Programs & Examples On #Jwplayer

JW Player is a web video player with support for HTML5 video and Flash video, free for non-commercial use with commercial and enterprise licenses available. JW Player is supported across browsers & devices and offers complete JavaScript API control.

generate random string for div id

2018 edit: I think this answer has some interesting info, but for any practical applications you should use Joe's answer instead.

A simple way to create a unique ID in JavaScript is to use the Date object:

var uniqid = Date.now();

That gives you the total milliseconds elapsed since January 1st 1970, which is a unique value every time you call that.

The problem with that value now is that you cannot use it as an element's ID, since in HTML, IDs need to start with an alphabetical character. There is also the problem that two users doing an action at the exact same time might result in the same ID. We could lessen the probability of that, and fix our alphabetical character problem, by appending a random letter before the numerical part of the ID.

var randLetter = String.fromCharCode(65 + Math.floor(Math.random() * 26));
var uniqid = randLetter + Date.now();

This still has a chance, however slim, of colliding though. Your best bet for a unique id is to keep a running count, increment it every time, and do all that in a single place, ie, on the server.

Convert string to number and add one

Parse the Id as it would be string and then add.

e.g.

$('.load_more').live("click",function() { //When user clicks
    var newcurrentpageTemp = parseInt($(this).attr("id")) + 1;//Get the id from the hyperlink
    alert(newcurrentpageTemp);
    dosomething();
});

How to redirect both stdout and stderr to a file

The simplest syntax to redirect both is:

command &> logfile

If you want to append to the file instead of overwrite:

command &>> logfile

How to reset the use/password of jenkins on windows?

1 ) Copy the initialAdminPassword in Specified path.

2 ) Login with following Credentials

User Name : admin

Password : <da12906084fd405090a9fabfd66342f0> 

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3 ) Once you login into the jenkins application you can click on admin profile and reset the password.

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I can't delete a remote master branch on git

As explained in "Deleting your master branch" by Matthew Brett, you need to change your GitHub repo default branch.

You need to go to the GitHub page for your forked repository, and click on the “Settings” button.

Click on the "Branches" tab on the left hand side. There’s a “Default branch” dropdown list near the top of the screen.

From there, select placeholder (where placeholder is the dummy name for your new default branch).

Confirm that you want to change your default branch.

Now you can do (from the command line):

git push origin :master

Or, since 2012, you can delete that same branch directly on GitHub:

GitHub deletion

That was announced in Sept. 2013, a year after I initially wrote that answer.

For small changes like documentation fixes, typos, or if you’re just a walking software compiler, you can get a lot done in your browser without needing to clone the entire repository to your computer.


Note: for BitBucket, Tum reports in the comments:

About the same for Bitbucket

Repo -> Settings -> Repository details -> Main branch

Currently running queries in SQL Server

There's this, from SQL Server DMV's In Action book:

The output shows the spid (process identifier), the ecid (this is similar to a thread within the same spid and is useful for identifying queries running in parallel), the user running the SQL, the status (whether the SQL is running or waiting), the wait status (why it’s waiting), the hostname, the domain name, and the start time (useful for determining how long the batch has been running).

The nice part is the query and parent query. That shows, for example, a stored proc as the parent and the query within the stored proc that is running. It has been very handy for me. I hope this helps someone else.

USE master
GO
SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED
SELECT
er.session_Id AS [Spid]
, sp.ecid
, er.start_time
, DATEDIFF(SS,er.start_time,GETDATE()) as [Age Seconds]
, sp.nt_username
, er.status
, er.wait_type
, SUBSTRING (qt.text, (er.statement_start_offset/2) + 1,
((CASE WHEN er.statement_end_offset = -1
THEN LEN(CONVERT(NVARCHAR(MAX), qt.text)) * 2
ELSE er.statement_end_offset
END - er.statement_start_offset)/2) + 1) AS [Individual Query]
, qt.text AS [Parent Query]
, sp.program_name
, sp.Hostname
, sp.nt_domain


FROM sys.dm_exec_requests er
INNER JOIN sys.sysprocesses sp ON er.session_id = sp.spid
CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(er.sql_handle)as qt
WHERE session_Id > 50
AND session_Id NOT IN (@@SPID)
ORDER BY session_Id, ecid

How can I find out the total physical memory (RAM) of my linux box suitable to be parsed by a shell script?

If you're interested in the physical RAM, use the command dmidecode. It gives you a lot more information than just that, but depending on your use case, you might also want to know if the 8G in the system come from 2x4GB sticks or 4x2GB sticks.

Comprehensive methods of viewing memory usage on Solaris

Top can be compiled from sources or downloaded from sunfreeware.com. As previously posted, vmstat is available (I believe it's in the core install?).

HTML embedded PDF iframe

Try this out.

_x000D_
_x000D_
<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf&embedded=true" frameborder="0" height="100%" width="100%">_x000D_
</iframe>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Custom method names in ASP.NET Web API

See this article for a longer discussion of named actions. It also shows that you can use the [HttpGet] attribute instead of prefixing the action name with "get".

http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/web-api-routing-and-actions/routing-in-aspnet-web-api

Fling gesture detection on grid layout

There's some proposition over the web (and this page) to use ViewConfiguration.getScaledTouchSlop() to have a device-scaled value for SWIPE_MIN_DISTANCE.

getScaledTouchSlop() is intended for the "scrolling threshold" distance, not swipe. The scrolling threshold distance has to be smaller than a "swing between page" threshold distance. For example, this function returns 12 pixels on my Samsung GS2, and the examples quoted in this page are around 100 pixels.

With API Level 8 (Android 2.2, Froyo), you've got getScaledPagingTouchSlop(), intended for page swipe. On my device, it returns 24 (pixels). So if you're on API Level < 8, I think "2 * getScaledTouchSlop()" should be the "standard" swipe threshold. But users of my application with small screens told me that it was too few... As on my application, you can scroll vertically, and change page horizontally. With the proposed value, they sometimes change page instead of scrolling.

How to write and read a file with a HashMap?

You can write an object to a file using writeObject in ObjectOutputStream

ObjectOutputStream

Node.js connect only works on localhost

To gain access for other users to your local machine, i usually use ngrok. Ngrok exposes your localhost to the web, and has an NPM wrapper that is simple to install and start:

$ npm install ngrok -g
$ ngrok http 3000

See this example usage:

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In the above example, the locally running instance of sails at: localhost:3000 is now available on the Internet served at: http://69f8f0ee.ngrok.io or https://69f8f0ee.ngrok.io

Infinite Recursion with Jackson JSON and Hibernate JPA issue

The new annotation @JsonIgnoreProperties resolves many of the issues with the other options.

@Entity

public class Material{
   ...    
   @JsonIgnoreProperties("costMaterials")
   private List<Supplier> costSuppliers = new ArrayList<>();
   ...
}

@Entity
public class Supplier{
   ...
   @JsonIgnoreProperties("costSuppliers")
   private List<Material> costMaterials = new ArrayList<>();
   ....
}

Check it out here. It works just like in the documentation:
http://springquay.blogspot.com/2016/01/new-approach-to-solve-json-recursive.html

Why does sudo change the PATH?

Just comment out "Defaults env_reset" in /etc/sudoers

Fixed header, footer with scrollable content

Something like this

<html>
  <body style="height:100%; width:100%">
    <div id="header" style="position:absolute; top:0px; left:0px; height:200px; right:0px;overflow:hidden;"> 
    </div> 
    <div id="content" style="position:absolute; top:200px; bottom:200px; left:0px; right:0px; overflow:auto;"> 
    </div> 
    <div id="footer" style="position:absolute; bottom:0px; height:200px; left:0px; right:0px; overflow:hidden;"> 
    </div>
  </body>
</html> 

Why is super.super.method(); not allowed in Java?

I think the following code allow to use super.super...super.method() in most case. (even if it's uggly to do that)

In short

  1. create temporary instance of ancestor type
  2. copy values of fields from original object to temporary one
  3. invoke target method on temporary object
  4. copy modified values back to original object

Usage :

public class A {
   public void doThat() { ... }
}

public class B extends A {
   public void doThat() { /* don't call super.doThat() */ }
}

public class C extends B {
   public void doThat() {
      Magic.exec(A.class, this, "doThat");
   }
}


public class Magic {
    public static <Type, ChieldType extends Type> void exec(Class<Type> oneSuperType, ChieldType instance,
            String methodOfParentToExec) {
        try {
            Type type = oneSuperType.newInstance();
            shareVars(oneSuperType, instance, type);
            oneSuperType.getMethod(methodOfParentToExec).invoke(type);
            shareVars(oneSuperType, type, instance);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }
    private static <Type, SourceType extends Type, TargetType extends Type> void shareVars(Class<Type> clazz,
            SourceType source, TargetType target) throws IllegalArgumentException, IllegalAccessException {
        Class<?> loop = clazz;
        do {
            for (Field f : loop.getDeclaredFields()) {
                if (!f.isAccessible()) {
                    f.setAccessible(true);
                }
                f.set(target, f.get(source));
            }
            loop = loop.getSuperclass();
        } while (loop != Object.class);
    }
}

(Excel) Conditional Formatting based on Adjacent Cell Value

I don't know if maybe it's a difference in Excel version but this question is 6 years old and the accepted answer didn't help me so this is what I figured out:

Under Conditional Formatting > Manage Rules:

  1. Make a new rule with "Use a formula to determine which cells to format"
  2. Make your rule, but put a dollar sign only in front of the letter: $A2<$B2
  3. Under "Applies to", Manually select the second column (It would not work for me if I changed the value in the box, it just kept snapping back to what was already there), so it looks like $B$2:$B$100 (assuming you have 100 rows)

This worked for me in Excel 2016.

Is there any way to return HTML in a PHP function? (without building the return value as a string)

Yes, there is: you can capture the echoed text using ob_start:

<?php function TestBlockHTML($replStr) {
    ob_start(); ?>
    <html>
    <body><h1><?php echo($replStr) ?></h1>
    </html>
<?php
    return ob_get_clean();
} ?>

How to respond with HTTP 400 error in a Spring MVC @ResponseBody method returning String?

I would change the implementation slightly:

First, I create a UnknownMatchException:

@ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND)
public class UnknownMatchException extends RuntimeException {
    public UnknownMatchException(String matchId) {
        super("Unknown match: " + matchId);
    }
}

Note the use of @ResponseStatus, which will be recognized by Spring's ResponseStatusExceptionResolver. If the exception is thrown, it will create a response with the corresponding response status. (I also took the liberty of changing the status code to 404 - Not Found which I find more appropriate for this use case, but you can stick to HttpStatus.BAD_REQUEST if you like.)


Next, I would change the MatchService to have the following signature:

interface MatchService {
    public Match findMatch(String matchId);
}

Finally, I would update the controller and delegate to Spring's MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter to handle the JSON serialization automatically (it is added by default if you add Jackson to the classpath and add either @EnableWebMvc or <mvc:annotation-driven /> to your config, see the reference docs):

@RequestMapping(value = "/matches/{matchId}", produces = MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE)
@ResponseBody
public Match match(@PathVariable String matchId) {
    // throws an UnknownMatchException if the matchId is not known 
    return matchService.findMatch(matchId);
}

Note, it is very common to separate the domain objects from the view objects or DTO objects. This can easily be achieved by adding a small DTO factory that returns the serializable JSON object:

@RequestMapping(value = "/matches/{matchId}", produces = MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE)
@ResponseBody
public MatchDTO match(@PathVariable String matchId) {
    Match match = matchService.findMatch(matchId);
    return MatchDtoFactory.createDTO(match);
}

How to center canvas in html5

Just center the div in HTML:

  #test {
     width: 100px;
     height:100px;
     margin: 0px auto;
     border: 1px solid red;
   }


<div id="test">
   <canvas width="100" height="100"></canvas>
</div>

Just change the height and width to whatever and you've got a centered div

http://jsfiddle.net/BVghc/2/

Javascript Array of Functions

I think this is what the original poster meant to accomplish:

var array_of_functions = [
    function() { first_function('a string') },
    function() { second_function('a string') },
    function() { third_function('a string') },
    function() { fourth_function('a string') }
]

for (i = 0; i < array_of_functions.length; i++) {
    array_of_functions[i]();
}

Hopefully this will help others (like me 20 minutes ago :-) looking for any hint about how to call JS functions in an array.

Slice indices must be integers or None or have __index__ method

Your debut and fin values are floating point values, not integers, because taille is a float.

Make those values integers instead:

item = plateau[int(debut):int(fin)]

Alternatively, make taille an integer:

taille = int(sqrt(len(plateau)))

Typescript Type 'string' is not assignable to type

I see this is a little old, but there might be a better solution here.

When you want a string, but you want the string to only match certain values, you can use enums.

For example:

enum Fruit {
    Orange = "Orange",
    Apple  = "Apple",
    Banana = "Banana"
}

let myFruit: Fruit = Fruit.Banana;

Now you'll know that no matter what, myFruit will always be the string "Banana" (Or whatever other enumerable value you choose). This is useful for many things, whether it be grouping similar values like this, or mapping user-friendly values to machine-friendly values, all while enforcing and restricting the values the compiler will allow.

How to get Chrome to allow mixed content?

On OSX the following works from the command line:

/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --allow-running-insecure-content

how to align img inside the div to the right?

<div style="width:300px; text-align:right;">
        <img src="someimgage.gif">
</div>

How to start MySQL with --skip-grant-tables?

On the Linux system you can do following (Should be similar for other OS)

Check if mysql process is running:

sudo service mysql status

If runnning then stop the process: (Make sure you close all mysql tool)

sudo service mysql stop

If you have issue stopping then do following

Search for process: ps aux | grep mysqld Kill the process: kill -9 process_id

Now start mysql in safe mode with skip grant

sudo mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables &

How can I strip all punctuation from a string in JavaScript using regex?

It depends on what you are trying to return. I used this recently:

return text.match(/[a-z]/i);

How do I find the authoritative name-server for a domain name?

The term you should be googling is "authoritative," not "definitive".

On Linux or Mac you can use the commands whois, dig, host, nslookup or several others. nslookup might also work on Windows.

An example:

$ whois stackoverflow.com
[...]
   Domain servers in listed order:
      NS51.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
      NS52.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

As for the extra credit: Yes, it is possible.


aryeh is definitely wrong, as his suggestion usually will only give you the IP address for the hostname. If you use dig, you have to look for NS records, like so:

dig ns stackoverflow.com

Keep in mind that this may ask your local DNS server and thus may give wrong or out-of-date answers that it has in its cache.

