Python JSON encoding

In simplejson (or the library json in Python 2.6 and later), loads takes a JSON string and returns a Python data structure, dumps takes a Python data structure and returns a JSON string. JSON string can encode Javascript arrays, not just objects, and a Python list corresponds to a JSON string encoding an array. To get a JSON string such as

{"apple":"cat", "banana":"dog"}

the Python object you pass to json.dumps could be:

dict(apple="cat", banana="dog")

though the JSON string is also valid Python syntax for the same dict. I believe the specific string you say you expect is simply invalid JSON syntax, however.

How to Load an Assembly to AppDomain with all references recursively?

You need to handle the AppDomain.AssemblyResolve or AppDomain.ReflectionOnlyAssemblyResolve events (depending on which load you're doing) in case the referenced assembly is not in the GAC or on the CLR's probing path.

AppDomain.AssemblyResolve

AppDomain.ReflectionOnlyAssemblyResolve

How do I set GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY for specific repos only?

for windows, if you want global config, then run

git config --global http.sslVerify false

Disabling Log4J Output in Java

If you want to turn off logging programmatically then use

List<Logger> loggers = Collections.<Logger>list(LogManager.getCurrentLoggers());
loggers.add(LogManager.getRootLogger());
for ( Logger logger : loggers ) {
    logger.setLevel(Level.OFF);
}

Update multiple rows in same query using PostgreSQL

In addition to other answers, comments and documentation, the datatype cast can be placed on usage. This allows an easier copypasting:

update test as t set
    column_a = c.column_a::number
from (values
    ('123', 1),
    ('345', 2)  
) as c(column_b, column_a) 
where t.column_b = c.column_b::text;

Mock MVC - Add Request Parameter to test

If anyone came to this question looking for ways to add multiple parameters at the same time (my case), you can use .params with a MultivalueMap instead of adding each .param :

LinkedMultiValueMap<String, String> requestParams = new LinkedMultiValueMap<>()
requestParams.add("id", "1");
requestParams.add("name", "john");
requestParams.add("age", "30");

mockMvc.perform(get("my/endpoint").params(requestParams)).andExpect(status().isOk())

How to install mechanize for Python 2.7?

pip install mechanize

mechanize supports only python 2.

For python3 refer https://stackoverflow.com/a/31774959/4773973 for alternatives.

Anaconda / Python: Change Anaconda Prompt User Path

In both: Anaconda prompt and the old cmd.exe, you change your directory by first changing to the drive you want, by simply writing its name followed by a ':', exe: F: , which will take you to the drive named 'F' on your machine. Then using the command cd to navigate your way inside that drive as you normally would.

Install a Windows service using a Windows command prompt?

Open command prompt as administrator, go to your Folder where your .exe resides. To Install Exe as service

D:\YourFolderName\YourExeName /i

To uninstall use /u.

What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?

/* My lawyer told me not to reveal */

How can I set the font-family & font-size inside of a div?

You need a semicolon after font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif. This will make your updated code the following:

<!DOCTYPE>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>DIV Font</title>

        <style>
            .my_text
            {
                font-family:    Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
                font-size:      40px;
                font-weight:    bold;
            }
        </style>
    </head>

    <body>
        <div class="my_text">some text</div>
    </body>
</html>

How can I select the row with the highest ID in MySQL?

SELECT MAX(id) FROM TABELNAME

This identifies the largest id and returns the value

How do you dynamically add elements to a ListView on Android?

Create an XML layout first in your project's res/layout/main.xml folder:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" >
    <Button
        android:id="@+id/addBtn"
        android:text="Add New Item"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:onClick="addItems"/>
    <ListView
        android:id="@android:id/list"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:drawSelectorOnTop="false"
    />
</LinearLayout>

This is a simple layout with a button on the top and a list view on the bottom. Note that the ListView has the id @android:id/list which defines the default ListView a ListActivity can use.

public class ListViewDemo extends ListActivity {
    //LIST OF ARRAY STRINGS WHICH WILL SERVE AS LIST ITEMS
    ArrayList<String> listItems=new ArrayList<String>();

    //DEFINING A STRING ADAPTER WHICH WILL HANDLE THE DATA OF THE LISTVIEW
    ArrayAdapter<String> adapter;

    //RECORDING HOW MANY TIMES THE BUTTON HAS BEEN CLICKED
    int clickCounter=0;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
        super.onCreate(icicle);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
        adapter=new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,
            android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,
            listItems);
        setListAdapter(adapter);
    }

    //METHOD WHICH WILL HANDLE DYNAMIC INSERTION
    public void addItems(View v) {
        listItems.add("Clicked : "+clickCounter++);
        adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
    }
}

android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1 is the default list item layout supplied by Android, and you can use this stock layout for non-complex things.

listItems is a List which holds the data shown in the ListView. All the insertion and removal should be done on listItems; the changes in listItems should be reflected in the view. That's handled by ArrayAdapter<String> adapter, which should be notified using:

adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();

An Adapter is instantiated with 3 parameters: the context, which could be your activity/listactivity; the layout of your individual list item; and lastly, the list, which is the actual data to be displayed in the list.

Excel VBA: function to turn activecell to bold

A UDF will only return a value it won't allow you to change the properties of a cell/sheet/workbook. Move your code to a Worksheet_Change event or similar to change properties.

Private Sub worksheet_change(ByVal target As Range)
  target.Font.Bold = True
End Sub

RecyclerView expand/collapse items

There is simply no need of using third party libraries. A little tweak in the method demonstrated in Google I/O 2016 and Heisenberg on this topic, does the trick.

Since notifyDataSetChanged() redraws the complete RecyclerView, notifyDataItemChanged() is a better option (not the best) because we have the position and the ViewHolder at our disposal, and notifyDataItemChanged() only redraws the particular ViewHolder at a given position.

But the problem is that the premature disappearence of the ViewHolder upon clicking and it's emergence is not eliminated even if notifyDataItemChanged() is used.

The following code does not resort to notifyDataSetChanged() or notifyDataItemChanged() and is Tested on API 23 and works like a charm when used on a RecyclerView where each ViewHolder has a CardView as it's root element:

holder.itemView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            final boolean visibility = holder.details.getVisibility()==View.VISIBLE;

            if (!visibility)
            {
                holder.itemView.setActivated(true);
                holder.details.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
                if (prev_expanded!=-1 && prev_expanded!=position)
                {
                    recycler.findViewHolderForLayoutPosition(prev_expanded).itemView.setActivated(false);
                    recycler.findViewHolderForLayoutPosition(prev_expanded).itemView.findViewById(R.id.cpl_details).setVisibility(View.GONE);
                }
                prev_expanded = position;
            }
            else
            {
                holder.itemView.setActivated(false);
                holder.details.setVisibility(View.GONE);
            }
            TransitionManager.beginDelayedTransition(recycler);              
        }
});

prev_position is an global integer initialized to -1. details is the complete view which is shown when expanded and cloaked when collapsed.

As said, the root element of ViewHolder is a CardView with foreground and stateListAnimator attributes defined exactly as said by Heisenberg on this topic.

UPDATE: The above demonstration will collapse previosuly expanded item if one of them in expanded. To modify this behaviour and keep the an expanded item as it is even when another item is expanded, you'll need the following code.

if (row.details.getVisibility()!=View.VISIBLE)
    {
        row.details.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
        row.root.setActivated(true);
        row.details.animate().alpha(1).setStartDelay(500);
    }
    else
    {
        row.root.setActivated(false);
        row.details.setVisibility(View.GONE);
        row.details.setAlpha(0);
    }
    TransitionManager.beginDelayedTransition(recycler);

UPDATE: When expanding the last items on the list, it may not be brought into full visibility because the expanded portion goes below the screen. To get the full item within screen use the following code.

LinearLayoutManager manager = (LinearLayoutManager) recycler.getLayoutManager();
    int distance;
    View first = recycler.getChildAt(0);
    int height = first.getHeight();
    int current = recycler.getChildAdapterPosition(first);
    int p = Math.abs(position - current);
    if (p > 5) distance = (p - (p - 5)) * height;
    else       distance = p * height;
    manager.scrollToPositionWithOffset(position, distance);

IMPORTANT: For the above demonstrations to work, one must keep in their code an instance of the RecyclerView & it's LayoutManager (the later for flexibility)

Relative paths in Python

See sys.path As initialized upon program startup, the first item of this list, path[0], is the directory containing the script that was used to invoke the Python interpreter.

Use this path as the root folder from which you apply your relative path

>>> import sys
>>> import os.path
>>> sys.path[0]
'C:\\Python25\\Lib\\idlelib'
>>> os.path.relpath(sys.path[0], "path_to_libs") # if you have python 2.6
>>> os.path.join(sys.path[0], "path_to_libs")
'C:\\Python25\\Lib\\idlelib\\path_to_libs'

Rails find_or_create_by more than one attribute?

You can do:

User.find_or_create_by(first_name: 'Penélope', last_name: 'Lopez')
User.where(first_name: 'Penélope', last_name: 'Lopez').first_or_create

Or to just initialize:

User.find_or_initialize_by(first_name: 'Penélope', last_name: 'Lopez')
User.where(first_name: 'Penélope', last_name: 'Lopez').first_or_initialize

postgres: upgrade a user to be a superuser?

alter user username superuser;

Append a single character to a string or char array in java?

just add them like this :

        String character = "a";
        String otherString = "helen";
        otherString=otherString+character;
        System.out.println(otherString);

SQL select everything in an array

$SQL_Part="("
$i=0;
while ($i<length($cat)-1)
{
   $SQL_Part+=$cat[i]+",";
}
$SQL_Part=$SQL_Part+$cat[$i+1]+")"

$SQL="SELECT * FROM products WHERE catid IN "+$SQL_Part;

It's more generic and will fit for any array!!

Failed to configure a DataSource: 'url' attribute is not specified and no embedded datasource could be configured

I had the same issue and tried all suggestions above, but didnt work out. I am posting my answer for furture readers. Before it was working fine but somehow it apeared again. I resolved this issue by removing some unnecessary plugnins and depencies from pom.xml

First of all, I changed default packaging type to jar (Spring Boot Initializer gives pom in packaging)

<packaging>jar</packaging>
I added unintentional some plugins:

<plugin> <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId> <configuration> <attachClasses>true</attachClasses> <webXml>target/web.xml</webXml> <webResources> <resource> <directory>src/main/webapp</directory> <filtering>true</filtering> </resource> </webResources> </configuration> </plugin>

I hope my answer will help someone.

Extract year from date

library(lubridate)
a=mdy(b)
year(a)

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/lubridate/vignettes/lubridate.html http://vita.had.co.nz/papers/lubridate.pdf

Check if a value is within a range of numbers

If you must use a regexp (and really, you shouldn't!) this will work:

/^0\.00([1-8]\d*|90*)$/

should work, i.e.

^ nothing before,
followed by 0.00 (nb: backslash escape for the . character)
followed by 1 through 8, and any number of additional digits
or 9, followed by any number of zeroes
$: followed by nothing else

How to query GROUP BY Month in a Year

For MS SQL you can do this.

    select  CAST(DATEPART(MONTH, DateTyme) as VARCHAR) +'/'+ 
CAST(DATEPART(YEAR, DateTyme) as VARCHAR) as 'Date' from #temp
    group by Name, CAST(DATEPART(MONTH, DateTyme) as VARCHAR) +'/'+
 CAST(DATEPART(YEAR, DateTyme) as VARCHAR)

How to format a duration in java? (e.g format H:MM:SS)

using this func

private static String strDuration(long duration) {
    int ms, s, m, h, d;
    double dec;
    double time = duration * 1.0;

    time = (time / 1000.0);
    dec = time % 1;
    time = time - dec;
    ms = (int)(dec * 1000);

    time = (time / 60.0);
    dec = time % 1;
    time = time - dec;
    s = (int)(dec * 60);

    time = (time / 60.0);
    dec = time % 1;
    time = time - dec;
    m = (int)(dec * 60);

    time = (time / 24.0);
    dec = time % 1;
    time = time - dec;
    h = (int)(dec * 24);
    
    d = (int)time;
    
    return (String.format("%d d - %02d:%02d:%02d.%03d", d, h, m, s, ms));
}

How to escape regular expression special characters using javascript?

Use the \ character to escape a character that has special meaning inside a regular expression.

To automate it, you could use this:

function escapeRegExp(text) {
  return text.replace(/[-[\]{}()*+?.,\\^$|#\s]/g, '\\$&');
}

Update: There is now a proposal to standardize this method, possibly in ES2016: https://github.com/benjamingr/RegExp.escape

Update: The abovementioned proposal was rejected, so keep implementing this yourself if you need it.

Dependency injection with Jersey 2.0

The selected answer dates from a while back. It is not practical to declare every binding in a custom HK2 binder. I'm using Tomcat and I just had to add one dependency. Even though it was designed for Glassfish it fits perfectly into other containers.

   <dependency>
        <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.containers.glassfish</groupId>
        <artifactId>jersey-gf-cdi</artifactId>
        <version>${jersey.version}</version>
    </dependency>

Make sure your container is properly configured too (see the documentation).

