Programs & Examples On #Modifier

SwiftUI - How do I change the background color of a View?

Several possibilities : (SwiftUI / Xcode 11)

1 .background(Color.black) //for system colors

2 .background(Color("green")) //for colors you created in Assets.xcassets

  1. Otherwise you can do Command+Click on the element and change it from there.

Hope it help :)

What does the "static" modifier after "import" mean?

Very good exaple. npt tipical with MAth in wwww....

https://www.java2novice.com/java-fundamentals/static-import/

public class MyStaticMembClass {
 
    public static final int INCREMENT = 2;
     
    public static int incrementNumber(int number){
        return number+INCREMENT;
    }
}

in onother file inlude

import static com.java2novice.stat.imp.pac1.MyStaticMembClass.*;

What is the 'open' keyword in Swift?

Open is an access level, was introduced to impose limitations on class inheritance on Swift.

This means that the open access level can only be applied to classes and class members.

In Classes

An open class can be subclassed in the module it is defined in and in modules that import the module in which the class is defined.

In Class members

The same applies to class members. An open method can be overridden by subclasses in the module it is defined in and in modules that import the module in which the method is defined.

THE NEED FOR THIS UPDATE

Some classes of libraries and frameworks are not designed to be subclassed and doing so may result in unexpected behavior. Native Apple library also won't allow overriding the same methods and classes,

So after this addition they will apply public and private access levels accordingly.

For more details have look at Apple Documentation on Access Control

What are Transient and Volatile Modifiers?

Volatile means other threads can edit that particular variable. So the compiler allows access to them.

http://www.javamex.com/tutorials/synchronization_volatile.shtml

Transient means that when you serialize an object, it will return its default value on de-serialization

http://www.geekinterview.com/question_details/2

Android, How to limit width of TextView (and add three dots at the end of text)?

I take it you want to limit width to one line and not limit it by character? Since singleLine is deprecated, you could try using the following together:

android:maxLines="1"
android:scrollHorizontally="true"
android:ellipsize="end"

for or while loop to do something n times

This is lighter weight than xrange (and the while loop) since it doesn't even need to create the int objects. It also works equally well in Python2 and Python3

from itertools import repeat
for i in repeat(None, 10):
    do_sth()

Set drawable size programmatically

You can create a subclass of the view type, and override the onSizeChanged method.

I wanted to have scaling compound drawables on my text views that didn't require me to mess around with defining bitmap drawables in xml, etc. and did it this way:

public class StatIcon extends TextView {

    private Bitmap mIcon;

    public void setIcon(int drawableId) {
    mIcon = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(RIApplication.appResources,
            drawableId);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onSizeChanged(int w, int h, int oldw, int oldh) {
        if ((w > 0) && (mIcon != null))
            this.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(
                null,
                new BitmapDrawable(Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(mIcon, w, w,
                        true)), null, null);

        super.onSizeChanged(w, h, oldw, oldh);
    }

}

(Note that I used w twice, not h, as in this case I was putting the icon above the text, and thus the icon shouldn't have the same height as the text view)

This can be applied to background drawables, or anything else you want to resize relative to your view size. onSizeChanged() is called the first time the View is made, so you don't need any special cases for initialising the size.

How can I remove the decimal part from JavaScript number?

You can also use bitwise operators to truncate the decimal.

e.g.

var x = 9 / 2;
console.log(x); // 4.5

x = ~~x;
console.log(x); // 4

x = -3.7
console.log(~~x) // -3
console.log(x | 0) // -3
console.log(x << 0) // -3

Bitwise operations are considerably more efficient than the Math functions. The double not bitwise operator also seems to slightly outperform the x | 0 and x << 0 bitwise operations by a negligible amount.

// 952 milliseconds
for (var i = 0; i < 1000000; i++) {
    (i * 0.5) | 0;
}

// 1150 milliseconds
for (var i = 0; i < 1000000; i++) {
    (i * 0.5) << 0;
}

// 1284 milliseconds
for (var i = 0; i < 1000000; i++) {
    Math.trunc(i * 0.5);
}

// 939 milliseconds
for (var i = 0; i < 1000000; i++) {
    ~~(i * 0.5);
}

Also worth noting is that the bitwise not operator takes precedence over arithmetic operations, so you may need to surround calculations with parentheses to have the intended result:

x = -3.7

console.log(~~x * 2) // -6
console.log(x * 2 | 0) // -7
console.log(x * 2 << 0) // -7

console.log(~~(x * 2)) // -7
console.log(x * 2 | 0) // -7
console.log(x * 2 << 0) // -7

More info about the double bitwise not operator can be found at Double bitwise NOT (~~)

Undefined reference to vtable

Not to cross post but. If you are dealing with inheritance the second google hit was what I had missed, ie. all virtual methods should be defined.

Such as:

virtual void fooBar() = 0;

See answare C++ Undefined Reference to vtable and inheritance for details. Just realized it's already mentioned above, but heck it might help someone.

What does a question mark represent in SQL queries?

The ? is an unnamed parameter which can be filled in by a program running the query to avoid SQL injection.

C subscripted value is neither array nor pointer nor vector when assigning an array element value

You have "int* arr" so "arr[n]" is an int, right? Then your "[M - 1 + 1]" bit is trying to use that int as an array/pointer/vector.

How do I update/upsert a document in Mongoose?

this worked for me.

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    Student.findByIdAndUpdate(req.params.id, req.body, (err, user) => {_x000D_
        if (err) {_x000D_
            return res_x000D_
                .status(500)_x000D_
                .send({error: "unsuccessful"})_x000D_
        };_x000D_
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How do I pass the this context to a function?

Javascripts .call() and .apply() methods allow you to set the context for a function.

var myfunc = function(){
    alert(this.name);
};

var obj_a = {
    name:  "FOO"
};

var obj_b = {
    name:  "BAR!!"
};

Now you can call:

myfunc.call(obj_a);

Which would alert FOO. The other way around, passing obj_b would alert BAR!!. The difference between .call() and .apply() is that .call() takes a comma separated list if you're passing arguments to your function and .apply() needs an array.

myfunc.call(obj_a, 1, 2, 3);
myfunc.apply(obj_a, [1, 2, 3]);

Therefore, you can easily write a function hook by using the apply() method. For instance, we want to add a feature to jQuerys .css() method. We can store the original function reference, overwrite the function with custom code and call the stored function.

var _css = $.fn.css;
$.fn.css = function(){
   alert('hooked!');
   _css.apply(this, arguments);
};

Since the magic arguments object is an array like object, we can just pass it to apply(). That way we guarantee, that all parameters are passed through to the original function.

AngularJs ReferenceError: $http is not defined

Just to complete Amit Garg answer, there are several ways to inject dependencies in AngularJS.


You can also use $inject to add a dependency:

var MyController = function($scope, $http) {
  // ...
}
MyController.$inject = ['$scope', '$http'];

ES6 Class Multiple inheritance

I spent half a week trying to figure this out myself, and wrote a whole article on it, https://github.com/latitov/OOP_MI_Ct_oPlus_in_JS, and hope it helps some of you.

In short, here's how MI can be implemented in JavaScript:

    class Car {
        constructor(brand) {
            this.carname = brand;
        }
        show() {
            return 'I have a ' + this.carname;
        }
    }

    class Asset {
        constructor(price) {
            this.price = price;
        }
        show() {
            return 'its estimated price is ' + this.price;
        }
    }

    class Model_i1 {        // extends Car and Asset (just a comment for ourselves)
        //
        constructor(brand, price, usefulness) {
            specialize_with(this, new Car(brand));
            specialize_with(this, new Asset(price));
            this.usefulness = usefulness;
        }
        show() {
            return Car.prototype.show.call(this) + ", " + Asset.prototype.show.call(this) + ", Model_i1";
        }
    }

    mycar = new Model_i1("Ford Mustang", "$100K", 16);
    document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = mycar.show();

And here's specialize_with() one-liner:

function specialize_with(o, S) { for (var prop in S) { o[prop] = S[prop]; } }

Again, please look at https://github.com/latitov/OOP_MI_Ct_oPlus_in_JS.

Load properties file in JAR?

The problem is that you are using getSystemResourceAsStream. Use simply getResourceAsStream. System resources load from the system classloader, which is almost certainly not the class loader that your jar is loaded into when run as a webapp.

It works in Eclipse because when launching an application, the system classloader is configured with your jar as part of its classpath. (E.g. java -jar my.jar will load my.jar in the system class loader.) This is not the case with web applications - application servers use complex class loading to isolate webapplications from each other and from the internals of the application server. For example, see the tomcat classloader how-to, and the diagram of the classloader hierarchy used.

EDIT: Normally, you would call getClass().getResourceAsStream() to retrieve a resource in the classpath, but as you are fetching the resource in a static initializer, you will need to explicitly name a class that is in the classloader you want to load from. The simplest approach is to use the class containing the static initializer, e.g.

[public] class MyClass {
  static
  {
    ...
    props.load(MyClass.class.getResourceAsStream("/someProps.properties"));
  }
}

How to use Global Variables in C#?

A useful feature for this is using static

As others have said, you have to create a class for your globals:

public static class Globals {
    public const float PI = 3.14;
}

But you can import it like this in order to no longer write the class name in front of its static properties:

using static Globals;
[...]
Console.WriteLine("Pi is " + PI);

EOL conversion in notepad ++

That functionality is already built into Notepad++. From the "Edit" menu, select "EOL Conversion" -> "UNIX/OSX Format".

screenshot of the option for even quicker finding (or different language versions)

You can also set the default EOL in notepad++ via "Settings" -> "Preferences" -> "New Document/Default Directory" then select "Unix/OSX" under the Format box.

Merge two HTML table cells

use colspan for do this

 <td colspan="3">PUR mix up column</td>

Reading HTML content from a UIWebView

you should try this:

document.documentElement.outerHTML

How to save a list as numpy array in python?

I suppose, you mean converting a list into a numpy array? Then,

import numpy as np

# b is some list, then ...    
a = np.array(b).reshape(lengthDim0, lengthDim1);

gives you a as an array of list b in the shape given in reshape.

Removing time from a Date object?

String substring(int startIndex, int endIndex)

In other words you know your string will be 10 characers long so you would do:

FinalDate = date.substring(0,9);

Adding dictionaries together, Python

Please search the site before asking questions next time: how to concatenate two dictionaries to create a new one in Python?

The easiest way to do it is to simply use your example code, but using the items() member of each dictionary. So, the code would be:

dic0 = {'dic0': 0}
dic1 = {'dic1': 1}
dic2 = dict(dic0.items() + dic1.items())

I tested this in IDLE and it works fine. However, the previous question on this topic states that this method is slow and chews up memory. There are several other ways recommended there, so please see that if memory usage is important.

Getting the count of unique values in a column in bash

Ruby(1.9+)

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
Dir["*"].each do |file|
    h=Hash.new(0)
    open(file).each do |row|
        row.chomp.split("\t").each do |w|
            h[ w ] += 1
        end
    end
    h.sort{|a,b| b[1]<=>a[1] }.each{|x,y| print "#{x}:#{y}\n" }
end

How to select a CRAN mirror in R

Add into ~/.Rprofile

local({r <- getOption("repos")
    r["CRAN"] <- "mirror_site"  #for example, https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/CRAN/
    options(repos=r)
    options(BioC_mirror="bioc_mirror_site") #if using biocLite
})

Angular2 module has no exported member

You do not need the line:

import { SigninComponent, RegisterComponent } from './auth/auth.module';

in your app.component.ts as you already included the AuthModule in your app.module.ts. AutModule import is sufficient to use your component in the app.

The error that you get is a TypeScript error, not a Angular one, and it is correct in stating that there is no exported member, as it searches for a valid EC6 syntax for export, not angular module export. This line would thus work in your app.component.ts:

import { SigninComponent } from './auth/components/signin.component';

The type initializer for 'CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument' threw an exception

For one full day i searched online and i found a solution on my own. The same scenario, the application works fine in developer machine but when deployed it is throwing the exception "crystaldecisions.crystalreports.engine.reportdocument threw an exception" Details: sys.io.filenotfoundexcep crystaldecisions.reportappserver.commlayer version 13.0.2000 is missing

My IDE: MS VS 2010 Ultimate, CR V13.0.10

Solution:

  1. i set x86 for my application, then i set x64 for my setup application

  2. Prerequisite: i Placed the supporting CR runtime file CRRuntime_32bit_13_0_10.msi, CRRuntime_64bit_13_0_10.msi in the following directory C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages\Crystal Reports for .NET Framework 4.0

  3. Include merge module file to the setup project. Here is version is not serious thing because i use 13.0.10 soft, 13.0.16 merge module file File i included: CRRuntime_13_0_16.msm This file is found one among the set msm files.

While installing this Merge module will add the necessary dll in the following dir C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\Crystal Reports for .NET Framework 4.0\Common\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\win32_x86\dotnet

dll file version will not cause any issues.

In your developer machine you confirm it same.

I need reputation points, if this answer is useful kindly mark it useful(+1)

Returning multiple values from a C++ function

std::pair<int, int> divide(int dividend, int divisor)
{
   // :
   return std::make_pair(quotient, remainder);
}

std::pair<int, int> answer = divide(5,2);
 // answer.first == quotient
 // answer.second == remainder

std::pair is essentially your struct solution, but already defined for you, and ready to adapt to any two data types.

How to implement custom JsonConverter in JSON.NET to deserialize a List of base class objects?

A lot of the times the implementation will exist in the same namespace as the interface. So, I came up with this:

    public class InterfaceConverter : JsonConverter
    {
    public override bool CanWrite => false;
    public override void WriteJson(JsonWriter writer, object value, JsonSerializer serializer)
    {
    }

    public override object ReadJson(JsonReader reader, Type objectType, object existingValue, JsonSerializer serializer)
    {
        var token = JToken.ReadFrom(reader);
        var typeVariable = this.GetTypeVariable(token);
        if (TypeExtensions.TryParse(typeVariable, out var implimentation))
        { }
        else if (!typeof(IEnumerable).IsAssignableFrom(objectType))
        {
            implimentation = this.GetImplimentedType(objectType);
        }
        else
        {
            var genericArgumentTypes = objectType.GetGenericArguments();
            var innerType = genericArgumentTypes.FirstOrDefault();
            if (innerType == null)
            {
                implimentation = typeof(IEnumerable);
            }
            else
            {
                Type genericType = null;
                if (token.HasAny())
                {
                    var firstItem = token[0];
                    var genericTypeVariable = this.GetTypeVariable(firstItem);
                    TypeExtensions.TryParse(genericTypeVariable, out genericType);
                }

                genericType = genericType ?? this.GetImplimentedType(innerType);
                implimentation = typeof(IEnumerable<>);
                implimentation = implimentation.MakeGenericType(genericType);
            }
        }

        return JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(token.ToString(), implimentation);
    }

    public override bool CanConvert(Type objectType)
    {
        return !typeof(IEnumerable).IsAssignableFrom(objectType) && objectType.IsInterface || typeof(IEnumerable).IsAssignableFrom(objectType) && objectType.GetGenericArguments().Any(t => t.IsInterface);
    }

    protected Type GetImplimentedType(Type interfaceType)
    {
        if (!interfaceType.IsInterface)
        {
            return interfaceType;
        }

        var implimentationQualifiedName = interfaceType.AssemblyQualifiedName?.Replace(interfaceType.Name, interfaceType.Name.Substring(1));
        return implimentationQualifiedName == null ? interfaceType : Type.GetType(implimentationQualifiedName) ?? interfaceType;
    }

    protected string GetTypeVariable(JToken token)
    {
        if (!token.HasAny())
        {
            return null;
        }

        return token.Type != JTokenType.Object ? null : token.Value<string>("$type");
    }
}

Therefore, you can include this globally like so:

public static JsonSerializerSettings StandardSerializerSettings => new JsonSerializerSettings
    {
        Converters = new List<JsonConverter>
        {
            new InterfaceConverter()
        }
    };

Quickly getting to YYYY-mm-dd HH:MM:SS in Perl

Use strftime in the standard POSIX module. The arguments to strftime in Perl’s binding were designed to align with the return values from localtime and gmtime. Compare

strftime(fmt, sec, min, hour, mday, mon, year, wday = -1, yday = -1, isdst = -1)

with

my          ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,     $yday,     $isdst) = gmtime(time);

Example command-line use is

$ perl -MPOSIX -le 'print strftime "%F %T", localtime $^T'

or from a source file as in

use POSIX;

print strftime "%F %T", localtime time;

Some systems do not support the %F and %T shorthands, so you will have to be explicit with

print strftime "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", localtime time;

or

print strftime "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", gmtime time;

Note that time returns the current time when called whereas $^T is fixed to the time when your program started. With gmtime, the return value is the current time in GMT. Retrieve time in your local timezone with localtime.

