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Programs & Examples On #Locationlistener

How does it work - requestLocationUpdates() + LocationRequest/Listener

I use this one:

LocationManager.requestLocationUpdates(String provider, long minTime, float minDistance, LocationListener listener)

For example, using a 1s interval:

locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER,1000,0,this);

the time is in milliseconds, the distance is in meters.

This automatically calls:

public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {
    //Code here, location.getAccuracy(), location.getLongitude() etc...
}

I also had these included in the script but didnt actually use them:

public void onStatusChanged(String provider, int status, Bundle extras) {}
public void onProviderEnabled(String provider) {}
public void onProviderDisabled(String provider) {}

In short:

public class GPSClass implements LocationListener {

    public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {
        // Called when a new location is found by the network location provider.
        Log.i("Message: ","Location changed, " + location.getAccuracy() + " , " + location.getLatitude()+ "," + location.getLongitude());
    }

    public void onStatusChanged(String provider, int status, Bundle extras) {}
    public void onProviderEnabled(String provider) {}
    public void onProviderDisabled(String provider) {}

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        locationManager = (LocationManager)getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);
        locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER,1000,0,this);
    }
}

SPAN vs DIV (inline-block)

I know this Q is old, but why not use all DIVs instead of the SPANs? Then everything plays all happy together.

Example:

<div> 
   <div> content1(divs,p, spans, etc) </div> 
   <div> content2(divs,p, spans, etc) </div> 
   <div> content3(divs,p, spans, etc) </div> 
</div> 
<div> 
   <div> content4(divs,p, spans, etc) </div> 
   <div> content5(divs,p, spans, etc) </div> 
   <div> content6(divs,p, spans, etc) </div> 
</div>

How can I check if a Perl array contains a particular value?

You can use smartmatch feature in Perl 5.10 as follows:

For literal value lookup doing below will do the trick.

if ( "value" ~~ @array )

For scalar lookup, doing below will work as above.

if ($val ~~ @array)

For inline array doing below, will work as above.

if ( $var ~~ ['bar', 'value', 'foo'] )

In Perl 5.18 smartmatch is flagged as experimental therefore you need to turn off the warnings by turning on experimental pragma by adding below to your script/module:

use experimental 'smartmatch';

Alternatively if you want to avoid the use of smartmatch - then as Aaron said use:

if ( grep( /^$value$/, @array ) ) {
  #TODO:
}

nginx error "conflicting server name" ignored

There should be only one localhost defined, check sites-enabled or nginx.conf.

What is unit testing and how do you do it?

On the "How to do it" part:

I think the introduction to ScalaTest does good job of illustrating different styles of unit tests.

On the "When to do it" part:

Unit testing is not only for testing. By doing unit testing you also force the design of the software into something that is unit testable. Many people are of the opinion that this design is for the most part Good Design(TM) regardless of other benefits from testing.

So one reason to do unit test is to force your design into something that hopefully will be easier to maintain that what it would be had you not designed it for unit testing.

Call web service in excel

In Microsoft Excel Office 2007 try installing "Web Service Reference Tool" plugin. And use the WSDL and add the web-services. And use following code in module to fetch the necessary data from the web-service.

Sub Demo()
    Dim XDoc As MSXML2.DOMDocument
    Dim xEmpDetails As MSXML2.IXMLDOMNode
    Dim xParent As MSXML2.IXMLDOMNode
    Dim xChild As MSXML2.IXMLDOMNode
    Dim query As String
    Dim Col, Row As Integer
    Dim objWS As New clsws_GlobalWeather

    Set XDoc = New MSXML2.DOMDocument
    XDoc.async = False
    XDoc.validateOnParse = False
    query = objWS.wsm_GetCitiesByCountry("india")

    If Not XDoc.LoadXML(query) Then  'strXML is the string with XML'
        Err.Raise XDoc.parseError.ErrorCode, , XDoc.parseError.reason
    End If
    XDoc.LoadXML (query)

    Set xEmpDetails = XDoc.DocumentElement
    Set xParent = xEmpDetails.FirstChild
    Worksheets("Sheet3").Cells(1, 1).Value = "Country"
    Worksheets("Sheet3").Cells(1, 1).Interior.Color = RGB(65, 105, 225)
    Worksheets("Sheet3").Cells(1, 2).Value = "City"
    Worksheets("Sheet3").Cells(1, 2).Interior.Color = RGB(65, 105, 225)
    Row = 2
    Col = 1
    For Each xParent In xEmpDetails.ChildNodes
        For Each xChild In xParent.ChildNodes
            Worksheets("Sheet3").Cells(Row, Col).Value = xChild.Text
            Col = Col + 1
        Next xChild
        Row = Row + 1
        Col = 1
    Next xParent
End Sub

How to sanity check a date in Java

As shown by @Maglob, the basic approach is to test the conversion from string to date using SimpleDateFormat.parse. That will catch invalid day/month combinations like 2008-02-31.

However, in practice that is rarely enough since SimpleDateFormat.parse is exceedingly liberal. There are two behaviours you might be concerned with:

Invalid characters in the date string Surprisingly, 2008-02-2x will "pass" as a valid date with locale format = "yyyy-MM-dd" for example. Even when isLenient==false.

Years: 2, 3 or 4 digits? You may also want to enforce 4-digit years rather than allowing the default SimpleDateFormat behaviour (which will interpret "12-02-31" differently depending on whether your format was "yyyy-MM-dd" or "yy-MM-dd")

A Strict Solution with the Standard Library

So a complete string to date test could look like this: a combination of regex match, and then a forced date conversion. The trick with the regex is to make it locale-friendly.

  Date parseDate(String maybeDate, String format, boolean lenient) {
    Date date = null;

    // test date string matches format structure using regex
    // - weed out illegal characters and enforce 4-digit year
    // - create the regex based on the local format string
    String reFormat = Pattern.compile("d+|M+").matcher(Matcher.quoteReplacement(format)).replaceAll("\\\\d{1,2}");
    reFormat = Pattern.compile("y+").matcher(reFormat).replaceAll("\\\\d{4}");
    if ( Pattern.compile(reFormat).matcher(maybeDate).matches() ) {

      // date string matches format structure, 
      // - now test it can be converted to a valid date
      SimpleDateFormat sdf = (SimpleDateFormat)DateFormat.getDateInstance();
      sdf.applyPattern(format);
      sdf.setLenient(lenient);
      try { date = sdf.parse(maybeDate); } catch (ParseException e) { }
    } 
    return date;
  } 

  // used like this:
  Date date = parseDate( "21/5/2009", "d/M/yyyy", false);

Note that the regex assumes the format string contains only day, month, year, and separator characters. Aside from that, format can be in any locale format: "d/MM/yy", "yyyy-MM-dd", and so on. The format string for the current locale could be obtained like this:

Locale locale = Locale.getDefault();
SimpleDateFormat sdf = (SimpleDateFormat)DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.SHORT, locale );
String format = sdf.toPattern();

Joda Time - Better Alternative?

I've been hearing about joda time recently and thought I'd compare. Two points:

  1. Seems better at being strict about invalid characters in the date string, unlike SimpleDateFormat
  2. Can't see a way to enforce 4-digit years with it yet (but I guess you could create your own DateTimeFormatter for this purpose)

It's quite simple to use:

import org.joda.time.format.*;
import org.joda.time.DateTime;

org.joda.time.DateTime parseDate(String maybeDate, String format) {
  org.joda.time.DateTime date = null;
  try {
    DateTimeFormatter fmt = DateTimeFormat.forPattern(format);
    date =  fmt.parseDateTime(maybeDate);
  } catch (Exception e) { }
  return date;
}

how to convert long date value to mm/dd/yyyy format

Try something like this:

public class test 
{  

    public static void main(String a[])
    {  
        long tmp = 1346524199000;  

        Date d = new Date(tmp);  
        System.out.println(d);  
    }  
}

Given final block not properly padded

This can also be a issue when you enter wrong password for your sign key.

How to get a list of current open windows/process with Java?

On Windows there is an alternative using JNA:

import com.sun.jna.Native;
import com.sun.jna.platform.win32.*;
import com.sun.jna.win32.W32APIOptions;

public class ProcessList {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        WinNT winNT = (WinNT) Native.loadLibrary(WinNT.class, W32APIOptions.UNICODE_OPTIONS);

        WinNT.HANDLE snapshot = winNT.CreateToolhelp32Snapshot(Tlhelp32.TH32CS_SNAPPROCESS, new WinDef.DWORD(0));

        Tlhelp32.PROCESSENTRY32.ByReference processEntry = new Tlhelp32.PROCESSENTRY32.ByReference();

        while (winNT.Process32Next(snapshot, processEntry)) {
            System.out.println(processEntry.th32ProcessID + "\t" + Native.toString(processEntry.szExeFile));
        }

        winNT.CloseHandle(snapshot);
    }
}

How to get AM/PM from a datetime in PHP

For (PHP >= 5.2.0):

You can use DateTime class. However you might need to change your date format. Didn't try yours. The following date format will work for sure: YYYY-MM-DD HH-MM-SS

$date = new DateTime("2010-04-08 22:15:00");
echo $date->format("g"). '.' .$date->format("i"). ' ' .$date->format("A");

//output
//10.15 PM

However, in my opinion, using . as a separator for 10.15 is not recommended because your users might be confused either this is a decimal number or time format. The most common way is to use 10:15 PM

Printing 1 to 1000 without loop or conditionals

I hate to break it, but recursion and looping are essentially the same thing at the machine level.

The difference is the use of a JMP/JCC versus a CALL instruction. Both of which have roughly the same cycle times and flush the instruction pipeline.

My favorite trick for recursion was to hand-code a PUSH of a return address and use JMP to a function. The function then behaves normally, and returns at the end, but to somewhere else. This is really useful for parsing faster because it reduces instruction pipeline flushes.

The Original Poster was probably going for either a complete unroll, which the template guys worked out; or page memory into the terminal, if you know exactly where the terminal text is stored. The latter requires alot of insight and is risky, but takes almost no computational power and the code is free of nastiness like 1000 printfs in succession.

How to set password for Redis?

step 1. stop redis server using below command /etc/init.d/redis-server stop step 2.enter command : sudo nano /etc/redis/redis.conf

step 3.find # requirepass foobared word and remove # and change foobared to YOUR PASSWORD

ex. requirepass root

MySQL search and replace some text in a field

Change table_name and field to match your table name and field in question:

UPDATE table_name SET field = REPLACE(field, 'foo', 'bar') WHERE INSTR(field, 'foo') > 0;

What does this symbol mean in JavaScript?

See the documentation on MDN about expressions and operators and statements.

Basic keywords and general expressions

this keyword:

var x = function() vs. function x() — Function declaration syntax

(function(){…})() — IIFE (Immediately Invoked Function Expression)

someFunction()() — Functions which return other functions

=> — Equal sign, greater than: arrow function expression syntax

|> — Pipe, greater than: Pipeline operator

function*, yield, yield* — Star after function or yield: generator functions

[], Array() — Square brackets: array notation

If the square brackets appear on the left side of an assignment ([a] = ...), or inside a function's parameters, it's a destructuring assignment.

{key: value} — Curly brackets: object literal syntax (not to be confused with blocks)

If the curly brackets appear on the left side of an assignment ({ a } = ...) or inside a function's parameters, it's a destructuring assignment.

`…${…}…` — Backticks, dollar sign with curly brackets: template literals

/…/ — Slashes: regular expression literals

$ — Dollar sign in regex replace patterns: $$, $&, $`, $', $n

() — Parentheses: grouping operator

Property-related expressions

obj.prop, obj[prop], obj["prop"] — Square brackets or dot: property accessors

?., ?.[], ?.() — Question mark, dot: optional chaining operator

:: — Double colon: bind operator

new operator

...iter — Three dots: spread syntax; rest parameters

Increment and decrement

++, -- — Double plus or minus: pre- / post-increment / -decrement operators

Unary and binary (arithmetic, logical, bitwise) operators

delete operator

void operator

+, - — Plus and minus: addition or concatenation, and subtraction operators; unary sign operators

|, &, ^, ~ — Single pipe, ampersand, circumflex, tilde: bitwise OR, AND, XOR, & NOT operators

% — Percent sign: remainder operator

&&, ||, ! — Double ampersand, double pipe, exclamation point: logical operators

?? — Double question mark: nullish-coalescing operator

** — Double star: power operator (exponentiation)

Equality operators

==, === — Equal signs: equality operators

!=, !== — Exclamation point and equal signs: inequality operators

Bit shift operators

<<, >>, >>> — Two or three angle brackets: bit shift operators

Conditional operator

…?…:… — Question mark and colon: conditional (ternary) operator

Assignment operators

= — Equal sign: assignment operator

%= — Percent equals: remainder assignment

+= — Plus equals: addition assignment operator

&&=, ||=, ??= — Double ampersand, pipe, or question mark, followed by equal sign: logical assignments

Destructuring

Comma operator

, — Comma operator

Control flow

{…} — Curly brackets: blocks (not to be confused with object literal syntax)

Declarations

var, let, const — Declaring variables

Label

label: — Colon: labels

# — Hash (number sign): Private methods or private fields

Asyncio.gather vs asyncio.wait

In addition to all the previous answers, I would like to tell about the different behavior of gather() and wait() in case they are cancelled.

Gather cancellation

If gather() is cancelled, all submitted awaitables (that have not completed yet) are also cancelled.

Wait cancellation

If the wait() task is cancelled, it simply throws an CancelledError and the waited tasks remain intact.

Simple example:

import asyncio


async def task(arg):
    await asyncio.sleep(5)
    return arg


async def cancel_waiting_task(work_task, waiting_task):
    await asyncio.sleep(2)
    waiting_task.cancel()
    try:
        await waiting_task
        print("Waiting done")
    except asyncio.CancelledError:
        print("Waiting task cancelled")

    try:
        res = await work_task
        print(f"Work result: {res}")
    except asyncio.CancelledError:
        print("Work task cancelled")


async def main():
    work_task = asyncio.create_task(task("done"))
    waiting = asyncio.create_task(asyncio.wait({work_task}))
    await cancel_waiting_task(work_task, waiting)

    work_task = asyncio.create_task(task("done"))
    waiting = asyncio.gather(work_task)
    await cancel_waiting_task(work_task, waiting)


asyncio.run(main())

Output:

asyncio.wait()
Waiting task cancelled
Work result: done
----------------
asyncio.gather()
Waiting task cancelled
Work task cancelled

Sometimes it becomes necessary to combine wait() and gather() functionality. For example, we want to wait for the completion of at least one task and cancel the rest pending tasks after that, and if the waiting itself was canceled, then also cancel all pending tasks.

As real examples, let's say we have a disconnect event and a work task. And we want to wait for the results of the work task, but if the connection was lost, then cancel it. Or we will make several parallel requests, but upon completion of at least one response, cancel all others.

