Programs & Examples On #Jcreator

JCreator is an open source integrated development environment (IDE) with a moderate to small user base. It is only used for Java development, though many prefer it to other IDE's because of its ability to run files individually instead of creating projects.

How to set the height and the width of a textfield in Java?

set the height to 200

Set the Font to a large variant (150+ px). As already mentioned, control the width using columns, and use a layout manager (or constraint) that will respect the preferred width & height.

Big Text Fields

import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.border.EmptyBorder;

public class BigTextField {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Runnable r = new Runnable() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                // the GUI as seen by the user (without frame)
                JPanel gui = new JPanel(new FlowLayout(5));
                gui.setBorder(new EmptyBorder(2, 3, 2, 3));

                // Create big text fields & add them to the GUI
                String s = "Hello!";
                JTextField tf1 = new JTextField(s, 1);
                Font bigFont = tf1.getFont().deriveFont(Font.PLAIN, 150f);
                tf1.setFont(bigFont);
                gui.add(tf1);

                JTextField tf2 = new JTextField(s, 2);
                tf2.setFont(bigFont);
                gui.add(tf2);

                JTextField tf3 = new JTextField(s, 3);
                tf3.setFont(bigFont);
                gui.add(tf3);

                gui.setBackground(Color.WHITE);

                JFrame f = new JFrame("Big Text Fields");
                f.add(gui);
                // Ensures JVM closes after frame(s) closed and
                // all non-daemon threads are finished
                f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
                // See http://stackoverflow.com/a/7143398/418556 for demo.
                f.setLocationByPlatform(true);

                // ensures the frame is the minimum size it needs to be
                // in order display the components within it
                f.pack();
                // should be done last, to avoid flickering, moving,
                // resizing artifacts.
                f.setVisible(true);
            }
        };
        // Swing GUIs should be created and updated on the EDT
        // http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/concurrency/initial.html
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(r);
    }
}

How do I create executable Java program?

On the command line, navigate to the root directory of the Java files you wish to make executable.

Use this command:

jar -cvf [name of jar file] [name of directory with Java files]

This will create a directory called META-INF in the jar archive. In this META-INF there is a file called MANIFEST.MF, open this file in a text editor and add the following line:

Main-Class: [fully qualified name of your main class]

then use this command:

java -jar [name of jar file]

and your program will run :)

How can I compile and run c# program without using visual studio?

Another option is an interesting open source project called ScriptCS. It uses some crafty techniques to allow you a development experience outside of Visual Studio while still being able to leverage NuGet to manage your dependencies. It's free, very easy to install using Chocolatey. You can check it out here http://scriptcs.net.

Another cool feature it has is the REPL from the command line. Which allows you to do stuff like this:

C:\> scriptcs
scriptcs (ctrl-c or blank to exit)

> var message = "Hello, world!";
> Console.WriteLine(message);
Hello, world!
> 

C:\>

You can create C# utility "scripts" which can be anything from small system tasks, to unit tests, to full on Web APIs. In the latest release I believe they're also allowing for hosting the runtime in your own apps.

Check out it development on the GitHub page too https://github.com/scriptcs/scriptcs

Return row number(s) for a particular value in a column in a dataframe

Use which(mydata_2$height_chad1 == 2585)

Short example

df <- data.frame(x = c(1,1,2,3,4,5,6,3),
                 y = c(5,4,6,7,8,3,2,4))
df
  x y
1 1 5
2 1 4
3 2 6
4 3 7
5 4 8
6 5 3
7 6 2
8 3 4

which(df$x == 3)
[1] 4 8

length(which(df$x == 3))
[1] 2

count(df, vars = "x")
  x freq
1 1    2
2 2    1
3 3    2
4 4    1
5 5    1
6 6    1

df[which(df$x == 3),]
  x y
4 3 7
8 3 4

As Matt Weller pointed out, you can use the length function. The count function in plyr can be used to return the count of each unique column value.

Task vs Thread differences

Thread is a lower-level concept: if you're directly starting a thread, you know it will be a separate thread, rather than executing on the thread pool etc.

Task is more than just an abstraction of "where to run some code" though - it's really just "the promise of a result in the future". So as some different examples:

  • Task.Delay doesn't need any actual CPU time; it's just like setting a timer to go off in the future
  • A task returned by WebClient.DownloadStringTaskAsync won't take much CPU time locally; it's representing a result which is likely to spend most of its time in network latency or remote work (at the web server)
  • A task returned by Task.Run() really is saying "I want you to execute this code separately"; the exact thread on which that code executes depends on a number of factors.

Note that the Task<T> abstraction is pivotal to the async support in C# 5.

In general, I'd recommend that you use the higher level abstraction wherever you can: in modern C# code you should rarely need to explicitly start your own thread.

Could not find method compile() for arguments Gradle

Make sure that you are editing the correct build.gradle file. I received this error when editing android/build.gradle rather than android/app/build.gradle.

How do I wait for a promise to finish before returning the variable of a function?

What do I need to do to make this function wait for the result of the promise?

Use async/await (NOT Part of ECMA6, but available for Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari since end of 2017, see canIuse)
MDN

    async function waitForPromise() {
        // let result = await any Promise, like:
        let result = await Promise.resolve('this is a sample promise');
    }

Added due to comment: An async function always returns a Promise, and in TypeScript it would look like:

    async function waitForPromise(): Promise<string> {
        // let result = await any Promise, like:
        let result = await Promise.resolve('this is a sample promise');
    }

Scala: join an iterable of strings

How about mkString ?

theStrings.mkString(",")

A variant exists in which you can specify a prefix and suffix too.

See here for an implementation using foldLeft, which is much more verbose, but perhaps worth looking at for education's sake.

What is the purpose of flush() in Java streams?

In addition to other good answers here, this explanation made things crystal clear for me:

A buffer is a portion in memory that is used to store a stream of data (characters). These characters sometimes will only get sent to an output device (e.g. monitor) when the buffer is full or meets a certain number of characters. This can cause your system to lag if you just have a few characters to send to an output device. The flush() method will immediately flush the contents of the buffer to the output stream.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjK3dZTc0Lg

Property 'catch' does not exist on type 'Observable<any>'

Warning: This solution is deprecated since Angular 5.5, please refer to Trent's answer below

=====================

Yes, you need to import the operator:

import 'rxjs/add/operator/catch';

Or import Observable this way:

import {Observable} from 'rxjs/Rx';

But in this case, you import all operators.

See this question for more details:

remove item from array using its name / value

Try this.(IE8+)

//Define function
function removeJsonAttrs(json,attrs){
    return JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(json,function(k,v){
        return attrs.indexOf(k)!==-1 ? undefined: v;
}));}
//use object
var countries = {};
countries.results = [
    {id:'AF',name:'Afghanistan'},
    {id:'AL',name:'Albania'},
    {id:'DZ',name:'Algeria'}
];
countries = removeJsonAttrs(countries,["name"]);
//use array
var arr = [
    {id:'AF',name:'Afghanistan'},
    {id:'AL',name:'Albania'},
    {id:'DZ',name:'Algeria'}
];
arr = removeJsonAttrs(arr,["name"]);

How do I use Node.js Crypto to create a HMAC-SHA1 hash?

Documentation for crypto: http://nodejs.org/api/crypto.html

const crypto = require('crypto')

const text = 'I love cupcakes'
const key = 'abcdeg'

crypto.createHmac('sha1', key)
  .update(text)
  .digest('hex')

How to pop an alert message box using PHP?

This .php file content will generate valid html with alert (you can even remove <?php...?>)

<!DOCTYPE html><html><title>p</title><body onload="alert('<?php echo 'Hi' ?>')">

How to compile without warnings being treated as errors?

Remove -Werror from your Make or CMake files, as suggested in this post

How do I launch a program from command line without opening a new cmd window?

Add /B, as documented in the command-line help for start:

C:\>start /?
Starts a separate window to run a specified program or command.

START ["title"] [/D path] [/I] [/MIN] [/MAX] [/SEPARATE | /SHARED]
  [/LOW | /NORMAL | /HIGH | /REALTIME | /ABOVENORMAL | /BELOWNORMAL]
  [/NODE <NUMA node>] [/AFFINITY <hex affinity mask>] [/WAIT] [/B]
  [command/program] [parameters]

"title"     Title to display in window title bar.
path        Starting directory.
B           Start application without creating a new window. The
            application has ^C handling ignored. Unless the application
            enables ^C processing, ^Break is the only way to interrupt
            the application.

Bootstrap - Removing padding or margin when screen size is smaller

The easy solution is to write something like that,

px-lg-1

mb-lg-5

By adding lg, the class will be applied only on large screens

How to modify existing, unpushed commit messages?

If you have to change an old commit message over multiple branches (i.e., the commit with the erroneous message is present in multiple branches) you might want to use:

git filter-branch -f --msg-filter \
'sed "s/<old message>/<new message>/g"' -- --all

Git will create a temporary directory for rewriting and additionally backup old references in refs/original/.

  • -f will enforce the execution of the operation. This is necessary if the temporary directory is already present or if there are already references stored under refs/original. If that is not the case, you can drop this flag.

  • -- separates filter-branch options from revision options.

  • --all will make sure that all branches and tags are rewritten.

Due to the backup of your old references, you can easily go back to the state before executing the command.

Say, you want to recover your master and access it in branch old_master:

git checkout -b old_master refs/original/refs/heads/master

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

You can serialize the object to derive a measure that is closely related to the size of the object:

import pickle

## let o be the object whose size you want to measure
size_estimate = len(pickle.dumps(o))

If you want to measure objects that cannot be pickled (e.g. because of lambda expressions) dill or cloudpickle can be a solution.

Find Facebook user (url to profile page) by known email address

The definitive answer to this is from Facebook themselves. In post today at https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/335452696581712 a Facebook dev says

The ability to pass in an e-mail address into the "user" search type was
removed on July 10, 2013. This search type only returns results that match
a user's name (including alternate name).

So, alas, the simple answer is you can no longer search for users by their email address. This sucks, but that's Facebook's new rules.

Android Animation Alpha

View.setOnTouchListener { v, event ->
    when (event.action) {
        MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN -> {
            v.alpha = 0f
            v.invalidate()
        }
        MotionEvent.ACTION_UP -> {
            v.alpha = 1f
            v.invalidate()


        }
    }
    false
}

What is the better API to Reading Excel sheets in java - JXL or Apache POI

For reading "plain" CSV files in Java, there is a library called OpenCSV, available here: http://opencsv.sourceforge.net/

The declared package does not match the expected package ""

Make sure that Devices is defined as a source folder in the project properties.

bootstrap multiselect get selected values

more efficient, due to less DOM lookups:

$('#multiselect1').multiselect({
    // ...
    onChange: function() {
        var selected = this.$select.val();
        // ...
    }
});

JS regex: replace all digits in string

You forgot to add the global operator. Use this:

_x000D_
_x000D_
var s = "04.07.2012";_x000D_
alert(s.replace(new RegExp("[0-9]","g"), "X")); 
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Build fat static library (device + simulator) using Xcode and SDK 4+

I actually just wrote my own script for this purpose. It doesn't use Xcode. (It's based off a similar script in the Gambit Scheme project.)

Basically, it runs ./configure and make three times (for i386, armv7, and armv7s), and combines each of the resulting libraries into a fat lib.

Excel date to Unix timestamp

To make up for the daylight saving time (starting on March's last sunday until October's last sunday) I had to use the following formula:

=IF(
  AND(
    A2>=EOMONTH(DATE(YEAR(A2);3;1);0)-MOD(WEEKDAY(EOMONTH(DATE(YEAR(A2);3;1);0);11);7);
    A2<=EOMONTH(DATE(YEAR(A2);10;1);0)-MOD(WEEKDAY(EOMONTH(DATE(YEAR(A2);10;1);0);11);7)
  );
  (A2-DATE(1970;1;1)-TIME(1;0;0))*24*60*60*1000;
  (A2-DATE(1970;1;1))*24*60*60*1000
)

Quick explanation:

If the date ["A2"] is between March's last sunday and October's last sunday [third and fourth code lines], then I'll be subtracting one hour [-TIME(1;0;0)] to the date.

PHP How to fix Notice: Undefined variable:

You should initialize your variables outside the while loop. Outside the while loop, they currently have no scope. You are just relying on the good graces of php to let the values carry over outside the loop

           $hn = "";
           $pid = "";
           $datereg = "";
           $prefix = "";
           $fname = "";
           $lname = "";
           $age = "";
           $sex = "";
           while (...){}

alternatively, it looks like you are just expecting a single row back. so you could just say

$row = pg_fetch_array($result);
if(!row) {
    return array();
}
$hn = $row["patient_hn"];
$pid = $row["patient_id"];
$datereg = $row["patient_date_register"];
$prefix = $row["patient_prefix"];
$fname = $row["patient_fname"];
$lname = $row["patient_lname"];
$age = $row["patient_age"];
$sex = $row["patient_sex"];

return array($hn,$pid,$datereg,$prefix,$fname,$lname,$age,$sex) ;

OVER clause in Oracle

The OVER clause specifies the partitioning, ordering and window "over which" the analytic function operates.

