Programs & Examples On #Kparts

KParts is the component framework for the KDE desktop environment.

What is the difference between Class.getResource() and ClassLoader.getResource()?

To answer the question whether there is any caching going on.

I investigated this point further by running a stand-alone Java application that continuously loaded a file from disk using the getResourceAsStream ClassLoader method. I was able to edit the file, and the changes were reflected immediately, i.e., the file was reloaded from disk without caching.

However: I'm working on a project with several maven modules and web projects that have dependencies on each other. I'm using IntelliJ as my IDE to compile and run the web projects.

I noticed that the above seemed to no longer hold true, the reason being that the file that I was being loaded is now baked into a jar and deployed to the depending web project. I only noticed this after trying to change the file in my target folder, to no avail. This made it seem as though there was caching going on.

Word count from a txt file program

#!/usr/bin/python
file=open("D:\\zzzz\\names2.txt","r+")
wordcount={}
for word in file.read().split():
    if word not in wordcount:
        wordcount[word] = 1
    else:
        wordcount[word] += 1
for k,v in wordcount.items():
    print k, v

Cannot push to Git repository on Bitbucket

This error also shows up when the repository does not exist. I tried all the answers until I saw the repo name was missing a dash

Trying to embed newline in a variable in bash

sed solution:

echo "a b c" | sed 's/ \+/\n/g'

Result:

a
b
c

Fatal error: Call to undefined function mb_strlen()

In case Google search for this error

Call to undefined function mb_ereg_match()

takes somebody to this thread. Installing php-mbstring resolves it too.

Ubuntu 18.04.1, PHP 7.2.10

sudo apt-get install php7.2-mbstring

Switch case with conditions

What you are doing is to look for (0) or (1) results.

(cnt >= 10 && cnt <= 20) returns either true or false.

--edit-- you can't use case with boolean (logic) experessions. The statement cnt >= 10 returns zero for false or one for true. Hence, it will we case(1) or case(0) which will never match to the length. --edit--

Run react-native on android emulator

On Windows 10 and Android Studio you can go in Android Studio to "File"->"Settings" in Settings then to "Appearance & Behavior" -> "System Settings" -> "Android SDK". In the Tab "SDK Tools" active:

  • "Android SDK Build-Tools .."
  • "Android Emulator"
  • "Android SDK Plattform-Tools"
  • "Android SDK Tools"

If all installed then you can start the Emulator in Android Studio with "Tools" -> "Android" -> "AVD Manager". If the Emulator run you can try "react-native run-android"

linux: kill background task

There's a special variable for this in bash:

kill $!

$! expands to the PID of the last process executed in the background.

Groovy - How to compare the string?

In Groovy, null == null gets a true. At runtime, you won't know what happened. In Java, == is comparing two references.

This is a cause of big confusion in basic programming, Whether it is safe to use equals. At runtime, a null.equals will give an exception. You've got a chance to know what went wrong.

Especially, you get two values from keys not exist in map(s), == makes them equal.

Send data from javascript to a mysql database

JavaScript, as defined in your question, can't directly work with MySql. This is because it isn't running on the same computer.

JavaScript runs on the client side (in the browser), and databases usually exist on the server side. You'll probably need to use an intermediate server-side language (like PHP, Java, .Net, or a server-side JavaScript stack like Node.js) to do the query.

Here's a tutorial on how to write some code that would bind PHP, JavaScript, and MySql together, with code running both in the browser, and on a server:

http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_ajax_database.asp

And here's the code from that page. It doesn't exactly match your scenario (it does a query, and doesn't store data in the DB), but it might help you start to understand the types of interactions you'll need in order to make this work.

In particular, pay attention to these bits of code from that article.

Bits of Javascript:

xmlhttp.open("GET","getuser.php?q="+str,true);
xmlhttp.send();

Bits of PHP code:

mysql_select_db("ajax_demo", $con);
$result = mysql_query($sql);
// ...
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result)
mysql_close($con);

Also, after you get a handle on how this sort of code works, I suggest you use the jQuery JavaScript library to do your AJAX calls. It is much cleaner and easier to deal with than the built-in AJAX support, and you won't have to write browser-specific code, as jQuery has cross-browser support built in. Here's the page for the jQuery AJAX API documentation.

The code from the article

HTML/Javascript code:

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function showUser(str)
{
if (str=="")
  {
  document.getElementById("txtHint").innerHTML="";
  return;
  } 
if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
  {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
  xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
  }
else
  {// code for IE6, IE5
  xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
  }
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
  {
  if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200)
    {
    document.getElementById("txtHint").innerHTML=xmlhttp.responseText;
    }
  }
xmlhttp.open("GET","getuser.php?q="+str,true);
xmlhttp.send();
}
</script>
</head>
<body>

<form>
<select name="users" onchange="showUser(this.value)">
<option value="">Select a person:</option>
<option value="1">Peter Griffin</option>
<option value="2">Lois Griffin</option>
<option value="3">Glenn Quagmire</option>
<option value="4">Joseph Swanson</option>
</select>
</form>
<br />
<div id="txtHint"><b>Person info will be listed here.</b></div>

</body>
</html>

PHP code:

<?php
$q=$_GET["q"];

$con = mysql_connect('localhost', 'peter', 'abc123');
if (!$con)
  {
  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
  }

mysql_select_db("ajax_demo", $con);

$sql="SELECT * FROM user WHERE id = '".$q."'";

$result = mysql_query($sql);

echo "<table border='1'>
<tr>
<th>Firstname</th>
<th>Lastname</th>
<th>Age</th>
<th>Hometown</th>
<th>Job</th>
</tr>";

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
  {
  echo "<tr>";
  echo "<td>" . $row['FirstName'] . "</td>";
  echo "<td>" . $row['LastName'] . "</td>";
  echo "<td>" . $row['Age'] . "</td>";
  echo "<td>" . $row['Hometown'] . "</td>";
  echo "<td>" . $row['Job'] . "</td>";
  echo "</tr>";
  }
echo "</table>";

mysql_close($con);
?>

How to get the selected item of a combo box to a string variable in c#

SelectedText = this.combobox.SelectionBoxItem.ToString();

PHP Curl UTF-8 Charset

I was fetching a windows-1252 encoded file via cURL and the mb_detect_encoding(curl_exec($ch)); returned UTF-8. Tried utf8_encode(curl_exec($ch)); and the characters were correct.

How to add a search box with icon to the navbar in Bootstrap 3?

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                    <h3>About</h3>_x000D_
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                            <i class="glyphicon glyphicon-earphone"></i> 0982.808.065_x000D_
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Set up git to pull and push all branches

Including the + in the push spec is probably a bad idea, as it means that git will happily do a non-fast-forward push even without -f, and if the remote server is set up to accept those, you can lose history.

Try just this:

$ git config --add remote.origin.push 'refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*'
$ git config --add remote.origin.push 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*'
$ git config --add remote.origin.fetch 'refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*'
$ git config --add remote.origin.fetch 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*'

How to capture a list of specific type with mockito

For an earlier version of junit, you can do

Class<Map<String, String>> mapClass = (Class) Map.class;
ArgumentCaptor<Map<String, String>> mapCaptor = ArgumentCaptor.forClass(mapClass);

How to negate the whole regex?

\b(?=\w)(?!(ma|(t){1}))\b(\w*)

this is for the given regex.
the \b is to find word boundary.
the positive look ahead (?=\w) is here to avoid spaces.
the negative look ahead over the original regex is to prevent matches of it.
and finally the (\w*) is to catch all the words that are left.
the group that will hold the words is group 3.
the simple (?!pattern) will not work as any sub-string will match
the simple ^(?!(?:m{2}|t)$).*$ will not work as it's granularity is full lines

Partial Dependency (Databases)

Partial dependence is solved for arriving to a relation in 2NF but 2NF is a "stepping stone" (C. Date) for solving any transitive dependency and arriving to a relation in 3NF (which is the operational target). However, the most interested thing on partial dependence is that it is a particular case of the own transitive dependency. This was demostrated by P. A. Berstein in 1976: IF {(x•y)?z but y?z} THEN {(x•y)?y & y?z}. The 3NF synthesizer algorithm of Berstein does not need doing distintions among these two type of relational defects.

How to iterate a loop with index and element in Swift

Xcode 8 and Swift 3: Array can be enumerated using tempArray.enumerated()

Example:

var someStrs = [String]()

someStrs.append("Apple")  
someStrs.append("Amazon")  
someStrs += ["Google"]    


for (index, item) in someStrs.enumerated()  
{  
        print("Value at index = \(index) is \(item)").  
}

console:

Value at index = 0 is Apple
Value at index = 1 is Amazon
Value at index = 2 is Google

Share data between AngularJS controllers

There are multiple ways to do this.

  1. Events - already explained well.

  2. ui router - explained above.

  3. Service - with update method displayed above
  4. BAD - Watching for changes.
  5. Another parent child approach rather than emit and brodcast -

*

<superhero flight speed strength> Superman is here! </superhero>
<superhero speed> Flash is here! </superhero>

*

app.directive('superhero', function(){
    return {
        restrict: 'E',
        scope:{}, // IMPORTANT - to make the scope isolated else we will pollute it in case of a multiple components.
        controller: function($scope){
            $scope.abilities = [];
            this.addStrength = function(){
                $scope.abilities.push("strength");
            }
            this.addSpeed = function(){
                $scope.abilities.push("speed");
            }
            this.addFlight = function(){
                $scope.abilities.push("flight");
            }
        },
        link: function(scope, element, attrs){
            element.addClass('button');
            element.on('mouseenter', function(){
               console.log(scope.abilities);
            })
        }
    }
});
app.directive('strength', function(){
    return{
        require:'superhero',
        link: function(scope, element, attrs, superHeroCtrl){
            superHeroCtrl.addStrength();
        }
    }
});
app.directive('speed', function(){
    return{
        require:'superhero',
        link: function(scope, element, attrs, superHeroCtrl){
            superHeroCtrl.addSpeed();
        }
    }
});
app.directive('flight', function(){
    return{
        require:'superhero',
        link: function(scope, element, attrs, superHeroCtrl){
            superHeroCtrl.addFlight();
        }
    }
});

Using context in a fragment

getActivity() is a child of Context so that should work for you

Prevent any form of page refresh using jQuery/Javascript

Although its not a good idea to disable F5 key you can do it in JQuery as below.

<script type="text/javascript">
function disableF5(e) { if ((e.which || e.keyCode) == 116 || (e.which || e.keyCode) == 82) e.preventDefault(); };

$(document).ready(function(){
     $(document).on("keydown", disableF5);
});
</script>

Hope this will help!

RSA: Get exponent and modulus given a public key

I manage to find the answer for this solution, have to do javascript injection for this to install atob

const atob:any = require('atob');
asn1(pem: any){
      asn1parser.Enc.base64ToBuf = function (b64:any) {
    return asn1parser.Enc.binToBuf(atob(b64));
  };
  const dertest = asn1parser.PEM.parseBlock(pem).der;
   var hex = asn1parser.Enc.bufToHex(asn1parser.PEM.parseBlock(pem).der)
   var buf = asn1parser.ASN1.parse(dertest);
  var asn1 = JSON.stringify(asn1parser.ASN1.parse(dertest), asn1parser.ASN1._replacer, 2 );

SQL query to make all data in a column UPPER CASE?

If you want to only update on rows that are not currently uppercase (instead of all rows), you'd need to identify the difference using COLLATE like this:

UPDATE MyTable
SET    MyColumn = UPPER(MyColumn)
WHERE  MyColumn != UPPER(MyColumn) COLLATE Latin1_General_CS_AS 

A Bit About Collation

Cases sensitivity is based on your collation settings, and is typically case insensitive by default.

Collation can be set at the Server, Database, Column, or Query Level:

-- Server
SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('COLLATION')
-- Database
SELECT name, collation_name FROM sys.databases
-- Column 
SELECT COLUMN_NAME, COLLATION_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE CHARACTER_SET_NAME IS NOT NULL

Collation Names specify how a string should be encoded and read, for example:

  • Latin1_General_CI_AS ? Case Insensitive
  • Latin1_General_CS_AS ? Case Sensitive

Retrieve the commit log for a specific line in a file?

Try using below command implemented in Git 1.8.4.

git log -u -L <upperLimit>,<lowerLimit>:<path_to_filename>

So, in your case upperLimit & lowerLimit is the touched line_number

More info - https://www.techpurohit.com/list-some-useful-git-commands

Hexadecimal value 0x00 is a invalid character

I'm using IronPython here (same as .NET API) and reading the file as UTF-8 in order to properly handle the BOM fixed the problem for me:

xmlFile = Path.Combine(directory_str, 'file.xml')
doc = XPathDocument(XmlTextReader(StreamReader(xmlFile.ToString(), Encoding.UTF8)))

It would work as well with the XmlDocument:

doc = XmlDocument()
doc.Load(XmlTextReader(StreamReader(xmlFile.ToString(), Encoding.UTF8)))

Generate pdf from HTML in div using Javascript

  • No depenencies, pure JS
  • To add CSS or images - do not use relative URLs, use full URLs http://...domain.../path.css or so. It creates separate HTML document and it has no context of main thing.
  • you can also embed images as base64

This served me for years now:

export default function printDiv({divId, title}) {
  let mywindow = window.open('', 'PRINT', 'height=650,width=900,top=100,left=150');

  mywindow.document.write(`<html><head><title>${title}</title>`);
  mywindow.document.write('</head><body >');
  mywindow.document.write(document.getElementById(divId).innerHTML);
  mywindow.document.write('</body></html>');

  mywindow.document.close(); // necessary for IE >= 10
  mywindow.focus(); // necessary for IE >= 10*/

  mywindow.print();
  mywindow.close();

  return true;
}

What are the differences between git branch, fork, fetch, merge, rebase and clone?

Just to add to others, a note specific to forking.

It's good to realize that technically, cloning the repo and forking the repo are the same thing. Do:

git clone $some_other_repo

and you can tap yourself on the back---you have just forked some other repo.

Git, as a VCS, is in fact all about cloning forking. Apart from "just browsing" using remote UI such as cgit, there is very little to do with git repo that does not involve forking cloning the repo at some point.

However,

  • when someone says I forked repo X, they mean that they have created a clone of the repo somewhere else with intention to expose it to others, for example to show some experiments, or to apply different access control mechanism (eg. to allow people without Github access but with company internal account to collaborate).

    Facts that: the repo is most probably created with other command than git clone, that it's most probably hosted somewhere on a server as opposed to somebody's laptop, and most probably has slightly different format (it's a "bare repo", ie. without working tree) are all just technical details.

    The fact that it will most probably contain different set of branches, tags or commits is most probably the reason why they did it in the first place.

    (What Github does when you click "fork", is just cloning with added sugar: it clones the repo for you, puts it under your account, records the "forked from" somewhere, adds remote named "upstream", and most importantly, plays the nice animation.)

  • When someone says I cloned repo X, they mean that they have created a clone of the repo locally on their laptop or desktop with intention study it, play with it, contribute to it, or build something from source code in it.

The beauty of Git is that it makes this all perfectly fit together: all these repos share the common part of block commit chain so it's possible to safely (see note below) merge changes back and forth between all these repos as you see fit.


Note: "safely" as long as you don't rewrite the common part of the chain, and as long as the changes are not conflicting.

Check if string begins with something?

You can use string.match() and a regular expression for this too:

if(pathname.match(/^\/sub\/1/)) { // you need to escape the slashes

string.match() will return an array of matching substrings if found, otherwise null.

Get age from Birthdate

JsFiddle

You can calculate with Dates.

var birthdate = new Date("1990/1/1");
var cur = new Date();
var diff = cur-birthdate; // This is the difference in milliseconds
var age = Math.floor(diff/31557600000); // Divide by 1000*60*60*24*365.25

How to calculate number of days between two dates

http://momentjs.com/ or https://date-fns.org/

From Moment docs:

var a = moment([2007, 0, 29]);
var b = moment([2007, 0, 28]);
a.diff(b, 'days')   // =1

or to include the start:

a.diff(b, 'days')+1   // =2

Beats messing with timestamps and time zones manually.

Depending on your specific use case, you can either

  1. Use a/b.startOf('day') and/or a/b.endOf('day') to force the diff to be inclusive or exclusive at the "ends" (as suggested by @kotpal in the comments).
  2. Set third argument true to get a floating point diff which you can then Math.floor, Math.ceil or Math.round as needed.
  3. Option 2 can also be accomplished by getting 'seconds' instead of 'days' and then dividing by 24*60*60.

Android appcompat v7:23

As seen in the revision column of the Android SDK Manager, the latest published version of the Support Library is 22.2.1. You'll have to wait until 23.0.0 is published.

Edit: API 23 is already published. So u can use 23.0.0

VBA: Selecting range by variables

You're missing a close parenthesis, I.E. you aren't closing Range().

Try this Range(cells(1, 1), cells(lastRow, lastColumn)).Select

But you should really look at the other answer from Dick Kusleika for possible alternatives that may serve you better. Specifically, ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Select which has the same end result as your code.

