Programs & Examples On #Knockd

How to set the LDFLAGS in CMakeLists.txt?

For linking against libraries see Andre's answer.

For linker flags - the following 4 CMake variables:

CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS
CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS
CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS
CMAKE_STATIC_LINKER_FLAGS

can be easily manipulated for different configs (debug, release...) with the ucm_add_linker_flags macro of ucm

Android SDK folder taking a lot of disk space. Do we need to keep all of the System Images?

In this folder there are all emulator images. If you don't use emulator then you can delete this folder.

Align two inline-blocks left and right on same line

Taking advantage of @skip405's answer, I've made a Sass mixin for it:

@mixin inline-block-lr($container,$left,$right){
    #{$container}{        
        text-align: justify; 

        &:after{
            content: '';
            display: inline-block;
            width: 100%;
            height: 0;
            font-size:0;
            line-height:0;
        }
    }

    #{$left} {
        display: inline-block;
        vertical-align: middle; 
    }

    #{$right} {
        display: inline-block;
        vertical-align: middle; 
    }
}

It accepts 3 parameters. The container, the left and the right element. For example, to fit the question, you could use it like this:

@include inline-block-lr('header', 'h1', 'nav');

Angular + Material - How to refresh a data source (mat-table)

// this is the dataSource
this.guests = [];

this.guests.push({id: 1, name: 'Ricardo'});

// refresh the dataSource this.guests = Array.from(this.guest);

How do I get the unix timestamp in C as an int?

With second precision, you can print tv_sec field of timeval structure that you get from gettimeofday() function. For example:

#include <sys/time.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    struct timeval tv;
    gettimeofday(&tv, NULL);
    printf("Seconds since Jan. 1, 1970: %ld\n", tv.tv_sec);
    return 0;
}

Example of compiling and running:

$ gcc -Wall -o test ./test.c 
$ ./test 
Seconds since Jan. 1, 1970: 1343845834

Note, however, that its been a while since epoch and so long int is used to fit a number of seconds these days.

There are also functions to print human-readable times. See this manual page for details. Here goes an example using ctime():

#include <time.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    time_t clk = time(NULL);
    printf("%s", ctime(&clk));
    return 0;
}

Example run & output:

$ gcc -Wall -o test ./test.c 
$ ./test 
Wed Aug  1 14:43:23 2012
$ 

How to delete files/subfolders in a specific directory at the command prompt in Windows

@ECHO OFF
rem next line removes all files in temp folder
DEL /A /F /Q /S "%temp%\*.*"
rem next line cleans up the folder's content
FOR /D %%p IN ("%temp%\*.*") DO RD "%%p" /S /Q

How to install Intellij IDEA on Ubuntu?

You can also try my ubuntu repository: https://launchpad.net/~mmk2410/+archive/ubuntu/intellij-idea

To use it just run the following commands:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mmk2410/intellij-idea
sudo apt-get update

The community edition can then installed with

sudo apt-get install intellij-idea-community

and the ultimate edition with

sudo apt-get install intellij-idea-ultimate

Why can't overriding methods throw exceptions broader than the overridden method?

The overriding method must NOT throw checked exceptions that are new or broader than those declared by the overridden method.

This simply means when you override an existing method, the exception that this overloaded method throws should be either the same exception which the original method throws or any of its subclasses.

Note that checking whether all checked exceptions are handled is done at compile time and not at runtime. So at compile time itself, the Java compiler checks the type of exception the overridden method is throwing. Since which overridden method will be executed can be decided only at runtime, we cannot know what kind of Exception we have to catch.


Example

Let's say we have class A and its subclass B. A has method m1 and class B has overridden this method (lets call it m2 to avoid confusion..). Now let's say m1 throws E1, and m2 throws E2, which is E1's superclass. Now we write the following piece of code:

A myAObj = new B();
myAObj.m1();

Note that m1 is nothing but a call to m2 (again, method signatures are same in overloaded methods so do not get confuse with m1 and m2.. they are just to differentiate in this example... they both have same signature). But at compile time, all java compiler does is goes to the reference type (Class A in this case) checks the method if it is present and expects the programmer to handle it. So obviously, you will throw or catch E1. Now, at runtime, if the overloaded method throws E2, which is E1's superclass, then ... well, it's very wrong (for the same reason we cannot say B myBObj = new A()). Hence, Java does not allow it. Unchecked exceptions thrown by the overloaded method must be same, subclasses, or non-existent.

Why shouldn't I use PyPy over CPython if PyPy is 6.3 times faster?

I've found examples, where PyPy is slower than Python. But: Only on Windows.

C:\Users\User>python -m timeit -n10 -s"from sympy import isprime" "isprime(2**521-1);isprime(2**1279-1)"
10 loops, best of 3: 294 msec per loop

C:\Users\User>pypy -m timeit -n10 -s"from sympy import isprime" "isprime(2**521-1);isprime(2**1279-1)"
10 loops, best of 3: 1.33 sec per loop

So, if you think of PyPy, forget Windows. On Linux, you can achieve awesome accelerations. Example (list all primes between 1 and 1,000,000):

from sympy import sieve
primes = list(sieve.primerange(1, 10**6))

This runs 10(!) times faster on PyPy than on Python. But not on windows. There it is only 3x as fast.

EXCEL Multiple Ranges - need different answers for each range

use

=VLOOKUP(D4,F4:G9,2)

with the range F4:G9:

0   0.1
1   0.15
5   0.2
15  0.3
30  1
100 1.3

and D4 being the value in question, e.g. 18.75 -> result: 0.3

SimpleDateFormat and locale based format string

Use DateFormat.getDateInstance(int style, Locale locale) instead of creating your own patterns with SimpleDateFormat.

Column order manipulation using col-lg-push and col-lg-pull in Twitter Bootstrap 3

This answer is in three parts, see below for the official release (v3 and v4)

I couldn't even find the col-lg-push-x or pull classes in the original files for RC1 i downloaded, so check your bootstrap.css file. hopefully this is something they will sort out in RC2.

anyways, the col-push-* and pull classes did exist and this will suit your needs. Here is a demo

<div class="row">
    <div class="col-sm-5 col-push-5">
        Content B
    </div>
    <div class="col-sm-5 col-pull-5">
        Content A
    </div>
    <div class="col-sm-2">
        Content C
    </div>
</div>

EDIT: BELOW IS THE ANSWER FOR THE OFFICIAL RELEASE v3.0

Also see This blog post on the subject

  • col-vp-push-x = push the column to the right by x number of columns, starting from where the column would normally render -> position: relative, on a vp or larger view-port.

  • col-vp-pull-x = pull the column to the left by x number of columns, starting from where the column would normally render -> position: relative, on a vp or larger view-port.

    vp = xs, sm, md, or lg

    x = 1 thru 12

I think what messes most people up, is that you need to change the order of the columns in your HTML markup (in the example below, B comes before A), and that it only does the pushing or pulling on view-ports that are greater than or equal to what was specified. i.e. col-sm-push-5 will only push 5 columns on sm view-ports or greater. This is because Bootstrap is a "mobile first" framework, so your HTML should reflect the mobile version of your site. The Pushing and Pulling are then done on the larger screens.

  • (Desktop) Larger view-ports get pushed and pulled.
  • (Mobile) Smaller view-ports render in normal order.

DEMO

<div class="row">
    <div class="col-sm-5 col-sm-push-5">
        Content B
    </div>
    <div class="col-sm-5 col-sm-pull-5">
        Content A
    </div>
    <div class="col-sm-2">
        Content C
    </div>
</div>

View-port >= sm

|A|B|C|

View-port < sm

|B|
|A|
|C|

EDIT: BELOW IS THE ANSWER FOR v4.0

With v4 comes flexbox and other changes to the grid system and the push\pull classes have been removed in favor of using flexbox ordering.

  • Use .order-* classes to control visual order (where * = 1 thru 12)
  • This can also be grid tier specific .order-md-*
  • Also .order-first (-1) and .order-last (13) avalable

_x000D_
_x000D_
<div class="row">_x000D_
  <div class="col order-2">1st yet 2nd</div>_x000D_
  <div class="col order-1">2nd yet 1st</div>_x000D_
</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Python Sets vs Lists

I was interested in the results when checking, with CPython, if a value is one of a small number of literals. set wins in Python 3 vs tuple, list and or:

from timeit import timeit

def in_test1():
  for i in range(1000):
    if i in (314, 628):
      pass

def in_test2():
  for i in range(1000):
    if i in [314, 628]:
      pass

def in_test3():
  for i in range(1000):
    if i in {314, 628}:
      pass

def in_test4():
  for i in range(1000):
    if i == 314 or i == 628:
      pass

print("tuple")
print(timeit("in_test1()", setup="from __main__ import in_test1", number=100000))
print("list")
print(timeit("in_test2()", setup="from __main__ import in_test2", number=100000))
print("set")
print(timeit("in_test3()", setup="from __main__ import in_test3", number=100000))
print("or")
print(timeit("in_test4()", setup="from __main__ import in_test4", number=100000))

Output:

tuple
4.735646052286029
list
4.7308746771886945
set
3.5755991376936436
or
4.687681658193469

For 3 to 5 literals, set still wins by a wide margin, and or becomes the slowest.

In Python 2, set is always the slowest. or is the fastest for 2 to 3 literals, and tuple and list are faster with 4 or more literals. I couldn't distinguish the speed of tuple vs list.

When the values to test were cached in a global variable out of the function, rather than creating the literal within the loop, set won every time, even in Python 2.

These results apply to 64-bit CPython on a Core i7.

How to get sp_executesql result into a variable?

Here's something you can try

DECLARE  @SqlStatement  NVARCHAR(MAX) = ''
       ,@result     XML
       ,@DatabaseName  VARCHAR(100)
       ,@SchemaName    VARCHAR(10)
       ,@ObjectName    VARCHAR(200);

SELECT   @DatabaseName = 'some database'
       ,@SchemaName   = 'some schema'
       ,@ObjectName   = 'some object (Table/View)'

SET @SqlStatement = '
                    SELECT @result = CONVERT(XML,
                                            STUFF( ( SELECT *
                                                     FROM 
                                                       (
                                                          SELECT TOP(100) 
                                                          * 
                                                          FROM ' + QUOTENAME(@DatabaseName) +'.'+ QUOTENAME(@SchemaName) +'.' + QUOTENAME(@ObjectName) + '
                                                       ) AS A1 
                                                    FOR XML PATH(''row''), ELEMENTS, ROOT(''recordset'')
                                                 ), 1, 0, '''')
                                       )
                ';

EXEC sp_executesql @SqlStatement,N'@result XML OUTPUT', @result = @result OUTPUT;

SELECT DISTINCT
    QUOTENAME(r.value('fn:local-name(.)', 'VARCHAR(200)')) AS ColumnName
FROM @result.nodes('//recordset/*/*') AS records(r)
ORDER BY ColumnName

how to convert milliseconds to date format in android?

Short and effective:

DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance().format(new Date(myMillisValue))

What is an idempotent operation?

Idempotent Operations: Operations that have no side-effects if executed multiple times.
Example: An operation that retrieves values from a data resource and say, prints it

Non-Idempotent Operations: Operations that would cause some harm if executed multiple times. (As they change some values or states)
Example: An operation that withdraws from a bank account

New line character in VB.Net?

In asp.net for giving new line character in string you should use <br> .

For window base application Environment.NewLine will work fine.

NullPointerException in eclipse in Eclipse itself at PartServiceImpl.internalFixContext

Better you update your eclipse by clicking it on help >> check for updates, also you can start eclipse by entering command in command prompt eclipse -clean.
Hope this will help you.

Creating a div element in jQuery

I hope that helps code. :) (I use)

function generateParameterForm(fieldName, promptText, valueType) {
    //<div class="form-group">
    //<label for="yyy" class="control-label">XXX</label>
    //<input type="text" class="form-control" id="yyy" name="yyy"/>
    //</div>

    // Add new div tag
    var form = $("<div/>").addClass("form-group");

    // Add label for prompt text
    var label = $("<label/>").attr("for", fieldName).addClass("control-label").text(promptText);

    // Add text field
    var input = $("<input/>").attr("type", "text").addClass("form-control").addClass(valueType).attr("id", fieldName).attr("name", fieldName);

    // lbl and inp => form
    $(form).append(label).append(input);

    return $(form);
}

Rollback one specific migration in Laravel

If you look in your migrations table, then you’ll see each migration has a batch number. So when you roll back, it rolls back each migration that was part of the last batch.

If you only want to roll back the very last migration, then just increment the batch number by one. Then next time you run the rollback command, it’ll only roll back that one migration as it’s in a “batch” of its own.

Alternatively, from Laravel 5.3 onwards, you can just run:

php artisan migrate:rollback --step=1

That will rollback the last migration, no matter what its batch number is.

Iterating through array - java

You should definitely encapsulate this logic into a method.

There is no benefit to repeating identical code multiple times.

Also, if you place the logic in a method and it changes, you only need to modify your code in one place.

Whether or not you want to use a 3rd party library is an entirely different decision.

Bootstrap 3: How do you align column content to bottom of row

Vertical align bottom and remove the float seems to work. I then had a margin issue, but the -2px keeps them from getting pushed down (and they still don't overlap)

.profile-header > div {
  display: inline-block;
  vertical-align: bottom;
  float: none;
  margin: -2px;
}
.profile-header {
  margin-bottom:20px;
  border:2px solid green;
  display: table-cell;
}
.profile-pic {
  height:300px;
  border:2px solid red;
}
.profile-about {
  border:2px solid blue;
}
.profile-about2 {
  border:2px solid pink;
}

Example here: http://www.bootply.com/125740#

How does one target IE7 and IE8 with valid CSS?

