Programs & Examples On #Mod fcgid

`mod_fcgid` is a high performance alternative to `mod_cgi` or `mod_cgid`, which starts a sufficient number instances of the `CGI` program to handle concurrent requests, and these programs remain running to handle further incoming requests. It is favored by the `PHP` developers, for example, as a preferred alternative to running `mod_php` in-process, delivering very similar performance.

Connection reset by peer: mod_fcgid: error reading data from FastCGI server

I had the same problem with a different and simple solution.

Problem

I installed PHP 5.6 following the accepted answer to this question on Ask Ubuntu. After using Virtualmin to switch a particular virtual server from PHP 5.5 to PHP 5.6, I received a 500 Internal Server Error and had the same entries in the apache error log:

[Tue Jul 03 16:15:22.131051 2018] [fcgid:warn] [pid 24262] (104)Connection reset by peer: [client 10.20.30.40:23700] mod_fcgid: error reading data from FastCGI server
[Tue Jul 03 16:15:22.131101 2018] [core:error] [pid 24262] [client 10.20.30.40:23700] End of script output before headers: index.php

Cause

Simple: I didn't install the php5.6-cgi packet.

Fix

Installing the packet and reloading apache solved the problem:

  • sudo apt-get install php5.6-cgi if you are using PHP 5.6

  • sudo apt-get install php5-cgi if you are using a different PHP 5 version

  • sudo apt-get install php7.0-cgi if you are using PHP 7

Then use service apache2 reload to apply the configuration.

SQL Server 2008 R2 Express permissions -- cannot create database or modify users

You may be an administrator on the workstation, but that means nothing to SQL Server. Your login has to be a member of the sysadmin role in order to perform the actions in question. By default, the local administrators group is no longer added to the sysadmin role in SQL 2008 R2. You'll need to login with something else (sa for example) in order to grant yourself the permissions.

Check if input is integer type in C

First ask yourself how you would ever expect this code to NOT return an integer:

int num; 
scanf("%d",&num);

You specified the variable as type integer, then you scanf, but only for an integer (%d).

What else could it possibly contain at this point?

Python dictionary get multiple values

If you have pandas installed you can turn it into a series with the keys as the index. So something like

import pandas as pd

s = pd.Series(my_dict)

s[['key1', 'key3', 'key2']]

Converting between strings and ArrayBuffers

Update 2016 - five years on there are now new methods in the specs (see support below) to convert between strings and typed arrays using proper encoding.

TextEncoder

The TextEncoder represents:

The TextEncoder interface represents an encoder for a specific method, that is a specific character encoding, like utf-8, iso-8859-2, koi8, cp1261, gbk, ... An encoder takes a stream of code points as input and emits a stream of bytes.

Change note since the above was written: (ibid.)

Note: Firefox, Chrome and Opera used to have support for encoding types other than utf-8 (such as utf-16, iso-8859-2, koi8, cp1261, and gbk). As of Firefox 48 [...], Chrome 54 [...] and Opera 41, no other encoding types are available other than utf-8, in order to match the spec.*

*) Updated specs (W3) and here (whatwg).

After creating an instance of the TextEncoder it will take a string and encode it using a given encoding parameter:

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if (!("TextEncoder" in window)) _x000D_
  alert("Sorry, this browser does not support TextEncoder...");_x000D_
_x000D_
var enc = new TextEncoder(); // always utf-8_x000D_
console.log(enc.encode("This is a string converted to a Uint8Array"));
_x000D_
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You then of course use the .buffer parameter on the resulting Uint8Array to convert the underlaying ArrayBuffer to a different view if needed.

Just make sure that the characters in the string adhere to the encoding schema, for example, if you use characters outside the UTF-8 range in the example they will be encoded to two bytes instead of one.

For general use you would use UTF-16 encoding for things like localStorage.

TextDecoder

Likewise, the opposite process uses the TextDecoder:

The TextDecoder interface represents a decoder for a specific method, that is a specific character encoding, like utf-8, iso-8859-2, koi8, cp1261, gbk, ... A decoder takes a stream of bytes as input and emits a stream of code points.

All available decoding types can be found here.

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if (!("TextDecoder" in window))_x000D_
  alert("Sorry, this browser does not support TextDecoder...");_x000D_
_x000D_
var enc = new TextDecoder("utf-8");_x000D_
var arr = new Uint8Array([84,104,105,115,32,105,115,32,97,32,85,105,110,116,_x000D_
                          56,65,114,114,97,121,32,99,111,110,118,101,114,116,_x000D_
                          101,100,32,116,111,32,97,32,115,116,114,105,110,103]);_x000D_
console.log(enc.decode(arr));
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The MDN StringView library

An alternative to these is to use the StringView library (licensed as lgpl-3.0) which goal is:

  • to create a C-like interface for strings (i.e., an array of character codes — an ArrayBufferView in JavaScript) based upon the JavaScript ArrayBuffer interface
  • to create a highly extensible library that anyone can extend by adding methods to the object StringView.prototype
  • to create a collection of methods for such string-like objects (since now: stringViews) which work strictly on arrays of numbers rather than on creating new immutable JavaScript strings
  • to work with Unicode encodings other than JavaScript's default UTF-16 DOMStrings

giving much more flexibility. However, it would require us to link to or embed this library while TextEncoder/TextDecoder is being built-in in modern browsers.

Support

As of July/2018:

TextEncoder (Experimental, On Standard Track)

 Chrome    | Edge      | Firefox   | IE        | Opera     | Safari
 ----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------
     38    |     ?     |    19°    |     -     |     25    |     -

 Chrome/A  | Edge/mob  | Firefox/A | Opera/A   |Safari/iOS | Webview/A
 ----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------
     38    |     ?     |    19°    |     ?     |     -     |     38

°) 18: Firefox 18 implemented an earlier and slightly different version
of the specification.

WEB WORKER SUPPORT:

Experimental, On Standard Track

 Chrome    | Edge      | Firefox   | IE        | Opera     | Safari
 ----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------
     38    |     ?     |     20    |     -     |     25    |     -

 Chrome/A  | Edge/mob  | Firefox/A | Opera/A   |Safari/iOS | Webview/A
 ----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------
     38    |     ?     |     20    |     ?     |     -     |     38

Data from MDN - `npm i -g mdncomp` by epistemex

How do I concatenate or merge arrays in Swift?

To complete the list of possible alternatives, reduce could be used to implement the behavior of flatten:

var a = ["a", "b", "c"] 
var b = ["d", "e", "f"]

let res = [a, b].reduce([],combine:+)

The best alternative (performance/memory-wise) among the ones presented is simply flatten, that just wrap the original arrays lazily without creating a new array structure.

But notice that flatten does not return a LazyCollection, so that lazy behavior will not be propagated to the next operation along the chain (map, flatMap, filter, etc...).

If lazyness makes sense in your particular case, just remember to prepend or append a .lazy to flatten(), for example, modifying Tomasz sample this way:

let c = [a, b].lazy.flatten()

Resize UIImage and change the size of UIImageView

This is the Swift equivalent for Rajneesh071's answer, using extensions

UIImage {
  func scaleToSize(aSize :CGSize) -> UIImage {
    if (CGSizeEqualToSize(self.size, aSize)) {
      return self
    }

    UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(aSize, false, 0.0)
    self.drawInRect(CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, aSize.width, aSize.height))
    let image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext()
    return image
  }
}

Usage:

let image = UIImage(named: "Icon")
item.icon = image?.scaleToSize(CGSize(width: 30.0, height: 30.0))

How to check 'undefined' value in jQuery

You can use shorthand technique to check whether it is undefined or null

 function A(val)
 {
   if(val || "") 
   //do this
 else
 //do this
 }

hope this will help you

Go to next item in ForEach-Object

I know this is an old post, but I wanted to add something I learned for the next folks who land here while googling.

In Powershell 5.1, you want to use continue to move onto the next item in your loop. I tested with 6 items in an array, had a foreach loop through, but put an if statement with:

foreach($i in $array){    
    write-host -fore green "hello $i"
    if($i -like "something"){
        write-host -fore red "$i is bad"
        continue
        write-host -fore red "should not see this"
    }
}

Of the 6 items, the 3rd one was something. As expected, it looped through the first 2, then the matching something gave me the red line where $i matched, I saw something is bad and then it went on to the next item in the array without saying should not see this. I tested with return and it exited the loop altogether.

Getting index value on razor foreach

I prefer to use this extension method:

public static class Extensions
{
    public static IEnumerable<(T item, int index)> WithIndex<T>(this IEnumerable<T> self)
        => self.Select((item, index) => (item, index));
}

Source:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/39997157/3850405

Razor:

@using Project.Shared.Helpers 

@foreach (var (item, index) in collection.WithIndex())
{
<p>
    Name: @item.Name Index: @index
</p>
}

node and Error: EMFILE, too many open files

I did installing watchman, changing limit etc. and it didn't work in Gulp.

Restarting iterm2 actually helped though.

Twitter Bootstrap Multilevel Dropdown Menu

I was able to fix the sub-menu's always pinning to the top of the parent menu from Andres's answer with the following addition:

.dropdown-menu li {
    position: relative;
}

I also add an icon "icon-chevron-right" on items which contain menu sub-menus, and change the icon from black to white on hover (to compliment the text changing to white and look better with the selected blue background).

Here is the full less/css change (replace the above with this):

.dropdown-menu li {
    position: relative;

    [class^="icon-"] {
        float: right;
    }

    &:hover {
        // Switch to white icons on hover
        [class^="icon-"] {
            background-image: url("../img/glyphicons-halflings-white.png");
        }
    }
}

How to add one column into existing SQL Table

The syntax you need is

ALTER TABLE Products ADD LastUpdate  varchar(200) NULL

This is a metadata only operation

How do I draw a circle in iOS Swift?

Swift 4 version of accepted answer:

@IBDesignable
class CircledDotView: UIView {

    @IBInspectable var mainColor: UIColor = .white {
        didSet { print("mainColor was set here") }
    }
    @IBInspectable var ringColor: UIColor = .black {
        didSet { print("bColor was set here") }
    }
    @IBInspectable var ringThickness: CGFloat = 4 {
        didSet { print("ringThickness was set here") }
    }

    @IBInspectable var isSelected: Bool = true

    override func draw(_ rect: CGRect) {
        let dotPath = UIBezierPath(ovalIn: rect)
        let shapeLayer = CAShapeLayer()
        shapeLayer.path = dotPath.cgPath
        shapeLayer.fillColor = mainColor.cgColor
        layer.addSublayer(shapeLayer)

        if (isSelected) {
            drawRingFittingInsideView(rect: rect)
        }
    }

    internal func drawRingFittingInsideView(rect: CGRect) {
        let hw: CGFloat = ringThickness / 2
        let circlePath = UIBezierPath(ovalIn: rect.insetBy(dx: hw, dy: hw))

        let shapeLayer = CAShapeLayer()
        shapeLayer.path = circlePath.cgPath
        shapeLayer.fillColor = UIColor.clear.cgColor
        shapeLayer.strokeColor = ringColor.cgColor
        shapeLayer.lineWidth = ringThickness
        layer.addSublayer(shapeLayer)
    }
}

The application has stopped unexpectedly: How to Debug?

Check whether your app has the needed permissions.I was also getting the same error and I checked the logcat debug log which showed this:

04-15 13:38:25.387: E/AndroidRuntime(694): java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: starting Intent { act=android.intent.action.CALL dat=tel:555-555-5555 cmp=com.android.phone/.OutgoingCallBroadcaster } from ProcessRecord{44068640 694:rahulserver.test/10055} (pid=694, uid=10055) requires android.permission.CALL_PHONE

I then gave the needed permission in my android-manifest which worked for me.

git revert back to certain commit

You can revert all your files under your working directory and index by typing following this command

git reset --hard <SHAsum of your commit>

You can also type

git reset --hard HEAD #your current head point

or

git reset --hard HEAD^ #your previous head point

Hope it helps

python: iterate a specific range in a list

A more memory efficient way to iterate over a slice of a list would be to use islice() from the itertools module:

from itertools import islice

listOfStuff = (['a','b'], ['c','d'], ['e','f'], ['g','h'])

for item in islice(listOfStuff, 1, 3):
    print item

# ['c', 'd']
# ['e', 'f']

However, this can be relatively inefficient in terms of performance if the start value of the range is a large value sinceislicewould have to iterate over the first start value-1 items before returning items.

Spring MVC: How to return image in @ResponseBody?

In your application context declare a AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter and registerByteArrayHttpMessageConverter:

<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter">
  <property name="messageConverters">
    <util:list>
      <bean id="byteArrayMessageConverter" class="org.springframework.http.converter.ByteArrayHttpMessageConverter"/>
    </util:list>
  </property>
</bean> 

also in the handler method set appropriate content type for your response.

HAX kernel module is not installed

Turning off HyperV on windows 8.1 did the trick for me

dism.exe /Online /Disable-Feature:Microsoft-Hyper-V

Slack URL to open a channel from browser

Sure you can:

https://<organization>.slack.com/messages/<channel>/

for example: https://tikal.slack.com/messages/general/ (of course that for accessing it, you must be part of the team)

POST data with request module on Node.JS

I have to get the data from a POST method of the PHP code. What worked for me was:

const querystring = require('querystring');
const request = require('request');

const link = 'http://your-website-link.com/sample.php';
let params = { 'A': 'a', 'B': 'b' };

params = querystring.stringify(params); // changing into querystring eg 'A=a&B=b'

request.post({
  headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' }, // important to interect with PHP
  url: link,
  body: params,
}, function(error, response, body){
  console.log(body);
});

Keras input explanation: input_shape, units, batch_size, dim, etc

Input Dimension Clarified:

Not a direct answer, but I just realized the word Input Dimension could be confusing enough, so be wary:

It (the word dimension alone) can refer to:

a) The dimension of Input Data (or stream) such as # N of sensor axes to beam the time series signal, or RGB color channel (3): suggested word=> "InputStream Dimension"

b) The total number /length of Input Features (or Input layer) (28 x 28 = 784 for the MINST color image) or 3000 in the FFT transformed Spectrum Values, or

"Input Layer / Input Feature Dimension"

c) The dimensionality (# of dimension) of the input (typically 3D as expected in Keras LSTM) or (#RowofSamples, #of Senors, #of Values..) 3 is the answer.

"N Dimensionality of Input"

d) The SPECIFIC Input Shape (eg. (30,50,50,3) in this unwrapped input image data, or (30, 250, 3) if unwrapped Keras:

Keras has its input_dim refers to the Dimension of Input Layer / Number of Input Feature

model = Sequential()
model.add(Dense(32, input_dim=784))  #or 3 in the current posted example above
model.add(Activation('relu'))

In Keras LSTM, it refers to the total Time Steps

The term has been very confusing, is correct and we live in a very confusing world!!

I find one of the challenge in Machine Learning is to deal with different languages or dialects and terminologies (like if you have 5-8 highly different versions of English, then you need to very high proficiency to converse with different speakers). Probably this is the same in programming languages too.

