Programs & Examples On #Parcelable

parcelable refers to the capability of an object to be converted to a parcel, a container for reading and writing data of various type, using type specific rather than generic serialization

How to read/write a boolean when implementing the Parcelable interface?

out.writeInt(mBool ? 1 : 0); //Write
this.mBool =in.readInt()==1; //Read

How can I pass a Bitmap object from one activity to another

It might be late but can help. On the first fragment or activity do declare a class...for example

   @Override
    public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
        super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
        description des = new description();

        if (requestCode == PICK_IMAGE_REQUEST && data != null && data.getData() != null) {
            filePath = data.getData();
            try {
                bitmap = MediaStore.Images.Media.getBitmap(getActivity().getContentResolver(), filePath);
                imageView.setImageBitmap(bitmap);
                ByteArrayOutputStream stream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
                bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, stream);
                constan.photoMap = bitmap;
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
       }
    }

public static class constan {
    public static Bitmap photoMap = null;
    public static String namePass = null;
}

Then on the second class/fragment do this..

Bitmap bm = postFragment.constan.photoMap;
final String itemName = postFragment.constan.namePass;

Hope it helps.

Android: Difference between Parcelable and Serializable?

I am late in answer, but posting with hope that it will help others.

In terms of Speed, Parcelable > Serializable. But, Custom Serializable is exception. It is almost in range of Parcelable or even more faster.

Reference : https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/customized-serialization-and-deserialization-in-java/

Example :

Custom Class to be serialized

class MySerialized implements Serializable { 

    String deviceAddress = "MyAndroid-04"; 

    transient String token = "AABCDS"; // sensitive information which I do not want to serialize

    private void writeObject(ObjectOutputStream oos) throws Exception {
        oos.defaultWriteObject();
        oos.writeObject("111111" + token); // Encrypted token to be serialized
    }

    private void readObject(ObjectInputStream ois) throws Exception {
        ois.defaultReadObject(); 
        token = ((String) ois.readObject()).subString(6);  // Decrypting token
    }

}

How can I make my custom objects Parcelable?

I have found simplest way to create Parcelable class

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How to pass ArrayList of Objects from one to another activity using Intent in android?

The easiest way to pass ArrayList using intent

  1. Add this line in dependencies block build.gradle.

    implementation 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.2.4'
    
  2. pass arraylist

    ArrayList<String> listPrivate = new ArrayList<>();
    
    
    Intent intent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, ListActivity.class);
    intent.putExtra("private_list", new Gson().toJson(listPrivate));
    startActivity(intent);
    
  3. retrieve list in another activity

    ArrayList<String> listPrivate = new ArrayList<>();
    
    Type type = new TypeToken<List<String>>() {
    }.getType();
    listPrivate = new Gson().fromJson(getIntent().getStringExtra("private_list"), type);
    

You can use object also instead of String in type

Works for me..

How to send objects through bundle

This is a very belated answer to my own question, but it keep getting attention, so I feel I must address it. Most of these answers are correct and handle the job perfectly. However, it depends on the needs of the application. This answer will be used to describe two solutions to this problem.

Application

The first is the Application, as it has been the most spoken about answer here. The application is a good object to place entities that need a reference to a Context. A `ServerSocket` undoubtedly would need a context (for file I/o or simple `ListAdapter` updates). I, personally, prefer this route. I like application's, they are useful for context retrieving (because they can be made static and not likely cause a memory leak) and have a simple lifecycle.

Service

The Service` is second. A `Service`is actually the better choice for my problem becuase that is what services are designed to do:
A Service is an application component that can perform long-running operations in
the background and does not provide a user interface.
Services are neat in that they have a more defined lifecycle that is easier to control. Further, if needed, services can run externally of the application (ie. on boot). This can be necessary for some apps or just a neat feature.

This wasn't a full description of either, but I left links to the docs for those who want to investigate more. Overall the Service is the better for the instance I needed - running a ServerSocket to my SPP device.

Android Spinner: Get the selected item change event

One trick I found was putting your setOnItemSelectedListeners in onWindowFocusChanged instead of onCreate. I haven't found any bad side-effects to doing it this way, yet. Basically, set up the listeners after the window gets drawn. I'm not sure how often onWindowFocusChanged runs, but it's easy enough to create yourself a lock variable if you are finding it running too often.

I think Android might be using a message-based processing system, and if you put it all in onCreate, you may run into situations where the spinner gets populated after it gets drawn. So, your listener will fire off after you set the item location. This is an educated guess, of course, but feel free to correct me on this.

How to build and fill pandas dataframe from for loop?

Try this using list comprehension:

import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame(
    [p, p.team, p.passing_att, p.passer_rating()] for p in game.players.passing()
)

Pandas index column title or name

df.columns.values also give us the column names

Android Studio - mergeDebugResources exception

I just upgraded to the latest gradle build tool version and it works.

 classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.1

CSS Font "Helvetica Neue"

Most windows users won't have that font on their computers. Also, you can't just submit it to your server and call it using font-face because this isn't a free font...

And last, but not least, answering the question that nobody mentioned yet, Helvetica and Helvetica Neue do not render well on screen unless they have a really big font-size. You'll find a lot of pages using this font, and in all of them you'll see that the top border of a line of text looks wavy and that some letters look taller than others. In my opinion this is the main reason why you shouldn't use it. There are other options for you to use, like Open Sans.

Passing data between different controller action methods

HTTP and redirects

Let's first recap how ASP.NET MVC works:

  1. When an HTTP request comes in, it is matched against a set of routes. If a route matches the request, the controller action corresponding to the route will be invoked.
  2. Before invoking the action method, ASP.NET MVC performs model binding. Model binding is the process of mapping the content of the HTTP request, which is basically just text, to the strongly typed arguments of your action method

Let's also remind ourselves what a redirect is:

An HTTP redirect is a response that the webserver can send to the client, telling the client to look for the requested content under a different URL. The new URL is contained in a Location header that the webserver returns to the client. In ASP.NET MVC, you do an HTTP redirect by returning a RedirectResult from an action.

Passing data

If you were just passing simple values like strings and/or integers, you could pass them as query parameters in the URL in the Location header. This is what would happen if you used something like

return RedirectToAction("ActionName", "Controller", new { arg = updatedResultsDocument });

as others have suggested

The reason that this will not work is that the XDocument is a potentially very complex object. There is no straightforward way for the ASP.NET MVC framework to serialize the document into something that will fit in a URL and then model bind from the URL value back to your XDocument action parameter.

In general, passing the document to the client in order for the client to pass it back to the server on the next request, is a very brittle procedure: it would require all sorts of serialisation and deserialisation and all sorts of things could go wrong. If the document is large, it might also be a substantial waste of bandwidth and might severely impact the performance of your application.

Instead, what you want to do is keep the document around on the server and pass an identifier back to the client. The client then passes the identifier along with the next request and the server retrieves the document using this identifier.

Storing data for retrieval on the next request

So, the question now becomes, where does the server store the document in the meantime? Well, that is for you to decide and the best choice will depend upon your particular scenario. If this document needs to be available in the long run, you may want to store it on disk or in a database. If it contains only transient information, keeping it in the webserver's memory, in the ASP.NET cache or the Session (or TempData, which is more or less the same as the Session in the end) may be the right solution. Either way, you store the document under a key that will allow you to retrieve the document later:

int documentId = _myDocumentRepository.Save(updatedResultsDocument);

and then you return that key to the client:

return RedirectToAction("UpdateConfirmation", "ApplicationPoolController ", new { id = documentId });

When you want to retrieve the document, you simply fetch it based on the key:

 public ActionResult UpdateConfirmation(int id)
 {
      XDocument doc = _myDocumentRepository.GetById(id);

      ConfirmationModel model = new ConfirmationModel(doc);

      return View(model);
 }

Twitter Bootstrap: Print content of modal window

I was facing two issues Issue 1: all fields were coming one after other and Issue 2 white space at the bottom of the page when used to print from popup.

I Resolved this by

making display none to all body * elements most of them go for visibility hidden which creates space so avoid visibility hidden

    @media print {
        body * {
           display:none;
        width:auto;
        height:auto;
        margin:0px;padding:0px; 
        }
        #printSection, #printSection * {
            display:inline-block!important;
        }
        #printSection {
            position:absolute;
            left:0;
            top:0;  
            margin:0px; 
            page-break-before: none;
            page-break-after: none;
            page-break-inside: avoid;      
        }
#printSection .form-group{

      width:100%!important;
      float:left!important;
      page-break-after: avoid;
    }
#printSection label{
        float:left!important;
        width:200px!important;
        display:inline-block!important;
      }

#printSection .form-control.search-input{
        float:left!important;
        width:200px!important;
        display: inline-block!important;
      }
}

Make $JAVA_HOME easily changable in Ubuntu

Put the environment variables into the global /etc/environment file:

...
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun
...

Execute "source /etc/environment" in every shell where you want the variables to be updated:

$ source /etc/environment

Check that it works:

$ echo $JAVA_HOME
$ /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun

Great, no logout needed.

If you want to set JAVA_HOME environment variable in only the terminal, set it in ~/.bashrc file.

How to get the selected index of a RadioGroup in Android

It worked perfectly for me in this way:

    RadioGroup radioGroup = (RadioGroup) findViewById(R.id.radio_group);
    int radioButtonID = radioGroup.getCheckedRadioButtonId();
    RadioButton radioButton = (RadioButton) radioGroup.findViewById(radioButtonID);
    String selectedtext = (String) radioButton.getText();

A SELECT statement that assigns a value to a variable must not be combined with data-retrieval operations

You cannot use a select statement that assigns values to variables to also return data to the user The below code will work fine, because i have declared 1 local variable and that variable is used in select statement.

 Begin
    DECLARE @name nvarchar(max)
    select @name=PolicyHolderName from Table
    select @name
    END

The below code will throw error "A SELECT statement that assigns a value to a variable must not be combined with data-retrieval operations" Because we are retriving data(PolicyHolderAddress) from table, but error says data-retrieval operation is not allowed when you use some local variable as part of select statement.

 Begin
    DECLARE @name nvarchar(max)
    select 
       @name = PolicyHolderName,
       PolicyHolderAddress 
    from Table
 END

The the above code can be corrected like below,

Begin
    DECLARE @name nvarchar(max)
    DECLARE @address varchar(100)
    select 
       @name = PolicyHolderName,
       @address = PolicyHolderAddress 
    from Table
END

So either remove the data-retrieval operation or add extra local variable. This will resolve the error.

SQL Server 2005 How Create a Unique Constraint?

You are looking for something like the following

ALTER TABLE dbo.doc_exz
ADD CONSTRAINT col_b_def
UNIQUE column_b

MSDN Docs

How can I delete a service in Windows?

Use services.msc or (Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services) to find the service in question. Double-click to see the service name and the path to the executable.

Check the exe version information for a clue as to the owner of the service, and use Add/Remove programs to do a clean uninstall if possible.

Failing that, from the command prompt:

sc stop servicexyz
sc delete servicexyz

No restart should be required.

How do I pass parameters into a PHP script through a webpage?

$argv[0]; // the script name
$argv[1]; // the first parameter
$argv[2]; // the second parameter

If you want to all the script to run regardless of where you call it from (command line or from the browser) you'll want something like the following:

<?php
if ($_GET) {
    $argument1 = $_GET['argument1'];
    $argument2 = $_GET['argument2'];
} else {
    $argument1 = $argv[1];
    $argument2 = $argv[2];
}
?>

To call from command line chmod 755 /var/www/webroot/index.php and use

/usr/bin/php /var/www/webroot/index.php arg1 arg2

To call from the browser, use

http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?argument1=arg1&argument2=arg2

A process crashed in windows .. Crash dump location

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931673

There are Registry changes you can make to explicitly select where the crash dump file resides, otherwise %localappdata%\Microsoft\Windows\WER is the default location. I assume that %localappdata% is defined differently for a user or a service running under System. You will need to enable WER I believe.

How to find the number of days between two dates

As @Forte L. mentioned you can do the following as well;

SELECT dtCreated
    , bActive
    , dtLastPaymentAttempt
    , dtLastUpdated
    , dtLastVisit

    , DATEDIFF(day, dtCreated, dtLastUpdated) Difference

FROM Customers
WHERE (bActive = 'true') 
    AND (dtLastUpdated > CONVERT(DATETIME, '2012-01-0100:00:00', 102))

How to access accelerometer/gyroscope data from Javascript?

Can't add a comment to the excellent explanation in the other post but wanted to mention that a great documentation source can be found here.

It is enough to register an event function for accelerometer like so:

if(window.DeviceMotionEvent){
  window.addEventListener("devicemotion", motion, false);
}else{
  console.log("DeviceMotionEvent is not supported");
}

with the handler:

function motion(event){
  console.log("Accelerometer: "
    + event.accelerationIncludingGravity.x + ", "
    + event.accelerationIncludingGravity.y + ", "
    + event.accelerationIncludingGravity.z
  );
}

And for magnetometer a following event handler has to be registered:

if(window.DeviceOrientationEvent){
  window.addEventListener("deviceorientation", orientation, false);
}else{
  console.log("DeviceOrientationEvent is not supported");
}

with a handler:

function orientation(event){
  console.log("Magnetometer: "
    + event.alpha + ", "
    + event.beta + ", "
    + event.gamma
  );
}

There are also fields specified in the motion event for a gyroscope but that does not seem to be universally supported (e.g. it didn't work on a Samsung Galaxy Note).

There is a simple working code on GitHub

using href links inside <option> tag

<select name="forma" onchange="location = this.value;">
 <option value="Home.php">Home</option>
 <option value="Contact.php">Contact</option>
 <option value="Sitemap.php">Sitemap</option>
</select>

UPDATE (Nov 2015): In this day and age if you want to have a drop menu there are plenty of arguably better ways to implement one. This answer is a direct answer to a direct question, but I don't advocate this method for public facing web sites.

UPDATE (May 2020): Someone asked in the comments why I wouldn't advocate this solution. I guess it's a question of semantics. I'd rather my users navigate using <a> and kept <select> for making form selections because HTML elements have semantic meeting and they have a purpose, anchors take you places, <select> are for picking things from lists.

Consider, if you are viewing a page with a non-traditional browser (a non graphical browser or screen reader or the page is accessed programmatically, or JavaScript is disabled) what then is the "meaning" or the "intent" of this <select> you have used for navigation? It is saying "please pick a page name" and not a lot else, certainly nothing about navigating. The easy response to this is well i know that my users will be using IE or whatever so shrug but this kinda misses the point of semantic importance.

Whereas a funky drop-down UI element made of suitable layout elements (and some js) containing some regular anchors still retains it intent even if the layout element is lost, "these are a bunch of links, select one and we will navigate there".

Here is an article on the misuse and abuse of <select>.

Anaconda-Navigator - Ubuntu16.04

add anaconda installation path to .bashrc

export PATH="$PATH:/home/username/anaconda3/bin"

load in terminal

$ source ~/.bashrc

run from terminal

$ anaconda-navigator

How to find and turn on USB debugging mode on Nexus 4

In case you enabled debugging mode on your phone and adb devices is not listing your device, it seems there is a problem with phone driver. You might not install the usb-driver of your phone or driver might be installed with problems (in windows check in system --> device manager).