Example #1: calculate a moving average

AVG(amt) OVER (ORDER BY date ROWS BETWEEN 1 PRECEDING AND 1 FOLLOWING)

date   amt   avg_amt
=====  ====  =======
1-Jan  10.0  10.5
2-Jan  11.0  17.0
3-Jan  30.0  17.0
4-Jan  10.0  18.0
5-Jan  14.0  12.0

It operates over a moving window (3 rows wide) over the rows, ordered by date.

Example #2: calculate a running balance

SUM(amt) OVER (ORDER BY date ROWS BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW)

date   amt   sum_amt
=====  ====  =======
1-Jan  10.0  10.0
2-Jan  11.0  21.0
3-Jan  30.0  51.0
4-Jan  10.0  61.0
5-Jan  14.0  75.0

It operates over a window that includes the current row and all prior rows.

Note: for an aggregate with an OVER clause specifying a sort ORDER, the default window is UNBOUNDED PRECEDING to CURRENT ROW, so the above expression may be simplified to, with the same result:

SUM(amt) OVER (ORDER BY date)

Example #3: calculate the maximum within each group

MAX(amt) OVER (PARTITION BY dept)

dept  amt   max_amt
====  ====  =======
ACCT   5.0   7.0
ACCT   7.0   7.0
ACCT   6.0   7.0
MRKT  10.0  11.0
MRKT  11.0  11.0
SLES   2.0   2.0

It operates over a window that includes all rows for a particular dept.

SQL Fiddle: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!4/9eecb7d/122

Response.Redirect with POST instead of Get?

You can use this aproach:

Response.Clear();

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.Append("<html>");
sb.AppendFormat(@"<body onload='document.forms[""form""].submit()'>");
sb.AppendFormat("<form name='form' action='{0}' method='post'>",postbackUrl);
sb.AppendFormat("<input type='hidden' name='id' value='{0}'>", id);
// Other params go here
sb.Append("</form>");
sb.Append("</body>");
sb.Append("</html>");

Response.Write(sb.ToString());

Response.End();

As result right after client will get all html from server the event onload take place that triggers form submit and post all data to defined postbackUrl.

Android: how do I check if activity is running?

what about activity.isFinishing()

Pythonic way to return list of every nth item in a larger list

  1. source_list[::10] is the most obvious, but this doesn't work for any iterable and is not memory efficient for large lists.
  2. itertools.islice(source_sequence, 0, None, 10) works for any iterable and is memory-efficient, but probably is not the fastest solution for large list and big step.
  3. (source_list[i] for i in xrange(0, len(source_list), 10))

How to return string value from the stored procedure

change your

return @str1+'present in the string' ;

to

set @r = @str1+'present in the string' 

How to Set user name and Password of phpmyadmin

You can simply open the phpmyadmin page from your browser, then open any existing database -> go to Privileges tab, click on your root user and then a popup window will appear, you can set your password there.. Hope this Helps.

How to make the first option of <select> selected with jQuery

Check this best approach using jQuery with ECMAScript 6:

$('select').each((i, item) => {
  var $item = $(item);
  $item.val($item.find('option:first').val()); 
});

Deny access to one specific folder in .htaccess

We will set the directory to be very secure, denying access for all file types. Below is the code you want to insert into the .htaccess file.

Order Allow,Deny 
Deny from all 

Since we have now set the security, we now want to allow access to our desired file types. To do that, add the code below to the .htaccess file under the security code you just inserted.

<FilesMatch "\.(jpg|gif|png|php)$">
Order Deny,Allow
   Allow from all
</FilesMatch>

your final .htaccess file will look like

Order Allow,Deny 
Deny from all 

<FilesMatch "\.(jpg|gif|png|php)$">
Order Deny,Allow
   Allow from all
</FilesMatch>

Source from Allow access to specific file types in a protected directory

How to get all keys with their values in redis

I refined the bash solution a bit, so that the more efficient scan is used instead of keys, and printing out array and hash values is supported. My solution also prints out the key name.

redis_print.sh:

#!/bin/bash

# Default to '*' key pattern, meaning all redis keys in the namespace
REDIS_KEY_PATTERN="${REDIS_KEY_PATTERN:-*}"
for key in $(redis-cli --scan --pattern "$REDIS_KEY_PATTERN")
do
    type=$(redis-cli type $key)
    if [ $type = "list" ]
    then
        printf "$key => \n$(redis-cli lrange $key 0 -1 | sed 's/^/  /')\n"
    elif [ $type = "hash" ]
    then
        printf "$key => \n$(redis-cli hgetall $key | sed 's/^/  /')\n"
    else
        printf "$key => $(redis-cli get $key)\n"
    fi
done

Note: you can formulate a one-liner of this script by removing the first line of redis_print.sh and commanding: cat redis_print.sh | tr '\n' ';' | awk '$1=$1'

array filter in python?

>>> a = set([6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12])
>>> sub_a = set([6, 9, 12])
>>> a - sub_a
set([8, 10, 11, 7])

invalid use of incomplete type

You derive B from A<B>, so the first thing the compiler does, once it sees the definition of class B is to try to instantiate A<B>. To do this it needs to known B::mytype for the parameter of action. But since the compiler is just in the process of figuring out the actual definition of B, it doesn't know this type yet and you get an error.

One way around this is would be to declare the parameter type as another template parameter, instead of inside the derived class:

template<typename Subclass, typename Param>
class A {
    public:
        void action(Param var) {
                (static_cast<Subclass*>(this))->do_action(var);
        }
};

class B : public A<B, int> { ... };

Cannot connect to SQL Server named instance from another SQL Server

I've finally found the issue here. Even though the firewall was turned off at both the locations we found that a router in the SQLB data center was actively blocking UDP 1434. I was able to determine this by installing the PorQry tool by Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details.aspx?id=17148) and running a query against the UDP port. Then I installed WireShark (http://www.wireshark.org/) to view the actual connection details and found the router in question that was refusing to forward the request. Since this router only affected SQLB this explains why every other connection worked fine.

Thanks everyone for your suggestions and assistance!

How to verify if $_GET exists?

Normally it is quite good to do:

echo isset($_GET['id']) ? $_GET['id'] : 'wtf';

This is so when assigning the var to other variables you can do defaults all in one breath instead of constantly using if statements to just give them a default value if they are not set.

Calling another different view from the controller using ASP.NET MVC 4

You can directly return a different view like:

return View("NameOfView", Model);

Or you can make a partial view and can return like:

return PartialView("PartialViewName", Model);

Python's "in" set operator

Yes, but it also means hash(b) == hash(x), so equality of the items isn't enough to make them the same.

input file appears to be a text format dump. Please use psql

if you use pg_dump with -Fp to backup in plain text format, use following command:

cat db.txt | psql dbname

to copy all data to your database with name dbname

Expanding a parent <div> to the height of its children

As Jens said in comment

An alternative answer is How to make div not larger than its contents?… and it proposes to set display:inline-block. Which worked great for me. – Jens Jun 2 at 5:41

This works far better for me in all browsers.

Check if a path represents a file or a folder

Please stick to the nio API to perform these checks

import java.nio.file.*;

static Boolean isDir(Path path) {
  if (path == null || !Files.exists(path)) return false;
  else return Files.isDirectory(path);
}

Selecting multiple columns with linq query and lambda expression

using LINQ and Lamba, i wanted to return two field values and assign it to single entity object field;

as Name = Fname + " " + LName;

See my below code which is working as expected; hope this is useful;

Myentity objMyEntity = new Myentity
{
id = obj.Id,
Name = contxt.Vendors.Where(v => v.PQS_ID == obj.Id).Select(v=> new { contact = v.Fname + " " + v.LName}).Single().contact
}

no need to declare the 'contact'

Add back button to action bar

There are two ways to approach this.

Option 1: Update the Android Manifest If the settings Activity is always called from the same activity, you can make the relationship in the Android Manifest. Android will automagically show the 'back' button in the ActionBar

<activity
    android:name=".SettingsActivity"
    android:label="Setting Activity">
    <meta-data
        android:name="android.support.PARENT_ACTIVITY"
        android:value="com.example.example.MainActivity" />
</activity>

Option 2: Change a setting for the ActionBar If you don't know which Activity will call the Settings Activity, you can create it like this. First in your activity that extends ActionBarActivity (Make sure your @imports match the level of compatibility you are looking for).

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_settings_test);
    ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
    actionBar.setHomeButtonEnabled(true);
    actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
}

Then, detect the 'back button' press and tell Android to close the currently open Activity.

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
        case android.R.id.home:
            // app icon in action bar clicked; goto parent activity.
            this.finish();
            return true;
        default:
            return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }
}

That should do it!

Casting a number to a string in TypeScript

Use the "+" symbol to cast a string to a number.

window.location.hash = +page_number;

Find the min/max element of an array in JavaScript

You can use Array.sort but you'll have to write a simple number sorting function since the default is alphabetic.

Look at example 2 here.

Then you can grab arr[0] and arr[arr.length-1] to get min and max.

Defining arrays in Google Scripts

Try this

function readRows() {
  var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
  var rows = sheet.getDataRange();
  var numRows = rows.getNumRows();
  //var values = rows.getValues();

  var Names = sheet.getRange("A2:A7");
  var Name = [
    Names.getCell(1, 1).getValue(),
    Names.getCell(2, 1).getValue(),
    .....
    Names.getCell(5, 1).getValue()]

You can define arrays simply as follows, instead of allocating and then assigning.

var arr = [1,2,3,5]

Your initial error was because of the following line, and ones like it

var Name[0] = Name_cell.getValue(); 

Since Name is already defined and you are assigning the values to its elements, you should skip the var, so just

Name[0] = Name_cell.getValue();

Pro tip: For most issues that, like this one, don't directly involve Google services, you are better off Googling for the way to do it in javascript in general.

Which JRE am I using?

In Linux:

java -version

In Windows:

java.exe -version

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is the `data-target` attribute in Bootstrap 3?

data-target is used by bootstrap to make your life easier. You (mostly) do not need to write a single line of Javascript to use their pre-made JavaScript components.

The data-target attribute should contain a CSS selector that points to the HTML Element that will be changed.

Modal Example Code from BS3:

<!-- Button trigger modal -->
<button class="btn btn-primary btn-lg" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#myModal">
  Launch demo modal
</button>

<!-- Modal -->
<div class="modal fade" id="myModal" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="myModalLabel" aria-hidden="true">
  [...]
</div>

In this example, the button has data-target="#myModal", if you click on it, <div id="myModal">...</div> will be modified (in this case faded in). This happens because #myModal in CSS selectors points to elements that have an id attribute with the myModal value.

Further information about the HTML5 "data-" attribute: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Using_data_attributes

How to get client's IP address using JavaScript?

I would say Chad and Malta has great answer. However, theirs are complicated. So I suggest this code that I found from ads by country plugin

<script>
<script language="javascript" src="http://j.maxmind.com/app/geoip.js"></script>
<script language="javascript">
mmjsCountryCode = geoip_country_code();
mmjsCountryName = geoip_country_name();

</script>

No ajax. Just plain javascripts. :D

If you go to http://j.maxmind.com/app/geoip.js you will see that it contains

function geoip_country_code() { return 'ID'; }
function geoip_country_name() { return 'Indonesia'; }
function geoip_city()         { return 'Jakarta'; }
function geoip_region()       { return '04'; }
function geoip_region_name()  { return 'Jakarta Raya'; }
function geoip_latitude()     { return '-6.1744'; }
function geoip_longitude()    { return '106.8294'; }
function geoip_postal_code()  { return ''; }
function geoip_area_code()    { return ''; }
function geoip_metro_code()   { return ''; }

It doesn't really answer the question yet because

http://j.maxmind.com/app/geoip.js doesn't contain the IP (although I bet it uses the IP to get the country).

But it's so easy to make a PhP script that pop something like

function visitorsIP()   { return '123.123.123.123'; }

Make that. Put on http://yourdomain.com/yourip.php.

Then do

<script language="javascript" src="http://yourdomain.com/yourip.php"></script>

The question specifically mention NOT to use third party script. There is no other way. Javascript cannot know your IP. But other servers that can be accessed through javascript can which work just as well with no issue.

Jquery UI Datepicker not displaying

Had the same problem that the datepicker-DIV has been created but didnt get filled and show up on click. My fault was to give the input the class "hasDatepicker" staticly. jQuery-ui hat to set this class by its own. then it works for me.

Unable to open a file with fopen()

How are you running the file? Is it from the command line or from an IDE? The directory that your executable is in is not necessarily your working directory.

Try using the full path name in the fopen and see if that fixes it. If so, then the problem is as described.

For example:

file = fopen("c:\\MyDirectory\\TestFile1.txt", "r");
file = fopen("/full/path/to/TestFile1.txt", "r");

Or open up a command window and navigate to the directory where your executable is, then run it manually.

As an aside, you can insert a simple (for Windows or Linux/UNIX/BSD/etc respectively):

system ("cd")
system("pwd")

before the fopen to show which directory you're actually in.

How may I align text to the left and text to the right in the same line?

Add span on each or group of words you want to align left or right. then add id or class on the span such as:

<h3>
<span id = "makeLeft"> Left Text</span>
<span id = "makeRight"> Right Text</span>
</h3>

CSS-

#makeLeft{
float: left;
}

#makeRight{
float: right;
}

Is it possible to make Font Awesome icons larger than 'fa-5x'?

