Programs & Examples On #Multitasking

Multitasking is the apparent simultaneous execution of two or more tasks by a computer.

iOS - Ensure execution on main thread

This will do it:

[[NSOperationQueue mainQueue] addOperationWithBlock:^ {

   //Your code goes in here
   NSLog(@"Main Thread Code");

}];

Hope this helps!

Difference between multitasking, multithreading and multiprocessing?

None of the above answers except Mr Vaibhav Kumar's are clear or not ambiguous. [sorry, no offense]

Both multi programming and tasking are same concept of switching task in processor, difference is in the concept and reason of the switching.

MProgramming: to not keep processor idle when active task needs longer IO or other non CPU response then, processor loads and works on another task that is not waiting for IO and ready for process.

MTasking: even after MPrograming, to user it may feel like only one task is executing and another is simply waiting to come to cpu. So the active task is also swapped from active CPU and kept aside and another task is brought in CPU for a very small fraction of human time[second], and swapped back to the earlier task again. In this way user will feel both task are alive in CPU at same time. But actually each task is active only once at a given CPU time[in micro or nano second]

And MProcessing is, like my computer have quad core, so I use 4 processor at a time, means 4 different multiprogramming instances happen in my machine. And these 4 processors does another numerous no of MTasking.

So MProcessing>MProgramming>Mtasking

And MThreading n another breakup of each task. that also to give user a happy life. Here multiple tasks[like word doc and media player] are not coming in picture, rather small subtasks like coloring of text on word and automatic spell check in word are part of same word executable.

not sure if I was able to make clear all confusions...

Regex to match a 2-digit number (to validate Credit/Debit Card Issue number)

You can use the start (^) and end ($) of line indicators:

^[0-9]{2}$

Some language also have functions that allows you to match against an entire string, where-as you were using a find function. Matching against the entire string will make your regex work as an alternative to the above. The above regex will also work, but the ^ and $ will be redundant.

How to use jQuery to get the current value of a file input field

Jquery works differently in IE and other browsers. You can access the last file name by using

alert($('input').attr('value'));

In IE the above alert will give the complete path but in other browsers it will give only the file name.

C# - What does the Assert() method do? Is it still useful?

In a debug compilation, Assert takes in a Boolean condition as a parameter, and shows the error dialog if the condition is false. The program proceeds without any interruption if the condition is true.

If you compile in Release, all Debug.Assert's are automatically left out.

How can I set the aspect ratio in matplotlib?

Third times the charm. My guess is that this is a bug and Zhenya's answer suggests it's fixed in the latest version. I have version 0.99.1.1 and I've created the following solution:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

def forceAspect(ax,aspect=1):
    im = ax.get_images()
    extent =  im[0].get_extent()
    ax.set_aspect(abs((extent[1]-extent[0])/(extent[3]-extent[2]))/aspect)

data = np.random.rand(10,20)

fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
ax.imshow(data)
ax.set_xlabel('xlabel')
ax.set_aspect(2)
fig.savefig('equal.png')
ax.set_aspect('auto')
fig.savefig('auto.png')
forceAspect(ax,aspect=1)
fig.savefig('force.png')

This is 'force.png': enter image description here

Below are my unsuccessful, yet hopefully informative attempts.

Second Answer:

My 'original answer' below is overkill, as it does something similar to axes.set_aspect(). I think you want to use axes.set_aspect('auto'). I don't understand why this is the case, but it produces a square image plot for me, for example this script:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

data = np.random.rand(10,20)

fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
ax.imshow(data)
ax.set_aspect('equal')
fig.savefig('equal.png')
ax.set_aspect('auto')
fig.savefig('auto.png')

Produces an image plot with 'equal' aspect ratio: enter image description here and one with 'auto' aspect ratio: enter image description here

The code provided below in the 'original answer' provides a starting off point for an explicitly controlled aspect ratio, but it seems to be ignored once an imshow is called.

Original Answer:

Here's an example of a routine that will adjust the subplot parameters so that you get the desired aspect ratio:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

def adjustFigAspect(fig,aspect=1):
    '''
    Adjust the subplot parameters so that the figure has the correct
    aspect ratio.
    '''
    xsize,ysize = fig.get_size_inches()
    minsize = min(xsize,ysize)
    xlim = .4*minsize/xsize
    ylim = .4*minsize/ysize
    if aspect < 1:
        xlim *= aspect
    else:
        ylim /= aspect
    fig.subplots_adjust(left=.5-xlim,
                        right=.5+xlim,
                        bottom=.5-ylim,
                        top=.5+ylim)

fig = plt.figure()
adjustFigAspect(fig,aspect=.5)
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
ax.plot(range(10),range(10))

fig.savefig('axAspect.png')

This produces a figure like so: enter image description here

I can imagine if your having multiple subplots within the figure, you would want to include the number of y and x subplots as keyword parameters (defaulting to 1 each) to the routine provided. Then using those numbers and the hspace and wspace keywords, you can make all the subplots have the correct aspect ratio.

Can the "IN" operator use LIKE-wildcards (%) in Oracle?

It seems that you can use regexp too

WHERE NOT REGEXP_LIKE(field, '^Done|^Finished')

I'm not sure how well this will perform though ... see here

How to set background color of view transparent in React Native

Try this backgroundColor: '#00000000' it will set background color to transparent, it follows #rrggbbaa hex codes

Ubuntu says "bash: ./program Permission denied"

Try this:

sudo chmod +x program_name
./program_name 

How to change the size of the font of a JLabel to take the maximum size

Just wanted to point out that the accepted answer has a couple of limitations (which I discovered when I tried to use it)

  1. As written, it actually keeps recalculating the font size based on a ratio of the previous font size... thus after just a couple of calls it has rendered the font size as much too large. (eg Start with 12 point as your DESIGNED Font, expand the label by just 1 pixel, and the published code will calculate the Font size as 12 * (say) 1.2 (ratio of field space to text) = 14.4 or 14 point font. 1 more Pixel and call and you are at 16 point !).

It is thus not suitable (without adaptation) for use in a repeated-call setting (eg a ComponentResizedListener, or a custom/modified LayoutManager).

The listed code effectively assumes a starting size of 10 pt but refers to the current font size and is thus suitable for calling once (to set the size of the font when the label is created). It would work better in a multi-call environment if it did int newFontSize = (int) (widthRatio * 10); rather than int newFontSize = (int)(labelFont.getSize() * widthRatio);

  1. Because it uses new Font(labelFont.getName(), Font.PLAIN, fontSizeToUse)) to generate the new font, there is no support for Bolding, Italic or Color etc from the original font in the updated font. It would be more flexible if it made use of labelFont.deriveFont instead.

  2. The solution does not provide support for HTML label Text. (I know that was probably not ever an intended outcome of the answer code offered, but as I had an HTML-text JLabel on my JPanel I formally discovered the limitation. The FontMetrics.stringWidth() calculates the text length as inclusive of the width of the html tags - ie as simply more text)

I recommend looking at the answer to this SO question where trashgod's answer points to a number of different answers (including this one) to an almost identical question. On that page I will provide an additional answer that speeds up one of the other answers by a factor of 30-100.

what is reverse() in Django

The existing answers are quite clear. Just in case you do not know why it is called reverse: It takes an input of a url name and gives the actual url, which is reverse to having a url first and then give it a name.

curl_init() function not working

For linux you can install it via

sudo apt-get install php5-curl

For Windows(removing the ;) from php.ini

;extension=php_curl.dll

Restart apache server.

SQL statement to get column type

Another option for MS SQL is to replace the select query here with the query you want the types for:

declare @sql varchar(4000);

set @sql = 'select ''hi'' as greeting';

select * from master.sys.dm_exec_describe_first_result_set (@sql, Null, 0);

Python NLTK: SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc3' in file (Sentiment Analysis -NLP)

Add the following to the top of your file # coding=utf-8

If you go to the link in the error you can seen the reason why:

Defining the Encoding

Python will default to ASCII as standard encoding if no other encoding hints are given. To define a source code encoding, a magic comment must be placed into the source files either as first or second line in the file, such as: # coding=

What is VanillaJS?

This is VanillaJS (unmodified):

// VanillaJS v1.0
// Released into the Public Domain
// Your code goes here:

As you can see, it's not really a framework or a library. It's just a running gag for framework-loving bosses or people who think you NEED to use a JS framework. It means you just use whatever your (for you own sake: non-legacy) browser gives you (using Vanilla JS when working with legacy browsers is a bad idea).

Android Studio Checkout Github Error "CreateProcess=2" (Windows)

I found what I think is a faster solution. Install Git for Windows from here: http://git-scm.com/download/win

That automatically adds its path to the system variable during installation if you tell the installer to do so (it asks for that). So you don't have to edit anything manually.

Just close and restart Android Studio if it's open and you're ready to go.

wizard sample

When does a cookie with expiration time 'At end of session' expire?

Cookies that 'expire at end of the session' expire unpredictably from the user's perspective!

On iOS with Safari they expire whenever you switch apps!

On Android with Chrome they don't expire when you close the browser.

On Windows desktop running Chrome they expire when you close the browser. That's not when you close your website's tab; its when you close all tabs. Nor do they expire if there are any other browser windows open. If users run web apps as windows they might not even know they are browser windows. So your cookie's life depends on what the user is doing with some apparently unrelated app.

com.jcraft.jsch.JSchException: UnknownHostKey

You can also execute the following code. It is tested and working.

import com.jcraft.jsch.Channel;
import com.jcraft.jsch.JSch;
import com.jcraft.jsch.JSchException;
import com.jcraft.jsch.Session;
import com.jcraft.jsch.UIKeyboardInteractive;
import com.jcraft.jsch.UserInfo;

public class SFTPTest {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        JSch jsch = new JSch();
        Session session = null;
        try {
            session = jsch.getSession("username", "mywebsite.com", 22); //default port is 22
            UserInfo ui = new MyUserInfo();
            session.setUserInfo(ui);
            session.setPassword("123456".getBytes());
            session.connect();
            Channel channel = session.openChannel("sftp");
            channel.connect();
            System.out.println("Connected");
        } catch (JSchException e) {
            e.printStackTrace(System.out);
        } catch (Exception e){
            e.printStackTrace(System.out);
        } finally{
            session.disconnect();
            System.out.println("Disconnected");
        }
    }

    public static class MyUserInfo implements UserInfo, UIKeyboardInteractive {

        @Override
        public String getPassphrase() {
            return null;
        }
        @Override
        public String getPassword() {
            return null;
        }
        @Override
        public boolean promptPassphrase(String arg0) {
            return false;
        }
        @Override
        public boolean promptPassword(String arg0) {
            return false;
        }
        @Override
        public boolean promptYesNo(String arg0) {
            return false;
        }
        @Override
        public void showMessage(String arg0) {
        }
        @Override
        public String[] promptKeyboardInteractive(String arg0, String arg1,
                String arg2, String[] arg3, boolean[] arg4) {
            return null;
        }
    }
}

Please substitute the appropriate values.

Datanode process not running in Hadoop

Got the same error. Tried to start and stop dfs several times, cleared all directories that are mentioned in previous answers, but nothing helped.

The issue was resolved only after rebooting OS and configuring Hadoop from the scratch. (configuring Hadoop from the scratch without rebooting didn't work)

Can I have onScrollListener for a ScrollView?

    // --------Start Scroll Bar Slide--------
    final HorizontalScrollView xHorizontalScrollViewHeader = (HorizontalScrollView) findViewById(R.id.HorizontalScrollViewHeader);
    final HorizontalScrollView xHorizontalScrollViewData = (HorizontalScrollView) findViewById(R.id.HorizontalScrollViewData);
    xHorizontalScrollViewData.getViewTreeObserver().addOnScrollChangedListener(new ViewTreeObserver.OnScrollChangedListener() {
        @Override
        public void onScrollChanged() {
            int scrollX; int scrollY;
            scrollX=xHorizontalScrollViewData.getScrollX();
            scrollY=xHorizontalScrollViewData.getScrollY();
            xHorizontalScrollViewHeader.scrollTo(scrollX, scrollY);
        }
    });
    // ---------End Scroll Bar Slide---------

How to do one-liner if else statement?

Like user2680100 said, in Golang you can have the structure:

if <statement>; <evaluation> {
    [statements ...]
} else {
    [statements ...]
}

This is useful to shortcut some expressions that need error checking, or another kind of boolean checking, like:


var number int64
if v := os.Getenv("NUMBER"); v != "" {
   if number, err = strconv.ParseInt(v, 10, 64); err != nil {
       os.Exit(42)
   }
} else {
    os.Exit(1)
}

With this you can achieve something like (in C):

Sprite *buffer = get_sprite("foo.png");
Sprite *foo_sprite = (buffer != 0) ? buffer : donut_sprite

But is evident that this sugar in Golang have to be used with moderation, for me, personally, I like to use this sugar with max of one level of nesting, like:


var number int64
if v := os.Getenv("NUMBER"); v != "" {
    number, err = strconv.ParseInt(v, 10, 64)
    if err != nil {
        os.Exit(42)
    }
} else {
    os.Exit(1)
}

You can also implement ternary expressions with functions like func Ternary(b bool, a interface{}, b interface{}) { ... } but i don't like this approach, looks like a creation of a exception case in syntax, and creation of this "features", in my personal opinion, reduce the focus on that matters, that is algorithm and readability, but, the most important thing that makes me don't go for this way is that fact that this can bring a kind of overhead, and bring more cycles to in your program execution.

Base table or view not found: 1146 Table Laravel 5

I faced this problem too in laravel 5.2 and if declaring the table name doesn't work,it is probably because you have some wrong declaration or mistake in validation code in Request (If you are using one)

Adding an .env file to React Project

4 steps

  1. npm install dotenv --save

  2. Next add the following line to your app.

    require('dotenv').config()

  3. Then create a .env file at the root directory of your application and add the variables to it.

// contents of .env 

REACT_APP_API_KEY = 'my-secret-api-key'
  1. Finally, add .env to your .gitignore file so that Git ignores it and it never ends up on GitHub.

If you are using create-react-app then you only need step 3 and 4 but keep in mind variable needs to start with REACT_APP_ for it to work.

Reference: https://create-react-app.dev/docs/adding-custom-environment-variables/

NOTE - Need to restart application after adding variable in .env file.

Reference - https://medium.com/@thejasonfile/using-dotenv-package-to-create-environment-variables-33da4ac4ea8f

How to resolve cURL Error (7): couldn't connect to host?

Check if port 80 and 443 are blocked. or enter - IP graph.facebook.com and enter it in etc/hosts file

How to create a file in memory for user to download, but not through server?

We can use the URL api, in particular URL.createObjectURL(), and the Blob api to encode and download pretty much anything.

If your download is small, this works fine:

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document.body.innerHTML += 
`<a id="download" download="PATTERN.json" href="${URL.createObjectURL(new Blob([JSON.stringify("HELLO WORLD", null, 2)]))}"> Click me</a>`
download.click()
download.outerHTML = ""
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If your download is huge, instead of using the DOM, a better way is to create a link element with the download parameters, and trigger a click.

Notice the link element isn't appended to the document but the click work anyway! This is possible to create a download of many hundreds of Mo this way.

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const stack = {
 some: "stuffs",
 alot: "of them!"
}

BUTTONDOWNLOAD.onclick = (function(){
  let j = document.createElement("a")
  j.download = "stack_"+Date.now()+".json"
  j.href = URL.createObjectURL(new Blob([JSON.stringify(stack, null, 2)]))
  j.click()
})
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<button id="BUTTONDOWNLOAD">DOWNLOAD!</button>
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Bonus! Download any cyclic objects, avoid the errors:

TypeError: cyclic object value (Firefox) TypeError: Converting

circular structure to JSON (Chrome and Opera) TypeError: Circular

reference in value argument not supported (Edge)

Using https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js/blob/master/cycle.js

On this example, downloading the document object as json.