Postman: How to make multiple requests at the same time

Run all Collection in a folder in parallel:

'use strict';

global.Promise = require('bluebird');
const path = require('path');
const newman =  Promise.promisifyAll(require('newman'));
const fs = Promise.promisifyAll(require('fs'));
const environment = 'postman_environment.json';
const FOLDER = path.join(__dirname, 'Collections_Folder');


let files = fs.readdirSync(FOLDER);
files = files.map(file=> path.join(FOLDER, file))
console.log(files);

Promise.map(files, file => {

    return newman.runAsync({
    collection: file, // your collection
    environment: path.join(__dirname, environment), //your env
    reporters: ['cli']
    });

}, {
   concurrency: 2
});

Nginx 403 error: directory index of [folder] is forbidden

To fix this issue I spent a full night. Here's my two cents on this story,

Check if you are using hhvm as php interpreter. Then it's possible that it's listening on port 9000 so you will have to modify your web server's config.

This is a side note: If you are using mysql, and connections from hhvm to the mysql become impossible, check if you have apparmor installed. disable it.

How to write multiple conditions in Makefile.am with "else if"

ptomato's code can also be written in a cleaner manner like:

ifeq ($(TARGET_CPU),x86)
  TARGET_CPU_IS_X86 := 1
else ifeq ($(TARGET_CPU),x86_64)
  TARGET_CPU_IS_X86 := 1
else
  TARGET_CPU_IS_X86 := 0
endif

This doesn't answer OP's question but as it's the top result on google, I'm adding it here in case it's useful to anyone else.

How to stop process from .BAT file?

When you start a process from a batch file, it starts as a separate process with no hint towards the batch file that started it (since this would have finished running in the meantime, things like the parent process ID won't help you).

If you know the process name, and it is unique among all running processes, you can use taskkill, like @IVlad suggests in a comment.

If it is not unique, you might want to look into jobs. These terminate all spawned child processes when they are terminated.

Search an Oracle database for tables with specific column names?

TO search a column name use the below query if you know the column name accurately:

select owner,table_name from all_tab_columns where upper(column_name) =upper('keyword');

TO search a column name if you dont know the accurate column use below:

select owner,table_name from all_tab_columns where upper(column_name) like upper('%keyword%');

How do I collapse a table row in Bootstrap?

You are using collapse on the div inside of your table row (tr). So when you collapse the div, the row is still there. You need to change it to where your id and class are on the tr instead of the div.

Change this:

<tr><td><div class="collapse out" id="collapseme">Should be collapsed</div></td></tr>

to this:

<tr class="collapse out" id="collapseme"><td><div>Should be collapsed</div></td></tr>

JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/KnuU6/21/

EDIT: If you are unable to upgrade to 3.0.0, I found a JQuery workaround in 2.3.2:

Remove your data-toggle and data-target and add this JQuery to your button.

$(".btn").click(function() {
    if($("#collapseme").hasClass("out")) {
        $("#collapseme").addClass("in");
        $("#collapseme").removeClass("out");
    } else {
        $("#collapseme").addClass("out");
        $("#collapseme").removeClass("in");
    }
});

JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/KnuU6/25/

How to fill OpenCV image with one solid color?

The simplest is using the OpenCV Mat class:

img=cv::Scalar(blue_value, green_value, red_value);

where img was defined as a cv::Mat.

Get contentEditable caret index position

This one builds on @alockwood05's answer and provides both get and set functionality for a caret with nested tags inside the contenteditable div as well as the offsets within nodes so that you have a solution that is both serializable and de-serializable by offsets as well.

I'm using this solution in a cross-platform code editor that needs to get the caret start/end position prior to syntax highlighting via a lexer/parser and then set it back immediately afterward.

function countUntilEndContainer(parent, endNode, offset, countingState = {count: 0}) {
    for (let node of parent.childNodes) {
        if (countingState.done) break;
        if (node === endNode) {
            countingState.done = true;
            countingState.offsetInNode = offset;
            return countingState;
        }
        if (node.nodeType === Node.TEXT_NODE) {
            countingState.offsetInNode = offset;
            countingState.count += node.length;
        } else if (node.nodeType === Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
            countUntilEndContainer(node, endNode, offset, countingState);
        } else {
            countingState.error = true;
        }
    }
    return countingState;
}

function countUntilOffset(parent, offset, countingState = {count: 0}) {
    for (let node of parent.childNodes) {
        if (countingState.done) break;
        if (node.nodeType === Node.TEXT_NODE) {
            if (countingState.count <= offset && offset < countingState.count + node.length)
            {
                countingState.offsetInNode = offset - countingState.count;
                countingState.node = node; 
                countingState.done = true; 
                return countingState; 
            }
            else { 
                countingState.count += node.length; 
            }
        } else if (node.nodeType === Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
            countUntilOffset(node, offset, countingState);
        } else {
            countingState.error = true;
        }
    }
    return countingState;
}

function getCaretPosition()
{
    let editor = document.getElementById('editor');
    let sel = window.getSelection();
    if (sel.rangeCount === 0) { return null; }
    let range = sel.getRangeAt(0);    
    let start = countUntilEndContainer(editor, range.startContainer, range.startOffset);
    let end = countUntilEndContainer(editor, range.endContainer, range.endOffset);
    let offsetsCounts = { start: start.count + start.offsetInNode, end: end.count + end.offsetInNode };
    let offsets = { start: start, end: end, offsets: offsetsCounts };
    return offsets;
}

function setCaretPosition(start, end)
{
    let editor = document.getElementById('editor');
    let sel = window.getSelection();
    if (sel.rangeCount === 0) { return null; }
    let range = sel.getRangeAt(0);
    let startNode = countUntilOffset(editor, start);
    let endNode = countUntilOffset(editor, end);
    let newRange = new Range();
    newRange.setStart(startNode.node, startNode.offsetInNode);
    newRange.setEnd(endNode.node, endNode.offsetInNode);
    sel.removeAllRanges();
    sel.addRange(newRange);
    return true;
}

Use a URL to link to a Google map with a marker on it

If working with Basic4Android and looking for an easy fix to the problem, try this it works both Google maps and Openstreet even though OSM creates a bit of a messy result and thanx to [yndolok] for the google marker

GooglemLoc="https://www.google.com/maps/place/"&[Latitude]&"+"&[Longitude]&"/@"&[Latitude]&","&[Longitude]&",15z" 

GooglemRute="https://www.google.co.ls/maps/dir/"&[FrmLatt]&","&[FrmLong]&"/"&[ToLatt]&","&[FrmLong]&"/@"&[ScreenX]&","&[ScreenY]&",14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!4m1!3e0?hl=en"  'route ?hl=en

OpenStreetLoc="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/"&[Latitude]&"/"&[Longitude]&"&layers=N"

OpenStreetRute="https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=osrm_car&route="&[FrmLatt]&"%2C"&[FrmLong]&"%3B"&[ToLatt]&"%2C"&[ToLong]&"#Map=15/"&[ScreenX]&"/"&[Screeny]&"&layers=N"

What's the console.log() of java?

Use the Android logging utility.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/Log.html

Log has a bunch of static methods for accessing the different log levels. The common thread is that they always accept at least a tag and a log message.

Tags are a way of filtering output in your log messages. You can use them to wade through the thousands of log messages you'll see and find the ones you're specifically looking for.

You use the Log functions in Android by accessing the Log.x objects (where the x method is the log level). For example:

Log.d("MyTagGoesHere", "This is my log message at the debug level here");
Log.e("MyTagGoesHere", "This is my log message at the error level here");

I usually make it a point to make the tag my class name so I know where the log message was generated too. Saves a lot of time later on in the game.

You can see your log messages using the logcat tool for android:

adb logcat

Or by opening the eclipse Logcat view by going to the menu bar

Window->Show View->Other then select the Android menu and the LogCat view

Can't find System.Windows.Media namespace?

For Visual Studio 2017

Find "References" in Solution explorer

Right click "References"

Choose "Add Reference..."

Find "Presentation.Core" list and check checkbox

Click OK

Onchange open URL via select - jQuery

I believe the simplest way to redefine a location inside select tab is as follows:

<select onchange="location = this.value;">
     <option value="https://www.google.com/">Home</option>
     <option value="https://www.bing.com">Contact</option>
     <option value="mypets.php">Sitemap</option>
</select>

Saving to CSV in Excel loses regional date format

Although keeping this in mind http://xkcd.com/1179/

In the end I decided to use the format YYYYMMDD in all CSV files, which doesn't convert to date in Excel, but can be read by all our applications correctly.

hardcoded string "row three", should use @string resource

A good practice is write text inside String.xml

example:

String.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <string name="yellow">Yellow</string>
</resources>

and inside layout:

<TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:text="@string/yellow" />

Is there an upside down caret character?

You might be able to use the black triangles, Unicode values U+25b2 and U+25bc. Or the arrows, U+2191 and U+2193.

OrderBy pipe issue

As we know filter and order by are removed from ANGULAR 2 and we need to write our own, here is a good example on plunker and detailed article

It used both filter as well as orderby, here is the code for order pipe

import { Pipe, PipeTransform } from '@angular/core';    
@Pipe({  name: 'orderBy' })
export class OrderrByPipe implements PipeTransform {

  transform(records: Array<any>, args?: any): any {       
    return records.sort(function(a, b){
          if(a[args.property] < b[args.property]){
            return -1 * args.direction;
          }
          else if( a[args.property] > b[args.property]){
            return 1 * args.direction;
          }
          else{
            return 0;
          }
        });
    };
 }

Angular 2 http post params and body

Yes the problem is here. It's related to your syntax.

Try using this

return this.http.post(this.BASE_URL, params, options)
  .map(data => this.handleData(data))
  .catch(this.handleError);

instead of

return this.http.post(this.BASE_URL, params, options)
  .map(this.handleData)
  .catch(this.handleError);

Also, the second parameter is supposed to be the body, not the url params.

How to parse JSON without JSON.NET library?

You can use DataContractJsonSerializer. See this link for more details.

$(this).val() not working to get text from span using jquery

Instead of .val() use .text(), like this:

$(".ui-datepicker-month").live("click", function () {
    var monthname =  $(this).text();
    alert(monthname);
});

Or in jQuery 1.7+ use on() as live is deprecated:

$(document).on('click', '.ui-datepicker-month', function () {
    var monthname =  $(this).text();
    alert(monthname);
});

.val() is for input type elements (including textareas and dropdowns), since you're dealing with an element with text content, use .text() here.

Determine what attributes were changed in Rails after_save callback?

In case you can do this on before_save instead of after_save, you'll be able to use this:

self.changed

it returns an array of all changed columns in this record.

you can also use:

self.changes

which returns a hash of columns that changed and before and after results as arrays

change type of input field with jQuery

I've created a jQuery extension to toggle between text and password. Works in IE8 (probably 6&7 as well, but not tested) and won't lose your value or attributes:

$.fn.togglePassword = function (showPass) {
    return this.each(function () {
        var $this = $(this);
        if ($this.attr('type') == 'text' || $this.attr('type') == 'password') {
            var clone = null;
            if((showPass == null && ($this.attr('type') == 'text')) || (showPass != null && !showPass)) {
                clone = $('<input type="password" />');
            }else if((showPass == null && ($this.attr('type') == 'password')) || (showPass != null && showPass)){
                clone = $('<input type="text" />');
            }
            $.each($this.prop("attributes"), function() {
                if(this.name != 'type') {
                    clone.attr(this.name, this.value);
                }
            });
            clone.val($this.val());
            $this.replaceWith(clone);
        }
    });
};

Works like a charm. You can simply call $('#element').togglePassword(); to switch between the two or give an option to 'force' the action based on something else (like a checkbox): $('#element').togglePassword($checkbox.prop('checked'));

How do I add a linker or compile flag in a CMake file?

You can also add linker flags to a specific target using the LINK_FLAGS property:

set_property(TARGET ${target} APPEND_STRING PROPERTY LINK_FLAGS " ${flag}")

If you want to propagate this change to other targets, you can create a dummy target to link to.

Using "super" in C++

I use this from time to time. Just when I find myself typing out the base class type a couple of times, I'll replace it with a typedef similar to yours.

I think it can be a good use. As you say, if your base class is a template it can save typing. Also, template classes may take arguments that act as policies for how the template should work. You're free to change the base type without having to fix up all your references to it as long as the interface of the base remains compatible.

I think the use through the typedef is enough already. I can't see how it would be built into the language anyway because multiple inheritence means there can be many base classes, so you can typedef it as you see fit for the class you logically feel is the most important base class.

How can I select rows with most recent timestamp for each key value?

WITH SensorTimes As (
   SELECT sensorID, MAX(timestamp) "LastReading"
   FROM sensorTable
   GROUP BY sensorID
)
SELECT s.sensorID,s.timestamp,s.sensorField1,s.sensorField2 
FROM sensorTable s
INNER JOIN SensorTimes t on s.sensorID = t.sensorID and s.timestamp = t.LastReading

How to disable input conditionally in vue.js

Can use this add condition.

  <el-form-item :label="Amount ($)" style="width:100%"  >
            <template slot-scope="scoped">
            <el-input-number v-model="listQuery.refAmount" :disabled="(rowData.status !== 1 ) === true" ></el-input-number>
            </template>
          </el-form-item>

Visual Studio Code cannot detect installed git

This can happen after upgrading macOS. Try running git from a terminal and see if the error message begins with:

xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools) ...

If so the fix is to run

xcode-select --install

from the terminal. see this answer for more details

make an html svg object also a clickable link

To accomplish this in all browsers you need to use a combination of @energee, @Richard and @Feuermurmel methods.

<a href="" style="display: block; z-index: 1;">
    <object data="" style="z-index: -1; pointer-events: none;" />
</a>

Adding:

  • pointer-events: none; makes it work in Firefox.
  • display: block; gets it working in Chrome, and Safari.
  • z-index: 1; z-index: -1; makes it work in IE as well.

how to set default method argument values?

If your arguments are the same type you could use varargs:

public int something(int... args) {
    int a = 0;
    int b = 0;
    if (args.length > 0) {
      a = args[0];
    }
    if (args.length > 1) {
      b = args[1];
    }
    return a + b
}

but this way you lose the semantics of the individual arguments, or

have a method overloaded which relays the call to the parametered version

public int something() {
  return something(1, 2);
}

or if the method is part of some kind of initialization procedure, you could use the builder pattern instead:

class FoodBuilder {
   int saltAmount;
   int meatAmount;
   FoodBuilder setSaltAmount(int saltAmount) {
       this.saltAmount = saltAmount;
       return this;
   }
   FoodBuilder setMeatAmount(int meatAmount) {
       this.meatAmount = meatAmount;
       return this;
   }
   Food build() {
       return new Food(saltAmount, meatAmount);
   }
}

Food f = new FoodBuilder().setSaltAmount(10).build();
Food f2 = new FoodBuilder().setSaltAmount(10).setMeatAmount(5).build();

Then work with the Food object

int doSomething(Food f) {
    return f.getSaltAmount() + f.getMeatAmount();
}

The builder pattern allows you to add/remove parameters later on and you don't need to create new overloaded methods for them.

Appending a line to a file only if it does not already exist

If writing to a protected file, @drAlberT and @rubo77 's answers might not work for you since one can't sudo >>. A similarly simple solution, then, would be to use tee --append (or, on MacOS, tee -a):

LINE='include "/configs/projectname.conf"'
FILE=lighttpd.conf
grep -qF "$LINE" "$FILE"  || echo "$LINE" | sudo tee --append "$FILE"

How to set <Text> text to upper case in react native

iOS textTransform support has been added to react-native in 0.56 version. Android textTransform support has been added in 0.59 version. It accepts one of these options:

  • none
  • uppercase
  • lowercase
  • capitalize

The actual iOS commit, Android commit and documentation

Example:

<View>
  <Text style={{ textTransform: 'uppercase'}}>
    This text should be uppercased.
  </Text>
  <Text style={{ textTransform: 'capitalize'}}>
    Mixed:{' '}
    <Text style={{ textTransform: 'lowercase'}}>
      lowercase{' '}
    </Text>
  </Text>
</View>

What is the difference between Spring, Struts, Hibernate, JavaServer Faces, Tapestry?

