Programs & Examples On #Interaction

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How to prevent Google Colab from disconnecting?

Well I am not a python guy nor I know what is the actual use of this 'Colab', I use it as a build system lol. And I used to setup ssh forwarding in it then put this code and just leave it running and yeah it works.

import getpass
authtoken = getpass.getpass()

HTML5 Video autoplay on iPhone

Does playsinline attribute help?

Here's what I have:

<video autoplay loop muted playsinline class="video-background ">
  <source src="videos/intro-video3.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video>

See the comment on playsinline here: https://webkit.org/blog/6784/new-video-policies-for-ios/

Error: the entity type requires a primary key

I came here with similar error:

System.InvalidOperationException: 'The entity type 'MyType' requires a primary key to be defined.'

After reading answer by hvd, realized I had simply forgotten to make my key property 'public'. This..

namespace MyApp.Models.Schedule
{
    public class MyType
    {
        [Key]
        int Id { get; set; }

        // ...

Should be this..

namespace MyApp.Models.Schedule
{
    public class MyType
    {
        [Key]
        public int Id { get; set; }  // must be public!

        // ...

Scrolling to element using webdriver?

This can be done using driver.execute_script():-

driver.execute_script("document.getElementById('myelementid').scrollIntoView();")

How do I detect if a user is already logged in Firebase?

One another way is to use the same thing what firebase uses.

For example when user logs in, firebase stores below details in local storage. When user comes back to the page, firebase uses the same method to identify if user should be logged in automatically.

enter image description here

ATTN: As this is neither listed or recommended by firebase. You can call this method un-official way of doing this. Which means later if firebase changes their inner working, this method may not work. Or in short. Use at your own risk! :)

How to hide a mobile browser's address bar?

The easiest way to archive browser address bar hiding on page scroll is to add "display": "standalone", to manifest.json file.

How do I pass data to Angular routed components?

Solution with ActiveRoute (if you want pass object by route - use JSON.stringfy/JSON.parse):

Prepare object before sending:

export class AdminUserListComponent {

  users : User[];

  constructor( private router : Router) { }

  modifyUser(i) {

    let navigationExtras: NavigationExtras = {
      queryParams: {
          "user": JSON.stringify(this.users[i])
      }
    };

    this.router.navigate(["admin/user/edit"],  navigationExtras);
  }

}

Receive your object in destination component:

export class AdminUserEditComponent  {

  userWithRole: UserWithRole;      

  constructor( private route: ActivatedRoute) {}

  ngOnInit(): void {
    super.ngOnInit();

      this.route.queryParams.subscribe(params => {
        this.userWithRole.user = JSON.parse(params["user"]);
      });
  }

}

Basic example for sharing text or image with UIActivityViewController in Swift

You may use the following functions which I wrote in one of my helper class in a project.

just call

showShareActivity(msg:"message", image: nil, url: nil, sourceRect: nil) 

and it will work for both iPhone and iPad. If you pass any view's CGRect value by sourceRect it will also shows a little arrow in iPad.

func topViewController()-> UIViewController{
    var topViewController:UIViewController = UIApplication.shared.keyWindow!.rootViewController!

    while ((topViewController.presentedViewController) != nil) {
        topViewController = topViewController.presentedViewController!;
    }

    return topViewController
}

func showShareActivity(msg:String?, image:UIImage?, url:String?, sourceRect:CGRect?){
    var objectsToShare = [AnyObject]()

    if let url = url {
        objectsToShare = [url as AnyObject]
    }

    if let image = image {
        objectsToShare = [image as AnyObject]
    }

    if let msg = msg {
        objectsToShare = [msg as AnyObject]
    }

    let activityVC = UIActivityViewController(activityItems: objectsToShare, applicationActivities: nil)
    activityVC.modalPresentationStyle = .popover
    activityVC.popoverPresentationController?.sourceView = topViewController().view
    if let sourceRect = sourceRect {
        activityVC.popoverPresentationController?.sourceRect = sourceRect
    }

    topViewController().present(activityVC, animated: true, completion: nil)
}

Effectively use async/await with ASP.NET Web API

You are not leveraging async / await effectively because the request thread will be blocked while executing the synchronous method ReturnAllCountries()

The thread that is assigned to handle a request will be idly waiting while ReturnAllCountries() does it's work.

If you can implement ReturnAllCountries() to be asynchronous, then you would see scalability benefits. This is because the thread could be released back to the .NET thread pool to handle another request, while ReturnAllCountries() is executing. This would allow your service to have higher throughput, by utilizing threads more efficiently.

Plot inline or a separate window using Matplotlib in Spyder IDE

Go to Tools >> Preferences >> IPython console >> Graphics >> Backend:Inline, change "Inline" to "Automatic", click "OK"

Reset the kernel at the console, and the plot will appear in a separate window

Swift addsubview and remove it

You have to use the viewWithTag function to find the view with the given tag.

override func touchesBegan(touches: NSSet, withEvent event: UIEvent) {
    let touch = touches.anyObject() as UITouch
    let point = touch.locationInView(self.view)

    if let viewWithTag = self.view.viewWithTag(100) {
        print("Tag 100")
        viewWithTag.removeFromSuperview()
    } else {
        print("tag not found")
    }
}

Null pointer Exception on .setOnClickListener

Submit is null because it is not part of activity_main.xml

When you call findViewById inside an Activity, it is going to look for a View inside your Activity's layout.

try this instead :

Submit = (Button)loginDialog.findViewById(R.id.Submit);

Another thing : you use

android:layout_below="@+id/LoginTitle"

but what you want is probably

android:layout_below="@id/LoginTitle"

See this question about the difference between @id and @+id.

Cannot catch toolbar home button click event

In my case I had to put the icon using:

toolbar.setNavigationIcon(R.drawable.ic_my_home);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true);
getSupportActionBar().setHomeButtonEnabled(true);

And then listen to click events with default onOptionsItemSelected and android.R.id.home id

How to implement OnFragmentInteractionListener

For those of you who visit this page looking for further clarification on this error, in my case the activity making the call to the fragment needed to have 2 implements in this case, like this:

public class MyActivity extends Activity implements 
    MyFragment.OnFragmentInteractionListener, 
    NavigationDrawerFragment.NaviationDrawerCallbacks {
    ...// rest of the code
}

How can I have two fixed width columns with one flexible column in the center?

Instead of using width (which is a suggestion when using flexbox), you could use flex: 0 0 230px; which means:

  • 0 = don't grow (shorthand for flex-grow)
  • 0 = don't shrink (shorthand for flex-shrink)
  • 230px = start at 230px (shorthand for flex-basis)

which means: always be 230px.

See fiddle, thanks @TylerH

Oh, and you don't need the justify-content and align-items here.

img {
    max-width: 100%;
}
#container {
    display: flex;
    x-justify-content: space-around;
    x-align-items: stretch;
    max-width: 1200px;
}
.column.left {
    width: 230px;
    flex: 0 0 230px;
}
.column.right {
    width: 230px;
    flex: 0 0 230px;
    border-left: 1px solid #eee;
}
.column.center {
    border-left: 1px solid #eee;
}

How to test Spring Data repositories?

tl;dr

To make it short - there's no way to unit test Spring Data JPA repositories reasonably for a simple reason: it's way to cumbersome to mock all the parts of the JPA API we invoke to bootstrap the repositories. Unit tests don't make too much sense here anyway, as you're usually not writing any implementation code yourself (see the below paragraph on custom implementations) so that integration testing is the most reasonable approach.

Details

We do quite a lot of upfront validation and setup to make sure you can only bootstrap an app that has no invalid derived queries etc.

  • We create and cache CriteriaQuery instances for derived queries to make sure the query methods do not contain any typos. This requires working with the Criteria API as well as the meta.model.
  • We verify manually defined queries by asking the EntityManager to create a Query instance for those (which effectively triggers query syntax validation).
  • We inspect the Metamodel for meta-data about the domain types handled to prepare is-new checks etc.

All stuff that you'd probably defer in a hand-written repository which might cause the application to break at runtime (due to invalid queries etc.).

If you think about it, there's no code you write for your repositories, so there's no need to write any unittests. There's simply no need to as you can rely on our test base to catch basic bugs (if you still happen to run into one, feel free to raise a ticket). However, there's definitely need for integration tests to test two aspects of your persistence layer as they are the aspects that related to your domain:

  • entity mappings
  • query semantics (syntax is verified on each bootstrap attempt anyway).

Integration tests

This is usually done by using an in-memory database and test cases that bootstrap a Spring ApplicationContext usually through the test context framework (as you already do), pre-populate the database (by inserting object instances through the EntityManager or repo, or via a plain SQL file) and then execute the query methods to verify the outcome of them.

Testing custom implementations

Custom implementation parts of the repository are written in a way that they don't have to know about Spring Data JPA. They are plain Spring beans that get an EntityManager injected. You might of course wanna try to mock the interactions with it but to be honest, unit-testing the JPA has not been a too pleasant experience for us as well as it works with quite a lot of indirections (EntityManager -> CriteriaBuilder, CriteriaQuery etc.) so that you end up with mocks returning mocks and so on.

How are people unit testing with Entity Framework 6, should you bother?

In order to unit test code that relies on your database you need to setup a database or mock for each and every test.

  1. Having a database (real or mocked) with a single state for all your tests will bite you quickly; you cannot test all records are valid and some aren't from the same data.
  2. Setting up an in-memory database in a OneTimeSetup will have issues where the old database is not cleared down before the next test starts up. This will show as tests working when you run them individually, but failing when you run them all.
  3. A Unit test should ideally only set what affects the test

I am working in an application that has a lot of tables with a lot of connections and some massive Linq blocks. These need testing. A simple grouping missed, or a join that results in more than 1 row will affect results.

To deal with this I have setup a heavy Unit Test Helper that is a lot of work to setup, but enables us to reliably mock the database in any state, and running 48 tests against 55 interconnected tables, with the entire database setup 48 times takes 4.7 seconds.

Here's how:

  1. In the Db context class ensure each table class is set to virtual

    public virtual DbSet<Branch> Branches { get; set; }
    public virtual DbSet<Warehouse> Warehouses { get; set; }
    
  2. In a UnitTestHelper class create a method to setup your database. Each table class is an optional parameter. If not supplied, it will be created through a Make method

    internal static Db Bootstrap(bool onlyMockPassedTables = false, List<Branch> branches = null, List<Products> products = null, List<Warehouses> warehouses = null)
    {
        if (onlyMockPassedTables == false) {
            branches ??= new List<Branch> { MakeBranch() };
            warehouses ??= new List<Warehouse>{ MakeWarehouse() };
        }
    
  3. For each table class, each object in it is mapped to the other lists

        branches?.ForEach(b => {
            b.Warehouse = warehouses.FirstOrDefault(w => w.ID == b.WarehouseID);
        });
    
        warehouses?.ForEach(w => {
            w.Branches = branches.Where(b => b.WarehouseID == w.ID);
        });
    
  4. And add it to the DbContext

         var context = new Db(new DbContextOptionsBuilder<Db>().UseInMemoryDatabase(Guid.NewGuid().ToString()).Options);
         context.Branches.AddRange(branches);
         context.Warehouses.AddRange(warehouses);
         context.SaveChanges();
         return context;
     }
    
  5. Define a list of IDs to make is easier to reuse them and make sure joins are valid

     internal const int BranchID = 1;
     internal const int WarehouseID = 2;
    
  6. Create a Make for each table to setup the most basic, but connected version it can be

     internal static Branch MakeBranch(int id = BranchID, string code = "The branch", int warehouseId = WarehouseID) => new Branch { ID = id, Code = code, WarehouseID = warehouseId };
     internal static Warehouse MakeWarehouse(int id = WarehouseID, string code = "B", string name = "My Big Warehouse") => new Warehouse { ID = id, Code = code, Name = name };
    

It's a lot of work, but it only needs doing once, and then your tests can be very focused because the rest of the database will be setup for it.

[Test]
[TestCase(new string [] {"ABC", "DEF"}, "ABC", ExpectedResult = 1)]
[TestCase(new string [] {"ABC", "BCD"}, "BC", ExpectedResult = 2)]
[TestCase(new string [] {"ABC"}, "EF", ExpectedResult = 0)]
[TestCase(new string[] { "ABC", "DEF" }, "abc", ExpectedResult = 1)]
public int Given_SearchingForBranchByName_Then_ReturnCount(string[] codesInDatabase, string searchString)
{
    // Arrange
    var branches = codesInDatabase.Select(x => UnitTestHelpers.MakeBranch(code: $"qqqq{x}qqq")).ToList();
    var db = UnitTestHelpers.Bootstrap(branches: branches);
    var service = new BranchService(db);

    // Act
    var result = service.SearchByName(searchString);

    // Assert
    return result.Count();
}

tap gesture recognizer - which object was tapped?

You should amend creation of the gesture recogniser to accept parameter (add colon ':')

UITapGestureRecognizer *letterTapRecognizer = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(highlightLetter:)];

And in your method highlightLetter: you can access the view attached to recogniser:

-(IBAction) highlightLetter:(UITapGestureRecognizer*)recognizer
{
    UIView *view = [recognizer view];
}

data.table vs dplyr: can one do something well the other can't or does poorly?

Here's my attempt at a comprehensive answer from the dplyr perspective, following the broad outline of Arun's answer (but somewhat rearranged based on differing priorities).

Syntax

There is some subjectivity to syntax, but I stand by my statement that the concision of data.table makes it harder to learn and harder to read. This is partly because dplyr is solving a much easier problem!

One really important thing that dplyr does for you is that it constrains your options. I claim that most single table problems can be solved with just five key verbs filter, select, mutate, arrange and summarise, along with a "by group" adverb. That constraint is a big help when you're learning data manipulation, because it helps order your thinking about the problem. In dplyr, each of these verbs is mapped to a single function. Each function does one job, and is easy to understand in isolation.

You create complexity by piping these simple operations together with %>%. Here's an example from one of the posts Arun linked to:

diamonds %>%
  filter(cut != "Fair") %>%
  group_by(cut) %>%
  summarize(
    AvgPrice = mean(price),
    MedianPrice = as.numeric(median(price)),
    Count = n()
  ) %>%
  arrange(desc(Count))

Even if you've never seen dplyr before (or even R!), you can still get the gist of what's happening because the functions are all English verbs. The disadvantage of English verbs is that they require more typing than [, but I think that can be largely mitigated by better autocomplete.

Here's the equivalent data.table code:

diamondsDT <- data.table(diamonds)
diamondsDT[
  cut != "Fair", 
  .(AvgPrice = mean(price),
    MedianPrice = as.numeric(median(price)),
    Count = .N
  ), 
  by = cut
][ 
  order(-Count) 
]

It's harder to follow this code unless you're already familiar with data.table. (I also couldn't figure out how to indent the repeated [ in a way that looks good to my eye). Personally, when I look at code I wrote 6 months ago, it's like looking at a code written by a stranger, so I've come to prefer straightforward, if verbose, code.

Two other minor factors that I think slightly decrease readability:

  • Since almost every data table operation uses [ you need additional context to figure out what's happening. For example, is x[y] joining two data tables or extracting columns from a data frame? This is only a small issue, because in well-written code the variable names should suggest what's happening.

  • I like that group_by() is a separate operation in dplyr. It fundamentally changes the computation so I think should be obvious when skimming the code, and it's easier to spot group_by() than the by argument to [.data.table.

I also like that the the pipe isn't just limited to just one package. You can start by tidying your data with tidyr, and finish up with a plot in ggvis. And you're not limited to the packages that I write - anyone can write a function that forms a seamless part of a data manipulation pipe. In fact, I rather prefer the previous data.table code rewritten with %>%:

diamonds %>% 
  data.table() %>% 
  .[cut != "Fair", 
    .(AvgPrice = mean(price),
      MedianPrice = as.numeric(median(price)),
      Count = .N
    ), 
    by = cut
  ] %>% 
  .[order(-Count)]

And the idea of piping with %>% is not limited to just data frames and is easily generalised to other contexts: interactive web graphics, web scraping, gists, run-time contracts, ...)

Memory and performance

I've lumped these together, because, to me, they're not that important. Most R users work with well under 1 million rows of data, and dplyr is sufficiently fast enough for that size of data that you're not aware of processing time. We optimise dplyr for expressiveness on medium data; feel free to use data.table for raw speed on bigger data.

The flexibility of dplyr also means that you can easily tweak performance characteristics using the same syntax. If the performance of dplyr with the data frame backend is not good enough for you, you can use the data.table backend (albeit with a somewhat restricted set of functionality). If the data you're working with doesn't fit in memory, then you can use a database backend.

All that said, dplyr performance will get better in the long-term. We'll definitely implement some of the great ideas of data.table like radix ordering and using the same index for joins & filters. We're also working on parallelisation so we can take advantage of multiple cores.

Features

A few things that we're planning to work on in 2015:

  • the readr package, to make it easy to get files off disk and in to memory, analogous to fread().

  • More flexible joins, including support for non-equi-joins.

  • More flexible grouping like bootstrap samples, rollups and more

I'm also investing time into improving R's database connectors, the ability to talk to web apis, and making it easier to scrape html pages.

Exception : mockito wanted but not invoked, Actually there were zero interactions with this mock

You need to inject mock inside the class you're testing. At the moment you're interacting with the real object, not with the mock one. You can fix the code in a following way:

void testAbc(){
     myClass.myObj = myInteface;
     myClass.abc();
     verify(myInterface).myMethodToBeVerified(new String("a"), new String("b"));
}

although it would be a wiser choice to extract all initialization code into @Before

@Before
void setUp(){
     myClass = new myClass();
     myClass.myObj = myInteface;
}

@Test
void testAbc(){
     myClass.abc();
     verify(myInterface).myMethodToBeVerified(new String("a"), new String("b"));
}

Entity Framework change connection at runtime

In my case I'm using the ObjectContext as opposed to the DbContext so I tweaked the code in the accepted answer for that purpose.

public static class ConnectionTools
{
    public static void ChangeDatabase(
        this ObjectContext source,
        string initialCatalog = "",
        string dataSource = "",
        string userId = "",
        string password = "",
        bool integratedSecuity = true,
        string configConnectionStringName = "")
    {
        try
        {
            // use the const name if it's not null, otherwise
            // using the convention of connection string = EF contextname
            // grab the type name and we're done
            var configNameEf = string.IsNullOrEmpty(configConnectionStringName)
                ? Source.GetType().Name
                : configConnectionStringName;

            // add a reference to System.Configuration
            var entityCnxStringBuilder = new EntityConnectionStringBuilder
                (System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager
                    .ConnectionStrings[configNameEf].ConnectionString);

            // init the sqlbuilder with the full EF connectionstring cargo
            var sqlCnxStringBuilder = new SqlConnectionStringBuilder
                (entityCnxStringBuilder.ProviderConnectionString);

            // only populate parameters with values if added
            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(initialCatalog))
                sqlCnxStringBuilder.InitialCatalog = initialCatalog;
            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(dataSource))
                sqlCnxStringBuilder.DataSource = dataSource;
            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(userId))
                sqlCnxStringBuilder.UserID = userId;
            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(password))
                sqlCnxStringBuilder.Password = password;

            // set the integrated security status
            sqlCnxStringBuilder.IntegratedSecurity = integratedSecuity;

            // now flip the properties that were changed
            source.Connection.ConnectionString
                = sqlCnxStringBuilder.ConnectionString;
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            // set log item if required
        }
    }
}

Export HTML page to PDF on user click using JavaScript

This is because you define your "doc" variable outside of your click event. The first time you click the button the doc variable contains a new jsPDF object. But when you click for a second time, this variable can't be used in the same way anymore. As it is already defined and used the previous time.

change it to:

$(function () {

    var specialElementHandlers = {
        '#editor': function (element,renderer) {
            return true;
        }
    };
 $('#cmd').click(function () {
        var doc = new jsPDF();
        doc.fromHTML(
            $('#target').html(), 15, 15, 
            { 'width': 170, 'elementHandlers': specialElementHandlers }, 
            function(){ doc.save('sample-file.pdf'); }
        );

    });  
});

and it will work.

Angular.js vs Knockout.js vs Backbone.js

It depends on the nature of your application. And, since you did not describe it in great detail, it is an impossible question to answer. I find Backbone to be the easiest, but I work in Angular all day. Performance is more up to the coder than the framework, in my opinion.

Are you doing heavy DOM manipulation? I would use jQuery and Backbone.

Very data driven app? Angular with its nice data binding.

Game programming? None - direct to canvas; maybe a game engine.

What's the difference between the Window.Loaded and Window.ContentRendered events

If you're using data binding, then you need to use the ContentRendered event.

For the code below, the Header is NULL when the Loaded event is raised. However, Header gets its value when the ContentRendered event is raised.

<MenuItem Header="{Binding NewGame_Name}" Command="{Binding NewGameCommand}" />

How can I perform a short delay in C# without using sleep?

