Programs & Examples On #Perforce branch spec

A mapping between two sets of files for use with p4 integrate

Changing Locale within the app itself

If you want to effect on the menu options for changing the locale immediately.You have to do like this.

//onCreate method calls only once when menu is called first time.
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
    //1.Here you can add your  locale settings . 
    //2.Your menu declaration.
}
//This method is called when your menu is opend to again....
@Override
public boolean onMenuOpened(int featureId, Menu menu) {
    menu.clear();
    onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
    return super.onMenuOpened(featureId, menu);
}

Check if current directory is a Git repository

if ! [[ $(pwd) = *.git/* || $(pwd) = *.git ]]; then 
  if type -P git >/dev/null; then
    ! git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
     printf '\n%s\n\n' "GIT repository detected." && git status
    }
  fi
fi

Thank you ivan_pozdeev, Now I have a test if inside the .git directory the code will not run so no errors printed out or false exit status.

The "! [[ $(pwd) = .git/ || $(pwd) = *.git ]]" tests if you're not inside a .git repo then it will run the git command. The builtin type command is use to check if you have git installed or it is within your PATH. see help type

Force drop mysql bypassing foreign key constraint

Drop database exist in all versions of MySQL. But if you want to keep the table structure, here is an idea

mysqldump --no-data --add-drop-database --add-drop-table -hHOSTNAME -uUSERNAME -p > dump.sql

This is a program, not a mysql command

Then, log into mysql and

source dump.sql;

How to call C++ function from C?

You will have to write a wrapper for C in C++ if you want to do this. C++ is backwards compatible, but C is not forwards compatible.

Why can I ping a server but not connect via SSH?

ping (ICMP protocol) and ssh are two different protocols.

  1. It could be that ssh service is not running or not installed

  2. firewall restriction (local to server like iptables or even sshd config lock down ) or (external firewall that protects incomming traffic to network hosting 111.111.111.111)

First check is to see if ssh port is up

nc -v -w 1 111.111.111.111 -z 22

if it succeeds then ssh should communicate if not then it will never work until restriction is lifted or ssh is started

How can I make a div not larger than its contents?

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How to add header data in XMLHttpRequest when using formdata?

Check to see if the key-value pair is actually showing up in the request:

In Chrome, found somewhere like: F12: Developer Tools > Network Tab > Whatever request you have sent > "view source" under Response Headers

Depending on your testing workflow, if whatever pair you added isn't there, you may just need to clear your browser cache. To verify that your browser is using your most up-to-date code, you can check the page's sources, in Chrome this is found somewhere like: F12: Developer Tools > Sources Tab > YourJavascriptSrc.js and check your code.

But as other answers have said:

xhttp.setRequestHeader(key, value);

should add a key-value pair to your request header, just make sure to place it after your open() and before your send()

SQL Server PRINT SELECT (Print a select query result)?

If you wish (like me) to have results containing mulitple rows of various SELECT queries "labelled" and can't manage this within the constraints of the PRINT statement in concert with the Messages tab you could turn it around and simply add messages to the Results tab per the below:

SELECT 'Results from scenario 1'
SELECT
    *
FROM tblSample

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How to implement swipe gestures for mobile devices?

Hammer time!

I have used Hammer JS and it work with gesture. Read details from here: https://hammerjs.github.io/

Good thing that it is much more light weight and fast then jQuery mobile. You can test it on their website as well.

Bitbucket fails to authenticate on git pull

You need to reset the password as shown below.

On macOS:

git config --global credential.helper osxkeychain

On Windows 10:

git config --global credential.helper store

After executing this, it prompts you for the user name and password for your repo.

Why does the C preprocessor interpret the word "linux" as the constant "1"?

In the Old Days (pre-ANSI), predefining symbols such as unix and vax was a way to allow code to detect at compile time what system it was being compiled for. There was no official language standard back then (beyond the reference material at the back of the first edition of K&R), and C code of any complexity was typically a complex maze of #ifdefs to allow for differences between systems. These macro definitions were generally set by the compiler itself, not defined in a library header file. Since there were no real rules about which identifiers could be used by the implementation and which were reserved for programmers, compiler writers felt free to use simple names like unix and assumed that programmers would simply avoid using those names for their own purposes.

The 1989 ANSI C standard introduced rules restricting what symbols an implementation could legally predefine. A macro predefined by the compiler could only have a name starting with two underscores, or with an underscore followed by an uppercase letter, leaving programmers free to use identifiers not matching that pattern and not used in the standard library.

As a result, any compiler that predefines unix or linux is non-conforming, since it will fail to compile perfectly legal code that uses something like int linux = 5;.

As it happens, gcc is non-conforming by default -- but it can be made to conform (reasonably well) with the right command-line options:

gcc -std=c90 -pedantic ... # or -std=c89 or -ansi
gcc -std=c99 -pedantic
gcc -std=c11 -pedantic

See the gcc manual for more details.

gcc will be phasing out these definitions in future releases, so you shouldn't write code that depends on them. If your program needs to know whether it's being compiled for a Linux target or not it can check whether __linux__ is defined (assuming you're using gcc or a compiler that's compatible with it). See the GNU C preprocessor manual for more information.

A largely irrelevant aside: the "Best One Liner" winner of the 1987 International Obfuscated C Code Contest, by David Korn (yes, the author of the Korn Shell) took advantage of the predefined unix macro:

main() { printf(&unix["\021%six\012\0"],(unix)["have"]+"fun"-0x60);}

It prints "unix", but for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with the spelling of the macro name.

Check if a string is a valid date using DateTime.TryParse

Basically, I want to check if a particular string contains AT LEAST day(1 through 31 or 01 through 31),month(1 through 12 or 01 through 12) and year(yyyy or yy) in any order, with any date separator , what will be the solution? So, if the value includes any parts of time, it should return true too. I could NOT be able to define a array of format.

When I was in a similar situation, here is what I did:

  1. Gather all the formats my system is expected to support.
  2. Looked at what is common or can be generalize.
  3. Learned to create REGEX (It is an investment of time initially but pays off once you create one or two on your own). Also do not try to build REGEX for all formats in one go, follow incremental process.
  4. I created REGEX to cover as many format as possible.
  5. For few cases, not to make REGEX extra complex, I covered it through DateTime.Parse() method.
  6. With the combination of both Parse as well as REGEX i was able to validate the input is correct/as expected.

This http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/13255/Validation-with-Regular-Expressions-Made-Simple was really helpful both for understanding as well as validation the syntax for each format.

My 2 cents if it helps....

How Spring Security Filter Chain works

Spring security is a filter based framework, it plants a WALL(HttpFireWall) before your application in terms of proxy filters or spring managed beans. Your request has to pass through multiple filters to reach your API.

Sequence of execution in Spring Security

  1. WebAsyncManagerIntegrationFilter Provides integration between the SecurityContext and Spring Web's WebAsyncManager.

  2. SecurityContextPersistenceFilter This filter will only execute once per request, Populates the SecurityContextHolder with information obtained from the configured SecurityContextRepository prior to the request and stores it back in the repository once the request has completed and clearing the context holder.
    Request is checked for existing session. If new request, SecurityContext will be created else if request has session then existing security-context will be obtained from respository.

  3. HeaderWriterFilter Filter implementation to add headers to the current response.

  4. LogoutFilter If request url is /logout(for default configuration) or if request url mathces RequestMatcher configured in LogoutConfigurer then

    • clears security context.
    • invalidates the session
    • deletes all the cookies with cookie names configured in LogoutConfigurer
    • Redirects to default logout success url / or logout success url configured or invokes logoutSuccessHandler configured.
  5. UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter

    • For any request url other than loginProcessingUrl this filter will not process further but filter chain just continues.
    • If requested URL is matches(must be HTTP POST) default /login or matches .loginProcessingUrl() configured in FormLoginConfigurer then UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter attempts authentication.
    • default login form parameters are username and password, can be overridden by usernameParameter(String), passwordParameter(String).
    • setting .loginPage() overrides defaults
    • While attempting authentication
      • an Authentication object(UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken or any implementation of Authentication in case of your custom auth filter) is created.
      • and authenticationManager.authenticate(authToken) will be invoked
      • Note that we can configure any number of AuthenticationProvider authenticate method tries all auth providers and checks any of the auth provider supports authToken/authentication object, supporting auth provider will be used for authenticating. and returns Authentication object in case of successful authentication else throws AuthenticationException.
    • If authentication success session will be created and authenticationSuccessHandler will be invoked which redirects to the target url configured(default is /)
    • If authentication failed user becomes un-authenticated user and chain continues.
  6. SecurityContextHolderAwareRequestFilter, if you are using it to install a Spring Security aware HttpServletRequestWrapper into your servlet container

  7. AnonymousAuthenticationFilter Detects if there is no Authentication object in the SecurityContextHolder, if no authentication object found, creates Authentication object (AnonymousAuthenticationToken) with granted authority ROLE_ANONYMOUS. Here AnonymousAuthenticationToken facilitates identifying un-authenticated users subsequent requests.

Debug logs
DEBUG - /app/admin/app-config at position 9 of 12 in additional filter chain; firing Filter: 'AnonymousAuthenticationFilter'
DEBUG - Populated SecurityContextHolder with anonymous token: 'org.springframework.security.authentication.AnonymousAuthenticationToken@aeef7b36: Principal: anonymousUser; Credentials: [PROTECTED]; Authenticated: true; Details: org.springframework.security.web.authentication.WebAuthenticationDetails@b364: RemoteIpAddress: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1; SessionId: null; Granted Authorities: ROLE_ANONYMOUS' 
  1. ExceptionTranslationFilter, to catch any Spring Security exceptions so that either an HTTP error response can be returned or an appropriate AuthenticationEntryPoint can be launched

  2. FilterSecurityInterceptor
    There will be FilterSecurityInterceptor which comes almost last in the filter chain which gets Authentication object from SecurityContext and gets granted authorities list(roles granted) and it will make a decision whether to allow this request to reach the requested resource or not, decision is made by matching with the allowed AntMatchers configured in HttpSecurityConfiguration.

Consider the exceptions 401-UnAuthorized and 403-Forbidden. These decisions will be done at the last in the filter chain

  • Un authenticated user trying to access public resource - Allowed
  • Un authenticated user trying to access secured resource - 401-UnAuthorized
  • Authenticated user trying to access restricted resource(restricted for his role) - 403-Forbidden

Note: User Request flows not only in above mentioned filters, but there are others filters too not shown here.(ConcurrentSessionFilter,RequestCacheAwareFilter,SessionManagementFilter ...)
It will be different when you use your custom auth filter instead of UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter.
It will be different if you configure JWT auth filter and omit .formLogin() i.e, UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter it will become entirely different case.


Just For reference. Filters in spring-web and spring-security
Note: refer package name in pic, as there are some other filters from orm and my custom implemented filter.

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From Documentation ordering of filters is given as

  • ChannelProcessingFilter
  • ConcurrentSessionFilter
  • SecurityContextPersistenceFilter
  • LogoutFilter
  • X509AuthenticationFilter
  • AbstractPreAuthenticatedProcessingFilter
  • CasAuthenticationFilter
  • UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter
  • ConcurrentSessionFilter
  • OpenIDAuthenticationFilter
  • DefaultLoginPageGeneratingFilter
  • DefaultLogoutPageGeneratingFilter
  • ConcurrentSessionFilter
  • DigestAuthenticationFilter
  • BearerTokenAuthenticationFilter
  • BasicAuthenticationFilter
  • RequestCacheAwareFilter
  • SecurityContextHolderAwareRequestFilter
  • JaasApiIntegrationFilter
  • RememberMeAuthenticationFilter
  • AnonymousAuthenticationFilter
  • SessionManagementFilter
  • ExceptionTranslationFilter
  • FilterSecurityInterceptor
  • SwitchUserFilter

You can also refer
most common way to authenticate a modern web app?
difference between authentication and authorization in context of Spring Security?

T-SQL XOR Operator

There is a bitwise XOR operator - the caret (^), i.e. for:

SELECT 170 ^ 75

The result is 225.

For logical XOR, use the ANY keyword and NOT ALL, i.e.

WHERE 5 > ANY (SELECT foo) AND NOT (5 > ALL (SELECT foo))

List Highest Correlation Pairs from a Large Correlation Matrix in Pandas?

You can use DataFrame.values to get an numpy array of the data and then use NumPy functions such as argsort() to get the most correlated pairs.

But if you want to do this in pandas, you can unstack and sort the DataFrame:

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

shape = (50, 4460)

data = np.random.normal(size=shape)

data[:, 1000] += data[:, 2000]

df = pd.DataFrame(data)

c = df.corr().abs()

s = c.unstack()
so = s.sort_values(kind="quicksort")

print so[-4470:-4460]

Here is the output:

2192  1522    0.636198
1522  2192    0.636198
3677  2027    0.641817
2027  3677    0.641817
242   130     0.646760
130   242     0.646760
1171  2733    0.670048
2733  1171    0.670048
1000  2000    0.742340
2000  1000    0.742340
dtype: float64

Is there a date format to display the day of the week in java?

SimpleDateFormat sdf=new SimpleDateFormat("EEE");

EEE stands for day of week for example Thursday is displayed as Thu.

reading from app.config file

Just for the future reference, you just need to add System.Configuration to your references library:

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How do I perform a GROUP BY on an aliased column in MS-SQL Server?

My guess is:

SELECT       LastName + ', ' + FirstName AS 'FullName'
FROM         customers
GROUP BY     LastName + ', ' + FirstName

Oracle has a similar limitation, which is annoying. I'm curious if there exists a better solution.

To answer the second half of the question, this limitation applies to more complex expressions such as your case statement as well. The best suggestion I've seen it to use a sub-select to name the complex expression.

Hyphen, underscore, or camelCase as word delimiter in URIs?

here's the best of both worlds.

I also "like" underscores, besides all your positive points about them, there is also a certain old-school style to them.

So what I do is use underscores and simply add a small rewrite rule to your Apache's .htaccess file to re-write all underscores to hyphens.

https://yoast.com/apache-rewrite-dash-underscore/

Finding the average of an array using JS

var total = 0
grades.forEach(function (grade) {
    total += grade        
});
console.log(total / grades.length)

What is define([ , function ]) in JavaScript?

define() is part of the AMD spec of js

See:

Edit: Also see Claudio's answer below. Likely the more relevant explanation.

How can I update window.location.hash without jumping the document?

The problem is you are setting the window.location.hash to an element's ID attribute. It is the expected behavior for the browser to jump to that element, regardless of whether you "preventDefault()" or not.

One way to get around this is to prefix the hash with an arbitrary value like so:

window.location.hash = 'panel-' + id.replace('#', '');

Then, all you need to do is to check for the prefixed hash on page load. As an added bonus, you can even smooth scroll to it since you are now in control of the hash value...

$(function(){
    var h = window.location.hash.replace('panel-', '');
    if (h) {
        $('#slider').scrollTo(h, 800);
    }
});

If you need this to work at all times (and not just on the initial page load), you can use a function to monitor changes to the hash value and jump to the correct element on-the-fly:

var foundHash;
setInterval(function() {
    var h = window.location.hash.replace('panel-', '');
    if (h && h !== foundHash) {
        $('#slider').scrollTo(h, 800);
        foundHash = h;
    }
}, 100);

How to make a back-to-top button using CSS and HTML only?

I used a form with a single submit button. Point the "action" attribute to the ID of the element that needs to be navigated to. Worked for me with just "#top" without needing to define an ID in my stylesheet:

<form action="#top">
    <button type="submit">Back to Top</button>
</form>

Maybe a couple extra lines than is desirable but it's a button, at least. I find this the most concise and descriptive way to go about it.

Regex Email validation

This does not meet all of the requirements of RFCs 5321 and 5322, but it works with the following definitions.

@"^([0-9a-zA-Z]([\+\-_\.][0-9a-zA-Z]+)*)+"@(([0-9a-zA-Z][-\w]*[0-9a-zA-Z]*\.)+[a-zA-Z0-9]{2,17})$";

Below is the code

const String pattern =
   @"^([0-9a-zA-Z]" + //Start with a digit or alphabetical
   @"([\+\-_\.][0-9a-zA-Z]+)*" + // No continuous or ending +-_. chars in email
   @")+" +
   @"@(([0-9a-zA-Z][-\w]*[0-9a-zA-Z]*\.)+[a-zA-Z0-9]{2,17})$";

var validEmails = new[] {
        "[email protected]",
        "[email protected]",
        "[email protected]",
        "[email protected]",
        "[email protected]",
        "[email protected]",
        "[email protected]",
        "[email protected]",
        "[email protected]",
        "[email protected]",
        "[email protected]",
};
var invalidEmails = new[] {
        "Abc.example.com",     // No `@`
        "A@b@[email protected]",   // multiple `@`
        "[email protected]",      // continuous multiple dots in name
        "[email protected]",            // only 1 char in extension
        "[email protected]",         // continuous multiple dots in domain
        "ma@@jjf.com",         // continuous multiple `@`
        "@majjf.com",          // nothing before `@`
        "[email protected]",         // nothing after `.`
        "[email protected]",         // nothing after `_`
        "ma_@jjf",             // no domain extension 
        "ma_@jjf.",            // nothing after `_` and .
        "ma@jjf.",             // nothing after `.`
    };

foreach (var str in validEmails)
{
    Console.WriteLine("{0} - {1} ", str, Regex.IsMatch(str, pattern));
}
foreach (var str in invalidEmails)
{
    Console.WriteLine("{0} - {1} ", str, Regex.IsMatch(str, pattern));
}

Save each sheet in a workbook to separate CSV files

Building on Graham's answer, the extra code saves the workbook back into it's original location in it's original format.

