Programs & Examples On #Php extension

The PHP language can be enhanced through the use of extensions, which provide to PHP scripts new internal functions, classes, resource types, streams (also stream wrappers and filters) and, in general, can do anything a native program would be able to do.

How do I see the extensions loaded by PHP?

Running

php -m
will give you all the modules, and
php -i
will give you a lot more detailed information on what the current configuration.

How to install all required PHP extensions for Laravel?

Laravel Server Requirements mention that BCMath, Ctype, JSON, Mbstring, OpenSSL, PDO, Tokenizer, and XML extensions are required. Most of the extensions are installed and enabled by default.

You can run the following command in Ubuntu to make sure the extensions are installed.

sudo apt install openssl php-common php-curl php-json php-mbstring php-mysql php-xml php-zip

PHP version specific installation (if PHP 7.4 installed)

sudo apt install php7.4-common php7.4-bcmath openssl php7.4-json php7.4-mbstring

You may need other PHP extensions for your composer packages. Find from links below.

PHP extensions for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

PHP extensions for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic)

PHP extensions for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial)

Installing PHP Zip Extension

This is how I installed it on my machine (ubuntu):

php 7:

sudo apt-get install php7.0-zip

php 5:

sudo apt-get install php5-zip

Edit:
Make sure to restart your server afterwards.

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart or sudo service nginx restart

PS: If you are using centOS, please check above cweiske's answer
But if you are using a Debian derivated OS, this solution should help you installing php zip extension.

Adding external library in Android studio

Adding library in Android studio 2.1

Just Go to project -> then it has some android,package ,test ,project view

Just change it to Project View

under the app->lib folder you can directly copy paste the lib and do android synchronize it. That's it

SQLiteDatabase.query method

This is a more general answer meant to be a quick reference for future viewers.

Example

SQLiteDatabase db = helper.getReadableDatabase();

String table = "table2";
String[] columns = {"column1", "column3"};
String selection = "column3 =?";
String[] selectionArgs = {"apple"};
String groupBy = null;
String having = null;
String orderBy = "column3 DESC";
String limit = "10";

Cursor cursor = db.query(table, columns, selection, selectionArgs, groupBy, having, orderBy, limit);

Explanation from the documentation

  • table String: The table name to compile the query against.
  • columns String: A list of which columns to return. Passing null will return all columns, which is discouraged to prevent reading data from storage that isn't going to be used.
  • selection String: A filter declaring which rows to return, formatted as an SQL WHERE clause (excluding the WHERE itself). Passing null will return all rows for the given table.
  • selectionArgs String: You may include ?s in selection, which will be replaced by the values from selectionArgs, in order that they appear in the selection. The values will be bound as Strings.
  • groupBy String: A filter declaring how to group rows, formatted as an SQL GROUP BY clause (excluding the GROUP BY itself). Passing null will cause the rows to not be grouped.
  • having String: A filter declare which row groups to include in the cursor, if row grouping is being used, formatted as an SQL HAVING clause (excluding the HAVING itself). Passing null will cause all row groups to be included, and is required when row grouping is not being used.
  • orderBy String: How to order the rows, formatted as an SQL ORDER BY clause (excluding the ORDER BY itself). Passing null will use the default sort order, which may be unordered.
  • limit String: Limits the number of rows returned by the query, formatted as LIMIT clause. Passing null denotes no LIMIT clause.

Preventing SQL injection in Node.js

The node-mysql library automatically performs escaping when used as you are already doing. See https://github.com/felixge/node-mysql#escaping-query-values

How to change password using TortoiseSVN?

You can't change your password through TortoiseSVN. Authentication to the SVN server has to be changed within the SVN server itself.

How you actually achieve this depends on which SVN Server is housing the repository and how the SVN Server was laid out on your computer.

n a Windows environment, credentials are typically stored in <yoursvnroot>\conf\passwd.

In a Linux environment it could be as above, or a myriad of other ways depending on how it's hosted.

What are .NumberFormat Options In Excel VBA?

dovers gives us his great answer and based on it you can try use it like

public static class CellDataFormat
{
        public static string General { get { return "General"; } }
        public static string Number { get { return "0"; } }

        // Your custom format 
        public static string NumberDotTwoDigits { get { return "0.00"; } }

        public static string Currency { get { return "$#,##0.00;[Red]$#,##0.00"; } }
        public static string Accounting { get { return "_($* #,##0.00_);_($* (#,##0.00);_($* \" - \"??_);_(@_)"; } }
        public static string Date { get { return "m/d/yy"; } }
        public static string Time { get { return "[$-F400] h:mm:ss am/pm"; } }
        public static string Percentage { get { return "0.00%"; } }
        public static string Fraction { get { return "# ?/?"; } }
        public static string Scientific { get { return "0.00E+00"; } }
        public static string Text { get { return "@"; } }
        public static string Special { get { return ";;"; } }
        public static string Custom { get { return "#,##0_);[Red](#,##0)"; } }
}

Group array items using object

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  {group: "one", color: "black"}_x000D_
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let group = myArray.map((item)=>  item.group ).filter((item, i, ar) => ar.indexOf(item) === i).sort((a, b)=> a - b).map(item=>{_x000D_
    let new_list = myArray.filter(itm => itm.group == item).map(itm=>itm.color);_x000D_
    return {group:item,color:new_list}_x000D_
});_x000D_
console.log(group);
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Gradle - Could not target platform: 'Java SE 8' using tool chain: 'JDK 7 (1.7)'

The following worked for me:

  1. Go to the top right corner of IntelliJ -> click the icon
  2. In the Project Structure window -> Select project -> In the Project SDK, choose the correct version -> Click Apply -> Click Okay

jQuery - how to write 'if not equal to' (opposite of ==)

!=

For example,

if ("apple" != "orange")
  // true, the string "apple" is not equal to the string "orange"

Means not. See also the logical operators list. Also, when you see triple characters, it's a type sensitive comparison. (e.g. if (1 === '1') [not equal])

Keep-alive header clarification

Where is this info kept ("this connection is between computer A and server F")?

A TCP connection is recognized by source IP and port and destination IP and port. Your OS, all intermediate session-aware devices and the server's OS will recognize the connection by this.

HTTP works with request-response: client connects to server, performs a request and gets a response. Without keep-alive, the connection to an HTTP server is closed after each response. With HTTP keep-alive you keep the underlying TCP connection open until certain criteria are met.

This allows for multiple request-response pairs over a single TCP connection, eliminating some of TCP's relatively slow connection startup.

When The IIS (F) sends keep alive header (or user sends keep-alive) , does it mean that (E,C,B) save a connection

No. Routers don't need to remember sessions. In fact, multiple TCP packets belonging to same TCP session need not all go through same routers - that is for TCP to manage. Routers just choose the best IP path and forward packets. Keep-alive is only for client, server and any other intermediate session-aware devices.

which is only for my session ?

Does it mean that no one else can use that connection

That is the intention of TCP connections: it is an end-to-end connection intended for only those two parties.

If so - does it mean that keep alive-header - reduce the number of overlapped connection users ?

Define "overlapped connections". See HTTP persistent connection for some advantages and disadvantages, such as:

  • Lower CPU and memory usage (because fewer connections are open simultaneously).
  • Enables HTTP pipelining of requests and responses.
  • Reduced network congestion (fewer TCP connections).
  • Reduced latency in subsequent requests (no handshaking).

if so , for how long does the connection is saved to me ? (in other words , if I set keep alive- "keep" till when?)

An typical keep-alive response looks like this:

Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100

See Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Keep-Alive Header for example (a draft for HTTP/2 where the keep-alive header is explained in greater detail than both 2616 and 2086):

  • A host sets the value of the timeout parameter to the time that the host will allows an idle connection to remain open before it is closed. A connection is idle if no data is sent or received by a host.

  • The max parameter indicates the maximum number of requests that a client will make, or that a server will allow to be made on the persistent connection. Once the specified number of requests and responses have been sent, the host that included the parameter could close the connection.

However, the server is free to close the connection after an arbitrary time or number of requests (just as long as it returns the response to the current request). How this is implemented depends on your HTTP server.

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

As others have already noted, pre-increment is usually faster than post-increment for user-defined types. To understand why this is so, look at the typical code pattern to implement both operators:

Foo& operator++()
{
    some_member.increase();
    return *this;
}

Foo operator++(int dummy_parameter_indicating_postfix)
{
    Foo copy(*this);
    ++(*this);
    return copy;
}

As you can see, the prefix version simply modifies the object and returns it by reference.

The postfix version, on the other hand, must make a copy before the actual increment is performed, and then that copy is copied back to the caller by value. It is obvious from the source code that the postfix version must do more work, because it includes a call to the prefix version: ++(*this);

For built-in types, it does not make any difference as long as you discard the value, i.e. as long as you do not embed ++i or i++ in a larger expression such as a = ++i or b = i++.

How can I convert a series of images to a PDF from the command line on linux?

Use convert from http://www.imagemagick.org. (Readily supplied as a package in most Linux distributions.)

unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally (Driver info: chromedriver=2.9

You don't need Xvfb

It is failing to start due to a mismatch between the chrome version and the chromedriver version. Downloading and installing the same versions or latest versions would solve the issue.

Built in Python hash() function

Polynomial hash for strings. 1000000009 and 239 are arbitrary prime numbers. Unlikely to have collisions by accident. Modular arithmetic is not very fast, but for preventing collisions this is more reliable than taking it modulo a power of 2. Of course, it is easy to find a collision on purpose.

mod=1000000009
def hash(s):
    result=0
    for c in s:
        result = (result * 239 + ord(c)) % mod
    return result % mod

how to run vibrate continuously in iphone?

iOS 5 has implemented Custom Vibrations mode. So in some cases variable vibration is acceptable. The only thing is unknown what library deals with that (pretty sure not CoreTelephony) and if it is open for developers. So keep on searching.

The server encountered an internal error that prevented it from fulfilling this request - in servlet 3.0

I found solution. It works fine when I throw away next line from form:

enctype="multipart/form-data"

And now it pass all parameters at request ok:

 <form action="/registration" method="post">
   <%-- error messages --%>
   <div class="form-group">
    <c:forEach items="${registrationErrors}" var="error">
    <p class="error">${error}</p>
     </c:forEach>
   </div>

Scroll to a div using jquery

First get the position of the div element upto which u want to scroll by jQuery position() method.
Example : var pos = $("div").position();
Then get the y cordinates (height) of that element with ".top" method.
Example : pos.top;
Then get the x cordinates of the that div element with ".left" method.
These methods are originated from CSS positioning.
Once we get x & y cordinates, then we can use javascript's scrollTo(); method.
This method scrolls the document upto specific height & width.
It takes two parameters as x & y cordinates. Syntax : window.scrollTo(x,y);
Then just pass the x & y cordinates of the DIV element in the scrollTo() function.
Refer the example below ↓ ↓

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
    <html>
    <head>
        <title>
            Scroll upto Div with jQuery.
        </title>
        <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
        <script>
            $(document).ready(function () {
                $("#button1").click(function () {
                    var x = $("#element").position(); //gets the position of the div element...
                    window.scrollTo(x.left, x.top); //window.scrollTo() scrolls the page upto certain position....
                    //it takes 2 parameters : (x axis cordinate, y axis cordinate);
                });
            });
            </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <button id="button1">
            Click here to scroll
        </button>

        <div id="element" style="position:absolute;top:200%;left:0%;background-color:orange;height:100px;width:200px;">
            The DIV element.
            </div>
        </body>
    </html>

date format yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ

It works fine with Salesforce REST API query datetime formats

DateTime now = DateTime.UtcNow;
string startDate = now.AddDays(-5).ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH\\:mm\\:ssZ");   
string endDate = now.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH\\:mm\\:ssZ");  
//REST service Query 
string salesforceUrl= https://csxx.salesforce.com//services/data/v33.0/sobjects/Account/updated/?start=" + startDate + "&end=" + endDate;

// https://csxx.salesforce.com/services/data/v33.0/sobjects/Account/updated/?start=2015-03-10T15:15:57Z&end=2015-03-15T15:15:57Z

It returns the results from Salesforce without any issues.

linux: kill background task

The following command gives you a list of all background processes in your session, along with the pid. You can then use it to kill the process.

jobs -l

Example usage:

$ sleep 300 &
$ jobs -l
[1]+ 31139 Running                 sleep 300 &
$ kill 31139

Move div to new line

I've found that you can move div elements to the next line simply by setting the property Display: block;

On each div.

How to solve javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException Error?

Whenever we are trying to connect to URL,

if server at the other site is running on https protocol and is mandating that we should communicate via information provided in certificate then we have following option:

1) ask for the certificate(download the certificate), import this certificate in trustore. Default trustore java uses can be found in \Java\jdk1.6.0_29\jre\lib\security\cacerts, then if we retry to connect to the URL connection would be accepted.

2) In normal business cases, we might be connecting to internal URLS in organizations and we know that they are correct. In such cases, you trust that it is the correct URL, In such cases above, code can be used which will not mandate to store the certificate to connect to particular URL.

for the point no 2 we have to follow below steps :

1) write below method which sets HostnameVerifier for HttpsURLConnection which returns true for all cases meaning we are trusting the trustStore.

  // trusting all certificate 
 public void doTrustToCertificates() throws Exception {
        Security.addProvider(new com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider());
        TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = new TrustManager[]{
                new X509TrustManager() {
                    public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
                        return null;
                    }

                    public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) throws CertificateException {
                        return;
                    }

                    public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) throws CertificateException {
                        return;
                    }
                }
        };

        SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
        sc.init(null, trustAllCerts, new SecureRandom());
        HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());
        HostnameVerifier hv = new HostnameVerifier() {
            public boolean verify(String urlHostName, SSLSession session) {
                if (!urlHostName.equalsIgnoreCase(session.getPeerHost())) {
                    System.out.println("Warning: URL host '" + urlHostName + "' is different to SSLSession host '" + session.getPeerHost() + "'.");
                }
                return true;
            }
        };
        HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultHostnameVerifier(hv);
    }

2) write below method, which calls doTrustToCertificates before trying to connect to URL

    // connecting to URL
    public void connectToUrl(){
     doTrustToCertificates();//  
     URL url = new URL("https://www.example.com");
     HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection(); 
     System.out.println("ResponseCode ="+conn.getResponseCode());
   }

This call will return response code = 200 means connection is successful.

For more detail and sample example you can refer to URL.

Python convert tuple to string

here is an easy way to use join.

''.join(('a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'g', 'x', 'r', 'e'))

How to stop a PowerShell script on the first error?

Sadly, due to buggy cmdlets like New-RegKey and Clear-Disk, none of these answers are enough. I've currently settled on the following code in a file called ps_support.ps1:

Set-StrictMode -Version Latest
$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"
$PSDefaultParameterValues['*:ErrorAction']='Stop'
function ThrowOnNativeFailure {
    if (-not $?)
    {
        throw 'Native Failure'
    }
}

Then in any powershell file, after the CmdletBinding and Param for the file (if present), I have the following:

$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"
. "$PSScriptRoot\ps_support.ps1"

The duplicated ErrorActionPreference = "Stop" line is intentional. If I've goofed and somehow gotten the path to ps_support.ps1 wrong, that needs to not silently fail!

