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What is difference between arm64 and armhf?

Update: Yes, I understand that this answer does not explain the difference between arm64 and armhf. There is a great answer that does explain that on this page. This answer was intended to help set the asker on the right path, as they clearly had a misunderstanding about the capabilities of the Raspberry Pi at the time of asking.

Where are you seeing that the architecture is armhf? On my Raspberry Pi 3, I get:

$ uname -a
armv7l

Anyway, armv7 indicates that the system architecture is 32-bit. The first ARM architecture offering 64-bit support is armv8. See this table for reference.

You are correct that the CPU in the Raspberry Pi 3 is 64-bit, but the Raspbian OS has not yet been updated for a 64-bit device. 32-bit software can run on a 64-bit system (but not vice versa). This is why you're not seeing the architecture reported as 64-bit.

You can follow the GitHub issue for 64-bit support here, if you're interested.

Adding Counter in shell script

Here's how you might implement a counter:

counter=0
while true; do
  if /home/hadoop/latest/bin/hadoop fs -ls /apps/hdtech/bds/quality-rt/dt=$DATE_YEST_FORMAT2 then
       echo "Files Present" | mailx -s "File Present"  -r [email protected] [email protected]
       exit 0
  elif [[ "$counter" -gt 20 ]]; then
       echo "Counter: $counter times reached; Exiting loop!"
       exit 1
  else
       counter=$((counter+1))
       echo "Counter: $counter time(s); Sleeping for another half an hour" | mailx -s "Time to Sleep Now"  -r [email protected] [email protected]
       sleep 1800
  fi
done

Some Explanations:

  • counter=$((counter+1)) - this is how you can increment a counter. The $ for counter is optional inside the double parentheses in this case.
  • elif [[ "$counter" -gt 20 ]]; then - this checks whether $counter is not greater than 20. If so, it outputs the appropriate message and breaks out of your while loop.

Entity Framework (EF) Code First Cascade Delete for One-to-Zero-or-One relationship

You will have to use the fluent API to do this.

Try adding the following to your DbContext:

protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
{   
    modelBuilder.Entity<User>()
        .HasOptional(a => a.UserDetail)
        .WithOptionalDependent()
        .WillCascadeOnDelete(true);
}

How to get the number of threads in a Java process

Generic solution that doesn't require a GUI like jconsole (doesn't work on remote terminals), ps works for non-java processes, doesn't require a JVM installed.

ps -o nlwp <pid>

How do I include a file over 2 directories back?

You can do ../../directory/file.txt - This goes two directories back.

../../../ - this goes three. etc

POST request via RestTemplate in JSON

I was getting this problem and I'm using Spring's RestTemplate on the client and Spring Web on the server. Both APIs have very poor error reporting, making them extremely difficult to develop with.

After many hours of trying all sorts of experiments I figured out that the issue was being caused by passing in a null reference for the POST body instead of the expected List. I presume that RestTemplate cannot determine the content-type from a null object, but doesn't complain about it. After adding the correct headers, I started getting a different server-side exception in Spring before entering my service method.

The fix was to pass in an empty List from the client instead of null. No headers are required since the default content-type is used for non-null objects.

sklearn error ValueError: Input contains NaN, infinity or a value too large for dtype('float64')

I would like to propose a solution for numpy that worked well for me. The line

from numpy import inf
inputArray[inputArray == inf] = np.finfo(np.float64).max

substitues all infite values of a numpy array with the maximum float64 number.

How does JavaScript .prototype work?

After reading this thread, I feel confused with JavaScript Prototype Chain, then I found these charts

http://iwiki.readthedocs.org/en/latest/javascript/js_core.html#inheritance *[[protytype]]* and <code>prototype</code> property of function objects

it's a clear chart to show JavaScript Inheritance by Prototype Chain

and

http://www.javascriptbank.com/javascript/article/JavaScript_Classical_Inheritance/

this one contains a example with code and several nice diagrams.

prototype chain ultimately falls back to Object.prototype.

prototype chain can be technically extended as long as you want, each time by setting the prototype of the subclass equal to an object of the parent class.

Hope it's also helpful for you to understand JavaScript Prototype Chain.

Attempt to invoke virtual method 'void android.widget.Button.setOnClickListener(android.view.View$OnClickListener)' on a null object reference

 mAddTaskButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener()

you have a click listner but you haven't initialized the mAddTaskButton with your layout binding

Command not found error in Bash variable assignment

Drop the spaces around the = sign:

#!/bin/bash 
STR="Hello World" 
echo $STR 

Getting a directory name from a filename

Use boost::filesystem. It will be incorporated into the next standard anyway so you may as well get used to it.

HTML / CSS Popup div on text click

You can simply use jQuery UI Dialog

Example:

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How to locate and insert a value in a text box (input) using Python Selenium?

Assuming your page is available under "http://example.com"

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://example.com")

Select element by id:

inputElement = driver.find_element_by_id("a1")
inputElement.send_keys('1')

Now you can simulate hitting ENTER:

inputElement.send_keys(Keys.ENTER)

or if it is a form you can submit:

inputElement.submit() 

How to solve "Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel with authority"

Please do following steps:

  1. Open service link in IE.

  2. Click on the certificate error mention in address bar and click on View certificates.

  3. Check issued to: name.

  4. Take the issued name and replace localhost mention in service and client endpoint base address name with A fully qualified domain name (FQDN).

For Example: https://localhost:203/SampleService.svc To https://INL-126166-.groupinfra.com:203/SampleService.svc

Jquery set radio button checked, using id and class selectors

"...by a class and a div."

I assume when you say "div" you mean "id"? Try this:

$('#test2.test1').prop('checked', true);

No need to muck about with your [attributename=value] style selectors because id has its own format as does class, and they're easily combined although given that id is supposed to be unique it should be enough on its own unless your meaning is "select that element only if it currently has the specified class".

Or more generally to select an input where you want to specify a multiple attribute selector:

$('input:radio[class=test1][id=test2]').prop('checked', true);

That is, list each attribute with its own square brackets.

Note that unless you have a pretty old version of jQuery you should use .prop() rather than .attr() for this purpose.

Difference between DOMContentLoaded and load events

See the difference yourself:

DEMO

From Microsoft IE

The DOMContentLoaded event fires when parsing of the current page is complete; the load event fires when all files have finished loading from all resources, including ads and images. DOMContentLoaded is a great event to use to hookup UI functionality to complex web pages.

From Mozilla Developer Network

The DOMContentLoaded event is fired when the document has been completely loaded and parsed, without waiting for stylesheets, images, and subframes to finish loading (the load event can be used to detect a fully-loaded page).

Android Layout Animations from bottom to top and top to bottom on ImageView click

Below Kotlin code will help

Bottom to Top or Slide to Up

private fun slideUp() {
    isMapInfoShown = true
    views!!.layoutMapInfo.visible()
    val animate = TranslateAnimation(
        0f,  // fromXDelta
        0f,  // toXDelta
        views!!.layoutMapInfo.height.toFloat(),  // fromYDelta
        0f  // toYDelta
    )

    animate.duration = 500
    animate.fillAfter = true
    views!!.layoutMapInfo.startAnimation(animate)
}

Top to Bottom or Slide to Down

private fun slideDown() {
    if (isMapInfoShown) {
        isMapInfoShown = false
        val animate = TranslateAnimation(
            0f,  // fromXDelta
            0f,  // toXDelta
            0f,  // fromYDelta
            views!!.layoutMapInfo.height.toFloat()  // toYDelta
        )

        animate.duration = 500
        animate.fillAfter = true
        views!!.layoutMapInfo.startAnimation(animate)
        views!!.layoutMapInfo.gone()
    }
}

Kotlin Extensions for Visible and Gone

fun View.visible() {
    this.visibility = View.VISIBLE
}


fun View.gone() {
    this.visibility = View.GONE
}

convert HTML ( having Javascript ) to PDF using JavaScript

With Docmosis or JODReports you could feed your HTML and Javascript to the document render process which could produce PDF or doc or other formats. The conversion underneath is performed by OpenOffice so results will be dependent on the OpenOffice import filters. You can try manually by saving your web page to a file, then loading with OpenOffice - if that looks good enough, then these tools will be able to give you the same result as a PDF.

PHP foreach loop key value

foreach($shipmentarr as $index=>$val){    
    $additionalService = array();

    foreach($additionalService[$index] as $key => $value) {

        array_push($additionalService,$value);

    }
}

Set and Get Methods in java?

just because the OOP rule: Data Hiding and Encapsulation. It is a very bad practice to declare a object's as public and change it on the fly in most situations. Also there are many other reasons , but the root is Encapsulation in OOP. and "buy a book or go read on Object Oriented Programming ", you will understand everything on this after you read any book on OOP.

What does "make oldconfig" do exactly in the Linux kernel makefile?

From this page:

Make oldconfig takes the .config and runs it through the rules of the Kconfig files and produces a .config which is consistant with the Kconfig rules. If there are CONFIG values which are missing, the make oldconfig will ask for them.

If the .config is already consistant with the rules found in Kconfig, then make oldconfig is essentially a no-op.

If you were to run make oldconfig, and then run make oldconfig a second time, the second time won't cause any additional changes to be made.

X close button only using css

Try This Cross In CSS

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How to remove text before | character in notepad++

To replace anything that starts with "text" until the last character:

text.+(.*)$

Example

text             hsjh sdjh sd          jhsjhsdjhsdj hsd
                                                      ^
                                                      last character


To replace anything that starts with "text" until "123"

text.+(\ 123)

Example

text fuhfh283nfnd03no3 d90d3nd 3d 123 udauhdah au dauh ej2e
^                                   ^
From here                     To here

How to set x axis values in matplotlib python?

The scaling on your example figure is a bit strange but you can force it by plotting the index of each x-value and then setting the ticks to the data points:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
x = [0.00001,0.001,0.01,0.1,0.5,1,5]
# create an index for each tick position
xi = list(range(len(x)))
y = [0.945,0.885,0.893,0.9,0.996,1.25,1.19]
plt.ylim(0.8,1.4)
# plot the index for the x-values
plt.plot(xi, y, marker='o', linestyle='--', color='r', label='Square') 
plt.xlabel('x')
plt.ylabel('y') 
plt.xticks(xi, x)
plt.title('compare')
plt.legend() 
plt.show()

Converting a string to a date in DB2

I know its old post but still I want to contribute
Above will not work if you have data format like this
'YYYMMDD'

For example:

Dt
20151104

So I tried following in order to get the desired result.

select cast(Left('20151104', 4)||'-'||substring('20151104',5,2)||'-'||substring('20151104', 7,2) as date) from SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1;

Additionally, If you want to run the query from MS SQL linked server to DB2(To display only 100 rows).

    SELECT top 100 * from OPENQUERY([Linked_Server_Name],
    'select cast(Left(''20151104'', 4)||''-''||substring(''20151104'',5,2)||''-''||substring(''20151104'', 7,2) as date) AS Dt 
    FROM SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1')

Result after above query:

Dt
2015-11-04

Hope this helps for others.

Setting focus on an HTML input box on page load

This line:

<input type="password" name="PasswordInput"/>

should have an id attribute, like so:

<input type="password" name="PasswordInput" id="PasswordInput"/>

postgres default timezone

To acomplish the timezone change in Postgres 9.1 you must:

1.- Search in your "timezones" folder in /usr/share/postgresql/9.1/ for the appropiate file, in my case would be "America.txt", in it, search for the closest location to your zone and copy the first letters in the left column.

For example: if you are in "New York" or "Panama" it would be "EST":

#  - EST: Eastern Standard Time (Australia)
EST    -18000    # Eastern Standard Time (America)
                 #     (America/New_York)
                 #     (America/Panama)

2.- Uncomment the "timezone" line in your postgresql.conf file and put your timezone as shown:

#intervalstyle = 'postgres'
#timezone = '(defaults to server environment setting)'
timezone = 'EST'
#timezone_abbreviations = 'EST'     # Select the set of available time zone
                                        # abbreviations.  Currently, there are
                                        #   Default
                                        #   Australia

3.- Restart Postgres

How to wait for a JavaScript Promise to resolve before resuming function?

Another option is to use Promise.all to wait for an array of promises to resolve and then act on those.

Code below shows how to wait for all the promises to resolve and then deal with the results once they are all ready (as that seemed to be the objective of the question); Also for illustrative purposes, it shows output during execution (end finishes before middle).

