Programs & Examples On #Qeventloop

The QEventLoop class, part of the Qt framework, provides a means of entering and leaving an event loop.

Dividing two integers to produce a float result

Cast the operands to floats:

float ans = (float)a / (float)b;

Get first element of Series without knowing the index

Use iloc to access by position (rather than label):

In [11]: df = pd.DataFrame([[1, 2], [3, 4]], ['a', 'b'], ['A', 'B'])

In [12]: df
Out[12]: 
   A  B
a  1  2
b  3  4

In [13]: df.iloc[0]  # first row in a DataFrame
Out[13]: 
A    1
B    2
Name: a, dtype: int64

In [14]: df['A'].iloc[0]  # first item in a Series (Column)
Out[14]: 1

How do I set Java's min and max heap size through environment variables?

A couple of notes:

  1. Apache ant doesn't know anything about JAVA_OPTS, while Tomcat's startup scripts do. For Apache ant, use ANT_OPTS to affect the environment for the JVM that runs /ant/, but not for the things that ant might launch.

  2. The maximum heap size you can set depends entirely on the environment: for most 32-bit systems, the maximum amount of heap space you can request, regardless of available memory, is in the 2GiB range. The largest heap on a 64-bit system is "really big". Also, you are practically limited by physical memory as well, since the heap is managed by the JVM and you don't want a lot of swapping going on to the disk.

  3. For server environments, you typically want to set -Xms and -Xmx to the same value: this will fix the size of the heap at a certain size and the garbage collector has less work to do because the heap will never have to be re-sized.

C++: constructor initializer for arrays

In the specific case when the array is a data member of the class you can't initialize it in the current version of the language. There's no syntax for that. Either provide a default constructor for array elements or use std::vector.

A standalone array can be initialized with aggregate initializer

Foo foo[3] = { 4, 5, 6 };

but unfortunately there's no corresponding syntax for the constructor initializer list.

SQL Server: the maximum number of rows in table

It depends, but I would say it is better to keep everything in one table for that sake of simplicity.

100,000 rows a day is not really that much of an enormous amount. (Depending on your server hardware). I have personally seen MSSQL handle up to 100M rows in a single table without any problems. As long as your keep your indexes in order it should be all good. The key is to have heaps of memory so that indexes don't have to be swapped out to disk.

On the other hand, it depends on how you are using the data, if you need to make lots of query's, and its unlikely data will be needed that spans multiple days (so you won't need to join the tables) it will be faster to separate out it out into multiple tables. This is often used in applications such as industrial process control where you might be reading the value on say 50,000 instruments every 10 seconds. In this case speed is extremely important, but simplicity is not.

Make DateTimePicker work as TimePicker only in WinForms

The best way to do this is this:

datetimepicker.Format = DatetimePickerFormat.Custom;
datetimepicker.CustomFormat = "HH:mm tt";
datetimepicker.ShowUpDowm = true;

What's the difference between setWebViewClient vs. setWebChromeClient?

From the source code:

// Instance of WebViewClient that is the client callback.
private volatile WebViewClient mWebViewClient;
// Instance of WebChromeClient for handling all chrome functions.
private volatile WebChromeClient mWebChromeClient;

// SOME OTHER SUTFFF.......

/**
 * Set the WebViewClient.
 * @param client An implementation of WebViewClient.
 */
public void setWebViewClient(WebViewClient client) {
    mWebViewClient = client;
}

/**
 * Set the WebChromeClient.
 * @param client An implementation of WebChromeClient.
 */
public void setWebChromeClient(WebChromeClient client) {
    mWebChromeClient = client;
}

Using WebChromeClient allows you to handle Javascript dialogs, favicons, titles, and the progress. Take a look of this example: Adding alert() support to a WebView

At first glance, there are too many differences WebViewClient & WebChromeClient. But, basically: if you are developing a WebView that won't require too many features but rendering HTML, you can just use a WebViewClient. On the other hand, if you want to (for instance) load the favicon of the page you are rendering, you should use a WebChromeClient object and override the onReceivedIcon(WebView view, Bitmap icon).

Most of the times, if you don't want to worry about those things... you can just do this:

webView= (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview); 
webView.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient()); 
webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient()); 
webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true); 
webView.loadUrl(url); 

And your WebView will (in theory) have all features implemented (as the android native browser).

How to kill/stop a long SQL query immediately?

What could the reason be

A query cancel is immediate, provided that your attention can reach the server and be processed. A query must be in a cancelable state, which is almost always true except if you do certain operations like calling a web service from SQLCLR. If your attention cannot reach the server it's usually due to scheduler overload.

But if your query is part of a transaction that must rollback, then rollback cannot be interrupted. If it takes 10 minutes then it needs 10 minutes and there's nothing you can do about it. Even restarting the server will not help, it will only make startup longer since recovery must finish the rollback.

To answer which specific reason applies to your case, you'll need to investigate yourself.

How to remove underline from a name on hover

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Downloading a picture via urllib and python

Just for the record, using requests library.

import requests
f = open('00000001.jpg','wb')
f.write(requests.get('http://www.gunnerkrigg.com//comics/00000001.jpg').content)
f.close()

Though it should check for requests.get() error.

Maximum value of maxRequestLength?

Right value is below. (Tried)

maxRequestLength="2147483647" targetFramework="4.5.2"/>

Counting the number of non-NaN elements in a numpy ndarray in Python

Quick-to-write alterantive

Even though is not the fastest choice, if performance is not an issue you can use:

sum(~np.isnan(data)).

Performance:

In [7]: %timeit data.size - np.count_nonzero(np.isnan(data))
10 loops, best of 3: 67.5 ms per loop

In [8]: %timeit sum(~np.isnan(data))
10 loops, best of 3: 154 ms per loop

In [9]: %timeit np.sum(~np.isnan(data))
10 loops, best of 3: 140 ms per loop

moment.js, how to get day of week number

From the docs page, notice they have these helpful headers

http://momentjs.com/docs/#/get-set/weekday/
(I didn't see them at first)

With header sections for:

  • Date of Month
  • Day of Week
  • etc

.

  var now = moment();
  var day  = now.day();
  var date = now.date(); // Number

2D character array initialization in C

How to create an array size 5 containing pointers to characters:

char *array_of_pointers[ 5 ];        //array size 5 containing pointers to char
char m = 'm';                        //character value holding the value 'm'
array_of_pointers[0] = &m;           //assign m ptr into the array position 0.
printf("%c", *array_of_pointers[0]); //get the value of the pointer to m

How to create a pointer to an array of characters:

char (*pointer_to_array)[ 5 ];        //A pointer to an array containing 5 chars
char m = 'm';                         //character value holding the value 'm'
*pointer_to_array[0] = m;             //dereference array and put m in position 0
printf("%c", (*pointer_to_array)[0]); //dereference array and get position 0

How to create an 2D array containing pointers to characters:

char *array_of_pointers[5][2];          
//An array size 5 containing arrays size 2 containing pointers to char

char m = 'm';                           
//character value holding the value 'm'

array_of_pointers[4][1] = &m;           
//Get position 4 of array, then get position 1, then put m ptr in there.

printf("%c", *array_of_pointers[4][1]); 
//Get position 4 of array, then get position 1 and dereference it.

How to create a pointer to an 2D array of characters:

char (*pointer_to_array)[5][2];
//A pointer to an array size 5 each containing arrays size 2 which hold chars

char m = 'm';                            
//character value holding the value 'm'

(*pointer_to_array)[4][1] = m;           
//dereference array, Get position 4, get position 1, put m there.

printf("%c", (*pointer_to_array)[4][1]); 
//dereference array, Get position 4, get position 1

To help you out with understanding how humans should read complex C/C++ declarations read this: http://www.programmerinterview.com/index.php/c-cplusplus/c-declarations/

Link to add to Google calendar

I've also been successful with this URL structure:

Base URL:

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/r/eventedit?

And let's say this is my event details:

Title: Event Title
Description: Example of some description. See more at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10488831/link-to-add-to-google-calendar
Location: 123 Some Place
Date: February 22, 2020
Start Time: 10:00am
End Time: 11:30am
Timezone: America/New York (GMT -5)

I'd convert my details into these parameters (URL encoded):

text=Event%20Title
details=Example%20of%20some%20description.%20See%20more%20at%20https%3A%2F%2Fstackoverflow.com%2Fquestions%2F10488831%2Flink-to-add-to-google-calendar
location=123%20Some%20Place%2C%20City
dates=20200222T100000/20200222T113000
ctz=America%2FNew_York

Example link:

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/r/eventedit?text=Event%20Title&details=Example%20of%20some%20description.%20See%20more%20at%20https%3A%2F%2Fstackoverflow.com%2Fquestions%2F10488831%2Flink-to-add-to-google-calendar&location=123%20Some%20Place%2C%20City&dates=20200222T100000/20200222T113000&ctz=America%2FNew_York

Please note that since I've specified a timezone with the "ctz" parameter, I used the local times for the start and end dates. Alternatively, you can use UTC dates and exclude the timezone parameter, like this:

dates=20200222T150000Z/20200222T163000Z

Example link:

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/r/eventedit?text=Event%20Title&details=Example%20of%20some%20description.%20See%20more%20at%20https%3A%2F%2Fstackoverflow.com%2Fquestions%2F10488831%2Flink-to-add-to-google-calendar&location=123%20Some%20Place%2C%20City&dates=20200222T150000Z/20200222T163000Z

How can I trigger an onchange event manually?

MDN suggests that there's a much cleaner way of doing this in modern browsers:

// Assuming we're listening for e.g. a 'change' event on `element`

// Create a new 'change' event
var event = new Event('change');

// Dispatch it.
element.dispatchEvent(event);

Making a Windows shortcut start relative to where the folder is?

If you can set a system variable (something like %MyGameFolder%), then you can use that in your paths and shortcuts, and Windows will fill in rest of the path for you (that is, %MyGameFolder%\data\MyGame.exe).

Here is a small primer. You can either set this value via a batch file, or you can probably set it programmatically if you share how you're planning to create your shortcut.

How do I import the javax.servlet API in my Eclipse project?

Ensure you've the right Eclipse and Server

Ensure that you're using at least Eclipse IDE for Enterprise Java developers (with the Enterprise). It contains development tools to create dynamic web projects and easily integrate servletcontainers (those tools are part of Web Tools Platform, WTP). In case you already had Eclipse IDE for Java (without Enterprise), and manually installed some related plugins, then chances are that it wasn't done properly. You'd best trash it and grab the real Eclipse IDE for Enterprise Java one.

You also need to ensure that you already have a servletcontainer installed on your machine which implements at least the same Servlet API version as the servletcontainer in the production environment, for example Apache Tomcat, Oracle GlassFish, JBoss AS/WildFly, etc. Usually, just downloading the ZIP file and extracting it is sufficient. In case of Tomcat, do not download the EXE format, that's only for Windows based production environments. See also a.o. Several ports (8005, 8080, 8009) required by Tomcat Server at localhost are already in use.

A servletcontainer is a concrete implementation of the Servlet API. Note that the Java EE SDK download at Oracle.com basically contains GlassFish. So if you happen to already have downloaded Java EE SDK, then you basically already have GlassFish. Also note that for example GlassFish and JBoss AS/WildFly are more than just a servletcontainer, they also supports JSF, EJB, JPA and all other Java EE fanciness. See also a.o. What exactly is Java EE?


Integrate Server in Eclipse and associate it with Project

Once having installed both Eclipse for Enterprise Java and a servletcontainer on your machine, do the following steps in Eclipse:

  1. Integrate servletcontainer in Eclipse

    a. Via Servers view

    • Open the Servers view in the bottom box.

    • Rightclick there and choose New > Server.

    • Pick the appropriate servletcontainer make and version and walk through the wizard.

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    b. Or, via Eclipse preferences

    • Open Window > Preferences > Server > Runtime Environments.

    • You can Add, Edit and Remove servers here.

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  2. Associate server with project

    a. In new project

    • Open the Project Navigator/Explorer on the left hand side.

    • Rightclick there and choose New > Project and then in menu Web > Dynamic Web Project.

    • In the wizard, set the Target Runtime to the integrated server.

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    b. Or, in existing project

    • Rightclick project and choose Properties.

    • In Targeted Runtimes section, select the integrated server.

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    Either way, Eclipse will then automatically take the servletcontainer's libraries in the build path. This way you'll be able to import and use the Servlet API.


Never carry around loose server-specific JAR files

You should in any case not have the need to fiddle around in the Build Path property of the project. You should above all never manually copy/download/move/include the individual servletcontainer-specific libraries like servlet-api.jar, jsp-api.jar, el-api.jar, j2ee.jar, javaee.jar, etc. It would only lead to future portability, compatibility, classpath and maintainability troubles, because your webapp would not work when it's deployed to a servletcontainer of a different make/version than where those libraries are originally obtained from.

In case you're using Maven, you need to make absolutely sure that servletcontainer-specific libraries which are already provided by the target runtime are marked as <scope>provided</scope>.

Here are some typical exceptions which you can get when you litter the /WEB-INF/lib or even /JRE/lib, /JRE/lib/ext, etc with servletcontainer-specific libraries in a careless attempt to fix the compilation errors:

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

tl;dr;

There is no one true answer. You can pick one of the many out there, or create your own standards based on what makes sense, depending upon who you're working with. And it is 100% dependent upon the platform.


Original Post

Just one more alternative standard to consider:

<div id="id_name" class="class-name"></div>

And in your script:

var variableName = $("#id_name .class-name");

This just uses a camelCase, under_score, and hyphen-ation respectively for variables, ids, and classes. I've read about this standard on a couple of different websites. Although a little redundant in css/jquery selectors, redundancies make it easier to catch errors. eg: If you see .unknown_name or #unknownName in your CSS file, you know you need to figure out what that's actually referring to.


UPDATE 2019

(Hyphens are called 'kebab-case', underscores are called 'snake_case', and then you have 'TitleCase', 'pascalCase')

I personally dislike hyphens. I originally posted this as one alternative (because the rules are simple). However, Hyphens make selection shortcuts very difficult (double click, ctrl/option + left/right, and ctrl/cmd+D in vsCode. Also, class names and file names are the only place where hyphens work, because they're almost always in quotes or in css, etc. But the shortcut thing still applies.

In addition to variables, class names, and ids, you also want to look at file name conventions. And Git Branches.

My office's coding group actually had a meeting a month or two ago to discuss how we were going to name things. For git branches, we couldn't decide between 321-the_issue_description or 321_the-issue-description. (I wanted 321_theIssueDescription, but my coworkers didn't like that.)

An Example, to demonstrate working with other peoples' standards...

Vue.js does have a standard. Actually they have two alternate standards for several of their items. I dislike both of their versions for filenames. They recommend either "/path/kebab-case.vue" or "/path/TitleCase.Vue". The former is harder to rename, unless you're specifically trying to rename part of it. The latter is not good for cross-platform compatibility. I would prefer "/path/snake_case.vue". However, when working with other people or existing projects, it's important to follow whatever standard was already laid out. Therefore I go with kebab-case for filenames in Vue, even though I'll totally complain about it. Because not following that means changing a lot of files that vue-cli sets up.

What is the backslash character (\\)?

It is used to escape special characters and print them as is. E.g. to print a double quote which is used to enclose strings, you need to escape it using the backslash character.

e.g.

System.out.println("printing \"this\" in quotes");

outputs

printing "this" in quotes

Print the stack trace of an exception

Throwable.printStackTrace(..) can take a PrintWriter or PrintStream argument:

} catch (Exception ex) {
    ex.printStackTrace(new java.io.PrintStream(yourOutputStream));
}

That said, consider using a logger interface like SLF4J with an logging implementation like LOGBack or log4j.