Sorry for awakening an old question like this. But I think what the original author wanted as an answer was:

You need to force your program to make the graphic update after you make the change to the textbox1. You can do that by invoking Update();

textBox1.Text += "\r\nThread Sleeps!";
textBox1.Update();
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(4000);
textBox1.Text += "\r\nThread awakens!";
textBox1.Update();

Normally this will be done automatically when the thread is done. Ex, you press a button, changes are made to the text, thread dies, and then .Update() is fired and you see the changes. (I'm not an expert so I cant really tell you when its fired, but its something similar to this any way.)

In this case, you make a change, pause the thread, and then change the text again, and when the thread finally dies the .Update() is fired. This resulting in you only seeing the last change made to the text.

You would experience the same issue if you had a long execution between the text changes.

Options for embedding Chromium instead of IE WebBrowser control with WPF/C#

I had same issue with my WPF RSS reader, I originally went with Awesomium (I think version 1.6) Awesomium is great. You get a lot of control for caching (images and HTML content), JavaScript execution, intercepting downloads and so forth. It's also super fast. The process isolation means when browser crashes it does not crash the app.

But it's also heavy, even release build adds about 10-15mb (can't remember exact number) and hence a slight start-up penalty. I then realized, only problem I had with IE browser control was that it would throw the JavaScript errors every now and again. But that was fixed with the following snippet.

I hardly used my app on XP or Vista but on Win 7 and above it never crashed (at least not because I used IE browser control)

IOleServiceProvider sp = browser.Document as IOleServiceProvider;
if (sp != null)
{
    IID_IWebBrowserApp = new Guid("0002DF05-0000-0000-C000-000000000046");
    Guid IID_IWebBrowser2 = new Guid("D30C1661-CDAF-11d0-8A3E-00C04FC9E26E");

    webBrowser;
    sp.QueryService(ref IID_IWebBrowserApp, ref IID_IWebBrowser2, out webBrowser);
    if (webBrowser != null)
    {
        webBrowser.GetType().InvokeMember("Silent", 
                BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.PutDispProperty, null, webBrowser, new object[] { silent });
    }
}

Export javascript data to CSV file without server interaction

See adeneo's answer, but don't forget encodeURIComponent!

a.href     = 'data:application/csv;charset=utf-8,' + encodeURIComponent(csvString);

Also, I needed to do "\r\n" not just "\n" for the row delimiter.

var csvString = csvRows.join("\r\n");

Revised fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/7Q3c6/

How to do a SOAP Web Service call from Java class?

I found a much simpler alternative way to generating soap message. Given a Person Object:

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonInclude;

@JsonInclude(JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL)
public class Person {
  private String name;
  private int age;
  private String address; //setter and getters below
}

Below is a simple Soap Message Generator:

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationFeature;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializationFeature;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype.jsr310.JavaTimeModule;
import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.XmlMapper;

@Slf4j
public class SoapGenerator {

  protected static final ObjectMapper XML_MAPPER = new XmlMapper()
      .enable(DeserializationFeature.READ_UNKNOWN_ENUM_VALUES_AS_NULL)
      .configure(DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES, false)
      .configure(SerializationFeature.WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS, false)
      .registerModule(new JavaTimeModule());

  private static final String SOAP_BODY_OPEN = "<soap:Body>";
  private static final String SOAP_BODY_CLOSE = "</soap:Body>";
  private static final String SOAP_ENVELOPE_OPEN = "<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\">";
  private static final String SOAP_ENVELOPE_CLOSE = "</soap:Envelope>";

  public static String soapWrap(String xml) {
    return SOAP_ENVELOPE_OPEN + SOAP_BODY_OPEN + xml + SOAP_BODY_CLOSE + SOAP_ENVELOPE_CLOSE;
  }

  public static String soapUnwrap(String xml) {
    return StringUtils.substringBetween(xml, SOAP_BODY_OPEN, SOAP_BODY_CLOSE);
  }
}

You can use by:

 public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{
        Person p = new Person();
        p.setName("Test");
        p.setAge(12);

        String xml = SoapGenerator.soapWrap(XML_MAPPER.writeValueAsString(p));
        log.info("Generated String");
        log.info(xml);
      }

Creating a UITableView Programmatically

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    tableView = [[UITableView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.bounds style:UITableViewStylePlain];
    tableView.delegate = self;
    tableView.dataSource = self;

    tableView.backgroundColor = [UIColor grayColor];

    // add to superview
    [self.view addSubview:tableView];
}

#pragma mark - UITableViewDataSource
- (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInTableView:(UITableView *)theTableView
{
    return 1;
}

- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)theTableView numberOfRowsInSection:    (NSInteger)section
{
    return 1;
}

// the cell will be returned to the tableView
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)theTableView  cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    static NSString *cellIdentifier = @"HistoryCell";

    // Similar to UITableViewCell, but 
    UITableViewCell *cell = (UITableViewCell *)[theTableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:cellIdentifier];
    if (cell == nil)
    {
        cell = [[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:cellIdentifier];
    }
    cell.descriptionLabel.text = @"Testing";
    return cell;
}

Calling pylab.savefig without display in ipython

This is a matplotlib question, and you can get around this by using a backend that doesn't display to the user, e.g. 'Agg':

import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('Agg')
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.plot([1,2,3])
plt.savefig('/tmp/test.png')

EDIT: If you don't want to lose the ability to display plots, turn off Interactive Mode, and only call plt.show() when you are ready to display the plots:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Turn interactive plotting off
plt.ioff()

# Create a new figure, plot into it, then close it so it never gets displayed
fig = plt.figure()
plt.plot([1,2,3])
plt.savefig('/tmp/test0.png')
plt.close(fig)

# Create a new figure, plot into it, then don't close it so it does get displayed
plt.figure()
plt.plot([1,3,2])
plt.savefig('/tmp/test1.png')

# Display all "open" (non-closed) figures
plt.show()

An error occurred while updating the entries. See the inner exception for details

Click "View Detail..." a window will open where you can expand the "Inner Exception" my guess is that when you try to delete the record there is a reference constraint violation. The inner exception will give you more information on that so you can modify your code to remove any references prior to deleting the record.

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Sending email from Command-line via outlook without having to click send

Option 1
You didn't say much about your environment, but assuming you have it available you could use a PowerShell script; one example is here. The essence of this is:

$smtp = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient("ho-ex2010-caht1.exchangeserverpro.net")
$smtp.Send("[email protected]","[email protected]","Test Email","This is a test")

You could then launch the script from the command line as per this example:

powershell.exe -noexit c:\scripts\test.ps1

Note that PowerShell 2.0, which is installed by default on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008R2, includes a simpler Send-MailMessage command, making things easier.

Option 2
If you're prepared to use third-party software, is something line this SendEmail command-line tool. It depends on your target environment, though; if you're deploying your batch file to multiple machines, that will obviously require inclusion (but not formal installation) each time.

Option 3
You could drive Outlook directly from a VBA script, which in turn you would trigger from a batch file; this would let you send an email using Outlook itself, which looks to be closest to what you're wanting. There are two parts to this; first, figure out the VBA scripting required to send an email. There are lots of examples for this online, including from Microsoft here. Essence of this is:

Sub SendMessage(DisplayMsg As Boolean, Optional AttachmentPath)
    Dim objOutlook As Outlook.Application
    Dim objOutlookMsg As Outlook.MailItem
    Dim objOutlookRecip As Outlook.Recipient
    Dim objOutlookAttach As Outlook.Attachment

    Set objOutlook = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
    Set objOutlookMsg  = objOutlook.CreateItem(olMailItem)

    With objOutlookMsg
        Set objOutlookRecip = .Recipients.Add("Nancy Davolio")
        objOutlookRecip.Type = olTo
        ' Set the Subject, Body, and Importance of the message.
        .Subject = "This is an Automation test with Microsoft Outlook"
        .Body = "This is the body of the message." &vbCrLf & vbCrLf
        .Importance = olImportanceHigh  'High importance

        If Not IsMissing(AttachmentPath) Then
            Set objOutlookAttach = .Attachments.Add(AttachmentPath)
        End If

        For Each ObjOutlookRecip In .Recipients
            objOutlookRecip.Resolve
        Next

        .Save
        .Send
    End With
    Set objOutlook = Nothing
End Sub

Then, launch Outlook from the command line with the /autorun parameter, as per this answer (alter path/macroname as necessary):

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11\Outlook.exe" /autorun macroname

Option 4
You could use the same approach as option 3, but move the Outlook VBA into a PowerShell script (which you would run from a command line). Example here. This is probably the tidiest solution, IMO.

Correct way to load a Nib for a UIView subclass

Follow the following steps

  1. Create a class named MyView .h/.m of type UIView.
  2. Create a xib of same name MyView.xib.
  3. Now change the File Owner class to UIViewController from NSObject in xib. See the image below enter image description here
  4. Connect the File Owner View to your View. See the image below enter image description here

  5. Change the class of your View to MyView. Same as 3.

  6. Place controls create IBOutlets.

Here is the code to load the View:

UIViewController *controller=[[UIViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"MyView" bundle:nil];
MyView* view=(MyView*)controller.view;
[self.view addSubview:myview];

Hope it helps.

Clarification:

UIViewController is used to load your xib and the View which the UIViewController has is actually MyView which you have assigned in the MyView xib..

Demo I have made a demo grab here

setValue:forUndefinedKey: this class is not key value coding-compliant for the key

You're probably setting a value for a key in the alertView, which is not allowed. The key is in this case LoginScreen. I don't see any call to setValue(), so I assume it's somewhere else in the code.

Node.js, can't open files. Error: ENOENT, stat './path/to/file'

Here the code to use your app.js

input specifies file name

res.download(__dirname+'/'+input);

Selenium Webdriver move mouse to Point

IMHO you should pay your attention to Robot.class

Still if you want to move the mouse pointer physically, you need to take different approach using Robot class

  Point coordinates = driver.findElement(By.id("ctl00_portalmaster_txtUserName")).getLocation();
  Robot robot = new Robot();
  robot.mouseMove(coordinates.getX(),coordinates.getY()+120);

Webdriver provide document coordinates, where as Robot class is based on Screen coordinates, so I have added +120 to compensate the browser header.
Screen Coordinates: These are coordinates measured from the top left corner of the user's computer screen. You'd rarely get coordinates (0,0) because that is usually outside the browser window. About the only time you'd want these coordinates is if you want to position a newly created browser window at the point where the user clicked. In all browsers these are in event.screenX and event.screenY.
Window Coordinates: These are coordinates measured from the top left corner of the browser's content area. If the window is scrolled, vertically or horizontally, this will be different from the top left corner of the document. This is rarely what you want. In all browsers these are in event.clientX and event.clientY.
Document Coordinates: These are coordinates measured from the top left corner of the HTML Document. These are the coordinates that you most frequently want, since that is the coordinate system in which the document is defined.

More details you can get here

Hope this be helpful to you.

Linux command line howto accept pairing for bluetooth device without pin

Entering a PIN is actually an outdated method of pairing, now called Legacy Pairing. Secure Simple Pairing Mode is available in Bluetooth v2.1 and later, which comprises most modern Bluetooth devices. SSPMode authentication is handled by the Bluetooth protocol stack and thus works without user interaction.

Here is how one might go about connecting to a device:

# hciconfig hci0 sspmode 1
# hciconfig hci0 sspmode
hci0:   Type: BR/EDR  Bus: USB
BD Address: AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF  ACL MTU: 1021:8  SCO MTU: 64:1
Simple Pairing mode: Enabled
# hciconfig hci0 piscan
# sdptool add SP
# hcitool scan
    00:11:22:33:44:55    My_Device
# rfcomm connect /dev/rfcomm0 00:11:22:33:44:55 1 &
Connected /dev/rfcomm0 to 00:11:22:33:44:55 on channel 1
Press CTRL-C for hangup

This would establish a serial connection to the device.

encapsulation vs abstraction real world example

Encapsulation helps in adhering to Single Responsibility principle and Abstraction helps in adhering to Code to Interface and not to implement.

Say I have a class for Car : Service Provider Class and Driver Class : Service Consumer Class.

For Abstraction : we define abstract Class for CAR and define all the abstract methods in it , which are function available in the car like : changeGear(), applyBrake().

Now the actual Car (Concrete Class i.e. like Mercedes , BMW will implement these methods in their own way and abstract the execution and end user will still apply break and change gear for particular concrete car instance and polymorphically the execution will happen as defined in concrete class.

For Encapsulation : Now say Mercedes come up with new feature/technology: Anti Skid Braking, while implementing the applyBrake(), it will encapsulate this feature in applyBrake() method and thus providing cohesion, and service consumer will still access by same method applyBrake() of the car object. Thus Encapsulation lets further in same concrete class implementation.

CSS transition fade in

I always prefer to use mixins for small CSS classes like fade in / out incase you want to use them in more than one class.

@mixin fade-in {
    opacity: 1;
    animation-name: fadeInOpacity;
    animation-iteration-count: 1;
    animation-timing-function: ease-in;
    animation-duration: 2s;
}

@keyframes fadeInOpacity {
    0% {
        opacity: 0;
    }
    100% {
        opacity: 1;
    }
}

and if you don't want to use mixins, you can create a normal class .fade-in.

How to hide output of subprocess in Python 2.7

As of Python3 you no longer need to open devnull and can call subprocess.DEVNULL.

Your code would be updated as such:

import subprocess
text = 'Hello World.'
print(text)
subprocess.call(['espeak', text], stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL)

How to programmatically set the SSLContext of a JAX-WS client?

By combining Radek and l0co's answers you can access the WSDL behind https:

SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");

KeyManagerFactory kmf = KeyManagerFactory
        .getInstance(KeyManagerFactory.getDefaultAlgorithm());

KeyStore ks = KeyStore.getInstance("JKS");
ks.load(getClass().getResourceAsStream(keystore),
        password.toCharArray());

kmf.init(ks, password.toCharArray());

sc.init(kmf.getKeyManagers(), null, null);

HttpsURLConnection
        .setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());

yourService = new YourService(url); //Handshake should succeed

Parse JSON from HttpURLConnection object

You can get raw data using below method. BTW, this pattern is for Java 6. If you are using Java 7 or newer, please consider try-with-resources pattern.

public String getJSON(String url, int timeout) {
    HttpURLConnection c = null;
    try {
        URL u = new URL(url);
        c = (HttpURLConnection) u.openConnection();
        c.setRequestMethod("GET");
        c.setRequestProperty("Content-length", "0");
        c.setUseCaches(false);
        c.setAllowUserInteraction(false);
        c.setConnectTimeout(timeout);
        c.setReadTimeout(timeout);
        c.connect();
        int status = c.getResponseCode();

        switch (status) {
            case 200:
            case 201:
                BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(c.getInputStream()));
                StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
                String line;
                while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
                    sb.append(line+"\n");
                }
                br.close();
                return sb.toString();
        }

    } catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
        Logger.getLogger(getClass().getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
    } catch (IOException ex) {
        Logger.getLogger(getClass().getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
    } finally {
       if (c != null) {
          try {
              c.disconnect();
          } catch (Exception ex) {
             Logger.getLogger(getClass().getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
          }
       }
    }
    return null;
}

And then you can use returned string with Google Gson to map JSON to object of specified class, like this:

String data = getJSON("http://localhost/authmanager.php");
AuthMsg msg = new Gson().fromJson(data, AuthMsg.class);
System.out.println(msg);

There is a sample of AuthMsg class:

public class AuthMsg {
    private int code;
    private String message;

    public int getCode() {
        return code;
    }
    public void setCode(int code) {
        this.code = code;
    }

    public String getMessage() {
        return message;
    }
    public void setMessage(String message) {
        this.message = message;
    }
}

JSON returned by http://localhost/authmanager.php must look like this:

{"code":1,"message":"Logged in"}

Regards

Browser/HTML Force download of image from src="data:image/jpeg;base64..."

Simply replace image/jpeg with application/octet-stream. The client would not recognise the URL as an inline-able resource, and prompt a download dialog.

A simple JavaScript solution would be:

//var img = reference to image
var url = img.src.replace(/^data:image\/[^;]+/, 'data:application/octet-stream');
window.open(url);
// Or perhaps: location.href = url;
// Or even setting the location of an <iframe> element, 

Another method is to use a blob: URI:

var img = document.images[0];
img.onclick = function() {
    // atob to base64_decode the data-URI
    var image_data = atob(img.src.split(',')[1]);
    // Use typed arrays to convert the binary data to a Blob
    var arraybuffer = new ArrayBuffer(image_data.length);
    var view = new Uint8Array(arraybuffer);
    for (var i=0; i<image_data.length; i++) {
        view[i] = image_data.charCodeAt(i) & 0xff;
    }
    try {
        // This is the recommended method:
        var blob = new Blob([arraybuffer], {type: 'application/octet-stream'});
    } catch (e) {
        // The BlobBuilder API has been deprecated in favour of Blob, but older
        // browsers don't know about the Blob constructor
        // IE10 also supports BlobBuilder, but since the `Blob` constructor
        //  also works, there's no need to add `MSBlobBuilder`.
        var bb = new (window.WebKitBlobBuilder || window.MozBlobBuilder);
        bb.append(arraybuffer);
        var blob = bb.getBlob('application/octet-stream'); // <-- Here's the Blob
    }

    // Use the URL object to create a temporary URL
    var url = (window.webkitURL || window.URL).createObjectURL(blob);
    location.href = url; // <-- Download!
};

Relevant documentation

Connect to SQL Server database from Node.js

There is a module on npm called mssqlhelper

You can install it to your project by npm i mssqlhelper

Example of connecting and performing a query:

var db = require('./index');

db.config({
    host: '192.168.1.100'
    ,port: 1433
    ,userName: 'sa'
    ,password: '123'
    ,database:'testdb'
});

db.query(
    'select @Param1 Param1,@Param2 Param2'
    ,{
         Param1: { type : 'NVarChar', size: 7,value : 'myvalue' }
         ,Param2: { type : 'Int',value : 321 }
    }
    ,function(res){
        if(res.err)throw new Error('database error:'+res.err.msg);
        var rows = res.tables[0].rows;
        for (var i = 0; i < rows.length; i++) {
            console.log(rows[i].getValue(0),rows[i].getValue('Param2'));
        }
    }
);

You can read more about it here: https://github.com/play175/mssqlhelper

:o)

Safari 3rd party cookie iframe trick no longer working?

I have found the perfect answer to this, all thanks to a guy called Allan that deserves all of the credit here. (http://www.allannienhuis.com/archives/2013/11/03/blocked-3rd-party-session-cookies-in-iframes/)

His solution is simple and easy to understand.

On iframe content server (domain 2), add a file called startsession.php at the root domain level that contains:

<?php
// startsession.php
session_start();
$_SESSION['ensure_session'] = true;
die(header('location: '.$_GET['return']));

Now on the top level website containing the iframe (domain1), the call to the page containing the iframe should look like:

<a href="https://domain2/startsession.php?return=http://domain1/pageWithiFrame.html">page with iFrame</a>

And that's it! Simples :)

The reason this works is because you are directing the browser to a third party URL and thus telling it to trust it before showing content from it within the iframe.

CSS transition when class removed

In my case i had some problem with opacity transition so this one fix it:

#dropdown {
    transition:.6s opacity;
}
#dropdown.ns {
    opacity:0;
    transition:.6s all;
}
#dropdown.fade {
    opacity:1;
}

Mouse Enter

$('#dropdown').removeClass('ns').addClass('fade');

Mouse Leave

$('#dropdown').addClass('ns').removeClass('fade');

Mocking Logger and LoggerFactory with PowerMock and Mockito

In answer to your first question, it should be as simple as replacing:

   when(LoggerFactory.getLogger(GoodbyeController.class)).thenReturn(loggerMock);

with

   when(LoggerFactory.getLogger(any(Class.class))).thenReturn(loggerMock);

Regarding your second question (and possibly the puzzling behavior with the first), I think the problem is that logger is static. So,

private static Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(GoodbyeController.class);

is executed when the class is initialized, not the when the object is instantiated. Sometimes this can be at about the same time, so you'll be OK, but it's hard to guarantee that. So you set up LoggerFactory.getLogger to return your mock, but the logger variable may have already been set with a real Logger object by the time your mocks are set up.

You may be able to set the logger explicitly using something like ReflectionTestUtils (I don't know if that works with static fields) or change it from a static field to an instance field. Either way, you don't need to mock LoggerFactory.getLogger because you'll be directly injecting the mock Logger instance.

Programmatically extract contents of InstallShield setup.exe

Start with:

setup.exe /?

And you should see a dialog popup with some options displayed.

How to redirect Valgrind's output to a file?

In addition to the other answers (particularly by Lekakis), some string replacements can also be used in the option --log-file= as elaborated in the Valgrind's user manual.

