Programs & Examples On #Multiplatform

Programmatically find the number of cores on a machine

Note that "number of cores" might not be a particularly useful number, you might have to qualify it a bit more. How do you want to count multi-threaded CPUs such as Intel HT, IBM Power5 and Power6, and most famously, Sun's Niagara/UltraSparc T1 and T2? Or even more interesting, the MIPS 1004k with its two levels of hardware threading (supervisor AND user-level)... Not to mention what happens when you move into hypervisor-supported systems where the hardware might have tens of CPUs but your particular OS only sees a few.

The best you can hope for is to tell the number of logical processing units that you have in your local OS partition. Forget about seeing the true machine unless you are a hypervisor. The only exception to this rule today is in x86 land, but the end of non-virtual machines is coming fast...

Modifying the "Path to executable" of a windows service

It involves editing the registry, but service information can be found in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services. Find the service you want to redirect, locate the ImagePath subkey and change that value.

google map API zoom range

Available Zoom Levels

Zoom level 0 is the most zoomed out zoom level available and each integer step in zoom level halves the X and Y extents of the view and doubles the linear resolution.

Google Maps was built on a 256x256 pixel tile system where zoom level 0 was a 256x256 pixel image of the whole earth. A 256x256 tile for zoom level 1 enlarges a 128x128 pixel region from zoom level 0.

As correctly stated by bkaid, the available zoom range depends on where you are looking and the kind of map you are using:

  • Road maps - seem to go up to zoom level 22 everywhere
  • Hybrid and satellite maps - the max available zoom levels depend on location. Here are some examples:
  • Remote regions of Antarctica: 13
  • Gobi Desert: 17
  • Much of the U.S. and Europe: 21
  • "Deep zoom" locations: 22-23 (see bkaid's link)

Note that these values are for the Google Static Maps API which seems to give one more zoom level than the Javascript API. It appears that the extra zoom level available for Static Maps is just an upsampled version of the max-resolution image from the Javascript API.

Map Scale at Various Zoom Levels

Google Maps uses a Mercator projection so the scale varies substantially with latitude. A formula for calculating the correct scale based on latitude is:

meters_per_pixel = 156543.03392 * Math.cos(latLng.lat() * Math.PI / 180) / Math.pow(2, zoom)

Formula is from Chris Broadfoot's comment.


Google Maps basics

Zoom Level - zoom

0 - 19

0 lowest zoom (whole world)

19 highest zoom (individual buildings, if available) Retrieve current zoom level using mapObject.getZoom()


What you're looking for are the scales for each zoom level. Use these:

20 : 1128.497220
19 : 2256.994440
18 : 4513.988880
17 : 9027.977761
16 : 18055.955520
15 : 36111.911040
14 : 72223.822090
13 : 144447.644200
12 : 288895.288400
11 : 577790.576700
10 : 1155581.153000
9  : 2311162.307000
8  : 4622324.614000
7  : 9244649.227000
6  : 18489298.450000
5  : 36978596.910000
4  : 73957193.820000
3  : 147914387.600000
2  : 295828775.300000
1  : 591657550.500000

AndroidStudio: Failed to sync Install build tools

I have the same problem. i have solved this issue by the following point.

First one is go to inside build.gradle app file and change this

android {
    compileSdkVersion 22
    buildToolsVersion "23.0.0 rc2"
}

with this one

android {
    compileSdkVersion 22
    buildToolsVersion "23.0.0"
}

I hope this will solve your issue.

How to add ID property to Html.BeginForm() in asp.net mvc?

In System.Web.Mvc.Html ( in System.Web.Mvc.dll ) the begin form is defined like:- Details

BeginForm ( this HtmlHelper htmlHelper, string actionName, string
controllerName, object routeValues, FormMethod method, object htmlAttributes)

Means you should use like this :

Html.BeginForm( string actionName, string controllerName,object routeValues, FormMethod method, object htmlAttributes)

So, it worked in MVC 4

@using (Html.BeginForm(null, null, new { @id = string.Empty }, FormMethod.Post,
    new { @id = "signupform" }))
{
    <input id="TRAINER_LIST" name="TRAINER_LIST" type="hidden" value="">
    <input type="submit" value="Create" id="btnSubmit" />
}

Can I write or modify data on an RFID tag?

It depends on the type of chip you are using, but nowerdays most chips you can write. It also depends on how much power you give your RFID device. To read you dont need allot of power and very little line of sight. To right you need them full insight and longer insight

ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when using the ArrayList's iterator

You could also do a for loop as you would for an array but instead of array[i] you would use list.get(i)

for (int i = 0; i < list.size(); i++) {
    System.out.println(list.get(i));
}

How to get all options in a drop-down list by Selenium WebDriver using C#?

You can use selenium.Support to use the SelectElement class, this class have a property "Options" that is what you are looking for, I created an extension method to convert your web element to a select element

public static SelectElement AsDropDown(this IWebElement webElement)
{
    return new SelectElement(webElement);
}

then you could use it like this

var elem = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//select[@name='time_zone']"));
var options = elem.AsDropDown().Options

How can I remove the search bar and footer added by the jQuery DataTables plugin?

I think the simplest way is:

<th data-searchable="false">Column</th>

You can edit only the table you have to modify, without change common CSS or JS.

Image encryption/decryption using AES256 symmetric block ciphers

Old question but I upgrade the answers supporting Android prior and post 4.2 and considering all recent changes according to Android developers blog

Plus I leave a working example on my github repo.

import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.security.AlgorithmParameters;
import java.security.SecureRandom;

import javax.crypto.Cipher;
import javax.crypto.KeyGenerator;
import javax.crypto.SecretKey;
import javax.crypto.spec.IvParameterSpec;
import javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec;

import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;


/*
* This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
* warranty.  In no event will Google be held liable for any damages
* arising from the use of this software.
*
* Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose,
* including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it
* freely, as long as the origin is not misrepresented.
* 
* @author: Ricardo Champa
* 
*/

public class MyCipher {

    private final static String ALGORITHM = "AES";
    private String mySecret;

    public MyCipher(String mySecret){
        this.mySecret = mySecret;
    }

    public MyCipherData encryptUTF8(String data){
        try{
            byte[] bytes = data.toString().getBytes("utf-8");
            byte[] bytesBase64 = Base64.encodeBase64(bytes);
            return encrypt(bytesBase64);
        }
        catch(Exception e){
            MyLogs.show(e.getMessage());
            return null;
        }

    }

    public String decryptUTF8(byte[] encryptedData, IvParameterSpec iv){
        try {
            byte[] decryptedData = decrypt(encryptedData, iv);
            byte[] decodedBytes = Base64.decodeBase64(decryptedData);
            String restored_data = new String(decodedBytes, Charset.forName("UTF8"));
            return restored_data;
        } catch (Exception e) {
            MyLogs.show(e.getMessage());;
            return null;
        }
    }

    //AES
    private MyCipherData encrypt(byte[] raw, byte[] clear) throws Exception {
        SecretKeySpec skeySpec = new SecretKeySpec(raw, ALGORITHM);
        Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding");
        //solved using PRNGFixes class
        cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, skeySpec);
        byte[] data = cipher.doFinal(clear);

        AlgorithmParameters params = cipher.getParameters();
        byte[] iv = params.getParameterSpec(IvParameterSpec.class).getIV();
        return new MyCipherData(data, iv);
    }

    private byte[] decrypt(byte[] raw, byte[] encrypted, IvParameterSpec iv) throws Exception {
        SecretKeySpec skeySpec = new SecretKeySpec(raw, ALGORITHM);
        Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding");
        cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, skeySpec, iv);
        byte[] decrypted = cipher.doFinal(encrypted);
        return decrypted;
    }

    private byte[] getKey() throws Exception{
        byte[] keyStart = this.mySecret.getBytes("utf-8");
        KeyGenerator kgen = KeyGenerator.getInstance(ALGORITHM);

        SecureRandom sr = SecureRandom.getInstance("SHA1PRNG", "Crypto");
        //      if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 17) {
        //          sr = SecureRandom.getInstance("SHA1PRNG", "Crypto");
        //      } else {
        //          sr = SecureRandom.getInstance("SHA1PRNG");
        //      }
        sr.setSeed(keyStart);
        kgen.init(128, sr); // 192 and 256 bits may not be available
        SecretKey skey = kgen.generateKey();
        byte[] key = skey.getEncoded();
        return key;

    }
    ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    private MyCipherData encrypt(byte[] data) throws Exception{
        return encrypt(getKey(),data);
    }
    private byte[] decrypt(byte[] encryptedData, IvParameterSpec iv) throws Exception{
        return decrypt(getKey(),encryptedData, iv);
    }
}

Remove a prefix from a string

regex solution (The best way is the solution by @Elazar this is just for fun)

import re
def remove_prefix(text, prefix):
    return re.sub(r'^{0}'.format(re.escape(prefix)), '', text)

>>> print remove_prefix('template.extensions', 'template.')
extensions

Updating GUI (WPF) using a different thread

You can use Dispatcher.Invoke to update your GUI from a secondary thread.

Here is an example:

    private void Window_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        new Thread(DoSomething).Start();
    }
    public void DoSomething()
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < 100000000; i++)
        {
               this.Dispatcher.Invoke(()=>{
               textbox.Text=i.ToString();
               });    
        } 
    }

Scroll to element on click in Angular 4

You could do it like this:

<button (click)="scroll(target)"></button>
<div #target>Your target</div>

and then in your component:

scroll(el: HTMLElement) {
    el.scrollIntoView();
}

Edit: I see comments stating that this no longer works due to the element being undefined. I created a StackBlitz example in Angular 7 and it still works. Can someone please provide an example where it does not work?

Spring REST Service: how to configure to remove null objects in json response

Since version 1.6 we have new annotation JsonSerialize (in version 1.9.9 for example).

Example:

@JsonSerialize(include=Inclusion.NON_NULL)
public class Test{
...
}

Default value is ALWAYS.

In old versions you can use JsonWriteNullProperties, which is deprecated in new versions. Example:

@JsonWriteNullProperties(false)
public class Test{
    ...
}

How to get a view table query (code) in SQL Server 2008 Management Studio

In Management Studio, open the Object Explorer.

  • Go to your database
  • There's a subnode Views
  • Find your view
  • Choose Script view as > Create To > New query window

and you're done!

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If you want to retrieve the SQL statement that defines the view from T-SQL code, use this:

SELECT  
    m.definition    
FROM sys.views v
INNER JOIN sys.sql_modules m ON m.object_id = v.object_id
WHERE name = 'Example_1'

Swift Alamofire: How to get the HTTP response status code

In the completion handler with argument response below I find the http status code is in response.response.statusCode:

Alamofire.request(.POST, urlString, parameters: parameters)
            .responseJSON(completionHandler: {response in
                switch(response.result) {
                case .Success(let JSON):
                    // Yeah! Hand response
                case .Failure(let error):
                   let message : String
                   if let httpStatusCode = response.response?.statusCode {
                      switch(httpStatusCode) {
                      case 400:
                          message = "Username or password not provided."
                      case 401:
                          message = "Incorrect password for user '\(name)'."
                       ...
                      }
                   } else {
                      message = error.localizedDescription
                   }
                   // display alert with error message
                 }

Aligning two divs side-by-side

The easiest method would be to wrap them both in a container div and apply margin: 0 auto; to the container. This will center both the #page-wrap and the #sidebar divs on the page. However, if you want that off-center look, you could then shift the container 200px to the left, to account for the width of the #sidebar div.

apache server reached MaxClients setting, consider raising the MaxClients setting

Here's an approach that could resolve your problem, and if not would help with troubleshooting.

  1. Create a second Apache virtual server identical to the current one

  2. Send all "normal" user traffic to the original virtual server

  3. Send special or long-running traffic to the new virtual server

Special or long-running traffic could be report-generation, maintenance ops or anything else you don't expect to complete in <<1 second. This can happen serving APIs, not just web pages.

If your resource utilization is low but you still exceed MaxClients, the most likely answer is you have new connections arriving faster than they can be serviced. Putting any slow operations on a second virtual server will help prove if this is the case. Use the Apache access logs to quantify the effect.

How can I solve a connection pool problem between ASP.NET and SQL Server?

You can try that too, for solve timeout problem:

If you didn't add httpRuntime to your webconfig, add that in <system.web> tag

<sytem.web>
     <httpRuntime maxRequestLength="20000" executionTimeout="999999"/>
</system.web>

and

Modify your connection string like this;

 <add name="connstring" connectionString="Data Source=DSourceName;Initial Catalog=DBName;Integrated Security=True;Max Pool Size=50000;Pooling=True;" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />

At last use

    try
    {...} 
    catch
    {...} 
    finaly
    {
     connection.close();
    }

How to show text on image when hovering?

I saw a lot of people use an image tag. I prefer to use a background image because I can manipulate it. For example, I can:

  • Add smoother transitions
  • save time not having to crop images by using the "background-size: cover;" property.

The HTML/CSS:

_x000D_
_x000D_
.overlay-box {_x000D_
  background-color: #f5f5f5;_x000D_
  height: 100%;_x000D_
  background-repeat: no-repeat;_x000D_
  background-size: cover;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
.overlay-box:hover .desc,_x000D_
.overlay-box:focus .desc {_x000D_
  opacity: 1;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
/* opacity 0.01 for accessibility */_x000D_
/* adjust the styles like height,padding to match your design*/_x000D_
.overlay-box .desc {_x000D_
  opacity: 0.01;_x000D_
  min-height: 355px;_x000D_
  font-size: 1rem;_x000D_
  height: 100%;_x000D_
  padding: 30px 25px 20px;_x000D_
  transition: all 0.3s ease;_x000D_
  background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7);_x000D_
  color: #fff;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<div class="overlay-box" style="background-image: url('https://via.placeholder.com/768x768');">_x000D_
  <div class="desc">_x000D_
    <p>Place your text here</p>_x000D_
    <ul>_x000D_
      <li>lorem ipsum dolor</li>_x000D_
      <li>lorem lipsum</li>_x000D_
      <li>lorem</li>_x000D_
    </ul>_x000D_
  </div>_x000D_
</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

How do you clear the focus in javascript?