Passing references to pointers in C++

myfunc("string*& val") this itself doesn't make any sense. "string*& val" implies "string val",* and & cancels each other. Finally one can not pas string variable to a function("string val"). Only basic data types can be passed to a function, for other data types need to pass as pointer or reference. You can have either string& val or string* val to a function.

gpg failed to sign the data fatal: failed to write commit object [Git 2.10.0]

My two cents here:

When you create and add a key to gpg-agent you define something called passphrase. Now that passphrase at some point expires, and gpg needs you to enter it again to unlock your key so that you can start signing again.

When you use any other program that interfaces with gpg, gpg's prompt to you to enter your passphrase does not appear (basically gpg-agent when daemonized cannot possibly show you the input dialog in stdin).

One of the solutions is gpg --sign a_file.txt then enter the passphrase that you have entered when you created your key and then everything should be fine (gpg-agent should automatically sign)

See this answer on how to set longer timeouts for your passphrase so that you do not have to do this all the time.

Or you can completely remove the passphrase with ssh-keygen -p

Edit: Do a man gpg-agent to read some stuff on how to have the above happen automatically and add the lines:

GPG_TTY=$(tty)
export GPG_TTY

on your .bashrc if you are using bash(this is the correct answer but I am keeping my train of thought above as well) then source your .bashrc file or relogin.

What is a wrapper class?

A wrapper class is a class that "wraps" around something else, just like its name.

The more formal definition of it would be a class that implements the Adapter Pattern. This allows you to modify one set of APIs into a more usable, readable form. For example, in C#, if you want to use the native Windows API, it helps to wrap it into a class that conforms to the .NET design guidelines.

How can I parse a time string containing milliseconds in it with python?

from python mailing lists: parsing millisecond thread. There is a function posted there that seems to get the job done, although as mentioned in the author's comments it is kind of a hack. It uses regular expressions to handle the exception that gets raised, and then does some calculations.

You could also try do the regular expressions and calculations up front, before passing it to strptime.

How to have git log show filenames like svn log -v

If you want to get the file names only without the rest of the commit message you can use:

git log --name-only --pretty=format: <branch name>

This can then be extended to use the various options that contain the file name:

git log --name-status --pretty=format: <branch name>

git log --stat --pretty=format: <branch name>

One thing to note when using this method is that there are some blank lines in the output that will have to be ignored. Using this can be useful if you'd like to see the files that have been changed on a local branch, but is not yet pushed to a remote branch and there is no guarantee the latest from the remote has already been pulled in. For example:

git log --name-only --pretty=format: my_local_branch --not origin/master

Would show all the files that have been changed on the local branch, but not yet merged to the master branch on the remote.

How to split comma separated string using JavaScript?

var array = string.split(',')

and good morning, too, since I have to type 30 chars ...

How to pass anonymous types as parameters?

I think you should make a class for this anonymous type. That'd be the most sensible thing to do in my opinion. But if you really don't want to, you could use dynamics:

public void LogEmployees (IEnumerable<dynamic> list)
{
    foreach (dynamic item in list)
    {
        string name = item.Name;
        int id = item.Id;
    }
}

Note that this is not strongly typed, so if, for example, Name changes to EmployeeName, you won't know there's a problem until runtime.

Are static class variables possible in Python?

One very interesting point about Python's attribute lookup is that it can be used to create "virtual variables":

class A(object):

  label="Amazing"

  def __init__(self,d): 
      self.data=d

  def say(self): 
      print("%s %s!"%(self.label,self.data))

class B(A):
  label="Bold"  # overrides A.label

A(5).say()      # Amazing 5!
B(3).say()      # Bold 3!

Normally there aren't any assignments to these after they are created. Note that the lookup uses self because, although label is static in the sense of not being associated with a particular instance, the value still depends on the (class of the) instance.

Change SVN repository URL

Grepping the URL before and after might give you some peace of mind:

svn info | grep URL

  URL: svn://svnrepo.rz.mycompany.org/repos/trunk/DataPortal
  Relative URL: (...doesn't matter...)

And checking on your version (to be >1.7) to ensure, svn relocate is the right thing to use:

svn --version

Lastly, adding to the above, if your repository url change also involves a change of protocol you might need to state the before and after url (also see here)

svn relocate svn://svnrepo.rz.mycompany.org/repos/trunk/DataPortal
    https://svngate.mycompany.org/svn/repos/trunk/DataPortal

All in one single line of course.Thereafter, get the good feeling, that all went smoothly:

svn info | grep URL:

If you feel like it, a bit more of self-assurance, the new svn repo URL is connected and working:

svn status --show-updates
svn diff

org.hibernate.MappingException: Unknown entity

In case if you get this exception in SpringBoot application even though the entities are annotated with Entity annotation, it might be due to the spring not aware of where to scan for entities

To explicitly specify the package, add below

@SpringBootApplication
@EntityScan({"model.package.name"})
public class SpringBootApp {...}

note: If you model classes resides in the same or sub packages of SpringBootApplication annotated class, no need to explicitly declare the EntityScan, by default it will scan

Compare two Byte Arrays? (Java)

Check out the static java.util.Arrays.equals() family of methods. There's one that does exactly what you want.

Difference between spring @Controller and @RestController annotation

@RestController is composition of @Controller and @ResponseBody, if we are not using the @ResponseBody in Method signature then we need to use the @Restcontroller.

How to easily initialize a list of Tuples?

c# 7.0 lets you do this:

  var tupleList = new List<(int, string)>
  {
      (1, "cow"),
      (5, "chickens"),
      (1, "airplane")
  };

If you don't need a List, but just an array, you can do:

  var tupleList = new(int, string)[]
  {
      (1, "cow"),
      (5, "chickens"),
      (1, "airplane")
  };

And if you don't like "Item1" and "Item2", you can do:

  var tupleList = new List<(int Index, string Name)>
  {
      (1, "cow"),
      (5, "chickens"),
      (1, "airplane")
  };

or for an array:

  var tupleList = new (int Index, string Name)[]
  {
      (1, "cow"),
      (5, "chickens"),
      (1, "airplane")
  };

which lets you do: tupleList[0].Index and tupleList[0].Name

Framework 4.6.2 and below

You must install System.ValueTuple from the Nuget Package Manager.

Framework 4.7 and above

It is built into the framework. Do not install System.ValueTuple. In fact, remove it and delete it from the bin directory.

note: In real life, I wouldn't be able to choose between cow, chickens or airplane. I would be really torn.

How to format time since xxx e.g. “4 minutes ago” similar to Stack Exchange sites

Much readable and cross browser compatible code:

As given by @Travis

_x000D_

var DURATION_IN_SECONDS = {_x000D_
  epochs: ['year', 'month', 'day', 'hour', 'minute'],_x000D_
  year: 31536000,_x000D_
  month: 2592000,_x000D_
  day: 86400,_x000D_
  hour: 3600,_x000D_
  minute: 60_x000D_
};_x000D_
_x000D_
function getDuration(seconds) {_x000D_
  var epoch, interval;_x000D_
_x000D_
  for (var i = 0; i < DURATION_IN_SECONDS.epochs.length; i++) {_x000D_
    epoch = DURATION_IN_SECONDS.epochs[i];_x000D_
    interval = Math.floor(seconds / DURATION_IN_SECONDS[epoch]);_x000D_
    if (interval >= 1) {_x000D_
      return {_x000D_
        interval: interval,_x000D_
        epoch: epoch_x000D_
      };_x000D_
    }_x000D_
  }_x000D_
_x000D_
};_x000D_
_x000D_
function timeSince(date) {_x000D_
  var seconds = Math.floor((new Date() - new Date(date)) / 1000);_x000D_
  var duration = getDuration(seconds);_x000D_
  var suffix = (duration.interval > 1 || duration.interval === 0) ? 's' : '';_x000D_
  return duration.interval + ' ' + duration.epoch + suffix;_x000D_
};_x000D_
_x000D_
alert(timeSince('2015-09-17T18:53:23'));

_x000D_

How to keep the console window open in Visual C++?

Start the project with Ctrl+F5 instead of just F5.

The console window will now stay open with the Press any key to continue . . . message after the program exits.

Note that this requires the Console (/SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE) linker option, which you can enable as follows:

Open up your project, and go to the Solution Explorer. If you're following along with me in K&R, your "Solution" will be 'hello' with 1 project under it, also 'hello' in bold.
Right click on the 'hello" (or whatever your project name is.)
Choose "Properties" from the context menu.
Choose Configuration Properties>Linker>System.
For the "Subsystem" property in the right-hand pane, click the drop-down box in the right hand column.
Choose "Console (/SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE)"
Click Apply, wait for it to finish doing whatever it does, then click OK. (If "Apply" is grayed out, choose some other subsystem option, click Apply, then go back and apply the console option. My experience is that OK by itself won't work.)

CTRL-F5 and the subsystem hints work together; they are not separate options.

(Courtesy of DJMorreTX from http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vcprerelease/thread/21073093-516c-49d2-81c7-d960f6dc2ac6)

PHP file_get_contents() and setting request headers

Yes.

When calling file_get_contents on a URL, one should use the stream_create_context function, which is fairly well documented on php.net.

This is more or less exactly covered on the following page at php.net in the user comments section: http://php.net/manual/en/function.stream-context-create.php

Return Type for jdbcTemplate.queryForList(sql, object, classType)

In order to map a the result set of query to a particular Java class you'll probably be best (assuming you're interested in using the object elsewhere) off with a RowMapper to convert the columns in the result set into an object instance.

See Section 12.2.1.1 of Data access with JDBC on how to use a row mapper.

In short, you'll need something like:

List<Conversation> actors = jdbcTemplate.query(
    SELECT_ALL_CONVERSATIONS_SQL_FULL,
    new Object[] {userId, dateFrom, dateTo},
    new RowMapper<Conversation>() {
        public Conversation mapRow(ResultSet rs, int rowNum) throws SQLException {
            Conversation c = new Conversation();
            c.setId(rs.getLong(1));
            c.setRoom(rs.getString(2));
            [...]
            return c;
        }
    });

Use dynamic variable names in JavaScript

2019

TL;DR

eval operator can run string expression in the context it called and return variables from that context;
literal object theoretically can do that by write:{[varName]}, but it blocked by definition.

So I come across this question and everyone here just play around without bringing a real solution. but @Axel Heider has a good approaching.

The solution is eval. almost most forgotten operator. ( think most one is with() )

eval operator can dynamically run expression in the context it called. and return the result of that expression. we can use that to dynamically return a variable's value in function's context.

example:

function exmaple1(){
   var a = 1, b = 2, default = 3;
   var name = 'a';
   return eval(name)
}

example1() // return 1


function example2(option){
  var a = 1, b = 2, defaultValue = 3;

  switch(option){
    case 'a': name = 'a'; break;
    case 'b': name = 'b'; break;
    default: name = 'defaultValue';
  }
  return eval (name);
}

example2('a') // return 1
example2('b') // return 2
example2() // return 3

Note that I always write explicitly the expression eval will run. To avoid unnecessary surprises in the code. eval is very strong But I'm sure you know that already

BTW, if it was legal we could use literal object to capture the variable name and value, but we can’t combine computed property names and property value shorthand, sadly, is invalid

functopn example( varName ){
    var var1 = 'foo', var2 ='bar'

    var capture = {[varName]}

}

example('var1') //trow 'Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token }`

Saving results with headers in Sql Server Management Studio

Select your results by clicking in the top left corner, right click and select "Copy with Headers". Paste in excel. Done!

Vendor code 17002 to connect to SQLDeveloper

I encountered same problem with ORACLE 11G express on Windows. After a long time waiting I got the same error message.

My solution is to make sure the hostname in tnsnames.ora (usually it's not "localhost") and the default hostname in sql developer(usually it's "localhost") same. You can either do this by changing it in the tnsnames.ora, or filling up the same in the sql developer.

Oh, of course you need to reboot all the oracle services (just to be safe).

Hope it helps.

I came across the similar problem again on another machine, but this time above solution doesn't work. After some trying, I found restarting all the oracle related services can fix the problem. Originally when the installation is done, connection can be made. Somehow after several reboot of computer, there is problem. I change all the oracle services with start time as auto. And once I could not connect, I restart them all over again (the core service should be restarted at last order), and works fine.

Some article says it might be due to the MTS problem. Microsoft's problem. Maybe!

How to import Google Web Font in CSS file?

Add the Below code in your CSS File to import Google Web Fonts.

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans);

Replace the Open+Sans parameter value with your Font name.

Your CSS file should look like:

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans);

body{
   font-family: 'Open Sans',serif;
}

insert vertical divider line between two nested divs, not full height

Use a div for your divider. It will always be centered vertically regardless to whether left and right divs are equal in height. You can reuse it anywhere on your site.

.divider{
    position:absolute;
    left:50%;
    top:10%;
    bottom:10%;
    border-left:1px solid white;
}

Check working example at http://jsfiddle.net/gtKBs/

Detect if a jQuery UI dialog box is open

Actually, you have to explicitly compare it to true. If the dialog doesn't exist yet, it will not return false (as you would expect), it will return a DOM object.

if ($('#mydialog').dialog('isOpen') === true) {
    // true
} else {
    // false
}

Can "git pull --all" update all my local branches?

