Programs & Examples On #Oracleinternals

JavaScript Infinitely Looping slideshow with delays?

Perhps this is what you are looking for.

var pos = 0;
window.onload = function start() {
    setTimeout(slide, 3000);
}
function slide() {
   pos -= 600;
   if (pos === -2400)
     pos = 0;
   document.getElementById('container').style.marginLeft= pos + "px";
   setTimeout(slide, 3000);
}

Hiding button using jQuery

It depends on the jQuery selector that you use. Since id should be unique within the DOM, the first one would be simple:

$('#Comanda').hide();

The second one might require something more, depending on the other elements and how to uniquely identify it. If the name of that particular input is unique, then this would work:

$('input[name="Vizualizeaza"]').hide();

Getting a POST variable

Use this for GET values:

Request.QueryString["key"]

And this for POST values

Request.Form["key"]

Also, this will work if you don't care whether it comes from GET or POST, or the HttpContext.Items collection:

Request["key"]

Another thing to note (if you need it) is you can check the type of request by using:

Request.RequestType

Which will be the verb used to access the page (usually GET or POST). Request.IsPostBack will usually work to check this, but only if the POST request includes the hidden fields added to the page by the ASP.NET framework.

Running an executable in Mac Terminal

To run an executable in mac

1). Move to the path of the file:

cd/PATH_OF_THE_FILE

2). Run the following command to set the file's executable bit using the chmod command:

chmod +x ./NAME_OF_THE_FILE

3). Run the following command to execute the file:

./NAME_OF_THE_FILE

Once you have run these commands, going ahead you just have to run command 3, while in the files path.

JavaScript OOP in NodeJS: how?

This is the best video about Object-Oriented JavaScript on the internet:

The Definitive Guide to Object-Oriented JavaScript

Watch from beginning to end!!

Basically, Javascript is a Prototype-based language which is quite different than the classes in Java, C++, C#, and other popular friends. The video explains the core concepts far better than any answer here.

With ES6 (released 2015) we got a "class" keyword which allows us to use Javascript "classes" like we would with Java, C++, C#, Swift, etc.

Screenshot from the video showing how to write and instantiate a Javascript class/subclass: enter image description here

YAML equivalent of array of objects in JSON

TL;DR

You want this:

AAPL:
  - shares: -75.088
    date: 11/27/2015
  - shares: 75.088
    date: 11/26/2015

Mappings

The YAML equivalent of a JSON object is a mapping, which looks like these:

# flow style
{ foo: 1, bar: 2 }
# block style
foo: 1
bar: 2

Note that the first characters of the keys in a block mapping must be in the same column. To demonstrate:

# OK
   foo: 1
   bar: 2
# Parse error
   foo: 1
    bar: 2

Sequences

The equivalent of a JSON array in YAML is a sequence, which looks like either of these (which are equivalent):

# flow style
[ foo bar, baz ]
# block style
- foo bar
- baz

In a block sequence the -s must be in the same column.

JSON to YAML

Let's turn your JSON into YAML. Here's your JSON:

{"AAPL": [
  {
    "shares": -75.088,
    "date": "11/27/2015"
  },
  {
    "shares": 75.088,
    "date": "11/26/2015"
  },
]}

As a point of trivia, YAML is a superset of JSON, so the above is already valid YAML—but let's actually use YAML's features to make this prettier.

Starting from the inside out, we have objects that look like this:

{
  "shares": -75.088,
  "date": "11/27/2015"
}

The equivalent YAML mapping is:

shares: -75.088
date: 11/27/2015

We have two of these in an array (sequence):

- shares: -75.088
  date: 11/27/2015
- shares: 75.088
  date: 11/26/2015

Note how the -s line up and the first characters of the mapping keys line up.

Finally, this sequence is itself a value in a mapping with the key AAPL:

AAPL:
  - shares: -75.088
    date: 11/27/2015
  - shares: 75.088
    date: 11/26/2015

Parsing this and converting it back to JSON yields the expected result:

{
  "AAPL": [
    {
      "date": "11/27/2015", 
      "shares": -75.088
    }, 
    {
      "date": "11/26/2015", 
      "shares": 75.088
    }
  ]
}

You can see it (and edit it interactively) here.

How to get bean using application context in spring boot

Using SpringApplication.run(Class<?> primarySource, String... arg) worked for me. E.g.:

@SpringBootApplication
public class YourApplication {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ConfigurableApplicationContext context = SpringApplication.run(YourApplication.class, args);

    }
}

COALESCE Function in TSQL

Simplest definition of the Coalesce() function could be:

Coalesce() function evaluates all passed arguments then returns the value of the first instance of the argument that did not evaluate to a NULL.

Note: it evaluates ALL parameters, i.e. does not skip evaluation of the argument(s) on the right side of the returned/NOT NULL parameter.

Syntax:

Coalesce(arg1, arg2, argN...)

Beware: Apart from the arguments that evaluate to NULL, all other (NOT-NULL) arguments must either be of same datatype or must be of matching-types (that can be "implicitly auto-converted" into a compatible datatype), see examples below:

PRINT COALESCE(NULL, ('str-'+'1'), 'x')  --returns 'str-1, works as all args (excluding NULLs) are of same VARCHAR type.
--PRINT COALESCE(NULL, 'text', '3', 3)    --ERROR: passed args are NOT matching type / can't be implicitly converted.
PRINT COALESCE(NULL, 3, 7.0/2, 1.99)      --returns 3.0, works fine as implicit conversion into FLOAT type takes place.
PRINT COALESCE(NULL, '1995-01-31', 'str') --returns '2018-11-16', works fine as implicit conversion into VARCHAR occurs.

DECLARE @dt DATE = getdate()
PRINT COALESCE(NULL, @dt, '1995-01-31')  --returns today's date, works fine as implicit conversion into DATE type occurs.

--DATE comes before VARCHAR (works):
PRINT COALESCE(NULL, @dt, 'str')      --returns '2018-11-16', works fine as implicit conversion of Date into VARCHAR occurs.

--VARCHAR comes before DATE (does NOT work):
PRINT COALESCE(NULL, 'str', @dt)      --ERROR: passed args are NOT matching type, can't auto-cast 'str' into Date type.

HTH

How do I print a list of "Build Settings" in Xcode project?

In Xcode 4 and possibly before, in the run script build phase there is an option "Show enviroment variables in build phase". If selected this will show then on a olive green background in the build log.

How do I pass a list as a parameter in a stored procedure?

You can use this simple 'inline' method to construct a string_list_type parameter (works in SQL Server 2014):

declare @p1 dbo.string_list_type
insert into @p1 values(N'myFirstString')
insert into @p1 values(N'mySecondString')

Example use when executing a stored proc:

exec MyStoredProc @MyParam=@p1

How do I use Maven through a proxy?

How to use a socks proxy?

Set up a SSH tunnel to a server somewhere:

ssh -D $PORT $USER@$SERVER

Linux (bash):

export MAVEN_OPTS="-DsocksProxyHost=127.0.0.1 -DsocksProxyPort=$PORT"

Windows:

set MAVEN_OPTS="-DsocksProxyHost=127.0.0.1 -DsocksProxyPort=$PORT"

How do I change the default index page in Apache?

I recommend using .htaccess. You only need to add:

DirectoryIndex home.php

or whatever page name you want to have for it.

EDIT: basic htaccess tutorial.

1) Create .htaccess file in the directory where you want to change the index file.

  • no extension
  • . in front, to ensure it is a "hidden" file

Enter the line above in there. There will likely be many, many other things you will add to this (AddTypes for webfonts / media files, caching for headers, gzip declaration for compression, etc.), but that one line declares your new "home" page.

2) Set server to allow reading of .htaccess files (may only be needed on your localhost, if your hosting servce defaults to allow it as most do)

Assuming you have access, go to your server's enabled site location. I run a Debian server for development, and the default site setup is at /etc/apache2/sites-available/default for Debian / Ubuntu. Not sure what server you run, but just search for "sites-available" and go into the "default" document. In there you will see an entry for Directory. Modify it to look like this:

<Directory /var/www/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
</Directory>

Then restart your apache server. Again, not sure about your server, but the command on Debian / Ubuntu is:

sudo service apache2 restart

Technically you only need to reload, but I restart just because I feel safer with a full refresh like that.

Once that is done, your site should be reading from your .htaccess file, and you should have a new default home page! A side note, if you have a sub-directory that runs a site (like an admin section or something) and you want to have a different "home page" for that directory, you can just plop another .htaccess file in that sub-site's root and it will overwrite the declaration in the parent.

How to ignore files/directories in TFS for avoiding them to go to central source repository?

For TFS 2013:

Start in VisualStudio-Team Explorer, in the PendingChanges Dialog undo the Changes whith the state [add], which should be ignored.

Visual Studio will detect the Add(s) again. Click On "Detected: x add(s)"-in Excluded Changes

In the opened "Promote Cadidate Changes"-Dialog You can easy exclude Files and Folders with the Contextmenu. Options are:

  • Ignore this item
  • Ignore by extension
  • Ignore by file name
  • Ignore by ffolder (yes ffolder, TFS 2013 Update 4/Visual Studio 2013 Premium Update 4)

Don't forget to Check In the changed .tfignore-File.

For VS 2015/2017:

The same procedure: In the "Excluded Changes Tab" in TeamExplorer\Pending Changes click on Detected: xxx add(s)

The Excluded Changes Tab in TeamExplorer\Pending Changes

The "Promote Candidate Changes" Dialog opens, and on the entries you can Right-Click for the Contextmenu. Typo is fixed now :-)

What is the purpose of the var keyword and when should I use it (or omit it)?

Inside a code you if you use a variable without using var, then what happens is the automatically var var_name is placed in the global scope eg:

someFunction() {
    var a = some_value; /*a has local scope and it cannot be accessed when this
    function is not active*/
    b = a; /*here it places "var b" at top of script i.e. gives b global scope or
    uses already defined global variable b */
}

How to use timeit module

If you want to use timeit in an interactive Python session, there are two convenient options:

  1. Use the IPython shell. It features the convenient %timeit special function:

    In [1]: def f(x):
       ...:     return x*x
       ...: 
    
    In [2]: %timeit for x in range(100): f(x)
    100000 loops, best of 3: 20.3 us per loop
    
  2. In a standard Python interpreter, you can access functions and other names you defined earlier during the interactive session by importing them from __main__ in the setup statement:

    >>> def f(x):
    ...     return x * x 
    ... 
    >>> import timeit
    >>> timeit.repeat("for x in range(100): f(x)", "from __main__ import f",
                      number=100000)
    [2.0640320777893066, 2.0876040458679199, 2.0520210266113281]
    

Avoid printStackTrace(); use a logger call instead

If you call printStackTrace() on an exception the trace is written to System.err and it's hard to route it elsewhere (or filter it). Instead of doing this you are adviced to use a logging framework (or a wrapper around multiple logging frameworks, like Apache Commons Logging) and log the exception using that framework (e.g. logger.error("some exception message", e)).

Doing that allows you to:

  • write the log statement to different locations at once, e.g. the console and a file
  • filter the log statements by severity (error, warning, info, debug etc.) and origin (normally package or class based)
  • have some influence on the log format without having to change the code
  • etc.

Rails has_many with alias name

You could do this two different ways. One is by using "as"

has_many :tasks, :as => :jobs

or

def jobs
     self.tasks
end

Obviously the first one would be the best way to handle it.

Creating a byte array from a stream

i was able to make it work on a single line:

byte [] byteArr= ((MemoryStream)localStream).ToArray();

as clarified by johnnyRose, Above code will only work for MemoryStream

Angular 2: Get Values of Multiple Checked Checkboxes

I hope this would help someone who has the same problem.

templet.html

<form [formGroup] = "myForm" (ngSubmit) = "confirmFlights(myForm.value)">
  <ng-template ngFor [ngForOf]="flightList" let-flight let-i="index" >
     <input type="checkbox" [value]="flight.id" formControlName="flightid"
         (change)="flightids[i]=[$event.target.checked,$event.target.getAttribute('value')]" >
  </ng-template>
</form>

component.ts

flightids array will have another arrays like this [ [ true, 'id_1'], [ false, 'id_2'], [ true, 'id_3']...] here true means user checked it, false means user checked then unchecked it. The items that user have never checked will not be inserted to the array.

flightids = []; 
confirmFlights(value){  
    //console.log(this.flightids);

    let confirmList = [];
    this.flightids.forEach(id => {
      if(id[0]) // here, true means that user checked the item 
        confirmList.push(this.flightList.find(x => x.id === id[1]));
    });
    //console.log(confirmList);

}

How to get disk capacity and free space of remote computer

I created this simple function to help me. This makes my calls a lot easier to read that having inline an Get-WmiObject, Where-Object statements, etc.

function GetDiskSizeInfo($drive) {
    $diskReport = Get-WmiObject Win32_logicaldisk
    $drive = $diskReport | Where-Object { $_.DeviceID -eq $drive}

    $result = @{
        Size = $drive.Size
        FreeSpace = $drive.Freespace
    }
    return $result
}

$diskspace = GetDiskSizeInfo "C:"
write-host $diskspace.FreeSpace " " $diskspace.Size

Invalid character in identifier

This error occurs mainly when copy-pasting the code. Try editing/replacing minus(-), bracket({) symbols.

How do I sort a list of dictionaries by a value of the dictionary?

import operator

To sort the list of dictionaries by key='name':

list_of_dicts.sort(key=operator.itemgetter('name'))

To sort the list of dictionaries by key='age':

list_of_dicts.sort(key=operator.itemgetter('age'))

Browse for a directory in C#

You could just use the FolderBrowserDialog class from the System.Windows.Forms namespace.

Amazon AWS Filezilla transfer permission denied

In my case the /var/www/html in not a directory but a symbolic link to the /var/app/current, so you should change the real directoy ie /var/app/current:

sudo chown -R ec2-user /var/app/current
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/app/current

I hope this save some of your times :)

"rm -rf" equivalent for Windows?

RMDIR or RD if you are using the classic Command Prompt (cmd.exe):

rd /s /q "path"

RMDIR [/S] [/Q] [drive:]path

RD [/S] [/Q] [drive:]path

/S Removes all directories and files in the specified directory in addition to the directory itself. Used to remove a directory tree.

/Q Quiet mode, do not ask if ok to remove a directory tree with /S

If you are using PowerShell you can use Remove-Item (which is aliased to del, erase, rd, ri, rm and rmdir) and takes a -Recurse argument that can be shorted to -r

rd -r "path"

How to call a function, PostgreSQL

For Postgresql you can use PERFORM. PERFORM is only valid within PL/PgSQL procedure language.

DO $$ BEGIN
    PERFORM "saveUser"(3, 'asd','asd','asd','asd','asd');
END $$;

The suggestion from the postgres team:

HINT: If you want to discard the results of a SELECT, use PERFORM instead.

How to execute raw queries with Laravel 5.1?

you can run raw query like this way too.

DB::table('setting_colleges')->first();

Example use of "continue" statement in Python?

Here's a simple example:

for letter in 'Django':    
    if letter == 'D':
        continue
    print("Current Letter: " + letter)

Output will be:

Current Letter: j
Current Letter: a
Current Letter: n
Current Letter: g
Current Letter: o

It continues to the next iteration of the loop.

compareTo() vs. equals()

A difference is that "foo".equals((String)null) returns false while "foo".compareTo((String)null) == 0 throws a NullPointerException. So they are not always interchangeable even for Strings.

SSIS - Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page - Special Characters

If you go to the Flat file connection manager under Advanced and Look at the "OutputColumnWidth" description's ToolTip It will tell you that Composit characters may use more spaces. So the "é" in "Société" most likely occupies more than one character.

EDIT: Here's something about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precomposed_character

How do I get to IIS Manager?

