Programs & Examples On #Ksh

The KornShell is an open source, POSIX-compatible shell language from AT&T based upon the original Bourne shell. Make sure you know whether your ksh is ksh93 or a clone.

How to set the From email address for mailx command?

In case you also want to include your real name in the from-field, you can use the following format

mailx -r "[email protected] (My Name)" -s "My Subject" ...

If you happen to have non-ASCII characters in you name, like My AEÆoeøaaå (Æ= C3 86, ø= C3 B8, å= C3 A5), you have to encode them like this:

mailx -r "[email protected] (My =?utf-8?Q?AE=C3=86oe=C3=B8aa=C3=A5?=)" -s "My Subject" ...

Hope this can save someone an hour of hard work/research!

Reading file line by line (with space) in Unix Shell scripting - Issue

You want to read raw lines to avoid problems with backslashes in the input (use -r):

while read -r line; do
   printf "<%s>\n" "$line"
done < file.txt

This will keep whitespace within the line, but removes leading and trailing whitespace. To keep those as well, set the IFS empty, as in

while IFS= read -r line; do
   printf "%s\n" "$line"
done < file.txt

This now is an equivalent of cat < file.txt as long as file.txt ends with a newline.

Note that you must double quote "$line" in order to keep word splitting from splitting the line into separate words--thus losing multiple whitespace sequences.

How can I find a file/directory that could be anywhere on linux command line?

The find command will take long time, the fastest way to search for file is using locate command, which looks for file names (and path) in a indexed database (updated by command updatedb).

The result will appear immediately with a simple command:

locate {file-name-or-path}

If the command is not found, you need to install mlocate package and run updatedb command first to prepare the search database for the first time.

More detail here: https://medium.com/@thucnc/the-fastest-way-to-find-files-by-filename-mlocate-locate-commands-55bf40b297ab

Bash or KornShell (ksh)?

Bash.

The various UNIX and Linux implementations have various different source level implementations of ksh, some of which are real ksh, some of which are pdksh implementations and some of which are just symlinks to some other shell that has a "ksh" personality. This can lead to weird differences in execution behavior.

At least with bash you can be sure that it's a single code base, and all you need worry about is what (usually minimum) version of bash is installed. Having done a lot of scripting on pretty much every modern (and not-so-modern) UNIX, programming to bash is more reliably consistent in my experience.

Send password when using scp to copy files from one server to another

// copy /tmp/abc.txt to /tmp/abc.txt (target path)

// username and password of 10.1.1.2 is "username" and "password"

sshpass -p "password" scp /tmp/abc.txt [email protected]:/tmp/abc.txt

// install sshpass (ubuntu)

sudo apt-get install sshpass

Check if file exists and whether it contains a specific string

You should use the grep -q flag for quiet output. See the man pages below:

man grep output :

 General Output Control

  -q, --quiet, --silent
              Quiet;  do  not write anything to standard output.  Exit immediately with zero status
              if any match is  found,  even  if  an  error  was  detected.   Also  see  the  -s  or
              --no-messages option.  (-q is specified by POSIX.)

This KornShell (ksh) script demos the grep quiet output and is a solution to your question.

grepUtil.ksh :

#!/bin/ksh

#Initialize Variables
file=poet.txt
var=""
dir=tempDir
dirPath="/"${dir}"/"
searchString="poet"

#Function to initialize variables
initialize(){
    echo "Entering initialize"
    echo "Exiting initialize"
}

#Function to create File with Input
#Params: 1}Directory 2}File 3}String to write to FileName
createFileWithInput(){
    echo "Entering createFileWithInput"
    orgDirectory=${PWD}
    cd ${1}
    > ${2}
    print ${3} >> ${2}
    cd ${orgDirectory}
    echo "Exiting createFileWithInput"
}

#Function to create File with Input
#Params: 1}directoryName
createDir(){
    echo "Entering createDir"
    mkdir -p ${1}
    echo "Exiting createDir"
}

#Params: 1}FileName
readLine(){
    echo "Entering readLine"
    file=${1}
    while read line
    do
        #assign last line to var
        var="$line"
    done <"$file"
    echo "Exiting readLine"
}
#Check if file exists 
#Params: 1}File
doesFileExit(){
    echo "Entering doesFileExit"
    orgDirectory=${PWD}
    cd ${PWD}${dirPath}
    #echo ${PWD}
    if [[ -e "${1}" ]]; then
        echo "${1} exists"
    else
        echo "${1} does not exist"
    fi
    cd ${orgDirectory}
    echo "Exiting doesFileExit"
}
#Check if file contains a string quietly
#Params: 1}Directory Path 2}File 3}String to seach for in File
doesFileContainStringQuiet(){
    echo "Entering doesFileContainStringQuiet"
    orgDirectory=${PWD}
    cd ${PWD}${1}
    #echo ${PWD}
    grep -q ${3} ${2}
    if [ ${?} -eq 0 ];then
        echo "${3} found in ${2}"
    else
        echo "${3} not found in ${2}"
    fi
    cd ${orgDirectory}
    echo "Exiting doesFileContainStringQuiet"
}
#Check if file contains a string with output
#Params: 1}Directory Path 2}File 3}String to seach for in File
doesFileContainString(){
    echo "Entering doesFileContainString"
    orgDirectory=${PWD}
    cd ${PWD}${1}
    #echo ${PWD}
    grep ${3} ${2}
    if [ ${?} -eq 0 ];then
        echo "${3} found in ${2}"
    else
        echo "${3} not found in ${2}"
    fi
    cd ${orgDirectory}
    echo "Exiting doesFileContainString"
}

#-----------
#---Main----
#-----------
echo "Starting: ${PWD}/${0} with Input Parameters: {1: ${1} {2: ${2} {3: ${3}"
#initialize #function call#
createDir ${dir} #function call#
createFileWithInput ${dir} ${file} ${searchString} #function call#
doesFileExit ${file} #function call#
if [ ${?} -eq 0 ];then
    doesFileContainStringQuiet ${dirPath} ${file} ${searchString} #function call#
    doesFileContainString ${dirPath} ${file} ${searchString} #function call#
fi
echo "Exiting: ${PWD}/${0}"

grepUtil.ksh Output :

user@foo /tmp
$ ksh grepUtil.ksh
Starting: /tmp/grepUtil.ksh with Input Parameters: {1:  {2:  {3:
Entering createDir
Exiting createDir
Entering createFileWithInput
Exiting createFileWithInput
Entering doesFileExit
poet.txt exists
Exiting doesFileExit
Entering doesFileContainStringQuiet
poet found in poet.txt
Exiting doesFileContainStringQuiet
Entering doesFileContainString
poet
poet found in poet.txt
Exiting doesFileContainString
Exiting: /tmp/grepUtil.ksh

Shell Script: How to write a string to file and to stdout on console?

You can use >> to print in another file.

echo "hello" >> logfile.txt

Get exit code for command in bash/ksh

The normal idea would be to run the command and then use $? to get the exit code. However, some times you have multiple cases in which you need to get the exit code. For example, you might need to hide it's output but still return the exit code, or print both the exit code and the output.

ec() { [[ "$1" == "-h" ]] && { shift && eval $* > /dev/null 2>&1; ec=$?; echo $ec; } || eval $*; ec=$?; }

This will give you the option to suppress the output of the command you want the exit code for. When the output is suppressed for the command, the exit code will directly be returned by the function.

I personally like to put this function in my .bashrc file

Below I demonstrate a few ways in which you can use this:


# In this example, the output for the command will be
# normally displayed, and the exit code will be stored
# in the variable $ec.

$ ec echo test
test
$ echo $ec
0

# In this example, the exit code is output
# and the output of the command passed
# to the `ec` function is suppressed.

$ echo "Exit Code: $(ec -h echo test)"
Exit Code: 0

# In this example, the output of the command
# passed to the `ec` function is suppressed
# and the exit code is stored in `$ec`

$ ec -h echo test
$ echo $ec
0

Solution to your code using this function

#!/bin/bash
if [[ "$(ec -h 'ls -l | grep p')" != "0" ]]; then
    echo "Error when executing command: 'grep p' [$ec]"
    exit $ec;
fi

You should also note that the exit code you will be seeing will be for the grep command that's being run, as it is the last command being executed. Not the ls.

How to get the second column from command output?

If you could use something other than 'awk' , then try this instead

echo '1540 "A B"' | cut -d' ' -f2-

-d is a delimiter, -f is the field to cut and with -f2- we intend to cut the 2nd field until end.

In a unix shell, how to get yesterday's date into a variable?

I have shell script in Linux and following code worked for me:

#!/bin/bash
yesterday=`TZ=EST+24 date +%Y%m%d` # Yesterday is a variable
mkdir $yesterday # creates a directory with  YYYYMMDD format

How to mkdir only if a directory does not already exist?

Try mkdir -p:

mkdir -p foo

Note that this will also create any intermediate directories that don't exist; for instance,

mkdir -p foo/bar/baz

will create directories foo, foo/bar, and foo/bar/baz if they don't exist.

Some implementation like GNU mkdir include mkdir --parents as a more readable alias, but this is not specified in POSIX/Single Unix Specification and not available on many common platforms like macOS, various BSDs, and various commercial Unixes, so it should be avoided.

If you want an error when parent directories don't exist, and want to create the directory if it doesn't exist, then you can test for the existence of the directory first:

[ -d foo ] || mkdir foo

Select unique or distinct values from a list in UNIX shell script

For larger data sets where sorting may not be desirable, you can also use the following perl script:

./yourscript.ksh | perl -ne 'if (!defined $x{$_}) { print $_; $x{$_} = 1; }'

This basically just remembers every line output so that it doesn't output it again.

It has the advantage over the "sort | uniq" solution in that there's no sorting required up front.

jquery beforeunload when closing (not leaving) the page?

As indicated here https://stackoverflow.com/a/1632004/330867, you can implement it by "filtering" what is originating the exit of this page.

As mentionned in the comments, here's a new version of the code in the other question, which also include the ajax request you make in your question :

var canExit = true;

// For every function that will call an ajax query, you need to set the var "canExit" to false, then set it to false once the ajax is finished.

function checkCart() {
  canExit = false;
  $.ajax({
    url : 'index.php?route=module/cart/check',
    type : 'POST',
    dataType : 'json',
    success : function (result) {
       if (result) {
        canExit = true;
       }
    }
  })
}

$(document).on('click', 'a', function() {canExit = true;}); // can exit if it's a link
$(window).on('beforeunload', function() {
    if (canExit) return null; // null will allow exit without a question
    // Else, just return the message you want to display
    return "Do you really want to close?";
});

Important: You shouldn't have a global variable defined (here canExit), this is here for simpler version.

Note that you can't override completely the confirm message (at least in chrome). The message you return will only be prepended to the one given by Chrome. Here's the reason : How can I override the OnBeforeUnload dialog and replace it with my own?

How to access static resources when mapping a global front controller servlet on /*

With regard to Tomcat, a lot depends on the particular version. There was a bug fix https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50026 which means the servlet-mapping (other than for '/') for the default servlet behaves differently in Tomcat 6.0.29 (and earlier) compared with later versions.

How do you count the lines of code in a Visual Studio solution?

Obviously tools are easier, but I feel cool doing this in powershell:)

This script finds all the .csproj references in the .sln file, and then within each csproj file it locates files included for compilation. For each file that is included for compilation it creates an object with properties: Solution, Project, File, Lines. It stores all these objects in a list, and then groups and projects the data as needed.

#path to the solution file e.g. "D:\Code\Test.sln"
$slnFile = "D:\Code\Test.sln"


#results
$results = @()

#iterate through .csproj references in solution file
foreach($projLines in get-item $slnFile | Get-Content | Select-String '".*csproj')
{
    $projFile = [System.IO.Path]::Combine([System.IO.Path]::GetDirectoryName($slnFile), [regex]::Match($projLines,'[^"]*csproj').Value)
    $projFolder = [System.IO.Path]::GetDirectoryName($projFile)

    #from csproj file: get lines for files to compile <Compile Include="..."/>
    $includeLines = get-item $projFile | Get-Content | Select-String '<Compile Include'


    #count of all files lines in project
    $linesInProject = 0;
    foreach($fileLine in $includeLines)
    {
        $includedFilePath = [System.IO.Path]::Combine($projFolder, [Regex]::Match($fileLine, '"(?<file>.*)"').Groups["file"].Value)
        $lineCountInFile = (Get-Content $includedFilePath).Count      
        $results+=New-Object PSObject -Property @{ Solution=$slnFile ;Project=$projFile; File=$includedFilePath; Lines=$lineCountInFile }
    }
}

#filter out any files we dont need
$results = $results | ?{!($_.File -match "Designer")}


#print out:

"---------------lines per solution--------------"
$results | group Solution | %{$_.Name + ": " + ($_.Group | Measure-Object Lines -Sum).Sum}
"---------------lines per peoject--------------"
$results | group Project | %{$_.Name + ": " + ($_.Group | Measure-Object Lines -Sum).Sum}

How do I pass JavaScript values to Scriptlet in JSP?

Your javascript values are client-side, your scriptlet is running server-side. So if you want to use your javascript variables in a scriptlet, you will need to submit them.

To achieve this, either store them in input fields and submit a form, or perform an ajax request. I suggest you look into JQuery for this.

Add php variable inside echo statement as href link address?

If you want to print in the tabular form with, then you can use this:

echo "<tr> <td><h3> ".$cat['id']."</h3></td><td><h3> ".$cat['title']."<h3></</td><td> <h3>".$cat['desc']."</h3></td><td><h3> ".$cat['process']."%"."<a href='taskUpdate.php' >Update</a>"."</h3></td></tr>" ;

How to get hostname from IP (Linux)?

In order to use nslookup, host or gethostbyname() then the target's name will need to be registered with DNS or statically defined in the hosts file on the machine running your program. Yes, you could connect to the target with SSH or some other application and query it directly, but for a generic solution you'll need some sort of DNS entry for it.

How much memory can a 32 bit process access on a 64 bit operating system?

You've got the same basic restriction when running a 32bit process under Win64. Your app runs in a 32 but subsystem which does its best to look like Win32, and this will include the memory restrictions for your process (lower 2GB for you, upper 2GB for the OS)

Calculate rolling / moving average in C++

If your needs are simple, you might just try using an exponential moving average.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_average#Exponential_moving_average

Put simply, you make an accumulator variable, and as your code looks at each sample, the code updates the accumulator with the new value. You pick a constant "alpha" that is between 0 and 1, and compute this:

accumulator = (alpha * new_value) + (1.0 - alpha) * accumulator

You just need to find a value of "alpha" where the effect of a given sample only lasts for about 1000 samples.

Hmm, I'm not actually sure this is suitable for you, now that I've put it here. The problem is that 1000 is a pretty long window for an exponential moving average; I'm not sure there is an alpha that would spread the average over the last 1000 numbers, without underflow in the floating point calculation. But if you wanted a smaller average, like 30 numbers or so, this is a very easy and fast way to do it.

Check if an object exists

Since filter returns a QuerySet, you can use count to check how many results were returned. This is assuming you don't actually need the results.

num_results = User.objects.filter(email = cleaned_info['username']).count()

After looking at the documentation though, it's better to just call len on your filter if you are planning on using the results later, as you'll only be making one sql query:

A count() call performs a SELECT COUNT(*) behind the scenes, so you should always use count() rather than loading all of the record into Python objects and calling len() on the result (unless you need to load the objects into memory anyway, in which case len() will be faster).

num_results = len(user_object)

How to create JSON string in JavaScript?

