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JPA CriteriaBuilder - How to use "IN" comparison operator

If I understand well, you want to Join ScheduleRequest with User and apply the in clause to the userName property of the entity User.

I'd need to work a bit on this schema. But you can try with this trick, that is much more readable than the code you posted, and avoids the Join part (because it handles the Join logic outside the Criteria Query).

List<String> myList = new ArrayList<String> ();
for (User u : usersList) {
    myList.add(u.getUsername());
}
Expression<String> exp = scheduleRequest.get("createdBy");
Predicate predicate = exp.in(myList);
criteria.where(predicate);

In order to write more type-safe code you could also use Metamodel by replacing this line:

Expression<String> exp = scheduleRequest.get("createdBy");

with this:

Expression<String> exp = scheduleRequest.get(ScheduleRequest_.createdBy);

If it works, then you may try to add the Join logic into the Criteria Query. But right now I can't test it, so I prefer to see if somebody else wants to try.


Not a perfect answer though may be code snippets might help.

public <T> List<T> findListWhereInCondition(Class<T> clazz,
            String conditionColumnName, Serializable... conditionColumnValues) {
        QueryBuilder<T> queryBuilder = new QueryBuilder<T>(clazz);
        addWhereInClause(queryBuilder, conditionColumnName,
                conditionColumnValues);
        queryBuilder.select();
        return queryBuilder.getResultList();

    }


private <T> void addWhereInClause(QueryBuilder<T> queryBuilder,
            String conditionColumnName, Serializable... conditionColumnValues) {

        Path<Object> path = queryBuilder.root.get(conditionColumnName);
        In<Object> in = queryBuilder.criteriaBuilder.in(path);
        for (Serializable conditionColumnValue : conditionColumnValues) {
            in.value(conditionColumnValue);
        }
        queryBuilder.criteriaQuery.where(in);

    }

Git command to display HEAD commit id?

You can use this command

$ git rev-list HEAD

You can also use the head Unix command to show the latest n HEAD commits like

$ git rev-list HEAD | head - 2

How to set combobox default value?

Suppose you bound your combobox to a List<Person>

List<Person> pp = new List<Person>();
pp.Add(new Person() {id = 1, name="Steve"});
pp.Add(new Person() {id = 2, name="Mark"});
pp.Add(new Person() {id = 3, name="Charles"});

cbo1.DisplayMember = "name";
cbo1.ValueMember = "id";
cbo1.DataSource = pp;

At this point you cannot set the Text property as you like, but instead you need to add an item to your list before setting the datasource

pp.Insert(0, new Person() {id=-1, name="--SELECT--"});
cbo1.DisplayMember = "name";
cbo1.ValueMember = "id";
cbo1.DataSource = pp;
cbo1.SelectedIndex = 0;

Of course this means that you need to add a checking code when you try to use the info from the combobox

if(cbo1.SelectedValue != null && Convert.ToInt32(cbo1.SelectedValue) == -1)
    MessageBox.Show("Please select a person name");
else
    ...... 

The code is the same if you use a DataTable instead of a list. You need to add a fake row at the first position of the Rows collection of the datatable and set the initial index of the combobox to make things clear. The only thing you need to look at are the name of the datatable columns and which columns should contain a non null value before adding the row to the collection

In a table with three columns like ID, FirstName, LastName with ID,FirstName and LastName required you need to

DataRow row = datatable.NewRow();
row["ID"] = -1;
row["FirstName"] = "--Select--";    
row["LastName"] = "FakeAddress";
dataTable.Rows.InsertAt(row, 0);

How to compare two dates?

Other answers using datetime and comparisons also work for time only, without a date.

For example, to check if right now it is more or less than 8:00 a.m., we can use:

import datetime

eight_am = datetime.time( 8,0,0 ) # Time, without a date

And later compare with:

datetime.datetime.now().time() > eight_am  

which will return True

How do I skip an iteration of a `foreach` loop?

Another approach using linq is:

foreach ( int number in numbers.Skip(1))
{   
    // process number  
}

If you want to skip the first in a number of items.

Or use .SkipWhere if you want to specify a condition for skipping.

What is the maximum float in Python?

For float have a look at sys.float_info:

>>> import sys
>>> sys.float_info
sys.floatinfo(max=1.7976931348623157e+308, max_exp=1024, max_10_exp=308, min=2.2
250738585072014e-308, min_exp=-1021, min_10_exp=-307, dig=15, mant_dig=53, epsil
on=2.2204460492503131e-16, radix=2, rounds=1)

Specifically, sys.float_info.max:

>>> sys.float_info.max
1.7976931348623157e+308

If that's not big enough, there's always positive infinity:

>>> infinity = float("inf")
>>> infinity
inf
>>> infinity / 10000
inf

The long type has unlimited precision, so I think you're only limited by available memory.

Printing object properties in Powershell

# Json to object
$obj = $obj | ConvertFrom-Json
Write-host $obj.PropertyName

How to export all collections in MongoDB?

I wrote bash script for that. Just run it with 2 parameters (database name, dir to store files).

#!/bin/bash

if [ ! $1 ]; then
        echo " Example of use: $0 database_name [dir_to_store]"
        exit 1
fi
db=$1
out_dir=$2
if [ ! $out_dir ]; then
        out_dir="./"
else
        mkdir -p $out_dir
fi

tmp_file="fadlfhsdofheinwvw.js"
echo "print('_ ' + db.getCollectionNames())" > $tmp_file
cols=`mongo $db $tmp_file | grep '_' | awk '{print $2}' | tr ',' ' '`
for c in $cols
do
    mongoexport -d $db -c $c -o "$out_dir/exp_${db}_${c}.json"
done
rm $tmp_file

How to linebreak an svg text within javascript?

With the tspan solution, let's say you don't know in advance where to put your line breaks: you can use this nice function, that I found here: http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/7555321

That automatically does line breaks for long text svg for a given width in pixel.

function wrap(text, width) {
  text.each(function() {
    var text = d3.select(this),
        words = text.text().split(/\s+/).reverse(),
        word,
        line = [],
        lineNumber = 0,
        lineHeight = 1.1, // ems
        y = text.attr("y"),
        dy = parseFloat(text.attr("dy")),
        tspan = text.text(null).append("tspan").attr("x", 0).attr("y", y).attr("dy", dy + "em");
    while (word = words.pop()) {
      line.push(word);
      tspan.text(line.join(" "));
      if (tspan.node().getComputedTextLength() > width) {
        line.pop();
        tspan.text(line.join(" "));
        line = [word];
        tspan = text.append("tspan").attr("x", 0).attr("y", y).attr("dy", ++lineNumber * lineHeight + dy + "em").text(word);
      }
    }
  });
}

Can we have functions inside functions in C++?

But we can declare a function inside main():

int main()
{
    void a();
}

Although the syntax is correct, sometimes it can lead to the "Most vexing parse":

#include <iostream>


struct U
{
    U() : val(0) {}
    U(int val) : val(val) {}

    int val;
};

struct V
{
    V(U a, U b)
    {
        std::cout << "V(" << a.val << ", " << b.val << ");\n";
    }
    ~V()
    {
        std::cout << "~V();\n";
    }
};

int main()
{
    int five = 5;
    V v(U(five), U());
}

=> no program output.

(Only Clang warning after compilation).

C++'s most vexing parse again

Is it possible to install both 32bit and 64bit Java on Windows 7?

You can install multiple Java runtimes under Windows (including Windows 7) as long as each is in their own directory.

For example, if you are running Win 7 64-bit, or Win Server 2008 R2, you may install 32-bit JRE in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6" and 64-bit JRE in "C:\Program Files\Java\jre6", and perhaps IBM Java 6 in "C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\Java60\jre".

The Java Control Panel app theoretically has the ability to manage multiple runtimes: Java tab >> View... button

There are tabs for User and System settings. You can add additional runtimes with Add or Find, but once you have finished adding runtimes and hit OK, you have to hit Apply in the main Java tab frame, which is not as obvious as it could be - otherwise your changes will be lost.

If you have multiple versions installed, only the main version will auto-update. I have not found a solution to this apart from the weak workaround of manually updating whenever I see an auto-update, so I'd love to know if anyone has a fix for that.

Most Java IDEs allow you to select any Java runtime on your machine to build against, but if not using an IDE, you can easily manage this using environment variables in a cmd window. Your PATH and the JAVA_HOME variable determine which runtime is used by tools run from the shell. Set the JAVA_HOME to the jre directory you want and put the bin directory into your path (and remove references to other runtimes) - with IBM you may need to add multiple bin directories. This is pretty much all the set up that the default system Java does. You can also set CLASSPATH, ANT_HOME, MAVEN_HOME, etc. to unique values to match your runtime.

Normalize numpy array columns in python

If I understand correctly, what you want to do is divide by the maximum value in each column. You can do this easily using broadcasting.

Starting with your example array:

import numpy as np

x = np.array([[1000,  10,   0.5],
              [ 765,   5,  0.35],
              [ 800,   7,  0.09]])

x_normed = x / x.max(axis=0)

print(x_normed)
# [[ 1.     1.     1.   ]
#  [ 0.765  0.5    0.7  ]
#  [ 0.8    0.7    0.18 ]]

x.max(0) takes the maximum over the 0th dimension (i.e. rows). This gives you a vector of size (ncols,) containing the maximum value in each column. You can then divide x by this vector in order to normalize your values such that the maximum value in each column will be scaled to 1.


If x contains negative values you would need to subtract the minimum first:

x_normed = (x - x.min(0)) / x.ptp(0)

Here, x.ptp(0) returns the "peak-to-peak" (i.e. the range, max - min) along axis 0. This normalization also guarantees that the minimum value in each column will be 0.

Hashing with SHA1 Algorithm in C#

You can "compute the value for the specified byte array" using ComputeHash:

var hash = sha1.ComputeHash(temp);

If you want to analyse the result in string representation, then you will need to format the bytes using the {0:X2} format specifier.

How do I change the text size in a label widget, python tkinter

Try passing width=200 as additional paramater when creating the Label.

This should work in creating label with specified width.

If you want to change it later, you can use:

label.config(width=200)

As you want to change the size of font itself you can try:

label.config(font=("Courier", 44))

Displaying Windows command prompt output and redirecting it to a file

Check this out: wintee

No need for cygwin.

I did encounter and report some issues though.

Also you might check unxutils because it contains tee (and no need for cygwin), but beware that output EOL's are UNIX-like here.

Last, but not least, is if you have PowerShell, you could try Tee-Object. Type get-help tee-object in PowerShell console for more info.

Number of days between two dates in Joda-Time

The accepted answer builds two LocalDate objects, which are quite expensive if you are reading lot of data. I use this:

  public static int getDaysBetween(DateTime earlier, DateTime later)
  {
    return (int) TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toDays(later.getMillis()- earlier.getMillis());
  }

By calling getMillis() you use already existing variables.
MILLISECONDS.toDays() then, uses a simple arithmetic calculation, does not create any object.

Check Postgres access for a user

You could query the table_privileges table in the information schema:

SELECT table_catalog, table_schema, table_name, privilege_type
FROM   information_schema.table_privileges 
WHERE  grantee = 'MY_USER'

How do I correctly setup and teardown for my pytest class with tests?

When you write "tests defined as class methods", do you really mean class methods (methods which receive its class as first parameter) or just regular methods (methods which receive an instance as first parameter)?

Since your example uses self for the test methods I'm assuming the latter, so you just need to use setup_method instead:

class Test:

    def setup_method(self, test_method):
        # configure self.attribute

    def teardown_method(self, test_method):
        # tear down self.attribute

    def test_buttons(self):
        # use self.attribute for test

The test method instance is passed to setup_method and teardown_method, but can be ignored if your setup/teardown code doesn't need to know the testing context. More information can be found here.

I also recommend that you familiarize yourself with py.test's fixtures, as they are a more powerful concept.

Updating to latest version of CocoaPods?

I change the line "pod 'Alamofire', '~> 4.0'" to "pod 'Alamofire', :git => 'https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire', :commit => '3cc5b4e'" after that in terminal: "pod install --repo-update" and it works.

List of all users that can connect via SSH

Read man sshd_config for more details, but you can use the AllowUsers directive in /etc/ssh/sshd_config to limit the set of users who can login.

e.g.

AllowUsers boris

would mean that only the boris user could login via ssh.

Excel VBA Run-time error '424': Object Required when trying to copy TextBox

I think the reason that this is happening could be because TextBox1 is scoping to the VBA module and its associated sheet, while Range is scoping to the "Active Sheet".

EDIT

It looks like you may be able to use the GetObject function to pull the textbox from the workbook.

Value cannot be null. Parameter name: source

Make sure you are injecting the repository into the service's constructor. That solved it for me. ::smacks forehead::

How to find patterns across multiple lines using grep?

Why not something simple like:

egrep -o 'abc|efg' $file | grep -A1 abc | grep efg | wc -l

returns 0 or a positive integer.

egrep -o (Only shows matches, trick: multiple matches on the same line produce multi-line output as if they are on different lines)

  • grep -A1 abc (print abc and the line after it)

  • grep efg | wc -l (0-n count of efg lines found after abc on the same or following lines, result can be used in an 'if")

  • grep can be changed to egrep etc. if pattern matching is needed

Returning a value from thread?

Here is a simple example using a delegate ...

void Main()
{
   DoIt d1 = Doer.DoThatThang;
   DoIt d2 = Doer.DoThatThang;

   IAsyncResult r1 = d1.BeginInvoke( 5, null, null );
   IAsyncResult r2 = d2.BeginInvoke( 10, null, null );

   Thread.Sleep( 1000 );

   var s1 = d1.EndInvoke( r1 );
   var s2 = d2.EndInvoke( r2 );

   s1.Dump(); // You told me 5
   s2.Dump(); // You told me 10
}

public delegate string DoIt( int x );

public class Doer
{
  public static string DoThatThang( int x  )
  {
    return "You told me " + x.ToString();
  }
}

There's a terrific series on threading at Threading in C#.

JSON and XML comparison

Processing speed may not be the only relevant matter, however, as that's the question, here are some numbers in a benchmark: JSON vs. XML: Some hard numbers about verbosity. For the speed, in this simple benchmark, XML presents a 21% overhead over JSON.

An important note about the verbosity, which is as the article says, the most common complain: this is not so much relevant in practice (neither XML nor JSON data are typically handled by humans, but by machines), even if for the matter of speed, it requires some reasonable more time to compress.

Also, in this benchmark, a big amount of data was processed, and a typical web application won't transmit data chunks of such sizes, as big as 90MB, and compression may not be beneficial (for small enough data chunks, a compressed chunk will be bigger than the uncompressed chunk), so not applicable.

Still, if no compression is involved, JSON, as obviously terser, will weight less over the transmission channel, especially if transmitted through a WebSocket connection, where the absence of the classic HTTP overhead may make the difference at the advantage of JSON, even more significant.

After transmission, data is to be consumed, and this count in the overall processing time. If big or complex enough data are to be transmitted, the lack of a schema automatically checked for by a validating XML parser, may require more check on JSON data; these checks would have to be executed in JavaScript, which is not known to be particularly fast, and so it may present an additional overhead over XML in such cases.

Anyway, only testing will provides the answer for your particular use-case (if speed is really the only matter, and not standard nor safety nor integrity…).

Update 1: worth to mention, is EXI, the binary XML format, which offers compression at less cost than using Gzip, and save processing otherwise needed to decompress compressed XML. EXI is to XML, what BSON is to JSON. Have a quick overview here, with some reference to efficiency in both space and time: EXI: The last binary standard?.

Update 2: there also exists a binary XML performance reports, conducted by the W3C, as efficiency and low memory and CPU footprint, is also a matter for the XML area too: Efficient XML Interchange Evaluation.

Update 2015-03-01

Worth to be noticed in this context, as HTTP overhead was raised as an issue: the IANA has registered the EXI encoding (the efficient binary XML mentioned above), as a a Content Coding for the HTTP protocol (alongside with compress, deflate and gzip). This means EXI is an option which can be expected to be understood by browsers among possibly other HTTP clients. See Hypertext Transfer Protocol Parameters (iana.org).

Check if a variable exists in a list in Bash

Consider exploiting the keys of associative arrays. I would presume this outperforms both regex/pattern matching and looping, although I haven't profiled it.

declare -A list=( [one]=1 [two]=two [three]='any non-empty value' )
for value in one two three four
do
    echo -n "$value is "
    # a missing key expands to the null string, 
    # and we've set each interesting key to a non-empty value
    [[ -z "${list[$value]}" ]] && echo -n '*not* '
    echo "a member of ( ${!list[*]} )"
done

Output:

one is a member of ( one two three )
two is a member of ( one two three )
three is a member of ( one two three )
four is *not* a member of ( one two three )

CardView not showing Shadow in Android L

Add android:hardwareAccelerated="true" in your manifests file like below it works for me

 <activity
        android:name=".activity.MyCardViewActivity"
        android:hardwareAccelerated="true"></activity>

How to add new line in Markdown presentation?

You could use &nbsp; in R markdown to create a new blank line.

For example, in your .Rmd file:

I want 3 new lines: 

&nbsp;
&nbsp;
&nbsp;

End of file. 

Update query using Subquery in Sql Server

The title of this thread asks how a subquery can be used in an update. Here's an example of that:

update [dbName].[dbo].[MyTable] 
set MyColumn = 1 
where 
    (
        select count(*) 
        from [dbName].[dbo].[MyTable] mt2 
        where
            mt2.ID > [dbName].[dbo].[MyTable].ID
            and mt2.Category = [dbName].[dbo].[MyTable].Category
    ) > 0

Will the IE9 WebBrowser Control Support all of IE9's features, including SVG?

A note about 64bit Windows which seems to trip up a few folks. If your app is running under 64bit Windows, you likely have to set the DWORD under [HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION] instead.

In Python, how do you convert a `datetime` object to seconds?

from the python docs:

timedelta.total_seconds()

Return the total number of seconds contained in the duration. Equivalent to

(td.microseconds + (td.seconds + td.days * 24 * 3600) * 10**6) / 10**6

computed with true division enabled.

Note that for very large time intervals (greater than 270 years on most platforms) this method will lose microsecond accuracy.

This functionality is new in version 2.7.

Huge performance difference when using group by vs distinct

The two queries express the same question. Apparently the query optimizer chooses two different execution plans. My guess would be that the distinct approach is executed like:

  • Copy all business_key values to a temporary table
  • Sort the temporary table
  • Scan the temporary table, returning each item that is different from the one before it

The group by could be executed like:

  • Scan the full table, storing each value of business key in a hashtable
  • Return the keys of the hashtable

The first method optimizes for memory usage: it would still perform reasonably well when part of the temporary table has to be swapped out. The second method optimizes for speed, but potentially requires a large amount of memory if there are a lot of different keys.

Since you either have enough memory or few different keys, the second method outperforms the first. It's not unusual to see performance differences of 10x or even 100x between two execution plans.

Python and JSON - TypeError list indices must be integers not str

First of all, you should be using json.loads, not json.dumps. loads converts JSON source text to a Python value, while dumps goes the other way.

After you fix that, based on the JSON snippet at the top of your question, readable_json will be a list, and so readable_json['firstName'] is meaningless. The correct way to get the 'firstName' field of every element of a list is to eliminate the playerstuff = readable_json['firstName'] line and change for i in playerstuff: to for i in readable_json:.

AngularJS How to dynamically add HTML and bind to controller

See if this example provides any clarification. Basically you configure a set of routes and include partial templates based on the route. Setting ng-view in your main index.html allows you to inject those partial views.

