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RadGridView is grid control with powerful features created by Telerik. There are versions for Silverlight, WPF and WinForms.

Javascript : calling function from another file

Why don't you take a look to this answer

Including javascript files inside javascript files

In short you can load the script file with AJAX or put a script tag on the HTML to include it( before the script that uses the functions of the other script). The link I posted is a great answer and has multiple examples and explanations of both methods.

Retrieving the output of subprocess.call()

I have the following solution. It captures the exit code, the stdout, and the stderr too of the executed external command:

import shlex
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE

def get_exitcode_stdout_stderr(cmd):
    """
    Execute the external command and get its exitcode, stdout and stderr.
    """
    args = shlex.split(cmd)

    proc = Popen(args, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
    out, err = proc.communicate()
    exitcode = proc.returncode
    #
    return exitcode, out, err

cmd = "..."  # arbitrary external command, e.g. "python mytest.py"
exitcode, out, err = get_exitcode_stdout_stderr(cmd)

I also have a blog post on it here.

Edit: the solution was updated to a newer one that doesn't need to write to temp. files.

How to fit a smooth curve to my data in R?

In ggplot2 you can do smooths in a number of ways, for example:

library(ggplot2)
ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg)) + geom_point() +
  geom_smooth(method = "gam", formula = y ~ poly(x, 2)) 
ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg)) + geom_point() +
  geom_smooth(method = "loess", span = 0.3, se = FALSE) 

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How do I write dispatch_after GCD in Swift 3, 4, and 5?

If you just want the delay function in

Swift 4 & 5

func delay(interval: TimeInterval, closure: @escaping () -> Void) {
     DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + interval) {
          closure()
     }
}

You can use it like:

delay(interval: 1) { 
    print("Hi!")
}

How to initialize an array in angular2 and typescript

I don't fully understand what you really mean by initializing an array?

Here's an example:

class Environment {

    // you can declare private, public and protected variables in constructor signature 
    constructor(
        private id: string,
        private name: string
    ) { 
        alert( this.id );
    }
}


let environments = new Environment('a','b');

// creating and initializing array of Environment objects
let envArr: Array<Environment> = [ 
        new Environment('c','v'), 
        new Environment('c','v'), 
        new Environment('g','g'), 
        new Environment('3','e') 
  ];

Try it here : https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/index.html

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

On my system (OSX 10.6) that package is at

/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py

I hope that helps you figure out if it's missing or just not on your path.

Inserting data into a MySQL table using VB.NET

Dim connString as String ="server=localhost;userid=root;password=123456;database=uni_park_db"
Dim conn as MySqlConnection(connString)
Dim cmd as MysqlCommand
Dim dt as New DataTable
Dim ireturn as Boolean

Private Sub Insert_Car()

Dim sql as String = "insert into members_car (car_id, member_id, model, color, chassis_id, plate_number, code) values (@car_id,@member_id,@model,@color,@chassis_id,@plate_number,@code)"

Dim cmd = new MySqlCommand(sql, conn)

    cmd.Paramaters.AddwithValue("@car_id", txtCar.Text)
    cmd.Paramaters.AddwithValue("@member_id", txtMember.Text)
    cmd.Paramaters.AddwithValue("@model", txtModel.Text)
    cmd.Paramaters.AddwithValue("@color", txtColor.Text)
    cmd.Paramaters.AddwithValue("@chassis_id", txtChassis.Text)
    cmd.Paramaters.AddwithValue("@plate_number", txtPlateNo.Text)
    cmd.Paramaters.AddwithValue("@code", txtCode.Text)

    Try
        conn.Open()
        If cmd.ExecuteNonQuery() > 0 Then
            ireturn = True
        End If  
        conn.Close()


    Catch ex as Exception
        ireturn = False
        conn.Close()
    End Try

Return ireturn

End Sub

How change default SVN username and password to commit changes?

In TortiseSVN settings

right-click menu >> settings >> Saved data >> Authentication data [Clear]

The side effect is that it clears out all authentication data and you have to re-enter your own username/password.

How to debug an apache virtual host configuration?

I recently had some issues with a VirtualHost. I used a2ensite to enable a host but before running a restart (which would kill the server on fail) I ran

apache2ctl -S

Which gives you some info about what's going on with your virtual hosts. It's not perfect, but it helps.

adding css class to multiple elements

Try using:

.button input, .button a {
    // css stuff
}

Also, read up on CSS.

Edit: If it were me, I'd add the button class to the element, not to the parent tag. Like so:

HTML:

<a href="#" class='button'>BUTTON TEXT</a>
<input type="submit" class='button' value='buttontext' />

CSS:

.button {
    // css stuff
}

For specific css stuff use:

input.button {
    // css stuff
}
a.button {
    // css stuff
}

Sublime Text 2 Code Formatting

I can't speak for the 2nd or 3rd, but if you install Node first, Sublime-HTMLPrettify works pretty well. You have to setup your own key shortcut once it is installed. One thing I noticed on Windows, you may need to edit your path for Node in the %PATH% variable if it is already long (I think the limit is 1024 for the %PATH% variable, and anything after that is ignored.)

There is a Windows bug, but in the issues there is a fix for it. You'll need to edit the HTMLPrettify.py file - https://github.com/victorporof/Sublime-HTMLPrettify/issues/12

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

the main issue with the following error:

no drawer view found with absolute gravity LEFT

is that, you defined the

android:layout_gravity="right"

for list-view in right, but try to open the drawer from left, by calling this function:

mDrawerToggle.syncState();

and clicking on hamburger icon!

just comment the above function and try to handle open/close of menu like @Rudi said!

No submodule mapping found in .gitmodule for a path that's not a submodule

in the file .gitmodules, I replaced string

"path = thirdsrc\boost" 

with

"path = thirdsrc/boost", 

and it solved! - -

How to filter array when object key value is in array

You can do it with Array.prototype.filter(),

var data = { records : [{ "empid": 1, "fname": "X", "lname": "Y" }, { "empid": 2, "fname": "A", "lname": "Y" }, { "empid": 3, "fname": "B", "lname": "Y" }, { "empid": 4, "fname": "C", "lname": "Y" }, { "empid": 5, "fname": "C", "lname": "Y" }] }
var empIds = [1,4,5]
var filteredArray = data.records.filter(function(itm){
  return empIds.indexOf(itm.empid) > -1;
});

filteredArray = { records : filteredArray };

If? the ?callBack? returns a ?true? value, then the ?itm? passed to that particular callBack will be filtered out. You can read more about it here.??????

Warning: Each child in an array or iterator should have a unique "key" prop. Check the render method of `ListView`

Seems like both the conditions are met, perhaps key('contact') is the issue

 if(store.telefon) {
    detailItems.push( new DetailItem('contact', store.telefon, 'Anrufen', 'fontawesome|phone') );
}
if(store.email) {
    detailItems.push( new DetailItem('contact', store.email, 'Email', 'fontawesome|envelope') );
}

View not attached to window manager crash

See how the Code is working here:

After calling the Async task, the async task runs in the background. that is desirable. Now, this Async task has a progress dialog which is attached to the Activity, if you ask how to see the code:

pDialog = new ProgressDialog(CLASS.this);

You are passing the Class.this as context to the argument. So the Progress dialog is still attached to the activity.

Now consider the scenario: If we try to finish the activity using the finish() method, while the async task is in progress, is the point where you are trying to access the Resource attached to the activity ie the progress bar when the activity is no more there.

Hence you get:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: View not attached to the window manager

Solution to this:

1) Make sure that the Dialog box is dismissed or canceled before the activity finishes.

2) Finish the activity, only after the dialog box is dismissed, that is the async task is over.

Read each line of txt file to new array element

You were on the right track, but there were some problems with the code you posted. First of all, there was no closing bracket for the while loop. Secondly, $line_of_text would be overwritten with every loop iteration, which is fixed by changing the = to a .= in the loop. Third, you're exploding the literal characters '\n' and not an actual newline; in PHP, single quotes will denote literal characters, but double quotes will actually interpret escaped characters and variables.

    <?php
        $file = fopen("members.txt", "r");
        $i = 0;
        while (!feof($file)) {
            $line_of_text .= fgets($file);
        }
        $members = explode("\n", $line_of_text);
        fclose($file);
        print_r($members);
    ?>

How Long Does it Take to Learn Java for a Complete Newbie?

It depends on how hard you want to work, but yes it's possible. The problem you are going to have is that you have to learn to program along with learning java. These are two very different things. Programming is knowing how to read and write logic and Java is a language you write it in. If you have a math or physics background, this is going to be a lot easier, as you are already exposed to thinking in such a manner.

If you don't have books on beginning Java I would go buy one of those.

I would also pick up the book Code (I would try and get through this in a few days, if not over the weekend if possible). Actually with 10 weeks I would do this first as it will be a foundation for what you'll need to know to program Java.

With 10 weeks, you are going to have to pretty much study every night to get the hang of it by the time you go to class. My best advice is that when you take the class, take lots of notes, and don't expect to understand everything. Most of what gets thrown at you there will probably go over your head at first and you'll forget. That's ok. After the class if over, go back and review the notes etc until it starts to make sense.

Difference between numeric, float and decimal in SQL Server

use the float or real data types only if the precision provided by decimal (up to 38 digits) is insufficient

  • Approximate numeric data types do not store the exact values specified for many numbers; they store an extremely close approximation of the value.(Technet)

  • Avoid using float or real columns in WHERE clause search conditions, especially the = and <> operators (Technet)

so generally because the precision provided by decimal is [10E38 ~ 38 digits] if your number can fit in it, and smaller storage space (and maybe speed) of Float is not important and dealing with abnormal behaviors and issues of approximate numeric types are not acceptable, use Decimal generally.

more useful information

  • numeric = decimal (5 to 17 bytes) (Exact Numeric Data Type)
    • will map to Decimal in .NET
    • both have (18, 0) as default (precision,scale) parameters in SQL server
    • scale = maximum number of decimal digits that can be stored to the right of the decimal point.
    • kindly note that money(8 byte) and smallmoney(4 byte) are also exact and map to Decimal In .NET and have 4 decimal points(MSDN)
    • decimal and numeric (Transact-SQL) - MSDN
  • real (4 byte) (Approximate Numeric Data Type)
  • float (8 byte) (Approximate Numeric Data Type)
    • will map to Double in .NET
  • All exact numeric types always produce the same result, regardless of which kind of processor architecture is being used or the magnitude of the numbers
  • The parameter supplied to the float data type defines the number of bits that are used to store the mantissa of the floating point number.
  • Approximate Numeric Data Type usually uses less storage and have better speed (up to 20x) and you should also consider when they got converted in .NET

Exact Numeric Data Types Approximate Numeric Data Types

main source : MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-433): Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Database Development - Chapter 3 - Tables , Data Types , and Declarative Data Integrity Lesson 1 - Choosing Data Types (Guidelines) - Page 93

PHP get dropdown value and text

You will have to save the relationship on the server side. The value is the only part that is transmitted when the form is posted. You could do something nasty like...

<option value="2|Dog">Dog</option>

Then split the result apart if you really wanted to, but that is an ugly hack and a waste of bandwidth assuming the numbers are truly unique and have a one to one relationship with the text.

The best way would be to create an array, and loop over the array to create the HTML. Once the form is posted you can use the value to look up the text in that same array.

SSL Error: CERT_UNTRUSTED while using npm command

You can bypass https using below commands:

npm config set strict-ssl false

or set the registry URL from https or http like below:

npm config set registry="http://registry.npmjs.org/"

However, Personally I believe bypassing https is not the real solution, but we can use it as a workaround.

jQuery: how to find first visible input/select/textarea excluding buttons?

You may try below code...

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$(document).ready(function(){_x000D_
    $('form').find('input[type=text],textarea,select').filter(':visible:first').focus();_x000D_
})
_x000D_
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<form>_x000D_
<input type="text" />_x000D_
<input type="text" />_x000D_
<input type="text" />_x000D_
<input type="text" />_x000D_
<input type="text" />_x000D_
    _x000D_
<input type="submit" />_x000D_
</form>
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fork() and wait() with two child processes

Put your wait() function in a loop and wait for all the child processes. The wait function will return -1 and errno will be equal to ECHILD if no more child processes are available.

How to get named excel sheets while exporting from SSRS

There is no direct way. You either export XML and then right an XSLT to format it properly (this is the hard way). An easier way is to write multiple reports with no explicit page breaks so each exports into one sheet only in excel and then write a script that would merge for you. Either way it requires a postprocessing step.

Using git to get just the latest revision

Use git clone with the --depth option set to 1 to create a shallow clone with a history truncated to the latest commit.

For example:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/user/repo.git

To also initialize and update any nested submodules, also pass --recurse-submodules and to clone them shallowly, also pass --shallow-submodules.

For example:

git clone --depth 1 --recurse-submodules --shallow-submodules https://github.com/user/repo.git

How can I send mail from an iPhone application

To send an email from iPhone application you need to do below list of task.

Step 1: Import #import <MessageUI/MessageUI.h> In your controller class where you want to send an email.

Step 2: Add the delegate to your controller like shown below

 @interface <yourControllerName> : UIViewController <MFMessageComposeViewControllerDelegate, MFMailComposeViewControllerDelegate>

Step 3: Add below method for send email.

 - (void) sendEmail {
 // Check if your app support the email.
 if ([MFMailComposeViewController canSendMail]) {
    // Create an object of mail composer.
    MFMailComposeViewController *mailComposer =      [[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init];
    // Add delegate to your self.
    mailComposer.mailComposeDelegate = self;
    // Add recipients to mail if you do not want to add default recipient then remove below line.
    [mailComposer setToRecipients:@[<add here your recipient objects>]];
    // Write email subject.
    [mailComposer setSubject:@“<Your Subject Here>”];
    // Set your email body and if body contains HTML then Pass “YES” in isHTML.
    [mailComposer setMessageBody:@“<Your Message Body>” isHTML:NO];
    // Show your mail composer.
    [self presentViewController:mailComposer animated:YES completion:NULL];
 }
 else {
 // Here you can show toast to user about not support to sending email.
}
}

Step 4: Implement MFMailComposeViewController Delegate

- (void)mailComposeController:(MFMailComposeViewController *)controller didFinishWithResult:(MFMailComposeResult)result error:(nullable NSError *)error {
[controller dismissViewControllerAnimated:TRUE completion:nil];


switch (result) {
   case MFMailComposeResultSaved: {
    // Add code on save mail to draft.
    break;
}
case MFMailComposeResultSent: {
    // Add code on sent a mail.
    break;
}
case MFMailComposeResultCancelled: {
    // Add code on cancel a mail.
    break;
}
case MFMailComposeResultFailed: {
    // Add code on failed to send a mail.
    break;
}
default:
    break;
}
}

How to support placeholder attribute in IE8 and 9

I used the code of this link http://dipaksblogonline.blogspot.com/2012/02/html5-placeholder-in-ie7-and-ie8-fixed.html

But in browser detection I used:

if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE') > -1) {
 //Your placeholder support code here...
}

Bash scripting, multiple conditions in while loop

The correct options are (in increasing order of recommendation):

# Single POSIX test command with -o operator (not recommended anymore).
# Quotes strongly recommended to guard against empty or undefined variables.
while [ "$stats" -gt 300 -o "$stats" -eq 0 ]

# Two POSIX test commands joined in a list with ||.
# Quotes strongly recommended to guard against empty or undefined variables.
while [ "$stats" -gt 300 ] || [ "$stats" -eq 0 ]

# Two bash conditional expressions joined in a list with ||.
while [[ $stats -gt 300 ]] || [[ $stats -eq 0 ]]

# A single bash conditional expression with the || operator.
while [[ $stats -gt 300 || $stats -eq 0 ]]

# Two bash arithmetic expressions joined in a list with ||.
# $ optional, as a string can only be interpreted as a variable
while (( stats > 300 )) || (( stats == 0 ))

# And finally, a single bash arithmetic expression with the || operator.
# $ optional, as a string can only be interpreted as a variable
while (( stats > 300 || stats == 0 ))

Some notes:

  1. Quoting the parameter expansions inside [[ ... ]] and ((...)) is optional; if the variable is not set, -gt and -eq will assume a value of 0.

  2. Using $ is optional inside (( ... )), but using it can help avoid unintentional errors. If stats isn't set, then (( stats > 300 )) will assume stats == 0, but (( $stats > 300 )) will produce a syntax error.

Difference between datetime and timestamp in sqlserver?

Datetime is a datatype.

Timestamp is a method for row versioning. In fact, in sql server 2008 this column type was renamed (i.e. timestamp is deprecated) to rowversion. It basically means that every time a row is changed, this value is increased. This is done with a database counter which automatically increase for every inserted or updated row.