As of git 2.9:

git pull --rebase --autostash

See https://git-scm.com/docs/git-rebase

Automatically create a temporary stash before the operation begins, and apply it after the operation ends. This means that you can run rebase on a dirty worktree. However, use with care: the final stash application after a successful rebase might result in non-trivial conflicts.

Simple way to read single record from MySQL

Warning! Your SQL isn't a good idea, because it will select all rows (no WHERE clause assumes "WHERE 1"!) and clog your application if you have a large number of rows. (What's the point of selecting 1,000 rows when 1 will do?) So instead, when selecting only one row, make sure you specify the LIMIT clause:

$sql = "SELECT id FROM games LIMIT 1";  // Select ONLY one, instead of all
$result = $db->query($sql);
$row = $result->fetch_assoc();
echo 'Game ID: '.$row['id'];

This difference requires MySQL to select only the first matching record, so ordering the table is important or you ought to use a WHERE clause. However, it's a whole lot less memory and time to find that one record, than to get every record and output row number one.

Connecting to Postgresql in a docker container from outside

I know this is late, if you used docker-compose like @Martin

These are the snippets that helped me connect to psql inside the container

docker-compose run db bash

root@de96f9358b70:/# psql -h db -U root -d postgres_db

I cannot comment because I don't have 50 reputation. So hope this helps.

Dark color scheme for Eclipse

As I replied to "Is there a simple, consistent way to change the color scheme of Eclipse editors?":

I've been looking for this too and after a bit of research found a workable solution. This is based on the FDT editor for Eclipse, but I'm sure you could apply the same logic to other editors.

My blog post: Howto create a color-scheme for FDT

Hope this helps!

PHP String to Float

$rootbeer = (float) $InvoicedUnits;

Should do it for you. Check out Type-Juggling. You should also read String conversion to Numbers.

Automatic vertical scroll bar in WPF TextBlock?

<ScrollViewer Height="239" VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto">
    <TextBox AcceptsReturn="True" TextWrapping="Wrap" LineHeight="10" />
</ScrollViewer>

This is way to use the scrolling TextBox in XAML and use it as a text area.

dropdownlist set selected value in MVC3 Razor

Well its very simple in controller you have somthing like this:

-- Controller

ViewBag.Profile_Id = new SelectList(db.Profiles, "Id", "Name", model.Profile_Id);

--View (Option A)

@Html.DropDownList("Profile_Id")

--View (Option B) --> Send a null value to the list

@Html.DropDownList("Profile_Id", null, "-- Choose --", new {  @class = "input-large" })

CSS /JS to prevent dragging of ghost image?

Place the image as a background of an empty div, or under a transparent element. When the user clicks on the image to drag, they are clicking on a div.

See http://www.flickr.com/photos/thefella/5878724253/?f=hp

<div id="photo-drag-proxy"></div>

How to fetch JSON file in Angular 2

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    return from(_x000D_
      fetch("assets/server-config.json").then(response => {_x000D_
        return response.json();_x000D_
      })_x000D_
    )_x000D_
      .pipe(_x000D_
        map(config => {_x000D_
          return config;_x000D_
        })_x000D_
      )_x000D_
      .toPromise();_x000D_
  }

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What is wrong with my SQL here? #1089 - Incorrect prefix key

In my case, i faced the problem while creating table from phpmyadmin. For id column i choose the primary option from index dropdown and filled the size 10.

If you're using phpmyadmin, to solve this problem change the index dropdown option again, after reselecting the primary option again it'll ask you the size, leave it blank and you're done.

How do I prevent the padding property from changing width or height in CSS?

when I add the padding-left property, the width of the DIV changes to 220px

Yes, that is exactly according to the standards. That's how it's supposed to work.

Let's say I create another DIV named anotherdiv exactly the same as newdiv, and put it inside of newdiv but newdiv has no padding and anotherdiv has padding-left: 20px. I get the same thing, newdiv's width will be 220px;

No, newdiv will remain 200px wide.

How can I discard remote changes and mark a file as "resolved"?

git checkout has the --ours option to check out the version of the file that you had locally (as opposed to --theirs, which is the version that you pulled in). You can pass . to git checkout to tell it to check out everything in the tree. Then you need to mark the conflicts as resolved, which you can do with git add, and commit your work once done:

git checkout --ours .  # checkout our local version of all files
git add -u             # mark all conflicted files as merged
git commit             # commit the merge

Note the . in the git checkout command. That's very important, and easy to miss. git checkout has two modes; one in which it switches branches, and one in which it checks files out of the index into the working copy (sometimes pulling them into the index from another revision first). The way it distinguishes is by whether you've passed a filename in; if you haven't passed in a filename, it tries switching branches (though if you don't pass in a branch either, it will just try checking out the current branch again), but it refuses to do so if there are modified files that that would effect. So, if you want a behavior that will overwrite existing files, you need to pass in . or a filename in order to get the second behavior from git checkout.

It's also a good habit to have, when passing in a filename, to offset it with --, such as git checkout --ours -- <filename>. If you don't do this, and the filename happens to match the name of a branch or tag, Git will think that you want to check that revision out, instead of checking that filename out, and so use the first form of the checkout command.

I'll expand a bit on how conflicts and merging work in Git. When you merge in someone else's code (which also happens during a pull; a pull is essentially a fetch followed by a merge), there are few possible situations.

The simplest is that you're on the same revision. In this case, you're "already up to date", and nothing happens.

Another possibility is that their revision is simply a descendent of yours, in which case you will by default have a "fast-forward merge", in which your HEAD is just updated to their commit, with no merging happening (this can be disabled if you really want to record a merge, using --no-ff).

Then you get into the situations in which you actually need to merge two revisions. In this case, there are two possible outcomes. One is that the merge happens cleanly; all of the changes are in different files, or are in the same files but far enough apart that both sets of changes can be applied without problems. By default, when a clean merge happens, it is automatically committed, though you can disable this with --no-commit if you need to edit it beforehand (for instance, if you rename function foo to bar, and someone else adds new code that calls foo, it will merge cleanly, but produce a broken tree, so you may want to clean that up as part of the merge commit in order to avoid having any broken commits).

The final possibility is that there's a real merge, and there are conflicts. In this case, Git will do as much of the merge as it can, and produce files with conflict markers (<<<<<<<, =======, and >>>>>>>) in your working copy. In the index (also known as the "staging area"; the place where files are stored by git add before committing them), you will have 3 versions of each file with conflicts; there is the original version of the file from the ancestor of the two branches you are merging, the version from HEAD (your side of the merge), and the version from the remote branch.

In order to resolve the conflict, you can either edit the file that is in your working copy, removing the conflict markers and fixing the code up so that it works. Or, you can check out the version from one or the other sides of the merge, using git checkout --ours or git checkout --theirs. Once you have put the file into the state you want it, you indicate that you are done merging the file and it is ready to commit using git add, and then you can commit the merge with git commit.

How do I remove whitespace from the end of a string in Python?

>>> "    xyz     ".rstrip()
'    xyz'

There is more about rstrip in the documentation.

Maximum and Minimum values for ints

If you want the max for array or list indices (equivalent to size_t in C/C++), you can use numpy:

np.iinfo(np.intp).max

This is same as sys.maxsize however advantage is that you don't need import sys just for this.

If you want max for native int on the machine:

np.iinfo(np.intc).max

You can look at other available types in doc.

For floats you can also use sys.float_info.max.

When to use the !important property in CSS

I'm using !important to change the style of an element on a SharePoint web part. The JavaScript code that builds the elements on the web part is buried many levels deep in the SharePoint inner-workings.

Attempting to find where the style is applied, and then attempting to modify it seems like a lot of wasted effort to me. Using the !important tag in a custom CSS file is much, much easier.

Horizontal scroll on overflow of table

I think your overflow should be on the outer container. You can also explicitly set a min width for the columns. Like this:

.search-table-outter { overflow-x: scroll; }
th, td { min-width: 200px; }

Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/5WsEt/

@RequestParam vs @PathVariable

Both the annotations behave exactly in same manner.

Only 2 special characters '!' and '@' are accepted by the annotations @PathVariable and @RequestParam.

To check and confirm the behavior I have created a spring boot application that contains only 1 controller.

 @RestController 
public class Controller 
{
    @GetMapping("/pvar/{pdata}")
    public @ResponseBody String testPathVariable(@PathVariable(name="pdata") String pathdata)
    {
        return pathdata;
    }

    @GetMapping("/rpvar")
    public @ResponseBody String testRequestParam(@RequestParam("param") String paramdata)
    {
        return paramdata;
    }
}

Hitting following Requests I got the same response:

localhost:7000/pvar/!@#$%^&*()_+-=[]{}|;':",./<>?
localhost:7000/rpvar?param=!@#$%^&*()_+-=[]{}|;':",./<>?

!@ was received as response in both the requests

Typescript interface default values

It is depends on the case and the usage. Generally, in TypeScript there are no default values for interfaces.

If you don't use the default values
You can declare x as:

let x: IX | undefined; // declaration: x = undefined

Then, in your init function you can set real values:

x = {
    a: 'xyz'
    b: 123
    c: new AnotherType()
};

In this way, x can be undefined or defined - undefined represents that the object is uninitialized, without set the default values, if they are unnecessary. This is loggically better than define "garbage".

If you want to partially assign the object:
You can define the type with optional properties like:

interface IX {
    a: string,
    b?: any,
    c?: AnotherType
}

In this case you have to set only a. The other types are marked with ? which mean that they are optional and have undefined as default value.

In any case you can use undefined as a default value, it is just depends on your use case.

Hiding elements in responsive layout?

For Bootstrap 4.0 beta (and I assume this will stay for final) there is a change - be aware that the hidden classes were removed.

See the docs: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/utilities/display/

In order to hide the content on mobile and display on the bigger devices you have to use the following classes:

d-none d-sm-block

The first class set display none all across devices and the second one display it for devices "sm" up (you could use md, lg, etc. instead of sm if you want to show on different devices.

I suggest to read about that before migration:

https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/migration/#responsive-utilities

plot with custom text for x axis points

You can manually set xticks (and yticks) using pyplot.xticks:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

x = np.array([0,1,2,3])
y = np.array([20,21,22,23])
my_xticks = ['John','Arnold','Mavis','Matt']
plt.xticks(x, my_xticks)
plt.plot(x, y)
plt.show()

AngularJS - Does $destroy remove event listeners?

Event listeners

First off it's important to understand that there are two kinds of "event listeners":

Scope event listeners registered via $on:

$scope.$on('anEvent', function (event, data) {
  ...
});

Event handlers attached to elements via for example on or bind:
```
element.on('click', function (event) {
  ...
});
```

$scope.$destroy()

When $scope.$destroy() is executed it will remove all listeners registered via $on on that $scope.

It will not remove DOM elements or any attached event handlers of the second kind.

This means that calling $scope.$destroy() manually from example within a directive's link function will not remove a handler attached via for example element.on, nor the DOM element itself.

element.remove()

Note that remove is a jqLite method (or a jQuery method if jQuery is loaded before AngularjS) and is not available on a standard DOM Element Object.

When element.remove() is executed that element and all of its children will be removed from the DOM together will all event handlers attached via for example element.on.

It will not destroy the $scope associated with the element.

To make it more confusing there is also a jQuery event called $destroy. Sometimes when working with third-party jQuery libraries that remove elements, or if you remove them manually, you might need to perform clean up when that happens:

element.on('$destroy', function () {
  scope.$destroy();
});

What to do when a directive is "destroyed"

This depends on how the directive is "destroyed".

A normal case is that a directive is destroyed because ng-view changes the current view. When this happens the ng-view directive will destroy the associated $scope, sever all the references to its parent scope and call remove() on the element.

This means that if that view contains a directive with this in its link function when it's destroyed by ng-view:

scope.$on('anEvent', function () {
 ...
});

element.on('click', function () {
 ...
});

Both event listeners will be removed automatically.

However, it's important to note that the code inside these listeners can still cause memory leaks, for example if you have achieved the common JS memory leak pattern circular references.

Even in this normal case of a directive getting destroyed due to a view changing there are things you might need to manually clean up.

For example if you have registered a listener on $rootScope:

var unregisterFn = $rootScope.$on('anEvent', function () {});

scope.$on('$destroy', unregisterFn);

This is needed since $rootScope is never destroyed during the lifetime of the application.

The same goes if you are using another pub/sub implementation that doesn't automatically perform the necessary cleanup when the $scope is destroyed, or if your directive passes callbacks to services.

Another situation would be to cancel $interval/$timeout:

var promise = $interval(function () {}, 1000);

scope.$on('$destroy', function () {
  $interval.cancel(promise);
});

If your directive attaches event handlers to elements for example outside the current view, you need to manually clean those up as well:

var windowClick = function () {
   ...
};

angular.element(window).on('click', windowClick);

scope.$on('$destroy', function () {
  angular.element(window).off('click', windowClick);
});

These were some examples of what to do when directives are "destroyed" by Angular, for example by ng-view or ng-if.

