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CSS: How to change colour of active navigation page menu

The CSS :active state means the active state of the clicked link - the moment when you clicked on it, but not released the mouse button yet, for example. It doesn't know which page you're on and can't apply any styles to the menu items.

To fix your problem you have to create a class and add it manually to the current page's menu:

a.active { color: #f00 }

<ul>
    <li><a href="index.php" class="active">HOME</a></li>
    <li><a href="two.php">PORTFOLIO</a></li>
    <li><a href="three.php">ABOUT</a></li>
    <li><a href="four.php">CONTACT</a></li>
    <li><a href="five.php">SHOP</a></li>
</ul>

Apply a theme to an activity in Android?

You can apply a theme to any activity by including android:theme inside <activity> inside manifest file.

For example:

  1. <activity android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Dialog">
  2. <activity android:theme="@style/CustomTheme">

And if you want to set theme programatically then use setTheme() before calling setContentView() and super.onCreate() method inside onCreate() method.

PDO mysql: How to know if insert was successful

Try looking at the return value of execute, which is TRUE on success, and FALSE on failure.

Creating a pandas DataFrame from columns of other DataFrames with similar indexes

What you ask for is the join operation. With the how argument, you can define how unique indices are handled. Here, some article, which looks helpful concerning this point. In the example below, I left out cosmetics (like renaming columns) for simplicity.

Code

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
df1 = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(5,3), index=pd.date_range('01/02/2014',periods=5,freq='D'), columns=['a','b','c'] )
df2 = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(8,3), index=pd.date_range('01/01/2014',periods=8,freq='D'), columns=['a','b','c'] )

df3 = df1.join(df2, how='outer', lsuffix='_df1', rsuffix='_df2')
print(df3)

Output

               a_df1     b_df1     c_df1     a_df2     b_df2     c_df2
2014-01-01       NaN       NaN       NaN  0.109898  1.107033 -1.045376
2014-01-02  0.573754  0.169476 -0.580504 -0.664921 -0.364891 -1.215334
2014-01-03 -0.766361 -0.739894 -1.096252  0.962381 -0.860382 -0.703269
2014-01-04  0.083959 -0.123795 -1.405974  1.825832 -0.580343  0.923202
2014-01-05  1.019080 -0.086650  0.126950 -0.021402 -1.686640  0.870779
2014-01-06 -1.036227 -1.103963 -0.821523 -0.943848 -0.905348  0.430739
2014-01-07       NaN       NaN       NaN  0.312005  0.586585  1.531492
2014-01-08       NaN       NaN       NaN -0.077951 -1.189960  0.995123

C++ printing boolean, what is displayed?

0 will get printed.

As in C++ true refers to 1 and false refers to 0.

In case, you want to print false instead of 0,then you have to sets the boolalpha format flag for the str stream.

When the boolalpha format flag is set, bool values are inserted/extracted by their textual representation: either true or false, instead of integral values.

#include <iostream>
int main()
{
  std::cout << std::boolalpha << false << std::endl;
}

output:

false

IDEONE

Git - Won't add files?

Silly solution from me, but I thought that it wasn't adding and pushing new files because github.com wasn't showing the files I had just pushed. I had forgotten that the files I added were on a different branch. The files had push just fine. I had to switch from my master branch to the new branch in github to see them. Lost a few minutes on that one :)

bundle install fails with SSL certificate verification error

On windows7 you can download the cacert.pem file from here and set the environementvariable SSL_CERT_FILE to the path where you store the certificate eg

SET SSL_CERT_FILE="C:\users\<username>\cacert.pem"

or you can set the variable in your script like this ENV['SSL_CERT_FILE']="C:/users/<username>/cacert.pem"

Replace <username> with you own username.

Create a List of primitive int?

When you use Java for Android development, it is recommended to use SparseIntArray to prevent autoboxing between int and Integer.

You can finde more information to SparseIntArray in the Android Developers documentation and a good explanation for autoboxing on Android enter link description here

Error during SSL Handshake with remote server

I have 2 servers setup on docker, reverse proxy & web server. This error started happening for all my websites all of a sudden after 1 year. When setting up earlier, I generated a self signed certificate on the web server.

So, I had to generate the SSL certificate again and it started working...

openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout ssl.key -out ssl.crt

mysql alphabetical order

I try to sort data with query it working fine for me please try this:

select name from user order by name asc 

Also try below query for search record by alphabetically

SELECT name  FROM `user` WHERE `name` LIKE 'b%' 

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token u in JSON at position 0

This is due to the interfering messages that come on to the page. There are multiple frames on the page which communicate with the page using window message event and object. few of them can be third party services like cookieq for managing cookies, or may be cartwire an e-com integration service.

You need to handle the onmessage event to check from where the messages are coming, and then parse the JSON accordingly.

I faced a similar problem, where one of the integration was passing a JSON object and other was passing a string starting with u

IE8 issue with Twitter Bootstrap 3

After verifying:

  • DOCTYPE
  • X-UA-Compatible meta tag
  • Inclusion of html5shiv.js and respond.js (and downloading the latest versions)
  • respond.js being local
  • Hosting site from a web server and not from File://
  • Not using @import
  • ...

Still col-lg, col-md, and col-sm were not working. Finally I moved the references to bootstrap to be before the references to html5shiv.js and respond.js and it all worked.

Here is a snippet:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />

    <title>Bootstrap Test for IE8</title>

    <!-- Moved these two lines up --> 
    <link href="includes/css/bootstrap.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="includes/js/bootstrap.js"></script>

    <!--[if lt IE 9]>
      <script src="includes/js/html5shiv.js"></script>
      <script src="includes/js/respond.min.js"></script>
    <![endif]-->    
</head>
<body>
    <div class="container">
        <div class="row">
            <div class="col-md-4" style="background-color:red;">col-md-4</div>
            <div class="col-md-8" style="background-color:green;">col-md-8</div>
        </div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

Using variable in SQL LIKE statement

We can write directly too...

DECLARE @SearchLetter CHAR(1) 

SET @SearchLetter = 'A' 

SELECT * 
FROM   CUSTOMERS 
WHERE  CONTACTNAME LIKE @SearchLetter + '%' 
       AND REGION = 'WY' 

or the following way as well if we have to append all the search characters then,

DECLARE @SearchLetter CHAR(1) 

SET @SearchLetter = 'A' + '%' 

SELECT * 
FROM   CUSTOMERS 
WHERE  CONTACTNAME LIKE @SearchLetter 
       AND REGION = 'WY' 

Both these will work

Stacked Bar Plot in R

I'm obviosly not a very good R coder, but if you wanted to do this with ggplot2:

data<- rbind(c(480, 780, 431, 295, 670, 360,  190),
             c(720, 350, 377, 255, 340, 615,  345),
             c(460, 480, 179, 560,  60, 735, 1260),
             c(220, 240, 876, 789, 820, 100,   75))

a <- cbind(data[, 1], 1, c(1:4))
b <- cbind(data[, 2], 2, c(1:4))
c <- cbind(data[, 3], 3, c(1:4))
d <- cbind(data[, 4], 4, c(1:4))
e <- cbind(data[, 5], 5, c(1:4))
f <- cbind(data[, 6], 6, c(1:4))
g <- cbind(data[, 7], 7, c(1:4))

data           <- as.data.frame(rbind(a, b, c, d, e, f, g))
colnames(data) <-c("Time", "Type", "Group")
data$Type      <- factor(data$Type, labels = c("A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G"))

library(ggplot2)

ggplot(data = data, aes(x = Type, y = Time, fill = Group)) + 
       geom_bar(stat = "identity") +
       opts(legend.position = "none")

enter image description here

WCF vs ASP.NET Web API

The new ASP.NET Web API is a continuation of the previous WCF Web API project (although some of the concepts have changed).

WCF was originally created to enable SOAP-based services. For simpler RESTful or RPCish services (think clients like jQuery) ASP.NET Web API should be good choice.


For us, WCF is used for SOAP and Web API for REST. I wish Web API supported SOAP too. We are not using advanced features of WCF. Here is comparison from MSDN:

enter image description here


ASP.net Web API is all about HTTP and REST based GET,POST,PUT,DELETE with well know ASP.net MVC style of programming and JSON returnable; web API is for all the light weight process and pure HTTP based components. For one to go ahead with WCF even for simple or simplest single web service it will bring all the extra baggage. For light weight simple service for ajax or dynamic calls always WebApi just solves the need. This neatly complements or helps in parallel to the ASP.net MVC.

Check out the podcast : Hanselminutes Podcast 264 - This is not your father's WCF - All about the WebAPI with Glenn Block by Scott Hanselman for more information.


In the scenarios listed below you should go for WCF:

  1. If you need to send data on protocols like TCP, MSMQ or MIME
  2. If the consuming client just knows how to consume SOAP messages

WEB API is a framework for developing RESTful/HTTP services.

There are so many clients that do not understand SOAP like Browsers, HTML5, in those cases WEB APIs are a good choice.

HTTP services header specifies how to secure service, how to cache the information, type of the message body and HTTP body can specify any type of content like HTML not just XML as SOAP services.

Javascript "Uncaught TypeError: object is not a function" associativity question

JavaScript does require semicolons, it's just that the interpreter will insert them for you on line breaks where possible*.

Unfortunately, the code

var a = new B(args)(stuff)()

does not result in a syntax error, so no ; will be inserted. (An example which can run is

var answer = new Function("x", "return x")(function(){return 42;})();

To avoid surprises like this, train yourself to always end a statement with ;.


* This is just a rule of thumb and not always true. The insertion rule is much more complicated. This blog page about semicolon insertion has more detail.

Formatting a field using ToText in a Crystal Reports formula field

I think you are looking for ToText(CCur(@Price}/{ValuationReport.YestPrice}*100-100))

You can use CCur to convert numbers or string to Curency formats. CCur(number) or CCur(string)


I think this may be what you are looking for,

Replace (ToText(CCur({field})),"$" , "") that will give the parentheses for negative numbers

It is a little hacky, but I'm not sure CR is very kind in the ways of formatting

How do you do Impersonation in .NET?

Here's my vb.net port of Matt Johnson's answer. I added an enum for the logon types. LOGON32_LOGON_INTERACTIVE was the first enum value that worked for sql server. My connection string was just trusted. No user name / password in the connection string.

  <PermissionSet(SecurityAction.Demand, Name:="FullTrust")> _
  Public Class Impersonation
    Implements IDisposable

    Public Enum LogonTypes
      ''' <summary>
      ''' This logon type is intended for users who will be interactively using the computer, such as a user being logged on  
      ''' by a terminal server, remote shell, or similar process.
      ''' This logon type has the additional expense of caching logon information for disconnected operations; 
      ''' therefore, it is inappropriate for some client/server applications,
      ''' such as a mail server.
      ''' </summary>
      LOGON32_LOGON_INTERACTIVE = 2

      ''' <summary>
      ''' This logon type is intended for high performance servers to authenticate plaintext passwords.
      ''' The LogonUser function does not cache credentials for this logon type.
      ''' </summary>
      LOGON32_LOGON_NETWORK = 3

      ''' <summary>
      ''' This logon type is intended for batch servers, where processes may be executing on behalf of a user without 
      ''' their direct intervention. This type is also for higher performance servers that process many plaintext
      ''' authentication attempts at a time, such as mail or Web servers. 
      ''' The LogonUser function does not cache credentials for this logon type.
      ''' </summary>
      LOGON32_LOGON_BATCH = 4

      ''' <summary>
      ''' Indicates a service-type logon. The account provided must have the service privilege enabled. 
      ''' </summary>
      LOGON32_LOGON_SERVICE = 5

      ''' <summary>
      ''' This logon type is for GINA DLLs that log on users who will be interactively using the computer. 
      ''' This logon type can generate a unique audit record that shows when the workstation was unlocked. 
      ''' </summary>
      LOGON32_LOGON_UNLOCK = 7

      ''' <summary>
      ''' This logon type preserves the name and password in the authentication package, which allows the server to make 
      ''' connections to other network servers while impersonating the client. A server can accept plaintext credentials 
      ''' from a client, call LogonUser, verify that the user can access the system across the network, and still 
      ''' communicate with other servers.
      ''' NOTE: Windows NT:  This value is not supported. 
      ''' </summary>
      LOGON32_LOGON_NETWORK_CLEARTEXT = 8

      ''' <summary>
      ''' This logon type allows the caller to clone its current token and specify new credentials for outbound connections.
      ''' The new logon session has the same local identifier but uses different credentials for other network connections. 
      ''' NOTE: This logon type is supported only by the LOGON32_PROVIDER_WINNT50 logon provider.
      ''' NOTE: Windows NT:  This value is not supported. 
      ''' </summary>
      LOGON32_LOGON_NEW_CREDENTIALS = 9
    End Enum

    <DllImport("advapi32.dll", SetLastError:=True, CharSet:=CharSet.Unicode)> _
    Private Shared Function LogonUser(lpszUsername As [String], lpszDomain As [String], lpszPassword As [String], dwLogonType As Integer, dwLogonProvider As Integer, ByRef phToken As SafeTokenHandle) As Boolean
    End Function

    Public Sub New(Domain As String, UserName As String, Password As String, Optional LogonType As LogonTypes = LogonTypes.LOGON32_LOGON_INTERACTIVE)
      Dim ok = LogonUser(UserName, Domain, Password, LogonType, 0, _SafeTokenHandle)
      If Not ok Then
        Dim errorCode = Marshal.GetLastWin32Error()
        Throw New ApplicationException(String.Format("Could not impersonate the elevated user.  LogonUser returned error code {0}.", errorCode))
      End If

      WindowsImpersonationContext = WindowsIdentity.Impersonate(_SafeTokenHandle.DangerousGetHandle())
    End Sub

    Private ReadOnly _SafeTokenHandle As New SafeTokenHandle
    Private ReadOnly WindowsImpersonationContext As WindowsImpersonationContext

    Public Sub Dispose() Implements System.IDisposable.Dispose
      Me.WindowsImpersonationContext.Dispose()
      Me._SafeTokenHandle.Dispose()
    End Sub

    Public NotInheritable Class SafeTokenHandle
      Inherits SafeHandleZeroOrMinusOneIsInvalid

      <DllImport("kernel32.dll")> _
      <ReliabilityContract(Consistency.WillNotCorruptState, Cer.Success)> _
      <SuppressUnmanagedCodeSecurity()> _
      Private Shared Function CloseHandle(handle As IntPtr) As <MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)> Boolean
      End Function

      Public Sub New()
        MyBase.New(True)
      End Sub

      Protected Overrides Function ReleaseHandle() As Boolean
        Return CloseHandle(handle)
      End Function
    End Class

  End Class

You need to Use with a Using statement to contain some code to run impersonated.

fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'libboost_system-vc110-mt-gd-1_51.lib'

This is the simplest way for an amateur like me who is studying C++ on their own:

First Unzip the boost library to any directory of your choice. I recommend c:\directory.