Four replacements were available at the time of writing:

  • %p: Prints the current process ID
    • valgrind --log-file="myFile-%p.dat" <application-name>
  • %n: Prints file sequence number unique for the current process
    • valgrind --log-file="myFile-%p-%n.dat" <application-name>
  • %q{ENV}: Prints contents of the environment variable ENV
    • valgrind --log-file="myFile-%q{HOME}.dat" <application-name>
  • %%: Prints %
    • valgrind --log-file="myFile-%%.dat" <application-name>

Entity Framework is Too Slow. What are my options?

The fact of the matter is that products such as Entity Framework will ALWAYS be slow and inefficient, because they are executing lot more code.

I also find it silly that people are suggesting that one should optimize LINQ queries, look at the SQL generated, use debuggers, pre-compile, take many extra steps, etc. i.e. waste a lot of time. No one says - Simplify! Everyone wants to comlicate things further by taking even more steps (wasting time).

A common sense approach would be not to use EF or LINQ at all. Use plain SQL. There is nothing wrong with it. Just because there is herd mentality among programmers and they feel the urge to use every single new product out there, does not mean that it is good or it will work. Most programmers think if they incorporate every new piece of code released by a large company, it is making them a smarter programmer; not true at all. Smart programming is mostly about how to do more with less headaches, uncertainties, and in the least amount of time. Remember - Time! That is the most important element, so try to find ways not to waste it on solving problems in bad/bloated code written simply to conform with some strange so called 'patterns'

Relax, enjoy life, take a break from coding and stop using extra features, code, products, 'patterns'. Life is short and the life of your code is even shorter, and it is certainly not rocket science. Remove layers such as LINQ, EF and others, and your code will run efficiently, will scale, and yes, it will still be easy to maintain. Too much abstraction is a bad 'pattern'.

And that is the solution to your problem.

Mercurial: how to amend the last commit?

Another solution could be use the uncommit command to exclude specific file from current commit.

hg uncommit [file/directory]

This is very helpful when you want to keep current commit and deselect some files from commit (especially helpful for files/directories have been deleted).

REST API Authentication

I think the best approach is to use OAuth2. Google it and you will find a lot of useful posts to help you set it up.

It will make easier to develop client applications for your API from a web app or a mobile one.

Hope it helps you.

How to bind 'touchstart' and 'click' events but not respond to both?

Try to use Virtual Mouse (vmouse) Bindings from jQuery Mobile. It's virtual event especially for your case:

$thing.on('vclick', function(event){ ... });

http://api.jquerymobile.com/vclick/

Browser support list: http://jquerymobile.com/browser-support/1.4/

automating telnet session using bash scripts

Script for obtain version of CISCO-servers:

#!/bin/sh

servers='
192.168.34.1
192.168.34.3
192.168.34.2
192.168.34.3
'
user='cisco_login'
pass='cisco_password'

show_version() {
host=$1
expect << EOF
set timeout 20
set host $host
set user $user
set pass $pass
spawn telnet $host
expect "Username:"
send "$user\r"
expect "Password:"
send "$pass\r"
expect -re ".*#"
send "show version\r"
expect -re ".*-More-.*"
send " "
expect -re ".*#"
send "exit\r"
EOF
}

for ip in $servers; do
  echo '---------------------------------------------'
  echo "$ip"
  show_version $ip | grep -A3 'SW Version'
done

Handler vs AsyncTask vs Thread

Thread

Android supports standard Java Threads. You can use standard Threads and the tools from the package “java.util.concurrent” to put actions into the background. The only limitation is that you cannot directly update the UI from the a background process.

If you need to update the UI from a background task you need to use some Android specific classes. You can use the class “android.os.Handler” for this or the class “AsyncTask

Handler

The class “Handler” can update the UI. A handle provides methods for receiving messages and for runnables. To use a handler you have to subclass it and override handleMessage() to process messages. To process Runable, you can use the method post(); You only need one instance of a handler in your activity.

You thread can post messages via the method sendMessage(Message msg) or sendEmptyMessage.

AsyncTask

If you have an Activity which needs to download content or perform operations that can be done in the background AsyncTask allows you to maintain a responsive user interface and publish progress for those operations to the user.

For more information you can have a look at these links.

http://mobisys.in/blog/2012/01/android-threads-handlers-and-asynctask-tutorial/

http://www.slideshare.net/HoangNgoBuu/android-thread-handler-and-asynctask

MVVM Passing EventArgs As Command Parameter

I know it's a bit late but, Microsoft has made their Xaml.Behaviors open source and it's now much easier to use interactivity with just one namespace.

  1. First add Microsoft.Xaml.Behaviors.Wpf Nuget packge to your project.
    https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Xaml.Behaviors.Wpf/
  2. add xmlns:behaviours="http://schemas.microsoft.com/xaml/behaviors" namespace to your xaml.

Then use it like this,

<Button Width="150" Style="{DynamicResource MaterialDesignRaisedDarkButton}">
   <behaviours:Interaction.Triggers>
       <behaviours:EventTrigger EventName="Click">
           <behaviours:InvokeCommandAction Command="{Binding OpenCommand}" PassEventArgsToCommand="True"/>
       </behaviours:EventTrigger>
    </behaviours:Interaction.Triggers>
    Open
</Button>

PassEventArgsToCommand="True" should be set as True and the RelayCommand that you implement can take RoutedEventArgs or objects as template. If you are using object as the parameter type just cast it to the appropriate event type.

The command will look something like this,

OpenCommand = new RelayCommand<object>(OnOpenClicked, (o) => { return true; });

The command method will look something like this,

private void OnOpenClicked(object parameter)
{
    Logger.Info(parameter?.GetType().Name);
}

The 'parameter' will be the Routed event object.

And the log incase you are curious,

2020-12-15 11:40:36.3600|INFO|MyApplication.ViewModels.MainWindowViewModel|RoutedEventArgs

As you can see the TypeName logged is RoutedEventArgs

RelayCommand impelmentation can be found here.

Why RelayCommand

PS : You can bind to any event of any control. Like Closing event of Window and you will get the corresponding events.

Stateless vs Stateful

The adjective Stateful or Stateless refers only to the state of the conversation, it is not in connection with the concept of function which provides the same output for the same input. If so any dynamic web application (with a database behind it) would be a stateful service, which is obviously false. With this in mind if I entrust the task to keep conversational state in the underlying technology (such as a coockie or http session) I'm implementing a stateful service, but if all the necessary information (the context) are passed as parameters I'm implementing a stateless service. It should be noted that even if the passed parameter is an "identifier" of the conversational state (e.g. a ticket or a sessionId) we are still operating under a stateless service, because the conversation is stateless (the ticket is continually passed between client and server), and are the two endpoints to be, so to speak, "stateful".

Fatal error: Call to a member function fetch_assoc() on a non-object

Please check if you have already close the database connection or not. In my case i was getting the error because the connection was close in upper line.

How do I bind a List<CustomObject> to a WPF DataGrid?

You should do it in the xaml code:

<DataGrid ItemsSource="{Binding list}" [...]>
  [...]
</DataGrid>

I would advise you to use an ObservableCollection as your backing collection, as that would propagate changes to the datagrid, as it implements INotifyCollectionChanged.

Intercept and override HTTP requests from WebView

You don't mention the API version, but since API 11 there's the method WebViewClient.shouldInterceptRequest

Maybe this could help?

Is there a way to retrieve the view definition from a SQL Server using plain ADO?

Microsoft listed the following methods for getting the a View definition: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175067.aspx


USE AdventureWorks2012;
GO
SELECT definition, uses_ansi_nulls, uses_quoted_identifier, is_schema_bound
FROM sys.sql_modules
WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID('HumanResources.vEmployee'); 
GO

USE AdventureWorks2012; 
GO
SELECT OBJECT_DEFINITION (OBJECT_ID('HumanResources.vEmployee')) 
AS ObjectDefinition; 
GO

EXEC sp_helptext 'HumanResources.vEmployee';

Updating GUI (WPF) using a different thread

You can use Dispatcher.Invoke to update your GUI from a secondary thread.

Here is an example:

    private void Window_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        new Thread(DoSomething).Start();
    }
    public void DoSomething()
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < 100000000; i++)
        {
               this.Dispatcher.Invoke(()=>{
               textbox.Text=i.ToString();
               });    
        } 
    }

Handling the window closing event with WPF / MVVM Light Toolkit

Here is an answer according to the MVVM-pattern if you don't want to know about the Window (or any of its event) in the ViewModel.

public interface IClosing
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Executes when window is closing
    /// </summary>
    /// <returns>Whether the windows should be closed by the caller</returns>
    bool OnClosing();
}

In the ViewModel add the interface and implementation

public bool OnClosing()
{
    bool close = true;

    //Ask whether to save changes och cancel etc
    //close = false; //If you want to cancel close

    return close;
}

In the Window I add the Closing event. This code behind doesn't break the MVVM pattern. The View can know about the viewmodel!

void Window_Closing(object sender, System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs e)
{
    IClosing context = DataContext as IClosing;
    if (context != null)
    {
        e.Cancel = !context.OnClosing();
    }
}

How to create a file in memory for user to download, but not through server?

If you just want to convert a string to be available for download you can try this using jQuery.

$('a.download').attr('href', 'data:application/csv;charset=utf-8,' + encodeURI(data));

Java URLConnection Timeout

I have used similar code for downloading logs from servers. I debug my code and discovered that implementation of URLConnection which is returned is sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.

Abstract class java.net.URLConnection have two attributes connectTimeout and readTimeout and setters are in abstract class. Believe or not implementation sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection have same attributes connectTimeout and readTimeout without setters and attributes from implementation class are used in getInputStream method. So there is no use of setting connectTimeout and readTimeout because they are never used in getInputStream method. In my opinion this is bug in sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection implementation.

My solution for this was to use HttpClient and Get request.

sort files by date in PHP

This would get all files in path/to/files with an .swf extension into an array and then sort that array by the file's mtime

$files = glob('path/to/files/*.swf');
usort($files, function($a, $b) {
    return filemtime($b) - filemtime($a);
});

The above uses an Lambda function and requires PHP 5.3. Prior to 5.3, you would do

usort($files, create_function('$a,$b', 'return filemtime($b)-filemtime($a);'));

If you don't want to use an anonymous function, you can just as well define the callback as a regular function and pass the function name to usort instead.

With the resulting array, you would then iterate over the files like this:

foreach($files as $file){
    printf('<tr><td><input type="checkbox" name="box[]"></td>
            <td><a href="%1$s" target="_blank">%1$s</a></td>
            <td>%2$s</td></tr>', 
            $file, // or basename($file) for just the filename w\out path
            date('F d Y, H:i:s', filemtime($file)));
}

Note that because you already called filemtime when sorting the files, there is no additional cost when calling it again in the foreach loop due to the stat cache.

How to keep onItemSelected from firing off on a newly instantiated Spinner?

I have done with simplest way:

private AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener listener;
private Spinner spinner;

onCreate();

spinner = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner);

listener = new AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener() {
        @Override
        public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> adapterView, View view, int position, long l) {

            Log.i("H - Spinner selected position", position);
        }

        @Override
        public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> adapterView) {

        }
    };

 spinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(new AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener() {
        @Override
        public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> adapterView, View view, int i, long l) {
            spinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(listener);
        }

        @Override
        public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> adapterView) {

        }
    });

Done

Reset push notification settings for app

The plist: /private/var/mobile/Library/RemoteNotification/Clients.plist

... contains the registered clients for push notifications. Removing your app's entry will cause the prompt to re-appear

Updating MySQL primary key

You can use the IGNORE keyword too, example:

 update IGNORE table set primary_field = 'value'...............

How to Cast Objects in PHP

It sounds like what you really want to do is implement an interface.

Your interface will specify the methods that the object can handle and when you pass an object that implements the interface to a method that wants an object that supports the interface, you just type the argument with the name of the interface.

Java heap terminology: young, old and permanent generations?

Memory in SunHotSpot JVM is organized into three generations: young generation, old generation and permanent generation.

  • Young Generation : the newly created objects are allocated to the young gen.
  • Old Generation : If the new object requests for a larger heap space, it gets allocated directly into the old gen. Also objects which have survived a few GC cycles gets promoted to the old gen i.e long lived objects house in old gen.
  • Permanent Generation : The permanent generation holds objects that the JVM finds convenient to have the garbage collector manage, such as objects describing classes and methods, as well as the classes and methods themselves.

FYI: The permanent gen is not considered a part of the Java heap.

How does the three generations interact/relate to each other? Objects(except the large ones) are first allocated to the young generation. If an object remain alive after x no. of garbage collection cycles it gets promoted to the old/tenured gen. Hence we can say that the young gen contains the short lived objects while the old gen contains the objects having a long life. The permanent gen does not interact with the other two generations.

Posting parameters to a url using the POST method without using a form

You could use JavaScript and XMLHTTPRequest (AJAX) to perform a POST without using a form. Check this link out. Keep in mind that you will need JavaScript enabled in your browser though.

Where are include files stored - Ubuntu Linux, GCC

See here: Search Path

Summary:

#include <stdio.h>

When the include file is in brackets the preprocessor first searches in paths specified via the -I flag. Then it searches the standard include paths (see the above link, and use the -v flag to test on your system).

#include "myFile.h"

When the include file is in quotes the preprocessor first searches in the current directory, then paths specified by -iquote, then -I paths, then the standard paths.

-nostdinc can be used to prevent the preprocessor from searching the standard paths at all.

Environment variables can also be used to add search paths.

When compiling if you use the -v flag you can see the search paths used.

How does facebook, gmail send the real time notification?

Facebook uses MQTT instead of HTTP. Push is better than polling. Through HTTP we need to poll the server continuously but via MQTT server pushes the message to clients.

Comparision between MQTT and HTTP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KNPXPmx88E

Note: my answers best fits for mobile devices.

GUI-based or Web-based JSON editor that works like property explorer

Generally when I want to create a JSON or YAML string, I start out by building the Perl data structure, and then running a simple conversion on it. You could put a UI in front of the Perl data structure generation, e.g. a web form.

Converting a structure to JSON is very straightforward:

use strict;
use warnings;
use JSON::Any;

my $data = { arbitrary structure in here };
my $json_handler = JSON::Any->new(utf8=>1);
my $json_string = $json_handler->objToJson($data);

Setting a property with an EventTrigger

Just create your own action.

namespace WpfUtil
{
    using System.Reflection;
    using System.Windows;
    using System.Windows.Interactivity;


    /// <summary>
    /// Sets the designated property to the supplied value. TargetObject
    /// optionally designates the object on which to set the property. If
    /// TargetObject is not supplied then the property is set on the object
    /// to which the trigger is attached.
    /// </summary>
    public class SetPropertyAction : TriggerAction<FrameworkElement>
    {
        // PropertyName DependencyProperty.

        /// <summary>
        /// The property to be executed in response to the trigger.
        /// </summary>
        public string PropertyName
        {
            get { return (string)GetValue(PropertyNameProperty); }
            set { SetValue(PropertyNameProperty, value); }
        }

        public static readonly DependencyProperty PropertyNameProperty
            = DependencyProperty.Register("PropertyName", typeof(string),
            typeof(SetPropertyAction));


        // PropertyValue DependencyProperty.

        /// <summary>
        /// The value to set the property to.
        /// </summary>
        public object PropertyValue
        {
            get { return GetValue(PropertyValueProperty); }
            set { SetValue(PropertyValueProperty, value); }
        }

        public static readonly DependencyProperty PropertyValueProperty
            = DependencyProperty.Register("PropertyValue", typeof(object),
            typeof(SetPropertyAction));


        // TargetObject DependencyProperty.

        /// <summary>
        /// Specifies the object upon which to set the property.
        /// </summary>
        public object TargetObject
        {
            get { return GetValue(TargetObjectProperty); }
            set { SetValue(TargetObjectProperty, value); }
        }

        public static readonly DependencyProperty TargetObjectProperty
            = DependencyProperty.Register("TargetObject", typeof(object),
            typeof(SetPropertyAction));


        // Private Implementation.

        protected override void Invoke(object parameter)
        {
            object target = TargetObject ?? AssociatedObject;
            PropertyInfo propertyInfo = target.GetType().GetProperty(
                PropertyName,
                BindingFlags.Instance|BindingFlags.Public
                |BindingFlags.NonPublic|BindingFlags.InvokeMethod);

            propertyInfo.SetValue(target, PropertyValue);
        }
    }
}

In this case I'm binding to a property called DialogResult on my viewmodel.

<Grid>

    <Button>
        <i:Interaction.Triggers>
            <i:EventTrigger EventName="Click">
                <wpf:SetPropertyAction PropertyName="DialogResult" TargetObject="{Binding}"
                                       PropertyValue="{x:Static mvvm:DialogResult.Cancel}"/>
            </i:EventTrigger>
        </i:Interaction.Triggers>
        Cancel
    </Button>

</Grid>

Dynamic loading of images in WPF

In code to load resource in the executing assembly where my image 'Freq.png' was in the folder "Icons" and defined as "Resource".

        this.Icon = new BitmapImage(new Uri(@"pack://application:,,,/" 
             + Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Name 
             + ";component/" 
             + "Icons/Freq.png", UriKind.Absolute)); 

I also made a function if anybody would like it...

/// <summary>
/// Load a resource WPF-BitmapImage (png, bmp, ...) from embedded resource defined as 'Resource' not as 'Embedded resource'.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="pathInApplication">Path without starting slash</param>
/// <param name="assembly">Usually 'Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly()'. If not mentionned, I will use the calling assembly</param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static BitmapImage LoadBitmapFromResource(string pathInApplication, Assembly assembly = null)
{
    if (assembly == null)
    {
        assembly = Assembly.GetCallingAssembly();
    }

    if (pathInApplication[0] == '/')
    {
        pathInApplication = pathInApplication.Substring(1);
    }
    return new BitmapImage(new Uri(@"pack://application:,,,/" + assembly.GetName().Name + ";component/" + pathInApplication, UriKind.Absolute)); 
}

Usage:

        this.Icon = ResourceHelper.LoadBitmapFromResource("Icons/Freq.png");

Binding a WPF ComboBox to a custom list

To bind the data to ComboBox

List<ComboData> ListData = new List<ComboData>();
ListData.Add(new ComboData { Id = "1", Value = "One" });
ListData.Add(new ComboData { Id = "2", Value = "Two" });
ListData.Add(new ComboData { Id = "3", Value = "Three" });
ListData.Add(new ComboData { Id = "4", Value = "Four" });
ListData.Add(new ComboData { Id = "5", Value = "Five" });

cbotest.ItemsSource = ListData;
cbotest.DisplayMemberPath = "Value";
cbotest.SelectedValuePath = "Id";

cbotest.SelectedValue = "2";

ComboData looks like:

public class ComboData
{ 
  public int Id { get; set; } 
  public string Value { get; set; } 
}

(note that Id and Value have to be properties, not class fields)

How to store arbitrary data for some HTML tags

Just another way, I personally wouldn't use this but it works (assure your JSON is valid because eval() is dangerous).

<a class="article" href="link/for/non-js-users.html">
    <span style="display: none;">{"id": 1, "title":"Something"}</span>
    Text of Link
</a>

// javascript
var article = document.getElementsByClassName("article")[0];
var data = eval(article.childNodes[0].innerHTML);

How to execute a .bat file from a C# windows form app?

Here is what you are looking for:

Service hangs up at WaitForExit after calling batch file

It's about a question as to why a service can't execute a file, but it shows all the code necessary to do so.

What's the difference between faking, mocking, and stubbing?

You can get some information :

From Martin Fowler about Mock and Stub

Fake objects actually have working implementations, but usually take some shortcut which makes them not suitable for production

Stubs provide canned answers to calls made during the test, usually not responding at all to anything outside what's programmed in for the test. Stubs may also record information about calls, such as an email gateway stub that remembers the messages it 'sent', or maybe only how many messages it 'sent'.

Mocks are what we are talking about here: objects pre-programmed with expectations which form a specification of the calls they are expected to receive.

From xunitpattern:

Fake: We acquire or build a very lightweight implementation of the same functionality as provided by a component that the SUT depends on and instruct the SUT to use it instead of the real.

Stub : This implementation is configured to respond to calls from the SUT with the values (or exceptions) that will exercise the Untested Code (see Production Bugs on page X) within the SUT. A key indication for using a Test Stub is having Untested Code caused by the inability to control the indirect inputs of the SUT

Mock Object that implements the same interface as an object on which the SUT (System Under Test) depends. We can use a Mock Object as an observation point when we need to do Behavior Verification to avoid having an Untested Requirement (see Production Bugs on page X) caused by an inability to observe side-effects of invoking methods on the SUT.

Personally

I try to simplify by using : Mock and Stub. I use Mock when it's an object that returns a value that is set to the tested class. I use Stub to mimic an Interface or Abstract class to be tested. In fact, it doesn't really matter what you call it, they are all classes that aren't used in production, and are used as utility classes for testing.

