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J2ME/Android/BlackBerry - driving directions, route between two locations

J2ME Map Route Provider

maps.google.com has a navigation service which can provide you route information in KML format.

To get kml file we need to form url with start and destination locations:

public static String getUrl(double fromLat, double fromLon,
                            double toLat, double toLon) {// connect to map web service
    StringBuffer urlString = new StringBuffer();
    urlString.append("http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en");
    urlString.append("&saddr=");// from
    urlString.append(Double.toString(fromLat));
    urlString.append(",");
    urlString.append(Double.toString(fromLon));
    urlString.append("&daddr=");// to
    urlString.append(Double.toString(toLat));
    urlString.append(",");
    urlString.append(Double.toString(toLon));
    urlString.append("&ie=UTF8&0&om=0&output=kml");
    return urlString.toString();
}

Next you will need to parse xml (implemented with SAXParser) and fill data structures:

public class Point {
    String mName;
    String mDescription;
    String mIconUrl;
    double mLatitude;
    double mLongitude;
}

public class Road {
    public String mName;
    public String mDescription;
    public int mColor;
    public int mWidth;
    public double[][] mRoute = new double[][] {};
    public Point[] mPoints = new Point[] {};
}

Network connection is implemented in different ways on Android and Blackberry, so you will have to first form url:

 public static String getUrl(double fromLat, double fromLon,
     double toLat, double toLon)

then create connection with this url and get InputStream.
Then pass this InputStream and get parsed data structure:

 public static Road getRoute(InputStream is) 

Full source code RoadProvider.java

BlackBerry

class MapPathScreen extends MainScreen {
    MapControl map;
    Road mRoad = new Road();
    public MapPathScreen() {
        double fromLat = 49.85, fromLon = 24.016667;
        double toLat = 50.45, toLon = 30.523333;
        String url = RoadProvider.getUrl(fromLat, fromLon, toLat, toLon);
        InputStream is = getConnection(url);
        mRoad = RoadProvider.getRoute(is);
        map = new MapControl();
        add(new LabelField(mRoad.mName));
        add(new LabelField(mRoad.mDescription));
        add(map);
    }
    protected void onUiEngineAttached(boolean attached) {
        super.onUiEngineAttached(attached);
        if (attached) {
            map.drawPath(mRoad);
        }
    }
    private InputStream getConnection(String url) {
        HttpConnection urlConnection = null;
        InputStream is = null;
        try {
            urlConnection = (HttpConnection) Connector.open(url);
            urlConnection.setRequestMethod("GET");
            is = urlConnection.openInputStream();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return is;
    }
}

See full code on J2MEMapRouteBlackBerryEx on Google Code

Android

Android G1 screenshot

public class MapRouteActivity extends MapActivity {
    LinearLayout linearLayout;
    MapView mapView;
    private Road mRoad;
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
        mapView = (MapView) findViewById(R.id.mapview);
        mapView.setBuiltInZoomControls(true);
        new Thread() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                double fromLat = 49.85, fromLon = 24.016667;
                double toLat = 50.45, toLon = 30.523333;
                String url = RoadProvider
                        .getUrl(fromLat, fromLon, toLat, toLon);
                InputStream is = getConnection(url);
                mRoad = RoadProvider.getRoute(is);
                mHandler.sendEmptyMessage(0);
            }
        }.start();
    }

    Handler mHandler = new Handler() {
        public void handleMessage(android.os.Message msg) {
            TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.description);
            textView.setText(mRoad.mName + " " + mRoad.mDescription);
            MapOverlay mapOverlay = new MapOverlay(mRoad, mapView);
            List<Overlay> listOfOverlays = mapView.getOverlays();
            listOfOverlays.clear();
            listOfOverlays.add(mapOverlay);
            mapView.invalidate();
        };
    };

    private InputStream getConnection(String url) {
        InputStream is = null;
        try {
            URLConnection conn = new URL(url).openConnection();
            is = conn.getInputStream();
        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return is;
    }
    @Override
    protected boolean isRouteDisplayed() {
        return false;
    }
}

See full code on J2MEMapRouteAndroidEx on Google Code

SQL Server: SELECT only the rows with MAX(DATE)

For MySql you can do something like the following:

select OrderNO, PartCode, Quantity from table a
join (select ID, MAX(DateEntered) from table group by OrderNO) b on a.ID = b.ID

Git "error: The branch 'x' is not fully merged"

I believe the flag --force is what you are really looking for. Just use git branch -d --force <branch_name> to delete the branch forcibly.

Add an index (numeric ID) column to large data frame

You can add a sequence of numbers very easily with

data$ID <- seq.int(nrow(data))

If you are already using library(tidyverse), you can use

data <- tibble::rowid_to_column(data, "ID")

cast a List to a Collection

Not knowing your code, it's a bit hard to answer your question, but based on all the info here, I believe the issue is you're trying to use Collections.sort passing in an object defined as Collection, and sort doesn't support that.

First question. Why is client defined so generically? Why isn't it a List, Map, Set or something a little more specific?

If client was defined as a List, Map or Set, you wouldn't have this issue, as then you'd be able to directly use Collections.sort(client).

HTH

Restore DB — Error RESTORE HEADERONLY is terminating abnormally.

I ran into this issue and my problem was a bit more involved... Originally I was trying to restore a SQL Server 2000 backup to SQL Server 2012. Of course this didn't work cause SQL server 2012 only supports backups from 2005 and upwards .

So, I restored the database on a SQL Server 2008 machine. Once this was done - I copied the database over to restore on SQL Server 2012 - and it failed with the following error

The media family on device 'C:\XXXXXXXXXXX.bak' is incorrectly formed. SQL Server cannot process this media family. RESTORE HEADERONLY is terminating abnormally. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 3241)

After a lot of research I found that I had skipped a step - I had to go back to the SQL Server 2008 machine and Right Click On the database(that I wanted to backup)> Properties > Options > Make sure compatibility level is set to SQL Server 2008. > Save

And then re-create the backup - After this I was able to restore to SQL Server 2012.

How do you clear the console screen in C?

There is no C portable way to do this. Although various cursor manipulation libraries like curses are relatively portable. conio.h is portable between OS/2 DOS and Windows, but not to *nix variants.

The entire notion of a "console" is a concept outside of the scope of standard C.

If you are looking for a pure Win32 API solution, There is no single call in the Windows console API to do this. One way is to FillConsoleOutputCharacter of a sufficiently large number of characters. Or WriteConsoleOutput You can use GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo to find out how many characters will be enough.

You can also create an entirely new Console Screen Buffer and make the current one.

Add IIS 7 AppPool Identities as SQL Server Logons

Look at: http://www.iis.net/learn/manage/configuring-security/application-pool-identities

USE master
GO
sp_grantlogin 'IIS APPPOOL\<AppPoolName>'

USE <yourdb>
GO
sp_grantdbaccess 'IIS APPPOOL\<AppPoolName>', '<AppPoolName>'
sp_addrolemember 'aspnet_Membership_FullAccess', '<AppPoolName>'
sp_addrolemember 'aspnet_Roles_FullAccess', '<AppPoolName>'

Prevent textbox autofill with previously entered values

This works for me

   <script type="text/javascript">
        var c = document.getElementById("<%=TextBox1.ClientID %>");
        c.select =
        function (event, ui) 
        { this.value = ""; return false; }
    </script>

How do I read / convert an InputStream into a String in Java?

Kotlin users simply do:

println(InputStreamReader(is).readText())

whereas

readText()

is Kotlin standard library’s built-in extension method.

Push method in React Hooks (useState)?

setTheArray([...theArray, newElement]); is the simplest answer but be careful for the mutation of items in theArray. Use deep cloning of array items.

TypeScript: correct way to do string equality?

If you know x and y are both strings, using === is not strictly necessary, but is still good practice.

Assuming both variables actually are strings, both operators will function identically. However, TS often allows you to pass an object that meets all the requirements of string rather than an actual string, which may complicate things.

Given the possibility of confusion or changes in the future, your linter is probably correct in demanding ===. Just go with that.

How to get root access on Android emulator?

Here my pack with all you need. Or you can use this script:

echo on
set device=emulator-5554
set avd_name=
set adb=d:\Poprygun\DevTools\Android\Android-sdk\platform-tools\adb -s %device%
set emulator=d:\Poprygun\DevTools\Android\Android-sdk\emulator\emulator
set arch=x86
set pie=

echo Close all ANDROID emulators and press any key
pause
start %emulator% -avd Nexus_One_API_25 -verbose -writable-system
echo Wait until ANDROID emulator loading and press any key
pause

%adb% start-server
%adb% root
%adb% remount
%adb% shell setenforce 0
%adb% install D:\SuperSU\SuperSU.apk
%adb% push D:\SuperSU\su\%arch%\su.pie /system/bin/su
%adb% shell chmod 0755 /system/bin/su
%adb% push D:\SuperSU\su\%arch%\su.pie /system/xbin/su
%adb% shell chmod 0755 /system/xbin/su
%adb% shell su --install
%adb% shell "su --daemon&"
pause
exit /b

How do I detect when someone shakes an iPhone?

Add Following methods in ViewController.m file, its working properly

    -(BOOL) canBecomeFirstResponder
    {
         /* Here, We want our view (not viewcontroller) as first responder 
         to receive shake event message  */

         return YES;
    }

    -(void) motionEnded:(UIEventSubtype)motion withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
    {
            if(event.subtype==UIEventSubtypeMotionShake)
            {
                    // Code at shake event

                    UIAlertView *alert=[[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Motion" message:@"Phone Vibrate"delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"OK" otherButtonTitles: nil];
                    [alert show];
                    [alert release];

                    [self.view setBackgroundColor:[UIColor redColor]];
             }
    }
    - (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated
    {
             [super viewDidAppear:animated];
             [self becomeFirstResponder];  // View as first responder 
     }

Check string for palindrome

A concise version, that doesn't involve (inefficiently) initializing a bunch of objects:

boolean isPalindrome(String str) {    
    int n = str.length();
    for( int i = 0; i < n/2; i++ )
        if (str.charAt(i) != str.charAt(n-i-1)) return false;
    return true;    
}

How to initialize a list of strings (List<string>) with many string values

Your function is just fine but isn't working because you put the () after the last }. If you move the () to the top just next to new List<string>() the error stops.

Sample below:

List<string> optionList = new List<string>()
{
    "AdditionalCardPersonAdressType","AutomaticRaiseCreditLimit","CardDeliveryTimeWeekDay"
};

How to get the command line args passed to a running process on unix/linux systems?

In addition to all the above ways to convert the text, if you simply use 'strings', it will make the output on separate lines by default. With the added benefit that it may also prevent any chars that may scramble your terminal from appearing.

Both output in one command:

strings /proc//cmdline /proc//environ

The real question is... is there a way to see the real command line of a process in Linux that has been altered so that the cmdline contains the altered text instead of the actual command that was run.

How do I call REST API from an android app?

  1. If you want to integrate Retrofit (all steps defined here):

Goto my blog : retrofit with kotlin

  1. Please use android-async-http library.

the link below explains everything step by step.

http://loopj.com/android-async-http/

Here are sample apps:

  1. http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/software-engineer/calling-restful-services-from-your-android-app/

  2. http://blog.strikeiron.com/bid/73189/Integrate-a-REST-API-into-Android-Application-in-less-than-15-minutes

Create a class :

public class HttpUtils {
  private static final String BASE_URL = "http://api.twitter.com/1/";
 
  private static AsyncHttpClient client = new AsyncHttpClient();

  public static void get(String url, RequestParams params, AsyncHttpResponseHandler responseHandler) {
      client.get(getAbsoluteUrl(url), params, responseHandler);
  }

  public static void post(String url, RequestParams params, AsyncHttpResponseHandler responseHandler) {
      client.post(getAbsoluteUrl(url), params, responseHandler);
  }
      
  public static void getByUrl(String url, RequestParams params, AsyncHttpResponseHandler responseHandler) {
      client.get(url, params, responseHandler);
  }

  public static void postByUrl(String url, RequestParams params, AsyncHttpResponseHandler responseHandler) {
      client.post(url, params, responseHandler);
  }

  private static String getAbsoluteUrl(String relativeUrl) {
      return BASE_URL + relativeUrl;
  }
}

Call Method :

    RequestParams rp = new RequestParams();
    rp.add("username", "aaa"); rp.add("password", "aaa@123");
                    
    HttpUtils.post(AppConstant.URL_FEED, rp, new JsonHttpResponseHandler() {
        @Override
        public void onSuccess(int statusCode, Header[] headers, JSONObject response) {
            // If the response is JSONObject instead of expected JSONArray
            Log.d("asd", "---------------- this is response : " + response);
            try {
                JSONObject serverResp = new JSONObject(response.toString());                                                
            } catch (JSONException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            }                   
        }
            
        @Override
        public void onSuccess(int statusCode, Header[] headers, JSONArray timeline) {
            // Pull out the first event on the public timeline
                    
        }
    });

Please grant internet permission in your manifest file.

 <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

you can add compile 'com.loopj.android:android-async-http:1.4.9' for Header[] and compile 'org.json:json:20160212' for JSONObject in build.gradle file if required.

Postgres where clause compare timestamp

Assuming you actually mean timestamp because there is no datetime in Postgres

Cast the timestamp column to a date, that will remove the time part:

select *
from the_table
where the_timestamp_column::date = date '2015-07-15';

This will return all rows from July, 15th.

Note that the above will not use an index on the_timestamp_column. If performance is critical, you need to either create an index on that expression or use a range condition:

select *
from the_table
where the_timestamp_column >= timestamp '2015-07-15 00:00:00'
  and the_timestamp_column < timestamp '2015-07-16 00:00:00';

Reading a string with spaces with sscanf

Since you want the trailing string from the input, you can use %n (number of characters consumed thus far) to get the position at which the trailing string starts. This avoids memory copies and buffer sizing issues, but comes at the cost that you may need to do them explicitly if you wanted a copy.

const char *input = "19  cool kid";
int age;
int nameStart = 0;
sscanf(input, "%d %n", &age, &nameStart);
printf("%s is %d years old\n", input + nameStart, age);

outputs:

cool kid is 19 years old

jQuery/JavaScript: accessing contents of an iframe

Have you tried the classic, waiting for the load to complete using jQuery's builtin ready function?

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('some selector', frames['nameOfMyIframe'].document).doStuff()
} );

K

How to conditionally take action if FINDSTR fails to find a string

You are not evaluating a condition for the IF. I am guessing you want to not copy if you find stringToCheck in fileToCheck. You need to do something like (code untested but you get the idea):

CD C:\MyFolder
findstr /c:"stringToCheck" fileToCheck.bat
IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 0 XCOPY "C:\OtherFolder\fileToCheck.bat" "C:\MyFolder" /s /y

EDIT by dbenham
The above test is WRONG, it always evaluates to FALSE.
The correct test is IF ERRORLEVEL 1 XCOPY ...

Update: I can't test the code, but I am not sure what return value findstr actually returns if it doesn't find anything. You might have to do something like:

CD C:\MyFolder
findstr /c:"stringToCheck" fileToCheck.bat > tempfindoutput.txt
set /p FINDOUTPUT= < tempfindoutput.txt
IF "%FINDOUTPUT%"=="" XCOPY "C:\OtherFolder\fileToCheck.bat" "C:\MyFolder" /s /y
del tempfindoutput.txt

The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it

Try to open Services Window, by writing services.msc into Start->Run and hit Enter.

When window appears, then find SQL Browser service, right click and choose Properties, and then in dropdown list choose Automatic, or Manual, whatever you want, and click OK. Eventually, if not started immediately, you can again press right click on this service and click Start.