Font awesome is just a font so you can use the font size attribute in your CSS to change the size of the icon.

So you can just add a class to the icon like this:

.big-icon {
    font-size: 32px;
}

PHP - Get bool to echo false when false

No, since the other option is modifying the Zend engine, and one would be hard-pressed to call that a "better way".

Edit:

If you really wanted to, you could use an array:

$boolarray = Array(false => 'false', true => 'true');
echo $boolarray[false];

Convert one date format into another in PHP

Easiest and simplest way to change date format in php

In PHP any date can be converted into the required date format using different scenarios for example to change any date format into Day, Date Month Year

$newdate = date("D, d M Y", strtotime($date));

It will show date in the following very well format

Mon, 16 Nov 2020

And if you have time as well in your existing date format for example if you have datetime format of SQL 2020-11-11 22:00:00 you can convert this into the required date format using the following

$newdateformat = date("D, d M Y H:i:s", strtotime($oldateformat));

It will show date in following well looking format

Sun, 15 Nov 2020 16:26:00

How to search JSON tree with jQuery

var json = {
    "people": {
        "person": [{
            "name": "Peter",
            "age": 43,
            "sex": "male"},
        {
            "name": "Zara",
            "age": 65,
            "sex": "female"}]
    }
};
$.each(json.people.person, function(i, v) {
    if (v.name == "Peter") {
        alert(v.age);
        return;
    }
});

Example.

Based on this answer, you could use something like:

$(function() {
    var json = {
        "people": {
            "person": [{
                "name": "Peter",
                "age": 43,
                "sex": "male"},
            {
                "name": "Zara",
                "age": 65,
                "sex": "female"}]
        }
    };
    $.each(json.people.person, function(i, v) {
        if (v.name.search(new RegExp(/peter/i)) != -1) {
            alert(v.age);
            return;
        }
    });
});

Example 2

How to create a new text file using Python

Looks like you forgot the mode parameter when calling open, try w:

file = open("copy.txt", "w") 
file.write("Your text goes here") 
file.close() 

The default value is r and will fail if the file does not exist

'r' open for reading (default)
'w' open for writing, truncating the file first

Other interesting options are

'x' open for exclusive creation, failing if the file already exists
'a' open for writing, appending to the end of the file if it exists

See Doc for Python2.7 or Python3.6

-- EDIT --

As stated by chepner in the comment below, it is better practice to do it with a withstatement (it guarantees that the file will be closed)

with open("copy.txt", "w") as file:
    file.write("Your text goes here")

How to enable CORS in ASP.NET Core

Got this working with .Net Core 3.1 as follows

1.Make sure you place the UseCors code between app.UseRouting(); and app.UseAuthentication();

        app.UseHttpsRedirection();

        app.UseRouting();
        app.UseCors("CorsApi");

        app.UseAuthentication();
        app.UseAuthorization();

        app.UseEndpoints(endpoints => {
            endpoints.MapControllers();
        });

2.Then place this code in the ConfigureServices method

services.AddCors(options =>
        {
            options.AddPolicy("CorsApi",
                builder => builder.WithOrigins("http://localhost:4200", "http://mywebsite.com")
            .AllowAnyHeader()
            .AllowAnyMethod());
        });

3.And above the base controller I placed this

[EnableCors("CorsApi")]
[Route("api/[controller]")]
[ApiController]
public class BaseController : ControllerBase

Now all my controllers will inherit from the BaseController and will have CORS enabled

How to display svg icons(.svg files) in UI using React Component?

If you use create-react-app 2.0 you can now do do it like this:

import { ReactComponent as YourSvg } from './your-svg.svg';

And then use it just like you would normally use a component:

const App = () => (
 <div>
   <YourSvg />
 </div>
);

What do I do when my program crashes with exception 0xc0000005 at address 0?

I was getting the same issue with a different application,

Faulting application name: javaw.exe, version: 8.0.51.16, time stamp: 0x55763d32
Faulting module name: mscorwks.dll, version: 2.0.50727.5485, time stamp: 0x53a11d6c
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000501090
Faulting process id: 0x2960
Faulting application start time: 0x01d0c39a93c695f2
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_51\bin\javaw.exe
Faulting module path:C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\mscorwks.dll

I was using the The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) from Microsoft and I found by disabling the EMET features on javaw.exe in my case as this was the faulting application, it enabled my application to run successfully. Make sure you don't have any similar software with security protections on memory.

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

Adding the Tomcat server in the server runtime will do the job:

Right click your project and than;

Project properties ? Target Runtimes ? Select/Check "Apache Tomcat" ? Finish.

How to change owner of PostgreSql database?

Frank Heikens answer will only update database ownership. Often, you also want to update ownership of contained objects (including tables). Starting with Postgres 8.2, REASSIGN OWNED is available to simplify this task.

IMPORTANT EDIT!

Never use REASSIGN OWNED when the original role is postgres, this could damage your entire DB instance. The command will update all objects with a new owner, including system resources (postgres0, postgres1, etc.)


First, connect to admin database and update DB ownership:

psql
postgres=# REASSIGN OWNED BY old_name TO new_name;

This is a global equivalent of ALTER DATABASE command provided in Frank's answer, but instead of updating a particular DB, it change ownership of all DBs owned by 'old_name'.

The next step is to update tables ownership for each database:

psql old_name_db
old_name_db=# REASSIGN OWNED BY old_name TO new_name;

This must be performed on each DB owned by 'old_name'. The command will update ownership of all tables in the DB.

Submitting form and pass data to controller method of type FileStreamResult

When in doubt, follow MVC conventions.

Create a viewModel if you haven't already that contains a property for JobID

public class Model
{
     public string JobId {get; set;}
     public IEnumerable<MyCurrentModel> myCurrentModel { get; set; }
     //...any other properties you may need
}

Strongly type your view

@model Fully.Qualified.Path.To.Model

Add a hidden field for JobId to the form

using (@Html.BeginForm("myMethod", "Home", FormMethod.Post))
{   
    //...    
    @Html.HiddenFor(m => m.JobId)
}

And accept the model as the parameter in your controller action:

[HttpPost]
public FileStreamResult myMethod(Model model)
{
    sting str = model.JobId;
}

Exporting functions from a DLL with dllexport

I think _naked might get what you want, but it also prevents the compiler from generating the stack management code for the function. extern "C" causes C style name decoration. Remove that and that should get rid of your _'s. The linker doesn't add the underscores, the compiler does. stdcall causes the argument stack size to be appended.

For more, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/calling_conventions_demystified.aspx

The bigger question is why do you want to do that? What's wrong with the mangled names?

custom facebook share button

Include the facebook button on the page which you want to share

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http://trial.com/news.php?newsid=<?php echo $content; ?>"> 

                    <img src="http://trial/new_img/facebook_link.png" style=" border: 1px solid #d9d9d9; box-shadow: 0 4px 7px 0 #a5a5a5; padding: 5px;" title="facebook_link" alt="facebook_link" />

                    </a>

How to render string with html tags in Angular 4+?

Use one way flow syntax property binding:

<div [innerHTML]="comment"></div>

From angular docs: "Angular recognizes the value as unsafe and automatically sanitizes it, which removes the <script> tag but keeps safe content such as the <b> element."

How to restore PostgreSQL dump file into Postgres databases?

I find that psql.exe is quite picky with the slash direction, at least on windows (which the above looks like).

Here's an example. In a cmd window:

C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.2\bin>psql.exe -U postgres
psql (9.2.4)
Type "help" for help.

postgres=# \i c:\temp\try1.sql    
c:: Permission denied
postgres=# \i c:/temp/try1.sql
CREATE TABLE
postgres=#

You can see it fails when I use "normal" windows slashes in a \i call. However both slash styles work if you pass them as input params to psql.exe, for example:

C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.2\bin>psql.exe -U postgres -f c:\TEMP\try1.sql
CREATE TABLE

C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.2\bin>psql.exe -U postgres -f c:/TEMP/try1.sql
CREATE TABLE

C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.2\bin>

Could not load file or assembly 'System.Data.SQLite'

I resolved this, oddly enough, by installing System.Data.SQLite via the Nuget GUI application, as opposed to the package manager console.

Installing via the console didn't include the dependencies this library needs to run.

How to check if the key pressed was an arrow key in Java KeyListener?

You should be using things like: KeyEvent.VK_UP instead of the actual code.

How are you wanting to refactor it? What is the goal of the refactoring?

Get screen width and height in Android

    int getScreenSize() {
        int screenSize = getResources().getConfiguration().screenLayout &
                Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_MASK;
//        String toastMsg = "Screen size is neither large, normal or small";
        Display display = ((WindowManager) getSystemService(WINDOW_SERVICE)).getDefaultDisplay();
        int orientation = display.getRotation();

        int i = 0;
        switch (screenSize) {

            case Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_NORMAL:
                i = 1;
//                toastMsg = "Normal screen";
                break;
            case Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_SMALL:
                i = 1;
//                toastMsg = "Normal screen";
                break;
            case Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_LARGE:
//                toastMsg = "Large screen";
                if (orientation == Surface.ROTATION_90
                        || orientation == Surface.ROTATION_270) {
                    // TODO: add logic for landscape mode here
                    i = 2;
                } else {
                    i = 1;
                }


                break;
            case Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_XLARGE:
                if (orientation == Surface.ROTATION_90
                        || orientation == Surface.ROTATION_270) {
                    // TODO: add logic for landscape mode here
                    i = 4;
                } else {
                    i = 3;
                }

                break;


        }
//        customeToast(toastMsg);
        return i;
    }

SQL ON DELETE CASCADE, Which Way Does the Deletion Occur?

Here is a simple example for others visiting this old post, but is confused by the example in the question and the other answer:

Delivery -> Package (One -> Many)

CREATE TABLE Delivery(
    Id INT IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY,
    NoteNumber NVARCHAR(255) NOT NULL
)

CREATE TABLE Package(
    Id INT IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY,
    Status INT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
    Delivery_Id INT NOT NULL,
    CONSTRAINT FK_Package_Delivery_Id FOREIGN KEY (Delivery_Id) REFERENCES Delivery (Id) ON DELETE CASCADE
)

The entry with the foreign key Delivery_Id (Package) is deleted with the referenced entity in the FK relationship (Delivery).

So when a Delivery is deleted the Packages referencing it will also be deleted. If a Package is deleted nothing happens to any deliveries.

Change SVN repository URL

If you are using TortoiseSVN client then you can follow the below steps

Right-click in the source directory and then click on SVN Relocate Image#1

After that, you need to change the URL to what you want, click ok, it will be taking a few seconds.Image#2

Div with horizontal scrolling only

For horizontal scroll, keep these two properties in mind:

overflow-x:scroll;
white-space: nowrap;

See working link : click me

HTML

<p>overflow:scroll</p>
<div class="scroll">You can use the overflow property when you want to have better   control of the layout. The default value is visible.You can use the overflow property when you want     to have better control of the layout. The default value is visible.</div>

CSS

div.scroll
{
background-color:#00FFFF;
height:40px;
overflow-x:scroll;
white-space: nowrap;
}

Search for "does-not-contain" on a DataFrame in pandas

You can use Apply and Lambda to select rows where a column contains any thing in a list. For your scenario :

df[df["col"].apply(lambda x:x not in [word1,word2,word3])]

Importing two classes with same name. How to handle?

use the fully qualified name instead of importing the class.

e.g.

//import java.util.Date; //delete this
//import my.own.Date;

class Test{

   public static void main(String [] args){

      // I want to choose my.own.Date here. How?
      my.own.Date myDate = new my.own.Date();

      // I want to choose util.Date here. How ?
      java.util.Date javaDate = new java.util.Date();
   }
}

How to create exe of a console application

For .net core 2.1 console application, the following approaches worked for me:

1 - from CLI (after building the application and navigating to debug or release folders based on the build type specified):

dotnet appName.dll

2 - from Visual Studio

R.C solution and click publish
'Target location' -> 'configure' ->
   'Deployment Mode' = 'Self-Contained'
   'Target Runtime' = 'win-x64 or win-x86 depending on the OS'

References:

For an in depth explanation of all the deployment options available for .net core applications, checkout the following articles:

Using CSS to insert text

It is, but requires a CSS2 capable browser (all major browsers, IE8+).

.OwnerJoe:before {
  content: "Joe's Task:";
}

But I would rather recommend using Javascript for this. With jQuery:

$('.OwnerJoe').each(function() {
  $(this).before($('<span>').text("Joe's Task: "));
});

QByteArray to QString

You can use this QString constructor for conversion from QByteArray to QString:

QString(const QByteArray &ba)

QByteArray data;
QString DataAsString = QString(data);

How to return temporary table from stored procedure

Take a look at this code,

CREATE PROCEDURE Test

AS
    DECLARE @tab table (no int, name varchar(30))

    insert @tab  select eno,ename from emp  

    select * from @tab
RETURN

Rounding to 2 decimal places in SQL

you may try the TO_CHAR function to convert the result

e.g.

SELECT TO_CHAR(92, '99.99') AS RES FROM DUAL

SELECT TO_CHAR(92.258, '99.99') AS RES FROM DUAL

Hope it helps

Can I write or modify data on an RFID tag?

