Programs & Examples On #Operationcontract

WCF Service, the type provided as the service attribute values…could not be found

Turns out that the Eval.svc.cs needed its namespace changed to EvalServiceLibary, rather than EvalServiceSite.

Task<> does not contain a definition for 'GetAwaiter'

I had this problem because I was calling a method

await myClass.myStaticMethod(myString);

but I was setting myString with

var myString = String.Format({some dynamic-type values})

which resulted in a dynamic type, not a string, thus when I tried to await on myClass.myStaticMethod(myString), the compiler thought I meant to call myClass.myStaticMethod(dynamic myString). This compiled fine because, again, in a dynamic context, it's all good until it blows up at run-time, which is what happened because there is no implementation of the dynamic version of myStaticMethod, and this error message didn't help whatsoever, and the fact that Intellisense would take me to the correct definition didn't help either.
Tricky!

However, by forcing the result type to string, like:

var myString = String.Format({some dynamic-type values})

to

string myString = String.Format({some dynamic-type values})

my call to myStaticMethod routed properly

HTTP could not register URL http://+:8000/HelloWCF/. Your process does not have access rights to this namespace

Unfortunately the link in the exception text, http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=70353, is broken. However, it used to lead to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733768.aspx which explains how to set the permissions.

It basically informs you to use the following command:

netsh http add urlacl url=http://+:80/MyUri user=DOMAIN\user

You can get more help on the details using the help of netsh

For example: netsh http add ?

Gives help on the http add command.

Could not find an implementation of the query pattern

You are missing an equality:

var query = (from p in tblPersoon where p.id == 5 select p).Single();

where clause must result in a boolean.

OR you should not be using where at all:

var query = (from p in tblPersoon select p).Single();

When to use DataContract and DataMember attributes?

DataMember attribute is not mandatory to add to serialize data. When DataMember attribute is not added, old XMLSerializer serializes the data. Adding a DataMember provides useful properties like order, name, isrequired which cannot be used otherwise.

How do I return clean JSON from a WCF Service?

When you are using GET Method the contract must be this.

[WebGet(UriTemplate = "/", BodyStyle = WebMessageBodyStyle.Bare, ResponseFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json)]
List<User> Get();

with this we have a json without the boot parameter

Aldo Flores @alduar http://alduar.blogspot.com

How to Consume WCF Service with Android

From my recent experience i would recommend ksoap library to consume a Soap WCF Service, its actually really easy, this anddev thread migh help you out too.

WCF Service Returning "Method Not Allowed"

I've been having this same problem for over a day now - finally figured it out. Thanks to @Sameh for the hint.

Your service is probably working just fine. Testing POST messages using the address bar of a browser won't work. You need to use Fiddler to test a POST message.

Fiddler instructions... http://www.ehow.com/how_8788176_do-post-using-fiddler.html

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

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

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

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

5.7.57 SMTP - Client was not authenticated to send anonymous mail during MAIL FROM error

Probably the password of the account that you trying to send e-mail is expired. Just check your password policy expire date.

System.BadImageFormatException: Could not load file or assembly

My cause was different I referenced a web service then I got this message.

Then I changed my target .Net Framework 4.0 to .Net Framework 2.0 and re-refer my webservice. After a few changes problem solved. There is no error worked fine.

hope this helps!

Converting JSONarray to ArrayList

Using Gson

    List<Student> students = new ArrayList<>();
    JSONArray jsonArray = new JSONArray(stringJsonContainArray);
    for (int i = 0; i < jsonArray.length(); i++) {
        Student student = new Gson().fromJson(jsonArray.get(i).toString(), Student.class);
        students.add(student);
    }
    return students;

How do you format the day of the month to say "11th", "21st" or "23rd" (ordinal indicator)?

In kotlin you can use like this

fun changeDateFormats(currentFormat: String, dateString: String): String {
        var result = ""
        try {
            val formatterOld = SimpleDateFormat(currentFormat, Locale.getDefault())
            formatterOld.timeZone = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC")

            var date: Date? = null

            date = formatterOld.parse(dateString)

            val dayFormate = SimpleDateFormat("d", Locale.getDefault())
            var day = dayFormate.format(date)

            val formatterNew = SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm a, d'" + getDayOfMonthSuffix(day.toInt()) + "' MMM yy", Locale.getDefault())

            if (date != null) {
                result = formatterNew.format(date)
            }

        } catch (e: ParseException) {
            e.printStackTrace()
            return dateString
        }

        return result
    }


    private fun getDayOfMonthSuffix(n: Int): String {
        if (n in 11..13) {
            return "th"
        }
        when (n % 10) {
            1 -> return "st"
            2 -> return "nd"
            3 -> return "rd"
            else -> return "th"
        }
    }

set like this

  txt_chat_time_me.text = changeDateFormats("SERVER_DATE", "DATE")

How to convert View Model into JSON object in ASP.NET MVC?

Andrew had a great response but I wanted to tweek it a little. The way this is different is that I like my ModelViews to not have overhead data in them. Just the data for the object. It seem that ViewData fits the bill for over head data, but of course I'm new at this. I suggest doing something like this.

Controller

virtual public ActionResult DisplaySomeWidget(int id)
{
    SomeModelView returnData = someDataMapper.getbyid(1);
    var serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
    ViewData["JSON"] = serializer.Serialize(returnData);
    return View(myview, returnData);
}

View

//create base js object;
var myWidget= new Widget(); //Widget is a class with a public member variable called data.
myWidget.data= <%= ViewData["JSON"] %>;

What This does for you is it gives you the same data in your JSON as in your ModelView so you can potentially return the JSON back to your controller and it would have all the parts. This is similar to just requesting it via a JSONRequest however it requires one less call so it saves you that overhead. BTW this is funky for Dates but that seems like another thread.

Convert Xml to DataTable

DataSet ds = new DataSet();
ds.ReadXml(fileNamePath);

Move UIView up when the keyboard appears in iOS

For all the issue related to KeyBoard just use IQKeyBoardManager it's helpful. https://github.com/hackiftekhar/IQKeyboardManager.

Https to http redirect using htaccess

RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} =https

Fastest way to determine if an integer's square root is an integer

It's been pointed out that the last d digits of a perfect square can only take on certain values. The last d digits (in base b) of a number n is the same as the remainder when n is divided by bd, ie. in C notation n % pow(b, d).

This can be generalized to any modulus m, ie. n % m can be used to rule out some percentage of numbers from being perfect squares. The modulus you are currently using is 64, which allows 12, ie. 19% of remainders, as possible squares. With a little coding I found the modulus 110880, which allows only 2016, ie. 1.8% of remainders as possible squares. So depending on the cost of a modulus operation (ie. division) and a table lookup versus a square root on your machine, using this modulus might be faster.

By the way if Java has a way to store a packed array of bits for the lookup table, don't use it. 110880 32-bit words is not much RAM these days and fetching a machine word is going to be faster than fetching a single bit.

Read input numbers separated by spaces

I would recommend reading in the line into a string, then splitting it based on the spaces. For this, you can use the getline(...) function. The trick is having a dynamic sized data structure to hold the strings once it's split. Probably the easiest to use would be a vector.

#include <string>
#include <vector>
...
  string rawInput;
  vector<String> numbers;
  while( getline( cin, rawInput, ' ' ) )
  {
    numbers.push_back(rawInput);
  }

So say the input looks like this:

Enter a number, or numbers separated by a space, between 1 and 1000.
10 5 20 1 200 7

You will now have a vector, numbers, that contains the elements: {"10","5","20","1","200","7"}.

Note that these are still strings, so not useful in arithmetic. To convert them to integers, we use a combination of the STL function, atoi(...), and because atoi requires a c-string instead of a c++ style string, we use the string class' c_str() member function.

while(!numbers.empty())
{
  string temp = numbers.pop_back();//removes the last element from the string
  num = atoi( temp.c_str() ); //re-used your 'num' variable from your code

  ...//do stuff
}

Now there's some problems with this code. Yes, it runs, but it is kind of clunky, and it puts the numbers out in reverse order. Lets re-write it so that it is a little more compact:

#include <string>
...
string rawInput;
cout << "Enter a number, or numbers separated by a space, between 1 and 1000." << endl;
while( getline( cin, rawInput, ' ') )
{
  num = atoi( rawInput.c_str() );
  ...//do your stuff
}

There's still lots of room for improvement with error handling (right now if you enter a non-number the program will crash), and there's infinitely more ways to actually handle the input to get it in a usable number form (the joys of programming!), but that should give you a comprehensive start. :)

Note: I had the reference pages as links, but I cannot post more than two since I have less than 15 posts :/

Edit: I was a little bit wrong about the atoi behavior; I confused it with Java's string->Integer conversions which throw a Not-A-Number exception when given a string that isn't a number, and then crashes the program if the exception isn't handled. atoi(), on the other hand, returns 0, which is not as helpful because what if 0 is the number they entered? Let's make use of the isdigit(...) function. An important thing to note here is that c++ style strings can be accessed like an array, meaning rawInput[0] is the first character in the string all the way up to rawInput[length - 1].

#include <string>
#include <ctype.h>
...
string rawInput;
cout << "Enter a number, or numbers separated by a space, between 1 and 1000." << endl;
while( getline( cin, rawInput, ' ') )
{
  bool isNum = true;
  for(int i = 0; i < rawInput.length() && isNum; ++i)
  {
    isNum = isdigit( rawInput[i]);
  }

  if(isNum)
  {
    num = atoi( rawInput.c_str() );
    ...//do your stuff
  }
  else
    cout << rawInput << " is not a number!" << endl;
}

The boolean (true/false or 1/0 respectively) is used as a flag for the for-loop, which steps through each character in the string and checks to see if it is a 0-9 digit. If any character in the string is not a digit, the loop will break during it's next execution when it gets to the condition "&& isNum" (assuming you've covered loops already). Then after the loop, isNum is used to determine whether to do your stuff, or to print the error message.

What does the "+=" operator do in Java?

^ is binary (as in base-2) xor, not exponentiation (which is not available as a Java operator). For exponentiation, see java.lang.Math.pow().

How to update/upgrade a package using pip?

To upgrade pip for Python3.4+, you must use pip3 as follows:

sudo pip3 install pip --upgrade

This will upgrade pip located at: /usr/local/lib/python3.X/dist-packages

Otherwise, to upgrade pip for Python2.7, you would use pip as follows:

sudo pip install pip --upgrade

This will upgrade pip located at: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages

AngularJS: ng-model not binding to ng-checked for checkboxes

What you could do is use ng-repeat passing in the value of whatever you're iterating on to the ng-checked and from there utilising ng-class to apply your styles depending on the result.

I did something similar recently and it worked for me.

How to call javascript from a href?

Using JQuery would be good;

<a href="#" id="youLink">Call JavaScript </a>



$("#yourLink").click(function(e){
//do what ever you want...
});

How do you transfer or export SQL Server 2005 data to Excel

You could always use ADO to write the results out to the worksheet cells from a recordset object

SQL Current month/ year question

select * from your_table where MONTH(mont_year) = MONTH(NOW()) and YEAR(mont_year) = YEAR(NOW());

Note: (month_year) means your column that contain date format. I think that will solve your problem. Let me know if that query doesn't works.

Howto? Parameters and LIKE statement SQL

Your visual basic code would look something like this:

Dim cmd as New SqlCommand("SELECT * FROM compliance_corner WHERE (body LIKE '%' + @query + '%') OR (title LIKE '%' + @query + '%')")

cmd.Parameters.Add("@query", searchString)

CURL Command Line URL Parameters

Felipsmartins is correct.

It is worth mentioning that it is because you cannot really use the -d/--data option if this is not a POST request. But this is still possible if you use the -G option.

Which means you can do this:

curl -X DELETE -G 'http://localhost:5000/locations' -d 'id=3'

Here it is a bit silly but when you are on the command line and you have a lot of parameters, it is a lot tidier.

I am saying this because cURL commands are usually quite long, so it is worth making it on more than one line escaping the line breaks.

curl -X DELETE -G \
'http://localhost:5000/locations' \
-d id=3 \
-d name=Mario \
-d surname=Bros

This is obviously a lot more comfortable if you use zsh. I mean when you need to re-edit the previous command because zsh lets you go line by line. (just saying)

Hope it helps.

How to dynamically add a class to manual class names?

You can either do this, normal JavaScript:

className={'wrapper searchDiv ' + this.state.something}

or the string template version, with backticks:

className={`wrapper searchDiv ${this.state.something}`}

Both types are of course just JavaScript, but the first pattern is the traditional kind.

Anyway, in JSX, anything enclosed in curly brackets is executed as JavaScript, so you can basically do whatever you want there. But combining JSX strings and curly brackets is a no-go for attributes.

Jasmine JavaScript Testing - toBe vs toEqual

For primitive types (e.g. numbers, booleans, strings, etc.), there is no difference between toBe and toEqual; either one will work for 5, true, or "the cake is a lie".

To understand the difference between toBe and toEqual, let's imagine three objects.

var a = { bar: 'baz' },
    b = { foo: a },
    c = { foo: a };

Using a strict comparison (===), some things are "the same":

> b.foo.bar === c.foo.bar
true

> b.foo.bar === a.bar
true

> c.foo === b.foo
true

But some things, even though they are "equal", are not "the same", since they represent objects that live in different locations in memory.

> b === c
false

Jasmine's toBe matcher is nothing more than a wrapper for a strict equality comparison

expect(c.foo).toBe(b.foo)

is the same thing as

expect(c.foo === b.foo).toBe(true)

Don't just take my word for it; see the source code for toBe.

But b and c represent functionally equivalent objects; they both look like

{ foo: { bar: 'baz' } }

Wouldn't it be great if we could say that b and c are "equal" even if they don't represent the same object?

Enter toEqual, which checks "deep equality" (i.e. does a recursive search through the objects to determine whether the values for their keys are equivalent). Both of the following tests will pass:

expect(b).not.toBe(c);
expect(b).toEqual(c);

Hope that helps clarify some things.

How to represent a fix number of repeats in regular expression?

In Java create the pattern with Pattern p = Pattern.compile("^\\w{14}$"); for further information see the javadoc

MS Access VBA: Sending an email through Outlook

Add a reference to the Outlook object model in the Visual Basic editor. Then you can use the code below to send an email using outlook.

Sub sendOutlookEmail()
Dim oApp As Outlook.Application
Dim oMail As MailItem
Set oApp = CreateObject("Outlook.application")

Set oMail = oApp.CreateItem(olMailItem)
oMail.Body = "Body of the email"
oMail.Subject = "Test Subject"
oMail.To = "[email protected]"
oMail.Send
Set oMail = Nothing
Set oApp = Nothing


End Sub

Send text to specific contact programmatically (whatsapp)

try this, worked for me ! . Just use intent

   Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(whatsappUrl()));
   startActivity(intent);

Build whatsapp url. add country code in whatsapp phone number https://countrycode.org/

public static String whatsappUrl(){

    final String BASE_URL = "https://api.whatsapp.com/";
    final String WHATSAPP_PHONE_NUMBER = "628123232323";    //'62' is country code for Indonesia
    final String PARAM_PHONE_NUMBER = "phone";
    final String PARAM_TEXT = "text";
    final String TEXT_VALUE = "Hello, How are you ?";

    String newUrl = BASE_URL + "send";

    Uri builtUri = Uri.parse(newUrl).buildUpon()
            .appendQueryParameter(PARAM_PHONE_NUMBER, WHATSAPP_PHONE_NUMBER)
            .appendQueryParameter(PARAM_TEXT, TEXT_VALUE)
            .build();

    return buildUrl(builtUri).toString();
}

public static URL buildUrl(Uri myUri){

    URL finalUrl = null;
    try {
        finalUrl = new URL(myUri.toString());
    } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();

    }
    return finalUrl;
}

Tomcat startup logs - SEVERE: Error filterStart how to get a stack trace?

Usually there is an information about the problem in localhost.[date].log. But sometimes there is nothing in this log. This can happen if there is messed configuration of the project (several developers worked on it for a long time and each added something from himself). I faced this problem WITHOUT any information in log. Rather fast and robust approach:

  1. Try to remove everything which can cause any problem from web.xml. You even can remove everything except tag. If application still cannot be deployed - go on.