What are some examples of commonly used practices for naming git branches?

Note, as illustrated in the commit e703d7 or commit b6c2a0d (March 2014), now part of Git 2.0, you will find another naming convention (that you can apply to branches).

"When you need to use space, use dash" is a strange way to say that you must not use a space.
Because it is more common for the command line descriptions to use dashed-multi-words, you do not even want to use spaces in these places.

A branch name cannot have space (see "Which characters are illegal within a branch name?" and git check-ref-format man page).

So for every branch name that would be represented by a multi-word expression, using a '-' (dash) as a separator is a good idea.

Simplest way to restart service on a remote computer

DESCRIPTION: SC is a command line program used for communicating with the NT Service Controller and services. USAGE: sc [command] [service name] ...

    The option <server> has the form "\\ServerName"
    Further help on commands can be obtained by typing: "sc [command]"
    Commands:
      query-----------Queries the status for a service, or
                      enumerates the status for types of services.
      queryex---------Queries the extended status for a service, or
                      enumerates the status for types of services.
      start-----------Starts a service.
      pause-----------Sends a PAUSE control request to a service.
      interrogate-----Sends an INTERROGATE control request to a service.
      continue--------Sends a CONTINUE control request to a service.
      stop------------Sends a STOP request to a service.
      config----------Changes the configuration of a service (persistant).
      description-----Changes the description of a service.
      failure---------Changes the actions taken by a service upon failure.
      qc--------------Queries the configuration information for a service.
      qdescription----Queries the description for a service.
      qfailure--------Queries the actions taken by a service upon failure.
      delete----------Deletes a service (from the registry).
      create----------Creates a service. (adds it to the registry).
      control---------Sends a control to a service.
      sdshow----------Displays a service's security descriptor.
      sdset-----------Sets a service's security descriptor.
      GetDisplayName--Gets the DisplayName for a service.
      GetKeyName------Gets the ServiceKeyName for a service.
      EnumDepend------Enumerates Service Dependencies.

    The following commands don't require a service name:
    sc <server> <command> <option>
      boot------------(ok | bad) Indicates whether the last boot should
                      be saved as the last-known-good boot configuration
      Lock------------Locks the Service Database
      QueryLock-------Queries the LockStatus for the SCManager Database

EXAMPLE: sc start MyService

How do I import a pre-existing Java project into Eclipse and get up and running?

  1. Create a new Java project in Eclipse. This will create a src folder (to contain your source files).

  2. Also create a lib folder (the name isn't that important, but it follows standard conventions).

  3. Copy the ./com/* folders into the /src folder (you can just do this using the OS, no need to do any fancy importing or anything from the Eclipse GUI).

  4. Copy any dependencies (jar files that your project itself depends on) into /lib (note that this should NOT include the TGGL jar - thanks to commenter Mike Deck for pointing out my misinterpretation of the OPs post!)

  5. Copy the other TGGL stuff into the root project folder (or some other folder dedicated to licenses that you need to distribute in your final app)

  6. Back in Eclipse, select the project you created in step 1, then hit the F5 key (this refreshes Eclipse's view of the folder tree with the actual contents.

  7. The content of the /src folder will get compiled automatically (with class files placed in the /bin file that Eclipse generated for you when you created the project). If you have dependencies (which you don't in your current project, but I'll include this here for completeness), the compile will fail initially because you are missing the dependency jar files from the project classpath.

  8. Finally, open the /lib folder in Eclipse, right click on each required jar file and choose Build Path->Add to build path.

That will add that particular jar to the classpath for the project. Eclipse will detect the change and automatically compile the classes that failed earlier, and you should now have an Eclipse project with your app in it.

Completely Remove MySQL Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

This is what saved me. Apparently the depackager tries to put things in the wrong tmp folder.

https://askubuntu.com/a/248860

Get the value for a listbox item by index

simply try this 'listBox' is your list and 'yu' is a veriable to which the value on index 0 will be assigned

string yu = listBox1.Items[0].ToString();
MessageBox.Show(yu);

How can I get the client's IP address in ASP.NET MVC?

How I account for my site being behind an Amazon AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB):

public class GetPublicIp {

    /// <summary>
    /// account for possbility of ELB sheilding the public IP address
    /// </summary>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static string Execute() {
        try {
            Console.WriteLine(string.Join("|", new List<object> {
                    HttpContext.Current.Request.UserHostAddress,
                    HttpContext.Current.Request.Headers["X-Forwarded-For"],
                    HttpContext.Current.Request.Headers["REMOTE_ADDR"]
                })
            );

            var ip = HttpContext.Current.Request.UserHostAddress;
            if (HttpContext.Current.Request.Headers["X-Forwarded-For"] != null) {
                ip = HttpContext.Current.Request.Headers["X-Forwarded-For"];
                Console.WriteLine(ip + "|X-Forwarded-For");
            }
            else if (HttpContext.Current.Request.Headers["REMOTE_ADDR"] != null) {
                ip = HttpContext.Current.Request.Headers["REMOTE_ADDR"];
                Console.WriteLine(ip + "|REMOTE_ADDR");
            }
            return ip;
        }
        catch (Exception ex) {
            Console.Error.WriteLine(ex.Message);
        }
        return null;
    }
}

Multiple Where clauses in Lambda expressions

Can be

x => x.Lists.Include(l => l.Title)
     .Where(l => l.Title != String.Empty && l.InternalName != String.Empty)

or

x => x.Lists.Include(l => l.Title)
     .Where(l => l.Title != String.Empty)
     .Where(l => l.InternalName != String.Empty)

When you are looking at Where implementation, you can see it accepts a Func(T, bool); that means:

  • T is your IEnumerable type
  • bool means it needs to return a boolean value

So, when you do

.Where(l => l.InternalName != String.Empty)
//     ^                   ^---------- boolean part
//     |------------------------------ "T" part

Difference between `npm start` & `node app.js`, when starting app?

From the man page, npm start:

runs a package's "start" script, if one was provided. If no version is specified, then it starts the "active" version.

Admittedly, that description is completely unhelpful, and that's all it says. At least it's more documented than socket.io.

Anyhow, what really happens is that npm looks in your package.json file, and if you have something like

"scripts": { "start": "coffee server.coffee" }

then it will do that. If npm can't find your start script, it defaults to:

node server.js

 

Get generic type of java.util.List

As others have said, the only correct answer is no, the type has been erased.

If the list has a non-zero number of elements, you could investigate the type of the first element ( using it's getClass method, for instance ). That won't tell you the generic type of the list, but it would be reasonable to assume that the generic type was some superclass of the types in the list.

I wouldn't advocate the approach, but in a bind it might be useful.

"Debug only" code that should run only when "turned on"

If you want to know whether if debugging, everywhere in program. Use this.

Declare global variable.

bool isDebug=false;

Create function for checking debug mode

[ConditionalAttribute("DEBUG")]
    public static void isDebugging()
    {
        isDebug = true;
    }

In the initialize method call the function

isDebugging();

Now in the entire program. You can check for debugging and do the operations. Hope this Helps!

why windows 7 task scheduler task fails with error 2147942667

This can happen for more than one reason. In my case this happened due to a permissions issue. The user that the task was running as didn't have permission to write to the logs directory so it failed with this error.

Is there a way to delete all the data from a topic or delete the topic before every run?

As a dirty workaround, you can adjust per-topic runtime retention settings, e.g. bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --alter --topic my_topic --config retention.bytes=1 (retention.bytes=0 might also work)

After a short while kafka should free the space. Not sure if this has any implications compared to re-creating the topic.

ps. Better bring retention settings back, once kafka done with cleaning.

You can also use retention.ms to persist historical data

How can I retrieve the remote git address of a repo?

When you want to show an URL of remote branches, try:

git remote -v

How to get current user who's accessing an ASP.NET application?

I ran in the same issue.

This is what worked for me:

Setting up Authentication in IIS Panel

Setting up Properties of Windows Authentication in IIS

Setting up Properties of Windows Authentication in IIS NTLM has to be the topmost

NTLM has to be the topmost. Further Web.config modifications, make sure you already have or add if these do not exist:

<system.web>

  <authentication mode="Windows" />
  <identity impersonate="true"/>

</system.web>

 <!-- you need the following lines of code to bypass errors, concerning type of Application Pool (integrated pipeline or classic) -->

<system.webServer>
   <validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false"/>
</system.webServer>

See below a legit explanation for the two nodes and

Difference between <system.web> and <system.webServer>?

And, of course , you get the username by

//I am using the following to get the index of the separator "\\" and remove the Domain name from the string
int indexOfSlashChar = HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name.IndexOf("\\"); 

loggedInWindowsUserName = HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name.Substring(indexOfSlashChar + 1);

IIS 7, HttpHandler and HTTP Error 500.21

One solution that I've found is that you should have to change the .Net Framework back to v2.0 by Right Clicking on the site that you have manager under the Application Pools from the Advance Settings.

Combine several images horizontally with Python

I would try this:

import numpy as np
import PIL
from PIL import Image

list_im = ['Test1.jpg', 'Test2.jpg', 'Test3.jpg']
imgs    = [ PIL.Image.open(i) for i in list_im ]
# pick the image which is the smallest, and resize the others to match it (can be arbitrary image shape here)
min_shape = sorted( [(np.sum(i.size), i.size ) for i in imgs])[0][1]
imgs_comb = np.hstack( (np.asarray( i.resize(min_shape) ) for i in imgs ) )

# save that beautiful picture
imgs_comb = PIL.Image.fromarray( imgs_comb)
imgs_comb.save( 'Trifecta.jpg' )    

# for a vertical stacking it is simple: use vstack
imgs_comb = np.vstack( (np.asarray( i.resize(min_shape) ) for i in imgs ) )
imgs_comb = PIL.Image.fromarray( imgs_comb)
imgs_comb.save( 'Trifecta_vertical.jpg' )

It should work as long as all images are of the same variety (all RGB, all RGBA, or all grayscale). It shouldn't be difficult to ensure this is the case with a few more lines of code. Here are my example images, and the result:

Test1.jpg

Test1.jpg

Test2.jpg

Test2.jpg

Test3.jpg

Test3.jpg

Trifecta.jpg:

combined images

Trifecta_vertical.jpg

enter image description here

how to define ssh private key for servers fetched by dynamic inventory in files

I'm using the following configuration:

#site.yml:
- name: Example play
  hosts: all
  remote_user: ansible
  become: yes
  become_method: sudo
  vars:
    ansible_ssh_private_key_file: "/home/ansible/.ssh/id_rsa"

Set proxy through windows command line including login parameters

The best way around this is (and many other situations) in my experience, is to use cntlm which is a local no-authentication proxy which points to a remote authentication proxy. You can then just set WinHTTP to point to your local CNTLM (usually localhost:3128), and you can set CNTLM itself to point to the remote authentication proxy. CNTLM has a "magic NTLM dialect detection" option which generates password hashes to be put into the CNTLM configuration files.

Proxy Error 502 : The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server

The java application takes too long to respond(maybe due start-up/jvm being cold) thus you get the proxy error.

Proxy Error

The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
 The proxy server could not handle the request GET /lin/Campaignn.jsp.

As Albert Maclang said amending the http timeout configuration may fix the issue. I suspect the java application throws a 500+ error thus the apache gateway error too. You should look in the logs.

@Resource vs @Autowired

With @Resource you can do bean self-injection, it might be needed in order to run all extra logic added by bean post processors like transactional or security related stuff.

With Spring 4.3+ @Autowired is also capable of doing this.

Jquery Ajax Posting json to webservice

Please follow this to by ajax call to webservice of java var param = { feildName: feildValue }; JSON.stringify({data : param})

$.ajax({
            dataType    : 'json',
            type        : 'POST',
            contentType : 'application/json',
            url         : '<%=request.getContextPath()%>/rest/priceGroups',
            data        : JSON.stringify({data : param}),
            success     : function(res) {
                if(res.success == true){
                    $('#alertMessage').html('Successfully price group created.').addClass('alert alert-success fade in');
                    $('#alertMessage').removeClass('alert-danger alert-info');
                    initPriceGroupsList();
                    priceGroupId = 0;
                    resetForm();                                                                    
                }else{                          
                    $('#alertMessage').html(res.message).addClass('alert alert-danger fade in');
                }
                $('#alertMessage').alert();         
                window.setTimeout(function() { 
                    $('#alertMessage').removeClass('in');
                    document.getElementById('message').style.display = 'none';
                }, 5000);
            }
        });

How to change DatePicker dialog color for Android 5.0

For Changing Year list item text color (SPECIFIC FOR ANDROID 5.0)

Just set certain text color in your date picker dialog style. For some reason setting flag yearListItemTextAppearance doesn't reflect any change on year list.

<item name="android:textColor">@android:color/black</item>

The mysql extension is deprecated and will be removed in the future: use mysqli or PDO instead

  1. Why is this happening?

    The entire ext/mysql PHP extension, which provides all functions named with the prefix mysql_, was officially deprecated in PHP v5.5.0 and removed in PHP v7.

    It was originally introduced in PHP v2.0 (November 1997) for MySQL v3.20, and no new features have been added since 2006. Coupled with the lack of new features are difficulties in maintaining such old code amidst complex security vulnerabilities.

    The manual has contained warnings against its use in new code since June 2011.

  2. How can I fix it?

    As the error message suggests, there are two other MySQL extensions that you can consider: MySQLi and PDO_MySQL, either of which can be used instead of ext/mysql. Both have been in PHP core since v5.0, so if you're using a version that is throwing these deprecation errors then you can almost certainly just start using them right away—i.e. without any installation effort.

    They differ slightly, but offer a number of advantages over the old extension including API support for transactions, stored procedures and prepared statements (thereby providing the best way to defeat SQL injection attacks). PHP developer Ulf Wendel has written a thorough comparison of the features.

    Hashphp.org has an excellent tutorial on migrating from ext/mysql to PDO.

  3. I understand that it's possible to suppress deprecation errors by setting error_reporting in php.ini to exclude E_DEPRECATED:

    error_reporting = E_ALL ^ E_DEPRECATED
    

    What will happen if I do that?

    Yes, it is possible to suppress such error messages and continue using the old ext/mysql extension for the time being. But you really shouldn't do this—this is a final warning from the developers that the extension may not be bundled with future versions of PHP (indeed, as already mentioned, it has been removed from PHP v7). Instead, you should take this opportunity to migrate your application now, before it's too late.

    Note also that this technique will suppress all E_DEPRECATED messages, not just those to do with the ext/mysql extension: therefore you may be unaware of other upcoming changes to PHP that would affect your application code. It is, of course, possible to only suppress errors that arise on the expression at issue by using PHP's error control operator—i.e. prepending the relevant line with @—however this will suppress all errors raised by that expression, not just E_DEPRECATED ones.


What should you do?

  • You are starting a new project.

    There is absolutely no reason to use ext/mysql—choose one of the other, more modern, extensions instead and reap the rewards of the benefits they offer.

  • You have (your own) legacy codebase that currently depends upon ext/mysql.

    It would be wise to perform regression testing: you really shouldn't be changing anything (especially upgrading PHP) until you have identified all of the potential areas of impact, planned around each of them and then thoroughly tested your solution in a staging environment.

    • Following good coding practice, your application was developed in a loosely integrated/modular fashion and the database access methods are all self-contained in one place that can easily be swapped out for one of the new extensions.

      Spend half an hour rewriting this module to use one of the other, more modern, extensions; test thoroughly. You can later introduce further refinements to reap the rewards of the benefits they offer.

    • The database access methods are scattered all over the place and cannot easily be swapped out for one of the new extensions.

      Consider whether you really need to upgrade to PHP v5.5 at this time.

      You should begin planning to replace ext/mysql with one of the other, more modern, extensions in order that you can reap the rewards of the benefits they offer; you might also use it as an opportunity to refactor your database access methods into a more modular structure.

      However, if you have an urgent need to upgrade PHP right away, you might consider suppressing deprecation errors for the time being: but first be sure to identify any other deprecation errors that are also being thrown.

  • You are using a third party project that depends upon ext/mysql.

    Consider whether you really need to upgrade to PHP v5.5 at this time.

    Check whether the developer has released any fixes, workarounds or guidance in relation to this specific issue; or, if not, pressure them to do so by bringing this matter to their attention. If you have an urgent need to upgrade PHP right away, you might consider suppressing deprecation errors for the time being: but first be sure to identify any other deprecation errors that are also being thrown.

    It is absolutely essential to perform regression testing.

How to connect html pages to mysql database?

HTML are markup languages, basically they are set of tags like <html>, <body>, which is used to present a website using , and as a whole. All these, happen in the clients system or the user you will be browsing the website.

Now, Connecting to a database, happens on whole another level. It happens on server, which is where the website is hosted.

So, in order to connect to the database and perform various data related actions, you have to use server-side scripts, like , , etc.

Now, lets see a snippet of connection using MYSQLi Extension of PHP

$db = mysqli_connect('hostname','username','password','databasename');

This single line code, is enough to get you started, you can mix such code, combined with HTML tags to create a HTML page, which is show data based pages. For example:

<?php
    $db = mysqli_connect('hostname','username','password','databasename');
?>
<html>
    <body>
          <?php
                $query = "SELECT * FROM `mytable`;";
                $result = mysqli_query($db, $query);
                while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
                      // Display your datas on the page
                }
          ?>
    </body>
</html>

In order to insert new data into the database, you can use phpMyAdmin or write a INSERT query and execute them.

Function vs. Stored Procedure in SQL Server

Basic Difference

Function must return a value but in Stored Procedure it is optional( Procedure can return zero or n values).

Functions can have only input parameters for it whereas Procedures can have input/output parameters .

Function takes one input parameter it is mandatory but Stored Procedure may take o to n input parameters..

Functions can be called from Procedure whereas Procedures cannot be called from Function.

Advance Difference

Procedure allows SELECT as well as DML(INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE) statement in it whereas Function allows only SELECT statement in it.

Procedures can not be utilized in a SELECT statement whereas Function can be embedded in a SELECT statement.

Stored Procedures cannot be used in the SQL statements anywhere in the WHERE/HAVING/SELECT section whereas Function can be.

Functions that return tables can be treated as another rowset. This can be used in JOINs with other tables.

Inline Function can be though of as views that take parameters and can be used in JOINs and other Rowset operations.

Exception can be handled by try-catch block in a Procedure whereas try-catch block cannot be used in a Function.

We can go for Transaction Management in Procedure whereas we can't go in Function.

source

Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine Mac OSX Mavericks

So try uninstalling all other versions other than the one you need, then set the JAVA_HOMEpath variable for that JDK remaining, and you're done.

That's worked for me, I have two JDK (version 8 & 11) installed on my local mac, that causes the issue, for uninstalling, I followed these two steps:

  • cd /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines
  • rm -rf openjdk-11.0.1.jdk

How to get the title of HTML page with JavaScript?

Can use getElementsByTagName

var x = document.getElementsByTagName("title")[0];

alert(x.innerHTML)

// or

alert(x.textContent)

// or

document.querySelector('title')

Edits as suggested by Paul

Converting a date string to a DateTime object using Joda Time library

I know this is an old question, but I wanted to add that, as of JodaTime 2.0, you can do this with a one-liner:

DateTime date = DateTime.parse("04/02/2011 20:27:05", 
                  DateTimeFormat.forPattern("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss"));

How to calculate distance between two locations using their longitude and latitude value

Use the below method for calculating the distance of two different locations.

public double getKilometers(double lat1, double long1, double lat2, double long2) {
 double PI_RAD = Math.PI / 180.0;
 double phi1 = lat1 * PI_RAD;
 double phi2 = lat2 * PI_RAD;
 double lam1 = long1 * PI_RAD;
 double lam2 = long2 * PI_RAD;

return 6371.01 * acos(sin(phi1) * sin(phi2) + cos(phi1) * cos(phi2) * cos(lam2 - lam1));}

Why is a div with "display: table-cell;" not affected by margin?

Cause

From the MDN documentation:

[The margin property] applies to all elements except elements with table display types other than table-caption, table and inline-table

In other words, the margin property is not applicable to display:table-cell elements.

Solution

Consider using the border-spacing property instead.

Note it should be applied to a parent element with a display:table layout and border-collapse:separate.

For example:

HTML

<div class="table">
    <div class="row">
        <div class="cell">123</div>
        <div class="cell">456</div>
        <div class="cell">879</div>
    </div>
</div>

CSS

.table {display:table;border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:5px;}
.row {display:table-row;}
.cell {display:table-cell;padding:5px;border:1px solid black;}

See jsFiddle demo


Different margin horizontally and vertically

As mentioned by Diego Quirós, the border-spacing property also accepts two values to set a different margin for the horizontal and vertical axes.

For example

.table {/*...*/border-spacing:3px 5px;} /* 3px horizontally, 5px vertically */

git: How to ignore all present untracked files?

