Programs & Examples On #Microfocus

A software company that helps you develop, test, deploy, assess and modernize business-critical enterprise applications using COBOL, PL/I, REXX, JCL and CICS

Visualizing branch topology in Git

Check out SmartGit. It very much reminds me of the TortoiseHg branch visualization and it's free for non-commercial use.

Android overlay a view ontop of everything?

I have tried the awnsers before but this did not work. Now I jsut used a LinearLayout instead of a TextureView, now it is working without any problem. Hope it helps some others who have the same problem. :)

    view = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.view); //this is initialized in the constructor
    openWindowOnButtonClick();

public void openWindowOnButtonClick()
{
    view.setAlpha((float)0.5);
    FloatingActionButton fb = (FloatingActionButton) findViewById(R.id.floatingActionButton);
    final InputMethodManager keyboard = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(getBaseContext().INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    fb.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener()
    {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v)
        {
            // check if the Overlay should be visible. If this value is false, it is not shown -> show it.
            if(view.getVisibility() == View.INVISIBLE)
            {
                view.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
                keyboard.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT, 0);
                Log.d("Overlay", "Klick");
            }
            else if(view.getVisibility() == View.VISIBLE)
            {
                view.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
                keyboard.toggleSoftInput(0, InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY);
            }

Check if bash variable equals 0

You can try this:

: ${depth?"Error Message"} ## when your depth variable is not even declared or is unset.

NOTE: Here it's just ? after depth.

or

: ${depth:?"Error Message"} ## when your depth variable is declared but is null like: "depth=". 

NOTE: Here it's :? after depth.

Here if the variable depth is found null it will print the error message and then exit.

How to rename uploaded file before saving it into a directory?

The move_uploaded_file will return false if the file was not successfully moved you can put something into your code to alert you in a log if that happens, that should help you figure out why your having trouble renaming the file

Get Root Directory Path of a PHP project

echo $pathInPieces = explode(DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR , __FILE__);
echo $pathInPieces[0].DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;

changing permission for files and folder recursively using shell command in mac

The issue is that the * is getting interpreted by your shell and is expanding to a file named TEST_FILE that happens to be in your current working directory, so you're telling find to execute the command named TEST_FILE which doesn't exist. I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish with that *, you should just remove it.

Furthermore, you should use the idiom -exec program '{}' \+ instead of -exec program '{}' \; so that find doesn't fork a new process for each file. With ;, a new process is forked for each file, whereas with +, it only forks one process and passes all of the files on a single command line, which for simple programs like chmod is much more efficient.

Lastly, chmod can do recursive changes on its own with the -R flag, so unless you need to search for specific files, just do this:

chmod -R 777 /Users/Test/Desktop/PATH

IIS error, Unable to start debugging on the webserver

Make sure that you etc file in C:\Windows\System32\drivers does not has any other applications with the same name as the one you are getting an error on.

I had a Hadoop sandbox configured with the name 'localhost' which was the same as my Visual Studio project which was getting the 'Cannot start debugging on web server' error.

Remove those lines and your project should start debugging.

How do I drop a MongoDB database from the command line?

use following command from mongo shell to drop db

use ; db.dropDatabase();

Sort objects in an array alphabetically on one property of the array

You have to pass a function that accepts two parameters, compares them, and returns a number, so assuming you wanted to sort them by ID you would write...

objArray.sort(function(a,b) {
    return a.id-b.id;
});
// objArray is now sorted by Id

What's the strangest corner case you've seen in C# or .NET?

What will this function do if called as Rec(0) (not under the debugger)?

static void Rec(int i)
{
    Console.WriteLine(i);
    if (i < int.MaxValue)
    {
        Rec(i + 1);
    }
}

Answer:

  • On 32-bit JIT it should result in a StackOverflowException
  • On 64-bit JIT it should print all the numbers to int.MaxValue

This is because the 64-bit JIT compiler applies tail call optimisation, whereas the 32-bit JIT does not.

Unfortunately I haven't got a 64-bit machine to hand to verify this, but the method does meet all the conditions for tail-call optimisation. If anybody does have one I'd be interested to see if it's true.

How to add row in JTable?

Use:

DefaultTableModel model = new DefaultTableModel(); 
JTable table = new JTable(model); 

// Create a couple of columns 
model.addColumn("Col1"); 
model.addColumn("Col2"); 

// Append a row 
model.addRow(new Object[]{"v1", "v2"});

ERROR 1115 (42000): Unknown character set: 'utf8mb4'

You can try:

Open sql file by text editor find and replace all

utf8mb4 to utf8

Import again.

Multiple Updates in MySQL

UPDATE table1, table2 SET table1.col1='value', table2.col1='value' WHERE table1.col3='567' AND table2.col6='567'

This should work for ya.

There is a reference in the MySQL manual for multiple tables.

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

Send the passwordbox control as a parameter to your login command.

<Button Command="{Binding LoginCommand}" CommandParameter="{Binding ElementName=PasswordBox}"...>

Then you can call CType(parameter, PasswordBox).Password in your viewmodel.

Iterate through a C++ Vector using a 'for' loop

The reason why you don't see such practice is quite subjective and cannot have a definite answer, because I have seen many of the code which uses your mentioned way rather than iterator style code.

Following can be reasons of people not considering vector.size() way of looping:

  1. Being paranoid about calling size() every time in the loop condition. However either it's a non-issue or it can be trivially fixed
  2. Preferring std::for_each() over the for loop itself
  3. Later changing the container from std::vector to other one (e.g. map, list) will also demand the change of the looping mechanism, because not every container support size() style of looping

C++11 provides a good facility to move through the containers. That is called "range based for loop" (or "enhanced for loop" in Java).

With little code you can traverse through the full (mandatory!) std::vector:

vector<int> vi;
...
for(int i : vi) 
  cout << "i = " << i << endl;

Run a task every x-minutes with Windows Task Scheduler

On XP, I clicked the Advanced button on the Schedule tab. There is a checkbox for Repeat task. The default is every 10 minutes.

Additionally, you can create scheduled task via the command line. I haven't tried this myself, but it looks like you'd want something along the lines of (not tested):

schtasks /create /tn "Some task name" /tr "app.exe" /sc HOURLY 

nvm is not compatible with the npm config "prefix" option:

This error can occur when your NVM installation folder path has a Symbolic Link.

Explanation

The default installation path of NVM is: $HOME/.nvm but your home folder could be a symbolic link for another drive, like my case.

Example, my home folder is a Symbolic Link to aother drive:

/home/myuser -> /bigdrive/myuser

This cause the prefix problem.

Solution

On your startup script (.bashrc or .zshrc or other), change the NVM folder to the direct path.

Ex: NVM_DIR="/bigdrive/myuser/.nvm".

.bashrc

export NVM_DIR="/bigdrive/myuser/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" # This loads nvm
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion"

Comparing Dates in Oracle SQL

from your query:

Select employee_id, count(*) From Employee 
Where to_char(employee_date_hired, 'DD-MON-YY') > '31-DEC-95' 

i think its not to display the number of employees that are hired after June 20, 1994. if you want show number of employees, you can use:

Select count(*) From Employee 
Where to_char(employee_date_hired, 'YYYMMMDDD') > 19940620 

I think for best practice to compare dates you can use:

employee_date_hired > TO_DATE('20-06-1994', 'DD-MM-YYYY');
or
to_char(employee_date_hired, 'YYYMMMDDD') > 19940620;

How to handle login pop up window using Selenium WebDriver?

Use the approach where you send username and password in URL Request:

http://username:[email protected]

So just to make it more clear. The username is username password is password and the rest is usual URL of your test web

Works for me without needing any tweaks.

Sample Java code:

public static final String TEST_ENVIRONMENT = "the-site.com";
private WebDriver driver;

public void login(String uname, String pwd){
  String URL = "http://" + uname + ":" + pwd + "@" + TEST_ENVIRONMENT;
  driver.get(URL);
}

@Test
public void testLogin(){
   driver = new FirefoxDriver();
   login("Pavel", "UltraSecretPassword");
   //Assert...
}

Android Open External Storage directory(sdcard) for storing file

Try using

new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(),"somefilename");

And don't forget to add WRITE_EXTERNAL STORAGE and READ_EXTERNAL STORAGE permissions

MySQL: ALTER TABLE if column not exists

Sometimes it may happen that there are multiple schema created in a database.

So to be specific schema we need to target, so this will help to do it.

SELECT count(*) into @colCnt FROM information_schema.columns WHERE table_name = 'mytable' AND column_name = 'mycolumn' and table_schema = DATABASE();
IF @colCnt = 0 THEN
    ALTER TABLE `mytable` ADD COLUMN `mycolumn` VARCHAR(20) DEFAULT NULL;
END IF;

Replace non-numeric with empty string

You can do it easily with regex:

string subject = "(913)-444-5555";
string result = Regex.Replace(subject, "[^0-9]", ""); // result = "9134445555"

Bower: ENOGIT Git is not installed or not in the PATH

In Linux:

if you dont have installed git use:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git

with command which git you will know the directory where is and then add in path if it is not in that enviroment variable.

Accessing a Dictionary.Keys Key through a numeric index

Visual Studio's UserVoice gives a link to generic OrderedDictionary implementation by dotmore.

But if you only need to get key/value pairs by index and don't need to get values by keys, you may use one simple trick. Declare some generic class (I called it ListArray) as follows:

class ListArray<T> : List<T[]> { }

You may also declare it with constructors:

class ListArray<T> : List<T[]>
{
    public ListArray() : base() { }
    public ListArray(int capacity) : base(capacity) { }
}

For example, you read some key/value pairs from a file and just want to store them in the order they were read so to get them later by index:

ListArray<string> settingsRead = new ListArray<string>();
using (var sr = new StreamReader(myFile))
{
    string line;
    while ((line = sr.ReadLine()) != null)
    {
        string[] keyValueStrings = line.Split(separator);
        for (int i = 0; i < keyValueStrings.Length; i++)
            keyValueStrings[i] = keyValueStrings[i].Trim();
        settingsRead.Add(keyValueStrings);
    }
}
// Later you get your key/value strings simply by index
string[] myKeyValueStrings = settingsRead[index];

As you may have noticed, you can have not necessarily just pairs of key/value in your ListArray. The item arrays may be of any length, like in jagged array.

DLL and LIB files - what and why?

There are static libraries (LIB) and dynamic libraries (DLL) - but note that .LIB files can be either static libraries (containing object files) or import libraries (containing symbols to allow the linker to link to a DLL).

Libraries are used because you may have code that you want to use in many programs. For example if you write a function that counts the number of characters in a string, that function will be useful in lots of programs. Once you get that function working correctly you don't want to have to recompile the code every time you use it, so you put the executable code for that function in a library, and the linker can extract and insert the compiled code into your program. Static libraries are sometimes called 'archives' for this reason.

Dynamic libraries take this one step further. It seems wasteful to have multiple copies of the library functions taking up space in each of the programs. Why can't they all share one copy of the function? This is what dynamic libraries are for. Rather than building the library code into your program when it is compiled, it can be run by mapping it into your program as it is loaded into memory. Multiple programs running at the same time that use the same functions can all share one copy, saving memory. In fact, you can load dynamic libraries only as needed, depending on the path through your code. No point in having the printer routines taking up memory if you aren't doing any printing. On the other hand, this means you have to have a copy of the dynamic library installed on every machine your program runs on. This creates its own set of problems.

As an example, almost every program written in 'C' will need functions from a library called the 'C runtime library, though few programs will need all of the functions. The C runtime comes in both static and dynamic versions, so you can determine which version your program uses depending on particular needs.

How do I check if a Key is pressed on C++

There is no portable function that allows to check if a key is hit and continue if not. This is always system dependent.

Solution for linux and other posix compliant systems:

Here, for Morgan Mattews's code provide kbhit() functionality in a way compatible with any POSIX compliant system. He uses the trick of desactivating buffering at termios level.

Solution for windows:

For windows, Microsoft offers _kbhit()

How to debug a stored procedure in Toad?

Open a PL/SQL object in the Editor.

Click on the main toolbar or select Session | Toggle Compiling with Debug. This enables debugging.

Compile the object on the database.

Select one of the following options on the Execute toolbar to begin debugging: Execute PL/SQL with debugger () Step over Step into Run to cursor

Generate UML Class Diagram from Java Project

I use eUML2 plugin from Soyatec, under Eclipse and it works fine for the generation of UML giving the source code. This tool is useful up to Eclipse 4.4.x

Python 2: AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'strip'

What you want to do is -

strtemp = ";".join(l)

The first line adds a ; to the end of MySpace so that while splitting, it does not give out MySpaceApple This will join l into one string and then you can just-

l1 = strtemp.split(";")

This works because strtemp is a string which has .split()

Django TemplateDoesNotExist?

It works now after I tried

chown -R www-data:www-data /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/projectname/*

It's strange. I dont need to do this on the remote server to make it work.

Also, I have to run the following command on local machine to make all static files accessable but on remote server they are all "root:root".

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/projectname/*

Local machine runs on Ubuntu 8.04 desktop edition. Remote server is on Ubuntu 9.04 server edition.

Anybody knows why?

Count the frequency that a value occurs in a dataframe column

your data:

|category|
cat a
cat b
cat a

solution:

 df['freq'] = df.groupby('category')['category'].transform('count')
 df =  df.drop_duplicates()

How to remove extension from string (only real extension!)

Try to use this one. it will surely remove the file extension.

$filename = "image.jpg";
$e = explode(".", $filename);
foreach($e as $key=>$d)
{
if($d!=end($e)
{

$new_d[]=$d; 
}

 }
 echo implode("-",$new_t);  // result would be just the 'image'

How to switch databases in psql?

You can select the database when connecting with psql. This is handy when using it from a script:

sudo -u postgres psql -c "CREATE SCHEMA test AUTHORIZATION test;" test

Expression must have class type

a is a pointer. You need to use->, not .

WPF: Grid with column/row margin/padding?

You could write your own GridWithMargin class, inherited from Grid, and override the ArrangeOverride method to apply the margins

How to send a GET request from PHP?

Depending on whether your php setup allows fopen on URLs, you could also simply fopen the url with the get arguments in the string (such as http://example.com?variable=value )

Edit: Re-reading the question I'm not certain whether you're looking to pass variables or not - if you're not you can simply send the fopen request containg http://example.com/filename.xml - feel free to ignore the variable=value part

Set equal width of columns in table layout in Android

Try this.

It boils down to adding android:stretchColumns="*" to your TableLayout root and setting android:layout_width="0dp" to all the children in your TableRows.

<TableLayout
    android:stretchColumns="*"   // Optionally use numbered list "0,1,2,3,..."
>
    <TableRow
        android:layout_width="0dp"
    >

How do I check for vowels in JavaScript?

function findVowels(str) {
  return str.match(/[aeiou]/ig);
}

findVowels('abracadabra'); // 'aaaaa'

Basically it returns all the vowels in a given string.

Create new user in MySQL and give it full access to one database

You can create new users using the CREATE USER statement, and give rights to them using GRANT.

How to align text below an image in CSS?

Since the default for block elements is to order one on top of the other you should also be able to do this:

<div>
    <img src="path/to/img">
    <div>Text Under Image</div>
</div

img {
    display: block;
}

How can I preview a merge in git?

Adding to the existing answers, an alias could be created to show the diff and/or log prior to a merge. Many answers omit the fetch to be done first before "previewing" the merge; this is an alias that combines these two steps into one (emulating something similar to mercurial's hg incoming / outgoing)

So, building on "git log ..otherbranch", you can add the following to ~/.gitconfig :

...
[alias]
    # fetch and show what would be merged (use option "-p" to see patch)
    incoming = "!git remote update -p; git log ..@{u}"

For symmetry, the following alias can be used to show what is committed and would be pushed, prior to pushing:

    # what would be pushed (currently committed)
    outgoing = log @{u}..

And then you can run "git incoming" to show a lot of changes, or "git incoming -p" to show the patch (i.e., the "diff"), "git incoming --pretty=oneline", for a terse summary, etc. You may then (optionally) run "git pull" to actually merge. (Though, since you've already fetched, the merge could be done directly.)

Likewise, "git outgoing" shows what would be pushed if you were to run "git push".

Way to create multiline comments in Bash?

Note: I updated this answer based on comments and other answers, so comments prior to May 22nd 2020 may no longer apply. Also I noticed today that some IDE's like VS Code and PyCharm do not recognize a HEREDOC marker that contains spaces, whereas bash has no problem with it, so I'm updating this answer again.

Bash does not provide a builtin syntax for multi-line comment but there are hacks using existing bash syntax that "happen to work now".

Personally I think the simplest (ie least noisy, least weird, easiest to type, most explicit) is to use a quoted HEREDOC, but make it obvious what you are doing, and use the same HEREDOC marker everywhere:

<<'###BLOCK-COMMENT'
line 1
line 2

line 3
line 4
###BLOCK-COMMENT

Single-quoting the HEREDOC marker avoids some shell parsing side-effects, such as weird subsitutions that would cause crash or output, and even parsing of the marker itself. So the single-quotes give you more freedom on the open-close comment marker.

For example the following uses a triple hash which kind of suggests multi-line comment in bash. This would crash the script if the single quotes were absent. Even if you remove ###, the FOO{} would crash the script (or cause bad substitution to be printed if no set -e) if it weren't for the single quotes:

set -e

<<'###BLOCK-COMMENT'
something something ${FOO{}} something
more comment
###BLOCK-COMMENT

ls

You could of course just use

set -e

<<'###'
something something ${FOO{}} something
more comment
###

ls

but the intent of this is definitely less clear to a reader unfamiliar with this trickery.

Note my original answer used '### BLOCK COMMENT', which is fine if you use vanilla vi/vim but today I noticed that PyCharm and VS Code don't recognize the closing marker if it has spaces.

Nowadays any good editor allows you to press ctrl-/ or similar, to un/comment the selection. Everyone definitely understands this:

# something something ${FOO{}} something
# more comment
# yet another line of comment

although admittedly, this is not nearly as convenient as the block comment above if you want to re-fill your paragraphs.