Javascript doesn't handle Strings over multiple lines.

You will need to concatenate those:

var obj = '{'
       +'"name" : "Raj",'
       +'"age"  : 32,'
       +'"married" : false'
       +'}';

You can also use template literals in ES6 and above: (See here for the documentation)

var obj = `{
           "name" : "Raj",
           "age" : 32,
           "married" : false,
           }`;

nginx: connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream

I had the same problem when I wrote two upstreams in NGINX conf

upstream php_upstream {
    server unix:/var/run/php/my.site.sock;
    server 127.0.0.1:9000;
}

...

fastcgi_pass php_upstream;

but in /etc/php/7.3/fpm/pool.d/www.conf I listened the socket only

listen = /var/run/php/my.site.sock

So I need just socket, no any 127.0.0.1:9000, and I just removed IP+port upstream

upstream php_upstream {
    server unix:/var/run/php/my.site.sock;
}

This could be rewritten without an upstream

fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/my.site.sock;

Handlebars.js Else If

I usually use this form:

{{#if FriendStatus.IsFriend}}
  ...
{{else}} {{#if FriendStatus.FriendRequested}}
  ...
{{else}}
  ...
{{/if}}{{/if}}

insert data into database using servlet and jsp in eclipse

Check that doPost() method of servlet is called from the jsp form and remove conn.commit.

How to delete or change directory of a cloned git repository on a local computer

You can just delete that directory that you cloned the repo into, and re-clone it wherever you'd like.

How do I add one month to current date in Java?

You can make use of apache's commons lang DateUtils helper utility class.

Date newDate = DateUtils.addMonths(new Date(), 1);

You can download commons lang jar at http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/

When should we use intern method of String on String literals

string intern() method is used to create an exact copy of heap string object in string constant pool. The string objects in the string constant pool are automatically interned but string objects in heap are not. The main use of creating interns is to save the memory space and to perform faster comparison of string objects.

Source : What is string intern in java?

Update index after sorting data-frame

You can set new indices by using set_index:

df2.set_index(np.arange(len(df2.index)))

Output:

   x  y
0  0  0
1  0  1
2  0  2
3  1  0
4  1  1
5  1  2
6  2  0
7  2  1
8  2  2

Can't get private key with openssl (no start line:pem_lib.c:703:Expecting: ANY PRIVATE KEY)

My two cents: came across the same error message in RHEL7.3 while running the openssl command with root CA certificate. The reason being, while downloading the certificate from AD server, Encoding was selected as DER instead of Base64. Once the proper version of encoding was selected for the new certificate download, error was resolved

Hope this helps for new users :-)

How do I remove a MySQL database?

I needed to correct the privileges.REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES ONlogs.* FROM 'root'@'root'; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ONlogs.* TO 'root'@'root'WITH GRANT OPTION;

MATLAB - multiple return values from a function?

Matlab allows you to return multiple values as well as receive them inline.

When you call it, receive individual variables inline:

[array, listp, freep] = initialize(size)

There is already an open DataReader associated with this Command which must be closed first

It appears that you're calling DateLastUpdated from within an active query using the same EF context and DateLastUpdate issues a command to the data store itself. Entity Framework only supports one active command per context at a time.

You can refactor your above two queries into one like this:

return accounts.AsEnumerable()
        .Select((account, index) => new AccountsReport()
        {
          RecordNumber = FormattedRowNumber(account, index + 1),
          CreditRegistryId = account.CreditRegistryId,
          DateLastUpdated = (
                                                from h in context.AccountHistory 
                                                where h.CreditorRegistryId == creditorRegistryId 
                              && h.AccountNo == accountNo 
                                                select h.LastUpdated).Max(),
          AccountNumber = FormattedAccountNumber(account.AccountType, account.AccountNumber)
        })
        .OrderBy(c=>c.FormattedRecordNumber)
        .ThenByDescending(c => c.StateChangeDate);

I also noticed you're calling functions like FormattedAccountNumber and FormattedRecordNumber in the queries. Unless these are stored procs or functions you've imported from your database into the entity data model and mapped correct, these will also throw excepts as EF will not know how to translate those functions in to statements it can send to the data store.

Also note, calling AsEnumerable doesn't force the query to execute. Until the query execution is deferred until enumerated. You can force enumeration with ToList or ToArray if you so desire.

Aligning textviews on the left and right edges in Android layout

In case you want the left and right elements to wrap content but have the middle space

<LinearLayout
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">
    <TextView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
    <Space
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_weight="1"/>
    <Button
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
</LinearLayout>

How to detect reliably Mac OS X, iOS, Linux, Windows in C preprocessor?

There are predefined macros that are used by most compilers, you can find the list here. GCC compiler predefined macros can be found here. Here is an example for gcc:

#if defined(WIN32) || defined(_WIN32) || defined(__WIN32__) || defined(__NT__)
   //define something for Windows (32-bit and 64-bit, this part is common)
   #ifdef _WIN64
      //define something for Windows (64-bit only)
   #else
      //define something for Windows (32-bit only)
   #endif
#elif __APPLE__
    #include <TargetConditionals.h>
    #if TARGET_IPHONE_SIMULATOR
         // iOS Simulator
    #elif TARGET_OS_IPHONE
        // iOS device
    #elif TARGET_OS_MAC
        // Other kinds of Mac OS
    #else
    #   error "Unknown Apple platform"
    #endif
#elif __linux__
    // linux
#elif __unix__ // all unices not caught above
    // Unix
#elif defined(_POSIX_VERSION)
    // POSIX
#else
#   error "Unknown compiler"
#endif

The defined macros depend on the compiler that you are going to use.

The _WIN64 #ifdef can be nested into the _WIN32 #ifdef because _WIN32 is even defined when targeting the Windows x64 version. This prevents code duplication if some header includes are common to both (also WIN32 without underscore allows IDE to highlight the right partition of code).

JSON Stringify changes time of date because of UTC

JSON uses the Date.prototype.toISOString function which does not represent local time -- it represents time in unmodified UTC -- if you look at your date output you can see you're at UTC+2 hours, which is why the JSON string changes by two hours, but if this allows the same time to be represented correctly across multiple time zones.

Exception is: InvalidOperationException - The current type, is an interface and cannot be constructed. Are you missing a type mapping?

May be You are not registering the Controllers. Try below code:

Step 1. Write your own controller factory class ControllerFactory :DefaultControllerFactory by implementing defaultcontrollerfactory in models folder

  public class ControllerFactory :DefaultControllerFactory
    {
    protected override IController GetControllerInstance(RequestContext         requestContext, Type controllerType)
        {
            try
            {
                if (controllerType == null)
                    throw new ArgumentNullException("controllerType");

                if (!typeof(IController).IsAssignableFrom(controllerType))
                    throw new ArgumentException(string.Format(
                        "Type requested is not a controller: {0}",
                        controllerType.Name),
                        "controllerType");

                return MvcUnityContainer.Container.Resolve(controllerType) as IController;
            }
            catch
            {
                return null;
            }

        }
        public static class MvcUnityContainer
        {
            public static UnityContainer Container { get; set; }
        }
    }

Step 2:Regigster it in BootStrap: inBuildUnityContainer method

private static IUnityContainer BuildUnityContainer()
    {
      var container = new UnityContainer();

      // register all your components with the container here
      // it is NOT necessary to register your controllers

      // e.g. container.RegisterType<ITestService, TestService>();    
      //RegisterTypes(container);
      container = new UnityContainer();
      container.RegisterType<IProductRepository, ProductRepository>();


      MvcUnityContainer.Container = container;
      return container;
    }

Step 3: In Global Asax.

protected void Application_Start()
        {
            AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();

            WebApiConfig.Register(GlobalConfiguration.Configuration);
            FilterConfig.RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilters.Filters);
            RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
            BundleConfig.RegisterBundles(BundleTable.Bundles);
            AuthConfig.RegisterAuth();
            Bootstrapper.Initialise();
            ControllerBuilder.Current.SetControllerFactory(typeof(ControllerFactory));

        }

And you are done

Index inside map() function

  • suppose you have an array like

_x000D_
_x000D_
   const arr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
    
    
    arr.map((myArr, index) => {
      console.log(`your index is -> ${index} AND value is ${myArr}`);
    })
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

> output will be
 index is -> 0 AND value is 1
 index is -> 1 AND value is 2
 index is -> 2 AND value is 3
 index is -> 3 AND value is 4
 index is -> 4 AND value is 5
 index is -> 5 AND value is 6
 index is -> 6 AND value is 7
 index is -> 7 AND value is 8
 index is -> 8 AND value is 9

Pretty-Print JSON in Java

I used org.json built-in methods to pretty-print the data.

JSONObject json = new JSONObject(jsonString); // Convert text to object
System.out.println(json.toString(4)); // Print it with specified indentation

The order of fields in JSON is random per definition. A specific order is subject to parser implementation.

Table overflowing outside of div

You can prevent tables from expanding beyond their parent div by using table-layout:fixed.

The CSS below will make your tables expand to the width of the div surrounding it.

table 
{
    table-layout:fixed;
    width:100%;
}

I found this trick here.

How do I declare an array variable in VBA?

The Array index only accepts a long value.

You declared iCounter as an integer. You should declare it as a long.

Creating a jQuery object from a big HTML-string

There is also a great library called cheerio designed specifically for this.

Fast, flexible, and lean implementation of core jQuery designed specifically for the server.

var cheerio = require('cheerio'),
    $ = cheerio.load('<h2 class="title">Hello world</h2>');

$('h2.title').text('Hello there!');
$('h2').addClass('welcome');

$.html();
//=> <h2 class="title welcome">Hello there!</h2>

How to Automatically Close Alerts using Twitter Bootstrap

I could not get it to work with alert.('close') either.

However I am using this and it works a treat! The alert will fade away after 5 seconds, and once gone, the content below it will slide up to its natural position.

window.setTimeout(function() {
    $(".alert-message").fadeTo(500, 0).slideUp(500, function(){
        $(this).remove(); 
    });
}, 5000);

Automatic date update in a cell when another cell's value changes (as calculated by a formula)

You could fill the dependend cell (D2) by a User Defined Function (VBA Macro Function) that takes the value of the C2-Cell as input parameter, returning the current date as ouput.

Having C2 as input parameter for the UDF in D2 tells Excel that it needs to reevaluate D2 everytime C2 changes (that is if auto-calculation of formulas is turned on for the workbook).

EDIT:

Here is some code:

For the UDF:

    Public Function UDF_Date(ByVal data) As Date

        UDF_Date = Now()

    End Function

As Formula in D2:

=UDF_Date(C2)

You will have to give the D2-Cell a Date-Time Format, or it will show a numeric representation of the date-value.

And you can expand the formula over the desired range by draging it if you keep the C2 reference in the D2-formula relative.

Note: This still might not be the ideal solution because every time Excel recalculates the workbook the date in D2 will be reset to the current value. To make D2 only reflect the last time C2 was changed there would have to be some kind of tracking of the past value(s) of C2. This could for example be implemented in the UDF by providing also the address alonside the value of the input parameter, storing the input parameters in a hidden sheet, and comparing them with the previous values everytime the UDF gets called.

Addendum:

Here is a sample implementation of an UDF that tracks the changes of the cell values and returns the date-time when the last changes was detected. When using it, please be aware that:

  • The usage of the UDF is the same as described above.

  • The UDF works only for single cell input ranges.

  • The cell values are tracked by storing the last value of cell and the date-time when the change was detected in the document properties of the workbook. If the formula is used over large datasets the size of the file might increase considerably as for every cell that is tracked by the formula the storage requirements increase (last value of cell + date of last change.) Also, maybe Excel is not capable of handling very large amounts of document properties and the code might brake at a certain point.

  • If the name of a worksheet is changed all the tracking information of the therein contained cells is lost.

  • The code might brake for cell-values for which conversion to string is non-deterministic.

  • The code below is not tested and should be regarded only as proof of concept. Use it at your own risk.

    Public Function UDF_Date(ByVal inData As Range) As Date
    
        Dim wb As Workbook
        Dim dProps As DocumentProperties
        Dim pValue As DocumentProperty
        Dim pDate As DocumentProperty
        Dim sName As String
        Dim sNameDate As String
    
        Dim bDate As Boolean
        Dim bValue As Boolean
        Dim bChanged As Boolean
    
        bDate = True
        bValue = True
    
        bChanged = False
    
    
        Dim sVal As String
        Dim dDate As Date
    
        sName = inData.Address & "_" & inData.Worksheet.Name
        sNameDate = sName & "_dat"
    
        sVal = CStr(inData.Value)
        dDate = Now()
    
        Set wb = inData.Worksheet.Parent
    
        Set dProps = wb.CustomDocumentProperties
    
    On Error Resume Next
    
        Set pValue = dProps.Item(sName)
    
        If Err.Number <> 0 Then
            bValue = False
            Err.Clear
        End If
    
    On Error GoTo 0
    
        If Not bValue Then
            bChanged = True
            Set pValue = dProps.Add(sName, False, msoPropertyTypeString, sVal)
        Else
            bChanged = pValue.Value <> sVal
            If bChanged Then
                pValue.Value = sVal
            End If
        End If
    
    On Error Resume Next
    
        Set pDate = dProps.Item(sNameDate)
    
        If Err.Number <> 0 Then
            bDate = False
            Err.Clear
        End If
    
    On Error GoTo 0
    
        If Not bDate Then
            Set pDate = dProps.Add(sNameDate, False, msoPropertyTypeDate, dDate)
        End If
    
        If bChanged Then
            pDate.Value = dDate
        Else
            dDate = pDate.Value
        End If
    
    
        UDF_Date = dDate
     End Function
    

Make the insertion of the date conditional upon the range.

This has an advantage of not changing the dates unless the content of the cell is changed, and it is in the range C2:C2, even if the sheet is closed and saved, it doesn't recalculate unless the adjacent cell changes.

Adapted from this tip and @Paul S answer

Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
 Dim R1 As Range
 Dim R2 As Range
 Dim InRange As Boolean
    Set R1 = Range(Target.Address)
    Set R2 = Range("C2:C20")
    Set InterSectRange = Application.Intersect(R1, R2)

  InRange = Not InterSectRange Is Nothing
     Set InterSectRange = Nothing
   If InRange = True Then
     R1.Offset(0, 1).Value = Now()
   End If
     Set R1 = Nothing
     Set R2 = Nothing
 End Sub

refresh both the External data source and pivot tables together within a time schedule

Under the connection properties, uncheck "Enable background refresh". This will make the connection refresh when told to, not in the background as other processes happen.

With background refresh disabled, your VBA procedure will wait for your external data to refresh before moving to the next line of code.