First of all, you need to check that the IIS is installed in your machine, for that you can go to:

Control Panel --> Add or Remove Programs --> Windows Features --> And Check if Internet Information Services is installed with at least the 'Web Administration Tools' Enabled and The 'World Wide Web Service'

If not, check it, and Press Accept to install it.

Once that is done, you need to go to Administrative Tools in Control Panel and the IIS Will be there. Or simply run inetmgr (after Win+R).

Edit: You should have something like this: enter image description here

How to implement infinity in Java?

To use Infinity, you can use Double which supports Infinity: -

    System.out.println(Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY);
    System.out.println(Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY * -1);
    System.out.println(Double.NEGATIVE_INFINITY);

    System.out.println(Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY - Double.NEGATIVE_INFINITY);
    System.out.println(Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY - Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY);

OUTPUT: -

Infinity
-Infinity
-Infinity

Infinity 
NaN

Add a Progress Bar in WebView

Here is the code that I am using:

Inside WebViewClient:

               @Override
             public void onPageStarted(WebView view, String url, Bitmap favicon) {

              super.onPageStarted(view, url, favicon);
              findViewById(R.id.progress1).setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
             }

            @Override
            public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
                findViewById(R.id.progress1).setVisibility(View.GONE);
            }

Here is the XML :

<ProgressBar
    android:id="@+id/progress1"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
    android:layout_centerVertical="true"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

Hope this helps..

What are the differences between .gitignore and .gitkeep?

.gitkeep is just a placeholder. A dummy file, so Git will not forget about the directory, since Git tracks only files.


If you want an empty directory and make sure it stays 'clean' for Git, create a .gitignore containing the following lines within:

# .gitignore sample
###################

# Ignore all files in this dir...
*

# ... except for this one.
!.gitignore

If you desire to have only one type of files being visible to Git, here is an example how to filter everything out, except .gitignore and all .txt files:

# .gitignore to keep just .txt files
###################################

# Filter everything...
*

# ... except the .gitignore...
!.gitignore

# ... and all text files.
!*.txt

('#' indicates comments.)

Retrieving subfolders names in S3 bucket from boto3

The following works for me... S3 objects:

s3://bucket/
    form1/
       section11/
          file111
          file112
       section12/
          file121
    form2/
       section21/
          file211
          file112
       section22/
          file221
          file222
          ...
      ...
   ...

Using:

from boto3.session import Session
s3client = session.client('s3')
resp = s3client.list_objects(Bucket=bucket, Prefix='', Delimiter="/")
forms = [x['Prefix'] for x in resp['CommonPrefixes']] 

we get:

form1/
form2/
...

With:

resp = s3client.list_objects(Bucket=bucket, Prefix='form1/', Delimiter="/")
sections = [x['Prefix'] for x in resp['CommonPrefixes']] 

we get:

form1/section11/
form1/section12/

What does "publicPath" in Webpack do?

You can use publicPath to point to the location where you want webpack-dev-server to serve its "virtual" files. The publicPath option will be the same location of the content-build option for webpack-dev-server. webpack-dev-server creates virtual files that it will use when you start it. These virtual files resemble the actual bundled files webpack creates. Basically you will want the --content-base option to point to the directory your index.html is in. Here is an example setup:

//application directory structure
/app/
/build/
/build/index.html
/webpack.config.js


//webpack.config.js
var path = require("path");
module.exports = {
...
  output: {
    path: path.resolve(__dirname, "build"),
    publicPath: "/assets/",
    filename: "bundle.js"
  }
};  


//index.html
<!DOCTYPE>
<html>
...
<script src="assets/bundle.js"></script>
</html>

//starting a webpack-dev-server from the command line
$ webpack-dev-server --content-base build 

webpack-dev-server has created a virtual assets folder along with a virtual bundle.js file that it refers to. You can test this by going to localhost:8080/assets/bundle.js then check in your application for these files. They are only generated when you run the webpack-dev-server.

Convert a String to Modified Camel Case in Java or Title Case as is otherwise called

I used the below to solve this problem.

import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
StringUtils.capitalize(MyString);

Thanks to Ted Hopp for rightly pointing out that the question should have been TITLE CASE instead of modified CAMEL CASE.

Camel Case is usually without spaces between words.

Android - Set text to TextView

final TextView err = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.texto);
err.setText("Escriba su mensaje y luego seleccione el canal.");

you can find every thing you need about textview here

ctypes - Beginner

Here's a quick and dirty ctypes tutorial.

First, write your C library. Here's a simple Hello world example:

testlib.c

#include <stdio.h>

void myprint(void);

void myprint()
{
    printf("hello world\n");
}

Now compile it as a shared library (mac fix found here):

$ gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,testlib -o testlib.so -fPIC testlib.c

# or... for Mac OS X 
$ gcc -shared -Wl,-install_name,testlib.so -o testlib.so -fPIC testlib.c

Then, write a wrapper using ctypes:

testlibwrapper.py

import ctypes

testlib = ctypes.CDLL('/full/path/to/testlib.so')
testlib.myprint()

Now execute it:

$ python testlibwrapper.py

And you should see the output

Hello world
$

If you already have a library in mind, you can skip the non-python part of the tutorial. Make sure ctypes can find the library by putting it in /usr/lib or another standard directory. If you do this, you don't need to specify the full path when writing the wrapper. If you choose not to do this, you must provide the full path of the library when calling ctypes.CDLL().

This isn't the place for a more comprehensive tutorial, but if you ask for help with specific problems on this site, I'm sure the community would help you out.

PS: I'm assuming you're on Linux because you've used ctypes.CDLL('libc.so.6'). If you're on another OS, things might change a little bit (or quite a lot).

Error handling in C code

Here is an approach which I think is interesting, while requiring some discipline.

This assumes a handle-type variable is the instance on which operate all API functions.

The idea is that the struct behind the handle stores the previous error as a struct with necessary data (code, message...), and the user is provided with a function that returns a pointer to this error object. Each operation will update the pointed object so the user can check its status without even calling functions. As opposed to the errno pattern, the error code is not global, which make the approach thread-safe, as long as each handle is properly used.

Example:

MyHandle * h = MyApiCreateHandle();

/* first call checks for pointer nullity, since we cannot retrieve error code
   on a NULL pointer */
if (h == NULL)
     return 0; 

/* from here h is a valid handle */

/* get a pointer to the error struct that will be updated with each call */
MyApiError * err = MyApiGetError(h);

MyApiFileDescriptor * fd = MyApiOpenFile("/path/to/file.ext");

/* we want to know what can go wrong */
if (err->code != MyApi_ERROR_OK) {
    fprintf(stderr, "(%d) %s\n", err->code, err->message);
    MyApiDestroy(h);
    return 0;
}

MyApiRecord record;

/* here the API could refuse to execute the operation if the previous one
   yielded an error, and eventually close the file descriptor itself if
   the error is not recoverable */
MyApiReadFileRecord(h, &record, sizeof(record));

/* we want to know what can go wrong, here using a macro checking for failure */
if (MyApi_FAILED(err)) {
    fprintf(stderr, "(%d) %s\n", err->code, err->message);
    MyApiDestroy(h);
    return 0;
}

Unable to import path from django.urls

You need Django version 2

pip install --upgrade django
pip3 install --upgrade django

python -m django --version # 2.0.2
python3 -m django --version # 2.0.2

How to read fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);

Loop through the array like any other Associative Array:

while($data = $datas->fetch( PDO::FETCH_ASSOC )){ 
     print $data['title'].'<br>'; 
}

or

$resultset = $datas->fetchALL(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);

echo '<pre>'.$resultset.'</pre>';

Adding files to a GitHub repository

The general idea is to add, commit and push your files to the GitHub repo.

First you need to clone your GitHub repo.
Then, you would git add all the files from your other folder: one trick is to specify an alternate working tree when git add'ing your files.

git --work-tree=yourSrcFolder add .

(done from the root directory of your cloned Git repo, then git commit -m "a msg", and git push origin master)

That way, you keep separate your initial source folder, from your Git working tree.


Note that since early December 2012, you can create new files directly from GitHub:

Create new File

ProTip™: You can pre-fill the filename field using just the URL.
Typing ?filename=yournewfile.txt at the end of the URL will pre-fill the filename field with the name yournewfile.txt.

d

Find and Replace string in all files recursive using grep and sed

sed expression needs to be quoted

sed -i "s/$oldstring/$newstring/g"

jQuery check if Cookie exists, if not create it

 $(document).ready(function() {

     var CookieSet = $.cookie('cookietitle', 'yourvalue');

     if (CookieSet == null) {
          // Do Nothing
     }
     if (jQuery.cookie('cookietitle')) {
          // Reactions
     }
 });

cURL equivalent in Node.js?

There is npm module to make a curl like request, npm curlrequest.

Step 1: $npm i -S curlrequest

Step 2: In your node file

let curl = require('curlrequest')
let options = {} // url, method, data, timeout,data, etc can be passed as options 
curl.request(options,(err,response)=>{
// err is the error returned  from the api
// response contains the data returned from the api
})

For further reading and understanding, npm curlrequest

How can I plot data with confidence intervals?

Here is part of my program related to plotting confidence interval.

1. Generate the test data

ads = 1
require(stats); require(graphics)
library(splines)
x_raw <- seq(1,10,0.1)
y <- cos(x_raw)+rnorm(len_data,0,0.1)
y[30] <- 1.4 # outlier point
len_data = length(x_raw)
N <- len_data
summary(fm1 <- lm(y~bs(x_raw, df=5), model = TRUE, x =T, y = T))
ht <-seq(1,10,length.out = len_data)
plot(x = x_raw, y = y,type = 'p')
y_e <- predict(fm1, data.frame(height = ht))
lines(x= ht, y = y_e)

Result

enter image description here

2. Fitting the raw data using B-spline smoother method

sigma_e <- sqrt(sum((y-y_e)^2)/N)
print(sigma_e)
H<-fm1$x
A <-solve(t(H) %*% H)
y_e_minus <- rep(0,N)
y_e_plus <- rep(0,N)
y_e_minus[N]
for (i in 1:N)
{
    tmp <-t(matrix(H[i,])) %*% A %*% matrix(H[i,])
    tmp <- 1.96*sqrt(tmp)
    y_e_minus[i] <- y_e[i] - tmp
    y_e_plus[i] <- y_e[i] + tmp
}
plot(x = x_raw, y = y,type = 'p')
polygon(c(ht,rev(ht)),c(y_e_minus,rev(y_e_plus)),col = rgb(1, 0, 0,0.5), border = NA)
#plot(x = x_raw, y = y,type = 'p')
lines(x= ht, y = y_e_plus, lty = 'dashed', col = 'red')
lines(x= ht, y = y_e)
lines(x= ht, y = y_e_minus, lty = 'dashed', col = 'red')

Result

enter image description here

How to predict input image using trained model in Keras?

keras predict_classes (docs) outputs A numpy array of class predictions. Which in your model case, the index of neuron of highest activation from your last(softmax) layer. [[0]] means that your model predicted that your test data is class 0. (usually you will be passing multiple image, and the result will look like [[0], [1], [1], [0]] )

You must convert your actual label (e.g. 'cancer', 'not cancer') into binary encoding (0 for 'cancer', 1 for 'not cancer') for binary classification. Then you will interpret your sequence output of [[0]] as having class label 'cancer'

How to make audio autoplay on chrome

The browsers have changed their privacy to autoplay video or audio due to Ads which is annoying. So you can just trick with below code.

You can put any silent audio in the iframe.

<iframe src="youraudiofile.mp3" type="audio/mp3" allow="autoplay" id="audio" style="display:none"></iframe>
<audio autoplay>
    <source src="youraudiofile.mp3" type="audio/mp3">
</audio>

Just add an invisible iframe with an .mp3 as its source and allow="autoplay" before the audio element. As a result, the browser is tricked into starting any subsequent audio file. Or autoplay a video that isn’t muted.

How to convert DateTime to VarChar

declare @dt datetime

set @dt = getdate()

select convert(char(10),@dt,120) 

I have fixed data length of char(10) as you want a specific string format.

Simple URL GET/POST function in Python

You could use this to wrap urllib2:

def URLRequest(url, params, method="GET"):
    if method == "POST":
        return urllib2.Request(url, data=urllib.urlencode(params))
    else:
        return urllib2.Request(url + "?" + urllib.urlencode(params))

That will return a Request object that has result data and response codes.

TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable in Python

For me it was a case of having my Groovy hat on instead of the Python 3 one.

Forgot the return keyword at the end of a def function.

Had not been coding Python 3 in earnest for a couple of months. Was thinking last statement evaluated in routine was being returned per the Groovy (or Rust) way.

Took a few iterations, looking at the stack trace, inserting try: ... except TypeError: ... block debugging/stepping thru code to figure out what was wrong.

The solution for the message certainly did not make the error jump out at me.

ImageMagick security policy 'PDF' blocking conversion

I was experiencing this issue with nextcloud which would fail to create thumbnails for pdf files.

However, none of the suggested steps would solve the issue for me.

Eventually I found the reason: The accepted answer did work but I had to also restart php-fpm after editing the policy.xml file:

 sudo systemctl restart php7.2-fpm.service

Please explain about insertable=false and updatable=false in reference to the JPA @Column annotation

I would like to add to the answers of BalusC and Pascal Thivent another common use of insertable=false, updatable=false:

Consider a column that is not an id but some kind of sequence number. The responsibility for calculating the sequence number may not necessarily belong to the application.

For example, sequence number starts with 1000 and should increment by one for each new entity. This is easily done, and very appropriately so, in the database, and in such cases these configurations makes sense.

How can I assign the output of a function to a variable using bash?

VAR=$(scan)

Exactly the same way as for programs.

Why am I getting InputMismatchException?

Are you providing write input to the console ?

Scanner reader = new Scanner(System.in);
num = reader.nextDouble();  

This is return double if you just enter number like 456. In case you enter a string or character instead,it will throw java.util.InputMismatchException when it tries to do num = reader.nextDouble() .

Convert String to SecureString

unsafe 
{
    fixed(char* psz = password)
        return new SecureString(psz, password.Length);
}

CSS background image URL failing to load

Source location should be the URL (relative to the css file or full web location), not a file system full path, for example:

background: url("http://localhost/media/css/static/img/sprites/buttons-v3-10.png");
background: url("static/img/sprites/buttons-v3-10.png");

Alternatively, you can try to use file:/// protocol prefix.

How to create a CPU spike with a bash command

:(){ :|:& };:

This fork bomb will cause havoc to the CPU and will likely crash your computer.

How can I set focus on an element in an HTML form using JavaScript?

For plain Javascript, try the following:

window.onload = function() {
  document.getElementById("TextBoxName").focus();
};

Installing RubyGems in Windows

I use scoop as command-liner installer for Windows... scoop rocks!
The quick answer (use PowerShell):

PS C:\Users\myuser> scoop install ruby

Longer answer:

Just searching for ruby:

PS C:\Users\myuser> scoop search ruby
'main' bucket:
    jruby (9.2.7.0)
    ruby (2.6.3-1)

'versions' bucket:
    ruby19 (1.9.3-p551)
    ruby24 (2.4.6-1)
    ruby25 (2.5.5-1)

Check the installation info :

PS C:\Users\myuser> scoop info ruby
Name: ruby
Version: 2.6.3-1
Website: https://rubyinstaller.org
Manifest:
  C:\Users\myuser\scoop\buckets\main\bucket\ruby.json
Installed: No
Environment: (simulated)
  GEM_HOME=C:\Users\myuser\scoop\apps\ruby\current\gems
  GEM_PATH=C:\Users\myuser\scoop\apps\ruby\current\gems
  PATH=%PATH%;C:\Users\myuser\scoop\apps\ruby\current\bin
  PATH=%PATH%;C:\Users\myuser\scoop\apps\ruby\current\gems\bin

Output from installation:

PS C:\Users\myuser> scoop install ruby
Updating Scoop...
Updating 'extras' bucket...
Installing 'ruby' (2.6.3-1) [64bit]
rubyinstaller-2.6.3-1-x64.7z (10.3 MB) [============================= ... ===========] 100%
Checking hash of rubyinstaller-2.6.3-1-x64.7z ... ok.
Extracting rubyinstaller-2.6.3-1-x64.7z ... done.
Linking ~\scoop\apps\ruby\current => ~\scoop\apps\ruby\2.6.3-1
Persisting gems
Running post-install script...
Fetching rake-12.3.3.gem
Successfully installed rake-12.3.3
Parsing documentation for rake-12.3.3
Installing ri documentation for rake-12.3.3
Done installing documentation for rake after 1 seconds
1 gem installed
'ruby' (2.6.3-1) was installed successfully!
Notes
-----
Install MSYS2 via 'scoop install msys2' and then run 'ridk install' to install the toolchain!
'ruby' suggests installing 'msys2'.
PS C:\Users\myuser>

pip cannot install anything

I faced the same issue and this error is because of 'Proxy Setting'. The syntax below helped me in resolving it successfully:

sudo pip --proxy=http://username:password@proxyURL:portNumber install yolk

tsconfig.json: Build:No inputs were found in config file

add .ts file location in 'include' tag then compile work fine. ex.

