Programs & Examples On #Outputstream

An abstract mechanism for writing data to a stream in Java and C#

Byte[] to InputStream or OutputStream

output = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
...
input = new ByteArrayInputStream( output.toByteArray() )

How to read pdf file and write it to outputStream

import java.io.*;


public class FileRead {


    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {


        File f=new File("C:\\Documents and Settings\\abc\\Desktop\\abc.pdf");

        OutputStream oos = new FileOutputStream("test.pdf");

        byte[] buf = new byte[8192];

        InputStream is = new FileInputStream(f);

        int c = 0;

        while ((c = is.read(buf, 0, buf.length)) > 0) {
            oos.write(buf, 0, c);
            oos.flush();
        }

        oos.close();
        System.out.println("stop");
        is.close();

    }

}

The easiest way so far. Hope this helps.

Java - How Can I Write My ArrayList to a file, and Read (load) that file to the original ArrayList?

ObjectOutputStream.writeObject(clubs)
ObjectInputStream.readObject();

Also, you 'add' logic is logically equivalent to using a Set instead of a List. Lists can have duplicates and Sets cannot. You should consider using a set. After all, can you really have 2 chess clubs in the same school?

Connecting an input stream to an outputstream

BUFFER_SIZE is the size of chucks to read in. Should be > 1kb and < 10MB.

private static final int BUFFER_SIZE = 2 * 1024 * 1024;
private void copy(InputStream input, OutputStream output) throws IOException {
    try {
        byte[] buffer = new byte[BUFFER_SIZE];
        int bytesRead = input.read(buffer);
        while (bytesRead != -1) {
            output.write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
            bytesRead = input.read(buffer);
        }
    //If needed, close streams.
    } finally {
        input.close();
        output.close();
    }
}

How to convert OutputStream to InputStream?

You will need an intermediate class which will buffer between. Each time InputStream.read(byte[]...) is called, the buffering class will fill the passed in byte array with the next chunk passed in from OutputStream.write(byte[]...). Since the sizes of the chunks may not be the same, the adapter class will need to store a certain amount until it has enough to fill the read buffer and/or be able to store up any buffer overflow.

This article has a nice breakdown of a few different approaches to this problem:

http://blog.ostermiller.org/convert-java-outputstream-inputstream

Can you explain the HttpURLConnection connection process?

Tim Bray presented a concise step-by-step, stating that openConnection() does not establish an actual connection. Rather, an actual HTTP connection is not established until you call methods such as getInputStream() or getOutputStream().

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2012/01/17/HttpURLConnection

What is InputStream & Output Stream? Why and when do we use them?

InputStream is used for reading, OutputStream for writing. They are connected as decorators to one another such that you can read/write all different types of data from all different types of sources.

For example, you can write primitive data to a file:

File file = new File("C:/text.bin");
file.createNewFile();
DataOutputStream stream = new DataOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(file));
stream.writeBoolean(true);
stream.writeInt(1234);
stream.close();

To read the written contents:

File file = new File("C:/text.bin");
DataInputStream stream = new DataInputStream(new FileInputStream(file));
boolean isTrue = stream.readBoolean();
int value = stream.readInt();
stream.close();
System.out.printlin(isTrue + " " + value);

You can use other types of streams to enhance the reading/writing. For example, you can introduce a buffer for efficiency:

DataInputStream stream = new DataInputStream(
    new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(file)));

You can write other data such as objects:

MyClass myObject = new MyClass(); // MyClass have to implement Serializable
ObjectOutputStream stream = new ObjectOutputStream(
    new FileOutputStream("C:/text.obj"));
stream.writeObject(myObject);
stream.close();

You can read from other different input sources:

byte[] test = new byte[] {0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 8, 9};
DataInputStream stream = new DataInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(test));
int value0 = stream.readInt();
int value1 = stream.readInt();
byte value2 = stream.readByte();
byte value3 = stream.readByte();
stream.close();
System.out.println(value0 + " " + value1 + " " + value2 + " " + value3);

For most input streams there is an output stream, also. You can define your own streams to reading/writing special things and there are complex streams for reading complex things (for example there are Streams for reading/writing ZIP format).

How can I set a dynamic model name in AngularJS?

What I ended up doing is something like this:

In the controller:

link: function($scope, $element, $attr) {
  $scope.scope = $scope;  // or $scope.$parent, as needed
  $scope.field = $attr.field = '_suffix';
  $scope.subfield = $attr.sub_node;
  ...

so in the templates I could use totally dynamic names, and not just under a certain hard-coded element (like in your "Answers" case):

<textarea ng-model="scope[field][subfield]"></textarea>

Hope this helps.

Copying one structure to another

  1. You can use a struct to read write into a file. You do not need to cast it as a `char*. Struct size will also be preserved. (This point is not closest to the topic but guess it: behaving on hard memory is often similar to RAM one.)

  2. To move (to & from) a single string field you must use strncpy and a transient string buffer '\0' terminating. Somewhere you must remember the length of the record string field.

  3. To move other fields you can use the dot notation, ex.: NodeB->one=intvar; floatvar2=(NodeA->insidebisnode_subvar).myfl;

    struct mynode {
        int one;
        int two;
        char txt3[3];
        struct{char txt2[6];}txt2fi;
        struct insidenode{
            char txt[8];
            long int myl;
            void * mypointer;
            size_t myst;
            long long myll;
             } insidenode_subvar;
        struct insidebisnode{
            float myfl;
             } insidebisnode_subvar;
    } mynode_subvar;
    
    typedef struct mynode* Node;
    
    ...(main)
    Node NodeA=malloc...
    Node NodeB=malloc...
    
  4. You can embed each string into a structs that fit it, to evade point-2 and behave like Cobol: NodeB->txt2fi=NodeA->txt2fi ...but you will still need of a transient string plus one strncpy as mentioned at point-2 for scanf, printf otherwise an operator longer input (shorter), would have not be truncated (by spaces padded).

  5. (NodeB->insidenode_subvar).mypointer=(NodeA->insidenode_subvar).mypointer will create a pointer alias.
  6. NodeB.txt3=NodeA.txt3 causes the compiler to reject: error: incompatible types when assigning to type ‘char[3]’ from type ‘char *’
  7. point-4 works only because NodeB->txt2fi & NodeA->txt2fi belong to the same typedef !!

    A correct and simple answer to this topic I found at In C, why can't I assign a string to a char array after it's declared? "Arrays (also of chars) are second-class citizens in C"!!!

How to rename a single column in a data.frame?

We can use rename_with to rename columns with a function (stringr functions, for example).

Consider the following data df_1:

df_1 <- data.frame(
  x = replicate(n = 3, expr = rnorm(n = 3, mean = 10, sd = 1)), 
  y = sample(x = 1:2, size = 10, replace = TRUE)
)

names(df_1)

#[1] "x.1" "x.2" "x.3" "y" 

Rename all variables with dplyr::everything():

library(tidyverse)

df_1 %>% 
  rename_with(.data = ., .cols = everything(.), 
              .fn = str_replace, pattern = '.*', 
              replacement = str_c('var', seq_along(.), sep = '_')) %>% 
  names()

#[1] "var_1" "var_2" "var_3" "var_4"

Rename by name particle with some dplyr verbs (starts_with, ends_with, contains, matches, ...).

Example with . (x variables):

df_1 %>% 
  rename_with(.data = ., .cols = contains('.'), 
              .fn = str_replace, pattern = '.*', 
              replacement = str_c('var', seq_along(.), sep = '_')) %>% 
  names()

#[1] "var_1" "var_2" "var_3" "y"

Rename by class with many functions of class test, like is.integer, is.numeric, is.factor...

Example with is.integer (y):

df_1 %>% 
  rename_with(.data = ., .cols = is.integer, 
              .fn = str_replace, pattern = '.*', 
              replacement = str_c('var', seq_along(.), sep = '_')) %>% 
  names()

#[1] "x.1"   "x.2"   "x.3"   "var_1"

The warning:

Warning messages: 1: In stri_replace_first_regex(string, pattern, fix_replacement(replacement), : longer object length is not a multiple of shorter object length 2: In names[cols] <- .fn(names[cols], ...) : number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement length

It is not relevant, as it is just an inconsistency of seq_along(.) with the replace function.

Is it necessary to assign a string to a variable before comparing it to another?

if ([statusString isEqualToString:@"Wrong"]) {
    // do something
}

How to set MouseOver event/trigger for border in XAML?

Yes, this is confusing...

According to this blog post, it looks like this is an omission from WPF.

To make it work you need to use a style:

    <Border Name="ClearButtonBorder" Grid.Column="1" CornerRadius="0,3,3,0">
        <Border.Style>
            <Style>
                <Setter Property="Border.Background" Value="Blue"/>
                <Style.Triggers>
                    <Trigger Property="Border.IsMouseOver" Value="True">
                        <Setter Property="Border.Background" Value="Green" />
                    </Trigger>
                </Style.Triggers>
            </Style>
        </Border.Style>
        <TextBlock HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center" Text="X" />
    </Border>

I guess this problem isn't that common as most people tend to factor out this sort of thing into a style, so it can be used on multiple controls.

Declare a Range relative to the Active Cell with VBA

Like this:

Dim rng as Range
Set rng = ActiveCell.Resize(numRows, numCols)

then read the contents of that range to an array:

Dim arr As Variant
arr = rng.Value
'arr is now a two-dimensional array of size (numRows, numCols)

or, select the range (I don't think that's what you really want, but you ask for this in the question).

rng.Select

Build the full path filename in Python

Um, why not just:

>>>> import os
>>>> os.path.join(dir_name, base_filename + "." + format)
'/home/me/dev/my_reports/daily_report.pdf'

How can I create my own comparator for a map?

Yes, the 3rd template parameter on map specifies the comparator, which is a binary predicate. Example:

struct ByLength : public std::binary_function<string, string, bool>
{
    bool operator()(const string& lhs, const string& rhs) const
    {
        return lhs.length() < rhs.length();
    }
};

int main()
{
    typedef map<string, string, ByLength> lenmap;
    lenmap mymap;

    mymap["one"] = "one";
    mymap["a"] = "a";
    mymap["fewbahr"] = "foobar";

    for( lenmap::const_iterator it = mymap.begin(), end = mymap.end(); it != end; ++it )
        cout << it->first << "\n";
}

filter out multiple criteria using excel vba

Replace Operator:=xlOr with Operator:=xlAnd between your criteria. See below the amended script

myRange.AutoFilter Field:=1, Criteria1:="<>A", Operator:=xlAnd, Criteria2:="<>B", Operator:=xlAnd, Criteria3:="<>C"

How to split a string with angularJS

You may want to wrap that functionality up into a filter, this way you don't have to put the mySplit function in all of your controllers. For example

angular.module('myModule', [])
    .filter('split', function() {
        return function(input, splitChar, splitIndex) {
            // do some bounds checking here to ensure it has that index
            return input.split(splitChar)[splitIndex];
        }
    });

From here, you can use a filter as you originally intended

{{test | split:',':0}}
{{test | split:',':0}}

More info at http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/filter (thanks ross)

Plunkr @ http://plnkr.co/edit/NA4UeL

Reading Properties file in Java

Properties prop = new Properties();

try {
    prop.load(new FileInputStream("conf/filename.properties"));
} catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

conf/filename.properties base on project root dir

How to pick an image from gallery (SD Card) for my app?

public class EMView extends Activity {
ImageView img,img1;
int column_index;
  Intent intent=null;
// Declare our Views, so we can access them later
String logo,imagePath,Logo;
Cursor cursor;
//YOU CAN EDIT THIS TO WHATEVER YOU WANT
private static final int SELECT_PICTURE = 1;

 String selectedImagePath;
//ADDED
 String filemanagerstring;

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);
    img= (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.gimg1);



    ((Button) findViewById(R.id.Button01))
    .setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

        public void onClick(View arg0) {

            // in onCreate or any event where your want the user to
            // select a file
            Intent intent = new Intent();
            intent.setType("image/*");
            intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_GET_CONTENT);
            startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(intent,
                    "Select Picture"), SELECT_PICTURE);


        }
    });
}

//UPDATED
@Override
public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
    if (resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK) {
        if (requestCode == SELECT_PICTURE) {
            Uri selectedImageUri = data.getData();

            //OI FILE Manager
            filemanagerstring = selectedImageUri.getPath();

            //MEDIA GALLERY
            selectedImagePath = getPath(selectedImageUri);


            img.setImageURI(selectedImageUri);

           imagePath.getBytes();
           TextView txt = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.title);
           txt.setText(imagePath.toString());


           Bitmap bm = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(imagePath);

          // img1.setImageBitmap(bm);



        }

    }

}

//UPDATED!
public String getPath(Uri uri) {
String[] projection = { MediaColumns.DATA };
Cursor cursor = managedQuery(uri, projection, null, null, null);
column_index = cursor
        .getColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaColumns.DATA);
cursor.moveToFirst();
 imagePath = cursor.getString(column_index);

return cursor.getString(column_index);
}

}

How to check if a value exists in an array in Ruby

Here is one more way to do this:

arr = ['Cat', 'Dog', 'Bird']
e = 'Dog'

present = arr.size != (arr - [e]).size

What's the difference between HTML 'hidden' and 'aria-hidden' attributes?