Then you just modify the following code:

ActiveWorkbook.Connections("CONNECTION_NAME").Refresh
Sheets("SHEET_NAME").PivotTables("PIVOT_TABLE_NAME").PivotCache.Refresh

You can also turn off background refresh in VBA:

ActiveWorkbook.Connections("CONNECTION_NAME").ODBCConnection.BackgroundQuery = False

how to show alternate image if source image is not found? (onerror working in IE but not in mozilla)

If you're open to a PHP solution:

<td><img src='<?PHP
  $path1 = "path/to/your/image.jpg";
  $path2 = "alternate/path/to/another/image.jpg";

  echo file_exists($path1) ? $path1 : $path2; 
  ?>' alt='' />
</td>

////EDIT OK, here's a JS version:

<table><tr>
<td><img src='' id='myImage' /></td>
</tr></table>

<script type='text/javascript'>
  document.getElementById('myImage').src = "newImage.png";

  document.getElementById('myImage').onload = function() { 
    alert("done"); 
  }

  document.getElementById('myImage').onerror = function() { 
    alert("Inserting alternate");
    document.getElementById('myImage').src = "alternate.png"; 
  }
</script>

CSS: How to align vertically a "label" and "input" inside a "div"?

Wrap the label and input in another div with a defined height. This may not work in IE versions lower than 8.

position:absolute; 
top:0; bottom:0; left:0; right:0;
margin:auto;

How do I type a TAB character in PowerShell?

If it helps you can embed a tab character in a double quoted string:

PS> "`t hello"

What is REST call and how to send a REST call?

REST is somewhat of a revival of old-school HTTP, where the actual HTTP verbs (commands) have semantic meaning. Til recently, apps that wanted to update stuff on the server would supply a form containing an 'action' variable and a bunch of data. The HTTP command would almost always be GET or POST, and would be almost irrelevant. (Though there's almost always been a proscription against using GET for operations that have side effects, in reality a lot of apps don't care about the command used.)

With REST, you might instead PUT /profiles/cHao and send an XML or JSON representation of the profile info. (Or rather, I would -- you would have to update your own profile. :) That'd involve logging in, usually through HTTP's built-in authentication mechanisms.) In the latter case, what you want to do is specified by the URL, and the request body is just the guts of the resource involved.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer has some details.

Hash String via SHA-256 in Java

I suppose you are using a relatively old Java Version without SHA-256. So you must add the BouncyCastle Provider to the already provided 'Security Providers' in your java version.

    // NEEDED if you are using a Java version without SHA-256    
    Security.addProvider(new BouncyCastleProvider());

    // then go as usual 
    MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-256");
    String text = "my string...";
    md.update(text.getBytes("UTF-8")); // or UTF-16 if needed
    byte[] digest = md.digest();

.NET Console Application Exit Event

The application is a server which simply runs until the system shuts down or it receives a Ctrl+C or the console window is closed.

Due to the extraordinary nature of the application, it is not feasible to "gracefully" exit. (It may be that I could code another application which would send a "server shutdown" message but that would be overkill for one application and still insufficient for certain circumstances like when the server (Actual OS) is actually shutting down.)

Because of these circumstances I added a "ConsoleCtrlHandler" where I stop my threads and clean up my COM objects etc...


Public Declare Auto Function SetConsoleCtrlHandler Lib "kernel32.dll" (ByVal Handler As HandlerRoutine, ByVal Add As Boolean) As Boolean

Public Delegate Function HandlerRoutine(ByVal CtrlType As CtrlTypes) As Boolean

Public Enum CtrlTypes
  CTRL_C_EVENT = 0
  CTRL_BREAK_EVENT
  CTRL_CLOSE_EVENT
  CTRL_LOGOFF_EVENT = 5
  CTRL_SHUTDOWN_EVENT
End Enum

Public Function ControlHandler(ByVal ctrlType As CtrlTypes) As Boolean
.
.clean up code here
.
End Function

Public Sub Main()
.
.
.
SetConsoleCtrlHandler(New HandlerRoutine(AddressOf ControlHandler), True)
.
.
End Sub

This setup seems to work out perfectly. Here is a link to some C# code for the same thing.

Spring application context external properties?

You can use file prefix to load the external application context file some thing like this

  <context:property-placeholder location="file:///C:/Applications/external/external.properties"/>

How to read strings from a Scanner in a Java console application?

Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
int employeeId, supervisorId;
String name;
System.out.println("Enter employee ID:");
employeeId = scanner.nextInt();
scanner.nextLine(); //This is needed to pick up the new line
System.out.println("Enter employee name:");
name = scanner.nextLine();
System.out.println("Enter supervisor ID:");
supervisorId = scanner.nextInt();

Calling nextInt() was a problem as it didn't pick up the new line (when you hit enter). So, calling scanner.nextLine() after that does the work.

Sleep function in C++

Recently I was learning about chrono library and thought of implementing a sleep function on my own. Here is the code,

#include <cmath>
#include <chrono>

template <typename rep = std::chrono::seconds::rep, 
          typename period = std::chrono::seconds::period>
void sleep(std::chrono::duration<rep, period> sec)
{
    using sleep_duration = std::chrono::duration<long double, std::nano>;

    std::chrono::steady_clock::time_point start = std::chrono::steady_clock::now();
    std::chrono::steady_clock::time_point end = std::chrono::steady_clock::now();

    long double elapsed_time = 
    std::chrono::duration_cast<sleep_duration>(end - start).count();

    long double sleep_time = 
    std::chrono::duration_cast<sleep_duration>(sec).count();

    while (std::isgreater(sleep_time, elapsed_time)) {
        end = std::chrono::steady_clock::now();
        elapsed_time = std::chrono::duration_cast<sleep_duration>(end - start).count(); 
    }
}

We can use it with any std::chrono::duration type (By default it takes std::chrono::seconds as argument). For example,

#include <cmath>
#include <chrono>

template <typename rep = std::chrono::seconds::rep, 
          typename period = std::chrono::seconds::period>
void sleep(std::chrono::duration<rep, period> sec)
{
    using sleep_duration = std::chrono::duration<long double, std::nano>;

    std::chrono::steady_clock::time_point start = std::chrono::steady_clock::now();
    std::chrono::steady_clock::time_point end = std::chrono::steady_clock::now();

    long double elapsed_time = 
    std::chrono::duration_cast<sleep_duration>(end - start).count();

    long double sleep_time = 
    std::chrono::duration_cast<sleep_duration>(sec).count();

    while (std::isgreater(sleep_time, elapsed_time)) {
        end = std::chrono::steady_clock::now();
        elapsed_time = std::chrono::duration_cast<sleep_duration>(end - start).count(); 
    }
}

using namespace std::chrono_literals;
int main (void) {
    std::chrono::steady_clock::time_point start1 = std::chrono::steady_clock::now();
    
    sleep(5s);  // sleep for 5 seconds
    
    std::chrono::steady_clock::time_point end1 = std::chrono::steady_clock::now();
    
    std::cout << std::setprecision(9) << std::fixed;
    std::cout << "Elapsed time was: " << std::chrono::duration_cast<std::chrono::seconds>(end1-start1).count() << "s\n";
    
    std::chrono::steady_clock::time_point start2 = std::chrono::steady_clock::now();

    sleep(500000ns);  // sleep for 500000 nano seconds/500 micro seconds
    // same as writing: sleep(500us)
    
    std::chrono::steady_clock::time_point end2 = std::chrono::steady_clock::now();
    
    std::cout << "Elapsed time was: " << std::chrono::duration_cast<std::chrono::microseconds>(end2-start2).count() << "us\n";
    return 0;
}

For more information, visit https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/header/chrono and see this cppcon talk of Howard Hinnant, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P32hvk8b13M. He has two more talks on chrono library. And you can always use the library function, std::this_thread::sleep_for

Note: Outputs may not be accurate. So, don't expect it to give exact timings.

How do I accomplish an if/else in mustache.js?

You can define a helper in the view. However, the conditional logic is somewhat limited. Moxy-Stencil (https://github.com/dcmox/moxyscript-stencil) seems to address this with "parameterized" helpers, eg:

{{isActive param}}

and in the view:

view.isActive = function (path: string){ return path === this.path ? "class='active'" : '' }

Java 6 Unsupported major.minor version 51.0

add jdk8 or higher version at JAVA_HOME and path.

add JAVA_HOME add C:\ProgramFiles\Java\jdk1.8.0_201

For Path =>

add %MAVEN_HOME%\bin

and finally restart your pc.

Get querystring from URL using jQuery

From: http://jquery-howto.blogspot.com/2009/09/get-url-parameters-values-with-jquery.html

This is what you need :)

The following code will return a JavaScript Object containing the URL parameters:

// Read a page's GET URL variables and return them as an associative array.
function getUrlVars()
{
    var vars = [], hash;
    var hashes = window.location.href.slice(window.location.href.indexOf('?') + 1).split('&');
    for(var i = 0; i < hashes.length; i++)
    {
        hash = hashes[i].split('=');
        vars.push(hash[0]);
        vars[hash[0]] = hash[1];
    }
    return vars;
}

For example, if you have the URL:

http://www.example.com/?me=myValue&name2=SomeOtherValue

This code will return:

{
    "me"    : "myValue",
    "name2" : "SomeOtherValue"
}

and you can do:

var me = getUrlVars()["me"];
var name2 = getUrlVars()["name2"];

sorting integers in order lowest to highest java

if array.sort doesn't have what your looking for you can try this:

package drawFramePackage;
import java.awt.geom.AffineTransform;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.ListIterator;
import java.util.Random;
public class QuicksortAlgorithm {
    ArrayList<AffineTransform> affs;
    ListIterator<AffineTransform> li;
    Integer count, count2;
    /**
     * @param args
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new QuicksortAlgorithm();
    }
    public QuicksortAlgorithm(){
        count = new Integer(0);
        count2 = new Integer(1);
        affs = new ArrayList<AffineTransform>();
        for (int i = 0; i <= 128; i++){
            affs.add(new AffineTransform(1, 0, 0, 1, new Random().nextInt(1024), 0));
        }
        affs = arrangeNumbers(affs);
        printNumbers();
    }
    public ArrayList<AffineTransform> arrangeNumbers(ArrayList<AffineTransform> list){
        while (list.size() > 1 && count != list.size() - 1){
            if (list.get(count2).getTranslateX() > list.get(count).getTranslateX()){
                list.add(count, list.get(count2));
                list.remove(count2 + 1);
            }
            if (count2 == list.size() - 1){
                count++;
                count2 = count + 1;
            }
            else{
            count2++;
            }
        }
        return list;
    }
    public void printNumbers(){
        li = affs.listIterator();
        while (li.hasNext()){
            System.out.println(li.next());
        }
    }
}

Regular Expression: Allow letters, numbers, and spaces (with at least one letter or number)

To go ahead and get a point out there, instead of repeatedly using these:

[A-Za-z0-9 _]
[A-Za-z0-9]

I have two (hopefully better) replacements for those two:

[\w ]
[^\W_]

The first one matches any word character (alphanumeric and _, as well as Unicode) and the space. The second matches anything that isn't a non-word character or an underscore (alphanumeric only, as well as Unicode).

If you don't want Unicode matching, then stick with the other answers. But these just look easier on the eyes (in my opinion). Taking the "preferred" answer as of this writing and using the shorter regexes gives us:

^[\w ]*[^\W_][\w ]*$

Perhaps more readable, perhaps less. Certainly shorter. Your choice.

EDIT:

Just as a note, I am assuming Perl-style regexes here. Your regex engine may or may not support things like \w and \W.

EDIT 2:

Tested mine with the JS regex tester that someone linked to and some basic examples worked fine. Didn't do anything extensive, just wanted to make sure that \w and \W worked fine in JS.

EDIT 3:

Having tried to test some Unicode with the JS regex tester site, I've discovered the problem: that page uses ISO instead of Unicode. No wonder my Japanese input didn't match. Oh well, that shouldn't be difficult to fix:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

Or so. I don't know what should be done as far as JavaScript, but I'm sure it's not hard.

A Java collection of value pairs? (tuples?)

This is based on JavaHelp4u 's code.

Less verbose and shows how to do in one line and how to loop over things.

//======>  Imports
import java.util.AbstractMap.SimpleEntry;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map.Entry;

//======>  Single Entry
SimpleEntry<String, String> myEntry = new SimpleEntry<String, String>("ID", "Text");
System.out.println("key: " + myEntry.getKey() + "    value:" + myEntry.getValue());
System.out.println();

//======>  List of Entries
List<Entry<String,String>> pairList = new ArrayList<>();

//-- Specify manually
Entry<String,String> firstButton = new SimpleEntry<String, String>("Red ", "Way out");
pairList.add(firstButton);

//-- one liner:
pairList.add(new SimpleEntry<String,String>("Gray", "Alternate route"));  //Ananomous add.

//-- Iterate over Entry array:
for (Entry<String, String> entr : pairList) {
    System.out.println("Button: " + entr.getKey() + "    Label: " + entr.getValue());
}

How to assign a NULL value to a pointer in python?

Normally you can use None, but you can also use objc.NULL, e.g.

import objc
val = objc.NULL

Especially useful when working with C code in Python.

Also see: Python objc.NULL Examples

Using number_format method in Laravel

If you are using Eloquent, in your model put:

public function getPriceAttribute($price)
{
    return $this->attributes['price'] = sprintf('U$ %s', number_format($price, 2));
}

Where getPriceAttribute is your field on database. getSomethingAttribute.

how to check and set max_allowed_packet mysql variable

max_allowed_packet is set in mysql config, not on php side

[mysqld]
max_allowed_packet=16M 

You can see it's curent value in mysql like this:

SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'max_allowed_packet';

You can try to change it like this, but it's unlikely this will work on shared hosting:

SET GLOBAL max_allowed_packet=16777216;

You can read about it here http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/packet-too-large.html

EDIT

The [mysqld] is necessary to make the max_allowed_packet working since at least mysql version 5.5.

Recently setup an instance on AWS EC2 with Drupal and Solr Search Engine, which required 32M max_allowed_packet. It you set the value under [mysqld_safe] (which is default settings came with the mysql installation) mode in /etc/my.cnf, it did no work. I did not dig into the problem. But after I change it to [mysqld] and restarted the mysqld, it worked.

How to loop through all elements of a form jQuery

From the jQuery :input selector page:

Because :input is a jQuery extension and not part of the CSS specification, queries using :input cannot take advantage of the performance boost provided by the native DOM querySelectorAll() method. To achieve the best performance when using :input to select elements, first select the elements using a pure CSS selector, then use .filter(":input").

This is the best choice.

$('#new_user_form *').filter(':input').each(function(){
    //your code here
});

github changes not staged for commit

For me, I had to commit the subdirectories which had .git in it since both the parent and the subfolder have remotes to push to. And then commit and push the parent directory.

Google Maps API v3: How to remove all markers?

To clear of all the overlays including polys, markers, etc...

simply use:

map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map_canvas"), myOptions);}

Here is a function that I wrote to do it form me on a map application:

  function clear_Map() {
    directionsDisplay = new google.maps.DirectionsRenderer();
    //var chicago = new google.maps.LatLng(41.850033, -87.6500523);
    var myOptions = {
        zoom: 8,
        mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP,
        center: HamptonRoads
    }

    map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map_canvas"), myOptions);
    directionsDisplay.setMap(map);
    directionsDisplay.setPanel(document.getElementById("directionsPanel"));
}

If input field is empty, disable submit button

Try this code

$(document).ready(function(){
    $('.sendButton').attr('disabled',true);

    $('#message').keyup(function(){
        if($(this).val().length !=0){
            $('.sendButton').attr('disabled', false);
        }
        else
        {
            $('.sendButton').attr('disabled', true);        
        }
    })
});

Check demo Fiddle

You are missing the else part of the if statement (to disable the button again if textbox is empty) and parentheses () after val function in if($(this).val.length !=0){

How do I draw a set of vertical lines in gnuplot?

