Programs & Examples On #Jcl

Job Control Language (JCL) is a scripting language used on the IBM mainframe operating systems z/OS and z/VSE (and predecessors) to instruct the system on how to run a batch job or start a subsystem. In z/VSE, it is sometimes referred to as JCS (Job Control Statements). In z/OS, Job Entry Control Language (JECL) controls how JES2 or JES3 handles the job execution and output.

How to decode JWT Token?

You need the secret string which was used to generate encrypt token. This code works for me:

protected string GetName(string token)
    {
        string secret = "this is a string used for encrypt and decrypt token"; 
        var key = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(secret);
        var handler = new JwtSecurityTokenHandler();
        var validations = new TokenValidationParameters
        {
            ValidateIssuerSigningKey = true,
            IssuerSigningKey = new SymmetricSecurityKey(key),
            ValidateIssuer = false,
            ValidateAudience = false
        };
        var claims = handler.ValidateToken(token, validations, out var tokenSecure);
        return claims.Identity.Name;
    }

The superclass "javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet" was not found on the Java Build Path

The superclass “javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet” was not found on the Java Build Path

Error: "Can not find the tag library descriptor for "http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"

Solution: Adding the tomcat server in the server runtime will do the job : Project Properties-> Java Build Path-> Add Library -> Select "Server Runtime" from the list-> Next->Select "Apache Tomcat"-> Finish

This solution work for me.

Saving binary data as file using JavaScript from a browser

Try

_x000D_
_x000D_
let bytes = [65,108,105,99,101,39,115,32,65,100,118,101,110,116,117,114,101];_x000D_
_x000D_
let base64data = btoa(String.fromCharCode.apply(null, bytes));_x000D_
_x000D_
let a = document.createElement('a');_x000D_
a.href = 'data:;base64,' + base64data;_x000D_
a.download = 'binFile.txt'; _x000D_
a.click();
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

I convert here binary data to base64 (for bigger data conversion use this) - during downloading browser decode it automatically and save raw data in file. 2020.06.14 I upgrade Chrome to 83.0 and above SO snippet stop working (probably due to sandbox security restrictions) - but JSFiddle version works - here

Name [jdbc/mydb] is not bound in this Context

For those who use Tomcat with Bitronix, this will fix the problem:

The error indicates that no handler could be found for your datasource 'jdbc/mydb', so you'll need to make sure your tomcat server refers to your bitronix configuration files as needed.

In case you're using btm-config.properties and resources.properties files to configure the datasource, specify these two JVM arguments in tomcat:

(if you already used them, make sure your references are correct):

  • btm.root
  • bitronix.tm.configuration

e.g.

-Dbtm.root="C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0.59" 
-Dbitronix.tm.configuration="C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0.59\conf\btm-config.properties" 

Now, restart your server and check the log.

Spring Boot: Unable to start EmbeddedWebApplicationContext due to missing EmbeddedServletContainerFactory bean

I am using gradle, met seem issue when I have a commandLineRunner consumes kafka topics and a health check endpoint for receiving incoming hooks. I spent 12 hours to figure out, finally found that I used mybatis-spring-boot-starter with spring-boot-starter-web, and they have some conflicts. Latter I directly introduced mybatis-spring, mybatis and spring-jdbc rather than the mybatis-spring-boot-starter, and the program worked well.

hope this helps

Error creating bean with name 'entityManagerFactory

Adding dependencies didn't fix the issue at my end.

The issue was happening at my end because of "additional" fields that are part of the "@Entity" class and don't exist in the database.

I removed the additional fields from the @Entity class and it worked.

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication Maven

Another option is to use the Apache Maven Shade Plugin: This plugin provides the capability to package the artifact in an uber-jar, including its dependencies and to shade - i.e. rename - the packages of some of the dependencies.

add this to your build plugins section

<plugin>
     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
     <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>

JavaScript string encryption and decryption?

CryptoJS is no longer supported. If you want to continue using it, you may switch to this url:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/crypto-js/3.1.2/rollups/aes.js"></script>

Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:2.3.2:compile (default-compile)

i had the same problem and besides the above posts' configurations putting

            <plugin>
            <groupId>com.google.appengine</groupId>
            <artifactId>appengine-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.9.32</version>
            <configuration>
                <enableJarClasses>false</enableJarClasses>
            </configuration>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>endpoints_get_discovery_doc</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>

in the plugins element in pom.xml. i think the problem was absence of execution -> goal "endpoints_get_discovery_doc" in some cases like mine, so this worked for me.

Maven Java EE Configuration Marker with Java Server Faces 1.2

I have encountered this with Maven projects too. This is what I had to do to get around the problem:

First update your web.xml

<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee 
                    http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"
                    version="3.0">
<display-name>Servlet 3.0 Web Application</display-name>

Then right click on your project and select Properties -> Project Facets In there you will see the version of your Dynamic Web Module. This needs to change from version 2.3 or whatever to version 2.5 or above (I chose 3.0).

However to do this I had to uncheck the tick box for Dynamic Web Module -> Apply, then do a Maven Update on the project. Go back into the Project Facets window and it should already match your web.xml configuration - 3.0 in my case. You should be able to change it if not.

If this does not work for you then try right-clicking on the Dynamic Web Module Facet and select change version (and ensure it is not locked).

Or you can follow this steps:

  1. Window > Show View > Other > General > navigator
  2. There is a .settings folder under your project directory
  3. Change the dynamic web module version in this line to 3.0
  4. Change the Java version in this line to 1.5 or higher

don't forget to update your project

Hope that works!

Building with Lombok's @Slf4j and Intellij: Cannot find symbol log

This is another related post Lombok not working with IntelliJ 2020.3 Community Edition which may resolve the question when user use lombook and IntelliJ 2020.3 CommunityEdition.

Tomcat 7 "SEVERE: A child container failed during start"

As a generic solution, I recommend that you remove all the secondary dependencies and run the application, if it worked, revert back some, and continue doing the same as long as the application starts, in the end, you will be able to identify which dependency caused the issue.

Using the same way, for example, I found that dependencies whose the groupId is: org.apache.axis2 have caused the issue.

 <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.axis2</groupId>
        <artifactId>axis2-transport-local</artifactId>
        <version>1.6.1</version>
 </dependency>
 <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.axis2</groupId>
        <artifactId>axis2-transport-http</artifactId>
        <version>1.6.1</version>
 </dependency>

What is the most efficient way to loop through dataframes with pandas?

I believe the most simple and efficient way to loop through DataFrames is using numpy and numba. In that case, looping can be approximately as fast as vectorized operations in many cases. If numba is not an option, plain numpy is likely to be the next best option. As has been noted many times, your default should be vectorization, but this answer merely considers efficient looping, given the decision to loop, for whatever reason.

For a test case, let's use the example from @DSM's answer of calculating a percentage change. This is a very simple situation and as a practical matter you would not write a loop to calculate it, but as such it provides a reasonable baseline for timing vectorized approaches vs loops.

Let's set up the 4 approaches with a small DataFrame, and we'll time them on a larger dataset below.

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import numba as nb

df = pd.DataFrame( { 'close':[100,105,95,105] } )

pandas_vectorized = df.close.pct_change()[1:]

x = df.close.to_numpy()
numpy_vectorized = ( x[1:] - x[:-1] ) / x[:-1]
        
def test_numpy(x):
    pct_chng = np.zeros(len(x))
    for i in range(1,len(x)):
        pct_chng[i] = ( x[i] - x[i-1] ) / x[i-1]
    return pct_chng

numpy_loop = test_numpy(df.close.to_numpy())[1:]

@nb.jit(nopython=True)
def test_numba(x):
    pct_chng = np.zeros(len(x))
    for i in range(1,len(x)):
        pct_chng[i] = ( x[i] - x[i-1] ) / x[i-1]
    return pct_chng
    
numba_loop = test_numba(df.close.to_numpy())[1:]

And here are the timings on a DataFrame with 100,000 rows (timings performed with Jupyter's %timeit function, collapsed to a summary table for readability):

pandas/vectorized   1,130 micro-seconds
numpy/vectorized      382 micro-seconds
numpy/looped       72,800 micro-seconds
numba/looped          455 micro-seconds

Summary: for simple cases, like this one, you would go with (vectorized) pandas for simplicity and readability, and (vectorized) numpy for speed. If you really need to use a loop, do it in numpy. If numba is available, combine it with numpy for additional speed. In this case, numpy + numba is almost as fast as vectorized numpy code.

Other details:

  • Not shown are various options like iterrows, itertuples, etc. which are orders of magnitude slower and really should never be used.
  • The timings here are fairly typical: numpy is faster than pandas and vectorized is faster than loops, but adding numba to numpy will often speed numpy up dramatically.
  • Everything except the pandas option requires converting the DataFrame column to a numpy array. That conversion is included in the timings.
  • The time to define/compile the numpy/numba functions was not included in the timings, but would generally be a negligible component of the timing for any large dataframe.

Calling a java method from c++ in Android

Solution posted by Denys S. in the question post:

I quite messed it up with c to c++ conversion (basically env variable stuff), but I got it working with the following code for C++:

#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <jni.h>

jstring Java_the_package_MainActivity_getJniString( JNIEnv* env, jobject obj){

    jstring jstr = (*env)->NewStringUTF(env, "This comes from jni.");
    jclass clazz = (*env)->FindClass(env, "com/inceptix/android/t3d/MainActivity");
    jmethodID messageMe = (*env)->GetMethodID(env, clazz, "messageMe", "(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/String;");
    jobject result = (*env)->CallObjectMethod(env, obj, messageMe, jstr);

    const char* str = (*env)->GetStringUTFChars(env,(jstring) result, NULL); // should be released but what a heck, it's a tutorial :)
    printf("%s\n", str);

    return (*env)->NewStringUTF(env, str);
}

And next code for java methods:

    public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    private static String LIB_NAME = "thelib";

    static {
        System.loadLibrary(LIB_NAME);
    }

    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
        TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textview);
        tv.setText(this.getJniString());
    }

    // please, let me live even though I used this dark programming technique
    public String messageMe(String text) {
        System.out.println(text);
        return text;
    }

    public native String getJniString();
}

Logging framework incompatibility

You are mixing the 1.5.6 version of the jcl bridge with the 1.6.0 version of the slf4j-api; this won't work because of a few changes in 1.6.0. Use the same versions for both, i.e. 1.6.1 (the latest). I use the jcl-over-slf4j bridge all the time and it works fine.

Use of Finalize/Dispose method in C#

Note that any IDisposable implementation should follow the below pattern (IMHO). I developed this pattern based on info from several excellent .NET "gods" the .NET Framework Design Guidelines (note that MSDN does not follow this for some reason!). The .NET Framework Design Guidelines were written by Krzysztof Cwalina (CLR Architect at the time) and Brad Abrams (I believe the CLR Program Manager at the time) and Bill Wagner ([Effective C#] and [More Effective C#] (just take a look for these on Amazon.com:

Note that you should NEVER implement a Finalizer unless your class directly contains (not inherits) UNmanaged resources. Once you implement a Finalizer in a class, even if it is never called, it is guaranteed to live for an extra collection. It is automatically placed on the Finalization Queue (which runs on a single thread). Also, one very important note...all code executed within a Finalizer (should you need to implement one) MUST be thread-safe AND exception-safe! BAD things will happen otherwise...(i.e. undetermined behavior and in the case of an exception, a fatal unrecoverable application crash).

The pattern I've put together (and written a code snippet for) follows:

#region IDisposable implementation

//TODO remember to make this class inherit from IDisposable -> $className$ : IDisposable

// Default initialization for a bool is 'false'
private bool IsDisposed { get; set; }

/// <summary>
/// Implementation of Dispose according to .NET Framework Design Guidelines.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>Do not make this method virtual.
/// A derived class should not be able to override this method.
/// </remarks>
public void Dispose()
{
    Dispose( true );

    // This object will be cleaned up by the Dispose method.
    // Therefore, you should call GC.SupressFinalize to
    // take this object off the finalization queue 
    // and prevent finalization code for this object
    // from executing a second time.

    // Always use SuppressFinalize() in case a subclass
    // of this type implements a finalizer.
    GC.SuppressFinalize( this );
}

/// <summary>
/// Overloaded Implementation of Dispose.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="isDisposing"></param>
/// <remarks>
/// <para><list type="bulleted">Dispose(bool isDisposing) executes in two distinct scenarios.
/// <item>If <paramref name="isDisposing"/> equals true, the method has been called directly
/// or indirectly by a user's code. Managed and unmanaged resources
/// can be disposed.</item>
/// <item>If <paramref name="isDisposing"/> equals false, the method has been called by the 
/// runtime from inside the finalizer and you should not reference 
/// other objects. Only unmanaged resources can be disposed.</item></list></para>
/// </remarks>
protected virtual void Dispose( bool isDisposing )
{
    // TODO If you need thread safety, use a lock around these 
    // operations, as well as in your methods that use the resource.
    try
    {
        if( !this.IsDisposed )
        {
            if( isDisposing )
            {
                // TODO Release all managed resources here

                $end$
            }

            // TODO Release all unmanaged resources here



            // TODO explicitly set root references to null to expressly tell the GarbageCollector
            // that the resources have been disposed of and its ok to release the memory allocated for them.


        }
    }
    finally
    {
        // explicitly call the base class Dispose implementation
        base.Dispose( isDisposing );

        this.IsDisposed = true;
    }
}

//TODO Uncomment this code if this class will contain members which are UNmanaged
// 
///// <summary>Finalizer for $className$</summary>
///// <remarks>This finalizer will run only if the Dispose method does not get called.
///// It gives your base class the opportunity to finalize.
///// DO NOT provide finalizers in types derived from this class.
///// All code executed within a Finalizer MUST be thread-safe!</remarks>
//  ~$className$()
//  {
//     Dispose( false );
//  }
#endregion IDisposable implementation

Here is the code for implementing IDisposable in a derived class. Note that you do not need to explicitly list inheritance from IDisposable in the definition of the derived class.

public DerivedClass : BaseClass, IDisposable (remove the IDisposable because it is inherited from BaseClass)


protected override void Dispose( bool isDisposing )
{
    try
    {
        if ( !this.IsDisposed )
        {
            if ( isDisposing )
            {
                // Release all managed resources here

            }
        }
    }
    finally
    {
        // explicitly call the base class Dispose implementation
        base.Dispose( isDisposing );
    }
}

I've posted this implementation on my blog at: How to Properly Implement the Dispose Pattern

How do synchronized static methods work in Java and can I use it for loading Hibernate entities?

How the synchronized Java keyword works

When you add the synchronized keyword to a static method, the method can only be called by a single thread at a time.

In your case, every method call will:

  • create a new SessionFactory
  • create a new Session
  • fetch the entity
  • return the entity back to the caller

However, these were your requirements:

  • I want this to prevent access to info to the same DB instance.
  • preventing getObjectById being called for all classes when it is called by a particular class

So, even if the getObjectById method is thread-safe, the implementation is wrong.

SessionFactory best practices

The SessionFactory is thread-safe, and it's a very expensive object to create as it needs to parse the entity classes and build the internal entity metamodel representation.

So, you shouldn't create the SessionFactory on every getObjectById method call.

Instead, you should create a singleton instance for it.

private static final SessionFactory sessionFactory = new Configuration()
    .configure()
    .buildSessionFactory();

The Session should always be closed

You didn't close the Session in a finally block, and this can leak database resources if an exception is thrown when loading the entity.

According to the Session.load method JavaDoc might throw a HibernateException if the entity cannot be found in the database.

You should not use this method to determine if an instance exists (use get() instead). Use this only to retrieve an instance that you assume exists, where non-existence would be an actual error.

That's why you need to use a finally block to close the Session, like this:

public static synchronized Object getObjectById (Class objclass, Long id) {    
     Session session = null;
     try {
         session = sessionFactory.openSession();
         return session.load(objclass, id);
     } finally {
         if(session != null) {
             session.close(); 
         }
     }
 }

Preventing multi-thread access

In your case, you wanted to make sure only one thread gets access to that particular entity.

But the synchronized keyword only prevents two threads from calling the getObjectById concurrently. If the two threads call this method one after the other, you will still have two threads using this entity.

So, if you want to lock a given database object so no other thread can modify it, then you need to use database locks.

The synchronized keyword only works in a single JVM. If you have multiple web nodes, this will not prevent multi-thread access across multiple JVMs.

