Programs & Examples On #Phxsoftware

How to change Toolbar Navigation and Overflow Menu icons (appcompat v7)?

mToolbar.setNavigationIcon(R.mipmap.ic_launcher);
mToolbar.setOverflowIcon(ContextCompat.getDrawable(this, R.drawable.ic_menu));

JavaScript - document.getElementByID with onClick

The onclick property is all lower-case, and accepts a function, not a string.

document.getElementById("test").onclick = foo2;

See also addEventListener.

How to edit the size of the submit button on a form?

That's easy! First, give your button an id such as <input type="button" value="I am a button!" id="myButton" /> Then, for height, and width, use CSS code:

.myButton {
    width: 100px;
    height: 100px;
}

You could also do this CSS:

input[type="button"] {
    width: 100px;
    height: 100px;
}

But that would affect all the buttons on the Page.

Working example - JSfiddle

how to set auto increment column with sql developer

I found this post, which looks a bit old, but I figured I'd update everyone on my new findings.

I am using Oracle SQL Developer 4.0.2.15 on Windows. Our database is Oracle 10g (version 10.2.0.1) running on Windows.

To make a column auto-increment in Oracle -

  1. Open up the database connection in the Connections tab
  2. Expand the Tables section, and right click the table that has the column you want to change to auto-increment, and select Edit...
  3. Choose the Columns section, and select the column you want to auto-increment (Primary Key column)
  4. Next, click the "Identity Column" section below the list of columns, and change type from None to "Column Sequence"
  5. Leave the default settings (or change the names of the sequence and trigger if you'd prefer) and then click OK

Your id column (primary key) will now auto-increment, but the sequence will be starting at 1. If you need to increment the id to a certain point, you'll have to run a few alter statements against the sequence.
This post has some more details and how to overcome this.

I found the solution here

AngularJS - Create a directive that uses ng-model

Creating an isolate scope is undesirable. I would avoid using the scope attribute and do something like this. scope:true gives you a new child scope but not isolate. Then use parse to point a local scope variable to the same object the user has supplied to the ngModel attribute.

app.directive('myDir', ['$parse', function ($parse) {
    return {
        restrict: 'EA',
        scope: true,
        link: function (scope, elem, attrs) {
            if(!attrs.ngModel) {return;}
            var model = $parse(attrs.ngModel);
            scope.model = model(scope);
        }
    };
}]);

"int cannot be dereferenced" in Java

Assuming getItemNumber() returns an int, replace

if (id.equals(list[pos].getItemNumber()))

with

if (id == list[pos].getItemNumber())

When is std::weak_ptr useful?

When we does not want to own the object:

Ex:

class A
{
    shared_ptr<int> sPtr1;
    weak_ptr<int> wPtr1;
}

In the above class wPtr1 does not own the resource pointed by wPtr1. If the resource is got deleted then wPtr1 is expired.

To avoid circular dependency:

shard_ptr<A> <----| shared_ptr<B> <------
    ^             |          ^          |
    |             |          |          |
    |             |          |          |
    |             |          |          |
    |             |          |          |
class A           |     class B         |
    |             |          |          |
    |             ------------          |
    |                                   |
    -------------------------------------

Now if we make the shared_ptr of the class B and A, the use_count of the both pointer is two.

When the shared_ptr goes out od scope the count still remains 1 and hence the A and B object does not gets deleted.

class B;

class A
{
    shared_ptr<B> sP1; // use weak_ptr instead to avoid CD

public:
    A() {  cout << "A()" << endl; }
    ~A() { cout << "~A()" << endl; }

    void setShared(shared_ptr<B>& p)
    {
        sP1 = p;
    }
};

class B
{
    shared_ptr<A> sP1;

public:
    B() {  cout << "B()" << endl; }
    ~B() { cout << "~B()" << endl; }

    void setShared(shared_ptr<A>& p)
    {
        sP1 = p;
    }
};

int main()
{
    shared_ptr<A> aPtr(new A);
    shared_ptr<B> bPtr(new B);

    aPtr->setShared(bPtr);
    bPtr->setShared(aPtr);

    return 0;  
}

output:

A()
B()

As we can see from the output that A and B pointer are never deleted and hence memory leak.

To avoid such issue just use weak_ptr in class A instead of shared_ptr which makes more sense.

HTML5 Canvas 100% Width Height of Viewport?

For mobiles, it’s better to use it

canvas.width = document.documentElement.clientWidth;
canvas.height = document.documentElement.clientHeight;

because it will display incorrectly after changing the orientation.The “viewport” will be increased when changing the orientation to portrait.See full example

How to check whether Kafka Server is running?

The good option is to use AdminClient as below before starting to produce or consume the messages

private static final int ADMIN_CLIENT_TIMEOUT_MS = 5000;           
 try (AdminClient client = AdminClient.create(properties)) {
            client.listTopics(new ListTopicsOptions().timeoutMs(ADMIN_CLIENT_TIMEOUT_MS)).listings().get();
        } catch (ExecutionException ex) {
            LOG.error("Kafka is not available, timed out after {} ms", ADMIN_CLIENT_TIMEOUT_MS);
            return;
        }

Connecting to smtp.gmail.com via command line

Try this:

telnet smtp.gmail.com 587

How to target the href to div

easy way to do that is like

<a href="demo.html#divid">Demo</a>

Get index of selected option with jQuery

You can get the index of the select box by using : .prop() method of JQuery

Check This :

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src = "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){

});

function check(){
    alert($("#NumberSelector").prop('selectedIndex'));
    alert(document.getElementById("NumberSelector").value);
}
</script>
</head>

<body bgcolor="yellow">
<div>
<select id="NumberSelector" onchange="check()">
    <option value="Its Zero">Zero</option>
    <option value="Its One">One</option>
    <option value="Its Two">Two</option>
    <option value="Its Three">Three</option>
    <option value="Its Four">Four</option>
    <option value="Its Five">Five</option>
    <option value="Its Six">Six</option>
    <option value="Its Seven">Seven</option>
</select>
</div>
</body>
</html>

How to set the LDFLAGS in CMakeLists.txt?

If you want to add a flag to every link, e.g. -fsanitize=address then I would not recommend using CMAKE_*_LINKER_FLAGS. Even with them all set it still doesn't use the flag when linking a framework on OSX, and maybe in other situations. Instead use link_libraries():

add_compile_options("-fsanitize=address")
link_libraries("-fsanitize=address")

This works for everything.

How to use concerns in Rails 4

I have been reading about using model concerns to skin-nize fat models as well as DRY up your model codes. Here is an explanation with examples:

1) DRYing up model codes

Consider a Article model, a Event model and a Comment model. An article or an event has many comments. A comment belongs to either Article or Event.

Traditionally, the models may look like this:

Comment Model:

class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :commentable, polymorphic: true
end

Article Model:

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :comments, as: :commentable 

  def find_first_comment
    comments.first(created_at DESC)
  end

  def self.least_commented
   #return the article with least number of comments
  end
end

Event Model

class Event < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :comments, as: :commentable 

  def find_first_comment
    comments.first(created_at DESC)
  end

  def self.least_commented
   #returns the event with least number of comments
  end
end

As we can notice, there is a significant piece of code common to both Event and Article. Using concerns we can extract this common code in a separate module Commentable.

For this create a commentable.rb file in app/models/concerns.

module Commentable
  extend ActiveSupport::Concern

  included do
    has_many :comments, as: :commentable
  end

  # for the given article/event returns the first comment
  def find_first_comment
    comments.first(created_at DESC)
  end

  module ClassMethods
    def least_commented
      #returns the article/event which has the least number of comments
    end
  end
end

And now your models look like this :

Comment Model:

class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :commentable, polymorphic: true
end

Article Model:

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
  include Commentable
end

Event Model:

class Event < ActiveRecord::Base
  include Commentable
end

2) Skin-nizing Fat Models.

Consider a Event model. A event has many attenders and comments.

Typically, the event model might look like this

class Event < ActiveRecord::Base   
  has_many :comments
  has_many :attenders


  def find_first_comment
    # for the given article/event returns the first comment
  end

  def find_comments_with_word(word)
    # for the given event returns an array of comments which contain the given word
  end 

  def self.least_commented
    # finds the event which has the least number of comments
  end

  def self.most_attended
    # returns the event with most number of attendes
  end

  def has_attendee(attendee_id)
    # returns true if the event has the mentioned attendee
  end
end

Models with many associations and otherwise have tendency to accumulate more and more code and become unmanageable. Concerns provide a way to skin-nize fat modules making them more modularized and easy to understand.

The above model can be refactored using concerns as below: Create a attendable.rb and commentable.rb file in app/models/concerns/event folder

attendable.rb

module Attendable
  extend ActiveSupport::Concern

  included do 
    has_many :attenders
  end

  def has_attender(attender_id)
    # returns true if the event has the mentioned attendee
  end

  module ClassMethods
    def most_attended
      # returns the event with most number of attendes
    end
  end
end

commentable.rb

module Commentable
  extend ActiveSupport::Concern

  included do 
    has_many :comments
  end

  def find_first_comment
    # for the given article/event returns the first comment
  end

  def find_comments_with_word(word)
    # for the given event returns an array of comments which contain the given word
  end

  module ClassMethods
    def least_commented
      # finds the event which has the least number of comments
    end
  end
end

And now using Concerns, your Event model reduces to

class Event < ActiveRecord::Base
  include Commentable
  include Attendable
end

* While using concerns its advisable to go for 'domain' based grouping rather than 'technical' grouping. Domain Based grouping is like 'Commentable', 'Photoable', 'Attendable'. Technical grouping will mean 'ValidationMethods', 'FinderMethods' etc

Custom header to HttpClient request

var request = new HttpRequestMessage {
    RequestUri = new Uri("[your request url string]"),
    Method = HttpMethod.Post,
    Headers = {
        { "X-Version", "1" } // HERE IS HOW TO ADD HEADERS,
        { HttpRequestHeader.Authorization.ToString(), "[your authorization token]" },
        { HttpRequestHeader.ContentType.ToString(), "multipart/mixed" },//use this content type if you want to send more than one content type
    },
    Content = new MultipartContent { // Just example of request sending multipart request
        new ObjectContent<[YOUR JSON OBJECT TYPE]>(
            new [YOUR JSON OBJECT TYPE INSTANCE](...){...}, 
            new JsonMediaTypeFormatter(), 
            "application/json"), // this will add 'Content-Type' header for the first part of request
        new ByteArrayContent([BINARY DATA]) {
            Headers = { // this will add headers for the second part of request
                { "Content-Type", "application/Executable" },
                { "Content-Disposition", "form-data; filename=\"test.pdf\"" },
            },
        },
    },
};

Is there any way to specify a suggested filename when using data: URI?

HTML only: use the download attribute:

_x000D_
_x000D_
<a download="logo.gif" href="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7">Download transparent png</a>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_


Javascript only: you can save any data URI with this code:

_x000D_
_x000D_
function saveAs(uri, filename) {_x000D_
  var link = document.createElement('a');_x000D_
  if (typeof link.download === 'string') {_x000D_
    link.href = uri;_x000D_
    link.download = filename;_x000D_
_x000D_
    //Firefox requires the link to be in the body_x000D_
    document.body.appendChild(link);_x000D_
    _x000D_
    //simulate click_x000D_
    link.click();_x000D_
_x000D_
    //remove the link when done_x000D_
    document.body.removeChild(link);_x000D_
  } else {_x000D_
    window.open(uri);_x000D_
  }_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
var file = 'data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7'_x000D_
saveAs(file, 'logo.gif');
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Chrome, Firefox, and Edge 13+ will use the specified filename.

IE11, Edge 12, and Safari 9 (which don't support the download attribute) will download the file with their default name or they will simply display it in a new tab, if it's of a supported file type: images, videos, audio files, …

JSON Stringify changes time of date because of UTC

Here is something really neat and simple (atleast I believe so :)) and requires no manipulation of date to be cloned or overloading any of browser's native functions like toJSON (reference: How to JSON stringify a javascript Date and preserve timezone, courtsy Shawson)

Pass a replacer function to JSON.stringify that stringifies stuff to your heart's content!!! This way you don't have to do hour and minute diffs or any other manipulations.

I have put in console.logs to see intermediate results so it is clear what is going on and how recursion is working. That reveals something worthy of notice: value param to replacer is already converted to ISO date format :). Use this[key] to work with original data.

var replacer = function(key, value)
{
    var returnVal = value;
    if(this[key] instanceof Date)
    {
        console.log("replacer called with key - ", key, " value - ", value, this[key]); 

        returnVal = this[key].toString();

        /* Above line does not strictly speaking clone the date as in the cloned object 
         * it is a string in same format as the original but not a Date object. I tried 
         * multiple things but was unable to cause a Date object being created in the 
         * clone. 
         * Please Heeeeelp someone here!

        returnVal = new Date(JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(this[key])));   //OR
        returnVal = new Date(this[key]);   //OR
        returnVal = this[key];   //careful, returning original obj so may have potential side effect

*/
    }
    console.log("returning value: ", returnVal);

    /* if undefined is returned, the key is not at all added to the new object(i.e. clone), 
     * so return null. null !== undefined but both are falsy and can be used as such*/
    return this[key] === undefined ? null : returnVal;
};

ab = {prop1: "p1", prop2: [1, "str2", {p1: "p1inner", p2: undefined, p3: null, p4date: new Date()}]};
var abstr = JSON.stringify(ab, replacer);
var abcloned = JSON.parse(abstr);
console.log("ab is: ", ab);
console.log("abcloned is: ", abcloned);

/* abcloned is:
 * {
  "prop1": "p1",
  "prop2": [
    1,
    "str2",
    {
      "p1": "p1inner",
      "p2": null,
      "p3": null,
      "p4date": "Tue Jun 11 2019 18:47:50 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)"
    }
  ]
}
Note p4date is string not Date object but format and timezone are completely preserved.
*/

How do multiple clients connect simultaneously to one port, say 80, on a server?

Normally, for every connecting client the server forks a child process that communicates with the client (TCP). The parent server hands off to the child process an established socket that communicates back to the client.

When you send the data to a socket from your child server, the TCP stack in the OS creates a packet going back to the client and sets the "from port" to 80.

How can I get a Dialog style activity window to fill the screen?

This would be helpful for someone like me. Create custom dialog style:

<style name="MyDialog" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.Dialog">
    <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
    <item name="android:windowFullscreen">true</item>
    <item name="android:windowIsFloating">false</item>
</style>

In AndroidManifest.xml file set theme for wanted activity:

<activity
        android:name=".CustomDialog"
        ...
        android:theme="@style/MyDialog"/>

That is all, no need to call methods programaticaly.

Executing multiple SQL queries in one statement with PHP

With mysqli you're able to use multiple statements for real using mysqli_multi_query().

Read more on multiple statements in the PHP Docs.

Reading RFID with Android phones

NFC enabled phones can ONLY read NFC and passive high frequency RFID (HF-RFID). These must be read at an extremely close range, typically a few centimeters. For longer range or any other type of RFID/active RFID, you must use an external reader for handling them with mobile devices.