How to set DataGrid's row Background, based on a property value using data bindings

The same can be done without DataTrigger too:

 <DataGrid.RowStyle>
     <Style TargetType="DataGridRow">
         <Setter Property="Background" >
             <Setter.Value>
                 <Binding Path="State" Converter="{StaticResource BooleanToBrushConverter}">
                     <Binding.ConverterParameter>
                         <x:Array Type="SolidColorBrush">
                             <SolidColorBrush Color="{StaticResource RedColor}"/>
                             <SolidColorBrush Color="{StaticResource TransparentColor}"/>
                         </x:Array>
                     </Binding.ConverterParameter>
                 </Binding>
             </Setter.Value>
         </Setter>
     </Style>
 </DataGrid.RowStyle>

Where BooleanToBrushConverter is the following class:

public class BooleanToBrushConverter : IValueConverter
{
    public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
    {
        if (value == null)
            return Brushes.Transparent;

        Brush[] brushes = parameter as Brush[];
        if (brushes == null)
            return Brushes.Transparent;

        bool isTrue;
        bool.TryParse(value.ToString(), out isTrue);

        if (isTrue)
        {
            var brush =  (SolidColorBrush)brushes[0];
            return brush ?? Brushes.Transparent;
        }
        else
        {
            var brush = (SolidColorBrush)brushes[1];
            return brush ?? Brushes.Transparent;
        }
    }

    public object ConvertBack(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
    {
        throw new NotImplementedException();
    }
}

How to auto generate migrations with Sequelize CLI from Sequelize models?

You can now use the npm package sequelize-auto-migrations to automatically generate a migrations file. https://www.npmjs.com/package/sequelize-auto-migrations

Using sequelize-cli, initialize your project with

sequelize init

Create your models and put them in your models folder.

Install sequelize-auto-migrations:

npm install sequelize-auto-migrations

Create an initial migration file with

node ./node_modules/sequelize-auto-migrations/bin/makemigration --name <initial_migration_name>

Run your migration:

node ./node_modules/sequelize-auto-migrations/bin/runmigration

You can also automatically generate your models from an existing database, but that is beyond the scope of the question.

How to check size of a file using Bash?

I would use du's --threshold for this. Not sure if this option is available in all versions of du but it is implemented in GNU's version.

Quoting from du(1)'s manual:

-t, --threshold=SIZE
       exclude entries smaller than SIZE if positive, or entries greater
       than SIZE if negative

Here's my solution, using du --threshold= for OP's use case:

THRESHOLD=90k
if [[ -z "$(du --threshold=${THRESHOLD} file.txt)" ]]; then
    mail -s "file.txt size is below ${THRESHOLD}, please fix. " [email protected] < /dev/null
    mv -f /root/tmp/file.txt /var/www/file.txt
fi

The advantage of that, is that du can accept an argument to that option in a known format - either human as in 10K, 10MiB or what ever you feel comfortable with - you don't need to manually convert between formats / units since du handles that.

For reference, here's the explanation on this SIZE argument from the man page:

The SIZE argument is an integer and optional unit (example: 10K is 
10*1024). Units are K,M,G,T,P,E,Z,Y (powers of 1024) or KB,MB,... (powers
of 1000). Binary prefixes can be used, too: KiB=K, MiB=M, and so on.

Programmatically stop execution of python script?

You could raise SystemExit(0) instead of going to all the trouble to import sys; sys.exit(0).

Add context path to Spring Boot application

For below Spring boot 2 version you need to use below code

server:
   context-path: abc    

And For Spring boot 2+ version use below code

server:
  servlet:
    context-path: abc

How can I add a username and password to Jenkins?

You need to Enable security and set the security realm on the Configure Global Security page (see: Standard Security Setup) and choose the appropriate Authorization method (Security Realm).

Jenkins Security Realm, Hudson's own user database

Depending on your selection, create the user using appropriate method. Recommended method is to select Jenkins’ own user database and tick Allow users to sign up, hit Save button, then you should be able to create user from the Jenkins interface. Otherwise if you've chosen external database, you need to create the user there (e.g. if it's Unix database, use credentials of existing Linux/Unix users or create a standard user using shell interface).

See also: Creating user in Jenkins via API

How can I get new selection in "select" in Angular 2?

Angular 7/8

As of angular 6,the use of ngModel input property with reactive forms directive have been deprecated and removed altogether in angular 7+. Read official doc here.

Using reactive form approach you can get/set selected data as;

      //in your template
 <select formControlName="person" (change)="onChange($event)"class="form-control">
    <option [value]="null" disabled>Choose person</option>
      <option *ngFor="let person of persons" [value]="person"> 
        {{person.name}}
    </option>
 </select> 


 //in your ts
 onChange($event) {
    let person = this.peopleForm.get("person").value
    console.log("selected person--->", person);
    // this.peopleForm.get("person").setValue(person.id);
  }

Typescript interface default values

While @Timar's answer works perfectly for null default values (what was asked for), here another easy solution which allows other default values: Define an option interface as well as an according constant containing the defaults; in the constructor use the spread operator to set the options member variable

interface IXOptions {
    a?: string,
    b?: any,
    c?: number
}

const XDefaults: IXOptions = {
    a: "default",
    b: null,
    c: 1
}

export class ClassX {
    private options: IXOptions;

    constructor(XOptions: IXOptions) {
        this.options = { ...XDefaults, ...XOptions };
    }

    public printOptions(): void {
        console.log(this.options.a);
        console.log(this.options.b);
        console.log(this.options.c);
    }
}

Now you can use the class like this:

const x = new ClassX({ a: "set" });
x.printOptions();

Output:

set
null
1

No value accessor for form control with name: 'recipient'

Make sure you import MaterialModule as well since you are using md-input which does not belong to FormsModule

Call-time pass-by-reference has been removed

Only call time pass-by-reference is removed. So change:

call_user_func($func, &$this, &$client ...

To this:

call_user_func($func, $this, $client ...

&$this should never be needed after PHP4 anyway period.

If you absolutely need $client to be passed by reference, update the function ($func) signature instead (function func(&$client) {)

How do I extract Month and Year in a MySQL date and compare them?

in Mysql Doku: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_extract

SELECT EXTRACT( YEAR_MONTH FROM `date` ) 
FROM `Table` WHERE Condition = 'Condition';

How to display a JSON representation and not [Object Object] on the screen

this.http.get<any>('http://192.168.1.15:4000/GetPriority')
  .subscribe(response => 
  {
  this.records=JSON.stringify(response) // impoprtant
  console.log("records"+this.records)
  });

Failed to load JavaHL Library

If you do not need to use JavaHL, Subclipse also provides a pure-Java SVN API library -- SVNKit (http://svnkit.com). Just install the SVNKit client adapter and library plugins from the Subclipse update site and then choose it in the preferences under Team > SVN.

ES6 Map in Typescript

Typescript does not yet support Map.

ES6 Compatibility Table

How to pass a function as a parameter in Java?

You could use Java reflection to do this. The method would be represented as an instance of java.lang.reflect.Method.

import java.lang.reflect.Method;

public class Demo {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{
        Class[] parameterTypes = new Class[1];
        parameterTypes[0] = String.class;
        Method method1 = Demo.class.getMethod("method1", parameterTypes);

        Demo demo = new Demo();
        demo.method2(demo, method1, "Hello World");
    }

    public void method1(String message) {
        System.out.println(message);
    }

    public void method2(Object object, Method method, String message) throws Exception {
        Object[] parameters = new Object[1];
        parameters[0] = message;
        method.invoke(object, parameters);
    }

}

How to create a function in SQL Server

I can give a small hack, you can use T-SQL function. Try this:

SELECT ID, PARSENAME(WebsiteName, 2)
FROM dbo.YourTable .....

Why does JavaScript only work after opening developer tools in IE once?

Here's another possible reason besides the console.log issue (at least in IE11):

When the console is not open, IE does pretty aggressive caching, so make sure that any $.ajax calls or XMLHttpRequest calls have caching set to false.

For example:

$.ajax({cache: false, ...})

When the developer console is open, caching is less aggressive. Seems to be a bug (or maybe a feature?)

scrollTop animation without jquery

HTML:

<button onclick="scrollToTop(1000);"></button>

1# JavaScript (linear):

function scrollToTop (duration) {
    // cancel if already on top
    if (document.scrollingElement.scrollTop === 0) return;

    const totalScrollDistance = document.scrollingElement.scrollTop;
    let scrollY = totalScrollDistance, oldTimestamp = null;

    function step (newTimestamp) {
        if (oldTimestamp !== null) {
            // if duration is 0 scrollY will be -Infinity
            scrollY -= totalScrollDistance * (newTimestamp - oldTimestamp) / duration;
            if (scrollY <= 0) return document.scrollingElement.scrollTop = 0;
            document.scrollingElement.scrollTop = scrollY;
        }
        oldTimestamp = newTimestamp;
        window.requestAnimationFrame(step);
    }
    window.requestAnimationFrame(step);
}

2# JavaScript (ease in and out):

function scrollToTop (duration) {
    // cancel if already on top
    if (document.scrollingElement.scrollTop === 0) return;

    const cosParameter = document.scrollingElement.scrollTop / 2;
    let scrollCount = 0, oldTimestamp = null;

    function step (newTimestamp) {
        if (oldTimestamp !== null) {
            // if duration is 0 scrollCount will be Infinity
            scrollCount += Math.PI * (newTimestamp - oldTimestamp) / duration;
            if (scrollCount >= Math.PI) return document.scrollingElement.scrollTop = 0;
            document.scrollingElement.scrollTop = cosParameter + cosParameter * Math.cos(scrollCount);
        }
        oldTimestamp = newTimestamp;
        window.requestAnimationFrame(step);
    }
    window.requestAnimationFrame(step);
}
/* 
  Explanation:
  - pi is the length/end point of the cosinus intervall (see below)
  - newTimestamp indicates the current time when callbacks queued by requestAnimationFrame begin to fire.
    (for more information see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/window/requestAnimationFrame)
  - newTimestamp - oldTimestamp equals the delta time

    a * cos (bx + c) + d                        | c translates along the x axis = 0
  = a * cos (bx) + d                            | d translates along the y axis = 1 -> only positive y values
  = a * cos (bx) + 1                            | a stretches along the y axis = cosParameter = window.scrollY / 2
  = cosParameter + cosParameter * (cos bx)  | b stretches along the x axis = scrollCount = Math.PI / (scrollDuration / (newTimestamp - oldTimestamp))
  = cosParameter + cosParameter * (cos scrollCount * x)
*/

Note:

  • Duration in milliseconds (1000ms = 1s)
  • Second script uses the cos function. Example curve:

enter image description here

3# Simple scrolling library on Github

Creating a JSON array in C#

You're close. This should do the trick:

new {items = new [] {
    new {name = "command" , index = "X", optional = "0"}, 
    new {name = "command" , index = "X", optional = "0"}
}}

If your source was an enumerable of some sort, you might want to do this:

new {items = source.Select(item => new 
{
    name = item.Name, index = item.Index, options = item.Optional
})};

Temporary table in SQL server causing ' There is already an object named' error

You must modify the query like this

CREATE TABLE #TMPGUARDIAN(
LAST_NAME NVARCHAR(30),
FRST_NAME NVARCHAR(30))  

INSERT INTO #TMPGUARDIAN(FRST_NAME,LAST_NAME)
SELECT LAST_NAME,FRST_NAME  FROM TBL_PEOPLE

-- Make a last session for clearing the all temporary tables. always drop at end. In your case, sometimes, there might be an error happen if the table is not exists, while you trying to delete.

DROP TABLE #TMPGUARDIAN

Avoid using insert into Because If you are using insert into then in future if you want to modify the temp table by adding a new column which can be filled after some process (not along with insert). At that time, you need to rework and design it in the same manner.

Use Table Variable http://odetocode.com/articles/365.aspx

declare @userData TABLE(
 LAST_NAME NVARCHAR(30),
    FRST_NAME NVARCHAR(30)
)

Advantages No need for Drop statements, since this will be similar to variables. Scope ends immediately after the execution.

Export SQL query data to Excel

I see that you’re trying to export SQL data to Excel to avoid copy-pasting your very large data set into Excel.

You might be interested in learning how to export SQL data to Excel and update the export automatically (with any SQL database: MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL).

To export data from SQL to Excel, you need to follow 2 steps:

  • Step 1: Connect Excel to your SQL database? (Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL...)
  • Step 2: Import your SQL data into Excel

The result will be the list of tables you want to query data from your SQL database into Excel:

?

Step1: Connect Excel to an external data source: your SQL database

  1. Install An ODBC
  2. Install A Driver
  3. Avoid A Common Error
  4. Create a DSN

Step 2: Import your SQL data into Excel

  1. Click Where You Want Your Pivot Table
  2. Click Insert
  3. Click Pivot Table
  4. Click Use an external data source, then Choose Connection
  5. Click on the System DSN tab
  6. Select the DSN created in ODBC Manager
  7. Fill the requested username and password
  8. Avoid a Common Error
  9. Access The Microsoft Query Dialog Box
  10. Click on the arrow to see the list of tables in your database
  11. Select the table you want to query data from your SQL database into Excel
  12. Click on Return Data when you’re done with your selection

To update the export automatically, there are 2 additional steps:

  1. Create a Pivot Table with an external SQL data source
  2. Automate Your SQL Data Update In Excel With The GETPIVOTDATA Function

I’ve created a step-by-step tutorial about this whole process, from connecting Excel to SQL, up to having the whole thing automatically updated. You might find the detailed explanations and screenshots useful.

Using current time in UTC as default value in PostgreSQL

What about

now()::timestamp

If your other timestamp are without time zone then this cast will yield the matching type "timestamp without time zone" for the current time.

I would like to read what others think about that option, though. I still don't trust in my understanding of this "with/without" time zone stuff.

EDIT: Adding Michael Ekoka's comment here because it clarifies an important point:

Caveat. The question is about generating default timestamp in UTC for a timestamp column that happens to not store the time zone (perhaps because there's no need to store the time zone if you know that all your timestamps share the same). What your solution does is to generate a local timestamp (which for most people will not necessarily be set to UTC) and store it as a naive timestamp (one that does not specify its time zone).

TypeError: You provided an invalid object where a stream was expected. You can provide an Observable, Promise, Array, or Iterable

I have the same exact error message while I was doing my unit test and throwing observable exception after mocking my services.

I resolved it by passing exact function and format inside Observable.throw.

Actual code which calls the service and subscribe to get data. notice that catch to handle the 400 error.

     this.search(event).catch((e: Response) => {
        if (e.status === 400) {
          console.log(e.json().message);
        } else if (e.url) {
          console.log('HTTP Error: ' + e.status + ' ' + e.statusText,
            'URL: ' + e.url, 'Info: ' + e.json().message));
        }
      }).finally(() => {
        this.loading = false;
      }).subscribe((bData) => {
        this.data = bData;
      });

The code inside the service

  search() {
    return this.someService.getData(request)
       .do((r) => {
          this.someService.defaultHeaders.delete('skipAlert');
          return r;
        })
      .map((r) => {
          return r.businessObjectDataElements.length && r.businessObjectDataElements || null;
        });
  }

Unit Testing

I have mocked the SomeService and returning observable data and its fine as it have all the required methods inside it.

 someServiceApi = fixture.debugElement.injector.get(SomeService);
 spyOn(someServiceApi, 'getData').and.returnValue(Observable.of({}));

The above code is okey but when when I was trying to test the catch/error condition by passing Observable.throw({}) it was showing me the error as it was expecting Response type return from the service.

