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bower command not found

I am almost sure you are not actually getting it installed correctly. Since you are trying to install it globally, you will need to run it with sudo:

sudo npm install -g bower

Access to the path 'c:\inetpub\wwwroot\myapp\App_Data' is denied

Consider if your file is read only, then the extra parameters may help with FileStream

using (var fs = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))

Print array to a file

echo "<pre>: ";      
print_r($this->array_to_return_string($array));
protected function array_to_return_string($param) {
    $str="[";
    if($param){
        foreach ($param as $key => $value) {
            if(is_array($value) && $value){
                $strx=$this->array_to_return_string($value);
                $str.="'$key'=>$strx";
            }else{
                $str.="'$key'=>'$value',";
            }
        }
    }
    $str.="],";
    return $str;
}

INSTALL_FAILED_DUPLICATE_PERMISSION... C2D_MESSAGE

Remove

<uses-permission android:name="${applicationId}.permission.C2D_MESSAGE"/>
<permission
    android:name="${applicationId}.permission.C2D_MESSAGE"
    android:protectionLevel="signature"/>

Run App... Then Add the permisson again and Run App.

Ready!.

Skip first line(field) in loop using CSV file?

Probably you want something like:

firstline = True
for row in kidfile:
    if firstline:    #skip first line
        firstline = False
        continue
    # parse the line

An other way to achive the same result is calling readline before the loop:

kidfile.readline()   # skip the first line
for row in kidfile:
    #parse the line

remove item from array using its name / value

Try this.(IE8+)

//Define function
function removeJsonAttrs(json,attrs){
    return JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(json,function(k,v){
        return attrs.indexOf(k)!==-1 ? undefined: v;
}));}
//use object
var countries = {};
countries.results = [
    {id:'AF',name:'Afghanistan'},
    {id:'AL',name:'Albania'},
    {id:'DZ',name:'Algeria'}
];
countries = removeJsonAttrs(countries,["name"]);
//use array
var arr = [
    {id:'AF',name:'Afghanistan'},
    {id:'AL',name:'Albania'},
    {id:'DZ',name:'Algeria'}
];
arr = removeJsonAttrs(arr,["name"]);

Getting the index of a particular item in array

The previous answers will only work if you know the exact value you are searching for - the question states that only a partial value is known.

Array.FindIndex(authors, author => author.Contains("xyz"));

This will return the index of the first item containing "xyz".

Generic Interface

Here's another suggestion:

public interface Service<T> {
   T execute();
}

using this simple interface you can pass arguments via constructor in the concrete service classes:

public class FooService implements Service<String> {

    private final String input1;
    private final int input2;

    public FooService(String input1, int input2) {
       this.input1 = input1;
       this.input2 = input2;
    }

    @Override
    public String execute() {
        return String.format("'%s%d'", input1, input2);
    }
}

How do I declare a namespace in JavaScript?

I use the following syntax for the namespace.

var MYNamespace = MYNamespace|| {};

 MYNamespace.MyFirstClass = function (val) {
        this.value = val;
        this.getValue = function(){
                          return this.value;
                       };
    }

var myFirstInstance = new MYNamespace.MyFirstClass(46);
alert(myFirstInstance.getValue());

jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/rpaul/4dngxwb3/1/

What's with the dollar sign ($"string")

String Interpolation

is a concept that languages like Perl have had for quite a while, and now we’ll get this ability in C# as well. In String Interpolation, we simply prefix the string with a $ (much like we use the @ for verbatim strings). Then, we simply surround the expressions we want to interpolate with curly braces (i.e. { and }):

It looks a lot like the String.Format() placeholders, but instead of an index, it is the expression itself inside the curly braces. In fact, it shouldn’t be a surprise that it looks like String.Format() because that’s really all it is – syntactical sugar that the compiler treats like String.Format() behind the scenes.

A great part is, the compiler now maintains the placeholders for you so you don’t have to worry about indexing the right argument because you simply place it right there in the string.

C# string interpolation is a method of concatenating,formatting and manipulating strings. This feature was introduced in C# 6.0. Using string interpolation, we can use objects and expressions as a part of the string interpolation operation.

Syntax of string interpolation starts with a ‘$’ symbol and expressions are defined within a bracket {} using the following syntax.

{<interpolatedExpression>[,<alignment>][:<formatString>]}  

Where:

  • interpolatedExpression - The expression that produces a result to be formatted
  • alignment - The constant expression whose value defines the minimum number of characters in the string representation of the result of the interpolated expression. If positive, the string representation is right-aligned; if negative, it's left-aligned.
  • formatString - A format string that is supported by the type of the expression result.

The following code example concatenates a string where an object, author as a part of the string interpolation.

string author = "Mohit";  
string hello = $"Hello {author} !";  
Console.WriteLine(hello);  // Hello Mohit !

Read more on C#/.NET Little Wonders: String Interpolation in C# 6

How to check if a character is upper-case in Python?

Use list(str) to break into chars then import string and use string.ascii_uppercase to compare against.

Check the string module: http://docs.python.org/library/string.html

Concat all strings inside a List<string> using LINQ

I think that if you define the logic in an extension method the code will be much more readable:

public static class EnumerableExtensions { 
  public static string Join<T>(this IEnumerable<T> self, string separator) {  
    return String.Join(separator, self.Select(e => e.ToString()).ToArray()); 
  } 
} 

public class Person {  
  public string FirstName { get; set; }  
  public string LastName { get; set; }  
  public override string ToString() {
    return string.Format("{0} {1}", FirstName, LastName);
  }
}  

// ...

List<Person> people = new List<Person>();
// ...
string fullNames = people.Join(", ");
string lastNames = people.Select(p => p.LastName).Join(", ");

Performance of Arrays vs. Lists

Here's one that uses Dictionaries, IEnumerable:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Linq;

static class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        List<int> list = new List<int>(6000000);

        for (int i = 0; i < 6000000; i++)
        {
                list.Add(i);
        }
        Console.WriteLine("Count: {0}", list.Count);

        int[] arr = list.ToArray();
        IEnumerable<int> Ienumerable = list.ToArray();
        Dictionary<int, bool> dict = list.ToDictionary(x => x, y => true);

        int chk = 0;
        Stopwatch watch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
        for (int rpt = 0; rpt < 100; rpt++)
        {
            int len = list.Count;
            for (int i = 0; i < len; i++)
            {
                chk += list[i];
            }
        }
        watch.Stop();
        Console.WriteLine("List/for: {0}ms ({1})", watch.ElapsedMilliseconds, chk);

        chk = 0;
        watch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
        for (int rpt = 0; rpt < 100; rpt++)
        {
            for (int i = 0; i < arr.Length; i++)
            {
                chk += arr[i];
            }
        }
        watch.Stop();
        Console.WriteLine("Array/for: {0}ms ({1})", watch.ElapsedMilliseconds, chk);

        chk = 0;
        watch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
        for (int rpt = 0; rpt < 100; rpt++)
        {
            foreach (int i in Ienumerable)
            {
                chk += i;
            }
        }

        Console.WriteLine("Ienumerable/for: {0}ms ({1})", watch.ElapsedMilliseconds, chk);

        chk = 0;
        watch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
        for (int rpt = 0; rpt < 100; rpt++)
        {
            foreach (int i in dict.Keys)
            {
                chk += i;
            }
        }

        Console.WriteLine("Dict/for: {0}ms ({1})", watch.ElapsedMilliseconds, chk);


        chk = 0;
        watch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
        for (int rpt = 0; rpt < 100; rpt++)
        {
            foreach (int i in list)
            {
                chk += i;
            }
        }

        watch.Stop();
        Console.WriteLine("List/foreach: {0}ms ({1})", watch.ElapsedMilliseconds, chk);

        chk = 0;
        watch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
        for (int rpt = 0; rpt < 100; rpt++)
        {
            foreach (int i in arr)
            {
                chk += i;
            }
        }
        watch.Stop();
        Console.WriteLine("Array/foreach: {0}ms ({1})", watch.ElapsedMilliseconds, chk);



        chk = 0;
        watch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
        for (int rpt = 0; rpt < 100; rpt++)
        {
            foreach (int i in Ienumerable)
            {
                chk += i;
            }
        }
        watch.Stop();
        Console.WriteLine("Ienumerable/foreach: {0}ms ({1})", watch.ElapsedMilliseconds, chk);

        chk = 0;
        watch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
        for (int rpt = 0; rpt < 100; rpt++)
        {
            foreach (int i in dict.Keys)
            {
                chk += i;
            }
        }
        watch.Stop();
        Console.WriteLine("Dict/foreach: {0}ms ({1})", watch.ElapsedMilliseconds, chk);

        Console.ReadLine();
    }
}

JavaScript - onClick to get the ID of the clicked button

Although it's 8+ years late, in reply to @Amc_rtty, to get dynamically generated IDs from (my) HTML, I used the index of the php loop to increment the button IDs. I concatenated the same indices to the ID of the input element, hence I ended up with id="tableview1" and button id="1" and so on.

$tableView .= "<td><input type='hidden' value='http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']."/sql/update.php?id=".$mysql_rows[0]."&table=".$theTable."'id='tableview".$mysql_rows[0]."'><button type='button' onclick='loadDoc(event)' id='".$mysql_rows[0]."'>Edit</button></td>";

In the javascript, I stored the button click in a variable and added it to the element.

function loadDoc(e) {
  var btn = e.target.id;
  var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
  var page = document.getElementById("tableview"+btn).value;
  
  //other Ajax stuff
  }

How to get an input text value in JavaScript

Notice that this line:

lol = document.getElementById('lolz').value;

is before the actual <input> element on your markup:

<input type="text" name="enter" class="enter" value="" id="lolz"/>

Your code is parsed line by line, and the lol = ... line is evaluated before the browser knows about the existance of an input with id lolz. Thus, document.getElementById('lolz') will return null, and document.getElementById('lolz').value should cause an error.

Move that line inside the function, and it should work. This way, that line will only run when the function is called. And use var as others suggested, to avoid making it a global variable:

function kk(){
    var lol = document.getElementById('lolz').value;
    alert(lol);
}

You can also move the script to the end of the page. Moving all script blocks to the end of your HTML <body> is the standard practice today to avoid this kind of reference problem. It also tends to speed up page load, since scripts that take long to load and parse are processed after the HTML has been (mostly) displayed.

Font Awesome & Unicode

By using css you can add your icon via Unicode

content: '\f144';
font-family: FontAwesome;

This will work

Maven: How do I activate a profile from command line?

Both commands are correct :

mvn clean install -Pdev1
mvn clean install -P dev1

The problem is most likely not profile activation, but the profile not accomplishing what you expect it to.

It is normal that the command :

mvn help:active-profiles

does not display the profile, because is does not contain -Pdev1. You could add it to make the profile appear, but it would be pointless because you would be testing maven itself.

What you should do is check the profile behavior by doing the following :

  1. set activeByDefault to true in the profile configuration,
  2. run mvn help:active-profiles (to make sure it is effectively activated even without -Pdev1),
  3. run mvn install.

It should give the same results as before, and therefore confirm that the problem is the profile not doing what you expect.

Entity Framework - Linq query with order by and group by

Try moving the order by after group by:

var groupByReference = (from m in context.Measurements
                        group m by new { m.Reference } into g
                        order by g.Avg(i => i.CreationTime)
                        select g).Take(numOfEntries).ToList();

How to apply slide animation between two activities in Android?

Add this two file in res/anim folder.

R.anim.slide_out_bottom

<set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:shareInterpolator="false">
<translate
    android:duration="@integer/time_duration_max"
    android:fromXDelta="0%"
    android:fromYDelta="100%"
    android:toXDelta="0%"
    android:toYDelta="0%" />
</set>

R.anim.slide_in_bottom

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<set xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:shareInterpolator="false">
<translate
    android:duration="@integer/time_duration_max"
    android:fromXDelta="0%"
    android:fromYDelta="0%"
    android:toXDelta="0%"
    android:toYDelta="100%" /> 
</set>

And write the below line of code in your view click listener.

startActivity(new Intent(MainActivity.this, NameOfTargetActivity.class));
overridePendingTransition(R.anim.slide_out_bottom, R.anim.slide_in_bottom);

Set UILabel line spacing

You can control line spacing in the storyboard:

duplicate question

Difference between request.getSession() and request.getSession(true)

request.getSession() or request.getSession(true) both will return a current session only . if current session will not exist then it will create a new session.

How do you get a list of the names of all files present in a directory in Node.js?

Load fs:

const fs = require('fs');

Read files async:

fs.readdir('./dir', function (err, files) {
    // "files" is an Array with files names
});

Read files sync:

var files = fs.readdirSync('./dir');

insert data into database with codeigniter

Check your controller:

function order()
    $OrderLines = $this->input->post('orderlines');
    $CustomerName = $this->input->post('customer');
    $data = array(
        'OrderLines' => $OrderLines,
        'CustomerName' =>$CustomerName
    ); 

    $this->db->insert('Customer_Orders', $data);
}

Incomplete type is not allowed: stringstream

#include <sstream> and use the fully qualified name i.e. std::stringstream ss;

Git Clone: Just the files, please?

git checkout -f

There's another way to do this by splitting the repo from the working tree.

This method is useful if you need to update these git-less git files on a regular basis. For instance, I use it when I need to check out source files and build an artifact, then copy the artifact into a different repo just for deployment to a server, and I also use it when pushing source code to a server when I want the source code to checkout and build into the www directory.

We'll make two folders, one for the git one for the working files:

mkdir workingfiles
mkdir barerepo.git

initialize a bare git repo:

cd barerepo.git
git --bare init 

Then create a post-receive hook:

touch hooks/post-receive
chmod ug+x hooks/post-receive

Edit post-receive in your favorite editor:

GIT_WORK_TREE=/path/to/workingfiles git checkout -f
# optional stuff:
cd down/to/some/directory
[do some stuff]

Add this as a remote:

git remote add myserver ssh://user@host:/path/to/barerepo.git

Now every time you push to this bare repo it will checkout the working tree to /workingfiles/. But /workingfiles/ itself is not under version control; running git status in /workingfiles/ will give the error fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /data). It's just plain files.

Unlike other solutions rm -r .git command is not needed, so if /workingfiles/ is some other git repo you don't have to worry about the command used removing the other repo's git files.

How to easily get network path to the file you are working on?

In Win7 (and Vista I think), you can Shift+Right Click the file in question and select Copy as path to get the full network path. Note: if the shared drive is mapped to a letter, you will get that path instead (ie: X:\someguy\somefile.xls)

How does one check if a table exists in an Android SQLite database?

Kotlin solution, based on what others wrote here:

    fun isTableExists(database: SQLiteDatabase, tableName: String): Boolean {
        database.rawQuery("select DISTINCT tbl_name from sqlite_master where tbl_name = '$tableName'", null)?.use {
            return it.count > 0
        } ?: return false
    }

MD5 is 128 bits but why is it 32 characters?

One hex digit = 1 nibble (four-bits)

Two hex digits = 1 byte (eight-bits)

MD5 = 32 hex digits

32 hex digits = 16 bytes ( 32 / 2)

16 bytes = 128 bits (16 * 8)

The same applies to SHA-1 except it's 40 hex digits long.

I hope this helps.

How to change indentation in Visual Studio Code?

You can change this in global User level or Workspace level.

Open the settings: Using the shortcut Ctrl , or clicking File > Preferences > Settings as shown below.