You can get some decent readers from a lot of manufacturers by simply searching on google. There are a lot of plug in ones for all device types.

I deal a lot with HID readers capable of close proximity scans of HID enabled ID cards as well as NFC from smart phones and smart cards. I use SerialIO badge readers that I load a decryption profile onto that allows our secure company cards to be read and utilized by an application I built. They are great for large scale reliable bluetooth scanning. Because they are bluetooth, they work for PC/Android/iOS/Linux. The only problem is, HID readers are very expensive and are meant for enterprise use. Ours cost about $400 each, but again, they read HID, SmartCards, NFC, and RFID.

If this is a personal project, I suggest just using the phone and purchasing some HF-RFID tags. The tag manufacturer should have an SDK for you to use to connect to and manage the tags. You can also just use androids NFC docs to get started https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/nfc/. Most android phones from the last 8 years have NFC, only iPhone 6 and newer apple phones have NFC, but only iOS 11 and newer will work for what you want to do.

How to send data to COM PORT using JAVA?

An alternative to javax.comm is the rxtx library which supports more platforms than javax.comm.

Populate a datagridview with sql query results

you have to add the property Tables to the DataGridView Data Source

 dataGridView1.DataSource = table.Tables[0];

@Transactional(propagation=Propagation.REQUIRED)

To understand the various transactional settings and behaviours adopted for Transaction management, such as REQUIRED, ISOLATION etc. you'll have to understand the basics of transaction management itself.

Read Trasaction management for more on explanation.

AngularJS : How to watch service variables?

Have a look at this plunker:: this is the simplest example i could think of

http://jsfiddle.net/HEdJF/

<div ng-app="myApp">
    <div ng-controller="FirstCtrl">
        <input type="text" ng-model="Data.FirstName"><!-- Input entered here -->
        <br>Input is : <strong>{{Data.FirstName}}</strong><!-- Successfully updates here -->
    </div>
    <hr>
    <div ng-controller="SecondCtrl">
        Input should also be here: {{Data.FirstName}}<!-- How do I automatically updated it here? -->
    </div>
</div>



// declare the app with no dependencies
var myApp = angular.module('myApp', []);
myApp.factory('Data', function(){
   return { FirstName: '' };
});

myApp.controller('FirstCtrl', function( $scope, Data ){
    $scope.Data = Data;
});

myApp.controller('SecondCtrl', function( $scope, Data ){
    $scope.Data = Data;
});

Javascript parse float is ignoring the decimals after my comma

In my case, I already had a period(.) and also a comma(,), so what worked for me was to replace the comma(,) with an empty string like below:

parseFloat('3,000.78'.replace(',', '')) 

This is assuming that the amount from the existing database is 3,000.78. The results are: 3000.78 without the initial comma(,).

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

Found the chrome Options class in the Selenium source code.

Usage to create a Chrome driver instance:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options)

Is there a null-coalescing (Elvis) operator or safe navigation operator in javascript?

I created a package that makes this a lot easier to use.

NPM jsdig Github jsdig

You can handle simple things like and object:

const world = {
  locations: {
    europe: 'Munich',
    usa: 'Indianapolis'
  }
};

world.dig('locations', 'usa');
// => 'Indianapolis'

world.dig('locations', 'asia', 'japan');
// => 'null'

or a little more complicated:

const germany = () => 'germany';
const world = [0, 1, { location: { europe: germany } }, 3];
world.dig(2, 'location', 'europe') === germany;
world.dig(2, 'location', 'europe')() === 'germany';

What is the difference between ports 465 and 587?

587 vs. 465

These port assignments are specified by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA):

  • Port 587: [SMTP] Message submission (SMTP-MSA), a service that accepts submission of email from email clients (MUAs). Described in RFC 6409.
  • Port 465: URL Rendezvous Directory for SSM (entirely unrelated to email)

Historically, port 465 was initially planned for the SMTPS encryption and authentication “wrapper” over SMTP, but it was quickly deprecated (within months, and over 15 years ago) in favor of STARTTLS over SMTP (RFC 3207). Despite that fact, there are probably many servers that support the deprecated protocol wrapper, primarily to support older clients that implemented SMTPS. Unless you need to support such older clients, SMTPS and its use on port 465 should remain nothing more than an historical footnote.

The hopelessly confusing and imprecise term, SSL, has often been used to indicate the SMTPS wrapper and TLS to indicate the STARTTLS protocol extension.

For completeness: Port 25

  • Port 25: Simple Mail Transfer (SMTP-MTA), a service that accepts submission of email from other servers (MTAs or MSAs). Described in RFC 5321.

Sources:

Change default date time format on a single database in SQL Server

You do realize that format has nothing to do with how SQL Server stores datetime, right?

You can use set dateformat for each session. There is no setting for database only.

If you use parameters for data insert or update or where filtering you won't have any problems with that.

How to do an update + join in PostgreSQL?

Here we go:

update vehicles_vehicle v
set price=s.price_per_vehicle
from shipments_shipment s
where v.shipment_id=s.id;

Simple as I could make it. Thanks guys!

Can also do this:

-- Doesn't work apparently
update vehicles_vehicle 
set price=s.price_per_vehicle
from vehicles_vehicle v
join shipments_shipment s on v.shipment_id=s.id;

But then you've got the vehicle table in there twice, and you're only allowed to alias it once, and you can't use the alias in the "set" portion.

Java: Insert multiple rows into MySQL with PreparedStatement

When MySQL driver is used you have to set connection param rewriteBatchedStatements to true ( jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/TestDB?**rewriteBatchedStatements=true**).

With this param the statement is rewritten to bulk insert when table is locked only once and indexes are updated only once. So it is much faster.

Without this param only advantage is cleaner source code.

Use JsonReader.setLenient(true) to accept malformed JSON at line 1 column 1 path $

Also this issue occurres when the response contenttype is not application/json. In my case response contenttype was text/html and i faced this problem. I changed it to application/json then it worked.

How can change width of dropdown list?

This:

<select style="width: XXXpx;">

XXX = Any Number

Works great in Google Chrome v70.0.3538.110

`React/RCTBridgeModule.h` file not found

I ran into this issue after doing a manual react-native link of a dependency which didn't support auto link on RN 0.59+

The solution was to select the xcodeproj file under the Libraries folder in Xcode and then in Build Settings, change Header Search Paths to add these two (recursive):

$(SRCROOT)/../../../ios/Pods/Headers/Public/React-Core
$(SRCROOT)/../../../ios/Pods/Headers/Public

General guidelines to avoid memory leaks in C++

Most memory leaks are the result of not being clear about object ownership and lifetime.

The first thing to do is to allocate on the Stack whenever you can. This deals with most of the cases where you need to allocate a single object for some purpose.

If you do need to 'new' an object then most of the time it will have a single obvious owner for the rest of its lifetime. For this situation I tend to use a bunch of collections templates that are designed for 'owning' objects stored in them by pointer. They are implemented with the STL vector and map containers but have some differences:

  • These collections can not be copied or assigned to. (once they contain objects.)
  • Pointers to objects are inserted into them.
  • When the collection is deleted the destructor is first called on all objects in the collection. (I have another version where it asserts if destructed and not empty.)
  • Since they store pointers you can also store inherited objects in these containers.

My beaf with STL is that it is so focused on Value objects while in most applications objects are unique entities that do not have meaningful copy semantics required for use in those containers.

How to use addTarget method in swift 3

Instead of

let loginRegisterButton:UIButton = {
//...  }()

Try:

lazy var loginRegisterButton:UIButton = {
//...  }()

That should fix the compile error!!!

Where can I get a list of Countries, States and Cities?

The UN maintains a list of countries and "states" / regions for economic trade. That DB is available here: http://www.unece.org/cefact/locode/welcome.html

Missing `server' JVM (Java\jre7\bin\server\jvm.dll.)

To Fix The "Missing "server" JVM at C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\server\jvm­­.dll, please install or use the JRE or JDK that contains these missing components.

Follow these steps:

Go to oracle.com and install Java JRE7 (Check if Java 6 is not installed already)

After that, go to C:/Program files/java/jre7/bin

Here, create an folder called Server

Now go into the C:/Program files/java/jre7/bin/client folder

Copy all the data in this folder into the new C:/Program files/java/jre7/bin/Server folder

How to pick just one item from a generator?

generator = myfunct()
while True:
   my_element = generator.next()

make sure to catch the exception thrown after the last element is taken

How can I declare dynamic String array in Java

You want to use a Set or List implementation (e.g. HashSet, TreeSet, etc, or ArrayList, LinkedList, etc..), since Java does not have dynamically sized arrays.

List<String> zoom = new ArrayList<>();
zoom.add("String 1");
zoom.add("String 2");

for (String z : zoom) {
    System.err.println(z);
}

Edit: Here is a more succinct way to initialize your List with an arbitrary number of values using varargs:

List<String> zoom = Arrays.asList("String 1", "String 2", "String n");

how to create 100% vertical line in css

There are at least two ways to solve this.

Solution 1:

If you are okay with using an absolutely positioned element, you can use the top and bottom properties instead of height. By setting both top and bottom to 0 you force the element into taking up full height.

#menu
{
    position: absolute;
    border-right: 1px solid black;
    top: 0;
    bottom: 0;
}?

Demo

Solution 2:

Another way would be to force the HTML and BODY elements into a 100% height, to give room for a menu with 100% height:

body, html { height: 100%; }
#menu
{
    border-right: 1px solid black;
    height: 100%;
}?

Demo

C# 4.0: Convert pdf to byte[] and vice versa

Easiest way:

byte[] buffer;
using (Stream stream = new IO.FileStream("file.pdf"))
{
   buffer = new byte[stream.Length - 1];
   stream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
}

using (Stream stream = new IO.FileStream("newFile.pdf"))
{
   stream.Write(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
}

Or something along these lines...

Live Video Streaming with PHP

PHP will let you build the pages of your site that make up your video conferencing and chat applications, but it won't deliver or stream video for you - PHP runs on the server only and renders out HTML to a client browser.

For the video, the first thing you'll need is a live streaming account with someone like akamai or the numerous others in the field. Using this account gives you an ingress point for your video - ie: the server that you will stream your live video up to.

Next, you want to get your video out to the browsers - windows media player, flash or silverlight will let you achieve this - embedding the appropriate control for your chosen technology into your page (using PHP or whatever) and given the address of your live video feed.

PHP (or other scripting language) would be used to build the chat part of the application and bring the whole thing together (the chat and the embedded video player).

Hope this helps.

importing jar libraries into android-studio

I also faced same obstacle but not able to find out solution from given answers. Might be it's happening due to project path which is having special characters & space etc... So please try to add this line in your build.gradle.

compile files('../app/libs/jtwitter.jar')// pass your .jar file name

".." (Double dot) will find your root directory of your project.

What's the actual use of 'fail' in JUnit test case?

I, for example, use fail() to indicate tests that are not yet finished (it happens); otherwise, they would show as successful.

This is perhaps due to the fact that I am unaware of some sort of incomplete() functionality, which exists in NUnit.

How to check internet access on Android? InetAddress never times out

Im using this code instead of the InetAddress :

    try {

        URL url = new URL("http://"+params[0]);

        HttpURLConnection urlc = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
        urlc.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Android Application:"+Z.APP_VERSION);
        urlc.setRequestProperty("Connection", "close");
        urlc.setConnectTimeout(1000 * 30); // mTimeout is in seconds
        urlc.connect();
        if (urlc.getResponseCode() == 200) {
            Main.Log("getResponseCode == 200");
            return new Boolean(true);
        }
    } catch (MalformedURLException e1) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e1.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

string sanitizer for filename

PHP provides a function to sanitize a text to different format

filter.filters.sanitize

How to :

echo filter_var(
   "Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's",FILTER_SANITIZE_URL
); 

Blockquote LoremIpsumhasbeentheindustry's

Getting a map() to return a list in Python 3.x

Why aren't you doing this:

[chr(x) for x in [66,53,0,94]]

It's called a list comprehension. You can find plenty of information on Google, but here's the link to the Python (2.6) documentation on list comprehensions. You might be more interested in the Python 3 documenation, though.

How can I remove the string "\n" from within a Ruby string?

You need to use "\n" not '\n' in your gsub. The different quote marks behave differently.

Double quotes " allow character expansion and expression interpolation ie. they let you use escaped control chars like \n to represent their true value, in this case, newline, and allow the use of #{expression} so you can weave variables and, well, pretty much any ruby expression you like into the text.

While on the other hand, single quotes ' treat the string literally, so there's no expansion, replacement, interpolation or what have you.

In this particular case, it's better to use either the .delete or .tr String method to delete the newlines.

See here for more info

Xcode 6 Bug: Unknown class in Interface Builder file

In mij case the ViewController.h/m where in a lib. The projects still builds but since Xcode 6.3 the above error was shown at run-time. Moving both files back into the project solved the issue.

What's the difference between ISO 8601 and RFC 3339 Date Formats?

There are lots of differences between ISO 8601 and RFC 3339. Here is some examples to give you an idea:

2020-12-09T16:09:53+00:00 is a date time value that is compliant both both standards.

2020-12-09 16:09:53+00:00 uses a space to separate the date and time. This is allowed by RFC 3339 but not allowed by ISO 8601.

2020-12-09T16:09:53-00:00 has a negative sign in the time offset. This is allowed by RFC 3339 but not allowed by ISO 8601.

20201209T160953Z omits the hyphens. This is allowed by ISO 8601 but not allowed by RFC 3339.

ISO 8601 allows for things like ordinal dates such as 2020-344 which represents the 344th day of year 2020. RFC 3339 doesn't allow for that.

For your questions:

Is one just an extension?

No. As shown above each standard supports syntax variations not supported by the the other standard. So one syntax is not a superset or an extension of the other.

Should I use one over the other?

Of course this depends on your scenario. A safe general strategy is to generate date time strings that are valid by both standards.

Another good general strategy is to use an existing standard library for parsing/formatting date time strings and not write custom implementations unless you are addressing a genuinely custom scenario.

Do I really need to care that bad?

Well, that's up to you. Most regular developers who deal with date time strings should have a high level understanding but don't need to dive into the details.

Difference between FetchType LAZY and EAGER in Java Persistence API?

Basically,

LAZY = fetch when needed
EAGER = fetch immediately

Capture close event on Bootstrap Modal

I tried using it and didn't work, guess it's just the modal versioin.

Although, it worked as this:

$("#myModal").on("hide.bs.modal", function () {
    // put your default event here
});

Just to update the answer =)

How to remove/ignore :hover css style on touch devices

I have encountered the same problem (in my case with Samsung mobile browsers) and therefore I stumbled upon this question.

Thanks to Calsal's answer I found something that I believe will exclude virtually all desktop browsers because it seems to be recognized by the mobile browsers I tried (see screenshot from a compiled table: CSS pointer feature detection table ).

MDN web docs state that

The pointer CSS @media feature can be used to apply styles based on whether the user's primary input mechanism is a pointing device, and if so, how accurate it is

.