So below service mocking return was giving me that error.

someServiceApi.getData
  .and.returnValue(Observable.throw(new Response({status: 400, body: [], message: 'not found error'})));

So I Corrected it by replicating the exact expected function in my return object rather passing a Response type value.

someServiceApi.getData
  .and.returnValue(Observable.throw({status: 400, json: () => { return {message: 'not found error'}}, body: []}));
// see `json: () => { return {message: 'not found error'}}` inside return value

How to install mcrypt extension in xampp

First, you should download the suitable version for your system from here: https://pecl.php.net/package/mcrypt/1.0.3/windows

Then, you should copy php_mcrypt.dll to ../xampp/php/ext/ and enable the extension by adding extension=mcrypt to your xampp/php/php.ini file.

git am error: "patch does not apply"

What is a patch?

A patch is little more (see below) than a series of instructions: "add this here", "remove that there", "change this third thing to a fourth". That's why git tells you:

The copy of the patch that failed is found in:
c:/.../project2/.git/rebase-apply/patch

You can open that patch in your favorite viewer or editor, open the files-to-be-changed in your favorite editor, and "hand apply" the patch, using what you know (and git does not) to figure out how "add this here" is to be done when the files-to-be-changed now look little or nothing like what they did when they were changed earlier, with those changes delivered to you as a patch.

A little more

A three-way merge introduces that "little more" information than the plain "series of instructions": it tells you what the original version of the file was as well. If your repository has the original version, your git can compare what you did to a file, to what the patch says to do to the file.

As you saw above, if you request the three-way merge, git can't find the "original version" in the other repository, so it can't even attempt the three-way merge. As a result you get no conflict markers, and you must do the patch-application by hand.

Using --reject

When you have to apply the patch by hand, it's still possible that git can apply most of the patch for you automatically and leave only a few pieces to the entity with the ability to reason about the code (or whatever it is that needs patching). Adding --reject tells git to do that, and leave the "inapplicable" parts of the patch in rejection files. If you use this option, you must still hand-apply each failing patch, and figure out what to do with the rejected portions.

Once you have made the required changes, you can git add the modified files and use git am --continue to tell git to commit the changes and move on to the next patch.

What if there's nothing to do?

Since we don't have your code, I can't tell if this is the case, but sometimes, you wind up with one of the patches saying things that amount to, e.g., "fix the spelling of a word on line 42" when the spelling there was already fixed.

In this particular case, you, having looked at the patch and the current code, should say to yourself: "aha, this patch should just be skipped entirely!" That's when you use the other advice git already printed:

If you prefer to skip this patch, run "git am --skip" instead.

If you run git am --skip, git will skip over that patch, so that if there were five patches in the mailbox, it will end up adding just four commits, instead of five (or three instead of five if you skip twice, and so on).

JQuery: dynamic height() with window resize()

Okay, how about a CSS answer! We use display: table. Then each of the divs are rows, and finally we apply height of 100% to middle 'row' and voilà.

http://jsfiddle.net/NfmX3/3/

body { display: table; }
div { display: table-row; }
#content {
    width:450px; 
    margin:0 auto;
    text-align: center;
    background-color: blue;
    color: white;
    height: 100%;
}

Capitalize words in string

This code capitalize words after dot:

function capitalizeAfterPeriod(input) { 
    var text = '';
    var str = $(input).val();
    text = convert(str.toLowerCase().split('. ')).join('. ');
    var textoFormatado = convert(text.split('.')).join('.');
    $(input).val(textoFormatado);
}

function convert(str) {
   for(var i = 0; i < str.length; i++){
      str[i] = str[i].split('');
      if (str[i][0] !== undefined) {
         str[i][0] = str[i][0].toUpperCase();
      }
      str[i] = str[i].join('');
   }
   return str;
}

Ping a site in Python?

It's hard to say what your question is, but there are some alternatives.

If you mean to literally execute a request using the ICMP ping protocol, you can get an ICMP library and execute the ping request directly. Google "Python ICMP" to find things like this icmplib. You might want to look at scapy, also.

This will be much faster than using os.system("ping " + ip ).

If you mean to generically "ping" a box to see if it's up, you can use the echo protocol on port 7.

For echo, you use the socket library to open the IP address and port 7. You write something on that port, send a carriage return ("\r\n") and then read the reply.

If you mean to "ping" a web site to see if the site is running, you have to use the http protocol on port 80.

For or properly checking a web server, you use urllib2 to open a specific URL. (/index.html is always popular) and read the response.

There are still more potential meaning of "ping" including "traceroute" and "finger".

map function for objects (instead of arrays)

I specifically wanted to use the same function that I was using for arrays for a single object, and wanted to keep it simple. This worked for me:

var mapped = [item].map(myMapFunction).pop();

C multi-line macro: do/while(0) vs scope block

Andrey Tarasevich provides the following explanation:

  1. On Google Groups
  2. On bytes.com

[Minor changes to formatting made. Parenthetical annotations added in square brackets []].

The whole idea of using 'do/while' version is to make a macro which will expand into a regular statement, not into a compound statement. This is done in order to make the use of function-style macros uniform with the use of ordinary functions in all contexts.

Consider the following code sketch:

if (<condition>)
  foo(a);
else
  bar(a);

where foo and bar are ordinary functions. Now imagine that you'd like to replace function foo with a macro of the above nature [named CALL_FUNCS]:

if (<condition>)
  CALL_FUNCS(a);
else
  bar(a);

Now, if your macro is defined in accordance with the second approach (just { and }) the code will no longer compile, because the 'true' branch of if is now represented by a compound statement. And when you put a ; after this compound statement, you finished the whole if statement, thus orphaning the else branch (hence the compilation error).

One way to correct this problem is to remember not to put ; after macro "invocations":

if (<condition>)
  CALL_FUNCS(a)
else
  bar(a);

This will compile and work as expected, but this is not uniform. The more elegant solution is to make sure that macro expand into a regular statement, not into a compound one. One way to achieve that is to define the macro as follows:

#define CALL_FUNCS(x) \
do { \
  func1(x); \
  func2(x); \
  func3(x); \
} while (0)

Now this code:

if (<condition>)
  CALL_FUNCS(a);
else
  bar(a);

will compile without any problems.

However, note the small but important difference between my definition of CALL_FUNCS and the first version in your message. I didn't put a ; after } while (0). Putting a ; at the end of that definition would immediately defeat the entire point of using 'do/while' and make that macro pretty much equivalent to the compound-statement version.

I don't know why the author of the code you quoted in your original message put this ; after while (0). In this form both variants are equivalent. The whole idea behind using 'do/while' version is not to include this final ; into the macro (for the reasons that I explained above).

[Vue warn]: Property or method is not defined on the instance but referenced during render

I got this error when I tried assigning a component property to a state property during instantiation

export default {
 props: ['value1'],
 data() {
  return {
   value2: this.value1 // throws the error
   }
  }, 
 created(){
  this.value2 = this.value1 // safe
 }
}

HTTP POST with URL query parameters -- good idea or not?

It would be fine to use query parameters on a POST endpoint, provided they refer to already existing resources.

For example:

POST /user_settings?user_id=4
{
  "use_safe_mode": 1
}

The POST above has a query parameter referring to an existing resource. The body parameter defines the new resource to be created.

(Granted, this may be more of a personal preference than a dogmatic principle.)

Match linebreaks - \n or \r\n?

This only applies to question 1.

I have an app that runs on Windows and uses a multi-line MFC editor box.
The editor box expects CRLF linebreaks, but I need to parse the text enterred
with some really big/nasty regexs'.

I didn't want to be stressing about this while writing the regex, so
I ended up normalizing back and forth between the parser and editor so that
the regexs' just use \n. I also trap paste operations and convert them for the boxes.

This does not take much time.
This is what I use.

 boost::regex  CRLFCRtoLF (
     " \\r\\n | \\r(?!\\n) "
     , MODx);

 boost::regex  CRLFCRtoCRLF (
     " \\r\\n?+ | \\n "
     , MODx);


 // Convert (All style) linebreaks to linefeeds 
 // ---------------------------------------
 void ReplaceCRLFCRtoLF( string& strSrc, string& strDest )
 {
    strDest  = boost::regex_replace ( strSrc, CRLFCRtoLF, "\\n" );
 }

 // Convert linefeeds to linebreaks (Windows) 
 // ---------------------------------------
 void ReplaceCRLFCRtoCRLF( string& strSrc, string& strDest )
 {
    strDest  = boost::regex_replace ( strSrc, CRLFCRtoCRLF, "\\r\\n" );
 }

tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

use sudo

sudo tar -zxvf xxxxxxxxx.tar.gz

Formatting dates on X axis in ggplot2

Can you use date as a factor?

Yes, but you probably shouldn't.

...or should you use as.Date on a date column?

Yes.

Which leads us to this:

library(scales)
df$Month <- as.Date(df$Month)
ggplot(df, aes(x = Month, y = AvgVisits)) + 
  geom_bar(stat = "identity") +
  theme_bw() +
  labs(x = "Month", y = "Average Visits per User") +
  scale_x_date(labels = date_format("%m-%Y"))

enter image description here

in which I've added stat = "identity" to your geom_bar call.

In addition, the message about the binwidth wasn't an error. An error will actually say "Error" in it, and similarly a warning will always say "Warning" in it. Otherwise it's just a message.

SOAP request in PHP with CURL

Tested and working!

  • with https, user & password

     <?php 
     //Data, connection, auth
     $dataFromTheForm = $_POST['fieldName']; // request data from the form
     $soapUrl = "https://connecting.website.com/soap.asmx?op=DoSomething"; // asmx URL of WSDL
     $soapUser = "username";  //  username
     $soapPassword = "password"; // password
    
     // xml post structure
    
     $xml_post_string = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
                         <soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
                           <soap:Body>
                             <GetItemPrice xmlns="http://connecting.website.com/WSDL_Service"> // xmlns value to be set to your WSDL URL
                               <PRICE>'.$dataFromTheForm.'</PRICE> 
                             </GetItemPrice >
                           </soap:Body>
                         </soap:Envelope>';   // data from the form, e.g. some ID number
    
        $headers = array(
                     "Content-type: text/xml;charset=\"utf-8\"",
                     "Accept: text/xml",
                     "Cache-Control: no-cache",
                     "Pragma: no-cache",
                     "SOAPAction: http://connecting.website.com/WSDL_Service/GetPrice", 
                     "Content-length: ".strlen($xml_post_string),
                 ); //SOAPAction: your op URL
    
         $url = $soapUrl;
    
         // PHP cURL  for https connection with auth
         $ch = curl_init();
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1);
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $soapUser.":".$soapPassword); // username and password - declared at the top of the doc
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml_post_string); // the SOAP request
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
    
         // converting
         $response = curl_exec($ch); 
         curl_close($ch);
    
         // converting
         $response1 = str_replace("<soap:Body>","",$response);
         $response2 = str_replace("</soap:Body>","",$response1);
    
         // convertingc to XML
         $parser = simplexml_load_string($response2);
         // user $parser to get your data out of XML response and to display it. 
     ?>
    

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.

Can I use library that used android support with Androidx projects.

I used these two lines of code in application tag in manifest.xml and it worked.

 tools:replace="android:appComponentFactory"    
 android:appComponentFactory="whateverString"

Source: https://github.com/android/android-ktx/issues/576#issuecomment-437145192

Python function attributes - uses and abuses

I use them sparingly, but they can be pretty convenient:

def log(msg):
   log.logfile.write(msg)

Now I can use log throughout my module, and redirect output simply by setting log.logfile. There are lots and lots of other ways to accomplish that, but this one's lightweight and dirt simple. And while it smelled funny the first time I did it, I've come to believe that it smells better than having a global logfile variable.

javac is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

You mistyped the set command – you missed the backslash after C:. It should be:

C:\>set path=C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.7.0\bin

How do I set up CLion to compile and run?

You can also use Microsoft Visual Studio compiler instead of Cygwin or MinGW in Windows environment as the compiler for CLion.

Just go to find Actions in Help and type "Registry" without " and enable CLion.enable.msvc Now configure toolchain with Microsoft Visual Studio Compiler. (You need to download it if not already downloaded)

follow this link for more details: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/clion/quick-tutorial-on-configuring-clion-on-windows.html

Align div with fixed position on the right side

make a parent div, in css make it float:right then make the child div's position fixed this will make the div stay in its position at all times and on the right

AngularJS disable partial caching on dev machine

Building on @Valentyn's answer a bit, here's one way to always automatically clear the cache whenever the ng-view content changes:

myApp.run(function($rootScope, $templateCache) {
   $rootScope.$on('$viewContentLoaded', function() {
      $templateCache.removeAll();
   });
});

What is the simplest way to convert array to vector?

Personally, I quite like the C++2011 approach because it neither requires you to use sizeof() nor to remember adjusting the array bounds if you ever change the array bounds (and you can define the relevant function in C++2003 if you want, too):

#include <iterator>
#include <vector>
int x[] = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 };
std::vector<int> v(std::begin(x), std::end(x));

Obviously, with C++2011 you might want to use initializer lists anyway:

std::vector<int> v({ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 });

Real-world examples of recursion

Disabling/setting read-only for all children controls in a container control. I needed to do this because some of the children controls were containers themselves.

public static void SetReadOnly(Control ctrl, bool readOnly)
{
    //set the control read only
    SetControlReadOnly(ctrl, readOnly);

    if (ctrl.Controls != null && ctrl.Controls.Count > 0)
    {
        //recursively loop through all child controls
        foreach (Control c in ctrl.Controls)
            SetReadOnly(c, readOnly);
    }
}

How to create a GUID in Excel?

After trying a number of options and running into various issue with newer versions of Excel (2016) I came across this post from MS that worked like a charm. I enhanced it bit using some code from a post by danwagner.co

Private Declare PtrSafe Function CoCreateGuid Lib "ole32.dll" (Guid As GUID_TYPE) As LongPtr

Private Declare PtrSafe Function StringFromGUID2 Lib "ole32.dll" (Guid As GUID_TYPE, ByVal lpStrGuid As LongPtr, ByVal cbMax As Long) As LongPtr

Function CreateGuidString(Optional IncludeHyphens As Boolean = True, Optional IncludeBraces As Boolean = False)
    Dim Guid As GUID_TYPE
    Dim strGuid As String
    Dim retValue As LongPtr

    Const guidLength As Long = 39 'registry GUID format with null terminator {xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx}

    retValue = CoCreateGuid(Guid)

    If retValue = 0 Then
        strGuid = String$(guidLength, vbNullChar)
        retValue = StringFromGUID2(Guid, StrPtr(strGuid), guidLength)

        If retValue = guidLength Then
            '   valid GUID as a string
            '   remove them from the GUID
            If Not IncludeHyphens Then
                strGuid = Replace(strGuid, "-", vbNullString, Compare:=vbTextCompare)
            End If

            '   If IncludeBraces is switched from the default False to True,
            '   leave those curly braces be!
            If Not IncludeBraces Then
                strGuid = Replace(strGuid, "{", vbNullString, Compare:=vbTextCompare)
                strGuid = Replace(strGuid, "}", vbNullString, Compare:=vbTextCompare)
            End If


            CreateGuidString = strGuid
        End If
    End If

End Function


Public Sub TestCreateGUID()
    Dim Guid As String
    Guid = CreateGuidString() '<~ default
    Debug.Print Guid
End Sub

There are additional options in the original MS post found here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_excel-msoffice_custom-mso_2010/guid-run-time-error-70-permission-denied/c9ee4076-98af-4032-bc87-40ad7aa7cb38

How to generate xsd from wsdl

You can use SoapUI: http://www.soapui.org/ This is a generally handy program. Make a new project, connect to the WSDL link, then right click on the project and say "Show interface viewer". Under "Schemas" on the left you can see the XSD.