"include": [
"wwwroot/**/*" ]

ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can't connect to MySQL server (111)

I had this same error and I didn't understand but I realized that my modem was using the same port as mysql. Well, I stop apache2.service by sudo systemctl stop apache2.service and restarted the xammp, sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start

Just maybe, if you were not using a password for mysql yet you had, 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES), then you have to pass an empty string as the password

Calculate distance in meters when you know longitude and latitude in java

You can use the Java Geodesy Library for GPS, it uses the Vincenty's formulae which takes account of the earths surface curvature.

Implementation goes like this:

import org.gavaghan.geodesy.*;

...

GeodeticCalculator geoCalc = new GeodeticCalculator();

Ellipsoid reference = Ellipsoid.WGS84;  

GlobalPosition pointA = new GlobalPosition(latitude, longitude, 0.0); // Point A

GlobalPosition userPos = new GlobalPosition(userLat, userLon, 0.0); // Point B

double distance = geoCalc.calculateGeodeticCurve(reference, userPos, pointA).getEllipsoidalDistance(); // Distance between Point A and Point B

The resulting distance is in meters.

How to get rid of underline for Link component of React Router?

I have resolve a problem maybe like your. I tried to inspect element in firefox. I will show you some results:

  1. It is only the element I have inspect. The "Link" component will be convert to "a" tag, and "to" props will be convert to the "href" property:

  1. And when I tick in :hov and option :hover and here is result:

As you see a:hover have text-decoration: underline. I only add to my css file:

a:hover {
 text-decoration: none;
}

and problem is resolved. But I also set text-decoration: none in some another classes (like you :D), that may be make some effects (I guess).

Declaring and initializing a string array in VB.NET

I believe you need to specify "Option Infer On" for this to work.

Option Infer allows the compiler to make a guess at what is being represented by your code, thus it will guess that {"stuff"} is an array of strings. With "Option Infer Off", {"stuff"} won't have any type assigned to it, ever, and so it will always fail, without a type specifier.

Option Infer is, I think On by default in new projects, but Off by default when you migrate from earlier frameworks up to 3.5.

Opinion incoming:

Also, you mention that you've got "Option Explicit Off". Please don't do this.

Setting "Option Explicit Off" means that you don't ever have to declare variables. This means that the following code will silently and invisibly create the variable "Y":

Dim X as Integer
Y = 3

This is horrible, mad, and wrong. It creates variables when you make typos. I keep hoping that they'll remove it from the language.

Android: How to enable/disable option menu item on button click?

simplify @Vikas version

@Override
public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu (Menu menu) {

    menu.findItem(R.id.example_foobar).setEnabled(isFinalized);
    return true;
}

How to auto adjust the <div> height according to content in it?

If you haven't gotten the answer yet, your "float:left;" is messing up what you want. In your HTML create a container below your closing tags that have floating applied. For this container, include this as your style:

#container {
clear:both;
}

Done.

How to create JSON Object using String?

If you use the gson.JsonObject you can have something like that:

import com.google.gson.JsonObject;
import com.google.gson.JsonParser;

String jsonString = "{'test1':'value1','test2':{'id':0,'name':'testName'}}"
JsonObject jsonObject = (JsonObject) jsonParser.parse(jsonString)

Displaying output of a remote command with Ansible

I'm not sure about the syntax of your specific commands (e.g., vagrant, etc), but in general...

Just register Ansible's (not-normally-shown) JSON output to a variable, then display each variable's stdout_lines attribute:

- name: Generate SSH keys for vagrant user
  user: name=vagrant generate_ssh_key=yes ssh_key_bits=2048
  register: vagrant
- debug: var=vagrant.stdout_lines

- name: Show SSH public key
  command: /bin/cat $home_directory/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
  register: cat
- debug: var=cat.stdout_lines

- name: Wait for user to copy SSH public key
  pause: prompt="Please add the SSH public key above to your GitHub account"
  register: pause
- debug: var=pause.stdout_lines

Reverse engineering from an APK file to a project

There are two useful tools which will generate Java code (rough but good enough) from an unknown APK file.

  1. Download dex2jar tool from dex2jar.
  2. Use the tool to convert the APK file to JAR:

    $ d2j-dex2jar.bat demo.apk
    dex2jar demo.apk -> ./demo-dex2jar.jar
    
  3. Once the JAR file is generated, use JD-GUI to open the JAR file. You will see the Java files.

The output will be similar to:

JD GUI

Avoid trailing zeroes in printf()

Here is my first try at an answer:

void
xprintfloat(char *format, float f)
{
  char s[50];
  char *p;

  sprintf(s, format, f);
  for(p=s; *p; ++p)
    if('.' == *p) {
      while(*++p);
      while('0'==*--p) *p = '\0';
    }
  printf("%s", s);
}

Known bugs: Possible buffer overflow depending on format. If "." is present for other reason than %f wrong result might happen.

How to: "Separate table rows with a line"

You have to use CSS.

In my opinion when you have a table often it is good with a separate line each side of the line.

Try this code:

HTML:

<table>
    <tr class="row"><td>row 1</td></tr>
    <tr class="row"><td>row 2</td></tr>
</table>

CSS:

.row {
    border:1px solid black; 
}

Bye

Andrea

Angular2: child component access parent class variable/function

What about a little trickery like NgModel does with NgForm? You have to register your parent as a provider, then load your parent in the constructor of the child.

That way, you don't have to put [sharedList] on all your children.

// Parent.ts
export var parentProvider = {
    provide: Parent,
    useExisting: forwardRef(function () { return Parent; })
};

@Component({
    moduleId: module.id,
    selector: 'parent',
    template: '<div><ng-content></ng-content></div>',
    providers: [parentProvider]
})
export class Parent {
    @Input()
    public sharedList = [];
}

// Child.ts
@Component({
    moduleId: module.id,
    selector: 'child',
    template: '<div>child</div>'
})
export class Child {
    constructor(private parent: Parent) {
        parent.sharedList.push('Me.');
    }
}

Then your HTML

<parent [sharedList]="myArray">
    <child></child>
    <child></child>
</parent>

You can find more information on the subject in the Angular documentation: https://angular.io/guide/dependency-injection-in-action#find-a-parent-component-by-injection

Creating a Shopping Cart using only HTML/JavaScript

You simply need to use simpleCart

It is a free and open-source javascript shopping cart that easily integrates with your current website.

You will get the full source code at github

How to get the text node of an element?

var text = $(".title").contents().filter(function() {
  return this.nodeType == Node.TEXT_NODE;
}).text();

This gets the contents of the selected element, and applies a filter function to it. The filter function returns only text nodes (i.e. those nodes with nodeType == Node.TEXT_NODE).

How do I auto-hide placeholder text upon focus using css or jquery?

Sometimes you need SPECIFICITY to make sure your styles are applied with strongest factor id Thanks for @Rob Fletcher for his great answer, in our company we have used

So please consider adding styles prefixed with the id of the app container

_x000D_
_x000D_
    #app input:focus::-webkit-input-placeholder, #app  textarea:focus::-webkit-input-placeholder {_x000D_
        color: #FFFFFF;_x000D_
    }_x000D_
_x000D_
    #app input:focus:-moz-placeholder, #app textarea:focus:-moz-placeholder {_x000D_
        color: #FFFFFF;_x000D_
    }
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Confused about stdin, stdout and stderr?

stdin

Reads input through the console (e.g. Keyboard input). Used in C with scanf

scanf(<formatstring>,<pointer to storage> ...);

stdout

Produces output to the console. Used in C with printf

printf(<string>, <values to print> ...);

stderr

Produces 'error' output to the console. Used in C with fprintf

fprintf(stderr, <string>, <values to print> ...);

Redirection

The source for stdin can be redirected. For example, instead of coming from keyboard input, it can come from a file (echo < file.txt ), or another program ( ps | grep <userid>).

The destinations for stdout, stderr can also be redirected. For example stdout can be redirected to a file: ls . > ls-output.txt, in this case the output is written to the file ls-output.txt. Stderr can be redirected with 2>.

How to load image to WPF in runtime?

In WPF an image is typically loaded from a Stream or an Uri.

BitmapImage supports both and an Uri can even be passed as constructor argument:

var uri = new Uri("http://...");
var bitmap = new BitmapImage(uri);

If the image file is located in a local folder, you would have to use a file:// Uri. You could create such a Uri from a path like this:

var path = Path.Combine(Environment.CurrentDirectory, "Bilder", "sas.png");
var uri = new Uri(path);

If the image file is an assembly resource, the Uri must follow the the Pack Uri scheme:

var uri = new Uri("pack://application:,,,/Bilder/sas.png");

In this case the Visual Studio Build Action for sas.png would have to be Resource.

Once you have created a BitmapImage and also have an Image control like in this XAML

<Image Name="image1" />

you would simply assign the BitmapImage to the Source property of that Image control:

image1.Source = bitmap;

Determine if JavaScript value is an "integer"?

Use jQuery's IsNumeric method.

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

if ($.isNumeric(id)) {
   //it's numeric
}

CORRECTION: that would not ensure an integer. This would:

if ( (id+"").match(/^\d+$/) ) {
   //it's all digits
}

That, of course, doesn't use jQuery, but I assume jQuery isn't actually mandatory as long as the solution works

Openssl : error "self signed certificate in certificate chain"

If you're running Charles and trying to build a container then you'll most likely get this error.

Make sure to disable Charles (macos) proxy under proxy -> macOS proxy

Charles is an

HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet.

So anything similar may cause the same issue.

Automatically set appsettings.json for dev and release environments in asp.net core?

Update for .NET Core 3.0+

  1. You can use CreateDefaultBuilder which will automatically build and pass a configuration object to your startup class:

    WebHost.CreateDefaultBuilder(args).UseStartup<Startup>();
    
    public class Startup
    {
        public Startup(IConfiguration configuration) // automatically injected
        {
            Configuration = configuration;
        }
        public IConfiguration Configuration { get; }
        /* ... */
    }
    
  2. CreateDefaultBuilder automatically includes the appropriate appsettings.Environment.json file so add a separate appsettings file for each environment:

    appsettings.env.json

  3. Then set the ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT environment variable when running / debugging

How to set Environment Variables

Depending on your IDE, there are a couple places dotnet projects traditionally look for environment variables:

  • For Visual Studio go to Project > Properties > Debug > Environment Variables:

    Visual Studio - Environment Variables

  • For Visual Studio Code, edit .vscode/launch.json > env:

    Visual Studio Code > Launch Environment

  • Using Launch Settings, edit Properties/launchSettings.json > environmentVariables:

    Launch Settings

    Which can also be selected from the Toolbar in Visual Studio

    Launch Settings Dropdown

  • Using dotnet CLI, use the appropriate syntax for setting environment variables per your OS

    Note: When an app is launched with dotnet run, launchSettings.json is read if available, and environmentVariables settings in launchSettings.json override environment variables.

How does Host.CreateDefaultBuilder work?

.NET Core 3.0 added Host.CreateDefaultBuilder under platform extensions which will provide a default initialization of IConfiguration which provides default configuration for the app in the following order:

  1. appsettings.json using the JSON configuration provider.
  2. appsettings.Environment.json using the JSON configuration provider. For example:
    • appsettings.Production.json or
    • appsettings.Development.json
  3. App secrets when the app runs in the Development environment.
  4. Environment variables using the Environment Variables configuration provider.
  5. Command-line arguments using the Command-line configuration provider.

Further Reading - MS Docs

How can I create a unique constraint on my column (SQL Server 2008 R2)?

One thing not clearly covered is that microsoft sql is creating in the background an unique index for the added constraint

create table Customer ( id int primary key identity (1,1) , name nvarchar(128) ) 

--Commands completed successfully.

sp_help Customer

---> index
--index_name    index_description   index_keys
--PK__Customer__3213E83FCC4A1DFA    clustered, unique, primary key located on PRIMARY   id

---> constraint
--constraint_type   constraint_name delete_action   update_action   status_enabled  status_for_replication  constraint_keys
--PRIMARY KEY (clustered)   PK__Customer__3213E83FCC4A1DFA  (n/a)   (n/a)   (n/a)   (n/a)   id


---- now adding the unique constraint

ALTER TABLE Customer ADD CONSTRAINT U_Name UNIQUE(Name)

-- Commands completed successfully.

sp_help Customer

---> index
---index_name   index_description   index_keys
---PK__Customer__3213E83FCC4A1DFA   clustered, unique, primary key located on PRIMARY   id
---U_Name   nonclustered, unique, unique key located on PRIMARY name

---> constraint
---constraint_type  constraint_name delete_action   update_action   status_enabled  status_for_replication  constraint_keys
---PRIMARY KEY (clustered)  PK__Customer__3213E83FCC4A1DFA  (n/a)   (n/a)   (n/a)   (n/a)   id
---UNIQUE (non-clustered)   U_Name  (n/a)   (n/a)   (n/a)   (n/a)   name

as you can see , there is a new constraint and a new index U_Name

How to correctly use the ASP.NET FileUpload control

I have noticed that when intellisence doesn't work for an object there is usually an error somewhere in the class above line you are working on.

The other option is that you didn't instantiated the FileUpload object as an instance variable. make sure the code:

FileUpload fileUpload = new FileUpload();

is not inside a function in your code behind.

Read and overwrite a file in Python

The fileinput module has an inplace mode for writing changes to the file you are processing without using temporary files etc. The module nicely encapsulates the common operation of looping over the lines in a list of files, via an object which transparently keeps track of the file name, line number etc if you should want to inspect them inside the loop.

from fileinput import FileInput
for line in FileInput("file", inplace=1):
    line = line.replace("foobar", "bar")
    print(line)

Android Device Chooser -- device not showing up

If none of the options work, I change the port and then enable USB debugging and it works fine.

Java 32-bit vs 64-bit compatibility

yo where wrong! To this theme i wrote an question to oracle. The answer was.

"If you compile your code on an 32 Bit Machine, your code should only run on an 32 Bit Processor. If you want to run your code on an 64 Bit JVM you have to compile your class Files on an 64 Bit Machine using an 64-Bit JDK."

Should Gemfile.lock be included in .gitignore?

Agreeing with r-dub, keep it in source control, but to me, the real benefit is this:

collaboration in identical environments (disregarding the windohs and linux/mac stuff). Before Gemfile.lock, the next dude to install the project might see all kinds of confusing errors, blaming himself, but he was just that lucky guy getting the next version of super gem, breaking existing dependencies.

Worse, this happened on the servers, getting untested version unless being disciplined and install exact version. Gemfile.lock makes this explicit, and it will explicitly tell you that your versions are different.

