Programs & Examples On #Objdump

objdump is a program for displaying various information about object files. For instance, it can be used as a disassembler to view executable in assembly form. It is part of the GNU Binutils for fine-grained control over executable and other binary data.

Switching between GCC and Clang/LLVM using CMake

System wide C++ change on Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install clang
sudo update-alternatives --config c++

Will print something like this:

  Selection    Path              Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0            /usr/bin/g++       20        auto mode
  1            /usr/bin/clang++   10        manual mode
  2            /usr/bin/g++       20        manual mode

Then just select clang++.

Using gdb to single-step assembly code outside specified executable causes error "cannot find bounds of current function"

The most useful thing you can do here is display/i $pc, before using stepi as already suggested in R Samuel Klatchko's answer. This tells gdb to disassemble the current instruction just before printing the prompt each time; then you can just keep hitting Enter to repeat the stepi command.

(See my answer to another question for more detail - the context of that question was different, but the principle is the same.)

Command line tool to dump Windows DLL version?

You can also look at filever.exe, which can be downloaded as part of the Windows XP SP2 Support Tools package - only 4.7MB of download.

Can't install Scipy through pip

The easy way to install scipy on Windows 10 100% is this: Just pip this ====> pip install scipy==1.0.0rc2

Thank me later :)

Excel doesn't update value unless I hit Enter

I Encounter this problem before. I suspect that is some of ur cells are link towards other sheet, which the other sheets is returning #NAME? which ends up the current sheets is not working on calculation.

Try solve ur other sheets that is linked

HTML radio buttons allowing multiple selections

The name of the inputs must be the same to belong to the same group. Then the others will be automatically deselected when one is clicked.

How to install latest version of openssl Mac OS X El Capitan

To replace the old version with the new one, you need to change the link for it. Type that command to terminal.

brew link --force openssl

Check the version of openssl again. It should be changed.

'dispatch' is not a function when argument to mapToDispatchToProps() in Redux

I got this issue when i wrote :
export default connect (mapDispatchToProps,mapStateToProps)(SearchInsectsComponent); instead of export default connect (mapStateToProps,mapDispatchToProps)(SearchInsectsComponent);

What's the best way to loop through a set of elements in JavaScript?

I like to use a TreeWalker if the set of elements are children of a root node.

Android emulator shows nothing except black screen and adb devices shows "device offline"

By the sound of it you have a misconfigured device. If you do it will never start and never show anything in Logcat.

I'd recommend creating a new device using one of the default "Device Definitions" available in the AVD Manager. It's as easy as highlighting the device type you want in the "Device Definitions" tab and clicking the "Create AVD..." button, then filling out a few details. I'd start by adjusting "Internal Storage" to around 8GB and (maybe) an "SD Card" of 2GB while leaving everything else the same. Try starting the device and if you see "Android" pop up onscreen you're running. The first boot usually takes awhile so just hang on and watch Logcat for any issues (the "DDMS" perspective helps here).

If you still see a black screen with a default device definition you've got problems elsewhere that are causing the device to fail. Digging through logs may be your only chance if that's the case. You can always try re-downloading the ADT and re-installing the SDKs if nothing else works.

The goal here is to get you up and running with a (very) basic device, so don't shoot for uber impressive specs at this point, just shoot for trying to make it run. Once that happens try adjusting the settings one-by-one until you have it spec'd out the way you like. Just keep in mind that the emulator has its limitations and its no substitute for a real device (Although it works most of the time ;)

Get connection status on Socket.io client

@robertklep's answer to check socket.connected is correct except for reconnect event, https://socket.io/docs/client-api/#event-reconnect As the document said it is "Fired upon a successful reconnection." but when you check socket.connected then it is false.

Not sure it is a bug or intentional.

How to add google-play-services.jar project dependency so my project will run and present map

Some of the solutions described here did not work for me. Others did, however they produced warnings on runtime and javadoc was still not linked. After some experimenting, I managed to solve this. The steps are:

  1. Install the Google Play Services as recommended on Android Developers.

  2. Set up your project as recommended on Android Developers.

  3. If you followed 1. and 2., you should see two projects in your workspace: your project and google-play-services_lib project. Copy the docs folder which contains the javadoc from <android-sdk>/extras/google/google_play_services/ to libs folder of your project.

  4. Copy google-play-services.jar from <android-sdk>/extras/google/google_play_services/libproject/google-play-services_lib/libs to 'libs' folder of your project.

  5. In google-play-services_lib project, edit libs/google-play-services.jar.properties . The <path> in doc=<path> should point to the subfolder reference of the folder docs, which you created in step 3.

  6. In Eclipse, do Project > Clean. Done, javadoc is now linked.

Python Sets vs Lists

from datetime import datetime
listA = range(10000000)
setA = set(listA)
tupA = tuple(listA)
#Source Code

def calc(data, type):
start = datetime.now()
if data in type:
print ""
end = datetime.now()
print end-start

calc(9999, listA)
calc(9999, tupA)
calc(9999, setA)

Output after comparing 10 iterations for all 3 : Comparison

How to add ASP.NET 4.0 as Application Pool on IIS 7, Windows 7

Chances are you need to install .NET 4 (Which will also create a new AppPool for you)

First make sure you have IIS installed then perform the following steps:

  1. Open your command prompt (Windows + R) and type cmd and press ENTER
    You may need to start this as an administrator if you have UAC enabled.
    To do so, locate the exe (usually you can start typing with Start Menu open), right click and select "Run as Administrator"
  2. Type cd C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\ and press ENTER.
  3. Type aspnet_regiis.exe -ir and press ENTER again.
    • If this is a fresh version of IIS (no other sites running on it) or you're not worried about the hosted sites breaking with a framework change you can use -i instead of -ir. This will change their AppPools for you and steps 5-on shouldn't be necessary.
    • at this point you will see it begin working on installing .NET's framework in to IIS for you
  4. Close the DOS prompt, re-open your start menu and right click Computer and select Manage
  5. Expand the left-hand side (Services and Applications) and select Internet Information Services
    • You'll now have a new applet within the content window exclusively for IIS.
  6. Expand out your computer and locate the Application Pools node, and select it. (You should now see ASP.NET v4.0 listed)
  7. Expand out your Sites node and locate the site you want to modify (select it)
  8. To the right you'll notice Basic Settings... just below the Edit Site text. Click this, and a new window should appear
  9. Select the .NET 4 AppPool using the Select... button and click ok.
  10. Restart the site, and you should be good-to-go.

(You can repeat steps 7-on for every site you want to apply .NET 4 on as well).


Additional References:

  1. .NET 4 Framework
    The framework for those that don't already have it.
  2. How do I run a command with elevated privileges?
    Directions on how to run the command prompt with Administrator rights.
  3. aspnet_regiis.exe options
    For those that might want to know what -ir or -i does (or the difference between them) or what other options are available. (I typically use -ir to prevent any older sites currently running from breaking on a framework change but that's up to you.)

Centering image and text in R Markdown for a PDF report

None of the answers work for all output types the same way and others focus on figures plottet within the code chunk and not external images.

The include_graphics() function provides an easy solution. The only argument is the name of the file (with the relative path if it's in a subfolder). By setting echo to FALSE and fig.align=center you get the wished result.

```{r, echo=FALSE, fig.align='center'}
include_graphics("image.jpg")
```

How to center an iframe horizontally?

According to http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_align.asp, setting the left and right margins to auto specifies that they should split the available margin equally. The result is a centered element:

margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;

Returning a boolean value in a JavaScript function

You could wrap your return value in the Boolean function

Boolean([return value])

That'll ensure all falsey values are false and truthy statements are true.

javascript - Create Simple Dynamic Array

I would do as follows;

_x000D_
_x000D_
var num = 10,_x000D_
  dynar = [...Array(num)].map((_,i) => ++i+"");_x000D_
console.log(dynar);
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

How to implement class constants?

All of the replies with readonly are only suitable when this is a pure TS environment - if it's ever being made into a library then this doesn't actually prevent anything, it just provides warnings for the TS compiler itself.

Static is also not correct - that's adding a method to the Class, not to an instance of the class - so you need to address it directly.

There are several ways to manage this, but the pure TS way is to use a getter - exactly as you have done already.

The alternative way is to put it in as readonly, but then use Object.defineProperty to lock it - this is almost the same thing that is being done via the getter, but you can lock it to have a value, rather than a method to use to get it -

class MyClass {
    MY_CONSTANT = 10;

    constructor() {
        Object.defineProperty(this, "MY_CONSTANT", {value: this.MY_CONSTANT});
    }
}

The defaults make it read-only, but check out the docs for more details.

How to pass multiple arguments in processStartInfo?

It is purely a string:

startInfo.Arguments = "-sk server -sky exchange -pe -n CN=localhost -ir LocalMachine -is Root -ic MyCA.cer -sr LocalMachine -ss My MyAdHocTestCert.cer"

Of course, when arguments contain whitespaces you'll have to escape them using \" \", like:

"... -ss \"My MyAdHocTestCert.cer\""

See MSDN for this.

Check if table exists without using "select from"

Here is a table that is not a SELECT * FROM

SHOW TABLES FROM `db` LIKE 'tablename'; //zero rows = not exist

Got this from a database pro, here is what I was told:

select 1 from `tablename`; //avoids a function call
select * from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.tables where schema = 'db' and table = 'table' // slow. Field names not accurate
SHOW TABLES FROM `db` LIKE 'tablename'; //zero rows = does not exist

How can I create a copy of an Oracle table without copying the data?

Just use a where clause that won't select any rows:

create table xyz_new as select * from xyz where 1=0;

Limitations

The following things will not be copied to the new table:

  • sequences
  • triggers
  • indexes
  • some constraints may not be copied
  • materialized view logs

This also does not handle partitions


AngularJS accessing DOM elements inside directive template

You could write a directive for this, which simply assigns the (jqLite) element to the scope using an attribute-given name.

Here is the directive:

app.directive("ngScopeElement", function () {
  var directiveDefinitionObject = {

    restrict: "A",

    compile: function compile(tElement, tAttrs, transclude) {
      return {
          pre: function preLink(scope, iElement, iAttrs, controller) {
            scope[iAttrs.ngScopeElement] = iElement;
          }
        };
    }
  };

  return directiveDefinitionObject;
});

Usage:

app.directive("myDirective", function() {
    return {
        template: '<div><ul ng-scope-element="list"><li ng-repeat="item in items"></ul></div>',
        link: function(scope, element, attrs) {
            scope.list[0] // scope.list is the jqlite element, 
                          // scope.list[0] is the native dom element
        }
    }
});

Some remarks:

  • Due to the compile and link order for nested directives you can only access scope.list from myDirectives postLink-Function, which you are very likely using anyway
  • ngScopeElement uses a preLink-function, so that directives nested within the element having ng-scope-element can already access scope.list
  • not sure how this behaves performance-wise

Asynchronous Function Call in PHP

One way is to use pcntl_fork() in a recursive function.

function networkCall(){
  $data = processGETandPOST();
  $response = makeNetworkCall($data);
  processNetworkResponse($response);
  return true;
}

function runAsync($times){
  $pid = pcntl_fork();
  if ($pid == -1) {
    die('could not fork');
  } else if ($pid) {
    // we are the parent
    $times -= 1;
    if($times>0)
      runAsync($times);
    pcntl_wait($status); //Protect against Zombie children
  } else {
    // we are the child
    networkCall();
    posix_kill(getmypid(), SIGKILL);
  }
}

runAsync(3);

One thing about pcntl_fork() is that when running the script by way of Apache, it doesn't work (it's not supported by Apache). So, one way to resolve that issue is to run the script using the php cli, like: exec('php fork.php',$output); from another file. To do this you'll have two files: one that's loaded by Apache and one that's run with exec() from inside the file loaded by Apache like this:

apacheLoadedFile.php

exec('php fork.php',$output);

fork.php

function networkCall(){
  $data = processGETandPOST();
  $response = makeNetworkCall($data);
  processNetworkResponse($response);
  return true;
}

function runAsync($times){
  $pid = pcntl_fork();
  if ($pid == -1) {
    die('could not fork');
  } else if ($pid) {
    // we are the parent
    $times -= 1;
    if($times>0)
      runAsync($times);
    pcntl_wait($status); //Protect against Zombie children
  } else {
    // we are the child
    networkCall();
    posix_kill(getmypid(), SIGKILL);
  }
}

runAsync(3);

Convert JavaScript String to be all lower case?

Simply use JS toLowerCase()
let v = "Your Name" let u = v.toLowerCase(); or
let u = "Your Name".toLowerCase();

what is the difference between json and xml

They are two formats of representation of information. While JSON was designed to be more compact, XML was design to be more readable.

ldap query for group members

Active Directory does not store the group membership on user objects. It only stores the Member list on the group. The tools show the group membership on user objects by doing queries for it.

How about:

(&(objectClass=group)(member=cn=my,ou=full,dc=domain))

(You forgot the (& ) bit in your example in the question as well).

Incorrect string value: '\xF0\x9F\x8E\xB6\xF0\x9F...' MySQL

Change database charset and collation

ALTER DATABASE
    database_name
    CHARACTER SET = utf8mb4
    COLLATE = utf8mb4_unicode_ci;

change specific table's charset and collation

ALTER TABLE
    table_name
    CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4
    COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;

change connection charset in mysql driver

before

charset=utf8&parseTime=True&loc=Local

after

charset=utf8mb4&collation=utf8mb4_unicode_ci&parseTime=True&loc=Local

From this article https://hackernoon.com/today-i-learned-storing-emoji-to-mysql-with-golang-204a093454b7

Angularjs loading screen on ajax request

Typescript and Angular Implementation

directive

((): void=> {
    "use strict";
    angular.module("app").directive("busyindicator", busyIndicator);
    function busyIndicator($http:ng.IHttpService): ng.IDirective {
        var directive = <ng.IDirective>{
            restrict: "A",
            link(scope: Scope.IBusyIndicatorScope) {
                scope.anyRequestInProgress = () => ($http.pendingRequests.length > 0);
                scope.$watch(scope.anyRequestInProgress, x => {            
                    if (x) {
                        scope.canShow = true;
                    } else {
                        scope.canShow = false;
                    }
                });
            }
        };
        return directive;
    }
})();

Scope

   module App.Scope {
        export interface IBusyIndicatorScope extends angular.IScope {
            anyRequestInProgress: any;
            canShow: boolean;
        }
    }  

Template

<div id="activityspinner" ng-show="canShow" class="show" data-busyindicator>
</div>

CSS
#activityspinner
{
    display : none;
}
#activityspinner.show {
    display : block;
    position : fixed;
    z-index: 100;
    background-image : url('data:image/gif;base64,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') 
    -ms-opacity : 0.4;
    opacity : 0.4;
    background-repeat : no-repeat;
    background-position : center;
    left : 0;
    bottom : 0;
    right : 0;
    top : 0;
}

CGContextDrawImage draws image upside down when passed UIImage.CGImage

drawInRect is certainly the way to go. Here's another little thing that will come in way useful when doing this. Usually the picture and the rectangle into which it is going to go don't conform. In that case drawInRect will stretch the picture. Here's a quick and cool way to make sure that the picture's aspect ration isn't changed, by reversing the transformation (which will be to fit the whole thing in):

//Picture and irect don't conform, so there'll be stretching, compensate
    float xf = Picture.size.width/irect.size.width;
    float yf = Picture.size.height/irect.size.height;
    float m = MIN(xf, yf);
    xf /= m;
    yf /= m;
    CGContextScaleCTM(ctx, xf, yf);

    [Picture drawInRect: irect];

Open page in new window without popup blocking

function openLinkNewTab (url){
    $('body').append('<a id="openLinkNewTab" href="' + url + '" target="_blank"><span></span></a>').find('#openLinkNewTab span').click().remove();
}

Update value of a nested dictionary of varying depth

Another way of using recursion:

def updateDict(dict1,dict2):
    keys1 = list(dict1.keys())
    keys2= list(dict2.keys())
    keys2 = [x for x in keys2 if x in keys1]
    for x in keys2:
        if (x in keys1) & (type(dict1[x]) is dict) & (type(dict2[x]) is dict):
            updateDict(dict1[x],dict2[x])
        else:
            dict1.update({x:dict2[x]})
    return(dict1)

How to repair a serialized string which has been corrupted by an incorrect byte count length?

