Programs & Examples On #Libz

curl: (35) error:1408F10B:SSL routines:ssl3_get_record:wrong version number

More simply in one line:

proxy=192.168.2.1:8080;curl -v example.com

eg. $proxy=192.168.2.1:8080;curl -v example.com

xxxxxxxxx-ASUS:~$ proxy=192.168.2.1:8080;curl -v https://google.com|head -c 15 % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0

  • Trying 172.217.163.46:443...
  • TCP_NODELAY set
  • Connected to google.com (172.217.163.46) port 443 (#0)
  • ALPN, offering h2
  • ALPN, offering http/1.1
  • successfully set certificate verify locations:
  • CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt CApath: /etc/ssl/certs } [5 bytes data]
  • TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1): } [512 bytes data]

Why does C++ code for testing the Collatz conjecture run faster than hand-written assembly?

From comments:

But, this code never stops (because of integer overflow) !?! Yves Daoust

For many numbers it will not overflow.

If it will overflow - for one of those unlucky initial seeds, the overflown number will very likely converge toward 1 without another overflow.

Still this poses interesting question, is there some overflow-cyclic seed number?

Any simple final converging series starts with power of two value (obvious enough?).

2^64 will overflow to zero, which is undefined infinite loop according to algorithm (ends only with 1), but the most optimal solution in answer will finish due to shr rax producing ZF=1.

Can we produce 2^64? If the starting number is 0x5555555555555555, it's odd number, next number is then 3n+1, which is 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF + 1 = 0. Theoretically in undefined state of algorithm, but the optimized answer of johnfound will recover by exiting on ZF=1. The cmp rax,1 of Peter Cordes will end in infinite loop (QED variant 1, "cheapo" through undefined 0 number).

How about some more complex number, which will create cycle without 0? Frankly, I'm not sure, my Math theory is too hazy to get any serious idea, how to deal with it in serious way. But intuitively I would say the series will converge to 1 for every number : 0 < number, as the 3n+1 formula will slowly turn every non-2 prime factor of original number (or intermediate) into some power of 2, sooner or later. So we don't need to worry about infinite loop for original series, only overflow can hamper us.

So I just put few numbers into sheet and took a look on 8 bit truncated numbers.

There are three values overflowing to 0: 227, 170 and 85 (85 going directly to 0, other two progressing toward 85).

But there's no value creating cyclic overflow seed.

Funnily enough I did a check, which is the first number to suffer from 8 bit truncation, and already 27 is affected! It does reach value 9232 in proper non-truncated series (first truncated value is 322 in 12th step), and the maximum value reached for any of the 2-255 input numbers in non-truncated way is 13120 (for the 255 itself), maximum number of steps to converge to 1 is about 128 (+-2, not sure if "1" is to count, etc...).

Interestingly enough (for me) the number 9232 is maximum for many other source numbers, what's so special about it? :-O 9232 = 0x2410 ... hmmm.. no idea.

Unfortunately I can't get any deep grasp of this series, why does it converge and what are the implications of truncating them to k bits, but with cmp number,1 terminating condition it's certainly possible to put the algorithm into infinite loop with particular input value ending as 0 after truncation.

But the value 27 overflowing for 8 bit case is sort of alerting, this looks like if you count the number of steps to reach value 1, you will get wrong result for majority of numbers from the total k-bit set of integers. For the 8 bit integers the 146 numbers out of 256 have affected series by truncation (some of them may still hit the correct number of steps by accident maybe, I'm too lazy to check).

curl: (35) SSL connect error

If you are using curl versions curl-7.19.7-46.el6.x86_64 or older. Please provide an option as -k1 (small K1).

How to fix symbol lookup error: undefined symbol errors in a cluster environment

After two dozens of comments to understand the situation, it was found that the libhdf5.so.7 was actually a symlink (with several levels of indirection) to a file that was not shared between the queued processes and the interactive processes. This means even though the symlink itself lies on a shared filesystem, the contents of the file do not and as a result the process was seeing different versions of the library.

For future reference: other than checking LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it's always a good idea to check a library with nm -D to see if the symbols actually exist. In this case it was found that they do exist in interactive mode but not when run in the queue. A quick md5sum revealed that the files were actually different.

libz.so.1: cannot open shared object file

for centos, just zlib didn't solve the problem.I did sudo yum install zlib-devel.i686

Curl: Fix CURL (51) SSL error: no alternative certificate subject name matches

it might save some time to somebody.

If you use GuzzleHttp and you face with this error message cURL error 60: SSL: no alternative certificate subject name matches target host name and you are fine with the 'insecure' solution (not recommended on production) then you have to add \GuzzleHttp\RequestOptions::VERIFY => false to the client configuration:

$this->client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client([
    'base_uri'                          => 'someAccessPoint',
    \GuzzleHttp\RequestOptions::HEADERS => [
        'User-Agent' => 'some-special-agent',
    ],
    'defaults'                          => [
        \GuzzleHttp\RequestOptions::CONNECT_TIMEOUT => 5,
        \GuzzleHttp\RequestOptions::ALLOW_REDIRECTS => true,
    ],
    \GuzzleHttp\RequestOptions::VERIFY  => false,
]);

which sets CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST to 0 and CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER to false in the CurlFactory::applyHandlerOptions() method

$conf[CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST] = 0;
$conf[CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER] = false;

From the GuzzleHttp documentation

verify

Describes the SSL certificate verification behavior of a request.

  • Set to true to enable SSL certificate verification and use the default CA bundle > provided by operating system.
  • Set to false to disable certificate verification (this is insecure!).
  • Set to a string to provide the path to a CA bundle to enable verification using a custom certificate.

cURL not working (Error #77) for SSL connections on CentOS for non-root users

Windows users, add this to PHP.ini:

curl.cainfo = "C:/cacert.pem";

Path needs to be changed to your own and you can download cacert.pem from a google search

(yes I know its a CentOS question)

CMake not able to find OpenSSL library

If you can use pkg-config: pkg_search_module() can find OpenSSL for you.

# Search OpenSSL
find_package(PkgConfig REQUIRED)
pkg_search_module(OPENSSL REQUIRED openssl)

if( OPENSSL_FOUND )
    include_directories(${OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIRS})
    message(STATUS "Using OpenSSL ${OPENSSL_VERSION}")
else()
    # Error; with REQUIRED, pkg_search_module() will throw an error by it's own
endif()

target_link_libraries(${YOUR_TARGET_HERE} ${OPENSSL_LIBRARIES})

Pushing to Git returning Error Code 403 fatal: HTTP request failed

I actually had a very simple fix to this. All i did was edit the git config file differently after cloning the repository. The remote origin url is what you need to edit in your default config file. It should look like seen below

[core]
    repositoryformatversion = 0
    filemode = true
    bare = false
    logallrefupdates = true
[remote "origin"]
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
    url = https://*username*@github.com/*username*/*repository*.git
[branch "master"]
    remote = origin
    merge = refs/heads/master

A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment: SIGSEGV, libjvm

after hardware check on the server and it was found out that memory had gone bad, replaced the memory and the server is now fully accessible.

Undefined symbols for architecture armv7

I have have multiple @interfaces in the .h file and hadn't yet included the all of the corresponding @implementation directives. Make sure that they are all balanced out.

Error: free(): invalid next size (fast):

I encountered the same problem, even though I did not make any dynamic memory allocation in my program, but I was accessing a vector's index without allocating memory for it. So, if the same case, better allocate some memory using resize() and then access vector elements.

"/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz"

I had the exact same error, and like you, installing zlib1g-dev did not fix it. Installing lib32z1-dev got me past it. I have a 64 bit system and it seems like it wanted the 32 bit library.

ld cannot find an existing library

It is Debian convention to separate shared libraries into their runtime components (libmagic1: /usr/lib/libmagic.so.1 ? libmagic.so.1.0.0) and their development components (libmagic-dev: /usr/lib/libmagic.so ? …).

Because the library's soname is libmagic.so.1, that's the string that gets embedded into the executable so that's the file that is loaded when the executable is run.

However, because the library is specified as -lmagic to the linker, it looks for libmagic.so, which is why it is needed for development.

See Diego E. Pettenò: Linkers and names for details on how this all works on Linux.


In short, you should apt-get install libmagic-dev. This will not only give you libmagic.so but also other files necessary for compiling like /usr/include/magic.h.

How can I make the contents of a fixed element scrollable only when it exceeds the height of the viewport?

Here is the pure HTML and CSS solution.

  1. We create a container box for navbar with position: fixed; height:100%;

  2. Then we create an inner box with height: 100%; overflow-y: scroll;

  3. Next, we put out content inside that box.

Here is the code:

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.nav-box{_x000D_
        position: fixed;_x000D_
        border: 1px solid #0a2b1d;_x000D_
        height:100%;_x000D_
   }_x000D_
   .inner-box{_x000D_
        width: 200px;_x000D_
        height: 100%;_x000D_
        overflow-y: scroll;_x000D_
        border: 1px solid #0A246A;_x000D_
    }_x000D_
    .tabs{_x000D_
        border: 3px solid chartreuse;_x000D_
        color:darkred;_x000D_
    }_x000D_
    .content-box p{_x000D_
      height:50px;_x000D_
      text-align:center;_x000D_
    }
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<div class="nav-box">_x000D_
  <div class="inner-box">_x000D_
    <div class="tabs"><p>Navbar content Start</p></div>_x000D_
    <div class="tabs"><p>Navbar content</p></div>_x000D_
    <div class="tabs"><p>Navbar content</p></div>_x000D_
    <div class="tabs"><p>Navbar content</p></div>_x000D_
    <div class="tabs"><p>Navbar content</p></div>_x000D_
    <div class="tabs"><p>Navbar content</p></div>_x000D_
    <div class="tabs"><p>Navbar content</p></div>_x000D_
    <div class="tabs"><p>Navbar content</p></div>_x000D_
    <div class="tabs"><p>Navbar content</p></div>_x000D_
    <div class="tabs"><p>Navbar content</p></div>_x000D_
    <div class="tabs"><p>Navbar content</p></div>_x000D_
    <div class="tabs"><p>Navbar content End</p></div>_x000D_
    </div>_x000D_
</div>_x000D_
<div class="content-box">_x000D_
  <p>Lorem Ipsum</p>_x000D_
  <p>Lorem Ipsum</p>_x000D_
  <p>Lorem Ipsum</p>_x000D_
  <p>Lorem Ipsum</p>_x000D_
  <p>Lorem Ipsum</p>_x000D_
  <p>Lorem Ipsum</p>_x000D_
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Link to jsFiddle:

How do I fix the Visual Studio compile error, "mismatch between processor architecture"?

A good rule of thumb is "open DLLs, closed EXEs", that is:

  • EXE targets the OS, by specifying x86 or x64.
  • DLLs are left open (i.e., AnyCPU) so they can be instantiated within a 32-bit or a 64-bit process.

When you build an EXE as AnyCPU, all you're doing is deferring the decision on what process bitness to use to the OS, which will JIT the EXE to its liking. That is, an x64 OS will create a 64-bit process, an x86 OS will create an 32-bit process.

Building DLLs as AnyCPU makes them compatible to either process.

For more on the subtleties of assembly loading, see here. The executive summary reads something like:

  • AnyCPU – loads as x64 or x86 assembly, depending on the invoking process
  • x86 – loads as x86 assembly; will not load from an x64 process
  • x64 – loads as x64 assembly; will not load from an x86 process

Stored procedure or function expects parameter which is not supplied

in my case, I was passing all the parameters but one of the parameter my code was passing a null value for string.

Eg: cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@userName", userName);

in the above case, if the data type of userName is string, I was passing userName as null.

Detecting scroll direction

You can try doing this.

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function scrollDetect(){_x000D_
  var lastScroll = 0;_x000D_
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  window.onscroll = function() {_x000D_
      let currentScroll = document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.body.scrollTop; // Get Current Scroll Value_x000D_
_x000D_
      if (currentScroll > 0 && lastScroll <= currentScroll){_x000D_
        lastScroll = currentScroll;_x000D_
        document.getElementById("scrollLoc").innerHTML = "Scrolling DOWN";_x000D_
      }else{_x000D_
        lastScroll = currentScroll;_x000D_
        document.getElementById("scrollLoc").innerHTML = "Scrolling UP";_x000D_
      }_x000D_
  };_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_
scrollDetect();
_x000D_
html,body{_x000D_
  height:100%;_x000D_
  width:100%;_x000D_
  margin:0;_x000D_
  padding:0;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
.cont{_x000D_
  height:100%;_x000D_
  width:100%;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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.item{_x000D_
  margin:0;_x000D_
  padding:0;_x000D_
  height:100%;_x000D_
  width:100%;_x000D_
  background: #ffad33;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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.red{_x000D_
  background: red;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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p{_x000D_
  position:fixed;_x000D_
  font-size:25px;_x000D_
  top:5%;_x000D_
  left:5%;_x000D_
}
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<div class="cont">_x000D_
  <div class="item"></div>_x000D_
  <div class="item red"></div>_x000D_
  <p id="scrollLoc">0</p>_x000D_
</div>
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What does "export default" do in JSX?

Export like export default HelloWorld; and import, such as import React from 'react' are part of the ES6 modules system.

A module is a self contained unit that can expose assets to other modules using export, and acquire assets from other modules using import.

In your code:

import React from 'react'; // get the React object from the react module

class HelloWorld extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return <p>Hello, world!</p>;
  }
}

export default HelloWorld; // expose the HelloWorld component to other modules

In ES6 there are two kinds of exports:

Named exports - for example export function func() {} is a named export with the name of func. Named modules can be imported using import { exportName } from 'module';. In this case, the name of the import should be the same as the name of the export. To import the func in the example, you'll have to use import { func } from 'module';. There can be multiple named exports in one module.

Default export - is the value that will be imported from the module, if you use the simple import statement import X from 'module'. X is the name that will be given locally to the variable assigned to contain the value, and it doesn't have to be named like the origin export. There can be only one default export.

A module can contain both named exports and a default export, and they can be imported together using import defaultExport, { namedExport1, namedExport3, etc... } from 'module';.

Create random list of integers in Python

Firstly, you should use randrange(0,1000) or randint(0,999), not randint(0,1000). The upper limit of randint is inclusive.

For efficiently, randint is simply a wrapper of randrange which calls random, so you should just use random. Also, use xrange as the argument to sample, not range.

You could use

[a for a in sample(xrange(1000),1000) for _ in range(10000/1000)]

to generate 10,000 numbers in the range using sample 10 times.

(Of course this won't beat NumPy.)

$ python2.7 -m timeit -s 'from random import randrange' '[randrange(1000) for _ in xrange(10000)]'
10 loops, best of 3: 26.1 msec per loop

$ python2.7 -m timeit -s 'from random import sample' '[a%1000 for a in sample(xrange(10000),10000)]'
100 loops, best of 3: 18.4 msec per loop

$ python2.7 -m timeit -s 'from random import random' '[int(1000*random()) for _ in xrange(10000)]' 
100 loops, best of 3: 9.24 msec per loop

$ python2.7 -m timeit -s 'from random import sample' '[a for a in sample(xrange(1000),1000) for _ in range(10000/1000)]'
100 loops, best of 3: 3.79 msec per loop

$ python2.7 -m timeit -s 'from random import shuffle
> def samplefull(x):
>   a = range(x)
>   shuffle(a)
>   return a' '[a for a in samplefull(1000) for _ in xrange(10000/1000)]'
100 loops, best of 3: 3.16 msec per loop

$ python2.7 -m timeit -s 'from numpy.random import randint' 'randint(1000, size=10000)'
1000 loops, best of 3: 363 usec per loop

But since you don't care about the distribution of numbers, why not just use:

range(1000)*(10000/1000)

?

Dealing with commas in a CSV file

You can use alternative "delimiters" like ";" or "|" but simplest might just be quoting which is supported by most (decent) CSV libraries and most decent spreadsheets.

