Programs & Examples On #Rdo

What's the net::ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR about?

In my case, it was WordPress that now requires PHP 7.4 and I was running 7.2.
As soon as I updated, the errors disappeared.

Why am I seeing net::ERR_CLEARTEXT_NOT_PERMITTED errors after upgrading to Cordova Android 8?

Adding the following attribute within the opening < widget > tag worked for me. Simple and live reloads correctly on a Android 9 emulator. xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

<widget id="com.my.awesomeapp" version="1.0.0" 
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
xmlns:cdv="http://cordova.apache.org/ns/1.0">

Xcode 10.2.1 Command PhaseScriptExecution failed with a nonzero exit code

What helped for me was: In Targets -> Signing & Capabilities > Uncheck Automatically manage signing (or check and uncheck if it was unchecked ) > build project

Xcode couldn't find any provisioning profiles matching

Try to check Signing settings in Build settings for your project and target. Be sure that code signing identity section has correct identities for Debug and Release.

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ASP.NET Core - Swashbuckle not creating swagger.json file

Also I had an issue because I was versioning the application in IIS level like below:

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If doing this then the configuration at the Configure method should append the version number like below:

app.UseSwaggerUI(options =>
{
    options.SwaggerEndpoint("/1.0/swagger/V1/swagger.json", "Static Data Service");
});

Cordova app not displaying correctly on iPhone X (Simulator)

Just a note that the constant keyword use for safe-area margins has been updated to env for 11.2 beta+

https://webkit.org/blog/7929/designing-websites-for-iphone-x/

JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory:

i think you need to remove the ';' from the end of the java path.

iOS 11, 12, and 13 installed certificates not trusted automatically (self signed)

If you are not seeing the certificate under General->About->Certificate Trust Settings, then you probably do not have the ROOT CA installed. Very important -- needs to be a ROOT CA, not an intermediary CA.

I just answered a question here explaining how to obtain the ROOT CA and get things to show up: How to install self-signed certificates in iOS 11

ionic 2 - Error Could not find an installed version of Gradle either in Android Studio

Try installing gradle and include it into your path. Click the link below to get manual. https://gradle.org/install

cordova Android requirements failed: "Could not find an installed version of Gradle"

Update your cordova to the latest version and the issue should be resolved. In case the issue not resolved please set the path in the environment variable (in case of Windows). Example: System Variable Value name GRADLE_HOME Value D:\Android\Android Studio\gradle\gradle-4.3.1 (please replace with your path)

Error: Could not find gradle wrapper within Android SDK. Might need to update your Android SDK - Android

if you have this error when you ionic run android --device

## codova - android update 
npm install -g cordova
cordova platform update android

Ionic 2: Cordova is not available. Make sure to include cordova.js or run in a device/simulator (running in emulator)

The livereload plugin fails to serve cordova.js file and serves // mock cordova file during development.

FIX: You need go to node_modules/@ionic/app-scripts/dist/dev-server/serve-config.js

and replace

exports.ANDROID_PLATFORM_PATH = path.join('platforms', 'android', 'assets', 'www');

to

exports.ANDROID_PLATFORM_PATH = path.join('platforms', 'android', 'app', 'src', 'main', 'assets', 'www');

Resource blocked due to MIME type mismatch (X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff)

It happened to me for wrong tag. By mistake I add the js file in link tag.

Example: (The Wrong One)

<link rel="stylesheet" href="plugins/timepicker/bootstrap-timepicker.min.js">

It solved by using the correct tag for javascript. Example:

<script src="plugins/timepicker/bootstrap-timepicker.min.js"></script>

Cordova : Requirements check failed for JDK 1.8 or greater

You may have a version that is greater than 8 but Cordova only supports JDK 1.8. View this link Cordova Documentation

I took a look at the piece of code that actually checks for the version number of your java. Look for the following: module.exports.check_java in platforms/android/cordova/lib/check_reqs.js. on line 220. You will see a regex and comment left by the team that Java 10 will be supported in the future.

The existing regular expression will fail when it is run against the latest versions of java such as Java 10. That is because Java 8 or 9 are saved in the following format: 1.[8-9].** but Java 10 is saved as 10.** and the regular expression looks for a version in the format 1.[8-9].**

// Let's check for at least Java 8, and keep it future proof so we can support Java 10
var match = /javac ((?:1\.)(?:[8-9]\.)(?:\d+))|((?:1\.)(?:[1-9]\d+\.)(?:\d+))/i.exec(output);

My solution:

You don't have to uninstall your current version of the JRE or JDK since the installer installs each version in a specific folder.

1- Install version Java 8 Follow this link

2- Update your environment variables:

  • JAVA_HOME if you installed the JDK
  • JRE_HOME if you installed the JRE

by pointing them to the location where the JRE 8 and JDK 8 were installed.

// On my machine   
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_171 // JAVA_HOME
C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_171 // JRE_HOME

Open a new terminal session and run the command that was failing. It should work now.

Did not work?

Should it fail for other reasons, possible debugging process:

  • Ensure the JAVA_HOME and JRE_HOME variables are System variables.
  • Ensure they are added to your User's Path Add variables to Path

Can't accept license agreement Android SDK Platform 24

I had the issue. You do not need to copy or to create any folder, just be careful of your SDK path. It must be the same of the environnement variable (ANDROID_HOME), which wasn't the same for me. I don't know why.

sdk location

Why does C++ code for testing the Collatz conjecture run faster than hand-written assembly?

From comments:

But, this code never stops (because of integer overflow) !?! Yves Daoust

For many numbers it will not overflow.

If it will overflow - for one of those unlucky initial seeds, the overflown number will very likely converge toward 1 without another overflow.

Still this poses interesting question, is there some overflow-cyclic seed number?

Any simple final converging series starts with power of two value (obvious enough?).

2^64 will overflow to zero, which is undefined infinite loop according to algorithm (ends only with 1), but the most optimal solution in answer will finish due to shr rax producing ZF=1.

Can we produce 2^64? If the starting number is 0x5555555555555555, it's odd number, next number is then 3n+1, which is 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF + 1 = 0. Theoretically in undefined state of algorithm, but the optimized answer of johnfound will recover by exiting on ZF=1. The cmp rax,1 of Peter Cordes will end in infinite loop (QED variant 1, "cheapo" through undefined 0 number).

How about some more complex number, which will create cycle without 0? Frankly, I'm not sure, my Math theory is too hazy to get any serious idea, how to deal with it in serious way. But intuitively I would say the series will converge to 1 for every number : 0 < number, as the 3n+1 formula will slowly turn every non-2 prime factor of original number (or intermediate) into some power of 2, sooner or later. So we don't need to worry about infinite loop for original series, only overflow can hamper us.

So I just put few numbers into sheet and took a look on 8 bit truncated numbers.

There are three values overflowing to 0: 227, 170 and 85 (85 going directly to 0, other two progressing toward 85).

But there's no value creating cyclic overflow seed.

Funnily enough I did a check, which is the first number to suffer from 8 bit truncation, and already 27 is affected! It does reach value 9232 in proper non-truncated series (first truncated value is 322 in 12th step), and the maximum value reached for any of the 2-255 input numbers in non-truncated way is 13120 (for the 255 itself), maximum number of steps to converge to 1 is about 128 (+-2, not sure if "1" is to count, etc...).

Interestingly enough (for me) the number 9232 is maximum for many other source numbers, what's so special about it? :-O 9232 = 0x2410 ... hmmm.. no idea.

Unfortunately I can't get any deep grasp of this series, why does it converge and what are the implications of truncating them to k bits, but with cmp number,1 terminating condition it's certainly possible to put the algorithm into infinite loop with particular input value ending as 0 after truncation.

But the value 27 overflowing for 8 bit case is sort of alerting, this looks like if you count the number of steps to reach value 1, you will get wrong result for majority of numbers from the total k-bit set of integers. For the 8 bit integers the 146 numbers out of 256 have affected series by truncation (some of them may still hit the correct number of steps by accident maybe, I'm too lazy to check).

PANIC: Broken AVD system path. Check your ANDROID_SDK_ROOT value

In my case it was broken because ANDROID_HOME and ANDROID_SDK_ROOT were different, so once I set ANDROID_HOME to be the same as ANDROID_SDK_ROOT then it started working.

What does "The following object is masked from 'package:xxx'" mean?

I have the same problem. I avoid it with remove.packages("Package making this confusion") and it works. In my case, I don't need the second package, so that is not a very good idea.

ASP.NET Core Identity - get current user

If you are using Bearing Token Auth, the above samples do not return an Application User.

Instead, use this:

ClaimsPrincipal currentUser = this.User;
var currentUserName = currentUser.FindFirst(ClaimTypes.NameIdentifier).Value;
ApplicationUser user = await _userManager.FindByNameAsync(currentUserName);

This works in apsnetcore 2.0. Have not tried in earlier versions.

disable viewport zooming iOS 10+ safari?

Check for scale factor in touchove event then prevent touch event.

document.addEventListener('touchmove', function(event) {
    event = event.originalEvent || event;
    if(event.scale > 1) {
        event.preventDefault();
    }
}, false);

How to redirect output of systemd service to a file

If for a some reason can't use rsyslog, this will do: ExecStart=/bin/bash -ce "exec /usr/local/bin/binary1 agent -config-dir /etc/sample.d/server >> /var/log/agent.log 2>&1"

Print: Entry, ":CFBundleIdentifier", Does Not Exist

First run your project from Xcode then try to run from command line. That was the issue for me.

Running Node.Js on Android

You can use Node.js for Mobile Apps.

It works on Android devices and simulators, with pre-built binaries for armeabi-v7a, x86, arm64-v8a, x86_64. It also works on iOS, though that's outside the scope of this question.

Like JXcore, it is used to host a Node.js engine in the same process as the app, in a dedicated thread. Unlike JXcore, it is basically pure Node.js, built as a library, with a few portability fixes to run on Android. This means that it's much easier to keep the project up to date with mainline Node.js.

Plugins for Cordova and React Native are also available. The plugins provide a communication layer between the JavaScript side of those frameworks and the Node.js side. They also simplify development by taking care of a few things automatically, like packaging modules and cross-compiling native modules at build time.

Full disclosure: I work for the company that develops Node.js for Mobile Apps.

Maven:Non-resolvable parent POM and 'parent.relativePath' points at wrong local POM

I'm probably a bit late to the party, but I wrote the junitcategorizer for my thesis project at TOPdesk. Earlier versions indeed used a company internal Parent POM. So your problems are caused by the Parent POM not being resolvable, since it is not available to the outside world.

You can either:

  • Remove the <parent> block, but then have to configure the Surefire, Compiler and other plugins yourself
  • (Only applicable to this specific case!) Change it to point to our Open Source Parent POM by setting:
<parent>
    <groupId>com.topdesk</groupId>
    <artifactId>open-source-parent</artifactId>
    <version>1.2.0</version>
</parent>

Angular: conditional class with *ngClass

Not relevant with [ngClass] directive but I was also getting the same error as

Cannot read property 'remove' of undefined at...

and I thought to be the error in my [ngClass] condition but it turned out the property I was trying to access in the condition of [ngClass] was not initialized.

Like I had this in my typescript file

element: {type: string};

and In my [ngClass] I was using

[ngClass]="{'active', element.type === 'active'}"

and I was getting the error

Cannot read property 'type' of undefined at...

and the solution was to fix my property to

element: {type: string} = {type: 'active'};

Hope it helps somebody who is trying to match a condition of a property in [ngClass]

Swift Error: Editor placeholder in source file

Go to Product > Clean Build Folder

Angular 2 router no base href set

https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/guide/router.html

Add the base element just after the <head> tag. If the app folder is the application root, as it is for our application, set the href value exactly as shown here.

The <base href="/"> tells the Angular router what is the static part of the URL. The router then only modifies the remaining part of the URL.

<head>
  <base href="/">
  ...
</head>

Alternatively add

>= Angular2 RC.6

import {APP_BASE_HREF} from '@angular/common';

@NgModule({
  declarations: [AppComponent],
  imports: [routing /* or RouterModule */], 
  providers: [{provide: APP_BASE_HREF, useValue : '/' }]
]); 

in your bootstrap.

In older versions the imports had to be like

< Angular2 RC.6

import {APP_BASE_HREF} from '@angular/common';
bootstrap(AppComponent, [
  ROUTER_PROVIDERS, 
  {provide: APP_BASE_HREF, useValue : '/' });
]); 

< RC.0

import {provide} from 'angular2/core';
bootstrap(AppComponent, [
  ROUTER_PROVIDERS, 
  provide(APP_BASE_HREF, {useValue : '/' });
]); 

< beta.17

import {APP_BASE_HREF} from 'angular2/router';

>= beta.17

import {APP_BASE_HREF} from 'angular2/platform/common';

See also Location and HashLocationStrategy stopped working in beta.16

npm - "Can't find Python executable "python", you can set the PYTHON env variable."

You got to add python to your PATH variable. One thing you can do is Edit your Path variable now and add

;%PYTHON%;

Your variable PYTHON should point to the root directory of your python installation.

cordova run with ios error .. Error code 65 for command: xcodebuild with args:

I was getting the same error when I tried to do :

cordova build ios

except mine said ** ARCHIVE FAILED ** rather than ** BUILD FAILED **.

I fixed it by opening the projectName.xcodeproj file in Xcode and then adjusting these 2 settings :

  1. In Targets > General > Signing ensure you have selected a Team

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  1. In Targets > Build Settings > (search for "bitcode") set Enable Bitcode to "Yes"

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Then I quit out of Xcode and reran cordova build ios and it worked.

The resource could not be loaded because the App Transport Security policy requires the use of a secure connection

For iOS 10.x and Swift 3.x [below versions are also supported] just add the following lines in 'info.plist'

<key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key>
<dict>
    <key>NSAllowsArbitraryLoads</key>
    <true/>
</dict>

Ionic android build Error - Failed to find 'ANDROID_HOME' environment variable

You only have to edit your profile file like this:

sudo su
vim ~/.profile

and put this at the end of the file:

export ANDROID_HOME=/home/(user name)/Android/Sdk
export PATH=$PATH:/tools
export PATH=$PATH:/platform-tools

Save and close the file and do:

cd ~
source .profile

now if you do:

echo $ANDROID_HOME

it should show you something like this:

/home/(user name)/Android/Sdk

Use .htaccess to redirect HTTP to HTTPs

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
    RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^digitalsoftwaremarket.com [NC]
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.digitalsoftwaremarket.com/$1 [L,R=301]
</IfModule>

How to Run Terminal as Administrator on Mac Pro

This is not Windows, you do not "run the Terminal as admin". What you do is you run commands in the terminal as admin, typically using sudo:

$ sudo some command here

CORS header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' missing

You must have got the idea why you are getting this problem after going through above answers.

self.send_header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*')

You just have to add the above line in your server side.

ionic build Android | error: No installed build tools found. Please install the Android build tools

I fix this by downloading sdk package called platform-tools and buid-tools using sdkmanager. You can use sdkmanager.exe or if you are using SDK CLI, go to ~\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\tools\bin and run this command:

sdkmanager "platform-tools" "platforms;android-26"

or

sdkmanager "build-tools;27.0.3"

or both

After that you should be able to run ionic cordova run android or ionic build android.

Note: globalize sdkmanager command by adding ~\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\tools and ~\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\tools\bin to your environment variable.

Cordova - Error code 1 for command | Command failed for

I had the same error code but different issue

Error: /Users/danieloram/desktop/CordovaProject/platforms/android/gradlew: Command failed with exit code 1 Error output: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/android/dx/command/Main : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0

To resolve this issue I opened the Android SDK Manager, uninstalled the latest Android SDK build-tools that I had (24.0.3) and installed version 23.0.3 of the build-tools.

My cordova app then proceeded to build successfully for android.

npm ERR! registry error parsing json - While trying to install Cordova for Ionic Framework in Windows 8

In my case all Internet access must run through a proxy and npm was not configured with the proxy to reach http://registry.npmjs.org.

I ran npm install --log-level verbose to get more information and saw that the response had HTML stating I was not authenticated with the proxy.

Running the following fixed it (replacing below with your username/password/proxy address:

npm config set proxy 'username:[email protected]'
npm config set https-proxy 'username:[email protected]'

I do not advise putting the password in raw text instead using something like cntlm to set up a local proxy that delegates to the real proxy.

NSURLSession/NSURLConnection HTTP load failed on iOS 9

Found solution:

In iOS9, ATS enforces best practices during network calls, including the use of HTTPS.

From Apple documentation:

ATS prevents accidental disclosure, provides secure default behavior, and is easy to adopt. You should adopt ATS as soon as possible, regardless of whether you’re creating a new app or updating an existing one. If you’re developing a new app, you should use HTTPS exclusively. If you have an existing app, you should use HTTPS as much as you can right now, and create a plan for migrating the rest of your app as soon as possible.

In beta 1, currently there is no way to define this in info.plist. Solution is to add it manually:

<key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key>
<dict>
    <key>NSAllowsArbitraryLoads</key>
    <true/>
</dict>

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Update1: This is a temporary workaround until you're ready to adopt iOS9 ATS support.

Update2: For more details please refer following link: http://ste.vn/2015/06/10/configuring-app-transport-security-ios-9-osx-10-11/

Update3: If you are trying to connect to a host (YOURHOST.COM) that only has TLS 1.0

Add these to your app's Info.plist

<key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key>
<dict>
    <key>NSExceptionDomains</key>
    <dict>
        <key>YOURHOST.COM</key>
        <dict>
            <key>NSIncludesSubdomains</key>
            <true/>
            <key>NSTemporaryExceptionAllowsInsecureHTTPLoads</key>
            <true/>
            <key>NSTemporaryExceptionMinimumTLSVersion</key>
            <string>1.0</string>
            <key>NSTemporaryExceptionRequiresForwardSecrecy</key>
            <false/>
        </dict>
    </dict>
</dict>

CFNetwork SSLHandshake failed iOS 9

The device I tested at had wrong time set. So when I tried accessing a page with a certificate that would run out soon it would deny access because the device though the certificate had expired. To fix, set proper time on the device!

"No Content-Security-Policy meta tag found." error in my phonegap application

After adding the cordova-plugin-whitelist, you must tell your application to allow access all the web-page links or specific links, if you want to keep it specific.

You can simply add this to your config.xml, which can be found in your application's root directory:

Recommended in the documentation:

<allow-navigation href="http://example.com/*" />

or:

<allow-navigation href="http://*/*" />

From the plugin's documentation:

Navigation Whitelist

Controls which URLs the WebView itself can be navigated to. Applies to top-level navigations only.

Quirks: on Android it also applies to iframes for non-http(s) schemes.

By default, navigations only to file:// URLs, are allowed. To allow other other URLs, you must add tags to your config.xml:

<!-- Allow links to example.com -->
<allow-navigation href="http://example.com/*" />

<!-- Wildcards are allowed for the protocol, as a prefix
     to the host, or as a suffix to the path -->
<allow-navigation href="*://*.example.com/*" />

<!-- A wildcard can be used to whitelist the entire network,
     over HTTP and HTTPS.
     *NOT RECOMMENDED* -->
<allow-navigation href="*" />

<!-- The above is equivalent to these three declarations -->
<allow-navigation href="http://*/*" />
<allow-navigation href="https://*/*" />
<allow-navigation href="data:*" />

How do you completely remove Ionic and Cordova installation from mac?

I found that I had to use:

npm uninstall @ionic/cli

to stop ionic from still being active.

Swift Alamofire: How to get the HTTP response status code

For Swift 3.x / Swift 4.0 / Swift 5.0 users with Alamofire >= 5.0

Used request modifier to increase and decrease the timeout interval.