Another reason of this problem can be column type of "payload" sessions table. If you have huge data on session, a text column wouldn't be enough. You will need MEDIUMTEXT or even LONGTEXT.

Plotting time in Python with Matplotlib

7 years later and this code has helped me. However, my times still were not showing up correctly.

enter image description here

Using Matplotlib 2.0.0 and I had to add the following bit of code from Editing the date formatting of x-axis tick labels in matplotlib by Paul H.

import matplotlib.dates as mdates
myFmt = mdates.DateFormatter('%d')
ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(myFmt)

I changed the format to (%H:%M) and the time displayed correctly. enter image description here

All thanks to the community.

CakePHP select default value in SELECT input

FormHelper::select(string $fieldName, array $options, 
array $attributes)

$attributes['value'] to set which value should be selected default

<?php echo $this->Form->select('status', $list, array(
    'empty' => false, 
    'value' => 1)
); ?>

git ignore all files of a certain type, except those in a specific subfolder

An optional prefix ! which negates the pattern; any matching file excluded by a previous pattern will become included again. If a negated pattern matches, this will override lower precedence patterns sources.

http://schacon.github.com/git/gitignore.html

*.json
!spec/*.json

How to access /storage/emulated/0/

As Hiren stated, you'll need a file explorer to see your directory. If you're rooted I highly suggest root explorer, otherwise ES File Explorer is a good choice.

JQuery, setTimeout not working

SetTimeout is used to make your set of code to execute after a specified time period so for your requirements its better to use setInterval because that will call your function every time at a specified time interval.

How to find the socket connection state in C?

Very simple, as pictured in the recv.

To check that you will want to read 1 byte from the socket with MSG_PEEK and MSG_DONT_WAIT. This will not dequeue data (PEEK) and the operation is nonblocking (DONT_WAIT)

while (recv(client->socket,NULL,1, MSG_PEEK | MSG_DONTWAIT) != 0) {
    sleep(rand() % 2); // Sleep for a bit to avoid spam
    fflush(stdin);
    printf("I am alive: %d\n", socket);
}

// When the client has disconnected, this line will execute
printf("Client %d went away :(\n", client->socket);

Found the example here.

Import a file from a subdirectory?

/project/tester.py

/project/lib/BoxTime.py

create blank file __init__.py down the line till you reach the file

/project/lib/somefolder/BoxTime.py

#lib -- needs has two items one __init__.py and a directory named somefolder #somefolder has two items boxtime.py and __init__.py

Bootstrap 3 Glyphicons are not working

i had a box width code \e094 for glyphicon-arrow-down, in fact i solved the problem adding glyphicon in css class like that :

<i class="glyphicon  glyphicon-arrow-down"></i>

if it could help someone ...

How to automatically add user account AND password with a Bash script?

Tralemonkey's solution almost worked for me as well ... but not quite. I ended up doing it this way:

echo -n '$#@password@#$' | passwd myusername --stdin

2 key details his solution didn't include, the -n keeps echo from adding a \n to the password that is getting encrypted, and the single quotes protect the contents from being interpreted by the shell (bash) in my case.

BTW I ran this command as root on a CentOS 5.6 system in case anyone is wondering.

How to grep for contents after pattern?

sed -n 's/^potato:[[:space:]]*//p' file.txt

One can think of Grep as a restricted Sed, or of Sed as a generalized Grep. In this case, Sed is one good, lightweight tool that does what you want -- though, of course, there exist several other reasonable ways to do it, too.

Prevent double curly brace notation from displaying momentarily before angular.js compiles/interpolates document

To improve the effectiveness of class='ng-cloak' approach when scripts are loaded last, make sure the following css is loaded in the head of the document:

.ng-cloak { display:none; }

Show/Hide the console window of a C# console application

"Just to hide" you can:

Change the output type from Console Application to Windows Application,

And Instead of Console.Readline/key you can use new ManualResetEvent(false).WaitOne() at the end to keep the app running.

Use of ~ (tilde) in R programming Language

R defines a ~ (tilde) operator for use in formulas. Formulas have all sorts of uses, but perhaps the most common is for regression:

library(datasets)
lm( myFormula, data=iris)

help("~") or help("formula") will teach you more.

@Spacedman has covered the basics. Let's discuss how it works.

First, being an operator, note that it is essentially a shortcut to a function (with two arguments):

> `~`(lhs,rhs)
lhs ~ rhs
> lhs ~ rhs
lhs ~ rhs

That can be helpful to know for use in e.g. apply family commands.

Second, you can manipulate the formula as text:

oldform <- as.character(myFormula) # Get components
myFormula <- as.formula( paste( oldform[2], "Sepal.Length", sep="~" ) )

Third, you can manipulate it as a list:

myFormula[[2]]
myFormula[[3]]

Finally, there are some helpful tricks with formulae (see help("formula") for more):

myFormula <- Species ~ . 

For example, the version above is the same as the original version, since the dot means "all variables not yet used." This looks at the data.frame you use in your eventual model call, sees which variables exist in the data.frame but aren't explicitly mentioned in your formula, and replaces the dot with those missing variables.

Vertical alignment of text and icon in button

There is one rule that is set by font-awesome.css, which you need to override.

You should set overrides in your CSS files rather than inline, but essentially, the icon-ok class is being set to vertical-align: baseline; by default and which I've corrected here:

<button id="whatever" class="btn btn-large btn-primary" name="Continue" type="submit">
    <span>Continue</span>
    <i class="icon-ok" style="font-size:30px; vertical-align: middle;"></i>
</button>

Example here: http://jsfiddle.net/fPXFY/4/ and the output of which is:

enter image description here

I've downsized the font-size of the icon above in this instance to 30px, as it feels too big at 40px for the size of the button, but this is purely a personal viewpoint. You could increase the padding on the button to compensate if required:

<button id="whaever" class="btn btn-large btn-primary" style="padding: 20px;" name="Continue" type="submit">
    <span>Continue</span>
    <i class="icon-ok" style="font-size:30px; vertical-align: middle;"></i>
</button>

Producing: http://jsfiddle.net/fPXFY/5/ the output of which is:

enter image description here

Put request with simple string as request body

I solved this by overriding the default Content-Type:

const config = { headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/json'} };
axios.put(url, content, config).then(response => {
    ...
});

Based on m experience, the default Conent-Type is application/x-www-form-urlencoded for strings, and application/json for objects (including arrays). Your server probably expects JSON.

Where are the recorded macros stored in Notepad++?

On Vista with virtualization on, the file is here. Note that the AppData folder is hidden. Either show hidden folders, or go straight to it by typing %AppData% in the address bar of Windows Explorer.

C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml

How to execute a shell script on a remote server using Ansible?

you can use script module

Example

- name: Transfer and execute a script.
  hosts: all
  tasks:

     - name: Copy and Execute the script 
       script: /home/user/userScript.sh

How to Get the Query Executed in Laravel 5? DB::getQueryLog() Returning Empty Array

By default, the query log is disabled in Laravel 5: https://github.com/laravel/framework/commit/e0abfe5c49d225567cb4dfd56df9ef05cc297448

You will need to enable the query log by calling:

DB::enableQueryLog();

// and then you can get query log

dd(DB::getQueryLog());

or register an event listener:

DB::listen(
    function ($sql, $bindings, $time) {
        //  $sql - select * from `ncv_users` where `ncv_users`.`id` = ? limit 1
        //  $bindings - [5]
        //  $time(in milliseconds) - 0.38 
    }
);  

Some Tips

1. Multiple DB connections

If you have more than one DB connection you must specify which connection to log

To enables query log for my_connection:

DB::connection('my_connection')->enableQueryLog();

To get query log for my_connection:

print_r(
   DB::connection('my_connection')->getQueryLog()
);

2. Where to enable query log ?

For an HTTP request lifecycle, you can enable query log in the `handle` method of some `BeforeAnyDbQueryMiddleware` [middleware][1] and then retrieve the executed queries in the [`terminate`][2] method of the same middleware.
class BeforeAnyDbQueryMiddleware
{
    public function handle($request, Closure $next)
    {
        DB::enableQueryLog();
        return $next($request);
    }

    public function terminate($request, $response)
    {
        // Store or dump the log data...
        dd(
            DB::getQueryLog()
        );
    }
}

A middleware's chain will not run for artisan commands, so for CLI execution you can enable query log in the artisan.start event listener.

For example you can put it in the bootstrap/app.php file

$app['events']->listen('artisan.start', function(){
    \DB::enableQueryLog();
});

3. Memory

Laravel keeps all queries in memory. So in some cases, such as when inserting a large number of rows, or having a long running job with a lot of queries, this can cause the application to use excess memory.

In most cases you will need the query log only for debugging, and if that is the case I would recommend you enable it only for development.

if (App::environment('local')) {
    // The environment is local
    DB::enableQueryLog();
}

References

Removing unwanted table cell borders with CSS

Modify your HTML like this:

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
    <thead>
        <tr><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td></tr>
     </thead>
    <tbody>
        <tr><td>a</td><td>b></td><td>c</td></tr>
        <tr class='odd'><td>x</td><td>y</td><td>z</td></tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

(I added border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0")

In CSS, you could do the following:

table {
    border-collapse: collapse;
}

How to position absolute inside a div?

  1. First all block level elements are postioned static to the 'document'. The default positioning for all elements is position: static, which means the element is not positioned and occurs where it normally would in the document. Normally you wouldn't specify this unless you needed to override a positioning that had been previously set.
  2. Relative position: If you specify position: relative, then you can use top or bottom, and left or right to move the element relative to where it would normally occur in the document.
  3. When you specify position: absolute, the element is removed from the document and placed exactly where you tell it to go.

So in regard to your question you should position the containing block relative, i.e:

#parent {
  position: relative;
}

And the child element you should position absolute to the parent element like this:

#child {
  position: absolute;
}

See: Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps

How to center the elements in ConstraintLayout

Update:

Chain

You can now use the chain feature in packed mode as describe in Eugene's answer.


Guideline

You can use a horizontal guideline at 50% position and add bottom and top (8dp) constraints to edittext and button:

<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:paddingLeft="16dp"
    android:paddingRight="16dp">

    <android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
        android:id="@+id/client_id_input_layout"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginBottom="8dp"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="@+id/guideline"
        android:layout_marginRight="8dp"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
        android:layout_marginLeft="8dp"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent">

        <android.support.design.widget.TextInputEditText
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:hint="@string/login_client_id"
            android:inputType="textEmailAddress"/>

    </android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>

    <android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatButton
        android:id="@+id/authenticate"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/login_auth"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="@+id/guideline"
        android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
        android:layout_marginRight="8dp"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
        android:layout_marginLeft="8dp"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"/>

    <android.support.constraint.Guideline
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:id="@+id/guideline"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        app:layout_constraintGuide_percent="0.5"/>

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

Layout Editor

Python pandas Filtering out nan from a data selection of a column of strings

df = pd.DataFrame({'movie': ['thg', 'thg', 'mol', 'mol', 'lob', 'lob'],'rating': [3., 4., 5., np.nan, np.nan, np.nan],'name': ['John','James', np.nan, np.nan, np.nan,np.nan]})

for col in df.columns:
    df = df[~pd.isnull(df[col])]

What is the convention for word separator in Java package names?

Here's what the official naming conventions document prescribes:

Packages

The prefix of a unique package name is always written in all-lowercase ASCII letters and should be one of the top-level domain names, currently com, edu, gov, mil, net, org, or one of the English two-letter codes identifying countries as specified in ISO Standard 3166, 1981.

Subsequent components of the package name vary according to an organization's own internal naming conventions. Such conventions might specify that certain directory name components be division, department, project, machine, or login names.

Examples

  • com.sun.eng
  • com.apple.quicktime.v2
  • edu.cmu.cs.bovik.cheese

References


Note that in particular, anything following the top-level domain prefix isn't specified by the above document. The JLS also agrees with this by giving the following examples:

  • com.sun.sunsoft.DOE
  • gov.whitehouse.socks.mousefinder
  • com.JavaSoft.jag.Oak
  • org.npr.pledge.driver
  • uk.ac.city.rugby.game

The following excerpt is also relevant:

In some cases, the internet domain name may not be a valid package name. Here are some suggested conventions for dealing with these situations:

  • If the domain name contains a hyphen, or any other special character not allowed in an identifier, convert it into an underscore.
  • If any of the resulting package name components are keywords then append underscore to them.
  • If any of the resulting package name components start with a digit, or any other character that is not allowed as an initial character of an identifier, have an underscore prefixed to the component.

References

The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel

This could be caused by a few things (most likely to least likely):

  1. The server's SSL certificate is untrusted by the client. Easiest check is to point a browser at the URL and see if you get an SSL lock icon. If you get a broken lock, icon, click on it to see what the issue is:

    1. Expired dates - get a new SSL certificate
    2. Name does not match - make sure that your URL uses the same server name as the certificate.
    3. Not signed by a trusted authority - buy a certificate from an authority such as Verisign, or add the certificate to the client's trusted certificate store.
    4. In test environments you could update your certificate validator to skip access checks. Don't do this in production.
  2. Server is requiring Client SSL certificate - in this case you would have to update your code to sign the request with a client certificate.

What does "connection reset by peer" mean?

It's fatal. The remote server has sent you a RST packet, which indicates an immediate dropping of the connection, rather than the usual handshake. This bypasses the normal half-closed state transition. I like this description:

"Connection reset by peer" is the TCP/IP equivalent of slamming the phone back on the hook. It's more polite than merely not replying, leaving one hanging. But it's not the FIN-ACK expected of the truly polite TCP/IP converseur.

Implement paging (skip / take) functionality with this query

SQL 2008

Radim Köhler's answer works, but here is a shorter version:

select top 20 * from
(
select *,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY columnid) AS ROW_NUM
from tablename
) x
where ROW_NUM>10

Source: https://forums.asp.net/post/4033909.aspx

Android ADB stop application command like "force-stop" for non rooted device

If you have a rooted device you can use kill command

Connect to your device with adb:

adb shell

Once the session is established, you have to escalade privileges:

su

Then

ps

will list running processes. Note down the PID of the process you want to terminate. Then get rid of it

kill PID

How to count the number of true elements in a NumPy bool array

That question solved a quite similar question for me and I thought I should share :

In raw python you can use sum() to count True values in a list :

>>> sum([True,True,True,False,False])
3

But this won't work :

>>> sum([[False, False, True], [True, False, True]])
TypeError...

PHP Function with Optional Parameters

PHP allows default arguments (link). In your case, you could define all the parameters from 3 to 8 as NULL or as an empty string "" depending on your function code. In this way, you can call the function only using the first two parameters.

For example:

<?php
  function yourFunction($arg1, $arg2, $arg3=NULL, $arg4=NULL, $arg5=NULL, $arg6=NULL, $arg7=NULL, $arg8=NULL){
echo $arg1;
echo $arg2;
if(isset($arg3)){echo $arg3;}
# other similar statements for $arg4, ...., $arg5
if(isset($arg8)){echo $arg8;}
}

How to select a schema in postgres when using psql?