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/* JSON.decycle */
if(typeof JSON.decycle!=="function"){JSON.decycle=function decycle(object,replacer){"use strict";var objects=new WeakMap();return(function derez(value,path){var old_path;var nu;if(replacer!==undefined){value=replacer(value)}
if(typeof value==="object"&&value!==null&&!(value instanceof Boolean)&&!(value instanceof Date)&&!(value instanceof Number)&&!(value instanceof RegExp)&&!(value instanceof String)){old_path=objects.get(value);if(old_path!==undefined){return{$ref:old_path}}
objects.set(value,path);if(Array.isArray(value)){nu=[];value.forEach(function(element,i){nu[i]=derez(element,path+"["+i+"]")})}else{nu={};Object.keys(value).forEach(function(name){nu[name]=derez(value[name],path+"["+JSON.stringify(name)+"]")})}
return nu}
return value}(object,"$"))}}


document.body.innerHTML += 
`<a id="download" download="PATTERN.json" href="${URL.createObjectURL(new Blob([JSON.stringify(JSON.decycle(document), null, 2)]))}"></a>`
download.click()
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Are parameters in strings.xml possible?

There is many ways to use it and i recomend you to see this documentation about String Format.

http://developer.android.com/intl/pt-br/reference/java/util/Formatter.html

But, if you need only one variable, you'll need to use %[type] where [type] could be any Flag (see Flag types inside site above). (i.e. "My name is %s" or to set my name UPPERCASE, use this "My name is %S")

<string name="welcome_messages">Hello, %1$S! You have %2$d new message(s) and your quote is %3$.2f%%.</string>

Hello, ANDROID! You have 1 new message(s) and your quote is 80,50%.

Open soft keyboard programmatically

There are already too many answers but nothing worked for me apart from this

inputMethodManager.showSoftInput(emailET,InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED);

I used showSoftInput with SHOW_FORCED

And my activity has

 android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible|adjustResize"

hope this helps someone

JSON.Net Self referencing loop detected

The fix is to ignore loop references and not to serialize them. This behaviour is specified in JsonSerializerSettings.

Single JsonConvert with an overload:

JsonConvert.SerializeObject((from a in db.Events where a.Active select a).ToList(), Formatting.Indented,
    new JsonSerializerSettings() {
        ReferenceLoopHandling = Newtonsoft.Json.ReferenceLoopHandling.Ignore
    }
);

If you'd like to make this the default behaviour, add a Global Setting with code in Application_Start() in Global.asax.cs:

JsonConvert.DefaultSettings = () => new JsonSerializerSettings {
     Formatting = Newtonsoft.Json.Formatting.Indented,
     ReferenceLoopHandling = Newtonsoft.Json.ReferenceLoopHandling.Ignore
};

Reference: https://github.com/JamesNK/Newtonsoft.Json/issues/78

What is the best/simplest way to read in an XML file in Java application?

Depending on your application and the scope of the cfg file, a properties file might be the easiest. Sure it isn't as elegant as xml but it certainly easier.

unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally (Driver info: chromedriver=2.9

Passing no-sandbox to exec seems important for jenkins on windows in foreground or as service. Here's my solution

chromedriver fails on windows jenkins slave running in foreground

Javascript swap array elements

Just for the fun of it, another way without using any extra variable would be:

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// swap index 0 and 2_x000D_
arr[arr.length] = arr[0];   // copy idx1 to the end of the array_x000D_
arr[0] = arr[2];            // copy idx2 to idx1_x000D_
arr[2] = arr[arr.length-1]; // copy idx1 to idx2_x000D_
arr.length--;               // remove idx1 (was added to the end of the array)_x000D_
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console.log( arr ); // -> [3, 2, 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
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Mocking static methods with Mockito

For those who use JUnit 5, Powermock is not an option. You'll require the following dependencies to successfully mock a static method with just Mockito.

testCompile    group: 'org.mockito', name: 'mockito-core',           version: '3.6.0'
testCompile    group: 'org.mockito', name: 'mockito-junit-jupiter',  version: '3.6.0'
testCompile    group: 'org.mockito', name: 'mockito-inline',         version: '3.6.0'

mockito-junit-jupiter add supports for JUnit 5.

And support for mocking static methods is provided by mockito-inline dependency.

Example:

@Test
void returnUtilTest() {
    assertEquals("foo", UtilClass.staticMethod("foo"));

    try (MockedStatic<UtilClass> classMock = mockStatic(UtilClass.class)) {

        classMock.when(() -> UtilClass.staticMethod("foo")).thenReturn("bar");

        assertEquals("bar", UtilClass.staticMethod("foo"));
     }

     assertEquals("foo", UtilClass.staticMethod("foo"));
}

The try-with-resource block is used to make the static mock remains temporary, so it's mocked only within that scope.

When not using a try block, make sure to close the scoped mock, once you are done with the assertions.

MockedStatic<UtilClass> classMock = mockStatic(UtilClass.class)
classMock.when(() -> UtilClass.staticMethod("foo")).thenReturn("bar");
assertEquals("bar", UtilClass.staticMethod("foo"));
classMock.close();

Mocking void methods:

When mockStatic is called on a class, all the static void methods in that class automatically get mocked to doNothing().

Should I use px or rem value units in my CSS?

Yes, REM and PX are relative yet other answers have suggested to go for REM over PX, I would also like to back this up using an accessibility example.
When user sets different font-size on browser, REM automatically scale up and down elements like fonts, images etc on the webpage which is not the case with PX.


In the below gif left side text is set using font size REM unit while right side font is set by PX unit.

enter image description here

As you can see that REM is scaling up/down automatically when I resize the default font-size of webpage.(bottom-right side)

Default font-size of a webpage is 16px which is equal to 1 rem (only for default html page i.e. html{font-size:100%}), so, 1.25rem is equal to 20px.

P.S: who else is using REM? CSS Frameworks! like Bootstrap 4, Bulma CSS etc, so better get along with it.

how to convert string into dictionary in python 3.*?

  1. literal_eval, a somewhat safer version of eval (will only evaluate literals ie strings, lists etc):

    from ast import literal_eval
    
    python_dict = literal_eval("{'a': 1}")
    
  2. json.loads but it would require your string to use double quotes:

    import json
    
    python_dict = json.loads('{"a": 1}')
    

how to end ng serve or firebase serve

You can use the following command to end an ongoing process:

ctrl + c

How do I get row id of a row in sql server

SQL does not do that. The order of the tuples in the table are not ordered by insertion date. A lot of people include a column that stores that date of insertion in order to get around this issue.

ORA-12516, TNS:listener could not find available handler

I fixed this problem with sql command line:

connect system/<password>
alter system set processes=300 scope=spfile;
alter system set sessions=300 scope=spfile;

Restart database.

How to find what code is run by a button or element in Chrome using Developer Tools

This solution needs the jQuery's data method.

  1. Open Chrome's console (although any browser with jQuery loaded will work)
  2. Run $._data($(".example").get(0), "events")
  3. Drill down the output to find the desired event handler.
  4. Right-click on "handler" and select "Show function definition"
  5. The code will be shown in the Sources tab

$._data() is just accessing jQuery's data method. A more readable alternative could be jQuery._data().

Interesting point by this SO answer:

As of jQuery 1.8, the event data is no longer available from the "public API" for data. Read this jQuery blog post. You should now use this instead:

jQuery._data( elem, "events" ); elem should be an HTML Element, not a jQuery object, or selector.

Please note, that this is an internal, 'private' structure, and shouldn't be modified. Use this for debugging purposes only.

In older versions of jQuery, you might have to use the old method which is:

jQuery( elem ).data( "events" );

A version agnostic jQuery would be: (jQuery._data || jQuery.data)(elem, 'events');

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException Error

Near the top of the code with the Public Workshop(), I am assumeing this bit,

suitButton = new JCheckBox("Suit");
suitButton.setMnemonic(KeyEvent.VK_Y);


suitButton = new JCheckBox("Denim Jeans");
suitButton.setMnemonic(KeyEvent.VK_U);

should maybe be,

suitButton = new JCheckBox("Suit");
suitButton.setMnemonic(KeyEvent.VK_Y);


denimjeansButton = new JCheckBox("Denim Jeans");
denimjeansButton.setMnemonic(KeyEvent.VK_U);

Setting a JPA timestamp column to be generated by the database?

This worked for me:

@Column(name = "transactionCreatedDate", nullable = false, updatable = false, insertable = false, columnDefinition = "TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP")

How to make tesseract to recognize only numbers, when they are mixed with letters?

This feature is not supported in version 4. You can still use it via -c tessedit_char_whitelist=0123456789 with "--oem 0" which reverts to the old model.

There is a bounty to fix this issue.

Possible workarounds:

As stated by @amitdo

"Invalid form control" only in Google Chrome

No validate will do the job.

<form action="whatever" method="post" novalidate>

Update an outdated branch against master in a Git repo

Update the master branch, which you need to do regardless.

Then, one of:

  1. Rebase the old branch against the master branch. Solve the merge conflicts during rebase, and the result will be an up-to-date branch that merges cleanly against master.

  2. Merge your branch into master, and resolve the merge conflicts.

  3. Merge master into your branch, and resolve the merge conflicts. Then, merging from your branch into master should be clean.

None of these is better than the other, they just have different trade-off patterns.

I would use the rebase approach, which gives cleaner overall results to later readers, in my opinion, but that is nothing aside from personal taste.

To rebase and keep the branch you would:

git checkout <branch> && git rebase <target>

In your case, check out the old branch, then

git rebase master 

to get it rebuilt against master.

no pg_hba.conf entry for host

BTW, in my case it was that I needed to specify the user/pwd in the url, not as independent properties, they were ignored and my OS user was used to connect

My config is in a WebSphere 8.5.5 server.xml file

<dataSource 
    jndiName="jdbc/tableauPostgreSQL" 
    type="javax.sql.ConnectionPoolDataSource">
    <jdbcDriver 
        javax.sql.ConnectionPoolDataSource="org.postgresql.ds.PGConnectionPoolDataSource" 
        javax.sql.DataSource="org.postgresql.ds.PGPoolingDataSource" 
        libraryRef="PostgreSqlJdbcLib"/>
    <properties 
        url="jdbc:postgresql://server:port/mydb?user=fred&amp;password=secret"/>
</dataSource>

This would not work and was getting the error:

<properties 
    user="fred"
    password="secret"
    url="jdbc:postgresql://server:port/mydb"/>

Escaping single quote in PHP when inserting into MySQL

You have a couple of things fighting in your strings.

  • lack of correct MySQL quoting (mysql_real_escape_string())
  • potential automatic 'magic quote' -- check your gpc_magic_quotes setting
  • embedded string variables, which means you have to know how PHP correctly finds variables

It's also possible that the single-quoted value is not present in the parameters to the first query. Your example is a proper name, after all, and only the second query seems to be dealing with names.

How to approach a "Got minus one from a read call" error when connecting to an Amazon RDS Oracle instance

I got this error message from using an oracle database in a docker despite the fact i had publish port to host option "-p 1521:1521". I was using jdbc url that was using ip address 127.0.0.1, i changed it to the host machine real ip address and everything worked then.

AWS CLI S3 A client error (403) occurred when calling the HeadObject operation: Forbidden

In my case, i got this error trying to get an object on an S3 bucket folder. But in that folder my object was not here (i put the wrong folder), so S3 send this message. Hope it could help you too.

Powershell Error "The term 'Get-SPWeb' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function..."

Instead of Windows PowerShell, find the item in the Start Menu called SharePoint 2013 Management Shell:

enter image description here

Deserialize JSON array(or list) in C#

This code works for me:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Web.Script.Serialization;

namespace Json
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(DeserializeNames());
            Console.ReadLine();
        }

        public static string DeserializeNames()
        {
            var jsonData = "{\"name\":[{\"last\":\"Smith\"},{\"last\":\"Doe\"}]}";

            JavaScriptSerializer ser = new JavaScriptSerializer();

            nameList myNames = ser.Deserialize<nameList>(jsonData);

            return ser.Serialize(myNames);
        }

        //Class descriptions

        public class name
        {
            public string last { get; set; }
        }

        public class nameList
        {
            public List<name> name { get; set; }
        }
    }
}

PHP move_uploaded_file() error?

How can I know that what is the problem

Easy. Refer to the error log of the webserver.

how can I get the actual problem to display to the user ?

NEVER do it.
An average user will unerstand nothing of this error.
A malicious user should get no feedback, especially in a form of very informative error message.

Just show a page with excuses.

If you don't have access to the server's error log, your task become more complicated.
There are several ways to get in touch with error messages.

To display error messages on screen you can add these lines to the code

ini_set('display_errors',1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);

or to make custom error logfile

ini_set('log_errors',1);
ini_set('error_log','/absolute/path/tp/log_file');

and there are some other ways.
but you must understand that without actual error message you can't move. It's hard to be blind in the dark

Javascript code for showing yesterday's date and todays date

Yesterday's date is simply today's date less one, so:

var d = new Date();
d.setDate(d.getDate() - 1);

If today is 1 April, then it is set to 0 April which is converted to 31 March.

Since you also wanted to do some other stuff, here are some functions to do it:

// Check if d is a valid date
// Must be format year-month name-date
// e.g. 2011-MAR-12 or 2011-March-6
// Capitalisation is not important
function validDate(d) {
  var bits = d.split('-');
  var t = stringToDate(d);
  return t.getFullYear() == bits[0] && 
         t.getDate() == bits[2];
}

// Convert string in format above to a date object
function stringToDate(s) {
  var bits = s.split('-');
  var monthNum = monthNameToNumber(bits[1]);
  return new Date(bits[0], monthNum, bits[2]);
}

// Convert month names like mar or march to 
// number, capitalisation not important
// Month number is calendar month - 1.
var monthNameToNumber = (function() {
  var monthNames = (
     'jan feb mar apr may jun jul aug sep oct nov dec ' +
     'january february march april may june july august ' +
     'september october november december'
     ).split(' ');

  return function(month) {
    var i = monthNames.length;
    month = month.toLowerCase(); 

    while (i--) {
      if (monthNames[i] == month) {
        return i % 12;
      }
    }
  }
}());

// Given a date in above format, return
// previous day as a date object
function getYesterday(d) {
  d = stringToDate(d);
  d.setDate(d.getDate() - 1)
  return d;
}

// Given a date object, format
// per format above
var formatDate = (function() {
  var months = 'jan feb mar apr may jun jul aug sep oct nov dec'.split(' ');
  function addZ(n) {
    return n<10? '0'+n : ''+n;
  }
  return function(d) {
    return d.getFullYear() + '-' + 
           months[d.getMonth()] + '-' + 
           addZ(d.getDate());
  }
}());

function doStuff(d) {

  // Is it format year-month-date?
  if (!validDate(d)) {
    alert(d + ' is not a valid date');
    return;
  } else {
    alert(d + ' is a valid date');
  }
  alert(
    'Date in was: ' + d +
    '\nDay before: ' + formatDate(getYesterday(d))
  );
}


doStuff('2011-feb-08');
// Shows 2011-feb-08 is a valid date
//       Date in was: 2011-feb-08
//       Day before: 2011-feb-07

What's the difference between Html.Label, Html.LabelFor and Html.LabelForModel

I think that the usage of @Html.LabelForModel() should be explained in more detail.