SoapUI can do many things though!

How to stop app that node.js express 'npm start'

In case your json file does not have a script to stop the app, an option that I use is just by pressing ctrl+C on the cmd.

mysqli_fetch_array while loop columns

I think this would be a more simpler way of outputting your results.

Sorry for using my own data should be easy to replace .

$query = "SELECT * FROM category ";

$result = mysqli_query($connection, $query);


    while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result))
    {
        $cat_id = $row['cat_id'];
        $cat_title = $row['cat_title'];

        echo $cat_id . " " . $cat_title  ."<br>";
    }

This would output :

  • -ID Title
  • -1 Gary
  • -2 John
  • -3 Michaels

Finding the indices of matching elements in list in Python

You are using .index() which will only find the first occurrence of your value in the list. So if you have a value 1.0 at index 2, and at index 9, then .index(1.0) will always return 2, no matter how many times 1.0 occurs in the list.

Use enumerate() to add indices to your loop instead:

def find(lst, a, b):
    result = []
    for i, x in enumerate(lst):
        if x<a or x>b:
            result.append(i)
    return result

You can collapse this into a list comprehension:

def find(lst, a, b):
    return [i for i, x in enumerate(lst) if x<a or x>b]

Black transparent overlay on image hover with only CSS?

I would give a min-height and min-width to your overlay div of the size of the image, and change the background color on hover

.overlay { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0;  z-index: 200; min-height:200px; min-width:200px; background-color: none;}
.overlay:hover { background-color: red;}

SQL query for a carriage return in a string and ultimately removing carriage return

If you are considering creating a function, try this: DECLARE @schema sysname = 'dbo' , @tablename sysname = 'mvtEST' , @cmd NVarchar(2000) , @ColName sysname

    DECLARE @NewLine Table
    (ColumnName Varchar(100)
    ,Location Int
    ,ColumnValue Varchar(8000)
    )

    SELECT COLUMN_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE  TABLE_SCHEMA = @schema AND TABLE_NAME =  @tablename AND DATA_TYPE LIKE '%CHAR%'

    DECLARE looper CURSOR FAST_FORWARD for
    SELECT COLUMN_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = @schema AND TABLE_NAME =  @tablename AND DATA_TYPE LIKE '%CHAR%'
    OPEN looper
    FETCH NEXT FROM looper INTO @ColName

    WHILE @@fetch_status = 0
    BEGIN
    SELECT @cmd = 'select ''' +@ColName+    ''',  CHARINDEX(Char(10),  '+  @ColName +') , '+ @ColName + ' from '+@schema + '.'+@tablename +' where CHARINDEX(Char(10),  '+  @ColName +' ) > 0 or CHARINDEX(CHAR(13), '+@ColName +') > 0'
    PRINT @cmd
    INSERT @NewLine ( ColumnName, Location, ColumnValue )
    EXEC sp_executesql @cmd
    FETCH NEXT FROM looper INTO @ColName
    end
    CLOSE looper
    DEALLOCATE looper


    SELECT * FROM  @NewLine

filter items in a python dictionary where keys contain a specific string

Go for whatever is most readable and easily maintainable. Just because you can write it out in a single line doesn't mean that you should. Your existing solution is close to what I would use other than I would user iteritems to skip the value lookup, and I hate nested ifs if I can avoid them:

for key, val in d.iteritems():
    if filter_string not in key:
        continue
    # do something

However if you realllly want something to let you iterate through a filtered dict then I would not do the two step process of building the filtered dict and then iterating through it, but instead use a generator, because what is more pythonic (and awesome) than a generator?

First we create our generator, and good design dictates that we make it abstract enough to be reusable:

# The implementation of my generator may look vaguely familiar, no?
def filter_dict(d, filter_string):
    for key, val in d.iteritems():
        if filter_string not in key:
            continue
        yield key, val

And then we can use the generator to solve your problem nice and cleanly with simple, understandable code:

for key, val in filter_dict(d, some_string):
    # do something

In short: generators are awesome.

TypeError: 'type' object is not subscriptable when indexing in to a dictionary

Normally Python throws NameError if the variable is not defined:

>>> d[0]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'd' is not defined

However, you've managed to stumble upon a name that already exists in Python.

Because dict is the name of a built-in type in Python you are seeing what appears to be a strange error message, but in reality it is not.

The type of dict is a type. All types are objects in Python. Thus you are actually trying to index into the type object. This is why the error message says that the "'type' object is not subscriptable."

>>> type(dict)
<type 'type'>
>>> dict[0]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'type' object is not subscriptable

Note that you can blindly assign to the dict name, but you really don't want to do that. It's just going to cause you problems later.

>>> dict = {1:'a'}
>>> type(dict)
<class 'dict'>
>>> dict[1]
'a'

The true source of the problem is that you must assign variables prior to trying to use them. If you simply reorder the statements of your question, it will almost certainly work:

d = {1: "walk1.png", 2: "walk2.png", 3: "walk3.png"}
m1 = pygame.image.load(d[1])
m2 = pygame.image.load(d[2])
m3 = pygame.image.load(d[3])
playerxy = (375,130)
window.blit(m1, (playerxy))

Python locale error: unsupported locale setting

if I understand correctly, the main source of error here is the exact syntax of the locale-name. Especially as it seems to differ between distributions. I've seen mentioned here in different answers/comments:

de_DE.utf8
de_DE.UTF-8

Even though this is obviously the same for a human being, the same does not hold for your standard deterministic algorithm.

So you will probably do something along the lines of:

DESIRED_LOCALE=de
DESIRED_LOCALE_COUNTRY=DE
DESIRED_CODEPAGE_RE=\.[Uu][Tt][Ff].?8
if [ $(locale -a | grep -cE "${DESIRED_LOCALE}_${DESIRED_LOCALE_COUNTRY}${DESIRED_CODEPAGE_RE}") -eq 1 ]
then
    export LC_ALL=$(locale -a | grep -m1 -E "${DESIRED_LOCALE}_${DESIRED_LOCALE_COUNTRY}${DESIRED_CODEPAGE_RE}")
    export LANG=$LC_ALL
else
    echo "Not exactly one desired locale definition found: $(locale -a | grep -E "${DESIRED_LOCALE}_${DESIRED_LOCALE_COUNTRY}${DESIRED_CODEPAGE_RE}")" >&2
fi

How to pass prepareForSegue: an object

In Swift 4.2 I would do something like that:

override func prepare(for segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: Any?) {
    if let yourVC = segue.destination as? YourViewController {
        yourVC.yourData = self.someData
    }
}

Setting Custom ActionBar Title from Fragment

If you're using ViewPager (like my case) you can use:

getSupportActionBar().setTitle(YOURE_TAB_BAR.getTabAt(position).getText());

in onPageSelected method of your VIEW_PAGER.addOnPageChangeListener

Why can't Python find shared objects that are in directories in sys.path?

sys.path is only searched for Python modules. For dynamic linked libraries, the paths searched must be in LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Check if your LD_LIBRARY_PATH includes /usr/local/lib, and if it doesn't, add it and try again.

Some more information (source):

In Linux, the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH is a colon-separated set of directories where libraries should be searched for first, before the standard set of directories; this is useful when debugging a new library or using a nonstandard library for special purposes. The environment variable LD_PRELOAD lists shared libraries with functions that override the standard set, just as /etc/ld.so.preload does. These are implemented by the loader /lib/ld-linux.so. I should note that, while LD_LIBRARY_PATH works on many Unix-like systems, it doesn't work on all; for example, this functionality is available on HP-UX but as the environment variable SHLIB_PATH, and on AIX this functionality is through the variable LIBPATH (with the same syntax, a colon-separated list).

Update: to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH, use one of the following, ideally in your ~/.bashrc or equivalent file:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

or

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Use the first form if it's empty (equivalent to the empty string, or not present at all), and the second form if it isn't. Note the use of export.

What's an easy way to read random line from a file in Unix command line?

You can use shuf:

shuf -n 1 $FILE

There is also a utility called rl. In Debian it's in the randomize-lines package that does exactly what you want, though not available in all distros. On its home page it actually recommends the use of shuf instead (which didn't exist when it was created, I believe). shuf is part of the GNU coreutils, rl is not.

rl -c 1 $FILE

String MinLength and MaxLength validation don't work (asp.net mvc)

Try using this attribute, for example for password min length:

[StringLength(100, ErrorMessage = "???????????? ????? ?????? 20 ????????", MinimumLength = User.PasswordMinLength)]

What is the preferred syntax for initializing a dict: curly brace literals {} or the dict() function?

The first, curly braces. Otherwise, you run into consistency issues with keys that have odd characters in them, like =.

# Works fine.
a = {
    'a': 'value',
    'b=c': 'value',
}

# Eeep! Breaks if trying to be consistent.
b = dict( 
    a='value',
    b=c='value',
)

How to set selected item of Spinner by value, not by position?

if you are using string array this is the best way:

int selectionPosition= adapter.getPosition("YOUR_VALUE");
spinner.setSelection(selectionPosition);

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

Microsoft is releasing the "Microsoft Edge WebView2" WPF control that will get us a great, free option for embedding Chromium across Windows 10, Windows 8.1, or Windows 7. It is available via Nuget as the package Microsoft.Web.WebView2.

How do I manage MongoDB connections in a Node.js web application?

I have been using generic-pool with redis connections in my app - I highly recommend it. Its generic and I definitely know it works with mysql so I don't think you'll have any problems with it and mongo

https://github.com/coopernurse/node-pool

Maven error: Not authorized, ReasonPhrase:Unauthorized

The problem here was a typo error in the password used, which was not easily identified due to the characters / letters used in the password.

How to use jQuery with Angular?

I do it in simpler way - first install jquery by npm in console: npm install jquery -S and then in component file I just write: let $ = require('.../jquery.min.js') and it works! Here full example from some my code:

import { Component, Input, ElementRef, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
let $ = require('../../../../../node_modules/jquery/dist/jquery.min.js');

@Component({
    selector: 'departments-connections-graph',
    templateUrl: './departmentsConnectionsGraph.template.html',
})

export class DepartmentsConnectionsGraph implements OnInit {
    rootNode : any;
    container: any;

    constructor(rootNode: ElementRef) {
      this.rootNode = rootNode; 
    }

    ngOnInit() {
      this.container = $(this.rootNode.nativeElement).find('.departments-connections-graph')[0];
      console.log({ container : this.container});
      ...
    }
}

In teplate I have for instance:

<div class="departments-connections-graph">something...</div>

EDIT

Alternatively instead of using:

let $ = require('../../../../../node_modules/jquery/dist/jquery.min.js');

use

declare var $: any;

and in your index.html put:

<script src="assets/js/jquery-2.1.1.js"></script>

This will initialize jquery only once globaly - this is important for instance for use modal windows in bootstrap...

Getting Python error "from: can't read /var/mail/Bio"

Same here. I had this error when running an import command from terminal without activating python3 shell through manage.py in a django project (yes, I am a newbie yet). As one must expect, activating shell allowed the command to be interpreted correctly.

./manage.py shell

and only then

>>> from django.contrib.sites.models import Site

List submodules in a Git repository

In my version of Git [1], every Git submodule has a name and a path. They don't necessarily have to be the same [2]. Getting both in a reliable way, without checking out the submodules first (git update --init), is a tricky bit of shell wizardry.

Get a list of submodule names

I didn't find a way how to achieve this using git config or any other git command. Therefore we are back to regex on .gitmodules (super ugly). But it seems to be somewhat safe since git limits the possible code space allowed for submodule names. In addition, since you probably want to use this list for further shell processing, the solution below separate entries with NULL-bytes (\0).

$ sed -nre \
  's/^\[submodule \"(.*)\"]$/\1\x0/p' \
  "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.gitmodules" \
| tr -d '\n' \
| xargs -0 -n1 printf "%b\0"

And in your script:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

while IFS= read -rd '' submodule_name; do
  echo submodule name: "${submodule_name}"
done < <(
  sed -nre \
    's/^\[submodule \"(.*)\"]$/\1\x0/p' \
    "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.gitmodules" \
  | tr -d '\n' \
  | xargs -0 -n1 printf "%b\0"
)

Note: read -rd '' requires bash and won't work with sh.

Get a list of submodule paths

In my approach I try not to process the output from git config --get-regexp with awk, tr, sed, ... but instead pass it a zero byte separated back to git config --get. This is to avoid problems with newlines, spaces and other special characters (e.g. Unicode) in the submodule paths. In addition, since you probably want to use this list for further shell processing, the solution below separate entries with NULL-bytes (\0).

$ git config --null --file .gitmodules --name-only --get-regexp '\.path$' \
| xargs -0 -n1 git config --null --file .gitmodules --get

For example, in a Bash script you could then:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

while IFS= read -rd '' submodule_path; do
  echo submodule path: "${submodule_path}"
done < <(
  git config --null --file .gitmodules --name-only --get-regexp '\.path$' \
  | xargs -0 -n1 git config --null --file .gitmodules --get
)

Note: read -rd '' requires bash and won't work with sh.


Footnotes

[1] Git version

$ git --version
git version 2.22.0

[2] Submodule with diverging name and path

Set up test repository:

$ git init test-name-path
$ cd test-name-path/
$ git checkout -b master
$ git commit --allow-empty -m 'test'
$ git submodule add ./ submodule-name
Cloning into '/tmp/test-name-path/submodule-name'...
done.
$ ls
submodule-name

$ cat .gitmodules
[submodule "submodule-name"]
    path = submodule-name
    url = ./

Move submodule to make name and path diverge:

$ git mv submodule-name/ submodule-path

$ ls
submodule-path

$ cat .gitmodules
[submodule "submodule-name"]
    path = submodule-path
    url = ./

$ git config --file .gitmodules --get-regexp '\.path$'
submodule.submodule-name.path submodule-path

Testing

Set up test repository:

$ git init test
$ cd test/
$ git checkout -b master
$ git commit --allow-empty -m 'test'
$
$ git submodule add ./ simplename
Cloning into '/tmp/test/simplename'...
done.
$
$ git submodule add ./ 'name with spaces'
Cloning into '/tmp/test/name with spaces'...
done.
$
$ git submodule add ./ 'future-name-with-newlines'
Cloning into '/tmp/test/future-name-with-newlines'...
done.
$ git mv future-name-with-newlines/ 'name
> with
> newlines'
$
$ git submodule add ./ 'name-with-unicode-'
Cloning into '/tmp/test/name-with-unicode-'...
done.
$
$ git submodule add ./ sub/folder/submodule
Cloning into '/tmp/test/sub/folder/submodule'...
done.
$
$ git submodule add ./ name.with.dots
Cloning into '/tmp/test/name.with.dots'...
done.
$
$ git submodule add ./ 'name"with"double"quotes'
Cloning into '/tmp/test/name"with"double"quotes'...
done.
$
$ git submodule add ./ "name'with'single'quotes"
Cloning into '/tmp/test/name'with'single'quotes''...
done.
$ git submodule add ./ 'name]with[brackets'
Cloning into '/tmp/test/name]with[brackets'...
done.
$ git submodule add ./ 'name-with-.path'
Cloning into '/tmp/test/name-with-.path'...
done.