In hibernate you need not bother about how to create table in SQL and you need not to remember connection ,prepared statement like that data is persisted in a database. So, basically it makes a developer's life easy.

How to remove a Gitlab project?

As per January 13,2018 Do as follow:

  1. Click on Project you want to delete.
  2. Click Setting on right buttom corner.
  3. Locate the Advanced settings section and click on the 'Expand' button
  4. Then Scroll down the page and click on the Remove Project button.
  5. Type your project name. Note : Removed project CANNOT be restored! and click on confirm.
  6. Then project will be deleted and soon 404 page error will be displayed for that project.

HTML button to NOT submit form

Another option that worked for me was to add onsubmit="return false;" to the form tag.

<form onsubmit="return false;">

Semantically probably not as good a solution as the above methods of changing the button type, but seems to be an option if you just want a form element the won't submit.

How do I echo and send console output to a file in a bat script?

No, you can't with pure redirection.
But with some tricks (like tee.bat) you can.

I try to explain the redirection a bit.

You redirect one of the ten streams with > file or < file
It is unimportant, if the redirection is before or after the command, so these two lines are nearly the same.

dir > file.txt
> file.txt dir

The redirection in this example is only a shortcut for 1>, this means the stream 1 (STDOUT) will be redirected.
So you can redirect any stream with prepending the number like 2> err.txt and it is also allowed to redirect multiple streams in one line.

dir 1> files.txt 2> err.txt 3> nothing.txt

In this example the "standard output" will go into files.txt, all errors will be in err.txt and the stream3 will go into nothing.txt (DIR doesn't use the stream 3).
Stream0 is STDIN
Stream1 is STDOUT
Stream2 is STDERR
Stream3-9 are not used

But what happens if you try to redirect the same stream multiple times?

dir > files.txt > two.txt

"There can be only one", and it is always the last one!
So it is equal to dir > two.txt

Ok, there is one extra possibility, redirecting a stream to another stream.

dir 1>files.txt 2>&1 

2>&1 redirects stream2 to stream1 and 1>files.txt redirects all to files.txt.
The order is important here!

dir ... 1>nul 2>&1
dir ... 2>&1 1>nul

are different. The first one redirects all (STDOUT and STDERR) to NUL,
but the second line redirects the STDOUT to NUL and STDERR to the "empty" STDOUT.

As one conclusion, it is obvious why the examples of Otávio Décio and andynormancx can't work.

command > file >&1
dir > file.txt >&2

Both try to redirect stream1 two times, but "There can be only one", and it's always the last one.
So you get

command 1>&1
dir 1>&2

And in the first sample redirecting of stream1 to stream1 is not allowed (and not very useful).

Hope it helps.

How to use a TRIM function in SQL Server

LTRIM(RTRIM(FCT_TYP_CD)) & ') AND (' & LTRIM(RTRIM(DEP_TYP_ID)) & ')'

I think you're missing a ) on both of the trims. Some SQL versions support just TRIM which does both L and R trims...

What's default HTML/CSS link color?

According to the official default HTML stylesheet, there is no defined default link color. However, you can find out the default your browser uses by either taking a screenshot and using the pipette tool in any decent graphic editor or using the developer tools of your browser (select an a element, look for computed values>color).

Maven compile: package does not exist

Not sure if there was file corruption or what, but after confirming proper pom configuration I was able to resolve this issue by deleting the jar from my local m2 repository, forcing Maven to download it again when I ran the tests.

Printing a java map Map<String, Object> - How?

I'm sure there's some nice library that does this sort of thing already for you... But to just stick with the approach you're already going with, Map#entrySet gives you a combined Object with the key and the value. So something like:

for (Map.Entry<String, Object> entry : map.entrySet()) {
    System.out.println(entry.getKey() + ":" + entry.getValue().toString());
}

will do what you're after.


If you're using java 8, there's also the new streaming approach.

map.forEach((key, value) -> System.out.println(key + ":" + value));

How do I make an image smaller with CSS?

You can try this:

-ms-transform: scale(width,height); /* IE 9 */
-webkit-transform: scale(width,height); /* Safari */
transform: scale(width, height);

Example: image "grows" 1.3 times

-ms-transform: scale(1.3,1.3); /* IE 9 */
-webkit-transform: scale(1.3,1.3); /* Safari */
transform: scale(1.3,1.3);

How to get client IP address using jQuery

A simple AJAX call to your server, and then the serverside logic to get the ip address should do the trick.

$.getJSON('getip.php', function(data){
  alert('Your ip is: ' +  data.ip);
});

Then in php you might do:

<?php
/* getip.php */
header('Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate');
header('Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT');
header('Content-type: application/json');

if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP']))
{
  $ip=$_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'];
}
elseif (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']))
{
  $ip=$_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'];
}
else
{
  $ip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
}
print json_encode(array('ip' => $ip));

How to check if a word is an English word with Python?

Using NLTK:

from nltk.corpus import wordnet

if not wordnet.synsets(word_to_test):
  #Not an English Word
else:
  #English Word

You should refer to this article if you have trouble installing wordnet or want to try other approaches.

How to print time in format: 2009-08-10 18:17:54.811

trick:

    int time_len = 0, n;
    struct tm *tm_info;
    struct timeval tv;

    gettimeofday(&tv, NULL);
    tm_info = localtime(&tv.tv_sec);
    time_len+=strftime(log_buff, sizeof log_buff, "%y%m%d %H:%M:%S", tm_info);
    time_len+=snprintf(log_buff+time_len,sizeof log_buff-time_len,".%03ld ",tv.tv_usec/1000);

Creating and throwing new exception

You can throw your own custom errors by extending the Exception class.

class CustomException : Exception {
    [string] $additionalData

    CustomException($Message, $additionalData) : base($Message) {
        $this.additionalData = $additionalData
    }
}

try {
    throw [CustomException]::new('Error message', 'Extra data')
} catch [CustomException] {
    # NOTE: To access your custom exception you must use $_.Exception
    Write-Output $_.Exception.additionalData

    # This will produce the error message: Didn't catch it the second time
    throw [CustomException]::new("Didn't catch it the second time", 'Extra data')
}

Convert Json String to C# Object List

public static class Helper
{
    public static string AsJsonList<T>(List<T> tt)
    {
        return new JavaScriptSerializer().Serialize(tt);
    }
    public static string AsJson<T>(T t)
    {
        return new JavaScriptSerializer().Serialize(t);
    }
    public static List<T> AsObjectList<T>(string tt)
    {
        return new JavaScriptSerializer().Deserialize<List<T>>(tt);
    }
    public static T AsObject<T>(string t)
    {
        return new JavaScriptSerializer().Deserialize<T>(t);
    }
}

What’s the best RESTful method to return total number of items in an object?

When requesting paginated data, you know (by explicit page size parameter value or default page size value) the page size, so you know if you got all data in response or not. When there is less data in response than is a page size, then you got whole data. When a full page is returned, you have to ask again for another page.

I prefer have separate endpoint for count (or same endpoint with parameter countOnly). Because you could prepare end user for long/time consuming process by showing properly initiated progressbar.

If you want to return datasize in each response, there should be pageSize, offset mentionded as well. To be honest the best way is to repeat a request filters too. But the response became very complex. So, I prefer dedicated endpoint to return count.

<data>
  <originalRequest>
    <filter/>
    <filter/>
  </originalReqeust>
  <totalRecordCount/>
  <pageSize/>
  <offset/>
  <list>
     <item/>
     <item/>
  </list>
</data>

Couleage of mine, prefer a countOnly parameter to existing endpoint. So, when specified the response contains metadata only.

endpoint?filter=value

<data>
  <count/>
  <list>
    <item/>
    ...
  </list>
</data>

endpoint?filter=value&countOnly=true

<data>
  <count/>
  <!-- empty list -->
  <list/>
</data>

Intellij idea cannot resolve anything in maven

I have tried several options, but this one finally solved my problem. I re-imported the project by following these steps in IntelliJ:

  1. File -> New -> Project From Existing Repositories
  2. Choose your project from 'Select File or Directory to Import'

  3. In the next screen choose 'Import Project From external model', and choose 'Maven.

  4. In the next step, click the checkbox 'Import Maven projects automatically', (that solved my problem)
  5. Finish up by choosing profiles if necessary

For me re-importing maven projects did not solve the issue for an existing projects.

Presenting a UIAlertController properly on an iPad using iOS 8

Swift 4 and above

I have created an extension

extension UIViewController {
  public func addActionSheetForiPad(actionSheet: UIAlertController) {
    if let popoverPresentationController = actionSheet.popoverPresentationController {
      popoverPresentationController.sourceView = self.view
      popoverPresentationController.sourceRect = CGRect(x: self.view.bounds.midX, y: self.view.bounds.midY, width: 0, height: 0)
      popoverPresentationController.permittedArrowDirections = []
    }
  }
}

How to use:

let actionSheetVC = UIAlertController(title: "Title", message: nil, preferredStyle: .actionSheet)
addActionSheetForIpad(actionSheet: actionSheetVC)
present(actionSheetVC, animated: true, completion: nil)

expected constructor, destructor, or type conversion before ‘(’ token

This is not only a 'newbie' scenario. I just ran across this compiler message (GCC 5.4) when refactoring a class to remove some constructor parameters. I forgot to update both the declaration and definition, and the compiler spit out this unintuitive error.

The bottom line seems to be this: If the compiler can't match the definition's signature to the declaration's signature it thinks the definition is not a constructor and then doesn't know how to parse the code and displays this error. Which is also what happened for the OP: std::string is not the same type as string so the declaration's signature differed from the definition's and this message was spit out.

As a side note, it would be nice if the compiler looked for almost-matching constructor signatures and upon finding one suggested that the parameters didn't match rather than giving this message.

Multiple selector chaining in jQuery?

There are already very good answers here, but in some other cases (not this in particular) using map could be the "only" solution.

Specially when we want to use regexps, other than the standard ones.

For this case it would look like this:

 $('.myClass').filter(function(index, elem) {
    var jElem = $(elem);

    return jElem.closest('#Create').length > 0 || 
           jElem.closest('#Edit').length > 0;

}).plugin(...);

As I said before, here this solution could be useless, but for further problems, is a very good option

How to run Java program in command prompt

You can use javac *.java command to compile all you java sources. Also you should learn a little about classpath because it seems that you should set appropriate classpath for succesful compilation (because your IDE use some libraries for building WebService clients). Also I can recommend you to check wich command your IDE use to build your project.

Is there a way to get a list of column names in sqlite?

You can use sqlite3 and pep-249

import sqlite3
connection = sqlite3.connect('~/foo.sqlite')
cursor = connection.execute('select * from bar')

cursor.description is description of columns

names = list(map(lambda x: x[0], cursor.description))

Alternatively you could use a list comprehension:

names = [description[0] for description in cursor.description]

Java ArrayList copy

Just for completion: All the answers above are going for a shallow copy - keeping the reference of the original objects. I you want a deep copy, your (reference-) class in the list have to implement a clone / copy method, which provides a deep copy of a single object. Then you can use:

newList.addAll(oldList.stream().map(s->s.clone()).collect(Collectors.toList()));

How to get current memory usage in android?

Here is a way to calculate memory usage of currently running application:

public static long getUsedMemorySize() {

    long freeSize = 0L;
    long totalSize = 0L;
    long usedSize = -1L;
    try {
        Runtime info = Runtime.getRuntime();
        freeSize = info.freeMemory();
        totalSize = info.totalMemory();
        usedSize = totalSize - freeSize;
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return usedSize;

}

Difference between JPanel, JFrame, JComponent, and JApplet

Those classes are common extension points for Java UI designs. First off, realize that they don't necessarily have much to do with each other directly, so trying to find a relationship between them might be counterproductive.

JApplet - A base class that let's you write code that will run within the context of a browser, like for an interactive web page. This is cool and all but it brings limitations which is the price for it playing nice in the real world. Normally JApplet is used when you want to have your own UI in a web page. I've always wondered why people don't take advantage of applets to store state for a session so no database or cookies are needed.

JComponent - A base class for objects which intend to interact with Swing.

JFrame - Used to represent the stuff a window should have. This includes borders (resizeable y/n?), titlebar (App name or other message), controls (minimize/maximize allowed?), and event handlers for various system events like 'window close' (permit app to exit yet?).

JPanel - Generic class used to gather other elements together. This is more important with working with the visual layout or one of the provided layout managers e.g. gridbaglayout, etc. For example, you have a textbox that is bigger then the area you have reserved. Put the textbox in a scrolling pane and put that pane into a JPanel. Then when you place the JPanel, it will be more manageable in terms of layout.

Batch files - number of command line arguments

The function :getargc below may be what you're looking for.

@echo off
setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion
call :getargc argc %*
echo Count is %argc%
echo Args are %*
endlocal
goto :eof

:getargc
    set getargc_v0=%1
    set /a "%getargc_v0% = 0"
:getargc_l0
    if not x%2x==xx (
        shift
        set /a "%getargc_v0% = %getargc_v0% + 1"
        goto :getargc_l0
    )
    set getargc_v0=
    goto :eof

It basically iterates once over the list (which is local to the function so the shifts won't affect the list back in the main program), counting them until it runs out.

It also uses a nifty trick, passing the name of the return variable to be set by the function.

The main program just illustrates how to call it and echos the arguments afterwards to ensure that they're untouched:

C:\Here> xx.cmd 1 2 3 4 5
    Count is 5
    Args are 1 2 3 4 5
C:\Here> xx.cmd 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
    Count is 11
    Args are 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
C:\Here> xx.cmd 1
    Count is 1
    Args are 1
C:\Here> xx.cmd
    Count is 0
    Args are
C:\Here> xx.cmd 1 2 "3 4 5"
    Count is 3
    Args are 1 2 "3 4 5"

How to suppress "error TS2533: Object is possibly 'null' or 'undefined'"?

This feature is called "strict null checks", to turn it off ensure that the --strictNullChecks compiler flag is not set.

However, the existence of null has been described as The Billion Dollar Mistake, so it is exciting to see languages such as TypeScript introducing a fix. I'd strongly recommend keeping it turned on.

One way to fix this is to ensure that the values are never null or undefined, for example by initialising them up front:

interface SelectProtected {
    readonly wrapperElement: HTMLDivElement;
    readonly inputElement: HTMLInputElement;
}

const selectProtected: SelectProtected = {
    wrapperElement: document.createElement("div"),
    inputElement: document.createElement("input")
};

See Ryan Cavanaugh's answer for an alternative option, though!

Microsoft Excel ActiveX Controls Disabled?

It was KB2553154. Microsoft needs to release a fix. As a developer of Excel applications we can't go to all our clients computers and delete files off them. We are getting blamed for something Microsoft caused.

Access item in a list of lists

50 - List1[0][0] + List[0][1] - List[0][2]

List[0] gives you the first list in the list (try out print List[0]). Then, you index into it again to get the items of that list. Think of it this way: (List1[0])[0].

how to increase the limit for max.print in R

set the function options(max.print=10000) in top of your program. since you want intialize this before it works. It is working for me.

Allowed characters in filename

For "English locale" file names, this works nicely. I'm using this for sanitizing uploaded file names. The file name is not meant to be linked to anything on disk, it's for when the file is being downloaded hence there are no path checks.

$file_name = preg_replace('/([^\x20-~]+)|([\\/:?"<>|]+)/g', '_', $client_specified_file_name);

Basically it strips all non-printable and reserved characters for Windows and other OSs. You can easily extend the pattern to support other locales and functionalities.

HTTP Status 405 - HTTP method POST is not supported by this URL java servlet

It's because you're calling doGet() without actually implementing doGet(). It's the default implementation of doGet() that throws the error saying the method is not supported.