I keep ps_support.ps1 in a common location for my repo/workspace, so the path to it for the dot-sourcing may change depending on where the current .ps1 file is.

Any native call gets this treatment:

native_call.exe
ThrowOnNativeFailure

Having that file to dot-source has helped me maintain my sanity while writing powershell scripts. :-)

Append a tuple to a list - what's the difference between two ways?

I believe tuple() takes a list as an argument For example,

tuple([1,2,3]) # returns (1,2,3)

see what happens if you wrap your array with brackets

Change the URL in the browser without loading the new page using JavaScript

I was wondering if it will posible as long as the parent path in the page is same, only something new is appended to it.

So like let's say the user is at the page: http://domain.com/site/page.html Then the browser can let me do location.append = new.html and the page becomes: http://domain.com/site/page.htmlnew.html and the browser does not change it.

Or just allow the person to change get parameter, so let's location.get = me=1&page=1.

So original page becomes http://domain.com/site/page.html?me=1&page=1 and it does not refresh.

The problem with # is that the data is not cached (at least I don't think so) when hash is changed. So it is like each time a new page is being loaded, whereas back- and forward buttons in a non-Ajax page are able to cache data and do not spend time on re-loading the data.

From what I saw, the Yahoo history thing already loads all of the data at once. It does not seem to be doing any Ajax requests. So when a div is used to handle different method overtime, that data is not stored for each history state.

How to convert dd/mm/yyyy string into JavaScript Date object?

MM/DD/YYYY format

If you have the MM/DD/YYYY format which is default for JavaScript, you can simply pass your string to Date(string) constructor. It will parse it for you.

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var dateString = "10/23/2015"; // Oct 23_x000D_
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var dateObject = new Date(dateString);_x000D_
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document.body.innerHTML = dateObject.toString();
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DD/MM/YYYY format - manually

If you work with this format, then you can split the date in order to get day, month and year separately and then use it in another constructor - Date(year, month, day):

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var dateString = "23/10/2015"; // Oct 23_x000D_
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// month is 0-based, that's why we need dataParts[1] - 1_x000D_
var dateObject = new Date(+dateParts[2], dateParts[1] - 1, +dateParts[0]); _x000D_
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document.body.innerHTML = dateObject.toString();
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For more information, you can read article about Date at Mozilla Developer Network.

DD/MM/YYYY - using moment.js library

Alternatively, you can use moment.js library, which is probably the most popular library to parse and operate with date and time in JavaScript:

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var dateMomentObject = moment(dateString, "DD/MM/YYYY"); // 1st argument - string, 2nd argument - format_x000D_
var dateObject = dateMomentObject.toDate(); // convert moment.js object to Date object_x000D_
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document.body.innerHTML = dateObject.toString();
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<script src="https://momentjs.com/downloads/moment.min.js"></script>
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In all three examples dateObject variable contains an object of type Date, which represents a moment in time and can be further converted to any string format.

Mockito: Trying to spy on method is calling the original method

One more possible scenario which may causing issues with spies is when you're testing spring beans (with spring test framework) or some other framework that is proxing your objects during test.

Example

@Autowired
private MonitoringDocumentsRepository repository

void test(){
    repository = Mockito.spy(repository)
    Mockito.doReturn(docs1, docs2)
            .when(repository).findMonitoringDocuments(Mockito.nullable(MonitoringDocumentSearchRequest.class));
}

In above code both Spring and Mockito will try to proxy your MonitoringDocumentsRepository object, but Spring will be first, which will cause real call of findMonitoringDocuments method. If we debug our code just after putting a spy on repository object it will look like this inside debugger:

repository = MonitoringDocumentsRepository$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$MockitoMock$

@SpyBean to the rescue

If instead @Autowired annotation we use @SpyBean annotation, we will solve above problem, the SpyBean annotation will also inject repository object but it will be firstly proxied by Mockito and will look like this inside debugger

repository = MonitoringDocumentsRepository$$MockitoMock$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$

and here is the code:

@SpyBean
private MonitoringDocumentsRepository repository

void test(){
    Mockito.doReturn(docs1, docs2)
            .when(repository).findMonitoringDocuments(Mockito.nullable(MonitoringDocumentSearchRequest.class));
}

Setting selected option in laravel form

You can do it like this.

<select class="form-control" name="resoureceName">

  <option>Select Item</option>

  @foreach ($items as $item)
    <option value="{{ $item->id }}" {{ ( $item->id == $existingRecordId) ? 'selected' : '' }}> {{ $item->name }} </option>
  @endforeach    </select>

On design patterns: When should I use the singleton?

First of all, let's distinguish between Single Object and Singleton. The latter is one of many possible implementations of the former. And the Single Object's problems are different from Singleton's problems. Single Objects are not inherently bad and sometimes are the only way to do things. In short:

  • Single Object - I need just one instance of an object in a program
  • Singleton - create a class with a static field. Add a static method returning this field. Lazily instantiate a field on the first call. Always return the same object.
public class Singleton {
    private static Singleton instance;

    private Singleton() {}

    public static Singleton instance() {
        if (instance == null) {
            instance = new Singleton();
        }
        return instance;
    }
}

As you can see, "Singleton" pattern in its canonical form is not very testing-friendly. This can be easily fixed, though: just make the Singleton implement an interface. Let's call it "Testable Singleton" :)

public class Singleton implements ISingleton {
    private static Singleton instance;

    private Singleton() {}

    public static ISingleton instance() {
        if (instance == null) {
            instance = new Singleton();
        }
        return instance;
    }
}

Now we can mock Singleton because we use it via the interface. One of the claims is gone. Let's see if we can get rid of another claim - shared global state.

If we strip Singleton pattern down, at its core it's about lazy initialization:

public static ISingleton instance() {
    if (instance == null) {
        instance = new Singleton();
    }
    return instance;
}

That's the whole reason for it to exist. And that's the Single Object pattern. We take it away and put to the factory method, for instance:

public class SingletonFactory {
    private static ISingleton instance;

    // Knock-knock. Single Object here
    public static ISingleton simpleSingleton() {
        if (instance == null) {
            instance = new Singleton();
        }
        return instance;
    }
}

What's the difference with our Testable Singleton? There is none, because this is the essense of the Single Object pattern - it doesn't matter whether you implement it as a Singleton or a Factory Method or a Service Locator. You still have some shared global state. This can become a problem if it's accessed from multiple threads. You will have to make simpleSingleton() synchronized and cope with all the multithreading issues.

One more time: whatever approach you choose, you will have to pay the Single Object price. Using a Dependency Injection container just shifts the complexity to the framework which will have to cope with Single Object's inherent issues.

Recap:

  1. Most of people who mention Singleton mean Single Object
  2. One of the popular ways to implement it is the Singleton pattern
  3. It has its flaws that can be mitigated
  4. However, the most of Singleton's complexity roots in Single Object's complexity
  5. Regardless of how you instantiate your Single Object, it's still there, be it a Service Locator, a Factory Method or something else
  6. You can shift the complexity to a DI container which is (hopefully) well-tested
  7. Sometimes using the DI container is cumbersome - imagine injecting a LOGGER to every class

Java, How to add library files in netbeans?

How to import a commons-library into netbeans.

  1. Evaluate the error message in NetBeans:

    java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory
    
  2. NoClassDeffFoundError means somewhere under the hood in the code you used, a method called another method which invoked a class that cannot be found. So what that means is your code did this: MyFoobarClass foobar = new MyFoobarClass() and the compiler is confused because nowhere is defined this MyFoobarClass. This is why you get an error.

  3. To know what to do next, you have to look at the error message closely. The words 'org/apache/commons' lets you know that this is the codebase that provides the tools you need. You have a choice, either you can import EVERYTHING in apache commons, or you could import JUST the LogFactory class, or you could do something in between. Like for example just get the logging bit of apache commons.

  4. You'll want to go the middle of the road and get commons-logging. Excellent choice, fire up the google and search for apache commons-logging. The first link takes you to http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-logging/. Go to downloads. There you will find the most up-to-date ones. If your project was compiled under ancient versions of commons-logging, then use those same ancient ones because if you use the newer ones, the code may fail because the newer versions are different.

  5. You're going to want to download the commons-logging-1.1.3-bin.zip or something to that effect. Read what the name is saying. The .zip means it's a compressed file. commons-logging means that this one should contain the LogFactory class you desire. the middle 1.1.3 means that is the version. if you are compiling for an old version, you'll need to match these up, or else you risk the code not compiling right due to changes due to upgrading.

  6. Download that zip. Unzip it. Search around for things that end in .jar. In netbeans right click your project, click properties, click libraries, click "add jar/folder" and import those jars. Save the project, and re-run, and the errors should be gone.

The binaries don't include the source code, so you won't be able to drill down and see what is happening when you debug. As programmers you should be downloading "the source" of apache commons and compiling from source, generating the jars yourself and importing those for experience. You should be smart enough to understand and correct the source code you are importing. These ancient versions of apache commons might have been compiled under an older version of Java, so if you go too far back, they may not even compile unless you compile them under an ancient version of java.

Can functions be passed as parameters?

Here is a simple example:

    package main

    import "fmt"

    func plusTwo() (func(v int) (int)) {
        return func(v int) (int) {
            return v+2
        }
    }

    func plusX(x int) (func(v int) (int)) {
       return func(v int) (int) {
           return v+x
       }
    }

    func main() {
        p := plusTwo()
        fmt.Printf("3+2: %d\n", p(3))

        px := plusX(3)
        fmt.Printf("3+3: %d\n", px(3))
    }

Two dimensional array in python

the above method did not work for me for a for loop, where I wanted to transfer data from a 2D array to a new array under an if the condition. This method would work

a_2d_list = [[1, 2], [3, 4]]
a_2d_list.append([5, 6])
print(a_2d_list)

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

AngularJS sorting by property

The following allows for the ordering of objects by key OR by a key within an object.

In template you can do something like:

    <li ng-repeat="(k,i) in objectList | orderObjectsBy: 'someKey'">

Or even:

    <li ng-repeat="(k,i) in objectList | orderObjectsBy: 'someObj.someKey'">

The filter:

app.filter('orderObjectsBy', function(){
 return function(input, attribute) {
    if (!angular.isObject(input)) return input;

    // Filter out angular objects.
    var array = [];
    for(var objectKey in input) {
      if (typeof(input[objectKey])  === "object" && objectKey.charAt(0) !== "$")
        array.push(input[objectKey]);
    }

    var attributeChain = attribute.split(".");

    array.sort(function(a, b){

      for (var i=0; i < attributeChain.length; i++) {
        a = (typeof(a) === "object") && a.hasOwnProperty( attributeChain[i]) ? a[attributeChain[i]] : 0;
        b = (typeof(b) === "object") && b.hasOwnProperty( attributeChain[i]) ? b[attributeChain[i]] : 0;
      }

      return parseInt(a) - parseInt(b);
    });

    return array;
 }
})

Store query result in a variable using in PL/pgSQL

You can use the following example to store a query result in a variable using PL/pgSQL:

 select * into demo from maintenanceactivitytrack ; 
    raise notice'p_maintenanceid:%',demo;

How to remove border from specific PrimeFaces p:panelGrid?

If you just want something more simple, you can just change:

<p:panelGrid >

</p:panelGrid>

to:

<h:panelGrid border="0">

</h:panelGrid>

That's worked fine for me

How to detect internet speed in JavaScript?

It's better to use images for testing the speed. But if you have to deal with zip files, the below code works.

var fileURL = "your/url/here/testfile.zip";

var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
var avoidCache = "?avoidcache=" + (new Date()).getTime();;
request.open('GET', fileURL + avoidCache, true);
request.responseType = "application/zip";
var startTime = (new Date()).getTime();
var endTime = startTime;
request.onreadystatechange = function () {
    if (request.readyState == 2)
    {
        //ready state 2 is when the request is sent
        startTime = (new Date().getTime());
    }
    if (request.readyState == 4)
    {
        endTime = (new Date()).getTime();
        var downloadSize = request.responseText.length;
        var time = (endTime - startTime) / 1000;
        var sizeInBits = downloadSize * 8;
        var speed = ((sizeInBits / time) / (1024 * 1024)).toFixed(2);
        console.log(downloadSize, time, speed);
    }
}

request.send();

This will not work very well with files < 10MB. You will have to run aggregated results on multiple download attempts.

How to center a WPF app on screen?

You don't need to reference the System.Windows.Forms assembly from your application. Instead, you can use System.Windows.SystemParameters.WorkArea. This is equivalent to the System.Windows.Forms.Screen.PrimaryScreen.WorkingArea!

How do I vertical center text next to an image in html/css?

Does "pure HTML/CSS" exclude the use of tables? Because they will easily do what you want:

<table>
    <tr>
        <td valign="top"><img src="myImage.jpg" alt="" /></td>
        <td valign="middle">This is my text!</td>
    </tr>
</table>

Flame me all you like, but that works (and works in old, janky browsers).

if (boolean == false) vs. if (!boolean)

This is a style choice. It does not impact the performance of the code in the least, it just makes it more verbose for the reader.

Java String remove all non numeric characters

str = str.replaceAll("\\D+","");

Plotting multiple curves same graph and same scale

I'm not sure what you want, but i'll use lattice.

x = rep(x,2)
y = c(y1,y2)
fac.data = as.factor(rep(1:2,each=5))
df = data.frame(x=x,y=y,z=fac.data)
# this create a data frame where I have a factor variable, z, that tells me which data I have (y1 or y2)

Then, just plot

xyplot(y ~x|z, df)
# or maybe
xyplot(x ~y|z, df)

Most efficient way to append arrays in C#?

Olmo's suggestion is very good, but I'd add this: If you're not sure about the size, it's better to make it a little bigger than a little smaller. When a list is full, keep in mind it will double its size to add more elements.

For example: suppose you will need about 50 elements. If you use a 50 elements size and the final number of elements is 51, you'll end with a 100 sized list with 49 wasted positions.

Switch to selected tab by name in Jquery-UI Tabs

$('#tabs').tabs('select', index); 

Methods `'select' isn't support in jquery ui 1.10.0.http://api.jqueryui.com/tabs/

I use this code , and work correctly:

  $('#tabs').tabs({ active: index });

How to make (link)button function as hyperlink?

You can use OnClientClick event to call a JavaScript function:

<asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Button" onclientclick='redirect()' />

JavaScript code:

function redirect() {
  location.href = 'page.aspx';
}

But i think the best would be to style a hyperlink with css.

Example :

.button {
  display: block;
  height: 25px;
  background: #f1f1f1;
  padding: 10px;
  text-align: center;
  border-radius: 5px;
  border: 1px solid #e1e1e2;
  color: #000;
  font-weight: bold;
}

Git - How to fix "corrupted" interactive rebase?

On Windows, if you are unwilling or unable to restart the machine see below.

