Programs & Examples On #Image resizing

Image resizing is the downscaling or upscaling of an image. Dozens of algorithms exist, all with performance vs. quality tradeoffs.

Resize image proportionally with CSS?

If it's a background image, use background-size:contain.

Example css:

#your-div {
  background: url('image.jpg') no-repeat;
  background-size:contain;
}

Responsive css background images

If you want the entire image to show irrespective of the aspect ratio, then try this:

background-image:url('../images/bg.png');
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-size:100% 100%;
background-position:center;

This will show the entire image no matter what the screen size.

Resize image in PHP

I created an easy-to-use library for image resizing. It can be found here on Github.

An example of how to use the library:

// Include PHP Image Magician library
require_once('php_image_magician.php');

// Open JPG image
$magicianObj = new imageLib('racecar.jpg');

// Resize to best fit then crop (check out the other options)
$magicianObj -> resizeImage(100, 200, 'crop');

// Save resized image as a PNG (or jpg, bmp, etc)
$magicianObj -> saveImage('racecar_small.png');

Other features, should you need them, are:

  • Quick and easy resize - Resize to landscape, portrait, or auto
  • Easy crop
  • Add text
  • Quality adjustment
  • Watermarking
  • Shadows and reflections
  • Transparency support
  • Read EXIF metadata
  • Borders, Rounded corners, Rotation
  • Filters and effects
  • Image sharpening
  • Image type conversion
  • BMP support

Resize Google Maps marker icon image

If you are using vue2-google-maps like me, the code to set the size looks like this:

<gmap-marker
  ..
  :icon="{
    ..
    anchor: { x: iconSize, y: iconSize },
    scaledSize: { height: iconSize, width: iconSize },
  }"
>

Resizing an image in an HTML5 canvas

I know this is an old thread but it might be useful for some people such as myself that months after are hitting this issue for the first time.

Here is some code that resizes the image every time you reload the image. I am aware this is not optimal at all, but I provide it as a proof of concept.

Also, sorry for using jQuery for simple selectors but I just feel too comfortable with the syntax.

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$(document).on('ready', createImage);_x000D_
$(window).on('resize', createImage);_x000D_
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var createImage = function(){_x000D_
  var canvas = document.getElementById('myCanvas');_x000D_
  canvas.width = window.innerWidth || $(window).width();_x000D_
  canvas.height = window.innerHeight || $(window).height();_x000D_
  var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');_x000D_
  img = new Image();_x000D_
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};
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}
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My createImage function is called once when the document is loaded and after that it is called every time the window receives a resize event.

I tested it in Chrome 6 and Firefox 3.6, both on the Mac. This "technique" eats processor as it if was ice cream in the summer, but it does the trick.

How to resize an image to a specific size in OpenCV?

You can use CvInvoke.Resize for Emgu.CV 3.0

e.g

CvInvoke.Resize(inputImage, outputImage, new System.Drawing.Size(100, 100), 0, 0, Inter.Cubic);

Details are here

How to set max width of an image in CSS

Your css is almost correct. You are just missing display: block; in image css. Also one typo in your id. It should be <div id="ImageContainer">

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div#ImageContainer { width: 600px; }
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    <img src="http://placehold.it/1000x600" class="Image">_x000D_
</div>
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SQL sum with condition

Try this instead:

SUM(CASE WHEN ValueDate > @startMonthDate THEN cash ELSE 0 END)

Explanation

Your CASE expression has incorrect syntax. It seems you are confusing the simple CASE expression syntax with the searched CASE expression syntax. See the documentation for CASE:

The CASE expression has two formats:

  • The simple CASE expression compares an expression to a set of simple expressions to determine the result.
  • The searched CASE expression evaluates a set of Boolean expressions to determine the result.

You want the searched CASE expression syntax:

CASE
     WHEN Boolean_expression THEN result_expression [ ...n ] 
     [ ELSE else_result_expression ] 
END

As a side note, if performance is an issue you may find that this expression runs more quickly if you rewrite using a JOIN and GROUP BY instead of using a dependent subquery.

Find UNC path of a network drive?

The answer is a simple PowerShell one-liner:

Get-WmiObject Win32_NetworkConnection | ft "RemoteName","LocalName" -A

If you only want to pull the UNC for one particular drive, add a where statement:

Get-WmiObject Win32_NetworkConnection | where -Property 'LocalName' -eq 'Z:'  | ft "RemoteName","LocalName" -A

How to store a datetime in MySQL with timezone info

All the symptoms you describe suggest that you never tell MySQL what time zone to use so it defaults to system's zone. Think about it: if all it has is '2011-03-13 02:49:10', how can it guess that it's a local Tanzanian date?

As far as I know, MySQL doesn't provide any syntax to specify time zone information in dates. You have to change it a per-connection basis; something like:

SET time_zone = 'EAT';

If this doesn't work (to use named zones you need that the server has been configured to do so and it's often not the case) you can use UTC offsets because Tanzania does not observe daylight saving time at the time of writing but of course it isn't the best option:

SET time_zone = '+03:00';

Programmatically read from STDIN or input file in Perl

while (<>) {
print;
}

will read either from a file specified on the command line or from stdin if no file is given

If you are required this loop construction in command line, then you may use -n option:

$ perl -ne 'print;'

Here you just put code between {} from first example into '' in second

Delete from a table based on date

You could use:

DELETE FROM tableName
where your_date_column < '2009-01-01';

but Keep in mind that the above is really

DELETE FROM tableName
    where your_date_column < '2009-01-01 00:00:00';

Not

 DELETE FROM tableName
        where your_date_column < '2009-01-01 11:59';

How to add a JAR in NetBeans

If your project's source code has import statements that reference classes that are in widget.jar, you should add the jar to your projects Compile-time Libraries. (The jar widget.jar will automatically be added to your project's Run-time Libraries). That corresponds to (1).

If your source code has imports for classes in some other jar and the source code for those classes has import statements that reference classes in widget.jar, you should add widget.jar to the Run-time libraries list. That corresponds to (2).

You can add the jars directly to the Libraries list in the project properties. You can also create a Library that contains the jar file and then include that Library in the Compile-time or Run-time Libraries list.

If you create a NetBeans Library for widget.jar, you can also associate source code for the jar's content and Javadoc for the APIs defined in widget.jar. This additional information about widget.jar will be used by NetBeans as you debug code. It will also be used to provide addition information when you use code completion in the editor.

You should avoid using Tools >> Java Platform to add a jar to a project. That dialog allows you to modify the classpath that is used to compile and run all projects that use the Java Platform that you create. That may be useful at times but hides your project's dependency on widget.jar almost completely.

Hide particular div onload and then show div after click

This is an easier way to do it. Hope this helps...

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
    $("#preview").toggle(function() {
        $("#div1").hide();
        $("#div2").show();
    }, function() {
        $("#div1").show();
        $("#div2").hide();
    });
});

<div id="div1">
This is preview Div1. This is preview Div1.
</div>

<div id="div2" style="display:none;">
This is preview Div2 to show after div 1 hides.
</div>

<div id="preview" style="color:#999999; font-size:14px">
PREVIEW
</div>
  • If you want the div to be hidden on load, make the style display:none
  • Use toggle rather than click function.


Links:

JQuery Tutorials

JQuery References

Testing web application on Mac/Safari when I don't own a Mac

The best site to test website and see them realtime on MAC Safari is by using

Browserstack

They have like 25 free minutes of first time testing and then 10 free mins each day..You can even test your pages from your local PC by using their WEB TUNNEL Feature

I tested 7 to 8 pages in browserstack...And I think they have some java debugging tool in the upper right corner that is great help

Extract first item of each sublist

Had the same issue and got curious about the performance of each solution.

Here's is the %timeit:

import numpy as np
lst = [['a','b','c'], [1,2,3], ['x','y','z']]

The first numpy-way, transforming the array:

%timeit list(np.array(lst).T[0])
4.9 µs ± 163 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100000 loops each)

Fully native using list comprehension (as explained by @alecxe):

%timeit [item[0] for item in lst]
379 ns ± 23.1 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1000000 loops each)

Another native way using zip (as explained by @dawg):

%timeit list(zip(*lst))[0]
585 ns ± 7.26 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1000000 loops each)

Second numpy-way. Also explained by @dawg:

%timeit list(np.array(lst)[:,0])
4.95 µs ± 179 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100000 loops each)

Surprisingly (well, at least for me) the native way using list comprehension is the fastest and about 10x faster than the numpy-way. Running the two numpy-ways without the final list saves about one µs which is still in the 10x difference.

Note that, when I surrounded each code snippet with a call to len, to ensure that Generators run till the end, the timing stayed the same.

How do I tell CMake to link in a static library in the source directory?

I found this helpful...

http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2011-June/045222.html

From their example:

ADD_LIBRARY(boost_unit_test_framework STATIC IMPORTED)
SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(boost_unit_test_framework PROPERTIES IMPORTED_LOCATION /usr/lib/libboost_unit_test_framework.a)
TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(mytarget A boost_unit_test_framework C)

How to show a confirm message before delete?

If you are interested in some quick pretty solution with css format done, you can use SweetAlert

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$(function(){
  $(".delete").click(function(){
      swal({   
          title: "Are you sure?",   
          text: "You will not be able to recover this imaginary file!",   
          type: "warning",   
          showCancelButton: true,   
          confirmButtonColor: "#DD6B55",   
          confirmButtonText: "Yes, delete it!",   
          closeOnConfirm: false 
      }).then(isConfirmed => { 
        if(isConfirmed) {
          $(".file").addClass("isDeleted");
          swal("Deleted!", "Your imaginary file has been deleted.", "success"); 
}
        });
  });
});
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html { zoom: 0.7 } /* little "hack" to make example visible in stackoverflow snippet preview */
body > p { font-size: 32px }

.delete { cursor: pointer; color: #00A }
.isDeleted { text-decoration:line-through }
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<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.3.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/sweetalert/dist/sweetalert.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://t4t5.github.io/sweetalert/dist/sweetalert.css">

<p class="file">File 1 <span class="delete">(delete)</span></p>
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SQL select max(date) and corresponding value

There's no easy way to do this, but something like this will work:

SELECT ET.TrainingID, 
  ET.CompletedDate, 
  ET.Notes
FROM 
HR_EmployeeTrainings ET
inner join
(
  select TrainingID, Max(CompletedDate) as CompletedDate
  FROM HR_EmployeeTrainings
  WHERE (ET.AvantiRecID IS NULL OR ET.AvantiRecID = @avantiRecID)
  GROUP BY AvantiRecID, TrainingID  
) ET2 
  on ET.TrainingID = ET2.TrainingID
  and ET.CompletedDate = ET2.CompletedDate

Erase the current printed console line

under windows 10 one can use VT100 style by activating the VT100 mode in the current console to use escape sequences as follow :

#include <windows.h>
#include <iostream>

#define ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING 0x0004
#define DISABLE_NEWLINE_AUTO_RETURN  0x0008

int main(){

  // enabling VT100 style in current console
  DWORD l_mode;
  HANDLE hStdout = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
  GetConsoleMode(hStdout,&l_mode)
  SetConsoleMode( hStdout, l_mode |
            ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING |
            DISABLE_NEWLINE_AUTO_RETURN );

  // create a waiting loop with changing text every seconds
  while(true) {
    // erase current line and go to line begining 
    std::cout << "\x1B[2K\r";
    std::cout << "wait a second .";
    Sleep(1);
    std::cout << "\x1B[2K\r";
    std::cout << "wait a second ..";
    Sleep(1);
    std::cout << "\x1B[2K\r";
    std::cout << "wait a second ...";
    Sleep(1);
    std::cout << "\x1B[2K\r";
    std::cout << "wait a second ....";
 }

}

see following link : windows VT100

How to diff a commit with its parent?

Uses aliases, so doesn't answer your question exactly but I find these useful for doing what you intend...

alias gitdiff-1="git log --reverse|grep commit|cut -d ' ' -f2|tail -n 2|head -n 2|xargs echo|sed -e 's/\s/../'|xargs -n 1 git diff"
alias gitdiff-2="git log --reverse|grep commit|cut -d ' ' -f2|tail -n 3|head -n 2|xargs echo|sed -e 's/\s/../'|xargs -n 1 git diff"
alias gitdiff-3="git log --reverse|grep commit|cut -d ' ' -f2|tail -n 4|head -n 2|xargs echo|sed -e 's/\s/../'|xargs -n 1 git diff"

alias gitlog-1="git log --reverse|grep commit|cut -d ' ' -f2|tail -n 2|head -n 2|xargs echo|sed -e 's/\s/../'|xargs -n 1 git log --summary"
alias gitlog-2="git log --reverse|grep commit|cut -d ' ' -f2|tail -n 3|head -n 2|xargs echo|sed -e 's/\s/../'|xargs -n 1 git log --summary"
alias gitlog-3="git log --reverse|grep commit|cut -d ' ' -f2|tail -n 4|head -n 2|xargs echo|sed -e 's/\s/../'|xargs -n 1 git log --summary"

Local package.json exists, but node_modules missing

This issue can also raise when you change your system password but not the same updated on your .npmrc file that exist on path C:\Users\user_name, so update your password there too.

please check on it and run npm install first and then npm start.

Generating an MD5 checksum of a file

hashlib.md5(pathlib.Path('path/to/file').read_bytes()).hexdigest()

How to rearrange Pandas column sequence?

You can do the following:

df =DataFrame({'a':[1,2,3,4],'b':[2,4,6,8]})

df['x']=df.a + df.b
df['y']=df.a - df.b

create column title whatever order you want in this way:

column_titles = ['x','y','a','b']

df.reindex(columns=column_titles)

This will give you desired output

Solving SharePoint Server 2010 - 503. The service is unavailable, After installation

Sometimes Web.config of the application ends up in an unconsistent state (duplicate declaration of http handlers, etc) To check which line in config is causing the error open IIS Manager and try to edit the handler mappings..it will display you the error line if there is such an error in web config.

Strangely such errors do not get logged in Event viewer or ULS

Find html label associated with a given input

If you are using jQuery you can do something like this

$('label[for="foo"]').hide ();

If you aren't using jQuery you'll have to search for the label. Here is a function that takes the element as an argument and returns the associated label

function findLableForControl(el) {
   var idVal = el.id;
   labels = document.getElementsByTagName('label');
   for( var i = 0; i < labels.length; i++ ) {
      if (labels[i].htmlFor == idVal)
           return labels[i];
   }
}

How to avoid mysql 'Deadlock found when trying to get lock; try restarting transaction'

One easy trick that can help with most deadlocks is sorting the operations in a specific order.