  1. Open your visual C++.
  2. Create a new project.
  3. Right click on the project.
  4. Click on property.
  5. Click on C/C++.
  6. Click on general.
  7. Select additional include library.
  8. Include the library destination. e.g. c:\boost_1_57_0.
  9. Click on pre-compiler header.
  10. Click on create/use pre-compiled header.
  11. Select not using pre-compiled header.

Then go over to the link library were you experienced your problems.

  1. Go to were the extracted file was c:\boost_1_57_0.
  2. Click on booststrap.bat (don't bother to type on the command window just wait and don't close the window that is the place I had my problem that took me two weeks to solve. After a while the booststrap will run and produce the same file, but now with two different names: b2, and bjam.
  3. Click on b2 and wait it to run.
  4. Click on bjam and wait it to run. Then a folder will be produce called stage.
  5. Right click on the project.
  6. Click on property.
  7. Click on linker.
  8. Click on general.
  9. Click on include additional library directory.
  10. Select the part of the library e.g. c:\boost_1_57_0\stage\lib.

And you are good to go!

How can I get the current screen orientation?

I just want to propose another alternative that will concern some of you :

android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden" 

implies that we explicitly declare the layout to be injected.

In case we want to keep the automatic injection thanks to the layout-land and layout folders. All you have to do is add it to the onCreate:

    if (getResources().getConfiguration().orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE) {
        getSupportActionBar().hide();

    } else if (getResources().getConfiguration().orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT) {
        getSupportActionBar().show();
    }

Here, we display or not the actionbar depending on the orientation of the phone

How to write inside a DIV box with javascript

You can use one of the following methods:

document.getElementById('log').innerHTML = "text";

document.getElementById('log').innerText = "text";

document.getElementById('log').textContent = "text";

For Jquery:

$("#log").text("text");

$("#log").html("text");

Creating Scheduled Tasks

You can use Task Scheduler Managed Wrapper:

using System;
using Microsoft.Win32.TaskScheduler;

class Program
{
   static void Main(string[] args)
   {
      // Get the service on the local machine
      using (TaskService ts = new TaskService())
      {
         // Create a new task definition and assign properties
         TaskDefinition td = ts.NewTask();
         td.RegistrationInfo.Description = "Does something";

         // Create a trigger that will fire the task at this time every other day
         td.Triggers.Add(new DailyTrigger { DaysInterval = 2 });

         // Create an action that will launch Notepad whenever the trigger fires
         td.Actions.Add(new ExecAction("notepad.exe", "c:\\test.log", null));

         // Register the task in the root folder
         ts.RootFolder.RegisterTaskDefinition(@"Test", td);

         // Remove the task we just created
         ts.RootFolder.DeleteTask("Test");
      }
   }
}

Alternatively you can use native API or go for Quartz.NET. See this for details.

SQLException: No suitable Driver Found for jdbc:oracle:thin:@//localhost:1521/orcl

For me I did enter a invalid url like : orcl only instead of jdbc:oracle:thin:@//localhost:1521/orcl

What is the difference between functional and non-functional requirements?

Functional requirements are those which are related to the technical functionality of the system.

non-functional requirement is a requirement that specifies criteria that can be used to judge the operation of a system in particular conditions, rather than specific behaviors.

For example if you consider a shopping site, adding items to cart, browsing different items, applying offers and deals and successfully placing orders comes under functional requirements.

Where as performance of the system in peak hours, time taken for the system to retrieve data from DB, security of the user data, ability of the system to handle if large number of users login comes under non functional requirements.

How to Solve the XAMPP 1.7.7 - PHPMyAdmin - MySQL Error #2002 in Ubuntu

You can check it by connecting MySQL through the command prompt.

I think that your MySQL Database is blocked by firewall. Once stop all the services of antivirus software you have on your computer, then try to connect.

I faced this problem as well and rectified by blocking all firewalls..

Combine multiple results in a subquery into a single comma-separated value

I have reviewed all the answers. I think in database insertion should be like:

ID     Name      SomeColumn
1.     ABC       ,X,Y Z (these are three different rows)
2.     MNO       ,R,S

The comma should be at previous end and do searching by like %,X,%

WinSCP: Permission denied. Error code: 3 Error message from server: Permission denied

You possibly do not have create permissions to the folder. So WinSCP fails to create a temporary file for the transfer.

You have two options:

jQuery - simple input validation - "empty" and "not empty"

You could do this

$("#input").blur(function(){
    if($(this).val() == ''){
        alert('empty'); 
    }
});

http://jsfiddle.net/jasongennaro/Y5P9k/1/

When the input has lost focus that is .blur(), then check the value of the #input.

If it is empty == '' then trigger the alert.

How to hide collapsible Bootstrap 4 navbar on click

add below code in your < a > TAG

data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".navbar-collapse.show"

as shows below in every TAG

<li class="nav-item">
   <a class="nav-link" href="#about-us" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".navbar-collapse.show">About</a>
</li>

Counting the occurrences / frequency of array elements

Using Lodash

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const values = [5, 5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 4];
const frequency = _.map(_.groupBy(values), val => ({ value: val[0], frequency: val.length }));
console.log(frequency);
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<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.15/lodash.min.js"></script>
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Get drop down value

var dd = document.getElementById("dropdownID");
var selectedItem = dd.options[dd.selectedIndex].value;

How to invoke bash, run commands inside the new shell, and then give control back to user?

Append to ~/.bashrc a section like this:

if [ "$subshell" = 'true' ]
then
    # commands to execute only on a subshell
    date
fi
alias sub='subshell=true bash'

Then you can start the subshell with sub.

Remove all special characters, punctuation and spaces from string

Assuming you want to use a regex and you want/need Unicode-cognisant 2.x code that is 2to3-ready:

>>> import re
>>> rx = re.compile(u'[\W_]+', re.UNICODE)
>>> data = u''.join(unichr(i) for i in range(256))
>>> rx.sub(u'', data)
u'0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz\xaa\xb2 [snip] \xfe\xff'
>>>

How should I resolve java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: protocol = https host = null Exception?

URLs use forward slashes (/), not backward ones (as windows). Try:

serverURLS = "https://abc.my.domain.com:55555/update";

The reason why you get the error is that the URL class can't parse the host part of the string and therefore, host is null.

Stop fixed position at footer

I was working on stopping the adbanner at a certain point before footer. And played with the code I found above.

Worked for me (banner disappears right before footer and reappears on scroll to top):

<style>
#leftsidebanner {width:300px;height:600px;position: fixed; padding: 0;top:288px;right:5%;display: block;background-color: aqua}
</style>

<div id="leftsidebanner">
</div>


<script>

    $.fn.followTo = function (pos) {
    var stickyAd = $(this),
    theWindow = $(window);
    $(window).scroll(function (e) {
      if ($(window).scrollTop() > pos) {
        stickyAd.css({'position': 'absolute','bottom': pos});
      } else {
        stickyAd.css({'position': 'fixed','top': '100'});
      }
    });
  };
  $('#leftsidebanner').followTo(2268);


</script>

How to create .ipa file using Xcode?

In addition to kus answer.

There are some changes in Xcode 8.0

Step 1: Change scheme destination to Generic IOS device.

Step 2: Click Product > Archive > once this is complete open up the Organiser and click the latest version.

Step 3: Click on Export... option from right side of organiser window.

Step 4: Select a method for export > Choose correct signing > Save to Destination.


Xcode 10.0

Step 3: From Right Side Panel Click on Distribute App.

Step 4: Select Method of distribution and click next.

Step 5: It Opens up distribution option window. Select All compatible device variants and click next.

Step 6: Choose signing certificate.

Step 7: It will open up Preparing archive for distribution window. it takes few min.

Step 8: It will open up Archives window. Click on export and save it.


maven-dependency-plugin (goals "copy-dependencies", "unpack") is not supported by m2e

I know this is old post but I struggled today with this problem also and I used template from this page: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/usage.html

<project>
  [...]
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.7</version>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>copy</id>
            <phase>package</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>copy</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
              <artifactItems>
                <artifactItem>
                  <groupId>[ groupId ]</groupId>
                  <artifactId>[ artifactId ]</artifactId>
                  <version>[ version ]</version>
                  <type>[ packaging ]</type>
                  <classifier> [classifier - optional] </classifier>
                  <overWrite>[ true or false ]</overWrite>
                  <outputDirectory>[ output directory ]</outputDirectory>
                  <destFileName>[ filename ]</destFileName>
                </artifactItem>
              </artifactItems>
              <!-- other configurations here -->
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
  [...]
</project>

and everything works fine under m2e 1.3.1.

When I tried to use

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.4</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>copy-dependencies</id>
                    <phase>package</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
                    </goals>
                    <configuration>
                        <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/dependencies</outputDirectory>
                    </configuration>    
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

I also got m2e error.

How to open a link in new tab (chrome) using Selenium WebDriver?

Selenium can only automate on the WebElements of the browser. Opening a new tab is an operation performed on the webBrowser which is a stand alone application. For doing this you can make use of the Robot class from the java.util.* package which can perform operations using the keyboard regardless of what type of application it is. So here's the code for your operation. Note that you cannot automate stand alone applications using the Robot class but you can perform keyboard or mouse operations

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","softwares\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe"); 
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(20,TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.manage().window().maximize();
driver.get("http://www.google.com");
Robot rob = new Robot();
rob.keyPress(keyEvent.VK_CONTROL);
rob.keyPress(keyEvent.VK_T);
rob.keyRelease(keyEvent.VK_CONTROL);
rob.keyRelease(keyEvent.VK_T);

After this step you will need a window iterator to switch to the new tab:

Set <String> ids = driver.getWindowHandles();
Iterator <String> it = ids.iterator();
String currentWindow = it.next();
String newWindow = it.next();
driver.switchTo().window(newWindow);
driver.findElement(By.linkText("www.facebook.com")).sendKeys(selectLinkOpeninNewTab);

remove inner shadow of text input

This is the solution for mobile safari:

-webkit-appearance: none;

as suggested here: Remove textarea inner shadow on Mobile Safari (iPhone)

SQL Case Sensitive String Compare

simplifying the general answer

SQL Case Sensitive String Compare

These examples may be helpful:

Declare @S1 varchar(20) = 'SQL'
Declare @S2 varchar(20) = 'sql'

  
if @S1 = @S2 print 'equal!' else print 'NOT equal!' -- equal (default non-case sensitivity for SQL

if cast(@S1 as binary) = cast(Upper(@S2) as binary) print 'equal!' else print 'NOT equal!' -- equal

if cast(@S1 as binary) = cast(@S2 as binary) print 'equal!' else print 'NOT equal!' -- not equal

if  @S1 COLLATE Latin1_General_CS_AS  = Upper(@S2) COLLATE Latin1_General_CS_AS  print 'equal!' else print 'NOT equal!' -- equal

if  @S1 COLLATE Latin1_General_CS_AS  = @S2 COLLATE Latin1_General_CS_AS  print 'equal!' else print 'NOT equal!' -- not equal

 

The convert is probably more efficient than something like runtime calculation of hashbytes, and I'd expect the collate may be even faster.

Import / Export database with SQL Server Server Management Studio

I tried the answers above but the generated script file was very large and I was having problems while importing the data. I ended up Detaching the database, then copying .mdf to my new machine, then Attaching it to my new version of SQL Server Management Studio.

I found instructions for how to do this on the Microsoft Website:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187858.aspx

NOTE: After Detaching the database I found the .mdf file within this directory:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\

What's the best way to add a drop shadow to my UIView

Wasabii's answer in Swift 2.3:

let shadowPath = UIBezierPath(rect: view.bounds)
view.layer.masksToBounds = false
view.layer.shadowColor = UIColor.blackColor().CGColor
view.layer.shadowOffset = CGSize(width: 0, height: 0.5)
view.layer.shadowOpacity = 0.2
view.layer.shadowPath = shadowPath.CGPath

And in Swift 3/4/5:

let shadowPath = UIBezierPath(rect: view.bounds)
view.layer.masksToBounds = false
view.layer.shadowColor = UIColor.black.cgColor
view.layer.shadowOffset = CGSize(width: 0, height: 0.5)
view.layer.shadowOpacity = 0.2
view.layer.shadowPath = shadowPath.cgPath

Put this code in layoutSubviews() if you're using AutoLayout.

In SwiftUI, this is all much easier:

Color.yellow  // or whatever your view
    .shadow(radius: 3)
    .frame(width: 200, height: 100)

Autowiring two beans implementing same interface - how to set default bean to autowire?