Pdf.js: rendering a pdf file using a base64 file source instead of url

According to the examples base64 encoding is directly supported, although I've not tested it myself. Take your base64 string (derived from a file or loaded with any other method, POST/GET, websockets etc), turn it to a binary with atob, and then parse this to getDocument on the PDFJS API likePDFJS.getDocument({data: base64PdfData}); Codetoffel answer does work just fine for me though.

CSS text-align not working

Change the rule on your <a> element from:

.navigation ul a {
    color: #000;
    display: block;
    padding: 0 65px 0 0;
    text-decoration: none;
}?

to

.navigation ul a {
    color: #000;
    display: block;
    padding: 0 65px 0 0;
    text-decoration: none;
    width:100%;
    text-align:center;
}?

Just add two new rules (width:100%; and text-align:center;). You need to make the anchor expand to take up the full width of the list item and then text-align center it.

jsFiddle example

could not extract ResultSet in hibernate

I had similar issue. Try use the HQL editor. It will display you the SQL (as you have a SQL grammar exception). Copy your SQL and execute it separately. In my case the problem was in schema definition. I defined the schema, but I should leave it empty. This raised the same exception as you got. And the error description reflected the actual state, as the schema name was included in SQL statement.

What exactly does big ? notation represent?

Theta(n): A function f(n) belongs to Theta(g(n)), if there exists positive constants c1 and c2 such that f(n) can be sandwiched between c1(g(n)) and c2(g(n)). i.e it gives both upper and as well as lower bound.

Theta(g(n)) = { f(n) : there exists positive constants c1,c2 and n1 such that 0<=c1(g(n))<=f(n)<=c2(g(n)) for all n>=n1 }

when we say f(n)=c2(g(n)) or f(n)=c1(g(n)) it represents asymptotically tight bound.

O(n): It gives only upper bound (may or may not be tight)

O(g(n)) = { f(n) : there exists positive constants c and n1 such that 0<=f(n)<=cg(n) for all n>=n1}

ex: The bound 2*(n^2) = O(n^2) is asymptotically tight, whereas the bound 2*n = O(n^2) is not asymptotically tight.

o(n): It gives only upper bound (never a tight bound)

the notable difference between O(n) & o(n) is f(n) is less than cg(n) for all n>=n1 but not equal as in O(n).

ex: 2*n = o(n^2), but 2*(n^2) != o(n^2)

Failed to open the HAX device! HAX is not working and emulator runs in emulation mode emulator

I had the same problem recently.

First you need to install HAXM in the Android SDK Manager (from the error message I think you already did that). This will enable the emulator to use the HAXM framework, and for this it needs to open the HAX device. On your system this cannot be found, hence the error message.

To make this device available, you need to install the HAXM driver from Intel. You can find it here: http://software.intel.com/en-us/android/articles/intel-hardware-accelerated-execution-manager (You also need to enable virtualization in your computer BIOS).

Hope this helps.

How do I set default terminal to terminator?

change Settings Manager >> Preferred Applications >> Utilities

Options for HTML scraping?

I know and love Screen-Scraper.

Screen-Scraper is a tool for extracting data from websites. Screen-Scraper automates:

* Clicking links on websites
* Entering data into forms and submitting
* Iterating through search result pages
* Downloading files (PDF, MS Word, images, etc.)

Common uses:

* Download all products, records from a website
* Build a shopping comparison site
* Perform market research
* Integrate or migrate data

Technical:

* Graphical interface--easy automation
* Cross platform (Linux, Mac, Windows, etc.)
* Integrates with most programming languages (Java, PHP, .NET, ASP, Ruby, etc.)
* Runs on workstations or servers

Three editions of screen-scraper:

* Enterprise: The most feature-rich edition of screen-scraper. All capabilities are enabled.
* Professional: Designed to be capable of handling most common scraping projects.
* Basic: Works great for simple projects, but not nearly as many features as its two older brothers.

Returning anonymous type in C#

You can return list of objects in this case.

public List<object> TheMethod(SomeParameter)
{
  using (MyDC TheDC = new MyDC())
  {
     var TheQueryFromDB = (....
                           select new { SomeVariable = ....,
                                        AnotherVariable = ....}
                           ).ToList();

      return TheQueryFromDB ;
    }
}

Sending and Receiving SMS and MMS in Android (pre Kit Kat Android 4.4)

I had the exact same problem you describe above (Galaxy Nexus on t-mobile USA) it is because mobile data is turned off.

In Jelly Bean it is: Settings > Data Usage > mobile data

Note that I have to have mobile data turned on PRIOR to sending an MMS OR receiving one. If I receive an MMS with mobile data turned off, I will get the notification of a new message and I will receive the message with a download button. But if I do not have mobile data on prior, the incoming MMS attachment will not be received. Even if I turn it on after the message was received.

For some reason when your phone provider enables you with the ability to send and receive MMS you must have the Mobile Data enabled, even if you are using Wifi, if the Mobile Data is enabled you will be able to receive and send MMS, even if Wifi is showing as your internet on your device.

It is a real pain, as if you do not have it on, the message can hang a lot, even when turning on Mobile Data, and might require a reboot of the device.

If...Then...Else with multiple statements after Then

This works with multiple statements:

if condition1 Then stmt1:stmt2 Else if condition2 Then stmt3:stmt4 Else stmt5:stmt6

Or you can split it over multiple lines:

if condition1 Then stmt1:stmt2
Else if condition2 Then stmt3:stmt4
Else stmt5:stmt6

How to properly stop the Thread in Java?

In the IndexProcessor class you need a way of setting a flag which informs the thread that it will need to terminate, similar to the variable run that you have used just in the class scope.

When you wish to stop the thread, you set this flag and call join() on the thread and wait for it to finish.

Make sure that the flag is thread safe by using a volatile variable or by using getter and setter methods which are synchronised with the variable being used as the flag.

public class IndexProcessor implements Runnable {

    private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(IndexProcessor.class);
    private volatile boolean running = true;

    public void terminate() {
        running = false;
    }

    @Override
    public void run() {
        while (running) {
            try {
                LOGGER.debug("Sleeping...");
                Thread.sleep((long) 15000);

                LOGGER.debug("Processing");
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                LOGGER.error("Exception", e);
                running = false;
            }
        }

    }
}

Then in SearchEngineContextListener:

public class SearchEngineContextListener implements ServletContextListener {

    private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(SearchEngineContextListener.class);

    private Thread thread = null;
    private IndexProcessor runnable = null;

    @Override
    public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent event) {
        runnable = new IndexProcessor();
        thread = new Thread(runnable);
        LOGGER.debug("Starting thread: " + thread);
        thread.start();
        LOGGER.debug("Background process successfully started.");
    }

    @Override
    public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent event) {
        LOGGER.debug("Stopping thread: " + thread);
        if (thread != null) {
            runnable.terminate();
            thread.join();
            LOGGER.debug("Thread successfully stopped.");
        }
    }
}

How do I get the path and name of the file that is currently executing?

p1.py:

execfile("p2.py")

p2.py:

import inspect, os
print (inspect.getfile(inspect.currentframe()) # script filename (usually with path)
print (os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(inspect.getfile(inspect.currentframe())))) # script directory

How to add a single item to a Pandas Series

How to add single item. This is not very effective but follows what you are asking for:

x = p.Series()
N = 4
for i in xrange(N):
   x = x.set_value(i, i**2)

produces x:

0    0
1    1
2    4
3    9

Obviously there are better ways to generate this series in only one shot.

For your second question check answer and references of SO question add one row in a pandas.DataFrame.

Detect If Browser Tab Has Focus

I would do it this way (Reference http://www.w3.org/TR/page-visibility/):

    window.onload = function() {

        // check the visiblility of the page
        var hidden, visibilityState, visibilityChange;

        if (typeof document.hidden !== "undefined") {
            hidden = "hidden", visibilityChange = "visibilitychange", visibilityState = "visibilityState";
        }
        else if (typeof document.mozHidden !== "undefined") {
            hidden = "mozHidden", visibilityChange = "mozvisibilitychange", visibilityState = "mozVisibilityState";
        }
        else if (typeof document.msHidden !== "undefined") {
            hidden = "msHidden", visibilityChange = "msvisibilitychange", visibilityState = "msVisibilityState";
        }
        else if (typeof document.webkitHidden !== "undefined") {
            hidden = "webkitHidden", visibilityChange = "webkitvisibilitychange", visibilityState = "webkitVisibilityState";
        }


        if (typeof document.addEventListener === "undefined" || typeof hidden === "undefined") {
            // not supported
        }
        else {
            document.addEventListener(visibilityChange, function() {
                console.log("hidden: " + document[hidden]);
                console.log(document[visibilityState]);

                switch (document[visibilityState]) {
                case "visible":
                    // visible
                    break;
                case "hidden":
                    // hidden
                    break;
                }
            }, false);
        }

        if (document[visibilityState] === "visible") {
            // visible
        }

    };  

Setting the Textbox read only property to true using JavaScript

Try This :-

set Read Only False ( Editable TextBox)

document.getElementById("txtID").readOnly=false;

set Read Only true(Not Editable )

var v1=document.getElementById("txtID");
v1.setAttribute("readOnly","true");

This can work on IE and Firefox also.

Unlink of file Failed. Should I try again?

I got this problem in Windows. I closed my IDE (Android Studio) and selected YES in git shell. It worked.

How to sort a NSArray alphabetically?

The simplest approach is, to provide a sort selector (Apple's documentation for details)

Objective-C

sortedArray = [anArray sortedArrayUsingSelector:@selector(localizedCaseInsensitiveCompare:)];

Swift

let descriptor: NSSortDescriptor = NSSortDescriptor(key: "YourKey", ascending: true, selector: "localizedCaseInsensitiveCompare:")
let sortedResults: NSArray = temparray.sortedArrayUsingDescriptors([descriptor])

Apple provides several selectors for alphabetic sorting:

  • compare:
  • caseInsensitiveCompare:
  • localizedCompare:
  • localizedCaseInsensitiveCompare:
  • localizedStandardCompare:

Swift

var students = ["Kofi", "Abena", "Peter", "Kweku", "Akosua"]
students.sort()
print(students)
// Prints "["Abena", "Akosua", "Kofi", "Kweku", "Peter"]"

Reference

How do I fix the error "Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted"?

You are debugging two or more times. so the application may run more at a time. Then only this issue will occur. You should close all debugging applications using task-manager, Then debug again.

Properties file in python (similar to Java Properties)

A java properties file is often valid python code as well. You could rename your myconfig.properties file to myconfig.py. Then just import your file, like this

import myconfig

and access the properties directly

print myconfig.propertyName1

.htaccess not working apache

  1. Enable Apache mod_rewrite module

    a2enmod rewrite

  2. add the following code to /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

    AllowOverride All

  3. Restart apache

    /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Convert 24 Hour time to 12 Hour plus AM/PM indication Oracle SQL

For the 24-hour time, you need to use HH24 instead of HH.

For the 12-hour time, the AM/PM indicator is written as A.M. (if you want periods in the result) or AM (if you don't). For example:

SELECT invoice_date,
       TO_CHAR(invoice_date, 'DD-MM-YYYY HH24:MI:SS') "Date 24Hr",
       TO_CHAR(invoice_date, 'DD-MM-YYYY HH:MI:SS AM') "Date 12Hr"
  FROM invoices
;

For more information on the format models you can use with TO_CHAR on a date, see http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E16655_01/server.121/e17750/ch4datetime.htm#NLSPG004.

Setting java locale settings

One way to control the locale settings is to set the java system properties user.language and user.region.

Force index use in Oracle

You can use:

WITH index = ...

more info

Insert Unicode character into JavaScript

Although @ruakh gave a good answer, I will add some alternatives for completeness:

You could in fact use even var Omega = '&#937;' in JavaScript, but only if your JavaScript code is:

  • inside an event attribute, as in onclick="var Omega = '&#937'; alert(Omega)" or
  • in a script element inside an XHTML (or XHTML + XML) document served with an XML content type.

In these cases, the code will be first (before getting passed to the JavaScript interpreter) be parsed by an HTML parser so that character references like &#937; are recognized. The restrictions make this an impractical approach in most cases.

You can also enter the O character as such, as in var Omega = 'O', but then the character encoding must allow that, the encoding must be properly declared, and you need software that let you enter such characters. This is a clean solution and quite feasible if you use UTF-8 encoding for everything and are prepared to deal with the issues created by it. Source code will be readable, and reading it, you immediately see the character itself, instead of code notations. On the other hand, it may cause surprises if other people start working with your code.

Using the \u notation, as in var Omega = '\u03A9', works independently of character encoding, and it is in practice almost universal. It can however be as such used only up to U+FFFF, i.e. up to \uffff, but most characters that most people ever heard of fall into that area. (If you need “higher” characters, you need to use either surrogate pairs or one of the two approaches above.)

You can also construct a character using the String.fromCharCode() method, passing as a parameter the Unicode number, in decimal as in var Omega = String.fromCharCode(937) or in hexadecimal as in var Omega = String.fromCharCode(0x3A9). This works up to U+FFFF. This approach can be used even when you have the Unicode number in a variable.

How can I sort one set of data to match another set of data in Excel?

You can use VLOOKUP.

Assuming those are in columns A and B in Sheet1 and Sheet2 each, 22350 is in cell A2 of Sheet1, you can use:

=VLOOKUP(A2, Sheet2!A:B, 2, 0)

This will return you #N/A if there are no matches. Drag/Fill/Copy&Paste the formula to the bottom of your table and that should do it.

Uncaught SyntaxError: Block-scoped declarations (let, const, function, class) not yet supported outside strict mode

This means that you must declare strict mode by writing "use strict" at the beginning of the file or the function to use block-scope declarations.

EX:

function test(){
    "use strict";
    let a = 1;
} 

How to prevent the "Confirm Form Resubmission" dialog?

I had a situation where I could not use any of the above answers. My case involved working with search page where users would get "confirm form resubmission" if the clicked back after navigating to any of the search results. I wrote the following javascript which worked around the issue. It isn't a great fix as it is a bit blinky, and it doesn't work on IE8 or earlier. Still, though this might be useful or interesting for someone dealing with this issue.

jQuery(document).ready(function () {

//feature test
if (!history)
    return;

var searchBox = jQuery("#searchfield");

    //This occurs when the user get here using the back button
if (history.state && history.state.searchTerm != null && history.state.searchTerm != "" && history.state.loaded != null && history.state.loaded == 0) {

    searchBox.val(history.state.searchTerm);

    //don't chain reloads
    history.replaceState({ searchTerm: history.state.searchTerm, page: history.state.page, loaded: 1 }, "", document.URL);

    //perform POST
    document.getElementById("myForm").submit();

    return;
}

    //This occurs the first time the user hits this page.
history.replaceState({ searchTerm: searchBox.val(), page: pageNumber, loaded: 0 }, "", document.URL);

});

Include files from parent or other directory

I can't believe none of the answers pointed to the function dirname() (available since PHP 4).