None of the answers provided here are completely correct when using TypeScript, as you may not know the kind of element that is selected.

This would therefore be preferred:

if (document.activeElement instanceof HTMLElement)
    document.activeElement.blur();

I would furthermore discourage using the solution provided in the accepted answer, as the resulting blurring is not part of the official spec, and could break at any moment.

How to call a function in shell Scripting?

You can create another script file separately for the functions and invoke the script file whenever you want to call the function. This will help you to keep your code clean.

Function Definition : Create a new script file
Function Call       : Invoke the script file

How to use comparison and ' if not' in python?

Why think? If not confuses you, switch your if and else clauses around to avoid the negation.

i want to make sure that ( u0 <= u < u0+step ) before do sth.

Just write that.

if u0 <= u < u0+step:
    "do sth" # What language is "sth"?  No vowels.  An odd-looking word.
else:
    u0 = u0+ step

Why overthink it?

If you need an empty if -- and can't work out the logic -- use pass.

 if some-condition-that's-too-complex-for-me-to-invert:
     pass
 else: 
     do real work here

Viewing local storage contents on IE

Since localStorage is a global object, you can add a watch in the dev tools. Just enter the dev tools, goto "watch", click on "Click to add..." and type in "localStorage".

How to import the class within the same directory or sub directory?

Just too brief, Create a file __init__.py is classes directory and then import it to your script like following (Import all case)

from classes.myscript import *

Import selected classes only

from classes.myscript import User
from classes.myscript import Dir

Javascript Thousand Separator / string format

I use this:

function numberWithCommas(number) {
    return number.toString().replace(/\B(?=(\d{3})+(?!\d))/g, ",");
}

source: link

Typescript: Type 'string | undefined' is not assignable to type 'string'

You can use the NonNullable Utility Type:

Example

type T0 = NonNullable<string | number | undefined>;  // string | number
type T1 = NonNullable<string[] | null | undefined>;  // string[]

Docs.

How to change 1 char in the string?

While it does not answer the OP's question precisely, depending on what you're doing it might be a good solution. Below is going to solve my problem.

Let's say that you have to do a lot of individual manipulation of various characters in a string. Instead of using a string the whole time use a char[] array while you're doing the manipulation. Because you can do this:

 char[] array = "valta is the best place in the World".ToCharArray();

Then manipulate to your hearts content as much as you need...

 array[0] = "M";

Then convert it to a string once you're done and need to use it as a string:

string str = new string(array);

Rails Model find where not equal

The only way you can get it fancier is with MetaWhere.

MetaWhere has a newer cousin which is called Squeel which allows code like this:

GroupUser.where{user_id != me}

It goes without saying, that if this is the only refactor you are going to make, it is not worth using a gem and I would just stick with what you got. Squeel is useful in situations where you have many complex queries interacting with Ruby code.

How to get an Array with jQuery, multiple <input> with the same name

if you want selector get the same id, use:

$("[id=task]:eq(0)").val();
$("[id=task]:eq(1)").val();
etc...

Rename column SQL Server 2008

Since I often come here and then wondering how to use the brackets, this answer might be useful for those like me.

EXEC sp_rename '[DB].[dbo].[Tablename].OldColumnName', 'NewColumnName', 'COLUMN'; 
  • The OldColumnName must not be in []. It will not work.
  • Don't put NewColumnName into [], it will result into [[NewColumnName]].

"The system cannot find the file specified"

I got same error after publish my project to my physical server. My web application works perfectly on my computer when I compile on VS2013. When I checked connection string on sql server manager, everything works perfect on server too. I also checked firewall (I switched it off). But still didn't work. I remotely try to connect database by SQL Manager with exactly same user/pass and instance name etc with protocol pipe/tcp and I saw that everything working normally. But when I try to open website I'm getting this error. Is there anyone know 4th option for fix this problem?.

NOTE: My App: ASP.NET 4.5 (by VS2013), Server: Windows 2008 R2 64bit, SQL: MS-SQL WEB 2012 SP1 Also other web applications works great at web browsers with their database on same server.


After one day suffering I found the solution of my issue:

First I checked all the logs and other details but i could find nothing. Suddenly I recognize that; when I try to use connection string which is connecting directly to published DB and run application on my computer by VS2013, I saw that it's connecting another database file. I checked local directories and I found it. ASP.NET Identity not using my connection string as I wrote in web.config file. And because of this VS2013 is creating or connecting a new database with the name "DefaultConnection.mdf" in App_Data folder. Then I found the solution, it was in IdentityModel.cs.

I changed code as this:

public class ApplicationUser : IdentityUser
{
}

public class ApplicationDbContext : IdentityDbContext<ApplicationUser>
{
    //public ApplicationDbContext() : base("DefaultConnection") ---> this was original
    public ApplicationDbContext() : base("<myConnectionStringNameInWebConfigFile>") //--> changed
    {
    }
}

So, after all, I re-builded and published my project and everything works fine now :)

How to add 10 minutes to my (String) time?

You have a plenty of easy approaches within above answers. This is just another idea. You can convert it to millisecond and add the TimeZoneOffset and add / deduct the mins/hours/days etc by milliseconds.

String myTime = "14:10";
int minsToAdd = 10;
Date date = new Date();
date.setTime((((Integer.parseInt(myTime.split(":")[0]))*60 + (Integer.parseInt(myTime.split(":")[1])))+ date1.getTimezoneOffset())*60000);
System.out.println(date.getHours() + ":"+date.getMinutes());
date.setTime(date.getTime()+ minsToAdd *60000);
System.out.println(date.getHours() + ":"+date.getMinutes());

Output :

14:10
14:20

How can I know when an EditText loses focus?

Implement onFocusChange of setOnFocusChangeListener and there's a boolean parameter for hasFocus. When this is false, you've lost focus to another control.

 EditText txtEdit = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.edittxt);

 txtEdit.setOnFocusChangeListener(new OnFocusChangeListener() {          
        @Override
        public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
            if (!hasFocus) {
               // code to execute when EditText loses focus
            }
        }
    });

How to create a timeline with LaTeX?

There is timeline.sty floating around.

The syntax is simpler than using tikz:

%%% In LaTeX:
%%% \begin{timeline}{length}(start,stop)
%%%   .
%%%   .
%%%   .
%%% \end{timeline}
%%%
%%% in plain TeX
%%% \timeline{length}(start,stop)
%%%   .
%%%   .
%%%   .
%%% \endtimeline
%%% in between the two, we may have:
%%% \item{date}{description}
%%% \item[sortkey]{date}{description}
%%% \optrule
%%%
%%% the options to timeline are:
%%%      length The amount of vertical space that the timeline should
%%%                use.
%%%      (start,stop) indicate the range of the timeline. All dates or
%%%                sortkeys should lie in the range [start,stop]
%%%
%%% \item without the sort key expects date to be a number (such as a
%%%      year).
%%% \item with the sort key expects the sort key to be a number; date
%%%      can be anything. This can be used for log scale time lines
%%%      or dates that include months or days.
%%% putting \optrule inside of the timeline environment will cause a
%%%      vertical rule to be drawn down the center of the timeline.

I've used python's datetime.data.toordinal to convert dates to 'sort keys' in the context of the package.

Best way to call a JSON WebService from a .NET Console

Although the existing answers are valid approaches , they are antiquated . HttpClient is a modern interface for working with RESTful web services . Check the examples section of the page in the link , it has a very straightforward use case for an asynchronous HTTP GET .

using (var client = new System.Net.Http.HttpClient())
{
    return await client.GetStringAsync("https://reqres.in/api/users/3"); //uri
}

Using android.support.v7.widget.CardView in my project (Eclipse)

I have done following and it resolve an issue with recyclerview same you may use for other widget as well if it's not working in eclipse project.

• Go to sdk\extras\android\m2repository\com\android\support\recyclerview-v7\21.0.0-rc1 directory

• Copy recyclerview-v7-21.0.0-rc1.aar file and rename it as .zip

• Unzip the file, you will get classes.jar (rename the jar file more meaningful name)

• Use the following jar in your project build path or lib directory.

and it resolve your error.

happy coding :)

Regular cast vs. static_cast vs. dynamic_cast

You should look at the article C++ Programming/Type Casting.

It contains a good description of all of the different cast types. The following taken from the above link:

const_cast

const_cast(expression) The const_cast<>() is used to add/remove const(ness) (or volatile-ness) of a variable.

static_cast

static_cast(expression) The static_cast<>() is used to cast between the integer types. 'e.g.' char->long, int->short etc.

Static cast is also used to cast pointers to related types, for example casting void* to the appropriate type.

dynamic_cast

Dynamic cast is used to convert pointers and references at run-time, generally for the purpose of casting a pointer or reference up or down an inheritance chain (inheritance hierarchy).

dynamic_cast(expression)

The target type must be a pointer or reference type, and the expression must evaluate to a pointer or reference. Dynamic cast works only when the type of object to which the expression refers is compatible with the target type and the base class has at least one virtual member function. If not, and the type of expression being cast is a pointer, NULL is returned, if a dynamic cast on a reference fails, a bad_cast exception is thrown. When it doesn't fail, dynamic cast returns a pointer or reference of the target type to the object to which expression referred.

reinterpret_cast

Reinterpret cast simply casts one type bitwise to another. Any pointer or integral type can be casted to any other with reinterpret cast, easily allowing for misuse. For instance, with reinterpret cast one might, unsafely, cast an integer pointer to a string pointer.

Passing Parameters JavaFX FXML

Here is an example for using a controller injected by Guice.

/**
 * Loads a FXML file and injects its controller from the given Guice {@code Provider}
 */
public abstract class GuiceFxmlLoader {

   public GuiceFxmlLoader(Stage stage, Provider<?> provider) {
      mStage = Objects.requireNonNull(stage);
      mProvider = Objects.requireNonNull(provider);
   }

   /**
    * @return the FXML file name
    */
   public abstract String getFileName();

   /**
    * Load FXML, set its controller with given {@code Provider}, and add it to {@code Stage}.
    */
   public void loadView() {
      try {
         FXMLLoader loader = new FXMLLoader(getClass().getClassLoader().getResource(getFileName()));
         loader.setControllerFactory(p -> mProvider.get());
         Node view = loader.load();
         setViewInStage(view);
      }
      catch (IOException ex) {
         LOGGER.error("Failed to load FXML: " + getFileName(), ex);
      }
   }

   private void setViewInStage(Node view) {
      BorderPane pane = (BorderPane)mStage.getScene().getRoot();
      pane.setCenter(view);
   }

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

   private final Stage mStage;
   private final Provider<?> mProvider;
}

Here is a concrete implementation of the loader:

public class ConcreteViewLoader extends GuiceFxmlLoader {

   @Inject
   public ConcreteViewLoader(Stage stage, Provider<MyController> provider) {
      super(stage, provider);
   }

   @Override
   public String getFileName() {
      return "my_view.fxml";
   }
}

Note this example loads the view into the center of a BoarderPane that is the root of the Scene in the Stage. This is irrelevant to the example (implementation detail of my specific use case) but decided to leave it in as some may find it useful.

HTML img tag: title attribute vs. alt attribute?

I would ALWAYS go with both the alt and the title attributes. Many developers have been using this pattern now for over 20 years to deal with IE and other issues. So this is not new knowledge. Its just been rediscovered by new developers that didn't bother to learn from the past.

In addition, in HTML5 you should start using the new HTML5 picture element wrapped in figure with full WPA-ARIA attributes for greater accessibility, as well as support of assistive technologies, screen readers, and the like. Because this element is not supported in many older browsers...BUT degrades gracefully...I recommend the following HTML design pattern now for images in HTML:

<figure aria-labelledby="picturecaption2">
    <picture id="picture2">
        <source srcset="image.webp" type="image/webp" media="(min-width: 800px)" />
        <source srcset="image.gif" type="image/gif" />
        <img id="image2" style="height:auto;max-width: 100%;" src="image.jpg" width="255" height="200" alt="image:The World Wide Web" title="The World Wide Web" loading="lazy" no-referrer="no-referrer" onerror="this.onerror=null;" />
    </picture>
    <figcaption id="picturecaption2"><small>"My Cool Picture" [<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/" target="_blank">A License</a>] , via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/" target="_blank">Wikimedia Commons</a></small></figcaption>
</figure>

The code above has many extra "goodies" beside alt and title, including ARIA attributes, support for WebP, a media query supporting higher resolution imagery, and a nice fallback pattern supporting older image formats. It shows a fully decorated image example that uses new technologies while still supporting old ones with progressive design patterns.

REMEMBER...ALWAYS SUPPORT THE OLD BROWSERS!

XAMPP Apache Webserver localhost not working on MAC OS

To be able to do this, you will have to stop apache from your terminal.

sudo apachectl stop

After you've done this, your apache server will be be up and running again!

Hope this helps

Python math module

pow is built into the language(not part of the math library). The problem is that you haven't imported math.

Try this:

import math
math.sqrt(4)

How do I open workbook programmatically as read-only?

Does this work?

Workbooks.Open Filename:=filepath, ReadOnly:=True

Or, as pointed out in a comment, to keep a reference to the opened workbook:

Dim book As Workbook
Set book = Workbooks.Open(Filename:=filepath, ReadOnly:=True)

Sort objects in ArrayList by date?

This may be an old response but I used some examples from this post to create a comparator that would sort an ArrayList of HashMap<String, String> by one object in the list, that being the timestamp.

I have these objects:

ArrayList<Map<String, String>> alList = new ArrayList<Map<String, String>>();

The map objects are as follows:

Map<String, Object> map = new HashMap<>();
        // of course this is the actual formatted date below in the timestamp
        map.put("timestamp", "MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss"); 
        map.put("item1", "my text goes here");
        map.put("item2", "my text goes here");

That mapping is what I use to load all my objects into the array list, using the alList.add(map) function, within a loop.