There are surely other techniques, but there doesn't seem to be a "conventional" way to do it. It would be nice if ###> and ###< could be added to bash to indicate start and end of comment block, seems like it could be pretty straightforward.

How should I escape commas and speech marks in CSV files so they work in Excel?

We eventually found the answer to this.

Excel will only respect the escaping of commas and speech marks if the column value is NOT preceded by a space. So generating the file without spaces like this...

Reference,Title,Description
1,"My little title","My description, which may contain ""speech marks"" and commas."
2,"My other little title","My other description, which may also contain ""speech marks"" and commas."

... fixed the problem. Hope this helps someone!

Python; urllib error: AttributeError: 'bytes' object has no attribute 'read'

I got the same error {AttributeError: 'bytes' object has no attribute 'read'} in python3. This worked for me later without using json:

from urllib.request import urlopen
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

url = 'https://someurl/'
page = urlopen(url)
html = page.read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
print(soup.prettify('latin-1'))

C# refresh DataGridView when updating or inserted on another form

DataGridView.Refresh and And DataGridView.Update are methods that are inherited from Control. They have to do with redrawing the control which is why new rows don't appear.

My guess is the data retrieval is on the Form_Load. If you want your Button on Form B to retrieve the latest data from the database then that's what you have to do whatever Form_Load is doing.

A nice way to do that is to separate your data retrieval calls into a separate function and call it from both the From Load and Button Click events.

How to tell if a string contains a certain character in JavaScript?

check if string(word/sentence...) contains specific word/character

if ( "write something here".indexOf("write som") > -1 )  { alert( "found it" );  } 

CSS list-style-image size

I achieved it by placing the image tag before the li's:


HTML

<img src="https://www.pinclipart.com/picdir/big/1-17498_plain-right-white-arrow-clip-art-at-clipart.png" class="listImage">

CSS

     .listImage{
      float:left;
      margin:2px;
      width:25px
     }
     .li{
      margin-left:29px;
     }

Script to kill all connections to a database (More than RESTRICTED_USER ROLLBACK)

You should be careful about exceptions during killing processes. So you may use this script:

USE master;
GO
 DECLARE @kill varchar(max) = '';
 SELECT @kill = @kill + 'BEGIN TRY KILL ' + CONVERT(varchar(5), spid) + ';' + ' END TRY BEGIN CATCH END CATCH ;' FROM master..sysprocesses 
EXEC (@kill)

<DIV> inside link (<a href="">) tag

As of HTML5 it is OK to wrap <a> elements around a <div> (or any other block elements):

The a element may be wrapped around entire paragraphs, lists, tables, and so forth, even entire sections, so long as there is no interactive content within (e.g. buttons or other links).

Just have to make sure you don't put an <a> within your <a> ( or a <button>).

increase font size of hyperlink text html

you can add class in anchor tag also like below

.a_class {font-size: 100px} 

Does Typescript support the ?. operator? (And, what's it called?)

Update: Yes its supported now!

It just got released with TypeScript 3.7 : https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-3-7/

It is called optional chaining : https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-3-7/#optional-chaining

With it the following:

let x = foo?.bar.baz(); 

is equivalent to:

let x = (foo === null || foo === undefined) ?
    undefined :
    foo.bar.baz();

Old answer

There is an open feature request for this on github where you can voice your opinion / desire : https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/16

A SQL Query to select a string between two known strings

<pre>

DECLARE @text VARCHAR(MAX)

SET @text = 'All I knew was that the dog had been very bad and required harsh punishment immediately regardless of what anyone else thought.'

declare @pretext as nvarchar(100) = 'the dog'    
declare @posttext as nvarchar(100) = 'immediately'

SELECT 
 CASE 
When CHARINDEX(@posttext, @Text) - (CHARINDEX(@pretext, @Text) + len(@pretext)) < 0 THEN 
''
Else
SUBSTRING(@Text, CHARINDEX(@pretext, @Text) + len(@pretext)
,   CHARINDEX(@posttext, @Text) - (CHARINDEX(@pretext, @Text) + len(@pretext)) )    
END as betweentext  

Get the records of last month in SQL server

All the existing (working) answers have one of two problems:

  1. They will ignore indices on the column being searched
  2. The will (potentially) select data that is not intended, silently corrupting your results.

1. Ignored Indices:

For the most part, when a column being searched has a function called on it (including implicitly, like for CAST), the optimizer must ignore indices on the column and search through every record. Here's a quick example:

We're dealing with timestamps, and most RDBMSs tend to store this information as an increasing value of some sort, usually a long or BIGINTEGER count of milli-/nanoseconds. The current time thus looks/is stored like this:

1402401635000000  -- 2014-06-10 12:00:35.000000 GMT

You don't see the 'Year' value ('2014') in there, do you? In fact, there's a fair bit of complicated math to translate back and forth. So if you call any of the extraction/date part functions on the searched column, the server has to perform all that math just to figure out if you can include it in the results. On small tables this isn't an issue, but as the percentage of rows selected decreases this becomes a larger and larger drain. Then in this case, you're doing it a second time for asking about MONTH... well, you get the picture.

2. Unintended data:

Depending on the particular version of SQL Server, and column datatypes, using BETWEEN (or similar inclusive upper-bound ranges: <=) can result in the wrong data being selected. Essentially, you potentially end up including data from midnight of the "next" day, or excluding some portion of the "current" day's records.

What you should be doing:

So we need a way that's safe for our data, and will use indices (if viable). The correct way is then of the form:

WHERE date_created >= @startOfPreviousMonth AND date_created < @startOfCurrentMonth

Given that there's only one month, @startOfPreviousMonth can be easily substituted for/derived by:

DATEADD(month, -1, @startOCurrentfMonth)

If you need to derive the start-of-current-month in the server, you can do it via the following:

DATEADD(month, DATEDIFF(month, 0, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP), 0)

A quick word of explanation here. The initial DATEDIFF(...) will get the difference between the start of the current era (0001-01-01 - AD, CE, whatever), essentially returning a large integer. This is the count of months to the start of the current month. We then add this number to the start of the era, which is at the start of the given month.

So your full script could/should look similar to the following:

DECLARE @startOfCurrentMonth DATETIME
SET @startOfCurrentMonth = DATEADD(month, DATEDIFF(month, 0, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP), 0)

SELECT *
FROM Member
WHERE date_created >= DATEADD(month, -1, @startOfCurrentMonth) -- this was originally    misspelled
      AND date_created < @startOfCurrentMonth

All date operations are thus only performed once, on one value; the optimizer is free to use indices, and no incorrect data will be included.

html - table row like a link

I have another way. Especially if you need to post data using jQuery

$(document).on('click', '#tablename tbody tr', function()
{   
    var test="something";
    $.post("ajax/setvariable.php", {ID: this.id, TEST:test}, function(data){        
        window.location.href = "http://somepage";
    });
});

Set variable sets up variables in SESSIONS which the page you are going to can read and act upon.

I would really like a way of posting straight to a window location, but I do not think it is possible.

How to get coordinates of an svg element?

You can use the function getBBox() to get the bounding box for the path. This will give you the position and size of the tightest rectangle that could contain the rendered path.

An advantage of using this method over reading the x and y values is that it will work with all graphical objects. There are more objects than paths that do not have x and y, for example circles that have cx and cy instead.

Why split the <script> tag when writing it with document.write()?

I think is for prevent the browser's HTML parser from interpreting the <script>, and mainly the </script> as the closing tag of the actual script, however I don't think that using document.write is a excellent idea for evaluating script blocks, why don't use the DOM...

var newScript = document.createElement("script");
...

Anaconda Installed but Cannot Launch Navigator

activate the virtual env with command:

 conda activate base

run anacond anavigator

 anaconda-navigator 

selecting an entire row based on a variable excel vba

One needs to make sure the space between the variables and '&' sign. Check the image. (Red one showing invalid commands)

Error

The correct solution is

Dim copyToRow: copyToRow = 5      
Rows(copyToRow & ":" & copyToRow).Select

How to filter a data frame

Another method utilizing the dplyr package:

library(dplyr)
df <- mtcars %>%
        filter(mpg > 25)

Without the chain (%>%) operator:

library(dplyr)
df <- filter(mtcars, mpg > 25)

Break out of a While...Wend loop

Another option would be to set a flag variable as a Boolean and then change that value based on your criteria.

Dim count as Integer 
Dim flag as Boolean

flag = True

While flag
    count = count + 1 

    If count = 10 Then
        'Set the flag to false         '
        flag = false
    End If 
Wend

Why can't I check if a 'DateTime' is 'Nothing'?

This is one of the biggest sources of confusion with VB.Net, IMO.

Nothing in VB.Net is the equivalent of default(T) in C#: the default value for the given type.

  • For value types, this is essentially the equivalent of 'zero': 0 for Integer, False for Boolean, DateTime.MinValue for DateTime, ...
  • For reference types, it is the null value (a reference that refers to, well, nothing).

The statement d Is Nothing is therefore equivalent to d Is DateTime.MinValue, which obviously does not compile.

Solutions: as others have said

  • Either use DateTime? (i.e. Nullable(Of DateTime)). This is my preferred solution.
  • Or use d = DateTime.MinValue or equivalently d = Nothing

In the context of the original code, you could use:

Dim d As DateTime? = Nothing
Dim boolNotSet As Boolean = d.HasValue

A more comprehensive explanation can be found on Anthony D. Green's blog

Spring Boot Program cannot find main class

There are good answers here, but maybe this one will also help somebody.

For me it happened just after i deleted .idea (with IntelliJ), and reimported the project.

then this issue started, i tried to run mvn compile (just via IDE Maven toolbar), once i fixed few compilation errors, issue disappeared

Among $_REQUEST, $_GET and $_POST which one is the fastest?

I would use $_POST, and $_GET because differently from $_REQUEST their content is not influenced by variables_order.
When to use $_POST and $_GET depends on what kind of operation is being executed. An operation that changes the data handled from the server should be done through a POST request, while the other operations should be done through a GET request. To make an example, an operation that deletes a user account should not be directly executed after the user click on a link, while viewing an image can be done through a link.

How to add a .dll reference to a project in Visual Studio

You probably are looking for AddReference dialog accessible from Project Context Menu (right click..)

From there you can reference dll's, after which you can reference namespaces that you need in your code.

Get bitcoin historical data

Scraping it to JSON with Node.js would be fun :)

https://github.com/f1lt3r/bitcoin-scraper

enter image description here

[
  [
    1419033600,  // Timestamp (1 for each minute of entire history)
    318.58,      // Open
    318.58,      // High
    318.58,      // Low
    318.58,      // Close
    0.01719605,  // Volume (BTC)
    5.478317609, // Volume (Currency)
    318.58       // Weighted Price (USD)
  ]
]

How to avoid Number Format Exception in java?

As always, the Jakarta Commons have at least part of the answer :

NumberUtils.isNumber()

This can be used to check most whether a given String is a number. You still have to choose what to do in case your String isnt a number ...

byte[] to hex string

You combine LINQ with string methods:

string hex = string.Join("",
  bin.Select(
    bin => bin.ToString("X2")
      ).ToArray());

How do you access the matched groups in a JavaScript regular expression?

You can access capturing groups like this:

_x000D_
_x000D_
var myString = "something format_abc";_x000D_
var myRegexp = /(?:^|\s)format_(.*?)(?:\s|$)/g;_x000D_
var match = myRegexp.exec(myString);_x000D_
console.log(match[1]); // abc
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

And if there are multiple matches you can iterate over them:

_x000D_
_x000D_
var myString = "something format_abc";_x000D_
var myRegexp = /(?:^|\s)format_(.*?)(?:\s|$)/g;_x000D_
match = myRegexp.exec(myString);_x000D_
while (match != null) {_x000D_
  // matched text: match[0]_x000D_
  // match start: match.index_x000D_
  // capturing group n: match[n]_x000D_
  console.log(match[0])_x000D_
  match = myRegexp.exec(myString);_x000D_
}
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Edit: 2019-09-10

As you can see the way to iterate over multiple matches was not very intuitive. This lead to the proposal of the String.prototype.matchAll method. This new method is expected to ship in the ECMAScript 2020 specification. It gives us a clean API and solves multiple problems. It has been started to land on major browsers and JS engines as Chrome 73+ / Node 12+ and Firefox 67+.

The method returns an iterator and is used as follows:

_x000D_
_x000D_
const string = "something format_abc";_x000D_
const regexp = /(?:^|\s)format_(.*?)(?:\s|$)/g;_x000D_
const matches = string.matchAll(regexp);_x000D_
    _x000D_
for (const match of matches) {_x000D_
  console.log(match);_x000D_
  console.log(match.index)_x000D_
}
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

As it returns an iterator, we can say it's lazy, this is useful when handling particularly large numbers of capturing groups, or very large strings. But if you need, the result can be easily transformed into an Array by using the spread syntax or the Array.from method:

function getFirstGroup(regexp, str) {
  const array = [...str.matchAll(regexp)];
  return array.map(m => m[1]);
}

// or:
function getFirstGroup(regexp, str) {
  return Array.from(str.matchAll(regexp), m => m[1]);
}

In the meantime, while this proposal gets more wide support, you can use the official shim package.

Also, the internal workings of the method are simple. An equivalent implementation using a generator function would be as follows:

function* matchAll(str, regexp) {
  const flags = regexp.global ? regexp.flags : regexp.flags + "g";
  const re = new RegExp(regexp, flags);
  let match;
  while (match = re.exec(str)) {
    yield match;
  }
}

A copy of the original regexp is created; this is to avoid side-effects due to the mutation of the lastIndex property when going through the multple matches.

Also, we need to ensure the regexp has the global flag to avoid an infinite loop.

I'm also happy to see that even this StackOverflow question was referenced in the discussions of the proposal.

How to darken a background using CSS?

It might be possible to do this with box-shadow

however, I can't get it to actually apply to an image. Only on solid color backgrounds

_x000D_
_x000D_
body {_x000D_
  background: #131418;_x000D_
  color: #999;_x000D_
  text-align: center;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.mycooldiv {_x000D_
  width: 400px;_x000D_
  height: 300px;_x000D_
  margin: 2% auto;_x000D_
  border-radius: 100%;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.red {_x000D_
  background: red_x000D_
}_x000D_
.blue {_x000D_
  background: blue_x000D_
}_x000D_
.yellow {_x000D_
  background: yellow_x000D_
}_x000D_
.green {_x000D_
  background: green_x000D_
}_x000D_
#darken {_x000D_
  box-shadow: inset 0px 0px 400px 110px rgba(0, 0, 0, .7);_x000D_
  /*darkness level control - change the alpha value for the color for darken/ligheter effect */_x000D_
}
_x000D_
Red_x000D_
<div class="mycooldiv red"></div>_x000D_
Darkened Red_x000D_
<div class="mycooldiv red" id="darken"></div>_x000D_
Blue_x000D_
<div class="mycooldiv blue"></div>_x000D_
Darkened Blue_x000D_
<div class="mycooldiv blue" id="darken"></div>_x000D_
Yellow_x000D_
<div class="mycooldiv yellow"></div>_x000D_
Darkened Yellow_x000D_
<div class="mycooldiv yellow" id="darken"></div>_x000D_
Green_x000D_
<div class="mycooldiv green"></div>_x000D_
Darkened Green_x000D_
<div class="mycooldiv green" id="darken"></div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

How can I remove text within parentheses with a regex?

For those who want to use Python, here's a simple routine that removes parenthesized substrings, including those with nested parentheses. Okay, it's not a regex, but it'll do the job!

def remove_nested_parens(input_str):
    """Returns a copy of 'input_str' with any parenthesized text removed. Nested parentheses are handled."""
    result = ''
    paren_level = 0
    for ch in input_str:
        if ch == '(':
            paren_level += 1
        elif (ch == ')') and paren_level:
            paren_level -= 1
        elif not paren_level:
            result += ch
    return result

remove_nested_parens('example_(extra(qualifier)_text)_test(more_parens).ext')

How to set the environmental variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH in linux

Add

LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/path/you/want1:/path/you/want/2"

to /etc/environment

See the Ubuntu Documentation.

CORRECTION: I should take my own advice and actually read the documentation. It says that this does not apply to LD_LIBRARY_PATH: Since Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, LD_LIBRARY_PATH cannot be set in $HOME/.profile, /etc/profile, nor /etc/environment files. You must use /etc/ld.so.conf.d/.conf configuration files.* So user1824407's answer is spot on.

When is it appropriate to use UDP instead of TCP?

If a TCP packet is lost, it will be resent. That is not handy for applications that rely on data being handled in a specific order in real time.

Examples include video streaming and especially VoIP (e.g. Skype). In those instances, however, a dropped packet is not such a big deal: our senses aren't perfect, so we may not even notice. That is why these types of applications use UDP instead of TCP.

Where does Visual Studio look for C++ header files?

There seems to be a bug in Visual Studio 2015 community. For a 64-bit project, the include folder isn't found unless it's in the win32 bit configuration Additional Include Folders list.

Property 'map' does not exist on type 'Observable<Response>'

Revisiting this because my solution isn't listed here.

I am running Angular 6 with rxjs 6.0 and ran into this error.

Here's what I did to fix it:

I changed

map((response: any) => response.json())

to simply be:

.pipe(map((response: any) => response.json()));

I found the fix here:

https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/15548#issuecomment-387009186

How can I check for NaN values?

numpy.isnan(number) tells you if it's NaN or not.

Exposing a port on a live Docker container

It's not possible to do live port mapping but there are multiple ways you can give a Docker container what amounts to a real interface like a virtual machine would have.

Macvlan Interfaces

Docker now includes a Macvlan network driver. This attaches a Docker network to a "real world" interface and allows you to assign that networks addresses directly to the container (like a virtual machines bridged mode).

docker network create \
    -d macvlan \
    --subnet=172.16.86.0/24 \
    --gateway=172.16.86.1  \
    -o parent=eth0 pub_net

pipework can also map a real interface into a container or setup a sub interface in older versions of Docker.