The LabelForModel Method returns an HTML label element and the property name of the property that is represented by the model.

You could refer to the following code:

Code in model:

using System.ComponentModel;

[DisplayName("MyModel")]
public class MyModel
{
    [DisplayName("A property")]
    public string Test { get; set; }
}

Code in view:

@Html.LabelForModel()
<div class="form-group">

    @Html.LabelFor(model => model.Test, new { @class = "control-label col-md-2" })

    <div class="col-md-10">
        @Html.EditorFor(model => model.Test)
        @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.Test)
    </div>
</div>

The output screenshot:

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Reference to answer on the asp.net forum

An error occurred while executing the command definition. See the inner exception for details

I had a similar situation with the 'An error occurred while executing the command definition' error. I had some views which were grabbing from another db which used current user security. The second db did not allow the login for the user of the first db causing this issue to occur. I added the db login to the server it was trying to get to from the original server and this fixed the issue. Check your views and see if there are any linked dbs which have different security than the db you are logging onto originally.

How to use mongoimport to import csv

I use this on mongoimport shell

mongoimport --db db_name --collection collection_name --type csv --file C:\\Your_file_path\target_file.csv --headerline

type can choose csv/tsv/json But only csv/tsv can use --headerline

You can read more on the offical doc.

Visual Studio Community 2015 expiration date

There isn't an expiration date for the community edition.

The usage section from the from the Visual Studio website clearly states:

For individuals

Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps.

For organizations

An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source projects.

For all other usage scenarios: In non-enterprise organizations, up to five users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or >$1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above.

Is there a way to retrieve the view definition from a SQL Server using plain ADO?

For users of SQL 2000, the actual command that will provide this information is:

select c.text
from sysobjects     o
join syscomments    c on c.id = o.id
where o.name = '<view_name_here>'
  and o.type      = 'V'

Download file of any type in Asp.Net MVC using FileResult?

if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(fileName)) return Content("filename not present");

        var path = Path.Combine(your path, your filename);

        var stream = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Open);

        return File(stream, System.Net.Mime.MediaTypeNames.Application.Octet, fileName);

Getting index value on razor foreach

In case you want to count the references from your model( ie: Client has Address as reference so you wanna count how many address would exists for a client) in a foreach loop at your view such as:

 @foreach (var item in Model)
                        {
                            <tr>
                                <td>
                                    @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.DtCadastro)
                                </td>

                                <td style="width:50%">
                                    @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.DsLembrete)
                                </td>
                                <td>
                                    @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.DtLembrete)
                                </td>
                                <td>
                                    @{ 
                                        var contador = item.LembreteEnvolvido.Where(w => w.IdLembrete == item.IdLembrete).Count();
                                    }
                                    <button class="btn-link associado" data-id="@item.IdLembrete" data-path="/LembreteEnvolvido/Index/@item.IdLembrete"><i class="fas fa-search"></i> @contador</button>
                                    <button class="btn-link associar" data-id="@item.IdLembrete" data-path="/LembreteEnvolvido/Create/@item.IdLembrete"><i class="fas fa-plus"></i></button>
                                </td>
                                <td class="text-right">
                                    <button class="btn-link delete" data-id="@item.IdLembrete" data-path="/Lembretes/Delete/@item.IdLembrete">Excluir</button>
                                </td>
                            </tr>
                        }

do as coded:

@{ var contador = item.LembreteEnvolvido.Where(w => w.IdLembrete == item.IdLembrete).Count();}

and use it like this:

<button class="btn-link associado" data-id="@item.IdLembrete" data-path="/LembreteEnvolvido/Index/@item.IdLembrete"><i class="fas fa-search"></i> @contador</button>

ps: don't forget to add INCLUDE to that reference at you DbContext inside, for example, your Index action controller, in case this is an IEnumerable model.

What does /p mean in set /p?

The /P switch allows you to set the value of a variable to a line of input entered by the user. Displays the specified promptString before reading the line of input. The promptString can be empty.

Two ways I've used it... first:

SET /P variable=

When batch file reaches this point (when left blank) it will halt and wait for user input. Input then becomes variable.

And second:

SET /P variable=<%temp%\filename.txt

Will set variable to contents (the first line) of the txt file. This method won't work unless the /P is included. Both tested on Windows 8.1 Pro, but it's the same on 7 and 10.

How to check if function exists in JavaScript?

I had the case where the name of the function varied according to a variable (var 'x' in this case) added to the functions name. This works:

if ( typeof window['afunction_'+x] === 'function' ) { window['afunction_'+x](); } 

Android LinearLayout : Add border with shadow around a LinearLayout

I know this is late but it could help somebody.

You can use a constraintLayout and add the following property in the xml,

        android:elevation="4dp"

Response Content type as CSV

Over the years I've been honing a perfect set of headers for this that work brilliantly in all browsers that I know of

// these headers avoid IE problems when using https:
// see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812935
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate");
header("Pragma: must-revalidate");

header("Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel");
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=$filename.csv");

Python syntax for "if a or b or c but not all of them"

If you mean a minimal form, go with this:

if (not a or not b or not c) and (a or b or c):

Which translates the title of your question.

UPDATE: as correctly said by Volatility and Supr, you can apply De Morgan's law and obtain equivalent:

if (a or b or c) and not (a and b and c):

My advice is to use whichever form is more significant to you and to other programmers. The first means "there is something false, but also something true", the second "There is something true, but not everything". If I were to optimize or do this in hardware, I would choose the second, here just choose the most readable (also taking in consideration the conditions you will be testing and their names). I picked the first.

How can a Jenkins user authentication details be "passed" to a script which uses Jenkins API to create jobs?

Try this way: (for example delete the job)

curl --silent --show-error http://<username>:<api-token>@<jenkins-server>/job/<job-name>/doDelete

The api-token can be obtained from http://<jenkins-server>/user/<username>/configure.

How to read a configuration file in Java

Create a configuration file and put your entries there.

SERVER_PORT=10000     
THREAD_POOL_COUNT=3     
ROOT_DIR=/home/   

You can load this file using Properties.load(fileName) and retrieved values you get(key);

openpyxl - adjust column width size

Even more pythonic way to set the width of all columns that works at least in openpyxl version 2.4.0:

for column_cells in worksheet.columns:
    length = max(len(as_text(cell.value)) for cell in column_cells)
    worksheet.column_dimensions[column_cells[0].column].width = length

The as_text function should be something that converts the value to a proper length string, like for Python 3:

def as_text(value):
    if value is None:
        return ""
    return str(value)

constant pointer vs pointer on a constant value

Above are great answers. Here is an easy way to remember this:

a is a pointer

*a is the value

Now if you say "const a" then the pointer is const. (i.e. char * const a;)

If you say "const *a" then the value is const. (i.e. const char * a;)

How do you make strings "XML safe"?

If at all possible, its always a good idea to create your XML using the XML classes rather than string manipulation - one of the benefits being that the classes will automatically escape characters as needed.

How is length implemented in Java Arrays?

Every array in java is considered as an object. The public final length is the data member which contains the number of components of the array (length may be positive or zero)

How to get the caller's method name in the called method?

Bit of an amalgamation of the stuff above. But here's my crack at it.

def print_caller_name(stack_size=3):
    def wrapper(fn):
        def inner(*args, **kwargs):
            import inspect
            stack = inspect.stack()

            modules = [(index, inspect.getmodule(stack[index][0]))
                       for index in reversed(range(1, stack_size))]
            module_name_lengths = [len(module.__name__)
                                   for _, module in modules]

            s = '{index:>5} : {module:^%i} : {name}' % (max(module_name_lengths) + 4)
            callers = ['',
                       s.format(index='level', module='module', name='name'),
                       '-' * 50]

            for index, module in modules:
                callers.append(s.format(index=index,
                                        module=module.__name__,
                                        name=stack[index][3]))

            callers.append(s.format(index=0,
                                    module=fn.__module__,
                                    name=fn.__name__))
            callers.append('')
            print('\n'.join(callers))

            fn(*args, **kwargs)
        return inner
    return wrapper

Use:

@print_caller_name(4)
def foo():
    return 'foobar'

def bar():
    return foo()

def baz():
    return bar()

def fizz():
    return baz()

fizz()

output is

level :             module             : name
--------------------------------------------------
    3 :              None              : fizz
    2 :              None              : baz
    1 :              None              : bar
    0 :            __main__            : foo

Laravel csrf token mismatch for ajax POST Request

I always encounter this error recently. Make sure to use a more specific selector when referring to a value. for example instead of $('#firstname') use $('form').find('#firstname');

std::string length() and size() member functions

Ruby's just the same, btw, offering both #length and #size as synonyms for the number of items in arrays and hashes (C++ only does it for strings).

Minimalists and people who believe "there ought to be one, and ideally only one, obvious way to do it" (as the Zen of Python recites) will, I guess, mostly agree with your doubts, @Naveen, while fans of Perl's "There's more than one way to do it" (or SQL's syntax with a bazillion optional "noise words" giving umpteen identically equivalent syntactic forms to express one concept) will no doubt be complaining that Ruby, and especially C++, just don't go far enough in offering such synonymical redundancy;-).

How to send data in request body with a GET when using jQuery $.ajax()

In general, that's not how systems use GET requests. So, it will be hard to get your libraries to play along. In fact, the spec says that "If the request method is a case-sensitive match for GET or HEAD act as if data is null." So, I think you are out of luck unless the browser you are using doesn't respect that part of the spec.

You can probably setup an endpoint on your own server for a POST ajax request, then redirect that in your server code to a GET request with a body.

If you aren't absolutely tied to GET requests with the body being the data, you have two options.

POST with data: This is probably what you want. If you are passing data along, that probably means you are modifying some model or performing some action on the server. These types of actions are typically done with POST requests.

GET with query string data: You can convert your data to query string parameters and pass them along to the server that way.

url: 'somesite.com/models/thing?ids=1,2,3'

Notepad++ - How can I replace blank lines

As of NP++ V6.2.3 (nor sure about older versions) simply:

  1. Go menu -> Edit -> Line operations
  2. Choose "Remove Empty Lines" or "Remove Empty Lines (Containing white spaces)" according to your needs.

Hope this helps to achieve goal in simple and yet fast way:)

How do you convert a byte array to a hexadecimal string, and vice versa?

I just encountered the very same problem today, and I came across this code:

private static string ByteArrayToHex(byte[] barray)
{
    char[] c = new char[barray.Length * 2];
    byte b;
    for (int i = 0; i < barray.Length; ++i)
    {
        b = ((byte)(barray[i] >> 4));
        c[i * 2] = (char)(b > 9 ? b + 0x37 : b + 0x30);
        b = ((byte)(barray[i] & 0xF));
        c[i * 2 + 1] = (char)(b > 9 ? b + 0x37 : b + 0x30);
    }
    return new string(c);
}

Source: Forum post byte[] Array to Hex String (see the post by PZahra). I modified the code a little to remove the 0x prefix.

I did some performance testing to the code and it was almost eight times faster than using BitConverter.ToString() (the fastest according to patridge's post).

What's the best practice to round a float to 2 decimals?

Let's test 3 methods:
1)

public static double round1(double value, int scale) {
    return Math.round(value * Math.pow(10, scale)) / Math.pow(10, scale);
}

2)

public static float round2(float number, int scale) {
    int pow = 10;
    for (int i = 1; i < scale; i++)
        pow *= 10;
    float tmp = number * pow;
    return ( (float) ( (int) ((tmp - (int) tmp) >= 0.5f ? tmp + 1 : tmp) ) ) / pow;
}

3)

public static float round3(float d, int decimalPlace) {
    return BigDecimal.valueOf(d).setScale(decimalPlace, BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_UP).floatValue();
}



Number is 0.23453f
We'll test 100,000 iterations each method.

Results:
Time 1 - 18 ms
Time 2 - 1 ms
Time 3 - 378 ms


Tested on laptop
Intel i3-3310M CPU 2.4GHz

How to locate the php.ini file (xampp)

I’ve run into the need while running on PhpStorm on my Mac. Follow the orange text.

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How do I put text on ProgressBar?

I have created a InfoProgressBar control which uses a TransparentLabel control. Testing on a form with a Timer, I get some slight glitches displaying the text every 30-40 value changes if using a timer interval of less than 250 milliseconds (probably because of the time required to update the screen is greater than the timer interval).

It would be possible to modify UpdateText method to insert all the calculated values into CustomText but it isn't something that I have needed yet. This would remove the need for the DisplayType property and enumerate.

The TransparentLabel class was created by adding a new UserControl and changing it to inheriting from Label with the following implementation:

using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace Utils.GUI
{
    public partial class TransparentLabel : Label
    {
        // hide the BackColor attribute as much as possible.
        // setting the base value has no effect as drawing the
        // background is disabled
        [Browsable(false)]
        [EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never)]
        public override Color BackColor
        {
            get
            {
                return Color.Transparent;
            }
            set
            {
            }
        }

        protected override CreateParams CreateParams
        {
            get
            {
                CreateParams cp = base.CreateParams;
                cp.ExStyle |= 0x20; //  WS_EX_TRANSPARENT
                return cp;
            }
        }

        public override string Text
        {
            get
            {
                return base.Text;
            }
            set
            {
                base.Text = value;
                if(Parent != null) Parent.Invalidate(Bounds, false);
            }
        }

        public override ContentAlignment TextAlign
        {
            get
            {
                return base.TextAlign;
            }
            set
            {
                base.TextAlign = value;
                if(Parent != null) Parent.Invalidate(Bounds, false);
            }
        }

        public TransparentLabel()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            SetStyle(ControlStyles.Opaque, true);
            SetStyle(ControlStyles.OptimizedDoubleBuffer, false);

            base.BackColor = Color.Transparent;
        }

        protected override void OnMove(EventArgs e)
        {
            base.OnMove(e);
            RecreateHandle();
        }

        protected override void OnPaintBackground(PaintEventArgs pevent)
        {
            // do nothing
        }
    }
}

I did not make any changes to the related designer code but here it is for completeness.

namespace Utils.GUI
{
    partial class TransparentLabel
    {
        /// <summary> 
        /// Required designer variable.
        /// </summary>
        private System.ComponentModel.IContainer components = null;

        /// <summary> 
        /// Clean up any resources being used.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="disposing">true if managed resources should be disposed; otherwise, false.</param>
        protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
        {
            if(disposing && (components != null))
            {
                components.Dispose();
            }
            base.Dispose(disposing);
        }

        #region Component Designer generated code

        /// <summary> 
        /// Required method for Designer support - do not modify 
        /// the contents of this method with the code editor.
        /// </summary>
        private void InitializeComponent()
        {
            components = new System.ComponentModel.Container();
        }

        #endregion
    }
}

I then created another new UserControl and changed it to derive from ProgressBar with the following implementation:

using System.Collections;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.ComponentModel.Design;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Windows.Forms.Design;
using System.Windows.Forms.Design.Behavior;

namespace Utils.GUI
{
    [Designer(typeof(InfoProgressBarDesigner))]
    public partial class InfoProgressBar : ProgressBar
    {
        // designer class to add font baseline snapline by copying it from the label
        private class InfoProgressBarDesigner : ControlDesigner
        {
            public override IList SnapLines
            {
                get
                {
                    IList snapLines = base.SnapLines;

                    InfoProgressBar control = Control as InfoProgressBar;

                    if(control != null)
                    {
                        using(IDesigner designer = TypeDescriptor.CreateDesigner(control.lblText, typeof(IDesigner)))
                        {
                            if(designer != null)
                            {
                                designer.Initialize(control.lblText);

                                ControlDesigner boxDesigner = designer as ControlDesigner;