To elaborate on previous answers about the "every x units" part, here is what I came up with:

# Draw 5 vertical lines
n = 5

# ... evenly spaced between x0 and x1
x0 = 1.0
x1 = 2.0
dx = (x1-x0)/(n-1.0)

# ... each line going from y0 to y1
y0 = 0
y1 = 10

do for [i = 0:n-1] {
    x = x0 + i*dx
    set arrow from x,y0 to x,y1 nohead linecolor "blue" # add other styling options if needed
}

Make XmlHttpRequest POST using JSON

If you use JSON properly, you can have nested object without any issue :

var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();   // new HttpRequest instance 
var theUrl = "/json-handler";
xmlhttp.open("POST", theUrl);
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/json;charset=UTF-8");
xmlhttp.send(JSON.stringify({ "email": "[email protected]", "response": { "name": "Tester" } }));

How to generate gcc debug symbol outside the build target?

Check out the "--only-keep-debug" option of the strip command.

From the link:

The intention is that this option will be used in conjunction with --add-gnu-debuglink to create a two part executable. One a stripped binary which will occupy less space in RAM and in a distribution and the second a debugging information file which is only needed if debugging abilities are required.

How to write to a JSON file in the correct format

To make this work on Ubuntu Linux:

  1. I installed the Ubuntu package ruby-json:

    apt-get install ruby-json
    
  2. I wrote the script in ${HOME}/rubybin/jsonDEMO

  3. $HOME/.bashrc included:

    ${HOME}/rubybin:${PATH}
    

(On this occasion I also typed the above on the bash command line.)

Then it worked when I entered on the command line:

jsonDemo

Is there a standard function to check for null, undefined, or blank variables in JavaScript?

Most of the existing answers failed for my use case, most returned empty if a function was assigned to the variable or if NaN was returned. Pascal's answer was good.

Here's my implementation, please test and let me know if you find anything. You can see how I tested this function here.

function isEmpty(value) {
  return (
    // Null or undefined.
    (value == null) ||
    // Check if a Set() or Map() is empty
    (value.size === 0) ||
    // NaN - The only JavaScript value that is unequal to itself.
    (value !== value) ||
    // Length is zero && it's not a function.
    (value.length === 0 && typeof value !== "function") ||
    // Is an Object && has no keys.
    (value.constructor === Object && Object.keys(value).length === 0)
  )
}

Returns:

  • true: undefined, null, "", [], {}, NaN, new Set(), //
  • false: true, false, 1, 0, -1, "foo", [1, 2, 3], { foo: 1 }, function () {}

How do you test your Request.QueryString[] variables?

if(!string.IsNullOrEmpty(Request.QueryString["id"]))
{
//querystring contains id
}

How do I enable/disable log levels in Android?

The easiest way is probably to run your compiled JAR through ProGuard before deployment, with a config like:

-assumenosideeffects class android.util.Log {
    public static int v(...);
}

That will — aside from all the other ProGuard optimisations — remove any verbose log statements directly from the bytecode.

Passive Link in Angular 2 - <a href=""> equivalent

Here are some ways to do it:

  • <a href="" (click)="false">Click Me</a>

  • <a style="cursor: pointer;">Click Me</a>

  • <a href="javascript:void(0)">Click Me</a>

How to assign name for a screen?

The easiest way use screen with name

screen -S 'name' 'application'
  • Ctrl+a, d = exit and leave application open

Return to screen:

screen -r 'name'

for example using lynx with screen

Create screen:

screen -S lynx lynx

Ctrl+a, d =exit

later you can return with:

screen -r lynx

Declaring variables in Excel Cells

You can name cells. This is done by clicking the Name Box (that thing next to the formula bar which says "A1" for example) and typing a name, such as, "myvar". Now you can use that name instead of the cell reference:

= myvar*25

Setting Custom ActionBar Title from Fragment

If you have a main activity with many fragments you put in, usually using the navigationDrawer. And you have an array of titles for yours fragments, when you press back, for them to change, put this in the main actity that hold the fragments

@Override
     public void onBackPressed() {

    int T=getSupportFragmentManager().getBackStackEntryCount();
    if(T==1) { finish();}

    if(T>1) {
        int tr = Integer.parseInt(getSupportFragmentManager().getBackStackEntryAt(T-2).getName());
        setTitle(navMenuTitles[tr]);  super.onBackPressed();
      }

}

This assumes that for each fragment you give it a tag, usually somewhere when you add the fragments to the list of navigationDrawer, according to the position pressed on the list. So that position is what i capture on the tag:

    fragmentManager.beginTransaction().
replace(R.id.frame_container, fragment).addToBackStack(position).commit();

Now, the navMenuTitles is something you load on the onCreate

 // load slide menu items
        navMenuTitles = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.nav_drawer_items);

The array xml is an array type string resource on strings.xml

 <!-- Nav Drawer Menu Items -->
    <string-array name="nav_drawer_items">
        <item>Title one</item>
        <item>Title Two</item>
    </string-array>

'const int' vs. 'int const' as function parameters in C++ and C

const int is identical to int const, as is true with all scalar types in C. In general, declaring a scalar function parameter as const is not needed, since C's call-by-value semantics mean that any changes to the variable are local to its enclosing function.

Bootstrap footer at the bottom of the page

Use this stylesheet:

_x000D_
_x000D_
/* Sticky footer styles_x000D_
-------------------------------------------------- */_x000D_
html {_x000D_
  position: relative;_x000D_
  min-height: 100%;_x000D_
}_x000D_
body {_x000D_
  /* Margin bottom by footer height */_x000D_
  margin-bottom: 60px;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.footer {_x000D_
  position: absolute;_x000D_
  bottom: 0;_x000D_
  width: 100%;_x000D_
  /* Set the fixed height of the footer here */_x000D_
  height: 60px;_x000D_
  line-height: 60px; /* Vertically center the text there */_x000D_
  background-color: #f5f5f5;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_
/* Custom page CSS_x000D_
-------------------------------------------------- */_x000D_
/* Not required for template or sticky footer method. */_x000D_
_x000D_
body > .container {_x000D_
  padding: 60px 15px 0;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
.footer > .container {_x000D_
  padding-right: 15px;_x000D_
  padding-left: 15px;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
code {_x000D_
  font-size: 80%;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Is it possible to put a ConstraintLayout inside a ScrollView?

use NestedScrollView with viewport true is working good for me

<android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:fillViewport="true">

        <android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="700dp">

        </android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

</android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView>

Uri content://media/external/file doesn't exist for some devices

Most probably it has to do with caching on the device. Catching the exception and ignoring is not nice but my problem was fixed and it seems to work.

Get the Selected value from the Drop down box in PHP

You have to give a name attribute on your <select /> element, and then use it from the $_POST or $_GET (depending on how you transmit data) arrays in PHP. Be sure to sanitize user input, though.

The static keyword and its various uses in C++

Static storage duration means that the variable resides in the same place in memory through the lifetime of the program.

Linkage is orthogonal to this.

I think this is the most important distinction you can make. Understand this and the rest, as well as remembering it, should come easy (not addressing @Tony directly, but whoever might read this in the future).

The keyword static can be used to denote internal linkage and static storage, but in essence these are different.

What does it mean with local variable? Is that a function local variable?

Yes. Regardless of when the variable is initialized (on first call to the function and when execution path reaches the declaration point), it will reside in the same place in memory for the life of the program. In this case, static gives it static storage.

Now what about the case with static and file scope? Are all global variables considered to have static storage duration by default?

Yes, all globals have by definition static storage duration (now that we cleared up what that means). But namespace scoped variables aren't declared with static, because that would give them internal linkage, so a variable per translation unit.

How does static relate to the linkage of a variable?

It gives namespace-scoped variables internal linkage. It gives members and local variables static storage duration.

Let's expand on all this:

//

static int x; //internal linkage
              //non-static storage - each translation unit will have its own copy of x
              //NOT A TRUE GLOBAL!

int y;        //static storage duration (can be used with extern)
              //actual global
              //external linkage
struct X
{
   static int x;     //static storage duration - shared between class instances 
};

void foo()
{
   static int x;     //static storage duration - shared between calls
}

This whole static keyword is downright confusing

Definitely, unless you're familiar with it. :) Trying to avoid adding new keywords to the language, the committee re-used this one, IMO, to this effect - confusion. It's used to signify different things (might I say, probably opposing things).

How to fix curl: (60) SSL certificate: Invalid certificate chain

Using the Safari browser (not Chrome, Firefox or Opera) on Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) visit https://registry.npmjs.org

Screenshot of Safari showing certificate error

Click the Show certificate button and then check the checkbox labelled Always trust. Then click Continue and enter your password if required.

Always trust checkbox

Curl should now work with that URL correctly.

Passing null arguments to C# methods

You can use 2 ways: int? or Nullable, both have the same behavior. You could to make a mix without problems but is better choice one to make code cleanest.

Option 1 (With ?):

private void Example(int? arg1, int? arg2)
    {
        if (arg1.HasValue)
        {
            //do something
        }
        if (arg1.HasValue)
        {
            //do something else
        }
    }

Option 2 (With Nullable):

private void Example(Nullable<int> arg1, Nullable<int> arg2)
    {
        if (arg1.HasValue)
        {
            //do something
        }
        if (arg1.HasValue)
        {
            //do something else
        }
    }

From C#4.0 comes a new way to do the same with more flexibility, in this case the framework offers optional parameters with default values, of this way you can set a default value if the method is called without all parameters.

Option 3 (With default values)

private void Example(int arg1 = 0, int arg2 = 1)
    {
        //do something else
    }

How to check if an array value exists?

bool in_array ( mixed $needle , array $haystack [, bool $strict = FALSE ] )

Another use of in_array in_array() with an array as needle

<?php
$a = array(array('p', 'h'), array('p', 'r'), 'o');

if (in_array(array('p', 'h'), $a)) {
    echo "'ph' was found\n";
}

if (in_array(array('f', 'i'), $a)) {
    echo "'fi' was found\n";
}

if (in_array('o', $a)) {
    echo "'o' was found\n";
}
?>

Scala check if element is present in a list

And if you didn't want to use strict equality, you could use exists:


myFunction(strings.exists { x => customPredicate(x) })

ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptBlock?

The method System.Web.UI.Page.RegisterClientScriptBlock has been deprecated for some time (along with the other Page.Register* methods), ever since .NET 2.0 as shown by MSDN.

Instead use the .NET 2.0 Page.ClientScript.Register* methods. - (The ClientScript property expresses an instance of the ClientScriptManager class )

Guessing the problem

If you are saying your JavaScript alert box occurs before the page's content is visibly rendered, and therefore the page remains white (or still unrendered) when the alert box is dismissed by the user, then try using the Page.ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(..) method instead because it runs the given client-side code when the page finishes loading - and its arguments are similar to what you're using already.

Also check for general JavaScript errors in the page - this is often seen by an error icon in the browser's status bar. Sometimes a JavaScript error will hold up or disturb unrelated elements on the page.

Python try-else

An else block can often exist to complement functionality that occurs in every except block.

try:
    test_consistency(valuable_data)
except Except1:
    inconsistency_type = 1
except Except2:
    inconsistency_type = 2
except:
    # Something else is wrong
    raise
else:
    inconsistency_type = 0

"""
Process each individual inconsistency down here instead of
inside the except blocks. Use 0 to mean no inconsistency.
"""

In this case, inconsistency_type is set in each except block, so that behaviour is complemented in the no-error case in else.

Of course, I'm describing this as a pattern that may turn up in your own code someday. In this specific case, you just set inconsistency_type to 0 before the try block anyway.

Checking if a collection is empty in Java: which is the best method?

To Check collection is empty, you can use method: .count(). Example:

DBCollection collection = mMongoOperation.getCollection("sequence");
    if(collection.count() == 0) {
        SequenceId sequenceId = new SequenceId("id", 0);
        mMongoOperation.save(sequenceId);
    }

Automatic prune with Git fetch or pull

git config --global fetch.prune true

To always --prune for git fetch and git pull in all your Git repositories:

git config --global fetch.prune true

This above command appends in your global Git configuration (typically ~/.gitconfig) the following lines. Use git config -e --global to view your global configuration.

[fetch]
    prune = true

git config remote.origin.prune true

To always --prune but from one single repository:

git config remote.origin.prune true
                 #^^^^^^
                 #replace with your repo name

This above command adds in your local Git configuration (typically .git/config) the below last line. Use git config -e to view your local configuration.

[remote "origin"]
    url = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
    prune = true

You can also use --global within the second command or use instead --local within the first command.


git config --global gui.pruneDuringFetch true

If you use git gui you may also be interested by:

git config --global gui.pruneDuringFetch true

that appends:

[gui]
    pruneDuringFetch = true

References

The corresponding documentations from git help config:

--global

  For writing options: write to global ~/.gitconfig file rather than the repository .git/config, write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config file if this file exists and the ~/.gitconfig file doesn’t.

 

--local

  For writing options: write to the repository .git/config file. This is the default behavior.

 

fetch.prune

  If true, fetch will automatically behave as if the --prune option was given on the command line. See also remote.<name>.prune.

 

gui.pruneDuringFetch

  "true" if git-gui should prune remote-tracking branches when performing a fetch. The default value is "false".

 

remote.<name>.prune

  When set to true, fetching from this remote by default will also remove any remote-tracking references that no longer exist on the remote (as if the --prune option was given on the command line). Overrides fetch.prune settings, if any.

Rails migration for change column

Another way to change data type using migration

step1: You need to remove the faulted data type field name using migration

ex:

rails g migration RemoveFieldNameFromTableName field_name:data_type

Here don't forget to specify data type for your field

Step 2: Now you can add field with correct data type

ex:

rails g migration AddFieldNameToTableName field_name:data_type

That's it, now your table will added with correct data type field, Happy ruby coding!!

How to insert a line break in a SQL Server VARCHAR/NVARCHAR string

Here's a C# function that prepends a text line to an existing text blob, delimited by CRLFs, and returns a T-SQL expression suitable for INSERT or UPDATE operations. It's got some of our proprietary error handling in it, but once you rip that out, it may be helpful -- I hope so.

/// <summary>
/// Generate a SQL string value expression suitable for INSERT/UPDATE operations that prepends
/// the specified line to an existing block of text, assumed to have \r\n delimiters, and
/// truncate at a maximum length.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="sNewLine">Single text line to be prepended to existing text</param>
/// <param name="sOrigLines">Current text value; assumed to be CRLF-delimited</param>
/// <param name="iMaxLen">Integer field length</param>
/// <returns>String: SQL string expression suitable for INSERT/UPDATE operations.  Empty on error.</returns>
private string PrependCommentLine(string sNewLine, String sOrigLines, int iMaxLen)
{
    String fn = MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().Name;

    try
    {
        String [] line_array = sOrigLines.Split("\r\n".ToCharArray());
        List<string> orig_lines = new List<string>();
        foreach(String orig_line in line_array) 
        { 
            if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(orig_line))  
            {  
                orig_lines.Add(orig_line);    
            }
        } // end foreach(original line)

        String final_comments = "'" + sNewLine + "' + CHAR(13) + CHAR(10) ";
        int cum_length = sNewLine.Length + 2;
        foreach(String orig_line in orig_lines)
        {
            String curline = orig_line;
            if (cum_length >= iMaxLen) break;                // stop appending if we're already over
            if ((cum_length+orig_line.Length+2)>=iMaxLen)    // If this one will push us over, truncate and warn:
            {
                Util.HandleAppErr(this, fn, "Truncating comments: " + orig_line);
                curline = orig_line.Substring(0, iMaxLen - (cum_length + 3));
            }
            final_comments += " + '" + curline + "' + CHAR(13) + CHAR(10) \r\n";
            cum_length += orig_line.Length + 2;
        } // end foreach(second pass on original lines)

        return(final_comments);


    } // end main try()
    catch(Exception exc)
    {
        Util.HandleExc(this,fn,exc);
        return("");
    }
}

What is difference between arm64 and armhf?