Two ways:

  • use the argument -uno to git-status. Here's an example:

    [jenny@jenny_vmware:ft]$ git status
    # On branch ft
    # Untracked files:
    #   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
    #
    #       foo
    nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
    [jenny@jenny_vmware:ft]$ git status -uno
    # On branch ft
    nothing to commit (working directory clean)
    
  • Or you can add the files and directories to .gitignore, in which case they will never show up.

How to get everything after last slash in a URL?

url ='http://www.test.com/page/TEST2'.split('/')[4]
print url

Output: TEST2.

What is the difference between ndarray and array in numpy?

numpy.array is just a convenience function to create an ndarray; it is not a class itself.

You can also create an array using numpy.ndarray, but it is not the recommended way. From the docstring of numpy.ndarray:

Arrays should be constructed using array, zeros or empty ... The parameters given here refer to a low-level method (ndarray(...)) for instantiating an array.

Most of the meat of the implementation is in C code, here in multiarray, but you can start looking at the ndarray interfaces here:

https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/numpy/core/numeric.py

Session 'app' error while installing APK

This issue seems to be bug in Android Studio.

I tried all other workarounds but the issue was appearing randomly.

I also have custom named apk for output. But Android studio was randomly picking custom apk name and default apk name.

Adding Gradle-aware Make solved the issue.

Following are the steps.

  1. Menu Run -> Edit Configuration

  2. Select "app" configuration

  3. Add Gradle-aware Make to Before Launch actions

You are done.

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Following article helped me in finding the solution https://android.jlelse.eu/android-studio-3-1-how-to-fix-it-b49f72eb054f

Difference between Spring MVC and Spring Boot

Here is some main point which differentiate Spring, Spring MVC and Spring Boot :

Spring :

  1. Main Difference is "Test-ability".
  2. Spring come with the DI and IOC. Through which all hard-work done by system we don't need to do any kind of work(like, normally we define object of class manually but through Di we just annotate with @Service or @Component - matching class manage those).
  3. Through @Autowired annotation we easily mock() it at unit testing time.
  4. Duplication and Plumbing code. In JDBC we writing same code multiple time to perform any kind of database operation Spring solve that issue through Hibernate and ORM.
  5. Good Integration with other frameworks. Like Hibernate, ORM, Junit & Mockito.

Spring MVC

  1. Spring MVC framework is module of spring which provide facility HTTP oriented web application development.
  2. Spring MVC have clear code separation on input logic(controller), business logic(model), and UI logic(view).
  3. Spring MVC pattern help to develop flexible and loosely coupled web applications.
  4. Provide various hard coded way to customise your application based on your need.

Spring Boot :

  1. Create of Quick Application so that, instead of manage single big web application we divide them individually into different Microservices which have their own scope & capability.
  2. Auto Configuration using Web Jar : In normal Spring there is lot of configuration like DispatcherServlet, Component Scan, View Resolver, Web Jar, XMLs. (For example if I would like to configure datasource, Entity Manager Transaction Manager Factory). Configure automatically when it's not available using class-path.
  3. Comes with Default Spring Starters, which come with some default Spring configuration dependency (like Spring Core, Web-MVC, Jackson, Tomcat, Validation, Data Binding, Logging). Don't worry about versioning issue as well.

(Evolution like : Spring -> Spring MVC -> Spring Boot, So newer version have the compatibility of old version features.) Note : It doesn't contain all point.

Removing All Items From A ComboBox?

For Access VBA, if a ComboBox has been populated with a Row Source Type of Value List, I find the following works:

ComboBox.RowSource = ""

Which JRE am I using?

In Linux:

java -version

In Windows:

java.exe -version

If you need more info about the JVM you can call the executable with the parameter -XshowSettings:properties. It will show a lot of System Properties. These properties can also be accessed by means of the static method System.getProperty(String) in a Java class. As example this is an excerpt of some of the properties that can be obtained:

$ java -XshowSettings:properties -version
[...]
java.specification.version = 1.7
java.vendor = Oracle Corporation
java.vendor.url = http://java.oracle.com/
java.vendor.url.bug = http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/
java.version = 1.7.0_95
[...]

So if you need to access any of these properties from Java code you can use:

System.getProperty("java.specification.version");
System.getProperty("java.vendor");
System.getProperty("java.vendor.url");
System.getProperty("java.version");

Take into account that sometimes the vendor is not exposed as clear as Oracle or IBM. For example,

$ java version
"1.6.0_22" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_22-b04) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 17.1-b03, mixed mode, sharing)

HotSpot is what Oracle calls their implementation of the JVM. Check this list if the vendor does not seem to be shown with -version.

Print page numbers on pages when printing html

Can you try this, you can use content: counter(page);

     @page {
       @bottom-left {
            content: counter(page) "/" counter(pages);
        }
     }

Ref: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/generate.html#counters

http://www.princexml.com/doc/9.0/page-numbers/

ImportError: No Module named simplejson

On Ubuntu/Debian, you can install it with apt-get install python-simplejson

Import Maven dependencies in IntelliJ IDEA

Go into your project structure, under project Settings, Modules, select the dependencies table. For each dependency, change the scope from 'Test' to 'Compile'.

regex for zip-code

^\d{5}(?:[-\s]\d{4})?$
  • ^ = Start of the string.
  • \d{5} = Match 5 digits (for condition 1, 2, 3)
  • (?:…) = Grouping
  • [-\s] = Match a space (for condition 3) or a hyphen (for condition 2)
  • \d{4} = Match 4 digits (for condition 2, 3)
  • …? = The pattern before it is optional (for condition 1)
  • $ = End of the string.

update to python 3.7 using anaconda

run conda navigator, you can upgrade your packages easily in the friendly GUI

How can I add a PHP page to WordPress?

You can also directly use the PHP page, like to create the PHP page and run with full path.

Like, http://localhost/path/filename.php

Simple PowerShell LastWriteTime compare

I have an example I would like to share

$File = "C:\Foo.txt"
#retrieves the Systems current Date and Time in a DateTime Format
$today = Get-Date
#subtracts 12 hours from the date to ensure the file has been written to recently
$today = $today.AddHours(-12)
#gets the last time the $file was written in a DateTime Format
$lastWriteTime = (Get-Item $File).LastWriteTime

#If $File doesn't exist we will loop indefinetely until it does exist.
# also loops until the $File that exists was written to in the last twelve hours
while((!(Test-Path $File)) -or ($lastWriteTime -lt $today))
{
    #if a file exists then the write time is wrong so update it
    if (Test-Path $File)
    {
        $lastWriteTime = (Get-Item $File).LastWriteTime
    }
    #Sleep for 5 minutes
    $time = Get-Date
    Write-Host "Sleep" $time
    Start-Sleep -s 300;
}

Python: One Try Multiple Except

Yes, it is possible.

try:
   ...
except FirstException:
   handle_first_one()

except SecondException:
   handle_second_one()

except (ThirdException, FourthException, FifthException) as e:
   handle_either_of_3rd_4th_or_5th()

except Exception:
   handle_all_other_exceptions()

See: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/errors.html

The "as" keyword is used to assign the error to a variable so that the error can be investigated more thoroughly later on in the code. Also note that the parentheses for the triple exception case are needed in python 3. This page has more info: Catch multiple exceptions in one line (except block)

javascript regex for special characters

This regex works well for me to validate password:

/[ !"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\\]^_`{|}~]/

This list of special characters (including white space and punctuation) was taken from here: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Password_special_characters. It was changed a bit, cause backslash ('\') and closing bracket (']') had to be escaped for proper work of the regex. That's why two additional backslash characters were added.

How do I solve the INSTALL_FAILED_DEXOPT error?

I had the app uninstalled and got the INSTALL_FAILED_DEXOPT error nevertheless. If you are working with Android Studio / gradle: gradle clean did the trick for me, Cheers.

What's the difference between fill_parent and wrap_content?

  • fill_parent will make the width or height of the element to be as large as the parent element, in other words, the container.

  • wrap_content will make the width or height be as large as needed to contain the elements within it.

Click here for ANDROID DOC Reference

How to get thread id of a pthread in linux c program?

There is also another way of getting thread id. While creating threads with

int pthread_create(pthread_t * thread, const pthread_attr_t * attr, void * (*start_routine)(void *), void *arg);

function call; the first parameter pthread_t * thread is actually a thread id (that is an unsigned long int defined in bits/pthreadtypes.h). Also, the last argument void *arg is the argument that is passed to void * (*start_routine) function to be threaded.

You can create a structure to pass multiple arguments and send a pointer to a structure.

typedef struct thread_info {
    pthread_t thread;
    //...
} thread_info;
//...
tinfo = malloc(sizeof(thread_info) * NUMBER_OF_THREADS);
//...
pthread_create (&tinfo[i].thread, NULL, handler, (void*)&tinfo[i]);
//...
void *handler(void *targs) {
    thread_info *tinfo = targs;
    // here you get the thread id with tinfo->thread
}

Best way to extract a subvector from a vector?

vector<T>::const_iterator first = myVec.begin() + 100000;
vector<T>::const_iterator last = myVec.begin() + 101000;
vector<T> newVec(first, last);

It's an O(N) operation to construct the new vector, but there isn't really a better way.

Removing packages installed with go get

You can delete the archive files and executable binaries that go install (or go get) produces for a package with go clean -i importpath.... These normally reside under $GOPATH/pkg and $GOPATH/bin, respectively.

Be sure to include ... on the importpath, since it appears that, if a package includes an executable, go clean -i will only remove that and not archive files for subpackages, like gore/gocode in the example below.

Source code then needs to be removed manually from $GOPATH/src.

go clean has an -n flag for a dry run that prints what will be run without executing it, so you can be certain (see go help clean). It also has a tempting -r flag to recursively clean dependencies, which you probably don't want to actually use since you'll see from a dry run that it will delete lots of standard library archive files!

A complete example, which you could base a script on if you like:

$ go get -u github.com/motemen/gore

$ which gore
/Users/ches/src/go/bin/gore

$ go clean -i -n github.com/motemen/gore...
cd /Users/ches/src/go/src/github.com/motemen/gore
rm -f gore gore.exe gore.test gore.test.exe commands commands.exe commands_test commands_test.exe complete complete.exe complete_test complete_test.exe debug debug.exe helpers_test helpers_test.exe liner liner.exe log log.exe main main.exe node node.exe node_test node_test.exe quickfix quickfix.exe session_test session_test.exe terminal_unix terminal_unix.exe terminal_windows terminal_windows.exe utils utils.exe
rm -f /Users/ches/src/go/bin/gore
cd /Users/ches/src/go/src/github.com/motemen/gore/gocode
rm -f gocode.test gocode.test.exe
rm -f /Users/ches/src/go/pkg/darwin_amd64/github.com/motemen/gore/gocode.a

$ go clean -i github.com/motemen/gore...

$ which gore

$ tree $GOPATH/pkg/darwin_amd64/github.com/motemen/gore
/Users/ches/src/go/pkg/darwin_amd64/github.com/motemen/gore

0 directories, 0 files

# If that empty directory really bugs you...
$ rmdir $GOPATH/pkg/darwin_amd64/github.com/motemen/gore

$ rm -rf $GOPATH/src/github.com/motemen/gore

Note that this information is based on the go tool in Go version 1.5.1.

Bootstrap row class contains margin-left and margin-right which creates problems

Old topic, but I think I found another descent solution. Adding class="row" to a div will result in this CSS configuration:

.row {
    display: -webkit-box;
    display: flex;
    flex-wrap: wrap;
    margin-right: -15px;
    margin-left: -15px;
}

We want to keep the first 3 rules and we can do this with class="d-flex flex-wrap" (see https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.1/utilities/flex/):

.flex-wrap {
    flex-wrap: wrap !important;
}
.d-flex {
    display: -webkit-box !important;
    display: flex !important;
}

It adds !important rules though but it shouldn't be a problem in most cases...

Composer: how can I install another dependency without updating old ones?

Actually, the correct solution is:

composer require vendor/package

Taken from the CLI documentation for Composer:

The require command adds new packages to the composer.json file from the current directory.

php composer.phar require

After adding/changing the requirements, the modified requirements will be installed or updated.

If you do not want to choose requirements interactively, you can just pass them to the command.

php composer.phar require vendor/package:2.* vendor/package2:dev-master

While it is true that composer update installs new packages found in composer.json, it will also update the composer.lock file and any installed packages according to any fuzzy logic (> or * chars after the colons) found in composer.json! This can be avoided by using composer update vendor/package, but I wouldn't recommend making a habit of it, as you're one forgotten argument away from a potentially broken project…

Keep things sane and stick with composer require vendor/package for adding new dependencies!

Import and Export Excel - What is the best library?

Spreadsheetgear is the best commercial library we have found and are using. Our company does a lot of advanced excel import and export and Spreadsheetgear supports lots of advanced excel features far beyond anything you can do with simple CSV, and it's fast. It isn't free or very cheap though but worth it because the support is excellent. The developers will actually respond to you if you run into an issue.

How to crop an image using C#?

You can use Graphics.DrawImage to draw a cropped image onto the graphics object from a bitmap.

Rectangle cropRect = new Rectangle(...);
Bitmap src = Image.FromFile(fileName) as Bitmap;
Bitmap target = new Bitmap(cropRect.Width, cropRect.Height);

using(Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(target))
{
   g.DrawImage(src, new Rectangle(0, 0, target.Width, target.Height), 
                    cropRect,                        
                    GraphicsUnit.Pixel);
}

When should I use Lazy<T>?

Just to point onto the example posted by Mathew

public sealed class Singleton
{
    // Because Singleton's constructor is private, we must explicitly
    // give the Lazy<Singleton> a delegate for creating the Singleton.
    private static readonly Lazy<Singleton> instanceHolder =
        new Lazy<Singleton>(() => new Singleton());

    private Singleton()
    {
        ...
    }

    public static Singleton Instance
    {
        get { return instanceHolder.Value; }
    }
}

before the Lazy was born we would have done it this way:

private static object lockingObject = new object();
public static LazySample InstanceCreation()
{
    if(lazilyInitObject == null)
    {
         lock (lockingObject)
         {
              if(lazilyInitObject == null)
              {
                   lazilyInitObject = new LazySample ();
              }
         }
    }
    return lazilyInitObject ;
}

Using a dictionary to select function to execute

Not proud of it, but:

def myMain(key):
    def ExecP1():
        pass
    def ExecP2():
        pass
    def ExecP3():
        pass
    def ExecPn():
        pass 
    locals()['Exec' + key]()

I do however recommend that you put those in a module/class whatever, this is truly horrible.

8080 port already taken issue when trying to redeploy project from Spring Tool Suite IDE

On Linux Machine, save the bash script and execute it. If you want to free port 8080, Input 8080 when prompted

echo "Enter port number to be closed :: "
read port
sudo kill $(sudo lsof -t -i:$port)

Android Fragment no view found for ID?

I had the same problem it was caused because I tried to add fragments before adding the container layout to the activity.

Use Font Awesome Icon in Placeholder

@Elli's answer can work in FontAwesome 5, but it requires using the correct font name and using the specific CSS for the version you want. For example when using FA5 Free, I could not get it to work if I included the all.css, but it worked fine if I included the solid.css:

_x000D_
_x000D_
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.8.1/css/solid.css">_x000D_
_x000D_
<input type="text" placeholder="&#xF002; Search" style="font-family: Arial, 'Font Awesome 5 Free'" />
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

For FA5 Pro the font name is 'Font Awesome 5 Pro'

performing HTTP requests with cURL (using PROXY)

From man curl:

-x, --proxy <[protocol://][user:password@]proxyhost[:port]>

     Use the specified HTTP proxy. 
     If the port number is not specified, it is assumed at port 1080.

General way:

export http_proxy=http://your.proxy.server:port/

Then you can connect through proxy from (many) application.

And, as per comment below, for https:

export https_proxy=https://your.proxy.server:port/

How to set the timeout for a TcpClient?

Another alternative using https://stackoverflow.com/a/25684549/3975786:

var timeOut = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5);     
var cancellationCompletionSource = new TaskCompletionSource<bool>();
try
{
    using (var cts = new CancellationTokenSource(timeOut))
    {
        using (var client = new TcpClient())
        {
            var task = client.ConnectAsync(hostUri, portNumber);

            using (cts.Token.Register(() => cancellationCompletionSource.TrySetResult(true)))
            {
                if (task != await Task.WhenAny(task, cancellationCompletionSource.Task))
                {
                    throw new OperationCanceledException(cts.Token);
                }
            }

            ...

        }
    }
}
catch(OperationCanceledException)
{
    ...
}

What are the differences between the BLOB and TEXT datatypes in MySQL?

TEXT and CHAR will convert to/from the character set they have associated with time. BLOB and BINARY simply store bytes.

BLOB is used for storing binary data while Text is used to store large string.

BLOB values are treated as binary strings (byte strings). They have no character set, and sorting and comparison are based on the numeric values of the bytes in column values.

TEXT values are treated as nonbinary strings (character strings). They have a character set, and values are sorted and compared based on the collation of the character set.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/blob.html

MongoError: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:27017

I've forgot to start MongoDB at all. Go to separate tab in terminal and type:

sudo service mongod start

What is the difference between exit and return?

the return statement exits from the current function and exit() exits from the program

they are the same when used in main() function

also return is a statement while exit() is a function which requires stdlb.h header file

invalid use of non-static member function

The simplest fix is to make the comparator function be static:

static int comparator (const Bar & first, const Bar & second);
^^^^^^

When invoking it in Count, its name will be Foo::comparator.

The way you have it now, it does not make sense to be a non-static member function because it does not use any member variables of Foo.

Another option is to make it a non-member function, especially if it makes sense that this comparator might be used by other code besides just Foo.

Populating a ListView using an ArrayList?

public class Example extends Activity
{
    private ListView lv;
    ArrayList<String> arrlist=new ArrayList<String>();
    //let me assume that you are putting the values in this arraylist
    //Now convert your arraylist to array

    //You will get an exmaple here

    //http://www.java-tips.org/java-se-tips/java.lang/how-to-convert-an-arraylist-into-an-array.html 

    private String arr[]=convert(arrlist);
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle bun)
    {
        super.onCreate(bun);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
        lv=(ListView)findViewById(R.id.lv);
        lv.setAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1 , arr));
        }
    }

BAT file to open CMD in current directory

Most simple way in explorer is to Shift + right mouse click on the folder or on an empty space in the folder and click on Open command prompt here.

CMD will then start in that folder

I must say, I'm not sure if it works for Windows Vista and below, but it surely works for Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10.

Creating a list of objects in Python

It shouldn't be necessary to recreate the SimpleClass object each time, as some are suggesting, if you're simply using it to output data based on its attributes. However, you're not actually creating an instance of the class; you're simply creating a reference to the class object itself. Therefore, you're adding a reference to the same class attribute to the list (instead of instance attribute), over and over.

Instead of:

x = SimpleClass

you need:

x = SimpleClass()

How to create a pulse effect using -webkit-animation - outward rings

Or if you want a ripple pulse effect, you could use this:

http://jsfiddle.net/Fy8vD/3041/

.gps_ring {
     border: 2px solid #fff;
     -webkit-border-radius: 50%;
     height: 18px;
     width: 18px;
     position: absolute;
     left:20px;
    top:214px;
    -webkit-animation: pulsate 1s ease-out;
    -webkit-animation-iteration-count: infinite; 
    opacity: 0.0;
}
.gps_ring:before {
    content:"";
    display:block;
    border: 2px solid #fff;
    -webkit-border-radius: 50%;
    height: 30px;
    width: 30px;
    position: absolute;
    left:-8px;
    top:-8px;
    -webkit-animation: pulsate 1s ease-out;
    -webkit-animation-iteration-count: infinite; 
    -webkit-animation-delay: 0.1s;
    opacity: 0.0;
}
.gps_ring:after {
    content:"";
    display:block;
    border:2px solid #fff;
    -webkit-border-radius: 50%;
    height: 50px;
    width: 50px;
    position: absolute;
    left:-18px;
    top:-18px;
    -webkit-animation: pulsate 1s ease-out;
    -webkit-animation-iteration-count: infinite; 
    -webkit-animation-delay: 0.2s;
    opacity: 0.0;
}
@-webkit-keyframes pulsate {
    0% {-webkit-transform: scale(0.1, 0.1); opacity: 0.0;}
    50% {opacity: 1.0;}
    100% {-webkit-transform: scale(1.2, 1.2); opacity: 0.0;}
}

How do I use the includes method in lodash to check if an object is in the collection?

You could use find to solve your problem

https://lodash.com/docs/#find

const data = [{"a": 1}, {"b": 2}]
const item = {"b": 2}


find(data, item)
// > true

execJs: 'Could not find a JavaScript runtime' but execjs AND therubyracer are in Gemfile

add in your gemfile which is in the folder you have created: gem 'execjs' gem 'therubyracer'

What is the difference between cache and persist?