Delete multiple rows by selecting checkboxes using PHP

Delete Multiple checkbox using PHP Code

<input type="checkbox" name="chkbox[]  value=".$row[0]."/>
<input type="submit" name="delete" value="delete"/>
<?php
if(isset($_POST['delete']))
{
 $cnt=array();
 $cnt=count($_POST['chkbox']);
 for($i=0;$i<$cnt;$i++)
  {
     $del_id=$_POST['chkbox'][$i];
     $query="delete from $tablename where Id=".$del_id;
     mysql_query($query);
  }
}

How to make CSS width to fill parent?

box-sizing: border-box;
width: 100%;
padding: 5px;

box-sizing: border box; makes it so that padding, margin and border are included in the width calculations.

MDN

Eclipse projects not showing up after placing project files in workspace/projects

  1. Netbeans allows you to do a simple filecopy. As you know, Eclipse doesn't work like that. You must explicitly "import" files and projects.

  2. If you do import, and if there are no problems, then they should show up.

  3. I'd consider:

    a) making a backup of your existing workspace

    b) deleting and reinstalling Eclipse

    c) Trying another "test import"

How to get the last character of a string in a shell?

another solution using awk script:

last 1 char:

echo $str | awk '{print substr($0,length,1)}'

last 5 chars:

echo $str | awk '{print substr($0,length-5,5)}'

How to check if a Unix .tar.gz file is a valid file without uncompressing?

If you want to do a real test extract of a tar file without extracting to disk, use the -O option. This spews the extract to standard output instead of the filesystem. If the tar file is corrupt, the process will abort with an error.

Example of failed tar ball test...

$ echo "this will not pass the test" > hello.tgz
$ tar -xvzf hello.tgz -O > /dev/null
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
$ rm hello.*

Working Example...

$ ls hello*
ls: hello*: No such file or directory
$ echo "hello1" > hello1.txt
$ echo "hello2" > hello2.txt
$ tar -cvzf hello.tgz hello[12].txt
hello1.txt
hello2.txt
$ rm hello[12].txt
$ ls hello*
hello.tgz
$ tar -xvzf hello.tgz -O
hello1.txt
hello1
hello2.txt
hello2
$ ls hello*
hello.tgz
$ tar -xvzf hello.tgz
hello1.txt
hello2.txt
$ ls hello*
hello1.txt  hello2.txt  hello.tgz
$ rm hello*

Match line break with regular expression

You could search for:

<li><a href="#">[^\n]+

And replace with:

$0</a>

Where $0 is the whole match. The exact semantics will depend on the language are you using though.


WARNING: You should avoid parsing HTML with regex. Here's why.

ImportError: No module named 'selenium'

If you have pip installed you can install selenium like so.

pip install selenium

or depending on your permissions:

sudo pip install selenium

For python3:

sudo pip3 install selenium

As you can see from this question pip vs easy_install pip is a more reliable package installer as it was built to improve easy_install.

I would also suggest that when creating new projects you do so in virtual environments, even a simple selenium project. You can read more about virtual environments here. In fact pip is included out of the box with virtualenv!

Convert JSONObject to Map

You can use Gson() (com.google.gson) library if you find any difficulty using Jackson.

HashMap<String, Object> yourHashMap = new Gson().fromJson(yourJsonObject.toString(), HashMap.class);

Curl: Fix CURL (51) SSL error: no alternative certificate subject name matches

Editor's note: this is a very dangerous approach, if you are using a version of PHP old enough to use it. It opens your code to man-in-the-middle attacks and removes one of the primary purposes of an encrypted connection. The ability to do this has been removed from modern versions of PHP because it is so dangerous. The only reason this has been upvoted 70 time is because people are lazy. DO NOT DO THIS.


I know it's a (very) old question and it's about command line, but when I searched Google for "SSL: no alternative certificate subject name matches target host name", this was the first hit.

It took me a good while to figure out the answer so hope this saves someone a lot of time! In PHP add this to your cUrl setopts:

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, FALSE);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);

p.s: this should be a temporary solution. Since this is a certificate error, best thing is to have the certificate fixed ofcourse!

How does numpy.histogram() work?

A bin is range that represents the width of a single bar of the histogram along the X-axis. You could also call this the interval. (Wikipedia defines them more formally as "disjoint categories".)

The Numpy histogram function doesn't draw the histogram, but it computes the occurrences of input data that fall within each bin, which in turns determines the area (not necessarily the height if the bins aren't of equal width) of each bar.

In this example:

 np.histogram([1, 2, 1], bins=[0, 1, 2, 3])

There are 3 bins, for values ranging from 0 to 1 (excl 1.), 1 to 2 (excl. 2) and 2 to 3 (incl. 3), respectively. The way Numpy defines these bins if by giving a list of delimiters ([0, 1, 2, 3]) in this example, although it also returns the bins in the results, since it can choose them automatically from the input, if none are specified. If bins=5, for example, it will use 5 bins of equal width spread between the minimum input value and the maximum input value.

The input values are 1, 2 and 1. Therefore, bin "1 to 2" contains two occurrences (the two 1 values), and bin "2 to 3" contains one occurrence (the 2). These results are in the first item in the returned tuple: array([0, 2, 1]).

Since the bins here are of equal width, you can use the number of occurrences for the height of each bar. When drawn, you would have:

  • a bar of height 0 for range/bin [0,1] on the X-axis,
  • a bar of height 2 for range/bin [1,2],
  • a bar of height 1 for range/bin [2,3].

You can plot this directly with Matplotlib (its hist function also returns the bins and the values):

>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>>> plt.hist([1, 2, 1], bins=[0, 1, 2, 3])
(array([0, 2, 1]), array([0, 1, 2, 3]), <a list of 3 Patch objects>)
>>> plt.show()

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Get a worksheet name using Excel VBA

Function MySheet()

  ' uncomment the below line to make it Volatile
  'Application.Volatile
   MySheet = Application.Caller.Worksheet.Name

End Function

This should be the function you are looking for

How to solve ADB device unauthorized in Android ADB host device?

For me, the emulator could not have Google Play Services enabled. It could have Google APIs or be x86 or x64 but not google play store.

JavaScript CSS how to add and remove multiple CSS classes to an element

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How do I detect a page refresh using jquery?

There are two events on client side as given below.

1. window.onbeforeunload (calls on Browser/tab Close & Page Load)

2. window.onload (calls on Page Load)

On server Side

public JsonResult TestAjax( string IsRefresh)
    {
        JsonResult result = new JsonResult();
        return result = Json("Called", JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
    }

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            type: 'GET',_x000D_
            async: false,_x000D_
            url: '/Home/TestAjax',_x000D_
            data: {IsRefresh:'Load'}_x000D_
        });_x000D_
    };_x000D_
</script>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

On Browser/Tab Close: if user close the Browser/tab, then window.onbeforeunload will fire and IsRefresh value on server side will be "Close".

On Refresh/Reload/F5: If user will refresh the page, first window.onbeforeunload will fire with IsRefresh value = "Close" and then window.onload will fire with IsRefresh value = "Load", so now you can determine at last that your page is refreshing.

Docker: "no matching manifest for windows/amd64 in the manifest list entries"

You are in Windows container mode. So if you're not sure that the image you want to pull is built for the Windows architecture, you need to switch to Linux containers.

Using a global variable with a thread

Well, running example:

WARNING! NEVER DO THIS AT HOME/WORK! Only in classroom ;)

Use semaphores, shared variables, etc. to avoid rush conditions.

from threading import Thread
import time

a = 0  # global variable


def thread1(threadname):
    global a
    for k in range(100):
        print("{} {}".format(threadname, a))
        time.sleep(0.1)
        if k == 5:
            a += 100


def thread2(threadname):
    global a
    for k in range(10):
        a += 1
        time.sleep(0.2)


thread1 = Thread(target=thread1, args=("Thread-1",))
thread2 = Thread(target=thread2, args=("Thread-2",))

thread1.start()
thread2.start()

thread1.join()
thread2.join()

and the output:

Thread-1 0
Thread-1 1
Thread-1 2
Thread-1 2
Thread-1 3
Thread-1 3
Thread-1 104
Thread-1 104
Thread-1 105
Thread-1 105
Thread-1 106
Thread-1 106
Thread-1 107
Thread-1 107
Thread-1 108
Thread-1 108
Thread-1 109
Thread-1 109
Thread-1 110
Thread-1 110
Thread-1 110
Thread-1 110
Thread-1 110
Thread-1 110
Thread-1 110
Thread-1 110

If the timing were right, the a += 100 operation would be skipped:

Processor executes at T a+100 and gets 104. But it stops, and jumps to next thread Here, At T+1 executes a+1 with old value of a, a == 4. So it computes 5. Jump back (at T+2), thread 1, and write a=104 in memory. Now back at thread 2, time is T+3 and write a=5 in memory. Voila! The next print instruction will print 5 instead of 104.

VERY nasty bug to be reproduced and caught.

How to inject JPA EntityManager using spring

Is it possible to have spring to inject the JPA entityManager object into my DAO class whitout extending JpaDaoSupport? if yes, does spring manage the transaction in this case?

This is documented black on white in 12.6.3. Implementing DAOs based on plain JPA:

It is possible to write code against the plain JPA without using any Spring dependencies, using an injected EntityManagerFactory or EntityManager. Note that Spring can understand @PersistenceUnit and @PersistenceContext annotations both at field and method level if a PersistenceAnnotationBeanPostProcessor is enabled. A corresponding DAO implementation might look like this (...)

And regarding transaction management, have a look at 12.7. Transaction Management:

Spring JPA allows a configured JpaTransactionManager to expose a JPA transaction to JDBC access code that accesses the same JDBC DataSource, provided that the registered JpaDialect supports retrieval of the underlying JDBC Connection. Out of the box, Spring provides dialects for the Toplink, Hibernate and OpenJPA JPA implementations. See the next section for details on the JpaDialect mechanism.

How to add headers to OkHttp request interceptor?

This worked for me:

class JSONHeaderInterceptor : Interceptor {
    override fun intercept(chain: Interceptor.Chain) : Response {
        val request = chain.request().newBuilder()
            .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
            .build()
        return chain.proceed(request)
    }
}
fun provideHttpClient(): OkHttpClient {
    val okHttpClientBuilder = OkHttpClient.Builder()
    okHttpClientBuilder.addInterceptor(JSONHeaderInterceptor())
    return okHttpClientBuilder.build()
}

CALL command vs. START with /WAIT option

This is what I found while running batch files in parallel (multiple instances of the same bat file at the same time with different input parameters) :

Lets say that you have an exe file that performs a long task called LongRunningTask.exe

If you call the exe directly from the bat file, only the first call to the LongRunningTask will succed, while the rest will get an OS error "File is already in use by the process"

If you use this command:

start /B /WAIT "" "LongRunningTask.exe" "parameters"

You will be able to run multiple instances of the bat and exe, while still waiting for the task to finish before the bat continues executing the remaining commands. The /B option is to avoid creating another window, the empty quotes are needed in order to the command to work, see the reference below.

Note that if you don´t use the /WAIT in the start, the LongRunningTask will be executed at the same time than the remaining commands in the batch file, so it might create problems if one of these commands requires the output of the LongRunningTask

Resuming :

This can´t run in parallel :

  • call LongRunningTask.exe

This will run in parallel and will be ok as far as there are no data dependencies between the output of the command and the rest of the bat file :

  • start /B "" "LongRunningTask.exe" "parameters"

This will run in parallel and wait for the task to finish, so you can use the output :

  • start /B /WAIT "" "LongRunningTask.exe" "parameters"

Reference for the start command : How can I run a program from a batch file without leaving the console open after the program start?

How to compare 2 dataTables

Try to make use of linq to Dataset

(from b in table1.AsEnumerable()  
    select new { id = b.Field<int>("id")}).Except(
         from a in table2.AsEnumerable() 
             select new {id = a.Field<int>("id")})

Check this article : Comparing DataSets using LINQ

Can you animate a height change on a UITableViewCell when selected?

I don't know what all this stuff about calling beginUpdates/endUpdates in succession is, you can just use -[UITableView reloadRowsAtIndexPaths:withAnimation:]. Here is an example project.

In a unix shell, how to get yesterday's date into a variable?

If you don't have a version of date that supports --yesterday and you don't want to use perl, you can use this handy ksh script of mine. By default, it returns yesterday's date, but you can feed it a number and it tells you the date that many days in the past. It starts to slow down a bit if you're looking far in the past. 100,000 days ago it was 1/30/1738, though my system took 28 seconds to figure that out.

    #! /bin/ksh -p

    t=`date +%j`
    ago=$1
    ago=${ago:=1} # in days
    y=`date +%Y`

    function build_year {
            set -A j X $( for m in 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12
                    {
                            cal $m $y | sed -e '1,2d' -e 's/^/ /' -e "s/ \([0-9]\)/ $m\/\1/g"
                    } )
            yeardays=$(( ${#j[*]} - 1 ))
    }

    build_year

    until [ $ago -lt $t ]
    do
            (( y=y-1 ))
            build_year
            (( ago = ago - t ))
            t=$yeardays
    done

    print ${j[$(( t - ago ))]}/$y

How to pass form input value to php function

No, the action should be the name of php file. With on click you may only call JavaScript. And please be aware the hiding your code from the user undermines trust. JS runs on the browser so some trust is needed.

How to create a checkbox with a clickable label?

<label for="my_checkbox">Check me</label>
<input type="checkbox" name="my_checkbox" value="Car" />

Executing multiple commands from a Windows cmd script

You can use the && symbol between commands to execute the second command only if the first succeeds. More info here http://commandwindows.com/command1.htm

Why do this() and super() have to be the first statement in a constructor?

It makes sense that constructors complete their execution in order of derivation. Because a superclass has no knowledge of any subclass, any initialization it needs to perform is separate from and possibly prerequisite to any initialization performed by the subclass. Therefore, it must complete its execution first.

A simple demonstration:

class A {
    A() {
        System.out.println("Inside A's constructor.");
    }
}

class B extends A {
    B() {
        System.out.println("Inside B's constructor.");
    }
}

class C extends B {
    C() {
        System.out.println("Inside C's constructor.");
    }
}

class CallingCons {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        C c = new C();
    }
}

The output from this program is:

Inside A's constructor
Inside B's constructor
Inside C's constructor

how to kill the tty in unix

you do not need to know pts number, just type:

ps all | grep bash

then:

kill pid1 pid2 pid3 ...

How to reduce the image size without losing quality in PHP

If you are looking to reduce the size using coding itself, you can follow this code in php.

<?php 
function compress($source, $destination, $quality) {

    $info = getimagesize($source);

    if ($info['mime'] == 'image/jpeg') 
        $image = imagecreatefromjpeg($source);

    elseif ($info['mime'] == 'image/gif') 
        $image = imagecreatefromgif($source);

    elseif ($info['mime'] == 'image/png') 
        $image = imagecreatefrompng($source);

    imagejpeg($image, $destination, $quality);

    return $destination;
}

$source_img = 'source.jpg';
$destination_img = 'destination .jpg';

$d = compress($source_img, $destination_img, 90);
?>

$d = compress($source_img, $destination_img, 90);

This is just a php function that passes the source image ( i.e., $source_img ), destination image ( $destination_img ) and quality for the image that will take to compress ( i.e., 90 ).

$info = getimagesize($source);

The getimagesize() function is used to find the size of any given image file and return the dimensions along with the file type.