It depends on the type of chip you are using, but nowerdays most chips you can write. It also depends on how much power you give your RFID device. To read you dont need allot of power and very little line of sight. To right you need them full insight and longer insight

Google server putty connect 'Disconnected: No supported authentication methods available (server sent: publickey)

Please follow this guide: https://gist.github.com/feczo/7282a6e00181fde4281b with pictures.

In short:

Using Puttygen, click 'Generate' move the mouse around as instructed and wait

  • Enter your desired username

  • Enter your password

  • Save the private key

Copy the entire content of the 'Public key for pasting into OpenSSH authorized_keys file' window. Make sure to copy every single character from the beginning to the very end!

Go to the Create instances page in the Google Cloud Platform Console and in the advanced options link paste the contents of your public key.

Note the IP address of the instance once it is complete. Open putty, from the left hand menu go to Connection / SSH / Auth and define the key file location which was saved.

From the left hand menu go to Connection / Data and define the same username

  • Enter the IP address of your instance
  • name the connection below saved Sessions as 'GCE' click on 'Save'
  • double click the 'GCE' entry you just created
  • accept the identy of the host

Now login with the password you specified earlier and run sudo su - and you are all set.

How to display my application's errors in JSF?

Remember that:

FacesContext context = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
context.addMessage( null, new FacesMessage( "The message to display in client" ));            

is also valid, because when null is specified as first parameter, it is applied to the whole form.

More info: coreservlets.com //Outdated

How to change position of Toast in Android?

From the documentation:

Warning: Starting from Android Build.VERSION_CODES#R, for apps targeting API level Build.VERSION_CODES#R or higher, this method (setGravity) is a no-op when called on text toasts.

Which means that setGravity can no longer be used in API 30+ and will have to find another to achieve the required behaviour.

Spring Boot application as a Service

It can be done using Systemd service in Ubuntu

[Unit]
Description=A Spring Boot application
After=syslog.target

[Service]
User=baeldung
ExecStart=/path/to/your-app.jar SuccessExitStatus=143

[Install] 
WantedBy=multi-user.target

You can follow this link for more elaborated description and different ways to do so. http://www.baeldung.com/spring-boot-app-as-a-service

How do I toggle an ng-show in AngularJS based on a boolean?

You just need to toggle the value of "isReplyFormOpen" on ng-click event

<a ng-click="isReplyFormOpen = !isReplyFormOpen">Reply</a>
 <div ng-show="isReplyFormOpen" id="replyForm">
   </div>

jquery to validate phone number

Your code:

rules: {
    phoneNumber: {
        matches: "[0-9]+",  // <-- no such method called "matches"!
        minlength:10,
        maxlength:10
    }
}

There is no such callback function, option, method, or rule called matches anywhere within the jQuery Validate plugin. (EDIT: OP failed to mention that matches is his custom method.)

However, within the additional-methods.js file, there are several phone number validation methods you can use. The one called phoneUS should satisfy your pattern. Since the rule already validates the length, minlength and maxlength are redundantly unnecessary. It's also much more comprehensive in that area codes and prefixes can not start with a 1.

rules: {
    phoneNumber: {
        phoneUS: true
    }
}

DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/eWhkv/


If, for whatever reason, you just need the regex for use in another method, you can take it from here...

jQuery.validator.addMethod("phoneUS", function(phone_number, element) {
    phone_number = phone_number.replace(/\s+/g, "");
    return this.optional(element) || phone_number.length > 9 && 
    phone_number.match(/^(\+?1-?)?(\([2-9]\d{2}\)|[2-9]\d{2})-?[2-9]\d{2}-?\d{4}$/);
}, "Please specify a valid phone number");

Global Events in Angular

You can use EventEmitter or observables to create an eventbus service that you register with DI. Every component that wants to participate just requests the service as constructor parameter and emits and/or subscribes to events.

See also

How to define constants in ReactJS

You don't need to use anything but plain React and ES6 to achieve what you want. As per Jim's answer, just define the constant in the right place. I like the idea of keeping the constant local to the component if not needed externally. The below is an example of possible usage.

import React from "react";

const sizeToLetterMap = {
  small_square: 's',
  large_square: 'q',
  thumbnail: 't',
  small_240: 'm',
  small_320: 'n',
  medium_640: 'z',
  medium_800: 'c',
  large_1024: 'b',
  large_1600: 'h',
  large_2048: 'k',
  original: 'o'
};

class PhotoComponent extends React.Component {
  constructor(args) {
    super(args);
  }

  photoUrl(image, size_text) {
    return (<span>
      Image: {image}, Size Letter: {sizeToLetterMap[size_text]}
    </span>);
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <div className="photo-wrapper">
        The url is: {this.photoUrl(this.props.image, this.props.size_text)}
      </div>
    )
  }
}

export default PhotoComponent;

// Call this with <PhotoComponent image="abc.png" size_text="thumbnail" />
// Of course the component must first be imported where used, example:
// import PhotoComponent from "./photo_component.jsx";

How To Use DateTimePicker In WPF?

There is a DateTimePicker available in the Extended Toolkit.

YAML Multi-Line Arrays

Following Works for me and its good from readability point of view when array element values are small:

key: [string1, string2, string3, string4, string5, string6]

Note:snakeyaml implementation used

Pandas Split Dataframe into two Dataframes at a specific row

use np.split(..., axis=1):

Demo:

In [255]: df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(5, 6), columns=list('abcdef'))

In [256]: df
Out[256]:
          a         b         c         d         e         f
0  0.823638  0.767999  0.460358  0.034578  0.592420  0.776803
1  0.344320  0.754412  0.274944  0.545039  0.031752  0.784564
2  0.238826  0.610893  0.861127  0.189441  0.294646  0.557034
3  0.478562  0.571750  0.116209  0.534039  0.869545  0.855520
4  0.130601  0.678583  0.157052  0.899672  0.093976  0.268974

In [257]: dfs = np.split(df, [4], axis=1)

In [258]: dfs[0]
Out[258]:
          a         b         c         d
0  0.823638  0.767999  0.460358  0.034578
1  0.344320  0.754412  0.274944  0.545039
2  0.238826  0.610893  0.861127  0.189441
3  0.478562  0.571750  0.116209  0.534039
4  0.130601  0.678583  0.157052  0.899672

In [259]: dfs[1]
Out[259]:
          e         f
0  0.592420  0.776803
1  0.031752  0.784564
2  0.294646  0.557034
3  0.869545  0.855520
4  0.093976  0.268974

np.split() is pretty flexible - let's split an original DF into 3 DFs at columns with indexes [2,3]:

In [260]: dfs = np.split(df, [2,3], axis=1)

In [261]: dfs[0]
Out[261]:
          a         b
0  0.823638  0.767999
1  0.344320  0.754412
2  0.238826  0.610893
3  0.478562  0.571750
4  0.130601  0.678583

In [262]: dfs[1]
Out[262]:
          c
0  0.460358
1  0.274944
2  0.861127
3  0.116209
4  0.157052

In [263]: dfs[2]
Out[263]:
          d         e         f
0  0.034578  0.592420  0.776803
1  0.545039  0.031752  0.784564
2  0.189441  0.294646  0.557034
3  0.534039  0.869545  0.855520
4  0.899672  0.093976  0.268974

Making an svg image object clickable with onclick, avoiding absolute positioning

In case you're fine with wrapping the svg in another element (a for example) and putting onclick on the wrapper, svg {pointer-events: none;} CSS will do the trick.

What is a StackOverflowError?

Here's an example

public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println(add5(1));
}

public static int add5(int a) {
    return add5(a) + 5;
}

A StackOverflowError basically is when you try to do something, that most likely calls itself, and goes on for infinity (or until it gives a StackOverflowError).

add5(a) will call itself, and then call itself again, and so on.

Target class controller does not exist - Laravel 8

On a freshly installed laravel 8, in the App/Providers/RouteServices.php

    * The path to the "home" route for your application.
 *
 * This is used by Laravel authentication to redirect users after login.
 *
 * @var string
 */
public const HOME = '/home';

/**
 * The controller namespace for the application.
 *
 * When present, controller route declarations will automatically be prefixed with this namespace.
 *
 * @var string|null
 */
// protected $namespace = 'App\\Http\\Controllers';

uncomment the

protected $namespace = 'App\Http\Controllers';

that should help you run laravel the old fashioned way.

Incase you are upgrading from lower versions of laravel to 8 then you might have to implicitly add the

protected $namespace = 'App\Http\Controllers';

in the RouteServices.php file for it to function the old way.

Can't install gems on OS X "El Capitan"

If the gem you are trying to install requires xml libraries, then try this:

sudo gem install -n /usr/local/bin  <gem_name> -- --use-system-libraries --with-xml2-include=/usr/include/libxml2 --with-xml2-lib=/usr/lib/

Specifically, I ran into a problem while installing the nokogiri gem v 1.6.8 on OS X El Capitan

and this finally worked for me:

sudo gem install -n /usr/local/bin  nokogiri -- --use-system-libraries --with-xml2-include=/usr/include/libxml2 --with-xml2-lib=/usr/lib/

To make sure you have libxml2 and libxslt installed, you can do:

brew install libxml2 libxslt
brew install libiconv

and then check to make sure you have xcode command line tools installed:

xcode-select --install 

should return this error:

xcode-select: error: command line tools are already installed, use "Software Update" to install updates

Is embedding background image data into CSS as Base64 good or bad practice?

I tried to create an online concept of CSS/HTML analyzer tool:

http://www.motobit.com/util/base64/css-images-to-base64.asp

It can:

  • Download and parse HTML/CSS files, extract href/src/url elements
  • Detect compression (gzip) and size data on the URL
  • Compare original data size, base64 data size and gzipped base64 data size
  • Convert the URL (image, font, css, ...) to a base64 data URI scheme.
  • Count number of requests which can be spared by Data URIs

Comments/suggestions are welcome.

Antonin

ansible: lineinfile for several lines?

You can use a loop to do it. Here's an example using a with_items loop:

- name: Set some kernel parameters
  lineinfile:
    dest: /etc/sysctl.conf
    regexp: "{{ item.regexp }}"
    line: "{{ item.line }}"
  with_items:
    - { regexp: '^kernel.shmall', line: 'kernel.shmall = 2097152' }
    - { regexp: '^kernel.shmmax', line: 'kernel.shmmax = 134217728' }
    - { regexp: '^fs.file-max', line: 'fs.file-max = 65536' }

ES6 export default with multiple functions referring to each other

One alternative is to change up your module. Generally if you are exporting an object with a bunch of functions on it, it's easier to export a bunch of named functions, e.g.

export function foo() { console.log('foo') }, 
export function bar() { console.log('bar') },
export function baz() { foo(); bar() }

In this case you are export all of the functions with names, so you could do

import * as fns from './foo';

to get an object with properties for each function instead of the import you'd use for your first example:

import fns from './foo';

Specifying maxlength for multiline textbox

Things have changed in HTML5:

ASPX:

<asp:TextBox ID="txtBox" runat="server" maxlength="2000" TextMode="MultiLine"></asp:TextBox>

C#:

if (!IsPostBack)
{
    txtBox.Attributes.Add("maxlength", txtBox.MaxLength.ToString());
}

Rendered HTML:

<textarea name="ctl00$DemoContentPlaceHolder$txtBox" id="txtBox" maxlength="2000"></textarea>

The metadata for Attributes:

Summary: Gets the collection of arbitrary attributes (for rendering only) that do not correspond to properties on the control.

Returns: A System.Web.UI.AttributeCollection of name and value pairs.

Convert dictionary to list collection in C#

To convert the Keys to a List of their own:

listNumber = dicNumber.Select(kvp => kvp.Key).ToList();

Or you can shorten it up and not even bother using select:

listNumber = dicNumber.Keys.ToList();

Convert Python program to C/C++ code?

If the C variant needs x hours less, then I'd invest that time in letting the algorithms run longer/again

"invest" isn't the right word here.

  1. Build a working implementation in Python. You'll finish this long before you'd finish a C version.

  2. Measure performance with the Python profiler. Fix any problems you find. Change data structures and algorithms as necessary to really do this properly. You'll finish this long before you finish the first version in C.

  3. If it's still too slow, manually translate the well-designed and carefully constructed Python into C.

    Because of the way hindsight works, doing the second version from existing Python (with existing unit tests, and with existing profiling data) will still be faster than trying to do the C code from scratch.

This quote is important.

Thompson's Rule for First-Time Telescope Makers
It is faster to make a four-inch mirror and then a six-inch mirror than to make a six-inch mirror.

Bill McKeenan
Wang Institute

Difference between modes a, a+, w, w+, and r+ in built-in open function?

The options are the same as for the fopen function in the C standard library:

w truncates the file, overwriting whatever was already there

a appends to the file, adding onto whatever was already there

w+ opens for reading and writing, truncating the file but also allowing you to read back what's been written to the file

a+ opens for appending and reading, allowing you both to append to the file and also read its contents

AngularJS: How to make angular load script inside ng-include?