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function append_output(suffix, value) {
  $("#output_"+suffix).append(value)
}

function kickOff() {
  let start = new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    append_output("now", "start")
    resolve("start")
  })
  let middle = new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    setTimeout(() => {
      append_output("now", " middle")
      resolve(" middle")
    }, 1000)
  })
  let end = new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    append_output("now", " end")
    resolve(" end")
  })

  Promise.all([start, middle, end]).then(results => {
    results.forEach(
      result => append_output("later", result))
  })
}

kickOff()
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<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
Updated during execution: <div id="output_now"></div>
Updated after all have completed: <div id="output_later"></div>
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Compile error: package javax.servlet does not exist

The possible solution (Tested on ubuntu)

  1. Open Terminal type geany .bashrc
  2. Go to the top and paste this
    export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/web/apache-tomcat-8.5.39/lib/servlet-api.jar
  3. Now save and close
  4. Try running the program now.

How to create a new component in Angular 4 using CLI

If you want to create new component without .spec file, you can use

ng g c component-name --spec false

You can find these options using ng g c --help

Push to GitHub without a password using ssh-key

Using the command line:

Enter ls -al ~/.ssh to see if existing SSH keys are present.

In the terminal is shows: No directory exist

Then generate a new SSH key

Step 1.

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "[email protected]"

step 2.

Enter a file in which to save the key (/Users/you/.ssh/id_rsa): <here is file name and enter the key>

step 3.

Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): [Type a password]

Enter same passphrase again: [Type password again]

How can I add the new "Floating Action Button" between two widgets/layouts

Now it is part of official Design Support Library.

In your gradle:

compile 'com.android.support:design:22.2.0'

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/design/widget/FloatingActionButton.html

How does one set up the Visual Studio Code compiler/debugger to GCC?

You need to install C compiler, C/C++ extension, configure launch.json and tasks.json to be able to debug C code.

This article would guide you how to do it: https://medium.com/@jerrygoyal/run-debug-intellisense-c-c-in-vscode-within-5-minutes-3ed956e059d6

HTTPS and SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed, CA is OK

For the love of all that is holy...

In my case, I had to set the openssl.cafile PHP config variable to the PEM file path.

I trust it is very true that there are many systems where setting curl.cainfo in PHP's config is exactly what is needed, but in the environment I'm working with, which is the eboraas/laravel docker container, which uses Debian 8 (jessie) and PHP 5.6, setting that variable did not do the trick.

I noticed that the output of php -i did not mention anything about that particular config setting, but it did have a few lines about openssl. There is both an openssl.capath and openssl.cafile option, but just setting the second one allowed curl via PHP to finally be okay with HTTPS URLs.

How do I make JavaScript beep?

Using CSS you can do it if you add the following style to a tag, but you will need a wav file:

<style type="text/css">
        .beep {cue: url("beep.wav") }
</style>

var body=document.getElementByTagName("body");
body.className=body.className + " " + "beep";

What's the location of the JavaFX runtime JAR file, jfxrt.jar, on Linux?

The location of jfxrt.jar in JDK 1.8 (Windows) is:

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_05\jre\lib\ext\jfxrt.jar

ADB not recognising Nexus 4 under Windows 7

To fix/install Android USB driver on Windows 7/8 32bit/64bit:

  1. Connect your Android-powered device to your computer's USB port.
  2. Right-click on Computer from your desktop or Windows Explorer, and select Manage.
  3. Select Devices in the left pane.
  4. Locate and expand Other device in the right pane.
  5. Right-click the device name (Nexus 7 / Nexus 5 / Nexus 4) and select Update Driver Software. This will launch the Hardware Update Wizard.
  6. Select Browse my computer for driver software and click Next.
  7. Click Browse and locate the USB driver folder. (The Google USB Driver is located in <sdk>\extras\google\usb_driver\.)
  8. Click Next to install the driver.

If it still doesn't work try changing from MTP to PTP.

MTP -> PTP

gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found

export https_proxy=http://user:pswd@host:port
                   ^^^^

Use http for https_proxy instead of https

ASP.NET postback with JavaScript

Using __doPostBack directly is sooooo the 2000s. Anybody coding WebForms in 2018 uses GetPostBackEventReference

(More seriously though, adding this as an answer for completeness. Using the __doPostBack directly is bad practice (single underscore prefix typically indicates a private member and double indicates a more universal private member), though it probably won't change or become obsolete at this point. We have a fully supported mechanism in ClientScriptManager.GetPostBackEventReference.)

Assuming your btnRefresh is inside our UpdatePanel and causes a postback, you can use GetPostBackEventReference like this (inspiration):

function RefreshGrid() {
    <%= ClientScript.GetPostBackEventReference(btnRefresh, String.Empty) %>;
}

Conditional WHERE clause in SQL Server

The problem with your query is that in CASE expressions, the THEN and ELSE parts have to have an expression that evaluates to a number or a varchar or any other datatype but not to a boolean value.

You just need to use boolean logic (or rather the ternary logic that SQL uses) and rewrite it:

WHERE 
    DateDropped = 0
AND ( @JobsOnHold = 1 AND DateAppr >= 0 
   OR (@JobsOnHold <> 1 OR @JobsOnHold IS NULL) AND DateAppr <> 0
    )

org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal SEVERE: Error listenerStart

I had a similar problem. The catalina.out logged this log Message

Apr 17, 2013 5:14:46 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start SEVERE: Error listenerStart

Check the localhost.log in the tomcat log directory (in the same directory as catalina.out), to see the exception which caused this error.

How can I make a TextBox be a "password box" and display stars when using MVVM?

You can make your TextBox as customed PasswordBox by simply adding the following value to FontFamily property of your TextBox control.

<TextBox
    Text="{Binding Password}"
    FontFamily="ms-appx:///Assets/PassDot.ttf#PassDot"
    FontSize="35"/>

In my case this works perfectly. This will show dot in place of the actual text (not star(*) though).

Attempt by security transparent method 'WebMatrix.WebData.PreApplicationStartCode.Start()'

Reinstalling Microsoft.AspNet.WebHelpers works for me

Update-Package –reinstall Microsoft.AspNet.WebHelpers

Unresponsive KeyListener for JFrame

InputMaps and ActionMaps were designed to capture the key events for the component, it and all of its sub-components, or the entire window. This is controlled through the parameter in JComponent.getInputMap(). See How to Use Key Bindings for documentation.

The beauty of this design is that one can pick and choose which key strokes are important to monitor and have different actions fired based on those key strokes.

This code will call dispose() on a JFrame when the escape key is hit anywhere in the window. JFrame doesn't derive from JComponent so you have to use another component in the JFrame to create the key binding. The content pane might be such a component.

InputMap inputMap; 
ActionMap actionMap;
AbstractAction action;
JComponent component;

inputMap  = component.getInputMap(JComponent.WHEN_IN_FOCUSED_WINDOW);
actionMap = component.getActionMap();

action    = new AbstractAction()
{
   @Override
   public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
   {
      dispose();
   }
};

inputMap.put(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_ESCAPE, 0), "dispose");
actionMap.put("dispose", action);

Change image in HTML page every few seconds

As of current edited version of the post, you call setInterval at each change's end, adding a new "changer" with each new iterration. That means after first run, there's one of them ticking in memory, after 100 runs, 100 different changers change image 100 times every second, completely destroying performance and producing confusing results.

You only need to "prime" setInterval once. Remove it from function and place it inside onload instead of direct function call.

ojdbc14.jar vs. ojdbc6.jar

The "14" and "6" in those driver names refer to the JVM they were written for. If you're still using JDK 1.4 I'd say you have a serious problem and need to upgrade. JDK 1.4 is long past its useful support life. It didn't even have generics! JDK 6 u21 is the current production standard from Oracle/Sun. I'd recommend switching to it if you haven't already.

Determine on iPhone if user has enabled push notifications

Call enabledRemoteNotificationsTypes and check the mask.

For example:

UIRemoteNotificationType types = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] enabledRemoteNotificationTypes];
if (types == UIRemoteNotificationTypeNone) 
   // blah blah blah

iOS8 and above:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] isRegisteredForRemoteNotifications]

Use JSTL forEach loop's varStatus as an ID

You can try this. similar result

 <c:forEach items="${loopableObject}" var="theObject" varStatus="theCount">
    <div id="divIDNo${theCount.count}"></div>
 </c:forEach>

How to add a new column to an existing sheet and name it?

Use insert method from range, for example

Sub InsertColumn()
        Columns("C:C").Insert Shift:=xlToRight, CopyOrigin:=xlFormatFromLeftOrAbove
        Range("C1").Value = "Loc"
End Sub

How to empty a char array?

using

  memset(members, 0, 255);

in general

  memset(members, 0, sizeof members);

if the array is in scope, or

  memset(members, 0, nMembers * (sizeof members[0]) );

if you only have the pointer value, and nMembers is the number of elements in the array.


EDIT Of course, now the requirement has changed from the generic task of clearing an array to purely resetting a string, memset is overkill and just zeroing the first element suffices (as noted in other answers).


EDIT In order to use memset, you have to include string.h.

Unable to connect to mongodb Error: couldn't connect to server 127.0.0.1:27017 at src/mongo/shell/mongo.js:L112

If any one is facing the problem in windows machine then follow the steps.

  1. Add the path of mongodb in the environmental variable.
  2. Create a directory C:\Data\db.
  3. Open a terminal(cmd) and write mongod. (it will initiate the server).
  4. Open another terminal and write your own code.

Python - OpenCV - imread - Displaying Image

This can help you

namedWindow( "Display window", CV_WINDOW_AUTOSIZE );// Create a window for display.
imshow( "Display window", image );                   // Show our image inside it.

How can I execute PHP code from the command line?

Using PHP from the command line

Use " instead of ' on Windows when using the CLI version with -r:

php -r "echo 1;"

-- correct

php -r 'echo 1;'

-- incorrect

  PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected ''echo' (T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE), expecting end of file in Command line code on line 1

Don't forget the semicolon to close the line.

When does System.gc() do something?

Most JVMs will kick off a GC (depending on the -XX:DiableExplicitGC and -XX:+ExplicitGCInvokesConcurrent switch). But the specification is just less well defined in order to allow better implementations later on.

The spec needs clarification: Bug #6668279: (spec) System.gc() should indicate that we don't recommend use and don't guarantee behaviour

Internally the gc method is used by RMI and NIO, and they require synchronous execution, which: this is currently in discussion:

Bug #5025281: Allow System.gc() to trigger concurrent (not stop-the-world) full collections

Webdriver Screenshot

This will take screenshot and place it in a directory of a chosen name.

import os
driver.save_screenshot(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)), 'NameOfScreenShotDirectory', 'PutFileNameHere'))

DateTimePicker: pick both date and time

Set the Format to Custom and then specify the format:

dateTimePicker1.Format = DateTimePickerFormat.Custom;
dateTimePicker1.CustomFormat = "MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss";  

or however you want to lay it out. You could then type in directly the date/time. If you use MMM, you'll need to use the numeric value for the month for entry, unless you write some code yourself for that (e.g., 5 results in May)

Don't know about the picker for date and time together. Sounds like a custom control to me.

Design Patterns web based applications

BalusC excellent answer covers most of the patterns for web applications.

Some application may require Chain-of-responsibility_pattern

In object-oriented design, the chain-of-responsibility pattern is a design pattern consisting of a source of command objects and a series of processing objects. Each processing object contains logic that defines the types of command objects that it can handle; the rest are passed to the next processing object in the chain.

Use case to use this pattern:

When handler to process a request(command) is unknown and this request can be sent to multiple objects. Generally you set successor to object. If current object can't handle the request or process the request partially and forward the same request to successor object.

Useful SE questions/articles:

Why would I ever use a Chain of Responsibility over a Decorator?

Common usages for chain of responsibility?

chain-of-responsibility-pattern from oodesign

chain_of_responsibility from sourcemaking

Git log to get commits only for a specific branch

git rev-list --exclude=master --branches --no-walk

will list the tips of every branch that isn't master.

git rev-list master --not $(git rev-list --exclude=master --branches --no-walk)

will list every commit in master's history that's not in any other branch's history.

Sequencing is important for the options that set up the filter pipeline for commit selection, so --branches has to follow any exclusion patterns it's supposed to apply, and --no-walk has to follow the filters supplying commits rev-list isn't supposed to walk.

Control flow in T-SQL SP using IF..ELSE IF - are there other ways?

Nope IF is the way to go, what is the problem you have with using it?

BTW your example won't ever get to the third block of code as it and the second block are exactly alike.

Extract a substring using PowerShell

other solution

$template="-----start-------{Value:This is a test 123}------end-------"
$text="-----start-------Hello World------end-------"

$text | ConvertFrom-String -TemplateContent $template

How to append something to an array?

You can use push method.