Getting Image from URL (Java)

This code worked fine for me.

 import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.net.URL;

public class SaveImageFromUrl {

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    String imageUrl = "http://www.avajava.com/images/avajavalogo.jpg";
    String destinationFile = "image.jpg";

    saveImage(imageUrl, destinationFile);
}

public static void saveImage(String imageUrl, String destinationFile) throws IOException {
    URL url = new URL(imageUrl);
    InputStream is = url.openStream();
    OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(destinationFile);

    byte[] b = new byte[2048];
    int length;

    while ((length = is.read(b)) != -1) {
        os.write(b, 0, length);
    }

    is.close();
    os.close();
}

}

How do I dynamically assign properties to an object in TypeScript?

Since you cannot do this:

obj.prop = 'value';

If your TS compiler and your linter does not strict you, you can write this:

obj['prop'] = 'value';

If your TS compiler or linter is strict, another answer would be to typecast:

var obj = {};
obj = obj as unknown as { prop: string };
obj.prop = "value";

How to add button inside input

This can be achieved using inline-block JS fiddle here

<html>
<body class="body">
    <div class="form">
        <form class="email-form">
            <input type="text" class="input">
            <a href="#" class="button">Button</a>
        </form>
    </div>
</body>
</html>


<style>
* {
    box-sizing: border-box;
}

.body {
    font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
    font-size: 14px;
    line-height: 20px;
    color: #333;
}

.form {
    display: block;
    margin: 0 0 15px;
}

.email-form {
    display: block;
    margin-top: 20px;
    margin-left: 20px;
}

.button {
    height: 40px;
    display: inline-block;
    padding: 9px 15px;
    background-color: grey;
    color: white;
    border: 0;
    line-height: inherit;
    text-decoration: none;
    cursor: pointer;
}

.input {
    display: inline-block;
    width: 200px;
    height: 40px;
    margin-bottom: 0px;
    padding: 9px 12px;
    color: #333333;
    vertical-align: middle;
    background-color: #ffffff;
    border: 1px solid #cccccc;
    margin: 0;
    line-height: 1.42857143;
}
</style>

How to solve COM Exception Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG))?

go to the directory of .Net framework and register their the respective dll with Regsvr32.exe white space dll path.

Syntax error on print with Python 3

In Python 3, print became a function. This means that you need to include parenthesis now like mentioned below:

print("Hello World")

Why do I get PLS-00302: component must be declared when it exists?

I came here because I had the same problem.
What was the problem for me was that the procedure was defined in the package body, but not in the package header.
I was executing my function with a lose BEGIN END statement.

Today`s date in an excel macro

Here's an example that puts the Now() value in column A.

Sub move()
    Dim i As Integer
    Dim sh1 As Worksheet
    Dim sh2 As Worksheet
    Dim nextRow As Long
    Dim copyRange As Range
    Dim destRange As Range

    Application.ScreenUpdating = False

        Set sh1 = ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1")
        Set sh2 = ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet2")
        Set copyRange = sh1.Range("A1:A5")

        i = Application.WorksheetFunction.CountA(sh2.Range("B:B")) + 4

        Set destRange = sh2.Range("B" & i)

        destRange.Resize(1, copyRange.Rows.Count).Value = Application.Transpose(copyRange.Value)
        destRange.Offset(0, -1).Value = Format(Now(), "MMM-DD-YYYY")

        copyRange.Clear

    Application.ScreenUpdating = True

End Sub

There are better ways of getting the last row in column B than using a While loop, plenty of examples around here. Some are better than others but depend on what you're doing and what your worksheet structure looks like. I used one here which assumes that column B is ALL empty except the rows/records you're moving. If that's not the case, or if B1:B3 have some values in them, you'd need to modify or use another method. Or you could just use your loop, but I'd search for alternatives :)

Using SED with wildcard

The asterisk (*) means "zero or more of the previous item".

If you want to match any single character use

sed -i 's/string-./string-0/g' file.txt

If you want to match any string (i.e. any single character zero or more times) use

sed -i 's/string-.*/string-0/g' file.txt

How can I shrink the drawable on a button?

My DiplayScaleHelper, that works perfectly:

import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Rect;
import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable;
import android.graphics.drawable.ScaleDrawable;
import android.widget.Button;

public class DisplayHelper {

  public static void scaleButtonDrawables(Button btn, double fitFactor) {
        Drawable[] drawables = btn.getCompoundDrawables();

        for (int i = 0; i < drawables.length; i++) {
            if (drawables[i] != null) {
                if (drawables[i] instanceof ScaleDrawable) {
                    drawables[i].setLevel(1);
                }
                drawables[i].setBounds(0, 0, (int) (drawables[i].getIntrinsicWidth() * fitFactor),
                    (int) (drawables[i].getIntrinsicHeight() * fitFactor));
                ScaleDrawable sd = new ScaleDrawable(drawables[i], 0, drawables[i].getIntrinsicWidth(), drawables[i].getIntrinsicHeight());
                if(i == 0) {
                    btn.setCompoundDrawables(sd.getDrawable(), drawables[1], drawables[2], drawables[3]);
                } else if(i == 1) {
                    btn.setCompoundDrawables(drawables[0], sd.getDrawable(), drawables[2], drawables[3]);
                } else if(i == 2) {
                    btn.setCompoundDrawables(drawables[0], drawables[1], sd.getDrawable(), drawables[3]);
                } else {
                    btn.setCompoundDrawables(drawables[0], drawables[1], drawables[2], sd.getDrawable());
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Getting String value from enum in Java

I believe enum have a .name() in its API, pretty simple to use like this example:

private int security;
public String security(){ return Security.values()[security].name(); }
public void setSecurity(int security){ this.security = security; }

    private enum Security {
            low,
            high
    }

With this you can simply call

yourObject.security() 

and it returns high/low as String, in this example

java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out under Tomcat

Here are the basic instructions:-

  1. Locate the "server.xml" file in the "conf" folder beneath Tomcat's base directory (i.e. %CATALINA_HOME%/conf/server.xml).
  2. Open the file in an editor and search for <Connector.
  3. Locate the relevant connector that is timing out - this will typically be the HTTP connector, i.e. the one with protocol="HTTP/1.1".
  4. If a connectionTimeout value is set on the connector, it may need to be increased - e.g. from 20000 milliseconds (= 20 seconds) to 120000 milliseconds (= 2 minutes). If no connectionTimeout property value is set on the connector, the default is 60 seconds - if this is insufficient, the property may need to be added.
  5. Restart Tomcat

Stop fixed position at footer

$(window).scroll(() => {
    const footerToTop = $('.your-footer').position().top;
    const scrollTop = $(document).scrollTop() + $(window).height();
    const difference = scrollTop - footerToTop;
    const bottomValue = scrollTop > footerToTop ? difference : 0;
    $('.your-fixed-element').css('bottom', bottomValue);
});

how to hide keyboard after typing in EditText in android?

You can see marked answer on top. But i used getDialog().getCurrentFocus() and working well. I post this answer cause i cant type "this" in my oncreatedialog.

So this is my answer. If you tried marked answer and not worked , you can simply try this:

InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) getActivity().getApplicationContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getDialog().getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);

convert xml to java object using jaxb (unmarshal)

Tests

On the Tests class we will add an @XmlRootElement annotation. Doing this will let your JAXB implementation know that when a document starts with this element that it should instantiate this class. JAXB is configuration by exception, this means you only need to add annotations where your mapping differs from the default. Since the testData property differs from the default mapping we will use the @XmlElement annotation. You may find the following tutorial helpful: http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/Examples/MOXy/GettingStarted

package forum11221136;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.*;

@XmlRootElement
public class Tests {

    TestData testData;

    @XmlElement(name="test-data")
    public TestData getTestData() {
        return testData;
    }

    public void setTestData(TestData testData) {
        this.testData = testData;
    }

}

TestData

On this class I used the @XmlType annotation to specify the order in which the elements should be ordered in. I added a testData property that appeared to be missing. I also used an @XmlElement annotation for the same reason as in the Tests class.

package forum11221136;

import java.util.List;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.*;

@XmlType(propOrder={"title", "book", "count", "testData"})
public class TestData {
    String title;
    String book;
    String count;
    List<TestData> testData;

    public String getTitle() {
        return title;
    }
    public void setTitle(String title) {
        this.title = title;
    }
    public String getBook() {
        return book;
    }
    public void setBook(String book) {
        this.book = book;
    }
    public String getCount() {
        return count;
    }
    public void setCount(String count) {
        this.count = count;
    }
    @XmlElement(name="test-data")
    public List<TestData> getTestData() {
        return testData;
    }
    public void setTestData(List<TestData> testData) {
        this.testData = testData;
    }
}

Demo

Below is an example of how to use the JAXB APIs to read (unmarshal) the XML and populate your domain model and then write (marshal) the result back to XML.

package forum11221136;

import java.io.File;
import javax.xml.bind.*;

public class Demo {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(Tests.class);

        Unmarshaller unmarshaller = jc.createUnmarshaller();
        File xml = new File("src/forum11221136/input.xml");
        Tests tests = (Tests) unmarshaller.unmarshal(xml);

        Marshaller marshaller = jc.createMarshaller();
        marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, true);
        marshaller.marshal(tests, System.out);
    }

}

How can I tell if a Java integer is null?

ints are value types; they can never be null. Instead, if the parsing failed, parseInt will throw a NumberFormatException that you need to catch.

How to kill an application with all its activities?

When the user wishes to exit all open activities, they should press a button which loads the first Activity that runs when your app starts, in my case "LoginActivity".

Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), LoginActivity.class);
intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
intent.putExtra("EXIT", true);
startActivity(intent);

The above code clears all the activities except for LoginActivity. LoginActivity is the first activity that is brought up when the user runs the program. Then put this code inside the LoginActivity's onCreate, to signal when it should self destruct when the 'Exit' message is passed.

    if (getIntent().getBooleanExtra("EXIT", false)) {
         finish();
    }

The answer you get to this question from the Android platform is: "Don't make an exit button. Finish activities the user no longer wants, and the Activity manager will clean them up as it sees fit."

Redirect with CodeIgniter

Here is .htacess file that hide index file

#RewriteEngine on
#RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
#RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
        RewriteEngine On
        RewriteBase /

        # Removes index.php from ExpressionEngine URLs
        RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET.*index\.php [NC]
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/system/.* [NC]
        RewriteRule (.*?)index\.php/*(.*) /$1$2 [R=301,NE,L]

        # Directs all EE web requests through the site index file
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

How do I truncate a .NET string?

Still no Truncate method in 2016 for C# strings. But - Using C# 6.0 Syntax:

public static class StringExtension
{
  public static string Truncate(this string s, int max) 
  { 
    return s?.Length > max ? s.Substring(0, max) : s ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(s); 
  }
}

It works like a charm:

"Truncate me".Truncate(8);
Result: "Truncate"

Creating a config file in PHP

Use an INI file is a flexible and powerful solution! PHP has a native function to handle it properly. For example, it is possible to create an INI file like this:

app.ini

[database]
db_name     = mydatabase
db_user     = myuser
db_password = mypassword

[application]
app_email = [email protected]
app_url   = myapp.com

So the only thing you need to do is call:

$ini = parse_ini_file('app.ini');

Then you can access the definitions easily using the $ini array.

echo $ini['db_name'];     // mydatabase
echo $ini['db_user'];     // myuser
echo $ini['db_password']; // mypassword
echo $ini['app_email'];   // [email protected]

IMPORTANT: For security reasons the INI file must be in a non public folder

Carriage Return\Line feed in Java

bw.newLine(); cannot ensure compatibility with all systems.

If you are sure it is going to be opened in windows, you can format it to windows newline.

If you are already using native unix commands, try unix2dos and convert teh already generated file to windows format and then send the mail.

If you are not using unix commands and prefer to do it in java, use ``bw.write("\r\n")` and if it does not complicate your program, have a method that finds out the operating system and writes the appropriate newline.

How do I REALLY reset the Visual Studio window layout?

If you've ever backed up your settings (Tools -> Import and Export Settings), you can restore the settings file to get back to a prior state. This is the only thing that I've found to work.

How can I use an array of function pointers?

This question has been already answered with very good examples. The only example that might be missing is one where the functions return pointers. I wrote another example with this, and added lots of comments, in case someone finds it helpful:

#include <stdio.h>

char * func1(char *a) {
    *a = 'b';
    return a;
}

char * func2(char *a) {
    *a = 'c';
    return a;
}

int main() {
    char a = 'a';
    /* declare array of function pointers
     * the function pointer types are char * name(char *)
     * A pointer to this type of function would be just
     * put * before name, and parenthesis around *name:
     *   char * (*name)(char *)
     * An array of these pointers is the same with [x]
     */
    char * (*functions[2])(char *) = {func1, func2};
    printf("%c, ", a);
    /* the functions return a pointer, so I need to deference pointer
     * Thats why the * in front of the parenthesis (in case it confused you)
     */
    printf("%c, ", *(*functions[0])(&a)); 
    printf("%c\n", *(*functions[1])(&a));

    a = 'a';
    /* creating 'name' for a function pointer type
     * funcp is equivalent to type char *(*funcname)(char *)
     */
    typedef char *(*funcp)(char *);
    /* Now the declaration of the array of function pointers
     * becomes easier
     */
    funcp functions2[2] = {func1, func2};

    printf("%c, ", a);
    printf("%c, ", *(*functions2[0])(&a));
    printf("%c\n", *(*functions2[1])(&a));

    return 0;
}

How can I make a button have a rounded border in Swift?

I think this is the simple form

Button1.layer.cornerRadius = 10(Half of the length and width)
Button1.layer.borderWidth = 2

Getting full URL of action in ASP.NET MVC

As Paddy mentioned: if you use an overload of UrlHelper.Action() that explicitly specifies the protocol to use, the generated URL will be absolute and fully qualified instead of being relative.

I wrote a blog post called How to build absolute action URLs using the UrlHelper class in which I suggest to write a custom extension method for the sake of readability:

/// <summary>
/// Generates a fully qualified URL to an action method by using
/// the specified action name, controller name and route values.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="url">The URL helper.</param>
/// <param name="actionName">The name of the action method.</param>
/// <param name="controllerName">The name of the controller.</param>
/// <param name="routeValues">The route values.</param>
/// <returns>The absolute URL.</returns>
public static string AbsoluteAction(this UrlHelper url,
    string actionName, string controllerName, object routeValues = null)
{
    string scheme = url.RequestContext.HttpContext.Request.Url.Scheme;

    return url.Action(actionName, controllerName, routeValues, scheme);
}

You can then simply use it like that in your view:

@Url.AbsoluteAction("Action", "Controller")

How can I format the output of a bash command in neat columns

If your output is delimited by tabs a quick solution would be to use the tabs command to adjust the size of your tabs.

tabs 20
keys | awk '{ print $1"\t\t" $2 }'

Can't access Tomcat using IP address

New versions of application servers removed the ability of binding to your entire network interface and limited it just to the local interface (localhost). The reason being was for security. From what I know, Tomcat and JBoss implement the same security measures.

If you want to bind it to another IP you can explicitly set it in your connector string:

  • Tomcat: address="192.168.1.100"
  • JBoss: you pass in a -b 192.168.1.100 as a command line.

Just remember that binding 0.0.0.0 allows anyone access to your box to access that server. It will bind to all addresses. If that is what you want, then use 0.0.0.0, if it isn't then specify the address you would like to explicitly bind instead.

Just make sure you understand the consequences binding to all addresses (0.0.0.0)

How can I reverse a NSArray in Objective-C?