Settings on VS Code menu

Then, do the following 2 changes: (type tabSize in the search bar)

  1. Uncheck the checkbox of Detect Indentation
  2. Change the tab size to be 2/4 (Although I strongly think 2 is correct for JS :))

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ImportError: No module named PytQt5

After getting the help from @Blender, @ekhumoro and @Dan, I understand the Linux and Python more than before. Thank you. I got the an idea by @ekhumoro, it is I didn't install PyQt5 correctly. So I delete PyQt5 folder and download again. And redo everything from very start.

After redoing, I got the error as my last update at my question. So, when I search at stack, I got the following solution from here

sudo ln -s /usr/include/python2.7 /usr/local/include/python2.7

And then, I did "sudo make" and "sudo make install" step by step. After "sudo make install", I got the following error. But I ignored it and I created a simple design with qt designer. And I converted it into python file by pyuic5. Everything are going well.

install -m 755 -p /home/thura/PyQt/pyuic5 /usr/bin/
strip /usr/bin/pyuic5
strip:/usr/bin/pyuic5: File format not recognized
make: [install_pyuic5] Error 1 (ignored)

Add line break to 'git commit -m' from the command line

If you just want, say, a head line and a content line, you can use:

git commit -m "My head line" -m "My content line."

Note that this creates separate paragraphs - not lines. So there will be a blank line between each two -m lines, e.g.:

My head line

My content line.

Spring Boot Multiple Datasource

once you start work with jpa and some driver is in your class path spring boot right away puts it inside as your data source (e.g h2 ) for using the defult data source therefore u will need only to define

spring.datasource.url= jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/
spring.datasource.username=test
spring.datasource.password=test

if we go one step farther and u want to use two I would reccomend to use two data sources such as explained here : Spring Boot Configure and Use Two DataSources

Finding the position of the max element

std::max_element takes two iterators delimiting a sequence and returns an iterator pointing to the maximal element in that sequence. You can additionally pass a predicate to the function that defines the ordering of elements.

How to force a line break on a Javascript concatenated string?

You can't have multiple lines in a text box, you need a textarea. Then it works with \n between the values.

How do I create a MongoDB dump of my database?

You can also use gzip for taking backup of one collection and compressing the backup on the fly:

mongodump --db somedb --collection somecollection --out - | gzip > collectiondump.gz

or with a date in the file name:

mongodump --db somedb --collection somecollection --out - | gzip > dump_`date "+%Y-%m-%d"`.gz

Update:
Backup all collections of a database in a date folder. The files are gziped:

mongodump --db somedb --gzip --out /backups/`date +"%Y-%m-%d"`

Or for a single archive:

mongodump --db somedb --gzip --archive > dump_`date "+%Y-%m-%d"`.gz

Or when mongodb is running inside docker:

docker exec <CONTAINER> sh -c 'exec mongodump --db somedb --gzip --archive' > dump_`date "+%Y-%m-%d"`.gz

read subprocess stdout line by line

I tried this with python3 and it worked, source

def output_reader(proc):
    for line in iter(proc.stdout.readline, b''):
        print('got line: {0}'.format(line.decode('utf-8')), end='')


def main():
    proc = subprocess.Popen(['python', 'fake_utility.py'],
                            stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                            stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)

    t = threading.Thread(target=output_reader, args=(proc,))
    t.start()

    try:
        time.sleep(0.2)
        import time
        i = 0

        while True:
        print (hex(i)*512)
        i += 1
        time.sleep(0.5)
    finally:
        proc.terminate()
        try:
            proc.wait(timeout=0.2)
            print('== subprocess exited with rc =', proc.returncode)
        except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
            print('subprocess did not terminate in time')
    t.join()

Fitting iframe inside a div

Based on the link provided by @better_use_mkstemp, here's a fiddle where nested iframe resizes to fill parent div: http://jsfiddle.net/orlenko/HNyJS/

Html:

<div id="content">
    <iframe src="http://www.microsoft.com" name="frame2" id="frame2" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="auto" onload="" allowtransparency="false"></iframe>
</div>
<div id="block"></div>
<div id="header"></div>
<div id="footer"></div>

Relevant parts of CSS:

div#content {
    position: fixed;
    top: 80px;
    left: 40px;
    bottom: 25px;
    min-width: 200px;
    width: 40%;
    background: black;
}

div#content iframe {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    left: 0;
    right: 0;
    height: 100%;
    width: 100%;
}

html "data-" attribute as javascript parameter

HTML:

<div data-uid="aaa" data-name="bbb", data-value="ccc" onclick="fun(this)">

JavaScript:

function fun(obj) {
    var uid= $(obj).attr('data-uid');
    var name= $(obj).attr('data-name');
    var value= $(obj).attr('data-value');
}

but I'm using jQuery.

How to change a dataframe column from String type to Double type in PySpark?

pyspark version:

  df = <source data>
  df.printSchema()

  from pyspark.sql.types import *

  # Change column type
  df_new = df.withColumn("myColumn", df["myColumn"].cast(IntegerType()))
  df_new.printSchema()
  df_new.select("myColumn").show()

os.path.dirname(__file__) returns empty

Because os.path.abspath = os.path.dirname + os.path.basename does not hold. we rather have

os.path.dirname(filename) + os.path.basename(filename) == filename

Both dirname() and basename() only split the passed filename into components without taking into account the current directory. If you want to also consider the current directory, you have to do so explicitly.

To get the dirname of the absolute path, use

os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))

Get Wordpress Category from Single Post

How about get_the_category?

You can then do

$category = get_the_category();
$firstCategory = $category[0]->cat_name;

php $_POST array empty upon form submission

Another simple reason for an empty POST array can be caused by not closing a form with and then adding a second .... When the second form is submitted the POST array will be empty.

How to get current route

WAY 1: Using Angular: this.router.url

import { Component } from '@angular/core';

// Step 1: import the router 
import { Router } from '@angular/router';

@Component({
    template: 'The href is: {{href}}'
    /*
    Other component settings
    */
})
export class Component {
    public href: string = "";

    //Step 2: Declare the same in the constructure.
    constructor(private router: Router) {}

    ngOnInit() {
        this.href = this.router.url;
        // Do comparision here.....
        ///////////////////////////
        console.log(this.router.url);
    }
}

WAY 2 Window.location as we do in the Javascript, If you don't want to use the router

this.href= window.location.href;

How to grant remote access permissions to mysql server for user?

Those SQL grants the others are sharing do work. If you're still unable to access the database, it's possible that you just have a firewall restriction for the port. It depends on your server type (and any routers in between) as to how to open up the connection. Open TCP port 3306 inbound, and give it a similar access rule for external machines (all/subnet/single IP/etc.).

Node.js check if path is file or directory

The answers above check if a filesystem contains a path that is a file or directory. But it doesn't identify if a given path alone is a file or directory.

The answer is to identify directory-based paths using "/." like --> "/c/dos/run/." <-- trailing period.

Like a path of a directory or file that has not been written yet. Or a path from a different computer. Or a path where both a file and directory of the same name exists.

// /tmp/
// |- dozen.path
// |- dozen.path/.
//    |- eggs.txt
//
// "/tmp/dozen.path" !== "/tmp/dozen.path/"
//
// Very few fs allow this. But still. Don't trust the filesystem alone!

// Converts the non-standard "path-ends-in-slash" to the standard "path-is-identified-by current "." or previous ".." directory symbol.
function tryGetPath(pathItem) {
    const isPosix = pathItem.includes("/");
    if ((isPosix && pathItem.endsWith("/")) ||
        (!isPosix && pathItem.endsWith("\\"))) {
        pathItem = pathItem + ".";
    }
    return pathItem;
}
// If a path ends with a current directory identifier, it is a path! /c/dos/run/. and c:\dos\run\.
function isDirectory(pathItem) {
    const isPosix = pathItem.includes("/");
    if (pathItem === "." || pathItem ==- "..") {
        pathItem = (isPosix ? "./" : ".\\") + pathItem;
    }
    return (isPosix ? pathItem.endsWith("/.") || pathItem.endsWith("/..") : pathItem.endsWith("\\.") || pathItem.endsWith("\\.."));
} 
// If a path is not a directory, and it isn't empty, it must be a file
function isFile(pathItem) {
    if (pathItem === "") {
        return false;
    }
    return !isDirectory(pathItem);
}

Node version: v11.10.0 - Feb 2019

Last thought: Why even hit the filesystem?

Refresh Part of Page (div)

Usefetch and innerHTML to load div content

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let url="https://server.test-cors.org/server?id=2934825&enable=true&status=200&credentials=false&methods=GET"

async function refresh() {
  btn.disabled = true;
  dynamicPart.innerHTML = "Loading..."
  dynamicPart.innerHTML = await(await fetch(url)).text();
  setTimeout(refresh,2000);
}
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<div id="staticPart">
  Here is static part of page

  <button id="btn" onclick="refresh()">
    Click here to start refreshing every 2s
  </button>
</div>

<div id="dynamicPart">Dynamic part</div>
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Check whether variable is number or string in JavaScript

Simply use

myVar.constructor == String

or

myVar.constructor == Number

if you want to handle strings defined as objects or literals and saves you don't want to use a helper function.

Connecting to MySQL from Android with JDBC

try changing in the gradle file the targetSdkVersion to 8

targetSdkVersion 8

What is the difference between Html.Hidden and Html.HiddenFor

Every method in HtmlHelper class has a twin with For suffix. Html.Hidden takes a string as an argument that you must provide but Html.HiddenFor takes an Expression that if you view is a strongly typed view you can benefit from this and feed that method a lambda expression like this

o=>o.SomeProperty 

instead of "SomeProperty" in the case of using Html.Hidden method.

Read properties file outside JAR file

So, you want to treat your .properties file on the same folder as the main/runnable jar as a file rather than as a resource of the main/runnable jar. In that case, my own solution is as follows:

First thing first: your program file architecture shall be like this (assuming your main program is main.jar and its main properties file is main.properties):

./ - the root of your program
 |__ main.jar
 |__ main.properties

With this architecture, you can modify any property in the main.properties file using any text editor before or while your main.jar is running (depending on the current state of the program) since it is just a text-based file. For example, your main.properties file may contain:

app.version=1.0.0.0
app.name=Hello

So, when you run your main program from its root/base folder, normally you will run it like this:

java -jar ./main.jar

or, straight away:

java -jar main.jar

In your main.jar, you need to create a few utility methods for every property found in your main.properties file; let say the app.version property will have getAppVersion() method as follows:

/**
 * Gets the app.version property value from
 * the ./main.properties file of the base folder
 *
 * @return app.version string
 * @throws IOException
 */

import java.util.Properties;

public static String getAppVersion() throws IOException{

    String versionString = null;

    //to load application's properties, we use this class
    Properties mainProperties = new Properties();

    FileInputStream file;

    //the base folder is ./, the root of the main.properties file  
    String path = "./main.properties";

    //load the file handle for main.properties
    file = new FileInputStream(path);

    //load all the properties from this file
    mainProperties.load(file);

    //we have loaded the properties, so close the file handle
    file.close();

    //retrieve the property we are intrested, the app.version
    versionString = mainProperties.getProperty("app.version");

    return versionString;
}

In any part of the main program that needs the app.version value, we call its method as follows:

String version = null;
try{
     version = getAppVersion();
}
catch (IOException ioe){
    ioe.printStackTrace();
}

SQL Inner-join with 3 tables?

select products.product_id, product_name, price, created_at, image_name, categories.category_id, category_name,brands.brand_id, brand_name 
FROM products INNER JOIN categories USING (category_id) INNER JOIN brands USING(brand_id)

Choosing a jQuery datagrid plugin?

The three most used and well supported jQuery grid plugins today are SlickGrid, jqGrid and DataTables. See http://wiki.jqueryui.com/Grid-OtherGrids for more info.

How to easily duplicate a Windows Form in Visual Studio?

  1. Add a sub-folder to your project.
  2. Right-click on the sub-folder, and click Add Existing Item.
  3. Browse to the form you want to copy, and select its .cs file. This will duplicate the original form (partial and resx and all) in the sub-folder. The name will not conflict with the original, because the sub-folder will be included in its namespace.
  4. Right-click on the .cs file, click Refactor | Rename and enter the new name. This will also rename the partial and the resx for you.

I'm generally averse to methods of doing this that involve opening up the files in notepad or whatever, since I always think a common task like this should have a built-in way of doing it in Visual Studio. In this case, there is.

How remove border around image in css?

I realize this is a very old post, but I encountered a similar issue in which my displayed image always had a border around it. I was trying to fill the browser window with a single image. Adding styles like border:none; did not remove the border and neither did margin:0; or padding:0; or any combination of the three.

However, adding position:absolute;top:0;left:0; fixed the problem.

The original post above has position:absolute; but does not have top:0;left:0; and this was adding a default border on my page.

To illustrate the solution, this has a white border (to be precise, it has a top and left offset):

<img src="filename.jpg"
style="width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;">

This does not have a border:

<img src="filename.jpg"
style="width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;">

Hopefully this helps someone finding this post looking to resolve a similar problem.

Formatting numbers (decimal places, thousands separators, etc) with CSS

You cannot use CSS for this purpose. I recommend using JavaScript if it's applicable. Take a look at this for more information: JavaScript equivalent to printf/string.format

Also As Petr mentioned you can handle it on server-side but it's totally depends on your scenario.

Update TextView Every Second

You can use Timer instead of Thread. This is whole my code

package dk.tellwork.tellworklite.tabs;

import java.util.Timer;
import java.util.TimerTask;

import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.os.Message;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.TextView;
import dk.tellwork.tellworklite.MainActivity;
import dk.tellwork.tellworklite.R;

@SuppressLint("HandlerLeak")
public class HomeActivity extends Activity {
    Button chooseYourAcitivity, startBtn, stopBtn;
    TextView labelTimer;
    int passedSenconds;
    Boolean isActivityRunning = false;
    Timer timer;
    TimerTask timerTask;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.tab_home);

        chooseYourAcitivity = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnChooseYourActivity);
        chooseYourAcitivity.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                //move to Activities tab
                switchTabInActivity(1);
            }
        });

        labelTimer = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.labelTime);
        passedSenconds = 0;

        startBtn = (Button)findViewById(R.id.startBtn);
        startBtn.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                if (isActivityRunning) {
                    //pause running activity
                    timer.cancel();
                    startBtn.setText(getString(R.string.homeStartBtn));
                    isActivityRunning = false;
                } else {
                    reScheduleTimer();
                    startBtn.setText(getString(R.string.homePauseBtn));
                    isActivityRunning = true;
                }
            }
        });

        stopBtn = (Button)findViewById(R.id.stopBtn);
        stopBtn.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                timer.cancel();
                passedSenconds = 0;
                labelTimer.setText("00 : 00 : 00");
                startBtn.setText(getString(R.string.homeStartBtn));
                isActivityRunning = false;
            }
        });
    }

    public void reScheduleTimer(){
        timer = new Timer();
        timerTask = new myTimerTask();
        timer.schedule(timerTask, 0, 1000);
    }

    private class myTimerTask extends TimerTask{
        @Override
        public void run() {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            passedSenconds++;
            updateLabel.sendEmptyMessage(0);
        }
    }

    private Handler updateLabel = new Handler(){
        @Override
        public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            //super.handleMessage(msg);

            int seconds = passedSenconds % 60;
            int minutes = (passedSenconds / 60) % 60;
            int hours = (passedSenconds / 3600);
            labelTimer.setText(String.format("%02d : %02d : %02d", hours, minutes, seconds));
        }
    };

    public void switchTabInActivity(int indexTabToSwitchTo){
        MainActivity parentActivity;
        parentActivity = (MainActivity) this.getParent();
        parentActivity.switchTab(indexTabToSwitchTo);
    }
}

How can I use std::maps with user-defined types as key?