.gitmodules:

[submodule "simplename"]
    path = simplename
    url = ./
[submodule "name with spaces"]
    path = name with spaces
    url = ./
[submodule "future-name-with-newlines"]
    path = name\nwith\nnewlines
    url = ./
[submodule "name-with-unicode-"]
    path = name-with-unicode-
    url = ./
[submodule "sub/folder/submodule"]
    path = sub/folder/submodule
    url = ./
[submodule "name.with.dots"]
    path = name.with.dots
    url = ./
[submodule "name\"with\"double\"quotes"]
    path = name\"with\"double\"quotes
    url = ./
[submodule "name'with'single'quotes"]
    path = name'with'single'quotes
    url = ./
[submodule "name]with[brackets"]
    path = name]with[brackets
    url = ./
[submodule "name-with-.path"]
    path = name-with-.path
    url = ./

Get list of submodule names

$ sed -nre \
  's/^\[submodule \"(.*)\"]$/\1\x0/p' \
  "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.gitmodules" \
| tr -d '\n' \
| xargs -0 -n1 printf "%b\0" \
| xargs -0 -n1 echo submodule name:
submodule name: simplename
submodule name: name with spaces
submodule name: future-name-with-newlines
submodule name: name-with-unicode-
submodule name: sub/folder/submodule
submodule name: name.with.dots
submodule name: name"with"double"quotes
submodule name: name'with'single'quotes
submodule name: name]with[brackets
submodule name: name-with-.path

Get list of submodule paths

$ git config --null --file .gitmodules --name-only --get-regexp '\.path$' \
| xargs -0 -n1 git config --null --file .gitmodules --get \
| xargs -0 -n1 echo submodule path:
submodule path: simplename
submodule path: name with spaces
submodule path: name
with
newlines
submodule path: name-with-unicode-
submodule path: sub/folder/submodule
submodule path: name.with.dots
submodule path: name"with"double"quotes
submodule path: name'with'single'quotes
submodule path: name]with[brackets
submodule path: name-with-.path

Java - Using Accessor and Mutator methods

You need to remove the static from your accessor methods - these methods need to be instance methods and access the instance variables

public class IDCard {
    public String name, fileName;
    public int id;

    public IDCard(final String name, final String fileName, final int id) {
        this.name = name;
        this.fileName = fileName
        this.id = id;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }
}

You can the create an IDCard and use the accessor like this:

final IDCard card = new IDCard();
card.getName();

Each time you call new a new instance of the IDCard will be created and it will have it's own copies of the 3 variables.

If you use the static keyword then those variables are common across every instance of IDCard.

A couple of things to bear in mind:

  1. don't add useless comments - they add code clutter and nothing else.
  2. conform to naming conventions, use lower case of variable names - name not Name.

What is the difference between loose coupling and tight coupling in the object oriented paradigm?

If an object's creation/existence dependents on another object which can't be tailored, its tight coupling. And, if the dependency can be tailored, its loose coupling. Consider an example in Java:

class Car {

    private Engine engine = new Engine( "X_COMPANY" ); // this car is being created with "X_COMPANY" engine
    // Other parts

    public Car() { 
        // implemenation 
    }

}

The client of Car class can create one with ONLY "X_COMPANY" engine.

Consider breaking this coupling with ability to change that:

class Car {

    private Engine engine;
    // Other members

    public Car( Engine engine ) { // this car can be created with any Engine type
        this.engine = engine;
    }

}

Now, a Car is not dependent on an engine of "X_COMPANY" as it can be created with types.

A Java specific note: using Java interfaces just for de-coupling sake is not a proper desing approach. In Java, an interface has a purpose - to act as a contract which intrisically provides de-coupling behavior/advantage.

Bill Rosmus's comment in accepted answer has a good explanation.

How to clear radio button in Javascript?

An ES6 approach to clearing a group of radio buttons:

    Array.from( document.querySelectorAll('input[name="group-name"]:checked'), input => input.checked = false );

Visual Studio SignTool.exe Not Found

Here is a solution for Visual Studio 2017. The installer looks a littlebit different from the VS 2015 version and the name of the installation packages are different.

JQuery get data from JSON array

I think you need something like:

var text= data.response.venue.tips.groups[0].items[1].text;

Unable to find valid certification path to requested target - error even after cert imported

Check if the file $JAVA_HOME/lib/security/cacerts exists! In my case it was not a file but a link to /etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts and also this was a link to itself (WHAT???) so due to it JVM can't find the file.

Solution: Copy the real cacerts file (you can do it from another JDK) to /etc/ssl/certs/java/ directory and it'll solve your problem :)

Removing legend on charts with chart.js v2

You simply need to add that line legend: { display: false }

Bootstrap datepicker disabling past dates without current date

You can use the data attribute:

<div class="datepicker" data-date-start-date="+1d"></div>

iCheck check if checkbox is checked

You could wrap all your checkboxes in a parent class and check the length of .checked..

if( $('.your-parent-class').find('.checked').length ){
  $(".hide").toggle();
}

get the margin size of an element with jquery

You'll want to use...

alert(parseInt($this.parents("div:.item-form").css("marginTop").replace('px', '')));
alert(parseInt($this.parents("div:.item-form").css("marginRight").replace('px', '')));
alert(parseInt($this.parents("div:.item-form").css("marginBottom").replace('px', '')));
alert(parseInt($this.parents("div:.item-form").css("marginLeft").replace('px', '')));

Update multiple tables in SQL Server using INNER JOIN

You can't update more that one table in a single statement, however the error message you get is because of the aliases, you could try this :

BEGIN TRANSACTION

update A
set A.ORG_NAME =  @ORG_NAME
from table1 A inner join table2 B
on B.ORG_ID = A.ORG_ID
and A.ORG_ID = @ORG_ID

update B
set B.REF_NAME = @REF_NAME
from table2 B inner join table1 A
    on B.ORG_ID = A.ORG_ID
    and A.ORG_ID = @ORG_ID

COMMIT

php Replacing multiple spaces with a single space

preg_replace("/[[:blank:]]+/"," ",$input)

MIT vs GPL license

You are correct that the GPL is more restrictive than the MIT license.

You cannot include GPL code in a MIT licensed product. If you distribute a combined work that combines GPL and MIT code (except in some particular situations, e.g. 'mere aggregation'), that distribution must be compliant with the GPL.

You can include MIT licensed code in a GPL product. The whole combined work must be distributed in a way compliant with the GPL. If you have made changes to the MIT parts of the code, you would be required to publish the source for those changes if you distribute an application that contains GPL and MIT code.

If you are the copyright owner of the GPL code, you can of course choose to release that code under the MIT license instead - in that case it's your code and you can publish it under as many licenses as you want.

limit text length in php and provide 'Read more' link

Another method: insert the following in your theme's function.php file.

remove_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_excerpt');
add_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'custom_trim_excerpt');

function custom_trim_excerpt($text) { // Fakes an excerpt if needed
global $post;
if ( '' == $text ) {
$text = get_the_content('');
$text = apply_filters('the_content', $text);
$text = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $text);
$text = strip_tags($text);
$excerpt_length = x;
$words = explode(' ', $text, $excerpt_length + 1);
if (count($words) > $excerpt_length) {
array_pop($words);
array_push($words, '...');
$text = implode(' ', $words);
}
}
return $text;
}

You can use this.

SQL Server database restore error: specified cast is not valid. (SqlManagerUI)

Could be because of restoring SQL Server 2012 version backup file into SQL Server 2008 R2 or even less.

Int to Decimal Conversion - Insert decimal point at specified location

Simple math.

double result = ((double)number) / 100.0;

Although you may want to use decimal rather than double: decimal vs double! - Which one should I use and when?

Best way to remove the last character from a string built with stringbuilder

Use the following after the loop.

.TrimEnd(',')

or simply change to

string commaSeparatedList = input.Aggregate((a, x) => a + ", " + x)

Java: Difference between the setPreferredSize() and setSize() methods in components

Usage depends on whether the component's parent has a layout manager or not.

  • setSize() -- use when a parent layout manager does not exist;
  • setPreferredSize() (also its related setMinimumSize and setMaximumSize) -- use when a parent layout manager exists.

The setSize() method probably won't do anything if the component's parent is using a layout manager; the places this will typically have an effect would be on top-level components (JFrames and JWindows) and things that are inside of scrolled panes. You also must call setSize() if you've got components inside a parent without a layout manager.

Generally, setPreferredSize() will lay out the components as expected if a layout manager is present; most layout managers work by getting the preferred (as well as minimum and maximum) sizes of their components, then using setSize() and setLocation() to position those components according to the layout's rules.

For example, a BorderLayout tries to make the bounds of its "north" region equal to the preferred size of its north component---they may end up larger or smaller than that, depending on the size of the JFrame, the size of the other components in the layout, and so on.

ld.exe: cannot open output file ... : Permission denied

I had exactly the same problem right after switching off some (in my opinion unneccessary) Windows services. It turned out that when I switched ON again the "Application Experience" everything resumed working fine.

May be you simply have to turn on this service? To switch ON Application Experience:

  1. Click the Windows start buttonn.

  2. In the box labeled "Search programs and files" type services.msc and click the search button. A new window with title "Services" opens.

  3. Right click on "Application Experience" line and select "Properties" from popup menu.

  4. Change Startup type to "Automatic (delayed start)".

  5. Restart computer.

Application Experiences should prevent the problem in the future.

How to paste into a terminal?

On windows 7:

Ctrl + Shift + Ins

works for me!

How to convert int to date in SQL Server 2008

You can't convert an integer value straight to a date but you can first it to a datetime then to a date type

select cast(40835 as datetime)

and then convert to a date (SQL 2008)

select cast(cast(40835 as datetime) as date)

cheers

This view is not constrained vertically. At runtime it will jump to the left unless you add a vertical constraint

Go to the XML layout Text where the widget (button or other View) indicates error, focus the cursor there and press alt+enter and select missing constraints attributes.

Can we add div inside table above every <tr>?

No, you cannot insert a div directly inside of a table. It is not correct html, and will result in unexpected output.

I would be happy to be more insightful, but you haven't said what you are attempting, so I can't really offer an alternative.

How to switch text case in visual studio code

I think this is a feature currently missing right now.

I noticed when I was making a guide for the keyboard shortcut differences between it and Sublime.

It's a new editor though, I wouldn't be surprised if they added it back in a new version.

Source: https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/customization

How to get name of dataframe column in pyspark?

Python

As @numeral correctly said, column._jc.toString() works fine in case of unaliased columns.

In case of aliased columns (i.e. column.alias("whatever") ) the alias can be extracted, even without the usage of regular expressions: str(column).split(" AS ")[1].split("`")[1] .

I don't know Scala syntax, but I'm sure It can be done the same.

Find the 2nd largest element in an array with minimum number of comparisons

I have gone through all the posts above but I am convinced that the implementation of the Tournament algorithm is the best approach. Let us consider the following algorithm posted by @Gumbo

largest := numbers[0];
secondLargest := null
for i=1 to numbers.length-1 do
    number := numbers[i];
    if number > largest then
        secondLargest := largest;
        largest := number;
    else
        if number > secondLargest then
            secondLargest := number;
        end;
    end;
end;

It is very good in case we are going to find the second largest number in an array. It has (2n-1) number of comparisons. But what if you want to calculate the third largest number or some kth largest number. The above algorithm doesn't work. You got to another procedure.

So, I believe tournament algorithm approach is the best and here is the link for that.

iText - add content to existing PDF file

Gutch's code is close, but it'll only work right if:

  • There are no annotations (links, fields, etc), no Document Structure/Marked Content, no bookmarks, no document-level script, etc, etc, etc...
  • The page size happens to be A.4 (decent odds, but it won't work on any ol' PDF you happen to come across)
  • You don't mind losing all the original document metadata (producer, creation date, possibly author/title/keywords), and maybe the document ID. You can't copy the creation date and doc ID unless you do some pretty deep hackery on iText itself).

The Approved Method is to do it the other way around. Open the existing document with a PdfStamper, and use the returned PdfContentByte from getOverContent() to write text (and whatever else you might need) directly to the page. No second document needed.

And you can use a ColumnText to handle layout and such for you... no need to get down and dirty with beginText(),setFontAndSize(),drawText(),drawText()...,endText().

Getting Data from Android Play Store

There's an unofficial open-source API for the Android Market you may try to use to get the information you need. Hope this helps.

The program can't start because libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll is missing

I was able to overcome this by using "gcc" instead of "g++" for my compiler. I know this isn't an option for most people, but thought I'd mention it as a workaround option :)

Where can I find my Facebook application id and secret key?

Make a Facebook app with these simple steps I have written below:

  1. Go to Developer tab and click on it.
  2. Then go to Website Option.
  3. Enter the app name which you have want.
  4. Click on Create Facebook App.
  5. After this you have to choose category, you can choose App for Pages.
  6. Your AppId and Appkey is created automatically. The AppSecretKey is obfuscated. You can click on the show button to see your AppId and AppSecurityKey.

Python - AttributeError: 'numpy.ndarray' object has no attribute 'append'

Numpy arrays do not have an append method. Use the Numpy append function instead:

import numpy as np

array_3 = np.append(array_1, array_2, axis=n)
# you can either specify an integer axis value n or remove the keyword argument completely

For example, if array_1 and array_2 have the following values:

array_1 = np.array([1, 2])
array_2 = np.array([3, 4])

If you call np.append without specifying an axis value, like so:

array_3 = np.append(array_1, array_2)

array_3 will have the following value:

array([1, 2, 3, 4])

Else, if you call np.append with an axis value of 0, like so:

array_3 = np.append(array_1, array_2, axis=0)

array_3 will have the following value:

 array([[1, 2],
        [3, 4]]) 

More information on the append function here: https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.append.html

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

Adding below dependency in pom.xml, worked for me.

<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
</dependency>

Displaying splash screen for longer than default seconds

You can also use NSThread:

[NSThread sleepForTimeInterval:(NSTimeInterval)];

You can put this code in to first line of applicationDidFinishLaunching method.

For example, display default.png for 5 seconds.

- (void) applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication*)application
{
   [NSThread sleepForTimeInterval:5.0];
}

How can I get Eclipse to show .* files?

Cory is correct

@ If you're using Eclipse PDT, this is done by opening up the PHP explorer view

I just spent about half an hour looking for the little arrow, until I actually looked up what the 'PHP Explorer' view is. Here is a screenshot:

PHP perspective edit image

copying all contents of folder to another folder using batch file?