You get a deadlock when two transactions are trying to lock two locks at opposite orders, ie:

  • connection 1: locks key(1), locks key(2);
  • connection 2: locks key(2), locks key(1);

If both run at the same time, connection 1 will lock key(1), connection 2 will lock key(2) and each connection will wait for the other to release the key -> deadlock.

Now, if you changed your queries such that the connections would lock the keys at the same order, ie:

  • connection 1: locks key(1), locks key(2);
  • connection 2: locks key(1), locks key(2);

it will be impossible to get a deadlock.

So this is what I suggest:

  1. Make sure you have no other queries that lock access more than one key at a time except for the delete statement. if you do (and I suspect you do), order their WHERE in (k1,k2,..kn) in ascending order.

  2. Fix your delete statement to work in ascending order:

Change

DELETE FROM onlineusers 
WHERE datetime <= now() - INTERVAL 900 SECOND

To

DELETE FROM onlineusers 
WHERE id IN (
    SELECT id FROM onlineusers
    WHERE datetime <= now() - INTERVAL 900 SECOND 
    ORDER BY id
) u;

Another thing to keep in mind is that mysql documentation suggest that in case of a deadlock the client should retry automatically. you can add this logic to your client code. (Say, 3 retries on this particular error before giving up).

What does OpenCV's cvWaitKey( ) function do?

cvWaitKey(0) stops your program until you press a button.

cvWaitKey(10) doesn't stop your program but wake up and alert to end your program when you press a button. Its used into loops because cvWaitkey doesn't stop loop.

Normal use

char k;

k=cvWaitKey(0);

if(k == 'ESC')

with k you can see what key was pressed.

Real differences between "java -server" and "java -client"?

IIRC, it involves garbage collection strategies. The theory is that a client and server will be different in terms of short-lived objects, which is important for modern GC algorithms.

Here is a link on server mode. Alas, they don't mention client mode.

Here is a very thorough link on GC in general; this is a more basic article. Not sure if either address -server vs -client but this is relevant material.

At No Fluff Just Stuff, both Ken Sipe and Glenn Vandenburg do great talks on this kind of thing.

How can I create a Java 8 LocalDate from a long Epoch time in Milliseconds?

You can start with Instant.ofEpochMilli(long):

LocalDate date =
  Instant.ofEpochMilli(startDateLong)
  .atZone(ZoneId.systemDefault())
  .toLocalDate();

Call a Class From another class

If your class2 looks like this having static members

public class2
{
    static int var = 1;

    public static void myMethod()
    {
      // some code

    }
}

Then you can simply call them like

class2.myMethod();
class2.var = 1;

If you want to access non-static members then you would have to instantiate an object.

class2 object = new class2();
object.myMethod();  // non static method
object.var = 1;     // non static variable

jQuery when element becomes visible

A catch-all jQuery custom event based on an extension of it's core methods like it was proposed by different people in this thread:

(function() {
    var ev = new $.Event('event.css.jquery'),
        css = $.fn.css,
        show = $.fn.show,
        hide = $.fn.hide;

    // extends css()
    $.fn.css = function() {
        css.apply(this, arguments);
        $(this).trigger(ev);
    };

    // extends show()
    $.fn.show = function() {
        show.apply(this, arguments);
        $(this).trigger(ev);
    };

    // extends hide()
    $.fn.hide = function() {
        hide.apply(this, arguments);
        $(this).trigger(ev);
    };
})();

An external library then, uses sth like $('selector').css('property', value).

As we don't want to alter the library's code but we DO want to extend it's behavior we do sth like:

$('#element').on('event.css.jquery', function(e) {
    // ...more code here...
});

Example: user clicks on a panel that is built by a library. The library shows/hides elements based on user interaction. We want to add a sensor that shows that sth has been hidden/shown because of that interaction and should be called after the library's function.

Another example: jsfiddle.

SQL Server - calculate elapsed time between two datetime stamps in HH:MM:SS format

Use the DATEDIFF to return value in milliseconds, seconds, minutes, hours, ...

DATEDIFF(interval, date1, date2)

interval REQUIRED - The time/date part to return. Can be one of the following values:

year, yyyy, yy = Year
quarter, qq, q = Quarter
month, mm, m = month
dayofyear = Day of the year
day, dy, y = Day
week, ww, wk = Week
weekday, dw, w = Weekday
hour, hh = hour
minute, mi, n = Minute
second, ss, s = Second
millisecond, ms = Millisecond

date1, date2 REQUIRED - The two dates to calculate the difference between

Reset git proxy to default configuration

If you have used Powershell commands to set the Proxy on windows machine doing the below helped me.

To unset the proxy use: 1. Open powershell 2. Enter the following:

[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable(“HTTP_PROXY”, $null, [EnvironmentVariableTarget]::Machine)
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable(“HTTPS_PROXY”, $null, [EnvironmentVariableTarget]::Machine)

To set the proxy again use: 1. Open powershell 2. Enter the following:

[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable(“HTTP_PROXY”, “http://yourproxy.com:yourportnumber”, [EnvironmentVariableTarget]::Machine)
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable(“HTTPS_PROXY”, “http://yourproxy.com:yourportnumber”, [EnvironmentVariableTarget]::Machine)

Accessing a Dictionary.Keys Key through a numeric index

A dictionary may not be very intuitive for using index for reference but, you can have similar operations with an array of KeyValuePair:

ex. KeyValuePair<string, string>[] filters;

Why should a Java class implement comparable?

When you implement Comparable interface, you need to implement method compareTo(). You need it to compare objects, in order to use, for example, sorting method of ArrayList class. You need a way to compare your objects to be able to sort them. So you need a custom compareTo() method in your class so you can use it with the ArrayList sort method. The compareTo() method returns -1,0,1.

I have just read an according chapter in Java Head 2.0, I'm still learning.

ERROR 403 in loading resources like CSS and JS in my index.php

You need to change permissions on the folder bootstrap/css. Your super user may be able to access it but it doesn't mean apache or nginx have access to it, that's why you still need to change the permissions.

Tip: I usually make the apache/nginx's user group owner of that kind of folders and give 775 permission to it.

Javascript extends class

Douglas Crockford has some very good explanations of inheritance in JavaScript:

  1. prototypal inheritance: the 'natural' way to do things in JavaScript
  2. classical inheritance: closer to what you find in most OO languages, but kind of runs against the grain of JavaScript

How to call execl() in C with the proper arguments?

execl("/home/vlc", 
  "/home/vlc", "/home/my movies/the movie i want to see.mkv", 
  (char*) NULL);

You need to specify all arguments, included argv[0] which isn't taken from the executable.

Also make sure the final NULL gets cast to char*.

Details are here: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/exec.html

iOS - UIImageView - how to handle UIImage image orientation

I converted the code in Anomie's answer here (copy-pasted above by suvish valsan) into Swift:

func fixOrientation() -> UIImage {
    if self.imageOrientation == UIImageOrientation.Up {
        return self
    }

    var transform = CGAffineTransformIdentity

    switch self.imageOrientation {
    case .Down, .DownMirrored:
        transform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(transform, self.size.width, self.size.height)
        transform = CGAffineTransformRotate(transform, CGFloat(M_PI));

    case .Left, .LeftMirrored:
        transform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(transform, self.size.width, 0);
        transform = CGAffineTransformRotate(transform, CGFloat(M_PI_2));

    case .Right, .RightMirrored:
        transform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(transform, 0, self.size.height);
        transform = CGAffineTransformRotate(transform, CGFloat(-M_PI_2));

    case .Up, .UpMirrored:
        break
    }

    switch self.imageOrientation {

    case .UpMirrored, .DownMirrored:
        transform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(transform, self.size.width, 0)
        transform = CGAffineTransformScale(transform, -1, 1)

    case .LeftMirrored, .RightMirrored:
        transform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(transform, self.size.height, 0)
        transform = CGAffineTransformScale(transform, -1, 1);

    default:
        break;
    }

    // Now we draw the underlying CGImage into a new context, applying the transform
    // calculated above.
    let ctx = CGBitmapContextCreate(
        nil,
        Int(self.size.width),
        Int(self.size.height),
        CGImageGetBitsPerComponent(self.CGImage),
        0,
        CGImageGetColorSpace(self.CGImage),
        UInt32(CGImageGetBitmapInfo(self.CGImage).rawValue)
    )

    CGContextConcatCTM(ctx, transform);

    switch self.imageOrientation {
    case .Left, .LeftMirrored, .Right, .RightMirrored:
        // Grr...
        CGContextDrawImage(ctx, CGRectMake(0, 0, self.size.height,self.size.width), self.CGImage);

    default:
        CGContextDrawImage(ctx, CGRectMake(0, 0, self.size.width,self.size.height), self.CGImage);
        break;
    }

    // And now we just create a new UIImage from the drawing context
    let cgimg = CGBitmapContextCreateImage(ctx)

    let img = UIImage(CGImage: cgimg!)

    return img;
}

(I replaced all occurencies of the parameter image with self, because my code is an extension on UIImage).


EDIT: Swift 3 version.

The method returns an optional, because many of the intermediate calls can fail and I don't like to use !.

func fixOrientation() -> UIImage? {

    guard let cgImage = self.cgImage else {
        return nil
    }

    if self.imageOrientation == UIImageOrientation.up {
        return self
    }

    let width  = self.size.width
    let height = self.size.height

    var transform = CGAffineTransform.identity

    switch self.imageOrientation {
    case .down, .downMirrored:
        transform = transform.translatedBy(x: width, y: height)
        transform = transform.rotated(by: CGFloat.pi)

    case .left, .leftMirrored:
        transform = transform.translatedBy(x: width, y: 0)
        transform = transform.rotated(by: 0.5*CGFloat.pi)

    case .right, .rightMirrored:
        transform = transform.translatedBy(x: 0, y: height)
        transform = transform.rotated(by: -0.5*CGFloat.pi)

    case .up, .upMirrored:
        break
    }

    switch self.imageOrientation {
    case .upMirrored, .downMirrored:
        transform = transform.translatedBy(x: width, y: 0)
        transform = transform.scaledBy(x: -1, y: 1)

    case .leftMirrored, .rightMirrored:
        transform = transform.translatedBy(x: height, y: 0)
        transform = transform.scaledBy(x: -1, y: 1)

    default:
        break;
    }

    // Now we draw the underlying CGImage into a new context, applying the transform
    // calculated above.
    guard let colorSpace = cgImage.colorSpace else {
        return nil
    }

    guard let context = CGContext(
        data: nil,
        width: Int(width),
        height: Int(height),
        bitsPerComponent: cgImage.bitsPerComponent,
        bytesPerRow: 0,
        space: colorSpace,
        bitmapInfo: UInt32(cgImage.bitmapInfo.rawValue)
        ) else {
            return nil
    }

    context.concatenate(transform);

    switch self.imageOrientation {

    case .left, .leftMirrored, .right, .rightMirrored:
        // Grr...
        context.draw(cgImage, in: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: height, height: width))

    default:
        context.draw(cgImage, in: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: width, height: height))
    }

    // And now we just create a new UIImage from the drawing context
    guard let newCGImg = context.makeImage() else {
        return nil
    }

    let img = UIImage(cgImage: newCGImg)

    return img;
}

(Note: Swift 3 version odes compile under Xcode 8.1, but haven't tested it actually works. There might be a typo somewhere, mixed up width/height, etc. Feel free to point/fix any errors).

Excel VBA Macro: User Defined Type Not Defined

Your error is caused by these:

Dim oTable As Table, oRow As Row,

These types, Table and Row are not variable types native to Excel. You can resolve this in one of two ways:

  1. Include a reference to the Microsoft Word object model. Do this from Tools | References, then add reference to MS Word. While not strictly necessary, you may like to fully qualify the objects like Dim oTable as Word.Table, oRow as Word.Row. This is called early-binding. enter image description here
  2. Alternatively, to use late-binding method, you must declare the objects as generic Object type: Dim oTable as Object, oRow as Object. With this method, you do not need to add the reference to Word, but you also lose the intellisense assistance in the VBE.

I have not tested your code but I suspect ActiveDocument won't work in Excel with method #2, unless you properly scope it to an instance of a Word.Application object. I don't see that anywhere in the code you have provided. An example would be like:

Sub DeleteEmptyRows()
Dim wdApp as Object
Dim oTable As Object, As Object, _
TextInRow As Boolean, i As Long

Set wdApp = GetObject(,"Word.Application")

Application.ScreenUpdating = False

For Each oTable In wdApp.ActiveDocument.Tables

Java: Insert multiple rows into MySQL with PreparedStatement

When MySQL driver is used you have to set connection param rewriteBatchedStatements to true ( jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/TestDB?**rewriteBatchedStatements=true**).

With this param the statement is rewritten to bulk insert when table is locked only once and indexes are updated only once. So it is much faster.

Without this param only advantage is cleaner source code.

Flutter- wrapping text

Use Expanded

 Expanded(
            child: new Column(
              crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
              children: <Widget>[
                new Text(_name, style: Theme.of(context).textTheme.subhead),
                new Container(
                  margin: const EdgeInsets.only(top: 5.0),
                  child: new Text(text),
                ),
              ],
            ),

How do I find files that do not contain a given string pattern?

Open bug report

As commented by @tukan, there is an open bug report for Ag regarding the -L/--files-without-matches flag:

As there is little progress to the bug report, the -L option mentioned below should not be relied on, not as long as the bug has not been resolved. Use different approaches presented in this thread instead. Citing a comment for the bug report [emphasis mine]:

Any updates on this? -L completely ignores matches on the first line of the file. Seems like if this isn't going to be fixed soon, the flag should be removed entirely, as it effectively does not work as advertised at all.


The Silver Searcher - Ag (intended function - see bug report)

As a powerful alternative to grep, you could use the The Silver Searcher - Ag:

A code searching tool similar to ack, with a focus on speed.

Looking at man ag, we find the -L or --files-without-matches option:

...

OPTIONS
    ...

    -L --files-without-matches
           Only print the names of files that don´t contain matches.