Now, I created my own comparator:

import org.joda.time.DateTime;
import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormat;
import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

 public class DateSorter implements Comparator {
     public int compare(Object firstObjToCompare, Object secondObjToCompare) {
    String firstDateString = ((HashMap<String, String>) firstObjToCompare).get("timestamp");
    String secondDateString = ((HashMap<String, String>) secondObjToCompare).get("timestamp");

    if (secondDateString == null || firstDateString == null) {
        return 0;
    }

    // Convert to Dates
    DateTimeFormatter dtf = DateTimeFormat.forPattern("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss");
    DateTime firstDate = dtf.parseDateTime(firstDateString);
    DateTime secondDate = dtf.parseDateTime(secondDateString);

    if (firstDate.isAfter(secondDate)) return -1;
    else if (firstDate.isBefore(secondDate)) return 1;
    else return 0;
    }
}

I can now just call the Comparator at any time on the array and it will sort my array, giving me the Latest timestamp in position 0 (top of the list) and the earliest timestamp at the end of the list. New posts get put to the top basically.

Collections.sort(alList, new DateSorter());

This may help someone out, which is why I posted it. Take into consideration the return statements within the compare() function. There are 3 types of results. Returning 0 if they are equal, returning >0 if the first date is before the second date and returning <0 if the first date is after the second date. If you want your list to be reversed, then just switch those two return statements! Simple =]

Python/Django: log to console under runserver, log to file under Apache

Text printed to stderr will show up in httpd's error log when running under mod_wsgi. You can either use print directly, or use logging instead.

print >>sys.stderr, 'Goodbye, cruel world!'

Filtering collections in C#

Here is a code block / example of some list filtering using three different methods that I put together to show Lambdas and LINQ based list filtering.

#region List Filtering

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    ListFiltering();
    Console.ReadLine();
}

private static void ListFiltering()
{
    var PersonList = new List<Person>();

    PersonList.Add(new Person() { Age = 23, Name = "Jon", Gender = "M" }); //Non-Constructor Object Property Initialization
    PersonList.Add(new Person() { Age = 24, Name = "Jack", Gender = "M" });
    PersonList.Add(new Person() { Age = 29, Name = "Billy", Gender = "M" });

    PersonList.Add(new Person() { Age = 33, Name = "Bob", Gender = "M" });
    PersonList.Add(new Person() { Age = 45, Name = "Frank", Gender = "M" });

    PersonList.Add(new Person() { Age = 24, Name = "Anna", Gender = "F" });
    PersonList.Add(new Person() { Age = 29, Name = "Sue", Gender = "F" });
    PersonList.Add(new Person() { Age = 35, Name = "Sally", Gender = "F" });
    PersonList.Add(new Person() { Age = 36, Name = "Jane", Gender = "F" });
    PersonList.Add(new Person() { Age = 42, Name = "Jill", Gender = "F" });

    //Logic: Show me all males that are less than 30 years old.

    Console.WriteLine("");
    //Iterative Method
    Console.WriteLine("List Filter Normal Way:");
    foreach (var p in PersonList)
        if (p.Gender == "M" && p.Age < 30)
            Console.WriteLine(p.Name + " is " + p.Age);

    Console.WriteLine("");
    //Lambda Filter Method
    Console.WriteLine("List Filter Lambda Way");
    foreach (var p in PersonList.Where(p => (p.Gender == "M" && p.Age < 30))) //.Where is an extension method
        Console.WriteLine(p.Name + " is " + p.Age);

    Console.WriteLine("");
    //LINQ Query Method
    Console.WriteLine("List Filter LINQ Way:");
    foreach (var v in from p in PersonList
                      where p.Gender == "M" && p.Age < 30
                      select new { p.Name, p.Age })
        Console.WriteLine(v.Name + " is " + v.Age);
}

private class Person
{
    public Person() { }
    public int Age { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Gender { get; set; }
}

#endregion

Html5 Placeholders with .NET MVC 3 Razor EditorFor extension?

Here is a solution I made using the above ideas that can be used for TextBoxFor and PasswordFor:

public static class HtmlHelperEx
{
    public static MvcHtmlString TextBoxWithPlaceholderFor<TModel, TProperty>(this HtmlHelper<TModel> htmlHelper,
        Expression<Func<TModel, TProperty>> expression, object htmlAttributes)
    {
        var metadata = ModelMetadata.FromLambdaExpression(expression, htmlHelper.ViewData);
        return htmlHelper.TextBoxFor(expression, htmlAttributes.AddAttribute("placeholder", metadata.Watermark));

    }

    public static MvcHtmlString PasswordWithPlaceholderFor<TModel, TProperty>(this HtmlHelper<TModel> htmlHelper,
        Expression<Func<TModel, TProperty>> expression, object htmlAttributes)
    {
        var metadata = ModelMetadata.FromLambdaExpression(expression, htmlHelper.ViewData);
        return htmlHelper.PasswordFor(expression, htmlAttributes.AddAttribute("placeholder", metadata.Watermark));

    }
}

public static class HtmlAttributesHelper
{
    public static IDictionary<string, object> AddAttribute(this object htmlAttributes, string name, object value)
    {
        var dictionary = htmlAttributes == null ? new Dictionary<string, object>() : htmlAttributes.ToDictionary();
        if (!String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(name) && value != null && !String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(value.ToString()))
            dictionary.Add(name, value);
        return dictionary;
    }

    public static IDictionary<string, object> ToDictionary(this object obj)
    {
        return TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(obj)
            .Cast<PropertyDescriptor>()
            .ToDictionary(property => property.Name, property => property.GetValue(obj));
    }
}

Steps to upload an iPhone application to the AppStore

This arstechnica article describes the basic steps:

Start by visiting the program portal and make sure that your developer certificate is up to date. It expires every six months and, if you haven't requested that a new one be issued, you cannot submit software to App Store. For most people experiencing the "pink upload of doom," though, their certificates are already valid. What next?

Open your Xcode project and check that you've set the active SDK to one of the device choices, like Device - 2.2. Accidentally leaving the build settings to Simulator can be a big reason for the pink rejection. And that happens more often than many developers would care to admit.

Next, make sure that you've chosen a build configuration that uses your distribution (not your developer) certificate. Check this by double-clicking on your target in the Groups & Files column on the left of the project window. The Target Info window will open. Click the Build tab and review your Code Signing Identity. It should be iPhone Distribution: followed by your name or company name.

You may also want to confirm your application identifier in the Properties tab. Most likely, you'll have set the identifier properly when debugging with your developer certificate, but it never hurts to check.

The top-left of your project window also confirms your settings and configuration. It should read something like "Device - 2.2 | Distribution". This shows you the active SDK and configuration.

If your settings are correct but you still aren't getting that upload finished properly, clean your builds. Choose Build > Clean (Command-Shift-K) and click Clean. Alternatively, you can manually trash the build folder in your Project from Finder. Once you've cleaned, build again fresh.

If this does not produce an app that when zipped properly loads to iTunes Connect, quit and relaunch Xcode. I'm not kidding. This one simple trick solves more signing problems and "pink rejections of doom" than any other solution already mentioned.

How do I make an image smaller with CSS?

Here's what I've done:

.resize {
    width: 400px;
    height: auto;
}

.resize {
    width: 300px;
    height: auto;
}

<img class="resize" src="example.jpg"/>

This will keep the image aspect ratio the same.

Divide a number by 3 without using *, /, +, -, % operators

Yet another solution. This should handle all ints (including negative ints) except the min value of an int, which would need to be handled as a hard coded exception. This basically does division by subtraction but only using bit operators (shifts, xor, & and complement). For faster speed, it subtracts 3 * (decreasing powers of 2). In c#, it executes around 444 of these DivideBy3 calls per millisecond (2.2 seconds for 1,000,000 divides), so not horrendously slow, but no where near as fast as a simple x/3. By comparison, Coodey's nice solution is about 5 times faster than this one.

public static int DivideBy3(int a) {
    bool negative = a < 0;
    if (negative) a = Negate(a);
    int result;
    int sub = 3 << 29;
    int threes = 1 << 29;
    result = 0;
    while (threes > 0) {
        if (a >= sub) {
            a = Add(a, Negate(sub));
            result = Add(result, threes);
        }
        sub >>= 1;
        threes >>= 1;
    }
    if (negative) result = Negate(result);
    return result;
}
public static int Negate(int a) {
    return Add(~a, 1);
}
public static int Add(int a, int b) {
    int x = 0;
    x = a ^ b;
    while ((a & b) != 0) {
        b = (a & b) << 1;
        a = x;
        x = a ^ b;
    }
    return x;
}

This is c# because that's what I had handy, but differences from c should be minor.

Create URL from a String

URL url = new URL(yourUrl, "/api/v1/status.xml");

According to the javadocs this constructor just appends whatever resource to the end of your domain, so you would want to create 2 urls:

URL domain = new URL("http://example.com");
URL url = new URL(domain + "/files/resource.xml");

Sources: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/net/URL.html

ldconfig error: is not a symbolic link

You need to include the path of the libraries inside /etc/ld.so.conf, and rerun ldconfig to upate the list

Other possibility is to include in the env variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH the path to your library, and rerun the executable.

check the symbolic links if they point to a valid library ...

You can add the path directly in /etc/ld.so.conf, without include...

run ldconfig -p to see whether your library is well included in the cache.

HTTP Ajax Request via HTTPS Page

Make a bypass API in server.js. This works for me.

app.post('/by-pass-api',function(req, response){
  const url = req.body.url;
  console.log("calling url", url);
  request.get(
    url,
    (error, res, body) => {
      if (error) {
        console.error(error)
        return response.status(200).json({'content': "error"}) 
}
        return response.status(200).json(JSON.parse(body))
        },
      )
    })

And call it using axios or fetch like this:

const options = {
     method: 'POST',
     headers: {'content-type': 'application/json'},
     url:`http://localhost:3000/by-pass-api`, // your environment 
     data: { url },  // your https request here
    };

Can a relative sitemap url be used in a robots.txt?

Good technical & logical question my dear friend. No in robots.txt file you can't go with relative URL of the sitemap; you need to go with the complete URL of the sitemap.

It's better to go with "sitemap: https://www.example.com/sitemap_index.xml"

In the above URL after the colon gives space. I also like to support Deepak.

List directory tree structure in python?

A solution without your indentation:

for path, dirs, files in os.walk(given_path):
  print path
  for f in files:
    print f

os.walk already does the top-down, depth-first walk you are looking for.

Ignoring the dirs list prevents the overlapping you mention.

How to read appSettings section in the web.config file?

Since you're accessing a web.config you should probably use

using System.Web.Configuration;

WebConfigurationManager.AppSettings["configFile"]

Remove android default action bar

I've noticed that if you set the theme in the AndroidManifest, it seems to get rid of that short time where you can see the action bar. So, try adding this to your manifest:

<android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar">

Just add it to your application tag to apply it app-wide.

CORS: Cannot use wildcard in Access-Control-Allow-Origin when credentials flag is true

(Edit) The previously recomended add-on is not available any longer, you may try this other one


For development purposes in Chrome, installing this add on will get rid of that specific error:

Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'http://192.168.1.42:8080/sockjs-node/info?t=1546163388687' 
from origin 'http://localhost:8080' has been blocked by CORS policy: The value of the 
'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header in the response must not be the wildcard '*' 
when the request's credentials mode is 'include'. The credentials mode of requests 
initiated by the XMLHttpRequest is controlled by the withCredentials attribute.

After installing, make sure you add your url pattern to the Intercepted URLs by clicking on the AddOn's (CORS, green or red) icon and filling the appropriate textbox. An example URL pattern to add here that will work with http://localhost:8080 would be: *://*

Handling a Menu Item Click Event - Android

Add Following Code

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
    case R.id.new_item:
        Intent i = new Intent(this,SecondActivity.class);
            this.startActivity(i);
            return true;
    default:
        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }
}

How to check if dropdown is disabled?

Try following or check demo disabled and readonly

$('#dropUnit').is(':disabled') //Returns bool
$('#dropUnit').attr('readonly') == "readonly"  //If Condition

You can check jQuery FAQ .

Web.Config Debug/Release

To make the transform work in development (using F5 or CTRL + F5) I drop ctt.exe (https://ctt.codeplex.com/) in the packages folder (packages\ConfigTransform\ctt.exe).

Then I register a pre- or post-build event in Visual Studio...

$(SolutionDir)packages\ConfigTransform\ctt.exe source:"$(ProjectDir)connectionStrings.config" transform:"$(ProjectDir)connectionStrings.$(ConfigurationName).config" destination:"$(ProjectDir)connectionStrings.config"
$(SolutionDir)packages\ConfigTransform\ctt.exe source:"$(ProjectDir)web.config" transform:"$(ProjectDir)web.$(ConfigurationName).config" destination:"$(ProjectDir)web.config"

For the transforms I use SlowCheeta VS extension (https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/69023d00-a4f9-4a34-a6cd-7e854ba318b5).

Adding a favicon to a static HTML page

Usage Syntax: .ico, .gif, .png, .svg

This table shows how to use the favicon in major browsers. The standard implementation uses a link element with a rel attribute in the section of the document to specify the file format and file name and location.

Note that most browsers will give precedence to a favicon.ico file located in the website's root (therefore ignoring any icon link tags).