What I discovered is that pointer: coarse is something that is unknown to all desktop browsers in the attached table but known to all mobile browsers in the same table. This seems to be most effective choice because all other pointer keyword values give inconsistent results.

Hence you could construct a media query like Calsal described but slightly modified. It makes use of a reversed logic to rule out all touch devices.

Sass mixin:

@mixin hover-supported {    
    /* 
     * https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pointer 
     * coarse: The primary input mechanism includes a pointing device of limited accuracy.
     */
    @media not all and (pointer: coarse) {
        &:hover {
            @content;
        }
    }
}

a {
    color:green;
    border-color:blue;

    @include hover-supported() {
        color:blue;
        border-color:green;
    }
}

Compiled CSS:

a {
  color: green;
  border-color: blue;
}
@media not all and (pointer: coarse) {
  a:hover {
    color: blue;
    border-color: green;
  }
}

It is also described in this gist I created after researching the problem. Codepen for empirical research.

UPDATE: As of writing this update, 2018-08-23, and pointed out by @DmitriPavlutin this technique no longer seems to work with Firefox desktop.

Testing Private method using mockito

You're not suppose to test private methods. Only non-private methods needs to be tested as these should call the private methods anyway. If you "want" to test private methods, it may indicate that you need to rethink your design:

Am I using proper dependency injection? Do I possibly needs to move the private methods into a separate class and rather test that? Must these methods be private? ...can't they be default or protected rather?

In the above instance, the two methods that are called "randomly" may actually need to be placed in a class of their own, tested and then injected into the class above.

Using IF ELSE in Oracle

IF is a PL/SQL construct. If you are executing a query, you are using SQL not PL/SQL.

In SQL, you can use a CASE statement in the query itself

SELECT DISTINCT a.item, 
                (CASE WHEN b.salesman = 'VIKKIE'
                      THEN 'ICKY'
                      ELSE b.salesman
                  END), 
                NVL(a.manufacturer,'Not Set') Manufacturer
  FROM inv_items a, 
       arv_sales b
 WHERE  a.co = '100'
   AND a.co = b.co
   AND A.ITEM_KEY = b.item_key   
   AND a.item LIKE 'BX%'
   AND b.salesman in ('01','15')
   AND trans_date BETWEEN to_date('010113','mmddrr')
                      and to_date('011713','mmddrr')
ORDER BY a.item

Since you aren't doing any aggregation, you don't want a GROUP BY in your query. Are you really sure that you need the DISTINCT? People often throw that in haphazardly or add it when they are missing a join condition rather than considering whether it is really necessary to do the extra work to identify and remove duplicates.

Style the first <td> column of a table differently

This should help. Its CSS3 :first-child where you should say that the first tr of the table you would like to style. http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/pseudoclass-firstchild

Putting images with options in a dropdown list

I have found a crossbrowser compatible JQuery plugin here.

http://designwithpc.com/Plugins/ddSlick

probably useful in this scenario.

How to add "Maven Managed Dependencies" library in build path eclipse?

I could figure out the problem. I was getting following warning on startup of eclipse.

The Maven Integration requires that Eclipse be running in a JDK, because a number of Maven core plugins are using jars from the JDk.

Please make sure the -vm option in eclipse.ini is pointing to a JDK and verify that
Installed JRE's are also using JDK installs

I changed eclipse.ini file and added following and restarted eclipse

-vm
C:/Program Files/java/jdk1.6.0_21/bin/javaw.exe

Now I can see "Maven Dependency" library included automatically in java build path.

How do you add an action to a button programmatically in xcode

IOS 14 SDK: you can add action with closure callback:

let button = UIButton(type: .system, primaryAction: UIAction(title: "Button Title", handler: { _ in
            print("Button tapped!")
        }))

Getting a reference to the control sender

let textField = UITextField()
textField.addAction(UIAction(title: "", handler: { action in
    let textField = action.sender as! UITextField
    print("Text is \(textField.text)")
}), for: .editingChanged)

source

JavaScript to scroll long page to DIV

The property you need is location.hash. For example:

location.hash = 'top'; //would jump to named anchor "top

I don't know how to do the nice scroll animation without the use of dojo or some toolkit like that, but if you just need it to jump to an anchor, location.hash should do it.

(tested on FF3 and Safari 3.1.2)

How do I output text without a newline in PowerShell?

To write to a file you can use a byte array. The following example creates an empty ZIP file, which you can add files to:

[Byte[]] $zipHeader = 80, 75, 5, 6, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
[System.IO.File]::WriteAllBytes("C:\My.zip", $zipHeader)

Or use:

[Byte[]] $text = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.getBytes("Enabling feature XYZ.......")
[System.IO.File]::WriteAllBytes("C:\My.zip", $text)

case in sql stored procedure on SQL Server

CASE isn't used for flow control... for this, you would need to use IF...

But, there's a set-based solution to this problem instead of the procedural approach:

UPDATE tblEmployee
SET 
  InOffice = CASE WHEN @NewStatus = 'InOffice' THEN -1 ELSE InOffice END,
  OutOffice = CASE WHEN @NewStatus = 'OutOffice' THEN -1 ELSE OutOffice END,
  Home = CASE WHEN @NewStatus = 'Home' THEN -1 ELSE Home END
WHERE EmpID = @EmpID

Note that the ELSE will preserves the original value if the @NewStatus condition isn't met.

What does an exclamation mark mean in the Swift language?

If you've come from a C-family language, you will be thinking "pointer to object of type X which might be the memory address 0 (NULL)", and if you're coming from a dynamically typed language you'll be thinking "Object which is probably of type X but might be of type undefined". Neither of these is actually correct, although in a roundabout way the first one is close.

The way you should be thinking of it is as if it's an object like:

struct Optional<T> {
   var isNil:Boolean
   var realObject:T
}

When you're testing your optional value with foo == nil it's really returning foo.isNil, and when you say foo! it's returning foo.realObject with an assertion that foo.isNil == false. It's important to note this because if foo actually is nil when you do foo!, that's a runtime error, so typically you'd want to use a conditional let instead unless you are very sure that the value will not be nil. This kind of trickery means that the language can be strongly typed without forcing you to test if values are nil everywhere.

In practice, it doesn't truly behave like that because the work is done by the compiler. At a high level there is a type Foo? which is separate to Foo, and that prevents funcs which accept type Foo from receiving a nil value, but at a low level an optional value isn't a true object because it has no properties or methods; it's likely that in fact it is a pointer which may by NULL(0) with the appropriate test when force-unwrapping.

There other situation in which you'd see an exclamation mark is on a type, as in:

func foo(bar: String!) {
    print(bar)
}

This is roughly equivalent to accepting an optional with a forced unwrap, i.e.:

func foo(bar: String?) {
    print(bar!)
}

You can use this to have a method which technically accepts an optional value but will have a runtime error if it is nil. In the current version of Swift this apparently bypasses the is-not-nil assertion so you'll have a low-level error instead. Generally not a good idea, but it can be useful when converting code from another language.

In which case do you use the JPA @JoinTable annotation?

@ManyToMany associations

Most often, you will need to use @JoinTable annotation to specify the mapping of a many-to-many table relationship:

  • the name of the link table and
  • the two Foreign Key columns

So, assuming you have the following database tables:

Many-to-many table relationship

In the Post entity, you would map this relationship, like this:

@ManyToMany(cascade = {
    CascadeType.PERSIST,
    CascadeType.MERGE
})
@JoinTable(
    name = "post_tag",
    joinColumns = @JoinColumn(name = "post_id"),
    inverseJoinColumns = @JoinColumn(name = "tag_id")
)
private List<Tag> tags = new ArrayList<>();

The @JoinTable annotation is used to specify the table name via the name attribute, as well as the Foreign Key column that references the post table (e.g., joinColumns) and the Foreign Key column in the post_tag link table that references the Tag entity via the inverseJoinColumns attribute.

Notice that the cascade attribute of the @ManyToMany annotation is set to PERSIST and MERGE only because cascading REMOVE is a bad idea since we the DELETE statement will be issued for the other parent record, tag in our case, not to the post_tag record.

Unidirectional @OneToMany associations

The unidirectional @OneToMany associations, that lack a @JoinColumn mapping, behave like many-to-many table relationships, rather than one-to-many.

So, assuming you have the following entity mappings:

@Entity(name = "Post")
@Table(name = "post")
public class Post {
 
    @Id
    @GeneratedValue
    private Long id;
 
    private String title;
 
    @OneToMany(
        cascade = CascadeType.ALL,
        orphanRemoval = true
    )
    private List<PostComment> comments = new ArrayList<>();
 
    //Constructors, getters and setters removed for brevity
}
 
@Entity(name = "PostComment")
@Table(name = "post_comment")
public class PostComment {
 
    @Id
    @GeneratedValue
    private Long id;
 
    private String review;
 
    //Constructors, getters and setters removed for brevity
}

Hibernate will assume the following database schema for the above entity mapping:

Unidirectional @OneToMany JPA association database tables

As already explained, the unidirectional @OneToMany JPA mapping behaves like a many-to-many association.

To customize the link table, you can also use the @JoinTable annotation:

@OneToMany(
    cascade = CascadeType.ALL,
    orphanRemoval = true
)
@JoinTable(
    name = "post_comment_ref",
    joinColumns = @JoinColumn(name = "post_id"),
    inverseJoinColumns = @JoinColumn(name = "post_comment_id")
)
private List<PostComment> comments = new ArrayList<>();

And now, the link table is going to be called post_comment_ref and the Foreign Key columns will be post_id, for the post table, and post_comment_id, for the post_comment table.

Unidirectional @OneToMany associations are not efficient, so you are better off using bidirectional @OneToMany associations or just the @ManyToOne side.

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

Node.js is based on the event loop programming model. The event loop runs in single thread and repeatedly waits for events and then runs any event handlers subscribed to those events. Events can be for example

  • timer wait is complete
  • next chunk of data is ready to be written to this file
  • theres a fresh new HTTP request coming our way

All of this runs in single thread and no JavaScript code is ever executed in parallel. As long as these event handlers are small and wait for yet more events themselves everything works out nicely. This allows multiple request to be handled concurrently by a single Node.js process.

(There's a little bit magic under the hood as where the events originate. Some of it involve low level worker threads running in parallel.)

In this SQL case, there's a lot of things (events) happening between making the database query and getting its results in the callback. During that time the event loop keeps pumping life into the application and advancing other requests one tiny event at a time. Therefore multiple requests are being served concurrently.

event loop high level view

According to: "Event loop from 10,000ft - core concept behind Node.js".

How can I present a file for download from an MVC controller?

Use .ashx file type and use the same code

MySQL "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS" -> Error 1050

If anyone is getting this error after a Phpmyadmin export, using the custom options and adding the "drop tables" statements cleared this right up.

Why is the minidlna database not being refreshed?

In summary, the most reliable way to have MiniDLNA rescan all media files is by issuing the following set of commands:

$ sudo minidlnad -R
$ sudo service minidlna restart

Client-side script to rescan server

However, every so often MiniDLNA will be running on a server. Here is a client-side script to request a rescan on such a server:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
ssh -t server.on.lan 'sudo minidlnad -R && sudo service minidlna restart'

Embedding Base64 Images

Update: 2017-01-10

Data URIs are now supported by all major browsers. IE supports embedding images since version 8 as well.

http://caniuse.com/#feat=datauri


Data URIs are now supported by the following web browsers:

  • Gecko-based, such as Firefox, SeaMonkey, XeroBank, Camino, Fennec and K-Meleon
  • Konqueror, via KDE's KIO slaves input/output system
  • Opera (including devices such as the Nintendo DSi or Wii)
  • WebKit-based, such as Safari (including on iOS), Android's browser, Epiphany and Midori (WebKit is a derivative of Konqueror's KHTML engine, but Mac OS X does not share the KIO architecture so the implementations are different), as well as Webkit/Chromium-based, such as Chrome
  • Trident
    • Internet Explorer 8: Microsoft has limited its support to certain "non-navigable" content for security reasons, including concerns that JavaScript embedded in a data URI may not be interpretable by script filters such as those used by web-based email clients. Data URIs must be smaller than 32 KiB in Version 8[3].
    • Data URIs are supported only for the following elements and/or attributes[4]:
      • object (images only)
      • img
      • input type=image
      • link
    • CSS declarations that accept a URL, such as background-image, background, list-style-type, list-style and similar.
    • Internet Explorer 9: Internet Explorer 9 does not have 32KiB limitation and allowed in broader elements.
    • TheWorld Browser: An IE shell browser which has a built-in support for Data URI scheme

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme#Web_browser_support

How to "select distinct" across multiple data frame columns in pandas?

I think use drop duplicate sometimes will not so useful depending dataframe.

I found this:

[in] df['col_1'].unique()
[out] array(['A', 'B', 'C'], dtype=object)

And work for me!

https://riptutorial.com/pandas/example/26077/select-distinct-rows-across-dataframe

Querying Datatable with where condition

Something like this...

var res = from row in myDTable.AsEnumerable()
where row.Field<int>("EmpID") == 5 &&
(row.Field<string>("EmpName") != "abc" ||
row.Field<string>("EmpName") != "xyz")
select row;

See also LINQ query on a DataTable

The multi-part identifier could not be bound

I'm new to SQL, but came across this issue in a course I was taking and found that assigning the query to the project specifically helped to eliminate the multi-part error. For example the project I created was CTU SQL Project so I made sure I started my script with USE [CTU SQL Project] as my first line like below.

USE [CTU SQL Project]
SELECT Advisors.First_Name, Advisors.Last_Name...and so on.

How to compare two date values with jQuery

var startDate = $('#start_date').val().replace(/-/g,'/');
var endDate = $('#end_date').val().replace(/-/g,'/');

if(startDate > endDate){
   // do your stuff here...
}

How to declare strings in C

This link should satisfy your curiosity.

Basically (forgetting your third example which is bad), the different between 1 and 2 is that 1 allocates space for a pointer to the array.

But in the code, you can manipulate them as pointers all the same -- only thing, you cannot reallocate the second.

git diff file against its last change

This does exist, but it's actually a feature of git log:

git log -p [--follow] [-1] <path>

Note that -p can also be used to show the inline diff from a single commit:

git log -p -1 <commit>

Options used:

  • -p (also -u or --patch) is hidden deeeeeeeep in the git-log man page, and is actually a display option for git-diff. When used with log, it shows the patch that would be generated for each commit, along with the commit information—and hides commits that do not touch the specified <path>. (This behavior is described in the paragraph on --full-diff, which causes the full diff of each commit to be shown.)
  • -1 shows just the most recent change to the specified file (-n 1 can be used instead of -1); otherwise, all non-zero diffs of that file are shown.
  • --follow is required to see changes that occurred prior to a rename.

As far as I can tell, this is the only way to immediately see the last set of changes made to a file without using git log (or similar) to either count the number of intervening revisions or determine the hash of the commit.

To see older revisions changes, just scroll through the log, or specify a commit or tag from which to start the log. (Of course, specifying a commit or tag returns you to the original problem of figuring out what the correct commit or tag is.)