A hidden attribute is a boolean attribute (True/False). When this attribute is used on an element, it removes all relevance to that element. When a user views the html page, elements with the hidden attribute should not be visible.

Example:

    <p hidden>You can't see this</p>

Aria-hidden attributes indicate that the element and ALL of its descendants are still visible in the browser, but will be invisible to accessibility tools, such as screen readers.

Example:

    <p aria-hidden="true">You can't see this</p>

Take a look at this. It should answer all your questions.

Note: ARIA stands for Accessible Rich Internet Applications

Sources: Paciello Group

How to display activity indicator in middle of the iphone screen?

If you are using Swift, this is how you do it

let activityView = UIActivityIndicatorView(activityIndicatorStyle: .whiteLarge)
activityView.center = self.view.center
activityView.startAnimating()

self.view.addSubview(activityView)

How to round up with excel VBA round()?

Here's one I made. It doesn't use a second variable, which I like.

        Points = Len(Cells(1, i)) * 1.2
        If Round(Points) >= Points Then
            Points = Round(Points)
        Else: Points = Round(Points) + 1
        End If

How to receive serial data using android bluetooth

Take a look at incredible Bluetooth Serial class that has onResume() ability that helped me so much. I hope this helps ;)

Dynamically load a JavaScript file

Dynamic module import landed in Firefox 67+.

(async () => {
   await import('./synth/BubbleSynth.js')
})()

With error handling:

(async () => {
    await import('./synth/BubbleSynth.js').catch((error) => console.log('Loading failed' + error))
})()

It also works for any kind of non-modules libraries, on this case the lib is available on the window object, the old way, but only on demand, which is nice.

Example using suncalc.js, the server must have CORS enabled to works this way!

_x000D_
_x000D_
(async () => {
 await import('https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/suncalc/1.8.0/suncalc.min.js')
 .then(function(){
   let times = SunCalc.getTimes(new Date(), 51.5,-0.1);
   console.log("Golden Hour today in London: " + times.goldenHour.getHours() + ':' + times.goldenHour.getMinutes() + ". Take your pics!")
  })
})()
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

https://caniuse.com/#feat=es6-module-dynamic-import

Starting of Tomcat failed from Netbeans

None of the answers here solved my issue (as at February 2020), so I raised an issue at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-3903 and Netbeans fixed the issue!

They're working on a pull request so the fix will be in a future .dmg installer soon, but in the meantime you can copy a file referenced in the bug and replace one in your netbeans modules folder.

Tip - if you right click on Applications > Netbeans and choose Show Package Contents Show Package Contents then you can find and replace the file org-netbeans-modules-tomcat5.jar that they refer to in your Netbeans folder, e.g. within /Applications/NetBeans/Apache NetBeans 11.2.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/netbeans/enterprise/modules

Shell script current directory?

As already mentioned, the location will be where the script was called from. If you wish to have the script reference it's installed location, it's quite simple. Below is a snippet that will print the PWD and the installed directory:

#!/bin/bash
echo "Script executed from: ${PWD}"

BASEDIR=$(dirname $0)
echo "Script location: ${BASEDIR}"

You're weclome

Check whether user has a Chrome extension installed

I used the cookie method:

In my manifest.js file I included a content script that only runs on my site:

 "content_scripts": [
        {
        "matches": [
            "*://*.mysite.co/*"
            ],
        "js": ["js/mysite.js"],
        "run_at": "document_idle"
        }
    ], 

in my js/mysite.js I have one line:

document.cookie = "extension_downloaded=True";

and in my index.html page I look for that cookie.

if (document.cookie.indexOf('extension_downloaded') != -1){
    document.getElementById('install-btn').style.display = 'none';
}

Using Java 8 to convert a list of objects into a string obtained from the toString() method

There is a collector joining in the API. It's a static method in Collectors.

list.stream().map(Object::toString).collect(Collectors.joining(","))

Not perfect because of the necessary call of toString, but works. Different delimiters are possible.

error: unknown type name ‘bool’

C99 does, if you have

#include <stdbool.h> 

If the compiler does not support C99, you can define it yourself:

// file : myboolean.h
#ifndef MYBOOLEAN_H
#define MYBOOLEAN_H

#define false 0
#define true 1
typedef int bool; // or #define bool int

#endif

(but note that this definition changes ABI for bool type so linking against external libraries which were compiled with properly defined bool may cause hard-to-diagnose runtime errors).

Where is android studio building my .apk file?

Mine application's apk was at this location

C:\Users\haseeb_mir\AndroidStudioProjects\MyTestApp\app\build\outputs\apk\debug

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

My dirty and may tiniest using String.replaceAll:

.replaceAll("^.*\\.(.*)$", "$1")

Note that first * is greedy so it will grab most possible characters as far as it can and then just last dot and file extension will be left.

Vertically align an image inside a div with responsive height

Try

Html

<div class="responsive-container">
     <div class="img-container">
         <IMG HERE>
     </div>
</div>

CSS

.img-container {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
height:0;
padding-bottom:100%;
}
.img-container img {
width:100%;
}

C++ int float casting

Because (a.y - b.y) is probably less then (a.x - b.x) and in your code the casting is done after the divide operation so the result is an integer so 0.

You should cast to float before the / operation

How do I prevent CSS inheritance?

There is a property called all in the CSS3 inheritance module. It works like this:

#sidebar ul li {
  all: initial;
}

As of 2016-12, all browsers but IE/Edge and Opera Mini support this property.

Select rows with same id but different value in another column

Join the same table back to itself. Use an inner join so that rows that don't match are discarded. In the joined set, there will be rows that have a matching ARIDNR in another row in the table with a different LIEFNR. Allow those ARIDNR to appear in the final set.

SELECT * FROM YourTable WHERE ARIDNR IN (
    SELECT a.ARIDNR FROM YourTable a
    JOIN YourTable b on b.ARIDNR = a.ARIDNR AND b.LIEFNR <> a.LIEFNR
)

how to set font size based on container size?

I used Fittext on some of my projects and it looks like a good solution to a problem like this.

FitText makes font-sizes flexible. Use this plugin on your fluid or responsive layout to achieve scalable headlines that fill the width of a parent element.

Disable scrolling on `<input type=number>`

First you must stop the mousewheel event by either:

  1. Disabling it with mousewheel.disableScroll
  2. Intercepting it with e.preventDefault();
  3. By removing focus from the element el.blur();

The first two approaches both stop the window from scrolling and the last removes focus from the element; both of which are undesirable outcomes.

One workaround is to use el.blur() and refocus the element after a delay:

$('input[type=number]').on('mousewheel', function(){
  var el = $(this);
  el.blur();
  setTimeout(function(){
    el.focus();
  }, 10);
});

How to use onBlur event on Angular2?

HTML

<input name="email" placeholder="Email"  (blur)="$event.target.value=removeSpaces($event.target.value)" value="">

TS

removeSpaces(string) {
 let splitStr = string.split(' ').join('');
  return splitStr;
}

How do you perform a left outer join using linq extension methods

Turning Marc Gravell's answer into an extension method, I made the following.

internal static IEnumerable<Tuple<TLeft, TRight>> LeftJoin<TLeft, TRight, TKey>(
    this IEnumerable<TLeft> left,
    IEnumerable<TRight> right,
    Func<TLeft, TKey> selectKeyLeft,
    Func<TRight, TKey> selectKeyRight,
    TRight defaultRight = default(TRight),
    IEqualityComparer<TKey> cmp = null)
{
    return left.GroupJoin(
            right,
            selectKeyLeft,
            selectKeyRight,
            (x, y) => new Tuple<TLeft, IEnumerable<TRight>>(x, y),
            cmp ?? EqualityComparer<TKey>.Default)
        .SelectMany(
            x => x.Item2.DefaultIfEmpty(defaultRight),
            (x, y) => new Tuple<TLeft, TRight>(x.Item1, y));
}

filemtime "warning stat failed for"

For me the filename involved was appended with a querystring, which this function didn't like.

$path = 'path/to/my/file.js?v=2'

Solution was to chop that off first:

$path = preg_replace('/\?v=[\d]+$/', '', $path);
$fileTime = filemtime($path);

How to read and write into file using JavaScript?

From a ReactJS test, the following code successfully writes a file:

import writeJsonFile from 'write-json-file';

const ans = 42;
writeJsonFile('answer.txt', ans);

const json = {"answer": ans};
writeJsonFile('answer_json.txt', json);

The file is written to the directory containing the tests, so writing to an actual JSON file '*.json' creates a loop!

how to transfer a file through SFTP in java?

Try this code.

public void send (String fileName) {
    String SFTPHOST = "host:IP";
    int SFTPPORT = 22;
    String SFTPUSER = "username";
    String SFTPPASS = "password";
    String SFTPWORKINGDIR = "file/to/transfer";

    Session session = null;
    Channel channel = null;
    ChannelSftp channelSftp = null;
    System.out.println("preparing the host information for sftp.");

    try {
        JSch jsch = new JSch();
        session = jsch.getSession(SFTPUSER, SFTPHOST, SFTPPORT);
        session.setPassword(SFTPPASS);
        java.util.Properties config = new java.util.Properties();
        config.put("StrictHostKeyChecking", "no");
        session.setConfig(config);
        session.connect();
        System.out.println("Host connected.");
        channel = session.openChannel("sftp");
        channel.connect();
        System.out.println("sftp channel opened and connected.");
        channelSftp = (ChannelSftp) channel;
        channelSftp.cd(SFTPWORKINGDIR);
        File f = new File(fileName);
        channelSftp.put(new FileInputStream(f), f.getName());
        log.info("File transfered successfully to host.");
    } catch (Exception ex) {
        System.out.println("Exception found while tranfer the response.");
    } finally {
        channelSftp.exit();
        System.out.println("sftp Channel exited.");
        channel.disconnect();
        System.out.println("Channel disconnected.");
        session.disconnect();
        System.out.println("Host Session disconnected.");
    }
}   

ASP.net Repeater get current index, pointer, or counter

Add a label control to your Repeater's ItemTemplate. Handle OnItemCreated event.

ASPX

<asp:Repeater ID="rptr" runat="server" OnItemCreated="RepeaterItemCreated">
    <ItemTemplate>
        <div id="width:50%;height:30px;background:#0f0a0f;">
            <asp:Label ID="lblSr" runat="server" 
               style="width:30%;float:left;text-align:right;text-indent:-2px;" />
            <span 
               style="width:65%;float:right;text-align:left;text-indent:-2px;" >
            <%# Eval("Item") %>
            </span>
        </div>
    </ItemTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>

Code Behind:

    protected void RepeaterItemCreated(object sender, RepeaterItemEventArgs e)
    {
        Label l = e.Item.FindControl("lblSr") as Label;
        if (l != null)
            l.Text = e.Item.ItemIndex + 1+"";
    }

Initializing an Array of Structs in C#

You cannot initialize reference types by default other than null. You have to make them readonly. So this could work;

    readonly MyStruct[] MyArray = new MyStruct[]{
      new MyStruct{ label = "a", id = 1},
      new MyStruct{ label = "b", id = 5},
      new MyStruct{ label = "c", id = 1}
    };

What is the best way to calculate a checksum for a file that is on my machine?

I personally use Cygwin, which puts the entire smörgåsbord of Linux utilities at my fingertip --- there's md5sum and all the cryptographic digests supported by OpenSSL. Alternatively, you can also use a Windows distribution of OpenSSL (the "light" version is only a 1 MB installer).

Remove certain characters from a string

One issue with REPLACE will be where city names contain the district name. You can use something like.

SELECT SUBSTRING(O.Ort, LEN(C.CityName) + 2, 8000)
FROM   dbo.tblOrtsteileGeo O
       JOIN dbo.Cities C
         ON C.foo = O.foo
WHERE  O.GKZ = '06440004' 

Reading settings from app.config or web.config in .NET

Try this:

string keyvalue = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["keyname"];

In the web.config file this should be the next structure:

<configuration>
<appSettings>
<add key="keyname" value="keyvalue" />
</appSettings>
</configuration>

How to find the minimum value in an ArrayList, along with the index number? (Java)

You have to traverse the whole array and keep two auxiliary values:

  • The minimum value you find (on your way towards the end)
  • The index of the place where you found the min value

Suppose your array is called myArray. At the end of this code minIndex has the index of the smallest value.

var min = Number.MAX_VALUE; //the largest number possible in JavaScript
var minIndex = -1;

for (int i=0; i<myArray.length; i++){
   if (myArray[i] < min){
      min = myArray[i];
      minIndex = i;
   }
}

This is assuming the worst case scenario: a totally random array. It is an O(n) algorithm or order n algorithm, meaning that if you have n elements in your array, then you have to look at all of them before knowing your answer. O(n) algorithms are the worst ones because they take a lot of time to solve the problem.

If your array is sorted or has any other specific structure, then the algorithm can be optimized to be faster.

Having said that, though, unless you have a huge array of thousands of values then don't worry about optimization since the difference between an O(n) algorithm and a faster one would not be noticeable.