                                           Edge   Firefox   Chrome   I.E.   Opera   Safari  
 ---------------------------------------- ------ --------- -------- ------ ------- -------- 
  <link rel="shortcut icon"                Yes    Yes       Yes      Yes    Yes     Yes     
   href="http://example.com/myicon.ico">                                                    

  <link rel="icon"                         Yes    Yes       Yes      9      Yes     Yes     
   type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon"                                                          
   href="http://example.com/image.ico">                                                     

  <link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon"     Yes    Yes       Yes      9      Yes     Yes     
   href="http://example.com/image.ico">                                                     

  <link rel="icon"                         Yes    Yes       Yes      11     Yes     Yes     
   href="http://example.com/image.ico">                                                     

  <link rel="icon" type="image/gif"        Yes    Yes       Yes      11     Yes     Yes     
   href="http://example.com/image.gif">                                                     

  <link rel="icon" type="image/png"        Yes    Yes       Yes      11     Yes     Yes     
   href="http://example.com/image.png">                                                     

  <link rel="icon" type="image/svg+xml"    Yes    Yes       Yes      Yes    Yes     Yes     
   href="http://example.com/image.svg">                                                     

File format support

The following table illustrates the image file format support for the favicon:

                                         Animated                                
  Browser             ICO   PNG    GIF    GIF's   JPEG   APNG   SVG   
 ------------------- ----- ------ ------ ------- ------ ------ ------ 
  Edge                Yes   Yes    Yes    No      ?      ?      ?     
  Firefox             1.0   1.0    1.0    Yes     Yes    3.0    41.0  
  Google Chrome       Yes   Yes    4      No      4      No     No    
  Internet Explorer   5.0   11.0   11.0   No      No     No     No    
  Safari              Yes   4      4      No      4      No     No    
  Opera               7.0   7.0    7.0    7.0     7.0    9.5    44.0  

Browser Implementation

The table below illustrates the different areas of the browser where favicon's are displayed:

                      Address     Address bar 'Links'                       Drag to  
  Browser             Bar         drop-down     bar       Bookmarks   Tabs   desktop  
 ------------------- ------------ ----------- --------- ----------- ------ --------- 
  Edge                No            Yes         Yes       Yes         Yes    Yes      
  Firefox             until v12     Yes         Yes       Yes         Yes    Yes      
  Google Chrome       No            No          Yes       Yes         1.0    No       
  Internet Explorer   7.0           No          5.0       5.0         7.0    5.0      
  Safari              Yes           Yes         No        Yes         12     No       
  Opera               v7–12: Yes    No          7.0       7.0         7.0    7.0      
                      > v14: No                                                      

Icon files can be 16×16, 32×32, 48×48, or 64×64 pixels in size, and 8-bit, 24-bit, or 32-bit in color depth.

While the information above is generally correct, there are some variations/exceptions in certain situations.

img See the full article at the source on Wikipedia.


Update: ("more info")

Can’t delete docker image with dependent child images

Here's a script to remove an image and all the images that depend on it.

#!/bin/bash

if [[ $# -lt 1 ]]; then
    echo must supply image to remove;
    exit 1;
fi;

get_image_children ()
{
    ret=()
    for i in $(docker image ls -a --no-trunc -q); do
        #>&2 echo processing image "$i";
        #>&2 echo parent is $(docker image inspect --format '{{.Parent}}' "$i")
        if [[ "$(docker image inspect --format '{{.Parent}}' "$i")" == "$1" ]]; then
            ret+=("$i");
        fi;
    done;
    echo "${ret[@]}";
}

realid=$(docker image inspect --format '{{.Id}}' "$1")
if [[ -z "$realid" ]]; then
    echo "$1 is not a valid image.";
    exit 2;
fi;
images_to_remove=("$realid");
images_to_process=("$realid");
while [[ "${#images_to_process[@]}" -gt 0 ]]; do
    children_to_process=();
    for i in "${!images_to_process[@]}"; do
        children=$(get_image_children "${images_to_process[$i]}");
        if [[ ! -z "$children" ]]; then
            # allow word splitting on the children.
            children_to_process+=($children);
        fi;
    done;
    if [[ "${#children_to_process[@]}" -gt 0 ]]; then
        images_to_process=("${children_to_process[@]}");
        images_to_remove+=("${children_to_process[@]}");
    else
        #no images have any children. We're done creating the graph.
        break;
    fi;
done;
echo images_to_remove = "$(printf %s\n "${images_to_remove[@]}")";
indices=(${!images_to_remove[@]});
for ((i="${#indices[@]}" - 1; i >= 0; --i)) ; do
    image_to_remove="${images_to_remove[indices[i]]}"
    if [[ "${image_to_remove:0:7}" == "sha256:" ]]; then
        image_to_remove="${image_to_remove:7}";
    fi
    echo removing image "$image_to_remove";
    docker rmi "$image_to_remove";
done

linq where list contains any in list

Sounds like you want:

var movies = _db.Movies.Where(p => p.Genres.Intersect(listOfGenres).Any());

How can I convince IE to simply display application/json rather than offer to download it?

FireFox + FireBug is very good for this purpose. For IE there's a developer toolbar which I've never used and intend to use so I cannot provide much feedback.

How to store arbitrary data for some HTML tags

I know that you're currently using jQuery, but what if you defined the onclick handler inline. Then you could do:

 <a href='/link/for/non-js-users.htm' onclick='loadContent(5);return false;'>
     Article 5</a>

How do a LDAP search/authenticate against this LDAP in Java

try {
    LdapContext ctx = new InitialLdapContext(env, null);
    ctx.setRequestControls(null);
    NamingEnumeration<?> namingEnum = ctx.search("ou=people,dc=example,dc=com", "(objectclass=user)", getSimpleSearchControls());
    while (namingEnum.hasMore ()) {
        SearchResult result = (SearchResult) namingEnum.next ();    
        Attributes attrs = result.getAttributes ();
        System.out.println(attrs.get("cn"));

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

private SearchControls getSimpleSearchControls() {
    SearchControls searchControls = new SearchControls();
    searchControls.setSearchScope(SearchControls.SUBTREE_SCOPE);
    searchControls.setTimeLimit(30000);
    //String[] attrIDs = {"objectGUID"};
    //searchControls.setReturningAttributes(attrIDs);
    return searchControls;
}

Regular expression for only characters a-z, A-Z

/^[a-zA-Z]*$/

Change the * to + if you don't want to allow empty matches.

References:

Character classes ([...]), Anchors (^ and $), Repetition (+, *)

The / are just delimiters, it denotes the start and the end of the regex. One use of this is now you can use modifiers on it.

Custom alert and confirm box in jquery

You can use the dialog widget of JQuery UI

http://jqueryui.com/dialog/

Gridview with two columns and auto resized images

Here's a relatively easy method to do this. Throw a GridView into your layout, setting the stretch mode to stretch the column widths, set the spacing to 0 (or whatever you want), and set the number of columns to 2:

res/layout/main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FrameLayout 
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <GridView
        android:id="@+id/gridview"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:verticalSpacing="0dp"
        android:horizontalSpacing="0dp"
        android:stretchMode="columnWidth"
        android:numColumns="2"/>

</FrameLayout>

Make a custom ImageView that maintains its aspect ratio:

src/com/example/graphicstest/SquareImageView.java

public class SquareImageView extends ImageView {
    public SquareImageView(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public SquareImageView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public SquareImageView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
        super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
        setMeasuredDimension(getMeasuredWidth(), getMeasuredWidth()); //Snap to width
    }
}

Make a layout for a grid item using this SquareImageView and set the scaleType to centerCrop:

res/layout/grid_item.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
             android:layout_width="match_parent"
             android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <com.example.graphicstest.SquareImageView
        android:id="@+id/picture"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:scaleType="centerCrop"/>

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/text"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:paddingLeft="10dp"
        android:paddingRight="10dp"
        android:paddingTop="15dp"
        android:paddingBottom="15dp"
        android:layout_gravity="bottom"
        android:textColor="@android:color/white"
        android:background="#55000000"/>

</FrameLayout>

Now make some sort of adapter for your GridView:

src/com/example/graphicstest/MyAdapter.java

private final class MyAdapter extends BaseAdapter {
    private final List<Item> mItems = new ArrayList<Item>();
    private final LayoutInflater mInflater;

    public MyAdapter(Context context) {
        mInflater = LayoutInflater.from(context);

        mItems.add(new Item("Red",       R.drawable.red));
        mItems.add(new Item("Magenta",   R.drawable.magenta));
        mItems.add(new Item("Dark Gray", R.drawable.dark_gray));
        mItems.add(new Item("Gray",      R.drawable.gray));
        mItems.add(new Item("Green",     R.drawable.green));
        mItems.add(new Item("Cyan",      R.drawable.cyan));
    }

    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        return mItems.size();
    }

    @Override
    public Item getItem(int i) {
        return mItems.get(i);
    }

    @Override
    public long getItemId(int i) {
        return mItems.get(i).drawableId;
    }

    @Override
    public View getView(int i, View view, ViewGroup viewGroup) {
        View v = view;
        ImageView picture;
        TextView name;

        if (v == null) {
            v = mInflater.inflate(R.layout.grid_item, viewGroup, false);
            v.setTag(R.id.picture, v.findViewById(R.id.picture));
            v.setTag(R.id.text, v.findViewById(R.id.text));
        }

        picture = (ImageView) v.getTag(R.id.picture);
        name = (TextView) v.getTag(R.id.text);

        Item item = getItem(i);

        picture.setImageResource(item.drawableId);
        name.setText(item.name);

        return v;
    }

    private static class Item {
        public final String name;
        public final int drawableId;

        Item(String name, int drawableId) {
            this.name = name;
            this.drawableId = drawableId;
        }
    }
}

Set that adapter to your GridView:

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);
    GridView gridView = (GridView)findViewById(R.id.gridview);
    gridView.setAdapter(new MyAdapter(this));
}

And enjoy the results:

Example GridView

std::cin input with spaces?

How do I read a string from input?

You can read a single, whitespace terminated word with std::cin like this:

#include<iostream>
#include<string>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    cout << "Please enter a word:\n";

    string s;
    cin>>s;

    cout << "You entered " << s << '\n';
}

Note that there is no explicit memory management and no fixed-sized buffer that you could possibly overflow. If you really need a whole line (and not just a single word) you can do this:

#include<iostream>
#include<string>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    cout << "Please enter a line:\n";

    string s;
    getline(cin,s);

    cout << "You entered " << s << '\n';
}

Python: How to increase/reduce the fontsize of x and y tick labels?

One shouldn't use set_yticklabels to change the fontsize, since this will also set the labels (i.e. it will replace any automatic formatter by a FixedFormatter), which is usually undesired. The easiest is to set the respective tick_params:

ax.tick_params(axis="x", labelsize=8)
ax.tick_params(axis="y", labelsize=20)

or

ax.tick_params(labelsize=8)

in case both axes shall have the same size.

Of course using the rcParams as in @tmdavison's answer is possible as well.

Function of Project > Clean in Eclipse

There's another problem at work here. The Clean functionality of Eclipse is broken. If you delete files outside of Eclipse it will not pick up on the fact that the files are now missing, and you'll get build errors until you delete the files manually. Even then, that will not necessarily work either, especially if there are a lot of files missing. This happens to me rather often when I check out a branch of code that has had a lot of changes since the last time I built it. In that case, the only recourse I've found is to start a brand new workspace and reload the project from scratch.

javascript windows alert with redirect function

Alert will block the program flow so you can just write the following.

echo ("<script LANGUAGE='JavaScript'>
    window.alert('Succesfully Updated');
    window.location.href='http://someplace.com';
    </script>");

How do I remove a submodule?

The majority of answers to this question are outdated, incomplete, or unnecessarily complex.

A submodule cloned using git 1.7.8 or newer will leave at most four traces of itself in your local repo. The process for removing those four traces is given by the three commands below:

# Remove the submodule entry from .git/config
git submodule deinit -f path/to/submodule

# Remove the submodule directory from the superproject's .git/modules directory
rm -rf .git/modules/path/to/submodule

# Remove the entry in .gitmodules and remove the submodule directory located at path/to/submodule
git rm -f path/to/submodule

dyld: Library not loaded: @rpath/libswiftCore.dylib

In my case,

I have set @executable_path/Frameworks

But I have to also set "Framework search paths"

$(PROJECT_DIR)/Frameworks

change as recursive

Which works for me.

How to create a BKS (BouncyCastle) format Java Keystore that contains a client certificate chain

Not sure you resolved this issue or not, but this is how I do it and it works on Android:

  1. Use openssl to merge client's cert(cert must be signed by a CA that accepted by server) and private key into a PCKS12 format key pair: openssl pkcs12 -export -in clientcert.pem -inkey clientkey.pem -out client.p12
  2. You may need patch your JRE to umlimited strength encryption depends on your key strength: copy the jar files fromJCE 5.0 unlimited strength Jurisdiction Policy FIles and override those in your JRE (eg.C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib\security)
  3. Use Portecle tool mentioned above and create a new keystore with BKS format
  4. Import PCKS12 key pair generated in step 1 and save it as BKS keystore. This keystore works with Android client authentication.
  5. If you need to do certificate chain, you can use this IBM tool:KeyMan to merge client's PCKS12 key pair with CA cert. But it only generate JKS keystore, so you again need Protecle to convert it to BKS format.

Show row number in row header of a DataGridView

This work in C#:

private void dataGridView1_CellFormatting(object sender, DataGridViewCellFormattingEventArgs e)
{
    int idx = e.RowIndex;
    DataGridViewRow row = dataGridView1.Rows[idx];
    long newNo = idx;
    if (!_RowNumberStartFromZero)
        newNo += 1;

    long oldNo = -1;
    if (row.HeaderCell.Value != null)
    {
        if (IsNumeric(row.HeaderCell.Value))
        {
            oldNo = System.Convert.ToInt64(row.HeaderCell.Value);
        }
    }

    if (newNo != oldNo)
    {
        row.HeaderCell.Value = newNo.ToString();
        row.HeaderCell.Style.Alignment = DataGridViewContentAlignment.MiddleRight;
    }
}

Detect enter press in JTextField

Add an event for KeyPressed.

private void jTextField1KeyPressed(java.awt.event.KeyEvent evt) {
  if(evt.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_ENTER) {
      // Enter was pressed. Your code goes here.
   }
} 

127 Return code from $?

A shell convention is that a successful executable should exit with the value 0. Anything else can be interpreted as a failure of some sort, on part of bash or the executable you that just ran. See also $PIPESTATUS and the EXIT STATUS section of the bash man page:

   For  the shell’s purposes, a command which exits with a zero exit status has succeeded.  An exit status
   of zero indicates success.  A non-zero exit status indicates failure.  When a command terminates  on  a
   fatal signal N, bash uses the value of 128+N as the exit status.
   If  a command is not found, the child process created to execute it returns a status of 127.  If a com-
   mand is found but is not executable, the return status is 126.

   If a command fails because of an error during expansion or redirection, the exit status is greater than
   zero.

   Shell  builtin  commands  return  a  status of 0 (true) if successful, and non-zero (false) if an error
   occurs while they execute.  All builtins return an exit status of 2 to indicate incorrect usage.