You don't have to define operator< for your class, actually. You can also make a comparator function object class for it, and use that to specialize std::map. To extend your example:

struct Class1Compare
{
   bool operator() (const Class1& lhs, const Class1& rhs) const
   {
       return lhs.id < rhs.id;
   }
};

std::map<Class1, int, Class1Compare> c2int;

It just so happens that the default for the third template parameter of std::map is std::less, which will delegate to operator< defined for your class (and fail if there is none). But sometimes you want objects to be usable as map keys, but you do not actually have any meaningful comparison semantics, and so you don't want to confuse people by providing operator< on your class just for that. If that's the case, you can use the above trick.

Yet another way to achieve the same is to specialize std::less:

namespace std
{
    template<> struct less<Class1>
    {
       bool operator() (const Class1& lhs, const Class1& rhs) const
       {
           return lhs.id < rhs.id;
       }
    };
}

The advantage of this is that it will be picked by std::map "by default", and yet you do not expose operator< to client code otherwise.

PHPExcel - set cell type before writing a value in it

I wanted the Number same as I get from database for example.

1) 00100.220000

2) 00123

3) 0000.0000100

So I modified the code as below

$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()
    ->setCellValue('A3', '00100.220000');
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()
    ->getStyle('A3')
    ->getNumberFormat()
    ->setFormatCode('00000.000000');


$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()
    ->setCellValue('A4', '00123');
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()
  ->getStyle('A4')
 ->getNumberFormat()
->setFormatCode('00000');


$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()
    ->setCellValue('A5', '0000.0000100');
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()
  ->getStyle('A5')
 ->getNumberFormat()
->setFormatCode('0000.0000000');

entity framework Unable to load the specified metadata resource

Craig Stuntz has written an extensive (in my opinion) blog post on troubleshooting this exact error message, I personally would start there.

The following res: (resource) references need to point to your model.

<add name="Entities" connectionString="metadata=
    res://*/Models.WraithNath.co.uk.csdl|
    res://*/Models.WraithNath.co.uk.ssdl|
    res://*/Models.WraithNath.co.uk.msl;

Make sure each one has the name of your .edmx file after the "*/", with the "edmx" changed to the extension for that res (.csdl, .ssdl, or .msl).

It also may help to specify the assembly rather than using "//*/".

Worst case, you can check everything (a bit slower but should always find the resource) by using

<add name="Entities" connectionString="metadata=
        res://*/;provider= <!-- ... -->

equals vs Arrays.equals in Java

It's an infamous problem: .equals() for arrays is badly broken, just don't use it, ever.

That said, it's not "broken" as in "someone has done it in a really wrong way" — it's just doing what's defined and not what's usually expected. So for purists: it's perfectly fine, and that also means, don't use it, ever.

Now the expected behaviour for equals is to compare data. The default behaviour is to compare the identity, as Object does not have any data (for purists: yes it has, but it's not the point); assumption is, if you need equals in subclasses, you'll implement it. In arrays, there's no implementation for you, so you're not supposed to use it.

So the difference is, Arrays.equals(array1, array2) works as you would expect (i.e. compares content), array1.equals(array2) falls back to Object.equals implementation, which in turn compares identity, and thus better replaced by == (for purists: yes I know about null).

Problem is, even Arrays.equals(array1, array2) will bite you hard if elements of array do not implement equals properly. It's a very naive statement, I know, but there's a very important less-than-obvious case: consider a 2D array.

2D array in Java is an array of arrays, and arrays' equals is broken (or useless if you prefer), so Arrays.equals(array1, array2) will not work as you expect on 2D arrays.

Hope that helps.

Convert object to JSON in Android

As of Android 3.0 (API Level 11) Android has a more recent and improved JSON Parser.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/JsonReader.html

Reads a JSON (RFC 4627) encoded value as a stream of tokens. This stream includes both literal values (strings, numbers, booleans, and nulls) as well as the begin and end delimiters of objects and arrays. The tokens are traversed in depth-first order, the same order that they appear in the JSON document. Within JSON objects, name/value pairs are represented by a single token.

How to determine day of week by passing specific date?

Program to find the day of the week by giving user input date month and year using java.util.scanner package:

import java.util.Scanner;

public class Calender {
    public static String getDay(String day, String month, String year) {

        int ym, yp, d, ay, a = 0;
        int by = 20;
        int[] y = new int[]{6, 4, 2, 0};
        int[] m = new int []{0, 3, 3, 6, 1, 4, 6, 2, 5, 0, 3, 5};

        String[] wd = {"Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"};

        int gd = Integer.parseInt(day);
        int gm = Integer.parseInt(month);
        int gy = Integer.parseInt(year);

        ym = gy % 100;
        yp = ym / 4;
        ay = gy / 100;

        while (ay != by) {
            by = by + 1;
            a = a + 1;

            if(a == 4) {
                a = 0;
            }
        }

        if ((ym % 4 == 0) && (gm == 2)) {
            d = (gd + m[gm - 1] + ym + yp + y[a] - 1) % 7;
        } else
            d = (gd + m[gm - 1] + ym + yp + y[a]) % 7;

        return wd[d];
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);

        String day = in.next();
        String month = in.next();
        String year = in.next();

        System.out.println(getDay(day, month, year));
    }
}

List files in local git repo?

Try this command:

git ls-files 

This lists all of the files in the repository, including those that are only staged but not yet committed.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-ls-files.html

jQuery How to Get Element's Margin and Padding?

According to the jQuery documentation, shorthand CSS properties are not supported.

Depending on what you mean by "total padding", you may be able to do something like this:

var $img = $('img');
var paddT = $img.css('padding-top') + ' ' + $img.css('padding-right') + ' ' + $img.css('padding-bottom') + ' ' + $img.css('padding-left');

Changing tab bar item image and text color iOS

Subclass your TabbarViewController and in ViewDidLoad put this code:

 [UITabBarItem.appearance setTitleTextAttributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName : [UIColor darkGreyColorBT]} forState:UIControlStateNormal];
    [UITabBarItem.appearance setTitleTextAttributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName : [UIColor nightyDarkColorBT]} forState:UIControlStateSelected];

    self.tabBar.items[0].image  = [[UIImage imageNamed:@"ic-pack [email protected]"]  imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];
    self.tabBar.items[0].selectedImage  = [[UIImage imageNamed:@"[email protected]"]  imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];
    self.tabBar.items[1].image = [[UIImage imageNamed:@"ic-sleeptracker [email protected]"] imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];
    self.tabBar.items[1].selectedImage  = [[UIImage imageNamed:@"[email protected]"] imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];
    self.tabBar.items[2].image = [[UIImage imageNamed:@"ic-profile [email protected]"] imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];
    self.tabBar.items[2].selectedImage  = [[UIImage imageNamed:@"[email protected]"] imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];

This is the simplest working solution I have

string sanitizer for filename

It seems this all hinges on the question, is it possible to create a filename that can be used to hack into a server (or do some-such other damage). If not, then it seems the simple answer to is try creating the file wherever it will, ultimately, be used (since that will be the operating system of choice, no doubt). Let the operating system sort it out. If it complains, port that complaint back to the User as a Validation Error.

This has the added benefit of being reliably portable, since all (I'm pretty sure) operating systems will complain if the filename is not properly formed for that OS.

If it is possible to do nefarious things with a filename, perhaps there are measures that can be applied before testing the filename on the resident operating system -- measures less complicated than a full "sanitation" of the filename.

Android API 21 Toolbar Padding

Ok so if you need 72dp, couldn't you just add the difference in padding in the xml file? This way you keep Androids default Inset/Padding that they want us to use.

So: 72-16=56

Therefor: add 56dp padding to put yourself at an indent/margin total of 72dp.

Or you could just change the values in the Dimen.xml files. that's what I am doing now. It changes everything, the entire layout, including the ToolBar when implemented in the new proper Android way.

Dimen Resource File

The link I added shows the Dimen values at 2dp because I changed it but it was default set at 16dp. Just FYI...

PostgreSQL database default location on Linux

I think best method is to query pg_setting view:

 select s.name, s.setting, s.short_desc from pg_settings s where s.name='data_directory';

Output:

      name      |        setting         |            short_desc
----------------+------------------------+-----------------------------------
 data_directory | /var/lib/pgsql/10/data | Sets the server's data directory.
(1 row)

Find files in created between a date range

Explanation: Use unix command find with -ctime (creation time) flag

The find utility recursively descends the directory tree for each path listed, evaluating an expression (composed of the 'primaries' and 'operands') in terms of each file in the tree.

Solution: According to documenation

-ctime n[smhdw]
             If no units are specified, this primary evaluates to true if the difference
             between the time of last change of file status information and the time find
             was started, rounded up to the next full 24-hour period, is n 24-hour peri-
             ods.

             If units are specified, this primary evaluates to true if the difference
             between the time of last change of file status information and the time find
             was started is exactly n units.  Please refer to the -atime primary descrip-
             tion for information on supported time units.

Formula: find <path> -ctime +[number][timeMeasurement] -ctime -[number][timeMeasurment]

Examples:

1.Find everything that were created after 1 week ago ago and before 2 weeks ago

find / -ctime +1w -ctime -2w

2.Find all javascript files (.js) in current directory that were created between 1 day ago to 3 days ago

find . -name "*\.js" -type f -ctime +1d -ctime -3d

Handling InterruptedException in Java

To me the key thing about this is: an InterruptedException is not anything going wrong, it is the thread doing what you told it to do. Therefore rethrowing it wrapped in a RuntimeException makes zero sense.

In many cases it makes sense to rethrow an exception wrapped in a RuntimeException when you say, I don't know what went wrong here and I can't do anything to fix it, I just want it to get out of the current processing flow and hit whatever application-wide exception handler I have so it can log it. That's not the case with an InterruptedException, it's just the thread responding to having interrupt() called on it, it's throwing the InterruptedException in order to help cancel the thread's processing in a timely way.

So propagate the InterruptedException, or eat it intelligently (meaning at a place where it will have accomplished what it was meant to do) and reset the interrupt flag. Note that the interrupt flag gets cleared when the InterruptedException gets thrown; the assumption the Jdk library developers make is that catching the exception amounts to handling it, so by default the flag is cleared.

So definitely the first way is better, the second posted example in the question is not useful unless you don't expect the thread to actually get interrupted, and interrupting it amounts to an error.

Here's an answer I wrote describing how interrupts work, with an example. You can see in the example code where it is using the InterruptedException to bail out of a while loop in the Runnable's run method.

Text overwrite in visual studio 2010

If pressing the Insert key doesn't work, try doubleclicking the INS/OVR label in the lower right corner of Visual Studio.

What is the difference between children and childNodes in JavaScript?

Good answers so far, I want to only add that you could check the type of a node using nodeType:

yourElement.nodeType

This will give you an integer: (taken from here)

| Value |             Constant             |                          Description                          |  |
|-------|----------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------|--|
|    1  | Node.ELEMENT_NODE                | An Element node such as <p> or <div>.                         |  |
|    2  | Node.ATTRIBUTE_NODE              | An Attribute of an Element. The element attributes            |  |
|       |                                  | are no longer implementing the Node interface in              |  |
|       |                                  | DOM4 specification.                                           |  |
|    3  | Node.TEXT_NODE                   | The actual Text of Element or Attr.                           |  |
|    4  | Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE          | A CDATASection.                                               |  |
|    5  | Node.ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE       | An XML Entity Reference node. Removed in DOM4 specification.  |  |
|    6  | Node.ENTITY_NODE                 | An XML <!ENTITY ...> node. Removed in DOM4 specification.     |  |
|    7  | Node.PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE | A ProcessingInstruction of an XML document                    |  |
|       |                                  | such as <?xml-stylesheet ... ?> declaration.                  |  |
|    8  | Node.COMMENT_NODE                | A Comment node.                                               |  |
|    9  | Node.DOCUMENT_NODE               | A Document node.                                              |  |
|   10  | Node.DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE          | A DocumentType node e.g. <!DOCTYPE html> for HTML5 documents. |  |
|   11  | Node.DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE      | A DocumentFragment node.                                      |  |
|   12  | Node.NOTATION_NODE               | An XML <!NOTATION ...> node. Removed in DOM4 specification.   |  |

Note that according to Mozilla:

The following constants have been deprecated and should not be used anymore: Node.ATTRIBUTE_NODE, Node.ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE, Node.ENTITY_NODE, Node.NOTATION_NODE

String.format() to format double in java

code extracted from this link ;

Double amount = new Double(345987.246);
NumberFormat numberFormatter;
String amountOut;

numberFormatter = NumberFormat.getNumberInstance(currentLocale);
amountOut = numberFormatter.format(amount);
System.out.println(amountOut + " " + 
                   currentLocale.toString());

The output from this example shows how the format of the same number varies with Locale:

345 987,246  fr_FR
345.987,246  de_DE
345,987.246  en_US

Reset Entity-Framework Migrations

How about

Update-Database –TargetMigration: $InitialDatabase

in Package Manager Console? It should reset all updates to its very early state.

Reference link: Code First Migrations - Migrating to a Specific Version (Including Downgrade)

The data-toggle attributes in Twitter Bootstrap

From the Bootstrap Docs:

<!--Activate a modal without writing JavaScript. Set data-toggle="modal" on a 
controller element, like a button, along with a data-target="#foo" or href="#foo" 
to target a specific modal to toggle.-->

<button type="button" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#myModal">Launch modal</button>

How do I get the function name inside a function in PHP?

You can use the magic constants __METHOD__ (includes the class name) or __FUNCTION__ (just function name) depending on if it's a method or a function... =)

How to apply a function to two columns of Pandas dataframe

My example to your questions:

def get_sublist(row, col1, col2):
    return mylist[row[col1]:row[col2]+1]
df.apply(get_sublist, axis=1, col1='col_1', col2='col_2')

Parsing json and searching through it

As json.loads simply returns a dict, you can use the operators that apply to dicts:

>>> jdata = json.load('{"uri": "http:", "foo", "bar"}')
>>> 'uri' in jdata       # Check if 'uri' is in jdata's keys
True
>>> jdata['uri']         # Will return the value belonging to the key 'uri'
u'http:'

Edit: to give an idea regarding how to loop through the data, consider the following example:

>>> import json
>>> jdata = json.loads(open ('bookmarks.json').read())
>>> for c in jdata['children'][0]['children']:
...     print 'Title: {}, URI: {}'.format(c.get('title', 'No title'),
                                          c.get('uri', 'No uri'))
...
Title: Recently Bookmarked, URI: place:folder=BOOKMARKS_MENU(...)
Title: Recent Tags, URI: place:sort=14&type=6&maxResults=10&queryType=1
Title: , URI: No uri
Title: Mozilla Firefox, URI: No uri

Inspecting the jdata data structure will allow you to navigate it as you wish. The pprint call you already have is a good starting point for this.

Edit2: Another attempt. This gets the file you mentioned in a list of dictionaries. With this, I think you should be able to adapt it to your needs.