The config portion looks like this:

  .config(['$routeProvider', function($routeProvider) {
    $routeProvider
      .when('/', {controller:'ListCtrl', templateUrl:'list.html'})
      .otherwise({redirectTo:'/'});
  }])

The point of entry for injecting the partial view into your main template is:

<div class="container" ng-view=""></div>

how to read all files inside particular folder

using System.IO;

//...

  string[] files;

  if (Directory.Exists(Path)) {
    files = Directory.GetFiles(Path, @"*.xml", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly);
    //...

What's the difference between @JoinColumn and mappedBy when using a JPA @OneToMany association

Unidirectional one-to-many association

If you use the @OneToMany annotation with @JoinColumn, then you have a unidirectional association, like the one between the parent Post entity and the child PostComment in the following diagram:

Unidirectional one-to-many association

When using a unidirectional one-to-many association, only the parent side maps the association.

In this example, only the Post entity will define a @OneToMany association to the child PostComment entity:

@OneToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, orphanRemoval = true)
@JoinColumn(name = "post_id")
private List<PostComment> comments = new ArrayList<>();

Bidirectional one-to-many association

If you use the @OneToMany with the mappedBy attribute set, you have a bidirectional association. In our case, both the Post entity has a collection of PostComment child entities, and the child PostComment entity has a reference back to the parent Post entity, as illustrated by the following diagram:

Bidirectional one-to-many association

In the PostComment entity, the post entity property is mapped as follows:

@ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
private Post post;

The reason we explicitly set the fetch attribute to FetchType.LAZY is because, by default, all @ManyToOne and @OneToOne associations are fetched eagerly, which can cause N+1 query issues.

In the Post entity, the comments association is mapped as follows:

@OneToMany(
    mappedBy = "post",
    cascade = CascadeType.ALL,
    orphanRemoval = true
)
private List<PostComment> comments = new ArrayList<>();

The mappedBy attribute of the @OneToMany annotation references the post property in the child PostComment entity, and, this way, Hibernate knows that the bidirectional association is controlled by the @ManyToOne side, which is in charge of managing the Foreign Key column value this table relationship is based on.

For a bidirectional association, you also need to have two utility methods, like addChild and removeChild:

public void addComment(PostComment comment) {
    comments.add(comment);
    comment.setPost(this);
}

public void removeComment(PostComment comment) {
    comments.remove(comment);
    comment.setPost(null);
}

These two methods ensure that both sides of the bidirectional association are in sync. Without synchronizing both ends, Hibernate does not guarantee that association state changes will propagate to the database.

Which one to choose?

The unidirectional @OneToMany association does not perform very well, so you should avoid it.

You are better off using the bidirectional @OneToMany which is more efficient.

Configure WAMP server to send email

Using an open source program call Send Mail, you can send via wamp rather easily actually. I'm still setting it up, but here's a great tutorial by jo jordan. Takes less than 2 mins to setup.

Just tried it and it worked like a charm! Once I uncommented the error log and found out that it was stalling on the pop3 authentication, I just removed that and it sent nicely. Best of luck!

C# HttpClient 4.5 multipart/form-data upload

my result looks like this:

public static async Task<string> Upload(byte[] image)
{
     using (var client = new HttpClient())
     {
         using (var content =
             new MultipartFormDataContent("Upload----" + DateTime.Now.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)))
         {
             content.Add(new StreamContent(new MemoryStream(image)), "bilddatei", "upload.jpg");

              using (
                 var message =
                     await client.PostAsync("http://www.directupload.net/index.php?mode=upload", content))
              {
                  var input = await message.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

                  return !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(input) ? Regex.Match(input, @"http://\w*\.directupload\.net/images/\d*/\w*\.[a-z]{3}").Value : null;
              }
          }
     }
}

Is there a way to get a textarea to stretch to fit its content without using PHP or JavaScript?

Not really. This is normally done using javascript.

there is a good discussion of ways of doing this here...

Autosizing textarea using Prototype

Android 8.0: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Not allowed to start service Intent

I see a lot of responses that recommend just using a ForegroundService. In order to use a ForegroundService there has to be a notification associated with it. Users will see this notification. Depending on the situation, they may become annoyed with your app and uninstall it.

The easiest solution is to use the new Architecture Component called WorkManager. You can check out the documentation here: https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/architecture/workmanager/

You just define your worker class that extends Worker.

public class CompressWorker extends Worker {

    public CompressWorker(
        @NonNull Context context,
        @NonNull WorkerParameters params) {
        super(context, params);
    }

    @Override
    public Worker.Result doWork() {

        // Do the work here--in this case, compress the stored images.
        // In this example no parameters are passed; the task is
        // assumed to be "compress the whole library."
        myCompress();

        // Indicate success or failure with your return value:
        return Result.SUCCESS;

        // (Returning RETRY tells WorkManager to try this task again
        // later; FAILURE says not to try again.)
    }
}

Then you schedule when you want to run it.

    OneTimeWorkRequest compressionWork = 
        new OneTimeWorkRequest.Builder(CompressWorker.class)
            .build();
    WorkManager.getInstance().enqueue(compressionWork);

Easy! There are a lot of ways you can configure workers. It supports recurring jobs and you can even do complex stuff like chaining if you need it. Hope this helps.

What to put in a python module docstring?

To quote the specifications:

The docstring of a script (a stand-alone program) should be usable as its "usage" message, printed when the script is invoked with incorrect or missing arguments (or perhaps with a "-h" option, for "help"). Such a docstring should document the script's function and command line syntax, environment variables, and files. Usage messages can be fairly elaborate (several screens full) and should be sufficient for a new user to use the command properly, as well as a complete quick reference to all options and arguments for the sophisticated user.

The docstring for a module should generally list the classes, exceptions and functions (and any other objects) that are exported by the module, with a one-line summary of each. (These summaries generally give less detail than the summary line in the object's docstring.) The docstring for a package (i.e., the docstring of the package's __init__.py module) should also list the modules and subpackages exported by the package.

The docstring for a class should summarize its behavior and list the public methods and instance variables. If the class is intended to be subclassed, and has an additional interface for subclasses, this interface should be listed separately (in the docstring). The class constructor should be documented in the docstring for its __init__ method. Individual methods should be documented by their own docstring.

The docstring of a function or method is a phrase ending in a period. It prescribes the function or method's effect as a command ("Do this", "Return that"), not as a description; e.g. don't write "Returns the pathname ...". A multiline-docstring for a function or method should summarize its behavior and document its arguments, return value(s), side effects, exceptions raised, and restrictions on when it can be called (all if applicable). Optional arguments should be indicated. It should be documented whether keyword arguments are part of the interface.

Frequency table for a single variable

The answer provided by @DSM is simple and straightforward, but I thought I'd add my own input to this question. If you look at the code for pandas.value_counts, you'll see that there is a lot going on.

If you need to calculate the frequency of many series, this could take a while. A faster implementation would be to use numpy.unique with return_counts = True

Here is an example:

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

my_series = pd.Series([1,2,2,3,3,3])

print(my_series.value_counts())
3    3
2    2
1    1
dtype: int64

Notice here that the item returned is a pandas.Series

In comparison, numpy.unique returns a tuple with two items, the unique values and the counts.

vals, counts = np.unique(my_series, return_counts=True)
print(vals, counts)
[1 2 3] [1 2 3]

You can then combine these into a dictionary:

results = dict(zip(vals, counts))
print(results)
{1: 1, 2: 2, 3: 3}

And then into a pandas.Series

print(pd.Series(results))
1    1
2    2
3    3
dtype: int64

Convert Char to String in C

A code like that should work:

int i = 0;
char string[256], c;
while(i < 256 - 1 && (c = fgetc(fp) != EOF)) //Keep space for the final \0
{
    string[i++] = c;
}
string[i] = '\0';

APK signing error : Failed to read key from keystore

In my case, while copying the text from other source it somehow included the space at the end of clipboard entry. That way the key password had a space at the end.

What's the best mock framework for Java?

I like JMock because you are able to set up expectations. This is totally different from checking if a method was called found in some mock libraries. Using JMock you can write very sophisticated expectations. See the jmock cheat-sheat.

How to paste yanked text into the Vim command line

It's worth noting also that the yank registers are the same as the macro buffers. In other words, you can simply write out your whole command in your document (including your pasted snippet), then "by to yank it to the b register, and then run it with @b.

Converting Date and Time To Unix Timestamp

You can use Date.getTime() function, or the Date object itself which when divided returns the time in milliseconds.

var d = new Date();

d/1000
> 1510329641.84

d.getTime()/1000
> 1510329641.84

Python != operation vs "is not"

>>> () is ()
True
>>> 1 is 1
True
>>> (1,) == (1,)
True
>>> (1,) is (1,)
False
>>> a = (1,)
>>> b = a
>>> a is b
True

Some objects are singletons, and thus is with them is equivalent to ==. Most are not.

Iteration ng-repeat only X times in AngularJs

in the html :

<div ng-repeat="t in getTimes(4)">text</div>

and in the controller :

$scope.getTimes=function(n){
     return new Array(n);
};

http://plnkr.co/edit/j5kNLY4Xr43CzcjM1gkj

EDIT :

with angularjs > 1.2.x

<div ng-repeat="t in getTimes(4) track by $index">TEXT</div>

Efficiently test if a port is open on Linux?

A surprise I found out recently is that Bash natively supports tcp connections as file descriptors. To use:

exec 6<>/dev/tcp/ip.addr.of.server/445
echo -e "GET / HTTP/1.0\n" >&6
cat <&6

I'm using 6 as the file descriptor because 0,1,2 are stdin, stdout, and stderr. 5 is sometimes used by Bash for child processes, so 3,4,6,7,8, and 9 should be safe.

As per the comment below, to test for listening on a local server in a script:

exec 6<>/dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/445 || echo "No one is listening!"
exec 6>&- # close output connection
exec 6<&- # close input connection

To determine if someone is listening, attempt to connect by loopback. If it fails, then the port is closed or we aren't allowed access. Afterwards, close the connection.

Modify this for your use case, such as sending an email, exiting the script on failure, or starting the required service.

Python glob multiple filetypes

The following function _glob globs for multiple file extensions.

import glob
import os
def _glob(path, *exts):
    """Glob for multiple file extensions

    Parameters
    ----------
    path : str
        A file name without extension, or directory name
    exts : tuple
        File extensions to glob for

    Returns
    -------
    files : list
        list of files matching extensions in exts in path

    """
    path = os.path.join(path, "*") if os.path.isdir(path) else path + "*"
    return [f for files in [glob.glob(path + ext) for ext in exts] for f in files]

files = _glob(projectDir, ".txt", ".mdown", ".markdown")

Set angular scope variable in markup

I like the answer but I think it would be better that you create a global scope function that will allow you to set the scope variable needed.

So in the globalController create

$scope.setScopeVariable = function(variable, value){
    $scope[variable] = value;
}

and then in your html file call it

{{setScopeVariable('myVar', 'whatever')}}

This will then allow you to use $scope.myVar in your respective controller

SQL Server: Get table primary key using sql query

I also found another one for SQL Server:

SELECT COLUMN_NAME
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.KEY_COLUMN_USAGE
WHERE OBJECTPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID(CONSTRAINT_SCHEMA + '.' + QUOTENAME(CONSTRAINT_NAME)), 'IsPrimaryKey') = 1
AND TABLE_NAME = 'TableName' AND TABLE_SCHEMA = 'Schema'

How to query as GROUP BY in django?

You can also use the regroup template tag to group by attributes. From the docs:

cities = [
    {'name': 'Mumbai', 'population': '19,000,000', 'country': 'India'},
    {'name': 'Calcutta', 'population': '15,000,000', 'country': 'India'},
    {'name': 'New York', 'population': '20,000,000', 'country': 'USA'},
    {'name': 'Chicago', 'population': '7,000,000', 'country': 'USA'},
    {'name': 'Tokyo', 'population': '33,000,000', 'country': 'Japan'},
]

...

{% regroup cities by country as country_list %}

<ul>
    {% for country in country_list %}
        <li>{{ country.grouper }}
            <ul>
            {% for city in country.list %}
                <li>{{ city.name }}: {{ city.population }}</li>
            {% endfor %}
            </ul>
        </li>
    {% endfor %}
</ul>

Looks like this:

  • India
    • Mumbai: 19,000,000
    • Calcutta: 15,000,000
  • USA
    • New York: 20,000,000
    • Chicago: 7,000,000
  • Japan
    • Tokyo: 33,000,000

It also works on QuerySets I believe.

source: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/ref/templates/builtins/#regroup

edit: note the regroup tag does not work as you would expect it to if your list of dictionaries is not key-sorted. It works iteratively. So sort your list (or query set) by the key of the grouper before passing it to the regroup tag.

Closing a file after File.Create

File.Create returns a FileStream object that you can call Close() on.

How to format time since xxx e.g. “4 minutes ago” similar to Stack Exchange sites

I haven't checked (although it wouldn't be hard to), but I think that Stack Exchange sites use the jquery.timeago plugin to create these time strings.


It's quite easy to use the plugin, and it's clean and updates automatically.

Here's a quick sample (from the plugin's home page):

First, load jQuery and the plugin:

<script src="jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="jquery.timeago.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Now, let's attach it to your timestamps on DOM ready:

jQuery(document).ready(function() {
jQuery("abbr.timeago").timeago(); });

This will turn all abbr elements with a class of timeago and an ISO 8601 timestamp in the title: <abbr class="timeago" title="2008-07-17T09:24:17Z">July 17, 2008</abbr> into something like this: <abbr class="timeago" title="July 17, 2008">about a year ago</abbr> which yields: about a year ago. As time passes, the timestamps will automatically update.

PostgreSQL IF statement

From the docs

IF boolean-expression THEN
    statements
ELSE
    statements
END IF;

So in your above example the code should look as follows:

IF select count(*) from orders > 0
THEN
  DELETE from orders
ELSE 
  INSERT INTO orders values (1,2,3);
END IF;

You were missing: END IF;

Call to undefined function oci_connect()

I installed Wamp & expected everything to work out of the box. Not so. I have 2 Oracle clients on my x64 Windows machine (instant and full). If anyone else has a similar setup, the trick is to make sure the instant client is (a) in your Path environment variable and (b) precedes the full client in the Path variable. There's a really brief section on Windows here but it gave the answer.

Assigning strings to arrays of characters

Initialization and assignment are two distinct operations that happen to use the same operator ("=") here.

Vue - Deep watching an array of objects and calculating the change?

The component solution and deep-clone solution have their advantages, but also have issues:

  1. Sometimes you want to track changes in abstract data - it doesn't always make sense to build components around that data.

  2. Deep-cloning your entire data structure every time you make a change can be very expensive.

I think there's a better way. If you want to watch all items in a list and know which item in the list changed, you can set up custom watchers on every item separately, like so:

var vm = new Vue({
  data: {
    list: [
      {name: 'obj1 to watch'},
      {name: 'obj2 to watch'},
    ],
  },
  methods: {
    handleChange (newVal) {
      // Handle changes here!
      console.log(newVal);
    },
  },
  created () {
    this.list.forEach((val) => {
      this.$watch(() => val, this.handleChange, {deep: true});
    });
  },
});

With this structure, handleChange() will receive the specific list item that changed - from there you can do any handling you like.

I have also documented a more complex scenario here, in case you are adding/removing items to your list (rather than only manipulating the items already there).

How to kill a nodejs process in Linux?

Run ps aux | grep nodejs, find the PID of the process you're looking for, then run kill starting with SIGTERM (kill -15 25239). If that doesn't work then use SIGKILL instead, replacing -15 with -9.

What replaces cellpadding, cellspacing, valign, and align in HTML5 tables?

On particular table

_x000D_
_x000D_
<table style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 10px;" >_x000D_
    <tr>_x000D_
      <td>Hi</td>_x000D_
      <td>Hello</td>_x000D_
    <tr/>_x000D_
    <tr>_x000D_
      <td>Hola</td>_x000D_
      <td>Oi!</td>_x000D_
    <tr/>_x000D_
</table>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Checking for a null object in C++

  • What is the most typical/common way of doing this with an object C++ (that doesn't involve overloading the == operator)?
  • Is this even the right approach? ie. should I not write functions that take an object as an argument, but rather, write member functions? (But even if so, please answer the original question.)

No, references cannot be null (unless Undefined Behavior has already happened, in which case all bets are already off). Whether you should write a method or non-method depends on other factors.

  • Between a function that takes a reference to an object, or a function that takes a C-style pointer to an object, are there reasons to choose one over the other?

If you need to represent "no object", then pass a pointer to the function, and let that pointer be NULL:

int silly_sum(int const* pa=0, int const* pb=0, int const* pc=0) {
  /* Take up to three ints and return the sum of any supplied values.

  Pass null pointers for "not supplied".

  This is NOT an example of good code.
  */
  if (!pa && (pb || pc)) return silly_sum(pb, pc);
  if (!pb && pc) return silly_sum(pa, pc);
  if (pc) return silly_sum(pa, pb) + *pc;
  if (pa && pb) return *pa + *pb;
  if (pa) return *pa;
  if (pb) return *pb;
  return 0;
}

int main() {
  int a = 1, b = 2, c = 3;
  cout << silly_sum(&a, &b, &c) << '\n';
  cout << silly_sum(&a, &b) << '\n';
  cout << silly_sum(&a) << '\n';
  cout << silly_sum(0, &b, &c) << '\n';
  cout << silly_sum(&a, 0, &c) << '\n';
  cout << silly_sum(0, 0, &c) << '\n';
  return 0;
}

If "no object" never needs to be represented, then references work fine. In fact, operator overloads are much simpler because they take overloads.

You can use something like boost::optional.

Creating csv file with php

Just in case if someone is wondering to save the CSV file to a specific path for email attachments. Then it can be done as follows

I know I have added a lot of comments just for newbies :)

I have added an example so that you can summarize well.

$activeUsers = /** Query to get the active users */

/** Following is the Variable to store the Users data as 
    CSV string with newline character delimiter, 

    its good idea of check the delimiter based on operating system */

$userCSVData = "Name,Email,CreatedAt\n";

/** Looping the users and appending to my earlier csv data variable */
foreach ( $activeUsers as $user ) {
    $userCSVData .= $user->name. "," . $user->email. "," . $user->created_at."\n";
}
/** Here you can use with H:i:s too. But I really dont care of my old file  */
$todayDate  = date('Y-m-d');
/** Create Filname and Path to Store */
$fileName   = 'Active Users '.$todayDate.'.csv';
$filePath   = public_path('uploads/'.$fileName); //I am using laravel helper, in case if your not using laravel then just add absolute or relative path as per your requirements and path to store the file

/** Just in case if I run the script multiple time 
    I want to remove the old file and add new file.

    And before deleting the file from the location I am making sure it exists */
if(file_exists($filePath)){
    unlink($filePath);
}
$fp = fopen($filePath, 'w+');
fwrite($fp, $userCSVData); /** Once the data is written it will be saved in the path given */
fclose($fp);

/** Now you can send email with attachments from the $filePath */

NOTE: The following is a very bad idea to increase the memory_limit and time limit, but I have only added to make sure if anyone faces the problem of connection time out or any other. Make sure to find out some alternative before sticking to it.

You have to add the following at the start of the above script.

ini_set("memory_limit", "10056M");
set_time_limit(0);
ini_set('mysql.connect_timeout', '0');
ini_set('max_execution_time', '0');

throwing exceptions out of a destructor

We have to differentiate here instead of blindly following general advice for specific cases.

Note that the following ignores the issue of containers of objects and what to do in the face of multiple d'tors of objects inside containers. (And it can be ignored partially, as some objects are just no good fit to put into a container.)

The whole problem becomes easier to think about when we split classes in two types. A class dtor can have two different responsibilities:

  • (R) release semantics (aka free that memory)
  • (C) commit semantics (aka flush file to disk)

If we view the question this way, then I think that it can be argued that (R) semantics should never cause an exception from a dtor as there is a) nothing we can do about it and b) many free-resource operations do not even provide for error checking, e.g. void free(void* p);.

