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Inserting the iframe into react component

You can use property dangerouslySetInnerHTML, like this

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const iframe = '<iframe src="https://www.example.com/show?data..." width="540" height="450"></iframe>'; _x000D_
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also, you can copy all attributes from the string(based on the question, you get iframe as a string from a server) which contains <iframe> tag and pass it to new <iframe> tag, like that

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how to fix the issue "Command /bin/sh failed with exit code 1" in iphone

Seems you are running a shell script and it can't find your specific file. Look at Target -> Build-Phases -> RunScript if you are running a script.

You can check if a script is running in your build output (in the navigator panel). If your script does something wrong, the build-phase will stop.

Combine two pandas Data Frames (join on a common column)

In case anyone needs to try and merge two dataframes together on the index (instead of another column), this also works!

T1 and T2 are dataframes that have the same indices

import pandas as pd
T1 = pd.merge(T1, T2, on=T1.index, how='outer')

P.S. I had to use merge because append would fill NaNs in unnecessarily.

Reversing a linked list in Java, recursively

public void reverseLinkedList(Node node){
    if(node==null){
        return;
    }

    reverseLinkedList(node.next);
    Node temp = node.next;
    node.next=node.prev;
    node.prev=temp;
    return;
}

What should a Multipart HTTP request with multiple files look like?

EDIT: I am maintaining a similar, but more in-depth answer at: https://stackoverflow.com/a/28380690/895245

To see exactly what is happening, use nc -l and an user agent like a browser or cURL.

Save the form to an .html file:

<form action="http://localhost:8000" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
  <p><input type="text" name="text" value="text default">
  <p><input type="file" name="file1">
  <p><input type="file" name="file2">
  <p><button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>

Create files to upload:

echo 'Content of a.txt.' > a.txt
echo '<!DOCTYPE html><title>Content of a.html.</title>' > a.html

Run:

nc -l localhost 8000

Open the HTML on your browser, select the files and click on submit and check the terminal.

nc prints the request received. Firefox sent:

POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8000
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Cookie: __atuvc=34%7C7; permanent=0; _gitlab_session=226ad8a0be43681acf38c2fab9497240; __profilin=p%3Dt; request_method=GET
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------9051914041544843365972754266
Content-Length: 554

-----------------------------9051914041544843365972754266
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="text"

text default
-----------------------------9051914041544843365972754266
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file1"; filename="a.txt"
Content-Type: text/plain

Content of a.txt.

-----------------------------9051914041544843365972754266
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file2"; filename="a.html"
Content-Type: text/html

<!DOCTYPE html><title>Content of a.html.</title>

-----------------------------9051914041544843365972754266--

Aternativelly, cURL should send the same POST request as your a browser form:

nc -l localhost 8000
curl -F "text=default" -F "[email protected]" -F "[email protected]" localhost:8000

You can do multiple tests with:

while true; do printf '' | nc -l localhost 8000; done

Databound drop down list - initial value

I think what you want to do is this:

<asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList1" runat="server" AppendDataBoundItems="true">
    <asp:ListItem Text="--Select One--" Value="" />   
</asp:DropDownList>

Make sure the 'AppendDataBoundItems' is set to true or else you will clear the '--Select One--' list item when you bind your data.

If you have the 'AutoPostBack' property of the drop down list set to true you will have to also set the 'CausesValidation' property to true then use a 'RequiredFieldValidator' to make sure the '--Select One--' option doesn't cause a postback.

<asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator1" runat="server" ControlToValidate="DropDownList1"></asp:RequiredFieldValidator>

CSS: Position text in the middle of the page

Try this CSS:

h1 {
    left: 0;
    line-height: 200px;
    margin-top: -100px;
    position: absolute;
    text-align: center;
    top: 50%;
    width: 100%;
}

jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/wprw3/

How to split a String by space

Simple to Spit String by Space

    String CurrentString = "First Second Last";
    String[] separated = CurrentString.split(" ");

    for (int i = 0; i < separated.length; i++) {

         if (i == 0) {
             Log.d("FName ** ", "" + separated[0].trim() + "\n ");
         } else if (i == 1) {
             Log.d("MName ** ", "" + separated[1].trim() + "\n ");
         } else if (i == 2) {
             Log.d("LName ** ", "" + separated[2].trim());
         }
     }

Goal Seek Macro with Goal as a Formula

GoalSeek will throw an "Invalid Reference" error if the GoalSeek cell contains a value rather than a formula or if the ChangingCell contains a formula instead of a value or nothing.

The GoalSeek cell must contain a formula that refers directly or indirectly to the ChangingCell; if the formula doesn't refer to the ChangingCell in some way, GoalSeek either may not converge to an answer or may produce a nonsensical answer.

I tested your code with a different GoalSeek formula than yours (I wasn't quite clear whether some of the terms referred to cells or values).

For the test, I set:

  the GoalSeek cell  H18 = (G18^3)+(3*G18^2)+6
  the Goal cell      H32 =  11
  the ChangingCell   G18 =  0 

The code was:

Sub GSeek()
    With Worksheets("Sheet1")
        .Range("H18").GoalSeek _
        Goal:=.Range("H32").Value, _
        ChangingCell:=.Range("G18")
    End With
End Sub

And the code produced the (correct) answer of 1.1038, the value of G18 at which the formula in H18 produces the value of 11, the goal I was seeking.

Extract XML Value in bash script

I agree with Charles Duffy that a proper XML parser is the right way to go.

But as to what's wrong with your sed command (or did you do it on purpose?).

  • $data was not quoted, so $data is subject to shell's word splitting, filename expansion among other things. One of the consequences being that the spacing in the XML snippet is not preserved.

So given your specific XML structure, this modified sed command should work

title=$(sed -ne '/title/{s/.*<title>\(.*\)<\/title>.*/\1/p;q;}' <<< "$data")

Basically for the line that contains title, extract the text between the tags, then quit (so you don't extract the 2nd <title>)

Save classifier to disk in scikit-learn

What you are looking for is called Model persistence in sklearn words and it is documented in introduction and in model persistence sections.

So you have initialized your classifier and trained it for a long time with

clf = some.classifier()
clf.fit(X, y)

After this you have two options:

1) Using Pickle

import pickle
# now you can save it to a file
with open('filename.pkl', 'wb') as f:
    pickle.dump(clf, f)

# and later you can load it
with open('filename.pkl', 'rb') as f:
    clf = pickle.load(f)

2) Using Joblib

from sklearn.externals import joblib
# now you can save it to a file
joblib.dump(clf, 'filename.pkl') 
# and later you can load it
clf = joblib.load('filename.pkl')

One more time it is helpful to read the above-mentioned links

C# JSON Serialization of Dictionary into {key:value, ...} instead of {key:key, value:value, ...}

use property UseSimpleDictionaryFormat on DataContractJsonSerializer and set it to true.

Does the job :)

How can I test if a letter in a string is uppercase or lowercase using JavaScript?

This is how I did it recently:

1) Check that a char/string s is lowercase

s.toLowerCase() == s && s.toUpperCase() != s

2) Check s is uppercase

s.toUpperCase() == s && s.toLowerCase() != s

Covers cases where s contains non-alphabetic chars and diacritics.

Ignore parent padding

For image purpose you can do something like this

img {
    width: calc(100% + 20px); // twice the value of the parent's padding
    margin-left: -10px; // -1 * parent's padding
}

What is /var/www/html?

/var/www/html is just the default root folder of the web server. You can change that to be whatever folder you want by editing your apache.conf file (usually located in /etc/apache/conf) and changing the DocumentRoot attribute (see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#documentroot for info on that)

Many hosts don't let you change these things yourself, so your mileage may vary. Some let you change them, but only with the built in admin tools (cPanel, for example) instead of via a command line or editing the raw config files.

Set inputType for an EditText Programmatically?

For setting the input type for an EditText programmatically, you have to specify that input class type is text.

editPass.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT | InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_PASSWORD);

WCF Exception: Could not find a base address that matches scheme http for the endpoint

I tried the binding according to the answer by @Szymon but It did not work for me. I tried basicHttpsBinding which is new in .net 4.5 and It solved the issue. Here is the complete configuration that works for me.

<system.serviceModel>
    <serviceHostingEnvironment aspNetCompatibilityEnabled="true" multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="false" />
    <behaviors>
      <serviceBehaviors>
        <behavior>
          <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="false" httpsGetEnabled="true"/>
          <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true"/>
        </behavior>
      </serviceBehaviors>
    </behaviors>
    <bindings>
      <basicHttpsBinding>
        <binding name="basicHttpsBindingForYourService">
          <security mode="Transport">
            <transport clientCredentialType="None" proxyCredentialType="None"/>
          </security>
        </binding>
      </basicHttpsBinding>
    </bindings>
    <services>
      <service name="YourServiceName">
        <endpoint address="" binding="basicHttpsBinding" bindingName="basicHttpsBindingForYourService" contract="YourContract" />
      </service>
    </services>   
</system.serviceModel>

FYI: My application's target framework is 4.5.1. IIS web site that I created to deploy this wcf service only has https binding enabled.

serialize/deserialize java 8 java.time with Jackson JSON mapper

I had a similar problem while using Spring boot. With Spring boot 1.5.1.RELEASE all I had to do is to add dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-datatype-jsr310</artifactId>
</dependency>

find all subsets that sum to a particular value

This my program in ruby . It will return arrays, each holding the subsequences summing to the provided target value.

array = [1, 3, 4, 2, 7, 8, 9]

0..array.size.times.each do |i| 
  array.combination(i).to_a.each { |a| print a if a.inject(:+) == 9} 
end

What's the purpose of the LEA instruction?

The LEA instruction can be used to avoid time consuming calculations of effective addresses by the CPU. If an address is used repeatedly it is more effective to store it in a register instead of calculating the effective address every time it is used.

MySQL integer field is returned as string in PHP

For mysqlnd only:

 mysqli_options($conn, MYSQLI_OPT_INT_AND_FLOAT_NATIVE, true);

Otherwise:

  $row = $result->fetch_assoc();

  while ($field = $result->fetch_field()) {
    switch (true) {
      case (preg_match('#^(float|double|decimal)#', $field->type)):
        $row[$field->name] = (float)$row[$field->name];
        break;
      case (preg_match('#^(bit|(tiny|small|medium|big)?int)#', $field->type)):
        $row[$field->name] = (int)$row[$field->name];
        break;
    }
  }

Enabling HTTPS on express.js

Use greenlock-express: Free SSL, Automated HTTPS

Greenlock handles certificate issuance and renewal (via Let's Encrypt) and http => https redirection, out-of-the box.

express-app.js:

var express = require('express');
var app = express();

app.use('/', function (req, res) {
  res.send({ msg: "Hello, Encrypted World!" })
});

// DO NOT DO app.listen()
// Instead export your app:
module.exports = app;

server.js:

require('greenlock-express').create({
  // Let's Encrypt v2 is ACME draft 11
  version: 'draft-11'
, server: 'https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory'

  // You MUST change these to valid email and domains
, email: '[email protected]'
, approveDomains: [ 'example.com', 'www.example.com' ]
, agreeTos: true
, configDir: "/path/to/project/acme/"

, app: require('./express-app.j')

, communityMember: true // Get notified of important updates
, telemetry: true       // Contribute telemetry data to the project
}).listen(80, 443);

Screencast

Watch the QuickStart demonstration: https://youtu.be/e8vaR4CEZ5s

For Localhost

Just answering this ahead-of-time because it's a common follow-up question:

You can't have SSL certificates on localhost. However, you can use something like Telebit which will allow you to run local apps as real ones.

You can also use private domains with Greenlock via DNS-01 challenges, which is mentioned in the README along with various plugins which support it.

Non-standard Ports (i.e. no 80 / 443)

Read the note above about localhost - you can't use non-standard ports with Let's Encrypt either.

However, you can expose your internal non-standard ports as external standard ports via port-forward, sni-route, or use something like Telebit that does SNI-routing and port-forwarding / relaying for you.

You can also use DNS-01 challenges in which case you won't need to expose ports at all and you can also secure domains on private networks this way.

Implementing a simple file download servlet

Try with Resource

File file = new File("Foo.txt");
try (PrintStream ps = new PrintStream(file)) {
   ps.println("Bar");
}
response.setContentType("application/octet-stream");
response.setContentLength((int) file.length());
response.setHeader( "Content-Disposition",
         String.format("attachment; filename=\"%s\"", file.getName()));

OutputStream out = response.getOutputStream();
try (FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(file)) {
    byte[] buffer = new byte[4096];
    int length;
    while ((length = in.read(buffer)) > 0) {
        out.write(buffer, 0, length);
    }
}
out.flush();

Check, using jQuery, if an element is 'display:none' or block on click

$("element").filter(function() { return $(this).css("display") == "none" });

filters on ng-model in an input

If you are using read only input field, you can use ng-value with filter.

for example:

ng-value="price | number:8"

Best place to insert the Google Analytics code

Yes, it is recommended to put the GA code in the footer anyway, as the page shouldnt count as a page visit until its read all the markup.

How to get the total number of rows of a GROUP BY query?

You have to use rowCount — Returns the number of rows affected by the last SQL statement

$query = $dbh->prepare("SELECT * FROM table_name");
$query->execute();
$count =$query->rowCount();
echo $count;

how to exit a python script in an if statement

This works fine for me:

while True:
   answer = input('Do you want to continue?:')
   if answer.lower().startswith("y"):
      print("ok, carry on then")
   elif answer.lower().startswith("n"):
      print("sayonara, Robocop")
      exit()

edit: use input in python 3.2 instead of raw_input

Android Studio drawable folders

Just to make complete all answers, 'drawable' is, literally, a drawable image, not a complete and ready set of pixels, as .png

In other word words, drawable is only for vectorial images, just try right-click on 'drawable' and go New > Vector Asset, it will accept it, while Image Asset won't be added.

The data for 'drawing', generating the image is recorded on a XML file like this:

<vector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:width="24dp"
    android:height="24dp"
    android:viewportWidth="24.0"
    android:viewportHeight="24.0">
<path
    android:fillColor="#FF000000"
    android:pathData="M6,18c0,0.55 0.45,1 1,1h1v3.5c0,0.83 0.67,1.5 1.5,1.5s1.5,
    -0.67 1.5,-1.5L11,19h2v3.5c0,0.83 0.67,1.5 1.5,1.5s1.5,-0.67 1.5,-1.5L16,
    19h1c0.55,0 1,-0.45 1,-1L18,8L6,8v10zM3.5,8C2.67,8 2,8.67 2,9.5v7c0,0.83 0.67,
    1.5 1.5,1.5S5,17.33 5,16.5v-7C5,8.67 4.33,8 3.5,8zM20.5,8c-0.83,0 -1.5,0.67 -1.5,
    1.5v7c0,0.83 0.67,1.5 1.5,1.5s1.5,-0.67 1.5,-1.5v-7c0,-0.83 -0.67,-1.5 -1.5,-1.5zM15.53,
    2.16l1.3,-1.3c0.2,-0.2 0.2,-0.51 0,-0.71 -0.2,-0.2 -0.51,-0.2 -0.71,0l-1.48,1.48C13.85,
    1.23 12.95,1 12,1c-0.96,0 -1.86,0.23 -2.66,0.63L7.85,0.15c-0.2,-0.2 -0.51,-0.2 -0.71,0 -0.2,
    0.2 -0.2,0.51 0,0.71l1.31,1.31C6.97,3.26 6,5.01 6,7h12c0,-1.99 -0.97,-3.75 -2.47,-4.84zM10,
    5L9,5L9,4h1v1zM15,5h-1L14,4h1v1z"/>
  </vector>

That's the code for ic_android_black_24dp

Excel VBA For Each Worksheet Loop

Instead of adding "ws." before every Range, as suggested above, you can add "ws.activate" before Call instead.

This will get you into the worksheet you want to work on.

Getting year in moment.js

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How to draw circle in html page?

If you're using sass to write your CSS you can do:

@mixin draw_circle($radius){
  width: $radius*2;
  height: $radius*2;
  -webkit-border-radius: $radius;
  -moz-border-radius: $radius;
  border-radius: $radius;
}

.my-circle {
  @include draw_circle(25px);
  background-color: red;
}

Which outputs:

.my-circle {
  width: 50px;
  height: 50px;
  -webkit-border-radius: 25px;
  -moz-border-radius: 25px;
  border-radius: 25px;
  background-color: red;
}

Try it here: https://www.sassmeister.com/

Can't access Tomcat using IP address

Windows Firewall cause issue after uninstalling Oracle JDK and installing OpenJDK on Windows Server 2008 R2.

Tomcat 7 and Tomcat 8 not access on other machine after this.

