Programs & Examples On #Rational number

A rational is a number that can be expressed as the ratio of two integers.

DD/MM/YYYY Date format in Moment.js

You need to call format() function to get the formatted value

$scope.SearchDate = moment(new Date()).format("DD/MM/YYYY")
//or $scope.SearchDate = moment().format("DD/MM/YYYY")

The syntax you have used is used to parse a given string to date object by using the specified formate

Intellij reformat on file save

I wound up rebinding the Reformat code... action to Ctrl-S, replacing the default binding for Save All.

It may sound crazy at first, but IntelliJ seems to save on virtually every action: running tests, building the project, even when closing an editor tab. I have a habit of hitting Ctrl-S pretty often, so this actually works quite well for me. It's certainly easier to type than the default bind for reformatting.

What is the difference between parseInt() and Number()?

typeof parseInt("123") => number
typeof Number("123") => number
typeof new Number("123") => object (Number primitive wrapper object)

first two will give you better performance as it returns a primitive instead of an object.

How to make Regular expression into non-greedy?

I believe it would be like this

takedata.match(/(\[.+\])/g);

the g at the end means global, so it doesn't stop at the first match.

How to input matrix (2D list) in Python?

If you want to take n lines of input where each line contains m space separated integers like:

1 2 3
4 5 6 
7 8 9 

Then you can use:

a=[] // declaration 
for i in range(0,n):   //where n is the no. of lines you want 
 a.append([int(j) for j in input().split()])  // for taking m space separated integers as input

Then print whatever you want like for the above input:

print(a[1][1]) 

O/P would be 5 for 0 based indexing

Differences between utf8 and latin1

In latin1 each character is exactly one byte long. In utf8 a character can consist of more than one byte. Consequently utf8 has more characters than latin1 (and the characters they do have in common aren't necessarily represented by the same byte/bytesequence).

Remove leading zeros from a number in Javascript

regexp:

"014".replace(/^0+/, '')

Common elements comparison between 2 lists

list1 = [1,2,3,4,5,6]
list2 = [3,5,7,9]

I know 3 ways can solve this, Of course, there could be more.

1-

common_elements = [e for e in list1 if e in list2]

2-

import numpy as np
common_elements = np.intersect1d(list1, list2)

3-

common_elements = set(list1).intersection(list2)

The 3rd way is the fastest because Sets are implemented using hash tables.

UndefinedMetricWarning: F-score is ill-defined and being set to 0.0 in labels with no predicted samples

the same problem also happened to me when i training my classification model. the reason caused this problem is as what the warning message said "in labels with no predicated samples", it will caused the zero-division when compute f1-score. I found another solution when i read sklearn.metrics.f1_score doc, there is a note as follows:

When true positive + false positive == 0, precision is undefined; When true positive + false negative == 0, recall is undefined. In such cases, by default the metric will be set to 0, as will f-score, and UndefinedMetricWarning will be raised. This behavior can be modified with zero_division

the zero_division default value is "warn", you could set it to 0 or 1 to avoid UndefinedMetricWarning. it works for me ;) oh wait, there is another problem when i using zero_division, my sklearn report that no such keyword argument by using scikit-learn 0.21.3. Just update your sklearn to the latest version by running pip install scikit-learn -U

angularjs getting previous route path

You'll need to couple the event listener to $rootScope in Angular 1.x, but you should probably future proof your code a bit by not storing the value of the previous location on $rootScope. A better place to store the value would be a service:

var app = angular.module('myApp', [])
.service('locationHistoryService', function(){
    return {
        previousLocation: null,

        store: function(location){
            this.previousLocation = location;
        },

        get: function(){
            return this.previousLocation;
        }
})
.run(['$rootScope', 'locationHistoryService', function($location, locationHistoryService){
    $rootScope.$on('$locationChangeSuccess', function(e, newLocation, oldLocation){
        locationHistoryService.store(oldLocation);
    });
}]);

Where can I read the Console output in Visual Studio 2015

What may be happening is that your console is closing before you get a chance to see the output. I would add Console.ReadLine(); after your Console.WriteLine("Hello World"); so your code would look something like this:

static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Hello World");
        Console.ReadLine();

    }

This way, the console will display "Hello World" and a blinking cursor underneath. The Console.ReadLine(); is the key here, the program waits for the users input before closing the console window.

Java Date cut off time information

I did the truncation with new java8 API. I faced up with one strange thing but in general it's truncate...

Instant instant = date.toInstant();
instant = instant.truncatedTo(ChronoUnit.DAYS);
date = Date.from(instant);

How to change PHP version used by composer

I'm assuming Windows if you're using WAMP. Composer likely is just using the PHP set in your path: How to access PHP with the Command Line on Windows?

You should be able to change the path to PHP using the same instructions.

Otherwise, composer is just a PHAR file, you can download the PHAR and execute it using any PHP:

C:\full\path\to\php.exe C:\full\path\to\composer.phar install

Comments in Android Layout xml

you can also add comment by pressing Ctrl+shift+/ and shift+ / for one line.

Resource interpreted as Document but transferred with MIME type application/json warning in Chrome Developer Tools

I was facing the same error. The solution that worked for me is:

From the server end, while returning JSON response, change the content-type: text/html

Now the browsers (Chrome, Firefox and IE8) do not give an error.

git ignore vim temporary files

sure,

just have to create a ".gitignore" on the home directory of your project and have to contain

*.swp

that's it

in one command

project-home-directory$ echo '*.swp' >> .gitignore

Create a .csv file with values from a Python list

This solutions sounds crazy, but works smooth as honey

import csv

with open('filename', 'wb') as myfile:
    wr = csv.writer(myfile, quoting=csv.QUOTE_ALL,delimiter='\n')
    wr.writerow(mylist)

The file is being written by csvwriter hence csv properties are maintained i.e. comma separated. The delimiter helps in the main part by moving list items to next line, each time.

New Intent() starts new instance with Android: launchMode="singleTop"

Firstly, Stack structure can be examined. For the launch mode:singleTop
If an instance of the same activity is already on top of the task stack, then this instance will be reused to respond to the intent.

All activities are hold in the stack("first in last out") so if your current activity is at the top of stack and if you define it in the manifest.file as singleTop

android:name=".ActivityA"
android:launchMode="singleTop"

if you are in the ActivityA recreate the activity it will not enter onCreate will resume onNewIntent() and you can see by creating a notification Not:If you do not implement onNewIntent(Intent) you will not get new intent.

Intent activityMain = new Intent(ActivityA.this,
                        ActivityA.class);

                activityMain.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK
                        | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP);
                startActivity(activityMain);




    @Override
        protected void onNewIntent(Intent intent) {

            super.onNewIntent(intent);

            notify("onNewIntent");
        }

        private void notify(String methodName) {

            String name = this.getClass().getName();
            String[] strings = name.split("\\.");

            Notification noti = new Notification.Builder(this)
                    .setContentTitle(methodName + "" + strings[strings.length - 1])
                    .setAutoCancel(true).setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_launcher)
                    .setContentText(name).build();
            NotificationManager notificationManager = (NotificationManager) getSystemService(NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
            notificationManager.notify((int) System.currentTimeMillis(), noti);

        }

What is the equivalent of Java static methods in Kotlin?

Let, you have a class Student. And you have one static method getUniversityName() & one static field called totalStudent.

You should declare companion object block inside your class.

companion object {
 // define static method & field here.
}

Then your class looks like

    class Student(var name: String, var city: String, var rollNumber: Double = 0.0) {

    // use companion object structure
    companion object {

        // below method will work as static method
        fun getUniversityName(): String = "MBSTU"

        // below field will work as static field
        var totalStudent = 30
    }
}

Then you can use those static method and fields like this way.

println("University : " + Student.getUniversityName() + ", Total Student: " + Student.totalStudent)
    // Output:
    // University : MBSTU, Total Student: 30

Closing Twitter Bootstrap Modal From Angular Controller

We can achieve the same without using angular-ui. This can be done using angular directives.

First add the directive to the modal.

<div class="modal fade" my-modal ....>...</div>

Create a new angular directive:

app.directive('myModal', function() {
   return {
     restrict: 'A',
     link: function(scope, element, attr) {
       scope.dismiss = function() {
           element.modal('hide');
       };
     }
   } 
});

Now call the dismiss() method from your controller.

app.controller('MyCtrl', function($scope, $http) {
    // You can call dismiss() here
    $scope.dismiss();
});

I am still in my early days with angular js. I know that we should not manipulate the DOM inside the controllers. So I have the DOM manipulation in the directive. I am not sure if this is equally bad. If I have a better alternative, I shall post it here.

The important thing to note is that we cannot simply use ng-hide or ng-show in the view to hide or show the modal. That simply hides the modal and not the modal backdrop. We have to call the modal() instance method to completely remove the modal.

cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Your LD_LIBRARY_PATH doesn't include the path to libsvmlight.so.

$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/tim/program_files/ICMCluster/svm_light/release/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Bootstrap - dropdown menu not working?

If I am getting you correctly, when you say that clicking does nothing, do you mean that it does not point to your URL?

In the anchor tag <a href>it looks like you did not pass your file path to the href attribute. So, replace the # with your actual path for the file that you want to link.

<li><a href="#">Action</a></li>
<li><a href="action link here">Another action</a></li>
<li><a href="something else link here">Something else here</a></li>
<li class="divider"></li>
<li><a href="seperated link here">Separated link</a></li>

I hope this helps with your issue.

Python, HTTPS GET with basic authentication

requests.get(url, auth=requests.auth.HTTPBasicAuth(username=token, password=''))

If with token, password should be ''.

It works for me.

How do I capture the output into a variable from an external process in PowerShell?

Note: The command in the question uses Start-Process, which prevents direct capturing of the target program's output. Generally, do not use Start-Process to execute console applications synchronously - just invoke them directly, as in any shell. Doing so keeps the application connected to the calling console's standard streams, allowing its output to be captured by simple assignment $output = netdom ..., as detailed below.

Fundamentally, capturing output from external programs works the same as with PowerShell-native commands (you may want a refresher on how to execute external programs; <command> is a placeholder for any valid command below):

$cmdOutput = <command>   # captures the command's success stream / stdout output

Note that $cmdOutput receives an array of objects if <command> produces more than 1 output object, which in the case of an external program means a string[1] array containing the program's output lines.

If you want to make sure that the result is always an array - even if only one object is output, type-constrain the variable as an array, or wrap the command in @(), the array-subexpression operator):

[array] $cmdOutput = <command> # or: $cmdOutput = @(<command>)

By contrast, if you want $cmdOutput to always receive a single - potentially multi-line - string, use Out-String, though note that a trailing newline is invariably added:

# Note: Adds a trailing newline.
$cmdOutput = <command> | Out-String

With calls to external programs - which by definition only ever return strings in PowerShell[1] - you can avoid that by using the -join operator instead:

# NO trailing newline.
$cmdOutput = (<command>) -join "`n"

Note: For simplicity, the above uses "`n" to create Unix-style LF-only newlines, which PowerShell happily accepts on all platforms; if you need platform-appropriate newlines (CRLF on Windows, LF on Unix), use [Environment]::NewLine instead.


To capture output in a variable and print to the screen:

<command> | Tee-Object -Variable cmdOutput # Note how the var name is NOT $-prefixed

Or, if <command> is a cmdlet or advanced function, you can use common parameter
-OutVariable / -ov
:

<command> -OutVariable cmdOutput   # cmdlets and advanced functions only

Note that with -OutVariable, unlike in the other scenarios, $cmdOutput is always a collection, even if only one object is output. Specifically, an instance of the array-like [System.Collections.ArrayList] type is returned.
See this GitHub issue for a discussion of this discrepancy.


To capture the output from multiple commands, use either a subexpression ($(...)) or call a script block ({ ... }) with & or .:

$cmdOutput = $(<command>; ...)  # subexpression

$cmdOutput = & {<command>; ...} # script block with & - creates child scope for vars.

$cmdOutput = . {<command>; ...} # script block with . - no child scope

Note that the general need to prefix with & (the call operator) an individual command whose name/path is quoted - e.g., $cmdOutput = & 'netdom.exe' ... - is not related to external programs per se (it equally applies to PowerShell scripts), but is a syntax requirement: PowerShell parses a statement that starts with a quoted string in expression mode by default, whereas argument mode is needed to invoke commands (cmdlets, external programs, functions, aliases), which is what & ensures.

The key difference between $(...) and & { ... } / . { ... } is that the former collects all input in memory before returning it as a whole, whereas the latter stream the output, suitable for one-by-one pipeline processing.


Redirections also work the same, fundamentally (but see caveats below):

$cmdOutput = <command> 2>&1 # redirect error stream (2) to success stream (1)

However, for external commands the following is more likely to work as expected:

$cmdOutput = cmd /c <command> '2>&1' # Let cmd.exe handle redirection - see below.

Considerations specific to external programs:

  • External programs, because they operate outside PowerShell's type system, only ever return strings via their success stream (stdout); similarly, PowerShell only ever sends strings to external programs via the pipeline.[1]

    • Character-encoding issues can therefore come into play:
      • On sending data via the pipeline to external programs, PowerShell uses the encoding stored in the $OutVariable preference variable; which in Windows PowerShell defaults to ASCII(!) and in PowerShell [Core] to UTF-8.

      • On receiving data from an external program, PowerShell uses the encoding stored in [Console]::OutputEncoding to decode the data, which in both PowerShell editions defaults to the system's active OEM code page.

      • See this answer for more information; this answer discusses the still-in-beta (as of this writing) Windows 10 feature that allows you to set UTF-8 as both the ANSI and the OEM code page system-wide.

  • If the output contains more than 1 line, PowerShell by default splits it into an array of strings. More accurately, the output lines are stored in an array of type [System.Object[]] whose elements are strings ([System.String]).

  • If you want the output to be a single, potentially multi-line string, use the -join operator (you can alternatively pipe to Out-String, but that invariably adds a trailing newline):
    $cmdOutput = (<command>) -join [Environment]::NewLine

  • Merging stderr into stdout with 2>&1, so as to also capture it as part of the success stream, comes with caveats:

    • To do this at the source, let cmd.exe handle the redirection, using the following idioms (works analogously with sh on Unix-like platforms):
      $cmdOutput = cmd /c <command> '2>&1' # *array* of strings (typically)
      $cmdOutput = (cmd /c <command> '2>&1') -join "`r`n" # single string

      • cmd /c invokes cmd.exe with command <command> and exits after <command> has finished.

      • Note the single quotes around 2>&1, which ensures that the redirection is passed to cmd.exe rather than being interpreted by PowerShell.

      • Note that involving cmd.exe means that its rules for escaping characters and expanding environment variables come into play, by default in addition to PowerShell's own requirements; in PS v3+ you can use special parameter --% (the so-called stop-parsing symbol) to turn off interpretation of the remaining parameters by PowerShell, except for cmd.exe-style environment-variable references such as %PATH%.

      • Note that since you're merging stdout and stderr at the source with this approach, you won't be able to distinguish between stdout-originated and stderr-originated lines in PowerShell; if you do need this distinction, use PowerShell's own 2>&1 redirection - see below.

    • Use PowerShell's 2>&1 redirection to know which lines came from what stream:

      • Stderr output is captured as error records ([System.Management.Automation.ErrorRecord]), not strings, so the output array may contain a mix of strings (each string representing a stdout line) and error records (each record representing a stderr line). Note that, as requested by 2>&1, both the strings and the error records are received through PowerShell's success output stream).