I.e., to recursively search for files that do not match foo, from current directory:

ag -L foo

To only search current directory for files that do not match foo, simply specify --depth=0 for the recursion:

ag -L foo --depth 0

Bash: If/Else statement in one line

pgrep -q some_process && echo 1 || echo 0

more oneliners here

Differences between INDEX, PRIMARY, UNIQUE, FULLTEXT in MySQL?

All of these are kinds of indices.

primary: must be unique, is an index, is (likely) the physical index, can be only one per table.

unique: as it says. You can't have more than one row with a tuple of this value. Note that since a unique key can be over more than one column, this doesn't necessarily mean that each individual column in the index is unique, but that each combination of values across these columns is unique.

index: if it's not primary or unique, it doesn't constrain values inserted into the table, but it does allow them to be looked up more efficiently.

fulltext: a more specialized form of indexing that allows full text search. Think of it as (essentially) creating an "index" for each "word" in the specified column.

How to remove single character from a String

You can use Java String method called replace, which will replace all characters matching the first parameter with the second parameter:

String a = "Cool";
a = a.replace("o","");

How to update column value in laravel

You may try this:

Page::where('id', $id)->update(array('image' => 'asdasd'));

There are other ways too but no need to use Page::find($id); in this case. But if you use find() then you may try it like this:

$page = Page::find($id);

// Make sure you've got the Page model
if($page) {
    $page->image = 'imagepath';
    $page->save();
}

Also you may use:

$page = Page::findOrFail($id);

So, it'll throw an exception if the model with that id was not found.

JavaScript: How to pass object by value?

Here is clone function that will perform deep copy of the object:

function clone(obj){
    if(obj == null || typeof(obj) != 'object')
        return obj;

    var temp = new obj.constructor(); 
    for(var key in obj)
        temp[key] = clone(obj[key]);

    return temp;
}

Now you can you use like this:

(function(x){
    var obj = clone(x);
    obj.foo = 'foo';
    obj.bar = 'bar';
})(o)

How to change the background color on a Java panel?

setBackground() is the right method to use. Did you repaint after you changed it? If you change it before you make the panel (or its containing frame) visible it should work

How do I exit from a function?

Yo can simply google for "exit sub in c#".

Also why would you check every text box if it is empty. You can place requiredfieldvalidator for these text boxes if this is an asp.net app and check if(Page.IsValid)

Or another solution is to get not of these conditions:

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (!(textBox1.Text == "" || textBox2.Text == "" || textBox3.Text == ""))
    {
        //do events
    }
}

And better use String.IsNullOrEmpty:

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (!(String.IsNullOrEmpty(textBox1.Text)
    || String.IsNullOrEmpty(textBox2.Text)
    || String.IsNullOrEmpty(textBox3.Text)))
    {
        //do events
    }
}

How to set xlim and ylim for a subplot in matplotlib

You should use the OO interface to matplotlib, rather than the state machine interface. Almost all of the plt.* function are thin wrappers that basically do gca().*.

plt.subplot returns an axes object. Once you have a reference to the axes object you can plot directly to it, change its limits, etc.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

ax1 = plt.subplot(131)
ax1.scatter([1, 2], [3, 4])
ax1.set_xlim([0, 5])
ax1.set_ylim([0, 5])


ax2 = plt.subplot(132)
ax2.scatter([1, 2],[3, 4])
ax2.set_xlim([0, 5])
ax2.set_ylim([0, 5])

and so on for as many axes as you want.

or better, wrap it all up in a loop:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

DATA_x = ([1, 2],
          [2, 3],
          [3, 4])

DATA_y = DATA_x[::-1]

XLIMS = [[0, 10]] * 3
YLIMS = [[0, 10]] * 3

for j, (x, y, xlim, ylim) in enumerate(zip(DATA_x, DATA_y, XLIMS, YLIMS)):
    ax = plt.subplot(1, 3, j + 1)
    ax.scatter(x, y)
    ax.set_xlim(xlim)
    ax.set_ylim(ylim)

Get type name without full namespace

typeof(T).Name // class name, no namespace
typeof(T).FullName // namespace and class name
typeof(T).Namespace // namespace, no class name

Adding Permissions in AndroidManifest.xml in Android Studio?

You can type them manually but the editor will assist you.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.html

You can see the snap sot below.

enter image description here

As soon as you type "a" inside the quotes you get a list of permissions and also hint to move caret up and down to select the same.

enter image description here

Getting the .Text value from a TextBox

Use this instead:

string objTextBox = t.Text;

The object t is the TextBox. The object you call objTextBox is assigned the ID property of the TextBox.

So better code would be:

TextBox objTextBox = (TextBox)sender;
string theText = objTextBox.Text;

How to run Maven from another directory (without cd to project dir)?

You can use the parameter -f (or --file) and specify the path to your pom file, e.g. mvn -f /path/to/pom.xml

This runs maven "as if" it were in /path/to for the working directory.

"You have mail" message in terminal, os X

Probably it is some message from your system.

Type in terminal:

man mail

, and see how can you get this message from your system.

Convert text to columns in Excel using VBA

If someone is facing issue using texttocolumns function in UFT. Please try using below function.

myxl.Workbooks.Open myexcel.xls
myxl.Application.Visible = false `enter code here`
set mysheet = myxl.ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets(1)
Set objRange = myxl.Range("A1").EntireColumn
Set objRange2 = mysheet.Range("A1")
objRange.TextToColumns objRange2,1,1, , , , true

Here we are using coma(,) as delimiter.

In LaTeX, how can one add a header/footer in the document class Letter?

This code works to insert both header and footer on the first page with header center aligned and footer left aligned

\makeatletter
\let\old@ps@headings\ps@headings
\let\old@ps@IEEEtitlepagestyle\ps@IEEEtitlepagestyle
\def\confheader#1{%
  % for the first page
  \def\ps@IEEEtitlepagestyle{%
    \old@ps@IEEEtitlepagestyle%
    \def\@oddhead{\strut\hfill#1\hfill\strut}%
    \def\@evenhead{\strut\hfill#1\hfill\strut}%
 \def\@oddfoot{\mycopyrightnotice}
  \def\@evenfoot{}
  }%
  \ps@headings%
}
\makeatother

\confheader{%
  5$^{th}$  IEEE International Conference on Recent Advances and Innovations in Engineering - ICRAIE 2020 (IEEE Record\#51050) %EDIT HERE
}

\def\mycopyrightnotice{
  {\footnotesize XXX-1-7281-8867-6/20/\$31.00~\copyright~2020 IEEE\hfill} % EDIT HERE
  \gdef\mycopyrightnotice{}

}

\newcommand*{\affmark}[1][*]{\textsuperscript{#1}}


\def\BibTeX{{\rm B\kern-.05em{\sc i\kern-.025em b}\kern-.08em
    T\kern-.1667em\lower.7ex\hbox{E}\kern-.125emX}}
\newcommand{\ma}[1]{\mbox{\boldmath$#1$}} ```

Where does Console.WriteLine go in ASP.NET?

This is confusing for everyone when it comes IISExpress. There is nothing to read console messages. So for example, in the ASPCORE MVC apps it configures using appsettings.json which does nothing if you are using IISExpress.

For right now you can just add loggerFactory.AddDebug(LogLevel.Debug); in your Configure section and it will at least show you your logs in the Debug Output window.

Good news CORE 2.0 this will all be changing: https://github.com/aspnet/Announcements/issues/255

How to increase image size of pandas.DataFrame.plot in jupyter notebook?

Try figsize param in df.plot(figsize=(width,height)):

df = pd.DataFrame({"a":[1,2],"b":[1,2]})
df.plot(figsize=(3,3));

enter image description here

df = pd.DataFrame({"a":[1,2],"b":[1,2]})
df.plot(figsize=(5,3));

enter image description here

The size in figsize=(5,3) is given in inches per (width, height)

https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.DataFrame.plot.html

What is the path that Django uses for locating and loading templates?

Alright Let's say you have a brand new project, if so you would go to settings.py file and search for TEMPLATES once you found it you just paste this line os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'template') in 'DIRS' At the end, you should get somethings like this :

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [
            os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'template')
        ],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
            ],
        },
    },
]

If you want to know where your BASE_DIR directory is located type these 3 simple commands:

python3 manage.py shell

Once you're in the shell :

>>> from django.conf import settings
>>> settings.BASE_DIR

PS: If you named your template folder with another name, you would change it here too.

Group array items using object

this repo offers solutions in lodash and alternatives in native Js, you can find how to implement groupby. https://github.com/you-dont-need/You-Dont-Need-Lodash-Underscore#_groupby

Create aar file in Android Studio

To create AAR

while creating follow below steps.

File->New->New Module->Android Library and create.

To generate AAR

Go to gradle at top right pane in android studio follow below steps.

Gradle->Drop down library name -> tasks-> build-> assemble or assemble release

AAR will be generated in build/outputs/aar/

But if we want AAR to get generated in specific folder in project directory with name you want, modify your app level build.gradle like below

defaultConfig {
    minSdkVersion 26
    targetSdkVersion 28
    versionCode System.getenv("BUILD_NUMBER") as Integer ?: 1
    versionName "0.0.${versionCode}"


    libraryVariants.all { variant ->

        variant.outputs.all { output ->
            outputFileName = "/../../../../release/" + ("your_recommended_name.aar")
        }
    }
}

Now it will create folder with name "release" in project directory which will be having AAR.

To import "aar" into project,check below link.

How to manually include external aar package using new Gradle Android Build System

fill an array in C#

Write yourself an extension method

public static class ArrayExtensions {
    public static void Fill<T>(this T[] originalArray, T with) {
        for(int i = 0; i < originalArray.Length; i++){
            originalArray[i] = with;
        }
    }  
}

and use it like

int foo[] = new int[]{0,0,0,0,0};
foo.Fill(13);

will fill all the elements with 13

Throughput and bandwidth difference?

As an analogy consider a water pipe as a channel. Pipe diameter corresponds to bandwidth or capacity, and pipe contents corresponds to throughput or usage. In the following image we can see three pipes (or channels), all of which are under-utilised, hence, usage could be increased without the need for a bigger pipe.

Bandwidth vs. throughput

show loading icon until the page is load?

HTML page

<div id="overlay">
<img src="<?php echo base_url()?>assest/website/images/loading1.gif" alt="Loading" />
 Loading...
</div>

Script

$(window).load(function(){ 
 //PAGE IS FULLY LOADED 
 //FADE OUT YOUR OVERLAYING DIV
 $('#overlay').fadeOut();
});

[INSTALL_FAILED_NO_MATCHING_ABIS: Failed to extract native libraries, res=-113]

If you got this error when working with your flutter project, you can add the following code in the module build.gradle and within Android block and then in the defaultConfig block. This error happened when I was trying to make a flutter apk build.

android{
    ...
    defaultConfig{
        ...
        //Add this ndk block of code to your build.gradle
        ndk {
            abiFilters 'armeabi-v7a', 'x86', 'armeabi'
        }
    }
}

LINQ to SQL Left Outer Join

Take care of performance:

I experienced that at least with EF Core the different answers given here might result in different performance. I'm aware that the OP asked about Linq to SQL, but it seems to me that the same questions occur also with EF Core.

In a specific case I had to handle, the (syntactically nicer) suggestion by Marc Gravell resulted in left joins inside a cross apply -- similarly to what Mike U described -- which had the result that the estimated costs for this specific query were two times as high compared to a query with no cross joins. The server execution times differed by a factor of 3. [1]

The solution by Marc Gravell resulted in a query without cross joins.

Context: I essentially needed to perform two left joins on two tables each of which again required a join to another table. Furthermore, there I had to specify other where-conditions on the tables on which I needed to apply the left join. In addition, I had two inner joins on the main table.

Estimated operator costs:

  • with cross apply: 0.2534
  • without cross apply: 0.0991.

Server execution times in ms (queries executed 10 times; measured using SET STATISTICS TIME ON):

  • with cross apply: 5, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6
  • without cross apply: 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2

(The very first run was slower for both queries; seems that something is cached.)

Table sizes:

  • main table: 87 rows,
  • first table for left join: 179 rows;
  • second table for left join: 7 rows.

EF Core version: 2.2.1.

SQL Server version: MS SQL Server 2017 - 14... (on Windows 10).

All relevant tables had indexes on the primary keys only.

My conclusion: it's always recommended to look at the generated SQL since it can really differ.


[1] Interestingly enough, when setting the 'Client statistics' in MS SQL Server Management Studio on, I could see an opposite trend; namely that last run of the solution without cross apply took more than 1s. I suppose that something was going wrong here - maybe with my setup.

How to read integer values from text file

Try this:-

File file = new File("contactids.txt");
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(file);
while(scanner.hasNextLong())
{
  // Read values here like long input = scanner.nextLong();
}

Stratified Train/Test-split in scikit-learn

As such, it is desirable to split the dataset into train and test sets in a way that preserves the same proportions of examples in each class as observed in the original dataset.

This is called a stratified train-test split.

We can achieve this by setting the “stratify” argument to the y component of the original dataset. This will be used by the train_test_split() function to ensure that both the train and test sets have the proportion of examples in each class that is present in the provided “y” array.

MySQL: selecting rows where a column is null

SELECT pid FROM planets WHERE userid is null;

Python error: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute

When you import lib, you're importing the package. The only file to get evaluated and run in this case is the 0 byte __init__.py in the lib directory.

If you want access to your function, you can do something like this from lib.mod1 import mod1 and then run the mod12 function like so mod1.mod12().

If you want to be able to access mod1 when you import lib, you need to put an import mod1 inside the __init__.py file inside the lib directory.

How to update a single pod without touching other dependencies

I'm using cocoapods version 1.0.1 and using pod update name-of-pod works perfectly. No other pods are updated, just the specific one you enter.

Console.WriteLine and generic List

        List<int> a = new List<int>() { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 };
        a.ForEach(p => Console.WriteLine(p));

edit: ahhh he beat me to it.

Running CMD command in PowerShell

One solution would be to pipe your command from PowerShell to CMD. Running the following command will pipe the notepad.exe command over to CMD, which will then open the Notepad application.

PS C:\> "notepad.exe" | cmd

Once the command has run in CMD, you will be returned to a PowerShell prompt, and can continue running your PowerShell script.