\l - Display database
\c - Connect to database
\dn - List schemas
\dt - List tables inside public schemas
\dt schema1. - List tables inside particular schemas. For eg: 'schema1'.

jQuery AJAX submit form

I got the following for me:

formSubmit('#login-form', '/api/user/login', '/members/');

where

function formSubmit(form, url, target) {
    $(form).submit(function(event) {
        $.post(url, $(form).serialize())
            .done(function(res) {
                if (res.success) {
                    window.location = target;
                }
                else {
                    alert(res.error);
                }
            })
            .fail(function(res) {
                alert("Server Error: " + res.status + " " + res.statusText);

            })
        event.preventDefault();
    });
}

This assumes the post to 'url' returns an ajax in the form of {success: false, error:'my Error to display'}

You can vary this as you like. Feel free to use that snippet.

lambda expression join multiple tables with select and where clause

If I understand your questions correctly, all you need to do is add the .Where(m => m.r.u.UserId == 1):

    var UserInRole = db.UserProfiles.
        Join(db.UsersInRoles, u => u.UserId, uir => uir.UserId,
        (u, uir) => new { u, uir }).
        Join(db.Roles, r => r.uir.RoleId, ro => ro.RoleId, (r, ro) => new { r, ro })
        .Where(m => m.r.u.UserId == 1)
        .Select (m => new AddUserToRole
        {
            UserName = m.r.u.UserName,
            RoleName = m.ro.RoleName
        });

Hope that helps.

How to read XML using XPath in Java

If you have a xml like below

<e:Envelope
    xmlns:d = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    xmlns:e = "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
    xmlns:wn0 = "http://systinet.com/xsd/SchemaTypes/"
    xmlns:i = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
    <e:Header>
        <Friends>
            <friend>
                <Name>Testabc</Name>
                <Age>12121</Age>
                <Phone>Testpqr</Phone>
            </friend>
        </Friends>
    </e:Header>
    <e:Body>
        <n0:ForAnsiHeaderOperResponse xmlns:n0 = "http://systinet.com/wsdl/com/magicsoftware/ibolt/localhost/ForAnsiHeader/ForAnsiHeaderImpl#ForAnsiHeaderOper?KExqYXZhL2xhbmcvU3RyaW5nOylMamF2YS9sYW5nL1N0cmluZzs=">
            <response i:type = "d:string">12--abc--pqr</response>
        </n0:ForAnsiHeaderOperResponse>
    </e:Body>
</e:Envelope>

and wanted to extract the below xml

<e:Header>
   <Friends>
      <friend>
         <Name>Testabc</Name>
         <Age>12121</Age>
         <Phone>Testpqr</Phone>
      </friend>
   </Friends>
</e:Header>

The below code helps to achieve the same

public static void main(String[] args) {

    File fXmlFile = new File("C://Users//abhijitb//Desktop//Test.xml");
    DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    Document document;
    Node result = null;
    try {
        document = dbf.newDocumentBuilder().parse(fXmlFile);
        XPath xPath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();
        String xpathStr = "//Envelope//Header";
        result = (Node) xPath.evaluate(xpathStr, document, XPathConstants.NODE);
        System.out.println(nodeToString(result));
    } catch (SAXException | IOException | ParserConfigurationException | XPathExpressionException
            | TransformerException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

private static String nodeToString(Node node) throws TransformerException {
    StringWriter buf = new StringWriter();
    Transformer xform = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
    xform.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes");
    xform.transform(new DOMSource(node), new StreamResult(buf));
    return (buf.toString());
}

Now if you want only the xml like below

<Friends>
   <friend>
      <Name>Testabc</Name>
      <Age>12121</Age>
      <Phone>Testpqr</Phone>
   </friend>
</Friends>

You need to change the

String xpathStr = "//Envelope//Header"; to String xpathStr = "//Envelope//Header/*";

Object not found! The requested URL was not found on this server. localhost

If the page you are visiting is index.php, then your url should look like

http://localhost/test/content/home/ OR http://localhost/test/content/home/index.php

not the way you specified - http://localhost/test/content/home

Showing Difference between two datetime values in hours

Here is another example of subtracting two dates in C# ...

if ( DateTime.Now.Subtract(Convert.ToDateTime(objDateValueFromDatabase.CreatedOn)).TotalHours > 24 ) 
{ 
... 
} 

There is no ViewData item of type 'IEnumerable<SelectListItem>' that has the key 'xxx'

Old question, but here's another explanation of the problem. You'll get this error even if you have strongly typed views and aren't using ViewData to create your dropdown list. The reason for the error can becomes clear when you look at the MVC source:

// If we got a null selectList, try to use ViewData to get the list of items.
if (selectList == null)
{
    selectList = htmlHelper.GetSelectData(name);
    usedViewData = true;
}

So if you have something like:

@Html.DropDownList("MyList", Model.DropDownData, "")

And Model.DropDownData is null, MVC looks through your ViewData for something named MyList and throws an error if there's no object in ViewData with that name.

How to Import Excel file into mysql Database from PHP

For >= 2nd row values insert into table-

$file = fopen($filename, "r");
//$sql_data = "SELECT * FROM prod_list_1 ";

$count = 0;                                         // add this line
while (($emapData = fgetcsv($file, 10000, ",")) !== FALSE)
{
    //print_r($emapData);
    //exit();
    $count++;                                      // add this line

    if($count>1){                                  // add this line
      $sql = "INSERT into prod_list_1(p_bench,p_name,p_price,p_reason) values ('$emapData[0]','$emapData[1]','$emapData[2]','$emapData[3]')";
      mysql_query($sql);
    }                                              // add this line
}

How do I use the JAVA_OPTS environment variable?

JAVA_OPTS is the standard environment variable that some servers and other java apps append to the call that executes the java command.

For example in tomcat if you define JAVA_OPTS='-Xmx1024m', the startup script will execute java org.apache.tomcat.Servert -Xmx1024m

If you are running in Linux/OSX, you can set the JAVA_OPTS, right before you call the startup script by doing

JAVA_OPTS='-Djava.awt.headless=true'

This will only last as long as the console is open. To make it more permanent you can add it to your ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc file.

Node.js: get path from the request

simply call req.url. that should do the work. you'll get something like /something?bla=foo

Python Requests and persistent sessions

You can easily create a persistent session using:

s = requests.Session()

After that, continue with your requests as you would:

s.post('https://localhost/login.py', login_data)
#logged in! cookies saved for future requests.
r2 = s.get('https://localhost/profile_data.json', ...)
#cookies sent automatically!
#do whatever, s will keep your cookies intact :)

For more about sessions: https://requests.kennethreitz.org/en/master/user/advanced/#session-objects

MySQL how to join tables on two fields

JOIN t2 ON (t2.id = t1.id AND t2.date = t1.date)

HTML5 Canvas and Anti-aliasing

so I am assuming this is kinda out of use now but one way to do it is actually using document.body.style.zoom=2.0; but if you do this then all of your canvas measurements will have to be divided by the zoom. Also, set the zoom higher for more aliasing. This is helpful because it is adjustable. Also if using this method, I suggest that you make functions to do the same as ctx.fillRect() etc. but with the zoom taken into account. E.g.

function fillRect(x, y, width, height) {
    var zoom = document.body.style.zoom;
    ctx.fillRect(x/zoom, y/zoom, width/zoom, height/zoom);
}

Hope this helps!

Also, a sidenote: this can be used to sharpen circle edges as well so that they don't look as blurred. Just use a zoom such as 0.5!

Adding external resources (CSS/JavaScript/images etc) in JSP

The reason that you get the 404 File Not Found error, is that your path to CSS given as a value to the href attribute is missing context path.

An HTTP request URL contains the following parts:

http://[host]:[port][request-path]?[query-string]

The request path is further composed of the following elements:

  • Context path: A concatenation of a forward slash (/) with the context root of the servlet's web application. Example: http://host[:port]/context-root[/url-pattern]

  • Servlet path: The path section that corresponds to the component alias that activated this request. This path starts with a forward slash (/).

  • Path info: The part of the request path that is not part of the context path or the servlet path.

Read more here.


Solutions

There are several solutions to your problem, here are some of them:

1) Using <c:url> tag from JSTL

In my Java web applications I usually used <c:url> tag from JSTL when defining the path to CSS/JavaScript/image and other static resources. By doing so you can be sure that those resources are referenced always relative to the application context (context path).

If you say, that your CSS is located inside WebContent folder, then this should work:

<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="<c:url value="/globalCSS.css" />" />

The reason why it works is explained in the "JavaServer Pages™ Standard Tag Library" version 1.2 specification chapter 7.5 (emphasis mine):

7.5 <c:url>
Builds a URL with the proper rewriting rules applied.
...
The URL must be either an absolute URL starting with a scheme (e.g. "http:// server/context/page.jsp") or a relative URL as defined by JSP 1.2 in JSP.2.2.1 "Relative URL Specification". As a consequence, an implementation must prepend the context path to a URL that starts with a slash (e.g. "/page2.jsp") so that such URLs can be properly interpreted by a client browser.

NOTE
Don't forget to use Taglib directive in your JSP to be able to reference JSTL tags. Also see an example JSP page here.


2) Using JSP Expression Language and implicit objects

An alternative solution is using Expression Language (EL) to add application context:

<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/globalCSS.css" />

Here we have retrieved the context path from the request object. And to access the request object we have used the pageContext implicit object.


3) Using <c:set> tag from JSTL

DISCLAIMER
The idea of this solution was taken from here.

To make accessing the context path more compact than in the solution ?2, you can first use the JSTL <c:set> tag, that sets the value of an EL variable or the property of an EL variable in any of the JSP scopes (page, request, session, or application) for later access.

<c:set var="root" value="${pageContext.request.contextPath}"/>
...
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="${root}/globalCSS.css" />

IMPORTANT NOTE
By default, in order to set the variable in such manner, the JSP that contains this set tag must be accessed at least once (including in case of setting the value in the application scope using scope attribute, like <c:set var="foo" value="bar" scope="application" />), before using this new variable. For instance, you can have several JSP files where you need this variable. So you must ether a) both set the new variable holding context path in the application scope AND access this JSP first, before using this variable in other JSP files, or b) set this context path holding variable in EVERY JSP file, where you need to access to it.


4) Using ServletContextListener

The more effective way to make accessing the context path more compact is to set a variable that will hold the context path and store it in the application scope using a Listener. This solution is similar to solution ?3, but the benefit is that now the variable holding context path is set right at the start of the web application and is available application wide, no need for additional steps.

We need a class that implements ServletContextListener interface. Here is an example of such class:

package com.example.listener;

import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
import javax.servlet.ServletContextEvent;
import javax.servlet.ServletContextListener;
import javax.servlet.annotation.WebListener;

@WebListener
public class AppContextListener implements ServletContextListener {

    @Override
    public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent event) {
        ServletContext sc = event.getServletContext();
        sc.setAttribute("ctx", sc.getContextPath());
    }

    @Override
    public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent event) {}

}

Now in a JSP we can access this global variable using EL:

<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="${ctx}/globalCSS.css" />

NOTE
@WebListener annotation is available since Servlet version 3.0. If you use a servlet container or application server that supports older Servlet specifications, remove the @WebServlet annotation and instead configure the listener in the deployment descriptor (web.xml). Here is an example of web.xml file for the container that supports maximum Servlet version 2.5 (other configurations are omitted for the sake of brevity):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
                        http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
    version="2.5">
    ...  
    <listener>
        <listener-class>com.example.listener.AppContextListener</listener-class>
    </listener>
    ...
</webapp>


5) Using scriptlets

As suggested by user @gavenkoa you can also use scriptlets like this:

<%= request.getContextPath() %>

For such a small thing it is probably OK, just note that generally the use of scriptlets in JSP is discouraged.


Conclusion

I personally prefer either the first solution (used it in my previous projects most of the time) or the second, as they are most clear, intuitive and unambiguous (IMHO). But you choose whatever suits you most.


Other thoughts

You can deploy your web app as the default application (i.e. in the default root context), so it can be accessed without specifying context path. For more info read the "Update" section here.

Using BufferedReader to read Text File

private void readFile() throws Exception {
      AsynchronousFileChannel input=AsynchronousFileChannel.open(Paths.get("E:/dicom_server_storage/abc.txt"),StandardOpenOption.READ);
      ByteBuffer buffer=ByteBuffer.allocate(1024);
      input.read(buffer,0,null,new CompletionHandler<Integer,Void>(){
        @Override public void completed(    Integer result,    Void attachment){
          System.out.println("Done reading the file.");
        }
        @Override public void failed(    Throwable exc,    Void attachment){
          System.err.println("An error occured:" + exc.getMessage());
        }
      }
    );
      System.out.println("This thread keeps on running");
      Thread.sleep(100);
    }

Concat a string to SELECT * MySql

You cannot concatenate multiple fields with a string. You need to select a field instand of all (*).

How to call external JavaScript function in HTML

In Layman terms, you need to include external js file in your HTML file & thereafter you could directly call your JS method written in an external js file from HTML page. Follow the code snippet for insight:-

caller.html

<script type="text/javascript" src="external.js"></script>
<input type="button" onclick="letMeCallYou()" value="run external javascript">

external.js

function letMeCallYou()
{
    alert("Bazinga!!!  you called letMeCallYou")
}

Result : enter image description here

What is the difference between Multiple R-squared and Adjusted R-squared in a single-variate least squares regression?

The R-squared is not dependent on the number of variables in the model. The adjusted R-squared is.

The adjusted R-squared adds a penalty for adding variables to the model that are uncorrelated with the variable your trying to explain. You can use it to test if a variable is relevant to the thing your trying to explain.

Adjusted R-squared is R-squared with some divisions added to make it dependent on the number of variables in the model.

Add a new column to existing table in a migration

I'll add on to mike3875's answer for future readers using Laravel 5.1 and onward.

To make things quicker, you can use the flag "--table" like this:

php artisan make:migration add_paid_to_users --table="users"

This will add the up and down method content automatically:

/**
 * Run the migrations.
 *
 * @return void
 */
public function up()
{
    Schema::table('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
        //
    });
}

Similarily, you can use the --create["table_name"] option when creating new migrations which will add more boilerplate to your migrations. Small point, but helpful when doing loads of them!

Set timeout for webClient.DownloadFile()

Try WebClient.DownloadFileAsync(). You can call CancelAsync() by timer with your own timeout.

UNION with WHERE clause

You need to look at the explain plans, but unless there is an INDEX or PARTITION on COL_A, you are looking at a FULL TABLE SCAN on both tables.

With that in mind, your first example is throwing out some of the data as it does the FULL TABLE SCAN. That result is being sorted by the UNION, then duplicate data is dropped. This gives you your result set.

In the second example, you are pulling the full contents of both tables. That result is likely to be larger. So the UNION is sorting more data, then dropping the duplicate stuff. Then the filter is being applied to give you the result set you are after.

As a general rule, the earlier you filter away data, the smaller the data set, and the faster you will get your results. As always, your milage may vary.

How do I write a SQL query for a specific date range and date time using SQL Server 2008?

How about this?

SELECT Value, ReadTime, ReadDate
FROM YOURTABLE
WHERE CAST(ReadDate AS DATETIME) + ReadTime BETWEEN '2010-09-16 17:00:00' AND '2010-09-21 09:00:00'

EDIT: output according to OP's wishes ;-)

How do I get Maven to use the correct repositories?

the pom.xml for the project I have doesn't have this "http://repo1.maven.org/myurlhere" anywhere in it

All projects have http://repo1.maven.org/ declared as <repository> (and <pluginRepository>) by default. This repository, which is called the central repository, is inherited like others default settings from the "Super POM" (all projects inherit from the Super POM). So a POM is actually a combination of the Super POM, any parent POMs and the current POM. This combination is called the "effective POM" and can be printed using the effective-pom goal of the Maven Help plugin (useful for debugging).

And indeed, if you run:

mvn help:effective-pom

You'll see at least the following:

  <repositories>
    <repository>
      <snapshots>
        <enabled>false</enabled>
      </snapshots>
      <id>central</id>
      <name>Maven Repository Switchboard</name>
      <url>http://repo1.maven.org/maven2</url>
    </repository>
  </repositories>
  <pluginRepositories>
    <pluginRepository>
      <releases>
        <updatePolicy>never</updatePolicy>
      </releases>
      <snapshots>
        <enabled>false</enabled>
      </snapshots>
      <id>central</id>
      <name>Maven Plugin Repository</name>
      <url>http://repo1.maven.org/maven2</url>
    </pluginRepository>
  </pluginRepositories>

it has the absolute url where the maven repo is for the project but maven is still trying to download from the general maven repo

Maven will try to find dependencies in all repositories declared, including in the central one which is there by default as we saw. But, according to the trace you are showing, you only have one repository defined (the central repository) or maven would print something like this:

Reason: Unable to download the artifact from any repository

  url.project:project:pom:x.x

from the specified remote repositories:
  central (http://repo1.maven.org/),
  another-repository (http://another/repository)

So, basically, maven is unable to find the url.project:project:pom:x.x because it is not available in central.