For a more complete list as of 2015:

IE 6

* html .ie6 {property:value;}

or

.ie6 { _property:value;}

IE 7

*+html .ie7 {property:value;}

or

*:first-child+html .ie7 {property:value;}

IE 6 and 7

@media screen\9 {
    .ie67 {property:value;}
}

or

.ie67 { *property:value;}

or

.ie67 { #property:value;}

IE 6, 7 and 8

@media \0screen\,screen\9 {
    .ie678 {property:value;}
}

IE 8

html>/**/body .ie8 {property:value;}

or

@media \0screen {
    .ie8 {property:value;}
}

IE 8 Standards Mode Only

.ie8 { property /*\**/: value\9 }

IE 8,9 and 10

@media screen\0 {
    .ie8910 {property:value;}
}

IE 9 only

@media screen and (min-width:0) and (min-resolution: .001dpcm) { 
 // IE9 CSS
 .ie9{property:value;}
}

IE 9 and above

@media screen and (min-width:0) and (min-resolution: +72dpi) {
  // IE9+ CSS
  .ie9up{property:value;}
}

IE 9 and 10

@media screen and (min-width:0) {
    .ie910{property:value;}
}

IE 10 only

_:-ms-lang(x), .ie10 { property:value\9; }

IE 10 and above

_:-ms-lang(x), .ie10up { property:value; }

or

@media all and (-ms-high-contrast: none), (-ms-high-contrast: active) {
   .ie10up{property:value;}
}

IE 11 (and above..)

_:-ms-fullscreen, :root .ie11up { property:value; }

Javascript alternatives

Modernizr

Modernizr runs quickly on page load to detect features; it then creates a JavaScript object with the results, and adds classes to the html element

User agent selection

The Javascript:

var b = document.documentElement;
        b.setAttribute('data-useragent',  navigator.userAgent);
        b.setAttribute('data-platform', navigator.platform );
        b.className += ((!!('ontouchstart' in window) || !!('onmsgesturechange' in window))?' touch':'');

Adds (e.g) the below to the html element:

data-useragent='Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C)'
data-platform='Win32'

Allowing very targetted CSS selectors, e.g.:

html[data-useragent*='Chrome/13.0'] .nav{
    background:url(img/radial_grad.png) center bottom no-repeat;
}

Footnote

If possible, avoid browser targeting. Identify and fix any issue(s) you identify. Support progressive enhancement and graceful degradation. With that in mind, this is an 'ideal world' scenario not always obtainable in a production environment, as such- the above should help provide some good options.


Attribution / Essential Reading

How do I split a string into an array of characters?

You can split on an empty string:

var chars = "overpopulation".split('');

If you just want to access a string in an array-like fashion, you can do that without split:

var s = "overpopulation";
for (var i = 0; i < s.length; i++) {
    console.log(s.charAt(i));
}

You can also access each character with its index using normal array syntax. Note, however, that strings are immutable, which means you can't set the value of a character using this method, and that it isn't supported by IE7 (if that still matters to you).

var s = "overpopulation";

console.log(s[3]); // logs 'r'

JSON encode MySQL results

http://www.php.net/mysql_query says "mysql_query() returns a resource".

http://www.php.net/json_encode says it can encode any value "except a resource".

You need to iterate through and collect the database results in an array, then json_encode the array.

Ansible - read inventory hosts and variables to group_vars/all file

Yes the example by nixlike works very well.

Inventory:

[docker-host]
myhost1 user=barbara
myhost2 user=heather

playbook:

---

- hosts: localhost
  connection: local         

     tasks:    
        - name: loop debug inventory hostnames
          debug: 
            msg: "the docker host is {{ item }}"
          with_inventory_hostnames: docker-host
        - name: loop debug items
          debug: 
            msg: "the docker host is {{ hostvars[item]['user'] }}"
          with_items: "{{ groups['docker-host'] }}"

output:

ansible-playbook ansible/tests/vars-test-local.yml

PLAY [localhost]


TASK [setup] ******************************************************************* ok: [localhost]

TASK [loop debug inventory hostnames] ****************************************** ok: [localhost] => (item=myhost2) => { "item": "myhost2", "msg": "the docker host is myhost2" } ok: [localhost] => (item=myhost1) => { "item": "myhost1", "msg": "the docker host is myhost1" }

TASK [loop debug items] ******************************************************** ok: [localhost] => (item=myhost1) => { "item": "myhost1", "msg": "the docker host is barbara" } ok: [localhost] => (item=myhost2) => { "item": "myhost2", "msg": "the docker host is heather" }

PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************* localhost : ok=3 changed=0 unreachable=0
failed=0

thanks!

Conditionally hide CommandField or ButtonField in Gridview

<asp:GridView ID="gv_Document" CssClass="gridstyle" runat="server" OnRowDataBound="gv_Document_RowDataBound" AutoGenerateColumns="false" DataKeyNames="SourceGUID,Source,FilePath" ShowHeaderWhenEmpty="false" OnRowDeleting="gv_Document_RowDeleting">
   <Columns>
       <asp:BoundField HeaderText="ItemID" DataField="ItemID" ItemStyle-CssClass="hidden-field" HeaderStyle-CssClass="hidden-field" />
       <asp:BoundField HeaderText="SourceGUID" DataField="SourceGUID" ItemStyle-CssClass="hidden-field" HeaderStyle-CssClass="hidden-field" />
       <asp:BoundField HeaderText="Source" DataField="Source" ItemStyle-CssClass="hidden-field" HeaderStyle-CssClass="hidden-field" />
           <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="">
               <ItemTemplate>
                    <asp:HyperLink ID="hyperLink" runat="server" Target="_blank" NavigateUrl='<%# Bind("FilePath")%>'
                                                                Text='<%# Bind("FileName")%>'>  </asp:HyperLink>
               </ItemTemplate>
           </asp:TemplateField>
      <asp:BoundField HeaderText="Type" DataField="FileExtension" ItemStyle-CssClass="hidden-field" HeaderStyle-CssClass="hidden-field" />
      <asp:BoundField HeaderText="Content type" DataField="FileMimeType" ItemStyle-CssClass="hidden-field" HeaderStyle-CssClass="hidden-field" />
      <asp:BoundField HeaderText="File Path" DataField="FilePath" ItemStyle-CssClass="hidden-field" HeaderStyle-CssClass="hidden-field" />
      <asp:CommandField ShowDeleteButton="True" DeleteText="Delete" />
   </Columns>

Use this code to disable delete button in gridview from code behind.

protected void gv_Document_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{ 
    if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
    {
        ((LinkButton)e.Row.Cells[7].Controls[0]).Visible = false;            
    }
}

Python IndentationError: unexpected indent

Run your program with

python -t script.py

This will warn you if you have mixed tabs and spaces.

On *nix systems, you can see where the tabs are by running

cat -A script.py

and you can automatically convert tabs to 4 spaces with the command

expand -t 4 script.py > fixed_script.py

PS. Be sure to use a programming editor (e.g. emacs, vim), not a word processor, when programming. You won't get this problem with a programming editor.

PPS. For emacs users, M-x whitespace-mode will show the same info as cat -A from within an emacs buffer!

Is there a C++ gdb GUI for Linux?

Qt Creator-on-Linux is certainly on par with Visual Studio-on-Windows for C++ nowadays. I'd even say better on the debugger side.

Oracle DateTime in Where Clause?

As other people have commented above, using TRUNC will prevent the use of indexes (if there was an index on TIME_CREATED). To avoid that problem, the query can be structured as

SELECT EMP_NAME, DEPT
FROM EMPLOYEE
WHERE TIME_CREATED BETWEEN TO_DATE('26/JAN/2011','dd/mon/yyyy') 
            AND TO_DATE('26/JAN/2011','dd/mon/yyyy') + INTERVAL '86399' second;

86399 being 1 second less than the number of seconds in a day.

Android: I am unable to have ViewPager WRAP_CONTENT

Using Daniel López Localle answer, I created this class in Kotlin. Hope it save you more time

class DynamicHeightViewPager @JvmOverloads constructor(context: Context, attrs: AttributeSet? = null) : ViewPager(context, attrs) {

override fun onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec: Int, heightMeasureSpec: Int) {
    var heightMeasureSpec = heightMeasureSpec

    var height = 0
    for (i in 0 until childCount) {
        val child = getChildAt(i)
        child.measure(widthMeasureSpec, View.MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(0, View.MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED))
        val h = child.measuredHeight
        if (h > height) height = h
    }

    if (height != 0) {
        heightMeasureSpec = View.MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(height, View.MeasureSpec.EXACTLY)
    }

    super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec)
}}

Difference in Months between two dates in JavaScript

It also counts the days and convert them in months.

function monthDiff(d1, d2) {
    var months;
    months = (d2.getFullYear() - d1.getFullYear()) * 12;   //calculates months between two years
    months -= d1.getMonth() + 1; 
    months += d2.getMonth();  //calculates number of complete months between two months
    day1 = 30-d1.getDate();  
    day2 = day1 + d2.getDate();
    months += parseInt(day2/30);  //calculates no of complete months lie between two dates
    return months <= 0 ? 0 : months;
}

monthDiff(
    new Date(2017, 8, 8), // Aug 8th, 2017    (d1)
    new Date(2017, 12, 12)  // Dec 12th, 2017   (d2)
);
//return value will be 4 months 

Converting integer to digit list

num = list(str(100))
index = len(num)
while index > 0:
    index -= 1
    num[index] = int(num[index])
print(num)

It prints [1, 0, 0] object.

Angular2 - Http POST request parameters

I landed here when I was trying to do a similar thing. For a application/x-www-form-urlencoded content type, you could try to use this for the body:

var body = 'username' =myusername & 'password'=mypassword;

with what you tried doing the value assigned to body will be a string.

How to get current time in milliseconds in PHP?

The short answer is:

$milliseconds = round(microtime(true) * 1000);

Split bash string by newline characters

There is another way if all you want is the text up to the first line feed:

x='some
thing'

y=${x%$'\n'*}

After that y will contain some and nothing else (no line feed).

What is happening here?

We perform a parameter expansion substring removal (${PARAMETER%PATTERN}) for the shortest match up to the first ANSI C line feed ($'\n') and drop everything that follows (*).

Add a property to a JavaScript object using a variable as the name?

If you have object, you can make array of keys, than map through, and create new object from previous object keys, and values.

Object.keys(myObject)
.map(el =>{
 const obj = {};
 obj[el]=myObject[el].code;
 console.log(obj);
});

What is a View in Oracle?

If you like the idea of Views, but are worried about performance you can get Oracle to create a cached table representing the view which oracle keeps up to date.
See materialized views

How to download Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition for offline installation?

Just use the following for a "minimal" C# installation:

vs_Community.exe --layout f:\vs2017c --lang en-US --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.ManagedDesktop

This works for sure. The error in your first commandline was the trailing backslash. Without it it works. You don't have to download all..

You can add for example the following workloads (or a subset) to the commandline:

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.Data Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NetWeb Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.Universal Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NetCoreTools

Sometimes the downloader seems to not like too much packages. But you can download the packages (add the other workloads) step-by-step, this works. Like you want.

The interesting thing. The installer afterwards will download (only) the packages you selected which you have NOT downloaded before, so it is quite smart (in this point).

(Of course there are more packages available).

Passing string parameter in JavaScript function

Rename your variable name to myname, bacause name is a generic property of window and is not writable in the same window.

And replace

onclick='myfunction(\''" + name + "'\')'

With

onclick='myfunction(myname)'

Working example:

_x000D_
_x000D_
var myname = "Mathew";_x000D_
document.write('<button id="button" type="button" onclick="myfunction(myname);">click</button>');_x000D_
function myfunction(name) {_x000D_
    alert(name);_x000D_
}
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Running AMP (apache mysql php) on Android

Here is the App Bit Web Server (PHP,MySQL,PMA)

It can run a variety of CMS like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Prestashop, etc. Besides CMS can also run PHP frameworks like Code Igniter, YII, CakePHP, etc. It is the same as WAMP or LAMP or XAMPP on your computer or laptop, but this is for android devices with lighttpd instead of apache.

How to add colored border on cardview?

CardView extends FrameLayout, so it support foreground attribute. Using foreground attribute can also add border easily.

layout as follows:

<androidx.cardview.widget.CardView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@+id/link_card"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:foreground="@drawable/bg_roundrect_ripple_light_border"
    app:cardCornerRadius="23dp"
    app:cardElevation="0dp">
</androidx.cardview.widget.CardView>

bg_roundrect_ripple_light_border.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ripple xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:color="@color/ripple_color_light">

    <item>
        <shape android:shape="rectangle">
            <stroke
                android:width="0.5dp"
                android:color="#DDDDDD" />
            <corners android:radius="23dp" />
        </shape>
    </item>

    <item android:id="@android:id/mask">
        <shape android:shape="rectangle">
            <corners android:radius="23dp" />
            <solid android:color="@color/background" />
        </shape>
    </item>

</ripple>

MySQL - How to parse a string value to DATETIME format inside an INSERT statement?

Use MySQL's STR_TO_DATE() function to parse the string that you're attempting to insert:

INSERT INTO tblInquiry (fldInquiryReceivedDateTime) VALUES
  (STR_TO_DATE('5/15/2012 8:06:26 AM', '%c/%e/%Y %r'))

How do I get the last character of a string?

 public char lastChar(String s) {
     if (s == "" || s == null)
        return ' ';
    char lc = s.charAt(s.length() - 1);
    return lc;
}

Copy data from one existing row to another existing row in SQL?

This works well for coping entire records.

UPDATE your_table
SET new_field = sourse_field

Common HTTPclient and proxy

Here is how I solved this problem for the old (< 4.3) HttpClient (which I cannot upgrade), using the answer of Santosh Singh (who I gave a +1):

HttpClient httpclient = new HttpClient();
if (System.getProperty("http.proxyHost") != null) {
  try {
    HostConfiguration hostConfiguration = httpclient.getHostConfiguration();
    hostConfiguration.setProxy(System.getProperty("http.proxyHost"), Integer.parseInt(System.getProperty("http.proxyPort")));
    httpclient.setHostConfiguration(hostConfiguration);
    this.getLogger().warn("USING PROXY: "+httpclient.getHostConfiguration().getProxyHost());
  } catch (Exception e) {
    throw new ProcessingException("Cannot set proxy!", e);
  }
}

Could not find server 'server name' in sys.servers. SQL Server 2014

I figured out the issue. The linked server was created correctly. However, after the server was upgraded and switched the server name in sys.servers still had the old server name.