Javascript: Unicode string to hex

It depends on what encoding you use. If you want to convert utf-8 encoded hex to string, use this:

function fromHex(hex,str){
  try{
    str = decodeURIComponent(hex.replace(/(..)/g,'%$1'))
  }
  catch(e){
    str = hex
    console.log('invalid hex input: ' + hex)
  }
  return str
}

For the other direction use this:

function toHex(str,hex){
  try{
    hex = unescape(encodeURIComponent(str))
    .split('').map(function(v){
      return v.charCodeAt(0).toString(16)
    }).join('')
  }
  catch(e){
    hex = str
    console.log('invalid text input: ' + str)
  }
  return hex
}

Sometimes adding a WCF Service Reference generates an empty reference.cs

When this happens, look in the Errors window and the Output window to see if there are any error messages. If that doesn't help, try running svcutil.exe manually, and see if there are any error messages.

Linq UNION query to select two elements

EDIT:

Ok I found why the int.ToString() in LINQtoEF fails, please read this post: Problem with converting int to string in Linq to entities

This works on my side :

        List<string> materialTypes = (from u in result.Users
                                      select u.LastName)
                       .Union(from u in result.Users
                               select SqlFunctions.StringConvert((double) u.UserId)).ToList();

On yours it should be like this:

    IList<String> materialTypes = ((from tom in context.MaterialTypes
                                       where tom.IsActive == true
                                       select tom.Name)
                                       .Union(from tom in context.MaterialTypes
                                       where tom.IsActive == true
                                       select SqlFunctions.StringConvert((double)tom.ID))).ToList();

Thanks, i've learnt something today :)

How to show/hide if variable is null

In this case, myvar should be a boolean value. If this variable is true, it will show the div, if it's false.. It will hide.

Check this out.

Best way to change the background color for an NSView

In Swift 3, you can create an extension to do it:

extension NSView {
    func setBackgroundColor(_ color: NSColor) {
        wantsLayer = true
        layer?.backgroundColor = color.cgColor
    }
}

// how to use
btn.setBackgroundColor(NSColor.gray)

How to get integer values from a string in Python?

>>> import re
>>> string1 = "498results should get"
>>> int(re.search(r'\d+', string1).group())
498

If there are multiple integers in the string:

>>> map(int, re.findall(r'\d+', string1))
[498]

Get current URL path in PHP

You want $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']. From the docs:

'REQUEST_URI'

The URI which was given in order to access this page; for instance, '/index.html'.

How to assign a value to a TensorFlow variable?

Use Tensorflow eager execution mode which is latest.

import tensorflow as tf
tf.enable_eager_execution()
my_int_variable = tf.get_variable("my_int_variable", [1, 2, 3])
print(my_int_variable)

How to copy multiple files in one layer using a Dockerfile?

COPY README.md package.json gulpfile.js __BUILD_NUMBER ./

or

COPY ["__BUILD_NUMBER", "README.md", "gulpfile", "another_file", "./"]

You can also use wildcard characters in the sourcefile specification. See the docs for a little more detail.

Directories are special! If you write

COPY dir1 dir2 ./

that actually works like

COPY dir1/* dir2/* ./

If you want to copy multiple directories (not their contents) under a destination directory in a single command, you'll need to set up the build context so that your source directories are under a common parent and then COPY that parent.

Best practice for localization and globalization of strings and labels

When you’re faced with a problem to solve (and frankly, who isn’t these days?), the basic strategy usually taken by we computer people is called “divide and conquer.” It goes like this:

  • Conceptualize the specific problem as a set of smaller sub-problems.
  • Solve each smaller problem.
  • Combine the results into a solution of the specific problem.

But “divide and conquer” is not the only possible strategy. We can also take a more generalist approach:

  • Conceptualize the specific problem as a special case of a more general problem.
  • Somehow solve the general problem.
  • Adapt the solution of the general problem to the specific problem.

- Eric Lippert

I believe many solutions already exist for this problem in server-side languages such as ASP.Net/C#.

I've outlined some of the major aspects of the problem

  • Issue: We need to load data only for the desired language

    Solution: For this purpose we save data to a separate files for each language

ex. res.de.js, res.fr.js, res.en.js, res.js(for default language)

  • Issue: Resource files for each page should be separated so we only get the data we need

    Solution: We can use some tools that already exist like https://github.com/rgrove/lazyload

  • Issue: We need a key/value pair structure to save our data

    Solution: I suggest a javascript object instead of string/string air. We can benefit from the intellisense from an IDE

  • Issue: General members should be stored in a public file and all pages should access them

    Solution: For this purpose I make a folder in the root of web application called Global_Resources and a folder to store global file for each sub folders we named it 'Local_Resources'

  • Issue: Each subsystems/subfolders/modules member should override the Global_Resources members on their scope

    Solution: I considered a file for each

Application Structure

root/
    Global_Resources/
        default.js
        default.fr.js
    UserManagementSystem/
        Local_Resources/
            default.js
            default.fr.js
            createUser.js
        Login.htm
        CreateUser.htm

The corresponding code for the files:

Global_Resources/default.js

var res = {
    Create : "Create",
    Update : "Save Changes",
    Delete : "Delete"
};

Global_Resources/default.fr.js

var res = {
    Create : "créer",
    Update : "Enregistrer les modifications",
    Delete : "effacer"
};

The resource file for the desired language should be loaded on the page selected from Global_Resource - This should be the first file that is loaded on all the pages.

UserManagementSystem/Local_Resources/default.js

res.Name = "Name";
res.UserName = "UserName";
res.Password = "Password";

UserManagementSystem/Local_Resources/default.fr.js

res.Name = "nom";
res.UserName = "Nom d'utilisateur";
res.Password = "Mot de passe";

UserManagementSystem/Local_Resources/createUser.js

// Override res.Create on Global_Resources/default.js
res.Create = "Create User"; 

UserManagementSystem/Local_Resources/createUser.fr.js

// Override Global_Resources/default.fr.js
res.Create = "Créer un utilisateur";

manager.js file (this file should be load last)

res.lang = "fr";

var globalResourcePath = "Global_Resources";
var resourceFiles = [];

var currentFile = globalResourcePath + "\\default" + res.lang + ".js" ;

if(!IsFileExist(currentFile))
    currentFile = globalResourcePath + "\\default.js" ;
if(!IsFileExist(currentFile)) throw new Exception("File Not Found");

resourceFiles.push(currentFile);

// Push parent folder on folder into folder
foreach(var folder in parent folder of current page)
{
    currentFile = folder + "\\Local_Resource\\default." + res.lang + ".js";

    if(!IsExist(currentFile))
        currentFile = folder + "\\Local_Resource\\default.js";
    if(!IsExist(currentFile)) throw new Exception("File Not Found");

    resourceFiles.push(currentFile);
}

for(int i = 0; i < resourceFiles.length; i++) { Load.js(resourceFiles[i]); }

// Get current page name
var pageNameWithoutExtension = "SomePage";

currentFile = currentPageFolderPath + pageNameWithoutExtension + res.lang + ".js" ;

if(!IsExist(currentFile))
    currentFile = currentPageFolderPath + pageNameWithoutExtension + ".js" ;
if(!IsExist(currentFile)) throw new Exception("File Not Found");

Hope it helps :)

How to fix System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

If the problem is 100% here

EffectSelectorForm effectSelectorForm = new EffectSelectorForm(Effects);

There's only one possible explanation: property/variable "Effects" is not initialized properly... Debug your code to see what you pass to your objects.

EDIT after several hours

There were some problems:

  • MEF attribute [Import] didn't work as expected, so we replaced it for the time being with a manually populated List<>. While the collection was null, it was causing exceptions later in the code, when the method tried to get the type of the selected item and there was none.

  • several event handlers weren't wired up to control events

Some problems are still present, but I believe OP's original problem has been fixed. Other problems are not related to this one.

How to output HTML from JSP <%! ... %> block?

You can do something like this:

<%

out.print("<p>Hey!</p>");    
out.print("<p>How are you?</p>");

%>

How to check if element is visible after scrolling?

Simple modification for scrollable div (container)

var isScrolledIntoView = function(elem, container) {
    var containerHeight = $(container).height();
    var elemTop = $(elem).position().top;
    var elemBottom = elemTop + $(elem).height();
    return (elemBottom > 0 && elemTop < containerHeight);
}

NOTE: this does not work if the element is larger than the scrollable div.

ActiveX component can't create object

I had the same issue with Excel, I was trying to use a 32 COM DLL with an Excel 64 bits version and I got this error. I rebuild the COM dll to a 64 bits version and the error disappears. So be sure that your COM dll has the same architecture (x86 vs x64) than your application.

How to center an element horizontally and vertically

Below is the Flex-box approach to get desired result

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<!DOCTYPE html>_x000D_
<html>_x000D_
<head>_x000D_
  <meta charset="utf-8">_x000D_
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">_x000D_
  <title>Flex-box approach</title>_x000D_
<style>_x000D_
  .tabs{_x000D_
    display: -webkit-flex;_x000D_
    display: flex;_x000D_
    width: 500px;_x000D_
    height: 250px;_x000D_
    background-color: grey;_x000D_
    margin: 0 auto;_x000D_
    _x000D_
  }_x000D_
  .f{_x000D_
    width: 200px;_x000D_
    height: 200px;_x000D_
    margin: 20px;_x000D_
    background-color: yellow;_x000D_
    margin: 0 auto;_x000D_
    display: inline; /*for vertically aligning */_x000D_
    top: 9%;         /*for vertically aligning */_x000D_
    position: relative; /*for vertically aligning */_x000D_
  }_x000D_
</style>_x000D_
</head>_x000D_
<body>_x000D_
_x000D_
    <div class="tabs">_x000D_
        <div class="f">first</div>_x000D_
        <div class="f">second</div>        _x000D_
    </div>_x000D_
_x000D_
</body>_x000D_
</html>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Xcode 6.1 - How to uninstall command line tools?

An excerpt from an apple technical note (Thanks to matthias-bauch)

Xcode includes all your command-line tools. If it is installed on your system, remove it to uninstall your tools.

If your tools were downloaded separately from Xcode, then they are located at /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools on your system. Delete the CommandLineTools folder to uninstall them.

you could easily delete using terminal:

Here is an article that explains how to remove the command line tools but do it at your own risk.Try this only if any of the above doesn't work.

No suitable driver found for 'jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mysql

When using Netbean, go under project tab and click the dropdown button there to select Libraries folder. Right Click on d Library folder and select 'Add JAR/Folder'. Locate the mysql-connectore-java.*.jar file where u have it on ur system. This worked for me and I hope it does for u too. Revert if u encounter any problem

How do I use reflection to call a generic method?

Inspired by Enigmativity's answer - let's assume you have two (or more) classes, like

public class Bar { }
public class Square { }

and you want to call the method Foo<T> with Bar and Square, which is declared as

public class myClass
{
    public void Foo<T>(T item)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(typeof(T).Name);
    }
}

Then you can implement an Extension method like:

public static class Extension
{
    public static void InvokeFoo<T>(this T t)
    {
        var fooMethod = typeof(myClass).GetMethod("Foo");
        var tType = typeof(T);
        var fooTMethod = fooMethod.MakeGenericMethod(new[] { tType });
        fooTMethod.Invoke(new myClass(), new object[] { t });
    }
}

With this, you can simply invoke Foo like:

var objSquare = new Square();
objSquare.InvokeFoo();

var objBar = new Bar();
objBar.InvokeFoo();

which works for every class. In this case, it will output:

Square
Bar

Can Mockito stub a method without regard to the argument?

http://site.mockito.org/mockito/docs/1.10.19/org/mockito/Matchers.html

anyObject() should fit your needs.

Also, you can always consider implementing hashCode() and equals() for the Bazoo class. This would make your code example work the way you want.

Sorting string array in C#

Actually I don't see any nulls:

given:

static void Main()
        {
            string[] testArray = new string[]
            {
                "aa",
                "ab",
                "ac",
                "ad",
                "ab",
                "af"
            };

            Array.Sort(testArray, StringComparer.InvariantCulture);

            Array.ForEach(testArray, x => Console.WriteLine(x));
        }

I obtained:

enter image description here

Removing black dots from li and ul

CSS :

ul{
list-style-type:none;
}

You can take a look at W3School

C# SQL Server - Passing a list to a stored procedure

The only way I'm aware of is building CSV list and then passing it as string. Then, on SP side, just split it and do whatever you need.

HTML Best Practices: Should I use &rsquo; or the special keyboard shortcut?

I don't think that one is better than the other in general; it depends on how you intend to use it.

  • If you want to store it in a DB column that has a charset/collation that does not support the right single quote character, you may run into storing it as the multi-byte character instead of 7-bit ASCII (&rsquo;).
  • If you are displaying it on an html element that specifies a charset that does not support it, it may not display in either case.
  • If many developers are going to be editing/viewing this file with editors/keyboards that do not support properly typing or displaying the character, you may want to use the entity
  • If you need to convert the file between various character encodings or formats, you may want to use the entity
  • If your HTML code may escape entities improperly, you may want to use the character.

In general I would lean more towards using the character because as you point out it is easier to read and type.

Bundler: Command not found

I did this (Ubuntu latest as of March 2013 [ I think :) ]):

sudo gem install bundler

Credit goes to Ray Baxter.

If you need gem, I installed Ruby this way (though this is chronically taxing):

mkdir /tmp/ruby && cd /tmp/ruby
wget http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.3-p327.tar.gz
tar xfvz ruby-1.9.3-p327.tar.gz
cd ruby-1.9.3-p327
./configure
make
sudo make install

How to set web.config file to show full error message

This can also help you by showing full details of the error on a client's browser.

<system.web>
    <customErrors mode="Off"/>
</system.web>
<system.webServer>
    <httpErrors errorMode="Detailed" />
</system.webServer>

matplotlib set yaxis label size

If you are using the 'pylab' for interactive plotting you can set the labelsize at creation time with pylab.ylabel('Example', fontsize=40).

If you use pyplot programmatically you can either set the fontsize on creation with ax.set_ylabel('Example', fontsize=40) or afterwards with ax.yaxis.label.set_size(40).

How to run Java program in terminal with external library JAR

  1. you can set your classpath in the in the environment variabl CLASSPATH. in linux, you can add like CLASSPATH=.:/full/path/to/the/Jars, for example ..........src/external and just run in side ......src/Report/

Javac Reporter.java

java Reporter

Similarily, you can set it in windows environment variables. for example, in Win7

Right click Start-->Computer then Properties-->Advanced System Setting --> Advanced -->Environment Variables in the user variables, click classPath, and Edit and add the full path of jars at the end. voila

.NET 4.0 has a new GAC, why?

Yes since there are 2 distinct Global Assembly Cache (GAC), you will have to manage each of them individually.

In .NET Framework 4.0, the GAC went through a few changes. The GAC was split into two, one for each CLR.

The CLR version used for both .NET Framework 2.0 and .NET Framework 3.5 is CLR 2.0. There was no need in the previous two framework releases to split GAC. The problem of breaking older applications in Net Framework 4.0.

To avoid issues between CLR 2.0 and CLR 4.0 , the GAC is now split into private GAC’s for each runtime.The main change is that CLR v2.0 applications now cannot see CLR v4.0 assemblies in the GAC.

Source

Why?

It seems to be because there was a CLR change in .NET 4.0 but not in 2.0 to 3.5. The same thing happened with 1.1 to 2.0 CLR. It seems that the GAC has the ability to store different versions of assemblies as long as they are from the same CLR. They do not want to break old applications.

See the following information in MSDN about the GAC changes in 4.0.

For example, if both .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0 shared the same GAC, then a .NET 1.1 application, loading an assembly from this shared GAC, could get .NET 2.0 assemblies, thereby breaking the .NET 1.1 application

The CLR version used for both .NET Framework 2.0 and .NET Framework 3.5 is CLR 2.0. As a result of this, there was no need in the previous two framework releases to split the GAC. The problem of breaking older (in this case, .NET 2.0) applications resurfaces in Net Framework 4.0 at which point CLR 4.0 released. Hence, to avoid interference issues between CLR 2.0 and CLR 4.0, the GAC is now split into private GACs for each runtime.