If you have custom directives that manage the lifecycle of DOM elements etc. it will of course get more complex.

How add unique key to existing table (with non uniques rows)

Set Multiple Unique key into table

ALTER TABLE table_name
ADD CONSTRAINT UC_table_name UNIQUE (field1,field2);

How to a convert a date to a number and back again in MATLAB

Use DATESTR

>> datestr(40189)
ans =
12-Jan-0110

Unfortunately, Excel starts counting at 1-Jan-1900. Find out how to convert serial dates from Matlab to Excel by using DATENUM

>> datenum(2010,1,11)
ans =
      734149
>> datenum(2010,1,11)-40189
ans =
      693960
>> datestr(40189+693960)
ans =
11-Jan-2010

In other words, to convert any serial Excel date, call

datestr(excelSerialDate + 693960)

EDIT

To get the date in mm/dd/yyyy format, call datestr with the specified format

excelSerialDate = 40189;
datestr(excelSerialDate + 693960,'mm/dd/yyyy')
ans =
01/11/2010

Also, if you want to get rid of the leading zero for the month, you can use REGEXPREP to fix things

excelSerialDate = 40189;
regexprep(datestr(excelSerialDate + 693960,'mm/dd/yyyy'),'^0','')
ans =
1/11/2010

Asp Net Web API 2.1 get client IP address

I think this is the most clear solution, using an extension method:

public static class HttpRequestMessageExtensions
{
    private const string HttpContext = "MS_HttpContext";
    private const string RemoteEndpointMessage = "System.ServiceModel.Channels.RemoteEndpointMessageProperty";

    public static string GetClientIpAddress(this HttpRequestMessage request)
    {
        if (request.Properties.ContainsKey(HttpContext))
        {
            dynamic ctx = request.Properties[HttpContext];
            if (ctx != null)
            {
                return ctx.Request.UserHostAddress;
            }
        }

        if (request.Properties.ContainsKey(RemoteEndpointMessage))
        {
            dynamic remoteEndpoint = request.Properties[RemoteEndpointMessage];
            if (remoteEndpoint != null)
            {
                return remoteEndpoint.Address;
            }
        }

        return null;
    }
}

So just use it like:

var ipAddress = request.GetClientIpAddress();

We use this in our projects.

Source/Reference: Retrieving the client’s IP address in ASP.NET Web API

How to make the overflow CSS property work with hidden as value

Actually...

To hide an absolute positioned element, the container position must be anything except for static. It can be relative or fixed in addition to absolute.

Insert the same fixed value into multiple rows

To update the content of existing rows use the UPDATE statement:

UPDATE table_name SET table_column = 'test';

How do I create a Java string from the contents of a file?

After Ctrl+F'ing after Scanner, I think that the Scanner solution should be listed too. In the easiest to read fashion it goes like this:

public String fileToString(File file, Charset charset) {
  Scanner fileReader = new Scanner(file, charset);
  fileReader.useDelimiter("\\Z"); // \Z means EOF.
  String out = fileReader.next();
  fileReader.close();
  return out;
}

If you use Java 7 or newer (and you really should) consider using try-with-resources to make the code easier to read. No more dot-close stuff littering everything. But that's mostly a stylistic choice methinks.

I'm posting this mostly for completionism, since if you need to do this a lot, there should be things in java.nio.file.Files that should do the job better.

My suggestion would be to use Files#readAllBytes(Path) to grab all the bytes, and feed it to new String(byte[] Charset) to get a String out of it that you can trust. Charsets will be mean to you during your lifetime, so beware of this stuff now.

Others have given code and stuff, and I don't want to steal their glory. ;)

BATCH file asks for file or folder

The real trick is: Use a Backslash at the end of the target path where to copy the file. The /Y is for overwriting existing files, if you want no warnings.

Example:

xcopy /Y "C:\file\from\here.txt" "C:\file\to\here\"

Get Image Height and Width as integer values?

Try like this:

list($width, $height) = getimagesize('path_to_image');

Make sure that:

You specify the correct image path there
The image has read access
Chmod image dir to 755

Also try to prefix path with $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"], this helps sometimes when you are not able to read files.

Difference between window.location.href and top.location.href

top refers to the window object which contains all the current frames ( father of the rest of the windows ). window is the current window.

http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/javascript/browserinspecific

so top.location.href can contain the "master" page link containing all the frames, while window.location.href just contains the "current" page link.

How to have image and text side by side

Use following code : jsfiddle.net/KqHEC/

HTML

<div class='container2'>
        <div class="left">
            <img src='http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21-leKb-zsL._SL500_AA300_.png' class='iconDetails'>
        </div>  
    <div   class="right" >
    <h4>Facebook</h4>
    <div style="font-size:.7em;width:160px;float:left;">fine location, GPS, coarse location</div>
    <div style="float:right;font-size:.7em">0 mins ago</div>
    </div>
</div>

CSS

.iconDetails {
 margin-left:2%;
float:left; 
height:40px;
width:40px; 
} 

.container2 {
    width:270px;
    height:auto;
    padding:1%;
    float:left;
}
h4{margin:0}
.left {float:left;width:45px;}
.right {float:left;margin:0 0 0 5px;width:215px;}

http://jsfiddle.net/KqHEC/1/

PHP code to convert a MySQL query to CSV

Check out this question / answer. It's more concise than @Geoff's, and also uses the builtin fputcsv function.

$result = $db_con->query('SELECT * FROM `some_table`');
if (!$result) die('Couldn\'t fetch records');
$num_fields = mysql_num_fields($result);
$headers = array();
for ($i = 0; $i < $num_fields; $i++) {
    $headers[] = mysql_field_name($result , $i);
}
$fp = fopen('php://output', 'w');
if ($fp && $result) {
    header('Content-Type: text/csv');
    header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="export.csv"');
    header('Pragma: no-cache');
    header('Expires: 0');
    fputcsv($fp, $headers);
    while ($row = $result->fetch_array(MYSQLI_NUM)) {
        fputcsv($fp, array_values($row));
    }
    die;
}

Using IS NULL or IS NOT NULL on join conditions - Theory question

The NULL part is calculated AFTER the actual join, so that is why it needs to be in the where clause.

How to delete row in gridview using rowdeleting event?

I know this is a late answer but still it would help someone in need of a solution. I recommend to use OnRowCommand for delete operation along with DataKeyNames, keep OnRowDeleting function to avoid exception.

<asp:gridview ID="Gridview1" runat="server" ShowFooter="true" 
     AutoGenerateColumns="false" OnRowDeleting="Gridview1_RowDeleting" OnRowCommand="Gridview1_RowCommand" DataKeyNames="ID">

Include DataKeyNames="ID" in the gridView and specify the same in link button.

<asp:LinkButton ID="lnkdelete" runat="server" CommandName="Delete" CommandArgument='<%#Eval("ID")%>'>Delete</asp:LinkButton>

protected void Gridview1_RowCommand(object sender, GridViewCommandEventArgs e)
{
  if (e.CommandName == "Delete")
    {
      int ID = Convert.ToInt32(e.CommandArgument);
      //now perform the delete operation using ID value
    }
}

protected void Gridview1_RowDeleting(object sender, GridViewDeleteEventArgs e)    
{
//Leave it blank
}

If this is helpful, give me +

Does functional programming replace GoF design patterns?

You can't have this discussion without bringing up type systems.

The main features of functional programming include functions as first-class values, currying, immutable values, etc. It doesn't seem obvious to me that OO design patterns are approximating any of those features.

That's because these features don't address the same issues that OOP does... they are alternatives to imperative programming. The FP answer to OOP lies in the type systems of ML and Haskell... specifically sum types, abstract data types, ML modules, and Haskell typeclasses.

But of course there are still design patterns which are not solved by FP languages. What is the FP equivalent of a singleton? (Disregarding for a moment that singletons are generally a terrible pattern to use)

The first thing typeclasses do is eliminate the need for singletons.

You could go through the list of 23 and eliminate more, but I don't have time to right now.

java.security.cert.CertificateException: Certificates does not conform to algorithm constraints

colleagues.

I have faced with this trouble during a development of automation tests for our REST API. JDK 7_80 was installed at my machine only. Before I installed JDK 8, everything worked just fine and I had a possibility to obtain OAuth 2.0 tokens with a JMeter. After I installed JDK 8, the nightmare with Certificates does not conform to algorithm constraints began.

Both JMeter and Serenity did not have a possibility to obtain a token. JMeter uses the JDK library to make the request. The library just raises an exception when the library call is made to connect to endpoints that use it, ignoring the request.

The next thing was to comment all the lines dedicated to disabledAlgorithms in ALL java.security files.

C:\Java\jre7\lib\security\java.security
C:\Java\jre8\lib\security\java.security
C:\Java\jdk8\jre\lib\security\java.security
C:\Java\jdk7\jre\lib\security\java.security

Then it started to work at last. I know, that's a brute force approach, but it was the most simple way to fix it.

# jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms=SSLv3, RC4, MD5withRSA, DH keySize < 768
# jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms=MD2, MD5, RSA keySize < 1024

How to make a Generic Type Cast function

Something like this?

public static T ConvertValue<T>(string value)
{
    return (T)Convert.ChangeType(value, typeof(T));
}

You can then use it like this:

int val = ConvertValue<int>("42");

Edit:

You can even do this more generic and not rely on a string parameter provided the type U implements IConvertible - this means you have to specify two type parameters though:

public static T ConvertValue<T,U>(U value) where U : IConvertible
{
    return (T)Convert.ChangeType(value, typeof(T));
}

I considered catching the InvalidCastException exception that might be raised by Convert.ChangeType() - but what would you return in this case? default(T)? It seems more appropriate having the caller deal with the exception.

How can I tell what edition of SQL Server runs on the machine?

I use this query here to get all relevant info (relevant for me, at least :-)) from SQL Server:

SELECT  
    SERVERPROPERTY('productversion') as 'Product Version', 
    SERVERPROPERTY('productlevel') as 'Product Level',  
    SERVERPROPERTY('edition') as 'Product Edition',
    SERVERPROPERTY('buildclrversion') as 'CLR Version',
    SERVERPROPERTY('collation') as 'Default Collation',
    SERVERPROPERTY('instancename') as 'Instance',
    SERVERPROPERTY('lcid') as 'LCID',
    SERVERPROPERTY('servername') as 'Server Name'

That gives you an output something like this:

Product Version   Product Level   Product Edition             CLR Version   
10.0.2531.0       SP1             Developer Edition (64-bit)    v2.0.50727  

Default Collation     Instance   LCID   Server Name 
Latin1_General_CI_AS     NULL    1033   *********

Split value from one field to two

The only case where you may want such a function is an UPDATE query which will alter your table to store Firstname and Lastname into separate fields.

Database design must follow certain rules, and Database Normalization is among most important ones

No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource—when trying to get data from a REST API

Try adding all these headers in this code below Before every route, you define in your app, not after the routes

app.use((req, res, next) =>{
res.setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*');
res.setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Headers','Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type,Accept, Authortization');  
res.setHeader('Acces-Control-Allow-Methods','GET, POST, PATCH, DELETE');

How to calculate combination and permutation in R?

You can use the combinat package with R 2.13:

install.packages("combinat")
require(combinat)
permn(3)
combn(3, 2)

If you want to know the number of combination/permutations, then check the size of the result, e.g.:

length(permn(3))
dim(combn(3,2))[2]

Solutions for INSERT OR UPDATE on SQL Server

If going the UPDATE if-no-rows-updated then INSERT route, consider doing the INSERT first to prevent a race condition (assuming no intervening DELETE)

INSERT INTO MyTable (Key, FieldA)
   SELECT @Key, @FieldA
   WHERE NOT EXISTS
   (
       SELECT *
       FROM  MyTable
       WHERE Key = @Key
   )
IF @@ROWCOUNT = 0
BEGIN
   UPDATE MyTable
   SET FieldA=@FieldA
   WHERE Key=@Key
   IF @@ROWCOUNT = 0
   ... record was deleted, consider looping to re-run the INSERT, or RAISERROR ...
END

Apart from avoiding a race condition, if in most cases the record will already exist then this will cause the INSERT to fail, wasting CPU.

Using MERGE probably preferable for SQL2008 onwards.

Best way to convert pdf files to tiff files

I wrote a little powershell script to go through a directory structure and convert all pdf files to tiff files using ghostscript. Here is my script:

$tool = 'C:\Program Files\gs\gs8.63\bin\gswin32c.exe'
$pdfs = get-childitem . -recurse | where {$_.Extension -match "pdf"}

foreach($pdf in $pdfs)
{

    $tiff = $pdf.FullName.split('.')[0] + '.tiff'
    if(test-path $tiff)
    {
        "tiff file already exists " + $tiff
    }
    else        
    {   
        'Processing ' + $pdf.Name        
        $param = "-sOutputFile=$tiff"
        & $tool -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=tiffg4 $param -r300 $pdf.FullName -c quit
    }
}

What data type to use for hashed password field and what length?