Install Process Explorer: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

In Process Explorer, Find > File Handle or DLL ...

Type in the file name mentioned in the error (for my error it was 'git-rebase-todo' but in the question above, 'done').

Process Explorer will highlight the process holding a lock on the file (for me it was 'grep').

Kill the process and you will be able to abort the git action in the standard way.

How to scanf only integer and repeat reading if the user enters non-numeric characters?

You could create a function that reads an integer between 1 and 23 or returns 0 if non-int

e.g.

int getInt()
{
  int n = 0;
  char buffer[128];
  fgets(buffer,sizeof(buffer),stdin);
  n = atoi(buffer); 
  return ( n > 23 || n < 1 ) ? 0 : n;
}

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

JObject obj = JObject.Parse(json);
var attributes = obj["parent"]["child"]...["your desired element"].ToList<JToken>(); 

foreach (JToken attribute in attributes)
{   
    JProperty jProperty = attribute.ToObject<JProperty>();
    string propertyName = jProperty.Name;
}

What is Python used for?

Python is a dynamic, strongly typed, object oriented, multipurpose programming language, designed to be quick (to learn, to use, and to understand), and to enforce a clean and uniform syntax.

  1. Python is dynamically typed: it means that you don't declare a type (e.g. 'integer') for a variable name, and then assign something of that type (and only that type). Instead, you have variable names, and you bind them to entities whose type stays with the entity itself. a = 5 makes the variable name a to refer to the integer 5. Later, a = "hello" makes the variable name a to refer to a string containing "hello". Static typed languages would have you declare int a and then a = 5, but assigning a = "hello" would have been a compile time error. On one hand, this makes everything more unpredictable (you don't know what a refers to). On the other hand, it makes very easy to achieve some results a static typed languages makes very difficult.
  2. Python is strongly typed. It means that if a = "5" (the string whose value is '5') will remain a string, and never coerced to a number if the context requires so. Every type conversion in python must be done explicitly. This is different from, for example, Perl or Javascript, where you have weak typing, and can write things like "hello" + 5 to get "hello5".
  3. Python is object oriented, with class-based inheritance. Everything is an object (including classes, functions, modules, etc), in the sense that they can be passed around as arguments, have methods and attributes, and so on.
  4. Python is multipurpose: it is not specialised to a specific target of users (like R for statistics, or PHP for web programming). It is extended through modules and libraries, that hook very easily into the C programming language.
  5. Python enforces correct indentation of the code by making the indentation part of the syntax. There are no control braces in Python. Blocks of code are identified by the level of indentation. Although a big turn off for many programmers not used to this, it is precious as it gives a very uniform style and results in code that is visually pleasant to read.
  6. The code is compiled into byte code and then executed in a virtual machine. This means that precompiled code is portable between platforms.

Python can be used for any programming task, from GUI programming to web programming with everything else in between. It's quite efficient, as much of its activity is done at the C level. Python is just a layer on top of C. There are libraries for everything you can think of: game programming and openGL, GUI interfaces, web frameworks, semantic web, scientific computing...

How can I embed a YouTube video on GitHub wiki pages?

Center align Video with Thumbnail and Link:

<div align="center">
      <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StTqXEQ2l-Y">
     <img 
      src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/StTqXEQ2l-Y/0.jpg" 
      alt="Everything Is AWESOME" 
      style="width:100%;">
      </a>
    </div>

Result:

enter image description here

SQL query to group by day

If you're using MySQL:

SELECT
    DATE(created) AS saledate,
    SUM(amount)
FROM
    Sales
GROUP BY
    saledate

If you're using MS SQL 2008:

SELECT
    CAST(created AS date) AS saledate,
    SUM(amount)
FROM
    Sales
GROUP BY
    CAST(created AS date)

Online code beautifier and formatter

I've used Quick Highlighter a lot. Works great for a huge list of languages.

Difference between two DateTimes C#?

The time difference b/w to time will be shown use this method.

 private void HoursCalculator()
    {
        var t1 = txtfromtime.Text.Trim();
        var t2 = txttotime.Text.Trim();
        var Fromtime = t1.Substring(6);
        var Totime = t2.Substring(6);
        if (Fromtime == "M")
        {
             Fromtime = t1.Substring(5);
        }
        if (Totime == "M")
        {
            Totime = t2.Substring(5);
        }

        if (Fromtime=="PM" && Totime=="AM" )
        {
            var dt1 = DateTime.Parse("1900-01-01 " + txtfromtime.Text.Trim());
            var dt2 = DateTime.Parse("1900-01-02 " + txttotime.Text.Trim());
            var t = dt1.Subtract(dt2);
            //int temp = Convert.ToInt32(t.Hours);
            //temp = temp / 2;
            lblHours.Text =t.Hours.ToString() + ":" + t.Minutes.ToString();

        }
        else if (Fromtime == "AM" && Totime == "PM")
        {
            var dt1 = DateTime.Parse("1900-01-01 " + txtfromtime.Text.Trim());
            var dt2 = DateTime.Parse("1900-01-01 " + txttotime.Text.Trim());
            TimeSpan t = (dt2.Subtract(dt1));
            lblHours.Text = t.Hours.ToString() + ":" + t.Minutes.ToString();
        }
        else
        {
            var dt1 = DateTime.Parse("1900-01-01 " + txtfromtime.Text.Trim());
            var dt2 = DateTime.Parse("1900-01-01 " + txttotime.Text.Trim());
            TimeSpan t = (dt2.Subtract(dt1));
            lblHours.Text = t.Hours.ToString() + ":" + t.Minutes.ToString();
        }
    }

use your field id's

var t1 captures a value of 4:00AM

check this code may be helpful to someone.

No Network Security Config specified, using platform default - Android Log

Check the URL it should be using https rather than http protocol.
In my case changing http to https in the URL solved it.

Validation failed for one or more entities while saving changes to SQL Server Database using Entity Framework

Make sure that if you have nvarchar(50)in DB row you don't trying to insert more than 50characters in it. Stupid mistake but took me 3 hours to figure it out.

Creating a Zoom Effect on an image on hover using CSS?

 -webkit-transition: all 1s ease; /* Safari and Chrome */
-moz-transition: all 1s ease; /* Firefox */
-ms-transition: all 1s ease; /* IE 9 */
-o-transition: all 1s ease; /* Opera */
transition: all 1s ease;  

just want to make a note on the above transitions only need

 -webkit-transition: all 1s ease; /* Safari and Chrome */
transition: all 1s ease;

and -ms- certainly doenst work for IE 9 i dont know where you got that idea from.

Which is fastest? SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS FROM `table`, or SELECT COUNT(*)

It depends. See the MySQL Performance Blog post on this subject: To SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS or not to SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS?

Just a quick summary: Peter says that it depends on your indexes and other factors. Many of the comments to the post seem to say that SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS is almost always slower - sometimes up to 10x slower - than running two queries.

What certificates are trusted in truststore?

Is there any equivalent for the truststore? How can I view the trusted certificates?

Yes there is.The exact same command since keystore and truststore differ only in what they store i.e. private key or signed public key (certificate)

No other difference

Can you find all classes in a package using reflection?

Almost all the answers either uses Reflections or reads class files from file system. If you try to read classes from file system, you may get errors when you package your application as JAR or other. Also you may not want to use a separate library for that purpose.

Here is another approach which is pure java and not depends on file system.

import javax.tools.JavaFileObject;
import javax.tools.StandardJavaFileManager;
import javax.tools.StandardLocation;
import javax.tools.ToolProvider;
import java.io.File;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;
import java.util.stream.StreamSupport;

public class PackageUtil {

    public static Collection<Class> getClasses(final String pack) throws Exception {
        final StandardJavaFileManager fileManager = ToolProvider.getSystemJavaCompiler().getStandardFileManager(null, null, null);
        return StreamSupport.stream(fileManager.list(StandardLocation.CLASS_PATH, pack, Collections.singleton(JavaFileObject.Kind.CLASS), false).spliterator(), false)
                .map(javaFileObject -> {
                    try {
                        final String[] split = javaFileObject.getName()
                                .replace(".class", "")
                                .replace(")", "")
                                .split(Pattern.quote(File.separator));

                        final String fullClassName = pack + "." + split[split.length - 1];
                        return Class.forName(fullClassName);
                    } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
                        throw new RuntimeException(e);
                    }

                })
                .collect(Collectors.toCollection(ArrayList::new));
    }
}

Java 8 is not a must. You can use for loops instead of streams. And you can test it like this

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    final String pack = "java.nio.file"; // Or any other package
    PackageUtil.getClasses(pack).stream().forEach(System.out::println);
}

How do you copy a record in a SQL table but swap out the unique id of the new row?

I'm guessing you're trying to avoid writing out all the column names. If you're using SQL Management Studio you can easily right click on the table and Script As Insert.. then you can mess around with that output to create your query.

SQL Statement with multiple SETs and WHEREs

Nope, this is how you do it:

UPDATE table SET ID = 111111259 WHERE ID = 2555

UPDATE table SET ID = 111111261 WHERE ID = 2724

UPDATE table SET ID = 111111263 WHERE ID = 2021

UPDATE table SET ID = 111111264 WHERE ID = 2017

Python if not == vs if !=

>>> from dis import dis
>>> dis(compile('not 10 == 20', '', 'exec'))
  1           0 LOAD_CONST               0 (10)
              3 LOAD_CONST               1 (20)
              6 COMPARE_OP               2 (==)
              9 UNARY_NOT
             10 POP_TOP
             11 LOAD_CONST               2 (None)
             14 RETURN_VALUE
>>> dis(compile('10 != 20', '', 'exec'))
  1           0 LOAD_CONST               0 (10)
              3 LOAD_CONST               1 (20)
              6 COMPARE_OP               3 (!=)
              9 POP_TOP
             10 LOAD_CONST               2 (None)
             13 RETURN_VALUE

Here you can see that not x == y has one more instruction than x != y. So the performance difference will be very small in most cases unless you are doing millions of comparisons and even then this will likely not be the cause of a bottleneck.

jQuery / Javascript code check, if not undefined

I generally like the shorthand version:

if (!!wlocation) { window.location = wlocation; }

Rank function in MySQL

Combination of Daniel's and Salman's answer. However the rank will not give as continues sequence with ties exists . Instead it skips the rank to next. So maximum always reach row count.

    SELECT    first_name,
              age,
              gender,
              IF(age=@_last_age,@curRank:=@curRank,@curRank:=@_sequence) AS rank,
              @_sequence:=@_sequence+1,@_last_age:=age
    FROM      person p, (SELECT @curRank := 1, @_sequence:=1, @_last_age:=0) r
    ORDER BY  age;

Schema and Test Case:

CREATE TABLE person (id int, first_name varchar(20), age int, gender char(1));

INSERT INTO person VALUES (1, 'Bob', 25, 'M');
INSERT INTO person VALUES (2, 'Jane', 20, 'F');
INSERT INTO person VALUES (3, 'Jack', 30, 'M');
INSERT INTO person VALUES (4, 'Bill', 32, 'M');
INSERT INTO person VALUES (5, 'Nick', 22, 'M');
INSERT INTO person VALUES (6, 'Kathy', 18, 'F');
INSERT INTO person VALUES (7, 'Steve', 36, 'M');
INSERT INTO person VALUES (8, 'Anne', 25, 'F');
INSERT INTO person VALUES (9, 'Kamal', 25, 'M');
INSERT INTO person VALUES (10, 'Saman', 32, 'M');

Output:

+------------+------+--------+------+--------------------------+-----------------+
| first_name | age  | gender | rank | @_sequence:=@_sequence+1 | @_last_age:=age |
+------------+------+--------+------+--------------------------+-----------------+
| Kathy      |   18 | F      |    1 |                        2 |              18 |
| Jane       |   20 | F      |    2 |                        3 |              20 |
| Nick       |   22 | M      |    3 |                        4 |              22 |
| Kamal      |   25 | M      |    4 |                        5 |              25 |
| Anne       |   25 | F      |    4 |                        6 |              25 |
| Bob        |   25 | M      |    4 |                        7 |              25 |
| Jack       |   30 | M      |    7 |                        8 |              30 |
| Bill       |   32 | M      |    8 |                        9 |              32 |
| Saman      |   32 | M      |    8 |                       10 |              32 |
| Steve      |   36 | M      |   10 |                       11 |              36 |
+------------+------+--------+------+--------------------------+-----------------+

Convert an array into an ArrayList

List<Card> list = new ArrayList<Card>(Arrays.asList(hand));

Good examples using java.util.logging

There are many examples and also of different types for logging. Take a look at the java.util.logging package.

Example code:

import java.util.logging.Logger;

public class Main {

  private static Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger("InfoLogging");

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    LOGGER.info("Logging an INFO-level message");
  }
}

Without hard-coding the class name:

import java.util.logging.Logger;

public class Main {
  private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(
    Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace()[0].getClassName() );

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    LOGGER.info("Logging an INFO-level message");
  }
}

Where is Maven's settings.xml located on Mac OS?

After I have downloaded the binary from apache site I, have placed the extracted folder in /Library
So now the location of the settings.xml file is in:

/Library/apache_maven_3.6.3/conf

How to insert a blob into a database using sql server management studio

There are two ways to SELECT a BLOB with TSQL:

SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET (BULK 'C:\Test\Test1.pdf', SINGLE_BLOB) a

As well as:

SELECT BulkColumn FROM OPENROWSET (BULK 'C:\Test\Test1.pdf', SINGLE_BLOB) a

Note the correlation name after the FROM clause, which is mandatory.

You can then this to INSERT by doing an INSERT SELECT.

You can also use the second version to do an UPDATE as I described in How To Update A BLOB In SQL SERVER Using TSQL .

Is there a rule-of-thumb for how to divide a dataset into training and validation sets?

You'd be surprised to find out that 80/20 is quite a commonly occurring ratio, often referred to as the Pareto principle. It's usually a safe bet if you use that ratio.

However, depending on the training/validation methodology you employ, the ratio may change. For example: if you use 10-fold cross validation, then you would end up with a validation set of 10% at each fold.

There has been some research into what is the proper ratio between the training set and the validation set:

The fraction of patterns reserved for the validation set should be inversely proportional to the square root of the number of free adjustable parameters.

In their conclusion they specify a formula:

Validation set (v) to training set (t) size ratio, v/t, scales like ln(N/h-max), where N is the number of families of recognizers and h-max is the largest complexity of those families.

What they mean by complexity is:

Each family of recognizer is characterized by its complexity, which may or may not be related to the VC-dimension, the description length, the number of adjustable parameters, or other measures of complexity.

Taking the first rule of thumb (i.e.validation set should be inversely proportional to the square root of the number of free adjustable parameters), you can conclude that if you have 32 adjustable parameters, the square root of 32 is ~5.65, the fraction should be 1/5.65 or 0.177 (v/t). Roughly 17.7% should be reserved for validation and 82.3% for training.

How to change the author and committer name and e-mail of multiple commits in Git?