  2. Remove every *.xml descriptor from WEB-INF/classes. If application cannot be deployed - go on.

  3. Remove all logging configuration you can find in your war (logging.properties, log4j.properties). Try to deploy. At this step I've got more informative error, but deployment still failed.

After googling for this error I found out that project included old version of xerces, which clashed with Tomcat's version (which was newer) and didn't the application to be deployed. After upgrade of xerces in web-application everything became fine.

How do you dynamically add elements to a ListView on Android?

If you want to have the ListView in an AppCompatActivity instead of ListActivity, you can do the following (Modifying @Shardul's answer):

public class ListViewDemoActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    //LIST OF ARRAY STRINGS WHICH WILL SERVE AS LIST ITEMS
    ArrayList<String> listItems=new ArrayList<String>();

    //DEFINING A STRING ADAPTER WHICH WILL HANDLE THE DATA OF THE LISTVIEW
    ArrayAdapter<String> adapter;

    //RECORDING HOW MANY TIMES THE BUTTON HAS BEEN CLICKED
    int clickCounter=0;
    private ListView mListView;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
        super.onCreate(icicle);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_list_view_demo);

        if (mListView == null) {
            mListView = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.listDemo);
        }

        adapter=new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,
                android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,
                listItems);
        setListAdapter(adapter);
    }

    //METHOD WHICH WILL HANDLE DYNAMIC INSERTION
    public void addItems(View v) {
        listItems.add("Clicked : "+clickCounter++);
        adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
    }

    protected ListView getListView() {
        if (mListView == null) {
            mListView = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.listDemo);
        }
        return mListView;
    }

    protected void setListAdapter(ListAdapter adapter) {
        getListView().setAdapter(adapter);
    }

    protected ListAdapter getListAdapter() {
        ListAdapter adapter = getListView().getAdapter();
        if (adapter instanceof HeaderViewListAdapter) {
            return ((HeaderViewListAdapter)adapter).getWrappedAdapter();
        } else {
            return adapter;
        }
    }
}

And in you layout instead of using android:id="@android:id/list" you can use android:id="@+id/listDemo"

So now you can have a ListView inside a normal AppCompatActivity.

PowerShell equivalent to grep -f

I had the same issue trying to find text in files with powershell. I used the following - to stay as close to the Linux environment as possible.

Hopefully this helps somebody:

PowerShell:

PS) new-alias grep findstr
PS) ls -r *.txt | cat | grep "some random string"

Explanation:

ls       - lists all files
-r       - recursively (in all files and folders and subfolders)
*.txt    - only .txt files
|        - pipe the (ls) results to next command (cat)
cat      - show contents of files comming from (ls)
|        - pipe the (cat) results to next command (grep)
grep     - search contents from (cat) for "some random string" (alias to findstr)

Yes, this works as well:

PS) ls -r *.txt | cat | findstr "some random string"

How can I change the default width of a Twitter Bootstrap modal box?

For Bootstrap 3 here's how to do it.

Add a modal-wide style to your HTML markup (as adapted from the example in the Bootstrap 3 docs)

<div class="modal fade modal-wide" id="myModal" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="myModalLabel" aria-hidden="true">
  <div class="modal-dialog">
    <div class="modal-content">
      <div class="modal-header">
        <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true">&times;</button>
        <h4 id="myModalLabel" class="modal-title">Modal title</h4>
      </div>
      <div class="modal-body">
        <p>One fine body&hellip;</p>
      </div>
      <div class="modal-footer">
        <button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-dismiss="modal">Close</button>
        <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary">Save changes</button>
      </div>
    </div><!-- /.modal-content -->
  </div><!-- /.modal-dialog -->
</div><!-- /.modal -->

and add the following CSS

.modal-wide .modal-dialog {
  width: 80%; /* or whatever you wish */
}

There is no need to override margin-left in Bootstrap 3 to get this to be centered now.

How do I disable a jquery-ui draggable?

To enable/disable draggable in jQuery I used:

$("#draggable").draggable({ disabled: true });          

$("#draggable").draggable({ disabled: false });

@Calciphus answer didn't work for me with the opacity problem, so I used:

div.ui-state-disabled.ui-draggable-disabled {opacity: 1;}

Worked on mobile devices either.

Here is the code: http://jsfiddle.net/nn5aL/1/

Using jQuery Fancybox or Lightbox to display a contact form

Have a look at: Greybox

It's an awesome version of lightbox that supports forms, external web pages as well as the traditional images and slideshows. It works perfectly from a link on a webpage.

You will find many information on how to use Greybox and also some great examples. Cheers Kara

Remove all special characters with RegExp

Plain Javascript regex does not handle Unicode letters.

Do not use [^\w\s], this will remove letters with accents (like àèéìòù), not to mention to Cyrillic or Chinese, letters coming from such languages will be completed removed.

You really don't want remove these letters together with all the special characters. You have two chances:

  • Add in your regex all the special characters you don't want remove,
    for example: [^èéòàùì\w\s].
  • Have a look at xregexp.com. XRegExp adds base support for Unicode matching via the \p{...} syntax.

_x000D_
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var str = "????::: résd,$%& adùf"
var search = XRegExp('([^?<first>\\pL ]+)');
var res = XRegExp.replace(str, search, '',"all");

console.log(res); // returns "????::: resd,adf"
console.log(str.replace(/[^\w\s]/gi, '') ); // returns " rsd adf"
console.log(str.replace(/[^\wèéòàùì\s]/gi, '') ); // returns " résd adùf"
_x000D_
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/xregexp/3.1.1/xregexp-all.js"></script>
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Decimal to Hexadecimal Converter in Java

Code to convert DECIMAL -to-> BINARY, OCTAL, HEXADECIMAL

public class ConvertBase10ToBaseX {
    enum Base {
        /**
         * Integer is represented in 32 bit in 32/64 bit machine.
         * There we can split this integer no of bits into multiples of 1,2,4,8,16 bits
         */
        BASE2(1,1,32), BASE4(3,2,16), BASE8(7,3,11)/* OCTAL*/, /*BASE10(3,2),*/ 
        BASE16(15, 4, 8){       
            public String getFormattedValue(int val){
                switch(val) {
                case 10:
                    return "A";
                case 11:
                    return "B";
                case 12:
                    return "C";
                case 13:
                    return "D";
                case 14:
                    return "E";
                case 15:
                    return "F";
                default:
                    return "" + val;
                }

            }
        }, /*BASE32(31,5,1),*/ BASE256(255, 8, 4), /*BASE512(511,9),*/ Base65536(65535, 16, 2);

        private int LEVEL_0_MASK;
        private int LEVEL_1_ROTATION;
        private int MAX_ROTATION;

        Base(int levelZeroMask, int levelOneRotation, int maxPossibleRotation) {
            this.LEVEL_0_MASK = levelZeroMask;
            this.LEVEL_1_ROTATION = levelOneRotation;
            this.MAX_ROTATION = maxPossibleRotation;
        }

        int getLevelZeroMask(){
            return LEVEL_0_MASK;
        }
        int getLevelOneRotation(){
            return LEVEL_1_ROTATION;
        }
        int getMaxRotation(){
            return MAX_ROTATION;
        }
        String getFormattedValue(int val){
            return "" + val;
        }
    }

    public void getBaseXValueOn(Base base, int on) {
        forwardPrint(base, on);
    }

    private void forwardPrint(Base base, int on) {

        int rotation = base.getLevelOneRotation();
        int mask = base.getLevelZeroMask();
        int maxRotation = base.getMaxRotation();
        boolean valueFound = false;

        for(int level = maxRotation; level >= 2; level--) {
            int rotation1 = (level-1) * rotation;
            int mask1 = mask << rotation1 ;
            if((on & mask1) > 0 ) {
                valueFound = true;
            }
            if(valueFound)
            System.out.print(base.getFormattedValue((on & mask1) >>> rotation1));
        }
        System.out.println(base.getFormattedValue((on & mask)));
    }

    public int getBaseXValueOnAtLevel(Base base, int on, int level) {
        if(level > base.getMaxRotation() || level < 1) {
            return 0; //INVALID Input
        }
        int rotation = base.getLevelOneRotation();
        int mask = base.getLevelZeroMask();

        if(level > 1) {
            rotation = (level-1) * rotation;
            mask = mask << rotation;
        } else {
            rotation = 0;
        }


        return (on & mask) >>> rotation;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ConvertBase10ToBaseX obj = new ConvertBase10ToBaseX();

        obj.getBaseXValueOn(Base.BASE16,12456); 
//      obj.getBaseXValueOn(Base.BASE16,300); 
//      obj.getBaseXValueOn(Base.BASE16,7); 
//      obj.getBaseXValueOn(Base.BASE16,7);

        obj.getBaseXValueOn(Base.BASE2,12456);
        obj.getBaseXValueOn(Base.BASE8,12456);
        obj.getBaseXValueOn(Base.BASE2,8);
        obj.getBaseXValueOn(Base.BASE2,9);
        obj.getBaseXValueOn(Base.BASE2,10);
        obj.getBaseXValueOn(Base.BASE2,11);
        obj.getBaseXValueOn(Base.BASE2,12);
        obj.getBaseXValueOn(Base.BASE2,13);
        obj.getBaseXValueOn(Base.BASE2,14);
        obj.getBaseXValueOn(Base.BASE2,15);
        obj.getBaseXValueOn(Base.BASE2,16);
        obj.getBaseXValueOn(Base.BASE2,17);


        System.out.println(obj.getBaseXValueOnAtLevel(Base.BASE2, 4, 1)); 
        System.out.println(obj.getBaseXValueOnAtLevel(Base.BASE2, 4, 2)); 
        System.out.println(obj.getBaseXValueOnAtLevel(Base.BASE2, 4, 3)); 
        System.out.println(obj.getBaseXValueOnAtLevel(Base.BASE2, 4, 4)); 

        System.out.println(obj.getBaseXValueOnAtLevel(Base.BASE16,15, 1)); 
        System.out.println(obj.getBaseXValueOnAtLevel(Base.BASE16,30, 2)); 
        System.out.println(obj.getBaseXValueOnAtLevel(Base.BASE16,7, 1)); 
        System.out.println(obj.getBaseXValueOnAtLevel(Base.BASE16,7, 2)); 

        System.out.println(obj.getBaseXValueOnAtLevel(Base.BASE256, 511, 1)); 
        System.out.println(obj.getBaseXValueOnAtLevel(Base.BASE256, 511, 2)); 
        System.out.println(obj.getBaseXValueOnAtLevel(Base.BASE256, 512, 1));
        System.out.println(obj.getBaseXValueOnAtLevel(Base.BASE256, 512, 2)); 
        System.out.println(obj.getBaseXValueOnAtLevel(Base.BASE256, 513, 2)); 


    }
}

NSUserDefaults - How to tell if a key exists

Try this little crumpet:

-(void)saveUserSettings{
NSNumber*   value;

value = [NSNumber numberWithFloat:self.sensativity];
[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setObject:value forKey:@"sensativity"];
}
-(void)loadUserSettings{
    NSNumber*   value;
    value = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] objectForKey:@"sensativity"];
    if(value == nil){
        self.sensativity = 4.0;
    }else{
        self.sensativity = [value floatValue];
    }
}

Treat everything as an object. Seems to work for me.

C#: Printing all properties of an object

Following snippet will do the desired function:

Type t = obj.GetType(); // Where obj is object whose properties you need.
PropertyInfo [] pi = t.GetProperties();
foreach (PropertyInfo p in pi)
{
    System.Console.WriteLine(p.Name + " : " + p.GetValue(obj));
}

I think if you write this as extension method you could use it on all type of objects.

How to select/get drop down option in Selenium 2

Try using:

selenium.select("id=items","label=engineering")

or

selenium.select("id=items","index=3")

How can I check out a GitHub pull request with git?

Create a local branch

git checkout -b local-branch-name

Pull the remote PR

git pull [email protected]:your-repo-ssh.git remote-branch-name

Why can't static methods be abstract in Java?

Because "abstract" means: "Implements no functionality", and "static" means: "There is functionality even if you don't have an object instance". And that's a logical contradiction.

Display curl output in readable JSON format in Unix shell script

This is to add to of Gilles' Answer. There are many ways to get this done but personally I prefer something lightweight, easy to remember and universally available (e.g. come with standard LTS installations of your preferred Linux flavor or easy to install) on common *nix systems.

Here are the options in their preferred order:

Python Json.tool module

echo '{"foo": "lorem", "bar": "ipsum"}' | python -mjson.tool

pros: almost available everywhere; cons: no color coding


jq (may require one time installation)

echo '{"foo": "lorem", "bar": "ipsum"}' | jq

cons: needs to install jq; pros: color coding and versatile


json_pp (available in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS)

echo '{"foo": "lorem", "bar": "ipsum"}' | json_pp

For Ruby users

gem install jsonpretty
echo '{"foo": "lorem", "bar": "ipsum"}' | jsonpretty

How to use a parameter in ExecStart command line?

Although systemd indeed does not provide way to pass command-line arguments for unit files, there are possibilities to write instances: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/instances.html

For example: /lib/systemd/system/[email protected] looks something like this:

[Unit]
Description=Serial Getty on %I
BindTo=dev-%i.device
After=dev-%i.device systemd-user-sessions.service

[Service]
ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty -s %I 115200,38400,9600
Restart=always
RestartSec=0

So, you may start it like:

$ systemctl start [email protected]
$ systemctl start [email protected]

For systemd it will different instances:

$ systemctl status [email protected]
[email protected] - Getty on ttyUSB0
      Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]; static)
      Active: active (running) since Mon, 26 Sep 2011 04:20:44 +0200; 2s ago
    Main PID: 5443 (agetty)
      CGroup: name=systemd:/system/[email protected]/ttyUSB0
          + 5443 /sbin/agetty -s ttyUSB0 115200,38400,9600

It also mean great possibility enable and disable it separately.

Off course it lack much power of command line parsing, but in common way it is used as some sort of config files selection. For example you may look at Fedora [email protected]: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/openvpn.git/tree/[email protected]

How to find list intersection?

Using list comprehensions is a pretty obvious one for me. Not sure about performance, but at least things stay lists.

[x for x in a if x in b]

Or "all the x values that are in A, if the X value is in B".

How to download source in ZIP format from GitHub?

Here's a good reference if you want to do it from the command line: http://linuxprograms.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/checkout-code-from-github/

Basically it's

git clone http://github.com/zoul/Finch.git

Laravel 4 Eloquent Query Using WHERE with OR AND OR?

if you want to use parentheses in laravel 4 and don't forget return
In Laravel 4 (at least) you need to use $a, $b in parentheses as in the example

$a = 1;
$b = 1;
$c = 1;
$d = 1;
Model::where(function ($query) use ($a, $b) {
    return $query->where('a', '=', $a)
          ->orWhere('b', '=', $b);
})->where(function ($query) use ($c, $d) {
    return $query->where('c', '=', $c)
          ->orWhere('d', '=', $d);
});

This is my result: enter image description here

Text that shows an underline on hover

<span class="txt">Some Text</span>

.txt:hover {
    text-decoration: underline;
}

Limit Decimal Places in Android EditText

A very late response: We can do it simply like this:

etv.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
        @Override
        public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {
        }

        @Override
        public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
            if (s.toString().length() > 3 && s.toString().contains(".")) {
                if (s.toString().length() - s.toString().indexOf(".") > 3) {
                    etv.setText(s.toString().substring(0, s.length() - 1));
                    etv.setSelection(edtSendMoney.getText().length());
                }
            }
        }

        @Override
        public void afterTextChanged(Editable arg0) {
        }
}

Is it possible to execute multiple _addItem calls asynchronously using Google Analytics?

From the docs:

_trackTrans() Sends both the transaction and item data to the Google Analytics server. This method should be called after _trackPageview(), and used in conjunction with the _addItem() and addTrans() methods. It should be called after items and transaction elements have been set up.

So, according to the docs, the items get sent when you call trackTrans(). Until you do, you can add items, but the transaction will not be sent.

Edit: Further reading led me here:

http://www.analyticsmarket.com/blog/edit-ecommerce-data

Where it clearly says you can start another transaction with an existing ID. When you commit it, the new items you listed will be added to that transaction.

