Programs & Examples On #Legacy code

Originally legacy code meant code 'inherited' from authors or from a previous program/system version. Since Michael Feathers published his "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" book, new definition came to be, where code without tests is legacy code.

Installation of VB6 on Windows 7 / 8 / 10

I've installed and use VB6 for legacy projects many times on Windows 7.

What I have done and never came across any issues, is to install VB6, ignore the errors and then proceed to install the latest service pack, currently SP6.

Download here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5721

Bonus: Also once you install it and realize that scrolling doesn't work, use the below: http://www.joebott.com/vb6scrollwheel.htm

How to configure encoding in Maven?

This would be in addition to previous, if someone meets a problem with scandic letters that isn't solved with the solution above.

If the java source files contain scandic letters they need to be interpreted correctly by the Java used for compiling. (e.g. scandic letters used in constants)

Even that the files are stored in UTF-8 and the Maven is configured to use UTF-8, the System Java used by the Maven will still use the system default (eg. in Windows: cp1252).

This will be visible only running the tests via maven (possibly printing the values of these constants in tests. The printed scandic letters would show as '< ?>') If not tested properly, this would corrupt the class files as compile result and be left unnoticed.

To prevent this, you have to set the Java used for compiling to use UTF-8 encoding. It is not enough to have the encoding settings in the maven pom.xml, you need to set the environment variable: JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS = -Dfile.encoding=UTF8

Also, if using Eclipse in Windows, you may need to set the encoding used in addition to this (if you run individual test via eclipse).

Writing to an Excel spreadsheet

  • xlrd/xlwt (standard): Python does not have this functionality in it's standard library, but I think of xlrd/xlwt as the "standard" way to read and write excel files. It is fairly easy to make a workbook, add sheets, write data/formulas, and format cells. If you need all of these things, you may have the most success with this library. I think you could choose openpyxl instead and it would be quite similar, but I have not used it.

    To format cells with xlwt, define a XFStyle and include the style when you write to a sheet. Here is an example with many number formats. See example code below.

  • Tablib (powerful, intuitive): Tablib is a more powerful yet intuitive library for working with tabular data. It can write excel workbooks with multiple sheets as well as other formats, such as csv, json, and yaml. If you don't need formatted cells (like background color), you will do yourself a favor to use this library, which will get you farther in the long run.

  • csv (easy): Files on your computer are either text or binary. Text files are just characters, including special ones like newlines and tabs, and can be easily opened anywhere (e.g. notepad, your web browser, or Office products). A csv file is a text file that is formatted in a certain way: each line is a list of values, separated by commas. Python programs can easily read and write text, so a csv file is the easiest and fastest way to export data from your python program into excel (or another python program).

    Excel files are binary and require special libraries that know the file format, which is why you need an additional library for python, or a special program like Microsoft Excel, Gnumeric, or LibreOffice, to read/write them.


import xlwt

style = xlwt.XFStyle()
style.num_format_str = '0.00E+00'

...

for i,n in enumerate(list1):
    sheet1.write(i, 0, n, fmt)

convert pfx format to p12

Run this command to change .cert file to .p12:

openssl pkcs12 -export -out server.p12 -inkey server.key -in server.crt 

Where server.key is the server key and server.cert is a CA issue cert or a self sign cert file.

Hide element by class in pure Javascript

var appBanners = document.getElementsByClassName('appBanner');

for (var i = 0; i < appBanners.length; i ++) {
    appBanners[i].style.display = 'none';
}

JSFiddle.

#pragma once vs include guards?

Atop explanation by Konrad Kleine above.

A brief summary:

  • when we use # pragma once it is much of the compiler responsibility, not to allow its inclusion more than once. Which means, after you mention the code-snippet in the file, it is no more your responsibility.

Now, compiler looks, for this code-snippet at the beginning of the file, and skips it from being included (if already included once). This definitely will reduce the compilation-time (on an average and in huge-system). However, in case of mocks/test environment, will make the test-cases implementation difficult, due to circular etc dependencies.

  • Now, when we use the #ifndef XYZ_H for the headers, it is more of the developers responsibility to maintain the dependency of headers. Which means, whenever due to some new header file, there is possibility of the circular dependency, compiler will just flag some "undefined .." error messages at compile time, and it is user to check the logical connection/flow of the entities and rectify the improper includes.

This definitely will add to the compilation time (as needs to rectified and re-run). Also, as it works on the basis of including the file, based on the "XYZ_H" defined-state, and still complains, if not able to get all the definitions.

Therefore, to avoid situations like this, we should use, as;

#pragma once
#ifndef XYZ_H
#define XYZ_H
...
#endif

i.e. the combination of both.

How to add parameters into a WebRequest?

Use stream to write content to webrequest

string data = "username=<value>&password=<value>"; //replace <value>
byte[] dataStream = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(data);
private string urlPath = "http://xxx.xxx.xxx/manager/";
string request = urlPath + "index.php/org/get_org_form";
WebRequest webRequest = WebRequest.Create(request);
webRequest.Method = "POST";
webRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
webRequest.ContentLength = dataStream.Length;  
Stream newStream=webRequest.GetRequestStream();
// Send the data.
newStream.Write(dataStream,0,dataStream.Length);
newStream.Close();
WebResponse webResponse = webRequest.GetResponse();  

(grep) Regex to match non-ASCII characters?

To Validate Text Box Accept Ascii Only use this Pattern

[\x00-\x7F]+

SyntaxError: multiple statements found while compiling a single statement

A (partial) practical work-around is to put things into a throw-away function.

Pasting

x = 1
x += 1
print(x)

results in

>>> x = 1
x += 1
print(x)
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    x += 1
print(x)

    ^
SyntaxError: multiple statements found while compiling a single statement
>>>

However, pasting

def abc():
  x = 1
  x += 1
  print(x)

works:

>>> def abc():
  x = 1
  x += 1
  print(x)
>>> abc()
2
>>>

Of course, this is OK for a quick one-off, won't work for everything you might want to do, etc. But then, going to ipython / jupyter qtconsole is probably the next simplest option.

How to identify object types in java

You want instanceof:

if (value instanceof Integer)

This will be true even for subclasses, which is usually what you want, and it is also null-safe. If you really need the exact same class, you could do

if (value.getClass() == Integer.class)

or

if (Integer.class.equals(value.getClass())

Can I use a min-height for table, tr or td?

The solution without div is used a pseudo element like ::after into first td in row with min-height. Save your HTML clean.

table tr td:first-child::after {
   content: "";
   display: inline-block;
   vertical-align: top;
   min-height: 60px;
}

Add string in a certain position in Python

Python 3.6+ using f-string:

mys = '1362511338314'
f"{mys[:10]}_{mys[10:]}"

gives

'1362511338_314'

How do I read a response from Python Requests?

If the response is in json you could do something like (python3):

import json
import requests as reqs

# Make the HTTP request.
response = reqs.get('http://demo.ckan.org/api/3/action/group_list')

# Use the json module to load CKAN's response into a dictionary.
response_dict = json.loads(response.text)

for i in response_dict:
    print("key: ", i, "val: ", response_dict[i])

To see everything in the response you can use .__dict__:

print(response.__dict__)

How to select first and last TD in a row?

You could use the :first-child and :last-child pseudo-selectors:

tr td:first-child,
tr td:last-child {
    /* styles */
}

This should work in all major browsers, but IE7 has some problems when elements are added dynamically (and it won't work in IE6).

How can I do an asc and desc sort using underscore.js?

Underscore Mixins

Extending on @emil_lundberg's answer, you can also write a "mixin" if you're using Underscore to make a custom function for sorting if it's a kind of sorting you might repeat in an application somewhere.

For example, maybe you have a controller or view sorting results with sort order of "ASC" or "DESC", and you want to toggle between that sort, you could do something like this:

Mixin.js

_.mixin({
    sortByOrder: function(stooges, prop, order) {
      if (String(order) === "desc") {
          return _.sortBy(stooges, prop).reverse();
      } else if (String(order) === "asc") {
          return _.sortBy(stooges, prop);
      } else {
          return stooges;
      }
    }
})

Usage Example

var sort_order = "asc";
var stooges = [
  {name: 'moe', age: 40}, 
  {name: 'larry', age: 50}, 
  {name: 'curly', age: 60},
  {name: 'July', age: 35},
  {name: 'mel', age: 38}
 ];

_.mixin({
    sortByOrder: function(stooges, prop, order) {
    if (String(order) === "desc") {
        return _.sortBy(stooges, prop).reverse();
    } else if (String(order) === "asc") {
        return _.sortBy(stooges, prop);
    } else {
        return stooges;
    }
  }
})


// find elements
var banner = $("#banner-message");
var sort_name_btn = $("button.sort-name");
var sort_age_btn = $("button.sort-age");

function showSortedResults(results, sort_order, prop) {
    banner.empty();
    banner.append("<p>Sorting: " + prop + ', ' + sort_order + "</p><hr>")
  _.each(results, function(r) {
    banner.append('<li>' + r.name + ' is '+ r.age + ' years old.</li>');
  }) 
}

// handle click and add class
sort_name_btn.on("click", function() {
  sort_order = (sort_order === "asc") ? "desc" : "asc"; 
    var sortedResults = _.sortByOrder(stooges, 'name', sort_order);
  showSortedResults(sortedResults, sort_order, 'name');
})

sort_age_btn.on('click', function() {
    sort_order = (sort_order === "asc") ? "desc" : "asc"; 
    var sortedResults = _.sortByOrder(stooges, 'age', sort_order);
  showSortedResults(sortedResults, sort_order, 'age');
})

Here's a JSFiddle demonstrating this: JSFiddle for SortBy Mixin

Use a LIKE statement on SQL Server XML Datatype

You should be able to do this quite easily:

SELECT * 
FROM WebPageContent 
WHERE data.value('(/PageContent/Text)[1]', 'varchar(100)') LIKE 'XYZ%'

The .value method gives you the actual value, and you can define that to be returned as a VARCHAR(), which you can then check with a LIKE statement.

Mind you, this isn't going to be awfully fast. So if you have certain fields in your XML that you need to inspect a lot, you could:

  • create a stored function which gets the XML and returns the value you're looking for as a VARCHAR()
  • define a new computed field on your table which calls this function, and make it a PERSISTED column

With this, you'd basically "extract" a certain portion of the XML into a computed field, make it persisted, and then you can search very efficiently on it (heck: you can even INDEX that field!).

Marc

How can I execute Shell script in Jenkinsfile?

Previous answers are correct but here is one more way of doing this and some tips:

Option #1 Go to you Jenkins job and search for "add build step" and then just copy and paste your script there

Option #2 Go to Jenkins and do the same again "add build step" but this time put the fully qualified path for your script in there example : ./usr/somewhere/helloWorld.sh

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things to watch for /tips:

  • Environment variables, if your job is running at the same time then you need to worry about concurrency issues. One job may be setting the value of environment variables and the next may use the value or take some action based on that incorrectly.
  • Make sure all paths are fully qualified
  • Think about logging /var/log or somewhere so you would also have something to go to on the server (optional)
  • thing about space issue and permissions, running out of space and permission issues are very common in linux environment
  • Alerting and make sure your script/job fails the jenkin jobs when your script fails

How to terminate a window in tmux?

Lot's of different ways to do this, but my favorite is simply typing 'exit' on the bash prompt.

Clearing _POST array fully

You can use a combination of both unset() and initialization:

unset($_POST);
$_POST = array();

Or in a single statement:

unset($_POST) ? $_POST = array() : $_POST = array();

But what is the reason you want to do this?

How to get 0-padded binary representation of an integer in java?

I think this is a suboptimal solution, but you could do

String.format("%16s", Integer.toBinaryString(1)).replace(' ', '0')

Make Iframe to fit 100% of container's remaining height

It's right, you are showing an iframe with 100% height respect to its container: the body.

Try this:

<body>
  <div style="width:100%; height:30px; background-color:#cccccc;">Banner</div>
  <div style="width:100%; height:90%; background-color:transparent;">
    <iframe src="http: //www.google.com.tw" style="width:100%; height:100%;">
    </iframe> 
  </div>
</body>

Of course, change the height of the second div to the height you want.

bash assign default value

The default value parameter expansion is often useful in build scripts like the example one below. If the user just calls the script as-is, perl will not be built in. The user has to explicitly set WITH_PERL to a value other than "no" to have it built in.

$ cat defvar.sh
#!/bin/bash

WITH_PERL=${WITH_PERL:-no}

if [[ "$WITH_PERL" != no ]]; then
    echo "building with perl"
    # ./configure --enable=perl
else
    echo "not building with perl"
    # ./configure
fi

Build without Perl

$ ./defvar.sh
not building with perl

Build with Perl

$ WITH_PERL=yes ./defvar.sh
building with perl

How to execute .sql file using powershell?

with 2008 Server 2008 and 2008 R2

Add-PSSnapin -Name SqlServerCmdletSnapin100, SqlServerProviderSnapin100

with 2012 and 2014

Push-Location
Import-Module -Name SQLPS -DisableNameChecking
Pop-Location

Angular.js: set element height on page load

$(document).ready(function() {
       scope.$apply(function() {
                applyHeight();
            });
});

This also ensures that all the scripts have been loaded before the execution of the statements. If you dont need that you can use

$(window).load(function() {
       scope.$apply(function() {
                applyHeight();
            });
});

Phonegap + jQuery Mobile, real world sample or tutorial

These may not solve exactly your "real-world problems", but perhaps something useful ...

Our web site includes PhoneGap and jQuery Mobile tutorials for a media player, barcode scanner, google maps, and OAuth.

Also, my github page has code, but no tutorial, for two apps:

  • AppLaudApp - a run-control, debugging enabling, download complementary app to a cloud IDE
  • NameTrendz - an app developed in at Android Dev Camp to do a bunch of queries about popular name data. The PhoneGap and jQuery Mobile versions are from March 2011.

How do I query between two dates using MySQL?

DATE() is a MySQL function that extracts only the date part of a date or date/time expression

SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE DATE(date_field) BETWEEN '2016-12-01' AND '2016-12-10';

Using setImageDrawable dynamically to set image in an ImageView

I had the same problem as you and I did the following to solve it:

**IMAGEVIEW**.setImageResource(getActivity()
             .getResources()
             .getIdentifier("**IMG**", "drawable", getActivity()
             .getPackageName()));

Java 8 stream's .min() and .max(): why does this compile?

Comparator is a functional interface, and Integer::max complies with that interface (after autoboxing/unboxing is taken into consideration). It takes two int values and returns an int - just as you'd expect a Comparator<Integer> to (again, squinting to ignore the Integer/int difference).

However, I wouldn't expect it to do the right thing, given that Integer.max doesn't comply with the semantics of Comparator.compare. And indeed it doesn't really work in general. For example, make one small change:

for (int i = 1; i <= 20; i++)
    list.add(-i);

... and now the max value is -20 and the min value is -1.

Instead, both calls should use Integer::compare:

System.out.println(list.stream().max(Integer::compare).get());
System.out.println(list.stream().min(Integer::compare).get());

Pointer to a string in C?

The very same. A C string is nothing but an array of characters, so a pointer to a string is a pointer to an array of characters. And a pointer to an array is the very same as a pointer to its first element.

How to clean old dependencies from maven repositories?

I wanted to remove old dependencies from my Maven repository as well. I thought about just running Florian's answer, but I wanted something that I could run over and over without remembering a long linux snippet, and I wanted something with a little bit of configurability -- more of a program, less of a chain of unix commands, so I took the base idea and made it into a (relatively small) Ruby program, which removes old dependencies based on their last access time.

It doesn't remove "old versions" but since you might actually have two different active projects with two different versions of a dependency, that wouldn't have done what I wanted anyway. Instead, like Florian's answer, it removes dependencies that haven't been accessed recently.