      • Note: The following only applies to Windows PowerShell - these problems have been corrected in PowerShell [Core] v6+, though the filtering technique by object type shown below ($_ -is [System.Management.Automation.ErrorRecord]) can also be useful there.

      • In the console, the error records print in red, and the 1st one by default produces multi-line display, in the same format that a cmdlet's non-terminating error would display; subsequent error records print in red as well, but only print their error message, on a single line.

      • When outputting to the console, the strings typically come first in the output array, followed by the error records (at least among a batch of stdout/stderr lines output "at the same time"), but, fortunately, when you capture the output, it is properly interleaved, using the same output order you would get without 2>&1; in other words: when outputting to the console, the captured output does NOT reflect the order in which stdout and stderr lines were generated by the external command.

      • If you capture the entire output in a single string with Out-String, PowerShell will add extra lines, because the string representation of an error record contains extra information such as location (At line:...) and category (+ CategoryInfo ...); curiously, this only applies to the first error record.

        • To work around this problem, apply the .ToString() method to each output object instead of piping to Out-String:
          $cmdOutput = <command> 2>&1 | % { $_.ToString() };
          in PS v3+ you can simplify to:
          $cmdOutput = <command> 2>&1 | % ToString
          (As a bonus, if the output isn't captured, this produces properly interleaved output even when printing to the console.)

        • Alternatively, filter the error records out and send them to PowerShell's error stream with Write-Error (as a bonus, if the output isn't captured, this produces properly interleaved output even when printing to the console):

$cmdOutput = <command> 2>&1 | ForEach-Object {
  if ($_ -is [System.Management.Automation.ErrorRecord]) {
    Write-Error $_
  } else {
    $_
  }
}

[1] As of PowerShell 7.1, PowerShell knows only strings when communicating with external programs. There is generally no concept of raw byte data in a PowerShell pipeline. If you want raw byte data returned from an external program, you must shell out to cmd.exe /c (Windows) or sh -c (Unix), save to a file there, then read that file in PowerShell. See this answer for more information.

Android: How can I get the current foreground activity (from a service)?

Use ActivityManager

If you only want to know the application containing the current activity, you can do so using ActivityManager. The technique you can use depends on the version of Android:

Benefits

  • Should work in all Android versions to-date.

Disadvantages

  • Doesn't work in Android 5.1+ (it only returns your own app)
  • The documentation for these APIs says they're only intended for debugging and management user interfaces.
  • If you want real-time updates, you need to use polling.
  • Relies on a hidden API: ActivityManager.RunningAppProcessInfo.processState
  • This implementation doesn't pick up the app switcher activity.

Example (based on KNaito's code)

public class CurrentApplicationPackageRetriever {

    private final Context context;

    public CurrentApplicationPackageRetriever(Context context) {
        this.context = context;
    }

    public String get() {
        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < 21)
            return getPreLollipop();
        else
            return getLollipop();
    }

    private String getPreLollipop() {
        @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
        List<ActivityManager.RunningTaskInfo> tasks =
            activityManager().getRunningTasks(1);
        ActivityManager.RunningTaskInfo currentTask = tasks.get(0);
        ComponentName currentActivity = currentTask.topActivity;
        return currentActivity.getPackageName();
    }

    private String getLollipop() {
        final int PROCESS_STATE_TOP = 2;

        try {
            Field processStateField = ActivityManager.RunningAppProcessInfo.class.getDeclaredField("processState");

            List<ActivityManager.RunningAppProcessInfo> processes =
                activityManager().getRunningAppProcesses();
            for (ActivityManager.RunningAppProcessInfo process : processes) {
                if (
                    // Filters out most non-activity processes
                    process.importance <= ActivityManager.RunningAppProcessInfo.IMPORTANCE_FOREGROUND
                    &&
                    // Filters out processes that are just being
                    // _used_ by the process with the activity
                    process.importanceReasonCode == 0
                ) {
                    int state = processStateField.getInt(process);

                    if (state == PROCESS_STATE_TOP) {
                        String[] processNameParts = process.processName.split(":");
                        String packageName = processNameParts[0];

                        /*
                         If multiple candidate processes can get here,
                         it's most likely that apps are being switched.
                         The first one provided by the OS seems to be
                         the one being switched to, so we stop here.
                         */
                        return packageName;
                    }
                }
            }
        } catch (NoSuchFieldException | IllegalAccessException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }

        return null;
    }

    private ActivityManager activityManager() {
        return (ActivityManager) context.getSystemService(Context.ACTIVITY_SERVICE);
    }

}

Manifest

Add the GET_TASKS permission to AndroidManifest.xml:

<!--suppress DeprecatedClassUsageInspection -->
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.GET_TASKS" />

RegEx for validating an integer with a maximum length of 10 characters

Don't forget that integers can be negative:

^\s*-?[0-9]{1,10}\s*$

Here's the meaning of each part:

  • ^: Match must start at beginning of string
  • \s: Any whitespace character
    • *: Occurring zero or more times
  • -: The hyphen-minus character, used to denote a negative integer
    • ?: May or may not occur
  • [0-9]: Any character whose ASCII code (or Unicode code point) is between '0' and '9'
    • {1,10}: Occurring at least one, but not more than ten times
  • \s: Any whitespace character
    • *: Occurring zero or more times
  • $: Match must end at end of string

This ignores leading and trailing whitespace and would be more complex if you consider commas acceptable or if you need to count the minus sign as one of the ten allowed characters.

rand() between 0 and 1

This is entirely implementation specific, but it appears that in the C++ environment you're working in, RAND_MAX is equal to INT_MAX.

Because of this, RAND_MAX + 1 exhibits undefined (overflow) behavior, and becomes INT_MIN. While your initial statement was dividing (random # between 0 and INT_MAX)/(INT_MAX) and generating a value 0 <= r < 1, now it's dividing (random # between 0 and INT_MAX)/(INT_MIN), generating a value -1 < r <= 0

In order to generate a random number 1 <= r < 2, you would want

r = ((double) rand() / (RAND_MAX)) + 1

Delete column from SQLite table

In Python 3.8... Preserves primary key and column types.

Takes 3 inputs:

  1. a sqlite cursor: db_cur,
  2. table name: t and,
  3. list of columns to junk: columns_to_junk
def removeColumns(db_cur, t, columns_to_junk):

    # Obtain column information
    sql = "PRAGMA table_info(" + t + ")"
    record = query(db_cur, sql)

    # Initialize two strings: one for column names + column types and one just
    # for column names
    cols_w_types = "("
    cols = ""

    # Build the strings, filtering for the column to throw out
    for r in record:
        if r[1] not in columns_to_junk:
            if r[5] == 0:
                cols_w_types += r[1] + " " + r[2] + ","
            if r[5] == 1:
                cols_w_types += r[1] + " " + r[2] + " PRIMARY KEY,"
            cols += r[1] + ","

    # Cut potentially trailing commas
    if cols_w_types[-1] == ",":
        cols_w_types = cols_w_types[:-1]
    else:
        pass

    if cols[-1] == ",":
        cols = cols[:-1]
    else:
        pass

    # Execute SQL
    sql = "CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE xfer " + cols_w_types + ")"
    db_cur.execute(sql)
    sql = "INSERT INTO xfer SELECT " + cols + " FROM " + t
    db_cur.execute(sql)
    sql = "DROP TABLE " + t
    db_cur.execute(sql)
    sql = "CREATE TABLE " + t + cols_w_types + ")"
    db_cur.execute(sql)
    sql = "INSERT INTO " + t + " SELECT " + cols  + " FROM xfer"
    db_cur.execute(sql)

You'll find a reference to a query() function. Just a helper...

Takes two inputs:

  1. sqlite cursor db_cur and,
  2. the query string: query
def query(db_cur, query):

    r = db_cur.execute(query).fetchall()

    return r

Don't forget to include a "commit()"!

The most efficient way to implement an integer based power function pow(int, int)

Just as a follow up to comments on the efficiency of exponentiation by squaring.

The advantage of that approach is that it runs in log(n) time. For example, if you were going to calculate something huge, such as x^1048575 (2^20 - 1), you only have to go thru the loop 20 times, not 1 million+ using the naive approach.

Also, in terms of code complexity, it is simpler than trying to find the most optimal sequence of multiplications, a la Pramod's suggestion.

Edit:

I guess I should clarify before someone tags me for the potential for overflow. This approach assumes that you have some sort of hugeint library.

How to assign bean's property an Enum value in Spring config file?

Use the value child element instead of the value attribute and specify the Enum class name:

<property name="residence">
    <value type="SocialSecurity$Residence">ALIEN</value>
</property>

The advantage of this approach over just writing value="ALIEN" is that it also works if Spring can't infer the actual type of the enum from the property (e.g. the property's declared type is an interface).Adapted from araqnid's comment.

Page Redirect after X seconds wait using JavaScript

Use JavaScript setInterval() method to redirect page after some specified time. The following script will redirect page after 5 seconds.

var count = 5;
setInterval(function(){
    count--;
    document.getElementById('countDown').innerHTML = count;
    if (count == 0) {
        window.location = 'https://www.google.com'; 
    }
},1000);

Example script and live demo can be found from here - Redirect page after delay using JavaScript

Maximum number of threads per process in Linux?

Use nbio non-blocking i/o library or whatever, if you need more threads for doing I/O calls that block

Parse JSON in C#

I tried to use the code above but didn't work. The JSON structure returned by Google is so different and there is a very important miss in the helper function: a call to DataContractJsonSerializer.ReadObject() that actually deserializes the JSON data into the object.

Here is the code that WORKS in 2011:

using System;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using System.Runtime.Serialization.Json;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace <YOUR_NAMESPACE>
{
    public class JSONHelper
    {
        public static T Deserialise<T>(string json)
        {
            T obj = Activator.CreateInstance<T>();
            MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(json));
            DataContractJsonSerializer serialiser = new DataContractJsonSerializer(obj.GetType());
            obj = (T)serialiser.ReadObject(ms);
            ms.Close();
            return obj;
        }
    }

    public class Result
    {
        public string GsearchResultClass { get; set; }
        public string unescapedUrl { get; set; }
        public string url { get; set; }
        public string visibleUrl { get; set; }
        public string cacheUrl { get; set; }
        public string title { get; set; }
        public string titleNoFormatting { get; set; }
        public string content { get; set; }
    }

    public class Page
    {
        public string start { get; set; }
        public int label { get; set; }
    }

    public class Cursor
    {
        public string resultCount { get; set; }
        public Page[] pages { get; set; }
        public string estimatedResultCount { get; set; }
        public int currentPageIndex { get; set; }
        public string moreResultsUrl { get; set; }
        public string searchResultTime { get; set; }
    }

    public class ResponseData
    {
        public Result[] results { get; set; }
        public Cursor cursor { get; set; }
    }

    public class GoogleSearchResults
    {
        public ResponseData responseData { get; set; }
        public object responseDetails { get; set; }
        public int responseStatus { get; set; }
    }
}

To get the content of the first result, do:

GoogleSearchResults googleResults = new GoogleSearchResults();
googleResults = JSONHelper.Deserialise<GoogleSearchResults>(jsonData);
string contentOfFirstResult = googleResults.responseData.results[0].content;

How can I format a nullable DateTime with ToString()?

Even a better solution in C# 6.0:

DateTime? birthdate;

birthdate?.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy");

Chrome violation : [Violation] Handler took 83ms of runtime

It seems you have found your solution, but still it will be helpful to others, on this page on point based on Chrome 59.

4.Note the red triangle in the top-right of the Animation Frame Fired event. Whenever you see a red triangle, it's a warning that there may be an issue related to this event.

If you hover on these triangle you can see those are the violation handler errors and as per point 4. yes there is some issue related to that event.

Http Get using Android HttpURLConnection

If you just need a very simple call, you can use URL directly:

import java.net.URL;

    new URL("http://wheredatapp.com").openStream();

Best way to get all selected checkboxes VALUES in jQuery

You want the :checkbox:checked selector and map to create an array of the values:

var checkedValues = $('input:checkbox:checked').map(function() {
    return this.value;
}).get();

If your checkboxes have a shared class it would be faster to use that instead, eg. $('.mycheckboxes:checked'), or for a common name $('input[name="Foo"]:checked')

- Update -

If you don't need IE support then you can now make the map() call more succinct by using an arrow function:

var checkedValues = $('input:checkbox:checked').map((i, el) => el.value).get();

How do I escape ampersands in batch files?

From a cmd:

  • & is escaped like this: ^& (based on @Wael Dalloul's answer)
  • % does not need to be escaped

An example:

start http://www.google.com/search?client=opera^&rls=en^&q=escape+ampersand%20and%20percentage+in+cmd^&sourceid=opera^&ie=utf-8^&oe=utf-8

From a batch file

  • & is escaped like this: ^& (based on @Wael Dalloul's answer)
  • % is escaped like this: %% (based on the OPs update)

An example:

start http://www.google.com/search?client=opera^&rls=en^&q=escape+ampersand%%20and%%20percentage+in+batch+file^&sourceid=opera^&ie=utf-8^&oe=utf-8

Single selection in RecyclerView

I want to share the similar thing I have achieved, may be it will help someone. below code is from the application to select an address from a list of addresses that are displayed in cardview(cvAddress), so that on click of particular item(cardview) the imageView inside the item should set to different resource(select/unselect)

    @Override
public void onBindViewHolder(final AddressHolder holder, final int position)
{
    holderList.add(holder);
    holder.tvAddress.setText(addresses.get(position).getAddress());
    holder.cvAddress.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View view) {
            selectCurrItem(position);
        }
    });
}

private void selectCurrItem(int position)
{
    int size = holderList.size();
    for(int i = 0; i<size; i++)
    {
        if(i==position)
            holderList.get(i).ivSelect.setImageResource(R.drawable.select);
        else
            holderList.get(i).ivSelect.setImageResource(R.drawable.unselect);
    }
}

I don't know this is best solution or not but this worked for me.

CSS text-align not working

You have to make the UL inside the div behave like a block. Try adding

.navigation ul {
     display: inline-block;
}

Memory address of an object in C#

Here's a simple way I came up with that doesn't involve unsafe code or pinning the object. Also works in reverse (object from address):

public static class AddressHelper
{
    private static object mutualObject;
    private static ObjectReinterpreter reinterpreter;

    static AddressHelper()
    {
        AddressHelper.mutualObject = new object();
        AddressHelper.reinterpreter = new ObjectReinterpreter();
        AddressHelper.reinterpreter.AsObject = new ObjectWrapper();
    }

    public static IntPtr GetAddress(object obj)
    {
        lock (AddressHelper.mutualObject)
        {
            AddressHelper.reinterpreter.AsObject.Object = obj;
            IntPtr address = AddressHelper.reinterpreter.AsIntPtr.Value;
            AddressHelper.reinterpreter.AsObject.Object = null;
            return address;
        }
    }

    public static T GetInstance<T>(IntPtr address)
    {
        lock (AddressHelper.mutualObject)
        {
            AddressHelper.reinterpreter.AsIntPtr.Value = address;
            return (T)AddressHelper.reinterpreter.AsObject.Object;
        }
    }

    // I bet you thought C# was type-safe.
    [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Explicit)]
    private struct ObjectReinterpreter
    {
        [FieldOffset(0)] public ObjectWrapper AsObject;
        [FieldOffset(0)] public IntPtrWrapper AsIntPtr;
    }

    private class ObjectWrapper
    {
        public object Object;
    }

    private class IntPtrWrapper
    {
        public IntPtr Value;
    }
}

how to configure hibernate config file for sql server

Keep the jar files under web-inf lib incase you included jar and it is not able to identify .