For more on CSV delimiters and a spec for a standard format for describing delimiters and quoting see this webpage

Getting a POST variable

In addition to using Request.Form and Request.QueryString and depending on your specific scenario, it may also be useful to check the Page's IsPostBack property.

if (Page.IsPostBack)
{
  // HTTP Post
}
else
{
  // HTTP Get
}

How to delete last character in a string in C#?

string str="This is test string.";
str=str.Remove(str.Length-1);

Getting the number of filled cells in a column (VBA)

You can also use

Cells.CurrentRegion

to give you a range representing the bounds of your data on the current active sheet

Msdn says on the topic

Returns a Range object that represents the current region. The current region is a range bounded by any combination of blank rows and blank columns. Read-only.

Then you can determine the column count via

Cells.CurrentRegion.Columns.Count

and the row count via

Cells.CurrentRegion.Rows.Count

Public free web services for testing soap client

There is a bunch on here:

http://www.webservicex.net/WS/wscatlist.aspx

Just google for "Free WebService" or "Open WebService" and you'll find tons of open SOAP endpoints.

Remember, you can get a WSDL from any ASMX endpoint by adding ?WSDL to the url.

Add a dependency in Maven

I'll assume that you're asking how to push a dependency out to a "well-known repository," and not simply asking how to update your POM.

If yes, then this is what you want to read.

And for anyone looking to set up an internal repository server, look here (half of the problem with using Maven 2 is finding the docs)

Backbone.js fetch with parameters

You can also set processData to true:

collection.fetch({ 
    data: { page: 1 },
    processData: true
});

Jquery will auto process data object into param string,

but in Backbone.sync function, Backbone turn the processData off because Backbone will use other method to process data in POST,UPDATE...

in Backbone source:

if (params.type !== 'GET' && !Backbone.emulateJSON) {
    params.processData = false;
}

Getting JavaScript object key list

       if(props.userType){
          var data = []
          Object.keys(props.userType).map(i=>{
                data.push(props.userType[i])
          })
          setService(data)
        }

How to remove any URL within a string in Python

In order to remove any URL within a string in Python, you can use this RegEx function :

import re

def remove_URL(text):
    """Remove URLs from a text string"""
    return re.sub(r"http\S+", "", text)

How to include NA in ifelse?

@AnandaMahto has addressed why you're getting these results and provided the clearest way to get what you want. But another option would be to use identical instead of ==.

test$ID <- ifelse(is.na(test$time) | sapply(as.character(test$type), identical, "A"), NA, "1")

Or use isTRUE:

test$ID <- ifelse(is.na(test$time) | Vectorize(isTRUE)(test$type == "A"), NA, "1")

How to hide the keyboard when I press return key in a UITextField?

In viewDidLoad declare:

[yourTextField setDelegate:self];

Then, include the override of the delegate method:

-(BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField
{
    [textField resignFirstResponder];
    return YES;
}

Filter an array using a formula (without VBA)

Today, in Office 365, Excel has so called 'array functions'. The filter function does exactly what you want. No need to use CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER anymore, a simple enter will suffice.

In Office 365, your problem would be simply solved by using:

=VLOOKUP(A3, FILTER(A2:C6, B2:B6="B"), 3, FALSE)

How do I concatenate strings and variables in PowerShell?

Try wrapping whatever you want to print out in parentheses:

Write-Host ($assoc.Id + "  -  "  + $assoc.Name + "  -  " + $assoc.Owner)

Your code is being interpreted as many parameters being passed to Write-Host. Wrapping it up inside parentheses will concatenate the values and then pass the resulting value as a single parameter.

Node.js global variables

Use a global namespace like global.MYAPI = {}:

global.MYAPI._ = require('underscore')

All other posters talk about the bad pattern involved. So leaving that discussion aside, the best way to have a variable defined globally (OP's question) is through namespaces.

Tip: Development Using Namespaces

Where do I put my php files to have Xampp parse them?

Look into the httpd.conf and/or httpd-vhosts.conf files and search for the DocumentRoot entry. If you configure multiple virtual hosts, there may be more than one of those, separated in <VirtualHost> tags.

How to copy files from 'assets' folder to sdcard?

If anyone else is having the same problem, this is how I did it

private void copyAssets() {
    AssetManager assetManager = getAssets();
    String[] files = null;
    try {
        files = assetManager.list("");
    } catch (IOException e) {
        Log.e("tag", "Failed to get asset file list.", e);
    }
    if (files != null) for (String filename : files) {
        InputStream in = null;
        OutputStream out = null;
        try {
          in = assetManager.open(filename);
          File outFile = new File(getExternalFilesDir(null), filename);
          out = new FileOutputStream(outFile);
          copyFile(in, out);
        } catch(IOException e) {
            Log.e("tag", "Failed to copy asset file: " + filename, e);
        }     
        finally {
            if (in != null) {
                try {
                    in.close();
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    // NOOP
                }
            }
            if (out != null) {
                try {
                    out.close();
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    // NOOP
                }
            }
        }  
    }
}
private void copyFile(InputStream in, OutputStream out) throws IOException {
    byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
    int read;
    while((read = in.read(buffer)) != -1){
      out.write(buffer, 0, read);
    }
}

Reference : Move file using Java

CSS background image to fit width, height should auto-scale in proportion

I had the same issue, unable to resize the image when adjusting browser dimensions.

Bad Code:

html {  
  background-color: white;  
  background-image: url("example.png");  
  background-repeat: no-repeat;  
  background-attachment: scroll;  
  background-position: 0% 0%;
}


Good Code:

html {  
  background-color: white;  
  background-image: url("example.png");  
  background-repeat: no-repeat;  
  background-attachment: scroll;  
  background-position: 0% 0%;
  background-size: contain;
}

The key here is the addition of this element -> background-size: contain;

Simple Android grid example using RecyclerView with GridLayoutManager (like the old GridView)

This is a simple way from XML only

spanCount for number of columns

layoutManager for making it grid or linear(Vertical or Horizontal)

<androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView
        android:id="@+id/personListRecyclerView"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        app:layoutManager="androidx.recyclerview.widget.GridLayoutManager"
        app:spanCount="2"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.5"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

Batch command date and time in file name

I realise this is a moot question to the OP, but I just brewed this, and I'm a tad proud of myself for thinking outside the box.

Download gawk for Windows at http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gawk.htm .... Then it's a one liner, without all that clunky DOS batch syntax, where it takes six FOR loops to split the strings (WTF? That's really really BAD MAD AND SAD! ... IMHO of course)

If you already know C, C++, Perl, or Ruby then picking-up AWK (which inherits from the former two, and contributes significantly to the latter two) is a piece of the proverbial CAKE!!!

The DOS Batch command:

echo %DATE% %TIME% && echo %DATE% %TIME% | gawk -F"[ /:.]" "{printf(""""%s%02d%02d-%02d%02d%02d\n"""", $4, $3, $2, $5, $6, $7);}"

Prints:

Tue 04/09/2012 10:40:38.25
20120904-104038

Now that's not quite the full story... I'm just going to be lazy and hard-code the rest of my log-file-name in the printf statement, because it's simple... But if anybody knows how to set a %NOW% variable to AWK's output (yeilding the guts of a "generic" now function) then I'm all ears.


EDIT:

A quick search on Stack Overflow filled in that last piece of the puzzle, Batch equivalent of Bash backticks.

So, these three lines of DOS batch:

echo %DATE% %TIME% | awk -F"[ /:.]" "{printf(""""%s%02d%02d-%02d%02d%02d\n"""", $4, $3, $2, $5, $6, $7);}" >%temp%\now.txt
set /p now=<%temp%\now.txt
echo %now%

Produce:

20120904-114434

So now I can include a datetime in the name of the log-file produced by my SQL Server installation (2005+) script thus:

sqlcmd -S .\SQLEXPRESS -d MyDb -e -i MyTSqlCommands.sql >MyTSqlCommands.sql.%now%.log

And I'm a happy camper again (except life was still SOOOOO much easier on Unix).

Grunt watch error - Waiting...Fatal error: watch ENOSPC

After trying grenade's answer you may use a temporary fix:

sudo bash -c 'echo 524288 > /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches'

This does the same thing as kds's answer, but without persisting the changes. This is useful if the error just occurs after some uptime of your system.

adding css class to multiple elements

.button input,
.button a {
    ...
}

How to redirect to a different domain using NGINX?

You can simply write a if condition inside server {} block:

server { 

    if ($host = mydomain.com) {
        return 301 http://www.adifferentdomain.com;
    } 
}

The entity cannot be constructed in a LINQ to Entities query

if you are Executing Linq to Entity you can't use the ClassType with new in the select closure of query only anonymous types are allowed (new without type)

take look at this snippet of my project

//...
var dbQuery = context.Set<Letter>()
                .Include(letter => letter.LetterStatus)
                .Select(l => new {Title =l.Title,ID = l.ID, LastModificationDate = l.LastModificationDate, DateCreated = l.DateCreated,LetterStatus = new {ID = l.LetterStatusID.Value,NameInArabic = l.LetterStatus.NameInArabic,NameInEnglish = l.LetterStatus.NameInEnglish} })
                               ^^ without type__________________________________________________________________________________________________________^^ without type

of you added the new keyword in Select closure even on the complex properties you will got this error

so remove the ClassTypes from new keyword on Linq to Entity queries ,,

because it will transformed to sql statement and executed on SqlServer

so when can I use new with types on select closure?

you can use it if you you are dealing with LINQ to Object (in memory collection)

//opecations in tempList , LINQ to Entities; so we can not use class types in select only anonymous types are allowed
var tempList = dbQuery.Skip(10).Take(10).ToList();// this is list of <anonymous type> so we have to convert it so list of <letter>

//opecations in list , LINQ to Object; so we can use class types in select
list = tempList.Select(l => new Letter{ Title = l.Title, ID = l.ID, LastModificationDate = l.LastModificationDate, DateCreated = l.DateCreated, LetterStatus = new LetterStatus{ ID = l.LetterStatus.ID, NameInArabic = l.LetterStatus.NameInArabic, NameInEnglish = l.LetterStatus.NameInEnglish } }).ToList();
                                ^^^^^^ with type 

after I executed ToList on query it became in memory collection so we can use new ClassTypes in select

How to change CSS using jQuery?

When you are using Multiple css property with jQuery then you must use the curly Brace in starting and in the end. You are missing the ending curly brace.

function init() {
 $("h1").css("backgroundColor", "yellow");

 $("#myParagraph").css({"background-color":"black","color":"white"});

 $(".bordered").css("border", "1px solid black");
}

You can have a look at this jQuery CSS Selector tutorial.

How to set password for Redis?

For that, you need to update the redis configuration file.By default, there is no any password for redis.

01) open redis configuration file

sudo vi /etc/redis/redis.conf

find requirepass field under SECURITY section and uncomment that field.Then set your password instead of "foobared"

# requirepass foobared

It should be like,

requirepass YOUR_PASSWORD

Then restart redis and start redis-cli.

If you need to check whether you have set the password correctly, you can run below commads in redis-cli.

sithara@sithara-X555UJ ~ $ redis-cli
127.0.0.1:6379> set key1 18
(error) NOAUTH Authentication required.
127.0.0.1:6379> auth admin
OK
127.0.0.1:6379> get key1
(nil)
127.0.0.1:6379> exit


sithara@sithara-X555UJ ~ $ redis-cli
127.0.0.1:6379> set key1 18
(error) NOAUTH Authentication required.
127.0.0.1:6379> auth admin
OK
127.0.0.1:6379> set key2 check
OK
127.0.0.1:6379> get key2
"check"
127.0.0.1:6379> get key1
(nil)
127.0.0.1:6379> set key1 20
OK
127.0.0.1:6379> get key1
"20"
127.0.0.1:6379> exit

`

SQL: parse the first, middle and last name from a fullname field

As everyone else says, you can't from a simple programmatic way.

Consider these examples:

  • President "George Herbert Walker Bush" (First Middle Middle Last)

  • Presidential assassin "John Wilkes Booth" (First Middle Last)

  • Guitarist "Eddie Van Halen" (First Last Last)

  • And his mom probably calls him Edward Lodewijk Van Halen (First Middle Last Last)

  • Famed castaway "Mary Ann Summers" (First First Last)

  • New Mexico GOP chairman "Fernando C de Baca" (First Last Last Last)

Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute

I've seen many options for this but to me this one was the best.

ListItemCollection collection = new ListItemCollection();
        foreach (ListItem item in ListBox1.Items)
        {
            if (item.Selected)
                collection.Add(item);
        }

Then simply loop through the collection.

Be aware that a ListItemCollection can contain duplicates. By default there is nothing preventing duplicates being added to the collection. To avoid duplicates you can do this:

ListItemCollection collection = new ListItemCollection();
            foreach (ListItem item in ListBox1.Items)
            {
                if (item.Selected && !collection.Contains(item))
                    collection.Add(item);
            }

How to see tomcat is running or not

for localhost,the defaut port is 8080,you can test the link http://localhost:8080 in you browser.if you can see tomcat home page,your tomcat is running

Android - How to achieve setOnClickListener in Kotlin?

   button.setOnClickListener {
          //write your code here
   }

Simple way to sort strings in the (case sensitive) alphabetical order

The simple way to solve the problem is to use ComparisonChain from Guava http://docs.guava-libraries.googlecode.com/git/javadoc/com/google/common/collect/ComparisonChain.html

private static Comparator<String> stringAlphabeticalComparator = new Comparator<String>() {
        public int compare(String str1, String str2) {
            return ComparisonChain.start().
                                compare(str1,str2, String.CASE_INSENSITIVE_ORDER).
                                compare(str1,str2).
                                result();
         }
 };
Collections.sort(list, stringAlphabeticalComparator);

The first comparator from the chain will sort strings according to the case insensitive order, and the second comparator will sort strings according to the case insensitive order. As excepted strings appear in the result according to the alphabetical order:

"AA","Aa","aa","Development","development"

MessageBox Buttons?

An updated version of the correct answer for .NET 4.5 would be.

if (MessageBox.Show("Are you sure?", "Confirm", MessageBoxImage.Question) 
    == MessageBoxResult.Yes)  
{
// If yes
}
else  
{
// If no
}

Additionally, if you wanted to bind the button to a command in a view model you could use the following. This is compatible with MvvmLite:

public RelayCommand ShowPopUpCommand
{
   get
   {
   return _showPopUpCommand ??
      (_showPopUpCommand = new RelayCommand(
         () =>
               {
                // Put if statement here
               }
      }));
   }
}

How to get http headers in flask?

Let's see how we get the params, headers and body in Flask. I'm gonna explain with the help of postman.

enter image description here

The params keys and values are reflected in the API endpoint. for example key1 and key2 in the endpoint : https://127.0.0.1/upload?key1=value1&key2=value2

from flask import Flask, request
app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/upload')
def upload():

  key_1 = request.args.get('key1')
  key_2 = request.args.get('key2')
  print(key_1)
  #--> value1
  print(key_2)
  #--> value2

After params, let's now see how to get the headers:

enter image description here

  header_1 = request.headers.get('header1')
  header_2 = request.headers.get('header2')
  print(header_1)
  #--> header_value1
  print(header_2)
  #--> header_value2

Now let's see how to get the body

enter image description here

  file_name = request.files['file'].filename
  ref_id = request.form['referenceId']
  print(ref_id)
  #--> WWB9838yb3r47484

so we fetch the uploaded files with request.files and text with request.form

Could not connect to SMTP host: smtp.gmail.com, port: 465, response: -1

You need to tell it that you are using SSL:

props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.class", "javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory");

In case you miss anything, here is working code:

String  d_email = "[email protected]",
            d_uname = "Name",
            d_password = "urpassword",
            d_host = "smtp.gmail.com",
            d_port  = "465",
            m_to = "[email protected]",
            m_subject = "Indoors Readable File: " + params[0].getName(),
            m_text = "This message is from Indoor Positioning App. Required file(s) are attached.";
    Properties props = new Properties();
    props.put("mail.smtp.user", d_email);
    props.put("mail.smtp.host", d_host);
    props.put("mail.smtp.port", d_port);
    props.put("mail.smtp.starttls.enable","true");
    props.put("mail.smtp.debug", "true");
    props.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true");
    props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.port", d_port);
    props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.class", "javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory");
    props.put("mail.smtp.socketFactory.fallback", "false");

    SMTPAuthenticator auth = new SMTPAuthenticator();
    Session session = Session.getInstance(props, auth);
    session.setDebug(true);

    MimeMessage msg = new MimeMessage(session);
    try {
        msg.setSubject(m_subject);
        msg.setFrom(new InternetAddress(d_email));
        msg.addRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO, new InternetAddress(m_to));

Transport transport = session.getTransport("smtps");
            transport.connect(d_host, Integer.valueOf(d_port), d_uname, d_password);
            transport.sendMessage(msg, msg.getAllRecipients());
            transport.close();

        } catch (AddressException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            return false;
        } catch (MessagingException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            return false;
        }

How to open an existing project in Eclipse?