Alamofire's request creation methods offer the most common parameters for customization but sometimes those just aren't enough. The URLRequests created from the passed values can be modified by using a RequestModifier closure when creating requests. For example, to set the URLRequest's timeoutInterval to 120 seconds, modify the request in the closure.

var manager = Session.default
 manager.request(urlString, method: method, parameters: dict, headers: headers, requestModifier: { $0.timeoutInterval = 120 }).validate().responseJSON { response in

OR

RequestModifiers also work with trailing closure syntax.

var manager = Session.default
     manager.request("https://httpbin.org/get") { urlRequest in
    urlRequest.timeoutInterval = 60
    urlRequest.allowsConstrainedNetworkAccess = false
}
.response(...)

Update cordova plugins in one command

npm update -f its working form me

npm update -f

it will update all plugins and cli

Could not resolve '...' from state ''

I've just had this same issue with Ionic.

It turns out nothing was wrong with my code, I simply had to quit the ionic serve session and run ionic serve again.

After going back into the app, my states worked fine.

I would also suggest pressing save on your app.js file a few times if you are running gulp, to make sure everything gets re-compiled.

What is the suggested way to install brew, node.js, io.js, nvm, npm on OS X?

If you have previously installed node using brew, then you will have a bunch of extra files that you should clean up before installing node "the right way". Plus, I had to add a few settings to my startup script to make things work smoothly.

I wrote a script to make this easy.

# filename:  install-nvm-npm-node
# author:    Lex Sheehan
# purpose:   To cleanly install NVM, NODE and NPM
# dependencies:  brew

NOW=$(date +%x\ %H:%M:%S)
CR=$'\n'
REV=$(tput rev)
OFF=$(tput sgr0)
BACKUP_DIR=$HOME/backups/nvm-npm-bower-caches/$NOW
MY_NAME=$(basename $0)
NODE_VER_TO_INSTALL=$1
if [ "$NODE_VER_TO_INSTALL" == "" ]; then
    NODE_VER_TO_INSTALL=v0.12.2
fi
if [ "`echo "$NODE_VER_TO_INSTALL" | cut -c1-1`" != "v" ]; then
    echo """$CR""Usage:   $ $MY_NAME <NODE_VERSION_TO_INSALL>"
    echo "Example: $ $MY_NAME v0.12.1"
    echo "Example: $ $MY_NAME $CR"
    exit 1
fi
echo """$CR""First, run:  $ brew update"
echo "Likely, you'll need to do what it suggests."
echo "Likely, you'll need to run: $ brew update$CR"
echo "To install latest node version, run the following command to get the latest version:  $ nvm ls-remote"
echo "... and pass the version number you want as the only param to $MY_NAME. $CR"
echo "Are you ready to install the latest version of nvm and npm and node version $NODE_VER_TO_INSTALL ?$CR"
echo "Press CTL+C to exit --or-- Enter to continue..."
read x

echo """$REV""Uninstalling nvm...$CR$OFF"
# Making backups, but in all likelyhood you'll just reinstall them (and won't need these backups)
if [ ! -d "$BACKUP_DIR" ]; then 
    echo "Creating directory to store $HOME/.nvm .npm and .bower cache backups: $BACKUP_DIR"
    mkdir -p $BACKUP_DIR
fi 
set -x
mv $HOME/.nvm   $BACKUP_DIR  2>/dev/null
mv $HOME/.npm   $BACKUP_DIR  2>/dev/null
mv $HOME/.bower $BACKUP_DIR  2>/dev/null
{ set +x; } &>/dev/null

echo "$REV""$CR""Uninstalling node...$CR$OFF"
echo "Enter your password to remove user some node-related /usr/local directories"
set -x
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node_modules
rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node
rm -rf /usr/local/include/node
rm -rf /usr/local/include/node_modules
rm /usr/local/bin/npm
rm /usr/local/lib/dtrace/node.d
rm -rf $HOME/.node
rm -rf $HOME/.node-gyp
rm /opt/local/bin/node
rm /opt/local/include/node
rm -rf /opt/local/lib/node_modules
rm -rf /usr/local/Cellar/nvm
brew uninstall node 2>/dev/null
{ set +x; } &>/dev/null

echo "$REV""$CR""Installing nvm...$CR$OFF"

echo "++brew install nvm"
brew install nvm 
echo '$(brew --prefix nvm)/nvm.sh'
source $(brew --prefix nvm)/nvm.sh

echo "$REV""$CR""Insert the following line in your startup script (ex: $HOME/.bashrc):$CR$OFF"
echo "export NVM_DIR=\"\$(brew --prefix nvm)\"; [ -s \"\$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh\" ] && . \"\$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh\"$CR"
NVM_DIR="$(brew --prefix nvm)"

echo """$CR""Using nvm install node...$CR"
echo "++ nvm install $NODE_VER_TO_INSTALL"
nvm install $NODE_VER_TO_INSTALL
NODE_BINARY_PATH="`find /usr/local/Cellar/nvm -name node -type d|head -n 1`/$NODE_VER_TO_INSTALL/bin"
echo "$REV""$CR""Insert the following line in your startup script (ex: $HOME/.bashrc) and then restart your shell:$CR$OFF"
echo "export PATH=\$PATH:$NODE_BINARY_PATH:$HOME/.node/bin"

echo """$CR""Upgrading npm...$CR"
echo '++ install -g npm@latest'
npm install -g npm@latest
{ set +x; } &>/dev/null
echo "$REV""$CR""Insert following line in your $HOME/.npmrc file:$OFF"
echo """$CR""prefix=$HOME/.node$CR"
echo "Now, all is likley well if you can run the following without errors:  npm install -g grunt-cli$CR"
echo "Other recommended global installs: bower, gulp, yo, node-inspector$CR"

I wrote a short article here that details why this is "the right way".

If you need to install iojs, do so using nvm like this:

nvm install iojs-v1.7.1

To install brew, just see its home page.

See alexpods answer for the rest.

httpd-xampp.conf: How to allow access to an external IP besides localhost?

I tried this and it works. Be careful though. This means that anyone in your LAN can access it. Deepak Naik's answer is safer.

#
# New XAMPP security concept
#
<LocationMatch "^/(?i:(?:xampp|security|licenses|phpmyadmin|webalizer|server-status|server-info))">
    # Require local
    Require all granted
ErrorDocument 403 /error/XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var
</LocationMatch>

System.loadLibrary(...) couldn't find native library in my case

You could just change ABI to use older builds:

defaultConfig {
    ...

    ndk {
        abiFilters 'armeabi-v7a'
    }
    ...
}

You should also use deprecated NDK by adding this line to gradle.properties:

android.useDeprecatedNdk=true

How to create a signed APK file using Cordova command line interface?

An update to @malcubierre for Cordova 4 (and later)-

Create a file called release-signing.properties and put in APPFOLDER\platforms\android folder

Contents of the file: edit after = for all except 2nd line

storeFile=C:/yourlocation/app.keystore
storeType=jks
keyAlias=aliasname
keyPassword=aliaspass
storePassword=password

Then this command should build a release version:

cordova build android --release

UPDATE - This was not working for me Cordova 10 with android 9 - The build was replacing the release-signing.properties file. I had to make a build.json file and drop it in the appfolder, same as root. And this is the contents - replace as above:

{
"android": {
    "release": {
       "keystore": "C:/yourlocation/app.keystore",
        "storePassword": "password",
        "alias": "aliasname",
        "password" : "aliaspass",
        "keystoreType": ""
    }
}
}

Run it and it will generate one of those release-signing.properties in the android folder

How do I correctly setup and teardown for my pytest class with tests?

import pytest
class Test:
    @pytest.fixture()
    def setUp(self):
        print("setup")
        yield "resource"
        print("teardown")

    def test_that_depends_on_resource(self, setUp):
        print("testing {}".format(setUp))

In order to run:

pytest nam_of_the_module.py -v 

Error: ANDROID_HOME is not set and "android" command not in your PATH. You must fulfill at least one of these conditions.

for windows:

Right click on My computer -> properties -> Advanced system setting -> Environment Variables Edit Path on system variables to ;\yourSdkHome\tools;\yourSdkHome\platform-tools.

Then Close your cmd prompt and reopen.

Thats it.

How to check cordova android version of a cordova/phonegap project?

After upgrading the Application. I observed different Cordova versions.

  1. Apache Cordova Cli version which is 6.0.0.
  2. Cordova Android version which is 5.1.0.
  3. Cordova IOS version which is 4.1.1.
  4. Docs version is which is 6.0.0, shown on the Cordova Docs website.

Now i am confused, On which version basis, Google Dev Console is giving warning?

Please migrate your app(s) to Apache Cordova v.4.1.1 or higher as soon as possible and increment the version number of the upgraded APK. Beginning May 9, 2016, Google Play will block publishing of any new apps or updates that use pre-4.1.1 versions of Apache Cordova.

The vulnerabilities were addressed in Apache Cordova 4.1.1. If you’re using a 3rd party library that bundles Apache Cordova, you’ll need to upgrade it to a version that bundles Apache Cordova 4.1.1 or later.

And before upgrading. Our Application versions were these.

  1. Apache Cordova Cli version which is 5.4.1.
  2. Cordova Android version which is 4.1.1.
  3. Cordova IOS version which is 3.9.1.
  4. Docs version is which is 5.4.1, shown on the Cordova Docs website.

Getting "The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure" when SMTP server has a valid certificate

The answer I have finally found is that the SMTP service on the server is not using the same certificate as https.

The diagnostic steps I had read here make the assumption they use the same certificate and every time I've tried this in the past they have done and the diagnostic steps are exactly what I've done to solve the problem several times.

In this case those steps didn't work because the certificates in use were different, and the possibility of this is something I had never come across.

The solution is either to export the actual certificate from the server and then install it as a trusted certificate on my machine, or to get a different valid/trusted certificate for the SMTP service on the server. That is currently with our IT department who administer the servers to decide which they want to do.

"Use of undeclared type" in Swift, even though type is internal, and exists in same module

I got this error message in Xcode 8 while refactoring code in to a framework, it comes out that I forgot to declare the class in the framework as public

Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1005 "The network connection was lost."

I was getting this error as well, but on actual devices rather than the simulator. We noticed the error when accessing our heroku backend on HTTPS (gunicorn server), and doing POSTS with large bodys (anything over 64Kb). We use HTTP Basic Auth for authentication, and noticed the error was resolved by NOT using the didReceiveChallenge: delegate method on NSURLSession, but rather baking in the Authentication into the original request header via adding Authentiation: Basic <Base64Encoded UserName:Password>. This prevents the necessary 401 to trigger the didReceiveChallenge: delegate message, and the subsequent network connection lost.

Why is it that "No HTTP resource was found that matches the request URI" here?

Please check the class you inherited. Whether it is simply Controller or APIController.

By mistake we might create a controller from MVC 5 controller. It should be from Web API Controller.

Spring data jpa- No bean named 'entityManagerFactory' is defined; Injection of autowired dependencies failed

Spring Data JPA by default looks for an EntityManagerFactory named entityManagerFactory. Check out this part of the Javadoc of EnableJpaRepositories or Table 2.1 of the Spring Data JPA documentation.

That means that you either have to rename your emf bean to entityManagerFactory or change your Spring configuration to:

<jpa:repositories base-package="your.package" entity-manager-factory-ref="emf" /> 

(if you are using XML)

or

@EnableJpaRepositories(basePackages="your.package", entityManagerFactoryRef="emf")

(if you are using Java Config)

How to convert this var string to URL in Swift

To Convert file path in String to NSURL, observe the following code

var filePathUrl = NSURL.fileURLWithPath(path)

Bundler::GemNotFound: Could not find rake-10.3.2 in any of the sources

I solved the simmilar problem, when i tried to push to repo via gitlab ci/cd pipeline by the command "gem install rake && bundle install"

open failed: EACCES (Permission denied)

In my case it was permissions issue. The catch is that on device with Android 4.0.4 I got access to file without any error or exception. And on device with Android 5.1 it failed with ACCESS exception (open failed: EACCES (Permission denied)). Handled it with adding follow permission to manifest file:

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

So I guess that it's the difference between permissions management in OS versions that causes to failures.

Saving binary data as file using JavaScript from a browser

Use FileSaver.js. It supports Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and IE 10+ (and probably IE < 10 with a few "polyfills" - see Note 4). FileSaver.js implements the saveAs() FileSaver interface in browsers that do not natively support it:
     https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js

Minified version is really small at < 2.5KB, gzipped < 1.2KB.

Usage:

/* TODO: replace the blob content with your byte[] */
var blob = new Blob([yourBinaryDataAsAnArrayOrAsAString], {type: "application/octet-stream"});
var fileName = "myFileName.myExtension";
saveAs(blob, fileName);

You might need Blob.js in some browsers (see Note 3). Blob.js implements the W3C Blob interface in browsers that do not natively support it. It is a cross-browser implementation:
     https://github.com/eligrey/Blob.js

Consider StreamSaver.js if you have files larger than blob's size limitations.

Complete example:

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 * 1. Get FileSaver.js from here_x000D_
 *     https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js/blob/master/FileSaver.min.js -->_x000D_
 *     <script src="FileSaver.min.js" />_x000D_
 *_x000D_
 * Or_x000D_
 *_x000D_
 * 2. If you want to support only modern browsers like Chrome, Edge, Firefox, etc., _x000D_
 *    then a simple implementation of saveAs function can be:_x000D_
 */_x000D_
function saveAs(blob, fileName) {_x000D_
    var url = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob);_x000D_
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    var anchorElem = document.createElement("a");_x000D_
    anchorElem.style = "display: none";_x000D_
    anchorElem.href = url;_x000D_
    anchorElem.download = fileName;_x000D_
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    document.body.appendChild(anchorElem);_x000D_
    anchorElem.click();_x000D_
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    document.body.removeChild(anchorElem);_x000D_
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    // On Edge, revokeObjectURL should be called only after_x000D_
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    setTimeout(function() {_x000D_
        window.URL.revokeObjectURL(url);_x000D_
    }, 1000);_x000D_
}_x000D_
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(function() {_x000D_
    // convert base64 string to byte array_x000D_
    var byteCharacters = atob("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    saveAs(blob1, fileName1);_x000D_
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    var blob2 = new Blob(["cool"], {type: "text/plain"});_x000D_
    var fileName2 = "cool.txt";_x000D_
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})();
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Tested on Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and IE 11 (use FileSaver.js for supporting IE 11).
You can also save from a canvas element. See https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js#saving-a-canvas.

Demos: https://eligrey.com/demos/FileSaver.js/

Blog post by author of FileSaver.js: http://eligrey.com/blog/post/saving-generated-files-on-the-client-side

Note 1: Browser support: https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js#supported-browsers

Note 2: Failed to execute 'atob' on 'Window'

Note 3: Polyfill for browsers not supporting Blob: https://github.com/eligrey/Blob.js
                See http://caniuse.com/#search=blob

Note 4: IE < 10 support (I've not tested this part):
                https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js#ie--10
                https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js/issues/56#issuecomment-30917476

Downloadify is a Flash-based polyfill for supporting IE6-9: https://github.com/dcneiner/downloadify (I don't recommend Flash-based solutions in general, though.)
Demo using Downloadify and FileSaver.js for supporting IE6-9 also: http://sheetjs.com/demos/table.html

Note 5: Creating a BLOB from a Base64 string in JavaScript

Note 6: FileSaver.js examples: https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js#examples

'node' is not recognized as an internal or an external command, operable program or batch file while using phonegap/cordova

In Windows, you need to set node.js folder path into system variables or user variables.

1) open Control Panel -> System and Security -> System -> Advanced System Settings -> Environment Variables

2) in "User variables" or "System variables" find variable PATH and add node.js folder path as value. Usually it is C:\Program Files\nodejs;. If variable doesn't exists, create it.

3) Restart your IDE or computer.

It is useful add also "npm" and "Git" paths as variable, separated by semicolon.

Disable developer mode extensions pop up in Chrome

1) Wait for the popup balloon to appear.

2) Open a new tab.

3) Close the a new tab. The popup will be gone from the original tab.

A small Chrome extension can automate these steps:

manifest.json

{
  "name": "Open and close tab",
  "description": "After Chrome starts, open and close a new tab.",
  "version": "1.0",
  "manifest_version": 2,
  "permissions": ["tabs"],
  "background": {
    "scripts": ["background.js"], 
    "persistent": false
  }
}

background.js

// This runs when Chrome starts up
chrome.runtime.onStartup.addListener(function() {

  // Execute the inner function after a few seconds
  setTimeout(function() {

    // Open new tab
    chrome.tabs.create({url: "about:blank"});

    // Get tab ID of newly opened tab, then close the tab
    chrome.tabs.query({'currentWindow': true}, function(tabs) {
      var newTabId = tabs[1].id;
      chrome.tabs.remove(newTabId);
    });

  }, 5000);

});

With this extension installed, launch Chrome and immediately switch apps before the popup appears... a few seconds later, the popup will be gone and you won't see it when you switch back to Chrome.

web-api POST body object always null

I was also trying to use the [FromBody], however, I was trying to populate a string variable because the input will be changing and I just need to pass it along to a backend service but this was always null

Post([FromBody]string Input]) 

So I changed the method signature to use a dynamic class and then convert that to string

Post(dynamic DynamicClass)
{
   string Input = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(DynamicClass);

This works well.

UTF-8 output from PowerShell

This is a bug in .NET. When PowerShell launches, it caches the output handle (Console.Out). The Encoding property of that text writer does not pick up the value StandardOutputEncoding property.

When you change it from within PowerShell, the Encoding property of the cached output writer returns the cached value, so the output is still encoded with the default encoding.

As a workaround, I would suggest not changing the encoding. It will be returned to you as a Unicode string, at which point you can manage the encoding yourself.

Caching example:

102 [C:\Users\leeholm]
>> $r1 = [Console]::Out

103 [C:\Users\leeholm]
>> $r1

Encoding                                          FormatProvider
--------                                          --------------
System.Text.SBCSCodePageEncoding                  en-US



104 [C:\Users\leeholm]
>> [Console]::OutputEncoding = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8

105 [C:\Users\leeholm]
>> $r1

Encoding                                          FormatProvider
--------                                          --------------
System.Text.SBCSCodePageEncoding                  en-US

Selenium Error - The HTTP request to the remote WebDriver timed out after 60 seconds

Arrrgh! Faced this on macOS today and the issue was as simple as - the pop-up window suggesting to install the new Appium version was showing on the remote CI build server.

Just VNC'ing to it and clicking "Install later" fixed it.

Removing cordova plugins from the project

This is somewhat related and might help others, I had a corrupt version of some of my plugins so I was able to just delete the entire contents of the plugins folder. Note, all references are still in the package.json and config.xml files to the plugins. So then when I removed and added the Android platform, it re-installed the uncorrupted versions of the plugins and fixed my problem.

Button button = findViewById(R.id.button) always resolves to null in Android Studio

The button code should be moved to the PlaceholderFragment() class. There you will call the layout fragment_main.xml in the onCreateView method. Like so

@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
        Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_main, container, false);
    Button buttonClick = (Button) view.findViewById(R.id.button);
    buttonClick.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View view) {
            onButtonClick((Button) view);
        }

    });

    return view;
}

Error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version

Some special characters give this type of error, so use

$query="INSERT INTO `tablename` (`name`, `email`)
VALUES
('$_POST[name]','$_POST[email]')";

Is there a real solution to debug cordova apps

If you use phonegap build, there is an option to enable debug.


For local builds, you can install weinre with npm : https://npmjs.org/package/weinre

And the link to the weinre docs : http://people.apache.org/~pmuellr/weinre/docs/latest/


And there is something called chrome remote debugging but I don't know much about it, you can have a look at Raymond Camden's article : http://www.raymondcamden.com/index.cfm/2014/1/2/Apache-Cordova-33-and-Remote-Debugging-for-Android

Docs for the chrome remote debugging : https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/remote-debugging (if I understood correctly you need an android device with chrome as default browser) Maybe the closest to your dream solution?