Array.prototype.append = function(destArray){
     destArray = destArray || [];
     this.push.call(this,...destArray);
     return this;
}
var arr = [1,2,5,67];
var arr1 = [7,4,7,8];
console.log(arr.append(arr1));// [7, 4, 7, 8, 1, 4, 5, 67, 7]
console.log(arr.append("Hola"))//[1, 2, 5, 67, 7, 4, 7, 8, "H", "o", "l", "a"]

error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _main referenced in function ___tmainCRTStartup

If you are using Visual Studio. The reason you might be recieving this error may be because you originally created a new header file.h and then renamed it to file.cpp where you placed your main() function.

To fix the issue right click file.cpp -> click Properties go to
Configuration Properties -> General ->Item Type and change its value to C/C++ compiler instead of C/C++ header.

Mips how to store user input string

# This code works fine in QtSpim simulator

.data
    buffer: .space 20
    str1:  .asciiz "Enter string"
    str2:  .asciiz "You wrote:\n"

.text

main:
    la $a0, str1    # Load and print string asking for string
    li $v0, 4
    syscall

    li $v0, 8       # take in input

    la $a0, buffer  # load byte space into address
    li $a1, 20      # allot the byte space for string

    move $t0, $a0   # save string to t0
    syscall

    la $a0, str2    # load and print "you wrote" string
    li $v0, 4
    syscall

    la $a0, buffer  # reload byte space to primary address
    move $a0, $t0   # primary address = t0 address (load pointer)
    li $v0, 4       # print string
    syscall

    li $v0, 10      # end program
    syscall

Detect if user is scrolling

Use an interval to check

You can setup an interval to keep checking if the user has scrolled then do something accordingly.

Borrowing from the great John Resig in his article.

Example:

    let didScroll = false;

    window.onscroll = () => didScroll = true;

    setInterval(() => {
        if ( didScroll ) {
            didScroll = false;
            console.log('Someone scrolled me!')
        }
    }, 250);

See live example

How to print a list of symbols exported from a dynamic library

Use nm -a your.dylib

It will print all the symbols including globals

how to use sqltransaction in c#

You can create a SqlTransaction from a SqlConnection.

And use it to create any number of SqlCommands

SqlTransaction transaction = connection.BeginTransaction();
var cmd1 = new SqlCommand(command1Text, connection, transaction);
var cmd2 = new SqlCommand(command2Text, connection, transaction);

Or

var cmd1 = new SqlCommand(command1Text, connection, connection.BeginTransaction());
var cmd2 = new SqlCommand(command2Text, connection, cmd1.Transaction);

If the failure of commands never cause unexpected changes don't use transaction.

if the failure of commands might cause unexpected changes put them in a Try/Catch block and rollback the operation in another Try/Catch block.

Why another try/catch? According to MSDN:

Try/Catch exception handling should always be used when rolling back a transaction. A Rollback generates an InvalidOperationException if the connection is terminated or if the transaction has already been rolled back on the server.

Here is a sample code:

string connStr = "[connection string]";
string cmdTxt = "[t-sql command text]";

using (var conn = new SqlConnection(connStr))
{
    conn.Open();
    var cmd = new SqlCommand(cmdTxt, conn, conn.BeginTransaction());


    try
    {
        cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
        //before this line, nothing has happened yet
        cmd.Transaction.Commit();
    }
    catch(System.Exception ex)
    {
        //You should always use a Try/Catch for transaction's rollback
        try
        {
            cmd.Transaction.Rollback();
        }
        catch(System.Exception ex2)
        {
            throw ex2;
        }
        throw ex;
    }

    conn.Close();
}

The transaction is rolled back in the event it is disposed before Commit or Rollback is called.

So you don't need to worry about app being closed.

select and echo a single field from mysql db using PHP

$eventid = $_GET['id'];
$field = $_GET['field'];
$result = mysql_query("SELECT $field FROM `events` WHERE `id` = '$eventid' ");
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
echo $row[$field];

but beware of sql injection cause you are using $_GET directly in a query. The danger of injection is particularly bad because there's no database function to escape identifiers. Instead, you need to pass the field through a whitelist or (better still) use a different name externally than the column name and map the external names to column names. Invalid external names would result in an error.

Convert special characters to HTML in Javascript

You need a function that does something like

return mystring.replace(/&/g, "&amp;").replace(/>/g, "&gt;").replace(/</g, "&lt;").replace(/"/g, "&quot;");

But taking into account your desire for different handling of single/double quotes.

How to lookup JNDI resources on WebLogic?

java is the root JNDI namespace for resources. What the original snippet of code means is that the container the application was initially deployed in did not apply any additional namespaces to the JNDI context you retrieved (as an example, Tomcat automatically adds all resources to the namespace comp/env, so you would have to do dataSource = (javax.sql.DataSource) context.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/myDataSource"); if the resource reference name is jdbc/myDataSource).

To avoid having to change your legacy code I think if you register the datasource with the name myDataSource (remove the jdbc/) you should be fine. Let me know if that works.

How to get the list of all database users

For the SQL Server Owner, you should be able to use:

select suser_sname(owner_sid) as 'Owner', state_desc, *
from sys.databases

For a list of SQL Users:

select * from master.sys.server_principals

Ref. SQL Server Tip: How to find the owner of a database through T-SQL

How do you test for the existence of a user in SQL Server?

Failed to fetch URL https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/addons_list-1.xml, reason: Connection to https://dl-ssl.google.com refused

Do the following.

  1. Close the sdk manager and eclipse.

  2. Go to the folder where you have stored your adt.

  3. In that adt folder you'll find a folder known as tools.

  4. Make a copy of the contents of that folder and paste it in a folder called copytools.

  5. Now go to the command prompt and go to the location of the copytools.

  6. Then execute the command android.bat the sdk manager will start.

  7. Now update all the plugins you want. It'll update your original folder.

  8. After the update delete the copy.

Enjoy. Hope this helps.

jquery drop down menu closing by clicking outside

Stopping Event Propagation in some particular elements ma y become dangerous as it may prevent other some scripts from running. So check whether the triggering is from the excluded area from inside the function.

$(document).on('click', function(event) {
  if (!$(event.target).closest('#menucontainer').length) {
    // Hide the menus.
  }
});

Here function is initiated when clicking on document, but it excludes triggering from #menucontainer. For details https://css-tricks.com/dangers-stopping-event-propagation/

Difference between $(window).load() and $(document).ready() functions

The difference are:

$(document).ready(function() { is jQuery event that is fired when DOM is loaded, so it’s fired when the document structure is ready.

$(window).load() event is fired after whole content is loaded.

How to check whether a string contains a substring in Ruby

You can use the include? method:

my_string = "abcdefg"
if my_string.include? "cde"
   puts "String includes 'cde'"
end

Differences between socket.io and websockets

Using Socket.IO is basically like using jQuery - you want to support older browsers, you need to write less code and the library will provide with fallbacks. Socket.io uses the websockets technology if available, and if not, checks the best communication type available and uses it.

error: RPC failed; curl transfer closed with outstanding read data remaining

This problem usually occurs while cloning large repos. If git clone http://github.com/large-repository --depth 1 does not work on windows cmd. Try running the command in windows powershell.

How can I hide a checkbox in html?

Elements that are not being rendered (be it through visibility: hidden, display: none, opacity: 0.0, whatever) will not indicate focus. The browser will not draw a focus border around nothing.

If you want the text to be focusable, that's completely doable. You can wrap the whole thing in an element that can receive focus (for example, a hyperlink), or allow another tag to have focus using the tabindex property:

<label tabindex="0" class="checkbox">
  <input type="checkbox" value="valueofcheckbox" style="display:none" checked="checked" />Option Text
</label>

Fiddle

In this case, the <label> tag above is actually receiving focus and everything within it will have a focus border when it's in focus.

I do question what your goal is. If you're using a hidden checkbox to internally track some sort of state, you might be better off using a <input type="hidden" /> tag instead.

Gets byte array from a ByteBuffer in java

As simple as that

  private static byte[] getByteArrayFromByteBuffer(ByteBuffer byteBuffer) {
    byte[] bytesArray = new byte[byteBuffer.remaining()];
    byteBuffer.get(bytesArray, 0, bytesArray.length);
    return bytesArray;
}

How to specify maven's distributionManagement organisation wide?

The best solution for this is to create a simple parent pom file project (with packaging 'pom') generically for all projects from your organization.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
     xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>your.company</groupId>
    <artifactId>company-parent</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>pom</packaging>

    <distributionManagement>
        <repository>
            <id>nexus-site</id>
            <url>http://central_nexus/server</url>
        </repository>
    </distributionManagement>

</project>

This can be built, released, and deployed to your local nexus so everyone has access to its artifact.

Now for all projects which you wish to use it, simply include this section:

<parent>
  <groupId>your.company</groupId>
  <artifactId>company-parent</artifactId>
  <version>1.0.0</version>
</parent>

This solution will allow you to easily add other common things to all your company's projects. For instance if you wanted to standardize your JUnit usage to a specific version, this would be the perfect place for that.

If you have projects that use multi-module structures that have their own parent, Maven also supports chaining inheritance so it is perfectly acceptable to make your project's parent pom file refer to your company's parent pom and have the project's child modules not even aware of your company's parent.

I see from your example project structure that you are attempting to put your parent project at the same level as your aggregator pom. If your project needs its own parent, the best approach I have found is to include the parent at the same level as the rest of the modules and have your aggregator pom.xml file at the root of where all your modules' directories exist.

- pom.xml (aggregator)
    - project-parent
    - project-module1
    - project-module2

What you do with this structure is include your parent module in the aggregator and build everything with a mvn install from the root directory.

We use this exact solution at my organization and it has stood the test of time and worked quite well for us.

How can I run specific migration in laravel

use this command php artisan migrate --path=/database/migrations/my_migration.php it worked for me..

Inline JavaScript onclick function

you can use Self-Executing Anonymous Functions. this code will work:

<a href="#" onClick="(function(){
    alert('Hey i am calling');
    return false;
})();return false;">click here</a>

see JSfiddle

Error: select command denied to user '<userid>'@'<ip-address>' for table '<table-name>'

Similar to other answers I had miss typed the query.

I had -

SELECT t.id FROM t.table LEFT JOIN table2 AS t2 ON t.id = t2.table_id

Should have been

SELECT t.id FROM table AS t LEFT JOIN table2 AS t2 ON t.id = t2.table_id

Mysql was trying to find a database called t which the user didn't have permission for.

MongoDB: Server has startup warnings ''Access control is not enabled for the database''

You need to delete your old db folder and recreate new one. It will resolve your issue.

"Multiple definition", "first defined here" errors

You should not include commands.c in your header file. In general, you should not include .c files. Rather, commands.c should include commands.h. As defined here, the C preprocessor is inserting the contents of commands.c into commands.h where the include is. You end up with two definitions of f123 in commands.h.

commands.h

#ifndef COMMANDS_H_
#define COMMANDS_H_

void f123();

#endif

commands.c

#include "commands.h"

void f123()
{
    /* code */
}

@font-face not working

You need to put the font file name / path in quotes.
Eg.

url("../fonts/Gotham-Medium.ttf")

or

url('../fonts/Gotham-Medium.ttf')

and not

url(../fonts/Gotham-Medium.ttf)

Also @FONT-FACE only works with some font files. :o(

All the sites where you can download fonts, never say which fonts work and which ones don't.

How to check if a value exists in an array in Ruby

This will tell you not only that it exists but also how many times it appears:

 a = ['Cat', 'Dog', 'Bird']
 a.count("Dog")
 #=> 1

display HTML page after loading complete

you can also go for this.... this will only show the HTML section once javascript has loaded.

<!-- Adds the hidden style and removes it when javascript has loaded -->
<style type="text/css">
    .hideAll  {
        visibility:hidden;
     }
</style>

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(window).load(function () {
        $("#tabs").removeClass("hideAll");
    });
</script>

<div id="tabs" class="hideAll">
   ##Content##
</div>

text-overflow: ellipsis not working

Add this below code for where you likes to

example

p{
   display: block; /* Fallback for non-webkit */
   display: -webkit-box;
   max-width: 400px;
   margin: 0 auto;
   -webkit-line-clamp: 2;
   -webkit-box-orient: vertical;
   overflow: hidden;
   text-overflow: ellipsis;
 }

Draw text in OpenGL ES

Take a look at CBFG and the Android port of the loading/rendering code. You should be able to drop the code into your project and use it straight away.

CBFG - http://www.codehead.co.uk/cbfg

Android loader - http://www.codehead.co.uk/cbfg/TexFont.java

How do I exit the results of 'git diff' in Git Bash on windows?