If you want to try it out, you can:

  1. Visit the GitHub repository
  2. Clone the repository, or download the source
  3. Optionally inspect the code to make sure it's not malicious
  4. Run bin/mvnclean

There are options to override the default Maven repository, ignore files, set the threshold date, but you can read those in the README on GitHub.

I'll probably package it as a Ruby gem at some point after I've done a little more work on it, which will simplify matters (gem install mvnclean; mvnclean) if you already have Ruby installed and operational.

How to read a CSV file into a .NET Datatable

Here's an excellent class that will copy CSV data into a datatable using the structure of the data to create the DataTable:

A portable and efficient generic parser for flat files

It's easy to configure and easy to use. I urge you to take a look.

Python Traceback (most recent call last)

In Python2, input is evaluated, input() is equivalent to eval(raw_input()). When you enter klj, Python tries to evaluate that name and raises an error because that name is not defined.

Use raw_input to get a string from the user in Python2.

Demo 1: klj is not defined:

>>> input()
klj
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'klj' is not defined

Demo 2: klj is defined:

>>> klj = 'hi'
>>> input()
klj
'hi'

Demo 3: getting a string with raw_input:

>>> raw_input()
klj
'klj'

Install Visual Studio 2013 on Windows 7

Visual Studio 2013 System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems:

  • Windows 8.1 (x86 and x64)
  • Windows 8 (x86 and x64)
  • Windows 7 SP1 (x86 and x64)
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 (x64)
  • Windows Server 2012 (x64)
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (x64)

Hardware requirements:

  • 1.6 GHz or faster processor
  • 1 GB of RAM (1.5 GB if running on a virtual machine)
  • 20 GB of available hard disk space
  • 5400 RPM hard disk drive
  • DirectX 9-capable video card that runs at 1024 x 768 or higher display resolution

Additional Requirements for the laptop:

  • Internet Explorer 10
  • KB2883200 (available through Windows Update) is required

And don't forget to reboot after updating your windows

Concatenating Column Values into a Comma-Separated List

You can do a shortcut using coalesce to concatenate a series of strings from a record in a table, for example.

declare @aa varchar (200)
set @aa = ''

select @aa = 
    case when @aa = ''
    then CarName
    else @aa + coalesce(',' + CarName, '')
    end
  from Cars

print @aa

Apache Cordova - uninstall globally

Try sudo npm uninstall cordova -g to uninstall it globally and then just npm install cordova without the -g flag after cding to the local app directory

How can I create an executable JAR with dependencies using Maven?

For anyone looking for options to exclude specific dependencies from the uber-jar, this is a solution that worked for me:

<project...>
<dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
            <artifactId>spark-core_2.11</artifactId>
            <version>1.6.1</version>
            <scope>provided</scope> <=============
        </dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <descriptorRefs>
                        <descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
                    </descriptorRefs>
                    <archive>
                        <manifest>
                            <mainClass>...</mainClass>
                        </manifest>
                    </archive>
                </configuration>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>make-assembly</id>
                        <phase>package</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>single</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</project>

So it's not a configuration of the mvn-assembly-plugin but a property of the dependency.

ERROR 1044 (42000): Access denied for user ''@'localhost' to database 'db'

First, if you are unfamiliar with the command line, try using phpmyadmin from your webbrowser. This will make sure you actually have a mysql database created and a username.

This is how you connect from the command line (bash):

mysql -h hostname -u username -p database_name

For example:

fabio@crunchbang ~ $ mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -u fabio -p fabiodb

Sort a two dimensional array based on one column

Assuming your array contains strings, you can use the following:

String[] data = new String[] { 
    "2009.07.25 20:24 Message A",
    "2009.07.25 20:17 Message G",
    "2009.07.25 20:25 Message B",
    "2009.07.25 20:30 Message D",
    "2009.07.25 20:01 Message F",
    "2009.07.25 21:08 Message E",
    "2009.07.25 19:54 Message R"
};

Arrays.sort(data, new Comparator<String>() {
    @Override
    public int compare(String s1, String s2) {
        String t1 = s1.substring(0, 16); // date/time of s1
        String t2 = s2.substring(0, 16); // date/time of s2
        return t1.compareTo(t2);
    }
});

If you have a two-dimensional array, the solution is also very similar:

String[][] data = new String[][] { 
        { "2009.07.25 20:17", "Message G" },
        { "2009.07.25 20:25", "Message B" },
        { "2009.07.25 20:30", "Message D" },
        { "2009.07.25 20:01", "Message F" },
        { "2009.07.25 21:08", "Message E" },
        { "2009.07.25 19:54", "Message R" }
};

Arrays.sort(data, new Comparator<String[]>() {
    @Override
    public int compare(String[] s1, String[] s2) {
        String t1 = s1[0];
        String t2 = s2[0];
        return t1.compareTo(t2);
    }
});

How to use 'find' to search for files created on a specific date?

You could do this:

find ./ -type f -ls |grep '10 Sep'

Example:

[root@pbx etc]# find /var/ -type f -ls | grep "Dec 24"
791235    4 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root           29 Dec 24 03:24 /var/lib/prelink/full
798227  288 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       292323 Dec 24 23:53 /var/log/sa/sar24
797244  320 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       321300 Dec 24 23:50 /var/log/sa/sa24

How to get all key in JSON object (javascript)

Try this

var s = {name: "raul", age: "22", gender: "Male"}
   var keys = [];
   for(var k in s) keys.push(k);

Here keys array will return your keys ["name", "age", "gender"]

Send and receive messages through NSNotificationCenter in Objective-C?

if you're using NSNotificationCenter for updating your view, don't forget to send it from the main thread by calling dispatch_async:

dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(),^{
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:@"my_notification" object:nil];
});

Oracle Insert via Select from multiple tables where one table may not have a row

insert into received_messages(id, content, status)
    values (RECEIVED_MESSAGES_SEQ.NEXT_VAL, empty_blob(), '');

Do I need <class> elements in persistence.xml?

In Java SE environment, by specification you have to specify all classes as you have done:

A list of all named managed persistence classes must be specified in Java SE environments to insure portability

and

If it is not intended that the annotated persistence classes contained in the root of the persistence unit be included in the persistence unit, the exclude-unlisted-classes element should be used. The exclude-unlisted-classes element is not intended for use in Java SE environments.

(JSR-000220 6.2.1.6)

In Java EE environments, you do not have to do this as the provider scans for annotations for you.

Unofficially, you can try to set <exclude-unlisted-classes>false</exclude-unlisted-classes> in your persistence.xml. This parameter defaults to false in EE and truein SE. Both EclipseLink and Toplink supports this as far I can tell. But you should not rely on it working in SE, according to spec, as stated above.

You can TRY the following (may or may not work in SE-environments):

<persistence-unit name="eventractor" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
     <exclude-unlisted-classes>false</exclude-unlisted-classes>

    <properties>
            <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="validate" />
            <property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="true" />
    </properties>
</persistence-unit>

How do I get logs/details of ansible-playbook module executions?

Using callback plugins, you can have the stdout of your commands output in readable form with the play: gist: human_log.py

Edit for example output:

 _____________________________________
< TASK: common | install apt packages >
 -------------------------------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||


changed: [10.76.71.167] => (item=htop,vim-tiny,curl,git,unzip,update-motd,ssh-askpass,gcc,python-dev,libxml2,libxml2-dev,libxslt-dev,python-lxml,python-pip)

stdout:
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
libxslt1-dev is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 24 not upgraded.


stderr:

start:
2015-03-27 17:12:22.132237

end:
2015-03-27 17:12:22.136859

Is there a good JavaScript minifier?

JavaScript Minifier gives a good API you can use programatically:

curl -X POST -s --data-urlencode 'input=$(function() { alert("Hello, World!"); });' http://javascript-minifier.com/raw

Or by uploading a file and redirecting to a new file:

curl -X POST -s --data-urlencode '[email protected]' http://javascript-minifier.com/raw > ready.min.js

Hope that helps.

How to use sbt from behind proxy?

SBT use both HTTP/HTTPS/SFTP/SSH and other kind of connections to a repository. so when behind a proxy, these protocols should be available.

In most simple cases on Windows, you just need to pass proxy parameters options to JVM, like:

java -Dhttp.proxyHost=myproxy -Dhttp.proxyPort=8080

That will do.

But if not, there are few things you should be aware of:

  1. whether if you are making a HTTPS connection to the repository.
  2. whether sever certificates been imported to jre cacerts
  3. whether your proxy would replace your server certificates

to solve first, you should pass https proxy parameter to jvm, like:

java -Dhttps.proxyHost=myproxy -Dhttps.proxyPort=8080 -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=${TRUST_STORE_PATH}

to solve the second, you should import the ca. there are a lot of tips.

to solve the third, you maybe could considering using a authentication proxy.

to Simplify the config of SBT, it provide sbtconfig.txt and sbtops in the conf directory, look into it.

Reference:
http://www.scala-sbt.org/0.13/docs/Setup-Notes.html
http://www.scala-sbt.org/1.0/docs/Publishing.html

TextView Marquee not working

Most of the answers are identical,
but also notice that in some cases marquee will not work without specifying of width in dips for the container.
For instance if you use weight in parent container

android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_weight="0.5"

marquee may not work.

How can I consume a WSDL (SOAP) web service in Python?

SOAPpy is now obsolete, AFAIK, replaced by ZSL. It's a moot point, because I can't get either one to work, much less compile, on either Python 2.5 or Python 2.6

What is newline character -- '\n'

Try this:

$ sed -e $'s/\n/\n\n/g' states

Using Razor within JavaScript

That will work fine, as long as it's in a CSHTML page and not an external JavaScript file.

The Razor template engine doesn't care what it's outputting and does not differentiate between <script> or other tags.

However, you need to encode your strings to prevent XSS attacks.

Gaussian fit for Python

sigma = sum(y*(x - mean)**2)

should be

sigma = np.sqrt(sum(y*(x - mean)**2))

Android findViewById() in Custom View

View Custmv;

 private void initViews() {
        inflater = (LayoutInflater) getContext().getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
        Custmv = inflater.inflate(R.layout.id_number_edit_text_custom, this, true);
        editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.id_number_custom);
        loadButton = (ImageButton) findViewById(R.id.load_data_button);
        loadButton.setVisibility(RelativeLayout.INVISIBLE);
        loadData();
    }

private void loadData(){
        loadButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                EditText firstName = (EditText) Custmv.getParent().findViewById(R.id.display_name);
                firstName.setText("Some Text");
            }
        });
    }

try like this.

how to get the base url in javascript

Let's say you have your global scripts file and you don't want to define that URL repeatedly in other files. That's the point where BASE_URL kicks in.

In your global_script.js file, do this

<script>
 var BASE_URL = "http://localhost:8000";
</script>

Then you can use that variable anywhere else to call your URL. For example...

<script>
   fetch(`{{BASE_URL}}/task-create/`,{
         ..............
            
        }).then((response) => {
            .............
   })
</script>

CSS Font "Helvetica Neue"

This font is not standard on all devices. It is installed by default on some Macs, but rarely on PCs and mobile devices.

To use this font on all devices, use a @font-face declaration in your CSS to link to it on your domain if you wish to use it.

@font-face { font-family: Delicious; src: url('Delicious-Roman.otf'); } 
@font-face { font-family: Delicious; font-weight: bold; src: url('Delicious-Bold.otf'); }

Taken from css3.info

Jquery bind double click and single click separately

Same as the above answer but allows for triple click. (Delay 500) http://jsfiddle.net/luenwarneke/rV78Y/1/

    var DELAY = 500,
    clicks = 0,
    timer = null;

$(document).ready(function() {
    $("a")
    .on("click", function(e){
        clicks++;  //count clicks
        timer = setTimeout(function() {
        if(clicks === 1) {
           alert('Single Click'); //perform single-click action
        } else if(clicks === 2) {
           alert('Double Click'); //perform single-click action
        } else if(clicks >= 3) {
           alert('Triple Click'); //perform Triple-click action
        }
         clearTimeout(timer);
         clicks = 0;  //after action performed, reset counter
       }, DELAY);
    })
    .on("dblclick", function(e){
        e.preventDefault();  //cancel system double-click event
    });
});

Bash foreach loop

You'll probably want to handle spaces in your file names, abhorrent though they are :-)

So I would opt initially for something like:

pax> cat qq.in
normalfile.txt
file with spaces.doc

pax> sed 's/ /\\ /g' qq.in | xargs -n 1 cat
<<contents of 'normalfile.txt'>>
<<contents of 'file with spaces.doc'>>

pax> _

angular.js ng-repeat li items with html content

It goes like ng-bind-html-unsafe="opt.text":

<div ng-app ng-controller="MyCtrl">
    <ul>
    <li ng-repeat=" opt in opts" ng-bind-html-unsafe="opt.text" >
        {{ opt.text }}
    </li>
    </ul>

    <p>{{opt}}</p>
</div>

http://jsfiddle.net/gFFBa/3/

Or you can define a function in scope:

 $scope.getContent = function(obj){
     return obj.value + " " + obj.text;
 }

And use it this way:

<li ng-repeat=" opt in opts" ng-bind-html-unsafe="getContent(opt)" >
     {{ opt.value }}
</li>

http://jsfiddle.net/gFFBa/4/

Note that you can not do it with an option tag: Can I use HTML tags in the options for select elements?

How to deploy a React App on Apache web server

First, add a pom.xml and make it a maven project and then build it. It will create a War file for you in the target folder after that you can deploy it wherever you want.

pom.xml http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> 4.0.0 it.megadix create-react-app-servlet 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT war

<properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    <npm.output.directory>build</npm.output.directory>
</properties>

<build>
    <finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName>
    <plugins>
        <!-- Standard plugin to generate WAR -->
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.1.1</version>
            <configuration>
                <webResources>
                    <resource>
                        <directory>${npm.output.directory}</directory>
                    </resource>
                </webResources>
                <webXml>${basedir}/web.xml</webXml>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>

        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
            <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.3.2</version>
            <executions>
                <!-- Required: The following will ensure `npm install` is called
                     before anything else during the 'Default Lifecycle' -->
                <execution>
                    <id>npm install (initialize)</id>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>exec</goal>
                    </goals>
                    <phase>initialize</phase>
                    <configuration>
                        <executable>npm</executable>
                        <arguments>
                            <argument>install</argument>
                        </arguments>
                    </configuration>
                </execution>
                <!-- Required: The following will ensure `npm install` is called
                     before anything else during the 'Clean Lifecycle' -->
                <execution>
                    <id>npm install (clean)</id>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>exec</goal>
                    </goals>
                    <phase>pre-clean</phase>
                    <configuration>
                        <executable>npm</executable>
                        <arguments>
                            <argument>install</argument>
                        </arguments>
                    </configuration>
                </execution>

                <!-- Required: This following calls `npm run build` where 'build' is
                     the script name I used in my project, change this if yours is
                         different -->
                <execution>
                    <id>npm run build (compile)</id>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>exec</goal>
                    </goals>
                    <phase>compile</phase>
                    <configuration>
                        <executable>npm</executable>
                        <arguments>
                            <argument>run</argument>
                            <argument>build</argument>
                        </arguments>
                    </configuration>
                </execution>

            </executions>

            <configuration>
                <environmentVariables>
                    <CI>true</CI>
                    <!-- The following parameters create an NPM sandbox for CI -->
                    <NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX>${basedir}/npm</NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX>
                    <NPM_CONFIG_CACHE>${NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX}/cache</NPM_CONFIG_CACHE>
                    <NPM_CONFIG_TMP>${project.build.directory}/npmtmp</NPM_CONFIG_TMP>
                </environmentVariables>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

<profiles>
    <profile>
        <id>local</id>
        <activation>
            <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
        </activation>
        <build>
            <plugins>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                    <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>

                    <configuration>
                        <environmentVariables>
                            <PUBLIC_URL>http://localhost:8080/${project.artifactId}</PUBLIC_URL>
                            <REACT_APP_ROUTER_BASE>/${project.artifactId}</REACT_APP_ROUTER_BASE>
                        </environmentVariables>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
            </plugins>
        </build>
    </profile>

    <profile>
        <id>prod</id>
        <build>
            <plugins>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                    <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>

                    <configuration>
                        <environmentVariables>
                            <PUBLIC_URL>http://my-awesome-production-host/${project.artifactId}</PUBLIC_URL>
                            <REACT_APP_ROUTER_BASE>/${project.artifactId}</REACT_APP_ROUTER_BASE>
                        </environmentVariables>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
            </plugins>
        </build>
    </profile>
</profiles>

Note:- If you find a blank page after running your project then clear your cache or restart your IDE.