   Bash itself returns the exit status of the last command executed, unless  a  syntax  error  occurs,  in
   which case it exits with a non-zero value.  See also the exit builtin command below.

How to hide Bootstrap previous modal when you opening new one?

You hide Bootstrap modals with:

$('#modal').modal('hide');

Saying $().hide() makes the matched element invisible, but as far as the modal-related code is concerned, it's still there. See the Methods section in the Modals documentation.

How to use JavaScript variables in jQuery selectors?

  1. ES6 String Template

    Here is a simple way if you don't need IE/EDGE support

    $(`input[id=${x}]`).hide();
    

    or

    $(`input[id=${$(this).attr("name")}]`).hide();
    

    This is a es6 feature called template string

    _x000D_
    _x000D_
        (function($) {_x000D_
            $("input[type=button]").click(function() {_x000D_
                var x = $(this).attr("name");_x000D_
                $(`input[id=${x}]`).toggle(); //use hide instead of toggle_x000D_
            });_x000D_
        })(jQuery);
    _x000D_
        <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
        <input type="text" id="bx" />_x000D_
        <input type="button" name="bx" value="1" />_x000D_
        <input type="text" id="by" />_x000D_
        <input type="button" name="by" value="2" />_x000D_
    _x000D_
     
    _x000D_
    _x000D_
    _x000D_


  1. String Concatenation

    If you need IE/EDGE support use

    $("#" + $(this).attr("name")).hide();
    

    _x000D_
    _x000D_
        (function($) {_x000D_
            $("input[type=button]").click(function() {_x000D_
                $("#" + $(this).attr("name")).toggle(); //use hide instead of toggle_x000D_
            });_x000D_
        })(jQuery);
    _x000D_
        <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
        <input type="text" id="bx" />_x000D_
        <input type="button" name="bx" value="1" />_x000D_
        <input type="text" id="by" />_x000D_
        <input type="button" name="by" value="2" />_x000D_
    _x000D_
     
    _x000D_
    _x000D_
    _x000D_


  1. Selector in DOM as data attribute

    This is my preferred way as it makes you code really DRY

    // HTML
    <input type="text"   id="bx" />
    <input type="button" data-input-sel="#bx" value="1" class="js-hide-onclick"/>
    
    //JS
    $($(this).data("input-sel")).hide();
    

    _x000D_
    _x000D_
        (function($) {_x000D_
            $(".js-hide-onclick").click(function() {_x000D_
                $($(this).data("input-sel")).toggle(); //use hide instead of toggle_x000D_
            });_x000D_
        })(jQuery);
    _x000D_
        <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
        <input type="text" id="bx" />_x000D_
        <input type="button" data-input-sel="#bx" value="1" class="js-hide-onclick" />_x000D_
        <input type="text" id="by" />_x000D_
        <input type="button" data-input-sel="#by" value="2" class="js-hide-onclick" />_x000D_
    _x000D_
     
    _x000D_
    _x000D_
    _x000D_

Recreate the default website in IIS

You can try to restore your previous state by doing the following:

  1. Go to IIS Manager
  2. Right-click on your Local Computer.
  3. Point to All Tasks
  4. Point to Backup/Restore Configuration
  5. Select the configuration you want to restore
  6. Wait untill configuration applies

How to set width of mat-table column in angular?

If you're using scss for your styles you can use a mixin to help generate the code. Your styles will quickly get out of hand if you put all the properties every time.

This is a very simple example - really nothing more than a proof of concept, you can extend this with multiple properties and rules as needed.

@mixin mat-table-columns($columns)
{
    .mat-column-
    {
        @each $colName, $props in $columns {

            $width: map-get($props, 'width');

            &#{$colName} 
            {
                flex: $width;
                min-width: $width;

                @if map-has-key($props, 'color') 
                {
                    color: map-get($props, 'color');
                }
            }  
        }
    }
}

Then in your component where your table is defined you just do this:

@include mat-table-columns((

    orderid: (width: 6rem, color: gray),
    date: (width: 9rem),
    items: (width: 20rem)

));

This generates something like this:

.mat-column-orderid[_ngcontent-c15] {
  flex: 6rem;
  min-width: 6rem;
  color: gray; }

.mat-column-date[_ngcontent-c15] {
  flex: 9rem;
  min-width: 9rem; }

In this version width becomes flex: value; min-width: value.

For your specific example you could add wrap: true or something like that as a new parameter.

UIImage: Resize, then Crop

I converted Sam Wirch's guide to swift and it worked well for me, although there's some very slight "squishing" in the final image that I couldn't resolve.

func resizedCroppedImage(image: UIImage, newSize:CGSize) -> UIImage {
    var ratio: CGFloat = 0
    var delta: CGFloat = 0
    var offset = CGPointZero
    if image.size.width > image.size.height {
        ratio = newSize.width / image.size.width
        delta = (ratio * image.size.width) - (ratio * image.size.height)
        offset = CGPointMake(delta / 2, 0)
    } else {
        ratio = newSize.width / image.size.height
        delta = (ratio * image.size.height) - (ratio * image.size.width)
        offset = CGPointMake(0, delta / 2)
    }
    let clipRect = CGRectMake(-offset.x, -offset.y, (ratio * image.size.width) + delta, (ratio * image.size.height) + delta)
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(newSize, true, 0.0)
    UIRectClip(clipRect)
    image.drawInRect(clipRect)
    let newImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext()
    return newImage
}

If anyone wants the objective c version, it's on his website.

How to Identify Microsoft Edge browser via CSS?

/* Microsoft Edge Browser 12-18 (All versions before Chromium) - one-liner method */

_:-ms-lang(x), _:-webkit-full-screen, .selector { property:value; }

That works great!

// for instance:
_:-ms-lang(x), _:-webkit-full-screen, .headerClass 
{ 
  border: 1px solid brown;
}

https://jeffclayton.wordpress.com/2015/04/07/css-hacks-for-windows-10-and-spartan-browser-preview/

What is &#39; and why does Google search replace it with apostrophe?

It's HTML character references for encoding a character by its decimal code point

Look at the ASCII table here and you'll see that 39 (hex 0x27, octal 47) is the code for apostrophe

ASCII table

Pyinstaller setting icons don't change

The below command can set the icon on an executable file.

Remember the ".ico" file should present in the place of the path given in "Path_of_.ico_file".

pyinstaller.exe --onefile --windowed --icon="Path_of_.ico_file" app.py

For example:

If the app.py file is present in the current directory and app.ico is present inside the Images folder within the current directory.

Then the command should be as below. The final executable file will be generated inside the dist folder

pyinstaller.exe --onefile --windowed --icon=Images\app.ico app.py

Export query result to .csv file in SQL Server 2008

Yes, all these are possible when you have the direct access to the servers. But what if you have only access to the server from a web / application server? Well, the situation was this with us a long back and the solution was SQL Server Export to CSV.

CSS height 100% percent not working

Set the containing element/div to a height. Otherwise your asking the browser to set the height to 100% of an unknown value and it can't.

More info here: http://webdesign.about.com/od/csstutorials/f/set-css-height-100-percent.htm

SQL Error: ORA-12899: value too large for column

In my case I'm using C# OracleCommand with OracleParameter, and I set all the the parameters Size property to max length of each column, then the error solved.

OracleParameter parm1 = new OracleParameter();
param1.OracleDbType = OracleDbType.Varchar2;
param1.Value = "test1";
param1.Size = 8;

OracleParameter parm2 = new OracleParameter();
param2.OracleDbType = OracleDbType.Varchar2;
param2.Value = "test1";
param2.Size = 12;

Typescript ReferenceError: exports is not defined

Try what @iFreilicht suggested above. If that didn't work after you've installed webpack and all, you may have just copied a webpack configuration from somewhere online and configured there that you want the output to support CommonJS by mistake. Make sure this isn't the case in webpack.config.js:

module.exports = {
  mode: process.env.NODE_ENV || "development",
  entry: { 
    index: "./src/js/index.ts"
  },
  ...
  ...
  output: {
    libraryTarget: 'commonjs',         <==== DELETE THIS LINE
    path: path.join(__dirname, 'build'),
    filename: "[name].bundle.js"
  }
};

How to figure out the SMTP server host?

You could send yourself an email an look in the email header (In Outlook: Open the mail, View->Options, there is 'Internet headers)

How can I run a windows batch file but hide the command window?

Use Bat To Exe Converter and compile the Bat file as an executable.

Steps:

  1. Open Bat to Exe Converter
  2. Select your Bat file
  3. In the options select "Invisible Application"
  4. Finish by pressing the compile button

How to fix ReferenceError: primordials is not defined in node

For those who are using yarn.

yarn global add n
n 11.15.0
yarn install # have to install again

How can I center <ul> <li> into div

Try

div#divID ul {margin:0 auto;}

How to add DOM element script to head section?

I use PHP as my serverside language, so the example i will write in it - but i'm sure there is a method in your server side as well.

Just have your serverside language add it from a variable. w/ php something like that would go as follows.

Do note, that this will only work if the script is loaded with the page load. If you want to load it dynamically, this solution will not help you.

PHP

HTML

<head>
    <script type="text/javascript"> <?php echo $decodedstring ?> </script>
</head>

In Summary: Decode with serverside and put it in your HTML using the server language.

How to add new elements to an array?

I'm not that experienced in Java but I have always been told that arrays are static structures that have a predefined size. You have to use an ArrayList or a Vector or any other dynamic structure.

Failed to build gem native extension — Rails install

sudo apt-get install ruby-dev

worked for me

How do you do a limit query in JPQL or HQL?

Criteria criteria=curdSession.createCriteria(DTOCLASS.class).addOrder(Order.desc("feild_name"));
                criteria.setMaxResults(3);
                List<DTOCLASS> users = (List<DTOCLASS>) criteria.list();
for (DTOCLASS user : users) {
                System.out.println(user.getStart());
            }

How do I convert an object to an array?

Single-dimensional arrays

For converting single-dimension arrays, you can cast using (array) or there's get_object_vars, which Benoit mentioned in his answer.

// Cast to an array
$array = (array) $object;
// get_object_vars
$array = get_object_vars($object);

They work slightly different from each other. For example, get_object_vars will return an array with only publicly accessible properties unless it is called from within the scope of the object you're passing (ie in a member function of the object). (array), on the other hand, will cast to an array with all public, private and protected members intact on the array, though all public now, of course.

Multi-dimensional arrays

A somewhat dirty method is to use PHP >= 5.2's native JSON functions to encode to JSON and then decode back to an array. This will not include private and protected members, however, and is not suitable for objects that contain data that cannot be JSON encoded (such as binary data).

// The second parameter of json_decode forces parsing into an associative array
$array = json_decode(json_encode($object), true);

Alternatively, the following function will convert from an object to an array including private and protected members, taken from here and modified to use casting:

function objectToArray ($object) {
    if(!is_object($object) && !is_array($object))
        return $object;

    return array_map('objectToArray', (array) $object);
}

How to deselect all selected rows in a DataGridView control?

In VB.net use for the Sub:

    Private Sub dgv_MouseUp(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles dgv.MouseUp
    ' deselezionare se click su vuoto
    If e.Button = MouseButtons.Left Then
        ' Check the HitTest information for this click location
        If Equals(dgv.HitTest(e.X, e.Y), DataGridView.HitTestInfo.Nowhere) Then
            dgv.ClearSelection()
            dgv.CurrentCell = Nothing
        End If
    End If
End Sub

Spring @PropertySource using YAML

it's because you have not configure snakeyml. spring boot come with @EnableAutoConfiguration feature. there is snakeyml config too when u call this annotation..

this is my way:

@Configuration
@EnableAutoConfiguration
public class AppContextTest {
}

here is my test:

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@SpringApplicationConfiguration(
        classes = {
                AppContextTest.class,
                JaxbConfiguration.class,
        }
)

public class JaxbTest {
//tests are ommited
}

How to navigate through textfields (Next / Done Buttons)

I've been using Michael G. Emmons' answer for about a year now, works great. I did notice recently that calling resignFirstResponder and then becomeFirstResponder immediately can cause the keyboard to "glitch", disappearing and then appearing immediately. I changed his version slightly to skip the resignFirstResponder if the nextField is available.

- (BOOL)textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField
{ 

    if ([textField isKindOfClass:[NRTextField class]])
    {
        NRTextField *nText = (NRTextField*)textField;
        if ([nText nextField] != nil){
            dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(),
                           ^ { [[nText nextField] becomeFirstResponder]; });

        }
        else{
            [textField resignFirstResponder];
        }
    }
    else{
        [textField resignFirstResponder];
    }

    return true;

}

How to read a line from a text file in c/c++?

im not really that good at C , but i believe this code should get you complete single line till the end...

 #include<stdio.h>

 int main()   
{      
  char line[1024];    
  FILE *f=fopen("filename.txt","r");    
  fscanf(*f,"%[^\n]",line);    
  printf("%s",line);    
 }    

Field 'browser' doesn't contain a valid alias configuration

I had the same issue, but mine was because of wrong casing in path:

// Wrong - uppercase C in /pathCoordinate/
./path/pathCoordinate/pathCoordinateForm.component

// Correct - lowercase c in /pathcoordinate/
./path/pathcoordinate/pathCoordinateForm.component

Header div stays at top, vertical scrolling div below with scrollbar only attached to that div

You need to use js get better height for body div

<html><body>
<div id="head" style="height:50px; width=100%; font-size:50px;">This is head</div>
<div id="body" style="height:700px; font-size:100px; white-space:pre-wrap;    overflow:scroll;">
This is body
T
h
i
s

i
s

b 
o
d
y
</div>
</body></html>

Character Limit on Instagram Usernames

Limit - 30 symbols. Username must contains only letters, numbers, periods and underscores.

How do I copy directories recursively with gulp?

Turns out that to copy a complete directory structure gulp needs to be provided with a base for your gulp.src() method.

So gulp.src( [ files ], { "base" : "." }) can be used in the structure above to copy all the directories recursively.

If, like me, you may forget this then try:

gulp.copy=function(src,dest){
    return gulp.src(src, {base:"."})
        .pipe(gulp.dest(dest));
};

How to sleep the thread in node.js without affecting other threads?