It worked in my case where everything was ok but it was not able to load the driver class.

Index inside map() function

  • suppose you have an array like

_x000D_
_x000D_
   const arr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
    
    
    arr.map((myArr, index) => {
      console.log(`your index is -> ${index} AND value is ${myArr}`);
    })
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

> output will be
 index is -> 0 AND value is 1
 index is -> 1 AND value is 2
 index is -> 2 AND value is 3
 index is -> 3 AND value is 4
 index is -> 4 AND value is 5
 index is -> 5 AND value is 6
 index is -> 6 AND value is 7
 index is -> 7 AND value is 8
 index is -> 8 AND value is 9

JPanel Padding in Java

Set an EmptyBorder around your JPanel.
Example:

JPanel p =new JPanel();
p.setBorder(new EmptyBorder(10, 10, 10, 10));

How to calculate Average Waiting Time and average Turn-around time in SJF Scheduling?

it is wrong. correct will be

P3 P2 P4 P5 P1 0 3 4 6 10 as the correct difference are these

Waiting Time (0+3+4+6+10)/5 = 4.6

Ref: http://www.it.uu.se/edu/course/homepage/oskomp/vt07/lectures/scheduling_algorithms/handout.pdf

How to copy a folder via cmd?

xcopy  e:\source_folder f:\destination_folder /e /i /h

The /h is just in case there are hidden files. The /i creates a destination folder if there are muliple source files.

Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock

After attempting a few of these solutions and not having any success, this is what worked for me:

  1. Restart system
  2. mysql.server start
  3. Success!

Spring Data and Native Query with pagination

I could successfully integrate Pagination in

spring-data-jpa-2.1.6

as follows.

@Query(
 value = “SELECT * FROM Users”, 
 countQuery = “SELECT count(*) FROM Users”, 
 nativeQuery = true)
Page<User> findAllUsersWithPagination(Pageable pageable);

Using Node.JS, how do I read a JSON file into (server) memory?

If you are looking for a complete solution for Async loading a JSON file from Relative Path with Error Handling

  // Global variables
  // Request path module for relative path
    const path = require('path')
  // Request File System Module
   var fs = require('fs');


// GET request for the /list_user page.
router.get('/listUsers', function (req, res) {
   console.log("Got a GET request for list of users");

     // Create a relative path URL
    let reqPath = path.join(__dirname, '../mock/users.json');

    //Read JSON from relative path of this file
    fs.readFile(reqPath , 'utf8', function (err, data) {
        //Handle Error
       if(!err) {
         //Handle Success
          console.log("Success"+data);
         // Parse Data to JSON OR
          var jsonObj = JSON.parse(data)
         //Send back as Response
          res.end( data );
        }else {
           //Handle Error
           res.end("Error: "+err )
        }
   });
})

Directory Structure:

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Select entries between dates in doctrine 2

You can do either…

$qb->where('e.fecha BETWEEN :monday AND :sunday')
   ->setParameter('monday', $monday->format('Y-m-d'))
   ->setParameter('sunday', $sunday->format('Y-m-d'));

or…

$qb->where('e.fecha > :monday')
   ->andWhere('e.fecha < :sunday')
   ->setParameter('monday', $monday->format('Y-m-d'))
   ->setParameter('sunday', $sunday->format('Y-m-d'));

Start index for iterating Python list

stdlib will hook you up son!

deque.rotate():

#!/usr/local/bin/python2.7

from collections import deque

a = deque('Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday'.split(' '))
a.rotate(3)
deque(['Friday', 'Saturday', 'Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday'])

function declaration isn't a prototype

Quick answer: change int testlib() to int testlib(void) to specify that the function takes no arguments.

A prototype is by definition a function declaration that specifies the type(s) of the function's argument(s).

A non-prototype function declaration like

int foo();

is an old-style declaration that does not specify the number or types of arguments. (Prior to the 1989 ANSI C standard, this was the only kind of function declaration available in the language.) You can call such a function with any arbitrary number of arguments, and the compiler isn't required to complain -- but if the call is inconsistent with the definition, your program has undefined behavior.

For a function that takes one or more arguments, you can specify the type of each argument in the declaration:

int bar(int x, double y);

Functions with no arguments are a special case. Logically, empty parentheses would have been a good way to specify that an argument but that syntax was already in use for old-style function declarations, so the ANSI C committee invented a new syntax using the void keyword:

int foo(void); /* foo takes no arguments */

A function definition (which includes code for what the function actually does) also provides a declaration. In your case, you have something similar to:

int testlib()
{
    /* code that implements testlib */
}

This provides a non-prototype declaration for testlib. As a definition, this tells the compiler that testlib has no parameters, but as a declaration, it only tells the compiler that testlib takes some unspecified but fixed number and type(s) of arguments.

If you change () to (void) the declaration becomes a prototype.

The advantage of a prototype is that if you accidentally call testlib with one or more arguments, the compiler will diagnose the error.

(C++ has slightly different rules. C++ doesn't have old-style function declarations, and empty parentheses specifically mean that a function takes no arguments. C++ supports the (void) syntax for consistency with C. But unless you specifically need your code to compile both as C and as C++, you should probably use the () in C++ and the (void) syntax in C.)

How to convert string values from a dictionary, into int/float datatypes?

for sub in the_list:
    for key in sub:
        sub[key] = int(sub[key])

Gives it a casting as an int instead of as a string.

How do I timestamp every ping result?

You did not specify any time stamp or interval for how long you would require such output, so I considered it to be an infinite loop. You can change it accordingly as per your need.

while true
do
   echo -e "`date`|`ping -n -c 1 <IP_TO_PING>|grep 'bytes from'`"
   sleep 2
done

How to correctly use the extern keyword in C

When you have that function defined on a different dll or lib, so that the compiler defers to the linker to find it. Typical case is when you are calling functions from the OS API.

How do I clear all variables in the middle of a Python script?

The globals() function returns a dictionary, where keys are names of objects you can name (and values, by the way, are ids of these objects) The exec() function takes a string and executes it as if you just type it in a python console. So, the code is

for i in list(globals().keys()):
    if(i[0] != '_'):
        exec('del {}'.format(i))

How to $watch multiple variable change in angular

$scope.$watch('age + name', function () {
  //called when name or age changed
});

Regex how to match an optional character

You also could use simpler regex designed for your case like (.*)\/(([^\?\n\r])*) where $2 match what you want.

What does the 'L' in front a string mean in C++?

It means that it is a wide character, wchar_t.

Similar to 1L being a long value.

JPA 2.0, Criteria API, Subqueries, In Expressions

Late resurrection.

Your query seems very similar to the one at page 259 of the book Pro JPA 2: Mastering the Java Persistence API, which in JPQL reads:

SELECT e 
FROM Employee e 
WHERE e IN (SELECT emp
              FROM Project p JOIN p.employees emp 
             WHERE p.name = :project)

Using EclipseLink + H2 database, I couldn't get neither the book's JPQL nor the respective criteria working. For this particular problem I have found that if you reference the id directly instead of letting the persistence provider figure it out everything works as expected:

SELECT e 
FROM Employee e 
WHERE e.id IN (SELECT emp.id
                 FROM Project p JOIN p.employees emp 
                WHERE p.name = :project)

Finally, in order to address your question, here is an equivalent strongly typed criteria query that works:

CriteriaBuilder cb = em.getCriteriaBuilder();
CriteriaQuery<Employee> c = cb.createQuery(Employee.class);
Root<Employee> emp = c.from(Employee.class);

Subquery<Integer> sq = c.subquery(Integer.class);
Root<Project> project = sq.from(Project.class);
Join<Project, Employee> sqEmp = project.join(Project_.employees);

sq.select(sqEmp.get(Employee_.id)).where(
        cb.equal(project.get(Project_.name), 
        cb.parameter(String.class, "project")));

c.select(emp).where(
        cb.in(emp.get(Employee_.id)).value(sq));

TypedQuery<Employee> q = em.createQuery(c);
q.setParameter("project", projectName); // projectName is a String
List<Employee> employees = q.getResultList();

Get time difference between two dates in seconds

The Code

var startDate = new Date();
// Do your operations
var endDate   = new Date();
var seconds = (endDate.getTime() - startDate.getTime()) / 1000;

Or even simpler (endDate - startDate) / 1000 as pointed out in the comments unless you're using typescript.


The explanation

You need to call the getTime() method for the Date objects, and then simply subtract them and divide by 1000 (since it's originally in milliseconds). As an extra, when you're calling the getDate() method, you're in fact getting the day of the month as an integer between 1 and 31 (not zero based) as opposed to the epoch time you'd get from calling the getTime() method, representing the number of milliseconds since January 1st 1970, 00:00


Rant

Depending on what your date related operations are, you might want to invest in integrating a library such as date.js or moment.js which make things so much easier for the developer, but that's just a matter of personal preference.

For example in moment.js we would do moment1.diff(moment2, "seconds") which is beautiful.


Useful docs for this answer

How to round down to nearest integer in MySQL?

SUBSTR will be better than FLOOR in some cases because FLOOR has a "bug" as follow:

SELECT 25 * 9.54 + 0.5 -> 239.00

SELECT FLOOR(25 * 9.54 + 0.5) -> 238  (oops!)

SELECT SUBSTR((25*9.54+0.5),1,LOCATE('.',(25*9.54+0.5)) - 1) -> 239

Declaring a custom android UI element using XML

The Android Developer Guide has a section called Building Custom Components. Unfortunately, the discussion of XML attributes only covers declaring the control inside the layout file and not actually handling the values inside the class initialisation. The steps are as follows:

1. Declare attributes in values\attrs.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <declare-styleable name="MyCustomView">
        <attr name="android:text"/>
        <attr name="android:textColor"/>            
        <attr name="extraInformation" format="string" />
    </declare-styleable>
</resources>

Notice the use of an unqualified name in the declare-styleable tag. Non-standard android attributes like extraInformation need to have their type declared. Tags declared in the superclass will be available in subclasses without having to be redeclared.

2. Create constructors

Since there are two constructors that use an AttributeSet for initialisation, it is convenient to create a separate initialisation method for the constructors to call.

private void init(AttributeSet attrs) { 
    TypedArray a=getContext().obtainStyledAttributes(
         attrs,
         R.styleable.MyCustomView);

    //Use a
    Log.i("test",a.getString(
         R.styleable.MyCustomView_android_text));
    Log.i("test",""+a.getColor(
         R.styleable.MyCustomView_android_textColor, Color.BLACK));
    Log.i("test",a.getString(
         R.styleable.MyCustomView_extraInformation));

    //Don't forget this
    a.recycle();
}

R.styleable.MyCustomView is an autogenerated int[] resource where each element is the ID of an attribute. Attributes are generated for each property in the XML by appending the attribute name to the element name. For example, R.styleable.MyCustomView_android_text contains the android_text attribute for MyCustomView. Attributes can then be retrieved from the TypedArray using various get functions. If the attribute is not defined in the defined in the XML, then null is returned. Except, of course, if the return type is a primitive, in which case the second argument is returned.

If you don't want to retrieve all of the attributes, it is possible to create this array manually.The ID for standard android attributes are included in android.R.attr, while attributes for this project are in R.attr.

int attrsWanted[]=new int[]{android.R.attr.text, R.attr.textColor};

Please note that you should not use anything in android.R.styleable, as per this thread it may change in the future. It is still in the documentation as being to view all these constants in the one place is useful.

3. Use it in a layout files such as layout\main.xml

Include the namespace declaration xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" in the top level xml element. Namespaces provide a method to avoid the conflicts that sometimes occur when different schemas use the same element names (see this article for more info). The URL is simply a manner of uniquely identifying schemas - nothing actually needs to be hosted at that URL. If this doesn't appear to be doing anything, it is because you don't actually need to add the namespace prefix unless you need to resolve a conflict.

<com.mycompany.projectname.MyCustomView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="@android:color/transparent"
    android:text="Test text"
    android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
    app:extraInformation="My extra information"
/> 

Reference the custom view using the fully qualified name.

Android LabelView Sample

If you want a complete example, look at the android label view sample.

LabelView.java

 TypedArray a=context.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs, R.styleable.LabelView);
 CharSequences=a.getString(R.styleable.LabelView_text);

attrs.xml

<declare-styleable name="LabelView">
    <attr name="text"format="string"/>
    <attr name="textColor"format="color"/>
    <attr name="textSize"format="dimension"/>
</declare-styleable>

custom_view_1.xml

<com.example.android.apis.view.LabelView
    android:background="@drawable/blue"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    app:text="Blue" app:textSize="20dp"/>

This is contained in a LinearLayout with a namespace attribute: xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

Links

Can my enums have friendly names?

They follow the same naming rules as variable names. Therefore they should not contain spaces.

Also what you are suggesting would be very bad practice anyway.

What is the most accurate way to retrieve a user's correct IP address in PHP?

Just another clean way:

  function validateIp($var_ip){
    $ip = trim($var_ip);

    return (!empty($ip) &&
            $ip != '::1' &&
            $ip != '127.0.0.1' &&
            filter_var($ip, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP, FILTER_FLAG_NO_PRIV_RANGE | FILTER_FLAG_NO_RES_RANGE) !== false)
            ? $ip : false;
  }

  function getClientIp() {
    $ip = @$this->validateIp($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP']) ?:
          @$this->validateIp($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']) ?:
          @$this->validateIp($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED']) ?:
          @$this->validateIp($_SERVER['HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR']) ?:
          @$this->validateIp($_SERVER['HTTP_FORWARDED']) ?:
          @$this->validateIp($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) ?:
          'LOCAL OR UNKNOWN ACCESS';

    return $ip;
  }

How to find where gem files are installed

You can check it from your command prompt by running gem help commands and then selecting the proper command:

kirti@kirti-Aspire-5733Z:~$  gem help commands
GEM commands are:

    build                  Build a gem from a gemspec
    cert                   Manage RubyGems certificates and signing settings
    check                  Check a gem repository for added or missing files
    cleanup                Clean up old versions of installed gems in the local
                           repository
    contents               Display the contents of the installed gems
    dependency             Show the dependencies of an installed gem
    environment            Display information about the RubyGems environment
    fetch                  Download a gem and place it in the current directory
    generate_index         Generates the index files for a gem server directory
    help                   Provide help on the 'gem' command
    install                Install a gem into the local repository
    list                   Display gems whose name starts with STRING
    lock                   Generate a lockdown list of gems
    mirror                 Mirror all gem files (requires rubygems-mirror)
    outdated               Display all gems that need updates
    owner                  Manage gem owners on RubyGems.org.
    pristine               Restores installed gems to pristine condition from
                           files located in the gem cache
    push                   Push a gem up to RubyGems.org
    query                  Query gem information in local or remote repositories
    rdoc                   Generates RDoc for pre-installed gems
    regenerate_binstubs    Re run generation of executable wrappers for gems.
    search                 Display all gems whose name contains STRING
    server                 Documentation and gem repository HTTP server
    sources                Manage the sources and cache file RubyGems uses to
                           search for gems
    specification          Display gem specification (in yaml)
    stale                  List gems along with access times
    uninstall              Uninstall gems from the local repository
    unpack                 Unpack an installed gem to the current directory
    update                 Update installed gems to the latest version
    which                  Find the location of a library file you can require
    yank                   Remove a specific gem version release from
                           RubyGems.org

For help on a particular command, use 'gem help COMMAND'.