New xampp security concept: Access Forbidden Error 403 - Windows 7 - phpMyAdmin

    <LocationMatch "^/(?i:(?:xampp|security|licenses|phpmyadmin|webalizer|server-status|server-info))">

        Require all granted
    ErrorDocument 403 /error/XAMPP_FORBIDDEN.html.var
</LocationMatch>

Good luck!!!!

Gmail Error :The SMTP server requires a secure connection or the client was not authenticated. The server response was: 5.5.1 Authentication Required

I'm a google apps for business subscriber and I spend the last couple hours just dealing with this, even after having all the correct settings (smtp, port, enableSSL, etc). Here's what worked for me and the web sites that were throwing the 5.5.1 error when trying to send an email:

  1. Login to your admin.google.com
  2. Click SECURITY <-- if this isn't visible, then click 'MORE CONTROLS', and add it from the list
  3. Click Basic Settings
  4. Scroll to the bottom of the Basic Settings box, click the link: 'Go to settings for less secure apps'
  5. Select the option #3 : Enforce access to less secure apps for all users (Not Recommended)
  6. Press SAVE at the bottom of the window

After doing this my email forms from the website were working again. Good luck!

Android sqlite how to check if a record exists

you can also see this:

if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {
// record exists
} else {
// record not found
}

OR

You just check Cursor not null after that why you check count not 0.

So, that you try this...

DBHelper.getReadableDatabase();

Cursor mCursor = db.rawQuery("SELECT * FROM " + DATABASE_TABLE + " WHERE    yourKey=? AND yourKey1=?", new String[]{keyValue,keyvalue1});

if (mCursor != null)
{
            return true;
/* record exist */
 }
else
{
        return false;
/* record not exist */
}

Proxy Error 502 : The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server

The HTTP 502 "Bad Gateway" response is generated when Apache web server does not receive a valid HTTP response from the upstream server, which in this case is your Tomcat web application.

Some reasons why this might happen:

  • Tomcat may have crashed
  • The web application did not respond in time and the request from Apache timed out
  • The Tomcat threads are timing out
  • A network device is blocking the request, perhaps as some sort of connection timeout or DoS attack prevention system

If the problem is related to timeout settings, you may be able to resolve it by investigating the following:

  • ProxyTimeout directive of Apache's mod_proxy
  • Connector config of Apache Tomcat
  • Your network device's manual

'No JUnit tests found' in Eclipse

Some time if lots if Test files are there then Eclipse failed to pass -classpath options for all libs and path due to classpath param lenght limitations. To Solve it go to Run

Configerations -> JUnit -> Your Project Config -> ClassPath -> Check "Use Temporary Jar Options"

At least it solved my problem.

HTTP status code 0 - Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain?

From my limited experience, I would say that the following two scenario could cause response status code: 0, keep in mind; their could be more, but I know of those two:

  • your connection maybe responding slowly.
  • or maybe the the back-end server is not available.

the thing is, status: 0 is slightly generic, and their could be more use cases that trigger an empty response body.

Reading from file using read() function

fgets would work for you. here is very good documentation on this :-
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdio/fgets/

If you don't want to use fgets, following method will work for you :-

int readline(FILE *f, char *buffer, size_t len)
{
   char c; 
   int i;

   memset(buffer, 0, len);

   for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
   {   
      int c = fgetc(f); 

      if (!feof(f)) 
      {   
         if (c == '\r')
            buffer[i] = 0;
         else if (c == '\n')
         {   
            buffer[i] = 0;

            return i+1;
         }   
         else
            buffer[i] = c; 
      }   
      else
      {   
         //fprintf(stderr, "read_line(): recv returned %d\n", c);
         return -1; 
      }   
   }   

   return -1; 
}

Apache Cordova - uninstall globally

Super late here and I still couldn't uninstall using sudo as the other answers suggest. What did it for me was checking where cordova was installed by running

which cordova

it will output something like this

/usr/local/bin/

then removing by

rm -rf /usr/local/bin/cordova

Error executing command 'ant' on Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks when building for Android with PhoneGap/Cordova

As an alternative to homebrew, you could download and install macports. Once you have macports, you can use:

sudo port install apache-ant

getting the error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘{’ token

{
int main(void);

should be

int main(void)
{

Then I let you fix the next compilation errors of your program...

Request failed: unacceptable content-type: text/html using AFNetworking 2.0

A simple way to enable to receive "text/plain" content type:

manager.responseSerializer.acceptableContentTypes = [NSSet setWithObject:@"text/plain"];

Similarly if you wish to enable "text/html" content type:

manager.responseSerializer.acceptableContentTypes = [NSSet setWithObject:@"text/html"];

$apply already in progress error

In my case i use $apply with angular calendar UI to link some event:

$scope.eventClick = function(event){           
    $scope.$apply( function() {
        $location.path('/event/' + event.id);
    });
};

After reading the doc of the problem: https://docs.angularjs.org/error/$rootScope/inprog

The part Inconsistent API (Sync/Async) is very interesting:

For example, imagine a 3rd party library that has a method which will retrieve data for us. Since it may be making an asynchronous call to a server, it accepts a callback function, which will be called when the data arrives.

Since, the MyController constructor is always instantiated from within an $apply call, our handler is trying to enter a new $apply block from within one.

I change the code to :

$scope.eventClick = function(event){           
    $timeout(function() {
        $location.path('/event/' + event.id);
    }, 0);
};

Works like a charm !

Here we have used $timeout to schedule the changes to the scope in a future call stack. By providing a timeout period of 0ms, this will occur as soon as possible and $timeout will ensure that the code will be called in a single $apply block.

Laravel - Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server

Have you tried to change the .htaccess file that laravel suggested if the default one doesn't work? I had this similar problem and changed it to

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

and it soleved :)

Is there a difference between PhoneGap and Cordova commands?

I have also noticed that cordova has a "serve" command that Phonegap doesn't. This command launches a local server on port 8000. This is handy for running your app in Chrome and using the Ripple emulator.

Phonegap Cordova installation Windows

I too struggled a lot with phonegap steps.

The correct documentation is at the following link. http://docs.phonegap.com/en/edge/guide_cli_index.md.html

There is no more cordova command, It is replaced with phonegap.

500 Internal Server Error for php file not for html

500 Internal Server Error is shown if your php code has fatal errors but error displaying is switched off. You may try this to see the error itself instead of 500 error page:

In your php file:

ini_set('display_errors', 1);

In .htaccess file:

php_flag display_errors 1

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'ownerDocument' of undefined

The same issue came up for me inside of $elms.each().

Because:

  1. the function you pass to .each(Function) exposes (at least) two arguments; the first being the index and the second being the element in the current element in the list, and
  2. because other similar looping methods give current the element in the array before the index

you may be tempted to do this:

$elms.each((item) => $(item).addClass('wrong'));

When this is what you need:

$elms.each((index, item) => $(item).addClass('wrong'));

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

I think the problem happened when you use rbenv. Try the below commands to fix it.

rbenv shell {rb_version}
rbenv global {rb_version}
or 
rbenv local {rb_version}

Relay access denied on sending mail, Other domain outside of network

I'm using THUNDERBIRD as MUA and I have same issues. I solved adding the IP address of my home PC on mynetworks parameter on main.cf

mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128 MyIpAddress

P.S. I don't have a static ip for my home PC so when my ISP change it I ave to adjust every time.

Executing a shell script from a PHP script

I would have a directory somewhere called scripts under the WWW folder so that it's not reachable from the web but is reachable by PHP.

e.g. /var/www/scripts/testscript

Make sure the user/group for your testscript is the same as your webfiles. For instance if your client.php is owned by apache:apache, change the bash script to the same user/group using chown. You can find out what your client.php and web files are owned by doing ls -al.

Then run

<?php
      $message=shell_exec("/var/www/scripts/testscript 2>&1");
      print_r($message);
    ?>  

EDIT:

If you really want to run a file as root from a webserver you can try this binary wrapper below. Check out this solution for the same thing you want to do.

Execute root commands via PHP

Running Selenium Webdriver with a proxy in Python

Try by Setting up FirefoxProfile

from selenium import webdriver
import time


"Define Both ProxyHost and ProxyPort as String"
ProxyHost = "54.84.95.51" 
ProxyPort = "8083"



def ChangeProxy(ProxyHost ,ProxyPort):
    "Define Firefox Profile with you ProxyHost and ProxyPort"
    profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
    profile.set_preference("network.proxy.type", 1)
    profile.set_preference("network.proxy.http", ProxyHost )
    profile.set_preference("network.proxy.http_port", int(ProxyPort))
    profile.update_preferences()
    return webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=profile)


def FixProxy():
    ""Reset Firefox Profile""
    profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
    profile.set_preference("network.proxy.type", 0)
    return webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=profile)


driver = ChangeProxy(ProxyHost ,ProxyPort)
driver.get("http://whatismyipaddress.com")

time.sleep(5)

driver = FixProxy()
driver.get("http://whatismyipaddress.com")

This program tested on both Windows 8 and Mac OSX. If you are using Mac OSX and if you don't have selenium updated then you may face selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException. If so, then try again after upgrading your selenium

pip install -U selenium

jQuery Cross Domain Ajax

Unfortunately it seems that this web service returns JSON which contains another JSON - parsing contents of the inner JSON is successful. The solution is ugly but works for me. JSON.parse(...) tries to convert the entire string and fails. Assuming that you always get the answer starting with {"AuthenticateUserResult": and interesting data is after this, try:

$.ajax({
    type: 'GET',
    dataType: "text",
    crossDomain: true,
    url: "http://someotherdomain.com/service.svc",
    success: function (responseData, textStatus, jqXHR) {
        var authResult = JSON.parse(
            responseData.replace(
                '{"AuthenticateUserResult":"', ''
            ).replace('}"}', '}')
        );
        console.log("in");
    },
    error: function (responseData, textStatus, errorThrown) {
        alert('POST failed.');
    }
});

It is very important that dataType must be text to prevent auto-parsing of malformed JSON you are receiving from web service.

Basically, I'm wiping out the outer JSON by removing topmost braces and key AuthenticateUserResult along with leading and trailing quotation marks. The result is a well formed JSON, ready for parsing.

load Js file in HTML

I had the same problem, and found the answer. If you use node.js with express, you need to give it its own function in order for the js file to be reached. For example:

const script = path.join(__dirname, 'script.js');
const server = express().get('/', (req, res) => res.sendFile(script))

Get local href value from anchor (a) tag

document.getElementById("link").getAttribute("href"); If you have more than one <a> tag, for example:

_x000D_
_x000D_
<ul>_x000D_
  <li>_x000D_
    <a href="1"></a>_x000D_
  </li>_x000D_
  <li>_x000D_
    <a href="2"></a>_x000D_
  </li>_x000D_
  <li>_x000D_
    <a href="3"></a>_x000D_
  </li>_x000D_
</ul>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

You can do it like this: document.getElementById("link")[0].getAttribute("href"); to access the first array of <a> tags, or depends on the condition you make.

com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver not found error

For me, it worked once I changed

Class.forName("com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver");

to:

in POM

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.microsoft.sqlserver</groupId>
    <artifactId>mssql-jdbc</artifactId>
    <version>6.1.0.jre8</version>
</dependency>

and then:

import com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver;

...

DriverManager.registerDriver(SQLServerDriver());    
Connection connection = DriverManager.getConnection(connectionUrl); 

Eclipse JUnit - possible causes of seeing "initializationError" in Eclipse window

For me the solution was one of the methods had to be void, I had it as Boolean.

Delete specified file from document directory

I checked your code. It's working for me. Check any error you are getting using the modified code below

- (void)removeImage:(NSString *)filename
{
  NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
  NSString *documentsPath = [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES) objectAtIndex:0];

  NSString *filePath = [documentsPath stringByAppendingPathComponent:filename];
  NSError *error;
  BOOL success = [fileManager removeItemAtPath:filePath error:&error];
  if (success) {
      UIAlertView *removedSuccessFullyAlert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Congratulations:" message:@"Successfully removed" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"Close" otherButtonTitles:nil];
      [removedSuccessFullyAlert show];
  }
  else
  {
      NSLog(@"Could not delete file -:%@ ",[error localizedDescription]);
  }
}

How to get public directory?

Use public_path()

For reference:

// Path to the project's root folder    
echo base_path();

// Path to the 'app' folder    
echo app_path();        

// Path to the 'public' folder    
echo public_path();

// Path to the 'storage' folder    
echo storage_path();

// Path to the 'storage/app' folder    
echo storage_path('app');

Cannot find firefox binary in PATH. Make sure firefox is installed. OS appears to be: VISTA

For me it was just a matter of changing the path variable to: 'C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox' instead of 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox'

No input file specified

Adding php5.ini doesn't work at all. But see the 'Disable FastCGI' section in this article on GoDaddy: http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/5121/changing-your-hosting-accounts-file-extensions

Add these lines to .htaccess files (webroot & website installation directory):

Options +ExecCGI
addhandler x-httpd-php5-cgi .php

It saves me a day! Cheers! Thanks DragonLord!

org.apache.http.conn.HttpHostConnectException: Connection to http://localhost refused in android

Two solutions for this error:

1. add this permission in your androidManifest.xml of your Android project

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

2. Turn on the Internet Connection of your device first.

Embed YouTube Video with No Ads

For whom can help, nowadays in 2018, youtube have options for this:

(Example in Catalan, sorry :)

enter image description here

Translation of the 3 arrows : "Share" - "Embed" - "Show suggested videos when the video is finished"

What's a redirect URI? how does it apply to iOS app for OAuth2.0?

redirected uri is the location where the user will be redirected after successfully login to your app. for example to get access token for your app in facebook you need to subimt redirected uri which is nothing only the app Domain that your provide when you create your facebook app.

What is .htaccess file?

You are allow to use php_value to change php setting in .htaccess file. Same like how php.ini did.

Example:

php_value date.timezone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur

For other php setting, please read http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.list.php

Getting 404 Not Found error while trying to use ErrorDocument

When we apply local url, ErrorDocument directive expect the full path from DocumentRoot. There fore,

 ErrorDocument 404 /yourfoldernames/errors/404.html

How to find the largest file in a directory and its subdirectories?

Quote from this link-

If you want to find and print the top 10 largest files names (not directories) in a particular directory and its sub directories

$ find . -printf '%s %p\n'|sort -nr|head

To restrict the search to the present directory use "-maxdepth 1" with find.

$ find . -maxdepth 1 -printf '%s %p\n'|sort -nr|head

And to print the top 10 largest "files and directories":

$ du -a . | sort -nr | head

** Use "head -n X" instead of the only "head" above to print the top X largest files (in all the above examples)

Exit from app when click button in android phonegap?

if(navigator.app){
        navigator.app.exitApp();
}else if(navigator.device){
        navigator.device.exitApp();
}

.htaccess not working apache

If you have tried all of the above, which are all valid and good answers, and your htaccess file is not working or being read change the directive in the apache2.conf file. Under Ubuntu the path is /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Change the <Directory> directive pointing to your public web pages, where the htaccess file resides. Change from AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All

<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>

I had the same problem and found the answer and explanation on the Ubuntu Ask! forum https://askubuntu.com/questions/421233/enabling-htaccess-file-to-rewrite-path-not-working

How do I run a Python script from C#?

Set WorkingDirectory or specify the full path of the python script in the Argument

ProcessStartInfo start = new ProcessStartInfo();
start.FileName = "C:\\Python27\\python.exe";
//start.WorkingDirectory = @"D:\script";
start.Arguments = string.Format("D:\\script\\test.py -a {0} -b {1} ", "some param", "some other param");
start.UseShellExecute = false;
start.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
using (Process process = Process.Start(start))
{
    using (StreamReader reader = process.StandardOutput)
    {
        string result = reader.ReadToEnd();
        Console.Write(result);
    }
}

Android Error - Open Failed ENOENT

Put the text file in the assets directory. If there isnt an assets dir create one in the root of the project. Then you can use Context.getAssets().open("BlockForTest.txt"); to open a stream to this file.

Displaying a 3D model in JavaScript/HTML5

I have not played with 3D yet, but I know a good place for ressources on 3D for HTML5.

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/gaming

And here is a tutorial on how to create your 3D models with the Three.js Framework.

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/three/intro/

This may help you. Good luck.

Error message 'java.net.SocketException: socket failed: EACCES (Permission denied)'

It can be fixed by placing the lines in the android manifest file:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE" />

enter image description here

NSURLErrorDomain error codes description

I received the error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1011 when using Parse, and providing the wrong clientKey. As soon as I corrected that, it began working.

How to fix "no valid 'aps-environment' entitlement string found for application" in Xcode 4.3?

The answer was: start over, do everything the same but create a new provisioning profile, and install it. That worked. Inspecting all the details (entitlements in mobile provision) looks exactly the same as everything in my question here. But now it works. Apple: WAT?

Of course, it would have been obvious to do this if it was possible to delete provisioning profiles. But since that's not possible, I didn't want to clutter our team with a bunch of test profiles. Still, finally lost patience and tried it anyway, and it ended up working. Whatevs.

Could not complete the operation due to error 80020101. IE

when do you call timerReset()? Perhaps you get that error when trying to call it after setTimeout() has already done its thing?

wrap it in

if (window.myTimeout) { 
  clearTimeout(myTimeout);
  myTimeout = setTimeout("timerDone()", 1000 * 1440);
}

edit: Actually, upon further reflection, since you did mention jQuery (and yet don't have any actual jQuery code here... I wonder if you have this nested within some jQuery (like inside a $(document).ready(.. and this is a matter of variable scope. If so, try this:

window.message="Logged in";
window.myTimeout = setTimeout("timerDone()",1000 * 1440);
function timerDone()
{
    window.message="Logged out";   
}
function timerReset()
{


    clearTimeout(window.myTimeout);
    window.myTimeout = setTimeout("timerDone()", 1000 * 1440);
}

Error message "Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server"

Try this and don't add anything Order allow,deny and others:

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .py 
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
    AllowOverride None
    Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
    Require all granted
    Allow from all
</Directory>

 

sudo a2enmod cgi
sudo service apache2 restart

How to maintain page scroll position after a jquery event is carried out?

You can save the current scroll amount and then set it later:

var tempScrollTop = $(window).scrollTop();

..//Your code

$(window).scrollTop(tempScrollTop);

Copy a file in a sane, safe and efficient way

I'm not quite sure what a "good way" of copying a file is, but assuming "good" means "fast", I could broaden the subject a little.

Current operating systems have long been optimized to deal with run of the mill file copy. No clever bit of code will beat that. It is possible that some variant of your copy techniques will prove faster in some test scenario, but they most likely would fare worse in other cases.

Typically, the sendfile function probably returns before the write has been committed, thus giving the impression of being faster than the rest. I haven't read the code, but it is most certainly because it allocates its own dedicated buffer, trading memory for time. And the reason why it won't work for files bigger than 2Gb.

As long as you're dealing with a small number of files, everything occurs inside various buffers (the C++ runtime's first if you use iostream, the OS internal ones, apparently a file-sized extra buffer in the case of sendfile). Actual storage media is only accessed once enough data has been moved around to be worth the trouble of spinning a hard disk.

I suppose you could slightly improve performances in specific cases. Off the top of my head:

  • If you're copying a huge file on the same disk, using a buffer bigger than the OS's might improve things a bit (but we're probably talking about gigabytes here).
  • If you want to copy the same file on two different physical destinations you will probably be faster opening the three files at once than calling two copy_file sequentially (though you'll hardly notice the difference as long as the file fits in the OS cache)
  • If you're dealing with lots of tiny files on an HDD you might want to read them in batches to minimize seeking time (though the OS already caches directory entries to avoid seeking like crazy and tiny files will likely reduce disk bandwidth dramatically anyway).