When taking over an unmerged commit from another author, there is an easy way to handle this.

git commit --amend --reset-author

ImportError: No module named 'Queue'

I just copy the file name Queue.py in the */lib/python2.7/ to queue.py and that solved my problem.

How to encrypt and decrypt String with my passphrase in Java (Pc not mobile platform)?

Use This This Will work For sure

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.security.GeneralSecurityException;
import javax.crypto.Cipher;
import javax.crypto.SecretKey;
import javax.crypto.SecretKeyFactory;
import javax.crypto.spec.PBEKeySpec;
import javax.crypto.spec.PBEParameterSpec;
import sun.misc.BASE64Decoder;
import sun.misc.BASE64Encoder;

public class ProtectedConfigFile {

    private static final char[] PASSWORD = "enfldsgbnlsngdlksdsgm".toCharArray();
    private static final byte[] SALT = { (byte) 0xde, (byte) 0x33, (byte) 0x10, (byte) 0x12, (byte) 0xde, (byte) 0x33,
            (byte) 0x10, (byte) 0x12, };

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        String originalPassword = "Aman";
        System.out.println("Original password: " + originalPassword);
        String encryptedPassword = encrypt(originalPassword);
        System.out.println("Encrypted password: " + encryptedPassword);
        String decryptedPassword = decrypt(encryptedPassword);
        System.out.println("Decrypted password: " + decryptedPassword);
    }

    private static String encrypt(String property) throws GeneralSecurityException, UnsupportedEncodingException {
        SecretKeyFactory keyFactory = SecretKeyFactory.getInstance("PBEWithMD5AndDES");
        SecretKey key = keyFactory.generateSecret(new PBEKeySpec(PASSWORD));
        Cipher pbeCipher = Cipher.getInstance("PBEWithMD5AndDES");
        pbeCipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, key, new PBEParameterSpec(SALT, 20));
        return base64Encode(pbeCipher.doFinal(property.getBytes("UTF-8")));
    }

    private static String base64Encode(byte[] bytes) {
        // NB: This class is internal, and you probably should use another impl
        return new BASE64Encoder().encode(bytes);
    }

    private static String decrypt(String property) throws GeneralSecurityException, IOException {
        SecretKeyFactory keyFactory = SecretKeyFactory.getInstance("PBEWithMD5AndDES");
        SecretKey key = keyFactory.generateSecret(new PBEKeySpec(PASSWORD));
        Cipher pbeCipher = Cipher.getInstance("PBEWithMD5AndDES");
        pbeCipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, key, new PBEParameterSpec(SALT, 20));
        return new String(pbeCipher.doFinal(base64Decode(property)), "UTF-8");
    }

    private static byte[] base64Decode(String property) throws IOException {
        // NB: This class is internal, and you probably should use another impl
        return new BASE64Decoder().decodeBuffer(property);
    }

}

How do I start a process from C#?

You can use this syntax for running any application:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("Example.exe");

And the same one for a URL. Just write your URL between this ().

Example:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("http://www.google.com");

How do I use Spring Boot to serve static content located in Dropbox folder?

FWIW, I didn't have any success with the spring.resources.static-locations recommended above; what worked for me was setting spring.thymeleaf.prefix:

report.location=file:/Users/bill/report/html/
spring.thymeleaf.prefix=${report.location}

How to change target build on Android project?

to get sdk 29- android 10:

Click Tools > SDK Manager.

In the SDK Platforms tab, select Android 10 (29).

In the SDK Tools tab, select Android SDK Build-Tools 29 (or higher).

Click OK to begin install.

ExecuteReader requires an open and available Connection. The connection's current state is Connecting

Sorry for only commenting in the first place, but i'm posting almost every day a similar comment since many people think that it would be smart to encapsulate ADO.NET functionality into a DB-Class(me too 10 years ago). Mostly they decide to use static/shared objects since it seems to be faster than to create a new object for any action.

That is neither a good idea in terms of peformance nor in terms of fail-safety.

Don't poach on the Connection-Pool's territory

There's a good reason why ADO.NET internally manages the underlying Connections to the DBMS in the ADO-NET Connection-Pool:

In practice, most applications use only one or a few different configurations for connections. This means that during application execution, many identical connections will be repeatedly opened and closed. To minimize the cost of opening connections, ADO.NET uses an optimization technique called connection pooling.

Connection pooling reduces the number of times that new connections must be opened. The pooler maintains ownership of the physical connection. It manages connections by keeping alive a set of active connections for each given connection configuration. Whenever a user calls Open on a connection, the pooler looks for an available connection in the pool. If a pooled connection is available, it returns it to the caller instead of opening a new connection. When the application calls Close on the connection, the pooler returns it to the pooled set of active connections instead of closing it. Once the connection is returned to the pool, it is ready to be reused on the next Open call.

So obviously there's no reason to avoid creating,opening or closing connections since actually they aren't created,opened and closed at all. This is "only" a flag for the connection pool to know when a connection can be reused or not. But it's a very important flag, because if a connection is "in use"(the connection pool assumes), a new physical connection must be openend to the DBMS what is very expensive.

So you're gaining no performance improvement but the opposite. If the maximum pool size specified (100 is the default) is reached, you would even get exceptions(too many open connections ...). So this will not only impact the performance tremendously but also be a source for nasty errors and (without using Transactions) a data-dumping-area.

If you're even using static connections you're creating a lock for every thread trying to access this object. ASP.NET is a multithreading environment by nature. So theres a great chance for these locks which causes performance issues at best. Actually sooner or later you'll get many different exceptions(like your ExecuteReader requires an open and available Connection).

Conclusion:

  • Don't reuse connections or any ADO.NET objects at all.
  • Don't make them static/shared(in VB.NET)
  • Always create, open(in case of Connections), use, close and dispose them where you need them(f.e. in a method)
  • use the using-statement to dispose and close(in case of Connections) implicitely

That's true not only for Connections(although most noticable). Every object implementing IDisposable should be disposed(simplest by using-statement), all the more in the System.Data.SqlClient namespace.

All the above speaks against a custom DB-Class which encapsulates and reuse all objects. That's the reason why i commented to trash it. That's only a problem source.


Edit: Here's a possible implementation of your retrievePromotion-method:

public Promotion retrievePromotion(int promotionID)
{
    Promotion promo = null;
    var connectionString = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["MainConnStr"].ConnectionString;
    using (SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString))
    {
        var queryString = "SELECT PromotionID, PromotionTitle, PromotionURL FROM Promotion WHERE PromotionID=@PromotionID";
        using (var da = new SqlDataAdapter(queryString, connection))
        {
            // you could also use a SqlDataReader instead
            // note that a DataTable does not need to be disposed since it does not implement IDisposable
            var tblPromotion = new DataTable();
            // avoid SQL-Injection
            da.SelectCommand.Parameters.Add("@PromotionID", SqlDbType.Int);
            da.SelectCommand.Parameters["@PromotionID"].Value = promotionID;
            try
            {
                connection.Open(); // not necessarily needed in this case because DataAdapter.Fill does it otherwise 
                da.Fill(tblPromotion);
                if (tblPromotion.Rows.Count != 0)
                {
                    var promoRow = tblPromotion.Rows[0];
                    promo = new Promotion()
                    {
                        promotionID    = promotionID,
                        promotionTitle = promoRow.Field<String>("PromotionTitle"),
                        promotionUrl   = promoRow.Field<String>("PromotionURL")
                    };
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                // log this exception or throw it up the StackTrace
                // we do not need a finally-block to close the connection since it will be closed implicitely in an using-statement
                throw;
            }
        }
    }
    return promo;
}

jQuery UI: Datepicker set year range dropdown to 100 years

I did this:

var dateToday = new Date();
var yrRange = dateToday.getFullYear() + ":" + (dateToday.getFullYear() + 50);
and then
yearRange : yrRange

where 50 is the range from current year.

How can I run an external command asynchronously from Python?

If you want to run many processes in parallel and then handle them when they yield results, you can use polling like in the following:

from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
import time

running_procs = [
    Popen(['/usr/bin/my_cmd', '-i %s' % path], stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
    for path in '/tmp/file0 /tmp/file1 /tmp/file2'.split()]

while running_procs:
    for proc in running_procs:
        retcode = proc.poll()
        if retcode is not None: # Process finished.
            running_procs.remove(proc)
            break
        else: # No process is done, wait a bit and check again.
            time.sleep(.1)
            continue

    # Here, `proc` has finished with return code `retcode`
    if retcode != 0:
        """Error handling."""
    handle_results(proc.stdout)

The control flow there is a little bit convoluted because I'm trying to make it small -- you can refactor to your taste. :-)

This has the advantage of servicing the early-finishing requests first. If you call communicate on the first running process and that turns out to run the longest, the other running processes will have been sitting there idle when you could have been handling their results.

Excel - Button to go to a certain sheet

Alternately, if you are using a Macro Enabled workbook:

Add any control at all from the Developer -> Insert (Probably a button)

When it asks what Macro to assign, choose New. For the code for the generated module enter something like:

Thisworkbook.Sheets("Sheet Name").Activate

However, if you are not using Macros in your work book. Ooo's approach is definitely surperior as hyperlinks will work with no need to trust the document.

How to change icon on Google map marker

Manish, Eden after your suggestion: here is the code. But still showing the red(Default) icon.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">
var markers = [
            {
            "title": 'This is title',
            "lat": '-37.801578',
            "lng": '145.060508',
        "icon": 'http://maps.gstatic.com/mapfiles/ridefinder-images/mm_20_green.png',
            "description": 'Vikash Rathee. <br/><a href="http://www.pricingindia.in/pincode.aspx">Pin Code by City</a>'
        }
];
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    window.onload = function () {
        var mapOptions = {
            center: new google.maps.LatLng(markers[0].lat, markers[0].lng),
            zoom: 10,
            flat: true,
            styles: [ { "stylers": [ { "hue": "#4bd6bf" }, { "gamma": "1.58" } ] } ],
            mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP
        };
        var infoWindow = new google.maps.InfoWindow();
        var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("dvMap"), mapOptions);
        for (i = 0; i < markers.length; i++) {
            var data = markers[i]
            var myLatlng = new google.maps.LatLng(data.lat, data.lng);
            var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
                position: myLatlng,
                map: map,
        icon: markers[i][3],
                title: data.title
            });
            (function (marker, data) {
                google.maps.event.addListener(marker, "click", function (e) {
                    infoWindow.setContent(data.description);
                    infoWindow.open(map, marker);
                });
            })(marker, data);
        }
    }
</script>


<div id="dvMap" style="width: 100%; height: 100%">
</div>

Optional Parameters in Go?

Neither optional parameters nor function overloading are supported in Go. Go does support a variable number of parameters: Passing arguments to ... parameters

UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode - character maps to <undefined>, print function

I dug deeper into this and found the best solutions are here.

http://blog.notdot.net/2010/07/Getting-unicode-right-in-Python

In my case I solved "UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character "

original code:

print("Process lines, file_name command_line %s\n"% command_line))

New code:

print("Process lines, file_name command_line %s\n"% command_line.encode('utf-8'))  

Excluding files/directories from Gulp task

Gulp uses micromatch under the hood for matching globs, so if you want to exclude any of the .min.js files, you can achieve the same by using an extended globbing feature like this:

src("'js/**/!(*.min).js")

Basically what it says is: grab everything at any level inside of js that doesn't end with *.min.js

-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'

The characters '<', and '>', are to indicate a place-holder, you should remove them to read:

php /usr/local/solusvm/scripts/pass.php --type=admin --comm=change --username=ADMINUSERNAME

Python way to clone a git repository

Here's a way to print progress while cloning a repo with GitPython

import time
import git
from git import RemoteProgress

class CloneProgress(RemoteProgress):
    def update(self, op_code, cur_count, max_count=None, message=''):
        if message:
            print(message)

print('Cloning into %s' % git_root)
git.Repo.clone_from('https://github.com/your-repo', '/your/repo/dir', 
        branch='master', progress=CloneProgress())

Can HTML checkboxes be set to readonly?

The main reason people would like a read-only check-box and (as well) a read-only radio-group is so that information that cannot be changed can be presented back to the user in the form it was entered.

OK disabled will do this -- unfortunately disabled controls are not keyboard navigable and therefore fall foul of all accessibility legislation. This is the BIGGEST hangup in HTML that I know of.

g++ ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64

I had a similar warning/error/failure when I was simply trying to make an executable from two different object files (main.o and add.o). I was using the command:

gcc -o exec main.o add.o

But my program is a C++ program. Using the g++ compiler solved my issue:

g++ -o exec main.o add.o

I was always under the impression that gcc could figure these things out on its own. Apparently not. I hope this helps someone else searching for this error.

Why is this printing 'None' in the output?

Because of double print function. I suggest you to use return instead of print inside the function definition.

def lyrics():
    return "The very first line"
print(lyrics())

OR

def lyrics():
    print("The very first line")
lyrics()

How do I filter date range in DataTables?

Here is DataTable with Single DatePicker as "from" Date Filter

LiveDemo

Here is DataTable with Two DatePickers for DateRange (To and From) Filter

LiveDemo

git submodule tracking latest

Edit (2020.12.28): GitHub change default master branch to main branch since October 2020. See https://github.com/github/renaming


Update March 2013

Git 1.8.2 added the possibility to track branches.

"git submodule" started learning a new mode to integrate with the tip of the remote branch (as opposed to integrating with the commit recorded in the superproject's gitlink).

# add submodule to track master branch
git submodule add -b master [URL to Git repo];

# update your submodule
git submodule update --remote 

If you had a submodule already present you now wish would track a branch, see "how to make an existing submodule track a branch".

Also see Vogella's tutorial on submodules for general information on submodules.

Note:

git submodule add -b . [URL to Git repo];
                    ^^^

See git submodule man page:

A special value of . is used to indicate that the name of the branch in the submodule should be the same name as the current branch in the current repository.


See commit b928922727d6691a3bdc28160f93f25712c565f6:

submodule add: If --branch is given, record it in .gitmodules

This allows you to easily record a submodule.<name>.branch option in .gitmodules when you add a new submodule. With this patch,

$ git submodule add -b <branch> <repository> [<path>]
$ git config -f .gitmodules submodule.<path>.branch <branch>

reduces to

$ git submodule add -b <branch> <repository> [<path>]

This means that future calls to

$ git submodule update --remote ...

will get updates from the same branch that you used to initialize the submodule, which is usually what you want.

Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King [email protected]


Original answer (February 2012):

A submodule is a single commit referenced by a parent repo.
Since it is a Git repo on its own, the "history of all commits" is accessible through a git log within that submodule.

So for a parent to track automatically the latest commit of a given branch of a submodule, it would need to:

  • cd in the submodule
  • git fetch/pull to make sure it has the latest commits on the right branch
  • cd back in the parent repo
  • add and commit in order to record the new commit of the submodule.

gitslave (that you already looked at) seems to be the best fit, including for the commit operation.

It is a little annoying to make changes to the submodule due to the requirement to check out onto the correct submodule branch, make the change, commit, and then go into the superproject and commit the commit (or at least record the new location of the submodule).