But without knowing which project you've checked out (it has maybe specific instructions) or which dependency is missing (it can maybe be found in another repository), it's impossible to help you further.

Convert list to array in Java

I came across this code snippet that solves it.

//Creating a sample ArrayList 
List<Long> list = new ArrayList<Long>();

//Adding some long type values
list.add(100l);
list.add(200l);
list.add(300l);

//Converting the ArrayList to a Long
Long[] array = (Long[]) list.toArray(new Long[list.size()]);

//Printing the results
System.out.println(array[0] + " " + array[1] + " " + array[2]);

The conversion works as follows:

  1. It creates a new Long array, with the size of the original list
  2. It converts the original ArrayList to an array using the newly created one
  3. It casts that array into a Long array (Long[]), which I appropriately named 'array'

Will Google Android ever support .NET?

.NET compact framework has been ported to Symbian OS (http://www.redfivelabs.com/). If .NET as a 'closed' platform can be ported to this platform, I can't see any reason why it cannot be done for Android.

Commenting multiple lines in DOS batch file

break||(
 code that cannot contain non paired closing bracket
)

While the goto solution is a good option it will not work within brackets (including FOR and IF commands).But this will. Though you should be careful about closing brackets and invalid syntax for FOR and IF commands because they will be parsed.

Update

The update in the dbenham's answer gave me some ideas. First - there are two different cases where we can need multi line comments - in a bracket's context where GOTO cannot be used and outside it. Inside brackets context we can use another brackets if there's a condition which prevents the code to be executed.Though the code thede will still be parsed and some syntax errors will be detected (FOR,IF ,improperly closed brackets, wrong parameter expansion ..).So if it is possible it's better to use GOTO.

Though it is not possible to create a macro/variable used as a label - but is possible to use macros for bracket's comments.Still two tricks can be used make the GOTO comments more symetrical and more pleasing (at least for me). For this I'll use two tricks - 1) you can put a single symbol in front of a label and goto will still able to find it (I have no idea why is this.My guues it is searching for a drive). 2) you can put a single : at the end of a variable name and a replacement/subtring feature will be not triggered (even under enabled extensions). Wich combined with the macros for brackets comments can make the both cases to look almost the same.

So here are the examples (in the order I like them most):

With rectangular brackets:

@echo off

::GOTO comment macro
set "[:=goto :]%%"
::brackets comment macros
set "[=rem/||(" & set "]=)"

::testing
echo not commented 1

%[:%
  multi 
  line
  comment outside of brackets
%:]%

echo not commented 2

%[:%
  second multi 
  line
  comment outside of brackets
%:]%

::GOTO macro cannot be used inside for
for %%a in (first second) do (
    echo first not commented line of the %%a execution
    %[%
        multi line
        comment
    %]%
    echo second not commented line of the %%a execution
)

With curly brackets:

@echo off

::GOTO comment macro
set "{:=goto :}%%"
::brackets comment macros
set "{=rem/||(" & set "}=)"

::testing
echo not commented 1

%{:%
  multi 
  line
  comment outside of brackets
%:}%

echo not commented 2

%{:%
  second multi 
  line
  comment outside of brackets
%:}%

::GOTO macro cannot be used inside for loop
for %%a in (first second) do (
    echo first not commented line of the %%a execution
    %{%
        multi line
        comment
    %}%
    echo second not commented line of the %%a execution
)

With parentheses:

@echo off

::GOTO comment macro
set "(:=goto :)%%"
::brackets comment macros
set "(=rem/||(" & set ")=)"

::testing
echo not commented 1

%(:%
  multi 
  line
  comment outside of brackets
%:)%

echo not commented 2

%(:%
  second multi 
  line
  comment outside of brackets
%:)%

::GOTO macro cannot be used inside for loop
for %%a in (first second) do (
    echo first not commented line of the %%a execution
    %(%
        multi line
        comment
    %)%
    echo second not commented line of the %%a execution
)

Mixture between powershell and C styles (< cannot be used because the redirection is with higher prio.* cannot be used because of the %*) :

@echo off

::GOTO comment macro
set "/#:=goto :#/%%"
::brackets comment macros
set "/#=rem/||(" & set "#/=)"

::testing
echo not commented 1

%/#:%
  multi 
  line
  comment outside of brackets
%:#/%

echo not commented 2

%/#:%
  second multi 
  line
  comment outside of brackets
%:#/%

::GOTO macro cannot be used inside for loop
for %%a in (first second) do (
    echo first not commented line of the %%a execution
    %/#%
        multi line
        comment
    %#/%
    echo second not commented line of the %%a execution
)

To emphase that's a comment (thought it is not so short):

@echo off

::GOTO comment macro
set "REM{:=goto :}REM%%"
::brackets comment macros
set "REM{=rem/||(" & set "}REM=)"

::testing
echo not commented 1

%REM{:%
  multi 
  line
  comment outside of brackets
%:}REM%

echo not commented 2

%REM{:%
  second multi 
  line
  comment outside of brackets
%:}REM%

::GOTO macro cannot be used inside for
for %%a in (first second) do (
    echo first not commented line of the %%a execution
    %REM{%
        multi line
        comment
    %}REM%
    echo second not commented line of the %%a execution
)

What are the new features in C++17?

Language features:

Templates and Generic Code

Lambda

Attributes

Syntax cleanup

Cleaner multi-return and flow control

  • Structured bindings

    • Basically, first-class std::tie with auto
    • Example:
      • const auto [it, inserted] = map.insert( {"foo", bar} );
      • Creates variables it and inserted with deduced type from the pair that map::insert returns.
    • Works with tuple/pair-likes & std::arrays and relatively flat structs
    • Actually named structured bindings in standard
  • if (init; condition) and switch (init; condition)

    • if (const auto [it, inserted] = map.insert( {"foo", bar} ); inserted)
    • Extends the if(decl) to cases where decl isn't convertible-to-bool sensibly.
  • Generalizing range-based for loops

    • Appears to be mostly support for sentinels, or end iterators that are not the same type as begin iterators, which helps with null-terminated loops and the like.
  • if constexpr

    • Much requested feature to simplify almost-generic code.

Misc

Library additions:

Data types

Invoke stuff

File System TS v1

New algorithms

  • for_each_n

  • reduce

  • transform_reduce

  • exclusive_scan

  • inclusive_scan

  • transform_exclusive_scan

  • transform_inclusive_scan

  • Added for threading purposes, exposed even if you aren't using them threaded

Threading

(parts of) Library Fundamentals TS v1 not covered above or below

Container Improvements

Smart pointer changes

Other std datatype improvements:

Misc

Traits

Deprecated

Isocpp.org has has an independent list of changes since C++14; it has been partly pillaged.

Naturally TS work continues in parallel, so there are some TS that are not-quite-ripe that will have to wait for the next iteration. The target for the next iteration is C++20 as previously planned, not C++19 as some rumors implied. C++1O has been avoided.

Initial list taken from this reddit post and this reddit post, with links added via googling or from the above isocpp.org page.

Additional entries pillaged from SD-6 feature-test list.

clang's feature list and library feature list are next to be pillaged. This doesn't seem to be reliable, as it is C++1z, not C++17.

these slides had some features missing elsewhere.

While "what was removed" was not asked, here is a short list of a few things ((mostly?) previous deprecated) that are removed in C++17 from C++:

Removed:

There were rewordings. I am unsure if these have any impact on code, or if they are just cleanups in the standard:

Papers not yet integrated into above:

  • P0505R0 (constexpr chrono)

  • P0418R2 (atomic tweaks)

  • P0512R0 (template argument deduction tweaks)

  • P0490R0 (structured binding tweaks)

  • P0513R0 (changes to std::hash)

  • P0502R0 (parallel exceptions)

  • P0509R1 (updating restrictions on exception handling)

  • P0012R1 (make exception specifications be part of the type system)

  • P0510R0 (restrictions on variants)

  • P0504R0 (tags for optional/variant/any)

  • P0497R0 (shared ptr tweaks)

  • P0508R0 (structured bindings node handles)

  • P0521R0 (shared pointer use count and unique changes?)

Spec changes:

Further reference:

How can I stop .gitignore from appearing in the list of untracked files?

The .gitignore file should be in your repository, so it should indeed be added and committed in, as git status suggests. It has to be a part of the repository tree, so that changes to it can be merged and so on.

So, add it to your repository, it should not be gitignored.

If you really want you can add .gitignore to the .gitignore file if you don't want it to be committed. However, in that case it's probably better to add the ignores to .git/info/exclude, a special checkout-local file that works just like .gitignore but does not show up in "git status" since it's in the .git folder.

See also https://help.github.com/articles/ignoring-files

How to check whether java is installed on the computer

1)Open the command prompt or terminal based on your OS.

2)Then type java --version in the terminal.

3) If java is installed successfullly it will show the respective version .

Node JS Error: ENOENT

if your tmp folder is relative to the directory where your code is running remove the / in front of /tmp.

So you just have tmp/test.jpg in your code. This worked for me in a similar situation.

img onclick call to JavaScript function

Put the javascript part and the end right before the closing </body> then it should work.

http://jsfiddle.net/Q3Zy3/1/

  <img onclick="exportToForm('1.6','55','10','50','1');" src="China-Flag-256.png"/>
  <button onclick="exportToForm('1.6','55','10','50','1');" style="background-color: #00FFFF">Export</button>

  <script type="text/javascript">
      function exportToForm(a,b,c,d,e) {
      alert(a + b);
      window.external.values(a.value, b.value, c.value, d.value, e.value);
  }
</script>

Delete newline in Vim

It probably depends on your settings, but I usually do this with A<delete>

Where A is append at the end of the line. It probably requires nocompatible mode :)

Why is null an object and what's the difference between null and undefined?

In Javascript null is not an object type it is a primitave type.

What is the difference? Undefined refers to a pointer that has not been set. Null refers to the null pointer for example something has manually set a variable to be of type null

Access Control Origin Header error using Axios in React Web throwing error in Chrome

I'll have a go at this complicated subject.

What is origin?

The origin itself is the name of a host (scheme, hostname, and port) i.g. https://www.google.com or could be a locally opened file file:// etc.. It is where something (i.g. a web page) originated from. When you open your web browser and go to https://www.google.com, the origin of the web page that is displayed to you is https://www.google.com. You can see this in Chrome Dev Tools under Security:

enter image description here

The same applies for if you open a local HTML file via your file explorer (which is not served via a server):

enter image description here

What has this got to do with CORS issues?

When you open your browser and go to https://website.com, that website will have the origin of https://website.com. This website will most likely only fetch images, icons, js files and do API calls towards https://website.com, basically it is calling the same server as it was served from. It is doing calls to the same origin.

If you open your web browser and open a local HTML file and in that html file there is javascript which wants to do a request to google for example, you get the following error:

enter image description here

The same-origin policy tells the browser to block cross-origin requests. In this instance origin null is trying to do a request to https://www.google.com (a cross-origin request). The browser will not allow this because of the CORS Policy which is set and that policy is that cross-origin requests is not allowed.

Same applies for if my page was served from a server on localhost:

enter image description here

Localhost server example

If we host our own localhost API server running on localhost:3000 with the following code:

const express = require('express')
const app = express()
 
app.use(express.static('public'))

app.get('/hello', function (req, res) {
    // res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
    res.send('Hello World');
})
 
app.listen(3000, () => {
    console.log('alive');
})

And open a HTML file (that does a request to the localhost:3000 server) directory from the file explorer the following error will happen:

enter image description here

Since the web page was not served from the localhost server on localhost:3000 and via the file explorer the origin is not the same as the server API origin, hence a cross-origin request is being attempted. The browser is stopping this attempt due to CORS Policy.

But if we uncomment the commented line:

const express = require('express')
const app = express()
 
app.use(express.static('public'))

app.get('/hello', function (req, res) {
    res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
    res.send('Hello World');
})
 
app.listen(3000, () => {
    console.log('alive');
})

And now try again:

enter image description here

It works, because the server which sends the HTTP response included now a header stating that it is ok for cross-origin requests to happen to the server, this means the browser will let it happen, hence no error.

How to fix things

  1. Serve the page from the same origin as where the requests you are making reside (same host).
  2. Allow the server to receive cross-origin requests by explicitly stating it in the response headers.
  3. Don't use a browser. Use cURL for example, it doesn't care about CORS Policies like browsers do and will get you what you want.

Example flow

Following is taken from: https://web.dev/cross-origin-resource-sharing/#how-does-cors-work

Remember, the same-origin policy tells the browser to block cross-origin requests. When you want to get a public resource from a different origin, the resource-providing server needs to tell the browser "This origin where the request is coming from can access my resource". The browser remembers that and allows cross-origin resource sharing.

  • Step 1: client (browser) request When the browser is making a cross-origin request, the browser adds an Origin header with the current origin (scheme, host, and port).

  • Step 2: server response On the server side, when a server sees this header, and wants to allow access, it needs to add an Access-Control-Allow-Origin header to the response specifying the requesting origin (or * to allow any origin.)

  • Step 3: browser receives response When the browser sees this response with an appropriate Access-Control-Allow-Origin header, the browser allows the response data to be shared with the client site.

More links

Here is another good answer, more detailed as to what is happening: https://stackoverflow.com/a/10636765/1137669

How to put spacing between floating divs?

You can do the following:

Assuming your container div has a class "yellow".

.yellow div {
    // Apply margin to every child in this container
    margin: 10px;
}

.yellow div:first-child, .yellow div:nth-child(3n+1) {
    // Remove the margin on the left side on the very first and then every fourth element (for example)
    margin-left: 0;
}

.yellow div:last-child {
    // Remove the right side margin on the last element
    margin-right: 0;
}

The number 3n+1 equals every fourth element outputted and will clearly only work if you know how many will be displayed in a row, but it should illustrate the example. More details regarding nth-child here.

Note: For :first-child to work in IE8 and earlier, a <!DOCTYPE> must be declared.

Note2: The :nth-child() selector is supported in all major browsers, except IE8 and earlier.

incompatible character encodings: ASCII-8BIT and UTF-8

I have a suspicion that you either copy/pasted a part of your Haml template into the file, or you're working with a non-Unicode/non-UTF-8 friendly editor.

See if you can recreate that file from the scratch in a UTF-8 friendly editor. There are plenty for any platform and see whether this fixes your problem. Start by erasing the line with #content and retyping it manually.

Transaction isolation levels relation with locks on table

I want to understand the lock each transaction isolation takes on the table

For example, you have 3 concurrent processes A, B and C. A starts a transaction, writes data and commit/rollback (depending on results). B just executes a SELECT statement to read data. C reads and updates data. All these process work on the same table T.

  • READ UNCOMMITTED - no lock on the table. You can read data in the table while writing on it. This means A writes data (uncommitted) and B can read this uncommitted data and use it (for any purpose). If A executes a rollback, B still has read the data and used it. This is the fastest but most insecure way to work with data since can lead to data holes in not physically related tables (yes, two tables can be logically but not physically related in real-world apps =\).
  • READ COMMITTED - lock on committed data. You can read the data that was only committed. This means A writes data and B can't read the data saved by A until A executes a commit. The problem here is that C can update data that was read and used on B and B client won't have the updated data.
  • REPEATABLE READ - lock on a block of SQL(which is selected by using select query). This means B reads the data under some condition i.e. WHERE aField > 10 AND aField < 20, A inserts data where aField value is between 10 and 20, then B reads the data again and get a different result.
  • SERIALIZABLE - lock on a full table(on which Select query is fired). This means, B reads the data and no other transaction can modify the data on the table. This is the most secure but slowest way to work with data. Also, since a simple read operation locks the table, this can lead to heavy problems on production: imagine that T table is an Invoice table, user X wants to know the invoices of the day and user Y wants to create a new invoice, so while X executes the read of the invoices, Y can't add a new invoice (and when it's about money, people get really mad, especially the bosses).