                                if(boxDesigner != null)
                                {
                                    foreach(SnapLine line in boxDesigner.SnapLines)
                                    {
                                        if(line.SnapLineType == SnapLineType.Baseline)
                                        {
                                            snapLines.Add(new SnapLine(SnapLineType.Baseline, line.Offset, line.Filter, line.Priority));
                                            break;
                                        }
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }

                    return snapLines;
                }
            }
        }

        // enum to select the type of displayed value
        public enum ProgressBarDisplayType
        {
            Custom = 0,
            Percent = 1,
            Progress = 2,
            Remain = 3,
            Value = 4,
        }

        private string _customText;
        private ProgressBarDisplayType _displayType;
        private int _range;

        [Bindable(false)]
        [Browsable(true)]
        [DefaultValue("{0}")]
        [DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Visible)]
        [EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Always)]
        // {0} is replaced with the result of the selected calculation
        public string CustomText
        {
            get
            {
                return _customText;
            }
            set
            {
                _customText = value;
                UpdateText();
            }
        }

        [Bindable(false)]
        [Browsable(true)]
        [DefaultValue(ProgressBarDisplayType.Percent)]
        [DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Visible)]
        [EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Always)]
        public ProgressBarDisplayType DisplayType
        {
            get
            {
                return _displayType;
            }
            set
            {
                _displayType = value;
                UpdateText();
            }
        }

        [Bindable(false)]
        [Browsable(true)]
        [DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Visible)]
        [EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Always)]
        // don't use the lblText font as if it is null, it checks the parent font (i.e. this property) and gives an infinite loop
        public override Font Font
        {
            get
            {
                return base.Font;
            }
            set
            {
                base.Font = value; 
            }
        }

        [Bindable(false)]
        [Browsable(true)]
        [DefaultValue(100)]
        [DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Visible)]
        [EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Always)]
        public new int Maximum
        {
            get
            {
                return base.Maximum;
            }
            set
            {
                base.Maximum = value;
                _range = base.Maximum - base.Minimum;
                UpdateText();
            }
        }

        [Bindable(false)]
        [Browsable(true)]
        [DefaultValue(0)]
        [DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Visible)]
        [EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Always)]
        public new int Minimum
        {
            get
            {
                return base.Minimum;
            }
            set
            {
                base.Minimum = value;
                _range = base.Maximum - base.Minimum;
                UpdateText();
            }
        }

        [Bindable(false)]
        [Browsable(true)]
        [DefaultValue(ContentAlignment.MiddleLeft)]
        [DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Visible)]
        [EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Always)]
        public ContentAlignment TextAlign 
        {
            get
            {
                return lblText.TextAlign;
            }
            set
            {
                lblText.TextAlign = value;
            }
        }

        [Bindable(false)]
        [Browsable(true)]
        [DefaultValue(typeof(Color), "0x000000")]
        [DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Visible)]
        [EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Always)]
        public Color TextColor
        {
            get
            {
                return lblText.ForeColor;
            }
            set
            {
                lblText.ForeColor = value;
            }
        }

        [Bindable(false)]
        [Browsable(true)]
        [DefaultValue(0)]
        [DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Visible)]
        [EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Always)]
        public new int Value
        {
            get
            {
                return base.Value;
            }
            set
            {
                base.Value = value;
                UpdateText();
            }
        }

        public InfoProgressBar()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            CustomText = "{0}";
            DisplayType = ProgressBarDisplayType.Percent;
            Maximum = 100;
            Minimum = 0;
            TextAlign = ContentAlignment.MiddleLeft;
            TextColor = Color.Black;
            Value = 0;

            // means the label gets drawn in front of the progress bar
            lblText.Parent = this;

            _range = base.Maximum - base.Minimum;
        }

        protected void UpdateText()
        {
            switch(DisplayType)
            {
                case ProgressBarDisplayType.Custom:
                {
                    lblText.Text = _customText;
                    break;
                }
                case ProgressBarDisplayType.Percent:
                {
                    if(_range > 0)
                    {
                        lblText.Text = string.Format(_customText, string.Format("{0}%", (int)((Value * 100) / _range)));
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        lblText.Text = "100%";
                    }
                    break;
                }
                case ProgressBarDisplayType.Progress:
                {
                    lblText.Text = string.Format(_customText, (Value - Minimum));
                    break;
                }
                case ProgressBarDisplayType.Remain:
                {
                    lblText.Text = string.Format(_customText, (Maximum - Value));
                    break;
                }
                case ProgressBarDisplayType.Value:
                {
                    lblText.Text = string.Format(_customText, Value);
                    break;
                }
            }
        }

        public new void Increment(int value)
        {
            base.Increment(value);
            UpdateText();
        }

        public new void PerformStep()
        {
            base.PerformStep();
            UpdateText();
        }
    }
}

And the designer code:

namespace Utils.GUI
{
    partial class InfoProgressBar
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Required designer variable.
        /// </summary>
        private System.ComponentModel.IContainer components = null;

        /// <summary>
        /// Clean up any resources being used.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="disposing">true if managed resources should be disposed; otherwise, false.</param>
        protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
        {
            if(disposing && (components != null))
            {
                components.Dispose();
            }
            base.Dispose(disposing);
        }

        #region Component Designer generated code

        /// <summary>
        /// Required method for Designer support - do not modify 
        /// the contents of this method with the code editor.
        /// </summary>
        private void InitializeComponent()
        {
            this.lblText = new Utils.GUI.TransparentLabel();
            this.SuspendLayout();
            // 
            // lblText
            // 
            this.lblText.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Transparent;
            this.lblText.Dock = System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle.Fill;
            this.lblText.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(0, 0);
            this.lblText.Name = "lblText";
            this.lblText.Padding = new System.Windows.Forms.Padding(3, 0, 3, 0);
            this.lblText.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(100, 23);
            this.lblText.TabIndex = 0;
            this.lblText.Text = "transparentLabel1";
            this.ResumeLayout(false);

        }

        #endregion

        private TransparentLabel lblText;

    }
}

Loading PictureBox Image from resource file with path (Part 3)

Setting "Copy to Output Directory" to "Copy always" or "Copy if newer" may help for you.

Your PicPath is a relative path that is converted into an absolute path at some time while loading the image. Most probably you will see that there are no images on the specified location if you use Path.GetFullPath(PicPath) in Debug.

Android OnClickListener - identify a button

You will learn the way to do it, in an easy way, is:

public class Mtest extends Activity {
  Button b1;
  Button b2;
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    ...
    b1 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.b1);
    b2 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.b2);
    b1.setOnClickListener(myhandler1);
    b2.setOnClickListener(myhandler2);
    ...
  }
  View.OnClickListener myhandler1 = new View.OnClickListener() {
    public void onClick(View v) {
      // it was the 1st button
    }
  };
  View.OnClickListener myhandler2 = new View.OnClickListener() {
    public void onClick(View v) {
      // it was the 2nd button
    }
  };
}

Or, if you are working with just one clicklistener, you can do:

View.OnClickListener myOnlyhandler = new View.OnClickListener() {
  public void onClick(View v) {
      switch(v.getId()) {
        case R.id.b1:
          // it was the first button
          break;
        case R.id.b2:
          // it was the second button
          break;
      }
  }
}

Though, I don't recommend doing it that way since you will have to add an if for each button you use. That's hard to maintain.

CSS3 selector to find the 2nd div of the same class

And for people who are looking for a jQuery compatible answer:

$('.foo:eq(1)').css('color', 'red');

HTML:

<div>
  <div class="other"></div>
  <div class="foo"></div>
  <div class="foo">Find me</div>
  ...    

Intersection and union of ArrayLists in Java

One-liners since Java 8

import static java.util.stream.Stream.concat;
import static java.util.stream.Collectors.toList;
import static java.util.stream.Collectors.toSet;

Union if there are no duplicates:

  return concat(a.stream(), b.stream()).collect(toList());

Union and distinct:

  return concat(a.stream(), b.stream()).distinct().collect(toList());

Union and distinct if Collection/Set return type:

  return concat(a.stream(), b.stream()).collect(toSet());

Intersect if no duplicates:

  return a.stream().filter(b::contains).collect(toList());

If collection b is huge and not O(1), then pre-optimize filter performance by adding 1 line before return. Copy to HasSet (import java.util.Set;):

... b = Set.copyOf(b);

Intersect and distinct:

  return a.stream().distinct().filter(b::contains).collect(toList());

How to force a html5 form validation without submitting it via jQuery

You don't need jQuery to achieve this. In your form add:

onsubmit="return buttonSubmit(this)

or in JavaScript:

myform.setAttribute("onsubmit", "return buttonSubmit(this)");

In your buttonSubmit function (or whatver you call it), you can submit the form using AJAX. buttonSubmit will only get called if your form is validated in HTML5.

In case this helps anyone, here is my buttonSubmit function:

function buttonSubmit(e)
{
    var ajax;
    var formData = new FormData();
    for (i = 0; i < e.elements.length; i++)
    {
        if (e.elements[i].type == "submit")
        {
            if (submitvalue == e.elements[i].value)
            {
                submit = e.elements[i];
                submit.disabled = true;
            }
        }
        else if (e.elements[i].type == "radio")
        {
            if (e.elements[i].checked)
                formData.append(e.elements[i].name, e.elements[i].value);
        }
        else
            formData.append(e.elements[i].name, e.elements[i].value);
    }
    formData.append("javascript", "javascript");
    var action = e.action;
    status = action.split('/').reverse()[0] + "-status";
    ajax = new XMLHttpRequest();
    ajax.addEventListener("load", manageLoad, false);
    ajax.addEventListener("error", manageError, false);
    ajax.open("POST", action);
    ajax.send(formData);
    return false;
}

Some of my forms contain multiple submit buttons, hence this line if (submitvalue == e.elements[i].value). I set the value of submitvalue using a click event.

Computational complexity of Fibonacci Sequence

I agree with pgaur and rickerbh, recursive-fibonacci's complexity is O(2^n).

I came to the same conclusion by a rather simplistic but I believe still valid reasoning.

First, it's all about figuring out how many times recursive fibonacci function ( F() from now on ) gets called when calculating the Nth fibonacci number. If it gets called once per number in the sequence 0 to n, then we have O(n), if it gets called n times for each number, then we get O(n*n), or O(n^2), and so on.

So, when F() is called for a number n, the number of times F() is called for a given number between 0 and n-1 grows as we approach 0.

As a first impression, it seems to me that if we put it in a visual way, drawing a unit per time F() is called for a given number, wet get a sort of pyramid shape (that is, if we center units horizontally). Something like this:

n              *
n-1            **
n-2           ****  
...
2           ***********
1       ******************
0    ***************************

Now, the question is, how fast is the base of this pyramid enlarging as n grows?

Let's take a real case, for instance F(6)

F(6)                 *  <-- only once
F(5)                 *  <-- only once too
F(4)                 ** 
F(3)                ****
F(2)              ********
F(1)          ****************           <-- 16
F(0)  ********************************    <-- 32

We see F(0) gets called 32 times, which is 2^5, which for this sample case is 2^(n-1).

Now, we want to know how many times F(x) gets called at all, and we can see the number of times F(0) is called is only a part of that.

If we mentally move all the *'s from F(6) to F(2) lines into F(1) line, we see that F(1) and F(0) lines are now equal in length. Which means, total times F() gets called when n=6 is 2x32=64=2^6.

Now, in terms of complexity:

O( F(6) ) = O(2^6)
O( F(n) ) = O(2^n)

How do I get the parent directory in Python?

Update from Python 3.4

Use the pathlib module.

from pathlib import Path
path = Path("/here/your/path/file.txt")
print(path.parent)

Old answer

Try this:

import os.path
print os.path.abspath(os.path.join(yourpath, os.pardir))

where yourpath is the path you want the parent for.

Should functions return null or an empty object?

I typically return null. It provides a quick and easy mechanism to detect if something screwed up without throwing exceptions and using tons of try/catch all over the place.

Margin on child element moves parent element

Found an alternative at Child elements with margins within DIVs You can also add:

.parent { overflow: auto; }

or:

.parent { overflow: hidden; }

This prevents the margins to collapse. Border and padding do the same. Hence, you can also use the following to prevent a top-margin collapse:

.parent {
    padding-top: 1px;
    margin-top: -1px;
}

Update by popular request: The whole point of collapsing margins is handling textual content. For example:

_x000D_
_x000D_
h1, h2, p, ul {_x000D_
  margin-top: 1em;_x000D_
  margin-bottom: 1em;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<h1>Title!</h1>_x000D_
<div class="text">_x000D_
  <h2>Title!</h2>_x000D_
  <p>Paragraph</p>_x000D_
</div>_x000D_
<div class="text">_x000D_
  <h2>Title!</h2>_x000D_
  <p>Paragraph</p>_x000D_
  <ul>_x000D_
    <li>list item</li>_x000D_
  </ul>_x000D_
</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Because the browser collapses margins, the text would appear as you'd expect, and the <div> wrapper tags don't influence the margins. Each element ensures it has spacing around it, but spacing won't be doubled. The margins of the <h2> and <p> won't add up, but slide into each other (they collapse). The same happens for the <p> and <ul> element.

Sadly, with modern designs this idea can bite you when you explicitly want a container. This is called a new block formatting context in CSS speak. The overflow or margin trick will give you that.

What does "select count(1) from table_name" on any database tables mean?

Here is a link that will help answer your questions. In short:

count(*) is the correct way to write it and count(1) is OPTIMIZED TO BE count(*) internally -- since

a) count the rows where 1 is not null is less efficient than
b) count the rows

Do on-demand Mac OS X cloud services exist, comparable to Amazon's EC2 on-demand instances?

List last updated on December 1, 2020:

As of November 30, 2020, AWS now has EC2 Mac instances:

We previously used and had good experiences with:

Here are some other sites that I am aware of:

When we were with MacStadium, we loved them. We had great connectivity/uptime. When I've needed hands-on support to plug in a Time Machine backup, they've been great. They performed a seamless upgrade to better hardware for us over one weekend (when we could afford a bit of downtime), and that went off without a hitch. Highly recommended. (Not affiliated - just happy).

In April of 2020, we stopped using MacStadium, simply because we no longer needed a Mac server. If I need another Mac host, I would be happy to go back to them.

How to check if a value exists in an object using JavaScript

Use a for...in loop:

for (let k in obj) {
    if (obj[k] === "test1") {
        return true;
    }
}

Python style - line continuation with strings?

Just pointing out that it is use of parentheses that invokes auto-concatenation. That's fine if you happen to already be using them in the statement. Otherwise, I would just use '\' rather than inserting parentheses (which is what most IDEs do for you automatically). The indent should align the string continuation so it is PEP8 compliant. E.g.:

my_string = "The quick brown dog " \
            "jumped over the lazy fox"

How to import csv file in PHP?

Here is the version to extract the specific columns by name (modified from @coreyward):

$row = 0;
$headers = [];
$filepath = "input.csv";
if (($handle = fopen($filepath, "r")) !== FALSE) {
    while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) !== FALSE) {
        if (++$row == 1) {
          $headers = array_flip($data); // Get the column names from the header.
          continue;
        } else {
          $col1 = $data[$headers['Col1Name']]; // Read row by the column name.
          $col2 = $data[$headers['Col2Name']];
          print "Row $row: $col1, $col2\n";
        }
    }
    fclose($handle);
}

Get an image extension from an uploaded file in Laravel

return $picName = time().'.'.$request->file->extension();

The time() function will make the image unique then the .$request->file->extension() gets the image extension for you.

You can use this it works well with Laravel 6 and above.