How do I make a matrix from a list of vectors in R?

t(sapply(a, '[', 1:max(sapply(a, length))))

where 'a' is a list. Would work for unequal row size

How do I close a single buffer (out of many) in Vim?

You can map next and previous to function keys too, making cycling through buffers a breeze

map <F2> :bprevious<CR>
map <F3> :bnext<CR>

from my vimrc

What is difference between @RequestBody and @RequestParam?

It is very simple just look at their names @RequestParam it consist of two parts one is "Request" which means it is going to deal with request and other part is "Param" which itself makes sense it is going to map only the parameters of requests to java objects. Same is the case with @RequestBody it is going to deal with the data that has been arrived with request like if client has send json object or xml with request at that time @requestbody must be used.

Expected response code 250 but got code "535", with message "535-5.7.8 Username and Password not accepted

This is my .env mail settings

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.googlemail.com
MAIL_PORT=587
[email protected]
MAIL_PASSWORD=hello27
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls

i was getting thesame error as stated in the question but by using

php artisan config:cache

Everything worked fine

Open the terminal in visual studio?

New in the most recent version of Visual Studio, there is View --> Terminal, which will open a PowerShell instance as a VS dockable window, rather than a floating PowerShell or cmd instance from the Developer Command Prompt.

View then Terminal

How to check if a directory containing a file exist?

EDIT: as of Java8 you'd better use Files class:

Path resultingPath = Files.createDirectories('A/B');

I don't know if this ultimately fixes your problem but class File has method mkdirs() which fully creates the path specified by the file.

File f = new File("/A/B/");
f.mkdirs();

Entity Framework Core: A second operation started on this context before a previous operation completed

I had the same problem and it turned out that parent service was a singelton. So the context automatically became singelton too. Even though was declared as Per Life Time Scoped in DI.

Injecting service with different lifetimes into another

  1. Never inject Scoped & Transient services into Singleton service. ( This effectively converts the transient or scoped service into the singleton. )

  2. Never inject Transient services into scoped service ( This converts the transient service into the scoped. )

Putting HTML inside Html.ActionLink(), plus No Link Text?

Please try below Code that may help you.

 @Html.ActionLink(" SignIn", "Login", "Account", routeValues: null, htmlAttributes: new {  id = "loginLink" ,**@class="glyphicon glyphicon-log-in"** }) 

How to move all HTML element children to another parent using JavaScript?

This answer only really works if you don't need to do anything other than transferring the inner code (innerHTML) from one to the other:

// Define old parent
var oldParent = document.getElementById('old-parent');

// Define new parent
var newParent = document.getElementById('new-parent');

// Basically takes the inner code of the old, and places it into the new one
newParent.innerHTML = oldParent.innerHTML;

// Delete / Clear the innerHTML / code of the old Parent
oldParent.innerHTML = '';

Hope this helps!

Lock, mutex, semaphore... what's the difference?

Wikipedia has a great section on the differences between Semaphores and Mutexes:

A mutex is essentially the same thing as a binary semaphore and sometimes uses the same basic implementation. The differences between them are:

Mutexes have a concept of an owner, which is the process that locked the mutex. Only the process that locked the mutex can unlock it. In contrast, a semaphore has no concept of an owner. Any process can unlock a semaphore.

Unlike semaphores, mutexes provide priority inversion safety. Since the mutex knows its current owner, it is possible to promote the priority of the owner whenever a higher-priority task starts waiting on the mutex.

Mutexes also provide deletion safety, where the process holding the mutex cannot be accidentally deleted. Semaphores do not provide this.

How can I control the speed that bootstrap carousel slides in items?

You need to set interval in the main DIV as data-interval tag. The it will work fine and you can give different time to different slides.

<div class="carousel" data-interval="5000">

How do I format a number to a dollar amount in PHP

In PHP and C++ you can use the printf() function

printf("$%01.2f", $money);

How to include a PHP variable inside a MySQL statement

Here

$type='testing' //it's string

mysql_query("INSERT INTO contents (type, reporter, description) VALUES('$type', 'john', 'whatever')");//at that time u can use it(for string)


$type=12 //it's integer
mysql_query("INSERT INTO contents (type, reporter, description) VALUES($type, 'john', 'whatever')");//at that time u can use $type

Can comments be used in JSON?

Yes. You can put comments in a JSON file.

{
    "": "Location to post to",
    "postUrl": "https://example.com/upload/",

    "": "Username for basic auth",
    "username": "joebloggs",

    "": "Password for basic auth (note this is in clear, be sure to use HTTPS!",
    "password": "bloejoggs"
}

A comment is simply a piece of text describing the purpose of a block of code or configuration. And because you can specify keys multiple times in JSON, you can do it like this. It's syntactically correct and the only tradeoff is you'll have an empty key with some garbage value in your dictionary (which you could trim...)

I saw this question years and years ago but I only just saw this done like this in a project I'm working on and I thought this was a really clean way to do it. Enjoy!

Delete all the queues from RabbitMQ?

If you're trying to delete queues because they're unused and you don't want to reset, one option is to set the queue TTL very low via a policy, wait for the queues to be auto-deleted once the TTL is passed and then remove the policy (https://www.rabbitmq.com/ttl.html).

rabbitmqctl.bat set_policy delq ".*" '{"expires": 1}' --apply-to queues

To remove the policy

rabbitmqctl clear_policy delq

Note that this only works for unused queues

Original info here: http://rabbitmq.1065348.n5.nabble.com/Deleting-all-queues-in-rabbitmq-td30933.html

How can the Euclidean distance be calculated with NumPy?

The other answers work for floating point numbers, but do not correctly compute the distance for integer dtypes which are subject to overflow and underflow. Note that even scipy.distance.euclidean has this issue:

>>> a1 = np.array([1], dtype='uint8')
>>> a2 = np.array([2], dtype='uint8')
>>> a1 - a2
array([255], dtype=uint8)
>>> np.linalg.norm(a1 - a2)
255.0
>>> from scipy.spatial import distance
>>> distance.euclidean(a1, a2)
255.0

This is common, since many image libraries represent an image as an ndarray with dtype="uint8". This means that if you have a greyscale image which consists of very dark grey pixels (say all the pixels have color #000001) and you're diffing it against black image (#000000), you can end up with x-y consisting of 255 in all cells, which registers as the two images being very far apart from each other. For unsigned integer types (e.g. uint8), you can safely compute the distance in numpy as:

np.linalg.norm(np.maximum(x, y) - np.minimum(x, y))

For signed integer types, you can cast to a float first:

np.linalg.norm(x.astype("float") - y.astype("float"))

For image data specifically, you can use opencv's norm method:

import cv2
cv2.norm(x, y, cv2.NORM_L2)

Regular expression to match a dot

This expression,

(?<=\s|^)[^.\s]+\.[^.\s]+(?=@)

might also work OK for those specific types of input strings.

Demo

Test

import re

expression = r'(?<=^|\s)[^.\s]+\.[^.\s]+(?=@)'
string = '''
blah blah blah [email protected] blah blah
blah blah blah test.this @gmail.com blah blah
blah blah blah [email protected] blah blah
'''

matches = re.findall(expression, string)

print(matches)

Output

['test.this']

If you wish to simplify/modify/explore the expression, it's been explained on the top right panel of regex101.com. If you'd like, you can also watch in this link, how it would match against some sample inputs.


Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture or the neutral culture

I resolved this by going to the project where my resources file was saved, scrolling down to its ItemGroup and adding a logical name that corresponded to the path the compiler expected.

My EmbeddedResource looked like this:

   <ItemGroup>
    <EmbeddedResource Update="Properties\TextResources.resx">
      <Generator>PublicResXFileCodeGenerator</Generator>
      <LastGenOutput>TextResources.Designer.cs</LastGenOutput>
    </EmbeddedResource>
  </ItemGroup>

Now it looks like this

  <ItemGroup>
    <EmbeddedResource Update="Properties\TextResources.resx">
      <Generator>PublicResXFileCodeGenerator</Generator>
      <LastGenOutput>TextResources.Designer.cs</LastGenOutput>
      <LogicalName>MyProject.Properties.Resources.resources</LogicalName>
    </EmbeddedResource>
  </ItemGroup>

The right way of setting <a href=""> when it's a local file

Try swapping your colon : for a bar |. that should do it

<a href="file://C|/path/to/file/file.html">Link Anchor</a>

Difference between add(), replace(), and addToBackStack()

The FragmentManger's function add and replace can be described as these 1. add means it will add the fragment in the fragment back stack and it will show at given frame you are providing like

getFragmentManager.beginTransaction.add(R.id.contentframe,Fragment1.newInstance(),null)

2.replace means that you are replacing the fragment with another fragment at the given frame

getFragmentManager.beginTransaction.replace(R.id.contentframe,Fragment1.newInstance(),null)

The Main utility between the two is that when you are back stacking the replace will refresh the fragment but add will not refresh previous fragment.

Maven2: Best practice for Enterprise Project (EAR file)

What helped me a lot was to run the Maven archetype:generate goal and select from one of the archetypes, some of which seem to be updated regularly (in particular JBoss seems to be well maintained).

mvn archetype:generate

Hundreds of archetypes appeared in a numbered list from which to select (519 as of now!). The goal, still running, prompted me to make a selection by entering a number or entering a search string e.g.:

513: remote -> org.xwiki.commons:xwiki-commons-component-archetype
514: remote -> org.xwiki.rendering:xwiki-rendering-archetype-macro
515: remote -> org.zkoss:zk-archetype-component
516: remote -> org.zkoss:zk-archetype-webapp
517: remote -> ru.circumflex:circumflex-archetype (-)
518: remote -> se.vgregion.javg.maven.archetypes:javg-minimal-archetype (-)
Choose a number or apply filter (format: [groupId:]artifactId, case sensitive contains):

I entered the search string "ear," which reduced the list to only 8 items (as of today):

Choose archetype:
1: remote -> org.codehaus.mojo.archetypes:ear-j2ee14 (-)
2: remote -> org.codehaus.mojo.archetypes:ear-javaee6 (-)
3: remote -> org.codehaus.mojo.archetypes:ear-jee5 (-)
4: remote -> org.hibernate:hibernate-search-quickstart (-)
5: remote -> org.jboss.spec.archetypes:jboss-javaee6-ear-webapp 
6: remote -> org.jboss.spec.archetypes:jboss-javaee6-webapp-ear-archetype
7: remote -> org.jboss.spec.archetypes:jboss-javaee6-webapp-ear-archetype-blank
8: remote -> org.ow2.weblab.tools.maven:weblab-archetype-searcher

I selected "org.jboss.spec.archetypes:jboss-javaee6-ear-webapp" (by entering the selection "5" in this example).

Next, the goal asked me to enter the groupId, artifactId, package names, etc., and it then generated the following well-documented example application:

[pgarner@localhost Foo]$ tree
.
|-- Foo-ear
|   `-- pom.xml
|-- Foo-ejb
|   |-- pom.xml
|   `-- src
|       |-- main
|       |   |-- java
|       |   |   `-- com
|       |   |       `-- foo
|       |   |           |-- controller
|       |   |           |   `-- MemberRegistration.java
|       |   |           |-- data
|       |   |           |   `-- MemberListProducer.java
|       |   |           |-- model
|       |   |           |   `-- Member.java
|       |   |           `-- util
|       |   |               `-- Resources.java
|       |   `-- resources
|       |       |-- import.sql
|       |       `-- META-INF
|       |           |-- beans.xml
|       |           `-- persistence.xml
|       `-- test
|           |-- java
|           |   `-- com
|           |       `-- foo
|           |           `-- test
|           |               `-- MemberRegistrationTest.java
|           `-- resources
|-- Foo-web
|   |-- pom.xml
|   `-- src
|       `-- main
|           |-- java
|           |   `-- com
|           |       `-- foo
|           |           `-- rest
|           |               |-- JaxRsActivator.java
|           |               `-- MemberResourceRESTService.java
|           `-- webapp
|               |-- index.html
|               |-- index.xhtml
|               |-- resources
|               |   |-- css
|               |   |   `-- screen.css
|               |   `-- gfx
|               |       |-- banner.png
|               |       `-- logo.png
|               `-- WEB-INF
|                   |-- beans.xml
|                   |-- faces-config.xml
|                   `-- templates
|                       `-- default.xhtml
|-- pom.xml
`-- README.md

32 directories, 23 files

After reading the four POM files, which were well-commented, I had pretty much all the information I needed.

./pom.xml
./Foo-ear/pom.xml
./Foo-ejb/pom.xml
./Foo-web/pom.xml

TypeError: document.getElementbyId is not a function

Case sensitive: document.getElementById (notice the capital B).

Output single character in C

char variable = 'x';  // the variable is a char whose value is lowercase x

printf("<%c>", variable); // print it with angle brackets around the character

array of string with unknown size

string foo = "Apple, Plum, Cherry";

string[] myArr = null;

myArr = foo.Split(',');

Test a weekly cron job

A wee bit beyond the scope of your question... but here's what I do.

The "how do I test a cron job?" question is closely connected to "how do I test scripts that run in non-interactive contexts launched by other programs?" In cron, the trigger is some time condition, but lots of other *nix facilities launch scripts or script fragments in non-interactive ways, and often the conditions in which those scripts run contain something unexpected and cause breakage until the bugs are sorted out. (See also: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17805088/237059 )

A general approach to this problem is helpful to have.

One of my favorite techniques is to use a script I wrote called 'crontest'. It launches the target command inside a GNU screen session from within cron, so that you can attach with a separate terminal to see what's going on, interact with the script, even use a debugger.

To set this up, you would use "all stars" in your crontab entry, and specify crontest as the first command on the command line, e.g.:

* * * * * crontest /command/to/be/tested --param1 --param2

So now cron will run your command every minute, but crontest will ensure that only one instance runs at a time. If the command takes time to run, you can do a "screen -x" to attach and watch it run. If the command is a script, you can put a "read" command at the top to make it stop and wait for the screen attachment to complete (hit enter after attaching)

If your command is a bash script, you can do this instead:

* * * * * crontest --bashdb /command/to/be/tested --param1 --param2

Now, if you attach with "screen -x", you'll be facing an interactive bashdb session, and you can step through the code, examine variables, etc.