As the CLR is updated in future versions you can expect the same thing. If only the language changes then you can use the same GAC.

Concatenating elements in an array to a string

take a look at generic method to print all elements in an array

but in short, the Arrays.toString(arr) is just a easy way of printing the content of a primative array.

How do I use disk caching in Picasso?

This is what I did. Works well.

First add the OkHttp to the gradle build file of the app module:

compile 'com.squareup.picasso:picasso:2.5.2'
compile 'com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:3.10.0'
compile 'com.jakewharton.picasso:picasso2-okhttp3-downloader:1.1.0'

Then make a class extending Application

import android.app.Application;

import com.jakewharton.picasso.OkHttp3Downloader;
import com.squareup.picasso.Picasso;

public class Global extends Application {
    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
        super.onCreate();

        Picasso.Builder builder = new Picasso.Builder(this);
        builder.downloader(new OkHttp3Downloader(this,Integer.MAX_VALUE));
        Picasso built = builder.build();
        built.setIndicatorsEnabled(true);
        built.setLoggingEnabled(true);
        Picasso.setSingletonInstance(built);

    }
}

add it to the Manifest file as follows :

<application
        android:name=".Global"
        .. >

</application>

Now use Picasso as you normally would. No changes.

EDIT:

if you want to use cached images only. Call the library like this. I've noticed that if we don't add the networkPolicy, images won't show up in an fully offline start even if they are cached. The code below solves the problem.

Picasso.with(this)
            .load(url)
            .networkPolicy(NetworkPolicy.OFFLINE)
            .into(imageView);

EDIT #2

the problem with the above code is that if you clear cache, Picasso will keep looking for it offline in cache and fail, the following code example looks at the local cache, if not found offline, it goes online and replenishes the cache.

Picasso.with(getActivity())
.load(imageUrl)
.networkPolicy(NetworkPolicy.OFFLINE)
.into(imageView, new Callback() {
    @Override
    public void onSuccess() {

    }

    @Override
    public void onError() {
        //Try again online if cache failed
        Picasso.with(getActivity())
                .load(posts.get(position).getImageUrl())
                .error(R.drawable.header)
                .into(imageView, new Callback() {
            @Override
            public void onSuccess() {

            }

            @Override
            public void onError() {
                Log.v("Picasso","Could not fetch image");
            }
        });
    }
});

How to declare a variable in MySQL?

Different types of variable:

  • local variables (which are not prefixed by @) are strongly typed and scoped to the stored program block in which they are declared. Note that, as documented under DECLARE Syntax:

DECLARE is permitted only inside a BEGIN ... END compound statement and must be at its start, before any other statements.

  • User variables (which are prefixed by @) are loosely typed and scoped to the session. Note that they neither need nor can be declared—just use them directly.

Therefore, if you are defining a stored program and actually do want a "local variable", you will need to drop the @ character and ensure that your DECLARE statement is at the start of your program block. Otherwise, to use a "user variable", drop the DECLARE statement.

Furthermore, you will either need to surround your query in parentheses in order to execute it as a subquery:

SET @countTotal = (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM nGrams);

Or else, you could use SELECT ... INTO:

SELECT COUNT(*) INTO @countTotal FROM nGrams;

How to add rows dynamically into table layout

The way you have added a row into the table layout you can add multiple TableRow instances into your tableLayout object

tl.addView(row1);
tl.addView(row2);

etc...

Duplicate line in Visual Studio Code

You can use the following depending on your OS:

Windows:

Shift+ Alt + ? or Shift+ Alt + ?

Mac:

Shift + Option + ? or Shift +Option + ?

Linux:

Ctrl+Shift+Alt+? or Ctrl+Shift+Alt+?

Note: For some linux distros use Numpad arrows

How to do a scatter plot with empty circles in Python?

So I assume you want to highlight some points that fit a certain criteria. You can use Prelude's command to do a second scatter plot of the hightlighted points with an empty circle and a first call to plot all the points. Make sure the s paramter is sufficiently small for the larger empty circles to enclose the smaller filled ones.

The other option is to not use scatter and draw the patches individually using the circle/ellipse command. These are in matplotlib.patches, here is some sample code on how to draw circles rectangles etc.

No input file specified

It worked for me..add on top of .htaccess file. It would disable FastCGI on godaddy shared hosting account.

Options +ExecCGI

addhandler x-httpd-php5-cgi .php

How to program a delay in Swift 3

//Runs function after x seconds

public static func runThisAfterDelay(seconds: Double, after: @escaping () -> Void) {
    runThisAfterDelay(seconds: seconds, queue: DispatchQueue.main, after: after)
}

public static func runThisAfterDelay(seconds: Double, queue: DispatchQueue, after: @escaping () -> Void) {
    let time = DispatchTime.now() + Double(Int64(seconds * Double(NSEC_PER_SEC))) / Double(NSEC_PER_SEC)
    queue.asyncAfter(deadline: time, execute: after)
}

//Use:-

runThisAfterDelay(seconds: x){
  //write your code here
}

Select last N rows from MySQL

You can do it with a sub-query:

SELECT * FROM (
    SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 50
) sub
ORDER BY id ASC

This will select the last 50 rows from table, and then order them in ascending order.

How do I switch between command and insert mode in Vim?

Pressing ESC quits from insert mode to normal mode, where you can press : to type in a command. Press i again to back to insert mode, and you are good to go.

I'm not a Vim guru, so someone else can be more experienced and give you other options.

Winforms TableLayoutPanel adding rows programmatically

Here's my code for adding a new row to a two-column TableLayoutColumn:

private void AddRow(Control label, Control value)
{
    int rowIndex = AddTableRow();
    detailTable.Controls.Add(label, LabelColumnIndex, rowIndex);
    if (value != null)
    {
        detailTable.Controls.Add(value, ValueColumnIndex, rowIndex);
    }
}

private int AddTableRow()
{
    int index = detailTable.RowCount++;
    RowStyle style = new RowStyle(SizeType.AutoSize);
    detailTable.RowStyles.Add(style);
    return index;
}

The label control goes in the left column and the value control goes in the right column. The controls are generally of type Label and have their AutoSize property set to true.

I don't think it matters too much, but for reference, here is the designer code that sets up detailTable:

this.detailTable.ColumnCount = 2;
this.detailTable.ColumnStyles.Add(new System.Windows.Forms.ColumnStyle());
this.detailTable.ColumnStyles.Add(new System.Windows.Forms.ColumnStyle());
this.detailTable.Dock = System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle.Fill;
this.detailTable.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(0, 0);
this.detailTable.Name = "detailTable";
this.detailTable.RowCount = 1;
this.detailTable.RowStyles.Add(new System.Windows.Forms.RowStyle());
this.detailTable.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(266, 436);
this.detailTable.TabIndex = 0;

This all works just fine. You should be aware that there appear to be some problems with disposing controls from a TableLayoutPanel dynamically using the Controls property (at least in some versions of the framework). If you need to remove controls, I suggest disposing the entire TableLayoutPanel and creating a new one.

How to convert array values to lowercase in PHP?

Hi, try this solution. Simple use php array map

function myfunction($value)
{
 return strtolower($value);
}

$new_array = ["Value1","Value2","Value3" ];
print_r(array_map("myfunction",$new_array ));

Output Array ( [0] => value1 [1] => value2 [2] => value3 )

Error: fix the version conflict (google-services plugin)

For fire base to install properly all the versions of the fire base compiles must be in same version so

compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:11.0.4' 
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-maps:11.0.4' 
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:11.0.4'

this is the correct way to do it.

SQL Server: IF EXISTS ; ELSE

Try this:

Update TableB Set
  Code = Coalesce(
    (Select Max(Value)
    From TableA 
    Where Id = b.Id), 123)
From TableB b

How do I escape ampersands in batch files?

If you need to echo a string that contains an ampersand, quotes won't help, because you would see them on the output as well. In such a case, use for:

for %a in ("First & Last") do echo %~a

...in a batch script:

for %%a in ("First & Last") do echo %%~a

or

for %%a in ("%~1") do echo %%~a

Sharing a URL with a query string on Twitter

As @onteria_ mentioned, you need to encode the entire parameter. For anyone else facing the same issue, you can use the following bookmarklet to generate the properly encoded url. Copy paste it into your browser's address bar to create the twitter share url. Make sure that the javascript: prefix is there when you copy it into address bar, Google Chrome removes it when copying.

javascript:(function(){var url=prompt("Enter the url to share");if(url)prompt("Share the following url - ","http://www.twitter.com/share?url="+encodeURIComponent(url))})();

Source on JS Fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/2frkV/

Setting new value for an attribute using jQuery

It is working you have to check attr after assigning value

LiveDemo

$('#amount').attr( 'datamin','1000');

alert($('#amount').attr( 'datamin'));?

How to uninstall with msiexec using product id guid without .msi file present

msiexec.exe /x "{588A9A11-1E20-4B91-8817-2D36ACBBBF9F}" /q 

How to retrieve a recursive directory and file list from PowerShell excluding some files and folders?

Commenting here as this seems to be the most popular answer on the subject for searching for files whilst excluding certain directories in powershell.

To avoid issues with post filtering of results (i.e. avoiding permission issues etc), I only needed to filter out top level directories and that is all this example is based on, so whilst this example doesn't filter child directory names, it could very easily be made recursive to support this, if you were so inclined.

Quick breakdown of how the snippet works

$folders << Uses Get-Childitem to query the file system and perform folder exclusion

$file << The pattern of the file I am looking for

foreach << Iterates the $folders variable performing a recursive search using the Get-Childitem command

$folders = Get-ChildItem -Path C:\ -Directory -Name -Exclude Folder1,"Folder 2"
$file = "*filenametosearchfor*.extension"

foreach ($folder in $folders) {
   Get-Childitem -Path "C:/$folder" -Recurse -Filter $file | ForEach-Object { Write-Output $_.FullName }
}

How to create a testflight invitation code?

after you add the user for testing. the user should get an email. open that email by your iOS device, then click "Start testing" it will bring you to testFlight to download the app directly. If you open that email via computer, and then click "Start testing" it will show you another page which have the instruction of how to install the app. and that invitation code is on the last line. those All upper case letters is the code.

Make Bootstrap 3 Tabs Responsive

I have created a directive in agularJS supported with ng-bootStrap components

https://angular-ui.github.io/bootstrap/#!#tabs

here I share the code that I implemented

[https://jsfiddle.net/k1r02/u6gpv4dc/][1]

  [1]: https://jsfiddle.net/k1r02/u6gpv4dc/

How to add headers to a multicolumn listbox in an Excel userform using VBA

I was searching for quite a while for a solution to add a header without using a separate sheet and copy everything into the userform.

My solution is to use the first row as header and run it through an if condition and add additional items underneath.

Like that:

_x000D_
_x000D_
If lborowcount = 0 Then_x000D_
 With lboorder_x000D_
 .ColumnCount = 5_x000D_
 .AddItem_x000D_
 .Column(0, lborowcount) = "Item"_x000D_
 .Column(1, lborowcount) = "Description"_x000D_
 .Column(2, lborowcount) = "Ordered"_x000D_
 .Column(3, lborowcount) = "Rate"_x000D_
 .Column(4, lborowcount) = "Amount"_x000D_
 End With_x000D_
 lborowcount = lborowcount + 1_x000D_
End If_x000D_
        _x000D_
        _x000D_
With lboorder_x000D_
 .ColumnCount = 5_x000D_
 .AddItem_x000D_
 .Column(0, lborowcount) = itemselected_x000D_
 .Column(1, lborowcount) = descriptionselected_x000D_
 .Column(2, lborowcount) = orderedselected_x000D_
 .Column(3, lborowcount) = rateselected_x000D_
 .Column(4, lborowcount) = amountselected_x000D_
 _x000D_
 _x000D_
 End With_x000D_
_x000D_
lborowcount = lborowcount + 1
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

in that example lboorder is the listbox, lborowcount counts at which row to add the next listbox item. It's a 5 column listbox. Not ideal but it works and when you have to scroll horizontally the "header" stays above the row.

Selecting last element in JavaScript array

var last = function( obj, key ) { 
    var a = obj[key];
    return a[a.length - 1];
};

last(loc, 'f096012e-2497-485d-8adb-7ec0b9352c52');

IE Driver download location Link for Selenium

You can download IE Driver (both 32 and 64-bit) from Selenium official site: http://docs.seleniumhq.org/download/

32 bit Windows IE

64 bit Windows IE

IE Driver is also available in the following site:

http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/index.html

How to retrieve SQL result column value using column name in Python?

This post is old but may come up via searching.

Now you can use mysql.connector to retrive a dictionary as shown here: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-python/en/connector-python-api-mysqlcursordict.html

Here is the example on the mysql site:

cnx = mysql.connector.connect(database='world')
cursor = cnx.cursor(dictionary=True)
cursor.execute("SELECT * FROM country WHERE Continent = 'Europe'")

print("Countries in Europe:")
for row in cursor:
    print("* {Name}".format(Name=row['Name']))

Get the last inserted row ID (with SQL statement)

If your SQL Server table has a column of type INT IDENTITY (or BIGINT IDENTITY), then you can get the latest inserted value using:

INSERT INTO dbo.YourTable(columns....)
   VALUES(..........)

SELECT SCOPE_IDENTITY()

This works as long as you haven't inserted another row - it just returns the last IDENTITY value handed out in this scope here.

There are at least two more options - @@IDENTITY and IDENT_CURRENT - read more about how they works and in what way they're different (and might give you unexpected results) in this excellent blog post by Pinal Dave here.

Crystal Reports - Adding a parameter to a 'Command' query

Try this:

Select Project_Name, ReleaseDate, TaskName
From DB_Table
Where Project_Name like '{?Pm-?Proj_Name}'
  And ReleaseDate >= currentdate

currentdate should be a valid database function or field to work. If you are using MS SQL Server, use GETDATE() instead.

If all you want is to filter records in a subreport based on a parameter from the main report, it might be easier to simply add the table to the subreport, and then create a Project_Name link between the main report and subreport. You can then use the Select Expert to filter the ReleaseDate as well.

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

You can get just the edition (plus under individual properties) using SERVERPROPERTY

e.g.

SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('Edition')

Quote (for "Edition"):

Installed product edition of the instance of SQL Server. Use the value of this property to determine the features and the limits, such as maximum number of CPUs, that are supported by the installed product.
Returns:
'Desktop Engine' (Not available for SQL Server 2005.)
'Developer Edition'
'Enterprise Edition'
'Enterprise Evaluation Edition'
'Personal Edition'(Not available for SQL Server 2005.)
'Standard Edition'
'Express Edition'
'Express Edition with Advanced Services'
'Workgroup Edition'
'Windows Embedded SQL'
Base data type: nvarchar(128)

How to fill background image of an UIView

Swift 4 Solution :

@IBInspectable var backgroundImage: UIImage? {
    didSet {
        UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(self.frame.size)
        backgroundImage?.draw(in: self.bounds)
        let image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
        UIGraphicsEndImageContext()
        if let image = image{
            self.backgroundColor = UIColor(patternImage: image)
        }
    }
}

Create or write/append in text file

This is working for me, Writing(creating as well) and/or appending content in the same mode.

$fp = fopen("MyFile.txt", "a+") 

'pip install' fails for every package ("Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement")

Upgrade pip as follows:

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python

Note: You may need to use sudo python above if not in a virtual environment.

What's happening:

Python.org sites are stopping support for TLS versions 1.0 and 1.1. This means that Mac OS X version 10.12 (Sierra) or older will not be able to use pip unless they upgrade pip as above.