Objects with (C) semantics, like a file object that needs to successfully flush it's data or a ("scope guarded") database connection that does a commit in the dtor are of a different kind: We can do something about the error (on the application level) and we really should not continue as if nothing happened.

If we follow the RAII route and allow for objects that have (C) semantics in their d'tors I think we then also have to allow for the odd case where such d'tors can throw. It follows that you should not put such objects into containers and it also follows that the program can still terminate() if a commit-dtor throws while another exception is active.


With regard to error handling (Commit / Rollback semantics) and exceptions, there is a good talk by one Andrei Alexandrescu: Error Handling in C++ / Declarative Control Flow (held at NDC 2014)

In the details, he explains how the Folly library implements an UncaughtExceptionCounter for their ScopeGuard tooling.

(I should note that others also had similar ideas.)

While the talk doesn't focus on throwing from a d'tor, it shows a tool that can be used today to get rid of the problems with when to throw from a d'tor.

In the future, there may be a std feature for this, see N3614, and a discussion about it.

Upd '17: The C++17 std feature for this is std::uncaught_exceptions afaikt. I'll quickly quote the cppref article:

Notes

An example where int-returning uncaught_exceptions is used is ... ... first creates a guard object and records the number of uncaught exceptions in its constructor. The output is performed by the guard object's destructor unless foo() throws (in which case the number of uncaught exceptions in the destructor is greater than what the constructor observed)

How do I force Postgres to use a particular index?

Check your random_page_cost

This problem typically happens when the estimated cost of an index scan is too high and doesn't correctly reflect reality. You may need to lower the random_page_cost configuration parameter to fix this. From the Postgres documentation:

Reducing this value [...] will cause the system to prefer index scans; raising it will make index scans look relatively more expensive.

You can do a quick test whether this will actually make Postgres use the index:

EXPLAIN <query>;              # Uses sequential scan
SET random_page_cost = 1;
EXPLAIN <query>;              # May use index scan now

You can restore the default value with SET random_page_cost = DEFAULT; again.

Background

Index scans require non-sequential disk page fetches. Postgres uses random_page_cost to estimate the cost of such non-sequential fetches in relation to sequential fetches. The default value is 4.0, thus assuming an average cost factor of 4 compared to sequential fetches (taking caching effects into account).

The problem however is that this default value is unsuitable in the following important real-life scenarios:

1) Solid-state drives

As per the documentation:

Storage that has a low random read cost relative to sequential, e.g. solid-state drives, might be better modeled with a lower value for random_page_cost, e.g., 1.1.

This slide from a speak at PostgresConf 2018 also says that random_page_cost should be set to something between 1.0 and 2.0 for solid-state drives.

2) Cached data

If the required index data is already cached in RAM, an index scan will always be significantly faster than a sequential scan. The documentation says:

If your data is likely to be completely in cache, [...] decreasing random_page_cost can be appropriate.

The problem is that you of course can't easily know whether the relevant data is already cached. However, if a specific index is frequently used, and if the system has sufficient RAM, then data is likely to be cached eventually, and random_page_cost should be set to a lower value. You'll have to experiment with different values and see what works for you.

You might also want to use the pg_prewarm extension for explicit data caching.


Permissions for /var/www/html

You just need 775 for /var/www/html as long as you are logging in as myuser. The 7 octal in the middle (which is for "group" acl) ensures that the group has permission to read/write/execute. As long as you belong to the group that owns the files, "myuser" should be able to write to them. You may need to give group permissions to all the files in the docuemnt root, though:

chmod -R g+w /var/www/html

OnChange event using React JS for drop down

import React, { PureComponent, Fragment } from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';

class Select extends PureComponent {
  state = {
    options: [
      {
        name: 'Select…',
        value: null,
      },
      {
        name: 'A',
        value: 'a',
      },
      {
        name: 'B',
        value: 'b',
      },
      {
        name: 'C',
        value: 'c',
      },
    ],
    value: '?',
  };

  handleChange = (event) => {
    this.setState({ value: event.target.value });
  };

  render() {
    const { options, value } = this.state;

    return (
      <Fragment>
        <select onChange={this.handleChange} value={value}>
          {options.map(item => (
            <option key={item.value} value={item.value}>
              {item.name}
            </option>
          ))}
        </select>
        <h1>Favorite letter: {value}</h1>
      </Fragment>
    );
  }
}

ReactDOM.render(<Select />, window.document.body);

Construct pandas DataFrame from items in nested dictionary

So I used to use a for loop for iterating through the dictionary as well, but one thing I've found that works much faster is to convert to a panel and then to a dataframe. Say you have a dictionary d

import pandas as pd
d
{'RAY Index': {datetime.date(2014, 11, 3): {'PX_LAST': 1199.46,
'PX_OPEN': 1200.14},
datetime.date(2014, 11, 4): {'PX_LAST': 1195.323, 'PX_OPEN': 1197.69},
datetime.date(2014, 11, 5): {'PX_LAST': 1200.936, 'PX_OPEN': 1195.32},
datetime.date(2014, 11, 6): {'PX_LAST': 1206.061, 'PX_OPEN': 1200.62}},
'SPX Index': {datetime.date(2014, 11, 3): {'PX_LAST': 2017.81,
'PX_OPEN': 2018.21},
datetime.date(2014, 11, 4): {'PX_LAST': 2012.1, 'PX_OPEN': 2015.81},
datetime.date(2014, 11, 5): {'PX_LAST': 2023.57, 'PX_OPEN': 2015.29},
datetime.date(2014, 11, 6): {'PX_LAST': 2031.21, 'PX_OPEN': 2023.33}}}

The command

pd.Panel(d)
<class 'pandas.core.panel.Panel'>
Dimensions: 2 (items) x 2 (major_axis) x 4 (minor_axis)
Items axis: RAY Index to SPX Index
Major_axis axis: PX_LAST to PX_OPEN
Minor_axis axis: 2014-11-03 to 2014-11-06

where pd.Panel(d)[item] yields a dataframe

pd.Panel(d)['SPX Index']
2014-11-03  2014-11-04  2014-11-05 2014-11-06
PX_LAST 2017.81 2012.10 2023.57 2031.21
PX_OPEN 2018.21 2015.81 2015.29 2023.33

You can then hit the command to_frame() to turn it into a dataframe. I use reset_index as well to turn the major and minor axis into columns rather than have them as indices.

pd.Panel(d).to_frame().reset_index()
major   minor      RAY Index    SPX Index
PX_LAST 2014-11-03  1199.460    2017.81
PX_LAST 2014-11-04  1195.323    2012.10
PX_LAST 2014-11-05  1200.936    2023.57
PX_LAST 2014-11-06  1206.061    2031.21
PX_OPEN 2014-11-03  1200.140    2018.21
PX_OPEN 2014-11-04  1197.690    2015.81
PX_OPEN 2014-11-05  1195.320    2015.29
PX_OPEN 2014-11-06  1200.620    2023.33

Finally, if you don't like the way the frame looks you can use the transpose function of panel to change the appearance before calling to_frame() see documentation here http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/dev/generated/pandas.Panel.transpose.html

Just as an example

pd.Panel(d).transpose(2,0,1).to_frame().reset_index()
major        minor  2014-11-03  2014-11-04  2014-11-05  2014-11-06
RAY Index   PX_LAST 1199.46    1195.323     1200.936    1206.061
RAY Index   PX_OPEN 1200.14    1197.690     1195.320    1200.620
SPX Index   PX_LAST 2017.81    2012.100     2023.570    2031.210
SPX Index   PX_OPEN 2018.21    2015.810     2015.290    2023.330

Hope this helps.

Pass mouse events through absolutely-positioned element

If all you need is mousedown, you may be able to make do with the document.elementFromPoint method, by:

  1. removing the top layer on mousedown,
  2. passing the x and y coordinates from the event to the document.elementFromPoint method to get the element underneath, and then
  3. restoring the top layer.

Maven dependencies are failing with a 501 error

For me (corporate coder) also adding a mirror repository in the settings.xml fixed the issue. I am also using Maven inside a docker container.

<mirrors>
    <mirror>
        <id>https-mirror</id>
        <name>Https Mirror Repository</name>
        <url>https://repo1.maven.org/maven2</url>
        <mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>
    </mirror>
</mirrors>

Why do some functions have underscores "__" before and after the function name?

Names surrounded by double underscores are "special" to Python. They're listed in the Python Language Reference, section 3, "Data model".

PHP json_encode encoding numbers as strings

For sake of completeness (as I can't add comments yet), let me also add this detail as another answer:

(Edit: To be read after realizing that the source data (i.e. in the OP's case, database result set) could be the problem (by returning numeric columns as strings), and json_encode() in fact was not the source of the problem)

Manual pages of both "mysql_fetch_array":

Returns an array of strings that corresponds to the fetched row,

... and "mysql_ fetch_ row":

Returns an numerical array of strings that corresponds to the fetched row

clearly states that; the entries in the returned array will be strings.

(I was using the DB class in phpBB2 (yes I know, it's obsolete!), and "sql_fetchrow()" method of that class uses "mysql_fetch_array()")

Not realizing that, I also ended up finding this question, and understanding the problem! :)

As Pascal Martin stated above in his follow-up comments, I believe a solution that takes care of the "incorrect type" problem at the source (i.e. by using the "mysql_field_type()" function and doing the casting right after fetch, (or other fetch methods like "object"?)) would be the better in general.

What is IllegalStateException?

public class UserNotFoundException extends Exception {
    public UserNotFoundException(String message) {
        super(message)

How to read pickle file?

The following is an example of how you might write and read a pickle file. Note that if you keep appending pickle data to the file, you will need to continue reading from the file until you find what you want or an exception is generated by reaching the end of the file. That is what the last function does.

import os
import pickle


PICKLE_FILE = 'pickle.dat'


def main():
    # append data to the pickle file
    add_to_pickle(PICKLE_FILE, 123)
    add_to_pickle(PICKLE_FILE, 'Hello')
    add_to_pickle(PICKLE_FILE, None)
    add_to_pickle(PICKLE_FILE, b'World')
    add_to_pickle(PICKLE_FILE, 456.789)
    # load & show all stored objects
    for item in read_from_pickle(PICKLE_FILE):
        print(repr(item))
    os.remove(PICKLE_FILE)


def add_to_pickle(path, item):
    with open(path, 'ab') as file:
        pickle.dump(item, file, pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL)


def read_from_pickle(path):
    with open(path, 'rb') as file:
        try:
            while True:
                yield pickle.load(file)
        except EOFError:
            pass


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Wait one second in running program

Wait function using timers, no UI locks.

public void wait(int milliseconds)
{
    var timer1 = new System.Windows.Forms.Timer();
    if (milliseconds == 0 || milliseconds < 0) return;

    // Console.WriteLine("start wait timer");
    timer1.Interval = milliseconds;
    timer1.Enabled  = true;
    timer1.Start();

    timer1.Tick += (s, e) =>
    {
        timer1.Enabled = false;
        timer1.Stop();
        // Console.WriteLine("stop wait timer");
    };

    while (timer1.Enabled)
    {
        Application.DoEvents();
    }
}

Usage: just placing this inside your code that needs to wait:

wait(1000); //wait one second

What is the best way to remove accents (normalize) in a Python unicode string?

I just found this answer on the Web:

import unicodedata

def remove_accents(input_str):
    nfkd_form = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', input_str)
    only_ascii = nfkd_form.encode('ASCII', 'ignore')
    return only_ascii

It works fine (for French, for example), but I think the second step (removing the accents) could be handled better than dropping the non-ASCII characters, because this will fail for some languages (Greek, for example). The best solution would probably be to explicitly remove the unicode characters that are tagged as being diacritics.

Edit: this does the trick:

import unicodedata

def remove_accents(input_str):
    nfkd_form = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', input_str)
    return u"".join([c for c in nfkd_form if not unicodedata.combining(c)])

unicodedata.combining(c) will return true if the character c can be combined with the preceding character, that is mainly if it's a diacritic.

Edit 2: remove_accents expects a unicode string, not a byte string. If you have a byte string, then you must decode it into a unicode string like this:

encoding = "utf-8" # or iso-8859-15, or cp1252, or whatever encoding you use
byte_string = b"café"  # or simply "café" before python 3.
unicode_string = byte_string.decode(encoding)

Best way to display data via JSON using jQuery

Perfect! Thank you Jay, below is my HTML:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Facebook like ajax post - jQuery - ryancoughlin.com</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/screen.css" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/print.css" type="text/css" media="print" />
<!--[if IE]><link rel="stylesheet" href="../css/ie.css" type="text/css" media="screen, projection"><![endif]-->
<link href="../css/highlight.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<script src="js/jquery.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
/* <![CDATA[ */
$(document).ready(function(){
    $.getJSON("readJSON.php",function(data){
        $.each(data.post, function(i,post){
            content += '<p>' + post.post_author + '</p>';
            content += '<p>' + post.post_content + '</p>';
            content += '<p' + post.date + '</p>';
            content += '<br/>';
            $(content).appendTo("#posts");
        });
    });   
});
/* ]]> */
</script>
</head>
<body>
        <div class="container">
                <div class="span-24">
                       <h2>Check out the following posts:</h2>
                        <div id="posts">
                        </di>
                </div>
        </div>
</body>
</html>

And my JSON outputs:

{ posts: [{"id":"1","date_added":"0001-02-22 00:00:00","post_content":"This is a post","author":"Ryan Coughlin"}]}

I get this error, when I run my code:

object is undefined
http://localhost:8888/rks/post/js/jquery.js
Line 19

grep from tar.gz without extracting [faster one]

If this is really slow, I suspect you're dealing with a large archive file. It's going to uncompress it once to extract the file list, and then uncompress it N times--where N is the number of files in the archive--for the grep. In addition to all the uncompressing, it's going to have to scan a fair bit into the archive each time to extract each file. One of tar's biggest drawbacks is that there is no table of contents at the beginning. There's no efficient way to get information about all the files in the archive and only read that portion of the file. It essentially has to read all of the file up to the thing you're extracting every time; it can't just jump to a filename's location right away.

The easiest thing you can do to speed this up would be to uncompress the file first (gunzip file.tar.gz) and then work on the .tar file. That might help enough by itself. It's still going to loop through the entire archive N times, though.

If you really want this to be efficient, your only option is to completely extract everything in the archive before processing it. Since your problem is speed, I suspect this is a giant file that you don't want to extract first, but if you can, this will speed things up a lot:

tar zxf file.tar.gz
for f in hopefullySomeSubdir/*; do
  grep -l "string" $f
done

Note that grep -l prints the name of any matching file, quits after the first match, and is silent if there's no match. That alone will speed up the grepping portion of your command, so even if you don't have the space to extract the entire archive, grep -l will help. If the files are huge, it will help a lot.

How to recover a dropped stash in Git?

I just constructed a command that helped me find my lost stash commit:

for ref in `find .git/objects | sed -e 's#.git/objects/##' | grep / | tr -d /`; do if [ `git cat-file -t $ref` = "commit" ]; then git show --summary $ref; fi; done | less

This lists all the objects in the .git/objects tree, locates the ones that are of type commit, then shows a summary of each one. From this point it was just a matter of looking through the commits to find an appropriate "WIP on work: 6a9bb2" ("work" is my branch, 619bb2 is a recent commit).

I note that if I use "git stash apply" instead of "git stash pop" I wouldn't have this problem, and if I use "git stash save message" then the commit might have been easier to find.

Update: With Nathan's idea, this becomes shorter:

for ref in `git fsck --unreachable | grep commit | cut -d' ' -f3`; do git show --summary $ref; done | less

How to move all files including hidden files into parent directory via *

Alternative simpler solution is to use rsync utility:

sudo rsync -vuar --delete-after --dry-run path/subfolder/ path/

Note: Above command will show what is going to be changed. To execute the actual changes, remove --dry-run.

The advantage is that the original folder (subfolder) would be removed as well as part of the command, and when using mv examples here you still need to clean up your folders, not to mention additional headache to cover hidden and non-hidden files in one single pattern.

In addition rsync provides support of copying/moving files between remotes and it would make sure that files are copied exactly as they originally were (-a).

The used -u parameter would skip existing newer files, -r recurse into directories and -v would increase verbosity.

Fix columns in horizontal scrolling

SOLVED

http://jsfiddle.net/DJqPf/7/

.table-wrapper { 
    overflow-x:scroll;
    overflow-y:visible;
    width:250px;
    margin-left: 120px;
}
td, th {
    padding: 5px 20px;
    width: 100px;
}
th:first-child {
    position: fixed;
    left: 5px
}

UPDATE

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$(function () {  _x000D_
  $('.table-wrapper tr').each(function () {_x000D_
    var tr = $(this),_x000D_
        h = 0;_x000D_
    tr.children().each(function () {_x000D_
      var td = $(this),_x000D_
          tdh = td.height();_x000D_
      if (tdh > h) h = tdh;_x000D_
    });_x000D_
    tr.css({height: h + 'px'});_x000D_
  });_x000D_
});
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body {_x000D_
    position: relative;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.table-wrapper { _x000D_
    overflow-x:scroll;_x000D_
    overflow-y:visible;_x000D_
    width:200px;_x000D_
    margin-left: 120px;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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td, th {_x000D_
    padding: 5px 20px;_x000D_
    width: 100px;_x000D_
}_x000D_
tbody tr {_x000D_
  _x000D_
}_x000D_
th:first-child {_x000D_
    position: absolute;_x000D_
    left: 5px_x000D_
}
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<!DOCTYPE html>_x000D_
<html>_x000D_
<head>_x000D_
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.2.3.min.js"></script>_x000D_
  <meta charset="utf-8">_x000D_
  <title>JS Bin</title>_x000D_
</head>_x000D_
<body>_x000D_
<div>_x000D_
    <h1>SOME RANDOM TEXT</h1>_x000D_
</div>_x000D_
<div class="table-wrapper">_x000D_
    <table id="consumption-data" class="data">_x000D_
        <thead class="header">_x000D_
            <tr>_x000D_
                <th>Month</th>_x000D_
                <th>Item 1</th>_x000D_
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                <th>Item 3</th>_x000D_
                <th>Item 4</th>_x000D_
            </tr>_x000D_
        </thead>_x000D_
        <tbody class="results">_x000D_
            <tr>_x000D_
                <th>Jan is an awesome month</th>_x000D_
                <td>3163</td>_x000D_
                <td>3163</td>_x000D_
                <td>3163</td>_x000D_
                <td>3163</td>_x000D_
            </tr>_x000D_
            <tr>_x000D_
                <th>Feb</th>_x000D_
                <td>3163</td>_x000D_
                <td>3163</td>_x000D_
                <td>3163</td>_x000D_
                <td>3163</td>_x000D_
            </tr>_x000D_
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                <th>Mar</th>_x000D_
                <td>3163</td>_x000D_
                <td>3163</td>_x000D_
                <td>3163</td>_x000D_
                <td>3163</td>_x000D_
            </tr>_x000D_
            <tr>_x000D_
                <th>Apr</th>_x000D_
                <td>3163</td>_x000D_
                <td>3163</td>_x000D_
                <td>3163</td>_x000D_
                <td>3163</td>  _x000D_
            </tr>_x000D_
            <tr>    _x000D_
                <th>May</th>_x000D_
                <td>3163</td>_x000D_
                <td>3163</td>_x000D_
                <td>3163</td>_x000D_
                <td>3163</td>_x000D_
            </tr>_x000D_
            <tr>_x000D_
                <th>Jun</th>_x000D_
                <td>3163</td>_x000D_
                <td>3163</td>_x000D_
                <td>3163</td>_x000D_
                <td>3163</td>_x000D_
            </tr>_x000D_
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            <tr>_x000D_
                <th>...</th>_x000D_
                <td>...</td>_x000D_
                <td>...</td>_x000D_
                <td>...</td>_x000D_
                <td>...</td>_x000D_
            </tr>_x000D_
        </tbody>_x000D_
    </table>_x000D_
</div>_x000D_
_x000D_
<div>_x000D_
</div>_x000D_
</body>_x000D_
</html>
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Why rgb and not cmy?