Uri not Absolute exception getting while calling Restful Webservice

Maybe the problem only in your IDE encoding settings. Try to set UTF-8 everywhere:

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Intro to GPU programming

CUDA is an excellent framework to start with. It lets you write GPGPU kernels in C. The compiler will produce GPU microcode from your code and send everything that runs on the CPU to your regular compiler. It is NVIDIA only though and only works on 8-series cards or better. You can check out CUDA zone to see what can be done with it. There are some great demos in the CUDA SDK. The documentation that comes with the SDK is a pretty good starting point for actually writing code. It will walk you through writing a matrix multiplication kernel, which is a great place to begin.

Best Practice to Organize Javascript Library & CSS Folder Structure

 root/
   assets/
      lib/-------------------------libraries--------------------
          bootstrap/--------------Libraries can have js/css/images------------
              css/
              js/
              images/  
          jquery/
              js/
          font-awesome/
              css/
              images/
     common/--------------------common section will have application level resources             
          css/
          js/
          img/

 index.html

This is how I organized my application's static resources.

Insert into a MySQL table or update if exists

In case that you wanted to make a non-primary fields as criteria/condition for ON DUPLICATE, you can make a UNIQUE INDEX key on that table to trigger the DUPLICATE.

ALTER TABLE `table` ADD UNIQUE `unique_index`(`name`);

And in case you want to combine two fields to make it unique on the table, you can achieve this by adding more on the last parameter.

ALTER TABLE `table` ADD UNIQUE `unique_index`(`name`, `age`);

Note, just make sure to delete first all the data that has the same name and age value across the other rows.

DELETE table FROM table AS a, table AS b WHERE a.id < b.id 
AND a.name <=> b.name AND a.age <=> b.age;

After that, it should trigger the ON DUPLICATE event.

INSERT INTO table (id, name, age) VALUES(1, "A", 19) ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE    
name = VALUES(name), age = VALUES(age)

No suitable records were found verify your bundle identifier is correct

I got the error when uploading a React Native Expo bundle to Apple App Store Connect using Transporter. The problem was that I had transferred the app from my personal account to our company account but forgot to sign into our company account in Transporter.

Click the profile icon in the top right corner and sign in to the correct account that you are using in your bundle.

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Getting full-size profile picture

I think I use the simplest method to get the full profile picture. You can get full profile picture or you can set the profile picture dimension yourself:

$facebook->api(me?fields=picture.width(800).height(800))

You can set width and height as per your need. Though Facebook doesn't return the exact size asked for, It returns the closest dimension picture available with them.

How do you rename a Git tag?

Regardless of the issues dealing with pushing tags and renaming tags that have already been pushed, in case the tag to rename is an annotated one, you could first copy it thanks to the following single-line command line:

git tag -a -m "`git cat-file -p old_tag | tail -n +6`" new_tag old_tag^{}

Then, you just need to delete the old tag:

git tag -d old_tag

I found this command line thanks to the following two answers:

Edit:
Having encountered problems using automatic synchronisation of tags setting fetch.pruneTags=true (as described in https://stackoverflow.com/a/49215190/7009806), I personally suggest to first copy the new tag on the server and then delete the old one. That way, the new tag does not get randomly deleted when deleting the old tag and a synchronisation of the tags would like to delete the new tag that is not yet on the server. So, for instance, all together we get:

git tag -a -m "`git cat-file -p old_tag | tail -n +6`" new_tag old_tag^{}
git push --tags
git tag -d old_tag
git push origin :refs/tags/old_tag

Polynomial time and exponential time

Below are some common Big-O functions while analyzing algorithms.

  • O(1) - constant time
  • O(log(n)) - logarithmic time
  • O((log(n))c) - polylogarithmic time
  • O(n) - linear time
  • O(n2) - quadratic time
  • O(nc) - polynomial time
  • O(cn) - exponential time
  • O(n!) - factorial time

(n = size of input, c = some constant)

Here is the model graph representing Big-O complexity of some functions

graph model

cheers :-)

graph credits http://bigocheatsheet.com/

Prevent redirect after form is submitted

I found this page 10 years (!) after the original post, and needed the answer as vanilla js instead of AJAX. I figured it out with the help of @gargAman's answer.

Use an appropriate selector to assign your button to a variable, e.g.

document.getElementById('myButton')

then

myButton.addEventListener('click', function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    // do cool stuff
});

I should note that my html looks like this (specifically, I am not using type="Submit" in my button and action="" in my form:

  <form method="POST" action="" id="myForm">
    <!-- form fields -->
    <button id="myButton" class="btn-submit">Submit</button>
  </form>

How to use PHP with Visual Studio

By default VS is not made to run PHP, but you can do it with extensions:

You can install an add-on with the extension manager, PHP Tools for Visual Studio.

If you want to install it inside VS, go to Tools > Extension Manager > Online Gallery > Search for PHP where you will find PHP Tools (the link above) for Visual Studio. Also you have VS.Php for Visual Studio. Both are not free.

You have also a cool PHP compiler called Phalanger: Phalanger PHP Compiler

If I'm not mistaken, the code you wrote above is JavaScript (jQuery) and not PHP.

If you want cool standalone IDE's for PHP: (Free)

Move a view up only when the keyboard covers an input field

First of all declare a variable to identify your active UITextField.

Step 1:-

Like as var activeTextField: UITextField?

Step 2:- After this add these two lines in viewDidLoad.

NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(self.keyboardWillShow(_:)), name: NSNotification.Name.UIKeyboardWillShow, object: nil)

NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(self.keyboardWillHide(_:)), name: NSNotification.Name.UIKeyboardWillHide, object: nil)

Step 3:-

Now define these two methods in your controller class.

func keyboardWillShow(_ notification: NSNotification) {

    self.scrollView.isScrollEnabled = true
    var info = notification.userInfo!
    let keyboardSize = (info[UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey] as? NSValue)?.cgRectValue.size
    let contentInsets : UIEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0.0, 0.0, keyboardSize!.height, 0.0)

    self.scrollView.contentInset = contentInsets
    self.scrollView.scrollIndicatorInsets = contentInsets

    var aRect : CGRect = self.view.frame
    aRect.size.height -= keyboardSize!.height
    if let activeField = self.activeField {
        if (!aRect.contains(activeField.frame.origin)){
            self.scrollView.scrollRectToVisible(activeField.frame, animated: true)
        }
    }
}


func keyboardWillHide(_ notification: NSNotification) {

    let contentInsets : UIEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0)
    self.scrollView.contentInset = contentInsets
    self.scrollView.scrollIndicatorInsets = contentInsets
    self.view.endEditing(true)
    self.scrollView.isScrollEnabled = true
}


func textFieldDidBeginEditing(_ textField: UITextField){

    activeField = textField
}

func textFieldDidEndEditing(_ textField: UITextField){

    activeField = nil
}

submit form on click event using jquery

Do you need to post the the form to an URL or do you only need to detect the submit-event? Because you can detect the submit-event by adding onsubmit="javascript:alert('I do also submit');"

<form action="javascript:alert('submitted');" method="post" id="testForm" onsubmit="javascript:alert('I do also submit');">...</form>

Not sure that this is what you are looking for though.

disable a hyperlink using jQuery

Removing the href attribute definitely seems to the way to go. If for some reason you need it later, I would just store it in another attribute, e.g.

$(".my-link").each(function() {
    $(this).attr("data-oldhref", $(this).attr("href"));
    $(this).removeAttr("href");
});

This is the only way to do it that will make the link appear disabled as well without writing custom CSS. Just binding a click handler to false will make the link appear like a normal link, but nothing will happen when clicking on it, which may be confusing to users. If you are going to go the click handler route, I would at least also .addClass("link-disabled") and write some CSS that makes links with that class appear like normal text.

How do I pass options to the Selenium Chrome driver using Python?

Code which disable chrome extensions for ones, who uses DesiredCapabilities to set browser flags :

desired_capabilities['chromeOptions'] = {
    "args": ["--disable-extensions"],
    "extensions": []
}
webdriver.Chrome(desired_capabilities=desired_capabilities)

How do I create HTML table using jQuery dynamically?

Here is a full example of what you are looking for:

<html>
<head>
    <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>
    <script>
        $( document ).ready(function() {
            $("#providersFormElementsTable").html("<tr><td>Nickname</td><td><input type='text' id='nickname' name='nickname'></td></tr><tr><td>CA Number</td><td><input type='text' id='account' name='account'></td></tr>");
        });
    </script>
</head>

<body>
    <table border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" id='providersFormElementsTable'> </table>
</body>

Useful example of a shutdown hook in Java?

Shutdown Hooks are unstarted threads that are registered with Runtime.addShutdownHook().JVM does not give any guarantee on the order in which shutdown hooks are started.For more info refer http://techno-terminal.blogspot.in/2015/08/shutdown-hooks.html

Copying Code from Inspect Element in Google Chrome

(eg: div,footer,table) Right click -> Edit as HTML

Then you can copy and paster wherever you need...

that's all enjoy your coding.....

How do I fix a NoSuchMethodError?

If you have access to change the JVM parameters, adding verbose output should allow you to see what classes are being loaded from which JAR files.

java -verbose:class <other args>

When your program is run, the JVM should dump to standard out information such as:

...

[Loaded junit.framework.Assert from file:/C:/Program%20Files/junit3.8.2/junit.jar]

...

Python: access class property from string

Extending Alex's answer slightly:

class User:
    def __init__(self):
        self.data = [1,2,3]
        self.other_data = [4,5,6]
    def doSomething(self, source):
        dataSource = getattr(self,source)
        return dataSource

A = User()
print A.doSomething("data")
print A.doSomething("other_data")

will yield:

[1, 2, 3]
[4, 5, 6]

However, personally I don't think that's great style - getattr will let you access any attribute of the instance, including things like the doSomething method itself, or even the __dict__ of the instance. I would suggest that instead you implement a dictionary of data sources, like so:

class User:
    def __init__(self):

        self.data_sources = {
            "data": [1,2,3],
            "other_data":[4,5,6],
        }

    def doSomething(self, source):
        dataSource = self.data_sources[source]
        return dataSource

A = User()

print A.doSomething("data")
print A.doSomething("other_data")

again yielding:

[1, 2, 3]
[4, 5, 6]

Loop through columns and add string lengths as new columns

You need to use [[, the programmatic equivalent of $. Otherwise, for example, when i is col1, R will look for df$i instead of df$col1.

for(i in names(df)){
  df[[paste(i, 'length', sep="_")]] <- str_length(df[[i]])
}

Waiting until the task finishes

Use DispatchGroups to achieve this. You can either get notified when the group's enter() and leave() calls are balanced:

func myFunction() {
    var a: Int?

    let group = DispatchGroup()
    group.enter()

    DispatchQueue.main.async {
        a = 1
        group.leave()
    }

    // does not wait. But the code in notify() gets run 
    // after enter() and leave() calls are balanced

    group.notify(queue: .main) {
        print(a)
    }
}

or you can wait:

func myFunction() {
    var a: Int?

    let group = DispatchGroup()
    group.enter()

    // avoid deadlocks by not using .main queue here
    DispatchQueue.global(attributes: .qosDefault).async {
        a = 1
        group.leave()
    }

    // wait ...
    group.wait()

    print(a) // you could also `return a` here
}

Note: group.wait() blocks the current queue (probably the main queue in your case), so you have to dispatch.async on another queue (like in the above sample code) to avoid a deadlock.

Installing R with Homebrew

I am working MacOS 10.10. I have updated gcc to version 4.9 to make it work.

brew update
brew install gcc
brew reinstall r

How do ACID and database transactions work?

ACID are desirable properties of any transaction processing engine.

A DBMS is (if it is any good) a particular kind of transaction processing engine that exposes, usually to a very large extent but not quite entirely, those properties.

But other engines exist that can also expose those properties. The kind of software that used to be called "TP monitors" being a case in point (nowadays' equivalent mostly being web servers).

Such TP monitors can access resources other than a DBMS (e.g. a printer), and still guarantee ACID toward their users. As an example of what ACID might mean when a printer is involved in a transaction:

  • Atomicity: an entire document gets printed or nothing at all
  • Consistency: at end-of-transaction, the paper feed is positioned at top-of-page
  • Isolation: no two documents get mixed up while printing
  • Durability: the printer can guarantee that it was not "printing" with empty cartridges.

org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal SEVERE: Error listenerStart

Select "all project" and right click

Maven-> Update project

filename.whl is not supported wheel on this platform

In my case it had to do with not having installed previously the GDAL core. For a guide on how to install the GDAL and Basemap libraries go to: https://github.com/felipunky/GISPython/blob/master/README.md

How to find good looking font color if background color is known?

Have you considered letting the user of your application select their own color scheme? Without fail you won't be able to please all of your users with your selection but you can allow them to find what pleases them.

Xcode - iPhone - profile doesn't match any valid certificate-/private-key pair in the default keychain

When I tried to select the development provisioning profile in Code Signing Identity is would say "profile doesn't match any valid certificate". So when I followed the two step process below it worked:

1) Under "Code Signing Identity" for Development change to "Don't Code Sign".
2) Then Under "Code Signing Identity" for Development you will be able to select your provisioning profile for Development.