Follow below path to add new rule

 --> Windows Firewall with Advanced Security on Local Computer
 --> Inbound Rule 
 -->Add New Rule 
      with specific port you have required for Tomcat application.

Ruby send JSON request

data = {a: {b: [1, 2]}}.to_json
uri = URI 'https://myapp.com/api/v1/resource'
https = Net::HTTP.new uri.host, uri.port
https.use_ssl = true
https.post2 uri.path, data, 'Content-Type' => 'application/json'

How to run python script with elevated privilege on windows

Also if your working directory is different than you can use lpDirectory

    procInfo = ShellExecuteEx(nShow=showCmd,
                          lpVerb=lpVerb,
                          lpFile=cmd,
                          lpDirectory= unicode(direc),
                          lpParameters=params)

Will come handy if changing the path is not a desirable option remove unicode for python 3.X

What is the http-header "X-XSS-Protection"?

You can see in this List of useful HTTP headers.

X-XSS-Protection: This header enables the Cross-site scripting (XSS) filter built into most recent web browsers. It's usually enabled by default anyway, so the role of this header is to re-enable the filter for this particular website if it was disabled by the user. This header is supported in IE 8+, and in Chrome (not sure which versions). The anti-XSS filter was added in Chrome 4. Its unknown if that version honored this header.

React Router v4 - How to get current route?

I think the author's of React Router (v4) just added that withRouter HOC to appease certain users. However, I believe the better approach is to just use render prop and make a simple PropsRoute component that passes those props. This is easier to test as you it doesn't "connect" the component like withRouter does. Have a bunch of nested components wrapped in withRouter and it's not going to be fun. Another benefit is you can also use this pass through whatever props you want to the Route. Here's the simple example using render prop. (pretty much the exact example from their website https://reacttraining.com/react-router/web/api/Route/render-func) (src/components/routes/props-route)

import React from 'react';
import { Route } from 'react-router';

export const PropsRoute = ({ component: Component, ...props }) => (
  <Route
    { ...props }
    render={ renderProps => (<Component { ...renderProps } { ...props } />) }
  />
);

export default PropsRoute;

usage: (notice to get the route params (match.params) you can just use this component and those will be passed for you)

import React from 'react';
import PropsRoute from 'src/components/routes/props-route';

export const someComponent = props => (<PropsRoute component={ Profile } />);

also notice that you could pass whatever extra props you want this way too

<PropsRoute isFetching={ isFetchingProfile } title="User Profile" component={ Profile } />

angular.element vs document.getElementById or jQuery selector with spin (busy) control

You can access elements using $document ($document need to be injected)

var target = $document('#appBusyIndicator');
var target = $document('appBusyIndicator');

or with angular element, the specified elements can be accessed as:

var targets = angular.element(document).find('div'); //array of all div
var targets = angular.element(document).find('p');
var target = angular.element(document).find('#appBusyIndicator');

Way to insert text having ' (apostrophe) into a SQL table

yes, sql server doesn't allow to insert single quote in table field due to the sql injection attack. so we must replace single appostrophe by double while saving.

(he doesn't work for me) must be => (he doesn''t work for me)

MassAssignmentException in Laravel

Read this section of Laravel doc : http://laravel.com/docs/eloquent#mass-assignment

Laravel provides by default a protection against mass assignment security issues. That's why you have to manually define which fields could be "mass assigned" :

class User extends Model
{
    protected $fillable = ['username', 'email', 'password'];
}

Warning : be careful when you allow the mass assignment of critical fields like password or role. It could lead to a security issue because users could be able to update this fields values when you don't want to.

sql server #region

Another option is

if your purpose is analyse your query, Notepad+ has useful automatic wrapper for Sql.

What does Maven do, in theory and in practice? When is it worth to use it?

Maven is a build tool. Along with Ant or Gradle are Javas tools for building.
If you are a newbie in Java though just build using your IDE since Maven has a steep learning curve.

Apply formula to the entire column

Let's say you want to substitute something in an array of string and you don't want to perform the copy-paste on your entire sheet.

Let's take this as an example:

  • String array in column "A": {apple, banana, orange, ..., avocado}
  • You want to substitute the char of "a" to "x" to have: {xpple, bxnxnx, orxnge, ..., xvocado}

To apply this formula on the entire column (array) in a clean an elegant way, you can do:

=ARRAYFORMULA(SUBSTITUE(A:A, "a", "x"))

It works for 2D-arrays as well, let's say:

=ARRAYFORMULA(SUBSTITUE(A2:D83, "a", "x"))

Finding median of list in Python

Here's the tedious way to find median without using the median function:

def median(*arg):
    order(arg)
    numArg = len(arg)
    half = int(numArg/2)
    if numArg/2 ==half:
        print((arg[half-1]+arg[half])/2)
    else:
        print(int(arg[half]))

def order(tup):
    ordered = [tup[i] for i in range(len(tup))]
    test(ordered)
    while(test(ordered)):
        test(ordered)
    print(ordered)


def test(ordered):
    whileloop = 0 
    for i in range(len(ordered)-1):
        print(i)
        if (ordered[i]>ordered[i+1]):
            print(str(ordered[i]) + ' is greater than ' + str(ordered[i+1]))
            original = ordered[i+1]
            ordered[i+1]=ordered[i]
            ordered[i]=original
            whileloop = 1 #run the loop again if you had to switch values
    return whileloop

Laravel Advanced Wheres how to pass variable into function?

If you are using Laravel eloquent you may try this as well.

$result = self::select('*')
                    ->with('user')
                    ->where('subscriptionPlan', function($query) use($activated){
                        $query->where('activated', '=', $roleId);
                    })
                    ->get();

How to set xampp open localhost:8080 instead of just localhost

I agree and found this file under xammp-control the type of file is configuration. When I changed it to 8080 it worked automagically!

Cannot connect to Database server (mysql workbench)

To be up to date for upper versions and later visitors :

Currently I'm working on a win7 64bit having different tools on it including python 2.7.4 as a prerequisite for google android ...

When I upgraded from WB 6.0.8-win32 to upper versions to have 64bit performance I had some problems for example on 6.3.5-winx64 I had a bug in the details view of tables (disordered view) caused me to downgrade to 6.2.5-winx64.

As a GUI user, easy forward/backward engineering and db server relative items were working well but when we try to Database>Connect to Database we will have Not connected and will have python error if we try to execute a query however the DB server service is absolutely ran and is working well and this problem is not from the server and is from workbench. To resolve it we must use Query>Reconnect to Server to choose the DB connection explicitly and then almost everything looks good (this may be due to my multiple db connections and I couldn't find some solution to define the default db connection in workbench).

As a note : because I'm using latest Xampp version (even in linux addictively :) ), recently Xampp uses mariadb 10 instead of mysql 5.x causes the mysql file version to be 10 may cause some problems such as forward engineering of procedures which can be resolved via mysql_upgrade.exe but still when we try to check a db connection wb will inform about the wrong version however it is not critical and works well.

Conclusion : Thus sometimes db connection problems in workbench may be due to itself and not server (if you don't have other db connection relative problems).

Cannot issue data manipulation statements with executeQuery()

Use executeUpdate() to issue data manipulation statements. executeQuery() is only meant for SELECT queries (i.e. queries that return a result set).

Increment a database field by 1

This is more a footnote to a number of the answers above which suggest the use of ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE, BEWARE that this is NOT always replication safe, so if you ever plan on growing beyond a single server, you'll want to avoid this and use two queries, one to verify the existence, and then a second to either UPDATE when a row exists, or INSERT when it does not.

Qt jpg image display

If the only thing you want to do is drop in an image onto a widget withouth the complexity of the graphics API, you can also just create a new QWidget and set the background with StyleSheets. Something like this:

MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent) : QMainWindow(parent)
{
    ...
    QWidget *pic = new QWidget(this);
    pic->setStyleSheet("background-image: url(test.png)");
    pic->setGeometry(QRect(50,50,128,128));
    ...
}

The request was rejected because no multipart boundary was found in springboot

The "Postman - REST Client" is not suitable for doing post action with setting content-type.You can try to use "Advanced REST client" or others.

Additionally, headers was replace by consumes and produces since Spring 3.1 M2, see https://spring.io/blog/2011/06/13/spring-3-1-m2-spring-mvc-enhancements. And you can directly use produces = MediaType.MULTIPART_FORM_DATA_VALUE.

How to define an enumerated type (enum) in C?

My favorite and only used construction always was:

typedef enum MyBestEnum
{
    /* good enough */
    GOOD = 0,
    /* even better */
    BETTER,
    /* divine */
    BEST
};

I believe that this will remove your problem you have. Using new type is from my point of view right option.

Android ImageView setImageResource in code

you may try this:-

myImgView.setImageDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.image_name));

What's the proper way to "go get" a private repository?

For me, the solutions offered by others still gave the following error during go get

[email protected]: Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists.

What this solution required

  1. As stated by others:

    git config --global url."[email protected]:".insteadOf "https://github.com/"

  2. Removing the passphrase from my ./ssh/id_rsa key which was used for authenticating the connection to the repository. This can be done by entering an empty password when prompted as a response to:

    ssh-keygen -p

Why this works

This is not a pretty workaround as it is always better to have a passphrase on your private key, but it was causing issues somewhere inside OpenSSH.

go get uses internally git, which uses openssh to open the connection. OpenSSH takes the certs necessary for authentication from .ssh/id_rsa. When executing git commands from the command line an agent can take care of opening the id_rsa file for you so that you do not have to specify the passphrase every time, but when executed in the belly of go get, this did not work somewhy in my case. OpenSSH wants to prompt you then for a password but since it is not possible due to how it was called, it prints to its debug log:

read_passphrase: can't open /dev/tty: No such device or address

And just fails. If you remove the passphrase from the key file, OpenSSH will get to your key without that prompt and it works

This might be caused by Go fetching modules concurrently and opening multiple SSH connections to Github at the same time (as described in this article). This is somewhat supported by the fact that OpenSSH debug log showed the initial connection to the repository succeed, but later tried it again for some reason and this time opted to ask for a passphrase.

However the solution of using SSH connection multiplexing as put forward in the mentioned article did not work for me. For the record, the author suggested adding the collowing conf to the ssh config file for the affected host:

  ControlMaster auto
  ControlPersist 3600
  ControlPath ~/.ssh/%r@%h:%p

But as stated, for me it did not work, maybe I did it wrong

How can I get current location from user in iOS

The Xcode Documentation has a wealth of knowledge and sample apps - check the Location Awareness Programming Guide.

The LocateMe sample project illustrates the effects of modifying the CLLocationManager's different accuracy settings

Window.open and pass parameters by post method

Instead of writing a form into the new window (which is tricky to get correct, with encoding of values in the HTML code), just open an empty window and post a form to it.

Example:

<form id="TheForm" method="post" action="test.asp" target="TheWindow">
<input type="hidden" name="something" value="something" />
<input type="hidden" name="more" value="something" />
<input type="hidden" name="other" value="something" />
</form>

<script type="text/javascript">
window.open('', 'TheWindow');
document.getElementById('TheForm').submit();
</script>

Edit:

To set the values in the form dynamically, you can do like this:

function openWindowWithPost(something, additional, misc) {
  var f = document.getElementById('TheForm');
  f.something.value = something;
  f.more.value = additional;
  f.other.value = misc;
  window.open('', 'TheWindow');
  f.submit();
}

To post the form you call the function with the values, like openWindowWithPost('a','b','c');.

Note: I varied the parameter names in relation to the form names to show that they don't have to be the same. Usually you would keep them similar to each other to make it simpler to track the values.

Aborting a stash pop in Git

Try using if tracked file.

git rm <path to file>
git reset  <path to file>
git checkout <path to file>

What is hashCode used for? Is it unique?

GetHashCode() is used to help support using the object as a key for hash tables. (A similar thing exists in Java etc). The goal is for every object to return a distinct hash code, but this often can't be absolutely guaranteed. It is required though that two logically equal objects return the same hash code.

A typical hash table implementation starts with the hashCode value, takes a modulus (thus constraining the value within a range) and uses it as an index to an array of "buckets".

Return row of Data Frame based on value in a column - R

@Zelazny7's answer works, but if you want to keep ties you could do:

df[which(df$Amount == min(df$Amount)), ]

For example with the following data frame:

df <- data.frame(Name = c("A", "B", "C", "D", "E"), 
                 Amount = c(150, 120, 175, 160, 120))

df[which.min(df$Amount), ]
#   Name Amount
# 2    B    120

df[which(df$Amount == min(df$Amount)), ]
#   Name Amount
# 2    B    120
# 5    E    120

Edit: If there are NAs in the Amount column you can do:

df[which(df$Amount == min(df$Amount, na.rm = TRUE)), ]

Ignore <br> with CSS?

While this question appears to already have been solved, the accepted answer didn't solve the problem for me on Firefox. Firefox (and possibly IE, though I haven't tried it) skip whitespaces while reading the contents of the "content" tag. While I completely understand why Mozilla would do that, it does bring its share of problems. The easiest workaround I found was to use non-breakable spaces instead of regular ones as shown below.

.noLineBreaks br:before{
content: '\a0'
}

Have a look.

no sqljdbc_auth in java.library.path

Here are the steps if you want to do this from Eclipse :

1) Create a folder 'sqlauth' in your C: drive, and copy the dll file sqljdbc_auth.dll to the folder

1) Go to Run> Run Configurations

2) Choose the 'Arguments' tab for your class

3) Add the below code in VM arguments:

-Djava.library.path="C:\\sqlauth"

4) Hit 'Apply' and click 'Run'

Feel free to try other methods .

SQL server stored procedure return a table

A procedure can't return a table as such. However you can select from a table in a procedure and direct it into a table (or table variable) like this:

create procedure p_x
as
begin
declare @t table(col1 varchar(10), col2 float, col3 float, col4 float)
insert @t values('a', 1,1,1)
insert @t values('b', 2,2,2)

select * from @t
end
go

declare @t table(col1 varchar(10), col2 float, col3 float, col4 float)
insert @t
exec p_x

select * from @t

React eslint error missing in props validation

It seems that the problem is in eslint-plugin-react.

It can not correctly detect what props were mentioned in propTypes if you have annotated named objects via destructuring anywhere in the class.

There was similar problem in the past

Single line sftp from terminal

Or echo 'put {path to file}' | sftp {user}@{host}:{dir}, which would work in both unix and powershell.

How to serialize an object to XML without getting xmlns="..."?

If you want to remove the namespace you may also want to remove the version, to save you searching I've added that functionality so the below code will do both.

I've also wrapped it in a generic method as I'm creating very large xml files which are too large to serialize in memory so I've broken my output file down and serialize it in smaller "chunks":

    public static string XmlSerialize<T>(T entity) where T : class
    {
        // removes version
        XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
        settings.OmitXmlDeclaration = true;

        XmlSerializer xsSubmit = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
        using (StringWriter sw = new StringWriter())
        using (XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(sw, settings))
        {
            // removes namespace
            var xmlns = new XmlSerializerNamespaces();
            xmlns.Add(string.Empty, string.Empty);

            xsSubmit.Serialize(writer, entity, xmlns);
            return sw.ToString(); // Your XML
        }
    }

Docker CE on RHEL - Requires: container-selinux >= 2.9

Installing the Selinux from the Centos repository worked for me:
1. Go to http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/extras/x86_64/Packages/
2. Find the latest version for container-selinux i.e. container-selinux-2.21-1.el7.noarch.rpm
3. Run the following command on your terminal: $ sudo yum install -y http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/extras/x86_64/Packages/**Add_current_container-selinux_package_here**
4. The command should looks like the following $ sudo yum install -y http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/extras/x86_64/Packages/container-selinux-2.21-1.el7.noarch.rpm
Note: the container version is constantly being updated, that is why you should look for the latest version in the Centos' repository

Refreshing Web Page By WebDriver When Waiting For Specific Condition

Found various approaches to refresh the application in selenium :-

1.driver.navigate().refresh();
2.driver.get(driver.getCurrentUrl());
3.driver.navigate().to(driver.getCurrentUrl());
4.driver.findElement(By.id("Contact-us")).sendKeys(Keys.F5); 
5.driver.executeScript("history.go(0)");

For live code, please refer the link http://www.ufthelp.com/2014/11/Methods-Browser-Refresh-Selenium.html

Remove property for all objects in array

A solution using prototypes is only possible when your objects are alike:

function Cons(g) { this.good = g; }
Cons.prototype.bad = "something common";
var array = [new Cons("something 1"), new Cons("something 2"), …];

But then it's simple (and O(1)):

delete Cons.prototype.bad;

How do I protect javascript files?