In my case, I had the same problem with My HTC android usb device which installing drivers again, fixed my problems.

Python subprocess.Popen "OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory"

Have you tried using:

(status,output) = commands.getstatusoutput("ps aux")

I thought this had fixed the exact same problem for me. But then my process ended up getting killed instead of failing to spawn, which is even worse..

After some testing I found that this only occurred on older versions of python: it happens with 2.6.5 but not with 2.7.2

My search had led me here python-close_fds-issue, but unsetting closed_fds had not solved the issue. It is still well worth a read.

I found that python was leaking file descriptors by just keeping an eye on it:

watch "ls /proc/$PYTHONPID/fd | wc -l"

Like you, I do want to capture the command's output, and I do want to avoid OOM errors... but it looks like the only way is for people to use a less buggy version of Python. Not ideal...

HTTP Range header

Contrary to Mark Novakowski answer, which for some reason has been upvoted by many, yes, it is a valid and satisfiable request.

In fact the standard, as Wrikken pointed out, makes just such an example. In practice, Apache responds to such requests as expected (with a 206 code), and this is exactly what I use to implement progressive download, that is, only get the tail of a long log file which grows in real time with polling.

Angular2 RC5: Can't bind to 'Property X' since it isn't a known property of 'Child Component'

I fixed it with adding the prefix (attr.) :

<create-report-card-form [attr.currentReportCardCount]="expression" ...

Unfortunately this haven't documented properly yet.

more detail here

Count the frequency that a value occurs in a dataframe column

If you want to apply to all columns you can use:

df.apply(pd.value_counts)

This will apply a column based aggregation function (in this case value_counts) to each of the columns.

rebase in progress. Cannot commit. How to proceed or stop (abort)?

I got into this state recently. After resolving conflicts during a rebase, I committed my changes, rather than running git rebase --continue. This yields the same messages you saw when you ran your git status and git rebase --continue commands. I resolved the issue by running git rebase --abort, and then re-running the rebase. One could likely also skip the rebase, but I wasn't sure what state that would leave me in.

$ git rebase --continue
Applying: <commit message>
No changes - did you forget to use 'git add'?
If there is nothing left to stage, chances are that something else
already introduced the same changes; you might want to skip this patch.

When you have resolved this problem, run "git rebase --continue".
If you prefer to skip this patch, run "git rebase --skip" instead.
To check out the original branch and stop rebasing, run "git rebase --abort".

$ git status
rebase in progress; onto 4df0775
You are currently rebasing branch '<local-branch-name>' on '4df0775'.
  (all conflicts fixed: run "git rebase --continue")

nothing to commit, working directory clean

How do you give iframe 100% height

The problem with iframes not getting 100% height is not because they're unwieldy. The problem is that for them to get 100% height they need their parents to have 100% height. If one of the iframe's parents is not 100% tall the iframe won't be able to go beyond that parent's height.

So the best possible solution would be:

html, body, iframe { height: 100%; }

…given the iframe is directly under body. If the iframe has a parent between itself and the body, the iframe will still get the height of its parent. One must explicitly set the height of every parent to 100% as well (if that's what one wants).

Tested in:

Chrome 30, Firefox 24, Safari 6.0.5, Opera 16, IE 7, 8, 9 and 10

PS: I don't mean to be picky but the solution marked as correct doesn't work on Firefox 24 at the time of this writing, but worked on Chrome 30. Haven't tested on other browsers though. I came across the error on Firefox because the page I was testing had very little content... It could be it's my meager markup or the CSS reset altering the output, but if I experienced this error I guess the accepted answer doesn't work in every situation.

Update 2021

@Zeni suggested this in 2015:

iframe { height: 100vh }

...and indeed it does the trick!

Careful with positioning as it can potentially break the effect. Test thoroughly, you might not need positioning depending of what you're trying to achieve.

How to return a PNG image from Jersey REST service method to the browser

I built a general method for that with following features:

  • returning "not modified" if the file hasn't been modified locally, a Status.NOT_MODIFIED is sent to the caller. Uses Apache Commons Lang
  • using a file stream object instead of reading the file itself

Here the code:

import org.apache.commons.lang3.time.DateUtils;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Utils.class);

@GET
@Path("16x16")
@Produces("image/png")
public Response get16x16PNG(@HeaderParam("If-Modified-Since") String modified) {
    File repositoryFile = new File("c:/temp/myfile.png");
    return returnFile(repositoryFile, modified);
}

/**
 * 
 * Sends the file if modified and "not modified" if not modified
 * future work may put each file with a unique id in a separate folder in tomcat
 *   * use that static URL for each file
 *   * if file is modified, URL of file changes
 *   * -> client always fetches correct file 
 * 
 *     method header for calling method public Response getXY(@HeaderParam("If-Modified-Since") String modified) {
 * 
 * @param file to send
 * @param modified - HeaderField "If-Modified-Since" - may be "null"
 * @return Response to be sent to the client
 */
public static Response returnFile(File file, String modified) {
    if (!file.exists()) {
        return Response.status(Status.NOT_FOUND).build();
    }

    // do we really need to send the file or can send "not modified"?
    if (modified != null) {
        Date modifiedDate = null;

        // we have to switch the locale to ENGLISH as parseDate parses in the default locale
        Locale old = Locale.getDefault();
        Locale.setDefault(Locale.ENGLISH);
        try {
            modifiedDate = DateUtils.parseDate(modified, org.apache.http.impl.cookie.DateUtils.DEFAULT_PATTERNS);
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            logger.error(e.getMessage(), e);
        }
        Locale.setDefault(old);

        if (modifiedDate != null) {
            // modifiedDate does not carry milliseconds, but fileDate does
            // therefore we have to do a range-based comparison
            // 1000 milliseconds = 1 second
            if (file.lastModified()-modifiedDate.getTime() < DateUtils.MILLIS_PER_SECOND) {
                return Response.status(Status.NOT_MODIFIED).build();
            }
        }
    }        
    // we really need to send the file

    try {
        Date fileDate = new Date(file.lastModified());
        return Response.ok(new FileInputStream(file)).lastModified(fileDate).build();
    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
        return Response.status(Status.NOT_FOUND).build();
    }
}

/*** copied from org.apache.http.impl.cookie.DateUtils, Apache 2.0 License ***/

/**
 * Date format pattern used to parse HTTP date headers in RFC 1123 format.
 */
public static final String PATTERN_RFC1123 = "EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz";

/**
 * Date format pattern used to parse HTTP date headers in RFC 1036 format.
 */
public static final String PATTERN_RFC1036 = "EEEE, dd-MMM-yy HH:mm:ss zzz";

/**
 * Date format pattern used to parse HTTP date headers in ANSI C
 * <code>asctime()</code> format.
 */
public static final String PATTERN_ASCTIME = "EEE MMM d HH:mm:ss yyyy";

public static final String[] DEFAULT_PATTERNS = new String[] {
    PATTERN_RFC1036,
    PATTERN_RFC1123,
    PATTERN_ASCTIME
};

Note that the Locale switching does not seem to be thread-safe. I think, it's better to switch the locale globally. I am not sure about the side-effects though...

Inserting code in this LaTeX document with indentation

Specialized packages such as minted, which relies on Pygments to do the formatting, offer various advantages over the listings package. To quote from the minted manual,

Pygments provides far superior syntax highlighting compared to conventional packages. For example, listings basically only highlights strings, comments and keywords. Pygments, on the other hand, can be completely customized to highlight any token kind the source language might support. This might include special formatting sequences inside strings, numbers, different kinds of identifiers and exotic constructs such as HTML tags.

How to fix SSL certificate error when running Npm on Windows?

I happened to encounter this similar SSL problem a few days ago. The problem is your npm does not set root certificate for the certificate used by https://registry.npmjs.org.

Solutions:

  1. Use wget https://registry.npmjs.org/coffee-script --ca-certificate=./DigiCertHighAssuranceEVRootCA.crt to fix wget problem
  2. Use npm config set cafile /path/to/DigiCertHighAssuranceEVRootCA.crt to set root certificate for your npm program.

you can download root certificate from : https://www.digicert.com/CACerts/DigiCertHighAssuranceEVRootCA.crt

Notice: Different program may use different way of managing root certificate, so do not mix browser's with others.

Analysis:

let's fix your wget https://registry.npmjs.org/coffee-script problem first. your snippet says:


        ERROR: cannot verify registry.npmjs.org's certificate,
        issued by /C=US/ST=CA/L=Oakland/O=npm/OU=npm 
       Certificate Authority/CN=npmCA/[email protected]:
       Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.

This means that your wget program cannot verify https://registry.npmjs.org's certificate. There are two reasons that may cause this problem:

  1. Your wget program does not have this domain's root certificate. The root certificate usually ship with system.
  2. The domain does not pack root certificate into his certificate.

So the solution is explicitly set root certificate for https://registry.npmjs.org. We can use openssl to make sure that the reason bellow is the problem.

Try openssl s_client -host registry.npmjs.org -port 443 on the command line and we will get this message (first several lines):


    CONNECTED(00000003)
    depth=1 /C=US/O=DigiCert Inc/OU=www.digicert.com/CN=DigiCert High Assurance CA-3
    verify error:num=20:unable to get local issuer certificate
    verify return:0
    ---
    Certificate chain
     0 s:/C=US/ST=California/L=San Francisco/O=Fastly, Inc./CN=a.sni.fastly.net
       i:/C=US/O=DigiCert Inc/OU=www.digicert.com/CN=DigiCert High Assurance CA-3
     1 s:/C=US/O=DigiCert Inc/OU=www.digicert.com/CN=DigiCert High Assurance CA-3
       i:/C=US/O=DigiCert Inc/OU=www.digicert.com/CN=DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA
    ---

This line verify error:num=20:unable to get local issuer certificate makes sure that https://registry.npmjs.org does not pack root certificate. So we Google DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA root Certificate.

VSCode cannot find module '@angular/core' or any other modules

Occurs when cloning or opening existing projects in Visual Studio Code. In the integrated terminal run the command npm install

groovy: safely find a key in a map and return its value

In general, this depends what your map contains. If it has null values, things can get tricky and containsKey(key) or get(key, default) should be used to detect of the element really exists. In many cases the code can become simpler you can define a default value:

def mymap = [name:"Gromit", likes:"cheese", id:1234]
def x1 = mymap.get('likes', '[nothing specified]')
println "x value: ${x}" }

Note also that containsKey() or get() are much faster than setting up a closure to check the element mymap.find{ it.key == "likes" }. Using closure only makes sense if you really do something more complex in there. You could e.g. do this:

mymap.find{ // "it" is the default parameter
  if (it.key != "likes") return false
  println "x value: ${it.value}" 
  return true // stop searching
}

Or with explicit parameters:

mymap.find{ key,value ->
  (key != "likes")  return false
  println "x value: ${value}" 
  return true // stop searching
}

How to generate a HTML page dynamically using PHP?

I was wondering if/how I can 'create' a html page for each database row?

You just need to create one php file that generate an html template, what changes is the text based content on that page. In that page is where you can get a parameter (eg. row id) via POST or GET and then get the info form the database.

I'm assuming this would be better for SEO?

Search Engine as Google interpret that example.php?id=33 and example.php?id=44 are different pages, and yes, this way is better than single listing page from the SEO point of view, so you just need two php files at least (listing.php and single.php), because is better link this pages from the listing.php.

Extra advice:

example.php?id=33 is really ugly and not very seo friendly, maybe you need some url rewriting code. Something like example/properties/property-name is better ;)

Can jQuery provide the tag name?

The best way to fix your problem, is to replace $(this).attr("tag") with either this.nodeName.toLowerCase() or this.tagName.toLowerCase().

Both produce the exact same result!

Shortcut for echo "<pre>";print_r($myarray);echo "</pre>";

echo '<pre>' . print_r( $myarray, true ) . '</pre>';

From the PHP.net print_r() docs:

When [the second] parameter is set to TRUE, print_r() will return the information rather than print it.

What is 'Context' on Android?

Context is Instances of the the class android.content.Context provide the connection to the Android system which executes the application. For example, you can check the size of the current device display via the Context.

It also gives access to the resources of the project. It is the interface to global information about the application environment.

The Context class also provides access to Android services, e.g., the alarm manager to trigger time based events.

Activities and services extend the Context class. Therefore they can be directly used to access the Context.

Prevent jQuery UI dialog from setting focus to first textbox

To expand on some of the previous answers (and ignoring the ancillary datepicker aspect), if you want to prevent the focus() event from focusing the first input field when your dialog opens, try this:

$('#myDialog').dialog(
    { 'open': function() { $('input:first-child', $(this)).blur(); }
});

Get current time in milliseconds in Python?

If you want a simple method in your code that returns the milliseconds with datetime:

from datetime import datetime
from datetime import timedelta

start_time = datetime.now()

# returns the elapsed milliseconds since the start of the program
def millis():
   dt = datetime.now() - start_time
   ms = (dt.days * 24 * 60 * 60 + dt.seconds) * 1000 + dt.microseconds / 1000.0
   return ms

jQuery UI: Datepicker set year range dropdown to 100 years

You can set the year range using this option in jQuery UI datepicker:

yearRange: "c-100:c+0", // last hundred years and current years

yearRange: "c-100:c+100", // last hundred years and future hundred years

yearRange: "c-10:c+10", // last ten years and future ten years

How do I set a cookie on HttpClient's HttpRequestMessage

The accepted answer is the correct way to do this in most cases. However, there are some situations where you want to set the cookie header manually. Normally if you set a "Cookie" header it is ignored, but that's because HttpClientHandler defaults to using its CookieContainer property for cookies. If you disable that then by setting UseCookies to false you can set cookie headers manually and they will appear in the request, e.g.

var baseAddress = new Uri("http://example.com");
using (var handler = new HttpClientHandler { UseCookies = false })
using (var client = new HttpClient(handler) { BaseAddress = baseAddress })
{
    var message = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, "/test");
    message.Headers.Add("Cookie", "cookie1=value1; cookie2=value2");
    var result = await client.SendAsync(message);
    result.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
}

How to get a variable from a file to another file in Node.js

File FileOne.js:

module.exports = { ClientIDUnsplash : 'SuperSecretKey' };

File FileTwo.js:

var { ClientIDUnsplash } = require('./FileOne');

This example works best for React.

Illegal mix of collations (utf8_unicode_ci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_general_ci,IMPLICIT) for operation '='

Despite finding an enormous number of question about the same problem (1, 2, 3, 4) I have never found an answer that took performance into consideration, even here.

Although multiple working solutions has been already given I would like to do a performance consideration.

EDIT: Thanks to Manatax for pointing out that option 1 does not suffer of performance issues.

Using Option 1 and 2, aka the COLLATE cast approach, can lead to potential bottleneck, cause any index defined on the column will not be used causing a full scan.

Even though I did not try out Option 3, my hunch is that it will suffer the same consequences of option 1 and 2.

Lastly, Option 4 is the best option for very large tables when it is viable. I mean there are no other usage that rely on the original collation.