You might find this Wikipedia article on salting worthwhile. The idea is to add a set bit of data to randomize your hash value; this will protect your passwords from dictionary attacks if someone gets unauthorized access to the password hashes.

Including external HTML file to another HTML file

Another way is to use the object tag. This works on Chrome, IE, Firefox, Safari and Opera.

<object data="html/stuff_to_include.html"> 
    Your browser doesn’t support the object tag. 
</object>

more info at http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_object.asp

Django: List field in model?

Just use a JSON field that these third-party packages provide:

In this case, you don't need to care about the field value serialization - it'll happen under-the-hood.

Hope that helps.

How to pip install a package with min and max version range?

you can also use:

pip install package==0.5.*

which is more consistent and easy to read.

Any way (or shortcut) to auto import the classes in IntelliJ IDEA like in Eclipse?

Seems like IntelliJ IDEA will import missed class automatically, and you can import them by hit Alt + Enter manually.

How to listen to the window scroll event in a VueJS component?

document.addEventListener('scroll', function (event) {
    if ((<HTMLInputElement>event.target).id === 'latest-div') { // or any other filtering condition
  
    }
}, true /*Capture event*/);

You can use this to capture an event and and here "latest-div" is the id name so u can capture all scroller action here based on the id you can do the action as well inside here.

conflicting types error when compiling c program using gcc

You have to declare your functions before main()

(or declare the function prototypes before main())

As it is, the compiler sees my_print (my_string); in main() as a function declaration.

Move your functions above main() in the file, or put:

void my_print (char *);
void my_print2 (char *);

Above main() in the file.

Animate element to auto height with jQuery

You can make Liquinaut's answer responsive to window size changes by adding a callback that sets the height back to auto.

$("#first").animate({height: $("#first").get(0).scrollHeight}, 1000, function() {$("#first").css({height: "auto"});});

How do you query for "is not null" in Mongo?

db.collection_name.find({"filed_name":{$exists:true}});

fetch documents that contain this filed_name even it is null.

Warning

db.collection_name.find({"filed_name":{$ne:null}});

fetch documents that its field_name has a value $ne to null but this value could be an empty string also.

My proposition:

db.collection_name.find({ "field_name":{$ne:null},$where:"this.field_name.length >0"})

Error: Unfortunately you can't have non-Gradle Java modules and > Android-Gradle modules in one project

Been dealing with this issue for a while every time I tried opening a project.

I always receive this error even though I knew I had not made any changes that should of caused this apart from exporting to zip.

To Fix:

Make a new project or open project that works
Go to file > open > "your project"
Make sure your dummy project stays open. The project you were getting errors should be opened in a new window.

This fixed it for me without doing any changes or deleting anything.

Objective-C declared @property attributes (nonatomic, copy, strong, weak)

nonatomic property means @synthesized methods are not going to be generated threadsafe -- but this is much faster than the atomic property since extra checks are eliminated.

strong is used with ARC and it basically helps you , by not having to worry about the retain count of an object. ARC automatically releases it for you when you are done with it.Using the keyword strong means that you own the object.

weak ownership means that you don't own it and it just keeps track of the object till the object it was assigned to stays , as soon as the second object is released it loses is value. For eg. obj.a=objectB; is used and a has weak property , than its value will only be valid till objectB remains in memory.

copy property is very well explained here

strong,weak,retain,copy,assign are mutually exclusive so you can't use them on one single object... read the "Declared Properties " section

hoping this helps you out a bit...

Count Vowels in String Python

string1='I love my India'

vowel='aeiou'

for i in vowel:
  print i + "->" + str(string1.count(i))

Increasing the maximum post size

You can increase that in php.ini

; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files.
upload_max_filesize = 2M

How to refresh a page with jQuery by passing a parameter to URL

Click these links to see these more flexible and robust solutions. They're answers to a similar question:

With jQuery and the query plug-in: window.location.search = jQuery.query.set('single', true);
Without jQuery: Use parse and stringify on window.location.search

These allow you to programmatically set the parameter, and, unlike the other hacks suggested for this question, won't break for URLs that already have a parameter, or if something else isn't quite what you thought might happen.

Powershell Multidimensional Arrays

What's faster, SELECT DISTINCT or GROUP BY in MySQL?

In MySQL, "Group By" uses an extra step: filesort. I realize DISTINCT is faster than GROUP BY, and that was a surprise.

Measure string size in Bytes in php

Do you mean byte size or string length?

Byte size is measured with strlen(), whereas string length is queried using mb_strlen(). You can use substr() to trim a string to X bytes (note that this will break the string if it has a multi-byte encoding - as pointed out by Darhazer in the comments) and mb_substr() to trim it to X characters in the encoding of the string.

Removing numbers from string

And, just to throw it in the mix, is the oft-forgotten str.translate which will work a lot faster than looping/regular expressions:

For Python 2:

from string import digits

s = 'abc123def456ghi789zero0'
res = s.translate(None, digits)
# 'abcdefghizero'

For Python 3:

from string import digits

s = 'abc123def456ghi789zero0'
remove_digits = str.maketrans('', '', digits)
res = s.translate(remove_digits)
# 'abcdefghizero'

How to exit from PostgreSQL command line utility: psql

Use Toast inside Fragment

Using Kotlin

Toast.makeText(view!!.context , "your_text", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()

What's an object file in C?

An Object file is the compiled file itself. There is no difference between the two.
An executable file is formed by linking the Object files.
Object file contains low level instructions which can be understood by the CPU. That is why it is also called machine code.
This low level machine code is the binary representation of the instructions which you can also write directly using assembly language and then process the assembly language code (represented in English) into machine language (represented in Hex) using an assembler.

Here's a typical high level flow for this process for code in High Level Language such as C

--> goes through pre-processor

--> to give optimized code, still in C

--> goes through compiler

--> to give assembly code

--> goes through an assembler

--> to give code in machine language which is stored in OBJECT FILES

--> goes through Linker

--> to get an executable file.

This flow can have some variations for example most compilers can directly generate the machine language code, without going through an assembler. Similarly, they can do the pre-processing for you. Still, it is nice to break up the constituents for a better understanding.

JavaFX How to set scene background image

I know this is an old Question

But in case you want to do it programmatically or the java way

For Image Backgrounds; you can use BackgroundImage class

BackgroundImage myBI= new BackgroundImage(new Image("my url",32,32,false,true),
        BackgroundRepeat.REPEAT, BackgroundRepeat.NO_REPEAT, BackgroundPosition.DEFAULT,
          BackgroundSize.DEFAULT);
//then you set to your node
myContainer.setBackground(new Background(myBI));

For Paint or Fill Backgrounds; you can use BackgroundFill class

BackgroundFill myBF = new BackgroundFill(Color.BLUEVIOLET, new CornerRadii(1),
         new Insets(0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0));// or null for the padding
//then you set to your node or container or layout
myContainer.setBackground(new Background(myBF));

Keeps your java alive && your css dead..

How to respond to clicks on a checkbox in an AngularJS directive?

This is the way I've been doing this sort of stuff. Angular tends to favor declarative manipulation of the dom rather than a imperative one(at least that's the way I've been playing with it).

The markup

<table class="table">
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>
        <input type="checkbox" 
          ng-click="selectAll($event)"
          ng-checked="isSelectedAll()">
      </th>
      <th>Title</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr ng-repeat="e in entities" ng-class="getSelectedClass(e)">
      <td>
        <input type="checkbox" name="selected"
          ng-checked="isSelected(e.id)"
          ng-click="updateSelection($event, e.id)">
      </td>
      <td>{{e.title}}</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

And in the controller

var updateSelected = function(action, id) {
  if (action === 'add' && $scope.selected.indexOf(id) === -1) {
    $scope.selected.push(id);
  }
  if (action === 'remove' && $scope.selected.indexOf(id) !== -1) {
    $scope.selected.splice($scope.selected.indexOf(id), 1);
  }
};

$scope.updateSelection = function($event, id) {
  var checkbox = $event.target;
  var action = (checkbox.checked ? 'add' : 'remove');
  updateSelected(action, id);
};

$scope.selectAll = function($event) {
  var checkbox = $event.target;
  var action = (checkbox.checked ? 'add' : 'remove');
  for ( var i = 0; i < $scope.entities.length; i++) {
    var entity = $scope.entities[i];
    updateSelected(action, entity.id);
  }
};

$scope.getSelectedClass = function(entity) {
  return $scope.isSelected(entity.id) ? 'selected' : '';
};

$scope.isSelected = function(id) {
  return $scope.selected.indexOf(id) >= 0;
};

//something extra I couldn't resist adding :)
$scope.isSelectedAll = function() {
  return $scope.selected.length === $scope.entities.length;
};

EDIT: getSelectedClass() expects the entire entity but it was being called with the id of the entity only, which is now corrected

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute

I experienced this error because the module was not actually imported. The code looked like this:

import a.b, a.c

# ...

something(a.b)
something(a.c)
something(a.d)  # My addition, which failed.

The last line resulted in an AttributeError. The cause was that I had failed to notice that the submodules of a (a.b and a.c) were explicitly imported, and assumed that the import statement actually imported a.

Best way to format if statement with multiple conditions

I prefer Option A

bool a, b, c;

if( a && b && c )
{
   //This is neat & readable
}

If you do have particularly long variables/method conditions you can just line break them

if( VeryLongConditionMethod(a) &&
    VeryLongConditionMethod(b) &&
    VeryLongConditionMethod(c))
{
   //This is still readable
}

If they're even more complicated, then I'd consider doing the condition methods separately outside the if statement

bool aa = FirstVeryLongConditionMethod(a) && SecondVeryLongConditionMethod(a);
bool bb = FirstVeryLongConditionMethod(b) && SecondVeryLongConditionMethod(b);
bool cc = FirstVeryLongConditionMethod(c) && SecondVeryLongConditionMethod(c);

if( aa && bb && cc)
{
   //This is again neat & readable
   //although you probably need to sanity check your method names ;)
}

IMHO The only reason for option 'B' would be if you have separate else functions to run for each condition.

e.g.

if( a )
{
    if( b )
    {
    }
    else
    {
        //Do Something Else B
    }
}
else
{
   //Do Something Else A
}

Pytesseract : "TesseractNotFound Error: tesseract is not installed or it's not in your path", how do I fix this?

In windows, the command path must be redirected, for a default windows tesseract installation.

In 32 bit system, add in this line after import commands.

pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe'

In 64 bit system, add this line instead.

 pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = 'C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe'

Exporting to .xlsx using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel SaveAs Error

This is how you save the relevant file as a Excel12 (.xlsx) file... It is not as you would intuitively think i.e. using Excel.XlFileFormat.xlExcel12 but Excel.XlFileFormat.xlOpenXMLWorkbook. The actual C# command was

excelWorkbook.SaveAs(strFullFilePathNoExt, Excel.XlFileFormat.xlOpenXMLWorkbook, Missing.Value,
    Missing.Value, false, false, Excel.XlSaveAsAccessMode.xlNoChange, 
    Excel.XlSaveConflictResolution.xlUserResolution, true, 
    Missing.Value, Missing.Value, Missing.Value);

I hope this helps someone else in the future.

Missing.Value is found in the System.Reflection namespace.

JavaScript get window X/Y position for scroll

Maybe more simple;

var top  = window.pageYOffset || document.documentElement.scrollTop,
    left = window.pageXOffset || document.documentElement.scrollLeft;

Credits: so.dom.js#L492

How to set OnClickListener on a RadioButton in Android?

For Kotlin Here is added the lambda expression and Optimized the Code.

   radioGroup.setOnCheckedChangeListener { radioGroup, optionId ->
        run {
            when (optionId) {
                R.id.radioButton1 -> {
                    // do something when radio button 1 is selected
                }
                R.id.radioButton2 -> {
                    // do something when radio button 2 is selected
                }
                // add more cases here to handle other buttons in the your RadioGroup
            }
        }
    }

Hope this will help you. Thanks!

Override hosts variable of Ansible playbook from the command line

We use a simple fail task to force the user to specify the Ansible limit option, so that we don't execute on all hosts by default/accident.

The easiest way I found is this:

---
- name: Force limit
  # 'all' is okay here, because the fail task will force the user to specify a limit on the command line, using -l or --limit
  hosts: 'all'

  tasks:
  - name: checking limit arg
    fail:
      msg: "you must use -l or --limit - when you really want to use all hosts, use -l 'all'"
    when: ansible_limit is not defined
    run_once: true

Now we must use the -l (= --limit option) when we run the playbook, e.g.

ansible-playbook playbook.yml -l www.example.com

Limit option docs:

Limit to one or more hosts This is required when one wants to run a playbook against a host group, but only against one or more members of that group.

Limit to one host

ansible-playbook playbooks/PLAYBOOK_NAME.yml --limit "host1"

Limit to multiple hosts

ansible-playbook playbooks/PLAYBOOK_NAME.yml --limit "host1,host2"

Negated limit.
NOTE: Single quotes MUST be used to prevent bash interpolation.

ansible-playbook playbooks/PLAYBOOK_NAME.yml --limit 'all:!host1'

Limit to host group

ansible-playbook playbooks/PLAYBOOK_NAME.yml --limit 'group1'

List comprehension with if statement

If you use sufficiently big list not in b clause will do a linear search for each of the item in a. Why not use set? Set takes iterable as parameter to create a new set object.