Here's a solution with robocopy which copies the content of Folder1 into Folder2 going trough all subdirectories and automatically overwriting the files with the same name:

robocopy C:\Folder1 C:\Folder2 /COPYALL /E /IS /IT

Here:

/COPYALL copies all file information
/E copies subdirectories including empty directories
/IS includes the same files
/IT includes modified files with the same name

For more parameters see the official documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/robocopy

Note: it can be necessary to run the command as administrator, because of the argument /COPYALL. If you can't: just get rid of it.

Iterate over object keys in node.js

adjust his code:

Object.prototype.each = function(iterateFunc) {
        var counter = 0,
keys = Object.keys(this),
currentKey,
len = keys.length;
        var that = this;
        var next = function() {

            if (counter < len) {
                currentKey = keys[counter++];
                iterateFunc(currentKey, that[currentKey]);

                next();
            } else {
                that = counter = keys = currentKey = len = next = undefined;
            }
        };
        next();
    };

    ({ property1: 'sdsfs', property2: 'chat' }).each(function(key, val) {
        // do things
        console.log(key);
    });

How do I get an Excel range using row and column numbers in VSTO / C#?

I found a good short method that seems to work well...

Dim x, y As Integer
x = 3: y = 5  
ActiveSheet.Cells(y, x).Select
ActiveCell.Value = "Tada"

In this example we are selecting 3 columns over and 5 rows down, then putting "Tada" in the cell.

Number of processors/cores in command line

Another one-liner, without counting hyper-threaded cores:

lscpu | awk -F ":" '/Core/ { c=$2; }; /Socket/ { print c*$2 }' 

App store link for "rate/review this app"

NSString *url = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kidsworld/id906660185?ls=1&mt=8"];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:url]];

Grep for beginning and end of line?

are you parsing output of ls -l?

If you are, and you just want to get the file name

find . -iname "*[0-9]" 

If you have no choice because usrLog.txt is created by something/someone else and you absolutely must use this file, other options include

awk '/^[-d].*[0-9]$/' file

Ruby(1.9+)

ruby -ne 'print if /^[-d].*[0-9]$/' file

Bash

while read -r line ; do  case $line in [-d]*[0-9] ) echo $line;  esac; done < file

How to insert text into the textarea at the current cursor position?

I like simple javascript, and I usually have jQuery around. Here's what I came up with, based off mparkuk's:

function typeInTextarea(el, newText) {
  var start = el.prop("selectionStart")
  var end = el.prop("selectionEnd")
  var text = el.val()
  var before = text.substring(0, start)
  var after  = text.substring(end, text.length)
  el.val(before + newText + after)
  el[0].selectionStart = el[0].selectionEnd = start + newText.length
  el.focus()
}

$("button").on("click", function() {
  typeInTextarea($("textarea"), "some text")
  return false
})

Here's a demo: http://codepen.io/erikpukinskis/pen/EjaaMY?editors=101

Excel 2010 VBA - Close file No Save without prompt

If you're not wanting to save changes set savechanges to false

    Sub CloseBook2()
        ActiveWorkbook.Close savechanges:=False
    End Sub

for more examples, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/213428 and i believe in the past I've just used

    ActiveWorkbook.Close False

Combining multiple commits before pushing in Git

You can squash (join) commits with an Interactive Rebase. There is a pretty nice YouTube video which shows how to do this on the command line or with SmartGit:

If you are already a SmartGit user then you can select all your outgoing commits (by holding down the Ctrl key) and open the context menu (right click) to squash your commits.

It's very comfortable:

enter image description here

There is also a very nice tutorial from Atlassian which shows how it works:

Java String declaration

String str = new String("SOME")

always create a new object on the heap

String str="SOME" 

uses the String pool

Try this small example:

        String s1 = new String("hello");
        String s2 = "hello";
        String s3 = "hello";

        System.err.println(s1 == s2);
        System.err.println(s2 == s3);

To avoid creating unnecesary objects on the heap use the second form.

How to create a drop shadow only on one side of an element?

Just use the spread parameter to make the shadow smaller:

_x000D_
_x000D_
.shadow {_x000D_
  -webkit-box-shadow: 0 6px 4px -4px black;_x000D_
  -moz-box-shadow: 0 6px 4px -4px black;_x000D_
  box-shadow: 0 6px 4px -4px black;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<div class="shadow">Some content</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Live demo: http://dabblet.com/gist/a8f8ba527f5cff607327

To not see any shadow on the sides, the (absolute value of the) spread radius (4th parameter) needs to be the same as the blur radius (3rd parameter).

How can a web application send push notifications to iOS devices?

Check out Xtify Web Push notifications. http://getreactor.xtify.com/ This tool allows you to push content onto a webpage and target visitors as well as trigger messages based on browser DOM events. It's designed specifically with mobile in mind.

Unzip a file with php

I can only assume your code came from a tutorial somewhere online? In that case, good job trying to figure it out by yourself. On the other hand, the fact that this code could actually be published online somewhere as the correct way to unzip a file is a bit frightening.

PHP has built-in extensions for dealing with compressed files. There should be no need to use system calls for this. ZipArchivedocs is one option.

$zip = new ZipArchive;
$res = $zip->open('file.zip');
if ($res === TRUE) {
  $zip->extractTo('/myzips/extract_path/');
  $zip->close();
  echo 'woot!';
} else {
  echo 'doh!';
}

Also, as others have commented, $HTTP_GET_VARS has been deprecated since version 4.1 ... which was a reeeeeally long time ago. Don't use it. Use the $_GET superglobal instead.

Finally, be very careful about accepting whatever input is passed to a script via a $_GET variable.

ALWAYS SANITIZE USER INPUT.


UPDATE

As per your comment, the best way to extract the zip file into the same directory in which it resides is to determine the hard path to the file and extract it specifically to that location. So, you could do:

// assuming file.zip is in the same directory as the executing script.
$file = 'file.zip';

// get the absolute path to $file
$path = pathinfo(realpath($file), PATHINFO_DIRNAME);

$zip = new ZipArchive;
$res = $zip->open($file);
if ($res === TRUE) {
  // extract it to the path we determined above
  $zip->extractTo($path);
  $zip->close();
  echo "WOOT! $file extracted to $path";
} else {
  echo "Doh! I couldn't open $file";
}

How to get the list of all installed color schemes in Vim?

Here is a small function I wrote to try all the colorschemes in $VIMRUNTIME/colors directory.

Add the below function to your vimrc, then open your source file and call the function from command.

function! DisplayColorSchemes()
   let currDir = getcwd()
   exec "cd $VIMRUNTIME/colors"
   for myCol in split(glob("*"), '\n')
      if myCol =~ '\.vim'
         let mycol = substitute(myCol, '\.vim', '', '')
         exec "colorscheme " . mycol
         exec "redraw!"
         echo "colorscheme = ". myCol
         sleep 2
      endif
   endfor
   exec "cd " . currDir
endfunction

Change some value inside the List<T>

I know this is an old post but, I've always used an updater extension method:

      public static void Update<TSource>(this IEnumerable<TSource> outer, Action<TSource> updator)
        {
            foreach (var item in outer)
            {
                updator(item);
            }
        }

list.Where(w => w.Name == "height").ToList().Update(u => u.height = 30);

What are the differences between normal and slim package of jquery?

The short answer taken from the announcement of jQuery 3.0 Final Release :

Along with the regular version of jQuery that includes the ajax and effects modules, we’re releasing a “slim” version that excludes these modules. All in all, it excludes ajax, effects, and currently deprecated code.

The file size (gzipped) is about 6k smaller, 23.6k vs 30k.

Show two digits after decimal point in c++

cout << fixed << setprecision(2) << total;

setprecision specifies the minimum precision. So

cout << setprecision (2) << 1.2; 

will print 1.2

fixed says that there will be a fixed number of decimal digits after the decimal point

cout << setprecision (2) << fixed << 1.2;

will print 1.20

SHA-1 fingerprint of keystore certificate

Go to your java bin directory via the cmd:

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_25\bin>

Now type in the below comand in your cmd:

keytool -list -v -keystore "c:\users\your_user_name\.android\debug.keystore" -alias androiddebugkey -storepass android -keypass android 

How do I do pagination in ASP.NET MVC?

I had the same problem and found a very elegant solution for a Pager Class from

http://blogs.taiga.nl/martijn/2008/08/27/paging-with-aspnet-mvc/

In your controller the call looks like:

return View(partnerList.ToPagedList(currentPageIndex, pageSize));

and in your view:

<div class="pager">
    Seite: <%= Html.Pager(ViewData.Model.PageSize, 
                          ViewData.Model.PageNumber,
                          ViewData.Model.TotalItemCount)%>
</div>

Update just one gem with bundler

bundle update gem-name [--major|--patch|--minor]

This also works for dependencies.

Custom header to HttpClient request

Here is an answer based on that by Anubis (which is a better approach as it doesn't modify the headers for every request) but which is more equivalent to the code in the original question:

using Newtonsoft.Json;
...

var client = new HttpClient();
var httpRequestMessage = new HttpRequestMessage
    {
        Method = HttpMethod.Post,
        RequestUri = new Uri("https://api.clickatell.com/rest/message"),
        Headers = { 
            { HttpRequestHeader.Authorization.ToString(), "Bearer xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" },
            { HttpRequestHeader.Accept.ToString(), "application/json" },
            { "X-Version", "1" }
        },
        Content = new StringContent(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(svm))
    };

var response = client.SendAsync(httpRequestMessage).Result;

Intellij IDEA Java classes not auto compiling on save

I ended up recording a Macro to save and compile in one step, and keymap Ctrl+s to it.

The required anti-forgery form field "__RequestVerificationToken" is not present Error in user Registration

Another possibility for those of us uploading files as part of the request. If the content length exceeds <httpRuntime maxRequestLength="size in kilo bytes" /> and you're using request verification tokens, the browser displays the 'The required anti-forgery form field "__RequestVerificationToken" is not present' message instead of the request length exceeded message.

Setting maxRequestLength to a value large enough to cater for the request cures the immediate issue - though I'll admit it's not a proper solution (we want the user to know the true problem of file size, not that of request verification tokens missing).

How to input a path with a white space?

I see Federico you've found solution by yourself. The problem was in two places. Assignations need proper quoting, in your case

SOME_PATH="/$COMPANY/someProject/some path"

is one of possible solutions.

But in shell those quotes are not stored in a memory, so when you want to use this variable, you need to quote it again, for example:

NEW_VAR="$SOME_PATH"

because if not, space will be expanded to command level, like this:

NEW_VAR=/YourCompany/someProject/some path

which is not what you want.

For more info you can check out my article about it http://www.cofoh.com/white-shell

C#, Looping through dataset and show each record from a dataset column

I believe you intended it more this way:

foreach (DataTable table in ds.Tables)
{
    foreach (DataRow dr in table.Rows)
    {
        DateTime TaskStart = DateTime.Parse(dr["TaskStart"].ToString());
        TaskStart.ToString("dd-MMMM-yyyy");
        rpt.SetParameterValue("TaskStartDate", TaskStart);
    }
}

You always accessed your first row in your dataset.

Inserting the same value multiple times when formatting a string

Depends on what you mean by better. This works if your goal is removal of redundancy.

s='foo'
string='%s bar baz %s bar baz %s bar baz' % (3*(s,))

How to install CocoaPods?

On macOS Mojave with Xcode 10.3, I got scary warnings from the gem route with or without -n /usr/local/bin:

xcodeproj's executable "xcodeproj" conflicts with /usr/local/bin/xcodeproj
Overwrite the executable? [yN] 

What works for me is still Homebrew, just

brew install cocoapods

How do I create a view controller file after creating a new view controller?

To add new ViewController once you have have an existing ViewController, follow below step:

  1. Click on background of Main.storyboard.

  2. Search and select ViewController from object library at the utility window.

  3. Drag and drop it in background to create a new ViewController.

Update rows in one table with data from another table based on one column in each being equal

merge into t2 t2 
using (select * from t1) t1
on (t2.user_id = t1.user_id)
when matched then update
set
   t2.c1 = t1.c1
,  t2.c2 = t1.c2

How to make a checkbox checked with jQuery?

I think you should use prop(), if you are using jQuery 1.6 onwards.

To check it you should do:

$('#test').prop('checked', true);

to uncheck it:

$('#test').prop('checked', false);

How to calculate modulus of large numbers?

This is called modular exponentiation(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_exponentiation).

Let's assume you have the following expression:

19 ^ 3 mod 7

Instead of powering 19 directly you can do the following:

(((19 mod 7) * 19) mod 7) * 19) mod 7

But this can take also a long time due to a lot of sequential multipliations and so you can multiply on squared values:

x mod N -> x ^ 2 mod N -> x ^ 4 mod -> ... x ^ 2 |log y| mod N

Modular exponentiation algorithm makes assumptions that:

x ^ y == (x ^ |y/2|) ^ 2 if y is even
x ^ y == x * ((x ^ |y/2|) ^ 2) if y is odd

And so recursive modular exponentiation algorithm will look like this in java:

/**
* Modular exponentiation algorithm
* @param x Assumption: x >= 0
* @param y Assumption: y >= 0
* @param N Assumption: N > 0
* @return x ^ y mod N
*/
public static long modExp(long x, long y, long N) {
    if(y == 0)
        return 1 % N;

    long z = modExp(x, Math.abs(y/2), N);

    if(y % 2 == 0)
        return (long) ((Math.pow(z, 2)) % N);
    return (long) ((x * Math.pow(z, 2)) % N);
}

Special thanks to @chux for found mistake with incorrect return value in case of y and 0 comparison.

Git resolve conflict using --ours/--theirs for all files

You can -Xours or -Xtheirs with git merge as well. So:

  1. abort the current merge (for instance with git reset --hard HEAD)
  2. merge using the strategy you prefer (git merge -Xours or git merge -Xtheirs)

DISCLAIMER: of course you can choose only one option, either -Xours or -Xtheirs, do use different strategy you should of course go file by file.

I do not know if there is a way for checkout, but I do not honestly think it is terribly useful: selecting the strategy with the checkout command is useful if you want different solutions for different files, otherwise just go for the merge strategy approach.

Use YAML with variables

Rails / ruby frameworks are able to do some templating ... it's frequently used to load env variables ...

# fooz.yml
  foo:
    bar: <%= $ENV[:some_var] %>

No idea if this works for javascript frameworks as I think that YML format is superset of json and it depends on what reads the yml file for you.

If you can use the template like that or the << >> or the {{ }} styles depending on your reader, after that you just ...

In another yml file ...

# boo.yml

development:
  fooz: foo

Which allows you to basically insert a variable as your reference that original file each time which is dynamically set. When reading I was also seeing you can create or open YML files as objects on the fly for several languages which allows you to create a file & chain write a series of YML files or just have them all statically pointing to the dynamically created one.