Jquery, checking if a value exists in array or not

    if ($.inArray('yourElement', yourArray) > -1)
    {
        //yourElement in yourArray
        //code here

    }

Reference: Jquery Array

The $.inArray() method is similar to JavaScript's native .indexOf() method in that it returns -1 when it doesn't find a match. If the first element within the array matches value, $.inArray() returns 0.

What does Statement.setFetchSize(nSize) method really do in SQL Server JDBC driver?

It sounds to me that you really want to limit the rows being returned in your query and page through the results. If so, you can do something like:

select * from (select rownum myrow, a.* from TEST1 a )
where myrow between 5 and 10 ;

You just have to determine your boundaries.

Using Custom Domains With IIS Express

Like Jessa Flint above, I didn't want to manually edit .vs\config\applicationhost.config because I wanted the changes to persist in source control. I also didn't want to have a separate batch file. I'm using VS 2015.

Project Properties?Build Events?Pre-build event command line: Screenshot of project properties


::The following configures IIS Express to bind to any address at the specified port

::remove binding if it already exists
"%programfiles%\IIS Express\appcmd.exe" set site "MySolution.Web" /-bindings.[protocol='http',bindingInformation='*:1167:'] /apphostconfig:"$(SolutionDir).vs\config\applicationhost.config"

::add the binding
"%programfiles%\IIS Express\appcmd.exe" set site "MySolution.Web" /+bindings.[protocol='http',bindingInformation='*:1167:'] /apphostconfig:"$(SolutionDir).vs\config\applicationhost.config"

Just make sure you change the port number to your desired port.

Catch an exception thrown by an async void method

This blog explains your problem neatly Async Best Practices.

The gist of it being you shouldn't use void as return for an async method, unless it's an async event handler, this is bad practice because it doesn't allow exceptions to be caught ;-).

Best practice would be to change the return type to Task. Also, try to code async all the way trough, make every async method call and be called from async methods. Except for a Main method in a console, which can't be async (before C# 7.1).

You will run into deadlocks with GUI and ASP.NET applications if you ignore this best practice. The deadlock occurs because these applications runs on a context that allows only one thread and won't relinquish it to the async thread. This means the GUI waits synchronously for a return, while the async method waits for the context: deadlock.

This behaviour won't happen in a console application, because it runs on context with a thread pool. The async method will return on another thread which will be scheduled. This is why a test console app will work, but the same calls will deadlock in other applications...

How to use cookies in Python Requests

You can use a session object. It stores the cookies so you can make requests, and it handles the cookies for you

s = requests.Session() 
# all cookies received will be stored in the session object

s.post('http://www...',data=payload)
s.get('http://www...')

Docs: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/master/user/advanced/#session-objects

You can also save the cookie data to an external file, and then reload them to keep session persistent without having to login every time you run the script:

How to save requests (python) cookies to a file?

Regex not operator

Not quite, although generally you can usually use some workaround on one of the forms

  • [^abc], which is character by character not a or b or c,
  • or negative lookahead: a(?!b), which is a not followed by b
  • or negative lookbehind: (?<!a)b, which is b not preceeded by a

How to check if an array element exists?

You can use either the language construct isset, or the function array_key_exists.

isset should be a bit faster (as it's not a function), but will return false if the element exists and has the value NULL.


For example, considering this array :

$a = array(
    123 => 'glop', 
    456 => null, 
);

And those three tests, relying on isset :

var_dump(isset($a[123]));
var_dump(isset($a[456]));
var_dump(isset($a[789]));

The first one will get you (the element exists, and is not null) :

boolean true

While the second one will get you (the element exists, but is null) :

boolean false

And the last one will get you (the element doesn't exist) :

boolean false


On the other hand, using array_key_exists like this :

var_dump(array_key_exists(123, $a));
var_dump(array_key_exists(456, $a));
var_dump(array_key_exists(789, $a));

You'd get those outputs :

boolean true
boolean true
boolean false

Because, in the two first cases, the element exists -- even if it's null in the second case. And, of course, in the third case, it doesn't exist.


For situations such as yours, I generally use isset, considering I'm never in the second case... But choosing which one to use is now up to you ;-)

For instance, your code could become something like this :

if (!isset(self::$instances[$instanceKey])) {
    $instances[$instanceKey] = $theInstance;
}

How to convert 'binary string' to normal string in Python3?

Please, see oficial encode() and decode() documentation from codecs library. utf-8 is the default encoding for the functions, but there are severals standard encodings in Python 3, like latin_1 or utf_32.

image.onload event and browser cache

If the src is already set then the event is firing in the cached case before you even get the event handler bound. So, you should trigger the event based off .complete also.

code sample:

$("img").one("load", function() {
   //do stuff
}).each(function() {
   if(this.complete || /*for IE 10-*/ $(this).height() > 0)
     $(this).load();
});

How can I get the current date and time in the terminal and set a custom command in the terminal for it?

You can use date to get time and date of a day:

[pengyu@GLaDOS ~]$date
Tue Aug 27 15:01:27 CST 2013

Also hwclock would do:

[pengyu@GLaDOS ~]$hwclock
Tue 27 Aug 2013 03:01:29 PM CST  -0.516080 seconds

For customized output, you can either redirect the output of date to something like awk, or write your own program to do that.

Remember to put your own executable scripts/binary into your PATH (e.g. /usr/bin) to make it invokable anywhere.

PHP: Read Specific Line From File

$myFile = "4-24-11.txt";
$lines = file($myFile);//file in to an array
echo $lines[1]; //line 2

file — Reads entire file into an array

What does a question mark represent in SQL queries?

It's a parameter. You can specify it when executing query.

Repeat-until or equivalent loop in Python

REPEAT
    ...
UNTIL cond

Is equivalent to

while True:
    ...
    if cond:
        break

What does "TypeError 'xxx' object is not callable" means?

The other answers detail the reason for the error. A possible cause (to check) may be your class has a variable and method with the same name, which you then call. Python accesses the variable as a callable - with ().

e.g. Class A defines self.a and self.a():

>>> class A:
...     def __init__(self, val):
...         self.a = val
...     def a(self):
...         return self.a
...
>>> my_a = A(12)
>>> val = my_a.a()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'int' object is not callable
>>>

Google Play error "Error while retrieving information from server [DF-DFERH-01]"

suggestions of solving this problem is, If you already had installed app in your phone before downloading from google play.(obviously run from your code ) then first uninstal it. and then download and install app from google play . it worked for me .Thanks and regards.

Error message "Unable to install or run the application. The application requires stdole Version 7.0.3300.0 in the GAC"

I had the same problem with a ClickOnce deployment.

I solved the problem by going to the 'Publish' tab in the project properties and then selecting the 'Application Files' button.

I then selected the options:

  • 'File Name' of 'stdole.dll'
  • 'Publish status' to 'Include' and
  • 'Download Group' to 'Required'.

This fixed my problem when I re-published.

I hope this help you :D

Java compiler level does not match the version of the installed Java project facet

Assuming that you are using the m2e plugin in Eclipse, you'll need to specify the source and target versions as 1.6 for maven-compiler-plugin. m2e uses these values to determine the project's Java compiler level. A snippet of the POM is shown below:

<build>
  <plugins>
    <plugin>
      <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
        <configuration>
          <source>1.6</source>
          <target>1.6</target>
        </configuration>
    </plugin>
  </plugins>
</build>

Alternatively, you can specify the maven.compiler.source and maven.compiler.target properties with values of 1.6, that happen to be the equivalent:

<properties>
    <maven.compiler.target>1.6</maven.compiler.target>
    <maven.compiler.source>1.6</maven.compiler.source>
</properties>

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

You ask for the "best way" but there is no best way. There are many ways and you already discovered some of them. How you want to manage and/or encapsulate association management when using association classes is entirely up to you and your concrete domain, noone can show you a "best way" I'm afraid.

Apart from that, the question could be simplified a lot by removing Doctrine and relational databases from the equation. The essence of your question boils down to a question about how to deal with association classes in plain OOP.

Import mysql DB with XAMPP in command LINE

You may also need to specify the host. From your statement, it looks like you run on Windows. Try this:

mysql -h localhost -u #myusername -p #mypasswd MYBASE
      < c:/user/folderss/myscript.sql

Or

mysql -h localhost -u #myusername -p #mypasswd MYBASE
       < "c:\user\folderss\myscript.sql"

Failed to build gem native extension (installing Compass)

when

gem install overcommit

is run also this error have been placed in terminal.

Failed to build gem native extension

please do the same

xcode-select --install

and it will fix that issue too

Python xticks in subplots

There are two ways:

  1. Use the axes methods of the subplot object (e.g. ax.set_xticks and ax.set_xticklabels) or
  2. Use plt.sca to set the current axes for the pyplot state machine (i.e. the plt interface).

As an example (this also illustrates using setp to change the properties of all of the subplots):

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig, axes = plt.subplots(nrows=3, ncols=4)

# Set the ticks and ticklabels for all axes
plt.setp(axes, xticks=[0.1, 0.5, 0.9], xticklabels=['a', 'b', 'c'],
        yticks=[1, 2, 3])

# Use the pyplot interface to change just one subplot...
plt.sca(axes[1, 1])
plt.xticks(range(3), ['A', 'Big', 'Cat'], color='red')

fig.tight_layout()
plt.show()

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Why use Select Top 100 Percent?

Just try this, it explains it pretty much itself. You can't create a view with an ORDER BY except if...

CREATE VIEW v_Test
         AS
           SELECT name
             FROM sysobjects
         ORDER BY name
        GO

Msg 1033, Level 15, State 1, Procedure TestView, Line 5 The ORDER BY clause is invalid in views, inline functions, derived tables, subqueries, and common table expressions, unless TOP, OFFSET or FOR XML is also specified.

How can I change the color of a Google Maps marker?

With version 3 of the Google Maps API, the easiest way to do this may be by grabbing a custom icon set, like the one that Benjamin Keen has created here:

http://www.benjaminkeen.com/?p=105

If you put all of those icons at the same place as your map page, you can colorize a Marker simply by using the appropriate icon option when creating it:

var beachMarker = new google.maps.Marker({
  position: myLatLng,
  map: map,
  icon: 'brown_markerA.png'
});

This is super-easy, and is the approach I'm using for the project I'm working on currently.

Using HttpClient and HttpPost in Android with post parameters

public class GetUsers extends AsyncTask {

    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute() {
        super.onPreExecute();

    }

    private String convertStreamToString(InputStream is) {
        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

        String line = null;
        try {
            while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                sb.append(line + "\n");
            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            try {
                is.close();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }

        return sb.toString();
    }

    public String connect()
    {
        HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();

        // Prepare a request object
        HttpPost htopost = new HttpPost("URL");
        htopost.setHeader(new BasicHeader("Authorization","Basic Og=="));

        try {

            JSONObject param = new JSONObject();
            param.put("PageSize",100);
            param.put("Userid",userId);
            param.put("CurrentPage",1);

            htopost.setEntity(new StringEntity(param.toString()));

            // Execute the request
            HttpResponse response;

            response = httpclient.execute(htopost);
            // Examine the response status
            // Get hold of the response entity
            HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

            if (entity != null) {

                // A Simple JSON Response Read
                InputStream instream = entity.getContent();
                String result = convertStreamToString(instream);

                // A Simple JSONObject Creation
                json = new JSONArray(result);

                // Closing the input stream will trigger connection release
                instream.close();
                return ""+response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        return null;
    }

    @Override
    protected String doInBackground(String... urls) {
        return connect();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(String status){
        try {

            if(status.equals("200"))
            {

                    Global.defaultMoemntLsit.clear();

                    for (int i = 0; i < json.length(); i++) {
                        JSONObject ojb = json.getJSONObject(i);
                        UserMomentModel u = new UserMomentModel();
                        u.setId(ojb.getString("Name"));
                        u.setUserId(ojb.getString("ID"));


                        Global.defaultMoemntLsit.add(u);
                    }




                            userAdapter = new UserAdapter(getActivity(), Global.defaultMoemntLsit);
                            recycleView.setAdapter(userMomentAdapter);
                            recycleView.setLayoutManager(mLayoutManager);
           }



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

        }
    }
}

IIS7: A process serving application pool 'YYYYY' suffered a fatal communication error with the Windows Process Activation Service

When I had this problem, I installed 'Remote Tools for Visual Studio 2015' from MSDN. I attached my local VS to the server to debug.

I appreciate that some folks may not have the ability to either install on or access other servers, but I thought I'd throw it out there as an option.

How can I set the request header for curl?

Just use the -H parameter several times:

curl -H "Accept-Charset: utf-8" -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" http://www.some-domain.com

Convert Java string to Time, NOT Date

try...

 java.sql.Time.valueOf("10:30:54");

Rails: Missing host to link to! Please provide :host parameter or set default_url_options[:host]

You need to add the following line at every environment:

config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { :host => "yourhost" }

That way, it can work in all environments and could be different from environment to environment. For example:

development.rb

config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { :host => "dev.yourhost.com" }

test.rb

config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { :host => "test.yourhost.com" }

production.rb

config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { :host => "www.yourhost.com" }

Fullscreen Activity in Android?

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getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_LAYOUT_NO_LIMITS, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_LAYOUT_NO_LIMITS); if (getSupportActionBar() != null){ getSupportActionBar().hide(); }

R color scatter plot points based on values

Best thing to do here is to add a column to the data object to represent the point colour. Then update sections of it by filtering.

data<- read.table('sample_data.txtt', header=TRUE, row.name=1)
# Create new column filled with default colour
data$Colour="black"
# Set new column values to appropriate colours
data$Colour[data$col_name2>=3]="red"
data$Colour[data$col_name2<=1]="blue"
# Plot all points at once, using newly generated colours
plot(data$col_name1,data$col_name2, ylim=c(0,5), col=data$Colour, ylim=c(0,10))

It should be clear how to adapt this for plots with more colours & conditions.

Send mail via CMD console

A couple more command-line mailer programs:

Both support SSL too.

How to Upload Image file in Retrofit 2

For those with an inputStream, you can upload inputStream using Multipart.

@Multipart
@POST("pictures")
suspend fun uploadPicture(
        @Part part: MultipartBody.Part
): NetworkPicture

Then in perhaps your repository class:

suspend fun upload(inputStream: InputStream) {
   val part = MultipartBody.Part.createFormData(
         "pic", "myPic", RequestBody.create(
              MediaType.parse("image/*"),
              inputStream.readBytes()
          )
   )
   uploadPicture(part)
}

To get an input stream you can do something like so.

In your fragment or activity, you need to create an image picker that returns an InputStream. The advantage of an InputStream is that it can be used for files on the cloud like google drive and dropbox.

Call pickImage() from a View.OnClickListener or onOptionsItemSelected.

    private fun pickImage() {
        val intent = Intent(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT)
        intent.type = "image/*"
        startActivityForResult(intent, PICK_PHOTO)
    }

    override fun onActivityResult(requestCode: Int, resultCode: Int, data: Intent?) {
        super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data)
        if (requestCode == PICK_PHOTO && resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK) {
            try {
                data?.let {
                    val inputStream: InputStream? =
                        context?.contentResolver?.openInputStream(it.data!!)
                    inputStream?.let { stream ->
                        itemViewModel.uploadPicture(stream)
                    }
                }
            } catch (e: FileNotFoundException) {
                e.printStackTrace()
            }
        }
    }

    companion object {
        const val PICK_PHOTO = 1
    }

Get the latest record from mongodb collection

My Solution :

db.collection("name of collection").find({}, {limit: 1}).sort({$natural: -1})

Why is Android Studio reporting "URI is not registered"?

i had the same error. I solved it by importing the project again to the android studio.