For more information:

http://www.sqlteam.com/article/timestamps-vs-datetime-data-types

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182776.aspx

how to pass value from one php page to another using session

Solution using just POST - no $_SESSION

page1.php

<form action="page2.php" method="post">
    <textarea name="textarea1" id="textarea1"></textarea><br />
    <input type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>

page2.php

<?php
    // this page outputs the contents of the textarea if posted
    $textarea1 = ""; // set var to avoid errors
    if(isset($_POST['textarea1'])){
        $textarea1 = $_POST['textarea1']
    }
?>
<textarea><?php echo $textarea1;?></textarea>

Solution using $_SESSION and POST

page1.php

<?php

    session_start(); // needs to be before anything else on page to use $_SESSION
    $textarea1 = "";
    if(isset($_POST['textarea1'])){
        $_SESSION['textarea1'] = $_POST['textarea1'];
    }

?>


<form action="page1.php" method="post">
    <textarea name="textarea1" id="textarea1"></textarea><br />
    <input type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>
<br /><br />
<a href="page2.php">Go to page2</a>

page2.php

<?php
    session_start(); // needs to be before anything else on page to use $_SESSION
    // this page outputs the textarea1 from the session IF it exists
    $textarea1 = ""; // set var to avoid errors
    if(isset($_SESSION['textarea1'])){
        $textarea1 = $_SESSION['textarea1']
    }
?>
<textarea><?php echo $textarea1;?></textarea>

WARNING!!! - This contains no validation!!!

Batch Renaming of Files in a Directory

I prefer writing small one liners for each replace I have to do instead of making a more generic and complex code. E.g.:

This replaces all underscores with hyphens in any non-hidden file in the current directory

import os
[os.rename(f, f.replace('_', '-')) for f in os.listdir('.') if not f.startswith('.')]

Using the last-child selector

The :last-child pseudoclass still cannot be reliably used across browsers. In particular, Internet Explorer versions < 9, and Safari < 3.2 definitely don't support it, although Internet Explorer 7 and Safari 3.2 do support :first-child, curiously.

Your best bet is to explicitly add a last-child (or similar) class to that item, and apply li.last-child instead.

How to implement and do OCR in a C# project?

If anyone is looking into this, I've been trying different options and the following approach yields very good results. The following are the steps to get a working example:

  1. Add .NET Wrapper for tesseract to your project. It can be added via NuGet package Install-Package Tesseract(https://github.com/charlesw/tesseract).
  2. Go to the Downloads section of the official Tesseract project (https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ EDIT: It's now located here: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/langdata).
  3. Download the preferred language data, example: tesseract-ocr-3.02.eng.tar.gz English language data for Tesseract 3.02.
  4. Create tessdata directory in your project and place the language data files in it.
  5. Go to Properties of the newly added files and set them to copy on build.
  6. Add a reference to System.Drawing.
  7. From .NET Wrapper repository, in the Samples directory copy the sample phototest.tif file into your project directory and set it to copy on build.
  8. Create the following two files in your project (just to get started):

Program.cs

using System;
using Tesseract;
using System.Diagnostics;

namespace ConsoleApplication
{
    class Program
    {
        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var testImagePath = "./phototest.tif";
            if (args.Length > 0)
            {
                testImagePath = args[0];
            }

            try
            {
                var logger = new FormattedConsoleLogger();
                var resultPrinter = new ResultPrinter(logger);
                using (var engine = new TesseractEngine(@"./tessdata", "eng", EngineMode.Default))
                {
                    using (var img = Pix.LoadFromFile(testImagePath))
                    {
                        using (logger.Begin("Process image"))
                        {
                            var i = 1;
                            using (var page = engine.Process(img))
                            {
                                var text = page.GetText();
                                logger.Log("Text: {0}", text);
                                logger.Log("Mean confidence: {0}", page.GetMeanConfidence());

                                using (var iter = page.GetIterator())
                                {
                                    iter.Begin();
                                    do
                                    {
                                        if (i % 2 == 0)
                                        {
                                            using (logger.Begin("Line {0}", i))
                                            {
                                                do
                                                {
                                                    using (logger.Begin("Word Iteration"))
                                                    {
                                                        if (iter.IsAtBeginningOf(PageIteratorLevel.Block))
                                                        {
                                                            logger.Log("New block");
                                                        }
                                                        if (iter.IsAtBeginningOf(PageIteratorLevel.Para))
                                                        {
                                                            logger.Log("New paragraph");
                                                        }
                                                        if (iter.IsAtBeginningOf(PageIteratorLevel.TextLine))
                                                        {
                                                            logger.Log("New line");
                                                        }
                                                        logger.Log("word: " + iter.GetText(PageIteratorLevel.Word));
                                                    }
                                                } while (iter.Next(PageIteratorLevel.TextLine, PageIteratorLevel.Word));
                                            }
                                        }
                                        i++;
                                    } while (iter.Next(PageIteratorLevel.Para, PageIteratorLevel.TextLine));
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                Trace.TraceError(e.ToString());
                Console.WriteLine("Unexpected Error: " + e.Message);
                Console.WriteLine("Details: ");
                Console.WriteLine(e.ToString());
            }
            Console.Write("Press any key to continue . . . ");
            Console.ReadKey(true);
        }



        private class ResultPrinter
        {
            readonly FormattedConsoleLogger logger;

            public ResultPrinter(FormattedConsoleLogger logger)
            {
                this.logger = logger;
            }

            public void Print(ResultIterator iter)
            {
                logger.Log("Is beginning of block: {0}", iter.IsAtBeginningOf(PageIteratorLevel.Block));
                logger.Log("Is beginning of para: {0}", iter.IsAtBeginningOf(PageIteratorLevel.Para));
                logger.Log("Is beginning of text line: {0}", iter.IsAtBeginningOf(PageIteratorLevel.TextLine));
                logger.Log("Is beginning of word: {0}", iter.IsAtBeginningOf(PageIteratorLevel.Word));
                logger.Log("Is beginning of symbol: {0}", iter.IsAtBeginningOf(PageIteratorLevel.Symbol));

                logger.Log("Block text: \"{0}\"", iter.GetText(PageIteratorLevel.Block));
                logger.Log("Para text: \"{0}\"", iter.GetText(PageIteratorLevel.Para));
                logger.Log("TextLine text: \"{0}\"", iter.GetText(PageIteratorLevel.TextLine));
                logger.Log("Word text: \"{0}\"", iter.GetText(PageIteratorLevel.Word));
                logger.Log("Symbol text: \"{0}\"", iter.GetText(PageIteratorLevel.Symbol));
            }
        }
    }
}

FormattedConsoleLogger.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using Tesseract;

namespace ConsoleApplication
{
    public class FormattedConsoleLogger
    {
        const string Tab = "    ";
        private class Scope : DisposableBase
        {
            private int indentLevel;
            private string indent;
            private FormattedConsoleLogger container;

            public Scope(FormattedConsoleLogger container, int indentLevel)
            {
                this.container = container;
                this.indentLevel = indentLevel;
                StringBuilder indent = new StringBuilder();
                for (int i = 0; i < indentLevel; i++)
                {
                    indent.Append(Tab);
                }
                this.indent = indent.ToString();
            }

            public void Log(string format, object[] args)
            {
                var message = String.Format(format, args);
                StringBuilder indentedMessage = new StringBuilder(message.Length + indent.Length * 10);
                int i = 0;
                bool isNewLine = true;
                while (i < message.Length)
                {
                    if (message.Length > i && message[i] == '\r' && message[i + 1] == '\n')
                    {
                        indentedMessage.AppendLine();
                        isNewLine = true;
                        i += 2;
                    }
                    else if (message[i] == '\r' || message[i] == '\n')
                    {
                        indentedMessage.AppendLine();
                        isNewLine = true;
                        i++;
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        if (isNewLine)
                        {
                            indentedMessage.Append(indent);
                            isNewLine = false;
                        }
                        indentedMessage.Append(message[i]);
                        i++;
                    }
                }

                Console.WriteLine(indentedMessage.ToString());

            }

            public Scope Begin()
            {
                return new Scope(container, indentLevel + 1);
            }

            protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
            {
                if (disposing)
                {
                    var scope = container.scopes.Pop();
                    if (scope != this)
                    {
                        throw new InvalidOperationException("Format scope removed out of order.");
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        private Stack<Scope> scopes = new Stack<Scope>();

        public IDisposable Begin(string title = "", params object[] args)
        {
            Log(title, args);
            Scope scope;
            if (scopes.Count == 0)
            {
                scope = new Scope(this, 1);
            }
            else
            {
                scope = ActiveScope.Begin();
            }
            scopes.Push(scope);
            return scope;
        }

        public void Log(string format, params object[] args)
        {
            if (scopes.Count > 0)
            {
                ActiveScope.Log(format, args);
            }
            else
            {
                Console.WriteLine(String.Format(format, args));
            }
        }

        private Scope ActiveScope
        {
            get
            {
                var top = scopes.Peek();
                if (top == null) throw new InvalidOperationException("No current scope");
                return top;
            }
        }
    }
}

Use '=' or LIKE to compare strings in SQL?

There's a couple of other tricks that Postgres offers for string matching (if that happens to be your DB):

ILIKE, which is a case insensitive LIKE match:

select * from people where name ilike 'JOHN'

Matches:

  • John
  • john
  • JOHN

And if you want to get really mad you can use regular expressions:

select * from people where name ~ 'John.*'

Matches:

  • John
  • Johnathon
  • Johnny

What does a (+) sign mean in an Oracle SQL WHERE clause?

This is an Oracle-specific notation for an outer join. It means that it will include all rows from t1, and use NULLS in the t0 columns if there is no corresponding row in t0.

In standard SQL one would write:

SELECT t0.foo, t1.bar
  FROM FIRST_TABLE t0
 RIGHT OUTER JOIN SECOND_TABLE t1;

Oracle recommends not to use those joins anymore if your version supports ANSI joins (LEFT/RIGHT JOIN) :

Oracle recommends that you use the FROM clause OUTER JOIN syntax rather than the Oracle join operator. Outer join queries that use the Oracle join operator (+) are subject to the following rules and restrictions […]

Aligning text and image on UIButton with imageEdgeInsets and titleEdgeInsets

Swift 4.x

extension UIButton {
    func centerTextAndImage(spacing: CGFloat) {
        let insetAmount = spacing / 2
        let writingDirection = UIApplication.shared.userInterfaceLayoutDirection
        let factor: CGFloat = writingDirection == .leftToRight ? 1 : -1

        self.imageEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0, left: -insetAmount*factor, bottom: 0, right: insetAmount*factor)
        self.titleEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0, left: insetAmount*factor, bottom: 0, right: -insetAmount*factor)
        self.contentEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0, left: insetAmount, bottom: 0, right: insetAmount)
    }
}

Usage:

button.centerTextAndImage(spacing: 10.0)

Where can I find the assembly System.Web.Extensions dll?

I had this problem myself. Most of the information I could find online was related to people having this problem with an ASP.NET web application. I was creating a Win Forms stand alone app so most of the advice wasn't helpful for me.

Turns out that the problem was that my project was set to use the ".NET 4 Framework Client Profile" as the target framework and the System.Web.Extensions reference was not in the list for adding. I changed the target to ".NET 4 Framework" and then the reference was available by the normal methods.

Here is what worked for me step by step:

  1. Right Click you project Select Properties
  2. Change your Target Framework to ".NET Framework 4"
  3. Do whatever you need to do to save the changes and close the preferences tab
  4. Right click on the References item in your Solution Explorer
  5. Choose Add Reference...
  6. In the .NET tab, scroll down to System.Web.Extensions and add it.

What is VanillaJS?

VanillaJS is a term for library/framework free javascript.

Its sometimes ironically referred to as a library, as a joke for people who could be seen as mindlessly using different frameworks, especially jQuery.

Some people have gone so far to release this library, usually with an empty or comment-only js file.

jquery get all input from specific form

The below code helps to get the details of elements from the specific form with the form id,

$('#formId input, #formId select').each(
    function(index){  
        var input = $(this);
        alert('Type: ' + input.attr('type') + 'Name: ' + input.attr('name') + 'Value: ' + input.val());
    }
);

The below code helps to get the details of elements from all the forms which are place in the loading page,

$('form input, form select').each(
    function(index){  
        var input = $(this);
        alert('Type: ' + input.attr('type') + 'Name: ' + input.attr('name') + 'Value: ' + input.val());
    }
);

The below code helps to get the details of elements which are place in the loading page even when the element is not place inside the tag,

$('input, select').each(
    function(index){  
        var input = $(this);
        alert('Type: ' + input.attr('type') + 'Name: ' + input.attr('name') + 'Value: ' + input.val());
    }
);

NOTE: We add the more element tag name what we need in the object list like as below,

Example: to get name of attribute "textarea",

$('input, select, textarea').each(
    function(index){  
        var input = $(this);
        alert('Type: ' + input.attr('type') + 'Name: ' + input.attr('name') + 'Value: ' + input.val());
    }
);

Same Navigation Drawer in different Activities

For anyone else looking to do what the original poster is asking, please consider to use fragments instead the way Kevin said. Here is an excellent tutorial on how to do that:

https://github.com/codepath/android_guides/wiki/Fragment-Navigation-Drawer

If you choose to instead use activities instead of fragments you are going to run into the problem of the nav drawer being re-created every time you navigate to a new activity. This results in an ugly/slow rendering of the nav drawer each time.

How to select first child with jQuery?

Try with: $('.onediv').eq(0)

demo jsBin

From the demo: Other examples of selectors and methods targeting the first LI unside an UL:

.eq() Method: $('li').eq(0)
:eq() selector: $('li:eq(0)')
.first() Method $('li').first()
:first selector: $('li:first')
:first-child selector: $('li:first-child')
:lt() selector:$('li:lt(1)')
:nth-child() selector:$('li:nth-child(1)')

jQ + JS:

Array.slice() Method: $('li').slice(0,1)

you can also use [i] to get the JS HTMLelement index out of the jQuery el. (array) collection like eg:

$('li')[0]

now that you have the JS element representation you have to use JS native methods eg:

$('li')[0].className = 'active'; // Adds class "active" to the first LI in the DOM

or you can (don't - it's bad design) wrap it back into a jQuery object

$( $('li')[0] ).addClass('active'); // Don't. Use .eq() instead

iPhone app signing: A valid signing identity matching this profile could not be found in your keychain

I got it working after re-doing everything and then creating an empty project with XCode and building/running it to the device. XCode showed a window asking something like: Do you want to accept the developer certificate. I pressed "Always". Only after this step I got rid of the message "A valid signing identity matching this profile could not be found in your keychain" in Organizer.

What are the differences between Deferred, Promise and Future in JavaScript?

In light of apparent dislike for how I've attempted to answer the OP's question. The literal answer is, a promise is something shared w/ other objects, while a deferred should be kept private. Primarily, a deferred (which generally extends Promise) can resolve itself, while a promise might not be able to do so.

If you're interested in the minutiae, then examine Promises/A+.


So far as I'm aware, the overarching purpose is to improve clarity and loosen coupling through a standardized interface. See suggested reading from @jfriend00:

Rather than directly passing callbacks to functions, something which can lead to tightly coupled interfaces, using promises allows one to separate concerns for code that is synchronous or asynchronous.

Personally, I've found deferred especially useful when dealing with e.g. templates that are populated by asynchronous requests, loading scripts that have networks of dependencies, and providing user feedback to form data in a non-blocking manner.

Indeed, compare the pure callback form of doing something after loading CodeMirror in JS mode asynchronously (apologies, I've not used jQuery in a while):

/* assume getScript has signature like: function (path, callback, context) 
   and listens to onload && onreadystatechange */
$(function () {
   getScript('path/to/CodeMirror', getJSMode);

   // onreadystate is not reliable for callback args.
   function getJSMode() {
       getScript('path/to/CodeMirror/mode/javascript/javascript.js', 
           ourAwesomeScript);
   };

   function ourAwesomeScript() {
       console.log("CodeMirror is awesome, but I'm too impatient.");
   };
});

To the promises formulated version (again, apologies, I'm not up to date on jQuery):

/* Assume getScript returns a promise object */
$(function () {
   $.when(
       getScript('path/to/CodeMirror'),
       getScript('path/to/CodeMirror/mode/javascript/javascript.js')
   ).then(function () {
       console.log("CodeMirror is awesome, but I'm too impatient.");
   });
});

Apologies for the semi-pseudo code, but I hope it makes the core idea somewhat clear. Basically, by returning a standardized promise, you can pass the promise around, thus allowing for more clear grouping.

asp.net mvc @Html.CheckBoxFor

Html.CheckBoxFor expects a Func<TModel, bool> as the first parameter. Therefore your lambda must return a bool, you are currently returning an instance of List<Checkboxes>:

model => model.EmploymentType

You need to iterate over the List<Checkboxes> to output each checkbox:

@for (int i = 0; i < Model.EmploymentType.Count; i++)
{
    @Html.HiddenFor(m => m.EmploymentType[i].Text)
    @Html.CheckBoxFor(m => m.EmploymentType[i].Checked, 
              new { id = string.Format("employmentType_{0}", i) })
}

Can Json.NET serialize / deserialize to / from a stream?