What you need to do is use LockModeType.PESSIMISTIC_READ or LockModeType.PESSIMISTIC_WRITE while applying the changes to the DB, like this:

Session session = null;
EntityTransaction tx = null;

try {
    session = sessionFactory.openSession();
    
    tx = session.getTransaction();
    tx.begin();

    Post post = session.find(
        Post.class, 
        id, 
        LockModeType.LockModeType.PESSIMISTIC_READ
    );

    post.setTitle("High-Performance Java Perisstence");

    tx.commit();
} catch(Exception e) {
    LOGGER.error("Post entity could not be changed", e);
    if(tx != null) {
        tx.rollback(); 
    }
} finally {
    if(session != null) {
        session.close(); 
    }
}

So, this is what I did:

  • I created a new EntityTransaction and started a new database transaction
  • I loaded the Post entity while holding a lock on the associated database record
  • I changed the Post entity and committed the transaction
  • In the case of an Exception being thrown, I rolled back the transaction

Reverse colormap in matplotlib

The solution is pretty straightforward. Suppose you want to use the "autumn" colormap scheme. The standard version:

cmap = matplotlib.cm.autumn

To reverse the colormap color spectrum, use get_cmap() function and append '_r' to the colormap title like this:

cmap_reversed = matplotlib.cm.get_cmap('autumn_r')

Asynchronous Function Call in PHP

One way is to use pcntl_fork() in a recursive function.

function networkCall(){
  $data = processGETandPOST();
  $response = makeNetworkCall($data);
  processNetworkResponse($response);
  return true;
}

function runAsync($times){
  $pid = pcntl_fork();
  if ($pid == -1) {
    die('could not fork');
  } else if ($pid) {
    // we are the parent
    $times -= 1;
    if($times>0)
      runAsync($times);
    pcntl_wait($status); //Protect against Zombie children
  } else {
    // we are the child
    networkCall();
    posix_kill(getmypid(), SIGKILL);
  }
}

runAsync(3);

One thing about pcntl_fork() is that when running the script by way of Apache, it doesn't work (it's not supported by Apache). So, one way to resolve that issue is to run the script using the php cli, like: exec('php fork.php',$output); from another file. To do this you'll have two files: one that's loaded by Apache and one that's run with exec() from inside the file loaded by Apache like this:

apacheLoadedFile.php

exec('php fork.php',$output);

fork.php

function networkCall(){
  $data = processGETandPOST();
  $response = makeNetworkCall($data);
  processNetworkResponse($response);
  return true;
}

function runAsync($times){
  $pid = pcntl_fork();
  if ($pid == -1) {
    die('could not fork');
  } else if ($pid) {
    // we are the parent
    $times -= 1;
    if($times>0)
      runAsync($times);
    pcntl_wait($status); //Protect against Zombie children
  } else {
    // we are the child
    networkCall();
    posix_kill(getmypid(), SIGKILL);
  }
}

runAsync(3);

how to list all sub directories in a directory

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace TRIAL
{
    public class Class1
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
           string[] fileArray = Directory.GetDirectories("YOUR PATH");
           for (int i = 0; i < fileArray.Length; i++)
           {

               Console.WriteLine(fileArray[i]);
           }
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

Pandas join issue: columns overlap but no suffix specified

The .join() function is using the index of the passed as argument dataset, so you should use set_index or use .merge function instead.

Please find the two examples that should work in your case:

join_df = LS_sgo.join(MSU_pi.set_index('mukey'), on='mukey', how='left')

or

join_df = df_a.merge(df_b, on='mukey', how='left')

SimpleDateFormat parsing date with 'Z' literal

Under Java 8 use the predefined DateTimeFormatter.ISO_DATE_TIME

 DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ISO_DATE_TIME;
 ZonedDateTime result = ZonedDateTime.parse("2010-04-05T17:16:00Z", formatter);

I guess its the easiest way

How can I truncate a datetime in SQL Server?

Oracle:

TRUNC(SYSDATE, 'MONTH')

SQL Server:

DATEADD(DAY, - DATEPART(DAY, DateField) + 1, DateField)

Could be similarly used for truncating minutes or hours from a date.

how to set default culture info for entire c# application

If you use a Language Resource file to set the labels in your application you need to set the its value:

CultureInfo customCulture = new CultureInfo("en-US");
Languages.Culture = customCulture;

:after and :before pseudo-element selectors in Sass

Use ampersand to specify the parent selector.

SCSS syntax:

p {
    margin: 2em auto;

    > a {
        color: red;
    }

    &:before {
        content: "";
    }

    &:after {
        content: "* * *";
    }
}

Convert txt to csv python script

import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_fwf('log.txt')
df.to_csv('log.csv')

ImportError: No module named 'bottle' - PyCharm

In some cases no "No module ..." can appear even on local files. In such cases you just need to mark appropriate directories as "source directories":

Mark as source lib directory

Bootstrap 3 Collapse show state with Chevron icon

or... you can just put some style like this.

.panel-title a.collapsed {
     background: url(../img/arrow_right.png) center right no-repeat;
}
.panel-title a {
     background: url(../img/arrow_down.png) center right no-repeat;
}

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/GJjrQN

How to print star pattern in JavaScript in a very simple manner?

You can try this

 var x, y, space = "",
    star = "",
    n = 4,
    m = n - 1;
for (x = 1; x <= n; x++) {
    for (y = m; y >= 1; y--) {
        space = space + (" ");
    }
    m--;
    for (let k = 1; k <= x * 2 - 1; k++) {
        star = star + "*"
    }
    console.log(space + star)
    space = '';
    star = "";
}

How to disable HTML links

You can use this to disabled the Hyperlink of asp.net or link buttons in html.

$("td > a").attr("disabled", "disabled").on("click", function() {
    return false; 
});

Why can templates only be implemented in the header file?

Actually, prior to C++11 the standard defined the export keyword that would make it possible to declare templates in a header file and implement them elsewhere.

None of the popular compilers implemented this keyword. The only one I know about is the frontend written by the Edison Design Group, which is used by the Comeau C++ compiler. All others required you to write templates in header files, because the compiler needs the template definition for proper instantiation (as others pointed out already).

As a result, the ISO C++ standard committee decided to remove the export feature of templates with C++11.

Is SMTP based on TCP or UDP?

In theory SMTP can be handled by either TCP, UDP, or some 3rd party protocol.

As defined in RFC 821, RFC 2821, and RFC 5321:

SMTP is independent of the particular transmission subsystem and requires only a reliable ordered data stream channel.

In addition, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority has allocated port 25 for both TCP and UDP for use by SMTP.

In practice however, most if not all organizations and applications only choose to implement the TCP protocol. For example, in Microsoft's port listing port 25 is only listed for TCP and not UDP.


The big difference between TCP and UDP that makes TCP ideal here is that TCP checks to make sure that every packet is received and re-sends them if they are not whereas UDP will simply send packets and not check for receipt. This makes UDP ideal for things like streaming video where every single packet isn't as important as keeping a continuous flow of packets from the server to the client.

Considering SMTP, it makes more sense to use TCP over UDP. SMTP is a mail transport protocol, and in mail every single packet is important. If you lose several packets in the middle of the message the recipient might not even receive the message and if they do they might be missing key information. This makes TCP more appropriate because it ensures that every packet is delivered.

select into in mysql

In MySQL, It should be like this

INSERT INTO this_table_archive (col1, col2, ..., coln)
SELECT col1, col2, ..., coln
FROM this_table
WHERE entry_date < '2011-01-01 00:00:00';

MySQL Documentation

How to define constants in Visual C# like #define in C?

What is the "Visual C#"? There is no such thing. Just C#, or .NET C# :)

Also, Python's convention for constants CONSTANT_NAME is not very common in C#. We are usually using CamelCase according to MSDN standards, e.g. public const string ExtractedMagicString = "vs2019";

Source: Defining constants in C#

Fitting a histogram with python

Here you have an example working on py2.6 and py3.2:

from scipy.stats import norm
import matplotlib.mlab as mlab
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# read data from a text file. One number per line
arch = "test/Log(2)_ACRatio.txt"
datos = []
for item in open(arch,'r'):
    item = item.strip()
    if item != '':
        try:
            datos.append(float(item))
        except ValueError:
            pass

# best fit of data
(mu, sigma) = norm.fit(datos)

# the histogram of the data
n, bins, patches = plt.hist(datos, 60, normed=1, facecolor='green', alpha=0.75)

# add a 'best fit' line
y = mlab.normpdf( bins, mu, sigma)
l = plt.plot(bins, y, 'r--', linewidth=2)

#plot
plt.xlabel('Smarts')
plt.ylabel('Probability')
plt.title(r'$\mathrm{Histogram\ of\ IQ:}\ \mu=%.3f,\ \sigma=%.3f$' %(mu, sigma))
plt.grid(True)

plt.show()

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Getting started with Haskell

If you only have experience with imperative/OO languages, I suggest using a more conventional functional language as a stepping stone. Haskell is really different and you have to understand a lot of different concepts to get anywhere. I suggest tackling a ML-style language (like e.g. F#) first.

Creating an XmlNode/XmlElement in C# without an XmlDocument?

From W3C Document Object Model (Core) Level 1 specification (bold is mine):

Most of the APIs defined by this specification are interfaces rather than classes. That means that an actual implementation need only expose methods with the defined names and specified operation, not actually implement classes that correspond directly to the interfaces. This allows the DOM APIs to be implemented as a thin veneer on top of legacy applications with their own data structures, or on top of newer applications with different class hierarchies. This also means that ordinary constructors (in the Java or C++ sense) cannot be used to create DOM objects, since the underlying objects to be constructed may have little relationship to the DOM interfaces. The conventional solution to this in object-oriented design is to define factory methods that create instances of objects that implement the various interfaces. In the DOM Level 1, objects implementing some interface "X" are created by a "createX()" method on the Document interface; this is because all DOM objects live in the context of a specific Document.

AFAIK, you can not create any XmlNode (XmlElement, XmlAttribute, XmlCDataSection, etc) except XmlDocument from a constructor.

Moreover, note that you can not use XmlDocument.AppendChild() for nodes that are not created via the factory methods of the same document. In case you have a node from another document, you must use XmlDocument.ImportNode().

Converting a string to a date in a cell

To accomodate both data scenarios you have, you will want to use this:

datevalue(text(a2,"mm/dd/yyyy"))

That will give you the date number representation for a cell that Excel has in date, or in text datatype.

T-SQL: Opposite to string concatenation - how to split string into multiple records

You can also achieve this effect using XML, as seen here, which removes the limitation of the answers provided which all seem to include recursion in some fashion. The particular use I've made here allows for up to a 32-character delimiter, but that could be increased however large it needs to be.

create FUNCTION [dbo].[Split] (@sep VARCHAR(32), @s VARCHAR(MAX))
RETURNS TABLE
AS
    RETURN
    (
        SELECT r.value('.','VARCHAR(MAX)') as Item
        FROM (SELECT CONVERT(XML, N'<root><r>' + REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(@s,'& ','&amp; '),'<','&lt;'), @sep, '</r><r>') + '</r></root>') as valxml) x
        CROSS APPLY x.valxml.nodes('//root/r') AS RECORDS(r)
    )

Then you can invoke it using:

SELECT * FROM dbo.Split(' ', 'I hate bunnies')

Which returns:

-----------
|I        |
|---------|
|hate     |
|---------|
|bunnies  |
-----------


I should note, I don't actually hate bunnies... it just popped into my head for some reason.
The following is the closest thing I could come up with using the same method in an inline table-valued function. DON'T USE IT, IT'S HORRIBLY INEFFICIENT! It's just here for reference sake.

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[Split] (@sep VARCHAR(32), @s VARCHAR(MAX))
RETURNS TABLE
AS
    RETURN
    (
        SELECT r.value('.','VARCHAR(MAX)') as Item
        FROM (SELECT CONVERT(XML, N'<root><r>' + REPLACE(@s, @sep, '</r><r>') + '</r></root>') as valxml) x
        CROSS APPLY x.valxml.nodes('//root/r') AS RECORDS(r)
    )

Extract code country from phone number [libphonenumber]

I have got kept a handy helper method to take care of this based on one answer posted above:

Imports:

import com.google.i18n.phonenumbers.NumberParseException
import com.google.i18n.phonenumbers.PhoneNumberUtil

Function:

    fun parseCountryCode( phoneNumberStr: String?): String {
        val phoneUtil = PhoneNumberUtil.getInstance()
        return try {
            // phone must begin with '+'
            val numberProto = phoneUtil.parse(phoneNumberStr, "")
            numberProto.countryCode.toString()
        } catch (e: NumberParseException) {
            ""
        }
    }

how to add lines to existing file using python

Open the file for 'append' rather than 'write'.

with open('file.txt', 'a') as file:
    file.write('input')

IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied

IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'juliodantas2015.json'

tells you everything you need to know: though you successfully made your python program executable with your chmod, python can't open that juliodantas2015.json' file for writing. You probably don't have the rights to create new files in the folder you're currently in.

Converting String to Int with Swift

//  To convert user input (i.e string) to int for calculation.I did this , and it works.


    let num:Int? = Int(firstTextField.text!);

    let sum:Int = num!-2

    print(sum);

How do I check if an array includes a value in JavaScript?

Performance

Today 2020.01.07 I perform tests on MacOs HighSierra 10.13.6 on Chrome v78.0.0, Safari v13.0.4 and Firefox v71.0.0 for 15 chosen solutions. Conclusions

  • solutions based on JSON, Set and surprisingly find (K,N,O) are slowest on all browsers
  • the es6 includes (F) is fast only on chrome
  • the solutions based on for (C,D) and indexOf (G,H) are quite-fast on all browsers on small and big arrays so probably they are best choice for efficient solution
  • the solutions where index decrease during loop, (B) is slower probably because the way of CPU cache works.
  • I also run test for big array when searched element was on position 66% of array length, and solutions based on for (C,D,E) gives similar results (~630 ops/sec - but the E on safari and firefox was 10-20% slower than C and D)

Results

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Details

I perform 2 tests cases: for array with 10 elements, and array with 1 milion elements. In both cases we put searched element in the array middle.

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let log = (name,f) => console.log(`${name}: 3-${f(arr,'s10')}  's7'-${f(arr,'s7')}  6-${f(arr,6)} 's3'-${f(arr,'s3')}`)_x000D_
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let arr = [1,2,3,4,5,'s6','s7','s8','s9','s10'];_x000D_
//arr = new Array(1000000).fill(123); arr[500000]=7;_x000D_
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function A(a, val) {_x000D_
    var i = -1;_x000D_
    var n = a.length;_x000D_
    while (i++<n) {_x000D_
       if (a[i] === val) {_x000D_
           return true;_x000D_
       }_x000D_
    }_x000D_
    return false;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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function B(a, val) {_x000D_
    var i = a.length;_x000D_
    while (i--) {_x000D_
       if (a[i] === val) {_x000D_
           return true;_x000D_
       }_x000D_
    }_x000D_
    return false;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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function C(a, val) {_x000D_
    for (var i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {_x000D_
        if (a[i] === val) return true;_x000D_
    }_x000D_
    return false;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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function D(a,val)_x000D_
{_x000D_
    var len = a.length;_x000D_
    for(var i = 0 ; i < len;i++)_x000D_
    {_x000D_
        if(a[i] === val) return true;_x000D_
    }_x000D_
    return false;_x000D_
} _x000D_
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function E(a, val){  _x000D_
  var n = a.length-1;_x000D_
  var t = n/2;_x000D_
  for (var i = 0; i <= t; i++) {_x000D_
        if (a[i] === val || a[n-i] === val) return true;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
  return false;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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function F(a,val) {_x000D_
 return a.includes(val);_x000D_
}_x000D_
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function G(a,val) {_x000D_
 return a.indexOf(val)>=0;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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function H(a,val) {_x000D_
 return !!~a.indexOf(val);_x000D_
}_x000D_
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function I(a, val) {_x000D_
  return a.findIndex(x=> x==val)>=0;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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function J(a,val) {_x000D_
 return a.some(x=> x===val);_x000D_
}_x000D_
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function K(a, val) {_x000D_
  const s = JSON.stringify(val);_x000D_
  return a.some(x => JSON.stringify(x) === s);_x000D_
}_x000D_
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function L(a,val) {_x000D_
 return !a.every(x=> x!==val);_x000D_
}_x000D_
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function M(a, val) {_x000D_
  return !!a.find(x=> x==val);_x000D_
}_x000D_
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function N(a,val) {_x000D_
 return a.filter(x=>x===val).length > 0;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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function O(a, val) {_x000D_
  return new Set(a).has(val);_x000D_
}_x000D_
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log('A',A);_x000D_
log('B',B);_x000D_
log('C',C);_x000D_
log('D',D);_x000D_
log('E',E);_x000D_
log('F',F);_x000D_
log('G',G);_x000D_
log('H',H);_x000D_
log('I',I);_x000D_
log('J',J);_x000D_
log('K',K);_x000D_
log('L',L);_x000D_
log('M',M);_x000D_
log('N',N);_x000D_
log('O',O);
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This shippet only presents functions used in performance tests - it not perform tests itself!
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Array small - 10 elements

You can perform tests in your machine HERE

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Array big - 1.000.000 elements

You can perform tests in your machine HERE

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XPath with multiple conditions

Here, we can do this way as well:

//category [@name='category name']/author[contains(text(),'authorname')]

OR

//category [@name='category name']//author[contains(text(),'authorname')]

To Learn XPATH in detail please visit- selenium xpath in detail

Is there a conditional ternary operator in VB.NET?

Just for the record, here is the difference between If and IIf:

IIf(condition, true-part, false-part):

  • This is the old VB6/VBA Function
  • The function always returns an Object type, so if you want to use the methods or properties of the chosen object, you have to re-cast it with DirectCast or CType or the Convert.* Functions to its original type
  • Because of this, if true-part and false-part are of different types there is no matter, the result is just an object anyway

If(condition, true-part, false-part):

  • This is the new VB.NET Function
  • The result type is the type of the chosen part, true-part or false-part
  • This doesn't work, if Strict Mode is switched on and the two parts are of different types. In Strict Mode they have to be of the same type, otherwise you will get an Exception
  • If you really need to have two parts of different types, switch off Strict Mode (or use IIf)
  • I didn't try so far if Strict Mode allows objects of different type but inherited from the same base or implementing the same Interface. The Microsoft documentation isn't quite helpful about this issue. Maybe somebody here knows it.

How to create a multi line body in C# System.Net.Mail.MailMessage

Today I found the same issue on a Error reporting app. I don't want to resort to HTML, to allow outlook to display the messages I had to do (assuming StringBuilder sb):

sb.Append(" \r\n\r\n").Append("Exception Time:" + DateTime.UtcNow.ToString());

How do I fix the multiple-step OLE DB operation errors in SSIS?

