Programs & Examples On #Parameter passing

parameter-passing is the process of assigning values to the parameters of a function

Are there benefits of passing by pointer over passing by reference in C++?

Clarifications to the preceding posts:


References are NOT a guarantee of getting a non-null pointer. (Though we often treat them as such.)

While horrifically bad code, as in take you out behind the woodshed bad code, the following will compile & run: (At least under my compiler.)

bool test( int & a)
{
  return (&a) == (int *) NULL;
}

int
main()
{
  int * i = (int *)NULL;
  cout << ( test(*i) ) << endl;
};

The real issue I have with references lies with other programmers, henceforth termed IDIOTS, who allocate in the constructor, deallocate in the destructor, and fail to supply a copy constructor or operator=().

Suddenly there's a world of difference between foo(BAR bar) and foo(BAR & bar). (Automatic bitwise copy operation gets invoked. Deallocation in destructor gets invoked twice.)

Thankfully modern compilers will pick up this double-deallocation of the same pointer. 15 years ago, they didn't. (Under gcc/g++, use setenv MALLOC_CHECK_ 0 to revisit the old ways.) Resulting, under DEC UNIX, in the same memory being allocated to two different objects. Lots of debugging fun there...


More practically:

  • References hide that you are changing data stored someplace else.
  • It's easy to confuse a Reference with a Copied object.
  • Pointers make it obvious!

Passing variables, creating instances, self, The mechanics and usage of classes: need explanation

So here is a simple example of how to use classes: Suppose you are a finance institute. You want your customer's accounts to be managed by a computer. So you need to model those accounts. That is where classes come in. Working with classes is called object oriented programming. With classes you model real world objects in your computer. So, what do we need to model a simple bank account? We need a variable that saves the balance and one that saves the customers name. Additionally, some methods to in- and decrease the balance. That could look like:

class bankaccount():
    def __init__(self, name, money):
        self.name = name
        self.money = money

    def earn_money(self, amount):
        self.money += amount

    def withdraw_money(self, amount):
        self.money -= amount

    def show_balance(self):
        print self.money

Now you have an abstract model of a simple account and its mechanism. The def __init__(self, name, money) is the classes' constructor. It builds up the object in memory. If you now want to open a new account you have to make an instance of your class. In order to do that, you have to call the constructor and pass the needed parameters. In Python a constructor is called by the classes's name:

spidermans_account = bankaccount("SpiderMan", 1000)

If Spiderman wants to buy M.J. a new ring he has to withdraw some money. He would call the withdraw method on his account:

spidermans_account.withdraw_money(100)

If he wants to see the balance he calls:

spidermans_account.show_balance()

The whole thing about classes is to model objects, their attributes and mechanisms. To create an object, instantiate it like in the example. Values are passed to classes with getter and setter methods like `earn_money()´. Those methods access your objects variables. If you want your class to store another object you have to define a variable for that object in the constructor.

Java variable number or arguments for a method

Yes Java allows vargs in method parameter .

public class  Varargs
{
   public int add(int... numbers)
   { 
      int result = 1; 
      for(int number: numbers)
      {
         result= result+number;  
      }  return result; 
   }
}

In Javascript/jQuery what does (e) mean?

e doesn't have any special meaning. It's just a convention to use e as function parameter name when the parameter is event.

It can be

$(this).click(function(loremipsumdolorsitamet) {
    // does something
}

as well.

How do I pass a variable by reference?

A simple trick I normally use is to just wrap it in a list:

def Change(self, var):
    var[0] = 'Changed'

variable = ['Original']
self.Change(variable)      
print variable[0]

(Yeah I know this can be inconvenient, but sometimes it is simple enough to do this.)

How to pass parameter to a promise function

Try this:

function someFunction(username, password) {
      return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
        // Do something with the params username and password...
        if ( /* everything turned out fine */ ) {
          resolve("Stuff worked!");
        } else {
          reject(Error("It didn't work!"));
        }
      });
    }
    
    someFunction(username, password)
      .then((result) => {
        // Do something...
      })
      .catch((err) => {
        // Handle the error...
      });

how to pass parameters to query in SQL (Excel)

It depends on the database to which you're trying to connect, the method by which you created the connection, and the version of Excel that you're using. (Also, most probably, the version of the relevant ODBC driver on your computer.)

The following examples are using SQL Server 2008 and Excel 2007, both on my local machine.

When I used the Data Connection Wizard (on the Data tab of the ribbon, in the Get External Data section, under From Other Sources), I saw the same thing that you did: the Parameters button was disabled, and adding a parameter to the query, something like select field from table where field2 = ?, caused Excel to complain that the value for the parameter had not been specified, and the changes were not saved.

When I used Microsoft Query (same place as the Data Connection Wizard), I was able to create parameters, specify a display name for them, and enter values each time the query was run. Bringing up the Connection Properties for that connection, the Parameters... button is enabled, and the parameters can be modified and used as I think you want.

I was also able to do this with an Access database. It seems reasonable that Microsoft Query could be used to create parameterized queries hitting other types of databases, but I can't easily test that right now.

JavaScript: Passing parameters to a callback function

//Suppose function not taking any parameter means just add the GetAlterConfirmation(function(result) {});
GetAlterConfirmation('test','messageText',function(result) {
                        alert(result);
    }); //Function into document load or any other click event.


function GetAlterConfirmation(titleText, messageText, _callback){
         bootbox.confirm({
                    title: titleText,
                    message: messageText,
                    buttons: {
                        cancel: {
                            label: '<i class="fa fa-times"></i> Cancel'
                        },
                        confirm: {
                            label: '<i class="fa fa-check"></i> Confirm'
                        }
                    },
                    callback: function (result) {
                        return _callback(result); 
                    }
                });

What does the star operator mean, in a function call?

I find this particularly useful for when you want to 'store' a function call.

For example, suppose I have some unit tests for a function 'add':

def add(a, b): return a + b
tests = { (1,4):5, (0, 0):0, (-1, 3):3 }
for test, result in tests.items():
    print 'test: adding', test, '==', result, '---', add(*test) == result

There is no other way to call add, other than manually doing something like add(test[0], test[1]), which is ugly. Also, if there are a variable number of variables, the code could get pretty ugly with all the if-statements you would need.

Another place this is useful is for defining Factory objects (objects that create objects for you). Suppose you have some class Factory, that makes Car objects and returns them. You could make it so that myFactory.make_car('red', 'bmw', '335ix') creates Car('red', 'bmw', '335ix'), then returns it.

def make_car(*args):
    return Car(*args)

This is also useful when you want to call a superclass' constructor.

Django return redirect() with parameters

Firstly, your URL definition does not accept any parameters at all. If you want parameters to be passed from the URL into the view, you need to define them in the urlconf.

Secondly, it's not at all clear what you are expecting to happen to the cleaned_data dictionary. Don't forget you can't redirect to a POST - this is a limitation of HTTP, not Django - so your cleaned_data either needs to be a URL parameter (horrible) or, slightly better, a series of GET parameters - so the URL would be in the form:

/link/mybackend/?field1=value1&field2=value2&field3=value3

and so on. In this case, field1, field2 and field3 are not included in the URLconf definition - they are available in the view via request.GET.

So your urlconf would be:

url(r'^link/(?P<backend>\w+?)/$', my_function)

and the view would look like:

def my_function(request, backend):
   data = request.GET

and the reverse would be (after importing urllib):

return "%s?%s" % (redirect('my_function', args=(backend,)),
                  urllib.urlencode(form.cleaned_data))

Edited after comment

The whole point of using redirect and reverse, as you have been doing, is that you go to the URL - it returns an Http code that causes the browser to redirect to the new URL, and call that.

If you simply want to call the view from within your code, just do it directly - no need to use reverse at all.

That said, if all you want to do is store the data, then just put it in the session:

request.session['temp_data'] = form.cleaned_data

jQuery - add additional parameters on submit (NOT ajax)

You don't need to bind the submit event on the click of the submit button just bind the submit event and it will capture the submit event no mater how it gets triggered.

Think what you are wanting is to submit the sortable like you would via ajax. Try doing something like this:

var form = $('#event').submit(function () {
    $.each($('#attendance').sortable('toArray'),function(i, value){
        $("<input>").attr({
            'type':'hidden',
            'name':'attendace['+i+']'
        }).val(value).appendTo(form);
    });
});

Passing parameters to JavaScript files

You can pass parameters with arbitrary attributes. This works in all recent browsers.

<script type="text/javascript" data-my_var_1="some_val_1" data-my_var_2="some_val_2" src="/js/somefile.js"></script>

Inside somefile.js you can get passed variables values this way:

........

var this_js_script = $('script[src*=somefile]'); // or better regexp to get the file name..

var my_var_1 = this_js_script.attr('data-my_var_1');   
if (typeof my_var_1 === "undefined" ) {
   var my_var_1 = 'some_default_value';
}
alert(my_var_1); // to view the variable value

var my_var_2 = this_js_script.attr('data-my_var_2');   
if (typeof my_var_2 === "undefined" ) {
   var my_var_2 = 'some_default_value';
}
alert(my_var_2); // to view the variable value

...etc...

PHP Function with Optional Parameters

If you are commonly just passing in the 8th value, you can reorder your parameters so it is first. You only need to specify parameters up until the last one you want to set.

If you are using different values, you have 2 options.

One would be to create a set of wrapper functions that take different parameters and set the defaults on the others. This is useful if you only use a few combinations, but can get very messy quickly.

The other option is to pass an array where the keys are the names of the parameters. You can then just check if there is a value in the array with a key, and if not use the default. But again, this can get messy and add a lot of extra code if you have a lot of parameters.

Why use the params keyword?

It allows you to add as many base type parameters in your call as you like.

addTwoEach(10, 2, 4, 6)

whereas with the second form you have to use an array as parameter

addTwoEach(new int[] {10,2,4,6})

How can I pass an argument to a PowerShell script?

Call the script from a batch file (*.bat) or CMD

PowerShell Core

pwsh.exe -NoLogo -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "./Script.ps1 -Param1 Hello -Param2 World"

pwsh.exe -NoLogo -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "path-to-script/Script.ps1 -Param1 Hello -Param2 World"

pwsh.exe -NoLogo -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "./Script.ps1 Hello -Param2 World"

pwsh.exe -NoLogo -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "./Script.ps1 Hello World"

pwsh.exe -NoLogo -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "./Script.ps1 -Param2 World Hello"

PowerShell

powershell.exe -NoLogo -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "./Script.ps1 -Param1 Hello -Param2 World"

powershell.exe -NoLogo -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "path-to-script/Script.ps1 -Param1 Hello -Param2 World"

powershell.exe -NoLogo -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "./Script.ps1 Hello -Param2 World"

powershell.exe -NoLogo -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "./Script.ps1 Hello World"

powershell.exe -NoLogo -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "./Script.ps1 -Param2 World Hello"

Call from PowerShell

PowerShell Core or Windows PowerShell

& path-to-script/Script.ps1 -Param1 Hello -Param2 World
& ./Script.ps1 -Param1 Hello -Param2 World

Script.ps1 - Script Code

param(
    [Parameter(Mandatory=$True, Position=0, ValueFromPipeline=$false)]
    [System.String]
    $Param1,

    [Parameter(Mandatory=$True, Position=1, ValueFromPipeline=$false)]
    [System.String]
    $Param2
)

Write-Host $Param1
Write-Host $Param2

jQuery's .click - pass parameters to user function

I had success using .on() like so:

$('.leadtoscore').on('click', {event_type: 'shot'}, add_event);

Then inside the add_event function you get access to 'shot' like this:

event.data.event_type

See the .on() documentation for more info, where they provide the following example:

function myHandler( event ) {
  alert( event.data.foo );
}
$( "p" ).on( "click", { foo: "bar" }, myHandler );

How do I pass multiple parameters into a function in PowerShell?

Function Test([string]$arg1, [string]$arg2)
{
    Write-Host "`$arg1 value: $arg1"
    Write-Host "`$arg2 value: $arg2"
}

Test("ABC") ("DEF")

What does ** (double star/asterisk) and * (star/asterisk) do for parameters?

Context

  • python 3.x
  • unpacking with **
  • use with string formatting

Use with string formatting

In addition to the answers in this thread, here is another detail that was not mentioned elsewhere. This expands on the answer by Brad Solomon

Unpacking with ** is also useful when using python str.format.

This is somewhat similar to what you can do with python f-strings f-string but with the added overhead of declaring a dict to hold the variables (f-string does not require a dict).

Quick Example

  ## init vars
  ddvars = dict()
  ddcalc = dict()
  pass
  ddvars['fname']     = 'Huomer'
  ddvars['lname']     = 'Huimpson'
  ddvars['motto']     = 'I love donuts!'
  ddvars['age']       = 33
  pass
  ddcalc['ydiff']     = 5
  ddcalc['ycalc']     = ddvars['age'] + ddcalc['ydiff']
  pass
  vdemo = []

  ## ********************
  ## single unpack supported in py 2.7
  vdemo.append('''
  Hello {fname} {lname}!

  Today you are {age} years old!

  We love your motto "{motto}" and we agree with you!
  '''.format(**ddvars)) 
  pass

  ## ********************
  ## multiple unpack supported in py 3.x
  vdemo.append('''
  Hello {fname} {lname}!

  In {ydiff} years you will be {ycalc} years old!
  '''.format(**ddvars,**ddcalc)) 
  pass

  ## ********************
  print(vdemo[-1])

How to pass event as argument to an inline event handler in JavaScript?

Since inline events are executed as functions you can simply use arguments.

<p id="p" onclick="doSomething.apply(this, arguments)">

and

function doSomething(e) {
  if (!e) e = window.event;
  // 'e' is the event.
  // 'this' is the P element
}

The 'event' that is mentioned in the accepted answer is actually the name of the argument passed to the function. It has nothing to do with the global event.

Invoke a second script with arguments from a script

Aha. This turned out to be a simple problem of there being spaces in the path to the script.

Changing the Invoke-Expression line to:

Invoke-Expression "& `"$scriptPath`" $argumentList"

...was enough to get it to kick off. Thanks to Neolisk for your help and feedback!

Is Java "pass-by-reference" or "pass-by-value"?

Let me try to explain my understanding with the help of four examples. Java is pass-by-value, and not pass-by-reference

/**

Pass By Value

In Java, all parameters are passed by value, i.e. assigning a method argument is not visible to the caller.

*/

Example 1:

public class PassByValueString {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new PassByValueString().caller();
    }

    public void caller() {
        String value = "Nikhil";
        boolean valueflag = false;
        String output = method(value, valueflag);
        /*
         * 'output' is insignificant in this example. we are more interested in
         * 'value' and 'valueflag'
         */
        System.out.println("output : " + output);
        System.out.println("value : " + value);
        System.out.println("valueflag : " + valueflag);

    }

    public String method(String value, boolean valueflag) {
        value = "Anand";
        valueflag = true;
        return "output";
    }
}

Result

output : output
value : Nikhil
valueflag : false

Example 2:

/** * * Pass By Value * */

public class PassByValueNewString {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new PassByValueNewString().caller();
    }

    public void caller() {
        String value = new String("Nikhil");
        boolean valueflag = false;
        String output = method(value, valueflag);
        /*
         * 'output' is insignificant in this example. we are more interested in
         * 'value' and 'valueflag'
         */
        System.out.println("output : " + output);
        System.out.println("value : " + value);
        System.out.println("valueflag : " + valueflag);

    }

    public String method(String value, boolean valueflag) {
        value = "Anand";
        valueflag = true;
        return "output";
    }
}

Result

output : output
value : Nikhil
valueflag : false

Example 3:

/** This 'Pass By Value has a feeling of 'Pass By Reference'

Some people say primitive types and 'String' are 'pass by value' and objects are 'pass by reference'.

But from this example, we can understand that it is infact pass by value only, keeping in mind that here we are passing the reference as the value. ie: reference is passed by value. That's why are able to change and still it holds true after the local scope. But we cannot change the actual reference outside the original scope. what that means is demonstrated by next example of PassByValueObjectCase2.

*/

public class PassByValueObjectCase1 {

    private class Student {
        int id;
        String name;
        public Student() {
        }
        public Student(int id, String name) {
            super();
            this.id = id;
            this.name = name;
        }
        public int getId() {
            return id;
        }
        public void setId(int id) {
            this.id = id;
        }
        public String getName() {
            return name;
        }
        public void setName(String name) {
            this.name = name;
        }
        @Override
        public String toString() {
            return "Student [id=" + id + ", name=" + name + "]";
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new PassByValueObjectCase1().caller();
    }

    public void caller() {
        Student student = new Student(10, "Nikhil");
        String output = method(student);
        /*
         * 'output' is insignificant in this example. we are more interested in
         * 'student'
         */
        System.out.println("output : " + output);
        System.out.println("student : " + student);
    }

    public String method(Student student) {
        student.setName("Anand");
        return "output";
    }
}

Result

output : output
student : Student [id=10, name=Anand]

Example 4:

/**

In addition to what was mentioned in Example3 (PassByValueObjectCase1.java), we cannot change the actual reference outside the original scope."

Note: I am not pasting the code for private class Student. The class definition for Student is same as Example3.

*/

public class PassByValueObjectCase2 {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new PassByValueObjectCase2().caller();
    }

    public void caller() {
        // student has the actual reference to a Student object created
        // can we change this actual reference outside the local scope? Let's see
        Student student = new Student(10, "Nikhil");
        String output = method(student);
        /*
         * 'output' is insignificant in this example. we are more interested in
         * 'student'
         */
        System.out.println("output : " + output);
        System.out.println("student : " + student); // Will it print Nikhil or Anand?
    }

    public String method(Student student) {
        student = new Student(20, "Anand");
        return "output";
    }

}

Result

output : output
student : Student [id=10, name=Nikhil]

Passing Objects By Reference or Value in C#

Lots of good answers had been added. I still want to contribute, might be it will clarify slightly more.

When you pass an instance as an argument to the method it passes the copy of the instance. Now, if the instance you pass is a value type(resides in the stack) you pass the copy of that value, so if you modify it, it won't be reflected in the caller. If the instance is a reference type you pass the copy of the reference(again resides in the stack) to the object. So you got two references to the same object. Both of them can modify the object. But if within the method body, you instantiate new object your copy of the reference will no longer refer to the original object, it will refer to the new object you just created. So you will end up having 2 references and 2 objects.

Expanding tuples into arguments

myfun(*some_tuple) does exactly what you request. The * operator simply unpacks the tuple (or any iterable) and passes them as the positional arguments to the function. Read more about unpacking arguments.

Pass a list to a function to act as multiple arguments

Since Python 3.5 you can unpack unlimited amount of lists.

PEP 448 - Additional Unpacking Generalizations

So this will work:

a = ['1', '2', '3', '4']
b = ['5', '6']
function_that_needs_strings(*a, *b)

Passing Parameters JavaFX FXML

This WORKS ..

Remember first time you print the passing value you will get null, You can use it after your windows loaded , same for everything you want to code for any other component.