Commands may be abbreviated, so long as they are unambiguous.
e.g. 'gem i rake' is short for 'gem install rake'.
kirti@kirti-Aspire-5733Z:~$ 

Now from the above I can see the command environment is helpful. So I would do:

kirti@kirti-Aspire-5733Z:~$ gem help environment
Usage: gem environment [arg] [options]


  Common Options:
    -h, --help                       Get help on this command
    -V, --[no-]verbose               Set the verbose level of output
    -q, --quiet                      Silence commands
        --config-file FILE           Use this config file instead of default
        --backtrace                  Show stack backtrace on errors
        --debug                      Turn on Ruby debugging


  Arguments:
    packageversion  display the package version
    gemdir          display the path where gems are installed
    gempath         display path used to search for gems
    version         display the gem format version
    remotesources   display the remote gem servers
    platform        display the supported gem platforms
    <omitted>       display everything

  Summary:
    Display information about the RubyGems environment

  Description:
    The RubyGems environment can be controlled through command line arguments,
    gemrc files, environment variables and built-in defaults.

    Command line argument defaults and some RubyGems defaults can be set in a
    ~/.gemrc file for individual users and a /etc/gemrc for all users. These
    files are YAML files with the following YAML keys:

      :sources: A YAML array of remote gem repositories to install gems from
      :verbose: Verbosity of the gem command. false, true, and :really are the
                levels
      :update_sources: Enable/disable automatic updating of repository metadata
      :backtrace: Print backtrace when RubyGems encounters an error
      :gempath: The paths in which to look for gems
      :disable_default_gem_server: Force specification of gem server host on
    push
      <gem_command>: A string containing arguments for the specified gem command

    Example:

      :verbose: false
      install: --no-wrappers
      update: --no-wrappers
      :disable_default_gem_server: true

    RubyGems' default local repository can be overridden with the GEM_PATH and
    GEM_HOME environment variables. GEM_HOME sets the default repository to
    install into. GEM_PATH allows multiple local repositories to be searched for
    gems.

    If you are behind a proxy server, RubyGems uses the HTTP_PROXY,
    HTTP_PROXY_USER and HTTP_PROXY_PASS environment variables to discover the
    proxy server.

    If you would like to push gems to a private gem server the RUBYGEMS_HOST
    environment variable can be set to the URI for that server.

    If you are packaging RubyGems all of RubyGems' defaults are in
    lib/rubygems/defaults.rb.  You may override these in
    lib/rubygems/defaults/operating_system.rb
kirti@kirti-Aspire-5733Z:~$ 

Finally to show you what you asked, I would do:

kirti@kirti-Aspire-5733Z:~$ gem environment gemdir
/home/kirti/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0
kirti@kirti-Aspire-5733Z:~$ gem environment gempath
/home/kirti/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0:/home/kirti/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0@global
kirti@kirti-Aspire-5733Z:~$ 

Shell script to delete directories older than n days

This will do it recursively for you:

find /path/to/base/dir/* -type d -ctime +10 -exec rm -rf {} \;

Explanation:

  • find: the unix command for finding files / directories / links etc.
  • /path/to/base/dir: the directory to start your search in.
  • -type d: only find directories
  • -ctime +10: only consider the ones with modification time older than 10 days
  • -exec ... \;: for each such result found, do the following command in ...
  • rm -rf {}: recursively force remove the directory; the {} part is where the find result gets substituted into from the previous part.

Alternatively, use:

find /path/to/base/dir/* -type d -ctime +10 | xargs rm -rf

Which is a bit more efficient, because it amounts to:

rm -rf dir1 dir2 dir3 ...

as opposed to:

rm -rf dir1; rm -rf dir2; rm -rf dir3; ...

as in the -exec method.


With modern versions of find, you can replace the ; with + and it will do the equivalent of the xargs call for you, passing as many files as will fit on each exec system call:

find . -type d -ctime +10 -exec rm -rf {} +

phpMyAdmin - config.inc.php configuration?

I found that the new version of PhpMyAdmin put the 'config.inc.php' files in /var/lib/phpmyadmin/

I spend much time in the wrong dir (/usr/share) as this is where all the files also is located, but changes are not reflected.

After putting my settings in

/var/lib/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

They worked

Save attachments to a folder and rename them

Added simple code to save with readable date-time stamp.

Use sync2pst to sync all your data in outlook with all your devices, work like this:

  1. you only need to buy 1 license: save your pst file on one computer (let's call this pc 'server') on your network.
  2. create scheduled tasks that will synchronize the pst file on your 'server' with all the pst files on all your devices, no matter which device downloaded the emails first (you need some dos programming knowledge to bypass pst files that are open at sync time).
  3. save all your attachments on the same skydrive folder that is located on the same place on all your devices (e.g. e:\skydrive\attachments)
  4. Use the code below on all your devices to save attachments (change the path as mentioned above)
  5. Use ONLY ONE PST-file for all your accounts, make folders, subfolders and so ...

  6. in VBA: refer to 'microsoft scripting runtime'extra/references...'

  7. here's the code

Private Sub Application_NewMail()
SaveAttachments
End Sub

Public Sub SaveAttachments()
Dim objOL As Outlook.Application
Dim objMsg As Outlook.MailItem 'Object
Dim objAttachments As Outlook.Attachments
Dim objSelection As Outlook.Selection
Dim i As Long
Dim lngCount As Long
Dim strFile As String
Dim strFolderpath As String
Dim strDeletedFiles As String
Dim fs As FileSystemObject

' Get the path to your My Documents folder
strFolderpath = CreateObject("WScript.Shell").SpecialFolders(16)
On Error Resume Next

' Instantiate an Outlook Application object.
Set objOL = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")

' Get the collection of selected objects.
Set objSelection = objOL.ActiveExplorer.Selection

' Set the Attachment folder.
strFolderpath = "F:\SkyDrive\Attachments\"

' Check each selected item for attachments. If attachments exist,
' save them to the strFolderPath folder and strip them from the item.
For Each objMsg In objSelection

    ' This code only strips attachments from mail items.
    ' If objMsg.class=olMail Then
    ' Get the Attachments collection of the item.
    Set objAttachments = objMsg.Attachments
    lngCount = objAttachments.Count
    strDeletedFiles = ""

    If lngCount > 0 Then

        ' We need to use a count down loop for removing items
        ' from a collection. Otherwise, the loop counter gets
        ' confused and only every other item is removed.
        Set fs = New FileSystemObject

        For i = lngCount To 1 Step -1

            ' Save attachment before deleting from item.
            ' Get the file name.
            strFile = Left(objAttachments.Item(i).FileName, Len(objAttachments.Item(i).FileName) - 4) + "_" + Right("00" + Trim(Str$(Day(Now))), 2) + "_" + Right("00" + Trim(Str$(Month(Now))), 2) + "_" + Right("0000" + Trim(Str$(Year(Now))), 4) + "_" + Right("00" + Trim(Str$(Hour(Now))), 2) + "_" + Right("00" + Trim(Str$(Minute(Now))), 2) + "_" + Right("00" + Trim(Str$(Second(Now))), 2) + Right((objAttachments.Item(i).FileName), 4)

            ' Combine with the path to the Temp folder.
            strFile = strFolderpath & strFile

            ' Save the attachment as a file.
            objAttachments.Item(i).SaveAsFile strFile

            ' Delete the attachment.
            objAttachments.Item(i).Delete

            'write the save as path to a string to add to the message
            'check for html and use html tags in link
            If objMsg.BodyFormat <> olFormatHTML Then
                strDeletedFiles = strDeletedFiles & vbCrLf & "<file://" & strFile & ">"
            Else
                strDeletedFiles = strDeletedFiles & "<br>" & "<a href='file://" & _
                strFile & "'>" & strFile & "</a>"
            End If

            'Use the MsgBox command to troubleshoot. Remove it from the final code.
            'MsgBox strDeletedFiles

        Next i

        ' Adds the filename string to the message body and save it
        ' Check for HTML body
        If objMsg.BodyFormat <> olFormatHTML Then
            objMsg.Body = vbCrLf & "The file(s) were saved to " & strDeletedFiles & vbCrLf & objMsg.Body
        Else
            objMsg.HTMLBody = "<p>" & "The file(s) were saved to " & strDeletedFiles & "</p>" & objMsg.HTMLBody
        End If

        objMsg.Save
    End If
Next

ExitSub:

Set objAttachments = Nothing
Set objMsg = Nothing
Set objSelection = Nothing
Set objOL = Nothing
End Sub

MySQL CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS in PHPmyadmin import

On the CREATE TABLE,

The AUTO_INCREMENT of abuse_id is set to 2. MySQL now thinks 1 already exists.

With the INSERT statement you are trying to insert abuse_id with record 1. Please set AUTO_INCREMENT on CREATE_TABLE to 1 and try again.

Otherwise set the abuse_id in the INSERT statement to 'NULL'.

How can i resolve this?

How to compare LocalDate instances Java 8

LocalDate ld ....;
LocalDateTime ldtime ...;

ld.isEqual(LocalDate.from(ldtime));

Run AVD Emulator without Android Studio

if you installed Git on your system. then you can run .sh bash code. I create the bash code for search from your created ADV Devices and list them. then you can select the number of adv device for run emulator without running Android studio.

link: adv-emulator.sh

note [windows os]: please first add %appdata%\..\Local\Android\Sdk\emulator to your system Environment path, otherwise the bash-code not work.

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

A solution I came up with is to use a vis.js instance in an iframe. This shows an interactive 3D plot inside a notebook, which still works in nbviewer. The visjs code is borrowed from the example code on the 3D graph page

A small notebook to illustrate this: demo

The code itself:

from IPython.core.display import display, HTML
import json

def plot3D(X, Y, Z, height=600, xlabel = "X", ylabel = "Y", zlabel = "Z", initialCamera = None):

    options = {
        "width": "100%",
        "style": "surface",
        "showPerspective": True,
        "showGrid": True,
        "showShadow": False,
        "keepAspectRatio": True,
        "height": str(height) + "px"
    }

    if initialCamera:
        options["cameraPosition"] = initialCamera

    data = [ {"x": X[y,x], "y": Y[y,x], "z": Z[y,x]} for y in range(X.shape[0]) for x in range(X.shape[1]) ]
    visCode = r"""
       <link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/vis/4.21.0/vis.min.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
       <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/vis/4.21.0/vis.min.js"></script>
       <div id="pos" style="top:0px;left:0px;position:absolute;"></div>
       <div id="visualization"></div>
       <script type="text/javascript">
        var data = new vis.DataSet();
        data.add(""" + json.dumps(data) + """);
        var options = """ + json.dumps(options) + """;
        var container = document.getElementById("visualization");
        var graph3d = new vis.Graph3d(container, data, options);
        graph3d.on("cameraPositionChange", function(evt)
        {
            elem = document.getElementById("pos");
            elem.innerHTML = "H: " + evt.horizontal + "<br>V: " + evt.vertical + "<br>D: " + evt.distance;
        });
       </script>
    """
    htmlCode = "<iframe srcdoc='"+visCode+"' width='100%' height='" + str(height) + "px' style='border:0;' scrolling='no'> </iframe>"
    display(HTML(htmlCode))

Python Variable Declaration

This might be 6 years late, but in Python 3.5 and above, you declare a variable type like this:

variable_name: type_name

or this:

variable_name # type: shinyType

So in your case(if you have a CustomObject class defined), you can do:

customObj: CustomObject

See this or that for more info.

How to install a private NPM module without my own registry?

Config to install from public Github repository, even if machine is under firewall:

dependencies: {
   "foo": "https://github.com/package/foo/tarball/master"
}

Remove final character from string

What you are trying to do is an extension of string slicing in Python:

Say all strings are of length 10, last char to be removed:

>>> st[:9]
'abcdefghi'

To remove last N characters:

>>> N = 3
>>> st[:-N]
'abcdefg'

IIS Request Timeout on long ASP.NET operation

Remove ~ character in location so

path="~/Admin/SomePage.aspx"

becomes

path="Admin/SomePage.aspx"

Clip/Crop background-image with CSS

You can put the graphic in a pseudo-element with its own dimensional context:

#graphic {
  position: relative;
  width: 200px;
  height: 100px;
}
#graphic::before {
  position: absolute;
  content: '';
  z-index: -1;
  width: 200px;
  height: 50px;
  background-image: url(image.jpg);
}

_x000D_
_x000D_
#graphic {_x000D_
    width: 200px;_x000D_
    height: 100px;_x000D_
    position: relative;_x000D_
}_x000D_
#graphic::before {_x000D_
    content: '';_x000D_
    _x000D_
    position: absolute;_x000D_
    width: 200px;_x000D_
    height: 50px;_x000D_
    z-index: -1;_x000D_
    _x000D_
    background-image: url(http://placehold.it/500x500/); /* Image is 500px by 500px, but only 200px by 50px is showing. */_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<div id="graphic">lorem ipsum</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Browser support is good, but if you need to support IE8, use a single colon :before. IE has no support for either syntax in versions prior to that.

Count with IF condition in MySQL query

Replace this line:

count(if(ccc_news_comments.id = 'approved', ccc_news_comments.id, 0)) AS comments

With this one:

coalesce(sum(ccc_news_comments.id = 'approved'), 0) comments

How to set header and options in axios?

_x000D_
_x000D_
axios.post('url', {"body":data}, {
    headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json'
    }
  }
)
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

How can I send cookies using PHP curl in addition to CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE?

I think the only cookie you need is JSESSIONID=xxx..

Also NEVER share your cookies, becasuse someone may access your personal data that way. Specially when the cookies are session. These cookies will stop working once you logout the site.

Access-Control-Allow-Origin and Angular.js $http

Adding below to server.js resolved mine

    server.post('/your-rest-endpt/*', function(req,res){
    console.log('');
    console.log('req.url: '+req.url);
    console.log('req.headers: ');   
    console.dir(req.headers);
    console.log('req.body: ');
    console.dir(req.body);  

    var options = {
        host: 'restAPI-IP' + ':' + '8080'

        , protocol: 'http'
        , pathname: 'your-rest-endpt/'
    };
    console.log('options: ');
    console.dir(options);   

    var reqUrl = url.format(options);
    console.log("Forward URL: "+reqUrl);

    var parsedUrl = url.parse(req.url, true);
    console.log('parsedUrl: ');
    console.dir(parsedUrl);

    var queryParams = parsedUrl.query;

    var path = parsedUrl.path;
    var substr = path.substring(path.lastIndexOf("rest/"));
    console.log('substr: ');
    console.dir(substr);

    reqUrl += substr;
    console.log("Final Forward URL: "+reqUrl);

    var newHeaders = {
    };

    //Deep-copy it, clone it, but not point to me in shallow way...
    for (var headerKey in req.headers) {
        newHeaders[headerKey] = req.headers[headerKey];
    };

    var newBody = (req.body == null || req.body == undefined ? {} : req.body);

    if (newHeaders['Content-type'] == null
            || newHeaders['Content-type'] == undefined) {
        newHeaders['Content-type'] = 'application/json';
        newBody = JSON.stringify(newBody);
    }

    var requestOptions = {
        headers: {
            'Content-type': 'application/json'
        }
        ,body: newBody
        ,method: 'POST'
    };

    console.log("server.js : routes to URL : "+ reqUrl);

    request(reqUrl, requestOptions, function(error, response, body){
        if(error) {
            console.log('The error from Tomcat is --> ' + error.toString());
            console.dir(error);
            //return false;
        }

        if (response.statusCode != null 
                && response.statusCode != undefined
                && response.headers != null
                && response.headers != undefined) {
            res.writeHead(response.statusCode, response.headers);
        } else {
            //404 Not Found
            res.writeHead(404);         
        }
        if (body != null
                && body != undefined) {

            res.write(body);            
        }
        res.end();
    });
});

How to determine day of week by passing specific date?