Other alternatives are detailed here.

Cannot change column used in a foreign key constraint

When you set keys (primary or foreign) you are setting constraints on how they can be used, which in turn limits what you can do with them. If you really want to alter the column, you could re-create the table without the constraints, although I'd recommend against it. Generally speaking, if you have a situation in which you want to do something, but it is blocked by a constraint, it's best resolved by changing what you want to do rather than the constraint.

How to change the default background color white to something else in twitter bootstrap

Add your own .css file & put in it:

body{
    background: navy;
}

Important: While including css files in html, first include the cdn bootstrap css, then only include your own .css file. This way stylings in your own css file overrides the default behaviour from bootstrap css.

How to remove decimal values from a value of type 'double' in Java

I would try this:

String numWihoutDecimal = String.valueOf(percentageValue).split("\\.")[0];

I've tested this and it works so then it's just convert from this string to whatever type of number or whatever variable you want. You could do something like this.

int num = Integer.parseInt(String.valueOf(percentageValue).split("\\.")[0]);

Want to move a particular div to right

For me, I used margin-left: auto; which is more responsive with horizontal resizing.

Getting full URL of action in ASP.NET MVC

This what you need to do.

@Url.Action(action,controller, null, Request.Url.Scheme)

Relative instead of Absolute paths in Excel VBA

I think the problem is that opening the file without a path will only work if your "current directory" is set correctly.

Try typing "Debug.Print CurDir" in the Immediate Window - that should show the location for your default files as set in Tools...Options.

I'm not sure I'm completely happy with it, perhaps because it's somewhat of a legacy VB command, but you could do this:

ChDir ThisWorkbook.Path

I think I'd prefer to use ThisWorkbook.Path to construct a path to the HTML file. I'm a big fan of the FileSystemObject in the Scripting Runtime (which always seems to be installed), so I'd be happier to do something like this (after setting a reference to Microsoft Scripting Runtime):

Const HTML_FILE_NAME As String = "my_input.html"

With New FileSystemObject
    With .OpenTextFile(.BuildPath(ThisWorkbook.Path, HTML_FILE_NAME), ForReading)
        ' Now we have a TextStream object that we can use to read the file
    End With
End With

Find and replace in file and overwrite file doesn't work, it empties the file

With all due respect to the above correct answers, it's always a good idea to "dry run" scripts like that, so that you don't corrupt your file and have to start again from scratch.

Just get your script to spill the output to the command line instead of writing it to the file, for example, like that:

sed -e s/STRING_TO_REPLACE/STRING_TO_REPLACE_IT/g index.html

OR

less index.html | sed -e s/STRING_TO_REPLACE/STRING_TO_REPLACE_IT/g 

This way you can see and check the output of the command without getting your file truncated.

List changes unexpectedly after assignment. How do I clone or copy it to prevent this?

Remember that in Python when you do:

    list1 = ['apples','bananas','pineapples']
    list2 = list1

List2 isn't storing the actual list, but a reference to list1. So when you do anything to list1, list2 changes as well. use the copy module (not default, download on pip) to make an original copy of the list(copy.copy() for simple lists, copy.deepcopy() for nested ones). This makes a copy that doesn't change with the first list.

Clearing the terminal screen?

The Arduino serial monitor isn't a regular terminal so its not possible to clear the screen using standard terminal commands. I suggest using an actual terminal emulator, like Putty.

The command for clearing a terminal screen is ESC[2J

To accomplish in Arduino code:

  Serial.write(27);       // ESC command
  Serial.print("[2J");    // clear screen command
  Serial.write(27);
  Serial.print("[H");     // cursor to home command

Source:
http://www.instructables.com/id/A-Wirelessly-Controlled-Arduino-Powered-Message-B/step6/Useful-Code-Explained-Clearing-a-Serial-Terminal/

RestSharp simple complete example

Pawel Sawicz .NET blog has a real good explanation and example code, explaining how to call the library;

GET:

var client = new RestClient("192.168.0.1");
var request = new RestRequest("api/item/", Method.GET);
var queryResult = client.Execute<List<Items>>(request).Data;

POST:

var client = new RestClient("http://192.168.0.1");
var request = new RestRequest("api/item/", Method.POST);
request.RequestFormat = DataFormat.Json;
request.AddBody(new Item
{
   ItemName = someName,
   Price = 19.99
});
client.Execute(request);

DELETE:

var item = new Item(){//body};
var client = new RestClient("http://192.168.0.1");
var request = new RestRequest("api/item/{id}", Method.DELETE);
request.AddParameter("id", idItem);
 
client.Execute(request)

The RestSharp GitHub page has quite an exhaustive sample halfway down the page. To get started install the RestSharp NuGet package in your project, then include the necessary namespace references in your code, then above code should work (possibly negating your need for a full example application).

NuGet RestSharp

How to tell if a <script> tag failed to load

To check if the javascript in nonexistant.js returned no error you have to add a variable inside http://fail.org/nonexistant.js like var isExecuted = true; and then check if it exists when the script tag is loaded.

However if you only want to check that the nonexistant.js returned without a 404 (meaning it exists), you can try with a isLoaded variable ...

var isExecuted = false;
var isLoaded = false;
script_tag.onload = script_tag.onreadystatechange = function() {
    if(!this.readyState ||
        this.readyState == "loaded" || this.readyState == "complete") {
        // script successfully loaded
        isLoaded = true;

        if(isExecuted) // no error
    }
}

This will cover both cases.

How to add image that is on my computer to a site in css or html?

No, Not if your website is on a remote server, i.e not on localhost.

How to access the GET parameters after "?" in Express?

const express = require('express')
const bodyParser = require('body-parser')
const { usersNdJobs, userByJob, addUser , addUserToCompany } = require ('./db/db.js')

const app = express()
app.set('view engine', 'pug')
app.use(express.static('public'))
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }))
app.use(bodyParser.json())

app.get('/', (req, res) => {
  usersNdJobs()
    .then((users) => {
      res.render('users', { users })
    })
    .catch(console.error)
})

app.get('/api/company/users', (req, res) => {
  const companyname = req.query.companyName
  console.log(companyname)
  userByJob(companyname)
    .then((users) => {
      res.render('job', { users })
    }).catch(console.error)
})

app.post('/api/users/add', (req, res) => {
  const userName = req.body.userName
  const jobName = req.body.jobName
  console.log("user name = "+userName+", job name : "+jobName)
  addUser(userName, jobName)
    .then((result) => {
      res.status(200).json(result)
    })
    .catch((error) => {
      res.status(404).json({ 'message': error.toString() })
    })
})
app.post('/users/add', (request, response) => {
  const { userName, job } = request.body
  addTeam(userName, job)
  .then((user) => {
    response.status(200).json({
      "userName": user.name,
      "city": user.job
    })
  .catch((err) => {
    request.status(400).json({"message": err})
  })
})

app.post('/api/user/company/add', (req, res) => {
  const userName = req.body.userName
  const companyName = req.body.companyName
  console.log(userName, companyName)
  addUserToCompany(userName, companyName)
  .then((result) => {
    res.json(result)
  })
  .catch(console.error)
})

app.get('/api/company/user', (req, res) => {
 const companyname = req.query.companyName
 console.log(companyname)
 userByJob(companyname)
 .then((users) => {
   res.render('jobs', { users })
 })
})

app.listen(3000, () =>
  console.log('Example app listening on port 3000!')
)

Call ASP.NET function from JavaScript?

Try this:

if(!ClientScript.IsStartupScriptRegistered("window"))
{
    Page.ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(this.GetType(), "window", "pop();", true);
}

Or this

Response.Write("<script>alert('Hello World');</script>");

Use the OnClientClick property of the button to call JavaScript functions...

Splitting templated C++ classes into .hpp/.cpp files--is it possible?

It is not possible to write the implementation of a template class in a separate cpp file and compile. All the ways to do so, if anyone claims, are workarounds to mimic the usage of separate cpp file but practically if you intend to write a template class library and distribute it with header and lib files to hide the implementation, it is simply not possible.

To know why, let us look at the compilation process. The header files are never compiled. They are only preprocessed. The preprocessed code is then clubbed with the cpp file which is actually compiled. Now if the compiler has to generate the appropriate memory layout for the object it needs to know the data type of the template class.

Actually it must be understood that template class is not a class at all but a template for a class the declaration and definition of which is generated by the compiler at compile time after getting the information of the data type from the argument. As long as the memory layout cannot be created, the instructions for the method definition cannot be generated. Remember the first argument of the class method is the 'this' operator. All class methods are converted into individual methods with name mangling and the first parameter as the object which it operates on. The 'this' argument is which actually tells about size of the object which incase of template class is unavailable for the compiler unless the user instantiates the object with a valid type argument. In this case if you put the method definitions in a separate cpp file and try to compile it the object file itself will not be generated with the class information. The compilation will not fail, it would generate the object file but it won't generate any code for the template class in the object file. This is the reason why the linker is unable to find the symbols in the object files and the build fails.

Now what is the alternative to hide important implementation details? As we all know the main objective behind separating interface from implementation is hiding implementation details in binary form. This is where you must separate the data structures and algorithms. Your template classes must represent only data structures not the algorithms. This enables you to hide more valuable implementation details in separate non-templatized class libraries, the classes inside which would work on the template classes or just use them to hold data. The template class would actually contain less code to assign, get and set data. Rest of the work would be done by the algorithm classes.

I hope this discussion would be helpful.

MySQL check if a table exists without throwing an exception

Using mysqli i've created following function. Asuming you have an mysqli instance called $con.

function table_exist($table){
    global $con;
    $table = $con->real_escape_string($table);
    $sql = "show tables like '".$table."'";
    $res = $con->query($sql);
    return ($res->num_rows > 0);
}

Hope it helps.

Warning: as sugested by @jcaron this function could be vulnerable to sqlinjection attacs, so make sure your $table var is clean or even better use parameterised queries.

MySQL query String contains

You probably are looking for find_in_set function:

Where find_in_set($needle,'column') > 0

This function acts like in_array function in PHP

How do you detect Credit card type based on number?

The first numbers of the credit card can be used to approximate the vendor:

  • Visa: 49,44 or 47
  • Visa electron: 42, 45, 48, 49
  • MasterCard: 51
  • Amex:34
  • Diners: 30, 36, 38
  • JCB: 35

Filtering a list based on a list of booleans

filtered_list = [list_a[i] for i in range(len(list_a)) if filter[i]]

Is there a method that tells my program to quit?

Please note that the solutions based on sys.exit() or any Exception may not work in a multi-threaded environment.

Since exit() ultimately “only” raises an exception, it will only exit the process when called from the main thread, and the exception is not intercepted. (doc)

This answer from Alex Martelli for more details.

How do I select last 5 rows in a table without sorting?

You can retrieve them from memory.
So first you get the rows in a DataSet, and then get the last 5 out of the DataSet.

CSS Positioning Elements Next to each other

If you want them to be displayed side by side, why is sideContent the child of mainContent? make them siblings then use:

float:left; display:inline; width: 49%;

on both of them.

#mainContent, #sideContent {float:left; display:inline; width: 49%;}

Why does 2 mod 4 = 2?

Much easier if u use bananas and a group of people.

Say you have 1 banana and group of 6 people, this you would express: 1 mod 6 / 1 % 6 / 1 modulo 6.

You need 6 bananas for each person in group to be well fed and happy.

So if you then have 1 banana and need to share it with 6 people, but you can only share if you have 1 banana for each group member, that is 6 persons, then you will have 1 banana (remainder, not shared on anyone in group), the same goes for 2 bananas. Then you will have 2 banana as remainder (nothing is shared).

But when you get 6 bananas, then you should be happy, because then there is 1 banana for each member in group of 6 people, and the remainder is 0 or no bananas left when you shared all 6 bananas on 6 people.

Now, for 7 bananas and 6 people in group, you then will have 7 mod 6 = 1, this because you gave 6 people 1 banana each, and 1 banana is the remainder.

For 12 mod 6 or 12 bananas shared on 6 people, each one will have two bananas, and the remainder is then 0.

Can't push to remote branch, cannot be resolved to branch

I ran into the same issue and noticed that I had mixed up the casing while checking out the branch. I checked out branchName instead of BranchName and when I tried to push to remote, I got the same error.

The fix:

git push --set-upstream origin BranchName

By setting upstream to the correct name, the correct branch was updated on github and I was then able to checkout the correct branch name with

git checkout BranchName 

And it should be up to date with your last push.

Regular Expression: Allow letters, numbers, and spaces (with at least one letter or number)

This will validate against special characters and leading and trailing spaces:

var strString = "Your String";

strString.match(/^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9 ]\*[A-Za-z0-9]\*$/)

Random "Element is no longer attached to the DOM" StaleElementReferenceException

I had the same problem and mine was caused by an old selenium version. I cannot update to a newer version due to development environment. The problem is caused by HTMLUnitWebElement.switchFocusToThisIfNeeded(). When you navigate to a new page it might happen that the element you clicked on the old page is the oldActiveElement (see below). Selenium tries to get context from the old element and fails. That's why they built a try catch in future releases.

Code from selenium-htmlunit-driver version < 2.23.0:

private void switchFocusToThisIfNeeded() {
    HtmlUnitWebElement oldActiveElement =
        ((HtmlUnitWebElement)parent.switchTo().activeElement());

    boolean jsEnabled = parent.isJavascriptEnabled();
    boolean oldActiveEqualsCurrent = oldActiveElement.equals(this);
    boolean isBody = oldActiveElement.getTagName().toLowerCase().equals("body");
    if (jsEnabled &&
        !oldActiveEqualsCurrent &&
        !isBody) {
      oldActiveElement.element.blur();
      element.focus();
    }
}

Code from selenium-htmlunit-driver version >= 2.23.0:

private void switchFocusToThisIfNeeded() {
    HtmlUnitWebElement oldActiveElement =
        ((HtmlUnitWebElement)parent.switchTo().activeElement());

    boolean jsEnabled = parent.isJavascriptEnabled();
    boolean oldActiveEqualsCurrent = oldActiveElement.equals(this);
    try {
        boolean isBody = oldActiveElement.getTagName().toLowerCase().equals("body");
        if (jsEnabled &&
            !oldActiveEqualsCurrent &&
            !isBody) {
        oldActiveElement.element.blur();
        }
    } catch (StaleElementReferenceException ex) {
      // old element has gone, do nothing
    }
    element.focus();
}

Without updating to 2.23.0 or newer you can just give any element on the page focus. I just used element.click() for example.

Show and hide divs at a specific time interval using jQuery

See InnerFade.