The difference lies in whether mixing colours results in LIGHTER or DARKER colours. When mixing light, the result is a lighter colour, so mixing red light and blue light becomes a lighter pink. When mixing paint (or ink), red and blue become a darker purple. Mixing paint results in DARKER colours, whereas mixing light results in LIGHTER colours. Therefore for paint the primary colours are Red Yellow Blue (or Cyan Magenta Yellow) as you stated. Yet for light the primary colours are Red Green Blue. It is (virtually) impossible to mix Red Green Blue paint into Yellow paint, or mixing Red Yellow Blue light into Green light.

Pretty print in MongoDB shell as default

Oh so i guess .pretty() is equal to:

db.collection.find().forEach(printjson);

call a function in success of datatable ajax call

Try Following Code.

       var oTable = $('#app-config').dataTable(
        {
            "bAutoWidth": false,                                                
            "bDestroy":true,
            "bProcessing" : true,
            "bServerSide" : true,
            "sPaginationType" : "full_numbers",
            "sAjaxSource" : url,                    
            "fnServerData" : function(sSource, aoData, fnCallback) {
                alert("sSource"+ sSource);
                alert("aoData"+ aoData);
                $.ajax({
                    "dataType" : 'json',
                    "type" : "GET",
                    "url" : sSource,
                    "data" : aoData,
                    "success" : fnCallback
                }).success( function(){  alert("This Function will execute after data table loaded");   });
            }

how to draw smooth curve through N points using javascript HTML5 canvas?

As Daniel Howard points out, Rob Spencer describes what you want at http://scaledinnovation.com/analytics/splines/aboutSplines.html.

Here's an interactive demo: http://jsbin.com/ApitIxo/2/

Here it is as a snippet in case jsbin is down.

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<!DOCTYPE html>_x000D_
    <html>_x000D_
      <head>_x000D_
        <meta charset=utf-8 />_x000D_
        <title>Demo smooth connection</title>_x000D_
      </head>_x000D_
      <body>_x000D_
        <div id="display">_x000D_
          Click to build a smooth path. _x000D_
          (See Rob Spencer's <a href="http://scaledinnovation.com/analytics/splines/aboutSplines.html">article</a>)_x000D_
          <br><label><input type="checkbox" id="showPoints" checked> Show points</label>_x000D_
          <br><label><input type="checkbox" id="showControlLines" checked> Show control lines</label>_x000D_
          <br>_x000D_
          <label>_x000D_
            <input type="range" id="tension" min="-1" max="2" step=".1" value=".5" > Tension <span id="tensionvalue">(0.5)</span>_x000D_
          </label>_x000D_
        <div id="mouse"></div>_x000D_
        </div>_x000D_
        <canvas id="canvas"></canvas>_x000D_
        <style>_x000D_
          html { position: relative; height: 100%; width: 100%; }_x000D_
          body { position: absolute; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0; } _x000D_
          canvas { outline: 1px solid red; }_x000D_
          #display { position: fixed; margin: 8px; background: white; z-index: 1; }_x000D_
        </style>_x000D_
        <script>_x000D_
          function update() {_x000D_
            $("tensionvalue").innerHTML="("+$("tension").value+")";_x000D_
            drawSplines();_x000D_
          }_x000D_
          $("showPoints").onchange = $("showControlLines").onchange = $("tension").onchange = update;_x000D_
      _x000D_
          // utility function_x000D_
          function $(id){ return document.getElementById(id); }_x000D_
          var canvas=$("canvas"), ctx=canvas.getContext("2d");_x000D_
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          function setCanvasSize() {_x000D_
            canvas.width = parseInt(window.getComputedStyle(document.body).width);_x000D_
            canvas.height = parseInt(window.getComputedStyle(document.body).height);_x000D_
          }_x000D_
          window.onload = window.onresize = setCanvasSize();_x000D_
      _x000D_
          function mousePositionOnCanvas(e) {_x000D_
            var el=e.target, c=el;_x000D_
            var scaleX = c.width/c.offsetWidth || 1;_x000D_
            var scaleY = c.height/c.offsetHeight || 1;_x000D_
          _x000D_
            if (!isNaN(e.offsetX)) _x000D_
              return { x:e.offsetX*scaleX, y:e.offsetY*scaleY };_x000D_
          _x000D_
            var x=e.pageX, y=e.pageY;_x000D_
            do {_x000D_
              x -= el.offsetLeft;_x000D_
              y -= el.offsetTop;_x000D_
              el = el.offsetParent;_x000D_
            } while (el);_x000D_
            return { x: x*scaleX, y: y*scaleY };_x000D_
          }_x000D_
      _x000D_
          canvas.onclick = function(e){_x000D_
            var p = mousePositionOnCanvas(e);_x000D_
            addSplinePoint(p.x, p.y);_x000D_
          };_x000D_
      _x000D_
          function drawPoint(x,y,color){_x000D_
            ctx.save();_x000D_
            ctx.fillStyle=color;_x000D_
            ctx.beginPath();_x000D_
            ctx.arc(x,y,3,0,2*Math.PI);_x000D_
            ctx.fill()_x000D_
            ctx.restore();_x000D_
          }_x000D_
          canvas.onmousemove = function(e) {_x000D_
            var p = mousePositionOnCanvas(e);_x000D_
            $("mouse").innerHTML = p.x+","+p.y;_x000D_
          };_x000D_
      _x000D_
          var pts=[]; // a list of x and ys_x000D_
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          // given an array of x,y's, return distance between any two,_x000D_
          // note that i and j are indexes to the points, not directly into the array._x000D_
          function dista(arr, i, j) {_x000D_
            return Math.sqrt(Math.pow(arr[2*i]-arr[2*j], 2) + Math.pow(arr[2*i+1]-arr[2*j+1], 2));_x000D_
          }_x000D_
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          // return vector from i to j where i and j are indexes pointing into an array of points._x000D_
          function va(arr, i, j){_x000D_
            return [arr[2*j]-arr[2*i], arr[2*j+1]-arr[2*i+1]]_x000D_
          }_x000D_
      _x000D_
          function ctlpts(x1,y1,x2,y2,x3,y3) {_x000D_
            var t = $("tension").value;_x000D_
            var v = va(arguments, 0, 2);_x000D_
            var d01 = dista(arguments, 0, 1);_x000D_
            var d12 = dista(arguments, 1, 2);_x000D_
            var d012 = d01 + d12;_x000D_
            return [x2 - v[0] * t * d01 / d012, y2 - v[1] * t * d01 / d012,_x000D_
                    x2 + v[0] * t * d12 / d012, y2 + v[1] * t * d12 / d012 ];_x000D_
          }_x000D_
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          function addSplinePoint(x, y){_x000D_
            pts.push(x); pts.push(y);_x000D_
            drawSplines();_x000D_
          }_x000D_
          function drawSplines() {_x000D_
            clear();_x000D_
            cps = []; // There will be two control points for each "middle" point, 1 ... len-2e_x000D_
            for (var i = 0; i < pts.length - 2; i += 1) {_x000D_
              cps = cps.concat(ctlpts(pts[2*i], pts[2*i+1], _x000D_
                                      pts[2*i+2], pts[2*i+3], _x000D_
                                      pts[2*i+4], pts[2*i+5]));_x000D_
            }_x000D_
            if ($("showControlLines").checked) drawControlPoints(cps);_x000D_
            if ($("showPoints").checked) drawPoints(pts);_x000D_
    _x000D_
            drawCurvedPath(cps, pts);_x000D_
 _x000D_
          }_x000D_
          function drawControlPoints(cps) {_x000D_
            for (var i = 0; i < cps.length; i += 4) {_x000D_
              showPt(cps[i], cps[i+1], "pink");_x000D_
              showPt(cps[i+2], cps[i+3], "pink");_x000D_
              drawLine(cps[i], cps[i+1], cps[i+2], cps[i+3], "pink");_x000D_
            } _x000D_
          }_x000D_
      _x000D_
          function drawPoints(pts) {_x000D_
            for (var i = 0; i < pts.length; i += 2) {_x000D_
              showPt(pts[i], pts[i+1], "black");_x000D_
            } _x000D_
          }_x000D_
      _x000D_
          function drawCurvedPath(cps, pts){_x000D_
            var len = pts.length / 2; // number of points_x000D_
            if (len < 2) return;_x000D_
            if (len == 2) {_x000D_
              ctx.beginPath();_x000D_
              ctx.moveTo(pts[0], pts[1]);_x000D_
              ctx.lineTo(pts[2], pts[3]);_x000D_
              ctx.stroke();_x000D_
            }_x000D_
            else {_x000D_
              ctx.beginPath();_x000D_
              ctx.moveTo(pts[0], pts[1]);_x000D_
              // from point 0 to point 1 is a quadratic_x000D_
              ctx.quadraticCurveTo(cps[0], cps[1], pts[2], pts[3]);_x000D_
              // for all middle points, connect with bezier_x000D_
              for (var i = 2; i < len-1; i += 1) {_x000D_
                // console.log("to", pts[2*i], pts[2*i+1]);_x000D_
                ctx.bezierCurveTo(_x000D_
                  cps[(2*(i-1)-1)*2], cps[(2*(i-1)-1)*2+1],_x000D_
                  cps[(2*(i-1))*2], cps[(2*(i-1))*2+1],_x000D_
                  pts[i*2], pts[i*2+1]);_x000D_
              }_x000D_
              ctx.quadraticCurveTo(_x000D_
                cps[(2*(i-1)-1)*2], cps[(2*(i-1)-1)*2+1],_x000D_
                pts[i*2], pts[i*2+1]);_x000D_
              ctx.stroke();_x000D_
            }_x000D_
          }_x000D_
          function clear() {_x000D_
            ctx.save();_x000D_
            // use alpha to fade out_x000D_
            ctx.fillStyle = "rgba(255,255,255,.7)"; // clear screen_x000D_
            ctx.fillRect(0,0,canvas.width,canvas.height);_x000D_
            ctx.restore();_x000D_
          }_x000D_
      _x000D_
          function showPt(x,y,fillStyle) {_x000D_
            ctx.save();_x000D_
            ctx.beginPath();_x000D_
            if (fillStyle) {_x000D_
              ctx.fillStyle = fillStyle;_x000D_
            }_x000D_
            ctx.arc(x, y, 5, 0, 2*Math.PI);_x000D_
            ctx.fill();_x000D_
            ctx.restore();_x000D_
          }_x000D_
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          function drawLine(x1, y1, x2, y2, strokeStyle){_x000D_
            ctx.beginPath();_x000D_
            ctx.moveTo(x1, y1);_x000D_
            ctx.lineTo(x2, y2);_x000D_
            if (strokeStyle) {_x000D_
              ctx.save();_x000D_
              ctx.strokeStyle = strokeStyle;_x000D_
              ctx.stroke();_x000D_
              ctx.restore();_x000D_
            }_x000D_
            else {_x000D_
              ctx.save();_x000D_
              ctx.strokeStyle = "pink";_x000D_
              ctx.stroke();_x000D_
              ctx.restore();_x000D_
            }_x000D_
          }_x000D_
_x000D_
        </script>_x000D_
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_x000D_
      </body>_x000D_
    </html>
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How can I switch to another branch in git?

Check : git branch -a

If you are getting only one branch. Then do below steps.

  • Step 1 : git config --list
  • Step 2 : git config --unset remote.origin.fetch
  • Step 3 : git config --add remote.origin.fetch +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

variable is not declared it may be inaccessible due to its protection level

I had a similar issue to this. I solved it by making all the projects within my solution target the same .NET Framework 4 Client Profile and then rebuilding the entire solution.

How to obtain the location of cacerts of the default java installation?

In High Sierra, the cacerts is located at : /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_25.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/security/cacerts

Build Eclipse Java Project from Command Line

The normal apporoach works the other way around: You create your build based upon maven or ant and then use integrations for your IDE of choice so that you are independent from it, which is esp. important when you try to bring new team members up to speed or use a contious integration server for automated builds. I recommend to use maven and let it do the heavy lifting for you. Create a pom file and generate the eclipse project via mvn eclipse:eclipse. HTH

How to get exact browser name and version?

I would like to suggest you this amazing class. This worked very well for me.

http://chrisschuld.com/projects/browser-php-detecting-a-users-browser-from-php.html/

I am publishing the code I used with the copyright notice of original author. You can get latest code from the link above.

<?php
/**
 * File: Browser.php
 * Author: Chris Schuld (http://chrisschuld.com/)
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Chris Schuld  ([email protected])
 *
 * Typical Usage:
 *
 *   $browser = new Browser();
 *   if( $browser->getBrowser() == Browser::BROWSER_FIREFOX && $browser->getVersion() >= 2 ) {
 *      echo 'You have FireFox version 2 or greater';
 *   }
 *
*/

class Browser {
    private $_agent = '';
    private $_browser_name = '';
    private $_version = '';
    private $_platform = '';
    private $_os = '';
    private $_is_aol = false;
    private $_is_mobile = false;
    private $_is_robot = false;
    private $_aol_version = '';

    const BROWSER_UNKNOWN = 'unknown';
    const VERSION_UNKNOWN = 'unknown';

    const BROWSER_OPERA = 'Opera'; 
    const BROWSER_OPERA_MINI = 'Opera Mini';
    const BROWSER_WEBTV = 'WebTV';
    const BROWSER_IE = 'Internet Explorer'; 
    const BROWSER_POCKET_IE = 'Pocket Internet Explorer';
    const BROWSER_KONQUEROR = 'Konqueror';
    const BROWSER_ICAB = 'iCab';
    const BROWSER_OMNIWEB = 'OmniWeb';
    const BROWSER_FIREBIRD = 'Firebird';
    const BROWSER_FIREFOX = 'Firefox';
    const BROWSER_ICEWEASEL = 'Iceweasel';
    const BROWSER_SHIRETOKO = 'Shiretoko';
    const BROWSER_MOZILLA = 'Mozilla';
    const BROWSER_AMAYA = 'Amaya';
    const BROWSER_LYNX = 'Lynx';
    const BROWSER_SAFARI = 'Safari';
    const BROWSER_IPHONE = 'iPhone';
    const BROWSER_IPOD = 'iPod';
    const BROWSER_IPAD = 'iPad';
    const BROWSER_CHROME = 'Chrome';
    const BROWSER_ANDROID = 'Android';
    const BROWSER_GOOGLEBOT = 'GoogleBot';
    const BROWSER_SLURP = 'Yahoo! Slurp';
    const BROWSER_W3CVALIDATOR = 'W3C Validator';
    const BROWSER_BLACKBERRY = 'BlackBerry';
    const BROWSER_ICECAT = 'IceCat';
    const BROWSER_NOKIA_S60 = 'Nokia S60 OSS Browser';
    const BROWSER_NOKIA = 'Nokia Browser';
    const BROWSER_MSN = 'MSN Browser';
    const BROWSER_MSNBOT = 'MSN Bot';

    const BROWSER_NETSCAPE_NAVIGATOR = 'Netscape Navigator';
    const BROWSER_GALEON = 'Galeon';
    const BROWSER_NETPOSITIVE = 'NetPositive';
    const BROWSER_PHOENIX = 'Phoenix';

    const PLATFORM_UNKNOWN = 'unknown';
    const PLATFORM_WINDOWS = 'Windows';
    const PLATFORM_WINDOWS_CE = 'Windows CE';
    const PLATFORM_APPLE = 'Apple';
    const PLATFORM_LINUX = 'Linux';
    const PLATFORM_OS2 = 'OS/2';
    const PLATFORM_BEOS = 'BeOS';
    const PLATFORM_IPHONE = 'iPhone';
    const PLATFORM_IPOD = 'iPod';
    const PLATFORM_IPAD = 'iPad';
    const PLATFORM_BLACKBERRY = 'BlackBerry';
    const PLATFORM_NOKIA = 'Nokia';
    const PLATFORM_FREEBSD = 'FreeBSD';
    const PLATFORM_OPENBSD = 'OpenBSD';
    const PLATFORM_NETBSD = 'NetBSD';
    const PLATFORM_SUNOS = 'SunOS';
    const PLATFORM_OPENSOLARIS = 'OpenSolaris';
    const PLATFORM_ANDROID = 'Android';

    const OPERATING_SYSTEM_UNKNOWN = 'unknown';

    public function Browser($useragent="") {
        $this->reset();
        if( $useragent != "" ) {
            $this->setUserAgent($useragent);
        }
        else {
            $this->determine();
        }
    }

    /**
    * Reset all properties
    */
    public function reset() {
        $this->_agent = isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) ? $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] : "";
        $this->_browser_name = self::BROWSER_UNKNOWN;
        $this->_version = self::VERSION_UNKNOWN;
        $this->_platform = self::PLATFORM_UNKNOWN;
        $this->_os = self::OPERATING_SYSTEM_UNKNOWN;
        $this->_is_aol = false;
        $this->_is_mobile = false;
        $this->_is_robot = false;
        $this->_aol_version = self::VERSION_UNKNOWN;
    }

    /**
    * Check to see if the specific browser is valid
    * @param string $browserName
    * @return boolean
    */
    function isBrowser($browserName) { return( 0 == strcasecmp($this->_browser_name, trim($browserName))); }

    /**
    * The name of the browser.  All return types are from the class contants
    * @return string Name of the browser
    */
    public function getBrowser() { return $this->_browser_name; }
    /**
    * Set the name of the browser
    * @param $browser The name of the Browser
    */
    public function setBrowser($browser) { return $this->_browser_name = $browser; }
    /**
    * The name of the platform.  All return types are from the class contants
    * @return string Name of the browser
    */
    public function getPlatform() { return $this->_platform; }
    /**
    * Set the name of the platform
    * @param $platform The name of the Platform
    */
    public function setPlatform($platform) { return $this->_platform = $platform; }
    /**
    * The version of the browser.
    * @return string Version of the browser (will only contain alpha-numeric characters and a period)
    */
    public function getVersion() { return $this->_version; }
    /**
    * Set the version of the browser
    * @param $version The version of the Browser
    */
    public function setVersion($version) { $this->_version = preg_replace('/[^0-9,.,a-z,A-Z-]/','',$version); }
    /**
    * The version of AOL.
    * @return string Version of AOL (will only contain alpha-numeric characters and a period)
    */
    public function getAolVersion() { return $this->_aol_version; }
    /**
    * Set the version of AOL
    * @param $version The version of AOL
    */
    public function setAolVersion($version) { $this->_aol_version = preg_replace('/[^0-9,.,a-z,A-Z]/','',$version); }
    /**
    * Is the browser from AOL?
    * @return boolean
    */
    public function isAol() { return $this->_is_aol; }
    /**
    * Is the browser from a mobile device?
    * @return boolean
    */
    public function isMobile() { return $this->_is_mobile; }
    /**
    * Is the browser from a robot (ex Slurp,GoogleBot)?
    * @return boolean
    */
    public function isRobot() { return $this->_is_robot; }
    /**
    * Set the browser to be from AOL
    * @param $isAol
    */
    public function setAol($isAol) { $this->_is_aol = $isAol; }
    /**
     * Set the Browser to be mobile
     * @param boolean
     */
    protected function setMobile($value=true) { $this->_is_mobile = $value; }
    /**
     * Set the Browser to be a robot
     * @param boolean
     */
    protected function setRobot($value=true) { $this->_is_robot = $value; }
    /**
    * Get the user agent value in use to determine the browser
    * @return string The user agent from the HTTP header
    */
    public function getUserAgent() { return $this->_agent; }
    /**
    * Set the user agent value (the construction will use the HTTP header value - this will overwrite it)
    * @param $agent_string The value for the User Agent
    */
    public function setUserAgent($agent_string) {
        $this->reset();
        $this->_agent = $agent_string;
        $this->determine();
    }
    /**
     * Used to determine if the browser is actually "chromeframe"
     * @return boolean
     */
    public function isChromeFrame() {
        return( strpos($this->_agent,"chromeframe") !== false );
    }
    /**
    * Returns a formatted string with a summary of the details of the browser.
    * @return string formatted string with a summary of the browser
    */
    public function __toString() {
        return "<strong>Browser Name:</strong>{$this->getBrowser()}<br/>\n" .
               "<strong>Browser Version:</strong>{$this->getVersion()}<br/>\n" .
               "<strong>Browser User Agent String:</strong>{$this->getUserAgent()}<br/>\n" .
               "<strong>Platform:</strong>{$this->getPlatform()}<br/>";
    }
    /**
     * Protected routine to calculate and determine what the browser is in use (including platform)
     */
    protected function determine() {
        $this->checkPlatform();
        $this->checkBrowsers();
        $this->checkForAol();
    }
    /**
     * Protected routine to determine the browser type
     * @return boolean
     */
     protected function checkBrowsers() {
        return (
            $this->checkBrowserWebTv() ||
            $this->checkBrowserInternetExplorer() ||
            $this->checkBrowserOpera() ||
            $this->checkBrowserGaleon() ||
            $this->checkBrowserNetscapeNavigator9Plus() ||
            $this->checkBrowserFirefox() ||
            $this->checkBrowserChrome() ||
            $this->checkBrowserOmniWeb() ||