Note: remember to group stuff, as :development and :test

Concatenating Column Values into a Comma-Separated List

 DECLARE @SQL AS VARCHAR(8000)
SELECT @SQL = ISNULL(@SQL+',','') + ColumnName FROM TableName
SELECT @SQL

Make more than one chart in same IPython Notebook cell

I don't know if this is new functionality, but this will plot on separate figures:

df.plot(y='korisnika')
df.plot(y='osiguranika')

while this will plot on the same figure: (just like the code in the op)

df.plot(y=['korisnika','osiguranika'])

I found this question because I was using the former method and wanted them to plot on the same figure, so your question was actually my answer.

Angular 5 ngHide ngShow [hidden] not working

If you add [hidden]="true" to div, the actual thing that happens is adding a class [hidden] to this element conditionally with display: none

Please check the style of the element in the browser to ensure no other style affect the display property of an element like this:

enter image description here

If you found display of [hidden] class is overridden, you need to add this css code to your style:

[hidden] {
    display: none !important;
}

Why do I need to do `--set-upstream` all the time?

You can simply

git checkout -b my-branch origin/whatever

in the first place. If you set branch.autosetupmerge or branch.autosetuprebase (my favorite) to always (default is true), my-branch will automatically track origin/whatever.

See git help config.

Selenium Web Driver & Java. Element is not clickable at point (x, y). Other element would receive the click

In case you need to use it with Javascript

We can use arguments[0].click() to simulate click operation.

var element = element(by.linkText('webdriverjs'));
browser.executeScript("arguments[0].click()",element);

How to get the PYTHONPATH in shell?

Adding to @zzzzzzz answer, I ran the command:python3 -c "import sys; print(sys.path)" and it provided me with different paths comparing to the same command with python. The paths that were displayed with python3 were "python3 oriented".

See the output of the two different commands:

python -c "import sys; print(sys.path)"

['', '/usr/lib/python2.7', '/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-x86_64-linux-gnu', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-old', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages', '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools-39.1.0-py2.7.egg', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages']

python3 -c "import sys; print(sys.path)"

['', '/usr/lib/python36.zip', '/usr/lib/python3.6', '/usr/lib/python3.6/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages']

Both commands were executed on my Ubuntu 18.04 machine.

How to install latest version of git on CentOS 7.x/6.x

This guide worked:

# hostnamectl
  Operating System: CentOS Linux 7 (Core)
# git --version
git version 1.8.3.1
# sudo yum remove git*
# sudo yum -y install https://packages.endpoint.com/rhel/7/os/x86_64/endpoint-repo-1.7-1.x86_64.rpm
# sudo yum install git
# git --version
git version 2.24.1

How do I read an image file using Python?

The word "read" is vague, but here is an example which reads a jpeg file using the Image class, and prints information about it.

from PIL import Image
jpgfile = Image.open("picture.jpg")

print(jpgfile.bits, jpgfile.size, jpgfile.format)

How to find and replace all occurrences of a string recursively in a directory tree?

Try this:

grep -rl 'SearchString' ./ | xargs sed -i 's/REPLACESTRING/WITHTHIS/g'

grep -rl will recursively search for the SEARCHSTRING in the directories ./ and will replace the strings using sed.

Ex:

Replacing a name TOM with JERRY using search string as SWATKATS in directory CARTOONNETWORK

grep -rl 'SWATKATS' CARTOONNETWORK/ | xargs sed -i 's/TOM/JERRY/g'

This will replace TOM with JERRY in all the files and subdirectories under CARTOONNETWORK wherever it finds the string SWATKATS.

The data-toggle attributes in Twitter Bootstrap

Bootstrap leverages HTML5 standards in order to access DOM element attributes easily within javascript.

data-*

Forms a class of attributes, called custom data attributes, that allow proprietary information to be exchanged between the HTML and its DOM representation that may be used by scripts. All such custom data are available via the HTMLElement interface of the element the attribute is set on. The HTMLElement.dataset property gives access to them.

Reference

What is a tracking branch?

The ProGit book has a very good explanation:

Tracking Branches

Checking out a local branch from a remote branch automatically creates what is called a tracking branch. Tracking branches are local branches that have a direct relationship to a remote branch. If you’re on a tracking branch and type git push, Git automatically knows which server and branch to push to. Also, running git pull while on one of these branches fetches all the remote references and then automatically merges in the corresponding remote branch.

When you clone a repository, it generally automatically creates a master branch that tracks origin/master. That’s why git push and git pull work out of the box with no other arguments. However, you can set up other tracking branches if you wish — ones that don’t track branches on origin and don’t track the master branch. The simple case is the example you just saw, running git checkout -b [branch] [remotename]/[branch]. If you have Git version 1.6.2 or later, you can also use the --track shorthand:

$ git checkout --track origin/serverfix
Branch serverfix set up to track remote branch refs/remotes/origin/serverfix.
Switched to a new branch "serverfix"

To set up a local branch with a different name than the remote branch, you can easily use the first version with a different local branch name:

$ git checkout -b sf origin/serverfix
Branch sf set up to track remote branch refs/remotes/origin/serverfix.
Switched to a new branch "sf"

Now, your local branch sf will automatically push to and pull from origin/serverfix.

BONUS: extra git status info

With a tracking branch, git status will tell you whether how far behind your tracking branch you are - useful to remind you that you haven't pushed your changes yet! It looks like this:

$ git status
On branch master
Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 1 commit.
  (use "git push" to publish your local commits)

or

$ git status
On branch dev
Your branch and 'origin/dev' have diverged,
and have 3 and 1 different commits each, respectively.
  (use "git pull" to merge the remote branch into yours)

Relative imports in Python 3

I needed to run python3 from the main project directory to make it work.

For example, if the project has the following structure:

project_demo/
+-- main.py
+-- some_package/
¦   +-- __init__.py
¦   +-- project_configs.py
+-- test/
    +-- test_project_configs.py

Solution

I would run python3 inside folder project_demo/ and then perform a

from some_package import project_configs

Can Selenium interact with an existing browser session?

I got a solution in python, I modified the webdriver class bassed on PersistenBrowser class that I found.

https://github.com/axelPalmerin/personal/commit/fabddb38a39f378aa113b0cb8d33391d5f91dca5

replace the webdriver module /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py

Ej. to use:

from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities

runDriver = sys.argv[1]
sessionId = sys.argv[2]

def setBrowser():
    if eval(runDriver):
        webdriver = w.Remote(command_executor='http://localhost:4444/wd/hub',
                     desired_capabilities=DesiredCapabilities.CHROME,
                     )
    else:
        webdriver = w.Remote(command_executor='http://localhost:4444/wd/hub',
                             desired_capabilities=DesiredCapabilities.CHROME,
                             session_id=sessionId)

    url = webdriver.command_executor._url
    session_id = webdriver.session_id
    print url
    print session_id
    return webdriver

String.format() to format double in java

String.format("%1$,.2f", myDouble);

String.format automatically uses the default locale.

How to convert an int array to String with toString method in Java

System.out.println(array.toString());

should be:

System.out.println(Arrays.toString(array));

How to create checkbox inside dropdown?

Here is a simple dropdown checklist:

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var checkList = document.getElementById('list1');
checkList.getElementsByClassName('anchor')[0].onclick = function(evt) {
  if (checkList.classList.contains('visible'))
    checkList.classList.remove('visible');
  else
    checkList.classList.add('visible');
}
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.dropdown-check-list {
  display: inline-block;
}

.dropdown-check-list .anchor {
  position: relative;
  cursor: pointer;
  display: inline-block;
  padding: 5px 50px 5px 10px;
  border: 1px solid #ccc;
}

.dropdown-check-list .anchor:after {
  position: absolute;
  content: "";
  border-left: 2px solid black;
  border-top: 2px solid black;
  padding: 5px;
  right: 10px;
  top: 20%;
  -moz-transform: rotate(-135deg);
  -ms-transform: rotate(-135deg);
  -o-transform: rotate(-135deg);
  -webkit-transform: rotate(-135deg);
  transform: rotate(-135deg);
}

.dropdown-check-list .anchor:active:after {
  right: 8px;
  top: 21%;
}

.dropdown-check-list ul.items {
  padding: 2px;
  display: none;
  margin: 0;
  border: 1px solid #ccc;
  border-top: none;
}

.dropdown-check-list ul.items li {
  list-style: none;
}

.dropdown-check-list.visible .anchor {
  color: #0094ff;
}

.dropdown-check-list.visible .items {
  display: block;
}
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<div id="list1" class="dropdown-check-list" tabindex="100">
  <span class="anchor">Select Fruits</span>
  <ul class="items">
    <li><input type="checkbox" />Apple </li>
    <li><input type="checkbox" />Orange</li>
    <li><input type="checkbox" />Grapes </li>
    <li><input type="checkbox" />Berry </li>
    <li><input type="checkbox" />Mango </li>
    <li><input type="checkbox" />Banana </li>
    <li><input type="checkbox" />Tomato</li>
  </ul>
</div>
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How to use a variable of one method in another method?

You can't. Variables defined inside a method are local to that method.

If you want to share variables between methods, then you'll need to specify them as member variables of the class. Alternatively, you can pass them from one method to another as arguments (this isn't always applicable).


Looks like you're using instance methods instead of static ones.

If you don't want to create an object, you should declare all your methods static, so something like

private static void methodName(Argument args...)

If you want a variable to be accessible by all these methods, you should initialise it outside the methods and to limit its scope, declare it private.

private static int[][] array = new int[3][5];

Global variables are usually looked down upon (especially for situations like your one) because in a large-scale program they can wreak havoc, so making it private will prevent some problems at the least.

Also, I'll say the usual: You should try to keep your code a bit tidy. Use descriptive class, method and variable names and keep your code neat (with proper indentation, linebreaks etc.) and consistent.

Here's a final (shortened) example of what your code should be like:

public class Test3 {
    //Use this array in your methods
    private static int[][] scores = new int[3][5];

    /* Rather than just "Scores" name it so people know what
     * to expect
     */
    private static void createScores() {
        //Code...
    }
    //Other methods...

    /* Since you're now using static methods, you don't 
     * have to initialise an object and call its methods.
     */
    public static void main(String[] args){
        createScores();
        MD();   //Don't know what these do
        sumD(); //so I'll leave them.
    }
}

Ideally, since you're using an array, you would create the array in the main method and pass it as an argument across each method, but explaining how that works is probably a whole new question on its own so I'll leave it at that.

Is there any way to change input type="date" format?

As previously mentioned it is officially not possible to change the format. However it is possible to style the field, so (with a little JS help) it displays the date in a format we desire. Some of the possibilities to manipulate the date input is lost this way, but if the desire to force the format is greater, this solution might be a way. A date fields stays only like that:

<input type="date" data-date="" data-date-format="DD MMMM YYYY" value="2015-08-09">

The rest is a bit of CSS and JS: http://jsfiddle.net/g7mvaosL/

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    this.setAttribute(_x000D_
        "data-date",_x000D_
        moment(this.value, "YYYY-MM-DD")_x000D_
        .format( this.getAttribute("data-date-format") )_x000D_
    )_x000D_
}).trigger("change")
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input {_x000D_
    position: relative;_x000D_
    width: 150px; height: 20px;_x000D_
    color: white;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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input:before {_x000D_
    position: absolute;_x000D_
    top: 3px; left: 3px;_x000D_
    content: attr(data-date);_x000D_
    display: inline-block;_x000D_
    color: black;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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input::-webkit-datetime-edit, input::-webkit-inner-spin-button, input::-webkit-clear-button {_x000D_
    display: none;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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input::-webkit-calendar-picker-indicator {_x000D_
    position: absolute;_x000D_
    top: 3px;_x000D_
    right: 0;_x000D_
    color: black;_x000D_
    opacity: 1;_x000D_
}
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<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.24.0/moment.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<input type="date" data-date="" data-date-format="DD MMMM YYYY" value="2015-08-09">
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It works nicely on Chrome for desktop, and Safari on iOS (especially desirable, since native date manipulators on touch screens are unbeatable IMHO). Didn't check for others, but don't expect to fail on any Webkit.

CSS Outside Border

IsisCode gives you a good solution. Another one is to position border div inside parent div. Check this example http://jsfiddle.net/A2tu9/

UPD: You can also use pseudo element :after (:before), in this case HTML will not be polluted with extra markup:

.my-div {
    position: relative;
    padding: 4px;
    ...
}
.my-div:after {
    content: '';
    position: absolute;
    top: -3px;
    left: -3px;
    bottom: -3px;
    right: -3px;
    border: 1px #888 solid;
}

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/A2tu9/191/

Filter dict to contain only certain keys?

You could use python-benedict, it's a dict subclass.

Installation: pip install python-benedict

from benedict import benedict

dict_you_want = benedict(your_dict).subset(keys=['firstname', 'lastname', 'email'])

It's open-source on GitHub: https://github.com/fabiocaccamo/python-benedict


Disclaimer: I'm the author of this library.

Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Invalid arguments passed

It happens when $ret hasn't been defined. The solution is simple. Right above $tags = get_tags();, add the following line:

$ret = array();

How do I delete multiple rows in Entity Framework (without foreach)

EntityFramework 6 has made this a bit easier with .RemoveRange().

Example:

db.People.RemoveRange(db.People.Where(x => x.State == "CA"));
db.SaveChanges();

Create a txt file using batch file in a specific folder

You can also use

cd %localhost%

to set the directory to the folder the batch file was opened from. Your script would look like this:

@echo off
cd %localhost%
echo .> dblank.txt

Make sure you set the directory before you use the command to create the text file.

Updating a dataframe column in spark

While you cannot modify a column as such, you may operate on a column and return a new DataFrame reflecting that change. For that you'd first create a UserDefinedFunction implementing the operation to apply and then selectively apply that function to the targeted column only. In Python:

from pyspark.sql.functions import UserDefinedFunction
from pyspark.sql.types import StringType

name = 'target_column'
udf = UserDefinedFunction(lambda x: 'new_value', StringType())
new_df = old_df.select(*[udf(column).alias(name) if column == name else column for column in old_df.columns])

new_df now has the same schema as old_df (assuming that old_df.target_column was of type StringType as well) but all values in column target_column will be new_value.

How do I remove version tracking from a project cloned from git?

It's not a clever choice to move all .git* by hand, particularly when these .git files are hidden in sub-folders just like my condition: when I installed Skeleton Zend 2 by composer+git, there are quite a number of .git files created in folders and sub-folders.

I tried rm -rf .git on my GitHub shell, but the shell can not recognize the parameter -rf of Remove-Item.

www.montanaflynn.me introduces the following shell command to remove all .git files one time, recursively! It's really working!

find . | grep "\.git/" | xargs rm -rf

How to trigger Jenkins builds remotely and to pass parameters

You can simply try it with a jenkinsfile. Create a Jenkins job with following pipeline script.

pipeline {
    agent any

    parameters {
        booleanParam(defaultValue: true, description: '', name: 'userFlag')
    }

    stages {
        stage('Trigger') {
            steps {
                script {
                    println("triggering the pipeline from a rest call...")
                }
            }
        }
        stage("foo") {
            steps {
                echo "flag: ${params.userFlag}"
            }
        }

    }
}

Build the job once manually to get it configured & just create a http POST request to the Jenkins job as follows.

The format is http://server/job/myjob/buildWithParameters?PARAMETER=Value

curl http://admin:test123@localhost:30637/job/apd-test/buildWithParameters?userFlag=false --request POST

What is Inversion of Control?

Inversion of control is an indicator for a shift of responsibility in the program.

There is an inversion of control every time when a dependency is granted ability to directly act on the caller's space.