Update: Yes, I understand that this answer does not explain the difference between arm64 and armhf. There is a great answer that does explain that on this page. This answer was intended to help set the asker on the right path, as they clearly had a misunderstanding about the capabilities of the Raspberry Pi at the time of asking.

Where are you seeing that the architecture is armhf? On my Raspberry Pi 3, I get:

$ uname -a
armv7l

Anyway, armv7 indicates that the system architecture is 32-bit. The first ARM architecture offering 64-bit support is armv8. See this table for reference.

You are correct that the CPU in the Raspberry Pi 3 is 64-bit, but the Raspbian OS has not yet been updated for a 64-bit device. 32-bit software can run on a 64-bit system (but not vice versa). This is why you're not seeing the architecture reported as 64-bit.

You can follow the GitHub issue for 64-bit support here, if you're interested.

How to vertically align text with icon font?

You can use this property : vertical-align:middle;

.selector-class { 
    float:left;
    vertical-align:middle; 
} 

bootstrap datepicker change date event doesnt fire up when manually editing dates or clearing date

In version 2.1.5

changeDate has been renamed to change.dp so changedate was not working for me

$("#datetimepicker").datetimepicker().on('change.dp', function (e) {
            FillDate(new Date());
    });

also needed to change css class from datepicker to datepicker-input

<div id='datetimepicker' class='datepicker-input input-group controls'>
   <input id='txtStartDate' class='form-control' placeholder='Select datepicker' data-rule-required='true' data-format='MM-DD-YYYY' type='text' />
   <span class='input-group-addon'>
       <span class='icon-calendar' data-time-icon='icon-time' data-date-icon='icon-calendar'></span>
   </span>
</div>

Date formate also works in capitals like this data-format='MM-DD-YYYY'

it might be helpful for someone it gave me really hard time :)

Using JAXB to unmarshal/marshal a List<String>

User1's example worked well for me. But, as a warning, it won't work with anything other than simple String/Integer types, unless you add an @XmlSeeAlso annotation:

@XmlRootElement(name = "List")
@XmlSeeAlso(MovieTicket.class)
public class MovieTicketList {
    protected List<MovieTicket> list;

This works OK, although it prevents me from using a single generic list class across my entire application. It might also explain why this seemingly obvious class doesn't exist in the JAXB package.

Accessing variables from other functions without using global variables

If another function needs to use a variable you pass it to the function as an argument.

Also global variables are not inherently nasty and evil. As long as they are used properly there is no problem with them.

How can I get the error message for the mail() function?

In my case, I couldn't get the error message in my PHP script no matter what I do (error_get_last(), or ini_set('display_errors',1);) don't show the error message

according to this post

The return value from $mail refers only to whether or not your server's mailing system accepted the message for delivery, and does not and can not in any way know whether or not you are providing valid arguments. For example, the return value would be false if sendmail failed to load (e.g. if it wasn't installed properly), but would return true if sendmail loaded properly but the recipient address doesn't exist.

I confirm this because after some failed attempts to use mail() in my PHP scripts, it turns that sendmail was not installed on my machine, however the php.ini variable sendmail_path was /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i

1- I installed sendmail from my package manager shell> dnf install sendmail

2- I started it shell> service sendmail start

3- Now if any PHP mail() function fails I find the errors of the sendmail program logged under /var/mail/ directory. 1 file per user

For example this snippet is taken from my /var/mail/root file

The original message was received at Sun, 29 Jul 2018 22:37:51 +0200
from localhost [127.0.0.1]
   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<[email protected]>
    (reason: 550 Host unknown)

My system is linux Fedora 28 with apache2.4 and PHP 7.2

How do you put an image file in a json object?

To upload files directly to Mongo DB you can make use of Grid FS. Although I will suggest you to upload the file anywhere in file system and put the image's url in the JSON object for every entry and then when you call the data for specific object you can call for the image using URL.

Tell me which backend technology are you using? I can give more suggestions based on that.

How can I write a byte array to a file in Java?

You can use IOUtils.write(byte[] data, OutputStream output) from Apache Commons IO.

KeyGenerator kgen = KeyGenerator.getInstance("AES");
kgen.init(128);
SecretKey key = kgen.generateKey();
byte[] encoded = key.getEncoded();
FileOutputStream output = new FileOutputStream(new File("target-file"));
IOUtils.write(encoded, output);

fitting data with numpy

Note that you can use the Polynomial class directly to do the fitting and return a Polynomial instance.

from numpy.polynomial import Polynomial

p = Polynomial.fit(x, y, 4)
plt.plot(*p.linspace())

p uses scaled and shifted x values for numerical stability. If you need the usual form of the coefficients, you will need to follow with

pnormal = p.convert(domain=(-1, 1))

How to call a button click event from another method

For WPF:

YourButtonName.RaiseEvent(new RoutedEventArgs(System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.ButtonBase.ClickEvent));

Bootstrap 3 Styled Select dropdown looks ugly in Firefox on OS X

We have been using the plugin bootstrap-select for Bootstrap for dtyling selects. Really works well and has lots of interesting additional features. I can recommend it for sure.

How to take input in an array + PYTHON?

You want this - enter N and then take N number of elements.I am considering your input case is just like this

5
2 3 6 6 5

have this in this way in python 3.x (for python 2.x use raw_input() instead if input())

Python 3

n = int(input())
arr = input()   # takes the whole line of n numbers
l = list(map(int,arr.split(' '))) # split those numbers with space( becomes ['2','3','6','6','5']) and then map every element into int (becomes [2,3,6,6,5])

Python 2

n = int(raw_input())
arr = raw_input()   # takes the whole line of n numbers
l = list(map(int,arr.split(' '))) # split those numbers with space( becomes ['2','3','6','6','5']) and then map every element into int (becomes [2,3,6,6,5])

How to set iPhone UIView z index?

[parentView bringSubviewToFront:view] ;

Automated way to convert XML files to SQL database?

There is a project on CodeProject that makes it simple to convert an XML file to SQL Script. It uses XSLT. You could probably modify it to generate the DDL too.

And See this question too : Generating SQL using XML and XSLT

using CASE in the WHERE clause

You don't have to use CASE...WHEN, you could use an OR condition, like this:

WHERE
  pw='correct'
  AND (id>=800 OR success=1) 
  AND YEAR(timestamp)=2011

this means that if id<800, success has to be 1 for the condition to be evaluated as true. Otherwise, it will be true anyway.

It is less common, however you could still use CASE WHEN, like this:

WHERE
  pw='correct'
  AND CASE WHEN id<800 THEN success=1 ELSE TRUE END 
  AND YEAR(timestamp)=2011

this means: return success=1 (which can be TRUE or FALSE) in case id<800, or always return TRUE otherwise.

Datagrid binding in WPF

try to do this in the behind code

   public diagboxclass()
   {
         List<object> list = new List<object>();
         list = GetObjectList();
         Imported.ItemsSource = null;
         Imported.ItemsSource = list;
   }

Also be sure your list is effectively populated and as mentioned by Blindmeis, never use words that already are given a function in c#.

How I could add dir to $PATH in Makefile?

What I usually do is supply the path to the executable explicitly:

EXE=./bin/
...
test all:
    $(EXE)x

I also use this technique to run non-native binaries under an emulator like QEMU if I'm cross compiling:

EXE = qemu-mips ./bin/

If make is using the sh shell, this should work:

test all:
    PATH=bin:$PATH x

how can I enable PHP Extension intl?

  1. Go to C:\xampp\php
  2. open the file "php.ini-development" on a text editor.
  3. Then uncomment ;extension=php_intl.dll by removing the semicolon

Convert string to Python class object?

Yes, you can do this. Assuming your classes exist in the global namespace, something like this will do it:

import types

class Foo:
    pass

def str_to_class(s):
    if s in globals() and isinstance(globals()[s], types.ClassType):
            return globals()[s]
    return None

str_to_class('Foo')

==> <class __main__.Foo at 0x340808cc>

What REALLY happens when you don't free after malloc?

I completely disagree with everyone who says OP is correct or there is no harm.

Everyone is talking about a modern and/or legacy OS's.

But what if I'm in an environment where I simply have no OS? Where there isn't anything?

Imagine now you are using thread styled interrupts and allocate memory. In the C standard ISO/IEC:9899 is the lifetime of memory stated as:

7.20.3 Memory management functions

1 The order and contiguity of storage allocated by successive calls to the calloc, malloc, and realloc functions is unspecified. The pointer returned if the allocation succeeds is suitably aligned so that it may be assigned to a pointer to any type of object and then used to access such an object or an array of such objects in the space allocated (until the space is explicitly deallocated). The lifetime of an allocated object extends from the allocation until the deallocation.[...]

So it has not to be given that the environment is doing the freeing job for you. Otherwise it would be added to the last sentence: "Or until the program terminates."

So in other words: Not freeing memory is not just bad practice. It produces non portable and not C conform code. Which can at least be seen as 'correct, if the following: [...], is supported by environment'.

But in cases where you have no OS at all, no one is doing the job for you (I know generally you don't allocate and reallocate memory on embedded systems, but there are cases where you may want to.)

So speaking in general plain C (as which the OP is tagged), this is simply producing erroneous and non portable code.

Disable password authentication for SSH

In file /etc/ssh/sshd_config

# Change to no to disable tunnelled clear text passwords
#PasswordAuthentication no

Uncomment the second line, and, if needed, change yes to no.

Then run

service ssh restart

Design Android EditText to show error message as described by google

There's no need to use a third-party library since Google introduced the TextInputLayout as part of the design-support-library.

Following a basic example:

Layout

<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
    android:id="@+id/text_input_layout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    app:errorEnabled="true">

    <android.support.design.widget.TextInputEditText
        android:id="@+id/edit_text"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:hint="Enter your name" />

</android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>

Note: By setting app:errorEnabled="true" as an attribute of the TextInputLayout it won't change it's size once an error is displayed - so it basically blocks the space.

Code

In order to show the Error below the EditText you simply need to call #setError on the TextInputLayout (NOT on the child EditText):

TextInputLayout til = (TextInputLayout) findViewById(R.id.text_input_layout);
til.setError("You need to enter a name");

Result

picture showing the edit text with the error message

To hide the error and reset the tint simply call til.setError(null).


Note

In order to use the TextInputLayout you have to add the following to your build.gradle dependencies:

dependencies {
    compile 'com.android.support:design:25.1.0'
}

Setting a custom color

By default the line of the EditText will be red. If you need to display a different color you can use the following code as soon as you call setError.

editText.getBackground().setColorFilter(getResources().getColor(R.color.red_500_primary), PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_ATOP);

To clear it simply call the clearColorFilter function, like this:

editText.getBackground().clearColorFilter();

WCF timeout exception detailed investigation

If you are using .Net client then you may not have set

//This says how many outgoing connection you can make to a single endpoint. Default Value is 2
System.Net.ServicePointManager.DefaultConnectionLimit = 200;

here is the original question and answer WCF Service Throttling

Update:

This config goes in .Net client application may be on start up or whenever but before starting your tests.

Moreover you can have it in app.config file as well like following

<system.net>
    <connectionManagement>
      <add maxconnection = "200" address ="*" />
    </connectionManagement>
  </system.net>

How to determine if a point is in a 2D triangle?

bool isInside( float x, float y, float x1, float y1, float x2, float y2, float x3, float y3 ) {
  float l1 = (x-x1)*(y3-y1) - (x3-x1)*(y-y1), 
    l2 = (x-x2)*(y1-y2) - (x1-x2)*(y-y2), 
    l3 = (x-x3)*(y2-y3) - (x2-x3)*(y-y3);
  return (l1>0 && l2>0  && l3>0) || (l1<0 && l2<0 && l3<0);
}

It can not be more efficient than this! Each side of a triangle can have independent position and orientation, hence three calculations: l1, l2 and l3 are definitely needed involving 2 multiplications each. Once l1, l2 and l3 are known, result is just a few basic comparisons and boolean operations away.

SQL, How to Concatenate results?

In mysql you'd use the following function:

SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(ModuleValue, ",") FROM Table_X WHERE ModuleID=@ModuleID

I am not sure which dialect you are using.

Solving "DLL load failed: %1 is not a valid Win32 application." for Pygame

Looks like the question has been long ago answered but the solution did not work for me. When I was getting that error, I was able to fix the problem by downloading PyWin32

How to import js-modules into TypeScript file?

I tested 3 methods to do that...

Method1:

      const FriendCard:any = require('./../pages/FriendCard')

Method2:

      import * as FriendCard from './../pages/FriendCard';

Method3:

if you can find something like this in tsconfig.json:

      { "compilerOptions": { ..., "allowJs": true }

then you can write: import FriendCard from './../pages/FriendCard';

Cannot lower case button text in android studio

I have faced this issue in TextView. I have tried

android:textAllCaps="false", 
mbutton.setAllCaps(false);   
<item name="android:textAllCaps">false</item> 

none of that worked for me. Finally I fed up and I have hard coded text, it is working.

tv.setText("Mytext");

tv is object of TextView. But as per coding standards, it is bad practice.

Move div to new line

I've found that you can move div elements to the next line simply by setting the property Display: block;

On each div.

Very Simple, Very Smooth, JavaScript Marquee

I made my own version, based in the code presented above by @Tats_innit . The difference is the pause function. Works a little better in that aspect.

(function ($) {
var timeVar, width=0;

$.fn.textWidth = function () {
    var calc = '<span style="display:none">' + $(this).text() + '</span>';
    $('body').append(calc);
    var width = $('body').find('span:last').width();
    $('body').find('span:last').remove();
    return width;
};

$.fn.marquee = function (args) {
    var that = $(this);
    if (width == 0) { width = that.width(); };
    var textWidth = that.textWidth(), offset = that.width(), i = 0, stop = textWidth * -1, dfd = $.Deferred(),
        css = {
            'text-indent': that.css('text-indent'),
            'overflow': that.css('overflow'),
            'white-space': that.css('white-space')
        },
        marqueeCss = {
            'text-indent': width,
            'overflow': 'hidden',
            'white-space': 'nowrap'
        },
        args = $.extend(true, { count: -1, speed: 1e1, leftToRight: false, pause: false }, args);

    function go() {
        if (!that.length) return dfd.reject();
        if (width <= stop) {
            i++;
            if (i <= args.count) {
                that.css(css);
                return dfd.resolve();
            }
            if (args.leftToRight) {
                width = textWidth * -1;
            } else {
                width = offset;
            }
        }
        that.css('text-indent', width + 'px');
        if (args.leftToRight) {
            width++;
        } else {
            width=width-2;
        }
        if (args.pause == false) { timeVar = setTimeout(function () { go() }, args.speed); };
        if (args.pause == true) { clearTimeout(timeVar); };
    };

    if (args.leftToRight) {
        width = textWidth * -1;
        width++;
        stop = offset;
    } else {
        width--;
    }
    that.css(marqueeCss);

    timeVar = setTimeout(function () { go() }, 100);

    return dfd.promise();
};
})(jQuery);

usage:

for start: $('#Text1').marquee()

pause: $('#Text1').marquee({ pause: true })

resume: $('#Text1').marquee({ pause: false })

Converting Integer to Long

Oddly enough I found that if you parse from a string it works.

 int i = 0;
 Long l = Long.parseLong(String.valueOf(i));
 int back = Integer.parseInt(String.valueOf(l));

Win.