            // common mobile
            $this->checkBrowserAndroid() ||
            $this->checkBrowseriPad() ||
            $this->checkBrowseriPod() ||
            $this->checkBrowseriPhone() ||
            $this->checkBrowserBlackBerry() ||
            $this->checkBrowserNokia() ||

            // common bots
            $this->checkBrowserGoogleBot() ||
            $this->checkBrowserMSNBot() ||
            $this->checkBrowserSlurp() ||

            // WebKit base check (post mobile and others)
            $this->checkBrowserSafari() ||

            // everyone else
            $this->checkBrowserNetPositive() ||
            $this->checkBrowserFirebird() ||
            $this->checkBrowserKonqueror() ||
            $this->checkBrowserIcab() ||
            $this->checkBrowserPhoenix() ||
            $this->checkBrowserAmaya() ||
            $this->checkBrowserLynx() ||
            $this->checkBrowserShiretoko() ||
            $this->checkBrowserIceCat() ||
            $this->checkBrowserW3CValidator() ||
            $this->checkBrowserMozilla() /* Mozilla is such an open standard that you must check it last */
        );
    }

    protected function checkBrowserBlackBerry() {
        if( stripos($this->_agent,'blackberry') !== false ) {
            $aresult = explode("/",stristr($this->_agent,"BlackBerry"));
            $aversion = explode(' ',$aresult[1]);
            $this->setVersion($aversion[0]);
            $this->_browser_name = self::BROWSER_BLACKBERRY;
            $this->setMobile(true);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    protected function checkForAol() {
        $this->setAol(false);
        $this->setAolVersion(self::VERSION_UNKNOWN);

        if( stripos($this->_agent,'aol') !== false ) {
            $aversion = explode(' ',stristr($this->_agent, 'AOL'));
            $this->setAol(true);
            $this->setAolVersion(preg_replace('/[^0-9\.a-z]/i', '', $aversion[1]));
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }


    protected function checkBrowserGoogleBot() {
        if( stripos($this->_agent,'googlebot') !== false ) {
            $aresult = explode('/',stristr($this->_agent,'googlebot'));
            $aversion = explode(' ',$aresult[1]);
            $this->setVersion(str_replace(';','',$aversion[0]));
            $this->_browser_name = self::BROWSER_GOOGLEBOT;
            $this->setRobot(true);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    protected function checkBrowserMSNBot() {
        if( stripos($this->_agent,"msnbot") !== false ) {
            $aresult = explode("/",stristr($this->_agent,"msnbot"));
            $aversion = explode(" ",$aresult[1]);
            $this->setVersion(str_replace(";","",$aversion[0]));
            $this->_browser_name = self::BROWSER_MSNBOT;
            $this->setRobot(true);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }       

    protected function checkBrowserW3CValidator() {
        if( stripos($this->_agent,'W3C-checklink') !== false ) {
            $aresult = explode('/',stristr($this->_agent,'W3C-checklink'));
            $aversion = explode(' ',$aresult[1]);
            $this->setVersion($aversion[0]);
            $this->_browser_name = self::BROWSER_W3CVALIDATOR;
            return true;
        }
        else if( stripos($this->_agent,'W3C_Validator') !== false ) {
            // Some of the Validator versions do not delineate w/ a slash - add it back in
            $ua = str_replace("W3C_Validator ", "W3C_Validator/", $this->_agent);
            $aresult = explode('/',stristr($ua,'W3C_Validator'));
            $aversion = explode(' ',$aresult[1]);
            $this->setVersion($aversion[0]);
            $this->_browser_name = self::BROWSER_W3CVALIDATOR;
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    protected function checkBrowserSlurp() {
        if( stripos($this->_agent,'slurp') !== false ) {
            $aresult = explode('/',stristr($this->_agent,'Slurp'));
            $aversion = explode(' ',$aresult[1]);
            $this->setVersion($aversion[0]);
            $this->_browser_name = self::BROWSER_SLURP;
            $this->setRobot(true);
            $this->setMobile(false);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    protected function checkBrowserInternetExplorer() {

        // Test for v1 - v1.5 IE
        if( stripos($this->_agent,'microsoft internet explorer') !== false ) {
            $this->setBrowser(self::BROWSER_IE);
            $this->setVersion('1.0');
            $aresult = stristr($this->_agent, '/');
            if( preg_match('/308|425|426|474|0b1/i', $aresult) ) {
                $this->setVersion('1.5');
            }
            return true;
        }
        // Test for versions > 1.5
        else if( stripos($this->_agent,'msie') !== false && stripos($this->_agent,'opera') === false ) {
            // See if the browser is the odd MSN Explorer
            if( stripos($this->_agent,'msnb') !== false ) {
                $aresult = explode(' ',stristr(str_replace(';','; ',$this->_agent),'MSN'));
                $this->setBrowser( self::BROWSER_MSN );
                $this->setVersion(str_replace(array('(',')',';'),'',$aresult[1]));
                return true;
            }
            $aresult = explode(' ',stristr(str_replace(';','; ',$this->_agent),'msie'));
            $this->setBrowser( self::BROWSER_IE );
            $this->setVersion(str_replace(array('(',')',';'),'',$aresult[1]));
            return true;
        }
        // Test for Pocket IE
        else if( stripos($this->_agent,'mspie') !== false || stripos($this->_agent,'pocket') !== false ) {
            $aresult = explode(' ',stristr($this->_agent,'mspie'));
            $this->setPlatform( self::PLATFORM_WINDOWS_CE );
            $this->setBrowser( self::BROWSER_POCKET_IE );
            $this->setMobile(true);

            if( stripos($this->_agent,'mspie') !== false ) {
                $this->setVersion($aresult[1]);
            }
            else {
                $aversion = explode('/',$this->_agent);
                $this->setVersion($aversion[1]);
            }
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    protected function checkBrowserOpera() {
        if( stripos($this->_agent,'opera mini') !== false ) {
            $resultant = stristr($this->_agent, 'opera mini');
            if( preg_match('/\//',$resultant) ) {
                $aresult = explode('/',$resultant);
                $aversion = explode(' ',$aresult[1]);
                $this->setVersion($aversion[0]);
            }
            else {
                $aversion = explode(' ',stristr($resultant,'opera mini'));
                $this->setVersion($aversion[1]);
            }
            $this->_browser_name = self::BROWSER_OPERA_MINI;
            $this->setMobile(true);
            return true;
        }
        else if( stripos($this->_agent,'opera') !== false ) {
            $resultant = stristr($this->_agent, 'opera');
            if( preg_match('/Version\/(10.*)$/',$resultant,$matches) ) {
                $this->setVersion($matches[1]);
            }
            else if( preg_match('/\//',$resultant) ) {
                $aresult = explode('/',str_replace("("," ",$resultant));
                $aversion = explode(' ',$aresult[1]);
                $this->setVersion($aversion[0]);
            }
            else {
                $aversion = explode(' ',stristr($resultant,'opera'));
                $this->setVersion(isset($aversion[1])?$aversion[1]:"");
            }
            $this->_browser_name = self::BROWSER_OPERA;
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }


    protected function checkBrowserChrome() {
        if( stripos($this->_agent,'Chrome') !== false ) {
            $aresult = explode('/',stristr($this->_agent,'Chrome'));
            $aversion = explode(' ',$aresult[1]);
            $this->setVersion($aversion[0]);
            $this->setBrowser(self::BROWSER_CHROME);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    protected function checkBrowserWebTv() {
        if( stripos($this->_agent,'webtv') !== false ) {
            $aresult = explode('/',stristr($this->_agent,'webtv'));
            $aversion = explode(' ',$aresult[1]);
            $this->setVersion($aversion[0]);
            $this->setBrowser(self::BROWSER_WEBTV);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    protected function checkBrowserNetPositive() {
        if( stripos($this->_agent,'NetPositive') !== false ) {
            $aresult = explode('/',stristr($this->_agent,'NetPositive'));
            $aversion = explode(' ',$aresult[1]);
            $this->setVersion(str_replace(array('(',')',';'),'',$aversion[0]));
            $this->setBrowser(self::BROWSER_NETPOSITIVE);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    protected function checkBrowserGaleon() {
        if( stripos($this->_agent,'galeon') !== false ) {
            $aresult = explode(' ',stristr($this->_agent,'galeon'));
            $aversion = explode('/',$aresult[0]);
            $this->setVersion($aversion[1]);
            $this->setBrowser(self::BROWSER_GALEON);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    protected function checkBrowserKonqueror() {
        if( stripos($this->_agent,'Konqueror') !== false ) {
            $aresult = explode(' ',stristr($this->_agent,'Konqueror'));
            $aversion = explode('/',$aresult[0]);
            $this->setVersion($aversion[1]);
            $this->setBrowser(self::BROWSER_KONQUEROR);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    protected function checkBrowserIcab() {
        if( stripos($this->_agent,'icab') !== false ) {
            $aversion = explode(' ',stristr(str_replace('/',' ',$this->_agent),'icab'));
            $this->setVersion($aversion[1]);
            $this->setBrowser(self::BROWSER_ICAB);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    protected function checkBrowserOmniWeb() {
        if( stripos($this->_agent,'omniweb') !== false ) {
            $aresult = explode('/',stristr($this->_agent,'omniweb'));
            $aversion = explode(' ',isset($aresult[1])?$aresult[1]:"");
            $this->setVersion($aversion[0]);
            $this->setBrowser(self::BROWSER_OMNIWEB);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    protected function checkBrowserPhoenix() {
        if( stripos($this->_agent,'Phoenix') !== false ) {
            $aversion = explode('/',stristr($this->_agent,'Phoenix'));
            $this->setVersion($aversion[1]);
            $this->setBrowser(self::BROWSER_PHOENIX);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    protected function checkBrowserFirebird() {
        if( stripos($this->_agent,'Firebird') !== false ) {
            $aversion = explode('/',stristr($this->_agent,'Firebird'));
            $this->setVersion($aversion[1]);
            $this->setBrowser(self::BROWSER_FIREBIRD);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    protected function checkBrowserNetscapeNavigator9Plus() {
        if( stripos($this->_agent,'Firefox') !== false && preg_match('/Navigator\/([^ ]*)/i',$this->_agent,$matches) ) {
            $this->setVersion($matches[1]);
            $this->setBrowser(self::BROWSER_NETSCAPE_NAVIGATOR);
            return true;
        }
        else if( stripos($this->_agent,'Firefox') === false && preg_match('/Netscape6?\/([^ ]*)/i',$this->_agent,$matches) ) {
            $this->setVersion($matches[1]);
            $this->setBrowser(self::BROWSER_NETSCAPE_NAVIGATOR);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    protected function checkBrowserShiretoko() {
        if( stripos($this->_agent,'Mozilla') !== false && preg_match('/Shiretoko\/([^ ]*)/i',$this->_agent,$matches) ) {
            $this->setVersion($matches[1]);
            $this->setBrowser(self::BROWSER_SHIRETOKO);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    protected function checkBrowserIceCat() {
        if( stripos($this->_agent,'Mozilla') !== false && preg_match('/IceCat\/([^ ]*)/i',$this->_agent,$matches) ) {
            $this->setVersion($matches[1]);
            $this->setBrowser(self::BROWSER_ICECAT);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    protected function checkBrowserNokia() {
        if( preg_match("/Nokia([^\/]+)\/([^ SP]+)/i",$this->_agent,$matches) ) {
            $this->setVersion($matches[2]);
            if( stripos($this->_agent,'Series60') !== false || strpos($this->_agent,'S60') !== false ) {
                $this->setBrowser(self::BROWSER_NOKIA_S60);
            }
            else {
                $this->setBrowser( self::BROWSER_NOKIA );
            }
            $this->setMobile(true);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    protected function checkBrowserFirefox() {
        if( stripos($this->_agent,'safari') === false ) {
            if( preg_match("/Firefox[\/ \(]([^ ;\)]+)/i",$this->_agent,$matches) ) {
                $this->setVersion($matches[1]);
                $this->setBrowser(self::BROWSER_FIREFOX);
                return true;
            }
            else if( preg_match("/Firefox$/i",$this->_agent,$matches) ) {
                $this->setVersion("");
                $this->setBrowser(self::BROWSER_FIREFOX);
                return true;
            }
        }
        return false;
    }

    protected function checkBrowserIceweasel() {
        if( stripos($this->_agent,'Iceweasel') !== false ) {
            $aresult = explode('/',stristr($this->_agent,'Iceweasel'));
            $aversion = explode(' ',$aresult[1]);
            $this->setVersion($aversion[0]);
            $this->setBrowser(self::BROWSER_ICEWEASEL);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    protected function checkBrowserMozilla() {
        if( stripos($this->_agent,'mozilla') !== false  && preg_match('/rv:[0-9].[0-9][a-b]?/i',$this->_agent) && stripos($this->_agent,'netscape') === false) {
            $aversion = explode(' ',stristr($this->_agent,'rv:'));
            preg_match('/rv:[0-9].[0-9][a-b]?/i',$this->_agent,$aversion);
            $this->setVersion(str_replace('rv:','',$aversion[0]));
            $this->setBrowser(self::BROWSER_MOZILLA);
            return true;
        }
        else if( stripos($this->_agent,'mozilla') !== false && preg_match('/rv:[0-9]\.[0-9]/i',$this->_agent) && stripos($this->_agent,'netscape') === false ) {
            $aversion = explode('',stristr($this->_agent,'rv:'));
            $this->setVersion(str_replace('rv:','',$aversion[0]));
            $this->setBrowser(self::BROWSER_MOZILLA);
            return true;
        }
        else if( stripos($this->_agent,'mozilla') !== false  && preg_match('/mozilla\/([^ ]*)/i',$this->_agent,$matches) && stripos($this->_agent,'netscape') === false ) {
            $this->setVersion($matches[1]);
            $this->setBrowser(self::BROWSER_MOZILLA);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    protected function checkBrowserLynx() {
        if( stripos($this->_agent,'lynx') !== false ) {
            $aresult = explode('/',stristr($this->_agent,'Lynx'));
            $aversion = explode(' ',(isset($aresult[1])?$aresult[1]:""));
            $this->setVersion($aversion[0]);
            $this->setBrowser(self::BROWSER_LYNX);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    protected function checkBrowserAmaya() {
        if( stripos($this->_agent,'amaya') !== false ) {
            $aresult = explode('/',stristr($this->_agent,'Amaya'));
            $aversion = explode(' ',$aresult[1]);
            $this->setVersion($aversion[0]);
            $this->setBrowser(self::BROWSER_AMAYA);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    protected function checkBrowserSafari() {
        if( stripos($this->_agent,'Safari') !== false && stripos($this->_agent,'iPhone') === false && stripos($this->_agent,'iPod') === false ) {
            $aresult = explode('/',stristr($this->_agent,'Version'));
            if( isset($aresult[1]) ) {
                $aversion = explode(' ',$aresult[1]);
                $this->setVersion($aversion[0]);
            }
            else {
                $this->setVersion(self::VERSION_UNKNOWN);
            }
            $this->setBrowser(self::BROWSER_SAFARI);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    protected function checkBrowseriPhone() {
        if( stripos($this->_agent,'iPhone') !== false ) {
            $aresult = explode('/',stristr($this->_agent,'Version'));
            if( isset($aresult[1]) ) {
                $aversion = explode(' ',$aresult[1]);
                $this->setVersion($aversion[0]);
            }
            else {
                $this->setVersion(self::VERSION_UNKNOWN);
            }
            $this->setMobile(true);
            $this->setBrowser(self::BROWSER_IPHONE);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    protected function checkBrowseriPad() {
        if( stripos($this->_agent,'iPad') !== false ) {
            $aresult = explode('/',stristr($this->_agent,'Version'));
            if( isset($aresult[1]) ) {
                $aversion = explode(' ',$aresult[1]);
                $this->setVersion($aversion[0]);
            }
            else {
                $this->setVersion(self::VERSION_UNKNOWN);
            }
            $this->setMobile(true);
            $this->setBrowser(self::BROWSER_IPAD);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    protected function checkBrowseriPod() {
        if( stripos($this->_agent,'iPod') !== false ) {
            $aresult = explode('/',stristr($this->_agent,'Version'));
            if( isset($aresult[1]) ) {
                $aversion = explode(' ',$aresult[1]);
                $this->setVersion($aversion[0]);
            }
            else {
                $this->setVersion(self::VERSION_UNKNOWN);
            }
            $this->setMobile(true);
            $this->setBrowser(self::BROWSER_IPOD);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    protected function checkBrowserAndroid() {
        if( stripos($this->_agent,'Android') !== false ) {
            $aresult = explode(' ',stristr($this->_agent,'Android'));
            if( isset($aresult[1]) ) {
                $aversion = explode(' ',$aresult[1]);
                $this->setVersion($aversion[0]);
            }
            else {
                $this->setVersion(self::VERSION_UNKNOWN);
            }
            $this->setMobile(true);
            $this->setBrowser(self::BROWSER_ANDROID);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    /**
     * Determine the user's platform
     */
    protected function checkPlatform() {
        if( stripos($this->_agent, 'windows') !== false ) {
            $this->_platform = self::PLATFORM_WINDOWS;
        }
        else if( stripos($this->_agent, 'iPad') !== false ) {
            $this->_platform = self::PLATFORM_IPAD;
        }
        else if( stripos($this->_agent, 'iPod') !== false ) {
            $this->_platform = self::PLATFORM_IPOD;
        }
        else if( stripos($this->_agent, 'iPhone') !== false ) {
            $this->_platform = self::PLATFORM_IPHONE;
        }
        elseif( stripos($this->_agent, 'mac') !== false ) {
            $this->_platform = self::PLATFORM_APPLE;
        }
        elseif( stripos($this->_agent, 'android') !== false ) {
            $this->_platform = self::PLATFORM_ANDROID;
        }
        elseif( stripos($this->_agent, 'linux') !== false ) {
            $this->_platform = self::PLATFORM_LINUX;
        }
        else if( stripos($this->_agent, 'Nokia') !== false ) {
            $this->_platform = self::PLATFORM_NOKIA;
        }
        else if( stripos($this->_agent, 'BlackBerry') !== false ) {
            $this->_platform = self::PLATFORM_BLACKBERRY;
        }
        elseif( stripos($this->_agent,'FreeBSD') !== false ) {
            $this->_platform = self::PLATFORM_FREEBSD;
        }
        elseif( stripos($this->_agent,'OpenBSD') !== false ) {
            $this->_platform = self::PLATFORM_OPENBSD;
        }
        elseif( stripos($this->_agent,'NetBSD') !== false ) {
            $this->_platform = self::PLATFORM_NETBSD;
        }
        elseif( stripos($this->_agent, 'OpenSolaris') !== false ) {
            $this->_platform = self::PLATFORM_OPENSOLARIS;
        }
        elseif( stripos($this->_agent, 'SunOS') !== false ) {
            $this->_platform = self::PLATFORM_SUNOS;
        }
        elseif( stripos($this->_agent, 'OS\/2') !== false ) {
            $this->_platform = self::PLATFORM_OS2;
        }
        elseif( stripos($this->_agent, 'BeOS') !== false ) {
            $this->_platform = self::PLATFORM_BEOS;
        }
        elseif( stripos($this->_agent, 'win') !== false ) {
            $this->_platform = self::PLATFORM_WINDOWS;
        }

    }
}
?>

Passing an array of data as an input parameter to an Oracle procedure

If the types of the parameters are all the same (varchar2 for example), you can have a package like this which will do the following:

CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE testuser.test_pkg IS

   TYPE assoc_array_varchar2_t IS TABLE OF VARCHAR2(4000) INDEX BY BINARY_INTEGER;

   PROCEDURE your_proc(p_parm IN assoc_array_varchar2_t);

END test_pkg;

CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE BODY testuser.test_pkg IS

   PROCEDURE your_proc(p_parm IN assoc_array_varchar2_t) AS
   BEGIN
      FOR i IN p_parm.first .. p_parm.last
      LOOP
         dbms_output.put_line(p_parm(i));
      END LOOP;

   END;

END test_pkg;

Then, to call it you'd need to set up the array and pass it:

DECLARE
  l_array testuser.test_pkg.assoc_array_varchar2_t;
BEGIN
  l_array(0) := 'hello';
  l_array(1) := 'there';  

  testuser.test_pkg.your_proc(l_array);
END;
/

How to do a scatter plot with empty circles in Python?