Short answer: AngularJS ("jqlite") doesn't support this. Include jQuery on your page (before including Angular), and it should work. See https://groups.google.com/d/topic/angular/H4haaMePJU0/discussion

Could not execute menu item (internal error)[Exception] - When changing PHP version from 5.3.1 to 5.2.9

If you are using Windows try out the following:

  1. Press (Windows+R)
  2. enter "services.msc" and click "OK"
  3. locate service with name 'wampapache'

and check if it's status is 'Running'. In case not, right click >> start.

Hope this helps!


If you have removed WAMP from boot services, it won't work – try the following:

  • Press (Windows+R)
  • enter "services.msc" and click "OK"
  • locate service with name 'wampapache'
  • Right click wampapache and wampmysqld, Click 'properties'
  • and change Start Type to Manual or automatic

This will work!

Convert Year/Month/Day to Day of Year in Python

DZinX's answer is a great answer for the question. I found this question and used DZinX's answer while looking for the inverse function: convert dates with the julian day-of-year into the datetimes.

I found this to work:

import datetime
datetime.datetime.strptime('1936-077T13:14:15','%Y-%jT%H:%M:%S')

>>>> datetime.datetime(1936, 3, 17, 13, 14, 15)

datetime.datetime.strptime('1936-077T13:14:15','%Y-%jT%H:%M:%S').timetuple().tm_yday

>>>> 77

Or numerically:

import datetime
year,julian = [1936,77]
datetime.datetime(year, 1, 1)+datetime.timedelta(days=julian -1)

>>>> datetime.datetime(1936, 3, 17, 0, 0)

Or with fractional 1-based jdates popular in some domains:

jdate_frac = (datetime.datetime(1936, 3, 17, 13, 14, 15)-datetime.datetime(1936, 1, 1)).total_seconds()/86400+1
display(jdate_frac)

>>>> 77.5515625

year,julian = [1936,jdate_frac]
display(datetime.datetime(year, 1, 1)+datetime.timedelta(days=julian -1))

>>>> datetime.datetime(1936, 3, 17, 13, 14, 15)

I'm not sure of etiquette around here, but I thought a pointer to the inverse functionality might be useful for others like me.

How to sort a dataFrame in python pandas by two or more columns?

As of pandas 0.17.0, DataFrame.sort() is deprecated, and set to be removed in a future version of pandas. The way to sort a dataframe by its values is now is DataFrame.sort_values

As such, the answer to your question would now be

df.sort_values(['b', 'c'], ascending=[True, False], inplace=True)

Connection attempt failed with "ECONNREFUSED - Connection refused by server"

I solved this error

A connection attempt failed with "ECONNREFUSED - Connection refused by server"

by changing my port to 22 that was successful

How to use a calculated column to calculate another column in the same view

In SQL Server

You can do this using With CTE

WITH common_table_expression (Transact-SQL)

CREATE TABLE tab(ColumnA DECIMAL(10,2), ColumnB DECIMAL(10,2), ColumnC DECIMAL(10,2))

INSERT INTO tab(ColumnA, ColumnB, ColumnC) VALUES (2, 10, 2),(3, 15, 6),(7, 14, 3)

WITH tab_CTE (ColumnA, ColumnB, ColumnC,calccolumn1)  
AS  
(  
Select
    ColumnA,
    ColumnB,
    ColumnC,
    ColumnA + ColumnB As calccolumn1
  from tab
)  

SELECT
  ColumnA,
  ColumnB,
  calccolumn1,
  calccolumn1 / ColumnC AS calccolumn2
FROM  tab_CTE

DBFiddle Demo

Setting HTTP headers

I create wrapper for this case:

func addDefaultHeaders(fn http.HandlerFunc) http.HandlerFunc {
    return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
        w.Header().Set("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*")
        fn(w, r)
    }
}

codeigniter model error: Undefined property

It solved throung second parameter in Model load:

$this->load->model('user','User');

first parameter is the model's filename, and second it defining the name of model to be used in the controller:

function alluser() 
{
$this->load->model('User');
$result = $this->User->showusers();
}

How do I tell Python to convert integers into words

It sound like you'll need to use an array, where num[1] = "one", num[2] = "two", and so on. Then you can loop through each like you already are and

num = array(["one","two","three","four","five","six","seven","eight","nine","ten"])
for i in range(10,0,-1):
    print num[i], "Bottles of beer on the wall,"
    print num[i], "bottles of beer."
    print "Take one down and pass it around,"
    print num[i-1], "bottles of beer on the wall."
    print ""

Check if multiple strings exist in another string

The regex module recommended in python docs, supports this

words = {'he', 'or', 'low'}
p = regex.compile(r"\L<name>", name=words)
m = p.findall('helloworld')
print(m)

output:

['he', 'low', 'or']

Some details on implementation: link

How to find which version of Oracle is installed on a Linux server (In terminal)

As the user running the Oracle Database one can also try $ORACLE_HOME/OPatch/opatch lsinventory which shows the exact version and patches installed.

For example this is a quick oneliner which should only return the version number:

$ORACLE_HOME/OPatch/opatch lsinventory | awk '/^Oracle Database/ {print $NF}'

How to take screenshot of a div with JavaScript?

If you wish to have "Save as" dialog, just pass image into php script, which adds appropriate headers

Example "all-in-one" script script.php

<?php if(isset($_GET['image'])):
    $image = $_GET['image'];

    if(preg_match('#^data:image/(.*);base64,(.*)$#s', $image, $match)){
        $base64 = $match[2];
        $imageBody = base64_decode($base64);
        $imageFormat = $match[1];

        header('Content-type: application/octet-stream');
        header("Pragma: public");
        header("Expires: 0");
        header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
        header("Cache-Control: private", false); // required for certain browsers
        header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"file.".$imageFormat."\";" ); //png is default for toDataURL
        header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
        header("Content-Length: ".strlen($imageBody));
        echo $imageBody;
    }
    exit();
endif;?>

<script type='text/javascript' src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js?ver=1.7.2'></script>
<canvas id="canvas" width="300" height="150"></canvas>
<button id="btn">Save</button>
<script>
    $(document).ready(function(){
        var canvas = document.getElementById('canvas');
        var oCtx = canvas.getContext("2d");
        oCtx.beginPath();
        oCtx.moveTo(0,0);
        oCtx.lineTo(300,150);
        oCtx.stroke();

        $('#btn').on('click', function(){
            // opens dialog but location doesnt change due to SaveAs Dialog
            document.location.href = '/script.php?image=' + canvas.toDataURL();
        });
    });
</script>

How to remove elements/nodes from angular.js array

If you have any function associated to list ,when you make the splice function, the association is deleted too. My solution:

$scope.remove = function() {
    var oldList = $scope.items;
    $scope.items = [];

    angular.forEach(oldList, function(x) {
        if (! x.done) $scope.items.push( { [ DATA OF EACH ITEM USING oldList(x) ] });
    });
};

The list param is named items. The param x.done indicate if the item will be deleted. Hope help you. Greetings.

String length in bytes in JavaScript

This would work for BMP and SIP/SMP characters.

    String.prototype.lengthInUtf8 = function() {
        var asciiLength = this.match(/[\u0000-\u007f]/g) ? this.match(/[\u0000-\u007f]/g).length : 0;
        var multiByteLength = encodeURI(this.replace(/[\u0000-\u007f]/g)).match(/%/g) ? encodeURI(this.replace(/[\u0000-\u007f]/g, '')).match(/%/g).length : 0;
        return asciiLength + multiByteLength;
    }

    'test'.lengthInUtf8();
    // returns 4
    '\u{2f894}'.lengthInUtf8();
    // returns 4
    '???? ?????'.lengthInUtf8();
    // returns 19, each Arabic/Persian alphabet character takes 2 bytes. 
    '??,JavaScript ??'.lengthInUtf8();
    // returns 26, each Chinese character/punctuation takes 3 bytes. 

How can I hide the Adobe Reader toolbar when displaying a PDF in the .NET WebBrowser control?

It appears the default setting for Adobe Reader X is for the toolbars not to be shown by default unless they are explicitly turned on by the user. And even when I turn them back on during a session, they don't show up automatically next time. As such, I suspect you have a preference set contrary to the default.

The state you desire, with the top and left toolbars not shown, is called "Read Mode". If you right-click on the document itself, and then click "Page Display Preferences" in the context menu that is shown, you'll be presented with the Adobe Reader Preferences dialog. (This is the same dialog you can access by opening the Adobe Reader application, and selecting "Preferences" from the "Edit" menu.) In the list shown in the left-hand column of the Preferences dialog, select "Internet". Finally, on the right, ensure that you have the "Display in Read Mode by default" box checked:

   Adobe Reader Preferences dialog

You can also turn off the toolbars temporarily by clicking the button at the right of the top toolbar that depicts arrows pointing to opposing corners:

   Adobe Reader Read Mode toolbar button

Finally, if you have "Display in Read Mode by default" turned off, but want to instruct the page you're loading not to display the toolbars (i.e., override the user's current preferences), you can append the following to the URL:

#toolbar=0&navpanes=0

So, for example, the following code will disable both the top toolbar (called "toolbar") and the left-hand toolbar (called "navpane"). However, if the user knows the keyboard combination (F8, and perhaps other methods as well), they will still be able to turn them back on.

string url = @"http://www.domain.com/file.pdf#toolbar=0&navpanes=0";
this._WebBrowser.Navigate(url);

You can read more about the parameters that are available for customizing the way PDF files open here on Adobe's developer website.

Make just one slide different size in Powerpoint

if you want to shrink one slide for instance, add shapes to hide the unwanted background margins. you can set the shape color filling as the background (gray or black). It's "ugly" but it works

Flutter: RenderBox was not laid out

Wrap your ListView in an Expanded widget

 Expanded(child:MyListView())

SQL Select between dates

Special thanks to Jeff and vapcguy your interactivity is really encouraging.

Here is a more complex statement that is useful when the length between '/' is unknown::

SELECT * FROM tableName
WHERE julianday(
    substr(substr(date, instr(date, '/')+1), instr(substr(date, instr(date, '/')+1), '/')+1)
||'-'||
    case when length(
    substr(date, instr(date, '/')+1, instr(substr(date, instr(date, '/')+1),'/')-1)
    )=2
    then
    substr(date, instr(date, '/')+1, instr(substr(date, instr(date, '/')+1), '/')-1)
    else
    '0'||substr(date, instr(date, '/')+1, instr(substr(date, instr(date, '/')+1), '/')-1)
    end
||'-'||
    case when length(substr(date,1, instr(date, '/')-1 )) =2
    then substr(date,1, instr(date, '/')-1 )
    else
    '0'||substr(date,1, instr(date, '/')-1 )
    end
) BETWEEN julianday('2015-03-14') AND julianday('2015-03-16') 

What is the difference between public, private, and protected?

Public: is a default state when you declare a variable or method, can be accessed by anything directly to the object.

Protected: Can be accessed only within the object and subclasses.

Private: Can be referenced only within the object, not subclasses.

Change value of input onchange?

You can't access your fieldname as a global variable. Use document.getElementById:

function updateInput(ish){
    document.getElementById("fieldname").value = ish;
}

and

onchange="updateInput(this.value)"

Scaling a System.Drawing.Bitmap to a given size while maintaining aspect ratio

Target parameters:

float width = 1024;
float height = 768;
var brush = new SolidBrush(Color.Black);

Your original file:

var image = new Bitmap(file);

Target sizing (scale factor):

float scale = Math.Min(width / image.Width, height / image.Height);

The resize including brushing canvas first:

var bmp = new Bitmap((int)width, (int)height);
var graph = Graphics.FromImage(bmp);

// uncomment for higher quality output
//graph.InterpolationMode = InterpolationMode.High;
//graph.CompositingQuality = CompositingQuality.HighQuality;
//graph.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.AntiAlias;

var scaleWidth = (int)(image.Width * scale);
var scaleHeight = (int)(image.Height * scale);

graph.FillRectangle(brush, new RectangleF(0, 0, width, height));
graph.DrawImage(image, ((int)width - scaleWidth)/2, ((int)height - scaleHeight)/2, scaleWidth, scaleHeight);

And don't forget to do a bmp.Save(filename) to save the resulting file.

Short description of the scoping rules?

The scoping rules for Python 2.x have been outlined already in other answers. The only thing I would add is that in Python 3.0, there is also the concept of a non-local scope (indicated by the 'nonlocal' keyword). This allows you to access outer scopes directly, and opens up the ability to do some neat tricks, including lexical closures (without ugly hacks involving mutable objects).

EDIT: Here's the PEP with more information on this.

Adding Google Play services version to your app's manifest?

I was getting the same error; I had previously installed the google-play-services_lib for Google Maps (and it was working fine) but then when I later tried adding the meta-data entry to my Manifest I was getting the error. I tried all the above suggestions but nothing would link them properly; I finally removed the link from my project (project-properties-Android, remove google-play-services_lib library), then removed from Eclipse workspace, deleted the files on the disk, and finally used the SDK manager to reinstall from scratch.

That seemed to finally do the trick; now Eclipse has decided to allow me to leave the meta-data entry with no errors.

Decoding a Base64 string in Java

Commonly base64 it is used for images. if you like to decode an image (jpg in this example with org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64 package):

byte[] decoded = Base64.decodeBase64(imageJpgInBase64);
FileOutputStream fos = null;
fos = new FileOutputStream("C:\\output\\image.jpg");
fos.write(decoded);
fos.close();

Can you append strings to variables in PHP?