(Note that upgrading pip via pip install --upgrade pip will also not upgrade it correctly. It is a chicken-and-egg issue)

This thread explains it (thanks to this Twitter post):

Mac users who use pip and PyPI:

If you are running macOS/OS X version 10.12 or older, then you ought to upgrade to the latest pip (9.0.3) to connect to the Python Package Index securely:

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python

and we recommend you do that by April 8th.

Pip 9.0.3 supports TLSv1.2 when running under system Python on macOS < 10.13. Official release notes: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/news/

Also, the Python status page:

Completed - The rolling brownouts are finished, and TLSv1.0 and TLSv1.1 have been disabled. Apr 11, 15:37 UTC

Update - The rolling brownouts have been upgraded to a blackout, TLSv1.0 and TLSv1.1 will be rejected with a HTTP 403 at all times. Apr 8, 15:49 UTC

Lastly, to avoid other install errors, make sure you also upgrade setuptools after doing the above:

pip install --upgrade setuptools

Split a List into smaller lists of N size

I have a generic method that would take any types include float, and it's been unit-tested, hope it helps:

    /// <summary>
    /// Breaks the list into groups with each group containing no more than the specified group size
    /// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="T"></typeparam>
    /// <param name="values">The values.</param>
    /// <param name="groupSize">Size of the group.</param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static List<List<T>> SplitList<T>(IEnumerable<T> values, int groupSize, int? maxCount = null)
    {
        List<List<T>> result = new List<List<T>>();
        // Quick and special scenario
        if (values.Count() <= groupSize)
        {
            result.Add(values.ToList());
        }
        else
        {
            List<T> valueList = values.ToList();
            int startIndex = 0;
            int count = valueList.Count;
            int elementCount = 0;

            while (startIndex < count && (!maxCount.HasValue || (maxCount.HasValue && startIndex < maxCount)))
            {
                elementCount = (startIndex + groupSize > count) ? count - startIndex : groupSize;
                result.Add(valueList.GetRange(startIndex, elementCount));
                startIndex += elementCount;
            }
        }


        return result;
    }

How to get process ID of background process?

An even simpler way to kill all child process of a bash script:

pkill -P $$

The -P flag works the same way with pkill and pgrep - it gets child processes, only with pkill the child processes get killed and with pgrep child PIDs are printed to stdout.

Execute the setInterval function without delay the first time

There's a convenient npm package called firstInterval (full disclosure, it's mine).

Many of the examples here don't include parameter handling, and changing default behaviors of setInterval in any large project is evil. From the docs:

This pattern

setInterval(callback, 1000, p1, p2);
callback(p1, p2);

is identical to

firstInterval(callback, 1000, p1, p2);

If you're old school in the browser and don't want the dependency, it's an easy cut-and-paste from the code.

How to compare two NSDates: Which is more recent?

- (NSDate *)earlierDate:(NSDate *)anotherDate

This returns the earlier of the receiver and anotherDate. If both are same, the receiver is returned.

How do I get a string format of the current date time, in python?

You can use the datetime module for working with dates and times in Python. The strftime method allows you to produce string representation of dates and times with a format you specify.

>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.date.today().strftime("%B %d, %Y")
'July 23, 2010'
>>> datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%I:%M%p on %B %d, %Y")
'10:36AM on July 23, 2010'

regex.test V.S. string.match to know if a string matches a regular expression

Basic Usage

First, let's see what each function does:

regexObject.test( String )

Executes the search for a match between a regular expression and a specified string. Returns true or false.

string.match( RegExp )

Used to retrieve the matches when matching a string against a regular expression. Returns an array with the matches or null if there are none.

Since null evaluates to false,

if ( string.match(regex) ) {
  // There was a match.
} else {
  // No match.
} 

Performance

Is there any difference regarding performance?

Yes. I found this short note in the MDN site:

If you need to know if a string matches a regular expression regexp, use regexp.test(string).

Is the difference significant?

The answer once more is YES! This jsPerf I put together shows the difference is ~30% - ~60% depending on the browser:

test vs match | Performance Test

Conclusion

Use .test if you want a faster boolean check. Use .match to retrieve all matches when using the g global flag.

Install msi with msiexec in a Specific Directory

Here's my attempt to install .msi using msiexec in Administrative PowerShell.

I've made it 7 times for each of 2 drives, C: and D: (14 total) with different arguments in place of ARG and the same desirable path value.

Template: PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> msiexec /a D:\users\username\downloads\soft\publisher\softwarename\software.msi /passive ARG="D:\Soft\publisher\softwarename"

ARGs:

  • TARGETDIR
    • Works OK-ish, but produces redundand ProgramFilesFolder (with an additional folders similar to the default installation path, e.g. D:\Soft\BlenderFoundation\Blender\ProgramFilesFolder\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.81\) and a copy of the .msi at the target folder.
  • INSTALLDIR, INSTALLPATH, INSTALLFOLDER, INSTALLLOCATION, APPLICATIONFOLDER, APPDIR
    • When running on the same drive as set in the parameter: installs on this drive in a default folder (e.g. D:\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.81\)
    • When running from a differnet drive: seems to do nothing

Using variable in SQL LIKE statement

If you are using a Stored Procedure:

ALTER PROCEDURE <Name>
(
    @PartialName VARCHAR(50) = NULL
)

SELECT Name 
    FROM <table>
    WHERE Name LIKE '%' + @PartialName + '%'

.htaccess: where is located when not in www base dir

. (dot) files are hidden by default on Unix/Linux systems. Most likely, if you know they are .htaccess files, then they are probably in the root folder for the website.

If you are using a command line (terminal) to access, then they will only show up if you use:

ls -a

If you are using a GUI application, look for a setting to "show hidden files" or something similar.

If you still have no luck, and you are on a terminal, you can execute these commands to search the whole system (may take some time):

cd /
find . -name ".htaccess"

This will list out any files it finds with that name.

Open Cygwin at a specific folder

Here's what I use. It doesn't require chere package or registry tinkering. Works on Windows 7.

Go to your "Send To" folder:

C:\Users\<your_user_name>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo

Create a shortcut named Bash Here having this in the Target field:

C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico  C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe  -l -c "cd \"$0\" ; exec bash"

In the Windows Explorer, you right-click on a folder & select Send To > Bash Here.

And here's the opposite trick, opening a Windows Explorer in your current bash dir. Create this alias:

alias winx='/cygdrive/c/Windows/explorer.exe /e,\`cygpath -w .\`'

Note: the cygpath -w . part above is enclosed in back-ticks.

Now just type winx at the bash prompt, and a Win Explorer pops up there.

Note: If winx directs you to your documents folder, try

alias winx='/cygdrive/c/Windows/explorer.exe /e,`cygpath -w $PWD`'

Node.js: How to send headers with form data using request module?

Just remember set method to POST in options. Here is my code

var options = {
    url: 'http://www.example.com',
    method: 'POST', // Don't forget this line
    headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
        'X-MicrosoftAjax': 'Delta=true', // blah, blah, blah...
        'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.97 Safari/537.36',
    },
    form: {
        'key-1':'value-1',
        'key-2':'value-2',
        ...
    }
};

//console.log('options:', options);

// Create request to get data
request(options, (err, response, body) => {
    if (err) {
        //console.log(err);
    } else {
        console.log('body:', body);
    }
});

Correct way to push into state array

You should not be operating the state at all. At least, not directly. If you want to update your array, you'll want to do something like this.

var newStateArray = this.state.myArray.slice();
newStateArray.push('new value');
this.setState(myArray: newStateArray);

Working on the state object directly is not desirable. You can also take a look at React's immutability helpers.

https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/update.html

How do I pipe a subprocess call to a text file?

If you want to write the output to a file you can use the stdout-argument of subprocess.call.

It takes None, subprocess.PIPE, a file object or a file descriptor. The first is the default, stdout is inherited from the parent (your script). The second allows you to pipe from one command/process to another. The third and fourth are what you want, to have the output written to a file.

You need to open a file with something like open and pass the object or file descriptor integer to call:

f = open("blah.txt", "w")
subprocess.call(["/home/myuser/run.sh", "/tmp/ad_xml",  "/tmp/video_xml"], stdout=f)

I'm guessing any valid file-like object would work, like a socket (gasp :)), but I've never tried.

As marcog mentions in the comments you might want to redirect stderr as well, you can redirect this to the same location as stdout with stderr=subprocess.STDOUT. Any of the above mentioned values works as well, you can redirect to different places.

Replace contents of factor column in R dataframe

For the things that you are suggesting you can just change the levels using the levels:

levels(iris$Species)[3] <- 'new'

git add only modified changes and ignore untracked files

You didn't say what's currently your .gitignore, but a .gitignore with the following contents in your root directory should do the trick.

.metadata
build

Python: "Indentation Error: unindent does not match any outer indentation level"

had the same issue i copied my code to jupyter it showed me the correct spacing i replaced the wrong spacing with the corrected one and it works

i actually copied correct lines then modified my text

at the end i copied my codeback to vs code

How do you change Background for a Button MouseOver in WPF?

For change button style

1st: define resource styles

<Window.Resources>

    <Style x:Key="OvergroundIn" TargetType="Button">

        <Setter Property="Template">
            <Setter.Value>
                <ControlTemplate TargetType="Button">
                    <Grid Background="#FF16832F">
                        <ContentPresenter TextBlock.Foreground="White" TextBlock.TextAlignment="Center" Margin="0,8,0,0" ></ContentPresenter>
                    </Grid>
                </ControlTemplate>
            </Setter.Value>
        </Setter>

        <Style.Triggers>
            <Trigger Property="IsMouseOver" Value="True">

                <Setter Property="Template">
                    <Setter.Value>
                        <ControlTemplate TargetType="Button">
                            <Grid Background="#FF06731F">
                                <ContentPresenter TextBlock.Foreground="White" TextBlock.TextAlignment="Center" Margin="0,8,0,0" ></ContentPresenter>
                            </Grid>
                        </ControlTemplate>
                    </Setter.Value>
                </Setter>

            </Trigger>
        </Style.Triggers>

    </Style>

    <Style x:Key="OvergroundOut" TargetType="Button">

        <Setter Property="Template">
            <Setter.Value>
                <ControlTemplate TargetType="Button">
                    <Grid Background="#FFF35E5E">
                        <ContentPresenter TextBlock.Foreground="White" TextBlock.TextAlignment="Center" Margin="0,8,0,0" ></ContentPresenter>
                    </Grid>
                </ControlTemplate>
            </Setter.Value>
        </Setter>

        <Style.Triggers>
            <Trigger Property="IsMouseOver" Value="True">

                <Setter Property="Template">
                    <Setter.Value>
                        <ControlTemplate TargetType="Button">
                            <Grid Background="#FFE34E4E">
                                <ContentPresenter TextBlock.Foreground="White" TextBlock.TextAlignment="Center" Margin="0,8,0,0" ></ContentPresenter>
                            </Grid>
                        </ControlTemplate>
                    </Setter.Value>
                </Setter>

            </Trigger>
        </Style.Triggers>

    </Style>


</Window.Resources>

2nd define button code

                           <Border Grid.Column="2" BorderBrush="LightGray" BorderThickness="2" CornerRadius="3" Margin="2,2,2,2"  >
                                <Button Name="btnFichar" BorderThickness="0" Click="BtnFichar_Click">
                                    <Button.Content>
                                        <Grid>
                                            <TextBlock Margin="0,7,0,7" TextAlignment="Center">Fichar</TextBlock> 
                                        </Grid>
                                    </Button.Content>
                                </Button>
                            </Border>

3th code behind

    public void ShowStatus()
    {
        switch (((MainDto)this.DataContext).State)
        {
            case State.IN:
                this.btnFichar.BorderBrush = new SolidColorBrush(Color.FromRgb(243, 94, 94));
                this.btnFichar.Style = Resources["OvergroundIn"] as Style;
                this.btnFichar.Content = "Fichar Salida";
                break;

            case State.OUT:
                this.btnFichar.BorderBrush = new SolidColorBrush(Color.FromRgb(76, 106, 83));
                this.btnFichar.Style = Resources["OvergroundOut"] as Style;
                this.btnFichar.Content = "Fichar Entrada";
                break;

        }
    }

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 create a .gitignore file

You can go to https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore

Select the IDE, operating systems or programming language. It will automatically generate for you. enter image description here

Can I change the Android startActivity() transition animation?

Starting from API level 5 you can call overridePendingTransition immediately to specify an explicit transition animation:

startActivity();
overridePendingTransition(R.anim.hold, R.anim.fade_in);

or

finish();
overridePendingTransition(R.anim.hold, R.anim.fade_out);

Using a batch to copy from network drive to C: or D: drive

This might be due to a security check. This thread might help you.

There are two suggestions: one with pushd and one with a registry change. I'd suggest to use the first one...

What is the time complexity of indexing, inserting and removing from common data structures?

I guess I will start you off with the time complexity of a linked list:

Indexing---->O(n)
Inserting / Deleting at end---->O(1) or O(n)
Inserting / Deleting in middle--->O(1) with iterator O(n) with out

The time complexity for the Inserting at the end depends if you have the location of the last node, if you do, it would be O(1) other wise you will have to search through the linked list and the time complexity would jump to O(n).

Equivalent of .bat in mac os

The common convention would be to put it in a .sh file that looks like this -

#!/bin/bash
java -cp  ".;./supportlibraries/Framework_Core.jar;... etc

Note that '\' become '/'.

You could execute as

sh myfile.sh

or set the x bit on the file

chmod +x myfile.sh

and then just call

myfile.sh

How to plot two histograms together in R?

That image you linked to was for density curves, not histograms.

If you've been reading on ggplot then maybe the only thing you're missing is combining your two data frames into one long one.

So, let's start with something like what you have, two separate sets of data and combine them.

carrots <- data.frame(length = rnorm(100000, 6, 2))
cukes <- data.frame(length = rnorm(50000, 7, 2.5))

# Now, combine your two dataframes into one.  
# First make a new column in each that will be 
# a variable to identify where they came from later.
carrots$veg <- 'carrot'
cukes$veg <- 'cuke'

# and combine into your new data frame vegLengths
vegLengths <- rbind(carrots, cukes)

After that, which is unnecessary if your data is in long format already, you only need one line to make your plot.

ggplot(vegLengths, aes(length, fill = veg)) + geom_density(alpha = 0.2)

enter image description here

Now, if you really did want histograms the following will work. Note that you must change position from the default "stack" argument. You might miss that if you don't really have an idea of what your data should look like. A higher alpha looks better there. Also note that I made it density histograms. It's easy to remove the y = ..density.. to get it back to counts.

ggplot(vegLengths, aes(length, fill = veg)) + 
   geom_histogram(alpha = 0.5, aes(y = ..density..), position = 'identity')

enter image description here

Convert a String to a byte array and then back to the original String

You can do it like this.

String to byte array

String stringToConvert = "This String is 76 characters long and will be converted to an array of bytes";
byte[] theByteArray = stringToConvert.getBytes();

http://www.javadb.com/convert-string-to-byte-array

Byte array to String

byte[] byteArray = new byte[] {87, 79, 87, 46, 46, 46};
String value = new String(byteArray);

http://www.javadb.com/convert-byte-array-to-string

WSDL vs REST Pros and Cons

In defence of REST it closely follows the principles of HTTP and addressability e.g. read operations use GET, update operations use POST etc. I find this to be a far cleaner approach. The Oreilly book RESTful Web Services explains this far better than I can, if you read it I think you would prefer the REST approach

Batch file to restart a service. Windows

net stop <your service> && net start <your service>

No net restart, unfortunately.

How to run a program automatically as admin on Windows 7 at startup?

You should also consider the security implications of running a process as an administrator level user or as Service. If any input is not being validated properly, such as if it is listening on a network interface. If the parser for this input doesn't validate properly, it can be abused, and possibly lead to an exploit that could run code as the elevated user. in abatishchev's example it shouldn't be much of a problem, but if it were to be deployed in an enterprise environment, do a security assessment prior to wide scale deployment.