UPDATE: This no longer works in the current version, see below for correct answer (no need to vote down, this is correct on older versions).

Use the JsonTextReader class with a StreamReader or use the JsonSerializer overload that takes a StreamReader directly:

var serializer = new JsonSerializer();
serializer.Deserialize(streamReader);

Printing out a number in assembly language?

Call WinAPI function (if u are developing win-application)

git checkout master error: the following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by checkout

With Git 2.23 (August 2019), that would be, using git switch -f:

git switch -f master

That avoids the confusion with git checkout (which deals with files or branches).

And that will proceeds, even if the index or the working tree differs from HEAD.
Both the index and working tree are restored to match the switching target.
If --recurse-submodules is specified, submodule content is also restored to match the switching target.
This is used to throw away local changes.

How to return a custom object from a Spring Data JPA GROUP BY query

Using interfaces you can get simpler code. No need to create and manually call constructors

Step 1: Declare intefrace with the required fields:

public interface SurveyAnswerStatistics {

  String getAnswer();
  Long getCnt();

}

Step 2: Select columns with same name as getter in interface and return intefrace from repository method:

public interface SurveyRepository extends CrudRepository<Survey, Long> {

    @Query("select v.answer as answer, count(v) as cnt " +
           "from Survey v " +
           "group by v.answer")
    List<SurveyAnswerStatistics> findSurveyCount();

}

JPA Native Query select and cast object

When your native query is based on joins, in that case you can get the result as list of objects and process it.

one simple example.

@Autowired
EntityManager em;

    String nativeQuery = "select name,age from users where id=?";   
    Query query = em.createNativeQuery(nativeQuery);
    query.setParameter(1,id);

    List<Object[]> list = query.getResultList();

    for(Object[] q1 : list){

        String name = q1[0].toString();
        //..
        //do something more on 
     }

Convert string with commas to array

For simple array members like that, you can use JSON.parse.

var listValues = "[{\"ComplianceTaskID\":75305,\"RequirementTypeID\":4,\"MissedRequirement\":\"Initial Photo Upload NRP\",\"TimeOverdueInMinutes\":null}]";

var array = JSON.parse("[" + listValues + "]");

This gives you an Array of numbers.

now you variable value is like array.length=1

Value output

array[0].ComplianceTaskID
array[0].RequirementTypeID
array[0].MissedRequirement
array[0].TimeOverdueInMinutes

How to write JUnit test with Spring Autowire?

A JUnit4 test with Autowired and bean mocking (Mockito):

// JUnit starts spring context
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
// spring load context configuration from AppConfig class
@ContextConfiguration(classes = AppConfig.class)
// overriding some properties with test values if you need
@TestPropertySource(properties = {
        "spring.someConfigValue=your-test-value",
})
public class PersonServiceTest {

    @MockBean
    private PersonRepository repository;

    @Autowired
    private PersonService personService; // uses PersonRepository    

    @Test
    public void testSomething() {
        // using Mockito
        when(repository.findByName(any())).thenReturn(Collection.emptyList());
        Person person = new Person();
        person.setName(null);

        // when
        boolean found = personService.checkSomething(person);

        // then
        assertTrue(found, "Something is wrong");
    }
}

INSERT SELECT statement in Oracle 11G

There is an another option to insert data into table ..

insert into tablename values(&column_name1,&column_name2,&column_name3);

it will open another window for inserting the data value..

How can I check a C# variable is an empty string "" or null?

if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(myString)) 
{
  . . .
  . . .
}

Sending HTTP Post request with SOAP action using org.apache.http

The soapAction must passed as a http-header parameter - when used, it's not part of the http-body/payload.

Look here for an example with apache httpclient: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpcomponents/oac.hc3x/trunk/src/examples/PostSOAP.java

PHP mPDF save file as PDF

The mPDF docs state that the first argument of Output() is the file path, second is the saving mode - you need to set it to 'F'.

$mpdf->Output('filename.pdf','F');

If Radio Button is selected, perform validation on Checkboxes

Full validation example with javascript:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
        <title>Radio button: full validation example with javascript</title>
        <script>
            function send() {
                var genders = document.getElementsByName("gender");
                if (genders[0].checked == true) {
                    alert("Your gender is male");
                } else if (genders[1].checked == true) {
                    alert("Your gender is female");
                } else {
                    // no checked
                    var msg = '<span style="color:red;">You must select your gender!</span><br /><br />';
                    document.getElementById('msg').innerHTML = msg;
                    return false;
                }
                return true;
            }

            function reset_msg() {
                document.getElementById('msg').innerHTML = '';
            }
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <form action="" method="POST">
            <label>Gender:</label>
            <br />
            <input type="radio" name="gender" value="m" onclick="reset_msg();" />Male
            <br />
            <input type="radio" name="gender" value="f" onclick="reset_msg();" />Female
            <br />
            <div id="msg"></div>
            <input type="submit" value="send>>" onclick="return send();" />
        </form>
    </body>
</html>

Regards,

Fernando

Throw away local commits in Git

If you get your local repo into a complete mess, then a reliable way to throw away local commits in Git is to...

  1. Use "git config --get remote.origin.url" to get URL of remote origin
  2. Rename local git folder to "my_broken_local_repo"
  3. Use "git clone <url_from_1>" to get fresh local copy of remote git repository

In my experience Eclipse handles the world changing around it quite well. However, you may need to select affected projects in Eclipse and clean them to force Eclipse to rebuild them. I guess other IDEs may need a forced rebuild too.

A side benefit of the above procedure is that you will find out if your project relies on local files that were not put into git. If you find you are missing files then you can copy them in from "my_broken_local_repo" and add them to git. Once you have confidence that your new local repo has everything you need then you can delete "my_broken_local_repo".

positional argument follows keyword argument

The grammar of the language specifies that positional arguments appear before keyword or starred arguments in calls:

argument_list        ::=  positional_arguments ["," starred_and_keywords]
                            ["," keywords_arguments]
                          | starred_and_keywords ["," keywords_arguments]
                          | keywords_arguments

Specifically, a keyword argument looks like this: tag='insider trading!' while a positional argument looks like this: ..., exchange, .... The problem lies in that you appear to have copy/pasted the parameter list, and left some of the default values in place, which makes them look like keyword arguments rather than positional ones. This is fine, except that you then go back to using positional arguments, which is a syntax error.

Also, when an argument has a default value, such as price=None, that means you don't have to provide it. If you don't provide it, it will use the default value instead.

To resolve this error, convert your later positional arguments into keyword arguments, or, if they have default values and you don't need to use them, simply don't specify them at all:

order_id = kite.order_place(self, exchange, tradingsymbol,
    transaction_type, quantity)

# Fully positional:
order_id = kite.order_place(self, exchange, tradingsymbol, transaction_type, quantity, price, product, order_type, validity, disclosed_quantity, trigger_price, squareoff_value, stoploss_value, trailing_stoploss, variety, tag)

# Some positional, some keyword (all keywords at end):

order_id = kite.order_place(self, exchange, tradingsymbol,
    transaction_type, quantity, tag='insider trading!')

Import Package Error - Cannot Convert between Unicode and Non Unicode String Data Type

Sometime we get this error when we select static character as a field in source query/view/procedure and the destination field data type in Unicode.

Below is the issue i faced: I used the script below at source

and got the error message Column "CATEGORY" cannot convert between Unicode and non-Unicode string data types. as below: error message

Resolution: I tried multiple options but none worked for me. Then I prefixed the static value with N to make in Unicode as below:

SELECT N'STUDENT DETAIL' CATEGORY, NAME, DATEOFBIRTH FROM STUDENTS
UNION
SELECT N'FACULTY DETAIL' CATEGORY, NAME, DATEOFBIRTH FROM FACULTY

Regex to validate date format dd/mm/yyyy

import re
expression = "Nov 05 20:10:09 2020"
reg_ex = r'((Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec) ([0-2][0-9]|(3)[0-1]) (([0-1][0-9]|2[0-3]):([0-5][0-9]):([0-5][0-9])) (\d{4}))'
assert re.fullmatch(reg_ex, expression), True

Expaination with respect to given Example

  • Nov = A group of possible months i.e. (Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec)
  • 05 = A group of valid days i.e. ([0-2][0-9]|(3)[0-1])
  • 20:10:09 = A group for getting valid Hours : ([0-1][0-9]|2[0-3]), Minutes : ([0-5][0-9]) and Seconds : ([0-5][0-9])
  • 2020 = A group for getting year i.e (\d{4}))

How to prevent page from reloading after form submit - JQuery

The <button> element, when placed in a form, will submit the form automatically unless otherwise specified. You can use the following 2 strategies:

  1. Use <button type="button"> to override default submission behavior
  2. Use event.preventDefault() in the onSubmit event to prevent form submission

Solution 1:

  • Advantage: simple change to markup
  • Disadvantage: subverts default form behavior, especially when JS is disabled. What if the user wants to hit "enter" to submit?

Insert extra type attribute to your button markup:

<button id="button" type="button" value="send" class="btn btn-primary">Submit</button>

Solution 2:

  • Advantage: form will work even when JS is disabled, and respects standard form UI/UX such that at least one button is used for submission

Prevent default form submission when button is clicked. Note that this is not the ideal solution because you should be in fact listening to the submit event, not the button click event:

$(document).ready(function () {
  // Listen to click event on the submit button
  $('#button').click(function (e) {

    e.preventDefault();

    var name = $("#name").val();
    var email = $("#email").val();

    $.post("process.php", {
      name: name,
      email: email
    }).complete(function() {
        console.log("Success");
      });
  });
});

Better variant:

In this improvement, we listen to the submit event emitted from the <form> element:

$(document).ready(function () {
  // Listen to submit event on the <form> itself!
  $('#main').submit(function (e) {

    e.preventDefault();

    var name = $("#name").val();
    var email = $("#email").val();

    $.post("process.php", {
      name: name,
      email: email
    }).complete(function() {
        console.log("Success");
      });
  });
});

Even better variant: use .serialize() to serialize your form, but remember to add name attributes to your input:

The name attribute is required for .serialize() to work, as per jQuery's documentation:

For a form element's value to be included in the serialized string, the element must have a name attribute.

<input type="text" id="name" name="name" class="form-control mb-2 mr-sm-2 mb-sm-0" id="inlineFormInput" placeholder="Jane Doe">
<input type="text" id="email" name="email" class="form-control" id="inlineFormInputGroup" placeholder="[email protected]">

And then in your JS:

$(document).ready(function () {
  // Listen to submit event on the <form> itself!
  $('#main').submit(function (e) {

    // Prevent form submission which refreshes page
    e.preventDefault();

    // Serialize data
    var formData = $(this).serialize();

    // Make AJAX request
    $.post("process.php", formData).complete(function() {
      console.log("Success");
    });
  });
});

Trim whitespace from a String

Here is how you can do it:

std::string & trim(std::string & str)
{
   return ltrim(rtrim(str));
}

And the supportive functions are implemeted as:

std::string & ltrim(std::string & str)
{
  auto it2 =  std::find_if( str.begin() , str.end() , [](char ch){ return !std::isspace<char>(ch , std::locale::classic() ) ; } );
  str.erase( str.begin() , it2);
  return str;   
}

std::string & rtrim(std::string & str)
{
  auto it1 =  std::find_if( str.rbegin() , str.rend() , [](char ch){ return !std::isspace<char>(ch , std::locale::classic() ) ; } );
  str.erase( it1.base() , str.end() );
  return str;   
}

And once you've all these in place, you can write this as well:

std::string trim_copy(std::string const & str)
{
   auto s = str;
   return ltrim(rtrim(s));
}

Try this

How to find out what is locking my tables?

As per the official docs the sp_lock is mark as deprecated:

This feature is in maintenance mode and may be removed in a future version of Microsoft SQL Server. Avoid using this feature in new development work, and plan to modify applications that currently use this feature.

and it is recommended to use sys.dm_tran_locks instead. This dynamic management object returns information about currently active lock manager resources. Each row represents a currently active request to the lock manager for a lock that has been granted or is waiting to be granted.

It generally returns more details in more user friendly syntax then sp_lock does.

The whoisactive routine written by Adam Machanic is very good to check the current activity in your environment and see what types of waits/locks are slowing your queries. You can very easily find what is blocking your queries and tons of other handy information.


For example, let's say we have the following queries running in the default SQL Server Isolation Level - Read Committed. Each query is executing in separate query window:

-- creating sample data
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[DataSource]
(
    [RowID] INT PRIMARY KEY
   ,[RowValue] VARCHAR(12)
);

INSERT INTO [dbo].[DataSource]([RowID], [RowValue])
VALUES (1,  'samle data');

-- query window 1
BEGIN TRANSACTION;

    UPDATE [dbo].[DataSource]
    SET [RowValue] = 'new data'
    WHERE [RowID] = 1;

--COMMIT TRANSACTION;

-- query window 2
SELECT *
FROM [dbo].[DataSource];

Then execute the sp_whoisactive (only part of the columns are displayed):

enter image description here

You can easily seen the session which is blocking the SELECT statement and even its T-SQL code. The routine has a lot of parameters, so you can check the docs for more details.

If we query the sys.dm_tran_locks view we can see that one of the session is waiting for a share lock of a resource, that has exclusive lock by other session:

enter image description here

What does if __name__ == "__main__": do?

Whenever the Python interpreter reads a source file, it does two things:

  • it sets a few special variables like __name__, and then

  • it executes all of the code found in the file.

Let's see how this works and how it relates to your question about the __name__ checks we always see in Python scripts.

Code Sample

Let's use a slightly different code sample to explore how imports and scripts work. Suppose the following is in a file called foo.py.

# Suppose this is foo.py.

print("before import")
import math

print("before functionA")
def functionA():
    print("Function A")

print("before functionB")
def functionB():
    print("Function B {}".format(math.sqrt(100)))

print("before __name__ guard")
if __name__ == '__main__':
    functionA()
    functionB()
print("after __name__ guard")

Special Variables

When the Python interpreter reads a source file, it first defines a few special variables. In this case, we care about the __name__ variable.

When Your Module Is the Main Program

If you are running your module (the source file) as the main program, e.g.

python foo.py

the interpreter will assign the hard-coded string "__main__" to the __name__ variable, i.e.

# It's as if the interpreter inserts this at the top
# of your module when run as the main program.
__name__ = "__main__" 

When Your Module Is Imported By Another

On the other hand, suppose some other module is the main program and it imports your module. This means there's a statement like this in the main program, or in some other module the main program imports:

# Suppose this is in some other main program.
import foo

The interpreter will search for your foo.py file (along with searching for a few other variants), and prior to executing that module, it will assign the name "foo" from the import statement to the __name__ variable, i.e.

# It's as if the interpreter inserts this at the top
# of your module when it's imported from another module.
__name__ = "foo"

Executing the Module's Code

After the special variables are set up, the interpreter executes all the code in the module, one statement at a time. You may want to open another window on the side with the code sample so you can follow along with this explanation.

Always

  1. It prints the string "before import" (without quotes).

  2. It loads the math module and assigns it to a variable called math. This is equivalent to replacing import math with the following (note that __import__ is a low-level function in Python that takes a string and triggers the actual import):

# Find and load a module given its string name, "math",
# then assign it to a local variable called math.
math = __import__("math")
  1. It prints the string "before functionA".

  2. It executes the def block, creating a function object, then assigning that function object to a variable called functionA.

  3. It prints the string "before functionB".

  4. It executes the second def block, creating another function object, then assigning it to a variable called functionB.

  5. It prints the string "before __name__ guard".

Only When Your Module Is the Main Program

  1. If your module is the main program, then it will see that __name__ was indeed set to "__main__" and it calls the two functions, printing the strings "Function A" and "Function B 10.0".

Only When Your Module Is Imported by Another

  1. (instead) If your module is not the main program but was imported by another one, then __name__ will be "foo", not "__main__", and it'll skip the body of the if statement.

Always

  1. It will print the string "after __name__ guard" in both situations.

Summary

In summary, here's what'd be printed in the two cases:

# What gets printed if foo is the main program
before import
before functionA
before functionB
before __name__ guard
Function A
Function B 10.0
after __name__ guard
# What gets printed if foo is imported as a regular module
before import
before functionA
before functionB
before __name__ guard
after __name__ guard

Why Does It Work This Way?

You might naturally wonder why anybody would want this. Well, sometimes you want to write a .py file that can be both used by other programs and/or modules as a module, and can also be run as the main program itself. Examples:

  • Your module is a library, but you want to have a script mode where it runs some unit tests or a demo.

  • Your module is only used as a main program, but it has some unit tests, and the testing framework works by importing .py files like your script and running special test functions. You don't want it to try running the script just because it's importing the module.

  • Your module is mostly used as a main program, but it also provides a programmer-friendly API for advanced users.

Beyond those examples, it's elegant that running a script in Python is just setting up a few magic variables and importing the script. "Running" the script is a side effect of importing the script's module.

Food for Thought

  • Question: Can I have multiple __name__ checking blocks? Answer: it's strange to do so, but the language won't stop you.