Parenthesis/Brackets Matching using Stack algorithm

//basic code non strack algorithm just started learning java ignore space and time.
/// {[()]}[][]{}
// {[( -a -> }]) -b -> replace a(]}) -> reverse a( }]))-> 
//Split string to substring {[()]}, next [], next [], next{}

public class testbrackets {
    static String stringfirst;
    static String stringsecond;
    static int open = 0;
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        splitstring("(()){}()");
    }
static void splitstring(String str){

    int len = str.length();
    for(int i=0;i<=len-1;i++){
        stringfirst="";
        stringsecond="";
        System.out.println("loop starttttttt");
        char a = str.charAt(i);
    if(a=='{'||a=='['||a=='(')
    {
        open = open+1;
        continue;
    }
    if(a=='}'||a==']'||a==')'){
        if(open==0){
            System.out.println(open+"started with closing brace");
            return;
        }
        String stringfirst=str.substring(i-open, i);
        System.out.println("stringfirst"+stringfirst);
        String stringsecond=str.substring(i, i+open);
        System.out.println("stringsecond"+stringsecond);
        replace(stringfirst, stringsecond);

        }
    i=(i+open)-1;
    open=0;
    System.out.println(i);
    }
    }
    static void replace(String stringfirst, String stringsecond){
        stringfirst = stringfirst.replace('{', '}');
        stringfirst = stringfirst.replace('(', ')');
        stringfirst = stringfirst.replace('[', ']');
        StringBuilder stringfirst1 = new StringBuilder(stringfirst);
        stringfirst = stringfirst1.reverse().toString();
    System.out.println("stringfirst"+stringfirst);
    System.out.println("stringsecond"+stringsecond);
if(stringfirst.equals(stringsecond)){
    System.out.println("pass");
}
    else{
        System.out.println("fail");
        System.exit(0);
        }
    }
}

Connect to docker container as user other than root

My solution:

#!/bin/bash
user_cmds="$@"

GID=$(id -g $USER)
UID=$(id -u $USER)
RUN_SCRIPT=$(mktemp -p $(pwd))
(
cat << EOF
addgroup --gid $GID $USER
useradd --no-create-home --home /cmd --gid $GID --uid $UID  $USER
cd /cmd
runuser -l $USER -c "${user_cmds}"
EOF
) > $RUN_SCRIPT

trap "rm -rf $RUN_SCRIPT" EXIT

docker run -v $(pwd):/cmd --rm my-docker-image "bash /cmd/$(basename ${RUN_SCRIPT})"

This allows the user to run arbitrary commands using the tools provides by my-docker-image. Note how the user's current working directory is volume mounted to /cmd inside the container.

I am using this workflow to allow my dev-team to cross-compile C/C++ code for the arm64 target, whose bsp I maintain (the my-docker-image contains the cross-compiler, sysroot, make, cmake, etc). With this a user can simply do something like:

cd /path/to/target_software
cross_compile.sh "mkdir build; cd build; cmake ../; make"

Where cross_compile.sh is the script shown above. The addgroup/useradd machinery allows user-ownership of any files/directories created by the build.

While this works for us. It seems sort of hacky. I'm open to alternative implementations ...

How do you make a LinearLayout scrollable?

You can add an atrribute in linearLayout : android:scrollbars="vertical"

Grouping into interval of 5 minutes within a time range

I came across the same issue.

I found that it is easy to group by any minute interval is just dividing epoch by minutes in amount of seconds and then either rounding or using floor to get ride of the remainder. So if you want to get interval in 5 minutes you would use 300 seconds.

    SELECT COUNT(*) cnt, 
    to_timestamp(floor((extract('epoch' from timestamp_column) / 300 )) * 300) 
    AT TIME ZONE 'UTC' as interval_alias
    FROM TABLE_NAME GROUP BY interval_alias
interval_alias       cnt
-------------------  ----  
2010-11-16 10:30:00  2
2010-11-16 10:35:00  10
2010-11-16 10:45:00  8
2010-11-16 10:55:00  11 

This will return the data correctly group by the selected minutes interval; however, it will not return the intervals that don't contains any data. In order to get those empty intervals we can use the function generate_series.

    SELECT generate_series(MIN(date_trunc('hour',timestamp_column)),
    max(date_trunc('minute',timestamp_column)),'5m') as interval_alias FROM 
    TABLE_NAME

Result:

interval_alias       
-------------------    
2010-11-16 10:30:00  
2010-11-16 10:35:00
2010-11-16 10:40:00   
2010-11-16 10:45:00
2010-11-16 10:50:00   
2010-11-16 10:55:00   

Now to get the result with interval with zero occurrences we just outer join both result sets.

    SELECT series.minute as interval,  coalesce(cnt.amnt,0) as count from 
       (
       SELECT count(*) amnt,
       to_timestamp(floor((extract('epoch' from timestamp_column) / 300 )) * 300)
       AT TIME ZONE 'UTC' as interval_alias
       from TABLE_NAME  group by interval_alias
       ) cnt
    
    RIGHT JOIN 
       (    
       SELECT generate_series(min(date_trunc('hour',timestamp_column)),
       max(date_trunc('minute',timestamp_column)),'5m') as minute from TABLE_NAME 
       ) series
  on series.minute = cnt.interval_alias

The end result will include the series with all 5 minute intervals even those that have no values.

interval             count
-------------------  ----  
2010-11-16 10:30:00  2
2010-11-16 10:35:00  10
2010-11-16 10:40:00  0
2010-11-16 10:45:00  8
2010-11-16 10:50:00  0 
2010-11-16 10:55:00  11 

The interval can be easily changed by adjusting the last parameter of generate_series. In our case we use '5m' but it could be any interval we want.

T-SQL STOP or ABORT command in SQL Server

No, there isn't one - you have a couple of options:

  1. Wrap the whole script in a big if/end block that is simply ensured to not be true (i.e. "if 1=2 begin" - this will only work however if the script doesn't include any GO statements (as those indicate a new batch)

  2. Use the return statement at the top (again, limited by the batch separators)

  3. Use a connection based approach, which will ensure non-execution for the entire script (entire connection to be more accurate) - use something like a 'SET PARSEONLY ON' or 'SET NOEXEC ON' at the top of the script. This will ensure all statements in the connection (or until said set statement is turned off) will not execute and will instead be parsed/compiled only.

  4. Use a comment block to comment out the entire script (i.e. /* and */)

EDIT: Demonstration that the 'return' statement is batch specific - note that you will continue to see result-sets after the returns:

select 1
return
go
select 2
return
select 3
go
select 4
return
select 5
select 6
go

Counting how many times a certain char appears in a string before any other char appears

//This code worked for me

class CountOfLettersOfString
{
    static void Main()
    {

        Console.WriteLine("Enter string to check count of letters");
        string name = Console.ReadLine();

        //Method1
        char[] testedalphabets = new char[26];
        int[] letterCount = new int[26];
        int countTestesd = 0;
        Console.WriteLine($"Given String is:{name}");

        for (int i = 0; i < name.Length - 1; i++)
        {
            int countChar = 1;

            bool isCharTested = false;

            for (int j = 0; j < testedalphabets.Length - 1; j++)
            {
                if (name[i] == testedalphabets[j])
                {
                    isCharTested = true;
                    break;
                }
            }

            if (!isCharTested)
            {
                testedalphabets[countTestesd] = name[i];

                for (int k = i + 1; k < name.Length - 1; k++)
                {
                    if (name[i] == name[k])
                    {
                        countChar++;
                    }
                }
                letterCount[countTestesd] = countChar;
                countTestesd++;

            }
            else
            {
                continue;
            }
        }

        for (int i = 0; i < testedalphabets.Length - 1; i++)
        {
            if (!char.IsLetter(testedalphabets[i]))
            {
                continue;
            }
            Console.WriteLine($"{testedalphabets[i]}-{letterCount[i]}");
        }


        //Method2
        var g = from c in name.ToLower().ToCharArray() // make sure that L and l are the same eg
                group c by c into m
                select new { Key = m.Key, Count = m.Count() };

        foreach (var item in g)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Character:{0} Appears {1} times", item.Key.ToString(), item.Count));
        }

        Console.ReadLine();
    }
}

Reset par to the default values at startup

An alternative solution for preventing functions to change the user par. You can set the default parameters early on the function, so that the graphical parameters and layout will not be changed during the function execution. See ?on.exit for further details.

on.exit(layout(1))
opar<-par(no.readonly=TRUE)
on.exit(par(opar),add=TRUE,after=FALSE)

Is java.sql.Timestamp timezone specific?

The answer is that java.sql.Timestamp is a mess and should be avoided. Use java.time.LocalDateTime instead.

So why is it a mess? From the java.sql.Timestamp JavaDoc, a java.sql.Timestamp is a "thin wrapper around java.util.Date that allows the JDBC API to identify this as an SQL TIMESTAMP value". From the java.util.Date JavaDoc, "the Date class is intended to reflect coordinated universal time (UTC)". From the ISO SQL spec a TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE "is a data type that is datetime without time zone". TIMESTAMP is a short name for TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE. So a java.sql.Timestamp "reflects" UTC while SQL TIMESTAMP is "without time zone".

Because java.sql.Timestamp reflects UTC its methods apply conversions. This causes no end of confusion. From the SQL perspective it makes no sense to convert a SQL TIMESTAMP value to some other time zone as a TIMESTAMP has no time zone to convert from. What does it mean to convert 42 to Fahrenheit? It means nothing because 42 does not have temperature units. It's just a bare number. Similarly you can't convert a TIMESTAMP of 2020-07-22T10:38:00 to Americas/Los Angeles because 2020-07-22T10:30:00 is not in any time zone. It's not in UTC or GMT or anything else. It's a bare date time.

java.time.LocalDateTime is also a bare date time. It does not have a time zone, exactly like SQL TIMESTAMP. None of its methods apply any kind of time zone conversion which makes its behavior much easier to predict and understand. So don't use java.sql.Timestamp. Use java.time.LocalDateTime.

LocalDateTime ldt = rs.getObject(col, LocalDateTime.class);
ps.setObject(param, ldt, JDBCType.TIMESTAMP);

Can an Android App connect directly to an online mysql database

What you want to do is a bad idea. It would require you to embed your username and password in the app. This is a very bad idea as it might be possible to reverse engineer your APK and get the username and password to this publicly facing mysql server which may contain sensitive user data.

I would suggest making a web service to act as a proxy to the mysql server. I assume users need to be logged in, so you could use their username/password to authenticate to the web service.

Convert the values in a column into row names in an existing data frame

This should do:

samp2 <- samp[,-1]
rownames(samp2) <- samp[,1]

So in short, no there is no alternative to reassigning.

Edit: Correcting myself, one can also do it in place: assign rowname attributes, then remove column:

R> df<-data.frame(a=letters[1:10], b=1:10, c=LETTERS[1:10])
R> rownames(df) <- df[,1]
R> df[,1] <- NULL
R> df
   b c
a  1 A
b  2 B
c  3 C
d  4 D
e  5 E
f  6 F
g  7 G
h  8 H
i  9 I
j 10 J
R> 

How to use absolute path in twig functions

The following works for me:

<img src="{{ asset('bundle/myname/img/image.gif', null, true) }}" />

Convert InputStream to BufferedReader

BufferedReader can't wrap an InputStream directly. It wraps another Reader. In this case you'd want to do something like:

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is, "UTF-8"));

Set selected item of spinner programmatically

If you have a list of contacts the you can go for this:

((Spinner) view.findViewById(R.id.mobile)).setSelection(spinnerContactPersonDesignationAdapter.getPosition(schoolContact.get(i).getCONT_DESIGNATION()));

Check if string contains \n Java

I'd rather trust JDK over System property. Following is a working snippet.

    private boolean checkIfStringContainsNewLineCharacters(String str){
        if(!StringUtils.isEmpty(str)){
            Scanner scanner = new Scanner(str);
            scanner.nextLine();
            boolean hasNextLine =  scanner.hasNextLine();
            scanner.close();
            return hasNextLine;
        }
        return false;
    }

How to parse the Manifest.mbdb file in an iOS 4.0 iTunes Backup

Thanks to galloglass' answer. The code works great with Python 2.7. There is only one thing I want to metion. When read the manifest.mbdb file, you should use binary mode. Otherwise, not all content are read.

I also made some minor changes to make the code work with Python 3.4. Here is the code.

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
import hashlib

mbdx = {}

def getint(data, offset, intsize):
    """Retrieve an integer (big-endian) and new offset from the current offset"""
    value = 0
    while intsize > 0:
        value = (value << 8) + data[offset]
        offset = offset + 1
        intsize = intsize - 1
    return value, offset

def getstring(data, offset):
    """Retrieve a string and new offset from the current offset into the data"""
    if chr(data[offset]) == chr(0xFF) and chr(data[offset + 1]) == chr(0xFF):
        return '', offset + 2  # Blank string
    length, offset = getint(data, offset, 2)  # 2-byte length
    value = data[offset:offset + length]
    return value.decode(encoding='latin-1'), (offset + length)

def process_mbdb_file(filename):
    mbdb = {}  # Map offset of info in this file => file info
    data = open(filename, 'rb').read()  # 'b' is needed to read all content at once
    if data[0:4].decode() != "mbdb": raise Exception("This does not look like an MBDB file")
    offset = 4
    offset = offset + 2  # value x05 x00, not sure what this is
    while offset < len(data):
        fileinfo = {}
        fileinfo['start_offset'] = offset
        fileinfo['domain'], offset = getstring(data, offset)
        fileinfo['filename'], offset = getstring(data, offset)
        fileinfo['linktarget'], offset = getstring(data, offset)
        fileinfo['datahash'], offset = getstring(data, offset)
        fileinfo['unknown1'], offset = getstring(data, offset)
        fileinfo['mode'], offset = getint(data, offset, 2)
        fileinfo['unknown2'], offset = getint(data, offset, 4)
        fileinfo['unknown3'], offset = getint(data, offset, 4)
        fileinfo['userid'], offset = getint(data, offset, 4)
        fileinfo['groupid'], offset = getint(data, offset, 4)
        fileinfo['mtime'], offset = getint(data, offset, 4)
        fileinfo['atime'], offset = getint(data, offset, 4)
        fileinfo['ctime'], offset = getint(data, offset, 4)
        fileinfo['filelen'], offset = getint(data, offset, 8)
        fileinfo['flag'], offset = getint(data, offset, 1)
        fileinfo['numprops'], offset = getint(data, offset, 1)
        fileinfo['properties'] = {}
        for ii in range(fileinfo['numprops']):
            propname, offset = getstring(data, offset)
            propval, offset = getstring(data, offset)
            fileinfo['properties'][propname] = propval
        mbdb[fileinfo['start_offset']] = fileinfo
        fullpath = fileinfo['domain'] + '-' + fileinfo['filename']
        id = hashlib.sha1(fullpath.encode())
        mbdx[fileinfo['start_offset']] = id.hexdigest()
    return mbdb

def modestr(val):
    def mode(val):
        if (val & 0x4):
            r = 'r'
        else:
            r = '-'
        if (val & 0x2):
            w = 'w'
        else:
            w = '-'
        if (val & 0x1):
            x = 'x'
        else:
            x = '-'
        return r + w + x
    return mode(val >> 6) + mode((val >> 3)) + mode(val)

def fileinfo_str(f, verbose=False):
    if not verbose: return "(%s)%s::%s" % (f['fileID'], f['domain'], f['filename'])
    if (f['mode'] & 0xE000) == 0xA000:
        type = 'l'  # symlink
    elif (f['mode'] & 0xE000) == 0x8000:
        type = '-'  # file
    elif (f['mode'] & 0xE000) == 0x4000:
        type = 'd'  # dir
    else:
        print >> sys.stderr, "Unknown file type %04x for %s" % (f['mode'], fileinfo_str(f, False))
        type = '?'  # unknown
    info = ("%s%s %08x %08x %7d %10d %10d %10d (%s)%s::%s" %
            (type, modestr(f['mode'] & 0x0FFF), f['userid'], f['groupid'], f['filelen'],
             f['mtime'], f['atime'], f['ctime'], f['fileID'], f['domain'], f['filename']))
    if type == 'l': info = info + ' -> ' + f['linktarget']  # symlink destination
    for name, value in f['properties'].items():  # extra properties
        info = info + ' ' + name + '=' + repr(value)
    return info

verbose = True
if __name__ == '__main__':
    mbdb = process_mbdb_file(
        r"Manifest.mbdb")
    for offset, fileinfo in mbdb.items():
        if offset in mbdx:
            fileinfo['fileID'] = mbdx[offset]
        else:
            fileinfo['fileID'] = "<nofileID>"
            print >> sys.stderr, "No fileID found for %s" % fileinfo_str(fileinfo)
        print(fileinfo_str(fileinfo, verbose))

How to set null value to int in c#?