First Controller

try {
    Stage st = new Stage();
    FXMLLoader loader = new FXMLLoader(getClass().getResource("/com/inty360/free/form/MainOnline.fxml"));

    Parent sceneMain = loader.load();

    MainOnlineController controller = loader.<MainOnlineController>getController();
    controller.initVariable(99L);

    Scene scene = new Scene(sceneMain);
    st.setScene(scene);
    st.setMaximized(true);
    st.setTitle("My App");
    st.show();
} catch (IOException ex) {
    Logger.getLogger(LoginController.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}

Another Controller

public void initVariable(Long id_usuario){
    this.id_usuario = id_usuario;
    label_usuario_nombre.setText(id_usuario.toString());
}

Check number of arguments passed to a Bash script

Just like any other simple command, [ ... ] or test requires spaces between its arguments.

if [ "$#" -ne 1 ]; then
    echo "Illegal number of parameters"
fi

Or

if test "$#" -ne 1; then
    echo "Illegal number of parameters"
fi

Suggestions

When in Bash, prefer using [[ ]] instead as it doesn't do word splitting and pathname expansion to its variables that quoting may not be necessary unless it's part of an expression.

[[ $# -ne 1 ]]

It also has some other features like unquoted condition grouping, pattern matching (extended pattern matching with extglob) and regex matching.

The following example checks if arguments are valid. It allows a single argument or two.

[[ ($# -eq 1 || ($# -eq 2 && $2 == <glob pattern>)) && $1 =~ <regex pattern> ]]

For pure arithmetic expressions, using (( )) to some may still be better, but they are still possible in [[ ]] with its arithmetic operators like -eq, -ne, -lt, -le, -gt, or -ge by placing the expression as a single string argument:

A=1
[[ 'A + 1' -eq 2 ]] && echo true  ## Prints true.

That should be helpful if you would need to combine it with other features of [[ ]] as well.

Take note that [[ ]] and (( )) are keywords which have same level of parsing as if, case, while, and for.

Also as Dave suggested, error messages are better sent to stderr so they don't get included when stdout is redirected:

echo "Illegal number of parameters" >&2

Exiting the script

It's also logical to make the script exit when invalid parameters are passed to it. This has already been suggested in the comments by ekangas but someone edited this answer to have it with -1 as the returned value, so I might as well do it right.

-1 though accepted by Bash as an argument to exit is not explicitly documented and is not right to be used as a common suggestion. 64 is also the most formal value since it's defined in sysexits.h with #define EX_USAGE 64 /* command line usage error */. Most tools like ls also return 2 on invalid arguments. I also used to return 2 in my scripts but lately I no longer really cared, and simply used 1 in all errors. But let's just place 2 here since it's most common and probably not OS-specific.

if [[ $# -ne 1 ]]; then
    echo "Illegal number of parameters"
    exit 2
fi

References

Passing an array/list into a Python function

You can pass lists just like other types:

l = [1,2,3]

def stuff(a):
   for x in a:
      print a


stuff(l)

This prints the list l. Keep in mind lists are passed as references not as a deep copy.

What does map(&:name) mean in Ruby?

Here :name is the symbol which point to the method name of tag object. When we pass &:name to map, it will treat name as a proc object. For short, tags.map(&:name) acts as:

tags.map do |tag|
  tag.name
end

Pass by pointer & Pass by reference

In fact, most compilers emit the same code for both functions calls, because references are generally implemented using pointers.

Following this logic, when an argument of (non-const) reference type is used in the function body, the generated code will just silently operate on the address of the argument and it will dereference it. In addition, when a call to such a function is encountered, the compiler will generate code that passes the address of the arguments instead of copying their value.

Basically, references and pointers are not very different from an implementation point of view, the main (and very important) difference is in the philosophy: a reference is the object itself, just with a different name.

References have a couple more advantages compared to pointers (e. g. they can't be NULL, so they are safer to use). Consequently, if you can use C++, then passing by reference is generally considered more elegant and it should be preferred. However, in C, there's no passing by reference, so if you want to write C code (or, horribile dictu, code that compiles with both a C and a C++ compiler, albeit that's not a good idea), you'll have to restrict yourself to using pointers.

Can we pass parameters to a view in SQL?

Simply use this view into stored procedure with required parameter/s (eg. in SQL Server) and parameter values in querying view.

Create stored procedure with View/ table: _spCallViewWithParameters

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Execute procedure:

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Pass array to MySQL stored routine

I've come up with an awkward but functional solution for my problem. It works for a one-dimensional array (more dimensions would be tricky) and input that fits into a varchar:

  declare pos int;           -- Keeping track of the next item's position
  declare item varchar(100); -- A single item of the input
  declare breaker int;       -- Safeguard for while loop 

  -- The string must end with the delimiter
  if right(inputString, 1) <> '|' then
     set inputString = concat(inputString, '|');
  end if;

  DROP TABLE IF EXISTS MyTemporaryTable;
  CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE MyTemporaryTable ( columnName varchar(100) );
  set breaker = 0;

  while (breaker < 2000) && (length(inputString) > 1) do
     -- Iterate looking for the delimiter, add rows to temporary table.
     set breaker = breaker + 1;
     set pos = INSTR(inputString, '|');
     set item = LEFT(inputString, pos - 1);
     set inputString = substring(inputString, pos + 1);
     insert into MyTemporaryTable values(item);
  end while;

For example, input for this code could be the string Apple|Banana|Orange. MyTemporaryTable will be populated with three rows containing the strings Apple, Banana, and Orange respectively.

I thought the slow speed of string handling would render this approach useless, but it was quick enough (only a fraction of a second for a 1,000 entries array).

Hope this helps somebody.

How to refresh a page with jQuery by passing a parameter to URL

Click these links to see these more flexible and robust solutions. They're answers to a similar question:

These allow you to programmatically set the parameter, and, unlike the other hacks suggested for this question, won't break for URLs that already have a parameter, or if something else isn't quite what you thought might happen.

How can I pass a member function where a free function is expected?

@Pete Becker's answer is fine but you can also do it without passing the class instance as an explicit parameter to function1 in C++ 11:

#include <functional>
using namespace std::placeholders;

void function1(std::function<void(int, int)> fun)
{
    fun(1, 1);
}

int main (int argc, const char * argv[])
{
   ...

   aClass a;
   auto fp = std::bind(&aClass::test, a, _1, _2);
   function1(fp);

   return 0;
}

Pass parameter to EventHandler

If I understand your problem correctly, you are calling a method instead of passing it as a parameter. Try the following:

myTimer.Elapsed += PlayMusicEvent;

where

public void PlayMusicEvent(object sender, ElapsedEventArgs e)
{
    music.player.Stop();
    System.Timers.Timer myTimer = (System.Timers.Timer)sender;
    myTimer.Stop();
}

But you need to think about where to store your note.

How to return a value from a Form in C#?

I use MDI quite a lot, I like it much more (where it can be used) than multiple floating forms.

But to get the best from it you need to get to grips with your own events. It makes life so much easier for you.

A skeletal example.

Have your own interupt types,

//Clock, Stock and Accoubts represent the actual forms in
//the MDI application. When I have multiple copies of a form
//I also give them an ID, at the time they are created, then
//include that ID in the Args class.
public enum InteruptSource
{
    IS_CLOCK = 0, IS_STOCKS, IS_ACCOUNTS
}
//This particular event type is time based,
//but you can add others to it, such as document
//based.
public enum EVInterupts
{
    CI_NEWDAY = 0, CI_NEWMONTH, CI_NEWYEAR, CI_PAYDAY, CI_STOCKPAYOUT, 
   CI_STOCKIN, DO_NEWEMAIL, DO_SAVETOARCHIVE
}

Then your own Args type

public class ControlArgs
{
    //MDI form source
    public InteruptSource source { get; set; }
    //Interrupt type
    public EVInterupts clockInt { get; set; }
    //in this case only a date is needed
    //but normally I include optional data (as if a C UNION type)
    //the form that responds to the event decides if
    //the data is for it.
    public DateTime date { get; set; }
    //CI_STOCKIN
    public StockClass inStock { get; set; }

}

Then use the delegate within your namespace, but outside of a class

namespace MyApplication
{
public delegate void StoreHandler(object sender, ControlArgs e);
  public partial class Form1 : Form
{
  //your main form
}

Now either manually or using the GUI, have the MDIparent respond to the events of the child forms.

But with your owr Args, you can reduce this to a single function. and you can have provision to interupt the interupts, good for debugging, but can be usefull in other ways too.

Just have al of your mdiparent event codes point to the one function,

        calendar.Friday += new StoreHandler(MyEvents);
        calendar.Saturday += new StoreHandler(MyEvents);
        calendar.Sunday += new StoreHandler(MyEvents);
        calendar.PayDay += new StoreHandler(MyEvents);
        calendar.NewYear += new StoreHandler(MyEvents);

A simple switch mechanism is usually enough to pass events on to appropriate forms.

How to pass all arguments passed to my bash script to a function of mine?

It's worth mentioning that you can specify argument ranges with this syntax.

function example() {
    echo "line1 ${@:1:1}"; #First argument
    echo "line2 ${@:2:1}"; #Second argument
    echo "line3 ${@:3}"; #Third argument onwards
}

I hadn't seen it mentioned.

How can I pass selected row to commandLink inside dataTable or ui:repeat?

Thanks to this site by Mkyong, the only solution that actually worked for us to pass a parameter was this

<h:commandLink action="#{user.editAction}">
    <f:param name="myId" value="#{param.id}" />
</h:commandLink>

with

public String editAction() {

  Map<String,String> params = 
            FacesContext.getExternalContext().getRequestParameterMap();
  String idString = params.get("myId");
  long id = Long.parseLong(idString);
  ...
}

Technically, that you cannot pass to the method itself directly, but to the JSF request parameter map.

Passing an array as an argument to a function in C

When passing an array as a parameter, this

void arraytest(int a[])

means exactly the same as

void arraytest(int *a)

so you are modifying the values in main.

For historical reasons, arrays are not first class citizens and cannot be passed by value.

How do I pass a method as a parameter in Python

Example: a simple function call wrapper:

def measure_cpu_time(f, *args):
    t_start = time.process_time()
    ret = f(*args)
    t_end = time.process_time()
    return t_end - t_start, ret

How to pass 2D array (matrix) in a function in C?

I don't know what you mean by "data dont get lost". Here's how you pass a normal 2D array to a function:

void myfunc(int arr[M][N]) { // M is optional, but N is required
  ..
}

int main() {
  int somearr[M][N];
  ...
  myfunc(somearr);
  ...
}

How to replace a substring of a string

You need to create the variable to assign the new value to, like this:

String str = string.replaceAll("abcd","dddd");

Select datatype of the field in postgres

You can use the pg_typeof() function, which also works well for arbitrary values.

SELECT pg_typeof("stu_id"), pg_typeof(100) from student_details limit 1;

Send private messages to friends

There isn't any graph api for this, you need to use facebook xmpp chat api to send the message, good news is: I have made a php class which is too easy to use,call a function and message will be sent, its open source, check it out: facebook message api php the description says its a closed source but the it was made open source later, see the first comment, you can clone from github. It's a open source now.

Convert List<T> to ObservableCollection<T> in WP7

To convert List<T> list to observable collection you may use following code:

var oc = new ObservableCollection<T>();
list.ForEach(x => oc.Add(x));

load csv into 2D matrix with numpy for plotting

You can read a CSV file with headers into a NumPy structured array with np.genfromtxt. For example:

import numpy as np

csv_fname = 'file.csv'
with open(csv_fname, 'w') as fp:
    fp.write("""\
"A","B","C","D","E","F","timestamp"
611.88243,9089.5601,5133.0,864.07514,1715.37476,765.22777,1.291111964948E12
611.88243,9089.5601,5133.0,864.07514,1715.37476,765.22777,1.291113113366E12
611.88243,9089.5601,5133.0,864.07514,1715.37476,765.22777,1.291120650486E12
""")

# Read the CSV file into a Numpy record array
r = np.genfromtxt(csv_fname, delimiter=',', names=True, case_sensitive=True)
print(repr(r))

which looks like this:

array([(611.88243, 9089.5601, 5133., 864.07514, 1715.37476, 765.22777, 1.29111196e+12),
       (611.88243, 9089.5601, 5133., 864.07514, 1715.37476, 765.22777, 1.29111311e+12),
       (611.88243, 9089.5601, 5133., 864.07514, 1715.37476, 765.22777, 1.29112065e+12)],
      dtype=[('A', '<f8'), ('B', '<f8'), ('C', '<f8'), ('D', '<f8'), ('E', '<f8'), ('F', '<f8'), ('timestamp', '<f8')])

You can access a named column like this r['E']:

array([1715.37476, 1715.37476, 1715.37476])

Note: this answer previously used np.recfromcsv to read the data into a NumPy record array. While there was nothing wrong with that method, structured arrays are generally better than record arrays for speed and compatibility.

Counting duplicates in Excel

Step 1: Select top cell of the data

Step 2 : Select Data > Sort.

Step 3 : Select Data >Subtotal

Step 4 : Change use function to "count" and click OK.

Step 5 : Collapse to 2

Transform only one axis to log10 scale with ggplot2

The simplest is to just give the 'trans' (formerly 'formatter' argument the name of the log function:

m + geom_boxplot() + scale_y_continuous(trans='log10')

EDIT: Or if you don't like that, then either of these appears to give different but useful results:

m <- ggplot(diamonds, aes(y = price, x = color), log="y")
m + geom_boxplot() 
m <- ggplot(diamonds, aes(y = price, x = color), log10="y")
m + geom_boxplot()

EDIT2 & 3: Further experiments (after discarding the one that attempted successfully to put "$" signs in front of logged values):

fmtExpLg10 <- function(x) paste(round_any(10^x/1000, 0.01) , "K $", sep="")
ggplot(diamonds, aes(color, log10(price))) + 
  geom_boxplot() + 
  scale_y_continuous("Price, log10-scaling", trans = fmtExpLg10)

alt text

Note added mid 2017 in comment about package syntax change:

scale_y_continuous(formatter = 'log10') is now scale_y_continuous(trans = 'log10') (ggplot2 v2.2.1)

php: Get html source code with cURL

Try the following:

$ch = curl_init("http://www.example-webpage.com/file.html");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, true);
$content = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

I would only recommend this for small files. Big files are read as a whole and are likely to produce a memory error.


EDIT: after some discussion in the comments we found out that the problem was that the server couldn't resolve the host name and the page was in addition a HTTPS resource so here comes your temporary solution (until your server admin fixes the name resolving).

what i did is just pinging graph.facebook.com to see the IP address, replace the host name with the IP address and instead specify the header manually. This however renders the SSL certificate invalid so we have to suppress peer verification.

//$url = "https://graph.facebook.com/19165649929?fields=name";
$url = "https://66.220.146.224/19165649929?fields=name";
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Host: graph.facebook.com'));
$output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch); 

Keep in mind that the IP address might change and this is an error source. you should also do some error handling using curl_error();.

What is the difference between Swing and AWT?

AWT is a Java interface to native system GUI code present in your OS. It will not work the same on every system, although it tries.

Swing is a more-or-less pure-Java GUI. It uses AWT to create an operating system window and then paints pictures of buttons, labels, text, checkboxes, etc., into that window and responds to all of your mouse-clicks, key entries, etc., deciding for itself what to do instead of letting the operating system handle it. Thus Swing is 100% portable and is the same across platforms (although it is skinnable and has a "pluggable look and feel" that can make it look more or less like how the native windows and widgets would look).

These are vastly different approaches to GUI toolkits and have a lot of consequences. A full answer to your question would try to explore all of those. :) Here are a couple:

AWT is a cross-platform interface, so even though it uses the underlying OS or native GUI toolkit for its functionality, it doesn't provide access to everything that those toolkits can do. Advanced or newer AWT widgets that might exist on one platform might not be supported on another. Features of widgets that aren't the same on every platform might not be supported, or worse, they might work differently on each platform. People used to invest lots of effort to get their AWT applications to work consistently across platforms - for instance, they may try to make calls into native code from Java.

Because AWT uses native GUI widgets, your OS knows about them and handles putting them in front of each other, etc., whereas Swing widgets are meaningless pixels within a window from your OS's point of view. Swing itself handles your widgets' layout and stacking. Mixing AWT and Swing is highly unsupported and can lead to ridiculous results, such as native buttons that obscure everything else in the dialog box in which they reside because everything else was created with Swing.

Because Swing tries to do everything possible in Java other than the very raw graphics routines provided by a native GUI window, it used to incur quite a performance penalty compared to AWT. This made Swing unfortunately slow to catch on. However, this has shrunk dramatically over the last several years due to more optimized JVMs, faster machines, and (I presume) optimization of the Swing internals. Today a Swing application can run fast enough to be serviceable or even zippy, and almost indistinguishable from an application using native widgets. Some will say it took far too long to get to this point, but most will say that it is well worth it.

Finally, you might also want to check out SWT (the GUI toolkit used for Eclipse, and an alternative to both AWT and Swing), which is somewhat of a return to the AWT idea of accessing native Widgets through Java.

How to find the mysql data directory from command line in windows

public function variables($variable="")
{
  return empty($variable) ? mysql_query("SHOW VARIABLES") : mysql_query("SELECT @@$variable");
}

/*get datadir*/
$res = variables("datadir");

/*or get all variables*/
$res = variables();

CSS pseudo elements in React

Inline styles cannot be used to target pseudo-classes or pseudo-elements. You need to use a stylesheet.

If you want to generate CSS dynamically, then the easiest way is to create a DOM element <style>.

<style dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{
  __html: [
     '.my-special-div:after {',
     '  content: "Hello";',
     '  position: absolute',
     '}'
    ].join('\n')
  }}>
</style>
<div className='my-special-div'></div>

Passing parameters to addTarget:action:forControlEvents

There is another one way, in which you can get indexPath of the cell where your button was pressed:

using usual action selector like:

 UIButton *btn = ....;
    [btn addTarget:self action:@selector(yourFunction:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];

and then in in yourFunction:

   - (void) yourFunction:(id)sender {

    UIButton *button = sender;
    CGPoint center = button.center;
    CGPoint rootViewPoint = [button.superview convertPoint:center toView:self.tableView];
    NSIndexPath *indexPath = [self.tableView indexPathForRowAtPoint:rootViewPoint];
    //the rest of your code goes here
    ..
}

since you get an indexPath it becames much simplier.

MVC3 EditorFor readOnly

For those who wonder why you want to use an EditoFor if you don`t want it to be editable, I have an example.

I have this in my Model.

    [DataType(DataType.Date)]
    [DisplayFormat(ApplyFormatInEditMode = true, DataFormatString = "{0: dd/MM/yyyy}")]
    public DateTime issueDate { get; set; }

and when you want to display that format, the only way it works is with an EditorFor, but I have a jquery datepicker for that "input" so it has to be readonly to avoid the users of writting down wrong dates.

To make it work the way I want I put this in the View...

     @Html.EditorFor(m => m.issueDate, new{ @class="inp", @style="width:200px", @MaxLength = "200"})

and this in my ready function...

     $('#issueDate').prop('readOnly', true);

I hope this would be helpful for someone out there. Sorry for my English

Avoid printStackTrace(); use a logger call instead

A production quality program should use one of the many logging alternatives (e.g. log4j, logback, java.util.logging) to report errors and other diagnostics. This has a number of advantages:

  • Log messages go to a configurable location.
  • The end user doesn't see the messages unless you configure the logging so that he/she does.
  • You can use different loggers and logging levels, etc to control how much little or much logging is recorded.
  • You can use different appender formats to control what the logging looks like.
  • You can easily plug the logging output into a larger monitoring / logging framework.
  • All of the above can be done without changing your code; i.e. by editing the deployed application's logging config file.

By contrast, if you just use printStackTrace, the deployer / end user has little if any control, and logging messages are liable to either be lost or shown to the end user in inappropriate circumstances. (And nothing terrifies a timid user more than a random stack trace.)

How would I extract a single file (or changes to a file) from a git stash?