How to show soft-keyboard when edittext is focused

According to this answer I used the setSoftInputMode method and overrided theese methods in DialogFragment:

@Override
public void onCancel(@NonNull DialogInterface dialog) {
    super.onCancel(dialog);
    requireDialog().getWindow().setSoftInputMode(InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY);
}

@Override
public void onStart() {
    super.onStart();
    requireDialog().getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);
}

@Override
public void onStop() {
    super.onStop();
    requireDialog().getWindow().setSoftInputMode(InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY);
}

I also made my own subclass of DialogFragment with theese methods, so when you create another dialog and inherit from this class, you have the soft keyboard showed automatically without any other edits. Hope it will be useful for someone.

Git push rejected after feature branch rebase

The problem is that git push assumes that remote branch can be fast-forwarded to your local branch, that is that all the difference between local and remote branches is in local having some new commits at the end like that:

Z--X--R         <- origin/some-branch (can be fast-forwarded to Y commit)
       \        
        T--Y    <- some-branch

When you perform git rebase commits D and E are applied to new base and new commits are created. That means after rebase you have something like that:

A--B--C------F--G--D'--E'   <- feature-branch
       \  
        D--E                <- origin/feature-branch

In that situation remote branch can't be fast-forwarded to local. Though, theoretically local branch can be merged into remote (obviously you don't need it in that case), but as git push performs only fast-forward merges it throws and error.

And what --force option does is just ignoring state of remote branch and setting it to the commit you're pushing into it. So git push --force origin feature-branch simply overrides origin/feature-branch with local feature-branch.

In my opinion, rebasing feature branches on master and force-pushing them back to remote repository is OK as long as you're the only one who works on that branch.

How to access the php.ini from my CPanel?

I had the same issue in cPanel 92.0.3 and it was solved through this solution:

In cPanel go to the below directory

software --> select PHP version--> option--> upload_max_filesize 

Then choose the optional size to upload your files.

Return value from a VBScript function

To return a value from a VBScript function, assign the value to the name of the function, like this:

Function getNumber
    getNumber = "423"
End Function

addEventListener in Internet Explorer

John Resig, author of jQuery, submitted his version of cross-browser implementation of addEvent and removeEvent to circumvent compatibility issues with IE's improper or non-existent addEventListener.

function addEvent( obj, type, fn ) {
  if ( obj.attachEvent ) {
    obj['e'+type+fn] = fn;
    obj[type+fn] = function(){obj['e'+type+fn]( window.event );}
    obj.attachEvent( 'on'+type, obj[type+fn] );
  } else
    obj.addEventListener( type, fn, false );
}
function removeEvent( obj, type, fn ) {
  if ( obj.detachEvent ) {
    obj.detachEvent( 'on'+type, obj[type+fn] );
    obj[type+fn] = null;
  } else
    obj.removeEventListener( type, fn, false );
}

Source: http://ejohn.org/projects/flexible-javascript-events/

What is the difference between UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1?

UTF-8 is a multibyte encoding that can represent any Unicode character. ISO 8859-1 is a single-byte encoding that can represent the first 256 Unicode characters. Both encode ASCII exactly the same way.

Bootstrap date and time picker

If you are still interested in a javascript api to select both date and time data, have a look at these projects which are forks of bootstrap datepicker:

The first fork is a big refactor on the parsing/formatting codebase and besides providing all views to select date/time using mouse/touch, it also has a mask option (by default) which lets the user to quickly type the date/time based on a pre-specified format.

Setting the default active profile in Spring-boot

If you're using maven I would do something like this:

Being production your default profile:

<properties>
    <activeProfile>production</activeProfile>
</properties>

And as an example of other profiles:

<profiles>
    <!--Your default profile... selected if none specified-->
    <profile>
        <id>production</id>
        <activation>
            <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
        </activation>
        <properties>
            <activeProfile>production</activeProfile>
        </properties>
    </profile>

    <!--Profile 2-->
    <profile>
        <id>development</id>
        <properties>
            <activeProfile>development</activeProfile>
        </properties>
    </profile>

    <!--Profile 3-->
    <profile>
        <id>otherprofile</id>
        <properties>
            <activeProfile>otherprofile</activeProfile>
        </properties>
    </profile>
<profiles>

In your application.properties you'll have to set:

spring.profiles.active=@activeProfile@

This works for me every time, hope it solves your problem.

Artisan, creating tables in database

In order to give a value in the table, we need to give a command:

php artisan make:migration create_users_table

and after then this command line

php artisan migrate

......

MySQL: @variable vs. variable. What's the difference?

In principle, I use UserDefinedVariables (prepended with @) within Stored Procedures. This makes life easier, especially when I need these variables in two or more Stored Procedures. Just when I need a variable only within ONE Stored Procedure, than I use a System Variable (without prepended @).

@Xybo: I don't understand why using @variables in StoredProcedures should be risky. Could you please explain "scope" and "boundaries" a little bit easier (for me as a newbe)?

How to manually deploy artifacts in Nexus Repository Manager OSS 3

My team use Gradle and Nexus OSS 3.5.2,

I have found a solution: upload artyfacts from locakhost (I checked Nexus documentation and did not found anything about uploading artifacts from folders) => I have shared directory (use Apache httpd) and connected one to created new Nexus proxy repository. Now when I want to add my own artifacts I can upload ones into shared directory in my remote server.

Maybe someone find my solution useful: enter image description here

My question is here: Is it possible to deploy artifacts from local folder in Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager 3.x

CSS3 selector :first-of-type with class name?

The draft CSS Selectors Level 4 proposes to add an of <other-selector> grammar within the :nth-child selector. This would allow you to pick out the nth child matching a given other selector:

:nth-child(1 of p.myclass) 

Previous drafts used a new pseudo-class, :nth-match(), so you may see that syntax in some discussions of the feature:

:nth-match(1 of p.myclass)

This has now been implemented in WebKit, and is thus available in Safari, but that appears to be the only browser that supports it. There are tickets filed for implementing it Blink (Chrome), Gecko (Firefox), and a request to implement it in Edge, but no apparent progress on any of these.

What is the PHP syntax to check "is not null" or an empty string?

Use empty(). It checks for both empty strings and null.

if (!empty($_POST['user'])) {
  // do stuff
}

From the manual:

The following things are considered to be empty:

"" (an empty string)  
0 (0 as an integer)  
0.0 (0 as a float)  
"0" (0 as a string)    
NULL  
FALSE  
array() (an empty array)  
var $var; (a variable declared, but without a value in a class)  

I'm getting an error "invalid use of incomplete type 'class map'

Your first usage of Map is inside a function in the combat class. That happens before Map is defined, hence the error.

A forward declaration only says that a particular class will be defined later, so it's ok to reference it or have pointers to objects, etc. However a forward declaration does not say what members a class has, so as far as the compiler is concerned you can't use any of them until Map is fully declared.

The solution is to follow the C++ pattern of the class declaration in a .h file and the function bodies in a .cpp. That way all the declarations appear before the first definitions, and the compiler knows what it's working with.

Initializing a dictionary in python with a key value and no corresponding values

q = input("Apple")
w = input("Ball")
Definition = {'apple': q, 'ball': w}

PDF files do not open in Internet Explorer with Adobe Reader 10.0 - users get an empty gray screen. How can I fix this for my users?

Hm, would it be possible to simply do this:

The first time your user opens a pdf, using Javascript you make a popout that basically says "If you cannot see your document, please click HERE". Make "HERE" a big button where it will explain to your user what's the problem. Also make another button "everything's fine". If the user clicks on this one, you remember it, so it isn't displayed in the future.

I'm trying to be practical. Going to great lengths trying to solve this kind of problem "properly" for a small subset of Adobe Reader versions doesn't sound very productive to me.

Share Text on Facebook from Android App via ACTION_SEND

ShareDialog shareDialog = new ShareDialog(this);
if(ShareDialog.canShow(ShareLinkContent.class)) {

    ShareLinkContent linkContent = new ShareLinkContent.Builder().setContentTitle(strTitle).setContentDescription(strDescription)
                            .setContentUrl(Uri.parse(strNewsHtmlUrl))
                            .build();
    shareDialog.show(linkContent);

}

Meaning of 'const' last in a function declaration of a class?

The const qualifier means that the methods can be called on any value of foobar. The difference comes when you consider calling a non-const method on a const object. Consider if your foobar type had the following extra method declaration:

class foobar {
  ...
  const char* bar();
}

The method bar() is non-const and can only be accessed from non-const values.

void func1(const foobar& fb1, foobar& fb2) {
  const char* v1 = fb1.bar();  // won't compile
  const char* v2 = fb2.bar();  // works
}

The idea behind const though is to mark methods which will not alter the internal state of the class. This is a powerful concept but is not actually enforceable in C++. It's more of a promise than a guarantee. And one that is often broken and easily broken.

foobar& fbNonConst = const_cast<foobar&>(fb1);

regular expression for Indian mobile numbers

i have used this regex in my projects and this works fine.

pattern="[6-9]{1}[0-9]{9}"

How to append new data onto a new line

There is also one fact that you have to consider. You should first check if your file is empty before adding anything to it. Because if your file is empty then I don't think you would like to add a blank new line in the beginning of the file. This code

  1. first checks if the file is empty
  2. If the file is empty then it will simply add your input text to the file else it will add a new line and then it will add your text to the file. You should use a try catch for os.path.getsize() to catch any exceptions.

Code:

import os

def storescores():
hs = open("hst.txt","a")
if(os.path.getsize("hst.txt") > 0):
   hs.write("\n"+name)
else:
   hs.write(name)

hs.close()

Remove a marker from a GoogleMap

For those that are following the example on this GoogleMaps - MapWithMarker project, you may remove the marker by doing so

override fun onMapReady(googleMap: GoogleMap?) {
    googleMap?.apply {

        // Remove marker
        clear()

        val sydney = LatLng(-33.852, 151.211)
        addMarker(
            MarkerOptions()
                .position(sydney)
                .title("Marker in Sydney")
        )
        moveCamera(CameraUpdateFactory.newLatLng(sydney))
    }
}

HashMap: One Key, multiple Values

For example:

Map<Object,Pair<Integer,String>> multiMap = new HashMap<Object,Pair<Integer,String>>();

where the Pair is a parametric class

public class Pair<A, B> {
    A first = null;
    B second = null;

    Pair(A first, B second) {
        this.first = first;
        this.second = second;
    }

    public A getFirst() {
        return first;
    }

    public void setFirst(A first) {
        this.first = first;
    }

    public B getSecond() {
        return second;
    }

    public void setSecond(B second) {
        this.second = second;
    }

}

What are carriage return, linefeed, and form feed?

\r is carriage return and moves the cursor back like if i will do-

printf("stackoverflow\rnine")
ninekoverflow

means it has shifted the cursor to the beginning of "stackoverflow" and overwrites the starting four characters since "nine" is four character long.

\n is new line character which changes the line and takes the cursor to the beginning of a new line like-

printf("stackoverflow\nnine")
stackoverflow
nine

\f is form feed, its use has become obsolete but it is used for giving indentation like

printf("stackoverflow\fnine")
stackoverflow
             nine

if i will write like-

printf("stackoverflow\fnine\fgreat")
stackoverflow
             nine
                 great

position fixed is not working

if a parent container contains transform this could happen. try commenting them

-webkit-transform: translate3d(0,0,0);
transform: translate3d(0,0,0);

Difference between Groovy Binary and Source release?

The source release is the raw, uncompiled code. You could read it yourself. To use it, it must be compiled on your machine. Binary means the code was compiled into a machine language format that the computer can read, then execute. No human can understand the binary file unless its been dissected, or opened with some program that let's you read the executable as code.

Assets file project.assets.json not found. Run a NuGet package restore

Cause of this defect: you have to remove the injected Nuget in file explorer. Solution: Once you remove that Nuget in your system, then remove from following location. select Tool=>Options=>NuGet Package Manager=> Package Sources then uncheck Microsoft Visual Studio Offline Packages Option

How to convert SSH keypairs generated using PuTTYgen (Windows) into key-pairs used by ssh-agent and Keychain (Linux)

I recently had this problem as I was moving from Putty for Linux to Remmina for Linux. So I have a lot of PPK files for Putty in my .putty directory as I've been using it's for 8 years. For this I used a simple for command for bash shell to do all files:

cd ~/.putty
for X in *.ppk; do puttygen $X -L > ~/.ssh/$(echo $X | sed 's,./,,' | sed 's/.ppk//g').pub; puttygen $X -O private-openssh -o ~/.ssh/$(echo $X | sed 's,./,,' | sed 's/.ppk//g').pvk; done;

Very quick and to the point, got the job done for all files that putty had. If it finds a key with a password it will stop and ask for the password for that key first and then continue.

Which HTML Parser is the best?

The best I've seen so far is HtmlCleaner:

HtmlCleaner is open-source HTML parser written in Java. HTML found on Web is usually dirty, ill-formed and unsuitable for further processing. For any serious consumption of such documents, it is necessary to first clean up the mess and bring the order to tags, attributes and ordinary text. For the given HTML document, HtmlCleaner reorders individual elements and produces well-formed XML. By default, it follows similar rules that the most of web browsers use in order to create Document Object Model. However, user may provide custom tag and rule set for tag filtering and balancing.

With HtmlCleaner you can locate any element using XPath.

For other html parsers see this SO question.

remove item from array using its name / value

You can do it with _.pullAllBy.

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var countries = {};_x000D_
_x000D_
countries.results = [_x000D_
    {id:'AF',name:'Afghanistan'},_x000D_
    {id:'AL',name:'Albania'},_x000D_
    {id:'DZ',name:'Algeria'}_x000D_
];_x000D_
_x000D_
// Remove element by id_x000D_
_.pullAllBy(countries.results , [{ 'id': 'AL' }], 'id');_x000D_
_x000D_
// Remove element by name_x000D_
// _.pullAllBy(countries.results , [{ 'name': 'Albania' }], 'name');_x000D_
console.log(countries);
_x000D_
.as-console-wrapper {_x000D_
  max-height: 100% !important;_x000D_
  top: 0;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.11/lodash.min.js"></script>
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Converting a list to a set changes element order

In mathematics, there are sets and ordered sets (osets).

  • set: an unordered container of unique elements (Implemented)
  • oset: an ordered container of unique elements (NotImplemented)

In Python, only sets are directly implemented. We can emulate osets with regular dict keys (3.7+).