Public Sub SaveWorksheetsAsCsv()

Dim WS As Excel.Worksheet
Dim SaveToDirectory As String

Dim CurrentWorkbook As String
Dim CurrentFormat As Long

 CurrentWorkbook = ThisWorkbook.FullName
 CurrentFormat = ThisWorkbook.FileFormat
' Store current details for the workbook

      SaveToDirectory = "C:\"

      For Each WS In ThisWorkbook.Worksheets
          WS.SaveAs SaveToDirectory & WS.Name, xlCSV
      Next

 Application.DisplayAlerts = False
  ThisWorkbook.SaveAs Filename:=CurrentWorkbook, FileFormat:=CurrentFormat
 Application.DisplayAlerts = True
' Temporarily turn alerts off to prevent the user being prompted
'  about overwriting the original file.

End Sub

How do I find duplicate values in a table in Oracle?

I usually use Oracle Analytic function ROW_NUMBER().

Say you want to check the duplicates you have regarding a unique index or primary key built on columns (c1, c2, c3). Then you will go this way, bringing up ROWID s of rows where the number of lines brought by ROW_NUMBER() is >1:

Select * From Table_With_Duplicates
      Where Rowid In
                    (Select Rowid
                       From (Select Rowid,
                                    ROW_NUMBER() Over (
                                            Partition By c1 || c2 || c3
                                            Order By c1 || c2 || c3
                                        ) nbLines
                               From Table_With_Duplicates) t2
                      Where nbLines > 1)

How to set a border for an HTML div tag

You need to set more fields then just border-width. The style basically puts the border on the page. Width controls the thickness, and color tells it what color to make the border.

border-style: solid; border-width:thin; border-color: #FFFFFF;

How to update a plot in matplotlib?

You can also do like the following: This will draw a 10x1 random matrix data on the plot for 50 cycles of the for loop.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

plt.ion()
for i in range(50):
    y = np.random.random([10,1])
    plt.plot(y)
    plt.draw()
    plt.pause(0.0001)
    plt.clf()

Python: convert string to byte array

encode function can help you here, encode returns an encoded version of the string

In [44]: str = "ABCD"

In [45]: [elem.encode("hex") for elem in str]
Out[45]: ['41', '42', '43', '44']

or you can use array module

In [49]: import array

In [50]: print array.array('B', "ABCD")
array('B', [65, 66, 67, 68])

How to exclude rows that don't join with another table?

If you want to select the columns from First Table "which are also present in Second table, then in this case you can also use EXCEPT. In this case, column names can be different as well but data type should be same.

Example:

select ID, FName
from FirstTable
EXCEPT
select ID, SName
from SecondTable

How can I add new array elements at the beginning of an array in Javascript?

Using ES6 destructuring: (avoiding mutation off the original array)

const newArr = [item, ...oldArr]

Find document with array that contains a specific value

I know this topic is old, but for future people who could wonder the same question, another incredibly inefficient solution could be to do:

PersonModel.find({$where : 'this.favouriteFoods.indexOf("sushi") != -1'});

This avoids all optimisations by MongoDB so do not use in production code.

element with the max height from a set of elements

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Command output redirect to file and terminal

It is worth mentioning that 2>&1 means that standard error will be redirected too, together with standard output. So

someCommand | tee someFile

gives you just the standard output in the file, but not the standard error: standard error will appear in console only. To get standard error in the file too, you can use

someCommand 2>&1 | tee someFile

(source: In the shell, what is " 2>&1 "? ). Finally, both the above commands will truncate the file and start clear. If you use a sequence of commands, you may want to get output&error of all of them, one after another. In this case you can use -a flag to "tee" command:

someCommand 2>&1 | tee -a someFile

SQL Developer is returning only the date, not the time. How do I fix this?

This will get you the hours, minutes and second. hey presto.

select
  to_char(CREATION_TIME,'RRRR') year, 
  to_char(CREATION_TIME,'MM') MONTH, 
  to_char(CREATION_TIME,'DD') DAY, 
  to_char(CREATION_TIME,'HH:MM:SS') TIME,
  sum(bytes) Bytes 
from 
  v$datafile 
group by 
  to_char(CREATION_TIME,'RRRR'), 
  to_char(CREATION_TIME,'MM'), 
  to_char(CREATION_TIME,'DD'), 
  to_char(CREATION_TIME,'HH:MM:SS') 
 ORDER BY 1, 2; 

ReactJS - Call One Component Method From Another Component

Well, actually, React is not suitable for calling child methods from the parent. Some frameworks, like Cycle.js, allow easily access data both from parent and child, and react to it.

Also, there is a good chance you don't really need it. Consider calling it into existing component, it is much more independent solution. But sometimes you still need it, and then you have few choices:

  • Pass method down, if it is a child (the easiest one, and it is one of the passed properties)
  • add events library; in React ecosystem Flux approach is the most known, with Redux library. You separate all events into separated state and actions, and dispatch them from components
  • if you need to use function from the child in a parent component, you can wrap in a third component, and clone parent with augmented props.

UPD: if you need to share some functionality which doesn't involve any state (like static functions in OOP), then there is no need to contain it inside components. Just declare it separately and invoke when need:

let counter = 0;
function handleInstantiate() {
   counter++;
}

constructor(props) {
   super(props);
   handleInstantiate();
}

Cannot install packages using node package manager in Ubuntu

you can create a link ln -s nodejs node in /usr/bin hope this solves your problem.

changing source on html5 video tag

Yaur: Although what you have copied and pasted is good advice, this does not mean that it is impossible to change the source element of an HTML5 video element elegantly, even in IE9 (or IE8 for that matter).(This solution does NOT involve replacing the entire video element, as it is bad coding practice).

A complete solution to changing/switching videos in HTML5 video tags via javascript can be found here and is tested in all HTML5 browser (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE9, etc).

If this helps, or if you're having trouble, please let me know.

How to Lazy Load div background images

I had to deal with this for my responsive website. I have many different backgrounds for the same elements to deal with different screen widths. My solution is very simple, keep all your images scoped to a css selector, like "zoinked".

The logic:

If user scrolls, then load in styles with background images associated with them. Done!

Here's what I wrote in a library I call "zoinked" I dunno why. It just happened ok?

(function(window, document, undefined) {   var Z = function() {
    this.hasScrolled = false;

    if (window.addEventListener) {
      window.addEventListener("scroll", this, false);
    } else {
      this.load();
    }   };
     Z.prototype.handleEvent = function(e) {
    if ($(window).scrollTop() > 2) {
      this.hasScrolled = true;
      window.removeEventListener("scroll", this);
      this.load();
    }   };
     Z.prototype.load = function() {
    $(document.body).addClass("zoinked");   };
     window.Zoink = Z; 
})(window, document);

For the CSS I'll have all my styles like this:

.zoinked #graphic {background-image: url(large.jpg);}

@media(max-width: 480px) {.zoinked #graphic {background-image: url(small.jpg);}}

My technique with this is to load all the images after the top ones as soon as the user starts to scroll. If you wanted more control you could make the "zoinking" more intelligent.

How to convert a String to CharSequence?

CharSequence is an interface and String is its one of the implementations other than StringBuilder, StringBuffer and many other.

So, just as you use InterfaceName i = new ItsImplementation(), you can use CharSequence cs = new String("string") or simply CharSequence cs = "string";

How do I "select Android SDK" in Android Studio?

Finally I reimported the project and it worked.

Functions are not valid as a React child. This may happen if you return a Component instead of from render

Adding to sagiv's answer, we should create the parent component in such a way that it can consist all children components rather than returning the child components in the way you were trying to return.

Try to intentiate the parent component and pass the props inside it so that all children can use it like below

const NewComponent = NewHOC(Movie);

Here NewHOC is the parent component and all its child are going to use movie as props.

But any way, you guyd6 have solved a problem for new react developers as this might be a problem that can come too and here is where they can find the solution for that.

Flutter command not found

You must have .bash_profile file and define flutter path in .bash_profile file.

  1. First of all, if you do not have or do not know .bash_profile, please look my answer: How do I edit $PATH (.bash_profile) on OSX?

  2. You should add below line(.../flutter_SDK_path/flutter/bin) in your .bash_profile

export PATH=$PATH:/home/username/Documents/flutter_SDK_path/flutter/bin

After these steps, you can write flutter codes such as, flutter doctor, flutter build ios, flutter clean or etc. in terminal of Macbook.

@canerkaseler

Does Android support near real time push notification?

The problem with GCM is that there is a lot of configuration involved in the process:

  • You have to add a lot of boilerplate to you Android app
  • You need to configure an external server to comunicate with the GCM server
  • You will have to write tests

If you like simple things (like me) you should try UrbanAirship. It is (IMHO) the easiest way to use GCM in your app without doing a lot of configuration. It also gives you a pretty GUI to test that your GCM messages are being delivered correctly.

  • You can find the docs and getting started guide here
  • You can find a sample application here

Note: I am not afiliated with UrbanAirship in any way

How can I avoid getting this MySQL error Incorrect column specifier for column COLUMN NAME?

To use AUTO_INCREMENT you need to deifne column as INT or floating-point types, not CHAR.

AUTO_INCREMENT use only unsigned value, so it's good to use UNSIGNED as well;

CREATE TABLE discussion_topics (

     topic_id INT NOT NULL unsigned AUTO_INCREMENT,
     project_id char(36) NOT NULL,
     topic_subject VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
     topic_content TEXT default NULL,
     date_created DATETIME NOT NULL,
     date_last_post DATETIME NOT NULL,
     created_by_user_id char(36) NOT NULL,
     last_post_user_id char(36) NOT NULL,
     posts_count char(36) default NULL,
     PRIMARY KEY (topic_id) 
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 AUTO_INCREMENT=1;

Positioning <div> element at center of screen

With transforms being more ubiquitously supported these days, you can do this without knowing the width/height of the popup

.popup {
    position: fixed;
    top: 50%;
    left: 50%;
    -webkit-transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
    transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
}

Easy! JSFiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/LgSZV/

Update: Check out https://css-tricks.com/centering-css-complete-guide/ for a fairly exhaustive guide on CSS centering. Adding it to this answer as it seems to get a lot of eyeballs.

Get name of currently executing test in JUnit 4

A convoluted way is to create your own Runner by subclassing org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.

You can then do something like this:

public class NameAwareRunner extends BlockJUnit4ClassRunner {

    public NameAwareRunner(Class<?> aClass) throws InitializationError {
        super(aClass);
    }

    @Override
    protected Statement methodBlock(FrameworkMethod frameworkMethod) {
        System.err.println(frameworkMethod.getName());
        return super.methodBlock(frameworkMethod);
    }
}

Then for each test class, you'll need to add a @RunWith(NameAwareRunner.class) annotation. Alternatively, you could put that annotation on a Test superclass if you don't want to remember it every time. This, of course, limits your selection of runners but that may be acceptable.

Also, it may take a little bit of kung fu to get the current test name out of the Runner and into your framework, but this at least gets you the name.

Credit card payment gateway in PHP?

The best solution we found was to team up with one of those intermediaries. Otherwise you will have to deal with a bunch of other requirements like PCI compliance. We use Verifone's IPCharge and it works quite well.

How to create module-wide variables in Python?

Here is what is going on.

First, the only global variables Python really has are module-scoped variables. You cannot make a variable that is truly global; all you can do is make a variable in a particular scope. (If you make a variable inside the Python interpreter, and then import other modules, your variable is in the outermost scope and thus global within your Python session.)

All you have to do to make a module-global variable is just assign to a name.

Imagine a file called foo.py, containing this single line:

X = 1

Now imagine you import it.

import foo
print(foo.X)  # prints 1

However, let's suppose you want to use one of your module-scope variables as a global inside a function, as in your example. Python's default is to assume that function variables are local. You simply add a global declaration in your function, before you try to use the global.

def initDB(name):
    global __DBNAME__  # add this line!
    if __DBNAME__ is None: # see notes below; explicit test for None
        __DBNAME__ = name
    else:
        raise RuntimeError("Database name has already been set.")

By the way, for this example, the simple if not __DBNAME__ test is adequate, because any string value other than an empty string will evaluate true, so any actual database name will evaluate true. But for variables that might contain a number value that might be 0, you can't just say if not variablename; in that case, you should explicitly test for None using the is operator. I modified the example to add an explicit None test. The explicit test for None is never wrong, so I default to using it.

Finally, as others have noted on this page, two leading underscores signals to Python that you want the variable to be "private" to the module. If you ever do an import * from mymodule, Python will not import names with two leading underscores into your name space. But if you just do a simple import mymodule and then say dir(mymodule) you will see the "private" variables in the list, and if you explicitly refer to mymodule.__DBNAME__ Python won't care, it will just let you refer to it. The double leading underscores are a major clue to users of your module that you don't want them rebinding that name to some value of their own.

It is considered best practice in Python not to do import *, but to minimize the coupling and maximize explicitness by either using mymodule.something or by explicitly doing an import like from mymodule import something.

EDIT: If, for some reason, you need to do something like this in a very old version of Python that doesn't have the global keyword, there is an easy workaround. Instead of setting a module global variable directly, use a mutable type at the module global level, and store your values inside it.

In your functions, the global variable name will be read-only; you won't be able to rebind the actual global variable name. (If you assign to that variable name inside your function it will only affect the local variable name inside the function.) But you can use that local variable name to access the actual global object, and store data inside it.

You can use a list but your code will be ugly:

__DBNAME__ = [None] # use length-1 list as a mutable

# later, in code:  
if __DBNAME__[0] is None:
    __DBNAME__[0] = name

A dict is better. But the most convenient is a class instance, and you can just use a trivial class:

class Box:
    pass

__m = Box()  # m will contain all module-level values
__m.dbname = None  # database name global in module

# later, in code:
if __m.dbname is None:
    __m.dbname = name

(You don't really need to capitalize the database name variable.)

I like the syntactic sugar of just using __m.dbname rather than __m["DBNAME"]; it seems the most convenient solution in my opinion. But the dict solution works fine also.

With a dict you can use any hashable value as a key, but when you are happy with names that are valid identifiers, you can use a trivial class like Box in the above.

Remove xticks in a matplotlib plot?

Try this to remove the labels (but not the ticks):

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.setp( ax.get_xticklabels(), visible=False)

example

The type or namespace name could not be found

In my case I had:

Referenced DLL : .NET 4.5

Project : .NET 4.0

Because of the above mismatch, the 4.0 project couldn't see inside the namespace of the 4.5 .DLL. I recompiled the .DLL to target .NET 4.0 and I was fine.

How to declare local variables in postgresql?

Postgresql historically doesn't support procedural code at the command level - only within functions. However, in Postgresql 9, support has been added to execute an inline code block that effectively supports something like this, although the syntax is perhaps a bit odd, and there are many restrictions compared to what you can do with SQL Server. Notably, the inline code block can't return a result set, so can't be used for what you outline above.

In general, if you want to write some procedural code and have it return a result, you need to put it inside a function. For example:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION somefuncname() RETURNS int LANGUAGE plpgsql AS $$
DECLARE
  one int;
  two int;
BEGIN
  one := 1;
  two := 2;
  RETURN one + two;
END
$$;
SELECT somefuncname();

The PostgreSQL wire protocol doesn't, as far as I know, allow for things like a command returning multiple result sets. So you can't simply map T-SQL batches or stored procedures to PostgreSQL functions.

Using Google maps API v3 how do I get LatLng with a given address?

I don't think location.LatLng is working, however this works:

results[0].geometry.location.lat(), results[0].geometry.location.lng()

Found it while exploring Get Lat Lon source code.

What is the maximum float in Python?

If you are using numpy, you can use dtype 'float128' and get a max float of 10e+4931

>>> np.finfo(np.float128)
finfo(resolution=1e-18, min=-1.18973149536e+4932, max=1.18973149536e+4932, dtype=float128)

Convert R vector to string vector of 1 element

Use the collapse argument to paste:

paste(a,collapse=" ")
[1] "aa bb cc"

Android getActivity() is undefined

You want getActivity() inside your class. It's better to use

yourclassname.this.getActivity()

Try this. It's helpful for you.

Pass array to mvc Action via AJAX

IF ALL ELSE FAILS...

None of the other answers here solved my problem. I was attempting to make a GET method call from JavaScript to an MVC Web API controller, and to send an array of integers as a parameter within that request. I tried all the solutions here, but still the parameter on my controller was coming up NULL (or Nothing for you VB users).

I eventually found my solution in a different SO post, and it was actually really simple: Just add the [FromUri] annotation before the array parameter in the controller (I also had to make the call using the "traditional" AJAX setting to avoid bracket annotations). See below for the actual code I used in my application.


Controller Signature:

Controller Signature NOTE: The annotation in C# would be [FromUri]


JavaScript:

$.get('/api/InventoryApi/GetBalanceField', $.param({productIds: [42], inventoryFormId: 5493, inventoryBalanceType: 'Beginning'},true)).done(function(data) {console.log(data);});

Actual URL String:

http://randomhostname/api/InventoryApi/GetBalanceField?productIds=42&inventoryFormId=5493&inventoryBalanceType=Beginning

How to automatically update an application without ClickOnce?

The most common way would be to put a simple text file (XML/JSON would be better) on your webserver with the last build version. The application will then download this file, check the version and start the updater. A typical file would look like this:

Application Update File (A unique string that will let your application recognize the file type)

version: 1.0.0 (Latest Assembly Version)

download: http://yourserver.com/... (A link to the download version)

redirect: http://yournewserver.com/... (I used this field in case of a change in the server address.)

This would let the client know that they need to be looking at a new address.

You can also add other important details.