Regular expression - starting and ending with a character string

This should do it for you ^wp.*php$

Matches

wp-comments-post.php
wp.something.php
wp.php

Doesn't match

something-wp.php
wp.php.txt

Image encryption/decryption using AES256 symmetric block ciphers

Here is simple code snippet working for AES Encryption and Decryption.

import android.util.Base64;

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import java.security.InvalidAlgorithmParameterException;
import java.security.InvalidKeyException;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import java.security.spec.InvalidKeySpecException;
import java.security.spec.KeySpec;

import javax.crypto.BadPaddingException;
import javax.crypto.Cipher;
import javax.crypto.IllegalBlockSizeException;
import javax.crypto.NoSuchPaddingException;
import javax.crypto.SecretKey;
import javax.crypto.SecretKeyFactory;
import javax.crypto.spec.IvParameterSpec;
import javax.crypto.spec.PBEKeySpec;
import javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec;

public class AESEncryptionClass {

    private static String INIT_VECTOR_PARAM = "#####";
    private static String PASSWORD = "#####";
    private static String SALT_KEY = "#####";

    private static SecretKeySpec generateAESKey() throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, InvalidKeySpecException {

        // Prepare password and salt key.
        char[] password = new String(Base64.decode(PASSWORD, Base64.DEFAULT)).toCharArray();
        byte[] salt = new String(Base64.decode(SALT_KEY, Base64.DEFAULT)).getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);

        // Create object of  [Password Based Encryption Key Specification] with required iteration count and key length.
        KeySpec spec = new PBEKeySpec(password, salt, 64, 256);

        // Now create AES Key using required hashing algorithm.
        SecretKey key = SecretKeyFactory.getInstance("PBKDF2WithHmacSHA1").generateSecret(spec);

        // Get encoded bytes of secret key.
        byte[] bytesSecretKey = key.getEncoded();

        // Create specification for AES Key.
        SecretKeySpec secretKeySpec = new SecretKeySpec(bytesSecretKey, "AES");
        return secretKeySpec;
    }

    /**
     * Call this method to encrypt the readable plain text and get Base64 of encrypted bytes.
     */
    public static String encryptMessage(String message) throws BadPaddingException, IllegalBlockSizeException, NoSuchPaddingException, NoSuchAlgorithmException, UnsupportedEncodingException, InvalidKeySpecException, InvalidAlgorithmParameterException, InvalidKeyException {

        byte[] initVectorParamBytes = new String(Base64.decode(INIT_VECTOR_PARAM, Base64.DEFAULT)).getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);

        Cipher encryptionCipherBlock = Cipher.getInstance("AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding");
        encryptionCipherBlock.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, generateAESKey(), new IvParameterSpec(initVectorParamBytes));

        byte[] messageBytes = message.getBytes();
        byte[] cipherTextBytes = encryptionCipherBlock.doFinal(messageBytes);
        String encryptedText = Base64.encodeToString(cipherTextBytes, Base64.DEFAULT);
        return encryptedText;
    }

    /**
     * Call this method to decrypt the Base64 of encrypted message and get readable plain text.
     */
    public static String decryptMessage(String base64Cipher) throws BadPaddingException, IllegalBlockSizeException, NoSuchPaddingException, NoSuchAlgorithmException, UnsupportedEncodingException, InvalidKeySpecException, InvalidAlgorithmParameterException, InvalidKeyException {

        byte[] initVectorParamBytes = new String(Base64.decode(INIT_VECTOR_PARAM, Base64.DEFAULT)).getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);

        Cipher decryptionCipherBlock = Cipher.getInstance("AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding");
        decryptionCipherBlock.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, generateAESKey(), new IvParameterSpec(initVectorParamBytes));

        byte[] cipherBytes = Base64.decode(base64Cipher, Base64.DEFAULT);
        byte[] messageBytes = decryptionCipherBlock.doFinal(cipherBytes);
        String plainText = new String(messageBytes);
        return plainText;
    }
}

Now, call encryptMessage() or decryptMessage() for desired AES Operation with required parameters.

Also, handle the exceptions during AES operations.

Hope it helped...

Could not connect to SMTP host: localhost, port: 25; nested exception is: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect

The mail server on CentOS 6 and other IPv6 capable server platforms may be bound to IPv6 localhost (::1) instead of IPv4 localhost (127.0.0.1).

Typical symptoms:

[root@host /]# telnet 127.0.0.1 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused

[root@host /]# telnet localhost 25
Trying ::1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 host ESMTP Exim 4.72 Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:02:52 +0100

[root@host /]# netstat -plant | grep 25
tcp        0      0 :::25                       :::*                        LISTEN      1082/exim           

If this happens, make sure that you don't have two entries for localhost in /etc/hosts with different IP addresses, like this (bad) example:

[root@host /]# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost localhost4.localdomain4 localhost4
::1       localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6

To avoid confusion, make sure you only have one entry for localhost, preferably an IPv4 address, like this:

[root@host /]# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost  localhost.localdomain   localhost4.localdomain4 localhost4
::1       localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6

Moq, SetupGet, Mocking a property

But while mocking read-only properties means properties with getter method only you should declare it as virtual otherwise System.NotSupportedException will be thrown because it is only supported in VB as moq internally override and create proxy when we mock anything.

HTML Input="file" Accept Attribute File Type (CSV)

Now you can use new html5 input validation attribute pattern=".+\.(xlsx|xls|csv)".

Xcode: Could not locate device support files

In case of getting "Could not locate device support files" after your device iOS version has been updated and your Xcode is still old version, just copy old SDK under new name and restart Xcode. Open your terminal and do following:

$ cd /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/DeviceSupport/
$ cp -rpv  10.3.1\ \(14E8301\)/ 11.2.1

Restart Xcode and it will most probably work.

open resource with relative path in Java

@GianCarlo: You can try calling System property user.dir that will give you root of your java project and then do append this path to your relative path for example:

String root = System.getProperty("user.dir");
String filepath = "/path/to/yourfile.txt"; // in case of Windows: "\\path \\to\\yourfile.txt
String abspath = root+filepath;



// using above path read your file into byte []
File file = new File(abspath);
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file);
byte []filebytes = new byte[(int)file.length()];
fis.read(filebytes);

Right to Left support for Twitter Bootstrap 3

If you want Bootstrap 3 support for RTL and LTR on your site, you can modify CSS rules "on the fly", attached here is a function, it modifies the major classes for Bootstrap 3 like col-(xs|sm|md|lg)-(1-12), col-(xs|sm|md|lg)-push-(1-12), col-(xs|sm|md|lg)-pull-(1-12), col-(xs|sm|md|lg)-offset-(1-12), there are many more classes to be modified but i needed only those.

All you need to do is call the function layout.setDirection('rtl') or layout.setDirection('ltr') and it will change the CSS Rules for Bootstrap 3 grid system.

Should work on all browsers (IE>=9).

        var layout = {};
        layout.setDirection = function (direction) {
            layout.rtl = (direction === 'rtl');
            document.getElementsByTagName("html")[0].style.direction = direction;
            var styleSheets = document.styleSheets;
            var modifyRule = function (rule) {
                if (rule.style.getPropertyValue(layout.rtl ? 'left' : 'right') && rule.selectorText.match(/\.col-(xs|sm|md|lg)-push-\d\d*/)) {
                    rule.style.setProperty((layout.rtl ? 'right' : 'left'), rule.style.getPropertyValue((layout.rtl ? 'left' : 'right')));
                    rule.style.removeProperty((layout.rtl ? 'left' : 'right'));
                }
                if (rule.style.getPropertyValue(layout.rtl ? 'right' : 'left') && rule.selectorText.match(/\.col-(xs|sm|md|lg)-pull-\d\d*/)) {
                    rule.style.setProperty((layout.rtl ? 'left' : 'right'), rule.style.getPropertyValue((layout.rtl ? 'right' : 'left')));
                    rule.style.removeProperty((layout.rtl ? 'right' : 'left'));
                }
                if (rule.style.getPropertyValue(layout.rtl ? 'margin-left' : 'margin-right') && rule.selectorText.match(/\.col-(xs|sm|md|lg)-offset-\d\d*/)) {
                    rule.style.setProperty((layout.rtl ? 'margin-right' : 'margin-left'), rule.style.getPropertyValue((layout.rtl ? 'margin-left' : 'margin-right')));
                    rule.style.removeProperty((layout.rtl ? 'margin-left' : 'margin-right'));
                }
                if (rule.style.getPropertyValue('float') && rule.selectorText.match(/\.col-(xs|sm|md|lg)-\d\d*/)) {
                    rule.style.setProperty('float', (layout.rtl ? 'right' : 'left'));
                }
            };
            try {
                for (var i = 0; i < styleSheets.length; i++) {
                    var rules = styleSheets[i].cssRules || styleSheets[i].rules;
                    if (rules) {
                        for (var j = 0; j < rules.length; j++) {
                            if (rules[j].type === 4) {
                                var mediaRules = rules[j].cssRules || rules[j].rules
                                for (var y = 0; y < mediaRules.length; y++) {
                                    modifyRule(mediaRules[y]);
                                }
                            }
                            if (rules[j].type === 1) {
                                modifyRule(rules[j]);
                            }

                        }
                    }
                }
            } catch (e) {
                // Firefox might throw a SecurityError exception but it will work
                if (e.name !== 'SecurityError') {
                    throw e;
                }
            }
        }

Check if a string is palindrome

Reverse the string and check if original string and reverse are same or not

Create unique constraint with null columns

You could create a unique index with a coalesce on the MenuId:

CREATE UNIQUE INDEX
Favorites_UniqueFavorite ON Favorites
(UserId, COALESCE(MenuId, '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000'), RecipeId);

You'd just need to pick a UUID for the COALESCE that will never occur in "real life". You'd probably never see a zero UUID in real life but you could add a CHECK constraint if you are paranoid (and since they really are out to get you...):

alter table Favorites
add constraint check
(MenuId <> '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000')

Create an enum with string values

TypeScript 2.1 +

Lookup types, introduced in TypeScript 2.1 allow another pattern for simulating string enums:

// String enums in TypeScript 2.1
const EntityType = {
    Foo: 'Foo' as 'Foo',
    Bar: 'Bar' as 'Bar'
};

function doIt(entity: keyof typeof EntityType) {
    // ...
}

EntityType.Foo          // 'Foo'
doIt(EntityType.Foo);   // 
doIt(EntityType.Bar);   // 
doIt('Foo');            // 
doIt('Bad');            //  

TypeScript 2.4 +

With version 2.4, TypeScript introduced native support for string enums, so the solution above is not needed. From the TS docs:

enum Colors {
  Red = "RED",
  Green = "GREEN",
  Blue = "BLUE",
}

Difference between string and char[] types in C++

Think of (char *) as string.begin(). The essential difference is that (char *) is an iterator and std::string is a container. If you stick to basic strings a (char *) will give you what std::string::iterator does. You could use (char *) when you want the benefit of an iterator and also compatibility with C, but that's the exception and not the rule. As always, be careful of iterator invalidation. When people say (char *) isn't safe this is what they mean. It's as safe as any other C++ iterator.

How to repeat last command in python interpreter shell?

If you use Debian Jessie run this to fix your system installation 2.7.9

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev

To fix my other 3.5.2 installation which I installed with pyenv :

pip install readline

Sources:

[1] https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-install-ncurses-library-headers-on-debian-ubuntu-centos-fedora/

[2] https://github.com/yyuu/pyenv/issues/240

[3] https://stackoverflow.com/a/40229934/332788

How can I select item with class within a DIV?

Try this

$("#mydiv div.myclass")

CGContextDrawImage draws image upside down when passed UIImage.CGImage

Supplemental answer with Swift code

Quartz 2D graphics use a coordinate system with the origin in the bottom left while UIKit in iOS uses a coordinate system with the origin at the top left. Everything usually works fine but when doing some graphics operations, you have to modify the coordinate system yourself. The documentation states:

Some technologies set up their graphics contexts using a different default coordinate system than the one used by Quartz. Relative to Quartz, such a coordinate system is a modified coordinate system and must be compensated for when performing some Quartz drawing operations. The most common modified coordinate system places the origin in the upper-left corner of the context and changes the y-axis to point towards the bottom of the page.

This phenomenon can be seen in the following two instances of custom views that draw an image in their drawRect methods.

enter image description here

On the left side, the image is upside-down and on the right side the coordinate system has been translated and scaled so that the origin is in the top left.

Upside-down image

override func drawRect(rect: CGRect) {

    // image
    let image = UIImage(named: "rocket")!
    let imageRect = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: image.size.width, height: image.size.height)

    // context
    let context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()

    // draw image in context
    CGContextDrawImage(context, imageRect, image.CGImage)

}

Modified coordinate system

override func drawRect(rect: CGRect) {

    // image
    let image = UIImage(named: "rocket")!
    let imageRect = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: image.size.width, height: image.size.height)

    // context
    let context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()

    // save the context so that it can be undone later
    CGContextSaveGState(context)

    // put the origin of the coordinate system at the top left
    CGContextTranslateCTM(context, 0, image.size.height)
    CGContextScaleCTM(context, 1.0, -1.0)

    // draw the image in the context
    CGContextDrawImage(context, imageRect, image.CGImage)

    // undo changes to the context
    CGContextRestoreGState(context)
}

Getting the name / key of a JToken with JSON.net

The default iterator for the JObject is as a dictionary iterating over key/value pairs.

JObject obj = JObject.Parse(response);
foreach (var pair in obj) {
    Console.WriteLine (pair.Key);
}

Create list or arrays in Windows Batch

@echo off
setlocal
set "list=a b c d"
(
 for %%i in (%list%) do (
  echo(%%i
  echo(
 )
)>file.txt

You don't need - actually, can't "declare" variables in batch. Assigning a value to a variable creates it, and assigning an empty string deletes it. Any variable name that doesn't have an assigned value HAS a value of an empty string. ALL variables are strings - WITHOUT exception. There ARE operations that appear to perform (integer) mathematical functions, but they operate by converting back and forth from strings.

Batch is sensitive to spaces in variable names, so your assignment as posted would assign the string "A B C D" - including the quotes, to the variable "list " - NOT including the quotes, but including the space. The syntax set "var=string" is used to assign the value string to var whereas set var=string will do the same thing. Almost. In the first case, any stray trailing spaces after the closing quote are EXCLUDED from the value assigned, in the second, they are INCLUDED. Spaces are a little hard to see when printed.

ECHO echoes strings. Clasically, it is followed by a space - one of the default separators used by batch (the others are TAB, COMMA, SEMICOLON - any of these do just as well BUT TABS often get transformed to a space-squence by text-editors and the others have grown quirks of their own over the years.) Other characters following the O in ECHO have been found to do precisely what the documented SPACE should do. DOT is common. Open-parenthesis ( is probably the most useful since the command

ECHO.%emptyvalue%

will produce a report of the ECHO state (ECHO is on/off) whereas

ECHO(%emptyvalue%

will produce an empty line.

The problem with ECHO( is that the result "looks" unbalanced.

Simple JavaScript login form validation

<form name="loginform" onsubmit="validateForm()">

instead of putting the onsubmit on the actual input button

Call a function after previous function is complete

This answer uses promises, a JavaScript feature of the ECMAScript 6 standard. If your target platform does not support promises, polyfill it with PromiseJs.

Promises are a new (and a lot better) way to handle asynchronous operations in JavaScript:

$('a.button').click(function(){
    if (condition == 'true'){
        function1(someVariable).then(function() {
            //this function is executed after function1
            function2(someOtherVariable);
        });
    }
    else {
        doThis(someVariable);
    }
});


function function1(param, callback) {
    return new Promise(function (fulfill, reject){
        //do stuff
        fulfill(result); //if the action succeeded
        reject(error); //if the action did not succeed
    });
} 

This may seem like a significant overhead for this simple example, but for more complex code it is far better than using callbacks. You can easily chain multiple asynchronous calls using multiple then statements:

function1(someVariable).then(function() {
    function2(someOtherVariable);
}).then(function() {
    function3();
});

You can also wrap jQuery deferrds easily (which are returned from $.ajax calls):

Promise.resolve($.ajax(...params...)).then(function(result) {
    //whatever you want to do after the request
});

As @charlietfl noted, the jqXHR object returned by $.ajax() implements the Promise interface. So it is not actually necessary to wrap it in a Promise, it can be used directly:

$.ajax(...params...).then(function(result) {
    //whatever you want to do after the request
});

Accessing a resource via codebehind in WPF

You should use System.Windows.Controls.UserControl's FindResource() or TryFindResource() methods.

Also, a good practice is to create a string constant which maps the name of your key in the resource dictionary (so that you can change it at only one place).

Does Git Add have a verbose switch

I was debugging an issue with git and needed some very verbose output to figure out what was going wrong. I ended up setting the GIT_TRACE environment variable:

export GIT_TRACE=1
git add *.txt

You can also use these on the same line:

GIT_TRACE=1 git add *.txt

Output:

14:06:05.508517 git.c:415               trace: built-in: git add test.txt test2.txt
14:06:05.544890 git.c:415               trace: built-in: git config --get oh-my-zsh.hide-dirty

Converting string into datetime

Remember this and you didn't need to get confused in datetime conversion again.

String to datetime object = strptime

datetime object to other formats = strftime

Jun 1 2005 1:33PM

is equals to

%b %d %Y %I:%M%p

%b Month as locale’s abbreviated name(Jun)

%d Day of the month as a zero-padded decimal number(1)

%Y Year with century as a decimal number(2015)

%I Hour (12-hour clock) as a zero-padded decimal number(01)

%M Minute as a zero-padded decimal number(33)

%p Locale’s equivalent of either AM or PM(PM)

so you need strptime i-e converting string to

>>> dates = []
>>> dates.append('Jun 1 2005  1:33PM')
>>> dates.append('Aug 28 1999 12:00AM')
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> for d in dates:
...     date = datetime.strptime(d, '%b %d %Y %I:%M%p')
...     print type(date)
...     print date
... 