PHP syntax is little different in case of concatenation from JavaScript. Instead of (+) plus a (.) period is used for string concatenation.

<?php

$selectBox = '<select name="number">';
for ($i=1;$i<=100;$i++)
{
    $selectBox += '<option value="' . $i . '">' . $i . '</option>'; // <-- (Wrong) Replace + with .
    $selectBox .= '<option value="' . $i . '">' . $i . '</option>'; // <-- (Correct) Here + is replaced .
}
$selectBox += '</select>'; // <-- (Wrong) Replace + with .
$selectBox .= '</select>'; // <-- (Correct) Here + is replaced .
echo $selectBox;

?>

Is #pragma once a safe include guard?

Not always.

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52566 has a nice example of two files meant to both be included, but mistakenly thought to be identical because of identical timestamps and content (not identical file name).

Hide axis values but keep axis tick labels in matplotlib

plt.gca().axes.yaxis.set_ticklabels([])

enter image description here

C++ template constructor

try doing something like

template<class T, int i> class A{

    A(){
          A(this)
    }

    A( A<int, 1>* a){
          //do something
    }
    A( A<float, 1>* a){
         //do something
    }
.
.
.
};

How can I rename a conda environment?

You can rename your Conda env by just renaming the env folder. Here is the proof:

Conda env renaming

You can find your Conda env folder inside of C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs or you can enter conda env list to see the list of conda envs and its location.

Granting Rights on Stored Procedure to another user of Oracle

SQL> grant create any procedure to testdb;

This is a command when we want to give create privilege to "testdb" user.

Going from MM/DD/YYYY to DD-MMM-YYYY in java

Try this

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy"); // Set your date format
        String currentData = sdf.format(new Date());
        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), ""+currentData,Toast.LENGTH_SHORT ).show();

CSS two divs next to each other

To paraphrase one of my websites that does something similar:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
 <head>
  <style TYPE="text/css"><!--

.section {
    _float: right; 
    margin-right: 210px;
    _margin-right: 10px;
    _width: expression( (document.body.clientWidth - 250) + "px");
}

.navbar {
    margin: 10px 0;
    float: right;
    width: 200px;
    padding: 9pt 0;
}

  --></style>
 </head>
 <body>
  <div class="navbar">
  This will take up the right hand side
  </div>
  <div class="section">
  This will fill go to the left of the "navbar" div
  </div>
 </body>
</html>

HttpListener Access Denied

Unfortunately, for some reasons probably linked with HTTPS and certificates, the native .NET HttpListener requires admin privileges, and even for HTTP only protocol...

The good point

It is interesting to note that HTTP protocol is on top of TCP protocol, but launching a C# TCP listener doesn't require any admin privileges to run. In other words, it is conceptually possible to implement an HTTP server which do not requires admin privileges.

Alternative

Below, an example of project which doesn't require admin privileges: https://github.com/EmilianoElMariachi/ElMariachi.Http.Server

Java error: Implicit super constructor is undefined for default constructor

Sorry for necroposting but faced this problem just today. For everybody also facing with this problem - one of he possible reasons - you don't call super at the first line of method. Second, third and other lines fire this error. Call of super should be very first call in your method. In this case everything is well.

The network adapter could not establish the connection - Oracle 11g

First check your listener is on or off. Go to net manager then Local -> service naming -> orcl. Then change your HOST NAME and put your PC name. Now go to LISTENER and change the HOST and put your PC name.

CRC32 C or C++ implementation

Use the Boost C++ libraries. There is a CRC included there and the license is good.

Bootstrap 4 responsive tables won't take up 100% width

The following WON'T WORK. It causes another issue. It will now do the 100% width but it won't be responsive on smaller devices:

.table-responsive {
    display: table;
}

All these answers introduced another problem by recommending display: table;. The only solution as of right now is to use it as a wrapper:

<div class="table-responsive">
  <table class="table">
...
 </table>
</div>

Max size of URL parameters in _GET

Ok, it seems that some versions of PHP have a limitation of length of GET params:

Please note that PHP setups with the suhosin patch installed will have a default limit of 512 characters for get parameters. Although bad practice, most browsers (including IE) supports URLs up to around 2000 characters, while Apache has a default of 8000.

To add support for long parameters with suhosin, add suhosin.get.max_value_length = <limit> in php.ini

Source: http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.get.php#101469

UIView with rounded corners and drop shadow?

Swift 4 Solution for making UICollectionViewCell round and adding Shadows, without any extensions and complications :)

Note: For simple views e.g Buttons. See the @suragch's Answer in this post. https://stackoverflow.com/a/34984063/7698092. Tested successfully for buttons

In case if any one still struggling to round the corners and add shadows at the same time. Although this solution works with UICollectionViewCell, it can be generalized to any view.

This technique worked for me without making any extensions and all the complicated stuff. I am working with storyBoard.

Technique

You must add a UIView (lets say it "containerView") inside your UICollectionViewCell in storyBoard and add all the required views (buttons, images etc) inside this containerView. See the Screenshot. Structure of Cell

Connect the outlet for containerView. Add following lines of code in CellforItemAtIndexPath delegate function.

//adds shadow to the layer of cell

cell.layer.cornerRadius = 3.0
    cell.layer.masksToBounds = false
    cell.layer.shadowColor = UIColor.black.cgColor
    cell.layer.shadowOffset = CGSize(width: 0, height: 0)
    cell.layer.shadowOpacity = 0.6

//makes the cell round 

let containerView = cell.containerView!
    containerView.layer.cornerRadius = 8
    containerView.clipsToBounds = true

Output

See the simulator Screenshot Rounded corners with Shadows (UICollectionViewCell)

How to decode a Base64 string?

I had issues with spaces showing in between my output and there was no answer online at all to fix this issue. I literally spend many hours trying to find a solution and found one from playing around with the code to the point that I almost did not even know what I typed in at the time that I got it to work. Here is my fix for the issue: [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetString(([System.Convert]::FromBase64String($base64string)|?{$_}))

Running .sh scripts in Git Bash

I had a similar problem, but I was getting an error message

cannot execute binary file

I discovered that the filename contained non-ASCII characters. When those were fixed, the script ran fine with ./script.sh.

Effectively use async/await with ASP.NET Web API

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

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

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

Getting all selected checkboxes in an array

Pure JavaScript with no need for temporary variables:

Array.from(document.querySelectorAll("input[type=checkbox][name=type]:checked")).map(e => e.value)

What is the difference between smoke testing and sanity testing?

Smoke and sanity testing

In general, smoke and sanity testing seems very similar to many tester who have just started, because in both we talk about build, we talk about functionality and we talk about the rejection of builds, if build's health is not good for the feasible testing.

After going through several projects, from start ups to product base company, I figured out the basic difference between smoke and sanity testing.

I am writing difference between smoke testing and sanity testing here to help you in answering at least one question that normally all testers get asked in interview.

Smoke testing

  • Smoke testing is done to test the health of builds.

  • It is also known as the shallow and wide testing, in that we normally include those test cases which can cover all the functionality of the product.

  • We can say that it's the first step of testing and, after this, we normally do other kind of functional and system testing, including regression testing.

  • It's normally done by a developer with the help of certain scripts or certain tools, but in some cases it can be performed by a tester too.

  • It's valid for initial stage of a build confirmation. For example, suppose we have started the development of a certain product, and we are producing a build for the first time, then smoke testing becomes a necessity for the product.

Sanity testing

  • It is sub-regression

  • Sanity is done for those builds which have gone through many regression tests and a minor change in code has happened. In this case, we normally do the intensive testing of functionalities where this change has occurred or may have influenced.

    • Due to this, it is also known as "narrow" and "deep" testing
  • It's performed by a tester

  • It's done for mature builds, like those that are just going to hit production, and have gone through multiple regression processes.

  • It can be removed from the testing process, if regression is already being performed.

  • If any build doesn't pass the sanity tests, then it is thrown to developer back for the correction of the build.

Find current directory and file's directory

Answer to #1:

If you want the current directory, do this:

import os
os.getcwd()

If you want just any folder name and you have the path to that folder, do this:

def get_folder_name(folder):
    '''
    Returns the folder name, given a full folder path
    '''
    return folder.split(os.sep)[-1]

Answer to #2:

import os
print os.path.abspath(__file__)

What's the difference between HEAD, working tree and index, in Git?

This is an inevitably long yet easy to follow explanation from ProGit book:

Note: For reference you can read Chapter 7.7 of the book, Reset Demystified

Git as a system manages and manipulates three trees in its normal operation:

  • HEAD: Last commit snapshot, next parent
  • Index: Proposed next commit snapshot
  • Working Directory: Sandbox

The HEAD

HEAD is the pointer to the current branch reference, which is in turn a pointer to the last commit made on that branch. That means HEAD will be the parent of the next commit that is created. It’s generally simplest to think of HEAD as the snapshot of your last commit on that branch.

What does it contain?
To see what that snapshot looks like run the following in root directory of your repository:

                                 git ls-tree -r HEAD

it would result in something like this:

                       $ git ls-tree -r HEAD  
                       100644 blob a906cb2a4a904a152... README  
                       100644 blob 8f94139338f9404f2... Rakefile  
                       040000 tree 99f1a6d12cb4b6f19... lib  

The Index

Git populates this index with a list of all the file contents that were last checked out into your working directory and what they looked like when they were originally checked out. You then replace some of those files with new versions of them, and git commit converts that into the tree for a new commit.

What does it contain?
Use git ls-files -s to see what it looks like. You should see something like this:

                 100644 a906cb2a4a904a152e80877d4088654daad0c859 0 README   
                 100644 8f94139338f9404f26296befa88755fc2598c289 0 Rakefile  
                 100644 47c6340d6459e05787f644c2447d2595f5d3a54b 0 lib/simplegit.rb  

The Working Directory

This is where your files reside and where you can try changes out before committing them to your staging area (index) and then into history.

Visualized Sample

Let's see how do these three trees (As the ProGit book refers to them) work together?
Git’s typical workflow is to record snapshots of your project in successively better states, by manipulating these three trees. Take a look at this picture:

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To get a good visualized understanding consider this scenario. Say you go into a new directory with a single file in it. Call this v1 of the file. It is indicated in blue. Running git init will create a Git repository with a HEAD reference which points to the unborn master branch

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At this point, only the working directory tree has any content. Now we want to commit this file, so we use git add to take content in the working directory and copy it to the index.

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Then we run git commit, which takes the contents of the index and saves it as a permanent snapshot, creates a commit object which points to that snapshot, and updates master to point to that commit.

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If we run git status, we’ll see no changes, because all three trees are the same.

The beautiful point

git status shows the difference between these trees in the following manner:

  • If the Working Tree is different from index, then git status will show there are some changes not staged for commit
  • If the Working Tree is the same as index, but they are different from HEAD, then git status will show some files under changes to be committed section in its result
  • If the Working Tree is different from the index, and index is different from HEAD, then git status will show some files under changes not staged for commit section and some other files under changes to be committed section in its result.

For the more curious

Note about git reset command
Hopefully, knowing how reset command works will further brighten the reason behind the existence of these three trees.

reset command is your Time Machine in git which can easily take you back in time and bring some old snapshots for you to work on. In this manner, HEAD is the wormhole through which you can travel in time. Let's see how it works with an example from the book:

Consider the following repository which has a single file and 3 commits which are shown in different colours and different version numbers:

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The state of trees is like the next picture:

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Step 1: Moving HEAD (--soft):

The first thing reset will do is move what HEAD points to. This isn’t the same as changing HEAD itself (which is what checkout does). reset moves the branch that HEAD is pointing to. This means if HEAD is set to the master branch, running git reset 9e5e6a4 will start by making master point to 9e5e6a4. If you call reset with --soft option it will stop here, without changing index and working directory. Our repo will look like this now:
Notice: HEAD~ is the parent of HEAD

enter image description here

Looking a second time at the image, we can see that the command essentially undid the last commit. As the working tree and the index are the same but different from HEAD, git status will now show changes in green ready to be committed.

Step 2: Updating the index (--mixed):

This is the default option of the command

Running reset with --mixed option updates the index with the contents of whatever snapshot HEAD points to currently, leaving Working Directory intact. Doing so, your repository will look like when you had done some work that is not staged and git status will show that as changes not staged for commit in red. This option will also undo the last commit and also unstage all the changes. It's like you made changes but have not called git add command yet. Our repo would look like this now:

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Step 3: Updating the Working Directory (--hard)

If you call reset with --hard option it will copy contents of the snapshot HEAD is pointing to into HEAD, index and Working Directory. After executing reset --hard command, it would mean like you got back to a previous point in time and haven't done anything after that at all. see the picture below:

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Conclusion

I hope now you have a better understanding of these trees and have a great idea of the power they bring to you by enabling you to change your files in your repository to undo or redo things you have done mistakenly.

What is JavaScript's highest integer value that a number can go to without losing precision?