  • Suppose the following is in foo2.py. What happens if you say python foo2.py on the command-line? Why?

# Suppose this is foo2.py.
import os, sys; sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(__file__)) # needed for some interpreters

def functionA():
    print("a1")
    from foo2 import functionB
    print("a2")
    functionB()
    print("a3")

def functionB():
    print("b")

print("t1")
if __name__ == "__main__":
    print("m1")
    functionA()
    print("m2")
print("t2")
      
  • Now, figure out what will happen if you remove the __name__ check in foo3.py:
# Suppose this is foo3.py.
import os, sys; sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(__file__)) # needed for some interpreters

def functionA():
    print("a1")
    from foo3 import functionB
    print("a2")
    functionB()
    print("a3")

def functionB():
    print("b")

print("t1")
print("m1")
functionA()
print("m2")
print("t2")
  • What will this do when used as a script? When imported as a module?
# Suppose this is in foo4.py
__name__ = "__main__"

def bar():
    print("bar")
    
print("before __name__ guard")
if __name__ == "__main__":
    bar()
print("after __name__ guard")

How to increase request timeout in IIS?

Add this to your Web Config

<system.web>
    <httpRuntime executionTimeout="180" />
</system.web>

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e1f13641(v=vs.85).aspx

Optional TimeSpan attribute.

Specifies the maximum number of seconds that a request is allowed to execute before being automatically shut down by ASP.NET.

This time-out applies only if the debug attribute in the compilation element is False. To help to prevent shutting down the application while you are debugging, do not set this time-out to a large value.

The default is "00:01:50" (110 seconds).

ASP.NET MVC View Engine Comparison

Check this SharpDOM . This is a c# 4.0 internal dsl for generating html and also asp.net mvc view engine.

How do I use namespaces with TypeScript external modules?

Try this namespaces module

namespaceModuleFile.ts

export namespace Bookname{
export class Snows{
    name:any;
    constructor(bookname){
        console.log(bookname);
    }
}
export class Adventure{
    name:any;
    constructor(bookname){
        console.log(bookname);
    }
}
}





export namespace TreeList{
export class MangoTree{
    name:any;
    constructor(treeName){
        console.log(treeName);
    }
}
export class GuvavaTree{
    name:any;
    constructor(treeName){
        console.log(treeName);
    }
}
}

bookTreeCombine.ts

---compilation part---

import {Bookname , TreeList} from './namespaceModule';
import b = require('./namespaceModule');
let BooknameLists = new Bookname.Adventure('Pirate treasure');
BooknameLists = new Bookname.Snows('ways to write a book'); 
const TreeLis = new TreeList.MangoTree('trees present in nature');
const TreeLists = new TreeList.GuvavaTree('trees are the celebraties');

Connect Bluestacks to Android Studio

  1. Goto Blustacks settings > Preferences > Check Enable Android Debug Bridge (ADB)
  2. Restart Bluestacks and Start Android Studio
  3. Done

How to generate unique IDs for form labels in React?

Following up as of 2019-04-04, this seems to be able to be accomplished with the React Hooks' useState:

import React, { useState } from 'react'
import uniqueId from 'lodash/utility/uniqueId'

const Field = props => {
  const [ id ] = useState(uniqueId('myprefix-'))

  return (
    <div>
      <label htmlFor={id}>{props.label}</label>
      <input id={id} type="text"/>
    </div>
  )      
}

export default Field

As I understand it, you ignore the second array item in the array destructuring that would allow you to update id, and now you've got a value that won't be updated again for the life of the component.

The value of id will be myprefix-<n> where <n> is an incremental integer value returned from uniqueId. If that's not unique enough for you, consider making your own like

function gen4() {
  return Math.random().toString(16).slice(-4)
}

function simpleUniqueId(prefix) {
  return (prefix || '').concat([
    gen4(),
    gen4(),
    gen4(),
    gen4(),
    gen4(),
    gen4(),
    gen4(),
    gen4()
  ].join(''))
}

or check out the library I published with this here: https://github.com/rpearce/simple-uniqueid. There are also hundreds or thousands of other unique ID things out there, but lodash's uniqueId with a prefix should be enough to get the job done.


Update 2019-07-10

Thanks to @Huong Hk for pointing me to hooks lazy initial state, the sum of which is that you can pass a function to useState that will only be run on the initial mount.

// before
const [ id ] = useState(uniqueId('myprefix-'))

// after
const [ id ] = useState(() => uniqueId('myprefix-'))

Disable single warning error

One may also use UNREFERENCED_PARAMETER defined in WinNT.H. The definition is just:

#define UNREFERENCED_PARAMETER(P)          (P)

And use it like:

void OnMessage(WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
    UNREFERENCED_PARAMETER(wParam);
    UNREFERENCED_PARAMETER(lParam);
}

Why would you use it, you might argue that you can just omit the variable name itself. Well, there are cases (different project configuration, Debug/Release builds) where the variable might actually be used. In another configuration that variable stands unused (and hence the warning).

Some static code analysis may still give warning for this non-nonsensical statement (wParam;). In that case, you mayuse DBG_UNREFERENCED_PARAMETER which is same as UNREFERENCED_PARAMETER in debug builds, and does P=P in release build.

#define DBG_UNREFERENCED_PARAMETER(P)      (P) = (P)

How to update record using Entity Framework 6?

Here is best solution for this issue: In View add all the ID (Keys). Consider having multiple tables named (First, Second and Third)

@Html.HiddenFor(model=>model.FirstID)
@Html.HiddenFor(model=>model.SecondID)
@Html.HiddenFor(model=>model.Second.SecondID)
@Html.HiddenFor(model=>model.Second.ThirdID)
@Html.HiddenFor(model=>model.Second.Third.ThirdID)

In C# code,

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Edit(First first)
{
  if (ModelState.Isvalid)
  {
    if (first.FirstID > 0)
    {
      datacontext.Entry(first).State = EntityState.Modified;
      datacontext.Entry(first.Second).State = EntityState.Modified;
      datacontext.Entry(first.Second.Third).State = EntityState.Modified;
    }
    else
    {
      datacontext.First.Add(first);
    }
    datacontext.SaveChanges();
    Return RedirectToAction("Index");
  }

 return View(first);
}

Get column value length, not column max length of value

LENGTH() does return the string length (just verified). I suppose that your data is padded with blanks - try

SELECT typ, LENGTH(TRIM(t1.typ))
FROM AUTA_VIEW t1;

instead.

As OraNob mentioned, another cause could be that CHAR is used in which case LENGTH() would also return the column width, not the string length. However, the TRIM() approach also works in this case.

Securely storing passwords for use in python script

I typically have a secrets.py that is stored separately from my other python scripts and is not under version control. Then whenever required, you can do from secrets import <required_pwd_var>. This way you can rely on the operating systems in-built file security system without re-inventing your own.

Using Base64 encoding/decoding is also another way to obfuscate the password though not completely secure

More here - Hiding a password in a python script (insecure obfuscation only)

Suppress console output in PowerShell

It is a duplicate of this question, with an answer that contains a time measurement of the different methods.

Conclusion: Use [void] or > $null.

Run PowerShell command from command prompt (no ps1 script)

Run it on a single command line like so:

powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -NoLogo -NonInteractive -NoProfile 
  -WindowStyle Hidden -Command "Get-AppLockerFileInformation -Directory <folderpath> 
  -Recurse -FileType <type>"

Servlet returns "HTTP Status 404 The requested resource (/servlet) is not available"

Check if you have entered the correct URL Mapping as specified in the Web.xml

For example:

In the web.xml, your servlet declaration maybe:

<servlet>
        <servlet-name>ControllerA</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>PackageName.ControllerA</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>ControllerA</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/theController</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

What this snippet does is <url-pattern>/theController</url-pattern>will set the name that will be used to call the servlet from the front end (eg: form) through the URL. Therefore when you reference the servlet in the front end, in order to ensure that the request goes to the servlet "ControllerA", it should refer the specified URL Pattern "theController" from the form.

eg:

<form action="theController" method="POST">
</form>

Curl command without using cache

The -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache' argument is not guaranteed to work because the remote server or any proxy layers in between can ignore it. If it doesn't work, you can do it the old-fashioned way, by adding a unique querystring parameter. Usually, the servers/proxies will think it's a unique URL and not use the cache.

curl "http://www.example.com?foo123"

You have to use a different querystring value every time, though. Otherwise, the server/proxies will match the cache again. To automatically generate a different querystring parameter every time, you can use date +%s, which will return the seconds since epoch.

curl "http://www.example.com?$(date +%s)"

text flowing out of div

Use

white-space: pre-line;

It will prevent text from flowing out of the div. It will break the text as it reaches the end of the div.

Accessing a matrix element in the "Mat" object (not the CvMat object) in OpenCV C++

On the documentation:

http://docs.opencv.org/2.4/modules/core/doc/basic_structures.html#mat

It says:

(...) if you know the matrix element type, e.g. it is float, then you can use at<>() method

That is, you can use:

Mat M(100, 100, CV_64F);
cout << M.at<double>(0,0);

Maybe it is easier to use the Mat_ class. It is a template wrapper for Mat. Mat_ has the operator() overloaded in order to access the elements.

How to use shell commands in Makefile

With:

FILES = $(shell ls)

indented underneath all like that, it's a build command. So this expands $(shell ls), then tries to run the command FILES ....

If FILES is supposed to be a make variable, these variables need to be assigned outside the recipe portion, e.g.:

FILES = $(shell ls)
all:
        echo $(FILES)

Of course, that means that FILES will be set to "output from ls" before running any of the commands that create the .tgz files. (Though as Kaz notes the variable is re-expanded each time, so eventually it will include the .tgz files; some make variants have FILES := ... to avoid this, for efficiency and/or correctness.1)

If FILES is supposed to be a shell variable, you can set it but you need to do it in shell-ese, with no spaces, and quoted:

all:
        FILES="$(shell ls)"

However, each line is run by a separate shell, so this variable will not survive to the next line, so you must then use it immediately:

        FILES="$(shell ls)"; echo $$FILES

This is all a bit silly since the shell will expand * (and other shell glob expressions) for you in the first place, so you can just:

        echo *

as your shell command.

Finally, as a general rule (not really applicable to this example): as esperanto notes in comments, using the output from ls is not completely reliable (some details depend on file names and sometimes even the version of ls; some versions of ls attempt to sanitize output in some cases). Thus, as l0b0 and idelic note, if you're using GNU make you can use $(wildcard) and $(subst ...) to accomplish everything inside make itself (avoiding any "weird characters in file name" issues). (In sh scripts, including the recipe portion of makefiles, another method is to use find ... -print0 | xargs -0 to avoid tripping over blanks, newlines, control characters, and so on.)


1The GNU Make documentation notes further that POSIX make added ::= assignment in 2012. I have not found a quick reference link to a POSIX document for this, nor do I know off-hand which make variants support ::= assignment, although GNU make does today, with the same meaning as :=, i.e., do the assignment right now with expansion.

Note that VAR := $(shell command args...) can also be spelled VAR != command args... in several make variants, including all modern GNU and BSD variants as far as I know. These other variants do not have $(shell) so using VAR != command args... is superior in both being shorter and working in more variants.

Is it possible in Java to catch two exceptions in the same catch block?

Before the launch of Java SE 7 we were habitual of writing code with multiple catch statements associated with a try block. A very basic Example:

 try {
  // some instructions
} catch(ATypeException e) {
} catch(BTypeException e) {
} catch(CTypeException e) {
}

But now with the latest update on Java, instead of writing multiple catch statements we can handle multiple exceptions within a single catch clause. Here is an example showing how this feature can be achieved.

try {
// some instructions
} catch(ATypeException|BTypeException|CTypeException ex) {
   throw e;
}

So multiple Exceptions in a single catch clause not only simplifies the code but also reduce the redundancy of code. I found this article which explains this feature very well along with its implementation. Improved and Better Exception Handling from Java 7 This may help you too.

What is thread Safe in java?

As Seth stated thread safe means that a method or class instance can be used by multiple threads at the same time without any problems occuring.

Consider the following method:

private int myInt = 0;
public int AddOne()
{
    int tmp = myInt;
    tmp = tmp + 1;
    myInt = tmp;
    return tmp;
}

Now thread A and thread B both would like to execute AddOne(). but A starts first and reads the value of myInt (0) into tmp. Now for some reason the scheduler decides to halt thread A and defer execution to thread B. Thread B now also reads the value of myInt (still 0) into it's own variable tmp. Thread B finishes the entire method, so in the end myInt = 1. And 1 is returned. Now it's Thread A's turn again. Thread A continues. And adds 1 to tmp (tmp was 0 for thread A). And then saves this value in myInt. myInt is again 1.

So in this case the method AddOne() was called two times, but because the method was not implemented in a thread safe way the value of myInt is not 2, as expected, but 1 because the second thread read the variable myInt before the first thread finished updating it.

Creating thread safe methods is very hard in non trivial cases. And there are quite a few techniques. In Java you can mark a method as synchronized, this means that only one thread can execute that method at a given time. The other threads wait in line. This makes a method thread safe, but if there is a lot of work to be done in a method, then this wastes a lot of time. Another technique is to 'mark only a small part of a method as synchronized' by creating a lock or semaphore, and locking this small part (usually called the critical section). There are even some methods that are implemented as lockless thread safe, which means that they are built in such a way that multiple threads can race through them at the same time without ever causing problems, this can be the case when a method only executes one atomic call. Atomic calls are calls that can't be interrupted and can only be done by one thread at a time.

How to programmatically tell if a Bluetooth device is connected?

Add bluetooth permission to your AndroidManifest,

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

Then use intent filters to listen to the ACTION_ACL_CONNECTED, ACTION_ACL_DISCONNECT_REQUESTED, and ACTION_ACL_DISCONNECTED broadcasts:

public void onCreate() {
    ...
    IntentFilter filter = new IntentFilter();
    filter.addAction(BluetoothDevice.ACTION_ACL_CONNECTED);
    filter.addAction(BluetoothDevice.ACTION_ACL_DISCONNECT_REQUESTED);
    filter.addAction(BluetoothDevice.ACTION_ACL_DISCONNECTED);
    this.registerReceiver(mReceiver, filter);
}

//The BroadcastReceiver that listens for bluetooth broadcasts
private final BroadcastReceiver mReceiver = new BroadcastReceiver() {
    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
        String action = intent.getAction();
        BluetoothDevice device = intent.getParcelableExtra(BluetoothDevice.EXTRA_DEVICE);

        if (BluetoothDevice.ACTION_FOUND.equals(action)) {
           ... //Device found
        }
        else if (BluetoothDevice.ACTION_ACL_CONNECTED.equals(action)) {
           ... //Device is now connected
        }
        else if (BluetoothAdapter.ACTION_DISCOVERY_FINISHED.equals(action)) {
           ... //Done searching
        }
        else if (BluetoothDevice.ACTION_ACL_DISCONNECT_REQUESTED.equals(action)) {
           ... //Device is about to disconnect
        }
        else if (BluetoothDevice.ACTION_ACL_DISCONNECTED.equals(action)) {
           ... //Device has disconnected
        }           
    }
};

A few notes:

  • There is no way to retrieve a list of connected devices at application startup. The Bluetooth API does not allow you to QUERY, instead it allows you to listen to CHANGES.
  • A hoaky work around to the above problem would be to retrieve the list of all known/paired devices... then trying to connect to each one (to determine if you're connected).
  • Alternatively, you could have a background service watch the Bluetooth API and write the device states to disk for your application to use at a later date.

Get Date Object In UTC format in Java

final Date currentTime = new Date();
final SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, MMM d, yyyy hh:mm:ss a z");
sdf.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
System.out.println("UTC time: " + sdf.format(currentTime));

Creating files in C++

One way to do this is to create an instance of the ofstream class, and use it to write to your file. Here's a link to a website that has some example code, and some more information about the standard tools available with most implementations of C++:

ofstream reference

For completeness, here's some example code:

// using ofstream constructors.
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>  

std::ofstream outfile ("test.txt");

outfile << "my text here!" << std::endl;

outfile.close();

You want to use std::endl to end your lines. An alternative is using '\n' character. These two things are different, std::endl flushes the buffer and writes your output immediately while '\n' allows the outfile to put all of your output into a buffer and maybe write it later.

Deserialize JSON with Jackson into Polymorphic Types - A Complete Example is giving me a compile error

As promised, I'm putting an example for how to use annotations to serialize/deserialize polymorphic objects, I based this example in the Animal class from the tutorial you were reading.

First of all your Animal class with the Json Annotations for the subclasses.