I had to drop the old server name and add the new server name to sys.servers on the new server

sp_dropserver 'Server_A'
GO
sp_addserver  'Server',local
GO

Encode String to UTF-8

You can try this way.

byte ptext[] = myString.getBytes("ISO-8859-1"); 
String value = new String(ptext, "UTF-8"); 

What is the format specifier for unsigned short int?

For scanf, you need to use %hu since you're passing a pointer to an unsigned short. For printf, it's impossible to pass an unsigned short due to default promotions (it will be promoted to int or unsigned int depending on whether int has at least as many value bits as unsigned short or not) so %d or %u is fine. You're free to use %hu if you prefer, though.

UICollectionView spacing margins

In Objective-C

CGFloat spacing = 5;
UICollectionViewFlowLayout *flow = (UICollectionViewFlowLayout*)_habbitCollectionV.collectionViewLayout;
flow.sectionInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, spacing, 0, spacing);
CGFloat itemsPerRow = 2;
CGRect screenRect = [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds];
CGFloat oneMore = itemsPerRow + 1;
CGFloat width = screenRect.size.width - spacing * oneMore;
CGFloat height = width / itemsPerRow;

flow.itemSize = CGSizeMake(floor(height), height);
flow.minimumInteritemSpacing = spacing;
flow.minimumLineSpacing = spacing;

All you have to do is change the itemsPerRow value and it will update the number of items per row accordingly. Furthermore, you can change the spacing value if you want more or less general spacing.

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How to sum columns in a dataTable?

 for (int i=0;i<=dtB.Columns.Count-1;i++)
 {
   array(0, i) = dtB.Compute("SUM([" & dtB.Columns(i).ColumnName & "])", "")                   
 }

How to count how many values per level in a given factor?

In case I just want to know how many unique factor levels exist in the data, I use:

length(unique(df$factorcolumn))

API Gateway CORS: no 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header

Another root cause of this problem might be a difference between HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.

Symptom: Some users, not all of them, reported to get a CORS error when using our Software.

Problem: The Access-Control-Allow-Origin header was missing sometimes.

Context: We had a Lambda in place, dedicated to handling OPTIONS request and replying with the corresponding CORS headers, such as Access-Control-Allow-Origin matching a whitelisted Origin.

Solution: The API Gateway seems to transform all headers to lower-case for HTTP/2 calls, but maintains capitalization for HTTP/1.1. This caused the access to event.headers.origin to fail.

Check if you're having this issue too:

Assuming your API is located at https://api.example.com, and your front-end is at https://www.example.com. Using CURL, make a request using HTTP/2:

curl -v -X OPTIONS -H 'Origin: https://www.example.com' https://api.example.com

The response output should include the header:

< Access-Control-Allow-Origin: https://www.example.com

Repeat the same step using HTTP/1.1 (or with a lowercase Origin header):

curl -v -X OPTIONS --http1.1 -H 'Origin: https://www.example.com' https://api.example.com

If the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header is missing, you might want to check case sensitivity when reading the Origin header.

Differences between Lodash and Underscore.js

For the most part Underscore.js is subset of Lodash.

At times, like presently, Underscore.js will have cool little functions Lodash doesn't have, like mapObject. This one saved me a lot of time in the development of my project.

JSON parsing using Gson for Java

In my first gson application I avoided using additional classes to catch values mainly because I use json for config matters

despite the lack of information (even gson page), that's what I found and used:

starting from

Map jsonJavaRootObject = new Gson().fromJson("{/*whatever your mega complex object*/}", Map.class)

Each time gson sees a {}, it creates a Map (actually a gson StringMap )

Each time gson sees a '', it creates a String

Each time gson sees a number, it creates a Double

Each time gson sees a [], it creates an ArrayList

You can use this facts (combined) to your advantage

Finally this is the code that makes the thing

        Map<String, Object> javaRootMapObject = new Gson().fromJson(jsonLine, Map.class);

    System.out.println(
        (
            (Map)
            (
                (List)
                (
                    (Map)
                    (
                        javaRootMapObject.get("data")
                    )
                 ).get("translations")
            ).get(0)
        ).get("translatedText")
    );

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

So I assume you want to highlight some points that fit a certain criteria. You can use Prelude's command to do a second scatter plot of the hightlighted points with an empty circle and a first call to plot all the points. Make sure the s paramter is sufficiently small for the larger empty circles to enclose the smaller filled ones.

The other option is to not use scatter and draw the patches individually using the circle/ellipse command. These are in matplotlib.patches, here is some sample code on how to draw circles rectangles etc.

disable editing default value of text input

You can either use the readonly or the disabled attribute. Note that when disabled, the input's value will not be submitted when submitting the form.

<input id="price_to" value="price to" readonly="readonly">
<input id="price_to" value="price to" disabled="disabled">

Microsoft Web API: How do you do a Server.MapPath?

Little bit late answering that but there we go.

I could solve this using Environment.CurrentDirectory

Differentiate between function overloading and function overriding

Function overloading is same name function but different arguments. Function over riding means same name function and same as arguments

How to force 'cp' to overwrite directory instead of creating another one inside?

The operation you defined is a "merge" and you cannot do that with cp. However, if you are not looking for merging and ok to lose the folder bar then you can simply rm -rf bar to delete the folder and then mv foo bar to rename it. This will not take any time as both operations are done by file pointers, not file contents.

In Objective-C, how do I test the object type?

When you want to differ between a superClass and the inheritedClass you can use:

if([myTestClass class] == [myInheritedClass class]){
   NSLog(@"I'm the inheritedClass);
} 
if([myTestClass class] == [mySuperClass class]){
   NSLog(@"I'm the superClass);
} 

Using - (BOOL)isKindOfClass:(Class)aClass in this case would result in TRUE both times because the inheritedClass is also a kind of the superClass.

Simplest way to do grouped barplot

There are several ways to do plots in R; lattice is one of them, and always a reasonable solution, +1 to @agstudy. If you want to do this in base graphics, you could try the following:

Reasonstats <- read.table(text="Category         Reason  Species
                                 Decline        Genuine       24
                                Improved        Genuine       16
                                Improved  Misclassified       85
                                 Decline  Misclassified       41
                                 Decline      Taxonomic        2
                                Improved      Taxonomic        7
                                 Decline        Unclear       41
                                Improved        Unclear      117", header=T)

ReasonstatsDec <- Reasonstats[which(Reasonstats$Category=="Decline"),]
ReasonstatsImp <- Reasonstats[which(Reasonstats$Category=="Improved"),]
Reasonstats3   <- cbind(ReasonstatsImp[,3], ReasonstatsDec[,3])
colnames(Reasonstats3) <- c("Improved", "Decline")
rownames(Reasonstats3) <- ReasonstatsImp$Reason

windows()
  barplot(t(Reasonstats3), beside=TRUE, ylab="number of species", 
          cex.names=0.8, las=2, ylim=c(0,120), col=c("darkblue","red"))
  box(bty="l")

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Here's what I did: I created a matrix with two columns (because your data were in columns) where the columns were the species counts for Decline and for Improved. Then I made those categories the column names. I also made the Reasons the row names. The barplot() function can operate over this matrix, but wants the data in rows rather than columns, so I fed it a transposed version of the matrix. Lastly, I deleted some of your arguments to your barplot() function call that were no longer needed. In other words, the problem was that your data weren't set up the way barplot() wants for your intended output.

TypeScript-'s Angular Framework Error - "There is no directive with exportAs set to ngForm"

Simple if you have not import module then import and declare import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms';

and if you did then you just need to remove ** formControlName='whatever' ** from input fields.

module.ts

import {FormsModule, ReactiveFormsModule} from '@angular/forms'

 imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    FormsModule, 
    ReactiveFormsModule
  ],

Using TortoiseSVN how do I merge changes from the trunk to a branch and vice versa?

Take a look at svnmerge.py. It's command-line, can't be invoked by TortoiseSVN, but it's more powerful. From the FAQ:

Traditional subversion will let you merge changes, but it doesn't "remember" what you've already merged. It also doesn't provide a convenient way to exclude a change set from being merged. svnmerge.py automates some of the work, and simplifies it. Svnmerge also creates a commit message with the log messages from all of the things it merged.

Change old commit message on Git

It says:

When you save and exit the editor, it will rewind you back to that last commit in that list and drop you on the command line with the following message:

$ git rebase -i HEAD~3
Stopped at 7482e0d... updated the gemspec to hopefully work better
You can amend the commit now, with

It does not mean:

type again git rebase -i HEAD~3

Try to not typing git rebase -i HEAD~3 when exiting the editor, and it should work fine.
(otherwise, in your particular situation, a git rebase -i --abort might be needed to reset everything and allow you to try again)


As Dave Vogt mentions in the comments, git rebase --continue is for going to the next task in the rebasing process, after you've amended the first commit.

Also, Gregg Lind mentions in his answer the reword command of git rebase:

By replacing the command "pick" with the command "edit", you can tell git rebase to stop after applying that commit, so that you can edit the files and/or the commit message, amend the commit, and continue rebasing.

If you just want to edit the commit message for a commit, replace the command "pick" with the command "reword", since Git1.6.6 (January 2010).

It does the same thing ‘edit’ does during an interactive rebase, except it only lets you edit the commit message without returning control to the shell. This is extremely useful.
Currently if you want to clean up your commit messages you have to:

$ git rebase -i next

Then set all the commits to ‘edit’. Then on each one:

# Change the message in your editor.
$ git commit --amend
$ git rebase --continue

Using ‘reword’ instead of ‘edit’ lets you skip the git-commit and git-rebase calls.

How to check if a folder exists

import java.io.File;
import java.nio.file.Paths;

public class Test
{

  public static void main(String[] args)
  {

    File file = new File("C:\\Temp");
    System.out.println("File Folder Exist" + isFileDirectoryExists(file));
    System.out.println("Directory Exists" + isDirectoryExists("C:\\Temp"));

  }

  public static boolean isFileDirectoryExists(File file)

  {
    if (file.exists())
    {
      return true;
    }
    return false;
  }

  public static boolean isDirectoryExists(String directoryPath)

  {
    if (!Paths.get(directoryPath).toFile().isDirectory())
    {
      return false;
    }
    return true;
  }

}

How to get UTC timestamp in Ruby?

time = Time.zone.now()

It will work as

irb> Time.zone.now
=> 2017-12-02 12:06:41 UTC

Why is &#65279; appearing in my HTML?

If you have a lot of files to review, you can use this tool: https://www.mannaz.at/codebase/utf-byte-order-mark-bom-remover/

Credits to Maurice

It help me to clean a system, with MVC in CakePhp, as i work in Linux, Windows, with different tools.. in some files my design was break.. so after checkin in Chrome with debug tool find the &#65279 error

Best practices for catching and re-throwing .NET exceptions

If you throw a new exception with the initial exception you will preserve the initial stack trace too..

try{
} 
catch(Exception ex){
     throw new MoreDescriptiveException("here is what was happening", ex);
}

Checking for empty or null List<string>

Checkout L-Four's answer.

A less-efficient answer:

if(myList.Count == 0){
    // nothing is there. Add here
}

Basically new List<T> will not be null but will have no elements. As is noted in the comments, the above will throw an exception if the list is uninstantiated. But as for the snippet in the question, where it is instantiated, the above will work just fine.

If you need to check for null, then it would be:

if(myList != null && myList.Count == 0){
  // The list is empty. Add something here
}

Even better would be to use !myList.Any() and as is mentioned in the aforementioned L-Four's answer as short circuiting is faster than linear counting of the elements in the list.

Getting around the Max String size in a vba function?

Are you sure? This forum thread suggests it might be your watch window. Try outputting the string to a MsgBox, which can display a maximum of 1024 characters:

MsgBox RunMacros

Getting a list of values from a list of dicts

[x['value'] for x in list_of_dicts]

How to shrink/purge ibdata1 file in MySQL

That ibdata1 isn't shrinking is a particularly annoying feature of MySQL. The ibdata1 file can't actually be shrunk unless you delete all databases, remove the files and reload a dump.

But you can configure MySQL so that each table, including its indexes, is stored as a separate file. In that way ibdata1 will not grow as large. According to Bill Karwin's comment this is enabled by default as of version 5.6.6 of MySQL.

It was a while ago I did this. However, to setup your server to use separate files for each table you need to change my.cnf in order to enable this:

[mysqld]
innodb_file_per_table=1

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-file-per-table-tablespaces.html

As you want to reclaim the space from ibdata1 you actually have to delete the file:

  1. Do a mysqldump of all databases, procedures, triggers etc except the mysql and performance_schema databases
  2. Drop all databases except the above 2 databases
  3. Stop mysql
  4. Delete ibdata1 and ib_log files
  5. Start mysql
  6. Restore from dump

When you start MySQL in step 5 the ibdata1 and ib_log files will be recreated.

Now you're fit to go. When you create a new database for analysis, the tables will be located in separate ibd* files, not in ibdata1. As you usually drop the database soon after, the ibd* files will be deleted.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/drop-database.html

You have probably seen this:
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=1341

By using the command ALTER TABLE <tablename> ENGINE=innodb or OPTIMIZE TABLE <tablename> one can extract data and index pages from ibdata1 to separate files. However, ibdata1 will not shrink unless you do the steps above.

Regarding the information_schema, that is not necessary nor possible to drop. It is in fact just a bunch of read-only views, not tables. And there are no files associated with the them, not even a database directory. The informations_schema is using the memory db-engine and is dropped and regenerated upon stop/restart of mysqld. See https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/information-schema.html.

Android error while retrieving information from server 'RPC:s-5:AEC-0' in Google Play?