But all that is outside the scope of a general purpose file copy function.

So in my arguably seasoned programmer's opinion, a C++ file copy should just use the C++17 file_copy dedicated function, unless more is known about the context where the file copy occurs and some clever strategies can be devised to outsmart the OS.

Set Text property of asp:label in Javascript PROPER way

Place HiddenField Control in your Form.

<asp:HiddenField ID="hidden" runat="server" />

Create a Property in the Form

protected String LabelProperty
{
    get
    {
        return hidden.Value;
    }
    set
    {
        hidden.Value = value;
    }
}

Update the Hidden Field value from JavaScript

<script>
   function UpdateControl() {
            document.getElementById('<%=hidden.ClientID %>').value = '12';
   }
</script>

Now you can access the Property directly across the Postback. The Label Control updated value will be Lost across PostBack in case it is being used directly in code behind .

How to beautify JSON in Python?

From the command-line:

echo '{"one":1,"two":2}' | python -mjson.tool

which outputs:

{
    "one": 1, 
    "two": 2
}

Programmtically, the Python manual describes pretty-printing JSON:

>>> import json
>>> print json.dumps({'4': 5, '6': 7}, sort_keys=True, indent=4)
{
    "4": 5,
    "6": 7
}

Redirection of standard and error output appending to the same log file

In order to append to a file you'll need to use a slightly different approach. You can still redirect an individual process' standard error and standard output to a file, but in order to append it to a file you'll need to do one of these things:

  1. Read the stdout/stderr file contents created by Start-Process
  2. Not use Start-Process and use the call operator, &
  3. Not use Start-Process and start the process with .NET objects

The first way would look like this:

$myLog = "C:\File.log"
$stdErrLog = "C:\stderr.log"
$stdOutLog = "C:\stdout.log"
Start-Process -File myjob.bat -RedirectStandardOutput $stdOutLog -RedirectStandardError $stdErrLog -wait
Get-Content $stdErrLog, $stdOutLog | Out-File $myLog -Append

The second way would look like this:

& myjob.bat 2>&1 >> C:\MyLog.txt

Or this:

& myjob.bat 2>&1 | Out-File C:\MyLog.txt -Append

The third way:

$pinfo = New-Object System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo
$pinfo.FileName = "myjob.bat"
$pinfo.RedirectStandardError = $true
$pinfo.RedirectStandardOutput = $true
$pinfo.UseShellExecute = $false
$pinfo.Arguments = ""
$p = New-Object System.Diagnostics.Process
$p.StartInfo = $pinfo
$p.Start() | Out-Null
$p.WaitForExit()
$output = $p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd()
$output += $p.StandardError.ReadToEnd()
$output | Out-File $myLog -Append

FB OpenGraph og:image not pulling images (possibly https?)

From what I observed, I see that when your website is public and even though the image url is https, it just works fine.

Capturing standard out and error with Start-Process

To get both stdout and stderr, I use:

Function GetProgramOutput([string]$exe, [string]$arguments)
{
    $process = New-Object -TypeName System.Diagnostics.Process
    $process.StartInfo.FileName = $exe
    $process.StartInfo.Arguments = $arguments

    $process.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = $false
    $process.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = $true
    $process.StartInfo.RedirectStandardError = $true
    $process.Start()

    $output = $process.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd()   
    $err = $process.StandardError.ReadToEnd()

    $process.WaitForExit()

    $output
    $err
}

$exe = "cmd"
$arguments = '/c echo hello 1>&2'   #this writes 'hello' to stderr

$runResult = (GetProgramOutput $exe $arguments)
$stdout = $runResult[-2]
$stderr = $runResult[-1]

[System.Console]::WriteLine("Standard out: " + $stdout)
[System.Console]::WriteLine("Standard error: " + $stderr)

Can we cast a generic object to a custom object type in javascript?

This is not exactly an answer, rather sharing my findings, and hopefully getting some critical argument for/against it, as specifically I am not aware how efficient it is.

I recently had a need to do this for my project. I did this using Object.assign, more precisely it is done something like this:Object.assign(new Person(...), anObjectLikePerson).

Here is link to my JSFiddle, and also the main part of the code:

function Person(firstName, lastName) {
  this.firstName = firstName;
  this.lastName = lastName;

  this.getFullName = function() {
    return this.lastName + ' ' + this.firstName;
  }
}

var persons = [{
  lastName: "Freeman",
  firstName: "Gordon"
}, {
  lastName: "Smith",
  firstName: "John"
}];

var stronglyTypedPersons = [];
for (var i = 0; i < persons.length; i++) {
  stronglyTypedPersons.push(Object.assign(new Person("", ""), persons[i]));
}

OpenCV C++/Obj-C: Detecting a sheet of paper / Square Detection

This is a recurring subject in Stackoverflow and since I was unable to find a relevant implementation I decided to accept the challenge.

I made some modifications to the squares demo present in OpenCV and the resulting C++ code below is able to detect a sheet of paper in the image:

void find_squares(Mat& image, vector<vector<Point> >& squares)
{
    // blur will enhance edge detection
    Mat blurred(image);
    medianBlur(image, blurred, 9);

    Mat gray0(blurred.size(), CV_8U), gray;
    vector<vector<Point> > contours;

    // find squares in every color plane of the image
    for (int c = 0; c < 3; c++)
    {
        int ch[] = {c, 0};
        mixChannels(&blurred, 1, &gray0, 1, ch, 1);

        // try several threshold levels
        const int threshold_level = 2;
        for (int l = 0; l < threshold_level; l++)
        {
            // Use Canny instead of zero threshold level!
            // Canny helps to catch squares with gradient shading
            if (l == 0)
            {
                Canny(gray0, gray, 10, 20, 3); // 

                // Dilate helps to remove potential holes between edge segments
                dilate(gray, gray, Mat(), Point(-1,-1));
            }
            else
            {
                    gray = gray0 >= (l+1) * 255 / threshold_level;
            }

            // Find contours and store them in a list
            findContours(gray, contours, CV_RETR_LIST, CV_CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE);

            // Test contours
            vector<Point> approx;
            for (size_t i = 0; i < contours.size(); i++)
            {
                    // approximate contour with accuracy proportional
                    // to the contour perimeter
                    approxPolyDP(Mat(contours[i]), approx, arcLength(Mat(contours[i]), true)*0.02, true);

                    // Note: absolute value of an area is used because
                    // area may be positive or negative - in accordance with the
                    // contour orientation
                    if (approx.size() == 4 &&
                            fabs(contourArea(Mat(approx))) > 1000 &&
                            isContourConvex(Mat(approx)))
                    {
                            double maxCosine = 0;

                            for (int j = 2; j < 5; j++)
                            {
                                    double cosine = fabs(angle(approx[j%4], approx[j-2], approx[j-1]));
                                    maxCosine = MAX(maxCosine, cosine);
                            }

                            if (maxCosine < 0.3)
                                    squares.push_back(approx);
                    }
            }
        }
    }
}

After this procedure is executed, the sheet of paper will be the largest square in vector<vector<Point> >:

opencv paper sheet detection

I'm letting you write the function to find the largest square. ;)

JPA mapping: "QuerySyntaxException: foobar is not mapped..."

You have declared your Class as:

@Table( name = "foobar" )
public class FooBar {

You need to write the Class Name for the search.
from FooBar

Completely uninstall PostgreSQL 9.0.4 from Mac OSX Lion?

I don't use the same version, but uninstall actions are the same: Looking for file uninstall-postgresql inside directory

/Library/PostgreSQL/9.6

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then run it.

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(Screenshot in macOS 10.13)

then

sudo rm -rf /Library/PostgreSQL/

to delete all unnecessary directory.

How to calculate combination and permutation in R?

It might be that the package "Combinations" is not updated anymore and does not work with a recent version of R (I was also unable to install it on R 2.13.1 on windows). The package "combinat" installs without problem for me and might be a solution for you depending on what exactly you're trying to do.

CodeIgniter 500 Internal Server Error

I know I am late, but this will help someone.

Check if rewrite engine is enabled.

If not, enable rewrite engine and restart server.

sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo service apache2 restart

Explain the "setUp" and "tearDown" Python methods used in test cases

In general you add all prerequisite steps to setUp and all clean-up steps to tearDown.

You can read more with examples here.

When a setUp() method is defined, the test runner will run that method prior to each test. Likewise, if a tearDown() method is defined, the test runner will invoke that method after each test.

For example you have a test that requires items to exist, or certain state - so you put these actions(creating object instances, initializing db, preparing rules and so on) into the setUp.

Also as you know each test should stop in the place where it was started - this means that we have to restore app state to it's initial state - e.g close files, connections, removing newly created items, calling transactions callback and so on - all these steps are to be included into the tearDown.

So the idea is that test itself should contain only actions that to be performed on the test object to get the result, while setUp and tearDown are the methods to help you to leave your test code clean and flexible.

You can create a setUp and tearDown for a bunch of tests and define them in a parent class - so it would be easy for you to support such tests and update common preparations and clean ups.

If you are looking for an easy example please use the following link with example

Undocumented NSURLErrorDomain error codes (-1001, -1003 and -1004) using StoreKit

I use the following method in my project

-(NSArray*)networkErrorCodes
{
    static NSArray *codesArray;
    if (![codesArray count]){
        @synchronized(self){
            const int codes[] = {
                //kCFURLErrorUnknown,     //-998
                //kCFURLErrorCancelled,   //-999
                //kCFURLErrorBadURL,      //-1000
                //kCFURLErrorTimedOut,    //-1001
                //kCFURLErrorUnsupportedURL, //-1002
                //kCFURLErrorCannotFindHost, //-1003
                kCFURLErrorCannotConnectToHost,     //-1004
                kCFURLErrorNetworkConnectionLost,   //-1005
                kCFURLErrorDNSLookupFailed,         //-1006
                //kCFURLErrorHTTPTooManyRedirects,    //-1007
                kCFURLErrorResourceUnavailable,     //-1008
                kCFURLErrorNotConnectedToInternet,  //-1009
                //kCFURLErrorRedirectToNonExistentLocation,   //-1010
                kCFURLErrorBadServerResponse,               //-1011
                //kCFURLErrorUserCancelledAuthentication,     //-1012
                //kCFURLErrorUserAuthenticationRequired,      //-1013
                //kCFURLErrorZeroByteResource,        //-1014
                //kCFURLErrorCannotDecodeRawData,     //-1015
                //kCFURLErrorCannotDecodeContentData, //-1016
                //kCFURLErrorCannotParseResponse,     //-1017
                kCFURLErrorInternationalRoamingOff, //-1018
                kCFURLErrorCallIsActive,                //-1019
                //kCFURLErrorDataNotAllowed,              //-1020
                //kCFURLErrorRequestBodyStreamExhausted,  //-1021
                kCFURLErrorFileDoesNotExist,            //-1100
                //kCFURLErrorFileIsDirectory,             //-1101
                kCFURLErrorNoPermissionsToReadFile,     //-1102
                //kCFURLErrorDataLengthExceedsMaximum,     //-1103
            };
            int size = sizeof(codes)/sizeof(int);
            NSMutableArray *array = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
            for (int i=0;i<size;++i){
                [array addObject:[NSNumber numberWithInt:codes[i]]];
            }
            codesArray = [array copy];
        }
    }
    return codesArray;
}

Then I just check the error code and show alert if it is in the list

if ([[self networkErrorCodes] containsObject:[NSNumber
numberWithInt:[error code]]]){ 
// Fire Alert View Here
}

But as you can see I commented out codes that I think does not fit to my definition of NO INTERNET. E.g the code of -1012 (Authentication fail.) You may edit the list as you like.

In my project I use it at username/password entering from user. And in my view (physical) network connection errors could be the only reason to show alert view in your network based app. In any other case (e.g. incorrect username/password pair) I prefer to do some custom user friendly animation, OR just repeat the failed attempt again without any attention of the user. Especially if the user didn't explicitly initiated a network call.

Regards to martinezdelariva for a link to documentation.

How to simulate a mouse click using JavaScript?

Here's a pure JavaScript function which will simulate a click (or any mouse event) on a target element:

function simulatedClick(target, options) {

  var event = target.ownerDocument.createEvent('MouseEvents'),
      options = options || {},
      opts = { // These are the default values, set up for un-modified left clicks
        type: 'click',
        canBubble: true,
        cancelable: true,
        view: target.ownerDocument.defaultView,
        detail: 1,
        screenX: 0, //The coordinates within the entire page
        screenY: 0,
        clientX: 0, //The coordinates within the viewport
        clientY: 0,
        ctrlKey: false,
        altKey: false,
        shiftKey: false,
        metaKey: false, //I *think* 'meta' is 'Cmd/Apple' on Mac, and 'Windows key' on Win. Not sure, though!
        button: 0, //0 = left, 1 = middle, 2 = right
        relatedTarget: null,
      };

  //Merge the options with the defaults
  for (var key in options) {
    if (options.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
      opts[key] = options[key];
    }
  }

  //Pass in the options
  event.initMouseEvent(
      opts.type,
      opts.canBubble,
      opts.cancelable,
      opts.view,
      opts.detail,
      opts.screenX,
      opts.screenY,
      opts.clientX,
      opts.clientY,
      opts.ctrlKey,
      opts.altKey,
      opts.shiftKey,
      opts.metaKey,
      opts.button,
      opts.relatedTarget
  );

  //Fire the event
  target.dispatchEvent(event);
}

Here's a working example: http://www.spookandpuff.com/examples/clickSimulation.html

You can simulate a click on any element in the DOM. Something like simulatedClick(document.getElementById('yourButtonId')) would work.

You can pass in an object into options to override the defaults (to simulate which mouse button you want, whether Shift/Alt/Ctrl are held, etc. The options it accepts are based on the MouseEvents API.

I've tested in Firefox, Safari and Chrome. Internet Explorer might need special treatment, I'm not sure.

What order are the Junit @Before/@After called?

You can use @BeforeClass annotation to assure that setup() is always called first. Similarly, you can use @AfterClass annotation to assure that tearDown() is always called last.

This is usually not recommended, but it is supported.

It's not exactly what you want - but it'll essentially keep your DB connection open the entire time your tests are running, and then close it once and for all at the end.

The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaration can be found for element 'tx:annotation-driven'

One extra forward slash (/) in front of tx and the *.xml file troubled me for 8 hours!!

My mistake:

http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/ http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-4.3.xsd

Correction:

http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-4.3.xsd

Indeed one character less/more manages to keep programmers busy for hours!

Write a file on iOS

Swift

func saveFile() {
    let paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.DocumentDirectory, .UserDomainMask, true)
    let documentsDirectory = paths[0] as! String
    let fileName = "\(documentsDirectory)/textFile.txt"
    let content = "Hello World"
    content.writeToFile(fileName, atomically: false, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding, error: nil)
}

func loadFile() {
    let paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.DocumentDirectory, .UserDomainMask, true)
    let documentsDirectory = paths[0] as! String
    let fileName = "\(documentsDirectory)/textFile.txt"
    let content: String = String(contentsOfFile: fileName, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding, error: nil)!
    println(content)
}

Swift 2

func saveFile() {
    let paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.DocumentDirectory, .UserDomainMask, true)
    let documentsDirectory = paths[0]
    let fileName = "\(documentsDirectory)/textFile.txt"
    let content = "Hello World"
    do{
        try content.writeToFile(fileName, atomically: false, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding)
    }catch _ {

    }

}

func loadFile()->String {
    let paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.DocumentDirectory, .UserDomainMask, true)
    let documentsDirectory = paths[0] 
    let fileName = "\(documentsDirectory)/textFile.txt"
    let content: String
    do{
       content = try String(contentsOfFile: fileName, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding)
    }catch _{
        content=""
    }
    return content;
}

Swift 3

func saveFile() {
    let paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.documentDirectory, .userDomainMask, true)
    let documentsDirectory = paths[0]
    let fileName = "\(documentsDirectory)/textFile.txt"
    let content = "Hello World"
    do{
        try content.write(toFile: fileName, atomically: false, encoding: String.Encoding.utf8)
    }catch _ {

    }

}

func loadFile()->String {
    let paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.documentDirectory, .userDomainMask, true)
    let documentsDirectory = paths[0]
    let fileName = "\(documentsDirectory)/textFile.txt"
    let content: String
    do{
        content = try String(contentsOfFile: fileName, encoding: String.Encoding.utf8)
    } catch _{
        content=""
    }
    return content;
}

header('HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found'); not doing anything

Use these codes for 404 not found.

if(strstr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],'index.php')){
  header('HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found');
  readfile('404missing.html');
  exit();
}

Here 404missing.html is your Not found design page. (it can be .html or .php)

Hide console window from Process.Start C#

This doesn't show the window:

Process cmd = new Process();
cmd.StartInfo.FileName = "cmd.exe";
cmd.StartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
cmd.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;

...
cmd.Start();

what does this mean ? image/png;base64?

It's an inlined image (png), encoded in base64. It can make a page faster: the browser doesn't have to query the server for the image data separately, saving a round trip.

(It can also make it slower if abused: these resources are not cached, so the bytes are included in each page load.)

How can I get a list of users from active directory?

Certainly the credit goes to @Harvey Kwok here, but I just wanted to add this example because in my case I wanted to get an actual List of UserPrincipals. It's probably more efficient to filter this query upfront, but in my small environment, it's just easier to pull everything and then filter as needed later from my list.

Depending on what you need, you may not need to cast to DirectoryEntry, but some properties are not available from UserPrincipal.

using (var searcher = new PrincipalSearcher(new UserPrincipal(new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain, Environment.UserDomainName))))
{
    List<UserPrincipal> users = searcher.FindAll().Select(u => (UserPrincipal)u).ToList();
    foreach(var u in users)
        {
            DirectoryEntry d = (DirectoryEntry)u.GetUnderlyingObject();
            Console.WriteLine(d.Properties["GivenName"]?.Value?.ToString() + d.Properties["sn"]?.Value?.ToString());
        }
}

Chrome sendrequest error: TypeError: Converting circular structure to JSON

Based on zainengineer's answer... Another approach is to make a deep copy of the object and strip circular references and stringify the result.

_x000D_
_x000D_
function cleanStringify(object) {_x000D_
    if (object && typeof object === 'object') {_x000D_
        object = copyWithoutCircularReferences([object], object);_x000D_
    }_x000D_
    return JSON.stringify(object);_x000D_
_x000D_
    function copyWithoutCircularReferences(references, object) {_x000D_
        var cleanObject = {};_x000D_
        Object.keys(object).forEach(function(key) {_x000D_
            var value = object[key];_x000D_
            if (value && typeof value === 'object') {_x000D_
                if (references.indexOf(value) < 0) {_x000D_
                    references.push(value);_x000D_
                    cleanObject[key] = copyWithoutCircularReferences(references, value);_x000D_
                    references.pop();_x000D_
                } else {_x000D_
                    cleanObject[key] = '###_Circular_###';_x000D_
                }_x000D_
            } else if (typeof value !== 'function') {_x000D_
                cleanObject[key] = value;_x000D_
            }_x000D_
        });_x000D_
        return cleanObject;_x000D_
    }_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
// Example_x000D_
_x000D_
var a = {_x000D_
    name: "a"_x000D_
};_x000D_
_x000D_
var b = {_x000D_
    name: "b"_x000D_
};_x000D_
_x000D_
b.a = a;_x000D_
a.b = b;_x000D_
_x000D_
console.log(cleanStringify(a));_x000D_
console.log(cleanStringify(b));
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

PHP send mail to multiple email addresses

    $recipients = "[email protected],[email protected],[email protected],[email protected]";
    $email_array = explode(",",$recipients);
    foreach($email_array as $email)
    {
        echo $to      =  $email;
        $subject = 'the subject';
        $message = 'hello';
       $headers = 'From: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
       'Reply-To: [email protected]' . "\r\n" .
        'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
        mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

    }

Check if a value exists in ArrayList

Please refer to my answer on this post.