It could be done this way:

import asyncio
from typing import Optional, Tuple, Set


async def wait_any(
        tasks: Set[asyncio.Future], *, timeout: Optional[int] = None,
) -> Tuple[Set[asyncio.Future], Set[asyncio.Future]]:
    tasks_to_cancel: Set[asyncio.Future] = set()
    try:
        done, tasks_to_cancel = await asyncio.wait(
            tasks, timeout=timeout, return_when=asyncio.FIRST_COMPLETED
        )
        return done, tasks_to_cancel
    except asyncio.CancelledError:
        tasks_to_cancel = tasks
        raise
    finally:
        for task in tasks_to_cancel:
            task.cancel()


async def task():
    await asyncio.sleep(5)


async def cancel_waiting_task(work_task, waiting_task):
    await asyncio.sleep(2)
    waiting_task.cancel()
    try:
        await waiting_task
        print("Waiting done")
    except asyncio.CancelledError:
        print("Waiting task cancelled")

    try:
        res = await work_task
        print(f"Work result: {res}")
    except asyncio.CancelledError:
        print("Work task cancelled")


async def check_tasks(waiting_task, working_task, waiting_conn_lost_task):
    try:
        await waiting_task
        print("waiting is done")
    except asyncio.CancelledError:
        print("waiting is cancelled")

    try:
        await waiting_conn_lost_task
        print("connection is lost")
    except asyncio.CancelledError:
        print("waiting connection lost is cancelled")

    try:
        await working_task
        print("work is done")
    except asyncio.CancelledError:
        print("work is cancelled")


async def work_done_case():
    working_task = asyncio.create_task(task())
    connection_lost_event = asyncio.Event()
    waiting_conn_lost_task = asyncio.create_task(connection_lost_event.wait())
    waiting_task = asyncio.create_task(wait_any({working_task, waiting_conn_lost_task}))
    await check_tasks(waiting_task, working_task, waiting_conn_lost_task)


async def conn_lost_case():
    working_task = asyncio.create_task(task())
    connection_lost_event = asyncio.Event()
    waiting_conn_lost_task = asyncio.create_task(connection_lost_event.wait())
    waiting_task = asyncio.create_task(wait_any({working_task, waiting_conn_lost_task}))
    await asyncio.sleep(2)
    connection_lost_event.set()  # <---
    await check_tasks(waiting_task, working_task, waiting_conn_lost_task)


async def cancel_waiting_case():
    working_task = asyncio.create_task(task())
    connection_lost_event = asyncio.Event()
    waiting_conn_lost_task = asyncio.create_task(connection_lost_event.wait())
    waiting_task = asyncio.create_task(wait_any({working_task, waiting_conn_lost_task}))
    await asyncio.sleep(2)
    waiting_task.cancel()  # <---
    await check_tasks(waiting_task, working_task, waiting_conn_lost_task)


async def main():
    print("Work done")
    print("-------------------")
    await work_done_case()
    print("\nConnection lost")
    print("-------------------")
    await conn_lost_case()
    print("\nCancel waiting")
    print("-------------------")
    await cancel_waiting_case()


asyncio.run(main())

Output:

Work done
-------------------
waiting is done
waiting connection lost is cancelled
work is done

Connection lost
-------------------
waiting is done
connection is lost
work is cancelled

Cancel waiting
-------------------
waiting is cancelled
waiting connection lost is cancelled
work is cancelled

List<Map<String, String>> vs List<? extends Map<String, String>>

You cannot assign expressions with types such as List<NavigableMap<String,String>> to the first.

(If you want to know why you can't assign List<String> to List<Object> see a zillion other questions on SO.)

Simulate limited bandwidth from within Chrome?

As of today you can throttle your connection natively in Google Chrome Canary 46.0.2489.0. Simply open up Dev Tools and head over to the Network tab:

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When to use an interface instead of an abstract class and vice versa?

Personally, I almost never have the need to write abstract classes.

Most times I see abstract classes being (mis)used, it's because the author of the abstract class is using the "Template method" pattern.

The problem with "Template method" is that it's nearly always somewhat re-entrant - the "derived" class knows about not just the "abstract" method of its base class that it is implementing, but also about the public methods of the base class, even though most times it does not need to call them.

(Overly simplified) example:

abstract class QuickSorter
{
    public void Sort(object[] items)
    {
        // implementation code that somewhere along the way calls:
        bool less = compare(x,y);
        // ... more implementation code
    }
    abstract bool compare(object lhs, object rhs);
}

So here, the author of this class has written a generic algorithm and intends for people to use it by "specializing" it by providing their own "hooks" - in this case, a "compare" method.

So the intended usage is something like this:

class NameSorter : QuickSorter
{
    public bool compare(object lhs, object rhs)
    {
        // etc.
    }
}

The problem with this is that you've unduly coupled together two concepts:

  1. A way of comparing two items (what item should go first)
  2. A method of sorting items (i.e. quicksort vs merge sort etc.)

In the above code, theoretically, the author of the "compare" method can re-entrantly call back into the superclass "Sort" method... even though in practise they will never want or need to do this.

The price you pay for this unneeded coupling is that it's hard to change the superclass, and in most OO languages, impossible to change it at runtime.

The alternative method is to use the "Strategy" design pattern instead:

interface IComparator
{
    bool compare(object lhs, object rhs);
}

class QuickSorter
{
    private readonly IComparator comparator;
    public QuickSorter(IComparator comparator)
    {
        this.comparator = comparator;
    }

    public void Sort(object[] items)
    {
        // usual code but call comparator.Compare();
    }
}

class NameComparator : IComparator
{
    bool compare(object lhs, object rhs)
    {
        // same code as before;
    }
}

So notice now: All we have are interfaces, and concrete implementations of those interfaces. In practise, you don't really need anything else to do a high level OO design.

To "hide" the fact that we've implemented "sorting of names" by using a "QuickSort" class and a "NameComparator", we might still write a factory method somewhere:

ISorter CreateNameSorter()
{
    return new QuickSorter(new NameComparator());
}

Any time you have an abstract class you can do this... even when there is a natural re-entrant relationship between the base and derived class, it usually pays to make them explicit.

One final thought: All we've done above is "compose" a "NameSorting" function by using a "QuickSort" function and a "NameComparison" function... in a functional programming language, this style of programming becomes even more natural, with less code.

Converting an int to a binary string representation in Java?

here is my methods, it is a little bit convince that number of bytes fixed

private void printByte(int value) {
String currentBinary = Integer.toBinaryString(256 + value);
System.out.println(currentBinary.substring(currentBinary.length() - 8));
}

public int binaryToInteger(String binary) {
char[] numbers = binary.toCharArray();
int result = 0;
for(int i=numbers.length - 1; i>=0; i--)
  if(numbers[i]=='1')
    result += Math.pow(2, (numbers.length-i - 1));
return result;
}

Floating elements within a div, floats outside of div. Why?

Put your floating div(s) in a div and in CSS give it overflow:hidden;
it will work fine.

ASP.NET Bundles how to disable minification

Just to supplement the answers already given, if you also want to NOT minify/obfuscate/concatenate SOME files while still allowing full bundling and minification for other files the best option is to go with a custom renderer which will read the contents of a particular bundle(s) and render the files in the page rather than render the bundle's virtual path. I personally required this because IE 9 was $*%@ing the bed when my CSS files were being bundled even with minification turned off.

Thanks very much to this article, which gave me the starting point for the code which I used to create a CSS Renderer which would render the files for the CSS but still allow the system to render my javascript files bundled/minified/obfuscated.

Created the static helper class:

using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using System.Web.Optimization;

namespace Helpers
{
  public static class OptionalCssBundler
  {
    const string CssTemplate = "<link href=\"{0}\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text/css\" />";

    public static MvcHtmlString ResolveBundleUrl(string bundleUrl, bool bundle)
    {
      return bundle ? BundledFiles(BundleTable.Bundles.ResolveBundleUrl(bundleUrl)) : UnbundledFiles(bundleUrl);
    }

    private static MvcHtmlString BundledFiles(string bundleVirtualPath)
    {
      return new MvcHtmlString(string.Format(CssTemplate, bundleVirtualPath));
    }

    private static MvcHtmlString UnbundledFiles(string bundleUrl)
    {
      var bundle = BundleTable.Bundles.GetBundleFor(bundleUrl);

      StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
      var urlHelper = new UrlHelper(HttpContext.Current.Request.RequestContext);

      foreach (BundleFile file in bundle.EnumerateFiles(new BundleContext(new HttpContextWrapper(HttpContext.Current), BundleTable.Bundles, bundleUrl)))
      {
        sb.AppendFormat(CssTemplate + Environment.NewLine, urlHelper.Content(file.VirtualFile.VirtualPath));
      }

      return new MvcHtmlString(sb.ToString());
    }

    public static MvcHtmlString Render(string bundleUrl, bool bundle)
    {
      return ResolveBundleUrl(bundleUrl, bundle);
    }
  }

}

Then in the razor layout file:

@OptionalCssBundler.Render("~/Content/css", false)

instead of the standard:

@Styles.Render("~/Content/css")

I am sure creating an optional renderer for javascript files would need little to update to this helper as well.

User Authentication in ASP.NET Web API

I am amazed how I've not been able to find a clear example of how to authenticate an user right from the login screen down to using the Authorize attribute over my ApiController methods after several hours of Googling.

That's because you are getting confused about these two concepts:

  • Authentication is the mechanism whereby systems may securely identify their users. Authentication systems provide an answers to the questions:

    • Who is the user?
    • Is the user really who he/she represents himself to be?

  • Authorization is the mechanism by which a system determines what level of access a particular authenticated user should have to secured resources controlled by the system. For example, a database management system might be designed so as to provide certain specified individuals with the ability to retrieve information from a database but not the ability to change data stored in the datbase, while giving other individuals the ability to change data. Authorization systems provide answers to the questions:

    • Is user X authorized to access resource R?
    • Is user X authorized to perform operation P?
    • Is user X authorized to perform operation P on resource R?

The Authorize attribute in MVC is used to apply access rules, for example:

 [System.Web.Http.Authorize(Roles = "Admin, Super User")]
 public ActionResult AdministratorsOnly()
 {
     return View();
 }

The above rule will allow only users in the Admin and Super User roles to access the method

These rules can also be set in the web.config file, using the location element. Example:

  <location path="Home/AdministratorsOnly">
    <system.web>
      <authorization>
        <allow roles="Administrators"/>
        <deny users="*"/>
      </authorization>
    </system.web>
  </location>

However, before those authorization rules are executed, you have to be authenticated to the current web site.

Even though these explain how to handle unauthorized requests, these do not demonstrate clearly something like a LoginController or something like that to ask for user credentials and validate them.

From here, we could split the problem in two:

  • Authenticate users when consuming the Web API services within the same Web application

    This would be the simplest approach, because you would rely on the Authentication in ASP.Net

    This is a simple example:

    Web.config

    <authentication mode="Forms">
  <forms
    protection="All"
    slidingExpiration="true"
    loginUrl="account/login"
    cookieless="UseCookies"
    enableCrossAppRedirects="false"
    name="cookieName"
  />
</authentication>

    Users will be redirected to the account/login route, there you would render custom controls to ask for user credentials and then you would set the authentication cookie using:

        if (ModelState.IsValid)
    {
        if (Membership.ValidateUser(model.UserName, model.Password))
        {
            FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(model.UserName, model.RememberMe);
            return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home");
        }
        else
        {
            ModelState.AddModelError("", "The user name or password provided is incorrect.");
        }
    }

    // If we got this far, something failed, redisplay form
    return View(model);

  • Cross - platform authentication

    This case would be when you are only exposing Web API services within the Web application therefore, you would have another client consuming the services, the client could be another Web application or any .Net application (Win Forms, WPF, console, Windows service, etc)

    For example assume that you will be consuming the Web API service from another web application on the same network domain (within an intranet), in this case you could rely on the Windows authentication provided by ASP.Net. 

    <authentication mode="Windows" />

    If your services are exposed on the Internet, then you would need to pass the authenticated tokens to each Web API service.

    For more info, take a loot to the following articles:

How to disable the ability to select in a DataGridView?

I fixed this by setting the Enabled property to false.

angular ng-repeat in reverse

Simple solution:- (no need to make any methods)

ng-repeat = "friend in friends | orderBy: reverse:true"

What does a "Cannot find symbol" or "Cannot resolve symbol" error mean?

"Can not find " means that , compiler who can't find appropriate variable, method ,class etc...if you got that error massage , first of all you want to find code line where get error massage..And then you will able to find which variable , method or class have not define before using it.After confirmation initialize that variable ,method or class can be used for later require...Consider the following example.

I'll create a demo class and print a name...

class demo{ 
      public static void main(String a[]){
             System.out.print(name);
      }
}

Now look at the result..

enter image description here

That error says, "variable name can not find"..Defining and initializing value for 'name' variable can be abolished that error..Actually like this,

class demo{ 
      public static void main(String a[]){

             String name="smith";

             System.out.print(name);
      }
}

Now look at the new output...

enter image description here

Ok Successfully solved that error..At the same time , if you could get "can not find method " or "can not find class" something , At first,define a class or method and after use that..

How do I get this javascript to run every second?

Use setInterval(func, delay) to run the func every delay milliseconds.

setTimeout() runs your function once after delay milliseconds -- it does not run it repeatedly. A common strategy is to run your code with setTimeout and call setTimeout again at the end of your code.

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.servlet.ServletContext.getContextPath()Ljava/lang/String;

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.servlet.ServletContext.getContextPath()Ljava/lang/String;

That method was added in Servlet 2.5.

So this problem can have at least 3 causes:

  1. The servlet container does not support Servlet 2.5.
  2. The web.xml is not declared conform Servlet 2.5 or newer.
  3. The webapp's runtime classpath is littered with servlet container specific JAR files of a different servlet container make/version which does not support Servlet 2.5.

To solve it,

  1. Make sure that your servlet container supports at least Servlet 2.5. That are at least Tomcat 6, Glassfish 2, JBoss AS 4.1, etcetera. Tomcat 5.5 for example supports at highest Servlet 2.4. If you can't upgrade Tomcat, then you'd need to downgrade Spring to a Servlet 2.4 compatible version.
  2. Make sure that the root declaration of web.xml complies Servlet 2.5 (or newer, at least the highest whatever your target runtime supports). For an example, see also somewhere halfway our servlets wiki page.
  3. Make sure that you don't have any servlet container specific libraries like servlet-api.jar or j2ee.jar in /WEB-INF/lib or even worse, the JRE/lib or JRE/lib/ext. They do not belong there. This is a pretty common beginner's mistake in an attempt to circumvent compilation errors in an IDE, see also How do I import the javax.servlet API in my Eclipse project?.

What is thread safe or non-thread safe in PHP?

As per PHP Documentation,

What does thread safety mean when downloading PHP?

Thread Safety means that binary can work in a multithreaded webserver context, such as Apache 2 on Windows. Thread Safety works by creating a local storage copy in each thread, so that the data won't collide with another thread.

So what do I choose? If you choose to run PHP as a CGI binary, then you won't need thread safety, because the binary is invoked at each request. For multithreaded webservers, such as IIS5 and IIS6, you should use the threaded version of PHP.

Following Libraries are not thread safe. They are not recommended for use in a multi-threaded environment.

  • SNMP (Unix)
  • mSQL (Unix)
  • IMAP (Win/Unix)
  • Sybase-CT (Linux, libc5)

Jupyter Notebook not saving: '_xsrf' argument missing from post

The solution I came across seems too simple but it worked. Go to the /tree aka Jupyter home page and refresh the browser. Worked.

How to change the background colour's opacity in CSS

Use rgba as most of the commonly used browsers supports it..

.social img:hover {
 background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, .5)
}

How to run script as another user without password?