Basically, it returns the full path for the referenced object. If you use a file as a reference, the function returns the full path of the file. If the referenced object is a folder, the function will return the parent folder of that folder.

https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.dirname.php

For the current folder of the current file, use $current = dirname(__FILE__);.

For a parent folder of the current folder, simply use $parent = dirname(__DIR__);.

List of All Locales and Their Short Codes?

If you are using php-intl to localize your application, you probably want to use ResourceBundle::getLocales() instead of static list that you maintain yourself. It can also give you locales for particular language.

<?php
print_r(ResourceBundle::getLocales(''));

/* Output might show
  * Array
  * (
  *    [0] => af
  *    [1] => af_NA
  *    [2] => af_ZA
  *    [3] => am
  *    [4] => am_ET
  *    [5] => ar
  *    [6] => ar_AE
  *    [7] => ar_BH
  *    [8] => ar_DZ
  *    [9] => ar_EG
  *    [10] => ar_IQ
  *  ...
  */
?>

Proper way to assert type of variable in Python

The isinstance built-in is the preferred way if you really must, but even better is to remember Python's motto: "it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission"!-) (It was actually Grace Murray Hopper's favorite motto;-). I.e.:

def my_print(text, begin, end):
    "Print 'text' in UPPER between 'begin' and 'end' in lower"
    try:
      print begin.lower() + text.upper() + end.lower()
    except (AttributeError, TypeError):
      raise AssertionError('Input variables should be strings')

This, BTW, lets the function work just fine on Unicode strings -- without any extra effort!-)

jQuery validate: How to add a rule for regular expression validation?

You can use the addMethod()

e.g

$.validator.addMethod('postalCode', function (value) { 
    return /^((\d{5}-\d{4})|(\d{5})|([A-Z]\d[A-Z]\s\d[A-Z]\d))$/.test(value); 
}, 'Please enter a valid US or Canadian postal code.');

good article here https://web.archive.org/web/20130609222116/http://www.randallmorey.com/blog/2008/mar/16/extending-jquery-form-validation-plugin/

Convert an ArrayList to an object array

TypeA[] array = (TypeA[]) a.toArray();

Why is __init__() always called after __new__()?

To quote the documentation:

Typical implementations create a new instance of the class by invoking the superclass's __new__() method using "super(currentclass, cls).__new__(cls[, ...])"with appropriate arguments and then modifying the newly-created instance as necessary before returning it.

...

If __new__() does not return an instance of cls, then the new instance's __init__() method will not be invoked.

__new__() is intended mainly to allow subclasses of immutable types (like int, str, or tuple) to customize instance creation.

How to declare 2D array in bash

Bash does not support multidimensional arrays.

You can simulate it though by using indirect expansion:

#!/bin/bash
declare -a a0=(1 2 3 4)
declare -a a1=(5 6 7 8)
var="a1[1]"
echo ${!var}  # outputs 6

Assignments are also possible with this method:

let $var=55
echo ${a1[1]}  # outputs 55

Edit 1: To read such an array from a file, with each row on a line, and values delimited by space, use this:

idx=0
while read -a a$idx; do
    let idx++;
done </tmp/some_file

Edit 2: To declare and initialize a0..a3[0..4] to 0, you could run:

for i in {0..3}; do
    eval "declare -a a$i=( $(for j in {0..4}; do echo 0; done) )"
done

How to call a View Controller programmatically?

To create a view controller:

UIViewController * vc = [[UIViewController alloc] init];

To call a view controller (must be called from within another viewcontroller):

[self presentViewController:vc animated:YES completion:nil];

For one, use nil rather than null.


Loading a view controller from the storyboard:

NSString * storyboardName = @"MainStoryboard"; 
UIStoryboard *storyboard = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:storyboardName bundle: nil];
UIViewController * vc = [storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"IDENTIFIER_OF_YOUR_VIEWCONTROLLER"];
[self presentViewController:vc animated:YES completion:nil];

Identifier of your view controller is either equal to the class name of your view controller, or a Storyboard ID that you can assign in the identity inspector of your storyboard.

Get device token for push notification

In your AppDelegate, in the didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken method:

Updated for Swift:

func application(_ application: UIApplication, didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken deviceToken: Data) {
    print("\(deviceToken.reduce("") { $0 + String(format: "%02.2hhx", arguments: [$1]) })")
}

@UniqueConstraint and @Column(unique = true) in hibernate annotation

As said before, @Column(unique = true) is a shortcut to UniqueConstraint when it is only a single field.

From the example you gave, there is a huge difference between both.

@Column(unique = true)
@ManyToOne(optional = false, fetch = FetchType.EAGER)
private ProductSerialMask mask;

@Column(unique = true)
@ManyToOne(optional = false, fetch = FetchType.EAGER)
private Group group;

This code implies that both mask and group have to be unique, but separately. That means that if, for example, you have a record with a mask.id = 1 and tries to insert another record with mask.id = 1, you'll get an error, because that column should have unique values. The same aplies for group.

On the other hand,

@Table(
   name = "product_serial_group_mask", 
   uniqueConstraints = {@UniqueConstraint(columnNames = {"mask", "group"})}
)

Implies that the values of mask + group combined should be unique. That means you can have, for example, a record with mask.id = 1 and group.id = 1, and if you try to insert another record with mask.id = 1 and group.id = 2, it'll be inserted successfully, whereas in the first case it wouldn't.

If you'd like to have both mask and group to be unique separately and to that at class level, you'd have to write the code as following:

@Table(
        name = "product_serial_group_mask",
        uniqueConstraints = {
                @UniqueConstraint(columnNames = "mask"),
                @UniqueConstraint(columnNames = "group")
        }
)

This has the same effect as the first code block.

How can I get a web site's favicon?

You can get the favicon URL from the website's HTML.

Here is the favicon element:

<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/someimage.png" />

You should use a regular expression here. If no tag found, look for favicon.ico in the site root directory. If nothing found, the site does not have a favicon.

WITH (NOLOCK) vs SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED

They are the same thing. If you use the set transaction isolation level statement, it will apply to all the tables in the connection, so if you only want a nolock on one or two tables use that; otherwise use the other.

Both will give you dirty reads. If you are okay with that, then use them. If you can't have dirty reads, then consider snapshot or serializable hints instead.

find without recursion

If you look for POSIX compliant solution:

cd DirsRoot && find . -type f -print -o -name . -o -prune

-maxdepth is not POSIX compliant option.

In C++, what is a virtual base class?

About the memory layout

As a side note, the problem with the Dreaded Diamond is that the base class is present multiple times. So with regular inheritance, you believe you have:

  A
 / \
B   C
 \ /
  D

But in the memory layout, you have:

A   A
|   |
B   C
 \ /
  D

This explain why when call D::foo(), you have an ambiguity problem. But the real problem comes when you want to use a member variable of A. For example, let's say we have:

class A
{
    public :
       foo() ;
       int m_iValue ;
} ;

When you'll try to access m_iValue from D, the compiler will protest, because in the hierarchy, it'll see two m_iValue, not one. And if you modify one, say, B::m_iValue (that is the A::m_iValue parent of B), C::m_iValue won't be modified (that is the A::m_iValue parent of C).

This is where virtual inheritance comes handy, as with it, you'll get back to a true diamond layout, with not only one foo() method only, but also one and only one m_iValue.

What could go wrong?

Imagine:

  • A has some basic feature.
  • B adds to it some kind of cool array of data (for example)
  • C adds to it some cool feature like an observer pattern (for example, on m_iValue).
  • D inherits from B and C, and thus from A.

With normal inheritance, modifying m_iValue from D is ambiguous and this must be resolved. Even if it is, there are two m_iValues inside D, so you'd better remember that and update the two at the same time.

With virtual inheritance, modifying m_iValue from D is ok... But... Let's say that you have D. Through its C interface, you attached an observer. And through its B interface, you update the cool array, which has the side effect of directly changing m_iValue...

As the change of m_iValue is done directly (without using a virtual accessor method), the observer "listening" through C won't be called, because the code implementing the listening is in C, and B doesn't know about it...

Conclusion

If you're having a diamond in your hierarchy, it means that you have 95% probability to have done something wrong with said hierarchy.

unix - count of columns in file

Perl solution similar to Mat's awk solution:

perl -F'\|' -lane 'print $#F+1; exit' stores.dat

I've tested this on a file with 1000000 columns.


If the field separator is whitespace (one or more spaces or tabs) instead of a pipe:

perl -lane 'print $#F+1; exit' stores.dat

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

You need single quotes around the view name

{% url 'viewname' %}

instead of

{% url viewname %}

Android Horizontal RecyclerView scroll Direction

This following code is enough

RecyclerView recyclerView;
LinearLayoutManager layoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(this, LinearLayoutManager.HORIZONTAL,true);

 recyclerView.setLayoutManager(layoutManager);

How to copy Outlook mail message into excel using VBA or Macros

Since you have not mentioned what needs to be copied, I have left that section empty in the code below.

Also you don't need to move the email to the folder first and then run the macro in that folder. You can run the macro on the incoming mail and then move it to the folder at the same time.

This will get you started. I have commented the code so that you will not face any problem understanding it.

First paste the below mentioned code in the outlook module.

Then

  1. Click on Tools~~>Rules and Alerts
  2. Click on "New Rule"
  3. Click on "start from a blank rule"
  4. Select "Check messages When they arrive"
  5. Under conditions, click on "with specific words in the subject"
  6. Click on "specific words" under rules description.
  7. Type the word that you want to check in the dialog box that pops up and click on "add".
  8. Click "Ok" and click next
  9. Select "move it to specified folder" and also select "run a script" in the same box
  10. In the box below, specify the specific folder and also the script (the macro that you have in module) to run.
  11. Click on finish and you are done.

When the new email arrives not only will the email move to the folder that you specify but data from it will be exported to Excel as well.

UNTESTED

Const xlUp As Long = -4162

Sub ExportToExcel(MyMail As MailItem)
    Dim strID As String, olNS As Outlook.Namespace
    Dim olMail As Outlook.MailItem
    Dim strFileName As String

    '~~> Excel Variables
    Dim oXLApp As Object, oXLwb As Object, oXLws As Object
    Dim lRow As Long

    strID = MyMail.EntryID
    Set olNS = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
    Set olMail = olNS.GetItemFromID(strID)

    '~~> Establish an EXCEL application object
    On Error Resume Next
    Set oXLApp = GetObject(, "Excel.Application")

    '~~> If not found then create new instance
    If Err.Number <> 0 Then
        Set oXLApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
    End If
    Err.Clear
    On Error GoTo 0

    '~~> Show Excel
    oXLApp.Visible = True

    '~~> Open the relevant file
    Set oXLwb = oXLApp.Workbooks.Open("C:\Sample.xls")

    '~~> Set the relevant output sheet. Change as applicable
    Set oXLws = oXLwb.Sheets("Sheet1")

    lRow = oXLws.Range("A" & oXLApp.Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row + 1

    '~~> Write to outlook
    With oXLws
        '
        '~~> Code here to output data from email to Excel File
        '~~> For example
        '
        .Range("A" & lRow).Value = olMail.Subject
        .Range("B" & lRow).Value = olMail.SenderName
        '
    End With

    '~~> Close and Clean up Excel
    oXLwb.Close (True)
    oXLApp.Quit
    Set oXLws = Nothing
    Set oXLwb = Nothing
    Set oXLApp = Nothing

    Set olMail = Nothing
    Set olNS = Nothing
End Sub

FOLLOWUP

To extract the contents from your email body, you can split it using SPLIT() and then parsing out the relevant information from it. See this example

Dim MyAr() As String

MyAr = Split(olMail.body, vbCrLf)

For i = LBound(MyAr) To UBound(MyAr)
    '~~> This will give you the contents of your email
    '~~> on separate lines
    Debug.Print MyAr(i)
Next i

Using Notepad++ to validate XML against an XSD

  1. In Notepad++ go to Plugins > Plugin manager > Show Plugin Manager then find Xml Tools plugin. Tick the box and click Install

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  2. Open XML document you want to validate and click Ctrl+Shift+Alt+M (Or use Menu if this is your preference Plugins > XML Tools > Validate Now).
    Following dialog will open: enter image description here

  3. Click on .... Point to XSD file and I am pretty sure you'll be able to handle things from here.

Hope this saves you some time.

EDIT: Plugin manager was not included in some versions of Notepad++ because many users didn't like commercials that it used to show. If you want to keep an older version, however still want plugin manager, you can get it on github, and install it by extracting the archive and copying contents to plugins and updates folder.
In version 7.7.1 plugin manager is back under a different guise... Plugin Admin so now you can simply update notepad++ and have it back.

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Is there any publicly accessible JSON data source to test with real world data?

Found one from Flickr that doesn't need registration / api.

Basic sample, Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/Braulio/vDr36/

More info: post

Pasted sample

HTML

<div id="images">

</div>

Javascript

// Querystring, "tags" search term, comma delimited
var query = "http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=soccer&format=json&jsoncallback=?";


// This function is called once the call is satisfied
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13854250/understanding-cross-domain-xhr-and-xml-data
var mycallback = function (data) {

    // Start putting together the HTML string
    var htmlString = "";

    // Now start cycling through our array of Flickr photo details
    $.each(data.items, function(i,item){

        // I only want the ickle square thumbnails
        var sourceSquare = (item.media.m).replace("_m.jpg", "_s.jpg");

        // Here's where we piece together the HTML
        htmlString += '<li><a href="' + item.link + '" target="_blank">';
        htmlString += '<img title="' + item.title + '" src="' + sourceSquare;
        htmlString += '" alt="'; htmlString += item.title + '" />';
        htmlString += '</a></li>';

    });

    // Pop our HTML in the #images DIV
    $('#images').html(htmlString);
};


// Ajax call to retrieve data
$.getJSON(query, mycallback);

Another very interesting is Star Wars Rest API:

https://swapi.co/

Auto increment primary key in SQL Server Management Studio 2012

When you're creating the table, you can create an IDENTITY column as follows:

CREATE TABLE (
  ID_column INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY,
  ...
);

The IDENTITY property will auto-increment the column up from number 1. (Note that the data type of the column has to be an integer.) If you want to add this to an existing column, use an ALTER TABLE command.

Edit:
Tested a bit, and I can't find a way to change the Identity properties via the Column Properties window for various tables. I guess if you want to make a column an identity column, you HAVE to use an ALTER TABLE command.

How can I initialize an array without knowing it size?

You can't... an array's size is always fixed in Java. Typically instead of using an array, you'd use an implementation of List<T> here - usually ArrayList<T>, but with plenty of other alternatives available.

You can create an array from the list as a final step, of course - or just change the signature of the method to return a List<T> to start with.

How can I read inputs as numbers?

n=int(input())
for i in range(n):
    n=input()
    n=int(n)
    arr1=list(map(int,input().split()))

the for loop shall run 'n' number of times . the second 'n' is the length of the array. the last statement maps the integers to a list and takes input in space separated form . you can also return the array at the end of for loop.