#!/bin/bash

# crontest
# See https://github.com/Stabledog/crontest for canonical source.

# Test wrapper for cron tasks.  The suggested use is:
#
#  1. When adding your cron job, use all 5 stars to make it run every minute
#  2. Wrap the command in crontest
#        
#
#  Example:
#
#  $ crontab -e
#     * * * * * /usr/local/bin/crontest $HOME/bin/my-new-script --myparams
#
#  Now, cron will run your job every minute, but crontest will only allow one
#  instance to run at a time.  
#
#  crontest always wraps the command in "screen -d -m" if possible, so you can
#  use "screen -x" to attach and interact with the job.   
#
#  If --bashdb is used, the command line will be passed to bashdb.  Thus you
#  can attach with "screen -x" and debug the remaining command in context.
#
#  NOTES:
#   - crontest can be used in other contexts, it doesn't have to be a cron job.
#       Any place where commands are invoked without an interactive terminal and
#       may need to be debugged.
#
#   - crontest writes its own stuff to /tmp/crontest.log
#
#   - If GNU screen isn't available, neither is --bashdb
#

crontestLog=/tmp/crontest.log
lockfile=$(if [[ -d /var/lock ]]; then echo /var/lock/crontest.lock; else echo /tmp/crontest.lock; fi )
useBashdb=false
useScreen=$( if which screen &>/dev/null; then echo true; else echo false; fi )
innerArgs="$@"
screenBin=$(which screen 2>/dev/null)

function errExit {
    echo "[-err-] $@" | tee -a $crontestLog >&2
}

function log {
    echo "[-stat-] $@" >> $crontestLog
}

function parseArgs {
    while [[ ! -z $1 ]]; do
        case $1 in
            --bashdb)
                if ! $useScreen; then
                    errExit "--bashdb invalid in crontest because GNU screen not installed"
                fi
                if ! which bashdb &>/dev/null; then
                    errExit "--bashdb invalid in crontest: no bashdb on the PATH"
                fi

                useBashdb=true
                ;;
            --)
                shift
                innerArgs="$@"
                return 0
                ;;
            *)
                innerArgs="$@"
                return 0
                ;;
        esac
        shift
    done
}

if [[ -z  $sourceMe ]]; then
    # Lock the lockfile (no, we do not wish to follow the standard
    # advice of wrapping this in a subshell!)
    exec 9>$lockfile
    flock -n 9 || exit 1

    # Zap any old log data:
    [[ -f $crontestLog ]] && rm -f $crontestLog

    parseArgs "$@"

    log "crontest starting at $(date)"
    log "Raw command line: $@"
    log "Inner args: $@"
    log "screenBin: $screenBin"
    log "useBashdb: $( if $useBashdb; then echo YES; else echo no; fi )"
    log "useScreen: $( if $useScreen; then echo YES; else echo no; fi )"

    # Were building a command line.
    cmdline=""

    # If screen is available, put the task inside a pseudo-terminal
    # owned by screen.  That allows the developer to do a "screen -x" to
    # interact with the running command:
    if $useScreen; then
        cmdline="$screenBin -D -m "
    fi

    # If bashdb is installed and --bashdb is specified on the command line,
    # pass the command to bashdb.  This allows the developer to do a "screen -x" to
    # interactively debug a bash shell script:
    if $useBashdb; then
        cmdline="$cmdline $(which bashdb) "
    fi

    # Finally, append the target command and params:
    cmdline="$cmdline $innerArgs"

    log "cmdline: $cmdline"


    # And run the whole schlock:
    $cmdline 

    res=$?

    log "Command result: $res"


    echo "[-result-] $(if [[ $res -eq 0 ]]; then echo ok; else echo fail; fi)" >> $crontestLog

    # Release the lock:
    9<&-
fi

How to remove square brackets from list in Python?

Yes, there are several ways to do it. For instance, you can convert the list to a string and then remove the first and last characters:

l = ['a', 2, 'c']
print str(l)[1:-1]
'a', 2, 'c'

If your list contains only strings and you want remove the quotes too then you can use the join method as has already been said.

Meaning of "487 Request Terminated"

It's the response code a SIP User Agent Server (UAS) will send to the client after the client sends a CANCEL request for the original unanswered INVITE request (yet to receive a final response).

Here is a nice CANCEL SIP Call Flow illustration.

How do I get the Back Button to work with an AngularJS ui-router state machine?

app.run(['$window', '$rootScope', 
function ($window ,  $rootScope) {
  $rootScope.goBack = function(){
    $window.history.back();
  }
}]);

<a href="#" ng-click="goBack()">Back</a>

How to SELECT by MAX(date)?

Are you only wanting it to show the last date_entered, or to order by starting with the last_date entered?

SELECT report_id, computer_id, date_entered
FROM reports
GROUP BY computer_id
ORDER BY date_entered DESC
-- LIMIT 1 -- uncomment to only show the last date.

R object identification

attributes(someObject) 

Can also be useful

How to output git log with the first line only?

Better and easier git log by making an alias. Paste the code below to terminal just once for one session. Paste the code to zshrc or bash profile to make it persistant.

git config --global alias.lg "log --color --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit"

Output

git lg

Output changed lines

git lg -p

Alternatively (recommended)
Paste this code to global .gitconfig file

[alias]
  lg = log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit

Further Reading.
https://coderwall.com/p/euwpig/a-better-git-log
Advanced Reading.
http://durdn.com/blog/2012/11/22/must-have-git-aliases-advanced-examples/

Set database from SINGLE USER mode to MULTI USER

On more than 3 occasions working with SQL Server 2014, I have had a database convert to Single User mode without me changing anything. It must have occurred during database creation somehow. All of the methods above never worked as I always received an error that the database was in single user mode and could not be connected to.

The only thing I got to work was restarting the SQL Server Windows Service. That allowed me to connect to the database and make the necessary changes or to delete the database and start over.

Difference between Visual Basic 6.0 and VBA

Do you want compare VBA with VB-Classic (VB6..) or VB.NET?

VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) is a vb-classic-based script language embedded in Microsoft Office applications. I think it's language features are similar to those of VB5 (it just lacks some few builtin functions), but:

You have access to the office document you wrote the VBA-script for and so you can e.g.

  • Write macros (=automated routines for little recurring tasks in your office-work)
  • Define new functions for excel-cell-formula
  • Process office data

Example: Set the value of an excel-cell

ActiveSheet.Cells("A1").Value = "Foo"

VBC and -.NET are no script languages. You use them to write standalone-applications with separate IDE's which you can't do with VBA (VBA-scripts just "exist" in Office)

VBA has nothing to do with VB.NET (they just have a similar syntax).

What is an MvcHtmlString and when should I use it?

A nice practical use of this is if you want to make your own HtmlHelper extensions. For example, I hate trying to remember the <link> tag syntax, so I've created my own extension method to make a <link> tag:

<Extension()> _
Public Function CssBlock(ByVal html As HtmlHelper, ByVal src As String, ByVal Optional ByVal htmlAttributes As Object = Nothing) As MvcHtmlString
    Dim tag = New TagBuilder("link")
    tag.MergeAttribute("type", "text/css")
    tag.MergeAttribute("rel", "stylesheet")
    tag.MergeAttribute("href", src)
    tag.MergeAttributes(New RouteValueDictionary(htmlAttributes))
    Dim result = tag.ToString(TagRenderMode.Normal)
    Return MvcHtmlString.Create(result)
End Function

I could have returned String from this method, but if I had the following would break:

<%: Html.CssBlock(Url.Content("~/sytles/mysite.css")) %>

With MvcHtmlString, using either <%: ... %> or <%= ... %> will both work correctly.

case in sql stored procedure on SQL Server

CASE isn't used for flow control... for this, you would need to use IF...

But, there's a set-based solution to this problem instead of the procedural approach:

UPDATE tblEmployee
SET 
  InOffice = CASE WHEN @NewStatus = 'InOffice' THEN -1 ELSE InOffice END,
  OutOffice = CASE WHEN @NewStatus = 'OutOffice' THEN -1 ELSE OutOffice END,
  Home = CASE WHEN @NewStatus = 'Home' THEN -1 ELSE Home END
WHERE EmpID = @EmpID

Note that the ELSE will preserves the original value if the @NewStatus condition isn't met.

How do I create dynamic properties in C#?

If you need this for data-binding purposes, you can do this with a custom descriptor model... by implementing ICustomTypeDescriptor, TypeDescriptionProvider and/or TypeCoverter, you can create your own PropertyDescriptor instances at runtime. This is what controls like DataGridView, PropertyGrid etc use to display properties.

To bind to lists, you'd need ITypedList and IList; for basic sorting: IBindingList; for filtering and advanced sorting: IBindingListView; for full "new row" support (DataGridView): ICancelAddNew (phew!).

It is a lot of work though. DataTable (although I hate it) is cheap way of doing the same thing. If you don't need data-binding, just use a hashtable ;-p

Here's a simple example - but you can do a lot more...

IIS Express Windows Authentication

In IIS Manager click on your site. You need to be "in feature view" (rather than "content view")

In the IIS section of "feature view" choose the so-called feature "authentication" and doulbe click it. Here you can enable Windows Authentication. This is also possible (by i think in one of the suggestions in the thread) by a setting in the web.config ( ...)

But maybe you have a web.config you do not want to scrue too much around with. Then this thread wouldnt be too much help, which is why i added this answer.

Oracle SQL Developer: Unable to find a JVM

The Oracle SQL developer is not supported by the 64bit JDK. To resolve this issue:

  1. Install a 32bit JDK (x86)
  2. Update your SQL developer config file (It should now point to the new 32bit JDK).
  3. Edit the sqldeveloper.conf, which can be found under {ORACLE_HOME}\sqldeveloper\sqldeveloper\bin\sqldeveloper.conf
  4. Make sure SetJavaHome is pointing to your 32bit JDK.

For example:

SetJavaHome C:\Program Files (x86) \Java\jdk1.6.0_13

Return empty cell from formula in Excel

Google brought me here with a very similar problem, I finally figured out a solution that fits my needs, it might help someone else too...

I used this formula:

=IFERROR(MID(Q2, FIND("{",Q2), FIND("}",Q2) - FIND("{",Q2) + 1), "")

INSERT INTO vs SELECT INTO

The simple difference between select Into and Insert Into is: --> Select Into don't need existing table. If you want to copy table A data, you just type Select * INTO [tablename] from A. Here, tablename can be existing table or new table will be created which has same structure like table A.

--> Insert Into do need existing table.INSERT INTO [tablename] SELECT * FROM A;. Here tablename is an existing table.

Select Into is usually more popular to copy data especially backup data.

You can use as per your requirement, it is totally developer choice which should be used in his scenario.

Performance wise Insert INTO is fast.

References :

https://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_insert_into_select.asp https://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_select_into.asp

Check if input value is empty and display an alert

$('#submit').click(function(){
   if($('#myMessage').val() == ''){
      alert('Input can not be left blank');
   }
});

Update

If you don't want whitespace also u can remove them using jQuery.trim()

Description: Remove the whitespace from the beginning and end of a string.

$('#submit').click(function(){
   if($.trim($('#myMessage').val()) == ''){
      alert('Input can not be left blank');
   }
});

How to make bootstrap column height to 100% row height?

You can solve that using display table.

Here is the updated JSFiddle that solves your problem.

CSS

.body {
    display: table;
    background-color: green;
}

.left-side {
    background-color: blue;
    float: none;
    display: table-cell;
    border: 1px solid;
}

.right-side {
    background-color: red;
    float: none;
    display: table-cell;
    border: 1px solid;
}

HTML

<div class="row body">
        <div class="col-xs-9 left-side">
            <p>sdfsdf</p>
            <p>sdfsdf</p>
            <p>sdfsdf</p>
            <p>sdfsdf</p>
            <p>sdfsdf</p>
            <p>sdfsdf</p>
        </div>
        <div class="col-xs-3 right-side">
            asdfdf
        </div>
    </div>

Example to use shared_ptr?

I will add that one of the important things about shared_ptr's is to only ever construct them with the following syntax:

shared_ptr<Type>(new Type(...));

This way, the "real" pointer to Type is anonymous to your scope, and held only by the shared pointer. Thus it will be impossible for you to accidentally use this "real" pointer. In other words, never do this:

Type* t_ptr = new Type(...);
shared_ptr<Type> t_sptr ptrT(t_ptr);
//t_ptr is still hanging around!  Don't use it!

Although this will work, you now have a Type* pointer (t_ptr) in your function which lives outside the shared pointer. It's dangerous to use t_ptr anywhere, because you never know when the shared pointer which holds it may destruct it, and you'll segfault.

Same goes for pointers returned to you by other classes. If a class you didn't write hands you a pointer, it's generally not safe to just put it in a shared_ptr. Not unless you're sure that the class is no longer using that object. Because if you do put it in a shared_ptr, and it falls out of scope, the object will get freed when the class may still need it.

Split string in Lua?

You can use this method:

function string:split(delimiter)
  local result = { }
  local from  = 1
  local delim_from, delim_to = string.find( self, delimiter, from  )
  while delim_from do
    table.insert( result, string.sub( self, from , delim_from-1 ) )
    from  = delim_to + 1
    delim_from, delim_to = string.find( self, delimiter, from  )
  end
  table.insert( result, string.sub( self, from  ) )
  return result
end

delimiter = string.split(stringtodelimite,pattern) 

How do I find all of the symlinks in a directory tree?

find already looks recursively by default:

[15:21:53 ~]$ mkdir foo
[15:22:28 ~]$ cd foo
[15:22:31 ~/foo]$ mkdir bar
[15:22:35 ~/foo]$ cd bar
[15:22:36 ~/foo/bar]$ ln -s ../foo abc
[15:22:40 ~/foo/bar]$ cd ..
[15:22:47 ~/foo]$ ln -s foo abc
[15:22:52 ~/foo]$ find ./ -type l
.//abc
.//bar/abc
[15:22:57 ~/foo]$ 

clear cache of browser by command line

Here is how to clear all trash & caches (without other private data in browsers) by a command line. This is a command line batch script that takes care of all trash (as of April 2014):

erase "%TEMP%\*.*" /f /s /q
for /D %%i in ("%TEMP%\*") do RD /S /Q "%%i"

erase "%TMP%\*.*" /f /s /q
for /D %%i in ("%TMP%\*") do RD /S /Q "%%i"

erase "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\TEMP\*.*" /f /s /q
for /D %%i in ("%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\TEMP\*") do RD /S /Q "%%i"

erase "%SystemRoot%\TEMP\*.*" /f /s /q
for /D %%i in ("%SystemRoot%\TEMP\*") do RD /S /Q "%%i"


@rem Clear IE cache -  (Deletes Temporary Internet Files Only)
RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 8
erase "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Tempor~1\*.*" /f /s /q
for /D %%i in ("%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Tempor~1\*") do RD /S /Q "%%i"

@rem Clear Google Chrome cache
erase "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\*.*" /f /s /q
for /D %%i in ("%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\*") do RD /S /Q "%%i"


@rem Clear Firefox cache
erase "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\*.*" /f /s /q
for /D %%i in ("%LOCALAPPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\*") do RD /S /Q "%%i"

pause

I am pretty sure it will run for some time when you first run it :) Enjoy!

How to join on multiple columns in Pyspark?

An alternative approach would be:

df1 = sqlContext.createDataFrame(
    [(1, "a", 2.0), (2, "b", 3.0), (3, "c", 3.0)],
    ("x1", "x2", "x3"))

df2 = sqlContext.createDataFrame(
    [(1, "f", -1.0), (2, "b", 0.0)], ("x1", "x2", "x4"))

df = df1.join(df2, ['x1','x2'])
df.show()

which outputs:

+---+---+---+---+
| x1| x2| x3| x4|
+---+---+---+---+
|  2|  b|3.0|0.0|
+---+---+---+---+

With the main advantage being that the columns on which the tables are joined are not duplicated in the output, reducing the risk of encountering errors such as org.apache.spark.sql.AnalysisException: Reference 'x1' is ambiguous, could be: x1#50L, x1#57L.


Whenever the columns in the two tables have different names, (let's say in the example above, df2 has the columns y1, y2 and y4), you could use the following syntax:

df = df1.join(df2.withColumnRenamed('y1','x1').withColumnRenamed('y2','x2'), ['x1','x2'])

Is there a function to round a float in C or do I need to write my own?