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnoreProperties;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonSubTypes;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonTypeInfo;

@JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
@JsonTypeInfo(use = JsonTypeInfo.Id.NAME, include = JsonTypeInfo.As.PROPERTY)
@JsonSubTypes({
    @JsonSubTypes.Type(value = Dog.class, name = "Dog"),

    @JsonSubTypes.Type(value = Cat.class, name = "Cat") }
)
public abstract class Animal {

    private String name;

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

}

Then your subclasses, Dog and Cat.

public class Dog extends Animal {

    private String breed;

    public Dog() {

    }

    public Dog(String name, String breed) {
        setName(name);
        setBreed(breed);
    }

    public String getBreed() {
        return breed;
    }

    public void setBreed(String breed) {
        this.breed = breed;
    }
}

public class Cat extends Animal {

    public String getFavoriteToy() {
        return favoriteToy;
    }

    public Cat() {}

    public Cat(String name, String favoriteToy) {
        setName(name);
        setFavoriteToy(favoriteToy);
    }

    public void setFavoriteToy(String favoriteToy) {
        this.favoriteToy = favoriteToy;
    }

    private String favoriteToy;

}

As you can see, there is nothing special for Cat and Dog, the only one that know about them is the abstract class Animal, so when deserializing, you'll target to Animal and the ObjectMapper will return the actual instance as you can see in the following test:

public class Test {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();

        Animal myDog = new Dog("ruffus","english shepherd");

        Animal myCat = new Cat("goya", "mice");

        try {
            String dogJson = objectMapper.writeValueAsString(myDog);

            System.out.println(dogJson);

            Animal deserializedDog = objectMapper.readValue(dogJson, Animal.class);

            System.out.println("Deserialized dogJson Class: " + deserializedDog.getClass().getSimpleName());

            String catJson = objectMapper.writeValueAsString(myCat);

            Animal deseriliazedCat = objectMapper.readValue(catJson, Animal.class);

            System.out.println("Deserialized catJson Class: " + deseriliazedCat.getClass().getSimpleName());



        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }
}

Output after running the Test class:

{"@type":"Dog","name":"ruffus","breed":"english shepherd"}

Deserialized dogJson Class: Dog

{"@type":"Cat","name":"goya","favoriteToy":"mice"}

Deserialized catJson Class: Cat

Hope this helps,

Jose Luis

jQuery Mobile: Stick footer to bottom of page

Since this issue is kind of old a lot of things have changed.

You can now get this behavior by adding this to the footer div

data-position="fixed"

More info here: http://jquerymobile.com/test/docs/toolbars/bars-fixed.html

Also beware, if you use the previously mentioned CSS together with the new JQM solution you will NOT get the appropriate behavior!

Best practice for localization and globalization of strings and labels

jQuery.i18n is a lightweight jQuery plugin for enabling internationalization in your web pages. It allows you to package custom resource strings in ‘.properties’ files, just like in Java Resource Bundles. It loads and parses resource bundles (.properties) based on provided language or language reported by browser.

to know more about this take a look at the How to internationalize your pages using JQuery?

getting a checkbox array value from POST

Check out the implode() function as an alternative. This will convert the array into a list. The first param is how you want the items separated. Here I have used a comma with a space after it.

$invite = implode(', ', $_POST['invite']);
echo $invite;

How can you float: right in React Native?

<View style={{ flex: 1, flexDirection: 'row', justifyContent: 'flex-end' }}>
  <Text>
  Some Text
  </Text>
</View>

flexDirection: If you want to move horizontally (row) or vertically (column)

justifyContent: the direction you want to move.

git: How to diff changed files versus previous versions after a pull?

If you do a straight git pull then you will either be 'fast-forwarded' or merge an unknown number of commits from the remote repository. This happens as one action though, so the last commit that you were at immediately before the pull will be the last entry in the reflog and can be accessed as HEAD@{1}. This means that you can do:

git diff HEAD@{1}

However, I would strongly recommend that if this is something you find yourself doing a lot then you should consider just doing a git fetch and examining the fetched branch before manually merging or rebasing onto it. E.g. if you're on master and were going to pull in origin/master:

git fetch

git log HEAD..origin/master

 # looks good, lets merge

git merge origin/master

How to set environment variables in Jenkins?

We use groovy job file:

description('')
steps {
    environmentVariables {
        envs(PUPPETEER_SKIP_CHROMIUM_DOWNLOAD: true)
    }
}

Is ini_set('max_execution_time', 0) a bad idea?

Reason is to have some value other than zero. General practice to have it short globally and long for long working scripts like parsers, crawlers, dumpers, exporting & importing scripts etc.

  1. You can halt server, corrupt work of other people by memory consuming script without even knowing it.
  2. You will not be seeing mistakes where something, let's say, infinite loop happened, and it will be harder to diagnose.
  3. Such site may be easily DoSed by single user, when requesting pages with long execution time

Regex match everything after question mark?

Check out this site: http://rubular.com/ Basically the site allows you to enter some example text (what you would be looking for on your site) and then as you build the regular expression it will highlight what is being matched in real time.

Link a .css on another folder

_x000D_
_x000D_
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
_x000D_
.tree-view-com ul li {_x000D_
  position: relative;_x000D_
  list-style: none;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.tree-view-com .tree-view-child > li{_x000D_
  padding-bottom: 30px;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.tree-view-com .tree-view-child > li:last-of-type{_x000D_
  padding-bottom: 0px;_x000D_
}_x000D_
 _x000D_
.tree-view-com ul li a .c-icon {_x000D_
  margin-right: 10px;_x000D_
  position: relative;_x000D_
  top: 2px;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.tree-view-com ul > li > ul {_x000D_
  margin-top: 20px;_x000D_
  position: relative;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.tree-view-com > ul > li:before {_x000D_
  content: "";_x000D_
  border-left: 1px dashed #ccc;_x000D_
  position: absolute;_x000D_
  height: calc(100% - 30px - 5px);_x000D_
  z-index: 1;_x000D_
  left: 8px;_x000D_
  top: 30px;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.tree-view-com > ul > li > ul > li:before {_x000D_
  content: "";_x000D_
  border-top: 1px dashed #ccc;_x000D_
  position: absolute;_x000D_
  width: 25px;_x000D_
  left: -32px;_x000D_
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Android App Not Install. An existing package by the same name with a conflicting signature is already installed

 Go to Settings > Apps, find and open the app info. Then, open the overflow menu (3 vertical dots), and choose Uninstall for all users.

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Go to Settings > Apps, find and open the app info. Then, open the overflow menu (3 vertical dots), and choose Uninstall for all users.

Seeing the underlying SQL in the Spring JdbcTemplate?

This works for me with org.springframework.jdbc-3.0.6.RELEASE.jar. I could not find this anywhere in the Spring docs (maybe I'm just lazy) but I found (trial and error) that the TRACE level did the magic.

I'm using log4j-1.2.15 along with slf4j (1.6.4) and properties file to configure the log4j:

log4j.logger.org.springframework.jdbc.core = TRACE

This displays both the SQL statement and bound parameters like this:

Executing prepared SQL statement [select HEADLINE_TEXT, NEWS_DATE_TIME from MY_TABLE where PRODUCT_KEY = ? and NEWS_DATE_TIME between ? and ? order by NEWS_DATE_TIME]
Setting SQL statement parameter value: column index 1, parameter value [aaa], value class [java.lang.String], SQL type unknown
Setting SQL statement parameter value: column index 2, parameter value [Thu Oct 11 08:00:00 CEST 2012], value class [java.util.Date], SQL type unknown
Setting SQL statement parameter value: column index 3, parameter value [Thu Oct 11 08:00:10 CEST 2012], value class [java.util.Date], SQL type unknown

Not sure about the SQL type unknown but I guess we can ignore it here

For just an SQL (i.e. if you're not interested in bound parameter values) DEBUG should be enough.

Purpose of "%matplotlib inline"

Starting with IPython 5.0 and matplotlib 2.0 you can avoid the use of IPython’s specific magic and use matplotlib.pyplot.ion()/matplotlib.pyplot.ioff() which have the advantages of working outside of IPython as well.

ipython docs

SQL Server Subquery returned more than 1 value. This is not permitted when the subquery follows =, !=, <, <= , >, >=

SELECT COLUMN 
    FROM TABLE 
WHERE columns_name
    IN ( SELECT COLUMN FROM TABLE WHERE columns_name = 'value');

note: when we are using sub-query we must focus on these points:

  1. if our sub query returns 1 value in this case we need to use (=,!=,<>,<,>....)
  2. else (more than one value), in this case we need to use (in, any, all, some )

Convert YYYYMMDD string date to a datetime value

You should have to use DateTime.TryParseExact.

var newDate = DateTime.ParseExact("20111120", 
                                  "yyyyMMdd", 
                                   CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

OR

string str = "20111021";
string[] format = {"yyyyMMdd"};
DateTime date;

if (DateTime.TryParseExact(str, 
                           format, 
                           System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,
                           System.Globalization.DateTimeStyles.None, 
                           out date))
{
     //valid
}

how to make log4j to write to the console as well

Your root logger definition is a bit confused. See the log4j documentation.

This is a standard Java properties file, which means that lines are treated as key=value pairs. Your second log4j.rootLogger line is overwriting the first, which explains why you aren't seeing anything on the console appender.

You need to merge your two rootLogger definitions into one. It looks like you're trying to have DEBUG messages go to the console and INFO messages to the file. The root logger can only have one level, so you need to change your configuration so that the appenders have appropriate levels.

While I haven't verified that this is correct, I'd guess it'll look something like this:

log4j.rootLogger=DEBUG,console,file
log4j.appender.console=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.file=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender

Note that you also have an error in casing - you have console lowercase in one place and in CAPS in another.

R dplyr: Drop multiple columns

Check the help on select_vars. That gives you some extra ideas on how to work with this.

In your case:

iris %>% select(-one_of(drop.cols))

What does "atomic" mean in programming?

"Atomic operation" means an operation that appears to be instantaneous from the perspective of all other threads. You don't need to worry about a partly complete operation when the guarantee applies.

How to implement "confirmation" dialog in Jquery UI dialog?

Simple and short solution that i just tried and it works

  $('.confirm').click(function() {
    $(this).removeClass('confirm');
    $(this).text("Sure?");
    $(this).unbind();
    return false;
  });

then just add the class="confirm" to your a link and it works!

Get Table and Index storage size in sql server

with pages as (
    SELECT object_id, SUM (reserved_page_count) as reserved_pages, SUM (used_page_count) as used_pages,
            SUM (case 
                    when (index_id < 2) then (in_row_data_page_count + lob_used_page_count + row_overflow_used_page_count)
                    else lob_used_page_count + row_overflow_used_page_count
                 end) as pages
    FROM sys.dm_db_partition_stats
    group by object_id
), extra as (
    SELECT p.object_id, sum(reserved_page_count) as reserved_pages, sum(used_page_count) as used_pages
    FROM sys.dm_db_partition_stats p, sys.internal_tables it
    WHERE it.internal_type IN (202,204,211,212,213,214,215,216) AND p.object_id = it.object_id
    group by p.object_id
)
SELECT object_schema_name(p.object_id) + '.' + object_name(p.object_id) as TableName, (p.reserved_pages + isnull(e.reserved_pages, 0)) * 8 as reserved_kb,
        pages * 8 as data_kb,
        (CASE WHEN p.used_pages + isnull(e.used_pages, 0) > pages THEN (p.used_pages + isnull(e.used_pages, 0) - pages) ELSE 0 END) * 8 as index_kb,
        (CASE WHEN p.reserved_pages + isnull(e.reserved_pages, 0) > p.used_pages + isnull(e.used_pages, 0) THEN (p.reserved_pages + isnull(e.reserved_pages, 0) - p.used_pages + isnull(e.used_pages, 0)) else 0 end) * 8 as unused_kb
from pages p
left outer join extra e on p.object_id = e.object_id

Takes into account internal tables, such as those used for XML storage.

Edit: If you divide the data_kb and index_kb values by 1024.0, you will get the numbers you see in the GUI.

Select distinct rows from datatable in Linq

We can get the distinct similar to the example shown below

 //example
           var  distinctValues =  DetailedBreakDown_Table.AsEnumerable().Select(r => new
            {
                InvestmentVehicleID = r.Field<string>("InvestmentVehicleID"),
                Universe = r.Field<string>("Universe"),
                AsOfDate = _imqDate,
                Ticker = "",
                Cusip = "",
                PortfolioDate = r.Field<DateTime>("PortfolioDate")

            } ).Distinct();

How to display activity indicator in middle of the iphone screen?

Try this way

UIActivityIndicatorView *activityIndicator = [[UIActivityIndicatorView alloc]initWithActivityIndicatorStyle:UIActivityIndicatorViewStyleGray];
    activityIndicator.frame = CGRectMake(10.0, 0.0, 40.0, 40.0);
    activityIndicator.center = super_view.center;
    [super_view addSubview: activityIndicator];

[activityIndicator startAnimating];

Use JSTL forEach loop's varStatus as an ID

You can try this. similar result

 <c:forEach items="${loopableObject}" var="theObject" varStatus="theCount">
    <div id="divIDNo${theCount.count}"></div>
 </c:forEach>

Decreasing height of bootstrap 3.0 navbar

Wanted to added my 2 pence and a thank you to James Poulose for his original answer it was the only one that worked for my particular project (MVC 5 with the latest version of Bootstrap 3).

This is mostly aimed at beginners, for clarity and to make future edits easier I suggest you add a section at the bottom of your CSS file for your project for example I like to do this:

/* Bootstrap overrides */

.some-class-here {
}

Taking James Poulose's answer above I did this:

/* Bootstrap overrides */   
.navbar-nav > li > a { padding-top: 8px !important; padding-bottom: 5px !important; }
.navbar { min-height: 32px !important; }
.navbar-brand { padding-top: 8px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; }

I changed the padding-top values to push the text down on my navbar element. You can pretty much override any Bootstrap element like this and its a good way of making changes without screwing up the Boostrap base classes because the last thing you want to do is make a change in there and then lose it when you updated Bootstrap!

Finally for even more separation I like to split up my CSS files and use @import declarations to import your sub-files into one main CSS File for easy management for example:

@import url('css/mysubcssfile.css');

note: if you're pulling in multiple files you need to make sure they load in the right order.

Hope this helps someone.

Convert seconds value to hours minutes seconds?

Is it necessary to use a BigDecimal? If you don't have to, I'd use an int or long for seconds, and it would simplify things a little bit:

hours = totalSecs / 3600;
minutes = (totalSecs % 3600) / 60;
seconds = totalSecs % 60;

timeString = String.format("%02d:%02d:%02d", hours, minutes, seconds);

You might want to pad each to make sure they're two digit values(or whatever) in the string, though.

How can I break up this long line in Python?

Personally I dislike hanging open blocks, so I'd format it as:

logger.info(
    'Skipping {0} because its thumbnail was already in our system as {1}.'
    .format(line[indexes['url']], video.title)
)

In general I wouldn't bother struggle too hard to make code fit exactly within a 80-column line. It's worth keeping line length down to reasonable levels, but the hard 80 limit is a thing of the past.

Change arrow colors in Bootstraps carousel

With Font Awesome icons:

<!-- Controls -->
<a class="carousel-control-prev" href="#carousel-example-generic" role="button" data-slide="prev">
  <span class="fa fa-chevron-left fa-lg" style="color:red;"></span>
  <span class="sr-only">Previous</span>
</a>
<a class="carousel-control-next" href="#carousel-example-generic" role="button" data-slide="next">
  <span class="fa fa-chevron-right fa-lg" style="color:red;"></span>
  <span class="sr-only">Next</span>
</a>

Statistics: combinations in Python

Why not write it yourself? It's a one-liner or such:

from operator import mul    # or mul=lambda x,y:x*y
from fractions import Fraction

def nCk(n,k): 
  return int( reduce(mul, (Fraction(n-i, i+1) for i in range(k)), 1) )

Test - printing Pascal's triangle:

>>> for n in range(17):
...     print ' '.join('%5d'%nCk(n,k) for k in range(n+1)).center(100)
...     
                                                   1                                                
                                                1     1                                             
                                             1     2     1                                          
                                          1     3     3     1                                       
                                       1     4     6     4     1                                    
                                    1     5    10    10     5     1                                 
                                 1     6    15    20    15     6     1                              
                              1     7    21    35    35    21     7     1                           
                           1     8    28    56    70    56    28     8     1                        
                        1     9    36    84   126   126    84    36     9     1                     
                     1    10    45   120   210   252   210   120    45    10     1                  
                  1    11    55   165   330   462   462   330   165    55    11     1               
               1    12    66   220   495   792   924   792   495   220    66    12     1            
            1    13    78   286   715  1287  1716  1716  1287   715   286    78    13     1         
         1    14    91   364  1001  2002  3003  3432  3003  2002  1001   364    91    14     1      
      1    15   105   455  1365  3003  5005  6435  6435  5005  3003  1365   455   105    15     1   
    1    16   120   560  1820  4368  8008 11440 12870 11440  8008  4368  1820   560   120    16     1
>>> 

PS. edited to replace int(round(reduce(mul, (float(n-i)/(i+1) for i in range(k)), 1))) with int(reduce(mul, (Fraction(n-i, i+1) for i in range(k)), 1)) so it won't err for big N/K

How to check if a double value has no decimal part

All Integers are modulo of 1. So below check must give you the answer.

if(d % 1 == 0)

Scale the contents of a div by a percentage?