Routing IP's

If you have control of the network you can route additional networks to your Docker host for use in the containers.

Then you assign that network to the containers and setup your Docker host to route the packets via the docker network.

Shared host interface

The --net host option allows the host interface to be shared into a container but this is probably not a good setup for running multiple containers on the one host due to the shared nature.

TypeError: Image data can not convert to float

I was also getting this error, and the answers given above says that we should upload them first and then use their name instead of a path - but for Kaggle dataset, this is not possible.

Hence the solution I figure out is by reading the the individual image in a loop in mpimg format. Here we can use the path and not just the image name.

I hope it will help you guys.

import matplotlib.image as mpimg
for img in os.listdir("/content/train"): 
  image = mpimg.imread(path)
  plt.imshow(image)
  plt.show()

Populate a Drop down box from a mySQL table in PHP

Since mysql_connect has been deprecated, connect and query instead with mysqli:

$mysqli = new mysqli("hostname","username","password","database_name");
$sqlSelect="SELECT your_fieldname FROM your_table";
$result = $mysqli -> query ($sqlSelect);

And then, if you have more than one option list with the same values on the same page, put the values in an array:

while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
    $rows[] = $row;
}

And then you can loop the array multiple times on the same page:

foreach ($rows as $row) {
    print "<option value='" . $row['your_fieldname'] . "'>" . $row['your_fieldname'] . "</option>";
}

Subtracting time.Duration from time in Go

There's time.ParseDuration which will happily accept negative durations, as per manual. Otherwise put, there's no need to negate a duration where you can get an exact duration in the first place.

E.g. when you need to substract an hour and a half, you can do that like so:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "time"
)

func main() {
    now := time.Now()

    fmt.Println("now:", now)

    duration, _ := time.ParseDuration("-1.5h")

    then := now.Add(duration)

    fmt.Println("then:", then)
}

https://play.golang.org/p/63p-T9uFcZo

What are the differences between a HashMap and a Hashtable in Java?

There are several differences between HashMap and Hashtable in Java:

  1. Hashtable is synchronized, whereas HashMap is not. This makes HashMap better for non-threaded applications, as unsynchronized Objects typically perform better than synchronized ones.

  2. Hashtable does not allow null keys or values. HashMap allows one null key and any number of null values.

  3. One of HashMap's subclasses is LinkedHashMap, so in the event that you'd want predictable iteration order (which is insertion order by default), you could easily swap out the HashMap for a LinkedHashMap. This wouldn't be as easy if you were using Hashtable.

Since synchronization is not an issue for you, I'd recommend HashMap. If synchronization becomes an issue, you may also look at ConcurrentHashMap.

Casting int to bool in C/C++

There some kind of old school 'Marxismic' way to the cast int -> bool without C4800 warnings of Microsoft's cl compiler - is to use negation of negation.

int  i  = 0;
bool bi = !!i;

int  j  = 1;
bool bj = !!j;

Mask for an Input to allow phone numbers?

I do this using the TextMaskModule from 'angular2-text-mask'

Mine are split but you can get the idea

Package using NPM NodeJS

"dependencies": {
    "angular2-text-mask": "8.0.0",

HTML

<input *ngIf="column?.type =='areaCode'" type="text" [textMask]="{mask: areaCodeMask}" [(ngModel)]="areaCodeModel">


<input *ngIf="column?.type =='phone'" type="text" [textMask]="{mask: phoneMask}" [(ngModel)]="phoneModel"> 

Inside Component

public areaCodeModel = '';
public areaCodeMask = ['(', /[1-9]/, /\d/, /\d/, ')'];

public phoneModel = '';
public phoneMask = [/\d/, /\d/, /\d/, '-', /\d/, /\d/, /\d/, /\d/];

sql server invalid object name - but tables are listed in SSMS tables list

I ran into the problem with : ODBC and SQL-Server-Authentication in ODBC and Firedac-Connection

Solution : I had to set the Param MetaDefSchema to sqlserver username : FDConnection1.Params.AddPair('MetaDefSchema', self.FDConnection1.Params.UserName);

The wikidoc sais : MetaDefSchema=Default schema name. The Design time code >>excludes<< !! the schema name from the object SQL-Server-Authenticatoinname if it is equal to MetaDefSchema.

without setting, the automatic coder creates : dbname.username.tablename -> invalid object name

With setting MetaDefSchema to sqlserver-username : dbname.tablename -> works !

See also the embarcadero-doc at : http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Rio/en/Connect_to_Microsoft_SQL_Server_(FireDAC)

Hope, it helps someone else..

regards, Lutz

"Cannot verify access to path (C:\inetpub\wwwroot)", when adding a virtual directory

I was having the same issue till just now; just as you mentioned, I tried "Connect As" and the username and password that I wrote down, was my machine's user (IIS is running on this machine), I tested the connection and it works now. Maybe if you weren't using that machine's user (try user with administrator privileges), you should give it a try, it worked for me, it may work in your case as well.

How to compile C programming in Windows 7?

Get gcc for Windows . However, you will have to install MinGW as well.

You can use Visual Studio 2010 express edition as well. Link here

How do I change UIView Size?

For a progress bar kind of thing, in Swift 4

I follow these steps:

  1. I create a UIView outlet : @IBOutlet var progressBar: UIView!
  2. Then a property to increase its width value after a user action var progressBarWidth: Int = your value
  3. Then for the increase/decrease of the progress progressBar.frame.size.width = CGFloat(progressBarWidth)
  4. And finally in the IBACtion method I add progressBarWidth += your value for auto increase the width every time user touches a button.

How to use ArrayAdapter<myClass>

I think this is the best approach. Using generic ArrayAdapter class and extends your own Object adapter is as simple as follows:

public abstract class GenericArrayAdapter<T> extends ArrayAdapter<T> {

  // Vars
  private LayoutInflater mInflater;

  public GenericArrayAdapter(Context context, ArrayList<T> objects) {
    super(context, 0, objects);
    init(context);
  }

  // Headers
  public abstract void drawText(TextView textView, T object);

  private void init(Context context) {
    this.mInflater = LayoutInflater.from(context);
  }

  @Override public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
    final ViewHolder vh;
    if (convertView == null) {
      convertView = mInflater.inflate(android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, parent, false);
      vh = new ViewHolder(convertView);
      convertView.setTag(vh);
    } else {
      vh = (ViewHolder) convertView.getTag();
    }

    drawText(vh.textView, getItem(position));

    return convertView;
  }

  static class ViewHolder {

    TextView textView;

    private ViewHolder(View rootView) {
      textView = (TextView) rootView.findViewById(android.R.id.text1);
    }
  }
}

and here your adapter (example):

public class SizeArrayAdapter extends GenericArrayAdapter<Size> {

  public SizeArrayAdapter(Context context, ArrayList<Size> objects) {
    super(context, objects);
  }

  @Override public void drawText(TextView textView, Size object) {
    textView.setText(object.getName());
  }

}

and finally, how to initialize it:

ArrayList<Size> sizes = getArguments().getParcelableArrayList(Constants.ARG_PRODUCT_SIZES);
SizeArrayAdapter sizeArrayAdapter = new SizeArrayAdapter(getActivity(), sizes);
listView.setAdapter(sizeArrayAdapter);

I've created a Gist with TextView layout gravity customizable ArrayAdapter:

https://gist.github.com/m3n0R/8822803

Apache Spark: The number of cores vs. the number of executors

There is a small issue in the First two configurations i think. The concepts of threads and cores like follows. The concept of threading is if the cores are ideal then use that core to process the data. So the memory is not fully utilized in first two cases. If you want to bench mark this example choose the machines which has more than 10 cores on each machine. Then do the bench mark.

But dont give more than 5 cores per executor there will be bottle neck on i/o performance.

So the best machines to do this bench marking might be data nodes which have 10 cores.

Data node machine spec: CPU: Core i7-4790 (# of cores: 10, # of threads: 20) RAM: 32GB (8GB x 4) HDD: 8TB (2TB x 4)

Long press on UITableView

Answer in Swift:

Add delegate UIGestureRecognizerDelegate to your UITableViewController.

Within UITableViewController:

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    let longPressGesture:UILongPressGestureRecognizer = UILongPressGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: "handleLongPress:")
    longPressGesture.minimumPressDuration = 1.0 // 1 second press
    longPressGesture.delegate = self
    self.tableView.addGestureRecognizer(longPressGesture)

}

And the function:

func handleLongPress(longPressGesture:UILongPressGestureRecognizer) {

    let p = longPressGesture.locationInView(self.tableView)
    let indexPath = self.tableView.indexPathForRowAtPoint(p)

    if indexPath == nil {
        print("Long press on table view, not row.")
    }
    else if (longPressGesture.state == UIGestureRecognizerState.Began) {
        print("Long press on row, at \(indexPath!.row)")
    }

}

could not extract ResultSet in hibernate

If you don't have 'HIBERNATE_SEQUENCE' sequence created in database (if use oracle or any sequence based database), you shall get same type of error;

Ensure the sequence is present there;

Example for boost shared_mutex (multiple reads/one write)?

Great response by Jim Morris, I stumbled upon this and it took me a while to figure. Here is some simple code that shows that after submitting a "request" for a unique_lock boost (version 1.54) blocks all shared_lock requests. This is very interesting as it seems to me that choosing between unique_lock and upgradeable_lock allows if we want write priority or no priority.

Also (1) in Jim Morris's post seems to contradict this: Boost shared_lock. Read preferred?

#include <iostream>
#include <boost/thread.hpp>

using namespace std;

typedef boost::shared_mutex Lock;
typedef boost::unique_lock< Lock > UniqueLock;
typedef boost::shared_lock< Lock > SharedLock;

Lock tempLock;

void main2() {
    cout << "10" << endl;
    UniqueLock lock2(tempLock); // (2) queue for a unique lock
    cout << "11" << endl;
    boost::this_thread::sleep(boost::posix_time::seconds(1));
    lock2.unlock();
}

void main() {
    cout << "1" << endl;
    SharedLock lock1(tempLock); // (1) aquire a shared lock
    cout << "2" << endl;
    boost::thread tempThread(main2);
    cout << "3" << endl;
    boost::this_thread::sleep(boost::posix_time::seconds(3));
    cout << "4" << endl;
    SharedLock lock3(tempLock); // (3) try getting antoher shared lock, deadlock here
    cout << "5" << endl;
    lock1.unlock();
    lock3.unlock();
}

Checking if a list of objects contains a property with a specific value

using System.Linq;    
list.Where(x=> x.Name == nameToExtract);

Edit: misread question (now all matches)

Trimming text strings in SQL Server 2008

SQL Server does not have a TRIM function, but rather it has two. One each for specifically trimming spaces from the "front" of a string (LTRIM) and one for trimming spaces from the "end" of a string (RTRIM).

Something like the following will update every record in your table, trimming all extraneous space (either at the front or the end) of a varchar/nvarchar field:

UPDATE 
   [YourTableName]
SET
   [YourFieldName] = LTRIM(RTRIM([YourFieldName]))

(Strangely, SSIS (Sql Server Integration Services) does have a single TRIM function!)

Deploying just HTML, CSS webpage to Tomcat

There is no real need to create a war to run it from Tomcat. You can follow these steps

  1. Create a folder in webapps folder e.g. MyApp

  2. Put your html and css in that folder and name the html file, which you want to be the starting page for your application, index.html

  3. Start tomcat and point your browser to url "http://localhost:8080/MyApp". Your index.html page will pop up in the browser

How to convert Map keys to array?

Not exactly best answer to question but this trick new Array(...someMap) saved me couple of times when I need both key and value to generate needed array. For example when there is need to create react components from Map object based on both key and value values.

  let map = new Map();
  map.set("1", 1);
  map.set("2", 2);
  console.log(new Array(...map).map(pairs => pairs[0])); -> ["1", "2"]

CSS rotation cross browser with jquery.animate()

CSS-Transforms are not possible to animate with jQuery, yet. You can do something like this:

function AnimateRotate(angle) {
    // caching the object for performance reasons
    var $elem = $('#MyDiv2');

    // we use a pseudo object for the animation
    // (starts from `0` to `angle`), you can name it as you want
    $({deg: 0}).animate({deg: angle}, {
        duration: 2000,
        step: function(now) {
            // in the step-callback (that is fired each step of the animation),
            // you can use the `now` paramter which contains the current
            // animation-position (`0` up to `angle`)
            $elem.css({
                transform: 'rotate(' + now + 'deg)'
            });
        }
    });
}

You can read more about the step-callback here: http://api.jquery.com/animate/#step

http://jsfiddle.net/UB2XR/23/

And, btw: you don't need to prefix css3 transforms with jQuery 1.7+

Update

You can wrap this in a jQuery-plugin to make your life a bit easier:

$.fn.animateRotate = function(angle, duration, easing, complete) {
  return this.each(function() {
    var $elem = $(this);

    $({deg: 0}).animate({deg: angle}, {
      duration: duration,
      easing: easing,
      step: function(now) {
        $elem.css({
           transform: 'rotate(' + now + 'deg)'
         });
      },
      complete: complete || $.noop
    });
  });
};

$('#MyDiv2').animateRotate(90);

http://jsbin.com/ofagog/2/edit

Update2

I optimized it a bit to make the order of easing, duration and complete insignificant.

$.fn.animateRotate = function(angle, duration, easing, complete) {
  var args = $.speed(duration, easing, complete);
  var step = args.step;
  return this.each(function(i, e) {
    args.complete = $.proxy(args.complete, e);
    args.step = function(now) {
      $.style(e, 'transform', 'rotate(' + now + 'deg)');
      if (step) return step.apply(e, arguments);
    };

    $({deg: 0}).animate({deg: angle}, args);
  });
};

Update 2.1

Thanks to matteo who noted an issue with the this-context in the complete-callback. If fixed it by binding the callback with jQuery.proxy on each node.

I've added the edition to the code before from Update 2.

Update 2.2

This is a possible modification if you want to do something like toggle the rotation back and forth. I simply added a start parameter to the function and replaced this line:

$({deg: start}).animate({deg: angle}, args);

If anyone knows how to make this more generic for all use cases, whether or not they want to set a start degree, please make the appropriate edit.


The Usage...is quite simple!

Mainly you've two ways to reach the desired result. But at the first, let's take a look on the arguments:

jQuery.fn.animateRotate(angle, duration, easing, complete)

Except of "angle" are all of them optional and fallback to the default jQuery.fn.animate-properties:

duration: 400
easing: "swing"
complete: function () {}

1st

This way is the short one, but looks a bit unclear the more arguments we pass in.

$(node).animateRotate(90);
$(node).animateRotate(90, function () {});
$(node).animateRotate(90, 1337, 'linear', function () {});

2nd

I prefer to use objects if there are more than three arguments, so this syntax is my favorit:

$(node).animateRotate(90, {
  duration: 1337,
  easing: 'linear',
  complete: function () {},
  step: function () {}
});

AngularJS $resource RESTful example

you can just do $scope.todo = Todo.get({ id: 123 }). .get() and .query() on a Resource return an object immediately and fill it with the result of the promise later (to update your template). It's not a typical promise which is why you need to either use a callback or the $promise property if you have some special code you want executed after the call. But there is no need to assign it to your scope in a callback if you are only using it in the template.

How do you create a temporary table in an Oracle database?

CREATE TABLE table_temp_list_objects AS
SELECT o.owner, o.object_name FROM sys.all_objects o WHERE o.object_type ='TABLE';

cleanup php session files

Use cron with find to delete files older than given threshold. For example to delete files that haven't been accessed for at least a week.

find .session/ -atime +7  -exec rm {} \;

How do I import a .sql file in mysql database using PHP?

Warning: mysql_* extension is deprecated as of PHP 5.5.0, and has been removed as of PHP 7.0.0. Instead, either the mysqli or PDO_MySQL extension should be used. See also the MySQL API Overview for further help while choosing a MySQL API.
Whenever possible, importing a file to MySQL should be delegated to MySQL client.

I have got another way to do this, try this

<?php

// Name of the file
$filename = 'churc.sql';
// MySQL host
$mysql_host = 'localhost';
// MySQL username
$mysql_username = 'root';
// MySQL password
$mysql_password = '';
// Database name
$mysql_database = 'dump';

// Connect to MySQL server
mysql_connect($mysql_host, $mysql_username, $mysql_password) or die('Error connecting to MySQL server: ' . mysql_error());
// Select database
mysql_select_db($mysql_database) or die('Error selecting MySQL database: ' . mysql_error());

// Temporary variable, used to store current query
$templine = '';
// Read in entire file
$lines = file($filename);
// Loop through each line
foreach ($lines as $line)
{
// Skip it if it's a comment
if (substr($line, 0, 2) == '--' || $line == '')
    continue;

// Add this line to the current segment
$templine .= $line;
// If it has a semicolon at the end, it's the end of the query
if (substr(trim($line), -1, 1) == ';')
{
    // Perform the query
    mysql_query($templine) or print('Error performing query \'<strong>' . $templine . '\': ' . mysql_error() . '<br /><br />');
    // Reset temp variable to empty
    $templine = '';
}
}
 echo "Tables imported successfully";
?>

This is working for me

ASP.NET Identity reset password

string message = null;
//reset the password
var result = await IdentityManager.Passwords.ResetPasswordAsync(model.Token, model.Password);
if (result.Success)
{
    message = "The password has been reset.";
    return RedirectToAction("PasswordResetCompleted", new { message = message });
}
else
{
    AddErrors(result);
}

This snippet of code is taken out of the AspNetIdentitySample project available on github

How can I format my grep output to show line numbers at the end of the line, and also the hit count?

Just thought I'd something that might help you in the future. To search multiple string and output line numbers and browse thru the output, type:

egrep -ne 'null|three'

will show:

2:example two null,  
3:example three,  
4:example four null,   

egrep -ne 'null|three' | less

will display output in a less session

HTH Jun

Jquery set radio button checked, using id and class selectors

"...by a class and a div."