Drove me nuts, but stumbled upon the solution.

gradient descent using python and numpy

I know this question already have been answer but I have made some update to the GD function :

  ### COST FUNCTION

def cost(theta,X,y):
     ### Evaluate half MSE (Mean square error)
     m = len(y)
     error = np.dot(X,theta) - y
     J = np.sum(error ** 2)/(2*m)
     return J

 cost(theta,X,y)



def GD(X,y,theta,alpha):

    cost_histo = [0]
    theta_histo = [0]

    # an arbitrary gradient, to pass the initial while() check
    delta = [np.repeat(1,len(X))]
    # Initial theta
    old_cost = cost(theta,X,y)

    while (np.max(np.abs(delta)) > 1e-6):
        error = np.dot(X,theta) - y
        delta = np.dot(np.transpose(X),error)/len(y)
        trial_theta = theta - alpha * delta
        trial_cost = cost(trial_theta,X,y)
        while (trial_cost >= old_cost):
            trial_theta = (theta +trial_theta)/2
            trial_cost = cost(trial_theta,X,y)
            cost_histo = cost_histo + trial_cost
            theta_histo = theta_histo +  trial_theta
        old_cost = trial_cost
        theta = trial_theta
    Intercept = theta[0] 
    Slope = theta[1]  
    return [Intercept,Slope]

res = GD(X,y,theta,alpha)

This function reduce the alpha over the iteration making the function too converge faster see Estimating linear regression with Gradient Descent (Steepest Descent) for an example in R. I apply the same logic but in Python.

How to import NumPy in the Python shell

The message is fairly self-explanatory; your working directory should not be the NumPy source directory when you invoke Python; NumPy should be installed and your working directory should be anything but the directory where it lives.

How to check if a URL exists or returns 404 with Java?

this worked for me:

URL u = new URL ( "http://www.example.com/");
HttpURLConnection huc =  ( HttpURLConnection )  u.openConnection (); 
huc.setRequestMethod ("GET");  //OR  huc.setRequestMethod ("HEAD"); 
huc.connect () ; 
int code = huc.getResponseCode() ;
System.out.println(code);

thanks for the suggestions above.

how to fix stream_socket_enable_crypto(): SSL operation failed with code 1

Editor's note: disabling SSL verification has security implications. Without verification of the authenticity of SSL/HTTPS connections, a malicious attacker can impersonate a trusted endpoint such as Gmail, and you'll be vulnerable to a Man-in-the-Middle Attack.

Be sure you fully understand the security issues before using this as a solution.

Easy fix for this might be editing config/mail.php and turning off TLS

'encryption' => env('MAIL_ENCRYPTION', ''), //'tls'),

Basically by doing this

$options['ssl']['verify_peer'] = FALSE;
$options['ssl']['verify_peer_name'] = FALSE;

You should loose security also, but in first option there is no need to dive into Vendor's code.

How do I shrink my SQL Server Database?

ALTER DATABASE MyDatabase SET RECOVERY SIMPLE

GO

DBCC SHRINKFILE (MyDatabase_Log, 5)

GO

ALTER DATABASE MyDatabase SET RECOVERY FULL

GO

git add only modified changes and ignore untracked files

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

.metadata
build

Requested registry access is not allowed

You can't write to the HKCR (or HKLM) hives in Vista and newer versions of Windows unless you have administrative privileges. Therefore, you'll either need to be logged in as an Administrator before you run your utility, give it a manifest that says it requires Administrator level (which will prompt the user for Admin login info), or quit changing things in places that non-Administrators shouldn't be playing. :-)

When should I use GET or POST method? What's the difference between them?

You should use POST if there is a lot of data, or sort-of sensitive information (really sensitive stuff needs a secure connection as well).

Use GET if you want people to be able to bookmark your page, because all the data is included with the bookmark.

Just be careful of people hitting REFRESH with the GET method, because the data will be sent again every time without warning the user (POST sometimes warns the user about resending data).

How to check if Location Services are enabled?

This if clause easily checks if location services are available in my opinion:

LocationManager locationManager = (LocationManager) getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);
if(!locationManager.isProviderEnabled(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER) && !locationManager.isProviderEnabled(LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER)) {
        //All location services are disabled

}

Illegal Escape Character "\"

You can use:

\\

That's ok, for example:

if (invName.substring(j,k).equals("\\")) {
    copyf=invName.substring(0,j);
}

Get the Highlighted/Selected text

Use window.getSelection().toString().

You can read more on developer.mozilla.org

String to LocalDate

DateTimeFormatter has in-built formats that can directly be used to parse a character sequence. It is case Sensitive, Nov will work however nov and NOV wont work:

DateTimeFormatter pattern = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MMM-dd");

try {
    LocalDate datetime = LocalDate.parse(oldDate, pattern);
    System.out.println(datetime); 
} catch (DateTimeParseException e) {
    // DateTimeParseException - Text '2019-nov-12' could not be parsed at index 5
    // Exception handling message/mechanism/logging as per company standard
}

DateTimeFormatterBuilder provides custom way to create a formatter. It is Case Insensitive, Nov , nov and NOV will be treated as same.

DateTimeFormatter f = new DateTimeFormatterBuilder().parseCaseInsensitive()
        .append(DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MMM-dd")).toFormatter();
try {
    LocalDate datetime = LocalDate.parse(oldDate, f);
    System.out.println(datetime); // 2019-11-12
} catch (DateTimeParseException e) {
     // Exception handling message/mechanism/logging as per company standard
}

Converting a Date object to a calendar object

it's so easy...converting a date to calendar like this:

Calendar cal=Calendar.getInstance();
DateFormat format=new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy/mm/dd");
format.format(date);
cal=format.getCalendar();

How to specify a editor to open crontab file? "export EDITOR=vi" does not work

I think you might need to use the full path:

export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim

Margin on child element moves parent element

An alternative solution I found before I knew the correct answer was to add a transparent border to the parent element.

Your box will use extra pixels though...

.parent {
    border:1px solid transparent;
}

How to run php files on my computer

You have to run a web server (e.g. Apache) and browse to your localhost, mostly likely on port 80.

What you really ought to do is install an all-in-one package like XAMPP, it bundles Apache, MySQL PHP, and Perl (if you were so inclined) as well as a few other tools that work with Apache and MySQL - plus it's cross platform (that's what the 'X' in 'XAMPP' stands for).

Once you install XAMPP (and there is an installer, so it shouldn't be hard) open up the control panel for XAMPP and then click the "Start" button next to Apache - note that on applications that require a database, you'll also need to start MySQL (and you'll be able to interface with it through phpMyAdmin). Once you've started Apache, you can browse to http://localhost.

Again, regardless of whether or not you choose XAMPP (which I would recommend), you should just have to start Apache.

What is the difference between substr and substring?

The big difference is, substr() is a deprecated method that can still be used, but should be used with caution because they are expected to be removed entirely sometime in the future. You should work to remove their use from your code. And the substring() method succeeded and specified the former one.

How to use Checkbox inside Select Option

You can use this library on git for this purpose https://github.com/ehynds/jquery-ui-multiselect-widget

for initiating the selectbox use this

    $("#selectBoxId").multiselect().multiselectfilter();

and when you have the data ready in json (from ajax or any method), first parse the data & then assign the js array to it

    var js_arr = $.parseJSON(/*data from ajax*/);
    $("#selectBoxId").val(js_arr);
    $("#selectBoxId").multiselect("refresh");

How can I pretty-print JSON using Go?

For better memory usage, I guess this is better:

var out io.Writer
enc := json.NewEncoder(out)
enc.SetIndent("", "    ")
if err := enc.Encode(data); err != nil {
    panic(err)
}

How can I remove all text after a character in bash?

trim off everything after the last instance of ":"

cat fileListingPathsAndFiles.txt | grep -o '^.*:'

and if you wanted to drop that last ":"

cat file.txt | grep -o '^.*:' | sed 's/:$//'

@kp123: you'd want to replace : with / (where the sed colon should be \/)

Binding multiple events to a listener (without JQuery)?

ES2015:

let el = document.getElementById("el");
let handler =()=> console.log("changed");
['change', 'keyup', 'cut'].forEach(event => el.addEventListener(event, handler));

How do I create directory if it doesn't exist to create a file?

To Create

(new FileInfo(filePath)).Directory.Create() Before writing to the file.

....Or, If it exists, then create (else do nothing)

System.IO.FileInfo file = new System.IO.FileInfo(filePath);
file.Directory.Create(); // If the directory already exists, this method does nothing.
System.IO.File.WriteAllText(file.FullName, content);

Default value of 'boolean' and 'Boolean' in Java

An uninitialized Boolean member (actually a reference to an object of type Boolean) will have the default value of null.

An uninitialized boolean (primitive) member will have the default value of false.

Changing ImageView source

Or try this one. For me it's working fine:

imageView.setImageDrawable(ContextCompat.getDrawable(this, image));

How to convert C# nullable int to int

A simple conversion between v1 and v2 is not possible because v1 has a larger domain of values than v2. It's everything v1 can hold plus the null state. To convert you need to explicitly state what value in int will be used to map the null state. The simplest way to do this is the ?? operator

v2 = v1 ?? 0;  // maps null of v1 to 0

This can also be done in long form

int v2;
if (v1.HasValue) {
  v2 = v1.Value;
} else {
  v2 = 0;
}

Setting Android Theme background color

Okay turned out that I made a really silly mistake. The device I am using for testing is running Android 4.0.4, API level 15.

The styles.xml file that I was editing is in the default values folder. I edited the styles.xml in values-v14 folder and it works all fine now.

How to get ERD diagram for an existing database?

ERBuilder can generate ER diagram from PostgreSQL databases (reverse engineer feature).

Below step to follow to generate an ER diagram:

• Click on Menu -> File -> reverse engineer

• Click on new connection

• Fill in PostgresSQL connection information

• Click on OK

• Click on next

• Select objects (tables, triggers, sequences…..) that you want to reverse engineer.

• Click on next.

  • If you are using trial version, your ERD will be displayed automatically.
  • If your are using the free edition you need to drag and drop the tables from the treeview placed in the left side of application

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Retrieving the first digit of a number

This example works for any double, not just positive integers and takes into account negative numbers or those less than one. For example, 0.000053 would return 5.

private static int getMostSignificantDigit(double value) {
    value = Math.abs(value);
    if (value == 0) return 0;
    while (value < 1) value *= 10;
    char firstChar = String.valueOf(value).charAt(0);
    return Integer.parseInt(firstChar + "");
}

To get the first digit, this sticks with String manipulation as it is far easier to read.

Batch script to find and replace a string in text file within a minute for files up to 12 MB

Just download fart (find and replace text) from here

use it in CMD (for ease of use I add fart folder to my path variable)

here is an example:

fart -r "C:\myfolder\*.*" findSTR replaceSTR

this command will search in C:\myfolder and all sub-folders and replace findSTR with replaceSTR

-r means process sub-folders recursively.

fart is really fast and easy

Simple proof that GUID is not unique

Aren't you all missing a major point?

I thought GUIDs were generated using two things which make the chances of them being Globally unique quite high. One is they are seeded with the MAC address of the machine that you are on and two they use the time that they were generated plus a random number.

So unless you run it on the actual machine and run all you guesses within the smallest amount of time that the machine uses to represent a time in the GUID you will never generate the same number no matter how many guesses you take using the system call.

I guess if you know the actual way a GUID is made would actually shorten the time to guess quite substantially.

Tony

Is there a way to "limit" the result with ELOQUENT ORM of Laravel?

Create a Game model which extends Eloquent and use this:

Game::take(30)->skip(30)->get();

take() here will get 30 records and skip() here will offset to 30 records.


In recent Laravel versions you can also use:

Game::limit(30)->offset(30)->get();

When do I use the PHP constant "PHP_EOL"?

Yes, PHP_EOL is ostensibly used to find the newline character in a cross-platform-compatible way, so it handles DOS/Unix issues.

Note that PHP_EOL represents the endline character for the current system. For instance, it will not find a Windows endline when executed on a unix-like system.

Adding class to element using Angular JS

You can use ng-class to add conditional classes.

HTML

<button id="button1" ng-click="alpha = true" ng-class="{alpha: alpha}">Button</button>

In your controller (to make sure the class is not shown by default)

$scope.alpha = false;

Now, when you click the button, the $scope.alpha variable is updated and ng-class will add the 'alpha' class to your button.

How to add RSA key to authorized_keys file?

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

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

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

Spring Boot default H2 jdbc connection (and H2 console)

A similar answer with Step by Step guide.

  1. Add Developer tools dependency to your pom.xml or build.gradle

Maven

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
        <optional>true</optional>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

Gradle

dependencies {
    compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools")
}
  1. Access the db from http://localhost:8080/h2-console/
  2. Specify jdbc:h2:mem:testdb as JDBC URL
  3. You should see the entity you specified in your project as a table.

Redirect stderr and stdout in Bash

The following functions can be used to automate the process of toggling outputs beetwen stdout/stderr and a logfile.