Google Closure Compiler, YUI compressor, Minify, /Packer/... etc, are options for compressing/obfuscating your JS codes. But none of them can help you from hiding your code from the users.

Anyone with decent knowledge can easily decode/de-obfuscate your code using tools like JS Beautifier. You name it.

So the answer is, you can always make your code harder to read/decode, but for sure there is no way to hide.

How to set UITextField height?

UITextField *txt = [[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(100, 100, 100, 100)];
    [txt setText:@"Ananth"];
    [self.view addSubview:txt];

Last two arguments are width and height, You can set as you wish...

estimating of testing effort as a percentage of development time

When you're estimating testing you need to identify the scope of your testing - are we talking unit test, functional, UAT, interface, security, performance stress and volume?

If you're on a waterfall project you probably have some overhead tasks that are fairly constant. Allow time to prepare any planning documents, schedules and reports.

For a functional test phase (I'm a "system tester" so that's my main point of reference) don't forget to include planning! A test case often needs at least as much effort to extract from requirements / specs / user stories as it will take to execute. In addition you need to include some time for defect raising / retesting. For a larger team you'll need to factor in test management - scheduling, reporting, meetings.

Generally my estimates are based on the complexity of the features being delivered rather than a percentage of dev effort. However this does require access to at least a high-level set of instructions. Years of doing testing enables me to work out that a test of a particular complexity will take x hours of effort for preparation and execution. Some tests may require extra effort for data setup. Some tests may involve negotiating with external systems and have a duration far in excess of the effort required.

In the end, though, you need to review it in the context of the overall project. If your estimate is well above that for BA or Development then there may be something wrong with your underlying assumptions.

I know this is an old topic but it's something I'm revisiting at the moment and is of perennial interest to project managers.

How to read one single line of csv data in Python?

Just for reference, a for loop can be used after getting the first row to get the rest of the file:

with open('file.csv', newline='') as f:
    reader = csv.reader(f)
    row1 = next(reader)  # gets the first line
    for row in reader:
        print(row)       # prints rows 2 and onward

Make a div fill up the remaining width

Flex-boxes are the solution - and they're fantastic. I've been wanting something like this out of css for a decade. All you need is to add display: flex to your style for "Main" and flex-grow: 100 (where 100 is arbitrary - its not important that it be exactly 100). Try adding this style (colors added to make the effect visible):

<style>
    #Main {
        background-color: lightgray;
        display: flex;
    }

    #div1 {
        border: 1px solid green;   
        height: 50px; 
        display: inline-flex; 
    }
    #div2 {
        border: 1px solid blue;    
        height: 50px;
        display: inline-flex;
        flex-grow: 100;
    }
    #div3 {
        border: 1px solid orange;        
        height: 50px;
        display: inline-flex;
    }
</style>

More info about flex boxes here: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/

How can I deploy an iPhone application from Xcode to a real iPhone device?

Nothing I've seen anywhere indicates you can ad-hoc deploy to a real iPhone without a (paid for) certificate.

What are good message queue options for nodejs?

kue is the only message queue you would ever need

Sort an ArrayList based on an object field

Modify the DataNode class so that it implements Comparable interface.

public int compareTo(DataNode o)
{
     return(degree - o.degree);
}

then just use

Collections.sort(nodeList);

How can I exclude a directory from Visual Studio Code "Explore" tab?

There's this Explorer Exclude extension that exactly does this. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=RedVanWorkshop.explorer-exclude-vscode-extension

It adds an option to hide current folder/file to the right click menu. It also adds a vertical tab Hidden Items to explorer menu where you can see currently hidden files & folders and can toggle them easily.


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How to set a dropdownlist item as selected in ASP.NET?

You can set the SelectedValue to the value you want to select. If you already have selected item then you should clear the selection otherwise you would get "Cannot have multiple items selected in a DropDownList" error.

dropdownlist.ClearSelection();
dropdownlist.SelectedValue = value;

You can also use ListItemCollection.FindByText or ListItemCollection.FindByValue

dropdownlist.ClearSelection();  
dropdownlist.Items.FindByValue(value).Selected = true;

Use the FindByValue method to search the collection for a ListItem with a Value property that contains value specified by the value parameter. This method performs a case-sensitive and culture-insensitive comparison. This method does not do partial searches or wildcard searches. If an item is not found in the collection using this criteria, null is returned, MSDN.

If you expect that you may be looking for text/value that wont be present in DropDownList ListItem collection then you must check if you get the ListItem object or null from FindByText or FindByValue before you access Selected property. If you try to access Selected when null is returned then you will get NullReferenceException.

ListItem listItem = dropdownlist.Items.FindByValue(value);

if(listItem != null) 
{
   dropdownlist.ClearSelection();
   listItem.Selected = true;
}

How to solve "Unresolved inclusion: <iostream>" in a C++ file in Eclipse CDT?

I am running eclipse with cygwin in Windows.

Project > Properties > C/C++ General > Preprocessor Includes... > Providers and selecting "CDT GCC Built-in Compiler settings Cygwin" in providers list solved problem for me.

What are rvalues, lvalues, xvalues, glvalues, and prvalues?

Why are these new categories needed? Are the WG21 gods just trying to confuse us mere mortals?

I don't feel that the other answers (good though many of them are) really capture the answer to this particular question. Yes, these categories and such exist to allow move semantics, but the complexity exists for one reason. This is the one inviolate rule of moving stuff in C++11:

Thou shalt move only when it is unquestionably safe to do so.

That is why these categories exist: to be able to talk about values where it is safe to move from them, and to talk about values where it is not.

In the earliest version of r-value references, movement happened easily. Too easily. Easily enough that there was a lot of potential for implicitly moving things when the user didn't really mean to.

Here are the circumstances under which it is safe to move something:

  1. When it's a temporary or subobject thereof. (prvalue)
  2. When the user has explicitly said to move it.

If you do this:

SomeType &&Func() { ... }

SomeType &&val = Func();
SomeType otherVal{val};

What does this do? In older versions of the spec, before the 5 values came in, this would provoke a move. Of course it does. You passed an rvalue reference to the constructor, and thus it binds to the constructor that takes an rvalue reference. That's obvious.

There's just one problem with this; you didn't ask to move it. Oh, you might say that the && should have been a clue, but that doesn't change the fact that it broke the rule. val isn't a temporary because temporaries don't have names. You may have extended the lifetime of the temporary, but that means it isn't temporary; it's just like any other stack variable.

If it's not a temporary, and you didn't ask to move it, then moving is wrong.

The obvious solution is to make val an lvalue. This means that you can't move from it. OK, fine; it's named, so its an lvalue.

Once you do that, you can no longer say that SomeType&& means the same thing everwhere. You've now made a distinction between named rvalue references and unnamed rvalue references. Well, named rvalue references are lvalues; that was our solution above. So what do we call unnamed rvalue references (the return value from Func above)?

It's not an lvalue, because you can't move from an lvalue. And we need to be able to move by returning a &&; how else could you explicitly say to move something? That is what std::move returns, after all. It's not an rvalue (old-style), because it can be on the left side of an equation (things are actually a bit more complicated, see this question and the comments below). It is neither an lvalue nor an rvalue; it's a new kind of thing.

What we have is a value that you can treat as an lvalue, except that it is implicitly moveable from. We call it an xvalue.

Note that xvalues are what makes us gain the other two categories of values:

  • A prvalue is really just the new name for the previous type of rvalue, i.e. they're the rvalues that aren't xvalues.

  • Glvalues are the union of xvalues and lvalues in one group, because they do share a lot of properties in common.

So really, it all comes down to xvalues and the need to restrict movement to exactly and only certain places. Those places are defined by the rvalue category; prvalues are the implicit moves, and xvalues are the explicit moves (std::move returns an xvalue).

Why am I getting "IndentationError: expected an indented block"?

This is just an indentation problem since Python is very strict when it comes to it.

If you are using Sublime, you can select all, click on the lower right beside 'Python' and make sure you check 'Indent using spaces' and choose your Tab Width to be consistent, then Convert Indentation to Spaces to convert all tabs to spaces.

Looping through dictionary object

One way is to loop through the keys of the dictionary, which I recommend:

foreach(int key in sp.Keys)
    dynamic value = sp[key];

Another way, is to loop through the dictionary as a sequence of pairs:

foreach(KeyValuePair<int, dynamic> pair in sp)
{
    int key = pair.Key;
    dynamic value = pair.Value;
}

I recommend the first approach, because you can have more control over the order of items retrieved if you decorate the Keys property with proper LINQ statements, e.g., sp.Keys.OrderBy(x => x) helps you retrieve the items in ascending order of the key. Note that Dictionary uses a hash table data structure internally, therefore if you use the second method the order of items is not easily predictable.

Update (01 Dec 2016): replaced vars with actual types to make the answer more clear.

Git conflict markers

The line (or lines) between the lines beginning <<<<<<< and ====== here:

<<<<<<< HEAD:file.txt
Hello world
=======

... is what you already had locally - you can tell because HEAD points to your current branch or commit. The line (or lines) between the lines beginning ======= and >>>>>>>:

=======
Goodbye
>>>>>>> 77976da35a11db4580b80ae27e8d65caf5208086:file.txt

... is what was introduced by the other (pulled) commit, in this case 77976da35a11. That is the object name (or "hash", "SHA1sum", etc.) of the commit that was merged into HEAD. All objects in git, whether they're commits (version), blobs (files), trees (directories) or tags have such an object name, which identifies them uniquely based on their content.

GetFiles with multiple extensions

I'm not sure if that is possible. The MSDN GetFiles reference says a search pattern, not a list of search patterns.

I might be inclined to fetch each list separately and "foreach" them into a final list.

Unable to evaluate expression because the code is optimized or a native frame is on top of the call stack

Make second argument of Response false as shown below.

Response.Redirect(url,false);

Check if a value is within a range of numbers

If you want your code to pick a specific range of digits, be sure to use the && operator instead of the ||.

_x000D_
_x000D_
if (x >= 4 && x <= 9) {_x000D_
  // do something_x000D_
} else {_x000D_
  // do something else_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
// be sure not to do this_x000D_
_x000D_
if (x >= 4 || x <= 9) {_x000D_
  // do something_x000D_
} else {_x000D_
  // do something else_x000D_
}
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Why does my favicon not show up?

Try adding the profile attribute to your head tag and use "image/x-icon" for the type attribute:

<head profile="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/profile">
<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="img/favicon.ico">

If the above code doesn't work, try using the full icon path for the href attribute:

<head profile="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/profile">
<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="http://example.com/img/favicon.ico">

What is the difference among col-lg-*, col-md-* and col-sm-* in Bootstrap?

One particular case : Before learning bootstrap grid system, make sure browser zoom is set to 100% (a hundred percent). For example : If screen resolution is (1600px x 900px) and browser zoom is 175%, then "bootstrap-ped" elements will be stacked.

HTML

<div class="container-fluid">
    <div class="row">
        <div class="col-lg-4">class="col-lg-4"</div>
        <div class="col-lg-4">class="col-lg-4"</div>
    </div>
</div>

Chrome zoom 100%

Browser 100 percent - elements placed horizontally

Chrome zoom 175%

Browser 175 percent - stacked elements

ip address validation in python using regex

try:
    parts = ip.split('.')
    return len(parts) == 4 and all(0 <= int(part) < 256 for part in parts)
except ValueError:
    return False # one of the 'parts' not convertible to integer
except (AttributeError, TypeError):
    return False # `ip` isn't even a string

ORA-01031: insufficient privileges when selecting view

If the view is accessed via a stored procedure, the execute grant is insufficient to access the view. You must grant select explicitly.

simply type this

grant all on to public;

Difference between readFile() and readFileSync()

'use strict'
var fs = require("fs");

/***
 * implementation of readFileSync
 */
var data = fs.readFileSync('input.txt');
console.log(data.toString());
console.log("Program Ended");

/***
 * implementation of readFile 
 */
fs.readFile('input.txt', function (err, data) {
    if (err) return console.error(err);
   console.log(data.toString());
});

console.log("Program Ended");

For better understanding run the above code and compare the results..

Make a Bash alias that takes a parameter?

Refining the answer above, you can get 1-line syntax like you can for aliases, which is more convenient for ad-hoc definitions in a shell or .bashrc files:

bash$ myfunction() { mv "$1" "$1.bak" && cp -i "$2" "$1"; }

bash$ myfunction original.conf my.conf

Don't forget the semi-colon before the closing right-bracket. Similarly, for the actual question:

csh% alias junk="mv \\!* ~/.Trash"

bash$ junk() { mv "$@" ~/.Trash/; }

Or:

bash$ junk() { for item in "$@" ; do echo "Trashing: $item" ; mv "$item" ~/.Trash/; done; }

undefined reference to boost::system::system_category() when compiling

I got the same Problem:

g++ -mconsole -Wl,--export-all-symbols -LC:/Programme/CPP-Entwicklung/MinGW-4.5.2/lib  -LD:/bfs_ENTW_deb/lib   -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++ -LC:/Programme/CPP-Entwicklung/boost_1_47_0/stage/lib   \
 D:/bfs_ENTW_deb/obj/test/main_filesystem.obj \
 -o D:/bfs_ENTW_deb/bin/filesystem.exe -lboost_system-mgw45-mt-1_47 -lboost_filesystem-mgw45-mt-1_47

D:/bfs_ENTW_deb/obj/test/main_filesystem.obj:main_filesystem.cpp:(.text+0x54): undefined reference to `boost::system::generic_category()

Solution was to use the debug-version of the system-lib:

g++ -mconsole -Wl,--export-all-symbols -LC:/Programme/CPP-Entwicklung/MinGW-4.5.2/lib  -LD:/bfs_ENTW_deb/lib   -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++ -LC:/Programme/CPP-Entwicklung/boost_1_47_0/stage/lib   \
 D:/bfs_ENTW_deb/obj/test/main_filesystem.obj \
 -o D:/bfs_ENTW_deb/bin/filesystem.exe -lboost_system-mgw45-mt-d-1_47 -lboost_filesystem-mgw45-mt-1_47

But why?

Call an activity method from a fragment

You should probably try to decouple the fragment from the activity in case you want to use it somewhere else. You can do this by creating a interface that your activity implements.

So you would define an interface like the following:

Suppose for example you wanted to give the activity a String and have it return a Integer:

public interface MyStringListener{
    public Integer computeSomething(String myString);
}

This can be defined in the fragment or a separate file.

Then you would have your activity implement the interface.

public class MyActivity extends FragmentActivity implements MyStringListener{

  @Override
  public Integer computeSomething(String myString){
   /** Do something with the string and return your Integer instead of 0 **/ 
   return 0;
  }

}

Then in your fragment you would have a MyStringListener variable and you would set the listener in fragment onAttach(Activity activity) method.

public class MyFragment {

        private MyStringListener listener;

        @Override
        public void onAttach(Context context) {
            super.onAttach(context);
            try {
                listener = (MyStringListener) context;
            } catch (ClassCastException castException) {
                /** The activity does not implement the listener. */
            }
        }

    }

edit(17.12.2015):onAttach(Activity activity) is deprecated, use onAttach(Context context) instead, it works as intended

The first answer definitely works but it couples your current fragment with the host activity. Its good practice to keep the fragment decoupled from the host activity in case you want to use it in another acitivity.

What does `unsigned` in MySQL mean and when to use it?

MySQL says:

All integer types can have an optional (nonstandard) attribute UNSIGNED. Unsigned type can be used to permit only nonnegative numbers in a column or when you need a larger upper numeric range for the column. For example, if an INT column is UNSIGNED, the size of the column's range is the same but its endpoints shift from -2147483648 and 2147483647 up to 0 and 4294967295.

When do I use it ?

Ask yourself this question: Will this field ever contain a negative value?
If the answer is no, then you want an UNSIGNED data type.

A common mistake is to use a primary key that is an auto-increment INT starting at zero, yet the type is SIGNED, in that case you’ll never touch any of the negative numbers and you are reducing the range of possible id's to half.

How to get all Errors from ASP.Net MVC modelState?

As I discovered having followed the advice in the answers given so far, you can get exceptions occuring without error messages being set, so to catch all problems you really need to get both the ErrorMessage and the Exception.

String messages = String.Join(Environment.NewLine, ModelState.Values.SelectMany(v => v.Errors)
                                                           .Select( v => v.ErrorMessage + " " + v.Exception));

or as an extension method

public static IEnumerable<String> GetErrors(this ModelStateDictionary modelState)
{
      return modelState.Values.SelectMany(v => v.Errors)
                              .Select( v => v.ErrorMessage + " " + v.Exception).ToList();

}

How to set text size of textview dynamically for different screens

You should use the resource folders such as

values-ldpi
values-mdpi
values-hdpi

And write the text size in 'dimensions.xml' file for each range.