Get element of JS object with an index

I know it's a late answer, but I think this is what OP asked for.

myobj[Object.keys(myobj)[0]];

Python re.sub replace with matched content

A backreference to the whole match value is \g<0>, see re.sub documentation:

The backreference \g<0> substitutes in the entire substring matched by the RE.

See the Python demo:

import re
method = 'images/:id/huge'
print(re.sub(r':[a-z]+', r'<span>\g<0></span>', method))
# => images/<span>:id</span>/huge

How to initialize a static array?

Nope, no difference. It's just syntactic sugar. Arrays.asList(..) creates an additional list.

WCF vs ASP.NET Web API

The new ASP.NET Web API is a continuation of the previous WCF Web API project (although some of the concepts have changed).

WCF was originally created to enable SOAP-based services. For simpler RESTful or RPCish services (think clients like jQuery) ASP.NET Web API should be good choice.


For us, WCF is used for SOAP and Web API for REST. I wish Web API supported SOAP too. We are not using advanced features of WCF. Here is comparison from MSDN:

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ASP.net Web API is all about HTTP and REST based GET,POST,PUT,DELETE with well know ASP.net MVC style of programming and JSON returnable; web API is for all the light weight process and pure HTTP based components. For one to go ahead with WCF even for simple or simplest single web service it will bring all the extra baggage. For light weight simple service for ajax or dynamic calls always WebApi just solves the need. This neatly complements or helps in parallel to the ASP.net MVC.

Check out the podcast : Hanselminutes Podcast 264 - This is not your father's WCF - All about the WebAPI with Glenn Block by Scott Hanselman for more information.


In the scenarios listed below you should go for WCF:

  1. If you need to send data on protocols like TCP, MSMQ or MIME
  2. If the consuming client just knows how to consume SOAP messages

WEB API is a framework for developing RESTful/HTTP services.

There are so many clients that do not understand SOAP like Browsers, HTML5, in those cases WEB APIs are a good choice.

HTTP services header specifies how to secure service, how to cache the information, type of the message body and HTTP body can specify any type of content like HTML not just XML as SOAP services.

Differences Between vbLf, vbCrLf & vbCr Constants

The three constants have similar functions nowadays, but different historical origins, and very occasionally you may be required to use one or the other.

You need to think back to the days of old manual typewriters to get the origins of this. There are two distinct actions needed to start a new line of text:

  1. move the typing head back to the left. In practice in a typewriter this is done by moving the roll which carries the paper (the "carriage") all the way back to the right -- the typing head is fixed. This is a carriage return.
  2. move the paper up by the width of one line. This is a line feed.

In computers, these two actions are represented by two different characters - carriage return is CR, ASCII character 13, vbCr; line feed is LF, ASCII character 10, vbLf. In the old days of teletypes and line printers, the printer needed to be sent these two characters -- traditionally in the sequence CRLF -- to start a new line, and so the CRLF combination -- vbCrLf -- became a traditional line ending sequence, in some computing environments.

The problem was, of course, that it made just as much sense to only use one character to mark the line ending, and have the terminal or printer perform both the carriage return and line feed actions automatically. And so before you knew it, we had 3 different valid line endings: LF alone (used in Unix and Macintoshes), CR alone (apparently used in older Mac OSes) and the CRLF combination (used in DOS, and hence in Windows). This in turn led to the complications of DOS / Windows programs having the option of opening files in text mode, where any CRLF pair read from the file was converted to a single CR (and vice versa when writing).

So - to cut a (much too) long story short - there are historical reasons for the existence of the three separate line separators, which are now often irrelevant: and perhaps the best course of action in .NET is to use Environment.NewLine which means someone else has decided for you which to use, and future portability issues should be reduced.

Access to the path denied error in C#

I had this issue for longer than I would like to admit.

I simply just needed to run VS as an administrator, rookie mistake on my part...

Hope this helps someone <3

run program in Python shell

For newer version of python:

exec(open(filename).read())

Git Ignores and Maven targets

The .gitignore file in the root directory does apply to all subdirectories. Mine looks like this:

.classpath
.project
.settings/
target/

This is in a multi-module maven project. All the submodules are imported as individual eclipse projects using m2eclipse. I have no further .gitignore files. Indeed, if you look in the gitignore man page:

Patterns read from a .gitignore file in the same directory as the path, or in any parent directory

So this should work for you.

What is the benefit of zerofill in MySQL?

It helps in correct sorting in the case that you will need to concatenate this "integer" with something else (another number or text) which will require to be sorted as a "text" then.

for example,

if you will need to use the integer field numbers (let's say 5) concatenated as A-005 or 10/0005

How to calculate modulus of large numbers?

Jason's answer in Java (note i < exp).

private static void testModulus() {
    int bse = 5, exp = 55, mod = 221;

    int a1 = bse % mod;
    int p = 1;

    System.out.println("1. " + (p % mod) + " * " + bse + " = " + (p % mod) * bse + " mod " + mod);

    for (int i = 1; i < exp; i++) {
        p *= a1;
        System.out.println((i + 1) + ". " + (p % mod) + " * " + bse + " = " + ((p % mod) * bse) % mod + " mod " + mod);
        p = (p % mod);
    }

}

Rolling back local and remote git repository by 1 commit

Set the local branch one revision back (HEAD^ means one revision back):

git reset --hard HEAD^

Push the changes to origin:

git push --force

You will have to force pushing because otherwise git would recognize that you're behind origin by one commit and nothing will change.

Doing it with --force tells git to overwrite HEAD in the remote repo without respecting any advances there.

Shell Script Syntax Error: Unexpected End of File

You've got an unclosed quote, brace, bracket, if, loop, or something.

If you can't see it just by looking (I'd recommend a syntax colouring editor and a neat indentation style), take a copy of the script, and delete half of it, cutting it of somewhere that ought to be valid. If the script runs, as far as it can, then the problem is in the other half. Repeat until you've narrowed down the problem.

How to add/update an attribute to an HTML element using JavaScript?

You can read here about the behaviour of attributes in many different browsers, including IE.

element.setAttribute() should do the trick, even in IE. Did you try it? If it doesn't work, then maybe element.attributeName = 'value' might work.

JSLint is suddenly reporting: Use the function form of "use strict"

There's nothing innately wrong with the string form.

Rather than avoid the "global" strict form for worry of concatenating non-strict javascript, it's probably better to just fix the damn non-strict javascript to be strict.

Ubuntu: OpenJDK 8 - Unable to locate package

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get  install openjdk-8-jdk

this should work

How do I use typedef and typedef enum in C?

typedef enum state {DEAD,ALIVE} State;
|     | |                     | |   |^ terminating semicolon, required! 
|     | |   type specifier    | |   |
|     | |                     | ^^^^^  declarator (simple name)
|     | |                     |    
|     | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  
|     |
^^^^^^^-- storage class specifier (in this case typedef)

The typedef keyword is a pseudo-storage-class specifier. Syntactically, it is used in the same place where a storage class specifier like extern or static is used. It doesn't have anything to do with storage. It means that the declaration doesn't introduce the existence of named objects, but rather, it introduces names which are type aliases.

After the above declaration, the State identifier becomes an alias for the type enum state {DEAD,ALIVE}. The declaration also provides that type itself. However that isn't typedef doing it. Any declaration in which enum state {DEAD,ALIVE} appears as a type specifier introduces that type into the scope:

enum state {DEAD, ALIVE} stateVariable;

If enum state has previously been introduced the typedef has to be written like this:

typedef enum state State;

otherwise the enum is being redefined, which is an error.

Like other declarations (except function parameter declarations), the typedef declaration can have multiple declarators, separated by a comma. Moreover, they can be derived declarators, not only simple names:

typedef unsigned long ulong, *ulongptr;
|     | |           | |  1 | |   2   |
|     | |           | |    | ^^^^^^^^^--- "pointer to" declarator
|     | |           | ^^^^^^------------- simple declarator
|     | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^-------------------- specifier-qualifier list
^^^^^^^---------------------------------- storage class specifier

This typedef introduces two type names ulong and ulongptr, based on the unsigned long type given in the specifier-qualifier list. ulong is just a straight alias for that type. ulongptr is declared as a pointer to unsigned long, thanks to the * syntax, which in this role is a kind of type construction operator which deliberately mimics the unary * for pointer dereferencing used in expressions. In other words ulongptr is an alias for the "pointer to unsigned long" type.

Alias means that ulongptr is not a distinct type from unsigned long *. This is valid code, requiring no diagnostic:

unsigned long *p = 0;
ulongptr q = p;

The variables q and p have exactly the same type.

The aliasing of typedef isn't textual. For instance if user_id_t is a typedef name for the type int, we may not simply do this:

unsigned user_id_t uid;  // error! programmer hoped for "unsigned int uid". 

This is an invalid type specifier list, combining unsigned with a typedef name. The above can be done using the C preprocessor:

#define user_id_t int
unsigned user_id_t uid;

whereby user_id_t is macro-expanded to the token int prior to syntax analysis and translation. While this may seem like an advantage, it is a false one; avoid this in new programs.

Among the disadvantages that it doesn't work well for derived types:

 #define silly_macro int *

 silly_macro not, what, you, think;

This declaration doesn't declare what, you and think as being of type "pointer to int" because the macro-expansion is:

 int * not, what, you, think;

The type specifier is int, and the declarators are *not, what, you and think. So not has the expected pointer type, but the remaining identifiers do not.

And that's probably 99% of everything about typedef and type aliasing in C.

Include headers when using SELECT INTO OUTFILE?

I think if you use a UNION it will work:

select 'header 1', 'header 2', ...
union
select col1, col2, ... from ...

I don't know of a way to specify the headers with the INTO OUTFILE syntax directly.

How to print a string in C++

If you'd like to use printf(), you might want to also:

#include <stdio.h>

'Conda' is not recognized as internal or external command

If you have a newer version of the Anaconda Navigator, open the Anaconda Prompt program that came in the install. Type all the usual conda update/conda install commands there.

I think the answers above explain this, but I could have used a very simple instruction like this. Perhaps it will help others.

css selector to match an element without attribute x

:not selector:

input:not([type]), input[type='text'], input[type='password'] {
    /* style here */
}

Support: in Internet Explorer 9 and higher

Python script to copy text to clipboard

GTK3:

#!/usr/bin/python3

from gi.repository import Gtk, Gdk


class Hello(Gtk.Window):

    def __init__(self):
        super(Hello, self).__init__()
        clipboard = Gtk.Clipboard.get(Gdk.SELECTION_CLIPBOARD)
        clipboard.set_text("hello world", -1)
        Gtk.main_quit()


def main():
    Hello()
    Gtk.main()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

How does createOrReplaceTempView work in Spark?

SparkSQl support writing programs using Dataset and Dataframe API, along with it need to support sql.

In order to support Sql on DataFrames, first it requires a table definition with column names are required, along with if it creates tables the hive metastore will get lot unnecessary tables, because Spark-Sql natively resides on hive. So it will create a temporary view, which temporarily available in hive for time being and used as any other hive table, once the Spark Context stop it will be removed.

In order to create the view, developer need an utility called createOrReplaceTempView

sqlite3.ProgrammingError: Incorrect number of bindings supplied. The current statement uses 1, and there are 74 supplied

cursor.execute(sql,array)

Only takes two arguments.
It will iterate the "array"-object and match ? in the sql-string.
(with sanity checks to avoid sql-injection)

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'appendChild' of null

Use querySelector insted of getElementById();

var c = document.querySelector('#mainContent');
    c.appendChild(document.createElement('div'));

How to make all controls resize accordingly proportionally when window is maximized?

Just thought i'd share this with anyone who needs more clarity on how to achieve this:

myCanvas is a Canvas control and Parent to all other controllers. This code works to neatly resize to any resolution from 1366 x 768 upward. Tested up to 4k resolution 4096 x 2160

Take note of all the MainWindow property settings (WindowStartupLocation, SizeToContent and WindowState) - important for this to work correctly - WindowState for my user case requirement was Maximized

xaml

<Window x:Name="mainWindow" 
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    xmlns:local="clr-namespace:MyApp" 
    xmlns:ed="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/2010/drawing"
    xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008" xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" mc:Ignorable="d"
    x:Class="MyApp.MainWindow" 
     Title="MainWindow"  SizeChanged="MainWindow_SizeChanged"
    Width="1366" Height="768" WindowState="Maximized" WindowStartupLocation="CenterOwner" SizeToContent="WidthAndHeight">
  
    <Canvas x:Name="myCanvas" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="768" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="1356">
        <Image x:Name="maxresdefault_1_1__jpg" Source="maxresdefault-1[1].jpg" Stretch="Fill" Opacity="0.6" Height="767" Canvas.Left="-6" Width="1366"/>

        <Separator Margin="0" Background="#FF302D2D" Foreground="#FF111010" Height="0" Canvas.Left="-811" Canvas.Top="148" Width="766"/>
        <Separator Margin="0" Background="#FF302D2D" Foreground="#FF111010" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Width="210" Height="0" Canvas.Left="1653" Canvas.Top="102"/>
        <Image x:Name="imgscroll" Source="BcaKKb47i[1].png" Stretch="Fill" RenderTransformOrigin="0.5,0.5" Height="523" Canvas.Left="-3" Canvas.Top="122" Width="580">
            <Image.RenderTransform>
                <TransformGroup>
                    <ScaleTransform/>
                    <SkewTransform/>
                    <RotateTransform Angle="89.093"/>
                    <TranslateTransform/>
                </TransformGroup>
            </Image.RenderTransform>
        </Image>

.cs

 private void MainWindow_SizeChanged(object sender, SizeChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        myCanvas.Width = e.NewSize.Width;
        myCanvas.Height = e.NewSize.Height;

        double xChange = 1, yChange = 1;

        if (e.PreviousSize.Width != 0)
            xChange = (e.NewSize.Width / e.PreviousSize.Width);

        if (e.PreviousSize.Height != 0)
            yChange = (e.NewSize.Height / e.PreviousSize.Height);

        ScaleTransform scale = new ScaleTransform(myCanvas.LayoutTransform.Value.M11 * xChange, myCanvas.LayoutTransform.Value.M22 * yChange);
        myCanvas.LayoutTransform = scale;
        myCanvas.UpdateLayout();
    }

Which Java library provides base64 encoding/decoding?

Java 9

Use the Java 8 solution. Note DatatypeConverter can still be used, but it is now within the java.xml.bind module which will need to be included.

module org.example.foo {
    requires java.xml.bind;
}

Java 8

Java 8 now provides java.util.Base64 for encoding and decoding base64.

Encoding

byte[] message = "hello world".getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
String encoded = Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(message);
System.out.println(encoded);
// => aGVsbG8gd29ybGQ=

Decoding

byte[] decoded = Base64.getDecoder().decode("aGVsbG8gd29ybGQ=");
System.out.println(new String(decoded, StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
// => hello world

Java 6 and 7

Since Java 6 the lesser known class javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter can be used. This is part of the JRE, no extra libraries required.

Encoding

byte[] message = "hello world".getBytes("UTF-8");
String encoded = DatatypeConverter.printBase64Binary(message);
System.out.println(encoded);
// => aGVsbG8gd29ybGQ=  

Decoding

byte[] decoded = DatatypeConverter.parseBase64Binary("aGVsbG8gd29ybGQ=");
System.out.println(new String(decoded, "UTF-8"));
// => hello world

Checking if a file is a directory or just a file

Normally you want to perform this check atomically with using the result, so stat() is useless. Instead, open() the file read-only first and use fstat(). If it's a directory, you can then use fdopendir() to read it. Or you can try opening it for writing to begin with, and the open will fail if it's a directory. Some systems (POSIX 2008, Linux) also have an O_DIRECTORY extension to open which makes the call fail if the name is not a directory.

Your method with opendir() is also good if you want a directory, but you should not close it afterwards; you should go ahead and use it.

Turning a Comma Separated string into individual rows

select t.OtherID,x.Kod
    from testData t
    cross apply (select Code from dbo.Split(t.Data,',') ) x

Jquery validation plugin - TypeError: $(...).validate is not a function

I had the same problem. I am using jquery-validation as an npm module and the fix for me was to require the module at the start of my js file:

require('jquery-validation');

Error Installing Homebrew - Brew Command Not Found

You can use this:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)" 

to install homebrew.

Type datetime for input parameter in procedure

You should use the ISO-8601 format for string representations of dates - anything else is dependent on the SQL Server language and dateformat settings.

The ISO-8601 format for a DATETIME when using only the date is: YYYYMMDD (no dashes or antyhing!)

For a DATETIME with the time portion, it's YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS (with dashes, and a T in the middle to separate date and time portions).

If you want to convert a string to a DATE for SQL Server 2008 or newer, you can use YYYY-MM-DD (with the dashes) to achieve the same result. And don't ask me why this is so inconsistent and confusing - it just is, and you'll have to work with that for now.

So in your case, you should try:

declare @a datetime
declare @b datetime 

set @a = '2012-04-06T12:23:45'   -- 6th of April, 2012
set @b = '2012-08-06T21:10:12'   -- 6th of August, 2012

exec LogProcedure 'AccountLog', N'test', @a, @b

Furthermore - your stored proc has problem, since you're concatenating together datetime and string into a string, but you're not converting the datetime to string first, and also, you're forgetting the close quotes in your statement after both dates.

So change this line here to this:

IF @DateFirst <> '' and @DateLast <> ''
   SET @FinalSQL  = @FinalSQL + '  OR CONVERT(Date, DateLog) >= ''' + 
                    CONVERT(VARCHAR(50), @DateFirst, 126) +   -- convert @DateFirst to string for concatenation!
                    ''' AND CONVERT(Date, DateLog) <=''' +  -- you need closing quotes after @DateFirst!
                    CONVERT(VARCHAR(50), @DateLast, 126) + ''''      -- convert @DateLast to string and also: closing tags after that missing!