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(

    function() {
        $('#portfolio').innerfade({
            speed: 'slow',
            timeout: 10000,
            type: 'sequence',
            containerheight: '220px'
        });
    });
</script>
<ul id="portfolio">
    <li>
        <a href="http://medienfreunde.com/deutsch/referenzen/kreation/good_guy__bad_guy.html">
        <img src="images/ggbg.gif" alt="Good Guy bad Guy" />
        </a>
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="http://medienfreunde.com/deutsch/referenzen/kreation/whizzkids.html">
        <img src="images/whizzkids.gif" alt="Whizzkids" />
        </a>
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="http://medienfreunde.com/deutsch/referenzen/printdesign/koenigin_mutter.html">
        <img src="images/km.jpg" alt="Königin Mutter" />
        </a>
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="http://medienfreunde.com/deutsch/referenzen/webdesign/rt_reprotechnik_-_hybride_archivierung.html">
        <img src="images/rt_arch.jpg" alt="RT Hybride Archivierung" />
        </a>
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="http://medienfreunde.com/deutsch/referenzen/kommunikation/tuev_sued_gruppe.html">
        <img src="images/tuev.jpg" alt="TÜV SÜD Gruppe" />
        </a>
    </li>
</ul>

Create a BufferedImage from file and make it TYPE_INT_ARGB

BufferedImage in = ImageIO.read(img);

BufferedImage newImage = new BufferedImage(
    in.getWidth(), in.getHeight(), BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);

Graphics2D g = newImage.createGraphics();
g.drawImage(in, 0, 0, null);
g.dispose();

How to style icon color, size, and shadow of Font Awesome Icons

Just target font-awesome predefined class name

in ex:

HTML

<i class="fa fa-facebook"></i> 

CSS

i.fa {
    color: red;
    font-size: 30px;
}

System not declared in scope?

Chances are that you've not included the header file that declares system().

In order to be able to compile C++ code that uses functions which you don't (manually) declare yourself, you have to pull in the declarations. These declarations are normally stored in so-called header files that you pull into the current translation unit using the #include preprocessor directive. As the code does not #include the header file in which system() is declared, the compilation fails.

To fix this issue, find out which header file provides you with the declaration of system() and include that. As mentioned in several other answers, you most likely want to add #include <cstdlib>

Get first 100 characters from string, respecting full words

function truncate ($str, $length) {
    if (strlen($str) > $length) {
        $str = substr($str, 0, $length+1);
        $pos = strrpos($str, ' ');
        $str = substr($str, 0, ($pos > 0)? $pos : $length);
    }
    return $str;
}

Example:

print truncate('The first step to eternal life is you have to die.', 25);

string(25) "The first step to eternal"

print truncate('The first step to eternal life is you have to die.', 12);

string(9) "The first"

print truncate('FirstStepToEternalLife', 5);

string(5) "First"

Angular ng-click with call to a controller function not working

I'm going to guess you aren't getting errors or you would've mentioned them. If that's the case, try removing the href attribute value so the page doesn't navigate away before your code is executed. In Angular it's perfectly acceptable to leave href attributes blank.

<a href="" data-router="article" ng-click="changeListName('metro')">

Also I don't know what data-router is doing but if you still aren't getting the proper result, that could be why.

How do I clear only a few specific objects from the workspace?

Use the following command

remove(list=c("data_1", "data_2", "data_3"))

Installing Google Protocol Buffers on mac

FWIW., the latest version of brew is at protobuf 3.0, and doesn't include any formulae for the older versions. This is somewhat "inconvenient".

While protobuf may be compatible at the wire level, it is absolutely not compatible at the level of generated java classes: you can't use .class files generated with protoc 2.4 with the protobuf-2.5 JAR, etc. etc. This is why updating protobuf versions is such a sensitive topic in the Hadoop stack: it invariably requires coordination across different projects, and is traumatic enough that nobody likes to do it.

Using ALTER to drop a column if it exists in MySQL

Perhaps the simplest way to solve this (that will work) is:

  • CREATE new_table AS SELECT id, col1, col2, ... (only the columns you actually want in the final table) FROM my_table;

  • RENAME my_table TO old_table, new_table TO my_table;

  • DROP old_table;

Or keep old_table for a rollback if needed.

This will work but foreign keys will not be moved. You would have to re-add them to my_table later; also foreign keys in other tables that reference my_table will have to be fixed (pointed to the new my_table).

Good Luck...

How to set the height and the width of a textfield in Java?

xyz.setColumns() method is control the width of TextField.

import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;



class miniproj extends JFrame {

  public static void main(String[] args)
  {
    JFrame frame=new JFrame();
    JPanel panel=new JPanel();
    frame.setSize(400,400);
    frame.setTitle("Registration");


    JLabel lablename=new JLabel("Enter your name");
    TextField tname=new TextField(30);
    tname.setColumns(45);

    JLabel lableemail=new JLabel("Enter your Email");
    TextField email=new TextField(30);
    email.setColumns(45);
    JLabel lableaddress=new JLabel("Enter your address");
    TextField address=new TextField(30);
    address.setColumns(45);
    address.setFont(Font.getFont(Font.SERIF));
    JLabel lablepass=new JLabel("Enter your password");
    TextField pass=new TextField(30);
    pass.setColumns(45);

    JButton login=new JButton();
    JButton create=new JButton();
    login.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(90,30));
    login.setText("Login");
    create.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(90,30));
    create.setText("Create");



    panel.add(lablename);
    panel.add(tname);
    panel.add(lableemail);
    panel.add(email);
    panel.add(lableaddress);
    panel.add(address);
    panel.add(lablepass);
    panel.add(pass);
    panel.add(create);
    panel.add(login);



    frame.add(panel);
    frame.setVisible(true);
  }
}

enter image description here

SQL Server "cannot perform an aggregate function on an expression containing an aggregate or a subquery", but Sybase can

One option is to put the subquery in a LEFT JOIN:

select sum ( t.graduates ) - t1.summedGraduates 
from table as t
    left join 
     ( 
        select sum ( graduates ) summedGraduates, id
        from table  
        where group_code not in ('total', 'others' )
        group by id 
    ) t1 on t.id = t1.id
where t.group_code = 'total'
group by t1.summedGraduates 

Perhaps a better option would be to use SUM with CASE:

select sum(case when group_code = 'total' then graduates end) -
    sum(case when group_code not in ('total','others') then graduates end)
from yourtable

SQL Fiddle Demo with both

What could cause an error related to npm not being able to find a file? No contents in my node_modules subfolder. Why is that?

In my case, I had to create a new app, reinstall my node packages, and copy my src document over. That worked.

How can I send an Ajax Request on button click from a form with 2 buttons?

Given that the only logical difference between the handlers is the value of the button clicked, you can use the this keyword to refer to the element which raised the event and get the val() from that. Try this:

$("button").click(function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: "/pages/test/",
        data: { 
            id: $(this).val(), // < note use of 'this' here
            access_token: $("#access_token").val() 
        },
        success: function(result) {
            alert('ok');
        },
        error: function(result) {
            alert('error');
        }
    });
});

Get PostGIS version

As the above people stated, select PostGIS_full_version(); will answer your question. On my machine, where I'm running PostGIS 2.0 from trunk, I get the following output:

postgres=# select PostGIS_full_version();
postgis_full_version                                                                  
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
POSTGIS="2.0.0alpha4SVN" GEOS="3.3.2-CAPI-1.7.2" PROJ="Rel. 4.7.1, 23 September 2009" GDAL="GDAL 1.8.1, released 2011/07/09" LIBXML="2.7.3" USE_STATS
(1 row)

You do need to care about the versions of PROJ and GEOS that are included if you didn't install an all-inclusive package - in particular, there's some brokenness in GEOS prior to 3.3.2 (as noted in the postgis 2.0 manual) in dealing with geometry validity.

How to change to an older version of Node.js

Easiest way i found -

  1. Uninstall current version
  2. Download the appropriate .msi installer (x64 or x86) for the desired version from https://nodejs.org/download/release/

Junit - run set up method once

JUnit 5 now has a @BeforeAll annotation:

Denotes that the annotated method should be executed before all @Test methods in the current class or class hierarchy; analogous to JUnit 4’s @BeforeClass. Such methods must be static.

The lifecycle annotations of JUnit 5 seem to have finally gotten it right! You can guess which annotations available without even looking (e.g. @BeforeEach @AfterAll)

jQuery - Trigger event when an element is removed from the DOM

You can bind to the DOMNodeRemoved event (part of DOM Level 3 WC3 spec).

Works in IE9, latest releases of Firefox and Chrome.

Example:

$(document).bind("DOMNodeRemoved", function(e)
{
    alert("Removed: " + e.target.nodeName);
});

You can also get notification when elements are inserting by binding to DOMNodeInserted

Convert from ASCII string encoded in Hex to plain ASCII?

No need to import any library:

>>> bytearray.fromhex("7061756c").decode()
'paul'

Disable nginx cache for JavaScript files

Remember set sendfile off; or cache headers doesn't work. I use this snipped:

location / {

        index index.php index.html index.htm;
        try_files $uri $uri/ =404; #.s. el /index.html para html5Mode de angular

        #.s. kill cache. use in dev
        sendfile off;
        add_header Last-Modified $date_gmt;
        add_header Cache-Control 'no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate, max-age=0';
        if_modified_since off;
        expires off;
        etag off;
        proxy_no_cache 1;
        proxy_cache_bypass 1; 
    }

Convert String (UTF-16) to UTF-8 in C#

    private static string Utf16ToUtf8(string utf16String)
    {
        /**************************************************************
         * Every .NET string will store text with the UTF16 encoding, *
         * known as Encoding.Unicode. Other encodings may exist as    *
         * Byte-Array or incorrectly stored with the UTF16 encoding.  *
         *                                                            *
         * UTF8 = 1 bytes per char                                    *
         *    ["100" for the ansi 'd']                                *
         *    ["206" and "186" for the russian '?']                   *
         *                                                            *
         * UTF16 = 2 bytes per char                                   *
         *    ["100, 0" for the ansi 'd']                             *
         *    ["186, 3" for the russian '?']                          *
         *                                                            *
         * UTF8 inside UTF16                                          *
         *    ["100, 0" for the ansi 'd']                             *
         *    ["206, 0" and "186, 0" for the russian '?']             *
         *                                                            *
         * We can use the convert encoding function to convert an     *
         * UTF16 Byte-Array to an UTF8 Byte-Array. When we use UTF8   *
         * encoding to string method now, we will get a UTF16 string. *
         *                                                            *
         * So we imitate UTF16 by filling the second byte of a char   *
         * with a 0 byte (binary 0) while creating the string.        *
         **************************************************************/

        // Get UTF16 bytes and convert UTF16 bytes to UTF8 bytes
        byte[] utf16Bytes = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(utf16String);
        byte[] utf8Bytes = Encoding.Convert(Encoding.Unicode, Encoding.UTF8, utf16Bytes);
        char[] chars = (char[])Array.CreateInstance(typeof(char), utf8Bytes.Length);

        for (int i = 0; i < utf8Bytes.Length; i++)
        {
            chars[i] = BitConverter.ToChar(new byte[2] { utf8Bytes[i], 0 }, 0);
        }

        // Return UTF8
        return new String(chars);
    }

In the original post author concatenated strings. Every sting operation will result in string recreation in .Net. String is effectively a reference type. As a result, the function provided will be visibly slow. Don't do that. Use array of chars instead, write there directly and then convert result to string. In my case of processing 500 kb of text difference is almost 5 minutes.

HTML colspan in CSS

You could trying using a grid system like http://960.gs/

Your code would be something like this, assuming you're using a "12 column" layout:

<div class="container_12">
<div class="grid_4">1</div><div class="grid_4">2</div><div class="grid_4">3</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="grid_12">123</div>
</div>

"Debug certificate expired" error in Eclipse Android plugins

On a Mac, open the Terminal (current user's directory should open), cd ".android" ("ls" to validate debug.keystore is there). Finally "rm debug.keystore" to remove the file.

Number of processors/cores in command line

This is for those who want to a portable way to count cpu cores on *bsd, *nix or solaris (haven't tested on aix and hp-ux but should work). It has always worked for me.

dmesg | \
egrep 'cpu[. ]?[0-9]+' | \
sed 's/^.*\(cpu[. ]*[0-9]*\).*$/\1/g' | \
sort -u | \
wc -l | \
tr -d ' '

solaris grep & egrep don't have -o option so sed is used instead.

How can I shuffle the lines of a text file on the Unix command line or in a shell script?

A simple and intuitive way would be to use shuf.

Example:

Assume words.txt as:

the
an
linux
ubuntu
life
good
breeze

To shuffle the lines, do:

$ shuf words.txt

which would throws the shuffled lines to standard output; So, you've to pipe it to an output file like:

$ shuf words.txt > shuffled_words.txt

One such shuffle run could yield:

breeze
the
linux
an
ubuntu
good
life

How to use function srand() with time.h?

Try to call randomize() before rand() to initialize random generator.

(look at: srand() — why call it only once?)

Python: How to remove empty lists from a list?

I found this question because I wanted to do the same as the OP. I would like to add the following observation:

The iterative way (user225312, Sven Marnach):

list2 = [x for x in list1 if x]

Will return a list object in python3 and python2 . Instead the filter way (lunaryorn, Imran) will differently behave over versions:

list2 = filter(None, list1)

It will return a filter object in python3 and a list in python2 (see this question found at the same time). This is a slight difference but it must be take in account when developing compatible scripts.

This does not make any assumption about performances of those solutions. Anyway the filter object can be reverted to a list using:

list3 = list(list2)

How do I find the CPU and RAM usage using PowerShell?

Get-WmiObject Win32_Processor | Select LoadPercentage | Format-List

This gives you CPU load.

Get-WmiObject Win32_Processor | Measure-Object -Property LoadPercentage -Average | Select Average

Duplicate Symbols for Architecture arm64

For me, I created a method called sampleMethod in ViewController_A and created the same method in ViewController_B too, It caused me this error, then i changed the method name in ViewController_B to secondSampleMethod. It fixed the error.

Seems like a Good feature to reduce the code and not to duplicate the same code in many places.

I tried changing the No Common blocks from Yes to No then enabling testability from Yes to No. It didn't worked. I Checked duplicate files also in build phases, but there is no duplicate files.

Enabling/installing GD extension? --without-gd

Check if in your php.ini file has the following line:

;extension=php_gd2.dll

if exists, change it to

extension=php_gd2.dll

and restart apache

(it works on MAC)

How do I collapse sections of code in Visual Studio Code for Windows?

I wish Visual Studio Code could handle:

#region Function Write-Log
Function Write-Log {
    ...
}
#endregion Function Write-Log

Right now Visual Studio Code just ignores it and will not collapse it. Meanwhile Notepad++ and PowerGUI handle this just fine.

Update: I just noticed an update for Visual Studio Code. This is now supported!

What is memoization and how can I use it in Python?

cache = {}
def fib(n):
    if n <= 1:
        return n
    else:
        if n not in cache:
            cache[n] = fib(n-1) + fib(n-2)
        return cache[n]

find all unchecked checkbox in jquery

You can do so by extending jQuerys functionality. This will shorten the amount of text you have to write for the selector.

$.extend($.expr[':'], {
        unchecked: function (obj) {
            return ((obj.type == 'checkbox' || obj.type == 'radio') && !$(obj).is(':checked'));
        }
    }
);

You can then use $("input:unchecked") to get all checkboxes and radio buttons that are checked.