Renaming columns in Pandas

RENAME SPECIFIC COLUMNS

Use the df.rename() function and refer the columns to be renamed. Not all the columns have to be renamed:

df = df.rename(columns={'oldName1': 'newName1', 'oldName2': 'newName2'})
# Or rename the existing DataFrame (rather than creating a copy) 
df.rename(columns={'oldName1': 'newName1', 'oldName2': 'newName2'}, inplace=True)

Minimal Code Example

df = pd.DataFrame('x', index=range(3), columns=list('abcde'))
df

   a  b  c  d  e
0  x  x  x  x  x
1  x  x  x  x  x
2  x  x  x  x  x

The following methods all work and produce the same output:

df2 = df.rename({'a': 'X', 'b': 'Y'}, axis=1)  # new method
df2 = df.rename({'a': 'X', 'b': 'Y'}, axis='columns')
df2 = df.rename(columns={'a': 'X', 'b': 'Y'})  # old method  

df2

   X  Y  c  d  e
0  x  x  x  x  x
1  x  x  x  x  x
2  x  x  x  x  x

Remember to assign the result back, as the modification is not-inplace. Alternatively, specify inplace=True:

df.rename({'a': 'X', 'b': 'Y'}, axis=1, inplace=True)
df

   X  Y  c  d  e
0  x  x  x  x  x
1  x  x  x  x  x
2  x  x  x  x  x
 

From v0.25, you can also specify errors='raise' to raise errors if an invalid column-to-rename is specified. See v0.25 rename() docs.


REASSIGN COLUMN HEADERS

Use df.set_axis() with axis=1 and inplace=False (to return a copy).

df2 = df.set_axis(['V', 'W', 'X', 'Y', 'Z'], axis=1, inplace=False)
df2

   V  W  X  Y  Z
0  x  x  x  x  x
1  x  x  x  x  x
2  x  x  x  x  x

This returns a copy, but you can modify the DataFrame in-place by setting inplace=True (this is the default behaviour for versions <=0.24 but is likely to change in the future).

You can also assign headers directly:

df.columns = ['V', 'W', 'X', 'Y', 'Z']
df

   V  W  X  Y  Z
0  x  x  x  x  x
1  x  x  x  x  x
2  x  x  x  x  x

Getting Google+ profile picture url with user_id

Google, no API needed:

$data = file_get_contents('http://picasaweb.google.com/data/entry/api/user/<USER_ID>?alt=json');
$d = json_decode($data);
$avatar = $d->{'entry'}->{'gphoto$thumbnail'}->{'$t'};

// Outputs example: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2N6fRg5OFbM/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAADE/2-RmpExH6iU/s64-c/photo.jpg

CHANGE: the 64 in "s64" for the size

Simplest way to detect keypresses in javascript

Don't over complicate.

  document.addEventListener('keydown', logKey);
    function logKey(e) {
      if (`${e.code}` == "ArrowRight") {
        //code here
      }
          if (`${e.code}` == "ArrowLeft") {
        //code here
      }
          if (`${e.code}` == "ArrowDown") {
        //code here
      }
          if (`${e.code}` == "ArrowUp") {
        //code here
      }
    }

Running command line silently with VbScript and getting output?

You can redirect output to a file and then read the file:

return = WshShell.Run("cmd /c C:\snmpset -c ... > c:\temp\output.txt", 0, true)

Set fso  = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set file = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\temp\output.txt", 1)
text = file.ReadAll
file.Close

How to split a string, but also keep the delimiters?

I had a look at the above answers and honestly none of them I find satisfactory. What you want to do is essentially mimic the Perl split functionality. Why Java doesn't allow this and have a join() method somewhere is beyond me but I digress. You don't even need a class for this really. Its just a function. Run this sample program:

Some of the earlier answers have excessive null-checking, which I recently wrote a response to a question here:

https://stackoverflow.com/users/18393/cletus

Anyway, the code:

public class Split {
    public static List<String> split(String s, String pattern) {
        assert s != null;
        assert pattern != null;
        return split(s, Pattern.compile(pattern));
    }

    public static List<String> split(String s, Pattern pattern) {
        assert s != null;
        assert pattern != null;
        Matcher m = pattern.matcher(s);
        List<String> ret = new ArrayList<String>();
        int start = 0;
        while (m.find()) {
            ret.add(s.substring(start, m.start()));
            ret.add(m.group());
            start = m.end();
        }
        ret.add(start >= s.length() ? "" : s.substring(start));
        return ret;
    }

    private static void testSplit(String s, String pattern) {
        System.out.printf("Splitting '%s' with pattern '%s'%n", s, pattern);
        List<String> tokens = split(s, pattern);
        System.out.printf("Found %d matches%n", tokens.size());
        int i = 0;
        for (String token : tokens) {
            System.out.printf("  %d/%d: '%s'%n", ++i, tokens.size(), token);
        }
        System.out.println();
    }

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        testSplit("abcdefghij", "z"); // "abcdefghij"
        testSplit("abcdefghij", "f"); // "abcde", "f", "ghi"
        testSplit("abcdefghij", "j"); // "abcdefghi", "j", ""
        testSplit("abcdefghij", "a"); // "", "a", "bcdefghij"
        testSplit("abcdefghij", "[bdfh]"); // "a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "ij"
    }
}

image.onload event and browser cache

I have met the same issue today. After trying various method, I realize that just put the code of sizing inside $(window).load(function() {}) instead of document.ready would solve part of issue (if you are not ajaxing the page).

How to print a dictionary's key?

A dictionary has, by definition, an arbitrary number of keys. There is no "the key". You have the keys() method, which gives you a python list of all the keys, and you have the iteritems() method, which returns key-value pairs, so

for key, value in mydic.iteritems() :
    print key, value

Python 3 version:

for key, value in mydic.items() :
    print (key, value)

So you have a handle on the keys, but they only really mean sense if coupled to a value. I hope I have understood your question.

Click in OK button inside an Alert (Selenium IDE)

1| Print Alert popup text and close -I

Alert alert = driver.switchTo().alert();
System.out.println(closeAlertAndGetItsText());

2| Print Alert popup text and close -II

Alert alert = driver.switchTo().alert();
System.out.println(alert.getText()); //Print Alert popup
alert.accept(); //Close Alert popup

3| Assert Alert popup text and close

Alert alert = driver.switchTo().alert();
assertEquals("Expected Value", closeAlertAndGetItsText());

Convert char array to single int?

Ascii string to integer conversion is done by the atoi() function.

How to initialize a variable of date type in java?

To initialize to current date, you could do something like:

Date firstDate = new Date();

To get it from String, you could use SimpleDateFormat like:

String dateInString = "10-Jan-2016";
SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy");
try {
    Date date = formatter.parse(dateInString);
    System.out.println(date);
    System.out.println(formatter.format(date));
} catch (ParseException e) {
    //handle exception if date is not in "dd-MMM-yyyy" format
}

TortoiseSVN icons not showing up under Windows 7

After upgrading to TSVN 1.6.8.19260 I had the same issue (no icons in Explorer), but in my case, there were NO entries at all for TSVN under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers. In my original install, I didn't included the additional icon sets, because I never use them (and I've never installed them in any previous upgrades).

I modified my installation, adding the additional icon sets, and my icons have magically reappeared.

load csv into 2D matrix with numpy for plotting

I think using dtype where there is a name row is confusing the routine. Try

>>> r = np.genfromtxt(fname, delimiter=',', names=True)
>>> r
array([[  6.11882430e+02,   9.08956010e+03,   5.13300000e+03,
          8.64075140e+02,   1.71537476e+03,   7.65227770e+02,
          1.29111196e+12],
       [  6.11882430e+02,   9.08956010e+03,   5.13300000e+03,
          8.64075140e+02,   1.71537476e+03,   7.65227770e+02,
          1.29111311e+12],
       [  6.11882430e+02,   9.08956010e+03,   5.13300000e+03,
          8.64075140e+02,   1.71537476e+03,   7.65227770e+02,
          1.29112065e+12]])
>>> r[:,0]    # Slice 0'th column
array([ 611.88243,  611.88243,  611.88243])

extracting days from a numpy.timedelta64 value

You can convert it to a timedelta with a day precision. To extract the integer value of days you divide it with a timedelta of one day.

>>> x = np.timedelta64(2069211000000000, 'ns')
>>> days = x.astype('timedelta64[D]')
>>> days / np.timedelta64(1, 'D')
23

Or, as @PhillipCloud suggested, just days.astype(int) since the timedelta is just a 64bit integer that is interpreted in various ways depending on the second parameter you passed in ('D', 'ns', ...).

You can find more about it here.

SQL Server query - Selecting COUNT(*) with DISTINCT

You have to create a derived table for the distinct columns and then query the count from that table:

SELECT COUNT(*) 
FROM (SELECT DISTINCT column1,column2
      FROM  tablename  
      WHERE condition ) as dt

Here dt is a derived table.

python getoutput() equivalent in subprocess

Use subprocess.Popen:

import subprocess
process = subprocess.Popen(['ls', '-a'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
out, err = process.communicate()
print(out)

Note that communicate blocks until the process terminates. You could use process.stdout.readline() if you need the output before it terminates. For more information see the documentation.

How do I get the Date & Time (VBS)

Show time in form 24 hours

Right("0" & hour(now),2) & ":" & Right("0" & minute(now),2)   = 01:35
Right("0" & hour(now),2)                                      = 01
Right("0" & minute(now),2)                                    = 35

VBA array sort function?

@Prasand Kumar, here's a complete sort routine based on Prasand's concepts:

Public Sub ArrayListSort(ByRef SortArray As Variant)
    '
    'Uses the sort capabilities of a System.Collections.ArrayList object to sort an array of values of any simple
    'data-type.
    '
    'AUTHOR: Peter Straton
    '
    'CREDIT: Derived from Prasand Kumar's post at: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/152319/vba-array-sort-function
    '
    '*************************************************************************************************************

    Static ArrayListObj As Object
    Dim i As Long
    Dim LBnd As Long
    Dim UBnd As Long

    LBnd = LBound(SortArray)
    UBnd = UBound(SortArray)

    'If necessary, create the ArrayList object, to be used to sort the specified array's values

    If ArrayListObj Is Nothing Then
        Set ArrayListObj = CreateObject("System.Collections.ArrayList")
    Else
        ArrayListObj.Clear  'Already allocated so just clear any old contents
    End If

    'Add the ArrayList elements from the array of values to be sorted. (There appears to be no way to do this
    'using a single assignment statement.)

    For i = LBnd To UBnd
        ArrayListObj.Add SortArray(i)
    Next i

    ArrayListObj.Sort   'Do the sort

    'Transfer the sorted ArrayList values back to the original array, which can be done with a single assignment
    'statement.  But the result is always zero-based so then, if necessary, adjust the resulting array to match
    'its original index base.

    SortArray = ArrayListObj.ToArray
    If LBnd <> 0 Then ReDim Preserve SortArray(LBnd To UBnd)
End Sub

How to access the elements of a 2D array?

Seems to work here:

>>> a=[[1,1],[2,1],[3,1]]
>>> a
[[1, 1], [2, 1], [3, 1]]
>>> a[1]
[2, 1]
>>> a[1][0]
2
>>> a[1][1]
1

Could not resolve this reference. Could not locate the assembly

In my case I had the following warnings:

Could not resolve this reference. Could not locate the assembly "x". Check to make sure the assembly exists on disk. If this reference is required by your code, you may get compilation errors.

No way to resolve conflict between "x, Version=1.0.0.248, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null" and "x". Choosing "x, Version=1.0.0.248

The path to the dll was correct in my .csproj file but I had it referenced twice and the second reference was with another version. Once I deleted the unnecessary reference, the warning disappeared.

Found conflicts between different versions of the same dependent assembly that could not be resolved

You could run the Dotnet CLI with full diagnostic verbosity to help find the issue.

dotnet run --verbosity diagnostic >> full_build.log

Once the build is complete you can search through the log file (full_build.log) for the error. Searching for "a conflict" for example, should take you right to the problem.

How do I enumerate the properties of a JavaScript object?

Python's dict has 'keys' method, and that is really useful. I think in JavaScript we can have something this:

function keys(){
    var k = [];
    for(var p in this) {
        if(this.hasOwnProperty(p))
            k.push(p);
    }
    return k;
}
Object.defineProperty(Object.prototype, "keys", { value : keys, enumerable:false });

EDIT: But the answer of @carlos-ruana works very well. I tested Object.keys(window), and the result is what I expected.

EDIT after 5 years: it is not good idea to extend Object, because it can conflict with other libraries that may want to use keys on their objects and it will lead unpredictable behavior on your project. @carlos-ruana answer is the correct way to get keys of an object.

How to programmatically set cell value in DataGridView?

I came across the same problem and solved it as following for VB.NET. It's the .NET Framework so you should be possible to adapt. Wanted to compare my solution and now I see that nobody seems to solve it my way.

Make a field declaration.

Private _currentDataView as DataView

So looping through all the rows and searching for a cell containing a value that I know is next to the cell I want to change works for me.

Public Sub SetCellValue(ByVal value As String)
    Dim dataView As DataView = _currentDataView

    For i As Integer = 0 To dataView.Count - 1
        If dataView(i).Row.Item("projID").ToString.Equals("139") Then
            dataView(i).Row.Item("Comment") = value
            Exit For ' Exit early to save performance
        End If
    Next
End Sub

So that you can better understand it. I know that ColumnName "projID" is 139. I loop until I find it and then I can change the value of "ColumnNameofCell" in my case "Comment". I use this for comments added on runtime.

dataview

Replace multiple strings with multiple other strings

by using prototype function we can replace easily by passing object with keys and values and replacable text

_x000D_
_x000D_
String.prototype.replaceAll=function(obj,keydata='key'){
 const keys=keydata.split('key');
 return Object.entries(obj).reduce((a,[key,val])=> a.replace(`${keys[0]}${key}${keys[1]}`,val),this)
}

const data='hids dv sdc sd ${yathin} ${ok}'
console.log(data.replaceAll({yathin:12,ok:'hi'},'${key}'))
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

What's the difference between text/xml vs application/xml for webservice response

application/xml is seen by svn as binary type whereas text/xml as text file for which a diff can be displayed.

Is there a way to change the spacing between legend items in ggplot2?