Consider this simplified query:

SELECT 
    *
FROM
    schema1.table1 AS T1
        LEFT JOIN
    schema2.table2 AS T2 ON T2.CUI = T1.CUI
WHERE
    T1.cui IN ('C0271662' , 'C2919021')
;

In my original example, I had many more joins. Of course, table1 and table2 have different collations. Using the collate operator to cast, it will lead to indexes not being used.

See sql explanation in the picture below.

Visual Query Explanation when using the COLLATE cast

On the other hand, option 4 can take advantages of possible index and led to fast queries.

In the picture below, you can see the same query being run after applied Option 4, aka altering the schema/table/column collation.

Visual Query Explanation after the collation has been changed, and therefore without the collate cast

In conclusion, if performance are important and you can alter the collation of the table, go for Option 4. If you have to act on a single column, you can use something like this:

ALTER TABLE schema1.table1 MODIFY `field` VARCHAR(255) CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;

Compression/Decompression string with C#

This is an updated version for .NET 4.5 and newer using async/await and IEnumerables:

public static class CompressionExtensions
{
    public static async Task<IEnumerable<byte>> Zip(this object obj)
    {
        byte[] bytes = obj.Serialize();

        using (MemoryStream msi = new MemoryStream(bytes))
        using (MemoryStream mso = new MemoryStream())
        {
            using (var gs = new GZipStream(mso, CompressionMode.Compress))
                await msi.CopyToAsync(gs);

            return mso.ToArray().AsEnumerable();
        }
    }

    public static async Task<object> Unzip(this byte[] bytes)
    {
        using (MemoryStream msi = new MemoryStream(bytes))
        using (MemoryStream mso = new MemoryStream())
        {
            using (var gs = new GZipStream(msi, CompressionMode.Decompress))
            {
                // Sync example:
                //gs.CopyTo(mso);

                // Async way (take care of using async keyword on the method definition)
                await gs.CopyToAsync(mso);
            }

            return mso.ToArray().Deserialize();
        }
    }
}

public static class SerializerExtensions
{
    public static byte[] Serialize<T>(this T objectToWrite)
    {
        using (MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream())
        {
            BinaryFormatter binaryFormatter = new BinaryFormatter();
            binaryFormatter.Serialize(stream, objectToWrite);

            return stream.GetBuffer();
        }
    }

    public static async Task<T> _Deserialize<T>(this byte[] arr)
    {
        using (MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream())
        {
            BinaryFormatter binaryFormatter = new BinaryFormatter();
            await stream.WriteAsync(arr, 0, arr.Length);
            stream.Position = 0;

            return (T)binaryFormatter.Deserialize(stream);
        }
    }

    public static async Task<object> Deserialize(this byte[] arr)
    {
        object obj = await arr._Deserialize<object>();
        return obj;
    }
}

With this you can serialize everything BinaryFormatter supports, instead only of strings.

Edit:

In case, you need take care of Encoding, you could just use Convert.ToBase64String(byte[])...

Take a look at this answer if you need an example!

Distribution certificate / private key not installed

If you are using the certificate in a new computer or not. The easiest thing to do would be to revoke the previous certificate relating to the project. Then re-upload to the store. Xcode will generate a new one.

What are .dex files in Android?

About the .dex File :

One of the most remarkable features of the Dalvik Virtual Machine (the workhorse under the Android system) is that it does not use Java bytecode. Instead, a homegrown format called DEX was introduced and not even the bytecode instructions are the same as Java bytecode instructions.

Compiled Android application code file.

Android programs are compiled into .dex (Dalvik Executable) files, which are in turn zipped into a single .apk file on the device. .dex files can be created by automatically translating compiled applications written in the Java programming language.

Dex file format:

 1. File Header
 2. String Table
 3. Class List
 4. Field Table
 5. Method Table
 6. Class Definition Table
 7. Field List
 8. Method List
 9. Code Header
10. Local Variable List

Android has documentation on the Dalvik Executable Format (.dex files). You can find out more over at the official docs: Dex File Format

.dex files are similar to java class files, but they were run under the Dalkvik Virtual Machine (DVM) on older Android versions, and compiled at install time on the device to native code with ART on newer Android versions.

You can decompile .dex using the dexdump tool which is provided in android-sdk.

There are also some Reverse Engineering Techniques to make a jar file or java class file from a .dex file.

jQuery select box validation

simplify the whole thing a bit, fix some issues with commas which will blow up some browsers:

  $(document).ready(function () {
       $("#register").validate({
           debug: true,
           rules: {
               year: {
                   required: function () {
                       return ($("#year option:selected").val() == "0");
                   }
               }
           },
           messages: {
               year: "Year Required"
           }
       });
   });

Jumping to an assumption, should your select not have this attribute validate="required:true"?

How to properly reference local resources in HTML?

  • A leading slash tells the browser to start at the root directory.
  • If you don't have the leading slash, you're referencing from the current directory.
  • If you add two dots before the leading slash, it means you're referencing the parent of the current directory.

Take the following folder structure

demo folder structure

notice:

  • the ROOT checkmark is green,
  • the second checkmark is orange,
  • the third checkmark is purple,
  • the forth checkmark is yellow

Now in the index.html.en file you'll want to put the following markup

<p>
    <span>src="check_mark.png"</span>
    <img src="check_mark.png" />
    <span>I'm purple because I'm referenced from this current directory</span>
</p>

<p>
    <span>src="/check_mark.png"</span>
    <img src="/check_mark.png" />
    <span>I'm green because I'm referenced from the ROOT directory</span>
</p>

<p>
    <span>src="subfolder/check_mark.png"</span>
    <img src="subfolder/check_mark.png" />
    <span>I'm yellow because I'm referenced from the child of this current directory</span>
</p>

<p>
    <span>src="/subfolder/check_mark.png"</span>
    <img src="/subfolder/check_mark.png" />
    <span>I'm orange because I'm referenced from the child of the ROOT directory</span>
</p>

<p>
    <span>src="../subfolder/check_mark.png"</span>
    <img src="../subfolder/check_mark.png" />
    <span>I'm purple because I'm referenced from the parent of this current directory</span>
</p>

<p>
    <span>src="subfolder/subfolder/check_mark.png"</span>
    <img src="subfolder/subfolder/check_mark.png" />
    <span>I'm [broken] because there is no subfolder two children down from this current directory</span>
</p>

<p>
    <span>src="/subfolder/subfolder/check_mark.png"</span>
    <img src="/subfolder/subfolder/check_mark.png" />
    <span>I'm purple because I'm referenced two children down from the ROOT directory</span>
</p>

Now if you load up the index.html.en file located in the second subfolder
http://example.com/subfolder/subfolder/

This will be your output

enter image description here

CSS width of a <span> tag

I would use the padding attribute. This will allow you add a set number of pixels to either side of the element without the element loosing its span qualities:

  • It won't become a block
  • It will float as you expect

This method will only add to the padding however, so if you change the length of the content (from Categories to Tags, for example) the size of the content will change and the overall size of the element will change as well. But if you really want to set a rigid size, you should do as mentioned above and use a div.

See the box model for more details about the box model, content, padding, margin, etc.

How to fix 'fs: re-evaluating native module sources is not supported' - graceful-fs

As described here, you can also attempt the command

npm cache clean

That fixed it for me, after the other steps had not fully yielded results (other than updating everything).

How to set web.config file to show full error message

This can also help you by showing full details of the error on a client's browser.

<system.web>
    <customErrors mode="Off"/>
</system.web>
<system.webServer>
    <httpErrors errorMode="Detailed" />
</system.webServer>

How to set background image of a view?

It's a very bad idea to directly display any text on an irregular and ever changing background. No matter what you do, some of the time the text will be hard to read.

The best design would be to have the labels on a constant background with the images changing behind that.

You can set the labels background color from clear to white and set the from alpha to 50.0 you get a nice translucent effect. The only problem is that the label's background is a stark rectangle.

To get a label with a background with rounded corners you can use a button with user interaction disabled but the user might mistake that for a button.

The best method would be to create image of the label background you want and then put that in an imageview and put the label with the default transparent background onto of that.

Plain UIViews do not have an image background. Instead, you should make a UIImageView your main view and then rotate the images though its image property. If you set the UIImageView's mode to "Scale to fit" it will scale any image to fit the bounds of the view.

How to delete all instances of a character in a string in python?

# s1 == source string
# char == find this character
# repl == replace with this character
def findreplace(s1, char, repl):
    s1 = s1.replace(char, repl)
    return s1

# find each 'i' in the string and replace with a 'u'
print findreplace('it is icy', 'i', 'u')
# output
''' ut us ucy '''

Get an OutputStream into a String

Here's what I ended up doing:

Obj.writeToStream(toWrite, os);
try {
    String out = new String(os.toByteArray(), "UTF-8");
    assertTrue(out.contains("testString"));
} catch (UnsupportedEncondingException e) {
    fail("Caught exception: " + e.getMessage());
}

Where os is a ByteArrayOutputStream.

SQL MAX of multiple columns?

Another way to use CASE WHEN

SELECT CASE true 
       WHEN max(row1) >= max(row2) THEN CASE true WHEN max(row1) >= max(row3) THEN max(row1) ELSE max(row3) end ELSE
       CASE true WHEN max(row2) >= max(row3) THEN max(row2) ELSE max(row3) END END
FROM yourTable

How to configure log4j with a properties file

When you use PropertyConfigurator.configure(String configFilename), they are the following operation in the log4j library.

Properties props = new Properties();
FileInputStream istream = null;
try {
  istream = new FileInputStream(configFileName);
  props.load(istream);
  istream.close();
}
catch (Exception e) {
...

It fails in reading because it looks for "Log4j.properties" from the current directory where the application is executed.

How about the way that it changes the reading part of the property file as follows, and puts "log4j.properties" on the directory to which the CLASSPATH is set.

ClassLoader loader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
URL url = loader.getResource("log4j.properties");
PropertyConfigurator.configure(url);

Another method of putting "Log4j.properties" in the jar file exists.

jar xvf [YourApplication].jar log4j.properties

Laravel: Auth::user()->id trying to get a property of a non-object

Do a Auth::check() before to be sure that you are well logged in :

if (Auth::check())
{
    // The user is logged in...
}

Received fatal alert: handshake_failure through SSLHandshakeException

I had a similar issue; upgrading to Apache HTTPClient 4.5.3 fixed it.

Asynchronous Requests with Python requests

I have a lot of issues with most of the answers posted - they either use deprecated libraries that have been ported over with limited features, or provide a solution with too much magic on the execution of the request, making it difficult to error handle. If they do not fall into one of the above categories, they're 3rd party libraries or deprecated.

Some of the solutions works alright purely in http requests, but the solutions fall short for any other kind of request, which is ludicrous. A highly customized solution is not necessary here.

Simply using the python built-in library asyncio is sufficient enough to perform asynchronous requests of any type, as well as providing enough fluidity for complex and usecase specific error handling.

import asyncio

loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()

def do_thing(params):
    async def get_rpc_info_and_do_chores(id):
        # do things
        response = perform_grpc_call(id)
        do_chores(response)

    async def get_httpapi_info_and_do_chores(id):
        # do things
        response = requests.get(URL)
        do_chores(response)

    async_tasks = []
    for element in list(params.list_of_things):
       async_tasks.append(loop.create_task(get_chan_info_and_do_chores(id)))
       async_tasks.append(loop.create_task(get_httpapi_info_and_do_chores(ch_id)))

    loop.run_until_complete(asyncio.gather(*async_tasks))

How it works is simple. You're creating a series of tasks you'd like to occur asynchronously, and then asking a loop to execute those tasks and exit upon completion. No extra libraries subject to lack of maintenance, no lack of functionality required.

Add to python path mac os x

Setting the $PYTHONPATH environment variable does not seem to affect the Spyder IDE's iPython terminals on a Mac. However, Spyder's application menu contains a "PYTHONPATH manager." Adding my path here solved my problem. The "PYTHONPATH manager" is also persistent across application restarts.

This is specific to a Mac, because setting the PYTHONPATH environment variable on my Windows PC gives the expected behavior (modules are found) without using the PYTHONPATH manager in Spyder.

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();

Method to get all files within folder and subfolders that will return a list

Try this
class Program { static void Main(string[] args) {

        getfiles get = new getfiles();
        List<string> files =  get.GetAllFiles(@"D:\Rishi");

        foreach(string f in files)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(f);
        }


        Console.Read();
    }


}

class getfiles
{
    public List<string> GetAllFiles(string sDirt)
    {
        List<string> files = new List<string>();

        try
        {
            foreach (string file in Directory.GetFiles(sDirt))
            {
                files.Add(file);
            }
            foreach (string fl in Directory.GetDirectories(sDirt))
            {
                files.AddRange(GetAllFiles(fl));
            }
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {

            Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
        }



        return files;
    }
}

How to stop an animation (cancel() does not work)

Call clearAnimation() on whichever View you called startAnimation().

"Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation" error (mscorlib)

' Get the your application's application domain.
Dim currentDomain As AppDomain = AppDomain.CurrentDomain 

' Define a handler for unhandled exceptions.
AddHandler currentDomain.UnhandledException, AddressOf MYExHandler 

' Define a handler for unhandled exceptions for threads behind forms.
AddHandler Application.ThreadException, AddressOf MYThreadHandler 

Private Sub MYExnHandler(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As UnhandledExceptionEventArgs) 
Dim EX As Exception 
EX = e.ExceptionObject 
Console.WriteLine(EX.StackTrace) 
End Sub 

Private Sub MYThreadHandler(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As Threading.ThreadExceptionEventArgs) 
Console.WriteLine(e.Exception.StackTrace) 
End Sub

' This code will throw an exception and will be caught.  
Dim X as Integer = 5
X = X / 0 'throws exception will be caught by subs below

Cannot resolve symbol AppCompatActivity - Support v7 libraries aren't recognized?

If the given solutions does not work, create a new project with 'KOTLIN' as the language even if your work is on java. Then replace the 'main' folder of the new project with the 'main' folder of the old.

Mixed mode assembly is built against version ‘v2.0.50727' of the runtime

Try to use another config file (not the one from your project) and RESTART Visual Studio:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TestWindow\vstest.executionengine.x86.exe.config
(32-bit)

or

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TestWindow\vstest.executionengine.exe.config
(64-bit)

How do you reinstall an app's dependencies using npm?

The easiest way that I can see is delete node_modules folder and execute npm install.