On the git stash manpage you can read (in the "Discussion" section, just after "Options" description) that:

A stash is represented as a commit whose tree records the state of the working directory, and its first parent is the commit at HEAD when the stash was created.

So you can treat stash (e.g. stash@{0} is first / topmost stash) as a merge commit, and use:

$ git diff stash@{0}^1 stash@{0} -- <filename>

Explanation: stash@{0}^1 means the first parent of the given stash, which as stated in the explanation above is the commit at which changes were stashed away. We use this form of "git diff" (with two commits) because stash@{0} / refs/stash is a merge commit, and we have to tell git which parent we want to diff against. More cryptic:

$ git diff stash@{0}^! -- <filename>

should also work (see git rev-parse manpage for explanation of rev^! syntax, in "Specifying ranges" section).

Likewise, you can use git checkout to check a single file out of the stash:

$ git checkout stash@{0} -- <filename>

or to save it under another filename:

$ git show stash@{0}:<full filename>  >  <newfile>

or

$ git show stash@{0}:./<relative filename> > <newfile>

(note that here <full filename> is full pathname of a file relative to top directory of a project (think: relative to stash@{0})).


You might need to protect stash@{0} from shell expansion, i.e. use "stash@{0}" or 'stash@{0}'.

R: Plotting a 3D surface from x, y, z

rgl is great, but takes a bit of experimentation to get the axes right.

If you have a lot of points, why not take a random sample from them, and then plot the resulting surface. You can add several surfaces all based on samples from the same data to see if the process of sampling is horribly affecting your data.

So, here is a pretty horrible function but it does what I think you want it to do (but without the sampling). Given a matrix (x, y, z) where z is the heights it will plot both the points and also a surface. Limitations are that there can only be one z for each (x,y) pair. So planes which loop back over themselves will cause problems.

The plot_points = T will plot the individual points from which the surface is made - this is useful to check that the surface and the points actually meet up. The plot_contour = T will plot a 2d contour plot below the 3d visualization. Set colour to rainbow to give pretty colours, anything else will set it to grey, but then you can alter the function to give a custom palette. This does the trick for me anyway, but I'm sure that it can be tidied up and optimized. The verbose = T prints out a lot of output which I use to debug the function as and when it breaks.

plot_rgl_model_a <- function(fdata, plot_contour = T, plot_points = T, 
                             verbose = F, colour = "rainbow", smoother = F){
  ## takes a model in long form, in the format
  ## 1st column x
  ## 2nd is y,
  ## 3rd is z (height)
  ## and draws an rgl model

  ## includes a contour plot below and plots the points in blue
  ## if these are set to TRUE

  # note that x has to be ascending, followed by y
  if (verbose) print(head(fdata))

  fdata <- fdata[order(fdata[, 1], fdata[, 2]), ]
  if (verbose) print(head(fdata))
  ##
  require(reshape2)
  require(rgl)
  orig_names <- colnames(fdata)
  colnames(fdata) <- c("x", "y", "z")
  fdata <- as.data.frame(fdata)

  ## work out the min and max of x,y,z
  xlimits <- c(min(fdata$x, na.rm = T), max(fdata$x, na.rm = T))
  ylimits <- c(min(fdata$y, na.rm = T), max(fdata$y, na.rm = T))
  zlimits <- c(min(fdata$z, na.rm = T), max(fdata$z, na.rm = T))
  l <- list (x = xlimits, y = ylimits, z = zlimits)
  xyz <- do.call(expand.grid, l)
  if (verbose) print(xyz)
  x_boundaries <- xyz$x
  if (verbose) print(class(xyz$x))
  y_boundaries <- xyz$y
  if (verbose) print(class(xyz$y))
  z_boundaries <- xyz$z
  if (verbose) print(class(xyz$z))
  if (verbose) print(paste(x_boundaries, y_boundaries, z_boundaries, sep = ";"))

  # now turn fdata into a wide format for use with the rgl.surface
  fdata[, 2] <- as.character(fdata[, 2])
  fdata[, 3] <- as.character(fdata[, 3])
  #if (verbose) print(class(fdata[, 2]))
  wide_form <- dcast(fdata, y ~ x, value_var = "z")
  if (verbose) print(head(wide_form))
  wide_form_values <- as.matrix(wide_form[, 2:ncol(wide_form)])  
  if (verbose) print(wide_form_values)
  x_values <- as.numeric(colnames(wide_form[2:ncol(wide_form)]))
  y_values <- as.numeric(wide_form[, 1])
  if (verbose) print(x_values)
  if (verbose) print(y_values)
  wide_form_values <- wide_form_values[order(y_values), order(x_values)]
  wide_form_values <- as.numeric(wide_form_values)
  x_values <- x_values[order(x_values)]
  y_values <- y_values[order(y_values)]
  if (verbose) print(x_values)
  if (verbose) print(y_values)

  if (verbose) print(dim(wide_form_values))
  if (verbose) print(length(x_values))
  if (verbose) print(length(y_values))

  zlim <- range(wide_form_values)
  if (verbose) print(zlim)
  zlen <- zlim[2] - zlim[1] + 1
  if (verbose) print(zlen)

  if (colour == "rainbow"){
    colourut <- rainbow(zlen, alpha = 0)
    if (verbose) print(colourut)
    col <- colourut[ wide_form_values - zlim[1] + 1]
    # if (verbose) print(col)
  } else {
    col <- "grey"
    if (verbose) print(table(col2))
  }


  open3d()
  plot3d(x_boundaries, y_boundaries, z_boundaries, 
         box = T, col = "black",  xlab = orig_names[1], 
         ylab = orig_names[2], zlab = orig_names[3])

  rgl.surface(z = x_values,  ## these are all different because
              x = y_values,  ## of the confusing way that 
              y = wide_form_values,  ## rgl.surface works! - y is the height!
              coords = c(2,3,1),
              color = col,
              alpha = 1.0,
              lit = F,
              smooth = smoother)

  if (plot_points){
    # plot points in red just to be on the safe side!
    points3d(fdata, col = "blue")
  }

  if (plot_contour){
    # plot the plane underneath
    flat_matrix <- wide_form_values
    if (verbose) print(flat_matrix)
    y_intercept <- (zlim[2] - zlim[1]) * (-2/3) # put the flat matrix 1/2 the distance below the lower height 
    flat_matrix[which(flat_matrix != y_intercept)] <- y_intercept
    if (verbose) print(flat_matrix)

    rgl.surface(z = x_values,  ## these are all different because
                x = y_values,  ## of the confusing way that 
                y = flat_matrix,  ## rgl.surface works! - y is the height!
                coords = c(2,3,1),
                color = col,
                alpha = 1.0,
                smooth = smoother)
  }
}

The add_rgl_model does the same job without the options, but overlays a surface onto the existing 3dplot.

add_rgl_model <- function(fdata){

  ## takes a model in long form, in the format
  ## 1st column x
  ## 2nd is y,
  ## 3rd is z (height)
  ## and draws an rgl model

  ##
  # note that x has to be ascending, followed by y
  print(head(fdata))

  fdata <- fdata[order(fdata[, 1], fdata[, 2]), ]

  print(head(fdata))
  ##
  require(reshape2)
  require(rgl)
  orig_names <- colnames(fdata)

  #print(head(fdata))
  colnames(fdata) <- c("x", "y", "z")
  fdata <- as.data.frame(fdata)

  ## work out the min and max of x,y,z
  xlimits <- c(min(fdata$x, na.rm = T), max(fdata$x, na.rm = T))
  ylimits <- c(min(fdata$y, na.rm = T), max(fdata$y, na.rm = T))
  zlimits <- c(min(fdata$z, na.rm = T), max(fdata$z, na.rm = T))
  l <- list (x = xlimits, y = ylimits, z = zlimits)
  xyz <- do.call(expand.grid, l)
  #print(xyz)
  x_boundaries <- xyz$x
  #print(class(xyz$x))
  y_boundaries <- xyz$y
  #print(class(xyz$y))
  z_boundaries <- xyz$z
  #print(class(xyz$z))

  # now turn fdata into a wide format for use with the rgl.surface
  fdata[, 2] <- as.character(fdata[, 2])
  fdata[, 3] <- as.character(fdata[, 3])
  #print(class(fdata[, 2]))
  wide_form <- dcast(fdata, y ~ x, value_var = "z")
  print(head(wide_form))
  wide_form_values <- as.matrix(wide_form[, 2:ncol(wide_form)])  
  x_values <- as.numeric(colnames(wide_form[2:ncol(wide_form)]))
  y_values <- as.numeric(wide_form[, 1])
  print(x_values)
  print(y_values)
  wide_form_values <- wide_form_values[order(y_values), order(x_values)]
  x_values <- x_values[order(x_values)]
  y_values <- y_values[order(y_values)]
  print(x_values)
  print(y_values)

  print(dim(wide_form_values))
  print(length(x_values))
  print(length(y_values))

  rgl.surface(z = x_values,  ## these are all different because
              x = y_values,  ## of the confusing way that 
              y = wide_form_values,  ## rgl.surface works!
              coords = c(2,3,1),
              alpha = .8)
  # plot points in red just to be on the safe side!
  points3d(fdata, col = "red")
}

So my approach would be to, try to do it with all your data (I easily plot surfaces generated from ~15k points). If that doesn't work, take several smaller samples and plot them all at once using these functions.

How to list AD group membership for AD users using input list?

First: As it currently stands, the $User variable does not have a .Users property. In your code, $User simply represents one line (the "current" line in the foreach loop) from the text file.

$getmembership = Get-ADUser $User -Properties MemberOf | Select -ExpandProperty memberof

Secondly, I do not believe you can query an entire forest with one command. You will have to break it down into smaller chunks:

  1. Query forest for list of domains
  2. Call Get-ADUser for each domain (you may have to specify alternate credentials via the -Credential parameter

Thirdly, to get a list of groups that a user is a member of:

$User = Get-ADUser -Identity trevor -Properties *;
$GroupMembership = ($user.memberof | % { (Get-ADGroup $_).Name; }) -join ';';

# Result:
Orchestrator Users Group;ConfigMgr Administrators;Service Manager Admins;Domain Admins;Schema Admins

Fourthly: To get the final, desired string format, simply add the $User.Name, a semicolon, and the $GroupMembership string together:

$User.SamAccountName + ';' + $GroupMembership;

How to launch a Google Chrome Tab with specific URL using C#

If the user doesn't have Chrome, it will throw an exception like this:

    //chrome.exe http://xxx.xxx.xxx --incognito
    //chrome.exe http://xxx.xxx.xxx -incognito
    //chrome.exe --incognito http://xxx.xxx.xxx
    //chrome.exe -incognito http://xxx.xxx.xxx
    private static void Chrome(string link)
    {
        string url = "";

        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(link)) //if empty just run the browser
        {
            if (link.Contains('.')) //check if it's an url or a google search
            {
                url = link;
            }
            else
            {
                url = "https://www.google.com/search?q=" + link.Replace(" ", "+");
            }
        }

        try
        {
            Process.Start("chrome.exe", url + " --incognito");
        }
        catch (System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception e)
        {
            MessageBox.Show("Unable to find Google Chrome...",
                "chrome.exe not found!", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error);
        }
    }

Location of GlassFish Server Logs

Locate the installation path of GlassFish. Then move to domains/domain-dir/logs/ and you'll find there the log files. If you have created the domain with NetBeans, the domain-dir is most probably called domain1.

See this link for the official GlassFish documentation about logging.

SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. (Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long)

This seems to be the result you see from Firefox when the server is not configured properly for SSL. Chrome, BTW, just gave a generic "ssl failed" code.

What happens is that the browser sends a SSL handshake when the server is expecting an HTTP request. Server responds with a 400 code and an error message that is much bigger that the handshake message that the browser expects. Hence the FF message.

As we can see from the responses here there are many things that can break the SSL configuration but not stop the server starting or give any hints in error.log.

What I did was systematically check down all the answers until I finally found the right one, right at the bottom.

Here is what I had in the access logs:

rfulton.actrix.co.nz:80 192.168.1.3 - - [09/Oct/2016:13:39:32 +1300] "\x16\x03\x01" 400 0 "-" "-"
rfulton.actrix.co.nz:80 192.168.1.3 - - [09/Oct/2016:13:39:46 +1300] "\x16\x03\x01" 400 0 "-" "-"
rfulton.actrix.co.nz:80 192.168.1.3 - - [09/Oct/2016:13:49:13 +1300] "\x16\x03\x01" 400 0 "-" "-"

Angular2: Cannot read property 'name' of undefined

The variable selectedHero is null in the template so you cannot bind selectedHero.name as is. You need to use the elvis operator ?. for this case:

<input [ngModel]="selectedHero?.name" (ngModelChange)="selectedHero.name = $event" />

The separation of the [(ngModel)] into [ngModel] and (ngModelChange) is also needed because you can't assign to an expression that uses the elvis operator.

I also think you mean to use:

<h2>{{selectedHero?.name}} details!</h2>

instead of:

<h2>{{hero.name}} details!</h2>

How to set background image of a view?

use this

self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"Default"]];

Best Way to View Generated Source of Webpage?

In the Web Developer Toolbar, have you tried the Tools -> Validate HTML or Tools -> Validate Local HTML options?

The Validate HTML option sends the url to the validator, which works well with publicly facing sites. The Validate Local HTML option sends the current page's HTML to the validator, which works well with pages behind a login, or those that aren't publicly accessible.

You may also want to try View Source Chart (also as FireFox add-on). An interesting note there:

Q. Why does View Source Chart change my XHTML tags to HTML tags?

A. It doesn't. The browser is making these changes, VSC merely displays what the browser has done with your code. Most common: self closing tags lose their closing slash (/). See this article on Rendered Source for more information (archive.org).

how to change class name of an element by jquery

$('.IsBestAnswer').removeClass('IsBestAnswer').addClass('bestanswer');

Your code has two problems:

  1. The selector .IsBestAnswe does not match what you thought
  2. It's addClass(), not addclass().

Also, I'm not sure whether you want to replace the class or add it. The above will replace, but remove the .removeClass('IsBestAnswer') part to add only:

$('.IsBestAnswer').addClass('bestanswer');

You should decide whether to use camelCase or all-lowercase in your CSS classes too (e.g. bestAnswer vs. bestanswer).

iptables block access to port 8000 except from IP address

Another alternative is;

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 8000 -s ! 1.2.3.4 -j DROP

I had similar issue that 3 bridged virtualmachine just need access eachother with different combination, so I have tested this command and it works well.

Edit**

According to Fernando comment and this link exclamation mark (!) will be placed before than -s parameter:

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 8000 ! -s 1.2.3.4 -j DROP

How to Update Date and Time of Raspberry Pi With out Internet

You will need to configure your Win7 PC as a Time Server, and then configure the RasPi to connect to it for NTP services.

Configure Win7 as authoritative time server. Configure RasPi time server lookup.

ORA-28040: No matching authentication protocol exception

My Initial error is : ORA-28040: No matching authentication protocol exception

My DB version is 12.2 (Solaris) and client version is 11.2 ( windows). I have added below in both server and client sqlnet.ora

SQLNET.ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION_CLIENT = 8 SQLNET.ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION_SERVER = 8

while connecting, I have got invalid username and password hence I have recreated the password ( same password ) in database which is resolved my issue.

How do I correctly upgrade angular 2 (npm) to the latest version?

Official npm page suggest a structured method to update angular version for both global and local scenarios.

1.First of all, you need to uninstall the current angular from your system.

npm uninstall -g angular-cli
npm uninstall --save-dev angular-cli
npm uninstall -g @angular/cli

2.Clean up the cache

npm cache clean

EDIT

As pointed out by @candidj

npm cache clean is renamed as npm cache verify from npm 5 onwards

3.Install angular globally

npm install -g @angular/cli@latest

4.Local project setup if you have one

rm -rf node_modules
npm install --save-dev @angular/cli@latest
npm install

Please check the same down on the link below:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@angular/cli#updating-angular-cli

This will solve the problem.

How do you automatically set text box to Uppercase?

<script type="text/javascript">
    function upperCaseF(a){
    setTimeout(function(){
        a.value = a.value.toUpperCase();
    }, 1);
}
</script>

<input type="text" required="" name="partno" class="form-control" placeholder="Enter a Part No*" onkeydown="upperCaseF(this)">

find a minimum value in an array of floats

If you want to use numpy, you must define darr to be a numpy array, not a list:

import numpy as np
darr = np.array([1, 3.14159, 1e100, -2.71828])
print(darr.min())

darr.argmin() will give you the index corresponding to the minimum.

The reason you were getting an error is because argmin is a method understood by numpy arrays, but not by Python lists.

What's the best way to store a group of constants that my program uses?

I would suggest static class with static readonly. Please find the code snippet below:

  public static class CachedKeysManager
    {
        public static readonly string DistributorList = "distributorList";
    }

How do I undo the most recent local commits in Git?

For sake of completeness, I will give the one glaringly obvious method that was overlooked by the previous answers.

Since the commit was not pushed, the remote was unchanged, so:

  1. Delete the local repository.
  2. Clone the remote repository.

This is sometimes necessary if your fancy Git client goes bye-bye. (eg. non-fast-forward errors)

Don't forget to re-commit your saved changes since the last push.

ASP.NET MVC Dropdown List From SelectList

Just try this in razor

@{
    var selectList = new SelectList(
        new List<SelectListItem>
        {
            new SelectListItem {Text = "Google", Value = "Google"},
            new SelectListItem {Text = "Other", Value = "Other"},
        }, "Value", "Text");
}

and then

@Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.YourFieldName, selectList, "Default label", new { @class = "css-class" })

or

@Html.DropDownList("ddlDropDownList", selectList, "Default label", new { @class = "css-class" })

what is Array.any? for javascript

I believe this to be the cleanest and readable option:

var empty = [];
empty.some(x => x); //returns false

Selenium using Java - The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.gecko.driver system property

Every Driver service in selenium calls the similar code(following is the firefox specific code) while creating the driver object

 @Override
 protected File findDefaultExecutable() {
      return findExecutable(
        "geckodriver", GECKO_DRIVER_EXE_PROPERTY,
        "https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver",
        "https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases");
    }

now for the driver that you want to use, you have to set the system property with the value of path to the driver executable.

for firefox GECKO_DRIVER_EXE_PROPERTY = "webdriver.gecko.driver" and this can be set before creating the driver object as below

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "./libs/geckodriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

How do I get the computer name in .NET

System.Environment.MachineName

What Does This Mean in PHP -> or =>

->

calls/sets object variables. Ex:

$obj = new StdClass;
$obj->foo = 'bar';
var_dump($obj);

=> Sets key/value pairs for arrays. Ex:

$array = array(
    'foo' => 'bar'
);
var_dump($array);

Get last key-value pair in PHP array

If you have an array

$last_element = array_pop(array);

How to apply !important using .css()?

David Thomas’s answer describes a way to use $('#elem').attr('style', …), but warns that using it will delete previously-set styles in the style attribute. Here is a way of using attr() without that problem:

var $elem = $('#elem');
$elem.attr('style', $elem.attr('style') + '; ' + 'width: 100px !important');

As a function:

function addStyleAttribute($element, styleAttribute) {
    $element.attr('style', $element.attr('style') + '; ' + styleAttribute);
}
addStyleAttribute($('#elem'), 'width: 100px !important');

Here is a JS Bin demo.

How do I do pagination in ASP.NET MVC?