I tried everything form everywhere. Nothing worked until I did this. Following the steps below.

RPC:AEC:0 error is known as CPU/RAM/Device/Identity failure.

Only possible way you can follow to get rid off this error is,

Go to settingsapplicationPlay StoreClear Data & Clear Cache.

Go to accountsGoogleRemove account.

Reboot device.

Again SettingsAccountGoogleLog In.

Convert a character digit to the corresponding integer in C

use function: atoi for array to integer, atof for array to float type; or

char c = '5';
int b = c - 48;
printf("%d", b);

How to compare 2 files fast using .NET?

If you only need to compare two files, I guess the fastest way would be (in C, I don't know if it's applicable to .NET)

  1. open both files f1, f2
  2. get the respective file length l1, l2
  3. if l1 != l2 the files are different; stop
  4. mmap() both files
  5. use memcmp() on the mmap()ed files

OTOH, if you need to find if there are duplicate files in a set of N files, then the fastest way is undoubtedly using a hash to avoid N-way bit-by-bit comparisons.

Increasing the maximum number of TCP/IP connections in Linux

There are a couple of variables to set the max number of connections. Most likely, you're running out of file numbers first. Check ulimit -n. After that, there are settings in /proc, but those default to the tens of thousands.

More importantly, it sounds like you're doing something wrong. A single TCP connection ought to be able to use all of the bandwidth between two parties; if it isn't:

  • Check if your TCP window setting is large enough. Linux defaults are good for everything except really fast inet link (hundreds of mbps) or fast satellite links. What is your bandwidth*delay product?
  • Check for packet loss using ping with large packets (ping -s 1472 ...)
  • Check for rate limiting. On Linux, this is configured with tc
  • Confirm that the bandwidth you think exists actually exists using e.g., iperf
  • Confirm that your protocol is sane. Remember latency.
  • If this is a gigabit+ LAN, can you use jumbo packets? Are you?

Possibly I have misunderstood. Maybe you're doing something like Bittorrent, where you need lots of connections. If so, you need to figure out how many connections you're actually using (try netstat or lsof). If that number is substantial, you might:

  • Have a lot of bandwidth, e.g., 100mbps+. In this case, you may actually need to up the ulimit -n. Still, ~1000 connections (default on my system) is quite a few.
  • Have network problems which are slowing down your connections (e.g., packet loss)
  • Have something else slowing you down, e.g., IO bandwidth, especially if you're seeking. Have you checked iostat -x?

Also, if you are using a consumer-grade NAT router (Linksys, Netgear, DLink, etc.), beware that you may exceed its abilities with thousands of connections.

I hope this provides some help. You're really asking a networking question.

Truncate with condition

You can simply export the table with a query clause using datapump and import it back with table_exists_action=replace clause. Its will drop and recreate your table and take very less time. Please read about it before implementing.

Twitter - share button, but with image

I used this code to solve this problem.

<a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=myUrl&text=myTitle" target="_blank"><img src="path_to_my_image"/></a>

You can check the tweet-button documentation here tweet-button

Setting environment variables for accessing in PHP when using Apache

If your server is Ubuntu and Apache version is 2.4

Server version: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu)

Then you export variables in "/etc/apache2/envvars" location.

Just like this below line, you need to add an extra line in "/etc/apache2/envvars" export GOROOT=/usr/local/go

javascript check for not null

You should be using the strict not equals comparison operator !== so that if the user inputs "null" then you won't get to the else.

Confirmation before closing of tab/browser

If you want to ask based on condition:

var ask = true
window.onbeforeunload = function (e) {
    if(!ask) return null
    e = e || window.event;
    //old browsers
    if (e) {e.returnValue = 'Sure?';}
    //safari, chrome(chrome ignores text)
    return 'Sure?';
};

How to call a shell script from python code?

There are some ways using os.popen() (deprecated) or the whole subprocess module, but this approach

import os
os.system(command)

is one of the easiest.

Any way to return PHP `json_encode` with encode UTF-8 and not Unicode?

This function found here, works fine for me

function jsonRemoveUnicodeSequences($struct) {
   return preg_replace("/\\\\u([a-f0-9]{4})/e", "iconv('UCS-4LE','UTF-8',pack('V', hexdec('U$1')))", json_encode($struct));
}

Python: printing a file to stdout

If it's a large file and you don't want to consume a ton of memory as might happen with Ben's solution, the extra code in

>>> import shutil
>>> import sys
>>> with open("test.txt", "r") as f:
...    shutil.copyfileobj(f, sys.stdout)

also works.

Javascript Array Alert

If you want to see the array as an array, you can say

alert(JSON.stringify(aCustomers));

instead of all those document.writes.

http://jsfiddle.net/5b2eb/

However, if you want to display them cleanly, one per line, in your popup, do this:

alert(aCustomers.join("\n"));

http://jsfiddle.net/5b2eb/1/

How to show "Done" button on iPhone number pad

Here's the simplest solution I have come across. I have learnt this from Beginning iOS 5 Development book.

Assuming the number field is called numberField.

  1. In ViewController, add the following method:

    -(IBAction)closeKeyboard:(id)sender;
    
  2. In ViewController.m, add the following code:

    -(IBAction)closeKeyboard:(id)sender
    {
    
         [numberField resignFirstResponder];
    
    }
    
  3. Go back to nib file.

  4. Open Utilities pan.
  5. Open the Identity inspector under Utilities pan.
  6. Click on the View (in nib file) once. Make sure you have not clicked on any of the items in the view. For the sake of clarification, you should see UIView under Class in Identity inspector.
  7. Change the class from UIView to UIControl.
  8. Open Connection Inspector.
  9. Click and drag Touch Down and drop the arrow on File Owner icon. (FYI... File Owner icon is displayed on the left of View and appears as a hollow cube with yellow frame.)
  10. Select the method: closeKeyboard.
  11. Run the program.

Now when you click anywhere on background of View, you should be able to dismiss the keyboard.

Hope this helps you solve your problem. :-)

How to use ArrayList's get() method

ArrayList get(int index) method is used for fetching an element from the list. We need to specify the index while calling get method and it returns the value present at the specified index.

public Element get(int index)

Example : In below example we are getting few elements of an arraylist by using get method.

package beginnersbook.com;
import java.util.ArrayList;
public class GetMethodExample {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
       ArrayList<String> al = new ArrayList<String>();
       al.add("pen");
       al.add("pencil");
       al.add("ink");
       al.add("notebook");
       al.add("book");
       al.add("books");
       al.add("paper");
       al.add("white board");

       System.out.println("First element of the ArrayList: "+al.get(0));
       System.out.println("Third element of the ArrayList: "+al.get(2));
       System.out.println("Sixth element of the ArrayList: "+al.get(5));
       System.out.println("Fourth element of the ArrayList: "+al.get(3));
   }
}

Output:

First element of the ArrayList: pen
Third element of the ArrayList: ink
Sixth element of the ArrayList: books
Fourth element of the ArrayList: notebook

How do I assert an Iterable contains elements with a certain property?

Assertj is good at this.

import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;

    assertThat(myClass.getMyItems()).extracting("name").contains("foo", "bar");

Big plus for assertj compared to hamcrest is easy use of code completion.

Time complexity of accessing a Python dict

As others have pointed out, accessing dicts in Python is fast. They are probably the best-oiled data structure in the language, given their central role. The problem lies elsewhere.

How many tuples are you memoizing? Have you considered the memory footprint? Perhaps you are spending all your time in the memory allocator or paging memory.

Creating a border like this using :before And :after Pseudo-Elements In CSS?

#footer:after
{
   content: "";
    width: 40px;
    height: 3px;
    background-color: #529600;
    left: 0;
    position: relative;
    display: block;
    top: 10px;
}

How to make a drop down list in yii2?

This is about generating data, and so is more properly done from the model. Imagine if you ever wanted to change the way data is displayed in the drop-down box, say add a surname or something. You'd have to find every drop-down box and change the arrayHelper. I use a function in my models to return the data for a dropdown, so I don't have to repeat code in views. It also has the advantage that I can specify filter here and have them apply to every dropdown created from this model;

/* Model Standard.php */

public function getDropdown(){
      return ArrayHelper::map(self::find()->all(), 's_id', 'name'));
}

You can use this in your view file like this;

echo $form->field($model, 'attribute')
        ->dropDownList(
            $model->dropDown
        );

python: order a list of numbers without built-in sort, min, max function

You could do it easily by using min() function

`def asc(a):
    b=[]
    l=len(a)
    for i in range(l):
        x=min(a)
        b.append(x)
        a.remove(x)
    return b
 print asc([2,5,8,7,44,54,23])`

Get width/height of SVG element

I'm using Firefox, and my working solution is very close to obysky. The only difference is that the method you call in an svg element will return multiple rects and you need to select the first one.

var chart = document.getElementsByClassName("chart")[0];
var width = chart.getClientRects()[0].width;
var height = chart.getClientRects()[0].height;

Adding a regression line on a ggplot

The simple solution using geom_abline:

geom_abline(slope = coef(data.lm)[[2]], intercept = coef(data.lm)[[1]])

Where data.lm is an lm object, and coef(data.lm) looks something like this:

> coef(data.lm)
(Intercept)    DepDelay 
  -2.006045    1.025109 

The numeric indexing assumes that (Intercept) is listed first, which is the case if the model includes an intercept. If you have some other linear model object, just plug in the slope and intercept values similarly.

How to set default values in Rails?

i answered a similar question here.. a clean way to do this is using Rails attr_accessor_with_default

class SOF
  attr_accessor_with_default :is_awesome,true
end

sof = SOF.new
sof.is_awesome

=> true

UPDATE

attr_accessor_with_default has been deprecated in Rails 3.2.. you could do this instead with pure Ruby

class SOF
  attr_writer :is_awesome

  def is_awesome
    @is_awesome ||= true
  end
end

sof = SOF.new
sof.is_awesome

#=> true

How to have conditional elements and keep DRY with Facebook React's JSX?

Most examples are with one line of "html" that is rendered conditionally. This seems readable for me when I have multiple lines that needs to be rendered conditionally.

render: function() {
  // This will be renered only if showContent prop is true
  var content = 
    <div>
      <p>something here</p>
      <p>more here</p>
      <p>and more here</p>
    </div>;

  return (
    <div>
      <h1>Some title</h1>

      {this.props.showContent ? content : null}
    </div>
  );
}

First example is good because instead of null we can conditionally render some other content like {this.props.showContent ? content : otherContent}

But if you just need to show/hide content this is even better since Booleans, Null, and Undefined Are Ignored

render: function() {
  return (
    <div>
      <h1>Some title</h1>

      // This will be renered only if showContent prop is true
      {this.props.showContent &&
        <div>
          <p>something here</p>
          <p>more here</p>
          <p>and more here</p>
        </div>
      }
    </div>
  );
}

creating list of objects in Javascript

Maybe you can create an array like this:

     var myList = new Array();
     myList.push('Hello');
     myList.push('bye');

     for (var i = 0; i < myList .length; i ++ ){
        window.console.log(myList[i]);
     }

PHP array delete by value (not key)

$fields = array_flip($fields);
unset($fields['myvalue']);
$fields = array_flip($fields);

How do I resolve this "ORA-01109: database not open" error?

The same problem takes me here. After all, I found that link, it's good for me.

Source link

CHECK THE STATUS OF PLUGGABLE DATABASE.

SQL> STARTUP; ORACLE instance started.

Total System Global Area 788529152 bytes Fixed Size 2929352 bytes Variable Size 541068600 bytes Database Buffers 239075328 bytes Redo Buffers 5455872 bytes Database mounted. Database opened. SQL> select name,open_mode from v$pdbs;

NAME OPEN_MODE ------------------------------ ---------- PDB$SEED MOUNTED PDBORCL MOUNTED PDBORCL2 MOUNTED PDBORCL1
MOUNTED

WE NEED TO START PDB$SEED PLUGGABLE DATABASE in UPGRADE STATE FOR THAT

SQL> SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE;

Database closed. Database dismounted. ORACLE instance shut down.

SQL> STARTUP UPGRADE;

ORACLE instance started.

Total System Global Area 788529152 bytes Fixed Size 2929352 bytes Variable Size 541068600 bytes Database Buffers 239075328 bytes Redo Buffers 5455872 bytes Database mounted. Database opened.

SQL> ALTER PLUGGABLE DATABASE ALL OPEN UPGRADE; Pluggable database altered.

SQL> select name,open_mode from v$pdbs;

NAME OPEN_MODE ------------------------------ ---------- PDB$SEED MIGRATE PDBORCL MIGRATE PDBORCL2 MIGRATE PDBORCL1
MIGRATE

Error: Cannot find module 'gulp-sass'

Try this:

npm install -g gulp-sass

or

npm install --save gulp-sass

Change text from "Submit" on input tag

<input name="submitBnt" type="submit" value="like"/>

name is useful when using $_POST in php and also in javascript as document.getElementByName('submitBnt'). Also you can use name as a CS selector like input[name="submitBnt"]; Hope this helps

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

In C the type of character literals are int and char in C++. This is in C++ required to support function overloading. See this example:

void foo(char c)
{
    puts("char");
}
void foo(int i)
{
    puts("int");
}
int main()
{
    foo('i');
    return 0;
}

Output:

char

PivotTable's Report Filter using "greater than"

I know this is a bit late, but if this helps anybody, I think you could add a column to your data that calculates if the probability is ">='PivotSheet'$D$2" (reference a cell on the pivot table sheet).

Then, add that column to your pivot table and use the new column as a true/false filter.

You can then change the value stored in the referenced cell to update your probability threshold.

If I understood your question right, this may get you what you wanted. The filter value would be displayed on the sheet with the pivot and can be changed to suit any quick changes to your probability threshold. The T/F Filter can be labeled "Above/At Probability Threshold" or something like that.

I've used this to do something similar. It was handy to have the cell reference on the Pivot table sheet so I could update the value and refresh the pivot to quickly modify the results. The people I did that for couldn't make up their minds on what that threshold should be.