NumPy array is not JSON serializable

This is not supported by default, but you can make it work quite easily! There are several things you'll want to encode if you want the exact same data back:

  • The data itself, which you can get with obj.tolist() as @travelingbones mentioned. Sometimes this may be good enough.
  • The data type. I feel this is important in quite some cases.
  • The dimension (not necessarily 2D), which could be derived from the above if you assume the input is indeed always a 'rectangular' grid.
  • The memory order (row- or column-major). This doesn't often matter, but sometimes it does (e.g. performance), so why not save everything?

Furthermore, your numpy array could part of your data structure, e.g. you have a list with some matrices inside. For that you could use a custom encoder which basically does the above.

This should be enough to implement a solution. Or you could use json-tricks which does just this (and supports various other types) (disclaimer: I made it).

pip install json-tricks

Then

data = [
    arange(0, 10, 1, dtype=int).reshape((2, 5)),
    datetime(year=2017, month=1, day=19, hour=23, minute=00, second=00),
    1 + 2j,
    Decimal(42),
    Fraction(1, 3),
    MyTestCls(s='ub', dct={'7': 7}),  # see later
    set(range(7)),
]
# Encode with metadata to preserve types when decoding
print(dumps(data))

Is it possible to GROUP BY multiple columns using MySQL?

Yes, but what does grouping by more two columns mean? Well, it's the same as grouping by each unique pair per row. The order you list the columns changes the way the rows are sorted.

In your example, you would write

GROUP BY fV.tier_id, f.form_template_id

Meanwhile, the code

GROUP BY f.form_template_id, fV.tier_id

would give similar results, but sorted differently.

ES6 exporting/importing in index file

Also, bear in mind that if you need to export multiple functions at once, like actions you can use

export * from './XThingActions';

jquery how to catch enter key and change event to tab

you should filter all disabled and readonly elements. i think this code should not cover buttons

$('body').on('keydown', 'input, select, textarea', function(e) {
    var self = $(this),
        form = self.parents('form:eq(0)'),
        submit = (self.attr('type') == 'submit' || self.attr('type') == 'button'),
        focusable,
        next;

    if (e.keyCode == 13 && !submit) {
        focusable = form.find('input,a,select,button,textarea').filter(':visible:not([readonly]):not([disabled])');
        next = focusable.eq(focusable.index(this)+1);

        if (next.length) {
            next.focus();
        } else {
            form.submit();
        }

        return false;
    }
});

Sorting hashmap based on keys

Just use a TreeMap. It implements the SortedMap interface, and thus automatically sorts the keys it contains. Your keys can just be sorted alphabetically to get the desired result, so you don't even need to provide a comparator.

HashMaps are never sorted. The only thing you coulkd do with a HashMap is get all the keys, and store them in a sorted set or in a List and sort the List.

Best way to format integer as string with leading zeros?

Python 3.6 f-strings allows us to add leading zeros easily:

number = 5
print(f' now we have leading zeros in {number:02d}')

Have a look at this good post about this feature.

PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library

If you just want to make the error disappear, and you don't need the extension, then by all means comment the line out in php.ini. But if you actually want to fix the problem here is some additional info.

There are various causes for this based on the exact module, but there are also some general guidelines.

  1. Open phpinfo() and look for extension_dir under the Core section. This is where your modules should be located.

For instance, /usr/lib/php/modules for Unix/Linux.

  1. If the file does in fact exist, make sure permissions are adequate.
  2. If the file does not exist, use the resources below to install it.

Installation on *nix (PEAR)
Installation of extensions on Windows

Eclipse/Maven error: "No compiler is provided in this environment"

Make sure you have %JAVA_HOME% set by typing echo %JAVA_HOME% in Command Prompt. If you don't have that set, then you need to go add your Java path to Window's Environmental Variables.

JavaScript query string

tl;dr solution on a single(ish) line of code using vanilla javascript

var queryDict = {}
location.search.substr(1).split("&").forEach(function(item) {
    queryDict[item.split("=")[0]] = item.split("=")[1]
})

For querystring ?a=1&b=2&c=3&d&eit returns:

> queryDict
a: "1"
b: "2"
c: "3"
d: undefined
e: undefined

multi-valued keys and encoded characters?

See the original answer at How can I get query string values in JavaScript?

"?a=1&b=2&c=3&d&e&a=5&a=t%20e%20x%20t&e=http%3A%2F%2Fw3schools.com%2Fmy%20test.asp%3Fname%3Dståle%26car%3Dsaab"
> queryDict
a: ["1", "5", "t e x t"]
b: ["2"]
c: ["3"]
d: [undefined]
e: [undefined, "http://w3schools.com/my test.asp?name=ståle&car=saab"]

Difference between IsNullOrEmpty and IsNullOrWhiteSpace in C#

This is implementation of methods after decompiling.

    public static bool IsNullOrEmpty(String value) 
    {
        return (value == null || value.Length == 0); 
    }

    public static bool IsNullOrWhiteSpace(String value) 
    {
        if (value == null) return true; 

        for(int i = 0; i < value.Length; i++) { 
            if(!Char.IsWhiteSpace(value[i])) return false; 
        }

        return true;
    }

So it is obvious that IsNullOrWhiteSpace method also checks if value that is being passed contain white spaces.

Whitespaces refer : https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.char.iswhitespace(v=vs.110).aspx

get the titles of all open windows

Based on the previous answer that give me some errors, finaly I use this code with GetOpenedWindows function:

public class InfoWindow
{
            public IntPtr Handle = IntPtr.Zero;
            public FileInfo File = new FileInfo( Application.ExecutablePath );
            public string Title = Application.ProductName;
            public override string ToString() {
                return  File.Name + "\t>\t" + Title;
            }
 }//CLASS

/// <summary>Contains functionality to get info on the open windows.</summary>
public static class RuningWindows
{   
            internal static event EventHandler WindowActivatedChanged;    
            internal static Timer TimerWatcher = new Timer();    
            internal static InfoWindow WindowActive = new InfoWindow();       
            internal static void DoStartWatcher() {
                TimerWatcher.Interval = 500;
                TimerWatcher.Tick += TimerWatcher_Tick;
                TimerWatcher.Start();    
            }                    

            /// <summary>Returns a dictionary that contains the handle and title of all the open windows.</summary>
            /// <returns>A dictionary that contains the handle and title of all the open windows.</returns>
            public static IDictionary<IntPtr , InfoWindow> GetOpenedWindows()
            {
                IntPtr shellWindow = GetShellWindow();
                Dictionary<IntPtr , InfoWindow> windows = new Dictionary<IntPtr , InfoWindow>();

                EnumWindows( new EnumWindowsProc( delegate( IntPtr hWnd , int lParam ) {
                    if ( hWnd == shellWindow ) return true;
                    if ( !IsWindowVisible( hWnd ) ) return true;    
                    int length = GetWindowTextLength( hWnd );
                    if ( length == 0 ) return true;    
                    StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder( length );
                    GetWindowText( hWnd , builder , length + 1 );    
                    var info = new InfoWindow();
                    info.Handle = hWnd;
                    info.File = new FileInfo( GetProcessPath( hWnd ) );
                    info.Title = builder.ToString();    
                    windows[hWnd] = info;
                    return true;    
                } ) , 0 );    
                return windows;
            }

            private delegate bool EnumWindowsProc( IntPtr hWnd , int lParam );  

            public static string GetProcessPath( IntPtr hwnd )
            {
                uint pid = 0;
                GetWindowThreadProcessId( hwnd , out pid );
                if ( hwnd != IntPtr.Zero ) {
                    if ( pid != 0 ) {
                        var process = Process.GetProcessById( (int) pid );
                        if ( process != null ) {
                            return process.MainModule.FileName.ToString();
                        }
                    }
                }
                return "";
            }    

            [DllImport( "USER32.DLL" )]
            private static extern bool EnumWindows( EnumWindowsProc enumFunc , int lParam );

            [DllImport( "USER32.DLL" )]
            private static extern int GetWindowText( IntPtr hWnd , StringBuilder lpString , int nMaxCount );

            [DllImport( "USER32.DLL" )]
            private static extern int GetWindowTextLength( IntPtr hWnd );

            [DllImport( "USER32.DLL" )]
            private static extern bool IsWindowVisible( IntPtr hWnd );

            [DllImport( "USER32.DLL" )]
            private static extern IntPtr GetShellWindow();

            [DllImport( "user32.dll" )]
            private static extern IntPtr GetForegroundWindow();

            //WARN: Only for "Any CPU":
            [DllImport( "user32.dll" , CharSet = CharSet.Auto , SetLastError = true )]
            private static extern int GetWindowThreadProcessId( IntPtr handle , out uint processId );    


            static void TimerWatcher_Tick( object sender , EventArgs e )
            {
                var windowActive = new InfoWindow();
                windowActive.Handle = GetForegroundWindow();
                string path = GetProcessPath( windowActive.Handle );
                if ( string.IsNullOrEmpty( path ) ) return;
                windowActive.File = new FileInfo( path );
                int length = GetWindowTextLength( windowActive.Handle );
                if ( length == 0 ) return;
                StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder( length );
                GetWindowText( windowActive.Handle , builder , length + 1 );
                windowActive.Title = builder.ToString();
                if ( windowActive.ToString() != WindowActive.ToString() ) {
                    //fire:
                    WindowActive = windowActive;
                    if ( WindowActivatedChanged != null ) WindowActivatedChanged( sender , e );
                    Console.WriteLine( "Window: " + WindowActive.ToString() );
                }
            }

}//CLASS

Warning: You can only compil/debug under "Any CPU" to access to 32bits Apps...

How to use readline() method in Java?

Use BufferedReader and InputStreamReader classes.

BufferedReader buffer=new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
String line=buffer.readLine();

Or use java.util.Scanner class methods.

Scanner scan=new Scanner(System.in);

How to implement a custom AlertDialog View

After changing the ID it android.R.id.custom, I needed to add the following to get the View to display:

((View) f1.getParent()).setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

However, this caused the new View to render in a big parent view with no background, breaking the dialog box in two parts (text and buttons, with the new View in between). I finally got the effect that I wanted by inserting my View next to the message:

LinearLayout f1 = (LinearLayout)findViewById(android.R.id.message).getParent().getParent();

I found this solution by exploring the View tree with View.getParent() and View.getChildAt(int). Not really happy about either, though. None of this is in the Android docs and if they ever change the structure of the AlertDialog, this might break.

C# Pass Lambda Expression as Method Parameter

Lambda expressions have a type of Action<parameters> (in case they don't return a value) or Func<parameters,return> (in case they have a return value). In your case you have two input parameters, and you need to return a value, so you should use:

Func<FullTimeJob, Student, FullTimeJob>

Android - Launcher Icon Size

Don't Create 9-patch images for launcher icons . You have to make separate image for each one.

LDPI - 36 x 36
MDPI - 48 x 48
HDPI - 72 x 72
XHDPI - 96 x 96
XXHDPI - 144 x 144
XXXHDPI - 192 x 192.
WEB - 512 x 512 (Require when upload application on Google Play)

Note: WEB(512 x 512) image is used when you upload your android application on Market.

|| Android App Icon Size ||

All Devices

hdpi=281*164
mdpi=188*110
xhdpi=375*219
xxhdpi=563*329
xxxhdpi=750*438

48 × 48 (mdpi)
72 × 72 (hdpi)
96 × 96 (xhdpi)
144 × 144 (xxhdpi)
192 × 192 (xxxhdpi)
512 × 512 (Google Play store)

Check If only numeric values were entered in input. (jQuery)

for future visitors, you can add this functon that allow user to enter only numbers: you will only have to add jquery and the class name to the input check that into http://jsfiddle.net/celia/dvnL9has/2/

$('.phone_number').keypress(function(event){
var numero= String.fromCharCode(event.keyCode);
 var myArray = ['0','1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9',0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9];
index = myArray.indexOf(numero);// 1
var longeur= $('.phone_number').val().length;
if(window.getSelection){
 text = window.getSelection().toString();
 } if(index>=0&text.length>0){
  }else if(index>=0&longeur<10){
    }else {return false;} });

concat yesterdays date with a specific time

where date_dt = to_date(to_char(sysdate-1, 'YYYY-MM-DD') || ' 19:16:08', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS') 

should work.

Split page vertically using CSS

Just add overflow:auto; to parent div

<div style="width: 100%;overflow:auto;">
    <div style="float:left; width: 80%">
    </div>
    <div style="float:right;">
    </div>
</div>

Working Demo

How to pass multiple parameters from ajax to mvc controller?

Try this;

function X (id,parameter1,parameter2,...) {
    $.ajax({

            url: '@Url.Action("Actionre", "controller")',+ id,
            type: "Get",
            data: { parameter1: parameter1, parameter2: parameter2,...}

    }).done(function(result) {

        your code...
    });
}

So controller method would looks like :

public ActionResult ActionName(id,parameter1, parameter2,...)
{
   Your Code .......
}

Check if record exists from controller in Rails

ActiveRecord#where will return an ActiveRecord::Relation object (which will never be nil). Try using .empty? on the relation to test if it will return any records.

Expected initializer before function name

You are missing a semicolon at the end of your 'struct' definition.

Also,

*sotrudnik

needs to be

sotrudnik*

convert big endian to little endian in C [without using provided func]

Assuming what you need is a simple byte swap, try something like

Unsigned 16 bit conversion:

swapped = (num>>8) | (num<<8);

Unsigned 32-bit conversion:

swapped = ((num>>24)&0xff) | // move byte 3 to byte 0
                    ((num<<8)&0xff0000) | // move byte 1 to byte 2
                    ((num>>8)&0xff00) | // move byte 2 to byte 1
                    ((num<<24)&0xff000000); // byte 0 to byte 3

This swaps the byte orders from positions 1234 to 4321. If your input was 0xdeadbeef, a 32-bit endian swap might have output of 0xefbeadde.

The code above should be cleaned up with macros or at least constants instead of magic numbers, but hopefully it helps as is

EDIT: as another answer pointed out, there are platform, OS, and instruction set specific alternatives which can be MUCH faster than the above. In the Linux kernel there are macros (cpu_to_be32 for example) which handle endianness pretty nicely. But these alternatives are specific to their environments. In practice endianness is best dealt with using a blend of available approaches

How to maintain aspect ratio using HTML IMG tag

here is the sample one

_x000D_
_x000D_
div{_x000D_
   width: 200px;_x000D_
   height:200px;_x000D_
   border:solid_x000D_
 }_x000D_
_x000D_
img{_x000D_
    width: 100%;_x000D_
    height: 100%;_x000D_
    object-fit: contain;_x000D_
    }
_x000D_
<div>_x000D_
  <img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/meta/0/08/Wikipedia-logo-v2_1x.png">_x000D_
</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

how to run the command mvn eclipse:eclipse

Right click on the project

->Run As --> Run configurations.

Then select Maven Build

Then click new button to create a configuration of the selected type. Click on Browse workspace (now is Workspace...) then select your project and in goals specify eclipse:eclipse

Reshaping data.frame from wide to long format

You can also use the cdata package, which uses the concept of (transformation) control table:

# data
wide <- read.table(text="Code Country        1950    1951    1952    1953    1954
AFG  Afghanistan    20,249  21,352  22,532  23,557  24,555
ALB  Albania        8,097   8,986   10,058  11,123  12,246", header=TRUE, check.names=FALSE)

library(cdata)
# build control table
drec <- data.frame(
    Year=as.character(1950:1954),
    Value=as.character(1950:1954),
    stringsAsFactors=FALSE
)
drec <- cdata::rowrecs_to_blocks_spec(drec, recordKeys=c("Code", "Country"))

# apply control table
cdata::layout_by(drec, wide)

I am currently exploring that package and find it quite accessible. It is designed for much more complicated transformations and includes the backtransformation. There is a tutorial available.

Content type 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8' not supported for @RequestBody MultiValueMap

It seems that now you can just mark the method parameter with @RequestParam and it will do the job for you.