//to get day of any date

import java.util.Scanner; 
import java.util.Calendar; 
import java.util.Date;

public class Show {

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


            String input_date = month+"/"+day+"/"+year;

            Date now = new Date(input_date);
            Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
            calendar.setTime(now);
            int final_day = (calendar.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK));

            String finalDay[]={"SUNDAY","MONDAY","TUESDAY","WEDNESDAY","THURSDAY","FRIDAY","SATURDAY"};

            System.out.println(finalDay[final_day-1]);

    }

    public static void main(String[] args) { 
            Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in); 
            String month = in.next(); 
        String day = in.next();
            String year = in.next();

            getDay(day, month, year);
    }

}

Converting HTML files to PDF

If you have the funding, nothing beats Prince XML as this video shows

CSS display:table-row does not expand when width is set to 100%

give on .view-type class float:left; or delete the float:right; of .view-name

edit: Wrap your div <div class="view-row"> with another div for example <div class="table">

and set the following css :

.table {
    display:table;
    width:100%;}

You have to use the table structure for correct results.

Creating a new database and new connection in Oracle SQL Developer

Open Oracle SQLDeveloper

Right click on connection tab and select new connection

Enter HR_ORCL in connection name and HR for the username and password.

Specify localhost for your Hostname and enter ORCL for the SID.

Click Test.

The status of the connection Test Successfully.

The connection was not saved however click on Save button to save the connection. And then click on Connect button to connect your database.

The connection is saved and you see the connection list.

How do I convert an interval into a number of hours with postgres?

select floor((date_part('epoch', order_time - '2016-09-05 00:00:00') / 3600)), count(*)
from od_a_week
group by floor((date_part('epoch', order_time - '2016-09-05 00:00:00') / 3600));

The ::int conversion follows the principle of rounding. If you want a different result such as rounding down, you can use the corresponding math function such as floor.

Docker remove <none> TAG images

This is an extension of tansadio's answer:

If you are getting following error:

Error response from daemon: conflict: unable to delete <> (must be forced) - image is being used by stopped container <>

You can force it with --force:

docker images | grep none | awk '{ print $3; }' | xargs docker rmi --force

How to import an Excel file into SQL Server?

You can also use OPENROWSET to import excel file in sql server.

SELECT * INTO Your_Table FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0',
                        'Excel 12.0;Database=C:\temp\MySpreadsheet.xlsx',
                        'SELECT * FROM [Data$]')

Different ways of loading a file as an InputStream

All these answers around here, as well as the answers in this question, suggest that loading absolute URLs, like "/foo/bar.properties" treated the same by class.getResourceAsStream(String) and class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(String). This is NOT the case, at least not in my Tomcat configuration/version (currently 7.0.40).

MyClass.class.getResourceAsStream("/foo/bar.properties"); // works!  
MyClass.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("/foo/bar.properties"); // does NOT work!

Sorry, I have absolutely no satisfying explanation, but I guess that tomcat does dirty tricks and his black magic with the classloaders and cause the difference. I always used class.getResourceAsStream(String) in the past and haven't had any problems.

PS: I also posted this over here

Excel - Using COUNTIF/COUNTIFS across multiple sheets/same column

I am trying to avoid using VBA. But if has to be, then it has to be:)

There is quite simple UDF for you:

Function myCountIf(rng As Range, criteria) As Long
    Dim ws As Worksheet

    For Each ws In ThisWorkbook.Worksheets
        myCountIf = myCountIf + WorksheetFunction.CountIf(ws.Range(rng.Address), criteria)
    Next ws
End Function

and call it like this: =myCountIf(I:I,A13)


P.S. if you'd like to exclude some sheets, you can add If statement:

Function myCountIf(rng As Range, criteria) As Long
    Dim ws As Worksheet

    For Each ws In ThisWorkbook.Worksheets
        If ws.name <> "Sheet1" And ws.name <> "Sheet2" Then
            myCountIf = myCountIf + WorksheetFunction.CountIf(ws.Range(rng.Address), criteria)
        End If
    Next ws
End Function

UPD:

I have four "reference" sheets that I need to exclude from being scanned/searched. They are currently the last four in the workbook

Function myCountIf(rng As Range, criteria) As Long
    Dim i As Integer

    For i = 1 To ThisWorkbook.Worksheets.Count - 4
        myCountIf = myCountIf + WorksheetFunction.CountIf(ThisWorkbook.Worksheets(i).Range(rng.Address), criteria)
    Next i
End Function

ant warning: "'includeantruntime' was not set"

As @Daniel Kutik mentioned, presetdef is a good option. Especially if one is working on a project with many build.xml files which one cannot, or prefers not to, edit (e.g., those from third-parties.)

To use presetdef, add these lines in your top-level build.xml file:

  <presetdef name="javac">
    <javac includeantruntime="false" />
  </presetdef>

Now all subsequent javac tasks will essentially inherit includeantruntime="false". If your projects do actually need ant runtime libraries, you can either add them explicitly to your build files OR set includeantruntime="true". The latter will also get rid of warnings.

Subsequent javac tasks can still explicitly change this if desired, for example:

<javac destdir="out" includeantruntime="true">
  <src path="foo.java" />
  <src path="bar.java" />
</javac>

I'd recommend against using ANT_OPTS. It works, but it defeats the purpose of the warning. The warning tells one that one's build might behave differently on another system. Using ANT_OPTS makes this even more likely because now every system needs to use ANT_OPTS in the same way. Also, ANT_OPTS will apply globally, suppressing warnings willy-nilly in all your projects

How do I solve the "server DNS address could not be found" error on Windows 10?

Steps to manually configure DNS:

  1. You can access Network and Sharing center by right clicking on the Network icon on the taskbar.

  2. Now choose adapter settings from the side menu.

  3. This will give you a list of the available network adapters in the system . From them right click on the adapter you are using to connect to the internet now and choose properties option.

  4. In the networking tab choose ‘Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)’.

  5. Now you can see the properties dialogue box showing the properties of IPV4. Here you need to change some properties.

    Select ‘use the following DNS address’ option. Now fill the following fields as given here.

    Preferred DNS server: 208.67.222.222

    Alternate DNS server : 208.67.220.220

    This is an available Open DNS address. You may also use google DNS server addresses.

    After filling these fields. Check the ‘validate settings upon exit’ option. Now click OK.

You have to add this DNS server address in the router configuration also (by referring the router manual for more information).

Refer : for above method & alternative

If none of this works, then open command prompt(Run as Administrator) and run these:

ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /registerdns
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
NETSH winsock reset catalog
NETSH int ipv4 reset reset.log
NETSH int ipv6 reset reset.log
Exit

Hopefully that fixes it, if its still not fixed there is a chance that its a NIC related issue(driver update or h/w).

Also FYI, this has a thread on Microsoft community : Windows 10 - DNS Issue

Removing legend on charts with chart.js v2

You can change default options by using Chart.defaults.global in your javascript file. So you want to change legend and tooltip options.

Remove legend

Chart.defaults.global.legend.display = false;

Remove Tooltip

Chart.defaults.global.tooltips.enabled = false;

Here is a working fiddler.

Can I fade in a background image (CSS: background-image) with jQuery?

With modern browser i prefer a much lightweight approach with a bit of Js and CSS3...

transition: background 300ms ease-in 200ms;

Look at this demo:

http://codepen.io/nicolasbonnici/pen/gPVNbr

Oracle SQL : timestamps in where clause

For everyone coming to this thread with fractional seconds in your timestamp use:

to_timestamp('2018-11-03 12:35:20.419000', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS.FF')

Check if string matches pattern

regular expressions make this easy ...

[A-Z] will match exactly one character between A and Z

\d+ will match one or more digits

() group things (and also return things... but for now just think of them grouping)

+ selects 1 or more

How to execute multiple SQL statements from java

I'm not sure that you want to send two SELECT statements in one request statement because you may not be able to access both ResultSets. The database may only return the last result set.

Multiple ResultSets

However, if you're calling a stored procedure that you know can return multiple resultsets something like this will work

CallableStatement stmt = con.prepareCall(...);
try {
...

boolean results = stmt.execute();

while (results) {
    ResultSet rs = stmt.getResultSet();
    try {
    while (rs.next()) {
        // read the data
    }
    } finally {
        try { rs.close(); } catch (Throwable ignore) {}
    }

    // are there anymore result sets?
    results = stmt.getMoreResults();
}
} finally {
    try { stmt.close(); } catch (Throwable ignore) {}
}

Multiple SQL Statements

If you're talking about multiple SQL statements and only one SELECT then your database should be able to support the one String of SQL. For example I have used something like this on Sybase

StringBuffer sql = new StringBuffer( "SET rowcount 100" );
sql.append( " SELECT * FROM tbl_books ..." );
sql.append( " SET rowcount 0" );

stmt = conn.prepareStatement( sql.toString() );

This will depend on the syntax supported by your database. In this example note the addtional spaces padding the statements so that there is white space between the staments.

How do you set the title color for the new Toolbar?

This worked for me

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
    android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
    app:navigationIcon="@drawable/ic_back"
    app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"
    app:subtitleTextColor="@color/white"
    app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
    app:title="This week stats"
    app:titleTextColor="@color/white">


    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/submitEditNote"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:layout_gravity="right"
        android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
        android:src="@android:drawable/ic_menu_manage" />
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>

What's the difference between <b> and <strong>, <i> and <em>?

As the others have stated, the difference is that <b> and <i> hardcode font styles, whereas <strong> and <em> dictate semantic meaning, with the font style (or speaking browser intonation, or what-have-you) to be determined at the time the text is rendered (or spoken).

You can think of this as a difference between a “physical” font style and a “logical” style, if you will. At some later time, you may wish to change the way <strong> and <em> text are displayed, say, by altering properties in a style sheet to add color and size changes, or even to use different font faces entirely. If you've used “logical” markup instead of hardcoded “physical” markup, then you can simply change the display properties in one place each in your style sheet, and then all of the pages that reference that style sheet get changed automatically, without ever having to edit them.

Pretty slick, huh?

This is also the rationale behind defining sub-styles (referenced using the style= property in text tags) for paragraphs, table cells, header text, captions, etc., and using <div> tags. You can define physical representation for your logical styles in the style sheet, and the changes are automatically reflected in the web pages that reference that style sheet. Want a different representation for source code? Redefine the font, size, weight, spacing, etc. for your "code" style.

If you use XHTML, you can even define your own semantic tags, and your style sheet would do the conversions to physical font styles and layouts for you.

Convert RGBA PNG to RGB with PIL

It's not broken. It's doing exactly what you told it to; those pixels are black with full transparency. You will need to iterate across all pixels and convert ones with full transparency to white.

Cleanest Way to Invoke Cross-Thread Events

You can try to develop some sort of a generic component that accepts a SynchronizationContext as input and uses it to invoke the events.

Does Notepad++ show all hidden characters?

Double check your text with the Hex Editor Plug-in. In your case there may have been some control characters which have crept into your text. Usually you'll look at the white-space, and it will say 32 32 32 32, or for Unicode 32 00 32 00 32 00 32 00. You may find the problem this way, providing there isn't masses of code.

Download the Hex Plugin from here; http://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-plugins/files/Hex%20Editor/

startActivityForResult() from a Fragment and finishing child Activity, doesn't call onActivityResult() in Fragment

The most important thing, that all are missing here is... The launchMode of FirstActivity must be singleTop. If it is singleInstance, the onActivityResult in FragmentA will be called just after calling the startActivityForResult method. So, It will not wait for calling of the finish() method in SecondActivity.

So go through the following steps, It will definitely work as it worked for me too after a long research.

In AndroidManifest.xml file, make launchMode of FirstActivity.Java as singleTop.

<activity
        android:name=".FirstActivity"
        android:label="@string/title_activity_main"
        android:launchMode="singleTop"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme.NoActionBar" />

In FirstActivity.java, override onActivityResult method. As this will call the onActivityResult of FragmentA.

@Override
public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
    super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
}

In FragmentA.Java, override onActivityResult method

@Override
public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
    Log.d("FragmentA.java","onActivityResult called");
}

Call startActivityForResult(intent, HOMEWORK_POST_ACTIVITY); from FragmentA.Java

Call finish(); method in SecondActivity.java

Hope this will work.

document.getElementById("test").style.display="hidden" not working

It should be either

document.getElementById("test").style.display = "none";

or

document.getElementById("test").style.visibility = "hidden";

Second option will display some blank space where the form was initially present , where as the first option doesn't

Setting session variable using javascript

You could better use the localStorage of the web browser.

You can find a reference here

std::cin input with spaces?

I rather use the following method to get the input:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int main(void) {
    string name;

    cout << "Hello, Input your name please: ";
    getline(cin, name);

    return 0;
}

It's actually super easy to use rather than defining the total length of array for a string which contains a space character.

C# Dictionary get item by index

you can easily access elements by index , by use System.Linq

Here is the sample

First add using in your class file

using System.Linq;

Then

yourDictionaryData.ElementAt(i).Key
yourDictionaryData.ElementAt(i).Value

Hope this helps.

What is causing this error - "Fatal error: Unable to find local grunt"

I made the mistake to install some packages using sudo and other without privileges , this fixed my problem.

sudo chown -R $(whoami) $HOME/.npm

hope it helps someone.

What is "not assignable to parameter of type never" error in typescript?

Remove "strictNullChecks": true from "compilerOptions" or set it to false in the tsconfig.json file of your Ng app. These errors will go away like anything and your app would compile successfully.

Disclaimer: This is just a workaround. This error appears only when the null checks are not handled properly which in any case is not a good way to get things done.

Is there a way to get a textarea to stretch to fit its content without using PHP or JavaScript?

Not really. This is normally done using javascript.

there is a good discussion of ways of doing this here...

Autosizing textarea using Prototype

How do I test which class an object is in Objective-C?

You also can use

NSString *className = [[myObject class] description]; 

on any NSObject

Where is the php.ini file on a Linux/CentOS PC?

In your terminal/console (only Linux, in windows you need Putty)

ssh user@ip
php -i | grep "Loaded Configuration File"

And it will show you something like this Loaded Configuration File => /etc/php.ini.

ALTERNATIVE METHOD

You can make a php file on your website, which run: <?php phpinfo(); ?>, and you can see the php.ini location on the line with: "Loaded Configuration File".

Update This command gives the path right away

cli_php_ini=php -i | grep /.+/php.ini -oE  #ref. https://stackoverflow.com/a/15763333/248616
    php_ini="${cli_php_ini/cli/apache2}"   #replace cli by apache2 ref. https://stackoverflow.com/a/13210909/248616

Change color of Button when Mouse is over

Try this- In this example Original color is green and mouseover color will be DarkGoldenrod

<Button Content="Button" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Width="50" Height="50" HorizontalContentAlignment="Left" BorderBrush="{x:Null}" Foreground="{x:Null}" Margin="50,0,0,0">
    <Button.Style>
        <Style TargetType="{x:Type Button}">
            <Setter Property="Background" Value="Green"/>
            <Setter Property="Template">
                <Setter.Value>
                    <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type Button}">
                        <Border Background="{TemplateBinding Background}">
                            <ContentPresenter HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center"/>
                        </Border>
                    </ControlTemplate>
                </Setter.Value>
            </Setter>
            <Style.Triggers>
                <Trigger Property="IsMouseOver" Value="True">
                    <Setter Property="Background" Value="DarkGoldenrod"/>
                </Trigger>
            </Style.Triggers>
        </Style>
    </Button.Style>
</Button>

VBA to copy a file from one directory to another

One thing that caused me a massive headache when using this code (might affect others and I wish that somebody had left a comment like this one here for me to read):

  • My aim is to create a dynamic access dashboard, which requires that its linked tables be updated.
  • I use the copy methods described above to replace the existing linked CSVs with an updated version of them.
  • Running the above code manually from a module worked fine.
  • Running identical code from a form linked to the CSV data had runtime error 70 (Permission denied), even tho the first step of my code was to close that form (which should have unlocked the CSV file so that it could be overwritten).
  • I now believe that despite the form being closed, it keeps the outdated CSV file locked while it executes VBA associated with that form.