>>> def build_structure(data, d=[]):
...     if 'children' in data:
...         for c in data['children']:
...             d.append({'title': c.get('title', 'No title'),
...                                      'uri': c.get('uri', None)})
...             build_structure(c, d)
...     return d
...
>>> pprint.pprint(build_structure(jdata))
[{'title': u'Bookmarks Menu', 'uri': None},
 {'title': u'Recently Bookmarked',
  'uri':   u'place:folder=BOOKMARKS_MENU&folder=UNFILED_BOOKMARKS&(...)'},
 {'title': u'Recent Tags',
  'uri':   u'place:sort=14&type=6&maxResults=10&queryType=1'},
 {'title': u'', 'uri': None},
 {'title': u'Mozilla Firefox', 'uri': None},
 {'title': u'Help and Tutorials',
  'uri':   u'http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/help/'},
 (...)
}]

To then "search through it for u'uri': u'http:'", do something like this:

for c in build_structure(jdata):
    if c['uri'].startswith('http:'):
        print 'Started with http'

Array Size (Length) in C#

for 1 dimensional array

int[] listItems = new int[] {2,4,8};
int length = listItems.Length;

for multidimensional array

int length = listItems.Rank;

To get the size of 1 dimension

int length =  listItems.GetLength(0);

What is the 'new' keyword in JavaScript?

It does 5 things:

  1. It creates a new object. The type of this object is simply object.
  2. It sets this new object's internal, inaccessible, [[prototype]] (i.e. __proto__) property to be the constructor function's external, accessible, prototype object (every function object automatically has a prototype property).
  3. It makes the this variable point to the newly created object.
  4. It executes the constructor function, using the newly created object whenever this is mentioned.
  5. It returns the newly created object, unless the constructor function returns a non-null object reference. In this case, that object reference is returned instead.

Note: constructor function refers to the function after the new keyword, as in

new ConstructorFunction(arg1, arg2)

Once this is done, if an undefined property of the new object is requested, the script will check the object's [[prototype]] object for the property instead. This is how you can get something similar to traditional class inheritance in JavaScript.

The most difficult part about this is point number 2. Every object (including functions) has this internal property called [[prototype]]. It can only be set at object creation time, either with new, with Object.create, or based on the literal (functions default to Function.prototype, numbers to Number.prototype, etc.). It can only be read with Object.getPrototypeOf(someObject). There is no other way to set or read this value.

Functions, in addition to the hidden [[prototype]] property, also have a property called prototype, and it is this that you can access, and modify, to provide inherited properties and methods for the objects you make.


Here is an example:

ObjMaker = function() {this.a = 'first';};
// ObjMaker is just a function, there's nothing special about it that makes 
// it a constructor.

ObjMaker.prototype.b = 'second';
// like all functions, ObjMaker has an accessible prototype property that 
// we can alter. I just added a property called 'b' to it. Like 
// all objects, ObjMaker also has an inaccessible [[prototype]] property
// that we can't do anything with

obj1 = new ObjMaker();
// 3 things just happened.
// A new, empty object was created called obj1.  At first obj1 was the same
// as {}. The [[prototype]] property of obj1 was then set to the current
// object value of the ObjMaker.prototype (if ObjMaker.prototype is later
// assigned a new object value, obj1's [[prototype]] will not change, but you
// can alter the properties of ObjMaker.prototype to add to both the
// prototype and [[prototype]]). The ObjMaker function was executed, with
// obj1 in place of this... so obj1.a was set to 'first'.

obj1.a;
// returns 'first'
obj1.b;
// obj1 doesn't have a property called 'b', so JavaScript checks 
// its [[prototype]]. Its [[prototype]] is the same as ObjMaker.prototype
// ObjMaker.prototype has a property called 'b' with value 'second'
// returns 'second'

It's like class inheritance because now, any objects you make using new ObjMaker() will also appear to have inherited the 'b' property.

If you want something like a subclass, then you do this:

SubObjMaker = function () {};
SubObjMaker.prototype = new ObjMaker(); // note: this pattern is deprecated!
// Because we used 'new', the [[prototype]] property of SubObjMaker.prototype
// is now set to the object value of ObjMaker.prototype.
// The modern way to do this is with Object.create(), which was added in ECMAScript 5:
// SubObjMaker.prototype = Object.create(ObjMaker.prototype);

SubObjMaker.prototype.c = 'third';  
obj2 = new SubObjMaker();
// [[prototype]] property of obj2 is now set to SubObjMaker.prototype
// Remember that the [[prototype]] property of SubObjMaker.prototype
// is ObjMaker.prototype. So now obj2 has a prototype chain!
// obj2 ---> SubObjMaker.prototype ---> ObjMaker.prototype

obj2.c;
// returns 'third', from SubObjMaker.prototype

obj2.b;
// returns 'second', from ObjMaker.prototype

obj2.a;
// returns 'first', from SubObjMaker.prototype, because SubObjMaker.prototype 
// was created with the ObjMaker function, which assigned a for us

I read a ton of rubbish on this subject before finally finding this page, where this is explained very well with nice diagrams.

Why use ICollection and not IEnumerable or List<T> on many-many/one-many relationships?

What I have done in the past is declare my inner class collections using IList<Class>, ICollection<Class>or IEnumerable<Class> (if static list) depending on whether or not I will have to do any number of the following in a method in my repository: enumerate, sort/order or modify. When I just need to enumerate (and maybe sort) over objects then I create a temp List<Class>to work with the collection within an IEnumerable method. I think this practice would only be effective if the collection is relatively small, but it may be good practice in general, idk. Please correct me if there is evidence as to why this would not good practice.

How can I remove all files in my git repo and update/push from my local git repo?

This process is simple, and follows the same flow as any git commit.

  1. Make sure your repo is fully up to date. (ex: git pull)
  2. Navigate to your repo folder on your local disk.
  3. Delete the files you don't want anymore.
  4. Then git commit -m "nuke and start again"
  5. Then git push
  6. Profit.

Rails: FATAL - Peer authentication failed for user (PG::Error)

You can go to your /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf file and add trust in place of Ident It worked for me.

local   all all trust
host    all 127.0.0.1/32    trust

For further details refer to this issue Ident authentication failed for user

How does the vim "write with sudo" trick work?

I'd like to suggest another approach to the "Oups I forgot to write sudo while opening my file" issue:

Instead of receiving a permission denied, and having to type :w!!, I find it more elegant to have a conditional vim command that does sudo vim if file owner is root.

This is as easy to implement (there might even be more elegant implementations, I'm clearly not a bash-guru):

function vim(){
  OWNER=$(stat -c '%U' $1)
  if [[ "$OWNER" == "root" ]]; then
    sudo /usr/bin/vim $*;
  else
    /usr/bin/vim $*;
  fi
}

And it works really well.

This is a more bash-centered approach than a vim-one so not everybody might like it.

Of course:

  • there are use cases where it will fail (when file owner is not root but requires sudo, but the function can be edited anyway)
  • it doesn't make sense when using vim for reading-only a file (as far as I'm concerned, I use tail or cat for small files)

But I find this brings a much better dev user experience, which is something that IMHO tends to be forgotten when using bash. :-)

What is the difference between 'my' and 'our' in Perl?

Coping with Scoping is a good overview of Perl scoping rules. It's old enough that our is not discussed in the body of the text. It is addressed in the Notes section at the end.

The article talks about package variables and dynamic scope and how that differs from lexical variables and lexical scope.

Read file from line 2 or skip header row

# Open a connection to the file
with open('world_dev_ind.csv') as file:

    # Skip the column names
    file.readline()

    # Initialize an empty dictionary: counts_dict
    counts_dict = {}

    # Process only the first 1000 rows
    for j in range(0, 1000):

        # Split the current line into a list: line
        line = file.readline().split(',')

        # Get the value for the first column: first_col
        first_col = line[0]

        # If the column value is in the dict, increment its value
        if first_col in counts_dict.keys():
            counts_dict[first_col] += 1

        # Else, add to the dict and set value to 1
        else:
            counts_dict[first_col] = 1

# Print the resulting dictionary
print(counts_dict)

The source was not found, but some or all event logs could not be searched

I recently experienced the error, and none of the solutions worked for me. What resolved the error for me was adding the Application pool user to the Power Users group in computer management. I couldn't use the Administrator group due to a company policy.

Documentation for using JavaScript code inside a PDF file

Here you can find "Adobe Acrobat Forms JavaScript Object Specification Version 4.0"

Revised: January 27, 1999

It’s very old, but it is still useful.

How can I check for Python version in a program that uses new language features?

Although the question is: How do I get control early enough to issue an error message and exit?

The question that I answer is: How do I get control early enough to issue an error message before starting the app?

I can answer it a lot differently then the other posts. Seems answers so far are trying to solve your question from within Python.

I say, do version checking before launching Python. I see your path is Linux or unix. However I can only offer you a Windows script. I image adapting it to linux scripting syntax wouldn't be too hard.

Here is the DOS script with version 2.7:

@ECHO OFF
REM see http://ss64.com/nt/for_f.html
FOR /F "tokens=1,2" %%G IN ('"python.exe -V 2>&1"') DO ECHO %%H | find "2.7" > Nul
IF NOT ErrorLevel 1 GOTO Python27
ECHO must use python2.7 or greater
GOTO EOF
:Python27
python.exe tern.py
GOTO EOF
:EOF

This does not run any part of your application and therefore will not raise a Python Exception. It does not create any temp file or add any OS environment variables. And it doesn't end your app to an exception due to different version syntax rules. That's three less possible security points of access.

The FOR /F line is the key.

FOR /F "tokens=1,2" %%G IN ('"python.exe -V 2>&1"') DO ECHO %%H | find "2.7" > Nul

For multiple python version check check out url: http://www.fpschultze.de/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=17

And my hack version:

[MS script; Python version check prelaunch of Python module] http://pastebin.com/aAuJ91FQ

Finding whether a point lies inside a rectangle or not

If a point is inside a rectangle. On a plane. For mathematician or geodesy (GPS) coordinates

  • Let the rectangle be set by vertices A, B, C, D. The point is P. Coordinates are rectangular: x, y.
  • Lets prolong the sides of the rectangle. So we have 4 straight lines lAB, lBC, lCD, lDA, or, for shortness, l1, l2, l3, l4.
  • Make an equation for every li. The equation sort of:

    fi(P)=0.

P is a point. For points, belonging to li, the equation is true.

  • We need the functions on the left sides of the equations. They are f1, f2, f3, f4.
  • Notice, that for every point from one side of li the function fi is greater than 0, for points from the other side fi is lesser than 0.
  • So, if we are checking for P being in rectangle, we only need for the p to be on correct sides of all four lines. So, we have to check four functions for their signs.
  • But what side of the line is the correct one, to which the rectangle belongs? It is the side, where lie the vertices of rectangle that don't belong to the line. For checking we can choose anyone of two not belonging vertices.
  • So, we have to check this:

    fAB(P) fAB(C) >= 0

    fBC(P) fBC(D) >= 0

    fCD(P) fCD(A) >= 0

    fDA(P) fDA(B) >= 0

The unequations are not strict, for if a point is on the border, it belongs to the rectangle, too. If you don't need points on the border, you can change inequations for strict ones. But while you work in floating point operations, the choice is irrelevant.

  • For a point, that is in the rectangle, all four inequations are true. Notice, that it works also for every convex polygon, only the number of lines/equations will differ.
  • The only thing left is to get an equation for a line going through two points. It is a well-known linear equation. Let's write it for a line AB and point P:

    fAB(P)   =   (xA-xB) (yP-yB) - (yA-yB) (xP-xB)

The check could be simplified - let's go along the rectangle clockwise - A, B, C, D, A. Then all correct sides will be to the right of the lines. So, we needn't compare with the side where another vertice is. And we need check a set of shorter inequations:

fAB(P) >= 0

fBC(P) >= 0

fCD(P) >= 0

fDA(P) >= 0

But this is correct for the normal, mathematician (from the school mathematics) set of coordinates, where X is to the right and Y to the top. And for the geodesy coordinates, as are used in GPS, where X is to the top, and Y is to the right, we have to turn the inequations:

fAB(P) <= 0

fBC(P) <= 0

fCD(P) <= 0

fDA(P) <= 0

If you are not sure with the directions of axes, be careful with this simplified check - check for one point with the known placement, if you have chosen the correct inequations.

how to configure config.inc.php to have a loginform in phpmyadmin

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';

should work.

From the manual:

auth_type = 'cookie' prompts for a MySQL username and password in a friendly HTML form. This is also the only way by which one can log in to an arbitrary server (if $cfg['AllowArbitraryServer'] is enabled). Cookie is good for most installations (default in pma 3.1+), it provides security over config and allows multiple users to use the same phpMyAdmin installation. For IIS users, cookie is often easier to configure than http.

How to remove the first Item from a list?

Slicing:

x = [0,1,2,3,4]
x = x[1:]

Which would actually return a subset of the original but not modify it.

how to do file upload using jquery serialization

hmmmm i think there is much efficient way to make it specially for people want to target all browser and not only FormData supported browser

the idea to have hidden IFRAME on page and making normal submit for the From inside IFrame example

<FORM action='save_upload.php' method=post
   enctype='multipart/form-data' target=hidden_upload>
   <DIV><input
      type=file name='upload_scn' class=file_upload></DIV>
   <INPUT
      type=submit name=submit value=Upload /> <IFRAME id=hidden_upload
      name=hidden_upload src='' onLoad='uploadDone("hidden_upload")'
      style='width:0;height:0;border:0px solid #fff'></IFRAME> 
</FORM>

most important to make a target of form the hidden iframe ID or name and enctype multipart/form-data to allow accepting photos

javascript side

function getFrameByName(name) {
    for (var i = 0; i < frames.length; i++)
        if (frames[i].name == name)
            return frames[i];

    return null;
}

function uploadDone(name) {
    var frame = getFrameByName(name);
    if (frame) {
        ret = frame.document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].innerHTML;

        if (ret.length) {
            var json = JSON.parse(ret);
         // do what ever you want 
        }
    }
}

server Side Example PHP

<?php
  $target_filepath = "/tmp/" . basename($_FILES['upload_scn']['name']);

  if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['upload_scn']['tmp_name'], $target_filepath)) {
    $result = ....
  }

echo json_encode($result);
?>

Random state (Pseudo-random number) in Scikit learn

sklearn.model_selection.train_test_split(*arrays, **options)[source]

Split arrays or matrices into random train and test subsets

Parameters: ... 
    random_state : int, RandomState instance or None, optional (default=None)

If int, random_state is the seed used by the random number generator; If RandomState instance, random_state is the random number generator; If None, the random number generator is the RandomState instance used by np.random. source: http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.model_selection.train_test_split.html

'''Regarding the random state, it is used in many randomized algorithms in sklearn to determine the random seed passed to the pseudo-random number generator. Therefore, it does not govern any aspect of the algorithm's behavior. As a consequence, random state values which performed well in the validation set do not correspond to those which would perform well in a new, unseen test set. Indeed, depending on the algorithm, you might see completely different results by just changing the ordering of training samples.''' source: https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/263999/is-random-state-a-parameter-to-tune

Updating address bar with new URL without hash or reloading the page

Update to Davids answer to even detect browsers that do not support pushstate:

if (history.pushState) {
  window.history.pushState("object or string", "Title", "/new-url");
} else {
  document.location.href = "/new-url";
}

How to overcome TypeError: unhashable type: 'list'

As indicated by the other answers, the error is to due to k = list[0:j], where your key is converted to a list. One thing you could try is reworking your code to take advantage of the split function:

# Using with ensures that the file is properly closed when you're done
with open('filename.txt', 'rb') as f:
  d = {}
  # Here we use readlines() to split the file into a list where each element is a line
  for line in f.readlines():
    # Now we split the file on `x`, since the part before the x will be
    # the key and the part after the value
    line = line.split('x')
    # Take the line parts and strip out the spaces, assigning them to the variables
    # Once you get a bit more comfortable, this works as well:
    # key, value = [x.strip() for x in line] 
    key = line[0].strip()
    value = line[1].strip()
    # Now we check if the dictionary contains the key; if so, append the new value,
    # and if not, make a new list that contains the current value
    # (For future reference, this is a great place for a defaultdict :)
    if key in d:
      d[key].append(value)
    else:
      d[key] = [value]

print d
# {'AAA': ['111', '112'], 'AAC': ['123'], 'AAB': ['111']}

Note that if you are using Python 3.x, you'll have to make a minor adjustment to get it work properly. If you open the file with rb, you'll need to use line = line.split(b'x') (which makes sure you are splitting the byte with the proper type of string). You can also open the file using with open('filename.txt', 'rU') as f: (or even with open('filename.txt', 'r') as f:) and it should work fine.