@PostMapping( "some/request/path" )
public void someControllerMethod( @RequestParam Map<String, String> body ) {
  //work with Map
}

Create code first, many to many, with additional fields in association table

TLDR; (semi-related to an EF editor bug in EF6/VS2012U5) if you generate the model from DB and you cannot see the attributed m:m table: Delete the two related tables -> Save .edmx -> Generate/add from database -> Save.

For those who came here wondering how to get a many-to-many relationship with attribute columns to show in the EF .edmx file (as it would currently not show and be treated as a set of navigational properties), AND you generated these classes from your database table (or database-first in MS lingo, I believe.)

Delete the 2 tables in question (to take the OP example, Member and Comment) in your .edmx and add them again through 'Generate model from database'. (i.e. do not attempt to let Visual Studio update them - delete, save, add, save)

It will then create a 3rd table in line with what is suggested here.

This is relevant in cases where a pure many-to-many relationship is added at first, and the attributes are designed in the DB later.

This was not immediately clear from this thread/Googling. So just putting it out there as this is link #1 on Google looking for the issue but coming from the DB side first.

What is the difference between a deep copy and a shallow copy?

In object oriented programming, a type includes a collection of member fields. These fields may be stored either by value or by reference (i.e., a pointer to a value).

In a shallow copy, a new instance of the type is created and the values are copied into the new instance. The reference pointers are also copied just like the values. Therefore, the references are pointing to the original objects. Any changes to the members that are stored by reference appear in both the original and the copy, since no copy was made of the referenced object.

In a deep copy, the fields that are stored by value are copied as before, but the pointers to objects stored by reference are not copied. Instead, a deep copy is made of the referenced object, and a pointer to the new object is stored. Any changes that are made to those referenced objects will not affect other copies of the object.

How to print out more than 20 items (documents) in MongoDB's shell?

You can use it inside of the shell to iterate over the next 20 results. Just type it if you see "has more" and you will see the next 20 items.

What is the difference between sscanf or atoi to convert a string to an integer?

You have 3 choices:

  1. atoi

This is probably the fastest if you're using it in performance-critical code, but it does no error reporting. If the string does not begin with an integer, it will return 0. If the string contains junk after the integer, it will convert the initial part and ignore the rest. If the number is too big to fit in int, the behaviour is unspecified.

  1. sscanf

Some error reporting, and you have a lot of flexibility for what type to store (signed/unsigned versions of char/short/int/long/long long/size_t/ptrdiff_t/intmax_t).

The return value is the number of conversions that succeed, so scanning for "%d" will return 0 if the string does not begin with an integer. You can use "%d%n" to store the index of the first character after the integer that's read in another variable, and thereby check to see if the entire string was converted or if there's junk afterwards. However, like atoi, behaviour on integer overflow is unspecified.

  1. strtol and family

Robust error reporting, provided you set errno to 0 before making the call. Return values are specified on overflow and errno will be set. You can choose any number base from 2 to 36, or specify 0 as the base to auto-interpret leading 0x and 0 as hex and octal, respectively. Choices of type to convert to are signed/unsigned versions of long/long long/intmax_t.

If you need a smaller type you can always store the result in a temporary long or unsigned long variable and check for overflow yourself.

Since these functions take a pointer to pointer argument, you also get a pointer to the first character following the converted integer, for free, so you can tell if the entire string was an integer or parse subsequent data in the string if needed.


Personally, I would recommend the strtol family for most purposes. If you're doing something quick-and-dirty, atoi might meet your needs.

As an aside, sometimes I find I need to parse numbers where leading whitespace, sign, etc. are not supposed to be accepted. In this case it's pretty damn easy to roll your own for loop, eg.,

for (x=0; (unsigned)*s-'0'<10; s++) 
    x=10*x+(*s-'0');

Or you can use (for robustness):

if (isdigit(*s))
    x=strtol(s, &s, 10);
else /* error */ 

JavaScript closure inside loops – simple practical example

You could use a declarative module for lists of data such as query-js(*). In these situations I personally find a declarative approach less surprising

var funcs = Query.range(0,3).each(function(i){
     return  function() {
        console.log("My value: " + i);
    };
});

You could then use your second loop and get the expected result or you could do

funcs.iterate(function(f){ f(); });

(*) I'm the author of query-js and therefor biased towards using it, so don't take my words as a recommendation for said library only for the declarative approach :)

Keeping ASP.NET Session Open / Alive

I use JQuery to perform a simple AJAX call to a dummy HTTP Handler that does nothing but keeping my Session alive:

function setHeartbeat() {
    setTimeout("heartbeat()", 5*60*1000); // every 5 min
}

function heartbeat() {
    $.get(
        "/SessionHeartbeat.ashx",
        null,
        function(data) {
            //$("#heartbeat").show().fadeOut(1000); // just a little "red flash" in the corner :)
            setHeartbeat();
        },
        "json"
    );
}

Session handler can be as simple as:

public class SessionHeartbeatHttpHandler : IHttpHandler, IRequiresSessionState
{
    public bool IsReusable { get { return false; } }

    public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
    {
        context.Session["Heartbeat"] = DateTime.Now;
    }
}

The key is to add IRequiresSessionState, otherwise Session won't be available (= null). The handler can of course also return a JSON serialized object if some data should be returned to the calling JavaScript.

Made available through web.config:

<httpHandlers>
    <add verb="GET,HEAD" path="SessionHeartbeat.ashx" validate="false" type="SessionHeartbeatHttpHandler"/>
</httpHandlers>

added from balexandre on August 14th, 2012

I liked so much of this example, that I want to improve with the HTML/CSS and the beat part

change this

//$("#heartbeat").show().fadeOut(1000); // just a little "red flash" in the corner :)

into

beatHeart(2); // just a little "red flash" in the corner :)

and add

// beat the heart 
// 'times' (int): nr of times to beat
function beatHeart(times) {
    var interval = setInterval(function () {
        $(".heartbeat").fadeIn(500, function () {
            $(".heartbeat").fadeOut(500);
        });
    }, 1000); // beat every second

    // after n times, let's clear the interval (adding 100ms of safe gap)
    setTimeout(function () { clearInterval(interval); }, (1000 * times) + 100);
}

HTML and CSS

<div class="heartbeat">&hearts;</div>

/* HEARBEAT */
.heartbeat {
    position: absolute;
    display: none;
    margin: 5px;
    color: red;
    right: 0;
    top: 0;
}

here is a live example for only the beating part: http://jsbin.com/ibagob/1/

Embed YouTube Video with No Ads

I'd just like to add, and please correct me if I'm wrong, that when I embed the HTML5 version of the videos, it doesn't play ads on top.

Not sure if this will ever change. They're probably just trying to work out the best way to show ads on the HTML5 player.

Make an Android button change background on click through XML

In the latest version of the SDK, you would use the setBackgroundResource method.

public void onClick(View v) {
   if(v == ButtonName) {
     ButtonName.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.ImageResource);
   }
}

How to reduce the image size without losing quality in PHP

I'd go for jpeg. Read this post regarding image size reduction and after deciding on the technique, use ImageMagick

Hope this helps

Trying to get PyCharm to work, keep getting "No Python interpreter selected"

Even I got the same issue and my mistake was that I didn't download python MSI file. You will get it here: https://www.python.org/downloads/

Once you download the msi, run the setup and that will solve the problem. After that you can go to File->Settings->Project Settings->Project Interpreter->Python Interpreters

and select the python.exe file. (This file will be available at c:\Python34) Select the python.exe file. That's it.

Passing ArrayList from servlet to JSP

In the servlet code, with the instruction request.setAttribute("servletName", categoryList), you save your list in the request object, and use the name "servletName" for refering it.
By the way, using then name "servletName" for a list is quite confusing, maybe it's better call it "list" or something similar: request.setAttribute("list", categoryList)
Anyway, suppose you don't change your serlvet code, and store the list using the name "servletName". When you arrive to your JSP, it's necessary to retrieve the list from the request, and for that you just need the request.getAttribute(...) method.

<%  
// retrieve your list from the request, with casting 
ArrayList<Category> list = (ArrayList<Category>) request.getAttribute("servletName");

// print the information about every category of the list
for(Category category : list) {
    out.println(category.getId());
    out.println(category.getName());
    out.println(category.getMainCategoryId());
}
%>

Hiding user input on terminal in Linux script

A variation on both @SiegeX and @mklement0's excellent contributions: mask user input; handle backspacing; but only backspace for the length of what the user has input (so we're not wiping out other characters on the same line) and handle control characters, etc... This solution was found here after so much digging!

#!/bin/bash
#
# Read and echo a password, echoing responsive 'stars' for input characters
# Also handles: backspaces, deleted and ^U (kill-line) control-chars
#
unset PWORD
PWORD=
echo -n 'password: ' 1>&2
while true; do
  IFS= read -r -N1 -s char
  # Note a NULL will return a empty string
  # Convert users key press to hexadecimal character code
  code=$(printf '%02x' "'$char") # EOL (empty char) -> 00
  case "$code" in
  ''|0a|0d) break ;;   # Exit EOF, Linefeed or Return
  08|7f)  # backspace or delete
      if [ -n "$PWORD" ]; then
        PWORD="$( echo "$PWORD" | sed 's/.$//' )"
        echo -n $'\b \b' 1>&2
      fi
      ;;
  15) # ^U or kill line
      echo -n "$PWORD" | sed 's/./\cH \cH/g' >&2
      PWORD=''
      ;;
  [01]?) ;;                        # Ignore ALL other control characters
  *)  PWORD="$PWORD$char"
      echo -n '*' 1>&2
      ;;
  esac
done
echo
echo $PWORD

Android Gallery on Android 4.4 (KitKat) returns different URI for Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT

Try this:

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT <19){
    Intent intent = new Intent(); 
    intent.setType("image/jpeg");
    intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
    startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(intent, getResources().getString(R.string.select_picture)),GALLERY_INTENT_CALLED);
} else {
    Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT);
    intent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_OPENABLE);
    intent.setType("image/jpeg");
    startActivityForResult(intent, GALLERY_KITKAT_INTENT_CALLED);
}

@Override
public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
    super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
    if (resultCode != Activity.RESULT_OK) return;
    if (null == data) return;
    Uri originalUri = null;
    if (requestCode == GALLERY_INTENT_CALLED) {
        originalUri = data.getData();
    } else if (requestCode == GALLERY_KITKAT_INTENT_CALLED) {
        originalUri = data.getData();
        final int takeFlags = data.getFlags()
                & (Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION
                | Intent.FLAG_GRANT_WRITE_URI_PERMISSION);
        // Check for the freshest data.
        getContentResolver().takePersistableUriPermission(originalUri, takeFlags);
    }

    loadSomeStreamAsynkTask(originalUri);

}

Probably need

@SuppressLint("NewApi")

for

takePersistableUriPermission

redistributable offline .NET Framework 3.5 installer for Windows 8

You don't have to copy everything to C:\dotnet35. Usually all the files are already copied to the folder C:\Windows\WinSxS. Then the command becomes (assuming Windows was installed to C:): "Dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFX3 /All /Source:C:\Windows\WinSxS /LimitAccess" If not you can also point the command to the DVD directly. Then the command becomes (assuming DVD is mounted to D:): "Dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFX3 /All /Source:D:\sources\sxs /LimitAccess".

What is attr_accessor in Ruby?

Simply attr-accessor creates the getter and setter methods for the specified attributes

Preloading images with JavaScript

This approach is a little more elaborate. Here you store all preloaded images in a container, may be a div. And after you could show the images or move it within the DOM to the correct position.

function preloadImg(containerId, imgUrl, imageId) {
    var i = document.createElement('img'); // or new Image()
    i.id = imageId;
    i.onload = function() {
         var container = document.getElementById(containerId);
         container.appendChild(this);
    };
    i.src = imgUrl;
}

Try it here, I have also added few comments

Adding a rule in iptables in debian to open a new port

(I presume that you've concluded that it's an iptables problem by dropping the firewall completely (iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT; iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT; iptables -F) and confirmed that you can connect to the MySQL server from your Windows box?)

Some previous rule in the INPUT table is probably rejecting or dropping the packet. You can get around that by inserting the new rule at the top, although you might want to review your existing rules to see whether that's sensible:

iptables -I INPUT 1 -p tcp --dport 3306 -j ACCEPT

Note that iptables-save won't save the new rule persistently (i.e. across reboots) - you'll need to figure out something else for that. My usual route is to store the iptables-save output in a file (/etc/network/iptables.rules or similar) and then load then with a pre-up statement in /etc/network/interfaces).

How does paintComponent work?

Calling object.paintComponent(g) is an error.

Instead this method is called automatically when the panel is created. The paintComponent() method can also be called explicitly by the repaint() method defined in Component class.

The effect of calling repaint() is that Swing automatically clears the graphic on the panel and executes the paintComponent method to redraw the graphics on this panel.

PHP "php://input" vs $_POST

So I wrote a function that would get the POST data from the php://input stream.

So the challenge here was switching to PUT, DELETE OR PATCH request method, and still obtain the post data that was sent with that request.

I'm sharing this maybe for someone with a similar challenge. The function below is what I came up with and it works. I hope it helps!

    /**
     * @method Post getPostData
     * @return array
     * 
     * Convert Content-Disposition to a post data
     */
    function getPostData() : array
    {
        // @var string $input
        $input = file_get_contents('php://input');

        // continue if $_POST is empty
        if (strlen($input) > 0 && count($_POST) == 0 || count($_POST) > 0) :

            $postsize = "---".sha1(strlen($input))."---";

            preg_match_all('/([-]{2,})([^\s]+)[\n|\s]{0,}/', $input, $match);

            // update input
            if (count($match) > 0) $input = preg_replace('/([-]{2,})([^\s]+)[\n|\s]{0,}/', '', $input);

            // extract the content-disposition
            preg_match_all("/(Content-Disposition: form-data; name=)+(.*)/m", $input, $matches);

            // let's get the keys
            if (count($matches) > 0 && count($matches[0]) > 0)
            {
                $keys = $matches[2];

                foreach ($keys as $index => $key) :
                    $key = trim($key);
                    $key = preg_replace('/^["]/','',$key);
                    $key = preg_replace('/["]$/','',$key);
                    $key = preg_replace('/[\s]/','',$key);
                    $keys[$index] = $key;
                endforeach;

                $input = preg_replace("/(Content-Disposition: form-data; name=)+(.*)/m", $postsize, $input);

                $input = preg_replace("/(Content-Length: )+([^\n]+)/im", '', $input);

                // now let's get key value
                $inputArr = explode($postsize, $input);

                // @var array $values
                $values = [];

                foreach ($inputArr as $index => $val) :
                    $val = preg_replace('/[\n]/','',$val);

                    if (preg_match('/[\S]/', $val)) $values[$index] = trim($val);

                endforeach;

                // now combine the key to the values
                $post = [];

                // @var array $value
                $value = [];

                // update value
                foreach ($values as $i => $val) $value[] = $val;

                // push to post
                foreach ($keys as $x => $key) $post[$key] = isset($value[$x]) ? $value[$x] : '';

                if (is_array($post)) :

                    $newPost = [];

                    foreach ($post as $key => $val) :

                        if (preg_match('/[\[]/', $key)) :

                            $k = substr($key, 0, strpos($key, '['));
                            $child = substr($key, strpos($key, '['));
                            $child = preg_replace('/[\[|\]]/','', $child);
                            $newPost[$k][$child] = $val;

                        else:

                            $newPost[$key] = $val;

                        endif;

                    endforeach;

                    $_POST = count($newPost) > 0 ? $newPost : $post;

                endif;
            }

        endif;

        // return post array
        return $_POST;
    }

Is there a way to get a <button> element to link to a location without wrapping it in an <a href ... tag?

Here's a solution which will work even when JavaScript is disabled:

<form action="login.html">
    <button type="submit">Login</button>
</form>

The trick is to surround the button with its own <form> tag.

I personally prefer the <button> tag, but you can do it with <input> as well:

<form action="login.html">
    <input type="submit" value="Login"/>
</form>

Failed to install Python Cryptography package with PIP and setup.py

Nick Woodham's answer didn't work on OSX 10.11 El Capitan for me, but this did.

brew install openssl
CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include" pip install cryptography==0.8

How to show "if" condition on a sequence diagram?