My solution will be to run the code (On timer event) from another hidden form that opens with the database.

Java: export to an .jar file in eclipse

FatJar can help you in this case.

In addition to the"Export as Jar" function which is included to Eclipse the Plug-In bundles all dependent JARs together into one executable jar.
The Plug-In adds the Entry "Build Fat Jar" to the Context-Menu of Java-projects

This is useful if your final exported jar includes other external jars.

If you have Ganymede, the Export Jar dialog is enough to export your resources from your project.

After Ganymede, you have:

Export Jar

How do I add a simple jQuery script to WordPress?

As you mentioned, the simple way inside functions.php without using enqueue is this one:

add_action('wp_footer', 'customJsScript');
function customJsScript() {
  echo '
  <script>
  jQuery(function(){
    console.log("test");
  });
  </script>
  ';
}

As you see, you use the wp_footer action to inject the code.

But you may prefer to put directly the code inside header.php or footer.php if is a code that will be inserted all-over WordPress

How can I catch an error caused by mail()?

PHPMailer handles errors nicely, also a good script to use for sending mail via SMTP...

if(!$mail->Send()) {
  echo "Mailer Error: " . $mail->ErrorInfo;
} else {
  echo "Message sent!";
}

How to convert base64 string to image?

Try this:

import base64
imgdata = base64.b64decode(imgstring)
filename = 'some_image.jpg'  # I assume you have a way of picking unique filenames
with open(filename, 'wb') as f:
    f.write(imgdata)
# f gets closed when you exit the with statement
# Now save the value of filename to your database

python ignore certificate validation urllib2

The easiest way:

python 2

import urllib2, ssl

request = urllib2.Request('https://somedomain.co/')
response = urllib2.urlopen(request, context=ssl._create_unverified_context())

python 3

from urllib.request import urlopen
import ssl

response = urlopen('https://somedomain.co', context=ssl._create_unverified_context())

Why is setTimeout(fn, 0) sometimes useful?

Some other cases where setTimeout is useful:

You want to break a long-running loop or calculation into smaller components so that the browser doesn't appear to 'freeze' or say "Script on page is busy".

You want to disable a form submit button when clicked, but if you disable the button in the onClick handler the form will not be submitted. setTimeout with a time of zero does the trick, allowing the event to end, the form to begin submitting, then your button can be disabled.

Setting Short Value Java

You can use setTableId((short)100). I think this was changed in Java 5 so that numeric literals assigned to byte or short and within range for the target are automatically assumed to be the target type. That latest J2ME JVMs are derived from Java 4 though.

Java Could not reserve enough space for object heap error

I had this problem. I solved it with downloading 64x of the Java. Here is the link: http://javadl.sun.com/webapps/download/AutoDL?BundleId=87443

Incrementing a variable inside a Bash loop

Using the following 1 line command for changing many files name in linux using phrase specificity:

find -type f -name '*.jpg' | rename 's/holiday/honeymoon/'

For all files with the extension ".jpg", if they contain the string "holiday", replace it with "honeymoon". For instance, this command would rename the file "ourholiday001.jpg" to "ourhoneymoon001.jpg".

This example also illustrates how to use the find command to send a list of files (-type f) with the extension .jpg (-name '*.jpg') to rename via a pipe (|). rename then reads its file list from standard input.

Could not find module "@angular-devkit/build-angular"

First delete node_modules folder

then Restart system

Run npm install --save-dev @angular-devkit/build-angular

and

Run npm install

HTML: How to center align a form

Use center:

<center><form></form></center>

This is just one method, though it's not advised.

Ancient Edit: Please do not do this. I am just saying it is a thing that exists.

Using mysql concat() in WHERE clause?

You can try this:

select * FROM table where (concat(first_name, ' ', last_name)) = $search_term;

jinja2.exceptions.TemplateNotFound error

I think you shouldn't prepend themesDir. You only pass the filename of the template to flask, it will then look in a folder called templates relative to your python file.

How to print a percentage value in python?

Just to add Python 3 f-string solution

prob = 1.0/3.0
print(f"{prob:.0%}")

show and hide divs based on radio button click

Here you can find exactly what you are looking for.

<div align="center">
  <input type="radio" name="name_radio1" id="id_radio1" value="value_radio1">Radio1
  <input type="radio" name="name_radio1" id="id_radio2" value="value_radio2">Radio2
</div>
 <br />
<div align="center" id="id_data" style="border:5">
  <div>this is div 1</div>
  <div>this is div 2</div>
  <div>this is div 3</div>
  <div>this is div 4</div>
</div>
<script src="jquery.js"></script>
<script>
 $(document).ready(function() {
 // show the table as soon as the DOM is ready
 $("#id_data").show();
 // shows the table on clicking the noted link
  $("#id_radio1").click(function() {
   $("#id_data").show("slow");
  });
 // hides the table on clicking the noted link
   $("#id_radio2").click(function() {
   $("#id_data").hide("fast");
   });
 });

  $(document).ready(function(){} – When document load.
  $("#id_data").show(); – shows div which contain id #id_data.
  $("#id_radio1").click(function() – Checks  radio button is clicked containing id #id_radio1.
  $("#id_data").show("slow"); – shows div containing id #id_data.
  $("#id_data").hide("fast"); -hides div when click on radio button containing id #id_data.

Thats it..

http://patelmilap.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/show-hide-div-on-click-using-jquery/

SQL Server : How to test if a string has only digit characters

There is a system function called ISNUMERIC for SQL 2008 and up. An example:

SELECT myCol
FROM mTable
WHERE ISNUMERIC(myCol)<> 1;

I did a couple of quick tests and also looked further into the docs:

ISNUMERIC returns 1 when the input expression evaluates to a valid numeric data type; otherwise it returns 0.

Which means it is fairly predictable for example

-9879210433 would pass but 987921-0433 does not. $9879210433 would pass but 9879210$433 does not.

So using this information you can weed out based on the list of valid currency symbols and + & - characters.

Open local folder from link

you can use

<a href="\\computername\folder">Open folder</a>

in Internet Explorer

youtube: link to display HD video by default

via Is there a way to link someone to a YouTube Video in HD 1080p quality?

Yes there is:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Susj4jVWs0s?version=3&vq=hd720

options are:

default|none: vq=auto;
Code for auto: vq=auto;
Code for 2160p: vq=hd2160;
Code for 1440p: vq=hd1440;
Code for 1080p: vq=hd1080;
Code for 720p: vq=hd720;
Code for 480p: vq=large;
Code for 360p: vq=medium;
Code for 240p: vq=small;

As mentioned, you have to use the /embed/ or /v/ URL.

Note: Some copyrighted content doesn't support be played in this way

Bootstrap 3 Carousel fading to new slide instead of sliding to new slide

This can be accomplished using only CSS. To change the carousel to a fade transition instead of slide, use one of the following snippets (LESS or standard CSS).

LESS

// Fade transition for carousel items
.carousel {
  .item {
    left: 0 !important;
    .transition(opacity .4s); //adjust timing here
  }
  .carousel-control {
    background-image: none; // remove background gradients on controls
  }
  // Fade controls with items
  .next.left,
  .prev.right {
    opacity: 1;
    z-index: 1;
  }
  .active.left,
  .active.right {
    opacity: 0;
    z-index: 2;
  }
}

Plain CSS:

/* Fade transition for carousel items */
.carousel .item {
    left: 0 !important;
      -webkit-transition: opacity .4s; /*adjust timing here */
         -moz-transition: opacity .4s;
           -o-transition: opacity .4s;
              transition: opacity .4s;
}
.carousel-control {
    background-image: none !important; /* remove background gradients on controls */
}
/* Fade controls with items */
.next.left,
.prev.right {
    opacity: 1;
    z-index: 1;
}
.active.left,
.active.right {
    opacity: 0;
    z-index: 2;
}

Unicode (UTF-8) reading and writing to files in Python

# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-

# converting a unknown formatting file in utf-8

import codecs
import commands

file_location = "jumper.sub"
file_encoding = commands.getoutput('file -b --mime-encoding %s' % file_location)

file_stream = codecs.open(file_location, 'r', file_encoding)
file_output = codecs.open(file_location+"b", 'w', 'utf-8')

for l in file_stream:
    file_output.write(l)

file_stream.close()
file_output.close()

Why declare unicode by string in python?

I made the following module called unicoder to be able to do the transformation on variables:

import sys
import os

def ustr(string):

    string = 'u"%s"'%string

    with open('_unicoder.py', 'w') as script:

        script.write('# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n')
        script.write('_ustr = %s'%string)

    import _unicoder
    value = _unicoder._ustr

    del _unicoder
    del sys.modules['_unicoder']

    os.system('del _unicoder.py')
    os.system('del _unicoder.pyc')

    return value

Then in your program you could do the following:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from unicoder import ustr

txt = 'Hello, Unicode World'
txt = ustr(txt)

print type(txt) # <type 'unicode'>

Double free or corruption after queue::push

Let's talk about copying objects in C++.

Test t;, calls the default constructor, which allocates a new array of integers. This is fine, and your expected behavior.

Trouble comes when you push t into your queue using q.push(t). If you're familiar with Java, C#, or almost any other object-oriented language, you might expect the object you created earler to be added to the queue, but C++ doesn't work that way.

When we take a look at std::queue::push method, we see that the element that gets added to the queue is "initialized to a copy of x." It's actually a brand new object that uses the copy constructor to duplicate every member of your original Test object to make a new Test.

Your C++ compiler generates a copy constructor for you by default! That's pretty handy, but causes problems with pointer members. In your example, remember that int *myArray is just a memory address; when the value of myArray is copied from the old object to the new one, you'll now have two objects pointing to the same array in memory. This isn't intrinsically bad, but the destructor will then try to delete the same array twice, hence the "double free or corruption" runtime error.

How do I fix it?

The first step is to implement a copy constructor, which can safely copy the data from one object to another. For simplicity, it could look something like this:

Test(const Test& other){
    myArray = new int[10];
    memcpy( myArray, other.myArray, 10 );
}

Now when you're copying Test objects, a new array will be allocated for the new object, and the values of the array will be copied as well.

We're not completely out trouble yet, though. There's another method that the compiler generates for you that could lead to similar problems - assignment. The difference is that with assignment, we already have an existing object whose memory needs to be managed appropriately. Here's a basic assignment operator implementation:

Test& operator= (const Test& other){
    if (this != &other) {
        memcpy( myArray, other.myArray, 10 );
    }
    return *this;
}

The important part here is that we're copying the data from the other array into this object's array, keeping each object's memory separate. We also have a check for self-assignment; otherwise, we'd be copying from ourselves to ourselves, which may throw an error (not sure what it's supposed to do). If we were deleting and allocating more memory, the self-assignment check prevents us from deleting memory from which we need to copy.

How to Convert double to int in C?

This is the notorious floating point rounding issue. Just add a very small number, to correct the issue.

double a;
a=3669.0;
int b;
b=a+ 1e-9;

AssertNull should be used or AssertNotNull

Use assertNotNull(obj). assert means must be.

How to make JQuery-AJAX request synchronous

Instead of adding onSubmit event, you can prevent the default action for submit button.

So, in the following html:

<form name="form" action="insert.php" method="post">
    <input type='submit' />
</form>?

first, prevent submit button action. Then make the ajax call asynchronously, and submit the form when the password is correct.

$('input[type=submit]').click(function(e) {
    e.preventDefault(); //prevent form submit when button is clicked

    var password = $.trim($('#employee_password').val());

     $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: "checkpass.php",
        data: "password="+password,
        success: function(html) {
            var arr=$.parseJSON(html);
            var $form = $('form');
            if(arr == "Successful")
            {    
                $form.submit(); //submit the form if the password is correct
            }
        }
    });
});????????????????????????????????

How to disable the ability to select in a DataGridView?

This worked for me like a charm:

row.DataGridView.Enabled = false;

row.DefaultCellStyle.BackColor = Color.LightGray;

row.DefaultCellStyle.ForeColor = Color.DarkGray;

(where row = DataGridView.NewRow(appropriate overloads);)

ORA-28001: The password has expired

C:\>sqlplus /nolog
SQL> connect / as SYSDBA
SQL> select * from dba_profiles;
SQL> alter profile default limit password_life_time unlimited;
SQL> alter user database_name identified by new_password;
SQL> commit;
SQL> exit;

Get the Query Executed in Laravel 3/4

Since the profiler is not yet out in Laravel 4, I've created this helper function to see the SQL being generated:


    public static function q($all = true) 
    {
        $queries = DB::getQueryLog();

        if($all == false) {
            $last_query = end($queries);
            return $last_query;
        }

        return $queries;
    }

NOTE: Set the $all flag to false if you only want the last SQL query.

I keep this sort of functions in a class called DBH.php (short for Database Helper) so I can call it from anywhere like this:

dd(DBH::q()); 

Here is the output I get: enter image description here

In case you are wondering, I use Kint for the dd() formatting. http://raveren.github.io/kint/

Change an image with onclick()

The most you could do is to trigger a background image change when hovering the LI. If you want something to happen upon clicking an LI and then staying that way, then you'll need to use some JS.

I would name the images starting with bw_ and clr_ and just use JS to swap between them.

example:

$("#images").find('img').bind("click", function() {
  var src = $(this).attr("src"), 
      state = (src.indexOf("bw_") === 0) ? 'bw' : 'clr';

  (state === 'bw') ? src = src.replace('bw_','clr_') : src = src.replace('clr_','bw_');  

  $(this).attr("src", src);

});

link to fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/felcom/J2ucD/

Populate one dropdown based on selection in another

_x000D_
_x000D_
function configureDropDownLists(ddl1, ddl2) {_x000D_
  var colours = ['Black', 'White', 'Blue'];_x000D_
  var shapes = ['Square', 'Circle', 'Triangle'];_x000D_
  var names = ['John', 'David', 'Sarah'];_x000D_
_x000D_
  switch (ddl1.value) {_x000D_
    case 'Colours':_x000D_
      ddl2.options.length = 0;_x000D_
      for (i = 0; i < colours.length; i++) {_x000D_
        createOption(ddl2, colours[i], colours[i]);_x000D_
      }_x000D_
      break;_x000D_
    case 'Shapes':_x000D_
      ddl2.options.length = 0;_x000D_
      for (i = 0; i < shapes.length; i++) {_x000D_
        createOption(ddl2, shapes[i], shapes[i]);_x000D_
      }_x000D_
      break;_x000D_
    case 'Names':_x000D_
      ddl2.options.length = 0;_x000D_
      for (i = 0; i < names.length; i++) {_x000D_
        createOption(ddl2, names[i], names[i]);_x000D_
      }_x000D_
      break;_x000D_
    default:_x000D_
      ddl2.options.length = 0;_x000D_
      break;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
function createOption(ddl, text, value) {_x000D_
  var opt = document.createElement('option');_x000D_
  opt.value = value;_x000D_
  opt.text = text;_x000D_
  ddl.options.add(opt);_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<select id="ddl" onchange="configureDropDownLists(this,document.getElementById('ddl2'))">_x000D_
  <option value=""></option>_x000D_
  <option value="Colours">Colours</option>_x000D_
  <option value="Shapes">Shapes</option>_x000D_
  <option value="Names">Names</option>_x000D_
</select>_x000D_
_x000D_
<select id="ddl2">_x000D_
</select>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

WPF Datagrid Get Selected Cell Value

If you are selecting only one cell then get selected cell content like this

var cellInfo = dataGrid1.SelectedCells[0];

var content = cellInfo.Column.GetCellContent(cellInfo.Item);

Here content will be your selected cells value

And if you are selecting multiple cells then you can do it like this

var cellInfos = dataGrid1.SelectedCells;

var list1 = new List<string>();

foreach (DataGridCellInfo cellInfo in cellInfos)
{
    if (cellInfo.IsValid)
    {
        //GetCellContent returns FrameworkElement
        var content= cellInfo.Column.GetCellContent(cellInfo.Item); 

        //Need to add the extra lines of code below to get desired output

        //get the datacontext from FrameworkElement and typecast to DataRowView
        var row = (DataRowView)content.DataContext;

        //ItemArray returns an object array with single element
        object[] obj = row.Row.ItemArray;

        //store the obj array in a list or Arraylist for later use
        list1.Add(obj[0].ToString());
    }
}

Unzip files programmatically in .net

From here :

Compressed GZipStream objects written to a file with an extension of .gz can be decompressed using many common compression tools; however, this class does not inherently provide functionality for adding files to or extracting files from .zip archives.