I assume when you say "div" you mean "id"? Try this:

$('#test2.test1').prop('checked', true);

No need to muck about with your [attributename=value] style selectors because id has its own format as does class, and they're easily combined although given that id is supposed to be unique it should be enough on its own unless your meaning is "select that element only if it currently has the specified class".

Or more generally to select an input where you want to specify a multiple attribute selector:

$('input:radio[class=test1][id=test2]').prop('checked', true);

That is, list each attribute with its own square brackets.

Note that unless you have a pretty old version of jQuery you should use .prop() rather than .attr() for this purpose.

How to perform a fade animation on Activity transition?

you can also use this code in your style.xml file so you don't need to write anything else in your activity.java

<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
    <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>
    <item name="android:windowAnimationStyle">@style/AppTheme.WindowTransition</item>
</style>

<!-- Setting window animation -->
<style name="AppTheme.WindowTransition">
    <item name="android:windowEnterAnimation">@android:anim/fade_in</item>
    <item name="android:windowExitAnimation">@android:anim/fade_out</item>
</style>

How can I get date in application run by node.js?

You would use the javascript date object:

MDN documentation for the Date object

var d = new Date();

How to change Named Range Scope

An alternative way is to "hack" the Excel file for 2007 or higher, although it is advisable to take care if you are doing this, and keep a backup of the original:

First save the Excel spreadsheet as an .xlsx or .xlsm file (not binary). rename the file to .zip, then unzip. Go to the xl folder in the zip structure and open workbook.xml in Wordpad or a similar text editor. Named ranges are found in the definedName tags. Local scoping is defined by localSheetId="x" (the sheet IDs can be found by pressing Alt-F11 in Excel, with the spreadsheet open, to get to the VBA window, and then looking at the Project pane). Hidden ranges are defined by hidden="1", so just delete the hidden="1" to unhide, for example.

Now rezip the folder structure, taking care to maintain the integrity of the folder structure, and rename back to .xlsx or .xlsm.

This is probably not the best solution if you need to change the scope of or hide/unhide a large number of defined ranges, though it works fine for making one or two small tweaks.

WindowsError: [Error 126] The specified module could not be found

There is a promising answer at Problem updating bokeh: [WinError 126] The specified module could not be found.

It hints at https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/9313.

There, you find:

It's a library load issue. More details at github.com/conda/conda/issues/8836 You probably have a broken conda right now. You can use a standalone conda from repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/misc/conda-execs to repair it: standalone-conda.exe update -p C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3 conda-package-handling You should get version 1.6.0, and the problems should go away.

Thus, it might simply be a conda issue. Reinstalling standalone conda might repair the error. Please comment whoever can confirm this.

Convert Text to Date?

Perhaps:

Sub dateCNV()
    Dim N As Long, r As Range, s As String
    N = Cells(Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).Row
    For i = 1 To N
        Set r = Cells(i, "A")
        s = r.Text
        r.Clear
        r.Value = DateSerial(Left(s, 4), Mid(s, 6, 2), Right(s, 2))
    Next i
End Sub

This assumes that column A contains text values like 2013-12-25 with no header cell.

Position buttons next to each other in the center of page

Have both the buttons inside a div as shown below and add the given CSS for that div

_x000D_
_x000D_
#button1, #button2{_x000D_
width: 200px;_x000D_
height: 40px;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
#butn{_x000D_
    margin: 0 auto;_x000D_
    display: block;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<div id="butn">_x000D_
 <button type="button home-button" id="button1" >Home</button>_x000D_
 <button type="button contact-button" id="button2">Contact Us</button>_x000D_
<div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Is there a NumPy function to return the first index of something in an array?

l.index(x) returns the smallest i such that i is the index of the first occurrence of x in the list.

One can safely assume that the index() function in Python is implemented so that it stops after finding the first match, and this results in an optimal average performance.

For finding an element stopping after the first match in a NumPy array use an iterator (ndenumerate).

In [67]: l=range(100)

In [68]: l.index(2)
Out[68]: 2

NumPy array:

In [69]: a = np.arange(100)

In [70]: next((idx for idx, val in np.ndenumerate(a) if val==2))
Out[70]: (2L,)

Note that both methods index() and next return an error if the element is not found. With next, one can use a second argument to return a special value in case the element is not found, e.g.

In [77]: next((idx for idx, val in np.ndenumerate(a) if val==400),None)

There are other functions in NumPy (argmax, where, and nonzero) that can be used to find an element in an array, but they all have the drawback of going through the whole array looking for all occurrences, thus not being optimized for finding the first element. Note also that where and nonzero return arrays, so you need to select the first element to get the index.

In [71]: np.argmax(a==2)
Out[71]: 2

In [72]: np.where(a==2)
Out[72]: (array([2], dtype=int64),)

In [73]: np.nonzero(a==2)
Out[73]: (array([2], dtype=int64),)

Time comparison

Just checking that for large arrays the solution using an iterator is faster when the searched item is at the beginning of the array (using %timeit in the IPython shell):

In [285]: a = np.arange(100000)

In [286]: %timeit next((idx for idx, val in np.ndenumerate(a) if val==0))
100000 loops, best of 3: 17.6 µs per loop

In [287]: %timeit np.argmax(a==0)
1000 loops, best of 3: 254 µs per loop

In [288]: %timeit np.where(a==0)[0][0]
1000 loops, best of 3: 314 µs per loop

This is an open NumPy GitHub issue.

See also: Numpy: find first index of value fast

Which characters are valid/invalid in a JSON key name?

It is worth mentioning that while starting the keys with numbers is valid, it could cause some unintended issues.

Example:

var testObject = {
    "1tile": "test value"
};
console.log(testObject.1tile); // fails, invalid syntax
console.log(testObject["1tile"]; // workaround

receiving json and deserializing as List of object at spring mvc controller

Here is the code that works for me. The key is that you need a wrapper class.

public class Person {

    private String name;
    private Integer age;

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public Integer getAge() {
        return age;
    }

    public void setAge(Integer age) {
        this.age = age;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "Person [name=" + name + ", age=" + age + "]";
    }

A PersonWrapper class

public class PersonWrapper {

    private List<Person> persons;

    /**
     * @return the persons
     */
    public List<Person> getPersons() {
        return persons;
    }

    /**
     * @param persons the persons to set
     */
    public void setPersons(List<Person> persons) {
        this.persons = persons;
    }
}

My Controller methods

@RequestMapping(value="person", method=RequestMethod.POST,consumes="application/json",produces="application/json")
    @ResponseBody
    public List<String> savePerson(@RequestBody PersonWrapper wrapper) {
        List<String> response = new ArrayList<String>();
        for (Person person: wrapper.getPersons()){
        personService.save(person);
         response.add("Saved person: " + person.toString());
    }
        return response;
    }

The request sent is json in POST

{"persons":[{"name":"shail1","age":"2"},{"name":"shail2","age":"3"}]}

And the response is

["Saved person: Person [name=shail1, age=2]","Saved person: Person [name=shail2, age=3]"]

Creating a Shopping Cart using only HTML/JavaScript

I think it is a better idea to start working with a raw data and then translate it to DOM (document object model)

I would suggest you to work with array of objects and then output it to the DOM in order to accomplish your task.

You can see working example of following code at http://www.softxml.com/stackoverflow/shoppingCart.htm

You can try following approach:

//create array that will hold all ordered products
    var shoppingCart = [];

    //this function manipulates DOM and displays content of our shopping cart
    function displayShoppingCart(){
        var orderedProductsTblBody=document.getElementById("orderedProductsTblBody");
        //ensure we delete all previously added rows from ordered products table
        while(orderedProductsTblBody.rows.length>0) {
            orderedProductsTblBody.deleteRow(0);
        }

        //variable to hold total price of shopping cart
        var cart_total_price=0;
        //iterate over array of objects
        for(var product in shoppingCart){
            //add new row      
            var row=orderedProductsTblBody.insertRow();
            //create three cells for product properties 
            var cellName = row.insertCell(0);
            var cellDescription = row.insertCell(1);
            var cellPrice = row.insertCell(2);
            cellPrice.align="right";
            //fill cells with values from current product object of our array
            cellName.innerHTML = shoppingCart[product].Name;
            cellDescription.innerHTML = shoppingCart[product].Description;
            cellPrice.innerHTML = shoppingCart[product].Price;
            cart_total_price+=shoppingCart[product].Price;
        }
        //fill total cost of our shopping cart 
        document.getElementById("cart_total").innerHTML=cart_total_price;
    }


    function AddtoCart(name,description,price){
       //Below we create JavaScript Object that will hold three properties you have mentioned:    Name,Description and Price
       var singleProduct = {};
       //Fill the product object with data
       singleProduct.Name=name;
       singleProduct.Description=description;
       singleProduct.Price=price;
       //Add newly created product to our shopping cart 
       shoppingCart.push(singleProduct);
       //call display function to show on screen
       displayShoppingCart();

    }  


    //Add some products to our shopping cart via code or you can create a button with onclick event
    //AddtoCart("Table","Big red table",50);
    //AddtoCart("Door","Big yellow door",150);
    //AddtoCart("Car","Ferrari S23",150000);






<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4" border="1">
    <tr>
        <td valign="top">
            <table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4" border="0">
                <thead>
                    <tr>
                        <td colspan="2">
                            Products for sale
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                </thead>
                <tbody>
                    <tr>
                        <td>
                            Table
                        </td>
                        <td>
                            <input type="button" value="Add to cart" onclick="AddtoCart('Table','Big red table',50)"/>
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td>
                            Door
                        </td>
                        <td>
                            <input type="button" value="Add to cart" onclick="AddtoCart('Door','Yellow Door',150)"/>
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td>
                            Car
                        </td>
                        <td>
                            <input type="button" value="Add to cart" onclick="AddtoCart('Ferrari','Ferrari S234',150000)"/>
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                </tbody>

            </table>
        </td>
        <td valign="top">
            <table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4" border="1" id="orderedProductsTbl">
                <thead>
                    <tr>
                        <td>
                            Name
                        </td>
                        <td>
                            Description
                        </td>
                        <td>
                            Price
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                </thead>
                <tbody id="orderedProductsTblBody">

                </tbody>
                <tfoot>
                    <tr>
                        <td colspan="3" align="right" id="cart_total">

                        </td>
                    </tr>
                </tfoot>
            </table>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>

Please have a look at following free client-side shopping cart:

SoftEcart(js) is a Responsive, Handlebars & JSON based, E-Commerce shopping cart written in JavaScript with built-in PayPal integration.

Documentation

http://www.softxml.com/softecartjs-demo/documentation/SoftecartJS_free.html

Hope you will find it useful.

SASS - use variables across multiple files

This question was asked a long time ago so I thought I'd post an updated answer.

You should now avoid using @import. Taken from the docs:

Sass will gradually phase it out over the next few years, and eventually remove it from the language entirely. Prefer the @use rule instead.

A full list of reasons can be found here

You should now use @use as shown below:

_variables.scss

$text-colour: #262626;

_otherFile.scss

@use 'variables'; // Path to _variables.scss Notice how we don't include the underscore or file extension

body {
  // namespace.$variable-name
  // namespace is just the last component of its URL without a file extension
  color: variables.$text-colour;
}

You can also create an alias for the namespace:

_otherFile.scss

@use 'variables' as v;

body {
  // alias.$variable-name
  color: v.$text-colour;
}

EDIT As pointed out by @und3rdg at the time of writing (November 2020) @use is currently only available for Dart Sass and not LibSass (now deprecated) or Ruby Sass. See https://sass-lang.com/documentation/at-rules/use for the latest compatibility

What is android:ems attribute in Edit Text?

Taken from: http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/units:

The em is simply the font size. In an element with a 2in font, 1em thus means 2in. Expressing sizes, such as margins and paddings, in em means they are related to the font size, and if the user has a big font (e.g., on a big screen) or a small font (e.g., on a handheld device), the sizes will be in proportion. Declarations such as 'text-indent: 1.5em' and 'margin: 1em' are extremely common in CSS.

em is basically CSS property for font sizes.

ModelState.AddModelError - How can I add an error that isn't for a property?

You can add the model error on any property of your model, I suggest if there is nothing related to create a new property.

As an exemple we check if the email is already in use in DB and add the error to the Email property in the action so when I return the view, they know that there's an error and how to show it up by using

<%: Html.ValidationSummary(true)%>
<%: Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.Email) %>

and

ModelState.AddModelError("Email", Resources.EmailInUse);

Clear Application's Data Programmatically

The Simplest way to do this is

private void deleteAppData() {
     try {
    // clearing app data
    String packageName = getApplicationContext().getPackageName();
    Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime();
    runtime.exec("pm clear "+packageName);

} catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
} }

This will clear the data and remove your app from memory. It is equivalent to clear data option under Settings --> Application Manager --> Your App --> Clear data

Postgresql: Scripting psql execution with password

8 years later...

On my mac, I had to put a line into the file ~/.pgpass like:

<IP>:<PORT>:<dbname>:<user>:<password>

Also see:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-pgpass.html
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Pgpass

Regex select all text between tags

Tag can be completed in another line. This is why \n needs to be added.

<PRE>(.|\n)*?<\/PRE>

How to do the Recursive SELECT query in MySQL?

If you want to be able to have a SELECT without problems of the parent id having to be lower than child id, a function could be used. It supports also multiple children (as a tree should do) and the tree can have multiple heads. It also ensure to break if a loop exists in the data.

I wanted to use dynamic SQL to be able to pass the table/columns names, but functions in MySQL don't support this.

DELIMITER $$

CREATE FUNCTION `isSubElement`(pParentId INT, pId INT) RETURNS int(11)
DETERMINISTIC    
READS SQL DATA
BEGIN
DECLARE isChild,curId,curParent,lastParent int;
SET isChild = 0;
SET curId = pId;
SET curParent = -1;
SET lastParent = -2;

WHILE lastParent <> curParent AND curParent <> 0 AND curId <> -1 AND curParent <> pId AND isChild = 0 DO
    SET lastParent = curParent;
    SELECT ParentId from `test` where id=curId limit 1 into curParent;

    IF curParent = pParentId THEN
        SET isChild = 1;
    END IF;
    SET curId = curParent;
END WHILE;

RETURN isChild;
END$$

Here, the table test has to be modified to the real table name and the columns (ParentId,Id) may have to be adjusted for your real names.

Usage :

SET @wantedSubTreeId = 3;
SELECT * FROM test WHERE isSubElement(@wantedSubTreeId,id) = 1 OR ID = @wantedSubTreeId;

Result :

3   7   k
5   3   d
9   3   f
1   5   a

SQL for test creation :

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `test` (
  `Id` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `ParentId` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
  `Name` varchar(300) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`Id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB  DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

insert into test (id, parentid, name) values(3,7,'k');
insert into test (id, parentid, name) values(5,3,'d');
insert into test (id, parentid, name) values(9,3,'f');
insert into test (id, parentid, name) values(1,5,'a');
insert into test (id, parentid, name) values(6,2,'o');
insert into test (id, parentid, name) values(2,8,'c');

EDIT : Here is a fiddle to test it yourself. It forced me to change the delimiter using the predefined one, but it works.

How can I install packages using pip according to the requirements.txt file from a local directory?

Often, you will want a fast install from local archives, without probing PyPI.

First, download the archives that fulfill your requirements:

$ pip install --download <DIR> -r requirements.txt

Then, install using –find-links and –no-index:

$ pip install --no-index --find-links=[file://]<DIR> -r requirements.txt

How to generate .env file for laravel?

create .env using command!

composer run post-root-package-install or sudo composer run post-root-package-install

Reloading submodules in IPython

I hate to add yet another answer to a long thread, but I found a solution that enables recursive reloading of submodules on %run() that others might find useful (I have anyway)

del the submodule you wish to reload on run from sys.modules in iPython:

In[1]: from sys import modules
In[2]: del modules["mymodule.mysubmodule"] # tab completion can be used like mymodule.<tab>!

Now your script will recursively reload this submodule:

In[3]: %run myscript.py

Gaussian filter in MATLAB

You first create the filter with fspecial and then convolve the image with the filter using imfilter (which works on multidimensional images as in the example).

You specify sigma and hsize in fspecial.

Code:

%%# Read an image
I = imread('peppers.png');
%# Create the gaussian filter with hsize = [5 5] and sigma = 2
G = fspecial('gaussian',[5 5],2);
%# Filter it
Ig = imfilter(I,G,'same');
%# Display
imshow(Ig)

Removing X-Powered-By

I think that is controlled by the expose_php setting in PHP.ini:

expose_php = off

Decides whether PHP may expose the fact that it is installed on the server (e.g. by adding its signature to the Web server header). It is no security threat in any way, but it makes it possible to determine whether you use PHP on your server or not.

There is no direct security risk, but as David C notes, exposing an outdated (and possibly vulnerable) version of PHP may be an invitation for people to try and attack it.

Google Android USB Driver and ADB

Driver for Huawei was not found. So I've been using the universal ADB driver:

  • Download this:
  • Extract ADBDriverInstaller and Run the file. Make sure you have connected your device through USB to your computer.
  • A window is displayed.
  • Click Install.
  • A dialog box will appear. It will ask you to press the Restart button.

Before doing that read this link:

(The above. in brief, says to press Restart button in the dialog box. Select Troubleshoot. Select Advance Option. Select Startup Setting. Press Restart. After system's been restarted, on the appearing screen press 7)

  • When PC has been Restarted, Run the ADBDriverInstaller file again. Select your device from the options. Press install.

And it's done :)

Deserialize JSON to Array or List with HTTPClient .ReadAsAsync using .NET 4.0 Task pattern

The return type depends on the server, sometimes the response is indeed a JSON array but sent as text/plain

Setting the accept headers in the request should get the correct type:

client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json")); 

which can then be serialized to a JSON list or array. Thanks for the comment from @svick which made me curious that it should work.

The Exception I got without configuring the accept headers was System.Net.Http.UnsupportedMediaTypeException.