I had a similar issue when i was transferring data from an old database to a new database, I got the error above. I then ran the following script

SELECT * FROM [source].INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS src INNER JOIN [dest].INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS dst ON dst.COLUMN_NAME = src.COLUMN_NAME WHERE dst.CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH < src.CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH

and found that my columns where slightly different in terms of character sizes etc. I then tried to alter the table to the new table structure which did not work. I then transferred the data from the old database into Excel and imported the data from excel to the new DB which worked 100%.

How can I set focus on an element in an HTML form using JavaScript?

window.onload is to put focus initially onblur is to put focus while you click outside of the textarea,or avoid text area blur

    <textarea id="focus"></textarea>
    <script>
     var mytexarea=document.getElementById("focus");
    window.onload=function()
    {

    mytexarea.focus();

    }

mytextarea.onblur=function(){

mytextarea.focus();

}
    </script>

Trigger a Travis-CI rebuild without pushing a commit?

If you open the Settings tab for the repository on GitHub, click on Integrations & services, find Travis CI and click Edit, you should see a Test Service button. This will trigger a build.

How to get a list of programs running with nohup

When I started with $ nohup storm dev-zookeper ,

METHOD1 : using jobs,

prayagupd@prayagupd:/home/vmfest# jobs -l
[1]+ 11129 Running                 nohup ~/bin/storm/bin/storm dev-zookeeper &

METHOD2 : using ps command.

$ ps xw
PID  TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
1031 tty1     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty1
10582 ?        S      0:01 [kworker/0:0]
10826 ?        Sl     0:18 java -server -Dstorm.options= -Dstorm.home=/root/bin/storm -Djava.library.path=/usr/local/lib:/opt/local/lib:/usr/lib -Dsto
10853 ?        Ss     0:00 sshd: vmfest [priv] 

TTY column with ? => nohup running programs.

Description

  • TTY column = the terminal associated with the process
  • STAT column = state of a process
    • S = interruptible sleep (waiting for an event to complete)
    • l = is multi-threaded (using CLONE_THREAD, like NPTL pthreads do)

Reference

$ man ps # then search /PROCESS STATE CODES

Redefining the Index in a Pandas DataFrame object

If you don't want 'a' in the index

In :

col = ['a','b','c']

data = DataFrame([[1,2,3],[10,11,12],[20,21,22]],columns=col)

data

Out:

    a   b   c
0   1   2   3
1  10  11  12
2  20  21  22

In :

data2 = data.set_index('a')

Out:

     b   c
a
1    2   3
10  11  12
20  21  22

In :

data2.index.name = None

Out:

     b   c
 1   2   3
10  11  12
20  21  22

How can I check if mysql is installed on ubuntu?

# mysqladmin -u root -p status

Output:

Enter password:
Uptime: 4  Threads: 1  Questions: 62  Slow queries: 0  Opens: 51  Flush tables: 1  Open tables: 45  Queries per second avg: 15.500

It means MySQL serer is running

If server is not running then it will dump error as follows

# mysqladmin -u root -p status

Output :

mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)'
Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' exists!

So Under Debian Linux you can type following command

# /etc/init.d/mysql status

Split / Explode a column of dictionaries into separate columns with pandas

I strongly recommend the method extract the column 'Pollutants':

df_pollutants = pd.DataFrame(df['Pollutants'].values.tolist(), index=df.index)

it's much faster than

df_pollutants = df['Pollutants'].apply(pd.Series)

when the size of df is giant.

adding css file with jquery

I don't think you can attach down into a window that you are instancing... I KNOW you can't do it if the url's are on different domains (XSS and all that jazz), but you can talk UP from that window and access elements of the parent window assuming they are on the same domain. your best bet is to attach the stylesheet at the page you are loading, and if that page isn't on the same domain, (e.g. trying to restyle some one else's page,) you won't be able to.

Remove the last character in a string in T-SQL?

If your string is empty,

DECLARE @String VARCHAR(100)
SET @String = ''
SELECT LEFT(@String, LEN(@String) - 1)

then this code will cause error message 'Invalid length parameter passed to the substring function.'

You can handle it this way:

SELECT LEFT(@String, NULLIF(LEN(@String)-1,-1))

It will always return result, and NULL in case of empty string.

How to iterate through LinkedHashMap with lists as values

You can use the entry set and iterate over the entries which allows you to access both, key and value, directly.

for (Entry<String, ArrayList<String>> entry : test1.entrySet() {
     System.out.println(entry.getKey() + "/" + entry.getValue());
}

I tried this but get only returns string

Why do you think so? The method get returns the type E for which the generic type parameter was chosen, in your case ArrayList<String>.

Available text color classes in Bootstrap

You can use text classes:

.text-primary
.text-secondary
.text-success
.text-danger
.text-warning
.text-info
.text-light
.text-dark
.text-muted
.text-white

use text classes in any tag where needed.

<p class="text-primary">.text-primary</p>
<p class="text-secondary">.text-secondary</p>
<p class="text-success">.text-success</p>
<p class="text-danger">.text-danger</p>
<p class="text-warning">.text-warning</p>
<p class="text-info">.text-info</p>
<p class="text-light bg-dark">.text-light</p>
<p class="text-dark">.text-dark</p>
<p class="text-muted">.text-muted</p>
<p class="text-white bg-dark">.text-white</p>

You can add your own classes or modify above classes as your requirement.

JPA CriteriaBuilder - How to use "IN" comparison operator

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

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

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

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

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

with this:

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

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


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

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

    }


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

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

    }

AWS S3: how do I see how much disk space is using

s3admin is an opensource app (UI) that lets you browse buckets, calculate total size, show largest/smallest files. It's tailored for having a quick overview of your Buckets and their usage.

Using jquery to get element's position relative to viewport

Look into the Dimensions plugin, specifically scrollTop()/scrollLeft(). Information can be found at http://api.jquery.com/scrollTop.

Oracle 12c Installation failed to access the temporary location

My problem was that I had the Server service stopped and this gave exactly this same issue. So started the Server service and the installation worked.

How to download a branch with git?

Thanks to a related question, I found out that I need to "checkout" the remote branch as a new local branch, and specify a new local branch name.

git checkout -b newlocalbranchname origin/branch-name

Or you can do:

git checkout -t origin/branch-name

The latter will create a branch that is also set to track the remote branch.


Update: It's been 5 years since I originally posted this question. I've learned a lot and git has improved since then. My usual workflow is a little different now.

If I want to fetch the remote branches, I simply run:

git pull

This will fetch all of the remote branches and merge the current branch. It will display an output that looks something like this:

From github.com:andrewhavens/example-project
   dbd07ad..4316d29  master     -> origin/master
 * [new branch]      production -> origin/production
 * [new branch]      my-bugfix-branch -> origin/my-bugfix-branch
First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it...
Fast-forwarded master to 4316d296c55ac2e13992a22161fc327944bcf5b8.

Now git knows about my new my-bugfix-branch. To switch to this branch, I can simply run:

git checkout my-bugfix-branch

Normally, I would need to create the branch before I could check it out, but in newer versions of git, it's smart enough to know that you want to checkout a local copy of this remote branch.

Java abstract interface

It is not necessary to declare the interface abstract.

Just like declaring all those methods public (which they already are if the interface is public) or abstract (which they already are in an interface) is redundant.

No one is stopping you, though.

Other things you can explicitly state, but don't need to:

  • call super() on the first line of a constructor
  • extends Object
  • implement inherited interfaces

Is there other rules that applies with an abstract interface?

An interface is already "abstract". Applying that keyword again makes absolutely no difference.

Read each line of txt file to new array element

$lines = array();
while (($line = fgets($file)) !== false)
    array_push($lines, $line);

Obviously, you'll need to create a file handle first and store it in $file.

VB.NET Inputbox - How to identify when the Cancel Button is pressed?

Dim userReply As String
userReply = Microsoft.VisualBasic.InputBox("Message")
If userReply = "" Then 
  MsgBox("You did not enter anything. Try again")
ElseIf userReply.Length = 0 Then 
  MsgBox("You did not enter anything")
End If

How do I open workbook programmatically as read-only?

Does this work?

Workbooks.Open Filename:=filepath, ReadOnly:=True

Or, as pointed out in a comment, to keep a reference to the opened workbook:

Dim book As Workbook
Set book = Workbooks.Open(Filename:=filepath, ReadOnly:=True)

Copying one structure to another

If the structures are of compatible types, yes, you can, with something like:

memcpy (dest_struct, source_struct, sizeof (*dest_struct));

The only thing you need to be aware of is that this is a shallow copy. In other words, if you have a char * pointing to a specific string, both structures will point to the same string.

And changing the contents of one of those string fields (the data that the char * points to, not the char * itself) will change the other as well.

If you want a easy copy without having to manually do each field but with the added bonus of non-shallow string copies, use strdup:

memcpy (dest_struct, source_struct, sizeof (*dest_struct));
dest_struct->strptr = strdup (source_struct->strptr);

This will copy the entire contents of the structure, then deep-copy the string, effectively giving a separate string to each structure.

And, if your C implementation doesn't have a strdup (it's not part of the ISO standard), get one from here.

Check array position for null/empty

If your array is not initialized then it contains randoms values and cannot be checked !

To initialize your array with 0 values:

int array[5] = {0};

Then you can check if the value is 0:

array[4] == 0;

When you compare to NULL, it compares to 0 as the NULL is defined as integer value 0 or 0L.

If you have an array of pointers, better use the nullptr value to check:

char* array[5] = {nullptr}; // we defined an array of char*, initialized to nullptr

if (array[4] == nullptr)
    // do something

How to resolve : Can not find the tag library descriptor for "http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"

I also use this

<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>

but I don't get any error.

Did you include the jstl.jar in your library? If not maybe this causing the problem. And also the 'tld' folder do you have it? And how about your web.xml did you map it?

Have a look on the info about jstl for other information.

Git workflow and rebase vs merge questions

With Git there is no “correct” workflow. Use whatever floats your boat. However, if you constantly get conflicts when merging branches maybe you should coordinate your efforts better with your fellow developer(s)? Sounds like the two of you keep editing the same files. Also, watch out for whitespace and subversion keywords (i.e., “$Id$” and others).

How to convert flat raw disk image to vmdk for virtualbox or vmplayer?

krosenvold's answer inspired the following script which does the following:

  • get the dd dump via ssh from a remote server (as gz file)
  • unzip the dump
  • convert it to vmware

the script is restartable and checks the existence of the intermediate files. It also uses pv and qemu-img -p to show the progress of each step.

In my environment 2 x Ubuntu 12.04 LTS the steps took:

  • 3 hours to get a 47 GByte disk dump of a 60 GByte partition
  • 20 minutes to unpack to a 60 GByte dd file
  • 45 minutes to create the vmware file
#!/bin/bash
# get a dd disk dump and convert it to vmware
#  see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/454899/how-to-convert-flat-raw-disk-image-to-vmdk-for-virtualbox-or-vmplayer
#  Author: wf  2014-10-1919

#
# get a dd dump from the given host's given disk and create a compressed
#   image at the given target 
#
#  1: host e.g. somehost.somedomain
#  2: disk e.g. sda
#  3: target e.g. image.gz
#
# http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/132797/how-to-use-ssh-to-make-a-dd-copy-of-disk-a-from-host-b-and-save-on-disk-b
getdump() {
  local l_host="$1"
  local l_disk="$2"
  local l_target="$3"
  echo "getting disk dump of $l_disk from $l_host"
  ssh $l_host sudo fdisk -l  | egrep "^/dev/$l_disk"
  if [ $? -ne 0 ]
  then
    echo "device $l_disk does not exist on host $l_host" 1>&2
    exit 1
  else
    if [ ! -f $l_target ]
    then
      ssh $l_host "sudo dd if=/dev/$disk bs=1M | gzip -1 -" | pv | dd of=$l_target
    else
      echo "$l_target already exists"
    fi
  fi
}

#
# optionally install command from package if it is not available yet
# 1: command
# 2: package
#
opt_install() {
  l_command="$1"
  l_package="$2"
  echo "checking that $l_command from package $l_package  is installed ..."
  which $l_command
  if [ $? -ne 0 ]
  then
    echo "installing $l_package to make $l_command available ..."
    sudo apt-get install $l_package 
  fi
}

#
# convert the given image to vmware
#  1: the dd dump image
#  2: the vmware image file to convert to
#
vmware_convert() {
  local l_ddimage="$1"
  local l_vmwareimage="$2"
  echo "converting dd image $l_image to vmware $l_vmwareimage"
  #  convert to VMware disk format showing progess
  # see http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/qemu-img.1.html
  qemu-img convert -p -O vmdk "$l_ddimage" "$l_vmwareimage"
}

#
# show usage
#
usage() {
  echo "usage: $0 host device"
  echo "      host: the host to get the disk dump from e.g. frodo.lotr.org"  
  echo "            you need ssh and sudo privileges on that host"
  echo "
  echo "    device: the disk to dump from e.g. sda"
  echo ""
  echo "  examples:
  echo "       $0 frodo.lotr.org sda"
  echo "       $0 gandalf.lotr.org sdb"
  echo ""
  echo "  the needed packages pv and qemu-utils will be installed if not available"
  echo "  you need local sudo rights for this to work"
  exit 1
}

# check arguments
if [ $# -lt 2 ]
then
  usage
fi

# get the command line parameters
host="$1"
disk="$2"

# calculate the names of the image files
ts=`date "+%Y-%m-%d"`
# prefix of all images
#   .gz the zipped dd
#   .dd the disk dump file
#   .vmware - the vmware disk file
image="${host}_${disk}_image_$ts"

echo "$0 $host/$disk ->  $image"

# first check/install necessary packages
opt_install qemu-img qemu-utils
opt_install pv pv

# check if dd files was already loaded
#  we don't want to start this tedious process twice if avoidable
if [ ! -f $image.gz ]
then
  getdump $host $disk $image.gz
else
  echo "$image.gz already downloaded"
fi

# check if the dd file was already uncompressed
# we don't want to start this tedious process twice if avoidable
if [ ! -f $image.dd ]
then
  echo "uncompressing $image.gz"
  zcat $image.gz | pv -cN zcat > $image.dd
else
  echo "image $image.dd already uncompressed"
fi
# check if the vmdk file was already converted
# we don't want to start this tedious process twice if avoidable
if [ ! -f $image.vmdk ]
then
  vmware_convert $image.dd $image.vmdk
else
  echo "vmware image $image.vmdk already converted"
fi

How to change mysql to mysqli?

If you have a lot files to change in your projects you can create functions with the same names like mysql functions, and in the functions make the convert like this code:

$sql_host =     "your host";      
$sql_username = "username";    
$sql_password = "password";       
$sql_database = "database";       



$mysqli = new mysqli($sql_host , $sql_username , $sql_password , $sql_database );


/* check connection */
if ($mysqli->connect_errno) {
    printf("Connect failed: %s\n", $mysqli->connect_error);
    exit();
}


function mysql_query($query){
    $result = $mysqli->query($query);
    return $result;

}

function mysql_fetch_array($result){
    if($result){
        $row =  $result->fetch_assoc();
         return $row;
       }
}

function mysql_num_rows($result){
    if($result){
         $row_cnt = $result->num_rows;;
         return $row_cnt;
       }
}

How to create a readonly textbox in ASP.NET MVC3 Razor

UPDATE: Now it's very simple to add HTML attributes to the default editor templates. It neans instead of doing this:

@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.userCode, new { @readonly="readonly" })

you simply can do this:

@Html.EditorFor(m => m.userCode, new { htmlAttributes = new { @readonly="readonly" } })

Benefits: You haven't to call .TextBoxFor, etc. for templates. Just call .EditorFor.


While @Shark's solution works correctly, and it is simple and useful, my solution (that I use always) is this one: Create an editor-template that can handles readonly attribute:

  1. Create a folder named EditorTemplates in ~/Views/Shared/
  2. Create a razor PartialView named String.cshtml
  3. Fill the String.cshtml with this code:

    @if(ViewData.ModelMetadata.IsReadOnly) {
        @Html.TextBox("", ViewData.TemplateInfo.FormattedModelValue,
            new { @class = "text-box single-line readonly", @readonly = "readonly", disabled = "disabled" })
    } else {
        @Html.TextBox("", ViewData.TemplateInfo.FormattedModelValue,
            new { @class = "text-box single-line" })
    }
    
  4. In model class, put the [ReadOnly(true)] attribute on properties which you want to be readonly.

For example,

public class Model {
    // [your-annotations-here]
    public string EditablePropertyExample { get; set; }

    // [your-annotations-here]
    [ReadOnly(true)]
    public string ReadOnlyPropertyExample { get; set; }
}

Now you can use Razor's default syntax simply:

@Html.EditorFor(m => m.EditablePropertyExample)
@Html.EditorFor(m => m.ReadOnlyPropertyExample)

The first one renders a normal text-box like this:

<input class="text-box single-line" id="field-id" name="field-name" />

And the second will render to;

<input readonly="readonly" disabled="disabled" class="text-box single-line readonly" id="field-id" name="field-name" />

You can use this solution for any type of data (DateTime, DateTimeOffset, DataType.Text, DataType.MultilineText and so on). Just create an editor-template.

Joining Spark dataframes on the key

From https://spark.apache.org/docs/1.5.1/api/java/org/apache/spark/sql/DataFrame.html, use join:

Inner equi-join with another DataFrame using the given column.

PersonDf.join(ProfileDf,$"personId")

OR

PersonDf.join(ProfileDf,PersonDf("personId") === ProfileDf("personId"))

Update:

You can also save the DFs as temp table using df.registerTempTable("tableName") and you can write sql queries using sqlContext.

Parameter in like clause JPQL

I don't use named parameters for all queries. For example it is unusual to use named parameters in JpaRepository.