None of the above solutions worked for me on Windows 8

But the following command works fine

SHIFT + Q

(XML) The markup in the document following the root element must be well-formed. Start location: 6:2

In XML there can be only one root element - you have two - heading and song.

If you restructure to something like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<song> 
 <heading>
 The Twelve Days of Christmas
 </heading>
 ....
</song>

The error about well-formed XML on the root level should disappear (though there may be other issues).

List of lists into numpy array

Again, after searching for the problem of converting nested lists with N levels into an N-dimensional array I found nothing, so here's my way around it:

import numpy as np

new_array=np.array([[[coord for coord in xk] for xk in xj] for xj in xi], ndmin=3) #this case for N=3

Generate ER Diagram from existing MySQL database, created for CakePHP

CakePHP was intended to be used as Ruby on Rails framework clone, done in PHP, so any reverse-engineering of underlying database is pointless. EER diagrams should be reverse-engineered from Model layer.

Such tools do exist for Ruby Here you can see Redmine database EER diagrams reverse-engineered from Models. Not from database. http://redminecookbook.com/Redmine-erd-diagrams.html

With following tools: http://rails-erd.rubyforge.org/ http://railroady.prestonlee.com/

How to use private Github repo as npm dependency

It can be done via https and oauth or ssh.

https and oauth: create an access token that has "repo" scope and then use this syntax:

"package-name": "git+https://<github_token>:[email protected]/<user>/<repo>.git"

or

ssh: setup ssh and then use this syntax:

"package-name": "git+ssh://[email protected]:<user>/<repo>.git"

(note the use of colon instead of slash before user)

Magento: get a static block as html in a phtml file

In the layout (app/design/frontend/your_theme/layout/default.xml):

<default>
    <cms_page> <!-- need to be redefined for your needs -->
        <reference name="content">
            <block type="cms/block" name="cms_newest_product" as="cms_newest_product">
                <action method="setBlockId"><block_id>newest_product</block_id></action>
            </block>
        </reference>
    </cms_page>
</default>

In your phtml template:

<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('newest_product'); ?>

Don't forget about cache cleaning.

I think it help.

Intersect Two Lists in C#

If you have objects, not structs (or strings), then you'll have to intersect their keys first, and then select objects by those keys:

var ids = list1.Select(x => x.Id).Intersect(list2.Select(x => x.Id));
var result = list1.Where(x => ids.Contains(x.Id));

All inclusive Charset to avoid "java.nio.charset.MalformedInputException: Input length = 1"?

You probably want to have a list of supported encodings. For each file, try each encoding in turn, maybe starting with UTF-8. Every time you catch the MalformedInputException, try the next encoding.

How to get value of Radio Buttons?

Windows Forms

For cases where there are multiple radio buttons to check, this function is very compact:

/// <summary>
/// Get the value of the radio button that is checked.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="buttons">The radio buttons to look through</param>
/// <returns>The name of the radio button that is checked</returns>
public static string GetCheckedRadioButton(params RadioButton[] radioButtons)
{
    // Look at each button, returning the text of the one that is checked.
    foreach (RadioButton button in radioButtons)
    {
        if (button.Checked)
            return button.Text;
    }
    return null;
}

How to read specific lines from a file (by line number)?

If you want to read specific lines, such as line starting after some threshold line then you can use the following codes, file = open("files.txt","r") lines = file.readlines() ## convert to list of lines datas = lines[11:] ## raed the specific lines

Looping through a DataTable

foreach (DataColumn col in rightsTable.Columns)
{
     foreach (DataRow row in rightsTable.Rows)
     {
          Console.WriteLine(row[col.ColumnName].ToString());           
     }
} 

How to find and return a duplicate value in array

[1,2,3].uniq!.nil? => true [1,2,3,3].uniq!.nil? => false

Notice the above is destructive

What is the default root pasword for MySQL 5.7

After you installed MySQL-community-server 5.7 from fresh on linux, you will need to find the temporary password from /var/log/mysqld.log to login as root.

  1. grep 'temporary password' /var/log/mysqld.log
  2. Run mysql_secure_installation to change new password

ref: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/linux-installation-yum-repo.html

redirect while passing arguments

You could pass the messages as explicit URL parameter (appropriately encoded), or store the messages into session (cookie) variable before redirecting and then get the variable before rendering the template. For example:

from flask import session, url_for

def do_baz():
    messages = json.dumps({"main":"Condition failed on page baz"})
    session['messages'] = messages
    return redirect(url_for('.do_foo', messages=messages))

@app.route('/foo')
def do_foo():
    messages = request.args['messages']  # counterpart for url_for()
    messages = session['messages']       # counterpart for session
    return render_template("foo.html", messages=json.loads(messages))

(encoding the session variable might not be necessary, flask may be handling it for you, but can't recall the details)

Or you could probably just use Flask Message Flashing if you just need to show simple messages.

How should I call 3 functions in order to execute them one after the other?

_x000D_
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//sample01_x000D_
(function(_){_[0]()})([_x000D_
 function(){$('#art1').animate({'width':'10px'},100,this[1].bind(this))},_x000D_
 function(){$('#art2').animate({'width':'10px'},100,this[2].bind(this))},_x000D_
 function(){$('#art3').animate({'width':'10px'},100)},_x000D_
])_x000D_
_x000D_
//sample02_x000D_
(function(_){_.next=function(){_[++_.i].apply(_,arguments)},_[_.i=0]()})([_x000D_
 function(){$('#art1').animate({'width':'10px'},100,this.next)},_x000D_
 function(){$('#art2').animate({'width':'10px'},100,this.next)},_x000D_
 function(){$('#art3').animate({'width':'10px'},100)},_x000D_
]);_x000D_
_x000D_
//sample03_x000D_
(function(_){_.next=function(){return _[++_.i].bind(_)},_[_.i=0]()})([_x000D_
 function(){$('#art1').animate({'width':'10px'},100,this.next())},_x000D_
 function(){$('#art2').animate({'width':'10px'},100,this.next())},_x000D_
 function(){$('#art3').animate({'width':'10px'},100)},_x000D_
]);
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

LabelEncoder: TypeError: '>' not supported between instances of 'float' and 'str'

As string data types have variable length, it is by default stored as object type. I faced this problem after treating missing values too. Converting all those columns to type 'category' before label encoding worked in my case.

df[cat]=df[cat].astype('category')

And then check df.dtypes and perform label encoding.

HikariCP - connection is not available

From stack trace:

HikariPool: Timeout failure pool HikariPool-0 stats (total=20, active=20, idle=0, waiting=0) Means pool reached maximum connections limit set in configuration.

The next line: HikariPool-0 - Connection is not available, request timed out after 30000ms. Means pool waited 30000ms for free connection but your application not returned any connection meanwhile.

Mostly it is connection leak (connection is not closed after borrowing from pool), set leakDetectionThreshold to the maximum value that you expect SQL query would take to execute.

otherwise, your maximum connections 'at a time' requirement is higher than 20 !

Clear back stack using fragments

Accepted answer was not enough for me. I had to use :

FragmentManager fm = getSupportFragmentManager();
int count = fm.getBackStackEntryCount();
for(int i = 0; i < count; ++i) {
    fm.popBackStackImmediate();
}

List to array conversion to use ravel() function

Use numpy.asarray:

import numpy as np
myarray = np.asarray(mylist)

I can pass a variable from a JSP scriptlet to JSTL but not from JSTL to a JSP scriptlet without an error

@skaffman nailed it down. They live each in its own context. However, I wouldn't consider using scriptlets as the solution. You'd like to avoid them. If all you want is to concatenate strings in EL and you discovered that the + operator fails for strings in EL (which is correct), then just do:

<c:out value="abc${test}" />

Or if abc is to obtained from another scoped variable named ${resp}, then do:

<c:out value="${resp}${test}" />

Send JSON data via POST (ajax) and receive json response from Controller (MVC)

To post JSON, you will need to stringify it. JSON.stringify and set the processData option to false.

$.ajax({
    url: url,
    type: "POST",
    data: JSON.stringify(data),
    processData: false,
    contentType: "application/json; charset=UTF-8",
    complete: callback
});

Find the min/max element of an array in JavaScript

You do it by extending the Array type:

Array.max = function( array ){
    return Math.max.apply( Math, array );
};
Array.min = function( array ){
    return Math.min.apply( Math, array );
}; 

Boosted from here (by John Resig)

Closing database connections in Java

Yes, you need to close Connection. Otherwise, the database client will typically keep the socket connection and other resources open.

Globally catch exceptions in a WPF application?

Example code using NLog that will catch exceptions thrown from all threads in the AppDomain, from the UI dispatcher thread and from the async functions:

App.xaml.cs :

public partial class App : Application
{
    private static Logger _logger = LogManager.GetCurrentClassLogger();

    protected override void OnStartup(StartupEventArgs e)
    {
        base.OnStartup(e);

        SetupExceptionHandling();
    }

    private void SetupExceptionHandling()
    {
        AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException += (s, e) =>
            LogUnhandledException((Exception)e.ExceptionObject, "AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException");

        DispatcherUnhandledException += (s, e) =>
        {
            LogUnhandledException(e.Exception, "Application.Current.DispatcherUnhandledException");
            e.Handled = true;
        };

        TaskScheduler.UnobservedTaskException += (s, e) =>
        {
            LogUnhandledException(e.Exception, "TaskScheduler.UnobservedTaskException");
            e.SetObserved();
        };
    }

    private void LogUnhandledException(Exception exception, string source)
    {
        string message = $"Unhandled exception ({source})";
        try
        {
            System.Reflection.AssemblyName assemblyName = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName();
            message = string.Format("Unhandled exception in {0} v{1}", assemblyName.Name, assemblyName.Version);
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            _logger.Error(ex, "Exception in LogUnhandledException");
        }
        finally
        {
            _logger.Error(exception, message);
        }
    }

Save file/open file dialog box, using Swing & Netbeans GUI editor

Here is an example

private void doOpenFile() {
    int result = myFileChooser.showOpenDialog(this);

    if (result == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {
        Path path = myFileChooser.getSelectedFile().toPath();

        try {
            String contentString = "";

            for (String s : Files.readAllLines(path, StandardCharsets.UTF_8)) {
                contentString += s;
            }

            jText.setText(contentString);

        } catch (IOException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

private void doSaveFile() {
    int result = myFileChooser.showSaveDialog(this);

    if (result == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {
        // We'll be making a mytmp.txt file, write in there, then move it to
        // the selected
        // file. This takes care of clearing that file, should there be
        // content in it.
        File targetFile = myFileChooser.getSelectedFile();

        try {
            if (!targetFile.exists()) {
                targetFile.createNewFile();
            }

            FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(targetFile);

            fw.write(jText.getText());
            fw.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Issue with background color in JavaFX 8

panel.setStyle("-fx-background-color: #FFFFFF;");

Resize a picture to fit a JLabel

i have done the following and it worked perfectly

try {
        JFileChooser jfc = new JFileChooser();
        jfc.showOpenDialog(null);
        File f = jfc.getSelectedFile();
        Image bi = ImageIO.read(f);
        image1.setText("");
        image1.setIcon(new ImageIcon(bi.getScaledInstance(int width, int width, int width)));

    } catch (Exception e) {
    } 

What is dynamic programming?

Dynamic programming is a technique used to avoid computing multiple times the same subproblem in a recursive algorithm.

Let's take the simple example of the Fibonacci numbers: finding the n th Fibonacci number defined by

Fn = Fn-1 + Fn-2 and F0 = 0, F1 = 1

Recursion

The obvious way to do this is recursive:

def fibonacci(n):
    if n == 0:
        return 0
    if n == 1:
        return 1

    return fibonacci(n - 1) + fibonacci(n - 2)

Dynamic Programming

  • Top Down - Memoization

The recursion does a lot of unnecessary calculations because a given Fibonacci number will be calculated multiple times. An easy way to improve this is to cache the results:

cache = {}

def fibonacci(n):
    if n == 0:
        return 0
    if n == 1:
        return 1
    if n in cache:
        return cache[n]

    cache[n] = fibonacci(n - 1) + fibonacci(n - 2)

    return cache[n]
  • Bottom-Up

A better way to do this is to get rid of the recursion all-together by evaluating the results in the right order:

cache = {}

def fibonacci(n):
    cache[0] = 0
    cache[1] = 1

    for i in range(2, n + 1):
        cache[i] = cache[i - 1] +  cache[i - 2]

    return cache[n]

We can even use constant space and store only the necessary partial results along the way:

def fibonacci(n):
  fi_minus_2 = 0
  fi_minus_1 = 1

  for i in range(2, n + 1):
      fi = fi_minus_1 + fi_minus_2
      fi_minus_1, fi_minus_2 = fi, fi_minus_1

  return fi
  • How apply dynamic programming?