Output

<type 'datetime.datetime'>
2005-06-01 13:33:00
<type 'datetime.datetime'>
1999-08-28 00:00:00

What if you have different format of dates you can use panda or dateutil.parse

>>> import dateutil
>>> dates = []
>>> dates.append('12 1 2017')
>>> dates.append('1 1 2017')
>>> dates.append('1 12 2017')
>>> dates.append('June 1 2017 1:30:00AM')
>>> [parser.parse(x) for x in dates]

OutPut

[datetime.datetime(2017, 12, 1, 0, 0), datetime.datetime(2017, 1, 1, 0, 0), datetime.datetime(2017, 1, 12, 0, 0), datetime.datetime(2017, 6, 1, 1, 30)]

Laravel Fluent Query Builder Join with subquery

You can use following addon to handle all subquery related function from laravel 5.5+

https://github.com/maksimru/eloquent-subquery-magic

User::selectRaw('user_id,comments_by_user.total_count')->leftJoinSubquery(
  //subquery
  Comment::selectRaw('user_id,count(*) total_count')
      ->groupBy('user_id'),
  //alias
  'comments_by_user', 
  //closure for "on" statement
  function ($join) {
      $join->on('users.id', '=', 'comments_by_user.user_id');
  }
)->get();

How do you print in a Go test using the "testing" package?

For testing sometimes I do

fmt.Fprintln(os.Stdout, "hello")

Also, you can print to:

fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, "hello)

How to use MapView in android using google map V2?

More complete sample from here and here.

Or you can check out my layout sample. p.s no need to put API key in the map view.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
              android:orientation="vertical"
              android:layout_width="match_parent"
              android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <com.google.android.gms.maps.MapView
            android:id="@+id/map_view"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_weight="2"
            />

    <ListView android:id="@+id/nearby_lv"
              android:layout_width="match_parent"
              android:layout_height="match_parent"
              android:background="@color/white"
              android:layout_weight="1"
            />

</LinearLayout>

Directory-tree listing in Python

Here is another option.

os.scandir(path='.')

It returns an iterator of os.DirEntry objects corresponding to the entries (along with file attribute information) in the directory given by path.

Example:

with os.scandir(path) as it:
    for entry in it:
        if not entry.name.startswith('.'):
            print(entry.name)

Using scandir() instead of listdir() can significantly increase the performance of code that also needs file type or file attribute information, because os.DirEntry objects expose this information if the operating system provides it when scanning a directory. All os.DirEntry methods may perform a system call, but is_dir() and is_file() usually only require a system call for symbolic links; os.DirEntry.stat() always requires a system call on Unix but only requires one for symbolic links on Windows.

Python Docs

How to rotate portrait/landscape Android emulator?

Yes. Thanks

Ctrl + F11 for Portrait

and

Ctrl + F12 for Landscape

AndroidStudio: Failed to sync Install build tools

In case you have error regarding 'SDK build-tools failed' while installing Android Studio, Then you can Download build-tools from - https://androidsdkmanager.azurewebsites.net/Buildtools

var.replace is not a function

In case of a number you can try to convert to string:

var stringValue = str.toString();
return stringValue.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g,'');

no target device found android studio 2.1.1

If you are using 32-bit ubuntu (my case) then it is most likely that Android Studio has downloaded 64-bit version of adb and fastboot inside your sdk/platform-tools folder. I think you already have installed adb (and fastboot). If you haven't then run these commands in terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot

This will install 32-bit version of adb and fastboot. Now just replace the 64-bit adb and fastboot executable files in sdk/platform-tools with the installed 32-bit versions:

cp /usr/bin/adb <path-to-your-adt-sdk-package>/sdk/platform-tools/adb
cp /usr/bin/fastboot <path-to-your-adt-sdk-package>/sdk/platformtools/fastboot

Now your android studio should be able to run your App in your device.

Creating files and directories via Python

    import os
    os.mkdir('directory name') #### this command for creating directory
    os.mknod('file name') #### this for creating files
    os.system('touch filename') ###this is another method for creating file by using unix commands in os modules 

Replace a character at a specific index in a string?

Turn the String into a char[], replace the letter by index, then convert the array back into a String.

String myName = "domanokz";
char[] myNameChars = myName.toCharArray();
myNameChars[4] = 'x';
myName = String.valueOf(myNameChars);

Difference in boto3 between resource, client, and session?

I'll try and explain it as simple as possible. So there is no guarantee of the accuracy of the actual terms.

Session is where to initiate the connectivity to AWS services. E.g. following is default session that uses the default credential profile(e.g. ~/.aws/credentials, or assume your EC2 using IAM instance profile )

sqs = boto3.client('sqs')
s3 = boto3.resource('s3')

Because default session is limit to the profile or instance profile used, sometimes you need to use the custom session to override the default session configuration (e.g. region_name, endpoint_url, etc. ) e.g.

# custom resource session must use boto3.Session to do the override
my_west_session = boto3.Session(region_name = 'us-west-2')
my_east_session = boto3.Session(region_name = 'us-east-1')
backup_s3 = my_west_session.resource('s3')
video_s3 = my_east_session.resource('s3')

# you have two choices of create custom client session. 
backup_s3c = my_west_session.client('s3')
video_s3c = boto3.client("s3", region_name = 'us-east-1')

Resource : This is the high-level service class recommended to be used. This allows you to tied particular AWS resources and passes it along, so you just use this abstraction than worry which target services are pointed to. As you notice from the session part, if you have a custom session, you just pass this abstract object than worrying about all custom regions,etc to pass along. Following is a complicated example E.g.

import boto3 
my_west_session = boto3.Session(region_name = 'us-west-2')
my_east_session = boto3.Session(region_name = 'us-east-1')
backup_s3 = my_west_session.resource("s3")
video_s3 = my_east_session.resource("s3")
backup_bucket = backup_s3.Bucket('backupbucket') 
video_bucket = video_s3.Bucket('videobucket')

# just pass the instantiated bucket object
def list_bucket_contents(bucket):
   for object in bucket.objects.all():
      print(object.key)

list_bucket_contents(backup_bucket)
list_bucket_contents(video_bucket)

Client is a low level class object. For each client call, you need to explicitly specify the targeting resources, the designated service target name must be pass long. You will lose the abstraction ability.

For example, if you only deal with the default session, this looks similar to boto3.resource.

import boto3 
s3 = boto3.client('s3')

def list_bucket_contents(bucket_name):
   for object in s3.list_objects_v2(Bucket=bucket_name) :
      print(object.key)

list_bucket_contents('Mybucket') 

However, if you want to list objects from a bucket in different regions, you need to specify the explicit bucket parameter required for the client.

import boto3 
backup_s3 = my_west_session.client('s3',region_name = 'us-west-2')
video_s3 = my_east_session.client('s3',region_name = 'us-east-1')

# you must pass boto3.Session.client and the bucket name 
def list_bucket_contents(s3session, bucket_name):
   response = s3session.list_objects_v2(Bucket=bucket_name)
   if 'Contents' in response:
     for obj in response['Contents']:
        print(obj['key'])

list_bucket_contents(backup_s3, 'backupbucket')
list_bucket_contents(video_s3 , 'videobucket') 

Insert data using Entity Framework model

It should be:

context.TableName.AddObject(TableEntityInstance);

Where:

  1. TableName: the name of the table in the database.
  2. TableEntityInstance: an instance of the table entity class.

If your table is Orders, then:

Order order = new Order();
context.Orders.AddObject(order);

For example:

 var id = Guid.NewGuid();

 // insert
 using (var db = new EfContext("name=EfSample"))
 {
    var customers = db.Set<Customer>();
    customers.Add( new Customer { CustomerId = id, Name = "John Doe" } );

    db.SaveChanges();
 }

Here is a live example:

public void UpdatePlayerScreen(byte[] imageBytes, string installationKey)
{
  var player = (from p in this.ObjectContext.Players where p.InstallationKey == installationKey select p).FirstOrDefault();

  var current = (from d in this.ObjectContext.Screenshots where d.PlayerID == player.ID select d).FirstOrDefault();

  if (current != null)
  {
    current.Screen = imageBytes;
    current.Refreshed = DateTime.Now;

    this.ObjectContext.SaveChanges();
  }
  else
  {
    Screenshot screenshot = new Screenshot();

    screenshot.ID = Guid.NewGuid();
    screenshot.Interval = 1000;
    screenshot.IsTurnedOn = true;
    screenshot.PlayerID = player.ID;
    screenshot.Refreshed = DateTime.Now;
    screenshot.Screen = imageBytes;

    this.ObjectContext.Screenshots.AddObject(screenshot);
    this.ObjectContext.SaveChanges();
  }
}

Getting "Cannot call a class as a function" in my React Project

Actually all the problem redux connect. solutions:

Correct:

export default connect(mapStateToProps, mapDispatchToProps)(PageName)

Wrong & Bug:

export default connect(PageName)(mapStateToProps, mapDispatchToProps)

How to set standard encoding in Visual Studio

I don't know of a global setting nither but you can try this:

  1. Save all Visual Studio templates in UTF-8
  2. Write a Visual Studio Macro/Addin that will listen to the DocumentSaved event and will save the file in UTF-8 format (if not already).
  3. Put a proxy on your source control that will make sure that new files are always UTF-8.

Press enter in textbox to and execute button command

There are some cases, when textbox will not handle enter key. I think it may be when you have accept button set on form. In that case, instead of KeyDown event you should use textbox1_PreviewKeyDown(object sender, PreviewKeyDownEventArgs e)

How to escape indicator characters (i.e. : or - ) in YAML

I came here trying to get my Azure DevOps Command Line task working. The thing that worked for me was using the pipe (|) character. Using > did not work.

Example:

steps:
- task: CmdLine@2
  inputs:
    script: |
      echo "Selecting Mono version..."
      /bin/bash -c "sudo $AGENT_HOMEDIRECTORY/scripts/select-xamarin-sdk.sh 5_18_1"
      echo "Selecting Xcode version..."
      /bin/bash -c "echo '##vso[task.setvariable variable=MD_APPLE_SDK_ROOT;]'/Applications/Xcode_10.2.1.app;sudo xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode_10.2.1.app/Contents/Developer"

ActiveXObject creation error " Automation server can't create object"

This is caused by Security settings for internet explorer. You can fix this,by changing internet explorer settings.Go To Settings->Internet Options->Security Tabs. You will see different zones:i)Internet ii)Local Intranet iii)Trusted Sites iv)Restricted Sites. Depending on your requirement select one zone. I am running my application in localhost so i selected Local intranet and then click Custom Level button. It opens security settings window. Please enable Initialize and script Activex controls not marked as safe for scripting option.It should work.

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How to initailize byte array of 100 bytes in java with all 0's

byte [] arr = new byte[100] 

Each element has 0 by default.

You could find primitive default values here:

Data Type   Default Value
byte        0
short       0
int         0
long        0L
float       0.0f
double      0.0d
char        '\u0000'
boolean     false

Amazon products API - Looking for basic overview and information

I agree that Amazon appears to be intentionally obfuscating even how to find the API documentation, as well as use it. I'm just speculating though.

Renaming the services from "ECS" to "Product Advertising API" was probably also not the best move, it essentially invalidated all that Google mojo they had built up over time.

It took me quite a while to 'discover' this updated link for the Product Advertising API. I don't remember being able to easily discover it through the typical 'Developer' link on the Amazon webpage. This documentation appears to valid and what I've worked from recently.

The change to authentication procedures also seems to add further complexity, but I'm sure they have a reason for it.

I use SOAP via C# to communicate with Amazon Product API.

With the REST API you have to encrypt the whole URL in a fairly specific way. The params have to be sorted, etc. There is just more to do. With the SOAP API, you just encrypt the operation+timestamp, and thats it.

Adam O'Neil's post here, How to get album, dvd, and blueray cover art from Amazon, walks through the SOAP with C# method. Its not the original sample I pulled down, and contrary to his comment, it was not an official Amazon sample I stumbled on, though the code looks identical. However, Adam does a good job at presenting all the necessary steps. I wish I could credit the original author.

Is there a way to get LaTeX to place figures in the same page as a reference to that figure?

I solve this problem by always using the [h] option on floats (such as figures) so that they (mostly) go where I place them. Then when I look at the final draft, I adjust the location of the float by moving it in the LaTeX source. Usually that means moving it around the paragraph where it is referenced. Sometimes I need to add a page break at an appropriate spot.

I've found that the default placement of floats is reasonable in LaTeX, but manual adjustments are almost always needed to get things like this just right. (And sometimes it isn't possible for everything to be perfect when there are lots of floats and footnotes.)

The manual for the memoir class has some good information about how LaTeX places floats and some advice for manipulating the algorithm.

Bootstrap 3 - jumbotron background image effect

Example: http://bootply.com/103783

One way to achieve this is using a position:fixed container for the background image and place it outside of the .jumbotron. Make the bg container the same height as the .jumbotron and center the background image:

background: url('/assets/example/...jpg') no-repeat center center;

CSS

.bg {
  background: url('/assets/example/bg_blueplane.jpg') no-repeat center center;
  position: fixed;
  width: 100%;
  height: 350px; /*same height as jumbotron */
  top:0;
  left:0;
  z-index: -1;
}

.jumbotron {
  margin-bottom: 0px;
  height: 350px;
  color: white;
  text-shadow: black 0.3em 0.3em 0.3em;
  background:transparent;
}

Then use jQuery to decrease the height of the .jumbtron as the window scrolls. Since the background image is centered in the DIV it will adjust accordingly -- creating a parallax affect.

JavaScript

var jumboHeight = $('.jumbotron').outerHeight();
function parallax(){
    var scrolled = $(window).scrollTop();
    $('.bg').css('height', (jumboHeight-scrolled) + 'px');
}

$(window).scroll(function(e){
    parallax();
});

Demo

http://bootply.com/103783

Only read selected columns

You could also use JDBC to achieve this. Let's create a sample csv file.

write.table(x=mtcars, file="mtcars.csv", sep=",", row.names=F, col.names=T) # create example csv file

Download and save the the CSV JDBC driver from this link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/csvjdbc/files/latest/download

> library(RJDBC)

> path.to.jdbc.driver <- "jdbc//csvjdbc-1.0-18.jar"
> drv <- JDBC("org.relique.jdbc.csv.CsvDriver", path.to.jdbc.driver)
> conn <- dbConnect(drv, sprintf("jdbc:relique:csv:%s", getwd()))

> head(dbGetQuery(conn, "select * from mtcars"), 3)
   mpg cyl disp  hp drat    wt  qsec vs am gear carb
1   21   6  160 110  3.9  2.62 16.46  0  1    4    4
2   21   6  160 110  3.9 2.875 17.02  0  1    4    4
3 22.8   4  108  93 3.85  2.32 18.61  1  1    4    1

> head(dbGetQuery(conn, "select mpg, gear from mtcars"), 3)
   MPG GEAR
1   21    4
2   21    4
3 22.8    4

How to define dimens.xml for every different screen size in android?

You can put dimens.xml in

1) values

2) values-hdpi

3) values-xhdpi

4) values-xxhdpi

And give different sizes in dimens.xml within corresponding folders according to densities.

Best way to serialize/unserialize objects in JavaScript?

I am the author of https://github.com/joonhocho/seri.

Seri is JSON + custom (nested) class support.

You simply need to provide toJSON and fromJSON to serialize and deserialize any class instances.

Here's an example with nested class objects:

import seri from 'seri';

class Item {
  static fromJSON = (name) => new Item(name)

  constructor(name) {
    this.name = name;
  }

  toJSON() {
    return this.name;
  }
}

class Bag {
  static fromJSON = (itemsJson) => new Bag(seri.parse(itemsJson))

  constructor(items) {
    this.items = items;
  }

  toJSON() {
    return seri.stringify(this.items);
  }
}

// register classes
seri.addClass(Item);
seri.addClass(Bag);


const bag = new Bag([
  new Item('apple'),
  new Item('orange'),
]);


const bagClone = seri.parse(seri.stringify(bag));


// validate
bagClone instanceof Bag;

bagClone.items[0] instanceof Item;
bagClone.items[0].name === 'apple';

bagClone.items[1] instanceof Item;
bagClone.items[1].name === 'orange';

Hope it helps address your problem.