Edits

CMD's Startup Message is Shown

As mklement0 points out, this method shows CMD's startup message. If you were to copy the output using the method above into another terminal, the startup message will be copied along with it.

libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile

Here is a ridiculously brute force answer:

I modified the gradlew script. Here is my new exec command at the end of the file in the

exec "$JAVACMD" "${JVM_OPTS[@]}" -classpath "$CLASSPATH" org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain "$@" **| grep -v "libpng warning:"**

SQL Server: Best way to concatenate multiple columns?

Through discourse it's clear that the problem lies in using VS2010 to write the query, as it uses the canonical CONCAT() function which is limited to 2 parameters. There's probably a way to change that, but I'm not aware of it.

An alternative:

SELECT '1'+'2'+'3'

This approach requires non-string values to be cast/converted to strings, as well as NULL handling via ISNULL() or COALESCE():

SELECT  ISNULL(CAST(Col1 AS VARCHAR(50)),'')
      + COALESCE(CONVERT(VARCHAR(50),Col2),'')

Working with a List of Lists in Java

The example provided by @tster shows how to create a list of list. I will provide an example for iterating over such a list.

Iterator<List<String>> iter = listOlist.iterator();
while(iter.hasNext()){
    Iterator<String> siter = iter.next().iterator();
    while(siter.hasNext()){
         String s = siter.next();
         System.out.println(s);
     }
}

Visual Studio 6 Windows Common Controls 6.0 (sp6) Windows 7, 64 bit

Open Registry Editor using run command regedit.

Locate HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib Key and then did a search for "MSCOMCTL.OCX" and deleted EVERY key that referenced this .ocx file.

Open command prompt (cmd) in Administrator mode. The type the following code,

In 32 bit machine,

cd c:\Windows\System32
regsvr32 MSCOMCTL.OCX
regtlib msdatsrc.tlb
regsvr32 MSCOMCT2.OCX

In 64 bit machine,

cd c:\Windows\SysWOW64
regsvr32 MSCOMCTL.OCX
regtlib msdatsrc.tlb
regsvr32 MSCOMCT2.OCX

laravel select where and where condition

After rigorous testing, I found out that the source of my problem is Hash::make('password'). Apparently this kept generating a different hash each time. SO I replaced this with my own hashing function (wrote previously in codeigniter) and viola! things worked well.

Thanks again for helping out :) Really appreciate it!

Best Practice: Access form elements by HTML id or name attribute?

It’s not really answering your question, but just on this part:

[3] requires both an id and a name... having both is somewhat redundant

You’ll most likely need to have an id attribute on each form field anyway, so that you can associate its <label> element with it, like this:

<label for="foo">Foo:</label>
<input type="text" name="foo" id="foo" />

This is required for accessibility (i.e. if you don’t associate form labels and controls, why do you hate blind people so much?).

It is somewhat redundant, although less so when you have checkboxes/radio buttons, where several of them can share a name. Ultimately, id and name are for different purposes, even if both are often set to the same value.

Missing maven .m2 folder

On a Windows machine, the .m2 folder is expected to be located under ${user.home}. On Windows 7 and Vista this resolves to <root>\Users\<username> and on XP it is <root>\Documents and Settings\<username>\.m2. So you'd normally see it under c:\Users\Jonathan\.m2.

If you want to create a folder with a . prefix on Windows, you can simply do this on the command line.

  • Go to Start->Run
  • Type cmd and press Enter
  • At the command prompt type md c:\Users\Jonathan\.m2 (or equivalent for your ${user.home} value).

Note that you don't actually need the .m2 location unless you want to create a distinct user settings file, which is optional (see the Settings reference for more details).

If you don't need a separate user settings file and don't really want the local repository under your user home you can simply set the location of your repository to a different folder by modifying the global settings file (located in \conf\settings.xml).

The following snippet would set the local repository to c:\Maven\repository for example:

<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0
                  http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
  <localRepository>c:\Maven\repository</localRepository>
  ...

Easy way to write contents of a Java InputStream to an OutputStream

Java 9

Since Java 9, InputStream provides a method called transferTo with the following signature:

public long transferTo(OutputStream out) throws IOException

As the documentation states, transferTo will:

Reads all bytes from this input stream and writes the bytes to the given output stream in the order that they are read. On return, this input stream will be at end of stream. This method does not close either stream.

This method may block indefinitely reading from the input stream, or writing to the output stream. The behavior for the case where the input and/or output stream is asynchronously closed, or the thread interrupted during the transfer, is highly input and output stream specific, and therefore not specified

So in order to write contents of a Java InputStream to an OutputStream, you can write:

input.transferTo(output);

How to find tag with particular text with Beautiful Soup?

With bs4 4.7.1+ you can use :contains pseudo class to specify the td containing your search string

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
html = '''
<tr>
  <td class="pos">\n
      "Some text:"\n
      <br>\n
      <strong>some value</strong>\n
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td class="pos">\n
      "Fixed text:"\n
      <br>\n
      <strong>text I am looking for</strong>\n
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td class="pos">\n
      "Some other text:"\n
      <br>\n
      <strong>some other value</strong>\n
  </td>
</tr>'''
soup = bs(html, 'lxml')
print(soup.select_one('td:contains("Fixed text:")'))

Save text file UTF-8 encoded with VBA

This writes a Byte Order Mark at the start of the file, which is unnecessary in a UTF-8 file and some applications (in my case, SAP) don't like it. Solution here: Can I export excel data with UTF-8 without BOM?

To prevent a memory leak, the JDBC Driver has been forcibly unregistered

I found that implementing a simple destroy() method to de-register any JDBC drivers works nicely.

/**
 * Destroys the servlet cleanly by unloading JDBC drivers.
 * 
 * @see javax.servlet.GenericServlet#destroy()
 */
public void destroy() {
    String prefix = getClass().getSimpleName() +" destroy() ";
    ServletContext ctx = getServletContext();
    try {
        Enumeration<Driver> drivers = DriverManager.getDrivers();
        while(drivers.hasMoreElements()) {
            DriverManager.deregisterDriver(drivers.nextElement());
        }
    } catch(Exception e) {
        ctx.log(prefix + "Exception caught while deregistering JDBC drivers", e);
    }
    ctx.log(prefix + "complete");
}

composer laravel create project

First, you have to locate the project directory in cmd After this fire below command and 'first_laravel_app' is the project name you can replace it with your own project name.

composer create-project laravel/laravel first_laravel_app --prefer-dist

What is the fastest factorial function in JavaScript?

// if you don't want to update the Math object, use `var factorial = ...`
Math.factorial = (function() {
    var f = function(n) {
        if (n < 1) {return 1;}  // no real error checking, could add type-check
        return (f[n] > 0) ? f[n] : f[n] = n * f(n -1);
    }
    for (i = 0; i < 101; i++) {f(i);} // precalculate some values
    return f;
}());

factorial(6); // 720, initially cached
factorial[6]; // 720, same thing, slightly faster access, 
              // but fails above current cache limit of 100
factorial(100); // 9.33262154439441e+157, called, but pulled from cache
factorial(142); // 2.6953641378881614e+245, called
factorial[141]; // 1.89814375907617e+243, now cached

This does the caching of the first 100 values on the fly, and does not introduce an external variable into scope for the cache, storing the values as properties of the function object itself, which means that if you know factorial(n) has already been calculated, you can simply refer to it as factorial[n], which is slightly more efficient. Running these first 100 values will take sub-millisecond time in modern browsers.

Capture Image from Camera and Display in Activity

Here is code I have used for Capturing and Saving Camera Image then display it to imageview. You can use according to your need.

You have to save Camera image to specific location then fetch from that location then convert it to byte-array.

Here is method for opening capturing camera image activity.

private static final int CAMERA_PHOTO = 111;
private Uri imageToUploadUri;

private void captureCameraImage() {
        Intent chooserIntent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
        File f = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(), "POST_IMAGE.jpg");
        chooserIntent.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, Uri.fromFile(f));
        imageToUploadUri = Uri.fromFile(f);
        startActivityForResult(chooserIntent, CAMERA_PHOTO);
    }

then your onActivityResult() method should be like this.

@Override
        protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
            super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);

            if (requestCode == CAMERA_PHOTO && resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK) {
                if(imageToUploadUri != null){
                    Uri selectedImage = imageToUploadUri;
                    getContentResolver().notifyChange(selectedImage, null);
                    Bitmap reducedSizeBitmap = getBitmap(imageToUploadUri.getPath());
                    if(reducedSizeBitmap != null){
                        ImgPhoto.setImageBitmap(reducedSizeBitmap);
                        Button uploadImageButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.uploadUserImageButton);
                          uploadImageButton.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);                
                    }else{
                        Toast.makeText(this,"Error while capturing Image",Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                    }
                }else{
                    Toast.makeText(this,"Error while capturing Image",Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                }
            } 
        }

Here is getBitmap() method used in onActivityResult(). I have done all performance improvement that can be possible while getting camera capture image bitmap.

private Bitmap getBitmap(String path) {

        Uri uri = Uri.fromFile(new File(path));
        InputStream in = null;
        try {
            final int IMAGE_MAX_SIZE = 1200000; // 1.2MP
            in = getContentResolver().openInputStream(uri);

            // Decode image size
            BitmapFactory.Options o = new BitmapFactory.Options();
            o.inJustDecodeBounds = true;
            BitmapFactory.decodeStream(in, null, o);
            in.close();


            int scale = 1;
            while ((o.outWidth * o.outHeight) * (1 / Math.pow(scale, 2)) >
                    IMAGE_MAX_SIZE) {
                scale++;
            }
            Log.d("", "scale = " + scale + ", orig-width: " + o.outWidth + ", orig-height: " + o.outHeight);

            Bitmap b = null;
            in = getContentResolver().openInputStream(uri);
            if (scale > 1) {
                scale--;
                // scale to max possible inSampleSize that still yields an image
                // larger than target
                o = new BitmapFactory.Options();
                o.inSampleSize = scale;
                b = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(in, null, o);

                // resize to desired dimensions
                int height = b.getHeight();
                int width = b.getWidth();
                Log.d("", "1th scale operation dimenions - width: " + width + ", height: " + height);

                double y = Math.sqrt(IMAGE_MAX_SIZE
                        / (((double) width) / height));
                double x = (y / height) * width;

                Bitmap scaledBitmap = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(b, (int) x,
                        (int) y, true);
                b.recycle();
                b = scaledBitmap;

                System.gc();
            } else {
                b = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(in);
            }
            in.close();

            Log.d("", "bitmap size - width: " + b.getWidth() + ", height: " +
                    b.getHeight());
            return b;
        } catch (IOException e) {
            Log.e("", e.getMessage(), e);
            return null;
        }
    }

Hope it helps!

Dump a NumPy array into a csv file

If you want to save your numpy array (e.g. your_array = np.array([[1,2],[3,4]])) to one cell, you could convert it first with your_array.tolist().

Then save it the normal way to one cell, with delimiter=';' and the cell in the csv-file will look like this [[1, 2], [2, 4]]

Then you could restore your array like this: your_array = np.array(ast.literal_eval(cell_string))

What does "Use of unassigned local variable" mean?

Because if none of the if statements evaluate to true then the local variable will be unassigned. Throw an else statement in there and assign some values to those variables in case the if statements don't evaluate to true. Post back here if that doesn't make the error go away.

Your other option is to initialize the variables to some default value when you declare them at the beginning of your code.

How to compare character ignoring case in primitive types

Generic methods to compare a char at a position between 2 strings with ignore case.

public static boolean isEqualIngoreCase(char one, char two){
    return Character.toLowerCase(one)==Character .toLowerCase(two);
}

public static boolean isEqualStringCharIgnoreCase(String one, String two, int position){
    char oneChar = one.charAt(position);
    char twoChar = two.charAt(position);
    return isEqualIngoreCase(oneChar, twoChar);
}

Function call

boolean isFirstCharEqual = isEqualStringCharIgnoreCase("abc", "ABC", 0)

Android scale animation on view

In XML, this what I use for achieving the same result. May be this is more intuitive.

scale_up.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >

<scale
    android:duration="200"
    android:fromXScale="1.0"
    android:fromYScale="0.0"
    android:pivotX="50%"
    android:pivotY="100%"
    android:toXScale="1.0"
    android:toYScale="1.0" />

</set>

scale_down.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >

<scale
    android:duration="200"
    android:fromXScale="1.0"
    android:fromYScale="1.0"
    android:pivotX="50%"
    android:pivotY="100%"
    android:toXScale="1.0"
    android:toYScale="0.0" />

</set>

See the animation on the X axis is from 1.0 -> 1.0 which means you don't have any scaling up in that direction and stays at the full width while, on the Y axis you get 0.0 -> 1.0 scaling, as shown in the graphic in the question. Hope this helps someone.

Some might want to know the java code as we see one requested.

Place the animation files in anim folder and then load and set animation files something like.

Animation scaleDown = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(youContext, R.anim.scale_down);
ImagView v = findViewById(R.id.your_image_view);
v.startAnimation(scaleDown);

Why does C++ compilation take so long?

A compiled language is always going to require a bigger initial overhead than an interpreted language. In addition, perhaps you didn't structure your C++ code very well. For example:

#include "BigClass.h"

class SmallClass
{
   BigClass m_bigClass;
}

Compiles a lot slower than:

class BigClass;

class SmallClass
{
   BigClass* m_bigClass;
}

How to list files and folder in a dir (PHP)

use this function http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?t=71882

function getDirectory( $path = '.', $level = 0 ){

$ignore = array( 'cgi-bin', '.', '..' ); 
// Directories to ignore when listing output. Many hosts 
// will deny PHP access to the cgi-bin. 

$dh = @opendir( $path ); 
// Open the directory to the handle $dh 

while( false !== ( $file = readdir( $dh ) ) ){ 
// Loop through the directory 

    if( !in_array( $file, $ignore ) ){ 
    // Check that this file is not to be ignored 

        $spaces = str_repeat( '&nbsp;', ( $level * 4 ) ); 
        // Just to add spacing to the list, to better 
        // show the directory tree. 

        if( is_dir( "$path/$file" ) ){ 
        // Its a directory, so we need to keep reading down... 

            echo "<strong>$spaces $file</strong><br />"; 
            getDirectory( "$path/$file", ($level+1) ); 
            // Re-call this same function but on a new directory. 
            // this is what makes function recursive. 