If you are referring to the npm module sleep, it notes in the readme that sleep will block execution. So you are right - it isn't what you want. Instead you want to use setTimeout which is non-blocking. Here is an example:

setTimeout(function() {
  console.log('hello world!');
}, 5000);

For anyone looking to do this using es7 async/await, this example should help:

const snooze = ms => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));

const example = async () => {
  console.log('About to snooze without halting the event loop...');
  await snooze(1000);
  console.log('done!');
};

example();

How to install pip for Python 3.6 on Ubuntu 16.10?

Let's suppose that you have a system running Ubuntu 16.04, 16.10, or 17.04, and you want Python 3.6 to be the default Python.

If you're using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, you'll need to use a PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/python-3.6  # (only for 16.04 LTS)

Then, run the following (this works out-of-the-box on 16.10 and 17.04):

sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3.6
sudo apt install python3.6-dev
sudo apt install python3.6-venv
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
sudo python3.6 get-pip.py
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python3.6 /usr/local/bin/python3
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/pip /usr/local/bin/pip3

# Do this only if you want python3 to be the default Python
# instead of python2 (may be dangerous, esp. before 2020):
# sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python3.6 /usr/local/bin/python

When you have completed all of the above, each of the following shell commands should indicate Python 3.6.1 (or a more recent version of Python 3.6):

python --version   # (this will reflect your choice, see above)
python3 --version
$(head -1 `which pip` | tail -c +3) --version
$(head -1 `which pip3` | tail -c +3) --version

Looping through list items with jquery

Try this code. By using the parent>child selector "#productList li" it should find all li elements. Then, you can iterate through the result object using the each() method which will only alter li elements that have been found.

listItems = $("#productList li").each(function(){

        var product = $(this);
        var productid = product.children(".productId").val();
        var productPrice = product.find(".productPrice").val();
        var productMSRP = product.find(".productMSRP").val();

        totalItemsHidden.val(parseInt(totalItemsHidden.val(), 10) + 1);
        subtotalHidden.val(parseFloat(subtotalHidden.val()) + parseFloat(productMSRP));
        savingsHidden.val(parseFloat(savingsHidden.val()) + parseFloat(productMSRP - productPrice));
        totalHidden.val(parseFloat(totalHidden.val()) + parseFloat(productPrice));

    });

How do I run two commands in one line in Windows CMD?

A quote from the documentation:

Using multiple commands and conditional processing symbols

You can run multiple commands from a single command line or script using conditional processing symbols. When you run multiple commands with conditional processing symbols, the commands to the right of the conditional processing symbol act based upon the results of the command to the left of the conditional processing symbol.

For example, you might want to run a command only if the previous command fails. Or, you might want to run a command only if the previous command is successful.

You can use the special characters listed in the following table to pass multiple commands.

  • & [...]
    command1 & command2
    Use to separate multiple commands on one command line. Cmd.exe runs the first command, and then the second command.

  • && [...]
    command1 && command2
    Use to run the command following && only if the command preceding the symbol is successful. Cmd.exe runs the first command, and then runs the second command only if the first command completed successfully.

  • || [...]
    command1 || command2
    Use to run the command following || only if the command preceding || fails. Cmd.exe runs the first command, and then runs the second command only if the first command did not complete successfully (receives an error code greater than zero).

  • ( ) [...]
    (command1 & command2)
    Use to group or nest multiple commands.

  • ; or ,
    command1 parameter1;parameter2
    Use to separate command parameters.

"OverflowError: Python int too large to convert to C long" on windows but not mac

Could anyone help explain why

In Python 2 a python "int" was equivalent to a C long. In Python 3 an "int" is an arbitrary precision type but numpy still uses "int" it to represent the C type "long" when creating arrays.

The size of a C long is platform dependent. On windows it is always 32-bit. On unix-like systems it is normally 32 bit on 32 bit systems and 64 bit on 64 bit systems.

or give a solution for the code on windows? Thanks so much!

Choose a data type whose size is not platform dependent. You can find the list at https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/arrays.scalars.html#arrays-scalars-built-in the most sensible choice would probably be np.int64

Removing leading and trailing spaces from a string

Why complicate?

std::string removeSpaces(std::string x){
    if(x[0] == ' ') { x.erase(0, 1); return removeSpaces(x); }
    if(x[x.length() - 1] == ' ') { x.erase(x.length() - 1, x.length()); return removeSpaces(x); }
    else return x;
}

This works even if boost was to fail, no regex, no weird stuff nor libraries.

EDIT: Fix for M.M.'s comment.

Excel Calculate the date difference from today from a cell of "7/6/2012 10:26:42"

You can use the datedif function to find out difference in days.

=DATEDIF(A1,TODAY(),"d")

Quote from excel.datedif.com

The mysterious datedif function in Microsoft Excel

The Datedif function is used to calculate interval between two dates in days, months or years.

This function is available in all versions of Excel but is not documented. It is not even listed in the "Insert Function" dialog box. Hence it must be typed manually in the formula box. Syntax

DATEDIF( start_date, end_date, interval_unit )

start_date from date end_date to date (must be after start_date) interval_unit Unit to be used for output interval Values for interval_unit

interval_unit Description

D Number of days

M Number of complete months

Y Number of complete years

YD Number of days excluding years

MD Number of days excluding months and years

YM Number of months excluding years

Errors

Error Description

#NUM! The end_date is later than (greater than) the start_date or interval_unit has an invalid value. #VALUE! end_date or start_date is invalid.

Flutter - Wrap text on overflow, like insert ellipsis or fade

If you simply place text as a child(ren) of a column, this is the easiest way to have text automatically wrap. Assuming you don't have anything more complicated going on. In those cases, I would think you would create your container sized as you see fit and put another column inside and then your text. This seems to work nicely. Containers want to shrink to the size of its contents, and this seems to naturally conflict with wrapping, which requires more effort.

Column(
  mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
  children: <Widget>[
    Text('This long text will wrap very nicely if there isn't room beyond the column\'s total width and if you have enough vertical space available to wrap into.',
      style: TextStyle(fontSize: 16, color: primaryColor),
      textAlign: TextAlign.center,),
  ],
),

Excel: Creating a dropdown using a list in another sheet?

Yes it is. Use Data Validation from the Data panel. Select Allow: List and pick those cells on the other sheet as your source.

How to convert NUM to INT in R?

Use as.integer:

set.seed(1)
x <- runif(5, 0, 100)
x
[1] 26.55087 37.21239 57.28534 90.82078 20.16819


as.integer(x)
[1] 26 37 57 90 20

Test for class:

xx <- as.integer(x)
str(xx)
 int [1:5] 26 37 57 90 20

Why does comparing strings using either '==' or 'is' sometimes produce a different result?

is will compare the memory location. It is used for object-level comparison.

== will compare the variables in the program. It is used for checking at a value level.

is checks for address level equivalence

== checks for value level equivalence

How to add 'libs' folder in Android Studio?

also, to get the right arrow, right click and "Add as Library".enter image description here

jQuery $("#radioButton").change(...) not firing during de-selection

Looks like the change() function is only called when you check a radio button, not when you uncheck it. The solution I used is to bind the change event to every radio button:

$("#r1, #r2, #r3").change(function () {

Or you could give all the radio buttons the same name:

$("input[name=someRadioGroup]:radio").change(function () {

Here's a working jsfiddle example (updated from Chris Porter's comment.)

Per @Ray's comment, you should avoid using names with . in them. Those names work in jQuery 1.7.2 but not in other versions (jsfiddle example.).

Why is pydot unable to find GraphViz's executables in Windows 8?

This happened because I had installed graphviz after I had installed pydot. Hence, pydot wasn't able to find it. Reinstalling it in the correct order solved the problem.

How can I compare two time strings in the format HH:MM:SS?

Try this code for the 24 hrs format of time.

<script type="text/javascript">
var a="12:23:35";
var b="15:32:12";
var aa1=a.split(":");
var aa2=b.split(":");

var d1=new Date(parseInt("2001",10),(parseInt("01",10))-1,parseInt("01",10),parseInt(aa1[0],10),parseInt(aa1[1],10),parseInt(aa1[2],10));
var d2=new Date(parseInt("2001",10),(parseInt("01",10))-1,parseInt("01",10),parseInt(aa2[0],10),parseInt(aa2[1],10),parseInt(aa2[2],10));
var dd1=d1.valueOf();
var dd2=d2.valueOf();

if(dd1<dd2)
{alert("b is greater");}
else alert("a is greater");
}
</script>

How to implement a simple scenario the OO way

The Chapter object should have reference to the book it came from so I would suggest something like chapter.getBook().getTitle();

Your database table structure should have a books table and a chapters table with columns like:

books

  • id
  • book specific info
  • etc

chapters

  • id
  • book_id
  • chapter specific info
  • etc

Then to reduce the number of queries use a join table in your search query.

importing jar libraries into android-studio

Running Android Studio 0.4.0 Solved the problem of importing jar by

Project Structure > Modules > Dependencies > Add Files
Browse to the location of jar file and select it

For those like manual editing Open app/build.gradle

dependencies {
    compile files('src/main/libs/xxx.jar')
}

How to download Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition for offline installation?

I have used the exact steps from here and it worked flawlessly : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/install-vs-inconsistent-quality-network

In 3 simple steps:

Step 1 : Download the respective Visual Studio 2017 version from the download page (https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/)

Step 2: Open your command prompt as Administarator, point to where your Visual studio download exe is and execute the following command (this command is specifically for Web & Desktop development) :

vs_community.exe --layout c:\vs2017layout --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.ManagedDesktop --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NetWeb --add Component.GitHub.VisualStudio --includeOptional --lang en-US

Step 3 : Traverse to the path c:\vs2017layout in your command prompt and then run the following command (this command is specifically for Web & Desktop development)

vs_community.exe --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.ManagedDesktop --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NetWeb --add Component.GitHub.VisualStudio --includeOptional

Can I give a default value to parameters or optional parameters in C# functions?

This functionality is available from C# 4.0 - it was introduced in Visual Studio 2010. And you can use it in project for .NET 3.5. So there is no need to upgrade old projects in .NET 3.5 to .NET 4.0.

You have to just use Visual Studio 2010, but remember that it should compile to default language version (set it in project Properties->Buid->Advanced...)

This MSDN page has more information about optional parameters in VS 2010.

How do I get the last character of a string using an Excel function?

=RIGHT(A1)  

is quite sufficient (where the string is contained in A1).

Similar in nature to LEFT, Excel's RIGHT function extracts a substring from a string starting from the right-most character:

SYNTAX

RIGHT( text, [number_of_characters] )

Parameters or Arguments

text

The string that you wish to extract from.

number_of_characters

Optional. It indicates the number of characters that you wish to extract starting from the right-most character. If this parameter is omitted, only 1 character is returned.

Applies To

Excel 2016, Excel 2013, Excel 2011 for Mac, Excel 2010, Excel 2007, Excel 2003, Excel XP, Excel 2000

Since number_of_characters is optional and defaults to 1 it is not required in this case.

However, there have been many issues with trailing spaces and if this is a risk for the last visible character (in general):

=RIGHT(TRIM(A1))  

might be preferred.

How to get the selected index of a RadioGroup in Android

Late to the party, but here is a simplification of @Tarek360's Kotlin answer that caters for RadioGroups that might contain non-RadioButtons:

    val RadioGroup.checkedIndex: Int
        get() = children
            .filter { it is RadioButton }
            .indexOfFirst { it.id == checkedRadioButtonId }

If you're RadioFroup definitely only has RadioButtons then this can be a simple as:

    private val RadioGroup.checkedIndex = 
        children.indexOfFirst { it.id == checkedRadioButtonId }

Then you don't have the overhead of findViewById.

Getting user input

Use the following simple way to interactively get user data by a prompt as Arguments on what you want.

Version : Python 3.X

name = input('Enter Your Name: ')
print('Hello ', name)

WCF gives an unsecured or incorrectly secured fault error

You have obviously a problem with the WCF security subsystem. What binding are you using? What authentication? Encryption? Signing? Do you have to cross domain boundaries?

A bit of goggling further reveals that others are experiencing this error if the clocks of client and server are out of sync (more than about five minutes) because some security schemata rely on synchronized clocks.

How can I get the current array index in a foreach loop?

well since this is the first google hit for this problem:

function mb_tell(&$msg) {
    if(count($msg) == 0) {
        return 0;
    }
    //prev($msg);
    $kv = each($msg);
    if(!prev($msg)) {
        end($msg);

        print_r($kv);
        return ($kv[0]+1);
    }
    print_r($kv);
    return ($kv[0]);
}

A circular reference was detected while serializing an object of type 'SubSonic.Schema .DatabaseColumn'.

You can notice the properties that cause the circular reference. Then you can do something like:

private Object DeCircular(Object object)
{
   // Set properties that cause the circular reference to null

   return object
}

How do I use the Tensorboard callback of Keras?

Change

keras.callbacks.TensorBoard(log_dir='/Graph', histogram_freq=0,  
          write_graph=True, write_images=True)

to

tbCallBack = keras.callbacks.TensorBoard(log_dir='Graph', histogram_freq=0,  
          write_graph=True, write_images=True)

and set your model

tbCallback.set_model(model)

Run in your terminal

tensorboard  --logdir Graph/

How to get the category title in a post in Wordpress?

Use get_the_category() like this:

<?php
foreach((get_the_category()) as $category) { 
    echo $category->cat_name . ' '; 
} 
?>

It returns a list because a post can have more than one category.

The documentation also explains how to do this from outside the loop.

TypeError: got multiple values for argument

My issue was similar to Q---ten's, but in my case it was that I had forgotten to provide the self argument to a class function:

class A:
    def fn(a, b, c=True):
        pass

Should become

class A:
    def fn(self, a, b, c=True):
        pass

This faulty implementation is hard to see when calling the class method as:

a_obj = A()
a.fn(a_val, b_val, c=False)

Which will yield a TypeError: got multiple values for argument. Hopefully, the rest of the answers here are clear enough for anyone to be able to quickly understand and fix the error. If not, hope this answer helps you!