Spark gives 5 types of Storage level

  • MEMORY_ONLY
  • MEMORY_ONLY_SER
  • MEMORY_AND_DISK
  • MEMORY_AND_DISK_SER
  • DISK_ONLY

cache() will use MEMORY_ONLY. If you want to use something else, use persist(StorageLevel.<*type*>).

By default persist() will store the data in the JVM heap as unserialized objects.

How do you convert a time.struct_time object into a datetime object?

Use time.mktime() to convert the time tuple (in localtime) into seconds since the Epoch, then use datetime.fromtimestamp() to get the datetime object.

from datetime import datetime
from time import mktime

dt = datetime.fromtimestamp(mktime(struct))

Remove leading or trailing spaces in an entire column of data

I was able to use Find & Replace with the "Find what:" input field set to:

" * "

(space asterisk space with no double-quotes)

and "Replace with:" set to:

""

(nothing)

How to align footer (div) to the bottom of the page?

Use <div style="position:fixed;bottom:0;height:auto;margin-top:40px;width:100%;text-align:center">I am footer</div>. Footer will not go upwards

Converting string to tuple without splitting characters

This only covers a simple case:

a = ‘Quattro TT’
print tuple(a)

If you use only delimiter like ‘,’, then it could work.

I used a string from configparser like so:

list_users = (‘test1’, ‘test2’, ‘test3’)
and the i get from file
tmp = config_ob.get(section_name, option_name)
>>>”(‘test1’, ‘test2’, ‘test3’)”

In this case the above solution does not work. However, this does work:

def fot_tuple(self, some_str):
     # (‘test1’, ‘test2’, ‘test3’)
     some_str = some_str.replace(‘(‘, ”)
     # ‘test1’, ‘test2’, ‘test3’)
     some_str = some_str.replace(‘)’, ”)
     # ‘test1’, ‘test2’, ‘test3’
     some_str = some_str.replace(“‘, ‘”, ‘,’)
     # ‘test1,test2,test3’
     some_str = some_str.replace(“‘”, ‘,’)
     # test1,test2,test3
     # and now i could convert to tuple
     return tuple(item for item in some_str.split(‘,’) if item.strip())

ld cannot find an existing library

As just formulated by grepsedawk, the answer lies in the -l option of g++, calling ld. If you look at the man page of this command, you can either do:

  • g++ -l:libmagic.so.1 [...]
  • or: g++ -lmagic [...] , if you have a symlink named libmagic.so in your libs path

How to insert pandas dataframe via mysqldb into database?

df.to_sql(name = "owner", con= db_connection, schema = 'aws', if_exists='replace', index = >True, index_label='id')

How to disable Django's CSRF validation?

To disable CSRF for class based views the following worked for me.
Using django 1.10 and python 3.5.2

from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_exempt
from django.utils.decorators import method_decorator

@method_decorator(csrf_exempt, name='dispatch')
class TestView(View):
    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        return HttpResponse('Hello world')

SQL Query - SUM(CASE WHEN x THEN 1 ELSE 0) for multiple columns

I would change the query in the following ways:

  1. Do the aggregation in subqueries. This can take advantage of more information about the table for optimizing the group by.
  2. Combine the second and third subqueries. They are aggregating on the same column. This requires using a left outer join to ensure that all data is available.
  3. By using count(<fieldname>) you can eliminate the comparisons to is null. This is important for the second and third calculated values.
  4. To combine the second and third queries, it needs to count an id from the mde table. These use mde.mdeid.

The following version follows your example by using union all:

SELECT CAST(Detail.ReceiptDate AS DATE) AS "Date",
       SUM(TOTALMAILED) as TotalMailed,
       SUM(TOTALUNDELINOTICESRECEIVED) as TOTALUNDELINOTICESRECEIVED,
       SUM(TRACEUNDELNOTICESRECEIVED) as TRACEUNDELNOTICESRECEIVED
FROM ((select SentDate AS "ReceiptDate", COUNT(*) as TotalMailed,
              NULL as TOTALUNDELINOTICESRECEIVED, NULL as TRACEUNDELNOTICESRECEIVED
       from MailDataExtract
       where SentDate is not null
       group by SentDate
      ) union all
      (select MDE.ReturnMailDate AS ReceiptDate, 0,
              COUNT(distinct mde.mdeid) as TOTALUNDELINOTICESRECEIVED,
              SUM(case when sd.ReturnMailTypeId = 1 then 1 else 0 end) as TRACEUNDELNOTICESRECEIVED
       from MailDataExtract MDE left outer join
            DTSharedData.dbo.ScanData SD
            ON SD.ScanDataID = MDE.ReturnScanDataID
       group by MDE.ReturnMailDate;
      )
     ) detail
GROUP BY CAST(Detail.ReceiptDate AS DATE)
ORDER BY 1;

The following does something similar using full outer join:

SELECT coalesce(sd.ReceiptDate, mde.ReceiptDate) AS "Date",
       sd.TotalMailed, mde.TOTALUNDELINOTICESRECEIVED,
       mde.TRACEUNDELNOTICESRECEIVED
FROM (select cast(SentDate as date) AS "ReceiptDate", COUNT(*) as TotalMailed
      from MailDataExtract
      where SentDate is not null
      group by cast(SentDate as date)
     ) sd full outer join
    (select cast(MDE.ReturnMailDate as date) AS ReceiptDate,
            COUNT(distinct mde.mdeID) as TOTALUNDELINOTICESRECEIVED,
            SUM(case when sd.ReturnMailTypeId = 1 then 1 else 0 end) as TRACEUNDELNOTICESRECEIVED
     from MailDataExtract MDE left outer join
          DTSharedData.dbo.ScanData SD
          ON SD.ScanDataID = MDE.ReturnScanDataID
     group by cast(MDE.ReturnMailDate as date)
    ) mde
    on sd.ReceiptDate = mde.ReceiptDate
ORDER BY 1;

Is there a standard sign function (signum, sgn) in C/C++?

It seems that most of the answers missed the original question.

Is there a standard sign function (signum, sgn) in C/C++?

Not in the standard library, however there is copysign which can be used almost the same way via copysign(1.0, arg) and there is a true sign function in boost, which might as well be part of the standard.

    #include <boost/math/special_functions/sign.hpp>

    //Returns 1 if x > 0, -1 if x < 0, and 0 if x is zero.
    template <class T>
    inline int sign (const T& z);

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_47_0/libs/math/doc/sf_and_dist/html/math_toolkit/utils/sign_functions.html

Volley JsonObjectRequest Post request not working

All you need to do is to override getParams method in Request class. I had the same problem and I searched through the answers but I could not find a proper one. The problem is unlike get request, post parameters being redirected by the servers may be dropped. For instance, read this. So, don't risk your requests to be redirected by webserver. If you are targeting http://example/myapp , then mention the exact address of your service, that is http://example.com/myapp/index.php.
Volley is OK and works perfectly, the problem stems from somewhere else.

How to delete from a table where ID is in a list of IDs?

delete from t
where id in (1, 4, 6, 7)

Copy/Paste/Calculate Visible Cells from One Column of a Filtered Table

Just to add to Jon's coding if you needed to take it a step further, and do more than just one column you can add something like

Dim copyRange2 As Range
Dim copyRange3 As Range

Set copyRange2 =src.Range("B2:B" & lastRow)
Set copyRange3 =src.Range("C2:C" & lastRow)

copyRange2.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Copy tgt.Range("B12")
copyRange3.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeVisible).Copy tgt.Range("C12")

put these near the other codings that are the same you can easily change the Ranges as you need.

I only add this because it was helpful for me. I'd assume Jon already knows this but for those that are less experienced sometimes it's helpful to see how to change/add/modify these codings. I figured since Ruya didn't know how to manipulate the original coding it could be helpful if one ever needed to copy over only 2 visibile columns, or only 3, etc. You can use this same coding, add in extra lines that are almost the same and then the coding is copying over whatever you need.

I don't have enough reputation to reply to Jon's comment directly so I have to post as a new comment, sorry.

Access IP Camera in Python OpenCV

This works with my IP camera:

import cv2

#print("Before URL")
cap = cv2.VideoCapture('rtsp://admin:[email protected]/H264?ch=1&subtype=0')
#print("After URL")

while True:

    #print('About to start the Read command')
    ret, frame = cap.read()
    #print('About to show frame of Video.')
    cv2.imshow("Capturing",frame)
    #print('Running..')

    if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
        break

cap.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()

I found the Stream URL in the Camera's Setup screen: IP Camera Setup Screen

Note that I added the Username (admin) and Password (123456) of the camera and ended it with an @ symbol before the IP address in the URL (admin:123456@)

What is the easiest way to parse an INI file in Java?

As mentioned, ini4j can be used to achieve this. Let me show one other example.

If we have an INI file like this:

[header]
key = value

The following should display value to STDOUT:

Ini ini = new Ini(new File("/path/to/file"));
System.out.println(ini.get("header", "key"));

Check the tutorials for more examples.

How can I create an array with key value pairs?

You can create the single value array key-value as

$new_row = array($row["datasource_id"]=>$row["title"]);

inside while loop, and then use array_merge function in loop to combine the each new $new_row array.

What is the difference between atomic / volatile / synchronized?

The Java volatile modifier is an example of a special mechanism to guarantee that communication happens between threads. When one thread writes to a volatile variable, and another thread sees that write, the first thread is telling the second about all of the contents of memory up until it performed the write to that volatile variable.

Atomic operations are performed in a single unit of task without interference from other operations. Atomic operations are necessity in multi-threaded environment to avoid data inconsistency.

What is the "double tilde" (~~) operator in JavaScript?

That ~~ is a double NOT bitwise operator.

It is used as a faster substitute for Math.floor() for positive numbers. It does not return the same result as Math.floor() for negative numbers, as it just chops off the part after the decimal (see other answers for examples of this).

CSS: stretching background image to 100% width and height of screen?

The VH unit can be used to fill the background of the viewport, aka the browser window.

(height:100vh;)

html{
    height:100%;
    }
.body {
     background: url(image.jpg) no-repeat center top; 
     background-size: cover; 
     height:100vh;     
}

Replacing last character in a String with java

You can simply use substring:

if(fieldName.endsWith(","))
{
  fieldName = fieldName.substring(0,fieldName.length() - 1);
}

Make sure to reassign your field after performing substring as Strings are immutable in java

How to resolve "Server Error in '/' Application" error?

I opened the Properties window for the website project in question and changed Windows Authentication to "Enabled" and that resolved my issue in VS 2019.

How to delete a certain row from mysql table with same column values?

Best way to design table is add one temporary row as auto increment and keep as primary key. So we can avoid such above issues.

How to use sudo inside a docker container?

For anyone who has this issue with an already running container, and they don't necessarily want to rebuild, the following command connects to a running container with root privileges:

docker exec -ti -u root container_name bash

You can also connect using its ID, rather than its name, by finding it with:

docker ps -l

To save your changes so that they are still there when you next launch the container (or docker-compose cluster):

docker commit container_id image_name

To roll back to a previous image version (warning: this deletes history rather than appends to the end, so to keep a reference to the current image, tag it first using the optional step):

docker history image_name
docker tag latest_image_id my_descriptive_tag_name  # optional
docker tag desired_history_image_id image_name

To start a container that isn't running and connect as root:

docker run -ti -u root --entrypoint=/bin/bash image_id_or_name -s

To copy from a running container:

docker cp <containerId>:/file/path/within/container /host/path/target

To export a copy of the image:

docker save container | gzip > /dir/file.tar.gz

Which you can restore to another Docker install using:

gzcat /dir/file.tar.gz | docker load

It is much quicker but takes more space to not compress, using:

docker save container | dir/file.tar

And:

cat dir/file.tar | docker load

How to change the background color of a UIButton while it's highlighted?

I have open-sourced a UIButton subclass, STAButton, to fill in this gaping functionality hole. Available under the MIT license. Works for iOS 7+ (I have not tested with older iOS versions).

Launch an event when checking a checkbox in Angular2

StackBlitz

Template: You can either use the native change event or NgModel directive's ngModelChange.

<input type="checkbox" (change)="onNativeChange($event)"/>

or

<input type="checkbox" ngModel (ngModelChange)="onNgModelChange($event)"/>

TS:

onNativeChange(e) { // here e is a native event
  if(e.target.checked){
    // do something here
  }
}

onNgModelChange(e) { // here e is a boolean, true if checked, otherwise false
  if(e){
    // do something here
  }
}

How do you easily create empty matrices javascript?

With ES6 spread operator: Array(9).fill([...Array(9)])

Where to change the value of lower_case_table_names=2 on windows xampp

Also works in Wampserver. Click on the Green Wampserver Icon, choose MySql, then my.ini. This will allow you to open the my.ini file. Then -

  1. look up for: # The MySQL server [mysqld]
  2. add this right below it: lower_case_table_names = 2
  3. save the file and restart MySQL service

Important Note - add the lower_case_table_names = 2 statement NOT under the [mysql] statement, but under the [mysqld] statement

Reference - http://doc.silverstripe.org/framework/en/installation/windows-wamp

MongoDb shuts down with Code 100

MongoDB needs a folder to store the database. Create a C:\data\db\ directory:

mkdir C:\data\db

and then start MongoDB:

C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.4\bin\mongod.exe

Sometimes C:\data\db folder already exists due to previous installation. So if for this reason mongod.exe does not work, you may delete all the contents from C:\data\db folder and execute mongod.exeagain.

What is let-* in Angular 2 templates?

update Angular 5

ngOutletContext was renamed to ngTemplateOutletContext

See also https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#500-beta5-2017-08-29

original

Templates (<template>, or <ng-template> since 4.x) are added as embedded views and get passed a context.

With let-col the context property $implicit is made available as col within the template for bindings. With let-foo="bar" the context property bar is made available as foo.

For example if you add a template

<ng-template #myTemplate let-col let-foo="bar">
  <div>{{col}}</div>
  <div>{{foo}}</div>
</ng-template>

<!-- render above template with a custom context -->
<ng-template [ngTemplateOutlet]="myTemplate"
             [ngTemplateOutletContext]="{
                                           $implicit: 'some col value',
                                           bar: 'some bar value'
                                        }"
></ng-template>

See also this answer and ViewContainerRef#createEmbeddedView.

*ngFor also works this way. The canonical syntax makes this more obvious

<ng-template ngFor let-item [ngForOf]="items" let-i="index" let-odd="odd">
  <div>{{item}}</div>
</ng-template>

where NgFor adds the template as embedded view to the DOM for each item of items and adds a few values (item, index, odd) to the context.

See also Using $implict to pass multiple parameters

How to enable copy paste from between host machine and virtual machine in vmware, virtual machine is ubuntu

the mremote option offers more automation and almost replicates the vmware workstation graphical experience plus major benefits: NO DPI (guest resolution) hassle no copy pose hassle Automation = starting vms and suspending them automatically plus more if you look deeper

How to Use Sockets in JavaScript\HTML?

How to Use Sockets in JavaScript/HTML?

There is no facility to use general-purpose sockets in JS or HTML. It would be a security disaster, for one.

There is WebSocket in HTML5. The client side is fairly trivial:

socket= new WebSocket('ws://www.example.com:8000/somesocket');
socket.onopen= function() {
    socket.send('hello');
};
socket.onmessage= function(s) {
    alert('got reply '+s);
};

You will need a specialised socket application on the server-side to take the connections and do something with them; it is not something you would normally be doing from a web server's scripting interface. However it is a relatively simple protocol; my noddy Python SocketServer-based endpoint was only a couple of pages of code.

In any case, it doesn't really exist, yet. Neither the JavaScript-side spec nor the network transport spec are nailed down, and no browsers support it.

You can, however, use Flash where available to provide your script with a fallback until WebSocket is widely available. Gimite's web-socket-js is one free example of such. However you are subject to the same limitations as Flash Sockets then, namely that your server has to be able to spit out a cross-domain policy on request to the socket port, and you will often have difficulties with proxies/firewalls. (Flash sockets are made directly; for someone without direct public IP access who can only get out of the network through an HTTP proxy, they won't work.)

Unless you really need low-latency two-way communication, you are better off sticking with XMLHttpRequest for now.

Could not find tools.jar. Please check that C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_151 contains a valid JDK installation

ERROR: Could not find tools.jar. Please check that C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_121 contains a valid JDK installation

Copy tools.jar from C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_121\lib to C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8\lib.

It's resolved the problem now.

OS X cp command in Terminal - No such file or directory

In my case, I had accidentally named a folder 'samples '. I couldn't see the space when I did 'ls -la'.

Eventually I realized this when I tried tabbing to autocomplete and saw 'samples\ /'.

To fix this I ran

mv samples\  samples

Plotting multiple lines, in different colors, with pandas dataframe

Another simple way is to use the pivot function to format the data as you need first.

df.plot() does the rest

df = pd.DataFrame([
    ['red', 0, 0],
    ['red', 1, 1],
    ['red', 2, 2],
    ['red', 3, 3],
    ['red', 4, 4],
    ['red', 5, 5],
    ['red', 6, 6],
    ['red', 7, 7],
    ['red', 8, 8],
    ['red', 9, 9],
    ['blue', 0, 0],
    ['blue', 1, 1],
    ['blue', 2, 4],
    ['blue', 3, 9],
    ['blue', 4, 16],
    ['blue', 5, 25],
    ['blue', 6, 36],
    ['blue', 7, 49],
    ['blue', 8, 64],
    ['blue', 9, 81],
], columns=['color', 'x', 'y'])

df = df.pivot(index='x', columns='color', values='y')

df.plot()

result

pivot effectively turns the data into:

enter image description here

Disposing WPF User Controls

I use the following Interactivity Behavior to provide an unloading event to WPF UserControls. You can include the behavior in the UserControls XAML. So you can have the functionality without placing the logic it in every single UserControl.

XAML declaration:

xmlns:i="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/2010/interactivity"

<i:Interaction.Behaviors>
    <behaviors:UserControlSupportsUnloadingEventBehavior UserControlClosing="UserControlClosingHandler" />
</i:Interaction.Behaviors>

CodeBehind handler:

private void UserControlClosingHandler(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    // to unloading stuff here
}

Behavior Code:

/// <summary>
/// This behavior raises an event when the containing window of a <see cref="UserControl"/> is closing.
/// </summary>
public class UserControlSupportsUnloadingEventBehavior : System.Windows.Interactivity.Behavior<UserControl>
{
    protected override void OnAttached()
    {
        AssociatedObject.Loaded += UserControlLoadedHandler;
    }

    protected override void OnDetaching()
    {
        AssociatedObject.Loaded -= UserControlLoadedHandler;
        var window = Window.GetWindow(AssociatedObject);
        if (window != null)
            window.Closing -= WindowClosingHandler;
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Registers to the containing windows Closing event when the UserControl is loaded.
    /// </summary>
    private void UserControlLoadedHandler(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        var window = Window.GetWindow(AssociatedObject);
        if (window == null)
            throw new Exception(
                "The UserControl {0} is not contained within a Window. The UserControlSupportsUnloadingEventBehavior cannot be used."
                    .FormatWith(AssociatedObject.GetType().Name));

        window.Closing += WindowClosingHandler;
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// The containing window is closing, raise the UserControlClosing event.
    /// </summary>
    private void WindowClosingHandler(object sender, CancelEventArgs e)
    {
        OnUserControlClosing();
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// This event will be raised when the containing window of the associated <see cref="UserControl"/> is closing.
    /// </summary>
    public event EventHandler UserControlClosing;

    protected virtual void OnUserControlClosing()
    {
        var handler = UserControlClosing;
        if (handler != null) 
            handler(this, EventArgs.Empty);
    }
}

Text blinking jQuery

result

$('.blink').fadeIn('fast')
    .animate({
        color: "#FFCD56"
    }, 100).animate({
        color: "white"
    }, 100)
    .animate({
        color: "#FFCD56"
    }, 100).animate({
        color: "white"
    }, 100)
    .animate({
        color: "#FFCD56"
    }, 100).animate({
        color: "white"
    }, 100)
    .animate({
        color: "#FFCD56"
    }, 100).animate({
        color: "white"
    }, 100)
    .animate({
        color: "#FFCD56"
    }, 100).animate({
        color: "white"
    }, 100);

Which is the default location for keystore/truststore of Java applications?

In Java, according to the JSSE Reference Guide, there is no default for the keystore, the default for the truststore is "jssecacerts, if it exists. Otherwise, cacerts".

A few applications use ~/.keystore as a default keystore, but this is not without problems (mainly because you might not want all the application run by the user to use that trust store).

I'd suggest using application-specific values that you bundle with your application instead, it would tend to be more applicable in general.

Laravel Eloquent: Ordering results of all()

You can actually do this within the query.

$results = Project::orderBy('name')->get();

This will return all results with the proper order.

How to split comma separated string using JavaScript?