To workaround I use JPQL CONCAT function (this code emulate start with):

@Repository
public interface BranchRepository extends JpaRepository<Branch, String> {
    private static final String QUERY = "select b from Branch b"
       + " left join b.filial f"
       + " where f.id = ?1 and b.id like CONCAT(?2, '%')";
    @Query(QUERY)
    List<Branch> findByFilialAndBranchLike(String filialId, String branchCode);
}

I found this technique in excellent docs: http://openjpa.apache.org/builds/1.0.1/apache-openjpa-1.0.1/docs/manual/jpa_overview_query.html

Python: PIP install path, what is the correct location for this and other addons?

Since pip is an executable and which returns path of executables or filenames in environment. It is correct. Pip module is installed in site-packages but the executable is installed in bin.

100% width table overflowing div container

Add display: block; and overflow: auto; to .my-table. This will simply cut off anything past the 280px limit you enforced. There's no way to make it "look pretty" with that requirement due to words like pélagosthrough which are wider than 280px.

Difference between Role and GrantedAuthority in Spring Security

Think of a GrantedAuthority as being a "permission" or a "right". Those "permissions" are (normally) expressed as strings (with the getAuthority() method). Those strings let you identify the permissions and let your voters decide if they grant access to something.

You can grant different GrantedAuthoritys (permissions) to users by putting them into the security context. You normally do that by implementing your own UserDetailsService that returns a UserDetails implementation that returns the needed GrantedAuthorities.

Roles (as they are used in many examples) are just "permissions" with a naming convention that says that a role is a GrantedAuthority that starts with the prefix ROLE_. There's nothing more. A role is just a GrantedAuthority - a "permission" - a "right". You see a lot of places in spring security where the role with its ROLE_ prefix is handled specially as e.g. in the RoleVoter, where the ROLE_ prefix is used as a default. This allows you to provide the role names withtout the ROLE_ prefix. Prior to Spring security 4, this special handling of "roles" has not been followed very consistently and authorities and roles were often treated the same (as you e.g. can see in the implementation of the hasAuthority() method in SecurityExpressionRoot - which simply calls hasRole()). With Spring Security 4, the treatment of roles is more consistent and code that deals with "roles" (like the RoleVoter, the hasRole expression etc.) always adds the ROLE_ prefix for you. So hasAuthority('ROLE_ADMIN') means the the same as hasRole('ADMIN') because the ROLE_ prefix gets added automatically. See the spring security 3 to 4 migration guide for futher information.

But still: a role is just an authority with a special ROLE_ prefix. So in Spring security 3 @PreAuthorize("hasRole('ROLE_XYZ')") is the same as @PreAuthorize("hasAuthority('ROLE_XYZ')") and in Spring security 4 @PreAuthorize("hasRole('XYZ')") is the same as @PreAuthorize("hasAuthority('ROLE_XYZ')").

Regarding your use case:

Users have roles and roles can perform certain operations.

You could end up in GrantedAuthorities for the roles a user belongs to and the operations a role can perform. The GrantedAuthorities for the roles have the prefix ROLE_ and the operations have the prefix OP_. An example for operation authorities could be OP_DELETE_ACCOUNT, OP_CREATE_USER, OP_RUN_BATCH_JOBetc. Roles can be ROLE_ADMIN, ROLE_USER, ROLE_OWNER etc.

You could end up having your entities implement GrantedAuthority like in this (pseudo-code) example:

@Entity
class Role implements GrantedAuthority {
    @Id
    private String id;

    @ManyToMany
    private final List<Operation> allowedOperations = new ArrayList<>();

    @Override
    public String getAuthority() {
        return id;
    }

    public Collection<GrantedAuthority> getAllowedOperations() {
        return allowedOperations;
    }
}

@Entity
class User {
    @Id
    private String id;

    @ManyToMany
    private final List<Role> roles = new ArrayList<>();

    public Collection<Role> getRoles() {
        return roles;
    }
}

@Entity
class Operation implements GrantedAuthority {
    @Id
    private String id;

    @Override
    public String getAuthority() {
        return id;
    }
}

The ids of the roles and operations you create in your database would be the GrantedAuthority representation, e.g. ROLE_ADMIN, OP_DELETE_ACCOUNT etc. When a user is authenticated, make sure that all GrantedAuthorities of all its roles and the corresponding operations are returned from the UserDetails.getAuthorities() method.

Example: The admin role with id ROLE_ADMIN has the operations OP_DELETE_ACCOUNT, OP_READ_ACCOUNT, OP_RUN_BATCH_JOB assigned to it. The user role with id ROLE_USER has the operation OP_READ_ACCOUNT.

If an admin logs in the resulting security context will have the GrantedAuthorities: ROLE_ADMIN, OP_DELETE_ACCOUNT, OP_READ_ACCOUNT, OP_RUN_BATCH_JOB

If a user logs it, it will have: ROLE_USER, OP_READ_ACCOUNT

The UserDetailsService would take care to collect all roles and all operations of those roles and make them available by the method getAuthorities() in the returned UserDetails instance.

Order a List (C#) by many fields?

Make your object something like

public class MyObject : IComparable
{
    public string a;
    public string b;

    virtual public int CompareTo(object obj)
    {
        if (obj is MyObject)
        {
            var compareObj = (MyObject)obj;
            if (this.a.CompareTo(compareObj.a) == 0)
            {
                // compare second value
                return this.b.CompareTo(compareObj.b);
            }
            return this.a.CompareTo(compareObj.b);
        }
        else
        {
            throw new ArgumentException("Object is not a MyObject ");
        }
    }
}

also note that the returns for CompareTo :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.icomparable.compareto.aspx

Then, if you have a List of MyObject, call .Sort() ie

var objList = new List<MyObject>();
objList.Sort();

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

This is really linked to HotSpot and the default option values (Java HotSpot VM Options) which differ between client and server configuration.

From Chapter 2 of the whitepaper (The Java HotSpot Performance Engine Architecture):

The JDK includes two flavors of the VM -- a client-side offering, and a VM tuned for server applications. These two solutions share the Java HotSpot runtime environment code base, but use different compilers that are suited to the distinctly unique performance characteristics of clients and servers. These differences include the compilation inlining policy and heap defaults.

Although the Server and the Client VMs are similar, the Server VM has been specially tuned to maximize peak operating speed. It is intended for executing long-running server applications, which need the fastest possible operating speed more than a fast start-up time or smaller runtime memory footprint.

The Client VM compiler serves as an upgrade for both the Classic VM and the just-in-time (JIT) compilers used by previous versions of the JDK. The Client VM offers improved run time performance for applications and applets. The Java HotSpot Client VM has been specially tuned to reduce application start-up time and memory footprint, making it particularly well suited for client environments. In general, the client system is better for GUIs.

So the real difference is also on the compiler level:

The Client VM compiler does not try to execute many of the more complex optimizations performed by the compiler in the Server VM, but in exchange, it requires less time to analyze and compile a piece of code. This means the Client VM can start up faster and requires a smaller memory footprint.

The Server VM contains an advanced adaptive compiler that supports many of the same types of optimizations performed by optimizing C++ compilers, as well as some optimizations that cannot be done by traditional compilers, such as aggressive inlining across virtual method invocations. This is a competitive and performance advantage over static compilers. Adaptive optimization technology is very flexible in its approach, and typically outperforms even advanced static analysis and compilation techniques.

Note: The release of jdk6 update 10 (see Update Release Notes:Changes in 1.6.0_10) tried to improve startup time, but for a different reason than the hotspot options, being packaged differently with a much smaller kernel.


G. Demecki points out in the comments that in 64-bit versions of JDK, the -client option is ignored for many years.
See Windows java command:

-client

Selects the Java HotSpot Client VM.
A 64-bit capable JDK currently ignores this option and instead uses the Java Hotspot Server VM.

How to download Javadoc to read offline?

update 2019-09-29: Java version 11

The technique below does not now work with Java 11, and probably higher versions: there is no way of ignoring multiple "broken links" (i.e. to other classes, other APIs). Solution: keep your javadoc executable file (or javadoc.exe) from Java version 8


There are good reasons for making your own local javadocs, and it's not particularly difficult!

First you need the source. At the time of writing the Java 8 JDK comes with a zip file called src.zip. Sometimes, for unexplained reasons, Oracle don't always include the source. So for some older versions (and who knows about the future) you have to get hold of the Java source in another way. It's worth also being aware that, in the past, Oracle have sometimes included the source with the Linux version of the JDK, but not with the Windows one.

I just unzipped this file... the top directories are "com", "java", "javax", "launcher" and "org". Directory launcher contains no files to document.

You can generate the javadocs very very simply from any or all of these by CD'ing at the command prompt/terminal to the directory ...\src. Then go

javadoc -d docs -Xmaxwarns 10 -Xmaxerrs 10 -Xdoclint:none -sourcepath . -subpackages java:javax:org:com

NB note that there is a "." after -sourcepath

Simple as that. Generating your own javadocs also has 2 huge advantages

  1. you know they are precisely the right javadocs for the JDK (or any exernal jar file) you are using on your system
  2. once you get into the habit, reconstituting your Javadocs is not a tiresome challenge (i.e. where to go looking for them). For example I just unzipped a couple of source jars whose packages are closely coupled, so their sources were in effect "merged" & then made a single Javadoc from them...

NB Swing is semi-officially DEAD. We should all be switching to JavaFX, which is helpfully bundled with Java 8 JDK, but in its own source file, javafx-src.zip.

Unzipped, this reveals 3 "root" packages: com, javafx and netscape (wha'?). These should be manually moved over the to appropriate places under the unzipped src directory (including the JavaFX com.sun packages under the Java com.sun strcture). Compiling all these Javadoc files took my machine a non-negligible time. I'd expect to see all the JavaFX source classes in with all the other source classes some time soon.


BTW, the same thinking applies to documenting any and all Java jars (with source) which you use. However, all versions of most jars will be found with their documentation available for download at Maven Central http://search.maven.org...

PS afterthought:
using Eclipse and the "Gradle STS" plugin: the "New Gradle STS Project" wizard will create a gradle.build file containing the line

include plugin: 'eclipse'

This magically downloads the source jar with the executable jar (under GRADLE_HOME) when you go

./gradlew build

[addendum 2020-01-13: if you have chosen not to include the Eclipse plugin in your build.gradle, it would appear that you can go (with the selection on your project in the Project Explorer) Right-click Gradle --> Refresh Gradle Project to get Eclipse to download the source files.]

... giving you an extra degree of certainty that you have got the right src and therefore the right javadoc for the dependency in question.

"Cannot create an instance of OLE DB provider" error as Windows Authentication user

For error 7302 in particular, I discovered, in my registry, when looking for OraOLEDB.Oracle that the InprocServer32 location was wrong.

If that's the case, or you can't find that string in the registry, then you'll have to install or re-register the component.

I had to delete the key from the GUID level, and then find the ProgID (OraOLEDB.Oracle) key, and delete that too. (The ProgID links to the CLSID as a pair).

Then I re-registered OraOLEDB.Oracle by calling regsvr32.exe on ORAOLEDB*.dll.

Just re-registering alone didn't solve the problem, I had to delete the registry keys to make it point to the correct location. Alternatively, hack the InprocServer32 location.

Now I have error 7308, about single threaded apartments; rolling on!

Copying Code from Inspect Element in Google Chrome

(eg: div,footer,table) Right click -> Edit as HTML

Then you can copy and paster wherever you need...

that's all enjoy your coding.....

How to go back (ctrl+z) in vi/vim

On a mac you can also use command Z and that will go undo. I'm not sure why, but sometimes it stops, and if your like me and vimtutor is on the bottom of that long list of things you need to learn, than u can just close the window and reopen it and should work fine.

Array to Collection: Optimized code

What about :

List myList = new ArrayList(); 
String[] myStringArray = new String[] {"Java", "is", "Cool"}; 

Collections.addAll(myList, myStringArray); 

How to change onClick handler dynamically?

Nobody addressed the actual problem which was happening, to explain why the alert was issued.

This code: document.getElementById("foo").click = new function() { alert('foo'); }; assigns the click property of the #foo element to an empty object. The anonymous function in here is meant to initialize the object. I like to think of this type of function as a constructor. You put the alert in there, so it gets called because the function gets called immediately.

See this question.

Show/Hide the console window of a C# console application

You could do the reversed and set the Application output type to: Windows Application. Then add this code to the beginning of the application.

[DllImport("kernel32.dll", EntryPoint = "GetStdHandle", SetLastError = true, CharSet = CharSet.Auto, CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall)]
public static extern IntPtr GetStdHandle(int nStdHandle);

[DllImport("kernel32.dll", EntryPoint = "AllocConsole", SetLastError = true, CharSet = CharSet.Auto, CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall)]
public static extern int AllocConsole();

private const int STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE = -11;
private const int MY_CODE_PAGE = 437;
private static bool showConsole = true; //Or false if you don't want to see the console

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    if (showConsole)
    {
        AllocConsole();
        IntPtr stdHandle = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
        Microsoft.Win32.SafeHandles.SafeFileHandle safeFileHandle = new Microsoft.Win32.SafeHandles.SafeFileHandle(stdHandle, true);
        FileStream fileStream = new FileStream(safeFileHandle, FileAccess.Write);
        System.Text.Encoding encoding = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(MY_CODE_PAGE);
        StreamWriter standardOutput = new StreamWriter(fileStream, encoding);
        standardOutput.AutoFlush = true;
        Console.SetOut(standardOutput);
    }

    //Your application code
}

This code will show the Console if showConsole is true

Detect all changes to a <input type="text"> (immediately) using JQuery

Can't you just use <span contenteditable="true" spellcheck="false"> element in place of <input type="text">?

<span> (with contenteditable="true" spellcheck="false" as attributes) distincts by <input> mainly because:

  • It's not styled like an <input>.
  • It doesn't have a value property, but the text is rendered as innerText and makes part of its inner body.
  • It's multiline whereas <input> isn't although you set the attribute multiline="true".

To accomplish the appearance you can, of course, style it in CSS, whereas writing the value as innerText you can get for it an event:

Here's a fiddle.

Unfortunately there's something that doesn't actually work in IE and Edge, which I'm unable to find.

Why should we include ttf, eot, woff, svg,... in a font-face

Answer in 2019:

Only use WOFF2, or if you need legacy support, WOFF. Do not use any other format

(svg and eot are dead formats, ttf and otf are full system fonts, and should not be used for web purposes)

Original answer from 2012:

In short, font-face is very old, but only recently has been supported by more than IE.

  • eot is needed for Internet Explorers that are older than IE9 - they invented the spec, but eot was a proprietary solution.

  • ttf and otf are normal old fonts, so some people got annoyed that this meant anyone could download expensive-to-license fonts for free.

  • Time passes, SVG 1.1 adds a "fonts" chapter that explains how to model a font purely using SVG markup, and people start to use it. More time passes and it turns out that they are absolutely terrible compared to just a normal font format, and SVG 2 wisely removes the entire chapter again.

  • Then, woff gets invented by people with quite a bit of domain knowledge, which makes it possible to host fonts in a way that throws away bits that are critically important for system installation, but irrelevant for the web (making people worried about piracy happy) and allows for internal compression to better suit the needs of the web (making users and hosts happy). This becomes the preferred format.

  • 2019 edit A few years later, woff2 gets drafted and accepted, which improves the compression, leading to even smaller files, along with the ability to load a single font "in parts" so that a font that supports 20 scripts can be stored as "chunks" on disk instead, with browsers automatically able to load the font "in parts" as needed, rather than needing to transfer the entire font up front, further improving the typesetting experience.

If you don't want to support IE 8 and lower, and iOS 4 and lower, and android 4.3 or earlier, then you can just use WOFF (and WOFF2, a more highly compressed WOFF, for the newest browsers that support it.)

@font-face {
  font-family: 'MyWebFont';
  src:  url('myfont.woff2') format('woff2'),
        url('myfont.woff') format('woff');
}

Support for woff can be checked at http://caniuse.com/woff
Support for woff2 can be checked at http://caniuse.com/woff2

How do I hide the bullets on my list for the sidebar?

its on you ul in the file http://ratest4.com/wp-content/themes/HarnettArts-BP-2010/style.css on line 252

add this to your css

ul{
     list-style:none;
}

Implementing Singleton with an Enum (in Java)

This,

public enum MySingleton {
  INSTANCE;   
}

has an implicit empty constructor. Make it explicit instead,

public enum MySingleton {
    INSTANCE;
    private MySingleton() {
        System.out.println("Here");
    }
}

If you then added another class with a main() method like

public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println(MySingleton.INSTANCE);
}

You would see

Here
INSTANCE

enum fields are compile time constants, but they are instances of their enum type. And, they're constructed when the enum type is referenced for the first time.

iPad Safari scrolling causes HTML elements to disappear and reappear with a delay

In my case, CSS did not fix the issue. I noticed the problem while using jQuery re-render a button.

$("#myButton").html("text")

Try this

$("#myButton").html("<span>text</span>")

Is it possible to select the last n items with nth-child?

nth-last-child sounds like it was specifically designed to solve this problem, so I doubt whether there is a more compatible alternative. Support looks pretty decent, though.

How can I align YouTube embedded video in the center in bootstrap

<center><div class="video">
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ig3qHRVZRvM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
</div></center>

It seems to work, is this all you were asking for? I guess you could go about taking longer more involved routes, but this seemed simple enough.

Setting Curl's Timeout in PHP

Hmm, it looks to me like CURLOPT_TIMEOUT defines the amount of time that any cURL function is allowed to take to execute. I think you should actually be looking at CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT instead, since that tells cURL the maximum amount of time to wait for the connection to complete.

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.

How do I copy an object in Java?