As Rob mentioned, you probably just want to print the float to 1 decimal place. In this case, you can do something like the following:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main()
{
  float conver = 45.592346543;
  printf("conver is %0.1f\n",conver);
  return 0;
}

If you want to actually round the stored value, that's a little more complicated. For one, your one-decimal-place representation will rarely have an exact analog in floating-point. If you just want to get as close as possible, something like this might do the trick:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <math.h>

int main()
{
  float conver = 45.592346543;
  printf("conver is %0.1f\n",conver);

  conver = conver*10.0f;
  conver = (conver > (floor(conver)+0.5f)) ? ceil(conver) : floor(conver);
  conver = conver/10.0f;

  //If you're using C99 or better, rather than ANSI C/C89/C90, the following will also work.
  //conver = roundf(conver*10.0f)/10.0f;

  printf("conver is now %f\n",conver);
  return 0;
}

I doubt this second example is what you're looking for, but I included it for completeness. If you do require representing your numbers in this way internally, and not just on output, consider using a fixed-point representation instead.

Checking for #N/A in Excel cell from VBA code

First check for an error (N/A value) and then try the comparisation against cvErr(). You are comparing two different things, a value and an error. This may work, but not always. Simply casting the expression to an error may result in similar problems because it is not a real error only the value of an error which depends on the expression.

If IsError(ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("Publish").Range("G4").offset(offsetCount, 0).Value) Then
  If (ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("Publish").Range("G4").offset(offsetCount, 0).Value <> CVErr(xlErrNA)) Then
    'do something
  End If
End If

HtmlEncode from Class Library

Add a reference to System.Web.dll and then you can use the System.Web.HtmlUtility class

How do I resolve "Cannot find module" error using Node.js?

I had a very similar issue. Removing the entire node_modules folder and re-installing worked for me:

rm -rf node_modules
npm install

jquery simple image slideshow tutorial

This is by far the easiest example I have found on the net. http://jonraasch.com/blog/a-simple-jquery-slideshow

Summaring the example, this is what you need to do a slideshow:

HTML:

<div id="slideshow">
    <img src="img1.jpg" style="position:absolute;" class="active" />
    <img src="img2.jpg" style="position:absolute;" />
    <img src="img3.jpg" style="position:absolute;" />
</div>

Position absolute is used to put an each image over the other.

CSS

<style type="text/css">
    .active{
        z-index:99;
    }
</style>

The image that has the class="active" will appear over the others, the class=active property will change with the following Jquery code.

<script>
    function slideSwitch() {
        var $active = $('div#slideshow IMG.active');
        var $next = $active.next();    

        $next.addClass('active');

        $active.removeClass('active');
    }

    $(function() {
        setInterval( "slideSwitch()", 5000 );
    });
</script>

If you want to go further with slideshows I suggest you to have a look at the link above (to see animated oppacity changes - 2n example) or at other more complex slideshows tutorials.

How to show the last queries executed on MySQL?

You can do the flowing thing for monitoring mysql query logs.

Open mysql configuration file my.cnf

sudo nano /etc/mysql/my.cnf

Search following lines under a [mysqld] heading and uncomment these lines to enable log

general_log_file        = /var/log/mysql/mysql.log
general_log             = 1

Restart your mysql server for reflect changes

sudo service mysql start

Monitor mysql server log with following command in terminal

tail -f /var/log/mysql/mysql.log

Formatting "yesterday's" date in python

To expand on the answer given by Chris

if you want to store the date in a variable in a specific format, this is the shortest and most effective way as far as I know

>>> from datetime import date, timedelta                   
>>> yesterday = (date.today() - timedelta(days=1)).strftime('%m%d%y')
>>> yesterday
'020817'

If you want it as an integer (which can be useful)

>>> yesterday = int((date.today() - timedelta(days=1)).strftime('%m%d%y'))
>>> yesterday
20817

recursively use scp but excluding some folders

If you use a pem file to authenticate u can use the following command (which will exclude files with something extension):

rsync -Lavz -e "ssh -i <full-path-to-pem> -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null" --exclude "*.something" --progress <path inside local host> <user>@<host>:<path inside remote host>

The -L means follow links (copy files not links). Use full path to your pem file and not relative.

Using sshfs is not recommended since it works slowly. Also, the combination of find and scp that was presented above is also a bad idea since it will open a ssh session per file which is too expensive.

How to get changes from another branch

You can use rebase, for instance, git rebase our-team when you are on your branch featurex

It will move the start point of the branch at the end of your our-team branch, merging all changes in your featurex branch.

Jenkins Pipeline Wipe Out Workspace

In my case, I want to clear out old files at the beginning of the build, but this is problematic since the source code has been checked out.

My solution is to ask git to clean out any files (from the last build) that it doesn't know about:

    sh "git clean -x -f"

That way I can start the build out clean, and if it fails, the workspace isn't cleaned out and therefore easily debuggable.

How to install plugin for Eclipse from .zip

Download the plugin, extract it inside eclipse/dropins folder and restart your Eclipse IDE. You may require to pass --clean along with eclipse command

iconv - Detected an illegal character in input string

If you used the accepted answer, however, you will still receive the PHP Notice if a character in your input string cannot be transliterated:

<?php
$cp1252 = '';

for ($i = 128; $i < 256; $i++) {
    $cp1252 .= chr($i);
}

echo iconv("cp1252", "utf-8//TRANSLIT", $cp1252);

PHP Notice:  iconv(): Detected an illegal character in input string in CP1252.php on line 8

Notice: iconv(): Detected an illegal character in input string in CP1252.php on line 8

So you should use IGNORE, which will ignore what can't be transliterated:

echo iconv("cp1252", "utf-8//IGNORE", $cp1252);

Delayed function calls

It's indeed a very bad design, let alone singleton by itself is bad design.

However, if you really do need to delay execution, here's what you may do:

BackgroundWorker barInvoker = new BackgroundWorker();
barInvoker.DoWork += delegate
    {
        Thread.Sleep(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1));
        bar();
    };
barInvoker.RunWorkerAsync();

This will, however, invoke bar() on a separate thread. If you need to call bar() in the original thread you might need to move bar() invocation to RunWorkerCompleted handler or do a bit of hacking with SynchronizationContext.

EOFError: EOF when reading a line

width, height = map(int, input().split())
def rectanglePerimeter(width, height):
   return ((width + height)*2)
print(rectanglePerimeter(width, height))

Running it like this produces:

% echo "1 2" | test.py
6

I suspect IDLE is simply passing a single string to your script. The first input() is slurping the entire string. Notice what happens if you put some print statements in after the calls to input():

width = input()
print(width)
height = input()
print(height)

Running echo "1 2" | test.py produces

1 2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/unutbu/pybin/test.py", line 5, in <module>
    height = input()
EOFError: EOF when reading a line

Notice the first print statement prints the entire string '1 2'. The second call to input() raises the EOFError (end-of-file error).

So a simple pipe such as the one I used only allows you to pass one string. Thus you can only call input() once. You must then process this string, split it on whitespace, and convert the string fragments to ints yourself. That is what

width, height = map(int, input().split())

does.

Note, there are other ways to pass input to your program. If you had run test.py in a terminal, then you could have typed 1 and 2 separately with no problem. Or, you could have written a program with pexpect to simulate a terminal, passing 1 and 2 programmatically. Or, you could use argparse to pass arguments on the command line, allowing you to call your program with

test.py 1 2

How do I change the android actionbar title and icon

For that, you can do it in 2 ways: XML or Java. See here: How to change the text on the action bar

So:

XML:

<activity android:name=".Hello_World"
              android:label="This is the Hello World Application">
</activity>

Java:

public class TitleBar extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
       super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

       final boolean customTitleSupported = requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE);

       setContentView(R.layout.main);


       if ( customTitleSupported ) {
           getWindow().setFeatureInt(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE, R.layout.titlebar);
           }

       final TextView myTitleText = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.myTitle);
       if ( myTitleText != null ) {
           myTitleText.setText("NEW TITLE");

           // user can also set color using "Color" and then "Color value constant"
          // myTitleText.setBackgroundColor(Color.GREEN);
       }
 }
}

Given a starting and ending indices, how can I copy part of a string in C?

Have you checked strncpy?

char * strncpy ( char * destination, const char * source, size_t num );

You must realize that begin and end actually defines a num of bytes to be copied from one place to another.

HTTP test server accepting GET/POST requests

If you want a local test server that accepts any URL and just dumps the request to the console, you can use node:

const http = require("http");

const hostname = "0.0.0.0";
const port = 3000;

const server = http.createServer((req, res) => {
  console.log(`\n${req.method} ${req.url}`);
  console.log(req.headers);

  req.on("data", function(chunk) {
    console.log("BODY: " + chunk);
  });

  res.statusCode = 200;
  res.setHeader("Content-Type", "text/plain");
  res.end("Hello World\n");
});

server.listen(port, hostname, () => {
  console.log(`Server running at http://localhost:${port}/`);
});

Save it in a file 'echo.js' and run it as follows:

$ node echo.js
Server running at http://localhost:3000/

You can then submit data:

$ curl -d "[1,2,3]" -XPOST http://localhost:3000/foo/bar

which will be shown in the server's stdout:

POST /foo/bar
{ host: 'localhost:3000',
  'user-agent': 'curl/7.54.1',
  accept: '*/*',
  'content-length': '7',
  'content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' }
BODY: [1,2,3]

SQL Server procedure declare a list

I've always found it easier to invert the test against the list in situations like this. For instance...

SELECT 
    field0, field1, field2 
FROM 
    my_table 
WHERE 
    ',' + @mysearchlist + ',' LIKE '%,' + CAST(field3 AS VARCHAR) + ',%' 

This means that there is no complicated mish-mash required for the values that you are looking for.

As an example, if our list was ('1,2,3'), then we add a comma to the start and end of our list like so: ',' + @mysearchlist + ','.

We also do the same for the field value we're looking for and add wildcards: '%,' + CAST(field3 AS VARCHAR) + ',%' (notice the % and the , characters).

Finally we test the two using the LIKE operator: ',' + @mysearchlist + ',' LIKE '%,' + CAST(field3 AS VARCHAR) + ',%'.

DataGridView AutoFit and Fill

This is what I have done in order to get the column "first_name" fill the space when all the columns cannot do it.

When the grid go to small the column "first_name" gets almost invisible (very thin) so I can set the DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode to AllCells as the others visible columns. For performance issues it´s important to set them to None before data binding it and set back to AllCell in the DataBindingComplete event handler of the grid. Hope it helps!

private void dataGridView1_Resize(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        int ColumnsWidth = 0;
        foreach(DataGridViewColumn col in dataGridView1.Columns)
        {
            if (col.Visible) ColumnsWidth += col.Width;
        }

        if (ColumnsWidth <dataGridView1.Width)
        {
            dataGridView1.Columns["first_name"].AutoSizeMode = DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode.Fill;
        }
        else if (dataGridView1.Columns["first_name"].Width < 10) dataGridView1.Columns["first_name"].AutoSizeMode = DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnMode.AllCells;
    }

Visual studio equivalent of java System.out

Try: Console.WriteLine (type out for a Visual Studio snippet)

Console.WriteLine(stuff);

Another way is to use System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine:

System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(stuff);

Debug.WriteLine may suit better for Output window in IDE because it will be rendered for both Console and Windows applications. Whereas Console.WriteLine won't be rendered in Output window but only in the Console itself in case of Console Application type.

Another difference is that Debug.WriteLine will not print anything in Release configuration.

How to add header data in XMLHttpRequest when using formdata?

Use: xmlhttp.setRequestHeader(key, value);

Code for a simple JavaScript countdown timer?

Expanding upon the accepted answer, your machine going to sleep, etc. may delay the timer from working. You can get a true time, at the cost of a little processing. This will give a true time left.

<span id="timer"></span>

<script>
var now = new Date();
var timeup = now.setSeconds(now.getSeconds() + 30);
//var timeup = now.setHours(now.getHours() + 1);

var counter = setInterval(timer, 1000);

function timer() {
  now = new Date();
  count = Math.round((timeup - now)/1000);
  if (now > timeup) {
      window.location = "/logout"; //or somethin'
      clearInterval(counter);
      return;
  }
  var seconds = Math.floor((count%60));
  var minutes = Math.floor((count/60) % 60);
  document.getElementById("timer").innerHTML = minutes + ":" + seconds;
}
</script>

How to add extra whitespace in PHP?

You can also use this

str_repeat("\x20", $numberOfRepeats);

Unable to create Android Virtual Device

Had to restart the Eclipse after completing the installation of ARM EABI v7a system image.

How to load property file from classpath?

If you use the static method and load the properties file from the classpath folder so you can use the below code :

//load a properties file from class path, inside static method
Properties prop = new Properties();
prop.load(Classname.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("foo.properties"));

How to convert string to boolean in typescript Angular 4

I have been trying different values with JSON.parse(value) and it seems to do the work:

// true
Boolean(JSON.parse("true"));
Boolean(JSON.parse("1"));
Boolean(JSON.parse(1));
Boolean(JSON.parse(true));

// false
Boolean(JSON.parse("0")); 
Boolean(JSON.parse(0));
Boolean(JSON.parse("false"));
Boolean(JSON.parse(false));

Sublime Text 3, convert spaces to tabs

Use the following command to get it solved :

autopep8 -i <filename>.py

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xef' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

The problem according to your traceback is the print statement on line 136 of parseXML.py. Unfortunately you didn't see fit to post that part of your code, but I'm going to guess it is just there for debugging. If you change it to:

print repr(ch)

then you should at least see what you are trying to print.

What exactly should be set in PYTHONPATH?

You don't have to set either of them. PYTHONPATH can be set to point to additional directories with private libraries in them. If PYTHONHOME is not set, Python defaults to using the directory where python.exe was found, so that dir should be in PATH.

How to make program go back to the top of the code instead of closing

def start():

Offset = 5

def getMode():
    while True:
        print('Do you wish to encrypt or decrypt a message?')
        mode = input().lower()
        if mode in 'encrypt e decrypt d'.split():
            return mode
        else:
            print('Please be sensible try just the lower case')

def getMessage():
    print('Enter your message wanted to :')
    return input()

def getKey():
    key = 0
    while True:
        print('Enter the key number (1-%s)' % (Offset))
        key = int(input())
        if (key >= 1 and key <= Offset):
            return key

def getTranslatedMessage(mode, message, key):
    if mode[0] == 'd':
        key = -key
    translated = ''

    for symbol in message:
        if symbol.isalpha():
            num = ord(symbol)
            num += key

            if symbol.isupper():
                if num > ord('Z'):
                    num -= 26
                elif num < ord('A'):
                    num += 26
            elif symbol.islower():
                if num > ord('z'):
                    num -= 26
                elif num < ord('a'):
                    num += 26

            translated += chr(num)
        else:
            translated += symbol
    return translated

mode = getMode()
message = getMessage()
key = getKey()

print('Your translated text is:')
print(getTranslatedMessage(mode, message, key))
if op.lower() in {'q', 'quit', 'e', 'exit'}:
    print("Goodbye!")
    return

How to get a URL parameter in Express?

If you want to grab the query parameter value in the URL, follow below code pieces

//url.localhost:8888/p?tagid=1234
req.query.tagid
OR
req.param.tagid

If you want to grab the URL parameter using Express param function

Express param function to grab a specific parameter. This is considered middleware and will run before the route is called.

This can be used for validations or grabbing important information about item.

An example for this would be:

// parameter middleware that will run before the next routes
app.param('tagid', function(req, res, next, tagid) {

// check if the tagid exists
// do some validations
// add something to the tagid
var modified = tagid+ '123';

// save name to the request
req.tagid= modified;

next();
});

// http://localhost:8080/api/tags/98
app.get('/api/tags/:tagid', function(req, res) {
// the tagid was found and is available in req.tagid
res.send('New tag id ' + req.tagid+ '!');
});

Can gcc output C code after preprocessing?

cpp is the preprocessor.

Run cpp filename.c to output the preprocessed code, or better, redirect it to a file with cpp filename.c > filename.preprocessed.