Eclipse - no Java (JRE) / (JDK) ... no virtual machine

The reason you get this error is because eclipse needs a JRE to launch, which it can't find. The first place it searches is the current directory, then the eclipse.ini file and then finally the system path. So if the it can't find the correct jvm(bit versions are different) through any of these three places, it cribs

The recommended way is to edit the eclipse.ini file and tell eclipse where exactly to look for the vm/jre, by including this line in the file:

-vm
[path to your java.exe] (which is generally under "C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin")

P.S. To edit the eclipse.ini, you may need to move the it, edit and then paste it back

Source:- wiki

How to append multiple items in one line in Python

Use this :

#Inputs
L1 = [1, 2]
L2 = [3,4,5]

#Code
L1+L2

#Output
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

By using the (+) operator you can skip the multiple append & extend operators in just one line of code and this is valid for more then two of lists by L1+L2+L3+L4.......etc.

Happy Learning...:)

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

Google crawlers are not smart enough, they can't crawl relative URLs, that's why it's always recommended to use absolute URL's for better crawlability and indexability.

Therefore, you can not use this variation

> sitemap: /sitemap.xml

Recommended syntax is

Sitemap: https://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml

Note:

  • Don't forgot to capitalise the first letter in "sitemap"
  • Don't forgot to put space after "Sitemap:"

Sort a Map<Key, Value> by values

public class Test {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    TreeMap<Integer, String> hm=new TreeMap();
    hm.put(3, "arun singh");
    hm.put(5, "vinay singh");
    hm.put(1, "bandagi singh");
    hm.put(6, "vikram singh");
    hm.put(2, "panipat singh");
    hm.put(28, "jakarta singh");

    ArrayList<String> al=new ArrayList(hm.values());
    Collections.sort(al, new myComparator());

    System.out.println("//sort by values \n");
    for(String obj: al){
        for(Map.Entry<Integer, String> map2:hm.entrySet()){
            if(map2.getValue().equals(obj)){
                System.out.println(map2.getKey()+" "+map2.getValue());
            }
        } 
     }
  }
}

class myComparator implements Comparator{
    @Override
    public int compare(Object o1, Object o2) {
       String o3=(String) o1;
       String o4 =(String) o2;
       return o3.compareTo(o4);
    }   
}

OUTPUT=

//sort by values 

3 arun singh
1 bandagi singh
28 jakarta singh
2 panipat singh
6 vikram singh
5 vinay singh

Does mobile Google Chrome support browser extensions?

Extensions are not supported, see: https://developers.google.com/chrome/mobile/docs/faq .

Specifically:

Does Chrome for Android now support the embedded WebView for a hybrid native/web app?

A Chrome-based WebView is included in Android 4.4 (KitKat) and later. See the WebView overview for details.

Does Chrome for Android support apps and extensions?

Chrome apps and extensions are currently not supported on Chrome for Android. We have no plans to announce at this time.

Can I write and deploy web apps on Chrome for Android?

Though Chrome apps are not currently supported, we would love to see great interactive web sites accessible by URL.

Build .so file from .c file using gcc command line

To generate a shared library you need first to compile your C code with the -fPIC (position independent code) flag.

gcc -c -fPIC hello.c -o hello.o

This will generate an object file (.o), now you take it and create the .so file:

gcc hello.o -shared -o libhello.so

EDIT: Suggestions from the comments:

You can use

gcc -shared -o libhello.so -fPIC hello.c

to do it in one step. – Jonathan Leffler

I also suggest to add -Wall to get all warnings, and -g to get debugging information, to your gcc commands. – Basile Starynkevitch

PHP: How to remove specific element from an array?

Use this simple way hope it will helpful

foreach($array as $k => $value)
    {
      
        if($value == 'strawberry')
        {
          unset($array[$k]);
        }
    }

C function that counts lines in file

I don't see anything immediately obvious as to what would cause a segmentation fault. My only suspicion is that your code expects to get a filename as a parameter when you run it, but if you don't pass it, it will attempt to reference one, anyway.

Accessing argv[1] when it doesn't exist would cause a segmentation fault. It's generally good practice to check the number of arguments before trying to reference them. You can do this by using the following function prototype for main(), and checking that argc is greater than 1 (simply, it will indicate the number entries in argv).

int main(int argc, char** argv)

The best way to figure out what causes a segfault in general is to use a debugger. If you're in Visual Studio, put a breakpoint at the top of your main function and then choose Run with debugging instead of "Run without debugging" when you start the program. It will stop execution at the top, and let you step line-by-line until you see a problem.

If you're in Linux, you can just grab the core file (it will have "core" in the name) and load that with gdb (GNU Debugger). It can give you a stack dump which will point you straight to the line that caused the segmentation fault to occur.

EDIT: I see you changed your question and code. So this answer probably isn't useful anymore, but I'll leave it as it's good advice anyway, and see if I can address the modified question, shortly).

How to install Openpyxl with pip

  1. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/openpyxl download zip file and unzip it on local system.
  2. go to openpyxl folder where setup.py is present.
  3. open command prompt under the same path.
  4. Run a command: python setup.py install
  5. It will install openpyxl.

How to fix "The ConnectionString property has not been initialized"

Simply in Code Behind Page use:-

SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection("Data Source = DellPC; Initial Catalog = Account; user = sa; password = admin");

It Should Work Just Fine

How to configure CORS in a Spring Boot + Spring Security application?

Spring Security can now leverage Spring MVC CORS support described in this blog post I wrote.

To make it work, you need to explicitly enable CORS support at Spring Security level as following, otherwise CORS enabled requests may be blocked by Spring Security before reaching Spring MVC.

If you are using controller level @CrossOrigin annotations, you just have to enable Spring Security CORS support and it will leverage Spring MVC configuration:

@EnableWebSecurity
public class WebSecurityConfig extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {

    @Override
    protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
        http.cors().and()...
    }
}

If you prefer using CORS global configuration, you can declare a CorsConfigurationSource bean as following:

@EnableWebSecurity
public class WebSecurityConfig extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {

    @Override
    protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
        http.cors().and()...
    }

    @Bean
    CorsConfigurationSource corsConfigurationSource() {
        UrlBasedCorsConfigurationSource source = new UrlBasedCorsConfigurationSource();
        source.registerCorsConfiguration("/**", new CorsConfiguration().applyPermitDefaultValues());
        return source;
    }
}

This approach supersedes the filter-based approach previously recommended.

You can find more details in the dedicated CORS section of Spring Security documentation.

When do I need to use Begin / End Blocks and the Go keyword in SQL Server?

BEGIN and END have been well answered by others.

As Gary points out, GO is a batch separator, used by most of the Microsoft supplied client tools, such as isql, sqlcmd, query analyzer and SQL Server Management studio. (At least some of the tools allow the batch separator to be changed. I have never seen a use for changing the batch separator.)

To answer the question of when to use GO, one needs to know when the SQL must be separated into batches.

Some statements must be the first statement of a batch.

select 1
create procedure #Zero as
    return 0

On SQL Server 2000 the error is:

Msg 111, Level 15, State 1, Line 3
'CREATE PROCEDURE' must be the first statement in a query batch.
Msg 178, Level 15, State 1, Line 4
A RETURN statement with a return value cannot be used in this context.

On SQL Server 2005 the error is less helpful:

Msg 178, Level 15, State 1, Procedure #Zero, Line 5
A RETURN statement with a return value cannot be used in this context.

So, use GO to separate statements that have to be the start of a batch from the statements that precede it in a script.

When running a script, many errors will cause execution of the batch to stop, but then the client will simply send the next batch, execution of the script will not stop. I often use this in testing. I will start the script with begin transaction and end with rollback, doing all the testing in the middle:

begin transaction
go
... test code here ...
go
rollback transaction

That way I always return to the starting state, even if an error happened in the test code, the begin and rollback transaction statements being part of a separate batches still happens. If they weren't in separate batches, then a syntax error would keep begin transaction from happening, since a batch is parsed as a unit. And a runtime error would keep the rollback from happening.

Also, if you are doing an install script, and have several batches in one file, an error in one batch will not keep the script from continuing to run, which may leave a mess. (Always backup before installing.)

Related to what Dave Markel pointed out, there are cases when parsing will fail because SQL Server is looking in the data dictionary for objects that are created earlier in the batch, but parsing can happen before any statements are run. Sometimes this is an issue, sometimes not. I can't come up with a good example. But if you ever get an 'X does not exist' error, when it plainly will exist by that statement break into batches.

And a final note. Transaction can span batches. (See above.) Variables do not span batches.

declare @i int
set @i = 0
go
print @i

Msg 137, Level 15, State 2, Line 1
Must declare the scalar variable "@i".

urllib2 and json

Whatever urllib is using to figure out Content-Length seems to get confused by json, so you have to calculate that yourself.

import json
import urllib2
data = json.dumps([1, 2, 3])
clen = len(data)
req = urllib2.Request(url, data, {'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'Content-Length': clen})
f = urllib2.urlopen(req)
response = f.read()
f.close()

Took me for ever to figure this out, so I hope it helps someone else.

How to inject Javascript in WebBrowser control?

You can always use a "DocumentStream" or "DocumentText" property. For working with HTML documents I recommend a HTML Agility Pack.

Javascript : Send JSON Object with Ajax?

Adding Json.stringfy around the json that fixed the issue

How to show math equations in general github's markdown(not github's blog)

It ’s 2020 now, let me summarize the progress of the mathematical formula rendering support of source code repository hosts.

GitHub & Bitbucket

GitHub and Bitbucket still do not support the rendering of mathematical formulas, whether it is the default delimiters or other.

Bitbucket Cloud / BCLOUD-11192 -- Add LaTeX Support in MarkDown Documents (BB-12552)

GitHub / markup -- Rendering math equations

GitHub / markup -- Support latex

GitHub Community Forum -- [FEATURE REQUEST] LaTeX Math in Markdown

talk.commonmark.org -- Can math formula added to the markdown

GitHub has hardly made any substantial progress in recent years.

GitLab

GitLab is already supported, but not the most common way. It uses its own delimiter.

This math is inline $`a^2+b^2=c^2`$.

This is on a separate line

```math
a^2+b^2=c^2
```

GitLab Flavored Markdown -- Math

Who supports the universal delimiters?

A Markdown parser used by Hugo

Other ways to render

How do I break out of nested loops in Java?

Like @1800 INFORMATION suggestion, use the condition that breaks the inner loop as a condition on the outer loop:

boolean hasAccess = false;
for (int i = 0; i < x && hasAccess == false; i++){
    for (int j = 0; j < y; j++){
        if (condition == true){
            hasAccess = true;
            break;
        }
    }
}

In C - check if a char exists in a char array

I believe the original question said:

a character belongs to a list/array of invalid characters

and not:

belongs to a null-terminated string

which, if it did, then strchr would indeed be the most suitable answer. If, however, there is no null termination to an array of chars or if the chars are in a list structure, then you will need to either create a null-terminated string and use strchr or manually iterate over the elements in the collection, checking each in turn. If the collection is small, then a linear search will be fine. A large collection may need a more suitable structure to improve the search times - a sorted array or a balanced binary tree for example.

Pick whatever works best for you situation.

Printing hexadecimal characters in C

You are probably printing from a signed char array. Either print from an unsigned char array or mask the value with 0xff: e.g. ar[i] & 0xFF. The c0 values are being sign extended because the high (sign) bit is set.

How to convert a String into an ArrayList?

In Java 9, using List#of, which is an Immutable List Static Factory Methods, become more simpler.

 String s = "a,b,c,d,e,.........";
 List<String> lst = List.of(s.split(","));

How to split a data frame?

subset() is also useful:

subset(DATAFRAME, COLUMNNAME == "")

For a survey package, maybe the survey package is pertinent?

http://faculty.washington.edu/tlumley/survey/

Define a struct inside a class in C++

Yes you can. In c++, class and struct are kind of similar. We can define not only structure inside a class, but also a class inside one. It is called inner class.

As an example I am adding a simple Trie class.

class Trie {
private:
    struct node{
        node* alp[26];
        bool isend;
    };
    node* root;
    node* createNode(){
        node* newnode=new node();
        for(int i=0; i<26; i++){
            newnode->alp[i]=nullptr;
        }
        newnode->isend=false;
        return newnode;
    }
public:
    /** Initialize your data structure here. */
    Trie() {
        root=createNode();
    }

    /** Inserts a word into the trie. */
    void insert(string word) {
        node* head=root;
        for(int i=0; i<word.length(); i++){
            if(head->alp[int(word[i]-'a')]==nullptr){
                node* newnode=createNode();
                head->alp[int(word[i]-'a')]=newnode;
            }
            head=head->alp[int(word[i]-'a')];
        }
        head->isend=true;
    }

    /** Returns if the word is in the trie. */
    bool search(string word) {
        node* head=root;
        for(int i=0; i<word.length(); i++){
            if(head->alp[int(word[i]-'a')]==nullptr){
                return false;
            }
            head=head->alp[int(word[i]-'a')];
        }
        if(head->isend){return true;}
        return false;
    }

    /** Returns if there is any word in the trie that starts with the given prefix. */
    bool startsWith(string prefix) {
        node* head=root;
        for(int i=0; i<prefix.length(); i++){
            if(head->alp[int(prefix[i]-'a')]==nullptr){
                return false;
            }
            head=head->alp[int(prefix[i]-'a')];
        }
        return true;
    }
};

/**
 * Your Trie object will be instantiated and called as such:
 * Trie* obj = new Trie();
 * obj->insert(word);
 * bool param_2 = obj->search(word);
 * bool param_3 = obj->startsWith(prefix);
 */

How to return an array from a function?

int* test();

but it would be "more C++" to use vectors:

std::vector< int > test();

EDIT
I'll clarify some point. Since you mentioned C++, I'll go with new[] and delete[] operators, but it's the same with malloc/free.

In the first case, you'll write something like:

int* test() {
    return new int[size_needed];
}

but it's not a nice idea because your function's client doesn't really know the size of the array you are returning, although the client can safely deallocate it with a call to delete[].

int* theArray = test();
for (size_t i; i < ???; ++i) { // I don't know what is the array size!
    // ...
}
delete[] theArray; // ok.

A better signature would be this one:

int* test(size_t& arraySize) {
    array_size = 10;
    return new int[array_size];
}

And your client code would now be:

size_t theSize = 0;
int* theArray = test(theSize);
for (size_t i; i < theSize; ++i) { // now I can safely iterate the array
    // ...
}
delete[] theArray; // still ok.

Since this is C++, std::vector<T> is a widely-used solution:

std::vector<int> test() {
    std::vector<int> vector(10);
    return vector;
}

Now you don't have to call delete[], since it will be handled by the object, and you can safely iterate it with:

std::vector<int> v = test();
std::vector<int>::iterator it = v.begin();
for (; it != v.end(); ++it) {
   // do your things
}

which is easier and safer.

Concept behind putting wait(),notify() methods in Object class

Wait and notify method always called on object so whether it may be Thread object or simple object (which does not extends Thread class) Given Example will clear your all the doubts.

I have called wait and notify on class ObjB and that is the Thread class so we can say that wait and notify are called on any object.

public class ThreadA {
    public static void main(String[] args){
        ObjB b = new ObjB();
        Threadc c = new Threadc(b); 
        ThreadD d = new ThreadD(b);
        d.setPriority(5);
        c.setPriority(1);
        d.start();
        c.start();
    }
}

class ObjB {
    int total;
    int count(){
        for(int i=0; i<100 ; i++){
            total += i;
        }
        return total;
    }}


class Threadc extends Thread{
    ObjB b;
    Threadc(ObjB objB){
        b= objB;
    }
    int total;
    @Override
    public void run(){
        System.out.print("Thread C run method");
        synchronized(b){
            total = b.count();
            System.out.print("Thread C notified called ");
            b.notify();
        }
    }
}

class ThreadD extends Thread{
    ObjB b;
    ThreadD(ObjB objB){
        b= objB;
    }
    int total;
    @Override
    public void run(){
        System.out.print("Thread D run method");
        synchronized(b){
            System.out.println("Waiting for b to complete...");
            try {
                b.wait();
                System.out.print("Thread C B value is" + b.total);
                } 
                catch (InterruptedException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
        }
    }
}

Setting up and using environment variables in IntelliJ Idea

Path Variables dialog has nothing to do with the environment variables.

