D all the codes are included in there :)
CSS
#menu {
position: fixed;
height: 60px;
width: 100%;
top: 0;
left: 0;
border-top: 5px solid #a1cb2f;
background: #fff;
-moz-box-shadow: 0 2px 3px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.16);
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 2px 3px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.16);
box-shadow: 0 2px 3px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.16);
z-index: 999999;
}
.w {
width: 900px;
margin: 0 auto;
margin-bottom: 40px;
}<br type="_moz">
Put the content long enough so you can see the effect here :)
Oh, and the reference is in there as well, for the fact he deserve his credit
CSS ONLY Top of screen scroll bar
Creating a Shopping Cart using only HTML/JavaScript
Here's a one page cart written in Javascript with localStorage. Here's a full working pen. Previously found on Codebox
cart.js
var cart = {
// (A) PROPERTIES
hPdt : null, // HTML products list
hItems : null, // HTML current cart
items : {}, // Current items in cart
// (B) LOCALSTORAGE CART
// (B1) SAVE CURRENT CART INTO LOCALSTORAGE
save : function () {
localStorage.setItem("cart", JSON.stringify(cart.items));
},
// (B2) LOAD CART FROM LOCALSTORAGE
load : function () {
cart.items = localStorage.getItem("cart");
if (cart.items == null) { cart.items = {}; }
else { cart.items = JSON.parse(cart.items); }
},
// (B3) EMPTY ENTIRE CART
nuke : function () {
if (confirm("Empty cart?")) {
cart.items = {};
localStorage.removeItem("cart");
cart.list();
}
},
// (C) INITIALIZE
init : function () {
// (C1) GET HTML ELEMENTS
cart.hPdt = document.getElementById("cart-products");
cart.hItems = document.getElementById("cart-items");
// (C2) DRAW PRODUCTS LIST
cart.hPdt.innerHTML = "";
let p, item, part;
for (let id in products) {
// WRAPPER
p = products[id];
item = document.createElement("div");
item.className = "p-item";
cart.hPdt.appendChild(item);
// PRODUCT IMAGE
part = document.createElement("img");
part.src = "images/" +p.img;
part.className = "p-img";
item.appendChild(part);
// PRODUCT NAME
part = document.createElement("div");
part.innerHTML = p.name;
part.className = "p-name";
item.appendChild(part);
// PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
part = document.createElement("div");
part.innerHTML = p.desc;
part.className = "p-desc";
item.appendChild(part);
// PRODUCT PRICE
part = document.createElement("div");
part.innerHTML = "$" + p.price;
part.className = "p-price";
item.appendChild(part);
// ADD TO CART
part = document.createElement("input");
part.type = "button";
part.value = "Add to Cart";
part.className = "cart p-add";
part.onclick = cart.add;
part.dataset.id = id;
item.appendChild(part);
}
// (C3) LOAD CART FROM PREVIOUS SESSION
cart.load();
// (C4) LIST CURRENT CART ITEMS
cart.list();
},
// (D) LIST CURRENT CART ITEMS (IN HTML)
list : function () {
// (D1) RESET
cart.hItems.innerHTML = "";
let item, part, pdt;
let empty = true;
for (let key in cart.items) {
if(cart.items.hasOwnProperty(key)) { empty = false; break; }
}
// (D2) CART IS EMPTY
if (empty) {
item = document.createElement("div");
item.innerHTML = "Cart is empty";
cart.hItems.appendChild(item);
}
// (D3) CART IS NOT EMPTY - LIST ITEMS
else {
let p, total = 0, subtotal = 0;
for (let id in cart.items) {
// ITEM
p = products[id];
item = document.createElement("div");
item.className = "c-item";
cart.hItems.appendChild(item);
// NAME
part = document.createElement("div");
part.innerHTML = p.name;
part.className = "c-name";
item.appendChild(part);
// REMOVE
part = document.createElement("input");
part.type = "button";
part.value = "X";
part.dataset.id = id;
part.className = "c-del cart";
part.addEventListener("click", cart.remove);
item.appendChild(part);
// QUANTITY
part = document.createElement("input");
part.type = "number";
part.value = cart.items[id];
part.dataset.id = id;
part.className = "c-qty";
part.addEventListener("change", cart.change);
item.appendChild(part);
// SUBTOTAL
subtotal = cart.items[id] * p.price;
total += subtotal;
}
// EMPTY BUTTONS
item = document.createElement("input");
item.type = "button";
item.value = "Empty";
item.addEventListener("click", cart.nuke);
item.className = "c-empty cart";
cart.hItems.appendChild(item);
// CHECKOUT BUTTONS
item = document.createElement("input");
item.type = "button";
item.value = "Checkout - " + "$" + total;
item.addEventListener("click", cart.checkout);
item.className = "c-checkout cart";
cart.hItems.appendChild(item);
}
},
// (E) ADD ITEM INTO CART
add : function () {
if (cart.items[this.dataset.id] == undefined) {
cart.items[this.dataset.id] = 1;
} else {
cart.items[this.dataset.id]++;
}
cart.save();
cart.list();
},
// (F) CHANGE QUANTITY
change : function () {
if (this.value == 0) {
delete cart.items[this.dataset.id];
} else {
cart.items[this.dataset.id] = this.value;
}
cart.save();
cart.list();
},
// (G) REMOVE ITEM FROM CART
remove : function () {
delete cart.items[this.dataset.id];
cart.save();
cart.list();
},
// (H) CHECKOUT
checkout : function () {
// SEND DATA TO SERVER
// CHECKS
// SEND AN EMAIL
// RECORD TO DATABASE
// PAYMENT
// WHATEVER IS REQUIRED
alert("TO DO");
/*
var data = new FormData();
data.append('cart', JSON.stringify(cart.items));
data.append('products', JSON.stringify(products));
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("POST", "SERVER-SCRIPT");
xhr.onload = function(){ ... };
xhr.send(data);
*/
}
};
window.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", cart.init);
Most efficient way to increment a Map value in Java
As a follow-up to my own comment: Trove looks like the way to go. If, for whatever reason, you wanted to stick with the standard JDK, ConcurrentMap and AtomicLong can make the code a tiny bit nicer, though YMMV.
final ConcurrentMap<String, AtomicLong> map = new ConcurrentHashMap<String, AtomicLong>();
map.putIfAbsent("foo", new AtomicLong(0));
map.get("foo").incrementAndGet();
will leave 1
as the value in the map for foo
. Realistically, increased friendliness to threading is all that this approach has to recommend it.