Given

a = [1, 2, 20, 6, 210, 2, 1]
b = {2, 6}

Code

oset = dict.fromkeys(a).keys()
# dict_keys([1, 2, 20, 6, 210])

Demo

Replicates are removed, insertion-order is preserved.

list(oset)
# [1, 2, 20, 6, 210]

Set-like operations on dict keys.

oset - b
# {1, 20, 210}

oset | b
# {1, 2, 5, 6, 20, 210}

oset & b
# {2, 6}

oset ^ b
# {1, 5, 20, 210}

Details

Note: an unordered structure does not preclude ordered elements. Rather, maintained order is not guaranteed. Example:

assert {1, 2, 3} == {2, 3, 1}                    # sets (order is ignored)

assert [1, 2, 3] != [2, 3, 1]                    # lists (order is guaranteed)

One may be pleased to discover that a list and multiset (mset) are two more fascinating, mathematical data structures:

  • list: an ordered container of elements that permits replicates (Implemented)
  • mset: an unordered container of elements that permits replicates (NotImplemented)*

Summary

Container | Ordered | Unique | Implemented
----------|---------|--------|------------
set       |    n    |    y   |     y
oset      |    y    |    y   |     n
list      |    y    |    n   |     y
mset      |    n    |    n   |     n*  

*A multiset can be indirectly emulated with collections.Counter(), a dict-like mapping of multiplicities (counts).

How do I change the value of a global variable inside of a function

Just use the name of that variable.

In JavaScript, variables are only local to a function, if they are the function's parameter(s) or if you declare them as local explicitely by typing the var keyword before the name of the variable.

If the name of the local value has the same name as the global value, use the window object

See this jsfiddle

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_x000D_
x = 1;_x000D_
y = 2;_x000D_
z = 3;_x000D_
_x000D_
function a(y) {_x000D_
  // y is local to the function, because it is a function parameter_x000D_
  console.log('local y: should be 10:', y); // local y through function parameter_x000D_
  y = 3; // will only overwrite local y, not 'global' y_x000D_
  console.log('local y: should be 3:', y); // local y_x000D_
  // global value could be accessed by referencing through window object_x000D_
  console.log('global y: should be 2:', window.y) // global y, different from local y ()_x000D_
_x000D_
  var x; // makes x a local variable_x000D_
  x = 4; // only overwrites local x_x000D_
  console.log('local x: should be 4:', x); // local x_x000D_
  _x000D_
  z = 5; // overwrites global z, because there is no local z_x000D_
  console.log('local z: should be 5:', z); // local z, same as global_x000D_
  console.log('global z: should be 5 5:', window.z, z) // global z, same as z, because z is not local_x000D_
}_x000D_
a(10);_x000D_
console.log('global x: should be 1:', x); // global x_x000D_
console.log('global y: should be 2:', y); // global y_x000D_
console.log('global z: should be 5:', z); // global z, overwritten in function a
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Edit

With ES2015 there came two more keywords const and let, which also affect the scope of a variable (Language Specification)

How to compare two date values with jQuery

var startDate = $('#start_date').val().replace(/-/g,'/');
var endDate = $('#end_date').val().replace(/-/g,'/');

if(startDate > endDate){
   // do your stuff here...
}

Bootstrap's JavaScript requires jQuery version 1.9.1 or higher

If you are using CMS like Drupal or Wordpress - just install jQuery Update module and error no longer persists.

Bootstrap modal link

A Simple Approach will be to use a normal link and add Bootstrap modal effect to it. Just make use of my Code, hopefully you will get it run.

 <div class="container">
        <div class="row">
            <div class="modal fade" id="myModal" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="addContact" aria-hidden="true">
                <div class="modal-dialog">
                    <div class="modal-content">
                        <div class="modal-header">
                            <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true"><b style="color:#fb3600; font-weight:700;">X</b></button><!--&times;-->
                            <h4 class="modal-title text-center" id="addContact">Add Contact</h4>
                        </div>
                        <div class="modal-body">
                            <div class="row">
                                <ul class="nav nav-tabs">
                                    <li class="active">
                                        <a data-toggle="tab" style="background-color:#f5dfbe" href="#contactTab">Contact</a>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <a data-toggle="tab" style="background-color:#a6d2f6" href="#speechTab">Speech</a>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                                <div class="tab-content">
                                    <div id="contactTab" class="tab-pane in active"><partial name="CreateContactTag"></div>
                                    <div id="speechTab" class="tab-pane fade in"><partial name="CreateSpeechTag"></div>
                                </div>

                            </div>
                        </div>
                        <div class="modal-footer">
                            <a class="btn btn-info" data-dismiss="modal">Close</a>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>

phpmailer: Reply using only "Reply To" address

At least in the current versions of PHPMailers, there's a function clearReplyTos() to empty the reply-to array.

    $mail->ClearReplyTos();
    $mail->addReplyTo([email protected], 'EXAMPLE');

Not Equal to This OR That in Lua

Your problem stems from a misunderstanding of the or operator that is common to people learning programming languages like this. Yes, your immediate problem can be solved by writing x ~= 0 and x ~= 1, but I'll go into a little more detail about why your attempted solution doesn't work.

When you read x ~=(0 or 1) or x ~= 0 or 1 it's natural to parse this as you would the sentence "x is not equal to zero or one". In the ordinary understanding of that statement, "x" is the subject, "is not equal to" is the predicate or verb phrase, and "zero or one" is the object, a set of possibilities joined by a conjunction. You apply the subject with the verb to each item in the set.

However, Lua does not parse this based on the rules of English grammar, it parses it in binary comparisons of two elements based on its order of operations. Each operator has a precedence which determines the order in which it will be evaluated. or has a lower precedence than ~=, just as addition in mathematics has a lower precedence than multiplication. Everything has a lower precedence than parentheses.

As a result, when evaluating x ~=(0 or 1), the interpreter will first compute 0 or 1 (because of the parentheses) and then x ~= the result of the first computation, and in the second example, it will compute x ~= 0 and then apply the result of that computation to or 1.

The logical operator or "returns its first argument if this value is different from nil and false; otherwise, or returns its second argument". The relational operator ~= is the inverse of the equality operator ==; it returns true if its arguments are different types (x is a number, right?), and otherwise compares its arguments normally.

Using these rules, x ~=(0 or 1) will decompose to x ~= 0 (after applying the or operator) and this will return 'true' if x is anything other than 0, including 1, which is undesirable. The other form, x ~= 0 or 1 will first evaluate x ~= 0 (which may return true or false, depending on the value of x). Then, it will decompose to one of false or 1 or true or 1. In the first case, the statement will return 1, and in the second case, the statement will return true. Because control structures in Lua only consider nil and false to be false, and anything else to be true, this will always enter the if statement, which is not what you want either.

There is no way that you can use binary operators like those provided in programming languages to compare a single variable to a list of values. Instead, you need to compare the variable to each value one by one. There are a few ways to do this. The simplest way is to use De Morgan's laws to express the statement 'not one or zero' (which can't be evaluated with binary operators) as 'not one and not zero', which can trivially be written with binary operators:

if x ~= 1 and x ~= 0 then
    print( "X must be equal to 1 or 0" )
    return
end

Alternatively, you can use a loop to check these values:

local x_is_ok = false
for i = 0,1 do 
    if x == i then
        x_is_ok = true
    end
end
if not x_is_ok then
    print( "X must be equal to 1 or 0" )
    return
end

Finally, you could use relational operators to check a range and then test that x was an integer in the range (you don't want 0.5, right?)

if not (x >= 0 and x <= 1 and math.floor(x) == x) then
    print( "X must be equal to 1 or 0" )
    return
end

Note that I wrote x >= 0 and x <= 1. If you understood the above explanation, you should now be able to explain why I didn't write 0 <= x <= 1, and what this erroneous expression would return!

HTML5 video - show/hide controls programmatically

Here's how to do it:

var myVideo = document.getElementById("my-video")    
myVideo.controls = false;

Working example: https://jsfiddle.net/otnfccgu/2/

See all available properties, methods and events here: https://www.w3schools.com/TAGs/ref_av_dom.asp

remote rejected master -> master (pre-receive hook declined)

Check the following

  1. Make sure you add all the files and directories needed to be tracked are added using git status [You have done this]

    $ git status

  2. If not added then add them using **git add . ** [You have done this]

    $ git add .

  3. Bundle all gems and you will have Gemfile.lock

    $ bundle install
    $ git add Gemfile.lock
    $ git commit -am "Added Gemfile.lock"

  4. Push it to heroku

$ git push heroku master

Your push should work

How to convert current date to epoch timestamp?

if you want UTC try some of the gm functions:

import time
import calendar

date_time = '29.08.2011 11:05:02'
pattern = '%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S'
utc_epoch = calendar.timegm(time.strptime(date_time, pattern))
print utc_epoch

Git: Pull from other remote

git pull is really just a shorthand for git pull <remote> <branchname>, in most cases it's equivalent to git pull origin master. You will need to add another remote and pull explicitly from it. This page describes it in detail:

http://help.github.com/forking/

Add carriage return to a string

Environment.NewLine should be used as Dan Rigby said but there is one problem with the String.Empty. It will remain always empty no matter if it is read before or after it reads. I had a problem in my project yesterday with that. I removed it and it worked the way it was supposed to. It's better to declare the variable and then call it when it's needed. String.Empty will always keep it empty unless the variable needs to be initialized which only then should you use String.Empty. Thought I would throw this tid-bit out for everyone as I've experienced it.

Disable click outside of angular material dialog area to close the dialog (With Angular Version 4.0+)

How about playing with these two properties?

disableClose: boolean - Whether the user can use escape or clicking on the backdrop to close the modal.

hasBackdrop: boolean - Whether the dialog has a backdrop.

https://material.angular.io/components/dialog/api

pip installs packages successfully, but executables not found from command line

I stumbled upon this question because I created, successfully built and published a PyPI Package, but couldn't execute it after installation. The $PATHvariable was correctly set.

In my case the problem was that I hadn't set the entry_pointin the setup.py file:

entry_points = {'console_scripts':

['YOUR_CONSOLE_COMMAND=MODULE_NAME.FILE_NAME:FUNCTION_NAME'],},

Javascript isnull

You can also use the not operator. It will check if a variable is null, or, in the case of a string, is empty. It makes your code more compact and easier to read.

For example:

var pass = "";
if(!pass)
    return false;
else
    return true;

This would return false because the string is empty. It would also return false if the variable pass was null.

How to sign in kubernetes dashboard?

As of release 1.7 Dashboard supports user authentication based on:

Dashboard on Github

Token

Here Token can be Static Token, Service Account Token, OpenID Connect Token from Kubernetes Authenticating, but not the kubeadm Bootstrap Token.

With kubectl, we can get an service account (eg. deployment controller) created in kubernetes by default.

$ kubectl -n kube-system get secret
# All secrets with type 'kubernetes.io/service-account-token' will allow to log in.
# Note that they have different privileges.
NAME                                     TYPE                                  DATA      AGE
deployment-controller-token-frsqj        kubernetes.io/service-account-token   3         22h

$ kubectl -n kube-system describe secret deployment-controller-token-frsqj
Name:         deployment-controller-token-frsqj
Namespace:    kube-system
Labels:       <none>
Annotations:  kubernetes.io/service-account.name=deployment-controller
              kubernetes.io/service-account.uid=64735958-ae9f-11e7-90d5-02420ac00002

Type:  kubernetes.io/service-account-token

Data
====
ca.crt:     1025 bytes
namespace:  11 bytes
token:      eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.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.OqFc4CE1Kh6T3BTCR4XxDZR8gaF1MvH4M3ZHZeCGfO-sw-D0gp826vGPHr_0M66SkGaOmlsVHmP7zmTi-SJ3NCdVO5viHaVUwPJ62hx88_JPmSfD0KJJh6G5QokKfiO0WlGN7L1GgiZj18zgXVYaJShlBSz5qGRuGf0s1jy9KOBt9slAN5xQ9_b88amym2GIXoFyBsqymt5H-iMQaGP35tbRpewKKtly9LzIdrO23bDiZ1voc5QZeAZIWrizzjPY5HPM1qOqacaY9DcGc7akh98eBJG_4vZqH2gKy76fMf0yInFTeNKr45_6fWt8gRM77DQmPwb3hbrjWXe1VvXX_g

Kubeconfig

The dashboard needs the user in the kubeconfig file to have either username & password or token, but admin.conf only has client-certificate. You can edit the config file to add the token that was extracted using the method above.

$ kubectl config set-credentials cluster-admin --token=bearer_token

Alternative (Not recommended for Production)

Here are two ways to bypass the authentication, but use for caution.

Deploy dashboard with HTTP

$ kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/dashboard/master/src/deploy/alternative/kubernetes-dashboard.yaml

Dashboard can be loaded at http://localhost:8001/ui with kubectl proxy.

Granting admin privileges to Dashboard's Service Account

$ cat <<EOF | kubectl create -f -
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
  name: kubernetes-dashboard
  labels:
    k8s-app: kubernetes-dashboard
roleRef:
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
  kind: ClusterRole
  name: cluster-admin
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
  name: kubernetes-dashboard
  namespace: kube-system
EOF

Afterwards you can use Skip option on login page to access Dashboard.

If you are using dashboard version v1.10.1 or later, you must also add --enable-skip-login to the deployment's command line arguments. You can do so by adding it to the args in kubectl edit deployment/kubernetes-dashboard --namespace=kube-system.

Example:

      containers:
      - args:
        - --auto-generate-certificates
        - --enable-skip-login            # <-- add this line
        image: k8s.gcr.io/kubernetes-dashboard-amd64:v1.10.1

How to replace ${} placeholders in a text file?

template.txt

Variable 1 value: ${var1}
Variable 2 value: ${var2}

data.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
declare var1="value 1"
declare var2="value 2"

parser.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# args
declare file_data=$1
declare file_input=$2
declare file_output=$3

source $file_data
eval "echo \"$(< $file_input)\"" > $file_output

./parser.sh data.sh template.txt parsed_file.txt

parsed_file.txt

Variable 1 value: value 1
Variable 2 value: value 2

Internal Error 500 Apache, but nothing in the logs?

I just ran into this and it was due to a mod_authnz_ldap misconfiguration in my .htaccess file. Absolutely nothing was being logged, but I kept getting a 500 error.

If you run into this particular issue, you can change the log level of mod_authnz_ldap like so:

LogLevel warn authnz_ldap_module:debug

That will use a log level of debug for mod_authnz_ldap but warn for everything else (https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/en/mod/core.html#loglevel).

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No converter found for return value of type

I had the very same problem, and unfortunately it could not be solved by adding getter methods, or adding jackson dependencies.

I then looked at Official Spring Guide, and followed their example as given here - https://spring.io/guides/gs/actuator-service/ - where the example also shows the conversion of returned object to JSON format.

I then again made my own project, with the difference that this time I also added the dependencies and build plugins that's present in the pom.xml file of the Official Spring Guide example I mentioned above.

The modified dependencies and build part of XML file looks like this!

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

You can see the same in the mentioned link above.

And magically, atleast for me, it works. So, if you have already exhausted your other options, you might want to try this out, as was the case with me.

Just a side note, it didn't work for me when I added the dependencies in my previous project and did Maven install and update project stuff. So, I had to again make my project from scratch. I didn't bother much about it as mine is an example project, but you might want to look for that too!

Display two fields side by side in a Bootstrap Form

The problem is that .form-control class renders like a DIV element which according to the normal-flow-of-the-page renders on a new line.