The smallest IoC is passing a variable by reference, lets look at non-IoC code first:

function isVarHello($var) {
    return ($var === "Hello");
}

// Responsibility is within the caller
$word = "Hello";
if (isVarHello($word)) {
    $word = "World";
}

Let's now invert the control by shifting the responsibility of a result from the caller to the dependency:

function changeHelloToWorld(&$var) {
    // Responsibility has been shifted to the dependency
    if ($var === "Hello") {
        $var = "World";
    }
}

$word = "Hello";
changeHelloToWorld($word);

Here is another example using OOP:

<?php

class Human {
    private $hp = 0.5;

    function consume(Eatable $chunk) {
        // $this->chew($chunk);
        $chunk->unfoldEffectOn($this);
    }

    function incrementHealth() {
        $this->hp++;
    }
    function isHealthy() {}
    function getHungry() {}
    // ...
}

interface Eatable {
    public function unfoldEffectOn($body);
}

class Medicine implements Eatable {
    function unfoldEffectOn($human) {
        // The dependency is now in charge of the human.
        $human->incrementHealth();
        $this->depleted = true;
    }
}

$human = new Human();
$medicine = new Medicine();
if (!$human->isHealthy()) {
    $human->consume($medicine);   
}

var_dump($medicine);
var_dump($human);

*) Disclaimer: The real world human uses a message queue.

What is JAVA_HOME? How does the JVM find the javac path stored in JAVA_HOME?

set environment variable

JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_24

classpath=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_24\lib\tools.jar

path=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_24\bin

How to Join to first row

I know this question was answered a while ago, but when dealing with large data sets, nested queries can be costly. Here is a different solution where the nested query will only be ran once, instead of for each row returned.

SELECT 
  Orders.OrderNumber,
  LineItems.Quantity, 
  LineItems.Description
FROM 
  Orders
  INNER JOIN (
    SELECT
      Orders.OrderNumber,
      Max(LineItem.LineItemID) AS LineItemID
    FROM
      Orders INNER JOIN LineItems
      ON Orders.OrderNumber = LineItems.OrderNumber
    GROUP BY Orders.OrderNumber
  ) AS Items ON Orders.OrderNumber = Items.OrderNumber
  INNER JOIN LineItems 
  ON Items.LineItemID = LineItems.LineItemID

Ansible playbook shell output

The debug module could really use some love, but at the moment the best you can do is use this:

- hosts: all
  gather_facts: no
  tasks:
    - shell: ps -eo pcpu,user,args | sort -r -k1 | head -n5
      register: ps

    - debug: var=ps.stdout_lines

It gives an output like this:

ok: [host1] => {
    "ps.stdout_lines": [
        "%CPU USER     COMMAND",
        " 1.0 root     /usr/bin/python",
        " 0.6 root     sshd: root@notty ",
        " 0.2 root     java",
        " 0.0 root     sort -r -k1"
    ]
}
ok: [host2] => {
    "ps.stdout_lines": [
        "%CPU USER     COMMAND",
        " 4.0 root     /usr/bin/python",
        " 0.6 root     sshd: root@notty ",
        " 0.1 root     java",
        " 0.0 root     sort -r -k1"
    ]
}

Label points in geom_point

The ggrepel package works great for repelling overlapping text labels away from each other. You can use either geom_label_repel() (draws rectangles around the text) or geom_text_repel() functions.

library(ggplot2)
library(ggrepel)

nba <- read.csv("http://datasets.flowingdata.com/ppg2008.csv", sep = ",")

nbaplot <- ggplot(nba, aes(x= MIN, y = PTS)) + 
  geom_point(color = "blue", size = 3)

### geom_label_repel
nbaplot + 
  geom_label_repel(aes(label = Name),
                  box.padding   = 0.35, 
                  point.padding = 0.5,
                  segment.color = 'grey50') +
  theme_classic()

enter image description here

### geom_text_repel
# only label players with PTS > 25 or < 18
# align text vertically with nudge_y and allow the labels to 
# move horizontally with direction = "x"
ggplot(nba, aes(x= MIN, y = PTS, label = Name)) + 
  geom_point(color = dplyr::case_when(nba$PTS > 25 ~ "#1b9e77", 
                                      nba$PTS < 18 ~ "#d95f02",
                                      TRUE ~ "#7570b3"), 
             size = 3, alpha = 0.8) +
  geom_text_repel(data          = subset(nba, PTS > 25),
                  nudge_y       = 32 - subset(nba, PTS > 25)$PTS,
                  size          = 4,
                  box.padding   = 1.5,
                  point.padding = 0.5,
                  force         = 100,
                  segment.size  = 0.2,
                  segment.color = "grey50",
                  direction     = "x") +
  geom_label_repel(data         = subset(nba, PTS < 18),
                  nudge_y       = 16 - subset(nba, PTS < 18)$PTS,
                  size          = 4,
                  box.padding   = 0.5,
                  point.padding = 0.5,
                  force         = 100,
                  segment.size  = 0.2,
                  segment.color = "grey50",
                  direction     = "x") +
  scale_x_continuous(expand = expand_scale(mult = c(0.2, .2))) +
  scale_y_continuous(expand = expand_scale(mult = c(0.1, .1))) +
  theme_classic(base_size = 16)

Edit: To use ggrepel with lines, see this and this.

Created on 2019-05-01 by the reprex package (v0.2.0).

Alter MySQL table to add comments on columns

try:

 ALTER TABLE `user` CHANGE `id` `id` INT( 11 ) COMMENT 'id of user'  

How to POST using HTTPclient content type = application/x-www-form-urlencoded

I was using a .Net Core 2.1 API with the [FromBody] attribute and I had to use the following solution to successfully Post to it:

_apiClient =  new HttpClient();
_apiClient.BaseAddress = new Uri(<YOUR API>);
var MyObject myObject = new MyObject(){
    FirstName = "Me",
    LastName = "Myself"
};

var stringified = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(myObject);
var result = await _apiClient.PostAsync("api/appusers", new StringContent(stringified, Encoding.UTF8, "application/json"));

How do I use floating-point division in bash?

i know it's old, but too tempting. so, the answer is: you can't... but you kind of can. let's try this:

$IMG_WIDTH=1024
$IMG2_WIDTH=2048

$RATIO="$(( IMG_WIDTH / $IMG2_WIDTH )).$(( (IMG_WIDTH * 100 / IMG2_WIDTH) % 100 ))

like that you get 2 digits after the point, truncated (call it rounding to the lower, haha) in pure bash (no need to launch other processes). of course, if you only need one digit after the point you multiply by 10 and do modulo 10.

what this does:

  • first $((...)) does integer division;
  • second $((...)) does integer division on something 100 times larger, essentially moving your 2 digits to the left of the point, then (%) getting you only those 2 digits by doing modulo.

bonus track: bc version x 1000 took 1,8 seconds on my laptop, while the pure bash one took 0,016 seconds.

Implement paging (skip / take) functionality with this query

You can use nested query for pagination as follow:

Paging from 4 Row to 8 Row where CustomerId is primary key.

SELECT Top 5 * FROM Customers
WHERE Country='Germany' AND CustomerId Not in (SELECT Top 3 CustomerID FROM Customers
WHERE Country='Germany' order by city) 
order by city;

Escape double quote in grep

The problem is that you aren't correctly escaping the input string, try:

echo "\"member\":\"time\"" | grep -e "member\""

Alternatively, you can use unescaped double quotes within single quotes:

echo '"member":"time"' | grep -e 'member"'

It's a matter of preference which you find clearer, although the second approach prevents you from nesting your command within another set of single quotes (e.g. ssh 'cmd').

Specified cast is not valid?

Try this:

public void LoadData()
        {
            SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection("Data Source=.;Initial Catalog=Stocks;Integrated Security=True;Pooling=False");
            SqlDataAdapter sda = new SqlDataAdapter("Select * From [Stocks].[dbo].[product]", con);
            DataTable dt = new DataTable();
            sda.Fill(dt);
            DataGridView1.Rows.Clear();

        foreach (DataRow item in dt.Rows)
        {
            int n = DataGridView1.Rows.Add();
            DataGridView1.Rows[n].Cells[0].Value = item["ProductCode"].ToString();
            DataGridView1.Rows[n].Cells[1].Value = item["Productname"].ToString();
            DataGridView1.Rows[n].Cells[2].Value = item["qty"].ToString();                
            if ((bool)item["productstatus"])
            {
                DataGridView1.Rows[n].Cells[3].Value = "Active";
            }
            else
            {
                DataGridView1.Rows[n].Cells[3].Value = "Deactive";
            }

Removing white space around a saved image in matplotlib

The most straightforward method is to use plt.tight_layout transformation which is actually more preferable as it doesn't do unnecessary cropping when using plt.savefig

import matplotlib as plt    
plt.plot([1,2,3], [1,2,3])
plt.tight_layout(pad=0)
plt.savefig('plot.png')

However, this may not be preferable for complex plots that modifies the figure. Refer to Johannes S's answer that uses plt.subplots_adjust if that's the case.

How to add text inside the doughnut chart using Chart.js?

You can use css with relative/absolute positioning if you want it responsive. Plus it can handle easily the multi-line.

https://jsfiddle.net/mgyp0jkk/

<div class="relative">
  <canvas id="myChart"></canvas>      
  <div class="absolute-center text-center">
    <p>Some text</p>
    <p>Some text</p>
  </div>
</div>

Creating a config file in PHP

If you think you'll be using more than 1 db for any reason, go with the variable because you'll be able to change one parameter to switch to an entirely different db. I.e. for testing , autobackup, etc.

Strip last two characters of a column in MySQL

To select all characters except the last n from a string (or put another way, remove last n characters from a string); use the SUBSTRING and CHAR_LENGTH functions together:

SELECT col
     , /* ANSI Syntax  */ SUBSTRING(col FROM 1 FOR CHAR_LENGTH(col) - 2) AS col_trimmed
     , /* MySQL Syntax */ SUBSTRING(col,     1,    CHAR_LENGTH(col) - 2) AS col_trimmed
FROM tbl

To remove a specific substring from the end of string, use the TRIM function:

SELECT col
     , TRIM(TRAILING '.php' FROM col)
-- index.php becomes index
-- index.txt remains index.txt

How much memory can a 32 bit process access on a 64 bit operating system?

An single 32-bit process under a 64-bit OS is limited to 2Gb. But if it is compiled to an EXE file with IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE bit set, it then has a limit of 4 GB, not 2Gb - see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778(VS.85).aspx

The things you hear about special boot flags, 3 GB, /3GB switches, or /userva are all about 32-bit operating systems and do not apply on 64-bit Windows.

See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778(v=vs.85).aspx for more details.

As about the 32-bit operating systems, contrary to the belief, there is no physical limit of 4GB for 32-bit operating systems. For example, 32-bit Server Operating Systems like Microsoft Windows Server 2008 32-bit can access up to 64 GB (Windows Server 2008 Enterprise and Datacenter editions) – by means of Physical Address Extension (PAE), which was first introduced by Intel in the Pentium Pro, and later by AMD in the Athlon processor - it defines a page table hierarchy of three levels, with table entries of 64 bits each instead of 32, allowing these CPUs to directly access a physical address space larger than 4 gigabytes – so theoretically, a 32-bit OS can access 2^64 bytes theoretically, or 17,179,869,184 gigabytes, but the segment is limited by 4GB. However, due to marketing reasons, Microsoft have limited maximum accessible memory on non-server operating systems to just 4GB, or, even, 3GB effectively. Thus, a single process can access more than 4GB on a 32-bit OS - and Microsoft SQL server is an example.

32-bit processes under 64-bit Windows do not have any disadvantage comparing to 64-bit processes in using shared kernel's virtual address space (also called system space). All processes, be it 64-bit or 32-bit, under 64-bit Windows share the same 64-bit system space.

Given the fact that the system space is shared across all processes, on 32-bit Windows, processes that create large amount of handles (like threads, semaphores, files, etc.) consume system space by kernel objects and can run out of memory even if you have lot of memory available in total. In contrast, on 64-bit Windows, the kernel space is 64-bit and is not limited by 4 GB. All system calls made by 32-bit applications are converted to native 64-bit calls in the user mode.

Groovy - Convert object to JSON string

I couldn't get the other answers to work within the evaluate console in Intellij so...

groovy.json.JsonOutput.toJson(myObject)

This works quite well, but unfortunately

groovy.json.JsonOutput.prettyString(myObject)

didn't work for me.

To get it pretty printed I had to do this...

groovy.json.JsonOutput.prettyPrint(groovy.json.JsonOutput.toJson(myObject))

How do I view the full content of a text or varchar(MAX) column in SQL Server 2008 Management Studio?

One work-around is to right-click on the result set and select "Save Results As...". This exports it to a CSV file with the entire contents of the column. Not perfect but worked well enough for me.

Workaround

An internal error occurred during: "Updating Maven Project". Unsupported IClasspathEntry kind=4

My tricky solution is:

  1. Open your windows Task Manager,
  2. Find the Javaw.exe process and highlight it, then End it by End Process
  3. In eclipse project browser, right click it and use Maven -> Update Project again.

Issue is resolved.

If you have Tomcat Server Running in Eclipse, you need to refresh project before restart Tomcat Server.

How to disable clicking inside div

Try this:

pointer-events:none

Adding above on the specified HTML element will prevents all click, state and cursor options.

http://jsfiddle.net/4hrpsrnp/

<div class="ads">
 <button id='noclick' onclick='clicked()'>Try</button>
</div>

Insert Multiple Rows Into Temp Table With SQL Server 2012

Yes, SQL Server 2012 supports multiple inserts - that feature was introduced in SQL Server 2008.

That makes me wonder if you have Management Studio 2012, but you're really connected to a SQL Server 2005 instance ...

What version of the SQL Server engine do you get from SELECT @@VERSION ??

Call javascript from MVC controller action

The usual/standard way in MVC is that you should put/call your all display, UI, CSS and Javascript in View, however there is no rule to it, you can call it in the Controller as well if you manage to do so (something i don't see the possibility of).

Pandas/Python: Set value of one column based on value in another column

You can use np.where() to set values based on a specified condition:

#df
   c1  c2  c3
0   4   2   1
1   8   7   9
2   1   5   8
3   3   3   5
4   3   6   8

Now change values (or set) in column ['c2'] based on your condition.

df['c2'] = np.where(df.c1 == 8,'X', df.c3)

   c1  c3  c4
0   4   1   1
1   8   9   X
2   1   8   8
3   3   5   5
4   3   8   8

Stop mouse event propagation

Nothing worked for IE (Internet Explorer). My testers were able to break my modal by clicking off the popup window on buttons behind it. So, I listened for a click on my modal screen div and forced refocus on a popup button.

<div class="modal-backscreen" (click)="modalOutsideClick($event)">
</div>


modalOutsideClick(event: any) {
   event.preventDefault()
   // handle IE click-through modal bug
   event.stopPropagation()
   setTimeout(() => {
      this.renderer.invokeElementMethod(this.myModal.nativeElement, 'focus')
   }, 100)
} 

Windows command prompt log to a file

First method

For Windows 7 and above users, Windows PowerShell give you this option. Users with windows version less than 7 can download PowerShell online and install it.

Steps:

  1. type PowerShell in search area and click on "Windows PowerShell"

  2. If you have a .bat (batch) file go to step 3 OR copy your commands to a file and save it with .bat extension (e.g. file.bat)

  3. run the .bat file with following command

    PS (location)> <path to bat file>/file.bat | Tee-Object -file log.txt

This will generate a log.txt file with all command prompt output in it. Advantage is that you can also the output on command prompt.

Second method

You can use file redirection (>, >>) as suggest by Bali C above.

I will recommend first method if you have lots of commands to run or a script to run. I will recommend last method if there is only few commands to run.

What is the printf format specifier for bool?

To just print 1 or 0 based on the boolean value I just used:

printf("%d\n", !!(42));

Especially useful with Flags:

#define MY_FLAG (1 << 4)
int flags = MY_FLAG;
printf("%d\n", !!(flags & MY_FLAG));

PHP - Insert date into mysql

How to debug SQL queries when you stuck

Print you query and run it directly in mysql or phpMyAdmin

$date = "2012-08-06";
$query= "INSERT INTO data_table (title, date_of_event) 
             VALUES('". $_POST['post_title'] ."',
                    '". $date ."')";
echo $query;
mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error()); 

that way you can make sure that the problem is not in your PHP-script, but in your SQL-query

How to submit questions on SQ-queries

Make sure that you provided enough closure

  • Table schema
  • Query
  • Error message is any

Get week day name from a given month, day and year individually in SQL Server

Tested and works on SQL 2005 and 2008. Not sure if this works in 2012 and later.