Displaying the build date
Regarding the technique of pulling build date/version info from the bytes of an assembly PE header, Microsoft has changed the default build parameters beginning with Visual Studio 15.4. The new default includes deterministic compilation, which makes a valid timestamp and automatically incremented version numbers a thing of the past. The timestamp field is still present but it gets filled with a permanent value that is a hash of something or other, but not any indication of the build time.
Some detailed background here
For those who prioritize a useful timestamp over deterministic compilation, there is a way to override the new default. You can include a tag in the .csproj file of the assembly of interest as follows:
<PropertyGroup>
...
<Deterministic>false</Deterministic>
</PropertyGroup>
Update:
I endorse the T4 text template solution described in another answer here. I used it to solve my issue cleanly without losing the benefit of deterministic compilation. One caution about it is that Visual Studio only runs the T4 compiler when the .tt file is saved, not at build time. This can be awkward if you exclude the .cs result from source control (since you expect it to be generated) and another developer checks out the code. Without resaving, they won't have the .cs file. There is a package on nuget (I think called AutoT4) that makes T4 compilation part of every build. I have not yet confronted the solution to this during production deployment, but I expect something similar to make it right.
"std::endl" vs "\n"
The difference can be illustrated by the following:
std::cout << std::endl;
is equivalent to
std::cout << '\n' << std::flush;
So,
- Use
std::endl
If you want to force an immediate flush to the output.
- Use
\n
if you are worried about performance (which is probably not the case if you are using the <<
operator).
I use \n
on most lines.
Then use std::endl
at the end of a paragraph (but that is just a habit and not usually necessary).
Contrary to other claims, the \n
character is mapped to the correct platform end of line sequence only if the stream is going to a file (std::cin
and std::cout
being special but still files (or file-like)).
Node.js/Express.js App Only Works on Port 3000
The following works if you have something like this in your app.js:
http.createServer(app).listen(app.get('port'),
function(){
console.log("Express server listening on port " + app.get('port'));
});
Either explicitly hardcode your code to use the port you want, like:
app.set('port', process.env.PORT || 3000);
This code means set your port to the environment variable PORT
or if that is undefined
then set it to the literal 3000
.
Or, use your environment to set the port. Setting it via the environment is used to help delineate between PRODUCTION
and DEVELOPMENT
and also a lot of Platforms as a Service use the environment to set the port according to their specs as well as internal Express configs. The following sets an environment key=value pair and then launches your app.
$ PORT=8080 node app.js
In reference to your code example, you want something like this:
var express = require("express");
var app = express();
// sets port 8080 to default or unless otherwise specified in the environment
app.set('port', process.env.PORT || 8080);
app.get('/', function(req, res){
res.send('hello world');
});
// Only works on 3000 regardless of what I set environment port to or how I set
// [value] in app.set('port', [value]).
// app.listen(3000);
app.listen(app.get('port'));
How to enable DataGridView sorting when user clicks on the column header?
Set all the column's (which can be sortable by users) SortMode property to Automatic
dataGridView1.DataSource = students.Select(s => new { ID = s.StudentId, RUDE = s.RUDE, Nombre = s.Name, Apellidos = s.LastNameFather + " " + s.LastNameMother, Nacido = s.DateOfBirth })
.OrderBy(s => s.Apellidos)
.ToList();
foreach(DataGridViewColumn column in dataGridView1.Columns)
{
column.SortMode = DataGridViewColumnSortMode.Automatic;
}
Edit: As your datagridview is bound with a linq query, it will not be sorted. So please go through this [404 dead link, see next section]
which explains how to create a sortable binding list and to then feed it as datasource to datagridview.
Code as recovered from dead link
Link from above is 404-dead. I recovered the code from the Internet Wayback Machine archive of the page.
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
SortableBindingList<person> persons = new SortableBindingList<person>();
persons.Add(new Person(1, "timvw", new DateTime(1980, 04, 30)));
persons.Add(new Person(2, "John Doe", DateTime.Now));
this.dataGridView1.AutoGenerateColumns = false;
this.ColumnId.DataPropertyName = "Id";
this.ColumnName.DataPropertyName = "Name";
this.ColumnBirthday.DataPropertyName = "Birthday";
this.dataGridView1.DataSource = persons;
}
Get Multiple Values in SQL Server Cursor
This should work:
DECLARE db_cursor CURSOR FOR SELECT name, age, color FROM table;
DECLARE @myName VARCHAR(256);
DECLARE @myAge INT;
DECLARE @myFavoriteColor VARCHAR(40);
OPEN db_cursor;
FETCH NEXT FROM db_cursor INTO @myName, @myAge, @myFavoriteColor;
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
--Do stuff with scalar values
FETCH NEXT FROM db_cursor INTO @myName, @myAge, @myFavoriteColor;
END;
CLOSE db_cursor;
DEALLOCATE db_cursor;
How to update only one field using Entity Framework?
_context.Users.UpdateProperty(p => p.Id, request.UserId, new UpdateWrapper<User>()
{
Expression = p => p.FcmId,Value = request.FcmId
});
await _context.SaveChangesAsync(cancellationToken);
Update Property is an extension method
public static void UpdateProperty<T, T2>(this DbSet<T> set, Expression<Func<T, T2>> idExpression,
T2 idValue,
params UpdateWrapper<T>[] updateValues)
where T : class, new()
{
var entity = new T();
var attach = set.Attach(entity);
attach.Property(idExpression).IsModified = false;
attach.Property(idExpression).OriginalValue = idValue;
foreach (var update in updateValues)
{
attach.Property(update.Expression).IsModified = true;
attach.Property(update.Expression).CurrentValue = update.Value;
}
}
And Update Wrapper is a class
public class UpdateWrapper<T>
{
public Expression<Func<T, object>> Expression { get; set; }
public object Value { get; set; }
}
How do I revert all local changes in Git managed project to previous state?