Stretch and scale a CSS image in the background - with CSS only

You could use the CSS3 property to do it quite nicely. It resizes to ratio so no image distortion (although it does upscale small images). Just note, it's not implemented in all browsers yet.

background-size: 100%;

How to change folder with git bash?

Go to the directory manually and do right click → Select 'Git bash' option.

Git bash terminal automatically opens with the intended directory. For example, go to your project folder. While in the folder, right click and select the option and 'Git bash'. It will open automatically with /c/project.

How can you determine a point is between two other points on a line segment?

Here's another approach:

  • Lets assume the two points be A (x1,y1) and B (x2,y2)
  • The equation of the line passing through those points is (x-x1)/(y-y1)=(x2-x1)/(y2-y1) .. (just making equating the slopes)

Point C (x3,y3) will lie between A & B if:

  • x3,y3 satisfies the above equation.
  • x3 lies between x1 & x2 and y3 lies between y1 & y2 (trivial check)

Int to Char in C#

int i = 65;
char c = Convert.ToChar(i);

When do you use Git rebase instead of Git merge?

This sentence gets it:

In general, the way to get the best of both worlds is to rebase local changes you’ve made, but haven’t shared yet, before you push them in order to clean up your story, but never rebase anything you’ve pushed somewhere.

Source: 3.6 Git Branching - Rebasing, Rebase vs. Merge

Checkbox angular material checked by default

Make sure you have this code on you component:

export class Component {
  checked = true;
}

Rails how to run rake task

You can run Rake tasks from your shell by running:

rake task_name

To run from from Ruby (e.g., in the Rails console or another Rake task):

Rake::Task['task_name'].invoke

To run multiple tasks in the same namespace with a single task, create the following new task in your namespace:

task :runall => [:iqmedier, :euroads, :mikkelsen, :orville] do
  # This will run after all those tasks have run
end

Finding a substring within a list in Python

This prints all elements that contain sub:

for s in filter (lambda x: sub in x, list): print (s)

Find the division remainder of a number

you can define a function and call it remainder with 2 values like rem(number1,number2) that returns number1%number2 then create a while and set it to true then print out two inputs for your function holding number 1 and 2 then print(rem(number1,number2)

Negative matching using grep (match lines that do not contain foo)

In your case, you presumably don't want to use grep, but add instead a negative clause to the find command, e.g.

find /home/baumerf/public_html/ -mmin -60 -not -name error_log

If you want to include wildcards in the name, you'll have to escape them, e.g. to exclude files with suffix .log:

find /home/baumerf/public_html/ -mmin -60 -not -name \*.log

batch file - counting number of files in folder and storing in a variable

Change into the directory and;

attrib.exe /s ./*.* |find /c /v ""

EDIT

I presumed that would be simple to discover. use

Process p = new Process();
p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
p.StartInfo.FileName = "batchfile.bat";
p.Start();
string output = p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
p.WaitForExit();

I run this and the variable output was holding this

D:\VSS\USSD V3.0\WTU.USSD\USSDConsole\bin\Debug>attrib.exe /s ./*.*   | find /c /v "" 13

where 13 is the file count. It should solve the issue

How to copy JavaScript object to new variable NOT by reference?

Your only option is to somehow clone the object.

See this stackoverflow question on how you can achieve this.

For simple JSON objects, the simplest way would be:

var newObject = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(oldObject));

if you use jQuery, you can use:

// Shallow copy
var newObject = jQuery.extend({}, oldObject);

// Deep copy
var newObject = jQuery.extend(true, {}, oldObject);

UPDATE 2017: I should mention, since this is a popular answer, that there are now better ways to achieve this using newer versions of javascript:

In ES6 or TypeScript (2.1+):

var shallowCopy = { ...oldObject };

var shallowCopyWithExtraProp = { ...oldObject, extraProp: "abc" };

Note that if extraProp is also a property on oldObject, its value will not be used because the extraProp : "abc" is specified later in the expression, which essentially overrides it. Of course, oldObject will not be modified.

Is the order of elements in a JSON list preserved?

"Is the order of elements in a JSON list maintained?" is not a good question. You need to ask "Is the order of elements in a JSON list maintained when doing [...] ?" As Felix King pointed out, JSON is a textual data format. It doesn't mutate without a reason. Do not confuse a JSON string with a (JavaScript) object.

You're probably talking about operations like JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(...)). Now the answer is: It depends on the implementation. 99%* of JSON parsers do not maintain the order of objects, and do maintain the order of arrays, but you might as well use JSON to store something like

{
    "son": "David",
    "daughter": "Julia",
    "son": "Tom",
    "daughter": "Clara"
}

and use a parser that maintains order of objects.

*probably even more :)

Apply function to each element of a list

I think you mean to use map instead of filter:

>>> from string import upper
>>> mylis=['this is test', 'another test']
>>> map(upper, mylis)
['THIS IS TEST', 'ANOTHER TEST']

Even simpler, you could use str.upper instead of importing from string (thanks to @alecxe):

>>> map(str.upper, mylis)
['THIS IS TEST', 'ANOTHER TEST']

In Python 2.x, map constructs a new list by applying a given function to every element in a list. filter constructs a new list by restricting to elements that evaluate to True with a given function.

In Python 3.x, map and filter construct iterators instead of lists, so if you are using Python 3.x and require a list the list comprehension approach would be better suited.

How to check if a column exists before adding it to an existing table in PL/SQL?

Normally, I'd suggest trying the ANSI-92 standard meta tables for something like this but I see now that Oracle doesn't support it.

-- this works against most any other database
SELECT
    * 
FROM 
    INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS C 
    INNER JOIN 
        INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES T 
        ON T.TABLE_NAME = C.TABLE_NAME 
WHERE 
    C.COLUMN_NAME = 'columnname'
    AND T.TABLE_NAME = 'tablename'

Instead, it looks like you need to do something like

-- Oracle specific table/column query
SELECT
    * 
FROM
    ALL_TAB_COLUMNS 
WHERE
    TABLE_NAME = 'tablename'
    AND COLUMN_NAME = 'columnname'

I do apologize in that I don't have an Oracle instance to verify the above. If it does not work, please let me know and I will delete this post.

What's a simple way to get a text input popup dialog box on an iPhone

Try this Swift code in a UIViewController -

func doAlertControllerDemo() {

    var inputTextField: UITextField?;

    let passwordPrompt = UIAlertController(title: "Enter Password", message: "You have selected to enter your passwod.", preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.Alert);

    passwordPrompt.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler: { (action) -> Void in
        // Now do whatever you want with inputTextField (remember to unwrap the optional)

        let entryStr : String = (inputTextField?.text)! ;

        print("BOOM! I received '\(entryStr)'");

        self.doAlertViewDemo(); //do again!
    }));


    passwordPrompt.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler: { (action) -> Void in
        print("done");
    }));


    passwordPrompt.addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler({(textField: UITextField!) in
        textField.placeholder = "Password"
        textField.secureTextEntry = false       /* true here for pswd entry */
        inputTextField = textField
    });


    self.presentViewController(passwordPrompt, animated: true, completion: nil);


    return;
}

How do you execute SQL from within a bash script?

As Bash doesn't have built in sql database connectivity... you will need to use some sort of third party tool.

C++: what regex library should I use?

I've personally always used boost.regex (although I don't have much need for regex in C++). Microsoft Labs has a regex library too, called GRETA: http://research.microsoft.com/projects/greta/. Apparently it's very fast and features a whole Perl 5 syntax. I haven't used it, but you may want to test it out.

Inserting a blank table row with a smaller height

I couldn't get anything to work until I tried this simple line:

<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; line-height:.5"><br /></p>

which allows you to vary a filler line height to your hearts content (I was [probably MISusing Table to get three columns (boxes) of text which I then wanted to line up along the bottom)

I'm an amateur so would appreciate comments

How to check if smtp is working from commandline (Linux)

Syntax for establishing a raw network connection using telnet is this:

telnet {domain_name} {port_number}

So telnet to your smtp server like

telnet smtp.mydomain.com 25

And copy and paste the below

helo client.mydomain.com
mail from:<[email protected]>
rcpt to:<[email protected]>
data
From: [email protected]
Subject: test mail from command line

this is test number 1
sent from linux box
.
quit

Note : Do not forgot the "." at the end which represents the end of the message. The "quit" line exits ends the session.

Force drop mysql bypassing foreign key constraint

You can use the following steps, its worked for me to drop table with constraint,solution already explained in the above comment, i just added screen shot for that -enter image description here

Displaying the Error Messages in Laravel after being Redirected from controller

This is also good way to accomplish task.

@if($errors->any())
  {!! implode('', $errors->all('<div class="alert alert-danger">:message</div>')) !!}
@endif

We can format tag as per requirements.

Dump a NumPy array into a csv file

You can also do it with pure python without using any modules.

# format as a block of csv text to do whatever you want
csv_rows = ["{},{}".format(i, j) for i, j in array]
csv_text = "\n".join(csv_rows)

# write it to a file
with open('file.csv', 'w') as f:
    f.write(csv_text)

Why does Java's hashCode() in String use 31 as a multiplier?

I'm not sure, but I would guess they tested some sample of prime numbers and found that 31 gave the best distribution over some sample of possible Strings.

What is a faster alternative to Python's http.server (or SimpleHTTPServer)?

Yet another node based simple command line server

https://github.com/greggman/servez-cli

Written partly in response to http-server having issues, particularly on windows.

installation

Install node.js then

npm install -g servez

usage

servez [options] [path]

With no path it serves the current folder.

By default it serves index.html for folder paths if it exists. It serves a directory listing for folders otherwise. It also serves CORS headers. You can optionally turn on basic authentication with --username=somename --password=somepass and you can serve https.

Java random numbers using a seed

The easy way is to use:

Random rand = new Random(System.currentTimeMillis());

This is the best way to generate Random numbers.

How to search for file names in Visual Studio?

Just for anyone else landing on this page from Google or elsewhere, this answer is probably the best answer out of all of them.

To summarize, simply hit:

CTRL + ,

And then start typing the file name.

What is the purpose of "&&" in a shell command?

&& strings commands together. Successive commands only execute if preceding ones succeed.

Similarly, || will allow the successive command to execute if the preceding fails.

See Bash Shell Programming.

How can I undo a mysql statement that I just executed?

Basically: If you're doing a transaction just do a rollback. Otherwise, you can't "undo" a MySQL query.

How to set the width of a RaisedButton in Flutter?

This piece of code will help you better solve your problem, as we cannot specify width directly to the RaisedButton, we can specify the width to it's child

double width = MediaQuery.of(context).size.width;
var maxWidthChild = SizedBox(
            width: width,
            child: Text(
              StringConfig.acceptButton,
              textAlign: TextAlign.center,
            ));

RaisedButton(
        child: maxWidthChild,
        onPressed: (){},
        color: Colors.white,
    );

Postman: How to make multiple requests at the same time

If you are only doing GET requests and you need another simple solution from within your Chrome browser, just install the "Open Multiple URLs" extension:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/open-multiple-urls/oifijhaokejakekmnjmphonojcfkpbbh?hl=en

I've just ran 1500 url's at once, did lag google a bit but it works.

inject bean reference into a Quartz job in Spring?

I just put SpringBeanAutowiringSupport.processInjectionBasedOnCurrentContext(this); as first line of my Job.execute(JobExecutionContext context) method.

Convert a positive number to negative in C#

Just for more fun:

int myInt = Math.Min(hisInt, -hisInt);

int myInt = -(int)Math.Sqrt(Math.Pow(Math.Sin(1), 2) + Math.Pow(Math.Cos(-1), 2))
            * Math.Abs(hisInt);

Make a div fill up the remaining width

Flex-boxes are the solution - and they're fantastic. I've been wanting something like this out of css for a decade. All you need is to add display: flex to your style for "Main" and flex-grow: 100 (where 100 is arbitrary - its not important that it be exactly 100). Try adding this style (colors added to make the effect visible):

<style>
    #Main {
        background-color: lightgray;
        display: flex;
    }

    #div1 {
        border: 1px solid green;   
        height: 50px; 
        display: inline-flex; 
    }
    #div2 {
        border: 1px solid blue;    
        height: 50px;
        display: inline-flex;
        flex-grow: 100;
    }
    #div3 {
        border: 1px solid orange;        
        height: 50px;
        display: inline-flex;
    }
</style>

More info about flex boxes here: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/

How can I programmatically determine if my app is running in the iphone simulator?

In my opinion, the answer (presented above and repeated below):

NSString *model = [[UIDevice currentDevice] model];
if ([model isEqualToString:@"iPhone Simulator"]) {
    //device is simulator
}

is the best answer because it is obviously executed at RUNTIME versus being a COMPILE DIRECTIVE.

For Restful API, can GET method use json data?

In theory, there's nothing preventing you from sending a request body in a GET request. The HTTP protocol allows it, but have no defined semantics, so it's up to you to document what exactly is going to happen when a client sends a GET payload. For instance, you have to define if parameters in a JSON body are equivalent to querystring parameters or something else entirely.

However, since there are no clearly defined semantics, you have no guarantee that implementations between your application and the client will respect it. A server or proxy might reject the whole request, or ignore the body, or anything else. The REST way to deal with broken implementations is to circumvent it in a way that's decoupled from your application, so I'd say you have two options that can be considered best practices.

The simple option is to use POST instead of GET as recommended by other answers. Since POST is not standardized by HTTP, you'll have to document how exactly that's supposed to work.

Another option, which I prefer, is to implement your application assuming the GET payload is never tampered with. Then, in case something has a broken implementation, you allow clients to override the HTTP method with the X-HTTP-Method-Override, which is a popular convention for clients to emulate HTTP methods with POST. So, if a client has a broken implementation, it can write the GET request as a POST, sending the X-HTTP-Method-Override: GET method, and you can have a middleware that's decoupled from your application implementation and rewrites the method accordingly. This is the best option if you're a purist.

Delete specific values from column with where condition?

You don't want to delete if you're wanting to leave the row itself intact. You want to update the row, and change the column value.