You can simply use the zoom property:

#myContainer{
    zoom: 0.5;
    -moz-transform: scale(0.5);
}

Where myContainer contains all the elements you're editing. This is supported in all major browsers.

Transpose/Unzip Function (inverse of zip)?

While zip(*seq) is very useful, it may be unsuitable for very long sequences as it will create a tuple of values to be passed in. For example, I've been working with a coordinate system with over a million entries and find it signifcantly faster to create the sequences directly.

A generic approach would be something like this:

from collections import deque
seq = ((a1, b1, …), (a2, b2, …), …)
width = len(seq[0])
output = [deque(len(seq))] * width # preallocate memory
for element in seq:
    for s, item in zip(output, element):
        s.append(item)

But, depending on what you want to do with the result, the choice of collection can make a big difference. In my actual use case, using sets and no internal loop, is noticeably faster than all other approaches.

And, as others have noted, if you are doing this with datasets, it might make sense to use Numpy or Pandas collections instead.

What are the special dollar sign shell variables?

Take care with some of the examples; $0 may include some leading path as well as the name of the program. Eg save this two line script as ./mytry.sh and the execute it.

#!/bin/bash

echo "parameter 0 --> $0" ; exit 0

Output:

parameter 0 --> ./mytry.sh

This is on a current (year 2016) version of Bash, via Slackware 14.2

How to change the value of ${user} variable used in Eclipse templates

Window -> Preferences -> Java -> Code Style -> Code Templates -> Comments -> Types Chnage the tage infront ${user} to your name.

Before

/**
 * @author ${user}
 *
 * ${tags}
 */

After

/**
 * @author Waqas Ahmed
 *
 * ${tags}
 */

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How to run two jQuery animations simultaneously?

I believe I found the solution in the jQuery documentation:

Animates all paragraph to a left style of 50 and opacity of 1 (opaque, visible), completing the animation within 500 milliseconds. It also will do it outside the queue, meaning it will automatically start without waiting for its turn.

$( "p" ).animate({
  left: "50px", opacity: 1
}, { duration: 500, queue: false }); 

simply add: queue: false.

changing visibility using javascript

function loadpage (page_request, containerid)
{
  var loading = document.getElementById ( "loading" ) ;

  // when connecting to server
  if ( page_request.readyState == 1 )
      loading.style.visibility = "visible" ;

  // when loaded successfully
  if (page_request.readyState == 4 && (page_request.status==200 || window.location.href.indexOf("http")==-1))
  {
      document.getElementById(containerid).innerHTML=page_request.responseText ;
      loading.style.visibility = "hidden" ;
  }
}

BarCode Image Generator in Java

ZXing is a free open source Java library to read and generate barcode images. You need to get the source code and build the jars yourself. Here's a simple tutorial that I wrote for building with ZXing jars and writing your first program with ZXing.

[http://www.vineetmanohar.com/2010/09/java-barcode-api/]

tqdm in Jupyter Notebook prints new progress bars repeatedly

This is an alternative answer for the case where tqdm_notebook doesn't work for you.

Given the following example:

from time import sleep
from tqdm import tqdm

values = range(3)
with tqdm(total=len(values)) as pbar:
    for i in values:
        pbar.write('processed: %d' %i)
        pbar.update(1)
        sleep(1)

The output would look something like this (progress would show up red):

  0%|          | 0/3 [00:00<?, ?it/s]
processed: 1
 67%|¦¦¦¦¦¦?   | 2/3 [00:01<00:00,  1.99it/s]
processed: 2
100%|¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦| 3/3 [00:02<00:00,  1.53it/s]
processed: 3

The problem is that the output to stdout and stderr are processed asynchronously and separately in terms of new lines.

If say Jupyter receives on stderr the first line and then the "processed" output on stdout. Then once it receives an output on stderr to update the progress, it wouldn't go back and update the first line as it would only update the last line. Instead it will have to write a new line.

Workaround 1, writing to stdout

One workaround would be to output both to stdout instead:

import sys
from time import sleep
from tqdm import tqdm

values = range(3)
with tqdm(total=len(values), file=sys.stdout) as pbar:
    for i in values:
        pbar.write('processed: %d' % (1 + i))
        pbar.update(1)
        sleep(1)

The output will change to (no more red):

processed: 1   | 0/3 [00:00<?, ?it/s]
processed: 2   | 0/3 [00:00<?, ?it/s]
processed: 3   | 2/3 [00:01<00:00,  1.99it/s]
100%|¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦| 3/3 [00:02<00:00,  1.53it/s]

Here we can see that Jupyter doesn't seem to clear until the end of the line. We could add another workaround for that by adding spaces. Such as:

import sys
from time import sleep
from tqdm import tqdm

values = range(3)
with tqdm(total=len(values), file=sys.stdout) as pbar:
    for i in values:
        pbar.write('processed: %d%s' % (1 + i, ' ' * 50))
        pbar.update(1)
        sleep(1)

Which gives us:

processed: 1                                                  
processed: 2                                                  
processed: 3                                                  
100%|¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦| 3/3 [00:02<00:00,  1.53it/s]

Workaround 2, set description instead

It might in general be more straight forward not to have two outputs but update the description instead, e.g.:

import sys
from time import sleep
from tqdm import tqdm

values = range(3)
with tqdm(total=len(values), file=sys.stdout) as pbar:
    for i in values:
        pbar.set_description('processed: %d' % (1 + i))
        pbar.update(1)
        sleep(1)

With the output (description updated while it's processing):

processed: 3: 100%|¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦| 3/3 [00:02<00:00,  1.53it/s]

Conclusion

You can mostly get it to work fine with plain tqdm. But if tqdm_notebook works for you, just use that (but then you'd probably not read that far).

How to get the current plugin directory in WordPress?

This will actually get the result you want:

<?php plugin_dir_url(__FILE__); ?>

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/plugin_dir_url

Why do I get "Procedure expects parameter '@statement' of type 'ntext/nchar/nvarchar'." when I try to use sp_executesql?

The solution is to put an N in front of both the type and the SQL string to indicate it is a double-byte character string:

DECLARE @SQL NVARCHAR(100) 
SET @SQL = N'SELECT TOP 1 * FROM sys.tables' 
EXECUTE sp_executesql @SQL

Server returned HTTP response code: 401 for URL: https

401 means "Unauthorized", so there must be something with your credentials.

I think that java URL does not support the syntax you are showing. You could use an Authenticator instead.

Authenticator.setDefault(new Authenticator() {

    @Override
    protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {          
        return new PasswordAuthentication(login, password.toCharArray());
    }
});

and then simply invoking the regular url, without the credentials.

The other option is to provide the credentials in a Header:

String loginPassword = login+ ":" + password;
String encoded = new sun.misc.BASE64Encoder().encode (loginPassword.getBytes());
URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
conn.setRequestProperty ("Authorization", "Basic " + encoded);

PS: It is not recommended to use that Base64Encoder but this is only to show a quick solution. If you want to keep that solution, look for a library that does. There are plenty.

How To: Execute command line in C#, get STD OUT results

// Start the child process.
 Process p = new Process();
 // Redirect the output stream of the child process.
 p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
 p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
 p.StartInfo.FileName = "YOURBATCHFILE.bat";
 p.Start();
 // Do not wait for the child process to exit before
 // reading to the end of its redirected stream.
 // p.WaitForExit();
 // Read the output stream first and then wait.
 string output = p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
 p.WaitForExit();

Code is from MSDN.

ImageView in circular through xml

I have a simple solution. Create a new Image asset by right clicking your package name and selecting New->Image asset. Enter name (any name) and path (location of image in your system). Then click Next and Finish. If you enter name of image as 'img', a round image with the name 'img_round' is created automatically in mipmap folder.

Then, do this :

<ImageView
        android:layout_width="100dp"
        android:layout_height="100dp"
        android:src="@mipmap/img_round"/>

Your preview may still show a rectangular image. But if you run the app on your device, it will be round.

What Are Some Good .NET Profilers?

I have used JetBrains dotTrace and Redgate ANTS extensively. They are fairly similar in features and price. They both offer useful performance profiling and quite basic memory profiling.

dotTrace integrates with Resharper, which is really convenient, as you can profile the performance of a unit test with one click from the IDE. However, dotTrace often seems to give spurious results (e.g. saying that a method took several years to run)

I prefer the way that ANTS presents the profiling results. It shows you the source code and to the left of each line tells you how long it took to run. dotTrace just has a tree view.

EQATEC profiler is quite basic and requires you to compile special instrumented versions of your assemblies which can then be run in the EQATEC profiler. It is, however, free.

Overall I prefer ANTS for performance profiling, although if you use Resharper then the integration of dotTrace is a killer feature and means it beats ANTS in usability.

The free Microsoft CLR Profiler (.Net framework 2.0 / .Net Framework 4.0) is all you need for .NET memory profiling.

2011 Update:

The Scitech memory profiler has quite a basic UI but lots of useful information, including some information on unmanaged memory which dotTrace and ANTS lack - you might find it useful if you are doing COM interop, but I have yet to find any profiler that makes COM memory issues easy to diagnose - you usually have to break out windbg.exe.

The ANTS profiler has come on in leaps and bounds in the last few years, and its memory profiler has some truly useful features which now pushed it ahead of dotTrace as a package in my estimation. I'm lucky enough to have licenses for both, but if you are going to buy one .Net profiler for both performance and memory, make it ANTS.

What's the Use of '\r' escape sequence?

\r move the cursor to the begin of the line.

Line breaks are managed differently on different systems. Some only use \n (line feed, e.g. Unix), some use (\r e.g. MacOS before OS X afaik) and some use \r\n (e.g. Windows afaik).

CSS: Control space between bullet and <li>

Old question, but the :before pseudo element works well here.

<style>
    li:before {
        content: "";
        display: inline-block;
        height: 1rem;  // or px or em or whatever
        width: .5rem;  // or whatever space you want
    }
</style>

It works really well and doesn't require many extra rules or html.

<ul>
    <li>Some content</li>
    <li>Some other content</li>
</ul>

Cheers!

jquery validate check at least one checkbox

sir_neanderthal has already posted a nice answer.

I just want to point out that if you would like to use different names for your inputs you can also use (or just copy the method) require_from_group method from official jQuery Validation additional-methods.js (link to CDN for version 1.13.1).

Copying one structure to another

If the structures are of compatible types, yes, you can, with something like:

memcpy (dest_struct, source_struct, sizeof (*dest_struct));

The only thing you need to be aware of is that this is a shallow copy. In other words, if you have a char * pointing to a specific string, both structures will point to the same string.

And changing the contents of one of those string fields (the data that the char * points to, not the char * itself) will change the other as well.

If you want a easy copy without having to manually do each field but with the added bonus of non-shallow string copies, use strdup:

memcpy (dest_struct, source_struct, sizeof (*dest_struct));
dest_struct->strptr = strdup (source_struct->strptr);

This will copy the entire contents of the structure, then deep-copy the string, effectively giving a separate string to each structure.

And, if your C implementation doesn't have a strdup (it's not part of the ISO standard), get one from here.

SQL Server: Difference between PARTITION BY and GROUP BY

partition by doesn't actually roll up the data. It allows you to reset something on a per group basis. For example, you can get an ordinal column within a group by partitioning on the grouping field and using rownum() over the rows within that group. This gives you something that behaves a bit like an identity column that resets at the beginning of each group.

Python & Matplotlib: Make 3D plot interactive in Jupyter Notebook

For 3-D visualization pythreejs is the best way to go probably in the notebook. It leverages the interactive widget infrastructure of the notebook, so connection between the JS and python is seamless.

A more advanced library is bqplot which is a d3-based interactive viz library for the iPython notebook, but it only does 2D

store and retrieve a class object in shared preference

Using Gson Library:

dependencies {
compile 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.2'
}

Store:

Gson gson = new Gson();
//Your json response object value store in json object
JSONObject jsonObject = response.getJSONObject();
//Convert json object to string
String json = gson.toJson(jsonObject);
//Store in the sharedpreference
getPrefs().setUserJson(json);

Retrieve:

String json = getPrefs().getUserJson();

How do I add button on each row in datatable?

var table =$('#example').DataTable( {
    data: yourdata ,
    columns: [
        { data: "id" },
        { data: "name" },
        { data: "parent" },
        { data: "date" },

        {data: "id" , render : function ( data, type, row, meta ) {
              return type === 'display'  ?
                '<a href="<?php echo $delete_url;?>'+ data +'" ><i class="fe fe-delete"></i></a>' :
                data;
            }},
    ],
    }
}

What is the best algorithm for overriding GetHashCode?

Can try to adopt approach from C++ Boost libraries. Something like this:

class HashUtil
{
  public static int HashCombine(int seed, int other)
  {
    unchecked
    {
      return other + 0x9e3779b9 + (seed << 6) + (seed >> 2);
    }
  }
}

and then:

class MyClass
{
  private string _field1;
  private int _field2;
  private AnotherClass _field3;
  private YetAnotherClass _field4;

  public override int GetHashCode()
  {
    int result = HashUtil.HashCombine(_field1.GetHashCode(), _field2);
    result = HashUtil.HashCombine(result, _field3.GetHashCode());
    return HashUtil.HashCombine(result, _field4.GetHashCode());
  }
}

HTML not loading CSS file

You have to add type="text/css" you can also specify href="./style.css" which the . specifies the current directory

C++ inheritance - inaccessible base?

You have to do this:

class Bar : public Foo
{
    // ...
}

The default inheritance type of a class in C++ is private, so any public and protected members from the base class are limited to private. struct inheritance on the other hand is public by default.

Why would one mark local variables and method parameters as "final" in Java?

Yes do it.

It's about readability. It's easier to reason about the possible states of the program when you know that variables are assigned once and only once.

A decent alternative is to turn on the IDE warning when a parameter is assigned, or when a variable (other than a loop variable) is assigned more than once.

Insert/Update Many to Many Entity Framework . How do I do it?

I wanted to add my experience on that. Indeed EF, when you add an object to the context, it changes the state of all the children and related entities to Added. Although there is a small exception in the rule here: if the children/related entities are being tracked by the same context, EF does understand that these entities exist and doesn't add them. The problem happens when for example, you load the children/related entities from some other context or a web ui etc and then yes, EF doesn't know anything about these entities and goes and adds all of them. To avoid that, just get the keys of the entities and find them (e.g. context.Students.FirstOrDefault(s => s.Name == "Alice")) in the same context in which you want to do the addition.

Best way to check if a character array is empty

The second method would almost certainly be the fastest way to test whether a null-terminated string is empty, since it involves one read and one comparison. There's certainly nothing wrong with this approach in this case, so you may as well use it.

The third method doesn't check whether a character array is empty; it ensures that a character array is empty.

PHP How to fix Notice: Undefined variable:

Define the variables at the beginning of the function so if there are no records, the variables exist and you won't get the error. Check for null values in the returned array.