 
`su -c "Your command right here" -s /bin/sh username`

The above command is correct, but on Red Hat if selinux is enforcing it will not allow cron to execute scripts as another user. example; execl: couldn't exec /bin/sh execl: Permission denied

I had to install setroubleshoot and setools and run the following to allow it:

yum install setroubleshoot setools
sealert -a /var/log/audit/audit.log
grep crond /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol
semodule -i mypol.p

Could not load file or assembly ... An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format (System.BadImageFormatException)

It can be a little funny, but I had the same problem with normal working code. I added StreamWriter and StreamReader and it gave that error. The solution was I took that code into comment brackets then did debug and it started to work again

Creating a div element in jQuery

Create an in-memory DIV

$("<div/>");

Add click handlers, styles etc - and finally insert into DOM into a target element selector:

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$("<div/>", {_x000D_
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  // PROPERTIES HERE_x000D_
  _x000D_
  text: "Click me",_x000D_
  id: "example",_x000D_
  "class": "myDiv",      // ('class' is still better in quotes)_x000D_
  css: {           _x000D_
    color: "red",_x000D_
    fontSize: "3em",_x000D_
    cursor: "pointer"_x000D_
  },_x000D_
  on: {_x000D_
    mouseenter: function() {_x000D_
      console.log("PLEASE... "+ $(this).text());_x000D_
    },_x000D_
    click: function() {_x000D_
      console.log("Hy! My ID is: "+ this.id);_x000D_
    }_x000D_
  },_x000D_
  append: "<i>!!</i>",_x000D_
  appendTo: "body"      // Finally, append to any selector_x000D_
  _x000D_
}); // << no need to do anything here as we defined the properties internally.
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<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
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Similar to ian's answer, but I found no example that properly addresses the use of methods within the properties object declaration so there you go.

What is the iOS 6 user agent string?

iPhone:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A5376e Safari/8536.25

iPad:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A5376e Safari/8536.25

For a complete list and more details about the iOS user agent check out these 2 resources:
Safari User Agent Strings (http://useragentstring.com/pages/Safari/)
Complete List of iOS User-Agent Strings (http://enterpriseios.com/wiki/UserAgent)

Postgresql -bash: psql: command not found

perhaps psql isn't in the PATH of the postgres user. Use the locate command to find where psql is and ensure that it's path is in the PATH for the postgres user.

Why does "pip install" inside Python raise a SyntaxError?

Initially I too faced this same problem, I installed python and when I run pip command it used to throw me an error like shown in pic below.

enter image description here

Make Sure pip path is added in environmental variables. For me, the python and pip installation path is::
Python: C:\Users\fhhz\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\
pip: C:\Users\fhhz\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\Scripts
Both these paths were added to path in environmental variables.

Now Open a new cmd window and type pip, you should be seeing a screen as below.

enter image description here

Now type pip install <<package-name>>. Here I'm installing package spyder so my command line statement will be as pip install spyder and here goes my running screen..

enter image description here

and I hope we are done with this!!

How does an SSL certificate chain bundle work?

You need to use the openssl pkcs12 -export -chain -in server.crt -CAfile ...

See https://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/pkcs12.html

Django: OperationalError No Such Table

The issue may be solved by running migrations.

  1. python manage.py makemigrations
  2. python manage.py migrate

perform the operations above whenever you make changes in models.py.

XPath to get all child nodes (elements, comments, and text) without parent

Use this XPath expression:

/*/*/X/node()

This selects any node (element, text node, comment or processing instruction) that is a child of any X element that is a grand-child of the top element of the XML document.

To verify what is selected, here is this XSLT transformation that outputs exactly the selected nodes:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
 <xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:copy-of select="/*/*/X/node()"/>
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

and it produces exactly the wanted, correct result:

   First Text Node #1            
    <y> Y can Have Child Nodes #                
        <child> deep to it </child>
    </y>            Second Text Node #2 
    <z />

Explanation:

  1. As defined in the W3 XPath 1.0 Spec, "child::node() selects all the children of the context node, whatever their node type." This means that any element, text-node, comment-node and processing-instruction node children are selected by this node-test.

  2. node() is an abbreviation of child::node() (because child:: is the primary axis and is used when no axis is explicitly specified).

In Python, how do I loop through the dictionary and change the value if it equals something?

 
for k, v in mydict.iteritems():
    if v is None:
        mydict[k] = ''

In a more general case, e.g. if you were adding or removing keys, it might not be safe to change the structure of the container you're looping on -- so using items to loop on an independent list copy thereof might be prudent -- but assigning a different value at a given existing index does not incur any problem, so, in Python 2.any, it's better to use iteritems.

In Python3 however the code gives AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'iteritems' error. Use items() instead of iteritems() here.

Refer to this post.

MySQL LEFT JOIN 3 tables

Try this definitely work. 

SELECT p.PersonID AS person_id,
   p.Name, p.SS, 
   f.FearID AS fear_id,
   f.Fear 
   FROM person_fear AS pf 
      LEFT JOIN persons AS p ON pf.PersonID = p.PersonID 
      LEFT JOIN fears AS f ON pf.PersonID = f.FearID 
   WHERE f.FearID = pf.FearID AND p.PersonID = pf.PersonID

Find and replace with sed in directory and sub directories

In linuxOS:

sed -i 's/textSerch/textReplace/g' namefile

if "sed" not work try : 

perl -i -pe 's/textSerch/textReplace/g' namefile

How to get a substring of text?

If you have your text in your_text variable, you can use:

your_text[0..29]

not:first-child selector

 
div li~li {
    color: red;
}

Supports IE7

How do you follow an HTTP Redirect in Node.js?

Update:

Now you can follow all redirects with var request = require('request'); using the followAllRedirects param. 

request({
  followAllRedirects: true,
  url: url
}, function (error, response, body) {
  if (!error) {
    console.log(response);
  }
});

How to verify if a file exists in a batch file?

Here is a good example on how to do a command if a file does or does not exist:

if exist C:\myprogram\sync\data.handler echo Now Exiting && Exit
if not exist C:\myprogram\html\data.sql Exit

We will take those three files and put it in a temporary place. After deleting the folder, it will restore those three files.

xcopy "test" "C:\temp"
xcopy "test2" "C:\temp"
del C:\myprogram\sync\
xcopy "C:\temp" "test"
xcopy "C:\temp" "test2"
del "c:\temp"

Use the XCOPY command:

xcopy "C:\myprogram\html\data.sql"  /c /d /h /e /i /y  "C:\myprogram\sync\"

I will explain what the /c /d /h /e /i /y means:

  /C           Continues copying even if errors occur.
  /D:m-d-y     Copies files changed on or after the specified date.
               If no date is given, copies only those files whose
               source time is newer than the destination time.
  /H           Copies hidden and system files also.
  /E           Copies directories and subdirectories, including empty ones.
               Same as /S /E. May be used to modify /T.
  /T           Creates directory structure, but does not copy files. Does not
               include empty directories or subdirectories. /T /E includes
  /I           If destination does not exist and copying more than one file,
               assumes that destination must be a directory.
  /Y           Suppresses prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an
               existing destination file.

`To see all the commands type`xcopy /? in cmd

Call other batch file with option sync.bat myprogram.ini.

I am not sure what you mean by this, but if you just want to open both of these files you just put the path of the file like

Path/sync.bat
Path/myprogram.ini

If it was in the Bash environment it was easy for me, but I do not know how to test if a file or folder exists and if it is a file or folder.

You are using a batch file. You mentioned earlier you have to create a .bat file to use this:

I have to create a .BAT file that does this:

How to highlight text using javascript

I was wondering that too, you could try what I learned on this post.

I used:

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function highlightSelection() {_x000D_
   var userSelection = window.getSelection();_x000D_
   for(var i = 0; i < userSelection.rangeCount; i++) {_x000D_
    highlightRange(userSelection.getRangeAt(i));_x000D_
   }_x000D_
   _x000D_
  }_x000D_
   _x000D_
   function highlightRange(range) {_x000D_
       var newNode = document.createElement("span");_x000D_
       newNode.setAttribute(_x000D_
          "style",_x000D_
          "background-color: yellow; display: inline;"_x000D_
       );_x000D_
       range.surroundContents(newNode);_x000D_
   }
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<html>_x000D_
 <body contextmenu="mymenu">_x000D_
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  <menu type="context" id="mymenu">_x000D_
   <menuitem label="Highlight Yellow" onclick="highlightSelection()" icon="/images/comment_icon.gif"></menuitem>_x000D_
  </menu>_x000D_
  <p>this is text, select and right click to high light me! if you can`t see the option, please use this<button onclick="highlightSelection()">button </button><p>
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you could also try it here: http://henriquedonati.com/projects/Extension/extension.html

xc

Why does background-color have no effect on this DIV?

Since the outer div only contains floated divs, it renders with 0 height. Either give it a height or set its overflow to hidden.

How can I add a Google search box to my website?

Sorry for replying on an older question, but I would like to clarify the last question.

You use a "get" method for your form. When the name of your input-field is "g", it will make a URL like this:

https://www.google.com/search?g=[value from input-field]

But when you search with google, you notice the following URL:

https://www.google.nl/search?q=google+search+bar

Google uses the "q" Querystring variable as it's search-query. Therefor, renaming your field from "g" to "q" solved the problem.

Does JavaScript have the interface type (such as Java's 'interface')?

I know this is an old one, but I've recently found myself needing more and more to have a handy API for checking objects against interfaces. So I wrote this: https://github.com/tomhicks/methodical

It's also available via NPM: npm install methodical

It basically does everything suggested above, with some options for being a bit more strict, and all without having to do loads of if (typeof x.method === 'function') boilerplate.

Hopefully someone finds it useful.

How to display list items as columns?

Use column-width property of css like below 

<ul style="column-width:135px">

How do you programmatically set an attribute?

Usually, we define classes for this.

class XClass( object ):
   def __init__( self ):
       self.myAttr= None

x= XClass()
x.myAttr= 'magic'
x.myAttr

However, you can, to an extent, do this with the setattr and getattr built-in functions. However, they don't work on instances of object directly. 

>>> a= object()
>>> setattr( a, 'hi', 'mom' )
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'object' object has no attribute 'hi'

They do, however, work on all kinds of simple classes.

class YClass( object ):
    pass

y= YClass()
setattr( y, 'myAttr', 'magic' )
y.myAttr

What exactly do "u" and "r" string flags do, and what are raw string literals?

Unicode string literals

Unicode string literals (string literals prefixed by u) are no longer used in Python 3. They are still valid but just for compatibility purposes with Python 2.

Raw string literals

If you want to create a string literal consisting of only easily typable characters like english letters or numbers, you can simply type them: 'hello world'. But if you want to include also some more exotic characters, you'll have to use some workaround. One of the workarounds are Escape sequences. This way you can for example represent a new line in your string simply by adding two easily typable characters \n to your string literal. So when you print the 'hello\nworld' string, the words will be printed on separate lines. That's very handy!

On the other hand, there are some situations when you want to create a string literal that contains escape sequences but you don't want them to be interpreted by Python. You want them to be raw. Look at these examples:

'New updates are ready in c:\windows\updates\new'
'In this lesson we will learn what the \n escape sequence does.'

In such situations you can just prefix the string literal with the r character like this: r'hello\nworld' and no escape sequences will be interpreted by Python. The string will be printed exactly as you created it.

Raw string literals are not completely "raw"?

Many people expect the raw string literals to be raw in a sense that "anything placed between the quotes is ignored by Python". That is not true. Python still recognizes all the escape sequences, it just does not interpret them - it leaves them unchanged instead. It means that raw string literals still have to be valid string literals.

From the lexical definition of a string literal:

string     ::=  "'" stringitem* "'"
stringitem ::=  stringchar | escapeseq
stringchar ::=  <any source character except "\" or newline or the quote>
escapeseq  ::=  "\" <any source character>

It is clear that string literals (raw or not) containing a bare quote character: 'hello'world' or ending with a backslash: 'hello world\' are not valid.

java.sql.SQLException: - ORA-01000: maximum open cursors exceeded

If your application is a Java EE application running on Oracle WebLogic as the application server, a possible cause for this issue is the Statement Cache Size setting in WebLogic.

If the Statement Cache Size setting for a particular data source is about equal to, or greater than, the Oracle database maximum open cursor count setting, then all of the open cursors can be consumed by cached SQL statements that are held open by WebLogic, resulting in the ORA-01000 error.

To address this, reduce the Statement Cache Size setting for each WebLogic datasource that points to the Oracle database to be significantly less than the maximum cursor count setting on the database.

In the WebLogic 10 Admin Console, the Statement Cache Size setting for each data source can be found at Services (left nav) > Data Sources > (individual data source) > Connection Pool tab.

How to convert SecureString to System.String?

I created the following extension methods based on the answer from rdev5. Pinning the managed string is important as it prevents the garbage collector from moving it around and leaving behind copies that you're unable to erase.

I think the advantage of my solution has is that no unsafe code is needed.

/// <summary>
/// Allows a decrypted secure string to be used whilst minimising the exposure of the
/// unencrypted string.
/// </summary>
/// <typeparam name="T">Generic type returned by Func delegate.</typeparam>
/// <param name="secureString">The string to decrypt.</param>
/// <param name="action">
/// Func delegate which will receive the decrypted password as a string object
/// </param>
/// <returns>Result of Func delegate</returns>
/// <remarks>
/// This method creates an empty managed string and pins it so that the garbage collector
/// cannot move it around and create copies. An unmanaged copy of the the secure string is
/// then created and copied into the managed string. The action is then called using the
/// managed string. Both the managed and unmanaged strings are then zeroed to erase their
/// contents. The managed string is unpinned so that the garbage collector can resume normal
/// behaviour and the unmanaged string is freed.
/// </remarks>
public static T UseDecryptedSecureString<T>(this SecureString secureString, Func<string, T> action)
{
    int length = secureString.Length;
    IntPtr sourceStringPointer = IntPtr.Zero;

    // Create an empty string of the correct size and pin it so that the GC can't move it around.
    string insecureString = new string('\0', length);
    var insecureStringHandler = GCHandle.Alloc(insecureString, GCHandleType.Pinned);

    IntPtr insecureStringPointer = insecureStringHandler.AddrOfPinnedObject();

    try
    {
        // Create an unmanaged copy of the secure string.
        sourceStringPointer = Marshal.SecureStringToBSTR(secureString);

        // Use the pointers to copy from the unmanaged to managed string.
        for (int i = 0; i < secureString.Length; i++)
        {
            short unicodeChar = Marshal.ReadInt16(sourceStringPointer, i * 2);
            Marshal.WriteInt16(insecureStringPointer, i * 2, unicodeChar);
        }

        return action(insecureString);
    }
    finally
    {
        // Zero the managed string so that the string is erased. Then unpin it to allow the
        // GC to take over.
        Marshal.Copy(new byte[length], 0, insecureStringPointer, length);
        insecureStringHandler.Free();

        // Zero and free the unmanaged string.
        Marshal.ZeroFreeBSTR(sourceStringPointer);
    }
}

/// <summary>
/// Allows a decrypted secure string to be used whilst minimising the exposure of the
/// unencrypted string.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="secureString">The string to decrypt.</param>
/// <param name="action">
/// Func delegate which will receive the decrypted password as a string object
/// </param>
/// <returns>Result of Func delegate</returns>
/// <remarks>
/// This method creates an empty managed string and pins it so that the garbage collector
/// cannot move it around and create copies. An unmanaged copy of the the secure string is
/// then created and copied into the managed string. The action is then called using the
/// managed string. Both the managed and unmanaged strings are then zeroed to erase their
/// contents. The managed string is unpinned so that the garbage collector can resume normal
/// behaviour and the unmanaged string is freed.
/// </remarks>
public static void UseDecryptedSecureString(this SecureString secureString, Action<string> action)
{
    UseDecryptedSecureString(secureString, (s) =>
    {
        action(s);
        return 0;
    });
}

What's the difference between Html.Label, Html.LabelFor and Html.LabelForModel

I think that the usage of @Html.LabelForModel() should be explained in more detail.