In matplotlib 2.0 there is a parameter called fillstyle which allows better control on the way markers are filled. In my case I have used it with errorbars but it works for markers in general http://matplotlib.org/api/_as_gen/matplotlib.axes.Axes.errorbar.html

fillstyle accepts the following values: [‘full’ | ‘left’ | ‘right’ | ‘bottom’ | ‘top’ | ‘none’]

There are two important things to keep in mind when using fillstyle,

1) If mfc is set to any kind of value it will take priority, hence, if you did set fillstyle to 'none' it would not take effect. So avoid using mfc in conjuntion with fillstyle

2) You might want to control the marker edge width (using markeredgewidth or mew) because if the marker is relatively small and the edge width is thick, the markers will look like filled even though they are not.

Following is an example using errorbars:

myplot.errorbar(x=myXval, y=myYval, yerr=myYerrVal, fmt='o', fillstyle='none', ecolor='blue',  mec='blue')

Adding files to java classpath at runtime

Yes I believe it's possible but you might have to implement your own classloader. I have never done it but that is the path I would probably look at.

Stop form from submitting , Using Jquery

use this too :

if(e.preventDefault) 
   e.preventDefault(); 
else 
   e.returnValue = false;

Becoz e.preventDefault() is not supported in IE( some versions ). In IE it is e.returnValue = false

how to rotate text left 90 degree and cell size is adjusted according to text in html

Without calculating height. Strict CSS and HTML. <span/> only for Chrome, because the chrome isn't able change text direction for <th/>.

_x000D_
_x000D_
th _x000D_
{_x000D_
  vertical-align: bottom;_x000D_
  text-align: center;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
th span _x000D_
{_x000D_
  -ms-writing-mode: tb-rl;_x000D_
  -webkit-writing-mode: vertical-rl;_x000D_
  writing-mode: vertical-rl;_x000D_
  transform: rotate(180deg);_x000D_
  white-space: nowrap;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<table>_x000D_
  <tr>_x000D_
    <th><span>Rotated text by 90 deg.</span></th>_x000D_
  </tr>_x000D_
</table>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

How can I change the app display name build with Flutter?

There are several possibilities:

1- The use of a package:

I suggest you to use flutter_launcher_name because of the command-line tool which simplifies the task of updating your Flutter app's launcher name.

Usage:

Add your Flutter Launcher name configuration to your pubspec.yaml file:

dev_dependencies:
  flutter_launcher_name: "^0.0.1"

flutter_launcher_name:
  name: "yourNewAppLauncherName"

After setting up the configuration, all that is left to do is run the package.

flutter pub get
flutter pub run flutter_launcher_name:main

If you use this package, you don't need modify file AndroidManifest.xml or Info.plist.

2- Edit AndroidManifest.xml for Android and info.plist for iOS

For Android, edit only android:label value in the application tag in file AndroidManifest.xml located in the folder: android/app/src/main

Code:

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <application
        android:name="io.flutter.app.FlutterApplication"
        android:label="Your Application Name"  //here
        android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher">
        <activity>
        <!--  -->
        </activity>
    </application>
</manifest>

Screenshot:

Enter image description here

For iOS, edit only the value inside the String tag in file Info.plist located in the folder ios/Runner .

Code:

<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>CFBundleName</key>
    <string>Your Application Name </string>  //here
</dict>
</plist>

Screenshot:

Enter image description here

Do a flutter clean and restart your application if you have a problem.

How to get full width in body element

You should set body and html to position:fixed;, and then set right:, left:, top:, and bottom: to 0;. That way, even if content overflows it will not extend past the limits of the viewport.

For example:

<html>
<body>
    <div id="wrapper"></div>
</body>
</html>

CSS:

html, body, {
    position:fixed;
    top:0;
    bottom:0;
    left:0;
    right:0;
}

JS Fiddle Example

Caveat: Using this method, if the user makes their window smaller, content will be cut off.

Export javascript data to CSV file without server interaction

There's always the HTML5 download attribute :

This attribute, if present, indicates that the author intends the hyperlink to be used for downloading a resource so that when the user clicks on the link they will be prompted to save it as a local file.

If the attribute has a value, the value will be used as the pre-filled file name in the Save prompt that opens when the user clicks on the link.

var A = [['n','sqrt(n)']];

for(var j=1; j<10; ++j){ 
    A.push([j, Math.sqrt(j)]);
}

var csvRows = [];

for(var i=0, l=A.length; i<l; ++i){
    csvRows.push(A[i].join(','));
}

var csvString = csvRows.join("%0A");
var a         = document.createElement('a');
a.href        = 'data:attachment/csv,' +  encodeURIComponent(csvString);
a.target      = '_blank';
a.download    = 'myFile.csv';

document.body.appendChild(a);
a.click();

FIDDLE

Tested in Chrome and Firefox, works fine in the newest versions (as of July 2013).
Works in Opera as well, but does not set the filename (as of July 2013).
Does not seem to work in IE9 (big suprise) (as of July 2013).

An overview over what browsers support the download attribute can be found Here
For non-supporting browsers, one has to set the appropriate headers on the serverside.


Apparently there is a hack for IE10 and IE11, which doesn't support the download attribute (Edge does however).

var A = [['n','sqrt(n)']];

for(var j=1; j<10; ++j){ 
    A.push([j, Math.sqrt(j)]);
}

var csvRows = [];

for(var i=0, l=A.length; i<l; ++i){
    csvRows.push(A[i].join(','));
}

var csvString = csvRows.join("%0A");

if (window.navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob) {
    var blob = new Blob([csvString]);
    window.navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob(blob, 'myFile.csv');
} else {
    var a         = document.createElement('a');
    a.href        = 'data:attachment/csv,' +  encodeURIComponent(csvString);
    a.target      = '_blank';
    a.download    = 'myFile.csv';
    document.body.appendChild(a);
    a.click();
}

Adding images or videos to iPhone Simulator

For iOS 4.2 I had to go and create the 100APPLE folder and restart the simulator, then it worked.

Android Intent Cannot resolve constructor

Same Error was coming with my code in Activity but not in Fragment. Showing constructor error for different line like new Intent( From.this, To.class) and new ArrayList<> etc.

Fixed using closing Android Studio and moving the repository to other location and opening the the project once again. Fixed the problem.

Seems like Android Studio building problem.

You don't have permission to access / on this server

Try to use the following: chmod +rx /home/*

Structs data type in php?

It seems that the struct datatype is commonly used in SOAP:

var_dump($client->__getTypes());

array(52) {
  [0] =>
  string(43) "struct Bank {\n string Code;\n string Name;\n}"
}

This is not a native PHP datatype!

It seems that the properties of the struct type referred to in SOAP can be accessed as a simple PHP stdClass object:

$some_struct = $client->SomeMethod();
echo 'Name: ' . $some_struct->Name;

TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not _io.BufferedReader

I think it has to do with your second element in storbinary. You are trying to open file, but it is already a pointer to the file you opened in line file = open(local_path,'rb'). So, try to use ftp.storbinary("STOR " + i, file).

link with target="_blank" does not open in new tab in Chrome

For Some reason it is not working so we can do this by another way

just remove the line and add this :-

<a onclick="window.open ('http://www.foracure.org.au', ''); return false" href="javascript:void(0);"></a>

Good luck.

Capturing "Delete" Keypress with jQuery

Javascript Keycodes

  • e.keyCode == 8 for backspace
  • e.keyCode == 46 for forward backspace or delete button in PC's

Except this detail Colin & Tod's answer is working.

How can I trim beginning and ending double quotes from a string?

Using Guava you can write more elegantly CharMatcher.is('\"').trimFrom(mystring);

Size of character ('a') in C/C++

In C language, character literal is not a char type. C considers character literal as integer. So, there is no difference between sizeof('a') and sizeof(1).

So, the sizeof character literal is equal to sizeof integer in C.

In C++ language, character literal is type of char. The cppreference say's:

1) narrow character literal or ordinary character literal, e.g. 'a' or '\n' or '\13'. Such literal has type char and the value equal to the representation of c-char in the execution character set. If c-char is not representable as a single byte in the execution character set, the literal has type int and implementation-defined value.

So, in C++ character literal is a type of char. so, size of character literal in C++ is one byte.

Alos, In your programs, you have used wrong format specifier for sizeof operator.

C11 §7.21.6.1 (P9) :

If a conversion specification is invalid, the behavior is undefined.275) If any argument is not the correct type for the corresponding conversion specification, the behavior is undefined.

So, you should use %zu format specifier instead of %d, otherwise it is undefined behaviour in C.

How do I sort strings alphabetically while accounting for value when a string is numeric?

Just pad with zeroes to the same length:

int maxlen = sizes.Max(x => x.Length);
var result = sizes.OrderBy(x => x.PadLeft(maxlen, '0'));

jquery UI dialog: how to initialize without a title bar?

Have you tried solution from jQuery UI docs? https://api.jqueryui.com/dialog/#method-open

As it say you can do like this...

In CSS:

.no-titlebar .ui-dialog-titlebar {
  display: none;
}

In JS:

$( "#dialog" ).dialog({
  dialogClass: "no-titlebar"
});

Where to find extensions installed folder for Google Chrome on Mac?

With the new App Launcher YOUR APPS (not chrome extensions) stored in Users/[yourusername]/Applications/Chrome Apps/

How to find the installed pandas version

Check pandas.__version__:

In [76]: import pandas as pd

In [77]: pd.__version__
Out[77]: '0.12.0-933-g281dc4e'

Pandas also provides a utility function, pd.show_versions(), which reports the version of its dependencies as well:

In [53]: pd.show_versions(as_json=False)

INSTALLED VERSIONS
------------------
commit: None
python: 2.7.6.final.0
python-bits: 64
OS: Linux
OS-release: 3.13.0-45-generic
machine: x86_64
processor: x86_64
byteorder: little
LC_ALL: None
LANG: en_US.UTF-8

pandas: 0.15.2-113-g5531341
nose: 1.3.1
Cython: 0.21.1
numpy: 1.8.2
scipy: 0.14.0.dev-371b4ff
statsmodels: 0.6.0.dev-a738b4f
IPython: 2.0.0-dev
sphinx: 1.2.2
patsy: 0.3.0
dateutil: 1.5
pytz: 2012c
bottleneck: None
tables: 3.1.1
numexpr: 2.2.2
matplotlib: 1.4.2
openpyxl: None
xlrd: 0.9.3
xlwt: 0.7.5
xlsxwriter: None
lxml: 3.3.3
bs4: 4.3.2
html5lib: 0.999
httplib2: 0.8
apiclient: None
rpy2: 2.5.5
sqlalchemy: 0.9.8
pymysql: None
psycopg2: 2.4.5 (dt dec mx pq3 ext)

Jenkins returned status code 128 with github

To check are the following:

  1. if the right public key (id_rsa.pub) is uploaded to the git-server.
  2. if the right private key (id_rsa) is copied to /var/lib/jenkins/.ssh/
  3. if the known_hosts file is created inside ~/.ssh folder. Try ssh -vvv [email protected] to see debug logs. If thing goes well, github.com will be added to known_hosts.
  4. if the permission of id_rsa is set to 700 (chmod 700 id_rsa)

After all checks, try ssh -vvv [email protected].

How to force a hover state with jQuery?

I think the best solution I have come across is on this stackoverflow. This short jQuery code allows all your hover effects to show on click or touch..
No need to add anything within the function.

$('body').on('touchstart', function() {});

Hope this helps.

How do I set Tomcat Manager Application User Name and Password for NetBeans?

Update the 'apache-tomcat-8.5.5\conf\tomcat-users.xml file. uncomment the roles and add/replace the following line.and restart server

tomcat-users.xml file

<role rolename="admin"/>
<role rolename="admin-gui"/>
<role rolename="manager-gui"/>
<user username="admin" password="admin" roles="standard,manager,admin,manager-gui,manager-script"/>

Using Bootstrap Tooltip with AngularJS

If you're building an Angular app, you can use jQuery, but there is a lot of good reasons to try to avoid it in favor of more angular driven paradigms. You can continue to use the styles provided by bootstrap, but replace the jQuery plugins with native angular by using UI Bootstrap

Include the Boostrap CSS files, Angular.js, and ui.Bootstrap.js:

<link href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.1.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="https://code.angularjs.org/1.2.20/angular.js"></script>
<script src="//angular-ui.github.io/bootstrap/ui-bootstrap-tpls-0.11.0.js"></script>

Make sure you've injected ui.bootstrap when you create your module like this:

var app = angular.module('plunker', ['ui.bootstrap']);

Then you can use angular directives instead of data attributes picked up by jQuery:

<button type="button" class="btn btn-default" 
        title="Tooltip on left" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="left"
        tooltip="Tooltip on left" tooltip-placement="left" >
  Tooltip on left
</button>

Demo in Plunker


Avoiding UI Bootstrap

jQuery.min.js (94kb) + Bootstrap.min.js (32kb) is also giving you more than you need, and much more than ui-bootstrap.min.js (41kb).

And time spent downloading the modules is only one aspect of performance.

If you really wanted to only load the modules you needed, you can "Create a Build" and choose tooltips from the Bootstrap-UI website. Or you can explore the source code for tooltips and pick out what you need.

Here a minified custom build with just the tooltips and templates (6kb)

jQuery or CSS selector to select all IDs that start with some string

$('div[id ^= "player_"]');

This worked for me..select all Div starts with "players_" keyword and display it.

Adding devices to team provisioning profile

All answers I've seen above assumed that the developer owns an iPhone. No one knows the right answer. As far as I know, you need:

  • a physical iPhone that you own
  • or UDID of someone else's iPhone. But it is a must to have an iPhone before you publish your app. Correct me if I am wrong.

How to install popper.js with Bootstrap 4?

Instead of remotely putting popper js from CDN you can directly install it in your angular project.

Try this.

npm install popper.js --save 

This query installs an updated version of popper.js Don't mention any version there, it will work for you.

Git push rejected after feature branch rebase

The problem is that git push assumes that remote branch can be fast-forwarded to your local branch, that is that all the difference between local and remote branches is in local having some new commits at the end like that:

Z--X--R         <- origin/some-branch (can be fast-forwarded to Y commit)
       \        
        T--Y    <- some-branch

When you perform git rebase commits D and E are applied to new base and new commits are created. That means after rebase you have something like that:

A--B--C------F--G--D'--E'   <- feature-branch
       \  
        D--E                <- origin/feature-branch

In that situation remote branch can't be fast-forwarded to local. Though, theoretically local branch can be merged into remote (obviously you don't need it in that case), but as git push performs only fast-forward merges it throws and error.

And what --force option does is just ignoring state of remote branch and setting it to the commit you're pushing into it. So git push --force origin feature-branch simply overrides origin/feature-branch with local feature-branch.

In my opinion, rebasing feature branches on master and force-pushing them back to remote repository is OK as long as you're the only one who works on that branch.

How to remove old and unused Docker images

If you want to remove images pulled X months ago, you can try the below example which remove images created three months ago:

three_months_old_images=`docker images | grep -vi "<none>" | tr -s ' ' | cut -d" " -f3,4,5,6 | grep "3 months ago" | cut -d" " -f1`
docker rmi $three_months_old_images

How can I cast int to enum?

In my case, I needed to return the enum from a WCF service. I also needed a friendly name, not just the enum.ToString().

Here's my WCF Class.

[DataContract]
public class EnumMember
{
    [DataMember]
    public string Description { get; set; }

    [DataMember]
    public int Value { get; set; }

    public static List<EnumMember> ConvertToList<T>()
    {
        Type type = typeof(T);

        if (!type.IsEnum)
        {
            throw new ArgumentException("T must be of type enumeration.");
        }

        var members = new List<EnumMember>();

        foreach (string item in System.Enum.GetNames(type))
        {
            var enumType = System.Enum.Parse(type, item);

            members.Add(
                new EnumMember() { Description = enumType.GetDescriptionValue(), Value = ((IConvertible)enumType).ToInt32(null) });
        }

        return members;
    }
}

Here's the Extension method that gets the Description from the Enum.

    public static string GetDescriptionValue<T>(this T source)
    {
        FieldInfo fileInfo = source.GetType().GetField(source.ToString());
        DescriptionAttribute[] attributes = (DescriptionAttribute[])fileInfo.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(DescriptionAttribute), false);            

        if (attributes != null && attributes.Length > 0)
        {
            return attributes[0].Description;
        }
        else
        {
            return source.ToString();
        }
    }

Implementation:

return EnumMember.ConvertToList<YourType>();

Update MongoDB field using value of another field

Here's what we came up with for copying one field to another for ~150_000 records. It took about 6 minutes, but is still significantly less resource intensive than it would have been to instantiate and iterate over the same number of ruby objects.

js_query = %({
  $or : [
    {
      'settings.mobile_notifications' : { $exists : false },
      'settings.mobile_admin_notifications' : { $exists : false }
    }
  ]
})

js_for_each = %(function(user) {
  if (!user.settings.hasOwnProperty('mobile_notifications')) {
    user.settings.mobile_notifications = user.settings.email_notifications;
  }
  if (!user.settings.hasOwnProperty('mobile_admin_notifications')) {
    user.settings.mobile_admin_notifications = user.settings.email_admin_notifications;
  }
  db.users.save(user);
})

js = "db.users.find(#{js_query}).forEach(#{js_for_each});"
Mongoid::Sessions.default.command('$eval' => js)

Is there a way to change the spacing between legend items in ggplot2?

From Koshke's work on ggplot2 and his blog (Koshke's blog)

... + theme(legend.key.height=unit(3,"line")) # Change 3 to X
... + theme(legend.key.width=unit(3,"line")) # Change 3 to X

Type theme_get() in the console to see other editable legend attributes.