If you are trying to import non maven project into eclipse follow the below steps, it worked for me.

first clone project into your machine and follow the below steps to import in eclipse.

Project Explorer -> import -> Git -> Projects from git -> Existing Local repository -> Add -> select project root directory -> (check box) import as general project -> next -> finish

Thanks.

Cannot find JavaScriptSerializer in .Net 4.0

You have to add the reference to the project.

In Assemblies, there is a System.Web.Extensions Add that.

Once that is done put:

    using System.Web;
    using System.Web.Script;
    using System.Web.Script.Serialization;

That worked for me.

Select data from date range between two dates

This query will help you:

select * 
from XXXX
where datepart(YYYY,create_date)>=2013 
and DATEPART(YYYY,create_date)<=2014

href="tel:" and mobile numbers

As an additional note, you may also add markup language for pausing or waiting, I learned this from the iPhone iOS which allows numbers to be stored with extension numbers in the same line. A semi-colon establishes a wait, which will show as a next step upon calling the number. This helps to simplify the workflow of calling numbers with extensions in their board. You press the button shown on the bottom left of the iPhone screen when prompted, and the iPhone will dial it automatically.

<a href="tel:+50225079227;1">Call Now</a>

The pause is entered with a comma ",", allowing a short pause of time for each comma. Once the time has passed, the number after the comma will be dialed automatically

<a href="tel:+50225079227,1">Call Now, you will be automaticlaly transferred</a>

Why use @Scripts.Render("~/bundles/jquery")

Bundling is all about compressing several JavaScript or stylesheets files without any formatting (also referred as minified) into a single file for saving bandwith and number of requests to load a page.

As example you could create your own bundle:

bundles.Add(New ScriptBundle("~/bundles/mybundle").Include(
            "~/Resources/Core/Javascripts/jquery-1.7.1.min.js",
            "~/Resources/Core/Javascripts/jquery-ui-1.8.16.min.js",
            "~/Resources/Core/Javascripts/jquery.validate.min.js",
            "~/Resources/Core/Javascripts/jquery.validate.unobtrusive.min.js",
            "~/Resources/Core/Javascripts/jquery.unobtrusive-ajax.min.js",
            "~/Resources/Core/Javascripts/jquery-ui-timepicker-addon.js"))

And render it like this:

@Scripts.Render("~/bundles/mybundle")

One more advantage of @Scripts.Render("~/bundles/mybundle") over the native <script src="~/bundles/mybundle" /> is that @Scripts.Render() will respect the web.config debug setting:

  <system.web>
    <compilation debug="true|false" />

If debug="true" then it will instead render individual script tags for each source script, without any minification.

For stylesheets you will have to use a StyleBundle and @Styles.Render().

Instead of loading each script or style with a single request (with script or link tags), all files are compressed into a single JavaScript or stylesheet file and loaded together.

session handling in jquery

In my opinion you should not load and use plugins you don't have to. This particular jQuery plugin doesn't give you anything since directly using the JavaScript sessionStorage object is exactly the same level of complexity. Nor, does the plugin provide some easier way to interact with other jQuery functionality. In addition the practice of using a plugin discourages a deep understanding of how something works. sessionStorage should be used only if its understood. If its understood, then using the jQuery plugin is actually MORE effort.

Consider using sessionStorage directly: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/API/DOM/Storage#sessionStorage

Getting list of files in documents folder

A shorter syntax for SWIFT 3

func listFilesFromDocumentsFolder() -> [String]?
{
    let fileMngr = FileManager.default;

    // Full path to documents directory
    let docs = fileMngr.urls(for: .documentDirectory, in: .userDomainMask)[0].path

    // List all contents of directory and return as [String] OR nil if failed
    return try? fileMngr.contentsOfDirectory(atPath:docs)
}

Usage example:

override func viewDidLoad()
{
    print(listFilesFromDocumentsFolder())
}

Tested on xCode 8.2.3 for iPhone 7 with iOS 10.2 & iPad with iOS 9.3

BigDecimal to string

To archive the necessary result with double constructor you need to round the BigDecimal before convert it to String e.g.

new java.math.BigDecimal(10.0001).round(new java.math.MathContext(6, java.math.RoundingMode.HALF_UP)).toString()

will print the "10.0001"

Ways to iterate over a list in Java

In java 8 you can use List.forEach() method with lambda expression to iterate over a list.

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class TestA {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
        list.add("Apple");
        list.add("Orange");
        list.add("Banana");
        list.forEach(
                (name) -> {
                    System.out.println(name);
                }
        );
    }
}

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP:

include your Member Class to your jsp :

<%@ page import="pageNumber.*, java.util.*, java.io.*,yourMemberPackage.Member" %>

SQL: How to get the count of each distinct value in a column?

SELECT
  category,
  COUNT(*) AS `num`
FROM
  posts
GROUP BY
  category

How to completely remove borders from HTML table

For me I needed to do something like this to completely remove the borders from the table and all cells. This does not require modifying the HTML at all, which was helpful in my case.

table, tr, td {
    border: none;
}

How to test for $null array in PowerShell

You can reorder the operands:

$null -eq $foo

Note that -eq in PowerShell is not an equivalence relation.

Moving matplotlib legend outside of the axis makes it cutoff by the figure box

Here is another, very manual solution. You can define the size of the axis and paddings are considered accordingly (including legend and tickmarks). Hope it is of use to somebody.

Example (axes size are the same!):

enter image description here

Code:

#==================================================
# Plot table

colmap = [(0,0,1) #blue
         ,(1,0,0) #red
         ,(0,1,0) #green
         ,(1,1,0) #yellow
         ,(1,0,1) #magenta
         ,(1,0.5,0.5) #pink
         ,(0.5,0.5,0.5) #gray
         ,(0.5,0,0) #brown
         ,(1,0.5,0) #orange
         ]


import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

import collections
df = collections.OrderedDict()
df['labels']        = ['GWP100a\n[kgCO2eq]\n\nasedf\nasdf\nadfs','human\n[pts]','ressource\n[pts]'] 
df['all-petroleum long name'] = [3,5,2]
df['all-electric']  = [5.5, 1, 3]
df['HEV']           = [3.5, 2, 1]
df['PHEV']          = [3.5, 2, 1]

numLabels = len(df.values()[0])
numItems = len(df)-1
posX = np.arange(numLabels)+1
width = 1.0/(numItems+1)

fig = plt.figure(figsize=(2,2))
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
for iiItem in range(1,numItems+1):
  ax.bar(posX+(iiItem-1)*width, df.values()[iiItem], width, color=colmap[iiItem-1], label=df.keys()[iiItem])
ax.set(xticks=posX+width*(0.5*numItems), xticklabels=df['labels'])

#--------------------------------------------------
# Change padding and margins, insert legend

fig.tight_layout() #tight margins
leg = ax.legend(loc='upper left', bbox_to_anchor=(1.02, 1), borderaxespad=0)
plt.draw() #to know size of legend

padLeft   = ax.get_position().x0 * fig.get_size_inches()[0]
padBottom = ax.get_position().y0 * fig.get_size_inches()[1]
padTop    = ( 1 - ax.get_position().y0 - ax.get_position().height ) * fig.get_size_inches()[1]
padRight  = ( 1 - ax.get_position().x0 - ax.get_position().width ) * fig.get_size_inches()[0]
dpi       = fig.get_dpi()
padLegend = ax.get_legend().get_frame().get_width() / dpi 

widthAx = 3 #inches
heightAx = 3 #inches
widthTot = widthAx+padLeft+padRight+padLegend
heightTot = heightAx+padTop+padBottom

# resize ipython window (optional)
posScreenX = 1366/2-10 #pixel
posScreenY = 0 #pixel
canvasPadding = 6 #pixel
canvasBottom = 40 #pixel
ipythonWindowSize = '{0}x{1}+{2}+{3}'.format(int(round(widthTot*dpi))+2*canvasPadding
                                            ,int(round(heightTot*dpi))+2*canvasPadding+canvasBottom
                                            ,posScreenX,posScreenY)
fig.canvas._tkcanvas.master.geometry(ipythonWindowSize) 
plt.draw() #to resize ipython window. Has to be done BEFORE figure resizing!

# set figure size and ax position
fig.set_size_inches(widthTot,heightTot)
ax.set_position([padLeft/widthTot, padBottom/heightTot, widthAx/widthTot, heightAx/heightTot])
plt.draw()
plt.show()
#--------------------------------------------------
#==================================================

Send string to stdin

cat | /my/bash/script

Enables one to type multiple lines into a program, without that input being saved in history, nor visible in ps. Just press Ctrl + C when finished typing to end cat.

Adding default parameter value with type hint in Python

If you're using typing (introduced in Python 3.5) you can use typing.Optional, where Optional[X] is equivalent to Union[X, None]. It is used to signal that the explicit value of None is allowed . From typing.Optional:

def foo(arg: Optional[int] = None) -> None:
    ...

JavaScript string encryption and decryption?

CryptoJS is no longer supported. If you want to continue using it, you may switch to this url:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/crypto-js/3.1.2/rollups/aes.js"></script>

Event handlers for Twitter Bootstrap dropdowns?

Twitter bootstrap is meant to give a baseline functionality, and provides only basic javascript plugins that do something on screen. Any additional content or functionality, you'll have to do yourself.

<div class="btn-group">
  <button class="btn dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">Action <span class="caret"></span></button>
  <ul class="dropdown-menu">
    <li><a href="#" id="action-1">Action</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" id="action-2">Another action</a></li>
    <li><a href="#" id="action-3">Something else here</a></li>
  </ul>
</div><!-- /btn-group -->

and then with jQuery

jQuery("#action-1").click(function(e){
//do something
e.preventDefault();
});

SVN Commit failed, access forbidden

Actually, I had this problem same as you. My windows is server 2008 and my subversion info is :

TortoiseSVN 1.7.6, Build 22632 - 64 Bit , 2012/03/08 18:29:39 Subversion 1.7.4, apr 1.4.5 apr-utils 1.3.12 neon 0.29.6 OpenSSL 1.0.0g 18 Jan 2012 zlib 1.2.5

I used this way and I solved this problem. I used [group] option. this option makes problem. I rewrite authz file contents. I remove group option. and I set one by one. I use well.

Thanks for reading.

How to find an available port?

The Eclipse SDK contains a class SocketUtil, that does what you want. You may have a look into the git source code.

How to convert string to Date in Angular2 \ Typescript?

You can use date filter to convert in date and display in specific format.

In .ts file (typescript):

let dateString = '1968-11-16T00:00:00' 
let newDate = new Date(dateString);

In HTML:

{{dateString |  date:'MM/dd/yyyy'}}

Below are some formats which you can implement :

Backend:

public todayDate = new Date();

HTML :

<select>
<option value=""></option>
<option value="MM/dd/yyyy">[{{todayDate | date:'MM/dd/yyyy'}}]</option>
<option value="EEEE, MMMM d, yyyy">[{{todayDate | date:'EEEE, MMMM d, yyyy'}}]</option>
<option value="EEEE, MMMM d, yyyy h:mm a">[{{todayDate | date:'EEEE, MMMM d, yyyy h:mm a'}}]</option>
<option value="EEEE, MMMM d, yyyy h:mm:ss a">[{{todayDate | date:'EEEE, MMMM d, yyyy h:mm:ss a'}}]</option>
<option value="MM/dd/yyyy h:mm a">[{{todayDate | date:'MM/dd/yyyy h:mm a'}}]</option>
<option value="MM/dd/yyyy h:mm:ss a">[{{todayDate | date:'MM/dd/yyyy h:mm:ss a'}}]</option>
<option value="MMMM d">[{{todayDate | date:'MMMM d'}}]</option>   
<option value="yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss">[{{todayDate | date:'yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss'}}]</option>
<option value="h:mm a">[{{todayDate | date:'h:mm a'}}]</option>
<option value="h:mm:ss a">[{{todayDate | date:'h:mm:ss a'}}]</option>      
<option value="EEEE, MMMM d, yyyy hh:mm:ss a">[{{todayDate | date:'EEEE, MMMM d, yyyy hh:mm:ss a'}}]</option>
<option value="MMMM yyyy">[{{todayDate | date:'MMMM yyyy'}}]</option> 
</select>

How to validate an email address using a regular expression?

Nice, I converted the code into java to match the compiler

String pattern ="(?:[a-zA-Z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\\.[a-zA-Z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*|\"(?:[\\x01-\\x08\\x0b\\x0c\\x0e-\\x1f\\x21\\x23-\\x5b\\x5d-\\x7f]|\\\\[\\x01-\\x09\\x0b\\x0c\\x0e-\\x7f])*\")@(?:(?:[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]*[a-zA-Z0-9])?\\.)+[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]*[a-zA-Z0-9])?|\\[(?:(?:(2(5[0-5]|[0-4][0-9])|1[0-9][0-9]|[1-9]?[0-9]))\\.){3}(?:(2(5[0-5]|[0-4][0-9])|1[0-9][0-9]|[1-9]?[0-9])|[a-zA-Z0-9-]*[a-zA-Z0-9]:(?:[\\x01-\\x08\\x0b\\x0c\\x0e-\\x1f\\x21-\\x5a\\x53-\\x7f]|\\\\[\\x01-\\x09\\x0b\\x0c\\x0e-\\x7f])+)\\])";

python pandas dataframe to dictionary

If you set the the index than the dictionary will result in unique key value pairs

encoder=LabelEncoder()
df['airline_enc']=encoder.fit_transform(df['airline'])
dictAirline= df[['airline_enc','airline']].set_index('airline_enc').to_dict()

import module from string variable

I developed these 3 useful functions:

def loadModule(moduleName):
    module = None
    try:
        import sys
        del sys.modules[moduleName]
    except BaseException as err:
        pass
    try:
        import importlib
        module = importlib.import_module(moduleName)
    except BaseException as err:
        serr = str(err)
        print("Error to load the module '" + moduleName + "': " + serr)
    return module

def reloadModule(moduleName):
    module = loadModule(moduleName)
    moduleName, modulePath = str(module).replace("' from '", "||").replace("<module '", '').replace("'>", '').split("||")
    if (modulePath.endswith(".pyc")):
        import os
        os.remove(modulePath)
        module = loadModule(moduleName)
    return module

def getInstance(moduleName, param1, param2, param3):
    module = reloadModule(moduleName)
    instance = eval("module." + moduleName + "(param1, param2, param3)")
    return instance

And everytime I want to reload a new instance I just have to call getInstance() like this:

myInstance = getInstance("MyModule", myParam1, myParam2, myParam3)

Finally I can call all the functions inside the new Instance:

myInstance.aFunction()

The only specificity here is to customize the params list (param1, param2, param3) of your instance.

JQuery window scrolling event?

Check if the user has scrolled past the header ad, then display the footer ad.

if($(your header ad).position().top < 0) { $(your footer ad).show() }

Am I correct at what you are looking for?

Read and parse a Json File in C#

string jsonFilePath = @"C:\MyFolder\myFile.json";
            
string json = File.ReadAllText(jsonFilePath);
Dictionary<string, object> json_Dictionary = (new JavaScriptSerializer()).Deserialize<Dictionary<string, object>>(json);

foreach (var item in json_Dictionary)
{
    // parse here
}

What is the difference between hg forget and hg remove?

The best way to put is that hg forget is identical to hg remove except that it leaves the files behind in your working copy. The files are left behind as untracked files and can now optionally be ignored with a pattern in .hgignore.