Limit the size of a file upload (html input element)

You can't do it client-side. You'll have to do it on the server.

Edit: This answer is outdated!

As the time of this edit, HTML file API is now supported on all major browsers.

I'd provide an update with solution, but @mark.inman.winning already did it.

Keep in mind that even if it's now possible to validate on the client, you should still validate it on the server, though. All client side validations can be bypassed.

Callback when DOM is loaded in react.js

In modern browsers, it should be like

try() {
     if (!$("#element").size()) {
       window.requestAnimationFrame(try);
     } else {
       // do your stuff
     }
};

componentDidMount(){
     this.try();
}

"Parser Error Message: Could not load type" in Global.asax

I tried absolutely everything here and nothing worked. My project was in VS 2013. I have since upgraded to VS 2015 and have been creating all of my new applications in 2015 but loading, compiling, building etc all of my old apps that were built in 2013 in that version.

I ended up just loading the solution in 2015 and it resolved it for me.

versionCode vs versionName in Android Manifest

Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the:


  • MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes,
  • MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards-compatible manner, and
  • PATCH version when you make backwards-compatible bug fixes.

Version Code & Version Name

As you may know, on android you have to define two version fields for an app: the version code (android:versionCode) and the version name (android:versionName). The version code is an incremental integer value that represents the version of the application code. The version name is a string value that represents the “friendly” version name displayed to the users.

Database development mistakes made by application developers

Not understanding how a DBMS works under the hood.

You cannot properly drive a stick without understanding how a clutch works. And you cannot understand how to use a Database without understanding that you are really just writing to a file on your hard disk.

Specifically:

  1. Do you know what a Clustered Index is? Did you think about it when you designed your schema?

  2. Do you know how to use indexes properly? How to reuse an index? Do you know what a Covering Index is?

  3. So great, you have indexes. How big is 1 row in your index? How big will the index be when you have a lot of data? Will that fit easily into memory? If it won't it's useless as an index.

  4. Have you ever used EXPLAIN in MySQL? Great. Now be honest with yourself: Did you understand even half of what you saw? No, you probably didn't. Fix that.

  5. Do you understand the Query Cache? Do you know what makes a query un-cachable?

  6. Are you using MyISAM? If you NEED full text search, MyISAM's is crap anyway. Use Sphinx. Then switch to Inno.

Returning binary file from controller in ASP.NET Web API

For anyone having the problem of the API being called more than once while downloading a fairly large file using the method in the accepted answer, please set response buffering to true System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.Buffer = true;

This makes sure that the entire binary content is buffered on the server side before it is sent to the client. Otherwise you will see multiple request being sent to the controller and if you do not handle it properly, the file will become corrupt.

Python: Importing urllib.quote

This is how I handle this, without using exceptions.

import sys
if sys.version_info.major > 2:  # Python 3 or later
    from urllib.parse import quote
else:  # Python 2
    from urllib import quote

How to set the font size in Emacs?

M-x customize-face RET default will allow you to set the face default face, on which all other faces base on. There you can set the font-size.

Here is what is in my .emacs. actually, color-theme will set the basics, then my custom face setting will override some stuff. the custom-set-faces is written by emacs's customize-face mechanism:

;; my colour theme is whateveryouwant :)
(require 'color-theme)
(color-theme-initialize)
(color-theme-whateveryouwant)

(custom-set-faces
  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 '(default ((t (:stipple nil :background "white" :foreground "black" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 98 :width normal :foundry "unknown" :family "DejaVu Sans Mono"))))
 '(font-lock-comment-face ((t (:foreground "darkorange4"))))
 '(font-lock-function-name-face ((t (:foreground "navy"))))
 '(font-lock-keyword-face ((t (:foreground "red4"))))
 '(font-lock-type-face ((t (:foreground "black"))))
 '(linum ((t (:inherit shadow :background "gray95"))))
 '(mode-line ((t (nil nil nil nil :background "grey90" (:line-width -1 :color nil :style released-button) "black" :box nil :width condensed :foundry "unknown" :family "DejaVu Sans Mono")))))

Sending JWT token in the headers with Postman

I had the same issue in Flask and after trying the first 2 solutions which are the same (Authorization: Bearer <token>), and getting this:

{
    "description": "Unsupported authorization type",
    "error": "Invalid JWT header",
    "status_code": 401
}

I managed to finally solve it by using:

Authorization: jwt <token>

Thought it might save some time to people who encounter the same thing.

Find and copy files

The reason for that error is that you are trying to copy a folder which requires -r option also to cp Thanks

Unable to Cast from Parent Class to Child Class

Paul, you didn't ask 'Can I do it' - I am assuming you want to know how to do it!

We had to do this on a project - there are many of classes we set up in a generic fashion just once, then initialize properties specific to derived classes. I use VB so my sample is in VB (tough noogies), but I stole the VB sample from this site which also has a better C# version:

http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials/aspnet/a4264125-fcb0-4757-9d78-ff541dfbcb56/net-reflection--copy-cl.aspx

Sample code:

Imports System
Imports System.Collections.Generic
Imports System.Reflection
Imports System.Text
Imports System.Diagnostics

Module ClassUtils

    Public Sub CopyProperties(ByVal dst As Object, ByVal src As Object)
        Dim srcProperties() As PropertyInfo = src.GetType.GetProperties
        Dim dstType = dst.GetType

        If srcProperties Is Nothing Or dstType.GetProperties Is Nothing Then
            Return
        End If

        For Each srcProperty As PropertyInfo In srcProperties
            Dim dstProperty As PropertyInfo = dstType.GetProperty(srcProperty.Name)

            If dstProperty IsNot Nothing Then
                If dstProperty.PropertyType.IsAssignableFrom(srcProperty.PropertyType) = True Then
                    dstProperty.SetValue(dst, srcProperty.GetValue(src, Nothing), Nothing)
                End If
            End If
        Next
    End Sub
End Module


Module Module1
    Class base_class
        Dim _bval As Integer
        Public Property bval() As Integer
            Get
                Return _bval
            End Get
            Set(ByVal value As Integer)
                _bval = value
            End Set
        End Property
    End Class
    Class derived_class
        Inherits base_class
        Public _dval As Integer
        Public Property dval() As Integer
            Get
                Return _dval
            End Get
            Set(ByVal value As Integer)
                _dval = value
            End Set
        End Property
    End Class
    Sub Main()
        ' NARROWING CONVERSION TEST
        Dim b As New base_class
        b.bval = 10
        Dim d As derived_class
        'd = CType(b, derived_class) ' invalidcast exception 
        'd = DirectCast(b, derived_class) ' invalidcast exception
        'd = TryCast(b, derived_class) ' returns 'nothing' for c
        d = New derived_class
        CopyProperties(d, b)
        d.dval = 20
        Console.WriteLine(b.bval)
        Console.WriteLine(d.bval)
        Console.WriteLine(d.dval)
        Console.ReadLine()
    End Sub
End Module

Of course this isn't really casting. It's creating a new derived object and copying the properties from the parent, leaving the child properties blank. That's all I needed to do and it sounds like its all you need to do. Note it only copies properties, not members (public variables) in the class (but you could extend it to do that if you are for shame exposing public members).

Casting in general creates 2 variables pointing to the same object (mini tutorial here, please don't throw corner case exceptions at me). There are significant ramifications to this (exercise to the reader)!

Of course I have to say why the languague doesn't let you go from base to derive instance, but does the other way. imagine a case where you can take an instance of a winforms textbox (derived) and store it in a variable of type Winforms control. Of course the 'control' can move the object around OK and you can deal with all the 'controll-y' things about the textbox (e.g., top, left, .text properties). The textbox specific stuff (e.g., .multiline) can't be seen without casting the 'control' type variable pointing to the textbox in memory, but it's still there in memory.

Now imagine, you have a control, and you want to case a variable of type textbox to it. The Control in memory is missing 'multiline' and other textboxy things. If you try to reference them, the control won't magically grow a multiline property! The property (look at it like a member variable here, that actually stores a value - because there is on in the textbox instance's memory) must exist. Since you are casting, remember, it has to be the same object you're pointing to. Hence it is not a language restriction, it is philosophically impossible to case in such a manner.

Stop Visual Studio from mixing line endings in files

With VS2010+ there is a plugin solution: Line Endings Unifier.

With the plugin installed you can right click files and folders in the solution explorer and invoke the menu item Unify Line Endings in this file

Configuration for this is available via

Tools -> Options -> Line Endings Unifier.

The default file extension list that is included is pretty narrow:

 .cpp; .c; .h; .hpp; .cs; .js; .vb; .txt;

Might want to use something like:

 .cpp; .c; .h; .hpp; .cs; .js; .vb; .txt; .scss; .coffee; .ts; .jsx; .markdown; .config

Play a Sound with Python

For Windows, you can use winsound. It's built in

import winsound

winsound.PlaySound('sound.wav', winsound.SND_FILENAME)

You should be able to use ossaudiodev for linux:

from wave import open as waveOpen
from ossaudiodev import open as ossOpen
s = waveOpen('tada.wav','rb')
(nc,sw,fr,nf,comptype, compname) = s.getparams( )
dsp = ossOpen('/dev/dsp','w')
try:
  from ossaudiodev import AFMT_S16_NE
except ImportError:
  from sys import byteorder
  if byteorder == "little":
    AFMT_S16_NE = ossaudiodev.AFMT_S16_LE
  else:
    AFMT_S16_NE = ossaudiodev.AFMT_S16_BE
dsp.setparameters(AFMT_S16_NE, nc, fr)
data = s.readframes(nf)
s.close()
dsp.write(data)
dsp.close()

(Credit for ossaudiodev: Bill Dandreta http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-October/288905.html)

How can I mock an ES6 module import using Jest?

The claims that you have to mock it at the top of your file are false.

Mock a named ES Import:

// import the named module
import { useWalkthroughAnimations } from '../hooks/useWalkthroughAnimations';

// mock the file and its named export
jest.mock('../hooks/useWalkthroughAnimations', () => ({
  useWalkthroughAnimations: jest.fn()
}));

// do whatever you need to do with your mocked function
useWalkthroughAnimations.mockReturnValue({ pageStyles, goToNextPage, page });

Java ArrayList of Arrays?

BTW. you should prefer coding against an Interface.

private ArrayList<String[]> action = new ArrayList<String[]>();

Should be

private List<String[]> action = new ArrayList<String[]>();

How to print to console in pytest?

Short Answer

Use the -s option:

pytest -s

Detailed answer

From the docs:

During test execution any output sent to stdout and stderr is captured. If a test or a setup method fails its according captured output will usually be shown along with the failure traceback.

pytest has the option --capture=method in which method is per-test capturing method, and could be one of the following: fd, sys or no. pytest also has the option -s which is a shortcut for --capture=no, and this is the option that will allow you to see your print statements in the console.

pytest --capture=no     # show print statements in console
pytest -s               # equivalent to previous command

Setting capturing methods or disabling capturing

There are two ways in which pytest can perform capturing:

  1. file descriptor (FD) level capturing (default): All writes going to the operating system file descriptors 1 and 2 will be captured.

  2. sys level capturing: Only writes to Python files sys.stdout and sys.stderr will be captured. No capturing of writes to filedescriptors is performed.

pytest -s            # disable all capturing
pytest --capture=sys # replace sys.stdout/stderr with in-mem files
pytest --capture=fd  # also point filedescriptors 1 and 2 to temp file

How to get the concrete class name as a string?

you can also create a dict with the classes themselves as keys, not necessarily the classnames

typefunc={
    int:lambda x: x*2,
    str:lambda s:'(*(%s)*)'%s
}

def transform (param):
    print typefunc[type(param)](param)

transform (1)
>>> 2
transform ("hi")
>>> (*(hi)*)

here typefunc is a dict that maps a function for each type. transform gets that function and applies it to the parameter.

of course, it would be much better to use 'real' OOP

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

It is really easy if you are using strings:

<string name="line"> Not crossed <strike> crossed </strike> </string>

And then just:

<TextView 
        ...
         android:text="@string/line"
 />

How to get item's position in a list?

Here is another way to do this:

try:
   id = testlist.index('1')
   print testlist[id]
except ValueError:
   print "Not Found"

Selenium WebDriver: Wait for complex page with JavaScript to load

Don't know how to do that but in my case, end of page load & rendering match with FAVICON displayed in Firefox tab.

So if we can get the favicon image in the webbrowser, the web page is fully loaded.

But how perform this ....

How to add Button over image using CSS?

I like TryingToImprove's answer. I've essentially taken his answer and simplified it down to the barebones css to accomplish the same thing. I think it's a lot easier to chew on.

HTML:

<div class="content">
    <img src="http://placehold.it/182x121"/> 
    <a href="#">Counter-Strike 1.6 Steam</a>
</div>        

CSS:

.content{    
    display:inline-block;
    position:relative;
}

.content a {
    position:absolute;
    bottom:5px;
    right:5px;
}

Working fiddle here.

How to specify a editor to open crontab file? "export EDITOR=vi" does not work

You can use below command to open it in VIM editor.

export VISUAL=vim; crontab -e

Note: Please make sure VIM editor is installed on your server.

HTTP vs HTTPS performance

HTTP VS HTTPS PERFORMANCE COMPARISON

I have always associated HTTPS with slower page load times when compared to plain old HTTP. As a web developer, web page performance is important to me and anything that will slow down the performance of my web pages is a no-no.

In order to understand the performance implications involved, the diagram below gives you a basic idea of what happens under the hood when you make a request for a resource using HTTPS.

enter image description here

As you can see from the diagram above, there are a few extra steps that need to take place when using HTTPS compared to using plain HTTP. When you make a request using HTTPS, a handshake needs to occur in order to verify the authenticity of the request. This handshake is an extra step when compared to an HTTP request and does unfortunately incur some overhead.

In order to understand the performance implications and see for myself whether or not the performance impact would be significant, I used this site as a testing platform. I headed over to webpagetest.org and used the visual comparison tool to compare this site loading using HTTPS vs HTTP.