I use Google's JSON library to serialize it then create a new instance of the serialized object. It does deep copy with a few restrictions:

  • there can't be any recursive references

  • it won't copy arrays of disparate types

  • arrays and lists should be typed or it won't find the class to instantiate

  • you may need to encapsulate strings in a class you declare yourself

I also use this class to save user preferences, windows and whatnot to be reloaded at runtime. It is very easy to use and effective.

import com.google.gson.*;

public class SerialUtils {

//___________________________________________________________________________________

public static String serializeObject(Object o) {
    Gson gson = new Gson();
    String serializedObject = gson.toJson(o);
    return serializedObject;
}
//___________________________________________________________________________________

public static Object unserializeObject(String s, Object o){
    Gson gson = new Gson();
    Object object = gson.fromJson(s, o.getClass());
    return object;
}
       //___________________________________________________________________________________
public static Object cloneObject(Object o){
    String s = serializeObject(o);
    Object object = unserializeObject(s,o);
    return object;
}
}

Detect HTTP or HTTPS then force HTTPS in JavaScript

It is not good idea because you just temporary redirect user to https and browser doesn't save this redirect.

You describe task for web-server (apache, nginx etc) http 301, http 302

Declaring and initializing a string array in VB.NET

Public Function TestError() As String()
     Return {"foo", "bar"}
End Function

Works fine for me and should work for you, but you may need allow using implicit declarations in your project. I believe this is turning off Options strict in the Compile section of the program settings.

Since you are using VS 2008 (VB.NET 9.0) you have to declare create the new instance

New String() {"foo", "Bar"}

Cannot access a disposed object - How to fix?

If this happens sporadically then my guess is that it has something to do with the timer.

I'm guessing (and this is only a guess since I have no access to your code) that the timer is firing while the form is being closed. The dbiSchedule object has been disposed but the timer somehow still manages to try to call it. This shouldn't happen, because if the timer has a reference to the schedule object then the garbage collector should see this and not dispose of it.

This leads me to ask: are you calling Dispose() on the schedule object manually? If so, are you doing that before disposing of the timer? Be sure that you release all references to the schedule object before Disposing it (i.e. dispose of the timer beforehand).

Now I realize that a few months have passed between the time you posted this and when I am answering, so hopefully, you have resolved this issue. I'm writing this for the benefit of others who may come along later with a similar issue.

Hope this helps.

CSS selector for text input fields?

With attribute selector we target input type text in CSS

input[type=text] {
background:gold;
font-size:15px;
 }

How to specify an alternate location for the .m2 folder or settings.xml permanently?

It's funny how other answers ignore the fact that you can't write to that file...

There are a few workarounds that come to my mind which could help use an arbitrary C:\redirected\settings.xml and use the mvn command as usual happily ever after.

mvn alias

In a Unix shell (or on Cygwin) you can create

alias mvn='mvn --global-settings "C:\redirected\settings.xml"'

so when you're calling mvn blah blah from anywhere the config is "automatically" picked up.
See How to create alias in cmd? if you want this, but don't have a Unix shell.

mvn wrapper

Configure your environment so that mvn is resolved to a wrapper script when typed in the command line:

  • Remove your MVN_HOME/bin or M2_HOME/bin from your PATH so mvn is not resolved any more.
  • Add a folder to PATH (or use an existing one)
  • In that folder create an mvn.bat file with contents:

    call C:\your\path\to\maven\bin\mvn.bat --global-settings "C:\redirected\settings.xml" %*
    

Note: if you want some projects to behave differently you can just create mvn.bat in the same folder as pom.xml so when you run plain mvn it resolves to the local one.

Use where mvn at any time to check how it is resolved, the first one will be run when you type mvn.

mvn.bat hack

If you have write access to C:\your\path\to\maven\bin\mvn.bat, edit the file and add set MAVEN_CMD_LINE_ARG to the :runm2 part:

@REM Start MAVEN2
:runm2
set MAVEN_CMD_LINE_ARGS=--global-settings "C:\redirected\settings.xml" %MAVEN_CMD_LINE_ARGS%
set CLASSWORLDS_LAUNCHER=...

mvn.sh hack

For completeness, you can change the C:\your\path\to\maven\bin\mvn shell script too by changing the exec "$JAVACMD" command's

${CLASSWORLDS_LAUNCHER} "$@"

part to

${CLASSWORLDS_LAUNCHER} --global-settings "C:\redirected\settings.xml" "$@"

Suggestion/Rant

As a person in IT it's funny that you don't have access to your own home folder, for me this constitutes as incompetence from the company you're working for: this is equivalent of hiring someone to do software development, but not providing even the possibility to use anything other than notepad.exe or Microsoft Word to edit the source files. I'd suggest to contact your help desk or administrator and request write access at least to that particular file so that you can change the path of the local repository.

Disclaimer: None of these are tested for this particular use case, but I successfully used all of them previously for various other software.

WITH (NOLOCK) vs SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED

You cannot use Set Transaction Isolation Level Read Uncommitted in a View (you can only have one script in there in fact), so you would have to use (nolock) if dirty rows should be included.

What is the standard Python docstring format?

As apparantly no one mentioned it: you can also use the Numpy Docstring Standard. It is widely used in the scientific community.

The Napolean sphinx extension to parse Google-style docstrings (recommended in the answer of @Nathan) also supports Numpy-style docstring, and makes a short comparison of both.

And last a basic example to give an idea how it looks like:

def func(arg1, arg2):
    """Summary line.

    Extended description of function.

    Parameters
    ----------
    arg1 : int
        Description of arg1
    arg2 : str
        Description of arg2

    Returns
    -------
    bool
        Description of return value

    See Also
    --------
    otherfunc : some related other function

    Examples
    --------
    These are written in doctest format, and should illustrate how to
    use the function.

    >>> a=[1,2,3]
    >>> print [x + 3 for x in a]
    [4, 5, 6]
    """
    return True

jQuery: How to get the event object in an event handler function without passing it as an argument?

Write your event handler declaration like this:

<a href="#" onclick="myFunc(event,1,2,3)">click</a>

Then your "myFunc()" function can access the event.

The string value of the "onclick" attribute is converted to a function in a way that's almost exactly the same as the browser (internally) calling the Function constructor:

theAnchor.onclick = new Function("event", theOnclickString);

(except in IE). However, because "event" is a global in IE (it's a window attribute), you'll be able to pass it to the function that way in any browser.

Removing items from a list

for (Iterator<String> iter = list.listIterator(); iter.hasNext(); ) {
    String a = iter.next();
    if (...) {
        iter.remove();
    }
}

Making an additional assumption that the list is of strings. As already answered, an list.iterator() is needed. The listIterator can do a bit of navigation too.

Rails 4 - Strong Parameters - Nested Objects

If it is Rails 5, because of new hash notation: params.permit(:name, groundtruth: [:type, coordinates:[]]) will work fine.

how to get the first and last days of a given month

Print only current month week:

function my_week_range($date) {
    $ts = strtotime($date);
    $start = (date('w', $ts) == 0) ? $ts : strtotime('last sunday', $ts);
    echo $currentWeek = ceil((date("d",strtotime($date)) - date("w",strtotime($date)) - 1) / 7) + 1;
    $start_date = date('Y-m-d', $start);$end_date=date('Y-m-d', strtotime('next saturday', $start));
    if($currentWeek==1)
        {$start_date = date('Y-m-01', strtotime($date));}
    else if($currentWeek==5)
       {$end_date = date('Y-m-t', strtotime($date));}
    else
       {}
    return array($start_date, $end_date );
}

$date_range=list($start_date, $end_date) = my_week_range($new_fdate);

When should I use UNSIGNED and SIGNED INT in MySQL?

For negative integer value, SIGNED is used and for non-negative integer value, UNSIGNED is used. It always suggested to use UNSIGNED for id as a PRIMARY KEY.

Blur or dim background when Android PopupWindow active

For me, something like Abdelhak Mouaamou's answer works, tested on API level 16 and 27.

Instead of using popupWindow.getContentView().getParent() and casting the result to View (which crashes on API level 16 cause there it returns a ViewRootImpl object which isn't an instance of View) I just use .getRootView() which returns a view already, so no casting required there.

Hope it helps someone :)

complete working example scrambled together from other stackoverflow posts, just copy-paste it, e.g., in the onClick listener of a button:

// inflate the layout of the popup window
LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater)getSystemService(LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
if(inflater == null) {
    return;
}
//View popupView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.my_popup_layout, null); // this version gives a warning cause it doesn't like null as argument for the viewRoot, c.f. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24832497 and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26404951
View popupView = View.inflate(MyParentActivity.this, R.layout.my_popup_layout, null);

// create the popup window
final PopupWindow popupWindow = new PopupWindow(popupView,
        LinearLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
        LinearLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
        true // lets taps outside the popup also dismiss it
        );

// do something with the stuff in your popup layout, e.g.:
//((TextView)popupView.findViewById(R.id.textview_popup_helloworld))
//      .setText("hello stackoverflow");

// dismiss the popup window when touched
popupView.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
            popupWindow.dismiss();
            return true;
        }
});

// show the popup window
// which view you pass in doesn't matter, it is only used for the window token
popupWindow.showAtLocation(view, Gravity.CENTER, 0, 0);
//popupWindow.setOutsideTouchable(false); // doesn't seem to change anything for me

View container = popupWindow.getContentView().getRootView();
if(container != null) {
    WindowManager wm = (WindowManager)getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE);
    WindowManager.LayoutParams p = (WindowManager.LayoutParams)container.getLayoutParams();
    p.flags = WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_DIM_BEHIND;
    p.dimAmount = 0.3f;
    if(wm != null) {
        wm.updateViewLayout(container, p);
    }
}

What is a good regular expression to match a URL?

Regex if you want to ensure URL starts with HTTP/HTTPS:

https?:\/\/(www\.)?[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%._\+~#=]{1,256}\.[a-zA-Z0-9()]{1,6}\b([-a-zA-Z0-9()@:%_\+.~#?&//=]*)

If you do not require HTTP protocol:

[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%._\+~#=]{1,256}\.[a-zA-Z0-9()]{1,6}\b([-a-zA-Z0-9()@:%_\+.~#?&//=]*)

To try this out see http://regexr.com?37i6s, or for a version which is less restrictive http://regexr.com/3e6m0.

Example JavaScript implementation:

_x000D_
_x000D_
var expression = /[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%._\+~#=]{1,256}\.[a-zA-Z0-9()]{1,6}\b([-a-zA-Z0-9()@:%_\+.~#?&//=]*)?/gi;_x000D_
var regex = new RegExp(expression);_x000D_
var t = 'www.google.com';_x000D_
_x000D_
if (t.match(regex)) {_x000D_
  alert("Successful match");_x000D_
} else {_x000D_
  alert("No match");_x000D_
}
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Converting from a string to boolean in Python?

Here's something I threw together to evaluate the truthiness of a string:

def as_bool(val):
 if val:
  try:
   if not int(val): val=False
  except: pass
  try:
   if val.lower()=="false": val=False
  except: pass
 return bool(val)

more-or-less same results as using eval but safer.

Accessing a local website from another computer inside the local network in IIS 7

Control Panel >> Windows Firewall

Advanced settings >> Inbound Rules >> World Wide Web Services - Enable it All or (Domain, Private, Public) as needed.

How to prevent background scrolling when Bootstrap 3 modal open on mobile browsers?

As additional to @Karthick Kumar answer from bootstrap docs

show is triggered at the start of an event

shown is triggered on the completion of an action

... so it should be:

$('.modal')
    .on('show.bs.modal', function (){
            $('body').css('overflow', 'hidden');
        })
    .on('hide.bs.modal', function (){
            // Also if you are using multiple modals (cascade) - additional check
            if ($('.modal.in').length == 1) {
                $('body').css('overflow', 'auto');
            }
        });

Using IF..ELSE in UPDATE (SQL server 2005 and/or ACCESS 2007)

this should work

update table_name
  set column_b = case
                  when column_a = 1 then 'Y'
                  else null
                 end,
  set column_c = case
                  when column_a = 2 then 'Y'
                  else null
                 end,
  set column_d = case
                  when column_a = 3 then 'Y'
                  else null
                 end
where
 conditions

the question is why would you want to do that...you may want to rethink the data model. you can replace null with whatever you want.

Unit tests vs Functional tests

The basic distinction, though, is that functional tests test the application from the outside, from the point of view of the user. Unit tests test the application from the inside, from the point of view of the programmer. Functional tests should help you build an application with the right functionality, and guarantee you never accidentally break it. Unit tests should help you to write code that’s clean and bug free.

Taken from "Python TDD" book by Harry Percival

How to convert .pem into .key?

If you're looking for a file to use in httpd-ssl.conf as a value for SSLCertificateKeyFile, a PEM file should work just fine.

See this SO question/answer for more details on the SSL options in that file.

Why is SSLCertificateKeyFile needed for Apache?

Running npm command within Visual Studio Code

Try to install PowerShell extension provided by VS code.

PowerShell Extension

After install click on PowerShell and It will start new PowerShell Console where you can run all script

PowerShell Console

How to add Android Support Repository to Android Studio?

Found a solution.

1) Go to where your SDK is located that android studio/eclipse is using. If you are using Android studio, go to extras\android\m2repository\com\android\support\. If you are using eclipse, go to \extras\android\support\

2) See what folders you have, for me I had gridlayout-v7, support-v4 and support-v13.

3) click into support-v4 and see what number the following folder is, mine was named 13.0

Since you are using "com.android.support:support-v4:18.0.+", change this to reflect what version you have, for example I have support-v4 so first part v4 stays the same. Since the next path is 13.0, change your 18.0 to:

"com.android.support:support-v4:13.0.+"

This worked for me, hope it helps!

Update:

I noticed I had android studio set up with the wrong SDK which is why originally had difficulty updating! The path should be C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Android\android-sdk\extras\

Also note, if your SDK is up to date, the code will be:

"com.android.support:support-v4:19.0.+"

Is it possible to display inline images from html in an Android TextView?

KOTLIN

There is also the possibility to use sufficientlysecure.htmltextview.HtmlTextView

Use like below in gradle files:

Project gradle file:

repositories {
    jcenter()
}

App gradle file:

dependencies {
implementation 'org.sufficientlysecure:html-textview:3.9'
}

Inside xml file replace your textView with:

<org.sufficientlysecure.htmltextview.HtmlTextView
      android:id="@+id/allNewsBlockTextView"
      android:layout_width="match_parent"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:layout_margin="2dp"
      android:textColor="#000"
      android:textSize="18sp"
      app:htmlToString="@{detailsViewModel.selectedText}" />

Last line above is if you use Binding adapters where the code will be like:

@BindingAdapter("htmlToString")
fun bindTextViewHtml(textView: HtmlTextView, htmlValue: String) {

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {
    textView.setHtml(
        htmlValue,
        HtmlHttpImageGetter(textView, "n", true)
    );
    } else {
        textView.setHtml(
        htmlValue,
        HtmlHttpImageGetter(textView, "n", true)
        );
    }
}

More info from github page and a big thank you to the authors!!!!!

Replace input type=file by an image

A much better way than writing JS is to use native, and it turns to be lighter than what was suggested:

<label>
  <img src="my-image.png">
  <input type="file" name="myfile" style="display:none">
</label>

This way the label is automatically connected to the input that is hidden. Clicking on the label is like clicking on the field.

Printing a char with printf

Yes, it prints GARBAGE unless you are lucky.

VERY IMPORTANT.

The type of the printf/sprintf/fprintf argument MUST match the associated format type char.

If the types don't match and it compiles, the results are very undefined.

Many newer compilers know about printf and issue warnings if the types do not match. If you get these warnings, FIX them.

If you want to convert types for arguments for variable functions, you must supply the cast (ie, explicit conversion) because the compiler can't figure out that a conversion needs to be performed (as it can with a function prototype with typed arguments).

printf("%d\n", (int) ch)

In this example, printf is being TOLD that there is an "int" on the stack. The cast makes sure that whatever thing sizeof returns (some sort of long integer, usually), printf will get an int.

printf("%d", (int) sizeof('\n'))

How do I import a .dmp file into Oracle?

.dmp files are dumps of oracle databases created with the "exp" command. You can import them using the "imp" command.

If you have an oracle client intalled on your machine, you can executed the command

imp help=y

to find out how it works. What will definitely help is knowing from wich schema the data was exported and what the oracle version was.

VBA: Counting rows in a table (list object)

You can use this:

    Range("MyTable[#Data]").Rows.Count

You have to distinguish between a table which has either one row of data or no data, as the previous code will return "1" for both cases. Use this to test for an empty table:

    If WorksheetFunction.CountA(Range("MyTable[#Data]"))

How can I remove a button or make it invisible in Android?

IF you want to make invisible button, then use this:

<Button ... android:visibility="gone"/>

View.INVISIBLE:

Button will become transparent. But it taking space.

View.GONE

Button will be completely remove from the layout and we can add other widget in the place of removed button.

How to convert an IPv4 address into a integer in C#?