The solution uses DATENAME instead of DATEPART

select datename(dw,getdate()) --Thursday
select datepart(dw,getdate()) --2

This is work in sql 2014 also.

How to set cornerRadius for only top-left and top-right corner of a UIView?

iOS 11 , Swift 4
And you can try this code:

if #available(iOS 11.0, *) {
   element.clipsToBounds = true
   element.layer.cornerRadius = CORNER_RADIUS
   element.layer.maskedCorners = [.layerMaxXMaxYCorner]
} else {
   // Fallback on earlier versions
}

And you can using this in table view cell.

Creating and writing lines to a file

Set objFSO=CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

' How to write file
outFile="c:\test\autorun.inf"
Set objFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile(outFile,True)
objFile.Write "test string" & vbCrLf
objFile.Close

'How to read a file
strFile = "c:\test\file"
Set objFile = objFS.OpenTextFile(strFile)
Do Until objFile.AtEndOfStream
    strLine= objFile.ReadLine
    Wscript.Echo strLine
Loop
objFile.Close

'to get file path without drive letter, assuming drive letters are c:, d:, etc
strFile="c:\test\file"
s = Split(strFile,":")
WScript.Echo s(1)

What is 'Context' on Android?

The Context is the android specific api to each app-s Sandbox that provides access app private data like to resources, database, private filedirectories, preferences, settings ...

Most of the privatedata are the same for all activities/services/broadcastlisteners of one application.

Since Application, Activity, Service implement the Context interface they can be used where an api call needs a Context parameter

How can I generate Unix timestamps?

$ date +%s.%N

where (GNU Coreutils 8.24 Date manual)

  • +%s, seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
  • +%N, nanoseconds (000000000..999999999) since epoch

Example output now 1454000043.704350695. I noticed that BSD manual of date did not include precise explanation about the flag +%s.

Fastest JavaScript summation

one of the simplest, fastest, more reusable and flexible is:

Array.prototype.sum = function () {
    for(var total = 0,l=this.length;l--;total+=this[l]); return total;
}

// usage
var array = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10];
array.sum()

How do you use youtube-dl to download live streams (that are live)?

Some websites with m3u streaming cannot be downloaded in a single youtube-dl step, you can try something like this :

$ URL=https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/078132-001-A/cosmos-une-odyssee-a-travers-l-univers/
$ youtube-dl -F $URL | grep m3u
HLS_XQ_2     m3u8       1280x720   VA-STA, Allemand 2200k 
HLS_XQ_1     m3u8       1280x720   VF-STF, Français 2200k 
$ CHOSEN_FORMAT=HLS_XQ_1
$ youtube-dl -F "$(youtube-dl -gf $CHOSEN_FORMAT)"
[generic] master: Requesting header
[generic] master: Downloading webpage
[generic] master: Downloading m3u8 information
[info] Available formats for master:
format code  extension  resolution note
61           mp4        audio only   61k , mp4a.40.2
419          mp4        384x216     419k , avc1.66.30, mp4a.40.2
923          mp4        640x360     923k , avc1.77.30, mp4a.40.2
1737         mp4        720x406    1737k , avc1.77.30, mp4a.40.2
2521         mp4        1280x720   2521k , avc1.77.30, mp4a.40.2 (best)
$ youtube-dl --hls-prefer-native -f 1737 "$(youtube-dl -gf $CHOSEN_FORMAT $URL)" -o "$(youtube-dl -f $CHOSEN_FORMAT --get-filename $URL)"
[generic] master: Requesting header
[generic] master: Downloading webpage
[generic] master: Downloading m3u8 information
[hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest
[hlsnative] Total fragments: 257
[download] Destination: Cosmos_une_odyssee_a_travers_l_univers__HLS_XQ_1__078132-001-A.mp4
[download]   0.9% of ~731.27MiB at 624.95KiB/s ETA 13:13
....

What's the main difference between int.Parse() and Convert.ToInt32

int.Parse(string s)

  • Integer in RANGE > returns integer value
  • Null value > ArguementNullException
  • Not in format > FormatException
  • Value not in RANGE > OverflowException

Convert.ToInt32(string s)

  • Integer in RANGE > returns integer value
  • Null value > returns "0"
  • Not in format > FormatException
  • Value not in RANGE > OverflowException

bool isParsed = int.TryParse(string s,out res)

  • Integer in RANGE > returns integer value, isParsed = true
  • Null value > returns "0", isParsed = false
  • Not in format > returns "0", isParsed = false
  • Value not in RANGE > returns "0", isParsed = false

Try this code below.....

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        string strInt = "24532";
        string strNull = null;
        string strWrongFrmt = "5.87";
        string strAboveRange = "98765432123456";
        int res;
        try
        {
            // int.Parse() - TEST
            res = int.Parse(strInt); // res = 24532
            res = int.Parse(strNull); // System.ArgumentNullException
            res = int.Parse(strWrongFrmt); // System.FormatException
            res = int.Parse(strAboveRange); // System.OverflowException

            // Convert.ToInt32(string s) - TEST
            res = Convert.ToInt32(strInt); // res = 24532
            res = Convert.ToInt32(strNull); // res = 0
            res = Convert.ToInt32(strWrongFrmt); // System.FormatException
            res = Convert.ToInt32(strAboveRange); //System.OverflowException

            // int.TryParse(string s, out res) - Test
            bool isParsed;
            isParsed = int.TryParse(strInt, out res); // isParsed = true, res = 24532
            isParsed = int.TryParse(strNull, out res); // isParsed = false, res = 0
            isParsed = int.TryParse(strWrongFrmt, out res); // isParsed = false, res = 0
            isParsed = int.TryParse(strAboveRange, out res); // isParsed = false, res = 0 
        }
        catch(Exception e)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Check this.\n" + e.Message);
        }
    }

How can I run code on a background thread on Android?

class Background implements Runnable {
    private CountDownLatch latch = new CountDownLatch(1);
    private  Handler handler;

    Background() {
        Thread thread = new Thread(this);
        thread.start();
        try {
            latch.await();
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
           /// e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void run() {
        Looper.prepare();
        handler = new Handler();
        latch.countDown();
        Looper.loop();
    }

    public Handler getHandler() {
        return handler;
    }
}

How do I remove quotes from a string?

str_replace('"', "", $string);
str_replace("'", "", $string);

I assume you mean quotation marks?

Otherwise, go for some regex, this will work for html quotes for example:

preg_replace("/<!--.*?-->/", "", $string);

C-style quotes:

preg_replace("/\/\/.*?\n/", "\n", $string);

CSS-style quotes:

preg_replace("/\/*.*?\*\//", "", $string);

bash-style quotes:

preg-replace("/#.*?\n/", "\n", $string);

Etc etc...

Convert or extract TTC font to TTF - how to?

You can use onlinefontconverter.com site. It works fine and have plenty of output formats (afm bin cff dfont eot pfa pfb pfm ps pt3 suit svg t42 tfm ttc ttf woff). One of the advantages I saw, is that it export all the fonts contained inside the ttc at once (which is very convenient).

Fatal error: Please read "Security" section of the manual to find out how to run mysqld as root

The correct answer that worked for me on CentOS is

/etc/init.d/mysql restart

which is an init script and not /etc/init.d/mysqld restart, which is binary

The is in fact comment of @MrTux on the question which worked for me. It took quite a bit of my time hence posting it as answer.

Pass Parameter to Gulp Task

Passing a parameter to gulp can mean a few things:

  • From the command line to the gulpfile (already exemplified here).
  • From the main body of the gulpfile.js script to gulp tasks.
  • From one gulp task to another gulp task.

Here's an approach of passing parameters from the main gulpfile to a gulp task. By moving the task that needs the parameter to it's own module and wrapping it in a function (so a parameter can be passed).:

// ./gulp-tasks/my-neat-task.js file
module.exports = function(opts){

  opts.gulp.task('my-neat-task', function(){
      console.log( 'the value is ' + opts.value );
  });

};
//main gulpfile.js file

//...do some work to figure out a value called val...
var val = 'some value';

//pass that value as a parameter to the 'my-neat-task' gulp task
require('./gulp-tasks/my-neat-task.js')({ gulp: gulp, value: val});

This can come in handy if you have a lot of gulp tasks and want to pass them some handy environmental configs. I'm not sure if it can work between one task and another.

Is there way to use two PHP versions in XAMPP?

It's possible to have multiple versions of PHP set up with a single XAMPP installation. The instructions below are working for Windows.

  1. Install the latest XAMPP version for Windows (in my case it was with PHP 7.1)
  2. Make sure that Apache is not running from XAMPP Control Panel
  3. Rename the php directory in XAMPP install directory, such as C:\xampp\php become C:\xampp\php-7.1.11.
  4. Download the version of PHP you'd like to run in addition (Eg: PHP 5.4.45)
  5. Move the php directory from the version you downloaded to XAMPP install directory. Rename it so it includes the PHP version. Such as C:\xampp\php-5.4.45.

Now you need to edit XAMPP and Apache configuration :

  1. In C:\xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf, locate the XAMPP settings for PHP, you should change it to something such as :

Where you have to comment (with #) the other PHP versions so only one Include will be interpreted at the time.

#XAMPP settings PHP 7
Include "conf/extra/httpd-xampp.conf.7.1"

#XAMPP settings PHP 5.4.45
#Include "conf/extra/httpd-xampp.conf.5.4.45"
  1. Now in C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra directory rename httpd-xampp.conf to httpd-xampp.conf.7.1 and add a new configuration file for httpd-xampp.conf.5.4.45. In my case, I copied the conf file of another installation of XAMPP for php 5.5 as the syntax may be slightly different for each version.

  2. Edit httpd-xampp.conf.5.4.45 and httpd-xampp.conf.7.1 and replace there all the reference to the php directory with the new php-X.X version. There are at least 10 changes to be made here for each file.

  3. You now need to edit php.ini for the two versions. For example for php 7.1, edit C:\xampp\php-7.1.11\php.ini where you will replace the path of the php directory for include_path, browscap, error_log, extension_dir..

And that's it. You can now start Apache from XAMPP Control Panel. And to switch from a version to another, you need only to edit C:\xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf and change the included PHP version before restarting Apache.

A full list of all the new/popular databases and their uses?

What about CassandraDB, Project Voldemort, TokyoCabinet?

Extract year from date

if all your dates are the same width, you can put the dates in a vector and use substring

Date
a <- c("01/01/2009", "01/01/2010" , "01/01/2011")
substring(a,7,10) #This takes string and only keeps the characters beginning in position 7 to position 10

output

[1] "2009" "2010" "2011"

List(of String) or Array or ArrayList

Neither collection will let you add items that way.

You can make an extension to make for examle List(Of String) have an Add method that can do that:

Imports System.Runtime.CompilerServices
Module StringExtensions

  <Extension()>
  Public Sub Add(ByVal list As List(Of String), ParamArray values As String())
    For Each s As String In values
      list.Add(s)
    Next
  End Sub

End Module

Now you can add multiple value in one call:

Dim lstOfStrings as New List(Of String)
lstOfStrings.Add(String1, String2, String3, String4)

Count distinct value pairs in multiple columns in SQL

To get a count of the number of unique combinations of id, name and address:

SELECT Count(*)
FROM   (
        SELECT DISTINCT
               id
             , name
             , address
        FROM   your_table
       ) As distinctified

What is the recommended project structure for spring boot rest projects?

Though this question has an accepted answer, still I would like to share my project structure for RESTful services.

src/main/java
    +- com
        +- example
            +- Application.java
            +- ApplicationConstants.java
                +- configuration
                |   +- ApplicationConfiguration.java
                +- controller
                |   +- ApplicationController.java
                +- dao
                |   +- impl
                |   |   +- ApplicationDaoImpl.java
                |   +- ApplicationDao.java
                +- dto
                |   +- ApplicationDto.java
                +- service
                |   +- impl
                |   |   +- ApplicationServiceImpl.java
                |   +- ApplicationService.java
                +- util
                |   +- ApplicationUtils.java
                +- validation
                |   +- impl
                |   |   +- ApplicationValidationImpl.java
                |   +- ApplicationValidation.java

DAO = Data Access Object.
DTO = Data Transfer Object.

Execute the setInterval function without delay the first time

You can set a very small initial delay-time (e.g. 100) and set it to your desired delay-time within the function:

_x000D_
_x000D_
var delay = 100;_x000D_
_x000D_
function foo() {_x000D_
  console.log("Change initial delay-time to what you want.");_x000D_
  delay = 12000;_x000D_
  setTimeout(foo, delay);_x000D_
}
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

How to cast an Object to an int

You have to cast it to an Integer (int's wrapper class). You can then use Integer's intValue() method to obtain the inner int.

How to upgrade scikit-learn package in anaconda

Following Worked for me for scikit-learn on Anaconda-Jupyter Notebook.

Upgrading my scikit-learn from 0.19.1 to 0.19.2 in anaconda installed on Ubuntu on Google VM instance:

Run the following commands in the terminal:

First, check existing available packages with versions by using:

conda list    

It will show different packages and their installed versions in the output. Here check for scikit-learn. e.g. for me, the output was:

scikit-learn              0.19.1           py36hedc7406_0  

Now I want to Upgrade to 0.19.2 July 2018 release i.e. latest available version.

conda config --append channels conda-forge
conda install scikit-learn=0.19.2

As you are trying to upgrade to 0.17 version try the following command:

conda install scikit-learn=0.17

Now check the required version of the scikit-learn is installed correctly or not by using:

conda list 

For me the Output was:

scikit-learn              0.19.2          py36_blas_openblasha84fab4_201  [blas_openblas]  conda-forge

Note: Don't use pip command if you are using Anaconda or Miniconda

I tried following commands:

!conda update conda 
!pip install -U scikit-learn

It will install the required packages also will show in the conda list but if you try to import that package it will not work.

On the website http://scikit-learn.org/stable/install.html it is mentioned as: Warning To upgrade or uninstall scikit-learn installed with Anaconda or conda you should not use the pip.

How can I import a large (14 GB) MySQL dump file into a new MySQL database?

I have made a PHP script which is designed to import large database dumps which have been generated by phpmyadmin or mysql dump (from cpanel) . It's called PETMI and you can download it here [project page] [gitlab page].

It works by splitting an. sql file into smaller files called a split and processing each split one at a time. Splits which fail to process can be processed manually by the user in phpmyadmin. This can be easily programmed as in sql dumps, each command is on a new line. Some things in sql dumps work in phpmyadmin imports but not in mysqli_query so those lines have been stripped from the splits.

It has been tested with a 1GB database. It has to be uploaded to an existing website. PETMI is open source and the sample code can be seen on Gitlab.

A moderator asked me to provide some sample code. I'm on a phone so excuse the formatting.

Here is the code that creates the splits.