In Visual Studio UML sequence this can also be described as fragments which is nicely documented here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd465153.aspx

Calling ASP.NET MVC Action Methods from JavaScript

Use jQuery ajax:

function AddToCart(id)
{
   $.ajax({
      url: 'urlToController',
      data: { id: id }
   }).done(function() {
      alert('Added'); 
   });
}

http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/

Overcoming "Display forbidden by X-Frame-Options"

I tried nearly all suggestions. However, the only thing that really solved the issue was:

  1. Create an .htaccess in the same folder where your PHP file lies.

  2. Add this line to the htaccess:

    Header always unset X-Frame-Options

Embedding the PHP by an iframe from another domain should work afterwards.

Additionally you could add in the beginning of your PHP file:

header('X-Frame-Options: ALLOW');

Which was, however, not necessary in my case.

Sum function in VBA

Place the function value into the cell

Application.Sum often does not work well in my experience (or at least the VBA developer environment does not like it for whatever reason).

The function that works best for me is Excel.WorksheetFunction.Sum()

Example:

Dim Report As Worksheet 'Set up your new worksheet variable.
Set Report = Excel.ActiveSheet 'Assign the active sheet to the variable.

Report.Cells(11, 1).Value = Excel.WorksheetFunction.Sum(Report.Range("A1:A10")) 'Add the function result.

Place the function directly into the cell

The other method which you were looking for I think is to place the function directly into the cell. This can be done by inputting the function string into the cell value. Here is an example that provides the same result as above, except the cell value is given the function and not the result of the function:

    Dim Report As Worksheet 'Set up your new worksheet variable.
    Set Report = Excel.ActiveSheet 'Assign the active sheet to the variable.

    Report.Cells(11, 1).Value = "=Sum(A1:A10)" 'Add the function.

Perl - If string contains text?

If you just need to search for one string within another, use the index function (or rindex if you want to start scanning from the end of the string):

if (index($string, $substring) != -1) {
   print "'$string' contains '$substring'\n";
}

To search a string for a pattern match, use the match operator m//:

if ($string =~ m/pattern/) {
    print "'$string' matches the pattern\n";       
}

android - listview get item view by position

Preferred way to change the appearance/whatever of row views once the ListView is drawn is to change something in the data ListView draws from (the array of objects that is passed into your Adapter) and make sure to account for that in your getView() function, then redraw the ListView by calling

notifyDataSetChanged();

EDIT: while there is a way to do this, if you need to do this chances are doing something wrong. While are few edge cases I can think about, generally using notifyDataSetChanged() and other built in mechanisms is a way to go.

EDIT 2: One of the common mistakes people make is trying to come up with their own way to respond to user clicking/selecting a row in the ListView, as in one of the comments to this post. There is an existing way to do this. Here's how:

mListView.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
    /* Parameters
    parent:     The AdapterView where the click happened.
    view:       The view within the AdapterView that was clicked (this will be a view provided by the adapter)
    position:   The position of the view in the adapter.
    id:         The row id of the item that was clicked. */
    @Override
    public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
        //your code here
    }
});

ListView has a lot of build-in functionality and there is no need to reinvent the wheel for simpler cases. Since ListView extends AdapterView, you can set the same Listeners, such as OnItemClickListener as in the example above.

The best way to calculate the height in a binary search tree? (balancing an AVL-tree)

Here's where it gets confusing, the text states "If the balance factor of R is 1, it means the insertion occurred on the (external) right side of that node and a left rotation is needed". But from m understanding the text said (as I quoted) that if the balance factor was within [-1, 1] then there was no need for balancing?

Okay, epiphany time.

Consider what a rotation does. Let's think about a left rotation.

 P = parent
 O = ourself (the element we're rotating)
 RC = right child
 LC = left child (of the right child, not of ourself)

 P              10
  \               \
   O               15
    \                \
     RC               20
    /                /
   LC               18

          ?
 P              10
   \               \
     RC              20
   /               /
  O              15
   \               \
   LC              18

 basically, what happens is;

 1. our right child moves into our position
 2. we become the left child of our right child
 3. our right child's left child becomes our right

Now, the big thing you have to notice here - this left rotation HAS NOT CHANGED THE DEPTH OF THE TREE. We're no more balanced for having done it.

But - and here's the magic in AVL - if we rotated the right child to the right FIRST, what we'd have is this...

 P
  \
   O
    \
     LC
      \
       RC

And NOW if we rotate O left, what we get is this...

 P
   \
     LC
    /  \
   O   RC

Magic! we've managed to get rid of a level of the tree - we've made the tree balanced.

Balancing the tree means getting rid of excess depth, and packing the upper levels more completely - which is exactly what we've just done.

That whole stuff about single/double rotations is simply that you have to have your subtree looking like this;

 P
  \
   O
    \
     LC
      \
       RC

before you rotate - and you may have to do a right rotate to get into that state. But if you're already in that state, you only need to do the left rotate.

Django MEDIA_URL and MEDIA_ROOT

Here are the changes I had to make to deliver PDFs for the django-publications app, using Django 1.10.6:

Used the same definitions for media directories as you, in settings.py:

MEDIA_ROOT = '/home/user/mysite/media/'

MEDIA_URL = '/media/'

As provided by @thisisashwanipandey, in the project's main urls.py:

from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static

urlpatterns = [
    # ... the rest of your URLconf goes here ...
] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)

and a modification of the answer provided by @r-allela, in settings.py:

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                # ... the rest of your context_processors goes here ...
                'django.template.context_processors.media',
            ],
         },
    },
]

Resize on div element

There is a really nice, easy to use, lightweight (uses native browser events for detection) plugin for both basic JavaScript and for jQuery that was released this year. It performs perfectly:

https://github.com/sdecima/javascript-detect-element-resize

Global and local variables in R

A bit more along the same lines

attrs <- {}

attrs.a <- 1

f <- function(d) {
    attrs.a <- d
}

f(20)
print(attrs.a)

will print "1"

attrs <- {}

attrs.a <- 1

f <- function(d) {
   attrs.a <<- d
}

f(20)
print(attrs.a)

Will print "20"

MySQL Update Column +1?

The easiest way is to not store the count, relying on the COUNT aggregate function to reflect the value as it is in the database:

   SELECT c.category_name,
          COUNT(p.post_id) AS num_posts
     FROM CATEGORY c
LEFT JOIN POSTS p ON p.category_id = c.category_id

You can create a view to house the query mentioned above, so you can query the view just like you would a table...

But if you're set on storing the number, use:

UPDATE CATEGORY
   SET count = count + 1
 WHERE category_id = ?

..replacing "?" with the appropriate value.

How to set "style=display:none;" using jQuery's attr method?

You can use the hide and show functions of jquery. Examples

In your case just set $('#msform').hide() or $('#msform').show()

Understanding CUDA grid dimensions, block dimensions and threads organization (simple explanation)

Suppose a 9800GT GPU:

  • it has 14 multiprocessors (SM)
  • each SM has 8 thread-processors (AKA stream-processors, SP or cores)
  • allows up to 512 threads per block
  • warpsize is 32 (which means each of the 14x8=112 thread-processors can schedule up to 32 threads)

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/cuda/cuda_threads.htm

A block cannot have more active threads than 512 therefore __syncthreads can only synchronize limited number of threads. i.e. If you execute the following with 600 threads:

func1();
__syncthreads();
func2();
__syncthreads();

then the kernel must run twice and the order of execution will be:

  1. func1 is executed for the first 512 threads
  2. func2 is executed for the first 512 threads
  3. func1 is executed for the remaining threads
  4. func2 is executed for the remaining threads

Note:

The main point is __syncthreads is a block-wide operation and it does not synchronize all threads.


I'm not sure about the exact number of threads that __syncthreads can synchronize, since you can create a block with more than 512 threads and let the warp handle the scheduling. To my understanding it's more accurate to say: func1 is executed at least for the first 512 threads.

Before I edited this answer (back in 2010) I measured 14x8x32 threads were synchronized using __syncthreads.

I would greatly appreciate if someone test this again for a more accurate piece of information.

Import/Index a JSON file into Elasticsearch

One thing I've not seen anyone mention: the JSON file must have one line specifying the index the next line belongs to, for every line of the "pure" JSON file.

I.E.

{"index":{"_index":"shakespeare","_type":"act","_id":0}}
{"line_id":1,"play_name":"Henry IV","speech_number":"","line_number":"","speaker":"","text_entry":"ACT I"}

Without that, nothing works, and it won't tell you why

Transition color fade on hover?

For having a trasition effect like a highlighter just to highlight the text and fade off the bg color, we used the following:

_x000D_
_x000D_
.field-error {_x000D_
    color: #f44336;_x000D_
    padding: 2px 5px;_x000D_
    position: absolute;_x000D_
    font-size: small;_x000D_
    background-color: white;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
.highlighter {_x000D_
    animation: fadeoutBg 3s; /***Transition delay 3s fadeout is class***/_x000D_
    -moz-animation: fadeoutBg 3s; /* Firefox */_x000D_
    -webkit-animation: fadeoutBg 3s; /* Safari and Chrome */_x000D_
    -o-animation: fadeoutBg 3s; /* Opera */_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
@keyframes fadeoutBg {_x000D_
    from { background-color: lightgreen; } /** from color **/_x000D_
    to { background-color: white; } /** to color **/_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
@-moz-keyframes fadeoutBg { /* Firefox */_x000D_
    from { background-color: lightgreen; }_x000D_
    to { background-color: white; }_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
@-webkit-keyframes fadeoutBg { /* Safari and Chrome */_x000D_
    from { background-color: lightgreen; }_x000D_
    to { background-color: white; }_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
@-o-keyframes fadeoutBg { /* Opera */_x000D_
    from { background-color: lightgreen; }_x000D_
    to { background-color: white; }_x000D_
}
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<div class="field-error highlighter">File name already exists.</div>
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Storing and retrieving datatable from session

this is just as a side note, but generally what you want to do is keep size on the Session and ViewState small. I generally just store IDs and small amounts of packets in Session and ViewState.

for instance if you want to pass large chunks of data from one page to another, you can store an ID in the querystring and use that ID to either get data from a database or a file.

PS: but like I said, this might be totally unrelated to your query :)

How to stop PHP code execution?

You could try to kill the PHP process:

exec('kill -9 ' . getmypid());

Python update a key in dict if it doesn't exist

According to the above answers setdefault() method worked for me.

old_attr_name = mydict.setdefault(key, attr_name)
if attr_name != old_attr_name:
    raise RuntimeError(f"Key '{key}' duplication: "
                       f"'{old_attr_name}' and '{attr_name}'.")

Though this solution is not generic. Just suited me in this certain case. The exact solution would be checking for the key first (as was already advised), but with setdefault() we avoid one extra lookup on the dictionary, that is, though small, but still a performance gain.

Cannot construct instance of - Jackson

In your concrete example the problem is that you don't use this construct correctly:

@JsonSubTypes({ @JsonSubTypes.Type(value = MyAbstractClass.class, name = "MyAbstractClass") })

@JsonSubTypes.Type should contain the actual non-abstract subtypes of your abstract class.

Therefore if you have:

abstract class Parent and the concrete subclasses

Ch1 extends Parent and Ch2 extends Parent

Then your annotation should look like:

@JsonSubTypes({ 
          @JsonSubTypes.Type(value = Ch1.class, name = "ch1"),
          @JsonSubTypes.Type(value = Ch2.class, name = "ch2")
})

Here name should match the value of your 'discriminator':

@JsonTypeInfo(use = JsonTypeInfo.Id.NAME, 
include = JsonTypeInfo.As.WRAPPER_OBJECT, 
property = "type")

in the property field, here it is equal to type. So type will be the key and the value you set in name will be the value.

Therefore, when the json string comes if it has this form:

{
 "type": "ch1",
 "other":"fields"
}

Jackson will automatically convert this to a Ch1 class.

If you send this:

{
 "type": "ch2",
 "other":"fields"
}

You would get a Ch2 instance.

Get product id and product type in magento?

Item collection.

$_item->product_type;
$_item->getId()

Product :

$product->getTypeId();
$product->getId()

SQL Server 2008 - Help writing simple INSERT Trigger

You want to take advantage of the inserted logical table that is available in the context of a trigger. It matches the schema for the table that is being inserted to and includes the row(s) that will be inserted (in an update trigger you have access to the inserted and deleted logical tables which represent the the new and original data respectively.)

So to insert Employee / Department pairs that do not currently exist you might try something like the following.

CREATE TRIGGER trig_Update_Employee
ON [EmployeeResult]
FOR INSERT
AS
Begin
    Insert into Employee (Name, Department) 
    Select Distinct i.Name, i.Department 
    from Inserted i
    Left Join Employee e
    on i.Name = e.Name and i.Department = e.Department
    where e.Name is null
End

Programmatically Hide/Show Android Soft Keyboard

Did you try InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT in first window.

and for hiding in second window use InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY

EDIT :

If its still not working then probably you are putting it at the wrong place. Override onFinishInflate() and show/hide there.

@override
public void onFinishInflate() {
     /* code to show keyboard on startup */
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.showSoftInput(mUserNameEdit, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
}

How do I use cascade delete with SQL Server?

Use something like

ALTER TABLE T2
ADD CONSTRAINT fk_employee
FOREIGN KEY (employeeID)
REFERENCES T1 (employeeID)
ON DELETE CASCADE;

Fill in the correct column names and you should be set. As mark_s correctly stated, if you have already a foreign key constraint in place, you maybe need to delete the old one first and then create the new one.

Difference between rake db:migrate db:reset and db:schema:load

You could simply look in the Active Record Rake tasks as that is where I believe they live as in this file. https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/fe1f4b2ad56f010a4e9b93d547d63a15953d9dc2/activerecord/lib/active_record/tasks/database_tasks.rb

What they do is your question right?

That depends on where they come from and this is just and example to show that they vary depending upon the task. Here we have a different file full of tasks.

https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/fe1f4b2ad56f010a4e9b93d547d63a15953d9dc2/activerecord/Rakefile

which has these tasks.

namespace :db do
  task create: ["db:mysql:build", "db:postgresql:build"]
  task drop: ["db:mysql:drop", "db:postgresql:drop"]
end

This may not answer your question but could give you some insight into go ahead and look the source over especially the rake files and tasks. As they do a pretty good job of helping you use rails they don't always document the code that well. We could all help there if we know what it is supposed to do.

Initialize value of 'var' in C# to null

The var keyword in C#'s main benefit is to enhance readability, not functionality. Technically, the var keywords allows for some other unlocks (e.g. use of anonymous objects), but that seems to be outside the scope of this question. Every variable declared with the var keyword has a type. For instance, you'll find that the following code outputs "String".

var myString = "";
Console.Write(myString.GetType().Name);

Furthermore, the code above is equivalent to:

String myString = "";
Console.Write(myString.GetType().Name);

The var keyword is simply C#'s way of saying "I can figure out the type for myString from the context, so don't worry about specifying the type."

var myVariable = (MyType)null or MyType myVariable = null should work because you are giving the C# compiler context to figure out what type myVariable should will be.

For more information:

How to create a md5 hash of a string in C?

As other answers have mentioned, the following calls will compute the hash:

MD5Context md5;
MD5Init(&md5);
MD5Update(&md5, data, datalen);
MD5Final(digest, &md5);

The purpose of splitting it up into that many functions is to let you stream large datasets.

For example, if you're hashing a 10GB file and it doesn't fit into ram, here's how you would go about doing it. You would read the file in smaller chunks and call MD5Update on them.

MD5Context md5;
MD5Init(&md5);

fread(/* Read a block into data. */)
MD5Update(&md5, data, datalen);

fread(/* Read the next block into data. */)
MD5Update(&md5, data, datalen);

fread(/* Read the next block into data. */)
MD5Update(&md5, data, datalen);

...

//  Now finish to get the final hash value.
MD5Final(digest, &md5);

How do I get the file extension of a file in Java?