Following code is cleaner and should work (untested, but works in my case):

    var client = new HttpClient();
    client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
    var response = await client.GetAsync("http://api.usa.gov/jobs/search.json?query=nursing+jobs");
    var model = await response.Content.ReadAsAsync<List<Job>>();

Persist javascript variables across pages?

You can persist values using HTML5 storage, Flash Storage, or Gears. The dojo storage library provides a nice wrapper for this.

NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS setting for decimal

To know SESSION decimal separator, you can use following SQL command:

ALTER SESSION SET NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS = ', ';

select SUBSTR(value,1,1) as "SEPARATOR"
      ,'using NLS-PARAMETER' as "Explanation"
  from nls_session_parameters
  where parameter = 'NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS'

UNION ALL

select SUBSTR(0.5,1,1) as "SEPARATOR" 
      ,'using NUMBER IMPLICIT CASTING' as "Explanation"
  from DUAL;

The first SELECT command find NLS Parameter defined in NLS_SESSION_PARAMETERS table. The decimal separator is the first character of the returned value.

The second SELECT command convert IMPLICITELY the 0.5 rational number into a String using (by default) NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS defined at session level.

The both command return same value.

I have already tested the same SQL command in PL/SQL script and this is always the same value COMMA or POINT that is displayed. Decimal Separator displayed in PL/SQL script is equal to what is displayed in SQL.

To test what I say, I have used following SQL commands:

ALTER SESSION SET NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS = ', ';

select 'DECIMAL-SEPARATOR on CLIENT: (' || TO_CHAR(.5,) || ')' from dual;

DECLARE
    S VARCHAR2(10) := '?';
BEGIN

    select .5 INTO S from dual;

    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('DECIMAL-SEPARATOR in PL/SQL: (' || S || ')');
END;
/

The shorter command to know decimal separator is:

SELECT .5 FROM DUAL;

That return 0,5 if decimal separator is a COMMA and 0.5 if decimal separator is a POINT.

Difference between try-catch and throw in java

In my limited experience with the following details.throws is a declaration that declares multiple exceptions that may occur but do not necessarily occur, throw is an action that can throw only one exception, typically a non-runtime exception, try catch is a block that catches exceptions that can be handled when an exception occurs in a method,this exception can be thrown.An exception can be understood as a responsibility that should be taken care of by the behavior that caused the exception, rather than by its upper callers. I hope my answer will help you

C# list.Orderby descending

list.OrderByDescending();

works for me.

is there a post render callback for Angular JS directive?

I had the same issue, but using Angular + DataTable with a fnDrawCallback + row grouping + $compiled nested directives. I placed the $timeout in my fnDrawCallback function to fix pagination rendering.

Before example, based on row_grouping source:

var myDrawCallback = function myDrawCallbackFn(oSettings){
  var nTrs = $('table#result>tbody>tr');
  for(var i=0; i<nTrs.length; i++){
     //1. group rows per row_grouping example
     //2. $compile html templates to hook datatable into Angular lifecycle
  }
}

After example:

var myDrawCallback = function myDrawCallbackFn(oSettings){
  var nTrs = $('table#result>tbody>tr');
  $timeout(function requiredRenderTimeoutDelay(){
    for(var i=0; i<nTrs.length; i++){
       //1. group rows per row_grouping example
       //2. $compile html templates to hook datatable into Angular lifecycle
    }
  ,50); //end $timeout
}

Even a short timeout delay was enough to allow Angular to render my compiled Angular directives.

JUnit assertEquals(double expected, double actual, double epsilon)

Epsilon is your "fuzz factor," since doubles may not be exactly equal. Epsilon lets you describe how close they have to be.

If you were expecting 3.14159 but would take anywhere from 3.14059 to 3.14259 (that is, within 0.001), then you should write something like

double myPi = 22.0d / 7.0d; //Don't use this in real life!
assertEquals(3.14159, myPi, 0.001);

(By the way, 22/7 comes out to 3.1428+, and would fail the assertion. This is a good thing.)

How do I create an abstract base class in JavaScript?

Animal = function () { throw "abstract class!" }
Animal.prototype.name = "This animal";
Animal.prototype.sound = "...";
Animal.prototype.say = function() {
    console.log( this.name + " says: " + this.sound );
}

Cat = function () {
    this.name = "Cat";
    this.sound = "meow";
}

Dog = function() {
    this.name = "Dog";
    this.sound  = "woof";
}

Cat.prototype = Object.create(Animal.prototype);
Dog.prototype = Object.create(Animal.prototype);

new Cat().say();    //Cat says: meow
new Dog().say();    //Dog says: woof 
new Animal().say(); //Uncaught abstract class! 

How do I use itertools.groupby()?

This basic implementation helped me understand this function. Hope it helps others as well:

arr = [(1, "A"), (1, "B"), (1, "C"), (2, "D"), (2, "E"), (3, "F")]

for k,g in groupby(arr, lambda x: x[0]):
    print("--", k, "--")
    for tup in g:
        print(tup[1])  # tup[0] == k
-- 1 --
A
B
C
-- 2 --
D
E
-- 3 --
F

How to programmatically set drawableLeft on Android button?

Try this:

((Button)btn).getCompoundDrawables()[0].setAlpha(btn.isEnabled() ? 255 : 100);

How can I multiply all items in a list together with Python?

You can use:

import operator
import functools
functools.reduce(operator.mul, [1,2,3,4,5,6], 1)

See reduce and operator.mul documentations for an explanation.

You need the import functools line in Python 3+.

Tool to Unminify / Decompress JavaScript

click on these link for JS deminification. That will install on FF as extension that help you in debugging js at runtime.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/javascript-deminifier/eula/141018?src=dp-btn-primary

Filter LogCat to get only the messages from My Application in Android?

Linux and OS X

Use ps/grep/cut to grab the PID, then grep for logcat entries with that PID. Here's the command I use:

adb logcat | grep -F "`adb shell ps | grep com.asanayoga.asanarebel  | tr -s [:space:] ' ' | cut -d' ' -f2`"

(You could improve the regex further to avoid the theoretical problem of unrelated log lines containing the same number, but it's never been an issue for me)

This also works when matching multiple processes.

Windows

On Windows you can do:

adb logcat | findstr com.example.package

Make 2 functions run at the same time

I think what you are trying to convey can be achieved through multiprocessing. However if you want to do it through threads you can do this. This might help

from threading import Thread
import time

def func1():
    print 'Working'
    time.sleep(2)

def func2():
    print 'Working'
    time.sleep(2)

th = Thread(target=func1)
th.start()
th1=Thread(target=func2)
th1.start()

How to pass parameter to a promise function

Another way(Must Try):

_x000D_
_x000D_
var promise1 = new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {_x000D_
  resolve('Success!');_x000D_
});_x000D_
var extraData = 'ImExtraData';_x000D_
promise1.then(function(value) {_x000D_
  console.log(value, extraData);_x000D_
  // expected output: "Success!" "ImExtraData"_x000D_
}, extraData);
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

'module' has no attribute 'urlencode'

You use the Python 2 docs but write your program in Python 3.

Disable clipboard prompt in Excel VBA on workbook close

proposed solution edit works if you replace the row

Set rDst = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("SomeSheet").Cells("YourCell").Resize(rSrc.Rows.Count, rSrc.Columns.Count)

with

Set rDst = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("SomeSheet").Range("YourRange").Resize(rSrc.Rows.Count, rSrc.Columns.Count)

How to copy data from another workbook (excel)?

Best practice is to open the source file (with a false visible status if you don't want to be bother) read your data and then we close it.

A working and clean code is avalaible on the link below :

http://vba-useful.blogspot.fr/2013/12/how-do-i-retrieve-data-from-another.html

CSS: fixed to bottom and centered

The problem lies in position: static. Static means don't do anyting at all with the position. position: absolute is what you want. Centering the element is still tricky though. The following should work:

#whatever {
  position: absolute;
  bottom: 0px;
  margin-right: auto;
  margin-left: auto;
  left: 0px;
  right: 0px;
}

or

#whatever {
  position: absolute;
  bottom: 0px;
  margin-right: auto;
  margin-left: auto;
  left: 50%;
  transform: translate(-50%, 0);
}

But I recommend the first method. I used centering techniques from this answer: How to center absolutely positioned element in div?

What is a regular expression which will match a valid domain name without a subdomain?

Here is complete code with example:

<?php
function is_domain($url)
{
    $parse = parse_url($url);
    if (isset($parse['host'])) {
        $domain = $parse['host'];
    } else {
        $domain = $url;
    }

    return preg_match('/^(?!\-)(?:[a-zA-Z\d\-]{0,62}[a-zA-Z\d]\.){1,126}(?!\d+)[a-zA-Z\d]{1,63}$/', $domain);
}

echo is_domain('example.com'); //true
echo is_domain('https://example.com'); //true
echo is_domain('https://.example.com'); //false
echo is_domain('https://localhost'); //false

iOS download and save image inside app

Although it is true that the other answers here will work, they really aren't solutions that should ever be used in production code. (at least not without modification)

Problems

The problem with these answers is that if they are implemented as is and are not called from a background thread, they will block the main thread while downloading and saving the image. This is bad.

If the main thread is blocked, UI updates won't happen until the downloading/saving of the image is complete. As an example of what this means, say you add a UIActivityIndicatorView to your app to show the user that the download is still in progress (I will be using this as an example throughout this answer) with the following rough control flow:

  1. Object responsible for starting the download is loaded.
  2. Tell the activity indicator to start animating.
  3. Start the synchronous download process using +[NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:]
  4. Save the data (image) that was just downloaded.
  5. Tell the activity indicator to stop animating.

Now, this might seem like reasonable control flow, but it is disguising a critical problem.

When you call the activity indicator's startAnimating method on the main (UI) thread, the UI updates for this event won't actually happen until the next time the main run loop updates, and this is where the first major problem is.

Before this update has a chance to happen, the download is triggered, and since this is a synchronous operation, it blocks the main thread until it has finished download (saving has the same problem). This will actually prevent the activity indicator from starting its animation. After that you call the activity indicator's stopAnimating method and expect all to be good, but it isn't.

At this point, you'll probably find yourself wondering the following.

Why doesn't my activity indicator ever show up?

Well, think about it like this. You tell the indicator to start but it doesn't get a chance before the download starts. After the download completes, you tell the indicator to stop animating. Since the main thread was blocked through the whole operation, the behavior you actually see is more along the lines telling the indicator to start and then immediately telling it to stop, even though there was a (possibly) large download task in between.

Now, in the best case scenario, all this does is cause a poor user experience (still really bad). Even if you think this isn't a big deal because you're only downloading a small image and the download happens almost instantaneously, that won't always be the case. Some of your users may have slow internet connections, or something may be wrong server side keeping the download from starting immediately/at all.

In both of these cases, the app won't be able to process UI updates, or even touch events while your download task sits around twiddling its thumbs waiting for the download to complete or for the server to respond to its request.

What this means is that synchronously downloading from the main thread prevents you from possibly implementing anything to indicate to the user that a download is currently in progress. And since touch events are processed on the main thread as well, this throws out the possibility of adding any kind of cancel button as well.

Then in the worst case scenario, you'll start receiving crash reports stating the following.

Exception Type: 00000020 Exception Codes: 0x8badf00d

These are easy to identify by the exception code 0x8badf00d, which can be read as "ate bad food". This exception is thrown by the watch dog timer, whose job is to watch for long running tasks that block the main thread, and to kill the offending app if this goes on for too long. Arguably, this is still a poor user experience issue, but if this starts to occur, the app has crossed the line between bad user experience, and terrible user experience.

Here's some more info on what can cause this to happen from Apple's Technical Q&A about synchronous networking (shortened for brevity).

The most common cause for watchdog timeout crashes in a network application is synchronous networking on the main thread. There are four contributing factors here:

  1. synchronous networking — This is where you make a network request and block waiting for the response.
  2. main thread — Synchronous networking is less than ideal in general, but it causes specific problems if you do it on the main thread. Remember that the main thread is responsible for running the user interface. If you block the main thread for any significant amount of time, the user interface becomes unacceptably unresponsive.
  3. long timeouts — If the network just goes away (for example, the user is on a train which goes into a tunnel), any pending network request won't fail until some timeout has expired....

...

  1. watchdog — In order to keep the user interface responsive, iOS includes a watchdog mechanism. If your application fails to respond to certain user interface events (launch, suspend, resume, terminate) in time, the watchdog will kill your application and generate a watchdog timeout crash report. The amount of time the watchdog gives you is not formally documented, but it's always less than a network timeout.

One tricky aspect of this problem is that it's highly dependent on the network environment. If you always test your application in your office, where network connectivity is good, you'll never see this type of crash. However, once you start deploying your application to end users—who will run it in all sorts of network environments—crashes like this will become common.

Now at this point, I'll stop rambling about why the provided answers might be problematic and will start offering up some alternative solutions. Keep in mind that I've used the URL of a small image in these examples and you'll notice a larger difference when using a higher resolution image.


Solutions

I'll start by showing a safe version of the other answers, with the addition of how to handle UI updates. This will be the first of several examples, all of which will assume that the class in which they are implemented has valid properties for a UIImageView, a UIActivityIndicatorView, as well as the documentsDirectoryURL method to access the documents directory. In production code, you may want to implement your own method to access the documents directory as a category on NSURL for better code reusability, but for these examples, this will be fine.

- (NSURL *)documentsDirectoryURL
{
    NSError *error = nil;
    NSURL *url = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] URLForDirectory:NSDocumentDirectory
                                                        inDomain:NSUserDomainMask
                                               appropriateForURL:nil
                                                          create:NO
                                                           error:&error];
    if (error) {
        // Figure out what went wrong and handle the error.
    }
    
    return url;
}

These examples will also assume that the thread that they start off on is the main thread. This will likely be the default behavior unless you start your download task from somewhere like the callback block of some other asynchronous task. If you start your download in a typical place, like a lifecycle method of a view controller (i.e. viewDidLoad, viewWillAppear:, etc.) this will produce the expected behavior.

This first example will use the +[NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:] method, but with some key differences. For one, you'll notice that in this example, the very first call we make is to tell the activity indicator to start animating, then there is an immediate difference between this and the synchronous examples. Immediately, we use dispatch_async(), passing in the global concurrent queue to move execution to the background thread.

At this point, you've already greatly improved your download task. Since everything within the dispatch_async() block will now happen off the main thread, your interface will no longer lock up, and your app will be free to respond to touch events.

What is important to notice here is that all of the code within this block will execute on the background thread, up until the point where the downloading/saving of the image was successful, at which point you might want to tell the activity indicator to stopAnimating, or apply the newly saved image to a UIImageView. Either way, these are updates to the UI, meaning you must dispatch back the the main thread using dispatch_get_main_queue() to perform them. Failing to do so results in undefined behavior, which may cause the UI to update after an unexpected period of time, or may even cause a crash. Always make sure you move back to the main thread before performing UI updates.

// Start the activity indicator before moving off the main thread
[self.activityIndicator startAnimating];
// Move off the main thread to start our blocking tasks.
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 0), ^{
    // Create the image URL from a known string.
    NSURL *imageURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.google.com/images/srpr/logo3w.png"];
    
    NSError *downloadError = nil;
    // Create an NSData object from the contents of the given URL.
    NSData *imageData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:imageURL
                                              options:kNilOptions
                                                error:&downloadError];
    // ALWAYS utilize the error parameter!
    if (downloadError) {
        // Something went wrong downloading the image. Figure out what went wrong and handle the error.
        // Don't forget to return to the main thread if you plan on doing UI updates here as well.
        dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
            [self.activityIndicator stopAnimating];
            NSLog(@"%@",[downloadError localizedDescription]);
        });
    } else {
        // Get the path of the application's documents directory.
        NSURL *documentsDirectoryURL = [self documentsDirectoryURL];
        // Append the desired file name to the documents directory path.
        NSURL *saveLocation = [documentsDirectoryURL URLByAppendingPathComponent:@"GCD.png"];

        NSError *saveError = nil;
        BOOL writeWasSuccessful = [imageData writeToURL:saveLocation
                                                options:kNilOptions
                                                  error:&saveError];
        // Successful or not we need to stop the activity indicator, so switch back the the main thread.
        dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
            // Now that we're back on the main thread, you can make changes to the UI.
            // This is where you might display the saved image in some image view, or
            // stop the activity indicator.
            
            // Check if saving the file was successful, once again, utilizing the error parameter.
            if (writeWasSuccessful) {
                // Get the saved image data from the file.
                NSData *imageData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:saveLocation];
                // Set the imageView's image to the image we just saved.
                self.imageView.image = [UIImage imageWithData:imageData];
            } else {
                NSLog(@"%@",[saveError localizedDescription]);
                // Something went wrong saving the file. Figure out what went wrong and handle the error.
            }
            
            [self.activityIndicator stopAnimating];
        });
    }
});

Now keep in mind, that the method shown above is still not an ideal solution considering it can't be cancelled prematurely, it gives you no indication of the progress of the download, it can't handle any kind of authentication challenge, it can't be given a specific timeout interval, etc. (lots and lots of reasons). I'll cover a few of the better options below.

In these examples, I'll only be covering solutions for apps targeting iOS 7 and up considering (at time of writing) iOS 8 is the current major release, and Apple is suggesting only supporting versions N and N-1. If you need to support older iOS versions, I recommend looking into the NSURLConnection class, as well as the 1.0 version of AFNetworking. If you look at the revision history of this answer, you can find basic examples using NSURLConnection and ASIHTTPRequest, although it should be noted that ASIHTTPRequest is no longer being maintained, and should not be used for new projects.


NSURLSession

Lets start with NSURLSession, which was introduced in iOS 7, and greatly improves the ease with which networking can be done in iOS. With NSURLSession, you can easily perform asynchronous HTTP requests with a callback block and handle authentication challenges with its delegate. But what makes this class really special is that it also allows for download tasks to continue running even if the application is sent to the background, gets terminated, or even crashes. Here's a basic example of its usage.