The backend version is not supported to design database diagrams or tables

This is commonly reported as an error due to using the wrong version of SSMS(Sql Server Management Studio). Use the version designed for your database version. You can use the command select @@version to check which version of sql server you are actually using. This version is reported in a way that is easier to interpret than that shown in the Help About in SSMS.


Using a newer version of SSMS than your database is generally error-free, i.e. backward compatible.

Render HTML to an image

Use html2canvas just include plugin and call method to convert HTML to Canvas then download as image PNG

        html2canvas(document.getElementById("image-wrap")).then(function(canvas) {
            var link = document.createElement("a");
            document.body.appendChild(link);
            link.download = "manpower_efficiency.jpg";
            link.href = canvas.toDataURL();
            link.target = '_blank';
            link.click();
        });

Source: http://www.freakyjolly.com/convert-html-document-into-image-jpg-png-from-canvas/

Parsing HTML using Python

So that I can ask it to get me the content/text in the div tag with class='container' contained within the body tag, Or something similar.

try: 
    from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
except ImportError:
    from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
html = #the HTML code you've written above
parsed_html = BeautifulSoup(html)
print(parsed_html.body.find('div', attrs={'class':'container'}).text)

You don't need performance descriptions I guess - just read how BeautifulSoup works. Look at its official documentation.

Getting byte array through input type = file

This is simple way to convert files to Base64 and avoid "maximum call stack size exceeded at FileReader.reader.onload" with the file has big size.

_x000D_
_x000D_
document.querySelector('#fileInput').addEventListener('change',   function () {_x000D_
_x000D_
    var reader = new FileReader();_x000D_
    var selectedFile = this.files[0];_x000D_
_x000D_
    reader.onload = function () {_x000D_
        var comma = this.result.indexOf(',');_x000D_
        var base64 = this.result.substr(comma + 1);_x000D_
        console.log(base64);_x000D_
    }_x000D_
    reader.readAsDataURL(selectedFile);_x000D_
}, false);
_x000D_
<input id="fileInput" type="file" />
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

What is the curl error 52 "empty reply from server"?

you can try this curl -sS "http://www.example.com/backup.php" by putting your URL into "" that worked for me I don't know the exact reason but I suppose that putting the url into "" completes the request to the server or just completes the header request.

Sublime Text 2 - Show file navigation in sidebar

Instead of opening a folder, try adding a folder by going to "Project" -> "Add Folder to Project..." which opens a Folder choosing dialog. This way the folder won't open in a new window and will be added to your current workspace.

If you then go to "Project" -> "Save Project As..." you can even save your current setup (cells setup, opened files, unsaved changes, etc...), this makes it easy to hotswitch between multiple projects without loosing control and unsaved changes which could be unsafe to be saved right now, but would be a loss if you just ditched them. (Just be sure to have the "hot_exit" setting set to true.)

And Ctrl + Alt + P (Linux and Windows) / Super + Ctrl + P (Mac) lets you switch between the saved projects.

This way you don't have to setup your editor every time you want to work on one of your projects.

Hint: Try http://sublime-text-unofficial-documentation.readthedocs.org/en/sublime-text-2/ which is a wonderful resource for beginners, it teaches you the ropes and shows you the power of your "new" editor, just start with the "Editing" chapter.

How to get row data by clicking a button in a row in an ASP.NET gridview

You can also use button click event like this:

<asp:TemplateField>
    <ItemTemplate>
        <asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Button" 
                    OnClick="MyButtonClick" />
    </ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
protected void MyButtonClick(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
    //Get the button that raised the event
    Button btn = (Button)sender;

    //Get the row that contains this button
    GridViewRow gvr = (GridViewRow)btn.NamingContainer;
} 

OR

You can do like this to get data:

 void CustomersGridView_RowCommand(Object sender, GridViewCommandEventArgs e)
 {

    // If multiple ButtonField column fields are used, use the
    // CommandName property to determine which button was clicked.
    if(e.CommandName=="Select")
    {
      // Convert the row index stored in the CommandArgument
      // property to an Integer.
      int index = Convert.ToInt32(e.CommandArgument);    

      // Get the last name of the selected author from the appropriate
      // cell in the GridView control.
      GridViewRow selectedRow = CustomersGridView.Rows[index];
    }
}

and Button in gridview should have command like this and handle rowcommand event:

<asp:gridview id="CustomersGridView" 
        datasourceid="CustomersSqlDataSource" 
        autogeneratecolumns="false"
        onrowcommand="CustomersGridView_RowCommand"
        runat="server">

        <columns>
          <asp:buttonfield buttontype="Button" 
            commandname="Select"
            headertext="Select Customer" 
            text="Select"/>
        </columns>
  </asp:gridview>

Check full example on MSDN

How to downgrade Node version

In case of windows, one of the options you have is to uninstall current version of Node. Then, go to the node website and download the desired version and install this last one instead.

Python 3.2 Unable to import urllib2 (ImportError: No module named urllib2)

PYTHON 3

import urllib.request

wp = urllib.request.urlopen("http://example.com")

pw = wp.read()

print(pw)

PYTHON 2

import urllib

 import sys

 wp = urllib.urlopen("http://example.com")

 for line in wp:

     sys.stdout.write(line)

While I have tested both the Codes in respective versions.

How to change row color in datagridview?

Something like the following... assuming the values in the cells are Integers.

foreach (DataGridViewRow dgvr in myDGV.Rows)
{
  if (dgvr.Cells[7].Value < dgvr.Cells[10].Value)
  {
    dgvr.DefaultCellStyle.ForeColor = Color.Red;
  }
}

untested, so apologies for any error.

If you know the particular row, you can skip the iteration:

if (myDGV.Rows[theRowIndex].Cells[7].Value < myDGV.Rows[theRowIndex].Cells[10].Value)
{
  dgvr.DefaultCellStyle.ForeColor = Color.Red;
}

What is System, out, println in System.out.println() in Java

The first answer you posted (System is a built-in class...) is pretty spot on.

You can add that the System class contains large portions which are native and that is set up by the JVM during startup, like connecting the System.out printstream to the native output stream associated with the "standard out" (console).

Creating a list of dictionaries results in a list of copies of the same dictionary

info is a pointer to a dictionary - you keep adding the same pointer to your list contact.

Insert info = {} into the loop and it should solve the problem:

...
content = []
for iframe in soup.find_all('iframe'):
    info = {}
    info['src'] = iframe.get('src')
    info['height'] = iframe.get('height')
    info['width'] = iframe.get('width')
...

Download data url file

This can be solved 100% entirely with HTML alone. Just set the href attribute to "data:(mimetypeheader),(url)". For instance...

<a
    href="data:video/mp4,http://www.example.com/video.mp4"
    target="_blank"
    download="video.mp4"
>Download Video</a>

Working example: JSFiddle Demo.

Because we use a Data URL, we are allowed to set the mimetype which indicates the type of data to download. Documentation:

Data URLs are composed of four parts: a prefix (data:), a MIME type indicating the type of data, an optional base64 token if non-textual, and the data itself. (Source: MDN Web Docs: Data URLs.)

Components:

  • <a ...> : The link tag.
  • href="data:video/mp4,http://www.example.com/video.mp4" : Here we are setting the link to the a data: with a header preconfigured to video/mp4. This is followed by the header mimetype. I.E., for a .txt file, it would would be text/plain. And then a comma separates it from the link we want to download.
  • target="_blank" : This indicates a new tab should be opened, it's not essential, but it helps guide the browser to the desired behavior.
  • download: This is the name of the file you're downloading.

Spring get current ApplicationContext

based on Vivek's answer, but I think the following would be better:

@Component("applicationContextProvider")
public class ApplicationContextProvider implements ApplicationContextAware {

    private static class AplicationContextHolder{

        private static final InnerContextResource CONTEXT_PROV = new InnerContextResource();

        private AplicationContextHolder() {
            super();
        }
    }

    private static final class InnerContextResource {

        private ApplicationContext context;

        private InnerContextResource(){
            super();
        }

        private void setContext(ApplicationContext context){
            this.context = context;
        }
    }

    public static ApplicationContext getApplicationContext() {
        return AplicationContextHolder.CONTEXT_PROV.context;
    }

    @Override
    public void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext ac) {
        AplicationContextHolder.CONTEXT_PROV.setContext(ac);
    }
}

Writing from an instance method to a static field is a bad practice and dangerous if multiple instances are being manipulated.

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

That is because of the new security function of OS X "El Capitan". Try adding --user-install instead of using sudo:

$ gem install *** --user-install

For example, if you want to install fake3 just use:

$ gem install fake3 --user-install

What is the difference between =Empty and IsEmpty() in VBA (Excel)?

I believe IsEmpty is just method that takes return value of Cell and checks if its Empty so: IsEmpty(.Cell(i,1)) does ->

return .Cell(i,1) <> Empty

Infinite Recursion with Jackson JSON and Hibernate JPA issue

you can use DTO pattern create class TraineeDTO without any anotation hiberbnate and you can use jackson mapper to convert Trainee to TraineeDTO and bingo the error message disapeare :)

remove item from stored array in angular 2

I think the Angular 2 way of doing this is the filter method:

this.data = this.data.filter(item => item !== data_item);

where data_item is the item that should be deleted

Python matplotlib multiple bars

I know that this is about matplotlib, but using pandas and seaborn can save you a lot of time:

df = pd.DataFrame(zip(x*3, ["y"]*3+["z"]*3+["k"]*3, y+z+k), columns=["time", "kind", "data"])
plt.figure(figsize=(10, 6))
sns.barplot(x="time", hue="kind", y="data", data=df)
plt.show()

enter image description here

Using an Alias in a WHERE clause

 SELECT A.identifier
 , A.name
 , TO_NUMBER(DECODE( A.month_no
         , 1, 200803 
         , 2, 200804 
         , 3, 200805 
         , 4, 200806 
         , 5, 200807 
         , 6, 200808 
         , 7, 200809 
         , 8, 200810 
         , 9, 200811 
         , 10, 200812 
         , 11, 200701 
         , 12, 200702
         , NULL)) as MONTH_NO
 , TO_NUMBER(TO_CHAR(B.last_update_date, 'YYYYMM')) as UPD_DATE
FROM table_a A, table_b B
WHERE .identifier = B.identifier
HAVING MONTH_NO > UPD_DATE

How to implode array with key and value without foreach in PHP

Change

-    return substr($result, (-1 * strlen($glue)));
+    return substr($result, 0, -1 * strlen($glue));

if you want to resive the entire String without the last $glue

function key_implode(&$array, $glue) {
    $result = "";
    foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
        $result .= $key . "=" . $value . $glue;
    }
    return substr($result, (-1 * strlen($glue)));
}

And the usage:

$str = key_implode($yourArray, ",");

The import org.apache.commons cannot be resolved in eclipse juno

If you got a Apache Maven project, it's easy to use this package in your project. Just specify it in your pom.xml:

<project>
...

    <properties>
        <version.commons-io>2.4</version.commons-io>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
            <version>${version.commons-io}</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

...
</project>

Disable vertical sync for glxgears

I found a solution that works in the intel card and in the nvidia card using Bumblebee.

> export vblank_mode=0
glxgears
...
optirun glxgears
...
export vblank_mode=1

Angles between two n-dimensional vectors in Python

The other possibility is using just numpy and it gives you the interior angle

import numpy as np

p0 = [3.5, 6.7]
p1 = [7.9, 8.4]
p2 = [10.8, 4.8]

''' 
compute angle (in degrees) for p0p1p2 corner
Inputs:
    p0,p1,p2 - points in the form of [x,y]
'''

v0 = np.array(p0) - np.array(p1)
v1 = np.array(p2) - np.array(p1)

angle = np.math.atan2(np.linalg.det([v0,v1]),np.dot(v0,v1))
print np.degrees(angle)

and here is the output:

In [2]: p0, p1, p2 = [3.5, 6.7], [7.9, 8.4], [10.8, 4.8]

In [3]: v0 = np.array(p0) - np.array(p1)

In [4]: v1 = np.array(p2) - np.array(p1)

In [5]: v0
Out[5]: array([-4.4, -1.7])

In [6]: v1
Out[6]: array([ 2.9, -3.6])

In [7]: angle = np.math.atan2(np.linalg.det([v0,v1]),np.dot(v0,v1))

In [8]: angle
Out[8]: 1.8802197318858924

In [9]: np.degrees(angle)
Out[9]: 107.72865519428085

How to automate browsing using python?

The best solution that i have found (and currently implementing) is : - scripts in python using selenium webdriver - PhantomJS headless browser (if firefox is used you will have a GUI and will be slower)

Get source jar files attached to Eclipse for Maven-managed dependencies

in my version of Eclipse helios with m2Eclipse there is no

window --> maven --> Download Artifact Sources (select check)

Under window is only "new window", "new editor" "open perspective" etc.

If you right click on your project, then chose maven--> download sources

Nothing happens. no sources get downloaded, no pom files get updated, no window pops up asking which sources.

Doing mvn xxx outside of eclipse is dangerous - some commands dont work with m2ecilpse - I did that once and lost the entire project, had to reinstall eclipse and start from scratch.

Im still looking for a way to get ecilpse and maven to find and use the source of external jars like servlet-api.

How can I set the default value for an HTML <select> element?

If you are using select with angular 1, then you need to use ng-init, otherwise, second option will not be selected since, ng-model overrides the defaul selected value

<select ng-model="sortVar" ng-init='sortVar="stargazers_count"'>
  <option value="name">Name</option>
  <option selected="selected" value="stargazers_count">Stars</option>
  <option value="language">Language</option>
</select>

Add CSS3 transition expand/collapse

Here's a solution that doesn't use JS at all. It uses checkboxes instead.

You can hide the checkbox by adding this to your CSS:

.container input{
    display: none;
}

And then add some styling to make it look like a button.

Here's the source code that I modded.