And in the java code you can set the text size with

textView.setTextSize(getResources().getDimension(R.dimen.textsize));

Sample dimensions.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <dimen name="textsize">15sp</dimen>
</resources>

how to send multiple data with $.ajax() jquery

var CommentData= "u_id=" + $(this).attr("u_id") + "&post_id=" + $(this).attr("p_id") + "&comment=" + $(this).val();

Dots in URL causes 404 with ASP.NET mvc and IIS

Just add this section to Web.config, and all requests to the route/{*pathInfo} will be handled by the specified handler, even when there are dots in pathInfo. (taken from ServiceStack MVC Host Web.config example and this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/12151501/801189)

This should work for both IIS 6 & 7. You could assign specific handlers to different paths after the 'route' by modifying path="*" in 'add' elements

  <location path="route">
    <system.web>
      <httpHandlers>
        <add path="*" type="System.Web.Handlers.TransferRequestHandler" verb="GET,HEAD,POST,DEBUG,PUT,DELETE,PATCH,OPTIONS" />
      </httpHandlers>
    </system.web>
    <!-- Required for IIS 7.0 -->
    <system.webServer>
      <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" />
      <validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false" />
      <handlers>
        <add name="ApiURIs-ISAPI-Integrated-4.0" path="*" type="System.Web.Handlers.TransferRequestHandler" verb="GET,HEAD,POST,DEBUG,PUT,DELETE,PATCH,OPTIONS" preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv4.0" />
      </handlers>
    </system.webServer>
  </location>

Declare an array in TypeScript

Here are the different ways in which you can create an array of booleans in typescript:

let arr1: boolean[] = [];
let arr2: boolean[] = new Array();
let arr3: boolean[] = Array();

let arr4: Array<boolean> = [];
let arr5: Array<boolean> = new Array();
let arr6: Array<boolean> = Array();

let arr7 = [] as boolean[];
let arr8 = new Array() as Array<boolean>;
let arr9 = Array() as boolean[];

let arr10 = <boolean[]> [];
let arr11 = <Array<boolean>> new Array();
let arr12 = <boolean[]> Array();

let arr13 = new Array<boolean>();
let arr14 = Array<boolean>();

You can access them using the index:

console.log(arr[5]);

and you add elements using push:

arr.push(true);

When creating the array you can supply the initial values:

let arr1: boolean[] = [true, false];
let arr2: boolean[] = new Array(true, false);

How does the Python's range function work?

A "for loop" in most, if not all, programming languages is a mechanism to run a piece of code more than once.

This code:

for i in range(5):
    print i

can be thought of working like this:

i = 0
print i
i = 1
print i
i = 2
print i
i = 3
print i
i = 4
print i

So you see, what happens is not that i gets the value 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 at the same time, but rather sequentially.

I assume that when you say "call a, it gives only 5", you mean like this:

for i in range(5):
    a=i+1
print a

this will print the last value that a was given. Every time the loop iterates, the statement a=i+1 will overwrite the last value a had with the new value.

Code basically runs sequentially, from top to bottom, and a for loop is a way to make the code go back and something again, with a different value for one of the variables.

I hope this answered your question.

XPath to get all child nodes (elements, comments, and text) without parent

Use this XPath expression:

/*/*/X/node()

This selects any node (element, text node, comment or processing instruction) that is a child of any X element that is a grand-child of the top element of the XML document.

To verify what is selected, here is this XSLT transformation that outputs exactly the selected nodes:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
 <xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:copy-of select="/*/*/X/node()"/>
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

and it produces exactly the wanted, correct result:

   First Text Node #1            
    <y> Y can Have Child Nodes #                
        <child> deep to it </child>
    </y>            Second Text Node #2 
    <z />

Explanation:

  1. As defined in the W3 XPath 1.0 Spec, "child::node() selects all the children of the context node, whatever their node type." This means that any element, text-node, comment-node and processing-instruction node children are selected by this node-test.

  2. node() is an abbreviation of child::node() (because child:: is the primary axis and is used when no axis is explicitly specified).

Textarea that can do syntax highlighting on the fly?

Here is the response I've done to a similar question (Online Code Editor) on programmers:

First, you can take a look to this article:
Wikipedia - Comparison of JavaScript-based source code editors.

For more, here is some tools that seem to fit with your request:

  • EditArea - Demo as FileEditor who is a Yii Extension - (Apache Software License, BSD, LGPL)

    Here is EditArea, a free javascript editor for source code. It allow to write well formated source code with line numerotation, tab support, search & replace (with regexp) and live syntax highlighting (customizable).

  • CodePress - Demo of Joomla! CodePress Plugin - (LGPL) - It doesn't work in Chrome and it looks like development has ceased.

    CodePress is web-based source code editor with syntax highlighting written in JavaScript that colors text in real time while it's being typed in the browser.

  • CodeMirror - One of the many demo - (MIT-style license + optional commercial support)

    CodeMirror is a JavaScript library that can be used to create a relatively pleasant editor interface for code-like content - computer programs, HTML markup, and similar. If a mode has been written for the language you are editing, the code will be coloured, and the editor will optionally help you with indentation

  • Ace Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor - Demo - (Mozilla tri-license (MPL/GPL/LGPL))

    Ace is a standalone code editor written in JavaScript. Our goal is to create a web based code editor that matches and extends the features, usability and performance of existing native editors such as TextMate, Vim or Eclipse. It can be easily embedded in any web page and JavaScript application. Ace is developed as the primary editor for Cloud9 IDE and the successor of the Mozilla Skywriter (Bespin) Project.

Binding IIS Express to an IP Address

Below are the complete changes I needed to make to run my x64 bit IIS application using IIS Express, so that it was accessible to a remote host:

iisexpress /config:"C:\Users\test-user\Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationhost.config" /site:MyWebSite
Starting IIS Express ...
Successfully registered URL "http://192.168.2.133:8080/" for site "MyWebSite" application "/"
Registration completed for site "MyWebSite"
IIS Express is running.
Enter 'Q' to stop IIS Express

The configuration file (applicationhost.config) had a section added as follows:

<sites>
  <site name="MyWebsite" id="2">
    <application path="/" applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool">
      <virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="C:\build\trunk\MyWebsite" />
    </application>
    <bindings>
      <binding protocol="http" bindingInformation=":8080:192.168.2.133" />
    </bindings>
  </site>

The 64 bit version of the .NET framework can be enabled as follows:

<globalModules>
    <!--
        <add name="ManagedEngine" image="%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\webengine.dll" preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv2.0,bitness32" />
        <add name="ManagedEngineV4.0_32bit" image="%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\webengine4.dll" preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv4.0,bitness32" />
    -->             
    <add name="ManagedEngine64" image="%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\webengine4.dll" preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv4.0,bitness64" />

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

Update for C++11

As of the C++11 standard, string-to-number conversion and vice-versa are built in into the standard library. All the following functions are present in <string> (as per paragraph 21.5).

string to numeric

float              stof(const string& str, size_t *idx = 0);
double             stod(const string& str, size_t *idx = 0);
long double        stold(const string& str, size_t *idx = 0);
int                stoi(const string& str, size_t *idx = 0, int base = 10);
long               stol(const string& str, size_t *idx = 0, int base = 10);
unsigned long      stoul(const string& str, size_t *idx = 0, int base = 10);
long long          stoll(const string& str, size_t *idx = 0, int base = 10);
unsigned long long stoull(const string& str, size_t *idx = 0, int base = 10);

Each of these take a string as input and will try to convert it to a number. If no valid number could be constructed, for example because there is no numeric data or the number is out-of-range for the type, an exception is thrown (std::invalid_argument or std::out_of_range).

If conversion succeeded and idx is not 0, idx will contain the index of the first character that was not used for decoding. This could be an index behind the last character.

Finally, the integral types allow to specify a base, for digits larger than 9, the alphabet is assumed (a=10 until z=35). You can find more information about the exact formatting that can parsed here for floating-point numbers, signed integers and unsigned integers.

Finally, for each function there is also an overload that accepts a std::wstring as it's first parameter.

numeric to string

string to_string(int val);
string to_string(unsigned val);
string to_string(long val);
string to_string(unsigned long val);
string to_string(long long val);
string to_string(unsigned long long val);
string to_string(float val);
string to_string(double val);
string to_string(long double val);

These are more straightforward, you pass the appropriate numeric type and you get a string back. For formatting options you should go back to the C++03 stringsream option and use stream manipulators, as explained in an other answer here.

As noted in the comments these functions fall back to a default mantissa precision that is likely not the maximum precision. If more precision is required for your application it's also best to go back to other string formatting procedures.

There are also similar functions defined that are named to_wstring, these will return a std::wstring.

Best way to randomize an array with .NET

Here's a simple way using OLINQ:

// Input array
List<String> lst = new List<string>();
for (int i = 0; i < 500; i += 1) lst.Add(i.ToString());

// Output array
List<String> lstRandom = new List<string>();

// Randomize
Random rnd = new Random();
lstRandom.AddRange(from s in lst orderby rnd.Next(100) select s);

How do I change data-type of pandas data frame to string with a defined format?

I'm putting this in a new answer because no linebreaks / codeblocks in comments. I assume you want those nans to turn into a blank string? I couldn't find a nice way to do this, only do the ugly method:

s = pd.Series([1001.,1002.,None])
a = s.loc[s.isnull()].fillna('')
b = s.loc[s.notnull()].astype(int).astype(str)
result = pd.concat([a,b])

Make iframe automatically adjust height according to the contents without using scrollbar?

I did it with AngularJS. Angular doesn't have an ng-load, but a 3rd party module was made; install with bower below, or find it here: https://github.com/andrefarzat/ng-load

Get the ngLoad directive: bower install ng-load --save

Setup your iframe:

<iframe id="CreditReportFrame" src="about:blank" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" ng-load="resizeIframe($event)" seamless></iframe>

Controller resizeIframe function:

$scope.resizeIframe = function (event) {
    console.log("iframe loaded!");
    var iframe = event.target;
    iframe.style.height = iframe.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight + 'px';
};

How do I get a plist as a Dictionary in Swift?

Swift 3.0

if you want to read a "2-dimensional Array" from .plist, you can try it like this:

if let path = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "Info", ofType: "plist") {
    if let dimension1 = NSDictionary(contentsOfFile: path) {
        if let dimension2 = dimension1["key"] as? [String] {
            destination_array = dimension2
        }
    }
}

How to echo or print an array in PHP?

You have no need to put for loop to see the data into the array, you can simply do in following manner

<?php
echo "<pre>";
 print_r($results); 
echo "</pre>";
?>

Pandas: Looking up the list of sheets in an excel file

You can still use the ExcelFile class (and the sheet_names attribute):

xl = pd.ExcelFile('foo.xls')

xl.sheet_names  # see all sheet names

xl.parse(sheet_name)  # read a specific sheet to DataFrame

see docs for parse for more options...

findViewById in Fragment

try

private View myFragmentView;

@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) 
{
myFragmentView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.myLayoutId, container, false);
myView = myFragmentView.findViewById(R.id.myIdTag)
return myFragmentView;
}

How do I show my global Git configuration?

The shortest,

git config -l

shows all inherited values from: system, global and local

Warning: #1265 Data truncated for column 'pdd' at row 1

As the message error says, you need to Increase the length of your column to fit the length of the data you are trying to insert (0000-00-00)

EDIT 1:

Following your comment, I run a test table:

mysql> create table testDate(id int(2) not null auto_increment, pdd date default null, primary key(id));
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.20 sec)

Insertion:

mysql> insert into testDate values(1,'0000-00-00');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.06 sec)

EDIT 2:

So, aparently you want to insert a NULL value to pdd field as your comment states ? You can do that in 2 ways like this:

Method 1:

mysql> insert into testDate values(2,'');
Query OK, 1 row affected, 1 warning (0.06 sec)

Method 2:

mysql> insert into testDate values(3,NULL);
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.07 sec)

EDIT 3:

You failed to change the default value of pdd field. Here is the syntax how to do it (in my case, I set it to NULL in the start, now I will change it to NOT NULL)

mysql> alter table testDate modify pdd date not null;
Query OK, 3 rows affected, 1 warning (0.60 sec)
Records: 3  Duplicates: 0  Warnings: 1

whitespaces in the path of windows filepath

(WINDOWS - AWS solution)
Solved for windows by putting tripple quotes around files and paths.
Benefits:
1) Prevents excludes that quietly were getting ignored.
2) Files/folders with spaces in them, will no longer kick errors.

    aws_command = 'aws s3 sync """D:/""" """s3://mybucket/my folder/"  --exclude """*RECYCLE.BIN/*""" --exclude """*.cab""" --exclude """System Volume Information/*""" '

    r = subprocess.run(f"powershell.exe {aws_command}", shell=True, capture_output=True, text=True)

What is *.o file?

A file ending in .o is an object file. The compiler creates an object file for each source file, before linking them together, into the final executable.

How do I keep Python print from adding newlines or spaces?

print('''first line \
second line''')

it will produce

first line second line

How do I find out what version of Sybase is running

Run this command:

select @@version

Getting the closest string match

I was presented with this problem about a year ago when it came to looking up user entered information about a oil rig in a database of miscellaneous information. The goal was to do some sort of fuzzy string search that could identify the database entry with the most common elements.

Part of the research involved implementing the Levenshtein distance algorithm, which determines how many changes must be made to a string or phrase to turn it into another string or phrase.

The implementation I came up with was relatively simple, and involved a weighted comparison of the length of the two phrases, the number of changes between each phrase, and whether each word could be found in the target entry.

The article is on a private site so I'll do my best to append the relevant contents here:


Fuzzy String Matching is the process of performing a human-like estimation of the similarity of two words or phrases. In many cases, it involves identifying words or phrases which are most similar to each other. This article describes an in-house solution to the fuzzy string matching problem and its usefulness in solving a variety of problems which can allow us to automate tasks which previously required tedious user involvement.

Introduction

The need to do fuzzy string matching originally came about while developing the Gulf of Mexico Validator tool. What existed was a database of known gulf of Mexico oil rigs and platforms, and people buying insurance would give us some badly typed out information about their assets and we had to match it to the database of known platforms. When there was very little information given, the best we could do is rely on an underwriter to "recognize" the one they were referring to and call up the proper information. This is where this automated solution comes in handy.

I spent a day researching methods of fuzzy string matching, and eventually stumbled upon the very useful Levenshtein distance algorithm on Wikipedia.