I want to understand where we define these isolation levels: only at JDBC/hibernate level or in DB also

Using JDBC, you define it using Connection#setTransactionIsolation.

Using Hibernate:

<property name="hibernate.connection.isolation">2</property>

Where

  • 1: READ UNCOMMITTED
  • 2: READ COMMITTED
  • 4: REPEATABLE READ
  • 8: SERIALIZABLE

Hibernate configuration is taken from here (sorry, it's in Spanish).

By the way, you can set the isolation level on RDBMS as well:

and on and on...

How do I use the conditional operator (? :) in Ruby?

A simple example where the operator checks if player's id is 1 and sets enemy id depending on the result

player_id=1
....
player_id==1? enemy_id=2 : enemy_id=1
# => enemy=2

And I found a post about to the topic which seems pretty helpful.

How to use glyphicons in bootstrap 3.0

If yout download a customized bootstrap 3 distro you must:

  1. Download the full distro from https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/archive/v3.0.0.zip
  2. Uncompress and upload the entire folder called fonts to your bootstrap directory. Put together with the other folders "css, js".

Example Before:

\css
\js
index.html

Example After Upload:

\css
\fonts
\js
index.html

Calling a function on bootstrap modal open

will not work.. use $(window) instead

For Showing

$(window).on('shown.bs.modal', function() { 
    $('#code').modal('show');
    alert('shown');
});

For Hiding

$(window).on('hidden.bs.modal', function() { 
    $('#code').modal('hide');
    alert('hidden');
});

What does `ValueError: cannot reindex from a duplicate axis` mean?

I came across this error today when I wanted to add a new column like this

df_temp['REMARK_TYPE'] = df.REMARK.apply(lambda v: 1 if str(v)!='nan' else 0)

I wanted to process the REMARK column of df_temp to return 1 or 0. However I typed wrong variable with df. And it returned error like this:

----> 1 df_temp['REMARK_TYPE'] = df.REMARK.apply(lambda v: 1 if str(v)!='nan' else 0)

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/frame.pyc in __setitem__(self, key, value)
   2417         else:
   2418             # set column
-> 2419             self._set_item(key, value)
   2420 
   2421     def _setitem_slice(self, key, value):

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/frame.pyc in _set_item(self, key, value)
   2483 
   2484         self._ensure_valid_index(value)
-> 2485         value = self._sanitize_column(key, value)
   2486         NDFrame._set_item(self, key, value)
   2487 

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/frame.pyc in _sanitize_column(self, key, value, broadcast)
   2633 
   2634         if isinstance(value, Series):
-> 2635             value = reindexer(value)
   2636 
   2637         elif isinstance(value, DataFrame):

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/frame.pyc in reindexer(value)
   2625                     # duplicate axis
   2626                     if not value.index.is_unique:
-> 2627                         raise e
   2628 
   2629                     # other

ValueError: cannot reindex from a duplicate axis

As you can see it, the right code should be

df_temp['REMARK_TYPE'] = df_temp.REMARK.apply(lambda v: 1 if str(v)!='nan' else 0)

Because df and df_temp have a different number of rows. So it returned ValueError: cannot reindex from a duplicate axis.

Hope you can understand it and my answer can help other people to debug their code.

Reading column names alone in a csv file

How about

with open(csv_input_path + file, 'r') as ft:
    header = ft.readline() # read only first line; returns string
    header_list = header.split(',') # returns list

I am assuming your input file is CSV format. If using pandas, it takes more time if the file is big size because it loads the entire data as the dataset.

How to change the height of a <br>?

Here is a solution that works in IE, Firefox, and Chrome. The idea is to increase the font size of the br element from the body size of 14px to 18px, and lower the element by 4px so the extra size is below the text line. The result is 4px of extra whitespace below the br.

br 
{ 
font-size: 18px; 
vertical-align: -4px; 
}  

batch file - counting number of files in folder and storing in a variable

@echo off
setlocal enableextensions
set count=0
for %%x in (*.txt) do set /a count+=1
echo %count%
endlocal
pause

This is the best.... your variable is: %count%

NOTE: you can change (*.txt) to any other file extension to count other files.....

Does uninstalling a package with "pip" also remove the dependent packages?

You may have a try for https://github.com/cls1991/pef. It will remove package with its all dependencies.

Detecting scroll direction

Simple way to catch all scroll events (touch and wheel)

window.onscroll = function(e) {
  // print "false" if direction is down and "true" if up
  console.log(this.oldScroll > this.scrollY);
  this.oldScroll = this.scrollY;
}

Get HTML inside iframe using jQuery

$('#iframe').load(function() {
    var src = $('#iframe').contents().find("html").html();
    alert(src);
});

Where is NuGet.Config file located in Visual Studio project?

There are multiple nuget packages read in the following order:

  1. First the NuGetDefaults.Config file. You will find this in %ProgramFiles(x86)%\NuGet\Config.
  2. The computer-level file.
  3. The user-level file. You will find this in %APPDATA%\NuGet\nuget.config.
  4. Any file named nuget.config beginning from the root of your drive up to the directory where nuget.exe is called.
  5. The config file you specify in the -configfile option when calling nuget.exe

You can find more information here.

VBA EXCEL Multiple Nested FOR Loops that Set two variable for expression

I can't get to your google docs file at the moment but there are some issues with your code that I will try to address while answering

Sub stituterangersNEW()
Dim t As Range
Dim x As Range
Dim dify As Boolean
Dim difx As Boolean
Dim time2 As Date
Dim time1 As Date

    'You said time1 doesn't change, so I left it in a singe cell.
    'If that is not correct, you will have to play with this some more.
    time1 = Range("A6").Value

    'Looping through each of our output cells.
    For Each t In Range("B7:E9") 'Change these to match your real ranges.

        'Looping through each departure date/time.
        '(Only one row in your example. This can be adjusted if needed.)
        For Each x In Range("B2:E2") 'Change these to match your real ranges.
            'Check to see if our dep time corresponds to
            'the matching column in our output
            If t.Column = x.Column Then
                'If it does, then check to see what our time value is
                If x > 0 Then
                    time2 = x.Value
                    'Apply the change to the output cell.
                    t.Value = time1 - time2
                    'Exit out of this loop and move to the next output cell.
                    Exit For
                End If
            End If
            'If the columns don't match, or the x value is not a time
            'then we'll move to the next dep time (x)
        Next x
    Next t

End Sub

EDIT

I changed you worksheet to play with (see above for the new Sub). This probably does not suite your needs directly, but hopefully it will demonstrate the conept behind what I think you want to do. Please keep in mind that this code does not follow all the coding best preactices I would recommend (e.g. validating the time is actually a TIME and not some random other data type).

     A                      B                   C                   D                  E
1    LOAD_NUMBER            1                   2                   3                  4
2    DEPARTURE_TIME_DATE    11/12/2011 19:30    11/12/2011 19:30    11/12/2011 19:30    11/12/2011 20:00                
4    Dry_Refrig 7585.1  0   10099.8 16700
6    1/4/2012 19:30

Using the sub I got this output:

    A           B             C             D             E
7   Friday      1272:00:00    1272:00:00    1272:00:00    1271:30:00
8   Saturday    1272:00:00    1272:00:00    1272:00:00    1271:30:00
9   Thursday    1272:00:00    1272:00:00    1272:00:00    1271:30:00

Sending private messages to user

In order for a bot to send a message, you need <client>.send() , the client is where the bot will send a message to(A channel, everywhere in the server, or a PM). Since you want the bot to PM a certain user, you can use message.author as your client. (you can replace author as mentioned user in a message or something, etc)

Hence, the answer is: message.author.send("Your message here.")

I recommend looking up the Discord.js documentation about a certain object's properties whenever you get stuck, you might find a particular function that may serve as your solution.

Installing SciPy and NumPy using pip

in my case, upgrading pip did the trick. Also, I've installed scipy with -U parameter (upgrade all packages to the last available version)

trying to align html button at the center of the my page

Place it inside another div, use CSS to move the button to the middle:

<div style="width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;">
    <button type="button" style="background-color:yellow;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;display:block;margin-top:22%;margin-bottom:0%">
mybuttonname</button> 
</div>?

Here is an example: JsFiddle

Make JQuery UI Dialog automatically grow or shrink to fit its contents

This works with jQuery UI v1.10.3

$("selector").dialog({height:'auto', width:'auto'});

Should we pass a shared_ptr by reference or by value?

Here's Herb Sutter's take

Guideline: Don’t pass a smart pointer as a function parameter unless you want to use or manipulate the smart pointer itself, such as to share or transfer ownership.

Guideline: Express that a function will store and share ownership of a heap object using a by-value shared_ptr parameter.

Guideline: Use a non-const shared_ptr& parameter only to modify the shared_ptr. Use a const shared_ptr& as a parameter only if you’re not sure whether or not you’ll take a copy and share ownership; otherwise use widget* instead (or if not nullable, a widget&).

Ways to implement data versioning in MongoDB

I worked through this solution that accommodates a published, draft and historical versions of the data:

{
  published: {},
  draft: {},
  history: {
    "1" : {
      metadata: <value>,
      document: {}
    },
    ...
  }
}

I explain the model further here: http://software.danielwatrous.com/representing-revision-data-in-mongodb/

For those that may implement something like this in Java, here's an example:

http://software.danielwatrous.com/using-java-to-work-with-versioned-data/

Including all the code that you can fork, if you like

https://github.com/dwatrous/mongodb-revision-objects

How to disable/enable select field using jQuery?

Use the following:

$("select").attr("disabled", "disabled");

Or simply add id="pizza_kind" to <select> tag, like <select name="pizza_kind" id="pizza_kind">: jsfiddle link

The reason your code didn't work is simply because $("#pizza_kind") isn't selecting the <select> element because it does not have id="pizza_kind".

Edit: actually, a better selector is $("select[name='pizza_kind']"): jsfiddle link

Prevent form redirect OR refresh on submit?

Here:

function submitClick(e)
{
     e.preventDefault();
     $("#messageSent").slideDown("slow");
     setTimeout('$("#messageSent").slideUp();
     $("#contactForm").slideUp("slow")', 2000);
}

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#contactSend').click(submitClick);
});

Instead of using the onClick event, you'll use bind an 'click' event handler using jQuery to the submit button (or whatever button), which will take submitClick as a callback. We pass the event to the callback to call preventDefault, which is what will prevent the click from submitting the form.

Are string.Equals() and == operator really same?

An object is defined by an OBJECT_ID, which is unique. If A and B are objects and A == B is true, then they are the very same object, they have the same data and methods, but, this is also true:

A.OBJECT_ID == B.OBJECT_ID

if A.Equals(B) is true, that means that the two objects are in the same state, but this doesn't mean that A is the very same as B.

Strings are objects.

Note that the == and Equals operators are reflexive, simetric, tranzitive, so they are equivalentic relations (to use relational algebraic terms)

What this means: If A, B and C are objects, then:

(1) A == A is always true; A.Equals(A) is always true (reflexivity)

(2) if A == B then B == A; If A.Equals(B) then B.Equals(A) (simetry)

(3) if A == B and B == C, then A == C; if A.Equals(B) and B.Equals(C) then A.Equals(C) (tranzitivity)

Also, you can note that this is also true:

(A == B) => (A.Equals(B)), but the inverse is not true.

A B =>
0 0 1
0 1 1
1 0 0
1 1 1

Example of real life: Two Hamburgers of the same type have the same properties: they are objects of the Hamburger class, their properties are exactly the same, but they are different entities. If you buy these two Hamburgers and eat one, the other one won't be eaten. So, the difference between Equals and ==: You have hamburger1 and hamburger2. They are exactly in the same state (the same weight, the same temperature, the same taste), so hamburger1.Equals(hamburger2) is true. But hamburger1 == hamburger2 is false, because if the state of hamburger1 changes, the state of hamburger2 not necessarily change and vice versa.

If you and a friend get a Hamburger, which is yours and his in the same time, then you must decide to split the Hamburger into two parts, because you.getHamburger() == friend.getHamburger() is true and if this happens: friend.eatHamburger(), then your Hamburger will be eaten too.

I could write other nuances about Equals and ==, but I'm getting hungry, so I have to go.

Best regards, Lajos Arpad.

Iterating through struct fieldnames in MATLAB

Since fields or fns are cell arrays, you have to index with curly brackets {} in order to access the contents of the cell, i.e. the string.

Note that instead of looping over a number, you can also loop over fields directly, making use of a neat Matlab features that lets you loop through any array. The iteration variable takes on the value of each column of the array.

teststruct = struct('a',3,'b',5,'c',9)

fields = fieldnames(teststruct)

for fn=fields'
  fn
  %# since fn is a 1-by-1 cell array, you still need to index into it, unfortunately
  teststruct.(fn{1})
end

How to add RSA key to authorized_keys file?

Make sure when executing Michael Krelin's solution you do the following

cat <your_public_key_file> >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Note the double > without the double > the existing contents of authorized_keys will be over-written (nuked!) and that may not be desirable

simple vba code gives me run time error 91 object variable or with block not set

You need Set with objects:

 Set rng = Sheet8.Range("A12")

Sheet8 is fine.

 Sheet1.[a1]

Server.MapPath("."), Server.MapPath("~"), Server.MapPath(@"\"), Server.MapPath("/"). What is the difference?

Server.MapPath specifies the relative or virtual path to map to a physical directory.

  • Server.MapPath(".")1 returns the current physical directory of the file (e.g. aspx) being executed
  • Server.MapPath("..") returns the parent directory
  • Server.MapPath("~") returns the physical path to the root of the application
  • Server.MapPath("/") returns the physical path to the root of the domain name (is not necessarily the same as the root of the application)

An example:

Let's say you pointed a web site application (http://www.example.com/) to

C:\Inetpub\wwwroot

and installed your shop application (sub web as virtual directory in IIS, marked as application) in

D:\WebApps\shop

For example, if you call Server.MapPath() in following request:

http://www.example.com/shop/products/GetProduct.aspx?id=2342

then:

  • Server.MapPath(".")1 returns D:\WebApps\shop\products
  • Server.MapPath("..") returns D:\WebApps\shop
  • Server.MapPath("~") returns D:\WebApps\shop
  • Server.MapPath("/") returns C:\Inetpub\wwwroot
  • Server.MapPath("/shop") returns D:\WebApps\shop

If Path starts with either a forward slash (/) or backward slash (\), the MapPath() returns a path as if Path was a full, virtual path.

If Path doesn't start with a slash, the MapPath() returns a path relative to the directory of the request being processed.

Note: in C#, @ is the verbatim literal string operator meaning that the string should be used "as is" and not be processed for escape sequences.

Footnotes

  1. Server.MapPath(null) and Server.MapPath("") will produce this effect too.

Get specific ArrayList item

As many have already told you:

mainList.get(3);

Be sure to check the ArrayList Javadoc.

Also, be careful with the arrays indices: in Java, the first element is at index 0. So if you are trying to get the third element, your solution would be mainList.get(2);

Declare an array in TypeScript

Few ways of declaring a typed array in TypeScript are

const booleans: Array<boolean> = new Array<boolean>();
// OR, JS like type and initialization
const booleans: boolean[] = [];

// or, if you have values to initialize 
const booleans: Array<boolean> = [true, false, true];
// get a vaue from that array normally
const valFalse = booleans[1];

mySQL select IN range

You can't, but you can use BETWEEN

SELECT job FROM mytable WHERE id BETWEEN 10 AND 15

Note that BETWEEN is inclusive, and will include items with both id 10 and 15.

If you do not want inclusion, you'll have to fall back to using the > and < operators.

SELECT job FROM mytable WHERE id > 10 AND id < 15

Property getters and setters

In order to override setter and getter for swift variables use the below given code

var temX : Int? 
var x: Int?{

    set(newX){
       temX = newX
    }

    get{
        return temX
    }
}

We need to keep the value of variable in a temporary variable, since trying to access the same variable whose getter/setter is being overridden will result in infinite loops.