"Invalid JSON primitive" in Ajax processing

I had the same issue. I was calling parent page "Save" from Popup window Close. Found that I was using ClientIDMode="Static" on both parent and popup page with same control id. Removing ClientIDMode="Static" from one of the pages solved the issue.

No Multiline Lambda in Python: Why not?

Guido van Rossum (the inventor of Python) answers this exact question himself in an old blog post.
Basically, he admits that it's theoretically possible, but that any proposed solution would be un-Pythonic:

"But the complexity of any proposed solution for this puzzle is immense, to me: it requires the parser (or more precisely, the lexer) to be able to switch back and forth between indent-sensitive and indent-insensitive modes, keeping a stack of previous modes and indentation level. Technically that can all be solved (there's already a stack of indentation levels that could be generalized). But none of that takes away my gut feeling that it is all an elaborate Rube Goldberg contraption."

Using "word-wrap: break-word" within a table

table-layout: fixed will get force the cells to fit the table (and not the other way around), e.g.:

<table style="border: 1px solid black; width: 100%; word-wrap:break-word;
              table-layout: fixed;">
  <tr>
    <td>
        aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
        bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

What is the difference between Document style and RPC style communication?

Can some body explain me the differences between a Document style and RPC style webservices?

There are two communication style models that are used to translate a WSDL binding to a SOAP message body. They are: Document & RPC

The advantage of using a Document style model is that you can structure the SOAP body any way you want it as long as the content of the SOAP message body is any arbitrary XML instance. The Document style is also referred to as Message-Oriented style.

However, with an RPC style model, the structure of the SOAP request body must contain both the operation name and the set of method parameters. The RPC style model assumes a specific structure to the XML instance contained in the message body.

Furthermore, there are two encoding use models that are used to translate a WSDL binding to a SOAP message. They are: literal, and encoded

When using a literal use model, the body contents should conform to a user-defined XML-schema(XSD) structure. The advantage is two-fold. For one, you can validate the message body with the user-defined XML-schema, moreover, you can also transform the message using a transformation language like XSLT.

With a (SOAP) encoded use model, the message has to use XSD datatypes, but the structure of the message need not conform to any user-defined XML schema. This makes it difficult to validate the message body or use XSLT based transformations on the message body.

The combination of the different style and use models give us four different ways to translate a WSDL binding to a SOAP message.

Document/literal
Document/encoded
RPC/literal
RPC/encoded

I would recommend that you read this article entitled Which style of WSDL should I use? by Russell Butek which has a nice discussion of the different style and use models to translate a WSDL binding to a SOAP message, and their relative strengths and weaknesses.

Once the artifacts are received, in both styles of communication, I invoke the method on the port. Now, this does not differ in RPC style and Document style. So what is the difference and where is that difference visible?

The place where you can find the difference is the "RESPONSE"!

RPC Style:

package com.sample;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import javax.jws.WebService;
import javax.jws.soap.SOAPBinding;
import javax.jws.soap.SOAPBinding.Style;

@WebService
@SOAPBinding(style=Style.RPC)
public interface StockPrice { 

    public String getStockPrice(String stockName); 

    public ArrayList getStockPriceList(ArrayList stockNameList); 
}

The SOAP message for second operation will have empty output and will look like:

RPC Style Response:

<ns2:getStockPriceListResponse 
       xmlns:ns2="http://sample.com/">
    <return/>
</ns2:getStockPriceListResponse>
</S:Body>
</S:Envelope>

Document Style:

package com.sample;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import javax.jws.WebService;
import javax.jws.soap.SOAPBinding;
import javax.jws.soap.SOAPBinding.Style;

@WebService
@SOAPBinding(style=Style.DOCUMENT)
public interface StockPrice {

    public String getStockPrice(String stockName);

    public ArrayList getStockPriceList(ArrayList stockNameList);
}

If we run the client for the above SEI, the output is:

123 [123, 456]

This output shows that ArrayList elements are getting exchanged between the web service and client. This change has been done only by the changing the style attribute of SOAPBinding annotation. The SOAP message for the second method with richer data type is shown below for reference:

Document Style Response:

<ns2:getStockPriceListResponse 
       xmlns:ns2="http://sample.com/">
<return xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"  
        xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
        xsi:type="xs:string">123</return>
<return xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
        xsi:type="xs:string">456</return>
</ns2:getStockPriceListResponse>
</S:Body>
</S:Envelope>

Conclusion

  • As you would have noticed in the two SOAP response messages that it is possible to validate the SOAP response message in case of DOCUMENT style but not in RPC style web services.
  • The basic disadvantage of using RPC style is that it doesn’t support richer data types and that of using Document style is that it brings some complexity in the form of XSD for defining the richer data types.
  • The choice of using one out of these depends upon the operation/method requirements and the expected clients.

Similarly, in what way SOAP over HTTP differ from XML over HTTP? After all SOAP is also XML document with SOAP namespace. So what is the difference here?

Why do we need a standard like SOAP? By exchanging XML documents over HTTP, two programs can exchange rich, structured information without the introduction of an additional standard such as SOAP to explicitly describe a message envelope format and a way to encode structured content.

SOAP provides a standard so that developers do not have to invent a custom XML message format for every service they want to make available. Given the signature of the service method to be invoked, the SOAP specification prescribes an unambiguous XML message format. Any developer familiar with the SOAP specification, working in any programming language, can formulate a correct SOAP XML request for a particular service and understand the response from the service by obtaining the following service details.

  • Service name
  • Method names implemented by the service
  • Method signature of each method
  • Address of the service implementation (expressed as a URI)

Using SOAP streamlines the process for exposing an existing software component as a Web service since the method signature of the service identifies the XML document structure used for both the request and the response.

IOError: [Errno 22] invalid mode ('r') or filename: 'c:\\Python27\test.txt'

\ is an escape character in Python. \t gets interpreted as a tab. If you need \ character in a string, you have to use \\.

Your code should be:
test_file=open('c:\\Python27\\test.txt','r')

Multiline TextBox multiple newline

textBox1.Text = "Line1\r\r\Line2";
Solved the problem.

How do I install a module globally using npm?

I like using a package.json file in the root of your app folder.

Here is one I use

nvm use v0.6.4

http://pastie.org/3232212

npm install

How to unzip gz file using Python

from sh import gunzip

gunzip('/tmp/file1.gz')

How to easily map c++ enums to strings

I'd be tempted to have a map m - and embedd this into the enum.

setup with m[MyEnum.VAL1] = "Value 1";

and all is done.

Can I pass variable to select statement as column name in SQL Server

You can't use variable names to bind columns or other system objects, you need dynamic sql

DECLARE @value varchar(10)  
SET @value = 'intStep'  
DECLARE @sqlText nvarchar(1000); 

SET @sqlText = N'SELECT ' + @value + ' FROM dbo.tblBatchDetail'
Exec (@sqlText)

Android update activity UI from service

My solution might not be the cleanest but it should work with no problems. The logic is simply to create a static variable to store your data on the Service and update your view each second on your Activity.

Let's say that you have a String on your Service that you want to send it to a TextView on your Activity. It should look like this

Your Service:

public class TestService extends Service {
    public static String myString = "";
    // Do some stuff with myString

Your Activty:

public class TestActivity extends Activity {
    TextView tv;
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        tv = new TextView(this);
        setContentView(tv);
        update();
        Thread t = new Thread() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                try {
                    while (!isInterrupted()) {
                        Thread.sleep(1000);
                        runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
                            @Override
                            public void run() {
                                update();
                            }
                        });
                    }
                } catch (InterruptedException ignored) {}
            }
        };
        t.start();
        startService(new Intent(this, TestService.class));
    }
    private void update() {
        // update your interface here
        tv.setText(TestService.myString);
    }
}

Catching multiple exception types in one catch block

This article covers the question electrictoolbox.com/php-catch-multiple-exception-types. Content of the post copied directly from the article:

Example exceptions

Here's some example exceptions that have been defined for the purposes of this example:

class FooException extends Exception 
{
  public function __construct($message = null, $code = 0) 
  {
    // do something
  }
}

class BarException extends Exception 
{
  public function __construct($message = null, $code = 0) 
  {
    // do something
  }
}

class BazException extends Exception 
{
  public function __construct($message = null, $code = 0) 
  {
    // do something
  }
}

Handling multiple exceptions

It's very simple - there can be a catch block for each exception type that can be thrown:

try 
{
  // some code that might trigger a Foo/Bar/Baz/Exception
}

catch(FooException $e) 
{
  // we caught a foo exception
}

catch(BarException $e) 
{
  // we caught a bar exception
}

catch(BazException $e) 
{
  // we caught a baz exception
}

catch(Exception $e) 
{
  // we caught a normal exception
  // or an exception that wasn't handled by any of the above
}

If an exception is thrown that is not handled by any of the other catch statements it will be handled by the catch(Exception $e) block. It does not necessarily have to be the last one.

Can I send a ctrl-C (SIGINT) to an application on Windows?

Edit:

For a GUI App, the "normal" way to handle this in Windows development would be to send a WM_CLOSE message to the process's main window.

For a console app, you need to use SetConsoleCtrlHandler to add a CTRL_C_EVENT.

If the application doesn't honor that, you could call TerminateProcess.

Proxy setting for R

I had the same problem at my office and I solved it adding the proxy in the destination of the R shortcut; clik on right button of the R icon, preferences, and in the destination field add

"C:\Program Files\R\your_R_version\bin\Rgui.exe" http_proxy=http://user_id:passwod@your_proxy:your_port/

Be sure to put the directory where you have the R program installed. That works for me. Hope this help.

Setting a Sheet and cell as variable

Yes. For that ensure that you declare the worksheet

For example

Previous Code

Sub Sample()
    Dim ws As Worksheet

    Set ws = Sheets("Sheet3")

    Debug.Print ws.Cells(23, 4).Value
End Sub

New Code

Sub Sample()
    Dim ws As Worksheet

    Set ws = Sheets("Sheet4")

    Debug.Print ws.Cells(23, 4).Value
End Sub

How do I get first element rather than using [0] in jQuery?

You can try like this:
yourArray.shift()

Frame Buster Buster ... buster code needed

As of 2015, you should use CSP2's frame-ancestors directive for this. This is implemented via an HTTP response header.

e.g.

Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors 'none'

Of course, not many browsers support CSP2 yet so it is wise to include the old X-Frame-Options header:

X-Frame-Options: DENY

I would advise to include both anyway, otherwise your site would continue to be vulnerable to Clickjacking attacks in old browsers, and of course you would get undesirable framing even without malicious intent. Most browsers do update automatically these days, however you still tend to get corporate users being stuck on old versions of Internet Explorer for legacy application compatibility reasons.

How do I make JavaScript beep?

I wrote a function to beep with the new Audio API.

var beep = (function () {
    var ctxClass = window.audioContext ||window.AudioContext || window.AudioContext || window.webkitAudioContext
    var ctx = new ctxClass();
    return function (duration, type, finishedCallback) {

        duration = +duration;

        // Only 0-4 are valid types.
        type = (type % 5) || 0;

        if (typeof finishedCallback != "function") {
            finishedCallback = function () {};
        }

        var osc = ctx.createOscillator();

        osc.type = type;
        //osc.type = "sine";

        osc.connect(ctx.destination);
        if (osc.noteOn) osc.noteOn(0); // old browsers
        if (osc.start) osc.start(); // new browsers

        setTimeout(function () {
            if (osc.noteOff) osc.noteOff(0); // old browsers
            if (osc.stop) osc.stop(); // new browsers
            finishedCallback();
        }, duration);

    };
})();

jsFiddle.

Convert character to ASCII code in JavaScript

To ensure full Unicode support and reversibility, consider using:

'\n'.codePointAt(0);

This will ensure that when testing characters over the UTF-16 limit, you will get their true code point value.

e.g.

''.codePointAt(0); // 68181
String.fromCodePoint(68181); // ''

''.charCodeAt(0);  // 55298
String.fromCharCode(55298);  // '?'

Center align a column in twitter bootstrap

If you cannot put 1 column, you can simply put 2 column in the middle... (I am just combining answers) For Bootstrap 3

<div class="row">
   <div class="col-lg-5 ">5 columns left</div>
   <div class="col-lg-2 col-centered">2 column middle</div>
   <div class="col-lg-5">5 columns right</div>
</div>

Even, you can text centered column by adding this to style:

.col-centered{
  display: block;
  margin-left: auto;
  margin-right: auto;
  text-align: center;
}

Additionally, there is another solution here

Define global variable with webpack

I was about to ask the very same question. After searching a bit further and decyphering part of webpack's documentation I think that what you want is the output.library and output.libraryTarget in the webpack.config.js file.

For example:

js/index.js:

var foo = 3;
var bar = true;

webpack.config.js

module.exports = {
   ...
   entry: './js/index.js',
   output: {
      path: './www/js/',
      filename: 'index.js',
      library: 'myLibrary',
      libraryTarget: 'var'
   ...
}

Now if you link the generated www/js/index.js file in a html script tag you can access to myLibrary.foo from anywhere in your other scripts.

how to remove pagination in datatable

$(document).ready(function () {
            $('#Grid_Id').dataTable({
                "bPaginate": false
            });
        });

i have solved my problem using it.

How to block users from closing a window in Javascript?

If your sending out an internal survey that requires 100% participation from your company's employees, then a better route would be to just have the form keep track of the responders ID/Username/email etc. Every few days or so just send a nice little email reminder to those in your organization to complete the survey...you could probably even automate this.

JQuery Error: cannot call methods on dialog prior to initialization; attempted to call method 'close'

Im also got the same Error: cannot call methods on dialog prior to initialization; attempted to call method 'close'

what i did is i triggered the close button event which is in the dialog header like

this is working fine for me to close the dialog

function btnClose() {
$(".ui-dialog-titlebar-close").trigger('click');
}

JavaScript replace/regex

You need to double escape any RegExp characters (once for the slash in the string and once for the regexp):

  "$TESTONE $TESTONE".replace( new RegExp("\\$TESTONE","gm"),"foo")

Otherwise, it looks for the end of the line and 'TESTONE' (which it never finds).

Personally, I'm not a big fan of building regexp's using strings for this reason. The level of escaping that's needed could lead you to drink. I'm sure others feel differently though and like drinking when writing regexes.

difference between primary key and unique key

Unique Key (UK): It's a column or a group of columns that can identify a uniqueness in a row.

Primary Key (PK): It's also a column or group of columns that can identify a uniqueness in a row.

So the Primary key is just another name for unique key, but the default implementation in SQL Server is different for Primary and Unique Key.

By Default:

  1. PK creates a Clustered index and UK creates a Non Clustered Index.
  2. PK is not null, but UK allows nulls (Note: By Default)
  3. There can only be one and only one PK on a table, but there can be multiple UK's
  4. You can override the default implementation depending upon your need.

It really depends what is your aim when deciding whether to create a UK or PK. It follows an analogy like "If there is a team of three people, so all of them are peers, but there will be one of them who will be a pair of peers: PK and UK has similar relation.". I would suggest reading this article: The example given by the author may not seem suitable, but try to get an overall idea.

http://tsqltips.blogspot.com/2012/06/difference-between-unique-key-and.html

ERROR 403 in loading resources like CSS and JS in my index.php

You need to change permissions on the folder bootstrap/css. Your super user may be able to access it but it doesn't mean apache or nginx have access to it, that's why you still need to change the permissions.

Tip: I usually make the apache/nginx's user group owner of that kind of folders and give 775 permission to it.

How to install wkhtmltopdf on a linux based (shared hosting) web server

Shared hosting no ssh or shell access?

Here is how i did it;

  1. Visit https://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html and download the appropriate stable release for Linux. For my case I chose 32-bit which is wkhtmltox-0.12.4_linux-generic-i386.tar.xz
  2. Unzip to a folder on your local drive.
  3. Upload the folder to public_html (or whichever location fits your need) using an FTP program just like any other file(s)
  4. Change the binary paths in snappy.php file to point the appropriate files in the folder you just uploaded. Bingo! there you have it. You should be able to generate PDF files.

How to update Python?

UPDATE: 2018-07-06

This post is now nearly 5 years old! Python-2.7 will stop receiving official updates from python.org in 2020. Also, Python-3.7 has been released. Check out Python-Future on how to make your Python-2 code compatible with Python-3. For updating conda, the documentation now recommends using conda update --all in each of your conda environments to update all packages and the Python executable for that version. Also, since they changed their name to Anaconda, I don't know if the Windows registry keys are still the same.