Use

YourCommaSeparatedString.split(',');

How to unpublish an app in Google Play Developer Console

As per recent version. You need to go advanced settings. In this section you will find the un-publish button.

Is it possible to start activity through adb shell?

adb shell am broadcast -a android.intent.action.xxx

Mention xxx as the action that you mentioned in the manifest file.

How to grep for contents after pattern?

Or use regex assertions: grep -oP '(?<=potato: ).*' file.txt

Tomcat: How to find out running tomcat version

Simply start tomcat and search for "Server version name" in catalina.logs and you will get version of your tomcat. For example:

"Mar 07, 2019 11:25:40 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener log INFO: Server version name: Apache Tomcat/9.0.16"

Change a Rails application to production

RAILS_ENV=production rails s

OR

rails s -e production

By default environment is developement.

Insert auto increment primary key to existing table

I was facing the same problem so what I did I dropped the field for the primary key then I recreated it and made sure that it is auto incremental . That worked for me . I hope it helps others

Install MySQL on Ubuntu without a password prompt

sudo debconf-set-selections <<< 'mysql-server mysql-server/root_password password your_password'
sudo debconf-set-selections <<< 'mysql-server mysql-server/root_password_again password your_password'
sudo apt-get -y install mysql-server

For specific versions, such as mysql-server-5.6, you'll need to specify the version in like this:

sudo debconf-set-selections <<< 'mysql-server-5.6 mysql-server/root_password password your_password'
sudo debconf-set-selections <<< 'mysql-server-5.6 mysql-server/root_password_again password your_password'
sudo apt-get -y install mysql-server-5.6

For mysql-community-server, the keys are slightly different:

sudo debconf-set-selections <<< 'mysql-community-server mysql-community-server/root-pass password your_password'
sudo debconf-set-selections <<< 'mysql-community-server mysql-community-server/re-root-pass password your_password'
sudo apt-get -y install mysql-community-server

Replace your_password with the desired root password. (it seems your_password can also be left blank for a blank root password.)

If your shell doesn't support here-strings (zsh, ksh93 and bash support them), use:

echo ... | sudo debconf-set-selections 

Pass Array Parameter in SqlCommand

If you are using MS SQL Server 2008 and above you can use table-valued parameters like described here http://www.sommarskog.se/arrays-in-sql-2008.html.

1. Create a table type for each parameter type you will be using

The following command creates a table type for integers:

create type int32_id_list as table (id int not null primary key)

2. Implement helper methods

public static SqlCommand AddParameter<T>(this SqlCommand command, string name, IEnumerable<T> ids)
{
  var parameter = command.CreateParameter();      

  parameter.ParameterName = name;
  parameter.TypeName = typeof(T).Name.ToLowerInvariant() + "_id_list";
  parameter.SqlDbType = SqlDbType.Structured;
  parameter.Direction = ParameterDirection.Input;

  parameter.Value = CreateIdList(ids);

  command.Parameters.Add(parameter);
  return command;
}

private static DataTable CreateIdList<T>(IEnumerable<T> ids)
{
  var table = new DataTable();
  table.Columns.Add("id", typeof (T));

  foreach (var id in ids)
  {
    table.Rows.Add(id);
  }

  return table;
}

3. Use it like this

cmd.CommandText = "select * from TableA where Age in (select id from @age)"; 
cmd.AddParameter("@age", new [] {1,2,3,4,5});

RegEx for valid international mobile phone number

Even though it is about international numbers I would want the code to be like :

/^(\+|\d)[0-9]{7,16}$/;

As you can have international numbers starting with '00' as well.

Why I prefer 15 digits : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.164

Change application's starting activity

In a recent project I changed the default activity in AndroidManifest.xml with:

<activity android:name=".MyAppRuntimePermissions">
</activity>

<activity android:name=".MyAppDisplay">
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.activity.MAIN" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
    </intent-filter>
</activity>

In Android Studio 3.6; this seems to broken. I've used this technique in example applications, but when I use it in this real-world application it falls flat. The IDE once again reports:

Error running app: Default activity not found.

The IDE still showed a configuration error in the "run app" space in the toolbar (yellow arrow in this screenshot)

Error in "run app" configuration

To correct this error I've tried several rebuilds of the project, and finally File >> "Invalidate Cache/Restart". This did not help. To run the application I had to "Edit Configurations" and point at the specific activity instead of the default activity:

Edit configuration dialog box

Make a link open a new window (not tab)

With pure HTML you can't influence this - every modern browser (= the user) has complete control over this behavior because it has been misused a lot in the past...

HTML option

You can open a new window (HTML4) or a new browsing context (HTML5). Browsing context in modern browsers is mostly "new tab" instead of "new window". You have no influence on that, and you can't "force" modern browsers to open a new window.

In order to do this, use the anchor element's attribute target[1]. The value you are looking for is _blank[2].

<a href="www.example.com/example.html" target="_blank">link text</a>

JavaScript option

Forcing a new window is possible via javascript - see Ievgen's excellent answer below for a javascript solution.

(!) However, be aware, that opening windows via javascript (if not done in the onclick event from an anchor element) are subject to getting blocked by popup blockers!

[1] This attribute dates back to the times when browsers did not have tabs and using framesets was state of the art. In the meantime, the functionality of this attribute has slightly changed (see MDN Docu)

[2] There are some other values which do not make much sense anymore (because they were designed with framesets in mind) like _parent, _self or _top.

How to remove the last character from a bash grep output

cat file.txt | grep "company_name" | cut -d '=' -f 2 | cut -d ';' -f 1

Spring Boot yaml configuration for a list of strings

From the spring boot docs https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/boot-features-external-config.html

YAML lists are represented as property keys with [index] dereferencers, for example this YAML:

my:
   servers:
       - dev.bar.com
       - foo.bar.com

Would be transformed into these properties:

my.servers[0]=dev.bar.com
my.servers[1]=foo.bar.com

To bind to properties like that using the Spring DataBinder utilities (which is what @ConfigurationProperties does) you need to have a property in the target bean of type java.util.List and you either need to provide a setter, or initialize it with a mutable value, e.g. this will bind to the properties above. Here is what the question's code would look like.

@ConfigurationProperties(prefix="ignore")
public class Filenames {

    private List<String> ignoredFilenames = new ArrayList<String>();

    public List<String> getFilenames() {
        return this.ignoredFilenames;
    }
}

Converting SVG to PNG using C#

There is a much easier way using the library http://svg.codeplex.com/ (Newer version @GIT, @NuGet). Here is my code

var byteArray = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(svgFileContents);
using (var stream = new MemoryStream(byteArray))
{
    var svgDocument = SvgDocument.Open(stream);
    var bitmap = svgDocument.Draw();
    bitmap.Save(path, ImageFormat.Png);
}

css - position div to bottom of containing div

Add position: relative to .outside. (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/position)

Elements that are positioned relatively are still considered to be in the normal flow of elements in the document. In contrast, an element that is positioned absolutely is taken out of the flow and thus takes up no space when placing other elements. The absolutely positioned element is positioned relative to nearest positioned ancestor. If a positioned ancestor doesn't exist, the initial container is used.

The "initial container" would be <body>, but adding the above makes .outside positioned.

How copy data from Excel to a table using Oracle SQL Developer

For PLSQL version 9.0.0.1601

  1. From the context menu of the Table, choose "Edit Data"
  2. Insert or edit the data
  3. Post change

FromBody string parameter is giving null

You are on the right track.

On your header set

Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

The body of the POST request should be =test and nothing else. For unknown/variable strings you have to URL encode the value so that way you do not accidentally escape with an input character.


See also POST string to ASP.NET Web Api application - returns null

Read/Write 'Extended' file properties (C#)

I'm not sure what types of files you are trying to write the properties for but taglib-sharp is an excellent open source tagging library that wraps up all this functionality nicely. It has a lot of built in support for most of the popular media file types but also allows you to do more advanced tagging with pretty much any file.

EDIT: I've updated the link to taglib sharp. The old link no longer worked.

EDIT: Updated the link once again per kzu's comment.

What is the equivalent of "none" in django templates?

isoperator : New in Django 1.10

{% if somevar is None %}
  This appears if somevar is None, or if somevar is not found in the context.
{% endif %}

Working copy locked error in tortoise svn while committing

I managed to lock myself out of a file in svn - don't know how - but when I tried (re)-getting the lock (Tortoise was showing the "Get Lock" option for the file), it complained that already had the lock. I tried deleting the file and committing the directory change - same result. I tried CleanUp (including refreshing the overlay), but that failed too.

The solution was to go into the Tortoise repo-browser, find the file and use the break lock function.

'Invalid update: invalid number of rows in section 0

Swift Version --> Remove the object from your data array before you call

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, commit editingStyle: UITableViewCellEditingStyle, forRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
    if editingStyle == .delete {
        print("Deleted")

        currentCart.remove(at: indexPath.row) //Remove element from your array 
        self.tableView.deleteRows(at: [indexPath], with: .automatic)
    }
}

What is the fastest way to create a checksum for large files in C#

Ok - thanks to all of you - let me wrap this up:

  1. using a "native" exe to do the hashing took time from 6 Minutes to 10 Seconds which is huge.
  2. Increasing the buffer was even faster - 1.6GB file took 5.2 seconds using MD5 in .Net, so I will go with this solution - thanks again

How to determine the Boost version on a system?

Depending on how you have installed boost and what OS you are running you could also try the following:

dpkg -s libboost-dev | grep 'Version'

Visual Studio Code cannot detect installed git

VSCode 1.50 (Sept 2020) adds an interesting alternative with issue 85734:

Support multiple values for the git.path setting

I use VSCode in three different places; my home computer, my work computer, and as a portable version I carry on a drive when I need to use a machine that doesn't have it.

I use an extension to keep my settings synced up between editors, and the only issue I've encountered so far is that the git path doesn't match between any of them.

  • On my home machine I have it installed to C of course,
  • work likes to be funny and install it on A,
  • and for the one on my drive I have a relative path set so that no matter what letter my drive gets, that VSCode can always find git.

I already attempted to use an array myself just to see if it'd work:

"git.path": ["C:\\Program Files\\Git\\bin\\git.exe", "A:\\Git\\bin\\git.exe", "..\\..\\Git\\bin\\git.exe"],

But VSCode reads it as one entire value.

What I'd like is for it to recognize it as an array and then try each path in order until it finds Git or runs out of paths.

This is addressed with PR 85954 and commit c334da1.

java, get set methods

your panel class don't have a constructor that accepts a string

try change

RLS_strid_panel p = new RLS_strid_panel(namn1);

to

RLS_strid_panel p = new RLS_strid_panel();
p.setName1(name1);

HTML 5: Is it <br>, <br/>, or <br />?

Most of the cases in HTML, the tags are in pair. But for a line break you don't need a pair of tags. Therefore to indicate this, HTML uses <br/> format. <br/> is the right one. Use that format.

<br> tag has no end tag in HTML In XHTML, the <br> tag must be properly closed, like this: <br />

In XML every tag must be closed. XHTML is an extension of XML, hence all the rules of XML must be followed for valid XHTML. Hence even empty tags (nodes without child nodes) like
should be closed. XML has a short form called self closing tags for empty nodes. You can write <br></br> as <br />. Hence in XHTML <br /> is used.

HTML is very lenient in this regard, and there is no such rule. So in HTML empty nodes like <br> <hr> <meta> etc are written without the closing forward slash.

HTML

<br>
<hr>
<meta name="keywords" content="">
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.google.com/">

XHTML

<br />
<hr />
<meta name="keywords" content="" />
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.google.com/" />

Not all tags can be self closed. For example, a tag like <script src="jQuery.min.js" /> is not allowed by XHTML DTD.

How do I update an entity using spring-data-jpa?

Specifically how do I tell spring-data-jpa that users that have the same username and firstname are actually EQUAL and that it is supposed to update the entity. Overriding equals did not work.

For this particular purpose one can introduce a composite key like this:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `test`.`user` (
  `username` VARCHAR(45) NOT NULL,
  `firstname` VARCHAR(45) NOT NULL,
  `description` VARCHAR(45) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`username`, `firstname`))

Mapping:

@Embeddable
public class UserKey implements Serializable {
    protected String username;
    protected String firstname;

    public UserKey() {}

    public UserKey(String username, String firstname) {
        this.username = username;
        this.firstname = firstname;
    }
    // equals, hashCode
}

Here is how to use it:

@Entity
public class UserEntity implements Serializable {
    @EmbeddedId
    private UserKey primaryKey;

    private String description;

    //...
}

JpaRepository would look like this:

public interface UserEntityRepository extends JpaRepository<UserEntity, UserKey>

Then, you could use the following idiom: accept DTO with user info, extract name and firstname and create UserKey, then create a UserEntity with this composite key and then invoke Spring Data save() which should sort everything out for you.

form serialize javascript (no framework)

If you are looking to serialize the inputs on an event. Here's a pure JavaScript approach I use.

// serialize form
var data = {};
var inputs = [].slice.call(e.target.getElementsByTagName('input'));
inputs.forEach(input => {
  data[input.name] = input.value;
});

Data will be a JavaScript object of the inputs.

How to find if div with specific id exists in jQuery?

Try to check the length of the selector, if it returns you something then the element must exists else not.

if( $('#selector').length )         // use this if you are using id to check
{
     // it exists
}


if( $('.selector').length )         // use this if you are using class to check
{
     // it exists
}

Use the first if condition for id and the 2nd one for class.

Getting raw SQL query string from PDO prepared statements

A bit late probably but now there is PDOStatement::debugDumpParams

Dumps the informations contained by a prepared statement directly on the output. It will provide the SQL query in use, the number of parameters used (Params), the list of parameters, with their name, type (paramtype) as an integer, their key name or position, and the position in the query (if this is supported by the PDO driver, otherwise, it will be -1).

You can find more on the official php docs

Example:

<?php
/* Execute a prepared statement by binding PHP variables */
$calories = 150;
$colour = 'red';
$sth = $dbh->prepare('SELECT name, colour, calories
    FROM fruit
    WHERE calories < :calories AND colour = :colour');
$sth->bindParam(':calories', $calories, PDO::PARAM_INT);
$sth->bindValue(':colour', $colour, PDO::PARAM_STR, 12);
$sth->execute();

$sth->debugDumpParams();

?>

Syntax for an If statement using a boolean

You can change the value of a bool all you want. As for an if:

if randombool == True:

works, but you can also use:

if randombool:

If you want to test whether something is false you can use:

if randombool == False

but you can also use:

if not randombool:

Is there a way I can capture my iPhone screen as a video?

I dont believe this is possible. Your best bet is to get something like iShowU and capture from the simulator.

Typescript: React event types

you can do like this in react

handleEvent = (e: React.SyntheticEvent<EventTarget>) => {
  const simpleInput = (e.target as HTMLInputElement).value;
  //for simple html input values
  const formInput = (e.target as HTMLFormElement).files[0];
  //for html form elements
}

Adding form action in html in laravel

Laravel 5.8 Step 1: Go to the path routes/api.php add: Route::post('welcome/login', 'WelcomeController@login')->name('welcome.login'); Step2: Go to the path file view

<form method="POST" action="{{ route('welcome.login') }}">
</form>

Result html

<form method="POST" action="http://localhost/api/welcome/login">

<form>

SQL Server 2000: How to exit a stored procedure?

Put it in a TRY/CATCH.

When RAISERROR is run with a severity of 11 or higher in a TRY block, it transfers control to the associated CATCH block

Reference: MSDN.

EDIT: This works for MSSQL 2005+, but I see that you now have clarified that you are working on MSSQL 2000. I'll leave this here for reference.

Export/import jobs in Jenkins

Importing Jobs Manually: Alternate way

Upload the Jobs on to Git (Version Control) Basically upload config.xml of the Job.

If Linux Servers:

cd /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/<Job name> 
Download the config.xml from Git

Restart the Jenkins

Using Javascript's atob to decode base64 doesn't properly decode utf-8 strings

Things change. The escape/unescape methods have been deprecated.

You can URI encode the string before you Base64-encode it. Note that this does't produce Base64-encoded UTF8, but rather Base64-encoded URL-encoded data. Both sides must agree on the same encoding.

See working example here: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/PZgbPW

// encode string
var base64 = window.btoa(encodeURIComponent('€ ?? æøåÆØÅ'));
// decode string
var str = decodeURIComponent(window.atob(tmp));
// str is now === '€ ?? æøåÆØÅ'

For OP's problem a third party library such as js-base64 should solve the problem.

How can I enable the MySQLi extension in PHP 7?

On Ubuntu, when mysqli is missing, execute the following,

sudo apt-get install php7.x-mysqli

sudo service apache2 restart

Replace 7.x with your PHP version.

Note: This could be 7.0 and up, but for example Drupal recommends PHP 7.2 on grounds of security among others.

To check your PHP version, on the command-line type:

php -v

You do exactly the same if you are missing mbstring:

apt-get install php7.x-mbstring

service apache2 restart

I recently had to do this for phpMyAdmin when upgrading PHP from 7.0 to 7.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus).

ESLint - "window" is not defined. How to allow global variables in package.json

There is a builtin environment: browser that includes window.

Example .eslintrc.json:

"env": {
    "browser": true,
    "node": true,
    "jasmine": true
  },

More information: http://eslint.org/docs/user-guide/configuring.html#specifying-environments

Also see the package.json answer by chevin99 below.

Are Git forks actually Git clones?

There is a misunderstanding here with respect to what a "fork" is. A fork is in fact nothing more than a set of per-user branches. When you push to a fork you actually do push to the original repository, because that is the ONLY repository.

You can try this out by pushing to a fork, noting the commit and then going to the original repository and using the commit ID, you'll see that the commit is "in" the original repository.

This makes a lot of sense, but it is far from obvious (I only discovered this accidentally recently).

When John forks repository SuperProject what seems to actually happen is that all branches in the source repository are replicated with a name like "John.master", "John.new_gui_project", etc.

GitHub "hides" the "John." from us and gives us the illusion we have our own "copy" of the repository on GitHub, but we don't and nor is one even needed.

So my fork's branch "master" is actually named "Korporal.master", but the GitHub UI never reveals this, showing me only "master".

This is pretty much what I think goes on under the hood anyway based on stuff I've been doing recently and when you ponder it, is very good design.

For this reason I think it would be very easy for Microsoft to implement Git forks in their Visual Studio Team Services offering.

Return a value if no rows are found in Microsoft tSQL

This might be a dead horse, another way to return 1 row when no rows exist is to UNION another query and display results when non exist in the table.

SELECT S.Status, COUNT(s.id) AS StatusCount
FROM Sites S
WHERE S.Id = @SiteId
GROUP BY s.Status
UNION ALL --UNION BACK ON TABLE WITH NOT EXISTS
SELECT 'N/A' AS Status, 0 AS StatusCount
WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1
   FROM Sites S
   WHERE S.Id = @SiteId
) 

Google Chrome: This setting is enforced by your administrator

Any one on windows 10 Pro , this is for you guys --

  1. Open CMD in administrator mode .
  2. Paste below code-

    RD /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicyUsers" 
    RD /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicy" 
    gpupdate /force
    
  3. After few seconds you will see this -

    User Policy update has completed successfully.
    Computer Policy update has completed successfully.
    
  4. Now you can change your search engine to whatever you want.

Thank you

How to scanf only integer?

I know how this can be done using fgets and strtol, I would like to know how this can be done using scanf() (if possible).

As the other answers say, scanf isn't really suitable for this, fgets and strtol is an alternative (though fgets has the drawback that it's hard to detect a 0-byte in the input and impossible to tell what has been input after a 0-byte, if any).

For sake of completeness (and assuming valid input is an integer followed by a newline):

while(scanf("%d%1[\n]", &n, (char [2]){ 0 }) < 2)

Alternatively, use %n before and after %*1[\n] with assignment-suppression. Note, however (from the Debian manpage):

This is not a conversion, although it can be suppressed with the * assignment-suppression character. The C standard says: "Execution of a %n directive does not increment the assignment count returned at the completion of execution" but the Corrigendum seems to contradict this. Probably it is wise not to make any assumptions on the effect of %n conversions on the return value.

In javascript, how do you search an array for a substring match

People here are making this waaay too difficult. Just do the following...

myArray.findIndex(element => element.includes("substring"))

findIndex() is an ES6 higher order method that iterates through the elements of an array and returns the index of the first element that matches some criteria (provided as a function). In this case I used ES6 syntax to declare the higher order function. element is the parameter of the function (which could be any name) and the fat arrow declares what follows as an anonymous function (which does not need to be wrapped in curly braces unless it takes up more than one line).

Within findIndex() I used the very simple includes() method to check if the current element includes the substring that you want.

SQL Not Like Statement not working

mattgcon,

Should work, do you get more rows if you run the same SQL with the "NOT LIKE" line commented out? If not, check the data. I know you mentioned in your question, but check that the actual SQL statement is using that clause. The other answers with NULL are also a good idea.