Password Strength Meter

Password Strength Algorithm:

Password Length:
    5 Points: Less than 4 characters
    10 Points: 5 to 7 characters
    25 Points: 8 or more

Letters:
    0 Points: No letters
    10 Points: Letters are all lower case
    20 Points: Letters are upper case and lower case

Numbers:
    0 Points: No numbers
    10 Points: 1 number
    20 Points: 3 or more numbers

Characters:
    0 Points: No characters
    10 Points: 1 character
    25 Points: More than 1 character

Bonus:
    2 Points: Letters and numbers
    3 Points: Letters, numbers, and characters
    5 Points: Mixed case letters, numbers, and characters

Password Text Range:

    >= 90: Very Secure
    >= 80: Secure
    >= 70: Very Strong
    >= 60: Strong
    >= 50: Average
    >= 25: Weak
    >= 0: Very Weak

Settings Toggle to true or false, if you want to change what is checked in the password

var m_strUpperCase = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
var m_strLowerCase = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
var m_strNumber = "0123456789";
var m_strCharacters = "!@#$%^&*?_~"

Check password


function checkPassword(strPassword)
{
    // Reset combination count
    var nScore = 0;

    // Password length
    // -- Less than 4 characters
    if (strPassword.length < 5)
    {
        nScore += 5;
    }
    // -- 5 to 7 characters
    else if (strPassword.length > 4 && strPassword.length < 8)
    {
        nScore += 10;
    }
    // -- 8 or more
    else if (strPassword.length > 7)
    {
        nScore += 25;
    }

    // Letters
    var nUpperCount = countContain(strPassword, m_strUpperCase);
    var nLowerCount = countContain(strPassword, m_strLowerCase);
    var nLowerUpperCount = nUpperCount + nLowerCount;
    // -- Letters are all lower case
    if (nUpperCount == 0 && nLowerCount != 0) 
    { 
        nScore += 10; 
    }
    // -- Letters are upper case and lower case
    else if (nUpperCount != 0 && nLowerCount != 0) 
    { 
        nScore += 20; 
    }

    // Numbers
    var nNumberCount = countContain(strPassword, m_strNumber);
    // -- 1 number
    if (nNumberCount == 1)
    {
        nScore += 10;
    }
    // -- 3 or more numbers
    if (nNumberCount >= 3)
    {
        nScore += 20;
    }

    // Characters
    var nCharacterCount = countContain(strPassword, m_strCharacters);
    // -- 1 character
    if (nCharacterCount == 1)
    {
        nScore += 10;
    }   
    // -- More than 1 character
    if (nCharacterCount > 1)
    {
        nScore += 25;
    }

    // Bonus
    // -- Letters and numbers
    if (nNumberCount != 0 && nLowerUpperCount != 0)
    {
        nScore += 2;
    }
    // -- Letters, numbers, and characters
    if (nNumberCount != 0 && nLowerUpperCount != 0 && nCharacterCount != 0)
    {
        nScore += 3;
    }
    // -- Mixed case letters, numbers, and characters
    if (nNumberCount != 0 && nUpperCount != 0 && nLowerCount != 0 && nCharacterCount != 0)
    {
        nScore += 5;
    }


    return nScore;
}

// Runs password through check and then updates GUI 


function runPassword(strPassword, strFieldID) 
{
    // Check password
    var nScore = checkPassword(strPassword);


     // Get controls
        var ctlBar = document.getElementById(strFieldID + "_bar"); 
        var ctlText = document.getElementById(strFieldID + "_text");
        if (!ctlBar || !ctlText)
            return;

        // Set new width
        ctlBar.style.width = (nScore*1.25>100)?100:nScore*1.25 + "%";

    // Color and text
    // -- Very Secure
    /*if (nScore >= 90)
    {
        var strText = "Very Secure";
        var strColor = "#0ca908";
    }
    // -- Secure
    else if (nScore >= 80)
    {
        var strText = "Secure";
        vstrColor = "#7ff67c";
    }
    // -- Very Strong
    else 
    */
    if (nScore >= 80)
    {
        var strText = "Very Strong";
        var strColor = "#008000";
    }
    // -- Strong
    else if (nScore >= 60)
    {
        var strText = "Strong";
        var strColor = "#006000";
    }
    // -- Average
    else if (nScore >= 40)
    {
        var strText = "Average";
        var strColor = "#e3cb00";
    }
    // -- Weak
    else if (nScore >= 20)
    {
        var strText = "Weak";
        var strColor = "#Fe3d1a";
    }
    // -- Very Weak
    else
    {
        var strText = "Very Weak";
        var strColor = "#e71a1a";
    }

    if(strPassword.length == 0)
    {
    ctlBar.style.backgroundColor = "";
    ctlText.innerHTML =  "";
    }
else
    {
    ctlBar.style.backgroundColor = strColor;
    ctlText.innerHTML =  strText;
}
}

// Checks a string for a list of characters
function countContain(strPassword, strCheck)
{ 
    // Declare variables
    var nCount = 0;

    for (i = 0; i < strPassword.length; i++) 
    {
        if (strCheck.indexOf(strPassword.charAt(i)) > -1) 
        { 
                nCount++;
        } 
    } 

    return nCount; 
} 

You can customize by yourself according to your requirement.

React-Native: Application has not been registered error

you need to register it in index.android.js / index.ios.js

like this:

'use strict';

import {
    AppRegistry
} from 'react-native';

import app from "./app";

AppRegistry.registerComponent('test', () => app);

Git: How to squash all commits on branch

Another simple way to do this: go on the origin branch and do a merge --squash. This command doesn't do the "squashed" commit. when you do it, all commit messages of yourBranch will be gathered.

$ git checkout master
$ git merge --squash yourBranch
$ git commit # all commit messages of yourBranch in one, really useful
 > [status 5007e77] Squashed commit of the following: ...

How do I read a string entered by the user in C?

On BSD systems and Android you can also use fgetln:

#include <stdio.h>

char *
fgetln(FILE *stream, size_t *len);

Like so:

size_t line_len;
const char *line = fgetln(stdin, &line_len);

The line is not null terminated and contains \n (or whatever your platform is using) in the end. It becomes invalid after the next I/O operation on stream. You are allowed to modify the returned line buffer.

What is the best way to iterate over a dictionary?

The best answer is of course: Don´t use exact a dictionary if you plan to iterate over it- as Vikas Gupta mentioned already in the discussion under the question. But that discussion as this whole thread still lacks surprisingly good alternatives. One is:

SortedList<string, string> x = new SortedList<string, string>();

x.Add("key1", "value1");
x.Add("key2", "value2");
x["key3"] = "value3";
foreach( KeyValuePair<string, string> kvPair in x )
            Console.WriteLine($"{kvPair.Key}, {kvPair.Value}");

Why a lot of people consider it a code smell of iterating over a dictionary (e.g. by foreach(KeyValuePair<,>): It is quite surprising, but there is a little cited, but basic principle of Clean Coding: "Express intent!" Robert C. Martin writes in "Clean Code": "Choosing names that reveal intent". Obviously this is too weak. "Express (reveal) intent with every coding decision" would be better. My wording. I am lacking a good first source but I am sure there are... A related principle is "Principle of least surprise" (=Principle of Least Astonishment).

Why this is related to iterating over a dictionary? Choosing a dictionary expresses the intent of choosing a data structure which was made for finding data by key. Nowadays there are so much alternatives in .NET, if you want to iterate through key/value pairs that you don´t need this crutch.

Moreover: If you iterate over something, you have to reveal something about how the items are (to be) ordered and expected to be ordered! AFAIK, Dictionary has no specification about ordering (implementation-specific conventions only). What are the alternatives?

TLDR:
SortedList: If your collection is not getting too large, a simple solution would be to use SortedList<,> which gives you also full indexing of key/value pairs.

Microsoft has a long article about mentioning and explaining fitting collections:
Keyed collection

To mention the most important: KeyedCollection<,> and SortedDictionary<,> . SortedDictionary<,> is a bit faster than SortedList for oly inserting if it gets large, but lacks indexing and is needed only if O(log n) for inserting is preferenced over other operations. If you really need O(1) for inserting and accept slower iterating in exchange, you have to stay with simple Dictionary<,>. Obviously there is no data structure which is the fastest for every possible operation..

Additionally there is ImmutableSortedDictionary<,>.

And if one data structure is not exactly what you need, then derivate from Dictionary<,> or even from the new ConcurrentDictionary<,> and add explicit iteration/sorting functions!

dismissModalViewControllerAnimated deprecated

[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:NO]; has been deprecated.

Use [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:NO completion:nil]; instead.

HTML text-overflow ellipsis detection

This sample show tooltip on cell table with text truncated. Is dynamic based on table width:

$.expr[':'].truncated = function (obj) {
    var element = $(obj);

    return (element[0].scrollHeight > (element.innerHeight() + 1)) || (element[0].scrollWidth > (element.innerWidth() + 1));
};

$(document).ready(function () {
    $("td").mouseenter(function () {
        var cella = $(this);
        var isTruncated = cella.filter(":truncated").length > 0;
        if (isTruncated) 
            cella.attr("title", cella.text());
        else 
            cella.attr("title", null);
    });
});

Demo: https://jsfiddle.net/t4qs3tqs/

It works on all version of jQuery

Uncaught TypeError: .indexOf is not a function

Basically indexOf() is a method belongs to string(array object also), But while calling the function you are passing a number, try to cast it to a string and pass it.

document.getElementById("oset").innerHTML = timeD2C(timeofday + "");

_x000D_
_x000D_
 var timeofday = new Date().getHours() + (new Date().getMinutes()) / 60;_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_
 function timeD2C(time) { // Converts 11.5 (decimal) to 11:30 (colon)_x000D_
    var pos = time.indexOf('.');_x000D_
    var hrs = time.substr(1, pos - 1);_x000D_
    var min = (time.substr(pos, 2)) * 60;_x000D_
_x000D_
    if (hrs > 11) {_x000D_
        hrs = (hrs - 12) + ":" + min + " PM";_x000D_
    } else {_x000D_
        hrs += ":" + min + " AM";_x000D_
    }_x000D_
    return hrs;_x000D_
}_x000D_
alert(timeD2C(timeofday+""));
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_


And it is good to do the string conversion inside your function definition,

function timeD2C(time) { 
  time = time + "";
  var pos = time.indexOf('.');

So that the code flow won't break at times when devs forget to pass a string into this function.

What does "implements" do on a class?

Implements means that it takes on the designated behavior that the interface specifies. Consider the following interface:

public interface ISpeak
{
   public String talk();
}

public class Dog implements ISpeak
{
   public String talk()
   {
        return "bark!";
   }
}

public class Cat implements ISpeak
{
    public String talk()
    {
        return "meow!";
    }
}

Both the Cat and Dog class implement the ISpeak interface.

What's great about interfaces is that we can now refer to instances of this class through the ISpeak interface. Consider the following example:

  Dog dog = new Dog();
  Cat cat = new Cat();

  List<ISpeak> animalsThatTalk = new ArrayList<ISpeak>();

  animalsThatTalk.add(dog);
  animalsThatTalk.add(cat);

  for (ISpeak ispeak : animalsThatTalk)
  {
      System.out.println(ispeak.talk());
  }

The output for this loop would be:

bark!
meow!

Interface provide a means to interact with classes in a generic way based upon the things they do without exposing what the implementing classes are.

One of the most common interfaces used in Java, for example, is Comparable. If your object implements this interface, you can write an implementation that consumers can use to sort your objects.

For example:

public class Person implements Comparable<Person>
{
  private String firstName;
  private String lastName;

  // Getters/Setters

  public int compareTo(Person p)
  {
    return this.lastName.compareTo(p.getLastName());  
  }
}

Now consider this code:

//  Some code in other class

List<Person> people = getPeopleList();

Collections.sort(people);

What this code did was provide a natural ordering to the Person class. Because we implemented the Comparable interface, we were able to leverage the Collections.sort() method to sort our List of Person objects by its natural ordering, in this case, by last name.

Best way to increase heap size in catalina.bat file

If you look in your installation's bin directory you will see catalina.sh or .bat scripts. If you look in these you will see that they run a setenv.sh or setenv.bat script respectively, if it exists, to set environment variables. The relevant environment variables are described in the comments at the top of catalina.sh/bat. To use them create, for example, a file $CATALINA_HOME/bin/setenv.sh with contents

export JAVA_OPTS="-server -Xmx512m"

For Windows you will need, in setenv.bat, something like

set JAVA_OPTS=-server -Xmx768m

Original answer here

After you run startup.bat, you can easily confirm the correct settings have been applied provided you have turned @echo on somewhere in your catatlina.bat file (a good place could be immediately after echo Using CLASSPATH: "%CLASSPATH%"):

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How to express a NOT IN query with ActiveRecord/Rails?

The original post specifically mentions using numeric IDs, but I came here looking for the syntax for doing a NOT IN with an array of strings.

ActiveRecord will handle that nicely for you too:

Thing.where(['state NOT IN (?)', %w{state1 state2}])

How to set a dropdownlist item as selected in ASP.NET?

This is a very nice and clean example:(check this great tutorial for a full explanation link)

public static IEnumerable<SelectListItem> ToSelectListItems(
              this IEnumerable<Album> albums, int selectedId)
{
    return 
        albums.OrderBy(album => album.Name)
              .Select(album => 
                  new SelectListItem
                  {
                    Selected = (album.ID == selectedId),
                    Text = album.Name,
                    Value = album.ID.ToString()
                   });
}

In this MSDN link you can read de DropDownList method documentation.

Hope it helps.

Sum of Numbers C++

int result = 0;


 for (int i=0; i < positiveInteger; i++)
    {
        result = startingNumber + 1;
        cout << result;
    }

SMTP error 554

To resolve problem go to the MDaemon-->setup-->Miscellaneous options-->Server-->SMTP Server Checks commands and headers for RFC Compliance

How to define object in array in Mongoose schema correctly with 2d geo index

I had a similar issue with mongoose :

fields: 
    [ '[object Object]',
     '[object Object]',
     '[object Object]',
     '[object Object]' ] }

In fact, I was using "type" as a property name in my schema :

fields: [
    {
      name: String,
      type: {
        type: String
      },
      registrationEnabled: Boolean,
      checkinEnabled: Boolean
    }
  ]

To avoid that behavior, you have to change the parameter to :

fields: [
    {
      name: String,
      type: {
        type: { type: String }
      },
      registrationEnabled: Boolean,
      checkinEnabled: Boolean
    }
  ]

Could not get constructor for org.hibernate.persister.entity.SingleTableEntityPersister

I resolved this issue by excluding byte-buddy dependency from springfox

<dependency>
  <groupId>io.springfox</groupId>
  <artifactId>springfox-swagger2</artifactId>
  <version>2.7.0</version>
  <exclusions>
  <exclusion>
    <groupId>net.bytebuddy</groupId>
    <artifactId>byte-buddy</artifactId>
  </exclusion>
  </exclusions>
</dependency>

<dependency>
  <groupId>io.springfox</groupId>
  <artifactId>springfox-swagger-ui</artifactId>
  <version>2.7.0</version>
  <exclusions>
  <exclusion>
    <groupId>net.bytebuddy</groupId>
    <artifactId>byte-buddy</artifactId>
  </exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>

What method in the String class returns only the first N characters?

Simply:

public static String Truncate(String input,int maxLength)
{
   if(input.Length > maxLength)
      return input.Substring(0,maxLength);
   return input;
}

Install gitk on Mac

Git Mac version comes without gitk but if you do brew install git you get instant access to gitk.

I'm using MAC sierra 10.12.5

Edit: This doesn´t work anymore, you must install brew install git-gui

File inside jar is not visible for spring

The answer by @sbk is the way we should do it in spring-boot environment (apart from @Value("${classpath*:})), in my opinion. But in my scenario it was not working if the execute from standalone jar..may be I did something wrong.

But this can be another way of doing this,

InputStream is = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(<relative path of the resource from resource directory>);

Can anybody tell me details about hs_err_pid.log file generated when Tomcat crashes?

A very very good document regarding this topic is Troubleshooting Guide for Java from (originally) Sun. See the chapter "Troubleshooting System Crashes" for information about hs_err_pid* Files.

See Appendix C - Fatal Error Log

Per the guide, by default the file will be created in the working directory of the process if possible, or in the system temporary directory otherwise. A specific location can be chosen by passing in the -XX:ErrorFile product flag. It says:

If the -XX:ErrorFile= file flag is not specified, the system attempts to create the file in the working directory of the process. In the event that the file cannot be created in the working directory (insufficient space, permission problem, or other issue), the file is created in the temporary directory for the operating system.

Phone validation regex

  ^[0-9\-\+]{9,15}$ 

would match 0+0+0+0+0+0, or 000000000, etc.

  (\-?[0-9]){7}

would match a specific number of digits with optional hyphens in any position among them.

What is this +077 format supposed to be?

It's not a valid format. No country codes begin with 0.

The digits after the + should usually be a country code, 1 to 3 digits long.

Allowing for "+" then country code CC, then optional hyphen, then "0" plus two digits, then hyphens and digits for next seven digits, try:

  ^\+CC\-?0[1-9][0-9](\-?[0-9]){7}$

Oh, and {3,3} is redundant, simplifes to {3}.

NoClassDefFoundError on Maven dependency

This is due to Morphia jar not being part of your output war/jar. Eclipse or local build includes them as part of classpath, but remote builds or auto/scheduled build don't consider them part of classpath.

You can include dependent jars using plugin.

Add below snippet into your pom's plugins section

    <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.0.0</version>
        <configuration>
            <descriptorRefs>
                <descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
            </descriptorRefs>
        </configuration>
    </plugin>

Converting LastLogon to DateTime format

DateTime.FromFileTime should do the trick:

PS C:\> [datetime]::FromFileTime(129948127853609000)

Monday, October 15, 2012 3:13:05 PM

Then depending on how you want to format it, check out standard and custom datetime format strings.