Spring not autowiring in unit tests with JUnit

I'm using JUnit 5 and for me the problem was that I had imported Test from the wrong package:

import org.junit.Test;

Replacing it with the following worked for me:

import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

How to hide elements without having them take space on the page?

Toggling display does not allow for smooth CSS transitions. Instead toggle both the visibility and the max-height.

visibility: hidden;
max-height: 0;

Git: Permission denied (publickey) fatal - Could not read from remote repository. while cloning Git repository

In macOS / Linux (Ubuntu):

1. To Authenticate you need to add your public part of your SSH key pair to bitbucket from within your user settings: User Settings --> SSH keys

You will find the said public part in your ~/.ssh directory, usually id_rsa.pub . note the .pub part of the file name for Public. it will help you to generate one if you don't already have one

You are not done yet ...

2. You need to let your system know what key to use with which remote host, so add these lines to your ~/.ssh/config file

Host bitbucket.org
 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/PRIVATE_KEY_FILE_NAME

Where PRIVATE_KEY_FILE_NAME is the name of private part of your SSH key pair, if you haven't messed with it, usually its default name is : id_rsa in this case replace PRIVATE_KEY_FILE_NAME above with id_rsa(the private key DOES NOT have a .pub extension)

How can I bold the fonts of a specific row or cell in an Excel worksheet with C#?

Your question is a little unclear...as the part that you indicate you want to bold in Excel is a DataGridView in the import from word method. Do you maybe want to bold the first row in the excel document?

using xl = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel;

xl.Range rng = (xl.Range)xlWorkSheet.Rows[0];
rng.Font.Bold = true;

Simple as that!

HTH, Z

There are No resources that can be added or removed from the server

I didn't find the Dynamic Web Module option when I clicked on the link, then I have installed Maven(Java EE) Integration for Eclipse WTP from the Eclipse Marketplace.Then, the above steps worked.

Printing reverse of any String without using any predefined function?

import java.util.*;
public class Restring {

public static void main(String[] args) {
  String input,output;
  Scanner kbd=new Scanner(System.in);
  System.out.println("Please Enter a String");
  input=kbd.nextLine();
  int n=input.length();

  char tmp[]=new char[n];
  char nxt[]=new char[n];

  tmp=input.toCharArray();
  int m=0;
  for(int i=n-1;i>=0;i--)
  {
      nxt[m]=tmp[i];
      m++;
  }

  System.out.print("Reversed String is   ");
  for(int i=0;i<n;i++)
  {
      System.out.print(nxt[i]);
  }

}

c# .net change label text

Old question, but I had this issue as well, so after assigning the Text property, calling Refresh() will update the text.

Label1.Text = "Du har nu lånat filmen:" + test;
Refresh();

How to get the current date without the time?

You can use DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString() like so:

var test = $"<b>Date of this report:</b> {DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString()}";

R apply function with multiple parameters

Just pass var2 as an extra argument to one of the apply functions.

mylist <- list(a=1,b=2,c=3)
myfxn <- function(var1,var2){
  var1*var2
}
var2 <- 2

sapply(mylist,myfxn,var2=var2)

This passes the same var2 to every call of myfxn. If instead you want each call of myfxn to get the 1st/2nd/3rd/etc. element of both mylist and var2, then you're in mapply's domain.

AutoComplete TextBox Control

There are two ways to accomplish this textbox effect:

enter image description here

Either using the graphic user interface (GUI); or with code

Using the Graphic User Interface:
Go to: "Properties" Tab; then set the following properties:

enter image description here

However; the best way is to create this by code. See example below.

AutoCompleteStringCollection sourceName = new AutoCompleteStringCollection();

foreach (string name in listNames)
{    
    sourceName.Add(name);
}

txtName.AutoCompleteCustomSource = sourceName;
txtName.AutoCompleteMode = AutoCompleteMode.Suggest;
txtName.AutoCompleteSource = AutoCompleteSource.CustomSource;

Unfortunately Launcher3 has stopped working error in android studio?

  1. Press the Apps menu button on your Android mobile phone device. It will display icons of all the apps installed on your mobile phone device. Press Settings.

  2. Press Apps. (Pressing on Apps button will list down all the apps installed on your mobile phone.

  3. Browse the Apps list and press on the app called "Launcher 3". (Launcher 3 is an app and it will be listed in the App list whenever you access Settings > Apps in your android phone).

  4. Pressing on the "Launcher 3" app will open the "App info screen" which will show some details pertaining to that app. On this App info screen, you will find buttons like "Force Stop", "Uninstall", "Clear Data" and "Clear Cache" etc.

  5. In Android Marshmallow (i.e. Android 6.0) choose Settings > Apps > Launcher3 > STORAGE. Press "Clear Cache". If this fails, press "Clear data". This will eventually restore functionality, but all custom shortcuts will be lost.

Restart the phone and its done. All the home screens along with app shortcuts will appear again and your mobile phone is at your service again.

I hope it explains well on how to solve the launcher problem in Android. Worked for me.

How to exclude *AutoConfiguration classes in Spring Boot JUnit tests?

I think that the best solution currently for springBoot 2.0 is using profiles

@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@SpringBootTest(classes = Application.class, webEnvironment = WebEnvironment.DEFINED_PORT)
@ActiveProfiles("test")
public class ExcludeAutoConfigIntegrationTest {
    // ...
} 

spring.autoconfigure.exclude=org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.security.servlet.SecurityAutoConfiguration

anyway in the following link give 6 different alternatives to solve this.

How can I format decimal property to currency?

A decimal type can not contain formatting information. You can create another property, say FormattedProperty of a string type that does what you want.

batch file Copy files with certain extensions from multiple directories into one directory

Things like these are why I switched to Powershell. Try it out, it's fun:

Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Include *.doc | % {
    Copy-Item $_.FullName -destination x:\destination
}

Importing variables from another file?

script1.py

title="Hello world"

script2.py is where we using script1 variable

Method 1:

import script1
print(script1.title)

Method 2:

from script1 import title
print(title)

CALL command vs. START with /WAIT option

I think that they should perform generally the same, but there are some differences. START is generally used to start applications or to start the default application for a given file type. That way if you START http://mywebsite.com it doesn't do START iexplore.exe http://mywebsite.com.

START myworddoc.docx would start Microsoft Word and open myworddoc.docx.CALL myworddoc.docx does the same thing... however START provides more options for the window state and things of that nature. It also allows process priority and affinity to be set.

In short, given the additional options provided by start, it should be your tool of choice.

START ["title"] [/D path] [/I] [/MIN] [/MAX] [/SEPARATE | /SHARED]
  [/LOW | /NORMAL | /HIGH | /REALTIME | /ABOVENORMAL | /BELOWNORMAL]
  [/NODE <NUMA node>] [/AFFINITY <hex affinity mask>] [/WAIT] [/B]
  [command/program] [parameters]

"title"     Title to display in window title bar.
path        Starting directory.
B           Start application without creating a new window. The
            application has ^C handling ignored. Unless the application
            enables ^C processing, ^Break is the only way to interrupt
            the application.
I           The new environment will be the original environment passed
            to the cmd.exe and not the current environment.
MIN         Start window minimized.
MAX         Start window maximized.
SEPARATE    Start 16-bit Windows program in separate memory space.
SHARED      Start 16-bit Windows program in shared memory space.
LOW         Start application in the IDLE priority class.
NORMAL      Start application in the NORMAL priority class.
HIGH        Start application in the HIGH priority class.
REALTIME    Start application in the REALTIME priority class.
ABOVENORMAL Start application in the ABOVENORMAL priority class.
BELOWNORMAL Start application in the BELOWNORMAL priority class.
NODE        Specifies the preferred Non-Uniform Memory Architecture (NUMA)
            node as a decimal integer.
AFFINITY    Specifies the processor affinity mask as a hexadecimal number.
            The process is restricted to running on these processors.

            The affinity mask is interpreted differently when /AFFINITY and
            /NODE are combined.  Specify the affinity mask as if the NUMA
            node's processor mask is right shifted to begin at bit zero.
            The process is restricted to running on those processors in
            common between the specified affinity mask and the NUMA node.
            If no processors are in common, the process is restricted to
            running on the specified NUMA node.
WAIT        Start application and wait for it to terminate.

Capturing console output from a .NET application (C#)

Use ProcessInfo.RedirectStandardOutput to redirect the output when creating your console process.

Then you can use Process.StandardOutput to read the program output.

The second link has a sample code how to do it.

How do I remove all .pyc files from a project?

If you want to delete all the .pyc files from the project folder.

First, you have

cd <path/to/the/folder>

then find all the .pyc file and delete.

find . -name \*.pyc -delete

How to change Windows 10 interface language on Single Language version

1) Upgrade using windows update or using "media creation tool" http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/media-creation-tool-install

  • if you are using "media creation tool" select "Upgrade this PC now"

When Windows 10 installed check that it is activated.

2) Now as you have activated Windows 10 using "media creation tool" http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/media-creation-tool-install select second option "Create installation media for another PC" here you can select Windows version and its language. Make sure that Windows version is also "Single Language"

3) Boot from you device, USB in my case and install clean Windows in English or any other language you selected.

reference http://bit.ly/1RKmPBs

.map() a Javascript ES6 Map?

If you don't want to convert the entire Map into an array beforehand, and/or destructure key-value arrays, you can use this silly function:

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/**_x000D_
 * Map over an ES6 Map._x000D_
 *_x000D_
 * @param {Map} map_x000D_
 * @param {Function} cb Callback. Receives two arguments: key, value._x000D_
 * @returns {Array}_x000D_
 */_x000D_
function mapMap(map, cb) {_x000D_
  let out = new Array(map.size);_x000D_
  let i = 0;_x000D_
  map.forEach((val, key) => {_x000D_
    out[i++] = cb(key, val);_x000D_
  });_x000D_
  return out;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
let map = new Map([_x000D_
  ["a", 1],_x000D_
  ["b", 2],_x000D_
  ["c", 3]_x000D_
]);_x000D_
_x000D_
console.log(_x000D_
  mapMap(map, (k, v) => `${k}-${v}`).join(', ')_x000D_
); // a-1, b-2, c-3
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

What does it mean when a PostgreSQL process is "idle in transaction"?

The PostgreSQL manual indicates that this means the transaction is open (inside BEGIN) and idle. It's most likely a user connected using the monitor who is thinking or typing. I have plenty of those on my system, too.

If you're using Slony for replication, however, the Slony-I FAQ suggests idle in transaction may mean that the network connection was terminated abruptly. Check out the discussion in that FAQ for more details.

Using setDate in PreparedStatement

The docs explicitly says that java.sql.Date will throw:

  • IllegalArgumentException - if the date given is not in the JDBC date escape format (yyyy-[m]m-[d]d)

Also you shouldn't need to convert a date to a String then to a sql.date, this seems superfluous (and bug-prone!). Instead you could:

java.sql.Date sqlDate := new java.sql.Date(now.getTime());
prs.setDate(2, sqlDate);
prs.setDate(3, sqlDate);

PHP FPM - check if running

For php7.0-fpm I call:

service php7.0-fpm status

php7.0-fpm start/running, process 25993

Now watch for the good part. The process name is actually php-fpm7.0

echo `/bin/pidof php-fpm7.0`

26334 26297 26286 26285 26282

Apache HttpClient Interim Error: NoHttpResponseException

I have faced same issue, I resolved by adding "connection: close" as extention,

Step 1: create a new class ConnectionCloseExtension

import com.github.tomakehurst.wiremock.common.FileSource;
import com.github.tomakehurst.wiremock.extension.Parameters;
import com.github.tomakehurst.wiremock.extension.ResponseTransformer;
import com.github.tomakehurst.wiremock.http.HttpHeader;
import com.github.tomakehurst.wiremock.http.HttpHeaders;
import com.github.tomakehurst.wiremock.http.Request;
import com.github.tomakehurst.wiremock.http.Response;

public class ConnectionCloseExtension extends ResponseTransformer {
  @Override
  public Response transform(Request request, Response response, FileSource files, Parameters parameters) {
    return Response.Builder
        .like(response)
        .headers(HttpHeaders.copyOf(response.getHeaders())
            .plus(new HttpHeader("Connection", "Close")))
        .build();
  }

  @Override
  public String getName() {
    return "ConnectionCloseExtension";
  }
}

Step 2: set extension class in wireMockServer like below,

final WireMockServer wireMockServer = new WireMockServer(options()
                .extensions(ConnectionCloseExtension.class)
                .port(httpPort));

How to check if a variable is equal to one string or another string?

if var == 'stringone' or var == 'stringtwo':
    dosomething()

'is' is used to check if the two references are referred to a same object. It compare the memory address. Apparently, 'stringone' and 'var' are different objects, they just contains the same string, but they are two different instances of the class 'str'. So they of course has two different memory addresses, and the 'is' will return False.

Doctrine and LIKE query

Actually you just need to tell doctrine who's your repository class, if you don't, doctrine uses default repo instead of yours.

@ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="Company\NameOfBundle\Repository\NameOfRepository")

mysql update multiple columns with same now()

Mysql isn't very clever. When you want to use the same timestamp in multiple update or insert queries, you need to declare a variable.

When you use the now() function, the system will call the current timestamp every time you call it in another query.

Calculate mean across dimension in a 2D array

If you do this a lot, NumPy is the way to go.

If for some reason you can't use NumPy:

>>> map(lambda x:sum(x)/float(len(x)), zip(*a))
[45.0, 10.5]

Can't find how to use HttpContent

I'm pretty sure the code is not using the System.Net.Http.HttpContent class, but instead Microsoft.Http.HttpContent. Microsoft.Http was the WCF REST Starter Kit, which never made it out preview before being placed in the .NET Framework. You can still find it here: http://aspnet.codeplex.com/releases/view/24644

I would not recommend basing new code on it.

JavaScript adding decimal numbers issue

Testing this Javascript:

var arr = [1234563995.721, 12345691212.718, 1234568421.5891, 12345677093.49284];

var sum = 0;
for( var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++ ) {
    sum += arr[i];
}

alert( "fMath(sum) = " + Math.round( sum * 1e12 ) / 1e12 );
alert( "fFixed(sum) = " + sum.toFixed( 5 ) );

Conclusion

Dont use Math.round( (## + ## + ... + ##) * 1e12) / 1e12

Instead, use ( ## + ## + ... + ##).toFixed(5) )

In IE 9, toFixed works very well.

Reading CSV file and storing values into an array

You can't create an array immediately because you need to know the number of rows from the beginning (and this would require to read the csv file twice)

You can store values in two List<T> and then use them or convert into an array using List<T>.ToArray()

Very simple example:

var column1 = new List<string>();
var column2 = new List<string>();
using (var rd = new StreamReader("filename.csv"))
{
    while (!rd.EndOfStream)
    {
        var splits = rd.ReadLine().Split(';');
        column1.Add(splits[0]);
        column2.Add(splits[1]);
    }
}
// print column1
Console.WriteLine("Column 1:");
foreach (var element in column1)
    Console.WriteLine(element);

// print column2
Console.WriteLine("Column 2:");
foreach (var element in column2)
    Console.WriteLine(element);

N.B.