In other words, I cannot tell if you used hg forget or hg remove when I pull from you. A file that you ran hg forget on will be deleted when I update to that changeset — just as if you had used hg remove instead.

Is it good practice to make the constructor throw an exception?

I am not for throwing Exceptions in the constructor since I am considering this as non-clean. There are several reasons for my opinion.

  1. As Richard mentioned you cannot initialize an instance in an easy manner. Especially in tests it is really annoying to build a test-wide object only by surrounding it in a try-catch during initialization.

  2. Constructors should be logic-free. There is no reason at all to encapsulate logic in a constructor, since you are always aiming for the Separation of Concerns and Single Responsibility Principle. Since the concern of the constructor is to "construct an object" it should not encapsulate any exception handling if following this approach.

  3. It smells like bad design. Imho if I am forced to do exception handling in the constructor I am at first asking myself if I have any design frauds in my class. It is necessary sometimes, but then I outsource this to a builder or factory to keep the constructor as simple as possible.

So if it is necessary to do some exception handling in the constructor, why would you not outsource this logic to a Builder of Factory? It might be a few more lines of code but gives you the freedom to implement a far more robust and well suited exception handling since you can outsource the logic for the exception handling even more and are not sticked to the constructor, which will encapsulate too much logic. And the client does not need to know anything about your constructing logic if you delegate the exception handling properly.

Increment a database field by 1

I not expert in MySQL but you probably should look on triggers e.g. BEFORE INSERT. In the trigger you can run select query on your original table and if it found something just update the row 'logins' instead of inserting new values. But all this depends on version of MySQL you running.

How to find whether or not a variable is empty in Bash?

To check if variable v is not set

if [ "$v" == "" ]; then
   echo "v not set"
fi

WooCommerce: Finding the products in database

Update 2020

Products are located mainly in the following tables:

  • wp_posts table with post_type like product (or product_variation),

  • wp_postmeta table with post_id as relational index (the product ID).

  • wp_wc_product_meta_lookup table with product_id as relational index (the post ID) | Allow fast queries on specific product data (since WooCommerce 3.7)

  • wp_wc_order_product_lookuptable with product_id as relational index (the post ID) | Allow fast queries to retrieve products on orders (since WooCommerce 3.7)

Product types, categories, subcategories, tags, attributes and all other custom taxonomies are located in the following tables:

  • wp_terms

  • wp_termmeta

  • wp_term_taxonomy

  • wp_term_relationships - column object_id as relational index (the product ID)

  • wp_woocommerce_termmeta

  • wp_woocommerce_attribute_taxonomies (for product attributes only)

  • wp_wc_category_lookup (for product categories hierarchy only since WooCommerce 3.7)


Product types are handled by custom taxonomy product_type with the following default terms:

  • simple
  • grouped
  • variable
  • external

Some other product types for Subscriptions and Bookings plugins:

  • subscription
  • variable-subscription
  • booking

Since Woocommerce 3+ a new custom taxonomy named product_visibility handle:

  • The product visibility with the terms exclude-from-search and exclude-from-catalog
  • The feature products with the term featured
  • The stock status with the term outofstock
  • The rating system with terms from rated-1 to rated-5

Particular feature: Each product attribute is a custom taxonomy…


References:

UIView background color in Swift

You can use this extension as an alternative if you're dealing with RGB value.

extension UIColor {
    static func rgb(red: CGFloat, green: CGFloat, blue: CGFloat) -> UIColor {
        return UIColor(red: red/255, green: green/255, blue: blue/255, alpha: 1)
      }
    }

What does getActivity() mean?

I to had a similar doubt what I got to know was getActivity() returns the Activity to which the fragment is associated.

The getActivity() method is used generally in static fragment as the associated activity will not be static and non static member cannot be used in static member.

I used <code>getActivity()</code> here to get non-static activity to which the the placeholder fragment is associated.

How to submit http form using C#

Here is a sample script that I recently used in a Gateway POST transaction that receives a GET response. Are you using this in a custom C# form? Whatever your purpose, just replace the String fields (username, password, etc.) with the parameters from your form.

private String readHtmlPage(string url)
   {

    //setup some variables

    String username  = "demo";
    String password  = "password";
    String firstname = "John";
    String lastname  = "Smith";

    //setup some variables end

      String result = "";
      String strPost = "username="+username+"&password="+password+"&firstname="+firstname+"&lastname="+lastname;
      StreamWriter myWriter = null;

      HttpWebRequest objRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
      objRequest.Method = "POST";
      objRequest.ContentLength = strPost.Length;
      objRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";

      try
      {
         myWriter = new StreamWriter(objRequest.GetRequestStream());
         myWriter.Write(strPost);
      }
      catch (Exception e) 
      {
         return e.Message;
      }
      finally {
         myWriter.Close();
      }

      HttpWebResponse objResponse = (HttpWebResponse)objRequest.GetResponse();
      using (StreamReader sr = 
         new StreamReader(objResponse.GetResponseStream()) )
      {
         result = sr.ReadToEnd();

         // Close and clean up the StreamReader
         sr.Close();
      }
      return result;
   } 

HTML Form Redirect After Submit

Try this Javascript (jquery) code. Its an ajax request to an external URL. Use the callback function to fire any code:

<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
  $('form').submit(function(){
    $.post('http://example.com/upload', function() {
      window.location = 'http://google.com';
    });
    return false;
  });
});
</script>

Why my $.ajax showing "preflight is invalid redirect error"?

I received the same error when I tried to call https web service as http webservice.

e.g when I call url 'http://api.example.com/users/get'
which should be 'https://api.example.com/users/get'

This error is produced because of redirection status 302 when you try to call http instead of https.

How to replace all special character into a string using C#

Yes, you can use regular expressions in C#.

Using regular expressions with C#:

using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

string your_String = "Hello@Hello&Hello(Hello)";
string my_String =  Regex.Replace(your_String, @"[^0-9a-zA-Z]+", ",");

Why aren't programs written in Assembly more often?

As others mentioned before, the reason for any tool to exist is how efficiently it can work. As HLLs can accomplish the same jobs as many lines of asm code I guess it's natural for assembly to be superseded by other languages. And for the close-to-hardware fiddling - there's inline assembly in C and other variants as per language. Dr. Paul Carter in says in the PC Assembly Language

"...a better understanding of how computers really work at a lower level than in programming languages like Pascal. By gaining a deeper understanding of how computers work, the reader can often be much more productive developing software in higher level languages such as C and C++. Learning to program in assembly language is an excellent way to achieve this goal."

We've got introduction to assembly in my college courses. It'll help to clear concepts. However I doubt any of us would write 90% of code in assembly. How relevant is in-depth assembly knowledge today?

How to split a dataframe string column into two columns?

TL;DR version:

For the simple case of:

  • I have a text column with a delimiter and I want two columns

The simplest solution is:

df[['A', 'B']] = df['AB'].str.split(' ', 1, expand=True)

You must use expand=True if your strings have a non-uniform number of splits and you want None to replace the missing values.

Notice how, in either case, the .tolist() method is not necessary. Neither is zip().

In detail:

Andy Hayden's solution is most excellent in demonstrating the power of the str.extract() method.

But for a simple split over a known separator (like, splitting by dashes, or splitting by whitespace), the .str.split() method is enough1. It operates on a column (Series) of strings, and returns a column (Series) of lists:

>>> import pandas as pd
>>> df = pd.DataFrame({'AB': ['A1-B1', 'A2-B2']})
>>> df

      AB
0  A1-B1
1  A2-B2
>>> df['AB_split'] = df['AB'].str.split('-')
>>> df

      AB  AB_split
0  A1-B1  [A1, B1]
1  A2-B2  [A2, B2]

1: If you're unsure what the first two parameters of .str.split() do, I recommend the docs for the plain Python version of the method.

But how do you go from:

  • a column containing two-element lists

to:

  • two columns, each containing the respective element of the lists?

Well, we need to take a closer look at the .str attribute of a column.

It's a magical object that is used to collect methods that treat each element in a column as a string, and then apply the respective method in each element as efficient as possible:

>>> upper_lower_df = pd.DataFrame({"U": ["A", "B", "C"]})
>>> upper_lower_df

   U
0  A
1  B
2  C
>>> upper_lower_df["L"] = upper_lower_df["U"].str.lower()
>>> upper_lower_df

   U  L
0  A  a
1  B  b
2  C  c

But it also has an "indexing" interface for getting each element of a string by its index:

>>> df['AB'].str[0]

0    A
1    A
Name: AB, dtype: object

>>> df['AB'].str[1]

0    1
1    2
Name: AB, dtype: object

Of course, this indexing interface of .str doesn't really care if each element it's indexing is actually a string, as long as it can be indexed, so:

>>> df['AB'].str.split('-', 1).str[0]

0    A1
1    A2
Name: AB, dtype: object

>>> df['AB'].str.split('-', 1).str[1]

0    B1
1    B2
Name: AB, dtype: object

Then, it's a simple matter of taking advantage of the Python tuple unpacking of iterables to do

>>> df['A'], df['B'] = df['AB'].str.split('-', 1).str
>>> df

      AB  AB_split   A   B
0  A1-B1  [A1, B1]  A1  B1
1  A2-B2  [A2, B2]  A2  B2

Of course, getting a DataFrame out of splitting a column of strings is so useful that the .str.split() method can do it for you with the expand=True parameter:

>>> df['AB'].str.split('-', 1, expand=True)

    0   1
0  A1  B1
1  A2  B2

So, another way of accomplishing what we wanted is to do:

>>> df = df[['AB']]
>>> df

      AB
0  A1-B1
1  A2-B2

>>> df.join(df['AB'].str.split('-', 1, expand=True).rename(columns={0:'A', 1:'B'}))

      AB   A   B
0  A1-B1  A1  B1
1  A2-B2  A2  B2

The expand=True version, although longer, has a distinct advantage over the tuple unpacking method. Tuple unpacking doesn't deal well with splits of different lengths:

>>> df = pd.DataFrame({'AB': ['A1-B1', 'A2-B2', 'A3-B3-C3']})
>>> df
         AB
0     A1-B1
1     A2-B2
2  A3-B3-C3
>>> df['A'], df['B'], df['C'] = df['AB'].str.split('-')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  [...]    
ValueError: Length of values does not match length of index
>>> 

But expand=True handles it nicely by placing None in the columns for which there aren't enough "splits":

>>> df.join(
...     df['AB'].str.split('-', expand=True).rename(
...         columns={0:'A', 1:'B', 2:'C'}
...     )
... )
         AB   A   B     C
0     A1-B1  A1  B1  None
1     A2-B2  A2  B2  None
2  A3-B3-C3  A3  B3    C3

What should a JSON service return on failure / error

If the user supplies invalid data, it should definitely be a 400 Bad Request (The request contains bad syntax or cannot be fulfilled.)

Best way to select random rows PostgreSQL

I know I'm a little late to the party, but I just found this awesome tool called pg_sample:

pg_sample - extract a small, sample dataset from a larger PostgreSQL database while maintaining referential integrity.

I tried this with a 350M rows database and it was really fast, don't know about the randomness.

./pg_sample --limit="small_table = *" --limit="large_table = 100000" -U postgres source_db | psql -U postgres target_db

JavaFX - create custom button with image

A combination of previous 2 answers did the trick. Thanks. A new class which inherits from Button. Note: updateImages() should be called before showing the button.

import javafx.event.EventHandler;
import javafx.scene.control.Button;
import javafx.scene.image.Image;
import javafx.scene.image.ImageView;
import javafx.scene.input.MouseEvent;

public class ImageButton extends Button {

    public void updateImages(final Image selected, final Image unselected) {
        final ImageView iv = new ImageView(selected);
        this.getChildren().add(iv);

        iv.setOnMousePressed(new EventHandler<MouseEvent>() {
            public void handle(MouseEvent evt) {
                iv.setImage(unselected);
            }
        });
        iv.setOnMouseReleased(new EventHandler<MouseEvent>() {
            public void handle(MouseEvent evt) {
                iv.setImage(selected);
            }
        });

        super.setGraphic(iv);
    }
}

Handling warning for possible multiple enumeration of IEnumerable

Using IReadOnlyCollection<T> or IReadOnlyList<T> in the method signature instead of IEnumerable<T>, has the advantage of making explicit that you might need to check the count before iterating, or to iterate multiple times for some other reason.

However they have a huge downside that will cause problems if you try to refactor your code to use interfaces, for instance to make it more testable and friendly to dynamic proxying. The key point is that IList<T> does not inherit from IReadOnlyList<T>, and similarly for other collections and their respective read-only interfaces. (In short, this is because .NET 4.5 wanted to keep ABI compatibility with earlier versions. But they didn't even take the opportunity to change that in .NET core.)

This means that if you get an IList<T> from some part of the program and want to pass it to another part that expects an IReadOnlyList<T>, you can't! You can however pass an IList<T> as an IEnumerable<T>.

In the end, IEnumerable<T> is the only read-only interface supported by all .NET collections including all collection interfaces. Any other alternative will come back to bite you as you realize that you locked yourself out from some architecture choices. So I think it's the proper type to use in function signatures to express that you just want a read-only collection.

(Note that you can always write a IReadOnlyList<T> ToReadOnly<T>(this IList<T> list) extension method that simple casts if the underlying type supports both interfaces, but you have to add it manually everywhere when refactoring, where as IEnumerable<T> is always compatible.)

As always this is not an absolute, if you're writing database-heavy code where accidental multiple enumeration would be a disaster, you might prefer a different trade-off.

Using a batch to copy from network drive to C: or D: drive

Most importantly you need to mount the drive

net use z: \\yourserver\sharename

Of course, you need to make sure that the account the batch file runs under has permission to access the share. If you are doing this by using a Scheduled Task, you can choose the account by selecting the task, then:

  • right click Properties
  • click on General tab
  • change account under

"When running the task, use the following user account:" That's on Windows 7, it might be slightly different on different versions of Windows.

Then run your batch script with the following changes

copy "z:\FolderName" "C:\TEST_BACKUP_FOLDER"

Update data on a page without refreshing

Suppose you want to display some live feed content (say livefeed.txt) on you web page without any page refresh then the following simplified example is for you.

In the below html file, the live data gets updated on the div element of id "liveData"

index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Live Update</title>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <script type="text/javascript" src="autoUpdate.js"></script>
</head>
<div id="liveData">
    <p>Loading Data...</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Below autoUpdate.js reads the live data using XMLHttpRequest object and updates the html div element on every 1 second. I have given comments on most part of the code for better understanding.

autoUpdate.js

window.addEventListener('load', function()
{
    var xhr = null;

    getXmlHttpRequestObject = function()
    {
        if(!xhr)
        {               
            // Create a new XMLHttpRequest object 
            xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
        }
        return xhr;
    };

    updateLiveData = function()
    {
        var now = new Date();
        // Date string is appended as a query with live data 
        // for not to use the cached version 
        var url = 'livefeed.txt?' + now.getTime();
        xhr = getXmlHttpRequestObject();
        xhr.onreadystatechange = evenHandler;
        // asynchronous requests
        xhr.open("GET", url, true);
        // Send the request over the network
        xhr.send(null);
    };

    updateLiveData();

    function evenHandler()
    {
        // Check response is ready or not
        if(xhr.readyState == 4 && xhr.status == 200)
        {
            dataDiv = document.getElementById('liveData');
            // Set current data text
            dataDiv.innerHTML = xhr.responseText;
            // Update the live data every 1 sec
            setTimeout(updateLiveData(), 1000);
        }
    }
});

For testing purpose: Just write some thing in the livefeed.txt - You will get updated the same in index.html without any refresh.

livefeed.txt

Hello
World
blah..
blah..

Note: You need to run the above code on the web server (ex: http://localhost:1234/index.html) not as a client html file (ex: file:///C:/index.html).

Socket transport "ssl" in PHP not enabled

I am using XAMPP and came across the same error. I had done all those steps, added environmental variables path, copied the dll's every directory possible, to /php, /apache/bin, /system32, /syswow64, etc.. but still got this error.

Then after checking the apache error log, I noticed the issue with using brackets in path.