Convert multiple rows into one with comma as separator

A clean and flexible solution in MS SQL Server 2005/2008 is to create a CLR Agregate function.

You'll find quite a few articles (with code) on google.

It looks like this article walks you through the whole process using C#.

hide/show a image in jquery

I know this is an older post but it may be useful for those who are looking to show a .NET server side image using jQuery.

You have to use a slightly different logic.

So, $("#<%=myServerimg.ClientID%>").show() will not work if you hid the image using myServerimg.visible = false.

Instead, use the following on server side:

myServerimg.Style.Add("display", "none")

ASP.NET MVC controller actions that return JSON or partial html

Another nice way to deal with JSON data is using the JQuery getJSON function. You can call the

public ActionResult SomeActionMethod(int id) 
{ 
    return Json(new {foo="bar", baz="Blech"});
}

Method from the jquery getJSON method by simply...

$.getJSON("../SomeActionMethod", { id: someId },
    function(data) {
        alert(data.foo);
        alert(data.baz);
    }
);

How to pass multiple arguments in processStartInfo?

For makecert, your startInfo.FileName should be the complete path of makecert (or just makecert.exe if it's in standard path) then the Arguments would be -sk server -sky exchange -pe -n CN=localhost -ir LocalMachine -is Root -ic MyCA.cer -sr LocalMachine -ss My MyAdHocTestCert.cer now I'm bit unfamiliar with how certificate store works, but perhaps you'll need to set startInfo.WorkingDirectory if you're referring the .cer files outside the certificate store

What is duck typing?

Looking at the language itself may help; it often helps me (I'm not a native English speaker).

In duck typing:

1) the word typing does not mean typing on a keyboard (as was the persistent image in my mind), it means determining "what type of a thing is that thing?"

2) the word duck expresses how is that determining done; it's kind of a 'loose' determining, as in: "if it walks like a duck ... then it's a duck". It's 'loose' because the thing may be a duck or may not, but whether it actually is a duck doesn't matter; what matters is that I can do with it what I can do with ducks and expect behaviors exhibited by ducks. I can feed it bread crumbs and the thing may go towards me or charge at me or back off ... but it will not devour me like a grizzly would.

Good Linux (Ubuntu) SVN client

To begin with, I will try not to sound flamish here ;)

Sigh.. Why don't people get that file explorer integrated clients is the way to go? It is so much more efficient than opening terminals and typing. Simple math, ~two mouse clicks versus ~10+ key strokes. Though, I must point out that I love command line since I do lot's of administrative work and prefer to automate things as quickly and easy as possible.

Having been spoiled by TortoiseSVN on windows I was amazed by the lack of a tortoisesvn-like integrated client when I moved to ubuntu. For pure programmers an IDE integrated client might be enough but for general purpose use and for say graphics artists or other random office people, the client has to be integrated into the standard file explorer, else most people will not use it, at all, ever.

Some thought's on some clients:

kdesvn, The client I like the best this far, though there is one huge annoyance compared to TortoiseSVN - you have to enter the special subversion layout mode to get overlays indicating file status. Thus I would not call kdesvn integrated.

NautilusSVN, looks promising but as of 0.12 release it has performance problems with big repositories. I work with repositories where working copies can contain ~50 000 files at times, which TortoiseSVN handles but NautilusSVN does not. So I hope NautilusSVN will get a new optimized release soon.

RapidSVN is not integrated, but I gave it a try. It behaved quite weird and crashed a couple of times. It got uninstalled after ~20 minutes..

I really hope the NautilusSVN project will make a new performance optimized release soon.

NaughtySVN seems like it could shape up to be quite nice, but as of now it lacks icon overlays and has not had a release for two years... so I would say NautilusSVN is our only hope.

Javascript replace with reference to matched group?

"hello _there_".replace(/_(.*?)_/, function(a, b){
    return '<div>' + b + '</div>';
})

Oh, or you could also:

"hello _there_".replace(/_(.*?)_/, "<div>$1</div>")

EDIT by Liran H: For six other people including myself, $1 did not work, whereas \1 did.

How would I create a UIAlertView in Swift?

For iOS 13 Xcode 11+ Swift 5.X

UIAlertController can now provide Alerts as well as Action Sheets

Alerts

// First instantiate the UIAlertController

let alert = UIAlertController(title: "Title",
                              message: "Message ?",
                              preferredStyle: .alert)


 // Add action buttons to it and attach handler functions if you want to 

 alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: .cancel, handler: nil))
 alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Just Do It!", style: .destructive, handler: nil))
 alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Maybe", style: .default, handler: nil))

// Show the alert by presenting it

self.present(alert, animated: true)

Note that it's is a fundamental nature for all action buttons to dismiss the alert view when tapped. The style parameter is just for deciding the color of the text (and some default order in which the buttons should appear which ofc can be changed)

A sample handler function could be

func handler(_ action: UIAlertAction) { 

   if action.title == 'Title' {
       // do stuff
   }

}

As a side note, I would say instead of making 3 different handlers you can just make 1 and trace back to the element which provoked it in the manner shown above We can also check alert.style but that again we can have multiple .default styled actions , I wouldn't recommend that

Action Sheets

The explanation is similar because the main difference here is that an alert interrupts the user whereas an action sheet slides from the bottom in an iPhone and appears as a popover in an iPad

The Purpose of action sheets is to guide the users in deciding his actions based on their current state. So you gotta treat action sheets like crossroads !. There is generally no message and the title is rendered as caption sized text

let action = UIAlertController(title: "What do you want to do with the message",
                               message: nil,
                               preferredStyle: .actionSheet)

action.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: .cancel)) 

for act in ["Save", "Post", "Discard"] {  
          action.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: act, style: .default, handler: nil))
}

self.present(action, animated: true)

The above code is going to work for an iPhone but will crash at runtime for an iPad because UIPopoverPresentationController is going to take charge of the alert and it won't be referencing anything at that time. So to avoid that you will have to provide the following chunk of code its mandatory

if let pop = action.popoverPresentationController {

     let v = sender as! UIView 
     pop.sourceView = v 
     pop.sourceRect = v.bounds
 }

Also in case of iPad tapping on anywhere outside the popover will dismiss it and the completion handler of .cancel action button will be called.

Hope that helps :) That being said, comment down below if you have any doubts

HTML5 iFrame Seamless Attribute

It's not supported correctly yet.

Chrome 31 (and possibly an earlier version) supports some parts of the attribute, but it is not fully supported.

Comparing arrays in C#

For .NET 4.0 and higher, you can compare elements in array or tuples using the StructuralComparisons type:

object[] a1 = { "string", 123, true };
object[] a2 = { "string", 123, true };
        
Console.WriteLine (a1 == a2);        // False (because arrays is reference types)
Console.WriteLine (a1.Equals (a2));  // False (because arrays is reference types)
        
IStructuralEquatable se1 = a1;
//Next returns True
Console.WriteLine (se1.Equals (a2, StructuralComparisons.StructuralEqualityComparer)); 

How do I install Composer on a shared hosting?

SIMPLE SOLUTION (tested on Red Hat):

run command: curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

to use it: php composer.phar

SYSTEM WIDE SOLLUTION (tested on Red Hat):

run command: mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

to use it: composer update

now you can call composer from any directory.

Source: http://www.agix.com.au/install-composer-on-centosredhat/

Read contents of a local file into a variable in Rails

I think you should consider using IO.binread("/path/to/file") if you have a recent ruby interpreter (i.e. >= 1.9.2)

You could find IO class documentation here http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.1.2/IO.html

How do I compare two Integers?

This is what the equals method does:

public boolean equals(Object obj) {
    if (obj instanceof Integer) {
        return value == ((Integer)obj).intValue();
    }
    return false;
}

As you can see, there's no hash code calculation, but there are a few other operations taking place there. Although x.intValue() == y.intValue() might be slightly faster, you're getting into micro-optimization territory there. Plus the compiler might optimize the equals() call anyway, though I don't know that for certain.

I generally would use the primitive int, but if I had to use Integer, I would stick with equals().

Get all LI elements in array

If you want all the li tags in an array even when they are in different ul tags then you can simply do

var lis = document.getElementByTagName('li'); 

and if you want to get particular div tag li's then:

var lis = document.getElementById('divID').getElementByTagName('li'); 

else if you want to search a ul first and then its li tags then you can do:

var uls = document.getElementsByTagName('ul');
for(var i=0;i<uls.length;i++){
    var lis=uls[i].getElementsByTagName('li');
    for(var j=0;j<lis.length;j++){
        console.log(lis[j].innerHTML);
    }
}

Android and setting alpha for (image) view alpha

No, there is not, see how the "Related XML Attributes" section is missing in the ImageView.setAlpha(int) documentation. The alternative is to use View.setAlpha(float) whose XML counterpart is android:alpha. It takes a range of 0.0 to 1.0 instead of 0 to 255. Use it e.g. like

<ImageView android:alpha="0.4">

However, the latter in available only since API level 11.

Set focus on TextBox in WPF from view model

The problem is that once the IsUserNameFocused is set to true, it will never be false. This solves it by handling the GotFocus and LostFocus for the FrameworkElement.

I was having trouble with the source code formatting so here is a link

What to do with "Unexpected indent" in python?

There is a trick that always worked for me:

If you got and unexpected indent and you see that all the code is perfectly indented, try opening it with another editor and you will see what line of code is not indented.

It happened to me when used vim, gedit or editors like that.

Try to use only 1 editor for your code.

How can I enable the MySQLi extension in PHP 7?

sudo phpenmod mysqli
sudo service apache2 restart

  • phpenmod moduleName enables a module to PHP 7 (restart Apache after that sudo service apache2 restart)
  • phpdismod moduleName disables a module to PHP 7 (restart Apache after that sudo service apache2 restart)
  • php -m lists the loaded modules

How to properly URL encode a string in PHP?

The cunningly-named urlencode() and urldecode().

However, you shouldn't need to use urldecode() on variables that appear in $_POST and $_GET.

How do SETLOCAL and ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION work?

I think you should understand what delayed expansion is. The existing answers don't explain it (sufficiently) IMHO.

Typing SET /? explains the thing reasonably well:

Delayed environment variable expansion is useful for getting around the limitations of the current expansion which happens when a line of text is read, not when it is executed. The following example demonstrates the problem with immediate variable expansion:

set VAR=before
if "%VAR%" == "before" (
    set VAR=after
    if "%VAR%" == "after" @echo If you see this, it worked
)

would never display the message, since the %VAR% in BOTH IF statements is substituted when the first IF statement is read, since it logically includes the body of the IF, which is a compound statement. So the IF inside the compound statement is really comparing "before" with "after" which will never be equal. Similarly, the following example will not work as expected:

set LIST=
for %i in (*) do set LIST=%LIST% %i
echo %LIST%

in that it will NOT build up a list of files in the current directory, but instead will just set the LIST variable to the last file found. Again, this is because the %LIST% is expanded just once when the FOR statement is read, and at that time the LIST variable is empty. So the actual FOR loop we are executing is:

for %i in (*) do set LIST= %i

which just keeps setting LIST to the last file found.

Delayed environment variable expansion allows you to use a different character (the exclamation mark) to expand environment variables at execution time. If delayed variable expansion is enabled, the above examples could be written as follows to work as intended:

set VAR=before
if "%VAR%" == "before" (
    set VAR=after
    if "!VAR!" == "after" @echo If you see this, it worked
)

set LIST=
for %i in (*) do set LIST=!LIST! %i
echo %LIST%

Another example is this batch file:

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set b=z1
for %%a in (x1 y1) do (
 set b=%%a
 echo !b:1=2!
)

This prints x2 and y2: every 1 gets replaced by a 2.

Without setlocal enabledelayedexpansion, exclamation marks are just that, so it will echo !b:1=2! twice.

Because normal environment variables are expanded when a (block) statement is read, expanding %b:1=2% uses the value b has before the loop: z2 (but y2 when not set).

Spring Security redirect to previous page after successful login

You can use a Custom SuccessHandler extending SimpleUrlAuthenticationSuccessHandler for redirecting users to different URLs when login according to their assigned roles.

CustomSuccessHandler class provides custom redirect functionality:

package com.mycompany.uomrmsweb.configuration;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.List;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import org.springframework.security.core.Authentication;
import org.springframework.security.core.GrantedAuthority;
import org.springframework.security.web.DefaultRedirectStrategy;
import org.springframework.security.web.RedirectStrategy;
import org.springframework.security.web.authentication.SimpleUrlAuthenticationSuccessHandler;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

@Component
public class CustomSuccessHandler extends SimpleUrlAuthenticationSuccessHandler{

    private RedirectStrategy redirectStrategy = new DefaultRedirectStrategy();

    @Override
    protected void handle(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, Authentication authentication) throws IOException {
        String targetUrl = determineTargetUrl(authentication);

        if (response.isCommitted()) {
            System.out.println("Can't redirect");
            return;
        }

        redirectStrategy.sendRedirect(request, response, targetUrl);
    }

    protected String determineTargetUrl(Authentication authentication) {
        String url="";

        Collection<? extends GrantedAuthority> authorities =  authentication.getAuthorities();

        List<String> roles = new ArrayList<String>();

        for (GrantedAuthority a : authorities) {
            roles.add(a.getAuthority());
        }

        if (isStaff(roles)) {
            url = "/staff";
        } else if (isAdmin(roles)) {
            url = "/admin";
        } else if (isStudent(roles)) {
            url = "/student";
        }else if (isUser(roles)) {
            url = "/home";
        } else {
            url="/Access_Denied";
        }

        return url;
    }

    public void setRedirectStrategy(RedirectStrategy redirectStrategy) {
        this.redirectStrategy = redirectStrategy;
    }
    protected RedirectStrategy getRedirectStrategy() {
        return redirectStrategy;
    }

    private boolean isUser(List<String> roles) {
        if (roles.contains("ROLE_USER")) {
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    private boolean isStudent(List<String> roles) {
        if (roles.contains("ROLE_Student")) {
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    private boolean isAdmin(List<String> roles) {
        if (roles.contains("ROLE_SystemAdmin") || roles.contains("ROLE_ExaminationsStaff")) {
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    private boolean isStaff(List<String> roles) {
        if (roles.contains("ROLE_AcademicStaff") || roles.contains("ROLE_UniversityAdmin")) {
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
}

Extending Spring SimpleUrlAuthenticationSuccessHandler class and overriding handle() method which simply invokes a redirect using configured RedirectStrategy [default in this case] with the URL returned by the user defined determineTargetUrl() method. This method extracts the Roles of currently logged in user from Authentication object and then construct appropriate URL based on there roles. Finally RedirectStrategy , which is responsible for all redirections within Spring Security framework , redirects the request to specified URL.

Registering CustomSuccessHandler using SecurityConfiguration class:

package com.mycompany.uomrmsweb.configuration;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Qualifier;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.authentication.builders.AuthenticationManagerBuilder;
import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.builders.HttpSecurity;
import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.configuration.EnableWebSecurity;
import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.configuration.WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter;
import org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.UserDetailsService;

@Configuration
@EnableWebSecurity
public class SecurityConfiguration extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {

    @Autowired
    @Qualifier("customUserDetailsService")
    UserDetailsService userDetailsService;

    @Autowired
    CustomSuccessHandler customSuccessHandler;

    @Autowired
    public void configureGlobalSecurity(AuthenticationManagerBuilder auth) throws Exception {
            auth.userDetailsService(userDetailsService);
    }

    @Override
    protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
        http.authorizeRequests()
        .antMatchers("/", "/home").access("hasRole('USER')")
        .antMatchers("/admin/**").access("hasRole('SystemAdmin') or hasRole('ExaminationsStaff')")
        .antMatchers("/staff/**").access("hasRole('AcademicStaff') or hasRole('UniversityAdmin')")
        .antMatchers("/student/**").access("hasRole('Student')")  
                    .and().formLogin().loginPage("/login").successHandler(customSuccessHandler)
        .usernameParameter("username").passwordParameter("password")
        .and().csrf()
        .and().exceptionHandling().accessDeniedPage("/Access_Denied");
    }
}

successHandler is the class responsible for eventual redirection based on any custom logic, which in this case will be to redirect the user [to student/admin/staff ] based on his role [USER/Student/SystemAdmin/UniversityAdmin/ExaminationsStaff/AcademicStaff].