UPDATE: 2017-03-24

There have been no updates to Python(x,y) since June of 2015, so I think it's safe to assume it has been abandoned.

UPDATE: 2016-11-11

As @cxw comments below, these answers are for the same bit-versions, and by bit-version I mean 64-bit vs. 32-bit. For example, these answers would apply to updating from 64-bit Python-2.7.10 to 64-bit Python-2.7.11, ie: the same bit-version. While it is possible to install two different bit versions of Python together, it would require some hacking, so I'll save that exercise for the reader. If you don't want to hack, I suggest that if switching bit-versions, remove the other bit-version first.

UPDATES: 2016-05-16
  • Anaconda and MiniConda can be used with an existing Python installation by disabling the options to alter the Windows PATH and Registry. After extraction, create a symlink to conda in your bin or install conda from PyPI. Then create another symlink called conda-activate to activate in the Anaconda/Miniconda root bin folder. Now Anaconda/Miniconda is just like Ruby RVM. Just use conda-activate root to enable Anaconda/Miniconda.
  • Portable Python is no longer being developed or maintained.

TL;DR

  • Using Anaconda or miniconda, then just execute conda update --all to keep each conda environment updated,
  • same major version of official Python (e.g. 2.7.5), just install over old (e.g. 2.7.4),
  • different major version of official Python (e.g. 3.3), install side-by-side with old, set paths/associations to point to dominant (e.g. 2.7), shortcut to other (e.g. in BASH $ ln /c/Python33/python.exe python3).

The answer depends:

  1. If OP has 2.7.x and wants to install newer version of 2.7.x, then

    • if using MSI installer from the official Python website, just install over old version, installer will issue warning that it will remove and replace the older version; looking in "installed programs" in "control panel" before and after confirms that the old version has been replaced by the new version; newer versions of 2.7.x are backwards compatible so this is completely safe and therefore IMHO multiple versions of 2.7.x should never necessary.
    • if building from source, then you should probably build in a fresh, clean directory, and then point your path to the new build once it passes all tests and you are confident that it has been built successfully, but you may wish to keep the old build around because building from source may occasionally have issues. See my guide for building Python x64 on Windows 7 with SDK 7.0.
    • if installing from a distribution such as Python(x,y), see their website. Python(x,y) has been abandoned. I believe that updates can be handled from within Python(x,y) with their package manager, but updates are also included on their website. I could not find a specific reference so perhaps someone else can speak to this. Similar to ActiveState and probably Enthought, Python (x,y) clearly states it is incompatible with other installations of Python:

      It is recommended to uninstall any other Python distribution before installing Python(x,y)

    • Enthought Canopy uses an MSI and will install either into Program Files\Enthought or home\AppData\Local\Enthought\Canopy\App for all users or per user respectively. Newer installations are updated by using the built in update tool. See their documentation.
    • ActiveState also uses an MSI so newer installations can be installed on top of older ones. See their installation notes.

      Other Python 2.7 Installations On Windows, ActivePython 2.7 cannot coexist with other Python 2.7 installations (for example, a Python 2.7 build from python.org). Uninstall any other Python 2.7 installations before installing ActivePython 2.7.

    • Sage recommends that you install it into a virtual machine, and provides a Oracle VirtualBox image file that can be used for this purpose. Upgrades are handled internally by issuing the sage -upgrade command.
    • Anaconda can be updated by using the conda command:

      conda update --all
      

      Anaconda/Miniconda lets users create environments to manage multiple Python versions including Python-2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5. The root Anaconda/Miniconda installations are currently based on either Python-2.7 or Python-3.5.

      Anaconda will likely disrupt any other Python installations. Installation uses MSI installer. [UPDATE: 2016-05-16] Anaconda and Miniconda now use .exe installers and provide options to disable Windows PATH and Registry alterations.

      Therefore Anaconda/Miniconda can be installed without disrupting existing Python installations depending on how it was installed and the options that were selected during installation. If the .exe installer is used and the options to alter Windows PATH and Registry are not disabled, then any previous Python installations will be disabled, but simply uninstalling the Anaconda/Miniconda installation should restore the original Python installation, except maybe the Windows Registry Python\PythonCore keys.

      Anaconda/Miniconda makes the following registry edits regardless of the installation options: HKCU\Software\Python\ContinuumAnalytics\ with the following keys: Help, InstallPath, Modules and PythonPath - official Python registers these keys too, but under Python\PythonCore. Also uninstallation info is registered for Anaconda\Miniconda. Unless you select the "Register with Windows" option during installation, it doesn't create PythonCore, so integrations like Python Tools for Visual Studio do not automatically see Anaconda/Miniconda. If the option to register Anaconda/Miniconda is enabled, then I think your existing Python Windows Registry keys will be altered and uninstallation will probably not restore them.

    • WinPython updates, I think, can be handled through the WinPython Control Panel.
    • PortablePython is no longer being developed. It had no update method. Possibly updates could be unzipped into a fresh directory and then App\lib\site-packages and App\Scripts could be copied to the new installation, but if this didn't work then reinstalling all packages might have been necessary. Use pip list to see what packages were installed and their versions. Some were installed by PortablePython. Use easy_install pip to install pip if it wasn't installed.
  2. If OP has 2.7.x and wants to install a different version, e.g. <=2.6.x or >=3.x.x, then installing different versions side-by-side is fine. You must choose which version of Python (if any) to associate with *.py files and which you want on your path, although you should be able to set up shells with different paths if you use BASH. AFAIK 2.7.x is backwards compatible with 2.6.x, so IMHO side-by-side installs is not necessary, however Python-3.x.x is not backwards compatible, so my recommendation would be to put Python-2.7 on your path and have Python-3 be an optional version by creating a shortcut to its executable called python3 (this is a common setup on Linux). The official Python default install path on Windows is

    • C:\Python33 for 3.3.x (latest 2013-07-29)
    • C:\Python32 for 3.2.x
    • &c.
    • C:\Python27 for 2.7.x (latest 2013-07-29)
    • C:\Python26 for 2.6.x
    • &c.
  3. If OP is not updating Python, but merely updating packages, they may wish to look into virtualenv to keep the different versions of packages specific to their development projects separate. Pip is also a great tool to update packages. If packages use binary installers I usually uninstall the old package before installing the new one.

I hope this clears up any confusion.

Clone() vs Copy constructor- which is recommended in java

Have in mind that clone() doesn't work out of the box. You will have to implement Cloneable and override the clone() method making in public.

There are a few alternatives, which are preferable (since the clone() method has lots of design issues, as stated in other answers), and the copy-constructor would require manual work:

Removing All Items From A ComboBox?

For Access VBA, which does not provide a .clear method on user form comboboxes, this solution works flawlessly for me:

   If cbxCombobox.ListCount > 0 Then
        For remloop = (cbxCombobox.ListCount - 1) To 0 Step -1
            cbxCombobox.RemoveItem (remloop)
        Next remloop
   End If

Programmatically get own phone number in iOS

At the risk of getting negative marks, I want to suggest that the highest ranking solution (currently the first response) violates the latest SDK Agreement as of Nov 5, 2009. Our application was just rejected for using it. Here's the response from Apple:

"For security reasons, iPhone OS restricts an application (including its preferences and data) to a unique location in the file system. This restriction is part of the security feature known as the application's "sandbox." The sandbox is a set of fine-grained controls limiting an application's access to files, preferences, network resources, hardware, and so on."

The device's phone number is not available within your application's container. You will need to revise your application to read only within your directory container and resubmit your binary to iTunes Connect in order for your application to be reconsidered for the App Store.

This was a real disappointment since we wanted to spare the user having to enter their own phone number.

How to strip HTML tags from string in JavaScript?

var html = "<p>Hello, <b>World</b>";
var div = document.createElement("div");
div.innerHTML = html;
alert(div.innerText); // Hello, World

That pretty much the best way of doing it, you're letting the browser do what it does best -- parse HTML.


Edit: As noted in the comments below, this is not the most cross-browser solution. The most cross-browser solution would be to recursively go through all the children of the element and concatenate all text nodes that you find. However, if you're using jQuery, it already does it for you:

alert($("<p>Hello, <b>World</b></p>").text());

Check out the text method.

How do you list all triggers in a MySQL database?

I hope following code will give you more information.

select * from information_schema.triggers where 
information_schema.triggers.trigger_schema like '%your_db_name%'

This will give you total 22 Columns in MySQL version: 5.5.27 and Above

TRIGGER_CATALOG 
TRIGGER_SCHEMA
TRIGGER_NAME
EVENT_MANIPULATION
EVENT_OBJECT_CATALOG
EVENT_OBJECT_SCHEMA 
EVENT_OBJECT_TABLE
ACTION_ORDER
ACTION_CONDITION
ACTION_STATEMENT
ACTION_ORIENTATION
ACTION_TIMING
ACTION_REFERENCE_OLD_TABLE
ACTION_REFERENCE_NEW_TABLE
ACTION_REFERENCE_OLD_ROW
ACTION_REFERENCE_NEW_ROW
CREATED 
SQL_MODE
DEFINER 
CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT
COLLATION_CONNECTION
DATABASE_COLLATION

How to fix Git error: object file is empty?

Actually I had the same problem. Have a copy of your code before trying this.

I just did git reset HEAD~

my last commit was undone then I commited it again, problem solved!

Table is marked as crashed and should be repaired

Run this from your server's command line:

 mysqlcheck --repair --all-databases

cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

sudo ldconfig

ldconfig creates the necessary links and cache to the most recent shared libraries found in the directories specified on the command line, in the file /etc/ld.so.conf, and in the trusted directories (/lib and /usr/lib).

Generally package manager takes care of this while installing the new library, but not always (specially when you install library with cmake).

And if the output of this is empty

$ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Please set the default path

$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

download file using an ajax request

Your needs are covered by window.location('download.php');
But I think that you need to pass the file to be downloaded, not always download the same file, and that's why you are using a request, one option is to create a php file as simple as showfile.php and do a request like

var myfile = filetodownload.txt
var url = "shofile.php?file=" + myfile ;
ajaxRequest.open("GET", url, true);

showfile.php

<?php
$file = $_GET["file"] 
echo $file;

where file is the file name passed via Get or Post in the request and then catch the response in a function simply

if(ajaxRequest.readyState == 4){
                        var file = ajaxRequest.responseText;
                        window.location = 'downfile.php?file=' + file;  
                    }
                }

Powershell 2 copy-item which creates a folder if doesn't exist

In PowerShell 2.0, it is still not possible to get the Copy-Item cmdlet to create the destination folder, you'll need code like this:

$destinationFolder = "C:\My Stuff\Subdir"

if (!(Test-Path -path $destinationFolder)) {New-Item $destinationFolder -Type Directory}
Copy-Item "\\server1\Upgrade.exe" -Destination $destinationFolder

If you use -Recurse in the Copy-Item it will create all the subfolders of the source structure in the destination but it won't create the actual destination folder, even with -Force.

iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPodTouch) view real-time console log terminal

EDIT: Please use @cbowns solution - deviceconsole is compatible with iOS9 and much easier to use.

This is a open-source program that displays the iDevice's system log in Terminal (in a manner similar to tail -F). No jailbreak is required, and the output is fully grep'able so you can filter to see output from your program only. What's particularly good about this solution is you can view the log whether or not the app was launched in debug mode from XCode.

Here's how:

Grab the libimobiledevice binary for Mac OS X from my github account at https://github.com/benvium/libimobiledevice-macosx/zipball/master

Follow the install instructions here: https://github.com/benvium/libimobiledevice-macosx/blob/master/README.md

Connect your device, open up Terminal.app and type:

idevicesyslog

Up pops a real-time display of the device's system log.

With it being a console app, you can filter the log using unix commands, such as grep

For instance, see all log messages from a particular app:

idevicesyslog | grep myappname

Taken from my blog at http://pervasivecode.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/view-log-output-of-any-app-on-iphone-or.html

Inline list initialization in VB.NET

Collection initializers are only available in VB.NET 2010, released 2010-04-12:

Dim theVar = New List(Of String) From { "one", "two", "three" }

CSS: Hover one element, effect for multiple elements?

OR

.section:hover > div {
  background-color: #0CF;
}

NOTE Parent element state can only affect a child's element state so you can use:

.image:hover + .layer {
  background-color: #0CF;
}
.image:hover {
  background-color: #0CF;
}

but you can not use

.layer:hover + .image {
  background-color: #0CF;
}

Change color of PNG image via CSS?

You can use filters with -webkit-filter and filter: Filters are relatively new to browsers but supported in over 90% of browsers according to the following CanIUse table: https://caniuse.com/#feat=css-filters

You can change an image to grayscale, sepia and lot more (look at the example).

So you can now change the color of a PNG file with filters.

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body {
    background-color:#03030a;
    min-width: 800px;
    min-height: 400px
}
img {
    width:20%;
    float:left; 
     margin:0;
}
/*Filter styles*/
.saturate { filter: saturate(3); }
.grayscale { filter: grayscale(100%); }
.contrast { filter: contrast(160%); }
.brightness { filter: brightness(0.25); }
.blur { filter: blur(3px); }
.invert { filter: invert(100%); }
.sepia { filter: sepia(100%); }
.huerotate { filter: hue-rotate(180deg); }
.rss.opacity { filter: opacity(50%); }
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<!--- img src http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Mona_Lisa%2C_by_Leonardo_da_Vinci%2C_from_C2RMF_retouched.jpg/500px-Mona_Lisa%2C_by_Leonardo_da_Vinci%2C_from_C2RMF_retouched.jpg -->
<img alt="Mona Lisa" src="https://images.pexels.com/photos/40997/mona-lisa-leonardo-da-vinci-la-gioconda-oil-painting-40997.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=3&h=750&w=1260" title="original">
<img alt="Mona Lisa" src="https://images.pexels.com/photos/40997/mona-lisa-leonardo-da-vinci-la-gioconda-oil-painting-40997.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=3&h=750&w=1260" title="saturate" class="saturate">
<img alt="Mona Lisa" src="https://images.pexels.com/photos/40997/mona-lisa-leonardo-da-vinci-la-gioconda-oil-painting-40997.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=3&h=750&w=1260" title="grayscale" class="grayscale">
<img alt="Mona Lisa" src="https://images.pexels.com/photos/40997/mona-lisa-leonardo-da-vinci-la-gioconda-oil-painting-40997.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=3&h=750&w=1260" title="contrast" class="contrast">
<img alt="Mona Lisa" src="https://images.pexels.com/photos/40997/mona-lisa-leonardo-da-vinci-la-gioconda-oil-painting-40997.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=3&h=750&w=1260" title="brightness" class="brightness">
<img alt="Mona Lisa" src="https://images.pexels.com/photos/40997/mona-lisa-leonardo-da-vinci-la-gioconda-oil-painting-40997.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=3&h=750&w=1260" title="blur" class="blur">
<img alt="Mona Lisa" src="https://images.pexels.com/photos/40997/mona-lisa-leonardo-da-vinci-la-gioconda-oil-painting-40997.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=3&h=750&w=1260" title="invert" class="invert">
<img alt="Mona Lisa" src="https://images.pexels.com/photos/40997/mona-lisa-leonardo-da-vinci-la-gioconda-oil-painting-40997.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=3&h=750&w=1260" title="sepia" class="sepia">
<img alt="Mona Lisa" src="https://images.pexels.com/photos/40997/mona-lisa-leonardo-da-vinci-la-gioconda-oil-painting-40997.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=3&h=750&w=1260" title="huerotate" class="huerotate">
<img alt="Mona Lisa" src="https://images.pexels.com/photos/40997/mona-lisa-leonardo-da-vinci-la-gioconda-oil-painting-40997.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=3&h=750&w=1260" title="opacity" class="rss opacity">
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Source

cc1plus: error: unrecognized command line option "-std=c++11" with g++

Seeing from your G++ version, you need to update it badly. C++11 has only been available since G++ 4.3. The most recent version is 4.7.

In versions pre-G++ 4.7, you'll have to use -std=c++0x, for more recent versions you can use -std=c++11.