We can invoke the setter simply like this

x = 10

Getter will be invoked on firing below given line of code

var newVar = x

How to create a simple map using JavaScript/JQuery

If you're not restricted to JQuery, you can use the prototype.js framework. It has a class called Hash: You can even use JQuery & prototype.js together. Just type jQuery.noConflict();

var h = new Hash();
h.set("key", "value");
h.get("key");
h.keys(); // returns an array of keys
h.values(); // returns an array of values

AngularJS - Value attribute on an input text box is ignored when there is a ng-model used?

Overriding the input directive does seem to do the job. I made some minor alterations to Dan Hunsaker's code:

  • Added a check for ngModel before trying to use $parse().assign() on fields without a ngModel attributes.
  • Corrected the assign() function param order.
app.directive('input', function ($parse) {
  return {
    restrict: 'E',
    require: '?ngModel',
    link: function (scope, element, attrs) {
      if (attrs.ngModel && attrs.value) {
        $parse(attrs.ngModel).assign(scope, attrs.value);
      }
    }
  };
});

Export specific rows from a PostgreSQL table as INSERT SQL script

I tried to write a procedure doing that, based on @PhilHibbs codes, on a different way. Please have a look and test.

 CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION dump(IN p_schema text, IN p_table text, IN p_where text)
   RETURNS setof text AS
 $BODY$
 DECLARE
     dumpquery_0 text;
     dumpquery_1 text;
     selquery text;
     selvalue text;
     valrec record;
     colrec record;
 BEGIN

     -- ------ --
     -- GLOBAL --
     --   build base INSERT
     --   build SELECT array[ ... ]
     dumpquery_0 := 'INSERT INTO ' ||  quote_ident(p_schema) || '.' || quote_ident(p_table) || '(';
     selquery    := 'SELECT array[';

     <<label0>>
     FOR colrec IN SELECT table_schema, table_name, column_name, data_type
                   FROM information_schema.columns
                   WHERE table_name = p_table and table_schema = p_schema
                   ORDER BY ordinal_position
     LOOP
         dumpquery_0 := dumpquery_0 || quote_ident(colrec.column_name) || ',';
         selquery    := selquery    || 'CAST(' || quote_ident(colrec.column_name) || ' AS TEXT),';
     END LOOP label0;

     dumpquery_0 := substring(dumpquery_0 ,1,length(dumpquery_0)-1) || ')';
     dumpquery_0 := dumpquery_0 || ' VALUES (';
     selquery    := substring(selquery    ,1,length(selquery)-1)    || '] AS MYARRAY';
     selquery    := selquery    || ' FROM ' ||quote_ident(p_schema)||'.'||quote_ident(p_table);
     selquery    := selquery    || ' WHERE '||p_where;
     -- GLOBAL --
     -- ------ --

     -- ----------- --
     -- SELECT LOOP --
     --   execute SELECT built and loop on each row
     <<label1>>
     FOR valrec IN  EXECUTE  selquery
     LOOP
         dumpquery_1 := '';
         IF not found THEN
             EXIT ;
         END IF;

         -- ----------- --
         -- LOOP ARRAY (EACH FIELDS) --
         <<label2>>
         FOREACH selvalue in ARRAY valrec.MYARRAY
         LOOP
             IF selvalue IS NULL
             THEN selvalue := 'NULL';
             ELSE selvalue := quote_literal(selvalue);
             END IF;
             dumpquery_1 := dumpquery_1 || selvalue || ',';
         END LOOP label2;
         dumpquery_1 := substring(dumpquery_1 ,1,length(dumpquery_1)-1) || ');';
         -- LOOP ARRAY (EACH FIELD) --
         -- ----------- --

         -- debug: RETURN NEXT dumpquery_0 || dumpquery_1 || ' --' || selquery;
         -- debug: RETURN NEXT selquery;
         RETURN NEXT dumpquery_0 || dumpquery_1;

     END LOOP label1 ;
     -- SELECT LOOP --
     -- ----------- --

 RETURN ;
 END
 $BODY$
   LANGUAGE plpgsql VOLATILE;

And then :

-- for a range
SELECT dump('public', 'my_table','my_id between 123456 and 123459'); 
-- for the entire table
SELECT dump('public', 'my_table','true');

tested on my postgres 9.1, with a table with mixed field datatype (text, double, int,timestamp without time zone, etc).

That's why the CAST in TEXT type is needed. My test run correctly for about 9M lines, looks like it fail just before 18 minutes of running.

ps : I found an equivalent for mysql on the WEB.

Emulate ggplot2 default color palette

These answers are all very good, but I wanted to share another thing I discovered on stackoverflow that is really quite useful, here is the direct link

Basically, @DidzisElferts shows how you can get all the colours, coordinates, etc that ggplot uses to build a plot you created. Very nice!

p <- ggplot(mpg,aes(x=class,fill=class)) + geom_bar()
ggplot_build(p)$data
[[1]]
     fill  y count x ndensity ncount  density PANEL group ymin ymax xmin xmax
1 #F8766D  5     5 1        1      1 1.111111     1     1    0    5 0.55 1.45
2 #C49A00 47    47 2        1      1 1.111111     1     2    0   47 1.55 2.45
3 #53B400 41    41 3        1      1 1.111111     1     3    0   41 2.55 3.45
4 #00C094 11    11 4        1      1 1.111111     1     4    0   11 3.55 4.45
5 #00B6EB 33    33 5        1      1 1.111111     1     5    0   33 4.55 5.45
6 #A58AFF 35    35 6        1      1 1.111111     1     6    0   35 5.55 6.45
7 #FB61D7 62    62 7        1      1 1.111111     1     7    0   62 6.55 7.45

How do you remove a specific revision in the git history?

Per this comment (and I checked that this is true), rado's answer is very close but leaves git in a detached head state. Instead, remove HEAD and use this to remove <commit-id> from the branch you're on:

git rebase --onto <commit-id>^ <commit-id>

MongoDB vs. Cassandra

I've used MongoDB extensively (for the past 6 months), building a hierarchical data management system, and I can vouch for both the ease of setup (install it, run it, use it!) and the speed. As long as you think about indexes carefully, it can absolutely scream along, speed-wise.

I gather that Cassandra, due to its use with large-scale projects like Twitter, has better scaling functionality, although the MongoDB team is working on parity there. I should point out that I've not used Cassandra beyond the trial-run stage, so I can't speak for the detail.

The real swinger for me, when we were assessing NoSQL databases, was the querying - Cassandra is basically just a giant key/value store, and querying is a bit fiddly (at least compared to MongoDB), so for performance you'd have to duplicate quite a lot of data as a sort of manual index. MongoDB, on the other hand, uses a "query by example" model.

For example, say you've got a Collection (MongoDB parlance for the equivalent to a RDMS table) containing Users. MongoDB stores records as Documents, which are basically binary JSON objects. e.g:

{
   FirstName: "John",
   LastName: "Smith",
   Email: "[email protected]",
   Groups: ["Admin", "User", "SuperUser"]
}

If you wanted to find all of the users called Smith who have Admin rights, you'd just create a new document (at the admin console using Javascript, or in production using the language of your choice):

{
   LastName: "Smith",
   Groups: "Admin"
}

...and then run the query. That's it. There are added operators for comparisons, RegEx filtering etc, but it's all pretty simple, and the Wiki-based documentation is pretty good.

How to align entire html body to the center?

If I have one thing that I love to share with respect to CSS, it's MY FAVE WAY OF CENTERING THINGS ALONG BOTH AXES!!!

Advantages of this method:

  1. Full compatibility with browsers that people actually use
  2. No tables required
  3. Highly reusable for centering any other elements inside their parent
  4. Accomodates parents and children with dynamic (changing) dimensions!

I always do this by using 2 classes: One to specify the parent element, whose content will be centered (.centered-wrapper), and the 2nd one to specify which child of the parent is centered (.centered-content). This 2nd class is useful in the case where the parent has multiple children, but only 1 needs to be centered). In this case, body will be the .centered-wrapper, and an inner div will be .centered-content.

<html>
    <head>...</head>
    <body class="centered-wrapper">
        <div class="centered-content">...</div>
    </body>
</html>

The idea for centering will now be to make .centered-content an inline-block. This will easily facilitate horizontal centering, through text-align: center;, and also allows for vertical centering as you shall see.

.centered-wrapper {
    position: relative;
    text-align: center;
}
.centered-wrapper:before {
    content: "";
    position: relative;
    display: inline-block;
    width: 0; height: 100%;
    vertical-align: middle;
}
.centered-content {
    display: inline-block;
    vertical-align: middle;
}

This gives you 2 really reusable classes for centering any child inside of any parent! Just add the .centered-wrapper and .centered-content classes.

So, what's up with that :before element? It facilitates vertical-align: middle; and is necessary because vertical alignment isn't relative to the height of the parent - vertical alignment is relative to the height of the tallest sibling!!!. Therefore, by ensuring that there is a sibling whose height is the parent's height (100% height, 0 width to make it invisible), we know that vertical alignment will be with respect to the parent's height.

One last thing: You need to ensure that your html and body tags are the size of the window so that centering to them is the same as centering to the browser!

html, body {
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
}

Fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/gershy/g121g72a/

How would I stop a while loop after n amount of time?

Try this module: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/interruptingcow/

from interruptingcow import timeout
try:
    with timeout(60*5, exception=RuntimeError):
        while True:
            test = 0
            if test == 5:
                break
            test = test - 1
except RuntimeError:
    pass

static function in C

When there is a need to restrict access to some functions, we'll use the static keyword while defining and declaring a function.

            /* file ab.c */ 
static void function1(void) 
{ 
  puts("function1 called"); 
} 
And store the following code in another file ab1.c

/* file ab1.c  */ 
int main(void) 
{ 
 function1();  
  getchar(); 
  return 0;   
} 
/* in this code, we'll get a "Undefined reference to function1".Because function 1 is declared static in file ab.c and can't be used in ab1.c */

Git:nothing added to commit but untracked files present

In case someone cares just about the error nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track) and not about Please move or remove them before you can merge.. You might have a look at the answers on Git - Won't add files?

There you find at least 2 good candidates for the issue in question here: that you either are in a subfolder or in a parent folder, but not in the actual repo folder. If you are in the directory one level too high, this will definitely raise that message "nothing added to commit…", see my answer in the link for details. I do not know if the same message occurs when you are in a subfolder, but it is likely. That could fit to your explanations.

How to set maximum height for table-cell?

In css you can't set table-cells max height, and if you white-space nowrap then you can't break it with max width, so the solution is javascript working in all browsers.

So, this can work for you.

For Limiting max-height of all cells or rows in table with Javascript:

This script is good for horizontal overflow tables.

This script increase the table width 300px each time, maximum 4000px until rows shrinks to max-height(160px) , and you can also edit numbers as your need.

var i = 0, row, table = document.getElementsByTagName('table')[0], j = table.offsetWidth;
while (row = table.rows[i++]) {
    while (row.offsetHeight > 160 && j < 4000) {
        j += 300;
        table.style.width = j + 'px';
    }
}

Source: HTML Table Solution Max Height Limit For Rows Or Cells By Increasing Table Width, Javascript

How to display Base64 images in HTML?

Try this one too:

let base64="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAAFCAYAAACNbyblAAAAHElEQVQI12P4//8/w38GIAXDIBKE0DHxgljNBAAO9TXL0Y4OHwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==";
let buffer=Uint8Array.from(atob(base64), c => c.charCodeAt(0));
let blob=new Blob([buffer], { type: "image/gif" });
let url=URL.createObjectURL(blob);
let img=document.createElement("img");
img.src=url;
document.body.appendChild(img);

Not recommended for production as it is only compatible with modern browsers.

How do I convert from a string to an integer in Visual Basic?

You can use the following to convert string to int:

  • CInt(String) for ints
  • CDec(String) for decimals

For details refer to Type Conversion Functions (Visual Basic).

what is the differences between sql server authentication and windows authentication..?

I think the main difference is security.

Windows Authentication means that the identity is handled as part of the windows handashaking and now password is ever 'out there' for interception.

SQL Authentication means that you have to store (or provide) a username and a password yourself making it much easier to breach. A heap of effort has gone into making windows authentication very robust and secure.

Might I suggest that if you do implement Windows Authentication use Groups and Roles to do it. Groups in Windows and Roles in SQL. Having to setup lots of users in SQL is a big pain when you can just setup the group and then add each user to the group. (I think most security should be done this way anyway).

How do you determine what SQL Tables have an identity column programmatically

This worked for me using Sql Server 2008:

USE <database_name>;
GO
SELECT SCHEMA_NAME(schema_id) AS schema_name
    , t.name AS table_name
    , c.name AS column_name
FROM sys.tables AS t
JOIN sys.identity_columns c ON t.object_id = c.object_id
ORDER BY schema_name, table_name;
GO

Transparent background on winforms?

I've tried the solutions above (and also) many other solutions from other posts.

In my case, I did it with the following setup:

public partial class WaitingDialog : Form
{
    public WaitingDialog()
    {
        InitializeComponent();

        SetStyle(ControlStyles.SupportsTransparentBackColor, true);
        this.BackColor = Color.Transparent;

        // Other stuff
    }

    protected override void OnPaintBackground(PaintEventArgs e) { /* Ignore */ }
}

As you can see, this is a mix of previously given answers.

slf4j: how to log formatted message, object array, exception

In addition to @Ceki 's answer, If you are using logback and setup a config file in your project (usually logback.xml), you can define the log to plot the stack trace as well using

<encoder>
    <pattern>%date |%-5level| [%thread] [%file:%line] - %msg%n%ex{full}</pattern> 
</encoder>

the %ex in pattern is what makes the difference

How to fix "Referenced assembly does not have a strong name" error?

I was running into this with a ServiceStack dll I had installed with nuget. Turns out there was another set of dlls available that were labeled signed. Not going to be the answer for everyone, but you may just need to check for an existing signed version of your assembly. ServiceStack.Signed

Mysql: Select all data between two dates

Select *  from  emp where joindate between date1 and date2;

But this query not show proper data.

Eg

1-jan-2013 to 12-jan-2013.

But it's show data

1-jan-2013 to 11-jan-2013.

The term 'Get-ADUser' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet

Check here for how to add the activedirectory module if not there by default. This can be done on any machine and then it will allow you to access your active directory "domain control" server.

EDIT

To prevent problems with stale links (I have found MSDN blogs to disappear for no reason in the past), in essence for Windows 7 you need to download and install Remote Server Administration Tools (KB958830). After installing do the following steps:

  • Open Control Panel -> Programs and Features -> Turn On/Off Windows Features
  • Find "Remote Server Administration Tools" and expand it
  • Find "Role Administration Tools" and expand it
  • Find "AD DS And AD LDS Tools" and expand it
  • Check the box next to "Active Directory Module For Windows PowerShell".
  • Click OK and allow Windows to install the feature

Windows server editions should already be OK but if not you need to download and install the Active Directory Management Gateway Service. If any of these links should stop working, you should still be able search for the KB article or download names and find them.

pinpointing "conditional jump or move depends on uninitialized value(s)" valgrind message

What this means is that you are trying to print out/output a value which is at least partially uninitialized. Can you narrow it down so that you know exactly what value that is? After that, trace through your code to see where it is being initialized. Chances are, you will see that it is not being fully initialized.

If you need more help, posting the relevant sections of source code might allow someone to offer more guidance.

EDIT

I see you've found the problem. Note that valgrind watches for Conditional jump or move based on unitialized variables. What that means is that it will only give out a warning if the execution of the program is altered due to the uninitialized value (ie. the program takes a different branch in an if statement, for example). Since the actual arithmetic did not involve a conditional jump or move, valgrind did not warn you of that. Instead, it propagated the "uninitialized" status to the result of the statement that used it.

It may seem counterintuitive that it does not warn you immediately, but as mark4o pointed out, it does this because uninitialized values get used in C all the time (examples: padding in structures, the realloc() call, etc.) so those warnings would not be very useful due to the false positive frequency.