Now that opts is deprecated in ggplot2 package, function theme should be used instead:

library(grid) # for unit()
... + theme(legend.key.height=unit(3,"line"))
... + theme(legend.key.width=unit(3,"line"))

LINQ query on a DataTable

var results = from DataRow myRow in myDataTable.Rows
    where (int)myRow["RowNo"] == 1
    select myRow

Connect to external server by using phpMyAdmin

at version 4.0 or above, we need to create one 'config.inc.php' or rename the 'config.sample.inc.php' to 'config.inc.php';

In my case, I also work with one mysql server for each environment (dev and production):

/* others code*/  
$whoIam = gethostname();
switch($whoIam) {
    case 'devHost':
        $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost';
        break;
    case 'MasterServer':
        $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'masterMysqlServer';
        break;
} /* others code*/ 

Failed to install android-sdk: "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlSchema"

I faced the same problem. Though I am a little bit backdated developer (Still using windows to develop :P)

To solve this issue on windows :

STEP 1: Install jdk 8 if it wasn't installed (jdk 9 or 11 doesn't work but you may have them installed for using in other dev uses).

Very simple using Chocolatey:

choco install jdk8

(If installed using Chocolatey, skip steps 2 and 3)

STEP 2: Go to the Environment variables settings and set JAVA_HOME TO jdk 8's installation directory.

JAVA_HOME

STEP 3: Go to path variable and add bin directory of jdk 8 and move it to top.

Path_varriable

STEP 4: Close any open terminal sessions and restart a new session

OPTIONAL STEP 5: Depending on your objective in the terminal run (may need to add sdkmanager to path or just navigate to the directory):

sdkmanager --update

That's all! :O Enjoy fluttering! :D

Can't update: no tracked branch

This isuse because of coflict merge. If you have new commit in origin and not get those files; also you have changed the local master branch files then you got this error. You should fetch again to a new directory and copy your files into that path. Finally, you should commit and push your changes.

Find control by name from Windows Forms controls

TextBox tbx = this.Controls.Find("textBox1", true).FirstOrDefault() as TextBox;
tbx.Text = "found!";

If Controls.Find is not found "textBox1" => error. You must add code.

If(tbx != null)

Edit:

TextBox tbx = this.Controls.Find("textBox1", true).FirstOrDefault() as TextBox;
If(tbx != null)
   tbx.Text = "found!";

In which conda environment is Jupyter executing?

As mentioned in the comments, conda support for jupyter notebooks is needed to switch kernels. Seems like this support is now available through conda itself (rather than relying on pip). http://docs.continuum.io/anaconda/user-guide/tasks/use-jupyter-notebook-extensions/

conda install nb_conda

which brings three other handy extensions in addition to Notebook Conda Kernels.

How to calculate difference between two dates in oracle 11g SQL

basically the to_char(sysdate,'DDD') returns no of days from 1-jan-yyyy to sysdate so that if subtract two dates it will return that,you will get difference between two dates

select to_char(sysdate,'DDD') -to_char(to_date('19-08-1995','dd-mm-yyyy'),'DDD') from dual;

Access host database from a docker container

If you want access to a Docker container where there is a DB, you have to add a bash:

docker exec -it postgresql bash

postgresql is the container name.

Once inside, from the bash, access to DB e.g:

$psql -U postgres

Detect if a Form Control option button is selected in VBA

If you are using a Form Control, you can get the same property as ActiveX by using OLEFormat.Object property of the Shape Object. Better yet assign it in a variable declared as OptionButton to get the Intellisense kick in.

Dim opt As OptionButton

With Sheets("Sheet1") ' Try to be always explicit
    Set opt = .Shapes("Option Button 1").OLEFormat.Object ' Form Control
    Debug.Pring opt.Value ' returns 1 (true) or -4146 (false)
End With

But then again, you really don't need to know the value.
If you use Form Control, you associate a Macro or sub routine with it which is executed when it is selected. So you just need to set up a sub routine that identifies which button is clicked and then execute a corresponding action for it.

For example you have 2 Form Control Option Buttons.

Sub CheckOptions()
    Select Case Application.Caller
    Case "Option Button 1"
    ' Action for option button 1
    Case "Option Button 2"
    ' Action for option button 2
    End Select
End Sub

In above code, you have only one sub routine assigned to both option buttons.
Then you test which called the sub routine by checking Application.Caller.
This way, no need to check whether the option button value is true or false.

TypeScript: casting HTMLElement

Just to clarify, this is correct.

Cannot convert 'NodeList' to 'HTMLScriptElement[]'

as a NodeList is not an actual array (e.g. it doesn't contain .forEach, .slice, .push, etc...).

Thus if it did convert to HTMLScriptElement[] in the type system, you'd get no type errors if you tried to call Array.prototype members on it at compile time, but it would fail at run time.

What's the difference between an id and a class?

An id must be unique in the whole page.

A class may apply to many elements.

Sometimes, it's a good idea to use ids.

In a page, you usually have one footer, one header...

Then the footer may be into a div with an id

<div id="footer" class="...">

and still have a class

How to make the background image to fit into the whole page without repeating using plain css?

background:url(bgimage.jpg) no-repeat; background-size: cover;

This did the trick

Mac SQLite editor

Sqliteman is my current preference: It uses QT, so it's cross-platform. Since I develop on Windows, Linux and OS X, it helps to have the same tools available on each.

I also tried SQLite Admin (Windows, so irrelevant to the question anyway) for a while, but it seems unmaintained these days, and has the most annoying hotkeys of any application I've ever used - Ctrl-S clears the current query, with no hope of undo.

How is Docker different from a virtual machine?

This is how Docker introduces itself:

Docker is the company driving the container movement and the only container platform provider to address every application across the hybrid cloud. Today’s businesses are under pressure to digitally transform but are constrained by existing applications and infrastructure while rationalizing an increasingly diverse portfolio of clouds, datacenters and application architectures. Docker enables true independence between applications and infrastructure and developers and IT ops to unlock their potential and creates a model for better collaboration and innovation.

So Docker is container based, meaning you have images and containers which can be run on your current machine. It's not including the operating system like VMs, but like a pack of different working packs like Java, Tomcat, etc.

If you understand containers, you get what Docker is and how it's different from VMs...

So, what's a container?

A container image is a lightweight, stand-alone, executable package of a piece of software that includes everything needed to run it: code, runtime, system tools, system libraries, settings. Available for both Linux and Windows based apps, containerized software will always run the same, regardless of the environment. Containers isolate software from its surroundings, for example differences between development and staging environments and help reduce conflicts between teams running different software on the same infrastructure.

Docker

So as you see in the image below, each container has a separate pack and running on a single machine share that machine's operating system... They are secure and easy to ship...

How to convert a number to string and vice versa in C++

I stole this convienent class from somewhere here at StackOverflow to convert anything streamable to a string:

// make_string
class make_string {
public:
  template <typename T>
  make_string& operator<<( T const & val ) {
    buffer_ << val;
    return *this;
  }
  operator std::string() const {
    return buffer_.str();
  }
private:
  std::ostringstream buffer_;
};

And then you use it as;

string str = make_string() << 6 << 8 << "hello";

Quite nifty!

Also I use this function to convert strings to anything streamable, althrough its not very safe if you try to parse a string not containing a number; (and its not as clever as the last one either)

// parse_string
template <typename RETURN_TYPE, typename STRING_TYPE>
RETURN_TYPE parse_string(const STRING_TYPE& str) {
  std::stringstream buf;
  buf << str;
  RETURN_TYPE val;
  buf >> val;
  return val;
}

Use as:

int x = parse_string<int>("78");

You might also want versions for wstrings.

Calculate row means on subset of columns

Starting with your data frame DF, you could use the data.table package:

library(data.table)

## EDIT: As suggested by @MichaelChirico, setDT converts a
## data.frame to a data.table by reference and is preferred
## if you don't mind losing the data.frame
setDT(DF)

# EDIT: To get the column name 'Mean':

DF[, .(Mean = rowMeans(.SD)), by = ID]

#      ID     Mean
# [1,]  A 3.666667
# [2,]  B 4.333333
# [3,]  C 3.333333
# [4,]  D 4.666667
# [5,]  E 4.333333

The intel x86 emulator accelerator (HAXM installer) revision 6.0.5 is showing not compatible with windows

You likely have Hyper-V enabled. The manual installer provides this detailed notice when it refuses to install on a Windows with it on.

This computer does not support Intel Virtualization Technology (VT-x) or it is being exclusively used by Hyper-V. HAXM cannot be installed. Please ensure Hyper-V is disabled in Windows Features, or refer to the Intel HAXM documentation for more information.

What is %0|%0 and how does it work?

This is the Windows version of a fork bomb.

%0 is the name of the currently executing batch file. A batch file that contains just this line:

%0|%0

Is going to recursively execute itself forever, quickly creating many processes and slowing the system down.

This is not a bug in windows, it is just a very stupid thing to do in a batch file.

Using Colormaps to set color of line in matplotlib

I thought it would be beneficial to include what I consider to be a more simple method using numpy's linspace coupled with matplotlib's cm-type object. It's possible that the above solution is for an older version. I am using the python 3.4.3, matplotlib 1.4.3, and numpy 1.9.3., and my solution is as follows.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

from matplotlib import cm
from numpy import linspace

start = 0.0
stop = 1.0
number_of_lines= 1000
cm_subsection = linspace(start, stop, number_of_lines) 

colors = [ cm.jet(x) for x in cm_subsection ]

for i, color in enumerate(colors):
    plt.axhline(i, color=color)

plt.ylabel('Line Number')
plt.show()

This results in 1000 uniquely-colored lines that span the entire cm.jet colormap as pictured below. If you run this script you'll find that you can zoom in on the individual lines.

cm.jet between 0.0 and 1.0 with 1000 graduations

Now say I want my 1000 line colors to just span the greenish portion between lines 400 to 600. I simply change my start and stop values to 0.4 and 0.6 and this results in using only 20% of the cm.jet color map between 0.4 and 0.6.

enter image description here

So in a one line summary you can create a list of rgba colors from a matplotlib.cm colormap accordingly:

colors = [ cm.jet(x) for x in linspace(start, stop, number_of_lines) ]

In this case I use the commonly invoked map named jet but you can find the complete list of colormaps available in your matplotlib version by invoking:

>>> from matplotlib import cm
>>> dir(cm)

How can I expose more than 1 port with Docker?

If you are creating a container from an image and like to expose multiple ports (not publish) you can use the following command:

docker create --name `container name` --expose 7000 --expose 7001 `image name`

Now, when you start this container using the docker start command, the configured ports above will be exposed.

Error "gnu/stubs-32.h: No such file or directory" while compiling Nachos source code

Hmm well I am on ubuntu 12.04 and I got this same error when trying to compile gcc 4.7.2

I tried installing the libc6-dev-i386 package and got the following:

Package libc6-dev-i386 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'libc6-dev-i386' has no installation candidate

I also set the correct environment variables in bash:

export LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/$(gcc -print-multiarch)
export C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/include/$(gcc -print-multiarch)
export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/include/$(gcc -print-multiarch)

however, I was still getting the error then I simply copied stubs-32.h over to where gcc was expecting to find it after doing a quick diff:

vic@ubuntu:/usr/include/i386-linux-gnu/gnu$ diff ../../gnu ./
Only in ./: stubs-32.h
Only in ../../gnu: stubs-64.h
vic@ubuntu:/usr/include/i386-linux-gnu/gnu$ sudo cp stubs-32.h ../../gnu/
[sudo] password for vic: 
vic@ubuntu:/usr/include/i386-linux-gnu/gnu$ diff ../../gnu ./
Only in ../../gnu: stubs-64.h
vic@ubuntu:/usr/include/i386-linux-gnu/gnu$

It's compiling now, let's see if it complains more ...

How to write data to a text file without overwriting the current data

Here's a chunk of code that will write values to a log file. If the file doesn't exist, it creates it, otherwise it just appends to the existing file. You need to add "using System.IO;" at the top of your code, if it's not already there.

string strLogText = "Some details you want to log.";

// Create a writer and open the file:
StreamWriter log;

if (!File.Exists("logfile.txt"))
{
  log = new StreamWriter("logfile.txt");
}
else
{
  log = File.AppendText("logfile.txt");
}

// Write to the file:
log.WriteLine(DateTime.Now);
log.WriteLine(strLogText);
log.WriteLine();

// Close the stream:
log.Close();

Adding Image to xCode by dragging it from File

You can't add image from desktop to UIimageView, you only can add image (dragging) into project folders and then select the name image into UIimageView properties (inspector).

Tutorial on how to do that: http://conecode.com/news/2011/06/ios-tutorial-creating-an-image-view-uiimageview/

How to open .mov format video in HTML video Tag?

Unfortunately .mov files are not supported with html5 video playback. You can see what filetypes are supported here:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Supported_media_formats

If you need to be able to play these formats with your html5 video player, you'll need to first convert your videofile--perhaps with something like this:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/html5-media-converter

Uninstall Node.JS using Linux command line?

I think this works, at least partially (have not investigated): nvm uninstall <VERSION_TO_UNINSTALL> eg:

nvm uninstall 4.4.5

Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 Offline Installer (ISO)

[UPDATE]
As per March 7, 2017, Visual Studio 2017 was released for general availability.

You can refer to Mehdi Dehghani answer for the direct download links or the old-fashioned ways using the website, vibs2006 answer
And you can also combine it with ray pixar answer to make it a complete full standalone offline installer.


Note:
I don't condone any illegal use of the offline installer.
Please stop piracy and follow the EULA.

The community edition is free even for commercial use, under some condition.
You can see the EULA in this link below.
https://www.visualstudio.com/support/legal/mt171547
Thank you.


Instruction for official offline installer:

  1. Open this link

    https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/

  2. Scroll Down (DO NOT FORGET!)

  3. Click on "Visual Studio 2015" panel heading
  4. Choose the edition that you want

    These menu should be available in that panel:

    • Community 2015
    • Enterprise 2015
    • Professional 2015
    • Enterprise 2015
    • Visual Studio 2015 Update
    • Visual Studio 2015 Language Pack
    • Visual Studio Test Professional 2015 Language Pack
    • Test Professional 2015
    • Express 2015 for Desktop
    • Express 2015 for Windows 10


  1. Choose the language that you want in the drop-down menu (above the Download button)

    The language drop-down menu should be like this:

    • English for English
    • Deutsch for German
    • Español for Spanish
    • Français for French
    • Italiano for Italian
    • ??????? for Russian
    • ??? for Japanese
    • ???? for Chinese (Simplified)
    • ???? for Chinese (Traditional)
    • ??? for Korean


  1. Check on "ISO" in radio-button menu (on the left side of the Download button)

    The radio-button menu should be like this:

    • Web installer
    • ISO
  2. Click the Download button

How can I copy a file from a remote server to using Putty in Windows?

One of the putty tools is pscp.exe; it will allow you to copy files from your remote host.

How to display both icon and title of action inside ActionBar?

Using app:showAsAction="always|withText". I am using Android 4.1.1, but it should applicable anyway. Mine look like below

<item
        android:id="@+id/action_sent_current_data"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_upload_cloud"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        android:title="@string/action_sent_current_data"
        app:showAsAction="always|withText"/>

How do I log a Python error with debug information?