With these settings, and once you've fixed your stored procedure which contains problems right now, it will work.

Center Oversized Image in Div

Do not use fixed or an explicit width or height to the image tag. Instead, code it:

      max-width:100%;
      max-height:100%;

ex: http://jsfiddle.net/xwrvxser/1/

How do you check what version of SQL Server for a database using TSQL?

For SQL Server 2000 and above, I prefer the following parsing of Joe's answer:

declare @sqlVers numeric(4,2)
select @sqlVers = left(cast(serverproperty('productversion') as varchar), 4)

Gives results as follows:

Result   Server Version
8.00     SQL 2000
9.00     SQL 2005
10.00    SQL 2008
10.50    SQL 2008R2
11.00    SQL 2012
12.00    SQL 2014

Basic list of version numbers here, or exhaustive list from Microsoft here.

How to calculate rolling / moving average using NumPy / SciPy?

Here are a variety of ways to do this, along with some benchmarks. The best methods are versions using optimized code from other libraries. The bottleneck.move_mean method is probably best all around. The scipy.convolve approach is also very fast, extensible, and syntactically and conceptually simple, but doesn't scale well for very large window values. The numpy.cumsum method is good if you need a pure numpy approach.

Note: Some of these (e.g. bottleneck.move_mean) are not centered, and will shift your data.

import numpy as np
import scipy as sci
import scipy.signal as sig
import pandas as pd
import bottleneck as bn
import time as time

def rollavg_direct(a,n): 
    'Direct "for" loop'
    assert n%2==1
    b = a*0.0
    for i in range(len(a)) :
        b[i]=a[max(i-n//2,0):min(i+n//2+1,len(a))].mean()
    return b

def rollavg_comprehension(a,n):
    'List comprehension'
    assert n%2==1
    r,N = int(n/2),len(a)
    return np.array([a[max(i-r,0):min(i+r+1,N)].mean() for i in range(N)]) 

def rollavg_convolve(a,n):
    'scipy.convolve'
    assert n%2==1
    return sci.convolve(a,np.ones(n,dtype='float')/n, 'same')[n//2:-n//2+1]  

def rollavg_convolve_edges(a,n):
    'scipy.convolve, edge handling'
    assert n%2==1
    return sci.convolve(a,np.ones(n,dtype='float'), 'same')/sci.convolve(np.ones(len(a)),np.ones(n), 'same')  

def rollavg_cumsum(a,n):
    'numpy.cumsum'
    assert n%2==1
    cumsum_vec = np.cumsum(np.insert(a, 0, 0)) 
    return (cumsum_vec[n:] - cumsum_vec[:-n]) / n

def rollavg_cumsum_edges(a,n):
    'numpy.cumsum, edge handling'
    assert n%2==1
    N = len(a)
    cumsum_vec = np.cumsum(np.insert(np.pad(a,(n-1,n-1),'constant'), 0, 0)) 
    d = np.hstack((np.arange(n//2+1,n),np.ones(N-n)*n,np.arange(n,n//2,-1)))  
    return (cumsum_vec[n+n//2:-n//2+1] - cumsum_vec[n//2:-n-n//2]) / d

def rollavg_roll(a,n):
    'Numpy array rolling'
    assert n%2==1
    N = len(a)
    rolling_idx = np.mod((N-1)*np.arange(n)[:,None] + np.arange(N), N)
    return a[rolling_idx].mean(axis=0)[n-1:] 

def rollavg_roll_edges(a,n):
    # see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42101082/fast-numpy-roll
    'Numpy array rolling, edge handling'
    assert n%2==1
    a = np.pad(a,(0,n-1-n//2), 'constant')*np.ones(n)[:,None]
    m = a.shape[1]
    idx = np.mod((m-1)*np.arange(n)[:,None] + np.arange(m), m) # Rolling index
    out = a[np.arange(-n//2,n//2)[:,None], idx]
    d = np.hstack((np.arange(1,n),np.ones(m-2*n+1+n//2)*n,np.arange(n,n//2,-1)))
    return (out.sum(axis=0)/d)[n//2:]

def rollavg_pandas(a,n):
    'Pandas rolling average'
    return pd.DataFrame(a).rolling(n, center=True, min_periods=1).mean().to_numpy()

def rollavg_bottlneck(a,n):
    'bottleneck.move_mean'
    return bn.move_mean(a, window=n, min_count=1)

N = 10**6
a = np.random.rand(N)
functions = [rollavg_direct, rollavg_comprehension, rollavg_convolve, 
        rollavg_convolve_edges, rollavg_cumsum, rollavg_cumsum_edges, 
        rollavg_pandas, rollavg_bottlneck, rollavg_roll, rollavg_roll_edges]

print('Small window (n=3)')
%load_ext memory_profiler
for f in functions : 
    print('\n'+f.__doc__+ ' : ')
    %timeit b=f(a,3)

print('\nLarge window (n=1001)')
for f in functions[0:-2] : 
    print('\n'+f.__doc__+ ' : ')
    %timeit b=f(a,1001)

print('\nMemory\n')
print('Small window (n=3)')
N = 10**7
a = np.random.rand(N)
%load_ext memory_profiler
for f in functions[2:] : 
    print('\n'+f.__doc__+ ' : ')
    %memit b=f(a,3)

print('\nLarge window (n=1001)')
for f in functions[2:-2] : 
    print('\n'+f.__doc__+ ' : ')
    %memit b=f(a,1001)

Timing, Small window (n=3)

Direct "for" loop : 

4.14 s ± 23.7 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)

List comprehension : 
3.96 s ± 27.9 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)

scipy.convolve : 
1.07 ms ± 26.7 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1000 loops each)

scipy.convolve, edge handling : 
4.68 ms ± 9.69 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100 loops each)

numpy.cumsum : 
5.31 ms ± 5.11 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100 loops each)

numpy.cumsum, edge handling : 
8.52 ms ± 11.1 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100 loops each)

Pandas rolling average : 
9.85 ms ± 9.63 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100 loops each)

bottleneck.move_mean : 
1.3 ms ± 12.2 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100 loops each)

Numpy array rolling : 
31.3 ms ± 91.9 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10 loops each)

Numpy array rolling, edge handling : 
61.1 ms ± 55.9 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10 loops each)

Timing, Large window (n=1001)

Direct "for" loop : 
4.67 s ± 34 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)

List comprehension : 
4.46 s ± 14.6 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)

scipy.convolve : 
103 ms ± 165 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 10 loops each)

scipy.convolve, edge handling : 
272 ms ± 1.23 ms per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)

numpy.cumsum : 
5.19 ms ± 12.4 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100 loops each)

numpy.cumsum, edge handling : 
8.7 ms ± 11.5 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100 loops each)

Pandas rolling average : 
9.67 ms ± 199 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100 loops each)

bottleneck.move_mean : 
1.31 ms ± 15.7 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100 loops each)

Memory, Small window (n=3)

The memory_profiler extension is already loaded. To reload it, use:
  %reload_ext memory_profiler

scipy.convolve : 
peak memory: 362.66 MiB, increment: 73.61 MiB

scipy.convolve, edge handling : 
peak memory: 510.24 MiB, increment: 221.19 MiB

numpy.cumsum : 
peak memory: 441.81 MiB, increment: 152.76 MiB

numpy.cumsum, edge handling : 
peak memory: 518.14 MiB, increment: 228.84 MiB

Pandas rolling average : 
peak memory: 449.34 MiB, increment: 160.02 MiB

bottleneck.move_mean : 
peak memory: 374.17 MiB, increment: 75.54 MiB

Numpy array rolling : 
peak memory: 661.29 MiB, increment: 362.65 MiB

Numpy array rolling, edge handling : 
peak memory: 1111.25 MiB, increment: 812.61 MiB

Memory, Large window (n=1001)

scipy.convolve : 
peak memory: 370.62 MiB, increment: 71.83 MiB

scipy.convolve, edge handling : 
peak memory: 521.98 MiB, increment: 223.18 MiB

numpy.cumsum : 
peak memory: 451.32 MiB, increment: 152.52 MiB

numpy.cumsum, edge handling : 
peak memory: 527.51 MiB, increment: 228.71 MiB

Pandas rolling average : 
peak memory: 451.25 MiB, increment: 152.50 MiB

bottleneck.move_mean : 
peak memory: 374.64 MiB, increment: 75.85 MiB

Is it possible to decrypt SHA1

Since SHA-1 maps several byte sequences to one, you can't "decrypt" a hash, but in theory you can find collisions: strings that have the same hash.

It seems that breaking a single hash would cost about 2.7 million dollars worth of computer time currently, so your efforts are probably better spent somewhere else.

Can linux cat command be used for writing text to file?

That's what echo does:

echo "Some text here." > myfile.txt

Print debugging info from stored procedure in MySQL

I usually create log table with a stored procedure to log to it. The call the logging procedure wherever needed from the procedure under development.

Looking at other posts on this same question, it seems like a common practice, although there are some alternatives.

Retrieve column names from java.sql.ResultSet

@Cyntech is right.

Incase your table is empty and you still need to get table column names you can get your column as type Vector,see the following:

ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT a, b, c FROM TABLE2");
ResultSetMetaData rsmd = rs.getMetaData();
int columnCount = rsmd.getColumnCount();

Vector<Vector<String>>tableVector = new Vector<Vector<String>>(); 
boolean isTableEmpty = true;
int col = 0;

 while(rs.next())
    {
      isTableEmpty = false;  //set to false since rs.next has data: this means the table is not empty
       if(col != columnCount)
          {
            for(int x = 1;x <= columnCount;x++){
                 Vector<String> tFields = new Vector<String>(); 
                 tFields.add(rsmd.getColumnName(x).toString());
                 tableVector.add(tFields);
             }
            col = columnCount;
          }
     } 


      //if table is empty then get column names only
  if(isTableEmpty){  
      for(int x=1;x<=colCount;x++){
           Vector<String> tFields = new Vector<String>(); 
           tFields.add(rsmd.getColumnName(x).toString());
           tableVector.add(tFields);
        }
      }

 rs.close();
 stmt.close();

 return tableVector; 

Adding a caption to an equation in LaTeX

The \caption command is restricted to floats: you will need to place the equation in a figure or table environment (or a new kind of floating environment). For example:

\begin{figure}
\[ E = m c^2 \]
\caption{A famous equation}
\end{figure}

The point of floats is that you let LaTeX determine their placement. If you want to equation to appear in a fixed position, don't use a float. The \captionof command of the caption package can be used to place a caption outside of a floating environment. It is used like this:

\[ E = m c^2 \]
\captionof{figure}{A famous equation}

This will also produce an entry for the \listoffigures, if your document has one.

To align parts of an equation, take a look at the eqnarray environment, or some of the environments of the amsmath package: align, gather, multiline,...

header location not working in my php code

That is because you have an output:

?>
<?php

results in blank line output.

header() must be called before any actual output is sent, either by normal HTML tags, blank lines in a file, or from PHP

Combine all your PHP codes and make sure you don't have any spaces at the beginning of the file.

also after header('location: index.php'); add exit(); if you have any other scripts bellow.

Also move your redirect header after the last if.

If there is content, then you can also redirect by injecting javascript:

<?php
    echo "<script>window.location.href='target.php';</script>";
    exit;
?>

Process with an ID #### is not running in visual studio professional 2013 update 3

For me, VS uses Firefox for the default browser. Restarting VS and closing all Firefox windows seems to resolve this issue.

Parsing command-line arguments in C

With C++, the answer is usually in Boost...

Boost.Program Options

OpenCV & Python - Image too big to display

In opencv, cv.namedWindow() just creates a window object as you determine, but not resizing the original image. You can use cv2.resize(img, resolution) to solve the problem.

Here's what it displays, a 740 * 411 resolution image. The original image

image = cv2.imread("740*411.jpg")
cv2.imshow("image", image)
cv2.waitKey(0)
cv2.destroyAllWindows()

Here, it displays a 100 * 200 resolution image after resizing. Remember the resolution parameter use column first then is row.

Image after resizing

image = cv2.imread("740*411.jpg")
image = cv2.resize(image, (200, 100))
cv2.imshow("image", image)
cv2.waitKey(0)
cv2.destroyAllWindows()

How to parse a query string into a NameValueCollection in .NET

HttpUtility.ParseQueryString will work as long as you are in a web app or don't mind including a dependency on System.Web. Another way to do this is:

NameValueCollection queryParameters = new NameValueCollection();
string[] querySegments = queryString.Split('&');
foreach(string segment in querySegments)
{
   string[] parts = segment.Split('=');
   if (parts.Length > 0)
   {
      string key = parts[0].Trim(new char[] { '?', ' ' });
      string val = parts[1].Trim();

      queryParameters.Add(key, val);
   }
}

Laravel - Route::resource vs Route::controller

RESTful Resource controller

A RESTful resource controller sets up some default routes for you and even names them.

Route::resource('users', 'UsersController');

Gives you these named routes:

Verb          Path                        Action  Route Name
GET           /users                      index   users.index
GET           /users/create               create  users.create
POST          /users                      store   users.store
GET           /users/{user}               show    users.show
GET           /users/{user}/edit          edit    users.edit
PUT|PATCH     /users/{user}               update  users.update
DELETE        /users/{user}               destroy users.destroy

And you would set up your controller something like this (actions = methods)

class UsersController extends BaseController {

    public function index() {}

    public function show($id) {}

    public function store() {}

}

You can also choose what actions are included or excluded like this:

Route::resource('users', 'UsersController', [
    'only' => ['index', 'show']
]);

Route::resource('monkeys', 'MonkeysController', [
    'except' => ['edit', 'create']
]);

API Resource controller

Laravel 5.5 added another method for dealing with routes for resource controllers. API Resource Controller acts exactly like shown above, but does not register create and edit routes. It is meant to be used for ease of mapping routes used in RESTful APIs - where you typically do not have any kind of data located in create nor edit methods.

Route::apiResource('users', 'UsersController');

RESTful Resource Controller documentation


Implicit controller

An Implicit controller is more flexible. You get routed to your controller methods based on the HTTP request type and name. However, you don't have route names defined for you and it will catch all subfolders for the same route.

Route::controller('users', 'UserController');

Would lead you to set up the controller with a sort of RESTful naming scheme:

class UserController extends BaseController {

    public function getIndex()
    {
        // GET request to index
    }

    public function getShow($id)
    {
        // get request to 'users/show/{id}'
    }

    public function postStore()
    {
        // POST request to 'users/store'
    }

}

Implicit Controller documentation


It is good practice to use what you need, as per your preference. I personally don't like the Implicit controllers, because they can be messy, don't provide names and can be confusing when using php artisan routes. I typically use RESTful Resource controllers in combination with explicit routes.

Should I use SVN or Git?

Definitely svn, since Windows is—at best—a second-class citizen in the world of git (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)#Portability for more details).

UPDATE: Sorry for the broken link, but I've given up trying to get SO to work with URIs that contain parentheses. [link fixed now. -ed]

Wireshark vs Firebug vs Fiddler - pros and cons?

None of the above, if you are on a Mac. Use Charles Proxy. It's the best network/request information collecter that I have ever come across. You can view and edit all outgoing requests, and see the responses from those requests in several forms, depending on the type of the response. It costs 50 dollars for a license, but you can download the trial version and see what you think.

If your on Windows, then I would just stay with Fiddler.

Converting double to string

Using Double.toString(), if the number is too small or too large, you will get a scientific notation like this: 3.4875546345347673E-6. There are several ways to have more control of output string format.

double num = 0.000074635638;
// use Double.toString()
System.out.println(Double.toString(num));
// result: 7.4635638E-5

// use String.format
System.out.println(String.format ("%f", num));
// result: 0.000075
System.out.println(String.format ("%.9f", num));
// result: 0.000074636

// use DecimalFormat
DecimalFormat decimalFormat = new DecimalFormat("#,##0.000000");
String numberAsString = decimalFormat.format(num);
System.out.println(numberAsString);
// result: 0.000075

Use String.format() will be the best convenient way.

Can't install gems on OS X "El Capitan"

sudo gem install -n /usr/local/bin cocoapods

Try this. It will definately work.

PostgreSQL: how to convert from Unix epoch to date?

On Postgres 10:

SELECT to_timestamp(CAST(epoch_ms as bigint)/1000)

convert string to char*

There are many ways. Here are at least five:

/*
 * An example of converting std::string to (const)char* using five
 * different methods. Error checking is emitted for simplicity.
 *
 * Compile and run example (using gcc on Unix-like systems):
 *
 *  $ g++ -Wall -pedantic -o test ./test.cpp
 *  $ ./test
 *  Original string (0x7fe3294039f8): hello
 *  s1 (0x7fe3294039f8): hello
 *  s2 (0x7fff5dce3a10): hello
 *  s3 (0x7fe3294000e0): hello
 *  s4 (0x7fe329403a00): hello
 *  s5 (0x7fe329403a10): hello
 */

#include <alloca.h>
#include <string>
#include <cstring>

int main()
{
    std::string s0;
    const char *s1;
    char *s2;
    char *s3;
    char *s4;
    char *s5;

    // This is the initial C++ string.
    s0 = "hello";

    // Method #1: Just use "c_str()" method to obtain a pointer to a
    // null-terminated C string stored in std::string object.
    // Be careful though because when `s0` goes out of scope, s1 points
    // to a non-valid memory.
    s1 = s0.c_str();

    // Method #2: Allocate memory on stack and copy the contents of the
    // original string. Keep in mind that once a current function returns,
    // the memory is invalidated.
    s2 = (char *)alloca(s0.size() + 1);
    memcpy(s2, s0.c_str(), s0.size() + 1);

    // Method #3: Allocate memory dynamically and copy the content of the
    // original string. The memory will be valid until you explicitly
    // release it using "free". Forgetting to release it results in memory
    // leak.
    s3 = (char *)malloc(s0.size() + 1);
    memcpy(s3, s0.c_str(), s0.size() + 1);

    // Method #4: Same as method #3, but using C++ new/delete operators.
    s4 = new char[s0.size() + 1];
    memcpy(s4, s0.c_str(), s0.size() + 1);

    // Method #5: Same as 3 but a bit less efficient..
    s5 = strdup(s0.c_str());

    // Print those strings.
    printf("Original string (%p): %s\n", s0.c_str(), s0.c_str());
    printf("s1 (%p): %s\n", s1, s1);
    printf("s2 (%p): %s\n", s2, s2);
    printf("s3 (%p): %s\n", s3, s3);
    printf("s4 (%p): %s\n", s4, s4);
    printf("s5 (%p): %s\n", s5, s5);

    // Release memory...
    free(s3);
    delete [] s4;
    free(s5);
}

Dead simple example of using Multiprocessing Queue, Pool and Locking

The best solution for your problem is to utilize a Pool. Using Queues and having a separate "queue feeding" functionality is probably overkill.