Entity

public class PageEntity
{
    public int Page { get; set; }
    public string Class { get; set; }
}

public class Pagination
{
    public List<PageEntity> Pages { get; set; }
    public int Next { get; set; }
    public int Previous { get; set; }
    public string NextClass { get; set; }
    public string PreviousClass { get; set; }
    public bool Display { get; set; }
    public string Query { get; set; }
}

HTML

<nav>
    <div class="navigation" style="text-align: center">
        <ul class="pagination">
            <li class="page-item @Model.NextClass"><a class="page-link" href="?page=@(@[email protected])">&laquo;</a></li>
            @foreach (var item in @Model.Pages)
            {
                <li class="page-item @item.Class"><a class="page-link" href="?page=@([email protected])">@item.Page</a></li>
            }
            <li class="page-item @Model.NextClass"><a class="page-link" href="?page=@(@[email protected])">&raquo;</a></li>
        </ul>
    </div>
 </nav>

Paging Logic

public Pagination GetCategoryPaging(int currentPage, int recordCount, string query)
{
    string pageClass = string.Empty; int pageSize = 10, innerCount = 5;

    Pagination pagination = new Pagination();
    pagination.Pages = new List<PageEntity>();
    pagination.Next = currentPage + 1;
    pagination.Previous = ((currentPage - 1) > 0) ? (currentPage - 1) : 1;
    pagination.Query = query;

    int totalPages = ((int)recordCount % pageSize) == 0 ? (int)recordCount / pageSize : (int)recordCount / pageSize + 1;

    int loopStart = 1, loopCount = 1;

    if ((currentPage - 2) > 0)
    {
        loopStart = (currentPage - 2);
    }

    for (int i = loopStart; i <= totalPages; i++)
    {
        pagination.Pages.Add(new PageEntity { Page = i, Class = string.Empty });

        if (loopCount == innerCount)
        { break; }

        loopCount++;
    }

    if (totalPages <= innerCount)
    {
        pagination.PreviousClass = "disabled";
    }

    foreach (var item in pagination.Pages.Where(x => x.Page == currentPage))
    {
        item.Class = "active";
    }

    if (pagination.Pages.Count() <= 1)
    {
        pagination.Display = false;
    }

    return pagination;
}

Using Controller

public ActionResult GetPages()
{
    int currentPage = 1; string search = string.Empty;
    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(Request.QueryString["page"]))
    {
        currentPage = Convert.ToInt32(Request.QueryString["page"]);
    }

    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(Request.QueryString["q"]))
    {
        search = "&q=" + Request.QueryString["q"];
    }
    /* to be Fetched from database using count */
    int recordCount = 100;

    Place place = new Place();
    Pagination pagination = place.GetCategoryPaging(currentPage, recordCount, search);

    return PartialView("Controls/_Pagination", pagination);
}

Why does the Visual Studio editor show dots in blank spaces?

In Visual Studio 2012
Go to
Edit -> Advanced -> View White Spaces
Or
Press Ctrl+R, Ctrl+W

PHP $_FILES['file']['tmp_name']: How to preserve filename and extension?

If you wanna get the uploaded file name, use $_FILES["file"]["name"]

But If you wanna read the uploaded file you should use $_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"], because tmp_name is a temporary copy of your uploaded file and it's easier than using

$_FILES["file"]["name"] // This name includes a file path, which makes file read process more complex

HTML5 pattern for formatting input box to take date mm/dd/yyyy?

Easiest way is use read only attribute to prevent direct user input:

 <input class="datepicker" type="text" name="date" value="" readonly />

Or you could use HTML5 validation based on pattern attribute. Date input pattern (dd/mm/yyyy or mm/dd/yyyy):

<input type="text" pattern="\d{1,2}/\d{1,2}/\d{4}" class="datepicker" name="date" value="" />

What in layman's terms is a Recursive Function using PHP

Walking through a directory tree is a good example. You can do something similar to process an array. Here is a really simple recursive function that simply processes a string, a simple array of strings, or a nested array of strings of any depth, replacing instances of 'hello' with 'goodbye' in the string or the values of the array or any sub-array:

function replaceHello($a) {
    if (! is_array($a)) {
        $a = str_replace('hello', 'goodbye', $a);
    } else {
        foreach($a as $key => $value) {
            $a[$key] = replaceHello($value);
        }
    }
    return $a
}

It knows when to quit because at some point, the "thing" it is processing is not an array. For example, if you call replaceHello('hello'), it will return 'goodbye'. If you send it an array of strings, though it will call itself once for every member of the array, then return the processed array.

Difference between -XX:+UseParallelGC and -XX:+UseParNewGC

UseParNewGC usually knowns as "parallel young generation collector" is same in all ways as the parallel garbage collector (-XX:+UseParallelGC), except that its more sophiscated and effiecient. Also it can be used with a "concurrent low pause collector".

See Java GC FAQ, question 22 for more information.

Note that there are some known bugs with UseParNewGC

Using floats with sprintf() in embedded C

Isn't something like this really easier:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

char str[10];
float adc_read = 678.0123;

dtostrf( adc_read, 3, 4, temp );
sprintf(str,"adc_read = %10s \n", temp);
printf(temp);

How to normalize an array in NumPy to a unit vector?

If you don't need utmost precision, your function can be reduced to:

v_norm = v / (np.linalg.norm(v) + 1e-16)

How do you allow spaces to be entered using scanf?

getline()

Now part of POSIX, none-the-less.

It also takes care of the buffer allocation problem that you asked about earlier, though you have to take care of freeing the memory.

How do I validate a date string format in python?

from datetime import datetime

datetime.strptime(date_string, "%Y-%m-%d")

..this raises a ValueError if it receives an incompatible format.

..if you're dealing with dates and times a lot (in the sense of datetime objects, as opposed to unix timestamp floats), it's a good idea to look into the pytz module, and for storage/db, store everything in UTC.

React - Component Full Screen (with height 100%)

Adding this in the index.html head worked for me:

<style>
    html, body, #app, #app>div { position: absolute; width: 100% !important; height: 100% !important; }
</style>

jQuery: load txt file and insert into div

Try

$(".text").text(data);

Or to convert the data received to a string.

Could not find or load main class org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain

In my case (using windows 10) gradlew.bat has the following lines of code in:

set DIRNAME=%~dp0
if "%DIRNAME%" == "" set DIRNAME=.
set APP_BASE_NAME=%~n0
set APP_HOME=%DIRNAME%

The APP_HOME variable is essentially gradles root folder for the project, so, if this gets messed up in some way you are going to get:

Error: Could not find or load main class org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain

For me, this had been messed up because my project folder structure had an ampersand (&) in it. Eg C:\Test&Dev\MyProject

So, gradel was trying to find the gradle-wrapper.jar file in a root folder of C:\Test (stripping off everything after and including the '&')

I found this by adding the following line below the set APP_HOME=%DIRNAME% line above. Then ran the bat file to see the result.

echo "%APP_HOME%"

There will be a few other 'special characters' that could break a path/directory.

Is it possible to create a 'link to a folder' in a SharePoint document library?

i couldn't change the permissions on the sharepoint i'm using but got a round it by uploading .url files with the drag and drop multiple files uploader.

Using the normal upload didn't work because they are intepreted by the file open dialog when you try to open them singly so it just tries to open the target not the .url file.

.url files can be made by saving a favourite with internet exploiter.

Is there a way to automatically generate getters and setters in Eclipse?

I prefer to create the private field first

private String field;

Eclipse will auto highlight the variable, by positioning cursor over your new variable, press Ctrl + 1. It will then give you the menu to Create getter and setter.

I press Ctrl + 1 because it is a bit more intelligent about what I think you want next.

Why should we typedef a struct so often in C?

Linux kernel coding style Chapter 5 gives great pros and cons (mostly cons) of using typedef.

Please don't use things like "vps_t".

It's a mistake to use typedef for structures and pointers. When you see a

vps_t a;

in the source, what does it mean?

In contrast, if it says

struct virtual_container *a;

you can actually tell what "a" is.

Lots of people think that typedefs "help readability". Not so. They are useful only for:

(a) totally opaque objects (where the typedef is actively used to hide what the object is).

Example: "pte_t" etc. opaque objects that you can only access using the proper accessor functions.

NOTE! Opaqueness and "accessor functions" are not good in themselves. The reason we have them for things like pte_t etc. is that there really is absolutely zero portably accessible information there.

(b) Clear integer types, where the abstraction helps avoid confusion whether it is "int" or "long".

u8/u16/u32 are perfectly fine typedefs, although they fit into category (d) better than here.

NOTE! Again - there needs to be a reason for this. If something is "unsigned long", then there's no reason to do

typedef unsigned long myflags_t;

but if there is a clear reason for why it under certain circumstances might be an "unsigned int" and under other configurations might be "unsigned long", then by all means go ahead and use a typedef.

(c) when you use sparse to literally create a new type for type-checking.

(d) New types which are identical to standard C99 types, in certain exceptional circumstances.

Although it would only take a short amount of time for the eyes and brain to become accustomed to the standard types like 'uint32_t', some people object to their use anyway.

Therefore, the Linux-specific 'u8/u16/u32/u64' types and their signed equivalents which are identical to standard types are permitted -- although they are not mandatory in new code of your own.

When editing existing code which already uses one or the other set of types, you should conform to the existing choices in that code.

(e) Types safe for use in userspace.

In certain structures which are visible to userspace, we cannot require C99 types and cannot use the 'u32' form above. Thus, we use __u32 and similar types in all structures which are shared with userspace.

Maybe there are other cases too, but the rule should basically be to NEVER EVER use a typedef unless you can clearly match one of those rules.

In general, a pointer, or a struct that has elements that can reasonably be directly accessed should never be a typedef.

Getting the .Text value from a TextBox

Use this instead:

string objTextBox = t.Text;

The object t is the TextBox. The object you call objTextBox is assigned the ID property of the TextBox.

So better code would be:

TextBox objTextBox = (TextBox)sender;
string theText = objTextBox.Text;

SSH Port forwarding in a ~/.ssh/config file?

You can use the LocalForward directive in your host yam section of ~/.ssh/config:

LocalForward 5901 computer.myHost.edu:5901

downloading all the files in a directory with cURL

OK, considering that you are using Windows, the most simple way to do that is to use the standard ftp tool bundled with it. I base the following solution on Windows XP, hoping it'll work as well (or with minor modifications) on other versions.

First of all, you need to create a batch (script) file for the ftp program, containing instructions for it. Name it as you want, and put into it:

curl -u login:pass ftp.myftpsite.com/iiumlabs* -O

open ftp.myftpsite.com
login
pass
mget *
quit

The first line opens a connection to the ftp server at ftp.myftpsite.com. The two following lines specify the login, and the password which ftp will ask for (replace login and pass with just the login and password, without any keywords). Then, you use mget * to get all files. Instead of the *, you can use any wildcard. Finally, you use quit to close the ftp program without interactive prompt.

If you needed to enter some directory first, add a cd command before mget. It should be pretty straightforward.

Finally, write that file and run ftp like this:

ftp -i -s:yourscript

where -i disables interactivity (asking before downloading files), and -s specifies path to the script you created.


Sadly, file transfer over SSH is not natively supported in Windows. But for that case, you'd probably want to use PuTTy tools anyway. The one of particular interest for this case would be pscp which is practically the PuTTy counter-part of the openssh scp command.

The syntax is similar to copy command, and it supports wildcards:

pscp -batch [email protected]:iiumlabs* .

If you authenticate using a key file, you should pass it using -i path-to-key-file. If you use password, -pw pass. It can also reuse sessions saved using PuTTy, using the load -load your-session-name argument.

Arrays in type script

This is a very c# type of code:

var bks: Book[] = new Book[2];

In Javascript / Typescript you don't allocate memory up front like that, and that means something completely different. This is how you would do what you want to do:

var bks: Book[] = [];
bks.push(new Book());
bks[0].Author = "vamsee";
bks[0].BookId = 1;
return bks.length;

Now to explain what new Book[2]; would mean. This would actually mean that call the new operator on the value of Book[2]. e.g.:

Book[2] = function (){alert("hey");}
var foo = new Book[2]

and you should see hey. Try it

How to enter special characters like "&" in oracle database?

If you are in SQL*Plus or SQL Developer, you want to run

SQL> set define off;

before executing the SQL statement. That turns off the checking for substitution variables.

SET directives like this are instructions for the client tool (SQL*Plus or SQL Developer). They have session scope, so you would have to issue the directive every time you connect (you can put the directive in your client machine's glogin.sql if you want to change the default to have DEFINE set to OFF). There is no risk that you would impact any other user or session in the database.

With Spring can I make an optional path variable?

Check this Spring 3 WebMVC - Optional Path Variables. It shows an article of making an extension to AntPathMatcher to enable optional path variables and might be of help. All credits to Sebastian Herold for posting the article.

Anaconda / Python: Change Anaconda Prompt User Path

Just Type the Drive Location you want to work with: This worked for me! For example you want to change to D drive in windows:

D:\

If you want to change to particular folder in the drive:

cd D:\Newfolder

How to remove duplicate values from a multi-dimensional array in PHP

Just use SORT_REGULAR option as second parameter.

$uniqueArray = array_unique($array, SORT_REGULAR);

ALTER table - adding AUTOINCREMENT in MySQL

ALTER TABLE t_name modify c_name INT(10) AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY;

Git push error pre-receive hook declined

ihave followed the instruction of heroku logs img https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/buildpacks#detection-failure ( use cmd: heroku logs -> show your error) then do the cmd: "heroku buildpacks:clear". finally, it worked for me!

what is the size of an enum type data in C++?

An enum is kind of like a typedef for the int type (kind of).

So the type you've defined there has 12 possible values, however a single variable only ever has one of those values.

Think of it this way, when you define an enum you're basically defining another way to assign an int value.

In the example you've provided, january is another way of saying 0, feb is another way of saying 1, etc until december is another way of saying 11.

How to replace all strings to numbers contained in each string in Notepad++?

I have Notepad++ v6.8.8

Find: [([a-zA-Z])]

Replace: [\'\1\']

Will produce: $array[XYZ] => $array['XYZ']

How do you define a class of constants in Java?

enums are fine. IIRC, one item in effective Java (2nd Ed) has enum constants enumerating standard options implementing a [Java keyword] interface for any value.

My preference is to use a [Java keyword] interface over a final class for constants. You implicitly get the public static final. Some people will argue that an interface allows bad programmers to implement it, but bad programmers are going to write code that sucks no matter what you do.

Which looks better?

public final class SomeStuff {
     private SomeStuff() {
         throw new Error();
     }
     public static final String SOME_CONST = "Some value or another, I don't know.";
}

Or:

public interface SomeStuff {
     String SOME_CONST = "Some value or another, I don't know.";
}

System.Security.SecurityException when writing to Event Log

FYI...my problem was that accidently selected "Local Service" as the Account on properties of the ProcessInstaller instead of "Local System". Just mentioning for anyone else who followed the MSDN tutorial as the Local Service selection shows first and I wasn't paying close attention....

MySQL my.ini location

You can find the my.ini file in windows at this location- C:\ProgramData\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.6

the ProgramData folder is a hidden folder, so make the according setting to see that folder. And open my.ini file as an administrator to edit and then save that.

CSS 100% height with padding/margin

This is one of the outright idiocies of CSS - I have yet to understand the reasoning (if someone knows, pls. explain).

100% means 100% of the container height - to which any margins, borders and padding are added. So it is effectively impossible to get a container which fills it's parent and which has a margin, border, or padding.

Note also, setting height is notoriously inconsistent between browsers, too.


Another thing I've learned since I posted this is that the percentage is relative the container's length, that is, it's width, making a percentage even more worthless for height.

Nowadays, the vh and vw viewport units are more useful, but still not especially useful for anything other than the top-level containers.

How to split a number into individual digits in c#?

Well, a string is an IEnumerable and also implements an indexer, so you can iterate through it or reference each character in the string by index.

The fastest way to get what you want is probably the ToCharArray() method of a String:

var myString = "12345";

var charArray = myString.ToCharArray(); //{'1','2','3','4','5'}

You can then convert each Char to a string, or parse them into bytes or integers. Here's a Linq-y way to do that:

byte[] byteArray = myString.ToCharArray().Select(c=>byte.Parse(c.ToString())).ToArray();

A little more performant if you're using ASCII/Unicode strings:

byte[] byteArray = myString.ToCharArray().Select(c=>(byte)c - 30).ToArray();

That code will only work if you're SURE that each element is a number; otherisw the parsing will throw an exception. A simple Regex that will verify this is true is "^\d+$" (matches a full string consisting of one or more digit characters), used in the Regex.IsMatch() static method.

Password masking console application

I made some changes for backspace

        string pass = "";
        Console.Write("Enter your password: ");
        ConsoleKeyInfo key;

        do
        {
            key = Console.ReadKey(true);

            // Backspace Should Not Work
            if (key.Key != ConsoleKey.Backspace)
            {
                pass += key.KeyChar;
                Console.Write("*");
            }
            else
            {
                pass = pass.Remove(pass.Length - 1);
                Console.Write("\b \b");
            }
        }
        // Stops Receving Keys Once Enter is Pressed
        while (key.Key != ConsoleKey.Enter);

        Console.WriteLine();
        Console.WriteLine("The Password You entered is : " + pass);

What's the best way to limit text length of EditText in Android

For anyone else wondering how to achieve this, here is my extended EditText class EditTextNumeric.

.setMaxLength(int) - sets maximum number of digits

.setMaxValue(int) - limit maximum integer value

.setMin(int) - limit minimum integer value

.getValue() - get integer value

import android.content.Context;
import android.text.InputFilter;
import android.text.InputType;
import android.widget.EditText;

public class EditTextNumeric extends EditText {
    protected int max_value = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
    protected int min_value = Integer.MIN_VALUE;

    // constructor
    public EditTextNumeric(Context context) {
        super(context);
        this.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER);
    }

    // checks whether the limits are set and corrects them if not within limits
    @Override
    protected void onTextChanged(CharSequence text, int start, int before, int after) {
        if (max_value != Integer.MAX_VALUE) {
            try {
                if (Integer.parseInt(this.getText().toString()) > max_value) {
                    // change value and keep cursor position
                    int selection = this.getSelectionStart();
                    this.setText(String.valueOf(max_value));
                    if (selection >= this.getText().toString().length()) {
                        selection = this.getText().toString().length();
                    }
                    this.setSelection(selection);
                }
            } catch (NumberFormatException exception) {
                super.onTextChanged(text, start, before, after);
            }
        }
        if (min_value != Integer.MIN_VALUE) {
            try {
                if (Integer.parseInt(this.getText().toString()) < min_value) {
                    // change value and keep cursor position
                    int selection = this.getSelectionStart();
                    this.setText(String.valueOf(min_value));
                    if (selection >= this.getText().toString().length()) {
                        selection = this.getText().toString().length();
                    }
                    this.setSelection(selection);
                }
            } catch (NumberFormatException exception) {
                super.onTextChanged(text, start, before, after);
            }
        }
        super.onTextChanged(text, start, before, after);
    }

    // set the max number of digits the user can enter
    public void setMaxLength(int length) {
        InputFilter[] FilterArray = new InputFilter[1];
        FilterArray[0] = new InputFilter.LengthFilter(length);
        this.setFilters(FilterArray);
    }

    // set the maximum integer value the user can enter.
    // if exeeded, input value will become equal to the set limit
    public void setMaxValue(int value) {
        max_value = value;
    }
    // set the minimum integer value the user can enter.
    // if entered value is inferior, input value will become equal to the set limit
    public void setMinValue(int value) {
        min_value = value;
    }

    // returns integer value or 0 if errorous value
    public int getValue() {
        try {
            return Integer.parseInt(this.getText().toString());
        } catch (NumberFormatException exception) {
            return 0;
        }
    }
}

Example usage:

final EditTextNumeric input = new EditTextNumeric(this);
input.setMaxLength(5);
input.setMaxValue(total_pages);
input.setMinValue(1);

All other methods and attributes that apply to EditText, of course work too.