A clean way to do it is using format_exc() and then parse the output to get the relevant part:

from traceback import format_exc

try:
    1/0
except Exception:
    print 'the relevant part is: '+format_exc().split('\n')[-2]

Regards

Prepend line to beginning of a file

num = [1, 2, 3] #List containing Integers

with open("ex3.txt", 'r+') as file:
    readcontent = file.read()  # store the read value of exe.txt into 
                                # readcontent 
    file.seek(0, 0) #Takes the cursor to top line
    for i in num:         # writing content of list One by One.
        file.write(str(i) + "\n") #convert int to str since write() deals 
                                   # with str
    file.write(readcontent) #after content of string are written, I return 
                             #back content that were in the file

iOS 6 apps - how to deal with iPhone 5 screen size?

@Pascal's comment on the OP's question is right. By simply adding the image, it removes the black borders and the app will use the full height.

You will need to make adjustments to any CGRects by determining that the device is using the bigger display. I.e. If you need something aligned to the bottom of the screen.

I am sure there is a built in method, but I haven't seen anything and a lot is still under NDA so the method we use in our apps is quite simply a global function. Add the following to your .pch file and then its a simple if( is4InchRetina() ) { ... } call to make adjustments to your CGRects etc.

static BOOL is4InchRetina()
{
    if (![UIApplication sharedApplication].statusBarHidden && (int)[[UIScreen mainScreen] applicationFrame].size.height == 548 || [UIApplication sharedApplication].statusBarHidden && (int)[[UIScreen mainScreen] applicationFrame].size.height == 568)
        return YES;

    return NO;
}

How to check java bit version on Linux?

Go to this JVM online test and run it.

Then check the architecture displayed: x86_64 means you have the 64bit version installed, otherwise it's 32bit.

Change Date Format(DD/MM/YYYY) in SQL SELECT Statement

You will want to use a CONVERT() statement.

Try the following;

SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), SA.[RequestStartDate], 103) as 'Service Start Date', CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), SA.[RequestEndDate], 103) as 'Service End Date', FROM (......) SA WHERE.....

See MSDN Cast and Convert for more information.

Can you force Vue.js to reload/re-render?

<router-view :key="$route.params.slug" />

just use key with your any params its auto reload children..

remove duplicates from sql union

Since you are still getting duplicate using only UNION I would check that:

  • That they are exact duplicates. I mean, if you make a

    SELECT DISTINCT * FROM (<your query>) AS subquery

    you do get fewer files?

  • That you don't have already the duplicates in the first part of the query (maybe generated by the left join). As I understand it UNION it will not add to the result set rows that are already on it, but it won't remove duplicates already present in the first data set.

Error Code 1292 - Truncated incorrect DOUBLE value - Mysql

Had this issue with ES6 and TypeORM while trying to pass .where("order.id IN (:orders)", { orders }), where orders was a comma separated string of numbers. When I converted to a template literal, the problem was resolved.

.where(`order.id IN (${orders})`);

How do you specify a debugger program in Code::Blocks 12.11?

  1. Go to settings >> Debugger.
  2. Now as you can see in the image below. There's a tree. Common->GDB/CDB Debugger -> Default. enter image description here

  3. Click on executable path (on the right) to find the address to gdb32.exe .

  4. Click gdb32.exe >> OK.

THATS IT!! This worked for me.

How to show soft-keyboard when edittext is focused

Using Xamarin, this works for me inside a Fragment:

using Android.Views.InputMethods;
using Android.Content;

...

if ( _txtSearch.RequestFocus() ) {
  var inputManager = (InputMethodManager) Activity.GetSystemService( Context.InputMethodService );
  inputManager.ShowSoftInput( _txtSearch, ShowFlags.Implicit );
}

Launching a website via windows commandline

This worked for me:

explorer <YOUR URL>

For example:

explorer "https://www.google.com/"

This will open https://www.google.com/ in your default browser.

Format Date time in AngularJS

Here is a filter that will take a date string OR javascript Date() object. It uses Moment.js and can apply any Moment.js transform function, such as the popular 'fromNow'

angular.module('myModule').filter('moment', function () {
  return function (input, momentFn /*, param1, param2, ...param n */) {
    var args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 2),
        momentObj = moment(input);
    return momentObj[momentFn].apply(momentObj, args);
  };
});

So...

{{ anyDateObjectOrString | moment: 'format': 'MMM DD, YYYY' }}

would display Nov 11, 2014

{{ anyDateObjectOrString | moment: 'fromNow' }}

would display 10 minutes ago

If you need to call multiple moment functions, you can chain them. This converts to UTC and then formats...

{{ someDate | moment: 'utc' | moment: 'format': 'MMM DD, YYYY' }}

https://gist.github.com/cmmartin/341b017194bac09ffa1a

How can I make this try_files directive work?

a very common try_files line which can be applied on your condition is

location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /test/index.html;
}

you probably understand the first part, location / matches all locations, unless it's matched by a more specific location, like location /test for example

The second part ( the try_files ) means when you receive a URI that's matched by this block try $uri first, for example http://example.com/images/image.jpg nginx will try to check if there's a file inside /images called image.jpg if found it will serve it first.

Second condition is $uri/ which means if you didn't find the first condition $uri try the URI as a directory, for example http://example.com/images/, ngixn will first check if a file called images exists then it wont find it, then goes to second check $uri/ and see if there's a directory called images exists then it will try serving it.

Side note: if you don't have autoindex on you'll probably get a 403 forbidden error, because directory listing is forbidden by default.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that if you have index defined, nginx will try to check if the index exists inside this folder before trying directory listing.

Third condition /test/index.html is considered a fall back option, (you need to use at least 2 options, one and a fall back), you can use as much as you can (never read of a constriction before), nginx will look for the file index.html inside the folder test and serve it if it exists.

If the third condition fails too, then nginx will serve the 404 error page.

Also there's something called named locations, like this

location @error {
}

You can call it with try_files like this

try_files $uri $uri/ @error;

TIP: If you only have 1 condition you want to serve, like for example inside folder images you only want to either serve the image or go to 404 error, you can write a line like this

location /images {
    try_files $uri =404;
}

which means either serve the file or serve a 404 error, you can't use only $uri by it self without =404 because you need to have a fallback option.
You can also choose which ever error code you want, like for example:

location /images {
    try_files $uri =403;
}

This will show a forbidden error if the image doesn't exist, or if you use 500 it will show server error, etc ..

How do I work with dynamic multi-dimensional arrays in C?

There's no way to allocate the whole thing in one go. Instead, create an array of pointers, then, for each pointer, create the memory for it. For example:

int** array;
array = (int**)malloc(sizeof(int*) * 50);
for(int i = 0; i < 50; i++)
    array[i] = (int*)malloc(sizeof(int) * 50);

Of course, you can also declare the array as int* array[50] and skip the first malloc, but the second set is needed in order to dynamically allocate the required storage.

It is possible to hack a way to allocate it in a single step, but it would require a custom lookup function, but writing that in such a way that it will always work can be annoying. An example could be L(arr,x,y,max_x) arr[(y)*(max_x) + (x)], then malloc a block of 50*50 ints or whatever and access using that L macro, e.g.

#define L(arr,x,y,max_x) arr[(y)*(max_x) + (x)]

int dim_x = 50;
int dim_y = 50;

int* array = malloc(dim_x*dim_y*sizeof(int));

int foo = L(array, 4, 6, dim_x);

But that's much nastier unless you know the effects of what you're doing with the preprocessor macro.

Python error: "IndexError: string index out of range"

This error would happen when the number of guesses (so_far) is less than the length of the word. Did you miss an initialization for the variable so_far somewhere, that sets it to something like

so_far = " " * len(word)

?

Edit:

try something like

print "%d / %d" % (new, so_far)

before the line that throws the error, so you can see exactly what goes wrong. The only thing I can think of is that so_far is in a different scope, and you're not actually using the instance you think.

Freeze screen in chrome debugger / DevTools panel for popover inspection?

I tried the other solutions here, they work but I'm lazy so this is my solution

  1. hover over the element to trigger expanded state
  2. ctrl+shift+c
  3. hover over element again
  4. right click
  5. navigate to the debugger

by right clicking it no longer registers mouse event since a context menu pops up, so you can move the mouse away safely

How can I brew link a specific version?

brew switch libfoo mycopy

You can use brew switch to switch between versions of the same package, if it's installed as versioned subdirectories under Cellar/<packagename>/

This will list versions installed ( for example I had Cellar/sdl2/2.0.3, I've compiled into Cellar/sdl2/2.0.4)

brew info sdl2

Then to switch between them

brew switch sdl2 2.0.4
brew info 

Info now shows * next to the 2.0.4

To install under Cellar/<packagename>/<version> from source you can do for example

cd ~/somewhere/src/foo-2.0.4
./configure --prefix $(brew --Cellar)/foo/2.0.4
make

check where it gets installed with

make install -n

if all looks correct

make install

Then from cd $(brew --Cellar) do the switch between version.

I'm using brew version 0.9.5

Android failed to load JS bundle

The following made it work for me on Ubuntu 14.04:

cd (App Dir)
react-native start > /dev/null 2>&1 &
adb reverse tcp:8081 tcp:8081

Update: See

Update 2: @scgough We got this error because React Native (RN) was unable to fetch JavaScript from the dev server running on our workstations. You can see why this happens here:

https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/42eb5464fd8a65ed84b799de5d4dc225349449be/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/devsupport/DevServerHelper.java#L116-L137

If your RN app detects that you're using Genymotion or the emulator it tries to fetch the JavaScript from GENYMOTION_LOCALHOST (10.0.3.2) or EMULATOR_LOCALHOST (10.0.2.2). Otherwise it presumes that you're using a device and it tries to fetch the JavaScript from DEVICE_LOCALHOST (localhost). The problem is that the dev server runs on your workstation's localhost, not the device's, so in order to get it to work you need to either:

Remove redundant paths from $PATH variable

For an easy copy-paste template I use this Perl snippet:

PATH=`echo $PATH | perl -pe s:/path/to/be/excluded::`

This way you don't need to escape the slashes for the substitute operator.

Using the HTML5 "required" attribute for a group of checkboxes?

we can do this easily with html5 also, just need to add some jquery code

Demo

HTML

<form>
 <div class="form-group options">
   <input type="checkbox" name="type[]" value="A" required /> A
   <input type="checkbox" name="type[]" value="B" required /> B
   <input type="checkbox" name="type[]" value="C" required /> C
   <input type="submit">
 </div>
</form>

Jquery

$(function(){
    var requiredCheckboxes = $('.options :checkbox[required]');
    requiredCheckboxes.change(function(){
        if(requiredCheckboxes.is(':checked')) {
            requiredCheckboxes.removeAttr('required');
        } else {
            requiredCheckboxes.attr('required', 'required');
        }
    });
});

Could not load file or assembly "Oracle.DataAccess" or one of its dependencies

I needed a 64-bit version of oracle.dataaccess.dll but this caused problems with other libraries I was using.

[BadImageFormatException: Could not load file or assembly 'Oracle.DataAccess' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.]

I followed several steps above. Going to advance settings on the projects pool to toggle allow 32bit worked but I wasn't content to leave it like that so i turned it back on.

My project also had references that relied on Elmah and log4net references. I downloaded the latest version of these and my project was able to build and run fine without messing with the pools's allow 32bit setting.

Remove empty elements from an array in Javascript

Here is an example using variadic behavior & ES2015 fat arrow expression:

Array.prototype.clean = function() {
  var args = [].slice.call(arguments);
  return this.filter(item => args.indexOf(item) === -1);
};

// Usage
var arr = ["", undefined, 3, "yes", undefined, undefined, ""];
arr.clean(undefined); // ["", 3, "yes", ""];
arr.clean(undefined, ""); // [3, "yes"];

How to comment and uncomment blocks of code in the Office VBA Editor

There is a built-in Edit toolbar in the VBA editor that has the Comment Block and Uncomment Block buttons by default, and other useful tools.

If you right-click any toolbar or menu (or go to the View menu > Toolbars), you will see a list of available toolbars (above the "Customize..." option). The Standard toolbar is selected by default. Select the Edit toolbar and the new toolbar will appear, with the Comment Block buttons in the middle.

enter image description here

*This is a simpler option to the ones mentioned.

What's the difference between ngOnInit and ngAfterViewInit of Angular2?

ngOnInit() is called right after the directive's data-bound properties have been checked for the first time, and before any of its children have been checked. It is invoked only once when the directive is instantiated.

ngAfterViewInit() is called after a component's view, and its children's views, are created. Its a lifecycle hook that is called after a component's view has been fully initialized.

error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _WinMain@16 referenced in function ___tmainCRTStartup

Your tried to turn that source file into an executable, which obviously isn't possible, because the mandatory entry point, the main function, isn't defined. Add a file main.cpp and define a main function. If you're working on the commandline (which I doubt), you can add /c to only compile and not link. This will produce an object file only, which needs to be linked into either a static or shared lib or an application (in which case you'll need an oject file with main defined).

_WinMain is Microsoft's name for main when linking.

Also: you're not running the code yet, you are compiling (and linking) it. C++ is not an interpreted language.

Search and replace part of string in database

I was just faced with a similar problem. I exported the contents of the db into one sql file and used TextEdit to find and replace everything I needed. Simplicity ftw!

How do I remove the file suffix and path portion from a path string in Bash?

Using basename I used the following to achieve this:

for file in *; do
    ext=${file##*.}
    fname=`basename $file $ext`

    # Do things with $fname
done;

This requires no a priori knowledge of the file extension and works even when you have a filename that has dots in it's filename (in front of it's extension); it does require the program basename though, but this is part of the GNU coreutils so it should ship with any distro.

Comment shortcut Android Studio

If you are used with Eclipse, there is something in Settings>Keymap Keymaps: and you can pick Eclipse to keep the same shortcuts.

Using GCC to produce readable assembly?

I haven't given a shot to gcc, but in case of g++. The command below works for me. -g for debug build and -Wa,-adhln is passed to assembler for listing with source code

g++ -g -Wa,-adhln src.cpp

How to convert list of key-value tuples into dictionary?