NSMutableArray *objMyObject = [NSMutableArray arrayWithArray:[self reverseArray:objArrayToBeReversed]];

// Function reverseArray 
-(NSArray *) reverseArray : (NSArray *) myArray {   
    return [[myArray reverseObjectEnumerator] allObjects];
}

What does it mean if a Python object is "subscriptable" or not?

A scriptable object is an object that records the operations done to it and it can store them as a "script" which can be replayed.

For example, see: Application Scripting Framework

Now, if Alistair didn't know what he asked and really meant "subscriptable" objects (as edited by others), then (as mipadi also answered) this is the correct one:

A subscriptable object is any object that implements the __getitem__ special method (think lists, dictionaries).

Location for session files in Apache/PHP

Non of the above worked for me using the IUS repo for CentOS 7 with PHP 7.2:

php -v
> PHP 7.2.30 (cli) (built: Apr 19 2020 00:32:29) ( NTS )

php -r 'echo session_save_path(), "\n";
> 

php -r 'echo sys_get_temp_dir(), "\n";'
> /tmp

However, sessions weren't saved in the /tmp folder, but in the /var/lib/php/mod_php/session/ folder:

ls /var/lib/php/mod_php/session/
> sess_3cebqoq314pcnc2jgqiu840h0k  sess_ck5dtaerol28fpctj6nutbn6fn  sess_i24lgt2v2l58op5kfmj1k6qb3h  sess_nek5q1alop8fkt84gliie91703
> sess_9ff74f4q5ihccnv6com2a8409t  sess_dvrt9fmfuolr8bqt9efdpcbj0d  sess_igdaksn26hm1s5nfvtjfb53pl7  sess_tgf5b7gkgno8kuvl966l9ce7nn

Timestamp conversion in Oracle for YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS format

Use TO_TIMESTAMP function

TO_TIMESTAMP(date_string,'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS')

Pausing a batch file for amount of time

If choice is available, use this:

choice /C X /T 10 /D X > nul

where /T 10 is the number of seconds to delay. Note the syntax can vary depending on your Windows version, so use CHOICE /? to be sure.

Could not connect to SMTP host: localhost, port: 25; nested exception is: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect

First you have to ensure that there is a SMTP server listening on port 25.

To look whether you have the service, you can try using TELNET client, such as:

C:\> telnet localhost 25

(telnet client by default is disabled on most recent versions of Windows, you have to add/enable the Windows component from Control Panel. In Linux/UNIX usually telnet client is there by default.

$ telnet localhost 25

If it waits for long then time out, that means you don't have the required SMTP service. If successfully connected you enter something and able to type something, the service is there.

If you don't have the service, you can use these:

  • A mock SMTP server that will mimic the behavior of actual SMTP server, as you are using Java, it is natural to suggest Dumbster fake SMTP server. This even can be made to work within JUnit tests (with setup/tear down/validation), or independently run as separate process for integration test.
  • If your host is Windows, you can try installing Mercury email server (also comes with WAMPP package from Apache Friends) on your local before running above code.
  • If your host is Linux or UNIX, try to enable the mail service such as Postfix,
  • Another full blown SMTP server in Java, such as Apache James mail server.

If you are sure that you already have the service, may be the SMTP requires additional security credentials. If you can tell me what SMTP server listening on port 25 I may be able to tell you more.

Allow User to input HTML in ASP.NET MVC - ValidateInput or AllowHtml

URL Encoding the data works as well for me

For example

var data = '<b>Hello</b>'

In Browser call encodeURIComponent(data) before posting

On Server call HttpUtility.UrlDecode(received_data) to decode

That way you can control exactly which fields area allowed to have html

Java, "Variable name" cannot be resolved to a variable

public void setHoursWorked(){
    hoursWorked = hours;
}

You haven't defined hours inside that method. hours is not passed in as a parameter, it's not declared as a variable, and it's not being used as a class member, so you get that error.

How to document a method with parameter(s)?

Conventions:

Tools:


Update: Since Python 3.5 you can use type hints which is a compact, machine-readable syntax:

from typing import Dict, Union

def foo(i: int, d: Dict[str, Union[str, int]]) -> int:
    """
    Explanation: this function takes two arguments: `i` and `d`.
    `i` is annotated simply as `int`. `d` is a dictionary with `str` keys
    and values that can be either `str` or `int`.

    The return type is `int`.

    """

The main advantage of this syntax is that it is defined by the language and that it's unambiguous, so tools like PyCharm can easily take advantage from it.

How to disable Hyper-V in command line?

This command works

Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V-All

Run it then agree to restart the computer when prompted.

I ran it in elevated permissions PowerShell on Windows 10, but it should also work on Win 8 or 7.

Check whether IIS is installed or not?

For Windows 7:
Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features > Turn Windows Features On or Off > to turn on IIS click on Check box.

How to get scrollbar position with Javascript?

document.getScroll = function() {
    if (window.pageYOffset != undefined) {
        return [pageXOffset, pageYOffset];
    } else {
        var sx, sy, d = document,
            r = d.documentElement,
            b = d.body;
        sx = r.scrollLeft || b.scrollLeft || 0;
        sy = r.scrollTop || b.scrollTop || 0;
        return [sx, sy];
    }
}

returns an array with two integers- [scrollLeft, scrollTop]

How to remove button shadow (android)

I use a custom style

<style name="MyButtonStyle" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Button.Borderless"></style>

Don't forget to add

<item name="android:textAllCaps">false</item>

otherwise the button text will be in UpperCase.

ITSAppUsesNonExemptEncryption export compliance while internal testing?

Apple has simplified our building process, so you don't need to click on the same checkbox every time. You can streamline your iTC flow by compiling this flag into the app.

This is still the case as of 2019.

How to write a confusion matrix in Python?

A Dependency Free Multiclass Confusion Matrix

# A Simple Confusion Matrix Implementation
def confusionmatrix(actual, predicted, normalize = False):
    """
    Generate a confusion matrix for multiple classification
    @params:
        actual      - a list of integers or strings for known classes
        predicted   - a list of integers or strings for predicted classes
        normalize   - optional boolean for matrix normalization
    @return:
        matrix      - a 2-dimensional list of pairwise counts
    """
    unique = sorted(set(actual))
    matrix = [[0 for _ in unique] for _ in unique]
    imap   = {key: i for i, key in enumerate(unique)}
    # Generate Confusion Matrix
    for p, a in zip(predicted, actual):
        matrix[imap[p]][imap[a]] += 1
    # Matrix Normalization
    if normalize:
        sigma = sum([sum(matrix[imap[i]]) for i in unique])
        matrix = [row for row in map(lambda i: list(map(lambda j: j / sigma, i)), matrix)]
    return matrix

The approach here is to pair up the unique classes found in the actual vector into a 2-dimensional list. From there, we simply iterate through the zipped actual and predicted vectors and populate the counts using the indices to access the matrix positions.

Usage

cm = confusionmatrix(
    [1, 1, 2, 0, 1, 1, 2, 0, 0, 1], # actual
    [0, 1, 1, 0, 2, 1, 2, 2, 0, 2]  # predicted
)

# And The Output
print(cm)
[[2, 1, 0], [0, 2, 1], [1, 2, 1]]

Note: the actual classes are along the columns and the predicted classes are along the rows.

# Actual
# 0  1  2
  #  #  #   
[[2, 1, 0], # 0
 [0, 2, 1], # 1  Predicted
 [1, 2, 1]] # 2

Class Names Can be Strings or Integers

cm = confusionmatrix(
    ["B", "B", "C", "A", "B", "B", "C", "A", "A", "B"], # actual
    ["A", "B", "B", "A", "C", "B", "C", "C", "A", "C"]  # predicted
)

# And The Output
print(cm)
[[2, 1, 0], [0, 2, 1], [1, 2, 1]]

You Can Also Return The Matrix With Proportions (Normalization)

cm = confusionmatrix(
    ["B", "B", "C", "A", "B", "B", "C", "A", "A", "B"], # actual
    ["A", "B", "B", "A", "C", "B", "C", "C", "A", "C"], # predicted
    normalize = True
)

# And The Output
print(cm)
[[0.2, 0.1, 0.0], [0.0, 0.2, 0.1], [0.1, 0.2, 0.1]]

A More Robust Solution

Since writing this post, I've updated my library implementation to be a class that uses a confusion matrix representation internally to compute statistics, in addition to pretty printing the confusion matrix itself. See this Gist.

Example Usage

# Actual & Predicted Classes
actual      = ["A", "B", "C", "C", "B", "C", "C", "B", "A", "A", "B", "A", "B", "C", "A", "B", "C"]
predicted   = ["A", "B", "B", "C", "A", "C", "A", "B", "C", "A", "B", "B", "B", "C", "A", "A", "C"]

# Initialize Performance Class
performance = Performance(actual, predicted)

# Print Confusion Matrix
performance.tabulate()

With the output:

===================================
        A?      B?      C?

A?      3       2       1

B?      1       4       1

C?      1       0       4

Note: class? = Predicted, class? = Actual
===================================

And for the normalized matrix:

# Print Normalized Confusion Matrix
performance.tabulate(normalized = True)

With the normalized output:

===================================
        A?      B?      C?

A?      17.65%  11.76%  5.88%

B?      5.88%   23.53%  5.88%

C?      5.88%   0.00%   23.53%

Note: class? = Predicted, class? = Actual
===================================

JavaScript get clipboard data on paste event (Cross browser)

For cleaning the pasted text and replacing the currently selected text with the pasted text the matter is pretty trivial:

<div id='div' contenteditable='true' onpaste='handlepaste(this, event)'>Paste</div>

JS:

function handlepaste(el, e) {
  document.execCommand('insertText', false, e.clipboardData.getData('text/plain'));
  e.preventDefault();
}

Stop Visual Studio from mixing line endings in files

In Visual Studio 2015 (this still holds in 2019 for the same value), check the setting:

Tools > Options > Environment > Documents > Check for consistent line endings on load

VS2015 will now prompt you to convert line endings when you open a file where they are inconsistent, so all you need to do is open the files, select the desired option from the prompt and save them again.

How to select ALL children (in any level) from a parent in jQuery?

I think you could do:

$('#google_translate_element').find('*').each(function(){
    $(this).unbind('click');
});

but it would cause a lot of overhead

How to generate the whole database script in MySQL Workbench?

Try the export function of phpMyAdmin.

I think there is also a possibility to copy the database files from one server to another, but I do not have a server available at the moment so I can't test it.

Calculating the distance between 2 points

the algorithm : ((x1 - x2) ^ 2 + (y1 - y2) ^ 2) < 25

Task not serializable: java.io.NotSerializableException when calling function outside closure only on classes not objects

I faced similar issue, and what I understand from Grega's answer is

object NOTworking extends App {
 new testing().doIT
}
//adding extends Serializable wont help
class testing {

val list = List(1,2,3)

val rddList = Spark.ctx.parallelize(list)

def doIT =  {
  //again calling the fucntion someFunc 
  val after = rddList.map(someFunc(_))
  //this will crash (spark lazy)
  after.collect().map(println(_))
}

def someFunc(a:Int) = a+1

}

your doIT method is trying to serialize someFunc(_) method, but as method are not serializable, it tries to serialize class testing which is again not serializable.

So make your code work, you should define someFunc inside doIT method. For example:

def doIT =  {
 def someFunc(a:Int) = a+1
  //function definition
 }
 val after = rddList.map(someFunc(_))
 after.collect().map(println(_))
}

And if there are multiple functions coming into picture, then all those functions should be available to the parent context.

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

Considering the popularity of this question and the interest behind such a function I am surprised to see that there is no answer involving T4 yet.

In this sample code I will demonstrate a very simple example of how you can use the powerful templating engine to do what the compiler pretty much does behind the scenes with generics.

Instead of going through hoops and sacrificing compile-time certainty you can simply generate the function you want for every type you like and use that accordingly (at compile time!).

In order to do this:

  • Create a new Text Template file called GenericNumberMethodTemplate.tt.
  • Remove the auto-generated code (you'll keep most of it, but some isn't needed).
  • Add the following snippet:
<#@ template language="C#" #>
<#@ output extension=".cs" #>
<#@ assembly name="System.Core" #>

<# Type[] types = new[] {
    typeof(Int16), typeof(Int32), typeof(Int64),
    typeof(UInt16), typeof(UInt32), typeof(UInt64)
    };
#>

using System;
public static class MaxMath {
    <# foreach (var type in types) { 
    #>
        public static <#= type.Name #> Max (<#= type.Name #> val1, <#= type.Name #> val2) {
            return val1 > val2 ? val1 : val2;
        }
    <#
    } #>
}

That's it. You're done now.

Saving this file will automatically compile it to this source file:

using System;
public static class MaxMath {
    public static Int16 Max (Int16 val1, Int16 val2) {
        return val1 > val2 ? val1 : val2;
    }
    public static Int32 Max (Int32 val1, Int32 val2) {
        return val1 > val2 ? val1 : val2;
    }
    public static Int64 Max (Int64 val1, Int64 val2) {
        return val1 > val2 ? val1 : val2;
    }
    public static UInt16 Max (UInt16 val1, UInt16 val2) {
        return val1 > val2 ? val1 : val2;
    }
    public static UInt32 Max (UInt32 val1, UInt32 val2) {
        return val1 > val2 ? val1 : val2;
    }
    public static UInt64 Max (UInt64 val1, UInt64 val2) {
        return val1 > val2 ? val1 : val2;
    }
}

In your main method you can verify that you have compile-time certainty:

namespace TTTTTest
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            long val1 = 5L;
            long val2 = 10L;
            Console.WriteLine(MaxMath.Max(val1, val2));
            Console.Read();
        }
    }
}

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I'll get ahead of one remark: no, this is not a violation of the DRY principle. The DRY principle is there to prevent people from duplicating code in multiple places that would cause the application to become hard to maintain.

This is not at all the case here: if you want a change then you can just change the template (a single source for all your generation!) and it's done.

In order to use it with your own custom definitions, add a namespace declaration (make sure it's the same one as the one where you'll define your own implementation) to your generated code and mark the class as partial. Afterwards, add these lines to your template file so it will be included in the eventual compilation:

<#@ import namespace="TheNameSpaceYouWillUse" #>
<#@ assembly name="$(TargetPath)" #>

Let's be honest: This is pretty cool.

Disclaimer: this sample has been heavily influenced by Metaprogramming in .NET by Kevin Hazzard and Jason Bock, Manning Publications.

Seeing the underlying SQL in the Spring JdbcTemplate?

I'm not 100% sure what you're getting at since usually you will pass in your SQL queries (parameterized or not) to the JdbcTemplate, in which case you would just log those. If you have PreparedStatements and you don't know which one is being executed, the toString method should work fine. But while we're on the subject, there's a nice Jdbc logger package here which will let you automatically log your queries as well as see the bound parameters each time. Very useful. The output looks something like this:

executing PreparedStatement: 'insert into ECAL_USER_APPT
(appt_id, user_id, accepted, scheduler, id) values (?, ?, ?, ?, null)'
     with bind parameters: {1=25, 2=49, 3=1, 4=1} 

Find the files that have been changed in last 24 hours

On GNU-compatible systems (i.e. Linux):

find . -mtime 0 -printf '%T+\t%s\t%p\n' 2>/dev/null | sort -r | more

This will list files and directories that have been modified in the last 24 hours (-mtime 0). It will list them with the last modified time in a format that is both sortable and human-readable (%T+), followed by the file size (%s), followed by the full filename (%p), each separated by tabs (\t).

2>/dev/null throws away any stderr output, so that error messages don't muddy the waters; sort -r sorts the results by most recently modified first; and | more lists one page of results at a time.

How to run specific test cases in GoogleTest

You could use advanced options to run Google tests.