MySQL GROUP BY two columns

First, let's make some test data:

create table client (client_id integer not null primary key auto_increment,
                     name varchar(64));
create table portfolio (portfolio_id integer not null primary key auto_increment,
                        client_id integer references client.id,
                        cash decimal(10,2),
                        stocks decimal(10,2));
insert into client (name) values ('John Doe'), ('Jane Doe');
insert into portfolio (client_id, cash, stocks) values (1, 11.11, 22.22),
                                                       (1, 10.11, 23.22),
                                                       (2, 30.30, 40.40),
                                                       (2, 40.40, 50.50);

If you didn't need the portfolio ID, it would be easy:

select client_id, name, max(cash + stocks)
from client join portfolio using (client_id)
group by client_id

+-----------+----------+--------------------+
| client_id | name     | max(cash + stocks) |
+-----------+----------+--------------------+
|         1 | John Doe |              33.33 | 
|         2 | Jane Doe |              90.90 | 
+-----------+----------+--------------------+

Since you need the portfolio ID, things get more complicated. Let's do it in steps. First, we'll write a subquery that returns the maximal portfolio value for each client:

select client_id, max(cash + stocks) as maxtotal
from portfolio
group by client_id

+-----------+----------+
| client_id | maxtotal |
+-----------+----------+
|         1 |    33.33 | 
|         2 |    90.90 | 
+-----------+----------+

Then we'll query the portfolio table, but use a join to the previous subquery in order to keep only those portfolios the total value of which is the maximal for the client:

 select portfolio_id, cash + stocks from portfolio 
 join (select client_id, max(cash + stocks) as maxtotal 
       from portfolio
       group by client_id) as maxima
 using (client_id)
 where cash + stocks = maxtotal

+--------------+---------------+
| portfolio_id | cash + stocks |
+--------------+---------------+
|            5 |         33.33 | 
|            6 |         33.33 | 
|            8 |         90.90 | 
+--------------+---------------+

Finally, we can join to the client table (as you did) in order to include the name of each client:

select client_id, name, portfolio_id, cash + stocks
from client
join portfolio using (client_id)
join (select client_id, max(cash + stocks) as maxtotal
      from portfolio 
      group by client_id) as maxima
using (client_id)
where cash + stocks = maxtotal

+-----------+----------+--------------+---------------+
| client_id | name     | portfolio_id | cash + stocks |
+-----------+----------+--------------+---------------+
|         1 | John Doe |            5 |         33.33 | 
|         1 | John Doe |            6 |         33.33 | 
|         2 | Jane Doe |            8 |         90.90 | 
+-----------+----------+--------------+---------------+

Note that this returns two rows for John Doe because he has two portfolios with the exact same total value. To avoid this and pick an arbitrary top portfolio, tag on a GROUP BY clause:

select client_id, name, portfolio_id, cash + stocks
from client
join portfolio using (client_id)
join (select client_id, max(cash + stocks) as maxtotal
      from portfolio 
      group by client_id) as maxima
using (client_id)
where cash + stocks = maxtotal
group by client_id, cash + stocks

+-----------+----------+--------------+---------------+
| client_id | name     | portfolio_id | cash + stocks |
+-----------+----------+--------------+---------------+
|         1 | John Doe |            5 |         33.33 | 
|         2 | Jane Doe |            8 |         90.90 | 
+-----------+----------+--------------+---------------+

Scroll to the top of the page after render in react.js

I added an Event listener on the index.html page since it is through which all page loading and reloading is done. Below is the snippet.

// Event listener
addEventListener("load", function () {
    setTimeout(hideURLbar, 0);
}, false);
  
function hideURLbar() {
    window.scrollTo(0, 1);
}

Pure JavaScript equivalent of jQuery's $.ready() - how to call a function when the page/DOM is ready for it

Here's a cleaned-up, non-eval-using version of Ram-swaroop's "works in all browsers" variety--works in all browsers!

function onReady(yourMethod) {
  var readyStateCheckInterval = setInterval(function() {
    if (document && document.readyState === 'complete') { // Or 'interactive'
      clearInterval(readyStateCheckInterval);
      yourMethod();
    }
  }, 10);
}
// use like
onReady(function() { alert('hello'); } );

It does wait an extra 10 ms to run, however, so here's a more complicated way that shouldn't:

function onReady(yourMethod) {
  if (document.readyState === 'complete') { // Or also compare to 'interactive'
    setTimeout(yourMethod, 1); // Schedule to run immediately
  }
  else {
    readyStateCheckInterval = setInterval(function() {
      if (document.readyState === 'complete') { // Or also compare to 'interactive'
        clearInterval(readyStateCheckInterval);
        yourMethod();
      }
    }, 10);
  }
}

// Use like
onReady(function() { alert('hello'); } );

// Or
onReady(functionName);

See also How to check if DOM is ready without a framework?.

How do I improve ASP.NET MVC application performance?

I will also add:

  1. Use Sprites: Sprites are a great thing to reduce a request. You merge all your images into a single one and use CSS to get to good part of the sprite. Microsoft provides a good library to do it: Sprite and Image Optimization Preview 4.

  2. Cache Your server object: If you have some references lists or data which will change rarely, you can cache them into memory instead of querying database every time.

  3. Use ADO.NET instead of Entity Framework: EF4 or EF5 are great to reduce development time, but it will be painful to optimize. It's more simple to optimize a stored procedure than Entity Framework. So you should use store procedures as much as possible. Dapper provides a simple way to query and map SQL with very good performance.

  4. Cache Page or partial page: MVC provides some easy filter to cache page according to some parameters, so use it.

  5. Reduce Database calls: You can create a unique database request that returns multiple objects. Check on Dapper website.

  6. Always have a clean architecture: Have a clean n-tiers architecture, even on a small project. It will help you to keep your code clean, and it will be easier to optimize it if needed.

  7. You can take a look at this template "Neos-SDI MVC Template" which will create a clean architecture for you with lots of performance improvements by default (check MvcTemplate website).

How can I programmatically freeze the top row of an Excel worksheet in Excel 2007 VBA?

Tomalak already gave you a correct answer, but I would like to add that most of the times when you would like to know the VBA code needed to do a certain action in the user interface it is a good idea to record a macro.

In this case click Record Macro on the developer tab of the Ribbon, freeze the top row and then stop recording. Excel will have the following macro recorded for you which also does the job:

With ActiveWindow
    .SplitColumn = 0
    .SplitRow = 1
End With
ActiveWindow.FreezePanes = True

SQL - Rounding off to 2 decimal places

As with SQL Server 2012, you can use the built-in format function:

SELECT FORMAT(Minutes/60.0, 'N2')

(just for further readings...)

use a javascript array to fill up a drop down select box

Use a for loop to iterate through your array. For each string, create a new option element, assign the string as its innerHTML and value, and then append it to the select element.

var cuisines = ["Chinese","Indian"];     
var sel = document.getElementById('CuisineList');
for(var i = 0; i < cuisines.length; i++) {
    var opt = document.createElement('option');
    opt.innerHTML = cuisines[i];
    opt.value = cuisines[i];
    sel.appendChild(opt);
}

DEMO

UPDATE: Using createDocumentFragment and forEach

If you have a very large list of elements that you want to append to a document, it can be non-performant to append each new element individually. The DocumentFragment acts as a light weight document object that can be used to collect elements. Once all your elements are ready, you can execute a single appendChild operation so that the DOM only updates once, instead of n times.

var cuisines = ["Chinese","Indian"];     

var sel = document.getElementById('CuisineList');
var fragment = document.createDocumentFragment();

cuisines.forEach(function(cuisine, index) {
    var opt = document.createElement('option');
    opt.innerHTML = cuisine;
    opt.value = cuisine;
    fragment.appendChild(opt);
});

sel.appendChild(fragment);

DEMO

Git - What is the difference between push.default "matching" and "simple"

From GIT documentation: Git Docs

Below gives the full information. In short, simple will only push the current working branch and even then only if it also has the same name on the remote. This is a very good setting for beginners and will become the default in GIT 2.0

Whereas matching will push all branches locally that have the same name on the remote. (Without regard to your current working branch ). This means potentially many different branches will be pushed, including those that you might not even want to share.

In my personal usage, I generally use a different option: current which pushes the current working branch, (because I always branch for any changes). But for a beginner I'd suggest simple

push.default
Defines the action git push should take if no refspec is explicitly given. Different values are well-suited for specific workflows; for instance, in a purely central workflow (i.e. the fetch source is equal to the push destination), upstream is probably what you want. Possible values are:

nothing - do not push anything (error out) unless a refspec is explicitly given. This is primarily meant for people who want to avoid mistakes by always being explicit.

current - push the current branch to update a branch with the same name on the receiving end. Works in both central and non-central workflows.

upstream - push the current branch back to the branch whose changes are usually integrated into the current branch (which is called @{upstream}). This mode only makes sense if you are pushing to the same repository you would normally pull from (i.e. central workflow).

simple - in centralized workflow, work like upstream with an added safety to refuse to push if the upstream branch's name is different from the local one.

When pushing to a remote that is different from the remote you normally pull from, work as current. This is the safest option and is suited for beginners.

This mode will become the default in Git 2.0.

matching - push all branches having the same name on both ends. This makes the repository you are pushing to remember the set of branches that will be pushed out (e.g. if you always push maint and master there and no other branches, the repository you push to will have these two branches, and your local maint and master will be pushed there).

To use this mode effectively, you have to make sure all the branches you would push out are ready to be pushed out before running git push, as the whole point of this mode is to allow you to push all of the branches in one go. If you usually finish work on only one branch and push out the result, while other branches are unfinished, this mode is not for you. Also this mode is not suitable for pushing into a shared central repository, as other people may add new branches there, or update the tip of existing branches outside your control.

This is currently the default, but Git 2.0 will change the default to simple.

How can I encode a string to Base64 in Swift?

Swift

import Foundation

extension String {

    func fromBase64() -> String? {
        guard let data = Data(base64Encoded: self) else {
            return nil
        }

        return String(data: data, encoding: .utf8)
    }

    func toBase64() -> String {
        return Data(self.utf8).base64EncodedString()
    }

}

Could not complete the operation due to error 80020101. IE

I dont know why but it worked for me. If you have comments like

//Comment

Then it gives this error. To fix this do

/*Comment*/

Doesn't make sense but it worked for me.

Make a directory and copy a file

You can use the shell for this purpose.

Set shl = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") 
shl.Run "cmd mkdir YourDir" & copy "

Regular expression - starting and ending with a character string

This should do it for you ^wp.*php$

Matches

wp-comments-post.php
wp.something.php
wp.php

Doesn't match

something-wp.php
wp.php.txt

Missing include "bits/c++config.h" when cross compiling 64 bit program on 32 bit in Ubuntu

From my experience, sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib g++-multilib helps. But my another issue is that I FORGET to clean the directory so I still get the same error. It is the first time to use clang or cmake. So I just delete my original directory and re-compile and it works. Hope it helps someone like me.

How to see if an object is an array without using reflection?

You can use instanceof.

JLS 15.20.2 Type Comparison Operator instanceof

 RelationalExpression:
    RelationalExpression instanceof ReferenceType

At run time, the result of the instanceof operator is true if the value of the RelationalExpression is not null and the reference could be cast to the ReferenceType without raising a ClassCastException. Otherwise the result is false.

That means you can do something like this:

Object o = new int[] { 1,2 };
System.out.println(o instanceof int[]); // prints "true"        

You'd have to check if the object is an instanceof boolean[], byte[], short[], char[], int[], long[], float[], double[], or Object[], if you want to detect all array types.

Also, an int[][] is an instanceof Object[], so depending on how you want to handle nested arrays, it can get complicated.

For the toString, java.util.Arrays has a toString(int[]) and other overloads you can use. It also has deepToString(Object[]) for nested arrays.

public String toString(Object arr) {
   if (arr instanceof int[]) {
      return Arrays.toString((int[]) arr);
   } else //...
}

It's going to be very repetitive (but even java.util.Arrays is very repetitive), but that's the way it is in Java with arrays.

See also

Entity Framework - Linq query with order by and group by

Your requirements are all over the place, but this is the solution to my understanding of them:

To group by Reference property:

var refGroupQuery = (from m in context.Measurements
            group m by m.Reference into refGroup
            select refGroup);

Now you say you want to limit results by "most recent numOfEntries" - I take this to mean you want to limit the returned Measurements... in that case:

var limitedQuery = from g in refGroupQuery
                   select new
                   {
                       Reference = g.Key,
                       RecentMeasurements = g.OrderByDescending( p => p.CreationTime ).Take( numOfEntries )
                   }

To order groups by first Measurement creation time (note you should order the measurements; if you want the earliest CreationTime value, substitue "g.SomeProperty" with "g.CreationTime"):

var refGroupsOrderedByFirstCreationTimeQuery = limitedQuery.OrderBy( lq => lq.RecentMeasurements.OrderBy( g => g.SomeProperty ).First().CreationTime );

To order groups by average CreationTime, use the Ticks property of the DateTime struct:

var refGroupsOrderedByAvgCreationTimeQuery = limitedQuery.OrderBy( lq => lq.RecentMeasurements.Average( g => g.CreationTime.Ticks ) );

Why shouldn't `&apos;` be used to escape single quotes?

&apos; is not part of the HTML 4 standard.

&quot; is, though, so is fine to use.

How to remove all the null elements inside a generic list in one go?

You'll probably want the following.

List<EmailParameterClass> parameterList = new List<EmailParameterClass>{param1, param2, param3...};
parameterList.RemoveAll(item => item == null);

Print range of numbers on same line

Use end = " ", inside the print function

Code:

for x in range(1,11):
       print(x,end = " ")

How to get the difference (only additions) between two files in linux

git diff path/file.css | grep -E "^\+" | grep -v '+++ b/' | cut -c 2-
  • grep -E "^\+" is from previous accepted answer, it is incomplete because leaves non-source stuff
  • grep -v '+++ b' removes non-source line with file name of later version
  • cut -c 2- removes column of + signs, also may use sed 's/^\+//'

comm or sdiff were not an option because of git.

Div height 100% and expands to fit content

If you just leave the height: 100% and use display:block; the div will take as much space as the content inside the div. This way all the text will stay in the black background.

Laravel - Session store not set on request

You'll need to use the web middleware if you need session state, CSRF protection, and more.

Route::group(['middleware' => ['web']], function () {
    // your routes here
});

Change the location of the ~ directory in a Windows install of Git Bash

I'd share what I did, which works not only for Git, but MSYS/MinGW as well.

The HOME environment variable is not normally set for Windows applications, so creating it through Windows did not affect anything else. From the Computer Properties (right-click on Computer - or whatever it is named - in Explorer, and select Properties, or Control Panel -> System and Security -> System), choose Advanced system settings, then Environment Variables... and create a new one, HOME, and assign it wherever you like.

If you can't create new environment variables, the other answer will still work. (I went through the details of how to create environment variables precisely because it's so dificult to find.)

ASP.NET - How to write some html in the page? With Response.Write?

You can go with the literal control of ASP.net or you can use panels or the purpose.

Pure CSS collapse/expand div

Or a super simple version with barely any css :)

<style>   
.faq ul li {
    display:block;
    float:left;
    padding:5px;
}

.faq ul li div {
    display:none;
}

.faq ul li div:target {
    display:block;
}


</style>


<div class="faq">
   <ul>
   <li><a href="#question1">Question 1</a>   
   <div id="question1">Answer 1 </div>
   </li>


   <li><a href="#question2">Question 2</a>
   <div id="question2">Answer 2 </div>
   </li>
   <li><a href="#question3">Question 3</a>
   <div id="question3">Answer 3 </div>
   </li>
   <li><a href="#question4">Question 4</a>
   <div id="question4">Answer 4 </div>
   </li>
   <li><a href="#question5">Question 5</a>
   <div id="question5">Answer 5 </div>
   </li>
   <li><a href="#question6">Question 6</a>
   <div id="question6">Answer 6 </div>
   </li>
   </ul>  
</div>

http://jsfiddle.net/ionko22/4sKD3/

How to run Rake tasks from within Rake tasks?