The general form for this would be an UPDATE statement:

UPDATE <table name>
SET
    ColumnA = <NULL, or '', or whatever else is suitable for the new value for the column>
WHERE
    ColumnA = <bad value> /* or any other search conditions */

VB.NET: how to prevent user input in a ComboBox

this is the most simple way but it works for me with a ComboBox1 name

SOLUTION on 3 Basic STEPS:

step 1.

Declare a variable at the beginning of your form which will hold the original text value of the ComboBox. Example:

     Dim xCurrentTextValue as string

step 2.

Create the event combobox1 key down and Assign to xCurrentTextValue variable the current text of the combobox if any key diferrent than "ENTER" is pressed the combobox text value keeps the original text value

Example:

Private Sub ComboBox1_KeyDown(sender As Object, e As KeyEventArgs) Handles ComboBox1.KeyDown

    xCurrentTextValue = ComboBox1.Text

    If e.KeyCode <> Keys.Enter Then
        Me.ComboBox1.Text = xCmbItem
    End If

End Sub

step 3.

Validate the when the combo text is changed if len(xcurrenttextvalue)> 0 or is different than nothing then the combobox1 takes the xcurrenttextvalue variable value

Private Sub ComboBox1_TextChanged(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles ComboBox1.TextChanged
    If Len(xCurrentTextValue) > 0 Then
        Me.ComboBox1.Text = xCurrentTextValue

    End If
End Sub

========================================================== that's it,

Originally I only tried the step number 2, but I have problems when you press the DEL key and DOWN arrow key, also for some reason it didn't validate the keydown event unless I display any message box


!Sorry, this is a correction on step number 2, I forgot to change the variable xCmbItem to xCurrentTextValue, xCmbItem it was used for my personal use

THIS IS THE CORRECT CODE

xCurrentTextValue = ComboBox1.Text

If e.KeyCode <> Keys.Enter Then
    Me.ComboBox1.Text = xCurrentTextValue
End If

Postgresql -bash: psql: command not found

The question is for linux but I had the same issue with git bash on my Windows machine.

My pqsql is installed here: C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\10\bin\psql.exe

You can add the location of psql.exe to your Path environment variable as shown in this screenshot:

add psql.exe to your Path environment variable

After changing the above, please close all cmd and/or bash windows, and re-open them (as mentioned in the comments @Ayush Shankar)

You might need to change default logging user using below command.

psql -U postgres

Here postgres is the username. Without -U, it will pick the windows loggedin user.

jquery how to empty input field

Setting val('') will empty the input field. So you would use this:

Clear the input field when the page loads:

$(function(){
    $('#shares').val('');
});

Accessing @attribute from SimpleXML

$xml = <<<XML
<root>
<elem attrib="value" />
</root>
XML;

$sxml = simplexml_load_string($xml);
$attrs = $sxml->elem->attributes();
echo $attrs["attrib"]; //or just $sxml->elem["attrib"]

Use SimpleXMLElement::attributes.

Truth is, the SimpleXMLElement get_properties handler lies big time. There's no property named "@attributes", so you can't do $sxml->elem->{"@attributes"}["attrib"].

How to have image and text side by side

Use following code : jsfiddle.net/KqHEC/

HTML

<div class='container2'>
        <div class="left">
            <img src='http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21-leKb-zsL._SL500_AA300_.png' class='iconDetails'>
        </div>  
    <div   class="right" >
    <h4>Facebook</h4>
    <div style="font-size:.7em;width:160px;float:left;">fine location, GPS, coarse location</div>
    <div style="float:right;font-size:.7em">0 mins ago</div>
    </div>
</div>

CSS

.iconDetails {
 margin-left:2%;
float:left; 
height:40px;
width:40px; 
} 

.container2 {
    width:270px;
    height:auto;
    padding:1%;
    float:left;
}
h4{margin:0}
.left {float:left;width:45px;}
.right {float:left;margin:0 0 0 5px;width:215px;}

http://jsfiddle.net/KqHEC/1/

Uncompress tar.gz file

Use -C option of tar:

tar zxvf <yourfile>.tar.gz -C /usr/src/

and then, the content of the tar should be in:

/usr/src/<yourfile>

Convert between UIImage and Base64 string

@implementation UIImage (Extended)

- (NSString *)base64String {
    NSData * data = [UIImagePNGRepresentation(self) base64EncodedDataWithOptions:NSDataBase64Encoding64CharacterLineLength];
    return [NSString stringWithUTF8String:[data bytes]];
}

@end

How to run a Command Prompt command with Visual Basic code?

Yes. You can use Process.Start to launch an executable, including a console application.

If you need to read the output from the application, you may need to read from it's StandardOutput stream in order to get anything printed from the application you launch.

Which rows are returned when using LIMIT with OFFSET in MySQL?

OFFSET is nothing but a keyword to indicate starting cursor in table

SELECT column FROM table LIMIT 18 OFFSET 8 -- fetch 18 records, begin with record 9 (OFFSET 8)

you would get the same result form

SELECT column FROM table LIMIT 8, 18

visual representation (R is one record in the table in some order)

 OFFSET        LIMIT          rest of the table
 __||__   _______||_______   __||__
/      \ /                \ /
RRRRRRRR RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR RRRR...
         \________________/
                 ||
             your result

Difference between git checkout --track origin/branch and git checkout -b branch origin/branch

There is no difference at all!

1) git checkout -b branch origin/branch

If there is no --track and no --no-track, --track is assumed as default. The default can be changed with the setting branch.autosetupmerge.

In effect, 1) behaves like git checkout -b branch --track origin/branch.

2) git checkout --track origin/branch

“As a convenience”, --track without -b implies -b and the argument to -b is guessed to be “branch”. The guessing is driven by the configuration variable remote.origin.fetch.

In effect, 2) behaves like git checkout -b branch --track origin/branch.

As you can see: no difference.

But it gets even better:

3) git checkout branch

is also equivalent to git checkout -b branch --track origin/branch if “branch” does not exist yet but “origin/branch” does1.


All three commands set the “upstream” of “branch” to be “origin/branch” (or they fail).

Upstream is used as reference point of argument-less git status, git push, git merge and thus git pull (if configured like that (which is the default or almost the default)).

E.g. git status tells you how far behind or ahead you are of upstream, if one is configured.

git push is configured to push the current branch upstream by default2 since git 2.0.

1 ...and if “origin” is the only remote having “branch”
2 the default (named “simple”) also enforces for both branch names to be equal

Replace Multiple String Elements in C#

string input = "it's worth a lot of money, if you can find a buyer.";
for (dynamic i = 0, repl = new string[,] { { "'", "''" }, { "money", "$" }, { "find", "locate" } }; i < repl.Length / 2; i++) {
    input = input.Replace(repl[i, 0], repl[i, 1]);
}

Video streaming over websockets using JavaScript

Is WebSockets over TCP a fast enough protocol to stream a video of, say, 30fps?

Yes.. it is, take a look at this project. Websockets can easily handle HD videostreaming.. However, you should go for Adaptive Streaming. I explain here how you could implement it.

Currently we're working on a webbased instant messaging application with chat, filesharing and video/webcam support. With some bits and tricks we got streaming media through websockets (used HTML5 Media Capture to get the stream from our webcams).

You need to build a stream API and a Media Stream Transceiver to control the related media processing and transport.

Converting Pandas dataframe into Spark dataframe error

I received a similar error message once, in my case it was because my pandas dataframe contained NULLs. I will recommend to try & handle this in pandas before converting to spark (this resolved the issue in my case).

Importing files from different folder

Using sys.path.append with an absolute path is not ideal when moving the application to other environments. Using a relative path won't always work because the current working directory depends on how the script was invoked.

Since the application folder structure is fixed, we can use os.path to get the full path of the module we wish to import. For example, if this is the structure:

/home/me/application/app2/some_folder/vanilla.py
/home/me/application/app2/another_folder/mango.py

And let's say that you want to import the mango module. You could do the following in vanilla.py:

import sys, os.path
mango_dir = (os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..'))
+ '/another_folder/')
sys.path.append(mango_dir)
import mango

Of course, you don't need the mango_dir variable.

To understand how this works look at this interactive session example:

>>> import os
>>> mydir = '/home/me/application/app2/some_folder'
>>> newdir = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(mydir, '..'))
>>> newdir
    '/home/me/application/app2'
>>> newdir = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(mydir, '..')) + '/another_folder'
>>> 
>>> newdir
'/home/me/application/app2/another_folder'
>>> 

And check the os.path documentation.

Also worth noting that dealing with multiple folders is made easier when using packages, as one can use dotted module names.

Get property value from C# dynamic object by string (reflection?)

you can try like this:

d?.property1 , d?.property2

I have tested it and working with .netcore 2.1

How to center a window on the screen in Tkinter?

This answer is better for understanding beginner

#
import tkinter as tk

win = tk.Tk()  # Creating instance of Tk class
win.title("Centering windows")
win.resizable(False, False)  # This code helps to disable windows from resizing

window_height = 500
window_width = 900

screen_width = win.winfo_screenwidth()
screen_height = win.winfo_screenheight()

x_cordinate = int((screen_width/2) - (window_width/2))
y_cordinate = int((screen_height/2) - (window_height/2))

win.geometry("{}x{}+{}+{}".format(window_width, window_height, x_cordinate, y_cordinate))

win.mainloop()

Cannot checkout, file is unmerged

I don't think execute

 git rm first_file.txt

is a good idea.

  1. when git notice your files is unmerged, you should ensure you had committed it.

  2. And then open the conflict file:

    cat first_file.txt

  3. fix the conflict

4.

git add file

git commit -m "fix conflict"

5. git push

it should works for you.

foreach vs someList.ForEach(){}

Behind the scenes, the anonymous delegate gets turned into an actual method so you could have some overhead with the second choice if the compiler didn't choose to inline the function. Additionally, any local variables referenced by the body of the anonymous delegate example would change in nature because of compiler tricks to hide the fact that it gets compiled to a new method. More info here on how C# does this magic:

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/08/04/688527.aspx

find difference between two text files with one item per line

A tried a slight variation on Luca's answer and it worked for me.

diff file1 file2 | grep ">" | sed 's/^> //g' > diff_file

Note that the searched pattern in sed is a > followed by a space.

How can I multiply and divide using only bit shifting and adding?

I translated the Python code to C. The example given had a minor flaw. If the dividend value that took up all the 32 bits, the shift would fail. I just used 64-bit variables internally to work around the problem:

int No_divide(int nDivisor, int nDividend, int *nRemainder)
{
    int nQuotient = 0;
    int nPos = -1;
    unsigned long long ullDivisor = nDivisor;
    unsigned long long ullDividend = nDividend;

    while (ullDivisor <  ullDividend)
    {
        ullDivisor <<= 1;
        nPos ++;
    }

    ullDivisor >>= 1;

    while (nPos > -1)
    {
        if (ullDividend >= ullDivisor)
        {
            nQuotient += (1 << nPos);
            ullDividend -= ullDivisor;
        }

        ullDivisor >>= 1;
        nPos -= 1;
    }

    *nRemainder = (int) ullDividend;

    return nQuotient;
}

How to make a owl carousel with arrows instead of next previous

Complete tutorial here

Demo link

enter image description here

JavaScript

$('.owl-carousel').owlCarousel({
    margin: 10,
    nav: true,
    navText:["<div class='nav-btn prev-slide'></div>","<div class='nav-btn next-slide'></div>"],
    responsive: {
        0: {
            items: 1
        },
        600: {
            items: 3
        },
        1000: {
            items: 5
        }
    }
});

CSS Style for navigation

.owl-carousel .nav-btn{
  height: 47px;
  position: absolute;
  width: 26px;
  cursor: pointer;
  top: 100px !important;
}

.owl-carousel .owl-prev.disabled,
.owl-carousel .owl-next.disabled{
pointer-events: none;
opacity: 0.2;
}

.owl-carousel .prev-slide{
  background: url(nav-icon.png) no-repeat scroll 0 0;
  left: -33px;
}
.owl-carousel .next-slide{
  background: url(nav-icon.png) no-repeat scroll -24px 0px;
  right: -33px;
}
.owl-carousel .prev-slide:hover{
 background-position: 0px -53px;
}
.owl-carousel .next-slide:hover{
background-position: -24px -53px;
}   

How to display a pdf in a modal window?

You can have a look at this library: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js it renders PDF document in a Web/HTML page

Also you can use Flash to embed the document into any HTML page like that:

<object data="your_file.pdf#view=Fit" type="application/pdf" width="100%" height="850">
    <p>
        It appears your Web browser is not configured to display PDF files. No worries, just <a href="your_file.pdf">click here to download the PDF file.</a>
    </p>
</object>

How to set the initial zoom/width for a webview

The following code loads the desktop version of the Google homepage fully zoomed out to fit within the webview for me in Android 2.2 on an 854x480 pixel screen. When I reorient the device and it reloads in portrait or landscape, the page width fits entirely within the view each time.

BrowserLayout.xml:

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

     <WebView android:id="@+id/webview"
         android:layout_width="fill_parent"
         android:layout_height="fill_parent" />
</LinearLayout>

Browser.java:

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.webkit.WebView;

public class Browser extends Activity {

    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.BrowserLayout);

        String loadUrl = "http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&output=html";

        // initialize the browser object
        WebView browser = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);

        browser.getSettings().setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);
        browser.getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(true);

        try {
            // load the url
            browser.loadUrl(loadUrl);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

How to call external url in jquery?

it is Cross-site scripting problem. Common modern browsers doesn't allow to send request to another url.

Mock functions in Go

If you change your function definition to use a variable instead:

var get_page = func(url string) string {
    ...
}

You can override it in your tests:

func TestDownloader(t *testing.T) {
    get_page = func(url string) string {
        if url != "expected" {
            t.Fatal("good message")
        }
        return "something"
    }
    downloader()
}

Careful though, your other tests might fail if they test the functionality of the function you override!

The Go authors use this pattern in the Go standard library to insert test hooks into code to make things easier to test:

How To Use DateTimePicker In WPF?

There is no out of the box DateTime picker for WPF..

There are however a lot of third party DateTime pickers of course :)

http://www.devcomponents.com/dotnetbar-wpf/WPFDateTimePicker.aspx

http://marlongrech.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/wpf-datepicker/

http://www.codeplex.com/AvalonControlsLib

Just do a quick google to find more!

Java collections maintaining insertion order

  • The insertion order is inherently not maintained in hash tables - that's just how they work (read the linked-to article to understand the details). It's possible to add logic to maintain the insertion order (as in the LinkedHashMap), but that takes more code, and at runtime more memory and more time. The performance loss is usually not significant, but it can be.
  • For TreeSet/Map, the main reason to use them is the natural iteration order and other functionality added in the SortedSet/Map interface.

How to insert current_timestamp into Postgres via python

Just use

now()

or

CURRENT_TIMESTAMP

I prefer the latter as I like not having additional parenthesis but thats just personal preference.

cast or convert a float to nvarchar?

Float won't convert into NVARCHAR directly, first we need to convert float into money datatype and then convert into NVARCHAR, see the examples below.