Here's a slightly rearranged version of your program, this time with only 2 processes coralled in a Pool. I believe it's the easiest way to go, with minimal changes to original code:

import multiprocessing
import time

data = (
    ['a', '2'], ['b', '4'], ['c', '6'], ['d', '8'],
    ['e', '1'], ['f', '3'], ['g', '5'], ['h', '7']
)

def mp_worker((inputs, the_time)):
    print " Processs %s\tWaiting %s seconds" % (inputs, the_time)
    time.sleep(int(the_time))
    print " Process %s\tDONE" % inputs

def mp_handler():
    p = multiprocessing.Pool(2)
    p.map(mp_worker, data)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    mp_handler()

Note that mp_worker() function now accepts a single argument (a tuple of the two previous arguments) because the map() function chunks up your input data into sublists, each sublist given as a single argument to your worker function.

Output:

Processs a  Waiting 2 seconds
Processs b  Waiting 4 seconds
Process a   DONE
Processs c  Waiting 6 seconds
Process b   DONE
Processs d  Waiting 8 seconds
Process c   DONE
Processs e  Waiting 1 seconds
Process e   DONE
Processs f  Waiting 3 seconds
Process d   DONE
Processs g  Waiting 5 seconds
Process f   DONE
Processs h  Waiting 7 seconds
Process g   DONE
Process h   DONE

Edit as per @Thales comment below:

If you want "a lock for each pool limit" so that your processes run in tandem pairs, ala:

A waiting B waiting | A done , B done | C waiting , D waiting | C done, D done | ...

then change the handler function to launch pools (of 2 processes) for each pair of data:

def mp_handler():
    subdata = zip(data[0::2], data[1::2])
    for task1, task2 in subdata:
        p = multiprocessing.Pool(2)
        p.map(mp_worker, (task1, task2))

Now your output is:

 Processs a Waiting 2 seconds
 Processs b Waiting 4 seconds
 Process a  DONE
 Process b  DONE
 Processs c Waiting 6 seconds
 Processs d Waiting 8 seconds
 Process c  DONE
 Process d  DONE
 Processs e Waiting 1 seconds
 Processs f Waiting 3 seconds
 Process e  DONE
 Process f  DONE
 Processs g Waiting 5 seconds
 Processs h Waiting 7 seconds
 Process g  DONE
 Process h  DONE

What is the LDF file in SQL Server?

ldf saves the log of the db, certainly doesn't saves any real data, but is very important for the proper function of the database.

You can however change the log model to the database to simple so this log does not grow too fast.

Check this for example.

Check here for reference.

When is JavaScript synchronous?

JavaScript is single threaded and has a synchronous execution model. Single threaded means that one command is being executed at a time. Synchronous means one at a time i.e. one line of code is being executed at time in order the code appears. So in JavaScript one thing is happening at a time.

Execution Context

The JavaScript engine interacts with other engines in the browser. In the JavaScript execution stack there is global context at the bottom and then when we invoke functions the JavaScript engine creates new execution contexts for respective functions. When the called function exits its execution context is popped from the stack, and then next execution context is popped and so on...

For example

function abc()
{
   console.log('abc');
}


function xyz()
{
   abc()
   console.log('xyz');
}
var one = 1;
xyz();

In the above code a global execution context will be created and in this context var one will be stored and its value will be 1... when the xyz() invocation is called then a new execution context will be created and if we had defined any variable in xyz function those variables would be stored in the execution context of xyz(). In the xyz function we invoke abc() and then the abc() execution context is created and put on the execution stack... Now when abc() finishes its context is popped from stack, then the xyz() context is popped from stack and then global context will be popped...

Now about asynchronous callbacks; asynchronous means more than one at a time.

Just like the execution stack there is the Event Queue. When we want to be notified about some event in the JavaScript engine we can listen to that event, and that event is placed on the queue. For example an Ajax request event, or HTTP request event.

Whenever the execution stack is empty, like shown in above code example, the JavaScript engine periodically looks at the event queue and sees if there is any event to be notified about. For example in the queue there were two events, an ajax request and a HTTP request. It also looks to see if there is a function which needs to be run on that event trigger... So the JavaScript engine is notified about the event and knows the respective function to execute on that event... So the JavaScript engine invokes the handler function, in the example case, e.g. AjaxHandler() will be invoked and like always when a function is invoked its execution context is placed on the execution context and now the function execution finishes and the event ajax request is also removed from the event queue... When AjaxHandler() finishes the execution stack is empty so the engine again looks at the event queue and runs the event handler function of HTTP request which was next in queue. It is important to remember that the event queue is processed only when execution stack is empty.

For example see the code below explaining the execution stack and event queue handling by Javascript engine.

function waitfunction() {
    var a = 5000 + new Date().getTime();
    while (new Date() < a){}
    console.log('waitfunction() context will be popped after this line');
}

function clickHandler() {
    console.log('click event handler...');   
}

document.addEventListener('click', clickHandler);


waitfunction(); //a new context for this function is created and placed on the execution stack
console.log('global context will be popped after this line');

And

<html>
    <head>

    </head>
    <body>

        <script src="program.js"></script>
    </body>
</html>

Now run the webpage and click on the page, and see the output on console. The output will be

waitfunction() context will be popped after this line
global context will be emptied after this line
click event handler...

The JavaScript engine is running the code synchronously as explained in the execution context portion, the browser is asynchronously putting things in event queue. So the functions which take a very long time to complete can interrupt event handling. Things happening in a browser like events are handled this way by JavaScript, if there is a listener supposed to run, the engine will run it when the execution stack is empty. And events are processed in the order they happen, so the asynchronous part is about what is happening outside the engine i.e. what should the engine do when those outside events happen.

So JavaScript is always synchronous.

Populate a datagridview with sql query results

Here's your code fixed up. Next forget bindingsource

 var select = "SELECT * FROM tblEmployee";
 var c = new SqlConnection(yourConnectionString); // Your Connection String here
 var dataAdapter = new SqlDataAdapter(select, c); 

 var commandBuilder = new SqlCommandBuilder(dataAdapter);
 var ds = new DataSet();
 dataAdapter.Fill(ds);
 dataGridView1.ReadOnly = true; 
 dataGridView1.DataSource = ds.Tables[0];

What is the 'dynamic' type in C# 4.0 used for?

The dynamic keyword is new to C# 4.0, and is used to tell the compiler that a variable's type can change or that it is not known until runtime. Think of it as being able to interact with an Object without having to cast it.

dynamic cust = GetCustomer();
cust.FirstName = "foo"; // works as expected
cust.Process(); // works as expected
cust.MissingMethod(); // No method found!

Notice we did not need to cast nor declare cust as type Customer. Because we declared it dynamic, the runtime takes over and then searches and sets the FirstName property for us. Now, of course, when you are using a dynamic variable, you are giving up compiler type checking. This means the call cust.MissingMethod() will compile and not fail until runtime. The result of this operation is a RuntimeBinderException because MissingMethod is not defined on the Customer class.

The example above shows how dynamic works when calling methods and properties. Another powerful (and potentially dangerous) feature is being able to reuse variables for different types of data. I'm sure the Python, Ruby, and Perl programmers out there can think of a million ways to take advantage of this, but I've been using C# so long that it just feels "wrong" to me.

dynamic foo = 123;
foo = "bar";

OK, so you most likely will not be writing code like the above very often. There may be times, however, when variable reuse can come in handy or clean up a dirty piece of legacy code. One simple case I run into often is constantly having to cast between decimal and double.

decimal foo = GetDecimalValue();
foo = foo / 2.5; // Does not compile
foo = Math.Sqrt(foo); // Does not compile
string bar = foo.ToString("c");

The second line does not compile because 2.5 is typed as a double and line 3 does not compile because Math.Sqrt expects a double. Obviously, all you have to do is cast and/or change your variable type, but there may be situations where dynamic makes sense to use.

dynamic foo = GetDecimalValue(); // still returns a decimal
foo = foo / 2.5; // The runtime takes care of this for us
foo = Math.Sqrt(foo); // Again, the DLR works its magic
string bar = foo.ToString("c");

Read more feature : http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/CSharp4Features.aspx

How to modify existing, unpushed commit messages?

If you have to change an old commit message over multiple branches (i.e., the commit with the erroneous message is present in multiple branches) you might want to use:

git filter-branch -f --msg-filter \
'sed "s/<old message>/<new message>/g"' -- --all

Git will create a temporary directory for rewriting and additionally backup old references in refs/original/.

  • -f will enforce the execution of the operation. This is necessary if the temporary directory is already present or if there are already references stored under refs/original. If that is not the case, you can drop this flag.

  • -- separates filter-branch options from revision options.

  • --all will make sure that all branches and tags are rewritten.

Due to the backup of your old references, you can easily go back to the state before executing the command.

Say, you want to recover your master and access it in branch old_master:

git checkout -b old_master refs/original/refs/heads/master

An unhandled exception of type 'System.TypeInitializationException' occurred in EntityFramework.dll

I had this issue when i refereed a library project from a console application, and the library project was using a nuget package which is not refereed in the console application. Referring the same package in the console application helped to resolve this issue.

Seeing the Inner exception can help.

Avoid line break between html elements

This is the real solution:

<td>
  <span class="inline-flag">
    <i class="flag-bfh-ES"></i> 
    <span>+34 666 66 66 66</span>
  </span>
</td>

css:

.inline-flag {
   position: relative;
   display: inline;
   line-height: 14px; /* play with this */
}

.inline-flag > i {
   position: absolute;
   display: block;
   top: -1px; /* play with this */
}

.inline-flag > span {
   margin-left: 18px; /* play with this */
}

Example, images which always before text:

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Android Viewpager as Image Slide Gallery

In Jake's ViewPageIndicator he has implemented View pager to display a String array (i.e. ["this","is","a","text"]) which you pass from YourAdapter.java (that extends FragmentPagerAdapter) to the YourFragment.java which returns a View to the viewpager.

In order to display something different, you simply have to change the context type your passing. In this case you want to pass images instead of text, as shown in the sample below:

This is how you setup your Viewpager:

public class PlaceDetailsFragment extends SherlockFragment {
    PlaceSlidesFragmentAdapter mAdapter;
    ViewPager mPager;
    PageIndicator mIndicator;

    public static final String TAG = "detailsFragment";

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
            Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_place_details,
                container, false);

        mAdapter = new PlaceSlidesFragmentAdapter(getActivity()
                .getSupportFragmentManager());

        mPager = (ViewPager) view.findViewById(R.id.pager);
        mPager.setAdapter(mAdapter);

        mIndicator = (CirclePageIndicator) view.findViewById(R.id.indicator);
        mIndicator.setViewPager(mPager);
        ((CirclePageIndicator) mIndicator).setSnap(true);

        mIndicator
                .setOnPageChangeListener(new ViewPager.OnPageChangeListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void onPageSelected(int position) {
                        Toast.makeText(PlaceDetailsFragment.this.getActivity(),
                                "Changed to page " + position,
                                Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                    }

                    @Override
                    public void onPageScrolled(int position,
                            float positionOffset, int positionOffsetPixels) {
                    }

                    @Override
                    public void onPageScrollStateChanged(int state) {
                    }
                });
        return view;
    }

}

your_layout.xml

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



    <android.support.v4.view.ViewPager
        android:id="@+id/pager"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:layout_weight="1" />

    <com.viewpagerindicator.CirclePageIndicator
        android:id="@+id/indicator"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:padding="10dip" />

</LinearLayout>

YourAdapter.java

public class PlaceSlidesFragmentAdapter extends FragmentPagerAdapter implements
        IconPagerAdapter {

    private int[] Images = new int[] { R.drawable.photo1, R.drawable.photo2,
            R.drawable.photo3, R.drawable.photo4

    };

    protected static final int[] ICONS = new int[] { R.drawable.marker,
            R.drawable.marker, R.drawable.marker, R.drawable.marker };

    private int mCount = Images.length;

    public PlaceSlidesFragmentAdapter(FragmentManager fm) {
        super(fm);
    }

    @Override
    public Fragment getItem(int position) {
        return new PlaceSlideFragment(Images[position]);
    }

    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        return mCount;
    }

    @Override
    public int getIconResId(int index) {
        return ICONS[index % ICONS.length];
    }

    public void setCount(int count) {
        if (count > 0 && count <= 10) {
            mCount = count;
            notifyDataSetChanged();
        }
    }
}

YourFragment.java

// you need to return image instaed of text from here.//

public final class PlaceSlideFragment extends Fragment {
    int imageResourceId;

    public PlaceSlideFragment(int i) {
        imageResourceId = i;
    }

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    }

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
            Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        ImageView image = new ImageView(getActivity());
        image.setImageResource(imageResourceId);

        LinearLayout layout = new LinearLayout(getActivity());
        layout.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams());

        layout.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER);
        layout.addView(image);

        return layout;
    }
}

You should get a View pager like this from the above code. enter image description here

How to Ping External IP from Java Android

Run the ping utility in Android's command and parse output (assuming you have root permissions)

See the following Java code snippet:

executeCmd("ping -c 1 -w 1 google.com", false);

public static String executeCmd(String cmd, boolean sudo){
    try {

        Process p;
        if(!sudo)
            p= Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd);
        else{
            p= Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[]{"su", "-c", cmd});
        }
        BufferedReader stdInput = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));

        String s;
        String res = "";
        while ((s = stdInput.readLine()) != null) {
            res += s + "\n";
        }
        p.destroy();
        return res;
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return "";

}

Hibernate error - QuerySyntaxException: users is not mapped [from users]

For example: your bean class name is UserDetails

Query query = entityManager. createQuery("Select UserName from **UserDetails** "); 

You do not give your table name on the Db. you give the class name of bean.

The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel

The top-voted answer will probably be enough for most people. However, in some circumstances, you could continue getting a "Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel" error even after forcing TLS 1.2. If so, you may want to consult this helpful article for additional troubleshooting steps. To summarize: independent of the TLS/SSL version issue, the client and server must agree on a "cipher suite." During the "handshake" phase of the SSL connection, the client will list its supported cipher-suites for the server to check against its own list. But on some Windows machines, certain common cipher-suites may have been disabled (seemingly due to well-intentioned attempts to limit attack surface), decreasing the possibility of the client & server agreeing on a cipher suite. If they cannot agree, then you may see "fatal alert code 40" in the event viewer and "Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel" in your .NET program.

The aforementioned article explains how to list all of a machine's potentially-supported cipher suites and enable additional cipher suites through the Windows Registry. To help check which cipher suites are enabled on the client, try visiting this diagnostic page in MSIE. (Using System.Net tracing may give more definitive results.) To check which cipher suites are supported by the server, try this online tool (assuming that the server is Internet-accessible). It should go without saying that Registry edits must be done with caution, especially where networking is involved. (Is your machine a remote-hosted VM? If you were to break networking, would the VM be accessible at all?)

In my company's case, we enabled several additional "ECDHE_ECDSA" suites via Registry edit, to fix an immediate problem and guard against future problems. But if you cannot (or will not) edit the Registry, then numerous workarounds (not necessarily pretty) come to mind. For example: your .NET program could delegate its SSL traffic to a separate Python program (which may itself work, for the same reason that Chrome requests may succeed where MSIE requests fail on an affected machine).

Passing a string array as a parameter to a function java

I believe this should be the way this is done...

public void function(String [] array){
....
}

And the calling will be done like...

public void test(){
    String[] stringArray = {"a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","t","k","k","k","l","k"};
    function(stringArray);
}

ShowAllData method of Worksheet class failed

The simple way to avoid this is not to use the worksheet method ShowAllData

Autofilter has the same ShowAllData method which doesn't throw an error when the filter is enabled but no filter is set

If ActiveSheet.AutoFilterMode Then ActiveSheet.AutoFilter.ShowAllData

Failed to open/create the internal network Vagrant on Windows10

I had the same problem after upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10. Tried all the popular answers which did not work. Finally, I understood that Windows had changed the name of the adapter. Virtual Box was configured to use Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller while device manager had this as Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller #2. Selecting proper controller fixed the problem.

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Retrieve Button value with jQuery

As a button value is an attribute you need to use the .attr() method in jquery. This should do it

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function() {
        $('.my_button').click(function() {
            alert($(this).attr("value"));
        });
    });
</script>

You can also use attr to set attributes, more info in the docs.

This only works in JQuery 1.6+. See postpostmodern's answer for older versions.

Number of rows affected by an UPDATE in PL/SQL

SQL%ROWCOUNT can also be used without being assigned (at least from Oracle 11g).