If you want each task to run regardless of any failures, you can do something like:

task :build_all do
  [:debug, :release].each do |t| 
    ts = 0
    begin  
      Rake::Task["build"].invoke(t)
    rescue
      ts = 1
      next
    ensure
      Rake::Task["build"].reenable # If you need to reenable
    end
    return ts # Return exit code 1 if any failed, 0 if all success
  end
end

Change Title of Javascript Alert

you cant do this. Use a custom popup. Something like with the help of jQuery UI or jQuery BOXY.

for jQuery UI http://jqueryui.com/demos/dialog/

for jQuery BOXY http://onehackoranother.com/projects/jquery/boxy/

Converting strings to floats in a DataFrame

df['MyColumnName'] = df['MyColumnName'].astype('float64') 

How to view Plugin Manager in Notepad++

To install a plugin without Plugin Manager:

  1. Download your plugin and extract contents in a folder. You will find a .dll file inside. Copy it.
  2. Open C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\pluginsand paste the .dll
  3. Run Notepad++

Random numbers with Math.random() in Java

if min=10 and max=100:

(int)(Math.random() * max) + min        

gives a result between 10 and 110, while

(int)(Math.random() * (max - min) + min)

gives a result between 10 and 100, so they are very different formulas. What's important here is clarity, so whatever you do, make sure the code makes it clear what is being generated.

(PS. the first makes more sense if you change the variable 'max' to be called 'range')

How do I create a timer in WPF?

Adding to the above. You use the Dispatch timer if you want the tick events marshalled back to the UI thread. Otherwise I would use System.Timers.Timer.

getResourceAsStream() vs FileInputStream

The FileInputStream class works directly with the underlying file system. If the file in question is not physically present there, it will fail to open it. The getResourceAsStream() method works differently. It tries to locate and load the resource using the ClassLoader of the class it is called on. This enables it to find, for example, resources embedded into jar files.

how to change text box value with jQuery?

<style>
    .form-cus {
        width: 200px;
        margin: auto;
        position: relative;
    }
        .form-cus .putval, .form-cus .getval {
            width: 100%;
        }
        .form-cus .putval {
            position: absolute;
            left: 0px;
            top: 0;
            color: transparent !important;
            box-shadow: 0 0 0 0 !important;
            background-color: transparent !important;
            border: 0px;
            outline: 0 none;
        }
            .form-cus .putval::selection {
                color: transparent;
                background: lightblue;
            }
</style>

<link href="css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<script src="js/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="form-group form-cus">
    <input class="putval form-control" type="text" id="input" maxlength="16" oninput="xText();">
    <input class="getval form-control" type="text" id="output" maxlength="16">
</div>

<script type="text/javascript">
    function xText() {
        var x = $("#input").val();
        var x_length = x.length;
        var a = '';
        for (var i = 0; i < x_length; i++) {
            a += "x";
        }
        $("#output").val(a);
     }
    $("#input").click(function(){
     $("#output").trigger("click");
    })

</script>

Create ul and li elements in javascript.

Here is my working code :

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
   ul#proList{list-style-position: inside}
   li.item{list-style:none; padding:5px;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="renderList"></div>
</body>
<script>
    (function(){
        var ul = document.createElement('ul');
        ul.setAttribute('id','proList');

        productList = ['Electronics Watch','House wear Items','Kids wear','Women Fashion'];

        document.getElementById('renderList').appendChild(ul);
        productList.forEach(renderProductList);

        function renderProductList(element, index, arr) {
            var li = document.createElement('li');
            li.setAttribute('class','item');

            ul.appendChild(li);

            li.innerHTML=li.innerHTML + element;
        }
    })();
</script>
</html>

working jsfiddle example here

Git Pull While Ignoring Local Changes?

.gitignore

"Adding unwanted files to .gitignore works as long as you have not initially committed them to any branch. "

Also you can run:

git update-index --assume-unchanged filename

https://chamindac.blogspot.com/2017/07/ignoring-visual-studio-2017-created.html

How can I find an element by CSS class with XPath?

The ONLY right way to do it with XPath :

//div[contains(concat(" ", normalize-space(@class), " "), " Test ")]

The function normalize-space strips leading and trailing whitespace, and also replaces sequences of whitespace characters by a single space.


Note

If not need many of these Xpath queries, you might want to use a library that converts CSS selectors to XPath, as CSS selectors are usually a lot easier to both read and write than XPath queries. For example, in this case, you could use both div[class~="Test"] and div.Test to get the same result.

Some libraries I've been able to find :

How to display an image stored as byte array in HTML/JavaScript?

Try putting this HTML snippet into your served document:

<img id="ItemPreview" src="">

Then, on JavaScript side, you can dynamically modify image's src attribute with so-called Data URL.

document.getElementById("ItemPreview").src = "data:image/png;base64," + yourByteArrayAsBase64;

Alternatively, using jQuery:

$('#ItemPreview').attr('src', `data:image/png;base64,${yourByteArrayAsBase64}`);

This assumes that your image is stored in PNG format, which is quite popular. If you use some other image format (e.g. JPEG), modify the MIME type ("image/..." part) in the URL accordingly.

Similar Questions:

How to "git clone" including submodules?

You can use the --recursive flag when cloning a repository. This parameter forces git to clone all defined submodules in the repository.

git clone --recursive [email protected]:your_repo.git

After cloning, sometimes submodules branches may be changed, so run this command after it:

git submodule foreach "git checkout master"

How can I use querySelector on to pick an input element by name?

I know this is old, but I recently faced the same issue and I managed to pick the element by accessing only the attribute like this: document.querySelector('[name="your-selector-name-here"]');

Just in case anyone would ever need this :)

Regex match one of two words

This will do:

/^(apple|banana)$/

to exclude from captured strings (e.g. $1,$2):

(?:apple|banana)

How to detect page zoom level in all modern browsers?

My coworker and I used the script from https://github.com/tombigel/detect-zoom. In addition, we also dynamically created a svg element and check its currentScale property. It works great on Chrome and likely most browsers too. On FF the "zoom text only" feature has to be turned off though. SVG is supported on most browsers. At the time of this writing, tested on IE10, FF19 and Chrome28.

var svg = document.createElementNS('http://www.w3.org/2000/svg', 'svg');
svg.setAttribute('xmlns', 'http://www.w3.org/2000/svg');
svg.setAttribute('version', '1.1');
document.body.appendChild(svg);
var z = svg.currentScale;
... more code ...
document.body.removeChild(svg);

Setting property 'source' to 'org.eclipse.jst.jee.server:JSFTut' did not find a matching property

This is not an error. This is a warning. The difference is pretty huge. This particular warning basically means that the <Context> element in Tomcat's server.xml contains an unknown attribute source and that Tomcat doesn't know what to do with this attribute and therefore will ignore it.

Eclipse WTP adds a custom attribute source to the project related <Context> element in the server.xml of Tomcat which identifies the source of the context (the actual project in the workspace which is deployed to the particular server). This way Eclipse can correlate the deployed webapplication with an project in the workspace. Since Tomcat version 6.0.16, any unspecified XML tags and attributes in the server.xml will produce a warning during Tomcat's startup, even though there is no DTD nor XSD for server.xml.

Just ignore it. Your web project is fine. It should run fine. This issue is completely unrelated to JSF.

Singletons vs. Application Context in Android?

I very much disagree with Dianne Hackborn's response. We are bit by bit removing all singletons from our project in favor of lightweight, task scoped objects which can easiliy be re-created when you actually need them.

Singletons are a nightmare for testing and, if lazily initialized, will introduce "state indeterminism" with subtle side effects (which may suddenly surface when moving calls to getInstance() from one scope to another). Visibility has been mentioned as another problem, and since singletons imply "global" (= random) access to shared state, subtle bugs may arise when not properly synchronized in concurrent applications.

I consider it an anti-pattern, it's a bad object-oriented style that essentially amounts to maintaining global state.

To come back to your question:

Although the app context can be considered a singleton itself, it is framework-managed and has a well defined life-cycle, scope, and access path. Hence I believe that if you do need to manage app-global state, it should go here, nowhere else. For anything else, rethink if you really need a singleton object, or if it would also be possible to rewrite your singleton class to instead instantiate small, short-lived objects that perform the task at hand.

How can I get screen resolution in java?

Here is a snippet of code I often use. It returns the full available screen area (even on multi-monitor setups) while retaining the native monitor positions.

public static Rectangle getMaximumScreenBounds() {
    int minx=0, miny=0, maxx=0, maxy=0;
    GraphicsEnvironment environment = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment();
    for(GraphicsDevice device : environment.getScreenDevices()){
        Rectangle bounds = device.getDefaultConfiguration().getBounds();
        minx = Math.min(minx, bounds.x);
        miny = Math.min(miny, bounds.y);
        maxx = Math.max(maxx,  bounds.x+bounds.width);
        maxy = Math.max(maxy, bounds.y+bounds.height);
    }
    return new Rectangle(minx, miny, maxx-minx, maxy-miny);
}

On a computer with two full-HD monitors, where the left one is set as the main monitor (in Windows settings), the function returns

java.awt.Rectangle[x=0,y=0,width=3840,height=1080]

On the same setup, but with the right monitor set as the main monitor, the function returns

java.awt.Rectangle[x=-1920,y=0,width=3840,height=1080]

How to ensure a <select> form field is submitted when it is disabled?

I whipped up a quick (Jquery only) plugin, that saves the value in a data field while an input is disabled. This just means as long as the field is being disabled programmaticly through jquery using .prop() or .attr()... then accessing the value by .val(), .serialize() or .serializeArra() will always return the value even if disabled :)

Shameless plug: https://github.com/Jezternz/jq-disabled-inputs

Visual Studio window which shows list of methods

Since Visual Studio 2012, you can view the outline ( fields and methods) in the solution explorer by expanding the node corresponding to your file .

How to make grep only match if the entire line matches?

similarly with awk

 awk '/^ABB\.log$/' file

Extract hostname name from string

parse-domain - a very solid lightweight library

npm install parse-domain

const { fromUrl, parseDomain } = require("parse-domain");

Example 1

parseDomain(fromUrl("http://www.example.com/12xy45"))
{ type: 'LISTED',
  hostname: 'www.example.com',
  labels: [ 'www', 'example', 'com' ],
  icann:
   { subDomains: [ 'www' ],
     domain: 'example',
     topLevelDomains: [ 'com' ] },
  subDomains: [ 'www' ],
  domain: 'example',
  topLevelDomains: [ 'com' ] }

Example 2

parseDomain(fromUrl("http://subsub.sub.test.ExAmPlE.coM/12xy45"))
{ type: 'LISTED',
  hostname: 'subsub.sub.test.example.com',
  labels: [ 'subsub', 'sub', 'test', 'example', 'com' ],
  icann:
   { subDomains: [ 'subsub', 'sub', 'test' ],
     domain: 'example',
     topLevelDomains: [ 'com' ] },
  subDomains: [ 'subsub', 'sub', 'test' ],
  domain: 'example',
  topLevelDomains: [ 'com' ] }

Why?

Depending on the use case and volume I strongly recommend against solving this problem yourself using regex or other string manipulation means. The core of this problem is that you need to know all the gtld and cctld suffixes to properly parse url strings into domain and subdomains, these suffixes are regularly updated. This is a solved problem and not one you want to solve yourself (unless you are google or something). Unless you need the hostname or domain name in a pinch don't try and parse your way out of this one.

Error:Execution failed for task ':app:transformClassesWithJarMergingForDebug'

AndroidStudio Menu:

Build/Clean Project

Update old dependencies

How to include view/partial specific styling in AngularJS

I know this question is old now, but after doing a ton of research on various solutions to this problem, I think I may have come up with a better solution.

UPDATE 1: Since posting this answer, I have added all of this code to a simple service that I have posted to GitHub. The repo is located here. Feel free to check it out for more info.

UPDATE 2: This answer is great if all you need is a lightweight solution for pulling in stylesheets for your routes. If you want a more complete solution for managing on-demand stylesheets throughout your application, you may want to checkout Door3's AngularCSS project. It provides much more fine-grained functionality.

In case anyone in the future is interested, here's what I came up with:

1. Create a custom directive for the <head> element:

app.directive('head', ['$rootScope','$compile',
    function($rootScope, $compile){
        return {
            restrict: 'E',
            link: function(scope, elem){
                var html = '<link rel="stylesheet" ng-repeat="(routeCtrl, cssUrl) in routeStyles" ng-href="{{cssUrl}}" />';
                elem.append($compile(html)(scope));
                scope.routeStyles = {};
                $rootScope.$on('$routeChangeStart', function (e, next, current) {
                    if(current && current.$$route && current.$$route.css){
                        if(!angular.isArray(current.$$route.css)){
                            current.$$route.css = [current.$$route.css];
                        }
                        angular.forEach(current.$$route.css, function(sheet){
                            delete scope.routeStyles[sheet];
                        });
                    }
                    if(next && next.$$route && next.$$route.css){
                        if(!angular.isArray(next.$$route.css)){
                            next.$$route.css = [next.$$route.css];
                        }
                        angular.forEach(next.$$route.css, function(sheet){
                            scope.routeStyles[sheet] = sheet;
                        });
                    }
                });
            }
        };
    }
]);

This directive does the following things:

  1. It compiles (using $compile) an html string that creates a set of <link /> tags for every item in the scope.routeStyles object using ng-repeat and ng-href.
  2. It appends that compiled set of <link /> elements to the <head> tag.
  3. It then uses the $rootScope to listen for '$routeChangeStart' events. For every '$routeChangeStart' event, it grabs the "current" $$route object (the route that the user is about to leave) and removes its partial-specific css file(s) from the <head> tag. It also grabs the "next" $$route object (the route that the user is about to go to) and adds any of its partial-specific css file(s) to the <head> tag.
  4. And the ng-repeat part of the compiled <link /> tag handles all of the adding and removing of the page-specific stylesheets based on what gets added to or removed from the scope.routeStyles object.

Note: this requires that your ng-app attribute is on the <html> element, not on <body> or anything inside of <html>.

2. Specify which stylesheets belong to which routes using the $routeProvider:

app.config(['$routeProvider', function($routeProvider){
    $routeProvider
        .when('/some/route/1', {
            templateUrl: 'partials/partial1.html', 
            controller: 'Partial1Ctrl',
            css: 'css/partial1.css'
        })
        .when('/some/route/2', {
            templateUrl: 'partials/partial2.html',
            controller: 'Partial2Ctrl'
        })
        .when('/some/route/3', {
            templateUrl: 'partials/partial3.html',
            controller: 'Partial3Ctrl',
            css: ['css/partial3_1.css','css/partial3_2.css']
        })
}]);

This config adds a custom css property to the object that is used to setup each page's route. That object gets passed to each '$routeChangeStart' event as .$$route. So when listening to the '$routeChangeStart' event, we can grab the css property that we specified and append/remove those <link /> tags as needed. Note that specifying a css property on the route is completely optional, as it was omitted from the '/some/route/2' example. If the route doesn't have a css property, the <head> directive will simply do nothing for that route. Note also that you can even have multiple page-specific stylesheets per route, as in the '/some/route/3' example above, where the css property is an array of relative paths to the stylesheets needed for that route.