    1. Find the recursion in the problem.
    2. Top-down: store the answer for each subproblem in a table to avoid having to recompute them.
    3. Bottom-up: Find the right order to evaluate the results so that partial results are available when needed.

Dynamic programming generally works for problems that have an inherent left to right order such as strings, trees or integer sequences. If the naive recursive algorithm does not compute the same subproblem multiple times, dynamic programming won't help.

I made a collection of problems to help understand the logic: https://github.com/tristanguigue/dynamic-programing

HashSet vs. List performance

Whether to use a HashSet<> or List<> comes down to how you need to access your collection. If you need to guarantee the order of items, use a List. If you don't, use a HashSet. Let Microsoft worry about the implementation of their hashing algorithms and objects.

A HashSet will access items without having to enumerate the collection (complexity of O(1) or near it), and because a List guarantees order, unlike a HashSet, some items will have to be enumerated (complexity of O(n)).

Problems with installation of Google App Engine SDK for php in OS X

It's likely that the download was corrupted if you are getting an error with the disk image. Go back to the downloads page at https://developers.google.com/appengine/downloads and look at the SHA1 checksum. Then, go to your Terminal app on your mac and run the following:

openssl sha1 [put the full path to the file here without brackets] 

For example:

openssl sha1 /Users/me/Desktop/myFile.dmg 

If you get a different value than the one on the Downloads page, you know your file is not properly downloaded and you should try again.

Unresolved external symbol on static class members

If you are using C++ 17 you can just use the inline specifier (see https://stackoverflow.com/a/11711082/55721)


If using older versions of the C++ standard, you must add the definitions to match your declarations of X and Y

unsigned char test::X;
unsigned char test::Y;

somewhere. You might want to also initialize a static member

unsigned char test::X = 4;

and again, you do that in the definition (usually in a CXX file) not in the declaration (which is often in a .H file)

Hibernate throws org.hibernate.AnnotationException: No identifier specified for entity: com..domain.idea.MAE_MFEView

The code below can solve the NullPointerException.

@Id
@GeneratedValue
@Column(name = "STOCK_ID", unique = true, nullable = false)
public Integer getStockId() {
    return this.stockId;
}
public void setStockId(Integer stockId) {
    this.stockId = stockId;
}

If you add @Id, then you can declare some more like as above declared method.

Python pandas Filtering out nan from a data selection of a column of strings

Simplest of all solutions:

filtered_df = df[df['name'].notnull()]

Thus, it filters out only rows that doesn't have NaN values in 'name' column.

For multiple columns:

filtered_df = df[df[['name', 'country', 'region']].notnull().all(1)]

'Static readonly' vs. 'const'

A const (being determined at compile-time) can be used in cases where a readonly static can't, like in switch statements, or attribute constructors. This is because readonly fields are only resolved at run-time, and some code constructs require compile time assurance. A readonly static can be calculated in a constructor, which is often an essential and useful thing. The difference is functional, as should be their usage in my opinion.

In terms of memory allocation, at least with strings (being a reference type), there seems to be no difference in that both are interned and will reference the one interned instance.

Personally, my default is readonly static, as it makes more semantic and logical sense to me, especially since most values are not needed at compile time. And, by the way, public readonly statics are not unusual or uncommon at all as the marked answer states: for instance, System.String.Empty is one.

Bash Shell Script - Check for a flag and grab its value

Here is a generalized simple command argument interface you can paste to the top of all your scripts.

#!/bin/bash

declare -A flags
declare -A booleans
args=()

while [ "$1" ];
do
    arg=$1
    if [ "${1:0:1}" == "-" ]
    then
      shift
      rev=$(echo "$arg" | rev)
      if [ -z "$1" ] || [ "${1:0:1}" == "-" ] || [ "${rev:0:1}" == ":" ]
      then
        bool=$(echo ${arg:1} | sed s/://g)
        booleans[$bool]=true
        echo \"$bool\" is boolean
      else
        value=$1
        flags[${arg:1}]=$value
        shift
        echo \"$arg\" is flag with value \"$value\"
      fi
    else
      args+=("$arg")
      shift
      echo \"$arg\" is an arg
    fi
done


echo -e "\n"
echo booleans: ${booleans[@]}
echo flags: ${flags[@]}
echo args: ${args[@]}

echo -e "\nBoolean types:\n\tPrecedes Flag(pf): ${booleans[pf]}\n\tFinal Arg(f): ${booleans[f]}\n\tColon Terminated(Ct): ${booleans[Ct]}\n\tNot Mentioned(nm): ${boolean[nm]}"
echo -e "\nFlag: myFlag => ${flags["myFlag"]}"
echo -e "\nArgs: one: ${args[0]}, two: ${args[1]}, three: ${args[2]}"

By running the command:

bashScript.sh firstArg -pf -myFlag "my flag value" secondArg -Ct: thirdArg -f

The output will be this:

"firstArg" is an arg
"pf" is boolean
"-myFlag" is flag with value "my flag value"
"secondArg" is an arg
"Ct" is boolean
"thirdArg" is an arg
"f" is boolean


booleans: true true true
flags: my flag value
args: firstArg secondArg thirdArg

Boolean types:
    Precedes Flag(pf): true
    Final Arg(f): true
    Colon Terminated(Ct): true
    Not Mentioned(nm): 

Flag: myFlag => my flag value

Args: one => firstArg, two => secondArg, three => thirdArg

Basically, the arguments are divided up into flags booleans and generic arguments. By doing it this way a user can put the flags and booleans anywhere as long as he/she keeps the generic arguments (if there are any) in the specified order.

Allowing me and now you to never deal with bash argument parsing again!

You can view an updated script here

This has been enormously useful over the last year. It can now simulate scope by prefixing the variables with a scope parameter.

Just call the script like

replace() (
  source $FUTIL_REL_DIR/commandParser.sh -scope ${FUNCNAME[0]} "$@"
  echo ${replaceFlags[f]}
  echo ${replaceBooleans[b]}
)

Doesn't look like I implemented argument scope, not sure why I guess I haven't needed it yet.

Change the URL in the browser without loading the new page using JavaScript

There is a Yahoo YUI component (Browser History Manager) which can handle this: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/history/

Simple way to convert datarow array to datatable

Here is the solution. It should work fine.

DataTable dt = new DataTable();
dt = dsData.Tables[0].Clone();
DataRows[] drResults = dsData.Tables[0].Select("ColName = 'criteria');

foreach(DataRow dr in drResults)
{
    object[] row = dr.ItemArray;
    dt.Rows.Add(row);
} 

How do I return to an older version of our code in Subversion?

Right click the project > Replace With > Revision or URL > Select the specific revision you want to revert.

Now commit the local update code version to the repository. This will revert the code base to the specific revision.

How to compare pointers?

For a bit of facts here is the relevant text from the specifications

Equality operator (==,!=)

Pointers to objects of the same type can be compared for equality with the 'intuitive' expected results:

From § 5.10 of the C++11 standard:

Pointers of the same type (after pointer conversions) can be compared for equality. Two pointers of the same type compare equal if and only if they are both null, both point to the same function, or both represent the same address (3.9.2).

(leaving out details on comparison of pointers to member and or the null pointer constants - they continue down the same line of 'Do What I Mean':)

  • [...] If both operands are null, they compare equal. Otherwise if only one is null, they compare unequal.[...]

The most 'conspicuous' caveat has to do with virtuals, and it does seem to be the logical thing to expect too:

  • [...] if either is a pointer to a virtual member function, the result is unspecified. Otherwise they compare equal if and only if they would refer to the same member of the same most derived object (1.8) or the same subobject if they were dereferenced with a hypothetical object of the associated class type. [...]

Relational operators (<,>,<=,>=)

From § 5.9 of the C++11 standard:

Pointers to objects or functions of the same type (after pointer conversions) can be compared, with a result defined as follows:

  1. If two pointers p and q of the same type point to the same object or function, or both point one past the end of the same array, or are both null, then p<=q and p>=q both yield true and p<q and p>q both yield false.
  2. If two pointers p and q of the same type point to different objects that are not members of the same object or elements of the same array or to different functions, or if only one of them is null, the results of p<q, p>q, p<=q, and p>=q are unspecified.
  3. If two pointers point to non-static data members of the same object, or to subobjects or array elements of such members, recursively, the pointer to the later declared member compares greater provided the two members have the same access control (Clause 11) and provided their class is not a union.
  4. If two pointers point to non-static data members of the same object with different access control (Clause 11) the result is unspecified.
  5. If two pointers point to non-static data members of the same union object, they compare equal (after conversion to void*, if necessary). If two pointers point to elements of the same array or one beyond the end of the array, the pointer to the object with the higher subscript compares higher.
  6. Other pointer comparisons are unspecified.

So, if you had:

int arr[3];
int *a = arr;
int *b = a + 1;
assert(a != b); // OK! well defined

Also OK:

struct X { int x,y; } s;
int *a = &s.x;
int *b = &s.y;
assert(b > a); // OK! well defined

But it depends on the something in your question:

int g; 
int main()
{
     int h;
     int i;

     int *a = &g;
     int *b = &h; // can't compare a <=> b
     int *c = &i; // can't compare b <=> c, or a <=> c etc.
     // but a==b, b!=c, a!=c etc. are supported just fine
}

Bonus: what else is there in the standard library?

§ 20.8.5/8: "For templates greater, less, greater_equal, and less_equal, the specializations for any pointer type yield a total order, even if the built-in operators <, >, <=, >= do not."

So, you can globally order any odd void* as long as you use std::less<> and friends, not bare operator<.

Could not calculate build plan: Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:2.5 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved

A more subtle reason for this could be a Settings.xml file which has a space in the first line before the doctype

Read HttpContent in WebApi controller

By design the body content in ASP.NET Web API is treated as forward-only stream that can be read only once.

The first read in your case is being done when Web API is binding your model, after that the Request.Content will not return anything.

You can remove the contact from your action parameters, get the content and deserialize it manually into object (for example with Json.NET):

[HttpPut]
public HttpResponseMessage Put(int accountId)
{
    HttpContent requestContent = Request.Content;
    string jsonContent = requestContent.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
    CONTACT contact = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<CONTACT>(jsonContent);
    ...
}

That should do the trick (assuming that accountId is URL parameter so it will not be treated as content read).

Make Vim show ALL white spaces as a character

all of the answers above try to make spaces visible from within vim. If you really insist on having visible spaces as dots, there's another approach...

If it cannot be done in vim, change your font entirely. I copied the Ubuntu One Mono font and edited it using FontForge. Remember to change the font's fullname, family, preferred family, compatible full (in FontFoge it's under TTF Names in the font info), in order to have it as a separate font. Simply edit the space character to have a dot in the middle and save the font to ~/.fonts Now you can use it for your gvim or the entire terminal... I copied the "!" character, removed the line and moved the dot to the middle. It took a little more than 5 minutes...

Note: changing the space character (0x20) results in the inconvenience of having dots on the entire vim screen... (but it will separate the spaces from tabs...)

MySQL Foreign Key Error 1005 errno 150 primary key as foreign key

  1. Make sure that both tables are using the same Engine type.
  2. Make sure the fields you are indexing have the same type and length.

How to extract a string between two delimiters

If there is only 1 occurrence, the answer of ivanovic is the best way I guess. But if there are many occurrences, you should use regexp:

\[(.*?)\] this is your pattern. And in each group(1) will get you your string.

Pattern p = Pattern.compile("\\[(.*?)\\]");
Matcher m = p.matcher(input);
while(m.find())
{
    m.group(1); //is your string. do what you want
}

Is it valid to have a html form inside another html form?

You can answer your own question very easily by inputting the HTML code into the W3 Validator. (It features a text input field, you won't even have to put your code on a server...)

(And no, it won't validate.)

Java Best Practices to Prevent Cross Site Scripting

The normal practice is to HTML-escape any user-controlled data during redisplaying in JSP, not during processing the submitted data in servlet nor during storing in DB. In JSP you can use the JSTL (to install it, just drop jstl-1.2.jar in /WEB-INF/lib) <c:out> tag or fn:escapeXml function for this. E.g.

<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
...
<p>Welcome <c:out value="${user.name}" /></p>

and

<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/functions" prefix="fn" %>
...
<input name="username" value="${fn:escapeXml(param.username)}">

That's it. No need for a blacklist. Note that user-controlled data covers everything which comes in by a HTTP request: the request parameters, body and headers(!!).