#!/bin/bash

    #set -x

    # global vars
    OUTPUTS_REDIRECTED="false"
    LOGFILE=/dev/stdout

    # "private" function used by redirect_outputs_to_logfile()
    function save_standard_outputs {
        if [ "$OUTPUTS_REDIRECTED" == "true" ]; then
            echo "[ERROR]: ${FUNCNAME[0]}: Cannot save standard outputs because they have been redirected before"
            exit 1;
        fi
        exec 3>&1
        exec 4>&2

        trap restore_standard_outputs EXIT
    }

    # Params: $1 => logfile to write to
    function redirect_outputs_to_logfile {
        if [ "$OUTPUTS_REDIRECTED" == "true" ]; then
            echo "[ERROR]: ${FUNCNAME[0]}: Cannot redirect standard outputs because they have been redirected before"
            exit 1;
        fi
        LOGFILE=$1
        if [ -z "$LOGFILE" ]; then
            echo "[ERROR]: ${FUNCNAME[0]}: logfile empty [$LOGFILE]"

        fi
        if [ ! -f $LOGFILE ]; then
            touch $LOGFILE
        fi
        if [ ! -f $LOGFILE ]; then
            echo "[ERROR]: ${FUNCNAME[0]}: creating logfile [$LOGFILE]"
            exit 1
        fi

        save_standard_outputs

        exec 1>>${LOGFILE%.log}.log
        exec 2>&1
        OUTPUTS_REDIRECTED="true"
    }

    # "private" function used by save_standard_outputs() 
    function restore_standard_outputs {
        if [ "$OUTPUTS_REDIRECTED" == "false" ]; then
            echo "[ERROR]: ${FUNCNAME[0]}: Cannot restore standard outputs because they have NOT been redirected"
            exit 1;
        fi
        exec 1>&-   #closes FD 1 (logfile)
        exec 2>&-   #closes FD 2 (logfile)
        exec 2>&4   #restore stderr
        exec 1>&3   #restore stdout

        OUTPUTS_REDIRECTED="false"
    }

Example of usage inside script:

echo "this goes to stdout"
redirect_outputs_to_logfile /tmp/one.log
echo "this goes to logfile"
restore_standard_outputs 
echo "this goes to stdout"

npm install error from the terminal

First download json package file from https://github.com/npm/read-package-json and then run npm install from terminal.

The opposite of Intersect()

/// <summary>
/// Given two list, compare and extract differences
/// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5620266/the-opposite-of-intersect
/// </summary>
public class CompareList
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Returns list of items that are in initial but not in final list.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="listA"></param>
    /// <param name="listB"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static IEnumerable<string> NonIntersect(
        List<string> initial, List<string> final)
    {
        //subtracts the content of initial from final
        //assumes that final.length < initial.length
        return initial.Except(final);
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Returns the symmetric difference between the two list.
    /// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_difference
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="initial"></param>
    /// <param name="final"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static IEnumerable<string> SymmetricDifference(
        List<string> initial, List<string> final)
    {
        IEnumerable<string> setA = NonIntersect(final, initial);
        IEnumerable<string> setB = NonIntersect(initial, final);
        // sum and return the two set.
        return setA.Concat(setB);
    }
}

JavaScript - Get minutes between two dates

Subtracting 2 Date objects gives you the difference in milliseconds, e.g.:

var diff = Math.abs(new Date('2011/10/09 12:00') - new Date('2011/10/09 00:00'));

Math.abs is used to be able to use the absolute difference (so new Date('2011/10/09 00:00') - new Date('2011/10/09 12:00') gives the same result).

Dividing the result by 1000 gives you the number of seconds. Dividing that by 60 gives you the number of minutes. To round to whole minutes, use Math.floor or Math.ceil:

var minutes = Math.floor((diff/1000)/60);

In this example the result will be 720

How to modify a global variable within a function in bash?

It's because command substitution is performed in a subshell, so while the subshell inherits the variables, changes to them are lost when the subshell ends.

Reference:

Command substitution, commands grouped with parentheses, and asynchronous commands are invoked in a subshell environment that is a duplicate of the shell environment

Git merge with force overwrite

I had a similar issue, where I needed to effectively replace any file that had changes / conflicts with a different branch.

The solution I found was to use git merge -s ours branch.

Note that the option is -s and not -X. -s denotes the use of ours as a top level merge strategy, -X would be applying the ours option to the recursive merge strategy, which is not what I (or we) want in this case.

Steps, where oldbranch is the branch you want to overwrite with newbranch.

  • git checkout newbranch checks out the branch you want to keep
  • git merge -s ours oldbranch merges in the old branch, but keeps all of our files.
  • git checkout oldbranch checks out the branch that you want to overwrite
  • get merge newbranch merges in the new branch, overwriting the old branch

Best way to create enum of strings?

Custom String Values for Enum

from http://javahowto.blogspot.com/2006/10/custom-string-values-for-enum.html

The default string value for java enum is its face value, or the element name. However, you can customize the string value by overriding toString() method. For example,

public enum MyType {
  ONE {
      public String toString() {
          return "this is one";
      }
  },

  TWO {
      public String toString() {
          return "this is two";
      }
  }
}

Running the following test code will produce this:

public class EnumTest {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
      System.out.println(MyType.ONE);
      System.out.println(MyType.TWO);
  }
}


this is one
this is two

.ssh/config file for windows (git)

There is an option IdentityFile which you can use in your ~/.ssh/config file and specify key file for each host.

Host host_with_key1.net
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Host host_with_key2.net
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_test

More info: http://linux.die.net/man/5/ssh_config

Also look at http://nerderati.com/2011/03/17/simplify-your-life-with-an-ssh-config-file/

How to replace url parameter with javascript/jquery?

Here is modified stenix's code, it's not perfect but it handles cases where there is a param in url that contains provided parameter, like:

/search?searchquery=text and 'query' is provided.

In this case searchquery param value is changed.

Code:

function replaceUrlParam(url, paramName, paramValue){
    var pattern = new RegExp('(\\?|\\&)('+paramName+'=).*?(&|$)')
    var newUrl=url
    if(url.search(pattern)>=0){
        newUrl = url.replace(pattern,'$1$2' + paramValue + '$3');
    }
    else{
        newUrl = newUrl + (newUrl.indexOf('?')>0 ? '&' : '?') + paramName + '=' + paramValue
    }
    return newUrl
}

CustomErrors mode="Off"

Also make sure you're editing web.config and not website.config, as I was doing.

Oracle query to fetch column names

in oracle you can use

desc users

to display all columns containing in users table

How do I create a batch file timer to execute / call another batch throughout the day

I would use the scheduler (control panel) rather than a cmd line or other application.

Control Panel -> Scheduled tasks

In oracle, how do I change my session to display UTF8?

The character set is part of the locale, which is determined by the value of NLS_LANG. As the documentation makes clear this is an operating system variable:

NLS_LANG is set as an environment variable on UNIX platforms. NLS_LANG is set in the registry on Windows platforms.

Now we can use ALTER SESSION to change the values for a couple of locale elements, NLS_LANGUAGE and NLS_TERRITORY. But not, alas, the character set. The reason for this discrepancy is - I think - that the language and territory simply effect how Oracle interprets the stored data, e.g. whether to display a comma or a period when displaying a large number. Wheareas the character set is concerned with how the client application renders the displayed data. This information is picked up by the client application at startup time, and cannot be changed from within.

React Native version mismatch

In my case (NOT using expo & Android build)

package.json

"dependencies": {
    "react": "16.3.1",
    "react-native": "0.55.2"
}

And app.json

{
  "sdkVersion": "27"
}

resolved the issue

Automated testing for REST Api

I implemented many automation cases based on REST Assured , a jave DSL for testing restful service. https://code.google.com/p/rest-assured/

The syntax is easy, it supports json and xml. https://code.google.com/p/rest-assured/wiki/Usage

Before that, I tried SOAPUI and had some issues with the free version. Plus the cases are in xml files which hard to extend and reuse, simply I don't like

Select method in List<t> Collection

Well, to start with List<T> does have the FindAll and ConvertAll methods - but the more idiomatic, modern approach is to use LINQ:

// Find all the people older than 30
var query1 = list.Where(person => person.Age > 30);

// Find each person's name
var query2 = list.Select(person => person.Name);

You'll need a using directive in your file to make this work:

using System.Linq;

Note that these don't use strings to express predicates and projects - they use delegates, usually created from lambda expressions as above.

If lambda expressions and LINQ are new to you, I would suggest you get a book covering LINQ first, such as LINQ in Action, Pro LINQ, C# 4 in a Nutshell or my own C# in Depth. You certainly can learn LINQ just from web tutorials, but I think it's such an important technology, it's worth taking the time to learn it thoroughly.

How to run console application from Windows Service?

I use this class:

class ProcessWrapper : Process, IDisposable
{
    public enum PipeType { StdOut, StdErr }

    public class Output
    {
        public string Message { get; set; }
        public PipeType Pipe { get; set; }
        public override string ToString()
        {
            return $"{Pipe}: {Message}";
        }
    }

    private readonly string _command;
    private readonly string _args;
    private readonly bool _showWindow;
    private bool _isDisposed;

    private readonly Queue<Output> _outputQueue = new Queue<Output>();

    private readonly ManualResetEvent[] _waitHandles = new ManualResetEvent[2];
    private readonly ManualResetEvent _outputSteamWaitHandle = new ManualResetEvent(false);

    public ProcessWrapper(string startCommand, string args, bool showWindow = false)
    {
        _command = startCommand;
        _args = args;
        _showWindow = showWindow;
    }

    public IEnumerable<string> GetMessages()
    {
        while (!_isDisposed)
        {
            _outputSteamWaitHandle.WaitOne();
            if (_outputQueue.Any())
                yield return _outputQueue.Dequeue().ToString();
        }
    }

    public void SendCommand(string command)
    {
        StandardInput.Write(command);
        StandardInput.Flush();
    }

    public new int Start()
    {
        ProcessStartInfo startInfo = new ProcessStartInfo
        {
            FileName = _command,
            Arguments = _args,
            UseShellExecute = false,
            RedirectStandardOutput = true,
            RedirectStandardError = true,
            RedirectStandardInput = true,
            CreateNoWindow = !_showWindow
        };
        StartInfo = startInfo;

        OutputDataReceived += delegate (object sender, DataReceivedEventArgs args)
        {
            if (args.Data == null)
            {
                _waitHandles[0].Set();
            }
            else if (args.Data.Length > 0)
            {
                _outputQueue.Enqueue(new Output { Message = args.Data, Pipe = PipeType.StdOut });
                _outputSteamWaitHandle.Set();
            }
        };

        ErrorDataReceived += delegate (object sender, DataReceivedEventArgs args)
        {
            if (args.Data == null)
            {
                _waitHandles[1].Set();
            }
            else if (args.Data.Length > 0)
            {
                _outputSteamWaitHandle.Set();
                _outputQueue.Enqueue(new Output { Message = args.Data, Pipe = PipeType.StdErr });
            }
        };

        base.Start();

        _waitHandles[0] = new ManualResetEvent(false);
        BeginErrorReadLine();
        _waitHandles[1] = new ManualResetEvent(false);
        BeginOutputReadLine();

        return Id;
    }

    public new void Dispose()
    {
        StandardInput.Flush();
        StandardInput.Close();
        if (!WaitForExit(1000))
        {
            Kill();
        }
        if (WaitForExit(1000))
        {
            WaitHandle.WaitAll(_waitHandles);
        }
        base.Dispose();
        _isDisposed = true;
    }
}

Session 'app': Error Launching activity

I spent a whole lot of hours on this exact issue. The "instant run" fix was a total fail. And I wasn't missing the android.intent.category.LAUNCHER I removed all applicable Android Studio and SDK code and re-installed. Still a no go.

Ultimately I think my issue was marginal hardware. I'm running on a laptop with a AMD A6-4400M processor. There is no hardware acceleration / virtualization tools available. I was just running the standard Android Studio / Google emulator. It was painfully slow, and although I was eventually able to see the emulator and interact with it, I was never able to connect the emulator to Android Studio to upload APK's.

But I did discover an awesome fix.

  • Remove all Android Virtual Devices and install the GenyMotion Emulator (with VirtualBox).
  • I've tried GenyMotion emulators before (with a Linux) and it didn't make much difference in load up speed.
  • On this Windows 10 machine it works exceptionally well. Its pretty quick, easily connects to Android Studio and works well deploying my apps.
  • GenyMotion offers one personal use device at no cost. Kudos to the GenyMotion team!

Answer provided here in case anybody else gets stuck with this error, possibly with this root cause.

Delete a database in phpMyAdmin

Screenshot

  1. Go to phpmyadmin home page.
  2. Click on 'Databases'.
  3. Select the database you want to delete. (put check mark)
  4. Click Drop.

Laravel 5 Application Key

Just as another option if you want to print only the key (doesn't write the .env file) you can use:

php artisan key:generate --show

How to get all keys with their values in redis

Tried the given example, but over VPN and with 400k+ keys it was too slow for me. Also it did not give me the key objects.

I wrote a small Python called tool redis-mass-get to combine KEYS and MGET requests against Redis:

# installation:
pip install redis-mass-get

# pipeline example CSV:
redis-mass-get -f csv -och redis://my.redis.url product:* | less

# write to json-file example with progress indicator:
redis-mass-get -d results.json -jd redis://my.redis.url product:*

It supports JSON, CSV and TXT output to file or stdout for usage in pipes. More info can be found at: Reading multiple key/values from Redis.