There is no need to iterate over the List just overwrite the equals method.

Use equals instead of ==

@Override
public boolean equals (Object object) {
    boolean result = false;
    if (object == null || object.getClass() != getClass()) {
        result = false;
    } else {
        EmployeeModel employee = (EmployeeModel) object;
        if (this.name.equals(employee.getName()) && this.designation.equals(employee.getDesignation())   && this.age == employee.getAge()) {
            result = true;
        }
    }
    return result;
}

Call it like this:

public static void main(String args[]) {

    EmployeeModel first = new EmployeeModel("Sameer", "Developer", 25);
    EmployeeModel second = new EmployeeModel("Jon", "Manager", 30);
    EmployeeModel third = new EmployeeModel("Priyanka", "Tester", 24);

    List<EmployeeModel> employeeList = new ArrayList<EmployeeModel>();
    employeeList.add(first);
    employeeList.add(second);
    employeeList.add(third);

    EmployeeModel checkUserOne = new EmployeeModel("Sameer", "Developer", 25);
    System.out.println("Check checkUserOne is in list or not");
    System.out.println("Is checkUserOne Preasent = ? " + employeeList.contains(checkUserOne));

    EmployeeModel checkUserTwo = new EmployeeModel("Tim", "Tester", 24);
    System.out.println("Check checkUserTwo is in list or not");
    System.out.println("Is checkUserTwo Preasent = ? " + employeeList.contains(checkUserTwo));

}

Deny all, allow only one IP through htaccess

ErrorDocument 403 /maintenance.html
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from #:#:#:#:#:#

For me, this seems to work (Using IPv6 rather than IPv4) I don't know if this is different for some websites but for mine this works.

End of File (EOF) in C

That's a lot of questions.

  1. Why EOF is -1: usually -1 in POSIX system calls is returned on error, so i guess the idea is "EOF is kind of error"

  2. any boolean operation (including !=) returns 1 in case it's TRUE, and 0 in case it's FALSE, so getchar() != EOF is 0 when it's FALSE, meaning getchar() returned EOF.

  3. in order to emulate EOF when reading from stdin press Ctrl+D

install cx_oracle for python

Thanks Burhan Khalid. Your advice to make a a soft link make my installation finally work.

To recap:

  1. You need both the basic version and the SDK version of instant client

  2. You need to set both LD_LIBRARY_PATH and ORACLE_HOME

  3. You need to create a soft link (ln -s libclntsh.so.12.1 libclntsh.so in my case)

None of this is documented anywhere, which is quite unbelievable and quite frustrating. I spent over 3 hours yesterday with failed builds because I didn't know to create a soft link.

Simple and fast method to compare images for similarity

If you can be sure to have precise alignment of your template (the icon) to the testing region, then any old sum of pixel differences will work.

If the alignment is only going to be a tiny bit off, then you can low-pass both images with cv::GaussianBlur before finding the sum of pixel differences.

If the quality of the alignment is potentially poor then I would recommend either a Histogram of Oriented Gradients or one of OpenCV's convenient keypoint detection/descriptor algorithms (such as SIFT or SURF).

Get domain name

I know this is old. I just wanted to dump this here for anyone that was looking for an answer to getting a domain name. This is in coordination with Peter's answer. There "is" a bug as stated by Rich. But, you can always make a simple workaround for that. The way I can tell if they are still on the domain or not is by pinging the domain name. If it responds, continue on with whatever it was that I needed the domain for. If it fails, I drop out and go into "offline" mode. Simple string method.

 string GetDomainName()
    {
        string _domain = IPGlobalProperties.GetIPGlobalProperties().DomainName;

        Ping ping = new Ping();

        try
        {
            PingReply reply = ping.Send(_domain);

            if (reply.Status == IPStatus.Success)
            {
                return _domain;
            }
            else
            {
                return reply.Status.ToString();
            }
        }
        catch (PingException pExp)
        {
            if (pExp.InnerException.ToString() == "No such host is known")
            {
                return "Network not detected!";
            }

            return "Ping Exception";
        }
    }

What is the difference between dim and set in vba

According to VBA help on SET statement it sets a reference to an object.so if you change a property the actual object will also changes.

Dim newObj as Object
Set var1=Object1(same type as Object)
Set var2=Object1(same type as Object)
Set var3=Object1(same type as Object)
Set var4=Object1(same type as Object)
Var1.property1=NewPropertyValue

the other Vars properties also changes,so:

Var1.property1=Var2.property1=Var3.property1=Var4.property1=Object1.Property1=NewpropertyValue`

actualy all vars are the same!

Creating a very simple linked list

Here is a good implementation.

  1. It is short, but implemented Add(x), Delete(x), Contain(x) and Print().
  2. It avoid special process when add to empty list or delete the first element. While most of other examples did special process when delete the first element.
  3. The list can contain any data type.

    using System;
    
    class Node<Type> : LinkedList<Type>
    {   // Why inherit from LinkedList? A: We need to use polymorphism.
        public Type value;
        public Node(Type value) { this.value = value; }
    }
    class LinkedList<Type>
    {   
        Node<Type> next;  // This member is treated as head in class LinkedList, but treated as next element in class Node.
        /// <summary> if x is in list, return previos pointer of x. (We can see any class variable as a pointer.)
        /// if not found, return the tail of the list. </summary>
        protected LinkedList<Type> Previos(Type x)
        {
            LinkedList<Type> p = this;      // point to head
            for (; p.next != null; p = p.next)
                if (p.next.value.Equals(x))
                    return p;               // find x, return the previos pointer.
            return p;                       // not found, p is the tail.
        }
        /// <summary> return value: true = success ; false = x not exist </summary>
        public bool Contain(Type x) { return Previos(x).next != null ? true : false; }
        /// <summary> return value: true = success ; false = fail to add. Because x already exist. 
        /// </summary> // why return value? If caller want to know the result, they don't need to call Contain(x) before, the action waste time.
        public bool Add(Type x)
        {
            LinkedList<Type> p = Previos(x);
            if (p.next != null)             // Find x already in list
                return false;
            p.next = new Node<Type>(x);
            return true;
        }
        /// <summary> return value: true = success ; false = x not exist </summary>
        public bool Delete(Type x)
        {
            LinkedList<Type> p = Previos(x);
            if (p.next == null)
                return false;
            //Node<Type> node = p.next;
            p.next = p.next.next;
            //node.Dispose();       // GC dispose automatically.
            return true;
        }
        public void Print()
        {
            Console.Write("List: ");
            for (Node<Type> node = next; node != null; node = node.next)
                Console.Write(node.value.ToString() + " ");
            Console.WriteLine();
        }
    }
    class Test
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            LinkedList<int> LL = new LinkedList<int>();
            if (!LL.Contain(0)) // Empty list
                Console.WriteLine("0 is not exist.");
            LL.Print();
            LL.Add(0);      // Add to empty list
            LL.Add(1); LL.Add(2); // attach to tail
            LL.Add(2);      // duplicate add, 2 is tail.
            if (LL.Contain(0))// Find existed element which is head
                Console.WriteLine("0 is exist.");
            LL.Print();
            LL.Delete(0);   // Delete head
            LL.Delete(2);   // Delete tail
            if (!LL.Delete(0)) // Delete non-exist element
                Console.WriteLine("0 is not exist.");
            LL.Print();
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
    

By the way, the implementation in http://www.functionx.com/csharp1/examples/linkedlist.htm have some problem:

  1. Delete() will fail when there is only 1 element. (Throw exception at line "Head.Next = Current.Next;" because Current is null.)
  2. Delete(position) will fail when deleting first element, In other words, call Delete(0) will fail.

Python base64 data decode

Interesting if maddening puzzle...but here's the best I could get:

The data seems to repeat every 8 bytes or so.

import struct
import base64

target = \
r'''Q5YACgAAAABDlgAbAAAAAEOWAC0AAAAAQ5YAPwAAAABDlgdNAAAAAEOWB18AAAAAQ5YH 
[snip.]
ZAAAAABExxniAAAAAETH/rQAAAAARMf/MwAAAABEx/+yAAAAAETIADEAAAAA''' 

data = base64.b64decode(target)

cleaned_data = []
struct_format = ">ff"
for i in range(len(data) // 8):
   cleaned_data.append(struct.unpack_from(struct_format, data, 8*i))

That gives output like the following (a sampling of lines from the first 100 or so):

(300.00030517578125, 0.0)
(300.05975341796875, 241.93943786621094)
(301.05612182617187, 0.0)
(301.05667114257812, 8.7439727783203125)
(326.9617919921875, 0.0)
(326.96826171875, 0.0)
(328.34432983398438, 280.55218505859375)

That first number does seem to monotonically increase through the entire set. If you plot it:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
f, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot(*zip(*cleaned_data))

enter image description here

format = 'hhhh' (possibly with various paddings/directions (e.g. '<hhhh', '<xhhhh') also might be worth a look (again, random lines):

(-27069, 2560, 0, 0)
(-27069, 8968, 0, 0)
(-27069, 13576, 3139, -18487)
(-27069, 18184, 31043, -5184)
(-27069, -25721, -25533, -8601)
(-27069, -7289, 0, 0)
(-25533, 31066, 0, 0)
(-25533, -29350, 0, 0)
(-25533, 25179, 0, 0)
(-24509, -1888, 0, 0)
(-24509, -4447, 0, 0)
(-23741, -14725, 32067, 27475)
(-23741, -3973, 0, 0)
(-23485, 4908, -29629, -20922)

Performance of FOR vs FOREACH in PHP

One thing to watch out for in benchmarks (especially phpbench.com), is even though the numbers are sound, the tests are not. Alot of the tests on phpbench.com are doing things at are trivial and abuse PHP's ability to cache array lookups to skew benchmarks or in the case of iterating over an array doesn't actually test it in real world cases (no one writes empty for loops). I've done my own benchmarks that I've found are fairly reflective of the real world results and they always show the language's native iterating syntax foreach coming out on top (surprise, surprise).

//make a nicely random array
$aHash1 = range( 0, 999999 );
$aHash2 = range( 0, 999999 );
shuffle( $aHash1 );
shuffle( $aHash2 );
$aHash = array_combine( $aHash1, $aHash2 );


$start1 = microtime(true);
foreach($aHash as $key=>$val) $aHash[$key]++;
$end1 = microtime(true);

$start2 = microtime(true);
while(list($key) = each($aHash)) $aHash[$key]++;
$end2 = microtime(true);


$start3 = microtime(true);
$key = array_keys($aHash);
$size = sizeOf($key);
for ($i=0; $i<$size; $i++) $aHash[$key[$i]]++;
$end3 = microtime(true);

$start4 = microtime(true);
foreach($aHash as &$val) $val++;
$end4 = microtime(true);

echo "foreach ".($end1 - $start1)."\n"; //foreach 0.947947025299
echo "while ".($end2 - $start2)."\n"; //while 0.847212076187
echo "for ".($end3 - $start3)."\n"; //for 0.439476966858
echo "foreach ref ".($end4 - $start4)."\n"; //foreach ref 0.0886030197144

//For these tests we MUST do an array lookup,
//since that is normally the *point* of iteration
//i'm also calling noop on it so that PHP doesn't
//optimize out the loopup.
function noop( $value ) {}

//Create an array of increasing indexes, w/ random values
$bHash = range( 0, 999999 );
shuffle( $bHash );

$bstart1 = microtime(true);
for($i = 0; $i < 1000000; ++$i) noop( $bHash[$i] );
$bend1 = microtime(true);

$bstart2 = microtime(true);
$i = 0; while($i < 1000000) { noop( $bHash[$i] ); ++$i; }
$bend2 = microtime(true);


$bstart3 = microtime(true);
foreach( $bHash as $value ) { noop( $value ); }
$bend3 = microtime(true);

echo "for ".($bend1 - $bstart1)."\n"; //for 0.397135972977
echo "while ".($bend2 - $bstart2)."\n"; //while 0.364789962769
echo "foreach ".($bend3 - $bstart3)."\n"; //foreach 0.346374034882

Difference between setUp() and setUpBeforeClass()

Think of "BeforeClass" as a static initializer for your test case - use it for initializing static data - things that do not change across your test cases. You definitely want to be careful about static resources that are not thread safe.

Finally, use the "AfterClass" annotated method to clean up any setup you did in the "BeforeClass" annotated method (unless their self destruction is good enough).

"Before" & "After" are for unit test specific initialization. I typically use these methods to initialize / re-initialize the mocks of my dependencies. Obviously, this initialization is not specific to a unit test, but general to all unit tests.

Jquery $.ajax fails in IE on cross domain calls

Microsoft always ploughs a self-defeating (at least in IE) furrow:

http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2010/05/25/cross-domain-ajax-with-cross-origin-resource-sharing/

CORS works with XDomainRequest in IE8. But IE 8 does not support Preflighted or Credentialed Requests while Firefox 3.5+, Safari 4+, and Chrome all support such requests.

How to split a dos path into its components in Python

The functional way, with a generator.

def split(path):
    (drive, head) = os.path.splitdrive(path)
    while (head != os.sep):
        (head, tail) = os.path.split(head)
        yield tail

In action:

>>> print([x for x in split(os.path.normpath('/path/to/filename'))])
['filename', 'to', 'path']

Read a variable in bash with a default value

You can use parameter expansion, e.g.

read -p "Enter your name [Richard]: " name
name=${name:-Richard}
echo $name

Including the default value in the prompt between brackets is a fairly common convention

What does the :-Richard part do? From the bash manual:

${parameter:-word} If parameter is unset or null, the expansion of word is substituted. Otherwise, the value of parameter is substituted.

Also worth noting that...

In each of the cases below, word is subject to tilde expansion, parameter expansion, command substitution, and arithmetic expansion.

So if you use webpath=${webpath:-~/httpdocs} you will get a result of /home/user/expanded/path/httpdocs not ~/httpdocs, etc.

How to start a Process as administrator mode in C#

You probably need to set your application as an x64 app.

The IIS Snap In only works in 64 bit and doesn't work in 32 bit, and a process spawned from a 32 bit app seems to work to be a 32 bit process and the same goes for 64 bit apps.

Look at: Start process as 64 bit

Error in Process.Start() -- The system cannot find the file specified

You can't use a filename like iexplore by itself because the path to internet explorer isn't listed in the PATH environment variable for the system or user.

However any path entered into the PATH environment variable allows you to use just the file name to execute it.

System32 isn't special in this regard as any directory can be added to the PATH variable. Each path is simply delimited by a semi-colon.

For example I have c:\ffmpeg\bin\ and c:\nmap\bin\ in my path environment variable, so I can do things like new ProcessStartInfo("nmap", "-foo") or new ProcessStartInfo("ffplay", "-bar")

The actual PATH variable looks like this on my machine.

%SystemRoot%\system32;C:\FFPlay\bin;C:\nmap\bin;

As you can see you can use other system variables, such as %SystemRoot% to build and construct paths in the environment variable.

So - if you add a path like "%PROGRAMFILES%\Internet Explorer;" to your PATH variable you will be able to use ProcessStartInfo("iexplore");

If you don't want to alter your PATH then simply use a system variable such as %PROGRAMFILES% or %SystemRoot% and then expand it when needed in code. i.e.

string path = Environment.ExpandEnvironmentVariables(
       @"%PROGRAMFILES%\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe");
var info = new ProcessStartInfo(path);

How to handle command-line arguments in PowerShell

You are reinventing the wheel. Normal PowerShell scripts have parameters starting with -, like script.ps1 -server http://devserver

Then you handle them in param section in the beginning of the file.

You can also assign default values to your params, read them from console if not available or stop script execution:

 param (
    [string]$server = "http://defaultserver",
    [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string]$username,
    [string]$password = $( Read-Host "Input password, please" )
 )

Inside the script you can simply

write-output $server

since all parameters become variables available in script scope.

In this example, the $server gets a default value if the script is called without it, script stops if you omit the -username parameter and asks for terminal input if -password is omitted.

Update: You might also want to pass a "flag" (a boolean true/false parameter) to a PowerShell script. For instance, your script may accept a "force" where the script runs in a more careful mode when force is not used.

The keyword for that is [switch] parameter type:

 param (
    [string]$server = "http://defaultserver",
    [string]$password = $( Read-Host "Input password, please" ),
    [switch]$force = $false
 )

Inside the script then you would work with it like this:

if ($force) {
  //deletes a file or does something "bad"
}

Now, when calling the script you'd set the switch/flag parameter like this:

.\yourscript.ps1 -server "http://otherserver" -force

If you explicitly want to state that the flag is not set, there is a special syntax for that

.\yourscript.ps1 -server "http://otherserver" -force:$false

Links to relevant Microsoft documentation (for PowerShell 5.0; tho versions 3.0 and 4.0 are also available at the links):

How to write a file with C in Linux?

First of all, the code you wrote isn't portable, even if you get it to work. Why use OS-specific functions when there is a perfectly platform-independent way of doing it? Here's a version that uses just a single header file and is portable to any platform that implements the C standard library.

#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    FILE* sourceFile;
    FILE* destFile;
    char buf[50];
    int numBytes;

    if(argc!=3)
    {
        printf("Usage: fcopy source destination\n");
        return 1;
    }

    sourceFile = fopen(argv[1], "rb");
    destFile = fopen(argv[2], "wb");

    if(sourceFile==NULL)
    {
        printf("Could not open source file\n");
        return 2;
    }
    if(destFile==NULL)
    {
        printf("Could not open destination file\n");
        return 3;
    }

    while(numBytes=fread(buf, 1, 50, sourceFile))
    {
        fwrite(buf, 1, numBytes, destFile);
    }

    fclose(sourceFile);
    fclose(destFile);

    return 0;
}

EDIT: The glibc reference has this to say:

In general, you should stick with using streams rather than file descriptors, unless there is some specific operation you want to do that can only be done on a file descriptor. If you are a beginning programmer and aren't sure what functions to use, we suggest that you concentrate on the formatted input functions (see Formatted Input) and formatted output functions (see Formatted Output).

If you are concerned about portability of your programs to systems other than GNU, you should also be aware that file descriptors are not as portable as streams. You can expect any system running ISO C to support streams, but non-GNU systems may not support file descriptors at all, or may only implement a subset of the GNU functions that operate on file descriptors. Most of the file descriptor functions in the GNU library are included in the POSIX.1 standard, however.

.htaccess mod_rewrite - how to exclude directory from rewrite rule

What you could also do is put a .htaccess file containing

RewriteEngine Off

In the folders you want to exclude from being rewritten (by the rules in a .htaccess file that's higher up in the tree). Simple but effective.

How to tell PowerShell to wait for each command to end before starting the next?

Just use "Wait-process" :

"notepad","calc","wmplayer" | ForEach-Object {Start-Process $_} | Wait-Process ;dir

job is done

How to make --no-ri --no-rdoc the default for gem install?

On Windows7 the .gemrc file is not present, you can let Ruby create one like this (it's not easy to do this in explorer).

gem sources --add http://rubygems.org

You will have to confirm (it's unsafe). Now the file is created in your userprofile folder (c:\users\)

You can edit the textfile to remove the source you added or you can remove it with

gem sources --remove http://rubygems.org

How can I create an error 404 in PHP?