If you HTML-escape it during processing the submitted data and/or storing in DB as well, then it's all spread over the business code and/or in the database. That's only maintenance trouble and you will risk double-escapes or more when you do it at different places (e.g. & would become &amp;amp; instead of &amp; so that the enduser would literally see &amp; instead of & in view. The business code and DB are in turn not sensitive for XSS. Only the view is. You should then escape it only right there in view.

See also:

Fatal error: Class 'PHPMailer' not found

This answers in an extension to what avs099 has given above, for those who are still having problems:

1.Makesure that you have php_openssl.dll installed(else find it online and install it);

2.Go to your php.ini; find extension=php_openssl.dll enable it/uncomment

3.Go to github and downland the latetest version :6.0 at this time.

4.Extract the master copy into the path that works better for you(I recommend the same directory as the calling file)

Now copy this code into your foo-mailer.php and render it with your gmail stmp authentications.

    require("/PHPMailer-master/src/PHPMailer.php");
    require("/PHPMailer-master/src/SMTP.php");
    require("/PHPMailer-master/src/Exception.php");


    $mail = new PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer();
    $mail->IsSMTP(); 

    $mail->CharSet="UTF-8";
    $mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
    $mail->SMTPDebug = 1; 
    $mail->Port = 465 ; //465 or 587

     $mail->SMTPSecure = 'ssl';  
    $mail->SMTPAuth = true; 
    $mail->IsHTML(true);

    //Authentication
    $mail->Username = "[email protected]";
    $mail->Password = "*******";

    //Set Params
    $mail->SetFrom("[email protected]");
    $mail->AddAddress("[email protected]");
    $mail->Subject = "Test";
    $mail->Body = "hello";


     if(!$mail->Send()) {
        echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
     } else {
        echo "Message has been sent";
     }

Disclaimer:The original owner of the code above is avs099 with just my little input.

Take note of the additional:

a) (PHPMailer\PHPMailer) namespace:needed for name conflict resolution.

b) The (require("/PHPMailer-master/src/Exception.php");):It was missing in avs099's code thus the problem encountered by aProgger,you need that line to tell the mailer class where the Exception class is located.

How to select the rows with maximum values in each group with dplyr?

You can use top_n

df %>% group_by(A, B) %>% top_n(n=1)

This will rank by the last column (value) and return the top n=1 rows.

Currently, you can't change the this default without causing an error (See https://github.com/hadley/dplyr/issues/426)

DIV table colspan: how?

I've achieved this by separating them in different , e.g.:

<div class="table">
  <div class="row">
    <div class="col">TD</div>
    <div class="col">TD</div>
    <div class="col">TD</div>
    <div class="col">TD</div>
    <div class="col">TD</div>
  </div>
</div>
<div class="table">
  <div class="row">
    <div class="col">TD</div>
  </div>
</div>

or you can define different classes for each tables

<div class="table2">
  <div class="row2">
    <div class="col2">TD</div>
  </div>
</div>

From the user point of view they behave identically.

Granted it doesn't solve all colspan/rowspan problems but it does answer my need of the time.

How do I view 'git diff' output with my preferred diff tool/ viewer?

For a linux version of how to configure a diff tool on git versions prior to 1.6.3 (1.6.3 added difftool to git) this is a great concise tutorial,

in brief:

Step 1: add this to your .gitconfig

[diff]
  external = git_diff_wrapper
[pager]
  diff =

Step 2: create a file named git_diff_wrapper, put it somewhere in your $PATH

#!/bin/sh

vimdiff "$2" "$5"

angularjs: ng-src equivalent for background-image:url(...)

just a matter of taste but if you prefer accessing the variable or function directly like this:

<div id="playlist-icon" back-img="playlist.icon">

instead of interpolating like this:

<div id="playlist-icon" back-img="{{playlist.icon}}">

then you can define the directive a bit differently with scope.$watch which will do $parse on the attribute

angular.module('myApp', [])
.directive('bgImage', function(){

    return function(scope, element, attrs) {
        scope.$watch(attrs.bgImage, function(value) {
            element.css({
                'background-image': 'url(' + value +')',
                'background-size' : 'cover'
            });
        });
    };
})

there is more background on this here: AngularJS : Difference between the $observe and $watch methods

Importing a function from a class in another file?

You can use the below syntax -

from FolderName.FileName import Classname

What's the right way to decode a string that has special HTML entities in it?

Don’t use the DOM to do this. Using the DOM to decode HTML entities (as suggested in the currently accepted answer) leads to differences in cross-browser results.

For a robust & deterministic solution that decodes character references according to the algorithm in the HTML Standard, use the he library. From its README:

he (for “HTML entities”) is a robust HTML entity encoder/decoder written in JavaScript. It supports all standardized named character references as per HTML, handles ambiguous ampersands and other edge cases just like a browser would, has an extensive test suite, and — contrary to many other JavaScript solutions — he handles astral Unicode symbols just fine. An online demo is available.

Here’s how you’d use it:

he.decode("We&#39;re unable to complete your request at this time.");
? "We're unable to complete your request at this time."

Disclaimer: I'm the author of the he library.

See this Stack Overflow answer for some more info.

Comparing two java.util.Dates to see if they are in the same day

Calendar cal1 = Calendar.getInstance();
Calendar cal2 = Calendar.getInstance();
cal1.setTime(date1);
cal2.setTime(date2);
boolean sameDay = cal1.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR) == cal2.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR) &&
                  cal1.get(Calendar.YEAR) == cal2.get(Calendar.YEAR);

Note that "same day" is not as simple a concept as it sounds when different time zones can be involved. The code above will for both dates compute the day relative to the time zone used by the computer it is running on. If this is not what you need, you have to pass the relevant time zone(s) to the Calendar.getInstance() calls, after you have decided what exactly you mean with "the same day".

And yes, Joda Time's LocalDate would make the whole thing much cleaner and easier (though the same difficulties involving time zones would be present).

How do emulators work and how are they written?

Also check out Darek Mihocka's Emulators.com for great advice on instruction-level optimization for JITs, and many other goodies on building efficient emulators.

Executing multiple SQL queries in one statement with PHP

Pass 65536 to mysql_connect as 5th parameter.

Example:

$conn = mysql_connect('localhost','username','password', true, 65536 /* here! */) 
    or die("cannot connect");
mysql_select_db('database_name') or die("cannot use database");
mysql_query("
    INSERT INTO table1 (field1,field2) VALUES(1,2);

    INSERT INTO table2 (field3,field4,field5) VALUES(3,4,5);

    DELETE FROM table3 WHERE field6 = 6;

    UPDATE table4 SET field7 = 7 WHERE field8 = 8;

    INSERT INTO table5
       SELECT t6.field11, t6.field12, t7.field13
       FROM table6 t6
       INNER JOIN table7 t7 ON t7.field9 = t6.field10;

    -- etc
");

When you are working with mysql_fetch_* or mysql_num_rows, or mysql_affected_rows, only the first statement is valid.

For example, the following codes, the first statement is INSERT, you cannot execute mysql_num_rows and mysql_fetch_*. It is okay to use mysql_affected_rows to return how many rows inserted.

$conn = mysql_connect('localhost','username','password', true, 65536) or die("cannot connect");
mysql_select_db('database_name') or die("cannot use database");
mysql_query("
    INSERT INTO table1 (field1,field2) VALUES(1,2);
    SELECT * FROM table2;
");

Another example, the following codes, the first statement is SELECT, you cannot execute mysql_affected_rows. But you can execute mysql_fetch_assoc to get a key-value pair of row resulted from the first SELECT statement, or you can execute mysql_num_rows to get number of rows based on the first SELECT statement.

$conn = mysql_connect('localhost','username','password', true, 65536) or die("cannot connect");
mysql_select_db('database_name') or die("cannot use database");
mysql_query("
    SELECT * FROM table2;
    INSERT INTO table1 (field1,field2) VALUES(1,2);
");

Cannot execute script: Insufficient memory to continue the execution of the program

You can also simply increase the Minimum memory per query value in server properties. To edit this setting, right click on server name and select Properties > Memory tab.

I encountered this error trying to execute a 30MB SQL script in SSMS 2012. After increasing the value from 1024MB to 2048MB I was able to run the script.

(This is the same answer I provided here)

Python Key Error=0 - Can't find Dict error in code

It only comes when your list or dictionary not available in the local function.

How to get the current logged in user Id in ASP.NET Core

Although Adrien's answer is correct, you can do this all in single line. No need for extra function or mess.

It works I checked it in ASP.NET Core 1.0

var user = await _userManager.GetUserAsync(HttpContext.User);

then you can get other properties of the variable like user.Email. I hope this helps someone.

Stop a youtube video with jquery?

I got this to work on all modern browsers, including IE9|IE8|IE7. The following code will open your YouTube video in a jQuery UI dialog modal, autoplay the video from 0:00 on dialog open, and stop video on dialog close.

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.14/jquery-ui.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi" type="text/javascript"></script>    

<script type="text/javascript">

    google.load("swfobject", "2.1");

    function _run() {
        /* YouTube player embed for modal dialog */
        // The video to load.
        var videoID = "INSERT YOUR YOUTUBE VIDEO ID HERE"
        // Lets Flash from another domain call JavaScript
        var params = { allowScriptAccess: "always" };
        // The element id of the Flash embed
        var atts = { id: "ytPlayer" };
        // All of the magic handled by SWFObject (http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/)
        swfobject.embedSWF("http://www.youtube.com/v/" + videoID + "?version=3&enablejsapi=1&playerapiid=player1&autoplay=1",
                       "videoDiv", "879", "520", "9", null, null, params, atts);
    }
    google.setOnLoadCallback(_run);

    $(function () {
        $("#big-video").dialog({
            autoOpen: false,
            close: function (event, ui) {
                ytPlayer.stopVideo() // stops video/audio on dialog close
            },
            modal: true,
            open: function (event, ui) {
                ytPlayer.seekTo(0) // resets playback to beginning of video and then plays video
            }
        });

        $("#big-video-opener").click(function () {
            $("#big-video").dialog("open");
            return false;
        });

    });
</script>

<div id="big-video" title="Video">
    <div id="videoDiv">Loading...</div>
</div>

<a id="big-video-opener" class="button" href="#">Watch the short video</a>

How can I represent an infinite number in Python?

In Python, you can do:

test = float("inf")

In Python 3.5, you can do:

import math
test = math.inf

And then:

test > 1
test > 10000
test > x

Will always be true. Unless of course, as pointed out, x is also infinity or "nan" ("not a number").

Additionally (Python 2.x ONLY), in a comparison to Ellipsis, float(inf) is lesser, e.g:

float('inf') < Ellipsis

would return true.

Get the IP Address of local computer

Can't you just send to INADDR_BROADCAST? Admittedly, that'll send on all interfaces - but that's rarely a problem.

Otherwise, ioctl and SIOCGIFBRDADDR should get you the address on *nix, and WSAioctl and SIO_GET_BROADCAST_ADDRESS on win32.

How to add "active" class to Html.ActionLink in ASP.NET MVC

I know this question is old, but I will just like to add my voice here. I believe it is a good idea to leave the knowledge of whether or not a link is active to the controller of the view.

I would just set a unique value for each view in the controller action. For instance, if I wanted to make the home page link active, I would do something like this:

public ActionResult Index()
{            
    ViewBag.Title = "Home";
    ViewBag.Home = "class = active";
    return View();
}

Then in my view, I will write something like this:

<li @ViewBag.Home>@Html.ActionLink("Home", "Index", "Home", null, new { title = "Go home" })</li>

When you navigate to a different page, say Programs, ViewBag.Home does not exist (instead ViewBag.Programs does); therefore, nothing is rendered, not even class="". I think this is cleaner both for maintainability and cleanliness. I tend to always want to leave logic out of the view as much as I can.

How To Include CSS and jQuery in my WordPress plugin?

See http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_script

Example

<?php
function my_init_method() {
    wp_deregister_script( 'jquery' );
    wp_register_script( 'jquery', 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js');
}    

add_action('init', 'my_init_method');
?> 

How to store and retrieve a dictionary with redis

An other way you can approach the matter:

import redis
conn = redis.Redis('localhost')

v={'class':'user','grants': 0, 'nome': 'Roberto', 'cognome': 'Brunialti'}

y=str(v)
print(y['nome']) #<=== this return an error as y is actually a string
conn.set('test',y)

z=eval(conn.get('test'))
print(z['nome']) #<=== this really works!

I did not test it for efficiency/speed.