Try this for revert all changes uncommited in local branch
$ git reset --hard HEAD
But if you see a error like this:
fatal: Unable to create '/directory/for/your/project/.git/index.lock': File exists.
You can navigate to '.git' folder then delete index.lock file:
$ cd /directory/for/your/project/.git/
$ rm index.lock
Finaly, run again the command:
$ git reset --hard HEAD
Explaining Apache ZooKeeper
Zookeeper is one of the best open source server and service that helps to reliably coordinates distributed processes. Zookeeper is a CP system (Refer CAP Theorem) that provides Consistency and Partition tolerance. Replication of Zookeeper state across all the nodes makes it an eventually consistent distributed service.
Moreover, any newly elected leader will update its followers with missing proposals or with a snapshot of the state, if the followers have many proposals missing.
Zookeeper also provides an API that is very easy to use. This blog post, Zookeeper Java API examples, has some examples if you are looking for examples.
So where do we use this? If your distributed service needs a centralized, reliable and consistent configuration management, locks, queues etc, you will find Zookeeper a reliable choice.
How to delete projects in Intellij IDEA 14?
Deleting and Recreating a project with same name is tricky. If you try to follow above suggested steps and try to create a project with same name as the one you just deleted, you will run into error like
'C:/xxxxxx/pom.xml' already exists in VFS
Here is what I found would work.
- Remove module
- File -> Invalidate Cache (at this point the Intelli IDEA wants to restart)
- Close project
- Delete the folder form system explorer.
- Now you can create a project with same name as before.
Writing String to Stream and reading it back does not work
After you write to the MemoryStream
and before you read it back, you need to Seek
back to the beginning of the MemoryStream
so you're not reading from the end.
UPDATE
After seeing your update, I think there's a more reliable way to build the stream:
UnicodeEncoding uniEncoding = new UnicodeEncoding();
String message = "Message";
// You might not want to use the outer using statement that I have
// I wasn't sure how long you would need the MemoryStream object
using(MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
{
var sw = new StreamWriter(ms, uniEncoding);
try
{
sw.Write(message);
sw.Flush();//otherwise you are risking empty stream
ms.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
// Test and work with the stream here.
// If you need to start back at the beginning, be sure to Seek again.
}
finally
{
sw.Dispose();
}
}
As you can see, this code uses a StreamWriter to write the entire string (with proper encoding) out to the MemoryStream
. This takes the hassle out of ensuring the entire byte array for the string is written.
Update: I stepped into issue with empty stream several time. It's enough to call Flush right after you've finished writing.
Converting a vector<int> to string
Here is an alternative which uses a custom output iterator. This example behaves correctly for the case of an empty list. This example demonstrates how to create a custom output iterator, similar to std::ostream_iterator
.
#include <iterator>
#include <vector>
#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
struct CommaIterator
:
public std::iterator<std::output_iterator_tag, void, void, void, void>
{
std::ostream *os;
std::string comma;
bool first;
CommaIterator(std::ostream& os, const std::string& comma)
:
os(&os), comma(comma), first(true)
{
}
CommaIterator& operator++() { return *this; }
CommaIterator& operator++(int) { return *this; }
CommaIterator& operator*() { return *this; }
template <class T>
CommaIterator& operator=(const T& t) {
if(first)
first = false;
else
*os << comma;
*os << t;
return *this;
}
};
int main () {
// The vector to convert
std::vector<int> v(3,3);
// Convert vector to string
std::ostringstream oss;
std::copy(v.begin(), v.end(), CommaIterator(oss, ","));
std::string result = oss.str();
const char *c_result = result.c_str();
// Display the result;
std::cout << c_result << "\n";
}
How to remove outliers in boxplot in R?
See ?boxplot
for all the help you need.
outline: if ‘outline’ is not true, the outliers are not drawn (as
points whereas S+ uses lines).
boxplot(x,horizontal=TRUE,axes=FALSE,outline=FALSE)
And for extending the range of the whiskers and suppressing the outliers inside this range:
range: this determines how far the plot whiskers extend out from the
box. If ‘range’ is positive, the whiskers extend to the most
extreme data point which is no more than ‘range’ times the
interquartile range from the box. A value of zero causes the
whiskers to extend to the data extremes.
# change the value of range to change the whisker length
boxplot(x,horizontal=TRUE,axes=FALSE,range=2)
POST request with JSON body
You need to use the cURL library to send this request.
<?php
// Your ID and token
$blogID = '8070105920543249955';
$authToken = 'OAuth 2.0 token here';
// The data to send to the API
$postData = array(
'kind' => 'blogger#post',
'blog' => array('id' => $blogID),
'title' => 'A new post',
'content' => 'With <b>exciting</b> content...'
);
// Setup cURL
$ch = curl_init('https://www.googleapis.com/blogger/v3/blogs/'.$blogID.'/posts/');
curl_setopt_array($ch, array(
CURLOPT_POST => TRUE,
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
'Authorization: '.$authToken,
'Content-Type: application/json'
),
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode($postData)
));
// Send the request
$response = curl_exec($ch);
// Check for errors
if($response === FALSE){
die(curl_error($ch));
}
// Decode the response
$responseData = json_decode($response, TRUE);
// Close the cURL handler
curl_close($ch);
// Print the date from the response
echo $responseData['published'];
If, for some reason, you can't/don't want to use cURL, you can do this:
<?php
// Your ID and token
$blogID = '8070105920543249955';
$authToken = 'OAuth 2.0 token here';
// The data to send to the API
$postData = array(
'kind' => 'blogger#post',
'blog' => array('id' => $blogID),
'title' => 'A new post',
'content' => 'With <b>exciting</b> content...'