Implementation

After reading about the theory behind it, I implemented and found ways to optimize it. This is how my code looks like in VBA:

'Calculate the Levenshtein Distance between two strings (the number of insertions,
'deletions, and substitutions needed to transform the first string into the second)
Public Function LevenshteinDistance(ByRef S1 As String, ByVal S2 As String) As Long
    Dim L1 As Long, L2 As Long, D() As Long 'Length of input strings and distance matrix
    Dim i As Long, j As Long, cost As Long 'loop counters and cost of substitution for current letter
    Dim cI As Long, cD As Long, cS As Long 'cost of next Insertion, Deletion and Substitution
    L1 = Len(S1): L2 = Len(S2)
    ReDim D(0 To L1, 0 To L2)
    For i = 0 To L1: D(i, 0) = i: Next i
    For j = 0 To L2: D(0, j) = j: Next j

    For j = 1 To L2
        For i = 1 To L1
            cost = Abs(StrComp(Mid$(S1, i, 1), Mid$(S2, j, 1), vbTextCompare))
            cI = D(i - 1, j) + 1
            cD = D(i, j - 1) + 1
            cS = D(i - 1, j - 1) + cost
            If cI <= cD Then 'Insertion or Substitution
                If cI <= cS Then D(i, j) = cI Else D(i, j) = cS
            Else 'Deletion or Substitution
                If cD <= cS Then D(i, j) = cD Else D(i, j) = cS
            End If
        Next i
    Next j
    LevenshteinDistance = D(L1, L2)
End Function

Simple, speedy, and a very useful metric. Using this, I created two separate metrics for evaluating the similarity of two strings. One I call "valuePhrase" and one I call "valueWords". valuePhrase is just the Levenshtein distance between the two phrases, and valueWords splits the string into individual words, based on delimiters such as spaces, dashes, and anything else you'd like, and compares each word to each other word, summing up the shortest Levenshtein distance connecting any two words. Essentially, it measures whether the information in one 'phrase' is really contained in another, just as a word-wise permutation. I spent a few days as a side project coming up with the most efficient way possible of splitting a string based on delimiters.

valueWords, valuePhrase, and Split function:

Public Function valuePhrase#(ByRef S1$, ByRef S2$)
    valuePhrase = LevenshteinDistance(S1, S2)
End Function

Public Function valueWords#(ByRef S1$, ByRef S2$)
    Dim wordsS1$(), wordsS2$()
    wordsS1 = SplitMultiDelims(S1, " _-")
    wordsS2 = SplitMultiDelims(S2, " _-")
    Dim word1%, word2%, thisD#, wordbest#
    Dim wordsTotal#
    For word1 = LBound(wordsS1) To UBound(wordsS1)
        wordbest = Len(S2)
        For word2 = LBound(wordsS2) To UBound(wordsS2)
            thisD = LevenshteinDistance(wordsS1(word1), wordsS2(word2))
            If thisD < wordbest Then wordbest = thisD
            If thisD = 0 Then GoTo foundbest
        Next word2
foundbest:
        wordsTotal = wordsTotal + wordbest
    Next word1
    valueWords = wordsTotal
End Function

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' SplitMultiDelims
' This function splits Text into an array of substrings, each substring
' delimited by any character in DelimChars. Only a single character
' may be a delimiter between two substrings, but DelimChars may
' contain any number of delimiter characters. It returns a single element
' array containing all of text if DelimChars is empty, or a 1 or greater
' element array if the Text is successfully split into substrings.
' If IgnoreConsecutiveDelimiters is true, empty array elements will not occur.
' If Limit greater than 0, the function will only split Text into 'Limit'
' array elements or less. The last element will contain the rest of Text.
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
Function SplitMultiDelims(ByRef Text As String, ByRef DelimChars As String, _
        Optional ByVal IgnoreConsecutiveDelimiters As Boolean = False, _
        Optional ByVal Limit As Long = -1) As String()
    Dim ElemStart As Long, N As Long, M As Long, Elements As Long
    Dim lDelims As Long, lText As Long
    Dim Arr() As String

    lText = Len(Text)
    lDelims = Len(DelimChars)
    If lDelims = 0 Or lText = 0 Or Limit = 1 Then
        ReDim Arr(0 To 0)
        Arr(0) = Text
        SplitMultiDelims = Arr
        Exit Function
    End If
    ReDim Arr(0 To IIf(Limit = -1, lText - 1, Limit))

    Elements = 0: ElemStart = 1
    For N = 1 To lText
        If InStr(DelimChars, Mid(Text, N, 1)) Then
            Arr(Elements) = Mid(Text, ElemStart, N - ElemStart)
            If IgnoreConsecutiveDelimiters Then
                If Len(Arr(Elements)) > 0 Then Elements = Elements + 1
            Else
                Elements = Elements + 1
            End If
            ElemStart = N + 1
            If Elements + 1 = Limit Then Exit For
        End If
    Next N
    'Get the last token terminated by the end of the string into the array
    If ElemStart <= lText Then Arr(Elements) = Mid(Text, ElemStart)
    'Since the end of string counts as the terminating delimiter, if the last character
    'was also a delimiter, we treat the two as consecutive, and so ignore the last elemnent
    If IgnoreConsecutiveDelimiters Then If Len(Arr(Elements)) = 0 Then Elements = Elements - 1

    ReDim Preserve Arr(0 To Elements) 'Chop off unused array elements
    SplitMultiDelims = Arr
End Function

Measures of Similarity

Using these two metrics, and a third which simply computes the distance between two strings, I have a series of variables which I can run an optimization algorithm to achieve the greatest number of matches. Fuzzy string matching is, itself, a fuzzy science, and so by creating linearly independent metrics for measuring string similarity, and having a known set of strings we wish to match to each other, we can find the parameters that, for our specific styles of strings, give the best fuzzy match results.

Initially, the goal of the metric was to have a low search value for for an exact match, and increasing search values for increasingly permuted measures. In an impractical case, this was fairly easy to define using a set of well defined permutations, and engineering the final formula such that they had increasing search values results as desired.

Fuzzy String Matching Permutations

In the above screenshot, I tweaked my heuristic to come up with something that I felt scaled nicely to my perceived difference between the search term and result. The heuristic I used for Value Phrase in the above spreadsheet was =valuePhrase(A2,B2)-0.8*ABS(LEN(B2)-LEN(A2)). I was effectively reducing the penalty of the Levenstein distance by 80% of the difference in the length of the two "phrases". This way, "phrases" that have the same length suffer the full penalty, but "phrases" which contain 'additional information' (longer) but aside from that still mostly share the same characters suffer a reduced penalty. I used the Value Words function as is, and then my final SearchVal heuristic was defined as =MIN(D2,E2)*0.8+MAX(D2,E2)*0.2 - a weighted average. Whichever of the two scores was lower got weighted 80%, and 20% of the higher score. This was just a heuristic that suited my use case to get a good match rate. These weights are something that one could then tweak to get the best match rate with their test data.

Fuzzy String Matching Value Phrase

Fuzzy String Matching Value Words

As you can see, the last two metrics, which are fuzzy string matching metrics, already have a natural tendency to give low scores to strings that are meant to match (down the diagonal). This is very good.

Application To allow the optimization of fuzzy matching, I weight each metric. As such, every application of fuzzy string match can weight the parameters differently. The formula that defines the final score is a simply combination of the metrics and their weights:

value = Min(phraseWeight*phraseValue, wordsWeight*wordsValue)*minWeight
      + Max(phraseWeight*phraseValue, wordsWeight*wordsValue)*maxWeight
      + lengthWeight*lengthValue

Using an optimization algorithm (neural network is best here because it is a discrete, multi-dimentional problem), the goal is now to maximize the number of matches. I created a function that detects the number of correct matches of each set to each other, as can be seen in this final screenshot. A column or row gets a point if the lowest score is assigned the the string that was meant to be matched, and partial points are given if there is a tie for the lowest score, and the correct match is among the tied matched strings. I then optimized it. You can see that a green cell is the column that best matches the current row, and a blue square around the cell is the row that best matches the current column. The score in the bottom corner is roughly the number of successful matches and this is what we tell our optimization problem to maximize.

Fuzzy String Matching Optimized Metric

The algorithm was a wonderful success, and the solution parameters say a lot about this type of problem. You'll notice the optimized score was 44, and the best possible score is 48. The 5 columns at the end are decoys, and do not have any match at all to the row values. The more decoys there are, the harder it will naturally be to find the best match.

In this particular matching case, the length of the strings are irrelevant, because we are expecting abbreviations that represent longer words, so the optimal weight for length is -0.3, which means we do not penalize strings which vary in length. We reduce the score in anticipation of these abbreviations, giving more room for partial word matches to supersede non-word matches that simply require less substitutions because the string is shorter.

The word weight is 1.0 while the phrase weight is only 0.5, which means that we penalize whole words missing from one string and value more the entire phrase being intact. This is useful because a lot of these strings have one word in common (the peril) where what really matters is whether or not the combination (region and peril) are maintained.

Finally, the min weight is optimized at 10 and the max weight at 1. What this means is that if the best of the two scores (value phrase and value words) isn't very good, the match is greatly penalized, but we don't greatly penalize the worst of the two scores. Essentially, this puts emphasis on requiring either the valueWord or valuePhrase to have a good score, but not both. A sort of "take what we can get" mentality.

It's really fascinating what the optimized value of these 5 weights say about the sort of fuzzy string matching taking place. For completely different practical cases of fuzzy string matching, these parameters are very different. I've used it for 3 separate applications so far.

While unused in the final optimization, a benchmarking sheet was established which matches columns to themselves for all perfect results down the diagonal, and lets the user change parameters to control the rate at which scores diverge from 0, and note innate similarities between search phrases (which could in theory be used to offset false positives in the results)

Fuzzy String Matching Benchmark

Further Applications

This solution has potential to be used anywhere where the user wishes to have a computer system identify a string in a set of strings where there is no perfect match. (Like an approximate match vlookup for strings).


So what you should take from this, is that you probably want to use a combination of high level heuristics (finding words from one phrase in the other phrase, length of both phrases, etc) along with the implementation of the Levenshtein distance algorithm. Because deciding which is the "best" match is a heuristic (fuzzy) determination - you'll have to come up with a set of weights for any metrics you come up with to determine similarity.

With the appropriate set of heuristics and weights, you'll have your comparison program quickly making the decisions that you would have made.

Javascript get object key name

An ES6 update... though both filter and map might need customization.

Object.entries(theObj) returns a [[key, value],] array representation of an object that can be worked on using Javascript's array methods, .each(), .any(), .forEach(), .filter(), .map(), .reduce(), etc.

Saves a ton of work on iterating over parts of an object Object.keys(theObj), or Object.values() separately.

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    button1: {_x000D_
        text: 'Close',_x000D_
        onclick: function(){_x000D_
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        }_x000D_
    },_x000D_
    button2: {_x000D_
        text: 'OK',_x000D_
        onclick: function(){_x000D_
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        }_x000D_
    },_x000D_
    button3: {_x000D_
        text: 'Cancel',_x000D_
        onclick: function(){_x000D_
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        }_x000D_
    }_x000D_
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list = Object.entries(buttons)_x000D_
    .filter(([key, value]) => `${key}`[value] !== 'undefined' ) //has options_x000D_
    .map(([key, value], idx) => `{${idx} {${key}: ${value}}}`)_x000D_
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Capture the Screen into a Bitmap

If using the .NET 2.0 (or later) framework you can use the CopyFromScreen() method detailed here:

http://www.geekpedia.com/tutorial181_Capturing-screenshots-using-Csharp.html

//Create a new bitmap.
var bmpScreenshot = new Bitmap(Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Width,
                               Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Height,
                               PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb);

// Create a graphics object from the bitmap.
var gfxScreenshot = Graphics.FromImage(bmpScreenshot);

// Take the screenshot from the upper left corner to the right bottom corner.
gfxScreenshot.CopyFromScreen(Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.X,
                            Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Y,
                            0,
                            0,
                            Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Size,
                            CopyPixelOperation.SourceCopy);

// Save the screenshot to the specified path that the user has chosen.
bmpScreenshot.Save("Screenshot.png", ImageFormat.Png);

Set ImageView width and height programmatically?

If your image view is dynamic, the answer containing getLayout will fail with null-exception.

In that case the correct way is:

LinearLayout.LayoutParams layoutParams = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(100, 100);
iv.setLayoutParams(layoutParams);

How can I escape a single quote?

You could try using: &#145;

How can I get the domain name of my site within a Django template?

I use a custom template tag. Add to e.g. <your_app>/templatetags/site.py:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from django import template
from django.contrib.sites.models import Site

register = template.Library()

@register.simple_tag
def current_domain():
    return 'http://%s' % Site.objects.get_current().domain

Use it in a template like this:

{% load site %}
{% current_domain %}

Reading from memory stream to string

string result = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(fs.ToArray());

Using relative URL in CSS file, what location is it relative to?

One issue that can occur, and seemingly break this is when using auto minimization of css. The request path for the minified bundle can have a different path than the original css. This may happen automatically so it can cause confusion.

The mapped request path for the minified bundle should be "/originalcssfolder/minifiedbundlename" not just "minifiedbundlename".

In other words, name your bundles to have same path (with the /) as the original folder structure, this way any external resources like fonts, images will map to correct URIs by the browser. The alternative is to use absolute url( refs in your css but that isn't usually desirable.

No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource error

Try this - set Ajax call by setting up the header as follows:

var uri = "http://localhost:50869/odata/mydatafeeds"
$.ajax({
    url: uri,
    beforeSend: function (request) {
        request.setRequestHeader("Authorization", "Negotiate");
    },
    async: true,
    success: function (data) {
        alert(JSON.stringify(data));
    },
    error: function (xhr, textStatus, errorMessage) {
        alert(errorMessage);
    }                
});

Then run your code by opening Chrome with the following command line:

chrome.exe --user-data-dir="C:/Chrome dev session" --disable-web-security

What is The difference between ListBox and ListView

A ListView is basically like a ListBox (and inherits from it), but it also has a View property. This property allows you to specify a predefined way of displaying the items. The only predefined view in the BCL (Base Class Library) is GridView, but you can easily create your own.

Another difference is the default selection mode: it's Single for a ListBox, but Extended for a ListView

FATAL ERROR: CALL_AND_RETRY_LAST Allocation failed - process out of memory

npm install -g increase-memory-limit

increase-memory-limit

OR

  1. Navigate to %appdata% -> npm folder or C:\Users\{user_name}\AppData\Roaming\npm
  2. Open ng.cmd in your favorite editor
  3. Add --max_old_space_size=8192 to the IF and ELSE block

now ng.cmd file looks like this after the change:

@IF EXIST "%~dp0\node.exe" (
  "%~dp0\node.exe" "--max_old_space_size=8192" "%~dp0\node_modules\@angular\cli\bin\ng" %*
) ELSE (
  @SETLOCAL
  @SET PATHEXT=%PATHEXT:;.JS;=;%
  node "--max_old_space_size=8192" "%~dp0\node_modules\@angular\cli\bin\ng" %*
)

Is it not possible to stringify an Error using JSON.stringify?

Make it serializable

// example error
let err = new Error('I errored')

// one liner converting Error into regular object that can be stringified
err = Object.getOwnPropertyNames(err).reduce((acc, key) => { acc[key] = err[key]; return acc; }, {})

If you want to send this object from child process, worker or though the network there's no need to stringify. It will be automatically stringified and parsed like any other normal object

How to export collection to CSV in MongoDB?

mongoexport  --help
....
-f [ --fields ] arg     comma separated list of field names e.g. -f name,age
--fieldFile arg         file with fields names - 1 per line

You have to manually specify it and if you think about it, it makes perfect sense. MongoDB is schemaless; CSV, on the other hand, has a fixed layout for columns. Without knowing what fields are used in different documents it's impossible to output the CSV dump.

If you have a fixed schema perhaps you could retrieve one document, harvest the field names from it with a script and pass it to mongoexport.

Download data url file

This can be solved 100% entirely with HTML alone. Just set the href attribute to "data:(mimetypeheader),(url)". For instance...

<a
    href="data:video/mp4,http://www.example.com/video.mp4"
    target="_blank"
    download="video.mp4"
>Download Video</a>

Working example: JSFiddle Demo.

Because we use a Data URL, we are allowed to set the mimetype which indicates the type of data to download. Documentation:

Data URLs are composed of four parts: a prefix (data:), a MIME type indicating the type of data, an optional base64 token if non-textual, and the data itself. (Source: MDN Web Docs: Data URLs.)

Components:

  • <a ...> : The link tag.
  • href="data:video/mp4,http://www.example.com/video.mp4" : Here we are setting the link to the a data: with a header preconfigured to video/mp4. This is followed by the header mimetype. I.E., for a .txt file, it would would be text/plain. And then a comma separates it from the link we want to download.
  • target="_blank" : This indicates a new tab should be opened, it's not essential, but it helps guide the browser to the desired behavior.
  • download: This is the name of the file you're downloading.

How do I change the font size and color in an Excel Drop Down List?

You cannot change the default but there is a codeless workaround.

Select the whole sheet and change the font size on your data to something small, like 10 or 12. When you zoom in to view the data you will find that the drop down box entries are now visible.

To emphasize, the issue is not so much with the size of the font in the drop down, it is the relative size between drop down and data display font sizes.

How to switch from the default ConstraintLayout to RelativeLayout in Android Studio

None of these solutions worked for me...seemingly until I stumbled across this setting, see image. File > Settings > Editor > Layout Editor > Check "Prefer XML Editor"

https://i.stack.imgur.com/9CHe7.png

Check difference in seconds between two times

DateTime has a Subtract method and an overloaded - operator for just such an occasion:

DateTime now = DateTime.UtcNow;
TimeSpan difference = now.Subtract(otherTime); // could also write `now - otherTime`
if (difference.TotalSeconds > 5) { ... }

Convert datatable to JSON in C#

An alternative way without using javascript serializer:

    public static string DataTableToJSON(DataTable Dt)
            {
                string[] StrDc = new string[Dt.Columns.Count];

                string HeadStr = string.Empty;
                for (int i = 0; i < Dt.Columns.Count; i++)
                {

                    StrDc[i] = Dt.Columns[i].Caption;
                    HeadStr += "\"" + StrDc[i] + "\":\"" + StrDc[i] + i.ToString() + "¾" + "\",";

                }

                HeadStr = HeadStr.Substring(0, HeadStr.Length - 1);

                StringBuilder Sb = new StringBuilder();

                Sb.Append("[");

                for (int i = 0; i < Dt.Rows.Count; i++)
                {

                    string TempStr = HeadStr;

                    for (int j = 0; j < Dt.Columns.Count; j++)
                    {

                        TempStr = TempStr.Replace(Dt.Columns[j] + j.ToString() + "¾", Dt.Rows[i][j].ToString().Trim());
                    }
                    //Sb.AppendFormat("{{{0}}},",TempStr);

                    Sb.Append("{"+TempStr + "},");
                }

                Sb = new StringBuilder(Sb.ToString().Substring(0, Sb.ToString().Length - 1));

                if(Sb.ToString().Length>0)
                Sb.Append("]");

                return StripControlChars(Sb.ToString());

            }
//To strip control characters:

//A character that does not represent a printable character but //serves to initiate a particular action.

            public static string StripControlChars(string s)
            {
                return Regex.Replace(s, @"[^\x20-\x7F]", "");
            }

AngularJS: Service vs provider vs factory

Essentially, Provider, Factory, and Service are all Services. A Factory is a special case of a Service when all you need is a $get() function, allowing you to write it with less code.