Credit where credit is due:

  • I discovered log -p thanks to this answer.
  • Credit to FranciscoPuga and this answer for showing me the --follow option.
  • Credit to ChrisBetti for mentioning the -n 1 option and atatko for mentioning the -1 variant.
  • Credit to sweaver2112 for getting me to actually read the documentation and figure out what -p "means" semantically.

Must declare the scalar variable

-- CREATE OR ALTER PROCEDURE

ALTER PROCEDURE out (

@age INT,
@salary INT OUTPUT)

AS BEGIN

SELECT @salary = (SELECT SALARY FROM new_testing where AGE = @age  ORDER BY AGE OFFSET 0 ROWS FETCH NEXT 1 ROWS ONLY);

END

-----------------DECLARE THE OUTPUT VARIABLE---------------------------------

DECLARE @test INT

---------------------THEN EXECUTE THE QUERY---------------------------------

EXECUTE out 25 , @salary = @test OUTPUT

print @test

-------------------same output obtain without procedure------------------------------------------- SELECT * FROM new_testing where AGE = 25 ORDER BY AGE OFFSET 0 ROWS FETCH NEXT 1 ROWS ONLY

What is the problem with shadowing names defined in outer scopes?

Do this:

data = [4, 5, 6]

def print_data():
    global data
    print(data)

print_data()

Create random list of integers in Python

Your question about performance is moot—both functions are very fast. The speed of your code will be determined by what you do with the random numbers.

However it's important you understand the difference in behaviour of those two functions. One does random sampling with replacement, the other does random sampling without replacement.

How can I change an element's class with JavaScript?

Wow, surprised there are so many overkill answers here...

<div class="firstClass" onclick="this.className='secondClass'">

Adding an .env file to React Project

If in case you are getting the values as undefined, then you should consider restarting the node server and recompile again.

Set title background color

you can use it.

  toolbar.setTitleTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.white));

iOS download and save image inside app

Here's how I download an ad banner. It's best to do it in the background if you're downloading a large image or a bunch of images.

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];

    [self performSelectorInBackground:@selector(loadImageIntoMemory) withObject:nil];

}
- (void)loadImageIntoMemory {
    NSString *temp_Image_String = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"http://yourwebsite.com/MyImageName.jpg"];
    NSURL *url_For_Ad_Image = [[NSURL alloc] initWithString:temp_Image_String];
    NSData *data_For_Ad_Image = [[NSData alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:url_For_Ad_Image];
    UIImage *temp_Ad_Image = [[UIImage alloc] initWithData:data_For_Ad_Image];
    [self saveImage:temp_Ad_Image];
    UIImageView *imageViewForAdImages = [[UIImageView alloc] init];
    imageViewForAdImages.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 50);
    imageViewForAdImages.image = [self loadImage];
    [self.view addSubview:imageViewForAdImages];
}
- (void)saveImage: (UIImage*)image {
    NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
    NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
    NSString* path = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent: @"MyImageName.jpg" ];
    NSData* data = UIImagePNGRepresentation(image);
    [data writeToFile:path atomically:YES];
}
- (UIImage*)loadImage {
    NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
    NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
    NSString* path = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"MyImageName.jpg" ];
    UIImage* image = [UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:path];
    return image;
}

Best way to incorporate Volley (or other library) into Android Studio project

As pointed out by others as well, Volley is officially available on Github:

Add this line to your gradle dependencies for volley:

compile 'com.android.volley:volley:1.0.0'


To install volley from source read below:

I like to keep the official volley repository in my app. That way I get it from the official source and can get updates without depending on anyone else and mitigating concerns expressed by other people.

Added volley as a submodule alongside app.

git submodule add -b master https://github.com/google/volley.git volley

In my settings.gradle, added the following line to add volley as a module.

include ':volley'

In my app/build.gradle, I added a compile dependency for the volley project

compile project(':volley')

That's all! Volley can now be used in my project.

Everytime I want to sync the volley module with Google's repo, i run this.

git submodule foreach git pull

SQL JOIN and different types of JOINs

What is SQL JOIN ?

SQL JOIN is a method to retrieve data from two or more database tables.

What are the different SQL JOINs ?

There are a total of five JOINs. They are :

  1. JOIN or INNER JOIN
  2. OUTER JOIN

     2.1 LEFT OUTER JOIN or LEFT JOIN
     2.2 RIGHT OUTER JOIN or RIGHT JOIN
     2.3 FULL OUTER JOIN or FULL JOIN

  3. NATURAL JOIN
  4. CROSS JOIN
  5. SELF JOIN

1. JOIN or INNER JOIN :

In this kind of a JOIN, we get all records that match the condition in both tables, and records in both tables that do not match are not reported.

In other words, INNER JOIN is based on the single fact that: ONLY the matching entries in BOTH the tables SHOULD be listed.

Note that a JOIN without any other JOIN keywords (like INNER, OUTER, LEFT, etc) is an INNER JOIN. In other words, JOIN is a Syntactic sugar for INNER JOIN (see: Difference between JOIN and INNER JOIN).

2. OUTER JOIN :

OUTER JOIN retrieves

Either, the matched rows from one table and all rows in the other table Or, all rows in all tables (it doesn't matter whether or not there is a match).

There are three kinds of Outer Join :

2.1 LEFT OUTER JOIN or LEFT JOIN

This join returns all the rows from the left table in conjunction with the matching rows from the right table. If there are no columns matching in the right table, it returns NULL values.

2.2 RIGHT OUTER JOIN or RIGHT JOIN

This JOIN returns all the rows from the right table in conjunction with the matching rows from the left table. If there are no columns matching in the left table, it returns NULL values.

2.3 FULL OUTER JOIN or FULL JOIN

This JOIN combines LEFT OUTER JOIN and RIGHT OUTER JOIN. It returns rows from either table when the conditions are met and returns NULL value when there is no match.

In other words, OUTER JOIN is based on the fact that: ONLY the matching entries in ONE OF the tables (RIGHT or LEFT) or BOTH of the tables(FULL) SHOULD be listed.

Note that `OUTER JOIN` is a loosened form of `INNER JOIN`.

3. NATURAL JOIN :

It is based on the two conditions :

  1. the JOIN is made on all the columns with the same name for equality.
  2. Removes duplicate columns from the result.

This seems to be more of theoretical in nature and as a result (probably) most DBMS don't even bother supporting this.

4. CROSS JOIN :

It is the Cartesian product of the two tables involved. The result of a CROSS JOIN will not make sense in most of the situations. Moreover, we won't need this at all (or needs the least, to be precise).

5. SELF JOIN :

It is not a different form of JOIN, rather it is a JOIN (INNER, OUTER, etc) of a table to itself.

JOINs based on Operators

Depending on the operator used for a JOIN clause, there can be two types of JOINs. They are

  1. Equi JOIN
  2. Theta JOIN

1. Equi JOIN :

For whatever JOIN type (INNER, OUTER, etc), if we use ONLY the equality operator (=), then we say that the JOIN is an EQUI JOIN.

2. Theta JOIN :

This is same as EQUI JOIN but it allows all other operators like >, <, >= etc.

Many consider both EQUI JOIN and Theta JOIN similar to INNER, OUTER etc JOINs. But I strongly believe that its a mistake and makes the ideas vague. Because INNER JOIN, OUTER JOIN etc are all connected with the tables and their data whereas EQUI JOIN and THETA JOIN are only connected with the operators we use in the former.

Again, there are many who consider NATURAL JOIN as some sort of "peculiar" EQUI JOIN. In fact, it is true, because of the first condition I mentioned for NATURAL JOIN. However, we don't have to restrict that simply to NATURAL JOINs alone. INNER JOINs, OUTER JOINs etc could be an EQUI JOIN too.

How to read a text file directly from Internet using Java?

Alternatively, you can use Guava's Resources object:

URL url = new URL("http://www.puzzlers.org/pub/wordlists/pocket.txt");
List<String> lines = Resources.readLines(url, Charsets.UTF_8);
lines.forEach(System.out::println);

support FragmentPagerAdapter holds reference to old fragments

My solution: I set almost every View as static. Now my app interacts perfect. Being able to call the static methods from everywhere is maybe not a good style, but why to play around with code that doesn't work? I read a lot of questions and their answers here on SO and no solution brought success (for me).

I know it can leak the memory, and waste heap, and my code will not be fit on other projects, but I don't feel scared about this - I tested the app on different devices and conditions, no problems at all, the Android Platform seems to be able handle this. The UI gets refreshed every second and even on a S2 ICS (4.0.3) device the app is able to handle thousands of geo-markers.

How to select the first row of each group?

We can use the rank() window function (where you would choose the rank = 1) rank just adds a number for every row of a group (in this case it would be the hour)

here's an example. ( from https://github.com/jaceklaskowski/mastering-apache-spark-book/blob/master/spark-sql-functions.adoc#rank )

val dataset = spark.range(9).withColumn("bucket", 'id % 3)

import org.apache.spark.sql.expressions.Window
val byBucket = Window.partitionBy('bucket).orderBy('id)

scala> dataset.withColumn("rank", rank over byBucket).show
+---+------+----+
| id|bucket|rank|
+---+------+----+
|  0|     0|   1|
|  3|     0|   2|
|  6|     0|   3|
|  1|     1|   1|
|  4|     1|   2|
|  7|     1|   3|
|  2|     2|   1|
|  5|     2|   2|
|  8|     2|   3|
+---+------+----+

MaxJsonLength exception in ASP.NET MVC during JavaScriptSerializer

I'm surprised no one has suggested using a result filter. This is the cleanest way to globally hook into the action/result pipeline:

public class JsonResultFilter : IResultFilter
{
    public int? MaxJsonLength { get; set; }

    public int? RecursionLimit { get; set; }

    public void OnResultExecuting(ResultExecutingContext filterContext)
    {
        if (filterContext.Result is JsonResult jsonResult)
        {
            // override properties only if they're not set
            jsonResult.MaxJsonLength = jsonResult.MaxJsonLength ?? MaxJsonLength;
            jsonResult.RecursionLimit = jsonResult.RecursionLimit ?? RecursionLimit;
        }
    }

    public void OnResultExecuted(ResultExecutedContext filterContext)
    {
    }
}

Then, register an instance of that class using GlobalFilters.Filters:

GlobalFilters.Filters.Add(new JsonResultFilter { MaxJsonLength = int.MaxValue });

Disable single warning error

Instead of putting it on top of the file (or even a header file), just wrap the code in question with #pragma warning (push), #pragma warning (disable) and a matching #pragma warning (pop), as shown here.

Although there are some other options, including #pramga warning (once).

expected constructor, destructor, or type conversion before ‘(’ token

The first constructor in the header should not end with a semicolon. #include <string> is missing in the header. string is not qualified with std:: in the .cpp file. Those are all simple syntax errors. More importantly: you are not using references, when you should. Also the way you use the ifstream is broken. I suggest learning C++ before trying to use it.

Let's fix this up:

//polygone.h
# if !defined(__POLYGONE_H__)
# define __POLYGONE_H__

#include <iostream>
#include <string>    

class Polygone {
public:
  // declarations have to end with a semicolon, definitions do not
  Polygone(){} // why would we needs this?
  Polygone(const std::string& fichier);
};

# endif

and

//polygone.cc
// no need to include things twice
#include "polygone.h"
#include <fstream>


Polygone::Polygone(const std::string& nom)
{
  std::ifstream fichier (nom, ios::in);


  if (fichier.is_open())
  {
    // keep the scope as tiny as possible
    std::string line;
    // getline returns the stream and streams convert to booleans
    while ( std::getline(fichier, line) )
    {
      std::cout << line << std::endl;
    }
  }
  else
  {
    std::cerr << "Erreur a l'ouverture du fichier" << std::endl;
  }
}

Is there a way to ignore a single FindBugs warning?

Update Gradle

dependencies {
    compile group: 'findbugs', name: 'findbugs', version: '1.0.0'
}

Locate the FindBugs Report

file:///Users/your_user/IdeaProjects/projectname/build/reports/findbugs/main.html

Find the specific message

find bugs

Import the correct version of the annotation

import edu.umd.cs.findbugs.annotations.SuppressWarnings;

Add the annotation directly above the offending code

@SuppressWarnings("OUT_OF_RANGE_ARRAY_INDEX")

See here for more info: findbugs Spring Annotation

jackson deserialization json to java-objects

Your product class needs a parameterless constructor. You can make it private, but Jackson needs the constructor.

As a side note: You should use Pascal casing for your class names. That is Product, and not product.

How do I parse JSON in Android?

  1. Writing JSON Parser Class

    public class JSONParser {
    
        static InputStream is = null;
        static JSONObject jObj = null;
        static String json = "";
    
        // constructor
        public JSONParser() {}
    
        public JSONObject getJSONFromUrl(String url) {
    
            // Making HTTP request
            try {
                // defaultHttpClient
                DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
                HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);
    
                HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
                HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
                is = httpEntity.getContent();
    
            } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
    
            try {
                BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                        is, "iso-8859-1"), 8);
                StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
                String line = null;
                while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                    sb.append(line + "\n");
                }
                is.close();
                json = sb.toString();
            } catch (Exception e) {
                Log.e("Buffer Error", "Error converting result " + e.toString());
            }
    
            // try parse the string to a JSON object
            try {
                jObj = new JSONObject(json);
            } catch (JSONException e) {
                Log.e("JSON Parser", "Error parsing data " + e.toString());
            }
    
            // return JSON String
            return jObj;
    
        }
    }
    
  2. Parsing JSON Data
    Once you created parser class next thing is to know how to use that class. Below i am explaining how to parse the json (taken in this example) using the parser class.

    2.1. Store all these node names in variables: In the contacts json we have items like name, email, address, gender and phone numbers. So first thing is to store all these node names in variables. Open your main activity class and declare store all node names in static variables.

    // url to make request
    private static String url = "http://api.9android.net/contacts";
    
    // JSON Node names
    private static final String TAG_CONTACTS = "contacts";
    private static final String TAG_ID = "id";
    private static final String TAG_NAME = "name";
    private static final String TAG_EMAIL = "email";
    private static final String TAG_ADDRESS = "address";
    private static final String TAG_GENDER = "gender";
    private static final String TAG_PHONE = "phone";
    private static final String TAG_PHONE_MOBILE = "mobile";
    private static final String TAG_PHONE_HOME = "home";
    private static final String TAG_PHONE_OFFICE = "office";
    
    // contacts JSONArray
    JSONArray contacts = null;
    

    2.2. Use parser class to get JSONObject and looping through each json item. Below i am creating an instance of JSONParser class and using for loop i am looping through each json item and finally storing each json data in variable.