To run only some unit tests you could use --gtest_filter=Test_Cases1* command line option with value that accepts the * and ? wildcards for matching with multiple tests. I think it will solve your problem.

UPD:

Well, the question was how to run specific test cases. Integration of gtest with your GUI is another thing, which I can't really comment, because you didn't provide details of your approach. However I believe the following approach might be a good start:

  1. Get all testcases by running tests with --gtest_list_tests
  2. Parse this data into your GUI
  3. Select test cases you want ro run
  4. Run test executable with option --gtest_filter

Turn off auto formatting in Visual Studio

I was pissed off every time I pasted anything in cshtml file in Visual Studio 2015, 2017. I tried different settings and finally found the proper one: Options => Text Editor => HTML => Advanced => Paste (Format on paste) => False enter image description here

How to run Ruby code from terminal?

If Ruby is installed, then

ruby yourfile.rb

where yourfile.rb is the file containing the ruby code.

Or

irb

to start the interactive Ruby environment, where you can type lines of code and see the results immediately.

Assign variable in if condition statement, good practice or not?

I wouldn't recommend it. The problem is, it looks like a common error where you try to compare values, but use a single = instead of == or ===. For example, when you see this:

if (value = someFunction()) {
    ...
}

you don't know if that's what they meant to do, or if they intended to write this:

if (value == someFunction()) {
    ...
}

If you really want to do the assignment in place, I would recommend doing an explicit comparison as well:

if ((value = someFunction()) === <whatever truthy value you are expecting>) {
    ...
}

How to install SimpleJson Package for Python

I would recommend EasyInstall, a package management application for Python.

Once you've installed EasyInstall, you should be able to go to a command window and type:

easy_install simplejson

This may require putting easy_install.exe on your PATH first, I don't remember if the EasyInstall setup does this for you (something like C:\Python25\Scripts).

How do I create a GUI for a windows application using C++?

I strongly prefer simply using Microsoft Visual Studio and writing a native Win32 app.

For a GUI as simple as the one that you describe, you could simply create a Dialog Box and use it as your main application window. The default application created by the Win32 Project wizard in Visual Studio actually pops a window, so you can replace that window with your Dialog Box and replace the WndProc with a similar (but simpler) DialogProc.

The question, then, is one of tools and cost. The Express Edition of Visual C++ does everything you want except actually create the Dialog Template resource. For this, you could either code it in the RC file by hand or in memory by hand. Related SO question: Windows API Dialogs without using resource files.

Or you could try one of the free resource editors that others have recommended.

Finally, the Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition is a costlier option but gives you an integrated resource editor.

How to get the url parameters using AngularJS

function GetURLParameter(parameter) {
        var url;
        var search;
        var parsed;
        var count;
        var loop;
        var searchPhrase;
        url = window.location.href;
        search = url.indexOf("?");
        if (search < 0) {
            return "";
        }
        searchPhrase = parameter + "=";
        parsed = url.substr(search+1).split("&");
        count = parsed.length;
        for(loop=0;loop<count;loop++) {
            if (parsed[loop].substr(0,searchPhrase.length)==searchPhrase) {
                return decodeURI(parsed[loop].substr(searchPhrase.length));
            }
        }
        return "";
    }

Show percent % instead of counts in charts of categorical variables

this modified code should work

p = ggplot(mydataf, aes(x = foo)) + 
    geom_bar(aes(y = (..count..)/sum(..count..))) + 
    scale_y_continuous(formatter = 'percent')

if your data has NAs and you dont want them to be included in the plot, pass na.omit(mydataf) as the argument to ggplot.

hope this helps.

Pandas left outer join multiple dataframes on multiple columns

One can also do this with a compact version of @TomAugspurger's answer, like so:

df = df1.merge(df2, how='left', on=['Year', 'Week', 'Colour']).merge(df3[['Week', 'Colour', 'Val3']], how='left', on=['Week', 'Colour'])

Angular 4 checkbox change value

Another approach is to use ngModelChange:

Template:

<input type="checkbox" ngModel (ngModelChange)="onChecked(obj, $event)" />

Controller:

onChecked(obj: any, isChecked: boolean){
  console.log(obj, isChecked); // {}, true || false
}

I prefer this method because here you get the relevant object and true/false values of a checkbox.

What is the difference between HTTP and REST?

From You don't know the difference between HTTP and REST

So REST architecture and HTTP 1.1 protocol are independent from each other, but the HTTP 1.1 protocol was built to be the ideal protocol to follow the principles and constraints of REST. One way to look at the relationship between HTTP and REST is, that REST is the design, and HTTP 1.1 is an implementation of that design.

How to resize a VirtualBox vmdk file

I was able to resize the vmdk by cloning it and then modifying and resizing.

vboxmanage clonehd "virtualdisk.vmdk" "new-virtualdisk.vdi" --format vdi
vboxmanage modifyhd "new-virtualdisk.vdi" --resize 30720

Counting repeated elements in an integer array

If you have values in a short set of possible values then you can use something like Counting Sort

If not you have to use another data structure like a Dictionary, in java a Map

int[] array
Map<Integer, Integer> 

where Key = array value for example array[i] and value = a counter

Example:

int[] array = new int [50];
Map<Integer,Integer> counterMap = new HashMap<>();

//fill the array

    for(int i=0;i<array.length;i++){
         if(counterMap.containsKey(array[i])){
          counterMap.put(array[i], counterMap.get(array[i])+1 );
         }else{
          counterMap.put(array[i], 1);
         }
    }

How do I use the JAVA_OPTS environment variable?

JAVA_OPTS is not restricted to Tomcat’s Java process, but passed to all JVM processes running on the same machine.

Use CATALINA_OPTS if you specifically want to pass JVM arguments to Tomcat's servlet engine.

Handlebars.js Else If

I wrote this simple helper:

Handlebars.registerHelper('conditions', function (options) {
    var data = this;
    data.__check_conditions = true;
    return options.fn(this);
});


Handlebars.registerHelper('next', function(conditional, options) {
  if(conditional && this.__check_conditions) {
      this.__check_conditions = false;
      return options.fn(this);
  } else {
      return options.inverse(this);
  }
});

It's something like Chain Of Responsibility pattern in Handlebars

Example:

    {{#conditions}}
        {{#next condition1}}
            Hello 1!!!
        {{/next}}
        {{#next condition2}}
            Hello 2!!!
        {{/next}}
        {{#next condition3}}
            Hello 3!!!
        {{/next}}
        {{#next condition4}}
            Hello 4!!!
        {{/next}}
    {{/conditions}}

It's not a else if but in some cases it may help you)

Is there an easy way to strike through text in an app widget?

Another way to do it programmatically which looks a bit less like a hack than the Paint way:

Instead of doing:

tv.setText(s);

do:

private static final StrikethroughSpan STRIKE_THROUGH_SPAN = new StrikethroughSpan();
...
tv.setText(s, TextView.BufferType.SPANNABLE);
Spannable spannable = (Spannable) tv.getText();
spannable.setSpan(STRIKE_THROUGH_SPAN, 0, s.length(), Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

How to change the font on the TextView?

import java.lang.ref.WeakReference;
import java.util.HashMap;

import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Typeface;

public class FontsManager {

    private static FontsManager instance;

    private static HashMap<String, WeakReference<Typeface>> typefaces = new HashMap<String, WeakReference<Typeface>>();

    private static Context context;

    private FontsManager(final Context ctx) {
        if (context == null) {
            context = ctx;
        }
    }

    public static FontsManager getInstance(final Context appContext) {
        if (instance == null) {
            instance = new FontsManager(appContext);
        }
        return instance;
    }

    public static FontsManager getInstance() {
        if (instance == null) {
            throw new RuntimeException(
                    "Call getInstance(Context context) at least once to init the singleton properly");
        }
        return instance;
    }

    public Typeface getFont(final String assetName) {
        final WeakReference<Typeface> tfReference = typefaces.get(assetName);
        if (tfReference == null || tfReference.get() == null) {
            final Typeface tf = Typeface.createFromAsset(context.getResources().getAssets(),
                    assetName);
            typefaces.put(assetName, new WeakReference<Typeface>(tf));
            return tf;
        }
        return tfReference.get();
    }

}

This way, you can create a View which inherits from TextView and calls setTypeface on its constructor.

When should I use Memcache instead of Memcached?

Memcached client library was just recently released as stable. It is being used by digg ( was developed for digg by Andrei Zmievski, now no longer with digg) and implements much more of the memcached protocol than the older memcache client. The most important features that memcached has are:

  1. Cas tokens. This made my life much easier and is an easy preventive system for stale data. Whenever you pull something from the cache, you can receive with it a cas token (a double number). You can than use that token to save your updated object. If no one else updated the value while your thread was running, the swap will succeed. Otherwise a newer cas token was created and you are forced to reload the data and save it again with the new token.
  2. Read through callbacks are the best thing since sliced bread. It has simplified much of my code.
  3. getDelayed() is a nice feature that can reduce the time your script has to wait for the results to come back from the server.
  4. While the memcached server is supposed to be very stable, it is not the fastest. You can use binary protocol instead of ASCII with the newer client.
  5. Whenever you save complex data into memcached the client used to always do serialization of the value (which is slow), but now with memcached client you have the option of using igbinary. So far I haven't had the chance to test how much of a performance gain this can be.

All of this points were enough for me to switch to the newest client, and can tell you that it works like a charm. There is that external dependency on the libmemcached library, but have managed to install it nonetheless on Ubuntu and Mac OSX, so no problems there so far.

If you decide to update to the newer library, I suggest you update to the latest server version as well as it has some nice features as well. You will need to install libevent for it to compile, but on Ubuntu it wasn't much trouble.

I haven't seen any frameworks pick up the new memcached client thus far (although I don't keep track of them), but I presume Zend will get on board shortly.

UPDATE

Zend Framework 2 has an adapter for Memcached which can be found here

Windows Forms - Enter keypress activates submit button?

You can subscribe to the KeyUp event of the TextBox.

private void txtInput_KeyUp(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.KeyCode == Keys.Enter)
       DoSomething();
}

NumPy array initialization (fill with identical values)

NumPy 1.8 introduced np.full(), which is a more direct method than empty() followed by fill() for creating an array filled with a certain value:

>>> np.full((3, 5), 7)
array([[ 7.,  7.,  7.,  7.,  7.],
       [ 7.,  7.,  7.,  7.,  7.],
       [ 7.,  7.,  7.,  7.,  7.]])

>>> np.full((3, 5), 7, dtype=int)
array([[7, 7, 7, 7, 7],
       [7, 7, 7, 7, 7],
       [7, 7, 7, 7, 7]])

This is arguably the way of creating an array filled with certain values, because it explicitly describes what is being achieved (and it can in principle be very efficient since it performs a very specific task).

How to check if a file is empty in Bash?

To check if file is empty or has only white spaces, you can use grep:

if [[ -z $(grep '[^[:space:]]' $filename) ]] ; then
  echo "Empty file" 
  ...
fi

Implement a simple factory pattern with Spring 3 annotations

You could instantiate "AnnotationConfigApplicationContext" by passing all your service classes as parameters.

@Component
public class MyServiceFactory {

    private ApplicationContext applicationContext;

    public MyServiceFactory() {
        applicationContext = new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext(
                MyServiceOne.class,
                MyServiceTwo.class,
                MyServiceThree.class,
                MyServiceDefault.class,
                LocationService.class 
        );
        /* I have added LocationService.class because this component is also autowired */
    }

    public MyService getMyService(String service) {

        if ("one".equalsIgnoreCase(service)) {
            return applicationContext.getBean(MyServiceOne.class);
        } 

        if ("two".equalsIgnoreCase(service)) {
            return applicationContext.getBean(MyServiceTwo.class);
        } 

        if ("three".equalsIgnoreCase(service)) {
            return applicationContext.getBean(MyServiceThree.class);
        } 

        return applicationContext.getBean(MyServiceDefault.class);
    }
}

How to get full path of a file?

On Windows:

  • Holding Shift and right clicking on a file in Windows Explorer gives you an option called Copy as Path. This will copy the full path of the file to clipboard.

On Linux:

  • You can use the command realpath yourfile to get the full path of a file as suggested by others.

Connect multiple devices to one device via Bluetooth

This is the class where the connection is established and messages are recieved. Make sure to pair the devices before you run the application. If you want to have a slave/master connection, where each slave can only send messages to the master , and the master can broadcast messages to all slaves. You should only pair the master with each slave , but you shouldn't pair the slaves together.

    package com.example.gaby.coordinatorv1;
    import java.io.DataInputStream;
    import java.io.IOException;
    import java.io.InputStream;
    import java.io.OutputStream;
    import java.util.ArrayList;
    import java.util.HashMap;
    import java.util.Set;
    import java.util.UUID;
    import android.bluetooth.BluetoothAdapter;
    import android.bluetooth.BluetoothDevice;
    import android.bluetooth.BluetoothServerSocket;
    import android.bluetooth.BluetoothSocket;
    import android.content.Context;
    import android.os.Bundle;
    import android.os.Handler;
    import android.os.Message;
    import android.util.Log;
    import android.widget.Toast;

    public class Piconet {


        private final static String TAG = Piconet.class.getSimpleName();

        // Name for the SDP record when creating server socket
        private static final String PICONET = "ANDROID_PICONET_BLUETOOTH";

        private final BluetoothAdapter mBluetoothAdapter;

        // String: device address
        // BluetoothSocket: socket that represent a bluetooth connection
        private HashMap<String, BluetoothSocket> mBtSockets;

        // String: device address
        // Thread: thread for connection
        private HashMap<String, Thread> mBtConnectionThreads;

        private ArrayList<UUID> mUuidList;

        private ArrayList<String> mBtDeviceAddresses;

        private Context context;


        private Handler handler = new Handler() {
            public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
                switch (msg.what) {
                    case 1:
                        Toast.makeText(context, msg.getData().getString("msg"), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                        break;
                    default:
                        break;
                }
            };
        };

        public Piconet(Context context) {
            this.context = context;

            mBluetoothAdapter = BluetoothAdapter.getDefaultAdapter();

            mBtSockets = new HashMap<String, BluetoothSocket>();
            mBtConnectionThreads = new HashMap<String, Thread>();
            mUuidList = new ArrayList<UUID>();
            mBtDeviceAddresses = new ArrayList<String>();

            // Allow up to 7 devices to connect to the server
            mUuidList.add(UUID.fromString("a60f35f0-b93a-11de-8a39-08002009c666"));
            mUuidList.add(UUID.fromString("54d1cc90-1169-11e2-892e-0800200c9a66"));
            mUuidList.add(UUID.fromString("6acffcb0-1169-11e2-892e-0800200c9a66"));
            mUuidList.add(UUID.fromString("7b977d20-1169-11e2-892e-0800200c9a66"));
            mUuidList.add(UUID.fromString("815473d0-1169-11e2-892e-0800200c9a66"));
            mUuidList.add(UUID.fromString("503c7434-bc23-11de-8a39-0800200c9a66"));
            mUuidList.add(UUID.fromString("503c7435-bc23-11de-8a39-0800200c9a66"));

            Thread connectionProvider = new Thread(new ConnectionProvider());
            connectionProvider.start();