How do I find a particular value in an array and return its index?

#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>

int main()
{
     int arr[5] = {4, 1, 3, 2, 6};
     int x = -1;
     std::vector<int> testVector(arr, arr + sizeof(arr) / sizeof(int) );

     std::vector<int>::iterator it = std::find(testVector.begin(), testVector.end(), 3);
     if (it != testVector.end())
     {
          x = it - testVector.begin();
     }
     return 0;
}

Or you can just build a vector in a normal way, without creating it from an array of ints and then use the same solution as shown in my example.

Hashcode and Equals for Hashset

You should read up on how to ensure that you've implemented equals and hashCode properly. This is a good starting point: What issues should be considered when overriding equals and hashCode in Java?

iPad Safari scrolling causes HTML elements to disappear and reappear with a delay

I faced this problem in a Framework7 & Cordova project. I tried all the solutions above. They did not solve my problem.

In my case, I was using 10+ css animations on the same page with infinite rotation (transform). I had to remove the animations. It is ok now with the lack of some visual features.

If the solutions above do not help you, you may start eliminating some animations.

How to start and stop android service from a adb shell?

To stop a service, you have to find service name using:

adb shell dumpsys activity services <your package>

for example: adb shell dumpsys activity services com.xyz.something

This will list services running for your package.
Output should be similar to:

ServiceRecord{xxxxx u0 com.xyz.something.beta/xyz.something.abc.XYZService}

Now select your service and run:

adb shell am stopservice <service_name> 

For example:

adb shell am stopservice com.xyz.something.beta/xyz.something.abc.XYZService

similarly, to start service:

adb shell am startservice <service_name>

To access service, your service(in AndroidManifest.xml) should set exported="true"

<!-- Service declared in manifest -->
<service
    android:name=".YourServiceName"
    android:exported="true"
    android:launchMode="singleTop">
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="com.your.package.name.YourServiceName"/>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
    </intent-filter>
</service>

Python For loop get index

Use the enumerate() function to generate the index along with the elements of the sequence you are looping over:

for index, w in enumerate(loopme):
    print "CURRENT WORD IS", w, "AT CHARACTER", index 

Truncate with condition

The short answer is no: MySQL does not allow you to add a WHERE clause to the TRUNCATE statement. Here's MySQL's documentation about the TRUNCATE statement.

But the good news is that you can (somewhat) work around this limitation.

Simple, safe, clean but slow solution using DELETE

First of all, if the table is small enough, simply use the DELETE statement (it had to be mentioned):

1. LOCK TABLE my_table WRITE;
2. DELETE FROM my_table WHERE my_date<DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL 1 MONTH);
3. UNLOCK TABLES;

The LOCK and UNLOCK statements are not compulsory, but they will speed things up and avoid potential deadlocks.

Unfortunately, this will be very slow if your table is large... and since you are considering using the TRUNCATE statement, I suppose it's because your table is large.

So here's one way to solve your problem using the TRUNCATE statement:

Simple, fast, but unsafe solution using TRUNCATE

1. CREATE TABLE my_table_backup AS
      SELECT * FROM my_table WHERE my_date>=DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL 1 MONTH);
2. TRUNCATE my_table;
3. LOCK TABLE my_table WRITE, my_table_backup WRITE;
4. INSERT INTO my_table SELECT * FROM my_table_backup;
5. UNLOCK TABLES;
6. DROP TABLE my_table_backup;

Unfortunately, this solution is a bit unsafe if other processes are inserting records in the table at the same time:

  • any record inserted between steps 1 and 2 will be lost
  • the TRUNCATE statement resets the AUTO-INCREMENT counter to zero. So any record inserted between steps 2 and 3 will have an ID that will be lower than older IDs and that might even conflict with IDs inserted at step 4 (note that the AUTO-INCREMENT counter will be back to it's proper value after step 4).

Unfortunately, it is not possible to lock the table and truncate it. But we can (somehow) work around that limitation using RENAME.

Half-simple, fast, safe but noisy solution using TRUNCATE

1. RENAME TABLE my_table TO my_table_work;
2. CREATE TABLE my_table_backup AS
     SELECT * FROM my_table_work WHERE my_date>DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL 1 MONTH);
3. TRUNCATE my_table_work;
4. LOCK TABLE my_table_work WRITE, my_table_backup WRITE;
5. INSERT INTO my_table_work SELECT * FROM my_table_backup;
6. UNLOCK TABLES;
7. RENAME TABLE my_table_work TO my_table;
8. DROP TABLE my_table_backup;

This should be completely safe and quite fast. The only problem is that other processes will see table my_table disappear for a few seconds. This might lead to errors being displayed in logs everywhere. So it's a safe solution, but it's "noisy".

Disclaimer: I am not a MySQL expert, so these solutions might actually be crappy. The only guarantee I can offer is that they work fine for me. If some expert can comment on these solutions, I would be grateful.

What is the best way to know if all the variables in a Class are null?

Try something like this:

public boolean checkNull() throws IllegalAccessException {
    for (Field f : getClass().getDeclaredFields())
        if (f.get(this) != null)
            return false;
    return true;            
}

Although it would probably be better to check each variable if at all feasible.

How to put space character into a string name in XML?

If the output is HTML, then in HTML multiple spaces display as a single space. To prevent this, use non-breaking spaces (xA0) instead of ordinary spaces.

gcc: undefined reference to

Are you mixing C and C++? One issue that can occur is that the declarations in the .h file for a .c file need to be surrounded by:

#if defined(__cplusplus)
  extern "C" {                 // Make sure we have C-declarations in C++ programs
#endif

and:

#if defined(__cplusplus)
  }
#endif

Note: if unable / unwilling to modify the .h file(s) in question, you can surround their inclusion with extern "C":

extern "C" {
#include <abc.h>
} //extern

How to upgrade safely php version in wamp server

To add to the above answer (do steps 1-5).

  1. Click on WAMP -> Select PHP -> Versions: Select the new version installed
  2. Check that your PATH folder is updated to new path to PHP so your OS has same PHP version of WAMP.

ImportError in importing from sklearn: cannot import name check_build

i had the same problem reinstalling anaconda solved the issue for me

Python: Total sum of a list of numbers with the for loop

I think what you mean is how to encapsulate that for general use, e.g. in a function:

def sum_list(l):
    sum = 0
    for x in l:
        sum += x
    return sum

Now you can apply this to any list. Examples:

l = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
sum_list(l)

l = list(map(int, input("Enter numbers separated by spaces: ").split()))
sum_list(l)

But note that sum is already built in!

Oracle PL/SQL - How to create a simple array variable?

You could just declare a DBMS_SQL.VARCHAR2_TABLE to hold an in-memory variable length array indexed by a BINARY_INTEGER:

DECLARE
   name_array dbms_sql.varchar2_table;
BEGIN
   name_array(1) := 'Tim';
   name_array(2) := 'Daisy';
   name_array(3) := 'Mike';
   name_array(4) := 'Marsha';
   --
   FOR i IN name_array.FIRST .. name_array.LAST
   LOOP
      -- Do something
   END LOOP;
END;

You could use an associative array (used to be called PL/SQL tables) as they are an in-memory array.

DECLARE
   TYPE employee_arraytype IS TABLE OF employee%ROWTYPE
        INDEX BY PLS_INTEGER;
   employee_array employee_arraytype;
BEGIN
   SELECT *
     BULK COLLECT INTO employee_array
     FROM employee
    WHERE department = 10;
   --
   FOR i IN employee_array.FIRST .. employee_array.LAST
   LOOP
      -- Do something
   END LOOP;
END;

The associative array can hold any make up of record types.

Hope it helps, Ollie.

Is string in array?

Linq (for s&g's):

var test = "This is the string I'm looking for";
var found = strArray.Any(x=>x == test);

or, depending on requirements

var found = strArray.Any(
    x=>x.Equals(test, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase));

How do you clear Apache Maven's cache?

So there are some commands which you can use for cleaning

 1. mvn clean cache   
 2. mvn clean install 
 3. mvn clean install -Pclean-database

also deleting repository folder from .m2 can help.

Execution sequence of Group By, Having and Where clause in SQL Server?

SELECT
FROM
JOINs
WHERE
GROUP By
HAVING
ORDER BY

Capture keyboardinterrupt in Python without try-except

An alternative to setting your own signal handler is to use a context-manager to catch the exception and ignore it:

>>> class CleanExit(object):
...     def __enter__(self):
...             return self
...     def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc_value, exc_tb):
...             if exc_type is KeyboardInterrupt:
...                     return True
...             return exc_type is None
... 
>>> with CleanExit():
...     input()    #just to test it
... 
>>>

This removes the try-except block while preserving some explicit mention of what is going on.

This also allows you to ignore the interrupt only in some portions of your code without having to set and reset again the signal handlers everytime.

How to get text of an input text box during onKeyPress?

There is a better way to do this. Use the concat Method. Example

declare a global variable. this works good on angular 10, just pass it to Vanilla JavaScript. Example:

HTML

<input id="edValue" type="text" onKeyPress="edValueKeyPress($event)"><br>
<span id="lblValue">The text box contains: </span>

CODE

emptyString = ''

edValueKeyPress ($event){
   this.emptyString = this.emptyString.concat($event.key);
   console.log(this.emptyString);
}

How does inline Javascript (in HTML) work?

There seems to be a lot of bad practice being thrown around Event Handler Attributes. Bad practice is not knowing and using available features where it is most appropriate. The Event Attributes are fully W3C Documented standards and there is nothing bad practice about them. It's no different than placing inline styles, which is also W3C Documented and can be useful in times. Whether you place it wrapped in script tags or not, it's gonna be interpreted the same way.

https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/webappapis.html#event-handler-idl-attributes

Specifying Style and Weight for Google Fonts

you can use the weight value specified in the Google Fonts.

body{
 font-family: 'Heebo', sans-serif;
 font-weight: 100;
}

Changes in import statement python3

Added another case to Michal Górny's answer:

Note that relative imports are based on the name of the current module. Since the name of the main module is always "__main__", modules intended for use as the main module of a Python application must always use absolute imports.

jQuery $(this) keyword

Have a look at this code:

HTML:

<div class="multiple-elements" data-bgcol="red"></div>
<div class="multiple-elements" data-bgcol="blue"></div>

JS:

$('.multiple-elements').each(
    function(index, element) {
        $(this).css('background-color', $(this).data('bgcol')); // Get value of HTML attribute data-bgcol="" and set it as CSS color
    }
);

this refers to the current element that the DOM engine is sort of working on, or referring to.

Another example:

<a href="#" onclick="$(this).css('display', 'none')">Hide me!</a>

Hope you understand now. The this keyword occurs while dealing with object oriented systems, or as we have in this case, element oriented systems :)

CSS: how to get scrollbars for div inside container of fixed height

Code from the above answer by Dutchie432

.FixedHeightContainer {
    float:right;
    height: 250px;
    width:250px; 
    padding:3px; 
    background:#f00;
}

.Content {
    height:224px;
    overflow:auto;
    background:#fff;
}

Node.js - SyntaxError: Unexpected token import

Error: SyntaxError: Unexpected token import or SyntaxError: Unexpected token export


Solution: Change all your imports as example

const express               = require('express');
const webpack               = require('webpack');
const path                  = require('path');
const config                = require('../webpack.config.dev');
const open                  = require('open');

And also change your export default = foo; to module.exports = foo;

Android getText from EditText field

Use this:

  setContentView(R.layout.yourlayout);

  //after setting yor layout do the following
  EditText email = (EdiText) findViewById(R.id.vnosEmaila);
  String val = email.getText().toString;   // Use the toString method to convert the return value to a String.

  //Your Toast with String val; 
  Toast toast = Toast.makeText(EmailGumb.this, val, Toast.LENGTH_LONG);
  toast.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER, 0, 0);
  toast.show();

Thanks

"End of script output before headers" error in Apache

Basing above suggestions from all, I was using xampp for running cgi scripts. Windows 8 it worked with out any changes, but Cent7.0 it was throwing errors like this as said above

AH01215: (2)No such file or directory: exec of '/opt/lampp/cgi-bin/pbsa_config.cgi' failed: /opt/lampp/cgi-bin/pbsa_config.cgi, referer: http://<>/MCB_HTML/TestBed.html

[Wed Aug 30 09:11:03.796584 2017] [cgi:error] [pid 32051] [client XX:60624] End of script output before headers: pbsa_config.cgi, referer: http://xx/MCB_HTML/TestBed.html

Try:

Disabled selinux

Given full permissions for script, but 755 will be ok

I finaly added like -w like below

#!/usr/bin/perl -w*

use CGI ':standard';
{

        print header(),
         ...
         end_html();


}

**-w** indictes enable all warnings.It started working, No idea why -w here.

Array of PHP Objects

The best place to find answers to general (and somewhat easy questions) such as this is to read up on PHP docs. Specifically in your case you can read more on objects. You can store stdObject and instantiated objects within an array. In fact, there is a process known as 'hydration' which populates the member variables of an object with values from a database row, then the object is stored in an array (possibly with other objects) and returned to the calling code for access.

-- Edit --

class Car
{
    public $color;
    public $type;
}

$myCar = new Car();
$myCar->color = 'red';
$myCar->type = 'sedan';

$yourCar = new Car();
$yourCar->color = 'blue';
$yourCar->type = 'suv';

$cars = array($myCar, $yourCar);

foreach ($cars as $car) {
    echo 'This car is a ' . $car->color . ' ' . $car->type . "\n";
}

DLL Load Library - Error Code 126

Windows dll error 126 can have many root causes. The most useful methods I have found to debug this are:

  1. Use dependency walker to look for any obvious problems (which you have already done)
  2. Use the sysinternals utility Process Monitor http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645 from Microsoft to trace all file access while your dll is trying to load. With this utility, you will see everything that that dll is trying to pull in and usually the problem can be determined from there.

How the single threaded non blocking IO model works in Node.js

Well, to give some perspective, let me compare node.js with apache.

Apache is a multi-threaded HTTP server, for each and every request that the server receives, it creates a separate thread which handles that request.

Node.js on the other hand is event driven, handling all requests asynchronously from single thread.

When A and B are received on apache, two threads are created which handle requests. Each handling the query separately, each waiting for the query results before serving the page. The page is only served until the query is finished. The query fetch is blocking because the server cannot execute the rest of thread until it receives the result.

In node, c.query is handled asynchronously, which means while c.query fetches the results for A, it jumps to handle c.query for B, and when the results arrive for A arrive it sends back the results to callback which sends the response. Node.js knows to execute callback when fetch finishes.

In my opinion, because it's a single thread model, there is no way to switch from one request to another.

Actually the node server does exactly that for you all the time. To make switches, (the asynchronous behavior) most functions that you would use will have callbacks.

Edit

The SQL query is taken from mysql library. It implements callback style as well as event emitter to queue SQL requests. It does not execute them asynchronously, that is done by the internal libuv threads that provide the abstraction of non-blocking I/O. The following steps happen for making a query :

  1. Open a connection to db, connection itself can be made asynchronously.
  2. Once db is connected, query is passed on to the server. Queries can be queued.
  3. The main event loop gets notified of the completion with callback or event.
  4. Main loop executes your callback/eventhandler.

The incoming requests to http server are handled in the similar fashion. The internal thread architecture is something like this:

node.js event loop

The C++ threads are the libuv ones which do the asynchronous I/O (disk or network). The main event loop continues to execute after the dispatching the request to thread pool. It can accept more requests as it does not wait or sleep. SQL queries/HTTP requests/file system reads all happen this way.

How to append a char to a std::string?

str.append(10u,'d'); //appends character d 10 times

Notice I have written 10u and not 10 for the number of times I'd like to append the character; replace 10 with whatever number.

Check if an apt-get package is installed and then install it if it's not on Linux

inspired by Chris above

#! /bin/bash

installed() {
    return $(dpkg-query -W -f '${Status}\n' "${1}" 2>&1|awk '/ok installed/{print 0;exit}{print 1}')
}

pkgs=(libgl1-mesa-dev xorg-dev vulkan-tools libvulkan-dev vulkan-validationlayers-dev spirv-tools)
missing_pkgs=""

for pkg in ${pkgs[@]}; do
    if ! $(installed $pkg) ; then
        missing_pkgs+=" $pkg"
    fi
done

if [ ! -z "$missing_pkgs" ]; then
    cmd="sudo apt install -y $missing_pkgs"
    echo $cmd
fi

AngularJS : Custom filters and ng-repeat

If you still want a custom filter you can pass in the search model to the filter:

<article data-ng-repeat="result in results | cartypefilter:search" class="result">

Where definition for the cartypefilter can look like this:

app.filter('cartypefilter', function() {
  return function(items, search) {
    if (!search) {
      return items;
    }

    var carType = search.carType;
    if (!carType || '' === carType) {
      return items;
    }

    return items.filter(function(element, index, array) {
      return element.carType.name === search.carType;
    });

  };
});

http://plnkr.co/edit/kBcUIayO8tQsTTjTA2vO?p=preview

Detecting Browser Autofill

For anyone looking for a 2020 pure JS solution to detect autofill, here ya go.

Please forgive tab errors, can't get this to sit nicely on SO

    //Chose the element you want to select - in this case input
    var autofill = document.getElementsByTagName('input');
    for (var i = 0; i < autofill.length; i++) {
      //Wrap this in a try/catch because non webkit browsers will log errors on this pseudo element
      try{
        if (autofill[i].matches(':-webkit-autofill')) {
            //Do whatever you like with each autofilled element
        }
      }
      catch(error){
        return(false);
      }
     }

Formatting Phone Numbers in PHP

Phone numbers are hard. For a more robust, international solution, I would recommend this well-maintained PHP port of Google's libphonenumber library.

Using it like this,

use libphonenumber\NumberParseException;
use libphonenumber\PhoneNumber;
use libphonenumber\PhoneNumberFormat;
use libphonenumber\PhoneNumberUtil;

$phoneUtil = PhoneNumberUtil::getInstance();

$numberString = "+12123456789";

try {
    $numberPrototype = $phoneUtil->parse($numberString, "US");

    echo "Input: " .          $numberString . "\n";
    echo "isValid: " .       ($phoneUtil->isValidNumber($numberPrototype) ? "true" : "false") . "\n";
    echo "E164: " .           $phoneUtil->format($numberPrototype, PhoneNumberFormat::E164) . "\n";
    echo "National: " .       $phoneUtil->format($numberPrototype, PhoneNumberFormat::NATIONAL) . "\n";
    echo "International: " .  $phoneUtil->format($numberPrototype, PhoneNumberFormat::INTERNATIONAL) . "\n";
} catch (NumberParseException $e) {
    // handle any errors
}

you will get the following output:

Input: +12123456789
isValid: true
E164: +12123456789
National: (212) 345-6789
International: +1 212-345-6789

I'd recommend using the E164 format for duplicate checks. You could also check whether the number is a actually mobile number or not (using PhoneNumberUtil::getNumberType()), or whether it's even a US number (using PhoneNumberUtil::getRegionCodeForNumber()).

As a bonus, the library can handle pretty much any input. If you, for instance, choose to run 1-800-JETBLUE through the code above, you will get

Input: 1-800-JETBLUE
isValid: true
E164: +18005382583
National: (800) 538-2583
International: +1 800-538-2583

Neato.