);
// Create the context for the request
$context = stream_context_create(array(
'http' => array(
// http://www.php.net/manual/en/context.http.php
'method' => 'POST',
'header' => "Authorization: {$authToken}\r\n".
"Content-Type: application/json\r\n",
'content' => json_encode($postData)
)
));
// Send the request
$response = file_get_contents('https://www.googleapis.com/blogger/v3/blogs/'.$blogID.'/posts/', FALSE, $context);
// Check for errors
if($response === FALSE){
die('Error');
}
// Decode the response
$responseData = json_decode($response, TRUE);
// Print the date from the response
echo $responseData['published'];
Android Whatsapp/Chat Examples
If you are looking to create an instant messenger for Android, this code should get you started somewhere.
Excerpt from the source :
This is a simple IM application runs on Android, application makes
http request to a server, implemented in php and mysql, to
authenticate, to register and to get the other friends' status and
data, then it communicates with other applications in other devices by
socket interface.
EDIT : Just found this! Maybe it's not related to WhatsApp. But you can use the source to understand how chat applications are programmed.
There is a website called Scringo. These awesome people provide their own SDK which you can integrate in your existing application to exploit cool features like radaring, chatting, feedback, etc. So if you are looking to integrate chat in application, you could just use their SDK. And did I say the best part? It's free!
*UPDATE : * Scringo services will be closed down on 15 February, 2015.
Why does find -exec mv {} ./target/ + not work?
I encountered the same issue on Mac OSX, using a ZSH shell: in this case there is no -t
option for mv
, so I had to find another solution.
However the following command succeeded:
find .* * -maxdepth 0 -not -path '.git' -not -path '.backup' -exec mv '{}' .backup \;
The secret was to quote the braces. No need for the braces to be at the end of the exec
command.
I tested under Ubuntu 14.04 (with BASH and ZSH shells), it works the same.
However, when using the +
sign, it seems indeed that it has to be at the end of the exec
command.
Ways to implement data versioning in MongoDB
I have used the below package for a meteor/MongoDB project, and it works well, the main advantage is that it stores history/revisions within an array in the same document, hence no need for an additional publications or middleware to access change-history. It can support a limited number of previous versions (ex. last ten versions), it also supports change-concatenation (so all changes happened within a specific period will be covered by one revision).
nicklozon/meteor-collection-revisions
Another sound option is to use Meteor Vermongo (here)
What exactly does numpy.exp() do?
It calculates ex for each x in your list where e is Euler's number (approximately 2.718). In other words, np.exp(range(5))
is similar to [math.e**x for x in range(5)]
.
Permanently add a directory to PYTHONPATH?
On MacOS, Instead of giving path to a specific library. Giving full path to the root project folder in
~/.bash_profile
made my day, for example:
export PYTHONPATH="${PYTHONPATH}:/Users/<myuser>/project_root_folder_path"
after this do:
source ~/.bash_profile
How to impose maxlength on textArea in HTML using JavaScript
I implemented maxlength
behaviour on textarea
recently, and run into problem described in this question: Chrome counts characters wrong in textarea with maxlength attribute.
So all implementations listed here will work little buggy. To solve this issue I add .replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/g, "11")
before .length
. And kept it in mind when cuting string.
I ended with something like this:
var maxlength = el.attr("maxlength");
var val = el.val();
var length = val.length;
var realLength = val.replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/g, "11").length;
if (realLength > maxlength) {
el.val(val.slice(0, maxlength - (realLength - length)));
}
Don't sure if it solves problem completely, but it works for me for now.
error: expected unqualified-id before ‘.’ token //(struct)
The struct's name is ReducedForm
; you need to make an object (instance of the struct
or class
) and use that. Do this:
ReducedForm MyReducedForm;
MyReducedForm.iSimplifiedNumerator = iNumerator/iGreatCommDivisor;
MyReducedForm.iSimplifiedDenominator = iDenominator/iGreatCommDivisor;
How do I check if an array includes a value in JavaScript?
OK, you can just optimise your code to get the result!
There are many ways to do this which are cleaner and better, but I just wanted to get your pattern and apply to that using JSON.stringify
, just simply do something like this in your case:
function contains(a, obj) {
for (var i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
if (JSON.stringify(a[i]) === JSON.stringify(obj)) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
A Space between Inline-Block List Items
I had the same problem, when I used a inline-block on my menu I had the space between each "li" I found a simple solution, I don't remember where I found it, anyway here is what I did.
<li><a href="index.html" title="home" class="active">Home</a></li><!---->
<li><a href="news.html" title="news">News</a></li><!---->
<li><a href="about.html" title="about">About Us</a></li><!---->
<li><a href="contact.html" title="contact">Contact Us</a></li>
You add a comment sign between each end of, and start of : "li"
Then the horizontal space disappear.
Hope that answer to the question
Thanks
Refresh Fragment at reload
// Reload current fragment
Fragment frag = new Order();
FragmentManager fragmentManager = getActivity().getSupportFragmentManager();
fragmentManager.beginTransaction().replace(R.id.fragment_home, frag).commit();
Try reinstalling `node-sass` on node 0.12?
My issue was that I was on a machine with node version 0.12.2
, but that had an old 1.x.x
version of npm
. Be sure to update your version of npm: sudo npm install -g npm
Once that is done, remove any existing node-sass
and reinstall it via npm.
Why would a "java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out" exception occur when URL is up?
This can be a IPv6 problem (the host publishes an IPv6 AAAA-Address and the users host thinks it is configured for IPv6 but it is actually not correctly connected). This can also be a network MTU problem, a firewall block, or the target host might publish different IP addresses (randomly or based on originators country) which are not all reachable. Or similliar network problems.
You cant do much besides setting a timeout and adding good error messages (especially printing out the hosts' resolved address). If you want to make it more robust add retry, parallel trying of all addresses and also look into name resolution caching (positive and negative) on the Java platform.
Comparing HTTP and FTP for transferring files
One advantage of FTP is that there is a standard way to list files using dir
or ls
. Because of this, ftp plays nice with tools such as rsync. Granted, rsync
is usually done over ssh
, but the option is there.