// Start the activity indicator before starting the download task.
[self.activityIndicator startAnimating];

NSURLSessionConfiguration *configuration = [NSURLSessionConfiguration defaultSessionConfiguration];
// Use a session with a custom configuration
NSURLSession *session = [NSURLSession sessionWithConfiguration:configuration];
// Create the image URL from some known string.
NSURL *imageURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.google.com/images/srpr/logo3w.png"];
// Create the download task passing in the URL of the image.
NSURLSessionDownloadTask *task = [session downloadTaskWithURL:imageURL completionHandler:^(NSURL *location, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *error) {
    // Get information about the response if neccessary.
    if (error) {
        NSLog(@"%@",[error localizedDescription]);
        // Something went wrong downloading the image. Figure out what went wrong and handle the error.
        // Don't forget to return to the main thread if you plan on doing UI updates here as well.
        dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
            [self.activityIndicator stopAnimating];
        });
    } else {
        NSError *openDataError = nil;
        NSData *downloadedData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:location
                                                       options:kNilOptions
                                                         error:&openDataError];
        if (openDataError) {
            // Something went wrong opening the downloaded data. Figure out what went wrong and handle the error.
            // Don't forget to return to the main thread if you plan on doing UI updates here as well.
            dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
                NSLog(@"%@",[openDataError localizedDescription]);
                [self.activityIndicator stopAnimating];
            });
        } else {
            // Get the path of the application's documents directory.
            NSURL *documentsDirectoryURL = [self documentsDirectoryURL];
            // Append the desired file name to the documents directory path.
            NSURL *saveLocation = [documentsDirectoryURL URLByAppendingPathComponent:@"NSURLSession.png"];
            NSError *saveError = nil;
            
            BOOL writeWasSuccessful = [downloadedData writeToURL:saveLocation
                                                          options:kNilOptions
                                                            error:&saveError];
            // Successful or not we need to stop the activity indicator, so switch back the the main thread.
            dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
                // Now that we're back on the main thread, you can make changes to the UI.
                // This is where you might display the saved image in some image view, or
                // stop the activity indicator.
                
                // Check if saving the file was successful, once again, utilizing the error parameter.
                if (writeWasSuccessful) {
                    // Get the saved image data from the file.
                    NSData *imageData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:saveLocation];
                    // Set the imageView's image to the image we just saved.
                    self.imageView.image = [UIImage imageWithData:imageData];
                } else {
                    NSLog(@"%@",[saveError localizedDescription]);
                    // Something went wrong saving the file. Figure out what went wrong and handle the error.
                }
                
                [self.activityIndicator stopAnimating];
            });
        }
    }
}];

// Tell the download task to resume (start).
[task resume];

From this you'll notice that the downloadTaskWithURL: completionHandler: method returns an instance of NSURLSessionDownloadTask, on which an instance method -[NSURLSessionTask resume] is called. This is the method that actually tells the download task to start. This means that you can spin up your download task, and if desired, hold off on starting it (if needed). This also means that as long as you store a reference to the task, you can also utilize its cancel and suspend methods to cancel or pause the task if need be.

What's really cool about NSURLSessionTasks is that with a little bit of KVO, you can monitor the values of its countOfBytesExpectedToReceive and countOfBytesReceived properties, feed these values to an NSByteCountFormatter, and easily create a download progress indicator to your user with human readable units (e.g. 42 KB of 100 KB).

Before I move away from NSURLSession though, I'd like to point out that the ugliness of having to dispatch_async back to the main threads at several different points in the download's callback block can be avoided. If you chose to go this route, you can initialize the session with its initializer that allows you to specify the delegate, as well as the delegate queue. This will require you to use the delegate pattern instead of the callback blocks, but this may be beneficial because it is the only way to support background downloads.

NSURLSession *session = [NSURLSession sessionWithConfiguration:configuration
                                                      delegate:self
                                                 delegateQueue:[NSOperationQueue mainQueue]];

AFNetworking 2.0

If you've never heard of AFNetworking, it is IMHO the end-all of networking libraries. It was created for Objective-C, but it works in Swift as well. In the words of its author:

AFNetworking is a delightful networking library for iOS and Mac OS X. It's built on top of the Foundation URL Loading System, extending the powerful high-level networking abstractions built into Cocoa. It has a modular architecture with well-designed, feature-rich APIs that are a joy to use.

AFNetworking 2.0 supports iOS 6 and up, but in this example, I will be using its AFHTTPSessionManager class, which requires iOS 7 and up due to its usage of all the new APIs around the NSURLSession class. This will become obvious when you read the example below, which shares a lot of code with the NSURLSession example above.

There are a few differences that I'd like to point out though. To start off, instead of creating your own NSURLSession, you'll create an instance of AFURLSessionManager, which will internally manage a NSURLSession. Doing so allows you take advantage of some of its convenience methods like -[AFURLSessionManager downloadTaskWithRequest:progress:destination:completionHandler:]. What is interesting about this method is that it lets you fairly concisely create a download task with a given destination file path, a completion block, and an input for an NSProgress pointer, on which you can observe information about the progress of the download. Here's an example.

// Use the default session configuration for the manager (background downloads must use the delegate APIs)
NSURLSessionConfiguration *configuration = [NSURLSessionConfiguration defaultSessionConfiguration];
// Use AFNetworking's NSURLSessionManager to manage a NSURLSession.
AFURLSessionManager *manager = [[AFURLSessionManager alloc] initWithSessionConfiguration:configuration];

// Create the image URL from some known string.
NSURL *imageURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.google.com/images/srpr/logo3w.png"];
// Create a request object for the given URL.
NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:imageURL];
// Create a pointer for a NSProgress object to be used to determining download progress.
NSProgress *progress = nil;

// Create the callback block responsible for determining the location to save the downloaded file to.
NSURL *(^destinationBlock)(NSURL *targetPath, NSURLResponse *response) = ^NSURL *(NSURL *targetPath, NSURLResponse *response) {
    // Get the path of the application's documents directory.
    NSURL *documentsDirectoryURL = [self documentsDirectoryURL];
    NSURL *saveLocation = nil;
    
    // Check if the response contains a suggested file name
    if (response.suggestedFilename) {
        // Append the suggested file name to the documents directory path.
        saveLocation = [documentsDirectoryURL URLByAppendingPathComponent:response.suggestedFilename];
    } else {
        // Append the desired file name to the documents directory path.
        saveLocation = [documentsDirectoryURL URLByAppendingPathComponent:@"AFNetworking.png"];
    }

    return saveLocation;
};

// Create the completion block that will be called when the image is done downloading/saving.
void (^completionBlock)(NSURLResponse *response, NSURL *filePath, NSError *error) = ^void (NSURLResponse *response, NSURL *filePath, NSError *error) {
    dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
        // There is no longer any reason to observe progress, the download has finished or cancelled.
        [progress removeObserver:self
                      forKeyPath:NSStringFromSelector(@selector(fractionCompleted))];
        
        if (error) {
            NSLog(@"%@",error.localizedDescription);
            // Something went wrong downloading or saving the file. Figure out what went wrong and handle the error.
        } else {
            // Get the data for the image we just saved.
            NSData *imageData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:filePath];
            // Get a UIImage object from the image data.
            self.imageView.image = [UIImage imageWithData:imageData];
        }
    });
};

// Create the download task for the image.
NSURLSessionDownloadTask *task = [manager downloadTaskWithRequest:request
                                                         progress:&progress
                                                      destination:destinationBlock
                                                completionHandler:completionBlock];
// Start the download task.
[task resume];

// Begin observing changes to the download task's progress to display to the user.
[progress addObserver:self
           forKeyPath:NSStringFromSelector(@selector(fractionCompleted))
              options:NSKeyValueObservingOptionNew
              context:NULL];

Of course since we've added the class containing this code as an observer to one of the NSProgress instance's properties, you'll have to implement the -[NSObject observeValueForKeyPath:ofObject:change:context:] method. In this case, I've included an example of how you might update a progress label to display the download's progress. It's really easy. NSProgress has an instance method localizedDescription which will display progress information in a localized, human readable format.

- (void)observeValueForKeyPath:(NSString *)keyPath
                      ofObject:(id)object
                        change:(NSDictionary *)change
                       context:(void *)context
{
    // We only care about updates to fractionCompleted
    if ([keyPath isEqualToString:NSStringFromSelector(@selector(fractionCompleted))]) {
        NSProgress *progress = (NSProgress *)object;
        // localizedDescription gives a string appropriate for display to the user, i.e. "42% completed"
        self.progressLabel.text = progress.localizedDescription;
    } else {
        [super observeValueForKeyPath:keyPath
                             ofObject:object
                               change:change
                              context:context];
    }
}

Don't forget, if you want to use AFNetworking in your project, you'll need to follow its installation instructions and be sure to #import <AFNetworking/AFNetworking.h>.

Alamofire

And finally, I'd like to give a final example using Alamofire. This is a the library that makes networking in Swift a cake-walk. I'm out of characters to go into great detail about the contents of this sample, but it does pretty much the same thing as the last examples, just in an arguably more beautiful way.

// Create the destination closure to pass to the download request. I haven't done anything with them
// here but you can utilize the parameters to make adjustments to the file name if neccessary.
let destination = { (url: NSURL!, response: NSHTTPURLResponse!) -> NSURL in
    var error: NSError?
    // Get the documents directory
    let documentsDirectory = NSFileManager.defaultManager().URLForDirectory(.DocumentDirectory,
        inDomain: .UserDomainMask,
        appropriateForURL: nil,
        create: false,
        error: &error
    )
    
    if let error = error {
        // This could be bad. Make sure you have a backup plan for where to save the image.
        println("\(error.localizedDescription)")
    }
    
    // Return a destination of .../Documents/Alamofire.png
    return documentsDirectory!.URLByAppendingPathComponent("Alamofire.png")
}

Alamofire.download(.GET, "http://www.google.com/images/srpr/logo3w.png", destination)
    .validate(statusCode: 200..<299) // Require the HTTP status code to be in the Successful range.
    .validate(contentType: ["image/png"]) // Require the content type to be image/png.
    .progress { (bytesRead, totalBytesRead, totalBytesExpectedToRead) in
        // Create an NSProgress object to represent the progress of the download for the user.
        let progress = NSProgress(totalUnitCount: totalBytesExpectedToRead)
        progress.completedUnitCount = totalBytesRead
        
        dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue()) {
            // Move back to the main thread and update some progress label to show the user the download is in progress.
            self.progressLabel.text = progress.localizedDescription
        }
    }
    .response { (request, response, _, error) in
        if error != nil {
            // Something went wrong. Handle the error.
        } else {
            // Open the newly saved image data.
            if let imageData = NSData(contentsOfURL: destination(nil, nil)) {
                dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue()) {
                    // Move back to the main thread and add the image to your image view.
                    self.imageView.image = UIImage(data: imageData)
                }
            }
        }
    }

AJAX in Chrome sending OPTIONS instead of GET/POST/PUT/DELETE?

"preflighted" requests first send an HTTP request by the OPTIONS method to the resource on the other domain, in order to determine whether the actual request is safe to send. Cross-site requests

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Access_control_CORS

How do I revert a Git repository to a previous commit?

git reflog

Choose the number of the HEAD(s) of git reflog, where you want revert to and do (for this example I choose the 12):

git reset HEAD@{12} --hard

How to get AM/PM from a datetime in PHP

$dateString = '08/04/2010 22:15:00';
$dateObject = new DateTime($dateString);
echo $dateObject->format('h:i A');

How to get the real and total length of char * (char array)?

Given just the pointer, you can't. You'll have to keep hold of the length you passed to new[] or, better, use std::vector to both keep track of the length, and release the memory when you've finished with it.

Note: this answer only addresses C++, not C.

Catch Ctrl-C in C

Regarding existing answers, note that signal handling is platform dependent. Win32 for example handles far fewer signals than POSIX operating systems; see here. While SIGINT is declared in signals.h on Win32, see the note in the documentation that explains that it will not do what you might expect.

How to add jQuery to an HTML page?

Inside of your <head></head> tags add...

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
    $('input[type=radio]').change(function() {

    $('input[type=radio]').each(function(index) {
        $(this).closest('tr').removeClass('selected');
    });

        $(this).closest('tr').addClass('selected');
    });
});
</script>

EDIT: The placement inside of <head></head> is not the only option...this could just as easily be placed RIGHT before the closing </body> tag. I generally try and place my JavaScript inside of head for placement reasons, but it can in some cases slow down page rendering so some will recommend the latter approach (before closing body).

How can I measure the similarity between two images?

Don't video encoding algorithms like MPEG compute the difference between each frame of a video so they can just encode the delta? You might look into how video encoding algorithms compute those frame differences.

Look at this open source image search application http://www.semanticmetadata.net/lire/. It describes several image similarity algorighms, three of which are from the MPEG-7 standard: ScalableColor, ColorLayout, EdgeHistogram and Auto Color Correlogram.

Change the "No file chosen":

http://jsfiddle.net/ZDgRG/

See above link. I use css to hide the default text and use a label to show what I want:

<div><input type='file' title="Choose a video please" id="aa" onchange="pressed()"><label id="fileLabel">Choose file</label></div>

input[type=file]{
    width:90px;
    color:transparent;
}

window.pressed = function(){
    var a = document.getElementById('aa');
    if(a.value == "")
    {
        fileLabel.innerHTML = "Choose file";
    }
    else
    {
        var theSplit = a.value.split('\\');
        fileLabel.innerHTML = theSplit[theSplit.length-1];
    }
};

Download Excel file via AJAX MVC

The accepted answer didn't quite work for me as I got a 502 Bad Gateway result from the ajax call even though everything seemed to be returning fine from the controller.

Perhaps I was hitting a limit with TempData - not sure, but I found that if I used IMemoryCache instead of TempData, it worked fine, so here is my adapted version of the code in the accepted answer:

public ActionResult PostReportPartial(ReportVM model){

   // Validate the Model is correct and contains valid data
   // Generate your report output based on the model parameters
   // This can be an Excel, PDF, Word file - whatever you need.

   // As an example lets assume we've generated an EPPlus ExcelPackage

   ExcelPackage workbook = new ExcelPackage();
   // Do something to populate your workbook

   // Generate a new unique identifier against which the file can be stored
   string handle = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();

   using(MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream()){
        workbook.SaveAs(memoryStream);
        memoryStream.Position = 0;
        //TempData[handle] = memoryStream.ToArray();

        //This is an equivalent to tempdata, but requires manual cleanup
        _cache.Set(handle, memoryStream.ToArray(), 
                    new MemoryCacheEntryOptions().SetSlidingExpiration(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(10))); 
                    //(I'd recommend you revise the expiration specifics to suit your application)

   }      

   // Note we are returning a filename as well as the handle
   return new JsonResult() { 
         Data = new { FileGuid = handle, FileName = "TestReportOutput.xlsx" }
   };

}

AJAX call remains as with the accepted answer (I made no changes):

$ajax({
    cache: false,
    url: '/Report/PostReportPartial',
    data: _form.serialize(), 
    success: function (data){
         var response = JSON.parse(data);
         window.location = '/Report/Download?fileGuid=' + response.FileGuid 
                           + '&filename=' + response.FileName;
    }
})

The controller action to handle the downloading of the file:

[HttpGet]
public virtual ActionResult Download(string fileGuid, string fileName)
{   
    if (_cache.Get<byte[]>(fileGuid) != null)
    {
        byte[] data = _cache.Get<byte[]>(fileGuid);
        _cache.Remove(fileGuid); //cleanup here as we don't need it in cache anymore
        return File(data, "application/vnd.ms-excel", fileName);
    }
    else
    {
        // Something has gone wrong...
        return View("Error"); // or whatever/wherever you want to return the user
    }
}

...

Now there is some extra code for setting up MemoryCache...

In order to use "_cache" I injected in the constructor for the controller like so:

using Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Memory;
namespace MySolution.Project.Controllers
{
 public class MyController : Controller
 {
     private readonly IMemoryCache _cache;

     public LogController(IMemoryCache cache)
     {
        _cache = cache;
     }

     //rest of controller code here
  }
 }

And make sure you have the following in ConfigureServices in Startup.cs:

services.AddDistributedMemoryCache();

Practical uses for AtomicInteger

If you look at the methods AtomicInteger has, you'll notice that they tend to correspond to common operations on ints. For instance:

static AtomicInteger i;

// Later, in a thread
int current = i.incrementAndGet();

is the thread-safe version of this:

static int i;

// Later, in a thread
int current = ++i;

The methods map like this:
++i is i.incrementAndGet()
i++ is i.getAndIncrement()
--i is i.decrementAndGet()
i-- is i.getAndDecrement()
i = x is i.set(x)
x = i is x = i.get()

There are other convenience methods as well, like compareAndSet or addAndGet

Is there a keyboard shortcut (hotkey) to open Terminal in macOS?

iTerm2 - an alternative to Terminal - has an option to use configurable system-wide hotkey to show/hide (initially set to Alt+Space, disabled by default)

Horizontal line using HTML/CSS

you could also do it this way, in my case i use it before and after an h1 (brute force it ehehehe)

.titleImage::before {
content: "--------";
letter-spacing: -3px;
}

.titreImage::after {
content: "--------";
letter-spacing: -3px;
}

If the letter spacing makes it so the line get in the text just use a margin to push it away!

Undefined or null for AngularJS

I asked the same question of the lodash maintainers a while back and they replied by mentioning the != operator can be used here:

if(newVal != null) {
  // newVal is defined
}

This uses JavaScript's type coercion to check the value for undefined or null.

If you are using JSHint to lint your code, add the following comment blocks to tell it that you know what you are doing - most of the time != is considered bad.

/* jshint -W116 */ 
if(newVal != null) {
/* jshint +W116 */
  // newVal is defined
}

How can I declare optional function parameters in JavaScript?

With ES6: This is now part of the language:

function myFunc(a, b = 0) {
   // function body
}

Please keep in mind that ES6 checks the values against undefined and not against truthy-ness (so only real undefined values get the default value - falsy values like null will not default).