>>> a = ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e"]
>>> b = ["c", "d", "f", "g"]
>>> set(a).intersection(set(b))
{'c', 'd'}

How to change the button text of <input type="file" />?

Only CSS & bootstrap class

        <div class="col-md-4 input-group">
            <input class="form-control" type="text"/>
            <div class="input-group-btn">
                <label for="files" class="btn btn-default">browse</label>
                <input id="files" type="file" class="btn btn-default"  style="visibility:hidden;"/>
            </div>
        </div>

How to use SQL Select statement with IF EXISTS sub query?

You can also use ISNULL and a select statement to get this result

SELECT
Table1.ID,
ISNULL((SELECT 'TRUE' FROM TABLE2 WHERE TABLE2.ID = TABEL1.ID),'FALSE') AS columName,
etc
FROM TABLE1

Get value from hashmap based on key to JSTL

if all you're trying to do is get the value of a single entry in a map, there's no need to loop over any collection at all. simplifying gautum's response slightly, you can get the value of a named map entry as follows:

<c:out value="${map['key']}"/>

where 'map' is the collection and 'key' is the string key for which you're trying to extract the value.

Add disabled attribute to input element using Javascript

If you're using jQuery then there are a few different ways to set the disabled attribute.

var $element = $(...);
    $element.prop('disabled', true);
    $element.attr('disabled', true); 

    // The following do not require jQuery
    $element.get(0).disabled = true;
    $element.get(0).setAttribute('disabled', true);
    $element[0].disabled = true;
    $element[0].setAttribute('disabled', true);

Using a RegEx to match IP addresses in Python

import re
ipv=raw_input("Enter an ip address")
a=ipv.split('.')
s=str(bin(int(a[0]))+bin(int(a[1]))+bin(int(a[2]))+bin(int(a[3])))
s=s.replace("0b",".")
m=re.search('\.[0,1]{1,8}\.[0,1]{1,8}\.[0,1]{1,8}\.[0,1]{1,8}$',s)
if m is not None:
    print "Valid sequence of input"
else :
    print "Invalid input sequence"

Just to keep it simple I have used this approach. Simple as in to explain how really ipv4 address is evaluated. Checking whether its a binary number is although not required. Hope you like this.

Is there a color code for transparent in HTML?

Here, instead of making navigation bar transparent, remove any color attributes from the navigation bar to make the background visible.

Strangely, I came across this thinking that I needed a transparent color, but all I needed is to remove the color attributes.

.some-class{
    background-color: #fafafa; 
}

.some-class{
}

Facebook Graph API error code list

I was looking for the same thing and I just found this list

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/errors/

How do I convert a PDF document to a preview image in PHP?

You need ImageMagick and GhostScript

<?php
$im = new imagick('file.pdf[0]');
$im->setImageFormat('jpg');
header('Content-Type: image/jpeg');
echo $im;
?>

The [0] means page 1.

Why should we NOT use sys.setdefaultencoding("utf-8") in a py script?

As per the documentation: This allows you to switch from the default ASCII to other encodings such as UTF-8, which the Python runtime will use whenever it has to decode a string buffer to unicode.

This function is only available at Python start-up time, when Python scans the environment. It has to be called in a system-wide module, sitecustomize.py, After this module has been evaluated, the setdefaultencoding() function is removed from the sys module.

The only way to actually use it is with a reload hack that brings the attribute back.

Also, the use of sys.setdefaultencoding() has always been discouraged, and it has become a no-op in py3k. The encoding of py3k is hard-wired to "utf-8" and changing it raises an error.

I suggest some pointers for reading:

react-router getting this.props.location in child components

(Update) V5.1 & Hooks (Requires React >= 16.8)

You can use useHistory, useLocation and useRouteMatch in your component to get match, history and location .

const Child = () => {
  const location = useLocation();
  const history = useHistory();
  const match = useRouteMatch("write-the-url-you-want-to-match-here");

  return (
    <div>{location.pathname}</div>
  )
}

export default Child

(Update) V4 & V5

You can use withRouter HOC in order to inject match, history and location in your component props.

class Child extends React.Component {
  static propTypes = {
    match: PropTypes.object.isRequired,
    location: PropTypes.object.isRequired,
    history: PropTypes.object.isRequired
  }

  render() {
    const { match, location, history } = this.props

    return (
      <div>{location.pathname}</div>
    )
  }
}

export default withRouter(Child)

(Update) V3

You can use withRouter HOC in order to inject router, params, location, routes in your component props.

class Child extends React.Component {

  render() {
    const { router, params, location, routes } = this.props

    return (
      <div>{location.pathname}</div>
    )
  }
}

export default withRouter(Child)

Original answer

If you don't want to use the props, you can use the context as described in React Router documentation

First, you have to set up your childContextTypes and getChildContext

class App extends React.Component{

  getChildContext() {
    return {
      location: this.props.location
    }
  }

  render() {
    return <Child/>;
  }
}

App.childContextTypes = {
    location: React.PropTypes.object
}

Then, you will be able to access to the location object in your child components using the context like this

class Child extends React.Component{

   render() {
     return (
       <div>{this.context.location.pathname}</div>
     )
   }

}

Child.contextTypes = {
    location: React.PropTypes.object
 }

Setting focus to iframe contents

i had a similar problem where i was trying to focus on a txt area in an iframe loaded from another page. in most cases it work. There was an issue where it would fire in FF when the iFrame was loaded but before it was visible. so the focus never seemed to be set correctly.

i worked around this with a simular solution to cheeming's answer above

    var iframeID = document.getElementById("modalIFrame"); 
//focus the IFRAME element 
$(iframeID).focus(); 
//use JQuery to find the control in the IFRAME and set focus 
$(iframeID).contents().find("#emailTxt").focus();

Initialize a byte array to a certain value, other than the default null?

Guys before me gave you your answer. I just want to point out your misuse of foreach loop. See, since you have to increment index standard "for loop" would be not only more compact, but also more efficient ("foreach" does many things under the hood):

for (int index = 0; index < UserCode.Length; ++index)
{
    UserCode[index] = 0x20;
}

Post-increment and pre-increment within a 'for' loop produce same output

This is one of my favorite interview questions. I'll explain the answer first, and then tell you why I like the question.

Solution:

The answer is that both snippets print the numbers from 0 to 4, inclusive. This is because a for() loop is generally equivalent to a while() loop:

for (INITIALIZER; CONDITION; OPERATION) {
    do_stuff();
}

Can be written:

INITIALIZER;
while(CONDITION) {
    do_stuff();
    OPERATION;
}

You can see that the OPERATION is always done at the bottom of the loop. In this form, it should be clear that i++ and ++i will have the same effect: they'll both increment i and ignore the result. The new value of i is not tested until the next iteration begins, at the top of the loop.

Edit: Thanks to Jason for pointing out that this for() to while() equivalence does not hold if the loop contains control statements (such as continue) that would prevent OPERATION from being executed in a while() loop. OPERATION is always executed just before the next iteration of a for() loop.

Why it's a Good Interview Question

First of all, it takes only a minute or two if a candidate tells the the correct answer immediately, so we can move right on to the next question.

But surprisingly (to me), many candidates tell me the loop with the post-increment will print the numbers from 0 to 4, and the pre-increment loop will print 0 to 5, or 1 to 5. They usually explain the difference between pre- and post-incrementing correctly, but they misunderstand the mechanics of the for() loop.

In that case, I ask them to rewrite the loop using while(), and this really gives me a good idea of their thought processes. And that's why I ask the question in the first place: I want to know how they approach a problem, and how they proceed when I cast doubt on the way their world works.

At this point, most candidates realize their error and find the correct answer. But I had one who insisted his original answer was right, then changed the way he translated the for() to the while(). It made for a fascinating interview, but we didn't make an offer!

Hope that helps!

Python dictionary replace values

You cannot select on specific values (or types of values). You'd either make a reverse index (map numbers back to (lists of) keys) or you have to loop through all values every time.

If you are processing numbers in arbitrary order anyway, you may as well loop through all items:

for key, value in inputdict.items():
    # do something with value
    inputdict[key] = newvalue

otherwise I'd go with the reverse index:

from collections import defaultdict

reverse = defaultdict(list)
for key, value in inputdict.items():
    reverse[value].append(key)

Now you can look up keys by value:

for key in reverse[value]:
    inputdict[key] = newvalue

The client and server cannot communicate, because they do not possess a common algorithm - ASP.NET C# IIS TLS 1.0 / 1.1 / 1.2 - Win32Exception

In my case, even though Target Framework of Project was 4.7.1, I was still getting same Error, Solution was to change httpRuntime in web.config under system.web to 4.7.1!

The builds tools for v120 (Platform Toolset = 'v120') cannot be found

I had a similar problem. VS 2015 Community (MSBuild 14) building a c++ app, wanted to use VS 2010 (v100) tools. It all came down giving msbuild an invalid configuration option. Strange.

So, recheck all those options and parameters.

Find the closest ancestor element that has a specific class

@rvighne solution works well, but as identified in the comments ParentElement and ClassList both have compatibility issues. To make it more compatible, I have used:

function findAncestor (el, cls) {
    while ((el = el.parentNode) && el.className.indexOf(cls) < 0);
    return el;
}

parentNode property instead of the parentElement property
indexOf method on the className property instead of the contains method on the classList property.

Of course, indexOf is simply looking for the presence of that string, it does not care if it is the whole string or not. So if you had another element with class 'ancestor-type' it would still return as having found 'ancestor', if this is a problem for you, perhaps you can use regexp to find an exact match.

PHP date yesterday

strtotime(), as in date("F j, Y", strtotime("yesterday"));

PHP AES encrypt / decrypt

For information MCRYPT_MODE_ECB doesn't use the IV (initialization vector). ECB mode divide your message into blocks and each block is encrypted separately. I really don't recommended it.

CBC mode use the IV to make each message unique. CBC is recommended and should be used instead of ECB.

Example :

<?php
$password = "myPassword_!";
$messageClear = "Secret message";

// 32 byte binary blob
$aes256Key = hash("SHA256", $password, true);

// for good entropy (for MCRYPT_RAND)
srand((double) microtime() * 1000000);
// generate random iv
$iv = mcrypt_create_iv(mcrypt_get_iv_size(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_256, MCRYPT_MODE_CBC), MCRYPT_RAND);


$crypted = fnEncrypt($messageClear, $aes256Key);

$newClear = fnDecrypt($crypted, $aes256Key);

echo
"IV:        <code>".$iv."</code><br/>".
"Encrypred: <code>".$crypted."</code><br/>".
"Decrypred: <code>".$newClear."</code><br/>";

function fnEncrypt($sValue, $sSecretKey) {
    global $iv;
    return rtrim(base64_encode(mcrypt_encrypt(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_256, $sSecretKey, $sValue, MCRYPT_MODE_CBC, $iv)), "\0\3");
}

function fnDecrypt($sValue, $sSecretKey) {
    global $iv;
    return rtrim(mcrypt_decrypt(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_256, $sSecretKey, base64_decode($sValue), MCRYPT_MODE_CBC, $iv), "\0\3");
}

You have to stock the IV to decode each message (IV are not secret). Each message is unique because each message has an unique IV.

More informations about mode of operation (wikipedia).

How to do a GitHub pull request

The Simplest GitHub Pull Request is from the web interface without using git.

Register a GitHub account, login then go to the page in the repository you want to change.
Click the pencil icon,

search for text near the location, make any edits you want then preview them to confirm. Give the proposed change a description up to 50 characters and optionally an extended description then click the Propose file Change button.
If you're reading this you won't have write access to the repository (project folders) so GitHub will create a copy of the repository (actually a branch) in your account. Click the Create pull request button.
Give the Pull Request a description and add any comments then click Create pull request button.

What is an .axd file?

An AXD file is a file used by ASP.NET applications for handling embedded resource requests. It contains instructions for retrieving embedded resources, such as images, JavaScript (.JS) files, and.CSS files. AXD files are used for injecting resources into the client-side webpage and access them on the server in a standard way.

How to install python modules without root access?

In most situations the best solution is to rely on the so-called "user site" location (see the PEP for details) by running:

pip install --user package_name

Below is a more "manual" way from my original answer, you do not need to read it if the above solution works for you.

With easy_install you can do:

easy_install --prefix=$HOME/local package_name

which will install into

$HOME/local/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages

(the 'local' folder is a typical name many people use, but of course you may specify any folder you have permissions to write into).

You will need to manually create

$HOME/local/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages

and add it to your PYTHONPATH environment variable (otherwise easy_install will complain -- btw run the command above once to find the correct value for X.Y).

If you are not using easy_install, look for a prefix option, most install scripts let you specify one.