>>> dict([('A', 1), ('B', 2), ('C', 3)])
{'A': 1, 'C': 3, 'B': 2}

INSERT SELECT statement in Oracle 11G

You don't need the 'values' clause when using a 'select' as your source.

insert into table1 (col1, col2) 
select t1.col1, t2.col2 from oldtable1 t1, oldtable2 t2;

Erase whole array Python

Well yes arrays do exist, and no they're not different to lists when it comes to things like del and append:

>>> from array import array
>>> foo = array('i', range(5))
>>> foo
array('i', [0, 1, 2, 3, 4])
>>> del foo[:]
>>> foo
array('i')
>>> foo.append(42)
>>> foo
array('i', [42])
>>>

Differences worth noting: you need to specify the type when creating the array, and you save storage at the expense of extra time converting between the C type and the Python type when you do arr[i] = expression or arr.append(expression), and lvalue = arr[i]

Including external jar-files in a new jar-file build with Ant

With the helpful advice from people who have answered here I started digging into One-Jar. After some dead-ends (and some results that were exactly like my previous results I managed to get it working. For other peoples reference I'm listing the build.xml that worked for me.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<project basedir="." default="build" name="<INSERT_PROJECT_NAME_HERE>">
    <property environment="env"/>
    <property name="debuglevel" value="source,lines,vars"/>
    <property name="target" value="1.6"/>
    <property name="source" value="1.6"/>

    <property name="one-jar.dist.dir" value="../onejar"/>
    <import file="${one-jar.dist.dir}/one-jar-ant-task.xml" optional="true" />

    <property name="src.dir"          value="src"/>
    <property name="bin.dir"          value="bin"/>
    <property name="build.dir"        value="build"/>
    <property name="classes.dir"      value="${build.dir}/classes"/>
    <property name="jar.target.dir"   value="${build.dir}/jars"/>
    <property name="external.lib.dir" value="../jars"/>
    <property name="final.jar"        value="${bin.dir}/<INSERT_NAME_OF_FINAL_JAR_HERE>"/>

    <property name="main.class"       value="<INSERT_MAIN_CLASS_HERE>"/>

    <path id="project.classpath">
        <fileset dir="${external.lib.dir}">
            <include name="*.jar"/>
        </fileset>
    </path>

    <target name="init">
        <mkdir dir="${bin.dir}"/>
        <mkdir dir="${build.dir}"/>
        <mkdir dir="${classes.dir}"/>
        <mkdir dir="${jar.target.dir}"/>
        <copy includeemptydirs="false" todir="${classes.dir}">
            <fileset dir="${src.dir}">
                <exclude name="**/*.launch"/>
                <exclude name="**/*.java"/>
            </fileset>
        </copy>
    </target>

    <target name="clean">
        <delete dir="${build.dir}"/>
        <delete dir="${bin.dir}"/>
    </target>

    <target name="cleanall" depends="clean"/>

    <target name="build" depends="init">
        <echo message="${ant.project.name}: ${ant.file}"/>
        <javac debug="true" debuglevel="${debuglevel}" destdir="${classes.dir}" source="${source}" target="${target}">
            <src path="${src.dir}"/>
            <classpath refid="project.classpath"/>   
        </javac>
    </target>

    <target name="build-jar" depends="build">
        <delete file="${final.jar}" />
        <one-jar destfile="${final.jar}" onejarmainclass="${main.class}">
            <main>
                <fileset dir="${classes.dir}"/>
            </main>
            <lib>
                <fileset dir="${external.lib.dir}" />
            </lib>
        </one-jar>
    </target>
</project>

I hope someone else can benefit from this.

Using for loop inside of a JSP

Do this

    <% for(int i = 0; i < allFestivals.size(); i+=1) { %>
        <tr>      
            <td><%=allFestivals.get(i).getFestivalName()%></td>
        </tr>
    <% } %>

Better way is to use c:foreach see link jstl for each

SVG Positioning

Everything in the g element is positioned relative to the current transform matrix.

To move the content, just put the transformation in the g element:

<g transform="translate(20,2.5) rotate(10)">
    <rect x="0" y="0" width="60" height="10"/>
</g>

Links: Example from the SVG 1.1 spec

String.contains in Java

no real explanation is given by Java (in either JavaDoc or much coveted code comments), but looking at the code, it seems that this is magic:

calling stack:

String.indexOf(char[], int, int, char[], int, int, int) line: 1591  
String.indexOf(String, int) line: 1564  
String.indexOf(String) line: 1546   
String.contains(CharSequence) line: 1934    

code:

/**
 * Code shared by String and StringBuffer to do searches. The
 * source is the character array being searched, and the target
 * is the string being searched for.
 *
 * @param   source       the characters being searched.
 * @param   sourceOffset offset of the source string.
 * @param   sourceCount  count of the source string.
 * @param   target       the characters being searched for.
 * @param   targetOffset offset of the target string.
 * @param   targetCount  count of the target string.
 * @param   fromIndex    the index to begin searching from.
 */
static int indexOf(char[] source, int sourceOffset, int sourceCount,
                   char[] target, int targetOffset, int targetCount,
                   int fromIndex) {
  if (fromIndex >= sourceCount) {
        return (targetCount == 0 ? sourceCount : -1);
  }
      if (fromIndex < 0) {
        fromIndex = 0;
      }
  if (targetCount == 0) {//my comment: this is where it returns, the size of the 
    return fromIndex;    // incoming string is 0,  which is passed in as targetCount
  }                      // fromIndex is 0 as well, as the search starts from the 
                         // start of the source string
    ...//the rest of the method 

Calling a Variable from another Class

You need to specify an access modifier for your variable. In this case you want it public.

public class Variables
{
    public static string name = "";
}

After this you can use the variable like this.

Variables.name

How do I set cell value to Date and apply default Excel date format?

To set to default Excel type Date (defaulted to OS level locale /-> i.e. xlsx will look different when opened by a German or British person/ and flagged with an asterisk if you choose it in Excel's cell format chooser) you should:

    CellStyle cellStyle = xssfWorkbook.createCellStyle();
    cellStyle.setDataFormat((short)14);
    cell.setCellStyle(cellStyle);

I did it with xlsx and it worked fine.

Regex empty string or email

This regex pattern will match an empty string:

^$

And this will match (crudely) an email or an empty string:

(^$|^.*@.*\..*$)

Git : fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists

For me none of the solutions here solved it. Frustrated, I restarted my Macbook's iTerm terminal, and voila! My github authorization started working again.

Weird, but maybe iTerm has its own way of handling SSH authorizations or that my terminal session wasn't authorized somehow.

Difference between virtual and abstract methods

Virtual methods have an implementation and provide the derived classes with the option of overriding it. Abstract methods do not provide an implementation and force the derived classes to override the method.

So, abstract methods have no actual code in them, and subclasses HAVE TO override the method. Virtual methods can have code, which is usually a default implementation of something, and any subclasses CAN override the method using the override modifier and provide a custom implementation.

public abstract class E
{
    public abstract void AbstractMethod(int i);

    public virtual void VirtualMethod(int i)
    {
        // Default implementation which can be overridden by subclasses.
    }
}

public class D : E
{
    public override void AbstractMethod(int i)
    {
        // You HAVE to override this method
    }
    public override void VirtualMethod(int i)
    {
        // You are allowed to override this method.
    }
}

Java Could not reserve enough space for object heap error

4gb RAM doesn't mean you can use it all for java process. Lots of RAM is needed for system processes. Dont go above 2GB or it will be trouble some.

Before starting jvm just check how much RAM is available and then set memory accordingly.

Android Studio: Drawable Folder: How to put Images for Multiple dpi?

You don't create subfolders of the drawable folder but rather 'sibling' folders next to it under the /res folder for the different screen densities or screen sizes. The /drawable folder (without any dimension) is mostly used for drawables that don't relate to any screen sizes like selectors.

See this screenshot (use the name drawable-hdpi instead of mipmap-hdpi):

enter image description here

How to set initial size of std::vector?

std::vector<CustomClass *> whatever(20000);

or:

std::vector<CustomClass *> whatever;
whatever.reserve(20000);

The former sets the actual size of the array -- i.e., makes it a vector of 20000 pointers. The latter leaves the vector empty, but reserves space for 20000 pointers, so you can insert (up to) that many without it having to reallocate.

At least in my experience, it's fairly unusual for either of these to make a huge difference in performance--but either can affect correctness under some circumstances. In particular, as long as no reallocation takes place, iterators into the vector are guaranteed to remain valid, and once you've set the size/reserved space, you're guaranteed there won't be any reallocations as long as you don't increase the size beyond that.

ValueError: Length of values does not match length of index | Pandas DataFrame.unique()

The error comes up when you are trying to assign a list of numpy array of different length to a data frame, and it can be reproduced as follows:

A data frame of four rows:

df = pd.DataFrame({'A': [1,2,3,4]})

Now trying to assign a list/array of two elements to it:

df['B'] = [3,4]   # or df['B'] = np.array([3,4])

Both errors out:

ValueError: Length of values does not match length of index

Because the data frame has four rows but the list and array has only two elements.

Work around Solution (use with caution): convert the list/array to a pandas Series, and then when you do assignment, missing index in the Series will be filled with NaN:

df['B'] = pd.Series([3,4])

df
#   A     B
#0  1   3.0
#1  2   4.0
#2  3   NaN          # NaN because the value at index 2 and 3 doesn't exist in the Series
#3  4   NaN

For your specific problem, if you don't care about the index or the correspondence of values between columns, you can reset index for each column after dropping the duplicates:

df.apply(lambda col: col.drop_duplicates().reset_index(drop=True))

#   A     B
#0  1   1.0
#1  2   5.0
#2  7   9.0
#3  8   NaN

Saving response from Requests to file

As Peter already pointed out:

In [1]: import requests

In [2]: r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/events')

In [3]: type(r)
Out[3]: requests.models.Response

In [4]: type(r.content)
Out[4]: str

You may also want to check r.text.

Also: https://2.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/

Doing a join across two databases with different collations on SQL Server and getting an error

You can use the collate clause in a query (I can't find my example right now, so my syntax is probably wrong - I hope it points you in the right direction)

select sone_field collate SQL_Latin1_General_CP850_CI_AI
  from table_1
    inner join table_2
      on (table_1.field collate SQL_Latin1_General_CP850_CI_AI = table_2.field)
  where whatever

bootstrap datepicker today as default

For bootstrap date picker

$( ".classNmae" ).datepicker( "setDate", new Date());

* new Date is jquery default function in which you can pass custom date & if it not set, it will take current date by default

Importing CSV data using PHP/MySQL

I answered a virtually identical question just the other day: Save CSV files into mysql database

MySQL has a feature LOAD DATA INFILE, which allows it to import a CSV file directly in a single SQL query, without needing it to be processed in a loop via your PHP program at all.

Simple example:

<?php
$query = <<<eof
    LOAD DATA INFILE '$fileName'
     INTO TABLE tableName
     FIELDS TERMINATED BY '|' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
     LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
    (field1,field2,field3,etc)
eof;

$db->query($query);
?>

It's as simple as that.

No loops, no fuss. And much much quicker than parsing it in PHP.

MySQL manual page here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/load-data.html

Hope that helps

How do I remove all non alphanumeric characters from a string except dash?

Here's an extension method using @ata answer as inspiration.

"hello-world123, 456".MakeAlphaNumeric(new char[]{'-'});// yields "hello-world123456"

or if you require additional characters other than hyphen...

"hello-world123, 456!?".MakeAlphaNumeric(new char[]{'-','!'});// yields "hello-world123456!"


public static class StringExtensions
{   
    public static string MakeAlphaNumeric(this string input, params char[] exceptions)
    {
        var charArray = input.ToCharArray();
        var alphaNumeric = Array.FindAll<char>(charArray, (c => char.IsLetterOrDigit(c)|| exceptions?.Contains(c) == true));
        return new string(alphaNumeric);
    }
}

How to search for a string in an arraylist

Loop through your list and do a contains or startswith.

ArrayList<String> resList = new ArrayList<String>();
String searchString = "bea";

for (String curVal : list){
  if (curVal.contains(searchString)){
    resList.add(curVal);
  }
}

You can wrap that in a method. The contains checks if its in the list. You could also go for startswith.

How to give a delay in loop execution using Qt

As an update of @Live's answer, for Qt = 5.2 there is no more need to subclass QThread, as now the sleep functions are public:

Static Public Members

  • QThread * currentThread()
  • Qt::HANDLE currentThreadId()
  • int idealThreadCount()
  • void msleep(unsigned long msecs)
  • void sleep(unsigned long secs)
  • void usleep(unsigned long usecs)
  • void yieldCurrentThread()

cf http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qthread.html#static-public-members

How to get the path of current worksheet in VBA?

The quickest way

path = ThisWorkbook.Path & "\"

Git on Bitbucket: Always asked for password, even after uploading my public SSH key

Actually, none of these answers reflect current state of the art with Git (v2.29 by time of writing this answer). In the latest versions of Git, cache, winstore, wincred are deprecated.


If you want to clone a Bitbucket repository via HTTPS, e.g.

git clone https://[email protected]/SomeOrganization/SomeRepo.git

You have to:

  1. Generate app password at Bitbucket user administration.
  2. Setup your credential method in .gitconfig accordingly (global or local)
[credential]
    helper = manager

You can locate your .gitconfig by executing this command.

git config --list --show-origin
  1. Execute
git clone https://[email protected]/SomeOrganization/SomeRepo.git

and wait until log on window appears. Use your user name from the url (kutlime in my case) and your generated app password as a password.

Possible to make labels appear when hovering over a point in matplotlib?

mpld3 solve it for me. EDIT (CODE ADDED):

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import mpld3

fig, ax = plt.subplots(subplot_kw=dict(axisbg='#EEEEEE'))
N = 100

scatter = ax.scatter(np.random.normal(size=N),
                 np.random.normal(size=N),
                 c=np.random.random(size=N),
                 s=1000 * np.random.random(size=N),
                 alpha=0.3,
                 cmap=plt.cm.jet)
ax.grid(color='white', linestyle='solid')

ax.set_title("Scatter Plot (with tooltips!)", size=20)

labels = ['point {0}'.format(i + 1) for i in range(N)]
tooltip = mpld3.plugins.PointLabelTooltip(scatter, labels=labels)
mpld3.plugins.connect(fig, tooltip)

mpld3.show()

You can check this example

JavaScript - XMLHttpRequest, Access-Control-Allow-Origin errors

I think you've missed the point of access control.

A quick recap on why CORS exists: Since JS code from a website can execute XHR, that site could potentially send requests to other sites, masquerading as you and exploiting the trust those sites have in you(e.g. if you have logged in, a malicious site could attempt to extract information or execute actions you never wanted) - this is called a CSRF attack. To prevent that, web browsers have very stringent limitations on what XHR you can send - you are generally limited to just your domain, and so on.

Now, sometimes it's useful for a site to allow other sites to contact it - sites that provide APIs or services, like the one you're trying to access, would be prime candidates. CORS was developed to allow site A(e.g. paste.ee) to say "I trust site B, so you can send XHR from it to me". This is specified by site A sending "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" headers in its responses.

In your specific case, it seems that paste.ee doesn't bother to use CORS. Your best bet is to contact the site owner and find out why, if you want to use paste.ee with a browser script. Alternatively, you could try using an extension(those should have higher XHR privileges).

Is it possible to dynamically compile and execute C# code fragments?