It works just as nicely for countries other than the US. Just use another ISO country code in the parse() argument.

How is length implemented in Java Arrays?

If you have an array of a known type or is a subclass of Object[] you can cast the array first.

Object array = new ????[n];
Object[] array2 = (Object[]) array;
System.out.println(array2.length);

or

Object array = new char[n];
char[] array2 = (char[]) array;
System.out.println(array2.length);

However if you have no idea what type of array it is you can use Array.getLength(Object);

System.out.println(Array.getLength(new boolean[4]);
System.out.println(Array.getLength(new int[5]);
System.out.println(Array.getLength(new String[6]);

Locking pattern for proper use of .NET MemoryCache

Its a bit late, however... Full implementation:

    [HttpGet]
    public async Task<HttpResponseMessage> GetPageFromUriOrBody(RequestQuery requestQuery)
    {
        log(nameof(GetPageFromUriOrBody), nameof(requestQuery));
        var responseResult = await _requestQueryCache.GetOrCreate(
            nameof(GetPageFromUriOrBody)
            , requestQuery
            , (x) => getPageContent(x).Result);
        return Request.CreateResponse(System.Net.HttpStatusCode.Accepted, responseResult);
    }
    static MemoryCacheWithPolicy<RequestQuery, string> _requestQueryCache = new MemoryCacheWithPolicy<RequestQuery, string>();

Here is getPageContent signature:

async Task<string> getPageContent(RequestQuery requestQuery);

And here is the MemoryCacheWithPolicy implementation:

public class MemoryCacheWithPolicy<TParameter, TResult>
{
    static ILogger _nlogger = new AppLogger().Logger;
    private MemoryCache _cache = new MemoryCache(new MemoryCacheOptions() 
    {
        //Size limit amount: this is actually a memory size limit value!
        SizeLimit = 1024 
    });

    /// <summary>
    /// Gets or creates a new memory cache record for a main data
    /// along with parameter data that is assocciated with main main.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="key">Main data cache memory key.</param>
    /// <param name="param">Parameter model that assocciated to main model (request result).</param>
    /// <param name="createCacheData">A delegate to create a new main data to cache.</param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public async Task<TResult> GetOrCreate(object key, TParameter param, Func<TParameter, TResult> createCacheData)
    {
        // this key is used for param cache memory.
        var paramKey = key + nameof(param);

        if (!_cache.TryGetValue(key, out TResult cacheEntry))
        {
            // key is not in the cache, create data through the delegate.
            cacheEntry = createCacheData(param);
            createMemoryCache(key, cacheEntry, paramKey, param);

            _nlogger.Warn(" cache is created.");
        }
        else
        {
            // data is chached so far..., check if param model is same (or changed)?
            if(!_cache.TryGetValue(paramKey, out TParameter cacheParam))
            {
                //exception: this case should not happened!
            }

            if (!cacheParam.Equals(param))
            {
                // request param is changed, create data through the delegate.
                cacheEntry = createCacheData(param);
                createMemoryCache(key, cacheEntry, paramKey, param);
                _nlogger.Warn(" cache is re-created (param model has been changed).");
            }
            else
            {
                _nlogger.Trace(" cache is used.");
            }

        }
        return await Task.FromResult<TResult>(cacheEntry);
    }
    MemoryCacheEntryOptions createMemoryCacheEntryOptions(TimeSpan slidingOffset, TimeSpan relativeOffset)
    {
        // Cache data within [slidingOffset] seconds, 
        // request new result after [relativeOffset] seconds.
        return new MemoryCacheEntryOptions()

            // Size amount: this is actually an entry count per 
            // key limit value! not an actual memory size value!
            .SetSize(1)

            // Priority on removing when reaching size limit (memory pressure)
            .SetPriority(CacheItemPriority.High)

            // Keep in cache for this amount of time, reset it if accessed.
            .SetSlidingExpiration(slidingOffset)

            // Remove from cache after this time, regardless of sliding expiration
            .SetAbsoluteExpiration(relativeOffset);
        //
    }
    void createMemoryCache(object key, TResult cacheEntry, object paramKey, TParameter param)
    {
        // Cache data within 2 seconds, 
        // request new result after 5 seconds.
        var cacheEntryOptions = createMemoryCacheEntryOptions(
            TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2)
            , TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5));

        // Save data in cache.
        _cache.Set(key, cacheEntry, cacheEntryOptions);

        // Save param in cache.
        _cache.Set(paramKey, param, cacheEntryOptions);
    }
    void checkCacheEntry<T>(object key, string name)
    {
        _cache.TryGetValue(key, out T value);
        _nlogger.Fatal("Key: {0}, Name: {1}, Value: {2}", key, name, value);
    }
}

nlogger is just nLog object to trace MemoryCacheWithPolicy behavior. I re-create the memory cache if request object (RequestQuery requestQuery) is changed through the delegate (Func<TParameter, TResult> createCacheData) or re-create when sliding or absolute time reached their limit. Note that everything is async too ;)

Webpack.config how to just copy the index.html to the dist folder

Option 1

In your index.js file (i.e. webpack entry) add a require to your index.html via file-loader plugin, e.g.:

require('file-loader?name=[name].[ext]!../index.html');

Once you build your project with webpack, index.html will be in the output folder.

Option 2

Use html-webpack-plugin to avoid having an index.html at all. Simply have webpack generate the file for you.

In this case if you want to keep your own index.html file as template, you may use this configuration:

{
  plugins: [
    new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
      template: 'src/index.html'
    })
  ]
}

See the docs for more information.

Git fetch remote branch

git checkout -b branch_name
git pull remote_name branch_name

Put text at bottom of div

Wrap the text in a span or similar and use the following CSS:

.your-div {
    position: relative;
}

.your-div span {
    position: absolute;
    bottom: 0;
    right: 0;
}

Editable 'Select' element

Based on the other answers, here is a first draft for usage with knockout:

Usage

      <div data-bind="editableSelect: {options: optionsObservable, value: nameObservable}"></div>

Knockout data binding

composition.addBindingHandler('editableSelect',
  {
    init: function(hostElement, valueAccessor) {

      var optionsObservable = getOptionsObservable();
      var valueObservable = getValueObservable();

      var $editableSelect = $(hostElement);
      $editableSelect.addClass('select-editable');

      var editableSelect = $editableSelect[0];

      var viewModel = new editableSelectViewModel(optionsObservable, valueObservable);
      ko.applyBindingsToNode(editableSelect, { compose: viewModel });

      //tell knockout to not apply bindings twice
      return { controlsDescendantBindings: true };

      function getOptionsObservable() {
        var accessor = valueAccessor();
        return getAttribute(accessor, 'options');
      }

      function getValueObservable() {
        var accessor = valueAccessor();
        return getAttribute(accessor, 'value');
      }
    }
  });

View

<select
  data-bind="options: options, event:{ focus: resetComboBoxValue, change: setTextFieldValue} "
  id="comboBox"
  ></select>
<input
  data-bind="value: value, , event:{ focus: textFieldGotFocus, focusout: textFieldLostFocus}"
  id="textField"
  type="text"/>

ViewModel

define([
  'lodash',
  'services/errorHandler'
], function(
  _,
  errorhandler
) {

  var viewModel = function(optionsObservable, valueObservable) {

    var self = this;
    self.options = optionsObservable();
    self.value = valueObservable;
    self.resetComboBoxValue = resetComboBoxValue;
    self.setTextFieldValue = setTextFieldValue;
    self.textFieldGotFocus = textFieldGotFocus;
    self.textFieldLostFocus = textFieldLostFocus;

    function resetComboBoxValue() {
      $('#comboBox').val(null);
    }

    function setTextFieldValue() {
      var selection = $('#comboBox').val();
      self.value(selection);
    }

    function textFieldGotFocus() {
      $('#comboBox').addClass('select-editable-input-focus');

    }

    function textFieldLostFocus() {
      $('#comboBox').removeClass('select-editable-input-focus');
    }

  };
  errorhandler.includeIn(viewModel);

  return viewModel;
});

CSS

.select-editable {

  display: block;
  width: 100%;
  height: 31px;
  padding: 6px 12px;
  font-size: 12px;
  line-height: 1.42857143;
  color: #555555;
  background-color: #ffffff;
  background-image: none;
  border: 1px solid #cccccc;
  border-radius: 0px;
  -webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.075);
  box-shadow: inset 0 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.075);
  -webkit-transition: border-color ease-in-out .15s, -webkit-box-shadow ease-in-out .15s;
  -o-transition: border-color ease-in-out .15s, box-shadow ease-in-out .15s;
  transition: border-color ease-in-out .15s, box-shadow ease-in-out .15s;padding: 0;
}


.select-editable select {
  outline:0;
  padding-left: 10px;
  border:none;
  width:100%;
  height: 29px;
}


.select-editable input {
  outline:0;
  position: relative;
  top: -27px;
  margin-left: 10px;
  width:90%;
  height: 25px;
  border:none;
}

.select-editable select:focus {
  outline:0;
  border: 1px solid #66afe9;
  -webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,.075), 0 0 8px rgba(102, 175, 233, 0.6);
  box-shadow: inset 0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,.075), 0 0 8px rgba(102, 175, 233, 0.6);
}




.select-editable input:focus {
  outline:0;
}

.select-editable-input-focus {
outline:0;
  border: 1px solid #66afe9 !important;
  -webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,.075), 0 0 8px rgba(102, 175, 233, 0.6);
  box-shadow: inset 0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,.075), 0 0 8px rgba(102, 175, 233, 0.6);
}

How can I create a product key for my C# application?

If you are asking about the keys that you can type in, like Windows product keys, then they are based on some checks. If you are talking about the keys that you have to copy paste, then they are based on a digitial signature (private key encryption).

A simple product key logic could be to start with saying that the product key consists of four 5-digit groups, like abcde-fghij-kljmo-pqrst, and then go on to specify internal relationships like f+k+p should equal a, meaning the first digits of the 2, 3 and 4 group should total to a. This means that 8xxxx-2xxxx-4xxxx-2xxxx is valid, so is 8xxxx-1xxxx-0xxxx-7xxxx. Of course, there would be other relationships as well, including complex relations like, if the second digit of the first group is odd, then the last digit of the last group should be odd too. This way there would be generators for product keys and verification of product keys would simply check if it matches all the rules.

Encryption are normally the string of information about the license encrypted using a private key (== digitally signed) and converted to Base64. The public key is distributed with the application. When the Base64 string arrives, it is verified (==decrypted) by the public key and if found valid, the product is activated.

Get dates from a week number in T-SQL

dateadd(
  dd, 
  datepart(wk, @Date)*7, 
  convert(smalldatetime, convert(char,year(max(@Date)))+convert(char, '-01-01'))
)-1 

How to store a list in a column of a database table

If you really wanted to store it in a column and have it queryable a lot of databases support XML now. If not querying you can store them as comma separated values and parse them out with a function when you need them separated. I agree with everyone else though if you are looking to use a relational database a big part of normalization is the separating of data like that. I am not saying that all data fits a relational database though. You could always look into other types of databases if a lot of your data doesn't fit the model.

How do I display a decimal value to 2 decimal places?

decimalVar.ToString("F");

This will:

  • Round off to 2 decimal places eg. 23.456 ? 23.46
  • Ensure that there are always 2 decimal places eg. 23 ? 23.00; 12.5 ? 12.50

Ideal for displaying currency.

Check out the documentation on ToString("F") (thanks to Jon Schneider).

Auto refresh page every 30 seconds

There are multiple solutions for this. If you want the page to be refreshed you actually don't need JavaScript, the browser can do it for you if you add this meta tag in your head tag.

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="30">

The browser will then refresh the page every 30 seconds.

If you really want to do it with JavaScript, then you can refresh the page every 30 seconds with location.reload() (docs) inside a setTimeout():

window.setTimeout(function () {
  window.location.reload();
}, 30000);

If you don't need to refresh the whole page but only a part of it, I guess an Ajax call would be the most efficient way.

How to iterate over associative arrays in Bash

You can access the keys with ${!array[@]}:

bash-4.0$ echo "${!array[@]}"
foo bar

Then, iterating over the key/value pairs is easy:

for i in "${!array[@]}"
do
  echo "key :" $i
  echo "value:" ${array[$i]}
done

RecyclerView - How to smooth scroll to top of item on a certain position?

  1. Extend "LinearLayout" class and override the necessary functions
  2. Create an instance of the above class in your fragment or activity
  3. Call "recyclerView.smoothScrollToPosition(targetPosition)

CustomLinearLayout.kt :

class CustomLayoutManager(private val context: Context, layoutDirection: Int):
  LinearLayoutManager(context, layoutDirection, false) {

    companion object {
      // This determines how smooth the scrolling will be
      private
      const val MILLISECONDS_PER_INCH = 300f
    }

    override fun smoothScrollToPosition(recyclerView: RecyclerView, state: RecyclerView.State, position: Int) {

      val smoothScroller: LinearSmoothScroller = object: LinearSmoothScroller(context) {

        fun dp2px(dpValue: Float): Int {
          val scale = context.resources.displayMetrics.density
          return (dpValue * scale + 0.5f).toInt()
        }

        // change this and the return super type to "calculateDyToMakeVisible" if the layout direction is set to VERTICAL
        override fun calculateDxToMakeVisible(view: View ? , snapPreference : Int): Int {
          return super.calculateDxToMakeVisible(view, SNAP_TO_END) - dp2px(50f)
        }

        //This controls the direction in which smoothScroll looks for your view
        override fun computeScrollVectorForPosition(targetPosition: Int): PointF ? {
          return this @CustomLayoutManager.computeScrollVectorForPosition(targetPosition)
        }

        //This returns the milliseconds it takes to scroll one pixel.
        override fun calculateSpeedPerPixel(displayMetrics: DisplayMetrics): Float {
          return MILLISECONDS_PER_INCH / displayMetrics.densityDpi
        }
      }
      smoothScroller.targetPosition = position
      startSmoothScroll(smoothScroller)
    }
  }

Note: The above example is set to HORIZONTAL direction, you can pass VERTICAL/HORIZONTAL during initialization.

If you set the direction to VERTICAL you should change the "calculateDxToMakeVisible" to "calculateDyToMakeVisible" (also mind the supertype call return value)

Activity/Fragment.kt :

...
smoothScrollerLayoutManager = CustomLayoutManager(context, LinearLayoutManager.HORIZONTAL)
recyclerView.layoutManager = smoothScrollerLayoutManager
.
.
.
fun onClick() {
  // targetPosition passed from the adapter to activity/fragment
  recyclerView.smoothScrollToPosition(targetPosition)
}

How SID is different from Service name in Oracle tnsnames.ora

I know this is ancient however when dealing with finicky tools, uses, users or symptoms re: sid & service naming one can add a little flex to your tnsnames entries as like:

mySID, mySID.whereever.com =
(DESCRIPTION =
  (ADDRESS_LIST =
    (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = myHostname)(PORT = 1521))
  )
  (CONNECT_DATA =
    (SERVICE_NAME = mySID.whereever.com)
    (SID = mySID)
    (SERVER = DEDICATED)
  )
)

I just thought I'd leave this here as it's mildly relevant to the question and can be helpful when attempting to weave around some less than clear idiosyncrasies of oracle networking.

Compute mean and standard deviation by group for multiple variables in a data.frame

Here is probably the simplest way to go about it (with a reproducible example):

library(plyr)
df <- data.frame(ID=rep(1:3, 3), Obs_1=rnorm(9), Obs_2=rnorm(9), Obs_3=rnorm(9))
ddply(df, .(ID), summarize, Obs_1_mean=mean(Obs_1), Obs_1_std_dev=sd(Obs_1),
  Obs_2_mean=mean(Obs_2), Obs_2_std_dev=sd(Obs_2))

   ID  Obs_1_mean Obs_1_std_dev  Obs_2_mean Obs_2_std_dev
1  1 -0.13994642     0.8258445 -0.15186380     0.4251405
2  2  1.49982393     0.2282299  0.50816036     0.5812907
3  3 -0.09269806     0.6115075 -0.01943867     1.3348792

EDIT: The following approach saves you a lot of typing when dealing with many columns.

ddply(df, .(ID), colwise(mean))

  ID      Obs_1      Obs_2      Obs_3
1  1 -0.3748831  0.1787371  1.0749142
2  2 -1.0363973  0.0157575 -0.8826969
3  3  1.0721708 -1.1339571 -0.5983944

ddply(df, .(ID), colwise(sd))

  ID     Obs_1     Obs_2     Obs_3
1  1 0.8732498 0.4853133 0.5945867
2  2 0.2978193 1.0451626 0.5235572
3  3 0.4796820 0.7563216 1.4404602

How to embed an autoplaying YouTube video in an iframe?

The embedded code of youtube has autoplay off by default. Simply add autoplay=1at the end of "src" attribute. For example:

<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xzvScRnF6MU?autoplay=1" width="960" height="447" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

python selenium click on button

For python, use the

from selenium.webdriver import ActionChains

and

ActionChains(browser).click(element).perform()

An error occurred while collecting items to be installed (Access is denied)

Installig Eclispe ADT from market place solved this problem for me.

How do I use shell variables in an awk script?

Use either of these depending how you want backslashes in the shell variables handled (avar is an awk variable, svar is a shell variable):

awk -v avar="$svar" '... avar ...' file
awk 'BEGIN{avar=ARGV[1];ARGV[1]=""}... avar ...' "$svar" file

See http://cfajohnson.com/shell/cus-faq-2.html#Q24 for details and other options. The first method above is almost always your best option and has the most obvious semantics.

Set QLineEdit to accept only numbers

QLineEdit::setValidator(), for example:

myLineEdit->setValidator( new QIntValidator(0, 100, this) );

or

myLineEdit->setValidator( new QDoubleValidator(0, 100, 2, this) );

See: QIntValidator, QDoubleValidator, QLineEdit::setValidator

How do I query using fields inside the new PostgreSQL JSON datatype?

With Postgres 9.3+, just use the -> operator. For example,

SELECT data->'images'->'thumbnail'->'url' AS thumb FROM instagram;

see http://clarkdave.net/2013/06/what-can-you-do-with-postgresql-and-json/ for some nice examples and a tutorial.

How do I Geocode 20 addresses without receiving an OVER_QUERY_LIMIT response?

Unfortunately this is a restriction of the Google maps service.

I am currently working on an application using the geocoding feature, and I'm saving each unique address on a per-user basis. I generate the address information (city, street, state, etc) based on the information returned by Google maps, and then save the lat/long information in the database as well. This prevents you from having to re-code things, and gives you nicely formatted addresses.

Another reason you want to do this is because there is a daily limit on the number of addresses that can be geocoded from a particular IP address. You don't want your application to fail for a person for that reason.

"Debug only" code that should run only when "turned on"

I think it may be worth mentioning that [ConditionalAttribute] is in the System.Diagnostics; namespace. I stumbled a bit when I got:

Error 2 The type or namespace name 'ConditionalAttribute' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

after using it for the first time (I thought it would have been in System).

Could not commit JPA transaction: Transaction marked as rollbackOnly

My guess is that ServiceUser.method() is itself transactional. It shouldn't be. Here's the reason why.