How to set the margin or padding as percentage of height of parent container?

This is a very interesting bug. (In my opinion, it is a bug anyway) Nice find!

Regarding how to set it, I would recommend Camilo Martin's answer. But as to why, I'd like to explain this a bit if you guys don't mind.


In the CSS specs I found:

'padding'
Percentages: refer to width of containing block

… which is weird, but okay.

So, with a parent width: 210px and a child padding-top: 50%, I get a calculated/computed value of padding-top: 96.5px – which is not the expected 105px.

That is because in Windows (I'm not sure about other OSs), the size of common scrollbars is per default 17px × 100% (or 100% × 17px for horizontal bars). Those 17px are substracted before calculating the 50%, hence 50% of 193px = 96.5px.

Push item to associative array in PHP

If $new_input may contain more than just a 'name' element you may want to use array_merge.

$new_input = array('name'=>array(), 'details'=>array());
$new_input['name'] = array('type'=>'text', 'label'=>'First name'...);
$options['inputs'] = array_merge($options['inputs'], $new_input);

Can I get image from canvas element and use it in img src tag?

canvas.toDataURL() will provide you a data url which can be used as source:

var image = new Image();
image.id = "pic";
image.src = canvas.toDataURL();
document.getElementById('image_for_crop').appendChild(image);

Complete example

Here's a complete example with some random lines. The black-bordered image is generated on a <canvas>, whereas the blue-bordered image is a copy in a <img>, filled with the <canvas>'s data url.

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// This is just image generation, skip to DATAURL: below
var canvas = document.getElementById("canvas")
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");

// Just some example drawings
var gradient = ctx.createLinearGradient(0, 0, 200, 100);
gradient.addColorStop("0", "#ff0000");
gradient.addColorStop("0.5" ,"#00a0ff");
gradient.addColorStop("1.0", "#f0bf00");

ctx.beginPath();
ctx.moveTo(0, 0);
for (let i = 0; i < 30; ++i) {
  ctx.lineTo(Math.random() * 200, Math.random() * 100);
}
ctx.strokeStyle = gradient;
ctx.stroke();

// DATAURL: Actual image generation via data url
var target = new Image();
target.src = canvas.toDataURL();

document.getElementById('result').appendChild(target);
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canvas { border: 1px solid black; }
img    { border: 1px solid blue;  }
body   { display: flex; }
div + div {margin-left: 1ex; }
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<div>
  <p>Original:</p>
  <canvas id="canvas" width=200 height=100></canvas>
</div>
<div id="result">
  <p>Result via &lt;img&gt;:</p>
</div>
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See also:

How to add buttons at top of map fragment API v2 layout

Button Above The Map

If this is what you want ...simply add button inside the Fragment.

<fragment xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/map"
    android:name="com.google.android.gms.maps.SupportMapFragment"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context="com.example.LocationChooser">


    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="right|top"
        android:text="Demo Button" 
        android:padding="10dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
        android:paddingRight="10dp"/>

</fragment>

How to return a file using Web API?

Another way to download file is to write the stream content to the response's body directly:

[HttpGet("pdfstream/{id}")]
public async Task  GetFile(long id)
{        
    var stream = GetStream(id);
    Response.StatusCode = (int)HttpStatusCode.OK;
    Response.Headers.Add( HeaderNames.ContentDisposition, $"attachment; filename=\"{Guid.NewGuid()}.pdf\"" );
    Response.Headers.Add( HeaderNames.ContentType, "application/pdf"  );            
    await stream.CopyToAsync(Response.Body);
    await Response.Body.FlushAsync();           
}

Add timestamp column with default NOW() for new rows only

You could add the default rule with the alter table,

ALTER TABLE mytable ADD COLUMN created_at TIMESTAMP DEFAULT NOW()

then immediately set to null all the current existing rows:

UPDATE mytable SET created_at = NULL

Then from this point on the DEFAULT will take effect.

How do I display a wordpress page content?

@Sydney Try putting wp_reset_query() before you call the loop. This will display the content of your page.

<?php
    wp_reset_query(); // necessary to reset query
    while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
        the_content();
    endwhile; // End of the loop.
?>

EDIT: Try this if you have some other loops that you previously ran. Place wp_reset_query(); where you find it most suitable, but before you call this loop.

Setting an environment variable before a command in Bash is not working for the second command in a pipe

A simple approach is to make use of ;

For example:

ENV=prod; ansible-playbook -i inventories/$ENV --extra-vars "env=$ENV"  deauthorize_users.yml --check

Use bash to find first folder name that contains a string

for example:

dir1=$(find . -name \*foo\* -type d -maxdepth 1 -print | head -n1)
echo "$dir1"

or (For the better shell solution see Adrian Frühwirth's answer)

for dir1 in *
do
    [[ -d "$dir1" && "$dir1" =~ foo ]] && break
    dir1=        #fix based on comment
done
echo "$dir1"

or

dir1=$(find . -type d -maxdepth 1 -print | grep 'foo' | head -n1)
echo "$dir1"

Edited head -n1 based on @ hek2mgl comment

Next based on @chepner's comments

dir1=$(find . -type d -maxdepth 1 -print | grep -m1 'foo')

or

dir1=$(find . -name \*foo\* -type d -maxdepth 1 -print -quit)

Hiding the R code in Rmarkdown/knit and just showing the results

Just aggregating the answers and expanding on the basics. Here are three options:

1) Hide Code (individual chunk)

We can include echo=FALSE in the chunk header:

```{r echo=FALSE}
plot(cars)
```

2) Hide Chunks (globally).

We can change the default behaviour of knitr using the knitr::opts_chunk$set function. We call this at the start of the document and include include=FALSE in the chunk header to suppress any output:

---
output: html_document
---

```{r include = FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo=FALSE)
```

```{r}
plot(cars)
```

3) Collapsed Code Chunks

For HTML outputs, we can use code folding to hide the code in the output file. It will still include the code but can only be seen once a user clicks on this. You can read about this further here.

---
output:
  html_document:
    code_folding: "hide"
---


```{r}
plot(cars)
```

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Open file with associated application

Just write

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@"file path");

example

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@"C:\foo.jpg");
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@"C:\foo.doc");
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@"C:\foo.dxf");
...

And shell will run associated program reading it from the registry, like usual double click does.

Capture the Screen into a Bitmap

Bitmap memoryImage;
//Set full width, height for image
memoryImage = new Bitmap(Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Width,
                       Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Height,
                       PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb);
Size s = new Size(memoryImage.Width, memoryImage.Height);
Graphics memoryGraphics = Graphics.FromImage(memoryImage);
memoryGraphics.CopyFromScreen(0, 0, 0, 0, s);
string str = "";
try
{
    str = string.Format(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments) +
          @"\Screenshot.png");//Set folder to save image
}
catch { };
memoryImage.save(str);

Array of PHP Objects

Yes.

$array[] = new stdClass;
$array[] = new stdClass;

print_r($array);

Results in:

Array
(
    [0] => stdClass Object
        (
        )

    [1] => stdClass Object
        (
        )

)

Local and global temporary tables in SQL Server

Local temporary tables: if you create local temporary tables and then open another connection and try the query , you will get the following error.

the temporary tables are only accessible within the session that created them.

Global temporary tables: Sometimes, you may want to create a temporary table that is accessible other connections. In this case, you can use global temporary tables.

Global temporary tables are only destroyed when all the sessions referring to it are closed.

How to set environment variables in Jenkins?

You can use Environment Injector Plugin to set environment variables in Jenkins at job and node levels. Below I will show how to set them at job level.

  1. From the Jenkins web interface, go to Manage Jenkins > Manage Plugins and install the plugin.

Environment Injector Plugin

  1. Go to your job Configure screen
  2. Find Add build step in Build section and select Inject environment variables
  3. Set the desired environment variable as VARIABLE_NAME=VALUE pattern. In my case, I changed value of USERPROFILE variable

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If you need to define a new environment variable depending on some conditions (e.g. job parameters), then you can refer to this answer.

Creating the Singleton design pattern in PHP5

This should be the right way of Singleton.

class Singleton {

    private static $instance;
    private $count = 0;

    protected function __construct(){

    }

    public static function singleton(){

        if (!isset(self::$instance)) {

            self::$instance = new Singleton;

        }

        return self::$instance;

    }

    public function increment()
    {
        return $this->count++;
    }

    protected function __clone(){

    }

    protected function __wakeup(){

    }

} 

How do I rename all folders and files to lowercase on Linux?

A concise version using the "rename" command:

find my_root_dir -depth -exec rename 's/(.*)\/([^\/]*)/$1\/\L$2/' {} \;

This avoids problems with directories being renamed before files and trying to move files into non-existing directories (e.g. "A/A" into "a/a").

Or, a more verbose version without using "rename".

for SRC in `find my_root_dir -depth`
do
    DST=`dirname "${SRC}"`/`basename "${SRC}" | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`
    if [ "${SRC}" != "${DST}" ]
    then
        [ ! -e "${DST}" ] && mv -T "${SRC}" "${DST}" || echo "${SRC} was not renamed"
    fi
done

P.S.

The latter allows more flexibility with the move command (for example, "svn mv").

Text inset for UITextField?

How about an @IBInspectable, @IBDesignable swift class.

@IBDesignable
class TextField: UITextField {
    @IBInspectable var insetX: CGFloat = 6 {
       didSet {
         layoutIfNeeded()
       }
    }
    @IBInspectable var insetY: CGFloat = 6 {
       didSet {
         layoutIfNeeded()
       }
    }

    // placeholder position
    override func textRectForBounds(bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
        return CGRectInset(bounds , insetX , insetY)
    }

    // text position
    override func editingRectForBounds(bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
        return CGRectInset(bounds , insetX , insetY)
    }
}

You'll see this in your storyboard.

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Update - Swift 3

@IBDesignable
class TextField: UITextField {
    @IBInspectable var insetX: CGFloat = 0
    @IBInspectable var insetY: CGFloat = 0

    // placeholder position
    override func textRect(forBounds bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
        return bounds.insetBy(dx: insetX, dy: insetY)
    }

    // text position
    override func editingRect(forBounds bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
        return bounds.insetBy(dx: insetX, dy: insetY)
    }
}

Which port we can use to run IIS other than 80?

You can run IIS on any port you like, as long as it does not conflict with other applications. I am using 88, 8888 and other easy to remember ports.

You can find the common used port here: PORT NUMBERS, and it is safer to choose an unassigned TCP port.

Quote:

The Dynamic and/or Private Ports are those from 49152 through 65535

If IIS is working and you have troubles with an ASP.NET applications, those links might be helpful:

If you are still having troubles, it would be helpful to provide more information about your environment, the steps taken so far to solve the problem, and retagging the question (append asp.net for example)

Why is the GETDATE() an invalid identifier

Use ORACLE equivalent of getdate() which is sysdate . Read about here. Getdate() belongs to SQL Server , will not work on Oracle.

Other option is current_date

Swift 3: Display Image from URL

Use extension for UIImageView to Load URL Images.

let imageCache = NSCache<NSString, UIImage>()

extension UIImageView {

    func imageURLLoad(url: URL) {

        DispatchQueue.global().async { [weak self] in
            func setImage(image:UIImage?) {
                DispatchQueue.main.async {
                    self?.image = image
                }
            }
            let urlToString = url.absoluteString as NSString
            if let cachedImage = imageCache.object(forKey: urlToString) {
                setImage(image: cachedImage)
            } else if let data = try? Data(contentsOf: url), let image = UIImage(data: data) {
                DispatchQueue.main.async {
                    imageCache.setObject(image, forKey: urlToString)
                    setImage(image: image)
                }
            }else {
                setImage(image: nil)
            }
        }
    }
}

Variable declaration in a header file

If you declare it like

int x;

in a header file which is then included in multiple places, you'll end up with multiple instances of x (and potentially compile or link problems).

The correct way to approach this is to have the header file say

extern int x; /* declared in foo.c */

and then in foo.c you can say

int x; /* exported in foo.h */

THen you can include your header file in as many places as you like.

JavaScript property access: dot notation vs. brackets?

The bracket notation allows you to access properties by name stored in a variable:

var obj = { "abc" : "hello" };
var x = "abc";
var y = obj[x];
console.log(y); //output - hello

obj.x would not work in this case.

How to add a hook to the application context initialization event?

Since Spring 4.2 you can use @EventListener (documentation)

@Component
class MyClassWithEventListeners {

    @EventListener({ContextRefreshedEvent.class})
    void contextRefreshedEvent() {
        System.out.println("a context refreshed event happened");
    }
}

how to display data values on Chart.js

Late edit: there is an official plugin for Chart.js 2.7.0+ to do this: https://github.com/chartjs/chartjs-plugin-datalabels

Original answer:

You can loop through the points / bars onAnimationComplete and display the values


Preview

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HTML

<canvas id="myChart1" height="300" width="500"></canvas>
<canvas id="myChart2" height="300" width="500"></canvas>

Script

var chartData = {
    labels: ["January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June"],
    datasets: [
        {
            fillColor: "#79D1CF",
            strokeColor: "#79D1CF",
            data: [60, 80, 81, 56, 55, 40]
        }
    ]
};

var ctx = document.getElementById("myChart1").getContext("2d");
var myLine = new Chart(ctx).Line(chartData, {
    showTooltips: false,
    onAnimationComplete: function () {

        var ctx = this.chart.ctx;
        ctx.font = this.scale.font;
        ctx.fillStyle = this.scale.textColor
        ctx.textAlign = "center";
        ctx.textBaseline = "bottom";

        this.datasets.forEach(function (dataset) {
            dataset.points.forEach(function (points) {
                ctx.fillText(points.value, points.x, points.y - 10);
            });
        })
    }
});

var ctx = document.getElementById("myChart2").getContext("2d");
var myBar = new Chart(ctx).Bar(chartData, {
    showTooltips: false,
    onAnimationComplete: function () {

        var ctx = this.chart.ctx;
        ctx.font = this.scale.font;
        ctx.fillStyle = this.scale.textColor
        ctx.textAlign = "center";
        ctx.textBaseline = "bottom";

        this.datasets.forEach(function (dataset) {
            dataset.bars.forEach(function (bar) {
                ctx.fillText(bar.value, bar.x, bar.y - 5);
            });
        })
    }
});

Fiddle - http://jsfiddle.net/uh9vw0ao/

How do I get a substring of a string in Python?

a="Helloo"
print(a[:-1])

In the above code, [:-1] declares to print from the starting till the maximum limit-1.

OUTPUT :

>>> Hello

Note: Here a [:-1] is also the same as a [0:-1] and a [0:len(a)-1]

a="I Am Siva"
print(a[2:])

OUTPUT:

>>> Am Siva

In the above code a [2:] declares to print a from index 2 till the last element.

Remember that if you set the maximum limit to print a string, as (x) then it will print the string till (x-1) and also remember that the index of a list or string will always start from 0.

How to check if a String contains another String in a case insensitive manner in Java?

String x="abCd";
System.out.println(Pattern.compile("c",Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE).matcher(x).find());

What does the "@" symbol do in Powershell?

You can also wrap the output of a cmdlet (or pipeline) in @() to ensure that what you get back is an array rather than a single item.

For instance, dir usually returns a list, but depending on the options, it might return a single object. If you are planning on iterating through the results with a foreach-object, you need to make sure you get a list back. Here's a contrived example:

$results = @( dir c:\autoexec.bat)

One more thing... an empty array (like to initialize a variable) is denoted @().

iptables v1.4.14: can't initialize iptables table `nat': Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?)

If you are running puppet it may set /proc/sys/kernel/modules_disabled to 1, inhibiting further module loading. When the machine is reboot, it gets set back to 0, allowing for changes, such as loading the iptables modules. After a certain amount of time puppet will set it back to 1 to protect the system from kernel root kits. Therefore, whatever modules that we are going to need should be loaded during or shortly after boot time.

List files with certain extensions with ls and grep

For OSX users:

If you use ls *.{mp3,exe,mp4}, it will throw an error if one of those extensions has no results.

Using ls *.(mp3|exe|mp4) will return all files matching those extensions, even if one of the extensions had 0 results.

How can I delete one element from an array by value

Non-destructive removal of first occurrence:

a = [2, 4, 6, 3, 8]
n = a.index 3
a.take(n)+a.drop(n+1)

python: [Errno 10054] An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host

This can be caused by the two sides of the connection disagreeing over whether the connection timed out or not during a keepalive. (Your code tries to reused the connection just as the server is closing it because it has been idle for too long.) You should basically just retry the operation over a new connection. (I'm surprised your library doesn't do this automatically.)

How to get number of rows inserted by a transaction

You can use @@trancount in MSSQL

From the documentation:

Returns the number of BEGIN TRANSACTION statements that have occurred on the current connection.

Finding element in XDocument?

You can do it this way:

xml.Descendants().SingleOrDefault(p => p.Name.LocalName == "Name of the node to find")

where xml is a XDocument.

Be aware that the property Name returns an object that has a LocalName and a Namespace. That's why you have to use Name.LocalName if you want to compare by name.

How do I determine the size of an object in Python?

If you don't need the exact size of the object but roughly to know how big it is, one quick (and dirty) way is to let the program run, sleep for an extended period of time, and check the memory usage (ex: Mac's activity monitor) by this particular python process. This would be effective when you are trying to find the size of one single large object in a python process. For example, I recently wanted to check the memory usage of a new data structure and compare it with that of Python's set data structure. First I wrote the elements (words from a large public domain book) to a set, then checked the size of the process, and then did the same thing with the other data structure. I found out the Python process with a set is taking twice as much memory as the new data structure. Again, you wouldn't be able to exactly say the memory used by the process is equal to the size of the object. As the size of the object gets large, this becomes close as the memory consumed by the rest of the process becomes negligible compared to the size of the object you are trying to monitor.

Importing CSV data using PHP/MySQL

Database Connection:

 try {
        $conn = mysqli_connect($servername, $username, $password, $db);
        //echo "Connected successfully"; 
    } catch (exception $e) {
        echo "Connection failed: " . $e->getMessage();
    }

Code to read CSV file and upload to table in database.

   $file = fopen($filename, "r");
            while (($getData = fgetcsv($file, 10000, ",")) !== FALSE) {
                $sql = "INSERT into db_table 
                   values ('','" . $getData[1] . "','" . $getData[2] . "','" . $getData[3] . "','" . $getData[4] . "','" . $getData[5] . "','" . $getData[6] . "')";
                $result = mysqli_query($conn, $sql);
                if (!isset($result)) {
                    echo "<script type=\"text/javascript\">
                            alert(\"Invalid File:Please Upload CSV File. 
                            window.location = \"home.do\"
                          </script>";
                } else {
                    echo "<script type=\"text/javascript\">
                        alert(\"CSV File has been successfully Imported.\");
                        window.location = \"home.do\"
                    </script>";
                }
            }
            fclose($file);

How do I POST form data with UTF-8 encoding by using curl?

You CAN use UTF-8 in the POST request, all you need is to specify the charset in your request.

You should use this request:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8" --data-ascii "content=derinhält&date=asdf" http://myserverurl.com/api/v1/somemethod

How do I determine if my python shell is executing in 32bit or 64bit?

Do a python -VV in the command line. It should return the version.

Loop until a specific user input

As an alternative to @Mark Byers' approach, you can use while True:

guess = 50     # this should be outside the loop, I think
while True:    # infinite loop
    n = raw_input("\n\nTrue, False or Correct?: ")
    if n == "Correct":
        break  # stops the loop
    elif n == "True":
        # etc.

Default value in Go's method

NO,but there are some other options to implement default value. There are some good blog posts on the subject, but here are some specific examples.