With ES5:

function myFunc(a,b) {
  b = b || 0;

  // b will be set either to b or to 0.
}

This works as long as all values you explicitly pass in are truthy. Values that are not truthy as per MiniGod's comment: null, undefined, 0, false, ''

It's pretty common to see JavaScript libraries to do a bunch of checks on optional inputs before the function actually starts.

MessageBodyWriter not found for media type=application/json

To overcome this issue try the following. Worked for me.

Add following dependency in the pom.xml

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.media</groupId>
  <artifactId>jersey-media-json-jackson</artifactId>
  <version>2.25</version>
</dependency>

And make sure Model class contains no arg constructor

 public Student()
    {
    }

Apply style ONLY on IE

<!--[if !IE]><body<![endif]-->
<!--[if IE]><body class="ie"> <![endif]-->

body.ie .actual-form table {
    width: 100%
}

What should I use to open a url instead of urlopen in urllib3

In urlip3 there's no .urlopen, instead try this:

import requests
html = requests.get(url)

How to trigger an event after using event.preventDefault()

Nope. Once the event has been canceled, it is canceled.

You can re-fire the event later on though, using a flag to determine whether your custom code has already run or not - such as this (please ignore the blatant namespace pollution):

var lots_of_stuff_already_done = false;

$('.button').on('click', function(e) {
    if (lots_of_stuff_already_done) {
        lots_of_stuff_already_done = false; // reset flag
        return; // let the event bubble away
    }

    e.preventDefault();

    // do lots of stuff

    lots_of_stuff_already_done = true; // set flag
    $(this).trigger('click');
});

A more generalized variant (with the added benefit of avoiding the global namespace pollution) could be:

function onWithPrecondition(callback) {
    var isDone = false;

    return function(e) {
        if (isDone === true)
        {
            isDone = false;
            return;
        }

        e.preventDefault();

        callback.apply(this, arguments);

        isDone = true;
        $(this).trigger(e.type);
    }
}

Usage:

var someThingsThatNeedToBeDoneFirst = function() { /* ... */ } // do whatever you need
$('.button').on('click', onWithPrecondition(someThingsThatNeedToBeDoneFirst));

Bonus super-minimalistic jQuery plugin with Promise support:

(function( $ ) {
    $.fn.onButFirst = function(eventName,         /* the name of the event to bind to, e.g. 'click' */
                               workToBeDoneFirst, /* callback that must complete before the event is re-fired */
                               workDoneCallback   /* optional callback to execute before the event is left to bubble away */) {
        var isDone = false;

        this.on(eventName, function(e) {
            if (isDone === true) {
                isDone = false;
                workDoneCallback && workDoneCallback.apply(this, arguments);
                return;
            }

            e.preventDefault();

            // capture target to re-fire event at
            var $target = $(this);

            // set up callback for when workToBeDoneFirst has completed
            var successfullyCompleted = function() {
                isDone = true;
                $target.trigger(e.type);
            };

            // execute workToBeDoneFirst callback
            var workResult = workToBeDoneFirst.apply(this, arguments);

            // check if workToBeDoneFirst returned a promise
            if (workResult && $.isFunction(workResult.then))
            {
                workResult.then(successfullyCompleted);
            }
            else
            {
                successfullyCompleted();
            }
        });

        return this;
    };
}(jQuery));

Usage:

$('.button').onButFirst('click',
    function(){
        console.log('doing lots of work!');
    },
    function(){
        console.log('done lots of work!');
    });

Error using eclipse for Android - No resource found that matches the given name

This problem appeared for me due to an error in an XML layout file. By changing @id/meid to @+id/meid (note the plus), I got it to work. If not, sometimes you just gotta go to Project -> Clean...

How to preview a part of a large pandas DataFrame, in iPython notebook?

I write a method to show the four corners of the data and monkey-patch to dataframe to do so:

def _sw(df, up_rows=10, down_rows=5, left_cols=4, right_cols=3, return_df=False):
    ''' display df data at four corners
        A,B (up_pt)
        C,D (down_pt)
        parameters : up_rows=10, down_rows=5, left_cols=4, right_cols=3
        usage:
            df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(20,10), columns=list('ABCDEFGHIJKLMN')[0:10])
            df.sw(5,2,3,2)
            df1 = df.set_index(['A','B'], drop=True, inplace=False)
            df1.sw(5,2,3,2)
    '''
    #pd.set_printoptions(max_columns = 80, max_rows = 40)
    ncol, nrow = len(df.columns), len(df)

    # handle columns
    if ncol <= (left_cols + right_cols) :
        up_pt = df.ix[0:up_rows, :]         # screen width can contain all columns
        down_pt = df.ix[-down_rows:, :]
    else:                                   # screen width can not contain all columns
        pt_a = df.ix[0:up_rows,  0:left_cols]
        pt_b = df.ix[0:up_rows,  -right_cols:]
        pt_c = df[-down_rows:].ix[:,0:left_cols]
        pt_d = df[-down_rows:].ix[:,-right_cols:]

        up_pt   = pt_a.join(pt_b, how='inner')
        down_pt = pt_c.join(pt_d, how='inner')
        up_pt.insert(left_cols, '..', '..')
        down_pt.insert(left_cols, '..', '..')

    overlap_qty = len(up_pt) + len(down_pt) - len(df)
    down_pt = down_pt.drop(down_pt.index[range(overlap_qty)]) # remove overlap rows

    dt_str_list = down_pt.to_string().split('\n') # transfer down_pt to string list

    # Display up part data
    print up_pt

    start_row = (1 if df.index.names[0] is None else 2) # start from 1 if without index

    # Display omit line if screen height is not enought to display all rows
    if overlap_qty < 0:
        print "." * len(dt_str_list[start_row])

    # Display down part data row by row
    for line in dt_str_list[start_row:]:
        print line

    # Display foot note
    print "\n"
    print "Index :",df.index.names
    print "Column:",",".join(list(df.columns.values))
    print "row: %d    col: %d"%(len(df), len(df.columns))
    print "\n"

    return (df if return_df else None)
DataFrame.sw = _sw  #add a method to DataFrame class

Here is the sample:

>>> df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(20,10), columns=list('ABCDEFGHIJKLMN')[0:10])

>>> df.sw()
         A       B       C       D  ..       H       I       J
0  -0.8166  0.0102  0.0215 -0.0307  .. -0.0820  1.2727  0.6395
1   1.0659 -1.0102 -1.3960  0.4700  ..  1.0999  1.1222 -1.2476
2   0.4347  1.5423  0.5710 -0.5439  ..  0.2491 -0.0725  2.0645
3  -1.5952 -1.4959  2.2697 -1.1004  .. -1.9614  0.6488 -0.6190
4  -1.4426 -0.8622  0.0942 -0.1977  .. -0.7802 -1.1774  1.9682
5   1.2526 -0.2694  0.4841 -0.7568  ..  0.2481  0.3608 -0.7342
6   0.2108  2.5181  1.3631  0.4375  .. -0.1266  1.0572  0.3654
7  -1.0617 -0.4743 -1.7399 -1.4123  .. -1.0398 -1.4703 -0.9466
8  -0.5682 -1.3323 -0.6992  1.7737  ..  0.6152  0.9269  2.1854
9   0.2361  0.4873 -1.1278 -0.2251  ..  1.4232  2.1212  2.9180
10  2.0034  0.5454 -2.6337  0.1556  ..  0.0016 -1.6128 -0.8093
..............................................................
15  1.4091  0.3540 -1.3498 -1.0490  ..  0.9328  0.3668  1.3948
16  0.4528 -0.3183  0.4308 -0.1818  ..  0.1295  1.2268  0.1365
17 -0.7093  1.3991  0.9501  2.1227  .. -1.5296  1.1908  0.0318
18  1.7101  0.5962  0.8948  1.5606  .. -0.6862  0.9558 -0.5514
19  1.0329 -1.2308 -0.6896 -0.5112  ..  0.2719  1.1478 -0.1459


Index : [None]
Column: A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J
row: 20    col: 10


>>> df.sw(4,2,3,4)
        A       B       C  ..       G       H       I       J
0 -0.8166  0.0102  0.0215  ..  0.3671 -0.0820  1.2727  0.6395
1  1.0659 -1.0102 -1.3960  ..  1.0984  1.0999  1.1222 -1.2476
2  0.4347  1.5423  0.5710  ..  1.6675  0.2491 -0.0725  2.0645
3 -1.5952 -1.4959  2.2697  ..  0.4856 -1.9614  0.6488 -0.6190
4 -1.4426 -0.8622  0.0942  .. -0.0947 -0.7802 -1.1774  1.9682
..............................................................
18  1.7101  0.5962  0.8948  .. -0.8592 -0.6862  0.9558 -0.5514
19  1.0329 -1.2308 -0.6896  .. -0.3954  0.2719  1.1478 -0.1459


Index : [None]
Column: A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J
row: 20    col: 10

jquery input select all on focus

The problem with most of these solutions is that they do not work correctly when changing the cursor position within the input field.

The onmouseup event changes the cursor position within the field, which is fired after onfocus (at least within Chrome and FF). If you unconditionally discard the mouseup then the user cannot change the cursor position with the mouse.

function selectOnFocus(input) {
    input.each(function (index, elem) {
        var jelem = $(elem);
        var ignoreNextMouseUp = false;

        jelem.mousedown(function () {
            if (document.activeElement !== elem) {
                ignoreNextMouseUp = true;
            }
        });
        jelem.mouseup(function (ev) {
            if (ignoreNextMouseUp) {
                ev.preventDefault();
                ignoreNextMouseUp = false;
            }
        });
        jelem.focus(function () {
            jelem.select();
        });
    });
}
selectOnFocus($("#myInputElement"));

The code will conditionally prevent the mouseup default behaviour if the field does not currently have focus. It works for these cases:

  • clicking when field is not focused
  • clicking when field has focus
  • tabbing into the field

I have tested this within Chrome 31, FF 26 and IE 11.

How to fix request failed on channel 0

Should a person find themselves reading this QA while they are trying to ssh into a NetGear ReadyNAS device, be sure that the "rsync only" checkbox is unchecked in the dialog box for the ssh service in the admin interface.

Conditional logic in AngularJS template

Angular 1.1.5 introduced the ng-if directive. That's the best solution for this particular problem. If you are using an older version of Angular, consider using angular-ui's ui-if directive.

If you arrived here looking for answers to the general question of "conditional logic in templates" also consider:


Original answer:

Here is a not-so-great "ng-if" directive:

myApp.directive('ngIf', function() {
    return {
        link: function(scope, element, attrs) {
            if(scope.$eval(attrs.ngIf)) {
                // remove '<div ng-if...></div>'
                element.replaceWith(element.children())
            } else {
                element.replaceWith(' ')
            }
        }
    }
});

that allows for this HTML syntax:

<div ng-repeat="message in data.messages" ng-class="message.type">
   <hr>
   <div ng-if="showFrom(message)">
       <div>From: {{message.from.name}}</div>
   </div>    
   <div ng-if="showCreatedBy(message)">
      <div>Created by: {{message.createdBy.name}}</div>
   </div>    
   <div ng-if="showTo(message)">
      <div>To: {{message.to.name}}</div>
   </div>    
</div>

Fiddle.

replaceWith() is used to remove unneeded content from the DOM.

Also, as I mentioned on Google+, ng-style can probably be used to conditionally load background images, should you want to use ng-show instead of a custom directive. (For the benefit of other readers, Jon stated on Google+: "both methods use ng-show which I'm trying to avoid because it uses display:none and leaves extra markup in the DOM. This is a particular problem in this scenario because the hidden element will have a background image which will still be loaded in most browsers.").
See also How do I conditionally apply CSS styles in AngularJS?

The angular-ui ui-if directive watches for changes to the if condition/expression. Mine doesn't. So, while my simple implementation will update the view correctly if the model changes such that it only affects the template output, it won't update the view correctly if the condition/expression answer changes.

E.g., if the value of a from.name changes in the model, the view will update. But if you delete $scope.data.messages[0].from, the from name will be removed from the view, but the template will not be removed from the view because the if-condition/expression is not being watched.

Button Center CSS

Consider adding this to your CSS to resolve the problem:

.btn {
  width: 20%;
  margin-left: 40%;
  margin-right: 30%;
}

Convert an image (selected by path) to base64 string

Get the byte array (byte[]) representation of the image, then use Convert.ToBase64String(), st. like this:

byte[] imageArray = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(@"image file path");
string base64ImageRepresentation = Convert.ToBase64String(imageArray);

To convert a base64 image back to a System.Drawing.Image:

var img = Image.FromStream(new MemoryStream(Convert.FromBase64String(base64String)));

How to do a timer in Angular 5

This may be overkill for what you're looking for, but there is an npm package called marky that you can use to do this. It gives you a couple of extra features beyond just starting and stopping a timer. You just need to install it via npm and then import the dependency anywhere you'd like to use it. Here is a link to the npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/marky

An example of use after installing via npm would be as follows:

import * as _M from 'marky';

@Component({
 selector: 'app-test',
 templateUrl: './test.component.html',
 styleUrls: ['./test.component.scss']
})

export class TestComponent implements OnInit {
 Marky = _M;
}

constructor() {}

ngOnInit() {}

startTimer(key: string) {
 this.Marky.mark(key);
}

stopTimer(key: string) {
 this.Marky.stop(key);
}

key is simply a string which you are establishing to identify that particular measurement of time. You can have multiple measures which you can go back and reference your timer stats using the keys you create.

What is the reason for the error message "System cannot find the path specified"?

You just need to:

Step 1: Go home directory of C:\ with typing cd.. (2 times)

Step 2: It appears now C:\>

Step 3: Type dir Windows\System32\run

That's all, it shows complete files & folder details inside target folder.

enter image description here

Details: I used Windows\System32\com folder as example, you should type your own folder name etc. Windows\System32\run

convert json ipython notebook(.ipynb) to .py file

well first of all you need to install this packege below:

sudo apt install ipython
jupyter nbconvert --to script [YOUR_NOTEBOOK].ipynb

two option is avaliable either --to python or --to=python mine was like this works fine: jupyter nbconvert --to python while.ipynb

jupyter nbconvert --to python while.ipynb 

[NbConvertApp] Converting notebook while.ipynb to python [NbConvertApp] Writing 758 bytes to while.py

pip3 install ipython

if it does not work for you try, by pip3.

pip3 install ipython

Check if a specific value exists at a specific key in any subarray of a multidimensional array

TMTOWTDI. Here are several solutions in order of complexity.

(Short primer on complexity follows):O(n) or "big o" means worst case scenario where n means the number of elements in the array, and o(n) or "little o" means best case scenario. Long discrete math story short, you only really have to worry about the worst case scenario, and make sure it's not n ^ 2 or n!. It's more a measure of change in computing time as n increases than it is overall computing time. Wikipedia has a good article about computational aka time complexity.

If experience has taught me anything, it's that spending too much time optimizing your programs' little-o is a distinct waste of time better spent doing something - anything - better.

Solution 0: O(n) / o(1) complexity:

This solution has a best case scenario of 1 comparison - 1 iteration thru the loop, but only provided the matching value is in position 0 of the array. The worst case scenario is it's not in the array, and thus has to iterate over every element of the array.

foreach ($my_array as $sub_array) {
    if (@$sub_array['id'] === 152) {
        return true;
    }
}
return false;

Solution 1: O(n) / o(n) complexity:

This solution must loop thru the entire array no matter where the matching value is, so it's always going to be n iterations thru the array.

return 0 < count(
    array_filter(
        $my_array,
        function ($a) {
            return array_key_exists('id', $a) && $a['id'] == 152;
        }
    )
);

Solution 2: O(n log n) / o(n log n) complexity:

A hash insertion is where the log n comes from; n hash insertions = n * log n. There's a hash lookup at the end which is another log n but it's not included because that's just how discrete math works.

$existence_hash = [];
foreach ($my_array as $sub_array) {
    $existence_hash[$sub_array['id']] = true;
}
return @$existence_hash['152'];

Pass by pointer & Pass by reference

Here is a good article on the matter - "Use references when you can, and pointers when you have to."

How do I use properly CASE..WHEN in MySQL

There are two variants of CASE, and you're not using the one that you think you are.

What you're doing

CASE case_value
    WHEN when_value THEN statement_list
    [WHEN when_value THEN statement_list] ...
    [ELSE statement_list]
END CASE

Each condition is loosely equivalent to a if (case_value == when_value) (pseudo-code).

However, you've put an entire condition as when_value, leading to something like:

if (case_value == (case_value > 100))

Now, (case_value > 100) evaluates to FALSE, and is the only one of your conditions to do so. So, now you have:

if (case_value == FALSE)

FALSE converts to 0 and, through the resulting full expression if (case_value == 0) you can now see why the third condition fires.

What you're supposed to do

Drop the first course_enrollment_settings so that there's no case_value, causing MySQL to know that you intend to use the second variant of CASE:

CASE
    WHEN search_condition THEN statement_list
    [WHEN search_condition THEN statement_list] ...
    [ELSE statement_list]
END CASE

Now you can provide your full conditionals as search_condition.

Also, please read the documentation for features that you use.

What is the difference between a token and a lexeme?

Token: The kind for (keywords,identifier,punctuation character, multi-character operators) is ,simply, a Token.

Pattern: A rule for formation of token from input characters.

Lexeme : Its a sequence of characters in SOURCE PROGRAM matched by a pattern for a token. Basically, its an element of Token.

Using module 'subprocess' with timeout

Once you understand full process running machinery in *unix, you will easily find simplier solution:

Consider this simple example how to make timeoutable communicate() meth using select.select() (available alsmost everythere on *nix nowadays). This also can be written with epoll/poll/kqueue, but select.select() variant could be a good example for you. And major limitations of select.select() (speed and 1024 max fds) are not applicapable for your task.

This works under *nix, does not create threads, does not uses signals, can be lauched from any thread (not only main), and fast enought to read 250mb/s of data from stdout on my machine (i5 2.3ghz).