PS C:\> [datetime]::FromFileTime(129948127853609000).ToString('d MMMM')
15 October
PS C:\> [datetime]::FromFileTime(129948127853609000).ToString('g')
10/15/2012 3:13 PM

If you want to integrate this into your one-liner, change your select statement to this:

... | Select Name, manager, @{N='LastLogon'; E={[DateTime]::FromFileTime($_.LastLogon)}} | ...

Dynamically load JS inside JS

To author my plugin I needed to load external scripts and styles inside a JS file, all of which were predefined. To achieve this, I did the following:

    this.loadRequiredFiles = function (callback) {
        var scripts = ['xx.js', 'yy.js'];
        var styles = ['zz.css'];
        var filesloaded = 0;
        var filestoload = scripts.length + styles.length;
        for (var i = 0; i < scripts.length; i++) {
            log('Loading script ' + scripts[i]);
            var script = document.createElement('script');
            script.type = 'text/javascript';
            script.src = scripts[i];
            script.onload = function () {
                log('Loaded script');
                log(this);
                filesloaded++;  // (This means increment, i.e. add one)
                finishLoad();
            };
            document.head.appendChild(script);
        }
        for (var i = 0; i < styles.length; i++) {
            log('Loading style ' + styles[i]);
            var style = document.createElement('link');
            style.rel = 'stylesheet';
            style.href = styles[i];
            style.type = 'text/css';
            style.onload = function () {
                log('Loaded style');
                log(this);
                filesloaded++;
                finishLoad();
            };
            document.head.appendChild(style);
        }
        function finishLoad() {
            if (filesloaded === filestoload) {
                callback();
            }
        }
    };

More of the script in context:

function myPlugin() {

    var opts = {
        verbose: false
    };                          ///< The options required to run this function
    var self = this;            ///< An alias to 'this' in case we're in jQuery                         ///< Constants required for this function to work

    this.getOptions = function() {
        return opts;
    };

    this.setOptions = function(options) {
        for (var x in options) {
            opts[x] = options[x];
        }
    };

    /**
     * @brief Load the required files for this plugin
     * @param {Function} callback A callback function to run when all files have been loaded
     */
    this.loadRequiredFiles = function (callback) {
        var scripts = ['xx.js', 'yy.js'];
        var styles = ['zz.css'];
        var filesloaded = 0;
        var filestoload = scripts.length + styles.length;
        for (var i = 0; i < scripts.length; i++) {
            log('Loading script ' + scripts[i]);
            var script = document.createElement('script');
            script.type = 'text/javascript';
            script.src = scripts[i];
            script.onload = function () {
                log('Loaded script');
                log(this);
                filesloaded++;
                finishLoad();
            };
            document.head.appendChild(script);
        }
        for (var i = 0; i < styles.length; i++) {
            log('Loading style ' + styles[i]);
            var style = document.createElement('link');
            style.rel = 'stylesheet';
            style.href = styles[i];
            style.type = 'text/css';
            style.onload = function () {
                log('Loaded style');
                log(this);
                filesloaded++;
                finishLoad();
            };
            document.head.appendChild(style);
        }
        function finishLoad() {
            if (filesloaded === filestoload) {
                callback();
            }
        }
    };

    /**
     * @brief Enable user-controlled logging within this function
     * @param {String} msg The message to log
     * @param {Boolean} force True to log message even if user has set logging to false
     */
    function log(msg, force) {
        if (opts.verbose || force) {
            console.log(msg);
        }
    }

    /**
     * @brief Initialise this function
     */
    this.init = function() {
        self.loadRequiredFiles(self.afterLoadRequiredFiles);
    };

    this.afterLoadRequiredFiles = function () {
        // Do stuff
    };

}

Loop through a comma-separated shell variable

#/bin/bash   
TESTSTR="abc,def,ghij"

for i in $(echo $TESTSTR | tr ',' '\n')
do
echo $i
done

I prefer to use tr instead of sed, becouse sed have problems with special chars like \r \n in some cases.

other solution is to set IFS to certain separator

Postgres user does not exist?

OS X tends to prefix the system account names with "_"; you don't say what version of OS X you're using, but at least in 10.8 and 10.9 the _postgres user exists in a default install. Note that you won't be able to su to this account (except as root), since it doesn't have a password. sudo -u _postgres, on the other hand, should work fine.

python pandas dataframe columns convert to dict key and value

You can also do this if you want to play around with pandas. However, I like punchagan's way.

# replicating your dataframe
lake = pd.DataFrame({'co tp': ['DE Lake', 'Forest', 'FR Lake', 'Forest'], 
                 'area': [10, 20, 30, 40], 
                 'count': [7, 5, 2, 3]})
lake.set_index('co tp', inplace=True)

# to get key value using pandas
area_dict = lake.set_index('area').T.to_dict('records')[0]
print(area_dict)

output: {10: 7, 20: 5, 30: 2, 40: 3}

Have a fixed position div that needs to scroll if content overflows

Generally speaking, fixed section should be set with width, height and top, bottom properties, otherwise it won't recognise its size and position.

If the used box is direct child for body and has neighbours, then it makes sense to check z-index and top, left properties, since they could overlap each other, which might affect your mouse hover while scrolling the content.

Here is the solution for a content box (a direct child of body tag) which is commonly used along with mobile navigation.

.fixed-content {
    position: fixed;
    top: 0;
    bottom:0;

    width: 100vw; /* viewport width */
    height: 100vh; /* viewport height */
    overflow-y: scroll;
    overflow-x: hidden;
}

Hope it helps anybody. Thank you!

How to add a border to a widget in Flutter?

Best way is using BoxDecoration()

Advantage

  • You can set border of widget
  • You can set border Color or Width
  • You can set Rounded corner of border
  • You can add Shadow of widget

Disadvantage

  • BoxDecoration only use with Container widget so you want to wrap your widget in Container()

Example

    Container(
      margin: EdgeInsets.all(10),
      padding: EdgeInsets.all(10),
      alignment: Alignment.center,
      decoration: BoxDecoration(
        color: Colors.orange,
        border: Border.all(
            color: Colors.pink[800],// set border color
            width: 3.0),   // set border width
        borderRadius: BorderRadius.all(
            Radius.circular(10.0)), // set rounded corner radius
        boxShadow: [BoxShadow(blurRadius: 10,color: Colors.black,offset: Offset(1,3))]// make rounded corner of border
      ),
      child: Text("My demo styling"),
    )

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How to copy a collection from one database to another in MongoDB

Using pymongo, you need to have both databases on same mongod, I did the following:


db = original database
db2 = database to be copied to

cursor = db["<collection to copy from>"].find()
for data in cursor:
    db2["<new collection>"].insert(data)

Is there any sed like utility for cmd.exe?

I needed a sed tool that worked for the Windows cmd.exe prompt. Eric Pement's port of sed to a single DOS .exe worked great for me.

It's pretty well documented.

Is there a typical state machine implementation pattern?

Your question is similar to "is there a typical Data Base implementation pattern"? The answer depends upon what do you want to achieve? If you want to implement a larger deterministic state machine you may use a model and a state machine generator. Examples can be viewed at www.StateSoft.org - SM Gallery. Janusz Dobrowolski

How open PowerShell as administrator from the run window

Yes, it is possible to run PowerShell through the run window. However, it would be burdensome and you will need to enter in the password for computer. This is similar to how you will need to set up when you run cmd:

runas /user:(ComputerName)\(local admin) powershell.exe

So a basic example would be:

runas /user:MyLaptop\[email protected]  powershell.exe

You can find more information on this subject in Runas.

However, you could also do one more thing :

  • 1: `Windows+R`
  • 2: type: `powershell`
  • 3: type: `Start-Process powershell -verb runAs`

then your system will execute the elevated powershell.

How can I trigger another job from a jenkins pipeline (jenkinsfile) with GitHub Org Plugin?

First of all, it is a waste of an executor slot to wrap the build step in node. Your upstream executor will just be sitting idle for no reason.

Second, from a multibranch project, you can use the environment variable BRANCH_NAME to make logic conditional on the current branch.

Third, the job parameter takes an absolute or relative job name. If you give a name without any path qualification, that would refer to another job in the same folder, which in the case of a multibranch project would mean another branch of the same repository.

Thus what you meant to write is probably

if (env.BRANCH_NAME == 'master') {
    build '../other-repo/master'
}

How to compare dates in datetime fields in Postgresql?

When you compare update_date >= '2013-05-03' postgres casts values to the same type to compare values. So your '2013-05-03' was casted to '2013-05-03 00:00:00'.

So for update_date = '2013-05-03 14:45:00' your expression will be that:

'2013-05-03 14:45:00' >= '2013-05-03 00:00:00' AND '2013-05-03 14:45:00' <= '2013-05-03 00:00:00'

This is always false

To solve this problem cast update_date to date:

select * from table where update_date::date >= '2013-05-03' AND update_date::date <= '2013-05-03' -> Will return result

How to fix 'sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified' error?

Command sudo fails as it is trying to prompt on root password and there is no pseudo-tty allocated (as it's part of the script).

You need to either log-in as root to run this command or set-up the following rules in your /etc/sudoers (or: sudo visudo):

# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges.
%admin  ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL

Then make sure that your user belongs to admin group (or wheel).

Ideally (safer) it would be to limit root privileges only to specific commands which can be specified as %admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/path/to/program

How to format strings using printf() to get equal length in the output

printf allows formatting with width specifiers. For example,

printf( "%-30s %s\n", "Starting initialization...", "Ok." );

You would use a negative width specifier to indicate left-justification because the default is to use right-justification.

JavaScript blob filename without link

saveFileOnUserDevice = function(file){ // content: blob, name: string
        if(navigator.msSaveBlob){ // For ie and Edge
            return navigator.msSaveBlob(file.content, file.name);
        }
        else{
            let link = document.createElement('a');
            link.href = window.URL.createObjectURL(file.content);
            link.download = file.name;
            document.body.appendChild(link);
            link.dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent('click', {bubbles: true, cancelable: true, view: window}));
            link.remove();
            window.URL.revokeObjectURL(link.href);
        }
    }

Can I use conditional statements with EJS templates (in JMVC)?

I know this is a little late answer,

you can use if and else statements in ejs as follows

<% if (something) { %>
   // Then do some operation
<% } else { %>
   // Then do some operation
<% } %>

But there is another thing I want to emphasize is that if you use the code this way,

<% if (something) { %>
   // Then do some operation
<% } %>
<% else { %>
   // Then do some operation
<% } %>

It will produce an error.

Hope this will help to someone

Pandas merge two dataframes with different columns

I had this problem today using any of concat, append or merge, and I got around it by adding a helper column sequentially numbered and then doing an outer join

helper=1
for i in df1.index:
    df1.loc[i,'helper']=helper
    helper=helper+1
for i in df2.index:
    df2.loc[i,'helper']=helper
    helper=helper+1
df1.merge(df2,on='helper',how='outer')

Where does MAMP keep its php.ini?

I don't know if you ever found an answer to this but I DIDN'T need MAMP PRO to do this. Simply goto the correct path by following what others have said. It's something like...

MAMP-> bin-> php-> php(your php version)-> conf-> php.ini

The key here is where you're editing the file. I was making the mistake of editing the commented part of the ini file. You actually have to scroll down to LINE #472 where it says "display_errors = Off and change it to On. Hope this helps any

Remove a fixed prefix/suffix from a string in Bash

$ foo=${string#"$prefix"}
$ foo=${foo%"$suffix"}
$ echo "${foo}"
o-wor

This is documented in the Shell Parameter Expansion section of the manual:

${parameter#word}
${parameter##word}

The word is expanded to produce a pattern and matched according to the rules described below (see Pattern Matching). If the pattern matches the beginning of the expanded value of parameter, then the result of the expansion is the expanded value of parameter with the shortest matching pattern (the # case) or the longest matching pattern (the ## case) deleted. […]

${parameter%word}
${parameter%%word}

The word is expanded to produce a pattern and matched according to the rules described below (see Pattern Matching). If the pattern matches a trailing portion of the expanded value of parameter, then the result of the expansion is the value of parameter with the shortest matching pattern (the % case) or the longest matching pattern (the %% case) deleted. […]

Showing loading animation in center of page while making a call to Action method in ASP .NET MVC

This is how did it works like a charm.

CSS

#loader {
position:fixed;
left:1px;
top:1px;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
z-index: 9999;

background: url('../images/ajax-loader100X100.gif') 50% 50% no-repeat rgb(249,249,249);
}  

in _layout file inside body tag but outside the container div. Every time page loads it shows loading. Once page is loaded JS fadeout(second)


<div id="loader">
</div>

JS at the bottom of _layout file


<script type="text/javascript">
// With the element initially shown, we can hide it slowly:
 $("#loader").fadeOut(1000);
</script>  

C# Connecting Through Proxy

Foole's code worked perfectly for me, but in .NET 4.0, don't forget to check if Proxy is NULL, which means no proxy configured (outside corporate environment)

So here's the code that solved my problem with our corporate proxy

WebClient web = new WebClient();
if (web.Proxy != null)
    web.Proxy.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials;

How to hide columns in HTML table?

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<style>_x000D_
.hideFullColumn tr > .hidecol_x000D_
{_x000D_
    display:none;_x000D_
}_x000D_
</style>
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use .hideFullColumn in table and .hidecol in th.You don't need to add class in td individually as it will be problem because index may not be in mind of each td.

Submit form without page reloading

Fastest and easiest way is to use an iframe. Put a frame at the bottom of your page.

<iframe name="frame"></iframe>

And in your form do this.

<form target="frame">
</form>

and to make the frame invisible in your css.

iframe{
  display: none;
}

How to get child element by class name?

The accepted answer only checks immediate children. Often times we're looking for any descendants with that class name.

Also, sometimes we want any child that contains a className.

For example: <div class="img square"></div> should match a search on className "img", even though it's exact className is not "img".

Here's a solution for both of these issues:

Find the first instance of a descendant element with the class className

   function findFirstChildByClass(element, className) {
        var foundElement = null, found;
        function recurse(element, className, found) {
            for (var i = 0; i < element.childNodes.length && !found; i++) {
                var el = element.childNodes[i];
                var classes = el.className != undefined? el.className.split(" ") : [];
                for (var j = 0, jl = classes.length; j < jl; j++) {
                    if (classes[j] == className) {
                        found = true;
                        foundElement = element.childNodes[i];
                        break;
                    }
                }
                if(found)
                    break;
                recurse(element.childNodes[i], className, found);
            }
        }
        recurse(element, className, false);
        return foundElement;
    }

How to get the <td> in HTML tables to fit content, and let a specific <td> fill in the rest

Define width of .absorbing-column

Set table-layout to auto and define an extreme width on .absorbing-column.

Here I have set the width to 100% because it ensures that this column will take the maximum amount of space allowed, while the columns with no defined width will reduce to fit their content and no further.

This is one of the quirky benefits of how tables behave. The table-layout: auto algorithm is mathematically forgiving.

You may even choose to define a min-width on all td elements to prevent them from becoming too narrow and the table will behave nicely.

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table {_x000D_
    table-layout: auto;_x000D_
    border-collapse: collapse;_x000D_
    width: 100%;_x000D_
}_x000D_
table td {_x000D_
    border: 1px solid #ccc;_x000D_
}_x000D_
table .absorbing-column {_x000D_
    width: 100%;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<table>_x000D_
  <thead>_x000D_
    <tr>_x000D_
      <th>Column A</th>_x000D_
      <th>Column B</th>_x000D_
      <th>Column C</th>_x000D_
      <th class="absorbing-column">Column D</th>_x000D_
    </tr>_x000D_
  </thead>_x000D_
  <tbody>_x000D_
    <tr>_x000D_
      <td>Data A.1 lorem</td>_x000D_
      <td>Data B.1 ip</td>_x000D_
      <td>Data C.1 sum l</td>_x000D_
      <td>Data D.1</td>_x000D_
    </tr>_x000D_
    <tr>_x000D_
      <td>Data A.2 ipsum</td>_x000D_
      <td>Data B.2 lorem</td>_x000D_
      <td>Data C.2 some data</td>_x000D_
      <td>Data D.2 a long line of text that is long</td>_x000D_
    </tr>_x000D_
    <tr>_x000D_
      <td>Data A.3</td>_x000D_
      <td>Data B.3</td>_x000D_
      <td>Data C.3</td>_x000D_
      <td>Data D.3</td>_x000D_
    </tr>_x000D_
  </tbody>_x000D_
</table>
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What is the largest Safe UDP Packet Size on the Internet

The theoretical limit (on Windows) for the maximum size of a UDP packet is 65507 bytes. This is documented here:

The correct maximum UDP message size is 65507, as determined by the following formula: 0xffff - (sizeof(IP Header) + sizeof(UDP Header)) = 65535-(20+8) = 65507

That being said, most protocols limit to a much smaller size - usually either 512 or occasionally 8192. You can often go higher than 548 safely if you are on a reliable network - but if you're broadcasting across the internet at large, the larger you go, the more likely you'll be to run into packet transmission problems and loss.

What does (function($) {})(jQuery); mean?

Type 3, in order to work would have to look like this:

(function($){
    //Attach this new method to jQuery
    $.fn.extend({     
        //This is where you write your plugin's name
        'pluginname': function(_options) {
            // Put defaults inline, no need for another variable...
            var options =  $.extend({
                'defaults': "go here..."
            }, _options);

            //Iterate over the current set of matched elements
            return this.each(function() {

                //code to be inserted here

            });
        }
    }); 
})(jQuery);

I am unsure why someone would use extend over just directly setting the property in the jQuery prototype, it is doing the same exact thing only in more operations and more clutter.