Use the XmlInclude or SoapInclude attribute to specify types that are not known statically

Just solved the issue. After digging around for a while longer, I found this SO post which covers the exact same situation. It got me in the right track.

Basically, the XmlSerializer needs to know the default namespace if derived classes are included as extra types. The exact reason why this has to happen is still unknown but, still, serialization is working now.

How to disable 'X-Frame-Options' response header in Spring Security?

By default X-Frame-Options is set to denied, to prevent clickjacking attacks. To override this, you can add the following into your spring security config

<http>    
    <headers>
        <frame-options policy="SAMEORIGIN"/>
    </headers>
</http>

Here are available options for policy

  • DENY - is a default value. With this the page cannot be displayed in a frame, regardless of the site attempting to do so.
  • SAMEORIGIN - I assume this is what you are looking for, so that the page will be (and can be) displayed in a frame on the same origin as the page itself
  • ALLOW-FROM - Allows you to specify an origin, where the page can be displayed in a frame.

For more information take a look here.

And here to check how you can configure the headers using either XML or Java configs.

Note, that you might need also to specify appropriate strategy, based on needs.

How do you run a Python script as a service in Windows?

Step by step explanation how to make it work :

1- First create a python file according to the basic skeleton mentioned above. And save it to a path for example : "c:\PythonFiles\AppServerSvc.py"

import win32serviceutil
import win32service
import win32event
import servicemanager
import socket


class AppServerSvc (win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework):
    _svc_name_ = "TestService"
    _svc_display_name_ = "Test Service"


    def __init__(self,args):
        win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework.__init__(self,args)
        self.hWaitStop = win32event.CreateEvent(None,0,0,None)
        socket.setdefaulttimeout(60)

    def SvcStop(self):
        self.ReportServiceStatus(win32service.SERVICE_STOP_PENDING)
        win32event.SetEvent(self.hWaitStop)

    def SvcDoRun(self):
        servicemanager.LogMsg(servicemanager.EVENTLOG_INFORMATION_TYPE,
                          servicemanager.PYS_SERVICE_STARTED,
                          (self._svc_name_,''))
        self.main()

    def main(self):
        # Your business logic or call to any class should be here
        # this time it creates a text.txt and writes Test Service in a daily manner 
        f = open('C:\\test.txt', 'a')
        rc = None
        while rc != win32event.WAIT_OBJECT_0:
            f.write('Test Service  \n')
            f.flush()
            # block for 24*60*60 seconds and wait for a stop event
            # it is used for a one-day loop
            rc = win32event.WaitForSingleObject(self.hWaitStop, 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000)
        f.write('shut down \n')
        f.close()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    win32serviceutil.HandleCommandLine(AppServerSvc)

2 - On this step we should register our service.

Run command prompt as administrator and type as:

sc create TestService binpath= "C:\Python36\Python.exe c:\PythonFiles\AppServerSvc.py" DisplayName= "TestService" start= auto

the first argument of binpath is the path of python.exe

second argument of binpath is the path of your python file that we created already

Don't miss that you should put one space after every "=" sign.

Then if everything is ok, you should see

[SC] CreateService SUCCESS

Now your python service is installed as windows service now. You can see it in Service Manager and registry under :

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TestService

3- Ok now. You can start your service on service manager.

You can execute every python file that provides this service skeleton.

How to insert Records in Database using C# language?

Use a parameterized query to prevent Sql injections (secutity problem)

Use the using statement so the connection will be closed and resources will be disposed.

using(var connection = new SqlConnection("connectionString"))
{
    connection.Open();
    var sql = "INSERT INTO Main(FirstName, SecondName) VALUES(@FirstName, @SecondName)";
    using(var cmd = new SqlCommand(sql, connection))
    {
        cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@FirstName", txFirstName.Text);
        cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@SecondName", txSecondName.Text);

        cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
    }
}

What does the question mark in Java generics' type parameter mean?

? extends HasWord

means "A class/interface that extends HasWord." In other words, HasWord itself or any of its children... basically anything that would work with instanceof HasWord plus null.

In more technical terms, ? extends HasWord is a bounded wildcard, covered in Item 31 of Effective Java 3rd Edition, starting on page 139. The same chapter from the 2nd Edition is available online as a PDF; the part on bounded wildcards is Item 28 starting on page 134.

Update: PDF link was updated since Oracle removed it a while back. It now points to the copy hosted by the Queen Mary University of London's School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science.

Update 2: Lets go into a bit more detail as to why you'd want to use wildcards.

If you declare a method whose signature expect you to pass in List<HasWord>, then the only thing you can pass in is a List<HasWord>.

However, if said signature was List<? extends HasWord> then you could pass in a List<ChildOfHasWord> instead.

Note that there is a subtle difference between List<? extends HasWord> and List<? super HasWord>. As Joshua Bloch put it: PECS = producer-extends, consumer-super.

What this means is that if you are passing in a collection that your method pulls data out from (i.e. the collection is producing elements for your method to use), you should use extends. If you're passing in a collection that your method adds data to (i.e. the collection is consuming elements your method creates), it should use super.

This may sound confusing. However, you can see it in List's sort command (which is just a shortcut to the two-arg version of Collections.sort). Instead of taking a Comparator<T>, it actually takes a Comparator<? super T>. In this case, the Comparator is consuming the elements of the List in order to reorder the List itself.

Remove directory from remote repository after adding them to .gitignore

This method applies the standard .gitignore behavior, and does not require manually specifying the files that need to be ignored.

Can't use --exclude-from=.gitignore anymore :/ - Here's the updated method:

General advice: start with a clean repo - everything committed, nothing pending in working directory or index, and make a backup!

#commit up-to-date .gitignore (if not already existing)
#this command must be run on each branch
git add .gitignore
git commit -m "Create .gitignore"

#apply standard git ignore behavior only to current index, not working directory (--cached)
#if this command returns nothing, ensure /.git/info/exclude AND/OR .gitignore exist
#this command must be run on each branch
git ls-files -z --ignored --exclude-standard | xargs -0 git rm --cached

#optionally add anything to the index that was previously ignored but now shouldn't be:
git add *

#commit again
#optionally use the --amend flag to merge this commit with the previous one instead of creating 2 commits.

git commit -m "re-applied modified .gitignore"

#other devs who pull after this commit is pushed will see the  newly-.gitignored files DELETED

If you also need to purge the newly-ignored files from the branch's commit history or if you don't want the newly-ignored files to be deleted from future pulls, see this answer.

Linking dll in Visual Studio

Assume that the source file you want to compile is main.cpp and your example_dll.dll and example_dll.lib . now run cl.exe main.cpp /EHsc /link example_dll.lib now you may get main.exe

Location of my.cnf file on macOS

I'm running MacOS Catalina(10.15.3) and find my.cnf in /usr/local/etc.

What is the optimal way to compare dates in Microsoft SQL server?

You could add a calculated column that includes only the date without the time. Between the two options, I'd go with the BETWEEN operator because it's 'cleaner' to me and should make better use of indexes. Comparing execution plans would seem to indicate that BETWEEN would be faster; however, in actual testing they performed the same.

Blur the edges of an image or background image with CSS

I'm not entirely sure what visual end result you're after, but here's an easy way to blur an image's edge: place a div with the image inside another div with the blurred image.

Working example here: http://jsfiddle.net/ZY5hn/1/

Screenshot

HTML:

<div class="placeholder">
     <!-- blurred background image for blurred edge -->
     <div class="bg-image-blur"></div>
     <!-- same image, no blur -->
     <div class="bg-image"></div>
     <!-- content -->
     <div class="content">Blurred Image Edges</div>
</div>

CSS:

.placeholder {
    margin-right: auto;
    margin-left:auto;
    margin-top: 20px;
    width: 200px;
    height: 200px;
    position: relative;
    /* this is the only relevant part for the example */
}
/* both DIVs have the same image */
 .bg-image-blur, .bg-image {
    background-image: url('http://lorempixel.com/200/200/city/9');
    position:absolute;
    top:0;
    left:0;
    width: 100%;
    height:100%;
}
/* blur the background, to make blurred edges that overflow the unblurred image that is on top */
 .bg-image-blur {
    -webkit-filter: blur(20px);
    -moz-filter: blur(20px);
    -o-filter: blur(20px);
    -ms-filter: blur(20px);
    filter: blur(20px);
}
/* I added this DIV in case you need to place content inside */
 .content {
    position: absolute;
    top:0;
    left:0;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    color: #fff;
    text-shadow: 0 0 3px #000;
    text-align: center;
    font-size: 30px;
}

Notice the blurred effect is using the image, so it changes with the image color.

I hope this helps.

set gvim font in .vimrc file

  1. Start a graphical vim session.
  2. Do :e $MYGVIMRC Enter
  3. Use the graphical font selection dialog to select a font.
  4. Type :set guifont= Tab Enter.
  5. Type G o to start a new line at the end of the file.
  6. Type Ctrl+R followed by :.

The command in step 6 will insert the contents of the : special register which contains the last ex-mode command used. Here that will be the command from step 4, which has the properly formatted font name thanks to the tab completion of the value previously set using the GUI dialog.

Python: How to ignore an exception and proceed?

There's a new way to do this coming in Python 3.4:

from contextlib import suppress

with suppress(Exception):
  # your code

Here's the commit that added it: http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/406b47c64480

And here's the author, Raymond Hettinger, talking about this and all sorts of other Python hotness (relevant bit at 43:30): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSGv2VnC0go

If you wanted to emulate the bare except keyword and also ignore things like KeyboardInterrupt—though you usually don't—you could use with suppress(BaseException).

Edit: Looks like ignored was renamed to suppress before the 3.4 release.

How to make inactive content inside a div?

Without using an overlay, you can use pointer-events: none on the div in CSS, but this does not work in IE or Opera.

div.disabled
{
  pointer-events: none;

  /* for "disabled" effect */
  opacity: 0.5;
  background: #CCC;
}

Reference

SQL Server 2008 R2 Express permissions -- cannot create database or modify users

In SSMS 2012, you'll have to use:

To enable single-user mode, in SQL instance properties, DO NOT go to "Advance" tag, there is already a "Startup Parameters" tag.

  1. Add "-m;" into parameters;
  2. Restart the service and logon this SQL instance by using windows authentication;
  3. The rest steps are same as above. Change your windows user account permission in security or reset SA account password.
  4. Last, remove "-m" parameter from "startup parameters";

Create a text file for download on-the-fly

Use below code to generate files on fly..

<? //Generate text file on the fly

   header("Content-type: text/plain");
   header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=savethis.txt");

   // do your Db stuff here to get the content into $content
   print "This is some text...\n";
   print $content;
 ?>

How do I get extra data from intent on Android?

If you are trying to get extra data in fragments then you can try using:

Place data using:

Bundle args = new Bundle();
args.putInt(DummySectionFragment.ARG_SECTION_NUMBER);

Get data using:

public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {


  getArguments().getInt(ARG_SECTION_NUMBER);
  getArguments().getString(ARG_SECTION_STRING);
  getArguments().getBoolean(ARG_SECTION_BOOL);
  getArguments().getChar(ARG_SECTION_CHAR);
  getArguments().getByte(ARG_SECTION_DATA);

}

Refresh Page and Keep Scroll Position

If you don't want to use local storage then you could attach the y position of the page to the url and grab it with js on load and set the page offset to the get param you passed in, i.e.:

//code to refresh the page
var page_y = $( document ).scrollTop();
window.location.href = window.location.href + '?page_y=' + page_y;


//code to handle setting page offset on load
$(function() {
    if ( window.location.href.indexOf( 'page_y' ) != -1 ) {
        //gets the number from end of url
        var match = window.location.href.split('?')[1].match( /\d+$/ );
        var page_y = match[0];

        //sets the page offset 
        $( 'html, body' ).scrollTop( page_y );
    }
});

Override body style for content in an iframe

I have a blog and I had a lot of trouble finding out how to resize my embedded gist. Post manager only allows you to write text, place images and embed HTML code. Blog layout is responsive itself. It's built with Wix. However, embedded HTML is not. I read a lot about how it's impossible to resize components inside body of generated iFrames. So, here is my suggestion:

If you only have one component inside your iFrame, i.e. your gist, you can resize only the gist. Forget about the iFrame.

I had problems with viewport, specific layouts to different user agents and this is what solved my problem:

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="https://gist.github.com/roliveiravictor/447f994a82238247f83919e75e391c6f.js"></script>

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

function windowSize() {
  let gist = document.querySelector('#gist92442763');

  let isMobile = {
    Android: function() {
        return /Android/i.test(navigator.userAgent)
    },
    BlackBerry: function() {
        return /BlackBerry/i.test(navigator.userAgent)
    },
    iOS: function() {
        return /iPhone|iPod/i.test(navigator.userAgent)
    },
    Opera: function() {
        return /Opera Mini/i.test(navigator.userAgent)
    },
    Windows: function() {
        return /IEMobile/i.test(navigator.userAgent) || /WPDesktop/i.test(navigator.userAgent)
    },
    any: function() {
        return (isMobile.Android() || isMobile.BlackBerry() || isMobile.iOS() || isMobile.Opera() || isMobile.Windows());
    }
};

  if(isMobile.any()) {
    gist.style.width = "36%";
    gist.style.WebkitOverflowScrolling = "touch"
    gist.style.position = "absolute"
  } else {
    gist.style.width = "auto !important";
  }
}

windowSize();

window.addEventListener('onresize', function() {
    windowSize();
});

</script>

<style type="text/css">

.gist-data {
  max-height: 300px;
}

.gist-meta {
  display: none;
}

</style>

The logic is to set gist (or your component) css based on user agent. Make sure to identify your component first, before applying to query selector. Feel free to take a look how responsiveness is working.