How to select only the first rows for each unique value of a column?

You can use the row_numer() over(partition by ...) syntax like so:

select * from
(
select *
, ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY CName ORDER BY AddressLine) AS row
from myTable
) as a
where row = 1

What this does is that it creates a column called row, which is a counter that increments every time it sees the same CName, and indexes those occurrences by AddressLine. By imposing where row = 1, one can select the CName whose AddressLine comes first alphabetically. If the order by was desc, then it would pick the CName whose AddressLine comes last alphabetically.

syntax error when using command line in python

In order to run scripts, you should write the "python test.py" command in the command prompt, and not within the python shell. also, the test.py file should be at the path you run from in the cli.

Error when checking model input: expected convolution2d_input_1 to have 4 dimensions, but got array with shape (32, 32, 3)

yes, it accepts the tuple of four arguments, if you have Number of training Images(or whatever)=6000, image size=28x28 and a grayscale image you'll have parameters as (6000,28,28,1)

the last argument is 1 for greyscale and 3 for color images.

Save Javascript objects in sessionStorage

    var user = {'name':'John'};
    sessionStorage['user'] = JSON.stringify(user);
    console.log(sessionStorage['user']);

calculate the mean for each column of a matrix in R

You can use colMeans:

### Sample data
set.seed(1)
m <- data.frame(matrix(sample(100, 20, replace = TRUE), ncol = 4))

### Your error
mean(m)
# [1] NA
# Warning message:
# In mean.default(m) : argument is not numeric or logical: returning NA

### The result using `colMeans`
colMeans(m)
#   X1   X2   X3   X4 
# 47.0 64.4 44.8 67.8 

Setting up SSL on a local xampp/apache server

You can enable SSL on XAMPP by creating self signed certificates and then installing those certificates. Type the below commands to generate and move the certificates to ssl folders.

openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 1024

openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr

cp server.key server.key.org

openssl rsa -in server.key.org -out server.key

openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in server.csr -signkey server.key -out server.crt

cp server.crt /opt/lampp/etc/ssl.crt/domainname.crt

cp server.key /opt/lampp/etc/ssl.key/domainname.key

(Use sudo with each command if you are not the super user)

Now, Check that mod_ssl is enabled in [XAMPP_HOME]/etc/httpd.conf:

LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so

Add a virtual host, in this example "localhost.domainname.com" by editing [XAMPP_HOME]/etc/extra/httpd-ssl.conf as follows:

<virtualhost 127.0.1.4:443>
    ServerName localhost.domainname.com
    ServerAlias localhost.domainname.com *.localhost.domainname.com
    ServerAdmin admin@localhost

    DocumentRoot "/opt/lampp/htdocs/"

    DirectoryIndex index.php

    ErrorLog /opt/lampp/logs/domainname.local.error.log
    CustomLog /opt/lampp/logs/domainname.local.access.log combined

    SSLEngine on
    SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP:+eNULL
    SSLCertificateFile /opt/lampp/etc/ssl.crt/domainname.crt
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /opt/lampp/etc/ssl.key/domainname.key

    <directory /opt/lampp/htdocs/>
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
            AllowOverride All
            Order allow,deny
            Allow from all
    </directory>
    BrowserMatch ".*MSIE.*" nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
</virtualhost>

Add the following entry to /etc/hosts:

127.0.1.4 localhost.domainname.com

Now, try installing the certificate/ try importing certificate to browser. I have checked this and this worked on Ubuntu.

Calculating powers of integers

Best the algorithm is based on the recursive power definition of a^b.

long pow (long a, int b)
{
    if ( b == 0)        return 1;
    if ( b == 1)        return a;
    if (isEven( b ))    return     pow ( a * a, b/2); //even a=(a^2)^b/2
    else                return a * pow ( a * a, b/2); //odd  a=a*(a^2)^b/2

}

Running time of the operation is O(logb). Reference:More information

How do you completely remove the button border in wpf?

Why don't you set both Background & BorderBrush by same brush

 <Style TargetType="{x:Type Button}" >
        <Setter Property="Background" Value="{StaticResource marginBackGround}"></Setter>
        <Setter Property="BorderBrush" Value="{StaticResource marginBackGround}"></Setter>            
 </Style>

<LinearGradientBrush  x:Key="marginBackGround" EndPoint=".5,1" StartPoint="0.5,0">
    <GradientStop Color="#EE82EE" Offset="0"/>
    <GradientStop Color="#7B30B6" Offset="0.5"/>
    <GradientStop Color="#510088" Offset="0.5"/>
    <GradientStop Color="#76209B" Offset="0.9"/>
    <GradientStop Color="#C750B9" Offset="1"/>
</LinearGradientBrush>

Capture Signature using HTML5 and iPad

A canvas element with some JavaScript would work great.

In fact, Signature Pad (a jQuery plugin) already has this implemented.

copy from one database to another using oracle sql developer - connection failed

The copy command is a SQL*Plus command (not a SQL Developer command). If you have your tnsname entries setup for SID1 and SID2 (e.g. try a tnsping), you should be able to execute your command.

Another assumption is that table1 has the same columns as the message_table (and the columns have only the following data types: CHAR, DATE, LONG, NUMBER or VARCHAR2). Also, with an insert command, you would need to be concerned about primary keys (e.g. that you are not inserting duplicate records).

I tried a variation of your command as follows in SQL*Plus (with no errors):

copy from scott/tiger@db1 to scott/tiger@db2 create new_emp using select * from emp;

After I executed the above statement, I also truncate the new_emp table and executed this command:

copy from scott/tiger@db1 to scott/tiger@db2 insert new_emp using select * from emp;

With SQL Developer, you could do the following to perform a similar approach to copying objects:

  1. On the tool bar, select Tools>Database copy.

  2. Identify source and destination connections with the copy options you would like. enter image description here

  3. For object type, select table(s). enter image description here

  4. Specify the specific table(s) (e.g. table1). enter image description here

The copy command approach is old and its features are not being updated with the release of new data types. There are a number of more current approaches to this like Oracle's data pump (even for tables).

How to Call VBA Function from Excel Cells?

A Function will not work, nor is it necessary:

Sub OpenWorkbook()
    Dim r1 As Range, r2 As Range, o As Workbook
    Set r1 = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("A1")
    Set o = Workbooks.Open(Filename:="C:\TestFolder\ABC.xlsx")
    Set r2 = ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("B2")
    [r1] = [r2]
    o.Close
End Sub

Split string into array of character strings

An efficient way of turning a String into an array of one-character Strings would be to do this:

String[] res = new String[str.length()];
for (int i = 0; i < str.length(); i++) {
    res[i] = Character.toString(str.charAt(i));
}

However, this does not take account of the fact that a char in a String could actually represent half of a Unicode code-point. (If the code-point is not in the BMP.) To deal with that you need to iterate through the code points ... which is more complicated.

This approach will be faster than using String.split(/* clever regex*/), and it will probably be faster than using Java 8+ streams. It is probable faster than this:

String[] res = new String[str.length()];
int 0 = 0;
for (char ch: str.toCharArray[]) {
    res[i++] = Character.toString(ch);
}  

because toCharArray has to copy the characters to a new array.

Why should I use IHttpActionResult instead of HttpResponseMessage?

You can still use HttpResponseMessage. That capability will not go away. I felt the same way as you and argued extensively with the team that there was no need for an additional abstraction. There were a few arguments thrown around to try and justify its existence but nothing that convinced me that it was worthwhile.

That is, until I saw this sample from Brad Wilson. If you construct IHttpActionResult classes in a way that can be chained, you gain the ability to create a "action-level" response pipeline for generating the HttpResponseMessage. Under the covers, this is how ActionFilters are implemented however, the ordering of those ActionFilters is not obvious when reading the action method which is one reason I'm not a fan of action filters.

However, by creating an IHttpActionResult that can be explicitly chained in your action method you can compose all kinds of different behaviour to generate your response.

Right mime type for SVG images with fonts embedded

There's only one registered mediatype for SVG, and that's the one you listed, image/svg+xml. You can of course serve SVG as XML too, though browsers tend to behave differently in some scenarios if you do, for example I've seen cases where SVG used in CSS backgrounds fail to display unless served with the image/svg+xml mediatype.

How to make MySQL handle UTF-8 properly

Update:

Short answer - You should almost always be using the utf8mb4 charset and utf8mb4_unicode_ci collation.

To alter database:

ALTER DATABASE dbname CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;

See:

Original Answer:

MySQL 4.1 and above has a default character set of UTF-8. You can verify this in your my.cnf file, remember to set both client and server (default-character-set and character-set-server).

If you have existing data that you wish to convert to UTF-8, dump your database, and import it back as UTF-8 making sure:

  • use SET NAMES utf8 before you query/insert into the database
  • use DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 when creating new tables
  • at this point your MySQL client and server should be in UTF-8 (see my.cnf). remember any languages you use (such as PHP) must be UTF-8 as well. Some versions of PHP will use their own MySQL client library, which may not be UTF-8 aware.

If you do want to migrate existing data remember to backup first! Lots of weird choping of data can happen when things don't go as planned!

Some resources:

How to convert string to Title Case in Python?

This one would always start with lowercase, and also strip non alphanumeric characters:

def camelCase(st):
    output = ''.join(x for x in st.title() if x.isalnum())
    return output[0].lower() + output[1:]

Named colors in matplotlib

In addition to BoshWash's answer, here is the picture generated by his code:

Named colors

How to make an autocomplete address field with google maps api?

There are some awesome libraries such as select2, but it doesn't match my need. I've made a sample from scratch in order to use a simple input text.

I only use bootstrap and JQuery, Hope it'll be useful: Example

HTML:

<div class="form-group col-md-12">
    <label for="address">Address</label>
    <input type="text" class="form-control" id="address">
</div>

<div class="form-group">
    <div class="col-md-4">
        <label for="number">number</label>
        <input type="text" class="form-control" id="number">
    </div>
    <div class="col-md-8">
        <label for="street">street</label>
        <input type="text" class="form-control" id="street">
    </div>  
</div>

<div class="form-group">
    <div class="col-md-4">
        <label for="zip">zip</label>
        <input type="text" class="form-control" id="zip">
    </div>
    <div class="col-md-8">
        <label for="town">town</label>
        <input type="text" class="form-control" id="town">
    </div>  
</div>

<div class="form-group">
    <div class="col-md-4">
        <label for="department">Department</label>
        <input type="text" class="form-control" id="department">
    </div>
    <div class="col-md-4">
        <label for="region">Region</label>
        <input type="text" class="form-control" id="region">
    </div>  
    <div class="col-md-4">
        <label for="country">Country</label>
        <input type="text" class="form-control" id="country">
    </div>  
</div>

JS:

$("input#address").suggest({
    label : "Adresse complete", 
    street_number_input : {
        id : "number",
        label : "Numero de la rue"
    },
    street_name_input : {
        id : "street",
        label : "Nom de la rue"
    },
    zip_input : {
        id : "zip",
        label : "Code postal"
    },
    town_input : {
        id : "town",
        label : "Ville"
    },
    department_input : {
        id : "department",
        label : "Departement"
    },
    region_input : {
        id : "region",
        label : "Region"
    },
    country_input : {
        id : "country",
        label : "Pays"
    }
});

How to: Add/Remove Class on mouseOver/mouseOut - JQuery .hover?

You could just use: {in and out function callback}

$(".result").hover(function () {
    $(this).toggleClass("result_hover");
 });

For your example, better will be to use CSS pseudo class :hover: {no js/jquery needed}

.result {
    height: 72px;
    width: 100%;
    border: 1px solid #000;
  }
  .result:hover {
    background-color: #000;
  }

How do I use extern to share variables between source files?

extern allows one module of your program to access a global variable or function declared in another module of your program. You usually have extern variables declared in header files.

If you don't want a program to access your variables or functions, you use static which tells the compiler that this variable or function cannot be used outside of this module.

How to convert a string to number in TypeScript?

There are inbuilt functions like parseInt(), parseFloat() and Number() in Typescript, you can use those.

CREATE DATABASE permission denied in database 'master' (EF code-first)

the reason for this error may be originate from forwarding of version dependent localdb in visual sudio 2013 to the version independent localDB in VS 2015 onwards, so simply change your web.config file connectionStrings from (localDb)\v11.0 to (localDB)\MSSQLLocalDB and it will certainly work. and this is a good explaination for that Version independent local DB in Visual Studio 2015

How to get current relative directory of your Makefile?

The shell function.

You can use shell function: current_dir = $(shell pwd). Or shell in combination with notdir, if you need not absolute path: current_dir = $(notdir $(shell pwd)).

Update.

Given solution only works when you are running make from the Makefile's current directory.
As @Flimm noted:

Note that this returns the current working directory, not the parent directory of the Makefile.
For example, if you run cd /; make -f /home/username/project/Makefile, the current_dir variable will be /, not /home/username/project/.

Code below will work for Makefiles invoked from any directory:

mkfile_path := $(abspath $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST)))
current_dir := $(notdir $(patsubst %/,%,$(dir $(mkfile_path))))

how to replace characters in hive?

regexp_replace UDF performs my task. Below is the definition and usage from apache Wiki.

regexp_replace(string INITIAL_STRING, string PATTERN, string REPLACEMENT):

This returns the string resulting from replacing all substrings in INITIAL_STRING that match the java regular expression syntax defined in PATTERN with instances of REPLACEMENT,

e.g.: regexp_replace("foobar", "oo|ar", "") returns fb

Deleting elements from std::set while iterating

I came across same old issue and found below code more understandable which is in a way per above solutions.

std::set<int*>::iterator beginIt = listOfInts.begin();
while(beginIt != listOfInts.end())
{
    // Use your member
    std::cout<<(*beginIt)<<std::endl;

    // delete the object
    delete (*beginIt);

    // erase item from vector
    listOfInts.erase(beginIt );

    // re-calculate the begin
    beginIt = listOfInts.begin();
}

What is a quick way to force CRLF in C# / .NET?

Environment.NewLine;

A string containing "\r\n" for non-Unix platforms, or a string containing "\n" for Unix platforms.

How do I make a MySQL database run completely in memory?

Assuming you understand the consequences of using the MEMORY engine as mentioned in comments, and here, as well as some others you'll find by searching about (no transaction safety, locking issues, etc) - you can proceed as follows:

MEMORY tables are stored differently than InnoDB, so you'll need to use an export/import strategy. First dump each table separately to a file using SELECT * FROM tablename INTO OUTFILE 'table_filename'. Create the MEMORY database and recreate the tables you'll be using with this syntax: CREATE TABLE tablename (...) ENGINE = MEMORY;. You can then import your data using LOAD DATA INFILE 'table_filename' INTO TABLE tablename for each table.

How do I pass environment variables to Docker containers?

If you are using 'docker-compose' as the method to spin up your container(s), there is actually a useful way to pass an environment variable defined on your server to the Docker container.