The major differences among Services, Factories, and Providers are their complexities. Services are the simplest form, Factories are a little more robust, and Providers are configurable at runtime.

Here is a summary of when to use each:

Factory: The value you are providing needs to be calculated based on other data.

Service: You are returning an object with methods.

Provider: You want to be able to configure, during the config phase, the object that is going to be created before it’s created. Use the Provider mostly in the app config, before the app has fully initialized.

Java: how to initialize String[]?

I believe you just migrated from C++, Well in java you have to initialize a data type(other then primitive types and String is not a considered as a primitive type in java ) to use them as according to their specifications if you don't then its just like an empty reference variable (much like a pointer in the context of C++).

public class StringTest {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String[] errorSoon = new String[100];
        errorSoon[0] = "Error, why?";
        //another approach would be direct initialization
        String[] errorsoon = {"Error , why?"};   
    }
}

Launch an event when checking a checkbox in Angular2

StackBlitz

Template: You can either use the native change event or NgModel directive's ngModelChange.

<input type="checkbox" (change)="onNativeChange($event)"/>

or

<input type="checkbox" ngModel (ngModelChange)="onNgModelChange($event)"/>

TS:

onNativeChange(e) { // here e is a native event
  if(e.target.checked){
    // do something here
  }
}

onNgModelChange(e) { // here e is a boolean, true if checked, otherwise false
  if(e){
    // do something here
  }
}

Windows batch script launch program and exit console

The simplest way ist just to start it with start

start notepad.exe

Here you can find more information about start

Where can I find the error logs of nginx, using FastCGI and Django?

It is a good practice to set where the access log should be in nginx configuring file . Using acces_log /path/ Like this.

keyval $remote_addr:$http_user_agent $seen zone=clients;

server { listen 443 ssl;

ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
ssl_ciphers   HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;

if ($seen = "") {
    set $seen  1;
    set $logme 1;
}
access_log  /tmp/sslparams.log sslparams if=$logme;
error_log  /pathtolog/error.log;
# ...
}

matplotlib savefig in jpeg format

Matplotlib can handle directly and transparently jpg if you have installed PIL. You don't need to call it, it will do it by itself. If Python cannot find PIL, it will raise an error.

How do I execute code AFTER a form has loaded?

This an old question and depends more upon when you need to start your routines. Since no one wants a null reference exception it is always best to check for null first then use as needed; that alone may save you a lot of grief.

The most common reason for this type of question is when a container or custom control type attempts to access properties initialized outside of a custom class where those properties have not yet been initialized thus potentially causing null values to populate and can even cause a null reference exceptions on object types. It means your class is running before it is fully initialized - before you have finished setting your properties etc. Another possible reason for this type of question is when to perform custom graphics.

To best answer the question about when to start executing code following the form load event is to monitor the WM_Paint message or hook directly in to the paint event itself. Why? The paint event only fires when all modules have fully loaded with respect to your form load event. Note: This.visible == true is not always true when it is set true so it is not used at all for this purpose except to hide a form.

The following is a complete example of how to start executing you code following the form load event. It is recommended that you do not unnecessarily tie up the paint message loop so we'll create an event that will start executing your code outside that loop.

using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace MyProgramStartingPlaceExample {

/// <summary>
/// Main UI form object
/// </summary>
public class Form1 : Form
{

    /// <summary>
    /// Main form load event handler
    /// </summary>
    public Form1()
    {
        // Initialize ONLY. Setup your controls and form parameters here. Custom controls should wait for "FormReady" before starting up too.
        this.Text = "My Program title before form loaded";
        // Size need to see text. lol
        this.Width = 420;

        // Setup the sub or fucntion that will handle your "start up" routine
        this.StartUpEvent += StartUPRoutine;

        // Optional: Custom control simulation startup sequence:
        // Define your class or control in variable. ie. var MyControlClass new CustomControl;
        // Setup your parameters only. ie. CustomControl.size = new size(420, 966); Do not validate during initialization wait until "FormReady" is set to avoid possible null values etc. 
        // Inside your control or class have a property and assign it as bool FormReady - do not validate anything until it is true and you'll be good! 
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// The main entry point for the application which sets security permissions when set.
    /// </summary>
    static void Main()
    {
        Application.EnableVisualStyles();
        Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
        Application.Run(new Form1());
    }


    #region "WM_Paint event hooking with StartUpEvent"            
    //
    // Create a delegate for our "StartUpEvent"
    public delegate void StartUpHandler();
    //
    // Create our event handle "StartUpEvent"
    public event StartUpHandler StartUpEvent;
    //
    // Our FormReady will only be set once just he way we intendded
    // Since it is a global variable we can poll it else where as well to determine if we should begin code execution !!
    bool FormReady;
    //
    // The WM_Paint message handler: Used mostly to paint nice things to controls and screen
    protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e)
    {
        // Check if Form is ready for our code ?
        if (FormReady == false) // Place a break point here to see the initialized version of the title on the form window
        {
            // We only want this to occur once for our purpose here.
            FormReady = true;
            //
            // Fire the start up event which then will call our "StartUPRoutine" below.
            StartUpEvent();
        }
        //
        // Always call base methods unless overriding the entire fucntion
        base.OnPaint(e);
    }
    #endregion


    #region "Your StartUp event Entry point"
    //
    // Begin executuing your code here to validate properties etc. and to run your program. Enjoy!
    // Entry point is just following the very first WM_Paint message - an ideal starting place following form load
    void StartUPRoutine()
    {
        // Replace the initialized text with the following
        this.Text = "Your Code has executed after the form's load event";
        //
        // Anyway this is the momment when the form is fully loaded and ready to go - you can also use these methods for your classes to synchronize excecution using easy modifications yet here is a good starting point. 
        // Option: Set FormReady to your controls manulaly ie. CustomControl.FormReady = true; or subscribe to the StartUpEvent event inside your class and use that as your entry point for validating and unleashing its code.
        //
        // Many options: The rest is up to you!
    }
    #endregion

}

}

struct in class

You should define the struct out of the class like this:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
struct X
{
        int v;
};
class E
{
public: 
      X var;
};

int main(){

E object;
object.var.v=10; 

return 0;
}

client denied by server configuration

this worked for me..

<Location />
 Allow from all
 Order Deny,Allow
</Location>

I have included this code in my /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

org.hibernate.MappingException: Unknown entity: annotations.Users

I was having same problem.

Use @javax.persistence.Entity instead of org.hibernate.annotations.Entity

FFMPEG mp4 from http live streaming m3u8 file?

Your command is completely incorrect. The output format is not rawvideo and you don't need the bitstream filter h264_mp4toannexb which is used when you want to convert the h264 contained in an mp4 to the Annex B format used by MPEG-TS for example. What you want to use instead is the aac_adtstoasc for the AAC streams.

ffmpeg -i http://.../playlist.m3u8 -c copy -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc output.mp4

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

I had the same problem but it only occurred on the published website on Godaddy. It was no problem in my local host.

The error came from an aspx.cs (code behind file) where I tried to assign a value to a label. It appeared that from within the code behind, that the label Text appears to be null. So all I did with change all my Label Text properties in the ASPX file from Text="" to Text=" ".

The problem disappeared. I don’t know why the error happens from the hosted version but not on my localhost and don’t have time to figure out why. But it works fine now.

Force update of an Android app when a new version is available

Google released In-App Updates for the Play Core library.

I implemented a lightweight library to easily implement in-app updates. You can find to the following link an example about how to force the user to perform the update.

https://github.com/dnKaratzas/android-inapp-update#forced-updates

Change hash without reload in jQuery

The accepted answer didn't work for me as my page jumped slightly on click, messing up my scroll animation.

I decided to update the entire URL using window.history.replaceState rather than using the window.location.hash method. Thus circumventing the hashChange event fired by the browser.

// Only fire when URL has anchor
$('a[href*="#"]:not([href="#"])').on('click', function(event) {

    // Prevent default anchor handling (which causes the page-jumping)
    event.preventDefault();

    if ( location.pathname.replace(/^\//,'') == this.pathname.replace(/^\//,'') && location.hostname == this.hostname ) {
        var target = $(this.hash);
        target = target.length ? target : $('[name=' + this.hash.slice(1) +']');

        if ( target.length ) {    
            // Smooth scrolling to anchor
            $('html, body').animate({
                scrollTop: target.offset().top
            }, 1000);

            // Update URL
            window.history.replaceState("", document.title, window.location.href.replace(location.hash, "") + this.hash);
        }
    }
});

Hide "NFC Tag type not supported" error on Samsung Galaxy devices

Before Android 4.4

What you are trying to do is simply not possible from an app (at least not on a non-rooted/non-modified device). The message "NFC tag type not supported" is displayed by the Android system (or more specifically the NFC system service) before and instead of dispatching the tag to your app. This means that the NFC system service filters MIFARE Classic tags and never notifies any app about them. Consequently, your app can't detect MIFARE Classic tags or circumvent that popup message.

On a rooted device, you may be able to bypass the message using either

  1. Xposed to modify the behavior of the NFC service, or
  2. the CSC (Consumer Software Customization) feature configuration files on the system partition (see /system/csc/. The NFC system service disables the popup and dispatches MIFARE Classic tags to apps if the CSC feature <CscFeature_NFC_EnableSecurityPromptPopup> is set to any value but "mifareclassic" or "all". For instance, you could use:

    <CscFeature_NFC_EnableSecurityPromptPopup>NONE</CscFeature_NFC_EnableSecurityPromptPopup>
    

    You could add this entry to, for instance, the file "/system/csc/others.xml" (within the section <FeatureSet> ... </FeatureSet> that already exists in that file).

Since, you asked for the Galaxy S6 (the question that you linked) as well: I have tested this method on the S4 when it came out. I have not verified if this still works in the latest firmware or on other devices (e.g. the S6).

Since Android 4.4

This is pure guessing, but according to this (link no longer available), it seems that some apps (e.g. NXP TagInfo) are capable of detecting MIFARE Classic tags on affected Samsung devices since Android 4.4. This might mean that foreground apps are capable of bypassing that popup using the reader-mode API (see NfcAdapter.enableReaderMode) possibly in combination with NfcAdapter.FLAG_READER_SKIP_NDEF_CHECK.

Best way to check that element is not present using Selenium WebDriver with java

int i=1;

while (true) {
  WebElementdisplay=driver.findElement(By.id("__bar"+i+"-btnGo"));
  System.out.println(display);

  if (display.isDisplayed()==true)
  { 
    System.out.println("inside if statement"+i);
    driver.findElement(By.id("__bar"+i+"-btnGo")).click();
    break;
  }
  else
  {
    System.out.println("inside else statement"+ i);
    i=i+1;
  }
}

How to add default value for html <textarea>?

Please note that if you made changes to textarea, after it had rendered; You will get the updated value instead of the initialized value.

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script>
            $(function () {
                $('#btnShow').click(function () {
                    alert('text:' + $('#addressFieldName').text() + '\n value:' + $('#addressFieldName').val());
                });
            });
            function updateAddress() {
                $('#addressFieldName').val('District: Peshawar \n');
            }
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <?php
        $address = "School: GCMHSS NO.1\nTehsil: ,\nDistrict: Haripur";
        ?>
        <textarea id="addressFieldName" rows="4" cols="40" tabindex="5" ><?php echo $address; ?></textarea>
        <?php echo '<script type="text/javascript">updateAddress();</script>'; ?>
        <input type="button" id="btnShow" value='show' />
    </body>
</html>

As you can see the value of textarea will be different than the text in between the opening and closing tag of concern textarea.

How to get files in a relative path in C#

Pretty straight forward, use relative path

string[] offerFiles = Directory.GetFiles(Server.MapPath("~/offers"), "*.csv");

Python vs Cpython

implementation means what language was used to implement Python and not how python Code would be implemented. The advantage of using CPython is the availability of C Run-time as well as easy integration with C/C++.

So CPython was originally implemented using C. There were other forks to the original implementation which enabled Python to lever-edge Java (JYthon) or .NET Runtime (IronPython).

Based on which Implementation you use, library availability might vary, for example Ctypes is not available in Jython, so any library which uses ctypes would not work in Jython. Similarly, if you want to use a Java Class, you cannot directly do so from CPython. You either need a glue (JEPP) or need to use Jython (The Java Implementation of Python)

React native ERROR Packager can't listen on port 8081

Ubuntu/Unix && MacOS

My Metro Bundler was stuck and there were lots of node processes running but I didn't have any other development going on besides react-native, so I ran:

$ killall -9 node

The Metro Bundler is running through node on port 8081 by default, and it can encounter issues sometimes whereby it gets stuck (usually due to pressing CTRL+S in rapid succession with hot reloading on). If you press CTRL+C to kill the react-native run-android process, you will suddenly have a bad time because react-native-run-android will get stuck on :

Scanning folders for symlinks in /home/poop/dev/some-app/node_modules (41ms)

Fix:

$ killall -9 node

$ react-native run-android

Note: if you are developing other apps at the time, killing all the node proceses may interrupt them or any node-based services you have running, so be mindful of the sweeping nature of killall -9. If you aren't running a node-based database or app or you don't mind manually restarting them, then you should be good to go.

The reason I leave this detailed answer on this semi-unrelated question is that mine is a solution to a common semi-related problem that sadly requires 2 steps to fix but luckily only takes 2 steps get back to work.

If you want to surgically remove exactly the Metro Bundler garbage on port 8081, do the steps in the answer from RC_02, which are:

$ sudo lsof -i :8081

$ kill -9 23583

(where 23583 is the process ID)

Set a persistent environment variable from cmd.exe

The MSDN documentation for environment variables tells you what to do:

To programmatically add or modify system environment variables, add them to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment registry key, then broadcast a WM_SETTINGCHANGE message with lParam set to the string "Environment". This allows applications, such as the shell, to pick up your updates.

You will of course need admin rights to do this. I know of no way to broadcast a windows message from Windows batch so you'll need to write a small program to do this.

How to get the current user in ASP.NET MVC

If you need to get the user from within the controller, use the User property of Controller. If you need it from the view, I would populate what you specifically need in the ViewData, or you could just call User as I think it's a property of ViewPage.

virtualenvwrapper and Python 3

You can add this to your .bash_profile or similar:

alias mkvirtualenv3='mkvirtualenv --python=`which python3`'

Then use mkvirtualenv3 instead of mkvirtualenv when you want to create a python 3 environment.

@angular/material/index.d.ts' is not a module

After upgrading to Angular 9 (released today), I ran into this issue as well and found that they made the breaking change mentioned in the answer. I can't find a reason for why they made this change.

I have a material.module.ts file that I import / export all the material components (not the most efficient, but useful for quick development). I went through and updated all my imports to the individual material folders, although an index.ts barrel might be better. Again, not sure why they made this change, but I'm guessing it has to do with tree-shaking efficiencies.

Including my material.module.ts below in case it helps anyone, it's inspired off other material modules I've found:

NOTE: As other blog posts have mentioned and from my personal experience, be careful when using a shared module like below. I have 5~ different feature modules (lazy loaded) in my app that I imported my material module into. Out of curiosity, I stopped using the shared module and instead only imported the individual material components each feature module needed. This reduced my bundle size quite a bit, almost a 200kb reduction. I assumed that the build optimization process would properly drop any component not used by my modules, but it doesn't seem to be the case...