        } else { 

            echo "$spaces $file<br />"; 
            // Just print out the filename 

        } 

    } 

} 

closedir( $dh ); 
// Close the directory handle 
}

and call the function like that

getDirectory( "." ); 
// Get the current directory 

getDirectory( "./files/includes" ); 
// Get contents of the "files/includes" folder 

Handling key-press events (F1-F12) using JavaScript and jQuery, cross-browser

One of the problems in trapping the F1-F12 keys is that the default function must also be overridden. Here is an example of an implementation of the F1 'Help' key, with the override that prevents the default help pop-up. This solution can be extended for the F2-F12 keys. Also, this example purposely does not capture combination keys, but this can be altered as well.

<html>
<head>
<!-- Note:  reference your JQuery library here -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.6.2.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>F-key trap example</h1>
    <div><h2>Example:  Press the 'F1' key to open help</h2></div>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        //uncomment to prevent on startup
        //removeDefaultFunction();          
        /** Prevents the default function such as the help pop-up **/
        function removeDefaultFunction()
        {
            window.onhelp = function () { return false; }
        }
        /** use keydown event and trap only the F-key, 
            but not combinations with SHIFT/CTRL/ALT **/
        $(window).bind('keydown', function(e) {
            //This is the F1 key code, but NOT with SHIFT/CTRL/ALT
            var keyCode = e.keyCode || e.which;
            if((keyCode == 112 || e.key == 'F1') && 
                    !(event.altKey ||event.ctrlKey || event.shiftKey || event.metaKey))
             {
                // prevent code starts here:
                removeDefaultFunction();
                e.cancelable = true;
                e.stopPropagation();
                e.preventDefault();
                e.returnValue = false;
                // Open help window here instead of alert
                alert('F1 Help key opened, ' + keyCode);
                }
            // Add other F-keys here:
            else if((keyCode == 113 || e.key == 'F2') && 
                    !(event.altKey ||event.ctrlKey || event.shiftKey || event.metaKey))
             {
                // prevent code starts here:
                removeDefaultFunction();
                e.cancelable = true;
                e.stopPropagation();
                e.preventDefault();
                e.returnValue = false;
                // Do something else for F2
                alert('F2 key opened, ' + keyCode);
                }
        });
    </script>
</body>
</html>

I borrowed a similar solution from a related SO article in developing this. Let me know if this worked for you as well.

How to zoom in/out an UIImage object when user pinches screen?

Keep in mind that you're NEVER zooming in on a UIImage. EVER.

Instead, you're zooming in and out on the view that displays the UIImage.

In this particular case, you chould choose to create a custom UIView with custom drawing to display the image, a UIImageView which displays the image for you, or a UIWebView which will need some additional HTML to back it up.

In all cases, you'll need to implement touchesBegan, touchesMoved, and the like to determine what the user is trying to do (zoom, pan, etc.).

Converting bytes to megabytes

In general, it's wrong to use decimal SI prefixes (e.g. kilo, mega) when referring to binary data sizes (except in casual usage). It's ambiguous and causes confusion. To be precise you can use binary prefixes (e.g. 1 mebibyte = 1 MiB = 1024 kibibytes = 2^20 bytes). When someone else uses decimal SI prefixes for binary data you need to get more information before you can know what is meant.

How do you run a .exe with parameters using vba's shell()?

Here are some examples of how to use Shell in VBA.
Open stackoverflow in Chrome.

Call Shell("C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" & _
 " -url" & " " & "www.stackoverflow.com",vbMaximizedFocus)

Open some text file.

Call Shell ("notepad C:\Users\user\Desktop\temp\TEST.txt")

Open some application.

Call Shell("C:\Temp\TestApplication.exe",vbNormalFocus)

Hope this helps!

How to get length of a list of lists in python

"The above text file used has 3 lines of 4 elements separated by commas. The variable numLines prints out as '4' not '3'. So, len(myLines) is returning the number of elements in each list not the length of the list of lists."

It sounds like you're reading in a .csv with 3 rows and 4 columns. If this is the case, you can find the number of rows and lines by using the .split() method:

text = open("filetest.txt", "r").read()
myRows = text.split("\n")      #this method tells Python to split your filetest object each time it encounters a line break 
print len(myRows)              #will tell you how many rows you have
for row in myRows:
  myColumns = row.split(",")   #this method will consider each of your rows one at a time. For each of those rows, it will split that row each time it encounters a comma.  
  print len(myColumns)         #will tell you, for each of your rows, how many columns that row contains

PHP: How to remove specific element from an array?

Use array_diff() for 1 line solution:

$array = array('apple', 'orange', 'strawberry', 'blueberry', 'kiwi', 'strawberry'); //throw in another 'strawberry' to demonstrate that it removes multiple instances of the string
$array_without_strawberries = array_diff($array, array('strawberry'));
print_r($array_without_strawberries);

...No need for extra functions or foreach loop.

How to lose margin/padding in UITextView?

The textView scrolling also affect the position of the text and make it look like not vertically centered. I managed to center the text in the view by disabling the scrolling and setting the top inset to 0:

    textView.scrollEnabled = NO;
    textView.textContainerInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, textView.textContainerInset.left, textView.textContainerInset.bottom, textView.textContainerInset.right);

For some reason I haven't figured it out yet, the cursor is still not centered before the typing begins, but the text centers immediately as I start typing.

Call Jquery function

calling a function is simple ..

 myFunction();

so your code will be something like..

 $(function(){
     $('#elementID').click(function(){
         myFuntion();  //this will call your function
    });
 });

  $(function(){
     $('#elementID').click( myFuntion );

 });

or with some condition

if(something){
   myFunction();  //this will call your function
}

How to implement a confirmation (yes/no) DialogPreference?

Android comes with a built-in YesNoPreference class that does exactly what you want (a confirm dialog with yes and no options). See the official source code here.

Unfortunately, it is in the com.android.internal.preference package, which means it is a part of Android's private APIs and you cannot access it from your application (private API classes are subject to change without notice, hence the reason why Google does not let you access them).

Solution: just re-create the class in your application's package by copy/pasting the official source code from the link I provided. I've tried this, and it works fine (there's no reason why it shouldn't).

You can then add it to your preferences.xml like any other Preference. Example:

<com.example.myapp.YesNoPreference
    android:dialogMessage="Are you sure you want to revert all settings to their default values?"
    android:key="com.example.myapp.pref_reset_settings_key"
    android:summary="Revert all settings to their default values."
    android:title="Reset Settings" />

Which looks like this:

screenshot

How do I attach events to dynamic HTML elements with jQuery?

After jQuery 1.7 the preferred methods are .on() and .off()

Sean's answer shows an example.

Now Deprecated:

Use the jQuery functions .live() and .die(). Available in jQuery 1.3.x

From the docs:

To display each paragraph's text in an alert box whenever it is clicked:

$("p").live("click", function(){
  alert( $(this).text() );
});

Also, the livequery plugin does this and has support for more events.

Why does AngularJS include an empty option in select?

Something similar was happening to me too and was caused by an upgrade to angular 1.5.ng-init seems to be being parsed for type in newer versions of Angular. In older Angular ng-init="myModelName=600" would map to an option with value "600" i.e. <option value="600">First</option> but in Angular 1.5 it won't find this as it seems to be expecting to find an option with value 600 i.e <option value=600>First</option>. Angular would then insert a random first item:

<option value="? number:600 ?"></option>

Angular < 1.2.x

<select ng-model="myModelName" ng-init="myModelName=600">
  <option value="600">First</option>
  <option value="700">Second</option>
</select>

Angular > 1.2

<select ng-model="myModelName" ng-init="myModelName='600'">
  <option value="600">First</option>
  <option value="700">Second</option>
</select>

Adding timestamp to a filename with mv in BASH

Well, it's not a direct answer to your question, but there's a tool in GNU/Linux whose job is to rotate log files on regular basis, keeping old ones zipped up to a certain limit. It's logrotate

Convert a byte array to integer in Java and vice versa

You can also use BigInteger for variable length bytes. You can convert it to long, int or short, whichever suits your needs.

new BigInteger(bytes).intValue();

or to denote polarity:

new BigInteger(1, bytes).intValue();

To get bytes back just:

new BigInteger(bytes).toByteArray()

How to get current route in Symfony 2?

There is no solution that works for all use cases. If you use the $request->get('_route') method, or its variants, it will return '_internal' for cases where forwarding took place.

If you need a solution that works even with forwarding, you have to use the new RequestStack service, that arrived in 2.4, but this will break ESI support:

$requestStack = $container->get('request_stack');
$masterRequest = $requestStack->getMasterRequest(); // this is the call that breaks ESI
if ($masterRequest) {
    echo $masterRequest->attributes->get('_route');
}

You can make a twig extension out of this if you need it in templates.

How can I change the remote/target repository URL on Windows?

Take a look in .git/config and make the changes you need.

Alternatively you could use

git remote rm [name of the url you sets on adding]

and

git remote add [name] [URL]

Or just

git remote set-url [URL]

Before you do anything wrong, double check with

git help remote

Asp.NET Web API - 405 - HTTP verb used to access this page is not allowed - how to set handler mappings

If none of the above solutions solved your issue like in my case (still stuck with my RestClient module facing 405 ) try to request your Api with a tool like Postman or Fiddler. I mean the problem may be elsewhere like a bad formatted request.

I discover that my RestClient module was asking a 'Put' with an Id paremeter not well formatted :

http://myserver/api/someresource?id=75fd954d-d984-4a31-82fc-8132e1644f78

instead of

http://myserver/api/someresource/75fd954d-d984-4a31-82fc-8132e1644f78

Incidiously, bad formatted request returns 405 - Method Not Allowed (IIS 7.5)

CSS: Truncate table cells, but fit as much as possible

If Javascript is acceptable, I put together a quick routine which you could use as a starting point. It dynamically tries to adapt the cell widths using the inner width of a span, in reaction to window resize events.

Currently it assumes that each cell normally gets 50% of the row width, and it will collapse the right cell to keep the left cell at its maximum width to avoid overflowing. You could implement much more complex width balancing logic, depending on your use cases. Hope this helps:

Markup for the row I used for testing:

<tr class="row">
    <td style="overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis">
    <span>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.</span>
    </td>
    <td style="overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis">
    <span>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.</span>
    </td>
</tr>

JQuery which hooks up the resize event:

$(window).resize(function() {
    $('.row').each(function() {
        var row_width = $(this).width();
        var cols = $(this).find('td');
        var left = cols[0];
        var lcell_width = $(left).width();
        var lspan_width = $(left).find('span').width();
        var right = cols[1];
        var rcell_width = $(right).width();
        var rspan_width = $(right).find('span').width();

        if (lcell_width < lspan_width) {
            $(left).width(row_width - rcell_width);
        } else if (rcell_width > rspan_width) {
            $(left).width(row_width / 2);
        }
    });
});

What is the Sign Off feature in Git for?

Sign-off is a line at the end of the commit message which certifies who is the author of the commit. Its main purpose is to improve tracking of who did what, especially with patches.

Example commit:

Add tests for the payment processor.

Signed-off-by: Humpty Dumpty <[email protected]>

It should contain the user real name if used for an open-source project.

If branch maintainer need to slightly modify patches in order to merge them, he could ask the submitter to rediff, but it would be counter-productive. He can adjust the code and put his sign-off at the end so the original author still gets credit for the patch.

Add tests for the payment processor.

Signed-off-by: Humpty Dumpty <[email protected]>

[Project Maintainer: Renamed test methods according to naming convention.]
Signed-off-by: Project Maintainer <[email protected]>

Source: http://gerrit.googlecode.com/svn/documentation/2.0/user-signedoffby.html

Bash script error [: !=: unary operator expected

Quotes!

if [ "$1" != -v ]; then

Otherwise, when $1 is completely empty, your test becomes:

[ != -v ]

instead of

[ "" != -v ]

...and != is not a unary operator (that is, one capable of taking only a single argument).

Sort ArrayList of custom Objects by property

Yes, that's possible for instance in this answer I sort by the property v of the class IndexValue

    // Sorting by property v using a custom comparator.
    Arrays.sort( array, new Comparator<IndexValue>(){
        public int compare( IndexValue a, IndexValue b ){
            return a.v - b.v;
        }
    });

If you notice here I'm creating a anonymous inner class ( which is the Java for closures ) and passing it directly to the sort method of the class Arrays

Your object may also implement Comparable ( that's what String and most of the core libraries in Java does ) but that would define the "natural sort order" of the class it self, and doesn't let you plug new ones.

Array versus List<T>: When to use which?

Notwithstanding the other answers recommending List<T>, you'll want to use arrays when handling:

  • image bitmap data
  • other low-level data-structures (i.e. network protocols)

Is there a way for non-root processes to bind to "privileged" ports on Linux?

Or patch your kernel and remove the check.

(Option of last resort, not recommended).

In net/ipv4/af_inet.c, remove the two lines that read

      if (snum && snum < PROT_SOCK && !capable(CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE))
              goto out;

and the kernel won't check privileged ports anymore.

Copy multiple files in Python

You can use os.listdir() to get the files in the source directory, os.path.isfile() to see if they are regular files (including symbolic links on *nix systems), and shutil.copy to do the copying.

The following code copies only the regular files from the source directory into the destination directory (I'm assuming you don't want any sub-directories copied).

import os
import shutil
src_files = os.listdir(src)
for file_name in src_files:
    full_file_name = os.path.join(src, file_name)
    if os.path.isfile(full_file_name):
        shutil.copy(full_file_name, dest)

How do I drop a foreign key constraint only if it exists in sql server?

ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TableName]
    DROP CONSTRAINT FK_TableName_TableName2

Not showing placeholder for input type="date" field

I took jbarlow idea, but I added an if in the onblur function so the fields only change its type if the value is empty

<input placeholder="Date" class="textbox-n" type="text" onfocus="(this.type='date')" onblur="(this.value == '' ? this.type='text' : this.type='date')" id="date">

How to integrate Dart into a Rails app

If you run pub build --mode=debug the build directory contains the application without symlinks. The Dart code should be retained when --mode=debug is used.