How do you use bcrypt for hashing passwords in PHP?
The password_hash() function in PHP is an inbuilt function , used to create a new password hash with different algorithms and options. the function uses a strong hashing algorithm.
the function take 2 mandetory parametres ($password and $algorithm,) and 1 optional parameter ($options).
$strongPassword = password_hash( $password, $algorithm, $options )
Algoristrong textthms allowed right now for password_hash() are :
PASSWORD_DEFAULT
PASSWORD_BCRYPT
ASSWORD_ARGON2I
PASSWORD_ARGON2ID
example : echo password_hash("abcDEF", PASSWORD_DEFAULT);
answer : $2y$10$KwKceUaG84WInAif5ehdZOkE4kHPWTLp0ZK5a5OU2EbtdwQ9YIcGy
example: `echo password_hash("abcDEF", PASSWORD_BCRYPT);`
answer :$2y$10$SNly5bFzB/R6OVbBMq1bj.yiOZdsk6Mwgqi4BLR2sqdCvMyv/AyL2
to use the BCRYPT as password, use option cost =12 in an array , also change 1st parameter $password to some strong password like "wgt167yuWBGY@#1987__"
Example: echo password_hash("wgt167yuWBGY@#1987__", PASSWORD_BCRYPT ,['cost' => 12]);
Answer : $2y$12$TjSggXiFSidD63E.QP8PJOds2texJfsk/82VaNU8XRZ/niZhzkJ6S
How to create a TextArea in Android
<EditText
android:id="@+id/comments_textbox"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:hint="comments"
android:inputType="textMultiLine"
android:longClickable="false" />
use it to create multi line text box like textArea in Html
HTML5 video - show/hide controls programmatically
CARL LANGE also showed how to get hidden, autoplaying audio in html5 on a iOS device. Works for me.
In HTML,
<div id="hideme">
<audio id="audioTag" controls>
<source src="/path/to/audio.mp3">
</audio>
</div>
with JS
<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload = function() {
var audioEl = document.getElementById("audioTag");
audioEl.load();
audioEl.play();
};
</script>
In CSS,
#hideme {display: none;}
How to extract extension from filename string in Javascript?
I personally prefer to split the string by .
and just return the last array element :)
var fileExt = filename.split('.').pop();
If there is no .
in filename you get the entire string back.
Examples:
'some_value' => 'some_value'
'.htaccess' => 'htaccess'
'../images/something.cool.jpg' => 'jpg'
'http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_pop.asp' => 'asp'
'http://stackoverflow.com/questions/680929' => 'com/questions/680929'
Converting a pointer into an integer
Several answers have pointed at uintptr_t
and #include <stdint.h>
as 'the' solution. That is, I suggest, part of the answer, but not the whole answer. You also need to look at where the function is called with the message ID of FOO.
Consider this code and compilation:
$ cat kk.c
#include <stdio.h>
static void function(int n, void *p)
{
unsigned long z = *(unsigned long *)p;
printf("%d - %lu\n", n, z);
}
int main(void)
{
function(1, 2);
return(0);
}
$ rmk kk
gcc -m64 -g -O -std=c99 -pedantic -Wall -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith \
-Wcast-qual -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes \
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE kk.c -o kk
kk.c: In function 'main':
kk.c:10: warning: passing argument 2 of 'func' makes pointer from integer without a cast
$
You will observe that there is a problem at the calling location (in main()
) — converting an integer to a pointer without a cast. You are going to need to analyze your function()
in all its usages to see how values are passed to it. The code inside my function()
would work if the calls were written:
unsigned long i = 0x2341;
function(1, &i);
Since yours are probably written differently, you need to review the points where the function is called to ensure that it makes sense to use the value as shown. Don't forget, you may be finding a latent bug.
Also, if you are going to format the value of the void *
parameter (as converted), look carefully at the <inttypes.h>
header (instead of stdint.h
— inttypes.h
provides the services of stdint.h
, which is unusual, but the C99 standard says [t]he header <inttypes.h>
includes the header <stdint.h>
and extends it with
additional facilities provided by hosted implementations) and use the PRIxxx macros in your format strings.
Also, my comments are strictly applicable to C rather than C++, but your code is in the subset of C++ that is portable between C and C++. The chances are fair to good that my comments apply.
Good tool to visualise database schema?
Years ago, I used to use Data Architect. I don't know if it's still out there.
You could reverse engineer an existing schema into a relational table diagram.
Or you could go even further, and reverse engineer an Entity-Relationship model with an accompanying diagram. ER diagrams were really useful to me when discussing the data with people who were neither programmers nor database experts.
Sometimes a few manual fixups to the ER model and ER diagram were necessary before it was a useful communication tool with stakeholders.
How to display an unordered list in two columns?
Modern Browsers
leverage the css3 columns module to support what you are looking for.
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_columns.asp
CSS:
ul {
columns: 2;
-webkit-columns: 2;
-moz-columns: 2;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/HP85j/8/
Legacy Browsers
Unfortunately for IE support you will need a code solution that involves JavaScript and dom manipulation. This means that anytime the contents of the list changes you will need to perform the operation for reordering the list into columns and reprinting. The solution below uses jQuery for brevity.
http://jsfiddle.net/HP85j/19/
HTML:
<div>
<ul class="columns" data-columns="2">
<li>A</li>
<li>B</li>
<li>C</li>
<li>D</li>
<li>E</li>
<li>F</li>
<li>G</li>
</ul>
</div>
JavaScript:
(function($){
var initialContainer = $('.columns'),
columnItems = $('.columns li'),
columns = null,
column = 1; // account for initial column
function updateColumns(){
column = 0;
columnItems.each(function(idx, el){
if (idx !== 0 && idx > (columnItems.length / columns.length) + (column * idx)){
column += 1;
}
$(columns.get(column)).append(el);
});
}
function setupColumns(){
columnItems.detach();
while (column++ < initialContainer.data('columns')){
initialContainer.clone().insertBefore(initialContainer);
column++;
}
columns = $('.columns');
}
$(function(){
setupColumns();
updateColumns();
});
})(jQuery);
CSS:
.columns{
float: left;
position: relative;
margin-right: 20px;
}
EDIT:
As pointed out below this will order the columns as follows:
A E
B F
C G
D
while the OP asked for a variant matching the following:
A B
C D
E F
G
To accomplish the variant you simply change the code to the following:
function updateColumns(){
column = 0;
columnItems.each(function(idx, el){
if (column > columns.length){
column = 0;
}
$(columns.get(column)).append(el);
column += 1;
});
}
How do I create a link to add an entry to a calendar?