In your docker-compose.yml file, let's say you are spinning up a basic hapi-js container and the code looks like:

hapi_server:
  container_name: hapi_server
  image: node_image
  expose:
    - "3000"

Let's say that the local server that your docker project is on has an environment variable named 'NODE_DB_CONNECT' that you want to pass to your hapi-js container, and you want its new name to be 'HAPI_DB_CONNECT'. Then in the docker-compose.yml file, you would pass the local environment variable to the container and rename it like so:

hapi_server:
  container_name: hapi_server
  image: node_image
  environment:
    - HAPI_DB_CONNECT=${NODE_DB_CONNECT}
  expose:
    - "3000"

I hope this helps you to avoid hard-coding a database connect string in any file in your container!

How to enable ASP classic in IIS7.5

Add Authenticated Users

Make the file accessible to the Authenticated Users group. Right click your virtual directory and give the group read/write access to Authenticated Users.

I faced issue on windows 10 machine.

How to fire an event when v-model changes?

This happens because your click handler fires before the value of the radio button changes. You need to listen to the change event instead:

<input 
  type="radio" 
  name="optionsRadios" 
  id="optionsRadios2" 
  value=""
  v-model="srStatus" 
  v-on:change="foo"> //here

Also, make sure you really want to call foo() on ready... seems like maybe you don't actually want to do that.

ready:function(){
    foo();
},

Jersey stopped working with InjectionManagerFactory not found

Add this dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.inject</groupId>
    <artifactId>jersey-hk2</artifactId>
    <version>2.28</version>
</dependency>

cf. https://stackoverflow.com/a/44536542/1070215

Make sure not to mix your Jersey dependency versions. This answer says version "2.28", but use whatever version your other Jersey dependency versions are.

Storing Images in DB - Yea or Nay?

I'm not sure how much of a "real world" example this is, but I currently have an application out there that stores details for a trading card game, including the images for the cards. Granted the record count for the database is only 2851 records to date, but given the fact that certain cards have are released multiple times and have alternate artwork, it was actually more efficient sizewise to scan the "primary square" of the artwork and then dynamically generate the border and miscellaneous effects for the card when requested.

The original creator of this image library created a data access class that renders the image based on the request, and it does it quite fast for viewing and individual card.

This also eases deployment/updates when new cards are released, instead of zipping up an entire folder of images and sending those down the pipe and ensuring the proper folder structure is created, I simply update the database and have the user download it again. This currently sizes up to 56MB, which isn't great, but I'm working on an incremental update feature for future releases. In addition, there is a "no images" version of the application that allows those over dial-up to get the application without the download delay.

This solution has worked great to date since the application itself is targeted as a single instance on the desktop. There is a web site where all of this data is archived for online access, but I would in no way use the same solution for this. I agree the file access would be preferable because it would scale better to the frequency and volume of requests being made for the images.

Hopefully this isn't too much babble, but I saw the topic and wanted to provide some my insights from a relatively successful small/medium scale application.

Android "hello world" pushnotification example

Update 2016:

GCM is being replaced with FCM

Update 2015:

Have a look at developers.android.com - Google replaced C2DM with GCM Demo Implementation / How To

Update 2014:

1) You need to check on the server what HTTP response you are getting from the Google servers. Make sure it is a 200 OK response, so you know the message was sent. If you get another response (302, etc) then the message is not being sent successfully.

2) You also need to check that the Registration ID you are using is correct. If you provide the wrong Registration ID (as a destination for the message - specifying the app, on a specific device) then the Google servers cannot successfully send it.

3) You also need to check that your app is successfully registering with the Google servers, to receive push notifications. If the registration fails, you will not receive messages.

First Answer 2014

Here is a good question you may should have a look at it: How to add a push notification in my own android app

Also here is a good blog with a really simple how to: http://blog.serverdensity.com/android-push-notifications-tutorial/

How can I remove the decimal part from JavaScript number?

Here is the compressive in detailed explanation with the help of above posts:

1. Math.trunc() : It is used to remove those digits which are followed by dot. It converts implicitly. But, not supported in IE.

Example:

Math.trunc(10.5) // 10

Math.trunc(-10.5) // -10

Other Alternative way: Use of bitwise not operator:

Example:

x= 5.5

~~x // 5

2. Math.floor() : It is used to give the minimum integer value posiible. It is supported in all browsers.

Example:

Math.floor(10.5) // 10

Math.floor( -10.5) // -11

3. Math.ceil() : It is used to give the highest integer value possible. It is supported in all browsers.

Example:

Math.ceil(10.5) // 11

Math.ceil(-10.5) // -10

4. Math.round() : It is rounded to the nearest integer. It is supported in all browsers.

Example:

Math.round(10.5) // 11

Math.round(-10.5)// -10

Math.round(10.49) // 10

Math.round(-10.51) // -11

Twitter - share button, but with image

Look into twitter cards.

The trick is not in the button but rather the page you are sharing. Twitter Cards pull the image from the meta tags similar to facebook sharing.

Example:

<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image">
<meta name="twitter:site" content="@site_username">
<meta name="twitter:title" content="Top 10 Things Ever">
<meta name="twitter:description" content="Up than 200 characters.">
<meta name="twitter:creator" content="@creator_username">
<meta name="twitter:image" content="http://placekitten.com/250/250">
<meta name="twitter:domain" content="YourDomain.com">

jQuery exclude elements with certain class in selector

To add some info that helped me today, a jQuery object/this can also be passed in to the .not() selector.

_x000D_
_x000D_
$(document).ready(function(){_x000D_
    $(".navitem").click(function(){_x000D_
        $(".navitem").removeClass("active");_x000D_
        $(".navitem").not($(this)).addClass("active");_x000D_
    });_x000D_
});
_x000D_
.navitem_x000D_
{_x000D_
    width: 100px;_x000D_
    background: red;_x000D_
    color: white;_x000D_
    display: inline-block;_x000D_
    position: relative;_x000D_
    text-align: center;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.navitem.active_x000D_
{_x000D_
    background:green;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
_x000D_
<div class="navitem">Home</div>_x000D_
<div class="navitem">About</div>_x000D_
<div class="navitem">Pricing</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

The above example can be simplified, but wanted to show the usage of this in the not() selector.

Delete all Duplicate Rows except for One in MySQL?

If you want to keep the row with the lowest id value:

DELETE FROM NAMES
 WHERE id NOT IN (SELECT * 
                    FROM (SELECT MIN(n.id)
                            FROM NAMES n
                        GROUP BY n.name) x)

If you want the id value that is the highest:

DELETE FROM NAMES
 WHERE id NOT IN (SELECT * 
                    FROM (SELECT MAX(n.id)
                            FROM NAMES n
                        GROUP BY n.name) x)

The subquery in a subquery is necessary for MySQL, or you'll get a 1093 error.

MAVEN_HOME, MVN_HOME or M2_HOME

I have solved same issue with following:

export M2_HOME=/usr/share/maven

MySQL compare now() (only date, not time) with a datetime field

Compare date only instead of date + time (NOW) with:

CURDATE()

Docker: Copying files from Docker container to host

You do not need to use docker run.

You can do it with docker create.

From the docs:

The docker create command creates a writeable container layer over the specified image and prepares it for running the specified command. The container ID is then printed to STDOUT. This is similar to docker run -d except the container is never started.

So, you can do:

docker create -ti --name dummy IMAGE_NAME bash
docker cp dummy:/path/to/file /dest/to/file
docker rm -f dummy

Here, you never start the container. That looked beneficial to me.

TypeScript error TS1005: ';' expected (II)

You don't have the last version of typescript.

Running :

npm install -g typescript

npm checks if tsc command is already installed.

And it might be, by another software like Visual Studio. If so, npm doesn't override it. So you have to remove the previous deprecated tsc installed command.

Run where tsc to know its bin location. It should be in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\TypeScript\1.0\ in windows. Once found, delete the folder, and re-run npm install -g typescript. This should now install the last version of typescript.

A component is changing an uncontrolled input of type text to be controlled error in ReactJS

Warning: A component is changing an uncontrolled input of type text to be controlled. Input elements should not switch from uncontrolled to controlled (or vice versa). Decide between using a controlled or uncontrolled input element for the lifetime of the component.

Solution : Check if value is not undefined

React / Formik / Bootstrap / TypeScript

example :

{ values?.purchaseObligation.remainingYear ?
  <Input
   tag={Field}
   name="purchaseObligation.remainingYear"
   type="text"
   component="input"
  /> : null
}

How to execute an action before close metro app WinJS

If I am not mistaken, it will be onunload event.

"Occurs when the application is about to be unloaded." - MSDN

Good way of getting the user's location in Android

Recently refactored to obtain the location of the code, learn some good ideas, and finally achieved a relatively perfect library and Demo.

@Gryphius's answer is good

    //request all valid provider(network/gps)
private boolean requestAllProviderUpdates() {
    checkRuntimeEnvironment();
    checkPermission();

    if (isRequesting) {
        EasyLog.d("Request location update is busy");
        return false;
    }


    long minTime = getCheckTimeInterval();
    float minDistance = getCheckMinDistance();

    if (mMapLocationListeners == null) {
        mMapLocationListeners = new HashMap<>();
    }

    mValidProviders = getValidProviders();
    if (mValidProviders == null || mValidProviders.isEmpty()) {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("Not available provider.");
    }

    for (String provider : mValidProviders) {
        LocationListener locationListener = new LocationListener() {
            @Override
            public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {
                if (location == null) {
                    EasyLog.e("LocationListener callback location is null.");
                    return;
                }
                printf(location);
                mLastProviderTimestamp = location.getTime();

                if (location.getProvider().equals(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER)) {
                    finishResult(location);
                } else {
                    doLocationResult(location);
                }

                removeProvider(location.getProvider());
                if (isEmptyValidProviders()) {
                    requestTimeoutMsgInit();
                    removeUpdates();
                }
            }

            @Override
            public void onStatusChanged(String provider, int status, Bundle extras) {
            }

            @Override
            public void onProviderEnabled(String provider) {
            }

            @Override
            public void onProviderDisabled(String provider) {
            }
        };
        getLocationManager().requestLocationUpdates(provider, minTime, minDistance, locationListener);
        mMapLocationListeners.put(provider, locationListener);
        EasyLog.d("Location request %s provider update.", provider);
    }
    isRequesting = true;
    return true;
}

//remove request update
public void removeUpdates() {
    checkRuntimeEnvironment();

    LocationManager locationManager = getLocationManager();
    if (mMapLocationListeners != null) {
        Set<String> keys = mMapLocationListeners.keySet();
        for (String key : keys) {
            LocationListener locationListener = mMapLocationListeners.get(key);
            if (locationListener != null) {
                locationManager.removeUpdates(locationListener);
                EasyLog.d("Remove location update, provider is " + key);
            }
        }
        mMapLocationListeners.clear();
        isRequesting = false;
    }
}

//Compared with the last successful position, to determine whether you need to filter
private boolean isNeedFilter(Location location) {
    checkLocation(location);

    if (mLastLocation != null) {
        float distance = location.distanceTo(mLastLocation);
        if (distance < getCheckMinDistance()) {
            return true;
        }
        if (location.getAccuracy() >= mLastLocation.getAccuracy()
                && distance < location.getAccuracy()) {
            return true;
        }
        if (location.getTime() <= mLastProviderTimestamp) {
            return true;
        }
    }
    return false;
}

private void doLocationResult(Location location) {
    checkLocation(location);

    if (isNeedFilter(location)) {
        EasyLog.d("location need to filtered out, timestamp is " + location.getTime());
        finishResult(mLastLocation);
    } else {
        finishResult(location);
    }
}

//Return to the finished position
private void finishResult(Location location) {
    checkLocation(location);

    double latitude = location.getLatitude();
    double longitude = location.getLongitude();
    float accuracy = location.getAccuracy();
    long time = location.getTime();
    String provider = location.getProvider();

    if (mLocationResultListeners != null && !mLocationResultListeners.isEmpty()) {
        String format = "Location result:<%f, %f> Accuracy:%f Time:%d Provider:%s";
        EasyLog.i(String.format(format, latitude, longitude, accuracy, time, provider));

        mLastLocation = location;
        synchronized (this) {
            Iterator<LocationResultListener> iterator =  mLocationResultListeners.iterator();
            while (iterator.hasNext()) {
                LocationResultListener listener = iterator.next();
                if (listener != null) {
                    listener.onResult(location);
                }
                iterator.remove();
            }
        }
    }
}

Complete implementation: https://github.com/bingerz/FastLocation/blob/master/fastlocationlib/src/main/java/cn/bingerz/fastlocation/FastLocation.java

1.Thanks @Gryphius solution ideas, I also share the complete code.

2.Each request to complete the location, it is best to removeUpdates, otherwise the phone status bar will always display the positioning icon

Passing data through intent using Serializable

In kotlin: Object class implements Serializable:

class MyClass: Serializable {
//members
}

At the point where the object sending:

val fragment = UserDetailFragment()
val bundle = Bundle()
bundle.putSerializable("key", myObject)
fragment.arguments = bundle

At the fragment, where we want to get our object:

val bundle: Bundle? = arguments
    bundle?.let {
        val myObject = it.getSerializable("key") as MyClass
        myObject.memberName?.let { it1 -> showShortToast(it1) }
    }

What are the differences between a superkey and a candidate key?

Super Key: A superkey is any set of attributes for which the values are guaranteed to be unique for all possible set of tuples in a table at all time.

Candidate Key: A candidate key is a 'minimal' super key meaning the smallest subset of superkey attribute which is unique.

How to set editor theme in IntelliJ Idea

It's simple please follow the below step.

  1. On IntelliJ press 'Ctrl Alt + S' [ press ctrl alt and S together], this will open 'Setting popup'
  2. In Search panel 'left top search 'Theme' keyword.
  3. In left panel itself you can see 'Appearance', click on this
  4. Right side panel you can see Theme: and drop down with following option

    • Dracula
    • IntelliJ
    • Windows

just select which ever you want and click on apply and Ok.

I hope this may work for you..enter image description here

I misunderstood question. Sorry. for editor - File->Settings->Editor->Colors &Fonts and choose your scheme.... :)

Set selected item in Android BottomNavigationView

It is now possible since 25.3.0 version to call setSelectedItemId() \o/

How to call a method in another class in Java?

Try this :

public void addTeacherToClassRoom(classroom myClassRoom, String TeacherName)
{
    myClassRoom.setTeacherName(TeacherName);
}

Can I call curl_setopt with CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER multiple times to set multiple headers?

/**
 * If $header is an array of headers
 * It will format and return the correct $header
 * $header = [
 *  'Accept' => 'application/json',
 *  'Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
 * ];
 */
$i_header = $header;
if(is_array($i_header) === true){
    $header = [];
    foreach ($i_header as $param => $value) {
        $header[] = "$param: $value";
    }
}

Convert Text to Date?

Besides other options, I confirm that using

c.Value = CDate(c.Value)

works (just tested with the description of your case, with Excel 2010). As for the reasons for you getting a type mismatch error, you may check (e.g.) this.

It might be a locale issue.

Linq: GroupBy, Sum and Count

The following query works. It uses each group to do the select instead of SelectMany. SelectMany works on each element from each collection. For example, in your query you have a result of 2 collections. SelectMany gets all the results, a total of 3, instead of each collection. The following code works on each IGrouping in the select portion to get your aggregate operations working correctly.

var results = from line in Lines
              group line by line.ProductCode into g
              select new ResultLine {
                ProductName = g.First().Name,
                Price = g.Sum(pc => pc.Price).ToString(),
                Quantity = g.Count().ToString(),
              };