Environment variables can be specified in your OS or customized in the Run configuration:

env

How to remove special characters from a string?

If you just want to do a literal replace in java, use Pattern.quote(string) to escape any string to a literal.

myString.replaceAll(Pattern.quote(matchingStr), replacementStr)

From Now() to Current_timestamp in Postgresql

Use an interval instead of an integer:

SELECT *
FROM table
WHERE auth_user.lastactivity > CURRENT_TIMESTAMP - INTERVAL '100 days'

Finding moving average from data points in Python

There is a problem with the accepted answer. I think we need to use "valid" instead of "same" here - return numpy.convolve(interval, window, 'same') .

As an Example try out the MA of this data-set = [1,5,7,2,6,7,8,2,2,7,8,3,7,3,7,3,15,6] - the result should be [4.2,5.4,6.0,5.0,5.0,5.2,5.4,4.4,5.4,5.6,5.6,4.6,7.0,6.8], but having "same" gives us an incorrect output of [2.6,3.0,4.2,5.4,6.0,5.0,5.0,5.2,5.4,4.4,5.4,5.6,5.6, 4.6,7.0,6.8,6.2,4.8]

Rusty code to try this out -:

result=[]
dataset=[1,5,7,2,6,7,8,2,2,7,8,3,7,3,7,3,15,6]
window_size=5
for index in xrange(len(dataset)):
    if index <=len(dataset)-window_size :
        tmp=(dataset[index]+ dataset[index+1]+ dataset[index+2]+ dataset[index+3]+ dataset[index+4])/5.0
        result.append(tmp)
    else:
      pass

result==movingaverage(y, window_size) 

Try this with valid & same and see whether the math makes sense.

See also -: http://sentdex.com/sentiment-analysisbig-data-and-python-tutorials-algorithmic-trading/how-to-chart-stocks-and-forex-doing-your-own-financial-charting/calculate-simple-moving-average-sma-python/

Limit number of characters allowed in form input text field

I alway do it like this:

$(document).ready(function(){
var maxChars = $("#sessionNum");
var max_length = maxChars.attr('maxlength');
if (max_length > 0) {
    maxChars.on('keyup', function(e){
        length = new Number(maxChars.val().length);
        counter = max_length-length;
        $("#sessionNum_counter").text(counter);
    });
}
});

Input:

<input name="sessionNum" id="sessionNum" maxlength="5" type="text">
Number of chars: <span id="sessionNum_counter">5</span>

setSupportActionBar toolbar cannot be applied to (android.widget.Toolbar) error

In your Activity.java import android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar instead of android.widget.Toolbar:

import android.app.ActionBar;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar;


public class rutaActivity extends AppCompactActivity {

private Toolbar toolbar;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_ruta);

    getSupportActionBar().hide();//Ocultar ActivityBar anterior

    toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.app_bar);
    setSupportActionBar(toolbar); //NO PROBLEM !!!!

Update:

If you are using androidx, replace

import android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;

with newer imports

import androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar;
import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;

jQuery 'each' loop with JSON array

My solutions in one of my own sites, with a table:

$.getJSON("sections/view_numbers_update.php", function(data) {
 $.each(data, function(index, objNumber) {
  $('#tr_' + objNumber.intID).find("td").eq(3).html(objNumber.datLastCalled);
  $('#tr_' + objNumber.intID).find("td").eq(4).html(objNumber.strStatus);
  $('#tr_' + objNumber.intID).find("td").eq(5).html(objNumber.intDuration);
  $('#tr_' + objNumber.intID).find("td").eq(6).html(objNumber.blnWasHuman);
 });
});

sections/view_numbers_update.php Returns something like:

[{"intID":"19","datLastCalled":"Thu, 10 Jan 13 08:52:20 +0000","strStatus":"Completed","intDuration":"0:04 secs","blnWasHuman":"Yes","datModified":1357807940},
{"intID":"22","datLastCalled":"Thu, 10 Jan 13 08:54:43 +0000","strStatus":"Completed","intDuration":"0:00 secs","blnWasHuman":"Yes","datModified":1357808079}]

HTML table:

<table id="table_numbers">
 <tr>
  <th>[...]</th>
  <th>[...]</th>
  <th>[...]</th>
  <th>Last Call</th>
  <th>Status</th>
  <th>Duration</th>
  <th>Human?</th>
  <th>[...]</th>
 </tr>
 <tr id="tr_123456">
  [...]
 </tr>
</table>

This essentially gives every row a unique id preceding with 'tr_' to allow for other numbered element ids, at server script time. The jQuery script then just gets this TR_[id] element, and fills the correct indexed cell with the json return.

The advantage is you could get the complete array from the DB, and either foreach($array as $record) to create the table html, OR (if there is an update request) you can die(json_encode($array)) before displaying the table, all in the same page, but same display code.

How to create duplicate table with new name in SQL Server 2008

Right click on the table in SQL Management Studio.

Select Script... Create to... New Query Window.

This will generate a script to recreate the table in a new query window.

Change the name of the table in the script to whatever you want the new table to be named.

Execute the script.

PyCharm import external library

Update (2018-01-06): This answer is obsolete. Modern versions of PyCharm provide Paths via Settings ? Project Interpreter ? ? ? Show All ? Show paths button.


PyCharm Professional Edition has the Paths tab in Python Interpreters settings, but Community Edition apparently doesn't have it.

As a workaround, you can create a symlink for your imported library under your project's root.

For example:

myproject
    mypackage
        __init__.py
    third_party -> /some/other/directory/third_party

What causing this "Invalid length for a Base-64 char array"

I've seen this error caused by the combination of good sized viewstate and over aggressive content-filtering devices/firewalls (especially when dealing with K-12 Educational institutions).

We worked around it by storing Viewstate in SQL Server. Before going that route, I would recommend trying to limit your use of viewstate by not storing anything large in it and turning it off for all controls which do not need it.

References for storing ViewState in SQL Server:
MSDN - Overview of PageStatePersister
ASP Alliance - Simple method to store viewstate in SQL Server
Code Project - ViewState Provider Model

Managing jQuery plugin dependency in webpack

You've mixed different approaches how to include legacy vendor modules. This is how I'd tackle it:

1. Prefer unminified CommonJS/AMD over dist

Most modules link the dist version in the main field of their package.json. While this is useful for most developers, for webpack it is better to alias the src version because this way webpack is able to optimize dependencies better (e.g. when using the DedupePlugin).

// webpack.config.js

module.exports = {
    ...
    resolve: {
        alias: {
            jquery: "jquery/src/jquery"
        }
    }
};

However, in most cases the dist version works just fine as well.


2. Use the ProvidePlugin to inject implicit globals

Most legacy modules rely on the presence of specific globals, like jQuery plugins do on $ or jQuery. In this scenario you can configure webpack, to prepend var $ = require("jquery") everytime it encounters the global $ identifier.

var webpack = require("webpack");

    ...

    plugins: [
        new webpack.ProvidePlugin({
            $: "jquery",
            jQuery: "jquery"
        })
    ]

3. Use the imports-loader to configure this

Some legacy modules rely on this being the window object. This becomes a problem when the module is executed in a CommonJS context where this equals module.exports. In this case you can override this with the imports-loader.

Run npm i imports-loader --save-dev and then

module: {
    loaders: [
        {
            test: /[\/\\]node_modules[\/\\]some-module[\/\\]index\.js$/,
            loader: "imports-loader?this=>window"
        }
    ]
}

The imports-loader can also be used to manually inject variables of all kinds. But most of the time the ProvidePlugin is more useful when it comes to implicit globals.


4. Use the imports-loader to disable AMD

There are modules that support different module styles, like AMD, CommonJS and legacy. However, most of the time they first check for define and then use some quirky code to export properties. In these cases, it could help to force the CommonJS path by setting define = false.

module: {
    loaders: [
        {
            test: /[\/\\]node_modules[\/\\]some-module[\/\\]index\.js$/,
            loader: "imports-loader?define=>false"
        }
    ]
}

5. Use the script-loader to globally import scripts

If you don't care about global variables and just want legacy scripts to work, you can also use the script-loader. It executes the module in a global context, just as if you had included them via the <script> tag.


6. Use noParse to include large dists

When there is no AMD/CommonJS version of the module and you want to include the dist, you can flag this module as noParse. Then webpack will just include the module without parsing it, which can be used to improve the build time. This means that any feature requiring the AST, like the ProvidePlugin, will not work.

module: {
    noParse: [
        /[\/\\]node_modules[\/\\]angular[\/\\]angular\.js$/
    ]
}

make: *** No rule to make target `all'. Stop

Your makefile should ideally be named makefile, not make. Note that you can call your makefile anything you like, but as you found, you then need the -f option with make to specify the name of the makefile. Using the default name of makefile just makes life easier.

Generating random numbers with normal distribution in Excel

IF you have excel 2007, you can use

=NORMSINV(RAND())*SD+MEAN

Because there was a big change in 2010 about excel's function

Oracle - How to create a readonly user

create user ro_role identified by ro_role;
grant create session, select any table, select any dictionary to ro_role;

How do I mock a class without an interface?

I faced something like that in one of the old and legacy projects that i worked in that not contains any interfaces or best practice and also it's too hard to enforce them build things again or refactoring the code due to the maturity of the project business, So in my UnitTest project i used to create a Wrapper over the classes that I want to mock and that wrapper implement interface which contains all my needed methods that I want to setup and work with, Now I can mock the wrapper instead of the real class.

For Example:

Service you want to test which not contains virtual methods or implement interface

public class ServiceA{

public void A(){}

public String B(){}

}

Wrapper to moq

public class ServiceAWrapper : IServiceAWrapper{

public void A(){}

public String B(){}

}

The Wrapper Interface

public interface IServiceAWrapper{

void A();

String B();

}

In the unit test you can now mock the wrapper:

    public void A_Run_ChangeStateOfX()
    {
    var moq = new Mock<IServiceAWrapper>();
    moq.Setup(...);
    }

This might be not the best practice, but if your project rules force you in this way, do it. Also Put all your Wrappers inside your Unit Test project or Helper project specified only for the unit tests in order to not overload the project with unneeded wrappers or adaptors.

Update: This answer from more than a year but in this year i faced a lot of similar scenarios with different solutions. For example it's so easy to use Microsoft Fake Framework to create mocks, fakes and stubs and even test private and protected methods without any interfaces. You can read: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/test/isolating-code-under-test-with-microsoft-fakes?view=vs-2017

Remove plot axis values

@Richie Cotton has a pretty good answer above. I can only add that this page provides some examples. Try the following:

x <- 1:20
y <- runif(20)
plot(x,y,xaxt = "n")
axis(side = 1, at = x, labels = FALSE, tck = -0.01)

Angular IE Caching issue for $http

Duplicating my answer in another thread.

For Angular 2 and newer, the easiest way to add no-cache headers by overriding RequestOptions:

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { BaseRequestOptions, Headers } from '@angular/http';

@Injectable()
export class CustomRequestOptions extends BaseRequestOptions {
    headers = new Headers({
        'Cache-Control': 'no-cache',
        'Pragma': 'no-cache',
        'Expires': 'Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT'
    });
}

And reference it in your module:

@NgModule({
    ...
    providers: [
        ...
        { provide: RequestOptions, useClass: CustomRequestOptions }
    ]
})

jQuery How do you get an image to fade in on load?

Using Desandro's imagesloaded plugin

1 - hide images in css:

#content img { 
    display:none; 
}

2 - fade in images on load with javascript:

var imgLoad = imagesLoaded("#content");
imgLoad.on( 'progress', function( instance, image ) {
    $(image.img).fadeIn();
});

Select all DIV text with single mouse click

$.fn.selectText = function () {
    return $(this).each(function (index, el) {
        if (document.selection) {
            var range = document.body.createTextRange();
            range.moveToElementText(el);
            range.select();
        } else if (window.getSelection) {
            var range = document.createRange();
            range.selectNode(el);
            window.getSelection().addRange(range);
        }
    });
}

Above answer is not working in Chrome because addRange remove previous added range. I didnt find any solution for this beside fake selection with css.

Generate SQL Create Scripts for existing tables with Query

Use the SSMS, easiest way You can configure options for it as well (eg collation, syntax, drop...create)

Otherwise, SSMS Tools Pack, or DbFriend on CodePlex can help you generate scripts

Error: More than one module matches. Use skip-import option to skip importing the component into the closest module

There are two ways to solve this issue.

1) Skip (using --skip-import in command) default import and create component and once component is created import it manually wherever you want to use it.

ng generate component my-component --skip-import

2) Provide module name explicitly where you want it to be imported

ng generate  component  my-component --module=my-module.module

SQL Update Multiple Fields FROM via a SELECT Statement

Something like this should work (can't test it right now - from memory):

UPDATE SHIPMENT
SET
  OrgAddress1     = BD.OrgAddress1,
  OrgAddress2     = BD.OrgAddress2,
  OrgCity         = BD.OrgCity,
  OrgState        = BD.OrgState,
  OrgZip          = BD.OrgZip,
  DestAddress1    = BD.DestAddress1,
  DestAddress2    = BD.DestAddress2,
  DestCity        = BD.DestCity,
  DestState       = BD.DestState,
  DestZip         = BD.DestZip
FROM
   BookingDetails BD
WHERE 
   SHIPMENT.MyID2 = @MyID2
   AND
   BD.MyID = @MyID

Does that help?

Ruby function to remove all white spaces?

I would use something like this:

my_string = "Foo bar\nbaz quux"

my_string.split.join
=> "Foobarbazquux"

How to free memory from char array in C

You don't free anything at all. Since you never acquired any resources dynamically, there is nothing you have to, or even are allowed to, free.

(It's the same as when you say int n = 10;: There are no dynamic resources involved that you have to manage manually.)

Remove credentials from Git

Building from @patthoyts's high-voted answer (https://stackoverflow.com/a/15382950/4401322):

His answer uses but doesn't explain "local" vs. "global" vs. "system" configs. The official git documentation for them is here and worth reading.

For example, I'm on Linux, and don't use a system config, so I never use a --system flag, but do commonly need to differentiate between --local and --global configs.

My use case is I've got two Github crendentials; one for work, and one for play.

Here's how I would handle the problem:

$ cd work
# do and commit work
$ git push origin develop
# Possibly prompted for credentials if I haven't configured my remotes to automate that. 
# We're assuming that now I've stored my "work" credentials with git's credential helper.

$ cd ~/play 
# do and commit play
$ git push origin develop                                                                   
remote: Permission to whilei/specs.git denied to whilei.                
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/workname/specs.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403

# So here's where it goes down:
$ git config --list | grep cred
credential.helper=store # One of these is for _local_
credential.helper=store # And one is for _global_

$ git config --global --unset credential.helper
$ git config --list | grep cred
credential.helper=store # My _local_ config still specifies 'store'
$ git config --unset credential.helper
$ git push origin develop
Username for 'https://github.com': whilei
Password for 'https://[email protected]':
Counting objects: 3, done.
Delta compression using up to 12 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 1.10 KiB | 1.10 MiB/s, done.
Total 3 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (1/1), completed with 1 local object.
To https://github.com/whilei/specs.git
   b2ca528..f64f065  master -> master

# Now let's turn credential-helping back on:
$ git config --global credential.helper "store"
$ git config credential.helper "store"
$ git config --list | grep cred
credential.helper=store # Put it back the way it was.
credential.helper=store

It's also worth noting that there are ways to avoid this problem altogether, for example, you can use ~/.ssh/config's with associated SSH keys for Github (one for work, one for play) and correspondingly custom-named remote hosts to solve authentication contextualizing too.