Pandas Replace NaN with blank/empty string

import numpy as np
df1 = df.replace(np.nan, '', regex=True)

This might help. It will replace all NaNs with an empty string.

What does the keyword Set actually do in VBA?

set is used to assign a reference to an object. The C equivalent would be

 int i;
int* ref_i;

i = 4; // Assigning a value (in VBA: i = 4)
ref_i = &i; //assigning a reference (in VBA: set ref_i = i)

Appending a line to a file only if it does not already exist

Just keep it simple :)

grep + echo should suffice:

grep -qxF 'include "/configs/projectname.conf"' foo.bar || echo 'include "/configs/projectname.conf"' >> foo.bar

Edit: incorporated @cerin and @thijs-wouters suggestions.

How to create standard Borderless buttons (like in the design guideline mentioned)?

Look into the theme attributes buttonBarStyle, buttonBarButtonStyle, and borderlessButtonStyle.

Handling JSON Post Request in Go

You need to read from req.Body. The ParseForm method is reading from the req.Body and then parsing it in standard HTTP encoded format. What you want is to read the body and parse it in JSON format.

Here's your code updated.

package main

import (
    "encoding/json"
    "log"
    "net/http"
    "io/ioutil"
)

type test_struct struct {
    Test string
}

func test(rw http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
    body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(req.Body)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    log.Println(string(body))
    var t test_struct
    err = json.Unmarshal(body, &t)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    log.Println(t.Test)
}

func main() {
    http.HandleFunc("/test", test)
    log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":8082", nil))
}

How to Run a jQuery or JavaScript Before Page Start to Load

Hide the body with css then show it after the page is loaded:

CSS:

html { visibility:hidden; }

Javascript

$(document).ready(function() {
  document.getElementsByTagName("html")[0].style.visibility = "visible";
});

The page will go from blank to showing all content when the page is loaded, no flash of content, no watching images load etc.

Abstract Class vs Interface in C++

interface were primarily made popular by Java.
Below are the nature of interface and its C++ equivalents:

  1. interface can contain only body-less abstract methods; C++ equivalent is pure virtual methods, though they can/cannot have body
  2. interface can contain only static final data members; C++ equivalent is static const data members which are compile time constants
  3. Multiple interface can be implemented by a Java class, this facility is needed because a Java class can inherit only 1 class; C++ supports multiple inheritance straight away with help of virtual keyword when needed

Because of point 3 interface concept was never formally introduced in C++. Still one can have a flexibility to do that.

Besides this you can refer Bjarne's FAQ on this topic.

How to hide app title in android?

use

<activity android:name=".ActivityName" 
          android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar">

Angular CLI - Please add a @NgModule annotation when using latest

In my case, I created a new ChildComponent in Parentcomponent whereas both in the same module but Parent is registered in a shared module so I created ChildComponent using CLI which registered Child in the current module but my parent was registered in the shared module.

So register the ChildComponent in Shared Module manually.

Usage of $broadcast(), $emit() And $on() in AngularJS

  • Broadcast: We can pass the value from parent to child (i.e parent -> child controller.)
  • Emit: we can pass the value from child to parent (i.e.child ->parent controller.)
  • On: catch the event dispatched by $broadcast or $emit.

How do you load custom UITableViewCells from Xib files?

Reloading the NIB is expensive. Better to load it once, then instantiate the objects when you need a cell. Note that you can add UIImageViews etc to the nib, even multiple cells, using this method (Apple's "registerNIB" iOS5 allows only one top level object - Bug 10580062 "iOS5 tableView registerNib: overly restrictive"

So my code is below - you read in the NIB once (in initialize like I did or in viewDidload - whatever. From then on, you instantiate the nib into objects then pick the one you need. This is much more efficient than loading the nib over and over.

static UINib *cellNib;

+ (void)initialize
{
    if(self == [ImageManager class]) {
        cellNib = [UINib nibWithNibName:@"ImageManagerCell" bundle:nil];
        assert(cellNib);
    }
}

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    static NSString *cellID = @"TheCell";

    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:cellID];
    if(cell == nil) {
        NSArray *topLevelItems = [cellNib instantiateWithOwner:nil options:nil];
        NSUInteger idx = [topLevelItems indexOfObjectPassingTest:^BOOL(id obj, NSUInteger idx, BOOL *stop)
                            {
                                UITableViewCell *cell = (UITableViewCell *)obj;
                                return [cell isKindOfClass:[UITableViewCell class]] && [cell.reuseIdentifier isEqualToString:cellID];
                            } ];
        assert(idx != NSNotFound);
        cell = [topLevelItems objectAtIndex:idx];
    }
    cell.textLabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Howdie %d", indexPath.row];

    return cell;
}

Android Pop-up message

Use This And Call This In OnCreate Method In Which Activity You Want

public void popupMessage(){
        AlertDialog.Builder alertDialogBuilder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
        alertDialogBuilder.setMessage("No Internet Connection. Check Your Wifi Or enter code hereMobile Data.");
        alertDialogBuilder.setIcon(R.drawable.ic_no_internet);
        alertDialogBuilder.setTitle("Connection Failed");
        alertDialogBuilder.setNegativeButton("ok", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener(){

            @Override
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialogInterface, int i) {
                Log.d("internet","Ok btn pressed");
                finishAffinity();
                System.exit(0);
            }
        });
        AlertDialog alertDialog = alertDialogBuilder.create();
        alertDialog.show();
    }

Saving results with headers in Sql Server Management Studio

The settings which has been advised to change in @Diego's accepted answer might be good if you want to set this option permanently for all future query sessions that you open within SQL Server Management Studio(SSMS). This is usually not the case. Also, changing this setting requires restarting SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) application. This is again a 'not-so-nice' experience if you've many unsaved open query session windows and you are in the middle of some debugging.

SQL Server gives a much slick option of changing it on per session basis which is very quick, handy and convenient. I'm detailing the steps below using query options window:

  1. Right click in query editor window > Click Query Options... at the bottom of the context menu as shown below:

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  1. Select Results > Grid in the left navigation pane. Check the Include column headers when copying or saving the results check box in right pane as shown below:

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That's it. Your current session will honour your settings with immediate effect without restarting SSMS. Also, this setting won't be propagated to any future session. Effectively changing this setting on a per session basis is much less noisy.

What is the meaning of "int(a[::-1])" in Python?

The notation that is used in

a[::-1]

means that for a given string/list/tuple, you can slice the said object using the format

<object_name>[<start_index>, <stop_index>, <step>]

This means that the object is going to slice every "step" index from the given start index, till the stop index (excluding the stop index) and return it to you.

In case the start index or stop index is missing, it takes up the default value as the start index and stop index of the given string/list/tuple. If the step is left blank, then it takes the default value of 1 i.e it goes through each index.

So,

a = '1234'
print a[::2]

would print

13

Now the indexing here and also the step count, support negative numbers. So, if you give a -1 index, it translates to len(a)-1 index. And if you give -x as the step count, then it would step every x'th value from the start index, till the stop index in the reverse direction. For example

a = '1234'
print a[3:0:-1]

This would return

432

Note, that it doesn't return 4321 because, the stop index is not included.

Now in your case,

str(int(a[::-1]))

would just reverse a given integer, that is stored in a string, and then convert it back to a string

i.e "1234" -> "4321" -> 4321 -> "4321"

If what you are trying to do is just reverse the given string, then simply a[::-1] would work .

Injecting @Autowired private field during testing

I'm a new user for Spring. I found a different solution for this. Using reflection and making public necessary fields and assign mock objects.

This is my auth controller and it has some Autowired private properties.

@RestController
public class AuthController {

    @Autowired
    private UsersDAOInterface usersDao;

    @Autowired
    private TokensDAOInterface tokensDao;

    @RequestMapping(path = "/auth/getToken", method = RequestMethod.POST)
    public @ResponseBody Object getToken(@RequestParam String username,
            @RequestParam String password) {
        User user = usersDao.getLoginUser(username, password);

        if (user == null)
            return new ErrorResult("Kullaniciadi veya sifre hatali");

        Token token = new Token();
        token.setTokenId("aergaerg");
        token.setUserId(1);
        token.setInsertDatetime(new Date());
        return token;
    }
}

And this is my Junit test for AuthController. I'm making public needed private properties and assign mock objects to them and rock :)

public class AuthControllerTest {

    @Test
    public void getToken() {
        try {
            UsersDAO mockUsersDao = mock(UsersDAO.class);
            TokensDAO mockTokensDao = mock(TokensDAO.class);

            User dummyUser = new User();
            dummyUser.setId(10);
            dummyUser.setUsername("nixarsoft");
            dummyUser.setTopId(0);

            when(mockUsersDao.getLoginUser(Matchers.anyString(), Matchers.anyString())) //
                    .thenReturn(dummyUser);

            AuthController ctrl = new AuthController();

            Field usersDaoField = ctrl.getClass().getDeclaredField("usersDao");
            usersDaoField.setAccessible(true);
            usersDaoField.set(ctrl, mockUsersDao);

            Field tokensDaoField = ctrl.getClass().getDeclaredField("tokensDao");
            tokensDaoField.setAccessible(true);
            tokensDaoField.set(ctrl, mockTokensDao);

            Token t = (Token) ctrl.getToken("test", "aergaeg");

            Assert.assertNotNull(t);

        } catch (Exception ex) {
            System.out.println(ex);
        }
    }

}

I don't know advantages and disadvantages for this way but this is working. This technic has a little bit more code but these codes can be seperated by different methods etc. There are more good answers for this question but I want to point to different solution. Sorry for my bad english. Have a good java to everybody :)

ImportError: cannot import name

This can also happen if you've been working on your scripts and functions and have been moving them around (i.e. changed the location of the definition) which could have accidentally created a looping reference.

You may find that the situation is solved if you just reset the iPython kernal to clear any old assignments:

%reset

or menu->restart terminal

How to redirect single url in nginx?

Put this in your server directive:

location /issue {
   rewrite ^/issue(.*) http://$server_name/shop/issues/custom_issue_name$1 permanent;
 }

Or duplicate it:

location /issue1 {
   rewrite ^/.* http://$server_name/shop/issues/custom_issue_name1 permanent;
}
location /issue2 {
   rewrite ^.* http://$server_name/shop/issues/custom_issue_name2 permanent;
}
 ...

ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax;

It is varchar and not var_char

CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS courses;

USE courses;

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS teachers(
    id INT(10) UNSIGNED PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
    name VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,
    addr VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
    phone INT NOT NULL
);

You should use a SQL tool to visualize possbile errors like MySQL Workbench.

Git - remote: Repository not found

Please find below the working solution for Windows:

  1. Open Control Panel from the Start menu.
  2. Select User Accounts.
  3. Select the "Credential Manager".
  4. Click on "Manage Windows Credentials".
  5. Delete any credentials related to Git or GitHub.
  6. Once you deleted all then try to clone again.

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How can we run a test method with multiple parameters in MSTest?

There is, of course, another way to do this which has not been discussed in this thread, i.e. by way of inheritance of the class containing the TestMethod. In the following example, only one TestMethod has been defined but two test cases have been made.

In Visual Studio 2012, it creates two tests in the TestExplorer:

  1. DemoTest_B10_A5.test
  2. DemoTest_A12_B4.test

    public class Demo
    {
        int a, b;
    
        public Demo(int _a, int _b)
        {
            this.a = _a;
            this.b = _b;
        }
    
        public int Sum()
        {
            return this.a + this.b;
        }
    }
    
    public abstract class DemoTestBase
    {
        Demo objUnderTest;
        int expectedSum;
    
        public DemoTestBase(int _a, int _b, int _expectedSum)
        {
            objUnderTest = new Demo(_a, _b);
            this.expectedSum = _expectedSum;
        }
    
        [TestMethod]
        public void test()
        {
            Assert.AreEqual(this.expectedSum, this.objUnderTest.Sum());
        }
    }
    
    [TestClass]
    public class DemoTest_A12_B4 : DemoTestBase
    {
        public DemoTest_A12_B4() : base(12, 4, 16) { }
    }
    
    public abstract class DemoTest_B10_Base : DemoTestBase
    {
        public DemoTest_B10_Base(int _a) : base(_a, 10, _a + 10) { }
    }
    
    [TestClass]
    public class DemoTest_B10_A5 : DemoTest_B10_Base
    {
        public DemoTest_B10_A5() : base(5) { }
    }
    

How to undo a SQL Server UPDATE query?

A non-committed transaction can be reverted by issuing the command ROLLBACK

But if you are running in auto-commit mode there is nothing you can do....

Asp.net Validation of viewstate MAC failed

If you're using a web farm and running the same application on multiple computers, you need to define the machine key explicitly in the machine.config file:

<machineKey validationKey="JFDSGOIEURTJKTREKOIRUWTKLRJTKUROIUFLKSIOSUGOIFDS..." decryptionKey="KAJDFOIAUOILKER534095U43098435H43OI5098479854" validation="SHA1" />

Put it under the <system.web> tag.

The AutoGenerate for the machine code can not be used. To generate your own machineKey see this powershell script: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2915218#bookmark-appendixa

Compile Views in ASP.NET MVC

Next release of ASP.NET MVC (available in January or so) should have MSBuild task that compiles views, so you might want to wait.

See announcement

Switch php versions on commandline ubuntu 16.04

You can use below command lines to switch between two PHP version.

E.g.

I want to switch PHP Version from 7.1 to 7.2 we can use below command

sudo a2dismod php7.1 &&  sudo update-alternatives --set php /usr/bin/php7.2 && sudo a2enmod php7.2 && sudo service apache2 restart

a2dismod is use to disable the current php version and a2enmod is use to enable the version

how to make label visible/invisible?

You can set display attribute as none to hide a label.

<label id="excel-data-div" style="display: none;"></label>

Android Shared preferences for creating one time activity (example)

SharedPreferences mPref;
SharedPreferences.Editor editor;

public SharedPrefrences(Context mContext) {
    mPref = mContext.getSharedPreferences(Constant.SharedPreferences, Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
    editor=mPref.edit();
}

public void setLocation(String latitude, String longitude) {
    SharedPreferences.Editor editor = mPref.edit();
    editor.putString("latitude", latitude);
    editor.putString("longitude", longitude);
    editor.apply();
}

public String getLatitude() {
    return mPref.getString("latitude", "");
}

public String getLongitude() {
    return mPref.getString("longitude", "");
}

public void setGCM(String gcm_id, String device_id) {
     editor.putString("gcm_id", gcm_id);
    editor.putString("device_id", device_id);
    editor.apply();
}

public String getGCMId() {
    return mPref.getString("gcm_id", "");
}

public String getDeviceId() {
    return mPref.getString("device_id", "");
}


public void setUserData(User user){

    Gson gson = new Gson();
    String json = gson.toJson(user);
    editor.putString("user", json);
    editor.apply();
}
public User getUserData(){
    Gson gson = new Gson();
    String json = mPref.getString("user", "");
    User user = gson.fromJson(json, User.class);
    return user;
}

public void setSocialMediaStatus(SocialMedialStatus status){

    Gson gson = new Gson();
    String json = gson.toJson(status);
    editor.putString("status", json);
    editor.apply();
}
public SocialMedialStatus getSocialMediaStatus(){
    Gson gson = new Gson();
    String json = mPref.getString("status", "");
    SocialMedialStatus status = gson.fromJson(json, SocialMedialStatus.class);
    return status;
}

Pointer to 2D arrays in C

int *pointer[280]; //Creates 280 pointers of type int.

In 32 bit os, 4 bytes for each pointer. so 4 * 280 = 1120 bytes.

int (*pointer)[100][280]; // Creates only one pointer which is used to point an array of [100][280] ints.

Here only 4 bytes.

Coming to your question, int (*pointer)[280]; and int (*pointer)[100][280]; are different though it points to same 2D array of [100][280].

Because if int (*pointer)[280]; is incremented, then it will points to next 1D array, but where as int (*pointer)[100][280]; crosses the whole 2D array and points to next byte. Accessing that byte may cause problem if that memory doen't belongs to your process.

How to modify STYLE attribute of element with known ID using JQuery

Not sure I completely understand the question but:

$(":button.brown").click(function() {
  $(":button.brown.selected").removeClass("selected");
  $(this).addClass("selected");
});

seems to be along the lines of what you want.

I would certainly recommend using classes instead of directly setting CSS, which is problematic for several reasons (eg removing styles is non-trivial, removing classes is easy) but if you do want to go that way:

$("...").css("background", "brown");

But when you want to reverse that change, what do you set it to?

Why do I get a warning icon when I add a reference to an MEF plugin project?

Thank you all for the help. Here is a breakdown of how I fixed my problem:

Right click on your project > Properties

Under Application change the target Framework. In my case ImageSharp was using .Net 4.6.1. You can find this in your packages.config.

Go to your project references. You'll notice SixLabors has a yellow triangle. You have to update the NuGet package.

Right click on References > Manage NuGet Packages.

Update SixLabors.

You might have slight code updates (see below) but this fixed my problem.

Convert ImageSharp.Image to ImageSharp.PixelFormats.Rgba32?