                 //gets the config page
                  if (isset($_POST['register']) && $_POST['register'])
                {
                 echo " <img src=\"loading.gif\">";
        $folder = "split/";
        include ("config.php");
        
        $fh = fopen("importme.sql", 'a') or die("can't open file");
        $stringData = "-- --------------------------------------------------------";
        fwrite($fh, $stringData);
        fclose($fh);
        
        
        $file2 = fopen("importme.sql","r");
        
        //echo "<br><textarea class=\"mediumtext\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 200px;\">";
        $danumber = "1";
        while(! feof($file2)){
            //echo fgets($file2)."<!-- <br /><hr color=\"red\" size=\"15\"> -->"; 
            $oneline = fgets($file2); //this is fgets($file2) but formatted nicely
            //echo "<br>$oneline";
            
            $findme1  = '-- --------------------------------------------------------';
            $pos1 = strpos($oneline, $findme1);
            $findme2  = '-- Table structure for';
            $pos2 = strpos($oneline, $findme2);
            $findme3  = '-- Dumping data for';
            $pos3 = strpos($oneline, $findme3);
            $findme4  = '-- Indexes for dumped tables';
            $pos4 = strpos($oneline, $findme4);
            $findme5  = '-- AUTO_INCREMENT for dumped tables';
            $pos5 = strpos($oneline, $findme5);
            if ($pos1 === false && $pos2 === false && $pos3 === false && $pos4 === false && $pos5 === false) {

                // setcookie("filenumber",$i);
                // if ($danumber2 == ""){$danumber2 = "0";} else { $danumber2 = $danumber2 +1;}                 
                $ourFileName = "split/sql-split-$danumber.sql";
                // echo "writing danumber is $danumber";
                $ourFileHandle = fopen($ourFileName, 'a') or die("can't edit file. chmod directory to 777");

                $stringData = $oneline;
                $stringData = preg_replace("/\/[*][!\d\sA-Za-z@_='+:,]*[*][\/][;]/", "", $stringData);
                $stringData = preg_replace("/\/[*][!]*[\d A-Za-z`]*[*]\/[;]/", "", $stringData);
                $stringData = preg_replace("/DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `[a-zA-Z]*`;/", "", $stringData);
                $stringData = preg_replace("/LOCK TABLES `[a-zA-Z` ;]*/", "", $stringData);
                $stringData = preg_replace("/UNLOCK TABLES;/", "", $stringData);

                fwrite($ourFileHandle, $stringData);
                fclose($ourFileHandle);
            
            } else {
                    //write new file;
                    if ($danumber == ""){$danumber = "1";} else { $danumber = $danumber +1;}
                    $ourFileName = "split/sql-split-$danumber.sql"; 
                    //echo "$ourFileName has been written with the contents above.\n";
                    
                    $ourFileName = "split/sql-split-$danumber.sql";
                    $ourFileHandle = fopen($ourFileName, 'a') or die("can't edit file. chmod directory to 777");
                    $stringData = "$oneline";
                    fwrite($ourFileHandle, $stringData);
                    fclose($ourFileHandle);
            }
        }
        //echo "</textarea>";
        
    
    fclose($file2);

Here is the code that imports the split

<?php
ob_start();
// allows you to use cookies
include ("config.php");
//gets the config page
if (isset($_POST['register']))
{
echo "<div id**strong text**=\"sel1\"><img src=\"loading.gif\"></div>";

// the above line checks to see if the html form has been submitted
$dbname = $accesshost;
$dbhost = $username;
$dbuser = $password;
$dbpasswd = $database;
$table_prefix = $dbprefix;
//the above lines set variables with the user submitted information
    //none were left blank!  We continue...


//echo "$importme";

echo "<hr>";

$importme = "$_GET[file]";
$importme = file_get_contents($importme);
//echo "<b>$importme</b><br><br>";
$sql = $importme;
$findme1  = '-- Indexes for dumped tables';
$pos1 = strpos($importme, $findme1);
$findme2 = '-- AUTO_INCREMENT for dumped tables';
$pos2 = strpos($importme, $findme2);

$dbhost = '';
@set_time_limit(0);


if($pos1 !== false){
    $splitted = explode("-- Indexes for table", $importme);
    // print_r($splitted);
    for($i=0;$i<count($splitted);$i++){
        $sql = $splitted[$i];
        $sql = preg_replace("/[`][a-z`\s]*[-]{2}/", "", $sql);
        
        // echo "<b>$sql</b><hr>";
        if($table_prefix !== 'phpbb_') $sql = preg_replace('/phpbb_/', $table_prefix, $sql);
        $res = mysql_query($sql);
    }
    if(!$res) { echo '<b>error in query </b>', mysql_error(), '<br /><br>Try importing the split .sql file in phpmyadmin under the SQL tab.'; /* $i = $i +1; */ } else {
    echo ("<meta http-equiv=\"Refresh\" content=\"0; URL=restore.php?page=done&file=$filename\"/>Thank You! You will be redirected");
    }   
 
} elseif($pos2 !== false){
    $splitted = explode("-- AUTO_INCREMENT for table", $importme);
    // print_r($splitted);
    for($i=0;$i<count($splitted);$i++){
        $sql = $splitted[$i];
        $sql = preg_replace("/[`][a-z`\s]*[-]{2}/", "", $sql);
        
        // echo "<b>$sql</b><hr>";
        if($table_prefix !== 'phpbb_') $sql = preg_replace('/phpbb_/', $table_prefix, $sql);
        $res = mysql_query($sql);
    }
    if(!$res) { echo '<b>error in query </b>', mysql_error(), '<br /><br>Try importing the split .sql file in phpmyadmin under the SQL tab.'; /* $i = $i +1; */ } else {
    echo ("<meta http-equiv=\"Refresh\" content=\"0; URL=restore.php?page=done&file=$filename\"/>Thank You! You will be redirected");
    }   
} else {
    if($table_prefix !== 'phpbb_') $sql = preg_replace('/phpbb_/', $table_prefix, $sql);
    $res = mysql_query($sql);
    if(!$res) { echo '<b>error in query </b>', mysql_error(), '<br /><br>Try importing the split .sql file in phpmyadmin under the SQL tab.'; /* $i = $i +1; */ } else {
    echo ("<meta http-equiv=\"Refresh\" content=\"0; URL=restore.php?page=done&file=$filename\"/>Thank You! You will be redirected");
    }


 }




//echo 'done (', count($sql), ' queries).';

}

    

Android ViewPager with bottom dots

If anyone wants to build a viewPager with thumbnails as indicators, using this library could be an option: ThumbIndicator for viewPager that works also with image links as resources.

nodejs module.js:340 error: cannot find module

Faced the same problem while trying to run node-red.

node <directory structure where js  is located>/red. js

In my case it was :

node AppData/Roaming/npm/node_modules/node-red/red.js

++i or i++ in for loops ??

++i is a pre-increment; i++ is post-increment.
The downside of post-increment is that it generates an extra value; it returns a copy of the old value while modifying i. Thus, you should avoid it when possible.

COUNT(*) vs. COUNT(1) vs. COUNT(pk): which is better?

Bottom Line

Use either COUNT(field) or COUNT(*), and stick with it consistently, and if your database allows COUNT(tableHere) or COUNT(tableHere.*), use that.

In short, don't use COUNT(1) for anything. It's a one-trick pony, which rarely does what you want, and in those rare cases is equivalent to count(*)

Use count(*) for counting

Use * for all your queries that need to count everything, even for joins, use *

SELECT boss.boss_id, COUNT(subordinate.*)
FROM boss
LEFT JOIN subordinate on subordinate.boss_id = boss.boss_id
GROUP BY boss.id

But don't use COUNT(*) for LEFT joins, as that will return 1 even if the subordinate table doesn't match anything from parent table

SELECT boss.boss_id, COUNT(*)
FROM boss
LEFT JOIN subordinate on subordinate.boss_id = boss.boss_id
GROUP BY boss.id

Don't be fooled by those advising that when using * in COUNT, it fetches entire row from your table, saying that * is slow. The * on SELECT COUNT(*) and SELECT * has no bearing to each other, they are entirely different thing, they just share a common token, i.e. *.

An alternate syntax

In fact, if it is not permitted to name a field as same as its table name, RDBMS language designer could give COUNT(tableNameHere) the same semantics as COUNT(*). Example:

For counting rows we could have this:

SELECT COUNT(emp) FROM emp

And they could make it simpler:

SELECT COUNT() FROM emp

And for LEFT JOINs, we could have this:

SELECT boss.boss_id, COUNT(subordinate)
FROM boss
LEFT JOIN subordinate on subordinate.boss_id = boss.boss_id
GROUP BY boss.id

But they cannot do that (COUNT(tableNameHere)) since SQL standard permits naming a field with the same name as its table name:

CREATE TABLE fruit -- ORM-friendly name
(
fruit_id int NOT NULL,
fruit varchar(50), /* same name as table name, 
                and let's say, someone forgot to put NOT NULL */
shape varchar(50) NOT NULL,
color varchar(50) NOT NULL
)

Counting with null

And also, it is not a good practice to make a field nullable if its name matches the table name. Say you have values 'Banana', 'Apple', NULL, 'Pears' on fruit field. This will not count all rows, it will only yield 3, not 4

SELECT count(fruit) FROM fruit

Though some RDBMS do that sort of principle (for counting the table's rows, it accepts table name as COUNT's parameter), this will work in Postgresql (if there is no subordinate field in any of the two tables below, i.e. as long as there is no name conflict between field name and table name):

SELECT boss.boss_id, COUNT(subordinate)
FROM boss
LEFT JOIN subordinate on subordinate.boss_id = boss.boss_id
GROUP BY boss.id

But that could cause confusion later if we will add a subordinate field in the table, as it will count the field(which could be nullable), not the table rows.

So to be on the safe side, use:

SELECT boss.boss_id, COUNT(subordinate.*)
FROM boss
LEFT JOIN subordinate on subordinate.boss_id = boss.boss_id
GROUP BY boss.id

count(1): The one-trick pony

In particular to COUNT(1), it is a one-trick pony, it works well only on one table query:

SELECT COUNT(1) FROM tbl

But when you use joins, that trick won't work on multi-table queries without its semantics being confused, and in particular you cannot write:

-- count the subordinates that belongs to boss
SELECT boss.boss_id, COUNT(subordinate.1)
FROM boss
LEFT JOIN subordinate on subordinate.boss_id = boss.boss_id
GROUP BY boss.id

So what's the meaning of COUNT(1) here?

SELECT boss.boss_id, COUNT(1)
FROM boss
LEFT JOIN subordinate on subordinate.boss_id = boss.boss_id
GROUP BY boss.id

Is it this...?

-- counting all the subordinates only
SELECT boss.boss_id, COUNT(subordinate.boss_id)
FROM boss
LEFT JOIN subordinate on subordinate.boss_id = boss.boss_id
GROUP BY boss.id

Or this...?

-- or is that COUNT(1) will also count 1 for boss regardless if boss has a subordinate
SELECT boss.boss_id, COUNT(*)
FROM boss
LEFT JOIN subordinate on subordinate.boss_id = boss.boss_id
GROUP BY boss.id

By careful thought, you can infer that COUNT(1) is the same as COUNT(*), regardless of type of join. But for LEFT JOINs result, we cannot mold COUNT(1) to work as: COUNT(subordinate.boss_id), COUNT(subordinate.*)

So just use either of the following:

-- count the subordinates that belongs to boss
SELECT boss.boss_id, COUNT(subordinate.boss_id)
FROM boss
LEFT JOIN subordinate on subordinate.boss_id = boss.boss_id
GROUP BY boss.id

Works on Postgresql, it's clear that you want to count the cardinality of the set

-- count the subordinates that belongs to boss
SELECT boss.boss_id, COUNT(subordinate.*)
FROM boss
LEFT JOIN subordinate on subordinate.boss_id = boss.boss_id
GROUP BY boss.id

Another way to count the cardinality of the set, very English-like (just don't make a column with a name same as its table name) : http://www.sqlfiddle.com/#!1/98515/7

select boss.boss_name, count(subordinate)
from boss
left join subordinate on subordinate.boss_code = boss.boss_code
group by boss.boss_name

You cannot do this: http://www.sqlfiddle.com/#!1/98515/8

select boss.boss_name, count(subordinate.1)
from boss
left join subordinate on subordinate.boss_code = boss.boss_code
group by boss.boss_name

You can do this, but this produces wrong result: http://www.sqlfiddle.com/#!1/98515/9

select boss.boss_name, count(1)
from boss
left join subordinate on subordinate.boss_code = boss.boss_code
group by boss.boss_name

Get age from Birthdate

JsFiddle

You can calculate with Dates.

var birthdate = new Date("1990/1/1");
var cur = new Date();
var diff = cur-birthdate; // This is the difference in milliseconds
var age = Math.floor(diff/31557600000); // Divide by 1000*60*60*24*365.25

How to get and set the current web page scroll position?

There are some inconsistencies in how browsers expose the current window scrolling coordinates. Google Chrome on Mac and iOS seems to always return 0 when using document.documentElement.scrollTop or jQuery's $(window).scrollTop().

However, it works consistently with:

// horizontal scrolling amount
window.pageXOffset

// vertical scrolling amount
window.pageYOffset

How do I get the "id" after INSERT into MySQL database with Python?

Python DBAPI spec also define 'lastrowid' attribute for cursor object, so...

id = cursor.lastrowid

...should work too, and it's per-connection based obviously.

Using NotNull Annotation in method argument

I do this to create my own validation annotation and validator:

ValidCardType.java(annotation to put on methods/fields)

@Constraint(validatedBy = {CardTypeValidator.class})
@Documented
@Target( { ElementType.ANNOTATION_TYPE, ElementType.METHOD, ElementType.FIELD })
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
public @interface ValidCardType {
    String message() default "Incorrect card type, should be among: \"MasterCard\" | \"Visa\"";
    Class<?>[] groups() default {};
    Class<? extends Payload>[] payload() default {};
}

And, the validator to trigger the check: CardTypeValidator.java:

public class CardTypeValidator implements ConstraintValidator<ValidCardType, String> {
    private static final String[] ALL_CARD_TYPES = {"MasterCard", "Visa"};

    @Override
    public void initialize(ValidCardType status) {
    }
    public boolean isValid(String value, ConstraintValidatorContext context) {
        return (Arrays.asList(ALL_CARD_TYPES).contains(value));
    }
}

You can do something very similar to check @NotNull.

How to fix '.' is not an internal or external command error

Replacing forward(/) slash with backward(\) slash will do the job. The folder separator in Windows is \ not /

How can I avoid running ActiveRecord callbacks?

I needed a solution for Rails 4, so I came up with this:

app/models/concerns/save_without_callbacks.rb

module SaveWithoutCallbacks

  def self.included(base)
    base.const_set(:WithoutCallbacks,
      Class.new(ActiveRecord::Base) do
        self.table_name = base.table_name
      end
      )
  end

  def save_without_callbacks
    new_record? ? create_without_callbacks : update_without_callbacks
  end

  def create_without_callbacks
    plain_model = self.class.const_get(:WithoutCallbacks)
    plain_record = plain_model.create(self.attributes)
    self.id = plain_record.id
    self.created_at = Time.zone.now
    self.updated_at = Time.zone.now
    @new_record = false
    true
  end

  def update_without_callbacks
    update_attributes = attributes.except(self.class.primary_key)
    update_attributes['created_at'] = Time.zone.now
    update_attributes['updated_at'] = Time.zone.now
    update_columns update_attributes
  end

end

in any model:

include SaveWithoutCallbacks

then you can:

record.save_without_callbacks

or

Model::WithoutCallbacks.create(attributes)

python: SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal

In my situation, I had \r\n in my single-quoted dictionary strings. I replaced all instances of \r with \\r and \n with \\n and it fixed my issue, properly returning escaped line breaks in the eval'ed dict.

ast.literal_eval(my_str.replace('\r','\\r').replace('\n','\\n'))
  .....

int *array = new int[n]; what is this function actually doing?

It allocates that much space according to the value of n and pointer will point to the array i.e the 1st element of array

int *array = new int[n];

Telling Python to save a .txt file to a certain directory on Windows and Mac

Just use an absolute path when opening the filehandle for writing.

import os.path

save_path = 'C:/example/'

name_of_file = raw_input("What is the name of the file: ")

completeName = os.path.join(save_path, name_of_file+".txt")         

file1 = open(completeName, "w")

toFile = raw_input("Write what you want into the field")

file1.write(toFile)

file1.close()

You could optionally combine this with os.path.abspath() as described in Bryan's answer to automatically get the path of a user's Documents folder. Cheers!