One way of fixing issues like this is to use display:inline property. So, create a custom CSS class with display:inline and attach it to your component with a .form-control class. You have to have a width for your component as well.

There are other ways of handling this issue (like arranging your form-control components inside any of the .col classes), but the easiest way is to just make your .form-control an inline element (the way a span would render)

creating json object with variables

It's called on Object Literal

I'm not sure what you want your structure to be, but according to what you have above, where you put the values in variables try this.

var formObject =  {"formObject": [
                {"firstName": firstName, "lastName": lastName},
                {"phoneNumber": phone},
                {"address": address},
                ]}

Although this seems to make more sense (Why do you have an array in the above literal?):

var formObject = {
   firstName: firstName
   ...
}

How can a windows service programmatically restart itself?

I don't think you can in a self-contained service (when you call Restart, it will stop the service, which will interrupt the Restart command, and it won't ever get started again). If you can add a second .exe (a Console app that uses the ServiceManager class), then you can kick off the standalone .exe and have it restart the service and then exit.

On second thought, you could probably have the service register a Scheduled Task (using the command-line 'at' command, for example) to start the service and then have it stop itself; that would probably work.

Count number of objects in list

Advice for R newcomers like me : beware, the following is a list of a single object :

> mylist <- list (1:10)
> length (mylist)
[1] 1

In such a case you are not looking for the length of the list, but of its first element :

> length (mylist[[1]])
[1] 10

This is a "true" list :

> mylist <- list(1:10, rnorm(25), letters[1:3])
> length (mylist)
[1] 3

Also, it seems that R considers a data.frame as a list :

> df <- data.frame (matrix(0, ncol = 30, nrow = 2))
> typeof (df)
[1] "list"

In such a case you may be interested in ncol() and nrow() rather than length() :

> ncol (df)
[1] 30
> nrow (df)
[1] 2

Though length() will also work (but it's a trick when your data.frame has only one column) :

> length (df)
[1] 30
> length (df[[1]])
[1] 2

JSON datetime between Python and JavaScript

Using json, you can subclass JSONEncoder and override the default() method to provide your own custom serializers:

import json
import datetime

class DateTimeJSONEncoder(json.JSONEncoder):
    def default(self, obj):
        if isinstance(obj, datetime.datetime):
            return obj.isoformat()
        else:
            return super(DateTimeJSONEncoder, self).default(obj)

Then, you can call it like this:

>>> DateTimeJSONEncoder().encode([datetime.datetime.now()])
'["2010-06-15T14:42:28"]'

Android Studio - How to Change Android SDK Path

I noticed that the latest version of Android Studio doesn't seem to have the option "SDKs" path that's mentioned in many of the answers. I'm guessing that disappeared in one of the updates, somewhere down the line?

The way i solved this issue (osx) was:

  1. Go to Project Settings (Cmd + ;)
  2. In SDK Location make sure you're pointing to the correct SDK location (typically /Applications/Android Studio.app/sdk) then hit Apply
  3. Most important step - hit "Sync Project with Gradle files"

I wasn't doing Step 3 and that was throwing me off. After a sync all your source r belong to us....

How to put img inline with text

Images have display: inline by default.
You might want to put the image inside the paragraph.
<p><img /></p>

In ASP.NET, when should I use Session.Clear() rather than Session.Abandon()?

Session.Abandon() destroys the session and the Session_OnEnd event is triggered.

Session.Clear() just removes all values (content) from the Object. The session with the same key is still alive.

So, if you use Session.Abandon(), you lose that specific session and the user will get a new session key. You could use it for example when the user logs out.

Use Session.Clear(), if you want that the user remaining in the same session (if you don't want the user to relogin for example) and reset all the session specific data.

Using the value in a cell as a cell reference in a formula?

Use INDIRECT()

=SUM(INDIRECT(<start cell here> & ":" & <end cell here>))

HTML Display Current date

This helped me:

<p>Date/Time: <span id="datetime"></span></p><script>var dt = new Date();
document.getElementById("datetime").innerHTML=dt.toLocaleString();</script>    

How can I do a BEFORE UPDATED trigger with sql server?

To do a BEFORE UPDATE in SQL Server I use a trick. I do a false update of the record (UPDATE Table SET Field = Field), in such way I get the previous image of the record.

What is the difference between id and class in CSS, and when should I use them?

As pretty much everyone else has said use ID for one-off elements and class for multiple use elements.

Here is a quick, over simplified example, take HTML and HEAD tags as read

<body>
    <div id="leftCol">
        You will only have one left column
    </div>
    <div id="mainContent">
        Only one main content container, but.....
        <p class="prettyPara">You might want more than one pretty paragraph</p>
        <p>This one is boring and unstyled</p>
        <p class="prettyPara">See I told you, you might need another!</p>
    </div>
    <div id="footer">
        Not very HTML5 but you'll likely only have one of these too.
    </div>
</body>

Also, as mentioned in other answers ID are well exposed to javascript, classes less so. However modern javascript frameworks like jQuery leverage class for javascript too

Datatable select with multiple conditions

Do you have to use DataTable.Select()? I prefer to write a linq query for this kind of thing.

var dValue=  from row in myDataTable.AsEnumerable()
             where row.Field<int>("A") == 1 
                   && row.Field<int>("B") == 2 
                   && row.Field<int>("C") == 3
             select row.Field<string>("D");

Simulate limited bandwidth from within Chrome?

Starting with Chrome 38 you can do this without any plugins. Just click inspect element (or F12 hotkey), then click on toggle device mod (the phone button)

enter image description here

and you will see something like this:

enter image description here

Among many other features it allows you to simulate specific internet connection (3G, GPRS)

How to split a comma-separated value to columns

With SQL Server 2016 we can use string_split to accomplish this:

create table commasep (
 id int identity(1,1)
 ,string nvarchar(100) )

insert into commasep (string) values ('John, Adam'), ('test1,test2,test3')

select id, [value] as String from commasep 
 cross apply string_split(string,',')

T-SQL Substring - Last 3 Characters

SELECT RIGHT(column, 3)

That's all you need.

You can also do LEFT() in the same way.

Bear in mind if you are using this in a WHERE clause that the RIGHT() can't use any indexes.

Database Diagram Support Objects cannot be Installed ... no valid owner

1.Right click on your Database , 2.Then select properties . 3.Select the option in compatibility levels choose sql 2008[100] if you are working with Microsoft sql 2008.

4.Then select the file and write ( sa ) in owner`s textbox

100% works for me.

missing private key in the distribution certificate on keychain

After you changed a Mac which are not the origin one who created the disitribution certificate, you will missing the private key.Just delete the origin certificate and recreate a new one, that works for me~

HTTP Error 500.22 - Internal Server Error (An ASP.NET setting has been detected that does not apply in Integrated managed pipeline mode.)

This issue is caused by the pipeline mode in your Application Pool setting that your web site is set to.

Short

  • Simple way Change the Application Pool mode to one that has Classic pipeline enabled.
  • Correct way Your web.config / web app will need to be altered to support Integrated pipelines. Normally this is as simple as removing parts of your web.config.
  • Simple way (bad practice) Add the following to your web.config. See http://www.iis.net/ConfigReference/system.webServer/validation

     <system.webServer>
         <validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false" />
     </system.webServer>
    

Long If possible, your best bet is to change your application to support the integrated pipelines. There are a number of changes between IIS6 and IIS7.x that will cause this error. You can find details about these changes here http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/381/aspnet-20-breaking-changes-on-iis-70/.

If you're unable to do that, you'll need to change the App pool which may be more difficult to do depending on your availability to the web server.

  • Go to the web server
  • Open the IIS Manager
  • Navigate to your site
  • Click Advanced Settings on the right Action pane
  • Under Application Pool, change it to an app pool that has classic enabled.

Check http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731755(WS.10).aspx for details on changing the App Pool

If you need to create an App Pool with Classic pipelines, take a look at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731784(WS.10).aspx

If you don't have access to the server to make this change, you'll need to do this through your hosting server and contact them for help.

Feel free to ask questions.

Another Repeated column in mapping for entity error

The message is clear: you have a repeated column in the mapping. That means you mapped the same database column twice. And indeed, you have:

@Column(nullable=false)
private Long customerId;

and also:

@ManyToOne(optional=false)
@JoinColumn(name="customerId",referencedColumnName="id_customer")
private Customer customer;

(and the same goes for productId/product).

You shouldn't reference other entities by their ID, but by a direct reference to the entity. Remove the customerId field, it's useless. And do the same for productId. If you want the customer ID of a sale, you just need to do this:

sale.getCustomer().getId()

Creating a class object in c++

Example example;

This is a declaration of a variable named example of type Example. This will default-initialize the object which involves calling its default constructor. The object will have automatic storage duration which means that it will be destroyed when it goes out of scope.

Example* example;

This is a declaration of a variable named example which is a pointer to an Example. In this case, default-initialization leaves it uninitialized - the pointer is pointing nowhere in particular. There is no Example object here. The pointer object has automatic storage duration.

Example* example = new Example();

This is a declaration of a variable named example which is a pointer to an Example. This pointer object, as above, has automatic storage duration. It is then initialized with the result of new Example();. This new expression creates an Example object with dynamic storage duration and then returns a pointer to it. So the example pointer is now pointing to that dynamically allocated object. The Example object is value-initialized which will call a user-provided constructor if there is one or otherwise initialise all members to 0.

Example* example = new Example;

This is similar to the previous line. The difference is that the Example object is default-initialized, which will call the default constructor of Example (or leave it uninitialized if it is not of class type).

A dynamically allocated object must be deleted (probably with delete example;).

How to run a shell script in OS X by double-clicking?

You can also set defaults by file extension using RCDefaultApp:

http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/

potentially you could set .sh to open in iTerm/Terminal etc. it would need user execute permissions, eg

chmod u+x filename.sh

RCDefaultApp pref pane

How to open an existing project in Eclipse?

From the main menu bar, select command link File > Import.... The Import wizard opens.
Select General > Existing Project into Workspace and click Next.
Choose either Select root directory or Select archive file and click the associated Browse to locate the directory or file containing the projects.
Under Projects select the project or projects which you would like to import.
Click Finish to start the import.

How to determine an interface{} value's "real" type?

Type switches can also be used with reflection stuff:

var str = "hello!"
var obj = reflect.ValueOf(&str)

switch obj.Elem().Interface().(type) {
case string:
    log.Println("obj contains a pointer to a string")
default:
    log.Println("obj contains something else")
}

Convert hex string to int in Python

int(hexstring, 16) does the trick, and works with and without the 0x prefix:

>>> int("a", 16)
10
>>> int("0xa", 16)
10

Create list or arrays in Windows Batch

Sometimes the array element may be very long, at that time you can create an array in this way:

set list=a
set list=%list%;b 
set list=%list%;c 
set list=%list%;d

Then show it:

@echo off
for %%a in (%list%) do ( 
 echo %%a
 echo/
)

Which JDK version (Language Level) is required for Android Studio?

Normally, I would go with what the documentation says but if the instructor explicitly said to stick with JDK 6, I'd use JDK 6 because you would want your development environment to be as close as possible to the instructors. It would suck if you ran into an issue and having the thought in the back of your head that maybe it's because you're on JDK 7 that you're having the issue. Btw, I haven't touched Android recently but I personally never ran into issues when I was on JDK 7 but mind you, I only code Android apps casually.

A warning - comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions

At the extreme ranges, an unsigned int can become larger than an int.
Therefore, the compiler generates a warning. If you are sure that this is not a problem, feel free to cast the types to the same type so the warning disappears (use C++ cast so that they are easy to spot).

Alternatively, make the variables the same type to stop the compiler from complaining.
I mean, is it possible to have a negative padding? If so then keep it as an int. Otherwise you should probably use unsigned int and let the stream catch the situations where the user types in a negative number.

Output data with no column headings using PowerShell

The -expandproperty does not work with more than 1 object. You can use this one :

Select-Object Name | ForEach-Object {$_.Name}

If there is more than one value then :

Select-Object Name, Country | ForEach-Object {$_.Name + " " + $Country}

Plot two histograms on single chart with matplotlib

Just in case you have pandas (import pandas as pd) or are ok with using it:

test = pd.DataFrame([[random.gauss(3,1) for _ in range(400)], 
                     [random.gauss(4,2) for _ in range(400)]])
plt.hist(test.values.T)
plt.show()

How to backup a local Git repository?

came to this question via google.

Here is what i did in the simplest way.

git checkout branch_to_clone

then create a new git branch from this branch

git checkout -b new_cloned_branch
Switched to branch 'new_cloned_branch'

come back to original branch and continue:

git checkout branch_to_clone

Assuming you screwed up and need to restore something from backup branch :

git checkout new_cloned_branch -- <filepath>  #notice the space before and after "--"

Best part if anything is screwed up, you can just delete the source branch and move back to backup branch!!

How to use putExtra() and getExtra() for string data

Best Method...

SendingActivity

Intent intent = new Intent(SendingActivity.this, RecievingActivity.class);
intent.putExtra("keyName", value);  // pass your values and retrieve them in the other Activity using keyName
startActivity(intent);

RecievingActivity

 Bundle extras = intent.getExtras();
    if(extras != null)
    String data = extras.getString("keyName"); // retrieve the data using keyName 

/// shortest way to recieve data..

String data = getIntent().getExtras().getString("keyName","defaultKey");

//This requires api 12. //the second parameter is optional . If keyName is null then use the defaultkey as data.

How to trim white spaces of array values in php

Trim in array_map change type if you have NULL in value.

Better way to do it:

$result = array_map(function($v){ 
  return is_string($v)?trim($v):$v; 
}, $array);

BACKUP LOG cannot be performed because there is no current database backup

Originally, I created a database and then restored the backup file to my new empty database:

Right click on Databases > Restore Database > General : Device: [the path of back up file] ? OK

This was wrong. I shouldn't have first created the database.

Now, instead, I do this:

Right click on Databases > Restore Database > General : Device: [the path of back up file] ? OK

How do I list all loaded assemblies?

Using Visual Studio

  1. Attach a debugger to the process (e.g. start with debugging or Debug > Attach to process)
  2. While debugging, show the Modules window (Debug > Windows > Modules)

This gives details about each assembly, app domain and has a few options to load symbols (i.e. pdb files that contain debug information).

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Using Process Explorer

If you want an external tool you can use the Process Explorer (freeware, published by Microsoft)

Click on a process and it will show a list with all the assemblies used. The tool is pretty good as it shows other information such as file handles etc.

Programmatically

Check this SO question that explains how to do it.

Could not load file or assembly 'CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.CommLayer, Version=13.0.2000.0

In the first plate you have to check that:

  • 1) You install a appropriate version of Crystal Reports SDK => http://downloads.i-theses.com/index.php?option=com_downloads&task=downloads&groupid=9&id=101 (for example)
  • 2) Add reference to dll => crystaldecisions.reportappserver.commlayer.dll

Rails 3 migrations: Adding reference column?

EDIT: This is an outdated answer and should not be applied for Rails 4.x+

You don't need to add references when you can use an integer id to your referenced class.

I'd say the advantage of using references instead of a plain integer is that the model will be predefined with belongs_to and since the model is already created and will not be affected when you migrate something existing, the purpose is kind of lost.

So I would do like this instead:

rails g migration add_user_id_to_tester user_id:integer

And then manually add belongs_to :user in the Tester model