What does PHP keyword 'var' do?

So basically it is an old style and do not use it for newer version of PHP. Better to use Public keyword instead;if you are not in love with var keyword. So instead of using

class Test {
    var $name;
}

Use

class Test {
   public $name;
}

server error:405 - HTTP verb used to access this page is not allowed

In my case, IIS was fine but.. uh.. all the files in the folder except web.config had been deleted (a manual deployment half-done on a test site).

Proper way to wait for one function to finish before continuing?

The only issue with promises is that IE doesn't support them. Edge does, but there's plenty of IE 10 and 11 out there: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Promise (compatibility at the bottom)

So, JavaScript is single-threaded. If you're not making an asynchronous call, it will behave predictably. The main JavaScript thread will execute one function completely before executing the next one, in the order they appear in the code. Guaranteeing order for synchronous functions is trivial - each function will execute completely in the order it was called.

Think of the synchronous function as an atomic unit of work. The main JavaScript thread will execute it fully, in the order the statements appear in the code.

But, throw in the asynchronous call, as in the following situation:

showLoadingDiv(); // function 1

makeAjaxCall(); // function 2 - contains async ajax call

hideLoadingDiv(); // function 3

This doesn't do what you want. It instantaneously executes function 1, function 2, and function 3. Loading div flashes and it's gone, while the ajax call is not nearly complete, even though makeAjaxCall() has returned. THE COMPLICATION is that makeAjaxCall() has broken its work up into chunks which are advanced little by little by each spin of the main JavaScript thread - it's behaving asychronously. But that same main thread, during one spin/run, executed the synchronous portions quickly and predictably.

So, the way I handled it: Like I said the function is the atomic unit of work. I combined the code of function 1 and 2 - I put the code of function 1 in function 2, before the asynch call. I got rid of function 1. Everything up to and including the asynchronous call executes predictably, in order.

THEN, when the asynchronous call completes, after several spins of the main JavaScript thread, have it call function 3. This guarantees the order. For example, with ajax, the onreadystatechange event handler is called multiple times. When it reports it's completed, then call the final function you want.

I agree it's messier. I like having code be symmetric, I like having functions do one thing (or close to it), and I don't like having the ajax call in any way be responsible for the display (creating a dependency on the caller). BUT, with an asynchronous call embedded in a synchronous function, compromises have to be made in order to guarantee order of execution. And I have to code for IE 10 so no promises.

Summary: For synchronous calls, guaranteeing order is trivial. Each function executes fully in the order it was called. For a function with an asynchronous call, the only way to guarantee order is to monitor when the async call completes, and call the third function when that state is detected.

For a discussion of JavaScript threads, see: https://medium.com/@francesco_rizzi/javascript-main-thread-dissected-43c85fce7e23 and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/EventLoop

Also, another similar, highly rated question on this subject: How should I call 3 functions in order to execute them one after the other?

Remove characters except digits from string using Python?

import re

string = '1abcd2XYZ3'
string_without_letters = re.sub(r'[a-z]', '', string.lower())

result = '123'

how to configure config.inc.php to have a loginform in phpmyadmin

First of all, you do not have to develop any form yourself : phpMyAdmin, depending on its configuration (i.e. config.inc.php) will display an identification form, asking for a login and password.

To get that form, you should not use :

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';

But you should use :

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';

(At least, that's what I have on a server which prompts for login/password, using a form)


For more informations, you can take a look at the documentation :

'config' authentication ($auth_type = 'config') is the plain old way: username and password are stored in config.inc.php.

'cookie' authentication mode ($auth_type = 'cookie') as introduced in 2.2.3 allows you to log in as any valid MySQL user with the help of cookies.
Username and password are stored in cookies during the session and password is deleted when it ends.

Search and replace a line in a file in Python

As lassevk suggests, write out the new file as you go, here is some example code:

fin = open("a.txt")
fout = open("b.txt", "wt")
for line in fin:
    fout.write( line.replace('foo', 'bar') )
fin.close()
fout.close()

Find files in a folder using Java

As @Clarke said, you can use java.io.FilenameFilter to filter the file by specific condition.

As a complementary, I'd like to show how to use java.io.FilenameFilter to search file in current directory and its subdirectory.

The common methods getTargetFiles and printFiles are used to search files and print them.

public class SearchFiles {

    //It's used in dfs
    private Map<String, Boolean> map = new HashMap<String, Boolean>();

    private File root;

    public SearchFiles(File root){
        this.root = root;
    }

    /**
     * List eligible files on current path
     * @param directory
     *      The directory to be searched
     * @return
     *      Eligible files
     */
    private String[] getTargetFiles(File directory){
        if(directory == null){
            return null;
        }

        String[] files = directory.list(new FilenameFilter(){

            @Override
            public boolean accept(File dir, String name) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                return name.startsWith("Temp") && name.endsWith(".txt");
            }

        });

        return files;
    }

    /**
     * Print all eligible files
     */
    private void printFiles(String[] targets){
        for(String target: targets){
            System.out.println(target);
        }
    }
}

I will demo how to use recursive, bfs and dfs to get the job done.

Recursive:

    /**
 * How many files in the parent directory and its subdirectory <br>
 * depends on how many files in each subdirectory and their subdirectory
 */
private void recursive(File path){

    printFiles(getTargetFiles(path));
    for(File file: path.listFiles()){
        if(file.isDirectory()){
            recursive(file);
        }
    }
    if(path.isDirectory()){
        printFiles(getTargetFiles(path));
    }
}

public static void main(String args[]){
    SearchFiles searcher = new SearchFiles(new File("C:\\example"));
    searcher.recursive(searcher.root);
}

Breadth First Search:

/**
 * Search the node's neighbors firstly before moving to the next level neighbors
 */
private void bfs(){
    if(root == null){
        return;
    }

    Queue<File> queue = new LinkedList<File>();
    queue.add(root);

    while(!queue.isEmpty()){
        File node = queue.remove();
        printFiles(getTargetFiles(node));
        File[] childs = node.listFiles(new FileFilter(){

            @Override
            public boolean accept(File pathname) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                if(pathname.isDirectory())
                    return true;

                return false;
            }

        });

        if(childs != null){
            for(File child: childs){
                queue.add(child);
            }
        }
    }
}

public static void main(String args[]){
    SearchFiles searcher = new SearchFiles(new File("C:\\example"));
    searcher.bfs();
}

Depth First Search:

 /**
 * Search as far as possible along each branch before backtracking
 */
private void dfs(){

    if(root == null){
        return;
    }

    Stack<File> stack = new Stack<File>();
    stack.push(root);
    map.put(root.getAbsolutePath(), true);
    while(!stack.isEmpty()){
        File node = stack.peek();
        File child = getUnvisitedChild(node);

        if(child != null){
            stack.push(child);
            printFiles(getTargetFiles(child));
            map.put(child.getAbsolutePath(), true);
        }else{
            stack.pop();
        }

    }
}

/**
 * Get unvisited node of the node
 * 
 */
private File getUnvisitedChild(File node){

    File[] childs = node.listFiles(new FileFilter(){

        @Override
        public boolean accept(File pathname) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            if(pathname.isDirectory())
                return true;

            return false;
        }

    });

    if(childs == null){
        return null;
    }

    for(File child: childs){

        if(map.containsKey(child.getAbsolutePath()) == false){
            map.put(child.getAbsolutePath(), false);
        }

        if(map.get(child.getAbsolutePath()) == false){
            return child; 
        }
    }

    return null;
}

public static void main(String args[]){
    SearchFiles searcher = new SearchFiles(new File("C:\\example"));
    searcher.dfs();
}

Count of "Defined" Array Elements

In recent browser, you can use filter

var size = arr.filter(function(value) { return value !== undefined }).length;

console.log(size);

Another method, if the browser supports indexOf for arrays:

var size = arr.slice(0).sort().indexOf(undefined);

If for absurd you have one-digit-only elements in the array, you could use that dirty trick:

console.log(arr.join("").length);

There are several methods you can use, but at the end we have to see if it's really worthy doing these instead of a loop.

What is difference between XML Schema and DTD?

DTD is pretty much deprecated because it is limited in its usefulness as a schema language, doesn't support namespace, and does not support data type. In addition, DTD's syntax is quite complicated, making it difficult to understand and maintain..

Trying to get property of non-object - Laravel 5

Is your query returning array or object? If you dump it out, you might find that it's an array and all you need is an array access ([]) instead of an object access (->).

jQuery hover and class selector

Your code looks fine to me.

Make sure the DOM is ready before your javascript is executed by using jQuery's $(callback) function:

$(function() {
   $('.menuItem').hover( function(){
      $(this).css('background-color', '#F00');
   },
   function(){
      $(this).css('background-color', '#000');
   });
});

How would I get everything before a : in a string Python

I have benchmarked these various technics under Python 3.7.0 (IPython).

TLDR

  • fastest (when the split symbol c is known): pre-compiled regex.
  • fastest (otherwise): s.partition(c)[0].
  • safe (i.e., when c may not be in s): partition, split.
  • unsafe: index, regex.

Code

import string, random, re

SYMBOLS = string.ascii_uppercase + string.digits
SIZE = 100

def create_test_set(string_length):
    for _ in range(SIZE):
        random_string = ''.join(random.choices(SYMBOLS, k=string_length))
        yield (random.choice(random_string), random_string)

for string_length in (2**4, 2**8, 2**16, 2**32):
    print("\nString length:", string_length)
    print("  regex (compiled):", end=" ")
    test_set_for_regex = ((re.compile("(.*?)" + c).match, s) for (c, s) in test_set)
    %timeit [re_match(s).group() for (re_match, s) in test_set_for_regex]
    test_set = list(create_test_set(16))
    print("  partition:       ", end=" ")
    %timeit [s.partition(c)[0] for (c, s) in test_set]
    print("  index:           ", end=" ")
    %timeit [s[:s.index(c)] for (c, s) in test_set]
    print("  split (limited): ", end=" ")
    %timeit [s.split(c, 1)[0] for (c, s) in test_set]
    print("  split:           ", end=" ")
    %timeit [s.split(c)[0] for (c, s) in test_set]
    print("  regex:           ", end=" ")
    %timeit [re.match("(.*?)" + c, s).group() for (c, s) in test_set]

Results

String length: 16
  regex (compiled): 156 ns ± 4.41 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000000 loops each)
  partition:        19.3 µs ± 430 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100000 loops each)
  index:            26.1 µs ± 341 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000 loops each)
  split (limited):  26.8 µs ± 1.26 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000 loops each)
  split:            26.3 µs ± 835 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000 loops each)
  regex:            128 µs ± 4.02 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000 loops each)

String length: 256
  regex (compiled): 167 ns ± 2.7 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000000 loops each)
  partition:        20.9 µs ± 694 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000 loops each)
  index:            28.6 µs ± 2.73 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000 loops each)
  split (limited):  27.4 µs ± 979 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000 loops each)
  split:            31.5 µs ± 4.86 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000 loops each)
  regex:            148 µs ± 7.05 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1000 loops each)

String length: 65536
  regex (compiled): 173 ns ± 3.95 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000000 loops each)
  partition:        20.9 µs ± 613 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100000 loops each)
  index:            27.7 µs ± 515 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000 loops each)
  split (limited):  27.2 µs ± 796 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000 loops each)
  split:            26.5 µs ± 377 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000 loops each)
  regex:            128 µs ± 1.5 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000 loops each)

String length: 4294967296
  regex (compiled): 165 ns ± 1.2 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000000 loops each)
  partition:        19.9 µs ± 144 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100000 loops each)
  index:            27.7 µs ± 571 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000 loops each)
  split (limited):  26.1 µs ± 472 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000 loops each)
  split:            28.1 µs ± 1.69 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000 loops each)
  regex:            137 µs ± 6.53 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10000 loops each)

ListBox with ItemTemplate (and ScrollBar!)

I have never had any luck with any scrollable content placed inside a stackpanel (anything derived from ScrollableContainer. The stackpanel has an odd layout mechanism that confuses child controls when the measure operation is completed and I found the vertical size ends up infinite, therefore not constrained - so it goes beyond the boundaries of the container and ends up clipped. The scrollbar doesn't show because the control thinks it has all the space in the world when it doesn't.

You should always place scrollable content inside a container that can resolve to a known height during its layout operation at runtime so that the scrollbars size appropriately. The parent container up in the visual tree must be able to resolve to an actual height, and this happens in the grid if you set the height of the RowDefinition o to auto or fixed.

This also happens in Silverlight.

-em-

Producing a new line in XSLT

I have found a difference between literal newlines in <xsl:text> and literal newlines using &#xA;.

While literal newlines worked fine in my environment (using both Saxon and the default Java XSLT processor) my code failed when it was executed by another group running in a .NET environment.

Changing to entities (&#xA;) got my file generation code running consistently on both Java and .NET.

Also, literal newlines are vulnerable to being reformatted by IDEs and can inadvertently get lost when the file is maintained by someone 'not in the know'.

How to pass IEnumerable list to controller in MVC including checkbox state?

Use a list instead and replace your foreach loop with a for loop:

@model IList<BlockedIPViewModel>

@using (Html.BeginForm()) 
{ 
    @Html.AntiForgeryToken()

    @for (var i = 0; i < Model.Count; i++) 
    {
        <tr>
            <td>
                @Html.HiddenFor(x => x[i].IP)           
                @Html.CheckBoxFor(x => x[i].Checked)
            </td>
            <td>
                @Html.DisplayFor(x => x[i].IP)
            </td>
        </tr>
    }
    <div>
        <input type="submit" value="Unblock IPs" />
    </div>
}

Alternatively you could use an editor template:

@model IEnumerable<BlockedIPViewModel>

@using (Html.BeginForm()) 
{ 
    @Html.AntiForgeryToken()
    @Html.EditorForModel()   
    <div>
        <input type="submit" value="Unblock IPs" />
    </div>
}

and then define the template ~/Views/Shared/EditorTemplates/BlockedIPViewModel.cshtml which will automatically be rendered for each element of the collection:

@model BlockedIPViewModel
<tr>
    <td>
        @Html.HiddenFor(x => x.IP)
        @Html.CheckBoxFor(x => x.Checked)
    </td>
    <td>
        @Html.DisplayFor(x => x.IP)
    </td>
</tr>

The reason you were getting null in your controller is because you didn't respect the naming convention for your input fields that the default model binder expects to successfully bind to a list. I invite you to read the following article.

Once you have read it, look at the generated HTML (and more specifically the names of the input fields) with my example and yours. Then compare and you will understand why yours doesn't work.

#include errors detected in vscode

For Windows:

  1. Please add this directory to your environment variable(Path):

C:\mingw-w64\x86_64-8.1.0-win32-seh-rt_v6-rev0\mingw64\bin\

  1. For Include errors detected, mention the path of your include folder into

"includePath": [ "C:/mingw-w64/x86_64-8.1.0-win32-seh-rt_v6-rev0/mingw64/include/" ]

, as this is the path from where the compiler fetches the library to be included in your program.

JavaScript file upload size validation

It's pretty simple.

            var oFile = document.getElementById("fileUpload").files[0]; // <input type="file" id="fileUpload" accept=".jpg,.png,.gif,.jpeg"/>

            if (oFile.size > 2097152) // 2 MiB for bytes.
            {
                alert("File size must under 2MiB!");
                return;
            }

Easy way to use variables of enum types as string in C?