    // Creating JSON Parser instance
    JSONParser jParser = new JSONParser();
    
    // getting JSON string from URL
    JSONObject json = jParser.getJSONFromUrl(url);
    
        try {
        // Getting Array of Contacts
        contacts = json.getJSONArray(TAG_CONTACTS);
    
        // looping through All Contacts
        for(int i = 0; i < contacts.length(); i++){
            JSONObject c = contacts.getJSONObject(i);
    
            // Storing each json item in variable
            String id = c.getString(TAG_ID);
            String name = c.getString(TAG_NAME);
            String email = c.getString(TAG_EMAIL);
            String address = c.getString(TAG_ADDRESS);
            String gender = c.getString(TAG_GENDER);
    
            // Phone number is agin JSON Object
            JSONObject phone = c.getJSONObject(TAG_PHONE);
            String mobile = phone.getString(TAG_PHONE_MOBILE);
            String home = phone.getString(TAG_PHONE_HOME);
            String office = phone.getString(TAG_PHONE_OFFICE);
    
        }
    } catch (JSONException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    

Declare global variables in Visual Studio 2010 and VB.NET

small remark: I am using modules in webbased application (asp.net). I need to remember that everything I store in the variables on the module are seen by everyone in the application, read website. Not only in my session. If i try to add up a calculation in my session I need to make an array to filter the numbers for my session and for others. Modules is a great way to work but need concentration on how to use it.

To help against mistakes: classes are send to the

CarbageCollector

when the page is finished. My modules stay alive (as long as the application is not ended or restarted) and I can reuse the data in it. I use this to save data that sometimes is lost because of the sessionhandling by IIS.

IIS Form auth

and

IIS_session

are not in sync, and with my module I pull back data that went over de cliff.

How to create a List with a dynamic object type

It appears you might be a bit confused as to how the .Add method works. I will refer directly to your code in my explanation.

Basically in C#, the .Add method of a List of objects does not COPY new added objects into the list, it merely copies a reference to the object (it's address) into the List. So the reason every value in the list is pointing to the same value is because you've only created 1 new DyObj. So your list essentially looks like this.

DyObjectsList[0] = &DyObj; // pointing to DyObj
DyObjectsList[1] = &DyObj; // pointing to the same DyObj
DyObjectsList[2] = &DyObj; // pointing to the same DyObj

...

The easiest way to fix your code is to create a new DyObj for every .Add. Putting the new inside of the block with the .Add would accomplish this goal in this particular instance.

var DyObjectsList = new List<dynamic>; 
if (condition1) { 
    dynamic DyObj = new ExpandoObject(); 
    DyObj.Required = true; 
    DyObj.Message = "Message 1"; 
    DyObjectsList .Add(DyObj); 
} 
if (condition2) { 
    dynamic DyObj = new ExpandoObject(); 
    DyObj.Required = false; 
    DyObj.Message = "Message 2"; 
    DyObjectsList .Add(DyObj); 
} 

your resulting List essentially looks like this

DyObjectsList[0] = &DyObj0; // pointing to a DyObj
DyObjectsList[1] = &DyObj1; // pointing to a different DyObj
DyObjectsList[2] = &DyObj2; // pointing to another DyObj

Now in some other languages this approach wouldn't work, because as you leave the block, the objects declared in the scope of the block could go out of scope and be destroyed. Thus you would be left with a collection of pointers, pointing to garbage.

However in C#, if a reference to the new DyObjs exists when you leave the block (and they do exist in your List because of the .Add operation) then C# does not release the memory associated with that pointer. Therefore the Objects you created in that block persist and your List contains pointers to valid objects and your code works.

Android - save/restore fragment state

As stated here: Why use Fragment#setRetainInstance(boolean)?

you can also use fragments method setRetainInstance(true) like this:

public class MyFragment extends Fragment {

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        // keep the fragment and all its data across screen rotation
        setRetainInstance(true);

    }
}

Fixing Xcode 9 issue: "iPhone is busy: Preparing debugger support for iPhone"

I clicked ‘Cancel Running’, opened the Devices list, unpaired my iPhone, removed my USB cable and reconnected it, paired the iPhone, and then was asked on my iPhone to enter my passcode ("pin code"). Did this and then was finally able to pair my phone correctly.

How to unstash only certain files?

One more way:

git diff stash@{N}^! -- path/to/file1 path/to/file2  | git apply -R

Local Storage vs Cookies

It is also worth mentioning that localStorage cannot be used when users browse in "private" mode in some versions of mobile Safari.

Quoted from MDN (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/localStorage):

Note: Starting with iOS 5.1, Safari Mobile stores localStorage data in the cache folder, which is subject to occasional clean up, at the behest of the OS, typically if space is short. Safari Mobile's Private Browsing mode also prevents writing to localStorage entirely.

Conditionally change img src based on model data

Another alternative (other than binary operators suggested by @jm-) is to use ng-switch:

<span ng-switch on="interface">
   <img ng-switch-when="UP" src='green-checkmark.png'>
   <img ng-switch-default   src='big-black-X.png'>
</span>

ng-switch will likely be better/easier if you have more than two images.

Server.MapPath - Physical path given, virtual path expected

if you already know your folder is: E:\ftproot\sales then you do not need to use Server.MapPath, this last one is needed if you only have a relative virtual path like ~/folder/folder1 and you want to know the real path in the disk...

Postgres: INSERT if does not exist already

The solution in simple, but not immediatly.
If you want use this instruction, you must make one change to the db:

ALTER USER user SET search_path to 'name_of_schema';

after these changes "INSERT" will work correctly.

Bootstrap 4: responsive sidebar menu to top navbar

If this isn't a good solution for any reason, please let me know. It worked fine for me.

What I did is to hide the Sidebar and then make appear the navbar with breakpoints

@media screen and (max-width: 771px) {
    #fixed-sidebar {
        display: none;
    }
    #navbar-superior {
        display: block !important;
    }
}

Use tnsnames.ora in Oracle SQL Developer

This helped me:

Posted: 8/12/2011 4:54

Set tnsnames directory tools->Preferences->Database->advanced->Tnsnames Directory

https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=10020012&#10020012

How to test code dependent on environment variables using JUnit?

I don't think this has been mentioned yet, but you could also use Powermockito:

Given:

package com.foo.service.impl;

public class FooServiceImpl {

    public void doSomeFooStuff() {
        System.getenv("FOO_VAR_1");
        System.getenv("FOO_VAR_2");
        System.getenv("FOO_VAR_3");

        // Do the other Foo stuff
    }
}

You could do the following:

package com.foo.service.impl;

import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;
import static org.powermock.api.mockito.PowerMockito.mockStatic;
import static org.powermock.api.mockito.PowerMockito.verifyStatic;

import org.junit.Beforea;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.mockito.InjectMocks;
import org.mockito.MockitoAnnotations;
import org.powermock.core.classloader.annotations.PrepareForTest;
import org.powermock.modules.junit4.PowerMockRunner;

@RunWith(PowerMockRunner.class)
@PrepareForTest(FooServiceImpl.class)
public class FooServiceImpTest {

    @InjectMocks
    private FooServiceImpl service;

    @Before
    public void setUp() {
        MockitoAnnotations.initMocks(this);

        mockStatic(System.class);  // Powermock can mock static and private methods

        when(System.getenv("FOO_VAR_1")).thenReturn("test-foo-var-1");
        when(System.getenv("FOO_VAR_2")).thenReturn("test-foo-var-2");
        when(System.getenv("FOO_VAR_3")).thenReturn("test-foo-var-3");
    }

    @Test
    public void testSomeFooStuff() {        
        // Test
        service.doSomeFooStuff();

        verifyStatic();
        System.getenv("FOO_VAR_1");
        verifyStatic();
        System.getenv("FOO_VAR_2");
        verifyStatic();
        System.getenv("FOO_VAR_3");
    }
}

How to check if a file exists in Documents folder?

NSArray *directoryPath = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory,NSUserDomainMask,YES);
NSString *imagePath =  [directoryPath objectAtIndex:0];
//If you have superate folder
imagePath= [imagePath stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"ImagesFolder"];//Get docs dir path with folder name
_imageName = [_imageName stringByAppendingString:@".jpg"];//Assign image name
imagePath= [imagePath stringByAppendingPathComponent:_imageName];
NSLog(@"%@", imagePath);

//Method 1:
BOOL file = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath: imagePath];
if (file == NO){
    NSLog("File not exist");
} else {
    NSLog("File exist");
}

//Method 2:
NSData *data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:imagePath];
UIImage *image = [UIImage imageWithData:data];
if (!(image == nil)) {//Check image exist or not
    cell.photoImageView.image = image;//Display image
}

How to find tag with particular text with Beautiful Soup?

result = soup.find('strong', text='text I am looking for').text

CMake: How to build external projects and include their targets

I think you're mixing up two different paradigms here.

As you noted, the highly flexible ExternalProject module runs its commands at build time, so you can't make direct use of Project A's import file since it's only created once Project A has been installed.

If you want to include Project A's import file, you'll have to install Project A manually before invoking Project B's CMakeLists.txt - just like any other third-party dependency added this way or via find_file / find_library / find_package.

If you want to make use of ExternalProject_Add, you'll need to add something like the following to your CMakeLists.txt:

ExternalProject_Add(project_a
  URL ...project_a.tar.gz
  PREFIX ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/project_a
  CMAKE_ARGS -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=<INSTALL_DIR>
)

include(${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/lib/project_a/project_a-targets.cmake)

ExternalProject_Get_Property(project_a install_dir)
include_directories(${install_dir}/include)

add_dependencies(project_b_exe project_a)
target_link_libraries(project_b_exe ${install_dir}/lib/alib.lib)

java, get set methods

To understand get and set, it's all related to how variables are passed between different classes.

The get method is used to obtain or retrieve a particular variable value from a class.

A set value is used to store the variables.

The whole point of the get and set is to retrieve and store the data values accordingly.

What I did in this old project was I had a User class with my get and set methods that I used in my Server class.

The User class's get set methods:

public int getuserID()
    {
        //getting the userID variable instance
        return userID;
    }
    public String getfirstName()
    {
        //getting the firstName variable instance
        return firstName;
    }
    public String getlastName()
    {
        //getting the lastName variable instance
        return lastName;
    }
    public int getage()
    {
        //getting the age variable instance
        return age;
    }

    public void setuserID(int userID)
    {
        //setting the userID variable value
        this.userID = userID;
    }
    public void setfirstName(String firstName)
    {
        //setting the firstName variable text
        this.firstName = firstName;
    }
    public void setlastName(String lastName)
    {
        //setting the lastName variable text
        this.lastName = lastName;
    }
    public void setage(int age)
    {
        //setting the age variable value
        this.age = age;
    }
}

Then this was implemented in the run() method in my Server class as follows:

//creates user object
                User use = new User(userID, firstName, lastName, age);
                //Mutator methods to set user objects
                use.setuserID(userID);
                use.setlastName(lastName);
                use.setfirstName(firstName);               
                use.setage(age); 

Printing Exception Message in java

try {
} catch (javax.script.ScriptException ex) {
// System.out.println(ex.getMessage());
}

How to retrieve records for last 30 minutes in MS SQL?

SQL Server uses Julian dates so your 30 means "30 calendar days". getdate() - 0.02083 means "30 minutes ago".

Get bottom and right position of an element

var link = $(element);
var offset = link.offset();

var top = offset.top;
var left = offset.left;

var bottom = top + link.outerHeight();
var right = left + link.outerWidth();

C# static class why use?

Making a class static just prevents people from trying to make an instance of it. If all your class has are static members it is a good practice to make the class itself static.

How to write hello world in assembler under Windows?

To get an .exe with NASM'compiler and Visual Studio's linker this code works fine:

global WinMain
extern ExitProcess  ; external functions in system libraries 
extern MessageBoxA

section .data 
title:  db 'Win64', 0
msg:    db 'Hello world!', 0

section .text
WinMain:
    sub rsp, 28h  
    mov rcx, 0       ; hWnd = HWND_DESKTOP
    lea rdx,[msg]    ; LPCSTR lpText
    lea r8,[title]   ; LPCSTR lpCaption
    mov r9d, 0       ; uType = MB_OK
    call MessageBoxA
    add rsp, 28h  

    mov  ecx,eax
    call ExitProcess

    hlt     ; never here

If this code is saved on e.g. "test64.asm", then to compile:

nasm -f win64 test64.asm

Produces "test64.obj" Then to link from command prompt:

path_to_link\link.exe test64.obj /subsystem:windows /entry:WinMain  /libpath:path_to_libs /nodefaultlib kernel32.lib user32.lib /largeaddressaware:no

where path_to_link could be C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin or wherever is your link.exe program in your machine, path_to_libs could be C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Lib\winv6.3\um\x64 or wherever are your libraries (in this case both kernel32.lib and user32.lib are on the same place, otherwise use one option for each path you need) and the /largeaddressaware:no option is necessary to avoid linker's complain about addresses to long (for user32.lib in this case). Also, as it is done here, if Visual's linker is invoked from command prompt, it is necessary to setup the environment previously (run once vcvarsall.bat and/or see MS C++ 2010 and mspdb100.dll).

how to set imageview src?

Each image has a resource-number, which is an integer. Pass this number to "setImageResource" and you should be ok.

Check this link for further information:
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/accessing-resources.html

e.g.:

imageView.setImageResource(R.drawable.myimage);

Facebook share link without JavaScript

Try these link types actually works for me.

https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=YOUR_URL_HERE
https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=YOUR_URL_HERE
https://plus.google.com/share?url=YOUR_URL_HERE
https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=YOUR_URL_HERE

Import CSV to SQLite

I had exactly same problem (on OS X Maverics 10.9.1 with SQLite3 3.7.13, but I don't think SQLite is related to the cause). I tried to import csv data saved from MS Excel 2011, which btw. uses ';' as columns separator. I found out that csv file from Excel still uses newline character from Mac OS 9 times, changing it to unix newline solved the problem. AFAIR BBEdit has a command for this, as well as Sublime Text 2.

Get month and year from a datetime in SQL Server 2005

Beginning with SQL Server 2012, you can use:

SELECT FORMAT(@date, 'yyyyMM')

How to compute precision, recall, accuracy and f1-score for the multiclass case with scikit learn?

Posed question

Responding to the question 'what metric should be used for multi-class classification with imbalanced data': Macro-F1-measure. Macro Precision and Macro Recall can be also used, but they are not so easily interpretable as for binary classificaion, they are already incorporated into F-measure, and excess metrics complicate methods comparison, parameters tuning, and so on.

Micro averaging are sensitive to class imbalance: if your method, for example, works good for the most common labels and totally messes others, micro-averaged metrics show good results.

Weighting averaging isn't well suited for imbalanced data, because it weights by counts of labels. Moreover, it is too hardly interpretable and unpopular: for instance, there is no mention of such an averaging in the following very detailed survey I strongly recommend to look through:

Sokolova, Marina, and Guy Lapalme. "A systematic analysis of performance measures for classification tasks." Information Processing & Management 45.4 (2009): 427-437.

Application-specific question

However, returning to your task, I'd research 2 topics:

  1. metrics commonly used for your specific task - it lets (a) to compare your method with others and understand if you do something wrong, and (b) to not explore this by yourself and reuse someone else's findings;
  2. cost of different errors of your methods - for example, use-case of your application may rely on 4- and 5-star reviewes only - in this case, good metric should count only these 2 labels.