As you can see from Here is Test video Result using HTTPS did have an impact on my page load times, however the difference is negligible and I only noticed a 300 millisecond difference. It's important to note that these times depend on many factors, such as computer performance, connection speed, server load, and distance from server.

Your site may be different, and it is important to test your site thoroughly and check the performance impact involved in switching to HTTPS.

How to check version of python modules?

I suggest using pip in place of easy_install. With pip, you can list all installed packages and their versions with

pip freeze

In most linux systems, you can pipe this to grep(or findstr on Windows) to find the row for the particular package you're interested in:

Linux:
$ pip freeze | grep lxml
lxml==2.3

Windows:
c:\> pip freeze | findstr lxml
lxml==2.3

For an individual module, you can try the __version__ attribute, however there are modules without it:

$ python -c "import requests; print(requests.__version__)"
2.14.2
$ python -c "import lxml; print(lxml.__version__)"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '__version__'

Lastly, as the commands in your question are prefixed with sudo, it appears you're installing to the global python environment. Strongly advise to take look into python virtual environment managers, for example virtualenvwrapper

Assets file project.assets.json not found. Run a NuGet package restore

Solved by adding /t:Restore;Build to MSBuild Arguments

Quick Way to Implement Dictionary in C

GLib and gnulib

These are your likely best bets if you don't have more specific requirements, since they are widely available, portable and likely efficient.

See also: Are there any open source C libraries with common data structures?

Check if string is neither empty nor space in shell script

Another quick test for a string to have something in it but space.

if [[ -n "${str// /}" ]]; then
    echo "It is not empty!"
fi

"-n" means non-zero length string.

Then the first two slashes mean match all of the following, in our case space(s). Then the third slash is followed with the replacement (empty) string and closed with "}". Note the difference from the usual regular expression syntax.

You can read more about string manipulation in bash shell scripting here.

Create a new cmd.exe window from within another cmd.exe prompt

I also tried executing batch file that run daemon process/server at the end of CCNET task; The only way to make CruiseControl spawn an independent asynchronous process WITHOUT waiting for the end of process is:

  1. create a batch file to run the daemon process (server application)
  2. use task scheduler to run the batch file as CCNET task (using schtasks.exe)

    schtasks.exe /create /F /SC once /ST 08:50 /TN TaskName /TR "c:/path/to/batchFileName.bat"
    
    • 08:50 is the HH:MM time format

you might need to kill the process at the start of ccnet

PS: the selected answer using "start cmd.exe" does not work; a new command prompt is indeed spawned, but CCNET will wait for the spawned cmd to finish.

How do I get a TextBox to only accept numeric input in WPF?

This is what I would use to get a WPF textbox that accept digits and the decimal point:

class numericTextBox : TextBox
{
    protected override void OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e)
    {
        bool b = false;
        switch (e.Key)
        {
            case Key.Back: b = true; break;
            case Key.D0: b = true; break;
            case Key.D1: b = true; break;
            case Key.D2: b = true; break;
            case Key.D3: b = true; break;
            case Key.D4: b = true; break;
            case Key.D5: b = true; break;
            case Key.D6: b = true; break;
            case Key.D7: b = true; break;
            case Key.D8: b = true; break;
            case Key.D9: b = true; break;
            case Key.OemPeriod: b = true; break;
        }
        if (b == false)
        {
            e.Handled = true;
        }
        base.OnKeyDown(e);
    }
}

Put the code in a new class file, add

using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Input;

at the top of the file and build the solution. The numericTextBox control will then appear at the top of the toolbox.

How to make a HTML Page in A4 paper size page(s)?

I've used HTML to generate reports which print-out correctly at real sizes on real paper.

If you carefully use mm as your units in the CSS file you should be OK, at least for single pages. People can screw you up by changing the print zoom in their browser, though.

I seem to remember everything I was doing was single page, so I didn't have to worry about pagination - that might be much harder.

nginx error "conflicting server name" ignored

I assume that you're running a Linux, and you're using gEdit to edit your files. In the /etc/nginx/sites-enabled, it may have left a temp file e.g. default~ (watch the ~).

Depending on your editor, the file could be named .save or something like it. Just run $ ls -lah to see which files are unintended to be there and remove them (Thanks @Tisch for this).

Delete this file, and it will solve your problem.

How do I remove the "extended attributes" on a file in Mac OS X?


Answer (Individual Files)


1. Showcase keys to use in selection.

xattr ~/Desktop/screenshot\ 2019-10-23\ at\ 010212.png
    # com.apple.FinderInfo
    # com.apple.lastuseddate#PS
    # com.apple.metadata:kMDItemIsScreenCapture
    # com.apple.metadata:kMDItemScreenCaptureGlobalRect
    # com.apple.metadata:kMDItemScreenCaptureType

2. Pick a Key to delete.

xattr -d com.apple.lastuseddate#PS ~/Desktop/screenshot\ 2019-10-23\ at\ 010212.png
xattr -d kMDItemIsScreenCapture ~/Desktop/screenshot\ 2019-10-23\ at\ 010212.png

3. Showcase keys again to see they have been removed.

xattr -l ~/Desktop/screenshot\ 2019-10-23\ at\ 010212.png
    # com.apple.FinderInfo
    # com.apple.metadata:kMDItemScreenCaptureGlobalRect
    # com.apple.metadata:kMDItemScreenCaptureType

4. Lastly, REMOVE ALL keys for a particular file

xattr -c ~/Desktop/screenshot\ 2019-10-23\ at\ 010212.png

Answer (All Files In A Directory)


1. Showcase keys to use in selection.

xattr -r ~/Desktop

2. Remove a Specific Key for EVERY FILE in a directory

xattr -rd com.apple.FinderInfo ~/Desktop

3. Remove ALL keys on EVERY FILE in a directory

xattr -rc ~/Desktop

WARN: Once you delete these you DON'T get them back!
FAULT ERROR: There is NO UNDO.


Errors


I wanted to address the error's people are getting. Because the errors drove me nuts too... On a mac if you install xattr in python, then your environment may have an issue.

There are two different paths on my mac for xattr

type -a xattr

    # xattr is /usr/local/bin/xattr    # PYTHON Installed Version
    # xattr is /usr/bin/xattr          # Mac OSX Installed Version

So in one of the example's where -c will not work in xargs is because in bash you default to the non-python version.

Works with -c

/usr/bin/xattr -c

Does NOT Work with -c

/usr/local/bin/xattr -c
    # option -c not recognized

My Shell/Terminal defaults to /usr/local/bin/xattr because my $PATH /usr/local/bin: is before /usr/bin: which I believe is the default.

I can prove this because, if you try to uninstall the python xattr you will see:

pip3 uninstall xattr
Uninstalling xattr-0.9.6:
  Would remove:
    /usr/local/bin/xattr
    /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/xattr-0.9.6.dist-info/*
    /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/xattr/*
Proceed (y/n)?

Workarounds


To Fix option -c not recognized Errors.

  1. Uninstall any Python xattr you may have: pip3 uninstall xattr
  2. Close all Terminal windows & quit Terminal
  3. Reopen a new Terminal window.
  4. ReRun xattr command and it should now work.

OR

If you want to keep the Python xattr then use

/usr/bin/xattr

for any Shell commands in Terminal


Example:


Python's version of xattr doesn't handle images at all:

Good-Mac:~ JayRizzo$ xattr ~/Desktop/screenshot\ 2019-10-23\ at\ 010212.png
    # com.apple.FinderInfo
    # Traceback (most recent call last):
    #   File "/usr/local/bin/xattr", line 8, in <module>
    #     sys.exit(main())
    #   File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/xattr/tool.py", line 196, in main
    #     attr_value = attr_value.decode('utf-8')
    # UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb0 in position 2: invalid start byte

Good-Mac:~ JayRizzo$ /usr/bin/xattr ~/Desktop/screenshot\ 2019-10-23\ at\ 010212.png
    # com.apple.FinderInfo
    # com.apple.lastuseddate#PS
    # com.apple.metadata:kMDItemIsScreenCapture
    # com.apple.metadata:kMDItemScreenCaptureGlobalRect
    # com.apple.metadata:kMDItemScreenCaptureType

Man Pages

MAN PAGE for OSX xattr

MAN PAGE for Python xattr VERSION 0.6.4

NOTE: I could not find the python help page for current VERSION 0.9.6

Thanks for Reading!

Execute command on all files in a directory

I needed to copy all .md files from one directory into another, so here is what I did.

for i in **/*.md;do mkdir -p ../docs/"$i" && rm -r ../docs/"$i" && cp "$i" "../docs/$i" && echo "$i -> ../docs/$i"; done

Which is pretty hard to read, so lets break it down.

first cd into the directory with your files,

for i in **/*.md; for each file in your pattern

mkdir -p ../docs/"$i"make that directory in a docs folder outside of folder containing your files. Which creates an extra folder with the same name as that file.

rm -r ../docs/"$i" remove the extra folder that is created as a result of mkdir -p

cp "$i" "../docs/$i" Copy the actual file

echo "$i -> ../docs/$i" Echo what you did

; done Live happily ever after

jquery ui Dialog: cannot call methods on dialog prior to initialization

If you cannot upgrade jQuery and you are getting:

Uncaught Error: cannot call methods on dialog prior to initialization; attempted to call method 'close'

You can work around it like so:

$(selector).closest('.ui-dialog-content').dialog('close');

Or if you control the view and know no other dialogs should be in use at all on the entire page, you could do:

$('.ui-dialog-content').dialog('close');

I would only recommend doing this if using closest causes a performance issue. There are likely other ways to work around it without doing a global close on all dialogs.

Submit Button Image

<INPUT TYPE="image" SRC="images/submit.gif" HEIGHT="30" WIDTH="173" BORDER="0" ALT="Submit Form">
Where the standard submit button has TYPE="submit", we now have TYPE="image". The image type is by default a form submitting button. More simple

How do I POST an array of objects with $.ajax (jQuery or Zepto)

edit: I guess it's now starting to be safe to use the native JSON.stringify() method, supported by most browsers (yes, even IE8+ if you're wondering).

As simple as:

JSON.stringify(yourData)

You should encode you data in JSON before sending it, you can't just send an object like this as POST data.

I recommand using the jQuery json plugin to do so. You can then use something like this in jQuery:

$.post(_saveDeviceUrl, {
    data : $.toJSON(postData)
}, function(response){
    //Process your response here
}
);

jQuery Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'fn' of undefined (anonymous function)

try to call jQuery library before bootstrap.js

<script src="js/jquery-3.3.1.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>

How to subtract/add days from/to a date?

Just subtract a number:

> as.Date("2009-10-01")
[1] "2009-10-01"
> as.Date("2009-10-01")-5
[1] "2009-09-26"

Since the Date class only has days, you can just do basic arithmetic on it.

If you want to use POSIXlt for some reason, then you can use it's slots:

> a <- as.POSIXlt("2009-10-04")
> names(unclass(as.POSIXlt("2009-10-04")))
[1] "sec"   "min"   "hour"  "mday"  "mon"   "year"  "wday"  "yday"  "isdst"
> a$mday <- a$mday - 6
> a
[1] "2009-09-28 EDT"

Javascript "Cannot read property 'length' of undefined" when checking a variable's length

You can check that theHref is defined by checking against undefined.

if (undefined !== theHref && theHref.length) {
    // `theHref` is not undefined and has truthy property _length_
    // do stuff
} else {
    // do other stuff
}

If you want to also protect yourself against falsey values like null then check theHref is truthy, which is a little shorter

if (theHref && theHref.length) {
    // `theHref` is truthy and has truthy property _length_
}

How to implement the Java comparable interface?

This thing can easily be done by implementing a public class that implements Comparable. This will allow you to use compareTo method which can be used with any other object to which you wish to compare.

for example you can implement it in this way:

public String compareTo(Animal oth) 
{
    return String.compare(this.population, oth.population);
}

I think this might solve your purpose.

filename and line number of Python script

Just to contribute,

there is a linecache module in python, here is two links that can help.

linecache module documentation
linecache source code

In a sense, you can "dump" a whole file into its cache , and read it with linecache.cache data from class.

import linecache as allLines
## have in mind that fileName in linecache behaves as any other open statement, you will need a path to a file if file is not in the same directory as script
linesList = allLines.updatechache( fileName ,None)
for i,x in enumerate(lineslist): print(i,x) #prints the line number and content
#or for more info
print(line.cache)
#or you need a specific line
specLine = allLines.getline(fileName,numbOfLine)
#returns a textual line from that number of line

For additional info, for error handling, you can simply use

from sys import exc_info
try:
     raise YourError # or some other error
except Exception:
     print(exc_info() )

The program can't start because libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll is missing

I believe this is a MinGW/gcc compiler issue, rather than a Microsoft Visual Studio setup.

The libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll should be in the compiler's bin directory. You can add this directory to your PATH environment variable for runtime linking, or you can avoid the problem by adding "-static-libgcc -static-libstdc++" to your compiler flags.

If you plan to distribute the executable, the latter probably makes the most sense. If you only plan to run it on your own machine, the changing the PATH environment variable is an attractive option (keeps down the size of the executable).

Updated:

Based on feedback from Greg Treleaven (see comments below), I'm adding links to:

[Screenshot of Code::Blocks "Project build options"]

[GNU gcc link options]

The latter discussion includes -static-libgcc and -static-libstdc++ linker options.

Wait until page is loaded with Selenium WebDriver for Python

You can do that very simple by this function:

def page_is_loading(driver):
    while True:
        x = driver.execute_script("return document.readyState")
        if x == "complete":
            return True
        else:
            yield False

and when you want do something after page loading complete,you can use:

Driver = webdriver.Firefox(options=Options, executable_path='geckodriver.exe')
Driver.get("https://www.google.com/")

while not page_is_loading(Driver):
    continue

Driver.execute_script("alert('page is loaded')")

MVC 4 @Scripts "does not exist"

Import System.Web.Optimization on top of your razor view as follows:

@using System.Web.Optimization

WAMP Server ERROR "Forbidden You don't have permission to access /phpmyadmin/ on this server."

Go to C:\wamp\alias. Open the file phpmyadmin.conf and change

<Directory "c:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin3.5.1/">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride all
        Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Directory>

to

<Directory "c:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin3.5.1/">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride all
        Order Allow,Deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

problem solved

SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused within Laravel homestead

For me enclosing the credentials in quotes did the trick

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE='zzz'
DB_USERNAME='yyy'
DB_PASSWORD='XXX'

json_decode returns NULL after webservice call

Print the last json error when debugging.

json_decode( $so, true, 9 );
$json_errors = array(
    JSON_ERROR_NONE => 'No error has occurred',
    JSON_ERROR_DEPTH => 'The maximum stack depth has been exceeded',
    JSON_ERROR_CTRL_CHAR => 'Control character error, possibly incorrectly encoded',
    JSON_ERROR_SYNTAX => 'Syntax error',
);
 echo 'Last error : ', $json_errors[json_last_error()], PHP_EOL, PHP_EOL;
Also use the json.stringify() function to double check your JSON syntax.

Get cursor position (in characters) within a text Input field

VERY EASY

Updated answer

Use selectionStart, it is compatible with all major browsers.

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document.getElementById('foobar').addEventListener('keyup', e => {
  console.log('Caret at: ', e.target.selectionStart)
})
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<input id="foobar" />
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Update: This works only when no type is defined or type="text" or type="textarea" on the input.

Assigning multiple styles on an HTML element

You needed to do it like this:

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<h2 style="text-align: center;font-family: Tahoma">TITLE</h2>
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Hope it helped.