Assembled several of the above answers into an extension method that handles the Endianness of the machine and handles IPv4 addresses that were mapped to IPv6.

public static class IPAddressExtensions
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Converts IPv4 and IPv4 mapped to IPv6 addresses to an unsigned integer.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="address">The address to conver</param>
    /// <returns>An unsigned integer that represents an IPv4 address.</returns>
    public static uint ToUint(this IPAddress address)
    {
        if (address.AddressFamily == AddressFamily.InterNetwork || address.IsIPv4MappedToIPv6)
        {
            var bytes = address.GetAddressBytes();
            if (BitConverter.IsLittleEndian)
                Array.Reverse(bytes);

            return BitConverter.ToUInt32(bytes, 0);
        }
        throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("address", "Address must be IPv4 or IPv4 mapped to IPv6");
    }
}

Unit tests:

[TestClass]
public class IPAddressExtensionsTests
{
    [TestMethod]
    public void SimpleIp1()
    {
        var ip = IPAddress.Parse("0.0.0.15");
        uint expected = GetExpected(0, 0, 0, 15);
        Assert.AreEqual(expected, ip.ToUint());
    }
    [TestMethod]
    public void SimpleIp2()
    {
        var ip = IPAddress.Parse("0.0.1.15");
        uint expected = GetExpected(0, 0, 1, 15);
        Assert.AreEqual(expected, ip.ToUint());
    }
    [TestMethod]
    public void SimpleIpSix1()
    {
        var ip = IPAddress.Parse("0.0.0.15").MapToIPv6();
        uint expected = GetExpected(0, 0, 0, 15);
        Assert.AreEqual(expected, ip.ToUint());
    }
    [TestMethod]
    public void SimpleIpSix2()
    {
        var ip = IPAddress.Parse("0.0.1.15").MapToIPv6();
        uint expected = GetExpected(0, 0, 1, 15);
        Assert.AreEqual(expected, ip.ToUint());
    }
    [TestMethod]
    public void HighBits()
    {
        var ip = IPAddress.Parse("200.12.1.15").MapToIPv6();
        uint expected = GetExpected(200, 12, 1, 15);
        Assert.AreEqual(expected, ip.ToUint());
    }
    uint GetExpected(uint a, uint b, uint c, uint d)
    {
        return
            (a * 256u * 256u * 256u) +
            (b * 256u * 256u) +
            (c * 256u) +
            (d);
    }
}

How do I set default terminal to terminator?

The only way that worked for me was

  1. Open nautilus or nemo as root user gksudo nautilus
  2. Go to /usr/bin
  3. Change name of your default terminal to any other name for exemple "orig_gnome-terminal"
  4. rename your favorite terminal as "gnome-terminal"

Where does Android emulator store SQLite database?

Since the question is not restricted to Android Studio, So I am giving the path for Visual Studio 2015 (worked for Xamarin).

Tools-Android-Android Device Monitor

enter image description here

  • Locate the database file mentioned in above image, and click on Pull button as it shown in image 2.
  • Save the file in your desired location.
  • You can open that file using SQLite Studio or DB Browser for SQLite.

Special Thanks to other answerers of this question.

Find files and tar them (with spaces)

Big warning on several of the solutions (and your own test) :

When you do : anything | xargs something

xargs will try to fit "as many arguments as possible" after "something", but then you may end up with multiple invocations of "something".

So your attempt: find ... | xargs tar czvf file.tgz may end up overwriting "file.tgz" at each invocation of "tar" by xargs, and you end up with only the last invocation! (the chosen solution uses a GNU -T special parameter to avoid the problem, but not everyone has that GNU tar available)

You could do instead:

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 tar -rvf backup.tar
gzip backup.tar

Proof of the problem on cygwin:

$ mkdir test
$ cd test
$ seq 1 10000 | sed -e "s/^/long_filename_/" | xargs touch 
    # create the files
$ seq 1 10000 | sed -e "s/^/long_filename_/" | xargs tar czvf archive.tgz
    # will invoke tar several time as it can'f fit 10000 long filenames into 1
$ tar tzvf archive.tgz | wc -l
60
    # in my own machine, I end up with only the 60 last filenames, 
    # as the last invocation of tar by xargs overwrote the previous one(s)

# proper way to invoke tar: with -r  (which append to an existing tar file, whereas c would overwrite it)
# caveat: you can't have it compressed (you can't add to a compressed archive)
$ seq 1 10000 | sed -e "s/^/long_filename_/" | xargs tar rvf archive.tar #-r, and without z
$ gzip archive.tar
$ tar tzvf archive.tar.gz | wc -l
10000 
  # we have all our files, despite xargs making several invocations of the tar command

 

Note: that behavior of xargs is a well know diccifulty, and it is also why, when someone wants to do :

find .... | xargs grep "regex"

they intead have to write it:

find ..... | xargs grep "regex" /dev/null

That way, even if the last invocation of grep by xargs appends only 1 filename, grep sees at least 2 filenames (as each time it has: /dev/null, where it won't find anything, and the filename(s) appended by xargs after it) and thus will always display the file names when something maches "regex". Otherwise you may end up with the last results showing matches without a filename in front.

Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute in ArrayList

Am I missing something? Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

list.RemoveAll(s => s.Name == "Fred");

TypeError: ufunc 'add' did not contain a loop with signature matching types

You have a numpy array of strings, not floats. This is what is meant by dtype('<U9') -- a little endian encoded unicode string with up to 9 characters.

try:

return sum(np.asarray(listOfEmb, dtype=float)) / float(len(listOfEmb))

However, you don't need numpy here at all. You can really just do:

return sum(float(embedding) for embedding in listOfEmb) / len(listOfEmb)

Or if you're really set on using numpy.

return np.asarray(listOfEmb, dtype=float).mean()

How to take the nth digit of a number in python

Ok, first of all, use the str() function in python to turn 'number' into a string

number = 9876543210 #declaring and assigning
number = str(number) #converting

Then get the index, 0 = 1, 4 = 3 in index notation, use int() to turn it back into a number

print(int(number[3])) #printing the int format of the string "number"'s index of 3 or '6'

if you like it in the short form

print(int(str(9876543210)[3])) #condensed code lol, also no more variable 'number'

Convert hex string (char []) to int?

This is a function to directly convert hexadecimal containing char array to an integer which needs no extra library:

int hexadecimal2int(char *hdec) {
    int finalval = 0;
    while (*hdec) {
        
        int onebyte = *hdec++; 
        
        if (onebyte >= '0' && onebyte <= '9'){onebyte = onebyte - '0';}
        else if (onebyte >= 'a' && onebyte <='f') {onebyte = onebyte - 'a' + 10;}
        else if (onebyte >= 'A' && onebyte <='F') {onebyte = onebyte - 'A' + 10;}  
        
        finalval = (finalval << 4) | (onebyte & 0xF);
    }
    finalval = finalval - 524288;
    return finalval;
}

Good way to encapsulate Integer.parseInt()

If you're using Java 8 or up, you can use a library I just released: https://github.com/robtimus/try-parse. It has support for int, long and boolean that doesn't rely on catching exceptions. Unlike Guava's Ints.tryParse it returns OptionalInt / OptionalLong / Optional, much like in https://stackoverflow.com/a/38451745/1180351 but more efficient.

How can I delay a :hover effect in CSS?

div {
     background: #dbdbdb;
    -webkit-transition: .5s all;   
    -webkit-transition-delay: 5s; 
    -moz-transition: .5s all;   
    -moz-transition-delay: 5s; 
    -ms-transition: .5s all;   
    -ms-transition-delay: 5s; 
    -o-transition: .5s all;   
    -o-transition-delay: 5s; 
    transition: .5s all;   
    transition-delay: 5s; 
}

div:hover {
    background:#5AC900;
    -webkit-transition-delay: 0s;
    -moz-transition-delay: 0s;
    -ms-transition-delay: 0s;
    -o-transition-delay: 0s;
    transition-delay: 0s;
}

This will add a transition delay, which will be applicable to almost every browser..

How to add checkboxes to JTABLE swing

1) JTable knows JCheckbox with built-in Boolean TableCellRenderers and TableCellEditor by default, then there is contraproductive declare something about that,

2) AbstractTableModel should be useful, where is in the JTable required to reduce/restrict/change nested and inherits methods by default implemented in the DefaultTableModel,

3) consider using DefaultTableModel, (if you are not sure about how to works) instead of AbstractTableModel,

table_with_BooleanType_column

could be generated from simple code:

import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.table.*;

public class TableCheckBox extends JFrame {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    private JTable table;

    public TableCheckBox() {
        Object[] columnNames = {"Type", "Company", "Shares", "Price", "Boolean"};
        Object[][] data = {
            {"Buy", "IBM", new Integer(1000), new Double(80.50), false},
            {"Sell", "MicroSoft", new Integer(2000), new Double(6.25), true},
            {"Sell", "Apple", new Integer(3000), new Double(7.35), true},
            {"Buy", "Nortel", new Integer(4000), new Double(20.00), false}
        };
        DefaultTableModel model = new DefaultTableModel(data, columnNames);
        table = new JTable(model) {

            private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

            /*@Override
            public Class getColumnClass(int column) {
            return getValueAt(0, column).getClass();
            }*/
            @Override
            public Class getColumnClass(int column) {
                switch (column) {
                    case 0:
                        return String.class;
                    case 1:
                        return String.class;
                    case 2:
                        return Integer.class;
                    case 3:
                        return Double.class;
                    default:
                        return Boolean.class;
                }
            }
        };
        table.setPreferredScrollableViewportSize(table.getPreferredSize());
        JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(table);
        getContentPane().add(scrollPane);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                TableCheckBox frame = new TableCheckBox();
                frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
                frame.pack();
                frame.setLocation(150, 150);
                frame.setVisible(true);
            }
        });
    }
}

Can we cast a generic object to a custom object type in javascript?

This borrows from a few other answers here but I thought it might help someone. If you define the following function on your custom object, then you have a factory function that you can pass a generic object into and it will return for you an instance of the class.

CustomObject.create = function (obj) {
    var field = new CustomObject();
    for (var prop in obj) {
        if (field.hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
            field[prop] = obj[prop];
        }
    }

    return field;
}

Use like this

var typedObj = CustomObject.create(genericObj);

ImportError: No module named 'Tkinter'

You might need to install for your specific version, I have known cases where this was needed when I was using many versions of python and one version in a virtualenv using for example python 3.7 was not importing tkinter I would have to install it for that version specifically.

For example

sudo apt-get install python3.7-tk 

No idea why - but this has occured.

Select NOT IN multiple columns

I use a way that may look stupid but it works for me. I simply concat the columns I want to compare and use NOT IN:

SELECT *
FROM table1 t1
WHERE CONCAT(t1.first_name,t1.last_name) NOT IN (SELECT CONCAT(t2.first_name,t2.last_name) FROM table2 t2)

How to get memory usage at runtime using C++?

On your system there is a file named /proc/self/statm. The proc filesystem is a pseudo-filesystem which provides an interface to kernel data structures. This file contains the information you need in columns with only integers that are space separated.

Column no.:

  1. = total program size (VmSize in /proc/[pid]/status)

  2. = resident set size (VmRSS in /proc/[pid]/status)

For more info see the LINK.

The type or namespace cannot be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

This error comes because compile does not know where to find the class..so it occurs mainly when u copy or import item ..to solve this .. 1.change the namespace in the formname.cs and formname.designer.cs to the name of your project .

How to load all modules in a folder?

I had a nested directory structure i.e. I had multiple directories inside the main directory that contained the python modules.

I added the following script to my __init__.py file to import all the modules

import glob, re, os 

module_parent_directory = "path/to/the/directory/containing/__init__.py/file"

owd = os.getcwd()
if not owd.endswith(module_parent_directory): os.chdir(module_parent_directory)

module_paths = glob.glob("**/*.py", recursive = True)

for module_path in module_paths:
    if not re.match( ".*__init__.py$", module_path):
        import_path = module_path[:-3]
        import_path = import_path.replace("/", ".")
        exec(f"from .{import_path} import *")

os.chdir(owd)

Probably not the best way to achieve this, but I couldn't make anything else work for me.

what exactly is device pixel ratio?

Boris Smus's article High DPI Images for Variable Pixel Densities has a more accurate definition of device pixel ratio: the number of device pixels per CSS pixel is a good approximation, but not the whole story.

Note that you can get the DPR used by a device with window.devicePixelRatio.

How to get a ListBox ItemTemplate to stretch horizontally the full width of the ListBox?

I also had the same problem, as a quick workaround, I used blend to determine how much padding was being added. In my case it was 12, so I used a negative margin to get rid of it. Now everything can now be centered properly

make html text input field grow as I type?

How about programmatically modifying the size attribute on the input?

Semantically (imo), this solution is better than the accepted solution because it still uses input fields for user input but it does introduce a little bit of jQuery. Soundcloud does something similar to this for their tagging.

<input size="1" />

$('input').on('keydown', function(evt) {
    var $this = $(this),
        size = parseInt($this.attr('size'), 10),
        isValidKey = (evt.which >= 65 && evt.which <= 90) || // a-zA-Z
                     (evt.which >= 48 && evt.which <= 57) || // 0-9
                     evt.which === 32;

    if ( evt.which === 8 && size > 0 ) {
        // backspace
        $this.attr('size', size - 1);
    } else if ( isValidKey ) {
        // all other keystrokes
        $this.attr('size', size + 1);
    }
});

http://jsfiddle.net/Vu9ZT/

Android Overriding onBackPressed()

Just use the following code with initializing a field

private int count = 0;
    @Override
public void onBackPressed() {
    count++;
    if (count >=1) {
        /* If count is greater than 1 ,you can either move to the next 
        activity or just quit. */
        Intent intent = new Intent(this, SecondActivity.class);
        startActivity(intent);
        finish();
        overridePendingTransition
        (R.anim.push_left_in, R.anim.push_left_out);
        /* Quitting */
        finishAffinity();
    } else {
        Toast.makeText(this, "Press back again to Leave!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

        // resetting the counter in 2s
        Handler handler = new Handler();
        handler.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                count = 0;
            }
        }, 2000);
    }
    super.onBackPressed();
}

What does "&" at the end of a linux command mean?

The & makes the command run in the background.

From man bash:

If a command is terminated by the control operator &, the shell executes the command in the background in a subshell. The shell does not wait for the command to finish, and the return status is 0.

Composer: file_put_contents(./composer.json): failed to open stream: Permission denied

This might be super edge case, but if you are using Travis CI and taking advantage of caching, you might want to clear all cache and retry.

Fixed my issue when I was going from sudo to non sudo builds.

Disable JavaScript error in WebBrowser control

Here is an alternative solution:

class extendedWebBrowser : WebBrowser
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Default constructor which will make the browser to ignore all errors
    /// </summary>
    public extendedWebBrowser()
    {
        this.ScriptErrorsSuppressed = true;

        FieldInfo field = typeof(WebBrowser).GetField("_axIWebBrowser2", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
        if (field != null)
        {
             object axIWebBrowser2 = field.GetValue(this);
             axIWebBrowser2.GetType().InvokeMember("Silent", BindingFlags.SetProperty, null, axIWebBrowser2, new object[] { true });
        }
    }
}

Razor View Engine : An expression tree may not contain a dynamic operation

In this link explain about @model, see a excerpt:

@model (lowercase "m") is a reserved keyword in Razor views to declare the model type at the top of your view. You have put the namespace too, e.g.: @model MyNamespace.Models.MyModel

Later in the file, you can reference the attribute you want with @Model.Attribute (uppercase "M").

Python creating a dictionary of lists

You can use setdefault:

d = dict()
a = ['1', '2']
for i in a:
    for j in range(int(i), int(i) + 2): 
        d.setdefault(j, []).append(i)

print d  # prints {1: ['1'], 2: ['1', '2'], 3: ['2']}

The rather oddly-named setdefault function says "Get the value with this key, or if that key isn't there, add this value and then return it."

As others have rightly pointed out, defaultdict is a better and more modern choice. setdefault is still useful in older versions of Python (prior to 2.5).

How to reload a page using JavaScript

location.href = location.href;

How do I download NLTK data?

Please Try

import nltk

nltk.download()

After running this you get something like this

NLTK Downloader
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
   d) Download   l) List    u) Update   c) Config   h) Help   q) Quit
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Then, Press d

Do As Follows:

Downloader> d all

You will get following message on completion, and Prompt then Press q Done downloading collection all

Problems using Maven and SSL behind proxy

I actually had the same problem.

when I run

mvn clean package

on my maven project, I get this certificate error by the maven tool.

I followed @Andy 's Answer till the point where I downloaded the .cer file

after that the rest of the answer didn't work for me but I did the following(I am running on Linux Debian machine)

first of all, run:

keytool -list -keystore "Java path+"/jre/lib/security/cacerts""

for example in my case it is:

keytool -list -keystore /usr/lib/jvm/jdk-8-oracle-arm32-vfp-hflt/jre/lib/security/cacerts

if it asks about the password, just hit enter.

this command is supposed to list all the ssl certificates accepted by the java. when I ran this command, in my case I got 93 certificates for example.