$hn = null;
$pid = null;
$datereg = null;
$prefix = null;
$fname = null;
$lname = null;
$age = null;
$sex = null;

How do I send a POST request as a JSON?

for python 3.4.2 I found the following will work:

import urllib.request
import json      

body = {'ids': [12, 14, 50]}  
myurl = "http://www.testmycode.com"

req = urllib.request.Request(myurl)
req.add_header('Content-Type', 'application/json; charset=utf-8')
jsondata = json.dumps(body)
jsondataasbytes = jsondata.encode('utf-8')   # needs to be bytes
req.add_header('Content-Length', len(jsondataasbytes))
response = urllib.request.urlopen(req, jsondataasbytes)

ADB Shell Input Events

By adb shell input keyevent, either an event_code or a string will be sent to the device.

usage: input [text|keyevent]
  input text <string>
  input keyevent <event_code>

Some possible values for event_code are:

0 -->  "KEYCODE_UNKNOWN" 
1 -->  "KEYCODE_MENU" 
2 -->  "KEYCODE_SOFT_RIGHT" 
3 -->  "KEYCODE_HOME" 
4 -->  "KEYCODE_BACK" 
5 -->  "KEYCODE_CALL" 
6 -->  "KEYCODE_ENDCALL" 
7 -->  "KEYCODE_0" 
8 -->  "KEYCODE_1" 
9 -->  "KEYCODE_2" 
10 -->  "KEYCODE_3" 
11 -->  "KEYCODE_4" 
12 -->  "KEYCODE_5" 
13 -->  "KEYCODE_6" 
14 -->  "KEYCODE_7" 
15 -->  "KEYCODE_8" 
16 -->  "KEYCODE_9" 
17 -->  "KEYCODE_STAR" 
18 -->  "KEYCODE_POUND" 
19 -->  "KEYCODE_DPAD_UP" 
20 -->  "KEYCODE_DPAD_DOWN" 
21 -->  "KEYCODE_DPAD_LEFT" 
22 -->  "KEYCODE_DPAD_RIGHT" 
23 -->  "KEYCODE_DPAD_CENTER" 
24 -->  "KEYCODE_VOLUME_UP" 
25 -->  "KEYCODE_VOLUME_DOWN" 
26 -->  "KEYCODE_POWER" 
27 -->  "KEYCODE_CAMERA" 
28 -->  "KEYCODE_CLEAR" 
29 -->  "KEYCODE_A" 
30 -->  "KEYCODE_B" 
31 -->  "KEYCODE_C" 
32 -->  "KEYCODE_D" 
33 -->  "KEYCODE_E" 
34 -->  "KEYCODE_F" 
35 -->  "KEYCODE_G" 
36 -->  "KEYCODE_H" 
37 -->  "KEYCODE_I" 
38 -->  "KEYCODE_J" 
39 -->  "KEYCODE_K" 
40 -->  "KEYCODE_L" 
41 -->  "KEYCODE_M" 
42 -->  "KEYCODE_N" 
43 -->  "KEYCODE_O" 
44 -->  "KEYCODE_P" 
45 -->  "KEYCODE_Q" 
46 -->  "KEYCODE_R" 
47 -->  "KEYCODE_S" 
48 -->  "KEYCODE_T" 
49 -->  "KEYCODE_U" 
50 -->  "KEYCODE_V" 
51 -->  "KEYCODE_W" 
52 -->  "KEYCODE_X" 
53 -->  "KEYCODE_Y" 
54 -->  "KEYCODE_Z" 
55 -->  "KEYCODE_COMMA" 
56 -->  "KEYCODE_PERIOD" 
57 -->  "KEYCODE_ALT_LEFT" 
58 -->  "KEYCODE_ALT_RIGHT" 
59 -->  "KEYCODE_SHIFT_LEFT" 
60 -->  "KEYCODE_SHIFT_RIGHT" 
61 -->  "KEYCODE_TAB" 
62 -->  "KEYCODE_SPACE" 
63 -->  "KEYCODE_SYM" 
64 -->  "KEYCODE_EXPLORER" 
65 -->  "KEYCODE_ENVELOPE" 
66 -->  "KEYCODE_ENTER" 
67 -->  "KEYCODE_DEL" 
68 -->  "KEYCODE_GRAVE" 
69 -->  "KEYCODE_MINUS" 
70 -->  "KEYCODE_EQUALS" 
71 -->  "KEYCODE_LEFT_BRACKET" 
72 -->  "KEYCODE_RIGHT_BRACKET" 
73 -->  "KEYCODE_BACKSLASH" 
74 -->  "KEYCODE_SEMICOLON" 
75 -->  "KEYCODE_APOSTROPHE" 
76 -->  "KEYCODE_SLASH" 
77 -->  "KEYCODE_AT" 
78 -->  "KEYCODE_NUM" 
79 -->  "KEYCODE_HEADSETHOOK" 
80 -->  "KEYCODE_FOCUS" 
81 -->  "KEYCODE_PLUS" 
82 -->  "KEYCODE_MENU" 
83 -->  "KEYCODE_NOTIFICATION" 
84 -->  "KEYCODE_SEARCH" 
85 -->  "TAG_LAST_KEYCODE"

The sendevent utility sends touch or keyboard events, as well as other events for simulating the hardware events. Refer to this article for details: Android, low level shell click on screen.

How to prevent Google Colab from disconnecting?

Try this to avoid all the annoying dialog boxes appearing while you work when trying to simulate the click on the toolbar connect button every minute. you can just copy paste this to your console, call the method and you can work on your notebook.

function connectRefresher() {
       window.ConnectButtonIntervalId = setInterval(function ConnectButton(){
                console.log("connected"); 
                document.querySelector("#top-toolbar > colab-connect-button").shadowRoot.querySelector("#connect").click();
                document.querySelector("colab-sessions-dialog").shadowRoot.querySelector("#footer > div > paper-button").click();
                console.log("closed the dialog!!"); 
            },60000);
    }
    
function clearRefresher() { 
           console.log("clear Interval called !!");
           clearInterval(window.ConnectButtonIntervalId);
    }

 connectRefresher(); //to connect the refresher
 clearRefresher(); //to disconnect the refresher

How to remove the default link color of the html hyperlink 'a' tag?

you can do some thing like this:

a {
    color: #0060B6;
    text-decoration: none;
}

a:hover 
{
     color:#00A0C6; 
     text-decoration:none; 
     cursor:pointer;  
}

if text-decoration doesn't work then include text-decoration: none !important;

How many significant digits do floats and doubles have in java?

float: 32 bits (4 bytes) where 23 bits are used for the mantissa (about 7 decimal digits). 8 bits are used for the exponent, so a float can “move” the decimal point to the right or to the left using those 8 bits. Doing so avoids storing lots of zeros in the mantissa as in 0.0000003 (3 × 10-7) or 3000000 (3 × 107). There is 1 bit used as the sign bit.

double: 64 bits (8 bytes) where 52 bits are used for the mantissa (about 16 decimal digits). 11 bits are used for the exponent and 1 bit is the sign bit.

Since we are using binary (only 0 and 1), one bit in the mantissa is implicitly 1 (both float and double use this trick) when the number is non-zero.

Also, since everything is in binary (mantissa and exponents) the conversions to decimal numbers are usually not exact. Numbers like 0.5, 0.25, 0.75, 0.125 are stored exactly, but 0.1 is not. As others have said, if you need to store cents precisely, do not use float or double, use int, long, BigInteger or BigDecimal.

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point#IEEE_754:_floating_point_in_modern_computers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary64

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary32

How to concatenate two strings in SQL Server 2005

DECLARE @COMBINED_STRINGS AS VARCHAR(50),
        @STRING1 AS VARCHAR(20),
        @STRING2 AS VARCHAR(20);

SET @STRING1 = 'rupesh''s';
SET @STRING2 = 'malviya';
SET @COMBINED_STRINGS = @STRING1 + @STRING2;

SELECT @COMBINED_STRINGS;

SELECT '2' + '3';

I typed this in a sql file named TEST.sql and I run it. I got the following out put.

+-------------------+
| @COMBINED_STRINGS |
+-------------------+
|                 0 |
+-------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

+-----------+
| '2' + '3' |
+-----------+
|         5 |
+-----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

After looking into this issue a bit more I found the best and sure sort way for string concatenation in SQL is by using CONCAT method. So I made the following changes in the same file.

#DECLARE @COMBINED_STRINGS AS VARCHAR(50),
 #       @STRING1 AS VARCHAR(20),
 #       @STRING2 AS VARCHAR(20);

SET @STRING1 = 'rupesh''s';
SET @STRING2 = 'malviya';
#SET @COMBINED_STRINGS = @STRING1 + @STRING2;
SET @COMBINED_STRINGS = (SELECT CONCAT(@STRING1, @STRING2));

SELECT @COMBINED_STRINGS;

#SELECT '2' + '3';
SELECT CONCAT('2','3');

and after executing the file this was the output.

+-------------------+
| @COMBINED_STRINGS |
+-------------------+
| rupesh'smalviya   |
+-------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

+-----------------+
| CONCAT('2','3') |
+-----------------+
| 23              |
+-----------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

SQL version I am using is: 14.14

How to check if IsNumeric

You should use TryParse - Parse throws an exception if the string is not a valid number - e.g. if you want to test for a valid integer:

int v;
if (Int32.TryParse(textMyText.Text.Trim(), out v)) {
  . . .
}

If you want to test for a valid floating-point number:

double v;
if (Double.TryParse(textMyText.Text.Trim(), out v)) {
  . . .
}

Note also that Double.TryParse has an overloaded version with extra parameters specifying various rules and options controlling the parsing process - e.g. localization ('.' or ',') - see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/3s27fasw.aspx.

How can I wait In Node.js (JavaScript)? l need to pause for a period of time

Simple and elegant sleep function using modern Javascript

function sleep(millis) {
    return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, millis));
}

No dependencies, no callback hell; that's it :-)


Considering the example given in the question, this is how we would sleep between two console logs:

async function main() {
    console.log("Foo");
    await sleep(2000);
    console.log("Bar");
}

main();

The "drawback" is that your main function now has to be async as well. But, considering you are already writing modern Javascript code, you are probably (or at least should be!) using async/await all over your code, so this is really not an issue. All modern browsers today support it.

Giving a little insight into the sleep function for those that are not used to async/await and fat arrow operators, this is the verbose way of writing it:

function sleep(millis) {
    return new Promise(function (resolve, reject) {
        setTimeout(function () { resolve(); }, millis);
    });
}

Using the fat arrow operator, though, makes it even smaller (and more elegant).

Form inside a form, is that alright?

Though you can have several <form> elements in one HTML page, you cannot nest them.

matplotlib savefig() plots different from show()

savefig specifies the DPI for the saved figure (The default is 100 if it's not specified in your .matplotlibrc, have a look at the dpi kwarg to savefig). It doesn't inheret it from the DPI of the original figure.

The DPI affects the relative size of the text and width of the stroke on lines, etc. If you want things to look identical, then pass fig.dpi to fig.savefig.

E.g.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig = plt.figure()
plt.plot(range(10))
fig.savefig('temp.png', dpi=fig.dpi)

Using an authorization header with Fetch in React Native

completed = (id) => {
    var details = {
        'id': id,

    };

    var formBody = [];
    for (var property in details) {
        var encodedKey = encodeURIComponent(property);
        var encodedValue = encodeURIComponent(details[property]);
        formBody.push(encodedKey + "=" + encodedValue);
    }
    formBody = formBody.join("&");

    fetch(markcompleted, {
        method: 'POST',
        headers: {
            'Accept': 'application/json',
            'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
        },
        body: formBody
    })
        .then((response) => response.json())
        .then((responseJson) => {
            console.log(responseJson, 'res JSON');
            if (responseJson.status == "success") {
                console.log(this.state);
                alert("your todolist is completed!!");
            }
        })
        .catch((error) => {
            console.error(error);
        });
};

How to shuffle an ArrayList

Try Collections.shuffle(list).If usage of this method is barred for solving the problem, then one can look at the actual implementation.

Change width of select tag in Twitter Bootstrap

For me Pawan's css class combined with display: inline-block (so the selects don't stack) works best. And I wrap it in a media-query, so it stays Mobile Friendly:

@media (min-width: $screen-xs) {

    .selectwidthauto {
         width:auto !important;
         display: inline-block;
    }

}

How to change css property using javascript

You can use style property for this. For example, if you want to change border -

document.elm.style.border = "3px solid #FF0000";

similarly for color -

 document.getElementById("p2").style.color="blue";

Best thing is you define a class and do this -

document.getElementById("p2").className = "classname";

(Cross Browser artifacts must be considered accordingly).

jQuery remove all list items from an unordered list

this worked for me with minimal code

$(my_list).remove('li');

How to make a new List in Java

The following are some ways you can create lists.

  • This will create a list with fixed size, adding/removing elements is not possible, it will throw a java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException if you try to do so.

    List<String> fixedSizeList = Arrays.asList(new String[] {"Male", "Female"});
    


  • The following version is a simple list where you can add/remove any number of elements.

    List<String> list = new ArrayList<>();
    


  • This is how to create a LinkedList in java, If you need to do frequent insertion/deletion of elements on the list, you should use LinkedList instead of ArrayList

    List<String> linkedList = new LinkedList<>();
    

Get value when selected ng-option changes

I am late here but I resolved same kind of problem in this way that is simple and easy.

<select ng-model="blisterPackTemplateSelected" ng-change="selectedBlisterPack(blisterPackTemplateSelected)">
<option value="">Select Account</option>
<option ng-repeat="blisterPacks in blisterPackTemplates" value="{{blisterPacks.id}}">{{blisterPacks.name}}</option>

and the function for ng-change is as follows;

 $scope.selectedBlisterPack= function (value) {  

        console.log($scope.blisterPackTemplateSelected);

    };

What's the best strategy for unit-testing database-driven applications?

Even if there are tools that allow you to mock your database in one way or another (e.g. jOOQ's MockConnection, which can be seen in this answer - disclaimer, I work for jOOQ's vendor), I would advise not to mock larger databases with complex queries.

Even if you just want to integration-test your ORM, beware that an ORM issues a very complex series of queries to your database, that may vary in

  • syntax
  • complexity
  • order (!)

Mocking all that to produce sensible dummy data is quite hard, unless you're actually building a little database inside your mock, which interprets the transmitted SQL statements. Having said so, use a well-known integration-test database that you can easily reset with well-known data, against which you can run your integration tests.

Is there a mechanism to loop x times in ES6 (ECMAScript 6) without mutable variables?

If you're willing to use a library, there's also lodash _.times or underscore _.times:

_.times(x, i => {
   return doStuff(i)
})

Note this returns an array of the results, so it's really more like this ruby:

x.times.map { |i|
  doStuff(i)
}

How to load specific image from assets with Swift

Since swift 3.0 there is more convenient way: #imageLiterals here is text example. And below animated example from here:

enter image description here

NPM: npm-cli.js not found when running npm

I encountered the same problem with node 8.5 when installed with nvm. The below solution worked for me

$ nvm uninstall 8.5
8.5.0
Uninstalling node v8.5.0...Error removing node v8.5.0
Manually remove C:\Users\Omkar\AppData\Roaming\nvm\v8.5.0.

$ nvm install 8.5
8.5.0
Downloading node.js version 8.5.0 (64-bit)...
Complete
Creating C:\Users\Omkar\AppData\Roaming\nvm\temp

Downloading npm version 5.3.0... Complete
Installing npm v5.3.0...

Installation complete. If you want to use this version, type

nvm use 8.5.0

Omkar@VAST-0137 MINGW64 /d/code

This worked for me cause node 8.5 was not correctly installed before with nvm. I figured it out cause "npm\bin\npm-cli.js" folders and files were not created inside node_modules before.

while installing vc_redist.x64.exe, getting error "Failed to configure per-machine MSU package."

Posting answer to my own question as I found it here and was hidden in bottom somewhere -

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/64baed8c-b00c-40d5-b19a-99b26a11516e/visual-c-redistributable-for-visual-studio-2015-rc-fails-on-windows-server-2012?forum=vssetup

This is because the OS failed to install the required update Windows8.1-KB2999226-x64.msu.

However, you can install it by extracting that update to a folder (e.g. XXXX), and execute following cmdlet. You can find the Windows8.1-KB2999226-x64.msu at below.

C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\469A82B09E217DDCF849181A586DF1C97C0C5C85\packages\Patch\amd64\Windows8.1-KB2999226-x64.msu

copy this file to a folder you like, and

Create a folder XXXX in that and execute following commands from Admin command propmt

wusa.exe Windows8.1-KB2999226-x64.msu /extract:XXXX

DISM.exe /Online /Add-Package /PackagePath:XXXX\Windows8.1-KB2999226-x64.cab

vc_redist.x64.exe /repair

(last command need not be run. Just execute vc_redist.x64.exe once again)

this worked for me.

Echo off but messages are displayed

@echo off
// quote the path or else it won't work if there are spaces in the path
SET INSTALL_PATH="c:\\etc etc\\test";
if exist %INSTALL_PATH% (
   //
   echo 222;
)

Difference between jar and war in Java

A .war file has a specific structure in terms of where certain files will be. Other than that, yes, it's just a .jar.

How can I run another application within a panel of my C# program?

Short Answer:

No

Shortish Answer:

Only if the other application is designed to allow it, by providing components for you to add into your own application.

get keys of json-object in JavaScript

var jsonData = [{"person":"me","age":"30"},{"person":"you","age":"25"}];

for(var i in jsonData){
    var key = i;
    var val = jsonData[i];
    for(var j in val){
        var sub_key = j;
        var sub_val = val[j];
        console.log(sub_key);
    }
}

EDIT

var jsonObj = {"person":"me","age":"30"};
Object.keys(jsonObj);  // returns ["person", "age"]

Object has a property keys, returns an Array of keys from that Object

Chrome, FF & Safari supports Object.keys

string.IsNullOrEmpty(string) vs. string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(string)

Check this out with IsNullOrEmpty and IsNullOrwhiteSpace

string sTestes = "I like sweat peaches";
    Stopwatch stopWatch = new Stopwatch();
    stopWatch.Start();
    for (int i = 0; i < 5000000; i++)
    {
        for (int z = 0; z < 500; z++)
        {
            var x = string.IsNullOrEmpty(sTestes);// OR string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace
        }
    }

    stopWatch.Stop();
    // Get the elapsed time as a TimeSpan value.
    TimeSpan ts = stopWatch.Elapsed;
    // Format and display the TimeSpan value. 
    string elapsedTime = String.Format("{0:00}:{1:00}:{2:00}.{3:00}",
        ts.Hours, ts.Minutes, ts.Seconds,
        ts.Milliseconds / 10);
    Console.WriteLine("RunTime " + elapsedTime);
    Console.ReadLine();

You'll see that IsNullOrWhiteSpace is much slower :/

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

When choosing the "best" approach, a more important consideration than speed might be the maintainability and correctness of your code. If so, SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS is preferable because you only need to maintain a single query. Using a single query completely precludes the possibility of a subtle difference between the main and count queries, which may lead to an inaccurate COUNT.