PHP: syntax error, unexpected '(' in C:\Program Files (other)\xampp\php\php.ini on line 707 0 server certificate does NOT include an ID which matches the server name

If you have installed the server in "Program Files (x86)" directory, the same error might occur due to the non-escaped brackets.

To fix this, open php.ini file and locate the line containing "include_path" and enclose the path with double quotes to fix this error.

include_path="C:\Program Files (other)\xampp\php\PEAR"

Spark java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

Setting these exact configurations helped resolving the issue.

spark-submit --conf spark.yarn.maxAppAttempts=2 --executor-memory 10g --num-executors 50 --driver-memory 12g

How can I make a TextBox be a "password box" and display stars when using MVVM?

You can make your TextBox as customed PasswordBox by simply adding the following value to FontFamily property of your TextBox control.

<TextBox
    Text="{Binding Password}"
    FontFamily="ms-appx:///Assets/PassDot.ttf#PassDot"
    FontSize="35"/>

In my case this works perfectly. This will show dot in place of the actual text (not star(*) though).

How to use Python to execute a cURL command?

Some background: I went looking for exactly this question because I had to do something to retrieve content, but all I had available was an old version of python with inadequate SSL support. If you're on an older MacBook, you know what I'm talking about. In any case, curl runs fine from a shell (I suspect it has modern SSL support linked in) so sometimes you want to do this without using requests or urllib2.

You can use the subprocess module to execute curl and get at the retrieved content:

import subprocess

// 'response' contains a []byte with the retrieved content.
// use '-s' to keep curl quiet while it does its job, but
// it's useful to omit that while you're still writing code
// so you know if curl is working
response = subprocess.check_output(['curl', '-s', baseURL % page_num])

Python 3's subprocess module also contains .run() with a number of useful options. I'll leave it to someone who is actually running python 3 to provide that answer.

CSS filter: make color image with transparency white

To my knowledge, there is sadly no CSS filter to colorise an element (perhaps with the use of some SVG filter magic, but I'm somewhat unfamiliar with that) and even if that wasn't the case, filters are basically only supported by webkit browsers.

With that said, you could still work around this and use a canvas to modify your image. Basically, you can draw an image element onto a canvas and then loop through the pixels, modifying the respective RGBA values to the colour you want.

However, canvases do come with some restrictions. Most importantly, you have to make sure that the image src comes from the same domain as the page. Otherwise the browser won't allow you to read or modify the pixel data of the canvas.

Here's a JSFiddle changing the colour of the JSFiddle logo.

_x000D_
_x000D_
//Base64 source, but any local source will work_x000D_
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Check if string ends with one of the strings from a list

Another possibility could be to make use of IN statement:

extensions = ['.mp3','.avi']
file_name  = 'test.mp3'
if "." in file_name and file_name[file_name.rindex("."):] in extensions:
    print(True)

With CSS, use "..." for overflowed block of multi-lines

Here's a recent css-tricks article which discusses this.

Some of the solutions in the above article (which are not mentioned here) are

1) -webkit-line-clamp and 2) Place an absolutely positioned element to the bottom right with fade out

Both methods assume the following markup:

<div class="module"> /* Add line-clamp/fade class here*/
  <p>Text here</p>
</div>

with css

.module {
  width: 250px;
  overflow: hidden;
}

1) -webkit-line-clamp

line-clamp FIDDLE (..for a maximum of 3 lines)

.line-clamp {
  display: -webkit-box;
  -webkit-line-clamp: 3;
  -webkit-box-orient: vertical;  
  max-height: 3.6em; /* I needed this to get it to work */
}

2) fade out

Let's say you set the line-height to 1.2em. If we want to expose three lines of text, we can just make the height of the container 3.6em (1.2em × 3). The hidden overflow will hide the rest.

Fade out FIDDLE

p
{
    margin:0;padding:0;
}
.module {
  width: 250px;
  overflow: hidden;
  border: 1px solid green;
  margin: 10px;
}

.fade {
  position: relative;
  height: 3.6em; /* exactly three lines */
}
.fade:after {
  content: "";
  text-align: right;
  position: absolute;
  bottom: 0;
  right: 0;
  width: 70%;
  height: 1.2em;
  background: linear-gradient(to right, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0), rgba(255, 255, 255, 1) 50%);
}

Solution #3 - A combination using @supports

We can use @supports to apply webkit's line-clamp on webkit browsers and apply fade out in other browsers.

@supports line-clamp with fade fallback fiddle

<div class="module line-clamp">
  <p>Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Vestibulum tortor quam, feugiat vitae, ultricies eget, tempor sit amet, ante. Donec eu libero sit amet quam egestas semper. Aenean ultricies mi vitae est. Mauris placerat eleifend leo.</p>
</div>

CSS

.module {
  width: 250px;
  overflow: hidden;
  border: 1px solid green;
  margin: 10px;
}

.line-clamp {
      position: relative;
      height: 3.6em; /* exactly three lines */
    }
.line-clamp:after {
      content: "";
      text-align: right;
      position: absolute;
      bottom: 0;
      right: 0;
      width: 70%;
      height: 1.2em;
      background: linear-gradient(to right, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0), rgba(255, 255, 255, 1) 50%);
 }

@supports (-webkit-line-clamp: 3) {
    .line-clamp {
        display: -webkit-box;
        -webkit-line-clamp: 3;
        -webkit-box-orient: vertical;  
        max-height:3.6em; /* I needed this to get it to work */
        height: auto;
    }
    .line-clamp:after {
        display: none;
    }
}

TCP: can two different sockets share a port?

Theoretically, yes. Practice, not. Most kernels (incl. linux) doesn't allow you a second bind() to an already allocated port. It weren't a really big patch to make this allowed.

Conceptionally, we should differentiate between socket and port. Sockets are bidirectional communication endpoints, i.e. "things" where we can send and receive bytes. It is a conceptional thing, there is no such field in a packet header named "socket".

Port is an identifier which is capable to identify a socket. In case of the TCP, a port is a 16 bit integer, but there are other protocols as well (for example, on unix sockets, a "port" is essentially a string).

The main problem is the following: if an incoming packet arrives, the kernel can identify its socket by its destination port number. It is a most common way, but it is not the only possibility:

  • Sockets can be identified by the destination IP of the incoming packets. This is the case, for example, if we have a server using two IPs simultanously. Then we can run, for example, different webservers on the same ports, but on the different IPs.
  • Sockets can be identified by their source port and ip as well. This is the case in many load balancing configurations.

Because you are working on an application server, it will be able to do that.

Setting a JPA timestamp column to be generated by the database?

This also works for me:-

@Temporal(TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)   
@Column(name = "CREATE_DATE_TIME", nullable = false, updatable = false, insertable = false, columnDefinition = "TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP")
public Date getCreateDateTime() {
    return createDateTime;
}

public void setCreateDateTime(Date createDateTime) {
    this.createDateTime = createDateTime;
}

PHP find difference between two datetimes

Sorry my previous answer was wrong. If you are trying to take total elapsed time between time and timeout in the format Y-m-d H:i:s format, take diff between timeout and time in using DateTime object and format it as '%y-%m-%d %H:%i:%s'.

ASP.NET MVC3 Razor - Html.ActionLink style

VB sample:

 @Html.ActionLink("Home", "Index", Nothing, New With {.style = "font-weight:bold;", .class = "someClass"})

Sample Css:

.someClass
{
    color: Green !important;
}

In my case, I found that I need the !important attribute to over ride the site.css a:link css class

Is optimisation level -O3 dangerous in g++?

In my somewhat checkered experience, applying -O3 to an entire program almost always makes it slower (relative to -O2), because it turns on aggressive loop unrolling and inlining that make the program no longer fit in the instruction cache. For larger programs, this can also be true for -O2 relative to -Os!

The intended use pattern for -O3 is, after profiling your program, you manually apply it to a small handful of files containing critical inner loops that actually benefit from these aggressive space-for-speed tradeoffs. Newer versions of GCC have a profile-guided optimization mode that can (IIUC) selectively apply the -O3 optimizations to hot functions -- effectively automating this process.

Remove white space below image

Give the height of the div .youtube-thumb the height of the image. That should set the problem in Firefox browser.

.youtube-thumb{ height: 106px }

Check whether IIS is installed or not?

http://localhost:80 

type above line in your browser you realize IIS installed or not

Truncating all tables in a Postgres database

Could you use dynamic SQL to execute each statement in turn? You would probably have to write a PL/pgSQL script to do this.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/plpgsql-statements.html (section 38.5.4. Executing Dynamic Commands)

Bootstrap 3 offset on right not left

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            <nav class="col-xs-12 col-xs-offset-7" aria-label="Page navigation">_x000D_
                <ul class="pagination mt-0">                   _x000D_
                    <li class="page-item">                        _x000D_
                        <div class="form-group">_x000D_
                            <div class="input-group">_x000D_
                                <input type="text" asp-for="search" class="form-control" placeholder="Search" aria-controls="order-listing" />_x000D_
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                                <div class="input-group-prepend bg-info">_x000D_
                                    <input type="submit" value="Search" class="input-group-text bg-transparent">                                   _x000D_
                                </div>_x000D_
                            </div>_x000D_
                        </div>_x000D_
                    </li>_x000D_
                   _x000D_
                </ul>_x000D_
            </nav>_x000D_
        </div>
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How do I show my global Git configuration?

Since Git 2.26.0, you can use --show-scope option:

git config --list --show-scope

Example output:

system  rebase.autosquash=true
system  credential.helper=helper-selector
global  core.editor='code.cmd' --wait -n
global  merge.tool=kdiff3
local   core.symlinks=false
local   core.ignorecase=true

It can be combined with

  • --local for project config, --global for user config, --system for all users' config
  • --show-origin to show the exact config file location

Using Thymeleaf when the value is null

You can use 'th:if' together with 'th:text'

<span th:if="${someObject.someProperty != null}" th:text="${someObject.someProperty}">someValue</span>

Get img thumbnails from Vimeo?

It seems like api/v2 is dead.
In order to use the new API, you need to register your application, and base64 encode the client_id and client_secret as an Authorization header.

$.ajax({
    type:'GET',
    url: 'https://api.vimeo.com/videos/' + video_id,
    dataType: 'json',
    headers: {
        'Authorization': 'Basic ' + window.btoa(client_id + ":" + client_secret);
    },
    success: function(data) {
        var thumbnail_src = data.pictures.sizes[2].link;
        $('#thumbImg').attr('src', thumbnail_src);
    }
});

For security, you can return the client_id and client_secret already encoded from the server.

Dark Theme for Visual Studio 2010 With Productivity Power Tools

There is a style that I've created based on dark style from VS 2015 to use on my VS 2010. You can download this style from Dark Style from VS 2015.

After download it, just import through menu Tools -> Import and Export Settings...

How do I get 'date-1' formatted as mm-dd-yyyy using PowerShell?

    Windows PowerShell
    Copyright (C) 2014 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

    PS C:\Windows\system32> **$dte = Get-Date**
    PS C:\Windows\system32> **$PastDueDate = $dte.AddDays(-45).Date**
    PS C:\Windows\system32> **$PastDueDate**

    Sunday, March 1, 2020 12:00:00 AM

   PS C:\Windows\system32> **$NewDateFormat = Get-Date $PastDueDate -Format MMddyyyy**
   PS C:\Windows\system32> **$NewDateFormat 03012020**

There're few additional methods available as well e.g.: $dte.AddDays(-45).Day

SQL Server Script to create a new user

You can use:

CREATE LOGIN <login name> WITH PASSWORD = '<password>' ; GO 

To create the login (See here for more details).

Then you may need to use:

CREATE USER user_name 

To create the user associated with the login for the specific database you want to grant them access too.

(See here for details)

You can also use:

GRANT permission  [ ,...n ] ON SCHEMA :: schema_name

To set up the permissions for the schema's that you assigned the users to.

(See here for details)

Two other commands you might find useful are ALTER USER and ALTER LOGIN.

Sequelize.js delete query?

I wrote something like this for Sails a while back, in case it saves you some time:

Example usage:

// Delete the user with id=4
User.findAndDelete(4,function(error,result){
  // all done
});

// Delete all users with type === 'suspended'
User.findAndDelete({
  type: 'suspended'
},function(error,result){
  // all done
});

Source:

/**
 * Retrieve models which match `where`, then delete them
 */
function findAndDelete (where,callback) {

    // Handle *where* argument which is specified as an integer
    if (_.isFinite(+where)) {
        where = {
            id: where
        };
    }

    Model.findAll({
        where:where
    }).success(function(collection) {
        if (collection) {
            if (_.isArray(collection)) {
                Model.deleteAll(collection, callback);
            }
            else {
                collection.destroy().
                success(_.unprefix(callback)).
                error(callback);
            }
        }
        else {
            callback(null,collection);
        }
    }).error(callback);
}

/**
 * Delete all `models` using the query chainer
 */
deleteAll: function (models) {
    var chainer = new Sequelize.Utils.QueryChainer();
    _.each(models,function(m,index) {
        chainer.add(m.destroy());
    });
    return chainer.run();
}

from: orm.js.

Hope that helps!

Importing csv file into R - numeric values read as characters

version for data.table based on code from dmanuge :

convNumValues<-function(ds){
  ds<-data.table(ds)
  dsnum<-data.table(data.matrix(ds))
  num_cols <- sapply(dsnum,function(x){mean(as.numeric(is.na(x)))<0.5})
  nds <- data.table(  dsnum[, .SD, .SDcols=attributes(num_cols)$names[which(num_cols)]]
                        ,ds[, .SD, .SDcols=attributes(num_cols)$names[which(!num_cols)]] )
return(nds)
}

How do I disable the security certificate check in Python requests

If you want to send exactly post request with verify=False option, fastest way is to use this code:

import requests

requests.api.request('post', url, data={'bar':'baz'}, json=None, verify=False)

Android Device not recognized by adb

It may sound silly but in my case the USB cable was too long (even if good quality). It worked with my tablet but not with the phone. To check this, if you run on Linux run lsusb to make sure that your device is at least officially connect to the usb port.

Slide a layout up from bottom of screen

Try this below code, Its very short and simple.

transalate_anim.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!-- Copyright (C) 2013 The Android Open Source Project

     Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
     you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
     You may obtain a copy of the License at

          http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

     Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
     distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
     WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
     See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
     limitations under the License.
-->
<set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <translate
        android:duration="4000"
        android:fromXDelta="0"
        android:fromYDelta="0"
        android:repeatCount="infinite"
        android:toXDelta="0"
        android:toYDelta="-90%p" />

    <alpha xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:duration="4000"
        android:fromAlpha="0.0"
        android:repeatCount="infinite"
        android:toAlpha="1.0" />
</set>

activity_main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context="com.naveen.congratulations.MainActivity">


    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/image_1"
        android:layout_width="50dp"
        android:layout_height="50dp"
        android:layout_marginBottom="8dp"
        android:layout_marginStart="8dp"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
        app:srcCompat="@drawable/balloons" />
</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

MainActivity.java

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        final ImageView imageView1 = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.image_1);
        imageView1.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View view) {
                startBottomToTopAnimation(imageView1);
            }
        });

    }

    private void startBottomToTopAnimation(View view) {
        view.startAnimation(AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this, R.anim.translate_anim));
    }
}

bottom_up_navigation of image

Convert Month Number to Month Name Function in SQL

you can get the date like this. eg:- Users table

id name created_at
1  abc  2017-09-16
2  xyz  2017-06-10

you can get the monthname like this

select year(created_at), monthname(created_at) from users;

output

+-----------+-------------------------------+
| year(created_at) | monthname(created_at)  |
+-----------+-------------------------------+
|      2017        | september              |
|      2017        | june                   |

Implementing multiple interfaces with Java - is there a way to delegate?

There's no pretty way. You might be able to use a proxy with the handler having the target methods and delegating everything else to them. Of course you'll have to use a factory because there'll be no constructor.

Editing the date formatting of x-axis tick labels in matplotlib

While the answer given by Paul H shows the essential part, it is not a complete example. On the other hand the matplotlib example seems rather complicated and does not show how to use days.