        }



        public void startPiconet() {
            Log.d(TAG, " -- Looking devices -- ");
            // The devices must be already paired
            Set<BluetoothDevice> pairedDevices = mBluetoothAdapter
                    .getBondedDevices();
            if (pairedDevices.size() > 0) {
                for (BluetoothDevice device : pairedDevices) {
                    // X , Y and Z are the Bluetooth name (ID) for each device you want to connect to
                    if (device != null && (device.getName().equalsIgnoreCase("X") || device.getName().equalsIgnoreCase("Y")
                            || device.getName().equalsIgnoreCase("Z") || device.getName().equalsIgnoreCase("M"))) {
                        Log.d(TAG, " -- Device " + device.getName() + " found --");
                        BluetoothDevice remoteDevice = mBluetoothAdapter
                                .getRemoteDevice(device.getAddress());
                        connect(remoteDevice);
                    }
                }
            } else {
                Toast.makeText(context, "No paired devices", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        }

        private class ConnectionProvider implements Runnable {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                try {
                    for (int i=0; i<mUuidList.size(); i++) {
                        BluetoothServerSocket myServerSocket = mBluetoothAdapter
                                .listenUsingRfcommWithServiceRecord(PICONET, mUuidList.get(i));
                        Log.d(TAG, " ** Opened connection for uuid " + i + " ** ");

                        // This is a blocking call and will only return on a
                        // successful connection or an exception
                        Log.d(TAG, " ** Waiting connection for socket " + i + " ** ");
                        BluetoothSocket myBTsocket = myServerSocket.accept();
                        Log.d(TAG, " ** Socket accept for uuid " + i + " ** ");
                        try {
                            // Close the socket now that the
                            // connection has been made.
                            myServerSocket.close();
                        } catch (IOException e) {
                            Log.e(TAG, " ** IOException when trying to close serverSocket ** ");
                        }

                        if (myBTsocket != null) {
                            String address = myBTsocket.getRemoteDevice().getAddress();

                            mBtSockets.put(address, myBTsocket);
                            mBtDeviceAddresses.add(address);

                            Thread mBtConnectionThread = new Thread(new BluetoohConnection(myBTsocket));
                            mBtConnectionThread.start();

                            Log.i(TAG," ** Adding " + address + " in mBtDeviceAddresses ** ");
                            mBtConnectionThreads.put(address, mBtConnectionThread);
                        } else {
                            Log.e(TAG, " ** Can't establish connection ** ");
                        }
                    }
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    Log.e(TAG, " ** IOException in ConnectionService:ConnectionProvider ** ", e);
                }
            }
        }

        private class BluetoohConnection implements Runnable {
            private String address;

            private final InputStream mmInStream;

            public BluetoohConnection(BluetoothSocket btSocket) {

                InputStream tmpIn = null;

                try {
                    tmpIn = new DataInputStream(btSocket.getInputStream());
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    Log.e(TAG, " ** IOException on create InputStream object ** ", e);
                }
                mmInStream = tmpIn;
            }
            @Override
            public void run() {
                byte[] buffer = new byte[1];
                String message = "";
                while (true) {

                    try {
                        int readByte = mmInStream.read();
                        if (readByte == -1) {
                            Log.e(TAG, "Discarting message: " + message);
                            message = "";
                            continue;
                        }
                        buffer[0] = (byte) readByte;

                        if (readByte == 0) { // see terminateFlag on write method
                            onReceive(message);
                            message = "";
                        } else { // a message has been recieved
                            message += new String(buffer, 0, 1);
                        }
                    } catch (IOException e) {
                        Log.e(TAG, " ** disconnected ** ", e);
                    }

                    mBtDeviceAddresses.remove(address);
                    mBtSockets.remove(address);
                    mBtConnectionThreads.remove(address);
                }
            }
        }

        /**
         * @param receiveMessage
         */
        private void onReceive(String receiveMessage) {
            if (receiveMessage != null && receiveMessage.length() > 0) {
                Log.i(TAG, " $$$$ " + receiveMessage + " $$$$ ");
                Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
                bundle.putString("msg", receiveMessage);
                Message message = new Message();
                message.what = 1;
                message.setData(bundle);
                handler.sendMessage(message);
            }
        }

        /**
         * @param device
         * @param uuidToTry
         * @return
         */
        private BluetoothSocket getConnectedSocket(BluetoothDevice device, UUID uuidToTry) {
            BluetoothSocket myBtSocket;
            try {
                myBtSocket = device.createRfcommSocketToServiceRecord(uuidToTry);
                myBtSocket.connect();
                return myBtSocket;
            } catch (IOException e) {
                Log.e(TAG, "IOException in getConnectedSocket", e);
            }
            return null;
        }

        private void connect(BluetoothDevice device) {
            BluetoothSocket myBtSocket = null;
            String address = device.getAddress();
            BluetoothDevice remoteDevice = mBluetoothAdapter.getRemoteDevice(address);
            // Try to get connection through all uuids available
            for (int i = 0; i < mUuidList.size() && myBtSocket == null; i++) {
                // Try to get the socket 2 times for each uuid of the list
                for (int j = 0; j < 2 && myBtSocket == null; j++) {
                    Log.d(TAG, " ** Trying connection..." + j + " with " + device.getName() + ", uuid " + i + "...** ");
                    myBtSocket = getConnectedSocket(remoteDevice, mUuidList.get(i));
                    if (myBtSocket == null) {
                        try {
                            Thread.sleep(200);
                        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                            Log.e(TAG, "InterruptedException in connect", e);
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            if (myBtSocket == null) {
                Log.e(TAG, " ** Could not connect ** ");
                return;
            }
            Log.d(TAG, " ** Connection established with " + device.getName() +"! ** ");
            mBtSockets.put(address, myBtSocket);
            mBtDeviceAddresses.add(address);
            Thread mBluetoohConnectionThread = new Thread(new BluetoohConnection(myBtSocket));
            mBluetoohConnectionThread.start();
            mBtConnectionThreads.put(address, mBluetoohConnectionThread);

        }

        public void bluetoothBroadcastMessage(String message) {
            //send message to all except Id
            for (int i = 0; i < mBtDeviceAddresses.size(); i++) {
                sendMessage(mBtDeviceAddresses.get(i), message);
            }
        }

        private void sendMessage(String destination, String message) {
            BluetoothSocket myBsock = mBtSockets.get(destination);
            if (myBsock != null) {
                try {
                    OutputStream outStream = myBsock.getOutputStream();
                    final int pieceSize = 16;
                    for (int i = 0; i < message.length(); i += pieceSize) {
                        byte[] send = message.substring(i,
                                Math.min(message.length(), i + pieceSize)).getBytes();
                        outStream.write(send);
                    }
                    // we put at the end of message a character to sinalize that message
                    // was finished
                    byte[] terminateFlag = new byte[1];
                    terminateFlag[0] = 0; // ascii table value NULL (code 0)
                    outStream.write(new byte[1]);
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    Log.d(TAG, "line 278", e);
                }
            }
        }

    }

Your main activity should be as follow :

package com.example.gaby.coordinatorv1;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    private Button discoveryButton;
    private Button messageButton;

    private Piconet piconet;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        piconet = new Piconet(getApplicationContext());

        messageButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.messageButton);
        messageButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                piconet.bluetoothBroadcastMessage("Hello World---*Gaby Bou Tayeh*");
            }
        });

        discoveryButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.discoveryButton);
        discoveryButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                piconet.startPiconet();
            }
        });

    }

}

And here's the XML Layout :

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:context=".MainActivity" >

<Button
    android:id="@+id/discoveryButton"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="Discover"
    />

<Button
    android:id="@+id/messageButton"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="Send message"
    />

Do not forget to add the following permissions to your Manifest File :

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH_ADMIN" />

Return value of x = os.system(..)

os.system('command') returns a 16 bit number, which first 8 bits from left(lsb) talks about signal used by os to close the command, Next 8 bits talks about return code of command.

Refer my answer for more detail in What is the return value of os.system() in Python?

How to test multiple variables against a value?

It can be done easily as

for value in [var1,var2,var3]:
     li.append("targetValue")

How do I install g++ for Fedora?

instead of g++ you have to write gcc-c++

sudo dnf install gcc-c++

How to transition to a new view controller with code only using Swift

Your code is just fine. The reason you're getting a black screen is because there's nothing on your second view controller.

Try something like:

secondViewController.view.backgroundColor = UIColor.redColor();

Now the view controller it shows should be red.

To actually do something with secondViewController, create a subclass of UIViewController and instead of

let secondViewController:UIViewController = UIViewController()

create an instance of your second view controller:

//If using code
let secondViewController = MyCustomViewController.alloc()

//If using storyboard, assuming you have a view controller with storyboard ID "MyCustomViewController"
let secondViewController = self.storyboard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("MyCustomViewController") as UIViewController

Configure WAMP server to send email

Using an open source program call Send Mail, you can send via wamp rather easily actually. I'm still setting it up, but here's a great tutorial by jo jordan. Takes less than 2 mins to setup.

Just tried it and it worked like a charm! Once I uncommented the error log and found out that it was stalling on the pop3 authentication, I just removed that and it sent nicely. Best of luck!

How to add line breaks to an HTML textarea?

if you use general java script and you need to assign string to text area value then

 document.getElementById("textareaid").value='texthere\\\ntexttext'.

you need to replace \n or < br > to \\\n

otherwise it gives Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL on all browsers.

How do I sort a list of datetime or date objects?

You're getting None because list.sort() it operates in-place, meaning that it doesn't return anything, but modifies the list itself. You only need to call a.sort() without assigning it to a again.

There is a built in function sorted(), which returns a sorted version of the list - a = sorted(a) will do what you want as well.

Regex: matching up to the first occurrence of a character

I found that

/^[^,]*,/

works well.

',' being the "delimiter" here.

ASP.Net which user account running Web Service on IIS 7?

Server 2008

Start Task Manager Find w3wp.exe process (description IIS Worker Process) Check User Name column to find who you're IIS process is running as.

In the IIS GUI you can configure your application pool to run as a specific user: Application Pool default Advanced Settings Identity

Here's the info from Microsoft on setting up Application Pool Identites:

http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/624/application-pool-identities/

Empty ArrayList equals null

arrayList == null if there are no instance of the class ArrayList assigned to the variable arrayList (note the upercase for classes and the lowercase for variables).

If, at anytime, you do arrayList = new ArrayList() then arrayList != null because is pointing to an instance of the class ArrayList

If you want to know if the list is empty, do

if(arrayList != null && !arrayList.isEmpty()) {
 //has items here. The fact that has items does not mean that the items are != null. 
 //You have to check the nullity for every item

}
else {
// either there is no instance of ArrayList in arrayList or the list is empty.
}

If you don't want null items in your list, I'd suggest you to extend the ArrayList class with your own, for example:

public class NotNullArrayList extends ArrayList{

@Override
public boolean add(Object o) 
   { if(o==null) throw new IllegalArgumentException("Cannot add null items to the list");
      else return super.add(o);
    }
}

Or maybe you can extend it to have a method inside your own class that re-defines the concept of "empty List".

public class NullIsEmptyArrayList extends ArrayList{

@Override
public boolean isEmpty() 
   if(super.isEmpty()) return true;
   else{
   //Iterate through the items to see if all of them are null. 
   //You can use any of the algorithms in the other responses. Return true if all are null, false otherwise. 
   //You can short-circuit to return false when you find the first item not null, so it will improve performance.
  }
}

The last two approaches are more Object-Oriented, more elegant and reusable solutions.

Updated with Jeff suggestion IAE instead of NPE.

How to check if a string contains an element from a list in Python

Use list comprehensions if you want a single line solution. The following code returns a list containing the url_string when it has the extensions .doc, .pdf and .xls or returns empty list when it doesn't contain the extension.

print [url_string for extension in extensionsToCheck if(extension in url_string)]

NOTE: This is only to check if it contains or not and is not useful when one wants to extract the exact word matching the extensions.

Maven and adding JARs to system scope

mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=com.paic.maven -DartifactId=tplconfig-maven-plugin -Dversion=1.0 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=tplconfig-maven-plugin-1.0.jar -DgeneratePom=true

Install the jar to local repository.

How do I load external fonts into an HTML document?

If you want to support more browsers than the CSS3 fancy, you can look at the open source library cufon javascript library

And here is the API, if you want to do more funky stuff.

Major Pro: Allows you to do what you want / need.

Major Con: Disallows text selection in some browsers, so use is appropiate on header texts (but you can use it in all your site if you want)

How to unsubscribe to a broadcast event in angularJS. How to remove function registered via $on

Looking at most of the replies, they seem overly complicated. Angular has built in mechanisms to unregister.

Use the deregistration function returned by $on :

// Register and get a handle to the listener
var listener = $scope.$on('someMessage', function () {
    $log.log("Message received");
});

// Unregister
$scope.$on('$destroy', function () {
    $log.log("Unregistering listener");
    listener();
});

Convert integer to binary in C#

BCL provided Convert.ToString(n, 2) is good, but in case you need an alternate implementation which is few ticks faster than BCL provided one.

Following custom implementation works for all integers(-ve and +ve). Original source taken from https://davidsekar.com/algorithms/csharp-program-to-convert-decimal-to-binary

static string ToBinary(int n)
{
    int j = 0;
    char[] output = new char[32];

    if (n == 0)
        output[j++] = '0';
    else
    {
        int checkBit = 1 << 30;
        bool skipInitialZeros = true;
        // Check the sign bit separately, as 1<<31 will cause
        // +ve integer overflow
        if ((n & int.MinValue) == int.MinValue)
        {
            output[j++] = '1';
            skipInitialZeros = false;
        }

        for (int i = 0; i < 31; i++, checkBit >>= 1)
        {
            if ((n & checkBit) == 0)
            {
                if (skipInitialZeros)
                    continue;
                else
                    output[j++] = '0';
            }
            else
            {
                skipInitialZeros = false;
                output[j++] = '1';
            }
        }
    }

    return new string(output, 0, j);
}

Above code is my implementation. So, I'm eager to hear any feedback :)

Use of def, val, and var in scala

I'd start by the distinction that exists in Scala between def, val and var.

  • def - defines an immutable label for the right side content which is lazily evaluated - evaluate by name.

  • val - defines an immutable label for the right side content which is eagerly/immediately evaluated - evaluated by value.

  • var - defines a mutable variable, initially set to the evaluated right side content.

Example, def

scala> def something = 2 + 3 * 4 
something: Int
scala> something  // now it's evaluated, lazily upon usage
res30: Int = 14

Example, val

scala> val somethingelse = 2 + 3 * 5 // it's evaluated, eagerly upon definition
somethingelse: Int = 17

Example, var

scala> var aVariable = 2 * 3
aVariable: Int = 6

scala> aVariable = 5
aVariable: Int = 5

According to above, labels from def and val cannot be reassigned, and in case of any attempt an error like the below one will be raised:

scala> something = 5 * 6
<console>:8: error: value something_= is not a member of object $iw
       something = 5 * 6
       ^

When the class is defined like:

scala> class Person(val name: String, var age: Int)
defined class Person

and then instantiated with:

scala> def personA = new Person("Tim", 25)
personA: Person

an immutable label is created for that specific instance of Person (i.e. 'personA'). Whenever the mutable field 'age' needs to be modified, such attempt fails:

scala> personA.age = 44
personA.age: Int = 25

as expected, 'age' is part of a non-mutable label. The correct way to work on this consists in using a mutable variable, like in the following example:

scala> var personB = new Person("Matt", 36)
personB: Person = Person@59cd11fe

scala> personB.age = 44
personB.age: Int = 44    // value re-assigned, as expected

as clear, from the mutable variable reference (i.e. 'personB') it is possible to modify the class mutable field 'age'.

I would still stress the fact that everything comes from the above stated difference, that has to be clear in mind of any Scala programmer.

C# Interfaces. Implicit implementation versus Explicit implementation

If you implement explicitly, you will only be able to reference the interface members through a reference that is of the type of the interface. A reference that is the type of the implementing class will not expose those interface members.