Setting up redirect in web.config file

  1. Open web.config in the directory where the old pages reside
  2. Then add code for the old location path and new destination as follows:

    <configuration>
      <location path="services.htm">
        <system.webServer>
          <httpRedirect enabled="true" destination="http://domain.com/services" httpResponseStatus="Permanent" />
        </system.webServer>
      </location>
      <location path="products.htm">
        <system.webServer>
          <httpRedirect enabled="true" destination="http://domain.com/products" httpResponseStatus="Permanent" />
        </system.webServer>
      </location>
    </configuration>
    

You may add as many location paths as necessary.

How to echo or print an array in PHP?

To see the contents of array you can use.

1) print_r($array); or if you want nicely formatted array then:

echo '<pre>'; print_r($array); echo '</pre>';

2) use var_dump($array) to get more information of the content in the array like datatype and length.

3) you can loop the array using php's foreach(); and get the desired output. more info on foreach in php's documentation website:
http://in3.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.foreach.php

Understanding implicit in Scala

A very basic example of Implicits in scala.

Implicit parameters:

val value = 10
implicit val multiplier = 3
def multiply(implicit by: Int) = value * by
val result = multiply // implicit parameter wiil be passed here
println(result) // It will print 30 as a result

Note: Here multiplier will be implicitly passed into the function multiply. Missing parameters to the function call are looked up by type in the current scope meaning that code will not compile if there is no implicit variable of type Int in the scope.

Implicit conversions:

implicit def convert(a: Double): Int = a.toInt
val res = multiply(2.0) // Type conversions with implicit functions
println(res)  // It will print 20 as a result

Note: When we call multiply function passing a double value, the compiler will try to find the conversion implicit function in the current scope, which converts Int to Double (As function multiply accept Int parameter). If there is no implicit convert function then the compiler will not compile the code.

How do I keep track of pip-installed packages in an Anaconda (Conda) environment?

conda env export lists all conda and pip packages in an environment. conda-env must be installed in the conda root (conda install -c conda conda-env).

To write an environment.yml file describing the current environment:

conda env export > environment.yml

References:

Correct way to focus an element in Selenium WebDriver using Java

The following code -

element.sendKeys("");

tries to find an input tag box to enter some information, while

new Actions(driver).moveToElement(element).perform();

is more appropriate as it will work for image elements, link elements, dropdown boxes etc.

Therefore using moveToElement() method makes more sense to focus on any generic WebElement on the web page.

For an input box you will have to click() on the element to focus.

new Actions(driver).moveToElement(element).click().perform();

while for links and images the mouse will be over that particular element,you can decide to click() on it depending on what you want to do.

If the click() on an input tag does not work -

Since you want this function to be generic, you first check if the webElement is an input tag or not by -

if("input".equals(element.getTagName()){
   element.sendKeys("");
} 
else{
   new Actions(driver).moveToElement(element).perform();

}

You can make similar changes based on your preferences.

JavaScript TypeError: Cannot read property 'style' of null

I met the same problem, the situation is I need to download flash game by embed tag and H5 game by iframe, I need a loading box there, when the flash or H5 download done, let the loading box display none. well, the flash one work well but when things go to iframe, I cannot find the property 'style' of null , so I add a clock to it , and it works

let clock = setInterval(() => {
        clearInterval(clock)
        clock = null
        document.getElementById('loading-box').style.display = 'none'
    }, 200)

Writing to a TextBox from another thread?

or you can do like

public partial class Form1 : Form
{
    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        new Thread( SampleFunction ).Start();
    }

    void SampleFunction()
    {
        // Gets executed on a seperate thread and 
        // doesn't block the UI while sleeping
        for ( int i = 0; i < 5; i++ )
        {
            this.Invoke( ( MethodInvoker )delegate()
            {
                textBox1.Text += "hi";
            } );
            Thread.Sleep( 1000 );
        }
    }
}

Call Jquery function

To call the function on click of some html element (control).

$('#controlID').click(myFunction);

You will need to ensure you bind the event when your html element is ready on which you binding the event. You can put the code in document.ready

$(document).ready(function(){
    $('#controlID').click(myFunction);
});

You can use anonymous function to bind the event to the html element.

$(document).ready(function(){
    $('#controlID').click(function(){
         $.messager.show({  
            title:'My Title',  
            msg:'The message content',  
            showType:'fade',  
            style:{  
                right:'',  
                bottom:''  
            }  
        });  
    });
});

If you want to bind click with many elements you can use class selector

$('.someclass').click(myFunction);

Edit based on comments by OP, If you want to call function under some condition

You can use if for conditional execution, for example,

if(a == 3)
     myFunction();

Convert Rtf to HTML

Mike Stall posted the code for one he wrote in c# here :

http://blogs.msdn.com/jmstall/archive/2006/10/20/rtf_5F00_html.aspx

How to get the date 7 days earlier date from current date in Java

For all date related functionality, you should consider using Joda Library. Java's date api's are very poorly designed. Joda provides very nice API.

Populating a database in a Laravel migration file

Here is a very good explanation of why using Laravel's Database Seeder is preferable to using Migrations: https://web.archive.org/web/20171018135835/http://laravelbook.com/laravel-database-seeding/

Although, following the instructions on the official documentation is a much better idea because the implementation described at the above link doesn't seem to work and is incomplete. http://laravel.com/docs/migrations#database-seeding

How to fix 'Unchecked runtime.lastError: The message port closed before a response was received' chrome issue?

Make sure you are using the correct syntax.

We should use the sendMessage() method after listening it.

Here is a simple example of contentScript.js It sendRequest to app.js.

contentScript.js

chrome.extension.sendRequest({
    title: 'giveSomeTitle', params: paramsToSend
  }, function(result) { 
    // Do Some action
});

app.js

chrome.extension.onRequest.addListener( function(message, sender, 
 sendResponse) {
  if(message.title === 'giveSomeTitle'){
    // Do some action with message.params
    sendResponse(true);
  }
});

Visual Studio replace tab with 4 spaces?

If you don't see the formatting option, you can do Tools->Import and Export settings to import the missing one.

Assign variable value inside if-statement

Because I know it's possible in while conditions, but I'm not sure if I'm doing it wrong for the if-statement or if it's just not possible.

HINT: what type while and if condition should be ??

If it can be done with while, it can be done with if statement as weel, as both of them expect a boolean condition.

Is it possible to print a variable's type in standard C++?

#include <iostream>
#include <typeinfo>
using namespace std;
#define show_type_name(_t) \
    system(("echo " + string(typeid(_t).name()) + " | c++filt -t").c_str())

int main() {
    auto a = {"one", "two", "three"};
    cout << "Type of a: " << typeid(a).name() << endl;
    cout << "Real type of a:\n";
    show_type_name(a);
    for (auto s : a) {
        if (string(s) == "one") {
            cout << "Type of s: " << typeid(s).name() << endl;
            cout << "Real type of s:\n";
            show_type_name(s);
        }
        cout << s << endl;
    }

    int i = 5;
    cout << "Type of i: " << typeid(i).name() << endl;
    cout << "Real type of i:\n";
    show_type_name(i);
    return 0;
}

Output:

Type of a: St16initializer_listIPKcE
Real type of a:
std::initializer_list<char const*>
Type of s: PKc
Real type of s:
char const*
one
two
three
Type of i: i
Real type of i:
int

Cannot resolve method 'getSupportFragmentManager ( )' inside Fragment

getSupportFragmentManager() is not part of Fragment, so you cannot get it here that way. You can get it from parent Activity (so in onAttach() the earliest) using normal

activity.getSupportFragmentManager();

or you can try getChildFragmentManager(), which is in scope of Fragment, but requires API17+

Edit line thickness of CSS 'underline' attribute

Thanks to the magic of new css options this is now possible natively:

a {
  text-decoration: underline;
  text-decoration-thickness: 5px;
  text-decoration-skip-ink: auto;
  text-underline-offset: 3px;
}

As of yet support is relatively poor. But it'll land in other browsers than ff eventually.

Meaning of $? (dollar question mark) in shell scripts

Outputs the result of the last executed unix command

0 implies true
1 implies false

PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol when expecting one of the following:

The problem is that the else and if are two operators here. Since you open a new 'if' you need a corresponding 'end if'.

Thus:

declare
mark number :=50;
begin
  mark :=& mark;
  if (mark between 85 and 100) then
    dbms_output.put_line('mark is A ');
  else 
    if (mark between 50 and 65) then
      dbms_output.put_line('mark is D ');
    else 
      if (mark between 66 and 75) then
        dbms_output.put_line('mark is C ');
      else 
        if (mark between 76 and 84) then
          dbms_output.put_line('mark is B');
        else 
          dbms_output.put_line('mark is F');
        end if;
      end if;
    end if;
  end if;
end;
/

Alternatively you can use elsif:

declare
mark number :=50;
begin
  mark :=& mark;
  if (mark between 85 and 100)
    then
    dbms_output.put_line('mark is A ');
  elsif (mark between 50 and 65) then
    dbms_output.put_line('mark is D ');
  elsif (mark between 66 and 75) then
    dbms_output.put_line('mark is C ');
  elsif (mark between 76 and 84) then
    dbms_output.put_line('mark is B');
  else 
    dbms_output.put_line('mark is F');
  end if;
end;
/

Correct syntax to compare values in JSTL <c:if test="${values.type}=='object'">

The comparison needs to be evaluated fully inside EL ${ ... }, not outside.

<c:if test="${values.type eq 'object'}">

As to the docs, those ${} things are not JSTL, but EL (Expression Language) which is a whole subject at its own. JSTL (as every other JSP taglib) is just utilizing it. You can find some more EL examples here.

<c:if test="#{bean.booleanValue}" />
<c:if test="#{bean.intValue gt 10}" />
<c:if test="#{bean.objectValue eq null}" />
<c:if test="#{bean.stringValue ne 'someValue'}" />
<c:if test="#{not empty bean.collectionValue}" />
<c:if test="#{not bean.booleanValue and bean.intValue ne 0}" />
<c:if test="#{bean.enumValue eq 'ONE' or bean.enumValue eq 'TWO'}" />

See also:


By the way, unrelated to the concrete problem, if I guess your intent right, you could also just call Object#getClass() and then Class#getSimpleName() instead of adding a custom getter.

<c:forEach items="${list}" var="value">
    <c:if test="${value['class'].simpleName eq 'Object'}">
        <!-- code here -->
    </c:if>
</c:forEeach>

See also:

How to use store and use session variables across pages?

All you want to do is write --- session_start(); ----- on both pages..

<!-- first page -->
<?php
  session_start(); 
  $_SESSION['myvar'] = 'hello';
?>

<!-- second page -->
<?php
    session_start();
    echo $_SESSION['myvar']; // it will print hello 

?>

Objective-C: Reading a file line by line

from @Adam Rosenfield's answer, the formatting string of fscanf would be changed like below:

"%4095[^\r\n]%n%*[\n\r]"

it will work in osx, linux, windows line endings.

disable horizontal scroll on mobile web

Just apply width:100%; to body

Enum Naming Convention - Plural

On the other thread C# naming convention for enum and matching property someone pointed out what I think is a very good idea:

"I know my suggestion goes against the .NET Naming conventions, but I personally prefix enums with 'E' and enum flags with 'F' (similar to how we prefix Interfaces with 'I')."

C++ Array of pointers: delete or delete []?

delete[] monsters is definitely wrong. My heap debugger shows the following output:

allocated non-array memory at 0x3e38f0 (20 bytes)
allocated non-array memory at 0x3e3920 (20 bytes)
allocated non-array memory at 0x3e3950 (20 bytes)
allocated non-array memory at 0x3e3980 (20 bytes)
allocated non-array memory at 0x3e39b0 (20 bytes)
allocated non-array memory at 0x3e39e0 (20 bytes)
releasing     array memory at 0x22ff38

As you can see, you are trying to release with the wrong form of delete (non-array vs. array), and the pointer 0x22ff38 has never been returned by a call to new. The second version shows the correct output:

[allocations omitted for brevity]
releasing non-array memory at 0x3e38f0
releasing non-array memory at 0x3e3920
releasing non-array memory at 0x3e3950
releasing non-array memory at 0x3e3980
releasing non-array memory at 0x3e39b0
releasing non-array memory at 0x3e39e0

Anyway, I prefer a design where manually implementing the destructor is not necessary to begin with.

#include <array>
#include <memory>

class Foo
{
    std::array<std::shared_ptr<Monster>, 6> monsters;

    Foo()
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < 6; ++i)
        {
            monsters[i].reset(new Monster());
        }
    }

    virtual ~Foo()
    {
        // nothing to do manually
    }
};

How to build a query string for a URL in C#?

I wrote some extension methods that I have found very useful when working with QueryStrings. Often I want to start with the current QueryString and modify before using it. Something like,

var res = Request.QueryString.Duplicate()
  .ChangeField("field1", "somevalue")
  .ChangeField("field2", "only if following is true", true)
  .ChangeField("id", id, id>0)
  .WriteLocalPathWithQuery(Request.Url)); //Uses context to write the path

For more and the source: http://www.charlesrcook.com/archive/2008/07/23/c-extension-methods-for-asp.net-query-string-operations.aspx

It's basic, but I like the style.

Tkinter understanding mainloop

while 1:
    root.update()

... is (very!) roughly similar to:

root.mainloop()

The difference is, mainloop is the correct way to code and the infinite loop is subtly incorrect. I suspect, though, that the vast majority of the time, either will work. It's just that mainloop is a much cleaner solution. After all, calling mainloop is essentially this under the covers:

while the_window_has_not_been_destroyed():
    wait_until_the_event_queue_is_not_empty()
    event = event_queue.pop()
    event.handle()

... which, as you can see, isn't much different than your own while loop. So, why create your own infinite loop when tkinter already has one you can use?

Put in the simplest terms possible: always call mainloop as the last logical line of code in your program. That's how Tkinter was designed to be used.