So for everyone in need here is a full working example:

from datetime import datetime
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.dates import DateFormatter

myDates = [datetime(2012,1,i+3) for i in range(10)]
myValues = [5,6,4,3,7,8,1,2,5,4]
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot(myDates,myValues)

myFmt = DateFormatter("%d")
ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(myFmt)

## Rotate date labels automatically
fig.autofmt_xdate()
plt.show()

React Checkbox not sending onChange

It's better not to use refs in such cases. Use:

<input
    type="checkbox"
    checked={this.state.active}
    onClick={this.handleClick}
/>

There are some options:

checked vs defaultChecked

The former would respond to both state changes and clicks. The latter would ignore state changes.

onClick vs onChange

The former would always trigger on clicks. The latter would not trigger on clicks if checked attribute is present on input element.

Working with $scope.$emit and $scope.$on

According to the angularjs event docs the receiving end should be containing arguments with a structure like

@params

-- {Object} event being the event object containing info on the event

-- {Object} args that are passed by the callee (Note that this can only be one so better to send in a dictionary object always)

$scope.$on('fooEvent', function (event, args) { console.log(args) }); From your code

Also if you are trying to get a shared piece of information to be available accross different controllers there is an another way to achieve that and that is angular services.Since the services are singletons information can be stored and fetched across controllers.Simply create getter and setter functions in that service, expose these functions, make global variables in the service and use them to store the info

Rails raw SQL example

You can do direct SQL to have a single query for both tables. I'll provide a sanitized query example to hopefully keep people from putting variables directly into the string itself (SQL injection danger), even though this example didn't specify the need for it:

@results = []
ActiveRecord::Base.connection.select_all(
  ActiveRecord::Base.send(:sanitize_sql_array, 
   ["... your SQL query goes here and ?, ?, ? are replaced...;", a, b, c])
).each do |record|
  # instead of an array of hashes, you could put in a custom object with attributes
  @results << {col_a_name: record["col_a_name"], col_b_name: record["col_b_name"], ...}
end

Edit: as Huy said, a simple way is ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute("..."). Another way is ActiveRecord::Base.connection.exec_query('...').rows. And you can use native prepared statements, e.g. if using postgres, prepared statement can be done with raw_connection, prepare, and exec_prepared as described in https://stackoverflow.com/a/13806512/178651

You can also put raw SQL fragments into ActiveRecord relational queries: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_querying.html and in associations, scopes, etc. You could probably construct the same SQL with ActiveRecord relational queries and can do cool things with ARel as Ernie mentions in http://erniemiller.org/2010/03/28/advanced-activerecord-3-queries-with-arel/. And, of course there are other ORMs, gems, etc.

If this is going to be used a lot and adding indices won't cause other performance/resource issues, consider adding an index in the DB for payment_details.created_at and for payment_errors.created_at.

If lots of records and not all records need to show up at once, consider using pagination:

If you need to paginate, consider creating a view in the DB first called payment_records which combines the payment_details and payment_errors tables, then have a model for the view (which will be read-only). Some DBs support materialized views, which might be a good idea for performance.

Also consider hardware or VM specs on Rails server and DB server, config, disk space, network speed/latency/etc., proximity, etc. And consider putting DB on different server/VM than the Rails app if you haven't, etc.

read file from assets

Here is what I do in an activity for buffered reading extend/modify to match your needs

BufferedReader reader = null;
try {
    reader = new BufferedReader(
        new InputStreamReader(getAssets().open("filename.txt")));

    // do reading, usually loop until end of file reading  
    String mLine;
    while ((mLine = reader.readLine()) != null) {
       //process line
       ...
    }
} catch (IOException e) {
    //log the exception
} finally {
    if (reader != null) {
         try {
             reader.close();
         } catch (IOException e) {
             //log the exception
         }
    }
}

EDIT : My answer is perhaps useless if your question is on how to do it outside of an activity. If your question is simply how to read a file from asset then the answer is above.

UPDATE :

To open a file specifying the type simply add the type in the InputStreamReader call as follow.

BufferedReader reader = null;
try {
    reader = new BufferedReader(
        new InputStreamReader(getAssets().open("filename.txt"), "UTF-8")); 

    // do reading, usually loop until end of file reading 
    String mLine;
    while ((mLine = reader.readLine()) != null) {
       //process line
       ...
    }
} catch (IOException e) {
    //log the exception
} finally {
    if (reader != null) {
         try {
             reader.close();
         } catch (IOException e) {
             //log the exception
         }
    }
}

EDIT

As @Stan says in the comment, the code I am giving is not summing up lines. mLine is replaced every pass. That's why I wrote //process line. I assume the file contains some sort of data (i.e a contact list) and each line should be processed separately.

In case you simply want to load the file without any kind of processing you will have to sum up mLine at each pass using StringBuilder() and appending each pass.

ANOTHER EDIT

According to the comment of @Vincent I added the finally block.

Also note that in Java 7 and upper you can use try-with-resources to use the AutoCloseable and Closeable features of recent Java.

CONTEXT

In a comment @LunarWatcher points out that getAssets() is a class in context. So, if you call it outside of an activity you need to refer to it and pass the context instance to the activity.

ContextInstance.getAssets();

This is explained in the answer of @Maneesh. So if this is useful to you upvote his answer because that's him who pointed that out.

Is there an easy way to check the .NET Framework version?

This is the solution I landed on:

private static string GetDotNetVersion()
{
  var v4 = (string)Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(@"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v4\Full", false)?.GetValue("Version");
  if(v4 != null)
    return v4;
  var v35 = (string)Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(@"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v3.5", false)?.GetValue("Version");
  if(v35 != null)
    return v35;
  var v3 = (string)Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(@"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v3.0", false)?.GetValue("Version");
  return v3 ?? "< 3";
}

Unable to find the requested .Net Framework Data Provider. It may not be installed. - when following mvc3 asp.net tutorial

I had the same issue. I checked the version of System.Data.SqlServerCe in C:\Windows\assembly. It was 3.5.1.0. So I installed version 4.0.0 from below link (x86) and works fine.

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=17876

Quick Sort Vs Merge Sort

I personally wanted to test the difference between Quick sort and merge sort myself and saw the running times for a sample of 1,000,000 elements.

Quick sort was able to do it in 156 milliseconds whereas Merge sort did the same in 247 milliseconds

The Quick sort data, however, was random and quick sort performs well if the data is random where as its not the case with merge sort i.e. merge sort performs the same, irrespective of whether data is sorted or not. But merge sort requires one full extra space and quick sort does not as its an in-place sort

I have written comprehensive working program for them will illustrative pictures too.

Javascript ajax call on page onload

This is really easy using a JavaScript library, e.g. using jQuery you could write:

$(document).ready(function(){
$.ajax({ url: "database/update.html",
        context: document.body,
        success: function(){
           alert("done");
        }});
});

Without jQuery, the simplest version might be as follows, but it does not account for browser differences or error handling:

<html>
  <body onload="updateDB();">
  </body>
  <script language="javascript">
    function updateDB() {
      var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
      xhr.open("POST", "database/update.html", true);
      xhr.send(null);
      /* ignore result */
    }
  </script>
</html>

See also:

Java: How to convert List to Map

like already said, in java-8 we have the concise solution by Collectors:

  list.stream().collect(
         groupingBy(Item::getKey)
        )

and also, you can nest multiple group passing an other groupingBy method as second parameter:

  list.stream().collect(
         groupingBy(Item::getKey, groupingBy(Item::getOtherKey))
        )

In this way, we'll have multi level map, like this: Map<key, Map<key, List<Item>>>

How do I do a Date comparison in Javascript?

if (date1.getTime() > date2.getTime()) {
    alert("The first date is after the second date!");
}

Reference to Date object

MySQL root access from all hosts

I'm using AWS LightSail and for my instance to work, I had to change:

bind-address = 127.0.0.1

to

bind-address = <Private IP Assigned by Amazon>

Then I was able to connect remotely.

html5 audio player - jquery toggle click play/pause?

Simply Use

$('audio').trigger('pause');

Create a root password for PHPMyAdmin

I only had to change one line of the file config.inc.php located in C:\wamp\apps\phpmyadmin4.1.14.

Put the right password here ...

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'Put_Password_Here';

What's your most controversial programming opinion?

Logger configs are a waste of time. Why have them if it means learning a new syntax, especially one that fails silently? Don't get me wrong, I love good logging. I love logger inheritance and adding formatters to handlers to loggers. But why do it in a config file?

Do you want to make changes to logging code without recompiling? Why? If you put your logging code in a separate class, file, whatever, what difference will it make?

Do you want to distribute a configurable log with your product to clients? Doesn't this just give too much information anyway?

The most frustrating thing about it is that popular utilities written in a popular language tend to write good APIs in the format that language specifies. Write a Java logging utility and I know you've generated the javadocs, which I know how to navigate. Write a domain specific language for your logger config and what do we have? Maybe there's documentation, but where the heck is it? You decide on a way to organize it, and I'm just not interested in following your line of thought.

How to use vim in the terminal?

Get started quickly

You simply type vim into the terminal to open it and start a new file.

You can pass a filename as an option and it will open that file, e.g. vim main.c. You can open multiple files by passing multiple file arguments.

Vim has different modes, unlike most editors you have probably used. You begin in NORMAL mode, which is where you will spend most of your time once you become familiar with vim.

To return to NORMAL mode after changing to a different mode, press Esc. It's a good idea to map your Caps Lock key to Esc, as it's closer and nobody really uses the Caps Lock key.

The first mode to try is INSERT mode, which is entered with a for append after cursor, or i for insert before cursor.

To enter VISUAL mode, where you can select text, use v. There are many other variants of this mode, which you will discover as you learn more about vim.

To save your file, ensure you're in NORMAL mode and then enter the command :w. When you press :, you will see your command appear in the bottom status bar. To save and exit, use :x. To quit without saving, use :q. If you had made a change you wanted to discard, use :q!.

Configure vim to your liking

You can edit your ~/.vimrc file to configure vim to your liking. It's best to look at a few first (here's mine) and then decide which options suits your style.

This is how mine looks:

vim screenshot

To get the file explorer on the left, use NERDTree. For the status bar, use vim-airline. Finally, the color scheme is solarized.

Further learning

You can use man vim for some help inside the terminal. Alternatively, run vimtutor which is a good hands-on starting point.

It's a good idea to print out a Vim Cheatsheet and keep it in front of you while you're learning vim.

Good luck!

List the queries running on SQL Server

You can use below query to find running last request:

SELECT
    der.session_id
    ,est.TEXT AS QueryText
    ,der.status
    ,der.blocking_session_id
    ,der.cpu_time
    ,der.total_elapsed_time
FROM sys.dm_exec_requests AS der
CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(sql_handle) AS est

Using below script you can also find number of connection per database:

SELECT 
    DB_NAME(DBID) AS DataBaseName
    ,COUNT(DBID) AS NumberOfConnections
    ,LogiName 
FROM sys.sysprocesses
WHERE DBID > 0
GROUP BY DBID, LogiName

For more details please visit: http://www.dbrnd.com/2015/06/script-to-find-running-process-session-logged-user-in-sql-server/

How can I escape a double quote inside double quotes?

Make use of $"string".

In this example, it would be,

dbload=$"load data local infile \"'gfpoint.csv'\" into table $dbtable FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '\"' LINES TERMINATED BY \"'\n'\" IGNORE 1 LINES"

Note(from the man page):

A double-quoted string preceded by a dollar sign ($"string") will cause the string to be translated according to the current locale. If the current locale is C or POSIX, the dollar sign is ignored. If the string is translated and replaced, the replacement is double-quoted.

includes() not working in all browsers

IE11 does implement String.prototype.includes so why not using the official Polyfill?

Source: polyfill source

  if (!String.prototype.includes) {
    String.prototype.includes = function(search, start) {
      if (typeof start !== 'number') {
        start = 0;
      }

      if (start + search.length > this.length) {
        return false;
      } else {
        return this.indexOf(search, start) !== -1;
      }
    };
  }

CSS: Background image and padding

You can use percent values:

background: yellow url("arrow1.gif") no-repeat 95% 50%;

Not pixel perfect, but…

Property 'value' does not exist on type EventTarget in TypeScript

I was looking for a solution to a similar TypeScript error with React:

Property 'dataset' does not exist on type EventTarget in TypeScript

I wanted to get to event.target.dataset of a clicked button element in React:

<button
  onClick={onClickHandler}
  data-index="4"
  data-name="Foo Bar"
>
  Delete Candidate
</button>

Here is how I was able to get the dataset value to "exist" via TypeScript:

const onClickHandler = (event: React.MouseEvent<HTMLButtonElement>) => {
  const { name, index } = (event.target as HTMLButtonElement).dataset
  console.log({ name, index })
  // do stuff with name and index…
}

How to convert a datetime to string in T-SQL

Try below :

DECLARE @myDateTime DATETIME
SET @myDateTime = '2013-02-02'

-- Convert to string now
SELECT LEFT(CONVERT(VARCHAR, @myDateTime, 120), 10)

Where to put a textfile I want to use in eclipse?

MJB

Please try this

  1. In eclipse "Right click" on the text file u wanna use, see and copy the complete path stored in HDD like (if in UNIX "/home/sjaisawal/Space-11.4-template/provisioning/devenv/Test/src/testpath/testfile.txt")

  2. put this complete path and try.

  3. if it works then class-path issue else GOK :)

How to delete from select in MySQL?

SELECT (sub)queries return result sets. So you need to use IN, not = in your WHERE clause.

Additionally, as shown in this answer you cannot modify the same table from a subquery within the same query. However, you can either SELECT then DELETE in separate queries, or nest another subquery and alias the inner subquery result (looks rather hacky, though):

DELETE FROM posts WHERE id IN (
    SELECT * FROM (
        SELECT id FROM posts GROUP BY id HAVING ( COUNT(id) > 1 )
    ) AS p
)

Or use joins as suggested by Mchl.

How to round down to nearest integer in MySQL?

Try this,

SELECT SUBSTR(12345.7344,1,LOCATE('.', 12345.7344) - 1)

or

SELECT FLOOR(12345.7344)

SQLFiddle Demo

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

Enable less secure apps on your gmail account and use (Python>=3.6):

import smtplib
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText

gmailUser = '[email protected]'
gmailPassword = 'XXXXX'
recipient = '[email protected]'

message = f"""
Type your message here...
"""

msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['From'] = f'"Your Name" <{gmailUser}>'
msg['To'] = recipient
msg['Subject'] = "Subject here..."
msg.attach(MIMEText(message))

try:
    mailServer = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
    mailServer.ehlo()
    mailServer.starttls()
    mailServer.ehlo()
    mailServer.login(gmailUser, gmailPassword)
    mailServer.sendmail(gmailUser, recipient, msg.as_string())
    mailServer.close()
    print ('Email sent!')
except:
    print ('Something went wrong...')

Two decimal places using printf( )

Use: "%.2f" or variations on that.

See the POSIX spec for an authoritative specification of the printf() format strings. Note that it separates POSIX extras from the core C99 specification. There are some C++ sites which show up in a Google search, but some at least have a dubious reputation, judging from comments seen elsewhere on SO.

Since you're coding in C++, you should probably be avoiding printf() and its relatives.

Adding an onclick function to go to url in JavaScript?

Simply use this

onclick="location.href='pageurl.html';"

Last element in .each() set

each passes into your function index and element. Check index against the length of the set and you're good to go:

var set = $('.requiredText');
var length = set.length;
set.each(function(index, element) {
      thisVal = $(this).val();
      if(parseInt(thisVal) !== 0) {
          console.log('Valid Field: ' + thisVal);
          if (index === (length - 1)) {
              console.log('Last field, submit form here');
          }
      }
});

Convert js Array() to JSon object for use with JQuery .ajax

There is actuly a difference between array object and JSON object. Instead of creating array object and converting it into a json object(with JSON.stringify(arr)) you can do this:

var sels = //Here is your array of SELECTs
var json = { };

for(var i = 0, l = sels.length; i < l; i++) {
  json[sels[i].id] = sels[i].value;
}

There is no need of converting it into JSON because its already a json object. To view the same use json.toSource();

How to simulate target="_blank" in JavaScript

You can extract the href from the a tag:

window.open(document.getElementById('redirect').href);

How to break line in JavaScript?

alert("I will get back to you soon\nThanks and Regards\nSaurav Kumar");

or %0D%0A in a url

Paritition array into N chunks with Numpy

Try numpy.array_split.