As long as no operation (updates, deletes or inserts) has been performed within the current block, SQL%ROWCOUNT is set to null. Then it stays with the number of line affected by the last DML operation:

say we have table CLIENT

create table client (
  val_cli integer
 ,status varchar2(10)
)
/

We would test it this way:

begin
  dbms_output.put_line('Value when entering the block:'||sql%rowcount);

  insert into client 
            select 1, 'void' from dual
  union all select 4, 'void' from dual
  union all select 1, 'void' from dual
  union all select 6, 'void' from dual
  union all select 10, 'void' from dual;  
  dbms_output.put_line('Number of lines affected by previous DML operation:'||sql%rowcount);

  for val in 1..10
    loop
      update client set status = 'updated' where val_cli = val;
      if sql%rowcount = 0 then
        dbms_output.put_line('no client with '||val||' val_cli.');
      elsif sql%rowcount = 1 then
        dbms_output.put_line(sql%rowcount||' client updated for '||val);
      else -- >1
        dbms_output.put_line(sql%rowcount||' clients updated for '||val);
      end if;
  end loop;  
end;

Resulting in:

Value when entering the block:
Number of lines affected by previous DML operation:5
2 clients updated for 1
no client with 2 val_cli.
no client with 3 val_cli.
1 client updated for 4
no client with 5 val_cli.
1 client updated for 6
no client with 7 val_cli.
no client with 8 val_cli.
no client with 9 val_cli.
1 client updated for 10

php - push array into array - key issue

Use this..

$res_arr_values = array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC))
{
    $res_arr_values[] = $row;
}

How to get the category title in a post in Wordpress?

You can use

<?php the_category(', '); ?>

which would output them in a comma separated list.

You can also do the same for tags as well:

<?php the_tags('<em>:</em>', ', ', ''); ?>

How can I find the first occurrence of a sub-string in a python string?

Quick Overview: index and find

Next to the find method there is as well index. find and index both yield the same result: returning the position of the first occurrence, but if nothing is found index will raise a ValueError whereas find returns -1. Speedwise, both have the same benchmark results.

s.find(t)    #returns: -1, or index where t starts in s
s.index(t)   #returns: Same as find, but raises ValueError if t is not in s

Additional knowledge: rfind and rindex:

In general, find and index return the smallest index where the passed-in string starts, and rfind and rindex return the largest index where it starts Most of the string searching algorithms search from left to right, so functions starting with r indicate that the search happens from right to left.

So in case that the likelihood of the element you are searching is close to the end than to the start of the list, rfind or rindex would be faster.

s.rfind(t)   #returns: Same as find, but searched right to left
s.rindex(t)  #returns: Same as index, but searches right to left

Source: Python: Visual QuickStart Guide, Toby Donaldson

Calling one Activity from another in Android

check the following code to call one activity from another.

Intent intent = new Intent(CurrentActivity.this, OtherActivity.class);
CurrentActivity.this.startActivity(intent);

How to save RecyclerView's scroll position using RecyclerView.State?

I would just like to share the recent predicament I encounter with the RecyclerView. I hope that anyone experiencing the same problem will benefit.

My Project Requirement: So I have a RecyclerView that list some clickable items in my Main Activity (Activity-A). When the Item is clicked a new Activity is shown with the Item Details (Activity-B).

I implemented in the Manifest file the that the Activity-A is the parent of Activity-B, that way, I have a back or home button on the ActionBar of the Activity-B

Problem: Every time I pressed the Back or Home button in the Activity-B ActionBar, the Activity-A goes into the full Activity Life Cycle starting from onCreate()

Even though I implemented an onSaveInstanceState() saving the List of the RecyclerView's Adapter, when Activity-A starts it's lifecycle, the saveInstanceState is always null in the onCreate() method.

Further digging in the internet, I came across the same problem but the person noticed that the Back or Home button below the Anroid device (Default Back/Home button), the Activity-A does not goes into the Activity Life-Cycle.

Solution:

  1. I removed the Tag for Parent Activity in the manifest for Activity-B
  2. I enabled the home or back button on Activity-B

    Under onCreate() method add this line supportActionBar?.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true)

  3. In the overide fun onOptionsItemSelected() method, I checked for the item.ItemId on which item is clicked based on the id. The Id for the back button is

    android.R.id.home

    Then implement a finish() function call inside the android.R.id.home

    This will end the Activity-B and bring Acitivy-A without going through the entire life-cycle.

For my requirement this is the best solution so far.

     override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_show_project)

    supportActionBar?.title = projectName
    supportActionBar?.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true)

}


 override fun onOptionsItemSelected(item: MenuItem?): Boolean {

    when(item?.itemId){

        android.R.id.home -> {
            finish()
        }
    }

    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item)
}

Save file/open file dialog box, using Swing & Netbeans GUI editor

I think you face three problems:

  1. understanding the FileChooser
  2. writing/reading files
  3. understanding extensions and file formats

ad 1. Are you sure you've connected the FileChooser to a correct panel/container? I'd go for a simple tutorial on this matter and see if it works. That's the best way to learn - by making small but large enough steps forward. Breaking down an issue into such parts might be tricky sometimes ;)

ad. 2. After you save or open the file you should have methods to write or read the file. And again there are pretty neat examples on this matter and it's easy to understand topic.

ad. 3. There's a difference between a file having extension and file format. You can change the format of any file to anything you want but that doesn't affect it's contents. It might just render the file unreadable for the application associated with such extension. TXT files are easy - you read what you write. XLS, DOCX etc. require more work and usually framework is the best way to tackle these.

How to get an object's methods?

You can use console.dir(object) to write that objects properties to the console.

TSQL PIVOT MULTIPLE COLUMNS

Since you want to pivot multiple columns of data, I would first suggest unpivoting the result, score and grade columns so you don't have multiple columns but you will have multiple rows.

Depending on your version of SQL Server you can use the UNPIVOT function or CROSS APPLY. The syntax to unpivot the data will be similar to:

select ratio, col, value
from GRAND_TOTALS
cross apply
(
  select 'result', cast(result as varchar(10)) union all
  select 'score', cast(score as varchar(10)) union all
  select 'grade', grade
) c(col, value)

See SQL Fiddle with Demo. Once the data has been unpivoted, then you can apply the PIVOT function:

select ratio = col,
  [current ratio], [gearing ratio], [performance ratio], total
from
(
  select ratio, col, value
  from GRAND_TOTALS
  cross apply
  (
    select 'result', cast(result as varchar(10)) union all
    select 'score', cast(score as varchar(10)) union all
    select 'grade', grade
  ) c(col, value)
) d
pivot
(
  max(value)
  for ratio in ([current ratio], [gearing ratio], [performance ratio], total)
) piv;

See SQL Fiddle with Demo. This will give you the result:

|  RATIO | CURRENT RATIO | GEARING RATIO | PERFORMANCE RATIO |     TOTAL |
|--------|---------------|---------------|-------------------|-----------|
|  grade |          Good |          Good |      Satisfactory |      Good |
| result |       1.29400 |       0.33840 |           0.04270 |    (null) |
|  score |      60.00000 |      70.00000 |          50.00000 | 180.00000 |

What is the best way to add options to a select from a JavaScript object with jQuery?

There's a sorting problem with this solution in Chrome (jQuery 1.7.1) (Chrome sorts object properties by name/number?) So to keep the order (yes, it's object abusing), I changed this:

optionValues0 = {"4321": "option 1", "1234": "option 2"};

to this

optionValues0 = {"1": {id: "4321", value: "option 1"}, "2": {id: "1234", value: "option 2"}};

and then the $.each will look like:

$.each(optionValues0, function(order, object) {
  key = object.id;
  value = object.value;
  $('#mySelect').append($('<option>', { value : key }).text(value));
}); 

Copy file(s) from one project to another using post build event...VS2010

This command works like a charm for me:

for /r "$(SolutionDir)libraries" %%f in (*.dll, *.exe) do @xcopy "%%f" "$(TargetDir)"

It recursively copies every dll and exe file from MySolutionPath\libraries into the bin\debug or bin\release.

You can find more info in here

What is causing ImportError: No module named pkg_resources after upgrade of Python on os X?

I realize this is not related to OSX, but on an embedded system (Beagle Bone Angstrom) I had the exact same error message. Installing the following ipk packages solved it.

opkg install python-setuptools
opkg install python-pip

How to write the Fibonacci Sequence?

15 minutes into a tutorial I used when learning Python, it asked the reader to write a program that would calculate a Fibonacci sequence from 3 input numbers (first Fibonacci number, second number, and number at which to stop the sequence). The tutorial had only covered variables, if/thens, and loops up to that point. No functions yet. I came up with the following code:

sum = 0
endingnumber = 1                

print "\n.:Fibonacci sequence:.\n"

firstnumber = input("Enter the first number: ")
secondnumber = input("Enter the second number: ")
endingnumber = input("Enter the number to stop at: ")

if secondnumber < firstnumber:

    print "\nSecond number must be bigger than the first number!!!\n"

else:

while sum <= endingnumber:

    print firstnumber

    if secondnumber > endingnumber:

        break

    else:

        print secondnumber
        sum = firstnumber + secondnumber
        firstnumber = sum
        secondnumber = secondnumber + sum

As you can see, it's really inefficient, but it DOES work.

How can I parse a YAML file in Python

I use ruamel.yaml. Details & debate here.

from ruamel import yaml

with open(filename, 'r') as fp:
    read_data = yaml.load(fp)

Usage of ruamel.yaml is compatible (with some simple solvable problems) with old usages of PyYAML and as it is stated in link I provided, use

from ruamel import yaml

instead of

import yaml

and it will fix most of your problems.

EDIT: PyYAML is not dead as it turns out, it's just maintained in a different place.

SQL query to find third highest salary in company

If SQL Server this could work

SELECT TOP (1) * FROM
   (SELECT TOP (3) salary FROM employees ORDER BY salary DESC) T
ORDER BY salary ASC

As for your number of subqueries question goes it depends on your language. Check this for more information

Is there a nesting limit for correlated subqueries in Oracle?

Clear History and Reload Page on Login/Logout Using Ionic Framework

None of the solutions mentioned above worked for a hostname that is different from localhost!

I had to add notify: false to the list of options that I pass to $state.go, to avoid calling Angular change listeners, before $window.location.reload call gets called. Final code looks like:

$state.go('home', {}, {reload: true, notify: false});

>>> EDIT - $timeout might be necessary depending on your browser >>>

$timeout(function () { $window.location.reload(true); }, 100);

<<< END OF EDIT <<<

More about this on ui-router reference.

SVN upgrade working copy

This problem due to that you try to compile project that has the files of OLder SVN than you currently use.

You have two solutions to resolve this problem

  1. to install the version 1.6 SVN to be compatible with project SVN files
  2. try to upgrade the project ..( not always working ).

How can I clear or empty a StringBuilder?

I'll vote for sb.setLength(0); not only because it's one function call, but because it doesn't actually copy the array into another array like sb.delete(0, builder.length());. It just fill the remaining characters to be 0 and set the length variable to the new length.

You can take a look into their implementation to validate my point from here at setLength function and delete0 function.

How to show Bootstrap table with sort icon

BOOTSTRAP 4

you can use a combination of

  • fa-chevron-down, fa-chevron-up

  • fa-sort-down, fa-sort-up

<th class="text-center">
    <div class="btn-group" role="group">
        <button type="button" class="btn btn-xs btn-link py-0 pl-0 pr-1">
             Some Text OR icon
        </button>
        <div class="btn-group-vertical">
            <a href="?sort=asc" class="btn btn-xs btn-link p-0">
                <i class="fas fa-sort-up"></i>
            </a>
            <a href="?sort=desc" class="btn btn-xs btn-link p-0">
                <i class="fas fa-sort-down"></i>
            </a>
        </div>
    </div>
</th>

How to make audio autoplay on chrome

I've been banging away at this today, and I just wanted to add a little curiosum that I discovered to the discussion.

Anyway, I've gone off of this:

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

This:

<audio id="myAudio" src="helloworld.mp3"></audio>
<script type="text/javascript">
  document.getElementById("myAudio").play();
</script>

And finally this, a "solution" that is somewhat out of bounds if you'd rather just generate your own thing (which we do):

<script src='https://code.responsivevoice.org/responsivevoice.js'></script>
<input onclick='responsiveVoice.speak("Hello World");' type='button' value='Play' />

The discovery I've made and also the truly funny (strange? odd? ridiculous?) part is that in the case of the former two, you can actually beat the system by giving f5 a proper pounding; if you hit refresh repetetively very rapidly (some 5-10 times ought to do the trick), the audio will autoplay and then it will play a few times upon a sigle refresh only to return to it's evil ways. Fantastic!

In the announcement from Google it says that for media files to play "automatically", an interaction between the user and the site must have taken place. So the best "solution" that I've managed to come up with thus far is to add a button, rendering the playing of files less than automatic, but a lot more stable/reliable.

How to set Navigation Drawer to be opened from right to left

You should firstly put this code in your AppManifest.xml in the application tag:

android:supportsRtl="true"

then in your activity_main.xml file, put this piece of code:

android:layout_direction="rtl"

Conversion from 12 hours time to 24 hours time in java

I have written a simple utility function.

public static String convert24HourTimeTo12Hour(String timeStr) {
    try {
        DateFormat inFormat = new SimpleDateFormat( "HH:mm:ss");
        DateFormat outFormat = new SimpleDateFormat( "hh:mm a");
        Date date = inFormat.parse(timeStr);
        return outFormat.format(date);
    }catch (Exception e){}

    return "";
}

'System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException' occurred in PresentationFramework.dll

I think you will have fewer problems if you declared a Property that implements INotifyPropertyChanged, then databind IsChecked, SelectedIndex(using IValueConverter) and Fill(using IValueConverter) to it instead of using the Checked Event to toggle SelectedIndex and Fill.

How do I check if the mouse is over an element in jQuery?

I combined ideas from this topic and came up with this, which is useful for showing/hiding a submenu:

$("#menu_item_a").mouseenter(function(){
   clearTimeout($(this).data('timeoutId'));
   $("#submenu_a").fadeIn("fast");
}).mouseleave(function(){
   var menu_item = $(this);

   var timeoutId = setTimeout(function(){
      if($('#submenu_a').is(':hover'))
      {
        clearTimeout(menu_item.data('timeoutId'));
      }
      else
      {
        $("#submenu_a").fadeOut("fast");
      }
   }, 650);

    menu_item.data('timeoutId', timeoutId); 
});

 $("#submenu_a").mouseleave(function(){
   $(this).fadeOut("fast");
 });

Seems to work for me. Hope this helps someone.

EDIT: Now realizing this approach is not working correctly in IE.

How to control the width of select tag?

You've simply got it backwards. Specifying a minimum width would make the select menu always be at least that width, so it will continue expanding to 90% no matter what the window size is, also being at least the size of its longest option.

You need to use max-width instead. This way, it will let the select menu expand to its longest option, but if that expands past your set maximum of 90% width, crunch it down to that width.

Scanf/Printf double variable C

For variable argument functions like printf and scanf, the arguments are promoted, for example, any smaller integer types are promoted to int, float is promoted to double.

scanf takes parameters of pointers, so the promotion rule takes no effect. It must use %f for float* and %lf for double*.

printf will never see a float argument, float is always promoted to double. The format specifier is %f. But C99 also says %lf is the same as %f in printf:

C99 §7.19.6.1 The fprintf function

l (ell) Specifies that a following d, i, o, u, x, or X conversion specifier applies to a long int or unsigned long int argument; that a following n conversion specifier applies to a pointer to a long int argument; that a following c conversion specifier applies to a wint_t argument; that a following s conversion specifier applies to a pointer to a wchar_t argument; or has no effect on a following a, A, e, E, f, F, g, or G conversion specifier.

Failed to add the host to the list of know hosts

This is the solution i needed.

sudo chmod 700 ~/.ssh/
sudo chmod 600 ~/.ssh/*
sudo chown -R ${USER} ~/.ssh/
sudo chgrp -R ${USER} ~/.ssh/

How to check model string property for null in a razor view

Try this first, you may be passing a Null Model:

@if (Model != null && !String.IsNullOrEmpty(Model.ImageName))
{
    <label for="Image">Change picture</label>
}
else
{ 
    <label for="Image">Add picture</label>
}

Otherise, you can make it even neater with some ternary fun! - but that will still error if your model is Null.

<label for="Image">@(String.IsNullOrEmpty(Model.ImageName) ? "Add" : "Change") picture</label>

How to request Location Permission at runtime

check this code from MainActivity

 // Check location permission is granted - if it is, start
// the service, otherwise request the permission
fun checkOrAskLocationPermission(callback: () -> Unit) {
    // Check GPS is enabled
    val lm = getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE) as LocationManager
    if (!lm.isProviderEnabled(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER)) {
        Toast.makeText(this, "Please enable location services", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()
        buildAlertMessageNoGps(this)
        return
    }

    // Check location permission is granted - if it is, start
    // the service, otherwise request the permission
    val permission = ContextCompat.checkSelfPermission(this, Manifest.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION)
    if (permission == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {
        callback.invoke()
    } else {
        // callback will be inside the activity's onRequestPermissionsResult(
        ActivityCompat.requestPermissions(
            this,
            arrayOf(Manifest.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION),
            PERMISSIONS_REQUEST
        )
    }
}

plus

   override fun onRequestPermissionsResult(requestCode: Int, permissions: Array<out String>, grantResults: IntArray) {
    super.onRequestPermissionsResult(requestCode, permissions, grantResults)
    if (requestCode == PERMISSIONS_REQUEST) {
        if (grantResults[0] == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED){
              // Permission ok. Do work.
         }
    }
}

plus

 fun buildAlertMessageNoGps(context: Context) {
    val builder = AlertDialog.Builder(context);
    builder.setMessage("Your GPS is disabled. Do you want to enable it?")
        .setCancelable(false)
        .setPositiveButton("Yes") { _, _ -> context.startActivity(Intent(Settings.ACTION_LOCATION_SOURCE_SETTINGS)) }
        .setNegativeButton("No") { dialog, _ -> dialog.cancel(); }
    val alert = builder.create();
    alert.show();
}

usage

checkOrAskLocationPermission() {
            // Permission ok. Do work.
        }

A url resource that is a dot (%2E)

It's actually not really clearly stated in the standard (RFC 3986) whether a percent-encoded version of . or .. is supposed to have the same this-folder/up-a-folder meaning as the unescaped version. Section 3.3 only talks about “The path segments . and ..”, without clarifying whether they match . and .. before or after pct-encoding.