Here is some discussion going on about this topic too Dart and it's place in Rails Assets Pipeline

Get RETURN value from stored procedure in SQL

Assign after the EXEC token:

DECLARE @returnValue INT

EXEC @returnValue = SP_One

PHP foreach loop key value

As Pekka stated above

foreach ($array as $key => $value)

Also you might want to try a recursive function

displayRecursiveResults($site);

function displayRecursiveResults($arrayObject) {
    foreach($arrayObject as $key=>$data) {
        if(is_array($data)) {
            displayRecursiveResults($data);
        } elseif(is_object($data)) {
            displayRecursiveResults($data);
        } else {
            echo "Key: ".$key." Data: ".$data."<br />";
        }
    }
}

Best implementation for Key Value Pair Data Structure?

@Jay Mooney: A generic Dictionary class in .NET is actually a hash table, just with fixed types.

The code you've shown shouldn't convince anyone to use Hashtable instead of Dictionary, since both code pieces can be used for both types.

For hashtable:

foreach(object key in h.keys)
{
     string keyAsString = key.ToString(); // btw, this is unnecessary
     string valAsString = h[key].ToString();

     System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(keyAsString + " " + valAsString);
}

For dictionary:

foreach(string key in d.keys)
{
     string valAsString = d[key].ToString();

     System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(key + " " + valAsString);
}

And just the same for the other one with KeyValuePair, just use the non-generic version for Hashtable, and the generic version for Dictionary.

So it's just as easy both ways, but Hashtable uses Object for both key and value, which means you will box all value types, and you don't have type safety, and Dictionary uses generic types and is thus better.

How do I install boto?

  1. install pip: https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/installing.html

  2. insatll boto: https://github.com/boto/boto

    $ git clone git://github.com/boto/boto.git
    $ cd boto
    $ python setup.py install

How to loop through Excel files and load them into a database using SSIS package?

I ran into an article that illustrates a method where the data from the same excel sheet can be imported in the selected table until there is no modifications in excel with data types.

If the data is inserted or overwritten with new ones, importing process will be successfully accomplished, and the data will be added to the table in SQL database.

The article may be found here: http://www.sqlshack.com/using-ssis-packages-import-ms-excel-data-database/

Hope it helps.

Creating SVG elements dynamically with javascript inside HTML

Add this to html:

<svg id="mySVG" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>

Try this function and adapt for you program:

var svgNS = "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";  

function createCircle()
{
    var myCircle = document.createElementNS(svgNS,"circle"); //to create a circle. for rectangle use "rectangle"
    myCircle.setAttributeNS(null,"id","mycircle");
    myCircle.setAttributeNS(null,"cx",100);
    myCircle.setAttributeNS(null,"cy",100);
    myCircle.setAttributeNS(null,"r",50);
    myCircle.setAttributeNS(null,"fill","black");
    myCircle.setAttributeNS(null,"stroke","none");

    document.getElementById("mySVG").appendChild(myCircle);
}     

Running java with JAVA_OPTS env variable has no effect

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

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

java $JAVA_OPTS -jar analyse.jar $*

Should "just work".

Please help me convert this script to a simple image slider

Problems only surface when I am I trying to give the first loaded content an active state

Does this mean that you want to add a class to the first button?

$('.o-links').click(function(e) {   // ... }).first().addClass('O_Nav_Current'); 

instead of using IDs for the slider's items and resetting html contents you can use classes and indexes:

CSS:

.image-area {     width: 100%;     height: auto;     display: none; }  .image-area:first-of-type {     display: block; } 

JavaScript:

var $slides = $('.image-area'),     $btns = $('a.o-links');  $btns.on('click', function (e) {     var i = $btns.removeClass('O_Nav_Current').index(this);     $(this).addClass('O_Nav_Current');      $slides.filter(':visible').fadeOut(1000, function () {         $slides.eq(i).fadeIn(1000);     });      e.preventDefault();  }).first().addClass('O_Nav_Current'); 

http://jsfiddle.net/RmF57/

Simulating a click in jQuery/JavaScript on a link

Try this

function submitRequest(buttonId) {
    if (document.getElementById(buttonId) == null
            || document.getElementById(buttonId) == undefined) {
        return;
    }
    if (document.getElementById(buttonId).dispatchEvent) {
        var e = document.createEvent("MouseEvents");
        e.initEvent("click", true, true);
        document.getElementById(buttonId).dispatchEvent(e);
    } else {
        document.getElementById(buttonId).click();
    }
}

and you can use it like

submitRequest("target-element-id");

unable to remove file that really exists - fatal: pathspec ... did not match any files

Personally I stumbled on a similar error message in this scenario:

I created a folder that has been empty, so naturally as long as it is empty, typing git add * will not take this empty folder in consideration. So when I tried to run git rm -r * or simply git rm my_empty_folder/ -r, I got that error message.

The solution is to simply remove it without git: rm -r my_empty_folder/ or create a data file within this folder and then add it (git add my_no_long_empty_folder)

event.preventDefault() function not working in IE

If you bind the event through mootools' addEvent function your event handler will get a fixed (augmented) event passed as the parameter. It will always contain the preventDefault() method.

Try out this fiddle to see the difference in event binding. http://jsfiddle.net/pFqrY/8/

// preventDefault always works
$("mootoolsbutton").addEvent('click', function(event) {
 alert(typeof(event.preventDefault));
});

// preventDefault missing in IE
<button
  id="htmlbutton"
  onclick="alert(typeof(event.preventDefault));">
  button</button>

For all jQuery users out there you can fix an event when needed. Say that you used HTML onclick=".." and get a IE specific event that lacks preventDefault(), just use this code to get it.

e = $.event.fix(e);

After that e.preventDefault(); works fine.

Declaring a xsl variable and assigning value to it

No, unlike in a lot of other languages, XSLT variables cannot change their values after they are created. You can however, avoid extraneous code with a technique like this:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

  <xsl:variable name="mapping">
    <item key="1" v1="A" v2="B" />
    <item key="2" v1="X" v2="Y" />
  </xsl:variable>
  <xsl:variable name="mappingNode"
                select="document('')//xsl:variable[@name = 'mapping']" />

  <xsl:template match="....">
    <xsl:variable name="testVariable" select="'1'" />

    <xsl:variable name="values" select="$mappingNode/item[@key = $testVariable]" />

    <xsl:variable name="variable1" select="$values/@v1" />
    <xsl:variable name="variable2" select="$values/@v2" />
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

In fact, once you've got the values variable, you may not even need separate variable1 and variable2 variables. You could just use $values/@v1 and $values/@v2 instead.

c++ array assignment of multiple values

You have to replace the values one by one such as in a for-loop or copying another array over another such as using memcpy(..) or std::copy

e.g.

for (int i = 0; i < arrayLength; i++) {
    array[i] = newValue[i];
}

Take care to ensure proper bounds-checking and any other checking that needs to occur to prevent an out of bounds problem.

How to parse a string in JavaScript?

Use the Javascript string split() function.

var coolVar = '123-abc-itchy-knee';
var partsArray = coolVar.split('-');

// Will result in partsArray[0] == '123', partsArray[1] == 'abc', etc

Find the most popular element in int[] array

Mine Linear O(N)

Using map to save all the differents elements found in the array and saving the number of times ocurred, then just getting the max from the map.

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.stream.IntStream;

public class MosftOftenNumber {

    // for O(N) + map O(1) = O(N) 
    public static int mostOftenNumber(int[] a)
    {
        final Map m = new HashMap<Integer,Integer>();
        int max = 0;
        int element = 0;

        for (int i=0; i<a.length; i++){
            //initializing value for the map the value will have the counter of each element
            //first time one new number its found will be initialize with zero 
            if (m.get(a[i]) == null)
                m.put(a[i],0);

            //save each value from the array and increment the count each time its found
            m.put(a[i] , (Integer) m.get(a[i]) + 1);

            //check the value from each element and comparing with max
            if ( (Integer) m.get(a[i]) > max){
                max = (Integer) m.get(a[i]);
                element = a[i];
            }

        }
        System.out.println("Times repeated: " + max);
        return element;
    }

    public static int mostOftenNumberWithLambdas(int[] a)
    {
        Integer max = IntStream.of(a).boxed().max(Integer::compareTo).get();
        Integer coumtMax = Math.toIntExact(IntStream.of(a).boxed().filter(number -> number.equals(max)).count());
        System.out.println("Times repeated: " + coumtMax);
        return max;
    }

    public static void main(String args[]) {
//      int[] array = {1,1,2,1,1};
//      int[] array = {2,2,1,2,2};
        int[] array = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,7,7,7};
        System.out.println("Most often number with loops: " + mostOftenNumber(array));
        System.out.println("Most often number with lambdas: " + mostOftenNumberWithLambdas(array));
    }

}

How can I check whether Google Maps is fully loaded?

If you're using the Maps API v3, this has changed.

In version 3, you essentially want to set up a listener for the bounds_changed event, which will trigger upon map load. Once that has triggered, remove the listener as you don't want to be informed every time the viewport bounds change.

This may change in the future as the V3 API is evolving :-)

Insert if not exists Oracle

If you do NOT want to merge in from an other table, but rather insert new data... I came up with this. Is there perhaps a better way to do this?

MERGE INTO TABLE1 a
    USING DUAL
    ON (a.C1_pk= 6)
WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN
    INSERT(C1_pk, C2,C3,C4)
    VALUES (6, 1,0,1);

Enable CORS in Web API 2

Late reply for future reference. What was working for me was enabling it by nuget and then adding custom headers into web.config.

How do I find out my python path using python?

sys.path might include items that aren't specifically in your PYTHONPATH environment variable. To query the variable directly, use:

import os
try:
    user_paths = os.environ['PYTHONPATH'].split(os.pathsep)
except KeyError:
    user_paths = []

How to read files from resources folder in Scala?

Resources in Scala work exactly as they do in Java. It is best to follow the Java best practices and put all resources in src/main/resources and src/test/resources.

Example folder structure:

testing_styles/
+-- build.sbt
+-- src
¦   +-- main
¦       +-- resources
¦       ¦   +-- readme.txt

Scala 2.12.x && 2.13.x reading a resource

To read resources the object Source provides the method fromResource.

import scala.io.Source
val readmeText : Iterator[String] = Source.fromResource("readme.txt").getLines

reading resources prior 2.12 (still my favourite due to jar compatibility)

To read resources you can use getClass.getResource and getClass.getResourceAsStream .

val stream: InputStream = getClass.getResourceAsStream("/readme.txt")
val lines: Iterator[String] = scala.io.Source.fromInputStream( stream ).getLines

nicer error feedback (2.12.x && 2.13.x)

To avoid undebuggable Java NPEs, consider:

import scala.util.Try
import scala.io.Source
import java.io.FileNotFoundException

object Example {

  def readResourceWithNiceError(resourcePath: String): Try[Iterator[String]] = 
    Try(Source.fromResource(resourcePath).getLines)
      .recover(throw new FileNotFoundException(resourcePath))
 }

good to know

Keep in mind that getResourceAsStream also works fine when the resources are part of a jar, getResource, which returns a URL which is often used to create a file can lead to problems there.

in Production

In production code I suggest to make sure that the source is closed again.

Spring JPA selecting specific columns

In my case i created a separate entity class without the fields that are not required (only with the fields that are required).

Map the entity to the same table. Now when all the columns are required i use the old entity, when only some columns are required, i use the lite entity.

e.g.

@Entity
@Table(name = "user")
Class User{
         @Column(name = "id", unique=true, nullable=false)
         int id;
         @Column(name = "name", nullable=false)
         String name;
         @Column(name = "address", nullable=false)
         Address address;
}

You can create something like :

@Entity
@Table(name = "user")
Class UserLite{
         @Column(name = "id", unique=true, nullable=false)
         int id;
         @Column(name = "name", nullable=false)
         String name;
}

This works when you know the columns to fetch (and this is not going to change).

won't work if you need to dynamically decide the columns.

REST URI convention - Singular or plural name of resource while creating it

I am surprised to see that so many people would jump on the plural noun bandwagon. When implementing singular to plural conversions, are you taking care of irregular plural nouns? Do you enjoy pain?

See http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/irrplu.htm

There are many types of irregular plural, but these are the most common:

Noun type Forming the plural Example

Ends with -fe   Change f to v then Add -s   
    knife   knives 
    life   lives 
    wife   wives
Ends with -f    Change f to v then Add -es  
    half   halves 
    wolf   wolves
    loaf   loaves
Ends with -o    Add -es 
    potato   potatoes
    tomato   tomatoes
    volcano   volcanoes
Ends with -us   Change -us to -i    
    cactus   cacti
    nucleus   nuclei
    focus   foci
Ends with -is   Change -is to -es   
    analysis   analyses
    crisis   crises
    thesis   theses
Ends with -on   Change -on to -a    
    phenomenon   phenomena
    criterion   criteria
ALL KINDS   Change the vowel or Change the word or Add a different ending   
     man   men
     foot   feet
     child   children
     person   people
     tooth   teeth
     mouse   mice
 Unchanging Singular and plural are the same    
     sheep deer fish (sometimes)

C char array initialization

This is not how you initialize an array, but for:

  1. The first declaration:

    char buf[10] = "";
    

    is equivalent to

    char buf[10] = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0};
    
  2. The second declaration:

    char buf[10] = " ";
    

    is equivalent to

    char buf[10] = {' ', 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0};
    
  3. The third declaration:

    char buf[10] = "a";
    

    is equivalent to

    char buf[10] = {'a', 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0};
    

As you can see, no random content: if there are fewer initializers, the remaining of the array is initialized with 0. This the case even if the array is declared inside a function.

Convert Dictionary to JSON in Swift

using lldb

(lldb) p JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: notification.request.content.userInfo, options: [])
(Data) $R16 = 375 bytes
(lldb) p String(data: $R16!, encoding: .utf8)!
(String) $R18 = "{\"aps\": \"some_text\"}"

//or
p String(data: JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: notification.request.content.userInfo, options: [])!, encoding: .utf8)!
(String) $R4 = "{\"aps\": \"some_text\"}"

Convert DateTime to TimeSpan

TimeSpan.FromTicks(DateTime.Now.Ticks)

Custom checkbox image android

Copy the btn_check.xml from android-sdk/platforms/android-#/data/res/drawable to your project's drawable folder and change the 'on' and 'off' image states to your custom images.

Then your xml will just need android:button="@drawable/btn_check"

<CheckBox
    android:button="@drawable/btn_check"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:checked="true" />

If you want to use different default android icons, you can use android:button="@android:drawable/..."