There is a problem in join'ing stdout/stderr at the end of communicate. If you have huge program output this could lead to big memory usage. But you can call communicate() several times with smaller timeouts.

class Popen(subprocess.Popen):
    def communicate(self, input=None, timeout=None):
        if timeout is None:
            return subprocess.Popen.communicate(self, input)

        if self.stdin:
            # Flush stdio buffer, this might block if user
            # has been writing to .stdin in an uncontrolled
            # fashion.
            self.stdin.flush()
            if not input:
                self.stdin.close()

        read_set, write_set = [], []
        stdout = stderr = None

        if self.stdin and input:
            write_set.append(self.stdin)
        if self.stdout:
            read_set.append(self.stdout)
            stdout = []
        if self.stderr:
            read_set.append(self.stderr)
            stderr = []

        input_offset = 0
        deadline = time.time() + timeout

        while read_set or write_set:
            try:
                rlist, wlist, xlist = select.select(read_set, write_set, [], max(0, deadline - time.time()))
            except select.error as ex:
                if ex.args[0] == errno.EINTR:
                    continue
                raise

            if not (rlist or wlist):
                # Just break if timeout
                # Since we do not close stdout/stderr/stdin, we can call
                # communicate() several times reading data by smaller pieces.
                break

            if self.stdin in wlist:
                chunk = input[input_offset:input_offset + subprocess._PIPE_BUF]
                try:
                    bytes_written = os.write(self.stdin.fileno(), chunk)
                except OSError as ex:
                    if ex.errno == errno.EPIPE:
                        self.stdin.close()
                        write_set.remove(self.stdin)
                    else:
                        raise
                else:
                    input_offset += bytes_written
                    if input_offset >= len(input):
                        self.stdin.close()
                        write_set.remove(self.stdin)

            # Read stdout / stderr by 1024 bytes
            for fn, tgt in (
                (self.stdout, stdout),
                (self.stderr, stderr),
            ):
                if fn in rlist:
                    data = os.read(fn.fileno(), 1024)
                    if data == '':
                        fn.close()
                        read_set.remove(fn)
                    tgt.append(data)

        if stdout is not None:
            stdout = ''.join(stdout)
        if stderr is not None:
            stderr = ''.join(stderr)

        return (stdout, stderr)

What is the difference between .text, .value, and .value2?

.Text is the formatted cell's displayed value; .Value is the value of the cell possibly augmented with date or currency indicators; .Value2 is the raw underlying value stripped of any extraneous information.

range("A1") = Date
range("A1").numberformat = "yyyy-mm-dd"
debug.print range("A1").text
debug.print range("A1").value
debug.print range("A1").value2

'results from Immediate window
2018-06-14
6/14/2018 
43265 

range("A1") = "abc"
range("A1").numberformat = "_(_(_(@"
debug.print range("A1").text
debug.print range("A1").value
debug.print range("A1").value2

'results from Immediate window
   abc
abc
abc

range("A1") = 12
range("A1").numberformat = "0 \m\m"
debug.print range("A1").text
debug.print range("A1").value
debug.print range("A1").value2

'results from Immediate window
12 mm
12
12

If you are processing the cell's value then reading the raw .Value2 is marginally faster than .Value or .Text. If you are locating errors then .Text will return something like #N/A as text and can be compared to a string while .Value and .Value2 will choke comparing their returned value to a string. If you have some custom cell formatting applied to your data then .Text may be the better choice when building a report.

Access XAMPP Localhost from Internet

First, you need to configure your computer to get a static IP from your router. Instructions for how to do this can be found: here

For example, let's say you picked the IP address 192.168.1.102. After the above step is completed, you should be able to get to the website on your local machine by going to both http://localhost and http://192.168.1.102, since your computer will now always have that IP address on your network.

If you look up your IP address (such as http://www.ip-adress.com/), the IP you see is actually the IP of your router. When your friend accesses your website, you'll give him this IP. However, you need to tell your router that when it gets a request for a webpage, forward that request to your server. This is done through port forwarding.

Two examples of how to do this can be found here and here, although the exact screens you see will vary depending on the manufacturer of your router (Google for exact instructions, if needed).

For the Linksys router I have, I enter http://192.168.1.1/, enter my username/password, Applications & Gaming tab > Port Range Forward. Enter the application name (whatever you want to call it), start port (80), end port (80), protocol (TCP), ip address (using the above example, you would enter 192.168.1.102, which is the static IP you assigned your server), and be sure to check to enable the forwarding. Restart your router and the changes should take effect.

Having done all that, your friend should now be able to access your webpage by going to his web browser on his machine and entering http://IP.address.of.your.computer (the same one you see when you go here ).

As mentioned earlier, the IP address assigned to you by your ISP will eventually change whether you sign offline or not. I strongly recommend using DynDns, which is absolutely free. You can choose a hostname at their domain (such as cuga.kicks-ass.net) and your friend can then always access your website by simply going to http://cuga.kicks-ass.net in his browser. Here is their site again: DynDns

I hope this helps.

How many concurrent requests does a single Flask process receive?

Flask will process one request per thread at the same time. If you have 2 processes with 4 threads each, that's 8 concurrent requests.

Flask doesn't spawn or manage threads or processes. That's the responsability of the WSGI gateway (eg. gunicorn).

How to make a simple collection view with Swift

This project has been tested with Xcode 10 and Swift 4.2.

Create a new project

It can be just a Single View App.

Add the code

Create a new Cocoa Touch Class file (File > New > File... > iOS > Cocoa Touch Class). Name it MyCollectionViewCell. This class will hold the outlets for the views that you add to your cell in the storyboard.

import UIKit
class MyCollectionViewCell: UICollectionViewCell {
    
    @IBOutlet weak var myLabel: UILabel!
}

We will connect this outlet later.

Open ViewController.swift and make sure you have the following content:

import UIKit
class ViewController: UIViewController, UICollectionViewDataSource, UICollectionViewDelegate {
    
    let reuseIdentifier = "cell" // also enter this string as the cell identifier in the storyboard
    var items = ["1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "11", "12", "13", "14", "15", "16", "17", "18", "19", "20", "21", "22", "23", "24", "25", "26", "27", "28", "29", "30", "31", "32", "33", "34", "35", "36", "37", "38", "39", "40", "41", "42", "43", "44", "45", "46", "47", "48"]
    
    
    // MARK: - UICollectionViewDataSource protocol
    
    // tell the collection view how many cells to make
    func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, numberOfItemsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
        return self.items.count
    }
    
    // make a cell for each cell index path
    func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, cellForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UICollectionViewCell {
        
        // get a reference to our storyboard cell
        let cell = collectionView.dequeueReusableCell(withReuseIdentifier: reuseIdentifier, for: indexPath as IndexPath) as! MyCollectionViewCell
        
        // Use the outlet in our custom class to get a reference to the UILabel in the cell
        cell.myLabel.text = self.items[indexPath.row] // The row value is the same as the index of the desired text within the array.
        cell.backgroundColor = UIColor.cyan // make cell more visible in our example project
        
        return cell
    }
    
    // MARK: - UICollectionViewDelegate protocol
    
    func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, didSelectItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
        // handle tap events
        print("You selected cell #\(indexPath.item)!")
    }
}

Notes

  • UICollectionViewDataSource and UICollectionViewDelegate are the protocols that the collection view follows. You could also add the UICollectionViewFlowLayout protocol to change the size of the views programmatically, but it isn't necessary.
  • We are just putting simple strings in our grid, but you could certainly do images later.

Set up the storyboard

Drag a Collection View to the View Controller in your storyboard. You can add constraints to make it fill the parent view if you like.

enter image description here

Make sure that your defaults in the Attribute Inspector are also

  • Items: 1
  • Layout: Flow

The little box in the top left of the Collection View is a Collection View Cell. We will use it as our prototype cell. Drag a Label into the cell and center it. You can resize the cell borders and add constraints to center the Label if you like.

enter image description here

Write "cell" (without quotes) in the Identifier box of the Attributes Inspector for the Collection View Cell. Note that this is the same value as let reuseIdentifier = "cell" in ViewController.swift.

enter image description here

And in the Identity Inspector for the cell, set the class name to MyCollectionViewCell, our custom class that we made.

enter image description here

Hook up the outlets

  • Hook the Label in the collection cell to myLabel in the MyCollectionViewCell class. (You can Control-drag.)
  • Hook the Collection View delegate and dataSource to the View Controller. (Right click Collection View in the Document Outline. Then click and drag the plus arrow up to the View Controller.)

enter image description here

Finished

Here is what it looks like after adding constraints to center the Label in the cell and pinning the Collection View to the walls of the parent.

enter image description here

Making Improvements

The example above works but it is rather ugly. Here are a few things you can play with:

Background color

In the Interface Builder, go to your Collection View > Attributes Inspector > View > Background.

Cell spacing

Changing the minimum spacing between cells to a smaller value makes it look better. In the Interface Builder, go to your Collection View > Size Inspector > Min Spacing and make the values smaller. "For cells" is the horizontal distance and "For lines" is the vertical distance.

Cell shape

If you want rounded corners, a border, and the like, you can play around with the cell layer. Here is some sample code. You would put it directly after cell.backgroundColor = UIColor.cyan in code above.

cell.layer.borderColor = UIColor.black.cgColor
cell.layer.borderWidth = 1
cell.layer.cornerRadius = 8

See this answer for other things you can do with the layer (shadow, for example).

Changing the color when tapped

It makes for a better user experience when the cells respond visually to taps. One way to achieve this is to change the background color while the cell is being touched. To do that, add the following two methods to your ViewController class:

// change background color when user touches cell
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, didHighlightItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
    let cell = collectionView.cellForItem(at: indexPath)
    cell?.backgroundColor = UIColor.red
}

// change background color back when user releases touch
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, didUnhighlightItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
    let cell = collectionView.cellForItem(at: indexPath)
    cell?.backgroundColor = UIColor.cyan
}

Here is the updated look:

enter image description here

Further study

UITableView version of this Q&A

Convert factor to integer

Quoting directly from the help page for factor:

To transform a factor f to its original numeric values, as.numeric(levels(f))[f] is recommended and slightly more efficient than as.numeric(as.character(f)).

Is there a code obfuscator for PHP?

Obfuscation is only adding another layer of potential bugs and security vulnerabilities to your program. Please don't do it.

The kind of people who write obfuscation software usually seem very sketchy and non-skilled anyway.

If your code is "great", crackers will go through great lengths to spread it, regardless of whether or not it is obfuscated. If nobody knows/cares about your code, they probably won't, either.

Click toggle with jQuery

    $('controlCheckBox').click(function(){
    var temp = $(this).prop('checked');
    $('controlledCheckBoxes').prop('checked', temp);
});

Best way to "push" into C# array

There are couple of ways this can be done.

First, is converting to list and then to array again:

List<int> tmpList = intArry.ToList();
tmpList.Add(anyInt);
intArry = tmpList.ToArray();

Now this is not recommended as you convert to list and back again to array. If you do not want to use a list, you can use the second way which is assigning values directly into the array:

int[] terms = new int[400];
for (int runs = 0; runs < 400; runs++)
{
    terms[runs] = value;
}

This is the direct approach and if you do not want to tangle with lists and conversions, this is recommended for you.

Centos/Linux setting logrotate to maximum file size for all logs

It specifies the size of the log file to trigger rotation. For example size 50M will trigger a log rotation once the file is 50MB or greater in size. You can use the suffix M for megabytes, k for kilobytes, and G for gigabytes. If no suffix is used, it will take it to mean bytes. You can check the example at the end. There are three directives available size, maxsize, and minsize. According to manpage:

minsize size
              Log  files  are  rotated when they grow bigger than size bytes,
              but not before the additionally specified time interval (daily,
              weekly,  monthly, or yearly).  The related size option is simi-
              lar except that it is mutually exclusive with the time interval
              options,  and  it causes log files to be rotated without regard
              for the last rotation time.  When minsize  is  used,  both  the
              size and timestamp of a log file are considered.

size size
              Log files are rotated only if they grow bigger then size bytes.
              If size is followed by k, the size is assumed to  be  in  kilo-
              bytes.  If the M is used, the size is in megabytes, and if G is
              used, the size is in gigabytes. So size 100,  size  100k,  size
              100M and size 100G are all valid.
maxsize size
              Log files are rotated when they grow bigger than size bytes even before
              the additionally specified time interval (daily, weekly, monthly, 
              or yearly).  The related size option is  similar  except  that  it 
              is mutually exclusive with the time interval options, and it causes
              log files to be rotated without regard for the last rotation time.  
              When maxsize is used, both the size and timestamp of a log file are                  
              considered.

Here is an example:

"/var/log/httpd/access.log" /var/log/httpd/error.log {
           rotate 5
           mail [email protected]
           size 100k
           sharedscripts
           postrotate
               /usr/bin/killall -HUP httpd
           endscript
       }

Here is an explanation for both files /var/log/httpd/access.log and /var/log/httpd/error.log. They are rotated whenever it grows over 100k in size, and the old logs files are mailed (uncompressed) to [email protected] after going through 5 rotations, rather than being removed. The sharedscripts means that the postrotate script will only be run once (after the old logs have been compressed), not once for each log which is rotated. Note that the double quotes around the first filename at the beginning of this section allows logrotate to rotate logs with spaces in the name. Normal shell quoting rules apply, with ,, and \ characters supported.

What is the Angular equivalent to an AngularJS $watch?

Here is another approach using getter and setter functions for the model.

@Component({
  selector: 'input-language',
  template: `
  …
  <input 
    type="text" 
    placeholder="Language" 
    [(ngModel)]="query" 
  />
  `,
})
export class InputLanguageComponent {

  set query(value) {
    this._query = value;
    console.log('query set to :', value)
  }

  get query() {
    return this._query;
  }
}

How to set session attribute in java?

Try this.

<%@page language="java" session="true" %>

What is the purpose of Android's <merge> tag in XML layouts?

To have a more in-depth knowledge of what's happening, I created the following example. Have a look at the activity_main.xml and content_profile.xml files.

activity_main.xml

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

    <include layout="@layout/content_profile" />

</LinearLayout>

content_profile.xml

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

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Howdy" />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Hi there" />

</LinearLayout>

In here, the entire layout file when inflated looks like this.

<LinearLayout>
    <LinearLayout>
        <TextView />
        <TextView />
    </LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

See that there is a LinearLayout inside the parent LinearLayout which doesn't serve any purpose and is redundant. A look at the layout through Layout Inspector tool clearly explains this.

enter image description here

content_profile.xml after updating the code to use merge instead of a ViewGroup like LinearLayout.

<merge xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Howdy" />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Hi there" />

</merge>

Now our layout looks like this

<LinearLayout>
    <TextView />
    <TextView />
</LinearLayout>

Here we see that the redundant LinearLayout ViewGroup is removed. Now Layout Inspector tool gives the following layout hierarchy.

enter image description here

So always try to use merge when your parent layout can position your child layouts, or more precisely use merge when you understand that there is going to be a redundant view group in the hierarchy.

VB6 IDE cannot load MSCOMCTL.OCX after update KB 2687323

For me, this solution worked like a charm: http://home.pacific.net.hk/~edx/bin/readmeocx.txt

Fix these two lines like that:

Object={F9043C88-F6F2-101A-A3C9-08002B2F49FB}#1.2#0; COMDLG32.OCX
Object={831FDD16-0C5C-11D2-A9FC-0000F8754DA1}#2.0#0; MSCOMCTL.OCX

Search the files (.vbp and .frm) for lines like this:

Begin ComctlLib.ImageList ILTree
Begin ComctlLib.StatusBar StatusBar1 
Begin ComctlLib.Toolbar Toolbar1` 

The lines may be like this:

Begin MSComctlLib.ImageList ILTree 
Begin MSComctlLib.StatusBar StatusBar1
Begin MSComctlLib.Toolbar Toolbar1` 

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.jsp.index_jsp

It's been a while since I posted this, but I thought I would show how I figured it out (as best as I recall now).

I did a Maven dependency tree to find dependency conflicts, and I removed all conflicts with exclusions in dependencies, e.g.:

<dependency>
    <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-logging-api</artifactId>
    <version>1.1</version>
    <exclusions>
        <exclusion>
            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
            <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
    </exclusions>
</dependency>

Also, I used the provided scope for javax.servlet dependencies so as not to introduce an additional conflict with what is provided by Tomcat when I run the app.

<dependency>
    <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
    <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
    <version>2.5</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
    <artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId>
    <version>2.1</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

HTH.

Difference between "read commited" and "repeatable read"

Simply the answer according to my reading and understanding to this thread and @remus-rusanu answer is based on this simple scenario:

There are two transactions A and B. Transaction B is reading Table X Transaction A is writing in table X Transaction B is reading again in Table X.

  • ReadUncommitted: Transaction B can read uncommitted data from Transaction A and it could see different rows based on B writing. No lock at all
  • ReadCommitted: Transaction B can read ONLY committed data from Transaction A and it could see different rows based on COMMITTED only B writing. could we call it Simple Lock?
  • RepeatableRead: Transaction B will read the same data (rows) whatever Transaction A is doing. But Transaction A can change other rows. Rows level Block
  • Serialisable: Transaction B will read the same rows as before and Transaction A cannot read or write in the table. Table-level Block
  • Snapshot: every Transaction has its own copy and they are working on it. Each one has its own view

Visual Studio Code Search and Replace with Regular Expressions

Make sure Match Case is selected with Use Regular Expression so this matches. [A-Z]* If match case is not selected, this matches all letters.

HTML CSS Button Positioning

[type=submit]{
    margin-left: 121px;
    margin-top: 19px;
    width: 84px;
    height: 40px;   
    font-size:14px;
    font-weight:700;
}

Is it possible to have multiple styles inside a TextView?

Spanny make SpannableString easier to use.

Spanny spanny = new Spanny("Underline text", new UnderlineSpan())
                .append("\nRed text", new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.RED))
                .append("\nPlain text");
textView.setText(spanny)