Doctrine2: Best way to handle many-to-many with extra columns in reference table

I've opened a similar question in the Doctrine user mailing list and got a really simple answer;

consider the many to many relation as an entity itself, and then you realize you have 3 objects, linked between them with a one-to-many and many-to-one relation.

http://groups.google.com/group/doctrine-user/browse_thread/thread/d1d87c96052e76f7/436b896e83c10868#436b896e83c10868

Once a relation has data, it's no more a relation !

UITextField text change event

Swift 3 Version

yourTextField.addTarget(self, action: #selector(YourControllerName.textChanges(_:)), for: UIControlEvents.editingChanged)

And get the changes in here

func textChanges(_ textField: UITextField) {
    let text = textField.text! // your desired text here
    // Now do whatever you want.
}

Hope it helps.

Lost connection to MySQL server during query?

The same as @imxylz, but I had to use mycursor.execute('set GLOBAL max_allowed_packet=67108864') as I got a read-only error without using the GLOBAL parameter.

mysql.connector.__version__ 

8.0.16

HikariCP - connection is not available

I managed to fix it finally. The problem is not related to HikariCP. The problem persisted because of some complex methods in REST controllers executing multiple changes in DB through JPA repositories. For some reasons calls to these interfaces resulted in a growing number of "freezed" active connections, exhausting the pool. Either annotating these methods as @Transactional or enveloping all the logic in a single call to transactional service method seem to solve the problem.

MySQL "ERROR 1005 (HY000): Can't create table 'foo.#sql-12c_4' (errno: 150)"

Note: I had the same problem, and it was because the referenced field was in a different collation in the 2 different tables (they had exact same type).

Make sure all your referenced fields have the same type AND the same collation!

Handling MySQL datetimes and timestamps in Java

In Java side, the date is usually represented by the (poorly designed, but that aside) java.util.Date. It is basically backed by the Epoch time in flavor of a long, also known as a timestamp. It contains information about both the date and time parts. In Java, the precision is in milliseconds.

In SQL side, there are several standard date and time types, DATE, TIME and TIMESTAMP (at some DB's also called DATETIME), which are represented in JDBC as java.sql.Date, java.sql.Time and java.sql.Timestamp, all subclasses of java.util.Date. The precision is DB dependent, often in milliseconds like Java, but it can also be in seconds.

In contrary to java.util.Date, the java.sql.Date contains only information about the date part (year, month, day). The Time contains only information about the time part (hours, minutes, seconds) and the Timestamp contains information about the both parts, like as java.util.Date does.

The normal practice to store a timestamp in the DB (thus, java.util.Date in Java side and java.sql.Timestamp in JDBC side) is to use PreparedStatement#setTimestamp().

java.util.Date date = getItSomehow();
Timestamp timestamp = new Timestamp(date.getTime());
preparedStatement = connection.prepareStatement("SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE ts > ?");
preparedStatement.setTimestamp(1, timestamp);

The normal practice to obtain a timestamp from the DB is to use ResultSet#getTimestamp().

Timestamp timestamp = resultSet.getTimestamp("ts");
java.util.Date date = timestamp; // You can just upcast.

PostgreSQL : cast string to date DD/MM/YYYY

The documentation says

The output format of the date/time types can be set to one of the four styles ISO 8601, SQL (Ingres), traditional POSTGRES (Unix date format), or German. The default is the ISO format.

So this particular format can be controlled with postgres date time output, eg:

t=# select now();
              now
-------------------------------
 2017-11-29 09:15:25.348342+00
(1 row)

t=# set datestyle to DMY, SQL;
SET
t=# select now();
              now
-------------------------------
 29/11/2017 09:15:31.28477 UTC
(1 row)

t=# select now()::date;
    now
------------
 29/11/2017
(1 row)

Mind that as @Craig mentioned in his answer, changing datestyle will also (and in first turn) change the way postgres parses date.

How to make Firefox headless programmatically in Selenium with Python?

Used below code to set driver type based on need of Headless / Head for both Firefox and chrome:

// Can pass browser type 

if brower.lower() == 'chrome':
    driver = webdriver.Chrome('..\drivers\chromedriver')
elif brower.lower() == 'headless chrome':
    ch_Options = Options()
    ch_Options.add_argument('--headless')
    ch_Options.add_argument("--disable-gpu")
    driver = webdriver.Chrome('..\drivers\chromedriver',options=ch_Options)
elif brower.lower() == 'firefox':
    driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=r'..\drivers\geckodriver.exe')
elif brower.lower() == 'headless firefox':
    ff_option = FFOption()
    ff_option.add_argument('--headless')
    ff_option.add_argument("--disable-gpu")
    driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=r'..\drivers\geckodriver.exe', options=ff_option)
elif brower.lower() == 'ie':
    driver = webdriver.Ie('..\drivers\IEDriverServer')
else:
    raise Exception('Invalid Browser Type')

How can I tell AngularJS to "refresh"

Use

$route.reload();

remember to inject $route to your controller.

How to set breakpoints in inline Javascript in Google Chrome?

Another intuitive simple trick to debug especially script inside html returned by ajax, is to temporary put console.log("test") inside the script.

Once you have fired the event, open up the console tab inside the developer tools. you will see the source file link shown up at the right side of the "test" debug print statement. just click on the source (something like VM4xxx) and you can now set the break point.

P.S.: besides, you can consider to put "debugger" statement if you are using chrome, like what is being suggested by @Matt Ball

How can I use async/await at the top level?

Top-level await is a feature of the upcoming EcmaScript standard. Currently, you can start using it with TypeScript 3.8 (in RC version at this time).

How to Install TypeScript 3.8

You can start using TypeScript 3.8 by installing it from npm using the following command:

$ npm install typescript@rc

At this time, you need to add the rc tag to install the latest typescript 3.8 version.

numpy: most efficient frequency counts for unique values in an array

Using pandas module:

>>> import pandas as pd
>>> import numpy as np
>>> x = np.array([1,1,1,2,2,2,5,25,1,1])
>>> pd.value_counts(x)
1     5
2     3
25    1
5     1
dtype: int64

How to change the datetime format in pandas

Changing the format but not changing the type:

df['date'] = pd.to_datetime(df["date"].dt.strftime('%Y-%m'))

Example on ToggleButton

Try this Toggle Buttons

test_activity.xml

<ToggleButton 
android:id="@+id/togglebutton" 
android:layout_width="100px" 
android:layout_height="50px" 
android:layout_centerVertical="true" 
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:onClick="toggleclick"/>

Test.java

public class Test extends Activity {

private ToggleButton togglebutton;

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);
    togglebutton = (ToggleButton) findViewById(R.id.togglebutton);
}

public void toggleclick(View v){
    if(togglebutton.isChecked())
        Toast.makeText(TestActivity.this, "ON", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    else
        Toast.makeText(TestActivity.this, "OFF", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }
}

How to launch an EXE from Web page (asp.net)

This assumes the exe is somewhere you know on the user's computer:

<a href="javascript:LaunchApp()">Launch the executable</a>

<script>
function LaunchApp() {
if (!document.all) {
  alert ("Available only with Internet Explorer.");
  return;
}
var ws = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
ws.Exec("C:\\Windows\\notepad.exe");
}
</script>

Documentation: ActiveXObject, Exec Method (Windows Script Host).

How do I escape only single quotes?

If you want to escape characters with a \, you have addcslashes(). For example, if you want to escape only single quotes like the question, you can do:

echo addcslashes($value, "'");

And if you want to escape ', ", \, and nul (the byte null), you can use addslashes():

echo addslashes($value);

Set height 100% on absolute div

Few answers have given a solution with height and width 100% but I recommend you to not use percentage in css, use top/bottom and left/right positionning.

This is a better approach that allow you to control margin.

Here is the code :

body {
    position: relative;
    height: 3000px;
}
body div {

    top:0px;
    bottom: 0px;
    right: 0px;
    left:0px;
    background-color: yellow;
    position: absolute;
}

Hexadecimal string to byte array in C

Could it be simpler?!

uint8_t hex(char ch) {
    uint8_t r = (ch > 57) ? (ch - 55) : (ch - 48);
    return r & 0x0F;
}

int to_byte_array(const char *in, size_t in_size, uint8_t *out) {
    int count = 0;
    if (in_size % 2) {
        while (*in && out) {
            *out = hex(*in++);
            if (!*in)
                return count;
            *out = (*out << 4) | hex(*in++);
            *out++;
            count++;
        }
        return count;
    } else {
        while (*in && out) {
            *out++ = (hex(*in++) << 4) | hex(*in++);
            count++;
        }
        return count;
    }
}

int main() {
    char hex_in[] = "deadbeef10203040b00b1e50";
    uint8_t out[32];
    int res = to_byte_array(hex_in, sizeof(hex_in) - 1, out);

    for (size_t i = 0; i < res; i++)
        printf("%02x ", out[i]);

    printf("\n");
    system("pause");
    return 0;
}

Check if string doesn't contain another string

Use this as your WHERE condition

WHERE CHARINDEX('Apples', column) = 0 

How to resume Fragment from BackStack if exists

getFragmentManager().addOnBackStackChangedListener(new FragmentManager.OnBackStackChangedListener() {

    @Override
    public void onBackStackChanged() {

        if(getFragmentManager().getBackStackEntryCount()==0) {
            onResume();
        }    
    }
});

How to use mongoose findOne

Mongoose basically wraps mongodb's api to give you a pseudo relational db api so queries are not going to be exactly like mongodb queries. Mongoose findOne query returns a query object, not a document. You can either use a callback as the solution suggests or as of v4+ findOne returns a thenable so you can use .then or await/async to retrieve the document.

// thenables
Auth.findOne({nick: 'noname'}).then(err, result) {console.log(result)};
Auth.findOne({nick: 'noname'}).then(function (doc) {console.log(doc)});

// To use a full fledge promise you will need to use .exec()
var auth = Auth.findOne({nick: 'noname'}).exec();
auth.then(function (doc) {console.log(doc)});

// async/await
async function auth() {
  const doc = await Auth.findOne({nick: 'noname'}).exec();
  return doc;
}
auth();

See the docs if you would like to use a third party promise library.

WARNING: Can't verify CSRF token authenticity rails

Indeed simplest way. Don't bother with changing the headers.

Make sure you have:

<%= csrf_meta_tag %> in your layouts/application.html.erb

Just do a hidden input field like so:

<input name="authenticity_token" 
               type="hidden" 
               value="<%= form_authenticity_token %>"/>

Or if you want a jQuery ajax post:

$.ajax({     
    type: 'POST',
    url: "<%= someregistration_path %>",
    data: { "firstname": "text_data_1", "last_name": "text_data2", "authenticity_token": "<%= form_authenticity_token %>" },                                                                                  
    error: function( xhr ){ 
      alert("ERROR ON SUBMIT");
    },
    success: function( data ){ 
      //data response can contain what we want here...
      console.log("SUCCESS, data="+data);
    }
});

How do I check/uncheck all checkboxes with a button using jQuery?

Below code will work if user select all checkboxs then check all-checkbox will be checked and if user unselect any one checkbox then check all-checkbox will be unchecked.

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});
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<input type="checkbox" name="all" id="checkall" />Check All</br>_x000D_
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<input type="checkbox" class="cb-element" /> Checkbox  3
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Failed to resolve: com.android.support:cardview-v7:26.0.0 android

Google's new Maven repo is required for the latest support library that is compatible with Android 8.0. Just update your Google's Maven repository like below:

To add them to your build, add maven.google.com to the Maven repositories in your module-level build.gradle file:

repositories {
    maven {
        url 'https://maven.google.com'
        // Alternative URL is 'https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/'
    }
}

Alternative you can update build.gradle file like this:

    repositories {
        jcenter()
        google()
    }

Then add the desired library to your dependencies block. For example, the cardview library looks like this:

dependencies {
    compile 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:26.1.0'
}

Iterating through a list to render multiple widgets in Flutter?

Basically when you hit 'return' on a function the function will stop and will not continue your iteration, so what you need to do is put it all on a list and then add it as a children of a widget

you can do something like this:

  Widget getTextWidgets(List<String> strings)
  {
    List<Widget> list = new List<Widget>();
    for(var i = 0; i < strings.length; i++){
        list.add(new Text(strings[i]));
    }
    return new Row(children: list);
  }

or even better, you can use .map() operator and do something like this:

  Widget getTextWidgets(List<String> strings)
  {
    return new Row(children: strings.map((item) => new Text(item)).toList());
  }

How to embed a video into GitHub README.md?

I strongly recommend placing the video in a project website created with GitHub Pages instead of the readme, like described in VonC's answer; it will be a lot better than any of these ideas. But if you need a quick fix just like I needed, here are some suggestions.

Use a gif

See aloisdg's answer, result is awesome, gifs are rendered on github's readme ;)

Use a video player picture

You could trick the user into thinking the video is on the readme page with a picture. It sounds like an ad trick, it's not perfect, but it works and it's funny ;).

Example:

[![Watch the video](https://i.imgur.com/vKb2F1B.png)](https://youtu.be/vt5fpE0bzSY)

Result:

Watch the video

Use youtube's preview picture

You can also use the picture generated by youtube for your video.

For youtube urls in the form of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<VIDEO ID>
https://youtu.be/<VIDEO URL>

The preview urls are in the form of:

https://img.youtube.com/vi/<VIDEO ID>/maxresdefault.jpg
https://img.youtube.com/vi/<VIDEO ID>/hqdefault.jpg

Example:

[![Watch the video](https://img.youtube.com/vi/T-D1KVIuvjA/maxresdefault.jpg)](https://youtu.be/T-D1KVIuvjA)

Result:

Watch the video

Use asciinema

If your use case is something that runs in a terminal, asciinema lets you record a terminal session and has nice markdown embedding.

Hit share button and copy the markdown snippet.

Example:

[![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/113463.png)](https://asciinema.org/a/113463)

Result:

asciicast

How do I alias commands in git?

I think the most useful gitconfig is like this,we always use the 20% function in git,you can try the "g ll",it is amazing,the details:

[user]
    name = my name
    email = [email protected]
[core]  
    editor = vi 
[alias]
    aa = add --all
    bv = branch -vv
    ba = branch -ra
    bd = branch -d
    ca = commit --amend
    cb = checkout -b
    cm = commit -a --amend -C HEAD
    ci = commit -a -v
    co = checkout
    di = diff
    ll = log --pretty=format:"%C(yellow)%h%Cred%d\\ %Creset%s%Cblue\\ [%cn]" --decorate --numstat
    ld = log --pretty=format:"%C(yellow)%h\\ %C(green)%ad%Cred%d\\ %Creset%s%Cblue\\ [%cn]" --decorate --date=short --graph
    ls = log --pretty=format:"%C(green)%h\\ %C(yellow)[%ad]%Cred%d\\ %Creset%s%Cblue\\ [%cn]" --decorate --date=relative
    mm = merge --no-ff
    st = status --short --branch
    tg = tag -a 
    pu = push --tags
    un = reset --hard HEAD  
    uh = reset --hard HEAD^
   [color]  
    diff = auto  
    status = auto  
    branch = auto 
   [branch]  
    autosetuprebase = always

Get Hours and Minutes (HH:MM) from date

Following code shows current hour and minutes in 'Hour:Minutes' column for us.

SELECT  CONVERT(VARCHAR(5), GETDATE(), 108) + 
(CASE WHEN DATEPART(HOUR, GETDATE()) > 12 THEN ' PM'
    ELSE ' AM'
END) 'Hour:Minutes'

or

SELECT  Format(GETDATE(), 'hh:mm') + 
(CASE WHEN DATEPART(HOUR, GETDATE()) > 12 THEN ' PM'
    ELSE ' AM'
END) 'Hour:Minutes'

MySQL timestamp select date range

I can see people giving lots of comments on this question. But I think, simple use of LIKE could be easier to get the data from the table.

SELECT * FROM table WHERE COLUMN LIKE '2013-05-11%'

Use LIKE and post data wild character search. Hopefully this will solve your problem.

Disable XML validation in Eclipse

You have two options:

  1. Configure Workspace Settings (disable the validation for the current workspace): Go to Window > Preferences > Validation and uncheck the manual and build for: XML Schema Validator, XML Validator

  2. Check enable project specific settings (disable the validation for this project): Right-click on the project, select Properties > Validation and uncheck the manual and build for: XML Schema Validator, XML Validator

Right-click on the project and select Validate to make the errors disappear.