Now add the downloaded file .cer to the cacerts file by running the following command:

sudo keytool -importcert -file /home/hal/Public/certificate_file_downloaded.cer -keystore /usr/lib/jvm/jdk-8-oracle-arm32-vfp-hflt/jre/security/cacerts

write your sudo password then it will ask you about the keystore password

the default one is changeit

then say y that you trust this certificate.

if you run the command

keytool -list -keystore /usr/lib/jvm/jdk-8-oracle-arm32-vfp-hflt/jre/lib/security/cacerts

once again, in my case, I got 94 contents of the cacerts file

it means, it was added successfully.

creating triggers for After Insert, After Update and After Delete in SQL

(Update: overlooked a fault in the matter, I have corrected)

(Update2: I wrote from memory the code screwed up, repaired it)

(Update3: check on SQLFiddle)

create table Derived_Values
  (
    BusinessUnit nvarchar(100) not null
    ,Questions nvarchar(100) not null
    ,Answer nvarchar(100)
    )

go

ALTER TABLE Derived_Values ADD CONSTRAINT PK_Derived_Values
PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED (BusinessUnit, Questions);

create table Derived_Values_Test
  (
    BusinessUnit nvarchar(150)
    ,Questions nvarchar(100)
    ,Answer nvarchar(100)
    )

go

CREATE TRIGGER trgAfterUpdate ON  [Derived_Values]
FOR UPDATE
AS  
begin
    declare @BusinessUnit nvarchar(50)
    set @BusinessUnit = 'Updated Record -- After Update Trigger.'

    insert into 
        [Derived_Values_Test]
        --(BusinessUnit,Questions, Answer) 
    SELECT 
        @BusinessUnit + i.BusinessUnit, i.Questions, i.Answer
    FROM 
        inserted i
        inner join deleted d on i.BusinessUnit = d.BusinessUnit
end

go

CREATE TRIGGER trgAfterDelete ON  [Derived_Values]
FOR UPDATE
AS  
begin
    declare @BusinessUnit nvarchar(50)
    set @BusinessUnit = 'Deleted Record -- After Delete Trigger.'

    insert into 
        [Derived_Values_Test]
        --(BusinessUnit,Questions, Answer) 
    SELECT 
        @BusinessUnit + d.BusinessUnit, d.Questions, d.Answer
    FROM 
        deleted d
end

go

insert Derived_Values (BusinessUnit,Questions, Answer) values ('BU1', 'Q11', 'A11')
insert Derived_Values (BusinessUnit,Questions, Answer) values ('BU1', 'Q12', 'A12')
insert Derived_Values (BusinessUnit,Questions, Answer) values ('BU2', 'Q21', 'A21')
insert Derived_Values (BusinessUnit,Questions, Answer) values ('BU2', 'Q22', 'A22')

UPDATE Derived_Values SET Answer='Updated Answers A11' from Derived_Values WHERE (BusinessUnit = 'BU1') AND (Questions = 'Q11');
UPDATE Derived_Values SET Answer='Updated Answers A12' from Derived_Values WHERE (BusinessUnit = 'BU1') AND (Questions = 'Q12');
UPDATE Derived_Values SET Answer='Updated Answers A21' from Derived_Values WHERE (BusinessUnit = 'BU2') AND (Questions = 'Q21');
UPDATE Derived_Values SET Answer='Updated Answers A22' from Derived_Values WHERE (BusinessUnit = 'BU2') AND (Questions = 'Q22');

delete Derived_Values;

and then:

SELECT * FROM Derived_Values;
go

select * from Derived_Values_Test;


Record Count: 0;

BUSINESSUNIT    QUESTIONS   ANSWER
Updated Record -- After Update Trigger.BU1  Q11 Updated Answers A11
Deleted Record -- After Delete Trigger.BU1  Q11 A11
Updated Record -- After Update Trigger.BU1  Q12 Updated Answers A12
Deleted Record -- After Delete Trigger.BU1  Q12 A12
Updated Record -- After Update Trigger.BU2  Q21 Updated Answers A21
Deleted Record -- After Delete Trigger.BU2  Q21 A21
Updated Record -- After Update Trigger.BU2  Q22 Updated Answers A22
Deleted Record -- After Delete Trigger.BU2  Q22 A22

(Update4: If you want to sync: SQLFiddle)

create table Derived_Values
  (
    BusinessUnit nvarchar(100) not null
    ,Questions nvarchar(100) not null
    ,Answer nvarchar(100)
    )

go

ALTER TABLE Derived_Values ADD CONSTRAINT PK_Derived_Values
PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED (BusinessUnit, Questions);

create table Derived_Values_Test
  (
    BusinessUnit nvarchar(150) not null
    ,Questions nvarchar(100) not null
    ,Answer nvarchar(100)
    )

go

ALTER TABLE Derived_Values_Test ADD CONSTRAINT PK_Derived_Values_Test
PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED (BusinessUnit, Questions);

CREATE TRIGGER trgAfterInsert ON  [Derived_Values]
FOR INSERT
AS  
begin
    insert
        [Derived_Values_Test]
        (BusinessUnit,Questions,Answer)
    SELECT 
        i.BusinessUnit, i.Questions, i.Answer
    FROM 
        inserted i
end

go


CREATE TRIGGER trgAfterUpdate ON  [Derived_Values]
FOR UPDATE
AS  
begin
    declare @BusinessUnit nvarchar(50)
    set @BusinessUnit = 'Updated Record -- After Update Trigger.'

    update
        [Derived_Values_Test]
    set
        --BusinessUnit = i.BusinessUnit
        --,Questions = i.Questions
        Answer = i.Answer
    from
        [Derived_Values]
        inner join inserted i 
    on
        [Derived_Values].BusinessUnit = i.BusinessUnit
        and
        [Derived_Values].Questions = i.Questions
end

go

CREATE TRIGGER trgAfterDelete ON  [Derived_Values]
FOR DELETE
AS  
begin
    delete 
        [Derived_Values_Test]
    from
        [Derived_Values_Test]
        inner join deleted d 
    on
        [Derived_Values_Test].BusinessUnit = d.BusinessUnit
        and
        [Derived_Values_Test].Questions = d.Questions
end

go

insert Derived_Values (BusinessUnit,Questions, Answer) values ('BU1', 'Q11', 'A11')
insert Derived_Values (BusinessUnit,Questions, Answer) values ('BU1', 'Q12', 'A12')
insert Derived_Values (BusinessUnit,Questions, Answer) values ('BU2', 'Q21', 'A21')
insert Derived_Values (BusinessUnit,Questions, Answer) values ('BU2', 'Q22', 'A22')

UPDATE Derived_Values SET Answer='Updated Answers A11' from Derived_Values WHERE (BusinessUnit = 'BU1') AND (Questions = 'Q11');
UPDATE Derived_Values SET Answer='Updated Answers A12' from Derived_Values WHERE (BusinessUnit = 'BU1') AND (Questions = 'Q12');
UPDATE Derived_Values SET Answer='Updated Answers A21' from Derived_Values WHERE (BusinessUnit = 'BU2') AND (Questions = 'Q21');
UPDATE Derived_Values SET Answer='Updated Answers A22' from Derived_Values WHERE (BusinessUnit = 'BU2') AND (Questions = 'Q22');

--delete Derived_Values;

And then:

SELECT * FROM Derived_Values;
go

select * from Derived_Values_Test;


BUSINESSUNIT    QUESTIONS   ANSWER
BU1 Q11 Updated Answers A11
BU1 Q12 Updated Answers A12
BU2 Q21 Updated Answers A21
BU2 Q22 Updated Answers A22

BUSINESSUNIT    QUESTIONS   ANSWER
BU1 Q11 Updated Answers A11
BU1 Q12 Updated Answers A12
BU2 Q21 Updated Answers A21
BU2 Q22 Updated Answers A22

Number of elements in a javascript object

function count(){
    var c= 0;
    for(var p in this) if(this.hasOwnProperty(p))++c;
    return c;
}

var O={a: 1, b: 2, c: 3};

count.call(O);

How to get the current time in milliseconds in C Programming

There is no portable way to get resolution of less than a second in standard C So best you can do is, use the POSIX function gettimeofday().

What is the best/safest way to reinstall Homebrew?

For me, this one worked without the sudo access.

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

For more reference, please follow https://gist.github.com/mxcl/323731

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How to use Servlets and Ajax?

$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "url to hit on servelet",
data:   JSON.stringify(json),
dataType: "json",
success: function(response){
    // we have the response
    if(response.status == "SUCCESS"){
        $('#info').html("Info  has been added to the list successfully.<br>"+
        "The  Details are as follws : <br> Name : ");

    }else{
        $('#info').html("Sorry, there is some thing wrong with the data provided.");
    }
},
 error: function(e){
   alert('Error: ' + e);
 }
});

When should the xlsm or xlsb formats be used?

Just for posterity, here's the text from several external sources regarding the Excel file formats. Some of these have been mentioned in other answers to this question but without reproducing the essential content.

1. From Doug Mahugh, August 22, 2006:

...the new XLSB binary format. Like Open XML, it’s a full-fidelity file format that can store anything you can create in Excel, but the XLSB format is optimized for performance in ways that aren’t possible with a pure XML format.

The XLSB format (also sometimes referred to as BIFF12, as in “binary file format for Office 12”) uses the same Open Packaging Convention used by the Open XML formats and XPS. So it’s basically a ZIP container, and you can open it with any ZIP tool to see what’s inside. But instead of .XML parts within the package, you’ll find .BIN parts...

This article also refers to documentation about the BIN format, too lengthy to reproduce here.

2. From MSDN Archive, August 29, 2006 which in turn cites an already-missing blog post regarding the XLSB format:

Even though we’ve done a lot of work to make sure that our XML formats open quickly and efficiently, this binary format is still more efficient for Excel to open and save, and can lead to some performance improvements for workbooks that contain a lot of data, or that would require a lot of XML parsing during the Open process. (In fact, we’ve found that the new binary format is faster than the old XLS format in many cases.) Also, there is no macro-free version of this file format – all XLSB files can contain macros (VBA and XLM). In all other respects, it is functionally equivalent to the XML file format above:

File size – file size of both formats is approximately the same, since both formats are saved to disk using zip compression Architecture – both formats use the same packaging structure, and both have the same part-level structures. Feature support – both formats support exactly the same feature set Runtime performance – once loaded into memory, the file format has no effect on application/calculation speed Converters – both formats will have identical converter support

Exiting out of a FOR loop in a batch file?

You could simply use echo on and you will see that goto :eof or even exit /b doesn't work as expected.

The code inside of the loop isn't executed anymore, but the loop is expanded for all numbers to the end.
That's why it's so slow.

The only way to exit a FOR /L loop seems to be the variant of exit like the exsample of Wimmel, but this isn't very fast nor useful to access any results from the loop.

This shows 10 expansions, but none of them will be executed

echo on
for /l %%n in (1,1,10) do (
  goto :eof
  echo %%n
)

How to remove item from array by value?

In all values unique, you can:

a = new Set([1,2,3,4,5]) // a = Set(5) {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
a.delete(3) // a = Set(5) {1, 2, 4, 5} 
[...a] // [1, 2, 4, 5]

Titlecase all entries into a form_for text field

You don't want to take care of normalizing your data in a view - what if the user changes the data that gets submitted? Instead you could take care of it in the model using the before_save (or the before_validation) callback. Here's an example of the relevant code for a model like yours:

class Place < ActiveRecord::Base   before_save do |place|     place.city = place.city.downcase.titleize     place.country = place.country.downcase.titleize   end end 

You can also check out the Ruby on Rails guide for more info.


To answer you question more directly, something like this would work:

<%= f.text_field :city, :value => (f.object.city ? f.object.city.titlecase : '') %>   

This just means if f.object.city exists, display the titlecase version of it, and if it doesn't display a blank string.

How to generate UML diagrams (especially sequence diagrams) from Java code?

You could also give the netbeans UML modeller a try. I have used it to generate javacode that I used in my eclipse projects. You can even import eclipse projects in netbeans and keep the eclipse settings synced with the netbeans project settings.

I tried several UML modellers for eclipse and wasn't satisfied with them. They were either unstable, complicated or just plain ugly. ;-)

Abort Ajax requests using jQuery

You can abort any continuous ajax call by using this

<input id="searchbox" name="searchbox" type="text" />

<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.0.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
     var request = null;
        $('#searchbox').keyup(function () {
            var id = $(this).val();
            request = $.ajax({
                type: "POST", //TODO: Must be changed to POST
                url: "index.php",
                data: {'id':id},
                success: function () {
    
                },
                beforeSend: function () {
                    if (request !== null) {
                        request.abort();
                    }
                }
            });
        });
</script>

Why is SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Intellisense not working?

When trying the accepted answer, I was getting an installation error: A failure was detected for a previous installation, patch, or repair blah, blah, blah...

To fix this, in my registry, I changed all DWORD values to 1 in the following Keys: (As always be careful modifying the registry and create a backup of the key before changing anything)

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\100\ConfigurationState HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSAS10_50.MSSQLSERVER\ConfigurationState HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS10_50.MSSQLSERVER\ConfigurationState HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.SQLEXPRESS\ConfigurationState HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\ConfigurationState

See my full post about Fixing Intellisense issue in SSMS.

Angular Directive refresh on parameter change

Link function only gets called once, so it would not directly do what you are expecting. You need to use angular $watch to watch a model variable.

This watch needs to be setup in the link function.

If you use isolated scope for directive then the scope would be

scope :{typeId:'@' }

In your link function then you add a watch like

link: function(scope, element, attrs) {
    scope.$watch("typeId",function(newValue,oldValue) {
        //This gets called when data changes.
    });
 }

If you are not using isolated scope use watch on some_prop

How do I create a random alpha-numeric string in C++?

void strGetRandomAlphaNum(char *sStr, unsigned int iLen)
{
  char Syms[] = "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
  unsigned int Ind = 0;
  srand(time(NULL) + rand());
  while(Ind < iLen)
  {
    sStr[Ind++] = Syms[rand()%62];
  }
  sStr[iLen] = '\0';
}

Running an executable in Mac Terminal

Unix will only run commands if they are available on the system path, as you can view by the $PATH variable

echo $PATH

Executables located in directories that are not on the path cannot be run unless you specify their full location. So in your case, assuming the executable is in the current directory you are working with, then you can execute it as such

./my-exec

Where my-exec is the name of your program.

Connecting to SQL Server Express - What is my server name?

Instead of giving:

./SQLEXPRESS //in the Server Name

I put this:

.\SQLEXPRESS //which solved my problem

When to choose mouseover() and hover() function?

.hover() function accepts two function arguments, one for mouseenter event and one for mouseleave event.

Only get hash value using md5sum (without filename)

Well another way :)

md5=`md5sum ${my_iso_file} | awk '{ print $1 }'`

Oracle Convert Seconds to Hours:Minutes:Seconds

For the comment on the answer by vogash, I understand that you want something like a time counter, thats because you can have more than 24 hours. For this you can do the following:

select to_char(trunc(xxx/3600)) || to_char(to_date(mod(xxx, 86400),'sssss'),':mi:ss') as time
from dual;

xxx are your number of seconds.

The first part accumulate the hours and the second part calculates the remaining minutes and seconds. For example, having 150023 seconds it will give you 41:40:23.

But if you always want have hh24:mi:ss even if you have more than 86000 seconds (1 day) you can do:

select to_char(to_date(mod(xxx, 86400),'sssss'),'hh24:mi:ss') as time 
from dual;

xxx are your number of seconds.

For example, having 86402 seconds it will reset the time to 00:00:02.

Convert DateTime to a specified Format

Easy peasy:

var date = DateTime.Parse("14/11/2011"); // may need some Culture help here
Console.Write(date.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd"));

Take a look at DateTime.ToString() method, Custom Date and Time Format Strings and Standard Date and Time Format Strings

string customFormattedDateTimeString = DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd");

Database Structure for Tree Data Structure

You mention the most commonly implemented, which is Adjacency List: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mvpawardprogram/2012/06/25/hierarchies-convert-adjacency-list-to-nested-sets

There are other models as well, including materialized path and nested sets: http://communities.bmc.com/communities/docs/DOC-9902

Joe Celko has written a book on this subject, which is a good reference from a general SQL perspective (it is mentioned in the nested set article link above).

Also, Itzik Ben-Gann has a good overview of the most common options in his book "Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Querying".

The main things to consider when choosing a model are:

1) Frequency of structure change - how frequently does the actual structure of the tree change. Some models provide better structure update characteristics. It is important to separate structure changes from other data changes however. For example, you may want to model a company's organizational chart. Some people will model this as an adjacency list, using the employee ID to link an employee to their supervisor. This is usually a sub-optimal approach. An approach that often works better is to model the org structure separate from employees themselves, and maintain the employee as an attribute of the structure. This way, when an employee leaves the company, the organizational structure itself does not need to be changes, just the association with the employee that left.

2) Is the tree write-heavy or read-heavy - some structures work very well when reading the structure, but incur additional overhead when writing to the structure.

3) What types of information do you need to obtain from the structure - some structures excel at providing certain kinds of information about the structure. Examples include finding a node and all its children, finding a node and all its parents, finding the count of child nodes meeting certain conditions, etc. You need to know what information will be needed from the structure to determine the structure that will best fit your needs.

A more useful statusline in vim?

This is the one I use:

set statusline=
set statusline+=%7*\[%n]                                  "buffernr
set statusline+=%1*\ %<%F\                                "File+path
set statusline+=%2*\ %y\                                  "FileType
set statusline+=%3*\ %{''.(&fenc!=''?&fenc:&enc).''}      "Encoding
set statusline+=%3*\ %{(&bomb?\",BOM\":\"\")}\            "Encoding2
set statusline+=%4*\ %{&ff}\                              "FileFormat (dos/unix..) 
set statusline+=%5*\ %{&spelllang}\%{HighlightSearch()}\  "Spellanguage & Highlight on?
set statusline+=%8*\ %=\ row:%l/%L\ (%03p%%)\             "Rownumber/total (%)
set statusline+=%9*\ col:%03c\                            "Colnr
set statusline+=%0*\ \ %m%r%w\ %P\ \                      "Modified? Readonly? Top/bot.

Highlight on? function:

function! HighlightSearch()
  if &hls
    return 'H'
  else
    return ''
  endif
endfunction

Colors (adapted from ligh2011.vim):

hi User1 guifg=#ffdad8  guibg=#880c0e
hi User2 guifg=#000000  guibg=#F4905C
hi User3 guifg=#292b00  guibg=#f4f597
hi User4 guifg=#112605  guibg=#aefe7B
hi User5 guifg=#051d00  guibg=#7dcc7d
hi User7 guifg=#ffffff  guibg=#880c0e gui=bold
hi User8 guifg=#ffffff  guibg=#5b7fbb
hi User9 guifg=#ffffff  guibg=#810085
hi User0 guifg=#ffffff  guibg=#094afe

My StatusLine

Error: org.testng.TestNGException: Cannot find class in classpath: EmpClass

I also ran into the same problem with TestNG version 6.14.2

However, this was due to a foolish mistake on my end and there is no issue whatsoever with maven, testng or eclipse. What I was doing was -

  1. Run project as "mvn clean"
  2. Select "testng.xml" file and right click on it to run as TestNG suite
  3. This was giving me the same error as reported in the original question
  4. I soon realized that I have not compiled the project and the required class files have not been generated that the TestNG would utilize subsequently
  5. The "target" folder will be generated only after the project is compiled (Run as "mvn build")
  6. If your project is compiled, this issue should not be there.