The LabelForModel Method returns an HTML label element and the property name of the property that is represented by the model.

You could refer to the following code:

Code in model:

using System.ComponentModel;

[DisplayName("MyModel")]
public class MyModel
{
    [DisplayName("A property")]
    public string Test { get; set; }
}

Code in view:

@Html.LabelForModel()
<div class="form-group">

    @Html.LabelFor(model => model.Test, new { @class = "control-label col-md-2" })

    <div class="col-md-10">
        @Html.EditorFor(model => model.Test)
        @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.Test)
    </div>
</div>

The output screenshot:

enter image description here

Reference to answer on the asp.net forum

What is the difference between char, nchar, varchar, and nvarchar in SQL Server?

NVARCHAR can store Unicode characters and takes 2 bytes per character.

ASP.NET MVC Yes/No Radio Buttons with Strongly Bound Model MVC

or MVC 2.0:

<%= Html.RadioButtonFor(model => model.blah, true) %> Yes
<%= Html.RadioButtonFor(model => model.blah, false) %> No

Parse JSON with R

The function fromJSON() in RJSONIO, rjson and jsonlite don't return a simple 2D data.frame for complex nested json objects.

To overcome this you can use tidyjson. It takes in a json and always returns a data.frame. It is currently not availble in CRAN, you can get it here: https://github.com/sailthru/tidyjson

Update: tidyjson is now available in cran, you can install it directly using install.packages("tidyjson")

What is the difference between Hibernate and Spring Data JPA

If you prefer simplicity and more control on SQL queries then I would suggest going with Spring Data/ Spring JDBC.

Its good amount of learning curve in JPA and sometimes difficult to debug issues. On the other hand, while you have full control over SQL, it becomes much easier to optimize query and improve performance. You can easily share your SQL with DBA or someone who has a better understanding of Database.

Java get month string from integer

DateFormatSymbols class provides methods for our ease use.

To get short month strings. For example: "Jan", "Feb", etc.

getShortMonths()

To get month strings. For example: "January", "February", etc.

getMonths()

Sample code to return month string in mmm format,

private static String getShortMonthFromNumber(int month){
    if(month<0 || month>11){
        return "";
    }
    return new DateFormatSymbols().getShortMonths()[month];
}

Android Material Design Button Styles

Beside android.support.design.button.MaterialButton (which mentioned by Gabriele Mariotti),

There is also another Button widget called com.google.android.material.button.MaterialButton which has different styles and extends from AppCompatButton:

style="@style/Widget.MaterialComponents.Button"
style="@style/Widget.MaterialComponents.Button.UnelevatedButton"
style="@style/Widget.MaterialComponents.Button.TextButton"
style="@style/Widget.MaterialComponents.Button.Icon"
style="@style/Widget.MaterialComponents.Button.TextButton.Icon"

Filled, elevated Button (default): enter image description here

style="@style/Widget.MaterialComponents.Button"

Filled, unelevated Button: enter image description here

style="@style/Widget.MaterialComponents.Button.UnelevatedButton"

Text Button: enter image description here 

style="@style/Widget.MaterialComponents.Button.TextButton"

Icon Button: enter image description here

style="@style/Widget.MaterialComponents.Button.Icon"
app:icon="@drawable/icon_24px" // Icons can be added from this

A text Button with an icon:: enter image description here

Read: https://material.io/develop/android/components/material-button/

A convenience class for creating a new Material button.

This class supplies updated Material styles for the button in the constructor. The widget will display the correct default Material styles without the use of the style flag.

1030 Got error 28 from storage engine

Check your /backup to see if you can delete an older not needed backup.

Can CSS detect the number of children an element has?

Clarification:

Because of a previous phrasing in the original question, a few SO citizens have raised concerns that this answer could be misleading. Note that, in CSS3, styles cannot be applied to a parent node based on the number of children it has. However, styles can be applied to the children nodes based on the number of siblings they have.

Original answer:

Incredibly, this is now possible purely in CSS3.

/* one item */
li:first-child:nth-last-child(1) {
/* -or- li:only-child { */
    width: 100%;
}

/* two items */
li:first-child:nth-last-child(2),
li:first-child:nth-last-child(2) ~ li {
    width: 50%;
}

/* three items */
li:first-child:nth-last-child(3),
li:first-child:nth-last-child(3) ~ li {
    width: 33.3333%;
}

/* four items */
li:first-child:nth-last-child(4),
li:first-child:nth-last-child(4) ~ li {
    width: 25%;
}

The trick is to select the first child when it's also the nth-from-the-last child. This effectively selects based on the number of siblings.

Credit for this technique goes to André Luís (discovered) & Lea Verou (refined).

Don't you just love CSS3?

CodePen Example:

Sources:

Visual Studio SignTool.exe Not Found

I have a windows 7 and installing the ClickOnce Tools was not enough.

The signtool.exe appeared after also installing the sdk:

selection in vs 2015

how to get files from <input type='file' .../> (Indirect) with javascript

Based on Ray Nicholus's answer : 

inputElement.onchange = function(event) {
   var fileList = inputElement.files;
   //TODO do something with fileList.  
}

using this will also work :

inputElement.onchange = function(event) {
   var fileList = event.target.files;
   //TODO do something with fileList.  
}

How to List All Redis Databases?

Or you can just run the following command and you will see all databases of the Redis instance without firing up redis-cli:

$ redis-cli INFO | grep ^db
db0:keys=1500,expires=2
db1:keys=200000,expires=1
db2:keys=350003,expires=1

Django - how to create a file and save it to a model's FileField?

You want to have a look at FileField and FieldFile in the Django docs, and especially FieldFile.save().

Basically, a field declared as a FileField, when accessed, gives you an instance of class FieldFile, which gives you several methods to interact with the underlying file. So, what you need to do is:

self.license_file.save(new_name, new_contents)

where new_name is the filename you wish assigned and new_contents is the content of the file. Note that new_contents must be an instance of either django.core.files.File or django.core.files.base.ContentFile (see given links to manual for the details).

The two choices boil down to:

from django.core.files.base import ContentFile, File

# Using File
with open('/path/to/file') as f:
    self.license_file.save(new_name, File(f))

# Using ContentFile
self.license_file.save(new_name, ContentFile('A string with the file content'))

password for postgres

Set the default password in the .pgpass file. If the server does not save the password, it is because it is not set in the .pgpass file, or the permissions are open and the file is therefore ignored.

Read more about the password file here.

Also, be sure to check the permissions: on *nix systems the permissions on .pgpass must disallow any access to world or group; achieve this by the command chmod 0600 ~/.pgpass. If the permissions are less strict than this, the file will be ignored.

Have you tried logging-in using PGAdmin? You can save the password there, and modify the pgpass file.

React Native fixed footer

You get the Dimension first and then manipulate it through flex style

var Dimensions = require('Dimensions')
var {width, height} = Dimensions.get('window')

In render

<View style={{flex: 1}}>
    <View style={{width: width, height: height - 200}}>main</View>
    <View style={{width: width, height: 200}}>footer</View>
</View>

The other method is to use flex

<View style={{flex: 1}}>
    <View style={{flex: .8}}>main</View>
    <View style={{flex: .2}}>footer</View>
</View>

Reading multiple Scanner inputs

If every input asks the same question, you should use a for loop and an array of inputs:

Scanner dd = new Scanner(System.in);
int[] vars = new int[3];

for(int i = 0; i < vars.length; i++) {
  System.out.println("Enter next var: ");
  vars[i] = dd.nextInt();
}

Or as Chip suggested, you can parse the input from one line:

Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
int[] vars = new int[3];

System.out.println("Enter "+vars.length+" vars: ");
for(int i = 0; i < vars.length; i++)
  vars[i] = in.nextInt();

You were on the right track, and what you did works. This is just a nicer and more flexible way of doing things.

Android - Back button in the title bar

You can also simply put onBackPressed() in your onClick listener. This causes your button to act like the default "back/up" buttons in android apps!

Bulk Record Update with SQL

You can do this through a regular UPDATE with a JOIN 

UPDATE T1
SET Description = T2.Description
   FROM Table1 T1
      JOIN Table2 T2
         ON T2.ID = T1.DescriptionId

How to close TCP and UDP ports via windows command line

Use TCPView: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897437.aspx
or CurrPorts: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cports.html

Alternatively, if you don't want to use EXTERNAL SOFTWARE (these tools don't require an installation by the way), you can simply FIRST run the netstat command (preferably netstat -b ) & then setup Local Security Policy to block the IP address of the user's machine in question, that's what I have been doing with unwanted or even unknown connections - that allows you doing everything WITHOUT ANY EXTERNAL SOFTWARE (everything comes with Windows)...

Troubleshooting "Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent"

Just replace session_start with this.

if (!session_id() && !headers_sent()) {
   session_start();
}

You can put it anywhere, even at the end :) Works fine for me. $_SESSION is accessible as well.

Adding System.Web.Script reference in class library

The ScriptIgnoreAttribute class is in the System.Web.Extensions.dll assembly (Located under Assemblies > Framework in the VS Reference Manager). You have to add a reference to that assembly in your class library project.

You can find this information at top of the MSDN page for the ScriptIgnoreAttribute class.

Java converting Image to BufferedImage

From a Java Game Engine:

/**
 * Converts a given Image into a BufferedImage
 *
 * @param img The Image to be converted
 * @return The converted BufferedImage
 */
public static BufferedImage toBufferedImage(Image img)
{
    if (img instanceof BufferedImage)
    {
        return (BufferedImage) img;
    }

    // Create a buffered image with transparency
    BufferedImage bimage = new BufferedImage(img.getWidth(null), img.getHeight(null), BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);

    // Draw the image on to the buffered image
    Graphics2D bGr = bimage.createGraphics();
    bGr.drawImage(img, 0, 0, null);
    bGr.dispose();

    // Return the buffered image
    return bimage;
}

Python Threading String Arguments

You're trying to create a tuple, but you're just parenthesizing a string :)

Add an extra ',': 

dRecieved = connFile.readline()
processThread = threading.Thread(target=processLine, args=(dRecieved,))  # <- note extra ','
processThread.start()

Or use brackets to make a list:

dRecieved = connFile.readline()
processThread = threading.Thread(target=processLine, args=[dRecieved])  # <- 1 element list
processThread.start()

If you notice, from the stack trace: self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)

The *self.__args turns your string into a list of characters, passing them to the processLine function. If you pass it a one element list, it will pass that element as the first argument - in your case, the string.

Changing Tint / Background color of UITabBar

Swift 3 using appearance from your AppDelegate do the following:

UITabBar.appearance().barTintColor = your_color

Rollback to last git commit

Caveat Emptor - Destructive commands ahead.

Mitigation - git reflog can save you if you need it.

1) UNDO local file changes and KEEP your last commit

git reset --hard

2) UNDO local file changes and REMOVE your last commit

git reset --hard HEAD^

3) KEEP local file changes and REMOVE your last commit

git reset --soft HEAD^

Subset and ggplot2

With option 2 in @agstudy's answer now deprecated, defining data with a function can be handy.

library(plyr)
ggplot(data=dat) + 
  geom_line(aes(Value1, Value2, group=ID, colour=ID),
            data=function(x){x$ID %in% c("P1", "P3"))

This approach comes in handy if you wish to reuse a dataset in the same plot, e.g. you don't want to specify a new column in the data.frame, or you want to explicitly plot one dataset in a layer above the other.:

library(plyr)
ggplot(data=dat, aes(Value1, Value2, group=ID, colour=ID)) + 
  geom_line(data=function(x){x[!x$ID %in% c("P1", "P3"), ]}, alpha=0.5) +
  geom_line(data=function(x){x[x$ID %in% c("P1", "P3"), ]})

Renaming files in a folder to sequential numbers

Try to use a loop, let, and printf for the padding:

a=1
for i in *.jpg; do
  new=$(printf "%04d.jpg" "$a") #04 pad to length of 4
  mv -i -- "$i" "$new"
  let a=a+1
done

using the -i flag prevents automatically overwriting existing files.

Pass parameter to EventHandler

If I understand your problem correctly, you are calling a method instead of passing it as a parameter. Try the following:

myTimer.Elapsed += PlayMusicEvent;

where

public void PlayMusicEvent(object sender, ElapsedEventArgs e)
{
    music.player.Stop();
    System.Timers.Timer myTimer = (System.Timers.Timer)sender;
    myTimer.Stop();
}

But you need to think about where to store your note.

Reset Excel to default borders

If you have applied border and/or fill on a cell, you need to clear both to go back to the default borders.

You may apply 'None' as the border option and expect the default borders to show, but it will not when the cell fill is white. It's not immediately obvious that it has a white fill, as unfilled cells are also white.

In this case, apply a 'No Fill' on the cells, and you will get the default borders back.

Screenshot of Excel indicating locations of No Border and No Fill options

That's it. No messy format painting, no 'Clear Formats', none of those destructive methods. Easy, quick and painless.

curl: (6) Could not resolve host: google.com; Name or service not known

Try nslookup google.com to determine if there's a DNS issue. 192.168.1.254 is your local network address and it looks like your system is using it as a DNS server. Is this your gateway/modem router as well? What happens when you try ping google.com. Can you browse to it on a Internet web browser?

Get ID from URL with jQuery

 
const url = "http://www.example.com/1234"
const id = url.split('/').pop();

Try this, it is much easier

The output gives 1234

How do I get a computer's name and IP address using VB.NET?

Here is Example for this. In this example we can get IP address of our given host name. 

   Dim strHostName As String = "jayeshsorathia.blogspot.com"
    'string strHostName = "www.microsoft.com";
    ' Get DNS entry of specified host name
    Dim addresses As IPAddress() = Dns.GetHostEntry(strHostName).AddressList

    ' The DNS entry may contains more than one IP addresses.
    ' Iterate them and display each along with the type of address (AddressFamily).
    For Each address As IPAddress In addresses
        Response.Write(String.Format("{0} = {1} ({2})", strHostName, address, address.AddressFamily))
        Response.Write("<br/><br/>")
    Next

Iterating through a list in reverse order in java

Here is an (untested) implementation of a ReverseIterable. When iterator() is called it creates and returns a private ReverseIterator implementation, which simply maps calls to hasNext() to hasPrevious() and calls to next() are mapped to previous(). It means you could iterate over an ArrayList in reverse as follows:

ArrayList<String> l = ...
for (String s : new ReverseIterable(l)) {
  System.err.println(s);
}

Class Definition

public class ReverseIterable<T> implements Iterable<T> {
  private static class ReverseIterator<T> implements Iterator {
    private final ListIterator<T> it;

    public boolean hasNext() {
      return it.hasPrevious();
    }

    public T next() {
      return it.previous();
    }

    public void remove() {
      it.remove();
    }
  }

  private final ArrayList<T> l;

  public ReverseIterable(ArrayList<T> l) {
    this.l = l;
  }

  public Iterator<T> iterator() {
    return new ReverseIterator(l.listIterator(l.size()));
  }
}

Transparent background on winforms?

I tried almost all of this. but still couldn't work. Finally I found it was because of 24bitmap problems. If you tried some bitmap which less than 24bit. Most of those above methods should work.

Hash table runtime complexity (insert, search and delete)

Depends on the how you implement hashing, in the worst case it can go to O(n), in best case it is 0(1) (generally you can achieve if your DS is not that big easily)

How to view the dependency tree of a given npm module?