How to open Console window in Eclipse?

Just open the Window(in eclipse IDE) -> click on Reset Perspective. It worked for me.

How to increment an iterator by 2?

If you don't have a modifiable lvalue of an iterator, or it is desired to get a copy of a given iterator (leaving the original one unchanged), then C++11 comes with new helper functions - std::next / std::prev:

std::next(iter, 2);          // returns a copy of iter incremented by 2
std::next(std::begin(v), 2); // returns a copy of begin(v) incremented by 2
std::prev(iter, 2);          // returns a copy of iter decremented by 2

SmtpException: Unable to read data from the transport connection: net_io_connectionclosed

If you are using an SMTP server on the same box and your SMTP is bound to an IP address instead of "Any Assigned" it may fail because it is trying to use an IP address (like 127.0.0.1) that SMTP is not currently working on.

How to configure Chrome's Java plugin so it uses an existing JDK in the machine

Apparently, Chrome addresses a key in Windows registry when it looks for a Java Environment. Since the plugin installs the JRE, this key is set to a JRE path and therefore needs to be edited if you want Chrome to work with the JDK.

  1. Run the plugin installer anyways.
  2. Start -> Run (Winkey+R) and then type in regedit to edit the registry.
  3. Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\MozillaPlugins\@java.com/JavaPlugin.
  4. Export it as a reg file to say, your desktop (right-click and select Export).
  5. Uninstall the JRE (Control Panel -> Add or Remove Programs). This should delete the key above, explaining the need to export it in the first place.
  6. Open the reg file exported to your desktop with a text editor (such as Notepad++).
  7. Edit "Path" so that it matches the corresponding dll inside your JDK installation:

    REGEDIT 4
    
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\MozillaPlugins\@java.com/JavaPlugin]
    "Description"="Oracle® Next Generation Java™ Plug-In"
    "GeckoVersion"="1.9"
    
    "Path"="C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_29\jre\bin\new_plugin\npjp2.dll"
    
    "ProductName"="Oracle® Java™ Plug-In"
    "Vendor"="Oracle Corp."
    "Version"="160_29"
    
  8. Save file.

  9. Double click modified reg file to add keys to your registry.

The REGEDIT 4 prefix at the top of the file might only be required for Windows 7 64-bit.

Counting the Number of keywords in a dictionary in python

The number of distinct words (i.e. count of entries in the dictionary) can be found using the len() function.

> a = {'foo':42, 'bar':69}
> len(a)
2

To get all the distinct words (i.e. the keys), use the .keys() method.

> list(a.keys())
['foo', 'bar']

SQL Server: Get data for only the past year

The most readable, IMO:

SELECT * FROM TABLE WHERE Date >
   DATEADD(yy, -1, CONVERT(datetime, CONVERT(varchar, GETDATE(), 101)))

Which:

  1. Gets now's datetime GETDATE() = #8/27/2008 10:23am#
  2. Converts to a string with format 101 CONVERT(varchar, #8/27/2008 10:23am#, 101) = '8/27/2007'
  3. Converts to a datetime CONVERT(datetime, '8/27/2007') = #8/27/2008 12:00AM#
  4. Subtracts 1 year DATEADD(yy, -1, #8/27/2008 12:00AM#) = #8/27/2007 12:00AM#

There's variants with DATEDIFF and DATEADD to get you midnight of today, but they tend to be rather obtuse (though slightly better on performance - not that you'd notice compared to the reads required to fetch the data).

UnsatisfiedDependencyException: Error creating bean with name 'entityManagerFactory'

Well, you're getting a java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError. In your pom.xml, hibernate-core version is 3.3.2.GA and declared after hibernate-entitymanager, so it prevails. You can remove that dependency, since will be inherited version 3.6.7.Final from hibernate-entitymanager.

You're using spring-boot as parent, so no need to declare version of some dependencies, since they are managed by spring-boot.

Also, hibernate-commons-annotations is inherited from hibernate-entitymanager and hibernate-annotations is an old version of hibernate-commons-annotations, you can remove both.

Finally, your pom.xml can look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>org.elsys.internetprogramming.trafficspy.server</groupId>
    <artifactId>TrafficSpyService</artifactId>
    <version>0.1.0</version>

    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>1.2.3.RELEASE</version>
    </parent>

    <dependencies>
        <!-- Spring -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-cloud-connectors</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-jdbc</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.eclipse.persistence</groupId>
            <artifactId>javax.persistence</artifactId>
            <version>2.0.0</version>
        </dependency>

        <!-- Hibernate -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
            <artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
            <artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
            <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>commons-dbcp</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-dbcp</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>commons-pool</groupId>
            <artifactId>commons-pool</artifactId>
        </dependency>

        <!-- MySQL -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>mysql</groupId>
            <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <properties>
        <java.version>1.7</java.version>
    </properties>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>repackage</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

    <repositories>
        <repository>
            <id>spring-releases</id>
            <url>https://repo.spring.io/libs-release</url>
        </repository>

        <repository>
            <id>codehaus</id>
            <url>http://repository.codehaus.org/org/codehaus</url>
        </repository>
    </repositories>
    <pluginRepositories>
        <pluginRepository>
            <id>spring-releases</id>
            <url>https://repo.spring.io/libs-release</url>
        </pluginRepository>
    </pluginRepositories>

</project>

Let me know if you have a problem.

Return Result from Select Query in stored procedure to a List

Passing Parameters in Stored Procedure and calling it in C# Code behind as shown below?

SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(func.internalConnection);
var cmd = new SqlCommand("usp_CustomerPortalOrderDetails", conn);
cmd.CommandType = System.Data.CommandType.StoredProcedure;
cmd.Parameters.Add("@CustomerId", SqlDbType.Int).Value = customerId;
cmd.Parameters.Add("@Qid", SqlDbType.VarChar).Value = qid;
conn.Open();

// Populate Production Panels
DataTable listCustomerJobDetails = new DataTable();
listCustomerJobDetails.Load(cmd.ExecuteReader());
conn.Close();

How to disable scrolling temporarily?

This code will work on Chrome 56 and further (original answer doesn't work on Chrome anymore).

Use DomUtils.enableScroll() to enable scrolling.

Use DomUtils.disableScroll() to disable scrolling.

class DomUtils {
  // left: 37, up: 38, right: 39, down: 40,
  // spacebar: 32, pageup: 33, pagedown: 34, end: 35, home: 36
  static keys = { 37: 1, 38: 1, 39: 1, 40: 1 };

  static preventDefault(e) {
    e = e || window.event;
    if (e.preventDefault) e.preventDefault();
    e.returnValue = false;
  }

  static preventDefaultForScrollKeys(e) {
    if (DomUtils.keys[e.keyCode]) {
      DomUtils.preventDefault(e);
      return false;
    }
  }

  static disableScroll() {
    document.addEventListener('wheel', DomUtils.preventDefault, {
      passive: false,
    }); // Disable scrolling in Chrome
    document.addEventListener('keydown', DomUtils.preventDefaultForScrollKeys, {
      passive: false,
    });
  }

  static enableScroll() {
    document.removeEventListener('wheel', DomUtils.preventDefault, {
      passive: false,
    }); // Enable scrolling in Chrome
    document.removeEventListener(
      'keydown',
      DomUtils.preventDefaultForScrollKeys,
      {
        passive: false,
      }
    ); // Enable scrolling in Chrome
  }
}

How can you float: right in React Native?

You are not supposed to use floats in React Native. React Native leverages the flexbox to handle all that stuff.

In your case, you will probably want the container to have an attribute

justifyContent: 'flex-end'

And about the text taking the whole space, again, you need to take a look at your container.

Here is a link to really great guide on flexbox: A Complete Guide to Flexbox

Finding all objects that have a given property inside a collection

You can use something like JoSQL, and write 'SQL' against your collections: http://josql.sourceforge.net/

Which sounds like what you want, with the added benefit of being able to do more complicated queries.

Display images in asp.net mvc

It is possible to use a handler to do this, even in MVC4. Here's an example from one i made earlier:

public class ImageHandler : IHttpHandler
{
    byte[] bytes;

    public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
    {
        int param;
        if (int.TryParse(context.Request.QueryString["id"], out param))
        {
            using (var db = new MusicLibContext())
            {
                if (param == -1)
                {
                    bytes = File.ReadAllBytes(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/Images/add.png"));

                    context.Response.ContentType = "image/png";
                }
                else
                {
                    var data = (from x in db.Images
                                where x.ImageID == (short)param
                                select x).FirstOrDefault();

                    bytes = data.ImageData;

                    context.Response.ContentType = "image/" + data.ImageFileType;
                }

                context.Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);
                context.Response.BinaryWrite(bytes);
                context.Response.Flush();
                context.Response.End();
            }
        }
        else
        {
            //image not found
        }
    }

    public bool IsReusable
    {
        get
        {
            return false;
        }
    }
}

In the view, i added the ID of the photo to the query string of the handler.

Search a whole table in mySQL for a string

A PHP Based Solution for search entire table ! Search string is $string . This is generic and will work with all the tables with any number of fields

$sql="SELECT * from client_wireless";
$sql_query=mysql_query($sql);
$logicStr="WHERE ";
$count=mysql_num_fields($sql_query);
for($i=0 ; $i < mysql_num_fields($sql_query) ; $i++){
 if($i == ($count-1) )
$logicStr=$logicStr."".mysql_field_name($sql_query,$i)." LIKE '%".$string."%' ";
else
$logicStr=$logicStr."".mysql_field_name($sql_query,$i)." LIKE '%".$string."%' OR ";
}
// start the search in all the fields and when a match is found, go on printing it .
$sql="SELECT * from client_wireless ".$logicStr;
//echo $sql;
$query=mysql_query($sql);

How to trigger an event in input text after I stop typing/writing?

There is some simple plugin I've made that does exacly that. It requires much less code than proposed solutions and it's very light (~0,6kb)

First you create Bid object than can be bumped anytime. Every bump will delay firing Bid callback for next given ammount of time.

var searchBid = new Bid(function(inputValue){
    //your action when user will stop writing for 200ms. 
    yourSpecialAction(inputValue);
}, 200); //we set delay time of every bump to 200ms

When Bid object is ready, we need to bump it somehow. Let's attach bumping to keyup event.

$("input").keyup(function(){
    searchBid.bump( $(this).val() ); //parameters passed to bump will be accessable in Bid callback
});

What happens here is:

Everytime user presses key, bid is 'delayed' (bumped) for next 200ms. If 200ms will pass without beeing 'bumped' again, callback will be fired.

Also, you've got 2 additional functions for stopping bid (if user pressed esc or clicked outside input for example) and for finishing and firing callback immediately (for example when user press enter key):

searchBid.stop();
searchBid.finish(valueToPass);

Get last key-value pair in PHP array

Another solution cold be:

$value = $arr[count($arr) - 1];

The above will count the amount of array values, substract 1 and then return the value.

Note: This can only be used if your array keys are numeric.

What is the easiest/best/most correct way to iterate through the characters of a string in Java?

If you need performance, then you must test on your environment. No other way.

Here example code:

int tmp = 0;
String s = new String(new byte[64*1024]);
{
    long st = System.nanoTime();
    for(int i = 0, n = s.length(); i < n; i++) {
        tmp += s.charAt(i);
    }
    st = System.nanoTime() - st;
    System.out.println("1 " + st);
}

{
    long st = System.nanoTime();
    char[] ch = s.toCharArray();
    for(int i = 0, n = ch.length; i < n; i++) {
        tmp += ch[i];
    }
    st = System.nanoTime() - st;
    System.out.println("2 " + st);
}
{
    long st = System.nanoTime();
    for(char c : s.toCharArray()) {
        tmp += c;
    }
    st = System.nanoTime() - st;
    System.out.println("3 " + st);
}
System.out.println("" + tmp);

On Java online I get:

1 10349420
2 526130
3 484200
0

On Android x86 API 17 I get:

1 9122107
2 13486911
3 12700778
0

how to get request path with express req object

req.route.path is working for me

var pool = require('../db');

module.exports.get_plants = function(req, res) {
    // to run a query we can acquire a client from the pool,
    // run a query on the client, and then return the client to the pool
    pool.connect(function(err, client, done) {
        if (err) {
            return console.error('error fetching client from pool', err);
        }
        client.query('SELECT * FROM plants', function(err, result) {
            //call `done()` to release the client back to the pool
            done();
            if (err) {
                return console.error('error running query', err);
            }
            console.log('A call to route: %s', req.route.path + '\nRequest type: ' + req.method.toLowerCase());
            res.json(result);
        });
    });
};

after executing I see the following in the console and I get perfect result in my browser.

Express server listening on port 3000 in development mode
A call to route: /plants
Request type: get

Docker: Multiple Dockerfiles in project

Add an abstraction layer, for example, a YAML file like in this project https://github.com/larytet/dockerfile-generator which looks like

centos7:
    base: centos:centos7
    packager: rpm
    install:
      - $build_essential_centos 
      - rpm-build
    run:
      - $get_release
    env:
      - $environment_vars

A short Python script/make can generate all Dockerfiles from the configuration file.

VBA - how to conditionally skip a for loop iteration

VBA does not have a Continue or any other equivalent keyword to immediately jump to the next loop iteration. I would suggest a judicious use of Goto as a workaround, especially if this is just a contrived example and your real code is more complicated:

For i = LBound(Schedule, 1) To UBound(Schedule, 1)
    If (Schedule(i, 1) < ReferenceDate) Then
        PrevCouponIndex = i
        Goto NextIteration
    End If
    DF = Application.Run("SomeFunction"....)
    PV = PV + (DF * Coupon / CouponFrequency)
    '....'
    'a whole bunch of other code you are not showing us'
    '....'
    NextIteration:
Next

If that is really all of your code, though, @Brian is absolutely correct. Just put an Else clause in your If statement and be done with it.

How can building a heap be O(n) time complexity?

I think there are several questions buried in this topic:

  • How do you implement buildHeap so it runs in O(n) time?
  • How do you show that buildHeap runs in O(n) time when implemented correctly?
  • Why doesn't that same logic work to make heap sort run in O(n) time rather than O(n log n)?

How do you implement buildHeap so it runs in O(n) time?

Often, answers to these questions focus on the difference between siftUp and siftDown. Making the correct choice between siftUp and siftDown is critical to get O(n) performance for buildHeap, but does nothing to help one understand the difference between buildHeap and heapSort in general. Indeed, proper implementations of both buildHeap and heapSort will only use siftDown. The siftUp operation is only needed to perform inserts into an existing heap, so it would be used to implement a priority queue using a binary heap, for example.

I've written this to describe how a max heap works. This is the type of heap typically used for heap sort or for a priority queue where higher values indicate higher priority. A min heap is also useful; for example, when retrieving items with integer keys in ascending order or strings in alphabetical order. The principles are exactly the same; simply switch the sort order.

The heap property specifies that each node in a binary heap must be at least as large as both of its children. In particular, this implies that the largest item in the heap is at the root. Sifting down and sifting up are essentially the same operation in opposite directions: move an offending node until it satisfies the heap property:

  • siftDown swaps a node that is too small with its largest child (thereby moving it down) until it is at least as large as both nodes below it.
  • siftUp swaps a node that is too large with its parent (thereby moving it up) until it is no larger than the node above it.

The number of operations required for siftDown and siftUp is proportional to the distance the node may have to move. For siftDown, it is the distance to the bottom of the tree, so siftDown is expensive for nodes at the top of the tree. With siftUp, the work is proportional to the distance to the top of the tree, so siftUp is expensive for nodes at the bottom of the tree. Although both operations are O(log n) in the worst case, in a heap, only one node is at the top whereas half the nodes lie in the bottom layer. So it shouldn't be too surprising that if we have to apply an operation to every node, we would prefer siftDown over siftUp.

The buildHeap function takes an array of unsorted items and moves them until they all satisfy the heap property, thereby producing a valid heap. There are two approaches one might take for buildHeap using the siftUp and siftDown operations we've described.

  1. Start at the top of the heap (the beginning of the array) and call siftUp on each item. At each step, the previously sifted items (the items before the current item in the array) form a valid heap, and sifting the next item up places it into a valid position in the heap. After sifting up each node, all items satisfy the heap property.