// material.module.ts
import { ModuleWithProviders, NgModule} from "@angular/core";
import { MAT_LABEL_GLOBAL_OPTIONS, MatNativeDateModule, MAT_DATE_LOCALE } from '@angular/material/core';
import { MatIconRegistry } from '@angular/material/icon';
import { MatAutocompleteModule } from '@angular/material/autocomplete';
import { MatBadgeModule } from '@angular/material/badge';
import { MatButtonModule } from '@angular/material/button';
import { MatButtonToggleModule } from '@angular/material/button-toggle';
import { MatCardModule } from '@angular/material/card';
import { MatCheckboxModule } from '@angular/material/checkbox';
import { MatChipsModule } from '@angular/material/chips';
import { MatStepperModule } from '@angular/material/stepper';
import { MatDatepickerModule } from '@angular/material/datepicker';
import { MatDialogModule } from '@angular/material/dialog';
import { MatExpansionModule } from '@angular/material/expansion';
import { MatFormFieldModule } from '@angular/material/form-field';
import { MatGridListModule } from '@angular/material/grid-list';
import { MatIconModule } from '@angular/material/icon';
import { MatInputModule } from '@angular/material/input';
import { MatListModule } from '@angular/material/list';
import { MatMenuModule } from '@angular/material/menu';
import { MatPaginatorModule } from '@angular/material/paginator';
import { MatProgressBarModule } from '@angular/material/progress-bar';
import { MatProgressSpinnerModule } from '@angular/material/progress-spinner';
import { MatRadioModule } from '@angular/material/radio';
import { MatRippleModule } from '@angular/material/core';
import { MatSelectModule } from '@angular/material/select';
import { MatSidenavModule } from '@angular/material/sidenav';
import { MatSliderModule } from '@angular/material/slider';
import { MatSlideToggleModule } from '@angular/material/slide-toggle';
import { MatSnackBarModule } from '@angular/material/snack-bar';
import { MatSortModule } from '@angular/material/sort';
import { MatTableModule } from '@angular/material/table';
import { MatTabsModule } from '@angular/material/tabs';
import { MatToolbarModule } from '@angular/material/toolbar';
import { MatTooltipModule } from '@angular/material/tooltip';
import { MatTreeModule } from '@angular/material/tree';

@NgModule({
    imports: [
        MatAutocompleteModule,
        MatBadgeModule,
        MatButtonModule,
        MatButtonToggleModule,
        MatCardModule,
        MatCheckboxModule,
        MatChipsModule,
        MatStepperModule,
        MatDatepickerModule,
        MatDialogModule,
        MatExpansionModule,
        MatFormFieldModule,
        MatGridListModule,
        MatIconModule,
        MatInputModule,
        MatListModule,
        MatMenuModule,
        MatPaginatorModule,
        MatProgressBarModule,
        MatProgressSpinnerModule,
        MatRadioModule,
        MatRippleModule,
        MatSelectModule,
        MatSidenavModule,
        MatSliderModule,
        MatSlideToggleModule,
        MatSnackBarModule,
        MatSortModule,
        MatTableModule,
        MatTabsModule,
        MatToolbarModule,
        MatTooltipModule,
        MatTreeModule,
        MatNativeDateModule
    ],
    exports: [
        MatAutocompleteModule,
        MatBadgeModule,
        MatButtonModule,
        MatButtonToggleModule,
        MatCardModule,
        MatCheckboxModule,
        MatChipsModule,
        MatStepperModule,
        MatDatepickerModule,
        MatDialogModule,
        MatExpansionModule,
        MatFormFieldModule,
        MatGridListModule,
        MatIconModule,
        MatInputModule,
        MatListModule,
        MatMenuModule,
        MatPaginatorModule,
        MatProgressBarModule,
        MatProgressSpinnerModule,
        MatRadioModule,
        MatRippleModule,
        MatSelectModule,
        MatSidenavModule,
        MatSliderModule,
        MatSlideToggleModule,
        MatSnackBarModule,
        MatSortModule,
        MatTableModule,
        MatTabsModule,
        MatToolbarModule,
        MatTooltipModule,
        MatTreeModule,
        MatNativeDateModule
    ],
    providers: [     
    ]
})
export class MaterialModule {
    constructor(public matIconRegistry: MatIconRegistry) {
        // matIconRegistry.registerFontClassAlias('fontawesome', 'fa');
    }

    static forRoot(): ModuleWithProviders<MaterialModule> {
        return {
            ngModule: MaterialModule,
            providers: [MatIconRegistry]
        };
    }
}

How can I debug my JavaScript code?

All modern browsers come with some form of a built-in JavaScript debugging application. The details of these will be covered on the relevant technologies web pages. My personal preference for debugging JavaScript is Firebug in Firefox. I'm not saying Firebug is better than any other; it depends on your personal preference and you should probably test your site in all browsers anyway (my personal first choice is always Firebug).

I'll cover some of the high-level solutions below, using Firebug as an example:

Firefox

Firefox comes with with its own inbuilt JavaScript debugging tool, but I would recommend you install the Firebug add on. This provides several additional features based on the basic version that are handy. I'm going to only talk about Firebug here.

Once Firebug is installed you can access it like below:

Firstly if you right click on any element you can Inspect Element with Firebug:

Inspect Element in Firebug

Clicking this will open up the Firebug pane at the bottom of the browser:

Firebug pane

Firebug provides several features but the one we're interested in is the script tab. Clicking the script tab opens this window:

Script tab

Obviously, to debug you need to click reload:

JavaScript in the sctipt tab

You can now add breakpoints by clicking the line to the left of the piece of JavaScript code you want to add the breakpoint to:

Adding breakpoints

When your breakpoint is hit, it will look like below:

A breakpoint being hit

You can also add watch variables and generally do everything that you would expect in a modern debugging tool.

Watch varibables

For more information on the various options offered in Firebug, check out the Firebug FAQ.

Chrome

Chrome also has its own in built JavaScript debugging option, which works in a very similar way, right click, inspect element, etc.. Have a look at Chrome Developer Tools. I generally find the stack traces in Chrome better than Firebug.

Internet Explorer

If you're developing in .NET and using Visual Studio using the web development environment you can debug JavaScript code directly by placing breakpoints, etc. Your JavaScript code looks exactly the same as if you were debugging your C# or VB.NET code.

If you don't have this, Internet Explorer also provides all of the tools shown above. Annoyingly, instead of having the right click inspect element features of Chrome or Firefox, you access the developer tools by pressing F12. This question covers most of the points.

How to format a URL to get a file from Amazon S3?

Perhaps not what the OP was after, but for those searching the URL to simply access a readable object on S3 is more like:

https://<region>.amazonaws.com/<bucket-name>/<key>

Where <region> is something like s3-ap-southeast-2.

Click on the item in the S3 GUI to get the link for your bucket.

Hide console window from Process.Start C#

I've had bad luck with this answer, with the process (Wix light.exe) essentially going out to lunch and not coming home in time for dinner. However, the following worked well for me:

Process p = new Process();
p.StartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
// etc, then start process

Grouped bar plot in ggplot

First you need to get the counts for each category, i.e. how many Bads and Goods and so on are there for each group (Food, Music, People). This would be done like so:

raw <- read.csv("http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=L8cEKcxS",sep=",")
raw[,2]<-factor(raw[,2],levels=c("Very Bad","Bad","Good","Very Good"),ordered=FALSE)
raw[,3]<-factor(raw[,3],levels=c("Very Bad","Bad","Good","Very Good"),ordered=FALSE)
raw[,4]<-factor(raw[,4],levels=c("Very Bad","Bad","Good","Very Good"),ordered=FALSE)

raw=raw[,c(2,3,4)] # getting rid of the "people" variable as I see no use for it

freq=table(col(raw), as.matrix(raw)) # get the counts of each factor level

Then you need to create a data frame out of it, melt it and plot it:

Names=c("Food","Music","People")     # create list of names
data=data.frame(cbind(freq),Names)   # combine them into a data frame
data=data[,c(5,3,1,2,4)]             # sort columns

# melt the data frame for plotting
data.m <- melt(data, id.vars='Names')

# plot everything
ggplot(data.m, aes(Names, value)) +   
  geom_bar(aes(fill = variable), position = "dodge", stat="identity")

Is this what you're after?

enter image description here

To clarify a little bit, in ggplot multiple grouping bar you had a data frame that looked like this:

> head(df)
  ID Type Annee X1PCE X2PCE X3PCE X4PCE X5PCE X6PCE
1  1    A  1980   450   338   154    36    13     9
2  2    A  2000   288   407   212    54    16    23
3  3    A  2020   196   434   246    68    19    36
4  4    B  1980   111   326   441    90    21    11
5  5    B  2000    63   298   443   133    42    21
6  6    B  2020    36   257   462   162    55    30

Since you have numerical values in columns 4-9, which would later be plotted on the y axis, this can be easily transformed with reshape and plotted.

For our current data set, we needed something similar, so we used freq=table(col(raw), as.matrix(raw)) to get this:

> data
   Names Very.Bad Bad Good Very.Good
1   Food        7   6    5         2
2  Music        5   5    7         3
3 People        6   3    7         4

Just imagine you have Very.Bad, Bad, Good and so on instead of X1PCE, X2PCE, X3PCE. See the similarity? But we needed to create such structure first. Hence the freq=table(col(raw), as.matrix(raw)).

Is it possible to open developer tools console in Chrome on Android phone?

I you only want to see what was printed in the console you could simple add the "printed" part somewhere in your HTML so it will appear in on the webpage. You could do it for yourself, but there is a javascript file that does this for you. You can read about it here:

http://www.hnldesign.nl/work/code/mobileconsole-javascript-console-for-mobile-devices/

The code is available from Github; you can download it and paste it into a javascipt file and add it in to your HTML

Is there a way to collapse all code blocks in Eclipse?

I noticed few things:

Ctrl+/ toggles Folding-enabled or -disabled.

It is Ctrl+* that expands. Ctrl+Shift+* collapses just like Ctrl+Shift+/

jQuery ajax call to REST service

You are running your HTML from a different host than the host you are requesting. Because of this, you are getting blocked by the same origin policy.

One way around this is to use JSONP. This allows cross-site requests.

In JSON, you are returned:

{a: 5, b: 6}

In JSONP, the JSON is wrapped in a function call, so it becomes a script, and not an object.

callback({a: 5, b: 6})

You need to edit your REST service to accept a parameter called callback, and then to use the value of that parameter as the function name. You should also change the content-type to application/javascript.

For example: http://localhost:8080/restws/json/product/get?callback=process should output:

process({a: 5, b: 6})

In your JavaScript, you will need to tell jQuery to use JSONP. To do this, you need to append ?callback=? to the URL.

$.getJSON("http://localhost:8080/restws/json/product/get?callback=?",
   function(data) {
     alert(data);         
   });

If you use $.ajax, it will auto append the ?callback=? if you tell it to use jsonp.

$.ajax({ 
   type: "GET",
   dataType: "jsonp",
   url: "http://localhost:8080/restws/json/product/get",
   success: function(data){        
     alert(data);
   }
});

Why "net use * /delete" does not work but waits for confirmation in my PowerShell script?

With PowerShell 5.1 in Windows 10 you can use:

Get-SmbMapping | Remove-SmbMapping -Confirm:$false

System.Data.OracleClient requires Oracle client software version 8.1.7

For me, the issue was some plugin in my Visual Studio started forcing my application into x64 64bit mode, so the Oracle driver wasn't being found as I had Oracle 32bit installed.

So if you are having this issue, try running Visual Studio in safemode (devenv /safemode). I could find that it was looking in SYSWOW64 for the ic.dll file by using the ProcMon app by SysInternals/Microsoft.

Update: For me it was the Telerik JustTrace product that was causing the issue, it was probably hooking in and affecting the runtime version somehow to do tracing.

Update2: It's not just JustTrace causing an issue, JustMock is causing the same processor mode issue. JustMock is easier to fix though: Click JustMock-> Disable Profiler and then my web app's oracle driver runs in the correct CPU mode. This might be fixed by Telerik in the future.

What is the Python 3 equivalent of "python -m SimpleHTTPServer"

Using 2to3 utility.

$ cat try.py
import SimpleHTTPServer

$ 2to3 try.py
RefactoringTool: Skipping implicit fixer: buffer
RefactoringTool: Skipping implicit fixer: idioms
RefactoringTool: Skipping implicit fixer: set_literal
RefactoringTool: Skipping implicit fixer: ws_comma
RefactoringTool: Refactored try.py
--- try.py  (original)
+++ try.py  (refactored)
@@ -1 +1 @@
-import SimpleHTTPServer
+import http.server
RefactoringTool: Files that need to be modified:
RefactoringTool: try.py

Like many *nix utils, 2to3 accepts stdin if the argument passed is -. Therefore, you can test without creating any files like so:

$ 2to3 - <<< "import SimpleHTTPServer"

Check if a string contains an element from a list (of strings)

when you construct yours strings it should be like this

bool inact = new string[] { "SUSPENDARE", "DIZOLVARE" }.Any(s=>stare.Contains(s));

How to configure XAMPP to send mail from localhost?

in addition to all answers please note that in sendmail.ini file:

auth_password=this-is-Not-your-Gmail-password

due to new google security concern, you should follow these steps to make an application password for this purpose:

  1. go to https://accounts.google.com/ in security tab
  2. turn two-step-verification on
  3. go back to the security tab and make an App-password (in select-app drop-down menu you can choose 'other')

Pass array to MySQL stored routine

This helps for me to do IN condition Hope this will help you..

CREATE  PROCEDURE `test`(IN Array_String VARCHAR(100))
BEGIN
    SELECT * FROM Table_Name
    WHERE FIND_IN_SET(field_name_to_search, Array_String);

END//;

Calling:

 call test('3,2,1');

Fastest way to remove first char in a String

I know this is hyper-optimization land, but it seemed like a good excuse to kick the wheels of BenchmarkDotNet. The result of this test (on .NET Core even) is that Substring is ever so slightly faster than Remove, in this sample test: 19.37ns vs 22.52ns for Remove. So some ~16% faster.

using System;
using BenchmarkDotNet.Attributes;

namespace BenchmarkFun
{
    public class StringSubstringVsRemove
    {
        public readonly string SampleString = " My name is Daffy Duck.";

        [Benchmark]
        public string StringSubstring() => SampleString.Substring(1);

        [Benchmark]
        public string StringRemove() => SampleString.Remove(0, 1);

        public void AssertTestIsValid()
        {
            string subsRes = StringSubstring();
            string remvRes = StringRemove();

            if (subsRes == null
                || subsRes.Length != SampleString.Length - 1
                || subsRes != remvRes) {
                throw new Exception("INVALID TEST!");
            }
        }
    }

    class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            // let's make sure test results are really equal / valid
            new StringSubstringVsRemove().AssertTestIsValid();

            var summary = BenchmarkRunner.Run<StringSubstringVsRemove>();
        }
    }
}

Results:

BenchmarkDotNet=v0.11.4, OS=Windows 10.0.17763.253 (1809/October2018Update/Redstone5)
Intel Core i7-6700HQ CPU 2.60GHz (Skylake), 1 CPU, 8 logical and 4 physical cores
.NET Core SDK=3.0.100-preview-010184
  [Host]     : .NET Core 3.0.0-preview-27324-5 (CoreCLR 4.6.27322.0, CoreFX 4.7.19.7311), 64bit RyuJIT
  DefaultJob : .NET Core 3.0.0-preview-27324-5 (CoreCLR 4.6.27322.0, CoreFX 4.7.19.7311), 64bit RyuJIT

|          Method |     Mean |     Error |    StdDev |
|---------------- |---------:|----------:|----------:|
| StringSubstring | 19.37 ns | 0.3940 ns | 0.3493 ns |
|    StringRemove | 22.52 ns | 0.4062 ns | 0.3601 ns |

How do I get the parent directory in Python?

os.path.abspath(os.path.join(somepath, '..'))

Observe:

import posixpath
import ntpath

print ntpath.abspath(ntpath.join('C:\\', '..'))
print ntpath.abspath(ntpath.join('C:\\foo', '..'))
print posixpath.abspath(posixpath.join('/', '..'))
print posixpath.abspath(posixpath.join('/home', '..'))

How to get mouse position in jQuery without mouse-events?

use window.event - it contains last event and as any event contains pageX, pageY etc. Works for Chrome, Safari, IE but not FF.

List Highest Correlation Pairs from a Large Correlation Matrix in Pandas?

I didn't want to unstack or over-complicate this issue, since I just wanted to drop some highly correlated features as part of a feature selection phase.

So I ended up with the following simplified solution:

# map features to their absolute correlation values
corr = features.corr().abs()

# set equality (self correlation) as zero
corr[corr == 1] = 0

# of each feature, find the max correlation
# and sort the resulting array in ascending order
corr_cols = corr.max().sort_values(ascending=False)

# display the highly correlated features
display(corr_cols[corr_cols > 0.8])

In this case, if you want to drop correlated features, you may map through the filtered corr_cols array and remove the odd-indexed (or even-indexed) ones.

How to change sender name (not email address) when using the linux mail command for autosending mail?

It depends on what sender address you are talking about. The sender address visble in the recipients mailprogramm is extracted from the "From:" Header. which can probably easily be set from your program.