SQL Network Interfaces, error: 50 - Local Database Runtime error occurred. Cannot create an automatic instance

My issue was that i had multiple versions of MS SQL express installed. I went to installation folder C:/ProgramFiles/MicrosoftSQL Server/ where i found 3 versions of it. I deleted 2 folders, and left only MSSQL13.SQLEXPRESS which solved the problem.

Java null check why use == instead of .equals()

If you try calling equals on a null object reference, then you'll get a null pointer exception thrown.

C# removing items from listbox

   for (int i = 0; i < listBox1.Items.Count; i++)
    {
        if (textBox1.Text == listBox1.Items[i].ToString())
        {
            jeElement = true;
            break;
        }
    }
    if (jeElement)
    {
        label1.Text = "je element";
    }
    else
    {
        label1.Text = "ni element";
    }
    textBox1.ResetText();
    textBox1.Focus();

}

private void Form1_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Alt == true && e.KeyCode == Keys.A)
    {
        buttonCheck.PerformClick();
    }
}

}

How to center a label text in WPF?

You have to use HorizontalContentAlignment="Center" and! Width="Auto".

Remove pattern from string with gsub

Just to point out that there is an approach using functions from the tidyverse, which I find more readable than gsub:

a %>% stringr::str_remove(pattern = ".*_")

Bundle ID Suffix? What is it?

If you don't have a company, leave your name, it doesn't matter as long as both bundle id in info.plist file and the one you've submitted in iTunes Connect match.

In Bundle ID Suffix you should write full name of bundle ID.

Example:

Bundle ID suffix = thebestapp (NOT CORRECT!!!!)

Bundle ID suffix = com.awesomeapps.thebestapp (CORRECT!!)

The reason for this is explained in the Developer Portal:

The App ID string contains two parts separated by a period (.) — an App ID Prefix (your Team ID by default, e.g. ABCDE12345), and an App ID Suffix (a Bundle ID search string, e.g. com.mycompany.appname). [emphasis added]

So in this case the suffix is the full string com.awesomeapps.thebestapp.

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

My 2 cents if someone:

Just want to list file names (excluding directories) from a local sub-folder on their project

  • ? No additional dependencies
  • ? 1 function
  • ? Normalize path (Unix vs. Windows)
const fs = require("fs");
const path = require("path");

/**
 * @param {string} relativeName "resources/foo/goo"
 * @return {string[]}
 */
const listFileNames = (relativeName) => {
  try {
    const folderPath = path.join(process.cwd(), ...relativeName.split("/"));
    return fs
      .readdirSync(folderPath, { withFileTypes: true })
      .filter((dirent) => dirent.isFile())
      .map((dirent) => dirent.name.split(".")[0]);
  } catch (err) {
    // ...
  }
};

README.md
package.json
resources
 |-- countries
    |-- usa.yaml
    |-- japan.yaml
    |-- gb.yaml
    |-- provinces
       |-- .........


listFileNames("resources/countries") #=> ["usa", "japan", "gb"]

MySQL trigger if condition exists

Try to do...

 DELIMITER $$
        CREATE TRIGGER aumentarsalario 
        BEFORE INSERT 
        ON empregados
        FOR EACH ROW
        BEGIN
          if (NEW.SALARIO < 900) THEN 
             set NEW.SALARIO = NEW.SALARIO + (NEW.SALARIO * 0.1);
          END IF;
        END $$
  DELIMITER ;

how to find seconds since 1970 in java

Another option is to use the TimeUtils utility method:

TimeUtils.millisToUnit(System.currentTimeMillis(), TimeUnit.SECONDS)

How to consume a SOAP web service in Java

I will use CXF also you can think of AXIS 2 .

The best way to do it may be using JAX RS Refer this example

Example:

wsimport -p stockquote http://stockquote.xyz/quote?wsdl

This will generate the Java artifacts and compile them by importing the http://stockquote.xyz/quote?wsdl.

I

Close Form Button Event

Try This: Application.ExitThread();

How do I ignore all files in a folder with a Git repository in Sourcetree?

Right click on a file → IgnoreIgnore everything beneath.

If the Ignore option is grayed out then:

  1. Stage a file first
  2. Right click → Stop Tracking
  3. That file will appear in the pane below with a question mark → Right click on it→ Ignore

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Keystore change passwords

To change the password for a key myalias inside of the keystore mykeyfile:

keytool -keystore mykeyfile -keypasswd -alias myalias

How do I install Keras and Theano in Anaconda Python on Windows?

I use macOS and used to have the same problem.
Running the following command in the terminal saved me:

conda install -c conda-forge keras tensorflow

Hope it helps.

Any way (or shortcut) to auto import the classes in IntelliJ IDEA like in Eclipse?

Can't import all at once but can use following combination:

ALT + Enter --> Show intention actions and quick-fixes.

F2 --> Next highlighted error.

How can I open a link in a new window?

Here's how to force the target inside a click handler:

$('a#link_id').click(function() {
    $(this).attr('target', '_blank');
});

Converting data frame column from character to numeric

If we need only one column to be numeric

yyz$b <- as.numeric(as.character(yyz$b))

But, if all the columns needs to changed to numeric, use lapply to loop over the columns and convert to numeric by first converting it to character class as the columns were factor.

yyz[] <- lapply(yyz, function(x) as.numeric(as.character(x)))

Both the columns in the OP's post are factor because of the string "n/a". This could be easily avoided while reading the file using na.strings = "n/a" in the read.table/read.csv or if we are using data.frame, we can have character columns with stringsAsFactors=FALSE (the default is stringsAsFactors=TRUE)


Regarding the usage of apply, it converts the dataset to matrix and matrix can hold only a single class. To check the class, we need

lapply(yyz, class)

Or

sapply(yyz, class)

Or check

str(yyz)

new Runnable() but no new thread?

Shouldn't creating a new Runnable class make a new second thread?

No. new Runnable does not create second Thread.

What is the purpose of the Runnable class here apart from being able to pass a Runnable class to postAtTime?

Runnable is posted to Handler. This task runs in the thread, which is associated with Handler.

If Handler is associated with UI Thread, Runnable runs in UI Thread.

If Handler is associated with other HandlerThread, Runnable runs in HandlerThread


To explicitly associate Handler to your MainThread ( UI Thread), write below code.

Handler  mHandler = new Handler(Looper.getMainLooper();

If you write is as below, it uses HandlerThread Looper.

HandlerThread handlerThread = new HandlerThread("HandlerThread");
handlerThread.start();
Handler requestHandler = new Handler(handlerThread.getLooper());

AngularJS ng-if with multiple conditions

you can also try with && for mandatory constion if both condtion are true than work

//div ng-repeat="(k,v) in items"

<div ng-if="(k == 'a' &&  k == 'b')">
    <!-- SOME CONTENT -->
</div>

Viewing full version tree in git

You can try the following:

gitk --all

You can tell gitk what to display using anything that git rev-list understands, so if you just want a few branches, you can do:

gitk master origin/master origin/experiment

... or more exotic things like:

gitk --simplify-by-decoration --all

Searching if value exists in a list of objects using Linq

LINQ defines an extension method that is perfect for solving this exact problem:

using System.Linq;
...
    bool has = list.Any(cus => cus.FirstName == "John");

make sure you reference System.Core.dll, that's where LINQ lives.

Javascript Audio Play on click

Try the below code snippet

<!doctype html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Audio</title>
  </head>
  <body>

    <script>
      function play() {
        var audio = document.getElementById("audio");
        audio.play();
      }
    </script>

    <input type="button" value="PLAY" onclick="play()">
    <audio id="audio" src="http://dev.interactive-creation-works.net/1/1.ogg"></audio>

  </body>
</html>

PHP "php://input" vs $_POST

First, a basic truth about PHP.

PHP was not designed to explicitly give you a pure REST (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE) like interface for handling HTTP requests.

However, the $_SERVER, $_COOKIE, $_POST, $_GET, and $_FILES superglobals, and the function filter_input_array() are very useful for the average person's / layman's needs.

The number one hidden advantage of $_POST (and $_GET) is that your input data is url-decoded automatically by PHP. You never even think about having to do it, especially for query string parameters within a standard GET request, or HTTP body data submitted with a POST request.

Other HTTP Request Methods

Those studying the underlying HTTP protocol and its various request methods come to understand that there are many HTTP request methods, including the often referenced PUT, PATCH (not used in Google's Apigee), and DELETE.

In PHP, there are no superglobals or input filter functions for getting HTTP request body data when POST is not used. What are disciples of Roy Fielding to do? ;-)

However, then you learn more ...

That being said, as you advance in your PHP programming knowledge and want to use JavaScript's XmlHttpRequest object (jQuery for some), you come to see the limitation of this scheme.

$_POST limits you to the use of two media types in the HTTP Content-Type header:

  1. application/x-www-form-urlencoded, and
  2. multipart/form-data

Thus, if you want to send data values to PHP on the server, and have it show up in the $_POST superglobal, then you must urlencode it on the client-side and send said data as key/value pairs--an inconvenient step for novices (especially when trying to figure out if different parts of the URL require different forms of urlencoding: normal, raw, etc..).

For all you jQuery users, the $.ajax() method is converting your JSON to URL encoded key/value pairs before transmitting them to the server. You can override this behavior by setting processData: false. Just read the $.ajax() documentation, and don't forget to send the correct media type in the Content-Type header.

php://input, but ...

Even if you use php://input instead of $_POST for your HTTP POST request body data, it will not work with an HTTP Content-Type of multipart/form-data This is the content type that you use on an HTML form when you want to allow file uploads!

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" accept-charset="utf-8" action="post">
    <input type="file" name="resume">
</form>

Therefore, in traditional PHP, to deal with a diversity of content types from an HTTP POST request, you will learn to use $_POST or filter_input_array(POST), $_FILES, and php://input. There is no way to just use one, universal input source for HTTP POST requests in PHP.

You cannot get files through $_POST, filter_input_array(POST), or php://input, and you cannot get JSON/XML/YAML in either filter_input_array(POST) or $_POST.

PHP Manual: php://input

php://input is a read-only stream that allows you to read raw data from the request body...php://input is not available with enctype="multipart/form-data".

PHP Frameworks to the rescue?

PHP frameworks like Codeigniter 4 and Laravel use a facade to provide a cleaner interface (IncomingRequest or Request objects) to the above. This is why professional PHP developers use frameworks instead of raw PHP.

Of course, if you like to program, you can devise your own facade object to provide what frameworks do. It is because I have taken time to investigate this issue that I am able to write this answer.

URL encoding? What the heck!!!???

Typically, if you are doing a normal, synchronous (when the entire page redraws) HTTP requests with an HTML form, the user-agent (web browser) will urlencode your form data for you. If you want to do an asynchronous HTTP requests using the XmlHttpRequest object, then you must fashion a urlencoded string and send it, if you want that data to show up in the $_POST superglobal.

How in touch are you with JavaScript? :-)

Converting from a JavaScript array or object to a urlencoded string bothers many developers (even with new APIs like Form Data). They would much rather just be able to send JSON, and it would be more efficient for the client code to do so.

Remember (wink, wink), the average web developer does not learn to use the XmlHttpRequest object directly, global functions, string functions, array functions, and regular expressions like you and I ;-). Urlencoding for them is a nightmare. ;-)

PHP, what gives?

PHP's lack of intuitive XML and JSON handling turns many people off. You would think it would be part of PHP by now (sigh).

So many media types (MIME types in the past)

XML, JSON, and YAML all have media types that can be put into an HTTP Content-Type header.

  • application/xml
  • applicaiton/json
  • application/yaml (although IANA has no official designation listed)

Look how many media-types (formerly, MIME types) are defined by IANA.

Look how many HTTP headers there are.

php://input or bust

Using the php://input stream allows you to circumvent the baby-sitting / hand holding level of abstraction that PHP has forced on the world. :-) With great power comes great responsibility!

Now, before you deal with data values streamed through php://input, you should / must do a few things.

  1. Determine if the correct HTTP method has been indicated (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, ...)
  2. Determine if the HTTP Content-Type header has been transmitted.
  3. Determine if the value for the Content-Type is the desired media type.
  4. Determine if the data sent is well formed XML / JSON / YAML / etc.
  5. If necessary, convert the data to a PHP datatype: array or object.
  6. If any of these basic checks or conversions fails, throw an exception!

What about the character encoding?

AH, HA! Yes, you might want the data stream being sent into your application to be UTF-8 encoded, but how can you know if it is or not?

Two critical problems.

  1. You do not know how much data is coming through php://input.
  2. You do not know for certain the current encoding of the data stream.

Are you going to attempt to handle stream data without knowing how much is there first? That is a terrible idea. You cannot rely exclusively on the HTTP Content-Length header for guidance on the size of streamed input because it can be spoofed.

You are going to need a:

  1. Stream size detection algorithm.
  2. Application defined stream size limits (Apache / Nginx / PHP limits may be too broad).

Are you going to attempt to convert stream data to UTF-8 without knowing the current encoding of the stream? How? The iconv stream filter (iconv stream filter example) seems to want a starting and ending encoding, like this.

'convert.iconv.ISO-8859-1/UTF-8'

Thus, if you are conscientious, you will need:

  1. Stream encoding detection algorithm.
  2. Dynamic / runtime stream filter definition algorithm (because you cannot know the starting encoding a priori).

(Update: 'convert.iconv.UTF-8/UTF-8' will force everything to UTF-8, but you still have to account for characters that the iconv library might not know how to translate. In other words, you have to some how define what action to take when a character cannot be translated: 1) Insert a dummy character, 2) Fail / throw and exception).

You cannot rely exclusively on the HTTP Content-Encoding header, as this might indicate something like compression as in the following. This is not what you want to make a decision off of in regards to iconv.

Content-Encoding: gzip

Therefore, the general steps might be ...

Part I: HTTP Request Related

  1. Determine if the correct HTTP method has been indicated (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, ...)
  2. Determine if the HTTP Content-Type header has been transmitted.
  3. Determine if the value for the Content-Type is the desired media type.

Part II: Stream Data Related

  1. Determine the size of the input stream (optional, but recommended).
  2. Determine the encoding of the input stream.
  3. If necessary, convert the input stream to the desired character encoding (UTF-8).
  4. If necessary, reverse any application level compression or encryption, and then repeat steps 4, 5, and 6.

Part III: Data Type Related

  1. Determine if the data sent is well formed XML / JSON / YMAL / etc.

(Remember, the data can still be a URL encoded string which you must then parse and URL decode).

  1. If necessary, convert the data to a PHP datatype: array or object.

Part IV: Data Value Related

  1. Filter input data.

  2. Validate input data.

Now do you see?

The $_POST superglobal, along with php.ini settings for limits on input, are simpler for the layman. However, dealing with character encoding is much more intuitive and efficient when using streams because there is no need to loop through superglobals (or arrays, generally) to check input values for the proper encoding.

What is the meaning of CTOR?

To expand a little more, there are two kinds of constructors: instance initializers (.ctor), type initializers (.cctor). Build the code below, and explore the IL code in ildasm.exe. You will notice that the static field 'b' will be initialized through .cctor() whereas the instance field will be initialized through .ctor()

internal sealed class CtorExplorer
{
   protected int a = 0;
   protected static int b = 0;
}

How to discard local changes and pull latest from GitHub repository

In addition to the above answers, there is always the scorched earth method.

rm -R <folder>

in Windows shell the command is:

rd /s <folder>

Then you can just checkout the project again:

git clone -v <repository URL> 

This will definitely remove any local changes and pull the latest from the remote repository. Be careful with rm -R as it will delete your good data if you put the wrong path. For instance, definitely do not do:

rm -R /

edit: To fix spelling and add emphasis.

How to iterate using ngFor loop Map containing key as string and values as map iteration

As people have mentioned in the comments keyvalue pipe does not retain the order of insertion (which is the primary purpose of Map).

Anyhow, looks like if you have a Map object and want to preserve the order, the cleanest way to do so is entries() function:

<ul>
    <li *ngFor="let item of map.entries()">
        <span>key: {{item[0]}}</span>
        <span>value: {{item[1]}}</span>
    </li>
</ul>

How to auto-format code in Eclipse?

You can do with some step bellow

Step 1: press Ctr + A(windows) or cmd + A (Mac os)

Step 2: Ctr + I in windows or cmd + I in Mac os

It will auto format for you

Regards

Adding and removing extensionattribute to AD object

To clear the value you can always reset it to $Null. For example:

Set-Mailbox -Identity "username" -CustomAttribute1 $Null

Java - ignore exception and continue

LDAPService should contain method like LDAPService.isExists(String userName) use it to prevent NPE to be thrown. If is not - this could be a workaround, but use Logging to post some warning..