String extension = com.google.common.io.Files.getFileExtension("fileName.jpg");

Toggle display:none style with JavaScript

Give the UL an ID and use the getElementById function:

<html>
<body>
    <script>
    function toggledisplay(elementID)
    {
        (function(style) {
            style.display = style.display === 'none' ? '' : 'none';
        })(document.getElementById(elementID).style);
    }
    </script>

<a href="#" title="Show Tags" onClick="toggledisplay('changethis');">Show All Tags</a>
<ul class="subforums" id="changethis" style="overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; ">
    <li>Item 1</li>
    <li>Item 2</li>
    <li>Item 3</li>
</ul>

</body>
</html>

How to get Rails.logger printing to the console/stdout when running rspec?

For Rails 4.x the log level is configured a bit different than in Rails 3.x

Add this to config/environment/test.rb

# Enable stdout logger
config.logger = Logger.new(STDOUT)

# Set log level
config.log_level = :ERROR

The logger level is set on the logger instance from config.log_level at: https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/v4.2.4/railties/lib/rails/application/bootstrap.rb#L70

Environment variable

As a bonus, you can allow overwriting the log level using an environment variable with a default value like so:

# default :ERROR
config.log_level = ENV.fetch("LOG_LEVEL", "ERROR")

And then running tests from shell:

# Log level :INFO (the value is uppercased in bootstrap.rb)
$ LOG_LEVEL=info rake test

# Log level :ERROR
$ rake test

phpMyAdmin Error: The mbstring extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration

It could happen after you update your php version, for instance if you upgrade from php5.6 to php7.1 you need to run these commands:

sudo apt-get install php7.1-mbstring
sudo service apache2 restart

If your destination version is different you need to check if the mbstring package exsit or not, an example for php7.0:

sudo apt-cache search php7.0-mbstring

I found it useful to first check existence of all modules that you working with, then performing an upgrade, in addition to that update phpmyadmin after upgrading your php is a good idea

How to change the project in GCP using CLI commands

To update your existing project to another project, you can use this command line:

gcloud projects update PROJECT_ID --name=NAME

NAME: will be the new name of your project.

PHP json_decode() returns NULL with valid JSON?

The most important thing to remember, when you get a NULL result from JSON data that is valid is to use the following command:

json_last_error_msg();

Ie.

var_dump(json_last_error_msg());
string(53) "Control character error, possibly incorrectly encoded"

You then fix that with:

$new_json = preg_replace('/[[:cntrl:]]/', '', $json);

Search all tables, all columns for a specific value SQL Server

The below Query works but very slow... copied from vyaskn.tripod.com

Declare @SearchStr nvarchar(100)

SET  @SearchStr='Search String' BEGIN

CREATE TABLE #Results (ColumnName nvarchar(370), ColumnValue nvarchar(3630))

SET NOCOUNT ON

DECLARE @TableName nvarchar(256), @ColumnName nvarchar(128),
 @SearchStr2 nvarchar(110)  SET  @TableName = ''    SET @SearchStr2 =
 QUOTENAME('%' + @SearchStr + '%','''')

WHILE @TableName IS NOT NULL    
BEGIN       
  SET @ColumnName = ''      
  SET @TableName =  (
    SELECT MIN(QUOTENAME(TABLE_SCHEMA) + '.' +
    QUOTENAME(TABLE_NAME)) FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES 
    WHERE
    TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE'
    AND QUOTENAME(TABLE_SCHEMA) + '.' + QUOTENAME(TABLE_NAME) > @TableName
    AND OBJECTPROPERTY(
      OBJECT_ID(QUOTENAME(TABLE_SCHEMA) + '.' + QUOTENAME(TABLE_NAME)),
        'IsMSShipped') = 0)

  WHILE (@TableName IS NOT NULL) AND (@ColumnName IS NOT NULL)      
  BEGIN
    SET @ColumnName = (
      SELECT MIN(QUOTENAME(COLUMN_NAME))
      FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
      WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = PARSENAME(@TableName, 2)
        AND TABLE_NAME = PARSENAME(@TableName, 1)
      AND DATA_TYPE IN ('char', 'varchar', 'nchar', 'nvarchar')
      AND QUOTENAME(COLUMN_NAME) > @ColumnName)
      IF @ColumnName IS NOT NULL            
      BEGIN
      INSERT INTO #Results
      EXEC
      (
        'SELECT ''' + @TableName + '.' + @ColumnName + ''', LEFT(' + @ColumnName + 
          ', 3630) FROM ' + @TableName + ' (NOLOCK) ' +
        ' WHERE ' + @ColumnName + ' LIKE ' + @SearchStr2
      )             
      END       
    END     
  END

  SELECT ColumnName, ColumnValue FROM #Results END

How to check if a file contains a specific string using Bash

I done this, seems to work fine

if grep $SearchTerm $FileToSearch; then
   echo "$SearchTerm found OK"
else
   echo "$SearchTerm not found"
fi

find first sequence item that matches a criterion

a=[100,200,300,400,500]
def search(b):
 try:
  k=a.index(b)
  return a[k] 
 except ValueError:
    return 'not found'
print(search(500))

it'll return the object if found else it'll return "not found"

Why, Fatal error: Class 'PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase' not found in ...?

It may well be that you're running WordPress core tests, and have recently upgraded your PhpUnit to version 6. If that's the case, then the recent change to namespacing in PhpUnit will have broken your code.

Fortunately, there's a patch to the core tests at https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/40547 which will work around the problem. It also includes changes to travis.yml, which you may not have in your setup; if that's the case then you'll need to edit the .diff file to ignore the Travis patch.

  1. Download the "Unified Diff" patch from the bottom of https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/40547
  2. Edit the patch file to remove the Travis part of the patch if you don't need that. Delete from the top of the file to just above this line:

    Index: /branches/4.7/tests/phpunit/includes/bootstrap.php
    
  3. Save the diff in the directory above your /includes/ directory - in my case this was the Wordpress directory itself

  4. Use the Unix patch tool to patch the files. You'll also need to strip the first few slashes to move from an absolute to a relative directory structure. As you can see from point 3 above, there are five slashes before the include directory, which a -p5 flag will get rid of for you.

    $ cd [WORDPRESS DIRECTORY]
    $ patch -p5 < changeset_40547.diff 
    

After I did this my tests ran correctly again.

set dropdown value by text using jquery

The below code works for me -:

jQuery('[id^=select_] > option').each(function(){
        if (this.text.toLowerCase()=='text'){
            jQuery('[id^=select_]').val(this.value);
        }
});

jQuery('[id^=select_]') - This allows you to select drop down where ID of the drop down starts from select_

Hope the above helps!

Cheers S

Java: Replace all ' in a string with \'

Use replace()

 s = s.replace("'", "\\'"); 

output:

You\'ll be totally awesome, I\'m really terrible

Most efficient T-SQL way to pad a varchar on the left to a certain length?

To provide numerical values rounded to two decimal places but right-padded with zeros if required I have:

DECLARE @value = 20.1
SET @value = ROUND(@value,2) * 100
PRINT LEFT(CAST(@value AS VARCHAR(20)), LEN(@value)-2) + '.' + RIGHT(CAST(@value AS VARCHAR(20)),2)

If anyone can think of a neater way, that would be appreciated - the above seems clumsy.

Note: in this instance, I'm using SQL Server to email reports in HTML format and so wish to format the information without involving an additional tool to parse the data.

Saving an Object (Data persistence)

Quick example using company1 from your question, with python3.

import pickle

# Save the file
pickle.dump(company1, file = open("company1.pickle", "wb"))

# Reload the file
company1_reloaded = pickle.load(open("company1.pickle", "rb"))

However, as this answer noted, pickle often fails. So you should really use dill.

import dill

# Save the file
dill.dump(company1, file = open("company1.pickle", "wb"))

# Reload the file
company1_reloaded = dill.load(open("company1.pickle", "rb"))

Adding a Time to a DateTime in C#

   DateTime newDateTime = dtReceived.Value.Date.Add(TimeSpan.Parse(dtReceivedTime.Value.ToShortTimeString()));

How to get a enum value from string in C#?

Alternate solution can be:

baseKey hKeyLocalMachine = baseKey.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE;
uint value = (uint)hKeyLocalMachine;

Or just:

uint value = (uint)baseKey.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE;

CAST to DECIMAL in MySQL

DECIMAL has two parts: Precision and Scale. So part of your query will look like this:

CAST((COUNT(*) * 1.5) AS DECIMAL(8,2))

Precision represents the number of significant digits that are stored for values.
Scale represents the number of digits that can be stored following the decimal point.

How do I convert a decimal to an int in C#?

int i = (int)d;

will give you the number rounded down.

If you want to round to the nearest even number (i.e. >.5 will round up) you can use

int i = (int)Math.Round(d, MidpointRounding.ToEven);

In general you can cast between all the numerical types in C#. If there is no information that will be lost during the cast you can do it implicitly:

int i = 10;
decimal d = i;

though you can still do it explicitly if you wish:

int i = 10;
decimal d = (decimal)i;

However, if you are going to be losing information through the cast you must do it explicitly (to show you are aware you may be losing information):

decimal d = 10.5M;
int i = (int)d;

Here you are losing the ".5". This may be fine, but you must be explicit about it and make an explicit cast to show you know you may be losing the information.

How do I create a simple 'Hello World' module in Magento?

First and foremost, I highly recommend you buy the PDF/E-Book from PHP Architect. It's US$20, but is the only straightforward "Here's how Magento works" resource I've been able to find. I've also started writing Magento tutorials at my own website.

Second, if you have a choice, and aren't an experienced programmer or don't have access to an experienced programmer (ideally in PHP and Java), pick another cart. Magento is well engineered, but it was engineered to be a shopping cart solution that other programmers can build modules on top of. It was not engineered to be easily understood by people who are smart, but aren't programmers.

Third, Magento MVC is very different from the Ruby on Rails, Django, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, etc. MVC model that's popular with PHP developers these days. I think it's based on the Zend model, and the whole thing is very Java OOP-like. There's two controllers you need to be concerned about. The module/frontName controller, and then the MVC controller.

Fourth, the Magento application itself is built using the same module system you'll be using, so poking around the core code is a useful learning tactic. Also, a lot of what you'll be doing with Magento is overriding existing classes. What I'm covering here is creating new functionality, not overriding. Keep this in mind when you're looking at the code samples out there.

I'm going to start with your first question, showing you how to setup a controller/router to respond to a specific URL. This will be a small novel. I might have time later for the model/template related topics, but for now, I don't. I will, however, briefly speak to your SQL question.

Magento uses an EAV database architecture. Whenever possible, try to use the model objects the system provides to get the information you need. I know it's all there in the SQL tables, but it's best not to think of grabbing data using raw SQL queries, or you'll go mad.

Final disclaimer. I've been using Magento for about two or three weeks, so caveat emptor. This is an exercise to get this straight in my head as much as it is to help Stack Overflow.

Create a module

All additions and customizations to Magento are done through modules. So, the first thing you'll need to do is create a new module. Create an XML file in app/modules named as follows

cd /path/to/store/app
touch etc/modules/MyCompanyName_HelloWorld.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
     <modules>
        <MyCompanyName_HelloWorld>
            <active>true</active>
            <codePool>local</codePool>
        </MyCompanyName_HelloWorld>
     </modules>
</config>

MyCompanyName is a unique namespace for your modifications, it doesn't have to be your company's name, but that the recommended convention my magento. HelloWorld is the name of your module.

Clear the application cache

Now that the module file is in place, we'll need to let Magento know about it (and check our work). In the admin application

  1. Go to System->Cache Management
  2. Select Refresh from the All Cache menu
  3. Click Save Cache settings

Now, we make sure that Magento knows about the module

  1. Go to System->Configuration
  2. Click Advanced
  3. In the "Disable modules output" setting box, look for your new module named "MyCompanyName_HelloWorld"

If you can live with the performance slow down, you might want to turn off the application cache while developing/learning. Nothing is more frustrating then forgetting the clear out the cache and wondering why your changes aren't showing up.

Setup the directory structure

Next, we'll need to setup a directory structure for the module. You won't need all these directories, but there's no harm in setting them all up now.

mkdir -p app/code/local/MyCompanyName/HelloWorld/Block
mkdir -p app/code/local/MyCompanyName/HelloWorld/controllers
mkdir -p app/code/local/MyCompanyName/HelloWorld/Model
mkdir -p app/code/local/MyCompanyName/HelloWorld/Helper
mkdir -p app/code/local/MyCompanyName/HelloWorld/etc
mkdir -p app/code/local/MyCompanyName/HelloWorld/sql

And add a configuration file

touch app/code/local/MyCompanyName/HelloWorld/etc/config.xml

and inside the configuration file, add the following, which is essentially a "blank" configuration.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
    <modules>
        <MyCompanyName_HelloWorld>
            <version>0.1.0</version>
        </MyCompanyName_HelloWorld>
    </modules>
</config>

Oversimplifying things, this configuration file will let you tell Magento what code you want to run.

Setting up the router

Next, we need to setup the module's routers. This will let the system know that we're handling any URLs in the form of

http://example.com/magento/index.php/helloworld

So, in your configuration file, add the following section.

<config>
<!-- ... -->
    <frontend>
        <routers>
            <!-- the <helloworld> tagname appears to be arbitrary, but by
            convention is should match the frontName tag below-->
            <helloworld>
                <use>standard</use>
                <args>
                    <module>MyCompanyName_HelloWorld</module>
                    <frontName>helloworld</frontName>
                </args>
            </helloworld>
        </routers>
    </frontend>
<!-- ... -->
</config>

What you're saying here is "any URL with the frontName of helloworld ...

http://example.com/magento/index.php/helloworld

should use the frontName controller MyCompanyName_HelloWorld".

So, with the above configuration in place, when you load the helloworld page above, you'll get a 404 page. That's because we haven't created a file for our controller. Let's do that now.

touch app/code/local/MyCompanyName/HelloWorld/controllers/IndexController.php

Now try loading the page. Progress! Instead of a 404, you'll get a PHP/Magento exception

Controller file was loaded but class does not exist

So, open the file we just created, and paste in the following code. The name of the class needs to be based on the name you provided in your router.

<?php
class MyCompanyName_HelloWorld_IndexController extends Mage_Core_Controller_Front_Action{
    public function indexAction(){
        echo "We're echoing just to show that this is what's called, normally you'd have some kind of redirect going on here";
    }
}

What we've just setup is the module/frontName controller. This is the default controller and the default action of the module. If you want to add controllers or actions, you have to remember that the tree first part of a Magento URL are immutable they will always go this way http://example.com/magento/index.php/frontName/controllerName/actionName

So if you want to match this url

http://example.com/magento/index.php/helloworld/foo

You will have to have a FooController, which you can do this way :

touch app/code/local/MyCompanyName/HelloWorld/controllers/FooController.php
<?php
class MyCompanyName_HelloWorld_FooController extends Mage_Core_Controller_Front_Action{
    public function indexAction(){
        echo 'Foo Index Action';
    }

    public function addAction(){
        echo 'Foo add Action';
    }

    public function deleteAction(){
        echo 'Foo delete Action';
    }
}

Please note that the default controller IndexController and the default action indexAction can by implicit but have to be explicit if something come after it. So http://example.com/magento/index.php/helloworld/foo will match the controller FooController and the action indexAction and NOT the action fooAction of the IndexController. If you want to have a fooAction, in the controller IndexController you then have to call this controller explicitly like this way : http://example.com/magento/index.php/helloworld/index/foo because the second part of the url is and will always be the controllerName. This behaviour is an inheritance of the Zend Framework bundled in Magento.

You should now be able to hit the following URLs and see the results of your echo statements

http://example.com/magento/index.php/helloworld/foo
http://example.com/magento/index.php/helloworld/foo/add
http://example.com/magento/index.php/helloworld/foo/delete

So, that should give you a basic idea on how Magento dispatches to a controller. From here I'd recommended poking at the existing Magento controller classes to see how models and the template/layout system should be used.

Is it possible to focus on a <div> using JavaScript focus() function?

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document.getElementById('test').onclick = function () {_x000D_
    document.getElementById('scripted').focus();_x000D_
};
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div:focus {_x000D_
    background-color: Aqua;_x000D_
}
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<div>Element X (not focusable)</div>_x000D_
<div tabindex="0">Element Y (user or script focusable)</div>_x000D_
<div tabindex="-1" id="scripted">Element Z (script-only focusable)</div>_x000D_
<div id="test">Set Focus To Element Z</div>
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How to use sessions in an ASP.NET MVC 4 application?