I'd suggest marking the Hibernate DAO class with @Primary, i.e. (assuming you used @Repository on HibernateDeviceDao):

@Primary
@Repository
public class HibernateDeviceDao implements DeviceDao

This way it will be selected as the default autowire candididate, with no need to autowire-candidate on the other bean.

Also, rather than using @Autowired @Qualifier, I find it more elegant to use @Resource for picking specific beans, i.e.

@Resource(name="jdbcDeviceDao")
DeviceDao deviceDao;

How to change lowercase chars to uppercase using the 'keyup' event?

Make sure that the field has this attribute in its html.

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ClientIDMode="Static"
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and then use this in your script:

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$("#NameOfYourTextBox").change(function () {_x000D_
                 $(this).val($(this).val().toUpperCase());_x000D_
             });
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SQL query to make all data in a column UPPER CASE?

Permanent:

UPDATE
  MyTable
SET
  MyColumn = UPPER(MyColumn)

Temporary:

SELECT
  UPPER(MyColumn) AS MyColumn
FROM
  MyTable

What is the best regular expression to check if a string is a valid URL?

After rigorous searching i finally settled with the following

^[a-zA-Z0-9]+\:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9]+\.[-a-zA-Z0-9]+\.?[a-zA-Z0-9]+$|^[a-zA-Z0-9]+\.[-a-zA-Z0-9]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9]+$

And this thing work for general in future URLs.

How to change the color of a button?

You can change the value in the XML like this:

<Button
    android:background="#FFFFFF"
     ../>

Here, you can add any other color, from the resources or hex.

Similarly, you can also change these values form the code like this:

demoButton.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE);

Another easy way is to make a drawable, customize the corners and shape according to your preference and set the background color and stroke of the drawable. For eg.

button_background.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <stroke android:width="2dp" android:color="#ff207d94" />
    <corners android:radius="5dp" />
    <solid android:color="#FFFFFF" />
</shape>

And then set this shape as the background of your button.

<Button
    android:background="@drawable/button_background.xml"
     ../>

Hope this helps, good luck!

What's the best/easiest GUI Library for Ruby?

Using the ironRuby interperter you have the full .net platform, meaning you can code Winforms and WPF(I have only tried Winforms). It is potentially cross platform since the mono platform exist

How to parse date string to Date?

Here is a working example:

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

public class j4496359 {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            String target = "Thu Sep 28 20:29:30 JST 2000";
            DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd kk:mm:ss zzz yyyy");
            Date result =  df.parse(target);
            System.out.println(result); 
        } catch (ParseException pe) {
            pe.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Will print:

Thu Sep 28 13:29:30 CEST 2000

How to find cube root using Python?

The best way is to use simple math

>>> a = 8
>>> a**(1./3.)
2.0

EDIT

For Negative numbers

>>> a = -8
>>> -(-a)**(1./3.)
-2.0

Complete Program for all the requirements as specified

x = int(input("Enter an integer: "))
if x>0:
    ans = x**(1./3.)
    if ans ** 3 != abs(x):
        print x, 'is not a perfect cube!'
else:
    ans = -((-x)**(1./3.))
    if ans ** 3 != -abs(x):
        print x, 'is not a perfect cube!'

print 'Cube root of ' + str(x) + ' is ' + str(ans)

Https Connection Android

Probably you can try something like this. This helped me

    SslContextFactory sec = new SslContextFactory();
    sec.setValidateCerts(false);
    sec.setTrustAll(true);

    org.eclipse.jetty.websocket.client.WebSocketClient client = new WebSocketClient(sec);

Why do I get a "permission denied" error while installing a gem?

I wanted to share the steps that I followed that fixed this issue for me in the hopes that it can help someone else (and also as a reminder for me in case something like this happens again)

The issues I'd been having (which were the same as OP's) may have to do with using homebrew to install Ruby.

To fix this, first I updated homebrew:

brew update && brew upgrade
brew doctor

(If brew doctor comes up with any issues, fix them first.) Then I uninstalled ruby

brew uninstall ruby

If rbenv is NOT installed at this point, then

brew install rbenv
brew install ruby-build
echo 'export RBENV_ROOT=/usr/local/var/rbenv' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'if which rbenv > /dev/null; then eval "$(rbenv init -)"; fi' >> ~/.bash_profile

Then I used rbenv to install ruby. First, find the desired version:

rbenv install -l

Install that version (e.g. 2.2.2)

rbenv install 2.2.2

Then set the global version to the desired ruby version:

rbenv global 2.2.2

At this point you should see the desired version set for the following commands:

rbenv versions

and

ruby --version

Now you should be able to install bundler:

gem install bundler

And once in the desired project folder, you can install all the required gems:

bundle
bundle install

SimpleDateFormat and locale based format string

Java 8 Style for a given date

LocalDate today = LocalDate.of(1982, Month.AUGUST, 31);
System.out.println(today.format(DateTimeFormatter.ofLocalizedDate(FormatStyle.MEDIUM).withLocale(Locale.ENGLISH)));
System.out.println(today.format(DateTimeFormatter.ofLocalizedDate(FormatStyle.MEDIUM).withLocale(Locale.FRENCH)));
System.out.println(today.format(DateTimeFormatter.ofLocalizedDate(FormatStyle.MEDIUM).withLocale(Locale.JAPANESE)));

How can I add a space in between two outputs?

Like this?

 System.out.println(Name + " " + Income);

Advantages of SQL Server 2008 over SQL Server 2005?

Be aware that a lot of the really killer features are only in Enterprise Edition. Data compression and backup compression are among two of my top favorites - they give you free performance improvements right off the bat. Data compression lessens the amount of I/O you have to do, so a lot of queries speed up 20-40%. CPU use goes up, but in today's multi-core environments, we often have more CPU power but not more IO. Anyway, those are only in Enterprise.

If you're only going to use Standard Edition, then most of the improvements require changes to your application code and T-SQL code, so it's not quite as easy of a sell.

Fully custom validation error message with Rails

In the custom validation method use:

errors.add(:base, "Custom error message")

as add_to_base has been deprecated.

errors.add_to_base("Custom error message")

Using multiple IF statements in a batch file

is there a special guideline that should be followed

There is no "standard" way to do batch files, because the vast majority of their authors and maintainers either don't understand programming concepts, or they think they don't apply to batch files.

But I am a programmer. I'm used to compiling, and I'm used to debuggers. Batch files aren't compiled, and you can't run them through a debugger, so they make me nervous. I suggest you be extra strict on what you write, so you can be very sure it will do what you think it does.

There are some coding standards that say: If you write an if statement, you must use braces, even if you don't have an else clause. This saves you from subtle, hard-to-debug problems, and is unambiguously readable. I see no reason you couldn't apply this reasoning to batch files.

Let's take a look at your code.

IF EXIST somefile.txt IF EXIST someotherfile.txt SET var=somefile.txt,someotherfile.txt

And the IF syntax, from the command, HELP IF:

IF [NOT] ERRORLEVEL number command
IF [NOT] string1==string2 command
IF [NOT] EXISTS filename command

...

IF EXIST filename (
  command
) ELSE (
  other command
)

So you are chaining IF's as commands.

If you use the common coding-standard rule I mentioned above, you would always want to use parens. Here is how you would do so for your example code:

IF EXIST "somefile.txt" (
  IF EXIST "someotherfile.txt" (
    SET var="somefile.txt,someotherfile.txt"
  )
)

Make sure you cleanly format, and do some form of indentation. You do it in code, and you should do it in your batch scripts.

Also, you should also get in the habit of always quoting your file names, and getting the quoting right. There is some verbiage under HELP FOR and HELP SET that will help you with removing extra quotes when re-quoting strings.

Edit

From your comments, and re-reading your original question, it seems like you want to build a comma separated list of files that exist. For this case, you could simply use a bunch of if/else statements, but that would result in a bunch of duplicated logic, and would not be at all clean if you had more than two files.

A better way is to write a sub-routine that checks for a single file's existence, and appends to a variable if the file specified exists. Then just call that subroutine for each file you want to check for:

@ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL

REM Todo: Set global script variables here
CALL :MainScript
GOTO :EOF

REM MainScript()
:MainScript
  SETLOCAL

  CALL :AddIfExists "somefile.txt" "%files%" "files"
  CALL :AddIfExists "someotherfile.txt" "%files%" "files"

  ECHO.Files: %files%

  ENDLOCAL
GOTO :EOF

REM AddIfExists(filename, existingFilenames, returnVariableName)
:AddIfExists
  SETLOCAL

  IF EXIST "%~1" (
    SET "result=%~1"
  ) ELSE (
    SET "result="
  )

  (
    REM Cleanup, and return result - concatenate if necessary
    ENDLOCAL

    IF "%~2"=="" (
      SET "%~3=%result%"
    ) ELSE (
      SET "%~3=%~2,%result%"
    )
  )
GOTO :EOF

Serialize object to query string in JavaScript/jQuery

Another option might be node-querystring.

It's available in both npm and bower, which is why I have been using it.

What is the best data type to use for money in C#?

Another option (especially if you're rolling you own class) is to use an int or a int64, and designate the lower four digits (or possibly even 2) as "right of the decimal point". So "on the edges" you'll need some "* 10000" on the way in and some "/ 10000" on the way out. This is the storage mechanism used by Microsoft's SQL Server, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/library/ms179882.aspx

The nicity of this is that all your summation can be done using (fast) integer arithmetic.

How to create two columns on a web page?

Basically you need 3 divs. First as wrapper, second as left and third as right.

.wrapper {
 width:500px;
 overflow:hidden;
}

.left {
 width:250px;
 float:left;
}

.right {
 width:250px;
 float:right;
}

Example how to make 2 columns http://jsfiddle.net/huhu/HDGvN/


CSS Cheat Sheet for reference

Convert object array to hash map, indexed by an attribute value of the Object

You can use the new Object.fromEntries() method.

Example:

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const array = [_x000D_
   {key: 'a', value: 'b', redundant: 'aaa'},_x000D_
   {key: 'x', value: 'y', redundant: 'zzz'}_x000D_
]_x000D_
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const hash = Object.fromEntries(_x000D_
   array.map(e => [e.key, e.value])_x000D_
)_x000D_
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console.log(hash) // {a: b, x: y}
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How to extract the n-th elements from a list of tuples?

Found this as I was searching for which way is fastest to pull the second element of a 2-tuple list. Not what I wanted but ran same test as shown with a 3rd method plus test the zip method

setup = 'elements = [(1,1) for _ in range(100000)];from operator import itemgetter'
method1 = '[x[1] for x in elements]'
method2 = 'map(itemgetter(1), elements)'
method3 = 'dict(elements).values()'
method4 = 'zip(*elements)[1]'

import timeit
t = timeit.Timer(method1, setup)
print('Method 1: ' + str(t.timeit(100)))
t = timeit.Timer(method2, setup)
print('Method 2: ' + str(t.timeit(100)))
t = timeit.Timer(method3, setup)
print('Method 3: ' + str(t.timeit(100)))
t = timeit.Timer(method4, setup)
print('Method 4: ' + str(t.timeit(100)))

Method 1: 0.618785858154
Method 2: 0.711684942245
Method 3: 0.298138141632
Method 4: 1.32586884499

So over twice as fast if you have a 2 tuple pair to just convert to a dict and take the values.

TypeError: Cannot read property "0" from undefined

Check your array index to see if it's accessed out of bound.

Once I accessed categories[0]. Later I changed the array name from categories to category but forgot to change the access point--from categories[0] to category[0], thus I also get this error.

JavaScript does a poor debug message. In your case, I reckon probably the access gets out of bound.

Java program to get the current date without timestamp

private static final DateFormat df1 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd"); 
    private static Date NOW = new Date();
    static {
        try {
            NOW = df1.parse(df1.format(new Date()));
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

Why should I use IHttpActionResult instead of HttpResponseMessage?

This is just my personal opinion and folks from web API team can probably articulate it better but here is my 2c.

First of all, I think it is not a question of one over another. You can use them both depending on what you want to do in your action method but in order to understand the real power of IHttpActionResult, you will probably need to step outside those convenient helper methods of ApiController such as Ok, NotFound, etc.

Basically, I think a class implementing IHttpActionResult as a factory of HttpResponseMessage. With that mind set, it now becomes an object that need to be returned and a factory that produces it. In general programming sense, you can create the object yourself in certain cases and in certain cases, you need a factory to do that. Same here.

If you want to return a response which needs to be constructed through a complex logic, say lots of response headers, etc, you can abstract all those logic into an action result class implementing IHttpActionResult and use it in multiple action methods to return response.

Another advantage of using IHttpActionResult as return type is that it makes ASP.NET Web API action method similar to MVC. You can return any action result without getting caught in media formatters.

Of course, as noted by Darrel, you can chain action results and create a powerful micro-pipeline similar to message handlers themselves in the API pipeline. This you will need depending on the complexity of your action method.

Long story short - it is not IHttpActionResult versus HttpResponseMessage. Basically, it is how you want to create the response. Do it yourself or through a factory.

How to output (to a log) a multi-level array in a format that is human-readable?

If you need to log an error to Apache error log you can try this:

error_log( print_r($multidimensionalarray, TRUE) );

How to set the LDFLAGS in CMakeLists.txt?

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

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

This works for everything.

Display TIFF image in all web browser

I found this resource that details the various methods: How to embed TIFF files in HTML documents

As mentioned, it will very much depend on browser support for the format. Viewing that page in Chrome on Windows didn't display any of the images.

It would also be helpful if you posted the code you've tried already.

What does 'const static' mean in C and C++?

It has uses in both C and C++.

As you guessed, the static part limits its scope to that compilation unit. It also provides for static initialization. const just tells the compiler to not let anybody modify it. This variable is either put in the data or bss segment depending on the architecture, and might be in memory marked read-only.