How to upgrade safely php version in wamp server

WAMP server generally provide addond for different php/mysql versions. However you mentioned you have downloaded latest wamp server. As of now, latest Wamp server v2.5 provide PHP version 5.5.12

So you need to upgrade it manually as follow:

  1. Download binaries on php.net
  2. Extract all files in a new folder : C:/wamp/bin/php/php5.5.27/
  3. Copy the wampserver.conf from another php folder (like php/php5.5.12/) to the new folder
  4. Rename php.ini-development file to phpForApache.ini
  5. Done ! Restart WampServer (>Right Mouseclick on trayicon >Exit)

Although not asked, I'd recommend to vagrant/puppet or docker for local development. Check puphpet.com for details. It has slight learning curve but it will give you much better control of different versions of every tool.

PostgreSQL "DESCRIBE TABLE"

Try this (in the psql command-line tool):

\d+ tablename

See the manual for more info.

Completely cancel a rebase

In the case of a past rebase that you did not properly aborted, you now (Git 2.12, Q1 2017) have git rebase --quit

See commit 9512177 (12 Nov 2016) by Nguy?n Thái Ng?c Duy (pclouds). (Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit 06cd5a1, 19 Dec 2016)

rebase: add --quit to cleanup rebase, leave everything else untouched

There are occasions when you decide to abort an in-progress rebase and move on to do something else but you forget to do "git rebase --abort" first. Or the rebase has been in progress for so long you forgot about it. By the time you realize that (e.g. by starting another rebase) it's already too late to retrace your steps. The solution is normally

rm -r .git/<some rebase dir>

and continue with your life.
But there could be two different directories for <some rebase dir> (and it obviously requires some knowledge of how rebase works), and the ".git" part could be much longer if you are not at top-dir, or in a linked worktree. And "rm -r" is very dangerous to do in .git, a mistake in there could destroy object database or other important data.

Provide "git rebase --quit" for this use case, mimicking a precedent that is "git cherry-pick --quit".


Before Git 2.27 (Q2 2020), The stash entry created by "git merge --autostash" to keep the initial dirty state were discarded by mistake upon "git rebase --quit", which has been corrected.

See commit 9b2df3e (28 Apr 2020) by Denton Liu (Denton-L).
(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit 3afdeef, 29 Apr 2020)

rebase: save autostash entry into stash reflog on --quit

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu

In a03b55530a ("merge: teach --autostash option", 2020-04-07, Git v2.27.0 -- merge listed in batch #5), the --autostash option was introduced for git merge.

(See "Can “git pull” automatically stash and pop pending changes?")

Notably, when git merge --quit is run with an autostash entry present, it is saved into the stash reflog.

This is contrasted with the current behaviour of git rebase --quit where the autostash entry is simply just dropped out of existence.

Adopt the behaviour of git merge --quit in git rebase --quit and save the autostash entry into the stash reflog instead of just deleting it.

What is the purpose of the word 'self'?

Is because by the way python is designed the alternatives would hardly work. Python is designed to allow methods or functions to be defined in a context where both implicit this (a-la Java/C++) or explicit @ (a-la ruby) wouldn't work. Let's have an example with the explicit approach with python conventions:

def fubar(x):
    self.x = x

class C:
    frob = fubar

Now the fubar function wouldn't work since it would assume that self is a global variable (and in frob as well). The alternative would be to execute method's with a replaced global scope (where self is the object).

The implicit approach would be

def fubar(x)
    myX = x

class C:
    frob = fubar

This would mean that myX would be interpreted as a local variable in fubar (and in frob as well). The alternative here would be to execute methods with a replaced local scope which is retained between calls, but that would remove the posibility of method local variables.

However the current situation works out well:

 def fubar(self, x)
     self.x = x

 class C:
     frob = fubar

here when called as a method frob will receive the object on which it's called via the self parameter, and fubar can still be called with an object as parameter and work the same (it is the same as C.frob I think).

Read CSV with Scanner()

I have seen many production problems caused by code not handling quotes ("), newline characters within quotes, and quotes within the quotes; e.g.: "he said ""this""" should be parsed into: he said "this"

Like it was mentioned earlier, many CSV parsing examples out there just read a line, and then break up the line by the separator character. This is rather incomplete and problematic.

For me and probably those who prefer build verses buy (or use somebody else's code and deal with their dependencies), I got down to classic text parsing programming and that worked for me:

/**
 * Parse CSV data into an array of String arrays. It handles double quoted values.
 * @param is input stream
 * @param separator
 * @param trimValues
 * @param skipEmptyLines
 * @return an array of String arrays
 * @throws IOException
 */
public static String[][] parseCsvData(InputStream is, char separator, boolean trimValues, boolean skipEmptyLines)
    throws IOException
{
    ArrayList<String[]> data = new ArrayList<String[]>();
    ArrayList<String> row = new ArrayList<String>();
    StringBuffer value = new StringBuffer();
    int ch = -1;
    int prevCh = -1;
    boolean inQuotedValue = false;
    boolean quoteAtStart = false;
    boolean rowIsEmpty = true;
    boolean isEOF = false;

    while (true)
    {
        prevCh = ch;
        ch = (isEOF) ? -1 : is.read();

        // Handle carriage return line feed
        if (prevCh == '\r' && ch == '\n')
        {
            continue;
        }
        if (inQuotedValue)
        {
            if (ch == -1)
            {
                inQuotedValue = false;
                isEOF = true;
            }
            else
            {
                value.append((char)ch);

                if (ch == '"')
                {
                    inQuotedValue = false;
                }
            }
        }
        else if (ch == separator || ch == '\r' || ch == '\n' || ch == -1)
        {
            // Add the value to the row
            String s = value.toString();

            if (quoteAtStart && s.endsWith("\""))
            {
                s = s.substring(1, s.length() - 1);
            }
            if (trimValues)
            {
                s = s.trim();
            }
            rowIsEmpty = (s.length() > 0) ? false : rowIsEmpty;
            row.add(s);
            value.setLength(0);

            if (ch == '\r' || ch == '\n' || ch == -1)
            {
                // Add the row to the result
                if (!skipEmptyLines || !rowIsEmpty)
                {
                    data.add(row.toArray(new String[0]));
                }
                row.clear();
                rowIsEmpty = true;

                if (ch == -1)
                {
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
        else if (prevCh == '"')
        {
            inQuotedValue = true;
        }
        else
        {
            if (ch == '"')
            {
                inQuotedValue = true;
                quoteAtStart = (value.length() == 0) ? true : false;
            }
            value.append((char)ch);
        }
    }
    return data.toArray(new String[0][]);
}

Unit Test:

String[][] data = parseCsvData(new ByteArrayInputStream("foo,\"\",,\"bar\",\"\"\"music\"\"\",\"carriage\r\nreturn\",\"new\nline\"\r\nnext,line".getBytes()), ',', true, true);
for (int rowIdx = 0; rowIdx < data.length; rowIdx++)
{
    System.out.println(Arrays.asList(data[rowIdx]));
}

generates the output:

[foo, , , bar, "music", carriage
return, new
line]
[next, line]

window.open with headers

If you are in control of server side, it might be possible to set header value in query string and send it like that? That way you could parse it from query string if it's not found in the headers.

Just an idea... And you asked for a cunning hack :)

Create a temporary table in MySQL with an index from a select

I wrestled quite a while with the proper syntax for CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE SELECT. Having figured out a few things, I wanted to share the answers with the rest of the community.

Basic information about the statement is available at the following MySQL links:

CREATE TABLE SELECT and CREATE TABLE.

At times it can be daunting to interpret the spec. Since most people learn best from examples, I will share how I have created a working statement, and how you can modify it to work for you.

  1. Add multiple indexes

    This statement shows how to add multiple indexes (note that index names - in lower case - are optional):

    CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE core.my_tmp_table 
    (INDEX my_index_name (tag, time), UNIQUE my_unique_index_name (order_number))
    SELECT * FROM core.my_big_table
    WHERE my_val = 1
    
  2. Add a new primary key:

    CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE core.my_tmp_table 
    (PRIMARY KEY my_pkey (order_number),
    INDEX cmpd_key (user_id, time))
    SELECT * FROM core.my_big_table
    
  3. Create additional columns

    You can create a new table with more columns than are specified in the SELECT statement. Specify the additional column in the table definition. Columns specified in the table definition and not found in select will be first columns in the new table, followed by the columns inserted by the SELECT statement.

    CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE core.my_tmp_table 
    (my_new_id BIGINT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,  
    PRIMARY KEY my_pkey (my_new_id), INDEX my_unique_index_name (invoice_number))
    SELECT * FROM core.my_big_table
    
  4. Redefining data types for the columns from SELECT

    You can redefine the data type of a column being SELECTed. In the example below, column tag is a MEDIUMINT in core.my_big_table and I am redefining it to a BIGINT in core.my_tmp_table.

    CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE core.my_tmp_table 
    (tag BIGINT,
    my_time DATETIME,  
    INDEX my_unique_index_name (tag) )
    SELECT * FROM core.my_big_table
    
  5. Advanced field definitions during create

    All the usual column definitions are available as when you create a normal table. Example:

    CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE core.my_tmp_table 
    (id INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
    value BIGINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT 0 UNIQUE,
    location VARCHAR(20) DEFAULT "NEEDS TO BE SET",
    country CHAR(2) DEFAULT "XX" COMMENT "Two-letter country code",  
    INDEX my_index_name (location))
    ENGINE=MyISAM 
    SELECT * FROM core.my_big_table
    

Update Top 1 record in table sql server

For those who are finding for a thread safe solution, take a look here.

Code:

UPDATE Account 
SET    sg_status = 'A'
OUTPUT INSERTED.AccountId --You only need this if you want to return some column of the updated item
WHERE  AccountId = 
(
    SELECT TOP 1 AccountId 
    FROM Account WITH (UPDLOCK) --this is what makes the query thread safe!
    ORDER  BY CreationDate 
)

Xcode 6 Storyboard the wrong size?

Go to Attributes Inspector(right top corner) In the Simulated Metrics, which has Size, Orientation, Status Bar, Top Bar, Bottom Bar properties. For SIZE, change Inferred --> Freeform.

Select columns in PySpark dataframe

The dataset in ss.csv contains some columns I am interested in:

ss_ = spark.read.csv("ss.csv", header= True, 
                      inferSchema = True)
ss_.columns
['Reporting Area', 'MMWR Year', 'MMWR Week', 'Salmonellosis (excluding Paratyphoid fever andTyphoid fever)†, Current week', 'Salmonellosis (excluding Paratyphoid fever andTyphoid fever)†, Current week, flag', 'Salmonellosis (excluding Paratyphoid fever andTyphoid fever)†, Previous 52 weeks Med', 'Salmonellosis (excluding Paratyphoid fever andTyphoid fever)†, Previous 52 weeks Med, flag', 'Salmonellosis (excluding Paratyphoid fever andTyphoid fever)†, Previous 52 weeks Max', 'Salmonellosis (excluding Paratyphoid fever andTyphoid fever)†, Previous 52 weeks Max, flag', 'Salmonellosis (excluding Paratyphoid fever andTyphoid fever)†, Cum 2018', 'Salmonellosis (excluding Paratyphoid fever andTyphoid fever)†, Cum 2018, flag', 'Salmonellosis (excluding Paratyphoid fever andTyphoid fever)†, Cum 2017', 'Salmonellosis (excluding Paratyphoid fever andTyphoid fever)†, Cum 2017, flag', 'Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli, Current week', 'Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli, Current week, flag', 'Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli, Previous 52 weeks Med', 'Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli, Previous 52 weeks Med, flag', 'Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli, Previous 52 weeks Max', 'Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli, Previous 52 weeks Max, flag', 'Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli, Cum 2018', 'Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli, Cum 2018, flag', 'Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli, Cum 2017', 'Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli, Cum 2017, flag', 'Shigellosis, Current week', 'Shigellosis, Current week, flag', 'Shigellosis, Previous 52 weeks Med', 'Shigellosis, Previous 52 weeks Med, flag', 'Shigellosis, Previous 52 weeks Max', 'Shigellosis, Previous 52 weeks Max, flag', 'Shigellosis, Cum 2018', 'Shigellosis, Cum 2018, flag', 'Shigellosis, Cum 2017', 'Shigellosis, Cum 2017, flag']

but I only need a few:

columns_lambda = lambda k: k.endswith(', Current week') or k == 'Reporting Area' or k == 'MMWR Year' or  k == 'MMWR Week'

The filter returns the list of desired columns, list is evaluated:

sss = filter(columns_lambda, ss_.columns)
to_keep = list(sss)

the list of desired columns is unpacked as arguments to dataframe select function that return dataset containing only columns in the list:

dfss = ss_.select(*to_keep)
dfss.columns

The result:

['Reporting Area',
 'MMWR Year',
 'MMWR Week',
 'Salmonellosis (excluding Paratyphoid fever andTyphoid fever)†, Current week',
 'Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli, Current week',
 'Shigellosis, Current week']

The df.select() has a complementary pair: http://spark.apache.org/docs/2.4.1/api/python/pyspark.sql.html#pyspark.sql.DataFrame.drop

to drop the list of columns.

AngularJS toggle class using ng-class

autoscroll will be defined and modified in the controller:

<span ng-class= "autoscroll?'class_if_true':'class_if_false'"></span>

Add multiple classes based on condition by:

<span ng-class= "autoscroll?'first second third':'classes_if_false'"></span>

Given URL is not allowed by the Application configuration

I'm using the Facebook Canvas platform (Unity WebGL) and I don't needed to add the Website platform. The only thing I did was add my website root url in:

  • Product
    • Facebook Login
      • Valid OAuth redirect URIs

Facebook Login configurations

How to bring an activity to foreground (top of stack)?

Here is a code-example of how you can do it:

Intent intent = getIntent(getApplicationContext(), A.class)

This will make sure that you only have one instance of an activity on the stack.

private static Intent getIntent(Context context, Class<?> cls) {
    Intent intent = new Intent(context, cls);
    intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_REORDER_TO_FRONT);
    return intent;
}

jQuery: How can I create a simple overlay?

Please check this jQuery plugin,

blockUI

with this you can overlay all the page or elements, works great for me,

Examples: Block a div: $('div.test').block({ message: null });

Block the page: $.blockUI({ message: '<h1><img src="busy.gif" /> Just a moment...</h1>' }); Hope that help someone

Greetings

Javascript counting number of objects in object

In recent browsers you can use:

Object.keys(obj.Data).length

See MDN

For older browsers, use the for-in loop in Michael Geary's answer.

How to drop rows from pandas data frame that contains a particular string in a particular column?

Slight modification to the code. Having na=False will skip empty values. Otherwise you can get an error TypeError: bad operand type for unary ~: float

df[~df.C.str.contains("XYZ", na=False)]

Source: TypeError: bad operand type for unary ~: float

What is the difference between aggregation, composition and dependency?

Aggregation and composition are terms that most people in the OO world have acquired via UML. And UML does a very poor job at defining these terms, as has been demonstrated by, for example, Henderson-Sellers and Barbier ("What is This Thing Called Aggregation?", "Formalization of the Whole-Part Relationship in the Unified Modeling Language"). I don't think that a coherent definition of aggregation and composition can be given if you are interested in being UML-compliant. I suggest you look at the cited works.

Regarding dependency, that's a highly abstract relationship between types (not objects) that can mean almost anything.

How to execute a stored procedure inside a select query

You can create a temp table matching your proc output and insert into it.

CREATE TABLE #Temp (
    Col1 INT
)

INSERT INTO #Temp
    EXEC MyProc

Sum up a column from a specific row down

This seems like the easiest (but not most robust) way to me. Simply compute the sum from row 6 to the maximum allowed row number, as specified by Excel. According to this site, the maximum is currently 1048576, so the following should work for you:

=sum(c6:c1048576)

For more robust solutions, see the other answers.