Commonly used metrics. As I can infer after looking through literature, there are 2 main evaluation metrics:

  1. Accuracy, which is used, e.g. in

Yu, April, and Daryl Chang. "Multiclass Sentiment Prediction using Yelp Business."

(link) - note that the authors work with almost the same distribution of ratings, see Figure 5.

Pang, Bo, and Lillian Lee. "Seeing stars: Exploiting class relationships for sentiment categorization with respect to rating scales." Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2005.

(link)

  1. MSE (or, less often, Mean Absolute Error - MAE) - see, for example,

Lee, Moontae, and R. Grafe. "Multiclass sentiment analysis with restaurant reviews." Final Projects from CS N 224 (2010).

(link) - they explore both accuracy and MSE, considering the latter to be better

Pappas, Nikolaos, Rue Marconi, and Andrei Popescu-Belis. "Explaining the Stars: Weighted Multiple-Instance Learning for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis." Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods In Natural Language Processing. No. EPFL-CONF-200899. 2014.

(link) - they utilize scikit-learn for evaluation and baseline approaches and state that their code is available; however, I can't find it, so if you need it, write a letter to the authors, the work is pretty new and seems to be written in Python.

Cost of different errors. If you care more about avoiding gross blunders, e.g. assinging 1-star to 5-star review or something like that, look at MSE; if difference matters, but not so much, try MAE, since it doesn't square diff; otherwise stay with Accuracy.

About approaches, not metrics

Try regression approaches, e.g. SVR, since they generally outperforms Multiclass classifiers like SVC or OVA SVM.

Node.js: what is ENOSPC error and how to solve?

A simple way that solve my problem was:

npm cache clear

npm or a process controlled by it is watching too many files. Updating max_user_watches on the build node can fix it forever. For debian put the following on terminal:

echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf && sudo sysctl -p

If you want know how Increase the amount of inotify watchers only click on link.

How to create two columns on a web page?

The simple and best solution is to use tables for layouts. You're doing it right. There are a number of reasons tables are better.

  • They perform better than CSS
  • They work on all browsers without any fuss
  • You can debug them easily with the border=1 attribute

Selecting with complex criteria from pandas.DataFrame

You can use pandas it has some built in functions for comparison. So if you want to select values of "A" that are met by the conditions of "B" and "C" (assuming you want back a DataFrame pandas object)

df[['A']][df.B.gt(50) & df.C.ne(900)]

df[['A']] will give you back column A in DataFrame format.

pandas 'gt' function will return the positions of column B that are greater than 50 and 'ne' will return the positions not equal to 900.

Bootstrap 4 - Responsive cards in card-columns

Bootstrap 4 (4.0.0-alpha.2) uses the css property column-count in the card-columns class to define how many columns of cards would be displayed inside the div element.
But this property has only two values:

  • The default value 1 for small screens (max-width: 34em)
  • The value 3 for all other sizes (min-width: 34em)

Here's how it is implemented in bootstrap.min.css :

@media (min-width: 34em) {
    .card-columns {
        -webkit-column-count:3;
        -moz-column-count:3;
        column-count:3;
        ?
    }
    ?
}

To make the card stacking responsive, you can add the following media queries to your css file and modify the values for min-width as per your requirements :

@media (min-width: 34em) {
    .card-columns {
        -webkit-column-count: 2;
        -moz-column-count: 2;
        column-count: 2;
    }
}

@media (min-width: 48em) {
    .card-columns {
        -webkit-column-count: 3;
        -moz-column-count: 3;
        column-count: 3;
    }
}

@media (min-width: 62em) {
    .card-columns {
        -webkit-column-count: 4;
        -moz-column-count: 4;
        column-count: 4;
    }
}

@media (min-width: 75em) {
    .card-columns {
        -webkit-column-count: 5;
        -moz-column-count: 5;
        column-count: 5;
    }
}

New features in java 7

In addition to what John Skeet said, here's an overview of the Java 7 project. It includes a list and description of the features.

Note: JDK 7 was released on July 28, 2011, so you should now go to the official java SE site.

Java ArrayList Index

Read more about Array and ArrayList

List<String> aList = new ArrayList<String>();
aList.add("apple");   
aList.add("banana");   
aList.add("orange");   
String result = alist.get(1);  //this will retrieve banana

Note: Index starts from 0 i.e. Zero

What is the Python equivalent of Matlab's tic and toc functions?

You can use tic and toc from ttictoc. Install it with

pip install ttictoc

And just import them in your script as follow

from ttictoc import tic,toc
tic()
# Some code
print(toc())

Adding Permissions in AndroidManifest.xml in Android Studio?

It's quite simple.

All you need to do is:

  • Right click above application tag and click on Generate
  • Click on XML tag
  • Click on user-permission
  • Enter the name of your permission.

Android getResources().getDrawable() deprecated API 22

Edit: see my blog post on the subject for a more complete explanation


You should use the following code from the support library instead:

ContextCompat.getDrawable(context, R.drawable.***)

Using this method is equivalent to calling:

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {
    return resources.getDrawable(id, context.getTheme());
} else {
    return resources.getDrawable(id);
}

As of API 21, you should use the getDrawable(int, Theme) method instead of getDrawable(int), as it allows you to fetch a drawable object associated with a particular resource ID for the given screen density/theme. Calling the deprecated getDrawable(int) method is equivalent to calling getDrawable(int, null).

how to create inline style with :before and :after

You can, using CSS variables (more precisely called CSS custom properties).

  • Set your variable in your style attribute:
    style="--my-color-var: orange;"
  • Use the variable in your stylesheet:
    background-color: var(--my-color-var);

Browser compatibility

Minimal example:

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div {
  width: 100px;
  height: 100px;
  position: relative;
  border: 1px solid black;
}

div:after {
  background-color: var(--my-color-var);
  content: '';
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  right: 0;
  left: 0;
}
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<div style="--my-color-var: orange;"></div>
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Your example:

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.bubble {
  position: relative;
  width: 30px;
  height: 15px;
  padding: 0;
  background: #FFF;
  border: 1px solid #000;
  border-radius: 5px;
  text-align: center;
  background-color: var(--bubble-color);
}

.bubble:after {
  content: "";
  position: absolute;
  top: 4px;
  left: -4px;
  border-style: solid;
  border-width: 3px 4px 3px 0;
  border-color: transparent var(--bubble-color);
   display: block;
  width: 0;
  z-index: 1;
  
}

.bubble:before {
  content: "";
  position: absolute;
  top: 4px;
  left: -5px;
  border-style: solid;
  border-width: 3px 4px 3px 0;
  border-color: transparent #000;
  display: block;
  width: 0;
  z-index: 0;
}
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<div class='bubble' style="--bubble-color: rgb(100,255,255);"> 100 </div>
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How to Load RSA Private Key From File

You need to convert your private key to PKCS8 format using following command:

openssl pkcs8 -topk8 -inform PEM -outform DER -in private_key_file  -nocrypt > pkcs8_key

After this your java program can read it.

How to hide element using Twitter Bootstrap and show it using jQuery?

?? The righter answer

In Bootstrap 4 you hide the element:

<p id="insufficient-balance-warning" class="d-none alert alert-danger">Pay me</p>

Then, sure, you could literally show it with:

if (pizzaFundsAreLow) {
  $('#insufficient-balance-warning').removeClass('d-none');
}

But if you do it the semantic way, by transferring responsibility from Bootstrap to jQuery, then you can use other jQuery niceties like fading:

if (pizzaFundsAreLow) {
  $('#insufficient-balance-warning').hide().removeClass('d-none').fadeIn();
}

How to set ANDROID_HOME path in ubuntu?

Download the Android SDK to the machine. (Suppose that the location is /home/zelong/Android/Sdk) (home/username/Android/Sdk)

Add these lines to the file ~/.bashrc (located at home/username/.bashrc)

export ANDROID_HOME="/home/zelong/Android/Sdk"
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools

This will make it permanent for the current user because every time the machine boots, it will run this script and set the enviroment path.

After making this change, remember to save it.

Then run source ~/.bashrc to apply the changes or restart your terminal.

Test if it works:

zelong@zelong-ThinkPad-T430:~$ echo $ANDROID_HOME
/home/zelong/Android/Sdk
zelong@zelong-ThinkPad-T430:~$ which android
/home/zelong/Android/Sdk/tools/android
zelong@zelong-ThinkPad-T430:~$ which adb
/home/zelong/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb

As we can see,

android command line locates under tools

adb command line locates under platform-tools

Where does PostgreSQL store the database?

On Windows, the PGDATA directory that the PostgresSQL docs describe is at somewhere like C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.1\data. The data for a particular database is under (for example) C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.1\data\base\100929, where I guess 100929 is the database number.

javascript pushing element at the beginning of an array

For an uglier version of unshift use splice:

TheArray.splice(0, 0, TheNewObject);

How to output to the console in C++/Windows

Your application must be compiled as a Windows console application.

How can I send large messages with Kafka (over 15MB)?

Minor changes required for Kafka 0.10 and the new consumer compared to laughing_man's answer:

  • Broker: No changes, you still need to increase properties message.max.bytes and replica.fetch.max.bytes. message.max.bytes has to be equal or smaller(*) than replica.fetch.max.bytes.
  • Producer: Increase max.request.size to send the larger message.
  • Consumer: Increase max.partition.fetch.bytes to receive larger messages.

(*) Read the comments to learn more about message.max.bytes<=replica.fetch.max.bytes

Cannot import XSSF in Apache POI

After trying multiple things,what really worked was: 1. downloading "poi" and "poi-ooxml" manually 2.Adding these d/w jars into "Maven Dependencies"

Post-increment and pre-increment within a 'for' loop produce same output

Both i++ and ++i is executed after printf("%d", i) is executed at each time, so there's no difference.

Convert RGB to Black & White in OpenCV

This seemed to have worked for me!

Mat a_image = imread(argv[1]);

cvtColor(a_image, a_image, CV_BGR2GRAY);
GaussianBlur(a_image, a_image, Size(7,7), 1.5, 1.5);
threshold(a_image, a_image, 100, 255, CV_THRESH_BINARY);

Get DateTime.Now with milliseconds precision

The trouble with DateTime.UtcNow and DateTime.Now is that, depending on the computer and operating system, it may only be accurate to between 10 and 15 milliseconds. However, on windows computers one can use by using the low level function GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime to get microsecond accuracy, see the function GetTimeStamp() below.

    [System.Security.SuppressUnmanagedCodeSecurity, System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("kernel32.dll")]
    static extern void GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime(out FileTime pFileTime);

    [System.Runtime.InteropServices.StructLayout(System.Runtime.InteropServices.LayoutKind.Sequential)]
    public struct FileTime  {
        public const long FILETIME_TO_DATETIMETICKS = 504911232000000000;   // 146097 = days in 400 year Gregorian calendar cycle. 504911232000000000 = 4 * 146097 * 86400 * 1E7
        public uint TimeLow;    // least significant digits
        public uint TimeHigh;   // most sifnificant digits
        public long TimeStamp_FileTimeTicks { get { return TimeHigh * 4294967296 + TimeLow; } }     // ticks since 1-Jan-1601 (1 tick = 100 nanosecs). 4294967296 = 2^32
        public DateTime dateTime { get { return new DateTime(TimeStamp_FileTimeTicks + FILETIME_TO_DATETIMETICKS); } }
    }

    public static DateTime GetTimeStamp() { 
        FileTime ft; GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime(out ft);
        return ft.dateTime;
    }

How do you transfer or export SQL Server 2005 data to Excel

There exists several tools to export/import from SQL Server to Excel.

Google is your friend :-)

We use DbTransfer (which is one of those which can export a complete Database to an Excel file also) here: http://www.dbtransfer.de/Products/DbTransfer.

We have used the openrowset feature of sql server before, but i was never happy with it, becuase it's not very easy to use and lacks of features and speed...

Getting request URL in a servlet

The getRequestURL() omits the port when it is 80 while the scheme is http, or when it is 443 while the scheme is https.

So, just use getRequestURL() if all you want is obtaining the entire URL. This does however not include the GET query string. You may want to construct it as follows then:

StringBuffer requestURL = request.getRequestURL();
if (request.getQueryString() != null) {
    requestURL.append("?").append(request.getQueryString());
}
String completeURL = requestURL.toString();

How to use PDO to fetch results array in PHP?

$st = $data->prepare("SELECT * FROM exampleWHERE example LIKE :search LIMIT 10"); 

How to get the current time in milliseconds in C Programming

There is no portable way to get resolution of less than a second in standard C So best you can do is, use the POSIX function gettimeofday().

Python os.path.join() on a list

The problem is, os.path.join doesn't take a list as argument, it has to be separate arguments.

This is where *, the 'splat' operator comes into play...

I can do

>>> s = "c:/,home,foo,bar,some.txt".split(",")
>>> os.path.join(*s)
'c:/home\\foo\\bar\\some.txt'

Javascript Image Resize

Here is my cover fill solution (similar to background-size: cover, but it supports old IE browser)

<div class="imgContainer" style="height:100px; width:500px; overflow:hidden; background-color: black">
    <img src="http://dev.isaacsonwebdevelopment.com/sites/development/files/views-slideshow-settings-jquery-cycle-custom-options-message.png" id="imgCat">
</div>
<script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-1.11.3.min.js"></script>
<script>
    $(window).load(function() {
        var heightRate =$("#imgCat").height() / $("#imgCat").parent(".imgContainer").height();
        var widthRate = $("#imgCat").width() / $("#imgCat").parent(".imgContainer").width();

        if (window.console) {
            console.log($("#imgCat").height());
            console.log(heightRate);
            console.log(widthRate);
            console.log(heightRate > widthRate);
        }
        if (heightRate <= widthRate) {
            $("#imgCat").height($("#imgCat").parent(".imgContainer").height());
        } else {
            $("#imgCat").width($("#imgCat").parent(".imgContainer").width());
        }
    });
</script>

ALTER TABLE add constraint

ALTER TABLE `User`
ADD CONSTRAINT `user_properties_foreign`
FOREIGN KEY (`properties`)
REFERENCES `Properties` (`ID`)
ON DELETE NO ACTION
ON UPDATE NO ACTION;

What is Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface?

Unless you have some kind of really weird problem, keep it. The number of IPv6 sites is very small, but there are some and it will let you get to them even if you're at an IPv4 only location.

If it is causing you a problem, it's best to fix it. I've seen a number of people recommending removing it to solve problems. However, they're not actually solving the root cause of the issue. In all the cases I've seen, removing Teredo just happens to cause a side-effect that fixes their problem... :)

IE11 Document mode defaults to IE7. How to reset?

If the problem is happening on a specific computer,then please try the following fix provided you have Internet Explorer 11.

Please open regedit.exe as an Administrator. Navigate to the following path/paths:

  1. For 32 bit machine:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION
    
  2. For 64 bit machine:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION & 
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION
    

And delete the REG_DWORD value iexplore.exe.

Please close and relaunch the website using Internet Explorer 11, it will default to Edge as Document Mode.

How / can I display a console window in Intellij IDEA?