This is how session state works in ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC:

ASP.NET Session State Overview

Basically, you do this to store a value in the Session object:

Session["FirstName"] = FirstNameTextBox.Text;

To retrieve the value:

var firstName = Session["FirstName"];

How can I add or update a query string parameter?

Here's an alternative method using the inbuilt properties of the anchor HTML element:

  • Handles multi-valued parameters.
  • No risk of modifying the # fragment, or anything other than the query string itself.
  • May be a little easier to read? But it is longer.

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    var a = document.createElement('a'),_x000D_
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 getHrefWithUpdatedQueryString = function(param, value) {_x000D_
     return updatedQueryString(window.location.href, param, value);_x000D_
 },_x000D_
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 updatedQueryString = function(url, param, value) {_x000D_
     /*_x000D_
      A function which modifies the query string _x000D_
             by setting one parameter to a single value._x000D_
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      Any other instances of parameter will be removed/replaced._x000D_
      */_x000D_
     var fragment = encodeURIComponent(param) + _x000D_
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  a.search = '?' + fragment;_x000D_
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  var didReplace = false,_x000D_
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  // Break into pieces_x000D_
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      len = parts.length;_x000D_
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      var pieces = parts[i].split('=');_x000D_
      if (pieces[0] === param) {_x000D_
   if (!didReplace) {_x000D_
       reassemble.push('&' + fragment);_x000D_
       didReplace = true;_x000D_
   }_x000D_
      } else {_x000D_
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      }_x000D_
  }_x000D_
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  if (!didReplace) {_x000D_
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  }_x000D_
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Awk if else issues

Try the code

awk '{s=($3==0)?"-":$3/$4; print s}'

Run JavaScript in Visual Studio Code

This may now be the easiest, as of v1.32:

{
    "key": "ctrl+shift+t",
    "command": "workbench.action.terminal.sendSequence",
    "args": { "text": "node '${file}'\u000D" }
  }

Use your own keybinding.

See Release notes: sendSequence and variables.

With vscode v1.32 you can sendSequence to the terminal using variables like ${file}, which is the current file. If you want some other path there, replace ${file} with your pathname in the keybinding above.

The \u000D is a return so it will run immediately.

I added 's around the ${file} variable in case your file path has spaces in it, like c:Users\Some Directory\fileToRun

how to filter out a null value from spark dataframe

Or like df.filter($"friend_id".isNotNull)

Finding an item in a List<> using C#

item = objects.Find(obj => obj.property==myValue);

String concatenation with Groovy

Reproducing tim_yates answer on current hardware and adding leftShift() and concat() method to check the finding:

  'String leftShift' {
    foo << bar << baz
  }
  'String concat' {
    foo.concat(bar)
       .concat(baz)
       .toString()
  }

The outcome shows concat() to be the faster solution for a pure String, but if you can handle GString somewhere else, GString template is still ahead, while honorable mention should go to leftShift() (bitwise operator) and StringBuffer() with initial allocation:

Environment
===========
* Groovy: 2.4.8
* JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (25.191-b12, Oracle Corporation)
    * JRE: 1.8.0_191
    * Total Memory: 238 MB
    * Maximum Memory: 3504 MB
* OS: Linux (4.19.13-300.fc29.x86_64, amd64)

Options
=======
* Warm Up: Auto (- 60 sec)
* CPU Time Measurement: On

                                    user  system  cpu  real

String adder                         453       7  460   469
String leftShift                     287       2  289   295
String concat                        169       1  170   173
GString template                      24       0   24    24
Readable GString template             32       0   32    32
GString template toString            400       0  400   406
Readable GString template toString   412       0  412   419
StringBuilder                        325       3  328   334
StringBuffer                         390       1  391   398
StringBuffer with Allocation         259       1  260   265

Using Case/Switch and GetType to determine the object

I actually prefer the approach given as the answer here: Is there a better alternative than this to 'switch on type'?

There is however a good argument about not implementing any type comparison methids in an object oriented language like C#. You could as an alternative extend and add extra required functionality using inheritance.

This point was discussed in the comments of the authors blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jaredpar/archive/2008/05/16/switching-on-types.aspx#8553535

I found this an extremely interesting point which changed my approach in a similar situation and only hope this helps others.

Kind Regards, Wayne

Printing without newline (print 'a',) prints a space, how to remove?

You can suppress the space by printing an empty string to stdout between the print statements.

>>> import sys
>>> for i in range(20):
...   print 'a',
...   sys.stdout.write('')
... 
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

However, a cleaner solution is to first build the entire string you'd like to print and then output it with a single print statement.

Tomcat - maxThreads vs maxConnections

Tomcat can work in 2 modes:

  • BIO – blocking I/O (one thread per connection)
  • NIOnon-blocking I/O (many more connections than threads)

Tomcat 7 is BIO by default, although consensus seems to be "don't use Bio because Nio is better in every way". You set this using the protocol parameter in the server.xml file.

  • BIO will be HTTP/1.1 or org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol
  • NIO will be org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol

If you're using BIO then I believe they should be more or less the same.

If you're using NIO then actually "maxConnections=1000" and "maxThreads=10" might even be reasonable. The defaults are maxConnections=10,000 and maxThreads=200. With NIO, each thread can serve any number of connections, switching back and forth but retaining the connection so you don't need to do all the usual handshaking which is especially time-consuming with HTTPS but even an issue with HTTP. You can adjust the "keepAlive" parameter to keep connections around for longer and this should speed everything up.

How do you get a string from a MemoryStream?

A slightly modified version of Brian's answer allows optional management of read start, This seems to be the easiest method. probably not the most efficient, but easy to understand and use.

Public Function ReadAll(ByVal memStream As MemoryStream, Optional ByVal startPos As Integer = 0) As String
    ' reset the stream or we'll get an empty string returned
    ' remember the position so we can restore it later
    Dim Pos = memStream.Position
    memStream.Position = startPos

    Dim reader As New StreamReader(memStream)
    Dim str = reader.ReadToEnd()

    ' reset the position so that subsequent writes are correct
    memStream.Position = Pos

    Return str
End Function

How to monitor SQL Server table changes by using c#?

Another, very simple way of monitoring tables is table versioning. The system is proven working in constructions such as DNS synchronization. To make it work you create a table containing table names and table versions as decimal or bigint.In each table that you need monitored, create trigger on insert, update and delete that will increment appropriate table version in versioning table when executed. If you expect any of the monitored tables to be altered often, you need to provision for version reusing. Finally, in your application, every time you query monitored table, you also query its version and store it. When you go to alter the monitored table from your app, you first query its current version and process the change only if the version is unchanged. You can have stored proc on sql server do that work for you. This is extremely simple but proven solid solution. It has specific functional use (to ensure data consistency) and is light on resources (you do not raise brokered events that you would not watch for) but needs application to actively check for changes rather than passively wait for event to happen.

Linq: GroupBy, Sum and Count

The following query works. It uses each group to do the select instead of SelectMany. SelectMany works on each element from each collection. For example, in your query you have a result of 2 collections. SelectMany gets all the results, a total of 3, instead of each collection. The following code works on each IGrouping in the select portion to get your aggregate operations working correctly.

var results = from line in Lines
              group line by line.ProductCode into g
              select new ResultLine {
                ProductName = g.First().Name,
                Price = g.Sum(pc => pc.Price).ToString(),
                Quantity = g.Count().ToString(),
              };

CSS for grabbing cursors (drag & drop)

The closed hand cursor is not 16x16. If you would need them in the same dimensions, here you have both of them in 16x16 px

opened hand closed hand

Or if you need original cursors:

https://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/mapfiles/openhand.cur https://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/mapfiles/closedhand.cur

Does java.util.List.isEmpty() check if the list itself is null?

I would recommend using Apache Commons Collections

http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-collections/javadocs/api-release/org/apache/commons/collections4/CollectionUtils.html#isEmpty(java.util.Collection)

which implements it quite ok and well documented:

/**
 * Null-safe check if the specified collection is empty.
 * <p>
 * Null returns true.
 * 
 * @param coll  the collection to check, may be null
 * @return true if empty or null
 * @since Commons Collections 3.2
 */
public static boolean isEmpty(Collection coll) {
    return (coll == null || coll.isEmpty());
}

Does JavaScript pass by reference?

My two cents.... It's irrelevant whether JavaScript passes parameters by reference or value. What really matters is assignment vs. mutation.

I wrote a longer, more detailed explanation in this link.

When you pass anything (whether that be an object or a primitive), all JavaScript does is assign a new variable while inside the function... just like using the equal sign (=).

How that parameter behaves inside the function is exactly the same as it would behave if you just assigned a new variable using the equal sign... Take these simple examples.

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var myString = 'Test string 1';

// Assignment - A link to the same place as myString
var sameString = myString;

// If I change sameString, it will not modify myString,
// it just re-assigns it to a whole new string
sameString = 'New string';

console.log(myString); // Logs 'Test string 1';
console.log(sameString); // Logs 'New string';
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If I were to pass myString as a parameter to a function, it behaves as if I simply assigned it to a new variable. Now, let's do the same thing, but with a function instead of a simple assignment

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function myFunc(sameString) {

  // Reassignment... Again, it will not modify myString
  sameString = 'New string';
}

var myString = 'Test string 1';

// This behaves the same as if we said sameString = myString
myFunc(myString);

console.log(myString); // Again, logs 'Test string 1';
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The only reason that you can modify objects when you pass them to a function is because you are not reassigning... Instead, objects can be changed or mutated.... Again, it works the same way.

var myObject = { name: 'Joe'; }

// Assignment - We simply link to the same object
var sameObject = myObject;

// This time, we can mutate it. So a change to myObject affects sameObject and visa versa
myObject.name = 'Jack';
console.log(sameObject.name); // Logs 'Jack'

sameObject.name = 'Jill';
console.log(myObject.name); // Logs 'Jill'

// If we re-assign it, the link is lost
sameObject = { name: 'Howard' };
console.log(myObject.name); // Logs 'Jill'

If I were to pass myObject as a parameter to a function, it behaves as if I simply assigned it to a new variable. Again, the same thing with the exact same behavior but with a function.

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  // We mutate the object, so the myObject gets the change too... just like before.
  sameObject.name = 'Jill';

  // But, if we re-assign it, the link is lost
  sameObject = {
    name: 'Howard'
  };
}

var myObject = {
  name: 'Joe'
};

// This behaves the same as if we said sameObject = myObject;
myFunc(myObject);
console.log(myObject.name); // Logs 'Jill'
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Every time you pass a variable to a function, you are "assigning" to whatever the name of the parameter is, just like if you used the equal = sign.

Always remember that the equals sign = means assignment. And passing a parameter to a function also means assignment. They are the same and the two variables are connected in exactly the same way.

The only time that modifying a variable affects a different variable is when the underlying object is mutated.

There is no point in making a distinction between objects and primitives, because it works the same exact way as if you didn't have a function and just used the equal sign to assign to a new variable.

How can I initialize a MySQL database with schema in a Docker container?

The other simple way, use docker-compose with the following lines:

mysql:
  from: mysql:5.7
  volumes:
    - ./database:/tmp/database
  command: mysqld --init-file="/tmp/database/install_db.sql"

Put your database schema into the ./database/install_db.sql. Every time when you build up your container, the install_db.sql will be executed.

How to easily import multiple sql files into a MySQL database?

The easiest solution is to copy/paste every sql files in one.

You can't add some sql markup for file importation (the imported files will be in your computer, not in the server, and I don't think MySQL manage some import markup for external sql files).

Standard deviation of a list

The other answers cover how to do std dev in python sufficiently, but no one explains how to do the bizarre traversal you've described.

I'm going to assume A-Z is the entire population. If not see Ome's answer on how to inference from a sample.

So to get the standard deviation/mean of the first digit of every list you would need something like this:

#standard deviation
numpy.std([A_rank[0], B_rank[0], C_rank[0], ..., Z_rank[0]])

#mean
numpy.mean([A_rank[0], B_rank[0], C_rank[0], ..., Z_rank[0]])

To shorten the code and generalize this to any nth digit use the following function I generated for you:

def getAllNthRanks(n):
    return [A_rank[n], B_rank[n], C_rank[n], D_rank[n], E_rank[n], F_rank[n], G_rank[n], H_rank[n], I_rank[n], J_rank[n], K_rank[n], L_rank[n], M_rank[n], N_rank[n], O_rank[n], P_rank[n], Q_rank[n], R_rank[n], S_rank[n], T_rank[n], U_rank[n], V_rank[n], W_rank[n], X_rank[n], Y_rank[n], Z_rank[n]] 

Now you can simply get the stdd and mean of all the nth places from A-Z like this:

#standard deviation
numpy.std(getAllNthRanks(n))

#mean
numpy.mean(getAllNthRanks(n))

using wildcards in LDAP search filters/queries

This should work, at least according to the Search Filter Syntax article on MSDN network.

The "hang-up" you have noticed is probably just a delay. Try running the same query with narrower scope (for example the specific OU where the test object is located), as it may take very long time for processing if you run it against all AD objects.

You may also try separating the filter into two parts:

(|(displayName=*searchstring)(displayName=searchstring*))

Adding items to end of linked list

You want to navigate through the entire linked list using a loop and checking the "next" value for each node. The last node will be the one whose next value is null. Simply make this node's next value a new node which you create with the input data.

node temp = first; // starts with the first node.

    while (temp.next != null)
    {
       temp = temp.next;
    }

temp.next = new Node(header, x);

That's the basic idea. This is of course, pseudo code, but it should be simple enough to implement.

if block inside echo statement?

In sake of readability it should be something like

<?php 
  $countries = $myaddress->get_countries();
  foreach($countries as $value) {
    $selected ='';
    if($value=='United States') $selected ='selected="selected"'; 
    echo '<option value="'.$value.'"'.$selected.'>'.$value.'</option>';
  }
?>

desire to stuff EVERYTHING in a single line is a decease, man. Write distinctly.

But there is another way, a better one. There is no need to use echo at all. Learn to use templates. Prepare your data first, and display it only then ready.

Business logic part:

$countries = $myaddress->get_countries();
$selected_country = 1;    

Template part:

<? foreach($countries as $row): ?>
<option value="<?=$row['id']?>"<? if ($row['id']==$current_country):> "selected"><? endif ?>
  <?=$row['name']?>
</option>
<? endforeach ?>

Creating a REST API using PHP

Trying to write a REST API from scratch is not a simple task. There are many issues to factor and you will need to write a lot of code to process requests and data coming from the caller, authentication, retrieval of data and sending back responses.

Your best bet is to use a framework that already has this functionality ready and tested for you.

Some suggestions are:

Phalcon - REST API building - Easy to use all in one framework with huge performance

Apigility - A one size fits all API handling framework by Zend Technologies

Laravel API Building Tutorial

and many more. Simple searches on Bitbucket/Github will give you a lot of resources to start with.

MySql Inner Join with WHERE clause

You are using two WHERE clauses but only one is allowed. Use it like this:

SELECT table1.f_id FROM table1
INNER JOIN table2 ON table2.f_id = table1.f_id
WHERE
  table1.f_com_id = '430'
  AND table1.f_status = 'Submitted'
  AND table2.f_type = 'InProcess'

Sql error on update : The UPDATE statement conflicted with the FOREIGN KEY constraint

It sometimes happens when you try to Insert/Update an entity while the foreign key that you are trying to Insert/Update actually does not exist. So, be sure that the foreign key exists and try again.

Java HashMap: How to get a key and value by index?

Here is the general solution if you really only want the first key's value

Object firstKey = myHashMap.keySet().toArray()[0];
Object valueForFirstKey = myHashMap.get(firstKey);

Can I get Unix's pthread.h to compile in Windows?

As @Ninefingers mentioned, pthreads are unix-only. Posix only, really.

That said, Microsoft does have a library that duplicates pthreads:

Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX Version 3.5

Library Download

Pandas DataFrame to List of Lists

Maybe something changed but this gave back a list of ndarrays which did what I needed.

list(df.values)

Synchronous request in Node.js

I like Raynos' solution as well, but I prefer a different flow control library.

https://github.com/caolan/async

Depending on whether you need the results in each subsequent function, I'd either use series, parallel, or waterfall.