Example1

SELECT CAST(CAST(1234567890.1234  AS FLOAT) AS NVARCHAR(100))

output

1.23457e+009

Example2

SELECT CAST(CAST(CAST(1234567890.1234  AS FLOAT) AS MONEY) AS NVARCHAR(100))

output

1234567890.12

In Example2 value is converted into float to NVARCHAR

Sleep function in C++

For Windows:

#include "windows.h" 
Sleep(10);

For Unix:

#include <unistd.h>
usleep(10)

QuotaExceededError: Dom exception 22: An attempt was made to add something to storage that exceeded the quota

Here is an expanded solution based on DrewT's answer above that uses cookies if localStorage is not available. It uses Mozilla's docCookies library:

function localStorageGet( pKey ) {
    if( localStorageSupported() ) {
        return localStorage[pKey];
    } else {
        return docCookies.getItem( 'localstorage.'+pKey );
    }
}

function localStorageSet( pKey, pValue ) {
    if( localStorageSupported() ) {
        localStorage[pKey] = pValue;
    } else {
        docCookies.setItem( 'localstorage.'+pKey, pValue );
    }
}

// global to cache value
var gStorageSupported = undefined;
function localStorageSupported() {
    var testKey = 'test', storage = window.sessionStorage;
    if( gStorageSupported === undefined ) {
        try {
            storage.setItem(testKey, '1');
            storage.removeItem(testKey);
            gStorageSupported = true;
        } catch (error) {
            gStorageSupported = false;
        }
    }
    return gStorageSupported;
}

In your source, just use:

localStorageSet( 'foobar', 'yes' );
...
var foo = localStorageGet( 'foobar' );
...

how to call a variable in code behind to aspx page

First you have to make sure the access level of the variable is protected or public. If the variable or property is private the page won't have access to it.

Code Behind

protected String Clients { get; set; }

Aspx

<span><%=Clients %> </span>

Handling back button in Android Navigation Component

I written in main activity like this,

override fun onSupportNavigateUp(): Boolean {
        return findNavController(R.id.my_nav_host_fragment).navigateUp(appBarConfiguration)
    }   

What's the most concise way to read query parameters in AngularJS?

Good that you've managed to get it working with the html5 mode but it is also possible to make it work in the hashbang mode.

You could simply use:

$location.search().target

to get access to the 'target' search param.

For the reference, here is the working jsFiddle: http://web.archive.org/web/20130317065234/http://jsfiddle.net/PHnLb/7/

_x000D_
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var myApp = angular.module('myApp', []);_x000D_
_x000D_
function MyCtrl($scope, $location) {_x000D_
_x000D_
    $scope.location = $location;_x000D_
    $scope.$watch('location.search()', function() {_x000D_
        $scope.target = ($location.search()).target;_x000D_
    }, true);_x000D_
_x000D_
    $scope.changeTarget = function(name) {_x000D_
        $location.search('target', name);_x000D_
    }_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<div ng-controller="MyCtrl">_x000D_
_x000D_
    <a href="#!/test/?target=Bob">Bob</a>_x000D_
    <a href="#!/test/?target=Paul">Paul</a>_x000D_
    _x000D_
    <hr/>    _x000D_
    URL 'target' param getter: {{target}}<br>_x000D_
    Full url: {{location.absUrl()}}_x000D_
    <hr/>_x000D_
    _x000D_
    <button ng-click="changeTarget('Pawel')">target=Pawel</button>_x000D_
    _x000D_
</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

What's the difference between equal?, eql?, ===, and ==?

I would like to expand on the === operator.

=== is not an equality operator!

Not.

Let's get that point really across.

You might be familiar with === as an equality operator in Javascript and PHP, but this just not an equality operator in Ruby and has fundamentally different semantics.

So what does === do?

=== is the pattern matching operator!

  • === matches regular expressions
  • === checks range membership
  • === checks being instance of a class
  • === calls lambda expressions
  • === sometimes checks equality, but mostly it does not

So how does this madness make sense?

  • Enumerable#grep uses === internally
  • case when statements use === internally
  • Fun fact, rescue uses === internally

That is why you can use regular expressions and classes and ranges and even lambda expressions in a case when statement.

Some examples

case value
when /regexp/
  # value matches this regexp
when 4..10
  # value is in range
when MyClass
  # value is an instance of class
when ->(value) { ... }
  # lambda expression returns true
when a, b, c, d
  # value matches one of a through d with `===`
when *array
  # value matches an element in array with `===`
when x
  # values is equal to x unless x is one of the above
end

All these example work with pattern === value too, as well as with grep method.

arr = ['the', 'quick', 'brown', 'fox', 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13]
arr.grep(/[qx]/)                                                                                                                            
# => ["quick", "fox"]
arr.grep(4..10)
# => [5, 8]
arr.grep(String)
# => ["the", "quick", "brown", "fox"]
arr.grep(1)
# => [1, 1]

Creating a PDF from a RDLC Report in the Background

You can instanciate LocalReport

                FicheInscriptionBean fiche = new FicheInscriptionBean();
                fiche.ToFicheInscriptionBean(inscription);List<FicheInscriptionBean> list = new List<FicheInscriptionBean>();
                list.Add(fiche);
                ReportDataSource rds = new ReportDataSource();
                rds = new ReportDataSource("InscriptionDataSet", list);
                // attachement du QrCode.
                string stringToCode = numinscription + "," + inscription.Nom + "," + inscription.Prenom + "," + inscription.Cin;
                Bitmap BitmapCaptcha = PostulerFiche.GenerateQrCode(fiche.NumInscription + ":" + fiche.Cin, Brushes.Black, Brushes.White, 200);
                MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
                BitmapCaptcha.Save(ms, ImageFormat.Gif);
                var base64Data = Convert.ToBase64String(ms.ToArray());
                string QR_IMG = base64Data;
                ReportParameter parameter = new ReportParameter("QR_IMG", QR_IMG, true);

                LocalReport report = new LocalReport();
                report.ReportPath = Page.Server.MapPath("~/rdlc/FicheInscription.rdlc");
                report.DataSources.Clear();
                report.SetParameters(new ReportParameter[] { parameter });
                report.DataSources.Add(rds);
                report.Refresh();

                string FileName = "FichePreinscription_" + numinscription + ".pdf";
                string extension;
                string encoding;
                string mimeType;
                string[] streams;
                Warning[] warnings;
                Byte[] mybytes = report.Render("PDF", null,
                              out extension, out encoding,
                              out mimeType, out streams, out warnings);
                using (FileStream fs = File.Create(Server.MapPath("~/rdlc/Reports/" + FileName)))
                {
                    fs.Write(mybytes, 0, mybytes.Length);
                }
                Response.ClearHeaders();
                Response.ClearContent();
                Response.Buffer = true;
                Response.Clear();
                Response.Charset = "";
                Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
                Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment;filename=\"" + FileName + "\"");
                Response.WriteFile(Server.MapPath("~/rdlc/Reports/" + FileName));

                Response.Flush();
                File.Delete(Server.MapPath("~/rdlc/Reports/" + FileName));
                Response.Close();
                Response.End();

Android Activity as a dialog

Use this code so that the dialog activity won't be closed when the user touches outside the dialog box:

this.setFinishOnTouchOutside(false);

requires API level 11

String literals and escape characters in postgresql

Partially. The text is inserted, but the warning is still generated.

I found a discussion that indicated the text needed to be preceded with 'E', as such:

insert into EscapeTest (text) values (E'This is the first part \n And this is the second');

This suppressed the warning, but the text was still not being returned correctly. When I added the additional slash as Michael suggested, it worked.

As such:

insert into EscapeTest (text) values (E'This is the first part \\n And this is the second');

How to read file contents into a variable in a batch file?

You can read multiple variables from file like this:

for /f "delims== tokens=1,2" %%G in (param.txt) do set %%G=%%H

where param.txt:

PARAM1=value1
PARAM2=value2
...

Binding select element to object in Angular

It worked for me:

Template HTML:

I added (ngModelChange)="selectChange($event)" to my select.

<div>
  <label for="myListOptions">My List Options</label>
  <select (ngModelChange)="selectChange($event)" [(ngModel)]=model.myListOptions.id >
    <option *ngFor="let oneOption of listOptions" [ngValue]="oneOption.id">{{oneOption.name}}</option>
  </select>
</div>

On component.ts:

  listOptions = [
    { id: 0, name: "Perfect" },
    { id: 1, name: "Low" },
    { id: 2, name: "Minor" },
    { id: 3, name: "High" },
  ];

An you need add to component.ts this function:

  selectChange( $event) {
    //In my case $event come with a id value
    this.model.myListOptions = this.listOptions[$event];
  }

Note: I try with [select]="oneOption.id==model.myListOptions.id" and not work.

============= Another ways can be: =========

Template HTML:

I added [compareWith]="compareByOptionId to my select.

<div>
  <label for="myListOptions">My List Options</label>
  <select [(ngModel)]=model.myListOptions [compareWith]="compareByOptionId">
    <option *ngFor="let oneOption of listOptions" [ngValue]="oneOption">{{oneOption.name}}</option>
  </select>
</div>

On component.ts:

  listOptions = [
    { id: 0, name: "Perfect" },
    { id: 1, name: "Low" },
    { id: 2, name: "Minor" },
    { id: 3, name: "High" },
  ];

An you need add to component.ts this function:

 /* Return true or false if it is the selected */
 compareByOptionId(idFist, idSecond) {
    return idFist && idSecond && idFist.id == idSecond.id;
 }

Align image in center and middle within div

this did the trick for me.

<div class="CenterImage">
         <asp:Image ID="BrandImage" runat="server" />
</div>

'Note: do not have a css class assocaited to 'BrandImage' in this case

CSS:

.CenterImage {
    position:absolute; 
    width:100%; 
    height:100%
}

.CenterImage img {
    margin: 0 auto;
    display: block;
}

Is there a way to iterate over a range of integers?

Here is a program to compare the two ways suggested so far

import (
    "fmt"

    "github.com/bradfitz/iter"
)

func p(i int) {
    fmt.Println(i)
}

func plain() {
    for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
        p(i)
    }
}

func with_iter() {
    for i := range iter.N(10) {
        p(i)
    }
}

func main() {
    plain()
    with_iter()
}

Compile like this to generate disassembly

go build -gcflags -S iter.go

Here is plain (I've removed the non instructions from the listing)

setup

0035 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:14) MOVQ    $0,AX
0036 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:14) JMP     ,38

loop

0037 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:14) INCQ    ,AX
0038 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:14) CMPQ    AX,$10
0039 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:14) JGE     $0,45
0040 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:15) MOVQ    AX,i+-8(SP)
0041 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:15) MOVQ    AX,(SP)
0042 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:15) CALL    ,p+0(SB)
0043 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:15) MOVQ    i+-8(SP),AX
0044 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:14) JMP     ,37
0045 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:17) RET     ,

And here is with_iter

setup

0052 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:20) MOVQ    $10,AX
0053 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:20) MOVQ    $0,~r0+-24(SP)
0054 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:20) MOVQ    $0,~r0+-16(SP)
0055 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:20) MOVQ    $0,~r0+-8(SP)
0056 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:20) MOVQ    $type.[]struct {}+0(SB),(SP)
0057 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:20) MOVQ    AX,8(SP)
0058 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:20) MOVQ    AX,16(SP)
0059 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:20) PCDATA  $0,$48
0060 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:20) CALL    ,runtime.makeslice+0(SB)
0061 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:20) PCDATA  $0,$-1
0062 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:20) MOVQ    24(SP),DX
0063 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:20) MOVQ    32(SP),CX
0064 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:20) MOVQ    40(SP),AX
0065 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:20) MOVQ    DX,~r0+-24(SP)
0066 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:20) MOVQ    CX,~r0+-16(SP)
0067 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:20) MOVQ    AX,~r0+-8(SP)
0068 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:20) MOVQ    $0,AX
0069 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:20) LEAQ    ~r0+-24(SP),BX
0070 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:20) MOVQ    8(BX),BP
0071 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:20) MOVQ    BP,autotmp_0006+-32(SP)
0072 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:20) JMP     ,74

loop

0073 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:20) INCQ    ,AX
0074 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:20) MOVQ    autotmp_0006+-32(SP),BP
0075 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:20) CMPQ    AX,BP
0076 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:20) JGE     $0,82
0077 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:20) MOVQ    AX,autotmp_0005+-40(SP)
0078 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:21) MOVQ    AX,(SP)
0079 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:21) CALL    ,p+0(SB)
0080 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:21) MOVQ    autotmp_0005+-40(SP),AX
0081 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:20) JMP     ,73
0082 (/home/ncw/Go/iter.go:23) RET     ,

So you can see that the iter solution is considerably more expensive even though it is fully inlined in the setup phase. In the loop phase there is an extra instruction in the loop, but it isn't too bad.

I'd use the simple for loop.

Stop form refreshing page on submit

Just Put return like this:

_x000D_
_x000D_
function validate()_x000D_
{_x000D_
_x000D_
  var username=document.getElementById('username').value;_x000D_
  _x000D_
   if(username=="")_x000D_
   {_x000D_
  return false; _x000D_
   }_x000D_
   if(username.length<5&&username.length<15)_x000D_
   {_x000D_
    alert("Length should between 5 to 15 characters");_x000D_
    return false;_x000D_
   }_x000D_
   _x000D_
   return true;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
body{_x000D_
 padding: 0px;_x000D_
 margin:0px;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
input{_x000D_
 display: block;_x000D_
 margin-bottom:10px;_x000D_
 height:25px;_x000D_
 width:200px;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
input[type="submit"]{_x000D_
 margin:auto;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
label{_x000D_
 display:block;_x000D_
 margin-bottom:10px;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
form{_x000D_
  width:500px;_x000D_
  height:500px;_x000D_
  border:1px solid green;_x000D_
  padding:10px;_x000D_
  margin:auto;_x000D_
  top:0;_x000D_
  bottom:0;_x000D_
  left:0;_x000D_
  right:0;_x000D_
  position:absolute;  _x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
.labels{_x000D_
 width: 35%;_x000D_
 box-sizing:border-box;_x000D_
 display: inline-block;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
.inputs{_x000D_
 width: 63%;_x000D_
 box-sizing:border-box;_x000D_
 padding:10px;_x000D_
 display: inline-block;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<!DOCTYPE html>_x000D_
<html lang="en">_x000D_
<head>_x000D_
 <meta charset="UTF-8">_x000D_
 <title>FORM VALIDATION</title>_x000D_
 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">_x000D_
_x000D_
 <script type="text/javascript" src="script.js"></script>_x000D_
</head>_x000D_
_x000D_
<body>_x000D_
 <form action="#">_x000D_
  <div class="labels">_x000D_
   <label>Name</label>_x000D_
   <label>Email</label>_x000D_
  </div>_x000D_
_x000D_
  <div class="inputs">_x000D_
   <input type="text" name="username" id="username" required>_x000D_
   <input type="text" name="email" id="email" required>_x000D_
  </div>_x000D_
  _x000D_
  <input type="submit" value="submit" onclick="return validate();">_x000D_
 </form>_x000D_
</body>_x000D_
_x000D_
</html>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Return true and false from validate(); function as per requirement

Best practices for API versioning?

Versioning your REST API is analogous to the versioning of any other API. Minor changes can be done in place, major changes might require a whole new API. The easiest for you is to start from scratch every time, which is when putting the version in the URL makes most sense. If you want to make life easier for the client you try to maintain backwards compatibility, which you can do with deprecation (permanent redirect), resources in several versions etc. This is more fiddly and requires more effort. But it's also what REST encourages in "Cool URIs don't change".