At the moment of writing, JavaScript is receiving a new data type: BigInt. It is a TC39 proposal at stage 4 to be included in EcmaScript 2020. BigInt is available in Chrome 67+, FireFox 68+, Opera 54 and Node 10.4.0. It is underway in Safari, et al... It introduces numerical literals having an "n" suffix and allows for arbitrary precision:

var a = 123456789012345678901012345678901n;

Precision will still be lost, of course, when such a number is (maybe unintentionally) coerced to a number data type.

And, obviously, there will always be precision limitations due to finite memory, and a cost in terms of time in order to allocate the necessary memory and to perform arithmetic on such large numbers.

For instance, the generation of a number with a hundred thousand decimal digits, will take a noticeable delay before completion:

console.log(BigInt("1".padEnd(100000,"0")) + 1n)

...but it works.

Could not find module FindOpenCV.cmake ( Error in configuration process)

On my Fedora machine, when I typed "make" I got an error saying it could not find "cv.h". I fixed this by modifying my "OpenCVConfig.cmake" file.

Before:

SET(OpenCV_INCLUDE_DIRS "${OpenCV_INSTALL_PATH}/include/opencv;${OpenCV_INSTALL_PATH}/include")

SET(OpenCV_LIB_DIR "${OpenCV_INSTALL_PATH}/lib64")

After:

SET(OpenCV_INCLUDE_DIRS "/usr/include/opencv;/usr/include/opencv2")

SET(OpenCV_LIB_DIR "/usr/lib64")

What is the difference between resource and endpoint?

Consider a server which has the information of users, missions and their reward points.

  1. Users and Reward Points are the resources
  2. An end point can relate to more than one resource
  3. Endpoints can be described using either a description or a full or partial URL

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Source: API Endpoints vs Resources

Autocomplete syntax for HTML or PHP in Notepad++. Not auto-close, autocompelete

In Notepad++ v. 6.4.1 is this possibility in:Settings->Preferences->Auto-Completion and there check Enable auto-completion on each input.

For auto-complete in code press Ctrl + Enter.

How can I play sound in Java?

I created a game framework sometime ago to work on Android and Desktop, the desktop part that handle sound maybe can be used as inspiration to what you need.

https://github.com/hamilton-lima/jaga/blob/master/jaga%20desktop/src-desktop/com/athanazio/jaga/desktop/sound/Sound.java

Here is the code for reference.

package com.athanazio.jaga.desktop.sound;

import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

import javax.sound.sampled.AudioFormat;
import javax.sound.sampled.AudioInputStream;
import javax.sound.sampled.AudioSystem;
import javax.sound.sampled.DataLine;
import javax.sound.sampled.LineUnavailableException;
import javax.sound.sampled.SourceDataLine;
import javax.sound.sampled.UnsupportedAudioFileException;

public class Sound {

    AudioInputStream in;

    AudioFormat decodedFormat;

    AudioInputStream din;

    AudioFormat baseFormat;

    SourceDataLine line;

    private boolean loop;

    private BufferedInputStream stream;

    // private ByteArrayInputStream stream;

    /**
     * recreate the stream
     * 
     */
    public void reset() {
        try {
            stream.reset();
            in = AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(stream);
            din = AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(decodedFormat, in);
            line = getLine(decodedFormat);

        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    public void close() {
        try {
            line.close();
            din.close();
            in.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
        }
    }

    Sound(String filename, boolean loop) {
        this(filename);
        this.loop = loop;
    }

    Sound(String filename) {
        this.loop = false;
        try {
            InputStream raw = Object.class.getResourceAsStream(filename);
            stream = new BufferedInputStream(raw);

            // ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            // byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
            // int read = raw.read(buffer);
            // while( read > 0 ) {
            // out.write(buffer, 0, read);
            // read = raw.read(buffer);
            // }
            // stream = new ByteArrayInputStream(out.toByteArray());

            in = AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(stream);
            din = null;

            if (in != null) {
                baseFormat = in.getFormat();

                decodedFormat = new AudioFormat(
                        AudioFormat.Encoding.PCM_SIGNED, baseFormat
                                .getSampleRate(), 16, baseFormat.getChannels(),
                        baseFormat.getChannels() * 2, baseFormat
                                .getSampleRate(), false);

                din = AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(decodedFormat, in);
                line = getLine(decodedFormat);
            }
        } catch (UnsupportedAudioFileException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (LineUnavailableException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    private SourceDataLine getLine(AudioFormat audioFormat)
            throws LineUnavailableException {
        SourceDataLine res = null;
        DataLine.Info info = new DataLine.Info(SourceDataLine.class,
                audioFormat);
        res = (SourceDataLine) AudioSystem.getLine(info);
        res.open(audioFormat);
        return res;
    }

    public void play() {

        try {
            boolean firstTime = true;
            while (firstTime || loop) {

                firstTime = false;
                byte[] data = new byte[4096];

                if (line != null) {

                    line.start();
                    int nBytesRead = 0;

                    while (nBytesRead != -1) {
                        nBytesRead = din.read(data, 0, data.length);
                        if (nBytesRead != -1)
                            line.write(data, 0, nBytesRead);
                    }

                    line.drain();
                    line.stop();
                    line.close();

                    reset();
                }
            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

}

How to solve this java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/io/output/DeferredFileOutputStream?

use maven dependency

<dependency> 
  <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
  <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId> 
  <version>1.3.2</version> 
</dependency> 

or download commons-io.1.3.2.jar to your lib folder

Split (explode) pandas dataframe string entry to separate rows

Another solution that uses python copy package

import copy
new_observations = list()
def pandas_explode(df, column_to_explode):
    new_observations = list()
    for row in df.to_dict(orient='records'):
        explode_values = row[column_to_explode]
        del row[column_to_explode]
        if type(explode_values) is list or type(explode_values) is tuple:
            for explode_value in explode_values:
                new_observation = copy.deepcopy(row)
                new_observation[column_to_explode] = explode_value
                new_observations.append(new_observation) 
        else:
            new_observation = copy.deepcopy(row)
            new_observation[column_to_explode] = explode_values
            new_observations.append(new_observation) 
    return_df = pd.DataFrame(new_observations)
    return return_df

df = pandas_explode(df, column_name)

Why maven? What are the benefits?

Figuring out dependencies for small projects is not hard. But once you start dealing with a dependency tree with hundreds of dependencies, things can easily get out of hand. (I'm speaking from experience here ...)

The other point is that if you use an IDE with incremental compilation and Maven support (like Eclipse + m2eclipse), then you should be able to set up edit/compile/hot deploy and test.

I personally don't do this because I've come to distrust this mode of development due to bad experiences in the past (pre Maven). Perhaps someone can comment on whether this actually works with Eclipse + m2eclipse.

Convert String to System.IO.Stream

System.IO.MemoryStream mStream = new System.IO.MemoryStream(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes( contents));

HTML if image is not found

Try using border=0 in the img tag to make the ugly square go away.

<img src="someimage.png" border="0" alt="some alternate text" />

set dropdown value by text using jquery

For GOOGLE, GOOGLEDOWN, GOOGLEUP i.e similar kind of value you can try below code

   $("#HowYouKnow option:contains('GOOGLE')").each(function () {

                        if($(this).html()=='GOOGLE'){
                            $(this).attr('selected', 'selected');
                        }
                    });

In this way,number of loop iteration can be reduced and will work in all situation.

Forbidden You don't have permission to access /wp-login.php on this server

Sometimes if you are using some simple login info like this: username: 'admin' and pass: 'admin', the hosting is seeing you as a potential Brute Force Attack through WP login file, and blocks you IP address or that particularly file.

I had that issue with ixwebhosting and just got that info from their support guy. They must unban your IP in this situation. And you must change your WP admin login info to something more secure.

That solved my problem.

Swift apply .uppercaseString to only the first letter of a string

Credits to Leonardo Savio Dabus:

I imagine most use cases is to get Proper Casing:

import Foundation

extension String {

    var toProper:String {
        var result = lowercaseString
        result.replaceRange(startIndex...startIndex, with: String(self[startIndex]).capitalizedString)
        return result
    }
}

How do I add options to a DropDownList using jQuery?

try this Function:

function addtoselect(param,value){
    $('#mySelectBox').append('&lt;option value='+value+'&gt;'+param+'&lt;/option&gt;');
}

Is there a maximum number you can set Xmx to when trying to increase jvm memory?

I think that it's around 2GB. While the answer by Pete Kirkham is very interesting and probably holds truth, I have allocated upwards of 3GB without error, however it did not use 3GB in practice. That might explain why you were able to allocate 2.5 GB on 2GB RAM with no swap space. In practice, it wasn't using 2.5GB.

How to split a long array into smaller arrays, with JavaScript

function chunkArrayInGroups(arr, size) {
    var newArr=[];

    for (var i=0; i < arr.length; i+= size){
    newArr.push(arr.slice(i,i+size));
    }
    return newArr;

}

chunkArrayInGroups([0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], 3);

Hibernate Delete query

instead of using

session.delete(object)

use

getHibernateTemplate().delete(object)

In both place for select query and also for delete use getHibernateTemplate()

In select query you have to use DetachedCriteria or Criteria

Example for select query

List<foo> fooList = new ArrayList<foo>();
DetachedCriteria queryCriteria = DetachedCriteria.forClass(foo.class);
queryCriteria.add(Restrictions.eq("Column_name",restriction));
fooList = getHibernateTemplate().findByCriteria(queryCriteria);

In hibernate avoid use of session,here I am not sure but problem occurs just because of session use

How do I create a timeline chart which shows multiple events? Eg. Metallica Band members timeline on wiki

As mentioned in the earlier comment, stacked bar chart does the trick, though the data needs to be setup differently.(See image below)

Duration column = End - Start

  1. Once done, plot your stacked bar chart using the entire data.
  2. Mark start and end range to no fill.
  3. Right click on the X Axis and change Axis options manually. (This did cause me some issues, till I realized I couldn't manipulate them to enter dates, :) yeah I am newbie, excel masters! :))

enter image description here

How can I change UIButton title color?

You created the UIButton is added the ViewController, The following instance method to change UIFont, tintColor and TextColor of the UIButton

Objective-C

 buttonName.titleLabel.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"LuzSans-Book" size:15];
 buttonName.tintColor = [UIColor purpleColor];
 [buttonName setTitleColor:[UIColor purpleColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];

Swift

buttonName.titleLabel.font = UIFont(name: "LuzSans-Book", size: 15)
buttonName.tintColor = UIColor.purpleColor()
buttonName.setTitleColor(UIColor.purpleColor(), forState: .Normal)

Swift3

buttonName.titleLabel?.font = UIFont(name: "LuzSans-Book", size: 15)
buttonName.tintColor = UIColor.purple
buttonName.setTitleColor(UIColor.purple, for: .normal)

Sending "User-agent" using Requests library in Python

It's more convenient to use a session, this way you don't have to remember to set headers each time:

session = requests.Session()
session.headers.update({'User-Agent': 'Custom user agent'})

session.get('https://httpbin.org/headers')

By default, session also manages cookies for you. In case you want to disable that, see this question.

How to easily import multiple sql files into a MySQL database?

Just type below command on your command prompt & it will bind all sql file into single sql file,

c:/xampp/mysql/bin/sql/ type *.sql > OneFile.sql;

Adding a new array element to a JSON object

JSON is just a notation; to make the change you want parse it so you can apply the changes to a native JavaScript Object, then stringify back to JSON

var jsonStr = '{"theTeam":[{"teamId":"1","status":"pending"},{"teamId":"2","status":"member"},{"teamId":"3","status":"member"}]}';

var obj = JSON.parse(jsonStr);
obj['theTeam'].push({"teamId":"4","status":"pending"});
jsonStr = JSON.stringify(obj);
// "{"theTeam":[{"teamId":"1","status":"pending"},{"teamId":"2","status":"member"},{"teamId":"3","status":"member"},{"teamId":"4","status":"pending"}]}"

Filezilla FTP Server Fails to Retrieve Directory Listing

I solved this by going into Site Manager -> selected the connection that Failed to retrieve directory listing -> Switched to tab "Transfer Settings" and set "Transfer Mode" to "Active" instead of "Default". Also check if you are connected via VPN or anything similar, this can also interfere.

Retrieving subfolders names in S3 bucket from boto3

Following is the piece of code that can handle pagination, if you are trying to fetch large number of S3 bucket objects:

def get_matching_s3_objects(bucket, prefix="", suffix=""):

    s3 = boto3.client("s3")
    paginator = s3.get_paginator("list_objects_v2")

    kwargs = {'Bucket': bucket}

    # We can pass the prefix directly to the S3 API.  If the user has passed
    # a tuple or list of prefixes, we go through them one by one.
    if isinstance(prefix, str):
        prefixes = (prefix, )
    else:
        prefixes = prefix

    for key_prefix in prefixes:
        kwargs["Prefix"] = key_prefix

        for page in paginator.paginate(**kwargs):
            try:
                contents = page["Contents"]
            except KeyError:
                return

            for obj in contents:
                key = obj["Key"]
                if key.endswith(suffix):
                    yield obj

How to know if an object has an attribute in Python

Depending on the situation you can check with isinstance what kind of object you have, and then use the corresponding attributes. With the introduction of abstract base classes in Python 2.6/3.0 this approach has also become much more powerful (basically ABCs allow for a more sophisticated way of duck typing).