To get it as a list:

% npx npm-remote-ls --flatten dugite -d false -o false
[
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '@szmarczak/[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '@sindresorhus/[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]',
  '[email protected]'
]

Open new Terminal Tab from command line (Mac OS X)

If you are using iTerm this command will open a new tab:

osascript -e 'tell application "iTerm" to activate' -e 'tell application "System Events" to tell process "iTerm" to keystroke "t" using command down'

Add Auto-Increment ID to existing table?

 
ALTER TABLE users ADD id int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT primary key FIRST

How can I recover a lost commit in Git?

Before answering, let's add some background, explaining what this HEAD is.

First of all what is HEAD?

HEAD is simply a reference to the current commit (latest) on the current branch.
There can only be a single HEAD at any given time (excluding git worktree).

The content of HEAD is stored inside .git/HEAD and it contains the 40 bytes SHA-1 of the current commit.

detached HEAD

If you are not on the latest commit - meaning that HEAD is pointing to a prior commit in history it's called detached HEAD.

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On the command line, it will look like this - SHA-1 instead of the branch name since the HEAD is not pointing to the tip of the current branch:

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A few options on how to recover from a detached HEAD:

git checkout

git checkout <commit_id>
git checkout -b <new branch> <commit_id>
git checkout HEAD~X // x is the number of commits t go back

This will checkout new branch pointing to the desired commit.
This command will checkout to a given commit.
At this point, you can create a branch and start to work from this point on.

# Checkout a given commit.
# Doing so will result in a `detached HEAD` which mean that the `HEAD`
# is not pointing to the latest so you will need to checkout branch
# in order to be able to update the code.
git checkout <commit-id>

# Create a new branch forked to the given commit
git checkout -b <branch name>

git reflog

You can always use the reflog as well.
git reflog will display any change which updated the HEAD and checking out the desired reflog entry will set the HEAD back to this commit.

Every time the HEAD is modified there will be a new entry in the reflog

git reflog
git checkout HEAD@{...}

This will get you back to your desired commit

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git reset --hard <commit_id>

"Move" your HEAD back to the desired commit.

# This will destroy any local modifications.
# Don't do it if you have uncommitted work you want to keep.
git reset --hard 0d1d7fc32

# Alternatively, if there's work to keep:
git stash
git reset --hard 0d1d7fc32
git stash pop
# This saves the modifications, then reapplies that patch after resetting.
# You could get merge conflicts if you've modified things which were
# changed since the commit you reset to.
  • Note: (Since Git 2.7) you can also use the git rebase --no-autostash as well.

git revert <sha-1>

"Undo" the given commit or commit range.
The reset command will "undo" any changes made in the given commit.
A new commit with the undo patch will be committed while the original commit will remain in the history as well.

# Add a new commit with the undo of the original one.
# The <sha-1> can be any commit(s) or commit range
git revert <sha-1>

This schema illustrates which command does what.
As you can see there, reset && checkout modify the HEAD.

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Get an array of list element contents in jQuery

kimstik was close, but not quite.

Here's how to do it in a convenient one-liner:

$.map( $('li'), function (element) { return $(element).text() });

Here's the full documentation for jQuery's map function, it's quite handy: http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.map/

Just to answer fully, here's the complete functionality you were looking for:

$.map( $('li'), function (element) { return $(element).text() }).join(', ');

how to fix stream_socket_enable_crypto(): SSL operation failed with code 1

To resolve this problem you first need to check the SSL certificates of the host your are connecting to. For example using ssllabs or other ssl tools. In my case the intermediate certificate was wrong.

If the certificate is ok, make sure the openSSL on your server is up to date. Run openssl -v to check your version. Maybe your version is to old to work with the certificate.

In very rare cases you might want to disable ssl security features like verify_peer, verify_peer_name or allow_self_signed. Please be very careful with this and never use this in production. This is only an option for temporary testing.

How to start an Android application from the command line?

 
adb shell
am start -n com.package.name/com.package.name.ActivityName

Or you can use this directly:

adb shell am start -n com.package.name/com.package.name.ActivityName

You can also specify actions to be filter by your intent-filters:

am start -a com.example.ACTION_NAME -n com.package.name/com.package.name.ActivityName

Why do we have to override the equals() method in Java?

.equals() doesn't perform an intelligent comparison for most classes unless the class overrides it. If it's not defined for a (user) class, it behaves the same as ==.

Reference: http://www.leepoint.net/notes-java/data/expressions/22compareobjects.html http://www.leepoint.net/data/expressions/22compareobjects.html

C pass int array pointer as parameter into a function

In new code assignment should be,

B[0] = 5

In func(B), you are just passing address of the pointer which is pointing to array B. You can do change in func() as B[i] or *(B + i). Where i is the index of the array.

In the first code the declaration says, 

int *B[10]

says that B is an array of 10 elements, each element of which is a pointer to a int. That is, B[i] is a int pointer and *B[i] is the integer it points to the first integer of the i-th saved text line.

How to convert a byte array to Stream

Easy, simply wrap a MemoryStream around it:

Stream stream = new MemoryStream(buffer);

Detect when an image fails to load in Javascript

jQuery + CSS for img

With jQuery this is working for me :

$('img').error(function() {
    $(this).attr('src', '/no-img.png').addClass('no-img');
});

And I can use this picture everywhere on my website regardless of the size of it with the following CSS3 property :

img.no-img {
    object-fit: cover;
    object-position: 50% 50%;
}

TIP 1 : use a square image of at least 800 x 800 pixels.

TIP 2 : for use with portrait of people, use object-position: 20% 50%;

CSS only for background-img

For missing background images, I also added the following on each background-image declaration :

background-image: url('path-to-image.png'), url('no-img.png');

NOTE : not working for transparent images.

Apache server side

Another solution is to detect missing image with Apache before to send to browser and remplace it by the default no-img.png content.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /images/.*\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png)$
RewriteRule .* /images/no-img.png [L,R=307]

How to instantiate a File object in JavaScript?

Now you can!

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var parts = [_x000D_
  new Blob(['you construct a file...'], {type: 'text/plain'}),_x000D_
  ' Same way as you do with blob',_x000D_
  new Uint16Array([33])_x000D_
];_x000D_
_x000D_
// Construct a file_x000D_
var file = new File(parts, 'sample.txt', {_x000D_
    lastModified: new Date(0), // optional - default = now_x000D_
    type: "overide/mimetype" // optional - default = ''_x000D_
});_x000D_
_x000D_
var fr = new FileReader();_x000D_
_x000D_
fr.onload = function(evt){_x000D_
   document.body.innerHTML = evt.target.result + "<br><a href="+URL.createObjectURL(file)+" download=" + file.name + ">Download " + file.name + "</a><br>type: "+file.type+"<br>last modified: "+ file.lastModifiedDate_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
fr.readAsText(file);
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_x000D_

java, get set methods

To understand get and set, it's all related to how variables are passed between different classes.

The get method is used to obtain or retrieve a particular variable value from a class.

A set value is used to store the variables.

The whole point of the get and set is to retrieve and store the data values accordingly.

What I did in this old project was I had a User class with my get and set methods that I used in my Server class.

The User class's get set methods:

public int getuserID()
    {
        //getting the userID variable instance
        return userID;
    }
    public String getfirstName()
    {
        //getting the firstName variable instance
        return firstName;
    }
    public String getlastName()
    {
        //getting the lastName variable instance
        return lastName;
    }
    public int getage()
    {
        //getting the age variable instance
        return age;
    }

    public void setuserID(int userID)
    {
        //setting the userID variable value
        this.userID = userID;
    }
    public void setfirstName(String firstName)
    {
        //setting the firstName variable text
        this.firstName = firstName;
    }
    public void setlastName(String lastName)
    {
        //setting the lastName variable text
        this.lastName = lastName;
    }
    public void setage(int age)
    {
        //setting the age variable value
        this.age = age;
    }
}

Then this was implemented in the run() method in my Server class as follows:

//creates user object
                User use = new User(userID, firstName, lastName, age);
                //Mutator methods to set user objects
                use.setuserID(userID);
                use.setlastName(lastName);
                use.setfirstName(firstName);               
                use.setage(age);

Storing files in SQL Server

There's a really good paper by Microsoft Research called To Blob or Not To Blob.

Their conclusion after a large number of performance tests and analysis is this:

  • if your pictures or document are typically below 256K in size, storing them in a database VARBINARY column is more efficient

  • if your pictures or document are typically over 1 MB in size, storing them in the filesystem is more efficient (and with SQL Server 2008's FILESTREAM attribute, they're still under transactional control and part of the database)

  • in between those two, it's a bit of a toss-up depending on your use

If you decide to put your pictures into a SQL Server table, I would strongly recommend using a separate table for storing those pictures - do not store the employee photo in the employee table - keep them in a separate table. That way, the Employee table can stay lean and mean and very efficient, assuming you don't always need to select the employee photo, too, as part of your queries.

For filegroups, check out Files and Filegroup Architecture for an intro. Basically, you would either create your database with a separate filegroup for large data structures right from the beginning, or add an additional filegroup later. Let's call it "LARGE_DATA".

Now, whenever you have a new table to create which needs to store VARCHAR(MAX) or VARBINARY(MAX) columns, you can specify this file group for the large data:

 CREATE TABLE dbo.YourTable
     (....... define the fields here ......)
     ON Data                   -- the basic "Data" filegroup for the regular data
     TEXTIMAGE_ON LARGE_DATA   -- the filegroup for large chunks of data

Check out the MSDN intro on filegroups, and play around with it!

Add CSS or JavaScript files to layout head from views or partial views

I wrote an easy wrapper that allows you to register styles and scrips in every partial view dynamically into the head tag.

It is based on the DynamicHeader jsakamoto put up, but it has some performance improvements & tweaks.

It is very easy to use, and versatile.

The usage:

@{
    DynamicHeader.AddStyleSheet("/Content/Css/footer.css", ResourceType.Layout);    
    DynamicHeader.AddStyleSheet("/Content/Css/controls.css", ResourceType.Infrastructure);
    DynamicHeader.AddScript("/Content/Js/Controls.js", ResourceType.Infrastructure);
    DynamicHeader.AddStyleSheet("/Content/Css/homepage.css");    
}

You can find the full code, explanations and examples inside: Add Styles & Scripts Dynamically to Head Tag

Java properties UTF-8 encoding in Eclipse

It is not a problem with Eclipse. If you are using the Properties class to read and store the properties file, the class will escape all special characters.

From the class documentation:

When saving properties to a stream or loading them from a stream, the ISO 8859-1 character encoding is used. For characters that cannot be directly represented in this encoding, Unicode escapes are used; however, only a single 'u' character is allowed in an escape sequence. The native2ascii tool can be used to convert property files to and from other character encodings.

From the API, store() method:

Characters less than \u0020 and characters greater than \u007E are written as \uxxxx for the appropriate hexadecimal value xxxx.

PHP with MySQL 8.0+ error: The server requested authentication method unknown to the client

 
preferences -> mysql -> initialize database -> use legacy password encryption(instead of strong) -> entered same password

as my config.inc.php file, restarted the apache server and it worked. I was still suspicious about it so I stopped the apache and mysql server and started them again and now it's working.

The OLE DB provider "Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0" for linked server "(null)"

In our case, it helped to add a parameter for SQL Server service:

  1. Go to Services.msc, select SQL Server Service and open Properties.
  2. Choose Startup Parameters and add new parameter –g512
  3. Restart SQL server service.

What does mysql error 1025 (HY000): Error on rename of './foo' (errorno: 150) mean?

I know, this is an old post, but it's the first hit on everyone's favorite search engine if you are looking for error 1025.

However, there is an easy "hack" for fixing this issue:

Before you execute your command(s) you first have to disable the foreign key constraints check using this command:

SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 0;

Then you are able to execute your command(s).

After you are done, don't forget to enable the foreign key constraints check again, using this command:

SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS = 1;

Good luck with your endeavor.

Change variable name in for loop using R

Another option is using eval and parse, as in

d = 5
for (i in 1:10){
     eval(parse(text = paste('a', 1:10, ' = d + rnorm(3)', sep='')[i]))
}

How to select all the columns of a table except one column?

Create a view. Yes, in the view creation statement, you will have to list each...and...every...field...by...name.

Once.

Then just select * from viewname after that.

How to turn a string formula into a "real" formula

Evaluate might suit:

http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/showthread.php?t=62067

Function Eval(Ref As String)
    Application.Volatile
    Eval = Evaluate(Ref)
End Function

Python idiom to return first item or None

Borrowing more_itertools.first_true code yields something decently readable:

def first_true(iterable, default=None, pred=None):
    return next(filter(pred, iterable), default)

def get_first_non_default(items_list, default=None):
    return first_true(items_list, default, pred=lambda x: x!=default)

Regular expression: zero or more occurrences of optional character /

 
/*

If your delimiters are slash-based, escape it:

\/*

* means "0 or more of the previous repeatable pattern", which can be a single character, a character class or a group.

How to avoid precompiled headers

try to add #include "stdafx.h" before #include "iostream"

static linking only some libraries

From the manpage of ld (this does not work with gcc), referring to the --static option:

You may use this option multiple times on the command line: it affects library searching for -l options which follow it.

One solution is to put your dynamic dependencies before the --static option on the command line.

Another possibility is to not use --static, but instead provide the full filename/path of the static object file (i.e. not using -l option) for statically linking in of a specific library. Example:

# echo "int main() {}" > test.cpp
# c++ test.cpp /usr/lib/libX11.a
# ldd a.out
linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff385cc000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f9a5b233000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f9a5afb0000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f9a5ad99000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f9a5aa46000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f9a5b53f000)

As you can see in the example, libX11 is not in the list of dynamically-linked libraries, as it was linked statically.

Beware: An .so file is always linked dynamically, even when specified with a full filename/path.

Find which rows have different values for a given column in Teradata SQL

Personally, I would print them to a file using Perl or Python in the format

<COL_NAME>:  <COL_VAL>

for each row so that the file has as many lines as there are columns. Then I'd do a diff between the two files, assuming you are on Unix or compare them using some equivalent utilty on another OS. If you have multiple recordsets (i.e. more than one row), I would prepend to each file row and then the file would have NUM_DB_ROWS * NUM_COLS lines

Change the maximum upload file size

Non of those solutions work for me!! (already set to 32M by default).The problem is in most case max_allowed_packet

I am working on localhost and using MAMP.

Here is solutions;

1. If you don't have my.ini

Add

--max_allowed_packet=168435456

To

...\MAMP\bin\startMysql.sh

2. If you have my.ini

Under

[mysqld]

Add

max_allowed_packet=100M

DONE!

How to draw border around a UILabel?

Swift 3/4 with @IBDesignable

While almost all the above solutions work fine but I would suggest an @IBDesignable custom class for this.

@IBDesignable
class CustomLabel: UILabel {

    /*
    // Only override draw() if you perform custom drawing.
    // An empty implementation adversely affects performance during animation.
    override func draw(_ rect: CGRect) {
        // Drawing code
    }
    */

    @IBInspectable var borderColor: UIColor = UIColor.white {
        didSet {
            layer.borderColor = borderColor.cgColor
        }
    }

    @IBInspectable var borderWidth: CGFloat = 2.0 {
        didSet {
            layer.borderWidth = borderWidth
        }
    }

    @IBInspectable var cornerRadius: CGFloat = 0.0 {
        didSet {
            layer.cornerRadius = cornerRadius
        }
    }
}

How can I create an array/list of dictionaries in python?