In the end it's just like any other API design. Weigh effort against client convenience. Consider adopting semantic versioning for your API, which makes it clear for your clients how backwards compatible your new version is.

How to get first and last day of the current week in JavaScript

        //get start of week; QT
    function _getStartOfWeek (date){
        var iDayOfWeek = date.getDay();
        var iDifference = date.getDate() - iDayOfWeek + (iDayOfWeek === 0 ?  -6:1);

        return new Date(date.setDate(iDifference));
    }, 

    function _getEndOfWeek(date){
        return new Date(date.setDate(date.getDate() + (7 - date.getDay()) === 7 ? 0 : (7 - date.getDay()) ));
    }, 

*current date == 30.06.2016 and monday is the first day in week.

It also works for different months and years. Tested with qunit suite:

enter image description here

        QUnit.module("Planung: Start of week");
    QUnit.test("Should return start of week based on current date", function (assert) {
        var startOfWeek = Planung._getStartOfWeek(new Date());
        assert.ok( startOfWeek , "returned date: "+ startOfWeek);
    });

    QUnit.test("Should return start of week based on a sunday date", function (assert) {
        var startOfWeek = Planung._getStartOfWeek(new Date("2016-07-03"));
        assert.ok( startOfWeek , "returned date: "+ startOfWeek);
    });

    QUnit.test("Should return start of week based on a monday date", function (assert) {
        var startOfWeek = Planung._getStartOfWeek(new Date("2016-06-27"));
        assert.ok( startOfWeek , "returned date: "+ startOfWeek);
    });

    QUnit.module("Planung: End of week");
    QUnit.test("Should return end of week based on current date", function (assert) {
        var endOfWeek = Planung._getEndOfWeek(new Date());
        assert.ok( endOfWeek , "returned date: "+ endOfWeek);
    });
    QUnit.test("Should return end of week based on sunday date with different month", function (assert) {
        var endOfWeek = Planung._getEndOfWeek(new Date("2016-07-03"));
        assert.ok( endOfWeek , "returned date: "+ endOfWeek);
    });
    QUnit.test("Should return end of week based on monday date with different month", function (assert) {
        var endOfWeek = Planung._getEndOfWeek(new Date("2016-06-27"));
        assert.ok( endOfWeek , "returned date: "+ endOfWeek);
    });
    QUnit.test("Should return end of week based on 01-06-2016 with different month", function (assert) {
        var endOfWeek = Planung._getEndOfWeek(new Date("2016-06-01"));
        assert.ok( endOfWeek , "returned date: "+ endOfWeek);
    });
    QUnit.test("Should return end of week based on 21-06-2016 with different month", function (assert) {
        var endOfWeek = Planung._getEndOfWeek(new Date("2016-06-21"));
        assert.ok( endOfWeek , "returned date: "+ endOfWeek);
    });
    QUnit.test("Should return end of week based on 28-12-2016 with different month and year", function (assert) {
        var endOfWeek = Planung._getEndOfWeek(new Date("2016-12-28"));
        assert.ok( endOfWeek , "returned date: "+ endOfWeek);
    });
    QUnit.test("Should return end of week based on 01-01-2016 with different month and year", function (assert) {
        var endOfWeek = Planung._getEndOfWeek(new Date("2016-01-01"));
        assert.ok( endOfWeek , "returned date: "+ endOfWeek);
    });

Split string in Lua?

Depending on the use case, this could be useful. It cuts all text either side of the flags:

b = "This is a string used for testing"

--Removes unwanted text
c = (b:match("a([^/]+)used"))

print (c)

Output:

string

Why does Vim save files with a ~ extension?

You're correct that the .swp file is used by vim for locking and as a recovery file.

Try putting set nobackup in your vimrc if you don't want these files. See the Vim docs for various backup related options if you want the whole scoop, or want to have .bak files instead...

Put current changes in a new Git branch

You can simply check out a new branch, and then commit:

git checkout -b my_new_branch
git commit

Checking out the new branch will not discard your changes.

Apache HttpClient Android (Gradle)

Working gradle dependency

Try this:

compile 'org.jbundle.util.osgi.wrapped:org.jbundle.util.osgi.wrapped.org.apache.http.client:4.1.2'

Convert timestamp to date in MySQL query

Convert timestamp to date in MYSQL

Make the table with an integer timestamp:

mysql> create table foo(id INT, mytimestamp INT(11));
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)

Insert some values

mysql> insert into foo values(1, 1381262848);
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec)

Take a look

mysql> select * from foo;
+------+-------------+
| id   | mytimestamp |
+------+-------------+
|    1 |  1381262848 |
+------+-------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Convert the number to a timestamp:

mysql> select id, from_unixtime(mytimestamp) from foo;
+------+----------------------------+
| id   | from_unixtime(mytimestamp) |
+------+----------------------------+
|    1 | 2013-10-08 16:07:28        |
+------+----------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Convert it into a readable format:

mysql> select id, from_unixtime(mytimestamp, '%Y %D %M %H:%i:%s') from foo;
+------+-------------------------------------------------+
| id   | from_unixtime(mytimestamp, '%Y %D %M %H:%i:%s') |
+------+-------------------------------------------------+
|    1 | 2013 8th October 04:07:28                       |
+------+-------------------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

How do I add my new User Control to the Toolbox or a new Winform?

One way to get this error is trying to add a usercontrol to a form while the project is set to compile as x64. Visual Studio throws the unhelpful: "Failed to load toolbox item . It will be removed from the toolbox."

Workaround is to design with "Any CPU" and compile to x64 as necessary.

Reference: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/963017

TypeError: 'dict_keys' object does not support indexing

Why you need to implement shuffle when it already exists? Stay on the shoulders of giants.

import random

d1 = {0:'zero', 1:'one', 2:'two', 3:'three', 4:'four',
     5:'five', 6:'six', 7:'seven', 8:'eight', 9:'nine'}

keys = list(d1)
random.shuffle(keys)

d2 = {}
for key in keys: d2[key] = d1[key]

print(d1)
print(d2)

How to get the wsdl file from a webservice's URL

Its only possible to get the WSDL if the webservice is configured to deliver it. Therefor you have to specify a serviceBehavior and enable httpGetEnabled:

<serviceBehaviors>
    <behavior name="BindingBehavior">
        <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" />
        <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true" />
    </behavior>
</serviceBehaviors>

In case the webservice is only accessible via https you have to enable httpsGetEnabled instead of httpGetEnabled.

Removing elements from an array in C

I usually do this and works always.


/try this/

for (i = res; i < *size-1; i++) { 

    arrb[i] = arrb[i + 1];
}

*size = *size - 1; /*in some ides size -- could give problems*/

Convert a numpy.ndarray to string(or bytes) and convert it back to numpy.ndarray

This is a fast way to encode the array, the array shape and the array dtype:

def numpy_to_bytes(arr: np.array) -> str:
    arr_dtype = bytearray(str(arr.dtype), 'utf-8')
    arr_shape = bytearray(','.join([str(a) for a in arr.shape]), 'utf-8')
    sep = bytearray('|', 'utf-8')
    arr_bytes = arr.ravel().tobytes()
    to_return = arr_dtype + sep + arr_shape + sep + arr_bytes
    return to_return

def bytes_to_numpy(serialized_arr: str) -> np.array:
    sep = '|'.encode('utf-8')
    i_0 = serialized_arr.find(sep)
    i_1 = serialized_arr.find(sep, i_0 + 1)
    arr_dtype = serialized_arr[:i_0].decode('utf-8')
    arr_shape = tuple([int(a) for a in serialized_arr[i_0 + 1:i_1].decode('utf-8').split(',')])
    arr_str = serialized_arr[i_1 + 1:]
    arr = np.frombuffer(arr_str, dtype = arr_dtype).reshape(arr_shape)
    return arr

To use the functions:

a = np.ones((23, 23), dtype = 'int')
a_b = numpy_to_bytes(a)
a1 = bytes_to_numpy(a_b)
np.array_equal(a, a1) and a.shape == a1.shape and a.dtype == a1.dtype

How to remove multiple indexes from a list at the same time?

lst = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g'];
lst = lst[0:2] + lst[6:]

This is a single step operation. It does not use a loop and therefore executes fast. It uses list slicing.

Measuring elapsed time with the Time module

Here is an update to Vadim Shender's clever code with tabular output:

import collections
import time
from functools import wraps

PROF_DATA = collections.defaultdict(list)

def profile(fn):
    @wraps(fn)
    def with_profiling(*args, **kwargs):
        start_time = time.time()
        ret = fn(*args, **kwargs)
        elapsed_time = time.time() - start_time
        PROF_DATA[fn.__name__].append(elapsed_time)
        return ret
    return with_profiling

Metrics = collections.namedtuple("Metrics", "sum_time num_calls min_time max_time avg_time fname")

def print_profile_data():
    results = []
    for fname, elapsed_times in PROF_DATA.items():
        num_calls = len(elapsed_times)
        min_time = min(elapsed_times)
        max_time = max(elapsed_times)
        sum_time = sum(elapsed_times)
        avg_time = sum_time / num_calls
        metrics = Metrics(sum_time, num_calls, min_time, max_time, avg_time, fname)
        results.append(metrics)
    total_time = sum([m.sum_time for m in results])
    print("\t".join(["Percent", "Sum", "Calls", "Min", "Max", "Mean", "Function"]))
    for m in sorted(results, reverse=True):
        print("%.1f\t%.3f\t%d\t%.3f\t%.3f\t%.3f\t%s" % (100 * m.sum_time / total_time, m.sum_time, m.num_calls, m.min_time, m.max_time, m.avg_time, m.fname))
    print("%.3f Total Time" % total_time)

int *array = new int[n]; what is this function actually doing?

As of C++11, the memory-safe way to do this (still using a similar construction) is with std::unique_ptr:

std::unique_ptr<int[]> array(new int[n]);

This creates a smart pointer to a memory block large enough for n integers that automatically deletes itself when it goes out of scope. This automatic clean-up is important because it avoids the scenario where your code quits early and never reaches your delete [] array; statement.

Another (probably preferred) option would be to use std::vector if you need an array capable of dynamic resizing. This is good when you need an unknown amount of space, but it has some disadvantages (non-constant time to add/delete an element). You could create an array and add elements to it with something like:

std::vector<int> array;
array.push_back(1);  // adds 1 to end of array
array.push_back(2);  // adds 2 to end of array
// array now contains elements [1, 2]

Failed to load ApplicationContext from Unit Test: FileNotFound

For me, I was missing @ActiveProfile at my test class

@ActiveProfiles("sandbox")
class MyTestClass...

Passing parameters to a Bash function

Knowledge of high level programming languages (C/C++, Java, PHP, Python, Perl, etc.) would suggest to the layman that Bourne Again Shell (Bash) functions should work like they do in those other languages.

Instead, Bash functions work like shell commands and expect arguments to be passed to them in the same way one might pass an option to a shell command (e.g. ls -l). In effect, function arguments in Bash are treated as positional parameters ($1, $2..$9, ${10}, ${11}, and so on). This is no surprise considering how getopts works. Do not use parentheses to call a function in Bash.


(Note: I happen to be working on OpenSolaris at the moment.)

# Bash style declaration for all you PHP/JavaScript junkies. :-)
# $1 is the directory to archive
# $2 is the name of the tar and zipped file when all is done.
function backupWebRoot ()
{
    tar -cvf - "$1" | zip -n .jpg:.gif:.png "$2" - 2>> $errorlog &&
        echo -e "\nTarball created!\n"
}


# sh style declaration for the purist in you. ;-)
# $1 is the directory to archive
# $2 is the name of the tar and zipped file when all is done.
backupWebRoot ()
{
    tar -cvf - "$1" | zip -n .jpg:.gif:.png "$2" - 2>> $errorlog &&
        echo -e "\nTarball created!\n"
}


# In the actual shell script
# $0               $1            $2

backupWebRoot ~/public/www/ webSite.tar.zip

Want to use names for variables? Just do something this.

local filename=$1 # The keyword declare can be used, but local is semantically more specific.

Be careful, though. If an argument to a function has a space in it, you may want to do this instead! Otherwise, $1 might not be what you think it is.

local filename="$1" # Just to be on the safe side. Although, if $1 was an integer, then what? Is that even possible? Humm.

Want to pass an array to a function?

callingSomeFunction "${someArray[@]}" # Expands to all array elements.

Inside the function, handle the arguments like this.

function callingSomeFunction ()
{
    for value in "$@" # You want to use "$@" here, not "$*" !!!!!
    do
        :
    done
}

Need to pass a value and an array, but still use "$@" inside the function?

function linearSearch ()
{
    local myVar="$1"

    shift 1 # Removes $1 from the parameter list

    for value in "$@" # Represents the remaining parameters.
    do
        if [[ $value == $myVar ]]
        then
            echo -e "Found it!\t... after a while."
            return 0
        fi
    done

    return 1
}

linearSearch $someStringValue "${someArray[@]}"

UITableViewCell Selected Background Color on Multiple Selection

Swift 4

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) 
{
    let selectedCell = tableView.cellForRow(at: indexPath)! as! LeftMenuCell
    selectedCell.contentView.backgroundColor = UIColor.blue
}

If you want to unselect the previous cell, also you can use the different logic for this

var tempcheck = 9999
var lastrow = IndexPath()
var lastcolor = UIColor()
func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAt indexPath: IndexPath)
{
    if tempcheck == 9999
    {
        tempcheck = 0
        let selectedCell = tableView.cellForRow(at: indexPath)! as! HealthTipsCell
        lastcolor = selectedCell.contentView.backgroundColor!
        selectedCell.contentView.backgroundColor = UIColor.blue
        lastrow = indexPath
    }
    else
    {
        let selectedCelllasttime = tableView.cellForRow(at: lastrow)! as! HealthTipsCell
        selectedCelllasttime.contentView.backgroundColor = lastcolor
        let selectedCell = tableView.cellForRow(at: indexPath)! as! HealthTipsCell
        lastcolor = selectedCell.contentView.backgroundColor!
        selectedCell.contentView.backgroundColor = UIColor.blue
        lastrow = indexPath
    }
}

wget command to download a file and save as a different filename

wget -O yourfilename.zip remote-storage.url/theirfilename.zip

will do the trick for you.

Note:

a) its a capital O.

b) wget -O filename url will only work. Putting -O last will not.

Can I embed a custom font in an iPhone application?

If you are using xcode 4.3, you have to add the font to the Build Phase under Copy Bundle Resources, according to https://stackoverflow.com/users/1292829/arne in the thread, Custom Fonts Xcode 4.3. This worked for me, here are the steps I took for custom fonts to work in my app:

  1. Add the font to your project. I dragged and dropped the OTF (or TTF) files to a new group I created and accepted xcode's choice of copying the files over to the project folder.
  2. Create the UIAppFonts array with your fonts listed as items within the array. Just the names, not the extension (e.g. "GothamBold", "GothamBold-Italic").
  3. Click on the project name way at the top of the Project Navigator on the left side of the screen.
  4. Click on the Build Phases tab that appears in the main area of xcode.
  5. Expand the "Copy Bundle Resources" section and click on "+" to add the font.
  6. Select the font file from the file navigator that pops open when you click on the "+".
  7. Do this for every font you have to add to the project.

How to remove stop words using nltk or python

using filter:

from nltk.corpus import stopwords
# ...  
filtered_words = list(filter(lambda word: word not in stopwords.words('english'), word_list))