How do I add an existing directory tree to a project in Visual Studio?

In Visual Studio 2015, this is how you do it.

If you want to automatically include all descendant files below a specific folder:

<Content Include="Path\To\Folder\**" />

This can be restricted to include only files within the path specified:

<Content Include="Path\To\Folder\*.*" />

Or even only files with a specified extension:

<Content Include="Path\To\Folder\*.jpg" >

Xcode Error: "The app ID cannot be registered to your development team."

This happened to me, even though I had already registered the Bundle Id with my account. It turns out that the capitalisation differed, so I had to change the bundle id in Xcode to lowercase, and it all worked. Hope that helps someone else :)

Ansible: deploy on multiple hosts in the same time

Ansible supports patterns which can be used for one/multiple hosts,groups and also can exclude/include groups. Here is the link for official document.

What is the difference between Forking and Cloning on GitHub?

Basically, yes. A fork is just a request for GitHub to clone the project and registers it under your username; GitHub also keeps track of the relationship between the two repositories, so you can visualize the commits and pulls between the two projects (and other forks).

You can still request that people pull from your cloned repository, even if you don't use fork -- but you'd have to deal with making it publicly available yourself. Or send the developers patches (see git format-patch) that they can apply to their trees.

How to protect Excel workbook using VBA?

To lock whole workbook from opening, Thisworkbook.password option can be used in VBA.

If you want to Protect Worksheets, then you have to first Lock the cells with option Thisworkbook.sheets.cells.locked = True and then use the option Thisworkbook.sheets.protect password:="pwd".

Primarily search for these keywords: Thisworkbook.password or Thisworkbook.Sheets.Cells.Locked

How to use jQuery Plugin with Angular 4?

the solution to the typescript:

Step1:

npm install jquery

npm install --save-dev @types/jquery

step2: in Angular.json add:

"scripts": [
        "node_modules/jquery/dist/jquery.min.js",
      ]

or in index.html add:

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.12.4/jquery.min.js"></script>

step3: in *.component.ts where you want to use jquery

import * as $ from 'jquery';  // dont need "declare let $"

Then you can use jquery the same as javaScript. This way, VScode supports auto-suggestion by Typescript

What is the default scope of a method in Java?

The default scope is "default". It's weird--see these references for more info.

Create a function with optional call variables

Powershell provides a lot of built-in support for common parameter scenarios, including mandatory parameters, optional parameters, "switch" (aka flag) parameters, and "parameter sets."

By default, all parameters are optional. The most basic approach is to simply check each one for $null, then implement whatever logic you want from there. This is basically what you have already shown in your sample code.

If you want to learn about all of the special support that Powershell can give you, check out these links:

about_Functions

about_Functions_Advanced

about_Functions_Advanced_Parameters

How to change Vagrant 'default' machine name?

This is the way I've assigned names to individual VMs. Change YOURNAMEHERE to your desired name.

Contents of Vagrantfile:

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|

  # Every Vagrant virtual environment requires a box to build off of.
  config.vm.box = "precise32"

  # The url from where the 'config.vm.box' box will be fetched if it
  # doesn't already exist on the user's system.
  config.vm.box_url = "http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box"

  config.vm.define :YOURNAMEHERE do |t|
  end

end

Terminal output:

$ vagrant status
Current machine states:

YOURNAMEHERE             not created (virtualbox)

Using dig to search for SPF records

I believe that I found the correct answer through this dig How To. I was able to look up the SPF records on a specific DNS, by using the following query:

dig @ns1.nameserver1.com domain.com txt

add a string prefix to each value in a string column using Pandas

df['col'] = 'str' + df['col'].astype(str)

Example:

>>> df = pd.DataFrame({'col':['a',0]})
>>> df
  col
0   a
1   0
>>> df['col'] = 'str' + df['col'].astype(str)
>>> df
    col
0  stra
1  str0

How can I de-install a Perl module installed via `cpan`?

Since at the time of installing of any module it mainly put corresponding .pm files in respective directories. So if you want to remove module only for some testing purpose or temporarily best is to find the path where module is stored using perldoc -l <MODULE> and then simply move the module from there to some other location. This approach can also be tried as a more permanent solution but i am not aware of any negative consequences as i do it mainly for testing.

Bash loop ping successful

I liked paxdiablo's script, but wanted a version that ran indefinitely. This version runs ping until a connection is established and then prints a message saying so.

echo "Testing..."

PING_CMD="ping -t 3 -c 1 google.com > /dev/null 2>&1"

eval $PING_CMD

if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then
    echo "Already connected."
else
    echo -n "Waiting for connection..."

    while true; do
        eval $PING_CMD

        if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then
            echo
            echo Connected.
            break
        else
            sleep 0.5
            echo -n .
        fi
    done
fi

I also have a Gist of this script which I'll update with fixes and improvements as needed.

How to use DISTINCT and ORDER BY in same SELECT statement?

By subquery, it should work:

    SELECT distinct(Category) from MonitoringJob  where Category in(select Category from MonitoringJob order by CreationDate desc);

Force browser to refresh css, javascript, etc

I have decided that since browsers do not check for new versions of css and js files, I rename my css and js directories whenever I make a change. I use css1 to css9 and js1 to js9 as the directory names. When I get to 9, I next start over at 1. It is a pain, but it works perfectly every time. It is ridiculous to have to tell users to type .

What's the regular expression that matches a square bracket?

If you want to remove the [ or the ], use the expression: "\\[|\\]".

The two backslashes escape the square bracket and the pipe is an "or".

Android Studio - Emulator - eglSurfaceAttrib not implemented

Fix: Unlock your device before running it.

Hi Guys: Think I may have a fix for this:

Sounds ridiculous but try unlocking your Virtual Device; i.e. use your mouse to swipe and open. Your app should then work!!

Writing binary number system in C code

Standard C doesn't define binary constants. There's a GNU (I believe) extension though (among popular compilers, clang adapts it as well): the 0b prefix:

int foo = 0b1010;

If you want to stick with standard C, then there's an option: you can combine a macro and a function to create an almost readable "binary constant" feature:

#define B(x) S_to_binary_(#x)

static inline unsigned long long S_to_binary_(const char *s)
{
        unsigned long long i = 0;
        while (*s) {
                i <<= 1;
                i += *s++ - '0';
        }
        return i;
}

And then you can use it like this:

int foo = B(1010);

If you turn on heavy compiler optimizations, the compiler will most likely eliminate the function call completely (constant folding) or will at least inline it, so this won't even be a performance issue.

Proof:

The following code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <limits.h>
#include <string.h>


#define B(x) S_to_binary_(#x)

static inline unsigned long long S_to_binary_(const char *s)
{
    unsigned long long i = 0;
    while (*s) {
        i <<= 1;
        i += *s++ - '0';
    }
    return i;
}

int main()
{
    int foo = B(001100101);

    printf("%d\n", foo);

    return 0;
}

has been compiled using clang -o baz.S baz.c -Wall -O3 -S, and it produced the following assembly:

    .section    __TEXT,__text,regular,pure_instructions
    .globl  _main
    .align  4, 0x90
_main:                                  ## @main
    .cfi_startproc
## BB#0:
    pushq   %rbp
Ltmp2:
    .cfi_def_cfa_offset 16
Ltmp3:
    .cfi_offset %rbp, -16
    movq    %rsp, %rbp
Ltmp4:
    .cfi_def_cfa_register %rbp
    leaq    L_.str1(%rip), %rdi
    movl    $101, %esi               ## <= This line!
    xorb    %al, %al
    callq   _printf
    xorl    %eax, %eax
    popq    %rbp
    ret
    .cfi_endproc

    .section    __TEXT,__cstring,cstring_literals
L_.str1:                                ## @.str1
    .asciz   "%d\n"


.subsections_via_symbols

So clang completely eliminated the call to the function, and replaced its return value with 101. Neat, huh?

Android "gps requires ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" error, even though my manifest file contains this

CAUSE: "Beginning in Android 6.0 (API level 23), users grant permissions to apps while the app is running, not when they install the app." In this case, "ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" is a "dangerous permission and for that reason, you get this 'java.lang.SecurityException: "gps" location provider requires ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION permission.' error (https://developer.android.com/training/permissions/requesting.html).

SOLUTION: Implementing the code provided at https://developer.android.com/training/permissions/requesting.html under the "Request the permissions you need" and "Handle the permissions request response" headings.

what is the use of fflush(stdin) in c programming

It's an unportable way to remove all data from the input buffer till the next newline. I've seen it used in cases like that:

char c;
char s[32];
puts("Type a char");
c=getchar();
fflush(stdin);
puts("Type a string");
fgets(s,32,stdin);

Without the fflush(), if you type a character, say "a", and the hit enter, the input buffer contains "a\n", the getchar() peeks the "a", but the "\n" remains in the buffer, so the next fgets() will find it and return an empty string without even waiting for user input.

However, note that this use of fflush() is unportable. I've tested right now on a Linux machine, and it does not work, for example.

How to escape single quotes within single quoted strings

I don't see the entry on his blog (link pls?) but according to the gnu reference manual:

Enclosing characters in single quotes (‘'’) preserves the literal value of each character within the quotes. A single quote may not occur between single quotes, even when preceded by a backslash.

so bash won't understand:

alias x='y \'z '

however, you can do this if you surround with double quotes:

alias x="echo \'y "
> x
> 'y

2D array values C++

Like this:

int main()
{
    int arr[2][5] =
    {
        {1,8,12,20,25},
        {5,9,13,24,26}
    };
}

This should be covered by your C++ textbook: which one are you using?

Anyway, better, consider using std::vector or some ready-made matrix class e.g. from Boost.

How to force R to use a specified factor level as reference in a regression?

I know this is an old question, but I had a similar issue and found that:

lm(x ~ y + relevel(b, ref = "3")) 

does exactly what you asked.

How to retrieve an Oracle directory path?

The ALL_DIRECTORIES data dictionary view will have information about all the directories that you have access to. That includes the operating system path

SELECT owner, directory_name, directory_path
  FROM all_directories

How to clean node_modules folder of packages that are not in package.json?

For Windows User, alternative solution to remove such folder listed here: http://ask.osify.com/qa/567

Among them, a free tool: Long Path Fixer is good to try: http://corz.org/windows/software/accessories/Long-Path-Fixer-for-Windows.php

Working copy locked error in tortoise svn while committing

I had tried various things, including "Clean Up" on lower subdirectories. Finally, I tried updating the top level folder. Nothing. Then I read the "Clean up top level" tip. I tried that. The clean up part succeeded, but the lock remained. My solution was to go back to the top level, clean up, then clean up each red (!) folder I could drill down to. After all was "Cleaned up", the update worked perfectly. The "break lock" tip looks good, too, with the exception that someone on your team might have a legitimate lock on things.

How to get the sign, mantissa and exponent of a floating point number

Find out the format of the floating point numbers used on the CPU that directly supports floating point and break it down into those parts. The most common format is IEEE-754.

Alternatively, you could obtain those parts using a few special functions (double frexp(double value, int *exp); and double ldexp(double x, int exp);) as shown in this answer.

Another option is to use %a with printf().

Base64 decode snippet in C++

There are several snippets here. However, this one is compact, efficient, and C++11 friendly:

static std::string base64_encode(const std::string &in) {

    std::string out;

    int val = 0, valb = -6;
    for (uchar c : in) {
        val = (val << 8) + c;
        valb += 8;
        while (valb >= 0) {
            out.push_back("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/"[(val>>valb)&0x3F]);
            valb -= 6;
        }
    }
    if (valb>-6) out.push_back("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/"[((val<<8)>>(valb+8))&0x3F]);
    while (out.size()%4) out.push_back('=');
    return out;
}

static std::string base64_decode(const std::string &in) {

    std::string out;

    std::vector<int> T(256,-1);
    for (int i=0; i<64; i++) T["ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/"[i]] = i;

    int val=0, valb=-8;
    for (uchar c : in) {
        if (T[c] == -1) break;
        val = (val << 6) + T[c];
        valb += 6;
        if (valb >= 0) {
            out.push_back(char((val>>valb)&0xFF));
            valb -= 8;
        }
    }
    return out;
}

How to store directory files listing into an array?

Here's a variant that lets you use a regex pattern for initial filtering, change the regex to be get the filtering you desire.

files=($(find -E . -type f -regex "^.*$"))
for item in ${files[*]}
do
  printf "   %s\n" $item
done

Capture the Screen into a Bitmap

// Use this version to capture the full extended desktop (i.e. multiple screens)

Bitmap screenshot = new Bitmap(SystemInformation.VirtualScreen.Width, 
                               SystemInformation.VirtualScreen.Height, 
                               PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb);
Graphics screenGraph = Graphics.FromImage(screenshot);
screenGraph.CopyFromScreen(SystemInformation.VirtualScreen.X, 
                           SystemInformation.VirtualScreen.Y, 
                           0, 
                           0, 
                           SystemInformation.VirtualScreen.Size, 
                           CopyPixelOperation.SourceCopy);

screenshot.Save("Screenshot.png", System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png);

Compare two objects in Java with possible null values

boolean compare(String str1, String str2) {
    if(str1==null || str2==null) {
        //return false; if you assume null not equal to null
        return str1==str2;
    }
    return str1.equals(str2);
}

is this what you desired?

Setting the target version of Java in ant javac

To find the version of the java in the classfiles I used:

javap -verbose <classname>

which announces the version at the start as

minor version: 0
major version: 49

which corresponds to Java 1.5

Data binding for TextBox

I Recommend you implement INotifyPropertyChanged and change your databinding code to this:

this.textBox.DataBindings.Add("Text",
                                this.Food,
                                "Name",
                                false,
                                DataSourceUpdateMode.OnPropertyChanged);

That'll fix it.

Note that the default DataSourceUpdateMode is OnValidation, so if you don't specify OnPropertyChanged, the model object won't be updated until after your validations have occurred.

How to detect if a string contains at least a number?

DECLARE @str AS VARCHAR(50)
SET @str = 'PONIES!!...pon1es!!...p0n1es!!'

IF PATINDEX('%[0-9]%', @str) > 0
   PRINT 'YES, The string has numbers'
ELSE
   PRINT 'NO, The string does not have numbers' 

How do you count the lines of code in a Visual Studio solution?

Found this tip: LOC with VS Find and replace

Not a plugin though if thats what you are looking for.