All that is how C treats these variables (or how C++ treats namespace variables). In C++, a member marked static is shared by all instances of a given class. Whether it's private or not doesn't affect the fact that one variable is shared by multiple instances. Having const on there will warn you if any code would try to modify that.

If it was strictly private, then each instance of the class would get its own version (optimizer notwithstanding).

How to add custom html attributes in JSX

See attribute value in console on click event

//...
   alertMessage (cEvent){
           console.log(cEvent.target.getAttribute('customEvent')); /*display attribute value */
        }
//...

simple add customAttribute as your wish in render method

render(){
    return <div>
//..
    <button customAttribute="My Custom Event Message" onClick={this.alertMessage.bind(this) } >Click Me</button>
            </div>
        }
//...

How to set the holo dark theme in a Android app?

In your application android manifest file, under the application tag you can try several of these themes.

Replace

<application
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >

with different themes defined by the android system. They can be like:-

android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Black"
android:theme="@android:style/Theme.DeviceDefault"
android:theme="@android:style/Theme.DeviceDefault.Dialog"
android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Holo"
android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Translucent"

Each of these themes will have a different effect on your application like the DeviceDefault.Dialog will make your application look like a dialog box. You should try more of these. You can have a look from the android sdk or simply use auto complete in Eclipse IDE to explore the various available options.

A correct way to define your own theme would be to edit the styles.xml file present in the resources folder of your application.

Change the Textbox height?

Just found a great little trick to setting a custom height to a textbox.

In the designer view, set the minimumSize to whatever you desire, and then completely remove the size setting. This will cause the designer to update with the new minimum settings!

Why shouldn't `&apos;` be used to escape single quotes?

&quot; is valid in both HTML5 and HTML4.

&apos; is valid in HTML5, but not HTML4. However, most browsers support &apos; for HTML4 anyway.

Sending message through WhatsApp

This is what worked for me :

        Uri uri = Uri.parse("https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=" + "<number>" + "&text=" + "Hello WhatsApp!!");
        Intent sendIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, uri);
        startActivity(sendIntent);

Regex to remove letters, symbols except numbers

Use /[^0-9.,]+/ if you want floats.

Constructing pandas DataFrame from values in variables gives "ValueError: If using all scalar values, you must pass an index"

Another option is to convert the scalars into list on the fly using Dictionary Comprehension:

df = pd.DataFrame(data={k: [v] for k, v in mydict.items()})

The expression {...} creates a new dict whose values is a list of 1 element. such as :

In [20]: mydict
Out[20]: {'a': 1, 'b': 2}

In [21]: mydict2 = { k: [v] for k, v in mydict.items()}

In [22]: mydict2
Out[22]: {'a': [1], 'b': [2]}

Getting the last n elements of a vector. Is there a better way than using the length() function?

see ?tail and ?head for some convenient functions:

> x <- 1:10
> tail(x,5)
[1]  6  7  8  9 10

For the argument's sake : everything but the last five elements would be :

> head(x,n=-5)
[1] 1 2 3 4 5

As @Martin Morgan says in the comments, there are two other possibilities which are faster than the tail solution, in case you have to carry this out a million times on a vector of 100 million values. For readibility, I'd go with tail.

test                                        elapsed    relative 
tail(x, 5)                                    38.70     5.724852     
x[length(x) - (4:0)]                           6.76     1.000000     
x[seq.int(to = length(x), length.out = 5)]     7.53     1.113905     

benchmarking code :

require(rbenchmark)
x <- 1:1e8
do.call(
  benchmark,
  c(list(
    expression(tail(x,5)),
    expression(x[seq.int(to=length(x), length.out=5)]),
    expression(x[length(x)-(4:0)])
  ),  replications=1e6)
)

Python TypeError: cannot convert the series to <class 'int'> when trying to do math on dataframe

Seems your initial data contains strings and not numbers. It would probably be best to ensure that the data is already of the required type up front.

However, you can convert strings to numbers like this:

pd.Series(['123', '42']).astype(float)

instead of float(series)

Build and Install unsigned apk on device without the development server?

React Version 0.62.1

In your root project directory

Make sure you have already directory android/app/src/main/assets/, if not create directory, after that create new file and save as index.android.bundle and put your file in like this android/app/src/main/assets/index.android.bundle

After that run this

react-native bundle --platform android --dev false --entry-file index.js --bundle-output android/app/src/main/assets/index.android.bundle --assets-dest android/app/src/main/res/

cd android && ./gradlew assembleDebug

Then you can get apk in app/build/outputs/apk/debug/app-debug.apk

How do I invert BooleanToVisibilityConverter?

Rather than writing your own code / reinventing, consider using CalcBinding:

Automatic two way convertion of bool expression to Visibility and back if target property has such type: description

    <Button Visibility="{c:Binding !IsChecked}" /> 
    <Button Visibility="{c:Binding IsChecked, FalseToVisibility=Hidden}" />

CalcBinding is also quite useful for numerous other scenarios.

How to pass data to all views in Laravel 5?

The best way would be sharing the variable using View::share('var', $value);

Problems with composing using "*":

Consider following approach:

<?php
// from AppServiceProvider::boot()
$viewFactory = $this->app->make(Factory::class);

$viewFacrory->compose('*', GlobalComposer::class);

From an example blade view:

  @for($i = 0; $i<1000; $i++)
    @include('some_partial_view_to_display_i', ['toDisplay' => $i])
  @endfor

What happens?

  • The GlobalComposer class is instantiated 1000 times using App::make.
  • The event composing:some_partial_view_to_display_i is handled 1000 times.
  • The compose function inside the GlobalComposer class is called 1000 times.

But the partial view some_partial_view_to_display_i has nothing to do with the variables composed by GlobalComposer but heavily increases render time.

Best approach?

Using View::share along a grouped middleware.

Route::group(['middleware' => 'WebMiddleware'], function(){
  // Web routes
});

Route::group(['prefix' => 'api'], function (){

});

class WebMiddleware {
  public function handle($request)
  {
    \View::share('user', auth()->user());
  }
}

Update

If you are using something that is computed over the middleware pipeline you can simply listen to the proper event or put the view share middleware at the last bottom of the pipeline.

Custom circle button

Create a new vector asset in the drawable folder.

You can import your PNG image as well, and convert the file to SVG online at https://image.online-convert.com/convert-to-svg. The higher the resolution, the better the conversion will be.

Next, create a new vector asset from that SVG file.

This is a sample vector circle image you can use. Copy the code to an xml file in the drawables folder.

ic_check.xml:

<vector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:width="24dp"
    android:height="24dp"
    android:viewportHeight="256"
    android:viewportWidth="256">
    <path
        android:fillColor="#2962FF"
        android:pathData="M111,1.7c-7.2,1.1 -22.2,4.8 -27.9,7 -33.2,12.5 -61.3,40.3 -74.1,73.3 -8.7,22.6 -10.5,55.3 -4.4,78 10.9,40 39.7,72.4 77.4,87 22.6,8.7 55.3,10.5 78,4.4 45.3,-12.3 79.1,-46.1 91.4,-91.4 2.9,-10.7 3.9,-21.9 3.3,-37.4 -0.7,-21.2 -4.6,-35.9 -14,-54.1 -18.2,-35 -54,-60.5 -93.4,-66.4 -6.7,-1 -30.7,-1.3 -36.3,-0.4zM145,23.1c21.8,3.3 46.5,16.5 61.1,32.8 20.4,22.6 30.1,51.2 27.7,81.1 -3.5,44.4 -35.9,82.7 -79.6,94 -21.6,5.6 -46.6,3.7 -67.8,-5.1 -10.4,-4.3 -24.7,-14.1 -33.4,-22.9 -41.6,-41.5 -41.6,-108.4 0,-150 24.3,-24.3 57.6,-35.1 92,-29.9z"
        android:strokeColor="#00000000" />
    <path
        android:fillColor="#2962FF"
        android:pathData="M148.4,113c-24.6,26 -43.3,44.9 -44,44.6 -0.7,-0.3 -8.5,-6.1 -17.3,-13 -8.9,-6.9 -16.5,-12.6 -17,-12.6 -1.4,-0 -25.6,19 -25.8,20.3 -0.3,1.4 62.7,50.2 64.8,50.2 1.7,-0 108.4,-112.3 108.4,-114.1 0,-1.3 -23.8,-20.4 -25.4,-20.4 -0.6,-0 -20.2,20.3 -43.7,45z"
        android:strokeColor="#00000000" />
</vector>

Use this image in your button:

<ImageButton
    android:id="@+id/btn_level1"
    android:layout_width="36dp"
    android:layout_height="36dp"
    android:background="@drawable/ic_check"
/>

Your button will be a circle button.

enter image description here

Function that creates a timestamp in c#

I always use something like the following:

public static String GetTimestamp(this DateTime value)
{
    return value.ToString("yyyyMMddHHmmssfff");
}

This will give you a string like 200905211035131468, as the string goes from highest order bits of the timestamp to lowest order simple string sorting in your SQL queries can be used to order by date if you're sticking values in a database

What does the arrow operator, '->', do in Java?

That's part of the syntax of the new lambda expressions, to be introduced in Java 8. There are a couple of online tutorials to get the hang of it, here's a link to one. Basically, the -> separates the parameters (left-side) from the implementation (right side).

The general syntax for using lambda expressions is

(Parameters) -> { Body } where the -> separates parameters and lambda expression body.

The parameters are enclosed in parentheses which is the same way as for methods and the lambda expression body is a block of code enclosed in braces.

Postgres: How to do Composite keys?

Your compound PRIMARY KEY specification already does what you want. Omit the line that's giving you a syntax error, and omit the redundant CONSTRAINT (already implied), too:

 CREATE TABLE tags
      (
               question_id INTEGER NOT NULL,
               tag_id SERIAL NOT NULL,
               tag1 VARCHAR(20),
               tag2 VARCHAR(20),
               tag3 VARCHAR(20),
               PRIMARY KEY(question_id, tag_id)
      );

NOTICE:  CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence "tags_tag_id_seq" for serial column "tags.tag_id"
    NOTICE:  CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index "tags_pkey" for table "tags"
    CREATE TABLE
    pg=> \d tags
                                         Table "public.tags"
       Column    |         Type          |                       Modifiers       
    -------------+-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------
     question_id | integer               | not null
     tag_id      | integer               | not null default nextval('tags_tag_id_seq'::regclass)
     tag1        | character varying(20) |
     tag2        | character varying(20) |
     tag3        | character varying(20) |
    Indexes:
        "tags_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (question_id, tag_id)

show distinct column values in pyspark dataframe: python

This should help to get distinct values of a column:

df.select('column1').distinct().collect()

Note that .collect() doesn't have any built-in limit on how many values can return so this might be slow -- use .show() instead or add .limit(20) before .collect() to manage this.

How do I deal with certificates using cURL while trying to access an HTTPS url?

This error is related to a missing package: ca-certificates. Install it.

In Ubuntu Linux (and similar distro):

# apt-get install ca-certificates

In CygWin via Apt-Cyg

# apt-cyg install ca-certificates

In Arch Linux (Raspberry Pi)

# pacman -S ca-certificates

The documentation tells:

This package includes PEM files of CA certificates to allow SSL-based applications to check for the authenticity of SSL connections.

As seen at: Debian -- Details of package ca-certificates in squeeze

How do I download a file from the internet to my linux server with Bash

Using wget

wget -O /tmp/myfile 'http://www.google.com/logo.jpg'

or curl:

curl -o /tmp/myfile 'http://www.google.com/logo.jpg'

Java 8: How do I work with exception throwing methods in streams?

You can wrap and unwrap exceptions this way.

class A {
    void foo() throws Exception {
        throw new Exception();
    }
};

interface Task {
    void run() throws Exception;
}

static class TaskException extends RuntimeException {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    public TaskException(Exception e) {
        super(e);
    }
}

void bar() throws Exception {
      Stream<A> as = Stream.generate(()->new A());
      try {
        as.forEach(a -> wrapException(() -> a.foo())); // or a::foo instead of () -> a.foo()
    } catch (TaskException e) {
        throw (Exception)e.getCause();
    }
}

static void wrapException(Task task) {
    try {
        task.run();
    } catch (Exception e) {
        throw new TaskException(e);
    }
}

ggplot combining two plots from different data.frames

The only working solution for me, was to define the data object in the geom_line instead of the base object, ggplot.

Like this:

ggplot() + 
geom_line(data=Data1, aes(x=A, y=B), color='green') + 
geom_line(data=Data2, aes(x=C, y=D), color='red')

instead of

ggplot(data=Data1, aes(x=A, y=B), color='green') + 
geom_line() + 
geom_line(data=Data2, aes(x=C, y=D), color='red')

More info here

`require': no such file to load -- mkmf (LoadError)

I also needed build-essential installed:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

How to run a PowerShell script from a batch file

Small sample test.cmd

<# :
  @echo off
    powershell /nologo /noprofile /command ^
         "&{[ScriptBlock]::Create((cat """%~f0""") -join [Char[]]10).Invoke(@(&{$args}%*))}"
  exit /b
#>
Write-Host Hello, $args[0] -fo Green
#You programm...

How to connect to a remote Git repository?

Like you said remote_repo_url is indeed the IP of the server, and yes it needs to be added on each PC, but it's easier to understand if you create the server first then ask each to clone it.

There's several ways to connect to the server, you can use ssh, http, or even a network drive, each has it's pros and cons. You can refer to the documentation about protocols and how to connect to the server

You can check the rest of chapter 4 for more detailed information, as it's talking about how to set up your own server

How to know if two arrays have the same values

If you only want to test for primitive values, you can try:

if(JSON.stringify(arr1.sort()) !== JSON.stringify(arr2.sort())) {
  console.log('invalid');
}

Check whether number is even or odd

The remainder operator, %, will give you the remainder after dividing by a number.