From the documentation:

>>> x = np.arange(8.0)
>>> np.array_split(x, 3)
    [array([ 0.,  1.,  2.]), array([ 3.,  4.,  5.]), array([ 6.,  7.])]

Identical to numpy.split, but won't raise an exception if the groups aren't equal length.

If number of chunks > len(array) you get blank arrays nested inside, to address that - if your split array is saved in a, then you can remove empty arrays by:

[x for x in a if x.size > 0]

Just save that back in a if you wish.

Git removing upstream from local repository

In git version 2.14.3,

You can remove upstream using

git branch --unset-upstream

The above command will also remove the tracking stream branch, hence if you want to rebase from repository you have use

git rebase origin master 

instead of git pull --rebase

How do I make the first letter of a string uppercase in JavaScript?

There are multiple ways of doing this try some below

var lower = 'the Eiffel Tower';
var upper = lower.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + lower.substr(1);

And if you are comfortable with regular expressions, you do things this way:

var upper = lower.replace(/^\w/, function (chr) {
  return chr.toUpperCase();
});

And you can even take it one step further by using more modern syntax:

const upper = lower.replace(/^\w/, c => c.toUpperCase());

Also this will take care of negative scenarios as mentioned in example like words starting with special characters like !@#$%^&*()}{{[];':",.<>/? .

Declaring a variable and setting its value from a SELECT query in Oracle

ORA-01422: exact fetch returns more than requested number of rows

if you don't specify the exact record by using where condition, you will get the above exception

DECLARE
     ID NUMBER;
BEGIN
     select eid into id from employee where salary=26500;
     DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(ID);
END;

Prevent row names to be written to file when using write.csv

write.csv(t, "t.csv", row.names=FALSE)

From ?write.csv:

row.names: either a logical value indicating whether the row names of
          ‘x’ are to be written along with ‘x’, or a character vector
          of row names to be written.

Conversion from List<T> to array T[]

Try using

MyClass[] myArray = list.ToArray();

How to enter a series of numbers automatically in Excel

Enter the formula =ROW() into any cell and that cell will show the row number as its value.

If you want 1001, 1002 etc just enter =1000+ROW()

How do I create a timeline chart which shows multiple events? Eg. Metallica Band members timeline on wiki

As mentioned in the earlier comment, stacked bar chart does the trick, though the data needs to be setup differently.(See image below)

Duration column = End - Start

  1. Once done, plot your stacked bar chart using the entire data.
  2. Mark start and end range to no fill.
  3. Right click on the X Axis and change Axis options manually. (This did cause me some issues, till I realized I couldn't manipulate them to enter dates, :) yeah I am newbie, excel masters! :))

enter image description here

Handling multiple IDs in jQuery

Yes, #id selectors combined with a multiple selector (comma) is perfectly valid in both jQuery and CSS.

However, for your example, since <script> comes before the elements, you need a document.ready handler, so it waits until the elements are in the DOM to go looking for them, like this:

<script>
  $(function() {
    $("#segement1,#segement2,#segement3").hide()
  });
</script>

<div id="segement1"></div>
<div id="segement2"></div>
<div id="segement3"></div>

Override browser form-filling and input highlighting with HTML/CSS

Autocomplete off is not supported by modern browsers. The easiest way to solve autocomplete I found was a little track with HTML and JS. The first thing to do is change the type of the input in HTML from 'password' to 'text'.

<input class="input input-xxl input-watery" type="text" name="password"/>

Autocomplete starts after window loaded. That's OK. But when the type of your field is not 'password', browser didn`t know what fields it must complete. So, there will be no autocomplete on form fields.

After that, bind event focusin to password field, for ex. in Backbone:

'focusin input[name=password]': 'onInputPasswordFocusIn',

In onInputPasswordFocusIn, just change the type of your field to password, by simple check:

if (e.currentTarget.value === '') {
    $(e.currentTarget).attr('type', 'password');
}

That`s it!

UPD: this thing doesn't work with disabled JavaSciprt

UPD in 2018. Also found some funny trick. Set readonly attribute to the input field, and remove it on the focus event. First prevent browser from autofilling fields, second will allow to input data.

CSS: Set Div height to 100% - Pixels

Negative margins of course!

HTML

<div id="header">
    <h1>Header Text</h1>
</div>
<div id="wrapper">
    <div id="content">
        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Curabitur 
        ullamcorper velit aliquam dolor dapibus interdum sed in dolor. Phasellus 
        vel quam et quam congue sodales.
    </div>
</div>

CSS

#header
{
    height: 111px;
    margin-top: 0px;
}
#wrapper
{
    margin-bottom: 0px;
    margin-top: -111px;
    height: 100%;
    position:relative;
    z-index:-1;
}
#content
{
    margin-top: 111px;
    padding: 0.5em;
}

Javascript to Select Multiple options

You can get access to the options array of a selected object by going document.getElementById("cars").options where 'cars' is the select object.

Once you have that you can call option[i].setAttribute('selected', 'selected'); to select an option.

I agree with every one else that you are better off doing this server side though.

@import vs #import - iOS 7

There is a few benefits of using modules. You can use it only with Apple's framework unless module map is created. @import is a bit similar to pre-compiling headers files when added to .pch file which is a way to tune app the compilation process. Additionally you do not have to add libraries in the old way, using @import is much faster and efficient in fact. If you still look for a nice reference I will highly recommend you reading this article.

What is an example of the simplest possible Socket.io example?

Here is my submission!

if you put this code into a file called hello.js and run it using node hello.js it should print out the message hello, it has been sent through 2 sockets.

The code shows how to handle the variables for a hello message bounced from the client to the server via the section of code labelled //Mirror.

The variable names are declared locally rather than all at the top because they are only used in each of the sections between the comments. Each of these could be in a separate file and run as its own node.

_x000D_
_x000D_
// Server_x000D_
var io1 = require('socket.io').listen(8321);_x000D_
_x000D_
io1.on('connection', function(socket1) {_x000D_
  socket1.on('bar', function(msg1) {_x000D_
    console.log(msg1);_x000D_
  });_x000D_
});_x000D_
_x000D_
// Mirror_x000D_
var ioIn = require('socket.io').listen(8123);_x000D_
var ioOut = require('socket.io-client');_x000D_
var socketOut = ioOut.connect('http://localhost:8321');_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_
ioIn.on('connection', function(socketIn) {_x000D_
  socketIn.on('foo', function(msg) {_x000D_
    socketOut.emit('bar', msg);_x000D_
  });_x000D_
});_x000D_
_x000D_
// Client_x000D_
var io2 = require('socket.io-client');_x000D_
var socket2 = io2.connect('http://localhost:8123');_x000D_
_x000D_
var msg2 = "hello";_x000D_
socket2.emit('foo', msg2);
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

error CS0103: The name ' ' does not exist in the current context

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;                    (???????? ?????????? ?? ?? ?????
using System.Linq;                                     ?????? PlayerScript.health = 
using System.Text;                                      999999; ??? ?? ???? ??????)                                  
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using UnityEngine;

namespace OneHack
{
    public class One
    {
        public Rect RT_MainMenu = new Rect(0f, 100f, 120f, 100f); //Rect ??? ????????????????? ???? ?? x,y ? ??????, ??????.
        public int ID_RTMainMenu = 1;
        private bool MainMenu = true;
        private void Menu_MainMenu(int id) //??????? ????
        {
            if (GUILayout.Button("???????? ????? ??????", new GUILayoutOption[0]))
            {
                if (GUILayout.Button("??????????", new GUILayoutOption[0]))
                {
                    PlayerScript.health = 999999;//??? ??????? ?? ?????? ? ?????? ??????????????? ???????? 999999  //????? ???, ??????? ????? ??????????? ??? ??????? ?? ??? ??????
                }
            }
        }
        private void OnGUI()
        {
            if (this.MainMenu)
            {
                this.RT_MainMenu = GUILayout.Window(this.ID_RTMainMenu, this.RT_MainMenu, new GUI.WindowFunction(this.Menu_MainMenu), "MainMenu", new GUILayoutOption[0]);
            }
        }
        private void Update() //????????? ??????????? ?????, ??? ??? ????? ????? ????????? ????? ??????????? ??????????
        {
            if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Insert)) //?????? ?? ??????? ????? ??????????? ? ??????????? ????, ????? ????????? ??????
            {
                this.MainMenu = !this.MainMenu;
            }
        }
    }
}

Why is the Java main method static?

Any method declared as static in Java belongs to the class itself . Again static method of a particular class can be accessed only by referring to the class like Class_name.method_name();

So a class need not to be instantiated before accessing a static method.

So the main() method is declared as static so that it can be accessed without creating an object of that class.

Since we save the program with the name of the class where the main method is present( or from where the program should begin its execution, applicable for classes without a main() method()(Advanced Level)). So by the above mentioned way:

Class_name.method_name();

the main method can be accessed.

In brief when the program is compiled it searches for the main() method having String arguments like: main(String args[]) in the class mentioned(i.e. by the name of the program), and since at the the beginning it has no scope to instantiate that class, so the main() method is declared as static.

How to pass arguments to a Button command in Tkinter?

I have encountered this problem before, too. You can just use lambda:

button = Tk.Button(master=frame, text='press',command=lambda: action(someNumber))

Gradle Sync failed could not find constraint-layout:1.0.0-alpha2

While updating SDK tools, a dilog box presented with Constraint layout version that is going to get installed. Note that and update your dependency based on that. In my case it was installing beta3.

I changed my dependency like below. After that it worked.

compile 'com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.0.0-beta3'

Django Reverse with arguments '()' and keyword arguments '{}' not found

The solution @miki725 is absolutely correct. Alternatively, if you would like to use the args attribute as opposed to kwargs, then you can simply modify your code as follows:

project_id = 4
reverse('edit_project', args=(project_id,))

An example of this can be found in the documentation. This essentially does the same thing, but the attributes are passed as arguments. Remember that any arguments that are passed need to be assigned a value before being reversed. Just use the correct namespace, which in this case is 'edit_project'.

Pass in an enum as a method parameter

If you want to pass in the value to use, you have to use the enum type you declared and directly use the supplied value:

public string CreateFile(string id, string name, string description,
              /* --> */  SupportedPermissions supportedPermissions)
{
    file = new File
    {  
        Name = name,
        Id = id,
        Description = description,
        SupportedPermissions = supportedPermissions // <---
    };

    return file.Id;
}

If you instead want to use a fixed value, you don't need any parameter at all. Instead, directly use the enum value. The syntax is similar to a static member of a class:

public string CreateFile(string id, string name, string description) // <---
{
    file = new File
    {  
        Name = name,
        Id = id,
        Description = description,
        SupportedPermissions = SupportedPermissions.basic // <---
    };

    return file.Id;
}

Git log to get commits only for a specific branch

I needed to export log in one line for a specific branch.

So I probably came out with a simpler solution.
When doing git log --pretty=oneline --graph we can see that all commit not done in the current branch are lines starting with |

So a simple grep -v do the job:
git log --pretty=oneline --graph | grep -v "^|"

Of course you can change the pretty parameter if you need other info, as soon as you keep it in one line.

You probably want to remove merge commit too.
As the message start with "Merge branch", pipe another grep -v and you're done.

In my specific ase, the final command was:
git log --pretty="%ad : %an, %s" --graph | grep -v "^|" | grep -v "Merge branch"

Centering floating divs within another div

In my case, I could not get the answer by @Sampson to work for me, at best I got a single column centered on the page. In the process however, I learned how the float actually works and created this solution. At it's core the fix is very simple but hard to find as evident by this thread which has had more than 146k views at the time of this post without mention.

All that is needed is to total the amount of screen space width that the desired layout will occupy then make the parent the same width and apply margin:auto. That's it!

The elements in the layout will dictate the width and height of the "outer" div. Take each "myFloat" or element's width or height + its borders + its margins and its paddings and add them all together. Then add the other elements together in the same fashion. This will give you the parent width. They can all be somewhat different sizes and you can do this with fewer or more elements.

Ex.(each element has 2 sides so border, margin and padding get multiplied x2)

So an element that has a width of 10px, border 2px, margin 6px, padding 3px would look like this: 10 + 4 + 12 + 6 = 32

Then add all of your element's totaled widths together.

Element 1 = 32
Element 2 = 24
Element 3 = 32
Element 4 = 24

In this example the width for the "outer" div would be 112.

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.outer {_x000D_
  /* floats + margins + borders = 270 */_x000D_
  max-width: 270px;_x000D_
  margin: auto;_x000D_
  height: 80px;_x000D_
  border: 1px;_x000D_
  border-style: solid;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
.myFloat {_x000D_
    /* 3 floats x 50px = 150px */_x000D_
    width: 50px;_x000D_
    /* 6 margins x 10px = 60 */_x000D_
    margin: 10px;_x000D_
    /* 6 borders x 10px = 60 */_x000D_
    border: 10px solid #6B6B6B;_x000D_
    float: left;_x000D_
    text-align: center;_x000D_
    height: 40px;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<div class="outer">_x000D_
  <div class="myFloat">Float 1</div>_x000D_
  <div class="myFloat">Float 2</div>_x000D_
  <div class="myFloat">Float 3</div>_x000D_
</div>
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_x000D_
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Already defined in .obj - no double inclusions

This is not a compiler error: the error is coming from the linker. After compilation, the linker will merge the object files resulting from the compilation of each of your translation units (.cpp files).

The linker finds out that you have the same symbol defined multiple times in different translation units, and complains about it (it is a violation of the One Definition Rule).

The reason is most certainly that main.cpp includes client.cpp, and both these files are individually processed by the compiler to produce two separate object files. Therefore, all the symbols defined in the client.cpp translation unit will be defined also in the main.cpp translation unit. This is one of the reasons why you do not usually #include .cpp files.

Put the definition of your class in a separate client.hpp file which does not contain also the definitions of the member functions of that class; then, let client.cpp and main.cpp include that file (I mean #include). Finally, leave in client.cpp the definitions of your class's member functions.

client.h

#ifndef SOCKET_CLIENT_CLASS
#define SOCKET_CLIENT_CLASS
#ifndef BOOST_ASIO_HPP
#include <boost/asio.hpp>
#endif

class SocketClient // Or whatever the name is...
{

// ...

    bool read(int, char*); // Or whatever the name is...

//  ...
};

#endif

client.cpp

#include "Client.h"

// ...

bool SocketClient::read(int, char*)
{
    // Implementation  goes here...
}

// ... (add the definitions for all other member functions)

main.h

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <sstream>
#include <boost/asio.hpp>
#include <boost/thread/thread.hpp>
#include "client.h"
//              ^^ Notice this!

main.cpp

#include "main.h"

How to set custom location for local installation of npm package?

TL;DR

You can do this by using the --prefix flag and the --global* flag.

pje@friendbear:~/foo $ npm install bower -g --prefix ./vendor/node_modules
[email protected] /Users/pje/foo/vendor/node_modules/bower

*Even though this is a "global" installation, installed bins won't be accessible through the command line unless ~/foo/vendor/node_modules exists in PATH.

TL;DR

Every configurable attribute of npm can be set in any of six different places. In order of priority:

  • Command-Line Flags: --prefix ./vendor/node_modules
  • Environment Variables: NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX=./vendor/node_modules
  • User Config File: $HOME/.npmrc or userconfig param
  • Global Config File: $PREFIX/etc/npmrc or userconfig param
  • Built-In Config File: path/to/npm/itself/npmrc
  • Default Config: node_modules/npmconf/config-defs.js

By default, locally-installed packages go into ./node_modules. global ones go into the prefix config variable (/usr/local by default).

You can run npm config list to see your current config and npm config edit to change it.

PS

In general, npm's documentation is really helpful. The folders section is a good structural overview of npm and the config section answers this question.