Why must wait() always be in synchronized block

When you call notify() from an object t, java notifies a particular t.wait() method. But, how does java search and notify a particular wait method.

java only looks into the synchronized block of code which was locked by object t. java cannot search the whole code to notify a particular t.wait().

XPath Query: get attribute href from a tag

For the following HTML document:

<html>
  <body>
    <a href="http://www.example.com">Example</a> 
    <a href="http://www.stackoverflow.com">SO</a> 
  </body>
</html>

The xpath query /html/body//a/@href (or simply //a/@href) will return:

    http://www.example.com
    http://www.stackoverflow.com

To select a specific instance use /html/body//a[N]/@href,

    $ /html/body//a[2]/@href
    http://www.stackoverflow.com

To test for strings contained in the attribute and return the attribute itself place the check on the tag not on the attribute:

    $ /html/body//a[contains(@href,'example')]/@href
    http://www.example.com

Mixing the two:

    $ /html/body//a[contains(@href,'com')][2]/@href
    http://www.stackoverflow.com

PHP: get the value of TEXTBOX then pass it to a VARIABLE

I think you should need to check for isset and not empty value, like form was submitted without input data so isset will be true This will prevent you to have any error or notice.

if((isset($_POST['name'])) && !empty($_POST['name']))
{
    $name = $_POST['name']; //note i used $_POST since you have a post form **method='post'**
    echo $name;
}

Download JSON object as a file from browser

The following worked for me:

/* function to save JSON to file from browser
* adapted from http://bgrins.github.io/devtools-snippets/#console-save
* @param {Object} data -- json object to save
* @param {String} file -- file name to save to 
*/
function saveJSON(data, filename){

    if(!data) {
        console.error('No data')
        return;
    }

    if(!filename) filename = 'console.json'

    if(typeof data === "object"){
        data = JSON.stringify(data, undefined, 4)
    }

    var blob = new Blob([data], {type: 'text/json'}),
        e    = document.createEvent('MouseEvents'),
        a    = document.createElement('a')

    a.download = filename
    a.href = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob)
    a.dataset.downloadurl =  ['text/json', a.download, a.href].join(':')
    e.initMouseEvent('click', true, false, window, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, false, false, false, false, 0, null)
    a.dispatchEvent(e)
}

and then to call it like so

saveJSON(myJsonObject, "saved_data.json");

Convert varchar dd/mm/yyyy to dd/mm/yyyy datetime

I think you are after this:

CONVERT(datetime, date_as_string, 103)

Notice, that datetime hasn't any format. You think about its presentation. To get the data of datetime in an appropriate format you can use

CONVERT(varchar, date_as_datetime, 103)

How to print values separated by spaces instead of new lines in Python 2.7

This does almost everything you want:

f = open('data.txt', 'rb')

while True:
    char = f.read(1)
    if not char: break
    print "{:02x}".format(ord(char)),

With data.txt created like this:

f = open('data.txt', 'wb')
f.write("ab\r\ncd")
f.close()

I get the following output:

61 62 0d 0a 63 64

tl;dr -- 1. You are using poor variable names. 2. You are slicing your hex strings incorrectly. 3. Your code is never going to replace any newlines. You may just want to forget about that feature. You do not quite yet understand the difference between a character, its integer code, and the hex string that represents the integer. They are all different: two are strings and one is an integer, and none of them are equal to each other. 4. For some files, you shouldn't remove newlines.

===

1. Your variable names are horrendous.

That's fine if you never want to ask anybody questions. But since every one needs to ask questions, you need to use descriptive variable names that anyone can understand. Your variable names are only slightly better than these:

fname = 'data.txt'
f = open(fname, 'rb')
xxxyxx = f.read()

xxyxxx = len(xxxyxx)
print "Length of file is", xxyxxx, "bytes. "
yxxxxx = 0

while yxxxxx < xxyxxx:
    xyxxxx = hex(ord(xxxyxx[yxxxxx]))
    xyxxxx = xyxxxx[-2:]
    yxxxxx = yxxxxx + 1
    xxxxxy = chr(13) + chr(10)
    xxxxyx = str(xxxxxy)
    xyxxxxx = str(xyxxxx)
    xyxxxxx.replace(xxxxyx, ' ')
    print xyxxxxx

That program runs fine, but it is impossible to understand.

2. The hex() function produces strings of different lengths.

For instance,

print hex(61)
print hex(15)

--output:--
0x3d
0xf

And taking the slice [-2:] for each of those strings gives you:

3d
xf

See how you got the 'x' in the second one? The slice:

[-2:] 

says to go to the end of the string and back up two characters, then grab the rest of the string. Instead of doing that, take the slice starting 3 characters in from the beginning:

[2:]  

3. Your code will never replace any newlines.

Suppose your file has these two consecutive characters:

"\r\n"

Now you read in the first character, "\r", and convert it to an integer, ord("\r"), giving you the integer 13. Now you convert that to a string, hex(13), which gives you the string "0xd", and you slice off the first two characters giving you:

"d"

Next, this line in your code:

bndtx.replace(entx, ' ')

tries to find every occurrence of the string "\r\n" in the string "d" and replace it. There is never going to be any replacement because the replacement string is two characters long and the string "d" is one character long.

The replacement won't work for "\r\n" and "0d" either. But at least now there is a possibility it could work because both strings have two characters. Let's reduce both strings to a common denominator: ascii codes. The ascii code for "\r" is 13, and the ascii code for "\n" is 10. Now what about the string "0d"? The ascii code for the character "0" is 48, and the ascii code for the character "d" is 100. Those strings do not have a single character in common. Even this doesn't work:

 x = '0d' + '0a'
 x.replace("\r\n", " ")
 print x

 --output:--
 '0d0a'

Nor will this:

x = 'd' + 'a'
x.replace("\r\n", " ")
print x

--output:--
da

The bottom line is: converting a character to an integer then to a hex string does not end up giving you the original character--they are just different strings. So if you do this:

char = "a"
code = ord(char)
hex_str = hex(code)

print char.replace(hex_str, " ")

...you can't expect "a" to be replaced by a space. If you examine the output here:

char = "a"
print repr(char)

code = ord(char)
print repr(code)

hex_str = hex(code)
print repr(hex_str)

print repr(
    char.replace(hex_str, " ")
)

--output:--
'a'
97
'0x61'
'a'

You can see that 'a' is a string with one character in it, and '0x61' is a string with 4 characters in it: '0', 'x', '6', and '1', and you can never find a four character string inside a one character string.

4) Removing newlines can corrupt the data.

For some files, you do not want to replace newlines. For instance, if you were reading in a .jpg file, which is a file that contains a bunch of integers representing colors in an image, and some colors in the image happened to be represented by the number 13 followed by the number 10, your code would eliminate those colors from the output.

However, if you are writing a program to read only text files, then replacing newlines is fine. But then, different operating systems use different newlines. You are trying to replace Windows newlines(\r\n), which means your program won't work on files created by a Mac or Linux computer, which use \n for newlines. There are easy ways to solve that, but maybe you don't want to worry about that just yet.

I hope all that's not too confusing.

How can I reorder my divs using only CSS?

I have a simple way to do this.

<!--  HTML  -->

<div class="wrapper">

    <div class="sm-hide">This content hides when at your layouts chosen breaking point.</div>

    <div>Content that stays in place</div>

    <div class="sm-show">This content is set to show at your layouts chosen breaking point.</div>

</div>

<!--  CSS  -->

    .sm-hide {display:block;}
    .sm-show {display:none;}

@media (max-width:598px) {
    .sm-hide {display:none;}
    .sm-show {display:block;}
}

CSS3 Box Shadow on Top, Left, and Right Only

I found a way to cover the shadow with ":after", here is my code:

#div:after {
    content:"";
    position:absolute;
    width:5px;
    background:#fff;
    height:38px;
    top:1px;
    right:-5px;
}

Why Anaconda does not recognize conda command?

I had a similar problem and I did something like the below mentioned steps with my Path environment variable to fix the problem

  1. Located where my Anaconda3 was installed. I run Windows 7. Mine is located at C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3.

  2. Open Control Panel - System - Advanced System Settings, under Advanced tab click on Environment Variables.

  3. Under System Variables, located "Path" add the following: C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\Scripts;C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\;

Save and open new terminal. type in "conda". It worked for me.

Hope these steps help

Java: unparseable date exception

From Oracle docs, Date.toString() method convert Date object to a String of the specific form - do not use toString method on Date object. Try to use:

String stringDate = new SimpleDateFormat(YOUR_STRING_PATTERN).format(yourDateObject);

Next step is parse stringDate to Date:

Date date = new SimpleDateFormat(OUTPUT_PATTERN).parse(stringDate);

Note that, parse method throws ParseException

Unable to find velocity template resources

Great question - I solved my issue today as follows using Ecilpse:

  1. Put your template in the same folder hierarchy as your source code (not in a separate folder hierarchy even if you include it in the build path) as below: Where to put your template file

  2. In your code simply use the following lines of code (assuming you just want the date to be passed as data):

    VelocityEngine ve = new VelocityEngine();
    ve.setProperty(RuntimeConstants.RESOURCE_LOADER, "classpath");
    ve.setProperty("classpath.resource.loader.class", ClasspathResourceLoader.class.getName());
    ve.init();
    VelocityContext context = new VelocityContext();
    context.put("date", getMyTimestampFunction());
    Template t = ve.getTemplate( "templates/email_html_new.vm" );
    StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
    t.merge( context, writer );
    

See how first we tell VelocityEngine to look in the classpath. Without this it wouldn't know where to look.

Real world use of JMS/message queues?

I've used it to send intraday trades between different fund management systems. If you want to learn more about what a great technology messaging is, I can thoroughly recommend the book "Enterprise Integration Patterns". There are some JMS examples for things like request/reply and publish/subscribe.

Messaging is an excellent tool for integration.

MongoDB distinct aggregation

SQL Query: (group by & count of distinct)

select city,count(distinct(emailId)) from TransactionDetails group by city;

Equivalent mongo query would look like this:

db.TransactionDetails.aggregate([ 
{$group:{_id:{"CITY" : "$cityName"},uniqueCount: {$addToSet: "$emailId"}}},
{$project:{"CITY":1,uniqueCustomerCount:{$size:"$uniqueCount"}} } 
]);

How to scale a UIImageView proportionally?

For Swift :

self.imageViews.contentMode = UIViewContentMode.ScaleToFill

Serializing list to JSON

You can use pure Python to do it:

import json
list = [1, 2, (3, 4)] # Note that the 3rd element is a tuple (3, 4)
json.dumps(list) # '[1, 2, [3, 4]]'

Why is Dictionary preferred over Hashtable in C#?

The Hashtable is a loosely-typed data structure, so you can add keys and values of any type to the Hashtable. The Dictionary class is a type-safe Hashtable implementation, and the keys and values are strongly typed. When creating a Dictionary instance, you must specify the data types for both the key and value.

How can you remove all documents from a collection with Mongoose?

MongoDB shell version v4.2.6
Node v14.2.0

Assuming you have a Tour Model: tourModel.js

const mongoose = require('mongoose');

const tourSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
  name: {
    type: String,
    required: [true, 'A tour must have a name'],
    unique: true,
    trim: true,
  },
  createdAt: {
    type: Date,
    default: Date.now(),
  },
});
const Tour = mongoose.model('Tour', tourSchema);

module.exports = Tour;

Now you want to delete all tours at once from your MongoDB, I also providing connection code to connect with the remote cluster. I used deleteMany(), if you do not pass any args to deleteMany(), then it will delete all the documents in Tour collection.

const mongoose = require('mongoose');
const Tour = require('./../../models/tourModel');
const conStr = 'mongodb+srv://lord:<PASSWORD>@cluster0-eeev8.mongodb.net/tour-guide?retryWrites=true&w=majority';
const DB = conStr.replace('<PASSWORD>','ADUSsaZEKESKZX');
mongoose.connect(DB, {
    useNewUrlParser: true,
    useCreateIndex: true,
    useFindAndModify: false,
    useUnifiedTopology: true,
  })
  .then((con) => {
    console.log(`DB connection successful ${con.path}`);
  });

const deleteAllData = async () => {
  try {
    await Tour.deleteMany();
    console.log('All Data successfully deleted');
  } catch (err) {
    console.log(err);
  }
};

Add Bean Programmatically to Spring Web App Context

Why do you need it to be of type GenericWebApplicationContext?
I think you can probably work with any ApplicationContext type.

Usually you would use an init method (in addition to your setter method):

@PostConstruct
public void init(){
    AutowireCapableBeanFactory bf = this.applicationContext
        .getAutowireCapableBeanFactory();
    // wire stuff here
}

And you would wire beans by using either

AutowireCapableBeanFactory.autowire(Class, int mode, boolean dependencyInject)

or

AutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(Object existingbean, String beanName)

How to declare a variable in a PostgreSQL query

It depends on your client.