How to append something to an array?

Just want to add a snippet for non-destructive addition of an element.

var newArr = oldArr.concat([newEl]);

Javascript string/integer comparisons

You can use Number() function also since it converts the object argument to a number that represents the object's value.

Eg: javascript:alert( Number("2") > Number("10"))

What are the rules for casting pointers in C?

You have a pointer to a char. So as your system knows, on that memory address there is a char value on sizeof(char) space. When you cast it up to int*, you will work with data of sizeof(int), so you will print your char and some memory-garbage after it as an integer.

How to change or add theme to Android Studio?

On Windows 7 - 64Bit File->Settings->Editor->Colors&Fonts-> Use the dropdown box: "Scheme name" and select Darcula.

How to add and remove classes in Javascript without jQuery

For future friendliness, I second the recommendation for classList with polyfill/shim: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/classList#wrapper

var elem = document.getElementById( 'some-id' );
elem.classList.add('some-class'); // Add class
elem.classList.remove('some-other-class'); // Remove class
elem.classList.toggle('some-other-class'); // Add or remove class
if ( elem.classList.contains('some-third-class') ) { // Check for class
    console.log('yep!');
}

How to format html table with inline styles to look like a rendered Excel table?

This is quick-and-dirty (and not formally valid HTML5), but it seems to work -- and it is inline as per the question:

<table border='1' style='border-collapse:collapse'>

No further styling of <tr>/<td> tags is required (for a basic table grid).

Convert a Map<String, String> to a POJO

The answers provided so far using Jackson are so good, but still you could have a util function to help you convert different POJOs as follows:

    public static <T> T convert(Map<String, Object> aMap, Class<T> t) {
        try {
            return objectMapper
                    .convertValue(aMap, objectMapper.getTypeFactory().constructType(t));
        } catch (Exception e) {
            log.error("converting failed! aMap: {}, class: {}", getJsonString(aMap), t.getClass().getSimpleName(), e);
        }
        return null;
    }

How do I debug "Error: spawn ENOENT" on node.js?

How to research the spawn call raising the error:

Known, usual causes

  1. Environment issues

    • The command executable does not exist within the system (dependency not being installed). see prominc's answer
    • The command executable does not exist within a directory of those specified by PATH environment variable.
  2. Windows-only bugs/quirks

  3. Wrong spawn('command', ['--argument', 'list'], { cwd, env, ...opts }) usage

    • Specified working directory (opts.cwd) does not exist · see leeroy-brun's answer
    • Argument list within command String spawn('command --wrong --argument list')
    • Env vars within command string spawn('ENV_VAR=WRONG command')
    • Argument list Array specified as String spawn('cmd', '--argument list')
    • Unset PATH env variable spawn('cmd', [], { env: { variable } } => spawn('cmd', [], { env: { ...process.env, variable } }

There are 2 posible origins for ENOENT:

  1. Code you are writing
  2. Code you depend on

When origin is code you depend on, usual cause is an Environment Issue (or windows quirk)


How do you convert a DataTable into a generic list?

The Easiest way of Converting the DataTable into the Generic list of class

using Newtonsoft.Json;

var json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(dataTable);
var model = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<ClassName>>(json);

Multiple dex files define Landroid/support/v4/accessibilityservice/AccessibilityServiceInfoCompat

Run gradle -q dependencies (or gradle -q :projectName:dependencies) to generate a dependency report. You should see where r7 is coming from, such as:

compile - Classpath for compiling the main sources.
+--- com.commonsware.cwac:camera-v9:0.5.4
|    +--- com.actionbarsherlock:actionbarsherlock:4.4.0
|    |    \--- com.google.android:support-v4:r7
|    +--- com.commonsware.cwac:camera:0.5.4
|    \--- com.android.support:support-v4:18.0.+ -> 18.0.0
\--- com.android.support:support-v4:18.0.+ -> 18.0.0

Then, use the exclude directive to block that dependency. In my case, it is coming from my CWAC-Camera library, and so I use:

dependencies {
    compile('com.commonsware.cwac:camera-v9:0.5.4') {
      exclude module: 'support-v4'
    }

    compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:18.0.+'
}

(where the second compile statement indicates what version you actually want)

That should clear matters up, as you will see if you run the dependency report again:

compile - Classpath for compiling the main sources.
+--- com.commonsware.cwac:camera-v9:0.5.4
|    +--- com.actionbarsherlock:actionbarsherlock:4.4.0
|    \--- com.commonsware.cwac:camera:0.5.4
\--- com.android.support:support-v4:18.0.+ -> 18.0.0

onNewIntent() lifecycle and registered listeners

Note: Calling a lifecycle method from another one is not a good practice. In below example I tried to achieve that your onNewIntent will be always called irrespective of your Activity type.

OnNewIntent() always get called for singleTop/Task activities except for the first time when activity is created. At that time onCreate is called providing to solution for few queries asked on this thread.

You can invoke onNewIntent always by putting it into onCreate method like

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedState){
    super.onCreate(savedState);
    onNewIntent(getIntent());
}

@Override
protected void onNewIntent(Intent intent) {
  super.onNewIntent(intent);
  //code
}

WPF Label Foreground Color

The title "WPF Label Foreground Color" is very simple (exactly what I was looking for) but the OP's code is so cluttered it's easy to miss how simple it can be to set text foreground color on two different labels:

<StackPanel>
    <Label Foreground="Red">Red text</Label>
    <Label Foreground="Blue">Blue text</Label>
</StackPanel>

In summary, No, there was nothing wrong with your snippet.

How to properly apply a lambda function into a pandas data frame column

You need to add else in your lambda function. Because you are telling what to do in case your condition(here x < 90) is met, but you are not telling what to do in case the condition is not met.

sample['PR'] = sample['PR'].apply(lambda x: 'NaN' if x < 90 else x) 

How to convert a currency string to a double with jQuery or Javascript?

This function should work whichever the locale and currency settings :

function getNumPrice(price, decimalpoint) {
    var p = price.split(decimalpoint);
    for (var i=0;i<p.length;i++) p[i] = p[i].replace(/\D/g,'');
    return p.join('.');
}

This assumes you know the decimal point character (in my case the locale is set from PHP, so I get it with <?php echo cms_function_to_get_decimal_point(); ?>).

commands not found on zsh

For me just restarting my terminal seemed to fix the issue.

Unique device identification

You can use this javascript plugin

https://github.com/biggora/device-uuid

It can get a large list of information for you about mobiles and desktop machines including the uuid for example

var uuid = new DeviceUUID().get();

e9dc90ac-d03d-4f01-a7bb-873e14556d8e

var dua = [
    du.language,
    du.platform,
    du.os,
    du.cpuCores,
    du.isAuthoritative,
    du.silkAccelerated,
    du.isKindleFire,
    du.isDesktop,
    du.isMobile,
    du.isTablet,
    du.isWindows,
    du.isLinux,
    du.isLinux64,
    du.isMac,
    du.isiPad,
    du.isiPhone,
    du.isiPod,
    du.isSmartTV,
    du.pixelDepth,
    du.isTouchScreen
];

Query comparing dates in SQL

Instead of '2013-04-12' whose meaning depends on the local culture, use '20130412' which is recognized as the culture invariant format.

If you want to compare with December 4th, you should write '20131204'. If you want to compare with April 12th, you should write '20130412'.

The article Write International Transact-SQL Statements from SQL Server's documentation explains how to write statements that are culture invariant:

Applications that use other APIs, or Transact-SQL scripts, stored procedures, and triggers, should use the unseparated numeric strings. For example, yyyymmdd as 19980924.

EDIT

Since you are using ADO, the best option is to parameterize the query and pass the date value as a date parameter. This way you avoid the format issue entirely and gain the performance benefits of parameterized queries as well.

UPDATE

To use the the the ISO 8601 format in a literal, all elements must be specified. To quote from the ISO 8601 section of datetime's documentation

To use the ISO 8601 format, you must specify each element in the format. This also includes the T, the colons (:), and the period (.) that are shown in the format.

... the fraction of second component is optional. The time component is specified in the 24-hour format.

Get clicked element using jQuery on event?

The conventional way of handling this doesn't play well with ES6. You can do this instead:

$('.delete').on('click', event => {
  const clickedElement = $(event.target);

  this.delete(clickedElement.data('id'));
});

Note that the event target will be the clicked element, which may not be the element you want (it could be a child that received the event). To get the actual element:

$('.delete').on('click', event => {
  const clickedElement = $(event.target);
  const targetElement = clickedElement.closest('.delete');

  this.delete(targetElement.data('id'));
});

Creating stored procedure with declare and set variables

I assume you want to pass the Order ID in. So:

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[Procedure_Name]
(
    @OrderID INT
) AS
BEGIN
    Declare @OrderItemID AS INT
    DECLARE @AppointmentID AS INT
    DECLARE @PurchaseOrderID AS INT
    DECLARE @PurchaseOrderItemID AS INT
    DECLARE @SalesOrderID AS INT
    DECLARE @SalesOrderItemID AS INT

    SET @OrderItemID = (SELECT OrderItemID FROM [OrderItem] WHERE OrderID = @OrderID)
    SET @AppointmentID = (SELECT AppoinmentID FROM [Appointment] WHERE OrderID = @OrderID)
    SET @PurchaseOrderID = (SELECT PurchaseOrderID FROM [PurchaseOrder] WHERE OrderID = @OrderID)
END

Cycles in family tree software

You should have set up the Atreides family (either modern, Dune, or ancient, Oedipus Rex) as a testing case. You don't find bugs by using sanitized data as a test case.

Python not working in command prompt?

Even after following the instructions from the valuable answers above, calling python from the command line would open the Microsoft Store and redirect me to a page to download the software.

I discovered this was caused by a 0 Ko python.exe file in AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps which was taking precedence over my python executable in my PATH.

Removing this folder from my PATH solved it.

PL/SQL block problem: No data found error

Your SELECT statement isn't finding the data you're looking for. That is, there is no record in the ENROLLMENT table with the given STUDENT_ID and SECTION_ID. You may want to try putting some DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE statements before you run the query, printing the values of v_student_id and v_section_id. They may not be containing what you expect them to contain.

What is the iPhone 4 user-agent?

You can use:

http://whatsmyuseragent.com/

To find your user agent (Google: "What is my user agent" gives this answer)

Why use argparse rather than optparse?

The best source for rationale for a Python addition would be its PEP: PEP 389: argparse - New Command Line Parsing Module, in particular, the section entitled, Why aren't getopt and optparse enough?

Path to Powershell.exe (v 2.0)

It is always C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowershell\v1.0. It was left like that for backward compability is what I heard or read somewhere.

Xcode 6 iPhone Simulator Application Support location

I wrestled with this for some time. It became a huge pain to simply get to my local sqlite db. I wrote this script and made it a code snippet inside XCode. I place it inside my appDidFinishLaunching inside my appDelegate.


//xcode 6 moves the documents dir every time. haven't found out why yet. 

    #if DEBUG 

         NSLog(@"caching documents dir for xcode 6. %@", [NSBundle mainBundle]); 

         NSString *toFile = @"XCodePaths/lastBuild.txt"; NSError *err = nil; 

         [DOCS_DIR writeToFile:toFile atomically:YES encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:&err]; 

         if(err) 
            NSLog(@"%@", [err localizedDescription]);

         NSString *appName = [[NSBundle mainBundle] objectForInfoDictionaryKey:@"CFBundleName"];   

         NSString *aliasPath = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"XCodePaths/%@", appName]; 

         remove([aliasPath UTF8String]); 

         [[NSFileManager defaultManager] createSymbolicLinkAtPath:aliasPath withDestinationPath:DOCS_DIR error:nil]; 

     #endif

This creates a simlink at the root of your drive. (You might have to create this folder yourself the first time, and chmod it, or you can change the location to some other place) Then I installed the xcodeway plugin https://github.com/onmyway133/XcodeWay

I modified it a bit so that it will allow me to simply press cmd+d and it will open a finder winder to my current application's persistent Documents directory. This way, not matter how many times XCode changes your path, it only changes on run, and it updates your simlink immediately on each run.

I hope this is useful for others!

background:none vs background:transparent what is the difference?

To complement the other answers: if you want to reset all background properties to their initial value (which includes background-color: transparent and background-image: none) without explicitly specifying any value such as transparent or none, you can do so by writing:

background: initial;

Error - trustAnchors parameter must be non-empty

Fall into this using Amazon SDK v2, Windows 10 and JDK8. Amazon SDK was complaining about credentials loading.
I solved this by replacing the security/cacert file of JDK8 by the JDK11 one.

"Actual or formal argument lists differs in length"

Say you have defined your class like this:

    @Data
    @AllArgsConstructor(staticName = "of")
    private class Pair<P,Q> {

        public P first;
        public Q second;
    }

So when you will need to create a new instance, it will need to take the parameters and you will provide it like this as defined in the annotation.

Pair<Integer, String> pair = Pair.of(menuItemId, category);

If you define it like this, you will get the error asked for.

Pair<Integer, String> pair = new Pair(menuItemId, category);

Scroll to a specific Element Using html

<!-- HTML -->
<a href="#google"></a>
<div id="google"></div>

/*CSS*/
html { scroll-behavior: smooth; } 

Additionally, you can add html { scroll-behavior: smooth; } to your CSS to create a smooth scroll.

how to get the selected index of a drop down

You can also use :checked for <select> elements

e.g.,

document.querySelector('select option:checked')
document.querySelector('select option:checked').getAttribute('value')

You don't even have to get the index and then reference the element by its sibling index.

Angular IE Caching issue for $http

The correct, server-side, solution: Better Way to Prevent IE Cache in AngularJS?

[OutputCache(NoStore = true, Duration = 0, VaryByParam = "None")]
public ActionResult Get()
{
    // return your response
}

Running command line silently with VbScript and getting output?

I am pretty new to all of this, but I found that if the script is started via CScript.exe (console scripting host) there is no window popping up on exec(): so when running:

cscript myscript.vbs //nologo

any .Exec() calls in the myscript.vbs do not open an extra window, meaning that you can use the first variant of your original solution (using exec).