In the Drupal or Wordpress CMS (and likely others), if you are trying to make some custom php code appear not to exist (unless some condition is met), the following works well by making the CMS's 404 handler take over:

<?php
  if(condition){
    do stuff;
  } else {
    include('index.php');
  }
?>

Python subprocess.Popen "OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory"

As a general rule (i.e. in vanilla kernels), fork/clone failures with ENOMEM occur specifically because of either an honest to God out-of-memory condition (dup_mm, dup_task_struct, alloc_pid, mpol_dup, mm_init etc. croak), or because security_vm_enough_memory_mm failed you while enforcing the overcommit policy.

Start by checking the vmsize of the process that failed to fork, at the time of the fork attempt, and then compare to the amount of free memory (physical and swap) as it relates to the overcommit policy (plug the numbers in.)

In your particular case, note that Virtuozzo has additional checks in overcommit enforcement. Moreover, I'm not sure how much control you truly have, from within your container, over swap and overcommit configuration (in order to influence the outcome of the enforcement.)

Now, in order to actually move forward I'd say you're left with two options:

  • switch to a larger instance, or
  • put some coding effort into more effectively controlling your script's memory footprint

NOTE that the coding effort may be all for naught if it turns out that it's not you, but some other guy collocated in a different instance on the same server as you running amock.

Memory-wise, we already know that subprocess.Popen uses fork/clone under the hood, meaning that every time you call it you're requesting once more as much memory as Python is already eating up, i.e. in the hundreds of additional MB, all in order to then exec a puny 10kB executable such as free or ps. In the case of an unfavourable overcommit policy, you'll soon see ENOMEM.

Alternatives to fork that do not have this parent page tables etc. copy problem are vfork and posix_spawn. But if you do not feel like rewriting chunks of subprocess.Popen in terms of vfork/posix_spawn, consider using suprocess.Popen only once, at the beginning of your script (when Python's memory footprint is minimal), to spawn a shell script that then runs free/ps/sleep and whatever else in a loop parallel to your script; poll the script's output or read it synchronously, possibly from a separate thread if you have other stuff to take care of asynchronously -- do your data crunching in Python but leave the forking to the subordinate process.

HOWEVER, in your particular case you can skip invoking ps and free altogether; that information is readily available to you in Python directly from procfs, whether you choose to access it yourself or via existing libraries and/or packages. If ps and free were the only utilities you were running, then you can do away with subprocess.Popen completely.

Finally, whatever you do as far as subprocess.Popen is concerned, if your script leaks memory you will still hit the wall eventually. Keep an eye on it, and check for memory leaks.

Eclipse - java.lang.ClassNotFoundException

I've run into a same error in Eclipse recently, i.e., the Eclipse IDE couldn't find the Unit test class no matter how I change the configurations. Learning from the previous posts here and in other web sites, I've double checked and triple checked the classpath and source info, and move up and down the source folder and libraries, in both the "Run Configuration" and the "Java Build Path" config windows, and I've also cleaned the Project and rebuilt it, but none of the tricks work for me. The specific Java project is an old ANT compiled project and have lots of jars included in Eclipse library.

Then, I changed the unit test class to add a main() method and right click it to "Run As" a Java Application instead of JUnit test, and suddenly, Eclipse seems to wake up and identified the class correctly. Afterwards, I switched it back to a Unit test application, and it is still working.

This seems to be a bug in Eclipse, I am guessing the large number of libraries (>260) may confused the JVM's ability to locate my JUnit class.

Initialization of an ArrayList in one line

About the most compact way to do this is:

Double array[] = { 1.0, 2.0, 3.0};
List<Double> list = Arrays.asList(array);

How to use NSURLConnection to connect with SSL for an untrusted cert?

If you want to keep using sendSynchronousRequest i work in this solution:

FailCertificateDelegate *fcd=[[FailCertificateDelegate alloc] init];

NSURLConnection *c=[[NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest:request delegate:fcd startImmediately:NO];
[c setDelegateQueue:[[NSOperationQueue alloc] init]];
[c start];    
NSData *d=[fcd getData];

you can see it here: Objective-C SSL Synchronous Connection

How can I specify a display?

Even i faced the same in CentOS 6.8.

yum reinstall xorg*

End your current session and open another session in tool like mobiXterm. Make sure session has X11 forwarding enabled in the tool.

How can I Convert HTML to Text in C#?

I have used Detagger in the past. It does a pretty good job of formatting the HTML as text and is more than just a tag remover.

How to execute an .SQL script file using c#

I managed to work out the answer by reading the manual :)

This extract from the MSDN

The code example avoids a deadlock condition by calling p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd before p.WaitForExit. A deadlock condition can result if the parent process calls p.WaitForExit before p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd and the child process writes enough text to fill the redirected stream. The parent process would wait indefinitely for the child process to exit. The child process would wait indefinitely for the parent to read from the full StandardOutput stream.

There is a similar issue when you read all text from both the standard output and standard error streams. For example, the following C# code performs a read operation on both streams.

Turns the code into this;

Process p = new Process();
p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
p.StartInfo.FileName = "sqlplus";
p.StartInfo.Arguments = string.Format("xxx/xxx@{0} @{1}", in_database, s);

bool started = p.Start();
// important ... read stream input before waiting for exit.
// this avoids deadlock.
string output = p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();

p.WaitForExit();

Console.WriteLine(output);

if (p.ExitCode != 0)
{
    Console.WriteLine( string.Format("*** Failed : {0} - {1}",s,p.ExitCode));
    break;
}

Which now exits correctly.

How to execute a .bat file from a C# windows form app?

For the problem you're having about the batch file asking the user if the destination is a folder or file, if you know the answer in advance, you can do as such:

If destination is a file: echo f | [batch file path]

If folder: echo d | [batch file path]

It will essentially just pipe the letter after "echo" to the input of the batch file.

How to spawn a process and capture its STDOUT in .NET?

Here's some full and simple code to do this. This worked fine when I used it.

var processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo
{
    FileName = @"C:\SomeProgram",
    Arguments = "Arguments",
    RedirectStandardOutput = true,
    UseShellExecute = false
};
var process = Process.Start(processStartInfo);
var output = process.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
process.WaitForExit();

Note that this only captures standard output; it doesn't capture standard error. If you want both, use this technique for each stream.

Using RegEX To Prefix And Append In Notepad++

Assuming alphanumeric words, you can use:

Search  = ^([A-Za-z0-9]+)$
Replace = able:"\1"

Or, if you just want to highlight the lines and use "Replace All" & "In Selection" (with the same replace):

Search = ^(.+)$

^ points to the start of the line.
$ points to the end of the line.

\1 will be the source match within the parentheses.

What can cause intermittent ORA-12519 (TNS: no appropriate handler found) errors

Another solution I have found to a similar error but the same error message is to increase the number of service handlers found. (My instance of this error was caused by too many connections in the Weblogic Portal Connection pools.)

  • Run SQL*Plus and login as SYSTEM. You should know what password you’ve used during the installation of Oracle DB XE.
  • Run the command alter system set processes=150 scope=spfile; in SQL*Plus
  • VERY IMPORTANT: Restart the database.

From here:

http://www.atpeaz.com/index.php/2010/fixing-the-ora-12519-tnsno-appropriate-service-handler-found-error/

Ruby: How to post a file via HTTP as multipart/form-data?

Fast forward to 2017, ruby stdlib net/http has this built-in since 1.9.3

Net::HTTPRequest#set_form): Added to support both application/x-www-form-urlencoded and multipart/form-data.

https://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.3.1/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/Net/HTTPHeader.html#method-i-set_form

We can even use IO which does not support :size to stream the form data.

Hoping that this answer can really help someone :)

P.S. I only tested this in ruby 2.3.1

ProcessStartInfo hanging on "WaitForExit"? Why?

None of the answers above is doing the job.

Rob solution hangs and 'Mark Byers' solution get the disposed exception.(I tried the "solutions" of the other answers).

So I decided to suggest another solution:

public void GetProcessOutputWithTimeout(Process process, int timeoutSec, CancellationToken token, out string output, out int exitCode)
{
    string outputLocal = "";  int localExitCode = -1;
    var task = System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Factory.StartNew(() =>
    {
        outputLocal = process.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
        process.WaitForExit();
        localExitCode = process.ExitCode;
    }, token);

    if (task.Wait(timeoutSec, token))
    {
        output = outputLocal;
        exitCode = localExitCode;
    }
    else
    {
        exitCode = -1;
        output = "";
    }
}

using (var process = new Process())
{
    process.StartInfo = ...;
    process.Start();
    string outputUnicode; int exitCode;
    GetProcessOutputWithTimeout(process, PROCESS_TIMEOUT, out outputUnicode, out exitCode);
}

This code debugged and works perfectly.

Before and After Suite execution hook in jUnit 4.x

Yes, it is possible to reliably run set up and tear down methods before and after any tests in a test suite. Let me demonstrate in code:

package com.test;

import org.junit.AfterClass;
import org.junit.BeforeClass;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.junit.runners.Suite;
import org.junit.runners.Suite.SuiteClasses;

@RunWith(Suite.class)
@SuiteClasses({Test1.class, Test2.class})
public class TestSuite {

    @BeforeClass
    public static void setUp() {
        System.out.println("setting up");
    }

    @AfterClass
    public static void tearDown() {
        System.out.println("tearing down");
    }

}

So your Test1 class would look something like:

package com.test;

import org.junit.Test;


public class Test1 {
    @Test
    public void test1() {
        System.out.println("test1");
    }

}

...and you can imagine that Test2 looks similar. If you ran TestSuite, you would get:

setting up
test1
test2
tearing down

So you can see that the set up/tear down only run before and after all tests, respectively.

The catch: this only works if you're running the test suite, and not running Test1 and Test2 as individual JUnit tests. You mentioned you're using maven, and the maven surefire plugin likes to run tests individually, and not part of a suite. In this case, I would recommend creating a superclass that each test class extends. The superclass then contains the annotated @BeforeClass and @AfterClass methods. Although not quite as clean as the above method, I think it will work for you.

As for the problem with failed tests, you can set maven.test.error.ignore so that the build continues on failed tests. This is not recommended as a continuing practice, but it should get you functioning until all of your tests pass. For more detail, see the maven surefire documentation.

What good technology podcasts are out there?

Am I going to be downmodded for suggesting that the Stack Overflow podcast is hilariously bad as a podcast? Anywho, you can find it, and a number of not-bad podcasts at itconversations.com.

As this question asked for a "good" rather than "exhaustive" list, then this is obviously just my opinion. My opinion bounces between .NET and Java and just geek. And obvious omissions would reflect my opinion on "good". (Ahem, DNR.)

The rest of these are easily found by doing a podcast search in iTunes, or just googling (I'll do some repeating here to condense the list):

  • Buzz Out Loud (General Consumer Tech, Daily)
  • This Week in Tech (aka TWiT. Weekly Consumer Tech.)
  • The Java Posse (Weekly.)
  • Google Developer Podcast (which went long fallow, but seems to be coming back, possible renamed as the Google Code Review. Schedule uncertain, technologies vary.)
  • Hanselminutes (Usually, but not always, .NET-related)
  • MacBreak Weekly (The Mac version of TWiT)
  • Polymorphic Podcast (All .NET, usually ASP.NET)
  • Pixel8ed (All .NET, focused on UI. Same guy who does Polymorphic Podcast)
  • tech5 (Consumer Tech. Mostly a fun waste of 5 minutes because Dvorak is so... Spolsky.)

Adding one day to a date

<?php
$stop_date = '2009-09-30 20:24:00';
echo 'date before day adding: ' . $stop_date; 
$stop_date = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime($stop_date . ' +1 day'));
echo 'date after adding 1 day: ' . $stop_date;
?>

For PHP 5.2.0+, you may also do as follows:

$stop_date = new DateTime('2009-09-30 20:24:00');
echo 'date before day adding: ' . $stop_date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s'); 
$stop_date->modify('+1 day');
echo 'date after adding 1 day: ' . $stop_date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

Get drop down value

Use the value property of the <select> element. For example:

var value = document.getElementById('your_select_id').value;
alert(value);

Pandas read in table without headers

Make sure you specify pass header=None and add usecols=[3,6] for the 4th and 7th columns.

Can I target all <H> tags with a single selector?

The new :is() CSS pseudo-class can do it in one selector:

:is(h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6) {
  color: red;
}

Java double comparison epsilon

Whoa whoa whoa. Is there a specific reason you're using floating-point for currency, or would things be better off with an arbitrary-precision, fixed-point number format? I have no idea what the specific problem that you're trying to solve is, but you should think about whether or not half a cent is really something you want to work with, or if it's just an artifact of using an imprecise number format.

Failed to execute 'postMessage' on 'DOMWindow': The target origin provided does not match the recipient window's origin ('null')

My issue was I was instatiating the player completely from start but I used an iframe instead of a wrapper div.

How can I read command line parameters from an R script?

Add this to the top of your script:

args<-commandArgs(TRUE)

Then you can refer to the arguments passed as args[1], args[2] etc.

Then run

Rscript myscript.R arg1 arg2 arg3

If your args are strings with spaces in them, enclose within double quotes.

INSTALL_FAILED_USER_RESTRICTED : android studio using redmi 4 device

In my case, I pressed Deny unfortunately during first time installation. So I was getting INSTALL_FAILED_USER_RESTRICTED.

You can get modify this permission for app under permissions.

Settings->Permissions->Install via USB->{Your App}

You should have enabled below options too.

Settings->Additional Settings->Privacy->Unknown Sources

Settings->Additional Settings->Developer Options->Install via USB

Getting A File's Mime Type In Java

Apache Tika offers in tika-core a mime type detection based based on magic markers in the stream prefix. tika-core does not fetch other dependencies, which makes it as lightweight as the currently unmaintained Mime Type Detection Utility.

Simple code example (Java 7), using the variables theInputStream and theFileName

try (InputStream is = theInputStream;
        BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(is);) {
    AutoDetectParser parser = new AutoDetectParser();
    Detector detector = parser.getDetector();
    Metadata md = new Metadata();
    md.add(Metadata.RESOURCE_NAME_KEY, theFileName);
    MediaType mediaType = detector.detect(bis, md);
    return mediaType.toString();
}

Please note that MediaType.detect(...) cannot be used directly (TIKA-1120). More hints are provided at https://tika.apache.org/1.24/detection.html.

HTML5 tag for horizontal line break

You can still use <hr> as a horizontal line, and you probably should. In HTML5 it defines a thematic break in content, without making any promises about how it is displayed. The attributes that aren't supported in the HTML5 spec are all related to the tag's appearance. The appearance should be set in CSS, not in the HTML itself.

So use the <hr> tag without attributes, then style it in CSS to appear the way you want.

Synchronous XMLHttpRequest warning and <script>

Even the latest jQuery has that line, so you have these options:

  • Change the source of jQuery yourself - but maybe there is a good reason for its usage
  • Live with the warning, please note that this option is deprecated and not obsolete.
  • Change your code, so it does not use this function

I think number 2 is the most sensible course of action in this case.

By the way if you haven't already tried, try this out: $.ajaxSetup({async:true});, but I don't think it will work.

How to trim a string after a specific character in java

Assuming you just want everything before \n (or any other literal string/char), you should use indexOf() with substring():

result = result.substring(0, result.indexOf('\n'));

If you want to extract the portion before a certain regular expression, you can use split():

result = result.split(regex, 2)[0];

String result = "34.1 -118.33\n<!--ABCDEFG-->";

System.out.println(result.substring(0, result.indexOf('\n')));
System.out.println(result.split("\n", 2)[0]);
34.1 -118.33
34.1 -118.33

(Obviously \n isn't a meaningful regular expression, I just used it to demonstrate that the second approach also works.)

Convert .pfx to .cer

the simple way I believe is to import it then export it, using the certificate manager in Windows Management Console.

Using regular expression in css?

As complement of this answer you can use $ to get the end matches and * to get matches anywhere in the value name.

Matches anywhere: .col-md, .left-col, .col, .tricolor, etc.

[class*="col"]

Matches at the beginning: .col-md, .col-sm-6, etc.

[class^="col-"]

Matches at the ending: .left-col, .right-col, etc.

[class$="-col"]

Getting only hour/minute of datetime

Try this:

var src = DateTime.Now;
var hm = new DateTime(src.Year, src.Month, src.Day, src.Hour, src.Minute, 0);

How to get the full url in Express?

async function (request, response, next) {
  const url = request.rawHeaders[9] + request.originalUrl;
  //or
  const url = request.headers.host + request.originalUrl;
}

Write code to convert given number into words (eg 1234 as input should output one thousand two hundred and thirty four)

#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
void expand(int);
int main()
{
    int num;
    cout<<"Enter a number : ";
    cin>>num;
    expand(num);
}
void expand(int value)
{
    const char * const ones[20] = {"zero", "one", "two", "three","four","five","six","seven",
    "eight","nine","ten","eleven","twelve","thirteen","fourteen","fifteen","sixteen","seventeen",
    "eighteen","nineteen"};
    const char * const tens[10] = {"", "ten", "twenty", "thirty","forty","fifty","sixty","seventy",
    "eighty","ninety"};

    if(value<0)
    {
        cout<<"minus ";
        expand(-value);
    }
    else if(value>=1000)
    {
        expand(value/1000);
        cout<<" thousand";
        if(value % 1000)
        {
            if(value % 1000 < 100)
            {
                cout << " and";
            }
            cout << " " ;
            expand(value % 1000);
        }
    }
    else if(value >= 100)
    {
        expand(value / 100);
        cout<<" hundred";
        if(value % 100)
        {
            cout << " and ";
            expand (value % 100);
        }
    }
    else if(value >= 20)
    {
        cout << tens[value / 10];
        if(value % 10)
        {
            cout << " ";
            expand(value % 10);
        }
    }
    else
    {
        cout<<ones[value];
    }
    return;
}

How to unset (remove) a collection element after fetching it?

I'm not fine with solutions that iterates over a collection and inside the loop manipulating the content of even that collection. This can result in unexpected behaviour.

See also here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2304578/655224 and in a comment the given link http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.foreach.php#88578

So, when using foreach if seems to be OK but IMHO the much more readable and simple solution is to filter your collection to a new one.

/**
 * Filter all `selected` items
 *
 * @link https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/collections#method-filter
 */
$selected = $collection->filter(function($value, $key) {
    return $value->selected;
})->toArray();

sqlplus how to find details of the currently connected database session

show user

to get connected user

 select instance_name from v$instance

to get instance or set in sqlplus

set sqlprompt "_USER'@'_CONNECT_IDENTIFIER> "

TypeError("'bool' object is not iterable",) when trying to return a Boolean

Look at the traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\bottle.py", line 821, in _cast
    out = iter(out)
TypeError: 'bool' object is not iterable

Your code isn't iterating the value, but the code receiving it is.

The solution is: return an iterable. I suggest that you either convert the bool to a string (str(False)) or enclose it in a tuple ((False,)).

Always read the traceback: it's correct, and it's helpful.

Mismatched anonymous define() module

In getting started with require.js I ran into the issue and as a beginner the docs may as well been written in greek.

The issue I ran into was that most of the beginner examples use "anonymous defines" when you should be using a "string id".

anonymous defines

define(function() {
        return { helloWorld: function() { console.log('hello world!') } };
 })
    
  
define(function() {
        return { helloWorld2: function() { console.log('hello world again!') } };
 })

define with string id

define('moduleOne',function() {
    return { helloWorld: function() { console.log('hello world!') } };
})

 define('moduleTwo', function() {
      return { helloWorld2: function() { console.log('hello world again!') } };
})

When you use define with a string id then you will avoid this error when you try to use the modules like so:

require([ "moduleOne", "moduleTwo" ], function(moduleOne, moduleTwo) {
    moduleOne.helloWorld();
    moduleTwo.helloWorld2();
});

sqlalchemy IS NOT NULL select

Starting in version 0.7.9 you can use the filter operator .isnot instead of comparing constraints, like this:

query.filter(User.name.isnot(None))

This method is only necessary if pep8 is a concern.

source: sqlalchemy documentation

Run Batch File On Start-up

To start the batch file at the start of your system, you can also use a registry key.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Here you can create a string. As name you can choose anything and the data is the full path to your file.