However, if you're using the psql client, then you can use the following:

my_db=> \set myvar 5
my_db=> SELECT :myvar  + 1 AS my_var_plus_1;
 my_var_plus_1 
---------------
             6

If you are using text variables you need to quote.

\set myvar 'sometextvalue'
select * from sometable where name = :'myvar';

In Chrome 55, prevent showing Download button for HTML 5 video

Hey I found a permanent solution that should work in every case!

For normal webdevelopment

<script type="text/javascript"> 
$("video").each(function(){jQuery(this).append('controlsList="nodownload"')}); 
</script>

HTML5 videos that has preload on false

$( document ).ready(function() {
  $("video").each(function(){
    $(this).attr('controlsList','nodownload');
    $(this).load();
  });
});

$ undevinded? --> Debug modus!

<script type="text/javascript"> 
jQuery("video").each(function(){jQuery(this).append('controlsList="nodownload"')}); 
</script>

HTML5 videos that has preload on false

jQuery( document ).ready(function() {
  jQuery("video").each(function(){
    jQuery(this).attr('controlsList','nodownload');
    jQuery(this).load();
  });
});

Let me know if it helped you out!

Capturing count from an SQL query

int count = 0;    
using (new SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection("connectionString"))
{
    sqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM table_name", connection);
    connection.Open();
    count = (int32)cmd.ExecuteScalar();
}

Grep regex NOT containing string

(?<!1\.2\.3\.4).*Has exploded

You need to run this with -P to have negative lookbehind (Perl regular expression), so the command is:

grep -P '(?<!1\.2\.3\.4).*Has exploded' test.log

Try this. It uses negative lookbehind to ignore the line if it is preceeded by 1.2.3.4. Hope that helps!

BehaviorSubject vs Observable?

Observable and subject both are observable's means an observer can track them. but both of them have some unique characteristics. Further there are total 3 type of subjects each of them again have unique characteristics. lets try to to understand each of them.

you can find the practical example here on stackblitz. (You need to check the console to see the actual output)

enter image description here

Observables

They are cold: Code gets executed when they have at least a single observer.

Creates copy of data: Observable creates copy of data for each observer.

Uni-directional: Observer can not assign value to observable(origin/master).

Subject

They are hot: code gets executed and value gets broadcast even if there is no observer.

Shares data: Same data get shared between all observers.

bi-directional: Observer can assign value to observable(origin/master).

If are using using subject then you miss all the values that are broadcast before creation of observer. So here comes Replay Subject

ReplaySubject

They are hot: code gets executed and value get broadcast even if there is no observer.

Shares data: Same data get shared between all observers.

bi-directional: Observer can assign value to observable(origin/master). plus

Replay the message stream: No matter when you subscribe the replay subject you will receive all the broadcasted messages.

In subject and replay subject you can not set the initial value to observable. So here comes Behavioral Subject

BehaviorSubject

They are hot: code gets executed and value get broadcast even if there is no observer.

Shares data: Same data get shared between all observers.

bi-directional: Observer can assign value to observable(origin/master). plus

Replay the message stream: No matter when you subscribe the replay subject you will receive all the broadcasted messages.

You can set initial value: You can initialize the observable with default value.

Issue in installing php7.2-mcrypt

@praneeth-nidarshan has covered mostly all the steps, except some:

  • Check if you have pear installed (or install):

$ sudo apt-get install php-pear

  • Install, if isn't already installed, php7.2-dev, in order to avoid the error:

sh: phpize: not found

ERROR: `phpize’ failed

$ sudo apt-get install php7.2-dev

  • Install mcrypt using pecl:

$ sudo pecl install mcrypt-1.0.1

  • Add the extention extension=mcrypt.so to your php.ini configuration file; if you don't know where it is, search with:

$ sudo php -i | grep 'Configuration File'

How to add a classname/id to React-Bootstrap Component?

1st way is to use props

<Row id = "someRandomID">

Wherein, in the Definition, you may just go

const Row = props  => {
 div id = {props.id}
}

The same could be done with class, replacing id with className in the above example.


You might as well use react-html-id, that is an npm package. This is an npm package that allows you to use unique html IDs for components without any dependencies on other libraries.

Ref: react-html-id


Peace.

How do you synchronise projects to GitHub with Android Studio?

This isn't specific to Android Studio, but a generic behaviour with Intellij's IDEA.

Go to: Preferences > Version Control > GitHub

Also note that you don't need the github integration: the standard git functions should be enough (VCS > Git, Tool Windows > Changes)

Getting only hour/minute of datetime

Just use Hour and Minute properties

var date = DateTime.Now;
date.Hour;
date.Minute;

Or you can easily zero the seconds using

var zeroSecondDate = date.AddSeconds(-date.Second);

How to execute python file in linux

I suggest that you add

#!/usr/bin/env python

instead of #!/usr/bin/python at the top of the file. The reason for this is that the python installation may be in different folders in different distros or different computers. By using env you make sure that the system finds python and delegates the script's execution to it.

As said before to make the script executable, something like:

chmod u+x name_of_script.py

should do.

Get the first N elements of an array?

if you want to get the first N elements and also remove it from the array, you can use array_splice() (note the 'p' in "splice"):

http://docs.php.net/manual/da/function.array-splice.php

use it like so: $array_without_n_elements = array_splice($old_array, 0, N)

How to quickly form groups (quartiles, deciles, etc) by ordering column(s) in a data frame

Try this function

getQuantileGroupNum <- function(vec, group_num, decreasing=FALSE) {
  if(decreasing) {
    abs(cut(vec, quantile(vec, probs=seq(0, 1, 1 / group_num), type=8, na.rm=TRUE), labels=FALSE, include.lowest=T) - group_num - 1)
  } else {
    cut(vec, quantile(vec, probs=seq(0, 1, 1 / group_num), type=8, na.rm=TRUE), labels=FALSE, include.lowest=T)
  }
}
> t1 <- runif(7)
> t1
[1] 0.4336094 0.2842928 0.5578876 0.2678694 0.6495285 0.3706474 0.5976223
> getQuantileGroupNum(t1, 4)
[1] 2 1 3 1 4 2 4
> getQuantileGroupNum(t1, 4, decreasing=T)
[1] 3 4 2 4 1 3 1

Why is this HTTP request not working on AWS Lambda?

enter image description here

Add above code in API gateway under GET-Integration Request> mapping section.

Set Icon Image in Java

Use Default toolkit for this

frame.setIconImage(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage("Icon.png"));

What's the effect of adding 'return false' to a click event listener?

using return false in an onclick event stops the browser from processing the rest of the execution stack, which includes following the link in the href attribute.

In other words, adding return false stops the href from working. In your example, this is exactly what you want.

In buttons, it's not necessary because onclick is all it will ever execute -- there is no href to process and go to.

Enabling SSL with XAMPP

I finally got this to work on my own hosted xampp windows 10 server web site. I.e. padlocks came up as ssl. I am using xampp version from November 2020.

  1. Went to certbot.eff.org. Selected from their home page software [apache] and system [windows]. Then downloaded and installed certbot software found at the next page into my C drive.

  2. Then from command line [cmd in Windows Start and then before you open cmd right click to run cmd as admin] I enhtered the command from Certbot page above. I.e. navigated to system32-- C:\WINDOWS\system32> certbot certonly --standalone

  3. Then followed the prompts and enteredmy domain name. This created certs as cert1.pem and key1.pem in C:\Certbot yourwebsitedomain folder. the cmd windows tells you where these are.

  4. Then took these and changed their names from cert1.pem to my domainname or shorter+cert.pem and same for domainname or shorter+key.key. Copied these into C:\xampp\apache\ssl.crt and ssl.key folders respectively.

  5. Then for G:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts entered the following:

<VirtualHost *:443>
    DocumentRoot "G:/xampp/htdocs/yourwebsitedomainname.hopto.org/public/" ###NB My document root is public.  Yours may not be.  Or could have an index.php page before /public###
    ServerName yourwebsitedomainnamee.hopto.org 
    <Directory G:/xampp/htdocs/yourwebsitedomainname.hopto.org>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
    ErrorLog "G:/xampp/apache/logs/error.log"
    CustomLog "G:/xampp/apache/logs/access.log" common
    SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile "G:\xampp\apache\conf\ssl.crt\abscert.pem"
SSLCertificateKeyFile "G:\xampp\apache\conf\ssl.key\abskey.pem"
</VirtualHost>  
     
  1. Then navigated to G:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-ssl.conf and did as was advised above. I missed this important step for days until I read this post. Thank you! I.e. entered
<VirtualHost _default_:443>
DocumentRoot "G:/xampp/htdocs/yourwebsitedomainnamee.hopto.org/public/"
###NB My document root is public.  Yours may not be.  Or could have an index.php page before /public###
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile "conf/ssl.crt/abscert.pem"
SSLCertificateKeyFile "conf/ssl.key/abskey.pem"
CustomLog "G:/xampp/apache/logs/ssl_request.log" \
          "%t %h %{SSL_PROTOCOL}x %{SSL_CIPHER}x \"%r\" %b"
</VirtualHost>  

Note1. I used www.noip.com to register the domain name. Note2. Rather then try to get them to give me a ssl certificate, as I could not get it to work, the above worked instead. Note3 I use the noip DUC software to keep my personally hosted web site in sync with noip. Note4. Very important to stop and start xampp server after each change you make in xampp. If xampp fails for some reason instead of starting the xampp consol try the start xampp as this will give you problems you can bug fix. Copy these quickly and paste into note.txt.

How does EL empty operator work in JSF?

From EL 2.2 specification (get the one below "Click here to download the spec for evaluation"):

1.10 Empty Operator - empty A

The empty operator is a prefix operator that can be used to determine if a value is null or empty.

To evaluate empty A

  • If A is null, return true
  • Otherwise, if A is the empty string, then return true
  • Otherwise, if A is an empty array, then return true
  • Otherwise, if A is an empty Map, return true
  • Otherwise, if A is an empty Collection, return true
  • Otherwise return false

So, considering the interfaces, it works on Collection and Map only. In your case, I think Collection is the best option. Or, if it's a Javabean-like object, then Map. Either way, under the covers, the isEmpty() method is used for the actual check. On interface methods which you can't or don't want to implement, you could throw UnsupportedOperationException.

How to verify if a file exists in a batch file?

Type IF /? to get help about if, it clearly explains how to use IF EXIST.

To delete a complete tree except some folders, see the answer of this question: Windows batch script to delete everything in a folder except one

Finally copying just means calling COPY and calling another bat file can be done like this:

MYOTHERBATFILE.BAT sync.bat myprogram.ini

How to find cube root using Python?

def cube(x):
    if 0<=x: return x**(1./3.)
    return -(-x)**(1./3.)
print (cube(8))
print (cube(-8))

Here is the full answer for both negative and positive numbers.

>>> 
2.0
-2.0
>>> 

Or here is a one-liner;

root_cube = lambda x: x**(1./3.) if 0<=x else -(-x)**(1./3.)

How to get just the parent directory name of a specific file

File file = new File("C:/aaa/bbb/ccc/ddd/test.java");
File curentPath = new File(file.getParent());
//get current path "C:/aaa/bbb/ccc/ddd/"
String currentFolder= currentPath.getName().toString();
//get name of file to string "ddd"

if you need to append folder "ddd" by another path use;

String currentFolder= "/" + currentPath.getName().toString();

java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource cannot be opened because it does not exist

What you put directly under src/main/java is in the default package, at the root of the classpath. It's the same for resources put under src/main/resources: they end up at the root of the classpath.

So the path of the resource is app-context.xml, not main/resources/app-context.xml.

Setting the focus to a text field

I did it by setting an AncesterAdded event on the textField and the requesting focus in the window.

Check if string matches pattern

import re
import sys

prog = re.compile('([A-Z]\d+)+')

while True:
  line = sys.stdin.readline()
  if not line: break

  if prog.match(line):
    print 'matched'
  else:
    print 'not matched'

How to throw std::exceptions with variable messages?

Use string literal operator if C++14 (operator ""s)

using namespace std::string_literals;

throw std::exception("Could not load config file '"s + configfile + "'"s);

or define your own if in C++11. For instance

std::string operator ""_s(const char * str, std::size_t len) {
    return std::string(str, str + len);
}

Your throw statement will then look like this

throw std::exception("Could not load config file '"_s + configfile + "'"_s);

which looks nice and clean.