I assume that motifWidth contains an integer.

In Python, lists do not change size unless you tell them to. Hence, Python throws an exception when you try to change an element that isn't there. I believe you want:

weightMatrix = []
for k in range(motifWidth):
    weightMatrix.append({'A':0,'C':0,'G':0,'T':0})

For what it's worth, when asking questions in the future, it would help if you included the stack trace showing the error that you're getting rather than just saying "it isn't working". That would help us directly figure out the cause of the problem, rather than trying to puzzle it out from your code.

Hope that helps!

How can I remove an SSH key?

I opened "Passwords and Keys" application in my Unity and removed unwanted keys from Secure Keys -> OpenSSH keys And they automatically had been removed from ssh-agent -l as well.

Is there a way to pass javascript variables in url?

Try this:

window.location.href = "http://www.gorissen.info/Pierre/maps/googleMapLocation.php?lat=\''+elemA+'\'&lon=\''+elemB+'\'&setLatLon=Set";

How to correctly set the ORACLE_HOME variable on Ubuntu 9.x?

You have to set LANG as well, look for files named 'sp1*.msb', and set for instance export LANG=us if you find a file name sp1us.msb. The error message could sure be better :)

How to make a checkbox checked with jQuery?

 
$('#test').attr('checked','checked');

$('#test').removeAttr('checked');

Format a message using MessageFormat.format() in Java

You need to use double apostrophe instead of single in the "You''re", eg:

String text = java.text.MessageFormat.format("You''re about to delete {0} rows.", 5);
System.out.println(text);

Set System.Drawing.Color values

You must use Color.FromArgb method to create new color structure

var newColor = Color.FromArgb(0xCC,0xBB,0xAA);

How to use XPath contains() here?

Paste my contains example here:

//table[contains(@class, "EC_result")]/tbody

In javascript, how do you search an array for a substring match

I think this may help you. I had a similar issue. If your array looks like this: 

var array = ["page1","1973","Jimmy"];

You can do a simple "for" loop to return the instance in the array when you get a match.

var c; 
for (i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
if (array[i].indexOf("page") > -1){ 
c = i;}
}

We create an empty variable, c to host our answer. We then loop through the array to find where the array object (e.g. "page1") matches our indexOf("page"). In this case, it's 0 (the first result)

Happy to expand if you need further support.

How to store Node.js deployment settings/configuration files?

I'm going to throw my hat into the ring here because none of these answers address all the critical components that pretty much any system needs. Considerations:

  • Public configuration (that can be seen by the frontend) vs private configuration (guy mograbi got this one right). And ensuring these are kept separate.
  • Secrets like keys
  • Defaults vs environment-specific overrides
  • Frontend bundles

Here's how I do my configuration:

  • config.default.private.js - In version control, these are default configuration options that can only be seen by your backend.
  • config.default.public.js - In version control, these are default configuration options that can be seen by backend and frontend
  • config.dev.private.js - If you need different private defaults for dev.
  • config.dev.public.js - If you need different public defaults for dev.
  • config.private.js - Not in version control, these are environment specific options that override config.default.private.js
  • config.public.js - Not in version control, these are environment specific options that override config.default.public.js
  • keys/ - A folder where each file stores a different secret of some kind. This is also not under version control (keys should never be under version control).

I use plain-old javascript files for configuration so I have the full power of the javascript langauge (including comments and the ability to do things like load the default config file in the environment-specific file so they can then be overridden). If you want to use environment variables, you can load them inside those config files (tho I recommend against using env vars for the same reason I don't recommend using json files - you don't have the power of a programming language to construct your config).

The reason each key is in a separate file is for installer use. This allows you to have an installer that creates keys on-machine and stores them in the keys folder. Without this, your installer might fail when you load your configuration file that can't access your keys. This way you can traverse the directory and load any key files that are in that folder without having to worry about what exists and what doesn't in any given version of your code.

Since you probably have keys loaded in your private configuration, you definitely don't want to load your private config in any frontend code. While its probably strictly more ideal to completely separate your frontend codebase from your backend, a lot of times that PITA is a big enough barrier to prevent people from doing it, thus private vs public config. But there's two things I do to prevent private config being loaded in the frontend:

  1. I have a unit test that ensures my frontend bundles don't contain one of the secret keys I have in the private config.
  2. I have my frontend code in a different folder than my backend code, and I have two different files named "config.js" - one for each end. For backend, config.js loads the private config, for frontend, it loads the public config. Then you always just require('config') and don't worry about where it comes from.

One last thing: your configuration should be loaded into the browser via a completely separate file than any of your other frontend code. If you bundle your frontend code, the public configuration should be built as a completely separate bundle. Otherwise, your config isn't really config anymore - its just part of your code. Config needs to be able to be different on different machines.

Why Local Users and Groups is missing in Computer Management on Windows 10 Home?

Windows 10 Home Edition does not have Local Users and Groups option so that is the reason you aren't able to see that in Computer Management.

You can use User Accounts by pressing Window+R, typing netplwiz and pressing OK as described here.

Lumen: get URL parameter in a Blade view

if you use route and pass paramater use this code in your blade file

{{dd(request()->route()->parameters)}}

Get number days in a specified month using JavaScript?

 
// Month here is 1-indexed (January is 1, February is 2, etc). This is
// because we're using 0 as the day so that it returns the last day
// of the last month, so you have to add 1 to the month number 
// so it returns the correct amount of days
function daysInMonth (month, year) {
    return new Date(year, month, 0).getDate();
}

// July
daysInMonth(7,2009); // 31
// February
daysInMonth(2,2009); // 28
daysInMonth(2,2008); // 29

What is the difference between CSS and SCSS?

And this is less

@primarycolor: #ffffff;
@width: 800px;

body{
 width: @width;
 color: @primarycolor;
 .content{
  width: @width;
  background:@primarycolor;
 }
}

Creating a recursive method for Palindrome

Here is my go at it:

public class Test {

    public static boolean isPalindrome(String s) {
        return s.length() <= 1 ||
            (s.charAt(0) == s.charAt(s.length() - 1) &&
             isPalindrome(s.substring(1, s.length() - 1)));
    }


    public static boolean isPalindromeForgiving(String s) {
        return isPalindrome(s.toLowerCase().replaceAll("[\\s\\pP]", ""));
    }


    public static void main(String[] args) {

        // True (odd length)
        System.out.println(isPalindrome("asdfghgfdsa"));

        // True (even length)
        System.out.println(isPalindrome("asdfggfdsa"));

        // False
        System.out.println(isPalindrome("not palindrome"));

        // True (but very forgiving :)
        System.out.println(isPalindromeForgiving("madam I'm Adam"));
    }
}

jQuery Multiple ID selectors

Make sure upload plugin implements this.each in it so that it will execute the logic for all the matching elements. It should ideally work

$("#upload_link,#upload_link2,#upload_link3").upload(function(){ });

WPF Binding StringFormat Short Date String

Try this:

<TextBlock Text="{Binding PropertyPath, StringFormat=d}" />

which is culture sensitive and requires .NET 3.5 SP1 or above.

NOTE: This is case sensitive. "d" is the short date format specifier while "D" is the long date format specifier.

There's a full list of string format on the MSDN page on Standard Date and Time Format Strings and a fuller explanation of all the options on this MSDN blog post

However, there is one gotcha with this - it always outputs the date in US format unless you set the culture to the correct value yourself.

If you do not set this property, the binding engine uses the Language property of the binding target object. In XAML this defaults to "en-US" or inherits the value from the root element (or any element) of the page, if one has been explicitly set.

Source

One way to do this is in the code behind (assuming you've set the culture of the thread to the correct value):

this.Language = XmlLanguage.GetLanguage(Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.Name);

The other way is to set the converter culture in the binding:

<TextBlock Text="{Binding PropertyPath, StringFormat=d, ConverterCulture=en-GB}" />

Though this doesn't allow you to localise the output.

Fast ceiling of an integer division in C / C++

There's a solution for both positive and negative x but only for positive y with just 1 division and without branches:

int ceil(int x, int y) {
    return x / y + (x % y > 0);
}

Note, if x is positive then division is towards zero, and we should add 1 if reminder is not zero.

If x is negative then division is towards zero, that's what we need, and we will not add anything because x % y is not positive

UIView bottom border?

Swift 4/3

You can use this solution beneath. It works on UIBezierPaths which are lighter than layers, causing quick startup times. It is easy to use, see instructions beneath.

class ResizeBorderView: UIView {
    var color = UIColor.white
    var lineWidth: CGFloat = 1
    var edges = [UIRectEdge](){
        didSet {
            setNeedsDisplay()
        }
    }
    override func draw(_ rect: CGRect) {
        if edges.contains(.top) || edges.contains(.all){
            let path = UIBezierPath()
            path.lineWidth = lineWidth
            color.setStroke()
            UIColor.blue.setFill()
            path.move(to: CGPoint(x: 0, y: 0 + lineWidth / 2))
            path.addLine(to: CGPoint(x: self.bounds.width, y: 0 + lineWidth / 2))
            path.stroke()
        }
        if edges.contains(.bottom) || edges.contains(.all){
            let path = UIBezierPath()
            path.lineWidth = lineWidth
            color.setStroke()
            UIColor.blue.setFill()
            path.move(to: CGPoint(x: 0, y: self.bounds.height - lineWidth / 2))
            path.addLine(to: CGPoint(x: self.bounds.width, y: self.bounds.height - lineWidth / 2))
            path.stroke()
        }
        if edges.contains(.left) || edges.contains(.all){
            let path = UIBezierPath()
            path.lineWidth = lineWidth
            color.setStroke()
            UIColor.blue.setFill()
            path.move(to: CGPoint(x: 0 + lineWidth / 2, y: 0))
            path.addLine(to: CGPoint(x: 0 + lineWidth / 2, y: self.bounds.height))
            path.stroke()
        }
        if edges.contains(.right) || edges.contains(.all){
            let path = UIBezierPath()
            path.lineWidth = lineWidth
            color.setStroke()
            UIColor.blue.setFill()
            path.move(to: CGPoint(x: self.bounds.width - lineWidth / 2, y: 0))
            path.addLine(to: CGPoint(x: self.bounds.width - lineWidth / 2, y: self.bounds.height))
            path.stroke()
        }
    }
}
  1. Set your UIView's class to ResizeBorderView
  2. Set the color and line width by using yourview.color and yourview.lineWidth in your viewDidAppear method
  3. Set the edges, example: yourview.edges = [.right, .left] ([.all]) for all
  4. Enjoy quick start and resizing borders

get the selected index value of <select> tag in php

Your form is valid. Only thing that comes to my mind is, after seeing your full html, is that you're passing your "default" value (which is not set!) instead of selecting something. Try as suggested by @Vina in the comment, i.e. giving it a selected option, or writing a default value

<select name="gender">
<option value="default">Select </option>    
<option value="male">   Male   </option>
<option value="female"> Female </option>
</select>

OR

<select name="gender">
<option value="male" selected="selected">   Male   </option>
<option value="female"> Female </option>
</select>

When you get your $_POST vars, check for them being set; you can assign a default value, or just an empty string in case they're not there.

Most important thing, AVOID SQL INJECTIONS:

//....
$fname   = isset($_POST["fname"]) ? mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['fname']) : '';
$lname   = isset($_POST['lname']) ? mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['lname']) : '';
$email   = isset($_POST['email']) ? mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['email']) : '';
you might also want to validate e-mail:
if($mail = filter_var($_POST['email'], FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL))
{
  $email = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['email']);
}
else
{
  //die ('invalid email address');
  // or whatever, a default value? $email = '';
}
$paswod  = isset($_POST["paswod"]) ? mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['paswod']) : '';
$gender  = isset($_POST['gender']) ? mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['gender']) : '';

$query = mysql_query("SELECT Email FROM users WHERE Email = '".$email."')";
if(mysql_num_rows($query)> 0)
{
  echo 'userid is already there';
}
else
{
 $sql = "INSERT INTO users (FirstName, LastName, Email, Password, Gender)
         VALUES ('".$fname."','".$lname."','".$email."','".paswod."','".$gender."')";
$res = mysql_query($sql) or die('Error:'.mysql_error());
echo 'created';

Class 'DOMDocument' not found

PHP 7.0:

  • Ubuntu: apt-get install php7.0-xml
  • CentOS / Fedora / Red Hat: yum install php70w-xml

PHP 7.1:

  • Ubuntu: apt-get install php7.1-xml
  • CentOS / Fedora / Red Hat: yum install php71w-xml

PHP 7.2:

  • Ubuntu: apt-get install php7.2-xml
  • CentOS / Fedora / Red Hat: yum install php72w-xml

PHP 7.3:

  • Ubuntu: apt-get install php7.3-xml
  • CentOS / Fedora / Red Hat: yum install php73w-xml

PHP 7.4:

  • Ubuntu: apt-get install php7.4-xml
  • CentOS / Fedora / Red Hat: yum install php74w-xml

PHP 8.0

  • Ubuntu: apt-get install php8.0-xml
  • CentOS 8 [with php:remi-8.0 enabled]: dnf install php-xml

java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError Unsupported major.minor version 51.0

java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError happens because of a higher JDK during compile time and lower JDK during runtime.

Here's the list of versions:

Java SE 9 = 53,
Java SE 8 = 52,
Java SE 7 = 51,
Java SE 6.0 = 50,
Java SE 5.0 = 49,
JDK 1.4 = 48,
JDK 1.3 = 47,
JDK 1.2 = 46,
JDK 1.1 = 45

pip install gives error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat

Thanks to "msoliman" for his hint, however his answer doesn't give clear solution for those who doesn't have VS2010
For example I have VS2012 and VS2013 and there are no such KEYs in system registry.

Solution:
Edit file: "[Python_install_loc]/Lib/distutils/msvc9compiler.py"
Change on line 224:

productdir = Reg.get_value(r"%s\Setup\VC" % vsbase,
                               "productdir")

to:

productdir = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio [your_vs_version(11/12...)]\VC"

and that should work

Can I display the value of an enum with printf()?

 
enum MyEnum
{  A_ENUM_VALUE=0,
   B_ENUM_VALUE,
   C_ENUM_VALUE
};


int main()
{
 printf("My enum Value : %d\n", (int)C_ENUM_VALUE);
 return 0;
}

You have just to cast enum to int !
Output : My enum Value : 2

Transposing a 2D-array in JavaScript

I didn't find an answer that satisfied me, so I wrote one myself, I think it is easy to understand and implement and suitable for all situations.

    transposeArray: function (mat) {
        let newMat = [];
        for (let j = 0; j < mat[0].length; j++) {  // j are columns
            let temp = [];
            for (let i = 0; i < mat.length; i++) {  // i are rows
                temp.push(mat[i][j]);  // so temp will be the j(th) column in mat
            }
            newMat.push(temp);  // then just push every column in newMat
        }
        return newMat;
    }

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

Each cell in the array is treated as unsigned int:

private int unsignedIntFromByteArray(byte[] bytes) {
int res = 0;
if (bytes == null)
    return res;


for (int i=0;i<bytes.length;i++){
    res = res | ((bytes[i] & 0xff) << i*8);
}
return res;
}

How do disable paging by swiping with finger in ViewPager but still be able to swipe programmatically?