**Option 1:** The caller chooses to use default values
// Both parameters are optional, use empty string for default value
func Concat1(a string, b int) string {
  if a == "" {
    a = "default-a"
  }
  if b == 0 {
    b = 5
  }

  return fmt.Sprintf("%s%d", a, b)
}

**Option 2:** A single optional parameter at the end
// a is required, b is optional.
// Only the first value in b_optional will be used.
func Concat2(a string, b_optional ...int) string {
  b := 5
  if len(b_optional) > 0 {
    b = b_optional[0]
  }

  return fmt.Sprintf("%s%d", a, b)
}

**Option 3:** A config struct
// A declarative default value syntax
// Empty values will be replaced with defaults
type Parameters struct {
  A string `default:"default-a"` // this only works with strings
  B string // default is 5
}

func Concat3(prm Parameters) string {
  typ := reflect.TypeOf(prm)

  if prm.A == "" {
    f, _ := typ.FieldByName("A")
    prm.A = f.Tag.Get("default")
  }

  if prm.B == 0 {
    prm.B = 5
  }

  return fmt.Sprintf("%s%d", prm.A, prm.B)
}

**Option 4:** Full variadic argument parsing (javascript style)
func Concat4(args ...interface{}) string {
  a := "default-a"
  b := 5

  for _, arg := range args {
    switch t := arg.(type) {
      case string:
        a = t
      case int:
        b = t
      default:
        panic("Unknown argument")
    }
  }

  return fmt.Sprintf("%s%d", a, b)
}

Font size relative to the user's screen resolution?

I've created a variant of https://stackoverflow.com/a/17845473/189411

where you can set min and max text size in relation of min and max size of box that you want "check" size. In addition you can check size of dom element different than box where you want apply text size.

You resize text between 19px and 25px on #size-2 element, based on 500px and 960px width of #size-2 element

resizeTextInRange(500,960,19,25,'#size-2');

You resize text between 13px and 20px on #size-1 element, based on 500px and 960px width of body element

resizeTextInRange(500,960,13,20,'#size-1','body');

complete code are there https://github.com/kiuz/sandbox-html-js-css/tree/gh-pages/text-resize-in-range-of-text-and-screen/src

function inRange (x,min,max) {
    return Math.min(Math.max(x, min), max);
}

function resizeTextInRange(minW,maxW,textMinS,textMaxS, elementApply, elementCheck=0) {

    if(elementCheck==0){elementCheck=elementApply;}

    var ww = $(elementCheck).width();
    var difW = maxW-minW;
    var difT = textMaxS- textMinS;
    var rapW = (ww-minW);
    var out=(difT/100)*(rapW/(difW/100))+textMinS;
    var normalizedOut = inRange(out, textMinS, textMaxS);
    $(elementApply).css('font-size',normalizedOut+'px');

    console.log(normalizedOut);

}

$(function () {
    resizeTextInRange(500,960,19,25,'#size-2');
    resizeTextInRange(500,960,13,20,'#size-1','body');
    $(window).resize(function () {
        resizeTextInRange(500,960,19,25,'#size-2');
        resizeTextInRange(500,960,13,20,'#size-1','body');
    });
});

How do I get sed to read from standard input?

To make sed catch from stdin , instead of from a file, you should use -e.

Like this:

curl -k -u admin:admin https://$HOSTNAME:9070/api/tm/3.8/status/$HOSTNAME/statistics/traffic_ips/trafc_ip/ | sed -e 's/["{}]//g' |sed -e 's/[]]//g' |sed -e 's/[\[]//g' |awk  'BEGIN{FS=":"} {print $4}'

Avoid line break between html elements

There are several ways to prevent line breaks in content. Using &nbsp; is one way, and works fine between words, but using it between an empty element and some text does not have a well-defined effect. The same would apply to the more logical and more accessible approach where you use an image for an icon.

The most robust alternative is to use nobr markup, which is nonstandard but universally supported and works even when CSS is disabled:

<td><nobr><i class="flag-bfh-ES"></i> +34 666 66 66 66</nobr></td>

(You can, but need not, use &nbsp; instead of spaces in this case.)

Another way is the nowrap attribute (deprecated/obsolete, but still working fine, except for some rare quirks):

<td nowrap><i class="flag-bfh-ES"></i> +34 666 66 66 66</td>

Then there’s the CSS way, which works in CSS enabled browsers and needs a bit more code:

<style>
.nobr { white-space: nowrap }
</style>
...
<td class=nobr><i class="flag-bfh-ES"></i> +34 666 66 66 66</td>

Unable to execute dex: method ID not in [0, 0xffff]: 65536

I've shared a sample project which solve this problem using custom_rules.xml build script and a few lines of code.

I used it on my own project and it is runs flawless on 1M+ devices (from android-8 to the latest android-19). Hope it helps.

https://github.com/mmin18/Dex65536

What is the difference between "::" "." and "->" in c++

Others have answered the different syntaxes, but please note, when you are doing your couts, you are only using ->:

int main()
{
    Kwadrat* kwadrat = new Kwadrat(1,2,3);
    cout<<kwadrat->val1<<endl;
    cout<<kwadrat->val2<<endl;
    cout<<kwadrat->val3<<endl;
    return 0;
}

How to get column values in one comma separated value

You tagged the question with both sql-server and plsql so I will provide answers for both SQL Server and Oracle.

In SQL Server you can use FOR XML PATH to concatenate multiple rows together:

select distinct t.[user],
  STUFF((SELECT distinct ', ' + t1.department
         from yourtable t1
         where t.[user] = t1.[user]
            FOR XML PATH(''), TYPE
            ).value('.', 'NVARCHAR(MAX)') 
        ,1,2,'') department
from yourtable t;

See SQL Fiddle with Demo.

In Oracle 11g+ you can use LISTAGG:

select "User",
  listagg(department, ',') within group (order by "User") as departments
from yourtable
group by "User"

See SQL Fiddle with Demo

Prior to Oracle 11g, you could use the wm_concat function:

select "User",
  wm_concat(department) departments
from yourtable
group by "User"

What is the difference between UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1?

  • ASCII: 7 bits. 128 code points.

  • ISO-8859-1: 8 bits. 256 code points.

  • UTF-8: 8-32 bits (1-4 bytes). 1,112,064 code points.

Both ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 are backwards compatible with ASCII, but UTF-8 is not backwards compatible with ISO-8859-1:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

c = chr(0xa9)
print(c)
print(c.encode('utf-8'))
print(c.encode('iso-8859-1'))

Output:

©
b'\xc2\xa9'
b'\xa9'

Disabling enter key for form

Just add following code in <Head> Tag in your HTML Code. It will Form submission on Enter Key For all fields on form.

<script type="text/javascript">
    function stopEnterKey(evt) {
        var evt = (evt) ? evt : ((event) ? event : null);
        var node = (evt.target) ? evt.target : ((evt.srcElement) ? evt.srcElement : null);
        if ((evt.keyCode == 13) && (node.type == "text")) { return false; }
    }
    document.onkeypress = stopEnterKey;
</script>

Argument Exception "Item with Same Key has already been added"

To illustrate the problem you are having, let's look at some code...

Dictionary<string, string> test = new Dictionary<string, string>();

test.Add("Key1", "Value1");  // Works fine
test.Add("Key2", "Value2");  // Works fine
test.Add("Key1", "Value3");  // Fails because of duplicate key

The reason that a dictionary has a key/value pair is a feature so you can do this...

var myString = test["Key2"];  // myString is now Value2.

If Dictionary had 2 Key2's, it wouldn't know which one to return, so it limits you to a unique key.

PHP check file extension

$path = 'image.jpg';
echo substr(strrchr($path, "."), 1); //jpg

if variable contains

if (code.indexOf("ST1")>=0) { location = "stoke central"; }

C# string replace

Try this:

line.Replace("\",\"", ";")

What is the correct "-moz-appearance" value to hide dropdown arrow of a <select> element

Update: this was fixed in Firefox v35. See the full gist for details.


== how to hide the select arrow in Firefox ==

Just figured out how to do it. The trick is to use a mix of -prefix-appearance, text-indent and text-overflow. It is pure CSS and requires no extra markup.

select {
    -moz-appearance: none;
    text-indent: 0.01px;
    text-overflow: '';
}

Long story short, by pushing it a tiny bit to the right, the overflow gets rid of the arrow. Pretty neat, huh?

More details on this gist I just wrote. Tested on Ubuntu, Mac and Windows, all with recent Firefox versions.

VB6 IDE cannot load MSCOMCTL.OCX after update KB 2687323

I use win7 and has same problem. Today I solved this problem, through loading with many error with my project just give order to continue after that goto Project=> Component => Microsoft Windows Common Controls 6.0 (SP6) then save the project (file use was c:\windows\syswow64\mscomctl.ocx)

Getting a Request.Headers value

Firstly you don't do this in your view. You do it in the controller and return a view model to the view so that the view doesn't need to care about custom HTTP headers but just displaying data on the view model:

public ActionResult Index()
{
    var xyzComponent = Request.Headers["xyzComponent"];
    var model = new MyModel 
    {
        IsCustomHeaderSet = (xyzComponent != null)
    }
    return View(model);
}

How to start new line with space for next line in Html.fromHtml for text view in android

use <br/> tag

Example:

<string name="copyright"><b>@</b> 2014 <br/>
Corporation.<br/>
<i>All rights reserved.</i></string>

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

Java 10 did get local variable type inference, so now it has var which is pretty much equivalent to the C# one (so far as I am aware).

It can also infer non-denotable types (types which couldn't be named in that place by the programmer; though which types are non-denotable is different). See e.g. Tricks with var and anonymous classes (that you should never use at work).

The one difference I could find is that in C#,

If a type named var is in scope, then the var keyword will resolve to that type name and will not be treated as part of an implicitly typed local variable declaration.

In Java 10 var is not a legal type name.

Powershell import-module doesn't find modules

The module needs to be placed in a folder with the same name as the module. In your case:

$home/WindowsPowerShell/Modules/XMLHelpers/

The full path would be:

$home/WindowsPowerShell/Modules/XMLHelpers/XMLHelpers.psm1

You would then be able to do:

import-module XMLHelpers

Call a Javascript function every 5 seconds continuously

For repeating an action in the future, there is the built in setInterval function that you can use instead of setTimeout.
It has a similar signature, so the transition from one to another is simple:

setInterval(function() {
    // do stuff
}, duration);

Deserializing JSON Object Array with Json.net

You can create a new model to Deserialize your Json CustomerJson:

public class CustomerJson
{
    [JsonProperty("customer")]
    public Customer Customer { get; set; }
}

public class Customer
{
    [JsonProperty("first_name")]
    public string Firstname { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("last_name")]
    public string Lastname { get; set; }

    ...
}

And you can deserialize your json easily :

JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<CustomerJson>>(json);

Hope it helps !

Documentation: Serializing and Deserializing JSON

How to make a <ul> display in a horizontal row

Set the display property to inline for the list you want this to apply to. There's a good explanation of displaying lists on A List Apart.

Update some specific field of an entity in android Room

I want to know how can I update some field(not all) like method 1 where id = 1

Use @Query, as you did in Method 2.

is too long query in my case because I have many field in my entity

Then have smaller entities. Or, do not update fields individually, but instead have more coarse-grained interactions with the database.

IOW, there is nothing in Room itself that will do what you seek.

UPDATE 2020-09-15: Room now has partial entity support, which can help with this scenario. See this answer for more.

Split data frame string column into multiple columns

Here is a base R one liner that overlaps a number of previous solutions, but returns a data.frame with the proper names.

out <- setNames(data.frame(before$attr,
                  do.call(rbind, strsplit(as.character(before$type),
                                          split="_and_"))),
                  c("attr", paste0("type_", 1:2)))
out
  attr type_1 type_2
1    1    foo    bar
2   30    foo  bar_2
3    4    foo    bar
4    6    foo  bar_2

It uses strsplit to break up the variable, and data.frame with do.call/rbind to put the data back into a data.frame. The additional incremental improvement is the use of setNames to add variable names to the data.frame.

Hibernate error - QuerySyntaxException: users is not mapped [from users]

I got this issue when i replaced old hibernate-core library with hibernate-core-5.2.12. However all my configuration was ok. And i fixed this issue by creating sessionfactory this way:

private static SessionFactory buildsSessionFactory() {
    try {
        if (sessionFactory == null) {
            StandardServiceRegistry standardRegistry = new StandardServiceRegistryBuilder()
                    .configure("/hibernate.cfg.xml").build();
            Metadata metaData = new MetadataSources(standardRegistry)
                    .getMetadataBuilder().build();
            sessionFactory = metaData.getSessionFactoryBuilder().build();
        }
        return sessionFactory;
    } catch (Throwable th) {

        System.err.println("Enitial SessionFactory creation failed" + th);

        throw new ExceptionInInitializerError(th);

    }
}

Hope it helps someone

Currently running queries in SQL Server

I use the below query

SELECT   SPID       = er.session_id
    ,STATUS         = ses.STATUS
    ,[Login]        = ses.login_name
    ,Host           = ses.host_name
    ,BlkBy          = er.blocking_session_id
    ,DBName         = DB_Name(er.database_id)
    ,CommandType    = er.command
    ,ObjectName     = OBJECT_NAME(st.objectid)
    ,CPUTime        = er.cpu_time
    ,StartTime      = er.start_time
    ,TimeElapsed    = CAST(GETDATE() - er.start_time AS TIME)
    ,SQLStatement   = st.text
FROM    sys.dm_exec_requests er
    OUTER APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(er.sql_handle) st
    LEFT JOIN sys.dm_exec_sessions ses
    ON ses.session_id = er.session_id
LEFT JOIN sys.dm_exec_connections con
    ON con.session_id = ses.session_id
WHERE   st.text IS NOT NULL

How to start an Android application from the command line?

Example here.

Pasted below:

This is about how to launch android application from the adb shell.

Command: am

Look for invoking path in AndroidManifest.xml

Browser app::

# am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.android.browser/.BrowserActivity
Starting: Intent { action=android.intent.action.MAIN comp={com.android.browser/com.android.browser.BrowserActivity} }
Warning: Activity not started, its current task has been brought to the front

Settings app::

# am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.android.settings/.Settings
Starting: Intent { action=android.intent.action.MAIN comp={com.android.settings/com.android.settings.Settings} }

Excel VBA For Each Worksheet Loop

Try this more succinct code:

Sub LoopOverEachColumn()
    Dim WS As Worksheet
    For Each WS In ThisWorkbook.Worksheets
        ResizeColumns WS
    Next WS
End Sub

Private Sub ResizeColumns(WS As Worksheet)
    Dim StrSize As String
    Dim ColIter As Long
    StrSize = "20.14;9.71;35.86;30.57;23.57;21.43;18.43;23.86;27.43;36.71;30.29;31.14;31;41.14;33.86"
    For ColIter = 1 To 15
        WS.Columns(ColIter).ColumnWidth = Split(StrSize, ";")(ColIter - 1)
    Next ColIter
End Sub

If you want additional columns, just change 1 to 15 to 1 to X where X is the column index of the column you want, and append the column size you want to StrSize.

For example, if you want P:P to have a width of 25, just add ;25 to StrSize and change ColIter... to ColIter = 1 to 16.

Hope this helps.

What is an idiomatic way of representing enums in Go?

As of Go 1.4, the go generate tool has been introduced together with the stringer command that makes your enum easily debuggable and printable.

How do I lowercase a string in C?

If you need Unicode support in the lower case function see this question: Light C Unicode Library

The term 'ng' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet

In the "Environment Variables"

In the "System variables" section

In the "Path" variable and before "C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\" add => "%AppData%\npm"

Difference between thread's context class loader and normal classloader

There is an article on javaworld.com that explains the difference => Which ClassLoader should you use

(1)

Thread context classloaders provide a back door around the classloading delegation scheme.

Take JNDI for instance: its guts are implemented by bootstrap classes in rt.jar (starting with J2SE 1.3), but these core JNDI classes may load JNDI providers implemented by independent vendors and potentially deployed in the application's -classpath. This scenario calls for a parent classloader (the primordial one in this case) to load a class visible to one of its child classloaders (the system one, for example). Normal J2SE delegation does not work, and the workaround is to make the core JNDI classes use thread context loaders, thus effectively "tunneling" through the classloader hierarchy in the direction opposite to the proper delegation.

(2) from the same source:

This confusion will probably stay with Java for some time. Take any J2SE API with dynamic resource loading of any kind and try to guess which loading strategy it uses. Here is a sampling:

  • JNDI uses context classloaders
  • Class.getResource() and Class.forName() use the current classloader
  • JAXP uses context classloaders (as of J2SE 1.4)
  • java.util.ResourceBundle uses the caller's current classloader
  • URL protocol handlers specified via java.protocol.handler.pkgs system property are looked up in the bootstrap and system classloaders only
  • Java Serialization API uses the caller's current classloader by default

Objective-C - Remove last character from string

The documentation is your friend, NSString supports a call substringWithRange that can shorten the string that you have an return the shortened String. You cannot modify an instance of NSString it is immutable. If you have an NSMutableString is has a method called deleteCharactersInRange that can modify the string in place

...
NSRange r;
r.location = 0;
r.size = [mutable length]-1;
NSString* shorted = [stringValue substringWithRange:r];
...

Dynamically add event listener

I will add a StackBlitz example and a comment to the answer from @tahiche.

The return value is a function to remove the event listener after you have added it. It is considered good practice to remove event listeners when you don't need them anymore. So you can store this return value and call it inside your ngOnDestroy method.

I admit that it might seem confusing at first, but it is actually a very useful feature. How else can you clean up after yourself?

export class MyComponent implements OnInit, OnDestroy {

  public removeEventListener: () => void;

  constructor(
    private renderer: Renderer2, 
    private elementRef: ElementRef
  ) {
  }

  public ngOnInit() {
    this.removeEventListener = this.renderer.listen(this.elementRef.nativeElement, 'click', (event) => {
      if (event.target instanceof HTMLAnchorElement) {
        // Prevent opening anchors the default way
        event.preventDefault();
        // Your custom anchor click event handler
        this.handleAnchorClick(event);
      }
    });
  }

  public ngOnDestroy() {
    this.removeEventListener();
  }
}

You can find a StackBlitz here to show how this could work for catching clicking on anchor elements.

I added a body with an image as follows:
<img src="x" onerror="alert(1)"></div>
to show that the sanitizer is doing its job.

Here in this fiddle you find the same body attached to an innerHTML without sanitizing it and it will demonstrate the issue.

What bitrate is used for each of the youtube video qualities (360p - 1080p), in regards to flowplayer?

Looking at this official google link: Youtube Live encoder settings, bitrates and resolutions they have this table:

                   240p       360p        480p        720p        1080p
Resolution      426 x 240   640 x 360   854x480     1280x720    1920x1080
Video Bitrates                   
Maximum         700 Kbps    1000 Kbps   2000 Kbps   4000 Kbps   6000 Kbps
Recommended     400 Kbps    750 Kbps    1000 Kbps   2500 Kbps   4500 Kbps
Minimum         300 Kbps    400 Kbps    500 Kbps    1500 Kbps   3000 Kbps

It would appear as though this is the case, although the numbers dont sync up to the google table above:

// the bitrates, video width and file names for this clip
      bitrates: [
        { url: "bbb-800.mp4", width: 480, bitrate: 800 }, //360p video
        { url: "bbb-1200.mp4", width: 720, bitrate: 1200 }, //480p video
        { url: "bbb-1600.mp4", width: 1080, bitrate: 1600 } //720p video
      ],

How to encrypt a large file in openssl using public key

Maybe you should check out the accepted answer to this (How to encrypt data in php using Public/Private keys?) question.

Instead of manually working around the message size limitation (or perhaps a trait) of RSA, it shows how to use the S/mime feature of OpenSSL to do the same thing and not needing to juggle with the symmetric key manually.