With pip you can use:

pip install --install-option="--prefix=$HOME/local" package_name

Multiple line comment in Python

Try this

'''
This is a multiline
comment. I can type here whatever I want.
'''

Python does have a multiline string/comment syntax in the sense that unless used as docstrings, multiline strings generate no bytecode -- just like #-prepended comments. In effect, it acts exactly like a comment.

On the other hand, if you say this behavior must be documented in the official docs to be a true comment syntax, then yes, you would be right to say it is not guaranteed as part of the language specification.

In any case your editor should also be able to easily comment-out a selected region (by placing a # in front of each line individually). If not, switch to an editor that does.

Programming in Python without certain text editing features can be a painful experience. Finding the right editor (and knowing how to use it) can make a big difference in how the Python programming experience is perceived.

Not only should the editor be able to comment-out selected regions, it should also be able to shift blocks of code to the left and right easily, and should automatically place the cursor at the current indentation level when you press Enter. Code folding can also be useful.

What's the proper value for a checked attribute of an HTML checkbox?

Well, to use it i dont think matters (similar to disabled and readonly), personally i use checked="checked" but if you are trying to manipulate them with JavaScript, you use true/false

"error: assignment to expression with array type error" when I assign a struct field (C)

You are facing issue in

 s1.name="Paolo";

because, in the LHS, you're using an array type, which is not assignable.

To elaborate, from C11, chapter §6.5.16

assignment operator shall have a modifiable lvalue as its left operand.

and, regarding the modifiable lvalue, from chapter §6.3.2.1

A modifiable lvalue is an lvalue that does not have array type, [...]

You need to use strcpy() to copy into the array.

That said, data s1 = {"Paolo", "Rossi", 19}; works fine, because this is not a direct assignment involving assignment operator. There we're using a brace-enclosed initializer list to provide the initial values of the object. That follows the law of initialization, as mentioned in chapter §6.7.9

Each brace-enclosed initializer list has an associated current object. When no designations are present, subobjects of the current object are initialized in order according to the type of the current object: array elements in increasing subscript order, structure members in declaration order, and the first named member of a union.[....]

How to get the file path from HTML input form in Firefox 3

Actually, just before FF3 was out, I did some experiments, and FF2 sends only the filename, like did Opera 9.0. Only IE sends the full path. The behavior makes sense, because the server doesn't have to know where the user stores the file on his computer, it is irrelevant to the upload process. Unless you are writing an intranet application and get the file by direct network access!

What have changed (and that's the real point of the bug item you point to) is that FF3 no longer let access to the file path from JavaScript. And won't let type/paste a path there, which is more annoying for me: I have a shell extension which copies the path of a file from Windows Explorer to the clipboard and I used it a lot in such form. I solved the issue by using the DragDropUpload extension. But this becomes off-topic, I fear.

I wonder what your Web forms are doing to stop working with this new behavior.

[EDIT] After reading the page linked by Mike, I see indeed intranet uses of the path (identify a user for example) and local uses (show preview of an image, local management of files). User Jam-es seems to provide a workaround with nsIDOMFile (not tried yet).

Interop type cannot be embedded

Like Jan It took me a while to get it .. =S So for anyone else who's blinded with frustration.

Right click the offending assembly that you added in the solution explorer under your project References. (In my case WIA)
Click properties.
And there should be the option there for Embed Interop Assembly.
Set it to False

Prevent Android activity dialog from closing on outside touch

Dialog dialog = new Dialog(context)
dialog.setCanceledOnTouchOutside(true); 
//use this to dismiss the dialog on outside click of dialog

dialog.setCanceledOnTouchOutside(false);
//use this for not to dismiss the dialog on outside click of dialog.

Watch this link for more details about dialog.

dialog.setCancelable(false);
//used to prevent the dismiss of dialog on backpress of that activity

dialog.setCancelable(true);
//used to dismiss the dialog on onbackpressed of that activity

Writing image to local server

Cleanest way of saving image locally using request:

const request = require('request');
request('http://link/to/your/image/file.png').pipe(fs.createWriteStream('fileName.png'))

If you need to add authentication token in headers do this:

const request = require('request');
request({
        url: 'http://link/to/your/image/file.png',
        headers: {
            "X-Token-Auth": TOKEN,
        }
    }).pipe(fs.createWriteStream('filename.png'))

cast class into another class or convert class to another

There are some great answers here, I just wanted to add a little bit of type checking here as we cannot assume that if properties exist with the same name, that they are of the same type. Here is my offering, which extends on the previous, very excellent answer as I had a few little glitches with it.

In this version I have allowed for the consumer to specify fields to be excluded, and also by default to exclude any database / model specific related properties.

    public static T Transform<T>(this object myobj, string excludeFields = null)
    {
        // Compose a list of unwanted members
        if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(excludeFields))
            excludeFields = string.Empty;
        excludeFields = !string.IsNullOrEmpty(excludeFields) ? excludeFields + "," : excludeFields;
        excludeFields += $"{nameof(DBTable.ID)},{nameof(DBTable.InstanceID)},{nameof(AuditableBase.CreatedBy)},{nameof(AuditableBase.CreatedByID)},{nameof(AuditableBase.CreatedOn)}";

        var objectType = myobj.GetType();
        var targetType = typeof(T);
        var targetInstance = Activator.CreateInstance(targetType, false);

        // Find common members by name
        var sourceMembers = from source in objectType.GetMembers().ToList()
                                  where source.MemberType == MemberTypes.Property
                                  select source;
        var targetMembers = from source in targetType.GetMembers().ToList()
                                  where source.MemberType == MemberTypes.Property
                                  select source;
        var commonMembers = targetMembers.Where(memberInfo => sourceMembers.Select(c => c.Name)
            .ToList().Contains(memberInfo.Name)).ToList();

        // Remove unwanted members
        commonMembers.RemoveWhere(x => x.Name.InList(excludeFields));

        foreach (var memberInfo in commonMembers)
        {
            if (!((PropertyInfo)memberInfo).CanWrite) continue;

            var targetProperty = typeof(T).GetProperty(memberInfo.Name);
            if (targetProperty == null) continue;

            var sourceProperty = myobj.GetType().GetProperty(memberInfo.Name);
            if (sourceProperty == null) continue;

            // Check source and target types are the same
            if (sourceProperty.PropertyType.Name != targetProperty.PropertyType.Name) continue;

            var value = myobj.GetType().GetProperty(memberInfo.Name)?.GetValue(myobj, null);
            if (value == null) continue;

            // Set the value
            targetProperty.SetValue(targetInstance, value, null);
        }
        return (T)targetInstance;
    }

How do I correctly use "Not Equal" in MS Access?

I have struggled to get a query to return fields from Table 1 that do not exist in Table 2 and tried most of the answers above until I found a very simple way to obtain the results that I wanted.

I set the join properties between table 1 and table 2 to the third setting (3) (All fields from Table 1 and only those records from Table 2 where the joined fields are equal) and placed a Is Null in the criteria field of the query in Table 2 in the field that I was testing for. It works perfectly.

Thanks to all above though.

What is makeinfo, and how do I get it?

If it doesn't show up in your package manager (i.e. apt-cache search texinfo) and even apt-file search bin/makeinfo is no help, you may have to enable non-free/restricted packages for your package manager.

For ubuntu, sudo $EDITOR /etc/apt/sources.list and add restricted.

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security main
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates main

For debian, sudo $EDITOR /etc/apt/sources.list and add non-free. You can even have preferences on package level if you don't want to clutter the package db with non-free stuff.

After a sudo apt-get udpate you should find the required package.

Access cell value of datatable

foreach(DataRow row in dt.Rows)
{
    string value = row[3].ToString();
}

How to "wait" a Thread in Android

Don't use wait(), use either android.os.SystemClock.sleep(1000); or Thread.sleep(1000);.

The main difference between them is that Thread.sleep() can be interrupted early -- you'll be told, but it's still not the full second. The android.os call will not wake early.

How to grant remote access permissions to mysql server for user?

By mysql 8 and later version, you cannot add a user by granting privileges. it means with this query:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'%' 
    IDENTIFIED BY 'type-root-password-here' 
    WITH GRANT OPTION;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

mysql will return this error:

ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'IDENTIFIED BY 'written password' at line 1

this means you don't have a root user for % domain. so you need to first insert the user and then grant privileges like this:

mysql> CREATE USER 'root'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'your password';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.11 sec)

mysql> GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'root'@'%';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.15 sec)

mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Dont forget to replace passwords with your specific passwords.

Google server putty connect 'Disconnected: No supported authentication methods available (server sent: publickey)

Download "PuttyGEN" get publickey and privatekey use gcloud SSH edit and paste your publickey located in /home/USER/.ssh/authorized_keys

sudo vim ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Tap the i key to paste publicKEY. To save, tap Esc, :, w, q, Enter. Edit the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file.

sudo vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Change

PasswordAuthentication no [...] ChallengeResponseAuthentication to no. [...] UsePAM no [...] Restart ssh

/etc/init.d/ssh restart.

the rest config your putty as tutorial NB:choose the pageant add keys and start session would be better

Using CSS to align a button bottom of the screen using relative positions

The below css code always keep the button at the bottom of the page

position:absolute;
bottom:0;

Since you want to do it in relative positioning, you should go for margin-top:100%

position:relative;
margin-top:100%;

EDIT1: JSFiddle1

EDIT2: To place button at center of the screen,

position:relative;
left: 50%;
margin-top:50%;

JSFiddle2

How to read GET data from a URL using JavaScript?

try this way

var url_string = window.location;
var url = new URL(url_string);
var name = url.searchParams.get("name");
var tvid = url.searchParams.get("id");

BigDecimal setScale and round

There is indeed a big difference, which you should keep in mind. setScale really set the scale of your number whereas round does round your number to the specified digits BUT it "starts from the leftmost digit of exact result" as mentioned within the jdk. So regarding your sample the results are the same, but try 0.0034 instead. Here's my note about that on my blog:

http://araklefeistel.blogspot.com/2011/06/javamathbigdecimal-difference-between.html

How to represent the double quotes character (") in regex?

you need to use backslash before ". like \"

From the doc here you can see that

A character preceded by a backslash ( \ ) is an escape sequence and has special meaning to the compiler.

and " (double quote) is a escacpe sequence

When an escape sequence is encountered in a print statement, the compiler interprets it accordingly. For example, if you want to put quotes within quotes you must use the escape sequence, \", on the interior quotes. To print the sentence

She said "Hello!" to me.

you would write

System.out.println("She said \"Hello!\" to me.");

What is a reasonable code coverage % for unit tests (and why)?

Check out Crap4j. It's a slightly more sophisticated approach than straight code coverage. It combines code coverage measurements with complexity measurements, and then shows you what complex code isn't currently tested.

TypeError: Cannot read property "0" from undefined

The while increments the i. So you get:

data[1][0]
data[2][0]
data[3][0]
...

It looks like name doesn't match any of the the elements of data. So, the while still increments and you reach the end of the array. I'll suggest to use for loop.

How to obtain the last index of a list?

all above answers is correct but however

a = [];
len(list1) - 1 # where 0 - 1 = -1

to be more precisely

a = [];
index = len(a) - 1 if a else None;

if index == None : raise Exception("Empty Array")

since arrays is starting with 0

Angular HttpPromise: difference between `success`/`error` methods and `then`'s arguments

Some code examples for simple GET request. Maybe this helps understanding the difference. Using then:

$http.get('/someURL').then(function(response) {
    var data = response.data,
        status = response.status,
        header = response.header,
        config = response.config;
    // success handler
}, function(response) {
    var data = response.data,
        status = response.status,
        header = response.header,
        config = response.config;
    // error handler
});

Using success/error:

$http.get('/someURL').success(function(data, status, header, config) {
    // success handler
}).error(function(data, status, header, config) {
    // error handler
});

Laravel - Eloquent or Fluent random row

I have table with thousands of records, so I need something fast. This is my code for pseudo random row:

// count all rows with flag active = 1
$count = MyModel::where('active', '=', '1')->count(); 

// get random id
$random_id = rand(1, $count - 1);  

// get first record after random id
$data = MyModel::where('active', '=', '1')->where('id', '>', $random_id)->take(1)->first();

How do you create a Spring MVC project in Eclipse?

Download Spring STS (SpringSource Tool Suite) and choose Spring Template Project from the Dashboard. This is the easiest way to get a preconfigured spring mvc project, ready to go.

GitLab remote: HTTP Basic: Access denied and fatal Authentication

I've faced this same issue after once I've entered the wrong credentials of my git account. The thing that did work for me is, open keychain Access -> Password -> find your entered wrong password and update it and hit save, after that you will be able to perform your operations on git without any issue.

I hope this works for you.

Is it possible to modify a string of char in C?

When you write a "string" in your source code, it gets written directly into the executable because that value needs to be known at compile time (there are tools available to pull software apart and find all the plain text strings in them). When you write char *a = "This is a string", the location of "This is a string" is in the executable, and the location a points to, is in the executable. The data in the executable image is read-only.