Global keyboard capture in C# application

My rep is too low to comment, but concerning the CallbackOnCollectedDelegate exception, I modified the public void SetupKeyboardHooks() in C4d's answer to look like this:

public void SetupKeyboardHooks(out object hookProc)
{
  _globalKeyboardHook = new GlobalKeyboardHook();
  _globalKeyboardHook.KeyboardPressed += OnKeyPressed;


  hookProc = _globalKeyboardHook.GcSafeHookProc;
}

where GcSafeHookProc is just a public getter for _hookProc in OPs

_hookProc = LowLevelKeyboardProc; // we must keep alive _hookProc, because GC is not aware about SetWindowsHookEx behaviour.

and stored the hookProc as a private field in the class calling the SetupKeyboardHooks(...), therefore keeping the reference alive, save from garbage collection, no more CallbackOnCollectedDelegate exception. Seems having this additional reference in the GlobalKeyboardHook class is not sufficient. Maybe make sure that this reference is also disposed when closing your app.

How to obtain Certificate Signing Request

Since you installed a new OS you probably don't have any more of your private and public keys that you used to sign your app in to XCode before. You need to regenerate those keys on your machine by revoking your previous certificate and asking for a new one on the iOS development portal. As part of the process you will be asked to generate a Certificate Signing Request which is where you seem to have a problem.

You will find all you need there which consists of (from the official doc):

1.Open Keychain Access on your Mac (located in Applications/Utilities).

2.Open Preferences and click Certificates. Make sure both Online Certificate Status Protocol and Certificate Revocation List are set to Off.

3.Choose Keychain Access > Certificate Assistant > Request a Certificate From a Certificate Authority.

Note: If you have a private key selected when you do this, the CSR won’t be accepted. Make sure no private key is selected. Enter your user email address and common name. Use the same address and name as you used to register in the iOS Developer Program. No CA Email Address is required.

4.Select the options “Saved to disk” and “Let me specify key pair information” and click Continue.

5.Specify a filename and click Save. (make sure to replace .certSigningRequest with .csr)

For the Key Size choose 2048 bits and for Algorithm choose RSA. Click Continue and the Certificate Assistant creates a CSR and saves the file to your specified location.

How to increase code font size in IntelliJ?

In IntellJ 13

File 
 |
  ---- Settings 
       |
        ------- Editor
                 |
                  ------- Colors & Fonts
                          |
                           ------ Font -> [Size]

enter image description here

git push >> fatal: no configured push destination

I have faced this error, Previous I had push in root directory, and now I have push another directory, so I could be remove this error and run below commands.

git add .
git commit -m "some comments"
git push --set-upstream origin master

How can I format bytes a cell in Excel as KB, MB, GB etc?

The above formatting approach works but only for three levels. The above used KB, MB, and GB. Here I've expanded it to six. Right-click on the cell(s) and select Format Cells. Under the Number tab, select Custom. Then in the Type: box, put the following:

[<1000]##0.00"  B";[<1000000]##0.00," KB";##0.00,," MB"

Then select OK. This covers B, KB, and MB. Then, with the same cells selected, click Home ribbon, Conditional Formatting, New Rule. Select Format only cells that contain. Then below in the rule description, Format only cells with, Cell Value, greater than or equal to, 1000000000 (that's 9 zeros.) Then click on Format, Number tab, Custom, and in the Type: box, put the following:

[<1000000000000]##0.00,,," GB";[<1000000000000000]##0.00,,,," TB";#,##0.00,,,,," PB"

Select OK, and OK. This conditional formatting will take over only if the value is bigger than 1,000,000,000. And it will take care of the GB, TB, and PB ranges.

567.00  B
  5.67 KB
 56.70 KB
567.00 KB
  5.67 MB
 56.70 MB
567.00 MB
  5.67 GB
 56.70 GB
567.00 GB
  5.67 TB
 56.70 TB
567.00 TB
  5.67 PB
 56.70 PB

Anything bigger than PB will just show up as a bigger PB, e.g. 56,700 PB. You could add another conditional formatting to handle even bigger values, EB, and so on.

Concatenate a vector of strings/character

Matt Turner's answer is definitely the right answer. However, in the spirit of Ken Williams' answer, you could also do:

capture.output(cat(sdata, sep="")) 

Can we open pdf file using UIWebView on iOS?

NSString *folderName=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"/documents/%@",[tempDictLitrature objectForKey:@"folder"]];
NSString *fileName=[tempDictLitrature objectForKey:@"name"];
[self.navigationItem setTitle:fileName];
NSString *type=[tempDictLitrature objectForKey:@"type"];

NSString *path=[[NSBundle mainBundle]pathForResource:fileName ofType:type inDirectory:folderName];

NSURL *targetURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:path];
NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:targetURL];
webView=[[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 1024, 730)];
[webView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor lightGrayColor]];
webView.scalesPageToFit = YES;

[[webView scrollView] setContentOffset:CGPointZero animated:YES];
[webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"window.scrollTo(0.0, 50.0)"]];
[webView loadRequest:request];
[self.view addSubview:webView];

Why does using an Underscore character in a LIKE filter give me all the results?

Modify your WHERE condition like this:

WHERE mycolumn LIKE '%\_%' ESCAPE '\'

This is one of the ways in which Oracle supports escape characters. Here you define the escape character with the escape keyword. For details see this link on Oracle Docs.

The '_' and '%' are wildcards in a LIKE operated statement in SQL.

The _ character looks for a presence of (any) one single character. If you search by columnName LIKE '_abc', it will give you result with rows having 'aabc', 'xabc', '1abc', '#abc' but NOT 'abc', 'abcc', 'xabcd' and so on.

The '%' character is used for matching 0 or more number of characters. That means, if you search by columnName LIKE '%abc', it will give you result with having 'abc', 'aabc', 'xyzabc' and so on, but no 'xyzabcd', 'xabcdd' and any other string that does not end with 'abc'.

In your case you have searched by '%_%'. This will give all the rows with that column having one or more characters, that means any characters, as its value. This is why you are getting all the rows even though there is no _ in your column values.

IntelliJ Organize Imports

If you are missing just one import (the class name has red underline), click and hover the mouse over it, and a blue suggested import statement will appear. If you hit, Alt + Enter at this point, the import will be included in the file and the red underline should disappear.

Why doesn't Mockito mock static methods?

In some cases, static methods can be difficult to test, especially if they need to be mocked, which is why most mocking frameworks don't support them. I found this blog post to be very useful in determining how to mock static methods and classes.

Issue with virtualenv - cannot activate

  1. For activation you can go to the venv your virtualenv directory by cd venv.

  2. Then on Windows, type dir (on unix, type ls). You will get 5 folders include, Lib, Scripts, tcl and 60

  3. Now type .\Scripts\activate to activate your virtualenv venv.

Your prompt will change to indicate that you are now operating within the virtual environment. It will look something like this (venv)user@host:~/venv$.

And your venv is activated now.

How do I remove/delete a folder that is not empty?

For Windows, if directory is not empty, and you have read-only files or you get errors like

  • Access is denied
  • The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process

Try this, os.system('rmdir /S /Q "{}"'.format(directory))

It's equivalent for rm -rf in Linux/Mac.

SQL where datetime column equals today's date?

There might be another way, but this should work:

SELECT [Title], [Firstname], [Surname], [Company_name], [Interest] 
FROM [dbo].[EXTRANET] 
WHERE day(Submission_date)=day(now) and 
     month(Submission_date)=month(now)
     and year(Submission_date)=year(now)

lists and arrays in VBA

You will have to change some of your data types but the basics of what you just posted could be converted to something similar to this given the data types I used may not be accurate.

Dim DateToday As String: DateToday = Format(Date, "yyyy/MM/dd")
Dim Computers As New Collection
Dim disabledList As New Collection
Dim compArray(1 To 1) As String

'Assign data to first item in array
compArray(1) = "asdf"

'Format = Item, Key
Computers.Add "ErrorState", "Computer Name"

'Prints "ErrorState"
Debug.Print Computers("Computer Name")

Collections cannot be sorted so if you need to sort data you will probably want to use an array.

Here is a link to the outlook developer reference. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff866465%28v=office.14%29.aspx

Another great site to help you get started is http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/Topic.aspx

Moving everything over to VBA from VB.Net is not going to be simple since not all the data types are the same and you do not have the .Net framework. If you get stuck just post the code you're stuck converting and you will surely get some help!

Edit:

Sub ArrayExample()
    Dim subject As String
    Dim TestArray() As String
    Dim counter As Long

    subject = "Example"
    counter = Len(subject)

    ReDim TestArray(1 To counter) As String

    For counter = 1 To Len(subject)
        TestArray(counter) = Right(Left(subject, counter), 1)
    Next
End Sub

Before and After Suite execution hook in jUnit 4.x

A colleague of mine suggested the following: you can use a custom RunListener and implement the testRunFinished() method: http://junit.sourceforge.net/javadoc/org/junit/runner/notification/RunListener.html#testRunFinished(org.junit.runner.Result)

To register the RunListener just configure the surefire plugin as follows: http://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-surefire-plugin/examples/junit.html section "Using custom listeners and reporters"

This configuration should also be picked by the failsafe plugin. This solution is great because you don't have to specify Suites, lookup test classes or any of this stuff - it lets Maven to do its magic, waiting for all tests to finish.

How to run C program on Mac OS X using Terminal?

Working in 2019 By default, you can compile your name.c using the terminal

 cc name.c

and if you need to run just write

 ./name.out

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

Try not to use JDK versions higher than the ones supported. I've actually ran into a very ambiguous problem a few months ago.

I had a jar library of my own that I compiled with JDK 8, and I was using it in my assignment. It was giving me some kind of preDexDebug error every time I tried running it. Eventually after hours of trying to decipher the error logs I finally had an idea of what was wrong. I checked the system requirements, changed compilers from 8 to 7, and it worked. Looks like putting my jar into a library cost me a few hours rather than save it...

malloc an array of struct pointers

There's a lot of typedef going on here. Personally I'm against "hiding the asterisk", i.e. typedef:ing pointer types into something that doesn't look like a pointer. In C, pointers are quite important and really affect the code, there's a lot of difference between foo and foo *.

Many of the answers are also confused about this, I think.

Your allocation of an array of Chess values, which are pointers to values of type chess (again, a very confusing nomenclature that I really can't recommend) should be like this:

Chess *array = malloc(n * sizeof *array);

Then, you need to initialize the actual instances, by looping:

for(i = 0; i < n; ++i)
  array[i] = NULL;

This assumes you don't want to allocate any memory for the instances, you just want an array of pointers with all pointers initially pointing at nothing.

If you wanted to allocate space, the simplest form would be:

for(i = 0; i < n; ++i)
  array[i] = malloc(sizeof *array[i]);

See how the sizeof usage is 100% consistent, and never starts to mention explicit types. Use the type information inherent in your variables, and let the compiler worry about which type is which. Don't repeat yourself.

Of course, the above does a needlessly large amount of calls to malloc(); depending on usage patterns it might be possible to do all of the above with just one call to malloc(), after computing the total size needed. Then you'd still need to go through and initialize the array[i] pointers to point into the large block, of course.

How to force composer to reinstall a library?

First execute composer clearcache

Then clear your vendors folder

rm -rf vendor/*

or better yet just remove the specific module which makes problems to avoid having to download all over again.

Getting list of files in documents folder

This code prints out all the directories and files in my documents directory:

Some modification of your function:

func listFilesFromDocumentsFolder() -> [String]
{
    let dirs = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(FileManager.SearchPathDirectory.documentDirectory, FileManager.SearchPathDomainMask.allDomainsMask, true)
    if dirs != [] {
        let dir = dirs[0]
        let fileList = try! FileManager.default.contentsOfDirectory(atPath: dir)
        return fileList
    }else{
        let fileList = [""]
        return fileList
    }
}

Which gets called by:

    let fileManager:FileManager = FileManager.default
    let fileList = listFilesFromDocumentsFolder()

    let count = fileList.count

    for i in 0..<count
    {
        if fileManager.fileExists(atPath: fileList[i]) != true
        {
            print("File is \(fileList[i])")
        }
    }

Bootstrap Align Image with text

use the grid-system of boostrap , more information here

for example

<div class="row">
  <div class="col-md-4">here img</div>
  <div class="col-md-4">here text</div>
</div>

in this way when the page will shrink the second div(the text) will be found under the first(the image)

TypeScript error TS1005: ';' expected (II)

The issue was in my code.

In large code base, issue was not clear.

A simplified code is below:

Bad:

 collection.insertMany(
    [[],
    function (err, result) {
    });

Good:

collection.insertMany(
    [],
    function (err, result) {
    });

That is, the first one has [[], instead of normal array []

TS error was not clear enough, and it showed error in the last line with });

Hope this helps.

Border Radius of Table is not working

It works, this is a problem with the tool used: normalized CSS by jsFiddle is causing the problem by hiding you the default of browsers...
See http://jsfiddle.net/XvdX9/5/

EDIT:
normalize.css stylesheet from jsFiddle adds the instruction border-collapse: collapse to all tables and it renders them completely differently in CSS2.1:

Differences between the 2 models can be seen in this other fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/XvdX9/11/ (with some transparencies on cells and an enormous border-radius on the top-left one, in order to see what happens on table vs its cells)

In the same CSS2.1 page about HTML tables, there are also explanations about what browsers should/could do with empty-cells in the separated borders model, the difference between border-style: none and border-style: hidden in the collapsing borders model, how width is calculated and which border should display if both table, row and cell elements define 3 different styles on the same border.

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

It means that if a method declares to throw a given exception, the overriding method in a subclass can only declare to throw that exception or its subclass. For example:

class A {
   public void foo() throws IOException {..}
}

class B extends A {
   @Override
   public void foo() throws SocketException {..} // allowed

   @Override
   public void foo() throws SQLException {..} // NOT allowed
}

SocketException extends IOException, but SQLException does not.

This is because of polymorphism:

A a = new B();
try {
    a.foo();
} catch (IOException ex) {
    // forced to catch this by the compiler
}

If B had decided to throw SQLException, then the compiler could not force you to catch it, because you are referring to the instance of B by its superclass - A. On the other hand, any subclass of IOException will be handled by clauses (catch or throws) that handle IOException

The rule that you need to be able to refer to objects by their superclass is the Liskov Substitution Principle.

Since unchecked exceptions can be thrown anywhere then they are not subject to this rule. You can add an unchecked exception to the throws clause as a form of documentation if you want, but the compiler doesn't enforce anything about it.

Check if a key is down?

I scanned the above answers and the proposed keydown/keyup approach works only under special circumstances. If the user alt-tabs away, or uses a key gesture to open a new browser window or tab, then a keydown will be registered, which is fine, because at that point it's impossible to tell if the key is something the web app is monitoring, or is a standard browser or OS shortcut. Coming back to the browser page, it'll still think the key is held, though it was released in the meantime. Or some key is simply kept held, while the user is switching to another tab or application with the mouse, then released outside our page.

Modifier keys (Shift etc.) can be monitored via mousemove etc. assuming that there is at least one mouse interaction expected when tabbing back, which is frequently the case.

For most all other keys (except modifiers, Tab, Delete, but including Space, Enter), monitoring keypress would work for most applications - a key held down will continue to fire. There's some latency in resetting the key though, due to the periodicity of keypress firing. Basically, if keypress doesn't keep firing, then it's possible to rule out most of the keys. This, combined with the modifiers is pretty airtight, though I haven't explored what to do with Tab and Backspace.

I'm sure there's some library out there that abstracts over this DOM weakness, or maybe some DOM standard change took care of it, since it's a rather old question.

How can I get the current page name in WordPress?

I have come up with a simpler solution.

Get the returned value of the page name from wp_title(). If empty, print homepage name, otherwise echo the wp_title() value.