So n % 2 == 0 will be true if n is even and false if n is odd.

Perfect 100% width of parent container for a Bootstrap input?

Just add box-sizing:

input[type="text"] {
    box-sizing: border-box;
}

Do I really need to encode '&' as '&amp;'?

Could you show us what your title actually is? When I submit

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<title>Dolce & Gabbana</title>
<body>
<p>am i allowed loose & mpersands?</p>
</body>
</html>

to http://validator.w3.org/ - explicitly asking it to use the experimental HTML 5 mode - it has no complaints about the &s...

How do I translate an ISO 8601 datetime string into a Python datetime object?

Arrow looks promising for this:

>>> import arrow
>>> arrow.get('2014-11-13T14:53:18.694072+00:00').datetime
datetime.datetime(2014, 11, 13, 14, 53, 18, 694072, tzinfo=tzoffset(None, 0))

Arrow is a Python library that provides a sensible, intelligent way of creating, manipulating, formatting and converting dates and times. Arrow is simple, lightweight and heavily inspired by moment.js and requests.

Focus Next Element In Tab Index

i use this code, which relies on the library "JQuery":

    $(document).on('change', 'select', function () {
    let next_select = $(this);
// console.log(next_select.toArray())
    if (!next_select.parent().parent().next().find('select').length) {
        next_select.parent().parent().parent().next().find('input[type="text"]').click()
        console.log(next_select.parent().parent().parent().next());
    } else if (next_select.parent().parent().next().find('select').prop("disabled")) {
        setTimeout(function () {
            next_select.parent().parent().next().find('select').select2('open')
        }, 1000)
        console.log('b');
    } else if (next_select.parent().parent().next().find('select').length) {
        next_select.parent().parent().next().find('select').select2('open')
        console.log('c');
    }
});

Show hide div using codebehind

Another method (which it appears no-one has mentioned thus far), is to add an additional KeyValue pair to the element's Style array. i.e

Div.Style.Add("display", "none");

This has the added benefit of merely hiding the element, rather than preventing it from being written to the DOM to begin with - unlike the "Visible" property. i.e.

Div.Visible = false

results in the div never being written to the DOM.

Edit: This should be done in the 'code-behind', I.e. The *.aspx.cs file.

Creating Unicode character from its number

Remember that char is an integral type, and thus can be given an integer value, as well as a char constant.

char c = 0x2202;//aka 8706 in decimal. \u codepoints are in hex.
String s = String.valueOf(c);

How To Launch Git Bash from DOS Command Line?

I used the info above to help create a more permanent solution. The following will create the alias sh that you can use to open Git Bash:

echo @start "" "%PROGRAMFILES%\Git\bin\sh.exe" --login > %systemroot%\sh.bat

AngularJS: how to enable $locationProvider.html5Mode with deeplinking

My problem solved with these :

1- Add this to your head :

<base href="/" />

2- Use this in app.config

$locationProvider.html5Mode(true);

How to chain scope queries with OR instead of AND?

Also see these related questions: here, here and here

For rails 4, based on this article and this original answer

Person
  .unscoped # See the caution note below. Maybe you want default scope here, in which case just remove this line.
  .where( # Begin a where clause
    where(:name => "John").where(:lastname => "Smith")  # join the scopes to be OR'd
    .where_values  # get an array of arel where clause conditions based on the chain thus far
    .inject(:or)  # inject the OR operator into the arels 
    # ^^ Inject may not work in Rails3. But this should work instead:
    .joins(" OR ")
    # ^^ Remember to only use .inject or .joins, not both
  )  # Resurface the arels inside the overarching query

Note the article's caution at the end:

Rails 4.1+

Rails 4.1 treats default_scope just as a regular scope. The default scope (if you have any) is included in the where_values result and inject(:or) will add or statement between the default scope and your wheres. That's bad.

To solve that, you just need to unscope the query.

Get current value selected in dropdown using jQuery

In case you want the index of the current selected value.

$selIndex = $("select#myselectid").prop('selectedIndex'));

What does the "static" modifier after "import" mean?

the difference between "import static com.showboy.Myclass" and "import com.showboy.Myclass"?

The first should generate a compiler error since the static import only works for importing fields or member types. (assuming MyClass is not an inner class or member from showboy)

I think you meant

import static com.showboy.MyClass.*;

which makes all static fields and members from MyClass available in the actual compilation unit without having to qualify them... as explained above

JQuery: if div is visible

You can use .is(':visible')

Selects all elements that are visible.

For example:

if($('#selectDiv').is(':visible')){

Also, you can get the div which is visible by:

$('div:visible').callYourFunction();

Live example:

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Removing leading and trailing spaces from a string

My Solution for this problem not using any STL methods but only C++ string's own methods is as following:

void processString(string &s) {
    if ( s.empty() ) return;

    //delete leading and trailing spaces of the input string
    int notSpaceStartPos = 0, notSpaceEndPos = s.length() - 1;
    while ( s[notSpaceStartPos] == ' ' ) ++notSpaceStartPos;
    while ( s[notSpaceEndPos] == ' ' ) --notSpaceEndPos;
    if ( notSpaceStartPos > notSpaceEndPos ) { s = ""; return; }
    s = s.substr(notSpaceStartPos, notSpaceEndPos - notSpaceStartPos + 1);

    //reduce multiple spaces between two words to a single space 
    string temp;
    for ( int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++ ) {
        if ( i > 0 && s[i] == ' ' && s[i-1] == ' ' ) continue;
        temp.push_back(s[i]);
    }
    s = temp;
}

I have used this method to pass a LeetCode problem Reverse Words in a String

How to store arrays in MySQL?

Use database field type BLOB to store arrays.

Ref: http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.serialize.php

Return Values

Returns a string containing a byte-stream representation of value that can be stored anywhere.

Note that this is a binary string which may include null bytes, and needs to be stored and handled as such. For example, serialize() output should generally be stored in a BLOB field in a database, rather than a CHAR or TEXT field.

Sort Array of object by object field in Angular 6

You can simply use Arrays.sort()

array.sort((a,b) => a.title.rendered.localeCompare(b.title.rendered));

Working Example :

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printing a value of a variable in postgresql

You can raise a notice in Postgres as follows:

raise notice 'Value: %', deletedContactId;

Read here

How to create a directory in Java?

For java 7 and up:

Path path = Paths.get("/your/path/string");
Files.createDirectories(path);

It seems unnecessary to check for existence of the dir or file before creating, from createDirectories javadocs:

Creates a directory by creating all nonexistent parent directories first. Unlike the createDirectory method, an exception is not thrown if the directory could not be created because it already exists. The attrs parameter is optional file-attributes to set atomically when creating the nonexistent directories. Each file attribute is identified by its name. If more than one attribute of the same name is included in the array then all but the last occurrence is ignored.

If this method fails, then it may do so after creating some, but not all, of the parent directories.

Is there a way to return a list of all the image file names from a folder using only Javascript?

No. JavaScript is a client-side technology and cannot do anything on the server. You could however use AJAX to call a server-side script (e.g. PHP) which could return the information you need.

If you want to use AJAX, the easiest way will be to utilise jQuery:

$.post("someScript.php", function(data) {
   console.log(data); //"data" contains whatever someScript.php returned
});

How to break out of while loop in Python?

ans=(R)
while True:
    print('Your score is so far '+str(myScore)+'.')
    print("Would you like to roll or quit?")
    ans=input("Roll...")
    if ans=='R':
        R=random.randint(1, 8)
        print("You rolled a "+str(R)+".")
        myScore=R+myScore
    else:
        print("Now I'll see if I can break your score...")
        ans = False
        break

.prop() vs .attr()

.attr():

  • Get the value of an attribute for the first element in the set of matched elements.
  • Gives you the value of element as it was defined in the html on page load

.prop():

  • Get the value of a property for the first element in the set of matched elements.
  • Gives the updated values of elements which is modified via javascript/jquery

OnChange event handler for radio button (INPUT type="radio") doesn't work as one value

This is the easiest and most efficient function to use just add as many buttons as you want to the checked = false and make the onclick event of each radio buttoncall this function. Designate a unique number to each radio button

function AdjustRadios(which) 
{
    if(which==1)
         document.getElementById("rdpPrivate").checked=false;
    else if(which==2)
         document.getElementById("rdbPublic").checked=false;
}

Tkinter: "Python may not be configured for Tk"

Oh I just have followed the solution Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams has suggest which is install tk-dev before building the python. (Building the Python-3.6.1 from source on Ubuntu 16.04.)

There was pre-compiled objects and binaries I have had build yesterday though, I didn't clean up the objects and just build again on the same build path. And it works beautifully.

sudo apt install tk-dev
(On the python build path)
(No need to conduct 'make clean')
./configure
make
sudo make install

That's it!

Incomplete type is not allowed: stringstream

Some of the system headers provide a forward declaration of std::stringstream without the definition. This makes it an 'incomplete type'. To fix that you need to include the definition, which is provided in the <sstream> header:

#include <sstream>

TypeError: $ is not a function when calling jQuery function

var $=jQuery.noConflict();

$(document).ready(function(){
    // jQuery code is in here
});

Credit to Ashwani Panwar and Cyssoo answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/29341144/3010027

Change the encoding of a file in Visual Studio Code

So here's how to do that:

In the bottom bar of VSCode, you'll see the label UTF-8. Click it. A popup opens. Click Save with encoding. You can now pick a new encoding for that file.

Alternatively, you can change the setting globally in Workspace/User settings using the setting "files.encoding": "utf8". If using the graphical settings page in VSCode, simply search for encoding. Do note however that this only applies to newly created files.

Merge/flatten an array of arrays

I have done it using recursion and closures

function flatten(arr) {

  var temp = [];

  function recursiveFlatten(arr) { 
    for(var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
      if(Array.isArray(arr[i])) {
        recursiveFlatten(arr[i]);
      } else {
        temp.push(arr[i]);
      }
    }
  }
  recursiveFlatten(arr);
  return temp;
}

How to Set Active Tab in jQuery Ui

You can use this:

$(document).ready(function() {
    $("#tabs").tabs();
    $('#action').click(function() {
        var selected = $("#tabs").tabs("option", "selected");
        $("#tabs").tabs("option", "selected", selected + 1);
    });
});

Also consider changing the input type as button instead of submit unless you want to submit the page.

Max tcp/ip connections on Windows Server 2008

How many thousands of users?

I've run some TCP/IP client/server connection tests in the past on Windows 2003 Server and managed more than 70,000 connections on a reasonably low spec VM. (see here for details: http://www.lenholgate.com/blog/2005/10/the-64000-connection-question.html). I would be extremely surprised if Windows 2008 Server is limited to less than 2003 Server and, IMHO, the posting that Cloud links to is too vague to be much use. This kind of question comes up a lot, I blogged about why I don't really think that it's something that you should actually worry about here: http://www.serverframework.com/asynchronousevents/2010/12/one-million-tcp-connections.html.

Personally I'd test it and see. Even if there is no inherent limit in the Windows 2008 Server version that you intend to use there will still be practical limits based on memory, processor speed and server design.

If you want to run some 'generic' tests you can use my multi-client connection test and the associated echo server. Detailed here: http://www.lenholgate.com/blog/2005/11/windows-tcpip-server-performance.html and here: http://www.lenholgate.com/blog/2005/11/simple-echo-servers.html. These are what I used to run my own tests for my server framework and these are what allowed me to create 70,000 active connections on a Windows 2003 Server VM with 760MB of memory.

Edited to add details from the comment below...

If you're already thinking of multiple servers I'd take the following approach.

  1. Use the free tools that I link to and prove to yourself that you can create a reasonable number of connections onto your target OS (beware of the Windows limits on dynamic ports which may cause your client connections to fail, search for MAX_USER_PORT).

  2. during development regularly test your actual server with test clients that can create connections and actually 'do something' on the server. This will help to prevent you building the server in ways that restrict its scalability. See here: http://www.serverframework.com/asynchronousevents/2010/10/how-to-support-10000-or-more-concurrent-tcp-connections-part-2-perf-tests-from-day-0.html

posting hidden value

You have to use $_POST['date'] instead of $date if it's coming from a POST request ($_GET if it's a GET request).

What is the difference between "Rollback..." and "Back Out Submitted Changelist #####" in Perforce P4V

Reverse a changelist submission

You cannot undo a successful changelist submission, but you can reverse previously submitted changes in two ways:

Rollback restores a file or set of files back to a specified changelist, date or revision. Any changes made after that point in time are not retained. Back out removes specific changes made at a given changelist, date or revision but allows a user to keep changes made in subsequent revisions.

For details please refer to https://www.perforce.com/perforce/r13.1/manuals/p4v/Working_with_changelists.html

When to use StringBuilder in Java

Some compilers may not replace any string concatenations with StringBuilder equivalents. Be sure to consider which compilers your source will use before relying on compile time optimizations.

Exporting result of select statement to CSV format in DB2

I tried this and got a ';'-delimited csv file:

--#SET TERMINATOR % 
EXPORT TO result.csv OF DEL MODIFIED BY CHARDEL;
SELECT * FROM A

Pythonic way to add datetime.date and datetime.time objects

It's in the python docs.

import datetime
datetime.datetime.combine(datetime.date(2011, 1, 1), 
                          datetime.time(10, 23))

returns

datetime.datetime(2011, 1, 1, 10, 23)

Spring MVC UTF-8 Encoding

Depending on how you render your view, you may also need:

@Bean
public StringHttpMessageConverter stringHttpMessageConverter() {
    return new StringHttpMessageConverter(Charset.forName("UTF-8"));
}

How to include quotes in a string

I use:

var value = "'Field1','Field2','Field3'".Replace("'", "\""); 

as opposed to the equivalent

var value = "\"Field1\",\"Field2\",\"Field3\"";

Because the former has far less noise than the latter, making it easier to see typo's etc.