Error: Failed to lookup view in Express

You could set the path to a constant like this and set it using express.

const viewsPath = path.join(__dirname, '../views') 
app.set('view engine','hbs')

 app.set('views', viewsPath)

 app.get('/', function(req, res){

 res.render("index");

});

This worked for me

SQL query with avg and group by

If I understand what you need, try this:

SELECT id, pass, AVG(val) AS val_1 
FROM data_r1 
GROUP BY id, pass;

Or, if you want just one row for every id, this:

SELECT d1.id,
    (SELECT IFNULL(ROUND(AVG(d2.val), 4) ,0) FROM data_r1 d2 
     WHERE d2.id = d1.id AND pass = 1) as val_1,
    (SELECT IFNULL(ROUND(AVG(d2.val), 4) ,0) FROM data_r1 d2 
     WHERE d2.id = d1.id AND pass = 2) as val_2,
    (SELECT IFNULL(ROUND(AVG(d2.val), 4) ,0) FROM data_r1 d2 
     WHERE d2.id = d1.id AND pass = 3) as val_3,
    (SELECT IFNULL(ROUND(AVG(d2.val), 4) ,0) FROM data_r1 d2 
     WHERE d2.id = d1.id AND pass = 4) as val_4,
    (SELECT IFNULL(ROUND(AVG(d2.val), 4) ,0) FROM data_r1 d2 
     WHERE d2.id = d1.id AND pass = 5) as val_5,
    (SELECT IFNULL(ROUND(AVG(d2.val), 4) ,0) FROM data_r1 d2 
     WHERE d2.id = d1.id AND pass = 6) as val_6,
    (SELECT IFNULL(ROUND(AVG(d2.val), 4) ,0) FROM data_r1 d2 
     WHERE d2.id = d1.id AND pass = 7) as val_7
from data_r1 d1
GROUP BY d1.id

How to convert a byte array to its numeric value (Java)?

If this is an 8-bytes numeric value, you can try:

BigInteger n = new BigInteger(byteArray);

If this is an UTF-8 character buffer, then you can try:

BigInteger n = new BigInteger(new String(byteArray, "UTF-8"));

How can I check if two segments intersect?

Here is another python code to check whether closed segments intersect. It is the rewritten version of the C++ code in http://www.cdn.geeksforgeeks.org/check-if-two-given-line-segments-intersect/. This implementation covers all special cases (e.g. all points colinear).

def on_segment(p, q, r):
    '''Given three colinear points p, q, r, the function checks if 
    point q lies on line segment "pr"
    '''
    if (q[0] <= max(p[0], r[0]) and q[0] >= min(p[0], r[0]) and
        q[1] <= max(p[1], r[1]) and q[1] >= min(p[1], r[1])):
        return True
    return False

def orientation(p, q, r):
    '''Find orientation of ordered triplet (p, q, r).
    The function returns following values
    0 --> p, q and r are colinear
    1 --> Clockwise
    2 --> Counterclockwise
    '''

    val = ((q[1] - p[1]) * (r[0] - q[0]) - 
            (q[0] - p[0]) * (r[1] - q[1]))
    if val == 0:
        return 0  # colinear
    elif val > 0:
        return 1   # clockwise
    else:
        return 2  # counter-clockwise

def do_intersect(p1, q1, p2, q2):
    '''Main function to check whether the closed line segments p1 - q1 and p2 
       - q2 intersect'''
    o1 = orientation(p1, q1, p2)
    o2 = orientation(p1, q1, q2)
    o3 = orientation(p2, q2, p1)
    o4 = orientation(p2, q2, q1)

    # General case
    if (o1 != o2 and o3 != o4):
        return True

    # Special Cases
    # p1, q1 and p2 are colinear and p2 lies on segment p1q1
    if (o1 == 0 and on_segment(p1, p2, q1)):
        return True

    # p1, q1 and p2 are colinear and q2 lies on segment p1q1
    if (o2 == 0 and on_segment(p1, q2, q1)):
        return True

    # p2, q2 and p1 are colinear and p1 lies on segment p2q2
    if (o3 == 0 and on_segment(p2, p1, q2)):
        return True

    # p2, q2 and q1 are colinear and q1 lies on segment p2q2
    if (o4 == 0 and on_segment(p2, q1, q2)):
        return True

    return False # Doesn't fall in any of the above cases

Below is a test function to verify that it works.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

def test_intersect_func():
    p1 = (1, 1)
    q1 = (10, 1)
    p2 = (1, 2)
    q2 = (10, 2)
    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
    ax.plot([p1[0], q1[0]], [p1[1], q1[1]], 'x-')
    ax.plot([p2[0], q2[0]], [p2[1], q2[1]], 'x-')
    print(do_intersect(p1, q1, p2, q2))

    p1 = (10, 0)
    q1 = (0, 10)
    p2 = (0, 0)
    q2 = (10, 10)
    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
    ax.plot([p1[0], q1[0]], [p1[1], q1[1]], 'x-')
    ax.plot([p2[0], q2[0]], [p2[1], q2[1]], 'x-')
    print(do_intersect(p1, q1, p2, q2))

    p1 = (-5, -5)
    q1 = (0, 0)
    p2 = (1, 1)
    q2 = (10, 10)
    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
    ax.plot([p1[0], q1[0]], [p1[1], q1[1]], 'x-')
    ax.plot([p2[0], q2[0]], [p2[1], q2[1]], 'x-')
    print(do_intersect(p1, q1, p2, q2))

    p1 = (0, 0)
    q1 = (1, 1)
    p2 = (1, 1)
    q2 = (10, 10)
    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
    ax.plot([p1[0], q1[0]], [p1[1], q1[1]], 'x-')
    ax.plot([p2[0], q2[0]], [p2[1], q2[1]], 'x-')
    print(do_intersect(p1, q1, p2, q2))

How to create Haar Cascade (.xml file) to use in OpenCV?

If you are interested to detect simple IR light blob through haar cascade, it will be very odd to do. Because simple IR blob does not have enough features to be trained through opencv like other objects (face, eyes,nose etc). Because IR is just a simple light having only one feature of brightness in my point of view. But if you want to learn how to train a classifier following link will help you alot.

http://note.sonots.com/SciSoftware/haartraining.html

And if you just want to detect IR blob, then you have two more possibilities, one is you go for DIP algorithms to detect bright region and the other one which I recommend you is you can use an IR cam which just pass the IR blob and you can detect easily the IR blob by using opencv blob functiuons. If you think an IR cam is expansive, you can make simple webcam to an IR cam by removing IR blocker (if any) and add visible light blocker i.e negative film, floppy material or any other. You can check the following link to convert simple webcam to IR cam.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/385098/transform_your_webcam_into_an_infrared_cam/

How to write palindrome in JavaScript

The most important thing to do when solving a Technical Test is Don't use shortcut methods -- they want to see how you think algorithmically! Not your use of methods.

Here is one that I came up with (45 minutes after I blew the test). There are a couple optimizations to make though. When writing any algorithm, its best to assume false and alter the logic if its looking to be true.

isPalindrome():

Basically, to make this run in O(N) (linear) complexity you want to have 2 iterators whose vectors point towards each other. Meaning, one iterator that starts at the beginning and one that starts at the end, each traveling inward. You could have the iterators traverse the whole array and use a condition to break/return once they meet in the middle, but it may save some work to only give each iterator a half-length by default.

for loops seem to force the use of more checks, so I used while loops - which I'm less comfortable with.

Here's the code:

/**
 * TODO: If func counts out, let it return 0
 *  * Assume !isPalindrome (invert logic)
 */
function isPalindrome(S){
    var s = S
      , len = s.length
      , mid = len/2;
      , i = 0, j = len-1;

    while(i<mid){
        var l = s.charAt(i);
        while(j>=mid){
            var r = s.charAt(j);
            if(l === r){
                console.log('@while *', i, l, '...', j, r);
                --j;
                break;
            }
            console.log('@while !', i, l, '...', j, r);
            return 0;
        }
        ++i;
    }
    return 1;
}

var nooe = solution('neveroddoreven');  // even char length
var kayak = solution('kayak');  // odd char length
var kayaks = solution('kayaks');

console.log('@isPalindrome', nooe, kayak, kayaks);

Notice that if the loops count out, it returns true. All the logic should be inverted so that it by default returns false. I also used one short cut method String.prototype.charAt(n), but I felt OK with this as every language natively supports this method.

How to place div side by side

CSS3 introduced flexible boxes (aka. flex box) which can also achieve this behavior.

Simply define the width of the first div, and then give the second a flex-grow value of 1 which will allow it to fill the remaining width of the parent.

.container{
    display: flex;
}
.fixed{
    width: 200px;
}
.flex-item{
    flex-grow: 1;
}
<div class="container">
  <div class="fixed"></div>
  <div class="flex-item"></div>
</div>

Demo:

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div {
    color: #fff;
    font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif;
    padding: 10px;
}
.container {
    background-color:#2E4272;
    display:flex;
}
.fixed {
    background-color:#4F628E;
    width: 200px;
}
.flex-item {
    background-color:#7887AB;
    flex-grow: 1;
}
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<div class="container">
    <div class="fixed">Fixed width</div>
    <div class="flex-item">Dynamically sized content</div>
</div>
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Note that flex boxes are not backwards compatible with old browsers, but is a great option for targeting modern browsers (see also Caniuse and MDN). A great comprehensive guide on how to use flex boxes is available on CSS Tricks.

Scheduled run of stored procedure on SQL server

Yes, if you use the SQL Server Agent.

Open your Enterprise Manager, and go to the Management folder under the SQL Server instance you are interested in. There you will see the SQL Server Agent, and underneath that you will see a Jobs section.

Here you can create a new job and you will see a list of steps you will need to create. When you create a new step, you can specify the step to actually run a stored procedure (type TSQL Script). Choose the database, and then for the command section put in something like:

exec MyStoredProcedure

That's the overview, post back here if you need any further advice.

[I actually thought I might get in first on this one, boy was I wrong :)]

Batch files : How to leave the console window open

At here:

cmd.exe /k "<SomePath>\<My Batch File>.bat" & pause

Take a look what are you doing:

  1. (cmd /K) Start a NEW cmd instance.
  2. (& pause) Pause the CURRENT cmd instance.

How to resolve it? well,using the correct syntax, enclosing the argument for the new CMD instance:

cmd.exe /k ""<SomePath>\<My Batch File>.bat" & pause"

How to Make A Chevron Arrow Using CSS?

Responsive Chevrons / arrows

they resize automatically with your text and are colored the same color. Plug and play :)
jsBin demo playground

enter image description here

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body{
  font-size: 25px; /* Change font and  see the magic! */
  color: #f07;     /* Change color and see the magic! */
} 

/* RESPONSIVE ARROWS */
[class^=arr-]{
  border:       solid currentColor;
  border-width: 0 .2em .2em 0;
  display:      inline-block;
  padding:      .20em;
}
.arr-right {transform:rotate(-45deg);}
.arr-left  {transform:rotate(135deg);}
.arr-up    {transform:rotate(-135deg);}
.arr-down  {transform:rotate(45deg);}
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This is <i class="arr-right"></i> .arr-right<br>
This is <i class="arr-left"></i> .arr-left<br>
This is <i class="arr-up"></i> .arr-up<br>
This is <i class="arr-down"></i> .arr-down
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Connect Device to Mac localhost Server?

  1. Connect your iPhone to your Mac via USB.

  2. Go to Network Utility (cmd+space and type "network utility")

  3. Go to the "Info" tab

  4. Click on the drop down menu that says "Wi-Fi" and select "iPhone USB" as shown here:

    Photo for Step 4

  5. You'll find an IP address like "xxx.xxx.xx.xx" or similar. Open Safari browser on your iPhone and enter IP_address:port_number

    Example: 169.254.72.86:3000

[NOTE: If the IP address field is blank, make sure your iPhone is connected via USB, quit Network Utility, open it again and check for the IP address.]

ValueError: unsupported pickle protocol: 3, python2 pickle can not load the file dumped by python 3 pickle?

Pickle uses different protocols to convert your data to a binary stream.

You must specify in python 3 a protocol lower than 3 in order to be able to load the data in python 2. You can specify the protocol parameter when invoking pickle.dump.

What is the difference between C++ and Visual C++?

VC++ is not actually a language but is commonly referred to like one. When VC++ is referred to as a language, it usually means Microsoft's implementation of C++, which contains various knacks that do not exist in regular C++, such as the __super keyword. It is similar to the various GNU extensions to the C language that are implemented in GCC.

How to send an email with Gmail as provider using Python?

There is a gmail API now, which lets you send email, read email and create drafts via REST. Unlike the SMTP calls, it is non-blocking which can be a good thing for thread-based webservers sending email in the request thread (like python webservers). The API is also quite powerful.

  • Of course, email should be handed off to a non-webserver queue, but it's nice to have options.

It's easiest to setup if you have Google Apps administrator rights on the domain, because then you can give blanket permission to your client. Otherwise you have to fiddle with OAuth authentication and permission.

Here is a gist demonstrating it:

https://gist.github.com/timrichardson/1154e29174926e462b7a

How to force the input date format to dd/mm/yyyy?

DEMO : http://jsfiddle.net/shfj70qp/

//dd/mm/yyyy 

var date = new Date();
var month = date.getMonth();
var day = date.getDate();
var year = date.getFullYear();

console.log(month+"/"+day+"/"+year);

Ruby get object keys as array

An alternative way if you need something more (besides using the keys method):

hash = {"apple" => "fruit", "carrot" => "vegetable"}
array = hash.collect {|key,value| key }

obviously you would only do that if you want to manipulate the array while retrieving it..

What is the Java equivalent for LINQ?

There is nothing like LINQ for Java.

...

Edit

Now with Java 8 we are introduced to the Stream API, this is a similar kind of thing when dealing with collections, but it is not quite the same as Linq.

If it is an ORM you are looking for, like Entity Framework, then you can try Hibernate

:-)

Get-WmiObject : The RPC server is unavailable. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706BA)

Below is the native PowerShell command for the most up-voted solution. Instead of: netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)" new enable=yes

Use could use the slightly simpler syntax of:

Enable-NetFirewallRule -DisplayGroup "Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI-In)"