3. You're done Those two things setup everything that was needed and it does it, in my opinion, with the cleanest code possible.

Hope that helps someone else who might be struggling with this issue as much as I was.

How to run a hello.js file in Node.js on windows?

Step For Windows

  1. press the ctrl + r.then type cmd and hit enter.
  2. now command prompt will be open.

  3. after the type cd filepath of file. ex(cd C:\Users\user\Desktop\ ) then hit the enter.

  4. please check if npm installed or not using this command node -v. then if you installed will get node version.
  5. type the command on command prompt like this node filename.js . example(node app.js)

C:\Users\user\Desktop>node app.js

How can I remove the search bar and footer added by the jQuery DataTables plugin?

I think the simplest way is:

<th data-searchable="false">Column</th>

You can edit only the table you have to modify, without change common CSS or JS.

Is there a Boolean data type in Microsoft SQL Server like there is in MySQL?

You can use Bit DataType in SQL Server to store boolean data.

Finding sum of elements in Swift array

Swift 3

If you have an array of generic objects and you want to sum some object property then:

class A: NSObject {
    var value = 0
    init(value: Int) {
       self.value = value
    }
}

let array = [A(value: 2), A(value: 4)]      
let sum = array.reduce(0, { $0 + $1.value })
//                           ^       ^
//                        $0=result  $1=next A object
print(sum) // 6 

Despite of the shorter form, many times you may prefer the classic for-cycle:

let array = [A(value: 2), A(value: 4)]
var sum = 0
array.forEach({ sum += $0.value}) 
// or
for element in array {
   sum += element.value
}

What does 'stale file handle' in Linux mean?

When the directory is deleted, the inode for that directory (and the inodes for its contents) are recycled. The pointer your shell has to that directory's inode (and its contents's inodes) are now no longer valid. When the directory is restored from backup, the old inodes are not (necessarily) reused; the directory and its contents are stored on random inodes. The only thing that stays the same is that the parent directory reuses the same name for the restored directory (because you told it to).

Now if you attempt to access the contents of the directory that your original shell is still pointing to, it communicates that request to the file system as a request for the original inode, which has since been recycled (and may even be in use for something entirely different now). So you get a stale file handle message because you asked for some nonexistent data.

When you perform a cd operation, the shell reevaluates the inode location of whatever destination you give it. Now that your shell knows the new inode for the directory (and the new inodes for its contents), future requests for its contents will be valid.

How to Sort Multi-dimensional Array by Value?

$sort = array();
$array_lowercase = array_map('strtolower', $array_to_be_sorted);
array_multisort($array_lowercase, SORT_ASC, SORT_STRING, $alphabetically_ordered_array);

This takes care of both upper and lower case alphabets.

Histogram Matplotlib

I just realized that the hist documentation is explicit about what to do when you already have an np.histogram

counts, bins = np.histogram(data)
plt.hist(bins[:-1], bins, weights=counts)

The important part here is that your counts are simply the weights. If you do it like that, you don't need the bar function anymore

Node: log in a file instead of the console

Overwriting console.log is the way to go. But for it to work in required modules, you also need to export it.

module.exports = console;

To save yourself the trouble of writing log files, rotating and stuff, you might consider using a simple logger module like winston:

// Include the logger module
var winston = require('winston');
// Set up log file. (you can also define size, rotation etc.)
winston.add(winston.transports.File, { filename: 'somefile.log' });
// Overwrite some of the build-in console functions
console.error = winston.error;
console.log = winston.info;
console.info = winston.info;
console.debug = winston.debug;
console.warn = winston.warn;
module.exports = console;

"Failed to load platform plugin "xcb" " while launching qt5 app on linux without qt installed

I tried to start my binary, compiled with Qt 5.7, on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS where Qt 5.5 is preinstalled. It didn't work.

At first, I inspected the binary itself with ldd as was suggested here, and "satisfied" all "not found" dependencies. Then this notorious This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" error was thrown.

How to resolve this in Linux

Firstly you should create platforms directory where your binary is, because it is the place where Qt looks for XCB library. Copy libqxcb.so there. I wonder why authors of other answers didn't mention this.

Then you may want to run your binary with QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1 environment variable set to check which dependencies of libqxcb.so are not "satisfied". (You may also use ldd for this as suggested in the accepted answer).

The command output may look like this:

me@xerus:/media/sf_Qt/Package$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1 ./Binary
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() checking directory path "/media/sf_Qt/Package/platforms" ...
QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/media/sf_Qt/Package/platforms/libqxcb.so"
Found metadata in lib /media/sf_Qt/Package/platforms/libqxcb.so, metadata=
{
    "IID": "org.qt-project.Qt.QPA.QPlatformIntegrationFactoryInterface.5.3",
    "MetaData": {
        "Keys": [
            "xcb"
        ]
    },
    "className": "QXcbIntegrationPlugin",
    "debug": false,
    "version": 329472
}


Got keys from plugin meta data ("xcb")
loaded library "/media/sf_Qt/Package/platforms/libqxcb.so"
QLibraryPrivate::loadPlugin failed on "/media/sf_Qt/Package/platforms/libqxcb.so" : "Cannot load library /media/sf_Qt/Package/platforms/libqxcb.so: (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5DBus.so.5: version `Qt_5' not found (required by ./libQt5XcbQpa.so.5))"
This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb"
in "".

Available platform plugins are: xcb.

Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
Aborted (core dumped)

Note the failing libQt5DBus.so.5 library. Copy it to your libraries path, in my case it was the same directory where my binary is (hence LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.). Repeat this process until all dependencies are satisfied.

P.S. thanks to the author of this answer for QT_DEBUG_PLUGINS=1.

sudo in php exec()

It sounds like you need to set up passwordless sudo. Try:

%admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: osascript myscript.scpt

Also comment out the following line (in /etc/sudoers via visudo), if it is there:

Defaults    requiretty

Encoding Javascript Object to Json string

You can use JSON.stringify like:

JSON.stringify(new_tweets);

How to set environment via `ng serve` in Angular 6

This answer seems good.
however, it lead me towards an error as it resulted with
Configuration 'xyz' could not be found in project ...
error in build.
It is requierd not only to updated build configurations, but also serve ones.

So just to leave no confusions:

  1. --env is not supported in angular 6
  2. --env got changed into --configuration || -c (and is now more powerful)
  3. to manage various envs, in addition to adding new environment file, it is now required to do some changes in angular.json file:
    • add new configuration in the build { ... "build": "configurations": ... property
    • new build configuration may contain only fileReplacements part, (but more options are available)
    • add new configuration in the serve { ... "serve": "configurations": ... property
    • new serve configuration shall contain of browserTarget="your-project-name:build:staging"

Load Image from javascript

Simplest load image from JS to DOM-element:

element.innerHTML += "<img src='image.jpg'></img>";

With onload event:

element.innerHTML += "<img src='image.jpg' onload='javascript:showImage();'></img>";

AWS CLI S3 A client error (403) occurred when calling the HeadObject operation: Forbidden

The minimal permissions that worked for me when running HeadObject on any object in mybucket:

        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "s3:GetObject",
                "s3:ListBucket"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:s3:::mybucket/*",
                "arn:aws:s3:::mybucket"
            ]
        }

How can I increase the size of a bootstrap button?

bootstrap comes with clas btn-lg http://getbootstrap.com/components/#btn-dropdowns-sizing

<div class="btn btn-default btn-block">
  Active
</div>

but if you want to have the button of the width of your column / container add btn-block

<div class="btn btn-default btn-lg">
      Active
    </div>

However this will expand to 100% so make surt ethat you will wrap your button in certain amount of columns e.g. then you know its always stays 3 columns until xs screen

<div class="col-sm-3">
             <div class="btn btn-default btn-block">
          Active
            </div>
        </div>

Deleting an SVN branch

You can delete the features folder just like any other in your checkout then commit the change.

To prevent this in the future I suggest you follow the naming conventions for SVN layout.

Either give each project a trunk, branches, tags folder when they are created.

svn
+ project1
  + trunk
    + src
    + etc...
  + branches
    + features
      + src
      + etc...
  + tags
+ project2
  + trunk
  + branches
  + tags

iPad/iPhone hover problem causes the user to double click a link

To get the links working without breaking touch scrolling, I solved this with jQuery Mobile's "tap" event:

    $('a').not('nav.navbar a').on("tap", function () {
        var link = $(this).attr('href');
        if (typeof link !== 'undefined') {
            window.location = link;
        }
    });

How to enable DataGridView sorting when user clicks on the column header?

KISS : Keep it simple, stupid

Way A: Implement an own SortableBindingList class when like to use DataBinding and sorting.

Way B: Use a List<string> sorting works also but does not work with DataBinding.

Make an html number input always display 2 decimal places

So if someone else stumbles upon this here is a JavaScript solution to this problem:

Step 1: Hook your HTML number input box to an onchange event

myHTMLNumberInput.onchange = setTwoNumberDecimal;

or in the html code if you so prefer

<input type="number" onchange="setTwoNumberDecimal" min="0" max="10" step="0.25" value="0.00" />

Step 2: Write the setTwoDecimalPlace method

function setTwoNumberDecimal(event) {
    this.value = parseFloat(this.value).toFixed(2);
}

By changing the '2' in toFixed you can get more or less decimal places if you so prefer.

Dynamically adding properties to an ExpandoObject

As explained here by Filip - http://www.filipekberg.se/2011/10/02/adding-properties-and-methods-to-an-expandoobject-dynamicly/

You can add a method too at runtime.

x.Add("Shout", new Action(() => { Console.WriteLine("Hellooo!!!"); }));
x.Shout();

Get div tag scroll position using JavaScript

you use the scrollTop attribute

var position = document.getElementById('id').scrollTop;

GET and POST methods with the same Action name in the same Controller

Since you cannot have two methods with the same name and signature you have to use the ActionName attribute:

[HttpGet]
public ActionResult Index()
{
  // your code
  return View();
}

[HttpPost]
[ActionName("Index")]
public ActionResult IndexPost()
{
  // your code
  return View();
}

Also see "How a Method Becomes An Action"

top -c command in linux to filter processes listed based on processname

It can be done interactively

After running top -c , hit o and write a filter on a column, e.g. to show rows where COMMAND column contains the string foo, write COMMAND=foo

If you just want some basic output this might be enough:

top -bc |grep name_of_process

Line continue character in C#

You must use one of the following ways:

    string s = @"loooooooooooooooooooooooong loooooong
                  long long long";

string s = "loooooooooong loooong" +
           " long long" ;

Global and local variables in R

A bit more along the same lines

attrs <- {}

attrs.a <- 1

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

f(20)
print(attrs.a)

will print "1"

attrs <- {}

attrs.a <- 1

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

f(20)
print(attrs.a)

Will print "20"

python inserting variable string as file name

you can do something like

filename = "%s.csv" % name
f = open(filename , 'wb')

or f = open('%s.csv' % name, 'wb')

Difference between a View's Padding and Margin

Below image will let you understand the padding and margin-

enter image description here

#1062 - Duplicate entry for key 'PRIMARY'

You need to remove shares as your PRIMARY KEY OR UNIQUE_KEY

How to overcome root domain CNAME restrictions?

I see readytocloud.com is hosted on Apache 2.2.

There is a much simpler and more efficient way to redirect the non-www site to the www site in Apache.

Add the following rewrite rules to the Apache configs (either inside the virtual host or outside. It doesn't matter):

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^readytocloud.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^/$ http://www.readytocloud.com/ [R=301,L]

Or, the following rewrite rules if you want a 1-to-1 mapping of URLs from the non-www site to the www site:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^readytocloud.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.readytocloud.com$1 [R=301,L]

Note, the mod_rewrite module needs to be loaded for this to work. Luckily readytocloud.com is runing on a CentOS box, which by default loads mod_rewrite.

We have a client server running Apache 2.2 with just under 3,000 domains and nearly 4,000 redirects, however, the load on the server hover around 0.10 - 0.20.

How can I make setInterval also work when a tab is inactive in Chrome?

For me it's not important to play audio in the background like for others here, my problem was that I had some animations and they acted like crazy when you were in other tabs and coming back to them. My solution was putting these animations inside if that is preventing inactive tab:

if (!document.hidden){ //your animation code here }

thanks to that my animation was running only if tab was active. I hope this will help someone with my case.

python - find index position in list based of partial string

Without enumerate():

>>> mylist = ["aa123", "bb2322", "aa354", "cc332", "ab334", "333aa"]
>>> l = [mylist.index(i) for i in mylist if 'aa' in i]
>>> l
[0, 2, 5]

MySQL - How to select data by string length

The function that I use to find the length of the string is length, used as follows:

SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY length(column);

Using Chrome's Element Inspector in Print Preview Mode?

Under Chrome v51 on a Mac, I found the rendering settings by clicking in the upper right corner, choosing More tools > Rendering settings and checking the Emulate media button in the options offered at the bottom of the window.

Chrome v51 Mac Emulate media selector appears in the bottom

Thank you to all the other posters that led me to this, and credit to those that provided the answer without the images.

How to obtain Telegram chat_id for a specific user?

First, post a message in a chat where your bot is included (channel, group mentioning the bot, or one-to-one chat). Then, just run:

curl https://api.telegram.org/bot<TOKEN>/getUpdates | jq

Feel free to remove the | jq part if your dont have jq installed, it's only useful for pretty printing. You should get something like this:

enter image description here

You can see the chat ID in the returned json object, together with the chat name and associated message.

React - How to pass HTML tags in props?

Yes, you can it by using mix array with strings and JSX elements. reference

<MyComponent text={["This is ", <strong>not</strong>,  "working."]} />

What is the difference between json.dump() and json.dumps() in python?

One notable difference in Python 2 is that if you're using ensure_ascii=False, dump will properly write UTF-8 encoded data into the file (unless you used 8-bit strings with extended characters that are not UTF-8):

dumps on the other hand, with ensure_ascii=False can produce a str or unicode just depending on what types you used for strings:

Serialize obj to a JSON formatted str using this conversion table. If ensure_ascii is False, the result may contain non-ASCII characters and the return value may be a unicode instance.

(emphasis mine). Note that it may still be a str instance as well.

Thus you cannot use its return value to save the structure into file without checking which format was returned and possibly playing with unicode.encode.

This of course is not valid concern in Python 3 any more, since there is no more this 8-bit/Unicode confusion.


As for load vs loads, load considers the whole file to be one JSON document, so you cannot use it to read multiple newline limited JSON documents from a single file.

SQL: Two select statements in one query

Using union will help in this case.

You can also use join on a condition that always returns true and is not related to data in these tables.See below

select tmd .name,tbc.goals from tblMadrid tmd join tblBarcelona tbc on 1=1;

PHP - Get array value with a numeric index

I am proposing my idea about it against any disadvantages array_values( ) function, because I think that is not a direct get function. In this way it have to create a copy of the values numerically indexed array and then access. If PHP does not hide a method that automatically translates an integer in the position of the desired element, maybe a slightly better solution might consist of a function that runs the array with a counter until it leads to the desired position, then return the element reached.