There is also the registry key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

to run something at only the next start of your system.

How to empty the content of a div

If by saying without destroying it, you mean to a keep a reference to the children, you can do:

var oldChildren = [];

while(element.hasChildNodes()) {
    oldChildren.push(element.removeChild(element.firstChild));
}

Regarding the original tagging (html css) of your question:

You cannot remove content with CSS. You could only hide it. E.g. you can hide all children of a certain node with:

#someID > * {
    display: none;
}

This doesn't work in IE6 though (but you could use #someID *).

How to get previous page url using jquery

Easy as pie.

$(document).ready(function() {
   var referrer =  document.referrer;
});

Hope it helps. It is not always available though.

How to change the button text of <input type="file" />?

You can put an image instead, and do it like this:

HTML:

<img src="/images/uploadButton.png" id="upfile1" style="cursor:pointer" />
<input type="file" id="file1"  name="file1" style="display:none" />

JQuery:

$("#upfile1").click(function () {
    $("#file1").trigger('click');
});

CAVEAT: In IE9 and IE10 if you trigger the onClick in a file input via javascript, the form will be flagged as 'dangerous' and cannot be submitted with javascript, not sure if it can be submitted traditionally.

Error: Registry key 'Software\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment'\CurrentVersion'?

I had various JDK from 1.5 to 1.7 installed on my PC. I had a need to learn JDK1.8 so installed and my earlier versions of Eclipse (depended on earlier versions of JDK) and I got errors launching my Eclipse IDE, on the command line I tried to check the Java Version and got the error below,

C:\>java -version
Registry key 'Software\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment\CurrentVersion'
has value '1.8', but '1.6' is required.
Error: could not find java.dll
Error: could not find Java SE Runtime Environment.

Solution:- I removed

C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;
from the PATH variable and moved %JAVA%\bin to the start of the PATH variable, that solved the problem for me.

Invoke JSF managed bean action on page load

JSF 1.0 / 1.1

Just put the desired logic in the constructor of the request scoped bean associated with the JSF page.

public Bean() {
    // Do your stuff here.
}

JSF 1.2 / 2.x

Use @PostConstruct annotated method on a request or view scoped bean. It will be executed after construction and initialization/setting of all managed properties and injected dependencies.

@PostConstruct
public void init() {
    // Do your stuff here.
}

This is strongly recommended over constructor in case you're using a bean management framework which uses proxies, such as CDI, because the constructor may not be called at the times you'd expect it.

JSF 2.0 / 2.1

Alternatively, use <f:event type="preRenderView"> in case you intend to initialize based on <f:viewParam> too, or when the bean is put in a broader scope than the view scope (which in turn indicates a design problem, but that aside). Otherwise, a @PostConstruct is perfectly fine too.

<f:metadata>
    <f:viewParam name="foo" value="#{bean.foo}" />
    <f:event type="preRenderView" listener="#{bean.onload}" />
</f:metadata>
public void onload() { 
    // Do your stuff here.
}

JSF 2.2+

Alternatively, use <f:viewAction> in case you intend to initialize based on <f:viewParam> too, or when the bean is put in a broader scope than the view scope (which in turn indicates a design problem, but that aside). Otherwise, a @PostConstruct is perfectly fine too.

<f:metadata>
    <f:viewParam name="foo" value="#{bean.foo}" />
    <f:viewAction action="#{bean.onload}" />
</f:metadata>
public void onload() { 
    // Do your stuff here.
}

Note that this can return a String navigation case if necessary. It will be interpreted as a redirect (so you do not need a ?faces-redirect=true here).

public String onload() { 
    // Do your stuff here.
    // ...
    return "some.xhtml";
}

See also:

Change navbar color in Twitter Bootstrap

Using Less

You could also consider to compile your own version. Try http://getbootstrap.com/customize/ (which has a apart section for the Navbars settings (Default navbar and Inverted Navbar)) or download your own copy from https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap.

You will find the navbar settings in variables.less. navbar.less is used to compile the navbar (depends on variables.less and mixins.less).

Copy the 'navbar-default section' and fill in your own color settings. Changing the variables in variables.less will be the easiest way (changing the default or inverse navbar won't be a problem because you have one navbar per page only).

You won't change all settings in most cases:

// Navbar
// -------------------------

// Basics of a navbar
@navbar-height:                    50px;
@navbar-margin-bottom:             @line-height-computed;
@navbar-default-color:             #777;
@navbar-default-bg:                #f8f8f8;
@navbar-default-border:            darken(@navbar-default-bg, 6.5%);
@navbar-border-radius:             @border-radius-base;
@navbar-padding-horizontal:        floor(@grid-gutter-width / 2);
@navbar-padding-vertical:          ((@navbar-height - @line-height-computed) / 2);

// Navbar links
@navbar-default-link-color:                #777;
@navbar-default-link-hover-color:          #333;
@navbar-default-link-hover-bg:             transparent;
@navbar-default-link-active-color:         #555;
@navbar-default-link-active-bg:            darken(@navbar-default-bg, 6.5%);
@navbar-default-link-disabled-color:       #ccc;
@navbar-default-link-disabled-bg:          transparent;

// Navbar brand label
@navbar-default-brand-color:               @navbar-default-link-color;
@navbar-default-brand-hover-color:         darken(@navbar-default-link-color, 10%);
@navbar-default-brand-hover-bg:            transparent;

// Navbar toggle
@navbar-default-toggle-hover-bg:           #ddd;
@navbar-default-toggle-icon-bar-bg:        #ccc;
@navbar-default-toggle-border-color:       #ddd;

You could also try http://twitterbootstrap3navbars.w3masters.nl/. This tool generates CSS code for your custom navbar. Optionally, you could also add gradient colors and borders to the navbar.

Remove Identity from a column in a table

ALTER TABLE tablename add newcolumn int
update tablename set newcolumn=existingcolumnname
ALTER TABLE tablename DROP COLUMN existingcolumnname;
EXEC sp_RENAME 'tablename.oldcolumn' , 'newcolumnname', 'COLUMN'

However above code works only if no primary-foreign key relation

AngularJs ReferenceError: $http is not defined

I have gone through the same problem when I was using

    myApp.controller('mainController', ['$scope', function($scope,) {
        //$http was not working in this
    }]);

I have changed the above code to given below. Remember to include $http(2 times) as given below.

 myApp.controller('mainController', ['$scope','$http', function($scope,$http) {
      //$http is working in this
 }]);

and It has worked well.

Get line number while using grep

grep -n SEARCHTERM file1 file2 ...

Why does comparing strings using either '==' or 'is' sometimes produce a different result?

This is a side note, but in idiomatic Python, you will often see things like:

if x is None:
    # Some clauses

This is safe, because there is guaranteed to be one instance of the Null Object (i.e., None).

How to get active user's UserDetails

@Controller
public abstract class AbstractController {
    @ModelAttribute("loggedUser")
    public User getLoggedUser() {
        return (User)SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication().getPrincipal();
    }
}

How to I say Is Not Null in VBA

Use Not IsNull(Fields!W_O_Count.Value)

How to execute Ant build in command line

Try running all targets individually to check that all are running correct

run ant target name to run a target individually

e.g. ant build-project

Also the default target you specified is

project basedir="." default="build" name="iControlSilk4J"

This will only execute build-subprojects,build-project and init

Uploading a file in Rails

Sept 2018

For anyone checking this question recently, Rails 5.2+ now has ActiveStorage by default & I highly recommend checking it out.

Since it is part of the core Rails 5.2+ now, it is very well integrated & has excellent capabilities out of the box (still all other well-known gems like Carrierwave, Shrine, paperclip,... are great but this one offers very good features that we can consider for any new Rails project)

Paperclip team deprecated the gem in favor of the Rails ActiveStorage.

Here is the github page for the ActiveStorage & plenty of resources are available everywhere

Also I found this video to be very helpful to understand the features of Activestorage

This view is not constrained vertically. At runtime it will jump to the left unless you add a vertical constraint

for example I have this

<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

use RelativeLayout layout like this

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

How to load all modules in a folder?

I have also encountered this problem and this was my solution:

import os

def loadImports(path):
    files = os.listdir(path)
    imps = []

    for i in range(len(files)):
        name = files[i].split('.')
        if len(name) > 1:
            if name[1] == 'py' and name[0] != '__init__':
               name = name[0]
               imps.append(name)

    file = open(path+'__init__.py','w')

    toWrite = '__all__ = '+str(imps)

    file.write(toWrite)
    file.close()

This function creates a file (in the provided folder) named __init__.py, which contains an __all__ variable that holds every module in the folder.

For example, I have a folder named Test which contains:

Foo.py
Bar.py

So in the script I want the modules to be imported into I will write:

loadImports('Test/')
from Test import *

This will import everything from Test and the __init__.py file in Test will now contain:

__all__ = ['Foo','Bar']

C char array initialization

This is not how you initialize an array, but for:

  1. The first declaration:

    char buf[10] = "";
    

    is equivalent to

    char buf[10] = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0};
    
  2. The second declaration:

    char buf[10] = " ";
    

    is equivalent to

    char buf[10] = {' ', 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0};
    
  3. The third declaration:

    char buf[10] = "a";
    

    is equivalent to

    char buf[10] = {'a', 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0};
    

As you can see, no random content: if there are fewer initializers, the remaining of the array is initialized with 0. This the case even if the array is declared inside a function.

ngOnInit not being called when Injectable class is Instantiated

Note: this answer applies only to Angular components and directives, NOT services.

I had this same issue when ngOnInit (and other lifecycle hooks) were not firing for my components, and most searches led me here.

The issue is that I was using the arrow function syntax (=>) like this:

class MyComponent implements OnInit {
    // Bad: do not use arrow function
    public ngOnInit = () => {
        console.log("ngOnInit");
    }
}

Apparently that does not work in Angular 6. Using non-arrow function syntax fixes the issue:

class MyComponent implements OnInit {
    public ngOnInit() {
        console.log("ngOnInit");
    }
}

Xcode 4 - build output directory

If you use the new Xcode4 Workspaces, you can change the Derived Data Location under File -> Workspace settings...

Online PHP syntax checker / validator

In case you're interested, an offline checker that does complicated type analysis: http://strongphp.org It is not online however.

How to replace a string in a SQL Server Table Column

UPDATE CustomReports_Ta
SET vchFilter = REPLACE(CAST(vchFilter AS nvarchar(max)), '\\Ingl-report\Templates', 'C:\Customer_Templates')
where CAST(vchFilter AS nvarchar(max)) LIKE '%\\Ingl-report\Templates%'

Without the CAST function I got an error

Argument data type ntext is invalid for argument 1 of replace function.

jQuery Screen Resolution Height Adjustment

Here is an example on how to center an object vertically with jQuery:

var div= $('#div_SomeDivYouWantToAdjust');
div.css("top", ($(window).height() - div.height())/2  + 'px');

But you could easily change that to whatever your needs are.

ListView with Add and Delete Buttons in each Row in android

You will first need to create a custom layout xml which will represent a single item in your list. You will add your two buttons to this layout along with any other items you want to display from your list.

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

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/list_item_string"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_centerVertical="true"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:paddingLeft="8dp"
    android:textSize="18sp"
    android:textStyle="bold" /> 

<Button
    android:id="@+id/delete_btn"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
    android:layout_centerVertical="true"
    android:layout_marginRight="5dp"
    android:text="Delete" /> 

<Button
    android:id="@+id/add_btn"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_toLeftOf="@id/delete_btn"
    android:layout_centerVertical="true"
    android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
    android:text="Add" />

</RelativeLayout>

Next you will need to create a Custom ArrayAdapter Class which you will use to inflate your xml layout, as well as handle your buttons and on click events.

public class MyCustomAdapter extends BaseAdapter implements ListAdapter { 
private ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<String>(); 
private Context context; 



public MyCustomAdapter(ArrayList<String> list, Context context) { 
    this.list = list; 
    this.context = context; 
} 

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

@Override
public Object getItem(int pos) { 
    return list.get(pos); 
} 

@Override
public long getItemId(int pos) { 
    return list.get(pos).getId();
    //just return 0 if your list items do not have an Id variable.
} 

@Override
public View getView(final int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
    View view = convertView;
    if (view == null) {
        LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) context.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE); 
        view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.my_custom_list_layout, null);
    } 

    //Handle TextView and display string from your list
    TextView listItemText = (TextView)view.findViewById(R.id.list_item_string); 
    listItemText.setText(list.get(position)); 

    //Handle buttons and add onClickListeners
    Button deleteBtn = (Button)view.findViewById(R.id.delete_btn);
    Button addBtn = (Button)view.findViewById(R.id.add_btn);

    deleteBtn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener(){
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) { 
            //do something
            list.remove(position); //or some other task
            notifyDataSetChanged();
        }
    });
    addBtn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener(){
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) { 
            //do something
            notifyDataSetChanged();
        }
    });

    return view; 
} 
}

Finally, in your activity you can instantiate your custom ArrayAdapter class and set it to your listview.

public class MyActivity extends Activity { 

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { 
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); 
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_my_activity); 

    //generate list
    ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
    list.add("item1");
    list.add("item2");

    //instantiate custom adapter
    MyCustomAdapter adapter = new MyCustomAdapter(list, this);

    //handle listview and assign adapter
    ListView lView = (ListView)findViewById(R.id.my_listview);
    lView.setAdapter(adapter);
}

Hope this helps!

SQL Server find and replace specific word in all rows of specific column

You can also export the database and then use a program like notepad++ to replace words and then inmport aigain.

Show data on mouseover of circle

There is an awesome library for doing that that I recently discovered. It's simple to use and the result is quite neat: d3-tip.

You can see an example here:

enter image description here

Basically, all you have to do is to download(index.js), include the script:

<script src="index.js"></script>

and then follow the instructions from here (same link as example)

But for your code, it would be something like:

define the method:

var tip = d3.tip()
  .attr('class', 'd3-tip')
  .offset([-10, 0])
  .html(function(d) {
    return "<strong>Frequency:</strong> <span style='color:red'>" + d.frequency + "</span>";
  })

create your svg (as you already do)

var svg = ...

call the method:

svg.call(tip);

add tip to your object:

vis.selectAll("circle")
   .data(datafiltered).enter().append("svg:circle")
...
   .on('mouseover', tip.show)
   .on('mouseout', tip.hide)

Don't forget to add the CSS:

<style>
.d3-tip {
  line-height: 1;
  font-weight: bold;
  padding: 12px;
  background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8);
  color: #fff;
  border-radius: 2px;
}

/* Creates a small triangle extender for the tooltip */
.d3-tip:after {
  box-sizing: border-box;
  display: inline;
  font-size: 10px;
  width: 100%;
  line-height: 1;
  color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8);
  content: "\25BC";
  position: absolute;
  text-align: center;
}

/* Style northward tooltips differently */
.d3-tip.n:after {
  margin: -1px 0 0 0;
  top: 100%;
  left: 0;
}
</style>

Get first element from a dictionary

For anyone coming to this that wants a linq-less way to get an element from a dictionary

var d = new Dictionary<string, string>();
d.Add("a", "b");
var e = d.GetEnumerator();
e.MoveNext();
var anElement = e.Current;
// anElement/e.Current is a KeyValuePair<string,string>
// where Key = "a", Value = "b"

I'm not sure if this is implementation specific, but if your Dictionary doesn't have any elements, Current will contain a KeyValuePair<string, string> where both the key and value are null.

(I looked at the logic behind linq's First method to come up with this, and tested it via LinqPad 4)

INSERT INTO ... SELECT FROM ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE

MySQL will assume the part before the equals references the columns named in the INSERT INTO clause, and the second part references the SELECT columns.

INSERT INTO lee(exp_id, created_by, location, animal, starttime, endtime, entct, 
                inact, inadur, inadist, 
                smlct, smldur, smldist, 
                larct, lardur, lardist, 
                emptyct, emptydur)
SELECT id, uid, t.location, t.animal, t.starttime, t.endtime, t.entct, 
       t.inact, t.inadur, t.inadist, 
       t.smlct, t.smldur, t.smldist, 
       t.larct, t.lardur, t.lardist, 
       t.emptyct, t.emptydur 
FROM tmp t WHERE uid=x
ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE entct=t.entct, inact=t.inact, ...

How to make a simple rounded button in Storyboard?

As other answer have suggested to perform most of this work in code only one answer actually provided a way to view your changes in the storyboard IB Interface. My answer goes beyond that answer by allowing you to change the cornerRadius of the view, button, image, etc.

Please take a look at the following code. To use this code create a new swift file called RoundedView or whatever you would like to call it then go to your storyboard and change the class to either "RoundedView", "RoundedImageView" or "RoundedButton".

import UIKit

@IBDesignable class RoundedImage: UIImageView
{
    override func layoutSubviews() {
        super.layoutSubviews()

        updateCornerRadius()
    }

    @IBInspectable var rounded: Bool = false {
        didSet {
            updateCornerRadius()
        }
    }

    @IBInspectable var cornerRadius: CGFloat = 0.1 {
        didSet {
            updateCornerRadius()
        }
    }

    func updateCornerRadius() {
        layer.cornerRadius = rounded ? cornerRadius : 0
        layer.masksToBounds = rounded ? true : false
    }
}

@IBDesignable class RoundedView: UIView
{
    override func layoutSubviews() {
        super.layoutSubviews()

        updateCornerRadius()
    }

    @IBInspectable var rounded: Bool = false {
        didSet {
            updateCornerRadius()
        }
    }

    @IBInspectable var cornerRadius: CGFloat = 0.1 {
        didSet {
            updateCornerRadius()
        }
    }

    func updateCornerRadius() {
        layer.cornerRadius = rounded ? cornerRadius : 0
        layer.masksToBounds = rounded ? true : false
    }
}

@IBDesignable class RoundedButton: UIButton
{
    override func layoutSubviews() {
        super.layoutSubviews()

        updateCornerRadius()
    }

    @IBInspectable var rounded: Bool = false {
        didSet {
            updateCornerRadius()
        }
    }

    @IBInspectable var cornerRadius: CGFloat = 0.1 {
        didSet {
            updateCornerRadius()
        }
    }

    func updateCornerRadius() {
        layer.cornerRadius = rounded ? cornerRadius : 0
        layer.masksToBounds = rounded ? true : false
    }
}

Running Bash commands in Python

Call it with subprocess

import subprocess
subprocess.Popen("cwm --rdf test.rdf --ntriples > test.nt")

The error you are getting seems to be because there is no swap module on the server, you should install swap on the server then run the script again

How to disable the back button in the browser using JavaScript

history.pushState(null, null, document.title);
window.addEventListener('popstate', function () {
    history.pushState(null, null, document.title);
});

This script will overwrite attempts to navigate back and forth with the state of the current page.


Update:

Some users have reported better success with using document.URL instead of document.title:

history.pushState(null, null, document.URL);
window.addEventListener('popstate', function () {
    history.pushState(null, null, document.URL);
});

What is setContentView(R.layout.main)?

You can set content view (or design) of an activity. For example you can do it like this too :

public void onCreate(Bundle savedinstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedinstanceState);

    Button testButon = new Button(this);

    setContentView(testButon);   
}

Also watch this tutorial too.

Where are static variables stored in C and C++?