<?php $title = wp_title('', false); ?>

Remember to remove the separation with the first argument and then set display to false to use as an input to the variable. Then just bung the code between your heading, etc. tags.

<?php if ( $title == "" ) : echo "Home"; else : echo $title; endif; ?>

It worked a treat for me and ensuring that the first is declared in the section where you wish to extract the $title, this can be tuned to return different variables.

How to display loading image while actual image is downloading

Instead of just doing this quoted method from https://stackoverflow.com/a/4635440/3787376,

You can do something like this:

// show loading image
$('#loader_img').show();

// main image loaded ?
$('#main_img').on('load', function(){
  // hide/remove the loading image
  $('#loader_img').hide();
});

You assign load event to the image which fires when image has finished loading. Before that, you can show your loader image.

you can use a different jQuery function to make the loading image fade away, then be hidden:

// Show the loading image.
$('#loader_img').show();

// When main image loads:
$('#main_img').on('load', function(){
  // Fade out and hide the loading image.
  $('#loader_img').fadeOut(100); // Time in milliseconds.
});

"Once the opacity reaches 0, the display style property is set to none." http://api.jquery.com/fadeOut/

Or you could not use the jQuery library because there are already simple cross-browser JavaScript methods.

How to implement zoom effect for image view in android?

You could check the answer in a related question. https://stackoverflow.com/a/16894324/1465756

Just import library https://github.com/jasonpolites/gesture-imageview.

into your project and add the following in your layout file:

<LinearLayout
   xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
   xmlns:gesture-image="http://schemas.polites.com/android"
   android:layout_width="fill_parent"
   android:layout_height="fill_parent">

<com.polites.android.GestureImageView
   android:id="@+id/image"
   android:layout_width="fill_parent"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:src="@drawable/image"
   gesture-image:min-scale="0.1"
   gesture-image:max-scale="10.0"
   gesture-image:strict="false"/>`

Android-java- How to sort a list of objects by a certain value within the object

You can compare two String by using this.

Collections.sort(contactsList, new Comparator<ContactsData>() {

                    @Override
                    public int compare(ContactsData lhs, ContactsData rhs) {

                        char l = Character.toUpperCase(lhs.name.charAt(0));

                        if (l < 'A' || l > 'Z')

                            l += 'Z';

                        char r = Character.toUpperCase(rhs.name.charAt(0));

                        if (r < 'A' || r > 'Z')

                            r += 'Z';

                        String s1 = l + lhs.name.substring(1);

                        String s2 = r + rhs.name.substring(1);

                        return s1.compareTo(s2);

                    }

                });

And Now make a ContactData Class.

public class ContactsData {

public String name;
public String id;
public String email;
public String avatar; 
public String connection_type;
public String thumb;
public String small;
public String first_name;
public String last_name;
public String no_of_user;
public int grpIndex;

public ContactsData(String name, String id, String email, String avatar, String connection_type)
{
    this.name = name;
    this.id = id;
    this.email = email;
    this.avatar = avatar;
    this.connection_type = connection_type;

}
}

Here contactsList is :

public static ArrayList<ContactsData> contactsList = new ArrayList<ContactsData>();

Kill Attached Screen in Linux

Create screen from Terminal:

screen -S <screen_name>

To see list of screens:

<screen -ls> or <screen -list>

To go to particular screen:

<screen -x screen_name>

<screen -r screen_name>

Inside screen


To Terminate screen:

give ctrl+d screen will get terminated

To Detach screen:

 give <ctrl+ad>or <screen -d >screen will get detached

To reattach screen:

screen -x <screen_name> or screen -r <screen_name>

To kill a screen from Terminal:

<screen -X -S screen_name quit> 

or

<screen -X -S screen_name kill>

You can use screen_name or process_id to execute commands.

What is the difference between Scope_Identity(), Identity(), @@Identity, and Ident_Current()?

Scope means the code context that performs the INSERT statement SCOPE_IDENTITY(), as opposed to the global scope of @@IDENTITY.

CREATE TABLE Foo(
  ID INT IDENTITY(1,1),
  Dummy VARCHAR(100)
)

CREATE TABLE FooLog(
  ID INT IDENTITY(2,2),
  LogText VARCHAR(100)
)
go
CREATE TRIGGER InsertFoo ON Foo AFTER INSERT AS
BEGIN
  INSERT INTO FooLog (LogText) VALUES ('inserted Foo')
  INSERT INTO FooLog (LogText) SELECT Dummy FROM inserted
END

INSERT INTO Foo (Dummy) VALUES ('x')
SELECT SCOPE_IDENTITY(), @@IDENTITY 

Gives different results.

C++ compile time error: expected identifier before numeric constant

You cannot do this:

vector<string> name(5); //error in these 2 lines
vector<int> val(5,0);

in a class outside of a method.

You can initialize the data members at the point of declaration, but not with () brackets:

class Foo {
    vector<string> name = vector<string>(5);
    vector<int> val{vector<int>(5,0)};
};

Before C++11, you need to declare them first, then initialize them e.g in a contructor

class Foo {
    vector<string> name;
    vector<int> val;
 public:
  Foo() : name(5), val(5,0) {}
};

install beautiful soup using pip

pip is a command line tool, not Python syntax.

In other words, run the command in your console, not in the Python interpreter:

pip install beautifulsoup4

You may have to use the full path:

C:\Python27\Scripts\pip install beautifulsoup4

or even

C:\Python27\Scripts\pip.exe install beautifulsoup4

Windows will then execute the pip program and that will use Python to install the package.

Another option is to use the Python -m command-line switch to run the pip module, which then operates exactly like the pip command:

python -m pip install beautifulsoup4

or

python.exe -m pip install beautifulsoup4

MySQL JDBC Driver 5.1.33 - Time Zone Issue

  1. I added in mysql config file in section [mysqld]

    default_time_zone='+03:00'
    
  2. And restart mysql server:

    sudo service mysql restart
    

Where +03:00 my UTC time zone.

Path to config file on my os ubuntu 16.04:

/etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf

WARNING: IF YOUR TIME ZONE HAVE SUMMER AND WINTER TIME. YOU MUST CHANGE UTC IN CONFIG IF CHANGE TIME. TWICE IN YEAR(USUALLY) OR SET CRONTAB WITH SUDO.

My url jdbc connection:

"jdbc:mysql://localhost/java"

Where to place and how to read configuration resource files in servlet based application?

Assume your code is looking for the file say app.properties. Copy this file to any dir and add this dir to classpath, by creating a setenv.sh in the bin dir of tomcat.

In your setenv.sh of tomcat( if this file is not existing, create one , tomcat will load this setenv.sh file. #!/bin/sh CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH:/home/user/config_my_prod/"

You should not have your properties files in ./webapps//WEB-INF/classes/app.properties

Tomcat class loader will override the with the one from WEB-INF/classes/

A good read: https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/class-loader-howto.html

Detecting an "invalid date" Date instance in JavaScript

pretty old topic...

Try something like this:

if (!('null' === JSON.stringify(new Date('wrong date')))) console.log('correct'); else console.log('wrong');

javascript Unable to get property 'value' of undefined or null reference

The issue is how you're attempting to get the value. Things like...

if ( document.frm_new_user_request.u_isid.value == '' )

won't work. You need to find the element you want to get the value of first. It's not quite like a server side language where you can type in an object's reference name and a period to get or assign values.

document.getElementById('[id goes here]').value;

will work. Note: JavaScript is case-sensitive

I would recommend using:

var variablename = document.getElementById('[id goes here]');

or

var variablename = document.getElementById('[id goes here]').value;

From ND to 1D arrays

For list of array with different size use following:

import numpy as np

# ND array list with different size
a = [[1],[2,3,4,5],[6,7,8]]

# stack them
b = np.hstack(a)

print(b)

Output:

[1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8]

Java and SQLite

I found your question while searching for information with SQLite and Java. Just thought I'd add my answer which I also posted on my blog.

I have been coding in Java for a while now. I have also known about SQLite but never used it… Well I have used it through other applications but never in an app that I coded. So I needed it for a project this week and it's so simple use!

I found a Java JDBC driver for SQLite. Just add the JAR file to your classpath and import java.sql.*

His test app will create a database file, send some SQL commands to create a table, store some data in the table, and read it back and display on console. It will create the test.db file in the root directory of the project. You can run this example with java -cp .:sqlitejdbc-v056.jar Test.

package com.rungeek.sqlite;

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.Statement;

public class Test {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        Class.forName("org.sqlite.JDBC");
        Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:sqlite:test.db");
        Statement stat = conn.createStatement();
        stat.executeUpdate("drop table if exists people;");
        stat.executeUpdate("create table people (name, occupation);");
        PreparedStatement prep = conn.prepareStatement(
            "insert into people values (?, ?);");

        prep.setString(1, "Gandhi");
        prep.setString(2, "politics");
        prep.addBatch();
        prep.setString(1, "Turing");
        prep.setString(2, "computers");
        prep.addBatch();
        prep.setString(1, "Wittgenstein");
        prep.setString(2, "smartypants");
        prep.addBatch();

        conn.setAutoCommit(false);
        prep.executeBatch();
        conn.setAutoCommit(true);

        ResultSet rs = stat.executeQuery("select * from people;");
        while (rs.next()) {
            System.out.println("name = " + rs.getString("name"));
            System.out.println("job = " + rs.getString("occupation"));
        }
        rs.close();
        conn.close();
    }
  }

How to center content in a bootstrap column?

Use:

<!-- unsupported by HTML5 -->
<div class="col-xs-1" align="center">

instead of

<div class="col-xs-1 center-block">

You can also use bootstrap 3 css:

<!-- recommended method -->
<div class="col-xs-1 text-center">

Bootstrap 4 now has flex classes that will center the content:

<div class="d-flex justify-content-center">
   <div>some content</div>
</div>

Note that by default it will be x-axis unless flex-direction is column

How do I run msbuild from the command line using Windows SDK 7.1?

The SetEnv.cmd script that the "SDK command prompt" shortcut runs checks for cl.exe in various places before setting up entries to add to PATH. So it fails to add anything if a native C compiler is not installed.

To fix that, apply the following patch to <SDK install dir>\Bin\SetEnv.cmd. This will also fix missing paths to other tools located in <SDK install dir>\Bin and subfolders. Of course, you can install the C compiler instead to work around this bug.

--- SetEnv.Cmd_ 2010-04-27 19:52:00.000000000 +0400
+++ SetEnv.Cmd  2013-12-02 15:05:30.834400000 +0400
@@ -228,10 +228,10 @@

 IF "%CURRENT_CPU%" =="x64" (
   IF "%TARGET_CPU%" == "x64" (
+    SET "FxTools=%FrameworkDir64%\%FrameworkVersion%;%FrameworkDir32%%FrameworkVersion%;%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v3.5;%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5;"
+    SET "SdkTools=%WindowsSdkDir%Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools\x64;%WindowsSdkDir%Bin\x64;%WindowsSdkDir%Bin;"
     IF EXIST "%VCTools%\amd64\cl.exe" (
       SET "VCTools=%VCTools%\amd64;%VCTools%\VCPackages;"
-      SET "SdkTools=%WindowsSdkDir%Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools\x64;%WindowsSdkDir%Bin\x64;%WindowsSdkDir%Bin;"
-      SET "FxTools=%FrameworkDir64%\%FrameworkVersion%;%FrameworkDir32%%FrameworkVersion%;%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v3.5;%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5;"
     ) ELSE (
       SET VCTools=
       ECHO The x64 compilers are not currently installed.
@@ -239,10 +239,10 @@
       ECHO .
     )
   ) ELSE IF "%TARGET_CPU%" == "IA64" (
+    SET "FxTools=%FrameworkDir64%\%FrameworkVersion%;%FrameworkDir32%%FrameworkVersion%;%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v3.5;%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5;"
+    SET "SdkTools=%WindowsSdkDir%Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools\x64;%WindowsSdkDir%Bin\x64;%WindowsSdkDir%Bin;"
     IF EXIST "%VCTools%\x86_ia64\cl.exe" (
       SET "VCTools=%VCTools%\x86_ia64;%VCTools%\VCPackages;"
-      SET "SdkTools=%WindowsSdkDir%Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools\x64;%WindowsSdkDir%Bin\x64;%WindowsSdkDir%Bin;"
-      SET "FxTools=%FrameworkDir64%\%FrameworkVersion%;%FrameworkDir32%%FrameworkVersion%;%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v3.5;%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5;"
     ) ELSE (
       SET VCTools=
       ECHO The IA64 compilers are not currently installed.
@@ -250,10 +250,10 @@
       ECHO .
     )
   ) ELSE IF "%TARGET_CPU%" == "x86" (
+    SET "FxTools=%FrameworkDir32%%FrameworkVersion%;%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5;"
+    SET "SdkTools=%WindowsSdkDir%Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools;%WindowsSdkDir%Bin;"
     IF EXIST "%VCTools%\cl.exe" (
       SET "VCTools=%VCTools%;%VCTools%\VCPackages;"
-      SET "SdkTools=%WindowsSdkDir%Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools;%WindowsSdkDir%Bin;"
-      SET "FxTools=%FrameworkDir32%%FrameworkVersion%;%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5;"
     ) ELSE (
       SET VCTools=
       ECHO The x86 compilers are not currently installed.
@@ -263,10 +263,10 @@
   )
 ) ELSE IF "%CURRENT_CPU%" =="IA64" (
   IF "%TARGET_CPU%" == "IA64" (
+    SET "FxTools=%FrameworkDir64%\%FrameworkVersion%;%FrameworkDir32%%FrameworkVersion%;%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v3.5;%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5;"
+    SET "SdkTools=%WindowsSdkDir%Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools\IA64;%WindowsSdkDir%Bin\IA64;%WindowsSdkDir%Bin;"
     IF EXIST "%VCTools%\IA64\cl.exe" (
       SET "VCTools=%VCTools%\IA64;%VCTools%;%VCTools%\VCPackages;"
-      SET "SdkTools=%WindowsSdkDir%Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools\IA64;%WindowsSdkDir%Bin\IA64;%WindowsSdkDir%Bin;"
-      SET "FxTools=%FrameworkDir64%\%FrameworkVersion%;%FrameworkDir32%%FrameworkVersion%;%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v3.5;%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5;"
     ) ELSE (
       SET VCTools=
       ECHO The IA64 compilers are not currently installed.
@@ -274,10 +274,10 @@
       ECHO .
     )
   ) ELSE IF "%TARGET_CPU%" == "x64" (
+    SET "FxTools=%FrameworkDir64%\%FrameworkVersion%;%FrameworkDir32%%FrameworkVersion%;%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v3.5;%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5;"
+    SET "SdkTools=%WindowsSdkDir%Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools\IA64;%WindowsSdkDir%Bin\IA64;%WindowsSdkDir%Bin;"
     IF EXIST "%VCTools%\x86_amd64\cl.exe" (
       SET "VCTools=%VCTools%\x86_amd64;%VCTools%\VCPackages;"
-      SET "SdkTools=%WindowsSdkDir%Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools\IA64;%WindowsSdkDir%Bin\IA64;%WindowsSdkDir%Bin;"
-      SET "FxTools=%FrameworkDir64%\%FrameworkVersion%;%FrameworkDir32%%FrameworkVersion%;%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v3.5;%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5;"
     ) ELSE (
       SET VCTools=
       ECHO The VC compilers are not currently installed.
@@ -285,10 +285,10 @@
       ECHO .
     )
   ) ELSE IF "%TARGET_CPU%" == "x86" (
+    SET "FxTools=%FrameworkDir32%%FrameworkVersion%;%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5;"
+    SET "SdkTools=%WindowsSdkDir%Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools;%WindowsSdkDir%Bin;"
     IF EXIST "%VCTools%\cl.exe" (
       SET "VCTools=%VCTools%;%VCTools%\VCPackages;"
-      SET "SdkTools=%WindowsSdkDir%Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools;%WindowsSdkDir%Bin;"
-      SET "FxTools=%FrameworkDir32%%FrameworkVersion%;%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5;"
     ) ELSE (
       SET VCTools=
       ECHO The x86 compilers are not currently installed.
@@ -298,10 +298,10 @@
   )
 ) ELSE IF "%CURRENT_CPU%"=="x86" (
   IF "%TARGET_CPU%" == "x64" (
+    SET "FxTools=%FrameworkDir32%%FrameworkVersion%;%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5;"
+    SET "SdkTools=%WindowsSdkDir%Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools;%WindowsSdkDir%Bin;"
     IF EXIST "%VCTools%\x86_amd64\cl.exe" (
       SET "VCTools=%VCTools%\x86_amd64;%VCTools%\VCPackages;"
-      SET "SdkTools=%WindowsSdkDir%Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools;%WindowsSdkDir%Bin;"
-      SET "FxTools=%FrameworkDir32%%FrameworkVersion%;%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5;"
     ) ELSE (
       SET VCTools=
       ECHO The x64 cross compilers are not currently installed.
@@ -309,10 +309,10 @@
       ECHO .
     )
   ) ELSE IF "%TARGET_CPU%" == "IA64" (
+    SET "FxTools=%FrameworkDir32%%FrameworkVersion%;%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5;"
+    SET "SdkTools=%WindowsSdkDir%Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools;%WindowsSdkDir%Bin;"
     IF EXIST "%VCTools%\x86_IA64\cl.exe" (
       SET "VCTools=%VCTools%\x86_IA64;%VCTools%;%VCTools%\VCPackages;"
-      SET "SdkTools=%WindowsSdkDir%Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools;%WindowsSdkDir%Bin;"
-      SET "FxTools=%FrameworkDir32%%FrameworkVersion%;%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5;"
     ) ELSE (
       SET VCTools=
       ECHO The IA64 compilers are not currently installed.
@@ -320,10 +320,10 @@
       ECHO .
     )
   ) ELSE IF "%TARGET_CPU%" == "x86" (
+    SET "FxTools=%FrameworkDir32%%FrameworkVersion%;%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5;"
+    SET "SdkTools=%WindowsSdkDir%Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools;%WindowsSdkDir%Bin;"
     IF EXIST "%VCTools%\cl.exe" (
       SET "VCTools=%VCTools%;%VCTools%\VCPackages;"
-      SET "SdkTools=%WindowsSdkDir%Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools;%WindowsSdkDir%Bin;"
-      SET "FxTools=%FrameworkDir32%%FrameworkVersion%;%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5;"
     ) ELSE (
       SET VCTools=
       ECHO The x86 compilers are not currently installed. x86-x86
@@ -331,15 +331,17 @@
       ECHO .
     )
   )
-) ELSE IF EXIST "%VCTools%\cl.exe" (
-  SET "VCTools=%VCTools%;%VCTools%\VCPackages;"
-  SET "SdkTools=%WindowsSdkDir%Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools;%WindowsSdkDir%Bin;"
-  SET "FxTools=%FrameworkDir32%%FrameworkVersion%;%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5;"
 ) ELSE (
-  SET VCTools=
-  ECHO The x86 compilers are not currently installed. default
-  ECHO Please go to Add/Remove Programs to update your installation.
-  ECHO .
+  SET "FxTools=%FrameworkDir32%%FrameworkVersion%;%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5;"
+  SET "SdkTools=%WindowsSdkDir%Bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools;%WindowsSdkDir%Bin;"
+  IF EXIST "%VCTools%\cl.exe" (
+    SET "VCTools=%VCTools%;%VCTools%\VCPackages;"
+  ) ELSE (
+    SET VCTools=
+    ECHO The x86 compilers are not currently installed. default
+    ECHO Please go to Add/Remove Programs to update your installation.
+    ECHO .
+  )
 )