Personally I find Firefox's interpretation that %2E does not mean . most practical, but unfortunately all the other browsers disagree. This would mean that you can't have a path component containing only . or ...

I think the only possible suggestion is “don't do that”! There are other path components that are troublesome too, typically due to server limitations: %2F, %00 and %5C sequences in paths may also be blocked by some web servers, and the empty path segment can also cause problems. So in general it's not possible to fit all possible byte sequences into a path component.

Razor Views not seeing System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper

Just started looking into the issue myself and this is what it look like in my case. If you have the correct values in your web config then Its just a bug in MVC4. http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/727729/viewbag-not-recognized-in-asp-net-mvc-4-project

Express-js wildcard routing to cover everything under and including a path

The connect router has now been removed (https://github.com/senchalabs/connect/issues/262), the author stating that you should use a framework on top of connect (like Express) for routing.

Express currently treats app.get("/foo*") as app.get(/\/foo(.*)/), removing the need for two separate routes. This is in contrast to the previous answer (referring to the now removed connect router) which stated that "* in a path is replaced with .+".

Update: Express now uses the "path-to-regexp" module (since Express 4.0.0) which maintains the same behavior in the version currently referenced. It's unclear to me whether the latest version of that module keeps the behavior, but for now this answer stands.

C# Create New T()

Just for completion, the best solution here is often to require a factory function argument:

T GetObject<T>(Func<T> factory)
{  return factory(); }

and call it something like this:

string s = GetObject(() => "result");

You can use that to require or make use of available parameters, if needed.

SQL Server: Filter output of sp_who2

One way is to create a temp table:

CREATE TABLE #sp_who2 
(
   SPID INT,  
   Status VARCHAR(1000) NULL,  
   Login SYSNAME NULL,  
   HostName SYSNAME NULL,  
   BlkBy SYSNAME NULL,  
   DBName SYSNAME NULL,  
   Command VARCHAR(1000) NULL,  
   CPUTime INT NULL,  
   DiskIO INT NULL,  
   LastBatch VARCHAR(1000) NULL,  
   ProgramName VARCHAR(1000) NULL,  
   SPID2 INT
) 
GO

INSERT INTO #sp_who2
EXEC sp_who2
GO

SELECT *
FROM #sp_who2
WHERE Login = 'bla'
GO

DROP TABLE #sp_who2
GO

Replace input type=file by an image

its really simple you can try this:

$("#image id").click(function(){
    $("#input id").click();
});

Capture the Screen into a Bitmap

Try this code

Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Width, Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Height);
Graphics gr = Graphics.FromImage(bmp);
gr.CopyFromScreen(0, 0, 0, 0, bmp.Size);
pictureBox1.Image = bmp;
bmp.Save("img.png",System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png);

Run certain code every n seconds

You can start a separate thread whose sole duty is to count for 5 seconds, update the file, repeat. You wouldn't want this separate thread to interfere with your main thread.

Among $_REQUEST, $_GET and $_POST which one is the fastest?

You are prematurely optimizing. Also, you should really put some thought into whether GET should be used for stuff you're POST-ing, for security reasons.

How organize uploaded media in WP?

Currently, media organisation is possible.

The "problem" with the media library in wordpress is always interesting. Check the following plugin to solve this: WordPress Real Media Library. WP RML creates a virtual folder structure based on an own taxonomy.

Drag & Drop your files

It allows you to organize your wordpress media library in a nice way with folders. It is easy to use, just drag&drop your files and move it to a specific folder. Filter when inserting media or create a gallery from a folder.

Turn your WordPress media library to the next level with folders / categories. Get organized with thousands of images.

RML (Real Media Library) is one of the most wanted media wordpress plugins. It is easy to use and it allows you to organize your thousands of images in folders. It is similar to wordpress categories like in the posts.

Use your mouse (or touch) to drag and drop your files. Create, rename, delete or reorder your folders If you want to select a image from the “Select a image”-dialog (e. g. featured image) you can filter when inserting media. Just install this plugin and it works fine with all your image and media files. It also supports multisite.

If you buy, you get: Forever FREE updates and high quality and fast support.

From the product description i can quote. If you want to try the plugin, there is also a demo on the plugin page.

Update #1 (2017-01-27): Manage your uploads physically

A long time ago I started to open this thread and now there is a usable extension plugin for Real Media Library which allows you to physically manage your uploads folder.

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Check out this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/physical-custom-upload-folder/

Do you know the wp-content/uploads folder? There, the files are stored in year/month based folders. This can be a very complicated and mass process, especially when you are working with a FTP client like FileZilla.

Moving already uploaded files: This plugin does not allow to move the files physically when you move a file in the Real Media Library because WordPress uses the URL's in different places. It is very hard to maintain such a process. So this only works for new uploads.

Physical organisation on server?

(Please read on if you are developer) I as developer thought about a solution about this. Does it make sense to organize the uploads on server, too? Yes, i think. Many people ask to organize it physically. I think also that the process of moving files on server and updating the image references is very hard to develop. There are many plugins out now, which are saving the URLs in their own-created database-tables.

Please check this thread where i explained the problem: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/226675/physical-organization-of-wordpress-media-library-real-media-library-plugin

css3 transition animation on load?

Ok I have managed to achieve an animation when the page loads using only css transitions (sort of!):

I have created 2 css style sheets: the first is how I want the html styled before the animation... and the second is how I want the page to look after the animation has been carried out.

I don't fully understand how I have accomplished this but it only works when the two css files (both in the head of my document) are separated by some javascript as follows.

I have tested this with Firefox, safari and opera. Sometimes the animation works, sometimes it skips straight to the second css file and sometimes the page appears to be loading but nothing is displayed (perhaps it is just me?)

<link media="screen,projection" type="text/css" href="first-css-file.css"  rel="stylesheet" />

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="../js/jQuery JavaScript Library v1.3.2.js"></script>

<script type='text/javascript'>
$(document).ready(function(){

// iOS Hover Event Class Fix
if((navigator.userAgent.match(/iPhone/i)) || (navigator.userAgent.match(/iPod/i)) ||
(navigator.userAgent.match(/iPad/i))) {
$(".container .menu-text").click(function(){  // Update class to point at the head of the list
});
}
});
</script>

<link media="screen,projection" type="text/css" href="second-css-file.css"  rel="stylesheet" />

Here is a link to my work-in-progress website: http://www.hankins-design.co.uk/beta2/test/index.html

Maybe I'm wrong but I thought browsers that do not support css transitions should not have any issues as they should skip straight to the second css file without delay or duration.

I am interested to know views on how search engine friendly this method is. With my black hat on I suppose I could fill a page with keywords and apply a 9999s delay on its opacity.

I would be interested to know how search engines deal with the transition-delay attribute and whether, using the method above, they would even see the links and information on the page.

More importantly I would really like to know why this is not consistent each time the page loads and how I can rectify this!

I hope this can generate some views and opinions if nothing else!

How do I write a custom init for a UIView subclass in Swift?

I create a common init for the designated and required. For convenience inits I delegate to init(frame:) with frame of zero.

Having zero frame is not a problem because typically the view is inside a ViewController's view; your custom view will get a good, safe chance to layout its subviews when its superview calls layoutSubviews() or updateConstraints(). These two functions are called by the system recursively throughout the view hierarchy. You can use either updateContstraints() or layoutSubviews(). updateContstraints() is called first, then layoutSubviews(). In updateConstraints() make sure to call super last. In layoutSubviews(), call super first.

Here's what I do:

@IBDesignable
class MyView: UIView {

      convenience init(args: Whatever) {
          self.init(frame: CGRect.zero)
          //assign custom vars
      }

      override init(frame: CGRect) {
           super.init(frame: frame)
           commonInit()
      }

      required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
           super.init(coder: aDecoder)
           commonInit()
      }

      override func prepareForInterfaceBuilder() {
           super.prepareForInterfaceBuilder()
           commonInit()
      }

      private func commonInit() {
           //custom initialization
      }

      override func updateConstraints() {
           //set subview constraints here
           super.updateConstraints()
      }

      override func layoutSubviews() {
           super.layoutSubviews()
           //manually set subview frames here
      }

}

How do I call ::CreateProcess in c++ to launch a Windows executable?

If you application is a Windows GUI application then using the code below to do the waiting is not ideal as messages for your application will not be getting processing. To the user it will look like your application has hung.

WaitForSingleObject(&processInfo.hProcess, INFINITE)

Something like the untested code below might be better as it will keep processing the windows message queue and your application will remain responsive:

//-- wait for the process to finish
while (true)
{
  //-- see if the task has terminated
  DWORD dwExitCode = WaitForSingleObject(ProcessInfo.hProcess, 0);

  if (   (dwExitCode == WAIT_FAILED   )
      || (dwExitCode == WAIT_OBJECT_0 )
      || (dwExitCode == WAIT_ABANDONED) )
  {
    DWORD dwExitCode;

    //-- get the process exit code
    GetExitCodeProcess(ProcessInfo.hProcess, &dwExitCode);

    //-- the task has ended so close the handle
    CloseHandle(ProcessInfo.hThread);
    CloseHandle(ProcessInfo.hProcess);

    //-- save the exit code
    lExitCode = dwExitCode;

    return;
  }
  else
  {
    //-- see if there are any message that need to be processed
    while (PeekMessage(&message.msg, 0, 0, 0, PM_NOREMOVE))
    {
      if (message.msg.message == WM_QUIT)
      {
        return;
      }

      //-- process the message queue
      if (GetMessage(&message.msg, 0, 0, 0))
      {
        //-- process the message
        TranslateMessage(&pMessage->msg);
        DispatchMessage(&pMessage->msg);
      }
    }
  }
}

How to use session in JSP pages to get information?

Use

<% String username = (String)request.getSession().getAttribute(...); %>

Note that your use of <%! ... %> is translated to class-level, but request is only available in the service() method of the translated servlet.

See how JSP code is translated to a servlet.

How do I prevent people from doing XSS in Spring MVC?

**To avoid XSS security threat in spring application**

solution to the XSS issue is to filter all the textfields in the form at the time of submitting the form.

    It needs XML entry in the web.xml file & two simple classes.

        java code :-
        The code for the  first class named CrossScriptingFilter.java is :

        package com.filter;

        import java.io.IOException;
        import javax.servlet.Filter;
        import javax.servlet.FilterChain;
        import javax.servlet.FilterConfig;
        import javax.servlet.ServletException;
        import javax.servlet.ServletRequest;
        import javax.servlet.ServletResponse;
        import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
        import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

        public class CrossScriptingFilter implements Filter {
            private static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(CrossScriptingFilter.class);
            private FilterConfig filterConfig;

            public void init(FilterConfig filterConfig) throws ServletException {
                this.filterConfig = filterConfig;
            }

            public void destroy() {
                this.filterConfig = null;
            }

            public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain chain)
                throws IOException, ServletException {
                logger.info("Inlter CrossScriptingFilter  ...............");
                chain.doFilter(new RequestWrapper((HttpServletRequest) request), response);
                logger.info("Outlter CrossScriptingFilter ...............");
            }

        }

The code second class named RequestWrapper.java is :

package com.filter;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

public final class RequestWrapper extends HttpServletRequestWrapper {
    private static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(RequestWrapper.class);
    public RequestWrapper(HttpServletRequest servletRequest) {
        super(servletRequest);
    }

    public String[] getParameterValues(String parameter) {
        logger.info("InarameterValues .. parameter .......");
        String[] values = super.getParameterValues(parameter);
        if (values == null) {
            return null;
        }
        int count = values.length;
        String[] encodedValues = new String[count];
        for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
            encodedValues[i] = cleanXSS(values[i]);
        }
        return encodedValues;
    }

    public String getParameter(String parameter) {
        logger.info("Inarameter .. parameter .......");
        String value = super.getParameter(parameter);
        if (value == null) {
            return null;
        }
        logger.info("Inarameter RequestWrapper ........ value .......");
        return cleanXSS(value);
    }

    public String getHeader(String name) {
        logger.info("Ineader .. parameter .......");
        String value = super.getHeader(name);
        if (value == null)
            return null;
        logger.info("Ineader RequestWrapper ........... value ....");
        return cleanXSS(value);
    }

    private String cleanXSS(String value) {
        // You'll need to remove the spaces from the html entities below
        logger.info("InnXSS RequestWrapper ..............." + value);
        //value = value.replaceAll("<", "& lt;").replaceAll(">", "& gt;");
        //value = value.replaceAll("\\(", "& #40;").replaceAll("\\)", "& #41;");
        //value = value.replaceAll("'", "& #39;");
        value = value.replaceAll("eval\\((.*)\\)", "");
        value = value.replaceAll("[\\\"\\\'][\\s]*javascript:(.*)[\\\"\\\']", "\"\"");

        value = value.replaceAll("(?i)<script.*?>.*?<script.*?>", "");
        value = value.replaceAll("(?i)<script.*?>.*?</script.*?>", "");
        value = value.replaceAll("(?i)<.*?javascript:.*?>.*?</.*?>", "");
        value = value.replaceAll("(?i)<.*?\\s+on.*?>.*?</.*?>", "");
        //value = value.replaceAll("<script>", "");
        //value = value.replaceAll("</script>", "");
        logger.info("OutnXSS RequestWrapper ........ value ......." + value);
        return value;
    }

The only thing remained is the XML entry in the web.xml file:

        <filter>
        <filter-name>XSS</filter-name>
        <display-name>XSS</display-name>
        <description></description>
        <filter-class>com.filter.CrossScriptingFilter</filter-class>
    </filter>

    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>XSS</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping>

The /* indicates that for every request made from browser, it will call CrossScriptingFilter class. Which will parse all the components/elements came from the request & will replace all the javascript tags put by hacker with empty string i.e

How to use multiprocessing queue in Python?

We implemented two versions of this, one a simple multi thread pool that can execute many types of callables, making our lives much easier and the second version that uses processes, which is less flexible in terms of callables and requires and extra call to dill.

Setting frozen_pool to true will freeze execution until finish_pool_queue is called in either class.

Thread Version:

'''
Created on Nov 4, 2019

@author: Kevin
'''
from threading import Lock, Thread
from Queue import Queue
import traceback
from helium.loaders.loader_retailers import print_info
from time import sleep
import signal
import os

class ThreadPool(object):
    def __init__(self, queue_threads, *args, **kwargs):
        self.frozen_pool = kwargs.get('frozen_pool', False)
        self.print_queue = kwargs.get('print_queue', True)
        self.pool_results = []
        self.lock = Lock()
        self.queue_threads = queue_threads
        self.queue = Queue()
        self.threads = []

        for i in range(self.queue_threads):
            t = Thread(target=self.make_pool_call)
            t.daemon = True
            t.start()
            self.threads.append(t)

    def make_pool_call(self):
        while True:
            if self.frozen_pool:
                #print '--> Queue is frozen'
                sleep(1)
                continue

            item = self.queue.get()
            if item is None:
                break

            call = item.get('call', None)
            args = item.get('args', [])
            kwargs = item.get('kwargs', {})
            keep_results = item.get('keep_results', False)

            try:
                result = call(*args, **kwargs)

                if keep_results:
                    self.lock.acquire()
                    self.pool_results.append((item, result))
                    self.lock.release()

            except Exception as e:
                self.lock.acquire()
                print e
                traceback.print_exc()
                self.lock.release()
                os.kill(os.getpid(), signal.SIGUSR1)

            self.queue.task_done()

    def finish_pool_queue(self):
        self.frozen_pool = False

        while self.queue.unfinished_tasks > 0:
            if self.print_queue:
                print_info('--> Thread pool... %s' % self.queue.unfinished_tasks)
            sleep(5)

        self.queue.join()

        for i in range(self.queue_threads):
            self.queue.put(None)

        for t in self.threads:
            t.join()

        del self.threads[:]

    def get_pool_results(self):
        return self.pool_results

    def clear_pool_results(self):
        del self.pool_results[:]

Process Version:

  '''
Created on Nov 4, 2019

@author: Kevin
'''
import traceback
from helium.loaders.loader_retailers import print_info
from time import sleep
import signal
import os
from multiprocessing import Queue, Process, Value, Array, JoinableQueue, Lock,\
    RawArray, Manager
from dill import dill
import ctypes
from helium.misc.utils import ignore_exception
from mem_top import mem_top
import gc

class ProcessPool(object):
    def __init__(self, queue_processes, *args, **kwargs):
        self.frozen_pool = Value(ctypes.c_bool, kwargs.get('frozen_pool', False))
        self.print_queue = kwargs.get('print_queue', True)
        self.manager = Manager()
        self.pool_results = self.manager.list()
        self.queue_processes = queue_processes
        self.queue = JoinableQueue()
        self.processes = []

        for i in range(self.queue_processes):
            p = Process(target=self.make_pool_call)
            p.start()
            self.processes.append(p)

        print 'Processes', self.queue_processes

    def make_pool_call(self):
        while True:
            if self.frozen_pool.value:
                sleep(1)
                continue

            item_pickled = self.queue.get()

            if item_pickled is None:
                #print '--> Ending'
                self.queue.task_done()
                break

            item = dill.loads(item_pickled)

            call = item.get('call', None)
            args = item.get('args', [])
            kwargs = item.get('kwargs', {})
            keep_results = item.get('keep_results', False)

            try:
                result = call(*args, **kwargs)

                if keep_results:
                    self.pool_results.append(dill.dumps((item, result)))
                else:
                    del call, args, kwargs, keep_results, item, result

            except Exception as e:
                print e
                traceback.print_exc()
                os.kill(os.getpid(), signal.SIGUSR1)

            self.queue.task_done()

    def finish_pool_queue(self, callable=None):
        self.frozen_pool.value = False

        while self.queue._unfinished_tasks.get_value() > 0:
            if self.print_queue:
                print_info('--> Process pool... %s' % (self.queue._unfinished_tasks.get_value()))

            if callable:
                callable()

            sleep(5)

        for i in range(self.queue_processes):
            self.queue.put(None)

        self.queue.join()
        self.queue.close()

        for p in self.processes:
            with ignore_exception: p.join(10)
            with ignore_exception: p.terminate()

        with ignore_exception: del self.processes[:]

    def get_pool_results(self):
        return self.pool_results

    def clear_pool_results(self):
        del self.pool_results[:]
def test(eg):
        print 'EG', eg

Call with either:

tp = ThreadPool(queue_threads=2)
tp.queue.put({'call': test, 'args': [random.randint(0, 100)]})
tp.finish_pool_queue()

or

pp = ProcessPool(queue_processes=2)
pp.queue.put(dill.dumps({'call': test, 'args': [random.randint(0, 100)]}))
pp.queue.put(dill.dumps({'call': test, 'args': [random.randint(0, 100)]}))
pp.finish_pool_queue()

Chrome & Safari Error::Not allowed to load local resource: file:///D:/CSS/Style.css

The solution is already answered here above (long ago).