Series when they have to be serially executed, but you don't necessarily need the results in each subsequent function call.

Parallel if they can be executed in parallel, you don't need the results from each during each parallel function, and you need a callback when all have completed.

Waterfall if you want to morph the results in each function and pass to the next

endpoints = 
 [{ host: 'www.example.com', path: '/api_1.php' },
  { host: 'www.example.com', path: '/api_2.php' },
  { host: 'www.example.com', path: '/api_3.php' }];

async.mapSeries(endpoints, http.get, function(results){
    // Array of results
});

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

Your selector is missing a . and though you say you want to change the border-color - you're adding and removing a class that sets the background-color

Set iframe content height to auto resize dynamically

Simple solution:

<iframe onload="this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight + 'px';" ...></iframe>

This works when the iframe and parent window are in the same domain. It does not work when the two are in different domains.

Parse JSON with R

For the record, rjson and RJSONIO do change the file type, but they don't really parse per se. For instance, I receive ugly MongoDB data in JSON format, convert it with rjson or RJSONIO, then use unlist and tons of manual correction to actually parse it into a usable matrix.

Removing multiple keys from a dictionary safely

Some timing tests for cpython 3 shows that a simple for loop is the fastest way, and it's quite readable. Adding in a function doesn't cause much overhead either:

timeit results (10k iterations):

  • all(x.pop(v) for v in r) # 0.85
  • all(map(x.pop, r)) # 0.60
  • list(map(x.pop, r)) # 0.70
  • all(map(x.__delitem__, r)) # 0.44
  • del_all(x, r) # 0.40
  • <inline for loop>(x, r) # 0.35
def del_all(mapping, to_remove):
      """Remove list of elements from mapping."""
      for key in to_remove:
          del mapping[key]

For small iterations, doing that 'inline' was a bit faster, because of the overhead of the function call. But del_all is lint-safe, reusable, and faster than all the python comprehension and mapping constructs.

Convert seconds to hh:mm:ss in Python

If you need to do this a lot, you can precalculate all possible strings for number of seconds in a day:

try:
    from itertools import product
except ImportError:
    def product(*seqs):
        if len(seqs) == 1:
            for p in seqs[0]:
                yield p,
        else:
            for s in seqs[0]:
                for p in product(*seqs[1:]):
                    yield (s,) + p

hhmmss = []
for (h, m, s) in product(range(24), range(60), range(60)):
    hhmmss.append("%02d:%02d:%02d" % (h, m, s))

Now conversion of seconds to format string is a fast indexed lookup:

print hhmmss[12345]

prints

'03:25:45'

EDIT:

Updated to 2020, removing Py2 compatibility ugliness, and f-strings!

import sys
from itertools import product


hhmmss = [f"{h:02d}:{m:02d}:{s:02d}"
             for h, m, s in product(range(24), range(60), range(60))]

# we can still just index into the list, but define as a function
# for common API with code below
seconds_to_str = hhmmss.__getitem__

print(seconds_to_str(12345))

How much memory does this take? sys.getsizeof of a list won't do, since it will just give us the size of the list and its str refs, but not include the memory of the strs themselves:

# how big is a list of 24*60*60 8-character strs?
list_size = sys.getsizeof(hhmmss) + sum(sys.getsizeof(s) for s in hhmmss)
print("{:,}".format(list_size))

prints:

5,657,616

What if we just had one big str? Every value is exactly 8 characters long, so we can slice into this str and get the correct str for second X of the day:

hhmmss_str = ''.join([f"{h:02d}:{m:02d}:{s:02d}"
                      for h, m, s in product(range(24),
                                             range(60),
                                             range(60))])
def seconds_to_str(n):
    loc = n * 8
    return hhmmss_str[loc: loc+8]

print(seconds_to_str(12345))

Did that save any space?

# how big is a str of 24*60*60*8 characters?
str_size = sys.getsizeof(hhmmss_str)
print("{:,}".format(str_size))

prints:

691,249

Reduced to about this much:

print(str_size / list_size)

prints:

0.12218026108523448

On the performance side, this looks like a classic memory vs. CPU tradeoff:

import timeit

print("\nindex into pre-calculated list")
print(timeit.timeit("hhmmss[6]", '''from itertools import product; hhmmss = [f"{h:02d}:{m:02d}:{s:02d}"
                     for h, m, s in product(range(24),
                                             range(60),
                                             range(60))]'''))
print("\nget slice from pre-calculated str")
print(timeit.timeit("hhmmss_str[6*8:7*8]", '''from itertools import product; hhmmss_str=''.join([f"{h:02d}:{m:02d}:{s:02d}"
                     for h, m, s in product(range(24),
                                             range(60),
                                             range(60))])'''))

print("\nuse datetime.timedelta from stdlib")
print(timeit.timeit("timedelta(seconds=6)", "from datetime import timedelta"))
print("\ninline compute of h, m, s using divmod")
print(timeit.timeit("n=6;m,s=divmod(n,60);h,m=divmod(m,60);f'{h:02d}:{m:02d}:{s:02d}'"))

On my machine I get:

index into pre-calculated list
0.0434853

get slice from pre-calculated str
0.1085147

use datetime.timedelta from stdlib
0.7625738

inline compute of h, m, s using divmod
2.0477764

Accessing dict_keys element by index in Python3

Try this

keys = [next(iter(x.keys())) for x in test]
print(list(keys))

The result looks like this. ['foo', 'hello']

You can find more possible solutions here.

Is it a good idea to index datetime field in mysql?

Here author performed tests showed that integer unix timestamp is better than DateTime. Note, he used MySql. But I feel no matter what DB engine you use comparing integers are slightly faster than comparing dates so int index is better than DateTime index. Take T1 - time of comparing 2 dates, T2 - time of comparing 2 integers. Search on indexed field takes approximately O(log(rows)) time because index based on some balanced tree - it may be different for different DB engines but anyway Log(rows) is common estimation. (if you not use bitmask or r-tree based index). So difference is (T2-T1)*Log(rows) - may play role if you perform your query oftenly.

NGINX: upstream timed out (110: Connection timed out) while reading response header from upstream

You should always refrain from increasing the timeouts, I doubt your backend server response time is the issue here in any case.

I got around this issue by clearing the connection keep-alive flag and specifying http version as per the answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/36589120/479632

server {
    location / {
        proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header   Host      $http_host;

        # these two lines here
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Connection "";

        proxy_pass http://localhost:5000;
    }
}

Unfortunately I can't explain why this works and didn't manage to decipher it from the docs mentioned in the answer linked either so if anyone has an explanation I'd be very interested to hear it.

box-shadow on bootstrap 3 container

You should give the container an id and use that in your custom css file (which should be linked after the bootstrap css):

#container { box-shadow: values }

'str' object does not support item assignment in Python

The other answers are correct, but you can, of course, do something like:

>>> str1 = "mystring"
>>> list1 = list(str1)
>>> list1[5] = 'u'
>>> str1 = ''.join(list1)
>>> print(str1)
mystrung
>>> type(str1)
<type 'str'>

if you really want to.

jQuery: Get selected element tag name

You can use the DOM's nodeName property:

$(...)[0].nodeName

Today`s date in an excel macro

Here's an example that puts the Now() value in column A.

Sub move()
    Dim i As Integer
    Dim sh1 As Worksheet
    Dim sh2 As Worksheet
    Dim nextRow As Long
    Dim copyRange As Range
    Dim destRange As Range

    Application.ScreenUpdating = False

        Set sh1 = ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1")
        Set sh2 = ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet2")
        Set copyRange = sh1.Range("A1:A5")

        i = Application.WorksheetFunction.CountA(sh2.Range("B:B")) + 4

        Set destRange = sh2.Range("B" & i)

        destRange.Resize(1, copyRange.Rows.Count).Value = Application.Transpose(copyRange.Value)
        destRange.Offset(0, -1).Value = Format(Now(), "MMM-DD-YYYY")

        copyRange.Clear

    Application.ScreenUpdating = True

End Sub

There are better ways of getting the last row in column B than using a While loop, plenty of examples around here. Some are better than others but depend on what you're doing and what your worksheet structure looks like. I used one here which assumes that column B is ALL empty except the rows/records you're moving. If that's not the case, or if B1:B3 have some values in them, you'd need to modify or use another method. Or you could just use your loop, but I'd search for alternatives :)

Copy struct to struct in C

Your memcpy code is correct.

My guess is you are lacking an include of string.h. So the compiler assumes a wrong prototype of memcpy and thus the warning.

Anyway, you should just assign the structs for the sake of simplicity (as Joachim Pileborg pointed out).

Remove leading or trailing spaces in an entire column of data

Quite often the issue is a non-breaking space - CHAR(160) - especially from Web text sources -that CLEAN can't remove, so I would go a step further than this and try a formula like this which replaces any non-breaking spaces with a standard one

=TRIM(CLEAN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,CHAR(160)," ")))

Ron de Bruin has an excellent post on tips for cleaning data here

You can also remove the CHAR(160) directly without a workaround formula by

  • Edit .... Replace your selected data,
  • in Find What hold ALT and type 0160 using the numeric keypad
  • Leave Replace With as blank and select Replace All

AngularJS ui-router login authentication

I Created this module to help make this process piece of cake

You can do things like:

$routeProvider
  .state('secret',
    {
      ...
      permissions: {
        only: ['admin', 'god']
      }
    });

Or also

$routeProvider
  .state('userpanel',
    {
      ...
      permissions: {
        except: ['not-logged-in']
      }
    });

It's brand new but worth checking out!

https://github.com/Narzerus/angular-permission

How can I check whether an array is null / empty?

Method to check array for null or empty also is present on org.apache.commons.lang:

import org.apache.commons.lang.ArrayUtils;

ArrayUtils.isEmpty(array);

Viewing PDF in Windows forms using C#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a59LvC6BOuk

Use the above link

private void btnopen_Click(object sender, EventArgs e){
    OpenFileDialog openFileDialog1 = new OpenFileDialog();
    if (openFileDialog1.ShowDialog() == System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK){
        axAcroPDF1.src = openFileDialog1.FileName;
    }
}

Creating PHP class instance with a string

Yes, you can!

$str = 'One';
$class = 'Class'.$str;
$object = new $class();

When using namespaces, supply the fully qualified name:

$class = '\Foo\Bar\MyClass'; 
$instance = new $class();

Other cool stuff you can do in php are:
Variable variables:

$personCount = 123;
$varname = 'personCount';
echo $$varname; // echo's 123

And variable functions & methods.

$func = 'my_function';
$func('param1'); // calls my_function('param1');

$method = 'doStuff';
$object = new MyClass();
$object->$method(); // calls the MyClass->doStuff() method. 

Zero-pad digits in string

There's also str_pad

<?php
$input = "Alien";
echo str_pad($input, 10);                      // produces "Alien     "
echo str_pad($input, 10, "-=", STR_PAD_LEFT);  // produces "-=-=-Alien"
echo str_pad($input, 10, "_", STR_PAD_BOTH);   // produces "__Alien___"
echo str_pad($input, 6 , "___");               // produces "Alien_"
?>

"No Content-Security-Policy meta tag found." error in my phonegap application

There are errors in your meta tag.

Yours:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Security-Policy" content="default-src *; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; script-src: 'self' 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval'>

Corrected:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Security-Policy" content="default-src *; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval'"/>

Note the colon after "script-src", and the end double-quote of the meta tag.

Scale image to fit a bounding box

Thanks to CSS3 there is a solution !

The solution is to put the image as background-image and then set the background-size to contain.

HTML

<div class='bounding-box'>
</div>

CSS

.bounding-box {
  background-image: url(...);
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-size: contain;
}

Test it here: http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/playit.asp?filename=playcss_background-size&preval=contain

Full compatibility with latest browsers: http://caniuse.com/background-img-opts

To align the div in the center, you can use this variation:

.bounding-box {
  background-image: url(...);
  background-size: contain;
  position: absolute;
  background-position: center;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  height: 100%;
  width: 100%;
}

How to call C++ function from C?

You can prefix the function declaration with extern “C” keyword, e.g.

extern “C” int Mycppfunction()

{

// Code goes here

return 0;

}

For more examples you can search more on Google about “extern” keyword. You need to do few more things, but it's not difficult you'll get lots of examples from Google.

How to create batch file in Windows using "start" with a path and command with spaces

Surrounding the path and the argument with spaces inside quotes as in your example should do. The command may need to handle the quotes when the parameters are passed to it, but it usually is not a big deal.

TypeError: only length-1 arrays can be converted to Python scalars while plot showing

Take note of what is printed for x. You are trying to convert an array (basically just a list) into an int. length-1 would be an array of a single number, which I assume numpy just treats as a float. You could do this, but it's not a purely-numpy solution.

EDIT: I was involved in a post a couple of weeks back where numpy was slower an operation than I had expected and I realised I had fallen into a default mindset that numpy was always the way to go for speed. Since my answer was not as clean as ayhan's, I thought I'd use this space to show that this is another such instance to illustrate that vectorize is around 10% slower than building a list in Python. I don't know enough about numpy to explain why this is the case but perhaps someone else does?

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import datetime

time_start = datetime.datetime.now()

# My original answer
def f(x):
    rebuilt_to_plot = []
    for num in x:
        rebuilt_to_plot.append(np.int(num))
    return rebuilt_to_plot

for t in range(10000):
    x = np.arange(1, 15.1, 0.1)
    plt.plot(x, f(x))

time_end = datetime.datetime.now()

# Answer by ayhan
def f_1(x):
    return np.int(x)

for t in range(10000):
    f2 = np.vectorize(f_1)
    x = np.arange(1, 15.1, 0.1)
    plt.plot(x, f2(x))

time_end_2 = datetime.datetime.now()

print time_end - time_start
print time_end_2 - time_end

Check if all checkboxes are selected

The search criteria is one of these:

input[type=checkbox].MyClass:not(:checked)
input[type=checkbox].MyClass:checked

You probably want to connect to the change event.

javascript, is there an isObject function like isArray?

In jQuery there is $.isPlainObject() method for that:

Description: Check to see if an object is a plain object (created using "{}" or "new Object").

ToList()-- does it create a new list?

A new list is created but the items in it are references to the orginal items (just like in the original list). Changes to the list itself are independent, but to the items will find the change in both lists.

How to set a default value in react-select

I guess you need something like this:

const MySelect = props => (
<Select
    {...props}
    value={props.options.filter(option => option.label === 'Some label')}
    onChange={value => props.input.onChange(value)}
    onBlur={() => props.input.onBlur(props.input.value)}
    options={props.options}
    placeholder={props.placeholder}
  />
);

Why do I get "Procedure expects parameter '@statement' of type 'ntext/nchar/nvarchar'." when I try to use sp_executesql?

I had missed another tiny detail: I forgot the brackets "(100)" behind NVARCHAR.

How can I use std::maps with user-defined types as key?

I'd like to expand a little bit on Pavel Minaev's answer, which you should read before reading my answer. Both solutions presented by Pavel won't compile if the member to be compared (such as id in the question's code) is private. In this case, VS2013 throws the following error for me:

error C2248: 'Class1::id' : cannot access private member declared in class 'Class1'

As mentioned by SkyWalker in the comments on Pavel's answer, using a friend declaration helps. If you wonder about the correct syntax, here it is:

class Class1
{
public:
    Class1(int id) : id(id) {}

private:
    int id;
    friend struct Class1Compare;      // Use this for Pavel's first solution.
    friend struct std::less<Class1>;  // Use this for Pavel's second solution.
};

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However, if you have an access function for your private member, for example getId() for id, as follows:

class Class1
{
public:
    Class1(int id) : id(id) {}
    int getId() const { return id; }

private:
    int id;
};

then you can use it instead of a friend declaration (i.e. you compare lhs.getId() < rhs.getId()). Since C++11, you can also use a lambda expression for Pavel's first solution instead of defining a comparator function object class. Putting everything together, the code could be writtem as follows:

auto comp = [](const Class1& lhs, const Class1& rhs){ return lhs.getId() < rhs.getId(); };
std::map<Class1, int, decltype(comp)> c2int(comp);

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