What you need to do (as the other answers have pointed out) is create that memory in a location that is not read only--on the heap, or in the stack frame. If you declare a local array, then space is made on the stack for each element of that array, and the string literal (which is stored in the executable) is copied to that space in the stack.

char a[] = "This is a string";

you can also copy that data manually by allocating some memory on the heap, and then using strcpy() to copy a string literal into that space.

char *a = malloc(256);
strcpy(a, "This is a string");

Whenever you allocate space using malloc() remember to call free() when you are finished with it (read: memory leak).

Basically, you have to keep track of where your data is. Whenever you write a string in your source, that string is read only (otherwise you would be potentially changing the behavior of the executable--imagine if you wrote char *a = "hello"; and then changed a[0] to 'c'. Then somewhere else wrote printf("hello");. If you were allowed to change the first character of "hello", and your compiler only stored it once (it should), then printf("hello"); would output cello!)

How to reload current page without losing any form data?

Agree with HTML5 LocaStorage. This is example code

z-index not working with fixed positioning

Add position: relative; to #over

_x000D_

    #over {_x000D_
      width: 600px;_x000D_
      z-index: 10;_x000D_
      position: relative;    _x000D_
    }_x000D_
    _x000D_
    #under {_x000D_
      position: fixed;_x000D_
      top: 5px;_x000D_
      width: 420px;_x000D_
      left: 20px;_x000D_
      border: 1px solid;_x000D_
      height: 10%;_x000D_
      background: #fff;_x000D_
      z-index: 1;_x000D_
    }

_x000D_

    <!DOCTYPE html>_x000D_
    <html>_x000D_
    <body>_x000D_
     <div id="over">_x000D_
      Hello Hello HelloHelloHelloHelloHello Hello Hello Hello Hello Hello Hello Hello Hello Hello Hello_x000D_
     </div>  _x000D_
    _x000D_
     <div id="under"></div>_x000D_
    </body>_x000D_
    </html>

_x000D_

Fiddle

How do you serialize a model instance in Django?

To avoid the array wrapper, remove it before you return the response:

import json
from django.core import serializers

def getObject(request, id):
    obj = MyModel.objects.get(pk=id)
    data = serializers.serialize('json', [obj,])
    struct = json.loads(data)
    data = json.dumps(struct[0])
    return HttpResponse(data, mimetype='application/json')

I found this interesting post on the subject too:

http://timsaylor.com/convert-django-model-instances-to-dictionaries

It uses django.forms.models.model_to_dict, which looks like the perfect tool for the job.

How to generate different random numbers in a loop in C++?

You need to extract the initilization of time() out of the for loop.

Here is an example that will output in the windows console expected (ahah) random number.

#include <iostream>
#include <windows.h>
#include "time.h"
int main(int argc, char*argv[])
{
    srand ( time(NULL) );
    for (int t = 0; t < 10; t++)
    {
        int random_x;

        random_x = rand() % 100;
        std::cout << "\nRandom X = " << random_x << std::endl;
    }
    Sleep(50000);
    return 0;
}

Shuffle DataFrame rows

Here is another way:

df['rnd'] = np.random.rand(len(df)) df = df.sort_values(by='rnd', inplace=True).drop('rnd', axis=1)

YAML equivalent of array of objects in JSON

Great answer above. Another way is to use the great yaml jq wrapper tool, yq at https://github.com/kislyuk/yq

Save your JSON example to a file, say ex.json and then

yq -y '.' ex.json

AAPL:
- shares: -75.088
  date: 11/27/2015
- shares: 75.088
  date: 11/26/2015

Reverse a string in Python

Here is a no fancy one:

def reverse(text):
    r_text = ''
    index = len(text) - 1

    while index >= 0:
        r_text += text[index] #string canbe concatenated
        index -= 1

    return r_text

print reverse("hello, world!")

Convert DateTime in C# to yyyy-MM-dd format and Store it to MySql DateTime Field

Use DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd h:mm tt");. See this.

How to enable PHP's openssl extension to install Composer?

I had the same problem and here the solution I found, on your php.ini you need to do some changes:

extension_dir = "ext"
extension = php_openssl.dll

Every one here talks active the openssl extension, but in windows you need to active the extension dir too.

URL to compose a message in Gmail (with full Gmail interface and specified to, bcc, subject, etc.)

Many others have done an excellent job here giving a basic answer, especially Tobias Mühl. As mentioned, GMail's Api very closely matches the definition given by RFC2368 and RFC6068. This is true of the extended form of the mailto: links, but it's also true in the commonly-used forms found in the other answers. Of the five parameters, four are identical (such as to, cc, bcc and body) and one received only slight modification (su is gmail's version of subject).

If you want to know more about what you can do with mailTo gmail URLs, then these RFCs might be of help. Unfortunately, Google has not published any source themselves.

To clarify the parameters:

to - Email to who
su (gmail API) / subject (mailTo API) - Email Title
body - Email Body
bcc - Email Blind-Carbon Copy
cc - Email Carbon Copy address

MSSQL Regular expression

Disclaimer: The original question was about MySQL. The SQL Server answer is below.

MySQL

In MySQL, the regex syntax is the following:

SELECT * FROM YourTable WHERE (`url` NOT REGEXP '^[-A-Za-z0-9/.]+$')

Use the REGEXP clause instead of LIKE. The latter is for pattern matching using % and _ wildcards.

SQL Server

Since you made a typo, and you're using SQL Server (not MySQL), you'll have to create a user-defined CLR function to expose regex functionality.

Take a look at this article for more details.

How to get HTTP response code for a URL in Java?

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;

public class API{
    public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException
    {
        URL url = new URL("http://www.google.com");
        HttpURLConnection http = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
        int statusCode = http.getResponseCode();
        System.out.println(statusCode);
    }
}

Unable to set variables in bash script

Five problems:

Don't put a space before or after the equal sign.
Use "$(...)" to get the output of a command as text.
[ is a command. Put a space between it and the arguments.
Commands are case-sensitive. You want echo.
Use double quotes around variables. rm "$folderToBeMoved"

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/mail/util/MailLogger for JUnit test case for Java mail

Really it's interesting. You need just use javax-mail.jar of "com.sun" not "javax.mail".
dwonload com.sun mail jar

How to add number of days in postgresql datetime

This will give you the deadline :

select id,  
       title,
       created_at + interval '1' day * claim_window as deadline
from projects

Alternatively the function make_interval can be used:

select id,  
       title,
       created_at + make_interval(days => claim_window) as deadline
from projects

To get all projects where the deadline is over, use:

select *
from (
  select id, 
         created_at + interval '1' day * claim_window as deadline
  from projects
) t
where localtimestamp at time zone 'UTC' > deadline

Numpy - add row to array

If you can do the construction in a single operation, then something like the vstack-with-fancy-indexing answer is a fine approach. But if your condition is more complicated or your rows come in on the fly, you may want to grow the array. In fact the numpythonic way to do something like this - dynamically grow an array - is to dynamically grow a list:

A = np.array([[1,2,3],[4,5,6]])
Alist = [r for r in A]
for i in range(100):
    newrow = np.arange(3)+i
    if i%5:
        Alist.append(newrow)
A = np.array(Alist)
del Alist

Lists are highly optimized for this kind of access pattern; you don't have convenient numpy multidimensional indexing while in list form, but for as long as you're appending it's hard to do better than a list of row arrays.

A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client

I see there's a lot written about this...and I didn't see this mentioned. This has been available since .NET Framework 4.5

The ValidateRequestMode setting for a control is a great option. This way the other controls on the page are still protected. No web.config changes needed.

 protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
 {
     txtMachKey.ValidateRequestMode = ValidateRequestMode.Disabled;
 }

CSS selector for first element with class

The :first-child selector is intended, like the name says, to select the first child of a parent tag. The children have to be embedded in the same parent tag. Your exact example will work (Just tried it here):

<body>
    <p class="red">first</p>
    <div class="red">second</div>
</body>

Maybe you have nested your tags in different parent tags? Are your tags of class red really the first tags under the parent?

Notice also that this doesnt only apply to the first such tag in the whole document, but everytime a new parent is wrapped around it, like:

<div>
    <p class="red">first</p>
    <div class="red">second</div>
</div>
<div>
    <p class="red">third</p>
    <div class="red">fourth</div>
</div>

first and third will be red then.

Update:

I dont know why martyn deleted his answer, but he had the solution, the :nth-of-type selector:

_x000D_

.red:nth-of-type(1)_x000D_
{_x000D_
    border:5px solid red;_x000D_
}

_x000D_

<div class="home">_x000D_
    <span>blah</span>_x000D_
    <p class="red">first</p>_x000D_
    <p class="red">second</p>_x000D_
    <p class="red">third</p>_x000D_
    <p class="red">fourth</p>_x000D_
</div>

_x000D_

Credits to Martyn. More infos for example here. Be aware that this is a CSS 3 selector, therefore not all browsers will recognize it (e.g. IE8 or older).

Eclipse will not start and I haven't changed anything

Read my answer if recently you have been using a VPN connection.

Today I had the same exact issue and learned how to fix it without removing any plugins. So I thought maybe I would share my own experience.

My issue definitely had something to do with Spring Framework

I was using a VPN connection over my internet connection. Once I disconnected my VPN, everything instantly turned right.

How to get PHP $_GET array?

See How do I create arrays in a HTML <form>? in the PHP and HTML FAQ.

Querying DynamoDB by date

You can have multiple identical hash keys; but only if you have a range key that varies. Think of it like file formats; you can have 2 files with the same name in the same folder as long as their format is different. If their format is the same, their name must be different. The same concept applies to DynamoDB's hash/range keys; just think of the hash as the name and the range as the format.

Also, I don't recall if they had these at the time of the OP (I don't believe they did), but they now offer Local Secondary Indexes.

My understanding of these is that it should now allow you to perform the desired queries without having to do a full scan. The downside is that these indexes have to be specified at table creation, and also (I believe) cannot be blank when creating an item. In addition, they require additional throughput (though typically not as much as a scan) and storage, so it's not a perfect solution, but a viable alternative, for some.

I do still recommend Mike Brant's answer as the preferred method of using DynamoDB, though; and use that method myself. In my case, I just have a central table with only a hash key as my ID, then secondary tables that have a hash and range that can be queried, then the item points the code to the central table's "item of interest", directly.

Additional data regarding the secondary indexes can be found in Amazon's DynamoDB documentation here for those interested.

Anyway, hopefully this will help anyone else that happens upon this thread.

Using Pandas to pd.read_excel() for multiple worksheets of the same workbook

If you have saved the excel file in the same folder as your python program (relative paths) then you just need to mention sheet number along with file name.

Example:

 data = pd.read_excel("wt_vs_ht.xlsx", "Sheet2")
 print(data)
 x = data.Height
 y = data.Weight
 plt.plot(x,y,'x')
 plt.show()

Proper use of const for defining functions in JavaScript

It has been three years since this question was asked, but I am just now coming across it. Since this answer is so far down the stack, please allow me to repeat it:

Q: I am interested if there are any limits to what types of values can be set using const in JavaScript—in particular functions. Is this valid? Granted it does work, but is it considered bad practice for any reason?

I was motivated to do some research after observing one prolific JavaScript coder who always uses const statement for functions, even when there is no apparent reason/benefit.

In answer to "is it considered bad practice for any reason?" let me say, IMO, yes it is, or at least, there are advantages to using function statement.

It seems to me that this is largely a matter of preference and style. There are some good arguments presented above, but none so clear as is done in this article:

Constant confusion: why I still use JavaScript function statements by medium.freecodecamp.org/Bill Sourour, JavaScript guru, consultant, and teacher.

I urge everyone to read that article, even if you have already made a decision.

Here's are the main points:

Function statements have two clear advantages over [const] function expressions:

Advantage #1: Clarity of intent
When scanning through thousands of lines of code a day, it’s useful to be able to figure out the programmer’s intent as quickly and easily as possible.

Advantage #2: Order of declaration == order of execution

Ideally, I want to declare my code more or less in the order that I expect it will get executed.

This is the showstopper for me: any value declared using the const keyword is inaccessible until execution reaches it.

What I’ve just described above forces us to write code that looks upside down. We have to start with the lowest level function and work our way up.

My brain doesn’t work that way. I want the context before the details.

Most code is written by humans. So it makes sense that most people’s order of understanding roughly follows most code’s order of execution.

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Sometime this happened due to not fond any source like if i want to set a text into a textview from adapter then i should use

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If you write something like

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Structs can have functions just like classes. The only difference is that they are public by default:

struct A {
    void f() {}
};

Additionally, structs can also have constructors and destructors.

struct A {
    A() : x(5) {}
    ~A() {}

    private: int x;
};

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Whilst you can of course use the base64 module, you can also to use the codecs module (referred to in your error message) for binary encodings (meaning non-standard & non-text encodings).

For example:

import codecs
my_bytes = b"Hello World!"
codecs.encode(my_bytes, "base64")
codecs.encode(my_bytes, "hex")
codecs.encode(my_bytes, "zip")
codecs.encode(my_bytes, "bz2")

This can come in useful for large data as you can chain them to get compressed and json-serializable values:

my_large_bytes = my_bytes * 10000
codecs.decode(
    codecs.encode(
        codecs.encode(
            my_large_bytes,
            "zip"
        ),
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)

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