UPDATE (free for personal use):
HTTPS IS NOW SUPPORTED
While my answer below detailing how-to for each service WILL work, IMO it's much easier now to go with a third-party like AddThisEvent [https://addthisevent.com]. It lets you customize lots of options as well as add to Facebook and more. Unfortunately, they've now made it a paid service for anything other than personal use and do enforce this.
I assume there are other third-party solutions like this one, but I can only speak to this one, and it has worked great for us so far.
For an "Add to my Google Calendar", they used to have a code generator form you could use, but have since taken it down. For more details on Google Calendar links, see squarecandy's answer below.
For Outlook, it's a BIT more complicated, but basically you need to create a .vcs
file with the event's data, and just make a link to that file. Step-by-step instructions here.
For an iCal link, you could use a PHP class like this one, or follow this page's instructions on how to create an ics
file (iCal file).
Calculate rolling / moving average in C++
You simply need a circular array (circular buffer) of 1000 elements, where you add the element to the previous element and store it.
It becomes an increasing sum, where you can always get the sum between any two pairs of elements, and divide by the number of elements between them, to yield the average.
Is it possible to make an HTML anchor tag not clickable/linkable using CSS?
A more un-obtrusive way (assuming you use jQuery):
HTML:
<a id="my-link" href="page.html">page link</a>
Javascript:
$('#my-link').click(function(e)
{
e.preventDefault();
});
The advantage of this is the clean separation between logic and presentation. If one day you decide that this link would do something else, you don't have to mess with the markup, just the JS.
How to add title to seaborn boxplot
Seaborn box plot returns a matplotlib axes instance. Unlike pyplot itself, which has a method plt.title()
, the corresponding argument for an axes is ax.set_title()
. Therefore you need to call
sns.boxplot('Day', 'Count', data= gg).set_title('lalala')
A complete example would be:
import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
tips = sns.load_dataset("tips")
sns.boxplot(x=tips["total_bill"]).set_title("LaLaLa")
plt.show()
Of course you could also use the returned axes instance to make it more readable:
ax = sns.boxplot('Day', 'Count', data= gg)
ax.set_title('lalala')
ax.set_ylabel('lololo')
How to get a vCard (.vcf file) into Android contacts from website
AFAIK Android doesn't support vCard files out of the Box at least not until 2.2.
You could use the app vCardIO to read vcf files from your SD card and save to you contacts.
So you have to save them on your SD card in the first place and import them afterwards.
vCardIO is also available trough the market.
How to validate an Email in PHP?
I always use this:
function validEmail($email){
// First, we check that there's one @ symbol, and that the lengths are right
if (!preg_match("/^[^@]{1,64}@[^@]{1,255}$/", $email)) {
// Email invalid because wrong number of characters in one section, or wrong number of @ symbols.
return false;
}
// Split it into sections to make life easier
$email_array = explode("@", $email);
$local_array = explode(".", $email_array[0]);
for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($local_array); $i++) {
if (!preg_match("/^(([A-Za-z0-9!#$%&'*+\/=?^_`{|}~-][A-Za-z0-9!#$%&'*+\/=?^_`{|}~\.-]{0,63})|(\"[^(\\|\")]{0,62}\"))$/", $local_array[$i])) {
return false;
}
}
if (!preg_match("/^\[?[0-9\.]+\]?$/", $email_array[1])) { // Check if domain is IP. If not, it should be valid domain name
$domain_array = explode(".", $email_array[1]);
if (sizeof($domain_array) < 2) {
return false; // Not enough parts to domain
}
for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($domain_array); $i++) {
if (!preg_match("/^(([A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9-]{0,61}[A-Za-z0-9])|([A-Za-z0-9]+))$/", $domain_array[$i])) {
return false;
}
}
}
return true;
}
How to find GCD, LCM on a set of numbers
import java.util.*;
public class lcm {
public static void main(String args[])
{
int lcmresult=1;
System.out.println("Enter the number1: ");
Scanner s=new Scanner(System.in);
int a=s.nextInt();
System.out.println("Enter the number2: ");
int b=s.nextInt();
int max=a>b?a:b;
for(int i=2;i<=max;i++)
{
while(a%i==0||b%i==0)
{
lcmresult=lcmresult*i;
if(a%i==0)
a=a/i;
if(b%i==0)
b=b/i;
if(a==1&&b==1)
break;
}
}
System.out.println("lcm: "+lcmresult);
}
}
How to gzip all files in all sub-directories into one compressed file in bash
tar -zcvf compressFileName.tar.gz folderToCompress
everything in folderToCompress will go to compressFileName
Edit: After review and comments I realized that people may get confused with compressFileName without an extension. If you want you can use .tar.gz extension(as suggested) with the compressFileName
Parsing Query String in node.js
node -v
v9.10.1
If you try to console log query object directly you will get error TypeError: Cannot convert object to primitive value
So I would suggest use JSON.stringify
const http = require('http');
const url = require('url');
const server = http.createServer((req, res) => {
const parsedUrl = url.parse(req.url, true);
const path = parsedUrl.pathname, query = parsedUrl.query;
const method = req.method;
res.end("hello world\n");
console.log(`Request received on: ${path} + method: ${method} + query:
${JSON.stringify(query)}`);
console.log('query: ', query);
});
server.listen(3000, () => console.log("Server running at port 3000"));
So doing curl http://localhost:3000/foo\?fizz\=buzz
will return Request received on: /foo + method: GET + query: {"fizz":"buzz"}
jQuery get value of selected radio button
To get the value of the selected Radio Button, Use RadioButtonName and the Form Id containing the RadioButton.