More IntelliJ 13+ Shortcuts for Terminal

Mac OS X:

alt ?F12

cmd ?shift ?A then type Terminal then hit Enter

shift ?shift ?shift ?shift ? then type Terminal then hit Enter

Windows:

altF12 press Enter

ctrlshift ?A start typing Terminal then hit Enter

shift ?shift ? then type Terminal then hit Enter

Remove all files in a directory

Although this is an old question, I think none has already answered using this approach:

# python 2.7
import os

d='/home/me/test'
filesToRemove = [os.path.join(d,f) for f in os.listdir(d)]
for f in filesToRemove:
    os.remove(f) 

What does "exec sp_reset_connection" mean in Sql Server Profiler?

Note however:

If you issue SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL in a stored procedure or trigger, when the object returns control the isolation level is reset to the level in effect when the object was invoked. For example, if you set REPEATABLE READ in a batch, and the batch then calls a stored procedure that sets the isolation level to SERIALIZABLE, the isolation level setting reverts to REPEATABLE READ when the stored procedure returns control to the batch.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173763.aspx

Calculate compass bearing / heading to location in Android

Ok I figured this out. For anyone else trying to do this you need:

a) heading: your heading from the hardware compass. This is in degrees east of magnetic north

b) bearing: the bearing from your location to the destination location. This is in degrees east of true north.

myLocation.bearingTo(destLocation);

c) declination: the difference between true north and magnetic north

The heading that is returned from the magnetometer + accelermometer is in degrees east of true (magnetic) north (-180 to +180) so you need to get the difference between north and magnetic north for your location. This difference is variable depending where you are on earth. You can obtain by using GeomagneticField class.

GeomagneticField geoField;

private final LocationListener locationListener = new LocationListener() {
   public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {
      geoField = new GeomagneticField(
         Double.valueOf(location.getLatitude()).floatValue(),
         Double.valueOf(location.getLongitude()).floatValue(),
         Double.valueOf(location.getAltitude()).floatValue(),
         System.currentTimeMillis()
      );
      ...
   }
}

Armed with these you calculate the angle of the arrow to draw on your map to show where you are facing in relation to your destination object rather than true north.

First adjust your heading with the declination:

heading += geoField.getDeclination();

Second, you need to offset the direction in which the phone is facing (heading) from the target destination rather than true north. This is the part that I got stuck on. The heading value returned from the compass gives you a value that describes where magnetic north is (in degrees east of true north) in relation to where the phone is pointing. So e.g. if the value is -10 you know that magnetic north is 10 degrees to your left. The bearing gives you the angle of your destination in degrees east of true north. So after you've compensated for the declination you can use the formula below to get the desired result:

heading = myBearing - (myBearing + heading); 

You'll then want to convert from degrees east of true north (-180 to +180) into normal degrees (0 to 360):

Math.round(-heading / 360 + 180)

.prop() vs .attr()

Update 1 November 2012

My original answer applies specifically to jQuery 1.6. My advice remains the same but jQuery 1.6.1 changed things slightly: in the face of the predicted pile of broken websites, the jQuery team reverted attr() to something close to (but not exactly the same as) its old behaviour for Boolean attributes. John Resig also blogged about it. I can see the difficulty they were in but still disagree with his recommendation to prefer attr().

Original answer

If you've only ever used jQuery and not the DOM directly, this could be a confusing change, although it is definitely an improvement conceptually. Not so good for the bazillions of sites using jQuery that will break as a result of this change though.

I'll summarize the main issues:

  • You usually want prop() rather than attr().
  • In the majority of cases, prop() does what attr() used to do. Replacing calls to attr() with prop() in your code will generally work.
  • Properties are generally simpler to deal with than attributes. An attribute value may only be a string whereas a property can be of any type. For example, the checked property is a Boolean, the style property is an object with individual properties for each style, the size property is a number.
  • Where both a property and an attribute with the same name exists, usually updating one will update the other, but this is not the case for certain attributes of inputs, such as value and checked: for these attributes, the property always represents the current state while the attribute (except in old versions of IE) corresponds to the default value/checkedness of the input (reflected in the defaultValue / defaultChecked property).
  • This change removes some of the layer of magic jQuery stuck in front of attributes and properties, meaning jQuery developers will have to learn a bit about the difference between properties and attributes. This is a good thing.

If you're a jQuery developer and are confused by this whole business about properties and attributes, you need to take a step back and learn a little about it, since jQuery is no longer trying so hard to shield you from this stuff. For the authoritative but somewhat dry word on the subject, there's the specs: DOM4, HTML DOM, DOM Level 2, DOM Level 3. Mozilla's DOM documentation is valid for most modern browsers and is easier to read than the specs, so you may find their DOM reference helpful. There's a section on element properties.

As an example of how properties are simpler to deal with than attributes, consider a checkbox that is initially checked. Here are two possible pieces of valid HTML to do this:

<input id="cb" type="checkbox" checked>
<input id="cb" type="checkbox" checked="checked">

So, how do you find out if the checkbox is checked with jQuery? Look on Stack Overflow and you'll commonly find the following suggestions:

  • if ( $("#cb").attr("checked") === true ) {...}
  • if ( $("#cb").attr("checked") == "checked" ) {...}
  • if ( $("#cb").is(":checked") ) {...}

This is actually the simplest thing in the world to do with the checked Boolean property, which has existed and worked flawlessly in every major scriptable browser since 1995:

if (document.getElementById("cb").checked) {...}

The property also makes checking or unchecking the checkbox trivial:

document.getElementById("cb").checked = false

In jQuery 1.6, this unambiguously becomes

$("#cb").prop("checked", false)

The idea of using the checked attribute for scripting a checkbox is unhelpful and unnecessary. The property is what you need.

  • It's not obvious what the correct way to check or uncheck the checkbox is using the checked attribute
  • The attribute value reflects the default rather than the current visible state (except in some older versions of IE, thus making things still harder). The attribute tells you nothing about the whether the checkbox on the page is checked. See http://jsfiddle.net/VktA6/49/.

Extension gd is missing from your system - laravel composer Update

It may not be enabled for php-cli, you can enable like this;

sudo phpenmod gd

UPDATE

I guess, you are using ppa:ondrej php package (5.6), which is confusing you with default ubuntu 14.04 php package (5.5.9).

To install php 5.6 gd library from ppa:ondrej, you should use:

sudo apt-get install php5.6-gd

How to run function in AngularJS controller on document ready?

See this post How to execute angular controller function on page load?
For fast lookup:

// register controller in html
<div data-ng-controller="myCtrl" data-ng-init="init()"></div>

// in controller
$scope.init = function () {
    // check if there is query in url
    // and fire search in case its value is not empty
};

This way, You don't have to wait till document is ready.

How to Deserialize JSON data?

If you use .Net 4.5 you can also use standard .Net json serializer:

using System.Runtime.Serialization.Json;
...    
Stream jsonSource = ...; // serializer will read data stream
var s = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(string[][]));
var j = (string[][])s.ReadObject(jsonSource);

In .Net 4.5 and older you can use JavaScriptSerializer class:

using System.Web.Script.Serialization;
...
JavaScriptSerializer serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
string[][] list = serializer.Deserialize<string[][]>(json);

Replace non-numeric with empty string

I'm sure there's a more efficient way to do it, but I would probably do this:

string getTenDigitNumber(string input)
{    
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    for(int i - 0; i < input.Length; i++)
    {
        int junk;
        if(int.TryParse(input[i], ref junk))
            sb.Append(input[i]);
    }
    return sb.ToString();
}

What does localhost:8080 mean?

A TCP/IP connection is always made to an IP address (you can think of an IP-address as the address of a certain computer, even if that is not always the case) and a specific (logical, not physical) port on that address.

Usually one port is coupled to a specific process or "service" on the target computer. Some port numbers are standardized, like 80 for http, 25 for smtp and so on. Because of that standardization you usually don't need to put port numbers into your web adresses.

So if you say something like http://www.stackoverflow.com, the part "stackoverflow.com" resolves to an IP address (in my case 64.34.119.12) and because my browser knows the standard it tries to connect to port 80 on that address. Thus this is the same as http://www.stackoverflow.com:80.

But there is nothing that stops a process to listen for http requests on another port, like 12434, 4711 or 8080. Usually (as in your case) this is used for debugging purposes to not intermingle with another process (like IIS) already listening to port 80 on the same machine.

Is it possible to compile a program written in Python?

python compile on the fly when you run it.

Run a .py file by(linux): python abc.py

How to select element using XPATH syntax on Selenium for Python?

Check this blog by Martin Thoma. I tested the below code on MacOS Mojave and it worked as specified.

> def get_browser():
>     """Get the browser (a "driver")."""
>     # find the path with 'which chromedriver'
>     path_to_chromedriver = ('/home/moose/GitHub/algorithms/scraping/'
>                             'venv/bin/chromedriver')
>     download_dir = "/home/moose/selenium-download/"
>     print("Is directory: {}".format(os.path.isdir(download_dir)))
> 
>     from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
>     chrome_options = Options()
>     chrome_options.add_experimental_option('prefs', {
>         "plugins.plugins_list": [{"enabled": False,
>                                   "name": "Chrome PDF Viewer"}],
>         "download": {
>             "prompt_for_download": False,
>             "default_directory": download_dir
>         }
>     })
> 
>     browser = webdriver.Chrome(path_to_chromedriver,
>                                chrome_options=chrome_options)
>     return browser

Removing elements with Array.map in JavaScript

Array Filter method

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var arr = [1, 2, 3]_x000D_
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// ES5 syntax_x000D_
arr = arr.filter(function(item){ return item != 3 })_x000D_
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// ES2015 syntax_x000D_
arr = arr.filter(item => item != 3)_x000D_
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console.log( arr )
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How do I exclude all instances of a transitive dependency when using Gradle?

For excluding one or more library globally add the following to your build.gradle

configurations.all {
   exclude group:"org.apache.geronimo.specs", module: "geronimo-servlet_2.5_spec"
   exclude group:"ch.qos.logback", module:"logback-core"
}

Now the exclude block has two properties group and module. For those of you coming from maven background, group is same as groupId and module is same as artifactId. Example: To exclude com.mchange:c3p0:0.9.2.1 following should be exclude block

exclude group:"com.mchange", module:"c3p0"

Checkout another branch when there are uncommitted changes on the current branch

I have faced the same question recently. What I understand is, if the branch you are checking in has a file which you modified and it happens to be also modified and committed by that branch. Then git will stop you from switching to the branch to keep your change safe before you commit or stash.

What's the difference between deadlock and livelock?

Livelock

A thread often acts in response to the action of another thread. If the other thread's action is also a response to the action of another thread, then livelock may result.

As with deadlock, livelocked threads are unable to make further progress. However, the threads are not blocked — they are simply too busy responding to each other to resume work. This is comparable to two people attempting to pass each other in a corridor: Alphonse moves to his left to let Gaston pass, while Gaston moves to his right to let Alphonse pass. Seeing that they are still blocking each other, Alphonse moves to his right, while Gaston moves to his left. They're still blocking each other, and so on...

The main difference between livelock and deadlock is that threads are not going to be blocked, instead they will try to respond to each other continuously.

In this image, both circles (threads or processes) will try to give space to the other by moving left and right. But they can't move any further.

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How to open VMDK File of the Google-Chrome-OS bundle 2012?

Generally, this is how you open an OS folder containing a bunch of vdmk files on VMware Player.

bootstrap 4 row height

Use the sizing utility classes...

  • h-50 = height 50%
  • h-100 = height 100%

http://www.codeply.com/go/Y3nG0io2uE

 <div class="container">
        <div class="row">
            <div class="col-md-8 col-lg-6 B">
                <div class="card card-inverse card-primary">
                    <img src="http://lorempicsum.com/rio/800/500/4" class="img-fluid" alt="Responsive image">
                </div>
            </div>
            <div class="col-md-4 col-lg-3 G">
                <div class="row h-100">
                    <div class="col-md-6 col-lg-6 B h-50 pb-3">
                        <div class="card card-inverse card-success h-100">

                        </div>
                    </div>
                    <div class="col-md-6 col-lg-6 B h-50 pb-3">
                        <div class="card card-inverse bg-success h-100">

                        </div>
                    </div>
                    <div class="col-md-12 h-50">
                        <div class="card card-inverse bg-danger h-100">

                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>

Or, for an unknown number of child columns, use flexbox and the cols will fill height. See the d-flex flex-column on the row, and h-100 on the child cols.

<div class="container">
    <div class="row">
        <div class="col-md-8 col-lg-6 B">
            <div class="card card-inverse card-primary">
                <img src="http://lorempicsum.com/rio/800/500/4" class="img-fluid" alt="Responsive image">
            </div>
        </div>
        <div class="col-md-4 col-lg-3 G ">
            <div class="row d-flex flex-column h-100">
                <div class="col-md-6 col-lg-6 B h-100">
                    <div class="card bg-success h-100">

                    </div>
                </div>
                <div class="col-md-6 col-lg-6 B h-100">
                    <div class="card bg-success h-100">

                    </div>
                </div>
                <div class="col-md-12 h-100">
                    <div class="card bg-danger h-100">

                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

https://www.codeply.com/go/tgzFAH8vaW

Error message Strict standards: Non-static method should not be called statically in php

Try this:

$r = Page()->getInstanceByName($page);

It worked for me in a similar case.

PHP: If internet explorer 6, 7, 8 , or 9

You can do this via parsing the user-agent header:

http://php.about.com/od/learnphp/p/http_user_agent.htm

Be wary that this is not very reliable and can be trivially spoofed.

checking memory_limit in PHP

As long as your array $phpinfo['PHP Core']['memory_limit'] contains the value of memory_limit, it does work the following:

  • The last character of that value can signal the shorthand notation. If it's an invalid one, it's ignored.
  • The beginning of the string is converted to a number in PHP's own specific way: Whitespace ignored etc.
  • The text between the number and the shorthand notation (if any) is ignored.

Example:

# Memory Limit equal or higher than 64M?
$ok = (int) (bool) setting_to_bytes($phpinfo['PHP Core']['memory_limit']) >= 0x4000000;

/**
 * @param string $setting
 *
 * @return NULL|number
 */
function setting_to_bytes($setting)
{
    static $short = array('k' => 0x400,
                          'm' => 0x100000,
                          'g' => 0x40000000);

    $setting = (string)$setting;
    if (!($len = strlen($setting))) return NULL;
    $last    = strtolower($setting[$len - 1]);
    $numeric = (int) $setting;
    $numeric *= isset($short[$last]) ? $short[$last] : 1;
    return $numeric;
}

Details of the shorthand notation are outline in a PHP manual's FAQ entry and extreme details are part of Protocol of some PHP Memory Stretching Fun.

Take care if the setting is -1 PHP won't limit here, but the system does. So you need to decide how the installer treats that value.

How to check edittext's text is email address or not?

In Kotlin, an E-mail address you can validate by the simple method without writing a lot of code and bother yourself with a regular expression like "^[_A-Za-z0-9-\+]....".