  2. Or, go in the opposite direction: start at the end of the array and move backwards towards the front. At each iteration, you sift an item down until it is in the correct location.

Which implementation for buildHeap is more efficient?

Both of these solutions will produce a valid heap. Unsurprisingly, the more efficient one is the second operation that uses siftDown.

Let h = log n represent the height of the heap. The work required for the siftDown approach is given by the sum

(0 * n/2) + (1 * n/4) + (2 * n/8) + ... + (h * 1).

Each term in the sum has the maximum distance a node at the given height will have to move (zero for the bottom layer, h for the root) multiplied by the number of nodes at that height. In contrast, the sum for calling siftUp on each node is

(h * n/2) + ((h-1) * n/4) + ((h-2)*n/8) + ... + (0 * 1).

It should be clear that the second sum is larger. The first term alone is hn/2 = 1/2 n log n, so this approach has complexity at best O(n log n).

How do we prove the sum for the siftDown approach is indeed O(n)?

One method (there are other analyses that also work) is to turn the finite sum into an infinite series and then use Taylor series. We may ignore the first term, which is zero:

Taylor series for buildHeap complexity

If you aren't sure why each of those steps works, here is a justification for the process in words:

  • The terms are all positive, so the finite sum must be smaller than the infinite sum.
  • The series is equal to a power series evaluated at x=1/2.
  • That power series is equal to (a constant times) the derivative of the Taylor series for f(x)=1/(1-x).
  • x=1/2 is within the interval of convergence of that Taylor series.
  • Therefore, we can replace the Taylor series with 1/(1-x), differentiate, and evaluate to find the value of the infinite series.

Since the infinite sum is exactly n, we conclude that the finite sum is no larger, and is therefore, O(n).

Why does heap sort require O(n log n) time?

If it is possible to run buildHeap in linear time, why does heap sort require O(n log n) time? Well, heap sort consists of two stages. First, we call buildHeap on the array, which requires O(n) time if implemented optimally. The next stage is to repeatedly delete the largest item in the heap and put it at the end of the array. Because we delete an item from the heap, there is always an open spot just after the end of the heap where we can store the item. So heap sort achieves a sorted order by successively removing the next largest item and putting it into the array starting at the last position and moving towards the front. It is the complexity of this last part that dominates in heap sort. The loop looks likes this:

for (i = n - 1; i > 0; i--) {
    arr[i] = deleteMax();
}

Clearly, the loop runs O(n) times (n - 1 to be precise, the last item is already in place). The complexity of deleteMax for a heap is O(log n). It is typically implemented by removing the root (the largest item left in the heap) and replacing it with the last item in the heap, which is a leaf, and therefore one of the smallest items. This new root will almost certainly violate the heap property, so you have to call siftDown until you move it back into an acceptable position. This also has the effect of moving the next largest item up to the root. Notice that, in contrast to buildHeap where for most of the nodes we are calling siftDown from the bottom of the tree, we are now calling siftDown from the top of the tree on each iteration! Although the tree is shrinking, it doesn't shrink fast enough: The height of the tree stays constant until you have removed the first half of the nodes (when you clear out the bottom layer completely). Then for the next quarter, the height is h - 1. So the total work for this second stage is

h*n/2 + (h-1)*n/4 + ... + 0 * 1.

Notice the switch: now the zero work case corresponds to a single node and the h work case corresponds to half the nodes. This sum is O(n log n) just like the inefficient version of buildHeap that is implemented using siftUp. But in this case, we have no choice since we are trying to sort and we require the next largest item be removed next.

In summary, the work for heap sort is the sum of the two stages: O(n) time for buildHeap and O(n log n) to remove each node in order, so the complexity is O(n log n). You can prove (using some ideas from information theory) that for a comparison-based sort, O(n log n) is the best you could hope for anyway, so there's no reason to be disappointed by this or expect heap sort to achieve the O(n) time bound that buildHeap does.

HTTP POST and GET using cURL in Linux

*nix provides a nice little command which makes our lives a lot easier.

GET:

with JSON:

curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X GET http://hostname/resource

with XML:

curl -H "Accept: application/xml" -H "Content-Type: application/xml" -X GET http://hostname/resource

POST:

For posting data:

curl --data "param1=value1&param2=value2" http://hostname/resource

For file upload:

curl --form "[email protected]" http://hostname/resource

RESTful HTTP Post:

curl -X POST -d @filename http://hostname/resource

For logging into a site (auth):

curl -d "username=admin&password=admin&submit=Login" --dump-header headers http://localhost/Login
curl -L -b headers http://localhost/

Pretty-printing the curl results:

For JSON:

If you use npm and nodejs, you can install json package by running this command:

npm install -g json

Usage:

curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X GET http://hostname/resource | json

If you use pip and python, you can install pjson package by running this command:

pip install pjson

Usage:

curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X GET http://hostname/resource | pjson

If you use Python 2.6+, json tool is bundled within.

Usage:

curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X GET http://hostname/resource | python -m json.tool

If you use gem and ruby, you can install colorful_json package by running this command:

gem install colorful_json

Usage:

curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X GET http://hostname/resource | cjson

If you use apt-get (aptitude package manager of your Linux distro), you can install yajl-tools package by running this command:

sudo apt-get install yajl-tools

Usage:

curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X GET http://hostname/resource |  json_reformat

For XML:

If you use *nix with Debian/Gnome envrionment, install libxml2-utils:

sudo apt-get install libxml2-utils

Usage:

curl -H "Accept: application/xml" -H "Content-Type: application/xml" -X GET http://hostname/resource | xmllint --format -

or install tidy:

sudo apt-get install tidy

Usage:

curl -H "Accept: application/xml" -H "Content-Type: application/xml" -X GET http://hostname/resource | tidy -xml -i -

Saving the curl response to a file

curl http://hostname/resource >> /path/to/your/file

or

curl http://hostname/resource -o /path/to/your/file

For detailed description of the curl command, hit:

man curl

For details about options/switches of the curl command, hit:

curl -h

Reading and writing environment variables in Python?

If you want to pass global variables into new scripts, you can create a python file that is only meant for holding global variables (e.g. globals.py). When you import this file at the top of the child script, it should have access to all of those variables.

If you are writing to these variables, then that is a different story. That involves concurrency and locking the variables, which I'm not going to get into unless you want.

How to capitalize the first letter of word in a string using Java?

Example using StringTokenizer class :

String st = "  hello all students";
String st1;
char f;
String fs="";
StringTokenizer a= new StringTokenizer(st);
while(a.hasMoreTokens()){   
        st1=a.nextToken();
        f=Character.toUpperCase(st1.charAt(0));
        fs+=f+ st1.substring(1);
        System.out.println(fs);
} 

Open File in Another Directory (Python)

Its a very old question but I think it will help newbies line me who are learning python. If you have Python 3.4 or above, the pathlib library comes with the default distribution.

To use it, you just pass a path or filename into a new Path() object using forward slashes and it handles the rest. To indicate that the path is a raw string, put r in front of the string with your actual path.

For example,

from pathlib import Path

dataFolder = Path(r'D:\Desktop dump\example.txt')

Source: The easy way to deal with file paths on Windows, Mac and Linux

(unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape

how to draw directed graphs using networkx in python?

Instead of regular nx.draw you may want to use:

nx.draw_networkx(G[, pos, arrows, with_labels])

For example:

nx.draw_networkx(G, arrows=True, **options)

You can add options by initialising that ** variable like this:

options = {
    'node_color': 'blue',
    'node_size': 100,
    'width': 3,
    'arrowstyle': '-|>',
    'arrowsize': 12,
}

Also some functions support the directed=True parameter In this case this state is the default one:

G = nx.DiGraph(directed=True)

The networkx reference is found here.

Graph with arrows image

How may I sort a list alphabetically using jQuery?

Something like this:

var mylist = $('#myUL');
var listitems = mylist.children('li').get();
listitems.sort(function(a, b) {
   return $(a).text().toUpperCase().localeCompare($(b).text().toUpperCase());
})
$.each(listitems, function(idx, itm) { mylist.append(itm); });

From this page: http://www.onemoretake.com/2009/02/25/sorting-elements-with-jquery/

Above code will sort your unordered list with id 'myUL'.

OR you can use a plugin like TinySort. https://github.com/Sjeiti/TinySort

ng-if check if array is empty

Verify the length property of the array to be greater than 0:

<p ng-if="post.capabilities.items.length > 0">
   <strong>Topics</strong>: 
   <span ng-repeat="topic in post.capabilities.items">
     {{topic.name}}
   </span>
</p>

Arrays (objects) in JavaScript are truthy values, so your initial verification <p ng-if="post.capabilities.items"> evaluates always to true, even if the array is empty.

Call a method of a controller from another controller using 'scope' in AngularJS

Here is good Demo in Fiddle how to use shared service in directive and other controllers through $scope.$on

HTML

<div ng-controller="ControllerZero">
    <input ng-model="message" >
    <button ng-click="handleClick(message);">BROADCAST</button>
</div>

<div ng-controller="ControllerOne">
    <input ng-model="message" >
</div>

<div ng-controller="ControllerTwo">
    <input ng-model="message" >
</div>

<my-component ng-model="message"></my-component>

JS

var myModule = angular.module('myModule', []);

myModule.factory('mySharedService', function($rootScope) {
    var sharedService = {};

    sharedService.message = '';

    sharedService.prepForBroadcast = function(msg) {
        this.message = msg;
        this.broadcastItem();
    };

    sharedService.broadcastItem = function() {
        $rootScope.$broadcast('handleBroadcast');
    };

    return sharedService;
});

By the same way we can use shared service in directive. We can implement controller section into directive and use $scope.$on

myModule.directive('myComponent', function(mySharedService) {
    return {
        restrict: 'E',
        controller: function($scope, $attrs, mySharedService) {
            $scope.$on('handleBroadcast', function() {
                $scope.message = 'Directive: ' + mySharedService.message;
            });
        },
        replace: true,
        template: '<input>'
    };
});

And here three our controllers where ControllerZero used as trigger to invoke prepForBroadcast

function ControllerZero($scope, sharedService) {
    $scope.handleClick = function(msg) {
        sharedService.prepForBroadcast(msg);
    };

    $scope.$on('handleBroadcast', function() {
        $scope.message = sharedService.message;
    });
}

function ControllerOne($scope, sharedService) {
    $scope.$on('handleBroadcast', function() {
        $scope.message = 'ONE: ' + sharedService.message;
    });
}

function ControllerTwo($scope, sharedService) {
    $scope.$on('handleBroadcast', function() {
        $scope.message = 'TWO: ' + sharedService.message;
    });
}

The ControllerOne and ControllerTwo listen message change by using $scope.$on handler.

Heatmap in matplotlib with pcolor?

This is late, but here is my python implementation of the flowingdata NBA heatmap.

updated:1/4/2014: thanks everyone

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# <nbformat>3.0</nbformat>

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Filename   : heatmap.py
# Date       : 2013-04-19
# Updated    : 2014-01-04
# Author     : @LotzJoe >> Joe Lotz
# Description: My attempt at reproducing the FlowingData graphic in Python
# Source     : http://flowingdata.com/2010/01/21/how-to-make-a-heatmap-a-quick-and-easy-solution/
#
# Other Links:
#     http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14391959/heatmap-in-matplotlib-with-pcolor
#
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pandas as pd
from urllib2 import urlopen
import numpy as np
%pylab inline

page = urlopen("http://datasets.flowingdata.com/ppg2008.csv")
nba = pd.read_csv(page, index_col=0)

# Normalize data columns
nba_norm = (nba - nba.mean()) / (nba.max() - nba.min())

# Sort data according to Points, lowest to highest
# This was just a design choice made by Yau
# inplace=False (default) ->thanks SO user d1337
nba_sort = nba_norm.sort('PTS', ascending=True)

nba_sort['PTS'].head(10)

# Plot it out
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
heatmap = ax.pcolor(nba_sort, cmap=plt.cm.Blues, alpha=0.8)

# Format
fig = plt.gcf()
fig.set_size_inches(8, 11)

# turn off the frame
ax.set_frame_on(False)

# put the major ticks at the middle of each cell
ax.set_yticks(np.arange(nba_sort.shape[0]) + 0.5, minor=False)
ax.set_xticks(np.arange(nba_sort.shape[1]) + 0.5, minor=False)

# want a more natural, table-like display
ax.invert_yaxis()
ax.xaxis.tick_top()

# Set the labels

# label source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball_statistics
labels = [
    'Games', 'Minutes', 'Points', 'Field goals made', 'Field goal attempts', 'Field goal percentage', 'Free throws made', 'Free throws attempts', 'Free throws percentage',
    'Three-pointers made', 'Three-point attempt', 'Three-point percentage', 'Offensive rebounds', 'Defensive rebounds', 'Total rebounds', 'Assists', 'Steals', 'Blocks', 'Turnover', 'Personal foul']

# note I could have used nba_sort.columns but made "labels" instead
ax.set_xticklabels(labels, minor=False)
ax.set_yticklabels(nba_sort.index, minor=False)

# rotate the
plt.xticks(rotation=90)

ax.grid(False)

# Turn off all the ticks
ax = plt.gca()

for t in ax.xaxis.get_major_ticks():
    t.tick1On = False
    t.tick2On = False
for t in ax.yaxis.get_major_ticks():
    t.tick1On = False
    t.tick2On = False

The output looks like this: flowingdata-like nba heatmap

There's an ipython notebook with all this code here. I've learned a lot from 'overflow so hopefully someone will find this useful.

Django ChoiceField

First I recommend you as @ChrisHuang-Leaver suggested to define a new file with all the choices you need it there, like choices.py:

STATUS_CHOICES = (
    (1, _("Not relevant")),
    (2, _("Review")),
    (3, _("Maybe relevant")),
    (4, _("Relevant")),
    (5, _("Leading candidate"))
)
RELEVANCE_CHOICES = (
    (1, _("Unread")),
    (2, _("Read"))
)

Now you need to import them on the models, so the code is easy to understand like this(models.py):

from myApp.choices import * 

class Profile(models.Model):
    user = models.OneToOneField(User)    
    status = models.IntegerField(choices=STATUS_CHOICES, default=1)   
    relevance = models.IntegerField(choices=RELEVANCE_CHOICES, default=1)

And you have to import the choices in the forms.py too:

forms.py:

from myApp.choices import * 

class CViewerForm(forms.Form):

    status = forms.ChoiceField(choices = STATUS_CHOICES, label="", initial='', widget=forms.Select(), required=True)
    relevance = forms.ChoiceField(choices = RELEVANCE_CHOICES, required=True)

Anyway you have an issue with your template, because you're not using any {{form.field}}, you generate a table but there is no inputs only hidden_fields.

When the user is staff you should generate as many input fields as users you can manage. I think django form is not the best solution for your situation.

I think it will be better for you to use html form, so you can generate as many inputs using the boucle: {% for user in users_list %} and you generate input with an ID related to the user, and you can manage all of them in the view.

fatal error LNK1112: module machine type 'x64' conflicts with target machine type 'X86'

All project settings seemed perfect, but I still got the error. Looking into the .vcxproj file and searching for "x86" revealed the problem:

<Lib>
  <AdditionalOptions> /machine:X86 %(AdditionalOptions)</AdditionalOptions>
</Lib>

A quick search/replace for all occurrances (ten individual file settings) fixed the problem.

Plotting dates on the x-axis with Python's matplotlib

You can do this more simply using plot() instead of plot_date().

First, convert your strings to instances of Python datetime.date:

import datetime as dt

dates = ['01/02/1991','01/03/1991','01/04/1991']
x = [dt.datetime.strptime(d,'%m/%d/%Y').date() for d in dates]
y = range(len(x)) # many thanks to Kyss Tao for setting me straight here

Then plot:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.dates as mdates

plt.gca().xaxis.set_major_formatter(mdates.DateFormatter('%m/%d/%Y'))
plt.gca().xaxis.set_major_locator(mdates.DayLocator())
plt.plot(x,y)
plt.gcf().autofmt_xdate()

Result:

enter image description here

The view didn't return an HttpResponse object. It returned None instead

Because the view must return render, not just call it. Change the last line to

return render(request, 'auth_lifecycle/user_profile.html',
           context_instance=RequestContext(request))