Here's what happens when a call is made to your ServiceUser.method() method:

  1. the transactional interceptor intercepts the method call, and starts a transaction, because no transaction is already active
  2. the method is called
  3. the method calls MyService.doSth()
  4. the transactional interceptor intercepts the method call, sees that a transaction is already active, and doesn't do anything
  5. doSth() is executed and throws an exception
  6. the transactional interceptor intercepts the exception, marks the transaction as rollbackOnly, and propagates the exception
  7. ServiceUser.method() catches the exception and returns
  8. the transactional interceptor, since it has started the transaction, tries to commit it. But Hibernate refuses to do it because the transaction is marked as rollbackOnly, so Hibernate throws an exception. The transaction interceptor signals it to the caller by throwing an exception wrapping the hibernate exception.

Now if ServiceUser.method() is not transactional, here's what happens:

  1. the method is called
  2. the method calls MyService.doSth()
  3. the transactional interceptor intercepts the method call, sees that no transaction is already active, and thus starts a transaction
  4. doSth() is executed and throws an exception
  5. the transactional interceptor intercepts the exception. Since it has started the transaction, and since an exception has been thrown, it rollbacks the transaction, and propagates the exception
  6. ServiceUser.method() catches the exception and returns

design a stack such that getMinimum( ) should be O(1)

Saw a brilliant solution here: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/design-a-stack-that-supports-getmin-in-o1-time-and-o1-extra-space/

Bellow is the python code I wrote by following the algorithm:

class Node:
    def __init__(self, value):
        self.value = value
        self.next = None

class MinStack:
    def __init__(self):
        self.head = None
        self.min = float('inf')

    # @param x, an integer
    def push(self, x):
        if self.head == None:
            self.head = Node(x)
            self.min = x
        else:
            if x >= self.min:
                n = Node(x)
                n.next = self.head
                self.head = n
            else:
                v = 2 * x - self.min
                n = Node(v)
                n.next = self.head
                self.head = n
                self.min = x

    # @return nothing
    def pop(self):
        if self.head:
            if self.head.value < self.min:
                self.min = self.min * 2 - self.head.value
            self.head = self.head.next

    # @return an integer
    def top(self):
        if self.head:
            if self.head.value < self.min:
                self.min = self.min * 2 - self.head.value
                return self.min
            else:
                return self.head.value
        else:
            return -1

    # @return an integer
    def getMin(self):
        if self.head:
            return self.min
        else:
            return -1

Add a new element to an array without specifying the index in Bash

$ declare -a arr
$ arr=("a")
$ arr=("${arr[@]}" "new")
$ echo ${arr[@]}
a new
$ arr=("${arr[@]}" "newest")
$ echo ${arr[@]}
a new newest

Instagram API: How to get all user media?

Use the next_url object to get the next 20 images.

In the JSON response there is an pagination array:

 "pagination":{
      "next_max_tag_id":"1411892342253728",
      "deprecation_warning":"next_max_id and min_id are deprecated for this endpoint; use min_tag_id and max_tag_id instead",
      "next_max_id":"1411892342253728",
      "next_min_id":"1414849145899763",
      "min_tag_id":"1414849145899763",
      "next_url":"https:\/\/api.instagram.com\/v1\/tags\/lemonbarclub\/media\/recent?client_id=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx\u0026max_tag_id=1411892342253728"
 }

This is the information on specific API call and the object next_url shows the URL to get the next 20 pictures so just take that URL and call it for the next 20 pictures.

For more information about the Instagram API check out this blogpost: Getting Friendly With Instagram’s API

How to store command results in a shell variable?

The syntax to store the command output into a variable is var=$(command).

So you can directly do:

result=$(ls -l | grep -c "rahul.*patle")

And the variable $result will contain the number of matches.

The I/O operation has been aborted because of either a thread exit or an application request

I had the same issue with RS232 communication. The reason, is that your program executes much faster than the comport (or slow serial communication).

To fix it, I had to check if the IAsyncResult.IsCompleted==true. If not completed, then IAsyncResult.AsyncWaitHandle.WaitOne()

Like this :

Stream s = this.GetStream();
IAsyncResult ar = s.BeginWrite(data, 0, data.Length, SendAsync, state);
if (!ar.IsCompleted)
    ar.AsyncWaitHandle.WaitOne();

Most of the time, ar.IsCompleted will be true.

Visual Studio 2015 doesn't have cl.exe

For me that have Visual Studio 2015 this works:
Search this in the start menu: Developer Command Prompt for VS2015 and run the program in the search result.
You can now execute your command in it, for example: cl /?

How to convert an integer (time) to HH:MM:SS::00 in SQL Server 2008?

You can use the following time conversion within SQL like this:

--Convert Time to Integer (Minutes)
DECLARE @timeNow datetime = '14:47'
SELECT DATEDIFF(mi,CONVERT(datetime,'00:00',108), CONVERT(datetime, RIGHT(CONVERT(varchar, @timeNow, 100),7),108))

--Convert Minutes to Time
DECLARE @intTime int = (SELECT DATEDIFF(mi,CONVERT(datetime,'00:00',108), CONVERT(datetime, RIGHT(CONVERT(varchar, @timeNow, 100),7),108)))
SELECT DATEADD(minute, @intTime, '')

Result: 887 <- Time in minutes and 1900-01-01 14:47:00.000 <-- Minutes to time

Is it possible to assign numeric value to an enum in Java?

Assuming that EXIT_CODE is referring to System . exit ( exit_code ) then you could do

enum ExitCode
{
      NORMAL_SHUTDOWN ( 0 ) , EMERGENCY_SHUTDOWN ( 10 ) , OUT_OF_MEMORY ( 20 ) , WHATEVER ( 30 ) ;

      private int value ;

      ExitCode ( int value )
      {
           this . value = value ;
      }

      public void exit ( )
      {
            System . exit ( value ) ;
      }
}

Then you can put the following at appropriate spots in your code

ExitCode . NORMAL_SHUTDOWN . exit ( ) '

sql server invalid object name - but tables are listed in SSMS tables list

In azure data studio press "cmd+shift+p" and type "intellisense", then you will see an option to refresh intellisense cache.

PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol when expecting one of the following:

begin
    var_number := 10;

    if var_number > 100 then
        dbms_output.put_line(var_number||' is greater than 100');
    else if var_number < 100 then
        dbms_output.put_line(var_number||' is less than 100');
    else
        dbms_output.put_line(var_number||' is equal to 100');
    end if;
end if;

Opening database file from within SQLite command-line shell

I wonder why no one was able to get what the question actually asked. It stated What is the command within the SQLite shell tool to specify a database file?

A sqlite db is on my hard disk E:\ABCD\efg\mydb.db. How do I access it with sqlite3 command line interface? .open E:\ABCD\efg\mydb.db does not work. This is what question asked.

I found the best way to do the work is

  • copy-paste all your db files in 1 directory (say E:\ABCD\efg\mydbs)
  • switch to that directory in your command line
  • now open sqlite3 and then .open mydb.db

This way you can do the join operation on different tables belonging to different databases as well.

8080 port already taken issue when trying to redeploy project from Spring Tool Suite IDE

In my case, the error occurred as the application was unable to access the keystore for ssl.

Starting the application as root user fixed the issue.

How can I wait for a thread to finish with .NET?

Add

t1.Join();    // Wait until thread t1 finishes

after you start it, but that won't accomplish much as it's essentialy the same result as running on the main thread!

I can highly recommended reading Joe Albahari's Threading in C# free e-book, if you want to gain an understanding of threading in .NET.

jQuery - get all divs inside a div with class ".container"

To set the class when clicking on a div immediately within the .container element, you could use:

<script>
$('.container>div').click(function () {
        $(this).addClass('whatever')
    });
</script>

How do I disable Git Credential Manager for Windows?

I wanted to use the credential manager for normal use, but I have scripts where I obviously do not want any prompts whatsoever from git.exe. This is how I invoke Git from my scripts:

set GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0
git -c core.askpass= -c credential.helper= <command> ...

This way, the script always sees the "correct" no-prompt setting without having to adapt any configuration.

(Git for Windows 2.13.3)


A variation I found that might also come in handy is to set:

set GCM_INTERACTIVE=never
# Or: git config --global credential.interactive never

set GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0
git.exe -c core.askpass= -c credential.helper=manager <command> ...

But note that git.exe -c credential.interactive=never <command> ... does not work (it seems that the -c thing isn't routed through to Git Credential Manager for Windows or whatever).

That way, you can use the GCMfW, but it will never prompt you; it will just lookup the credentials, which can be very helpful in non-interactive environs.

How to make Excel VBA variables available to multiple macros?

You may consider declaring the variables with moudule level scope. Module-level variable is available to all of the procedures in that module, but it is not available to procedures in other modules

For details on Scope of variables refer this link

Please copy the below code into any module, save the workbook and then run the code.

Here is what code does

  • The sample subroutine sets the folder path & later the file path. Kindly set them accordingly before you run the code.

  • I have added a function IsWorkBookOpen to check if workbook is already then set the workbook variable the workbook name else open the workbook which will be assigned to workbook variable accordingly.

Dim wbA As Workbook
Dim wbB As Workbook

Sub MySubRoutine()
    Dim folderPath As String, fileNm1 As String, fileNm2 As String, filePath1 As String, filePath2 As String

    folderPath = ThisWorkbook.Path & "\"
    fileNm1 = "file1.xlsx"
    fileNm2 = "file2.xlsx"

    filePath1 = folderPath & fileNm1
    filePath2 = folderPath & fileNm2

    If IsWorkBookOpen(filePath1) Then
        Set wbA = Workbooks(fileNm1)
    Else
        Set wbA = Workbooks.Open(filePath1)
    End If


    If IsWorkBookOpen(filePath2) Then
        Set wbB = Workbooks.Open(fileNm2)
    Else
        Set wbB = Workbooks.Open(filePath2)
    End If


    ' your code here
End Sub

Function IsWorkBookOpen(FileName As String)
    Dim ff As Long, ErrNo As Long

    On Error Resume Next
    ff = FreeFile()
    Open FileName For Input Lock Read As #ff
    Close ff
    ErrNo = Err
    On Error GoTo 0

    Select Case ErrNo
    Case 0: IsWorkBookOpen = False
    Case 70: IsWorkBookOpen = True
    Case Else: Error ErrNo
    End Select
End Function

Using Prompt to select the file use below code.

Dim wbA As Workbook
Dim wbB As Workbook

Sub MySubRoutine()
    Dim folderPath As String, fileNm1 As String, fileNm2 As String, filePath1 As String, filePath2 As String

    Dim filePath As String
    cmdBrowse_Click filePath, 1

    filePath1 = filePath

    'reset the variable
    filePath = vbNullString

    cmdBrowse_Click filePath, 2
    filePath2 = filePath

   fileNm1 = GetFileName(filePath1, "\")
   fileNm2 = GetFileName(filePath2, "\")

    If IsWorkBookOpen(filePath1) Then
        Set wbA = Workbooks(fileNm1)
    Else
        Set wbA = Workbooks.Open(filePath1)
    End If


    If IsWorkBookOpen(filePath2) Then
        Set wbB = Workbooks.Open(fileNm2)
    Else
        Set wbB = Workbooks.Open(filePath2)
    End If


    ' your code here
End Sub

Function IsWorkBookOpen(FileName As String)
    Dim ff As Long, ErrNo As Long

    On Error Resume Next
    ff = FreeFile()
    Open FileName For Input Lock Read As #ff
    Close ff
    ErrNo = Err
    On Error GoTo 0

    Select Case ErrNo
    Case 0: IsWorkBookOpen = False
    Case 70: IsWorkBookOpen = True
    Case Else: Error ErrNo
    End Select
End Function

Private Sub cmdBrowse_Click(ByRef filePath As String, num As Integer)

    Dim fd As FileDialog
    Set fd = Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFilePicker)
    fd.AllowMultiSelect = False
    fd.Title = "Select workbook " & num
    fd.InitialView = msoFileDialogViewSmallIcons

    Dim FileChosen As Integer

    FileChosen = fd.Show

    fd.Filters.Clear
    fd.Filters.Add "Excel macros", "*.xlsx"


    fd.FilterIndex = 1



    If FileChosen <> -1 Then
        MsgBox "You chose cancel"
        filePath = ""
    Else
        filePath = fd.SelectedItems(1)
    End If

End Sub

Function GetFileName(fullName As String, pathSeparator As String) As String

    Dim i As Integer
    Dim iFNLenght As Integer
    iFNLenght = Len(fullName)

    For i = iFNLenght To 1 Step -1
        If Mid(fullName, i, 1) = pathSeparator Then Exit For
    Next

    GetFileName = Right(fullName, iFNLenght - i)

End Function

SELECT INTO USING UNION QUERY

INSERT INTO #Temp1
SELECT val1, val2 
FROM TABLE1
 UNION
SELECT val1, val2
FROM TABLE2

PHP - Extracting a property from an array of objects

function extract_ids($cats){
    $res = array();
    foreach($cats as $k=>$v) {
        $res[]= $v->id;
    }
    return $res
}

and use it in one line:

$ids = extract_ids($cats);

Update MongoDB field using value of another field

Starting Mongo 4.2, db.collection.update() can accept an aggregation pipeline, finally allowing the update/creation of a field based on another field:

// { firstName: "Hello", lastName: "World" }
db.collection.update(
  {},
  [{ $set: { name: { $concat: [ "$firstName", " ", "$lastName" ] } } }],
  { multi: true }
)
// { "firstName" : "Hello", "lastName" : "World", "name" : "Hello World" }
  • The first part {} is the match query, filtering which documents to update (in our case all documents).

  • The second part [{ $set: { name: { ... } }] is the update aggregation pipeline (note the squared brackets signifying the use of an aggregation pipeline). $set is a new aggregation operator and an alias of $addFields.

  • Don't forget { multi: true }, otherwise only the first matching document will be updated.

A generic list of anonymous class

You can create a list of dynamic.

List<dynamic> anons=new List<dynamic>();
foreach (Model model in models)
{
   var anon= new
   {
      Id = model.Id,
      Name=model.Name
   };
   anons.Add(anon);
}

"dynamic" gets initialized by the first value added.

Is it possible to set async:false to $.getJSON call

You need to make the call using $.ajax() to it synchronously, like this:

$.ajax({
  url: myUrl,
  dataType: 'json',
  async: false,
  data: myData,
  success: function(data) {
    //stuff
    //...
  }
});

This would match currently using $.getJSON() like this:

$.getJSON(myUrl, myData, function(data) { 
  //stuff
  //...
});

Getting one value from a tuple

General

Single elements of a tuple a can be accessed -in an indexed array-like fashion-

via a[0], a[1], ... depending on the number of elements in the tuple.

Example

If your tuple is a=(3,"a")

  • a[0] yields 3,
  • a[1] yields "a"

Concrete answer to question

def tup():
  return (3, "hello")

tup() returns a 2-tuple.

In order to "solve"

i = 5 + tup()  # I want to add just the three

you select the 3 by

tup()[0|    #first element

so in total

i = 5 + tup()[0]

Alternatives

Go with namedtuple that allows you to access tuple elements by name (and by index). Details at https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.html#collections.namedtuple

>>> import collections
>>> MyTuple=collections.namedtuple("MyTuple", "mynumber, mystring")
>>> m = MyTuple(3, "hello")
>>> m[0]
3
>>> m.mynumber
3
>>> m[1]
'hello'
>>> m.mystring
'hello'

Rails Active Record find(:all, :order => ) issue

I understand why the Rails devs went with sqlite3 for an out-of-the-box implementation, but MySQL is so much more practical, IMHO. I realize it depends on what you are building your Rails app for, but most people are going to switch the default database.yml file from sqlite3 to MySQL.

Glad you resolved your issue.

WooCommerce: Finding the products in database

Update 2020

Products are located mainly in the following tables:

  • wp_posts table with post_type like product (or product_variation),

  • wp_postmeta table with post_id as relational index (the product ID).

  • wp_wc_product_meta_lookup table with product_id as relational index (the post ID) | Allow fast queries on specific product data (since WooCommerce 3.7)

  • wp_wc_order_product_lookuptable with product_id as relational index (the post ID) | Allow fast queries to retrieve products on orders (since WooCommerce 3.7)

Product types, categories, subcategories, tags, attributes and all other custom taxonomies are located in the following tables:

  • wp_terms

  • wp_termmeta

  • wp_term_taxonomy

  • wp_term_relationships - column object_id as relational index (the product ID)

  • wp_woocommerce_termmeta

  • wp_woocommerce_attribute_taxonomies (for product attributes only)

  • wp_wc_category_lookup (for product categories hierarchy only since WooCommerce 3.7)


Product types are handled by custom taxonomy product_type with the following default terms:

  • simple
  • grouped
  • variable
  • external

Some other product types for Subscriptions and Bookings plugins:

  • subscription
  • variable-subscription
  • booking

Since Woocommerce 3+ a new custom taxonomy named product_visibility handle:

  • The product visibility with the terms exclude-from-search and exclude-from-catalog
  • The feature products with the term featured
  • The stock status with the term outofstock
  • The rating system with terms from rated-1 to rated-5

Particular feature: Each product attribute is a custom taxonomy…


References:

SQL Server - boolean literal?

I question the value of using a Boolean in TSQL. Every time I've started wishing for Booleans & For loops I realised I was approaching the problem like a C programmer & not a SQL programmer. The problem became trivial when I switched gears.

In SQL you are manipulating SETs of data. "WHERE BOOLEAN" is ineffective, as does not change the set you are working with. You need to compare each row with something for the filter clause to be effective. The Table/Resultset is an iEnumerable, the SELECT statement is a FOREACH loop.

Yes, "WHERE IsAdmin = True" is nicer to read than "WHERE IsAdmin = 1"

Yes, "WHERE True" would be nicer than "WHERE 1=1, ..." when dynamically generating TSQL.

and maybe, passing a Boolean to a stored proc may make an if statement more readable.

But mostly, the more IF's, WHILE's & Temp Tables you have in your TSQL, the more likely you should refactor it.

Unfortunately MyApp has stopped. How can I solve this?

You can use any of these tools:

  1. adb logcat

  2. adb logcat > logs.txt (you can use editors to open and search errors.)

  3. eclipse logcat (If not visible in eclipse, Go to Windows->Show View->Others->Android->LogCat)

  4. Android Debug Monitor or Android Device Monitor(type command monitor or open through UI)

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  1. Android Studio

I suggest to use Android Debug Monitor, it is good. Because eclipse hangs when too many logs are there, and through adb logcat filter and all difficult.

How to use hex() without 0x in Python?

Old style string formatting:

In [3]: "%02x" % 127
Out[3]: '7f'

New style

In [7]: '{:x}'.format(127)
Out[7]: '7f'

Using capital letters as format characters yields uppercase hexadecimal

In [8]: '{:X}'.format(127)
Out[8]: '7F'

Docs are here.

What's the C# equivalent to the With statement in VB?

The closest thing in C# 3.0, is that you can use a constructor to initialize properties:

Stuff.Elements.Foo foo = new Stuff.Elements.Foo() {Name = "Bob Dylan", Age = 68, Location = "On Tour", IsCool = true}

MySQL Sum() multiple columns

Another way of doing this is by generating the select query. Play with this fiddle.

SELECT CONCAT('SELECT ', group_concat(`COLUMN_NAME` SEPARATOR '+'), ' FROM scorecard') 
FROM  `INFORMATION_SCHEMA`.`COLUMNS` 
WHERE `TABLE_SCHEMA` = (select database()) 
AND   `TABLE_NAME`   = 'scorecard'
AND   `COLUMN_NAME` LIKE 'mark%';

The query above will generate another query that will do the selecting for you.

  1. Run the above query.
  2. Get the result and run that resulting query.

Sample result:

SELECT mark1+mark2+mark3 FROM scorecard

You won't have to manually add all the columns anymore.