So the work would be optimized for very large array of sizes, since the algorithm would be best performing indices for small, stopping immediately. In the solution highlighted of array_values( ), however, it has to do with a cycle flowing through the whole array, even if, for e.g., I have to access $ array [1].

function array_get_by_index($index, $array) {

    $i=0;
    foreach ($array as $value) {
        if($i==$index) {
            return $value;
        }
        $i++;
    }
    // may be $index exceedes size of $array. In this case NULL is returned.
    return NULL;
}

Configuring ObjectMapper in Spring

I found the solution now based on https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-module-hibernate

I extended the object mapper and added the attributes in the inherited constructor.

Then the new object mapper is registered as a bean.

<!-- https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-module-hibernate -->
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter">
    <property name="messageConverters">
        <array>
            <bean id="jsonConverter"
            class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter">
                <property name="objectMapper">
                    <bean class="de.company.backend.spring.PtxObjectMapper"/>
                </property>
            </bean>
        </array>
    </property>
</bean>   

Is it possible to modify a registry entry via a .bat/.cmd script?

You can make a .reg file and call start on it. You can export any part of the registry as a .reg file to see what the format is.

Format here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310516

This can be run on any Windows machine without installing other software.

eclipse stuck when building workspace

I tried lots of these suggestions, but the only thing that finally worked for me was creating a new workspace, and freshly checking out all my projects into that folder. Then it worked fine ;-)

Check if a key is down?

In addition to using keyup and keydown listeners to track when is key goes down and back up, there are actually some properties that tell you if certain keys are down.

window.onmousemove = function (e) {
  if (!e) e = window.event;
  if (e.shiftKey) {/*shift is down*/}
  if (e.altKey) {/*alt is down*/}
  if (e.ctrlKey) {/*ctrl is down*/}
  if (e.metaKey) {/*cmd is down*/}
}

This are available on all browser generated event objects, such as those from keydown, keyup, and keypress, so you don't have to use mousemove.

I tried generating my own event objects with document.createEvent('KeyboardEvent') and document.createEvent('KeyboardEvent') and looking for e.shiftKey and such, but I had no luck.

I'm using Chrome 17 on Mac

Comparing two columns, and returning a specific adjacent cell in Excel

Here is what needs to go in D1: =VLOOKUP(C1, $A$1:$B$4, 2, FALSE)

You should then be able to copy this down to the rest of column D.

How do you find the row count for all your tables in Postgres

I made a small variation to include all tables, also for non-public tables.

CREATE TYPE table_count AS (table_schema TEXT,table_name TEXT, num_rows INTEGER); 

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION count_em_all () RETURNS SETOF table_count  AS '
DECLARE 
    the_count RECORD; 
    t_name RECORD; 
    r table_count%ROWTYPE; 

BEGIN
    FOR t_name IN 
        SELECT table_schema,table_name
        FROM information_schema.tables
        where table_schema !=''pg_catalog''
          and table_schema !=''information_schema''
        ORDER BY 1,2
        LOOP
            FOR the_count IN EXECUTE ''SELECT COUNT(*) AS "count" FROM '' || t_name.table_schema||''.''||t_name.table_name
            LOOP 
            END LOOP; 

            r.table_schema := t_name.table_schema;
            r.table_name := t_name.table_name; 
            r.num_rows := the_count.count; 
            RETURN NEXT r; 
        END LOOP; 
        RETURN; 
END;
' LANGUAGE plpgsql; 

use select count_em_all(); to call it.

Hope you find this usefull. Paul

The operation cannot be completed because the DbContext has been disposed error

using(var database=new DatabaseEntities()){}

Don't use using statement. Just write like that

DatabaseEntities database=new DatabaseEntities ();{}

It will work.

For documentation on the using statement see here.

Jquery checking success of ajax post

using jQuery 1.8 and above, should use the following:

var request = $.ajax({
    type: 'POST',
    url: 'mmm.php',
    data: { abc: "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" } })
    .done(function(data) { alert("success"+data.slice(0, 100)); })
    .fail(function() { alert("error"); })
    .always(function() { alert("complete"); });

check out the docs as @hitautodestruct stated.

Pass Hidden parameters using response.sendRedirect()

TheNewIdiot's answer successfully explains the problem and the reason why you can't send attributes in request through a redirect. Possible solutions:

  1. Using forwarding. This will enable that request attributes could be passed to the view and you can use them in form of ServletRequest#getAttribute or by using Expression Language and JSTL. Short example (reusing TheNewIdiot's answer] code).

    Controller (your servlet)

    request.setAttribute("message", "Hello world");
    RequestDispatcher dispatcher = servletContext().getRequestDispatcher(url);
    dispatcher.forward(request, response);
    

    View (your JSP)

    Using scriptlets:

    <%
        out.println(request.getAttribute("message"));
    %>
    

    This is just for information purposes. Scriptlets usage must be avoided: How to avoid Java code in JSP files?. Below there is the example using EL and JSTL.

    <c:out value="${message}" />
    
  2. If you can't use forwarding (because you don't like it or you don't feel it that way or because you must use a redirect) then an option would be saving a message as a session attribute, then redirect to your view, recover the session attribute in your view and remove it from session. Remember to always have your user session with only relevant data. Code example

    Controller

    //if request is not from HttpServletRequest, you should do a typecast before
    HttpSession session = request.getSession(false);
    //save message in session
    session.setAttribute("helloWorld", "Hello world");
    response.sendRedirect("/content/test.jsp");
    

    View

    Again, showing this using scriptlets and then EL + JSTL:

    <%
        out.println(session.getAttribute("message"));
        session.removeAttribute("message");
    %>
    
    <c:out value="${sessionScope.message}" />
    <c:remove var="message" scope="session" />
    

How to create a JavaScript callback for knowing when an image is loaded?

Image.onload() will often work.

To use it, you'll need to be sure to bind the event handler before you set the src attribute.

Related Links:

Example Usage:

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    window.onload = function () {_x000D_
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        var logo = document.getElementById('sologo');_x000D_
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        logo.onload = function () {_x000D_
            alert ("The image has loaded!");  _x000D_
        };_x000D_
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        setTimeout(function(){_x000D_
            logo.src = 'https://edmullen.net/test/rc.jpg';         _x000D_
        }, 5000);_x000D_
    };
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 <html>_x000D_
    <head>_x000D_
    <title>Image onload()</title>_x000D_
    </head>_x000D_
    <body>_x000D_
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    <img src="#" alt="This image is going to load" id="sologo"/>_x000D_
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    <script type="text/javascript">_x000D_
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    </script>_x000D_
    </body>_x000D_
    </html>
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Converting to upper and lower case in Java

String a = "ABCD"

using this

a.toLowerCase();

all letters will convert to simple, "abcd"
using this

a.toUpperCase()

all letters will convert to Capital, "ABCD"

this conver first letter to capital:

a.substring(0,1).toUpperCase()

this conver other letter Simple

a.substring(1).toLowerCase();

we can get sum of these two

a.substring(0,1).toUpperCase() + a.substring(1).toLowerCase();

result = "Abcd"

In LaTeX, how can one add a header/footer in the document class Letter?

This code works to insert both header and footer on the first page with header center aligned and footer left aligned

\makeatletter
\let\old@ps@headings\ps@headings
\let\old@ps@IEEEtitlepagestyle\ps@IEEEtitlepagestyle
\def\confheader#1{%
  % for the first page
  \def\ps@IEEEtitlepagestyle{%
    \old@ps@IEEEtitlepagestyle%
    \def\@oddhead{\strut\hfill#1\hfill\strut}%
    \def\@evenhead{\strut\hfill#1\hfill\strut}%
 \def\@oddfoot{\mycopyrightnotice}
  \def\@evenfoot{}
  }%
  \ps@headings%
}
\makeatother

\confheader{%
  5$^{th}$  IEEE International Conference on Recent Advances and Innovations in Engineering - ICRAIE 2020 (IEEE Record\#51050) %EDIT HERE
}

\def\mycopyrightnotice{
  {\footnotesize XXX-1-7281-8867-6/20/\$31.00~\copyright~2020 IEEE\hfill} % EDIT HERE
  \gdef\mycopyrightnotice{}

}

\newcommand*{\affmark}[1][*]{\textsuperscript{#1}}


\def\BibTeX{{\rm B\kern-.05em{\sc i\kern-.025em b}\kern-.08em
    T\kern-.1667em\lower.7ex\hbox{E}\kern-.125emX}}
\newcommand{\ma}[1]{\mbox{\boldmath$#1$}} ```

T-SQL - function with default parameters

You can call it three ways - with parameters, with DEFAULT and via EXECUTE

SET NOCOUNT ON;

DECLARE
@Table  SYSNAME = 'YourTable',
@Schema SYSNAME = 'dbo',
@Rows   INT;

SELECT dbo.TableRowCount( @Table, @Schema )

SELECT dbo.TableRowCount( @Table, DEFAULT )

EXECUTE @Rows = dbo.TableRowCount @Table

SELECT @Rows

Make XmlHttpRequest POST using JSON

If you use JSON properly, you can have nested object without any issue :

var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();   // new HttpRequest instance 
var theUrl = "/json-handler";
xmlhttp.open("POST", theUrl);
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/json;charset=UTF-8");
xmlhttp.send(JSON.stringify({ "email": "[email protected]", "response": { "name": "Tester" } }));

How do I add a library (android-support-v7-appcompat) in IntelliJ IDEA

Without Gradle (Click here for the Gradle solution)

  1. Create a support library project.

  2. Import your library project to Intellij from Eclipse project (this step only applies if you created your library in Eclipse).

  3. Right click on module and choose Open Module Settings.

  4. Setup libraries of v7 jar file Setup libraries of v7 jar file

  5. Setup library module of v7 Setup library module of v7

  6. Setup app module dependency of v7 library module Setup app module dependency of v7 library module

Calling a Fragment method from a parent Activity

  1. If you're not using a support library Fragment, then do the following:

((FragmentName) getFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.fragment_id)).methodName();


2. If you're using a support library Fragment, then do the following:

((FragmentName) getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.fragment_id)).methodName();

Android Webview - Completely Clear the Cache

webView.clearCache(true)
appFormWebView.clearFormData()
appFormWebView.clearHistory()
appFormWebView.clearSslPreferences()
CookieManager.getInstance().removeAllCookies(null)
CookieManager.getInstance().flush()
WebStorage.getInstance().deleteAllData()

Array.sort() doesn't sort numbers correctly

I've tried different numbers, and it always acts as if the 0s aren't there and sorts the numbers correctly otherwise. Anyone know why?

You're getting a lexicographical sort (e.g. convert objects to strings, and sort them in dictionary order), which is the default sort behavior in Javascript:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/sort

array.sort([compareFunction])

Parameters

compareFunction

Specifies a function that defines the sort order. If omitted, the array is sorted lexicographically (in dictionary order) according to the string conversion of each element.

In the ECMAscript specification (the normative reference for the generic Javascript), ECMA-262, 3rd ed., section 15.4.4.11, the default sort order is lexicographical, although they don't come out and say it, instead giving the steps for a conceptual sort function that calls the given compare function if necessary, otherwise comparing the arguments when converted to strings:

13. If the argument comparefn is undefined, go to step 16.
14. Call comparefn with arguments x and y.
15. Return Result(14).
16. Call ToString(x).
17. Call ToString(y).
18. If Result(16) < Result(17), return -1.
19. If Result(16) > Result(17), return 1.
20. Return +0.

How can I configure my makefile for debug and release builds?

you can have a variable

DEBUG = 0

then you can use a conditional statement

  ifeq ($(DEBUG),1)

  else

  endif

Change URL and redirect using jQuery

Try this...

$("#abc").attr("action", "/yourapp/" + temp).submit();

What it means:

Find a form with id "abc", change it's attribute named "action" and then submit it...

This works for me... !!!

Java 8: merge lists with stream API

Alternative: Stream.concat()

Stream.concat(map.values().stream(), listContainer.lst.stream())
                             .collect(Collectors.toList()

Running Tensorflow in Jupyter Notebook

I came up with your case. This is how I sort it out

  1. Install Anaconda
  2. Create a virtual environment - conda create -n tensor flow
  3. Go inside your virtual environment - Source activate tensorflow
  4. Inside that install tensorflow. You can install it using pip
  5. Finish install

So then the next thing, when you launch it:

  1. If you are not inside the virtual environment type - Source Activate Tensorflow
  2. Then inside this again install your Jupiter notebook and Pandas libraries, because there can be some missing in this virtual environment

Inside the virtual environment just type:

  1. pip install jupyter notebook
  2. pip install pandas

Then you can launch jupyter notebook saying:

  1. jupyter notebook
  2. Select the correct terminal python 3 or 2
  3. Then import those modules

How to tell whether a point is to the right or left side of a line

I wanted to provide with a solution inspired by physics.

Imagine a force applied along the line and you are measuring the torque of the force about the point. If the torque is positive (counterclockwise) then the point is to the "left" of the line, but if the torque is negative the point is the "right" of the line.

So if the force vector equals the span of the two points defining the line

fx = x_2 - x_1
fy = y_2 - y_1

you test for the side of a point (px,py) based on the sign of the following test

var torque = fx*(py-y_1)-fy*(px-x_1)
if  torque>0  then
     "point on left side"
else if torque <0 then
     "point on right side"  
else
     "point on line"
end if

How to launch Safari and open URL from iOS app

Because this answer is deprecated since iOS 10.0, a better answer would be:

if #available(iOS 10.0, *) {
    UIApplication.shared.open(url, options: [:], completionHandler: nil)
}else{
    UIApplication.shared.openURL(url)
}

y en Objective-c

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:@"url string" options:@{} completionHandler:^(BOOL success) {
        if (success) {
            NSLog(@"Opened url");
        }
    }];

manage.py runserver

First, change your directory:

cd your_project name

Then run:

python manage.py runserver

Single TextView with multiple colored text

Awesome answers! I was able to use Spannable to build rainbow colored text (so this could be repeated for any array of colors). Here's my method, if it helps anyone:

private Spannable buildRainbowText(String pack_name) {
        int[] colors = new int[]{Color.RED, 0xFFFF9933, Color.YELLOW, Color.GREEN, Color.BLUE, Color.RED, 0xFFFF9933, Color.YELLOW, Color.GREEN, Color.BLUE, Color.RED, 0xFFFF9933, Color.YELLOW, Color.GREEN, Color.BLUE, Color.RED, 0xFFFF9933, Color.YELLOW, Color.GREEN, Color.BLUE};
        Spannable word = new SpannableString(pack_name);
        for(int i = 0; i < word.length(); i++) {
            word.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(colors[i]), i, i+1, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
        }
        return word;
    }

And then I just setText(buildRainboxText(pack_name)); Note that all of the words I pass in are under 15 characters and this just repeats 5 colors 3 times - you'd want to adjust the colors/length of the array for your usage!

How do I programmatically click on an element in JavaScript?

The document.createEvent documentation says that "The createEvent method is deprecated. Use event constructors instead."