How to show validation message below each textbox using jquery?

You could put static elements after the fields and show them, or you could inject the validation message dynamically. See the below example for how to inject dynamically.

This example also follows the best practice of setting focus to the blank field so user can easily correct the issue.

Note that you could easily genericize this to work with any label & field (for required fields anyway), instead of my example which specifically codes each validation.

Your fiddle is updated, see here: jsfiddle

The code:

$('form').on('submit', function (e) {
    var focusSet = false;
    if (!$('#email').val()) {
        if ($("#email").parent().next(".validation").length == 0) // only add if not added
        {
            $("#email").parent().after("<div class='validation' style='color:red;margin-bottom: 20px;'>Please enter email address</div>");
        }
        e.preventDefault(); // prevent form from POST to server
        $('#email').focus();
        focusSet = true;
    } else {
        $("#email").parent().next(".validation").remove(); // remove it
    }
    if (!$('#password').val()) {
        if ($("#password").parent().next(".validation").length == 0) // only add if not added
        {
            $("#password").parent().after("<div class='validation' style='color:red;margin-bottom: 20px;'>Please enter password</div>");
        }
        e.preventDefault(); // prevent form from POST to server
        if (!focusSet) {
            $("#password").focus();
        }
    } else {
        $("#password").parent().next(".validation").remove(); // remove it
    }
});  

The CSS:

    .validation
    {
      color: red;
      margin-bottom: 20px;
    }

Testing HTML email rendering

I've used most of them and can tell you that the best method is to test directly to each client. Once you are comfortable with sending you can send tests of your emails to gmail and if the design doesn't break then it's pretty safe on modern email clients.

You can check what is supported on which client here:

http://www.email-standards.org

Zookeeper connection error

leave only one entry for your host IP in /etc/hosts file, it resolved.

Import CSV file into SQL Server

May be SSMS: How to import (Copy/Paste) data from excel can help (If you don't want to use BULK INSERT or don't have permissions for it).

How to debug Apache mod_rewrite

Based on Ben's answer you you could do the following when running apache on Linux (Debian in my case).

First create the file rewrite-log.load

/etc/apache2/mods-availabe/rewrite-log.load

RewriteLog "/var/log/apache2/rewrite.log"
RewriteLogLevel 3

Then enter

$ a2enmod rewrite-log

followed by

$ service apache2 restart

And when you finished with debuging your rewrite rules

$ a2dismod rewrite-log && service apache2 restart

How to simulate a button click using code?

Just write this simple line of code :-

button.performClick();

where button is the reference variable of Button class and defined as follows:-

private Button buttonToday ;
buttonToday = (Button) findViewById(R.id.buttonToday);

That's it.

How to tell PowerShell to wait for each command to end before starting the next?

Besides using Start-Process -Wait, piping the output of an executable will make Powershell wait. Depending on the need, I will typically pipe to Out-Null, Out-Default, Out-String or Out-String -Stream. Here is a long list of some other output options.

# Saving output as a string to a variable.
$output = ping.exe example.com | Out-String

# Filtering the output.
ping stackoverflow.com | where { $_ -match '^reply' }

# Using Start-Process affords the most control.
Start-Process -Wait SomeExecutable.com

I do miss the CMD/Bash style operators that you referenced (&, &&, ||). It seems we have to be more verbose with Powershell.

How do I use spaces in the Command Prompt?

Spaces in the Commend Prompt (in a VBA Shell command code line)

I had a very similar problem which ended up being a space in the command prompt when automating via VBA to get the contents from the command window into a text file. This Thread was one of many I caught along the way that didn’t quite get me the solution.

So this may help others with a similar problem: Since the syntax with quotes is always difficult to get right , I think showing some specific examples is always useful. The additional problem you get using the command prompt in VBA via the Shell thing, is that the code line often won’t error when something goes wrong: in fact a blink of the black commend window misleads into thinking something was done.

As example… say I have a Folder, with a text file in it like at

C:\Alans Folder\test1.txt ( https://imgur.com/FELSdB6 )

The space there in the folder name gives the problem.

Something like this would work, assuming the Folder, AlansFolder, exists

Sub ShellBlackCommandPromptWindowAutomatingCopyingWindowContent()
 Shell "cmd.exe /c ""ipconfig /all > C:\AlansFolder\test1.txt"""
End Sub

This won’t work. (It won’t error).

Sub ShellBlackCommandPromptWindowAutomatingCopyingWindowContent()
 Shell "cmd.exe /c ""ipconfig /all > C:\Alans Folder\test1.txt"""
End Sub

Including quote pairs around the path will make it work

Sub ShellBlackCommandPromptWindowAutomatingCopyingWindowContent()
 Shell "cmd.exe /c ""ipconfig /all > ""C:\Alans Folder\test1.txt"""""
End Sub

( By the way, if the text file does not exist, then it will be made).

With the benefit of hindsight, we can see that my solution does tie up approximately with some already given..

Converting that code line to a manual given command we would have

ipconfig /all > "C:\Alans Folder\test1.txt"

That seems to work

This works also

ipconfig /all > C:\AlansFolder\test1.txt

This doesn’t

ipconfig /all > C:\Alans Folder\test1.txt

This final form also works and ties up with the solution from sacra ….” You have to add quotation marks around each path and also enclose the whole command in quotation marks “ …..

cmd.exe /c "ipconfig /all > "C:\Alans Folder\test1.txt""

HttpServletRequest get JSON POST data

Normaly you can GET and POST parameters in a servlet the same way:

request.getParameter("cmd");

But only if the POST data is encoded as key-value pairs of content type: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" like when you use a standard HTML form.

If you use a different encoding schema for your post data, as in your case when you post a json data stream, you need to use a custom decoder that can process the raw datastream from:

BufferedReader reader = request.getReader();

Json post processing example (uses org.json package )

public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
  throws ServletException, IOException {

  StringBuffer jb = new StringBuffer();
  String line = null;
  try {
    BufferedReader reader = request.getReader();
    while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null)
      jb.append(line);
  } catch (Exception e) { /*report an error*/ }

  try {
    JSONObject jsonObject =  HTTP.toJSONObject(jb.toString());
  } catch (JSONException e) {
    // crash and burn
    throw new IOException("Error parsing JSON request string");
  }

  // Work with the data using methods like...
  // int someInt = jsonObject.getInt("intParamName");
  // String someString = jsonObject.getString("stringParamName");
  // JSONObject nestedObj = jsonObject.getJSONObject("nestedObjName");
  // JSONArray arr = jsonObject.getJSONArray("arrayParamName");
  // etc...
}

How do I sort arrays using vbscript?

I actually just had to do something similar but with a 2D array yesterday. I am not that up to speed on vbscript and this process really bogged me down. I found that the articles here were very well written and got me on the road to sorting in vbscript.

PostgreSQL: FOREIGN KEY/ON DELETE CASCADE

In my humble experience with postgres 9.6, cascade delete doesn't work in practice for tables that grow above a trivial size.

  • Even worse, while the delete cascade is going on, the tables involved are locked so those tables (and potentially your whole database) is unusable.
  • Still worse, it's hard to get postgres to tell you what it's doing during the delete cascade. If it's taking a long time, which table or tables is making it slow? Perhaps it's somewhere in the pg_stats information? It's hard to tell.

C# using Sendkey function to send a key to another application

If notepad is already started, you should write:

// import the function in your class
[DllImport ("User32.dll")]
static extern int SetForegroundWindow(IntPtr point);

//...

Process p = Process.GetProcessesByName("notepad").FirstOrDefault();
if (p != null)
{
    IntPtr h = p.MainWindowHandle;
    SetForegroundWindow(h);
    SendKeys.SendWait("k");
}

GetProcessesByName returns an array of processes, so you should get the first one (or find the one you want).

If you want to start notepad and send the key, you should write:

Process p = Process.Start("notepad.exe");
p.WaitForInputIdle();
IntPtr h = p.MainWindowHandle;
SetForegroundWindow(h);
SendKeys.SendWait("k");

The only situation in which the code may not work is when notepad is started as Administrator and your application is not.

ORA-06508: PL/SQL: could not find program unit being called

I suspect you're only reporting the last error in a stack like this:

ORA-04068: existing state of packages has been discarded
ORA-04061: existing state of package body "schema.package" has been invalidated
ORA-04065: not executed, altered or dropped package body "schema.package"
ORA-06508: PL/SQL: could not find program unit being called: "schema.package"

If so, that's because your package is stateful:

The values of the variables, constants, and cursors that a package declares (in either its specification or body) comprise its package state. If a PL/SQL package declares at least one variable, constant, or cursor, then the package is stateful; otherwise, it is stateless.

When you recompile the state is lost:

If the body of an instantiated, stateful package is recompiled (either explicitly, with the "ALTER PACKAGE Statement", or implicitly), the next invocation of a subprogram in the package causes Oracle Database to discard the existing package state and raise the exception ORA-04068.

After PL/SQL raises the exception, a reference to the package causes Oracle Database to re-instantiate the package, which re-initializes it...

You can't avoid this if your package has state. I think it's fairly rare to really need a package to be stateful though, so you should revisit anything you have declared in the package, but outside a function or procedure, to see if it's really needed at that level. Since you're on 10g though, that includes constants, not just variables and cursors.

But the last paragraph from the quoted documentation means that the next time you reference the package in the same session, you won't get the error and it will work as normal (until you recompile again).

How do you add Boost libraries in CMakeLists.txt?

Additional information to abouve answers for those still having problems.

  1. Last version of Cmake's FindBoost.cmake may not content last version fo Boost. Add it if needed.
  2. Use -DBoost_DEBUG=0 configuration flag to see info on problems.
  3. See for library naming format. Use Boost_COMPILER and Boost_ARCHITECTURE suffix vars if needed.

Updating a date in Oracle SQL table

Just to add to Alex Poole's answer, here is how you do the date and time:

    TO_DATE('31/DEC/2017 12:59:59', 'dd/mm/yyyy hh24:mi:ss')

AppSettings get value from .config file

Or you can either use

string value = system.configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("ClientsFilePath");

//Gets the values associated with the specified key from the System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection

VarBinary vs Image SQL Server Data Type to Store Binary Data?

Since image is deprecated, you should use varbinary.

per Microsoft (thanks for the link @Christopher)

ntext , text, and image data types will be removed in a future version of Microsoft SQL Server. Avoid using these data types in new development work, and plan to modify applications that currently use them. Use nvarchar(max), varchar(max), and varbinary(max) instead.

Fixed and variable-length data types for storing large non-Unicode and Unicode character and binary data. Unicode data uses the UNICODE UCS-2 character set.

how to add picasso library in android studio

Dependency

dependencies {

   implementation 'com.squareup.picasso:picasso:2.71828'

}

//Java Code for Image Loading into imageView

Picasso.get().load(werURL).into(imageView);

What does the keyword Set actually do in VBA?

Set is used for setting object references, as opposed to assigning a value.

Replace multiple characters in a C# string

Use RegEx.Replace, something like this:

  string input = "This is   text with   far  too   much   " + 
                 "whitespace.";
  string pattern = "[;,]";
  string replacement = "\n";
  Regex rgx = new Regex(pattern);
  string result = rgx.Replace(input, replacement);

Here's more info on this MSDN documentation for RegEx.Replace

Access cell value of datatable

foreach(DataRow row in dt.Rows)
{
    string value = row[3].ToString();
}

Eloquent ->first() if ->exists()

An answer has already been accepted, but in these situations, a more elegant solution in my opinion would be to use error handling.

    try {
        $user = User::where('mobile', Input::get('mobile'))->first();
    } catch (ErrorException $e) {
        // Do stuff here that you need to do if it doesn't exist.
        return View::make('some.view')->with('msg', $e->getMessage());
    }

Npm Please try using this command again as root/administrator

WHAT WORKED FOR ME

I ran Command Prompt as Administrator. This helped partially - as I no longer got the error, "Please try using this command again as root/administrator". I was trying to install Cordova. To do it successfully, I also had to do the following:

(1) "npm update node", plus...

(2) I also added the " -g " in the >>npm install cordova<<. In other words, type this: >>npm install -g cordova<<

~~~ FOR WINDOWS 8.1 ~~~

"RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR" COMMAND PROMPT

For windows 8.1, I don't have an ACCESSORIES group when I click START > ALL PROGRAMS. But I do have that older -- but trusty and reliable -- START BUTTON and START MENU - thanks to the free Classic Start Menu app. So, with that installed....

ALTERNATIVE #1:

1. Type "cmd" in the SEARCH BOX at the bottom of the START menu.  
2. When cmd.exe shows up in the top of the search results, right click it and select RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR.

ALTERNATIVE #2 If you already have a Command Prompt window open and running - and you want to open another one to Run As Administrator:

1. Locate the Command Prompt app icon in the Taskbar (usually along the bottom of you screen unless you have moved it a different dock/location).
2. Right click the app icon.
3. Now, right click "COMMAND PROMPT" and select RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR. 

Hope this helps someone.

Bash command to sum a column of numbers

while read -r num; do ((sum += num)); done < inputfile; echo $sum

Kill Attached Screen in Linux

screen -X -S SCREENID kill

alternatively, you can use the following command

screen -S SCREENNAME -p 0 -X quit

You can view the list of the screen sessions by executing screen -ls

Running code in main thread from another thread

A condensed code block is as follows:

   new Handler(Looper.getMainLooper()).post(new Runnable() {
       @Override
       public void run() {
           // things to do on the main thread
       }
   });

This does not involve passing down the Activity reference or the Application reference.

Kotlin Equivalent:

    Handler(Looper.getMainLooper()).post(Runnable {
        // things to do on the main thread
    })

How do I check if a type is a subtype OR the type of an object?

I'm posting this answer with the hope of someone sharing with me if and why it would be a bad idea. In my application, I have a property of Type that I want to check to be sure it is typeof(A) or typeof(B), where B is any class derived from A. So my code:

public class A
{
}

public class B : A
{
}

public class MyClass
{
    private Type _helperType;
    public Type HelperType
    {
        get { return _helperType; }
        set 
        {
            var testInstance = (A)Activator.CreateInstance(value);
            if (testInstance==null)
                throw new InvalidCastException("HelperType must be derived from A");
            _helperType = value;
        }
    }
}

I feel like I might be a bit naive here so any feedback would be welcome.

How do I read CSV data into a record array in NumPy?

I would recommend the read_csv function from the pandas library:

import pandas as pd
df=pd.read_csv('myfile.csv', sep=',',header=None)
df.values
array([[ 1. ,  2. ,  3. ],
       [ 4. ,  5.5,  6. ]])

This gives a pandas DataFrame - allowing many useful data manipulation functions which are not directly available with numpy record arrays.

DataFrame is a 2-dimensional labeled data structure with columns of potentially different types. You can think of it like a spreadsheet or SQL table...


I would also recommend genfromtxt. However, since the question asks for a record array, as opposed to a normal array, the dtype=None parameter needs to be added to the genfromtxt call:

Given an input file, myfile.csv:

1.0, 2, 3
4, 5.5, 6

import numpy as np
np.genfromtxt('myfile.csv',delimiter=',')

gives an array:

array([[ 1. ,  2. ,  3. ],
       [ 4. ,  5.5,  6. ]])

and

np.genfromtxt('myfile.csv',delimiter=',',dtype=None)

gives a record array:

array([(1.0, 2.0, 3), (4.0, 5.5, 6)], 
      dtype=[('f0', '<f8'), ('f1', '<f8'), ('f2', '<i4')])

This has the advantage that file with multiple data types (including strings) can be easily imported.

how to increase the limit for max.print in R

set the function options(max.print=10000) in top of your program. since you want intialize this before it works. It is working for me.

Faster alternative in Oracle to SELECT COUNT(*) FROM sometable

This worked well for me

select owner, table_name, nvl(num_rows,-1) 
from all_tables 
--where table_name in ('cats', 'dogs')
order by nvl(num_rows,-1) desc

from https://livesql.oracle.com/apex/livesql/file/content_EPJLBHYMPOPAGL9PQAV7XH14Q.html

How to handle the modal closing event in Twitter Bootstrap?

If your modal div is dynamically added then use( For bootstrap 3 and 4)

$(document).on('hide.bs.modal','#modal-id', function () {
                alert('');
 //Do stuff here
});

This will work for non-dynamic content also.

Laravel PDOException SQLSTATE[HY000] [1049] Unknown database 'forge'

clear your Cache php artisan cache:clear and then restart your server php artisan serve 127.0.0.1:8000

Plotting of 1-dimensional Gaussian distribution function

With the excellent matplotlib and numpy packages

from matplotlib import pyplot as mp
import numpy as np

def gaussian(x, mu, sig):
    return np.exp(-np.power(x - mu, 2.) / (2 * np.power(sig, 2.)))

x_values = np.linspace(-3, 3, 120)
for mu, sig in [(-1, 1), (0, 2), (2, 3)]:
    mp.plot(x_values, gaussian(x_values, mu, sig))

mp.show()

will produce something like plot showing one-dimensional gaussians produced by matplotlib