If your implementing class is not public, except for the method used to create the class (which could be a factory or IoC container), and except for the interface methods (of course), then I don't see any advantage to explicitly implementing interfaces.

Otherwise, explicitly implementing interfaces makes sure that references to your concrete implementing class are not used, allowing you to change that implementation at a later time. "Makes sure", I suppose, is the "advantage". A well-factored implementation can accomplish this without explicit implementation.

The disadvantage, in my opinion, is that you will find yourself casting types to/from the interface in the implementation code that does have access to non-public members.

Like many things, the advantage is the disadvantage (and vice-versa). Explicitly implementing interfaces will ensure that your concrete class implementation code is not exposed.

How to insert an image in python

Install PIL(Python Image Library) :

then:

from PIL import Image
myImage = Image.open("your_image_here");
myImage.show();

Can git undo a checkout of unstaged files

If you are working in an editor like Sublime Text, and have file in question still open, you can press ctrl+z, and it will return to the state it had before git checkout.

Java dynamic array sizes?

Java Array sizes are fixed , You cannot make dynamic Arrays as that of in C++.

changing visibility using javascript

If you just want to display it when you get a response add this to your loadpage()

function loadpage(page_request, containerid){
   if (page_request.readyState == 4 && page_request.status==200) { 
      var container = document.getElementById(containerid);
      container.innerHTML=page_request.responseText;
      container.style.visibility = 'visible';
      // or 
      container.style.display = 'block';
}

but this depend entirely on how you hid the div in the first place

How to implement an STL-style iterator and avoid common pitfalls?

And now a keys iterator for range-based for loop.

template<typename C>
class keys_it
{
    typename C::const_iterator it_;
public:
    using key_type        = typename C::key_type;
    using pointer         = typename C::key_type*;
    using difference_type = std::ptrdiff_t;

    keys_it(const typename C::const_iterator & it) : it_(it) {}

    keys_it         operator++(int               ) /* postfix */ { return it_++         ; }
    keys_it&        operator++(                  ) /*  prefix */ { ++it_; return *this  ; }
    const key_type& operator* (                  ) const         { return it_->first    ; }
    const key_type& operator->(                  ) const         { return it_->first    ; }
    keys_it         operator+ (difference_type v ) const         { return it_ + v       ; }
    bool            operator==(const keys_it& rhs) const         { return it_ == rhs.it_; }
    bool            operator!=(const keys_it& rhs) const         { return it_ != rhs.it_; }
};

template<typename C>
class keys_impl
{
    const C & c;
public:
    keys_impl(const C & container) : c(container) {}
    const keys_it<C> begin() const { return keys_it<C>(std::begin(c)); }
    const keys_it<C> end  () const { return keys_it<C>(std::end  (c)); }
};

template<typename C>
keys_impl<C> keys(const C & container) { return keys_impl<C>(container); }

Usage:

std::map<std::string,int> my_map;
// fill my_map
for (const std::string & k : keys(my_map))
{
    // do things
}

That's what i was looking for. But nobody had it, it seems.

You get my OCD code alignment as a bonus.

As an exercise, write your own for values(my_map)

Optimal way to Read an Excel file (.xls/.xlsx)

Try to use this free way to this, https://freenetexcel.codeplex.com

 Workbook workbook = new Workbook();

 workbook.LoadFromFile(@"..\..\parts.xls",ExcelVersion.Version97to2003);
 //Initialize worksheet
 Worksheet sheet = workbook.Worksheets[0];

 DataTable dataTable = sheet.ExportDataTable();

AJAX POST and Plus Sign ( + ) -- How to Encode?

my problem was with the accents (á É ñ ) and the plus sign (+) when i to try to save javascript "code examples" to mysql:

my solution (not the better way, but it works):

javascript:

function replaceAll( text, busca, reemplaza ){
  while (text.toString().indexOf(busca) != -1)
  text = text.toString().replace(busca,reemplaza);return text;
}


function cleanCode(cod){
code = replaceAll(cod , "|", "{1}" ); // error | palos de explode en java
code = replaceAll(code, "+", "{0}" ); // error con los signos mas   
return code;
}

function to save:

function save(pid,code){
code = cleanCode(code); // fix sign + and |
code = escape(code); // fix accents
var url = 'editor.php';
var variables = 'op=save';
var myData = variables +'&code='+ code +'&pid='+ pid +'&newdate=' +(new Date()).getTime();    
var result = null;
$.ajax({
datatype : "html",
data: myData,  
url: url,
success : function(result) {
    alert(result); // result ok                     
},
}); 
} // end function

function in php:

<?php
function save($pid,$code){
    $code= preg_replace("[\{1\}]","|",$code);
    $code= preg_replace("[\{0\}]","+",$code);
    mysql_query("update table set code= '" . mysql_real_escape_string($code) . "' where pid='$pid'");
}
?>

Update label from another thread

Use MethodInvoker for updating label text in other thread.

private void AggiornaContatore()
{
    MethodInvoker inv = delegate 
    {
      this.lblCounter.Text = this.index.ToString(); 
    }

 this.Invoke(inv);
}

You are getting the error because your UI thread is holding the label, and since you are trying to update it through another thread you are getting cross thread exception.

You may also see: Threading in Windows Forms

Sending string via socket (python)

import socket
from threading import *

serversocket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
host = "192.168.1.3"
port = 8000
print (host)
print (port)
serversocket.bind((host, port))

class client(Thread):
    def __init__(self, socket, address):
        Thread.__init__(self)
        self.sock = socket
        self.addr = address
        self.start()

    def run(self):
        while 1:
            print('Client sent:', self.sock.recv(1024).decode())
            self.sock.send(b'Oi you sent something to me')

serversocket.listen(5)
print ('server started and listening')
while 1:
    clientsocket, address = serversocket.accept()
    client(clientsocket, address)

This is a very VERY simple design for how you could solve it. First of all, you need to either accept the client (server side) before going into your while 1 loop because in every loop you accept a new client, or you do as i describe, you toss the client into a separate thread which you handle on his own from now on.

php variable in html no other way than: <?php echo $var; ?>

I really think you should adopt Smarty template engine as a standard php lib for your projects.

http://www.smarty.net/

Name: {$name|capitalize}<br>

Programmatically go back to previous ViewController in Swift

Swift 4

there's two ways to return/back to the previous ViewController :

  1. First case : if you used : self.navigationController?.pushViewController(yourViewController, animated: true) in this case you need to use self.navigationController?.popViewController(animated: true)
  2. Second case : if you used : self.present(yourViewController, animated: true, completion: nil) in this case you need to use self.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)

In the first case , be sure that you embedded your ViewController to a navigationController in your storyboard

python replace single backslash with double backslash

In python \ (backslash) is used as an escape character. What this means that in places where you wish to insert a special character (such as newline), you would use the backslash and another character (\n for newline)

With your example string you would notice that when you put "C:\Users\Josh\Desktop\20130216" in the repl you will get "C:\\Users\\Josh\\Desktop\x8130216". This is because \2 has a special meaning in a python string. If you wish to specify \ then you need to put two \\ in your string.

"C:\\Users\\Josh\\Desktop\\28130216"

The other option is to notify python that your entire string must NOT use \ as an escape character by pre-pending the string with r

r"C:\Users\Josh\Desktop\20130216"

This is a "raw" string, and very useful in situations where you need to use lots of backslashes such as with regular expression strings.

In case you still wish to replace that single \ with \\ you would then use:

directory = string.replace(r"C:\Users\Josh\Desktop\20130216", "\\", "\\\\")

Notice that I am not using r' in the last two strings above. This is because, when you use the r' form of strings you cannot end that string with a single \

Why can't Python's raw string literals end with a single backslash?

https://pythonconquerstheuniverse.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/gotcha-%E2%80%94-backslashes-are-escape-characters/

"Conversion to Dalvik format failed with error 1" on external JAR

If you want to solve this problem then you have to change Android SDK1.6 to Android 2.2. After that, clean the project and then build and run. Then you will see that your application is running.

Stratified Train/Test-split in scikit-learn

[update for 0.17]

See the docs of sklearn.model_selection.train_test_split:

from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y,
                                                    stratify=y, 
                                                    test_size=0.25)

[/update for 0.17]

There is a pull request here. But you can simply do train, test = next(iter(StratifiedKFold(...))) and use the train and test indices if you want.

Python: converting a list of dictionaries to json

import json

list = [{'id': 123, 'data': 'qwerty', 'indices': [1,10]}, {'id': 345, 'data': 'mnbvc', 'indices': [2,11]}]

Write to json File:

with open('/home/ubuntu/test.json', 'w') as fout:
    json.dump(list , fout)

Read Json file:

with open(r"/home/ubuntu/test.json", "r") as read_file:
    data = json.load(read_file)
print(data)
#list = [{'id': 123, 'data': 'qwerty', 'indices': [1,10]}, {'id': 345, 'data': 'mnbvc', 'indices': [2,11]}]

What parameters should I use in a Google Maps URL to go to a lat-lon?

If you need a name on your pin, you can also use:

http://maps.google.com/?q=MY%20LOCATION@lat,long

How to post JSON to a server using C#?

I finally invoked in sync mode by including the .Result

HttpResponseMessage response = null;
try
{
    using (var client = new HttpClient())
    {
       response = client.PostAsync(
        "http://localhost:8000/....",
         new StringContent(myJson,Encoding.UTF8,"application/json")).Result;
    if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
        {
            MessageBox.Show("OK");              
        }
        else
        {
            MessageBox.Show("NOK");
        }
    }
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
    MessageBox.Show("ERROR");
}

Connection string using Windows Authentication

Replace the username and password with Integrated Security=SSPI;

So the connection string should be

<connectionStrings> 
<add name="NorthwindContex" 
   connectionString="data source=localhost;
   initial catalog=northwind;persist security info=True; 
   Integrated Security=SSPI;" 
   providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" /> 
</connectionStrings> 

How to display PDF file in HTML?

If you want to use pdf.js, I suggest you to read THIS

You can also upload your pdf somewhere (like Google Drive) and use its URL in a iframe

or

<object data="data/test.pdf" type="application/pdf" width="300" height="200">
<a href="data/test.pdf">test.pdf</a>
</object>

How to pass a vector to a function?

found = binarySearch(first, last, search4, &random);

Notice the &.

How to describe "object" arguments in jsdoc?

I see that there is already an answer about the @return tag, but I want to give more details about it.

First of all, the official JSDoc 3 documentation doesn't give us any examples about the @return for a custom object. Please see https://jsdoc.app/tags-returns.html. Now, let's see what we can do until some standard will appear.

  • Function returns object where keys are dynamically generated. Example: {1: 'Pete', 2: 'Mary', 3: 'John'}. Usually, we iterate over this object with the help of for(var key in obj){...}.

    Possible JSDoc according to https://google.github.io/styleguide/javascriptguide.xml#JsTypes

    /**
     * @return {Object.<number, string>}
     */
    function getTmpObject() {
        var result = {}
        for (var i = 10; i >= 0; i--) {
            result[i * 3] = 'someValue' + i;
        }
        return result
    }
    
  • Function returns object where keys are known constants. Example: {id: 1, title: 'Hello world', type: 'LEARN', children: {...}}. We can easily access properties of this object: object.id.

    Possible JSDoc according to https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/jsdoc-users/TMvUedK9tC4

    • Fake It.

      /**
       * Generate a point.
       *
       * @returns {Object} point - The point generated by the factory.
       * @returns {number} point.x - The x coordinate.
       * @returns {number} point.y - The y coordinate.
       */
      var pointFactory = function (x, y) {
          return {
              x:x,
              y:y
          }
      }
      
    • The Full Monty.

      /**
       @class generatedPoint
       @private
       @type {Object}
       @property {number} x The x coordinate.
       @property {number} y The y coordinate.
       */
      function generatedPoint(x, y) {
          return {
              x:x,
              y:y
          };
      }
      
      /**
       * Generate a point.
       *
       * @returns {generatedPoint} The point generated by the factory.
       */
      
      var pointFactory = function (x, y) {
          return new generatedPoint(x, y);
      }
      
    • Define a type.

      /**
       @typedef generatedPoint
       @type {Object}
       @property {number} x The x coordinate.
       @property {number} y The y coordinate.
       */
      
      
      /**
       * Generate a point.
       *
       * @returns {generatedPoint} The point generated by the factory.
       */
      
      var pointFactory = function (x, y) {
          return {
              x:x,
              y:y
          }
      }
      

    According to https://google.github.io/styleguide/javascriptguide.xml#JsTypes

    • The record type.

      /**
       * @return {{myNum: number, myObject}}
       * An anonymous type with the given type members.
       */
      function getTmpObject() {
          return {
              myNum: 2,
              myObject: 0 || undefined || {}
          }
      }
      

jQuery .val() vs .attr("value")

jquery - Get the value in an input text box

<script type="text/javascript"> 

jQuery(document).ready(function(){

var classValues = jQuery(".cart tr").find("td.product-name").text();
classValues = classValues.replace(/[_\W]+/g, " ")

jQuery('input[name=your-p-name]').val(classValues);

//alert(classValues);

});

</script>

Native query with named parameter fails with "Not all named parameters have been set"

Named parameters are not supported by JPA in native queries, only for JPQL. You must use positional parameters.

Named parameters follow the rules for identifiers defined in Section 4.4.1. The use of named parameters applies to the Java Persistence query language, and is not defined for native queries. Only positional parameter binding may be portably used for native queries.

So, use this

Query q = em.createNativeQuery("SELECT count(*) FROM mytable where username = ?1");
q.setParameter(1, "test");

While JPA specification doesn't support named parameters in native queries, some JPA implementations (like Hibernate) may support it

Native SQL queries support positional as well as named parameters

However, this couples your application to specific JPA implementation, and thus makes it unportable.

Call to a member function on a non-object

you can use 'use' in function like bellow example

function page_properties($objPortal) use($objPage){    
    $objPage->set_page_title($myrow['title']);
}

How do I update a Linq to SQL dbml file?

There are three ways to keep the model in sync.

  1. Delete the modified tables from the designer, and drag them back onto the designer surface from the Database Explorer. I have found that, for this to work reliably, you have to:

    a. Refresh the database schema in the Database Explorer (right-click, refresh)
    b. Save the designer after deleting the tables
    c. Save again after dragging the tables back.

    Note though that if you have modified any properties (for instance, turning off the child property of an association), this will obviously lose those modifications — you'll have to make them again.

  2. Use SQLMetal to regenerate the schema from your database. I have seen a number of blog posts that show how to script this.

  3. Make changes directly in the Properties pane of the DBML. This works for simple changes, like allowing nulls on a field.

The DBML designer is not installed by default in Visual Studio 2015, 2017 or 2019. You will have to close VS, start the VS installer and modify your installation. The LINQ to SQL tools is the feature you must install. For VS 2017/2019, you can find it under Individual Components > Code Tools.

The remote host closed the connection. The error code is 0x800704CD

I was getting this on an asp.net 2.0 iis7 Windows2008 site. Same code on iis6 worked fine. It was causing an issue for me because it was messing up the login process. User would login and get a 302 to default.asxp, which would get through page_load, but not as far as pre-render before iis7 would send a 302 back to login.aspx without the auth cookie. I started playing with app pool settings, and for some reason 'enable 32 bit applications' seems to have fixed it. No idea why, since this site isn't doing anything special that should require any 32 bit drivers. We have some sites that still use Access that require 32bit, but not our straight SQL sites like this one.

How to amend older Git commit?