I recently needed to spawn processes for unit testing. This post was useful as I created a simple class to do that with either code as a string or code from my project. To build this class, you'll need the ICSharpCode.Decompiler and Microsoft.CodeAnalysis NuGet packages. Here's the class:

using ICSharpCode.Decompiler;
using ICSharpCode.Decompiler.CSharp;
using ICSharpCode.Decompiler.TypeSystem;
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis;
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Reflection;

public static class CSharpRunner
{
   public static object Run(string snippet, IEnumerable<Assembly> references, string typeName, string methodName, params object[] args) =>
      Invoke(Compile(Parse(snippet), references), typeName, methodName, args);

   public static object Run(MethodInfo methodInfo, params object[] args)
   {
      var refs = methodInfo.DeclaringType.Assembly.GetReferencedAssemblies().Select(n => Assembly.Load(n));
      return Invoke(Compile(Decompile(methodInfo), refs), methodInfo.DeclaringType.FullName, methodInfo.Name, args);
   }

   private static Assembly Compile(SyntaxTree syntaxTree, IEnumerable<Assembly> references = null)
   {
      if (references is null) references = new[] { typeof(object).Assembly, typeof(Enumerable).Assembly };
      var mrefs = references.Select(a => MetadataReference.CreateFromFile(a.Location));
      var compilation = CSharpCompilation.Create(Path.GetRandomFileName(), new[] { syntaxTree }, mrefs, new CSharpCompilationOptions(OutputKind.DynamicallyLinkedLibrary));

      using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
      {
         var result = compilation.Emit(ms);
         if (result.Success)
         {
            ms.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
            return Assembly.Load(ms.ToArray());
         }
         else
         {
            throw new InvalidOperationException(string.Join("\n", result.Diagnostics.Where(diagnostic => diagnostic.IsWarningAsError || diagnostic.Severity == DiagnosticSeverity.Error).Select(d => $"{d.Id}: {d.GetMessage()}")));
         }
      }
   }

   private static SyntaxTree Decompile(MethodInfo methodInfo)
   {
      var decompiler = new CSharpDecompiler(methodInfo.DeclaringType.Assembly.Location, new DecompilerSettings());
      var typeInfo = decompiler.TypeSystem.MainModule.Compilation.FindType(methodInfo.DeclaringType).GetDefinition();
      return Parse(decompiler.DecompileTypeAsString(typeInfo.FullTypeName));
   }

   private static object Invoke(Assembly assembly, string typeName, string methodName, object[] args)
   {
      var type = assembly.GetType(typeName);
      var obj = Activator.CreateInstance(type);
      return type.InvokeMember(methodName, BindingFlags.Default | BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, null, obj, args);
   }

   private static SyntaxTree Parse(string snippet) => CSharpSyntaxTree.ParseText(snippet);
}

To use it, call the Run methods as below:

void Demo1()
{
   const string code = @"
   public class Runner
   {
      public void Run() { System.IO.File.AppendAllText(@""C:\Temp\NUnitTest.txt"", System.DateTime.Now.ToString(""o"") + ""\n""); }
   }";

   CSharpRunner.Run(code, null, "Runner", "Run");
}

void Demo2()
{
   CSharpRunner.Run(typeof(Runner).GetMethod("Run"));
}

public class Runner
{
   public void Run() { System.IO.File.AppendAllText(@"C:\Temp\NUnitTest.txt", System.DateTime.Now.ToString("o") + "\n"); }
}

Get distance between two points in canvas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_distance

If you have the coordinates, use the formula to calculate the distance:

var dist = Math.sqrt( Math.pow((x1-x2), 2) + Math.pow((y1-y2), 2) );

If your platform supports the ** operator, you can instead use that:

const dist = Math.sqrt((x1 - x2) ** 2 + (y1 - y2) ** 2);

How do you monitor network traffic on the iPhone?

Com'on, no mention of Fiddler? Where's the love :)

Fiddler is a very popular HTTP debugger aimed at developers and not network admins (i.e. Wireshark).

Setting it up for iOS is fairly simple process. It can decrypt HTTPS traffic too!

Our mobile team is finally reliefed after QA department started using Fiddler to troubleshoot issues. Before fiddler, people fiddled around to know who to blame, mobile team or APIs team, but not anymore.

How to trim white spaces of array values in php

array_map('trim', $data) would convert all subarrays into null. If it is needed to trim spaces only for strings and leave other types as it is, you can use:

$data = array_map(
    function ($item) {
        return is_string($item) ? trim($item) : $item;
    },
    $data
);

How do I sort a dictionary by value?

Pretty much the same as Hank Gay's answer:

sorted([(value,key) for (key,value) in mydict.items()])

Or optimized slightly as suggested by John Fouhy:

sorted((value,key) for (key,value) in mydict.items())

jQuery OR Selector?

Use a comma.

'.classA, .classB'

You may choose to omit the space.

Streaming a video file to an html5 video player with Node.js so that the video controls continue to work?

The accepted answer to this question is awesome and should remain the accepted answer. However I ran into an issue with the code where the read stream was not always being ended/closed. Part of the solution was to send autoClose: true along with start:start, end:end in the second createReadStream arg.

The other part of the solution was to limit the max chunksize being sent in the response. The other answer set end like so:

var end = positions[1] ? parseInt(positions[1], 10) : total - 1;

...which has the effect of sending the rest of the file from the requested start position through its last byte, no matter how many bytes that may be. However the client browser has the option to only read a portion of that stream, and will, if it doesn't need all of the bytes yet. This will cause the stream read to get blocked until the browser decides it's time to get more data (for example a user action like seek/scrub, or just by playing the stream).

I needed this stream to be closed because I was displaying the <video> element on a page that allowed the user to delete the video file. However the file was not being removed from the filesystem until the client (or server) closed the connection, because that is the only way the stream was getting ended/closed.

My solution was just to set a maxChunk configuration variable, set it to 1MB, and never pipe a read a stream of more than 1MB at a time to the response.

// same code as accepted answer
var end = positions[1] ? parseInt(positions[1], 10) : total - 1;
var chunksize = (end - start) + 1;

// poor hack to send smaller chunks to the browser
var maxChunk = 1024 * 1024; // 1MB at a time
if (chunksize > maxChunk) {
  end = start + maxChunk - 1;
  chunksize = (end - start) + 1;
}

This has the effect of making sure that the read stream is ended/closed after each request, and not kept alive by the browser.

I also wrote a separate StackOverflow question and answer covering this issue.

Why is the gets function so dangerous that it should not be used?

Why is gets() dangerous

The first internet worm (the Morris Internet Worm) escaped about 30 years ago (1988-11-02), and it used gets() and a buffer overflow as one of its methods of propagating from system to system. The basic problem is that the function doesn't know how big the buffer is, so it continues reading until it finds a newline or encounters EOF, and may overflow the bounds of the buffer it was given.

You should forget you ever heard that gets() existed.

The C11 standard ISO/IEC 9899:2011 eliminated gets() as a standard function, which is A Good Thing™ (it was formally marked as 'obsolescent' and 'deprecated' in ISO/IEC 9899:1999/Cor.3:2007 — Technical Corrigendum 3 for C99, and then removed in C11). Sadly, it will remain in libraries for many years (meaning 'decades') for reasons of backwards compatibility. If it were up to me, the implementation of gets() would become:

char *gets(char *buffer)
{
    assert(buffer != 0);
    abort();
    return 0;
}

Given that your code will crash anyway, sooner or later, it is better to head the trouble off sooner rather than later. I'd be prepared to add an error message:

fputs("obsolete and dangerous function gets() called\n", stderr);

Modern versions of the Linux compilation system generates warnings if you link gets() — and also for some other functions that also have security problems (mktemp(), …).

Alternatives to gets()

fgets()

As everyone else said, the canonical alternative to gets() is fgets() specifying stdin as the file stream.

char buffer[BUFSIZ];

while (fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer), stdin) != 0)
{
    ...process line of data...
}

What no-one else yet mentioned is that gets() does not include the newline but fgets() does. So, you might need to use a wrapper around fgets() that deletes the newline:

char *fgets_wrapper(char *buffer, size_t buflen, FILE *fp)
{
    if (fgets(buffer, buflen, fp) != 0)
    {
        size_t len = strlen(buffer);
        if (len > 0 && buffer[len-1] == '\n')
            buffer[len-1] = '\0';
        return buffer;
    }
    return 0;
}

Or, better:

char *fgets_wrapper(char *buffer, size_t buflen, FILE *fp)
{
    if (fgets(buffer, buflen, fp) != 0)
    {
        buffer[strcspn(buffer, "\n")] = '\0';
        return buffer;
    }
    return 0;
}

Also, as caf points out in a comment and paxdiablo shows in his answer, with fgets() you might have data left over on a line. My wrapper code leaves that data to be read next time; you can readily modify it to gobble the rest of the line of data if you prefer:

        if (len > 0 && buffer[len-1] == '\n')
            buffer[len-1] = '\0';
        else
        {
             int ch;
             while ((ch = getc(fp)) != EOF && ch != '\n')
                 ;
        }

The residual problem is how to report the three different result states — EOF or error, line read and not truncated, and partial line read but data was truncated.

This problem doesn't arise with gets() because it doesn't know where your buffer ends and merrily tramples beyond the end, wreaking havoc on your beautifully tended memory layout, often messing up the return stack (a Stack Overflow) if the buffer is allocated on the stack, or trampling over the control information if the buffer is dynamically allocated, or copying data over other precious global (or module) variables if the buffer is statically allocated. None of these is a good idea — they epitomize the phrase 'undefined behaviour`.


There is also the TR 24731-1 (Technical Report from the C Standard Committee) which provides safer alternatives to a variety of functions, including gets():

§6.5.4.1 The gets_s function

Synopsis

#define __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT1__ 1
#include <stdio.h>
char *gets_s(char *s, rsize_t n);

Runtime-constraints

s shall not be a null pointer. n shall neither be equal to zero nor be greater than RSIZE_MAX. A new-line character, end-of-file, or read error shall occur within reading n-1 characters from stdin.25)

3 If there is a runtime-constraint violation, s[0] is set to the null character, and characters are read and discarded from stdin until a new-line character is read, or end-of-file or a read error occurs.

Description

4 The gets_s function reads at most one less than the number of characters specified by n from the stream pointed to by stdin, into the array pointed to by s. No additional characters are read after a new-line character (which is discarded) or after end-of-file. The discarded new-line character does not count towards number of characters read. A null character is written immediately after the last character read into the array.

5 If end-of-file is encountered and no characters have been read into the array, or if a read error occurs during the operation, then s[0] is set to the null character, and the other elements of s take unspecified values.

Recommended practice

6 The fgets function allows properly-written programs to safely process input lines too long to store in the result array. In general this requires that callers of fgets pay attention to the presence or absence of a new-line character in the result array. Consider using fgets (along with any needed processing based on new-line characters) instead of gets_s.

25) The gets_s function, unlike gets, makes it a runtime-constraint violation for a line of input to overflow the buffer to store it. Unlike fgets, gets_s maintains a one-to-one relationship between input lines and successful calls to gets_s. Programs that use gets expect such a relationship.

The Microsoft Visual Studio compilers implement an approximation to the TR 24731-1 standard, but there are differences between the signatures implemented by Microsoft and those in the TR.

The C11 standard, ISO/IEC 9899-2011, includes TR24731 in Annex K as an optional part of the library. Unfortunately, it is seldom implemented on Unix-like systems.


getline() — POSIX

POSIX 2008 also provides a safe alternative to gets() called getline(). It allocates space for the line dynamically, so you end up needing to free it. It removes the limitation on line length, therefore. It also returns the length of the data that was read, or -1 (and not EOF!), which means that null bytes in the input can be handled reliably. There is also a 'choose your own single-character delimiter' variation called getdelim(); this can be useful if you are dealing with the output from find -print0 where the ends of the file names are marked with an ASCII NUL '\0' character, for example.

Random integer in VB.NET

Use System.Random:

Dim MyMin As Integer = 1, MyMax As Integer = 5, My1stRandomNumber As Integer, My2ndRandomNumber As Integer

' Create a random number generator
Dim Generator As System.Random = New System.Random()

' Get a random number >= MyMin and <= MyMax
My1stRandomNumber = Generator.Next(MyMin, MyMax + 1) ' Note: Next function returns numbers _less than_ max, so pass in max + 1 to include max as a possible value

' Get another random number (don't create a new generator, use the same one)
My2ndRandomNumber = Generator.Next(MyMin, MyMax + 1)

'node' is not recognized as an internal or external command

Node is missing from the SYSTEM PATH, try this in your command line

SET PATH=C:\Program Files\Nodejs;%PATH%

and then try running node

To set this system wide you need to set in the system settings - cf - http://banagale.com/changing-your-system-path-in-windows-vista.htm

To be very clean, create a new system variable NODEJS

NODEJS="C:\Program Files\Nodejs"

Then edit the PATH in system variables and add %NODEJS%

PATH=%NODEJS%;...

RuntimeWarning: invalid value encountered in divide

You are dividing by rr which may be 0.0. Check if rr is zero and do something reasonable other than using it in the denominator.

Xpath: select div that contains class AND whose specific child element contains text

To find a div of a certain class that contains a span at any depth containing certain text, try:

//div[contains(@class, 'measure-tab') and contains(.//span, 'someText')]

That said, this solution looks extremely fragile. If the table happens to contain a span with the text you're looking for, the div containing the table will be matched, too. I'd suggest to find a more robust way of filtering the elements. For example by using IDs or top-level document structure.

Remove elements from collection while iterating

I would choose the second as you don't have to do a copy of the memory and the Iterator works faster. So you save memory and time.

jQuery get an element by its data-id

$('[data-item-id="stand-out"]')

Check existence of input argument in a Bash shell script

It is better to demonstrate this way

if [[ $# -eq 0 ]] ; then
    echo 'some message'
    exit 1
fi

You normally need to exit if you have too few arguments.

java SSL and cert keystore

SSL properties are set at the JVM level via system properties. Meaning you can either set them when you run the program (java -D....) Or you can set them in code by doing System.setProperty.

The specific keys you have to set are below:

javax.net.ssl.keyStore- Location of the Java keystore file containing an application process's own certificate and private key. On Windows, the specified pathname must use forward slashes, /, in place of backslashes.

javax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword - Password to access the private key from the keystore file specified by javax.net.ssl.keyStore. This password is used twice: To unlock the keystore file (store password), and To decrypt the private key stored in the keystore (key password).

javax.net.ssl.trustStore - Location of the Java keystore file containing the collection of CA certificates trusted by this application process (trust store). On Windows, the specified pathname must use forward slashes, /, in place of backslashes, \.

If a trust store location is not specified using this property, the SunJSSE implementation searches for and uses a keystore file in the following locations (in order):

  1. $JAVA_HOME/lib/security/jssecacerts
  2. $JAVA_HOME/lib/security/cacerts

javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword - Password to unlock the keystore file (store password) specified by javax.net.ssl.trustStore.

javax.net.ssl.trustStoreType - (Optional) For Java keystore file format, this property has the value jks (or JKS). You do not normally specify this property, because its default value is already jks.

javax.net.debug - To switch on logging for the SSL/TLS layer, set this property to ssl.

Convert an integer to an array of digits

temp2 = temp.substring(i); will always return the empty string "".

Instead, your loop should have the condition i<temp.length(). And temp2 should always be temp.substring(i, i+1);.

Similarly when you're printing out newGuess, you should loop up to newGuess.length but not including. So your condition should be i<newGuess.length.