Look how is simple:

 fun validateEmail(emailForValidation: String): Boolean{
    
            return Patterns.EMAIL_ADDRESS.matcher(emailForValidation).matches()
        }

After you write this method for e-mail validation you just need to input your e-mail which you want to validate. If validateEmail() method returns true e-mail is valid and if false then e-mail is not valid.

Here is example how you can use this method:

 val eMail: String = emailEditText.text.toString().trim()
 if (!validateEmail(eMail)){ //IF NOT TRUE
            Toast.makeText(context, "Please enter valid E-mail address", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show()

            return //RETURNS BACK TO IF STATEMENT
        }

jQuery.click() vs onClick

You could combine them, use jQuery to bind the function to the click

<div id="myDiv">Some Content</div>

$('#myDiv').click(divFunction);

function divFunction(){
 //some code
}

No input file specified

Adding php5.ini doesn't work at all. But see the 'Disable FastCGI' section in this article on GoDaddy: http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/5121/changing-your-hosting-accounts-file-extensions

Add these lines to .htaccess files (webroot & website installation directory):

Options +ExecCGI
addhandler x-httpd-php5-cgi .php

It saves me a day! Cheers! Thanks DragonLord!

caching JavaScript files

I have a simple system that is pure JavaScript. It checks for changes in a simple text file that is never cached. When you upload a new version this file is changed. Just put the following JS at the top of the page.

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        (function(url, storageName) {_x000D_
            var fromStorage = localStorage.getItem(storageName);_x000D_
            var fullUrl = url + "?rand=" + (Math.floor(Math.random() * 100000000));_x000D_
            getUrl(function(fromUrl) {_x000D_
//                   first load_x000D_
                if (!fromStorage) {_x000D_
                    localStorage.setItem(storageName, fromUrl);_x000D_
                    return;_x000D_
                }_x000D_
//                    old file_x000D_
                if (fromStorage === fromUrl) {_x000D_
                    return;_x000D_
                }_x000D_
                // files updated_x000D_
                localStorage.setItem(storageName, fromUrl);_x000D_
                location.reload(true);_x000D_
            });_x000D_
            function getUrl(fn) {_x000D_
                var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();_x000D_
                xmlhttp.open("GET", fullUrl, true);_x000D_
                xmlhttp.send();_x000D_
                xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {_x000D_
                    if (xmlhttp.readyState === XMLHttpRequest.DONE) {_x000D_
                        if (xmlhttp.status === 200 || xmlhttp.status === 2) {_x000D_
                            fn(xmlhttp.responseText);_x000D_
                        }_x000D_
                        else if (xmlhttp.status === 400) {_x000D_
                            throw 'unable to load file for cache check ' +  url;_x000D_
                        }_x000D_
                        else {_x000D_
                           throw 'unable to load file for cache check ' +  url;_x000D_
                        }_x000D_
                    }_x000D_
                };_x000D_
            }_x000D_
            ;_x000D_
        })("version.txt", "version");
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just replace the "version.txt" with your file that is always run and "version" with the name you want to use for your local storage.

Save and load MemoryStream to/from a file

The combined answer for writing to a file can be;

MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();    
FileStream file = new FileStream("file.bin", FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write);
ms.WriteTo(file);
file.Close();
ms.Close();

Default value in Doctrine

None of this worked for me. I found some documentation on doctrine's site that says to set the value directly to set a default value.

https://www.doctrine-project.org/projects/doctrine-orm/en/2.6/reference/faq.html#how-can-i-add-default-values-to-a-column

private $default = 0;

This inserted the value I wanted.

jQuery UI DatePicker to show month year only

Marked answer work!! but Not in my case there's more then one datepicker and only want to implement on particular datepicker

So I use instance of dp and find datepicker Div and add hide class

Here's Code

<style>
    .hide-day-calender .ui-datepicker-calendar{
        display:none;
    }
</style>

<script>
        $('#dpMonthYear').datepicker({ 
            changeMonth: true,
            changeYear: true,
            showButtonPanel: true,
            dateFormat: 'MM yy',
            onClose: function (dateText, inst) { 
                $(this).datepicker('setDate', new Date(inst.selectedYear, inst.selectedMonth, 1));
            },
            beforeShow: function (elem,dp) {
                $(dp.dpDiv).addClass('hide-day-calender'); //here a change
            }
        });
</script>

Note: You can not target .ui-datepicker-calendar and set css, because it will constantly rendering while selection/changes

Must JDBC Resultsets and Statements be closed separately although the Connection is closed afterwards?

What you have done is perfect and very good practice.

The reason I say its good practice... For example, if for some reason you are using a "primitive" type of database pooling and you call connection.close(), the connection will be returned to the pool and the ResultSet/Statement will never be closed and then you will run into many different new problems!

So you can't always count on connection.close() to clean up.

I hope this helps :)

How to get rid of `deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’` warnings in GCC?

If it's an active code base, you might still want to upgrade the code base. Of course, performing the changes manually isn't feasible but I believe that this problem could be solved once and for all by one single sed command. I haven't tried it, though, so take the following with a grain of salt.

find . -exec sed -E -i .backup -n \
    -e 's/char\s*\*\s*(\w+)\s*= "/char const* \1 = "/g' {} \;

This might not find all places (even not considering function calls) but it would alleviate the problem and make it possible to perform the few remaining changes manually.

How can I make a weak protocol reference in 'pure' Swift (without @objc)

Update: It looks like the manual has been updated and the example I was referring to has been removed. See the edit to @flainez's answer above.

Original: Using @objc is the right way to do it even if you're not interoperating with Obj-C. It ensures that your protocol is being applied to a class and not an enum or struct. See "Checking for Protocol Conformance" in the manual.

Least common multiple for 3 or more numbers

In Python (modified primes.py):

def gcd(a, b):
    """Return greatest common divisor using Euclid's Algorithm."""
    while b:      
        a, b = b, a % b
    return a

def lcm(a, b):
    """Return lowest common multiple."""
    return a * b // gcd(a, b)

def lcmm(*args):
    """Return lcm of args."""   
    return reduce(lcm, args)

Usage:

>>> lcmm(100, 23, 98)
112700
>>> lcmm(*range(1, 20))
232792560

reduce() works something like that:

>>> f = lambda a,b: "f(%s,%s)" % (a,b)
>>> print reduce(f, "abcd")
f(f(f(a,b),c),d)

Populate XDocument from String

You can use XDocument.Parse(string) instead of Load(string).

JS how to cache a variable

check out my js lib for caching: https://github.com/hoangnd25/cacheJS

My blog post: New way to cache your data with Javascript

Features:

  • Conveniently use array as key for saving cache
  • Support array and localStorage
  • Clear cache by context (clear all blog posts with authorId="abc")
  • No dependency

Basic usage:

Saving cache:

cacheJS.set({blogId:1,type:'view'},'<h1>Blog 1</h1>');
cacheJS.set({blogId:2,type:'view'},'<h1>Blog 2</h1>', null, {author:'hoangnd'});
cacheJS.set({blogId:3,type:'view'},'<h1>Blog 3</h1>', 3600, {author:'hoangnd',categoryId:2});

Retrieving cache:

cacheJS.get({blogId: 1,type: 'view'});

Flushing cache

cacheJS.removeByKey({blogId: 1,type: 'view'});
cacheJS.removeByKey({blogId: 2,type: 'view'});

cacheJS.removeByContext({author:'hoangnd'});

Switching provider

cacheJS.use('array');
cacheJS.use('array').set({blogId:1},'<h1>Blog 1</h1>')};

How to change the href for a hyperlink using jQuery

The simple way to do so is :

Attr function (since jQuery version 1.0)

$("a").attr("href", "https://stackoverflow.com/") 

or

Prop function (since jQuery version 1.6)

$("a").prop("href", "https://stackoverflow.com/")

Also, the advantage of above way is that if selector selects a single anchor, it will update that anchor only and if selector returns a group of anchor, it will update the specific group through one statement only.

Now, there are lot of ways to identify exact anchor or group of anchors:

Quite Simple Ones:

  1. Select anchor through tag name : $("a")
  2. Select anchor through index: $("a:eq(0)")
  3. Select anchor for specific classes (as in this class only anchors with class active) : $("a.active")
  4. Selecting anchors with specific ID (here in example profileLink ID) : $("a#proileLink")
  5. Selecting first anchor href: $("a:first")

More useful ones:

  1. Selecting all elements with href attribute : $("[href]")
  2. Selecting all anchors with specific href: $("a[href='www.stackoverflow.com']")
  3. Selecting all anchors not having specific href: $("a[href!='www.stackoverflow.com']")
  4. Selecting all anchors with href containing specific URL: $("a[href*='www.stackoverflow.com']")
  5. Selecting all anchors with href starting with specific URL: $("a[href^='www.stackoverflow.com']")
  6. Selecting all anchors with href ending with specific URL: $("a[href$='www.stackoverflow.com']")

Now, if you want to amend specific URLs, you can do that as:

For instance if you want to add proxy website for all the URLs going to google.com, you can implement it as follows:

$("a[href^='http://www.google.com']")
   .each(function()
   { 
      this.href = this.href.replace(/http:\/\/www.google.com\//gi, function (x) {
        return "http://proxywebsite.com/?query="+encodeURIComponent(x);
    });
   });

How do you pull first 100 characters of a string in PHP

You could use substr, I guess:

$string2 = substr($string1, 0, 100);

or mb_substr for multi-byte strings:

$string2 = mb_substr($string1, 0, 100);

You could create a function wich uses this function and appends for instance '...' to indicate that it was shortened. (I guess there's allready a hundred similar replies when this is posted...)

merge two object arrays with Angular 2 and TypeScript?

try this

 data => {
                this.results = [...this.results, ...data.results];
                this._next = data.next;
            }

How to style a clicked button in CSS

There are three states of button

  • Normal : You can select like this button
  • Hover : You can select like this button:hover
  • Pressed/Clicked : You can select like this button:active

Normal:

.button
 {
     //your css
 }

Active

 .button:active
{
        //your css
}

Hover

 .button:hover
{
        //your css
}

SNIPPET:

Use :active to style the active state of button.

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button:active{_x000D_
   background-color:red;_x000D_
}
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<button>Click Me</button>
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Using multiprocessing.Process with a maximum number of simultaneous processes

more generally, this could also look like this:

import multiprocessing
def chunks(l, n):
    for i in range(0, len(l), n):
        yield l[i:i + n]

numberOfThreads = 4


if __name__ == '__main__':
    jobs = []
    for i, param in enumerate(params):
        p = multiprocessing.Process(target=f, args=(i,param))
        jobs.append(p)
    for i in chunks(jobs,numberOfThreads):
        for j in i:
            j.start()
        for j in i:
            j.join()

Of course, that way is quite cruel (since it waits for every process in a junk until it continues with the next chunk). Still it works well for approx equal run times of the function calls.

How do I change the default location for Git Bash on Windows?

The easiest way without installing msysgit is right click on the Git Bash shortcut icon ? Start in: ? "C:\Program Files (x86)".

Change the Start in entry and point out the Git Bash starting position. If you don't remove the --cd-to-home part from the Target box, the Start in change gets overridden.

Jquery : Refresh/Reload the page on clicking a button

If your button is loading from an AJAX call, you should use

$(document).on("click", ".delegate_update_success", function(){
    location.reload(true);
});

instead of

$( ".delegate_update_success" ).click(function() {
    location.reload();
});

Also note the true parameter for the location.reload function.

What causes javac to issue the "uses unchecked or unsafe operations" warning

The solution would be to use specific type in <> like ArrayList<File>.

example:

File curfolder = new File( "C:\\Users\\username\\Desktop");
File[] file = curfolder.listFiles();
ArrayList filename = Arrays.asList(file);

above code generate warning because ArrayList is not of specific type.

File curfolder = new File( "C:\\Users\\username\\Desktop");
File[] file = curfolder.listFiles();
ArrayList<File> filename = Arrays.asList(file);

above code will do fine. Only change is in third line after ArrayList.

How to print a int64_t type in C

Coming from the embedded world, where even uclibc is not always available, and code like

uint64_t myval = 0xdeadfacedeadbeef; printf("%llx", myval);

is printing you crap or not working at all -- i always use a tiny helper, that allows me to dump properly uint64_t hex:

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

char* ullx(uint64_t val)
{
    static char buf[34] = { [0 ... 33] = 0 };
    char* out = &buf[33];
    uint64_t hval = val;
    unsigned int hbase = 16;

    do {
        *out = "0123456789abcdef"[hval % hbase];
        --out;
        hval /= hbase;
    } while(hval);

    *out-- = 'x', *out = '0';

    return out;
}

How to convert (transliterate) a string from utf8 to ASCII (single byte) in c#?

I was able to figure it out. In case someone wants to know below the code that worked for me:

ASCIIEncoding ascii = new ASCIIEncoding();
byte[] byteArray = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(sOriginal);
byte[] asciiArray = Encoding.Convert(Encoding.UTF8, Encoding.ASCII, byteArray);
string finalString = ascii.GetString(asciiArray);

Let me know if there is a simpler way o doing it.

Difference between Parameters.Add(string, object) and Parameters.AddWithValue

There is no difference in terms of functionality


The addwithvalue method takes an object as the value. There is no type data type checking. Potentially, that could lead to error if data type does not match with SQL table. The add method requires that you specify the Database type first. This helps to reduce such errors.

For more detail Please click here

How can I post an array of string to ASP.NET MVC Controller without a form?

I modified my response to include the code for a test app I did.

Update: I have updated the jQuery to set the 'traditional' setting to true so this will work again (per @DustinDavis' answer).

First the javascript:

function test()
{
    var stringArray = new Array();
    stringArray[0] = "item1";
    stringArray[1] = "item2";
    stringArray[2] = "item3";
    var postData = { values: stringArray };

    $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: "/Home/SaveList",
        data: postData,
        success: function(data){
            alert(data.Result);
        },
        dataType: "json",
        traditional: true
    });
}

And here's the code in my controller class:

public JsonResult SaveList(List<String> values)
{
    return Json(new { Result = String.Format("Fist item in list: '{0}'", values[0]) });
}

When I call that javascript function, I get an alert saying "First item in list: 'item1'". Hope this helps!

span with onclick event inside a tag

use onmouseup

try something like this

        <html>
        <head>
        <script type="text/javascript">
        function hide(){
        document.getElementById('span_hide').style.display="none";
        }
        </script>
        </head>

        <body>
        <a href="page" style="text-decoration:none;display:block;">
        <span   onmouseup="hide()" id="span_hide">Hide me</span>
        </a>
        </body>
        </html>

EDIT:

          <html>
        <head>
        <script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).ready(function(){
         $("a").click(function () { 
         $(this).fadeTo("fast", .5).removeAttr("href"); 
        });
        });
        function hide(){
        document.getElementById('span_hide').style.display="none";
        }
        </script>
        </head>

        <body>
        <a href="page.html" style="text-decoration:none;display:block;" onclick="return false" >
        <span   onmouseup="hide()" id="span_hide">Hide me</span>
        </a>
        </body>
        </html>