How to view the contents of an Android APK file?

You have several tools available:

  • Aapt (which is part of the Android SDK)

    $ aapt dump badging MyApk.apk
    $ aapt dump permissions MyApk.apk
    $ aapt dump xmltree MyApk.apk
    
  • Apktool

    $ java -jar apktool.jar -q decode -f MyApk.apk -o myOutputDir
    
  • Android Multitool

  • Apk Viewer

  • ApkShellext

  • Dex2Jar

    $ dex2jar/d2j-dex2jar.sh -f MyApk.apk -o myOutputDir/MyApk.jar
    
  • NinjaDroid

    $ ninjadroid MyApk.apk
    $ ninjadroid MyApk.apk --all --extract myOutputDir/
    
  • AXMLParser

    $ apkinfo MyApk.apk
    

Colorplot of 2D array matplotlib

I'm afraid your posted example is not working, since X and Y aren't defined. So instead of pcolormesh let's use imshow:

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

H = np.array([[1, 2, 3, 4],
              [5, 6, 7, 8],
              [9, 10, 11, 12],
              [13, 14, 15, 16]])  # added some commas and array creation code

fig = plt.figure(figsize=(6, 3.2))

ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
ax.set_title('colorMap')
plt.imshow(H)
ax.set_aspect('equal')

cax = fig.add_axes([0.12, 0.1, 0.78, 0.8])
cax.get_xaxis().set_visible(False)
cax.get_yaxis().set_visible(False)
cax.patch.set_alpha(0)
cax.set_frame_on(False)
plt.colorbar(orientation='vertical')
plt.show()

find files by extension, *.html under a folder in nodejs

my two pence, using map in place of for-loop

var path = require('path'), fs = require('fs');

var findFiles = function(folder, pattern = /.*/, callback) {
  var flist = [];

  fs.readdirSync(folder).map(function(e){ 
    var fname = path.join(folder, e);
    var fstat = fs.lstatSync(fname);
    if (fstat.isDirectory()) {
      // don't want to produce a new array with concat
      Array.prototype.push.apply(flist, findFiles(fname, pattern, callback)); 
    } else {
      if (pattern.test(fname)) {
        flist.push(fname);
        if (callback) {
          callback(fname);
        }
      }
    }
  });
  return flist;
};

// HTML files   
var html_files = findFiles(myPath, /\.html$/, function(o) { console.log('look what we have found : ' + o} );

// All files
var all_files = findFiles(myPath);

Get cursor position (in characters) within a text Input field

Got a very simple solution. Try the following code with verified result-

<html>
<head>
<script>
    function f1(el) {
    var val = el.value;
    alert(val.slice(0, el.selectionStart).length);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type=text id=t1 value=abcd>
    <button onclick="f1(document.getElementById('t1'))">check position</button>
</body>
</html>

I'm giving you the fiddle_demo

Using bind variables with dynamic SELECT INTO clause in PL/SQL

Put the select statement in a dynamic PL/SQL block.

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION get_num_of_employees (p_loc VARCHAR2, p_job VARCHAR2) 
RETURN NUMBER
IS
  v_query_str VARCHAR2(1000);
  v_num_of_employees NUMBER;
BEGIN
  v_query_str := 'begin SELECT COUNT(*) INTO :into_bind FROM emp_' 
                 || p_loc
                 || ' WHERE job = :bind_job; end;';
  EXECUTE IMMEDIATE v_query_str
    USING out v_num_of_employees, p_job;
  RETURN v_num_of_employees;
END;
/

Laravel-5 how to populate select box from database with id value and name value

Just change your controller to the following:

public function create()
{
    $items = Subject::all(['id', 'name']);
    return View::make('your view', compact('items',$items));
}

And your view to:

<div class="form-group">
  {!! Form::Label('item', 'Item:') !!}
  <select class="form-control" name="item_id">
    @foreach($items as $item)
      <option value="{{$item->item_id}}">{{$item->id}}</option>
    @endforeach
  </select>
</div>

Hope this will solve your problem

fitting data with numpy

Unfortunately, np.polynomial.polynomial.polyfit returns the coefficients in the opposite order of that for np.polyfit and np.polyval (or, as you used np.poly1d). To illustrate:

In [40]: np.polynomial.polynomial.polyfit(x, y, 4)
Out[40]: 
array([  84.29340848, -100.53595376,   44.83281408,   -8.85931101,
          0.65459882])

In [41]: np.polyfit(x, y, 4)
Out[41]: 
array([   0.65459882,   -8.859311  ,   44.83281407, -100.53595375,
         84.29340846])

In general: np.polynomial.polynomial.polyfit returns coefficients [A, B, C] to A + Bx + Cx^2 + ..., while np.polyfit returns: ... + Ax^2 + Bx + C.

So if you want to use this combination of functions, you must reverse the order of coefficients, as in:

ffit = np.polyval(coefs[::-1], x_new)

However, the documentation states clearly to avoid np.polyfit, np.polyval, and np.poly1d, and instead to use only the new(er) package.

You're safest to use only the polynomial package:

import numpy.polynomial.polynomial as poly

coefs = poly.polyfit(x, y, 4)
ffit = poly.polyval(x_new, coefs)
plt.plot(x_new, ffit)

Or, to create the polynomial function:

ffit = poly.Polynomial(coefs)    # instead of np.poly1d
plt.plot(x_new, ffit(x_new))

fit and data plot

Cast a Double Variable to Decimal

Well this is an old question and I indeed made use of some of the answers shown here. Nevertheless, in my particular scenario it was possible that the double value that I wanted to convert to decimal was often bigger than decimal.MaxValue. So, instead of handling exceptions I wrote this extension method:

    public static decimal ToDecimal(this double @double) => 
        @double > (double) decimal.MaxValue ? decimal.MaxValue : (decimal) @double;

The above approach works if you do not want to bother handling overflow exceptions and if such a thing happen you want just to keep the max possible value(my case), but I am aware that for many other scenarios this would not be the expected behavior and may be the exception handling will be needed.

Using Axios GET with Authorization Header in React-Native App

Could not get this to work until I put Authorization in single quotes:

axios.get(URL, { headers: { 'Authorization': AuthStr } })

How to do a PUT request with curl?

An example PUT following Martin C. Martin's comment:

curl -T filename.txt http://www.example.com/dir/

With -T (same as --upload-file) curl will use PUT for HTTP.

How to close form

new WindowSettings();

You just closed a brand new instance of the form that wasn't visible in the first place.

You need to close the original instance of the form by accepting it as a constructor parameter and storing it in a field.

Sending an Intent to browser to open specific URL

Sending an Intent to Browser to open specific URL:

String url = "https://www.stackoverflow.com";
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
i.setData(Uri.parse(url)); 
startActivity(i); 

could be changed to a short code version ...

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW).setData(Uri.parse("http://www.stackoverflow.com"));      
startActivity(intent); 

or

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://www.stackoverflow.com")); 
startActivity(intent);

or even more short!

startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://www.stackoverflow.com")));

More info about Intent

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Angular 2 Cannot find control with unspecified name attribute on formArrays

The problem for me was that I had

[formControlName]=""

Instead of

formControlName=""

How do you set the title color for the new Toolbar?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
          android:layout_width="match_parent"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    app:titleTextColor="@color/white"
    android:background="@color/green" />

JavaScript alert box with timer

I finished my time alert with a unwanted effect.... Browsers add stuff to windows. My script is an aptated one and I will show after the following text.

I found a CSS script for popups, which doesn't have unwanted browser stuff. This was written by Prakash:- https://codepen.io/imprakash/pen/GgNMXO. This script I will show after the following text.

This CSS script above looks professional and is alot more tidy. This button could be a clickable company logo image. By suppressing this button/image from running a function, this means you can run this function from inside javascript or call it with CSS, without it being run by clicking it.

This popup alert stays inside the window that popped it up. So if you are a multi-tasker you won't have trouble knowing what alert goes with what window.

The statements above are valid ones.... (Please allow). How these are achieved will be down to experimentation, as my knowledge of CSS is limited at the moment, but I learn fast.

CSS menus/DHTML use mouseover(valid statement).

I have a CSS menu script of my own which is adapted from 'Javascript for dummies' that pops up a menu alert. This works, but text size is limited. This hides under the top window banner. This could be set to be timed alert. This isn't great, but I will show this after the following text.

The Prakash script above I feel could be the answer if you can adapt it.

Scripts that follow:- My adapted timed window alert, Prakash's CSS popup script, my timed menu alert.

1.

<html>
      <head>
            <title></title>
            <script language="JavaScript">
        // Variables
            leftposition=screen.width-350
            strfiller0='<table border="1" cellspacing="0" width="98%"><tr><td><br>'+'Alert: '+'<br><hr width="98%"><br>'
            strfiller1='&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This alert is a timed one.'+'<br><br><br></td></tr></table>'
            temp=strfiller0+strfiller1
        // Javascript
            // This code belongs to Stephen Mayes Date: 25/07/2016 time:8:32 am


            function preview(){
                            preWindow= open("", "preWindow","status=no,toolbar=no,menubar=yes,width=350,height=180,left="+leftposition+",top=0");
                            preWindow.document.open();
                            preWindow.document.write(temp);
                            preWindow.document.close();
                    setTimeout(function(){preWindow.close()},4000); 
            }

             </script>
      </head>
<body>
    <input type="button" value=" Open " onclick="preview()">
</body>
</html>

2.

<style>
body {
  font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
  background: url(http://www.shukatsu-note.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/computer-564136_1280.jpg) no-repeat;
  background-size: cover;
  height: 100vh;
}

h1 {
  text-align: center;
  font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;
  color: #06D85F;
  margin: 80px 0;
}

.box {
  width: 40%;
  margin: 0 auto;
  background: rgba(255,255,255,0.2);
  padding: 35px;
  border: 2px solid #fff;
  border-radius: 20px/50px;
  background-clip: padding-box;
  text-align: center;
}

.button {
  font-size: 1em;
  padding: 10px;
  color: #fff;
  border: 2px solid #06D85F;
  border-radius: 20px/50px;
  text-decoration: none;
  cursor: pointer;
  transition: all 0.3s ease-out;
}
.button:hover {
  background: #06D85F;
}

.overlay {
  position: fixed;
  top: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
  background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7);
  transition: opacity 500ms;
  visibility: hidden;
  opacity: 0;
}
.overlay:target {
  visibility: visible;
  opacity: 1;
}

.popup {
  margin: 70px auto;
  padding: 20px;
  background: #fff;
  border-radius: 5px;
  width: 30%;
  position: relative;
  transition: all 5s ease-in-out;
}

.popup h2 {
  margin-top: 0;
  color: #333;
  font-family: Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;
}
.popup .close {
  position: absolute;
  top: 20px;
  right: 30px;
  transition: all 200ms;
  font-size: 30px;
  font-weight: bold;
  text-decoration: none;
  color: #333;
}
.popup .close:hover {
  color: #06D85F;
}
.popup .content {
  max-height: 30%;
  overflow: auto;
}

@media screen and (max-width: 700px){
  .box{
    width: 70%;
  }
  .popup{
    width: 70%;
  }
}
</style>
<script>
    // written by Prakash:- https://codepen.io/imprakash/pen/GgNMXO 
</script>
<body>
<h1>Popup/Modal Windows without JavaScript</h1>
<div class="box">
    <a class="button" href="#popup1">Let me Pop up</a>
</div>

<div id="popup1" class="overlay">
    <div class="popup">
        <h2>Here i am</h2>
        <a class="close" href="#">&times;</a>
        <div class="content">
            Thank to pop me out of that button, but now i'm done so you can close this window.
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
</body>

3.

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Using DHTML to Create Sliding Menus (From JavaScript For Dummies, 4th Edition)</TITLE>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" TYPE="text/javascript">
<!-- Hide from older browsers

function displayMenu(currentPosition,nextPosition) {

    // Get the menu object located at the currentPosition on the screen
    var whichMenu = document.getElementById(currentPosition).style;

    if (displayMenu.arguments.length == 1) {
        // Only one argument was sent in, so we need to
        // figure out the value for "nextPosition"

        if (parseInt(whichMenu.top) == -5) {
            // Only two values are possible: one for mouseover
            // (-5) and one for mouseout (-90). So we want
            // to toggle from the existing position to the
            // other position: i.e., if the position is -5,
            // set nextPosition to -90...
            nextPosition = -90;
        }
        else {
            // Otherwise, set nextPosition to -5
            nextPosition = -5;
        }
    }

    // Redisplay the menu using the value of "nextPosition"
    whichMenu.top = nextPosition + "px";
}

// End hiding-->
</SCRIPT>

<STYLE TYPE="text/css">
<!--

.menu {position:absolute; font:10px arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color:#ffffcc; layer-background-color:#ffffcc; top:-90px}
#resMenu {right:10px; width:-130px}
A {text-decoration:none; color:#000000}
A:hover {background-color:pink; color:blue}

 -->

</STYLE>

</HEAD>

<BODY BGCOLOR="white">

<div id="resMenu" class="menu" onmouseover="displayMenu('resMenu',-5)" onmouseout="displayMenu('resMenu',-90)"><br />
<a href="#"> Alert:</a><br>
<a href="#"> </a><br>
<a href="#"> You pushed that button again... Didn't yeah? </a><br>
<a href="#"> </a><br>
<a href="#"> </a><br>
<a href="#"> </a><br>
</div>
ddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
<input type="button" value="Wake that alert up" onclick="displayMenu('resMenu',-5)">
</BODY>
</HTML>

How can I prevent the textarea from stretching beyond his parent DIV element? (google-chrome issue only)

Textarea resize control is available via the CSS3 resize property:

textarea { resize: both; } /* none|horizontal|vertical|both */
textarea.resize-vertical{ resize: vertical; }
textarea.resize-none { resize: none; }

Allowable values self-explanatory: none (disables textarea resizing), both, vertical and horizontal.