But the implicit question "why does it work in FF and IE but not in Chrome and Safari" is found in the error text "Not allowed to load local resource": Chrome and Safari seem to use a more strict implementation of sandboxing (for security reasons) than the other two (at this time 2011).

This applies for local access. In a (normal) server environment (apache ...) the file would simply not have been found.

DBCC CHECKIDENT Sets Identity to 0

Borrowing from Zyphrax's answer ...

USE DatabaseName

DECLARE @ReseedBit BIT = 
    COALESCE((SELECT SUM(CONVERT(BIGINT, ic.last_value))
                FROM sys.identity_columns ic
                INNER JOIN sys.tables t ON ic.object_id = t.object_id), 0)
DECLARE @Reseed INT = 
CASE 
    WHEN @ReseedBit = 0 THEN 1 
    WHEN @ReseedBit = 1 THEN 0 
END

DBCC CHECKIDENT ('dbo.table_name', RESEED, @Reseed);

Caveats: This is intended for use in reference data population situations where a DB is being initialized with enum type definition tables, where the ID values in those tables must always start at 1. The first time the DB is being created (e.g. during SSDT-DB publishing) @Reseed must be 0, but when resetting the data i.e. removing the data and re-inserting it, then @Reseed must be 1. So this code is intended for use in a stored procedure for resetting the DB data, which can be called manually but is also called from the post-deployment script in the SSDT-DB project. In that way the reference data inserts are only defined in one place but aren't restricted to be used only in post-deployment during publishing, they are also available for subsequent use (to support dev and automated test etc.) by calling the stored procedure to reset the DB back to a known good state.

Chrome Fullscreen API

In Google's closure library project , there is a module which has do the job , below is the API and source code.

Closure library fullscreen.js API

Closure libray fullscreen.js Code

Html ordered list 1.1, 1.2 (Nested counters and scope) not working

Keep it Simple!

Simpler and a Standard solution to increment the number and to retain the dot at the end. Even if you get the css right, it will not work if your HTML is not correct. see below.

CSS

ol {
  counter-reset: item;
}
ol li {
  display: block;
}
ol li:before {
  content: counters(item, ". ") ". ";
  counter-increment: item;
}

SASS

ol {
    counter-reset: item;
    li {
        display: block;
        &:before {
            content: counters(item, ". ") ". ";
            counter-increment: item
        }
    }
}

HTML Parent Child

If you add the child make sure the it is under the parent li.

<!-- WRONG -->
<ol>
    <li>Parent 1</li> <!-- Parent is Individual. Not hugging -->
        <ol> 
            <li>Child</li>
        </ol>
    <li>Parent 2</li>
</ol>

<!-- RIGHT -->
<ol>
    <li>Parent 1 
        <ol> 
            <li>Child</li>
        </ol>
    </li> <!-- Parent is Hugging the child -->
    <li>Parent 2</li>
</ol>

How to prevent buttons from submitting forms

You can simply get the reference of your buttons using jQuery, and prevent its propagation like below:

 $(document).ready(function () {
    $('#BUTTON_ID').click(function(e) {

            e.preventDefault();
            e.stopPropagation();
            e.stopImmediatePropagation();

            return false;
    });});

What exactly is the difference between Web API and REST API in MVC?

I have been there, like so many of us. There are so many confusing words like Web API, REST, RESTful, HTTP, SOAP, WCF, Web Services... and many more around this topic. But I am going to give brief explanation of only those which you have asked.

REST

It is neither an API nor a framework. It is just an architectural concept. You can find more details here.

RESTful

I have not come across any formal definition of RESTful anywhere. I believe it is just another buzzword for APIs to say if they comply with REST specifications.

EDIT: There is another trending open source initiative OpenAPI Specification (OAS) (formerly known as Swagger) to standardise REST APIs.

Web API

It in an open source framework for writing HTTP APIs. These APIs can be RESTful or not. Most HTTP APIs we write are not RESTful. This framework implements HTTP protocol specification and hence you hear terms like URIs, request/response headers, caching, versioning, various content types(formats).

Note: I have not used the term Web Services deliberately because it is a confusing term to use. Some people use this as a generic concept, I preferred to call them HTTP APIs. There is an actual framework named 'Web Services' by Microsoft like Web API. However it implements another protocol called SOAP.

Where does Vagrant download its .box files to?

The actual .box file is deleted by Vagrant once the download and box installation is complete. As mentioned in other answers, whilst downloading, the .box file is stored as:

~/.vagrant.d/tmp/boxXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

where the file name is 'box' followed by a 40 byte hexadecimal hash. A temporary file on my system for example, is:

~/.vagrant.d/tmp/boxc74a85fe4af3197a744851517c6af4d4959db77f

As far as I can tell, this file is never saved with a *.box extension, which explains why the searches above failed to locate it. There are two ways to retrieve the actual box file:

  1. Download the .box file from vagrantcloud.com

    1. Find the box you're interested in on the atlas. For example, https://atlas.hashicorp.com/ubuntu/boxes/trusty64/versions/20150530.0.1
    2. Replace the domain name with vagrantcloud.com. So https://atlas.hashicorp.com/ubuntu/boxes/trusty64/versions/20150530.0.1 becomes https://vagrantcloud.com/ubuntu/boxes/trusty64/versions/20150530.0.1/providers/virtualbox.box.
    3. Add /providers/virtualbox.box to the end of that URL. So https://vagrantcloud.com/ubuntu/boxes/trusty64/versions/20150530.0.1 becomes https://vagrantcloud.com/ubuntu/boxes/trusty64/versions/20150530.0.1/providers/virtualbox.box
    4. Save the .box file
    5. Use the .box as you wish, for example, hosting it yourself and pointing config.vm.box_url to the URL. OR
  2. Get the .box directly from Vagrant

    This requires you to modify the ruby source to prevent Vagrant from deleting the box after successful download.

    1. Locate the box_add.rb file in your Vagrant installation directory. On my system it's located at /Applications/Vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.5.2/lib/vagrant/action/builtin/box_add.rb
    2. Find the box_add function. Within the box_add function, there is a block that reads:

      ensure # Make sure we delete the temporary file after we add it, # unless we were interrupted, in which case we keep it around # so we can resume the download later. if !@download_interrupted @logger.debug("Deleting temporary box: #{box_url}") begin box_url.delete if box_url rescue Errno::ENOENT # Not a big deal, the temp file may not actually exist end end

    3. Comment this block out.
    4. Add another box using vagrant add box <boxname>.
    5. Wait for it to download. You can watch it save in the ~/.vagrant.d/tmp/ directory as a boxXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX file.
    6. Rename the the file to something more useful. Eg, mv boxXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX trusty64.box.

Why would you want this?

For me, this has been useful to retrieve the .box file so it can be hosted on local, fast infrastructure as opposed to downloading from HashiCorp's Atlas box catalog or another box provider.

This really should be part of the default Vagrant functionality as it has a very definitive use case.

Setting the default page for ASP.NET (Visual Studio) server configuration

Right click on the web page you want to use as the default page and choose "Set as Start Page" whenever you run the web application from Visual Studio, it will open the selected page.

set dropdown value by text using jquery

For the exact match use

    $("#HowYouKnow option").filter(function(index) { return $(this).text() === "GOOGLE"; }).attr('selected', 'selected');

contains is going to select the last match which might not be exact.

Get class list for element with jQuery

Here is a jQuery plugin which will return an array of all the classes the matched element(s) have

;!(function ($) {
    $.fn.classes = function (callback) {
        var classes = [];
        $.each(this, function (i, v) {
            var splitClassName = v.className.split(/\s+/);
            for (var j = 0; j < splitClassName.length; j++) {
                var className = splitClassName[j];
                if (-1 === classes.indexOf(className)) {
                    classes.push(className);
                }
            }
        });
        if ('function' === typeof callback) {
            for (var i in classes) {
                callback(classes[i]);
            }
        }
        return classes;
    };
})(jQuery);

Use it like

$('div').classes();

In your case returns

["Lorem", "ipsum", "dolor_spec", "sit", "amet"]

You can also pass a function to the method to be called on each class

$('div').classes(
    function(c) {
        // do something with each class
    }
);

Here is a jsFiddle I set up to demonstrate and test http://jsfiddle.net/GD8Qn/8/

Minified Javascript

;!function(e){e.fn.classes=function(t){var n=[];e.each(this,function(e,t){var r=t.className.split(/\s+/);for(var i in r){var s=r[i];if(-1===n.indexOf(s)){n.push(s)}}});if("function"===typeof t){for(var r in n){t(n[r])}}return n}}(jQuery);

How to read a file byte by byte in Python and how to print a bytelist as a binary?

Late to the party, but this may help anyone looking for a quick solution:

you can use bin(ord('b')).replace('b', '')bin() it gives you the binary representation with a 'b' after the last bit, you have to remove it. Also ord() gives you the ASCII number to the char or 8-bit/1 Byte coded character.

Cheers

How do I set the selenium webdriver get timeout?

I find that the timeout calls are not reliable enough in real life, particularly for internet explorer , however the following solutions may be of help:

  1. You can timeout the complete test by using @Test(timeout=10000) in the junit test that you are running the selenium process from. This will free up the main thread for executing the other tests, instead of blocking up the whole show. However even this does not work at times.

  2. Anyway by timing out you do not intend to salvage the test case, because timing out even a single operation might leave the entire test sequence in inconsistent state. You might just want to proceed with the other testcases without blocking (or perhaps retry the same test again). In such a case a fool-proof method would be to write a poller that polls processes of Webdriver (eg. IEDriverServer.exe, Phantomjs.exe) running for more than say 10 min and kill them. An example could be found at Automatically identify (and kill) processes with long processing time

How to remove class from all elements jquery

You need to select the li tags contained within the .edgetoedge class. .edgetoedge only matches the one ul tag:

$(".edgetoedge li").removeClass("highlight");

Programmatically scroll a UIScrollView

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    board=[[UIView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, self.view.frame.size.height, 80)];
    board.backgroundColor=[UIColor greenColor];
    [self.view addSubview:board];
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view.
}


-(void)viewDidLayoutSubviews
{


    NSString *str=@"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";

    index=1;
    for (int i=0; i<20; i++)
    {
        UILabel *lbl=[[UILabel alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(-50, 15, 50, 50)];
        lbl.tag=i+1;
        lbl.text=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%c",[str characterAtIndex:arc4random()%str.length]];
        lbl.textColor=[UIColor darkGrayColor];
        lbl.textAlignment=NSTextAlignmentCenter;
        lbl.font=[UIFont systemFontOfSize:40];
        lbl.layer.borderWidth=1;
        lbl.layer.borderColor=[UIColor blackColor].CGColor;
        [board addSubview:lbl];
    }

    [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:2 target:self selector:@selector(CallAnimation) userInfo:nil repeats:YES];

    NSLog(@"%d",[board subviews].count);
}


-(void)CallAnimation
{

    if (index>20) {
        index=1;
    }
    UIView *aView=[board viewWithTag:index];
    [self doAnimation:aView];
    index++;
    NSLog(@"%d",index);
}

-(void)doAnimation:(UIView*)aView
{
    [UIView animateWithDuration:10 delay:0 options:UIViewAnimationOptionCurveLinear  animations:^{
        aView.frame=CGRectMake(self.view.frame.size.height, 15, 50, 50);
    }
                     completion:^(BOOL isDone)
     {
         if (isDone) {
             //do Somthing
                        aView.frame=CGRectMake(-50, 15, 50, 50);
         }
     }];
}

how to update the multiple rows at a time using linq to sql?

This is what I did:

EF:

using (var context = new SomeDBContext())
{
    foreach (var item in model.ShopItems)  // ShopItems is a posted list with values 
    {    
        var feature = context.Shop
                             .Where(h => h.ShopID == 123 && h.Type == item.Type).ToList();

        feature.ForEach(a => a.SortOrder = item.SortOrder);
    }

    context.SaveChanges();
}

Hope helps someone.

This Activity already has an action bar supplied by the window decor

Add this in your values/styles.xml

<style name="YourCustomTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
</style>

<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="YourCustomTheme">

</style>

<style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme">

</style>

And add the following code in your values-v11/styles.xml and values-v14/styles.xml

<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="YourCustomTheme">

</style>

Thats it. It will work.

java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError Unsupported major.minor version 51.0

Use Maven and use the maven-compiler-plugin to explicitly call the actual correct version JDK javac.exe command, because Maven could be running any version; this also catches the really stupid long standing bug in javac that does not spot runtime breaking class version jars and missing classes/methods/properties when compiling for earlier java versions! This later part could have easily been fixed in Java 1.5+ by adding versioning attributes to new classes, methods, and properties, or separate compiler versioning data, so is a quite stupid oversight by Sun and Oracle.

WAMP server, localhost is not working

First stop IIS from startmenu by typing IIS manager, Edit c:/wamp/wampmanager.tpl file so the WAMP menu points to localhost:80. Find http://localhost and change it to htttp://localhost:80 also, if you think something else has already grabbed port 80, that is why its not working..,then, Run

wampmanager->Apache->Service->Test port 80

This will launch a command window and tell you what is using port 80. Whatever it is, will need to be re-configured to use another port or for example if its IIS and you dont use IIS it should be un-installed. Further you can use 'net stop' command to stop desired service.

How to change status bar color in Flutter?

This worked for me:

Import Service

import 'package:flutter/services.dart';

Then add:

@override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {

    SystemChrome.setSystemUIOverlayStyle(SystemUiOverlayStyle(
      statusBarColor: Colors.white,
      statusBarBrightness: Brightness.dark,
    ));
    return MaterialApp(home: Scaffold(

How do I find the index of a character in a string in Ruby?

str="abcdef"

str.index('c') #=> 2 #String matching approach
str=~/c/ #=> 2 #Regexp approach 
$~ #=> #<MatchData "c">

Hope it helps. :)

Failed to load resource: net::ERR_CONTENT_LENGTH_MISMATCH

It could be even caused by your ad blocker.

Try to disable it or adding an exception for the domain from which the images come from.

Free FTP Library

edtFTPnet is a free, fast, open source FTP library for .NET, written in C#.

pip: no module named _internal

The following solution solved the problem on my machine for python2.7 "$ curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py" and then "$ sudo python2.7 get-pip.py --force-reinstall"

Angular error: "Can't bind to 'ngModel' since it isn't a known property of 'input'"

The Answer for me was wrong spelling of ngModel. I had it written like this : ngModule while it should be ngModel.

All other attempts obviously failed to resolve the error for me.

How to disable JavaScript in Chrome Developer Tools?

Press F8 for temporarily freezing / unfreezing JS (with DevTools open).

This is very useful for debugging UI issues on elements that may lose focus if you click or press anything outside of that element. (Chrome 71.0.3578.98, Ubuntu 18.10)

How to sort a List of objects by their date (java collections, List<Object>)

Do not access or modify the collection in the Comparator. The comparator should be used only to determine which object is comes before another. The two objects that are to be compared are supplied as arguments.

Date itself is comparable, so, using generics:

class MovieComparator implements Comparator<Movie> {
    public int compare(Movie m1, Movie m2) {
       //possibly check for nulls to avoid NullPointerException
       return m1.getDate().compareTo(m2.getDate());
    }
}

And do not instantiate the comparator on each sort. Use:

private static final MovieComparator comparator = new MovieComparator();

How to "Open" and "Save" using java

First off, you'll want to go through Oracle's tutorial to learn how to do basic I/O in Java.

After that, you will want to look at the tutorial on how to use a file chooser.

print variable and a string in python

All answers above are correct, However People who are coming from other programming language. The easiest approach to follow will be.

variable = 1

print("length " + format(variable))