I use it a lot in unit tests.

How do I upload a file to an SFTP server in C# (.NET)?

Following code shows how to upload a file to a SFTP server using our Rebex SFTP component.

// create client, connect and log in 
Sftp client = new Sftp();
client.Connect(hostname);
client.Login(username, password);

// upload the 'test.zip' file to the current directory at the server 
client.PutFile(@"c:\data\test.zip", "test.zip");

client.Disconnect();

You can write a complete communication log to a file using a LogWriter property as follows. Examples output (from FTP component but the SFTP output is similar) can be found here.

client.LogWriter = new Rebex.FileLogWriter(
   @"c:\temp\log.txt", Rebex.LogLevel.Debug); 

or intercept the communication using events as follows:

Sftp client = new Sftp();
client.CommandSent += new SftpCommandSentEventHandler(client_CommandSent);
client.ResponseRead += new SftpResponseReadEventHandler(client_ResponseRead);
client.Connect("sftp.example.org");

//... 
private void client_CommandSent(object sender, SftpCommandSentEventArgs e)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Command: {0}", e.Command);
}

private void client_ResponseRead(object sender, SftpResponseReadEventArgs e)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Response: {0}", e.Response);
}

For more info see tutorial or download a trial and check samples.

Set cURL to use local virtual hosts

Either use a real fully qualified domain name (like dev.yourdomain.com) that pointing to 127.0.0.1 or try editing the proper hosts file (usually /etc/hosts in *nix environments).

Matplotlib-Animation "No MovieWriters Available"

(be sure to follow JPH feedback above about the proper ffmpeg download) Not sure why, but in my case here is the one that worked (in my case was on windows).

Initialize a writer:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.animation as animation
Writer = animation.FFMpegWriter(fps=30, codec='libx264')  #or 
Writer = animation.FFMpegWriter(fps=20, metadata=dict(artist='Me'), bitrate=1800) ==> This is WORKED FINE ^_^

Writer = animation.writers['ffmpeg'] ==> GIVES ERROR ""RuntimeError: Requested MovieWriter (ffmpeg) not available""

How to add an event after close the modal window?

Few answers that may be useful, especially if you have dynamic content.

$('#dialogueForm').live("dialogclose", function(){
   //your code to run on dialog close
});

Or, when opening the modal, have a callback.

$( "#dialogueForm" ).dialog({
              autoOpen: false,
              height: "auto",
              width: "auto",
              modal: true,
                my: "center",
                at: "center",
                of: window,
              close : function(){
                  // functionality goes here
              }  
              });

How can I properly use a PDO object for a parameterized SELECT query

You select data like this:

$db = new PDO("...");
$statement = $db->prepare("select id from some_table where name = :name");
$statement->execute(array(':name' => "Jimbo"));
$row = $statement->fetch(); // Use fetchAll() if you want all results, or just iterate over the statement, since it implements Iterator

You insert in the same way:

$statement = $db->prepare("insert into some_other_table (some_id) values (:some_id)");
$statement->execute(array(':some_id' => $row['id']));

I recommend that you configure PDO to throw exceptions upon error. You would then get a PDOException if any of the queries fail - No need to check explicitly. To turn on exceptions, call this just after you've created the $db object:

$db = new PDO("...");
$db->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);

pthread_join() and pthread_exit()

It because every time

void pthread_exit(void *ret);

will be called from thread function so which ever you want to return simply its pointer pass with pthread_exit().

Now at

int pthread_join(pthread_t tid, void **ret);

will be always called from where thread is created so here to accept that returned pointer you need double pointer ..

i think this code will help you to understand this

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

void* thread_function(void *ignoredInThisExample)
{
    char *a = malloc(10);
    strcpy(a,"hello world");
    pthread_exit((void*)a);
}
int main()
{
    pthread_t thread_id;
    char *b;

    pthread_create (&thread_id, NULL,&thread_function, NULL);

    pthread_join(thread_id,(void**)&b); //here we are reciving one pointer 
                                        value so to use that we need double pointer 
    printf("b is %s\n",b); 
    free(b); // lets free the memory

}

Swift programmatically navigate to another view controller/scene

The above code works well but if you want to navigate from an NSObject class, where you can not use self.present:

let storyBoard = UIStoryboard(name:"Main", bundle: nil)
if let conVC = storyBoard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "SoundViewController") as? SoundViewController,
    let navController = UIApplication.shared.keyWindow?.rootViewController as? UINavigationController {
    
    navController.pushViewController(conVC, animated: true)
}

Remove characters from NSString?

You can try this

- (NSString *)stripRemoveSpaceFrom:(NSString *)str {
    while ([str rangeOfString:@"  "].location != NSNotFound) {
        str = [str stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@" " withString:@""];
    }
    return str;
}

Hope this will help you out.

How do I see all foreign keys to a table or column?

As an alternative to Node’s answer, if you use InnoDB and defined FK’s you could query the information_schema database e.g.:

SELECT CONSTRAINT_NAME, TABLE_NAME, REFERENCED_TABLE_NAME
FROM information_schema.REFERENTIAL_CONSTRAINTS
WHERE CONSTRAINT_SCHEMA = '<schema>'
AND TABLE_NAME = '<table>'

for foreign keys from <table>, or

SELECT CONSTRAINT_NAME, TABLE_NAME, REFERENCED_TABLE_NAME
FROM information_schema.REFERENTIAL_CONSTRAINTS
WHERE CONSTRAINT_SCHEMA = '<schema>'
AND REFERENCED_TABLE_NAME = '<table>'

for foreign keys to <table>

You can also get the UPDATE_RULE and DELETE_RULE if you want them.

Parse HTML in Android

We all know that programming have endless possibilities.There are numbers of solutions available for a single problem so i think all of the above solutions are perfect and may be helpful for someone but for me this one save my day..

So Code goes like this

  private void getWebsite() {
    new Thread(new Runnable() {
      @Override
      public void run() {
        final StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();

        try {
          Document doc = Jsoup.connect("http://www.ssaurel.com/blog").get();
          String title = doc.title();
          Elements links = doc.select("a[href]");

          builder.append(title).append("\n");

          for (Element link : links) {
            builder.append("\n").append("Link : ").append(link.attr("href"))
            .append("\n").append("Text : ").append(link.text());
          }
        } catch (IOException e) {
          builder.append("Error : ").append(e.getMessage()).append("\n");
        }

        runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
          @Override
          public void run() {
            result.setText(builder.toString());
          }
        });
      }
    }).start();
  }

You just have to call the above function in onCreate Method of your MainActivity

I hope this one is also helpful for you guys.

Also read the original blog at Medium

Set the layout weight of a TextView programmatically

You can also give weight separately like this ,

LayoutParams lp1 = new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT,LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT);

 lp1.weight=1;

How to trim a string to N chars in Javascript?

Little late... I had to respond. This is the simplest way.

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  return value.padEnd(size).substring(0, size);_x000D_
}_x000D_
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// JavaScript (Alt)_x000D_
var fixedSize_JSAlt = function(value, size) {_x000D_
  return value.padEnd(size).substring(0, size);_x000D_
}_x000D_
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// Prototype (preferred)_x000D_
String.prototype.fixedSize = function(size) {_x000D_
  return this.padEnd(size).substring(0, size);_x000D_
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// Overloaded Prototype_x000D_
function fixedSize(value, size) {_x000D_
  return value.fixedSize(size);_x000D_
}_x000D_
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console.log('Old school JS -> "' + fixedSize_JS('test (30 characters)', 30) + '"');_x000D_
console.log('Semi-Old school JS -> "' + fixedSize_JSAlt('test (10 characters)', 10) + '"');_x000D_
console.log('Prototypes (Preferred) -> "' + 'test (25 characters)'.fixedSize(25) + '"');_x000D_
console.log('Overloaded Prototype (Legacy support) -> "' + fixedSize('test (15 characters)', 15) + '"');
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Step by step. .padEnd - Guarentees the length of the string

"The padEnd() method pads the current string with a given string (repeated, if needed) so that the resulting string reaches a given length. The padding is applied from the end (right) of the current string. The source for this interactive example is stored in a GitHub repository." source: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/…

.substring - limits to the length you need

If you choose to add ellipses, append them to the output.

I gave 4 examples of common JavaScript usages. I highly recommend using the String prototype with Overloading for legacy support. It makes it much easier to implement and change later.

How to get parameter on Angular2 route in Angular way?

Update: Sep 2019

As a few people have mentioned, the parameters in paramMap should be accessed using the common MapAPI:

To get a snapshot of the params, when you don't care that they may change:

this.bankName = this.route.snapshot.paramMap.get('bank');

To subscribe and be alerted to changes in the parameter values (typically as a result of the router's navigation)

this.route.paramMap.subscribe( paramMap => {
    this.bankName = paramMap.get('bank');
})

Update: Aug 2017

Since Angular 4, params have been deprecated in favor of the new interface paramMap. The code for the problem above should work if you simply substitute one for the other.

Original Answer

If you inject ActivatedRoute in your component, you'll be able to extract the route parameters

    import {ActivatedRoute} from '@angular/router';
    ...
    
    constructor(private route:ActivatedRoute){}
    bankName:string;
    
    ngOnInit(){
        // 'bank' is the name of the route parameter
        this.bankName = this.route.snapshot.params['bank'];
    }

If you expect users to navigate from bank to bank directly, without navigating to another component first, you ought to access the parameter through an observable:

    ngOnInit(){
        this.route.params.subscribe( params =>
            this.bankName = params['bank'];
        )
    }

For the docs, including the differences between the two check out this link and search for "activatedroute"

How to install multiple python packages at once using pip

Complementing the other answers, you can use the option --no-cache-dir to disable caching in pip. My virtual machine was crashing when installing many packages at once with pip install -r requirements.txt. What solved for me was:

pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt

How to find most common elements of a list?

Is't it just this ....

word_list=['Jellicle', 'Cats', 'are', 'black', 'and', 'white,', 'Jellicle', 'Cats', 
 'are', 'rather', 'small;', 'Jellicle', 'Cats', 'are', 'merry', 'and', 
 'bright,', 'And', 'pleasant', 'to', 'hear', 'when', 'they', 'caterwaul.', 
 'Jellicle', 'Cats', 'have', 'cheerful', 'faces,', 'Jellicle', 'Cats', 
 'have', 'bright', 'black', 'eyes;', 'They', 'like', 'to', 'practise', 
 'their', 'airs', 'and', 'graces', 'And', 'wait', 'for', 'the', 'Jellicle', 
 'Moon', 'to', 'rise.', ''] 

from collections import Counter
c = Counter(word_list)
c.most_common(3)

Which should output

[('Jellicle', 6), ('Cats', 5), ('are', 3)]

Extract the last substring from a cell

Try this function in Excel:

Public Shared Function SPLITTEXT(Text As String, SplitAt As String, ReturnZeroBasedIndex As Integer) As String
        Dim s() As String = Split(Text, SplitAt)
        If ReturnZeroBasedIndex <= s.Count - 1 Then
            Return s(ReturnZeroBasedIndex)
        Else
            Return ""
        End If
    End Function

You use it like this:

First Name (A1) | Last Name (A2)

Value in cell A1 = Michael Zomparelli

I want the last name in column A2.

=SPLITTEXT(A1, " ", 1)

The last param is the zero-based index you want to return. So if you split on the space char then index 0 = Michael and index 1 = Zomparelli

The above function is a .Net function, but can easily be converted to VBA.

Change the background color of CardView programmatically

It is very simple in kotlin. Use ColorStateList to change card view colour

   var color = R.color.green;
   cardView.setCardBackgroundColor(context.colorList(color));

A kotlin extension of ColorStateList:

fun Context.colorList(id: Int): ColorStateList {
    return ColorStateList.valueOf(ContextCompat.getColor(this, color))
}

Regex: matching up to the first occurrence of a character

This was very helpful for me as I was trying to figure out how to match all the characters in an xml tag including attributes. I was running into the "matches everything to the end" problem with:

/<simpleChoice.*>/

but was able to resolve the issue with:

/<simpleChoice[^>]*>/

after reading this post. Thanks all.

Loop through list with both content and index

>>> for i, s in enumerate(S):

How can I create an MSI setup?

You can use Wix (which is free) to create an MSI installation package.

WiX Tutorial - Creating an Installer MSI with Wix

WPF loading spinner

A very simple "plug and play" spinner could be one of the spinning icons from the Font Awesome Wpf Package (Spinning icons).

The usage is quite simple, just install the nuget package:

PM> Install-Package FontAwesome.WPF

Then add the reference to the namespace

xmlns:fa="http://schemas.fontawesome.io/icons/"

and use the ImageAwesome control. Set the Spin="True" property and select one of the "Spinner", "Refresh", "Cog" and "CircleOutlinedNotched" Icon. It's scalable and can be resized by setting width and height.

<Window x:Class="Example.FontAwesome.WPF.Single"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    xmlns:fa="http://schemas.fontawesome.io/icons/"
    Title="Single" Height="300" Width="300">
    <Grid  Margin="20">
        <fa:ImageAwesome Icon="Refresh" Spin="True" Height="48" Width="48" />
    </Grid>
</Window>

How to use execvp()

In cpp, you need to pay special attention to string types when using execvp:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <cstring>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
using namespace std;

const size_t MAX_ARGC = 15; // 1 command + # of arguments
char* argv[MAX_ARGC + 1]; // Needs +1 because of the null terminator at the end
// c_str() converts string to const char*, strdup converts const char* to char*
argv[0] = strdup(command.c_str());

// start filling up the arguments after the first command
size_t arg_i = 1;
while (cin && arg_i < MAX_ARGC) {
    string arg;
    cin >> arg;
    if (arg.empty()) {
        argv[arg_i] = nullptr;
        break;
    } else {
        argv[arg_i] = strdup(arg.c_str());
    }
    ++arg_i;
}

// Run the command with arguments
if (execvp(command.c_str(), argv) == -1) {
    // Print error if command not found
    cerr << "command '" << command << "' not found\n";
}

Reference: execlp?execvp?????