In Flask, What is request.args and how is it used?

request.args is a MultiDict with the parsed contents of the query string. From the documentation of get method:

get(key, default=None, type=None)

Return the default value if the requested data doesn’t exist. If type is provided and is a callable it should convert the value, return it or raise a ValueError if that is not possible.

Understanding "VOLUME" instruction in DockerFile

Specifying a VOLUME line in a Dockerfile configures a bit of metadata on your image, but how that metadata is used is important.

First, what did these two lines do:

WORKDIR /usr/src/app
VOLUME . /usr/src/app

The WORKDIR line there creates the directory if it doesn't exist, and updates some image metadata to specify all relative paths, along with the current directory for commands like RUN will be in that location. The VOLUME line there specifies two volumes, one is the relative path ., and the other is /usr/src/app, both just happen to be the same directory. Most often the VOLUME line only contains a single directory, but it can contain multiple as you've done, or it can be a json formatted array.

You cannot specify a volume source in the Dockerfile: A common source of confusion when specifying volumes in a Dockerfile is trying to match the runtime syntax of a source and destination at image build time, this will not work. The Dockerfile can only specify the destination of the volume. It would be a trivial security exploit if someone could define the source of a volume since they could update a common image on the docker hub to mount the root directory into the container and then launch a background process inside the container as part of an entrypoint that adds logins to /etc/passwd, configures systemd to launch a bitcoin miner on next reboot, or searches the filesystem for credit cards, SSNs, and private keys to send off to a remote site.

What does the VOLUME line do? As mentioned, it sets some image metadata to say a directory inside the image is a volume. How is this metadata used? Every time you create a container from this image, docker will force that directory to be a volume. If you do not provide a volume in your run command, or compose file, the only option for docker is to create an anonymous volume. This is a local named volume with a long unique id for the name and no other indication for why it was created or what data it contains (anonymous volumes are were data goes to get lost). If you override the volume, pointing to a named or host volume, your data will go there instead.

VOLUME breaks things: You cannot disable a volume once defined in a Dockerfile. And more importantly, the RUN command in docker is implemented with temporary containers. Those temporary containers will get a temporary anonymous volume. That anonymous volume will be initialized with the contents of your image. Any writes inside the container from your RUN command will be made to that volume. When the RUN command finishes, changes to the image are saved, and changes to the anonymous volume are discarded. Because of this, I strongly recommend against defining a VOLUME inside the Dockerfile. It results in unexpected behavior for downstream users of your image that wish to extend the image with initial data in volume location.

How should you specify a volume? To specify where you want to include volumes with your image, provide a docker-compose.yml. Users can modify that to adjust the volume location to their local environment, and it captures other runtime settings like publishing ports and networking.

Someone should document this! They have. Docker includes warnings on the VOLUME usage in their documentation on the Dockerfile along with advice to specify the source at runtime:

  • Changing the volume from within the Dockerfile: If any build steps change the data within the volume after it has been declared, those changes will be discarded.

...

  • The host directory is declared at container run-time: The host directory (the mountpoint) is, by its nature, host-dependent. This is to preserve image portability, since a given host directory can’t be guaranteed to be available on all hosts. For this reason, you can’t mount a host directory from within the Dockerfile. The VOLUME instruction does not support specifying a host-dir parameter. You must specify the mountpoint when you create or run the container.

When do I have to use interfaces instead of abstract classes?

From The Java™ Tutorials - Abstract Classes Compared to Interfaces

Which should you use, abstract classes or interfaces?

  • Consider using abstract classes if any of these statements apply to your situation:
    • You want to share code among several closely related classes.
    • You expect that classes that extend your abstract class have many common methods or fields, or require access modifiers other than public (such as protected and private).
    • You want to declare non-static or non-final fields. This enables you to define methods that can access and modify the state of the object to which they belong.
  • Consider using interfaces if any of these statements apply to your situation:
    • You expect that unrelated classes would implement your interface. For example, the interfaces Comparable and Cloneable are implemented by many unrelated classes.
    • You want to specify the behavior of a particular data type, but not concerned about who implements its behavior.
    • You want to take advantage of multiple inheritance of type.

An example of an abstract class in the JDK is AbstractMap, which is part of the Collections Framework. Its subclasses (which include HashMap, TreeMap, and ConcurrentHashMap) share many methods (including get, put, isEmpty, containsKey, and containsValue) that AbstractMap defines.

How to make the python interpreter correctly handle non-ASCII characters in string operations?

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

s = u"6Â 918Â 417Â 712"
s = s.replace(u"Â", "") 
print s

This will print out 6 918 417 712

Split text with '\r\n'

This worked for me.

using System.IO;

//  

    string readStr = File.ReadAllText(file.FullName);          
    string[] read = readStr.Split(new char[] {'\r','\n'},StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

How to make a parent div auto size to the width of its children divs

Your interior <div> elements should likely both be float:left. Divs size to 100% the size of their container width automatically. Try using display:inline-block instead of width:auto on the container div. Or possibly float:left the container and also apply overflow:auto. Depends on what you're after exactly.

How to restore a SQL Server 2012 database to SQL Server 2008 R2?

You can't, you can NEVER restore from a higher version to a lower version of SQL Server. Your only option is to script out the database and then transfer the data via SSIS, BCP, linked server or scripting out the data

JNI converting jstring to char *

Here's a a couple of useful link that I found when I started with JNI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Native_Interface
http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/jni/spec/functions.html

concerning your problem you can use this

JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_ClassName_MethodName(JNIEnv *env, jobject obj, jstring javaString)   
{
   const char *nativeString = env->GetStringUTFChars(javaString, 0);

   // use your string

   env->ReleaseStringUTFChars(javaString, nativeString);
}

How to format a string as a telephone number in C#

        string phoneNum;
        string phoneFormat = "0#-###-###-####";
        phoneNum = Convert.ToInt64("011234567891").ToString(phoneFormat);

$('body').on('click', '.anything', function(){})

You can try this:

You must follow the following format

    $('element,id,class').on('click', function(){....});

*JQuery code*

    $('body').addClass('.anything').on('click', function(){
      //do some code here i.e
      alert("ok");
    });

How to set the size of a column in a Bootstrap responsive table

you can use the following Bootstrap class with

<tr class="w-25">

</tr>

for more details check the following page https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.1/utilities/sizing/

Binding a Button's visibility to a bool value in ViewModel

Assuming AdvancedFormat is a bool, you need to declare and use a BooleanToVisibilityConverter:

<!-- In your resources section of the XAML -->
<BooleanToVisibilityConverter x:Key="BoolToVis" />

<!-- In your Button declaration -->
<Button
 Height="50" Width="50"
 Style="{StaticResource MyButtonStyle}"
 Command="{Binding SmallDisp}" CommandParameter="{Binding}" 
Cursor="Hand" Visibility="{Binding Path=AdvancedFormat, Converter={StaticResource BoolToVis}}"/>

Note the added Converter={StaticResource BoolToVis}.

This is a very common pattern when working with MVVM. In theory you could do the conversion yourself on the ViewModel property (i.e. just make the property itself of type Visibility) though I would prefer not to do that, since now you are messing with the separation of concerns. An item's visbility should really be up to the View.

Determining if an Object is of primitive type

public class CheckPrimitve {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int i = 3;
        Object o = i;
        System.out.println(o.getClass().getSimpleName().equals("Integer"));
        Field[] fields = o.getClass().getFields();
        for(Field field:fields) {
            System.out.println(field.getType());
        }
    }
}  

Output:
true
int
int
class java.lang.Class
int

Developing for Android in Eclipse: R.java not regenerating

This problem just came up with me as well and unfortunately none of the suggestions here helped me. After trying a lot of things, I finally found out what happened and hope it can help others.

Yesterday I downloaded a lot of new stuff using the Android SDK Manager. After that I updated the Android Eclipse plugin. Today, after an Eclipse "clean", the R file vanished and stopped being generated.

The reason was that, somehow, the list of available SDKs (under preferences-> android) was empty. After pointing it again to the right directory it reloaded and showed the available SDKs. When I closed the preferences and tried another build, everything came back to normal.

In the image attached you can see the list of SDKs already filled. While the problem was happening it was empty.

I hope this can help others!

Screen with SDKs correctly showing

How to make a transparent HTML button?

**add the icon top button like this **

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     background-color: Transparent;_x000D_
    background-repeat:no-repeat;_x000D_
    border: none;_x000D_
    cursor:pointer;_x000D_
    overflow: hidden;_x000D_
    outline:none;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.icon_copy{_x000D_
 position: absolute;_x000D_
 padding: 0px;_x000D_
 top:0;_x000D_
 left: 0;_x000D_
width: 25px;_x000D_
  height: 35px;_x000D_
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}
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<button id="copy_btn">_x000D_
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                        <img class="icon_copy" src="./assest/copy.svg" alt="Copy Text">_x000D_
</button>
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CodeIgniter 500 Internal Server Error

Just in case somebody else stumbles across this problem, I inherited an older CodeIgniter project and had a lot of trouble getting it to install.

I wasted a ton of time trying to create a local installation of the site and tried everything. In the end, the solution was simple.

The problem is that older CodeIgniter versions (like 1.7 and below), don't work with PHP 5.3. The solution is to switch to PHP 5.2 or something older.

How to clear variables in ipython?

Adding the following lines to a new script will clear all variables each time you rerun the script:

from IPython import get_ipython
get_ipython().magic('reset -sf') 

To make life easy, you can add them to your default template.

In Spyder: Tools>Preferences>Editor>Edit template

Go to next item in ForEach-Object

I know this is an old post, but I wanted to add something I learned for the next folks who land here while googling.

In Powershell 5.1, you want to use continue to move onto the next item in your loop. I tested with 6 items in an array, had a foreach loop through, but put an if statement with:

foreach($i in $array){    
    write-host -fore green "hello $i"
    if($i -like "something"){
        write-host -fore red "$i is bad"
        continue
        write-host -fore red "should not see this"
    }
}

Of the 6 items, the 3rd one was something. As expected, it looped through the first 2, then the matching something gave me the red line where $i matched, I saw something is bad and then it went on to the next item in the array without saying should not see this. I tested with return and it exited the loop altogether.

JavaScript, Node.js: is Array.forEach asynchronous?

Here is a small example you can run to test it:

[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9].forEach(function(n){
    var sum = 0;
    console.log('Start for:' + n);
    for (var i = 0; i < ( 10 - n) * 100000000; i++)
        sum++;

    console.log('Ended for:' + n, sum);
});

It will produce something like this(if it takes too less/much time, increase/decrease the number of iterations):

(index):48 Start for:1
(index):52 Ended for:1 900000000
(index):48 Start for:2
(index):52 Ended for:2 800000000
(index):48 Start for:3
(index):52 Ended for:3 700000000
(index):48 Start for:4
(index):52 Ended for:4 600000000
(index):48 Start for:5
(index):52 Ended for:5 500000000
(index):48 Start for:6
(index):52 Ended for:6 400000000
(index):48 Start for:7
(index):52 Ended for:7 300000000
(index):48 Start for:8
(index):52 Ended for:8 200000000
(index):48 Start for:9
(index):52 Ended for:9 100000000
(index):45 [Violation] 'load' handler took 7285ms

How can I make a float top with CSS?

The only way to do this with CSS only is by using CSS 3 which is not going to work on every browser (only the latest generation like FF 3.5, Opera, Safari, Chrome).

Indeed with CSS 3 there's this awesome property : column-count that you can use like so :

#myContent{
  column-count: 2;
  column-gap: 20px;
  height: 350px;
}

If #myContent is wrapping your other divs.

More info here : http://www.quirksmode.org/css/multicolumn.html

As you can read there, there are serious limitations in using this. In the example above, it will only add up to one another column if the content overflows. in mozilla you can use the column-width property that allows you to divide the content in as many columns as needed.

Otherwise you'll have to distribute the content between different divs in Javascript or in the backend.

Error: Cannot find module html

Simple way is to use the EJS template engine for serving .html files. Put this line right next to your view engine setup:

app.engine('html', require('ejs').renderFile);

How to sort an array of integers correctly

Update! Scroll to bottom of answer for smartSort prop additive that gives even more fun!
Sorts arrays of anything!

My personal favorite form of this function allows for a param for Ascending, or Descending:

function intArraySort(c, a) {
    function d(a, b) { return b - a; }
    "string" == typeof a && a.toLowerCase();
    switch (a) {
        default: return c.sort(function(a, b) { return a - b; });
        case 1:
                case "d":
                case "dc":
                case "desc":
                return c.sort(d)
    }
};

Usage as simple as:

var ara = function getArray() {
        var a = Math.floor(Math.random()*50)+1, b = [];
        for (i=0;i<=a;i++) b.push(Math.floor(Math.random()*50)+1);
        return b;
    }();

//    Ascending
intArraySort(ara);
console.log(ara);

//    Descending
intArraySort(ara, 1);
console.log(ara);

//    Ascending
intArraySort(ara, 'a');
console.log(ara);

//    Descending
intArraySort(ara, 'dc');
console.log(ara);

//    Ascending
intArraySort(ara, 'asc');
console.log(ara);

jsFiddle


Or Code Snippet Example Here!

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.smartSort('asc' | 'desc')

Now have even more fun with a sorting method that sorts an array full of multiple items! Doesn't currently cover "associative" (aka, string keys), but it does cover about every type of value! Not only will it sort the multiple values asc or desc accordingly, but it will also maintain constant "position" of "groups" of values. In other words; ints are always first, then come strings, then arrays (yes, i'm making this multidimensional!), then Objects (unfiltered, element, date), & finally undefineds and nulls!

"Why?" you ask. Why not!

Now comes in 2 flavors! The first of which requires newer browsers as it uses Object.defineProperty to add the method to the Array.protoype Object. This allows for ease of natural use, such as: myArray.smartSort('a'). If you need to implement for older browsers, or you simply don't like modifying native Objects, scroll down to Method Only version.

/* begin */
/* KEY NOTE! Requires EcmaScript 5.1 (not compatible with older browsers) */
;;(function(){if(Object.defineProperty&&!Array.prototype.smartSort){var h=function(a,b){if(null==a||void 0==a)return 1;if(null==b||void 0==b)return-1;var c=typeof a,e=c+typeof b;if(/^numbernumber$/ig.test(e))return a-b;if(/^stringstring$/ig.test(e))return a>b;if(/(string|number){2}/ig.test(e))return/string/i.test(c)?1:-1;if(/number/ig.test(e)&&/object/ig.test(e)||/string/ig.test(e)&&/object/ig.test(e))return/object/i.test(c)?1:-1;if(/^objectobject$/ig.test(e)){a instanceof Array&&a.smartSort("a");b instanceof Array&&b.smartSort("a");if(a instanceof Date&&b instanceof Date)return a-b;if(a instanceof Array&&b instanceof Array){var e=Object.keys(a),g=Object.keys(b),e=e.concat(g).smartSort("a"),d;for(d in e)if(c=e[d],a[c]!=b[c])return d=[a[c],b[c]].smartSort("a"),a[c]==d[0]?-1:1;var f=[a[Object.keys(a)[0]],b[Object.keys(b)[0]]].smartSort("a");return a[Object.keys(a)[0]]==f[0]?-1:1}if(a instanceof Element&&b instanceof Element){if(a.tagName==b.tagName)return e=[a.id,b.id].smartSort("a"),a.id==e[0]?1:-1;e=[a.tagName, b.tagName].smartSort("a");return a.tagName==e[0]?1:-1}if(a instanceof Date||b instanceof Date)return a instanceof Date?1:-1;if(a instanceof Array||b instanceof Array)return a instanceof Array?-1:1;e=Object.keys(a);g=Object.keys(b);e.concat(g).smartSort("a");for(c=0;20>c;c++){d=e[c];f=g[c];if(a.hasOwnProperty(d)&&b.hasOwnProperty(f)){if(a[d]instanceof Element&&b[f]instanceof Element){if(a[d].tagName==b[f].tagName)return c=[a[d].id,b[f].id].smartSort("a"),a[d].id==c[0]?-1:1;c=[a[d].tagName,b[f].tagName].smartSort("d"); return a[d].tagName==c[0]?1:-1}if(a[d]instanceof Element||b[f]instanceof Element)return a[d]instanceof Element?1:-1;if(a[d]!=b[f])return c=[a[d],b[f]].smartSort("a"),a[d]==c[0]?-1:1}if(a.hasOwnProperty(d)&&a[d]instanceof Element)return 1;if(b.hasOwnProperty(f)&&b[f]instanceof Element||!a.hasOwnProperty(d))return-1;if(!b.hasOwnProperty(d))return 1}c=[a[Object.keys(a)[0]],b[Object.keys(b)[0]]].smartSort("d");return a[Object.keys(a)[0]]==c[0]?-1:1}g=[a,b].sort();return g[0]>g[1]},k=function(a,b){if(null== a||void 0==a)return 1;if(null==b||void 0==b)return-1;var c=typeof a,e=c+typeof b;if(/^numbernumber$/ig.test(e))return b-a;if(/^stringstring$/ig.test(e))return b>a;if(/(string|number){2}/ig.test(e))return/string/i.test(c)?1:-1;if(/number/ig.test(e)&&/object/ig.test(e)||/string/ig.test(e)&&/object/ig.test(e))return/object/i.test(c)?1:-1;if(/^objectobject$/ig.test(e)){a instanceof Array&&a.smartSort("d");b instanceof Array&&b.smartSort("d");if(a instanceof Date&&b instanceof Date)return b-a;if(a instanceof Array&&b instanceof Array){var e=Object.keys(a),g=Object.keys(b),e=e.concat(g).smartSort("a"),d;for(d in e)if(c=e[d],a[c]!=b[c])return d=[a[c],b[c]].smartSort("d"),a[c]==d[0]?-1:1;var f=[a[Object.keys(a)[0]],b[Object.keys(b)[0]]].smartSort("d");return a[Object.keys(a)[0]]==f[0]?-1:1}if(a instanceof Element&&b instanceof Element){if(a.tagName==b.tagName)return e=[a.id,b.id].smartSort("d"),a.id==e[0]?-1:1;e=[a.tagName,b.tagName].smartSort("d");return a.tagName==e[0]?-1:1}if(a instanceof Date||b instanceof Date)return a instanceof Date?1:-1;if(a instanceof Array||b instanceof Array)return a instanceof Array?-1:1;e=Object.keys(a);g=Object.keys(b);e.concat(g).smartSort("a");for(c=0;20>c;c++){d=e[c];f=g[c];if(a.hasOwnProperty(d)&&b.hasOwnProperty(f)){if(a[d]instanceof Element&&b[f]instanceof Element){if(a[d].tagName==b[f].tagName)return c=[a[d].id,b[f].id].smartSort("d"),a[d].id==c[0]?-1:1;c=[a[d].tagName,b[f].tagName].smartSort("d");return a[d].tagName==c[0]?-1:1}if(a[d]instanceof Element||b[f]instanceof Element)return a[d]instanceof Element?1:-1;if(a[d]!=b[f])return c=[a[d],b[f]].smartSort("d"),a[d]==c[0]?-1:1}if(a.hasOwnProperty(d)&&a[d]instanceof Element)return 1;if(b.hasOwnProperty(f)&&b[f]instanceof Element)return-1;if(!a.hasOwnProperty(d))return 1;if(!b.hasOwnProperty(d))return-1}c=[a[Object.keys(a)[0]],b[Object.keys(b)[0]]].smartSort("d");return a[Object.keys(a)[0]]==c[0]?-1:1}g=[a,b].sort();return g[0]<g[1]};Object.defineProperty(Array.prototype,"smartSort",{value:function(){return arguments&& (!arguments.length||1==arguments.length&&/^a([sc]{2})?$|^d([esc]{3})?$/i.test(arguments[0]))?this.sort(!arguments.length||/^a([sc]{2})?$/i.test(arguments[0])?h:k):this.sort()}})}})();
/* end */

jsFiddle Array.prototype.smartSort('asc|desc')