What is the difference between ELF files and bin files?

some resources:

  1. ELF for the ARM architecture
    http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ihi0044d/IHI0044D_aaelf.pdf
  2. ELF from wiki
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_and_Linkable_Format

ELF format is generally the default output of compiling. if you use GNU tool chains, you can translate it to binary format by using objcopy, such as:

  arm-elf-objcopy -O binary [elf-input-file] [binary-output-file]

or using fromELF utility(built in most IDEs such as ADS though):

 fromelf -bin -o [binary-output-file] [elf-input-file]

Cannot implicitly convert type 'int' to 'short'

The plus operator converts operands to int first and then does the addition. So the result is the int. You need to cast it back to short explicitly because conversions from a "longer" type to "shorter" type a made explicit, so that you don't loose data accidentally with an implicit cast.

As to why int16 is cast to int, the answer is, because this is what is defined in C# spec. And C# is this way is because it was designed to closely match to the way how CLR works, and CLR has only 32/64 bit arithmetic and not 16 bit. Other languages on top of CLR may choose to expose this differently.

Laravel 5 Class 'form' not found

I have tried everything, but only this helped:

php artisan route:clear
php artisan cache:clear

How to save password when using Subversion from the console

It depends on the protocol you're using. If you're using SVN + SSH, the SVN client can't save your password because it never touches it - the SSH client prompts you for it directly. In this case, you can use an SSH key and ssh-agent to avoid the constant prompts. If you're using the svnserve protocol or HTTP(S), then the SSH client is handling your password and can save it.

How can I safely create a nested directory?

Try the os.path.exists function

if not os.path.exists(dir):
    os.mkdir(dir)

Vertically aligning a checkbox

Vertical alignment only works on inline elements. If you float it, then I don't think it is treated as part of that stream of inline elements any more.

Make the label an inline-block, and use vertical alignment on both the label and the input to align their middles. Then, assuming it is okay to have a specific width on the labels and checkboxes, use relative positioning instead of floating to swap them (jsFiddle demo):

input {
    width: 20px;

    position: relative;
    left: 200px;

    vertical-align: middle;
}

label {  
    width: 200px;

    position: relative;
    left: -20px;

    display: inline-block;
    vertical-align: middle;
}

Simplest way to restart service on a remote computer

If it doesn't require human interaction which means there will be no UI that invokes this operation and I assume it would restart at some set interval? If you have access to machine, you could just set a scheduled task to execute a batch file using good old NET STOP and NET START

net stop "DNS Client"
net start "DNS client"

or if you want to get a little more sophisticated, you could try Powershell

Java Best Practices to Prevent Cross Site Scripting

My preference is to encode all non-alphaumeric characters as HTML numeric character entities. Since almost, if not all attacks require non-alphuneric characters (like <, ", etc) this should eliminate a large chunk of dangerous output.

Format is &#N;, where N is the numeric value of the character (you can just cast the character to an int and concatenate with a string to get a decimal value). For example:

// java-ish pseudocode
StringBuffer safestrbuf = new StringBuffer(string.length()*4);
foreach(char c : string.split() ){  
  if( Character.isAlphaNumeric(c) ) safestrbuf.append(c);
  else safestrbuf.append(""+(int)symbol);

You will also need to be sure that you are encoding immediately before outputting to the browser, to avoid double-encoding, or encoding for HTML but sending to a different location.

How to get mouse position in jQuery without mouse-events?

Moreover, mousemove events are not triggered if you perform drag'n'drop over a browser window. To track mouse coordinates during drag'n'drop you should attach handler for document.ondragover event and use it's originalEvent property.

Example:

var globalDragOver = function (e)
{
    var original = e.originalEvent;
    if (original)
    {
        window.x = original.pageX;
        window.y = original.pageY;
    }
}

How to connect Bitbucket to Jenkins properly

I am not familiar with this plugin, but we quite successfully use Bitbucket and Jenkins together, however we poll for changes instead of having them pushed from BitBucket (due to the fact our build server is hidden behind a company firewall). This approach may work for you if you are still having problems with the current approach.

This document on Setting up SSH for Git & Mercurial on Linux covers the details of what you need to do to be able to communicate between your build server and Bitbucket over SSH. Once this is done, with the Git Plugin installed, go to your build configuration and select 'Git' under Source Code Management, and enter the ssh URL of your repository as the repository URL. Finally, in the Build Triggers section, select Poll SCM and set the poll frequency to whatever you require.

Python function pointer

Easiest

eval(myvar)(parameter1, parameter2)

You don't have a function "pointer". You have a function "name".

While this works well, you will have a large number of folks telling you it's "insecure" or a "security risk".

How to inherit constructors?

Don't forget that you can also redirect constructors to other constructors at the same level of inheritance:

public Bar(int i, int j) : this(i) { ... }
                            ^^^^^

What is 0x10 in decimal?

0x means the number is hexadecimal, or base 16.

0x10 is 16.

How can I make my match non greedy in vim?

What's wrong with

%s/style="[^"]*"//g

Run PowerShell scripts on remote PC

The accepted answer didn't work for me but the following did:

>PsExec.exe \\<SERVER FQDN> -u <DOMAIN\USER> -p <PASSWORD> /accepteula cmd 
    /c "powershell -noninteractive -command gci c:\"

Example from here

XPath - Selecting elements that equal a value

Try

//*[text()='qwerty'] because . is your current element

Decrementing for loops

range step should be -1

   for k in range(10,0,-1):
      print k

caching JavaScript files

I have a simple system that is pure JavaScript. It checks for changes in a simple text file that is never cached. When you upload a new version this file is changed. Just put the following JS at the top of the page.

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_x000D_
        (function(url, storageName) {_x000D_
            var fromStorage = localStorage.getItem(storageName);_x000D_
            var fullUrl = url + "?rand=" + (Math.floor(Math.random() * 100000000));_x000D_
            getUrl(function(fromUrl) {_x000D_
//                   first load_x000D_
                if (!fromStorage) {_x000D_
                    localStorage.setItem(storageName, fromUrl);_x000D_
                    return;_x000D_
                }_x000D_
//                    old file_x000D_
                if (fromStorage === fromUrl) {_x000D_
                    return;_x000D_
                }_x000D_
                // files updated_x000D_
                localStorage.setItem(storageName, fromUrl);_x000D_
                location.reload(true);_x000D_
            });_x000D_
            function getUrl(fn) {_x000D_
                var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();_x000D_
                xmlhttp.open("GET", fullUrl, true);_x000D_
                xmlhttp.send();_x000D_
                xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {_x000D_
                    if (xmlhttp.readyState === XMLHttpRequest.DONE) {_x000D_
                        if (xmlhttp.status === 200 || xmlhttp.status === 2) {_x000D_
                            fn(xmlhttp.responseText);_x000D_
                        }_x000D_
                        else if (xmlhttp.status === 400) {_x000D_
                            throw 'unable to load file for cache check ' +  url;_x000D_
                        }_x000D_
                        else {_x000D_
                           throw 'unable to load file for cache check ' +  url;_x000D_
                        }_x000D_
                    }_x000D_
                };_x000D_
            }_x000D_
            ;_x000D_
        })("version.txt", "version");
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

just replace the "version.txt" with your file that is always run and "version" with the name you want to use for your local storage.

jQuery UI Sortable Position

As per the official documentation of the jquery sortable UI: http://api.jqueryui.com/sortable/#method-toArray

In update event. use:

var sortedIDs = $( ".selector" ).sortable( "toArray" );

and if you alert or console this var (sortedIDs). You'll get your sequence. Please choose as the "Right Answer" if it is a right one.

How can I get device ID for Admob

Add this class to your project

import android.content.Context;
import android.provider.Settings;
import android.text.TextUtils;

import com.google.android.gms.ads.AdRequest;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;

public class AdsHelper {
public static AdRequest createRequest(Context context) {
    AdRequest.Builder adRequest = new AdRequest.Builder();
    adRequest.addTestDevice(AdRequest.DEVICE_ID_EMULATOR);
    if (BuildConfig.DEBUG) {
        String deviceId = MD5(getDeviceId(context));
        if (!TextUtils.isEmpty(deviceId)) {
            adRequest.addTestDevice(deviceId.toUpperCase());
        }
    }

    return adRequest.build();
}



    private static String MD5(String md5) {
        if (TextUtils.isEmpty(md5)) return null;
        try {
            java.security.MessageDigest md = java.security.MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
            byte[] array = md.digest(md5.getBytes("UTF-8"));
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            for (byte anArray : array) {
                sb.append(Integer.toHexString((anArray & 0xFF) | 0x100).substring(1, 3));
            }
            return sb.toString();
        } catch (java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException ignored) {
        } catch(UnsupportedEncodingException ignored){
        }
        return null;
    }

    private static String getDeviceId(Context context) {
        try {
            return Settings.Secure.getString(context.getContentResolver(), Settings.Secure.ANDROID_ID);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            return "";
        }

    }
}

Usage:

AdRequest adRequest = AdsHelper.createRequest(this);

How to Sort Date in descending order From Arraylist Date in android?

Just add like this in case 1: like this

 case 0:
     list = DBAdpter.requestUserData(assosiatetoken);
     Collections.sort(list, byDate);
     for (int i = 0; i < list.size(); i++) {
         if (list.get(i).lastModifiedDate != null) {
             lv.setAdapter(new MyListAdapter(
                     getApplicationContext(), list));
         }
     }
     break;

and put this method at end of the your class

static final Comparator<All_Request_data_dto> byDate = new Comparator<All_Request_data_dto>() {
    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss a");

    public int compare(All_Request_data_dto ord1, All_Request_data_dto ord2) {
        Date d1 = null;
        Date d2 = null;
        try {
            d1 = sdf.parse(ord1.lastModifiedDate);
            d2 = sdf.parse(ord2.lastModifiedDate);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }


        return (d1.getTime() > d2.getTime() ? -1 : 1);     //descending
    //  return (d1.getTime() > d2.getTime() ? 1 : -1);     //ascending
    }
};

How set maximum date in datepicker dialog in android?

Use setMaxDate().

For example, replace return new DatePickerDialog(this, pDateSetListener, pYear, pMonth, pDay) statement with something like this:

    DatePickerDialog dialog = new DatePickerDialog(this, pDateSetListener, pYear, pMonth, pDay);
    dialog.getDatePicker().setMaxDate(new Date().getTime());
    return dialog;

Something better than .NET Reflector?

The latest version from Red Gate is 6.1. However the 5.1 version cannot automatically update to version 6 because there were changes to the Terms of Service, so instead you are redirected to the site to download the 6.1 version. This is mostly because of legal reasons as you can check in the following post:

Oi! What's going on with the .NET Reflector update mechanism?

After you manually update to 6.1 you will no longer experience any problems.

Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?

It’s a holdover from the Netscape days:

Missing digits are treated as 0[...]. An incorrect digit is simply interpreted as 0. For example the values #F0F0F0, F0F0F0, F0F0F, #FxFxFx and FxFxFx are all the same.

It is from the blog post A little rant about Microsoft Internet Explorer's color parsing which covers it in great detail, including varying lengths of color values, etc.

If we apply the rules in turn from the blog post, we get the following:

  1. Replace all nonvalid hexadecimal characters with 0’s:

    chucknorris becomes c00c0000000
    
  2. Pad out to the next total number of characters divisible by 3 (11 ? 12):

    c00c 0000 0000
    
  3. Split into three equal groups, with each component representing the corresponding colour component of an RGB colour:

    RGB (c00c, 0000, 0000)
    
  4. Truncate each of the arguments from the right down to two characters.

Which, finally, gives the following result:

RGB (c0, 00, 00) = #C00000 or RGB(192, 0, 0)

Here’s an example demonstrating the bgcolor attribute in action, to produce this “amazing” colour swatch:

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<table>
  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="chucknorris" cellpadding="8" width="100" align="center">chuck norris</td>
    <td bgcolor="mrt"         cellpadding="8" width="100" align="center" style="color:#ffffff">Mr T</td>
    <td bgcolor="ninjaturtle" cellpadding="8" width="100" align="center" style="color:#ffffff">ninjaturtle</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="sick"  cellpadding="8" width="100" align="center">sick</td>
    <td bgcolor="crap"  cellpadding="8" width="100" align="center">crap</td>
    <td bgcolor="grass" cellpadding="8" width="100" align="center">grass</td>
  </tr>
</table>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

This also answers the other part of the question: Why does bgcolor="chucknorr" produce a yellow colour? Well, if we apply the rules, the string is:

c00c00000 => c00 c00 000 => c0 c0 00 [RGB(192, 192, 0)]

Which gives a light yellow gold colour. As the string starts off as 9 characters, we keep the second ‘C’ this time around, hence it ends up in the final colour value.

I originally encountered this when someone pointed out that you could do color="crap" and, well, it comes out brown.

@try - catch block in Objective-C

Objective-C is not Java. In Objective-C exceptions are what they are called. Exceptions! Don’t use them for error handling. It’s not their proposal. Just check the length of the string before using characterAtIndex and everything is fine....

Global and local variables in R

<- does assignment in the current environment.

When you're inside a function R creates a new environment for you. By default it includes everything from the environment in which it was created so you can use those variables as well but anything new you create will not get written to the global environment.

In most cases <<- will assign to variables already in the global environment or create a variable in the global environment even if you're inside a function. However, it isn't quite as straightforward as that. What it does is checks the parent environment for a variable with the name of interest. If it doesn't find it in your parent environment it goes to the parent of the parent environment (at the time the function was created) and looks there. It continues upward to the global environment and if it isn't found in the global environment it will assign the variable in the global environment.

This might illustrate what is going on.

bar <- "global"
foo <- function(){
    bar <- "in foo"
    baz <- function(){
        bar <- "in baz - before <<-"
        bar <<- "in baz - after <<-"
        print(bar)
    }
    print(bar)
    baz()
    print(bar)
}
> bar
[1] "global"
> foo()
[1] "in foo"
[1] "in baz - before <<-"
[1] "in baz - after <<-"
> bar
[1] "global"

The first time we print bar we haven't called foo yet so it should still be global - this makes sense. The second time we print it's inside of foo before calling baz so the value "in foo" makes sense. The following is where we see what <<- is actually doing. The next value printed is "in baz - before <<-" even though the print statement comes after the <<-. This is because <<- doesn't look in the current environment (unless you're in the global environment in which case <<- acts like <-). So inside of baz the value of bar stays as "in baz - before <<-". Once we call baz the copy of bar inside of foo gets changed to "in baz" but as we can see the global bar is unchanged. This is because the copy of bar that is defined inside of foo is in the parent environment when we created baz so this is the first copy of bar that <<- sees and thus the copy it assigns to. So <<- isn't just directly assigning to the global environment.

<<- is tricky and I wouldn't recommend using it if you can avoid it. If you really want to assign to the global environment you can use the assign function and tell it explicitly that you want to assign globally.

Now I change the <<- to an assign statement and we can see what effect that has:

bar <- "global"
foo <- function(){
    bar <- "in foo"   
    baz <- function(){
        assign("bar", "in baz", envir = .GlobalEnv)
    }
    print(bar)
    baz()
    print(bar)
}
bar
#[1] "global"
foo()
#[1] "in foo"
#[1] "in foo"
bar
#[1] "in baz"

So both times we print bar inside of foo the value is "in foo" even after calling baz. This is because assign never even considered the copy of bar inside of foo because we told it exactly where to look. However, this time the value of bar in the global environment was changed because we explicitly assigned there.

Now you also asked about creating local variables and you can do that fairly easily as well without creating a function... We just need to use the local function.

bar <- "global"
# local will create a new environment for us to play in
local({
    bar <- "local"
    print(bar)
})
#[1] "local"
bar
#[1] "global"

Oracle: how to set user password unexpire?

The following statement causes a user's password to expire:

ALTER USER user PASSWORD EXPIRE;

If you cause a database user's password to expire with PASSWORD EXPIRE, then the user (or the DBA) must change the password before attempting to log in to the database following the expiration. Tools such as SQL*Plus allow the user to change the password on the first attempted login following the expiration.

ALTER USER scott IDENTIFIED BY password;

Will set/reset the users password.

See the alter user doc for more info