 :: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Angularjs $http.get().then and binding to a list

$http methods return a promise, which can't be iterated, so you have to attach the results to the scope variable through the callbacks:

$scope.documents = [];
$http.get('/Documents/DocumentsList/' + caseId)
  .then(function(result) {
    $scope.documents = result.data;
});

Now, since this defines the documents variable only after the results are fetched, you need to initialise the documents variable on scope beforehand: $scope.documents = []. Otherwise, your ng-repeat will choke.

This way, ng-repeat will first return an empty list, because documents array is empty at first, but as soon as results are received, ng-repeat will run again because the `documents``have changed in the success callback.

Also, you might want to alter you ng-repeat expression to:

<li ng-repeat="document in documents" ng-class="IsFiltered(document.Filtered)">

because if your DisplayDocuments() function is making a call to the server, than this call will be executed many times over, due to the $digest cycles.

how to import csv data into django models

You can use the django-csv-importer package. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-csv-importer/0.1.1

It works like a django model

MyCsvModel(CsvModel):
    field1 = IntegerField()
    field2 = CharField()
    etc

    class Meta:
        delimiter = ";"
        dbModel = Product

And you just have to: CsvModel.import_from_file("my file")

That will automatically create your products.

Can multiple different HTML elements have the same ID if they're different elements?

_x000D_
_x000D_
<div id="one">first text for one</div>_x000D_
<div id="one">second text for one</div>_x000D_
_x000D_
var ids = document.getElementById('one');
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

ids contain only first div element. So even if there are multiple elements with the same id, the document object will return only first match.

How to select an element inside "this" in jQuery?

I use this to get the Parent, similarly for child

$( this ).children( 'li.target' ).css("border", "3px double red");

Good Luck

Opening A Specific File With A Batch File?

you are in a situation where you cannot set a certain program as the default program to use when opening a certain type of file, I've found using a .bat file handy. In my case, Textpad runs on my machine via Microsoft Application Virtualization ("AppV"). The path to Textpad is in an "AppV directory" so to speak. My Textpad AppV shortcut has this as a target...

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\AppV\Client\Integration\
 12345ABC-A1BC-1A23-1A23-1234567E1234\Root\TextPad.exe

To associate the textpad.exe with 'txt' files via a 'bat' file:

1) In Explorer, create a new ('txt') file and save as opentextpad.bat in an "appropriate" location

2) In the opentextpad.bat file, type this line:

textpad.exe %1  

3) Save and Close

4) In explorer, perform windows file association by right-clicking on a 'txt' file (e.g. 'dummy.txt') and choose 'Open with > Choose default program...' from the menu. In the 'Open with' window, click 'Browse...', then navigate to and select your textpad.bat file. Click 'Open'. You'll return to the 'Open with' window. Make sure to check the 'Always use the selected program to open this type of file' checkbox. Click 'OK' and the window will close.

When you open a 'txt' file now, it will open the file with 'textpad.exe'.

Hope this is useful.

How to get the category title in a post in Wordpress?

You can use

<?php the_category(', '); ?>

which would output them in a comma separated list.

You can also do the same for tags as well:

<?php the_tags('<em>:</em>', ', ', ''); ?>

Selector on background color of TextView

An even simpler solution to the above:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:state_pressed="true">
        <color android:color="@color/semitransparent_white" />
    </item>
    <item>
        <color android:color="@color/transparent" />
    </item>
</selector>

Save that in the drawable folder and you're good to go.

datatable jquery - table header width not aligned with body width

My solution was add this: ...

initComplete () {
      this.api (). columns (). header (). each ((el, i) => {
          $ (el) .attr ('style', 'min-width: 160px;')
      });
},

...

and it look fine.

How do I create a list of random numbers without duplicates?

Here is a very small function I made, hope this helps!

import random
numbers = list(range(0, 100))
random.shuffle(numbers)

To get total number of columns in a table in sql

In MS-SQL Server 7+:

SELECT count(*)
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'mytable'

How to create a project from existing source in Eclipse and then find it?

The easiest method is really good but you don't get a standard Java project, i.e., the .java and .class files separated in different folders.

To get this very easily:

  1. Create a folder called "ProjectName" on the workspace of Eclipse.
  2. Copy or move your folder with the .java files to the "ProjectName" folder.
  3. Create a new Java Project called "ProjectName" (with the Use default location marked).
  4. Press <Enter> and that's it.

Enter key press behaves like a Tab in Javascript

I reworked the OPs solution into a Knockout binding and thought I'd share it. Thanks very much :-)

Here's a Fiddle

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/knockout/knockout-2.2.1.js" type="text/javascript"></script>


</head>
<body>

    <div data-bind="nextFieldOnEnter:true">
        <input type="text" />
        <input type="text" />
        <select>
          <option value="volvo">Volvo</option>
          <option value="saab">Saab</option>
          <option value="mercedes">Mercedes</option>
          <option value="audi">Audi</option>
        </select>
        <input type="text" />
        <input type="text" />
    </div>


    <script type="text/javascript">
    ko.bindingHandlers.nextFieldOnEnter = {
        init: function(element, valueAccessor, allBindingsAccessor) {
            $(element).on('keydown', 'input, select', function (e) {
                var self = $(this)
                , form = $(element)
                  , focusable
                  , next
                ;
                if (e.keyCode == 13) {
                    focusable = form.find('input,a,select,button,textarea').filter(':visible');
                    var nextIndex = focusable.index(this) == focusable.length -1 ? 0 : focusable.index(this) + 1;
                    next = focusable.eq(nextIndex);
                    next.focus();
                    return false;
                }
            });
        }
    };

    ko.applyBindings({});
    </script>
</body>
</html>

Python, Unicode, and the Windows console

Update: Python 3.6 implements PEP 528: Change Windows console encoding to UTF-8: the default console on Windows will now accept all Unicode characters. Internally, it uses the same Unicode API as the win-unicode-console package mentioned below. print(unicode_string) should just work now.


I get a UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character... error.

The error means that Unicode characters that you are trying to print can't be represented using the current (chcp) console character encoding. The codepage is often 8-bit encoding such as cp437 that can represent only ~0x100 characters from ~1M Unicode characters:

>>> u"\N{EURO SIGN}".encode('cp437')
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u20ac' in position 0:
character maps to 

I assume this is because the Windows console does not accept Unicode-only characters. What's the best way around this?

Windows console does accept Unicode characters and it can even display them (BMP only) if the corresponding font is configured. WriteConsoleW() API should be used as suggested in @Daira Hopwood's answer. It can be called transparently i.e., you don't need to and should not modify your scripts if you use win-unicode-console package:

T:\> py -mpip install win-unicode-console
T:\> py -mrun your_script.py

See What's the deal with Python 3.4, Unicode, different languages and Windows?

Is there any way I can make Python automatically print a ? instead of failing in this situation?

If it is enough to replace all unencodable characters with ? in your case then you could set PYTHONIOENCODING envvar:

T:\> set PYTHONIOENCODING=:replace
T:\> python3 -c "print(u'[\N{EURO SIGN}]')"
[?]

In Python 3.6+, the encoding specified by PYTHONIOENCODING envvar is ignored for interactive console buffers unless PYTHONLEGACYWINDOWSIOENCODING envvar is set to a non-empty string.

When to use RDLC over RDL reports?

Q: What is the difference between RDL and RDLC formats?

A: RDL files are created by the SQL Server 2005 version of Report Designer. RDLC files are created by the Visual Studio 2008 version of Report Designer.

RDL and RDLC formats have the same XML schema. However, in RDLC files, some values (such as query text) are allowed to be empty, which means that they are not immediately ready to be published to a Report Server. The missing values can be entered by opening the RDLC file using the SQL Server 2005 version of Report Designer. (You have to rename .rdlc to .rdl first.)

RDL files are fully compatible with the ReportViewer control runtime. However, RDL files do not contain some information that the design-time of the ReportViewer control depends on for automatically generating data-binding code. By manually binding data, RDL files can be used in the ReportViewer control. New! See also the RDL Viewer sample program.

Note that the ReportViewer control does not contain any logic for connecting to databases or executing queries. By separating out such logic, the ReportViewer has been made compatible with all data sources, including non-database data sources. However this means that when an RDL file is used by the ReportViewer control, the SQL related information in the RDL file is simply ignored by the control. It is the host application's responsibility to connect to databases, execute queries and supply data to the ReportViewer control in the form of ADO.NET DataTables.

http://www.gotreportviewer.com/

How do I display a text file content in CMD?

We can use the 'type' command to see file contents in cmd.

Example -

type abc.txt

More information can be found HERE.

casting Object array to Integer array error

When casting is done in Java, Java compiler as well as Java run-time check whether the casting is possible or not and throws errors in case not.

When casting of Object types is involved, the instanceof test should pass in order for the assignment to go through. In your example it results
Object[] a = new Object[1]; boolean isIntegerArr = a instanceof Integer[]
If you do a sysout of the above line, it would return false;
So trying an instance of check before casting would help. So, to fix the error, you can either add 'instanceof' check
OR
use following line of code:
(Arrays.asList(a)).toArray(c);

Please do note that the above code would fail, if the Object array contains any entry that is other than Integer.

C# : assign data to properties via constructor vs. instantiating

Second approach is object initializer in C#

Object initializers let you assign values to any accessible fields or properties of an object at creation time without having to explicitly invoke a constructor.

The first approach

var albumData = new Album("Albumius", "Artistus", 2013);

explicitly calls the constructor, whereas in second approach constructor call is implicit. With object initializer you can leave out some properties as well. Like:

 var albumData = new Album
        {
            Name = "Albumius",
        };

Object initializer would translate into something like:

var albumData; 
var temp = new Album();
temp.Name = "Albumius";
temp.Artist = "Artistus";
temp.Year = 2013;
albumData = temp;

Why it uses a temporary object (in debug mode) is answered here by Jon Skeet.

As far as advantages for both approaches are concerned, IMO, object initializer would be easier to use specially if you don't want to initialize all the fields. As far as performance difference is concerned, I don't think there would any since object initializer calls the parameter less constructor and then assign the properties. Even if there is going to be performance difference it should be negligible.

Make virtualenv inherit specific packages from your global site-packages

Install virtual env with

virtualenv --system-site-packages

and use pip install -U to install matplotlib

.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.

Twitter Bootstrap modal on mobile devices

Gil's answer holds promise (the library he linked to) --- but for the time being, it still doesn't work when scrolled down on the mobile device.

I solved the issue for myself using just a snippet of CSS at the end of my CSS files:

@media (max-width: 767px) {
  #content .modal.fade.in {
    top: 5%;
  }
}

The #content selector is simply an id that wraps my html so I can override Bootstrap's specificity (set to your own id wrapping your modal html).

The downside: It's not centered vertically on the mobile devices.

The upside: It's visible, and on smaller devices, a reasonably sized modal will take up much of the screen, so the "non-centering" won't be as apparent.

Why it works:

When you're at low screen sizes with Bootstrap's responsive CSS, for devices with smaller screens, it sets .modal.fade.in's 'top' to 'auto'. For some reason the mobile webkit browsers seem to have a hard time with figuring out the vertical placement with the "auto" assignment. So just switch it back to a fixed value and it works great.

Since the modal is already set to postition: absolute, the value is relative to the viewport's height, not the document height, so it works no matter how long the page is or where you're scrolled to.

How to access parent scope from within a custom directive *with own scope* in AngularJS?

 scope: false
 transclude: false

and you will have the same scope(with parent element)

$scope.$watch(...

There are a lot of ways how to access parent scope depending on this two options scope& transclude.

How does the Python's range function work?

range(x) returns a list of numbers from 0 to x - 1.

>>> range(1)
[0]
>>> range(2)
[0, 1]
>>> range(3)
[0, 1, 2]
>>> range(4)
[0, 1, 2, 3]

for i in range(x): executes the body (which is print i in your first example) once for each element in the list returned by range(). i is used inside the body to refer to the “current” item of the list. In that case, i refers to an integer, but it could be of any type, depending on the objet on which you loop.