In .Net, you cannot assign a null value to an int or any other struct. Instead, use a Nullable<int>, or int? for short:

int? value = 0;

if (value == 0)
{
    value = null;
}

Further Reading

Fully custom validation error message with Rails

Rails3 Code with fully localized messages:

In the model user.rb define the validation

validates :email, :presence => true

In config/locales/en.yml

en:  
  activerecord:
    models: 
      user: "Customer"
    attributes:
      user:
        email: "Email address"
    errors:
      models:
        user:
          attributes:
            email:
              blank: "cannot be empty"

Regular expression for exact match of a string

if you have a the input password in a variable and you want to match exactly 123456 then anchors will help you:

/^123456$/

in perl the test for matching the password would be something like

print "MATCH_OK" if ($input_pass=~/^123456$/);

EDIT:

bart kiers is right tho, why don't you use a strcmp() for this? every language has it in its own way

as a second thought, you may want to consider a safer authentication mechanism :)

Vue.js getting an element within a component

you can access the children of a vuejs component with this.$children. if you want to use the query selector on the current component instance then this.$el.querySelector(...)

just doing a simple console.log(this) will show you all the properties of a vue component instance.

additionally if you know the element you want to access in your component, you can add the v-el:uniquename directive to it and access it via this.$els.uniquename

How to hide a button programmatically?

Hidde:

BUTTON.setVisibility(View.GONE);

Show:

BUTTON.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

Databinding an enum property to a ComboBox in WPF

This is a DevExpress specific answer based on the top-voted answer by Gregor S. (currently it has 128 votes).

This means we can keep the styling consistent across the entire application:

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Unfortunately, the original answer doesn't work with a ComboBoxEdit from DevExpress without some modifications.

First, the XAML for the ComboBoxEdit:

<dxe:ComboBoxEdit ItemsSource="{Binding Source={xamlExtensions:XamlExtensionEnumDropdown {x:myEnum:EnumFilter}}}"
    SelectedItem="{Binding BrokerOrderBookingFilterSelected, Mode=TwoWay, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged}"
    DisplayMember="Description"
    MinWidth="144" Margin="5" 
    HorizontalAlignment="Left"
    IsTextEditable="False"
    ValidateOnTextInput="False"
    AutoComplete="False"
    IncrementalFiltering="True"
    FilterCondition="Like"
    ImmediatePopup="True"/>

Needsless to say, you will need to point xamlExtensions at the namespace that contains the XAML extension class (which is defined below):

xmlns:xamlExtensions="clr-namespace:XamlExtensions"

And we have to point myEnum at the namespace that contains the enum:

xmlns:myEnum="clr-namespace:MyNamespace"

Then, the enum:

namespace MyNamespace
{
    public enum EnumFilter
    {
        [Description("Free as a bird")]
        Free = 0,

        [Description("I'm Somewhat Busy")]
        SomewhatBusy = 1,

        [Description("I'm Really Busy")]
        ReallyBusy = 2
    }
}

The problem in with the XAML is that we can't use SelectedItemValue, as this throws an error as the setter is unaccessable (bit of an oversight on your part, DevExpress). So we have to modify our ViewModel to obtain the value directly from the object:

private EnumFilter _filterSelected = EnumFilter.All;
public object FilterSelected
{
    get
    {
        return (EnumFilter)_filterSelected;
    }
    set
    {
        var x = (XamlExtensionEnumDropdown.EnumerationMember)value;
        if (x != null)
        {
            _filterSelected = (EnumFilter)x.Value;
        }
        OnPropertyChanged("FilterSelected");
    }
}

For completeness, here is the XAML extension from the original answer (slightly renamed):

namespace XamlExtensions
{
    /// <summary>
    ///     Intent: XAML markup extension to add support for enums into any dropdown box, see http://bit.ly/1g70oJy. We can name the items in the
    ///     dropdown box by using the [Description] attribute on the enum values.
    /// </summary>
    public class XamlExtensionEnumDropdown : MarkupExtension
    {
        private Type _enumType;


        public XamlExtensionEnumDropdown(Type enumType)
        {
            if (enumType == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException("enumType");
            }

            EnumType = enumType;
        }

        public Type EnumType
        {
            get { return _enumType; }
            private set
            {
                if (_enumType == value)
                {
                    return;
                }

                var enumType = Nullable.GetUnderlyingType(value) ?? value;

                if (enumType.IsEnum == false)
                {
                    throw new ArgumentException("Type must be an Enum.");
                }

                _enumType = value;
            }
        }

        public override object ProvideValue(IServiceProvider serviceProvider)
        {
            var enumValues = Enum.GetValues(EnumType);

            return (
                from object enumValue in enumValues
                select new EnumerationMember
                       {
                           Value = enumValue,
                           Description = GetDescription(enumValue)
                       }).ToArray();
        }

        private string GetDescription(object enumValue)
        {
            var descriptionAttribute = EnumType
                .GetField(enumValue.ToString())
                .GetCustomAttributes(typeof (DescriptionAttribute), false)
                .FirstOrDefault() as DescriptionAttribute;


            return descriptionAttribute != null
                ? descriptionAttribute.Description
                : enumValue.ToString();
        }

        #region Nested type: EnumerationMember
        public class EnumerationMember
        {
            public string Description { get; set; }
            public object Value { get; set; }
        }
        #endregion
    }
}

Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with DevExpress. Telerik is also a great library.

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

The target container should have the white-space:pre style. Try it below.

_x000D_
_x000D_
<script>_x000D_
function copycontent(){_x000D_
 var content = document.getElementById('ta').value;_x000D_
 document.getElementById('target').innerText = content;_x000D_
}_x000D_
</script>_x000D_
<textarea id='ta' rows='3'>_x000D_
  line 1_x000D_
  line 2_x000D_
  line 3_x000D_
</textarea>_x000D_
<button id='btn' onclick='copycontent();'>_x000D_
Copy_x000D_
</button>_x000D_
<p id='target' style='white-space:pre'>_x000D_
_x000D_
</p>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

How to access iOS simulator camera

Simulator doesn't have a Camera. If you want to access a camera you need a device. You can't test camera on simulator. You can only check the photo and video gallery.

If '<selector>' is an Angular component, then verify that it is part of this module

Had the same issue, found that the template component tags worked with <app-[component-name]></app-[component-name]>. So, if your component is called mycomponent.component.ts:

@Component({
  selector: 'my-app',
  template: `
    <h1>Hello {{name}}</h1>
    <h4>Something</h4>
    <app-mycomponent></app-mycomponent>
  `,

Switch statement fall-through...should it be allowed?

It may depend on what you consider fallthrough. I'm ok with this sort of thing:

switch (value)
{
  case 0:
    result = ZERO_DIGIT;
    break;

  case 1:
  case 3:
  case 5:
  case 7:
  case 9:
     result = ODD_DIGIT;
     break;

  case 2:
  case 4:
  case 6:
  case 8:
     result = EVEN_DIGIT;
     break;
}

But if you have a case label followed by code that falls through to another case label, I'd pretty much always consider that evil. Perhaps moving the common code to a function and calling from both places would be a better idea.

And please note that I use the C++ FAQ definition of "evil"

Show DataFrame as table in iPython Notebook

You'll need to use the HTML() or display() functions from IPython's display module:

from IPython.display import display, HTML

# Assuming that dataframes df1 and df2 are already defined:
print "Dataframe 1:"
display(df1)
print "Dataframe 2:"
display(HTML(df2.to_html()))

Note that if you just print df1.to_html() you'll get the raw, unrendered HTML.

You can also import from IPython.core.display with the same effect

How to clear Flutter's Build cache?

I found a way to automate running the clean before you debug your code. (Warning, this runs everytime you hit the button, even for hot restart)

  1. First, find the Run > Edit Configurations Menu

  2. Click the External tool '+' icon under Before launch: External tool, Activate tool window.

  3. Run External Tool
  4. Configure it like so. Put the working directory as a directory in your project.

Edit Configurations. Configurations

Run External Tool Add Flutter Clean

What is token-based authentication?

A token is a piece of data created by server, and contains information to identify a particular user and token validity. The token will contain the user's information, as well as a special token code that user can pass to the server with every method that supports authentication, instead of passing a username and password directly.

Token-based authentication is a security technique that authenticates the users who attempt to log in to a server, a network, or some other secure system, using a security token provided by the server.

An authentication is successful if a user can prove to a server that he or she is a valid user by passing a security token. The service validates the security token and processes the user request.

After the token is validated by the service, it is used to establish security context for the client, so the service can make authorization decisions or audit activity for successive user requests.

Source (Web Archive)

Hexadecimal To Decimal in Shell Script

The error as reported appears when the variables are null (or empty):

$ unset var3 var4; var5=$(($var4-$var3))
bash: -: syntax error: operand expected (error token is "-")

That could happen because the value given to bc was incorrect. That might well be that bc needs UPPERcase values. It needs BFCA3000, not bfca3000. That is easily fixed in bash, just use the ^^ expansion:

var3=bfca3000; var3=`echo "ibase=16; ${var1^^}" | bc`

That will change the script to this:

#!/bin/bash

var1="bfca3000"
var2="efca3250"

var3="$(echo "ibase=16; ${var1^^}" | bc)"
var4="$(echo "ibase=16; ${var2^^}" | bc)"

var5="$(($var4-$var3))"

echo "Diference $var5"

But there is no need to use bc [1], as bash could perform the translation and substraction directly:

#!/bin/bash

var1="bfca3000"
var2="efca3250"

var5="$(( 16#$var2 - 16#$var1 ))"

echo "Diference $var5"

[1]Note: I am assuming the values could be represented in 64 bit math, as the difference was calculated in bash in your original script. Bash is limited to integers less than ((2**63)-1) if compiled in 64 bits. That will be the only difference with bc which does not have such limit.

Selecting a Linux I/O Scheduler

You can set this at boot by adding the "elevator" parameter to the kernel cmdline (such as in grub.cfg)

Example:

elevator=deadline

This will make "deadline" the default I/O scheduler for all block devices.

If you'd like to query or change the scheduler after the system has booted, or would like to use a different scheduler for a specific block device, I recommend installing and use the tool ioschedset to make this easy.

https://github.com/kata198/ioschedset

If you're on Archlinux it's available in aur:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ioschedset

Some example usage:

# Get i/o scheduler for all block devices
[username@hostname ~]$ io-get-sched
sda:    bfq
sr0:    bfq

# Query available I/O schedulers
[username@hostname ~]$ io-set-sched --list
mq-deadline kyber bfq none

# Set sda to use "kyber"
[username@hostname ~]$ io-set-sched kyber /dev/sda
Must be root to set IO Scheduler. Rerunning under sudo...

[sudo] password for username:
+ Successfully set sda to 'kyber'!

# Get i/o scheduler for all block devices to assert change
[username@hostname ~]$ io-get-sched
sda:    kyber
sr0:    bfq

# Set all block devices to use 'deadline' i/o scheduler
[username@hostname ~]$ io-set-sched deadline
Must be root to set IO Scheduler. Rerunning under sudo...

+ Successfully set sda to 'deadline'!
+ Successfully set sr0 to 'deadline'!

# Get the current block scheduler just for sda
[username@hostname ~]$ io-get-sched sda
sda:    mq-deadline

Usage should be self-explanatory. The tools are standalone and only require bash.

Hope this helps!

EDIT: Disclaimer, these are scripts I wrote.

stale element reference: element is not attached to the page document

According to @Abhishek Singh's you need to understand the problem:

What is the line which gives exception ?? The reason for this is because the element to which you have referred is removed from the DOM structure

and you can not refer to it anymore (imagine what element's ID has changed).

Follow the code:

class TogglingPage {
  @FindBy(...)
  private WebElement btnTurnOff;

  @FindBy(...)
  private WebElement btnTurnOn;

  TogglingPage turnOff() {
    this.btnTurnOff.isDisplayed();  
    this.btnTurnOff.click();          // when clicked, button should swap into btnTurnOn
    this.btnTurnOn.isDisplayed();
    this.btnTurnOn.click();           // when clicked, button should swap into btnTurnOff
    this.btnTurnOff.isDisplayed();    // throws an exception
    return new TogglingPage();
  }
}

Now, let us wonder why?

  1. btnTurnOff was found by a driver - ok
  2. btnTurnOff was replaced by btnTurnOn - ok
  3. btnTurnOn was found by a driver. - ok
  4. btnTurnOn was replaced by btnTurnOff - ok
  5. we call this.btnTurnOff.isDisplayed(); on the element which does not exist anymore in Selenium sense - you can see it, it works perfectly, but it is a different instance of the same button.

Possible fix:

  TogglingPage turnOff() {
    this.btnTurnOff.isDisplayed();  
    this.btnTurnOff.click();

    TogglingPage newPage = new TogglingPage();
    newPage.btnTurnOn.isDisplayed();
    newPage.btnTurnOn.click();

    TogglingPage newerPage = new TogglingPage();
    newerPage.btnTurnOff.isDisplayed();    // ok
    return newerPage;
  }

Split string in JavaScript and detect line break

In case you need to split a string from your JSON, the string has the \n special character replaced with \\n.

Split string by newline:

Result.split('\n');

Split string received in JSON, where special character \n was replaced with \\n during JSON.stringify(in javascript) or json.json_encode(in PHP). So, if you have your string in a AJAX response, it was processed for transportation. and if it is not decoded, it will sill have the \n replaced with \\n** and you need to use:

Result.split('\\n');

Note that the debugger tools from your browser might not show this aspect as you was expecting, but you can see that splitting by \\n resulted in 2 entries as I need in my case: enter image description here

How to cherry-pick from a remote branch?

If you have fetched, yet this still happens, the following might be a reason.

It can happen that the commit you are trying to pick, is no longer belonging to any branch. This may happen when you rebase.

In such case, at the remote repo:

  1. git checkout xxxxx
  2. git checkout -b temp-branch

Then in your repo, fetch again. The new branch will be fetched, including that commit.

Get current URL path in PHP

it should be :

$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

Take a look at : Get the full URL in PHP