PivotTable's Report Filter using "greater than"

Maybe in your data source add a column which does a sumif over all rows. Not sure what your data looks like but something like =(sumif([column holding pivot row heads),[current row head value in row], probability column)>.2). This will give you a True when the pivot table will show >20%.
Then add a filter on your pivot table on this column for TRUE values

Converting a string to an integer on Android

Try this code it's really working.

int number = 0;
try {
    number = Integer.parseInt(YourEditTextName.getText().toString());
} catch(NumberFormatException e) {
   System.out.println("parse value is not valid : " + e);
} 

jdk7 32 bit windows version to download

Go to the download page and download the Windows x86 version with filename jdk-7-windows-i586.exe.

Constructor of an abstract class in C#

From https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182126.aspx

Constructors on abstract types can be called only by derived types. Because public constructors create instances of a type, and you cannot create instances of an abstract type, an abstract type that has a public constructor is incorrectly designed.

Since only derived classes can use an abstract class constructor then an abstract class constructor, if needed, must be declared as protected.

However, that said VS compiler will not complain (with default rules) when declaring public constructors in abstract classes however it will not allow creating a new instance.

Adding an arbitrary line to a matplotlib plot in ipython notebook

Rather than abusing plot or annotate, which will be inefficient for many lines, you can use matplotlib.collections.LineCollection:

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.collections import LineCollection

np.random.seed(5)
x = np.arange(1, 101)
y = 20 + 3 * x + np.random.normal(0, 60, 100)
plt.plot(x, y, "o")

# Takes list of lines, where each line is a sequence of coordinates
l1 = [(70, 100), (70, 250)]
l2 = [(70, 90), (90, 200)]
lc = LineCollection([l1, l2], color=["k","blue"], lw=2)

plt.gca().add_collection(lc)

plt.show()

Figure with two lines plotted via LineCollection

It takes a list of lines [l1, l2, ...], where each line is a sequence of N coordinates (N can be more than two).

The standard formatting keywords are available, accepting either a single value, in which case the value applies to every line, or a sequence of M values, in which case the value for the ith line is values[i % M].

System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x800A03EC)

It 'a permission problem when IIS is running I had this problem and I solved it in this way

I went on folders

C:\Windows\ System32\config\SystemProfile

and

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\SystemProfile

are protected system folders, they usually have the lock.

Right-click-> Card security-> Click on Edit-> Add untente "Autenticadet User" and assign permissions.

At this point everything is solved, if you still have problems try to give all permissions to "Everyone"

How can I scale an entire web page with CSS?

Jon Tan has done this with his site - http://jontangerine.com/ Everything including images has been declared in ems. Everything. This is how the desired effect is achieved. Text zoom and screen zoom yield almost the exact same result.

Why can't Python find shared objects that are in directories in sys.path?

Ensure your libcurl.so module is in the system library path, which is distinct and separate from the python library path.

A "quick fix" is to add this path to a LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable. However, setting that system wide (or even account wide) is a BAD IDEA, as it is possible to set it in such a way that some programs will find a library it shouldn't, or even worse, open up security holes.

If your "locally installed libraries" are installed in, for example, /usr/local/lib, add this directory to /etc/ld.so.conf (it's a text file) and run "ldconfig"

The command will run a caching utility, but will also create all the necessary "symbolic links" required for the loader system to function. It is surprising that the "make install" for libcurl did not do this already, but it's possible it could not if /usr/local/lib is not in /etc/ld.so.conf already.

PS: it's possible that your /etc/ld.so.conf contains nothing but "include ld.so.conf.d/*.conf". You can still add a directory path after it, or just create a new file inside the directory it's being included from. Dont forget to run "ldconfig" after it.

Be careful. Getting this wrong can screw up your system.

Additionally: make sure your python module is compiled against THAT version of libcurl. If you just copied some files over from another system, this wont always work. If in doubt, compile your modules on the system you intend to run them on.

LINQ .Any VS .Exists - What's the difference?

TLDR; Performance-wise Any seems to be slower (if I have set this up properly to evaluate both values at almost same time)

        var list1 = Generate(1000000);
        var forceListEval = list1.SingleOrDefault(o => o == "0123456789012");
        if (forceListEval != "sdsdf")
        {
            var s = string.Empty;
            var start2 = DateTime.Now;
            if (!list1.Exists(o => o == "0123456789012"))
            {
                var end2 = DateTime.Now;
                s += " Exists: " + end2.Subtract(start2);
            }

            var start1 = DateTime.Now;
            if (!list1.Any(o => o == "0123456789012"))
            {
                var end1 = DateTime.Now;
                s +=" Any: " +end1.Subtract(start1);
            }

            if (!s.Contains("sdfsd"))
            {

            }

testing list generator:

private List<string> Generate(int count)
    {
        var list = new List<string>();
        for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
        {
            list.Add( new string(
            Enumerable.Repeat("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ", 13)
                .Select(s =>
                {
                    var cryptoResult = new byte[4];
                    new RNGCryptoServiceProvider().GetBytes(cryptoResult);
                    return s[new Random(BitConverter.ToInt32(cryptoResult, 0)).Next(s.Length)];
                })
                .ToArray())); 
        }

        return list;
    }

With 10M records

" Any: 00:00:00.3770377 Exists: 00:00:00.2490249"

With 5M records

" Any: 00:00:00.0940094 Exists: 00:00:00.1420142"

With 1M records

" Any: 00:00:00.0180018 Exists: 00:00:00.0090009"

With 500k, (I also flipped around order in which they get evaluated to see if there is no additional operation associated with whichever runs first.)

" Exists: 00:00:00.0050005 Any: 00:00:00.0100010"

With 100k records

" Exists: 00:00:00.0010001 Any: 00:00:00.0020002"

It would seem Any to be slower by magnitude of 2.

Edit: For 5 and 10M records I changed the way it generates the list and Exists suddenly became slower than Any which implies there's something wrong in the way I am testing.

New testing mechanism:

private static IEnumerable<string> Generate(int count)
    {
        var cripto = new RNGCryptoServiceProvider();
        Func<string> getString = () => new string(
            Enumerable.Repeat("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ", 13)
                .Select(s =>
                {
                    var cryptoResult = new byte[4];
                    cripto.GetBytes(cryptoResult);
                    return s[new Random(BitConverter.ToInt32(cryptoResult, 0)).Next(s.Length)];
                })
                .ToArray());

        var list = new ConcurrentBag<string>();
        var x = Parallel.For(0, count, o => list.Add(getString()));
        return list;
    }

    private static void Test()
    {
        var list = Generate(10000000);
        var list1 = list.ToList();
        var forceListEval = list1.SingleOrDefault(o => o == "0123456789012");
        if (forceListEval != "sdsdf")
        {
            var s = string.Empty;

            var start1 = DateTime.Now;
            if (!list1.Any(o => o == "0123456789012"))
            {
                var end1 = DateTime.Now;
                s += " Any: " + end1.Subtract(start1);
            }

            var start2 = DateTime.Now;
            if (!list1.Exists(o => o == "0123456789012"))
            {
                var end2 = DateTime.Now;
                s += " Exists: " + end2.Subtract(start2);
            }

            if (!s.Contains("sdfsd"))
            {

            }
        }

Edit2: Ok so to eliminate any influence from generating test data I wrote it all to file and now read it from there.

 private static void Test()
    {
        var list1 = File.ReadAllLines("test.txt").Take(500000).ToList();
        var forceListEval = list1.SingleOrDefault(o => o == "0123456789012");
        if (forceListEval != "sdsdf")
        {
            var s = string.Empty;
            var start1 = DateTime.Now;
            if (!list1.Any(o => o == "0123456789012"))
            {
                var end1 = DateTime.Now;
                s += " Any: " + end1.Subtract(start1);
            }

            var start2 = DateTime.Now;
            if (!list1.Exists(o => o == "0123456789012"))
            {
                var end2 = DateTime.Now;
                s += " Exists: " + end2.Subtract(start2);
            }

            if (!s.Contains("sdfsd"))
            {
            }
        }
    }

10M

" Any: 00:00:00.1640164 Exists: 00:00:00.0750075"

5M

" Any: 00:00:00.0810081 Exists: 00:00:00.0360036"

1M

" Any: 00:00:00.0190019 Exists: 00:00:00.0070007"

500k

" Any: 00:00:00.0120012 Exists: 00:00:00.0040004"

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Regular expression to get a string between two strings in Javascript

Task

Extract substring between two string (excluding this two strings)

Solution

let allText = "Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum";
let textBefore = "five centuries,";
let textAfter = "electronic typesetting";
var regExp = new RegExp(`(?<=${textBefore}\\s)(.+?)(?=\\s+${textAfter})`, "g");
var results = regExp.exec(allText);
if (results && results.length > 1) {
    console.log(results[0]);
}

sort csv by column

The reader acts like a generator. On a file with some fake data:

>>> import sys, csv
>>> data = csv.reader(open('data.csv'),delimiter=';')
>>> data
<_csv.reader object at 0x1004a11a0>
>>> data.next()
['a', ' b', ' c']
>>> data.next()
['x', ' y', ' z']
>>> data.next()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
StopIteration

Using operator.itemgetter as Ignacio suggests:

>>> data = csv.reader(open('data.csv'),delimiter=';')
>>> import operator
>>> sortedlist = sorted(data, key=operator.itemgetter(2), reverse=True)
>>> sortedlist
[['x', ' y', ' z'], ['a', ' b', ' c']]

How to make clang compile to llvm IR

Given some C/C++ file foo.c:

> clang -S -emit-llvm foo.c

Produces foo.ll which is an LLVM IR file.

The -emit-llvm option can also be passed to the compiler front-end directly, and not the driver by means of -cc1:

> clang -cc1 foo.c -emit-llvm

Produces foo.ll with the IR. -cc1 adds some cool options like -ast-print. Check out -cc1 --help for more details.


To compile LLVM IR further to assembly, use the llc tool:

> llc foo.ll

Produces foo.s with assembly (defaulting to the machine architecture you run it on). llc is one of the LLVM tools - here is its documentation.

how to use python2.7 pip instead of default pip

An alternative is to call the pip module by using python2.7, as below:

python2.7 -m pip <commands>

For example, you could run python2.7 -m pip install <package> to install your favorite python modules. Here is a reference: https://stackoverflow.com/a/50017310/4256346.

In case the pip module has not yet been installed for this version of python, you can run the following:

python2.7 -m ensurepip

Running this command will "bootstrap the pip installer". Note that running this may require administrative privileges (i.e. sudo). Here is a reference: https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/ensurepip.html and another reference https://stackoverflow.com/a/46631019/4256346.

Get a Div Value in JQuery

$('#myDiv').text()

Although you'd be better off doing something like:

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alert(txt);
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<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<div id="myDiv"><p>Some Text</p></div>
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Make sure you're linking to your jQuery file too :)

Remove spacing between table cells and rows

If you see table class it has border-spacing: 2px; You could override table class in your css and set its border-spacing: 0px!important in table; I did it like

table {
      border-collapse: separate;
      white-space: normal;
      line-height: normal;
      font-weight: normal;
      font-size: medium;
      font-style: normal;
      color: -internal-quirk-inherit;
      text-align: start;
      border-spacing: 0px!important;
      font-variant: normal;   }

It saved my day.Hope it would be of help. Thanks.

How to properly set the 100% DIV height to match document/window height?

The easiest way is to add the:

$('#ID').css("height", $(document).height());

after the correct page height is determined by the browser. If the document height is changed once more re-run the above code.

Button background as transparent

Selectors work only for drawables, not styles. Reference


First, to make the button background transparent use the following attribute as this will not affect the material design animations:

style="?attr/buttonBarButtonStyle"

There are many ways to style your button. Check out this tutorial.

Second, to make the text bold on pressed, use this java code:

btn.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {

        switch (event.getAction()) {
            // When the user clicks the Button
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
                btn.setTypeface(Typeface.DEFAULT_BOLD);
                break;

            // When the user releases the Button
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
                btn.setTypeface(Typeface.DEFAULT);
                break;
        }
        return false;
    }
});

Gradle task - pass arguments to Java application

You can find the solution in Problems passing system properties and parameters when running Java class via Gradle . Both involve the use of the args property

Also you should read the difference between passing with -D or with -P that is explained in the Gradle documentation

How to make android listview scrollable?

This is my working code. you may try with this.

row.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:id="@+id/listEmployeeDetails"
        android:layout_height="match_parent" 
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
        android:layout_marginBottom="5dp"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        android:background="#ffffff">

        <TextView android:id="@+id/tvEmpId"
                      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                      android:textSize="12sp"
                      android:padding="2dp"
                      android:layout_width="0dp"
                      android:layout_weight="0.3"/>
            <TextView android:id="@+id/tvNameEmp"
                      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                      android:textSize="12sp"                     
                      android:padding="2dp"
                      android:layout_width="0dp"
                      android:layout_weight="0.5"/>
             <TextView
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:id="@+id/tvStatusEmp"
                    android:textSize="12sp"
                    android:padding="2dp"
                    android:layout_width="0dp"
                    android:layout_weight="0.2"/>               
</LinearLayout> 

details.xml

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/listEmployeeDetails"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:background="@color/page_bg"
    android:orientation="vertical" >
    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/lLayoutGrid"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:background="@color/page_bg"
        android:orientation="vertical" >

        ................... others components here............................