(Note that the two forward slashes in the above code are intentional, see cscript /?)

Sort a list by multiple attributes?

Several years late to the party but I want to both sort on 2 criteria and use reverse=True. In case someone else wants to know how, you can wrap your criteria (functions) in parenthesis:

s = sorted(my_list, key=lambda i: ( criteria_1(i), criteria_2(i) ), reverse=True)

Share variables between files in Node.js?

If we need to share multiple variables use the below format

//module.js
   let name='foobar';
   let city='xyz';
   let company='companyName';

   module.exports={
    name,
    city,
    company
  }

Usage

  // main.js
    require('./modules');
    console.log(name); // print 'foobar'

How do you change the document font in LaTeX?

This article might be helpful with changing fonts.

From the article:

The commands to change font attributes are illustrated by the following example:

  \fontencoding{T1}
  \fontfamily{garamond}
  \fontseries{m}
  \fontshape{it}
  \fontsize{12}{15}
  \selectfont

This series of commands set the current font to medium weight italic garamond 12pt type with 15pt leading in the T1 encoding scheme, and the \selectfont command causes LaTeX to look in its mapping scheme for a metric corresponding to these attributes.

Are HTTP cookies port specific?

This is a really old question but I thought I would add a workaround I used.

I have two services running on my laptop (one on port 3000 and the other on 4000). When I would jump between (http://localhost:3000 and http://localhost:4000), Chrome would pass in the same cookie, each service would not understand the cookie and generate a new one.

I found that if I accessed http://localhost:3000 and http://127.0.0.1:4000, the problem went away since Chrome kept a cookie for localhost and one for 127.0.0.1.

Again, noone may care at this point but it was easy and helpful to my situation.

Filtering JSON array using jQuery grep()

_x000D_
_x000D_
var data = {_x000D_
  "items": [{_x000D_
    "id": 1,_x000D_
    "category": "cat1"_x000D_
  }, {_x000D_
    "id": 2,_x000D_
    "category": "cat2"_x000D_
  }, {_x000D_
    "id": 3,_x000D_
    "category": "cat1"_x000D_
  }, {_x000D_
    "id": 4,_x000D_
    "category": "cat2"_x000D_
  }, {_x000D_
    "id": 5,_x000D_
    "category": "cat1"_x000D_
  }]_x000D_
};_x000D_
//Filters an array of numbers to include only numbers bigger then zero._x000D_
//Exact Data you want..._x000D_
var returnedData = $.grep(data.items, function(element) {_x000D_
  return element.category === "cat1" && element.id === 3;_x000D_
}, false);_x000D_
console.log(returnedData);_x000D_
$('#id').text('Id is:-' + returnedData[0].id)_x000D_
$('#category').text('Category is:-' + returnedData[0].category)_x000D_
//Filter an array of numbers to include numbers that are not bigger than zero._x000D_
//Exact Data you don't want..._x000D_
var returnedOppositeData = $.grep(data.items, function(element) {_x000D_
  return element.category === "cat1";_x000D_
}, true);_x000D_
console.log(returnedOppositeData);
_x000D_
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<p id='id'></p>_x000D_
<p id='category'></p>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

The $.grep() method eliminates items from an array as necessary so that only remaining items carry a given search. The test is a function that is passed an array item and the index of the item within the array. Only if the test returns true will the item be in the result array.

Display the current time and date in an Android application

SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
Date date = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();
String sDate = format.format(date);//31-12-9999
int mYear = c.get(Calendar.YEAR);//9999
int mMonth = c.get(Calendar.MONTH);
mMonth = mMonth + 1;//12
int hrs = c.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY);//24
int min = c.get(Calendar.MINUTE);//59
String AMPM;
if (c.get(Calendar.AM_PM) == 0) {
    AMPM = "AM";
} else {
    AMPM = "PM";
}

Group By Eloquent ORM

Eloquent uses the query builder internally, so you can do:

$users = User::orderBy('name', 'desc')
                ->groupBy('count')
                ->having('count', '>', 100)
                ->get();

Plotting time in Python with Matplotlib

I had trouble with this using matplotlib version: 2.0.2. Running the example from above I got a centered stacked set of bubbles.

graph with centered stack of bubbles

I "fixed" the problem by adding another line:

plt.plot([],[])

The entire code snippet becomes:

import datetime
import random
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.dates as mdates


# make up some data
x = [datetime.datetime.now() + datetime.timedelta(minutes=i) for i in range(12)]
y = [i+random.gauss(0,1) for i,_ in enumerate(x)]

# plot
plt.plot([],[])
plt.scatter(x,y)

# beautify the x-labels
plt.gcf().autofmt_xdate()
myFmt = mdates.DateFormatter('%H:%M')
plt.gca().xaxis.set_major_formatter(myFmt)

plt.show()
plt.close()

This produces an image with the bubbles distributed as desired.

graph with bubbles distributed over time

Flexbox not giving equal width to elements

To create elements with equal width using Flex, you should set to your's child (flex elements):

flex-basis: 25%;
flex-grow: 0;

It will give to all elements in row 25% width. They will not grow and go one by one.

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character at special name

You really want to do this

flog.write("\nCompany Name: "+ pCompanyName.encode('utf-8'))

This is the "encode late" strategy described in this unicode presentation (slides 32 through 35).

What is the "right" JSON date format?

If you are using Kotlin then this will solve your problem. (MS Json format)

val dataString = "/Date(1586583441106)/"
val date = Date(Long.parseLong(dataString.substring(6, dataString.length - 2)))

Fetching data from MySQL database to html dropdown list

# here database details      
mysql_connect('hostname', 'username', 'password');
mysql_select_db('database-name');

$sql = "SELECT username FROM userregistraton";
$result = mysql_query($sql);

echo "<select name='username'>";
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
    echo "<option value='" . $row['username'] ."'>" . $row['username'] ."</option>";
}
echo "</select>";

# here username is the column of my table(userregistration)
# it works perfectly

Get Number of Rows returned by ResultSet in Java

If your query is something like this SELECT Count(*) FROM tranbook, then do this rs.next(); System.out.println(rs.getInt("Count(*)"));

ERROR 1044 (42000): Access denied for 'root' With All Privileges

If you get an error 1044 (42000) when you try to run SQL commands in MySQL (which installed along XAMPP server) cmd prompt, then here's the solution:

  1. Close your MySQL command prompt.

  2. Open your cmd prompt (from Start menu -> run -> cmd) which will show: C:\Users\User>_

  3. Go to MySQL.exe by Typing the following commands:

C:\Users\User>cd\ C:\>cd xampp C:\xampp>cd mysql C:\xxampp\mysql>cd bin C:\xampp\mysql\bin>mysql -u root

  1. Now try creating a new database by typing:

    mysql> create database employee;
    

    if it shows:

    Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
    mysql>
    

    Then congrats ! You are good to go...

Does C++ support 'finally' blocks? (And what's this 'RAII' I keep hearing about?)

Another "finally" block emulation using C++11 lambda functions

template <typename TCode, typename TFinallyCode>
inline void with_finally(const TCode &code, const TFinallyCode &finally_code)
{
    try
    {
        code();
    }
    catch (...)
    {
        try
        {
            finally_code();
        }
        catch (...) // Maybe stupid check that finally_code mustn't throw.
        {
            std::terminate();
        }
        throw;
    }
    finally_code();
}

Let's hope the compiler will optimize the code above.

Now we can write code like this:

with_finally(
    [&]()
    {
        try
        {
            // Doing some stuff that may throw an exception
        }
        catch (const exception1 &)
        {
            // Handling first class of exceptions
        }
        catch (const exception2 &)
        {
            // Handling another class of exceptions
        }
        // Some classes of exceptions can be still unhandled
    },
    [&]() // finally
    {
        // This code will be executed in all three cases:
        //   1) exception was not thrown at all
        //   2) exception was handled by one of the "catch" blocks above
        //   3) exception was not handled by any of the "catch" block above
    }
);

If you wish you can wrap this idiom into "try - finally" macros:

// Please never throw exception below. It is needed to avoid a compilation error
// in the case when we use "begin_try ... finally" without any "catch" block.
class never_thrown_exception {};

#define begin_try    with_finally([&](){ try
#define finally      catch(never_thrown_exception){throw;} },[&]()
#define end_try      ) // sorry for "pascalish" style :(

Now "finally" block is available in C++11:

begin_try
{
    // A code that may throw
}
catch (const some_exception &)
{
    // Handling some exceptions
}
finally
{
    // A code that is always executed
}
end_try; // Sorry again for this ugly thing

Personally I don't like the "macro" version of "finally" idiom and would prefer to use pure "with_finally" function even though a syntax is more bulky in that case.

You can test the code above here: http://coliru.stacked-crooked.com/a/1d88f64cb27b3813

PS

If you need a finally block in your code, then scoped guards or ON_FINALLY/ON_EXCEPTION macros will probably better fit your needs.

Here is short example of usage ON_FINALLY/ON_EXCEPTION:

void function(std::vector<const char*> &vector)
{
    int *arr1 = (int*)malloc(800*sizeof(int));
    if (!arr1) { throw "cannot malloc arr1"; }
    ON_FINALLY({ free(arr1); });

    int *arr2 = (int*)malloc(900*sizeof(int));
    if (!arr2) { throw "cannot malloc arr2"; }
    ON_FINALLY({ free(arr2); });

    vector.push_back("good");
    ON_EXCEPTION({ vector.pop_back(); });

    ...

How to remove an item from an array in Vue.js

You can delete item through id

<button @click="deleteEvent(event.id)">Delete</button>

Inside your JS code

deleteEvent(id){
  this.events = this.events.filter((e)=>e.id !== id )
}

Vue wraps an observed array’s mutation methods so they will also trigger view updates. Click here for more details.

You might think this will cause Vue to throw away the existing DOM and re-render the entire list - luckily, that is not the case.

How to trigger HTML button when you press Enter in textbox?

First of all add jquery library file jquery and call it in your html head.

and then Use jquery based code...

$("#id_of_textbox").keyup(function(event){
    if(event.keyCode == 13){
        $("#id_of_button").click();
    }
});

The character encoding of the plain text document was not declared - mootool script

In your HTML it is a good pratice to provide the encoding like using the following meta like this for example:

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

But your warning that you see may be trigged by one of multiple files. it might not be your HTML document. It might be something in a javascript file or css file. if you page is made of up multiples php files included together it may be only 1 of those files.

I dont think this error has anything to do with mootools. you see this message in your firefox console window. not mootools script.

maybe you simply need to re-save your html pages using a code editor that lets you specify the correct character encoding.

OpenCV in Android Studio

In your build.gradle

repositories {
  jcenter()
}

implementation 'com.quickbirdstudios:opencv:4.1.0'

More information

Add a dependency in Maven

I'd do this:

  1. add the dependency as you like in your pom:

    <dependency>
            <groupId>com.stackoverflow...</groupId>
            <artifactId>artifactId...</artifactId>
            <version>1.0</version>
    </dependency>
    

  2. run mvn install it will try to download the jar and fail. On the process, it will give you the complete command of installing the jar with the error message. Copy that command and run it! easy huh?!

Can Linux apps be run in Android?

I think this article can provide a solution : Linux Today - Compile, Install and Run Linux apps on Android
Hope it helps.

Delete files older than 10 days using shell script in Unix

find is the common tool for this kind of task :

find ./my_dir -mtime +10 -type f -delete

EXPLANATIONS

  • ./my_dir your directory (replace with your own)
  • -mtime +10 older than 10 days
  • -type f only files
  • -delete no surprise. Remove it to test your find filter before executing the whole command

And take care that ./my_dir exists to avoid bad surprises !

Canvas width and height in HTML5

Thank you very much! Finally I solved the blurred pixels problem with this code:

<canvas id="graph" width=326 height=240 style='width:326px;height:240px'></canvas>

With the addition of the 'half-pixel' does the trick to unblur lines.

SQL Server - In clause with a declared variable

I have another solution to do it without dynamic query. We can do it with the help of xquery as well.

    SET @Xml = cast(('<A>'+replace('3,4,22,6014',',' ,'</A><A>')+'</A>') AS XML)
    Select @Xml

    SELECT A.value('.', 'varchar(max)') as [Column] FROM @Xml.nodes('A') AS FN(A)

Here is the complete solution : http://raresql.com/2011/12/21/how-to-use-multiple-values-for-in-clause-using-same-parameter-sql-server/

How to change the current URL in javascript?

Even it is not a good way of doing what you want try this hint: var url = MUST BE A NUMER FIRST

function nextImage (){
url = url + 1;  
location.href='http://mywebsite.com/' + url+'.html';
}

How can I write a heredoc to a file in Bash script?

For future people who may have this issue the following format worked:

(cat <<- _EOF_
        LogFile /var/log/clamd.log
        LogTime yes
        DatabaseDirectory /var/lib/clamav
        LocalSocket /tmp/clamd.socket
        TCPAddr 127.0.0.1
        SelfCheck 1020
        ScanPDF yes
        _EOF_
) > /etc/clamd.conf

SELECT only rows that contain only alphanumeric characters in MySQL

Your statement matches any string that contains a letter or digit anywhere, even if it contains other non-alphanumeric characters. Try this:

SELECT * FROM table WHERE column REGEXP '^[A-Za-z0-9]+$';

^ and $ require the entire string to match rather than just any portion of it, and + looks for 1 or more alphanumberic characters.

You could also use a named character class if you prefer:

SELECT * FROM table WHERE column REGEXP '^[[:alnum:]]+$';

CSS how to make an element fade in and then fade out?

If you need a single fadeIn/Out without an explicit user action (like a mouseover/mouseout) you may use a CSS3 animation: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/bdEpwW

.elementToFadeInAndOut {

    animation: fadeinout 4s linear 1 forwards;
}



@keyframes fadeinout {
  0% { opacity: 0; }
  50% { opacity: 1; }
  100% { opacity: 0; }
}

By setting animation-fill-mode: forwards the animation will retain its last keyframe

By setting animation-iteration-count: 1 the animation will run just once (change this value if you need to repeat the effect more than once)

Is there any method to get the URL without query string?

var url = window.location.origin + window.location.pathname;