Common sources of unterminated string literal

If you've done any cut/paste: some online syntax highlighters will mangle single and double quotes, turning them into formatted quote pairs (matched opening and closing pairs). (tho i can't find any examples right now)... So that entails hitting Command-+ a few times and staring at your quote characters

Try a different font? also, different editors and IDEs use different tokenizers and highlight rules, and JS is one of more dynamic languages to parse, so try opening the file in emacs, vim, gedit (with JS plugins)... If you get lucky, one of them will show a long purple string running through the end of file.

Center/Set Zoom of Map to cover all visible Markers?

The size of array must be greater than zero. ?therwise you will have unexpected results.

function zoomeExtends(){
  var bounds = new google.maps.LatLngBounds();
  if (markers.length>0) { 
      for (var i = 0; i < markers.length; i++) {
         bounds.extend(markers[i].getPosition());
        }    
        myMap.fitBounds(bounds);
    }
}

how to refresh Select2 dropdown menu after ajax loading different content?

Finally solved issue of reinitialization of select2 after ajax call.

You can call this in success function of ajax.

Note : Don't forget to replace ".selector" to your class of <select class="selector"> element.

jQuery('.select2-container').remove();

jQuery('.selector').select2({
   placeholder: "Placeholder text",
   allowClear: true
});

jQuery('.select2-container').css('width','100%');

How to download file in swift?

Here's an example that shows how to do sync & async.

import Foundation

class HttpDownloader {

    class func loadFileSync(url: NSURL, completion:(path:String, error:NSError!) -> Void) {
        let documentsUrl =  NSFileManager.defaultManager().URLsForDirectory(.DocumentDirectory, inDomains: .UserDomainMask).first as! NSURL
        let destinationUrl = documentsUrl.URLByAppendingPathComponent(url.lastPathComponent!)
        if NSFileManager().fileExistsAtPath(destinationUrl.path!) {
            println("file already exists [\(destinationUrl.path!)]")
            completion(path: destinationUrl.path!, error:nil)
        } else if let dataFromURL = NSData(contentsOfURL: url){
            if dataFromURL.writeToURL(destinationUrl, atomically: true) {
                println("file saved [\(destinationUrl.path!)]")
                completion(path: destinationUrl.path!, error:nil)
            } else {
                println("error saving file")
                let error = NSError(domain:"Error saving file", code:1001, userInfo:nil)
                completion(path: destinationUrl.path!, error:error)
            }
        } else {
            let error = NSError(domain:"Error downloading file", code:1002, userInfo:nil)
            completion(path: destinationUrl.path!, error:error)
        }
    }

    class func loadFileAsync(url: NSURL, completion:(path:String, error:NSError!) -> Void) {
        let documentsUrl =  NSFileManager.defaultManager().URLsForDirectory(.DocumentDirectory, inDomains: .UserDomainMask).first as! NSURL
        let destinationUrl = documentsUrl.URLByAppendingPathComponent(url.lastPathComponent!)
        if NSFileManager().fileExistsAtPath(destinationUrl.path!) {
            println("file already exists [\(destinationUrl.path!)]")
            completion(path: destinationUrl.path!, error:nil)
        } else {
            let sessionConfig = NSURLSessionConfiguration.defaultSessionConfiguration()
            let session = NSURLSession(configuration: sessionConfig, delegate: nil, delegateQueue: nil)
            let request = NSMutableURLRequest(URL: url)
            request.HTTPMethod = "GET"
            let task = session.dataTaskWithRequest(request, completionHandler: { (data: NSData!, response: NSURLResponse!, error: NSError!) -> Void in
                if (error == nil) {
                    if let response = response as? NSHTTPURLResponse {
                        println("response=\(response)")
                        if response.statusCode == 200 {
                            if data.writeToURL(destinationUrl, atomically: true) {
                                println("file saved [\(destinationUrl.path!)]")
                                completion(path: destinationUrl.path!, error:error)
                            } else {
                                println("error saving file")
                                let error = NSError(domain:"Error saving file", code:1001, userInfo:nil)
                                completion(path: destinationUrl.path!, error:error)
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
                else {
                    println("Failure: \(error.localizedDescription)");
                    completion(path: destinationUrl.path!, error:error)
                }
            })
            task.resume()
        }
    }
}

Here's how to use it in your code:

let url = NSURL(string: "http://www.mywebsite.com/myfile.pdf") 
HttpDownloader.loadFileAsync(url, completion:{(path:String, error:NSError!) in
                println("pdf downloaded to: \(path)")
            })

Must declare the scalar variable

If someone else comes across this question while no solution here made my sql file working, here's what my mistake was:

I have been exporting the contents of my database via the 'Generate Script' command of Microsofts' Server Management Studio and then doing some operations afterwards while inserting the generated data in another instance.

Due to the generated export, there have been a bunch of "GO" statements in the sql file.

What I didn't know was that variables declared at the top of a file aren't accessible as far as a GO statement is executed. Therefore I had to remove the GO statements in my sql file and the error "Must declare the scalar variable xy" was gone!

How to click a href link using Selenium

You can use xpath as follows, try this one :

driver.findElement(By.xpath("(.//[@href='/docs/configuration'])")).click();

read file from assets

It maybe too late but for the sake of others who look for the peachy answers :

public static String loadAssetFile(Context context, String fileName) {
    try {
        BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(context.getAssets().open(fileName)));
        StringBuilder out= new StringBuilder();
        String eachline = bufferedReader.readLine();
        while (eachline != null) {
            out.append(eachline);
            eachline = bufferedReader.readLine();
        }
        return out.toString();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        Log.e("Load Asset File",e.toString());
    }
    return null;
}

How do I preserve line breaks when getting text from a textarea?

_x000D_
_x000D_
function get() {_x000D_
  var arrayOfRows = document.getElementById("ta").value.split("\n");_x000D_
  var docfrag = document.createDocumentFragment();_x000D_
  _x000D_
  var p = document.getElementById("result");_x000D_
  while (p.firstChild) {_x000D_
    p.removeChild(p.firstChild);_x000D_
  }_x000D_
  _x000D_
  arrayOfRows.forEach(function(row, index, array) {_x000D_
    var span = document.createElement("span");_x000D_
    span.textContent = row;_x000D_
    docfrag.appendChild(span);_x000D_
    if(index < array.length - 1) {_x000D_
      docfrag.appendChild(document.createElement("br"));_x000D_
    }_x000D_
  });_x000D_
_x000D_
  p.appendChild(docfrag);_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<textarea id="ta" rows=3></textarea><br>_x000D_
<button onclick="get()">get</button>_x000D_
<p id="result"></p>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

You can split textarea rows into array:

var arrayOfRows = postText.value.split("\n");

Then use it to generate, maybe, more p tags...

How to remove index.php from URLs?

How about this in your .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

Rename MySQL database

I used following method to rename the database

  1. take backup of the file using mysqldump or any DB tool eg heidiSQL,mysql administrator etc

  2. Open back up (eg backupfile.sql) file in some text editor.

  3. Search and replace the database name and save file.

  4. Restore the edited SQL file

How to sort with a lambda?

To much code, you can use it like this:

#include<array>
#include<functional>

int main()
{
    std::array<int, 10> vec = { 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 };

    std::sort(std::begin(vec), 
              std::end(vec), 
              [](int a, int b) {return a > b; });

    for (auto item : vec)
      std::cout << item << " ";

    return 0;
}

Replace "vec" with your class and that's it.

What's the difference between eval, exec, and compile?

  1. exec is not an expression: a statement in Python 2.x, and a function in Python 3.x. It compiles and immediately evaluates a statement or set of statement contained in a string. Example:

     exec('print(5)')           # prints 5.
     # exec 'print 5'     if you use Python 2.x, nor the exec neither the print is a function there
     exec('print(5)\nprint(6)')  # prints 5{newline}6.
     exec('if True: print(6)')  # prints 6.
     exec('5')                 # does nothing and returns nothing.
    
  2. eval is a built-in function (not a statement), which evaluates an expression and returns the value that expression produces. Example:

     x = eval('5')              # x <- 5
     x = eval('%d + 6' % x)     # x <- 11
     x = eval('abs(%d)' % -100) # x <- 100
     x = eval('x = 5')          # INVALID; assignment is not an expression.
     x = eval('if 1: x = 4')    # INVALID; if is a statement, not an expression.
    
  3. compile is a lower level version of exec and eval. It does not execute or evaluate your statements or expressions, but returns a code object that can do it. The modes are as follows:

  4. compile(string, '', 'eval') returns the code object that would have been executed had you done eval(string). Note that you cannot use statements in this mode; only a (single) expression is valid.

  5. compile(string, '', 'exec') returns the code object that would have been executed had you done exec(string). You can use any number of statements here.

  6. compile(string, '', 'single') is like the exec mode but expects exactly one expression/statement, eg compile('a=1 if 1 else 3', 'myf', mode='single')

jQuery Mobile: document ready vs. page events

The simple difference between document ready and page event in jQuery-mobile is that:

  1. The document ready event is used for the whole HTML page,

    $(document).ready(function(e) {
        // Your code
    });
    
  2. When there is a page event, use for handling particular page event:

    <div data-role="page" id="second">
        <div data-role="header">
            <h3>
                Page header
            </h3>
        </div>
        <div data-role="content">
            Page content
        </div> <!--content-->
        <div data-role="footer">
            Page footer
        </div> <!--footer-->
    </div><!--page-->
    

You can also use document for handling the pageinit event:

$(document).on('pageinit', "#mypage", function() {

});

In c, in bool, true == 1 and false == 0?

More accurately anything that is not 0 is true.

So 1 is true, but so is 2, 3 ... etc.

How to import jquery using ES6 syntax?

My project stack is: ParcelJS + WordPress

WordPress got jQuery v1.12.4 itself and I have also import jQuery v3^ as module for other depending modules as well as bootstrap/js/dist/collapse, for example... Unfortunately, I can’t leave only one jQuery version due to other WordPress modular dependencies. And ofcourse there is conflict arises between two jquery version. Also keep in mind we got two modes for this project running Wordpress(Apache) / ParcelJS (NodeJS), witch make everything little bit difficulty. So at solution for this conflict was searching, sometimes the project broke on the left, sometimes on the right side. SO... My finall solution (I hope it so...) is:

    import $ from 'jquery'
    import 'popper.js'
    import 'bootstrap/js/dist/collapse'
    import 'bootstrap/js/dist/dropdown'
    import 'signalr'

    if (typeof window.$ === 'undefined') {
        window.$ = window.jQ = $.noConflict(true);
    }

    if (process) {
        if (typeof window.jQuery === 'undefined') {
            window.$ = window.jQuery = $.noConflict(true);
        }
    }

    jQ('#some-id').do('something...')    

    /* Other app code continuous below.......... */

I still didn’t understand how myself, but this method works. Errors and conflicts of two jQuery version no longer arise

Removing NA in dplyr pipe

I don't think desc takes an na.rm argument... I'm actually surprised it doesn't throw an error when you give it one. If you just want to remove NAs, use na.omit (base) or tidyr::drop_na:

outcome.df %>%
  na.omit() %>%
  group_by(Hospital, State) %>%
  arrange(desc(HeartAttackDeath)) %>%
  head()

library(tidyr)
outcome.df %>%
  drop_na() %>%
  group_by(Hospital, State) %>%
  arrange(desc(HeartAttackDeath)) %>%
  head()

If you only want to remove NAs from the HeartAttackDeath column, filter with is.na, or use tidyr::drop_na:

outcome.df %>%
  filter(!is.na(HeartAttackDeath)) %>%
  group_by(Hospital, State) %>%
  arrange(desc(HeartAttackDeath)) %>%
  head()

outcome.df %>%
  drop_na(HeartAttackDeath) %>%
  group_by(Hospital, State) %>%
  arrange(desc(HeartAttackDeath)) %>%
  head()

As pointed out at the dupe, complete.cases can also be used, but it's a bit trickier to put in a chain because it takes a data frame as an argument but returns an index vector. So you could use it like this:

outcome.df %>%
  filter(complete.cases(.)) %>%
  group_by(Hospital, State) %>%
  arrange(desc(HeartAttackDeath)) %>%
  head()

sql try/catch rollback/commit - preventing erroneous commit after rollback

I used below ms sql script pattern several times successfully which uses Try-Catch,Commit Transaction- Rollback Transaction,Error Tracking.

Your TRY block will be as follows

 BEGIN TRY
 BEGIN TRANSACTION T
 ----
 //your script block
 ----
 COMMIT TRANSACTION T 
 END TRY

Your CATCH block will be as follows

BEGIN CATCH
DECLARE @ErrMsg NVarChar(4000), 
        @ErrNum Int, 
        @ErrSeverity Int, 
        @ErrState Int, 
        @ErrLine Int, 
        @ErrProc NVarChar(200)
 SELECT @ErrNum = Error_Number(), 
       @ErrSeverity = Error_Severity(), 
       @ErrState = Error_State(), 
       @ErrLine = Error_Line(), 
       @ErrProc = IsNull(Error_Procedure(), '-')
 SET @ErrMsg = N'ErrLine: ' + rtrim(@ErrLine) + ', proc: ' + RTRIM(@ErrProc) + ', 
       Message: '+ Error_Message()

Your ROLLBACK script will be part of CATCH block as follows

IF (@@TRANCOUNT) > 0 
BEGIN
PRINT 'ROLLBACK: ' + SUBSTRING(@ErrMsg,1,4000)
ROLLBACK TRANSACTION T
END
ELSE
BEGIN
PRINT SUBSTRING(@ErrMsg,1,4000);   
END

END CATCH

Above different script blocks you need to use as one block. If any error happens in the TRY block it will go the the CATCH block. There it is setting various details about the error number,error severity,error line ..etc. At last all these details will get append to @ErrMsg parameter. Then it will check for the count of transaction (@@TRANCOUNT >0) , ie if anything is there in the transaction for rollback. If it is there then show the error message and ROLLBACK TRANSACTION. Otherwise simply print the error message.

We have kept our COMMIT TRANSACTION T script towards the last line of TRY block in order to make sure that it should commit the transaction(final change in the database) only after all the code in the TRY block has run successfully.

Git - Ignore node_modules folder everywhere

Add this

node_modules/

to .gitignore file to ignore all directories called node_modules in current folder and any subfolders