I prepared my commit that I wanted to amend with an older one and was surprised to see that rebase -i complained that I have uncommitted changes. But I didn't want to make my changes again specifying edit option of the older commit. So the solution was pretty easy and straightforward:

  1. prepare your update to older commit, add it and commit
  2. git rebase -i <commit you want to amend>^ - notice the ^ so you see the said commit in the text editor
  3. you will get sometihng like this:

    pick 8c83e24 use substitution instead of separate subsystems file to avoid jgroups.xml and jgroups-e2.xml going out of sync
    pick 799ce28 generate ec2 configuration out of subsystems-ha.xml and subsystems-full-ha.xml to avoid discrepancies
    pick e23d23a fix indentation of jgroups.xml
    
  4. now to combine e23d23a with 8c83e24 you can change line order and use squash like this:

    pick 8c83e24 use substitution instead of separate subsystems file to avoid jgroups.xml and jgroups-e2.xml going out of sync    
    squash e23d23a fix indentation of jgroups.xml
    pick 799ce28 generate ec2 configuration out of subsystems-ha.xml and subsystems-full-ha.xml to avoid discrepancies
    
  5. write and exit the file, you will be present with an editor to merge the commit messages. Do so and save/exit the text document

  6. You are done, your commits are amended

credit goes to: http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Tools-Rewriting-History There's also other useful demonstrated git magic.

Insertion Sort vs. Selection Sort

Both algorithms generally works like this

Step 1: take the next unsorted element from the unsorted list then

Step 2: put it in the right place in the sorted list.

One of the steps is easier for one algorithm and vice versa.

Insertion sort: We take the first element of the unsorted list, put it in the sorted list, somewhere. We know where to take the next element (the first position in the unsorted list), but it requires some work to find where to put it (somewhere). Step 1 is easy.

Selection sort: We take the element somewhere from the unsorted list, then put it in the last position of the sorted list. We need to find the next element (it most likely is not in the first position of the unsorted list, but rather, somewhere) then put it right at the end of the sorted list. Step 2 is easy

Import existing source code to GitHub

From Bitbucket:

Push up an existing repository. You already have a Git repository on your computer. Let's push it up to Bitbucket:

cd /path/to/my/repo
git remote add origin ssh://[email protected]/javacat/geo.git
git push -u origin --all   # To push up the repo for the first time

A Windows equivalent of the Unix tail command

I prefer TailMe because of the possibility to watch several log files simultaneously in one window: http://www.dschensky.de/Software/Staff/tailme_en.htm

is the + operator less performant than StringBuffer.append()

Yes, according to the usual benchmarks. E.G : http://mckoss.com/jscript/SpeedTrial.htm.

But for the small strings, this is irrelevant. You will only care about performances on very large strings. What's more, in most JS script, the bottle neck is rarely on the string manipulations since there is not enough of it.

You'd better watch the DOM manipulation.

How to convert datetime format to date format in crystal report using C#?

Sometimes the field is not recognized by crystal reports as DATE, so you can add a formula with function: Date({YourField}), And add it to the report, now when you open the format object dialog you will find the date formatting options.

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'urlretrieve'

As you're using Python 3, there is no urllib module anymore. It has been split into several modules.

This would be equivalent to urlretrieve:

import urllib.request
data = urllib.request.urlretrieve("http://...")

urlretrieve behaves exactly the same way as it did in Python 2.x, so it'll work just fine.

Basically:

  • urlretrieve saves the file to a temporary file and returns a tuple (filename, headers)
  • urlopen returns a Request object whose read method returns a bytestring containing the file contents

How do I make a WPF TextBlock show my text on multiple lines?

Nesting a stackpanel will cause the textbox to wrap properly:

<Viewbox Margin="120,0,120,0">
    <StackPanel Orientation="Vertical" Width="400">
        <TextBlock x:Name="subHeaderText" 
                   FontSize="20" 
                   TextWrapping="Wrap" 
                   Foreground="Black"
                   Text="Lorem ipsum dolor, lorem isum dolor,Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, lorem ipsum dolor sit amet " />
    </StackPanel>
</Viewbox>

How to implement static class member functions in *.cpp file?

Yes you can define static member functions in *.cpp file. If you define it in the header, compiler will by default treat it as inline. However, it does not mean separate copies of the static member function will exist in the executable. Please follow this post to learn more about this: Are static member functions in c++ copied in multiple translation units?

Casting an int to a string in Python

Here answer for your code as whole:

key =10

files = ("ME%i.txt" % i for i in range(key))

#opening
files = [ open(filename, 'w') for filename in files]

# processing
for i, file in zip(range(key),files):
    file.write(str(i))
# closing
for openfile in files:
    openfile.close()

rails 3 validation on uniqueness on multiple attributes

Dont work for me, need to put scope in plural

validates_uniqueness_of :teacher_id, :scopes => [:semester_id, :class_id]

How do I send a file in Android from a mobile device to server using http?

Wrap it all up in an Async task to avoid threading errors.

public class AsyncHttpPostTask extends AsyncTask<File, Void, String> {

    private static final String TAG = AsyncHttpPostTask.class.getSimpleName();
    private String server;

    public AsyncHttpPostTask(final String server) {
        this.server = server;
    }

    @Override
    protected String doInBackground(File... params) {
        Log.d(TAG, "doInBackground");
        HttpClient http = AndroidHttpClient.newInstance("MyApp");
        HttpPost method = new HttpPost(this.server);
        method.setEntity(new FileEntity(params[0], "text/plain"));
        try {
            HttpResponse response = http.execute(method);
            BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                    response.getEntity().getContent()));
            final StringBuilder out = new StringBuilder();
            String line;
            try {
                while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
                    out.append(line);
                }
            } catch (Exception e) {}
            // wr.close();
            try {
                rd.close();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            // final String serverResponse = slurp(is);
            Log.d(TAG, "serverResponse: " + out.toString());
        } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return null;
    }
}

drag drop files into standard html file input

In theory, you could add an element overlaying the <input/>, and then use it's drop event to capture the files (using the File API) and pass them to input files array.

Except that a file input is read-only. This is an old problem.

You can however, bypass the form control completely and upload via XHR (not sure about the support for that):

You could also use an element in the surrounding area to cancel the drop event in Chrome, and prevent the default behaviour of loading the file.

Dropping multiple files over the input already works in Safari and Firefox.

How can I control Chromedriver open window size?

Try with driver.manage.window.maximize(); to maximize window.

How do I convert from a money datatype in SQL server?

Normal money conversions will preserve individual pennies:

SELECT convert(varchar(30), moneyfield, 1)

The last parameter decides what the output format looks like:

0 (default) No commas every three digits to the left of the decimal point, and two digits to the right of the decimal point; for example, 4235.98.

1 Commas every three digits to the left of the decimal point, and two digits to the right of the decimal point; for example, 3,510.92.

2 No commas every three digits to the left of the decimal point, and four digits to the right of the decimal point; for example, 4235.9819.

If you want to truncate the pennies, and count in pounds, you can use rounding to the nearest pound, floor to the lowest whole pound, or ceiling to round up the pounds:

SELECT convert(int, round(moneyfield, 0))
SELECT convert(int, floor(moneyfield))
SELECT convert(int, ceiling(moneyfield))

Why dict.get(key) instead of dict[key]?

What is the dict.get() method?

As already mentioned the get method contains an additional parameter which indicates the missing value. From the documentation

get(key[, default])

Return the value for key if key is in the dictionary, else default. If default is not given, it defaults to None, so that this method never raises a KeyError.

An example can be

>>> d = {1:2,2:3}
>>> d[1]
2
>>> d.get(1)
2
>>> d.get(3)
>>> repr(d.get(3))
'None'
>>> d.get(3,1)
1

Are there speed improvements anywhere?

As mentioned here,

It seems that all three approaches now exhibit similar performance (within about 10% of each other), more or less independent of the properties of the list of words.

Earlier get was considerably slower, However now the speed is almost comparable along with the additional advantage of returning the default value. But to clear all our queries, we can test on a fairly large list (Note that the test includes looking up all the valid keys only)

def getway(d):
    for i in range(100):
        s = d.get(i)

def lookup(d):
    for i in range(100):
        s = d[i]

Now timing these two functions using timeit

>>> import timeit
>>> print(timeit.timeit("getway({i:i for i in range(100)})","from __main__ import getway"))
20.2124660015
>>> print(timeit.timeit("lookup({i:i for i in range(100)})","from __main__ import lookup"))
16.16223979

As we can see the lookup is faster than the get as there is no function lookup. This can be seen through dis

>>> def lookup(d,val):
...     return d[val]
... 
>>> def getway(d,val):
...     return d.get(val)
... 
>>> dis.dis(getway)
  2           0 LOAD_FAST                0 (d)
              3 LOAD_ATTR                0 (get)
              6 LOAD_FAST                1 (val)
              9 CALL_FUNCTION            1
             12 RETURN_VALUE        
>>> dis.dis(lookup)
  2           0 LOAD_FAST                0 (d)
              3 LOAD_FAST                1 (val)
              6 BINARY_SUBSCR       
              7 RETURN_VALUE  

Where will it be useful?

It will be useful whenever you want to provide a default value whenever you are looking up a dictionary. This reduces

 if key in dic:
      val = dic[key]
 else:
      val = def_val

To a single line, val = dic.get(key,def_val)

Where will it be NOT useful?

Whenever you want to return a KeyError stating that the particular key is not available. Returning a default value also carries the risk that a particular default value may be a key too!

Is it possible to have get like feature in dict['key']?

Yes! We need to implement the __missing__ in a dict subclass.

A sample program can be

class MyDict(dict):
    def __missing__(self, key):
        return None

A small demonstration can be

>>> my_d = MyDict({1:2,2:3})
>>> my_d[1]
2
>>> my_d[3]
>>> repr(my_d[3])
'None'

Java Process with Input/Output Stream

I think you can use thread like demon-thread for reading your input and your output reader will already be in while loop in main thread so you can read and write at same time.You can modify your program like this:

Thread T=new Thread(new Runnable() {

    @Override
    public void run() {
        while(true)
        {
            String input = scan.nextLine();
            input += "\n";
            try {
                writer.write(input);
                writer.flush();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            }

        }

    }
} );
T.start();

and you can reader will be same as above i.e.

while ((line = reader.readLine ()) != null) {
    System.out.println ("Stdout: " + line);
}

make your writer as final otherwise it wont be able to accessible by inner class.

For a boolean field, what is the naming convention for its getter/setter?

It should just be get{varname} like every other getter. Changing it to "is" doesn't stop bad variable names, it just makes another unnecessary rule.

Consider program generated code, or reflection derivations.

It's a non-useful convention that should be dropped at the first available opportunity.

Failed to install *.apk on device 'emulator-5554': EOF

Neither above helped me, instead, I connected my phone through the back USB hubs (I used forward USB hubs previously), and this helped me!

Unescape HTML entities in Javascript?

I use this in my project: inspired by other answers but with an extra secure parameter, can be useful when you deal with decorated characters

var decodeEntities=(function(){

    var el=document.createElement('div');
    return function(str, safeEscape){

        if(str && typeof str === 'string'){

            str=str.replace(/\</g, '&lt;');

            el.innerHTML=str;
            if(el.innerText){

                str=el.innerText;
                el.innerText='';
            }
            else if(el.textContent){

                str=el.textContent;
                el.textContent='';
            }

            if(safeEscape)
                str=str.replace(/\</g, '&lt;');
        }
        return str;
    }
})();

And it's usable like:

var label='safe <b> character &eacute;ntity</b>';
var safehtml='<div title="'+decodeEntities(label)+'">'+decodeEntities(label, true)+'</div>';

Displaying a 3D model in JavaScript/HTML5

I also needed what you've been searching for and did some research.

I found JSC3D (https://code.google.com/p/jsc3d/). It's a project written entirely in Javascript and uses the HTML canvas. It has been tested for Opera, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE9 and more.

Then you have services as p3d.in and Sketchfab that give you a nice reader to view 3D models on a web page: they use HTML5 and WebGL. They both have a free version.

Does Eclipse have line-wrap

In Eclipse v4.7 (Oxygen):

Window menu ? Editor ? Toggle Word Wrap (Shift+Alt+Y)

How to compile or convert sass / scss to css with node-sass (no Ruby)?

In Windows 10 using node v6.11.2 and npm v3.10.10, in order to execute directly in any folder:

> node-sass [options] <input.scss> [output.css]

I only followed the instructions in node-sass Github:

  1. Add node-gyp prerequisites by running as Admin in a Powershell (it takes a while):

    > npm install --global --production windows-build-tools
    
  2. In a normal command-line shell (Win+R+cmd+Enter) run:

    > npm install -g node-gyp
    > npm install -g node-sass
    

    The -g places these packages under %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules. You may check that npm\node_modules\node-sass\bin\node-sass now exists.

  3. Check if your local account (not the System) PATH environment variable contains:

    %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\npm
    

    If this path is not present, npm and node may still run, but the modules bin files will not!

Close the previous shell and reopen a new one and run either > node-gyp or > node-sass.

Note:

  • The windows-build-tools may not be necessary (if no compiling is done? I'd like to read if someone made it without installing these tools), but it did add to the admin account the GYP_MSVS_VERSION environment variable with 2015 as a value.
  • I am also able to run directly other modules with bin files, such as > uglifyjs main.js main.min.js and > mocha

how to get the one entry from hashmap without iterating

If you really want the API you suggested, you could subclass HashMap and keep track of the keys in a List for example. Don't see the point in this really, but it gives you what you want. If you explain the intended use case, maybe we can come up with a better solution.

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public class IndexedMap extends HashMap {

    private List<Object> keyIndex;

    public IndexedMap() {
        keyIndex = new ArrayList<Object>();
    }

    /**
     * Returns the key at the specified position in this Map's keyIndex.
     * 
     * @param index
     *            index of the element to return
     * @return the element at the specified position in this list
     * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException
     *             if the index is out of range (index < 0 || index >= size())
     */
    public Object get(int index) {
        return keyIndex.get(index);
    }

    @Override
    public Object put(Object key, Object value) {

        addKeyToIndex(key);
        return super.put(key, value);
    }

    @Override
    public void putAll(Map source) {

        for (Object key : source.keySet()) {
            addKeyToIndex(key);
        }
        super.putAll(source);
    }

    private void addKeyToIndex(Object key) {

        if (!keyIndex.contains(key)) {
            keyIndex.add(key);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public Object remove(Object key) {

        keyIndex.remove(key);
        return super.remove(key);
    }
}

EDIT: I deliberately did not delve into the generics side of this...

How to prevent browser to invoke basic auth popup and handle 401 error using Jquery?

Make an /login url, than accept "user" and "password" parameters via GET and don't require basic auth. Here, use php, node, java, whatever and parse your passwd file and match parameters (user/pass) against it. If there is a match then redirect to http://user:[email protected]/ (this will set credential on your browser) if not, send 401 response (without WWW-Authenticate header).

Django URLs TypeError: view must be a callable or a list/tuple in the case of include()

Your code is

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^$', 'myapp.views.home'),
    url(r'^contact/$', 'myapp.views.contact'),
    url(r'^login/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.login'),
]

change it to following as you're importing include() function :

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^$', views.home),
    url(r'^contact/$', views.contact),
    url(r'^login/$', views.login),
]

Could not find folder 'tools' inside SDK

For me it was a simple case of specifying the path to the 'sdk' subfolder rather than the top level folder.

In my case I needed to input

/Users/Myusername/Documents/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140321/sdk

instead of

/Users/Myusername/Documents/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140321

How to make a section of an image a clickable link

You can auto generate Image map from this website for selected area of image. https://www.image-map.net/

Easiest way to execute!