Can Powershell Run Commands in Parallel?

In Powershell 7 you can use ForEach-Object -Parallel

$Message = "Output:"
Get-ChildItem $dir | ForEach-Object -Parallel {
    "$using:Message $_"
} -ThrottleLimit 4

Converting XML to JSON using Python?

While the built-in libs for XML parsing are quite good I am partial to lxml.

But for parsing RSS feeds, I'd recommend Universal Feed Parser, which can also parse Atom. Its main advantage is that it can digest even most malformed feeds.

Python 2.6 already includes a JSON parser, but a newer version with improved speed is available as simplejson.

With these tools building your app shouldn't be that difficult.

Resolve conflicts using remote changes when pulling from Git remote

You can either use the answer from the duplicate link pointed by nvm.

Or you can resolve conflicts by using their changes (but some of your changes might be kept if they don't conflict with remote version):

git pull -s recursive -X theirs

Kotlin: How to get and set a text to TextView in Android using Kotlin?

import kotlinx.android.synthetic.main.MainActivity.*

class Mainactivity : AppCompatActivity() {


    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(R.layout.MainActivity)

        txt.setText("hello Kotlin")

    }

}

How do I tidy up an HTML file's indentation in VI?

With filetype indent on inside my .vimrc, Vim indents HTML files quite nicely.

Simple example with a shiftwidth of 2:

<html>
  <body>
    <p>
    text
    </p>
  </body>
</html>

SVN checkout the contents of a folder, not the folder itself

Just add a . to it:

svn checkout file:///home/landonwinters/svn/waterproject/trunk .

That means: check out to current directory.

javascript push multidimensional array

In JavaScript, the type of key/value store you are attempting to use is an object literal, rather than an array. You are mistakenly creating a composite array object, which happens to have other properties based on the key names you provided, but the array portion contains no elements.

Instead, declare valueToPush as an object and push that onto cookie_value_add:

// Create valueToPush as an object {} rather than an array []
var valueToPush = {};

// Add the properties to your object
// Note, you could also use the valueToPush["productID"] syntax you had
// above, but this is a more object-like syntax
valueToPush.productID = productID;
valueToPush.itemColorTitle = itemColorTitle;
valueToPush.itemColorPath = itemColorPath;

cookie_value_add.push(valueToPush);

// View the structure of cookie_value_add
console.dir(cookie_value_add);

How to type a new line character in SQL Server Management Studio

I use INSERT 'a' + Char(10) + 'b' INTO wherever WHERE whatever

Find integer index of rows with NaN in pandas dataframe

in the case you have datetime index and you want to have the values:

df.loc[pd.isnull(df).any(1), :].index.values

getDate with Jquery Datepicker

try

$('#page_output').html(str_output);

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'model'

As the error message says in the last line: the module models in the file c:\projects\mysite..\mysite\polls\models.py contains no class model. This error occurs in the definition of the Poll class:

class Poll(models.model):

Either the class model is misspelled in the definition of the class Poll or it is misspelled in the module models. Another possibility is that it is completely missing from the module models. Maybe it is in another module or it is not yet implemented in models.

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

  • x += y is x = x + y
  • x -= y is x = x - y
  • x *= y is x = x * y
  • x /= y is x = x / y
  • x %= y is x = x % y
  • x ^= y is x = x ^ y
  • x &= y is x = x & y
  • x |= y is x = x | y

and so on ...

How to build a Debian/Ubuntu package from source?

Here is a tutorial for building a Debian package.

Basically, you need to:

  1. Set up your folder structure
  2. Create a control file
  3. Optionally create postinst or prerm scripts
  4. Run dpkg-deb

I usually do all of this in my Makefile so I can just type make to spit out the binary and package it in one go.

Android ImageView's onClickListener does not work

Actually I just used imgView.bringToFront(); and it helped.

How to search a specific value in all tables (PostgreSQL)?

-- Below function will list all the tables which contain a specific string in the database

 select TablesCount(‘StringToSearch’);

--Iterates through all the tables in the database

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION **TablesCount**(_searchText TEXT)
RETURNS text AS 
$$ -- here start procedural part
   DECLARE _tname text;
   DECLARE cnt int;
   BEGIN
    FOR _tname IN SELECT table_name FROM information_schema.tables where table_schema='public' and table_type='BASE TABLE'  LOOP
         cnt= getMatchingCount(_tname,Columnames(_tname,_searchText));
                                RAISE NOTICE 'Count% ', CONCAT('  ',cnt,' Table name: ', _tname);
                END LOOP;
    RETURN _tname;
   END;
$$ -- here finish procedural part
LANGUAGE plpgsql; -- language specification

-- Returns the count of tables for which the condition is met. -- For example, if the intended text exists in any of the fields of the table, -- then the count will be greater than 0. We can find the notifications -- in the Messages section of the result viewer in postgres database.

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION **getMatchingCount**(_tname TEXT, _clause TEXT)
RETURNS int AS 
$$
Declare outpt text;
    BEGIN
    EXECUTE 'Select Count(*) from '||_tname||' where '|| _clause
       INTO outpt;
       RETURN outpt;
    END;
$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;

--Get the fields of each table. Builds the where clause with all columns of a table.

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION **Columnames**(_tname text,st text)
RETURNS text AS 
$$ -- here start procedural part
DECLARE
                _name text;
                _helper text;
   BEGIN
                FOR _name IN SELECT column_name FROM information_schema.Columns WHERE table_name =_tname LOOP
                                _name=CONCAT('CAST(',_name,' as VarChar)',' like ','''%',st,'%''', ' OR ');
                                _helper= CONCAT(_helper,_name,' ');
                END LOOP;
                RETURN CONCAT(_helper, ' 1=2');

   END;
$$ -- here finish procedural part
LANGUAGE plpgsql; -- language specification

Windows service with timer

Here's a working example in which the execution of the service is started in the OnTimedEvent of the Timer which is implemented as delegate in the ServiceBase class and the Timer logic is encapsulated in a method called SetupProcessingTimer():

public partial class MyServiceProject: ServiceBase
{

private Timer _timer;

public MyServiceProject()
{
    InitializeComponent();
}

private void SetupProcessingTimer()
{
    _timer = new Timer();
    _timer.AutoReset = true;
    double interval = Settings.Default.Interval;
    _timer.Interval = interval * 60000;
    _timer.Enabled = true;
    _timer.Elapsed += new ElapsedEventHandler(OnTimedEvent);
}

private void OnTimedEvent(object source, ElapsedEventArgs e)
{
    // begin your service work
    MakeSomething();
}

protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
{
    SetupProcessingTimer();
}

...
}

The Interval is defined in app.config in minutes:

<userSettings>
    <MyProject.Properties.Settings>
        <setting name="Interval" serializeAs="String">
            <value>1</value>
        </setting>
    </MyProject.Properties.Settings>
</userSettings>

Creating a file name as a timestamp in a batch job

Here is a locale independent solution (copy to a file named SetDateTimeComponents.cmd):

@echo off
REM This script taken from the following URL:
REM http://www.winnetmag.com/windowsscripting/article/articleid/9177/windowsscripting_9177.html

REM Create the date and time elements.
for /f "tokens=1-7 delims=:/-, " %%i in ('echo exit^|cmd /q /k"prompt $d $t"') do (
   for /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/-,() skip=1" %%a in ('echo.^|date') do (
      set dow=%%i
      set %%a=%%j
      set %%b=%%k
      set %%c=%%l
      set hh=%%m
      set min=%%n
      set ss=%%o
   )
)

REM Let's see the result.
echo %dow% %yy%-%mm%-%dd% @ %hh%:%min%:%ss%

I put all my .cmd scripts into the same folder (%SCRIPTROOT%); any script that needs date/time values will call SetDateTimeComponents.cmd as in the following example:

setlocal

@echo Initializing...
set SCRIPTROOT=%~dp0
set ERRLOG=C:\Oopsies.err

:: Log start time
call "%SCRIPTROOT%\SetDateTimeComponents.cmd" >nul
@echo === %dow% %yy%-%mm%-%dd% @ %hh%:%min%:%ss% : Start === >> %ERRLOG%

:: Perform some long running action and log errors to ERRLOG.

:: Log end time
call "%SCRIPTROOT%\SetDateTimeComponents.cmd" >nul
@echo === %dow% %yy%-%mm%-%dd% @ %hh%:%min%:%ss% : End === >> %ERRLOG%

As the example shows, you can call SetDateTimeComponents.cmd whenever you need to update the date/time values. Hiding the time parsing script in it's own SetDateTimeComponents.cmd file is a nice way to hide the ugly details, and, more importantly, avoid typos.

Bootstrap 3 unable to display glyphicon properly

As others have noted, there are some issues with the customizer.

I was having troubles with the glyphicons not showing either, as well as issues with the navbar layout.

I used the suggestion and uploaded the fonts from the full zip/overwrote the ones from the customized version and that fixed the icons issues.

I also pulled in the CDN CSS and javascript instead of my local copy from the CDN. This fixed my navbar issues.

So I recommend until you get the hang of Bootstrap, not to use the customized version since you might get some frustrating, unwanted results.

Call PowerShell script PS1 from another PS1 script inside Powershell ISE

One line solution:

& ((Split-Path $MyInvocation.InvocationName) + "\MyScript1.ps1")

Stop embedded youtube iframe?

Here's a pure javascript solution,

<iframe 
width="100%" 
height="443" 
class="yvideo" 
id="p1QgNF6J1h0"
src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/p1QgNF6J1h0?rel=0&controls=0&hd=1&showinfo=0&enablejsapi=1"
frameborder="0" 
allowfullscreen>
</iframe>
<button id="myStopClickButton">Stop</button>


<script>
document.getElementById("myStopClickButton").addEventListener("click",    function(evt){
var video = document.getElementsByClassName("yvideo");
for (var i=0; i<video.length; i++) {
   video.item(i).contentWindow.postMessage('{"event":"command","func":"stopVideo","args":""}', '*');
}

});

How can I send JSON response in symfony2 controller

If your data is already serialized:

a) send a JSON response

public function someAction()
{
    $response = new Response();
    $response->setContent(file_get_contents('path/to/file'));
    $response->headers->set('Content-Type', 'application/json');
    return $response;
}

b) send a JSONP response (with callback)

public function someAction()
{
    $response = new Response();
    $response->setContent('/**/FUNCTION_CALLBACK_NAME(' . file_get_contents('path/to/file') . ');');
    $response->headers->set('Content-Type', 'text/javascript');
    return $response;
}

If your data needs be serialized:

c) send a JSON response

public function someAction()
{
    $response = new JsonResponse();
    $response->setData([some array]);
    return $response;
}

d) send a JSONP response (with callback)

public function someAction()
{
    $response = new JsonResponse();
    $response->setData([some array]);
    $response->setCallback('FUNCTION_CALLBACK_NAME');
    return $response;
}

e) use groups in Symfony 3.x.x

Create groups inside your Entities

<?php

namespace Mindlahus;

use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Annotation\Groups;

/**
 * Some Super Class Name
 *
 * @ORM    able("table_name")
 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="SomeSuperClassNameRepository")
 * @UniqueEntity(
 *  fields={"foo", "boo"},
 *  ignoreNull=false
 * )
 */
class SomeSuperClassName
{
    /**
     * @Groups({"group1", "group2"})
     */
    public $foo;
    /**
     * @Groups({"group1"})
     */
    public $date;

    /**
     * @Groups({"group3"})
     */
    public function getBar() // is* methods are also supported
    {
        return $this->bar;
    }

    // ...
}

Normalize your Doctrine Object inside the logic of your application

<?php

use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Mapping\Factory\ClassMetadataFactory;
// For annotations
use Doctrine\Common\Annotations\AnnotationReader;
use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Mapping\Loader\AnnotationLoader;
use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Serializer;
use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Normalizer\ObjectNormalizer;
use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Encoder\JsonEncoder;

...

$repository = $this->getDoctrine()->getRepository('Mindlahus:SomeSuperClassName');
$SomeSuperObject = $repository->findOneById($id);

$classMetadataFactory = new ClassMetadataFactory(new AnnotationLoader(new AnnotationReader()));
$encoder = new JsonEncoder();
$normalizer = new ObjectNormalizer($classMetadataFactory);
$callback = function ($dateTime) {
    return $dateTime instanceof \DateTime
        ? $dateTime->format('m-d-Y')
        : '';
};
$normalizer->setCallbacks(array('date' => $callback));
$serializer = new Serializer(array($normalizer), array($encoder));
$data = $serializer->normalize($SomeSuperObject, null, array('groups' => array('group1')));

$response = new Response();
$response->setContent($serializer->serialize($data, 'json'));
$response->headers->set('Content-Type', 'application/json');
return $response;

ASP.NET MVC5/IIS Express unable to debug - Code Not Running

Well.. for me it was Telerik JustMock Q3 2013 (13.3.1015.0) that caused the problem. Uninstalled it from VS 2013 and the problem has gone..

see also ASP.NET-MVC4 Code Not Running and http://feedback.telerik.com/Project/105/Feedback/Details/63749-unable-to-debug-asp-net-projects-with-q3-2013

One lost day and many new white hairs... Curse on you Telerik guys! ;)

Run JavaScript in Visual Studio Code

Well, to simply run the code and show the output on the console you can create a task and execute it, pretty much as @canerbalci mentions.

The downside of this is that you will only get the output and thats it.

What I really like to do is to be able to debug the code, lets say Im trying to solve a small algorithm or trying a new ES6 feature, and I run it and there is something fishy with it, I can debug it inside VSC.

So, instead of creating a task for it, I modified the .vscode/launch.json file in this directory as follows:

{
"version": "0.2.0",
"configurations": [
    {
        "name": "Launch",
        "type": "node",
        "request": "launch",
        "program": "${file}",
        "stopOnEntry": true,
        "args": [],
        "cwd": "${fileDirname}",
        "runtimeExecutable": null,
        "runtimeArgs": [
            "--nolazy"
        ],
        "env": {
            "NODE_ENV": "development"
        },
        "externalConsole": false,
        "sourceMaps": false,
        "outDir": null
    }
]
}

What this does is that it will launch whichever file you are currently on, within the debugger of VSC. Its set to stop on start.

To launch it, press F5 key, in the file you want to debug.

How do I filter ForeignKey choices in a Django ModelForm?

A more public way is by calling get_form in Admin classes. It also works for non-database fields too. For example here i have a field called '_terminal_list' on the form that can be used in special cases for choosing several terminal items from get_list(request), then filtering based on request.user:

class ChangeKeyValueForm(forms.ModelForm):  
    _terminal_list = forms.ModelMultipleChoiceField( 
queryset=Terminal.objects.all() )

    class Meta:
        model = ChangeKeyValue
        fields = ['_terminal_list', 'param_path', 'param_value', 'scheduled_time',  ] 

class ChangeKeyValueAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    form = ChangeKeyValueForm
    list_display = ('terminal','task_list', 'plugin','last_update_time')
    list_per_page =16

    def get_form(self, request, obj = None, **kwargs):
        form = super(ChangeKeyValueAdmin, self).get_form(request, **kwargs)
        qs, filterargs = Terminal.get_list(request)
        form.base_fields['_terminal_list'].queryset = qs
        return form

Check if any ancestor has a class using jQuery

You can use parents method with specified .class selector and check if any of them matches it:

if ($elem.parents('.left').length != 0) {
    //someone has this class
}

css h1 - only as wide as the text

You could use a <span> instead of an <h1>.

How do I update/upsert a document in Mongoose?

app.put('url', function(req, res) {

        // use our bear model to find the bear we want
        Bear.findById(req.params.bear_id, function(err, bear) {

            if (err)
                res.send(err);

            bear.name = req.body.name;  // update the bears info

            // save the bear
            bear.save(function(err) {
                if (err)
                    res.send(err);

                res.json({ message: 'Bear updated!' });
            });

        });
    });

Here is a better approach to solving the update method in mongoose, you can check Scotch.io for more details. This definitely worked for me!!!

Convert a Python int into a big-endian string of bytes

Probably the best way is via the built-in struct module:

>>> import struct
>>> x = 1245427
>>> struct.pack('>BH', x >> 16, x & 0xFFFF)
'\x13\x00\xf3'
>>> struct.pack('>L', x)[1:]  # could do it this way too
'\x13\x00\xf3'

Alternatively -- and I wouldn't usually recommend this, because it's mistake-prone -- you can do it "manually" by shifting and the chr() function:

>>> x = 1245427
>>> chr((x >> 16) & 0xFF) + chr((x >> 8) & 0xFF) + chr(x & 0xFF)
'\x13\x00\xf3'

Out of curiosity, why do you only want three bytes? Usually you'd pack such an integer into a full 32 bits (a C unsigned long), and use struct.pack('>L', 1245427) but skip the [1:] step?

How to use pip on windows behind an authenticating proxy

I had the same issue on a remote windows environment. I tried many solutions found here or on other similars posts but nothing worked. Finally, the solution was quite simple. I had to set NO_PROXY with cmd :

set NO_PROXY="<domain>\<username>:<password>@<host>:<port>"
pip install <packagename>

You have to use double quotes and set NO_PROXY to upper case. You can also add NO_PROXY as an environment variable instead of setting it each time you use the console.

I hope this will help if any other solution posted here works.

How to paste text to end of every line? Sublime 2

Let's say you have these lines of code:

test line one
test line two
test line three
test line four

Using Search and Replace Ctrl+H with Regex let's find this: ^ and replace it with ", we'll have this:

"test line one
"test line two
"test line three
"test line four

Now let's search this: $ and replace it with ", now we'll have this:

"test line one"
"test line two"
"test line three"
"test line four"

Write and read a list from file

Let's define a list first:

lst=[1,2,3]

You can directly write your list to a file:

f=open("filename.txt","w")
f.write(str(lst))
f.close()

To read your list from text file first you read the file and store in a variable:

f=open("filename.txt","r")
lst=f.read()
f.close()

The type of variable lst is of course string. You can convert this string into array using eval function.

lst=eval(lst)

Custom Date Format for Bootstrap-DatePicker

var type={
      format:"DD, d MM, yy"
};
$('.classname').datepicker(type.format);

Python regular expressions return true/false

One way to do this is just to test against the return value. Because you're getting <_sre.SRE_Match object at ...> it means that this will evaluate to true. When the regular expression isn't matched you'll the return value None, which evaluates to false.

import re

if re.search("c", "abcdef"):
    print "hi"

Produces hi as output.

How to check if object has been disposed in C#

A good way is to derive from TcpClient and override the Disposing(bool) method:

class MyClient : TcpClient {
    public bool IsDead { get; set; }
    protected override void Dispose(bool disposing) {
        IsDead = true;
        base.Dispose(disposing);
    }
}

Which won't work if the other code created the instance. Then you'll have to do something desperate like using Reflection to get the value of the private m_CleanedUp member. Or catch the exception.

Frankly, none is this is likely to come to a very good end. You really did want to write to the TCP port. But you won't, that buggy code you can't control is now in control of your code. You've increased the impact of the bug. Talking to the owner of that code and working something out is by far the best solution.

EDIT: A reflection example:

using System.Reflection;
public static bool SocketIsDisposed(Socket s)
{
   BindingFlags bfIsDisposed = BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.GetProperty;
   // Retrieve a FieldInfo instance corresponding to the field
   PropertyInfo field = s.GetType().GetProperty("CleanedUp", bfIsDisposed);
   // Retrieve the value of the field, and cast as necessary
   return (bool)field.GetValue(s, null);
}