So you should use this method instead:

var clickEvent = new MouseEvent("click", {
    "view": window,
    "bubbles": true,
    "cancelable": false
});

and fire it on an element like this:

element.dispatchEvent(clickEvent);

as shown here.

Strip HTML from Text JavaScript

function stripHTML(my_string){
    var charArr   = my_string.split(''),
        resultArr = [],
        htmlZone  = 0,
        quoteZone = 0;
    for( x=0; x < charArr.length; x++ ){
     switch( charArr[x] + htmlZone + quoteZone ){
       case "<00" : htmlZone  = 1;break;
       case ">10" : htmlZone  = 0;resultArr.push(' ');break;
       case '"10' : quoteZone = 1;break;
       case "'10" : quoteZone = 2;break;
       case '"11' : 
       case "'12" : quoteZone = 0;break;
       default    : if(!htmlZone){ resultArr.push(charArr[x]); }
     }
    }
    return resultArr.join('');
}

Accounts for > inside attributes and <img onerror="javascript"> in newly created dom elements.

usage:

clean_string = stripHTML("string with <html> in it")

demo:

https://jsfiddle.net/gaby_de_wilde/pqayphzd/

demo of top answer doing the terrible things:

https://jsfiddle.net/gaby_de_wilde/6f0jymL6/1/

How to insert a picture into Excel at a specified cell position with VBA

If it's simply about inserting and resizing a picture, try the code below.

For the specific question you asked, the property TopLeftCell returns the range object related to the cell where the top left corner is parked. To place a new image at a specific place, I recommend creating an image at the "right" place and registering its top and left properties values of the dummy onto double variables.

Insert your Pic assigned to a variable to easily change its name. The Shape Object will have that same name as the Picture Object.

Sub Insert_Pic_From_File(PicPath as string, wsDestination as worksheet)
    Dim Pic As Picture, Shp as Shape
    Set Pic = wsDestination.Pictures.Insert(FilePath)
    Pic.Name = "myPicture"
    'Strongly recommend using a FileSystemObject.FileExists method to check if the path is good before executing the previous command
    Set Shp = wsDestination.Shapes("myPicture")
    With Shp
        .Height = 100
        .Width = 75
        .LockAspectRatio = msoTrue  'Put this later so that changing height doesn't change width and vice-versa)
        .Placement = 1
        .Top = 100
        .Left = 100
    End with
End Sub

Good luck!

Gridview row editing - dynamic binding to a DropDownList

The checked answer from balexandre works great. But, it will create a problem if adapted to some other situations.

I used it to change the value of two label controls - lblEditModifiedBy and lblEditModifiedOn - when I was editing a row, so that the correct ModifiedBy and ModifiedOn would be saved to the db on 'Update'.

When I clicked the 'Update' button, in the RowUpdating event it showed the new values I entered in the OldValues list. I needed the true "old values" as Original_ values when updating the database. (There's an ObjectDataSource attached to the GridView.)

The fix to this is using balexandre's code, but in a modified form in the gv_DataBound event:

protected void gv_DataBound(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    foreach (GridViewRow gvr in gv.Rows)
    {
        if (gvr.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow && (gvr.RowState & DataControlRowState.Edit) == DataControlRowState.Edit)
        {
            // Here you will get the Control you need like:
            ((Label)gvr.FindControl("lblEditModifiedBy")).Text = Page.User.Identity.Name;
            ((Label)gvr.FindControl("lblEditModifiedOn")).Text = DateTime.Now.ToString();
        }
    }
}

Difference between a Seq and a List in Scala

Seq is a trait that List implements.

If you define your container as Seq, you can use any container that implements Seq trait.

scala> def sumUp(s: Seq[Int]): Int = { s.sum }
sumUp: (s: Seq[Int])Int

scala> sumUp(List(1,2,3))
res41: Int = 6

scala> sumUp(Vector(1,2,3))
res42: Int = 6

scala> sumUp(Seq(1,2,3))
res44: Int = 6

Note that

scala> val a = Seq(1,2,3)
a: Seq[Int] = List(1, 2, 3)

Is just a short hand for:

scala> val a: Seq[Int] = List(1,2,3)
a: Seq[Int] = List(1, 2, 3)

if the container type is not specified, the underlying data structure defaults to List.

How to put two divs side by side

I am just giving the code for two responsive divs side by side

_x000D_
_x000D_
*{
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

#parent {
  display: flex;
  justify-content: space-around;
}

#left {
  border: 1px solid lightgray;
  background-color: red;
  width: 40%;
}

#right {
  border: 1px solid lightgray;
  background-color: green;
  width: 40%;
}
_x000D_
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="parent">
        <div id="left">
        lorem ipsum dolor sit emet
        </div>
        <div id="right">
        lorem ipsum dolor sit emet
        </div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Access Controller method from another controller in Laravel 5

You can access your controller method like this:

app('App\Http\Controllers\PrintReportController')->getPrintReport();

This will work, but it's bad in terms of code organisation (remember to use the right namespace for your PrintReportController)

You can extend the PrintReportController so SubmitPerformanceController will inherit that method

class SubmitPerformanceController extends PrintReportController {
     // ....
}

But this will also inherit all other methods from PrintReportController.

The best approach will be to create a trait (e.g. in app/Traits), implement the logic there and tell your controllers to use it:

trait PrintReport {

    public function getPrintReport() {
        // .....
    }
}

Tell your controllers to use this trait:

class PrintReportController extends Controller {
     use PrintReport;
}

class SubmitPerformanceController extends Controller {
     use PrintReport;
}

Both solutions make SubmitPerformanceController to have getPrintReport method so you can call it with $this->getPrintReport(); from within the controller or directly as a route (if you mapped it in the routes.php)

You can read more about traits here.

iTerm2 keyboard shortcut - split pane navigation

there is configuration in the following way:

Preferences -> keys -> Navigation shortcuts

the 3rd option: shortcut to choose a split pane is "no shortcut" by default, we can choose one

cheers

Stop all active ajax requests in jQuery

I had some problems with andy's code, but it gave me some great ideas. First problem was that we should pop off any jqXHR objects that successfully complete. I also had to modify the abortAll function. Here is my final working code:

$.xhrPool = [];
$.xhrPool.abortAll = function() {
            $(this).each(function(idx, jqXHR) {
                        jqXHR.abort();
                        });
};
$.ajaxSetup({
    beforeSend: function(jqXHR) {
            $.xhrPool.push(jqXHR);
            }
});
$(document).ajaxComplete(function() {
            $.xhrPool.pop();
            });

I didn't like the ajaxComplete() way of doing things. No matter how I tried to configure .ajaxSetup it did not work.

ProcessStartInfo hanging on "WaitForExit"? Why?

Introduction

Currently accepted answer doesn't work (throws exception) and there are too many workarounds but no complete code. This is obviously wasting lots of people's time because this is a popular question.

Combining Mark Byers' answer and Karol Tyl's answer I wrote full code based on how I want to use the Process.Start method.

Usage

I have used it to create progress dialog around git commands. This is how I've used it:

    private bool Run(string fullCommand)
    {
        Error = "";
        int timeout = 5000;

        var result = ProcessNoBS.Start(
            filename: @"C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.exe",
            arguments: fullCommand,
            timeoutInMs: timeout,
            workingDir: @"C:\test");

        if (result.hasTimedOut)
        {
            Error = String.Format("Timeout ({0} sec)", timeout/1000);
            return false;
        }

        if (result.ExitCode != 0)
        {
            Error = (String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(result.stderr)) 
                ? result.stdout : result.stderr;
            return false;
        }

        return true;
    }

In theory you can also combine stdout and stderr, but I haven't tested that.

Code

public struct ProcessResult
{
    public string stdout;
    public string stderr;
    public bool hasTimedOut;
    private int? exitCode;

    public ProcessResult(bool hasTimedOut = true)
    {
        this.hasTimedOut = hasTimedOut;
        stdout = null;
        stderr = null;
        exitCode = null;
    }

    public int ExitCode
    {
        get 
        {
            if (hasTimedOut)
                throw new InvalidOperationException(
                    "There was no exit code - process has timed out.");

            return (int)exitCode;
        }
        set
        {
            exitCode = value;
        }
    }
}

public class ProcessNoBS
{
    public static ProcessResult Start(string filename, string arguments,
        string workingDir = null, int timeoutInMs = 5000,
        bool combineStdoutAndStderr = false)
    {
        using (AutoResetEvent outputWaitHandle = new AutoResetEvent(false))
        using (AutoResetEvent errorWaitHandle = new AutoResetEvent(false))
        {
            using (var process = new Process())
            {
                var info = new ProcessStartInfo();

                info.CreateNoWindow = true;
                info.FileName = filename;
                info.Arguments = arguments;
                info.UseShellExecute = false;
                info.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
                info.RedirectStandardError = true;

                if (workingDir != null)
                    info.WorkingDirectory = workingDir;

                process.StartInfo = info;

                StringBuilder stdout = new StringBuilder();
                StringBuilder stderr = combineStdoutAndStderr
                    ? stdout : new StringBuilder();

                var result = new ProcessResult();

                try
                {
                    process.OutputDataReceived += (sender, e) =>
                    {
                        if (e.Data == null)
                            outputWaitHandle.Set();
                        else
                            stdout.AppendLine(e.Data);
                    };
                    process.ErrorDataReceived += (sender, e) =>
                    {
                        if (e.Data == null)
                            errorWaitHandle.Set();
                        else
                            stderr.AppendLine(e.Data);
                    };

                    process.Start();

                    process.BeginOutputReadLine();
                    process.BeginErrorReadLine();

                    if (process.WaitForExit(timeoutInMs))
                        result.ExitCode = process.ExitCode;
                    // else process has timed out 
                    // but that's already default ProcessResult

                    result.stdout = stdout.ToString();
                    if (combineStdoutAndStderr)
                        result.stderr = null;
                    else
                        result.stderr = stderr.ToString();

                    return result;
                }
                finally
                {
                    outputWaitHandle.WaitOne(timeoutInMs);
                    errorWaitHandle.WaitOne(timeoutInMs);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Failed to resolve version for org.apache.maven.archetypes

I had a similar problem building from just command line Maven. I eventually got past that error by adding -U to the maven arguments.

Depending on how you have your source repository configuration set up in your settings.xml, sometimes Maven fails to download a particular artifact, so it assumes that the artifact can't be downloaded, even if you change some settings that would give Maven visibility to the artifact if it just tried. -U forces Maven to look again.

Now you need to make sure that the artifact Maven is looking for is in at least one of the repositories that is referenced by your settings.xml. To know for sure, run

mvn help:effective-settings

from the directory of the module you are trying to build. That should give you, among other things, a complete list of the repositories you Maven is using to look for the artifact.

How to add parameters to HttpURLConnection using POST using NameValuePair

You can get output stream for the connection and write the parameter query string to it.

URL url = new URL("http://yoururl.com");
HttpsURLConnection conn = (HttpsURLConnection) url.openConnection();
conn.setReadTimeout(10000);
conn.setConnectTimeout(15000);
conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
conn.setDoInput(true);
conn.setDoOutput(true);

List<NameValuePair> params = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("firstParam", paramValue1));
params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("secondParam", paramValue2));
params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("thirdParam", paramValue3));

OutputStream os = conn.getOutputStream();
BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(
        new OutputStreamWriter(os, "UTF-8"));
writer.write(getQuery(params));
writer.flush();
writer.close();
os.close();

conn.connect();

...

private String getQuery(List<NameValuePair> params) throws UnsupportedEncodingException
{
    StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
    boolean first = true;

    for (NameValuePair pair : params)
    {
        if (first)
            first = false;
        else
            result.append("&");

        result.append(URLEncoder.encode(pair.getName(), "UTF-8"));
        result.append("=");
        result.append(URLEncoder.encode(pair.getValue(), "UTF-8"));
    }

    return result.toString();
}

PHP: Possible to automatically get all POSTed data?

Yes you can use simply

     $input_data = $_POST;

or extract() may be useful for you.

Spring default behavior for lazy-init

The default behaviour is false:

By default, ApplicationContext implementations eagerly create and configure all singleton beans as part of the initialization process. Generally, this pre-instantiation is desirable, because errors in the configuration or surrounding environment are discovered immediately, as opposed to hours or even days later. When this behavior is not desirable, you can prevent pre-instantiation of a singleton bean by marking the bean definition as lazy-initialized. A lazy-initialized bean tells the IoC container to create a bean instance when it is first requested, rather than at startup.

I suggest reading up

How to watch for a route change in AngularJS?

Note: This is a proper answer for a legacy version of AngularJS. See this question for updated versions.

$scope.$on('$routeChangeStart', function($event, next, current) { 
   // ... you could trigger something here ...
 });

The following events are also available (their callback functions take different arguments):

  • $routeChangeSuccess
  • $routeChangeError
  • $routeUpdate - if reloadOnSearch property has been set to false

See the $route docs.

There are two other undocumented events:

  • $locationChangeStart
  • $locationChangeSuccess

See What's the difference between $locationChangeSuccess and $locationChangeStart?

Access event to call preventdefault from custom function originating from onclick attribute of tag

Try this:

<script>
    $("a").click(function(event) {
        event.preventDefault(); 
    });
</script>

Failed to load JavaHL Library

You may or may not need JavaHL depending on your OS. In addition to other suggestions just posting this here.

enter image description here

For other OS see this source: http://subclipse.tigris.org/wiki/JavaHL

System.web.mvc missing

Easiest way to solve this problem is install ASP.NET MVC 3 from Web Platforms installer.

enter image description here

http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/

Or by using Nuget command

Install-Package Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc -Version 3.0.50813.1

How to create tar.gz archive file in Windows?

tar.gz file is just a tar file that's been gzipped. Both tar and gzip are available for windows.

If you like GUIs (Graphical user interface), 7zip can pack with both tar and gzip.

How do you set up use HttpOnly cookies in PHP

  • For your cookies, see this answer.
  • For PHP's own session cookie (PHPSESSID, by default), see @richie's answer

The setcookie() and setrawcookie() functions, introduced the httponly parameter, back in the dark ages of PHP 5.2.0, making this nice and easy. Simply set the 7th parameter to true, as per the syntax

Function syntax simplified for brevity

setcookie(    $name, $value, $expire, $path, $domain, $secure, $httponly )
setrawcookie( $name, $value, $expire, $path, $domain, $secure, $httponly )

In PHP < 8, specify NULL for parameters you wish to remain as default.

In PHP >= 8 you can benefit from using named parameters. See this question about named params.

setcookie( $name, $value, httponly:true )

It is also possible using the older, lower-level header() function:

header( "Set-Cookie: name=value; httpOnly" );

You may also want to consider if you should be setting the secure parameter.

Convert YYYYMMDD string date to a datetime value

You should have to use DateTime.TryParseExact.

var newDate = DateTime.ParseExact("20111120", 
                                  "yyyyMMdd", 
                                   CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

OR

string str = "20111021";
string[] format = {"yyyyMMdd"};
DateTime date;

if (DateTime.TryParseExact(str, 
                           format, 
                           System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,
                           System.Globalization.DateTimeStyles.None, 
                           out date))
{
     //valid
}