If you are talking about the SMTP envelope sender address, you can pass the -f argument to the sendmail binary. Depending on the server configuration you may not be allowed to do that with the apache user.

from the sendmail manpage :

   -f <address>
                 This  option  sets  the  address  of the envelope sender of a
                 locally-generated message (also known as  the  return  path).
                 The  option  can normally be used only by a trusted user, but
                 untrusted_set_sender can be set to allow untrusted  users  to
                 use it. [...]

AngularJS error: 'argument 'FirstCtrl' is not a function, got undefined'

I am not sure about this tutorial but I had the same problem when I forgot to include the file into grunt/gulp minimization process.

grunt.initConfig({
  uglify: {
    my_target: {
      files: {
        'dest/output.min.js': ['src/input1.js', 'src/missing_controller.js']
      }
    }
  }
});

Hope that helps.

How to calculate rolling / moving average using NumPy / SciPy?

Here is a fast implementation using numba (mind the types). Note it does contain nans where shifted.

import numpy as np
import numba as nb

@nb.jit(nb.float64[:](nb.float64[:],nb.int64),
        fastmath=True,nopython=True)
def moving_average( array, window ):    
    ret = np.cumsum(array)
    ret[window:] = ret[window:] - ret[:-window]
    ma = ret[window - 1:] / window
    n = np.empty(window-1); n.fill(np.nan)
    return np.concatenate((n.ravel(), ma.ravel())) 

How can I programmatically get the MAC address of an iphone

@Grantland This "pretty clean solution" looks similar to my own improvement over iPhoneDeveloperTips solution.

You can see my step here: https://gist.github.com/1409855/

/* Original source code courtesy John from iOSDeveloperTips.com */

#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/sysctl.h>
#include <net/if.h>
#include <net/if_dl.h>

+ (NSString *)getMacAddress
{
    int                 mgmtInfoBase[6];
    char                *msgBuffer = NULL;
    NSString            *errorFlag = NULL;
    size_t              length;

    // Setup the management Information Base (mib)
    mgmtInfoBase[0] = CTL_NET;        // Request network subsystem
    mgmtInfoBase[1] = AF_ROUTE;       // Routing table info
    mgmtInfoBase[2] = 0;              
    mgmtInfoBase[3] = AF_LINK;        // Request link layer information
    mgmtInfoBase[4] = NET_RT_IFLIST;  // Request all configured interfaces

    // With all configured interfaces requested, get handle index
    if ((mgmtInfoBase[5] = if_nametoindex("en0")) == 0) 
        errorFlag = @"if_nametoindex failure";
    // Get the size of the data available (store in len)
    else if (sysctl(mgmtInfoBase, 6, NULL, &length, NULL, 0) < 0) 
        errorFlag = @"sysctl mgmtInfoBase failure";
    // Alloc memory based on above call
    else if ((msgBuffer = malloc(length)) == NULL)
        errorFlag = @"buffer allocation failure";
    // Get system information, store in buffer
    else if (sysctl(mgmtInfoBase, 6, msgBuffer, &length, NULL, 0) < 0)
    {
        free(msgBuffer);
        errorFlag = @"sysctl msgBuffer failure";
    }
    else
    {
        // Map msgbuffer to interface message structure
        struct if_msghdr *interfaceMsgStruct = (struct if_msghdr *) msgBuffer;

        // Map to link-level socket structure
        struct sockaddr_dl *socketStruct = (struct sockaddr_dl *) (interfaceMsgStruct + 1);

        // Copy link layer address data in socket structure to an array
        unsigned char macAddress[6];
        memcpy(&macAddress, socketStruct->sdl_data + socketStruct->sdl_nlen, 6);

        // Read from char array into a string object, into traditional Mac address format
        NSString *macAddressString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X",
                                      macAddress[0], macAddress[1], macAddress[2], macAddress[3], macAddress[4], macAddress[5]];
        NSLog(@"Mac Address: %@", macAddressString);

        // Release the buffer memory
        free(msgBuffer);

        return macAddressString;
    }

    // Error...
    NSLog(@"Error: %@", errorFlag);

    return nil;
}

Why and how to fix? IIS Express "The specified port is in use"

I had a similar issue running Visual Studio 2019 on Windows 10. Some solutions that worked for others seemed to include:

  1. Changing the application port number.
  2. Have Visual studio automatically assign a port number each time the application start.
  3. Restart Visual Studio
  4. Restart the computer.

Unfortunately, none of these solutions worked for me, assigning another port number did work but was not an acceptable solution as it was important for my application to run on a specified port.

The Solution

First I ran the command:

netsh http add iplisten ipaddress=::

from an elevated command-line process. This solved the initial error, when attempting to run the application I no longer got the "port in use" error, instead, I now got an error stating the application was unable to bind to the port because administrative privileges were required. (although I was running Visual Studio as administrator)

The second error was caused by Hyper-V that adds ports to the Port Exclusion Range, the port my application uses was in one of these exclusion ranges. You can view these ports by running the following command: netsh interface ipv4 show excludedportrange protocol=tcp

To solve this second error:

  1. Disable Hyper-V: Control Panel-> Programs and Features-> Turn Windows features on or off. Untick Hyper-V
  2. Restart the computer.
  3. Add the port you are using to the port exclusion range: netsh int ipv4 add excludedportrange protocol=tcp startport=50403 numberofports=1 store=persistent
  4. Reenable Hyper-V
  5. Restart the computer

From here everything worked perfectly.

Right pad a string with variable number of spaces

The easiest way to right pad a string with spaces (without them being trimmed) is to simply cast the string as CHAR(length). MSSQL will sometimes trim whitespace from VARCHAR (because it is a VARiable-length data type). Since CHAR is a fixed length datatype, SQL Server will never trim the trailing spaces, and will automatically pad strings that are shorter than its length with spaces. Try the following code snippet for example.

SELECT CAST('Test' AS CHAR(20))

This returns the value 'Test '.

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

Like others have mentioned, the Google Places Autocomplete API is missing some important functions. Case in point, Google will not validate that the street number is real, and they also will not put it into a standardized format. So, it is the user's responsibility to enter that portion of the address correctly.

Google also won't predict PO Boxes or apartment numbers. So, if you are using their API for shipping, address cleansing or data governance, you may want one that will validate the building number, autocomplete the unit number and standardize the information.

Full Disclosure, I work for SmartyStreets

SQL Server Service not available in service list after installation of SQL Server Management Studio

downloaded Sql server management 2008 r2 and got it installed. Its getting installed but when I try to connect it via .\SQLEXPRESS it shows error. DO I need to install any SQL service on my system?

You installed management studio which is just a management interface to SQL Server. If you didn't (which is what it seems like) already have SQL Server installed, you'll need to install it in order to have it on your system and use it.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=1695

Installing MySQL in Docker fails with error message "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket"

I ran into the same issue today, try running ur container with this command.

docker run --name mariadbtest -p 3306:3306 -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=mypass -d mariadb/server:10.3

Passing just a type as a parameter in C#

Use generic types !

  class DataExtraction<T>
{
    DateRangeReport dateRange;
    List<Predicate> predicates;
    List<string> cids;

    public DataExtraction( DateRangeReport dateRange,
                           List<Predicate> predicates,
                           List<string> cids)            

    {
        this.dateRange = dateRange;
        this.predicates = predicates;
        this.cids = cids;
    }
}

And call it like this :

  DataExtraction<AdPerformanceRow> extractor = new DataExtraction<AdPerformanceRow>(dates, predicates , cids);

Finding what methods a Python object has

I believe that you want something like this:

a list of attributes from an object

The built-in function dir() can do this job.

Taken from help(dir) output on your Python shell:

dir(...)

dir([object]) -> list of strings

If called without an argument, return the names in the current scope.

Else, return an alphabetized list of names comprising (some of) the attributes of the given object, and of attributes reachable from it.

If the object supplies a method named __dir__, it will be used; otherwise the default dir() logic is used and returns:

  • for a module object: the module's attributes.
  • for a class object: its attributes, and recursively the attributes of its bases.
  • for any other object: its attributes, its class's attributes, and recursively the attributes of its class's base classes.

For example:

$ python
Python 2.7.6 (default, Jun 22 2015, 17:58:13)
[GCC 4.8.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>> a = "I am a string"
>>>
>>> type(a)
<class 'str'>
>>>
>>> dir(a)
['__add__', '__class__', '__contains__', '__delattr__', '__doc__',
'__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__', '__getitem__',
'__getnewargs__', '__getslice__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__init__',
'__le__', '__len__', '__lt__', '__mod__', '__mul__', '__ne__', '__new__',
'__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__rmod__', '__rmul__',
'__setattr__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__subclasshook__',
'_formatter_field_name_split', '_formatter_parser', 'capitalize',
'center', 'count', 'decode', 'encode', 'endswith', 'expandtabs', 'find',
'format', 'index', 'isalnum', 'isalpha', 'isdigit', 'islower', 'isspace',
'istitle', 'isupper', 'join', 'ljust', 'lower', 'lstrip', 'partition',
'replace', 'rfind', 'rindex', 'rjust', 'rpartition', 'rsplit', 'rstrip',
'split', 'splitlines', 'startswith', 'strip', 'swapcase', 'title',
'translate', 'upper', 'zfill']

Chrome says "Resource interpreted as script but transferred with MIME type text/plain.", what gives?

I had this problem while using a web framework and fixed it by moving the relevant javascript files into the designated (by the framework) javascript folder.

Get the content of a sharepoint folder with Excel VBA

Try mapping the sharepoint library to a drive letter in windows. Then select the drive and path in your code.

How can I use a local image as the base image with a dockerfile?

You can have - characters in your images. Assume you have a local image (not a local registry) named centos-base-image with tag 7.3.1611.

docker version 
      Client:
       Version:         1.12.6
       API version:     1.24
       Package version: docker-common-1.12.6-16.el7.centos.x86_64
       Go version:      go1.7.4

      Server:
       Version:         1.12.6
       API version:     1.24
       Package version: docker-common-1.12.6-16.el7.centos.x86_64
       Go version:      go1.7.4

docker images
 REPOSITORY            TAG
 centos-base-image     7.3.1611

Dockerfile

FROM centos-base-image:7.3.1611
RUN yum -y install epel-release libaio bc flex

Result

Sending build context to Docker daemon 315.9 MB
Step 1 : FROM centos-base-image:7.3.1611
  ---> c4d84e86782e
Step 2 : RUN yum -y install epel-release libaio bc flex
  ---> Running in 36d8abd0dad9
...

In the example above FROM is fetching your local image, you can provide additional instructions to fetch an image from your custom registry (e.g. FROM localhost:5000/my-image:with.tag). See https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/pull/#pull-from-a-different-registry and https://docs.docker.com/registry/#tldr

Finally, if your image is not being resolved when providing a name, try adding a tag to the image when you create it

This GitHub thread describes a similar issue of not finding local images by name.

By omitting a specific tag, docker will look for an image tagged "latest", so either create an image with the :latest tag, or change your FROM

Get path to execution directory of Windows Forms application

This could help;

Path.GetDirectoryName(Application.ExecutablePath);

also here is the reference

Create a date time with month and day only, no year

How about creating a timer with the next date?

In your timer callback you create the timer for the following year? DateTime has always a year value. What you want to express is a recurring time specification. This is another type which you would need to create. DateTime is always represents a specific date and time but not a recurring date.

How to count the occurrence of certain item in an ndarray?

here I have something, through which you can count the number of occurrence of a particular number: according to your code

count_of_zero=list(y[y==0]).count(0)

print(count_of_zero)

// according to the match there will be boolean values and according to True value the number 0 will be return

Peak-finding algorithm for Python/SciPy

First things first, the definition of "peak" is vague if without further specifications. For example, for the following series, would you call 5-4-5 one peak or two?

1-2-1-2-1-1-5-4-5-1-1-5-1

In this case, you'll need at least two thresholds: 1) a high threshold only above which can an extreme value register as a peak; and 2) a low threshold so that extreme values separated by small values below it will become two peaks.

Peak detection is a well-studied topic in Extreme Value Theory literature, also known as "declustering of extreme values". Its typical applications include identifying hazard events based on continuous readings of environmental variables e.g. analysing wind speed to detect storm events.

How do I put text on ProgressBar?

You will have to override the OnPaint method, call the base implementation and the paint your own text.

You will need to create your own CustomProgressBar and then override OnPaint to draw what ever text you want.

Custom Progress Bar Class

namespace ProgressBarSample
{

public enum ProgressBarDisplayText
{
    Percentage,
    CustomText
}

class CustomProgressBar: ProgressBar
{
    //Property to set to decide whether to print a % or Text
    public ProgressBarDisplayText DisplayStyle { get; set; }

    //Property to hold the custom text
    public String CustomText { get; set; }

    public CustomProgressBar()
    {
        // Modify the ControlStyles flags
        //http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.controlstyles.aspx
        SetStyle(ControlStyles.UserPaint | ControlStyles.AllPaintingInWmPaint, true);
    }

    protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e)
    {
        Rectangle rect = ClientRectangle;
        Graphics g = e.Graphics;

        ProgressBarRenderer.DrawHorizontalBar(g, rect);
        rect.Inflate(-3, -3);
        if (Value > 0)
        {
            // As we doing this ourselves we need to draw the chunks on the progress bar
            Rectangle clip = new Rectangle(rect.X, rect.Y, (int)Math.Round(((float)Value / Maximum) * rect.Width), rect.Height);
            ProgressBarRenderer.DrawHorizontalChunks(g, clip);
        }

        // Set the Display text (Either a % amount or our custom text
        string text = DisplayStyle == ProgressBarDisplayText.Percentage ? Value.ToString() + '%' : CustomText;


        using (Font f = new Font(FontFamily.GenericSerif, 10))
        {

            SizeF len = g.MeasureString(text, f);
            // Calculate the location of the text (the middle of progress bar)
            // Point location = new Point(Convert.ToInt32((rect.Width / 2) - (len.Width / 2)), Convert.ToInt32((rect.Height / 2) - (len.Height / 2)));
            Point location = new Point(Convert.ToInt32((Width / 2) - len.Width / 2), Convert.ToInt32((Height / 2) - len.Height / 2)); 
            // The commented-out code will centre the text into the highlighted area only. This will centre the text regardless of the highlighted area.
            // Draw the custom text
            g.DrawString(text, f, Brushes.Red, location);
        }
    }
}
}

Sample WinForms Application

using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace ProgressBarSample
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            // Set our custom Style (% or text)
            customProgressBar1.DisplayStyle = ProgressBarDisplayText.CustomText;
            customProgressBar1.CustomText = "Initialising";
        }

        private void btnReset_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            customProgressBar1.Value = 0;
            btnStart.Enabled = true;
        }

        private void btnStart_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            btnReset.Enabled = false;
            btnStart.Enabled = false;

            for (int i = 0; i < 101; i++)
            {

                customProgressBar1.Value = i;
                // Demo purposes only
                System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(100);

                // Set the custom text at different intervals for demo purposes
                if (i > 30 && i < 50)
                {
                    customProgressBar1.CustomText = "Registering Account";
                }

                if (i > 80)
                {
                    customProgressBar1.CustomText = "Processing almost complete!";
                }

                if (i >= 99)
                {
                    customProgressBar1.CustomText = "Complete";
                }
            }

            btnReset.Enabled = true;


        }


    }
}

How can I give the Intellij compiler more heap space?

Current version:

Settings (Preferences on Mac) | Build, Execution, Deployment | Compiler | Build process heap size.

Older versions:

Settings (Preferences on Mac) | Compiler | Java Compiler | Maximum heap size.

Compiler runs in a separate JVM by default so IDEA heap settings that you set in idea.vmoptions have no effect on the compiler.

Python equivalent of a given wget command

Here's the code adopted from the torchvision library:

import urllib

def download_url(url, root, filename=None):
    """Download a file from a url and place it in root.
    Args:
        url (str): URL to download file from
        root (str): Directory to place downloaded file in
        filename (str, optional): Name to save the file under. If None, use the basename of the URL
    """

    root = os.path.expanduser(root)
    if not filename:
        filename = os.path.basename(url)
    fpath = os.path.join(root, filename)

    os.makedirs(root, exist_ok=True)

    try:
        print('Downloading ' + url + ' to ' + fpath)
        urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, fpath)
    except (urllib.error.URLError, IOError) as e:
        if url[:5] == 'https':
            url = url.replace('https:', 'http:')
            print('Failed download. Trying https -> http instead.'
                    ' Downloading ' + url + ' to ' + fpath)
            urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, fpath)

If you are ok to take dependency on torchvision library then you also also simply do:

from torchvision.datasets.utils import download_url
download_url('http://something.com/file.zip', '~/my_folder`)