        <ListView
            android:id="@+id/listView"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:alwaysDrawnWithCache="true"
            android:dividerHeight="1dp"
            android:horizontalSpacing="3dp"
            android:scrollingCache="true"
            android:smoothScrollbar="true"
            android:stretchMode="columnWidth"
            android:verticalSpacing="3dp" 
            android:layout_marginBottom="30dp">
        </ListView>
    </LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>

Adapter class :

import java.util.List;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.BaseAdapter;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class ListViewAdapter extends BaseAdapter {
    private Context context;
    private List<EmployeeBean> employeeList; 

    publicListViewAdapter(Context context, List<EmployeeBean> employeeList) {
            this.context = context;
            this.employeeList = employeeList;
        }

    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
            View row = convertView;
            EmployeeBeanHolder holder = null;
            LayoutInflater inflater = ((Activity) context).getLayoutInflater();
            row = inflater.inflate(R.layout.row, parent, false);

            holder = new EmployeeBeanHolder();
            holder.employeeBean = employeeList.get(position);
            holder.tvEmpId = (TextView) row.findViewById(R.id.tvEmpId);
            holder.tvName = (TextView) row.findViewById(R.id.tvNameEmp);
            holder.tvStatus = (TextView) row.findViewById(R.id.tvStatusEmp);

            row.setTag(holder);
            holder.tvEmpId.setText(holder.employeeBean.getEmpId());
            holder.tvName.setText(holder.employeeBean.getName());
            holder.tvStatus.setText(holder.employeeBean.getStatus());

             if (position % 2 == 0) {
                    row.setBackgroundColor(Color.rgb(213, 229, 241));
                } else {                    
                    row.setBackgroundColor(Color.rgb(255, 255, 255));
                }        

            return row;
        }

   public static class EmployeeBeanHolder {
        EmployeeBean employeeBean;
        TextView tvEmpId;
        TextView tvName;
        TextView tvStatus;
    }

    @Override
    public int getCount() {
            return employeeList.size();
        }

    @Override
    public Object getItem(int position) {
            return null;
        }

    @Override
    public long getItemId(int position) {
            return 0;
    }
}

employee bean class:

public class EmployeeBean {
    private String empId;
    private String name;
    private String status;

    public EmployeeBean(){      
    }

    public EmployeeBean(String empId, String name, String status) {
        this.empId= empId;
        this.name = name;
        this.status = status;
    }

    public String getEmpId() {
        return empId;
    }

    public void setEmpId(String empId) {
        this.empId= empId;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

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

    public String getStatus() {
        return status;
    }

    public void setStatus(String status) {
        this.status =status;
    }
}

in Activity class:

onCreate method:

public static List<EmployeeBean> EMPLOYEE_LIST = new ArrayList<EmployeeBean>();

//create emplyee data
for(int i=0;i<=10;i++) {
  EmployeeBean emplyee = new EmployeeBean("EmpId"+i,"Name "+i, "Active");
  EMPLOYEE_LIST .add(emplyee );
}

ListView listView;
listView = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.listView);
listView.setAdapter(new ListViewAdapter(this, EMPLOYEE_LIST));

DataTables fixed headers misaligned with columns in wide tables

I just figured out a way to fix the alignment issue. Changing the width of div containing the static header will fix its alignment. The optimal width I found is 98%. Please refer to the code.

The auto generated div:

<div class="dataTables_scrollHead" style="overflow: hidden; position: relative; border: 0px none; width: 100%;">

Width here is 100%, change it to 98% on initializing and reloading the data table.

jQuery('#dashboard').dataTable({
    "sEcho": "1",

    "aaSorting": [[aasortvalue, 'desc']],
    "bServerSide": true,
    "sAjaxSource": "NF.do?method=loadData&Table=dashboardReport",
    "bProcessing": true,
    "sPaginationType": "full_numbers",
    "sDom": "lrtip", // Add 'f' to add back in filtering
    "bJQueryUI": false,
    "sScrollX": "100%",
    "sScrollY": "450px",
    "iDisplayLength": '<%=recordCount%>',
    "bScrollCollapse": true,
    "bScrollAutoCss": true,
    "fnInitComplete": function () {
        jQuery('.dataTables_scrollHead').css('width', '98%'); //changing the width
    },
    "fnDrawCallback": function () {
        jQuery('.dataTables_scrollHead').css('width', '98%');//changing the width
    }
});

How do you create a daemon in Python?

This function will transform an application to a daemon:

import sys
import os

def daemonize():
    try:
        pid = os.fork()
        if pid > 0:
            # exit first parent
            sys.exit(0)
    except OSError as err:
        sys.stderr.write('_Fork #1 failed: {0}\n'.format(err))
        sys.exit(1)
    # decouple from parent environment
    os.chdir('/')
    os.setsid()
    os.umask(0)
    # do second fork
    try:
        pid = os.fork()
        if pid > 0:
            # exit from second parent
            sys.exit(0)
    except OSError as err:
        sys.stderr.write('_Fork #2 failed: {0}\n'.format(err))
        sys.exit(1)
    # redirect standard file descriptors
    sys.stdout.flush()
    sys.stderr.flush()
    si = open(os.devnull, 'r')
    so = open(os.devnull, 'w')
    se = open(os.devnull, 'w')
    os.dup2(si.fileno(), sys.stdin.fileno())
    os.dup2(so.fileno(), sys.stdout.fileno())
    os.dup2(se.fileno(), sys.stderr.fileno())

Python: Removing list element while iterating over list

Another way of doing so is:

while i<len(your_list):
    if #condition :
        del your_list[i]
    else:
        i+=1

So, you delete the elements side by side while checking

Add default value of datetime field in SQL Server to a timestamp

This can also be done through the SSMS GUI.

  1. Put your table in design view (Right click on table in object explorer->Design)
  2. Add a column to the table (or click on the column you want to update if it already exists)
  3. In Column Properties, enter (getdate()) in Default Value or Binding field as pictured below

Image of table in design view

Plot 3D data in R

If you're working with "real" data for which the grid intervals and sequence cannot be guaranteed to be increasing or unique (hopefully the (x,y,z) combinations are unique at least, even if these triples are duplicated), I would recommend the akima package for interpolating from an irregular grid to a regular one.

Using your definition of data:

library(akima)
im <- with(data,interp(x,y,z))
with(im,image(x,y,z))

enter image description here

And this should work not only with image but similar functions as well.

Note that the default grid to which your data is mapped to by akima::interp is defined by 40 equal intervals spanning the range of x and y values:

> formals(akima::interp)[c("xo","yo")]
$xo
seq(min(x), max(x), length = 40)

$yo
seq(min(y), max(y), length = 40)

But of course, this can be overridden by passing arguments xo and yo to akima::interp.

Why is Android Studio reporting "URI is not registered"?

For me, i clone a project from gitlab, there is table of contents:

TradeClient/TradeClient/app/...

then i encounter this problem, i solve the problem by below method:

  • remove the middle path "TradeClient", as TradeClient/app/...
  • then File -> Invalidate Caches / Restart...

Optimal way to DELETE specified rows from Oracle

First, disabling the index during the deletion would be helpful.

Try with a MERGE INTO statement :
1) create a temp table with IDs and an additional column from TABLE1 and test with the following

MERGE INTO table1 src
USING (SELECT id,col1
         FROM test_merge_delete) tgt
ON (src.id = tgt.id)
WHEN MATCHED THEN
  UPDATE
     SET src.col1 = tgt.col1
  DELETE
   WHERE src.id = tgt.id

PHP header redirect 301 - what are the implications?

Search engines like 301 redirects better than a 404 or some other type of client side redirect, no worries there.

CPU usage will be minimal, if you want to save even more cycles you could try and handle the redirect in apache using htaccess, then php won't even have to get involved. If you want to load test a server, you can use ab which comes with apache, or httperf if you are looking for a more robust testing tool.

ASP.NET MVC How to pass JSON object from View to Controller as Parameter

You say "I am not using a forms to manipulate the data." But you are doing a POST. Therefore, you are, in fact, using a form, even if it's empty.

$.ajax's dataType tells jQuery what type the server will return, not what you are passing. POST can only pass a form. jQuery will convert data to key/value pairs and pass it as a query string. From the docs:

Data to be sent to the server. It is converted to a query string, if not already a string. It's appended to the url for GET-requests. See processData option to prevent this automatic processing. Object must be Key/Value pairs. If value is an Array, jQuery serializes multiple values with same key i.e. {foo:["bar1", "bar2"]} becomes '&foo=bar1&foo=bar2'.

Therefore:

  1. You aren't passing JSON to the server. You're passing JSON to jQuery.
  2. Model binding happens in the same way it happens in any other case.

How do I get the AM/PM value from a DateTime?

string AM_PM = string.Format("{0:hh:mm:ss tt}", DateTime.Now).Split(new char[]{' '})[1];

Emulate ggplot2 default color palette

From page 106 of the ggplot2 book by Hadley Wickham:

The default colour scheme, scale_colour_hue picks evenly spaced hues around the hcl colour wheel.

With a bit of reverse engineering you can construct this function:

ggplotColours <- function(n = 6, h = c(0, 360) + 15){
  if ((diff(h) %% 360) < 1) h[2] <- h[2] - 360/n
  hcl(h = (seq(h[1], h[2], length = n)), c = 100, l = 65)
}

Demonstrating this in barplot:

y <- 1:3
barplot(y, col = ggplotColours(n = 3))

enter image description here

How to "grep" for a filename instead of the contents of a file?

Also for multiple files.

tree /path/to/directory/ | grep -i "file1 \| file2 \| file3"

java.lang.RuntimeException: Can't create handler inside thread that has not called Looper.prepare();

Here's what I've been doing:

  public void displayError(final String errorText) {
    Runnable doDisplayError = new Runnable() {
        public void run() {
            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), errorText, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        }
    };
    messageHandler.post(doDisplayError);
}

That should allow the method to be called from either thread.

Where messageHandler is declared in the activity as ..

Handler messageHandler = new Handler();

Adding new column to existing DataFrame in Python pandas

Let me just add that, just like for hum3, .loc didn't solve the SettingWithCopyWarning and I had to resort to df.insert(). In my case false positive was generated by "fake" chain indexing dict['a']['e'], where 'e' is the new column, and dict['a'] is a DataFrame coming from dictionary.

Also note that if you know what you are doing, you can switch of the warning using pd.options.mode.chained_assignment = None and than use one of the other solutions given here.

How to convert a Java String to an ASCII byte array?

In my string I have Thai characters (TIS620 encoded) and German umlauts. The answer from agiles put me on the right path. Instead of .getBytes() I use now

  int len = mString.length(); // Length of the string
  byte[] dataset = new byte[len];
  for (int i = 0; i < len; ++i) {
     char c = mString.charAt(i);
     dataset[i]= (byte) c;
  }

set date in input type date

Jquery version

var currentdate = new Date();

$('#DatePickerInputID').val($.datepicker.formatDate('dd-M-y', currentdate));

How to exit when back button is pressed?

In my Home Activity I override the "onBackPressed" to:

@Override
public void onBackPressed() {
   Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
   intent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_HOME);
   intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
   startActivity(intent);
 }

so if the user is in the home activity and press back, he goes to the home screen.

I took the code from Going to home screen Programmatically

How do I remove duplicates from a C# array?

-- This is Interview Question asked every time. Now i done its coding.

static void Main(string[] args)
{    
            int[] array = new int[] { 4, 8, 4, 1, 1, 4, 8 };            
            int numDups = 0, prevIndex = 0;

            for (int i = 0; i < array.Length; i++)
            {
                bool foundDup = false;
                for (int j = 0; j < i; j++)
                {
                    if (array[i] == array[j])
                    {
                        foundDup = true;
                        numDups++; // Increment means Count for Duplicate found in array.
                        break;
                    }                    
                }

                if (foundDup == false)
                {
                    array[prevIndex] = array[i];
                    prevIndex++;
                }
            }

            // Just Duplicate records replce by zero.
            for (int k = 1; k <= numDups; k++)
            {               
                array[array.Length - k] = '\0';             
            }


            Console.WriteLine("Console program for Remove duplicates from array.");
            Console.Read();
        }

Jquery open popup on button click for bootstrap

The answer is on the example link you provided:

http://getbootstrap.com/javascript/#modals-usage

i.e.

Call a modal with id myModal with a single line of JavaScript:

$('#myModal').modal('show');

Pass Additional ViewData to a Strongly-Typed Partial View

The easiest way to pass additional data is to add the data to the existing ViewData for the view as @Joel Martinez notes. However, if you don't want to pollute your ViewData, RenderPartial has a method that takes three arguments as well as the two-argument version you show. The third argument is a ViewDataDictionary. You can construct a separate ViewDataDictionary just for your partial containing just the extra data that you want to pass in.

Git blame -- prior commits?

There's also recursive-blame. It can be installed with

npm install -g recursive-blame

Is there a way to make text unselectable on an HTML page?

The following works in Firefox interestingly enough if I remove the write line it doesn't work. Anyone have any insight why the write line is needed.

<script type="text/javascript">
document.write(".");
document.body.style.MozUserSelect='none';
</script>

jquery stop child triggering parent event

Or, rather than having an extra event handler to prevent another handler, you can use the Event Object argument passed to your click event handler to determine whether a child was clicked. target will be the clicked element and currentTarget will be the .header div:

$(".header").click(function(e){
     //Do nothing if .header was not directly clicked
     if(e.target !== e.currentTarget) return;

     $(this).children(".children").toggle();
});