Use is simple! First make some crazy array like:

window.z = [ 'one', undefined, $('<span />'), 'two', null, 2, $('<div />', { id: 'Thing' }), $('<div />'), 4, $('<header />') ];
z.push(new Date('1/01/2011'));
z.push('three');
z.push(undefined);
z.push([ 'one', 'three', 'four' ]);
z.push([ 'one', 'three', 'five' ]);
z.push({ a: 'a', b: 'b' });
z.push({ name: 'bob', value: 'bill' });
z.push(new Date());
z.push({ john: 'jill', jack: 'june' });
z.push([ 'abc', 'def', [ 'abc', 'def', 'cba' ], [ 'cba', 'def', 'bca' ], 'cba' ]);
z.push([ 'cba', 'def', 'bca' ]);
z.push({ a: 'a', b: 'b', c: 'c' });
z.push({ a: 'a', b: 'b', c: 'd' });

Then simply sort it!

z.smartSort('asc'); // Ascending
z.smartSort('desc'); // Descending

Method Only

Same as the preceding, except as just a simple method!

/* begin */
/* KEY NOTE! Method `smartSort` is appended to native `window` for global use. If you'd prefer a more local scope, simple change `window.smartSort` to `var smartSort` and place inside your class/method */
window.smartSort=function(){if(arguments){var a,b,c;for(c in arguments)arguments[c]instanceof Array&&(a=arguments[c],void 0==b&&(b="a")),"string"==typeof arguments[c]&&(b=/^a([sc]{2})?$/i.test(arguments[c])?"a":"d");if(a instanceof Array)return a.sort("a"==b?smartSort.asc:smartSort.desc)}return this.sort()};smartSort.asc=function(a,b){if(null==a||void 0==a)return 1;if(null==b||void 0==b)return-1;var c=typeof a,e=c+typeof b;if(/^numbernumber$/ig.test(e))return a-b;if(/^stringstring$/ig.test(e))return a> b;if(/(string|number){2}/ig.test(e))return/string/i.test(c)?1:-1;if(/number/ig.test(e)&&/object/ig.test(e)||/string/ig.test(e)&&/object/ig.test(e))return/object/i.test(c)?1:-1;if(/^objectobject$/ig.test(e)){a instanceof Array&&a.sort(smartSort.asc);b instanceof Array&&b.sort(smartSort.asc);if(a instanceof Date&&b instanceof Date)return a-b;if(a instanceof Array&&b instanceof Array){var e=Object.keys(a),g=Object.keys(b),e=smartSort(e.concat(g),"a"),d;for(d in e)if(c=e[d],a[c]!=b[c])return d=smartSort([a[c], b[c]],"a"),a[c]==d[0]?-1:1;var f=smartSort([a[Object.keys(a)[0]],b[Object.keys(b)[0]]],"a");return a[Object.keys(a)[0]]==f[0]?-1:1}if(a instanceof Element&&b instanceof Element){if(a.tagName==b.tagName)return e=smartSort([a.id,b.id],"a"),a.id==e[0]?1:-1;e=smartSort([a.tagName,b.tagName],"a");return a.tagName==e[0]?1:-1}if(a instanceof Date||b instanceof Date)return a instanceof Date?1:-1;if(a instanceof Array||b instanceof Array)return a instanceof Array?-1:1;e=Object.keys(a);g=Object.keys(b);smartSort(e.concat(g), "a");for(c=0;20>c;c++){d=e[c];f=g[c];if(a.hasOwnProperty(d)&&b.hasOwnProperty(f)){if(a[d]instanceof Element&&b[f]instanceof Element){if(a[d].tagName==b[f].tagName)return c=smartSort([a[d].id,b[f].id],"a"),a[d].id==c[0]?-1:1;c=smartSort([a[d].tagName,b[f].tagName],"a");return a[d].tagName==c[0]?-1:1}if(a[d]instanceof Element||b[f]instanceof Element)return a[d]instanceof Element?1:-1;if(a[d]!=b[f])return c=smartSort([a[d],b[f]],"a"),a[d]==c[0]?-1:1}if(a.hasOwnProperty(d)&&a[d]instanceof Element)return 1; if(b.hasOwnProperty(f)&&b[f]instanceof Element||!a.hasOwnProperty(d))return-1;if(!b.hasOwnProperty(d))return 1}c=smartSort([a[Object.keys(a)[0]],b[Object.keys(b)[0]]],"a");return a[Object.keys(a)[0]]==c[0]?1:-1}g=[a,b].sort();return g[0]>g[1]};smartSort.desc=function(a,b){if(null==a||void 0==a)return 1;if(null==b||void 0==b)return-1;var c=typeof a,e=c+typeof b;if(/^numbernumber$/ig.test(e))return b-a;if(/^stringstring$/ig.test(e))return b>a;if(/(string|number){2}/ig.test(e))return/string/i.test(c)? 1:-1;if(/number/ig.test(e)&&/object/ig.test(e)||/string/ig.test(e)&&/object/ig.test(e))return/object/i.test(c)?1:-1;if(/^objectobject$/ig.test(e)){a instanceof Array&&a.sort(smartSort.desc);b instanceof Array&&b.sort(smartSort.desc);if(a instanceof Date&&b instanceof Date)return b-a;if(a instanceof Array&&b instanceof Array){var e=Object.keys(a),g=Object.keys(b),e=smartSort(e.concat(g),"a"),d;for(d in e)if(c=e[d],a[c]!=b[c])return d=smartSort([a[c],b[c]],"d"),a[c]==d[0]?-1:1;var f=smartSort([a[Object.keys(a)[0]], b[Object.keys(b)[0]]],"d");return a[Object.keys(a)[0]]==f[0]?-1:1}if(a instanceof Element&&b instanceof Element){if(a.tagName==b.tagName)return e=smartSort([a.id,b.id],"d"),a.id==e[0]?-1:1;e=smartSort([a.tagName,b.tagName],"d");return a.tagName==e[0]?-1:1}if(a instanceof Date||b instanceof Date)return a instanceof Date?1:-1;if(a instanceof Array||b instanceof Array)return a instanceof Array?-1:1;e=Object.keys(a);g=Object.keys(b);smartSort(e.concat(g),"a");for(c=0;20>c;c++){d=e[c];f=g[c];if(a.hasOwnProperty(d)&& b.hasOwnProperty(f)){if(a[d]instanceof Element&&b[f]instanceof Element){if(a[d].tagName==b[f].tagName)return c=smartSort([a[d].id,b[f].id],"d"),a[d].id==c[0]?-1:1;c=smartSort([a[d].tagName,b[f].tagName],"d");return a[d].tagName==c[0]?-1:1}if(a[d]instanceof Element||b[f]instanceof Element)return a[d]instanceof Element?1:-1;if(a[d]!=b[f])return c=smartSort([a[d],b[f]],"d"),a[d]==c[0]?-1:1}if(a.hasOwnProperty(d)&&a[d]instanceof Element)return 1;if(b.hasOwnProperty(f)&&b[f]instanceof Element)return-1; if(!a.hasOwnProperty(d))return 1;if(!b.hasOwnProperty(d))return-1}c=smartSort([a[Object.keys(a)[0]],b[Object.keys(b)[0]]],"d");return a[Object.keys(a)[0]]==c[0]?-1:1}g=[a,b].sort();return g[0]<g[1]}
/* end */

Use:

z = smartSort(z, 'asc'); // Ascending
z = smartSort(z, 'desc'); // Descending

jsFiddle Method smartSort(Array, "asc|desc")

Python: Writing to and Reading from serial port

ser.read(64) should be ser.read(size=64); ser.read uses keyword arguments, not positional.

Also, you're reading from the port twice; what you probably want to do is this:

i=0
for modem in PortList:
    for port in modem:
        try:
            ser = serial.Serial(port, 9600, timeout=1)
            ser.close()
            ser.open()
            ser.write("ati")
            time.sleep(3)
            read_val = ser.read(size=64)
            print read_val
            if read_val is not '':
                print port
        except serial.SerialException:
            continue
        i+=1

How can I display two div in one line via css inline property

use inline-block instead of inline. Read more information here about the difference between inline and inline-block.

.inline { 
display: inline-block; 
border: 1px solid red; 
margin:10px;
}

DEMO

How to select the first element in the dropdown using jquery?

Try this out...

$('select option:first-child').attr("selected", "selected");

Another option would be this, but it will only work for one drop down list at a time as coded below:

var myDDL = $('myID');
myDDL[0].selectedIndex = 0;

Take a look at this post on how to set based on value, its interesting but won't help you for this specific issue:

Change the selected value of a drop-down list with jQuery

Putting a simple if-then-else statement on one line

That's more specifically a ternary operator expression than an if-then, here's the python syntax

value_when_true if condition else value_when_false

Better Example: (thanks Mr. Burns)

'Yes' if fruit == 'Apple' else 'No'

Now with assignment and contrast with if syntax

fruit = 'Apple'
isApple = True if fruit == 'Apple' else False

vs

fruit = 'Apple'
isApple = False
if fruit == 'Apple' : isApple = True

How do I check if a C++ std::string starts with a certain string, and convert a substring to an int?

Given that both strings — argv[1] and "--foo" — are C strings, @FelixDombek's answer is hands-down the best solution.

Seeing the other answers, however, I thought it worth noting that, if your text is already available as a std::string, then a simple, zero-copy, maximally efficient solution exists that hasn't been mentioned so far:

const char * foo = "--foo";
if (text.rfind(foo, 0) == 0)
    foo_value = text.substr(strlen(foo));

And if foo is already a string:

std::string foo("--foo");
if (text.rfind(foo, 0) == 0)
    foo_value = text.substr(foo.length());

Deprecated meaning?

I think the Wikipedia-article on Deprecation answers this one pretty well:

In the process of authoring computer software, its standards or documentation, deprecation is a status applied to software features to indicate that they should be avoided, typically because they have been superseded. Although deprecated features remain in the software, their use may raise warning messages recommending alternative practices, and deprecation may indicate that the feature will be removed in the future. Features are deprecated—rather than immediately removed—in order to provide backward compatibility, and give programmers who have used the feature time to bring their code into compliance with the new standard.

What causes and what are the differences between NoClassDefFoundError and ClassNotFoundException?

What is the reason for getting each of them and any thought process on how to deal with such errors?

They're closely related. A ClassNotFoundException is thrown when Java went looking for a particular class by name and could not successfully load it. A NoClassDefFoundError is thrown when Java went looking for a class that was linked into some existing code, but couldn't find it for one reason or another (e.g., wrong classpath, wrong version of Java, wrong version of a library) and is thoroughly fatal as it indicates that something has gone Badly Wrong.

If you've got a C background, a CNFE is like a failure to dlopen()/dlsym() and an NCDFE is a problem with the linker; in the second case, the class files concerned should never have been actually compiled in the configuration you're trying to use them.

How do I read an attribute on a class at runtime?

There is already an extension to do this.

namespace System.Reflection
{
    // Summary:
    //     Contains static methods for retrieving custom attributes.
    public static class CustomAttributeExtensions
    {
        public static T GetCustomAttribute<T>(this MemberInfo element, bool inherit) where T : Attribute;
    }
}

So:

var attr = typeof(MyClass).GetCustomAttribute<DomainNameAttribute>(false);
return attr != null ? attr.DomainName : "";

What's the difference between @Component, @Repository & @Service annotations in Spring?

Difference between @Component, @Repository, @Controller & @Service annotations

@Component – generic and can be used across application.
@Service – annotate classes at service layer level.
@Controller – annotate classes at presentation layers level, mainly used in Spring MVC.
@Repository – annotate classes at persistence layer, which will act as database repository.

@Controller = @Component ( Internal Annotation ) + Presentation layer Features
@Service = @Component ( Internal Annotation ) + Service layer Features
@Component = Actual Components ( Beans )
@Repository = @Component ( Internal Annotation ) + Data Layer Features ( use for handling the Domain Beans )

How to undo a git pull?

Even though the above solutions do work,This answer is for you in case you want to reverse the clock instead of undoing a git pull.I mean if you want to get your exact repo the way it was X Mins back then run the command

git reset --hard branchName@{"X Minutes ago"}

Note: before you actually go ahead and run this command please only try this command if you are sure about the time you want to go back to and heres about my situation.

I was currently on a branch develop, I was supposed to checkout to a new branch and pull in another branch lets say Branch A but I accidentally ran git pull origin B before checking out.

so to undo this change I tried this command

git reset --hard develop@{"10 Minutes ago"}

if you are on windows cmd and get error: unknown switch `e

try adding quotes like this

git reset --hard 'develop@{"10 Minutes ago"}'

How can I convert a series of images to a PDF from the command line on linux?

Using imagemagick, you can try:

convert page.png page.pdf

Or for multiple images:

convert page*.png mydoc.pdf

Flutter Countdown Timer

If all you need is a simple countdown timer, this is a good alternative instead of installing a package. Happy coding!

countDownTimer() async {
 int timerCount;
 for (int x = 5; x > 0; x--) {
   await Future.delayed(Duration(seconds: 1)).then((_) {
     setState(() {
       timerCount -= 1;
    });
  });
 }
}

How to get a value of an element by name instead of ID

Use the name attribute selector:

$("input[name='nameGoesHere']").val();

It is a mandatory requirement to include quotes around the value, see: http://api.jquery.com/attribute-equals-selector/

Creating a dictionary from a CSV file

I believe the syntax you were looking for is as follows:

import csv

with open('coors.csv', mode='r') as infile:
    reader = csv.reader(infile)
    with open('coors_new.csv', mode='w') as outfile:
        writer = csv.writer(outfile)
        mydict = {rows[0]:rows[1] for rows in reader}

Alternately, for python <= 2.7.1, you want:

mydict = dict((rows[0],rows[1]) for rows in reader)

What's the syntax to import a class in a default package in Java?

The only way to access classes in the default package is from another class in the default package. In that case, don't bother to import it, just refer to it directly.

Getting time span between two times in C#?

string startTime = "7:00 AM";
string endTime = "2:00 PM";

TimeSpan duration = DateTime.Parse(endTime).Subtract(DateTime.Parse(startTime));

Console.WriteLine(duration);
Console.ReadKey();

Will output: 07:00:00.

It also works if the user input military time:

string startTime = "7:00";
string endTime = "14:00";

TimeSpan duration = DateTime.Parse(endTime).Subtract(DateTime.Parse(startTime));

Console.WriteLine(duration);
Console.ReadKey();

Outputs: 07:00:00.

To change the format: duration.ToString(@"hh\:mm")

More info at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee372287.aspx

Addendum:

Over the years it has somewhat bothered me that this is the most popular answer I have ever given; the original answer never actually explained why the OP's code didn't work despite the fact that it is perfectly valid. The only reason it gets so many votes is because the post comes up on Google when people search for a combination of the terms "C#", "timespan", and "between".