Notice that in Chrome, Firefox and Safari the default is both.

If you want to constrain the width and height of the textarea element, that's not a problem: these browsers also respect max-height, max-width, min-height, and min-width CSS properties to provide resizing within certain proportions.

Code example:

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#textarea-wrapper {_x000D_
  padding: 10px;_x000D_
  background-color: #f4f4f4;_x000D_
  width: 300px;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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#textarea-wrapper textarea {_x000D_
  min-height:50px;_x000D_
  max-height:120px;_x000D_
  width: 290px;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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#textarea-wrapper textarea.vertical { _x000D_
  resize: vertical;_x000D_
}
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<div id="textarea-wrapper">_x000D_
  <label for="resize-default">Textarea (default):</label>_x000D_
  <textarea name="resize-default" id="resize-default"></textarea>_x000D_
  _x000D_
  <label for="resize-vertical">Textarea (vertical):</label>_x000D_
  <textarea name="resize-vertical" id="resize-vertical" class="vertical">Notice this allows only vertical resize!</textarea>_x000D_
</div>
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Download file inside WebView

    mwebView.setDownloadListener(new DownloadListener()
   {

  @Override  


   public void onDownloadStart(String url, String userAgent,
        String contentDisposition, String mimeType,
        long contentLength) {

    DownloadManager.Request request = new DownloadManager.Request(
            Uri.parse(url));


    request.setMimeType(mimeType);


    String cookies = CookieManager.getInstance().getCookie(url);


    request.addRequestHeader("cookie", cookies);


    request.addRequestHeader("User-Agent", userAgent);


    request.setDescription("Downloading file...");


    request.setTitle(URLUtil.guessFileName(url, contentDisposition,
            mimeType));


    request.allowScanningByMediaScanner();


    request.setNotificationVisibility(DownloadManager.Request.VISIBILITY_VISIBLE_NOTIFY_COMPLETED);
    request.setDestinationInExternalPublicDir(
            Environment.DIRECTORY_DOWNLOADS, URLUtil.guessFileName(
                    url, contentDisposition, mimeType));
    DownloadManager dm = (DownloadManager) getSystemService(DOWNLOAD_SERVICE);
    dm.enqueue(request);
    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Downloading File",
            Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}});

'any' vs 'Object'

Contrary to .NET where all types derive from an "object", in TypeScript, all types derive from "any". I just wanted to add this comparison as I think it will be a common one made as more .NET developers give TypeScript a try.

How to detect when a UIScrollView has finished scrolling

An alternative would be to use scrollViewWillEndDragging:withVelocity:targetContentOffset which is called whenever the user lifts the finger and contains the target content offset where the scroll will stop. Using this content offset in scrollViewDidScroll: correctly identifies when the scroll view has stopped scrolling.

private var targetY: CGFloat?
public func scrollViewWillEndDragging(_ scrollView: UIScrollView,
                                      withVelocity velocity: CGPoint,
                                      targetContentOffset: UnsafeMutablePointer<CGPoint>) {
       targetY = targetContentOffset.pointee.y
}
public func scrollViewDidScroll(_ scrollView: UIScrollView) {
    if (scrollView.contentOffset.y == targetY) {
        print("finished scrolling")
    }

Read HttpContent in WebApi controller

By design the body content in ASP.NET Web API is treated as forward-only stream that can be read only once.

The first read in your case is being done when Web API is binding your model, after that the Request.Content will not return anything.

You can remove the contact from your action parameters, get the content and deserialize it manually into object (for example with Json.NET):

[HttpPut]
public HttpResponseMessage Put(int accountId)
{
    HttpContent requestContent = Request.Content;
    string jsonContent = requestContent.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
    CONTACT contact = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<CONTACT>(jsonContent);
    ...
}

That should do the trick (assuming that accountId is URL parameter so it will not be treated as content read).

Removing leading zeroes from a field in a SQL statement

You can use this:

SELECT REPLACE(LTRIM(REPLACE('000010A', '0', ' ')),' ', '0')

Maximum call stack size exceeded error

In my case, two jQuery modals were showing stacked on top of each other. Preventing that solved my problem.

How can I increase the JVM memory?

When calling java use the -Xmx Flag for example -Xmx512m for 512 megs for the heap size. You may also want to consider the -xms flag to start the heap larger if you are going to have it grow right from the start. The default size is 128megs.

Objective-C: Reading a file line by line

Using category or extension to make our life a bit easier.

extension String {

    func lines() -> [String] {
        var lines = [String]()
        self.enumerateLines { (line, stop) -> () in
            lines.append(line)
        }
        return lines
    }

}

// then
for line in string.lines() {
    // do the right thing
}

Override default Spring-Boot application.properties settings in Junit Test

Another approach suitable for overriding a few properties in your test, if you are using @SpringBootTest annotation:

@SpringBootTest(properties = {"propA=valueA", "propB=valueB"})

A CORS POST request works from plain JavaScript, but why not with jQuery?

UPDATE: As TimK pointed out, this isn't needed with jquery 1.5.2 any more. But if you want to add custom headers or allow the use of credentials (username, password, or cookies, etc), read on.


I think I found the answer! (4 hours and a lot of cursing later)

//This does not work!!
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: *

You need to manually specify all the headers you will accept (at least that was the case for me in FF 4.0 & Chrome 10.0.648.204).

jQuery's $.ajax method sends the "x-requested-with" header for all cross domain requests (i think its only cross domain).

So the missing header needed to respond to the OPTIONS request is:

//no longer needed as of jquery 1.5.2
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: x-requested-with

If you are passing any non "simple" headers, you will need to include them in your list (i send one more):

//only need part of this for my custom header
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: x-requested-with, x-requested-by

So to put it all together, here is my PHP:

// * wont work in FF w/ Allow-Credentials
//if you dont need Allow-Credentials, * seems to work
header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://www.example.com');
//if you need cookies or login etc
header('Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true');
if ($this->getRequestMethod() == 'OPTIONS')
{
  header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS');
  header('Access-Control-Max-Age: 604800');
  //if you need special headers
  header('Access-Control-Allow-Headers: x-requested-with');
  exit(0);
}

How can I simulate mobile devices and debug in Firefox Browser?

I would use the "Responsive Design View" available under Tools -> Web Developer -> Responsive Design View. It will let you test your CSS against different screen sizes.

How can I add a line to a file in a shell script?

This adds custom text at the beginning of your file:

echo 'your_custom_escaped_content' > temp_file.csv
cat testfile.csv >> temp_file.csv
mv temp_file.csv testfile.csv

What is the difference between LATERAL and a subquery in PostgreSQL?

First, Lateral and Cross Apply is same thing. Therefore you may also read about Cross Apply. Since it was implemented in SQL Server for ages, you will find more information about it then Lateral.

Second, according to my understanding, there is nothing you can not do using subquery instead of using lateral. But:

Consider following query.

Select A.*
, (Select B.Column1 from B where B.Fk1 = A.PK and Limit 1)
, (Select B.Column2 from B where B.Fk1 = A.PK and Limit 1)
FROM A 

You can use lateral in this condition.

Select A.*
, x.Column1
, x.Column2
FROM A LEFT JOIN LATERAL (
  Select B.Column1,B.Column2,B.Fk1 from B  Limit 1
) x ON X.Fk1 = A.PK

In this query you can not use normal join, due to limit clause. Lateral or Cross Apply can be used when there is not simple join condition.

There are more usages for lateral or cross apply but this is most common one I found.

How do I set default value of select box in angularjs

if you don't even want to initialize ng-model to a static value and each value is DB driven, it can be done in the following way. Angular compares the evaluated value and populates the drop down.

Here below modelData.unitId is retrieved from DB and is compared to the list of unit id which is a separate list from db-

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 <select id="uomList" ng-init="modelData.unitId"_x000D_
                         ng-model="modelData.unitId" ng-options="unitOfMeasurement.id as unitOfMeasurement.unitName for unitOfMeasurement in unitOfMeasurements">
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How to switch Python versions in Terminal?

I have followed the below steps in Macbook.

  1. Open terminal
  2. type nano ~/.bash_profile and enter
  3. Now add the line alias python=python3
  4. Press CTRL + o to save it.
  5. It will prompt for file name Just hit enter and then press CTRL + x.
  6. Now check python version by using the command : python --version

Decimal values in SQL for dividing results

You will need to cast or convert the values to decimal before division. Take a look at this http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa226054.aspx

For example

DECLARE @num1 int = 3 DECLARE @num2 int = 2

SELECT @num1/@num2

SELECT @num1/CONVERT(decimal(4,2), @num2)

The first SELECT will result in what you're seeing while the second SELECT will have the correct answer 1.500000

How to emulate GPS location in the Android Emulator?

If you are using eclipse then using Emulator controller you can manually set latitude and longitude and run your map based app in emulator

Node.js EACCES error when listening on most ports

restart was not enough! The only way to solve the problem is by the following:

You have to kill the service which run at that port.

at cmd, run as admin, then type : netstat -aon | find /i "listening"

Then, you will get a list with the active service, search for the port that is running at 4200n and use the process id which is the last column to kill it by

: taskkill /F /PID 2652

Python 2.7.10 error "from urllib.request import urlopen" no module named request

Instead of using urllib.request.urlopen() remove request for python 2.

urllib.urlopen() you do not have to request in python 2.x for what you are trying to do. Hope it works for you. This was tested using python 2.7 I was receiving the same error message and this resolved it.

How do I dispatch_sync, dispatch_async, dispatch_after, etc in Swift 3, Swift 4, and beyond?

in Xcode 8 use:

DispatchQueue.global(qos: .userInitiated).async { }

How to make the first option of <select> selected with jQuery

When you use

$("#target").val($("#target option:first").val());

this will not work in Chrome and Safari if the first option value is null.

I prefer

$("#target option:first").attr('selected','selected');

because it can work in all browsers.

return in for loop or outside loop

Since there is no issue with GC. I prefer this.

for(int i=0; i<array.length; ++i){
    if(array[i] == valueToFind)
        return true;
}

Google Chrome Printing Page Breaks

I faced this issue on chrome before and the cause for it is that there was a div has min-height set to a value. The solution was to reset min-height while printing as follows:

@media print {
    .wizard-content{
        min-height: 0;
    }
}

Set Background color programmatically

If you save color code in the colors.xml which is under the values folder,then you should call the following:

root.setBackgroundColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.name));

name means you declare in the <color/> tag.

python variable NameError

Your if statements are checking for int values. raw_input returns a string. Change the following line:

tSizeAns = raw_input() 

to

tSizeAns = int(raw_input()) 

replace NULL with Blank value or Zero in sql server

The coalesce() is the best solution when there are multiple columns [and]/[or] values and you want the first one. However, looking at books on-line, the query optimize converts it to a case statement.

MSDN excerpt

The COALESCE expression is a syntactic shortcut for the CASE expression.

That is, the code COALESCE(expression1,...n) is rewritten by the query optimizer as the following CASE expression:

CASE
   WHEN (expression1 IS NOT NULL) THEN expression1
   WHEN (expression2 IS NOT NULL) THEN expression2
   ...
   ELSE expressionN
END

With that said, why not a simple ISNULL()? Less code = better solution?

Here is a complete code snippet.

-- drop the test table
drop table #temp1
go

-- create test table
create table #temp1
(
    issue varchar(100) NOT NULL,
    total_amount int NULL
); 
go

-- create test data
insert into #temp1 values
    ('No nulls here', 12),
    ('I am a null', NULL);
go

-- isnull works fine
select
    isnull(total_amount, 0) as total_amount  
from #temp1

Last but not least, how are you getting null values into a NOT NULL column?

I had to change the table definition so that I could setup the test case. When I try to alter the table to NOT NULL, it fails since it does a nullability check.

-- this alter fails
alter table #temp1 alter column total_amount int NOT NULL

In Laravel, the best way to pass different types of flash messages in the session

Simply return with the 'flag' that you want to be treated without using any additional user function. The Controller:

return \Redirect::back()->withSuccess( 'Message you want show in View' );

Notice that I used the 'Success' flag.

The View:

@if( Session::has( 'success' ))
     {{ Session::get( 'success' ) }}
@elseif( Session::has( 'warning' ))
     {{ Session::get( 'warning' ) }} <!-- here to 'withWarning()' -->
@endif

Yes, it really works!

What is the simplest way to get indented XML with line breaks from XmlDocument?