$('input[name=radioName]:checked', '#myForm').val()
OR by only
$('form input[type=radio]:checked').val();
How to convert from Hex to ASCII in JavaScript?
You can use this..
_x000D_
_x000D_
var asciiVal = "32343630".match(/.{1,2}/g).map(function(v){_x000D_
return String.fromCharCode(parseInt(v, 16));_x000D_
}).join('');_x000D_
_x000D_
document.write(asciiVal);
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_
Change the URL in the browser without loading the new page using JavaScript
With HTML 5, use the history.pushState
function. As an example:
<script type="text/javascript">
var stateObj = { foo: "bar" };
function change_my_url()
{
history.pushState(stateObj, "page 2", "bar.html");
}
var link = document.getElementById('click');
link.addEventListener('click', change_my_url, false);
</script>
and a href:
<a href="#" id='click'>Click to change url to bar.html</a>
If you want to change the URL without adding an entry to the back button list, use history.replaceState
instead.
Oracle Installer:[INS-13001] Environment does not meet minimum requirements
i was also getting this error, remove oracle folder from
C:\Program Files (x86)\Oracle\Inventory
and
C:\Program Files\Oracle\Inventory
Also remove all component of oracle other version (which you had already in your system).
Go to services and remove all oracle component and delete old client from
C:\app\username\product\11.2.0\client_1\
Setting focus to iframe contents
This is something that worked for me, although it smells a bit wrong:
var iframe = ...
var doc = iframe.contentDocument;
var i = doc.createElement('input');
i.style.display = 'none';
doc.body.appendChild(i);
i.focus();
doc.body.removeChild(i);
hmmm. it also scrolls to the bottom of the content. Guess I should be inserting the dummy textbox at the top.
Windows batch files: .bat vs .cmd?
I believe if you change the value of the ComSpec environment variable to %SystemRoot%system32\cmd.exe
(CMD) then it doesn't matter if the file extension is .BAT
or .CMD
. I'm not sure, but this may even be the default for WinXP and above.
shell script. how to extract string using regular expressions
Using bash regular expressions:
re="http://([^/]+)/"
if [[ $name =~ $re ]]; then echo ${BASH_REMATCH[1]}; fi
Edit - OP asked for explanation of syntax. Regular expression syntax is a large topic which I can't explain in full here, but I will attempt to explain enough to understand the example.
re="http://([^/]+)/"
This is the regular expression stored in a bash variable, re
- i.e. what you want your input string to match, and hopefully extract a substring. Breaking it down:
http://
is just a string - the input string must contain this substring for the regular expression to match
[]
Normally square brackets are used say "match any character within the brackets". So c[ao]t
would match both "cat" and "cot". The ^
character within the []
modifies this to say "match any character except those within the square brackets. So in this case [^/]
will match any character apart from "/".
- The square bracket expression will only match one character. Adding a
+
to the end of it says "match 1 or more of the preceding sub-expression". So [^/]+
matches 1 or more of the set of all characters, excluding "/".
- Putting
()
parentheses around a subexpression says that you want to save whatever matched that subexpression for later processing. If the language you are using supports this, it will provide some mechanism to retrieve these submatches. For bash, it is the BASH_REMATCH array.
- Finally we do an exact match on "/" to make sure we match all the way to end of the fully qualified domain name and the following "/"
Next, we have to test the input string against the regular expression to see if it matches. We can use a bash conditional to do that:
if [[ $name =~ $re ]]; then
echo ${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
fi
In bash, the [[ ]]
specify an extended conditional test, and may contain the =~
bash regular expression operator. In this case we test whether the input string $name
matches the regular expression $re
. If it does match, then due to the construction of the regular expression, we are guaranteed that we will have a submatch (from the parentheses ()
), and we can access it using the BASH_REMATCH array:
- Element 0 of this array
${BASH_REMATCH[0]}
will be the entire string matched by the regular expression, i.e. "http://www.google.com/".
- Subsequent elements of this array will be subsequent results of submatches. Note you can have multiple submatch
()
within a regular expression - The BASH_REMATCH
elements will correspond to these in order. So in this case ${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
will contain "www.google.com", which I think is the string you want.
Note that the contents of the BASH_REMATCH array only apply to the last time the regular expression =~
operator was used. So if you go on to do more regular expression matches, you must save the contents you need from this array each time.
This may seem like a lengthy description, but I have really glossed over several of the intricacies of regular expressions. They can be quite powerful, and I believe with decent performance, but the regular expression syntax is complex. Also regular expression implementations vary, so different languages will support different features and may have subtle differences in syntax. In particular escaping of characters within a regular expression can be a thorny issue, especially when those characters would have an otherwise different meaning in the given language.
Note that instead of setting the $re
variable on a separate line and referring to this variable in the condition, you can put the regular expression directly into the condition. However in bash 3.2, the rules were changed regarding whether quotes around such literal regular expressions are required or not. Putting the regular expression in a separate variable is a straightforward way around this, so that the condition works as expected in all bash versions that support the =~
match operator.
Escape a string for a sed replace pattern
don't forget all the pleasure that occur with the shell limitation around " and '
so (in ksh)
Var=">New version of \"content' here <"
printf "%s" "${Var}" | sed "s/[&\/\\\\*\\"']/\\&/g' | read -r EscVar
echo "Here is your \"text\" to change" | sed "s/text/${EscVar}/g"
WARNING: Can't verify CSRF token authenticity rails
The top voted answers here are correct but will not work if you are performing cross-domain requests because the session will not be available unless you explicitly tell jQuery to pass the session cookie. Here's how to do that:
$.ajax({
url: url,
type: 'POST',
beforeSend: function(xhr) {
xhr.setRequestHeader('X-CSRF-Token', $('meta[name="csrf-token"]').attr('content'))
},
xhrFields: {
withCredentials: true
}
});
What and where are the stack and heap?
Others have answered the broad strokes pretty well, so I'll throw in a few details.