If you want to implement the same for Android in Xamarin, here is a translation to C#

I chose to name the attribute "ScrollEnabled". Because iOS just uses the excat same naming. So, you have equal naming across both platforms, makes it easier for developers.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

using Android.App;
using Android.Content;
using Android.OS;
using Android.Runtime;
using Android.Views;
using Android.Widget;
using Android.Support.V4.View;
using Android.Util;

namespace YourNameSpace.ViewPackage {

    // Need to disable swiping for ViewPager, if user performs Pre DSA and the dsa is not completed yet
    // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9650265/how-do-disable-paging-by-swiping-with-finger-in-viewpager-but-still-be-able-to-s
    public class CustomViewPager: ViewPager {
        public bool ScrollEnabled;

        public CustomViewPager(Context context, IAttributeSet attrs) : base(context, attrs) {
            this.ScrollEnabled = true;
        }

        public override bool OnTouchEvent(MotionEvent e) {
            if (this.ScrollEnabled) {
                return base.OnTouchEvent(e);
            }
            return false;
        }

        public override bool OnInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent e) {
            if (this.ScrollEnabled) {
                return base.OnInterceptTouchEvent(e);
            }
            return false;
        }

        // For ViewPager inside another ViewPager
        public override bool CanScrollHorizontally(int direction) {
            return this.ScrollEnabled && base.CanScrollHorizontally(direction);
        }

        // Some devices like the Galaxy Tab 4 10' show swipe buttons where most devices never show them
        // So, you could still swipe through the ViewPager with your keyboard keys
        public override bool ExecuteKeyEvent(KeyEvent evt) {
            return this.ScrollEnabled ? base.ExecuteKeyEvent(evt) : false;
        }
    }
}

In .axml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">
  <YourNameSpace.ViewPackage.CustomViewPager
      android:id="@+id/pager"
      android:layout_width="match_parent"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:background="@android:color/white"
      android:layout_alignParentTop="true" />
</LinearLayout>

What is the correct syntax of ng-include?

On ng-build, file not found(404) error occur. So we can use below code 

<ng-include src="'views/transaction/test.html'"></ng-include>

insted of, 

<div ng-include="'views/transaction/test.html'"></div>

Add column to SQL query results

why dont you add a "source" column to each of the queries with a static value like

select 'source 1' as Source, column1, column2...
from table1

UNION ALL

select 'source 2' as Source, column1, column2...
from table2

Add and Remove Views in Android Dynamically?

 
//MainActivity :





 package com.edittext.demo;
    import android.app.Activity;
    import android.os.Bundle;
    import android.text.TextUtils;
    import android.view.Menu;
    import android.view.View;
    import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
    import android.widget.Button;
    import android.widget.EditText;
    import android.widget.LinearLayout;
    import android.widget.Toast;

    public class MainActivity extends Activity {

        private EditText edtText;
        private LinearLayout LinearMain;
        private Button btnAdd, btnClear;
        private int no;

        @Override
        protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
            setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

            edtText = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.edtMain);
            btnAdd = (Button)findViewById(R.id.btnAdd);
            btnClear = (Button)findViewById(R.id.btnClear);
            LinearMain = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.LinearMain);

            btnAdd.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {
                    if (!TextUtils.isEmpty(edtText.getText().toString().trim())) {
                        no = Integer.parseInt(edtText.getText().toString());
                        CreateEdittext();
                    }else {
                        Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "Please entere value", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                    }
                }
            });

            btnClear.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {
                    LinearMain.removeAllViews();
                    edtText.setText("");
                }
            });

            /*edtText.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
                @Override
                public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {

                }
                @Override
                public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count,int after) {
                }
                @Override
                public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
                }
            });*/

        }

        protected void CreateEdittext() {
            final EditText[] text = new EditText[no];
            final Button[] add = new Button[no];
            final LinearLayout[] LinearChild = new LinearLayout[no];
            LinearMain.removeAllViews();

            for (int i = 0; i < no; i++){

                View view = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.edit_text, LinearMain,false);
                text[i] = (EditText)view.findViewById(R.id.edtText);
                text[i].setId(i);
                text[i].setTag(""+i);

                add[i] = (Button)view.findViewById(R.id.btnAdd);
                add[i].setId(i);
                add[i].setTag(""+i);

                LinearChild[i] = (LinearLayout)view.findViewById(R.id.child_linear);
                LinearChild[i].setId(i);
                LinearChild[i].setTag(""+i);

                LinearMain.addView(view);

                add[i].setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                    public void onClick(View v) {
                        //Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "add text "+v.getTag(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                        int a = Integer.parseInt(text[v.getId()].getText().toString());
                        LinearChild[v.getId()].removeAllViews();
                        for (int k = 0; k < a; k++){

                            EditText text = (EditText) new EditText(MainActivity.this);
                            text.setId(k);
                            text.setTag(""+k);

                            LinearChild[v.getId()].addView(text);
                        }
                    }
                });
            }
        }

        @Override
        public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
            // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
            getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
            return true;
        }

    }

// Now add xml main

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

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/edtMain"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:ems="10"
        android:hint="Enter value" >

        <requestFocus />
    </EditText>

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/btnAdd"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
        android:text="Add" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/btnClear"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
        android:layout_marginRight="5dp"
        android:text="Clear" />
</LinearLayout>

<ScrollView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_margin="10dp" >

    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/LinearMain"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:orientation="vertical" >
    </LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

// now add view xml file..

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

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/edtText"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"
        android:ems="10" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/btnAdd"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
        android:text="Add" />
</LinearLayout>

<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/child_linear"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginLeft="30dp"
    android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
    android:orientation="vertical" >
</LinearLayout>

MYSQL Truncated incorrect DOUBLE value

What it basically is

It's incorrect syntax that causes MySQL to think you're trying to do something with a column or parameter that has the incorrect type "DOUBLE".

Learn from my mistake

In my case I updated the varchar column in a table setting NULL where the value 0 stood. My update query was like this:

UPDATE myTable SET myValue = NULL WHERE myValue = 0;

Now, since the actual type of myValue is VARCHAR(255) this gives the warning:

+---------+------+-----------------------------------------------+
| Level   | Code | Message                                       |
+---------+------+-----------------------------------------------+
| Warning | 1292 | Truncated incorrect DOUBLE value: 'value xyz' |
+---------+------+-----------------------------------------------+

And now myTable is practically empty, because myValue is now NULL for EVERY ROW in the table! How did this happen?
*internal screaming*

Over 30k rows now have missing data.
*internal screaming intensifies*

Thank goodness for backups. I was able to recover all the data.
*internal screaming intensity lowers*

The corrected query is as follows:

UPDATE myTable SET myValue = NULL WHERE myValue = '0';
                                                  ^^^
                                                  Quotation here!

I wish this was more than just a warning so it's less dangerous to forget those quotes.

*End internal screaming*

Python: URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 10060]

The error code 10060 means it cannot connect to the remote peer. It might be because of the network problem or mostly your setting issues, such as proxy setting.

You could try to connect the same host with other tools(such as ncat) and/or with another PC within your same local network to find out where the problem is occuring.

For proxy issue, there are some material here:

Using an HTTP PROXY - Python

Why can't I get Python's urlopen() method to work on Windows?

Hope it helps!

Android EditText for password with android:hint

Here is your answer:

There are different category for inputType so I used for pssword is textPaswword 

<EditText
    android:inputType="textPassword"
    android:id="@+id/passwor"
    android:textColorHint="#ffffff"
    android:layout_marginRight="15dp"
    android:layout_marginLeft="15dp"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="40dp"
    android:hint="********"
    />

How to get query parameters from URL in Angular 5?

Be careful with your routes. A "redirectTo" will remove|drop any query parameter.

const appRoutes: Routes [
 {path: "one", component: PageOneComponent},
 {path: "two", component: PageTwoComponent},
 {path: "", redirectTo: "/one", pathMatch: full},
 {path: "**", redirectTo: "/two"}
]

I called my main component with query parameters like "/main?param1=a&param2=b and assume that my query parameters arrive in the "ngOnInit()" method in the main component before the redirect forwarding takes effect.

But this is wrong. The redirect will came before, drop the query parameters away and call the ngOnInit() method in the main component without query parameters.

I changed the third line of my routes to

{path: "", component: PageOneComponent},

and now my query parameters are accessible in the main components ngOnInit and also in the PageOneComponent.

how to make a cell of table hyperlink

Try this way:

<td><a href="..." style="display:block;">&nbsp;</a></td>

Selenium WebDriver: I want to overwrite value in field instead of appending to it with sendKeys using Java

This is something easy to do and it worked for me:

//Create a Javascript executor

JavascriptExecutor jst= (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
jst.executeScript("arguments[1].value = arguments[0]; ", 55, driver.findElement(By.id("id")));

55 = value assigned

Get current time in hours and minutes

 
date +%H:%M

Would be easier, I think :). If you really wanted to chop off the seconds, you could have done

date | sed 's/.* \([0-9]*:[0-9]*\):[0-9]*.*/\1/'

How to set "style=display:none;" using jQuery's attr method?

Based on the comment we are removing one property from style attribute.

Here this was not affect, but when more property are used within the style it helpful.

$('#msform').css('display', '')

After this we use

$("#msform").show();

VBA procedure to import csv file into access

Your file seems quite small (297 lines) so you can read and write them quite quickly. You refer to Excel CSV, which does not exists, and you show space delimited data in your example. Furthermore, Access is limited to 255 columns, and a CSV is not, so there is no guarantee this will work

Sub StripHeaderAndFooter()
Dim fs As Object ''FileSystemObject
Dim tsIn As Object, tsOut As Object ''TextStream
Dim sFileIn As String, sFileOut As String
Dim aryFile As Variant

    sFileIn = "z:\docs\FileName.csv"
    sFileOut = "z:\docs\FileOut.csv"

    Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    Set tsIn = fs.OpenTextFile(sFileIn, 1) ''ForReading

    sTmp = tsIn.ReadAll

    Set tsOut = fs.CreateTextFile(sFileOut, True) ''Overwrite
    aryFile = Split(sTmp, vbCrLf)

    ''Start at line 3 and end at last line -1
    For i = 3 To UBound(aryFile) - 1
        tsOut.WriteLine aryFile(i)
    Next

    tsOut.Close

    DoCmd.TransferText acImportDelim, , "NewCSV", sFileOut, False
End Sub

Edit re various comments

It is possible to import a text file manually into MS Access and this will allow you to choose you own cell delimiters and text delimiters. You need to choose External data from the menu, select your file and step through the wizard.

About importing and linking data and database objects -- Applies to: Microsoft Office Access 2003

Introduction to importing and exporting data -- Applies to: Microsoft Access 2010

Once you get the import working using the wizards, you can save an import specification and use it for you next DoCmd.TransferText as outlined by @Olivier Jacot-Descombes. This will allow you to have non-standard delimiters such as semi colon and single-quoted text.

Detect end of ScrollView

I wanted to show/hide a FAB with an offset before the very bottom of the scrollview. This is the solution I came up with (Kotlin):

scrollview.viewTreeObserver.addOnScrollChangedListener {
    if (scrollview.scrollY < scrollview.getChildAt(0).bottom - scrollview.height - offset) {
        // fab.hide()
    } else {
        // fab.show()
    }
}

Why do package names often begin with "com"

Wikipedia, of all places, actually discusses this.

The idea is to make sure all package names are unique world-wide, by having authors use a variant of a DNS name they own to name the package. For example, the owners of the domain name joda.org created a number of packages whose names begin with org.joda, for example:

  • org.joda.time
  • org.joda.time.base
  • org.joda.time.chrono
  • org.joda.time.convert
  • org.joda.time.field
  • org.joda.time.format

What is the best method of handling currency/money?

If someone is using Sequel the migration would look something like: 

add_column :products, :price, "decimal(8,2)"

somehow Sequel ignores :precision and :scale

(Sequel Version: sequel (3.39.0, 3.38.0))

Best way to test for a variable's existence in PHP; isset() is clearly broken

Object properties can be checked for existence by property_exists

Example from a unit test:

function testPropertiesExist()
{
    $sl =& $this->system_log;
    $props = array('log_id',
                   'type',
                   'message',
                   'username',
                   'ip_address',
                   'date_added');

    foreach($props as $prop) {
        $this->assertTrue(property_exists($sl, $prop),
                           "Property <{$prop}> exists");
    }
}

How to initialize an array in Java?

When you create an array of size 10 it allocated 10 slots but from 0 to 9. This for loop might help you see that a little better.

public class Array {
    int[] data = new int[10]; 
    /** Creates a new instance of an int Array */
    public Array() {
        for(int i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
            data[i] = i*10;
        }
    }
}

adding comment in .properties files

Writing the properties file with multiple comments is not supported. Why ?

PropertyFile.java

public class PropertyFile extends Task {

    /* ========================================================================
     *
     * Instance variables.
     */

    // Use this to prepend a message to the properties file
    private String              comment;

    private Properties          properties;

The ant property file task is backed by a java.util.Properties class which stores comments using the store() method. Only one comment is taken from the task and that is passed on to the Properties class to save into the file.

The way to get around this is to write your own task that is backed by commons properties instead of java.util.Properties. The commons properties file is backed by a property layout which allows settings comments for individual keys in the properties file. Save the properties file with the save() method and modify the new task to accept multiple comments through <comment> elements.

using awk with column value conditions

This is more readable for me 

awk '{if ($2 ~ /findtext/) print $3}' <infile>

How to suspend/resume a process in Windows?

PsSuspend command line utility from SysInternals suite. It suspends / resumes a process by its id.

how do I get a new line, after using float:left?

you can also use 

<br style="clear:both" />

Looping through a Scripting.Dictionary using index/item number

Using d.Keys()(i) method is a very bad idea, because on each call it will re-create a new array (you will have significant speed reduction).

Here is an analogue of Scripting.Dictionary called "Hash Table" class from @TheTrick, that support such enumerator: http://www.cyberforum.ru/blogs/354370/blog2905.html

Dim oDict As clsTrickHashTable

Sub aaa()
    Set oDict = New clsTrickHashTable

    oDict.Add "a", "aaa"
    oDict.Add "b", "bbb"

    For i = 0 To oDict.Count - 1
        Debug.Print oDict.Keys(i) & " - " & oDict.Items(i)
    Next
End Sub

SQL UPDATE SET one column to be equal to a value in a related table referenced by a different column?

Update 2nd table data in 1st table need to Inner join before SET : 

`UPDATE `table1` INNER JOIN `table2` ON `table2`.`id`=`table1`.`id` SET `table1`.`name`=`table2`.`name`, `table1`.`template`=`table2`.`template`;

How to transition to a new view controller with code only using Swift

For those using a second view controller with a storyboard in a .xib file, you will want to use the name of the .xib file in your constructor (without the.xib suffix).

let settings_dialog:SettingsViewController = SettingsViewController(nibName: "SettingsViewController", bundle: nil)
self.presentViewController(settings_dialog, animated: true, completion: nil)

How to show progress dialog in Android?

Simple Way : 

ProgressDialog pDialog = new ProgressDialog(MainActivity.this); //Your Activity.this
pDialog.setMessage("Loading...!");
pDialog.setCancelable(false);
pDialog.show();

JQuery Ajax Post results in 500 Internal Server Error

A 500 from ASP.NET probably means an unhandled exception was thrown at some point when serving the request.

I suggest you attach a debugger to the web server process (assuming you have access).

One strange thing: You make a POST request to the server, but you do not pass any data (everything is in the query string). Perhaps it should be a GET request instead?

You should also double check that the URL is correct.

Reset par to the default values at startup

From Quick-R 

par()              # view current settings
opar <- par()      # make a copy of current settings
par(col.lab="red") # red x and y labels 
hist(mtcars$mpg)   # create a plot with these new settings 
par(opar)          # restore original settings

How to get MAC address of client using PHP?