Based on the other answers, I looked into XmlTextWriter and came up with the following helper method:

static public string Beautify(this XmlDocument doc)
{
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings
    {
        Indent = true,
        IndentChars = "  ",
        NewLineChars = "\r\n",
        NewLineHandling = NewLineHandling.Replace
    };
    using (XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(sb, settings)) {
        doc.Save(writer);
    }
    return sb.ToString();
}

It's a bit more code than I hoped for, but it works just peachy.

Decimal or numeric values in regular expression validation

I've tested all given regexes but unfortunately none of them pass those tests:

    String []goodNums={"3","-3","0","0.0","1.0","0.1"};
    String []badNums={"001","-00.2",".3","3.","a",""," ","-"," -1","--1","-.1","-0", "2..3", "2-", "2...3", "2.4.3", "5-6-7"};

Here is the best I wrote that pass all those tests:

"^(-?0[.]\\d+)$|^(-?[1-9]+\\d*([.]\\d+)?)$|^0$"

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Replace None with NaN in pandas dataframe

The following line replaces None with NaN:

df['column'].replace('None', np.nan, inplace=True)

How to read a single char from the console in Java (as the user types it)?

Use jline3:

Example:

Terminal terminal = TerminalBuilder.builder()
    .jna(true)
    .system(true)
    .build();

// raw mode means we get keypresses rather than line buffered input
terminal.enterRawMode();
reader = terminal .reader();
...
int read = reader.read();
....
reader.close();
terminal.close();

How do I include the string header?

You want to include <string> and use std::string:

#include <string>
#include <iostream>

int main()
{
    std::string s = "a string";
    std::cout << s << std::endl;
}

But what you really need to do is get an introductory level book. You aren't going to learn properly any other way, certainly not scrapping for information online.

Change windows hostname from command line

The previously mentioned wmic command is the way to go, as it is installed by default in recent versions of Windows.

Here is my small improvement to generalize it, by retrieving the current name from the environment:

wmic computersystem where name="%COMPUTERNAME%" 
     call rename name="NEW-NAME"

NOTE: The command must be given in one line, but I've broken it into two to make scrolling unnecessary. As @rbeede mentions you'll have to reboot to complete the update.

How to read a configuration file in Java

app.config

app.name=Properties Sample Code
app.version=1.09  

Source code:

Properties prop = new Properties();
String fileName = "app.config";
InputStream is = null;
try {
    is = new FileInputStream(fileName);
} catch (FileNotFoundException ex) {
    ...
}
try {
    prop.load(is);
} catch (IOException ex) {
    ...
}
System.out.println(prop.getProperty("app.name"));
System.out.println(prop.getProperty("app.version"));

Output:

Properties Sample Code
1.09  

How to hide collapsible Bootstrap 4 navbar on click

I am using Angular 5 with Boostrap 4. It works for me in this way.

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 $(document).on('click', '.navbar-nav>li>a, .navbar-brand, .dropdown-menu>a', function (e) {_x000D_
      if ( $(e.target).is('a') && $(e.target).attr('class') != 'nav-link dropdown-toggle' ) {_x000D_
        $('.navbar-collapse').collapse('hide');_x000D_
      }_x000D_
    });_x000D_
   }
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<nav class="navbar navbar-expand-lg navbar-dark bg-primary">_x000D_
  <a class="navbar-brand" [routerLink]="['/home']">FbShareTool</a>_x000D_
  <button class="navbar-toggler" type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#navbarColor01" aria-controls="navbarColor01" aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Toggle navigation" style="">_x000D_
    <span class="navbar-toggler-icon"></span>_x000D_
  </button>_x000D_
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  <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="navbarColor01">_x000D_
    <ul class="navbar-nav mr-auto">_x000D_
      <li class="nav-item active" *ngIf="_myAuthService.isAuthenticated()">_x000D_
        <a class="nav-link" [routerLink]="['/dashboard']">Dashboard <span class="sr-only">(current)</span></a>_x000D_
      </li>_x000D_
      <li class="nav-item dropdown" *ngIf="_myAuthService.isAuthenticated()">_x000D_
          <a class="nav-link dropdown-toggle" href="#" id="navbarDropdown" role="button" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false">_x000D_
            Manage_x000D_
          </a>_x000D_
          <div class="dropdown-menu" aria-labelledby="navbarDropdown">_x000D_
            <a class="dropdown-item" [routerLink]="['/fbgroup']">Facebook Group</a>_x000D_
            <div class="dropdown-divider"></div>_x000D_
            <a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Fetch Data</a>_x000D_
          </div>_x000D_
      </li>_x000D_
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What does $1 mean in Perl?

The $number variables contain the parts of the string that matched the capture groups ( ... ) in the pattern for your last regex match if the match was successful.

For example, take the following string:

$text = "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.";

After the statement

$text =~ m/ (b.+?) /;

$1 equals the text "brown".

lodash multi-column sortBy descending

It's worth noting that if you want to sort particular properties descending, you don't want to simply append .reverse() at the end, as this will make all of the sorts descending.

To make particular sorts descending, chain your sorts from least significant to most significant, calling .reverse() after each sort that you want to be descending.

var data = _(data).chain()
    .sort("date")
    .reverse()    // sort by date descending
    .sort("name") // sort by name ascending
    .result()

Since _'s sort is a stable sort, you can safely chain and reverse sorts because if two items have the same value for a property, their order is preserved.

More information

Best equivalent VisualStudio IDE for Mac to program .NET/C#

The question is quite old so I feel like I need to give a more up to date response to this question.

Based on MonoDevelop, the best IDE for building C# applications on the Mac, for pretty much any platform is http://xamarin.com/

How do I run a docker instance from a DockerFile?

Straightforward and easy solution is:

docker build .
=> ....
=> Successfully built a3e628814c67
docker run -p 3000:3000 a3e628814c67

3000 - can be any port

a3e628814c68 - hash result given by success build command

NOTE: you should be within directory that contains Dockerfile.

Converting file into Base64String and back again

Another working example in VB.NET:

Public Function base64Encode(ByVal myDataToEncode As String) As String
    Try
        Dim myEncodeData_byte As Byte() = New Byte(myDataToEncode.Length - 1) {}
        myEncodeData_byte = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(myDataToEncode)
        Dim myEncodedData As String = Convert.ToBase64String(myEncodeData_byte)
        Return myEncodedData
    Catch ex As Exception
        Throw (New Exception("Error in base64Encode" & ex.Message))
    End Try
    '
End Function

Optimistic vs. Pessimistic locking

One use case for optimistic locking is to have your application use the database to allow one of your threads / hosts to 'claim' a task. This is a technique that has come in handy for me on a regular basis.

The best example I can think of is for a task queue implemented using a database, with multiple threads claiming tasks concurrently. If a task has status 'Available', 'Claimed', 'Completed', a db query can say something like "Set status='Claimed' where status='Available'. If multiple threads try to change the status in this way, all but the first thread will fail because of dirty data.

Note that this is a use case involving only optimistic locking. So as an alternative to saying "Optimistic locking is used when you don't expect many collisions", it can also be used where you expect collisions but want exactly one transaction to succeed.

Insert/Update Many to Many Entity Framework . How do I do it?

I wanted to add my experience on that. Indeed EF, when you add an object to the context, it changes the state of all the children and related entities to Added. Although there is a small exception in the rule here: if the children/related entities are being tracked by the same context, EF does understand that these entities exist and doesn't add them. The problem happens when for example, you load the children/related entities from some other context or a web ui etc and then yes, EF doesn't know anything about these entities and goes and adds all of them. To avoid that, just get the keys of the entities and find them (e.g. context.Students.FirstOrDefault(s => s.Name == "Alice")) in the same context in which you want to do the addition.

SMTP connect() failed PHPmailer - PHP

This is usually a result of the server not accepting SSLv2 or SSLv3 connections which is a standard for cPanel/WHM in favor of TLS only connections. You can check this by going to WHM>>Service Configuration>>Exim Configuration Manager -> Options for OpenSSL

How can I install the Beautiful Soup module on the Mac?

The "normal" way is to:

Another solution is to use easy_install. Go to http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall), install the package using the instructions on that page, and then type, in a Terminal window:

easy_install BeautifulSoup4
# for older v3:
# easy_install BeautifulSoup

easy_install will take care of downloading, unpacking, building, and installing the package. The advantage to using easy_install is that it knows how to search for many different Python packages, because it queries the PyPI registry. Thus, once you have easy_install on your machine, you install many, many different third-party packages simply by one command at a shell.

How to rollback or commit a transaction in SQL Server

The good news is a transaction in SQL Server can span multiple batches (each exec is treated as a separate batch.)

You can wrap your EXEC statements in a BEGIN TRANSACTION and COMMIT but you'll need to go a step further and rollback if any errors occur.

Ideally you'd want something like this:

BEGIN TRY
    BEGIN TRANSACTION 
        exec( @sqlHeader)
        exec(@sqlTotals)
        exec(@sqlLine)
    COMMIT
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH

    IF @@TRANCOUNT > 0
        ROLLBACK
END CATCH

The BEGIN TRANSACTION and COMMIT I believe you are already familiar with. The BEGIN TRY and BEGIN CATCH blocks are basically there to catch and handle any errors that occur. If any of your EXEC statements raise an error, the code execution will jump to the CATCH block.

Your existing SQL building code should be outside the transaction (above) as you always want to keep your transactions as short as possible.

How to create an Observable from static data similar to http one in Angular?

Perhaps you could try to use the of method of the Observable class:

import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Observable';
import 'rxjs/add/observable/of';

public fetchModel(uuid: string = undefined): Observable<string> {
  if(!uuid) {
    return Observable.of(new TestModel()).map(o => JSON.stringify(o));
  }
  else {
    return this.http.get("http://localhost:8080/myapp/api/model/" + uuid)
            .map(res => res.text());
  }
}

Getting the name / key of a JToken with JSON.net

JToken is the base class for JObject, JArray, JProperty, JValue, etc. You can use the Children<T>() method to get a filtered list of a JToken's children that are of a certain type, for example JObject. Each JObject has a collection of JProperty objects, which can be accessed via the Properties() method. For each JProperty, you can get its Name. (Of course you can also get the Value if desired, which is another JToken.)

Putting it all together we have:

JArray array = JArray.Parse(json);

foreach (JObject content in array.Children<JObject>())
{
    foreach (JProperty prop in content.Properties())
    {
        Console.WriteLine(prop.Name);
    }
}

Output:

MobileSiteContent
PageContent

Python-Requests close http connection

To remove the "keep-alive" header in requests, I just created it from the Request object and then send it with Session

headers = {
'Host' : '1.2.3.4',
'User-Agent' : 'Test client (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu 7.16.3)',
'Accept' : '*/*',
'Accept-Encoding' : 'deflate, gzip',
'Accept-Language' : 'it_IT'
}

url = "https://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json"
#r = requests.get(url, headers = headers) #this triggers keep-alive: True
s = requests.Session()
r = requests.Request('GET', url, headers)

How to type ":" ("colon") in regexp?

In most regex implementations (including Java's), : has no special meaning, neither inside nor outside a character class.

Your problem is most likely due to the fact the - acts as a range operator in your class:

[A-Za-z0-9.,-:]*

where ,-: matches all ascii characters between ',' and ':'. Note that it still matches the literal ':' however!

Try this instead:

[A-Za-z0-9.,:-]*

By placing - at the start or the end of the class, it matches the literal "-". As mentioned in the comments by Keoki Zee, you can also escape the - inside the class, but most people simply add it at the end.

A demo:

public class Test {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("8:".matches("[,-:]+"));      // true: '8' is in the range ','..':'
        System.out.println("8:".matches("[,:-]+"));      // false: '8' does not match ',' or ':' or '-'
        System.out.println(",,-,:,:".matches("[,:-]+")); // true: all chars match ',' or ':' or '-'
    }
}

How to use subList()

I've implemented and tested this one; it should cover most bases:

public static <T> List<T> safeSubList(List<T> list, int fromIndex, int toIndex) {
    int size = list.size();
    if (fromIndex >= size || toIndex <= 0 || fromIndex >= toIndex) {
        return Collections.emptyList();
    }

    fromIndex = Math.max(0, fromIndex);
    toIndex = Math.min(size, toIndex);

    return list.subList(fromIndex, toIndex);
}

Index was outside the bounds of the Array. (Microsoft.SqlServer.smo)

Restarted worked! I found the same error to add new table to my database diagram on sql server 2016, restarted sql server management studio, finally solved.

How to convert a PIL Image into a numpy array?

def imshow(img):
    img = img / 2 + 0.5     # unnormalize
    npimg = img.numpy()
    plt.imshow(np.transpose(npimg, (1, 2, 0)))
    plt.show()

You can transform the image into numpy by parsing the image into numpy() function after squishing out the features( unnormalization)

How can I turn a List of Lists into a List in Java 8?

List<List> list = map.values().stream().collect(Collectors.toList());

    List<Employee> employees2 = new ArrayList<>();
    
     list.stream().forEach(
             
             n-> employees2.addAll(n));

react-router scroll to top on every transition

render() {
    window.scrollTo(0, 0)
    ...
}

Can be a simple solution in case the props are not changed and componentDidUpdate() not firing.