Please note that this is just a very simple example. Using string.Split does not account for cases where some records contain the separator ; inside it.
For a safer approach, consider using some csv specific libraries like CsvHelper on nuget.

Remove category & tag base from WordPress url - without a plugin

If you're still searching for the combination (tags, categories and pages on the url-base), you can do it like I did.

Tested using Wordpress 3.9.1

If you have pages, categories or tags having the same name, the system will take:

  1. tag
  2. page
  3. category

What is the standard naming convention for html/css ids and classes?

I think it is platform dependent. When developing in .Net MVC, I use bootstrap style lower case and hyphens for class names, but for ids I use PascalCase.

The reasoning for this is that my views are backed by strongly typed view models. Properties of C# models are pascal case. For the sake of model binding with MVC it makes sense that the names of HTML elements that bind to the model are consistent with the view model properties which are pascal case. For simplicity my ids are use the same naming convention as element names except for radio buttons and check boxes which require unique ids for each element in the named input group.

How to validate white spaces/empty spaces? [Angular 2]

To avoid the form submition, just use required attr in the input fields.

<input type="text" required>

Or, after submit

When the form is submited, you can use str.trim() to remove white spaces form start and end of an string. I did a submit function to show you:

submitFunction(formData){

    if(!formData.foo){
        // launch an alert to say the user the field cannot be empty
        return false;
    }
    else
    {
        formData.foo = formData.foo.trim(); // removes white 
        // do your logic here
        return true;
    }

}

Syntax behind sorted(key=lambda: ...)

Another usage of lambda and sorted is like the following:

Given the input array: people = [[7,0],[4,4],[7,1],[5,0],[6,1],[5,2]]

The line: people_sort = sorted(people, key = lambda x: (-x[0], x[1])) will give a people_sort list as [[7,0],[7,1],[6,1],[5,0],[5,2],[4,4]]

In this case, key=lambda x: (-x[0], x[1]) basically tells sorted to firstly sort the array based on the value of the first element of each of the instance(in descending order as the minus sign suggests), and then within the same subgroup, sort based on the second element of each of the instance(in ascending order as it is the default option).

Hope this is some useful information to you!

Dialog with transparent background in Android

Same solution as zGnep but using xml:

android:background="@null"

What's NSLocalizedString equivalent in Swift?

A variation of the existing answers:

Swift 5.1:

extension String {

    func localized(withComment comment: String? = nil) -> String {
        return NSLocalizedString(self, comment: comment ?? "")
    }

}

You can then simply use it with or without comment:

"Goodbye".localized()
"Hello".localized(withComment: "Simple greeting")

Please note that genstrings won't work with this solution.

Live-stream video from one android phone to another over WiFi

You can check the android VLC it can stream and play video, if you want to indagate more, you can check their GIT to analyze what their do. Good luck!

How to subtract 30 days from the current date using SQL Server

Try this:

SELECT      GETDATE(), 'Today'
UNION ALL
SELECT      DATEADD(DAY,  10, GETDATE()), '10 Days Later'
UNION ALL
SELECT      DATEADD(DAY, –10, GETDATE()), '10 Days Earlier'
UNION ALL
SELECT      DATEADD(MONTH,  1, GETDATE()), 'Next Month'
UNION ALL
SELECT      DATEADD(MONTH, –1, GETDATE()), 'Previous Month'
UNION ALL
SELECT      DATEADD(YEAR,  1, GETDATE()), 'Next Year'
UNION ALL
SELECT      DATEADD(YEAR, –1, GETDATE()), 'Previous Year'

Result Set:

———————– —————
2011-05-20 21:11:42.390 Today
2011-05-30 21:11:42.390 10 Days Later
2011-05-10 21:11:42.390 10 Days Earlier
2011-06-20 21:11:42.390 Next Month
2011-04-20 21:11:42.390 Previous Month
2012-05-20 21:11:42.390 Next Year
2010-05-20 21:11:42.390 Previous Year

How do I convert an enum to a list in C#?

Here for usefulness... some code for getting the values into a list, which converts the enum into readable form for the text

public class KeyValuePair
  {
    public string Key { get; set; }

    public string Name { get; set; }

    public int Value { get; set; }

    public static List<KeyValuePair> ListFrom<T>()
    {
      var array = (T[])(Enum.GetValues(typeof(T)).Cast<T>());
      return array
        .Select(a => new KeyValuePair
          {
            Key = a.ToString(),
            Name = a.ToString().SplitCapitalizedWords(),
            Value = Convert.ToInt32(a)
          })
          .OrderBy(kvp => kvp.Name)
         .ToList();
    }
  }

.. and the supporting System.String extension method:

/// <summary>
/// Split a string on each occurrence of a capital (assumed to be a word)
/// e.g. MyBigToe returns "My Big Toe"
/// </summary>
public static string SplitCapitalizedWords(this string source)
{
  if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(source)) return String.Empty;
  var newText = new StringBuilder(source.Length * 2);
  newText.Append(source[0]);
  for (int i = 1; i < source.Length; i++)
  {
    if (char.IsUpper(source[i]))
      newText.Append(' ');
    newText.Append(source[i]);
  }
  return newText.ToString();
}

Is there a Max function in SQL Server that takes two values like Math.Max in .NET?

If you're using SQL Server 2008 (or above), then this is the better solution:

SELECT o.OrderId,
       (SELECT MAX(Price)
        FROM (VALUES (o.NegotiatedPrice),(o.SuggestedPrice)) AS AllPrices(Price))
FROM Order o

All credit and votes should go to Sven's answer to a related question, "SQL MAX of multiple columns?"
I say it's the "best answer" because:

  1. It doesn't require complicating your code with UNION's, PIVOT's, UNPIVOT's, UDF's, and crazy-long CASE statments.
  2. It isn't plagued with the problem of handling nulls, it handles them just fine.
  3. It's easy to swap out the "MAX" with "MIN", "AVG", or "SUM". You can use any aggregate function to find the aggregate over many different columns.
  4. You're not limited to the names I used (i.e. "AllPrices" and "Price"). You can pick your own names to make it easier to read and understand for the next guy.
  5. You can find multiple aggregates using SQL Server 2008's derived_tables like so:
    SELECT MAX(a), MAX(b) FROM (VALUES (1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6), (7, 8), (9, 10) ) AS MyTable(a, b)

Make flex items take content width, not width of parent container

Use align-items: flex-start on the container, or align-self: flex-start on the flex items.

No need for display: inline-flex.


An initial setting of a flex container is align-items: stretch. This means that flex items will expand to cover the full length of the container along the cross axis.

The align-self property does the same thing as align-items, except that align-self applies to flex items while align-items applies to the flex container.

By default, align-self inherits the value of align-items.

Since your container is flex-direction: column, the cross axis is horizontal, and align-items: stretch is expanding the child element's width as much as it can.

You can override the default with align-items: flex-start on the container (which is inherited by all flex items) or align-self: flex-start on the item (which is confined to the single item).


Learn more about flex alignment along the cross axis here:

Learn more about flex alignment along the main axis here:

What does [STAThread] do?

The STAThreadAttribute is essentially a requirement for the Windows message pump to communicate with COM components. Although core Windows Forms does not use COM, many components of the OS such as system dialogs do use this technology.

MSDN explains the reason in slightly more detail:

STAThreadAttribute indicates that the COM threading model for the application is single-threaded apartment. This attribute must be present on the entry point of any application that uses Windows Forms; if it is omitted, the Windows components might not work correctly. If the attribute is not present, the application uses the multithreaded apartment model, which is not supported for Windows Forms.

This blog post (Why is STAThread required?) also explains the requirement quite well. If you want a more in-depth view as to how the threading model works at the CLR level, see this MSDN Magazine article from June 2004 (Archived, Apr. 2009).

how to set ulimit / file descriptor on docker container the image tag is phusion/baseimage-docker

Actually, I have tried the above answer, but it did not seem to work.

To get my containers to acknowledge the ulimit change, I had to update the docker.conf file before starting them:

$ sudo service docker stop
$ sudo bash -c "echo \"limit nofile 262144 262144\" >> /etc/init/docker.conf"
$ sudo service docker start

Redirecting from cshtml page

You can go to method of same controller..using this line , and if you want to pass some parameters to that action it can be done by writing inside ( new { } ).. Note:- you can add as many parameter as required.

@Html.ActionLink("MethodName", new { parameter = Model.parameter })

Slick.js: Get current and total slides (ie. 3/5)

I use this code and it works:

.slider - this is slider block

.count - selector which use for return counter

$(".slider").on("init", function(event, slick){
    $(".count").text(parseInt(slick.currentSlide + 1) + ' / ' + slick.slideCount);
});

$(".slider").on("afterChange", function(event, slick, currentSlide){
    $(".count").text(parseInt(slick.currentSlide + 1) + ' / ' + slick.slideCount);
});
$(".page-article-item_image-slider").slick({
    slidesToShow: 1,
    arrows: true
});

BATCH file asks for file or folder

Referencing XCopy Force File

For forcing files, we could use pipeline "echo F |":

C:\Trash>xcopy 23.txt 24.txt
Does 24.txt specify a file name
or directory name on the target
(F = file, D = directory)?

C:\Trash>echo F | xcopy 23.txt 24.txt
Does 24.txt specify a file name
or directory name on the target
(F = file, D = directory)? F
C:23.txt
1 File(s) copied

For forcing a folder, we could use /i parameter for xcopy or using a backslash() at the end of the destination folder.

Thymeleaf: how to use conditionals to dynamically add/remove a CSS class

There is also th:classappend.

<a href="" class="baseclass" th:classappend="${isAdmin} ? adminclass : userclass"></a>

If isAdmin is true, then this will result in:

<a href="" class="baseclass adminclass"></a>

Is there a constraint that restricts my generic method to numeric types?

There is no way to restrict templates to types, but you can define different actions based on the type. As part of a generic numeric package, I needed a generic class to add two values.

    class Something<TCell>
    {
        internal static TCell Sum(TCell first, TCell second)
        {
            if (typeof(TCell) == typeof(int))
                return (TCell)((object)(((int)((object)first)) + ((int)((object)second))));

            if (typeof(TCell) == typeof(double))
                return (TCell)((object)(((double)((object)first)) + ((double)((object)second))));

            return second;
        }
    }

Note that the typeofs are evaluated at compile time, so the if statements would be removed by the compiler. The compiler also removes spurious casts. So Something would resolve in the compiler to

        internal static int Sum(int first, int second)
        {
            return first + second;
        }

Comparing two maps

Quick Answer

You should use the equals method since this is implemented to perform the comparison you want. toString() itself uses an iterator just like equals but it is a more inefficient approach. Additionally, as @Teepeemm pointed out, toString is affected by order of elements (basically iterator return order) hence is not guaranteed to provide the same output for 2 different maps (especially if we compare two different maps).

Note/Warning: Your question and my answer assume that classes implementing the map interface respect expected toString and equals behavior. The default java classes do so, but a custom map class needs to be examined to verify expected behavior.

See: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Map.html

boolean equals(Object o)

Compares the specified object with this map for equality. Returns true if the given object is also a map and the two maps represent the same mappings. More formally, two maps m1 and m2 represent the same mappings if m1.entrySet().equals(m2.entrySet()). This ensures that the equals method works properly across different implementations of the Map interface.

Implementation in Java Source (java.util.AbstractMap)

Additionally, java itself takes care of iterating through all elements and making the comparison so you don't have to. Have a look at the implementation of AbstractMap which is used by classes such as HashMap:

 // Comparison and hashing

    /**
     * Compares the specified object with this map for equality.  Returns
     * <tt>true</tt> if the given object is also a map and the two maps
     * represent the same mappings.  More formally, two maps <tt>m1</tt> and
     * <tt>m2</tt> represent the same mappings if
     * <tt>m1.entrySet().equals(m2.entrySet())</tt>.  This ensures that the
     * <tt>equals</tt> method works properly across different implementations
     * of the <tt>Map</tt> interface.
     *
     * <p>This implementation first checks if the specified object is this map;
     * if so it returns <tt>true</tt>.  Then, it checks if the specified
     * object is a map whose size is identical to the size of this map; if
     * not, it returns <tt>false</tt>.  If so, it iterates over this map's
     * <tt>entrySet</tt> collection, and checks that the specified map
     * contains each mapping that this map contains.  If the specified map
     * fails to contain such a mapping, <tt>false</tt> is returned.  If the
     * iteration completes, <tt>true</tt> is returned.
     *
     * @param o object to be compared for equality with this map
     * @return <tt>true</tt> if the specified object is equal to this map
     */
    public boolean equals(Object o) {
        if (o == this)
            return true;

        if (!(o instanceof Map))
            return false;
        Map<K,V> m = (Map<K,V>) o;
        if (m.size() != size())
            return false;

        try {
            Iterator<Entry<K,V>> i = entrySet().iterator();
            while (i.hasNext()) {
                Entry<K,V> e = i.next();
                K key = e.getKey();
                V value = e.getValue();
                if (value == null) {
                    if (!(m.get(key)==null && m.containsKey(key)))
                        return false;
                } else {
                    if (!value.equals(m.get(key)))
                        return false;
                }
            }
        } catch (ClassCastException unused) {
            return false;
        } catch (NullPointerException unused) {
            return false;
        }

        return true;
    }

Comparing two different types of Maps

toString fails miserably when comparing a TreeMap and HashMap though equals does compare contents correctly.

Code:

public static void main(String args[]) {
HashMap<String, Object> map = new HashMap<String, Object>();
map.put("2", "whatever2");
map.put("1", "whatever1");
TreeMap<String, Object> map2 = new TreeMap<String, Object>();
map2.put("2", "whatever2");
map2.put("1", "whatever1");

System.out.println("Are maps equal (using equals):" + map.equals(map2));
System.out.println("Are maps equal (using toString().equals()):"
        + map.toString().equals(map2.toString()));

System.out.println("Map1:"+map.toString());
System.out.println("Map2:"+map2.toString());
}

Output:

Are maps equal (using equals):true
Are maps equal (using toString().equals()):false
Map1:{2=whatever2, 1=whatever1}
Map2:{1=whatever1, 2=whatever2}

Bootstrap : TypeError: $(...).modal is not a function

If you are using any layout page then, move script sections from bottom to head section in layout page. bcz, javascript files should be loaded first. This worked for me

Authentication failed because remote party has closed the transport stream

This happened to me when an web request endpoint was switched to another server that accepted TLS1.2 requests only. Tried so many attempts mostly found on Stackoverflow like

  1. Registry Keys ,
  2. Added :
    System.Net.ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol |= System.Net.SecurityProtocolType.Tls12; to Global.ASX OnStart,
  3. Added in Web.config.
  4. Updated .Net framework to 4.7.2 Still getting same Exception.

The exception received did no make justice to the actual problem I was facing and found no help from the service operator.

To solve this I have to add a new Cipher Suite TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 I have used IIS Crypto 2.0 Tool from here as shown below.

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