Is it possible to use Visual Studio on macOS?

There is no native version of Visual Studio for Mac OS X.

Almost all versions of Visual Studio have a Garbage rating on Wine's application database, so Wine isn't an option either, sadly.

'tsc command not found' in compiling typescript

None of above answer solve my problem. The fact is that my project did not have type script installed. But locally I had run npm install -g typescript. So I did not notice that typescript node dependency was not in my package json.

When I pushed it to server side, and run npm install, then npx tsc I get a tsc not found. In facts remote server did not have typescript installed. That was hidden because of my local global typescript install.

How to remove all numbers from string?

Use some regex like [0-9] or \d:

$words = preg_replace('/\d+/', '', $words );

You might want to read the preg_replace() documentation as this is directly shown there.

Get full query string in C# ASP.NET

Just use Request.QueryString.ToString() to get full query string, like this:

string URL = "http://www.example.com/rendernews.php?"+Request.Querystring.ToString();

Re-enabling window.alert in Chrome

I can see that this only for actually turning the dialogs back on. But if you are a web dev and you would like to see a way to possibly have some form of notification when these are off...in the case that you are using native alerts/confirms for validation or whatever. Check this solution to detect and notify the user https://stackoverflow.com/a/23697435/1248536

Resource blocked due to MIME type mismatch (X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff)

I had this error when i was using the azure storage as a static website, the js files that are copied had the content type as text/plain; charset=utf-8 and i changed the content type to application/javascript

It started working.

Launch Bootstrap Modal on page load

Tested with Bootstrap 3 and jQuery (2.2 and 2.3)

$(window).on('load',function(){
  $('#myModal').modal('show');
});



<!-- Modal -->
<div class="modal fade" id="myModal" role="dialog">
    <div class="modal-dialog">

      <!-- Modal content-->
      <div class="modal-content">
        <div class="modal-header">
          <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal">&times;</button>
          <h4 class="modal-title"><i class="fa fa-exclamation-circle"></i>&nbsp; //Your modal Title</h4>
        </div>
        <div class="modal-body">
          //Your modal Content
        </div>
        <div class="modal-footer">
          <button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-dismiss="modal">Fechar</button>
        </div>
      </div>

    </div>
</div>

https://jsfiddle.net/d7utnsbm/

String contains another string

You can use .indexOf():

if(str.indexOf(substr) > -1) {

}

ORACLE and TRIGGERS (inserted, updated, deleted)

The NEW values (or NEW_BUFFER as you have renamed them) are only available when INSERTING and UPDATING. For DELETING you would need to use OLD (OLD_BUFFER). So your trigger would become:

CREATE or REPLACE TRIGGER test001
  AFTER INSERT OR DELETE OR UPDATE ON tabletest001
  REFERENCING OLD AS old_buffer NEW AS new_buffer 
  FOR EACH ROW WHEN (new_buffer.field1 = 'HBP00' OR old_buffer.field1 = 'HBP00') 

You may need to add logic inside the trigger to cater for code that updates field1 from 'HBP000' to something else.

Operation Not Permitted when on root - El Capitan (rootless disabled)

If after calling "csrutil disabled" still your command does not work, try with "sudo" in terminal, for example:

sudo mv geckodriver /usr/local/bin

And it should work.

Difference between one-to-many and many-to-one relationship

Answer to your first question is : both are similar,

Answer to your second question is: one-to-many --> a MAN(MAN table) may have more than one wife(WOMEN table) many-to-one --> more than one women have married one MAN.

Now if you want to relate this relation with two tables MAN and WOMEN, one MAN table row may have many relations with rows in the WOMEN table. hope it clear.

Convert a CERT/PEM certificate to a PFX certificate

Here is how to do this on Windows without third-party tools:

  1. Import certificate to the certificate store. In Windows Explorer select "Install Certificate" in context menu. enter image description here Follow the wizard and accept default options "Local User" and "Automatically".

  2. Find your certificate in certificate store. On Windows 10 run the "Manage User Certificates" MMC. On Windows 2013 the MMC is called "Certificates". On Windows 10 by default your certificate should be under "Personal"->"Certificates" node.

  3. Export Certificate. In context menu select "Export..." menu: enter image description here

    Select "Yes, export the private key": enter image description here

    You will see that .PFX option is enabled in this case: enter image description here

    Specify password for private key.

Could not load file or assembly 'log4net, Version=1.2.10.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304'

I faced same issue (VS 2015), but my application is running under 32-bit application pool. So even though machine is 64-bit. I installed 32-bit installation and it works.

Android getActivity() is undefined

If you want to call your activity, just use this . You use the getActivity method when you are inside a fragment.

What is the regex for "Any positive integer, excluding 0"

^\d*[1-9]\d*$

this can include all positive values, even if it is padded by Zero in the front

Allows

1

01

10

11 etc

do not allow

0

00

000 etc..

how do I join two lists using linq or lambda expressions

The way to do this using the Extention Methods, instead of the linq query syntax would be like this:

var results = workOrders.Join(plans,
  wo => wo.WorkOrderNumber,
  p => p.WorkOrderNumber,
  (order,plan) => new {order.WorkOrderNumber, order.WorkDescription, plan.ScheduledDate}
);

Set attribute without value

Not sure if this is really beneficial or why I prefer this style but what I do (in vanilla js) is:

document.querySelector('#selector').toggleAttribute('data-something');

This will add the attribute in all lowercase without a value or remove it if it already exists on the element.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/toggleAttribute

How do I raise an exception in Rails so it behaves like other Rails exceptions?

You don't have to do anything special, it should just be working.

When I have a fresh rails app with this controller:

class FooController < ApplicationController
  def index
    raise "error"
  end
end

and go to http://127.0.0.1:3000/foo/

I am seeing the exception with a stack trace.

You might not see the whole stacktrace in the console log because Rails (since 2.3) filters lines from the stack trace that come from the framework itself.

See config/initializers/backtrace_silencers.rb in your Rails project

How to calculate 1st and 3rd quartiles?

If you want to use raw python rather than numpy or panda, you can use the python stats module to find the median of the upper and lower half of the list:

    >>> import statistics as stat
    >>> def quartile(data):
            data.sort()               
            half_list = int(len(data)//2)
            upper_quartile = stat.median(data[-half_list]
            lower_quartile = stat.median(data[:half_list])
            print("Lower Quartile: "+str(lower_quartile))
            print("Upper Quartile: "+str(upper_quartile))
            print("Interquartile Range: "+str(upper_quartile-lower_quartile)

    >>> quartile(df.time_diff)

Line 1: import the statistics module under the alias "stat"

Line 2: define the quartile function

Line 3: sort the data into ascending order

Line 4: get the length of half of the list

Line 5: get the median of the lower half of the list

Line 6: get the median of the upper half of the list

Line 7: print the lower quartile

Line 8: print the upper quartile

Line 9: print the interquartile range

Line 10: run the quartile function for the time_diff column of the DataFrame

How to perform a sum of an int[] array

Here is an efficient way to solve this question using For loops in Java

 public static void main(String[] args) {

    int [] numbers = { 1, 2, 3, 4 };
    int size = numbers.length;

    int sum = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
        sum += numbers[i];
    }

    System.out.println(sum);
}

Invoke native date picker from web-app on iOS/Android

iOS5 has support for this (Reference). If you want to invoke the native date picker you might have a an option with PhoneGap (have not tested this myself).

How to update record using Entity Framework 6?

You should remove db.Books.Attach(book);

Regular expression - starting and ending with a character string

Example: ajshdjashdjashdlasdlhdlSTARTasdasdsdaasdENDaknsdklansdlknaldknaaklsdn

1) START\w*END return: STARTasdasdsdaasdEND - will give you words between START and END

2) START\d*END return: START12121212END - will give you numbers between START and END

3) START\d*_\d*END return: START1212_1212END - will give you numbers between START and END having _

How to ignore deprecation warnings in Python

Convert the argument to int. It's as simple as

int(argument)

What is the best way to call a script from another script?

Why not just import test1? Every python script is a module. A better way would be to have a function e.g. main/run in test1.py, import test1 and run test1.main(). Or you can execute test1.py as a subprocess.

Get local href value from anchor (a) tag

In my case I had a href with a # and target.href was returning me the complete url. Target.hash did the work for me.

$(".test a").on('click', function(e) {
    console.log(e.target.href); // logs https://www.test.com/#test
    console.log(e.target.hash); // logs #test
  });

error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat

What's going on? Python modules can be part written in C or C++ (typically for speed). If you try to install such a package with Pip (or setup.py), it has to compile that C/C++ from source. Out the box, Pip will brazenly assume you the compiler Microsoft Visual C++ installed. If you don't have it, you'll see this cryptic error message "Error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat".

The prescribed solution is to install a C/C++ compiler, either Microsoft Visual C++, or MinGW (an open-source project). However, installing and configuring either is prohibitively difficult. (Edit 2014: Microsoft have published a special C++ compiler for Python 2.7)

The easiest solution is to use Christoph Gohlke's Windows installers (.msi) for popular Python packages. He builds installers for Python 2.x and 3.x, 32 bit and 64 bit. You can download them from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/


If you too think "Error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat" is a ludicrously cryptic and unhelpful message, then please comment on the bug at http://bugs.python.org/issue2943 to replace it with a more helpful and user-friendly message.

For comparison, Ruby ships with a package manager Gem and offers a quasi-official C/C++ compiler, DevKit. If you try to install a package without it, you see this helpful friendly useful message:

Please update your PATH to include build tools or download the DevKit from http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads and follow the instructions at http://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Development-Kit

You can read a longer rant about Python packaging at https://stackoverflow.com/a/13445719/284795

Get query string parameters url values with jQuery / Javascript (querystring)

Written in Vanilla Javascript

     //Get URL
     var loc = window.location.href;
     console.log(loc);
     var index = loc.indexOf("?");
     console.log(loc.substr(index+1));
     var splitted = loc.substr(index+1).split('&');
     console.log(splitted);
     var paramObj = [];
     for(var i=0;i<splitted.length;i++){
         var params = splitted[i].split('=');
         var key = params[0];
         var value = params[1];
         var obj = {
             [key] : value
         };
         paramObj.push(obj);
         }
    console.log(paramObj);
    //Loop through paramObj to get all the params in query string.

How do I do logging in C# without using 3rd party libraries?

You can write directly to an event log. Check the following links:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307024
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.eventlog.aspx

And here's the sample from MSDN:

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Threading;

class MySample{

    public static void Main(){

        // Create the source, if it does not already exist.
        if(!EventLog.SourceExists("MySource"))
        {
             //An event log source should not be created and immediately used.
             //There is a latency time to enable the source, it should be created
             //prior to executing the application that uses the source.
             //Execute this sample a second time to use the new source.
            EventLog.CreateEventSource("MySource", "MyNewLog");
            Console.WriteLine("CreatedEventSource");
            Console.WriteLine("Exiting, execute the application a second time to use the source.");
            // The source is created.  Exit the application to allow it to be registered.
            return;
        }

        // Create an EventLog instance and assign its source.
        EventLog myLog = new EventLog();
        myLog.Source = "MySource";

        // Write an informational entry to the event log.    
        myLog.WriteEntry("Writing to event log.");

    }
}

Is it possible to create a File object from InputStream

You need to create new file and copy contents from InputStream to that file:

File file = //...
try(OutputStream outputStream = new FileOutputStream(file)){
    IOUtils.copy(inputStream, outputStream);
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
    // handle exception here
} catch (IOException e) {
    // handle exception here
}

I am using convenient IOUtils.copy() to avoid manual copying of streams. Also it has built-in buffering.

What does ':' (colon) do in JavaScript?

It is part of the object literal syntax. The basic format is:

var obj = { field_name: "field value", other_field: 42 };

Then you can access these values with:

obj.field_name; // -> "field value"
obj["field_name"]; // -> "field value"

You can even have functions as values, basically giving you the methods of the object:

obj['func'] = function(a) { return 5 + a;};
obj.func(4);  // -> 9

Is it possible to apply CSS to half of a character?

A nice WebKit-only solution that takes advantage of the background-clip: text support: http://jsfiddle.net/sandro_paganotti/wLkVt/

span{
   font-size: 100px;
   background: linear-gradient(to right, black, black 50%, grey 50%, grey);
   -webkit-background-clip: text;
   -webkit-text-fill-color: transparent;
}

Best way to detect Mac OS X or Windows computers with JavaScript or jQuery

The window.navigator.platform property is not spoofed when the userAgent string is changed. I tested on my Mac if I change the userAgent to iPhone or Chrome Windows, navigator.platform remains MacIntel.

navigator.platform is not spoofed when the userAgent string is changed

The property is also read-only

navigator.platform is read-only


I could came up with the following table

Mac Computers

Mac68K Macintosh 68K system.
MacPPC Macintosh PowerPC system.
MacIntel Macintosh Intel system.

iOS Devices

iPhone iPhone.
iPod iPod Touch.
iPad iPad.


Modern macs returns navigator.platform == "MacIntel" but to give some "future proof" don't use exact matching, hopefully they will change to something like MacARM or MacQuantum in future.

var isMac = navigator.platform.toUpperCase().indexOf('MAC')>=0;

To include iOS that also use the "left side"

var isMacLike = /(Mac|iPhone|iPod|iPad)/i.test(navigator.platform);
var isIOS = /(iPhone|iPod|iPad)/i.test(navigator.platform);

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var is_OSX = /(Mac|iPhone|iPod|iPad)/i.test(navigator.platform);_x000D_
var is_iOS = /(iPhone|iPod|iPad)/i.test(navigator.platform);_x000D_
_x000D_
var is_Mac = navigator.platform.toUpperCase().indexOf('MAC') >= 0;_x000D_
var is_iPhone = navigator.platform == "iPhone";_x000D_
var is_iPod = navigator.platform == "iPod";_x000D_
var is_iPad = navigator.platform == "iPad";_x000D_
_x000D_
/* Output */_x000D_
var out = document.getElementById('out');_x000D_
if (!is_OSX) out.innerHTML += "This NOT a Mac or an iOS Device!";_x000D_
if (is_Mac) out.innerHTML += "This is a Mac Computer!\n";_x000D_
if (is_iOS) out.innerHTML += "You're using an iOS Device!\n";_x000D_
if (is_iPhone) out.innerHTML += "This is an iPhone!";_x000D_
if (is_iPod) out.innerHTML += "This is an iPod Touch!";_x000D_
if (is_iPad) out.innerHTML += "This is an iPad!";_x000D_
out.innerHTML += "\nPlatform: " + navigator.platform;
_x000D_
<pre id="out"></pre>
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_x000D_


Since most O.S. use the close button on the right, you can just move the close button to the left when the user is on a MacLike O.S., otherwise isn't a problem if you put it on the most common side, the right.

_x000D_
_x000D_
setTimeout(test, 1000); //delay for demonstration_x000D_
_x000D_
function test() {_x000D_
_x000D_
  var mac = /(Mac|iPhone|iPod|iPad)/i.test(navigator.platform);_x000D_
_x000D_
  if (mac) {_x000D_
    document.getElementById('close').classList.add("left");_x000D_
  }_x000D_
}
_x000D_
#window {_x000D_
  position: absolute;_x000D_
  margin: 1em;_x000D_
  width: 300px;_x000D_
  padding: 10px;_x000D_
  border: 1px solid gray;_x000D_
  background-color: #DDD;_x000D_
  text-align: center;_x000D_
  box-shadow: 0px 1px 3px #000;_x000D_
}_x000D_
#close {_x000D_
  position: absolute;_x000D_
  top: 0px;_x000D_
  right: 0px;_x000D_
  width: 22px;_x000D_
  height: 22px;_x000D_
  margin: -12px;_x000D_
  box-shadow: 0px 1px 3px #000;_x000D_
  background-color: #000;_x000D_
  border: 2px solid #FFF;_x000D_
  border-radius: 22px;_x000D_
  color: #FFF;_x000D_
  text-align: center;_x000D_
  font: 14px"Comic Sans MS", Monaco;_x000D_
}_x000D_
#close.left{_x000D_
  left: 0px;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<div id="window">_x000D_
  <div id="close">x</div>_x000D_
  <p>Hello!</p>_x000D_
  <p>If the "close button" change to the left side</p>_x000D_
  <p>you're on a Mac like system!</p>_x000D_
</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2007/12/17/don-t-forget-navigator-platform/

How to get a reversed list view on a list in Java?

You can also invert the position when you request an object:

Object obj = list.get(list.size() - 1 - position);

Promise.all().then() resolve?

Your return data approach is correct, that's an example of promise chaining. If you return a promise from your .then() callback, JavaScript will resolve that promise and pass the data to the next then() callback.

Just be careful and make sure you handle errors with .catch(). Promise.all() rejects as soon as one of the promises in the array rejects.

Openstreetmap: embedding map in webpage (like Google Maps)

I would also take a look at CloudMade's developer tools. They offer a beautifully styled OSM base map service, an OpenLayers plugin, and even their own light-weight, very fast JavaScript mapping client. They also host their own routing service, which you mentioned as a possible requirement. They have great documentation and examples.

Bootstrap Collapse not Collapsing

You need jQuery see bootstrap's basic template

generate random string for div id

I would suggest that you start with some sort of placeholder, you may have this already, but its somewhere to append the div.

<div id="placeholder"></div>

Now, the idea is to dynamically create a new div, with your random id:

var rndId = randomString(8); 
var div = document.createElement('div');
div.id = rndId
div.innerHTML = "Whatever you want the content of your div to be";

this can be apended to your placeholder as follows:

document.getElementById('placeholder').appendChild(div);

You can then use that in your jwplayer code:

jwplayer(rndId).setup(...);

Live example: http://jsfiddle.net/pNYZp/

Sidenote: Im pretty sure id's must start with an alpha character (ie, no numbers) - you might want to change your implementation of randomstring to enforce this rule. (ref)

How do you synchronise projects to GitHub with Android Studio?

On Android Studio 1.0.2 you only need to go VCS-> Import into Version control -> Share Project on GitHub.

Pop up will appear asking for the repo name.

How can I add JAR files to the web-inf/lib folder in Eclipse?

  1. add the jar to WEB-INF/lib from file structure
  2. refresh the project, you should see the jar now visible under the WEB-INF/lib folder.

git commit error: pathspec 'commit' did not match any file(s) known to git

In my case the problem was I had forgotten to add the switch -m before the quoted comment. It may be a common error too, and the error message received is exactly the same

Count with IF condition in MySQL query

Replace this line:

count(if(ccc_news_comments.id = 'approved', ccc_news_comments.id, 0)) AS comments

With this one:

coalesce(sum(ccc_news_comments.id = 'approved'), 0) comments

Error:attempt to apply non-function

You're missing *s in the last two terms of your expression, so R is interpreting (e.g.) 0.207 (log(DIAM93))^2 as an attempt to call a function named 0.207 ...

For example:

> 1 + 2*(3)
[1] 7
> 1 + 2 (3)

Error: attempt to apply non-function

Your (unreproducible) expression should read:

censusdata_20$AGB93 = WD * exp(-1.239 + 1.980 * log (DIAM93) + 
                              0.207* (log(DIAM93))^2  -
                              0.0281*(log(DIAM93))^3)

Mathematica is the only computer system I know of that allows juxtaposition to be used for multiplication ...

GitHub: How to make a fork of public repository private?

You have to duplicate the repo

You can see this doc (from github)

To create a duplicate of a repository without forking, you need to run a special clone command against the original repository and mirror-push to the new one.

In the following cases, the repository you're trying to push to--like exampleuser/new-repository or exampleuser/mirrored--should already exist on GitHub. See "Creating a new repository" for more information.

Mirroring a repository

To make an exact duplicate, you need to perform both a bare-clone and a mirror-push.

Open up the command line, and type these commands:

$ git clone --bare https://github.com/exampleuser/old-repository.git
# Make a bare clone of the repository

$ cd old-repository.git
$ git push --mirror https://github.com/exampleuser/new-repository.git
# Mirror-push to the new repository

$ cd ..
$ rm -rf old-repository.git
# Remove our temporary local repository

If you want to mirror a repository in another location, including getting updates from the original, you can clone a mirror and periodically push the changes.

$ git clone --mirror https://github.com/exampleuser/repository-to-mirror.git
# Make a bare mirrored clone of the repository

$ cd repository-to-mirror.git
$ git remote set-url --push origin https://github.com/exampleuser/mirrored
# Set the push location to your mirror

As with a bare clone, a mirrored clone includes all remote branches and tags, but all local references will be overwritten each time you fetch, so it will always be the same as the original repository. Setting the URL for pushes simplifies pushing to your mirror. To update your mirror, fetch updates and push, which could be automated by running a cron job.

$ git fetch -p origin
$ git push --mirror

https://help.github.com/articles/duplicating-a-repository