 
//Simple & effective way to get client mac address
// Turn on output buffering
ob_start();
//Get the ipconfig details using system commond
system('ipconfig /all');

// Capture the output into a variable

    $mycom=ob_get_contents();

// Clean (erase) the output buffer

    ob_clean();

$findme = "Physical";
//Search the "Physical" | Find the position of Physical text
$pmac = strpos($mycom, $findme);

// Get Physical Address
$mac=substr($mycom,($pmac+36),17);
//Display Mac Address
echo $mac;

Groovy String to Date

Googling around for Groovy ways to "cast" a String to a Date, I came across this article: http://www.goodercode.com/wp/intercept-method-calls-groovy-type-conversion/

The author uses Groovy metaMethods to allow dynamically extending the behavior of any class' asType method. Here is the code from the website.

class Convert {
    private from
    private to

    private Convert(clazz) { from = clazz }
    static def from(clazz) {
        new Convert(clazz)
    }

    def to(clazz) {
        to = clazz
        return this
    }

    def using(closure) {
        def originalAsType = from.metaClass.getMetaMethod('asType', [] as Class[])
        from.metaClass.asType = { Class clazz ->
            if( clazz == to ) {
                closure.setProperty('value', delegate)
                closure(delegate)
            } else {
                originalAsType.doMethodInvoke(delegate, clazz)
            }
        }
    }
}

They provide a Convert class that wraps the Groovy complexity, making it trivial to add custom as-based type conversion from any type to any other:

Convert.from( String ).to( Date ).using { new java.text.SimpleDateFormat('MM-dd-yyyy').parse(value) }

def christmas = '12-25-2010' as Date

It's a convenient and powerful solution, but I wouldn't recommend it to someone who isn't familiar with the tradeoffs and pitfalls of tinkering with metaClasses.

jQuery find file extension (from string)

How about something like this.

Test the live example: http://jsfiddle.net/6hBZU/1/

It assumes that the string will always end with the extension:

function openFile(file) {
    var extension = file.substr( (file.lastIndexOf('.') +1) );
    switch(extension) {
        case 'jpg':
        case 'png':
        case 'gif':
            alert('was jpg png gif');  // There's was a typo in the example where
        break;                         // the alert ended with pdf instead of gif.
        case 'zip':
        case 'rar':
            alert('was zip rar');
        break;
        case 'pdf':
            alert('was pdf');
        break;
        default:
            alert('who knows');
    }
};

openFile("somestring.png");

EDIT: I mistakenly deleted part of the string in openFile("somestring.png");. Corrected. Had it in the Live Example, though.

Pandas: sum DataFrame rows for given columns

This is a simpler way using iloc to select which columns to sum:

df['f']=df.iloc[:,0:2].sum(axis=1)
df['g']=df.iloc[:,[0,1]].sum(axis=1)
df['h']=df.iloc[:,[0,3]].sum(axis=1)

Produces:

   a  b   c  d   e  f  g   h
0  1  2  dd  5   8  3  3   6
1  2  3  ee  9  14  5  5  11
2  3  4  ff  1   8  7  7   4

I can't find a way to combine a range and specific columns that works e.g. something like:

df['i']=df.iloc[:,[[0:2],3]].sum(axis=1)
df['i']=df.iloc[:,[0:2,3]].sum(axis=1)

Validating URL in Java

Using only standard API, pass the string to a URL object then convert it to a URI object. This will accurately determine the validity of the URL according to the RFC2396 standard.

Example:

public boolean isValidURL(String url) {

    try {
        new URL(url).toURI();
    } catch (MalformedURLException | URISyntaxException e) {
        return false;
    }

    return true;
}

How to center body on a page?

You have to specify the width to the body for it to center on the page.

Or put all the content in the div and center it.

<body>
    <div>
    jhfgdfjh
    </div>
</body>?

div {
    margin: 0px auto;
    width:400px;
}

?

Open Google Chrome from VBA/Excel

You can use the following vba code and input them into standard module in excel. A list of websites can be entered and should be entered like this on cell A1 in Excel - www.stackoverflow.com

ActiveSheet.Cells(1,2).Value merely takes the number of website links that you have on cell B1 in Excel and will loop the code again and again based on number of website links you have placed on the sheet. Therefore Chrome will open up a new tab for each website link.

I hope this helps with the dynamic website you have got.

Sub multiplechrome()

    Dim WebUrl As String
    Dim i As Integer

    For i = 1 To ActiveSheet.Cells(1, 2).Value
        WebUrl = "http://" & Cells(i, 1).Value & """"
        Shell ("C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe -url " & WebUrl)

    Next
End Sub

Linux: is there a read or recv from socket with timeout?

LINUX

struct timeval tv;
tv.tv_sec = 30;        // 30 Secs Timeout
tv.tv_usec = 0;        // Not init'ing this can cause strange errors
setsockopt(sockfd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVTIMEO, (const char*)&tv,sizeof(struct timeval));

WINDOWS

DWORD timeout = SOCKET_READ_TIMEOUT_SEC * 1000;
setsockopt(socket, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVTIMEO, (const char*)&timeout, sizeof(timeout));

NOTE: You have put this setting before bind() function call for proper run

File to byte[] in Java

Guava has Files.toByteArray() to offer you. It has several advantages:

  1. It covers the corner case where files report a length of 0 but still have content
  2. It's highly optimized, you get a OutOfMemoryException if trying to read in a big file before even trying to load the file. (Through clever use of file.length())
  3. You don't have to reinvent the wheel.

Why don't self-closing script elements work?

Others have answered "how" and quoted spec. Here is the real story of "why no <script/>", after many hours digging into bug reports and mailing lists.

HTML 4

HTML 4 is based on SGML.

SGML has some shorttags, such as <BR//, <B>text</>, <B/text/, or <OL<LI>item</LI</OL>. XML takes the first form, redefines the ending as ">" (SGML is flexible), so that it becomes <BR/>.

However, HTML did not redfine, so <SCRIPT/> should mean <SCRIPT>>.
(Yes, the '>' should be part of content, and the tag is still not closed.)

Obviously, this is incompatible with XHTML and will break many sites (by the time browsers were mature enough to care about this), so nobody implemented shorttags and the specification advises against them.

Effectively, all 'working' self-ended tags are tags with prohibited end tag on technically non-conformant parsers and are in fact invalid. It was W3C which came up with this hack to help transitioning to XHTML by making it HTML-compatible.

And <script>'s end tag is not prohibited.

"Self-ending" tag is a hack in HTML 4 and is meaningless.

HTML 5

HTML5 has five types of tags and only 'void' and 'foreign' tags are allowed to be self-closing.

Because <script> is not void (it may have content) and is not foreign (like MathML or SVG), <script> cannot be self-closed, regardless of how you use it.

But why? Can't they regard it as foreign, make special case, or something?

HTML 5 aims to be backward-compatible with implementations of HTML 4 and XHTML 1. It is not based on SGML or XML; its syntax is mainly concerned with documenting and uniting the implementations. (This is why <br/> <hr/> etc. are valid HTML 5 despite being invalid HTML4.)

Self-closing <script> is one of the tags where implementations used to differ. It used to work in Chrome, Safari, and Opera; to my knowledge it never worked in Internet Explorer or Firefox.

This was discussed when HTML 5 was being drafted and got rejected because it breaks browser compatibility. Webpages that self-close script tag may not render correctly (if at all) in old browsers. There were other proposals, but they can't solve the compatibility problem either.

After the draft was released, WebKit updated the parser to be in conformance.

Self-closing <script> does not happen in HTML 5 because of backward compatibility to HTML 4 and XHTML 1.

XHTML 1 / XHTML 5

When really served as XHTML, <script/> is really closed, as other answers have stated.

Except that the spec says it should have worked when served as HTML:

XHTML Documents ... may be labeled with the Internet Media Type "text/html" [RFC2854], as they are compatible with most HTML browsers.

So, what happened?

People asked Mozilla to let Firefox parse conforming documents as XHTML regardless of the specified content header (known as content sniffing). This would have allowed self-closing scripts, and content sniffing was necessary anyway because web hosters were not mature enough to serve the correct header; IE was good at it.

If the first browser war didn't end with IE 6, XHTML may have been on the list, too. But it did end. And IE 6 has a problem with XHTML. In fact IE did not support the correct MIME type at all, forcing everyone to use text/html for XHTML because IE held major market share for a whole decade.

And also content sniffing can be really bad and people are saying it should be stopped.

Finally, it turns out that the W3C didn't mean XHTML to be sniffable: the document is both, HTML and XHTML, and Content-Type rules. One can say they were standing firm on "just follow our spec" and ignoring what was practical. A mistake that continued into later XHTML versions.

Anyway, this decision settled the matter for Firefox. It was 7 years before Chrome was born; there were no other significant browser. Thus it was decided.

Specifying the doctype alone does not trigger XML parsing because of following specifications.

SET NAMES utf8 in MySQL?

It is needed whenever you want to send data to the server having characters that cannot be represented in pure ASCII, like 'ñ' or 'ö'.

That if the MySQL instance is not configured to expect UTF-8 encoding by default from client connections (many are, depending on your location and platform.)

Read http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html in case you aren't aware how Unicode works.

Read Whether to use "SET NAMES" to see SET NAMES alternatives and what exactly is it about.

Best way to deploy Visual Studio application that can run without installing

It is possible and is deceptively easy:

  1. "Publish" the application (to, say, some folder on drive C), either from menu Build or from the project's properties ? Publish. This will create an installer for a ClickOnce application.
  2. But instead of using the produced installer, find the produced files (the EXE file and the .config, .manifest, and .application files, along with any DLL files, etc.) - they are all in the same folder and typically in the bin\Debug folder below the project file (.csproj).
  3. Zip that folder (leave out any *.vhost.* files and the app.publish folder (they are not needed), and the .pdb files unless you foresee debugging directly on your user's system (for example, by remote control)), and provide it to the users.

An added advantage is that, as a ClickOnce application, it does not require administrative privileges to run (if your application follows the normal guidelines for which folders to use for application data, etc.).

As for .NET, you can check for the minimum required version of .NET being installed (or at all) in the application (most users will already have it installed) and present a dialog with a link to the download page on the Microsoft website (or point to one of your pages that could redirect to the Microsoft page - this makes it more robust if the Microsoft URL change). As it is a small utility, you could target .NET 2.0 to reduce the probability of a user to have to install .NET.

It works. We use this method during development and test to avoid having to constantly uninstall and install the application and still being quite close to how the final application will run.

Building with Lombok's @Slf4j and Intellij: Cannot find symbol log

After enabling annotation processors and installing the lombok plugin, it still didn't work. We worked around it by checking the Idea option "Delegate IDE build to gradle"

What exactly is Apache Camel?

Camel helps in routing, transformation, monitoring.

It uses Routes; which can be described as :

When service bus receives particular message, it will route it through no of services/broker destinations such as queue/topics. This path is known as route.

Example: your stock application has got some input by analyst, it will be processed through the application/web component and then result will be published to all the interested/registered members for particular stock update.

How to generate range of numbers from 0 to n in ES2015 only?

Generators now allow you to generate the number sequence lazily and using less memory for large ranges.

While the question specifically states ES2015, I expect a lot of Typescript users will end up here and the conversion to ES is straightforward...

function range(end: number): IterableIterator<number>;
// tslint:disable-next-line:unified-signatures
function range(begin: number, end: number): IterableIterator<number>;

function *range(begin: number, end: number = NaN): IterableIterator<number> {
    let num = 0;
    if (isNaN(end)) {
        end = begin;
    } else {
        num = begin;
    }
    while (num < end) {
        yield num++;
    }
}

The first two function declarations are just to provide more informative completion suggestions in your IDE.

Using a global variable with a thread

You just need to declare a as a global in thread2, so that you aren't modifying an a that is local to that function.

def thread2(threadname):
    global a
    while True:
        a += 1
        time.sleep(1)

In thread1, you don't need to do anything special, as long as you don't try to modify the value of a (which would create a local variable that shadows the global one; use global a if you need to)>

def thread1(threadname):
    #global a       # Optional if you treat a as read-only
    while a < 10:
        print a

How to split the name string in mysql?

You could use the common_schema and use the tokenize function. For more information about this, follow the links. Your code the would end up like:

call tokenize(name, ' ');

However, be aware that a space is not a reliable separator for first and last name. E.g. In Spain it is common to have two last names.

C# 4.0 optional out/ref arguments

What about like this?

public bool OptionalOutParamMethod([Optional] ref string pOutParam)
{
    return true;
}

You still have to pass a value to the parameter from C# but it is an optional ref param.

How do I get the difference between two Dates in JavaScript?

If you use Date objects and then use the getTime() function for both dates it will give you their respective times since Jan 1, 1970 in a number value. You can then get the difference between these numbers.

If that doesn't help you out, check out the complete documentation: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_date.asp

ImageView in circular through xml

You can simply use CardView without any external Library

  <androidx.cardview.widget.CardView
                    android:id="@+id/roundCardView"
                    android:layout_width="40dp"
                    android:layout_height="40dp"
                    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
                    android:elevation="0dp"
                    app:cardCornerRadius="20dp">

                    <ImageView
                        android:layout_width="40dp"
                        android:layout_height="40dp"
                        android:src="@drawable/profile" />
</androidx.cardview.widget.CardView>

Image encryption/decryption using AES256 symmetric block ciphers

For AES/CBC/PKCS7 encryption/decryption, Just Copy and paste the following code and replace SecretKey and IV with your own. 

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.security.InvalidAlgorithmParameterException;
import java.security.InvalidKeyException;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;

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

import android.util.Base64;


public class CryptoHandler {

    String SecretKey = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
    String IV = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";

    private static CryptoHandler instance = null;

    public static CryptoHandler getInstance() {

        if (instance == null) {
            instance = new CryptoHandler();
        }
        return instance;
    }

    public String encrypt(String message) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException,
            NoSuchPaddingException, IllegalBlockSizeException,
            BadPaddingException, InvalidKeyException,
            UnsupportedEncodingException, InvalidAlgorithmParameterException {

        byte[] srcBuff = message.getBytes("UTF8");
        //here using substring because AES takes only 16 or 24 or 32 byte of key 
        SecretKeySpec skeySpec = new 
        SecretKeySpec(SecretKey.substring(0,32).getBytes(), "AES");
        IvParameterSpec ivSpec = new 
        IvParameterSpec(IV.substring(0,16).getBytes());
        Cipher ecipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/CBC/PKCS7Padding");
        ecipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, skeySpec, ivSpec);
        byte[] dstBuff = ecipher.doFinal(srcBuff);
        String base64 = Base64.encodeToString(dstBuff, Base64.DEFAULT);
        return base64;
    }

    public String decrypt(String encrypted) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException,
            NoSuchPaddingException, InvalidKeyException,
            InvalidAlgorithmParameterException, IllegalBlockSizeException,
            BadPaddingException, UnsupportedEncodingException {

        SecretKeySpec skeySpec = new 
        SecretKeySpec(SecretKey.substring(0,32).getBytes(), "AES");
        IvParameterSpec ivSpec = new 
        IvParameterSpec(IV.substring(0,16).getBytes());
        Cipher ecipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/CBC/PKCS7Padding");
        ecipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, skeySpec, ivSpec);
        byte[] raw = Base64.decode(encrypted, Base64.DEFAULT);
        byte[] originalBytes = ecipher.doFinal(raw);
        String original = new String(originalBytes, "UTF8");
        return original;
    }
}