The 'json' native gem requires installed build tools

My gem version 2.0.3 and I was getting the same issue. This command resolved it:

gem install json --platform=ruby --verbose

When to use throws in a Java method declaration?

This is not an answer, but a comment, but I could not write a comment with a formatted code, so here is the comment.

Lets say there is

public static void main(String[] args) {
  try {
    // do nothing or throw a RuntimeException
    throw new RuntimeException("test");
  } catch (Exception e) {
    System.out.println(e.getMessage());
    throw e;
  }
}

The output is

test
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: test
    at MyClass.main(MyClass.java:10)

That method does not declare any "throws" Exceptions, but throws them! The trick is that the thrown exceptions are RuntimeExceptions (unchecked) that are not needed to be declared on the method. It is a bit misleading for the reader of the method, since all she sees is a "throw e;" statement but no declaration of the throws exception

Now, if we have

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
  try {
    throw new Exception("test");
  } catch (Exception e) {
    System.out.println(e.getMessage());
    throw e;
  }
}

We MUST declare the "throws" exceptions in the method otherwise we get a compiler error.

Select option padding not working in chrome

Not padding but if your goal is to simply make it larger, you can increase the font-size. And using it with font-size-adjust reduces the font-size back to normal on select and not on options, so it ends up making the option larger.

Not sure if it works on all browsers, or will keep working in current.

Tested on Chrome 85 & Firefox 81.

screenshot (on Firefox)

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select {
    font-size: 2em;
    font-size-adjust: 0.3;
}
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<label>
  Select: <select>
            <option>Option 1</option>
            <option>Option 2</option>
            <option>Option 3</option>
          </select>
</label>
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How to destroy a DOM element with jQuery?

If you want to completely destroy the target, you have a couple of options. First you can remove the object from the DOM as described above...

console.log($target);   // jQuery object
$target.remove();       // remove target from the DOM
console.log($target);   // $target still exists

Option 1 - Then replace target with an empty jQuery object (jQuery 1.4+)

$target = $();
console.log($target);   // empty jQuery object

Option 2 - Or delete the property entirely (will cause an error if you reference it elsewhere)

delete $target;
console.log($target);   // error: $target is not defined

More reading: info about empty jQuery object, and info about delete

How to check if a string is a valid JSON string in JavaScript without using Try/Catch

For people who like the .Net convention of "try" functions that return a boolean and handle a byref param containing the result. If you don't need the out parameter you can omit it and just use the return value.

StringTests.js

  var obj1 = {};
  var bool1 = '{"h":"happy"}'.tryParse(obj1); // false
  var obj2 = {};
  var bool2 = '2114509 GOODLUCKBUDDY 315852'.tryParse(obj2);  // false

  var obj3 = {};
  if('{"house_number":"1","road":"Mauchly","city":"Irvine","county":"Orange County","state":"California","postcode":"92618","country":"United States of America","country_code":"us"}'.tryParse(obj3))
    console.log(obj3);

StringUtils.js

String.prototype.tryParse = function(jsonObject) {
  jsonObject = jsonObject || {};
  try {
    if(!/^[\[{]/.test(this) || !/[}\]]$/.test(this)) // begin / end with [] or {}
      return false; // avoid error handling for strings that obviously aren't json
    var json = JSON.parse(this);
    if(typeof json === 'object'){
      jsonObject.merge(json);
      return true;
    }
  } catch (e) {
    return false;
  }
}

ObjectUtils.js

Object.defineProperty(Object.prototype, 'merge', {
  value: function(mergeObj){
    for (var propertyName in mergeObj) {
      if (mergeObj.hasOwnProperty(propertyName)) {
        this[propertyName] = mergeObj[propertyName];
      }      
    }
    return this;
  },
  enumerable: false, // this is actually the default
});

Equal height rows in CSS Grid Layout

The short answer is that setting grid-auto-rows: 1fr; on the grid container solves what was asked.

https://codepen.io/Hlsg/pen/EXKJba

How to check if a file exists in Documents folder?

check if file exist in side the document/catchimage path :

NSString *stringPath = [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES)objectAtIndex:0];
NSString *tempName = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/catchimage/%@.png",stringPath,@"file name"];
NSLog(@"%@",temName);
if([[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:temName]){
    // ur code here
} else {
    // ur code here** 
}

Limit to 2 decimal places with a simple pipe

Well now will be different after angular 5:

{{ number | currency :'GBP':'symbol':'1.2-2' }}

Trigger 404 in Spring-MVC controller?

If your controller method is for something like file handling then ResponseEntity is very handy:

@Controller
public class SomeController {
    @RequestMapping.....
    public ResponseEntity handleCall() {
        if (isFound()) {
            return new ResponseEntity(...);
        }
        else {
            return new ResponseEntity(404);
        }
    }
}

How to check if an object implements an interface?

Use

if (gor instanceof Monster) {
    //...
}

How can I check file size in Python?

You need the st_size property of the object returned by os.stat. You can get it by either using pathlib (Python 3.4+):

>>> from pathlib import Path
>>> Path('somefile.txt').stat()
os.stat_result(st_mode=33188, st_ino=6419862, st_dev=16777220, st_nlink=1, st_uid=501, st_gid=20, st_size=1564, st_atime=1584299303, st_mtime=1584299400, st_ctime=1584299400)
>>> Path('somefile.txt').stat().st_size
1564

or using os.stat:

>>> import os
>>> os.stat('somefile.txt')
os.stat_result(st_mode=33188, st_ino=6419862, st_dev=16777220, st_nlink=1, st_uid=501, st_gid=20, st_size=1564, st_atime=1584299303, st_mtime=1584299400, st_ctime=1584299400)
>>> os.stat('somefile.txt').st_size
1564

Output is in bytes.

Adding new files to a subversion repository

Normally svn add * works. But if you get message like svn: warning: W150002: due to mix off versioned and non-versioned files in working copy. Use this command:

svn add <path to directory> --force

or

svn add * --force

How to declare an ArrayList with values?

Use this one:

ArrayList<String> x = new ArrayList(Arrays.asList("abc", "mno"));

Call static methods from regular ES6 class methods

I stumbled over this thread searching for answer to similar case. Basically all answers are found, but it's still hard to extract the essentials from them.

Kinds of Access

Assume a class Foo probably derived from some other class(es) with probably more classes derived from it.

Then accessing

  • from static method/getter of Foo
    • some probably overridden static method/getter:
      • this.method()
      • this.property
    • some probably overridden instance method/getter:
      • impossible by design
    • own non-overridden static method/getter:
      • Foo.method()
      • Foo.property
    • own non-overridden instance method/getter:
      • impossible by design
  • from instance method/getter of Foo
    • some probably overridden static method/getter:
      • this.constructor.method()
      • this.constructor.property
    • some probably overridden instance method/getter:
      • this.method()
      • this.property
    • own non-overridden static method/getter:
      • Foo.method()
      • Foo.property
    • own non-overridden instance method/getter:
      • not possible by intention unless using some workaround:
        • Foo.prototype.method.call( this )
        • Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor( Foo.prototype,"property" ).get.call(this);

Keep in mind that using this isn't working this way when using arrow functions or invoking methods/getters explicitly bound to custom value.

Background

  • When in context of an instance's method or getter
    • this is referring to current instance.
    • super is basically referring to same instance, but somewhat addressing methods and getters written in context of some class current one is extending (by using the prototype of Foo's prototype).
    • definition of instance's class used on creating it is available per this.constructor.
  • When in context of a static method or getter there is no "current instance" by intention and so
    • this is available to refer to the definition of current class directly.
    • super is not referring to some instance either, but to static methods and getters written in context of some class current one is extending.

Conclusion

Try this code:

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class A {_x000D_
  constructor( input ) {_x000D_
    this.loose = this.constructor.getResult( input );_x000D_
    this.tight = A.getResult( input );_x000D_
    console.log( this.scaledProperty, Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor( A.prototype, "scaledProperty" ).get.call( this ) );_x000D_
  }_x000D_
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  get scaledProperty() {_x000D_
    return parseInt( this.loose ) * 100;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
  _x000D_
  static getResult( input ) {_x000D_
    return input * this.scale;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
  _x000D_
  static get scale() {_x000D_
    return 2;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
}_x000D_
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class B extends A {_x000D_
  constructor( input ) {_x000D_
    super( input );_x000D_
    this.tight = B.getResult( input ) + " (of B)";_x000D_
  }_x000D_
  _x000D_
  get scaledProperty() {_x000D_
    return parseInt( this.loose ) * 10000;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
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  static get scale() {_x000D_
    return 4;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
}_x000D_
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class C extends B {_x000D_
  constructor( input ) {_x000D_
    super( input );_x000D_
  }_x000D_
  _x000D_
  static get scale() {_x000D_
    return 5;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
}_x000D_
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class D extends C {_x000D_
  constructor( input ) {_x000D_
    super( input );_x000D_
  }_x000D_
  _x000D_
  static getResult( input ) {_x000D_
    return super.getResult( input ) + " (overridden)";_x000D_
  }_x000D_
  _x000D_
  static get scale() {_x000D_
    return 10;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
}_x000D_
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let instanceA = new A( 4 );_x000D_
console.log( "A.loose", instanceA.loose );_x000D_
console.log( "A.tight", instanceA.tight );_x000D_
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let instanceB = new B( 4 );_x000D_
console.log( "B.loose", instanceB.loose );_x000D_
console.log( "B.tight", instanceB.tight );_x000D_
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let instanceC = new C( 4 );_x000D_
console.log( "C.loose", instanceC.loose );_x000D_
console.log( "C.tight", instanceC.tight );_x000D_
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let instanceD = new D( 4 );_x000D_
console.log( "D.loose", instanceD.loose );_x000D_
console.log( "D.tight", instanceD.tight );
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How do I programmatically set the value of a select box element using JavaScript?

The easiest way if you need to:
1) Click a button which defines select option
2) Go to another page, where select option is
3) Have that option value selected on another page

1) your button links (say, on home page)

<a onclick="location.href='contact.php?option=1';" style="cursor:pointer;">Sales</a>
<a onclick="location.href='contact.php?option=2';" style="cursor:pointer;">IT</a>

(where contact.php is your page with select options. Note the page url has ?option=1 or 2)

2) put this code on your second page (my case contact.php)

<?
if (isset($_GET['option']) && $_GET['option'] != "") {
$pg = $_GET['option'];              
} ?>

3) make the option value selected, depending on the button clicked

<select>
<option value="Sales" <? if ($pg == '1') { echo "selected"; } ?> >Sales</option>
<option value="IT" <? if ($pg == '2') { echo "selected"; } ?> >IT</option>
</select>

.. and so on.
So this is an easy way of passing the value to another page (with select option list) through GET in url. No forms, no IDs.. just 3 steps and it works perfect.

How to get data from database in javascript based on the value passed to the function

The error is coming as your query is getting formed as

SELECT * FROM Employ where number = parseInt(val);

I dont know which DB you are using but no DB will understand parseInt.

What you can do is use a variable say temp and store the value of parseInt(val) in temp variable and make the query as

SELECT * FROM Employ where number = temp;

What are the differences in die() and exit() in PHP?

They sound about the same, however, the exit() also allows you to set the exit code of your PHP script.

Usually you don't really need this, but when writing console PHP scripts, you might want to check with for example Bash if the script completed everything in the right way.

Then you can use exit() and catch that later on. Die() however doesn't support that.

Die() always exists with code 0. So essentially a die() command does the following:

<?php
echo "I am going to die";
exit(0);
?>

Which is the same as:

<?php
die("I am going to die");
?>

Name [jdbc/mydb] is not bound in this Context

For those who use Tomcat with Bitronix, this will fix the problem:

The error indicates that no handler could be found for your datasource 'jdbc/mydb', so you'll need to make sure your tomcat server refers to your bitronix configuration files as needed.

In case you're using btm-config.properties and resources.properties files to configure the datasource, specify these two JVM arguments in tomcat:

(if you already used them, make sure your references are correct):

  • btm.root
  • bitronix.tm.configuration

e.g.

-Dbtm.root="C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0.59" 
-Dbitronix.tm.configuration="C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0.59\conf\btm-config.properties" 

Now, restart your server and check the log.

How to delete a cookie using jQuery?

Try this

 $.cookie('_cookieName', null, { path: '/' });

The { path: '/' } do the job for you

Get a list of numbers as input from the user

eval(a_string) evaluates a string as Python code. Obviously this is not particularly safe. You can get safer (more restricted) evaluation by using the literal_eval function from the ast module.

raw_input() is called that in Python 2.x because it gets raw, not "interpreted" input. input() interprets the input, i.e. is equivalent to eval(raw_input()).

In Python 3.x, input() does what raw_input() used to do, and you must evaluate the contents manually if that's what you want (i.e. eval(input())).

How to replace multiple white spaces with one white space

Regex regex = new Regex(@"\W+");
string outputString = regex.Replace(inputString, " ");

How to convert HH:mm:ss.SSS to milliseconds?

If you want to parse the format yourself you could do it easily with a regex such as

private static Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("(\\d{2}):(\\d{2}):(\\d{2}).(\\d{3})");

public static long dateParseRegExp(String period) {
    Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(period);
    if (matcher.matches()) {
        return Long.parseLong(matcher.group(1)) * 3600000L 
            + Long.parseLong(matcher.group(2)) * 60000 
            + Long.parseLong(matcher.group(3)) * 1000 
            + Long.parseLong(matcher.group(4)); 
    } else {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid format " + period);
    }
}

However, this parsing is quite lenient and would accept 99:99:99.999 and just let the values overflow. This could be a drawback or a feature.

How to submit http form using C#

Response.Write("<script> try {this.submit();} catch(e){} </script>");

Django 1.7 - "No migrations to apply" when run migrate after makemigrations

if you are using GIT for control versions and in some of yours commit you added db.sqlite3, GIT will keep some references of the database, so when you execute 'python manage.py migrate', this reference will be reflected on the new database. I recommend to execute the following command:

git filter-branch --index-filter "git rm -rf --cached --ignore-unmatch 'db.sqlite3' HEAD

it worked for me :)

What's the difference between "Request Payload" vs "Form Data" as seen in Chrome dev tools Network tab

In Chrome, request with 'Content-Type:application/json' shows as Request PayedLoad and sends data as json object.

But request with 'Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded' shows Form Data and sends data as Key:Value Pair, so if you have array of object in one key it flats that key's value:

{ Id: 1, 
name:'john', 
phones:[{title:'home',number:111111,...},
        {title:'office',number:22222,...}]
}

sends

{ Id: 1, 
name:'john', 
phones:[object object]
phones:[object object]
}

How do I perform an insert and return inserted identity with Dapper?

It does support input/output parameters (including RETURN value) if you use DynamicParameters, but in this case the simpler option is simply:

var id = connection.QuerySingle<int>( @"
INSERT INTO [MyTable] ([Stuff]) VALUES (@Stuff);
SELECT CAST(SCOPE_IDENTITY() as int)", new { Stuff = mystuff});

Note that on more recent versions of SQL Server you can use the OUTPUT clause:

var id = connection.QuerySingle<int>( @"
INSERT INTO [MyTable] ([Stuff])
OUTPUT INSERTED.Id
VALUES (@Stuff);", new { Stuff = mystuff});

Where is the application.properties file in a Spring Boot project?

You can create it manually but the default location of application.properties is here

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What's the best way to trim std::string?