// Define your enumeration like this (in say numbers.h);
ENUM_BEGIN( Numbers )
    ENUM(ONE),
    ENUM(TWO),
    ENUM(FOUR)
ENUM_END( Numbers )

// The macros are defined in a more fundamental .h file (say defs.h);
#define ENUM_BEGIN(typ) enum typ {
#define ENUM(nam) nam
#define ENUM_END(typ) };

// Now in one and only one .c file, redefine the ENUM macros and reinclude
//  the numbers.h file to build a string table
#undef ENUM_BEGIN
#undef ENUM
#undef ENUM_END
#define ENUM_BEGIN(typ) const char * typ ## _name_table [] = {
#define ENUM(nam) #nam
#define ENUM_END(typ) };
#undef NUMBERS_H_INCLUDED   // whatever you need to do to enable reinclusion
#include "numbers.h"

// Now you can do exactly what you want to do, with no retyping, and for any
//  number of enumerated types defined with the ENUM macro family
//  Your code follows;
char num_str[10];
int process_numbers_str(Numbers num) {
  switch(num) {
    case ONE:
    case TWO:
    case THREE:
    {
      strcpy(num_str, Numbers_name_table[num]); // eg TWO -> "TWO"
    } break;
    default:
      return 0; //no match
  return 1;
}

// Sweet no ? After being frustrated by this for years, I finally came up
//  with this solution for my most recent project and plan to reuse the idea
//  forever

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class on path: dexpathlist

This solved my case:

In my case, I was getting the exception below (note that my application class was causing the exception, not my activity):

ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "com.example.MyApplication" on path: DexPathList

I was getting this exception only on devices equal or below API 19, the reason was that I was extending MultiDexApplication() class and overriding attachBaseContext at the same time! When I removed attachBaseContext everything got on track.

class MyApplication : MultiDexApplication() {

override fun onCreate() {
    super.onCreate()
    // ...
}

override fun attachBaseContext(base: Context?) {
    super.attachBaseContext(base)
    MultiDex.install(this)
}

So if you happen to have such case as I had (Which isn't likely), there is no need to extend MultiDexApplication() and override attachBaseContext at the same time, doing one of these actions is enough.

Creating an IFRAME using JavaScript

It is better to process HTML as a template than to build nodes via JavaScript (HTML is not XML after all.) You can keep your IFRAME's HTML syntax clean by using a template and then appending the template's contents into another DIV.

<div id="placeholder"></div>

<script id="iframeTemplate" type="text/html">
    <iframe src="...">
        <!-- replace this line with alternate content -->
    </iframe>
</script>

<script type="text/javascript">
var element,
    html,
    template;

element = document.getElementById("placeholder");
template = document.getElementById("iframeTemplate");
html = template.innerHTML;

element.innerHTML = html;
</script>

Javascript getElementById based on a partial string

Try this.

function getElementsByIdStartsWith(container, selectorTag, prefix) {
    var items = [];
    var myPosts = document.getElementById(container).getElementsByTagName(selectorTag);
    for (var i = 0; i < myPosts.length; i++) {
        //omitting undefined null check for brevity
        if (myPosts[i].id.lastIndexOf(prefix, 0) === 0) {
            items.push(myPosts[i]);
        }
    }
    return items;
}

Sample HTML Markup.

<div id="posts">
    <div id="post-1">post 1</div>
    <div id="post-12">post 12</div>
    <div id="post-123">post 123</div>
    <div id="pst-123">post 123</div>
</div>

Call it like

var postedOnes = getElementsByIdStartsWith("posts", "div", "post-");

Demo here: http://jsfiddle.net/naveen/P4cFu/

Why use sys.path.append(path) instead of sys.path.insert(1, path)?

you are confusing the concept of appending and prepending. the following code is prepending:

sys.path.insert(1,'/thePathToYourFolder/')

it places the new information at the beginning (well, second, to be precise) of the search sequence that your interpreter will go through. sys.path.append() puts things at the very end of the search sequence.

it is advisable that you use something like virtualenv instead of manually coding your package directories into the PYTHONPATH everytime. for setting up various ecosystems that separate your site-packages and possible versions of python, read these two blogs:

  1. python ecosystems introduction

  2. bootstrapping python virtual environments

if you do decide to move down the path to environment isolation you would certainly benefit by looking into virtualenvwrapper: http://www.doughellmann.com/docs/virtualenvwrapper/

How to convert a factor to integer\numeric without loss of information?

Looks like the solution as.numeric(levels(f))[f] no longer work with R 4.0.

Alternative solution:

factor2number <- function(x){
    data.frame(levels(x), 1:length(levels(x)), row.names = 1)[x, 1]
}

factor2number(yourFactor)

Adding Http Headers to HttpClient

To set custom headers ON A REQUEST, build a request with the custom header before passing it to httpclient to send to http server. eg:

HttpClient client = HttpClients.custom().build();
HttpUriRequest request = RequestBuilder.get()
  .setUri(someURL)
  .setHeader(HttpHeaders.CONTENT_TYPE, "application/json")
  .build();
client.execute(request);

Default header is SET ON HTTPCLIENT to send on every request to the server.

How to split a string into an array in Bash?

Here's my hack!

Splitting strings by strings is a pretty boring thing to do using bash. What happens is that we have limited approaches that only work in a few cases (split by ";", "/", "." and so on) or we have a variety of side effects in the outputs.

The approach below has required a number of maneuvers, but I believe it will work for most of our needs!

#!/bin/bash

# --------------------------------------
# SPLIT FUNCTION
# ----------------

F_SPLIT_R=()
f_split() {
    : 'It does a "split" into a given string and returns an array.

    Args:
        TARGET_P (str): Target string to "split".
        DELIMITER_P (Optional[str]): Delimiter used to "split". If not 
    informed the split will be done by spaces.

    Returns:
        F_SPLIT_R (array): Array with the provided string separated by the 
    informed delimiter.
    '

    F_SPLIT_R=()
    TARGET_P=$1
    DELIMITER_P=$2
    if [ -z "$DELIMITER_P" ] ; then
        DELIMITER_P=" "
    fi

    REMOVE_N=1
    if [ "$DELIMITER_P" == "\n" ] ; then
        REMOVE_N=0
    fi

    # NOTE: This was the only parameter that has been a problem so far! 
    # By Questor
    # [Ref.: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/390732/61742]
    if [ "$DELIMITER_P" == "./" ] ; then
        DELIMITER_P="[.]/"
    fi

    if [ ${REMOVE_N} -eq 1 ] ; then

        # NOTE: Due to bash limitations we have some problems getting the 
        # output of a split by awk inside an array and so we need to use 
        # "line break" (\n) to succeed. Seen this, we remove the line breaks 
        # momentarily afterwards we reintegrate them. The problem is that if 
        # there is a line break in the "string" informed, this line break will 
        # be lost, that is, it is erroneously removed in the output! 
        # By Questor
        TARGET_P=$(awk 'BEGIN {RS="dn"} {gsub("\n", "3F2C417D448C46918289218B7337FCAF"); printf $0}' <<< "${TARGET_P}")

    fi

    # NOTE: The replace of "\n" by "3F2C417D448C46918289218B7337FCAF" results 
    # in more occurrences of "3F2C417D448C46918289218B7337FCAF" than the 
    # amount of "\n" that there was originally in the string (one more 
    # occurrence at the end of the string)! We can not explain the reason for 
    # this side effect. The line below corrects this problem! By Questor
    TARGET_P=${TARGET_P%????????????????????????????????}

    SPLIT_NOW=$(awk -F"$DELIMITER_P" '{for(i=1; i<=NF; i++){printf "%s\n", $i}}' <<< "${TARGET_P}")

    while IFS= read -r LINE_NOW ; do
        if [ ${REMOVE_N} -eq 1 ] ; then

            # NOTE: We use "'" to prevent blank lines with no other characters 
            # in the sequence being erroneously removed! We do not know the 
            # reason for this side effect! By Questor
            LN_NOW_WITH_N=$(awk 'BEGIN {RS="dn"} {gsub("3F2C417D448C46918289218B7337FCAF", "\n"); printf $0}' <<< "'${LINE_NOW}'")

            # NOTE: We use the commands below to revert the intervention made 
            # immediately above! By Questor
            LN_NOW_WITH_N=${LN_NOW_WITH_N%?}
            LN_NOW_WITH_N=${LN_NOW_WITH_N#?}

            F_SPLIT_R+=("$LN_NOW_WITH_N")
        else
            F_SPLIT_R+=("$LINE_NOW")
        fi
    done <<< "$SPLIT_NOW"
}

# --------------------------------------
# HOW TO USE
# ----------------

STRING_TO_SPLIT="
 * How do I list all databases and tables using psql?

\"
sudo -u postgres /usr/pgsql-9.4/bin/psql -c \"\l\"
sudo -u postgres /usr/pgsql-9.4/bin/psql <DB_NAME> -c \"\dt\"
\"

\"
\list or \l: list all databases
\dt: list all tables in the current database
\"

[Ref.: https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/1285/how-do-i-list-all-databases-and-tables-using-psql]


"

f_split "$STRING_TO_SPLIT" "bin/psql -c"

# --------------------------------------
# OUTPUT AND TEST
# ----------------

ARR_LENGTH=${#F_SPLIT_R[*]}
for (( i=0; i<=$(( $ARR_LENGTH -1 )); i++ )) ; do
    echo " > -----------------------------------------"
    echo "${F_SPLIT_R[$i]}"
    echo " < -----------------------------------------"
done

if [ "$STRING_TO_SPLIT" == "${F_SPLIT_R[0]}bin/psql -c${F_SPLIT_R[1]}" ] ; then
    echo " > -----------------------------------------"
    echo "The strings are the same!"
    echo " < -----------------------------------------"
fi

C# Clear Session

The other big difference is Abandon does not remove items immediately, but when it does then cleanup it does a loop over session items to check for STA COM objects it needs to handle specially. And this can be a problem.

Under high load it's possible for two (or more) requests to make it to the server for the same session (that is two requests with the same session cookie). Their execution will be serialized, but since Abandon doesn't clear out the items synchronously but rather sets a flag it's possible for both requests to run, and both requests to schedule a work item to clear out session "later". Both these work items can then run at the same time, and both are checking the session objects, and both are clearing out the array of objects, and what happens when you have two things iterating over a list and changing it?? Boom! And since this happens in a queueuserworkitem callback and is NOT done in a try/catch (thanks MS), it will bring down your entire app domain. Been there.

How to find array / dictionary value using key?

It's as simple as this :

$array[$key];

jQuery slide left and show

You can add new function to your jQuery library by adding these line on your own script file and you can easily use fadeSlideRight() and fadeSlideLeft().

Note: you can change width of animation as you like instance of 750px.

$.fn.fadeSlideRight = function(speed,fn) {
    return $(this).animate({
        'opacity' : 1,
        'width' : '750px'
    },speed || 400, function() {
        $.isFunction(fn) && fn.call(this);
    });
}

$.fn.fadeSlideLeft = function(speed,fn) {
    return $(this).animate({
        'opacity' : 0,
        'width' : '0px'
    },speed || 400,function() {
        $.isFunction(fn) && fn.call(this);
    });
}

Validation of file extension before uploading file

we can check it on submit or we can make change event of that control

var fileInput = document.getElementById('file');
    var filePath = fileInput.value;
    var allowedExtensions = /(\.jpeg|\.JPEG|\.gif|\.GIF|\.png|\.PNG)$/;
    if (filePath != "" && !allowedExtensions.exec(filePath)) {
    alert('Invalid file extention pleasse select another file');
    fileInput.value = '';
    return false;
    }

Convert a Python int into a big-endian string of bytes

Probably the best way is via the built-in struct module:

>>> import struct
>>> x = 1245427
>>> struct.pack('>BH', x >> 16, x & 0xFFFF)
'\x13\x00\xf3'
>>> struct.pack('>L', x)[1:]  # could do it this way too
'\x13\x00\xf3'

Alternatively -- and I wouldn't usually recommend this, because it's mistake-prone -- you can do it "manually" by shifting and the chr() function:

>>> x = 1245427
>>> chr((x >> 16) & 0xFF) + chr((x >> 8) & 0xFF) + chr(x & 0xFF)
'\x13\x00\xf3'

Out of curiosity, why do you only want three bytes? Usually you'd pack such an integer into a full 32 bits (a C unsigned long), and use struct.pack('>L', 1245427) but skip the [1:] step?

Named placeholders in string formatting

StrSubstitutor of jakarta commons lang is a light weight way of doing this provided your values are already formatted correctly.

http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/javadocs/api-3.1/org/apache/commons/lang3/text/StrSubstitutor.html

Map<String, String> values = new HashMap<String, String>();
values.put("value", x);
values.put("column", y);
StrSubstitutor sub = new StrSubstitutor(values, "%(", ")");
String result = sub.replace("There's an incorrect value '%(value)' in column # %(column)");

The above results in:

"There's an incorrect value '1' in column # 2"

When using Maven you can add this dependency to your pom.xml:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
    <version>3.4</version>
</dependency>

IE6/IE7 css border on select element

To do a border along one side of a select in IE use IE's filters:

select.required { border-left:2px solid red; filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.dropshadow(OffX=-2, OffY=0,color=#FF0000) }

I put a border on one side only of all my inputs for required status.

There is probably an effects that do a better job for an all-round border ...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms532853(v=VS.85).aspx

Print a string as hex bytes?

':'.join(x.encode('hex') for x in 'Hello World!')

How to get some values from a JSON string in C#?

my string

var obj = {"Status":0,"Data":{"guid":"","invitationGuid":"","entityGuid":"387E22AD69-4910-430C-AC16-8044EE4A6B24443545DD"},"Extension":null}

Following code to get guid:

var userObj = JObject.Parse(obj);
var userGuid = Convert.ToString(userObj["Data"]["guid"]);

How to convert an array of strings to an array of floats in numpy?

You can use this as well

import numpy as np
x=np.array(['1.1', '2.2', '3.3'])
x=np.asfarray(x,float)

How to redirect and append both stdout and stderr to a file with Bash?

There are two ways to do this, depending on your Bash version.

The classic and portable (Bash pre-4) way is:

cmd >> outfile 2>&1

A nonportable way, starting with Bash 4 is

cmd &>> outfile

(analog to &> outfile)

For good coding style, you should

  • decide if portability is a concern (then use classic way)
  • decide if portability even to Bash pre-4 is a concern (then use classic way)
  • no matter which syntax you use, not change it within the same script (confusion!)

If your script already starts with #!/bin/sh (no matter if intended or not), then the Bash 4 solution, and in general any Bash-specific code, is not the way to go.

Also remember that Bash 4 &>> is just shorter syntax — it does not introduce any new functionality or anything like that.

The syntax is (beside other redirection syntax) described here: http://bash-hackers.org/wiki/doku.php/syntax/redirection#appending_redirected_output_and_error_output

What's a simple way to get a text input popup dialog box on an iPhone

Try this Swift code in a UIViewController -

func doAlertControllerDemo() {

    var inputTextField: UITextField?;

    let passwordPrompt = UIAlertController(title: "Enter Password", message: "You have selected to enter your passwod.", preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.Alert);

    passwordPrompt.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler: { (action) -> Void in
        // Now do whatever you want with inputTextField (remember to unwrap the optional)

        let entryStr : String = (inputTextField?.text)! ;

        print("BOOM! I received '\(entryStr)'");

        self.doAlertViewDemo(); //do again!
    }));


    passwordPrompt.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler: { (action) -> Void in
        print("done");
    }));


    passwordPrompt.addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler({(textField: UITextField!) in
        textField.placeholder = "Password"
        textField.secureTextEntry = false       /* true here for pswd entry */
        inputTextField = textField
    });


    self.presentViewController(passwordPrompt, animated: true, completion: nil);


    return;
}

HTML: can I display button text in multiple lines?

Yes, you can have it on multiple lines using the white-space css property :)

_x000D_
_x000D_
input[type="submit"] {_x000D_
    white-space: normal;_x000D_
    width: 100px;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<input type="submit" value="Some long text that won't fit." />
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

add this to your element

 white-space: normal;
 width: 100px;