One situation were this is useful would be if two different objects have an attribute with the same name, but with different meaning. Using only hasattr might then lead to strange errors.

One nice example is the distinction between iterators and iterables (see this question). The __iter__ methods in an iterator and an iterable have the same name but are semantically quite different! So hasattr is useless, but isinstance together with ABC's provides a clean solution.

However, I agree that in most situations the hasattr approach (described in other answers) is the most appropriate solution.

MongoNetworkError: failed to connect to server [localhost:27017] on first connect [MongoNetworkError: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:27017]

I had this issue while working at the local Starbucks and I remembered that when I initially set up my database through Mongo Atlas. I set my IP address to be able to access the database. After looking through several threads, I changed my IP address on Atlas and the issue went away. Hope this helps someone.

How to upload file using Selenium WebDriver in Java

driver.findElement(By.id("urid")).sendKeys("drive:\\path\\filename.extension");

MySQL > Table doesn't exist. But it does (or it should)

I had the same problem and I searched for 2-3 days, but the solution for me was really stupid.

Restart the mysql

$ sudo service mysql restart

Now tables become accessible.

How to get values from selected row in DataGrid for Windows Form Application?

Description

Assuming i understand your question.

You can get the selected row using the DataGridView.SelectedRows Collection. If your DataGridView allows only one selected, have a look at my sample.

DataGridView.SelectedRows Gets the collection of rows selected by the user.

Sample

if (dataGridView1.SelectedRows.Count != 0)
{
    DataGridViewRow row = this.dataGridView1.SelectedRows[0];
    row.Cells["ColumnName"].Value
}

More Information

Access multiple elements of list knowing their index

Another solution could be via pandas Series:

import pandas as pd

a = pd.Series([-2, 1, 5, 3, 8, 5, 6])
b = [1, 2, 5]
c = a[b]

You can then convert c back to a list if you want:

c = list(c)

How to use sha256 in php5.3.0

You should use Adaptive hashing like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcrypt for securing passwords

How to hide html source & disable right click and text copy?

If you are using jQuery, it is possible to disable rightclick on the whole page like this:

$( document ).ready(function() {
    $("html").on("contextmenu",function(){
        return false;});}

Git blame -- prior commits?

I use this little bash script to look at a blame history.

First parameter: file to look at

Subsequent parameters: Passed to git blame

#!/bin/bash
f=$1
shift
{ git log --pretty=format:%H -- "$f"; echo; } | {
  while read hash; do
    echo "--- $hash"
    git blame $@ $hash -- "$f" | sed 's/^/  /'
  done
}

You may supply blame-parameters like -L 70,+10 but it is better to use the regex-search of git blame because line-numbers typically "change" over time.

Change the color of cells in one column when they don't match cells in another column

In my case I had to compare column E and I.

I used conditional formatting with new rule. Formula was "=IF($E1<>$I1,1,0)" for highlights in orange and "=IF($E1=$I1,1,0)" to highlight in green.

Next problem is how many columns you want to highlight. If you open Conditional Formatting Rules Manager you can edit for each rule domain of applicability: Check "Applies to"

In my case I used "=$E:$E,$I:$I" for both rules so I highlight only two columns for differences - column I and column E.

Line break in SSRS expression

In my case, Environment.NewLine was working fine while previewing the report in Visual Studio. But when I tried to publish the rdl to Dynamics 365 CE, I received the error "The report server has RDLSandboxing enabled and the Value expression for the text box 'Textbox10' contains a reference to a type, namespace, or member 'Environment' that is not allowed."

So I had to replace Environment.NewLine with vbcrlf.

Reset Excel to default borders

I was having the same trouble with importing from Excel 2010 to Access, appending an "identical" table. Early on in the wizard it said not all my column names were valid, even though I checked them. It turns out that it saw an "empty" column with no column name. When I tried using the import wizard to create a new table instead, it worked. However, I noticed that it had added a blank column to the right of my data and called it "Field30". So I went back to the spreadsheet I was trying to import, selected the columns to the right of the data that I wanted, right-clicked and chose "clear contents." That did the trick and I was able to import the spreadsheet, appending it to my table.

Jenkins: Failed to connect to repository

Let me add here that one very minor issue that could generate this type of error is the missing .git extension in the repository URL. Ensure you enter the fully qualified URL ending with .git. I use bitbucket so what I do do is do click 'clone' and the fully qualified URL is automatically generated for me. There is a similar approach with github.

Why is it bad style to `rescue Exception => e` in Ruby?

TL;DR

Don't rescue Exception => e (and not re-raise the exception) - or you might drive off a bridge.


Let's say you are in a car (running Ruby). You recently installed a new steering wheel with the over-the-air upgrade system (which uses eval), but you didn't know one of the programmers messed up on syntax.

You are on a bridge, and realize you are going a bit towards the railing, so you turn left.

def turn_left
  self.turn left:
end

oops! That's probably Not Good™, luckily, Ruby raises a SyntaxError.

The car should stop immediately - right?

Nope.

begin
  #...
  eval self.steering_wheel
  #...
rescue Exception => e
  self.beep
  self.log "Caught #{e}.", :warn
  self.log "Logged Error - Continuing Process.", :info
end

beep beep

Warning: Caught SyntaxError Exception.

Info: Logged Error - Continuing Process.

You notice something is wrong, and you slam on the emergency breaks (^C: Interrupt)

beep beep

Warning: Caught Interrupt Exception.

Info: Logged Error - Continuing Process.

Yeah - that didn't help much. You're pretty close to the rail, so you put the car in park (killing: SignalException).

beep beep

Warning: Caught SignalException Exception.

Info: Logged Error - Continuing Process.

At the last second, you pull out the keys (kill -9), and the car stops, you slam forward into the steering wheel (the airbag can't inflate because you didn't gracefully stop the program - you terminated it), and the computer in the back of your car slams into the seat in front of it. A half-full can of Coke spills over the papers. The groceries in the back are crushed, and most are covered in egg yolk and milk. The car needs serious repair and cleaning. (Data Loss)

Hopefully you have insurance (Backups). Oh yeah - because the airbag didn't inflate, you're probably hurt (getting fired, etc).


But wait! There's more reasons why you might want to use rescue Exception => e!

Let's say you're that car, and you want to make sure the airbag inflates if the car is exceeding its safe stopping momentum.

 begin 
    # do driving stuff
 rescue Exception => e
    self.airbags.inflate if self.exceeding_safe_stopping_momentum?
    raise
 end

Here's the exception to the rule: You can catch Exception only if you re-raise the exception. So, a better rule is to never swallow Exception, and always re-raise the error.

But adding rescue is both easy to forget in a language like Ruby, and putting a rescue statement right before re-raising an issue feels a little non-DRY. And you do not want to forget the raise statement. And if you do, good luck trying to find that error.

Thankfully, Ruby is awesome, you can just use the ensure keyword, which makes sure the code runs. The ensure keyword will run the code no matter what - if an exception is thrown, if one isn't, the only exception being if the world ends (or other unlikely events).

 begin 
    # do driving stuff
 ensure
    self.airbags.inflate if self.exceeding_safe_stopping_momentum?
 end

Boom! And that code should run anyways. The only reason you should use rescue Exception => e is if you need access to the exception, or if you only want code to run on an exception. And remember to re-raise the error. Every time.

Note: As @Niall pointed out, ensure always runs. This is good because sometimes your program can lie to you and not throw exceptions, even when issues occur. With critical tasks, like inflating airbags, you need to make sure it happens no matter what. Because of this, checking every time the car stops, whether an exception is thrown or not, is a good idea. Even though inflating airbags is a bit of an uncommon task in most programming contexts, this is actually pretty common with most cleanup tasks.

Getting rid of all the rounded corners in Twitter Bootstrap

This question is pretty old however it is highly visible on search engines even in Bootstrap 4 related searches. I think it worths to add an answer for disabling the rounded corners, BS4 way.

In the _variables.scss there are several global modifiers exists to quickly change the stuff such as enabling or disabling flex gird system, rounded corners, gradients etc. :

$enable-flex:          false !default;
$enable-rounded:       true !default; // <-- This one
$enable-shadows:       false !default;
$enable-gradients:     false !default;
$enable-transitions:   false !default;

Rounded corners are enabled by default.

If you prefer compiling the Bootstrap 4 using Sass and your very own _custom.scss like me (or using official customizer), overriding the related variable is enough:

$enable-rounded : false

Angular HttpPromise: difference between `success`/`error` methods and `then`'s arguments

There are some good answers here already. But it's worthwhile to drive home the difference in parallelism offered:

  • success() returns the original promise
  • then() returns a new promise

The difference is then() drives sequential operations, since each call returns a new promise.

$http.get(/*...*/).
  then(function seqFunc1(response){/*...*/}).
  then(function seqFunc2(response){/*...*/})
  1. $http.get()
  2. seqFunc1()
  3. seqFunc2()

success() drives parallel operations, since handlers are chained on the same promise.

$http(/*...*/).
  success(function parFunc1(data){/*...*/}).
  success(function parFunc2(data){/*...*/})
  1. $http.get()
  2. parFunc1(), parFunc2() in parallel

How do I check if a string is unicode or ascii?

This may help someone else, I started out testing for the string type of the variable s, but for my application, it made more sense to simply return s as utf-8. The process calling return_utf, then knows what it is dealing with and can handle the string appropriately. The code is not pristine, but I intend for it to be Python version agnostic without a version test or importing six. Please comment with improvements to the sample code below to help other people.

def return_utf(s):
    if isinstance(s, str):
        return s.encode('utf-8')
    if isinstance(s, (int, float, complex)):
        return str(s).encode('utf-8')
    try:
        return s.encode('utf-8')
    except TypeError:
        try:
            return str(s).encode('utf-8')
        except AttributeError:
            return s
    except AttributeError:
        return s
    return s # assume it was already utf-8

How to make clang compile to llvm IR

Use

clang -emit-llvm -o foo.bc -c foo.c
clang -o foo foo.bc

MySQL check if a table exists without throwing an exception

As a "Show tables" might be slow on larger databases, I recommend using "DESCRIBE " and check if you get true/false as a result

$tableExists = mysqli_query("DESCRIBE `myTable`");

Replace Default Null Values Returned From Left Outer Join

That's as easy as

IsNull(FieldName, 0)

Or more completely:

SELECT iar.Description, 
  ISNULL(iai.Quantity,0) as Quantity, 
  ISNULL(iai.Quantity * rpl.RegularPrice,0) as 'Retail', 
  iar.Compliance 
FROM InventoryAdjustmentReason iar
LEFT OUTER JOIN InventoryAdjustmentItem iai  on (iar.Id = iai.InventoryAdjustmentReasonId)
LEFT OUTER JOIN Item i on (i.Id = iai.ItemId)
LEFT OUTER JOIN ReportPriceLookup rpl on (rpl.SkuNumber = i.SkuNo)
WHERE iar.StoreUse = 'yes'

How to trust a apt repository : Debian apt-get update error public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY <id>

I had the same problem of "gpg: keyserver timed out" with a couple of different servers. Finally, it turned out that I didn't need to do that manually at all. On a Debian system, the simple solution which fixed it was just (as root or precede with sudo):

aptitude install debian-archive-keyring

In case it is some other keyring you need, check out

apt-cache search keyring | grep debian

My squeeze system shows all these:

debian-archive-keyring       - GnuPG archive keys of the Debian archive
debian-edu-archive-keyring   - GnuPG archive keys of the Debian Edu archive
debian-keyring               - GnuPG keys of Debian Developers
debian-ports-archive-keyring - GnuPG archive keys of the debian-ports archive
emdebian-archive-keyring     - GnuPG archive keys for the emdebian repository

Can I get the name of the currently running function in JavaScript?

Here is a one liner:

    arguments.callee.toString().split('\n')[0].substr('function '.length).replace(/\(.*/, "").replace('\r', '')

Like this:

    function logChanges() {
      let whoami = arguments.callee.toString().split('\n')[0].substr('function '.length).replace(/\(.*/, "").replace('\r', '');
      console.log(whoami + ': just getting started.');
    }

Best way to overlay an ESRI shapefile on google maps?

Just to update these answers, ESRI has included this tool, known as Layer to KML in ArcMap 10.X. Also, a Map to KML tool exists.

Simply import the desired layer (vector or raster) and choose the output location, resolution, etc. Very simple tool.

Nginx reverse proxy causing 504 Gateway Timeout

You can also face this situation if your upstream server uses a domain name, and its IP address changes (e.g.: your upstream points to an AWS Elastic Load Balancer)

The problem is that nginx will resolve the IP address once, and keep it cached for subsequent requests until the configuration is reloaded.

You can tell nginx to use a name server to re-resolve the domain once the cached entry expires:

location /mylocation {
    # use google dns to resolve host after IP cached expires
    resolver 8.8.8.8;
    set $upstream_endpoint http://your.backend.server/;
    proxy_pass $upstream_endpoint;
}

The docs on proxy_pass explain why this trick works:

Parameter value can contain variables. In this case, if an address is specified as a domain name, the name is searched among the described server groups, and, if not found, is determined using a resolver.

Kudos to "Nginx with dynamic upstreams" (tenzer.dk) for the detailed explanation, which also contains some relevant information on a caveat of this approach regarding forwarded URIs.