Stack and heap need not be singular. A common situation in which you have more than one stack is if you have more than one thread in a process. In this case each thread has its own stack. You can also have more than one heap, for example some DLL configurations can result in different DLLs allocating from different heaps, which is why it's generally a bad idea to release memory allocated by a different library.
In C you can get the benefit of variable length allocation through the use of alloca, which allocates on the stack, as opposed to alloc, which allocates on the heap. This memory won't survive your return statement, but it's useful for a scratch buffer.
Making a huge temporary buffer on Windows that you don't use much of is not free. This is because the compiler will generate a stack probe loop that is called every time your function is entered to make sure the stack exists (because Windows uses a single guard page at the end of your stack to detect when it needs to grow the stack. If you access memory more than one page off the end of the stack you will crash). Example:
void myfunction()
{
char big[10000000];
// Do something that only uses for first 1K of big 99% of the time.
}
Check if image exists on server using JavaScript?
You could use something like:
function imageExists(image_url){
var http = new XMLHttpRequest();
http.open('HEAD', image_url, false);
http.send();
return http.status != 404;
}
Obviously you could use jQuery/similar to perform your HTTP request.
$.get(image_url)
.done(function() {
// Do something now you know the image exists.
}).fail(function() {
// Image doesn't exist - do something else.
})
WARNING: Exception encountered during context initialization - cancelling refresh attempt
The important part is this:
Cannot find class [com.rakuten.points.persistence.manager.MemberPointSummaryDAOImpl] for bean with name 'MemberPointSummaryDAOImpl' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/context/PersistenceManagerContext.xml];
due to:
nested exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.rakuten.points.persistence.manager.MemberPointSummaryDAOImpl
According to this log, Spring could not find your MemberPointSummaryDAOImpl
class.
I am getting Failed to load resource: net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT with Google chrome
As others have pointed out, you need to disable extensions and retry the page to see if errors reoccur. If not, then the culprit might be one (or more) of them.
On my own case it was a deprecated switch, I've set up long ago. I used process-per-tab which was getting phased-out in recent (48-53) versions. Once I removed that switch all started to work correctly.
How to Update Date and Time of Raspberry Pi With out Internet
Remember that Raspberry Pi does not have real time clock. So even you are connected to internet have to set the time every time you power on or restart.
This is how it works:
- Type
sudo raspi-config
in the Raspberry Pi command line
- Internationalization options
- Change Time Zone
- Select geographical area
- Select city or region
- Reboot your pi
Next thing you can set time using this command
sudo date -s "Mon Aug 12 20:14:11 UTC 2014"
More about data and time
man date
When Pi is connected to computer should have to manually set data and time
How to enable multidexing with the new Android Multidex support library
Add to AndroidManifest.xml:
android:name="android.support.multidex.MultiDexApplication"
OR
MultiDex.install(this);
in your custom Application's attachBaseContext method
or your custom Application extend MultiDexApplication
add multiDexEnabled = true in your build.gradle
defaultConfig {
multiDexEnabled true
}
dependencies {
compile 'com.android.support:multidex:1.0.0'
}
}
CronJob not running
I've found another reason for user's crontab not running: the hostname is not present on the hosts file:
user@ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/hostname
ubuntu
Now the hosts file:
user@ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
This is on a Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS, the way to fix it is adding the hostname to the hosts file so it resembles something like this:
user@ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 ubuntu localhost
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
Getting the parameters of a running JVM
This technique applies for any java application running local or remote.
- Start your java application.
- Run JVisualVM found in you JDK (such as C:\Program
Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_05\bin\jvisualvm.exe).
- When this useful tool starts look at the list of running java application under the
"Local" tree node.
- Double click [your application] (pid [n]).
- On the right side there will be inspection contents in tab for the
application. In the middle of the Overview tab you will see the JVM
arguments for the application.
jvisualvm can be found in any JDK since JDK 6 Update 7. Video tutorial on jvisualvm is here.
How do I remove a key from a JavaScript object?
If you are using Underscore.js or Lodash, there is a function 'omit' that will do it.
http://underscorejs.org/#omit
var thisIsObject= {
'Cow' : 'Moo',
'Cat' : 'Meow',
'Dog' : 'Bark'
};
_.omit(thisIsObject,'Cow'); //It will return a new object
=> {'Cat' : 'Meow', 'Dog' : 'Bark'} //result
If you want to modify the current object, assign the returning object to the current object.
thisIsObject = _.omit(thisIsObject,'Cow');
With pure JavaScript, use:
delete thisIsObject['Cow'];
Another option with pure JavaScript.
thisIsObject.cow = undefined;
thisIsObject = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(thisIsObject ));
Get an image extension from an uploaded file in Laravel
You can use the pathinfo() function built into PHP for that:
$info = pathinfo(storage_path().'/uploads/categories/featured_image.jpg');
$ext = $info['extension'];
Or more concisely, you can pass an option get get it directly;
$ext = pathinfo(storage_path().'/uploads/categories/featured_image.jpg', PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
call a static method inside a class?
This is a very late response, but adds some detail on the previous answers
When it comes to calling static methods in PHP from another static method on the same class, it is important to differentiate between self
and the class name.
Take for instance this code:
class static_test_class {
public static function test() {
echo "Original class\n";
}
public static function run($use_self) {
if($use_self) {
self::test();
} else {
$class = get_called_class();
$class::test();
}
}
}
class extended_static_test_class extends static_test_class {
public static function test() {
echo "Extended class\n";
}
}
extended_static_test_class::run(true);
extended_static_test_class::run(false);
The output of this code is:
Original class
Extended class
This is because self
refers to the class the code is in, rather than the class of the code it is being called from.
If you want to use a method defined on a class which inherits the original class, you need to use something like:
$class = get_called_class();
$class::function_name();
MySQL select with CONCAT condition
Use CONCAT_WS().
SELECT CONCAT_WS(' ',firstname,lastname) as firstlast FROM users
WHERE firstlast = "Bob Michael Jones";
The first argument is the separator for the rest of the arguments.