My answer is an improvement upon the top answer for this post that trims control characters as well as spaces (0-32 and 127 on the ASCII table).

std::isgraph determines if a character has a graphical representation, so you can use this to alter Evan's answer to remove any character that doesn't have a graphical representation from either side of a string. The result is a much more elegant solution:

#include <algorithm>
#include <functional>
#include <string>

/**
 * @brief Left Trim
 *
 * Trims whitespace from the left end of the provided std::string
 *
 * @param[out] s The std::string to trim
 *
 * @return The modified std::string&
 */
std::string& ltrim(std::string& s) {
  s.erase(s.begin(), std::find_if(s.begin(), s.end(),
    std::ptr_fun<int, int>(std::isgraph)));
  return s;
}

/**
 * @brief Right Trim
 *
 * Trims whitespace from the right end of the provided std::string
 *
 * @param[out] s The std::string to trim
 *
 * @return The modified std::string&
 */
std::string& rtrim(std::string& s) {
  s.erase(std::find_if(s.rbegin(), s.rend(),
    std::ptr_fun<int, int>(std::isgraph)).base(), s.end());
  return s;
}

/**
 * @brief Trim
 *
 * Trims whitespace from both ends of the provided std::string
 *
 * @param[out] s The std::string to trim
 *
 * @return The modified std::string&
 */
std::string& trim(std::string& s) {
  return ltrim(rtrim(s));
}

Note: Alternatively you should be able to use std::iswgraph if you need support for wide characters, but you will also have to edit this code to enable std::wstring manipulation, which is something that I haven't tested (see the reference page for std::basic_string to explore this option).

Modifying a query string without reloading the page

I want to improve Fabio's answer and create a function which adds custom key to the URL string without reloading the page.

function insertUrlParam(key, value) {
    if (history.pushState) {
        let searchParams = new URLSearchParams(window.location.search);
        searchParams.set(key, value);
        let newurl = window.location.protocol + "//" + window.location.host + window.location.pathname + '?' + searchParams.toString();
        window.history.pushState({path: newurl}, '', newurl);
    }
}

How do I add a user when I'm using Alpine as a base image?

The commands are adduser and addgroup.

Here's a template for Docker you can use in busybox environments (alpine) as well as Debian-based environments (Ubuntu, etc.):

ENV USER=docker
ENV UID=12345
ENV GID=23456

RUN adduser \
    --disabled-password \
    --gecos "" \
    --home "$(pwd)" \
    --ingroup "$USER" \
    --no-create-home \
    --uid "$UID" \
    "$USER"

Note the following:

  • --disabled-password prevents prompt for a password
  • --gecos "" circumvents the prompt for "Full Name" etc. on Debian-based systems
  • --home "$(pwd)" sets the user's home to the WORKDIR. You may not want this.
  • --no-create-home prevents cruft getting copied into the directory from /etc/skel

The usage description for these applications is missing the long flags present in the code for adduser and addgroup.

The following long-form flags should work both in alpine as well as debian-derivatives:

adduser

BusyBox v1.28.4 (2018-05-30 10:45:57 UTC) multi-call binary.

Usage: adduser [OPTIONS] USER [GROUP]

Create new user, or add USER to GROUP

        --home DIR           Home directory
        --gecos GECOS        GECOS field
        --shell SHELL        Login shell
        --ingroup GRP        Group (by name)
        --system             Create a system user
        --disabled-password  Don't assign a password
        --no-create-home     Don't create home directory
        --uid UID            User id

One thing to note is that if --ingroup isn't set then the GID is assigned to match the UID. If the GID corresponding to the provided UID already exists adduser will fail.

addgroup

BusyBox v1.28.4 (2018-05-30 10:45:57 UTC) multi-call binary.

Usage: addgroup [-g GID] [-S] [USER] GROUP

Add a group or add a user to a group

        --gid GID  Group id
        --system   Create a system group

I discovered all of this while trying to write my own alternative to the fixuid project for running containers as the hosts UID/GID.

My entrypoint helper script can be found on GitHub.

The intent is to prepend that script as the first argument to ENTRYPOINT which should cause Docker to infer UID and GID from a relevant bind mount.

An environment variable "TEMPLATE" may be required to determine where the permissions should be inferred from.

(At the time of writing I don't have documentation for my script. It's still on the todo list!!)

Different ways of clearing lists

Clearing a list in place will affect all other references of the same list.

For example, this method doesn't affect other references:

>>> a = [1, 2, 3]
>>> b = a
>>> a = []
>>> print(a)
[]
>>> print(b)
[1, 2, 3]

But this one does:

>>> a = [1, 2, 3]
>>> b = a
>>> del a[:]      # equivalent to   del a[0:len(a)]
>>> print(a)
[]
>>> print(b)
[]
>>> a is b
True

You could also do:

>>> a[:] = []

What's wrong with foreign keys?

How about maintainability and constancy across application life cycles? Most data has a longer lifespan than the applications that make use of it. Relationships and data integrity are much too important to leave to the hope that the next dev team gets it right in the app code. If you haven't worked on a db with dirty data that doesn't respect the natural relationships, you will. The importance of data integrity will then become very clear.

How to save a spark DataFrame as csv on disk?

I had similar issue where i had to save the contents of the dataframe to a csv file of name which i defined. df.write("csv").save("<my-path>") was creating directory than file. So have to come up with the following solutions. Most of the code is taken from the following dataframe-to-csv with little modifications to the logic.

def saveDfToCsv(df: DataFrame, tsvOutput: String, sep: String = ",", header: Boolean = false): Unit = {
    val tmpParquetDir = "Posts.tmp.parquet"

    df.repartition(1).write.
        format("com.databricks.spark.csv").
        option("header", header.toString).
        option("delimiter", sep).
        save(tmpParquetDir)

    val dir = new File(tmpParquetDir)
    val newFileRgex = tmpParquetDir + File.separatorChar + ".part-00000.*.csv"
    val tmpTsfFile = dir.listFiles.filter(_.toPath.toString.matches(newFileRgex))(0).toString
    (new File(tmpTsvFile)).renameTo(new File(tsvOutput))

    dir.listFiles.foreach( f => f.delete )
    dir.delete
    }

Error "initializer element is not constant" when trying to initialize variable with const

Just for illustration by compare and contrast The code is from http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/g-fact-80/ /The code fails in gcc and passes in g++/

#include<stdio.h>
int initializer(void)
{
    return 50;
}

int main()
{
    int j;
    for (j=0;j<10;j++)
    {
        static int i = initializer();
        /*The variable i is only initialized to one*/
        printf(" value of i = %d ", i);
        i++;
    }
    return 0;
}

Get output parameter value in ADO.NET

For anyone looking to do something similar using a reader with the stored procedure, note that the reader must be closed to retrieve the output value.

using (SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection())
{
    SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("sproc", conn);
    cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;

    // add parameters
    SqlParameter outputParam = cmd.Parameters.Add("@ID", SqlDbType.Int);
    outputParam.Direction = ParameterDirection.Output;

    conn.Open();

    using(IDataReader reader = cmd.ExecuteReader())
    {
        while(reader.Read())
        {
            //read in data
        }
    }
    // reader is closed/disposed after exiting the using statement
    int id = outputParam.Value;
}

PostgreSQL: insert from another table

Very late answer, but I think my answer is more straight forward for specific use cases where users want to simply insert (copy) data from table A into table B:

INSERT INTO table_b (col1, col2, col3, col4, col5, col6)
SELECT col1, 'str_val', int_val, col4, col5, col6
FROM table_a

Several ports (8005, 8080, 8009) required by Tomcat Server at localhost are already in use

Sometimes if the ports are not freed even after attempting shutdown.bat what @BalusC suggested,you can kill the javaw process. Do following steps :

  1. Click on Start Menu and open "Windows powershell"
  2. Right click before opening and select "Run as administrator"
  3. Enter command ps. You may see a image as follows : Powershell showing current proesses running

  4. See the process number of process "javaw".The process number is the rightmost number in the columns, I have highlighted in the image process number of javaw for example.

  5. Enter command kill . javaw is killed and now you must be able to run the program.

How do I 'git diff' on a certain directory?

Not only you can add a path, but you can add git diff --relative to get result relative to that folder.

git -C a/folder diff --relative

And with Git 2.28 (Q3 2020), the commands in the "diff" family learned to honor the "diff.relative" configuration variable.

See commit c28ded8 (22 May 2020) by Laurent Arnoud (spk).
(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit e34df9a, 02 Jun 2020)

diff: add config option relative

Signed-off-by: Laurent Arnoud
Acked-by: Ðoàn Tr?n Công Danh

The diff.relative boolean option set to true shows only changes in the current directory/value specified by the path argument of the relative option and shows pathnames relative to the aforementioned directory.

Teach --no-relative to override earlier --relative

Add for git-format-patch(1) options documentation --relative and --no-relative

The documentation now includes:

diff.relative:

If set to 'true', 'git diff' does not show changes outside of the directory and show pathnames relative to the current directory.

Bash: Syntax error: redirection unexpected

Does your script reference /bin/bash or /bin/sh in its hash bang line? The default system shell in Ubuntu is dash, not bash, so if you have #!/bin/sh then your script will be using a different shell than you expect. Dash does not have the <<< redirection operator.

Include headers when using SELECT INTO OUTFILE?

SELECT 'ColName1', 'ColName2', 'ColName3'
UNION ALL
SELECT ColName1, ColName2, ColName3
    FROM YourTable
    INTO OUTFILE 'c:\\datasheet.csv' FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n' 

Show just the current branch in Git

From what I can tell, there is no way to natively show just the current branch in Git, so I have been using:

git branch | grep '*'

HTML - Alert Box when loading page

<script> 
    $(document).ready(function(){
        alert('Hi');
    });
</script>

Javascript format date / time

I don't think that can be done RELIABLY with built in methods on the native Date object. The toLocaleString method gets close, but if I am remembering correctly, it won't work correctly in IE < 10. If you are able to use a library for this task, MomentJS is a really amazing library; and it makes working with dates and times easy. Otherwise, I think you will have to write a basic function to give you the format that you are after.

function formatDate(date) {
    var year = date.getFullYear(),
        month = date.getMonth() + 1, // months are zero indexed
        day = date.getDate(),
        hour = date.getHours(),
        minute = date.getMinutes(),
        second = date.getSeconds(),
        hourFormatted = hour % 12 || 12, // hour returned in 24 hour format
        minuteFormatted = minute < 10 ? "0" + minute : minute,
        morning = hour < 12 ? "am" : "pm";

    return month + "/" + day + "/" + year + " " + hourFormatted + ":" +
            minuteFormatted + morning;
}

How to set div's height in css and html

<div style="height: 100px;"> </div>

OR

<div id="foo"/> and set the style as #foo { height: 100px; }
<div class="bar"/> and set the style as .bar{ height: 100px;  }

What is the difference between SQL, PL-SQL and T-SQL?

  • SQL a language for talking to the database. It lets you select data, mutate and create database objects (like tables, views, etc.), change database settings.
  • PL-SQL a procedural programming language (with embedded SQL)
  • T-SQL (procedural) extensions for SQL used by SQL Server

How to open the command prompt and insert commands using Java?

You can use any on process for dynamic path on command prompt

Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd.exe /c start dir ");
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd.exe /c start cd \"E:\\rakhee\\Obligation Extractions\" && dir");
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd.exe /c start cd \"E:\\oxyzen-workspace\\BrightleafDesktop\\Obligation Extractions\" && dir");

json_encode is returning NULL?

I bet you are retrieving data in non-utf8 encoding: try to put mysql_query('SET CHARACTER SET utf8') before your SELECT query.

How does the 'binding' attribute work in JSF? When and how should it be used?

How does it work?

When a JSF view (Facelets/JSP file) get built/restored, a JSF component tree will be produced. At that moment, the view build time, all binding attributes are evaluated (along with id attribtues and taghandlers like JSTL). When the JSF component needs to be created before being added to the component tree, JSF will check if the binding attribute returns a precreated component (i.e. non-null) and if so, then use it. If it's not precreated, then JSF will autocreate the component "the usual way" and invoke the setter behind binding attribute with the autocreated component instance as argument.

In effects, it binds a reference of the component instance in the component tree to a scoped variable. This information is in no way visible in the generated HTML representation of the component itself. This information is in no means relevant to the generated HTML output anyway. When the form is submitted and the view is restored, the JSF component tree is just rebuilt from scratch and all binding attributes will just be re-evaluated like described in above paragraph. After the component tree is recreated, JSF will restore the JSF view state into the component tree.

Component instances are request scoped!

Important to know and understand is that the concrete component instances are effectively request scoped. They're newly created on every request and their properties are filled with values from JSF view state during restore view phase. So, if you bind the component to a property of a backing bean, then the backing bean should absolutely not be in a broader scope than the request scope. See also JSF 2.0 specitication chapter 3.1.5:

3.1.5 Component Bindings

...

Component bindings are often used in conjunction with JavaBeans that are dynamically instantiated via the Managed Bean Creation facility (see Section 5.8.1 “VariableResolver and the Default VariableResolver”). It is strongly recommend that application developers place managed beans that are pointed at by component binding expressions in “request” scope. This is because placing it in session or application scope would require thread-safety, since UIComponent instances depends on running inside of a single thread. There are also potentially negative impacts on memory management when placing a component binding in “session” scope.

Otherwise, component instances are shared among multiple requests, possibly resulting in "duplicate component ID" errors and "weird" behaviors because validators, converters and listeners declared in the view are re-attached to the existing component instance from previous request(s). The symptoms are clear: they are executed multiple times, one time more with each request within the same scope as the component is been bound to.

And, under heavy load (i.e. when multiple different HTTP requests (threads) access and manipulate the very same component instance at the same time), you may face sooner or later an application crash with e.g. Stuck thread at UIComponent.popComponentFromEL, or Java Threads at 100% CPU utilization using richfaces UIDataAdaptorBase and its internal HashMap, or even some "strange" IndexOutOfBoundsException or ConcurrentModificationException coming straight from JSF implementation source code while JSF is busy saving or restoring the view state (i.e. the stack trace indicates saveState() or restoreState() methods and like).

Using binding on a bean property is bad practice

Regardless, using binding this way, binding a whole component instance to a bean property, even on a request scoped bean, is in JSF 2.x a rather rare use case and generally not the best practice. It indicates a design smell. You normally declare components in the view side and bind their runtime attributes like value, and perhaps others like styleClass, disabled, rendered, etc, to normal bean properties. Then, you just manipulate exactly that bean property you want instead of grabbing the whole component and calling the setter method associated with the attribute.

In cases when a component needs to be "dynamically built" based on a static model, better is to use view build time tags like JSTL, if necessary in a tag file, instead of createComponent(), new SomeComponent(), getChildren().add() and what not. See also How to refactor snippet of old JSP to some JSF equivalent?

Or, if a component needs to be "dynamically rendered" based on a dynamic model, then just use an iterator component (<ui:repeat>, <h:dataTable>, etc). See also How to dynamically add JSF components.

Composite components is a completely different story. It's completely legit to bind components inside a <cc:implementation> to the backing component (i.e. the component identified by <cc:interface componentType>. See also a.o. Split java.util.Date over two h:inputText fields representing hour and minute with f:convertDateTime and How to implement a dynamic list with a JSF 2.0 Composite Component?

Only use binding in local scope

However, sometimes you'd like to know about the state of a different component from inside a particular component, more than often in use cases related to action/value dependent validation. For that, the binding attribute can be used, but not in combination with a bean property. You can just specify an in the local EL scope unique variable name in the binding attribute like so binding="#{foo}" and the component is during render response elsewhere in the same view directly as UIComponent reference available by #{foo}. Here are several related questions where such a solution is been used in the answer:

See also:

Fastest way to get the first n elements of a List into an Array

It mostly depends on how big n is.

If n==0, nothing beats option#1 :)

If n is very large, toArray(new String[n]) is faster.

What is the "assert" function?

Stuff like 'raises exception' and 'halts execution' might be true for most compilers, but not for all. (BTW, are there assert statements that really throw exceptions?)

Here's an interesting, slightly different meaning of assert used by c6x and other TI compilers: upon seeing certain assert statements, these compilers use the information in that statement to perform certain optimizations. Wicked.

Example in C:

int dot_product(short *x, short *y, short z)
{
  int sum = 0
  int i;

  assert( ( (int)(x) & 0x3 ) == 0 );
  assert( ( (int)(y) & 0x3 ) == 0 );

  for( i = 0 ; i < z ; ++i )
    sum += x[ i ] * y[ i ];
  return sum;
}

This tells de compiler the arrays are aligned on 32-bits boundaries, so the compiler can generate specific instructions made for that kind of alignment.