In fact, a variable is tuple (storage, scope, type, address, value):

storage     :   where is it stored, for example data, stack, heap...
scope       :   who can see us, for example global, local...
type        :   what is our type, for example int, int*...
address     :   where are we located
value       :   what is our value

Local scope could mean local to either the translational unit (source file), the function or the block depending on where its defined. To make variable visible to more than one function, it definitely has to be in either DATA or the BSS area (depending on whether its initialized explicitly or not, respectively). Its then scoped accordingly to either all function(s) or function(s) within source file.

Enable 'xp_cmdshell' SQL Server

You need to enable it. Check out the Permission section of the xp_cmdshell MSDN docs:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190693.aspx:

-- To allow advanced options to be changed.
EXEC sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1
GO
-- To update the currently configured value for advanced options.
RECONFIGURE
GO
-- To enable the feature.
EXEC sp_configure 'xp_cmdshell', 1
GO
-- To update the currently configured value for this feature.
RECONFIGURE
GO

Base64 encoding in SQL Server 2005 T-SQL

I loved @Slai's answer. I only had to make very minor modifications into the one-liners I was looking for. I thought I'd share what I ended up with in case it helps anyone else stumbling onto this page like I did:

DECLARE @Source VARCHAR(50) = '12345'
DECLARE @Encoded VARCHAR(500) = CONVERT(VARCHAR(500), (SELECT CONVERT(VARBINARY, @Source) FOR XML PATH(''), BINARY BASE64))
DECLARE @Decoded VARCHAR(500) = CONVERT(VARCHAR(500), CONVERT(XML, @Encoded).value('.','varbinary(max)'))
SELECT @Source AS [Source], @Encoded AS [Encoded], @Decoded AS [Decoded]

Pass mouse events through absolutely-positioned element

If all you need is mousedown, you may be able to make do with the document.elementFromPoint method, by:

  1. removing the top layer on mousedown,
  2. passing the x and y coordinates from the event to the document.elementFromPoint method to get the element underneath, and then
  3. restoring the top layer.

How to find the php.ini file used by the command line?

The easiest way nowadays is to use PHP configure:

# php-config --ini-dir
/usr/local/etc/php/7.4/conf.d

There's more you can find there. Example output of the --help sub command (macOS local install):

# php-config --help
Usage: /usr/local/bin/php-config [OPTION]
Options:
  --prefixUsage: /usr/local/bin/php-config [OPTION]
Options:
  --prefix            [/usr/local/Cellar/php/7.4.11]
  --includes          [-I/usr/local/Cellar/php/7.4.11/include/php - …ETC…]
  --ldflags           [ -L/usr/local/Cellar/krb5/1.18.2/lib -…ETC…]
  --libs              [ -ltidy -largon2 …ETC… ]
  --extension-dir     [/usr/local/Cellar/php/7.4.11/pecl/20190902]
  --include-dir       [/usr/local/Cellar/php/7.4.11/include/php]
  --man-dir           [/usr/local/Cellar/php/7.4.11/share/man]
  --php-binary        [/usr/local/Cellar/php/7.4.11/bin/php]
  --php-sapis         [ apache2handler cli fpm phpdbg cgi]
  --ini-path          [/usr/local/etc/php/7.4]
  --ini-dir           [/usr/local/etc/php/7.4/conf.d]
  --configure-options [--prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/php/7.4.11 --…ETC…]
  --version           [7.4.11]
  --vernum            [70411]

What is the difference between const and readonly in C#?

There is a gotcha with consts! If you reference a constant from another assembly, its value will be compiled right into the calling assembly. That way when you update the constant in the referenced assembly it won't change in the calling assembly!

Change mysql user password using command line

In your code, try enclosing password inside single quote. Alternatively, as per the documentation of mysql, following should work -

SET PASSWORD FOR 'jeffrey'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('cleartext password');

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

The last line is important or else your password change won't take effect unfortunately.

EDIT:

I ran a test in my local and it worked -

mysql>  set password for 'test' = PASSWORD('$w0rdf1sh');
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

Mine is version 5. You can use following command to determine your version -

SHOW VARIABLES LIKE "%version%";

How to create Custom Ratings bar in Android

For SVG RatingBar I used RatingBar custom Vector Drawables superimposing and the answer of erdomester here. This solution traverses all drawables inside SvgRatingBar view of your layout, so in RecyclerView it has an overhead.

SvgRatingBar.java:

import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.BitmapShader;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.graphics.Shader;
import android.graphics.drawable.BitmapDrawable;
import android.graphics.drawable.ClipDrawable;
import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable;
import android.graphics.drawable.LayerDrawable;
import android.graphics.drawable.ShapeDrawable;
import android.graphics.drawable.VectorDrawable;
import android.graphics.drawable.shapes.RoundRectShape;
import android.graphics.drawable.shapes.Shape;
import android.os.Build;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.view.Gravity;

import androidx.appcompat.graphics.drawable.DrawableWrapper;
import androidx.vectordrawable.graphics.drawable.VectorDrawableCompat;

import com.example.R; // Your R.java file for R.attr.ratingBarStyle.

public class SvgRatingBar extends androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatRatingBar {

    private Bitmap sampleTile;

    public SvgRatingBar(Context context) {
        this(context, null);
    }

    public SvgRatingBar(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        this(context, attrs, R.attr.ratingBarStyle);
    }

    public SvgRatingBar(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
        init();
    }

    private void init() {
        LayerDrawable drawable = (LayerDrawable) createTile(getProgressDrawable(), false);
        setProgressDrawable(drawable);
    }

    /**
     * Converts a drawable to a tiled version of itself. It will recursively
     * traverse layer and state list drawables.
     */
    @SuppressLint("RestrictedApi")
    private Drawable createTile(Drawable drawable, boolean clip) {
        if (drawable instanceof DrawableWrapper) {
            Drawable inner = ((DrawableWrapper) drawable).getWrappedDrawable();
            if (inner != null) {
                inner = createTile(inner, clip);
                ((DrawableWrapper) drawable).setWrappedDrawable(inner);
            }
        } else if (drawable instanceof LayerDrawable) {
            LayerDrawable background = (LayerDrawable) drawable;
            final int n = background.getNumberOfLayers();
            Drawable[] outDrawables = new Drawable[n];

            for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
                int id = background.getId(i);
                outDrawables[i] = createTile(background.getDrawable(i),
                        (id == android.R.id.progress || id == android.R.id.secondaryProgress));
            }
            LayerDrawable newBg = new LayerDrawable(outDrawables);

            for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
                newBg.setId(i, background.getId(i));
            }

            return newBg;

        } else if (drawable instanceof BitmapDrawable) {
            final BitmapDrawable bitmapDrawable = (BitmapDrawable) drawable;
            final Bitmap tileBitmap = bitmapDrawable.getBitmap();
            if (sampleTile == null) {
                sampleTile = tileBitmap;
            }

            final ShapeDrawable shapeDrawable = new ShapeDrawable(getDrawableShape());
            final BitmapShader bitmapShader = new BitmapShader(tileBitmap,
                    Shader.TileMode.REPEAT, Shader.TileMode.CLAMP);
            shapeDrawable.getPaint().setShader(bitmapShader);
            shapeDrawable.getPaint().setColorFilter(bitmapDrawable.getPaint().getColorFilter());
            return (clip) ? new ClipDrawable(shapeDrawable, Gravity.START,
                    ClipDrawable.HORIZONTAL) : shapeDrawable;
        } else if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP && drawable instanceof VectorDrawable) {
            return createTile(getBitmapDrawableFromVectorDrawable(drawable), clip);
        } else if (drawable instanceof VectorDrawableCompat) {
            // API 19 support.
            return createTile(getBitmapDrawableFromVectorDrawable(drawable), clip);
        }
        return drawable;
    }

    private BitmapDrawable getBitmapDrawableFromVectorDrawable(Drawable drawable) {
        Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(drawable.getIntrinsicWidth(), drawable.getIntrinsicHeight(), Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
        Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bitmap);
        drawable.setBounds(0, 0, canvas.getWidth(), canvas.getHeight());
        drawable.draw(canvas);
        return new BitmapDrawable(getResources(), bitmap);
    }

    @Override
    protected synchronized void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
        super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
        if (sampleTile != null) {
            final int width = sampleTile.getWidth() * getNumStars();
            setMeasuredDimension(resolveSizeAndState(width, widthMeasureSpec, 0),
                    getMeasuredHeight());
        }
    }

    private Shape getDrawableShape() {
        final float[] roundedCorners = new float[]{5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5};
        return new RoundRectShape(roundedCorners, null, null);
    }
}

In your layout:

<com.example.common.control.SvgRatingBar
    android:id="@+id/rate"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:minHeight="13dp"
    android:numStars="5"
    android:progressDrawable="@drawable/rating_bar"
    android:rating="3.5"
    android:stepSize="0.01"
    />

You also have to create rating_bar.xml with two SVG drawables:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item
        android:id="@android:id/background"
        android:drawable="@drawable/ic_unfilled_star"
        />

    <item
        android:id="@android:id/secondaryProgress"
        android:drawable="@drawable/ic_unfilled_star"
        />

    <item
        android:id="@android:id/progress"
        android:drawable="@drawable/ic_filled_star"
        />

</layer-list>

enter image description here

If you see in Design/Split view only one star, refresh layout:

enter image description here

In Kotlin.

import android.annotation.SuppressLint
import android.content.Context
import android.graphics.Bitmap
import android.graphics.BitmapShader
import android.graphics.Canvas
import android.graphics.Shader
import android.graphics.drawable.*
import android.graphics.drawable.shapes.RoundRectShape
import android.os.Build
import android.util.AttributeSet
import android.view.Gravity
import androidx.appcompat.graphics.drawable.DrawableWrapper
import androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatRatingBar
import androidx.vectordrawable.graphics.drawable.VectorDrawableCompat
import com.example.R; // Your R.java file for R.attr.ratingBarStyle.

class SvgRatingBar @JvmOverloads constructor(context: Context, attrs: AttributeSet? = null,
                                             defStyleAttr: Int = R.attr.ratingBarStyle) :
    AppCompatRatingBar(context, attrs, defStyleAttr) {

    private var sampleTile: Bitmap? = null
    private val roundedCorners = floatArrayOf(5f, 5f, 5f, 5f, 5f, 5f, 5f, 5f)
    private val roundRectShape = RoundRectShape(roundedCorners, null, null)

    init {
        progressDrawable = createTile(progressDrawable, false) as LayerDrawable
    }

    /**
     * Converts a drawable to a tiled version of itself. It will recursively
     * traverse layer and state list drawables.
     */
    private fun createTile(drawable: Drawable, clip: Boolean): Drawable =
        when {
            drawable is DrawableWrapper -> {
                @SuppressLint("RestrictedApi")
                var inner = drawable.wrappedDrawable
                if (inner != null) {
                    inner = createTile(inner, clip)
                    @SuppressLint("RestrictedApi")
                    drawable.wrappedDrawable = inner
                }
                drawable
            }
            drawable is LayerDrawable -> {
                val n = drawable.numberOfLayers
                val outDrawables = arrayOfNulls<Drawable>(n)
                for (i in 0 until n) {
                    val id = drawable.getId(i)
                    outDrawables[i] = createTile(drawable.getDrawable(i),
                        id == android.R.id.progress || id == android.R.id.secondaryProgress)
                }
                val newBg = LayerDrawable(outDrawables)
                for (i in 0 until n) {
                    newBg.setId(i, drawable.getId(i))
                }
                newBg
            }
            drawable is BitmapDrawable -> {
                val tileBitmap = drawable.bitmap
                if (sampleTile == null) {
                    sampleTile = tileBitmap
                }
                val bitmapShader = BitmapShader(tileBitmap, Shader.TileMode.REPEAT,
                    Shader.TileMode.CLAMP)
                val shapeDrawable = ShapeDrawable(roundRectShape).apply {
                    paint.shader = bitmapShader
                    paint.colorFilter = drawable.paint.colorFilter
                }
                if (clip) ClipDrawable(shapeDrawable, Gravity.START, ClipDrawable.HORIZONTAL)
                else shapeDrawable
            }
            Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP && drawable is VectorDrawable -> {
                createTile(getBitmapDrawableFromVectorDrawable(drawable), clip)
            }
            drawable is VectorDrawableCompat -> {
                // Pre-Lollipop support.
                createTile(getBitmapDrawableFromVectorDrawable(drawable), clip)
            }
            else -> drawable
        }

    private fun getBitmapDrawableFromVectorDrawable(drawable: Drawable): BitmapDrawable {
        val bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(drawable.intrinsicWidth, drawable.intrinsicHeight,
            Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888)
        val canvas = Canvas(bitmap)
        drawable.setBounds(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height)
        drawable.draw(canvas)
        return BitmapDrawable(resources, bitmap)
    }

    @Synchronized override fun onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec: Int, heightMeasureSpec: Int) {
        super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec)
        if (sampleTile != null) {
            val width = sampleTile!!.width * numStars
            setMeasuredDimension(resolveSizeAndState(width, widthMeasureSpec, 0),
                measuredHeight)
        }
    }
}

Redis strings vs Redis hashes to represent JSON: efficiency?

It depends on how you access the data:

Go for Option 1:

  • If you use most of the fields on most of your accesses.
  • If there is variance on possible keys

Go for Option 2:

  • If you use just single fields on most of your accesses.
  • If you always know which fields are available

P.S.: As a rule of the thumb, go for the option which requires fewer queries on most of your use cases.

SQL query to find third highest salary in company

You can get the third highest salary by using limit , by using TOP keyword and sub-query

  1. TOP keyword

    SELECT TOP 1 salary 
    FROM 
        (SELECT TOP 3 salary 
         FROM Table_Name 
         ORDER BY salary DESC) AS Comp 
    ORDER BY salary ASC
    
  2. limit

    SELECT salary 
    FROM Table_Name 
    ORDER BY salary DESC 
    LIMIT 2, 1
    
  3. by subquery

    SELECT salary  
    FROM 
        (SELECT salary 
         FROM Table_Name 
         ORDER BY salary DESC 
         LIMIT 3) AS Comp 
    ORDER BY salary 
    LIMIT 1;
    

I think anyone of these help you.

decompiling DEX into Java sourcecode

Recent Debian have Python package androguard:

Description-en: full Python tool to play with Android files
 Androguard is a full Python tool to play with Android files.
  * DEX, ODEX
  * APK
  * Android's binary xml
  * Android resources
  * Disassemble DEX/ODEX bytecodes
  * Decompiler for DEX/ODEX files

Install corresponding packages:

sudo apt-get install androguard python-networkx

Decompile DEX file:

$ androdd -i classes.dex -o ./dir-for-output

Extract classes.dex from Apk + Decompile:

$ androdd -i app.apk -o ./dir-for-output

Apk file is nothing more that Java archive (JAR), you may extract files from archive via:

$ unzip app.apk -d ./dir-for-output

How to call a method defined in an AngularJS directive?

How to get a directive's controller in a page controller:

  1. write a custom directive to get the reference to the directive controller from the DOM element:

    angular.module('myApp')
        .directive('controller', controller);
    
    controller.$inject = ['$parse'];
    
    function controller($parse) {
        var directive = {
            restrict: 'A',
            link: linkFunction
        };
        return directive;
    
        function linkFunction(scope, el, attrs) {
            var directiveName = attrs.$normalize(el.prop("tagName").toLowerCase());
            var directiveController = el.controller(directiveName);
    
            var model = $parse(attrs.controller);
            model.assign(scope, directiveController);
        }
    }
    
  2. use it in the page controller's html:

    <my-directive controller="vm.myDirectiveController"></my-directive>
    
  3. Use the directive controller in the page controller:

    vm.myDirectiveController.callSomeMethod();
    

Note: the given solution works only for element directives' controllers (tag name is used to get the name of the wanted directive).

Can there be an apostrophe in an email address?

Yes, according to RFC 3696 apostrophes are valid as long as they come before the @ symbol.

%i or %d to print integer in C using printf()?

I am just adding example here because I think examples make it easier to understand.

In printf() they behave identically so you can use any either %d or %i. But they behave differently in scanf().

For example:

int main()
{
    int num,num2;
    scanf("%d%i",&num,&num2);// reading num using %d and num2 using %i

    printf("%d\t%d",num,num2);
    return 0;
}

Output:

enter image description here

You can see the different results for identical inputs.

num:

We are reading num using %d so when we enter 010 it ignores the first 0 and treats it as decimal 10.

num2:

We are reading num2 using %i.

That means it will treat decimals, octals, and hexadecimals differently.

When it give num2 010 it sees the leading 0 and parses it as octal.

When we print it using %d it prints the decimal equivalent of octal 010 which is 8.

How to create an Observable from static data similar to http one in Angular?

Things seem to have changed since Angular 2.0.0

import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Observable';
import { Subscriber } from 'rxjs/Subscriber';
// ...
public fetchModel(uuid: string = undefined): Observable<string> {
  if(!uuid) {
    return new Observable<TestModel>((subscriber: Subscriber<TestModel>) => subscriber.next(new TestModel())).map(o => JSON.stringify(o));
  }
  else {
    return this.http.get("http://localhost:8080/myapp/api/model/" + uuid)
            .map(res => res.text());
  }
}

The .next() function will be called on your subscriber.

Figure out size of UILabel based on String in Swift

Swift 5:

If you have UILabel and someway boundingRect isn't working for you (I faced this problem. It always returned 1 line height.) there is an extension to easily calculate label size.

extension UILabel {
    func getSize(constrainedWidth: CGFloat) -> CGSize {
        return systemLayoutSizeFitting(CGSize(width: constrainedWidth, height: UIView.layoutFittingCompressedSize.height), withHorizontalFittingPriority: .required, verticalFittingPriority: .fittingSizeLevel)
    }
}

You can use it like this:

let label = UILabel()
label.text = "My text\nIs\nAwesome"
let labelSize = label.getSize(constrainedWidth:200.0)

Works for me

receiver type *** for instance message is a forward declaration

You are using

States states;

where as you should use

States *states;

Your init method should be like this

-(id)init {
  if( (self = [super init]) ) {
      pickedGlasses = 0;
  }
  return self;
}

Now finally when you are going to create an object for States class you should do it like this.

State *states = [[States alloc] init];

I am not saying this is the best way of doing this. But it may help you understand the very basic use of initializing objects.

react router v^4.0.0 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'location' of undefined

Replace

import { Router, Route, Link, browserHistory } from 'react-router';

With

import { BrowserRouter as Router, Route } from 'react-router-dom';

It will start working. It is because react-router-dom exports BrowserRouter

Returning a value from thread?

I came across this thread when also trying to obtain the return value of a method that gets executed within a Thread. I thought I would post my solution that works.

This solution uses an class to store both the method to be executed (indirectly) and stores the returning value. The class can be used for any function and any return type. You just instantiate the object using the return value type and then pass the function to call via a lambda (or delegate).


C# 3.0 Implementation


public class ThreadedMethod<T>
{

    private T mResult;
    public T Result 
    {
        get { return mResult; }
        private set { mResult = value; }
    }

    public ThreadedMethod()
    {
    }

    //If supporting .net 3.5
    public void ExecuteMethod(Func<T> func)
    {
        Result = func.Invoke();
    }

    //If supporting only 2.0 use this and 
    //comment out the other overload
    public void ExecuteMethod(Delegate d)
    {
        Result = (T)d.DynamicInvoke();
    }
}

To use this code you can use a Lambda (or a delegate). Here is the example using lambdas:

ThreadedMethod<bool> threadedMethod = new ThreadedMethod<bool>();
Thread workerThread = new Thread((unused) => 
                            threadedMethod.ExecuteMethod(() => 
                                SomeMethod()));
workerThread.Start();
workerThread.Join();
if (threadedMethod.Result == false) 
{
    //do something about it...
}

VB.NET 2008 Implementation


Anyone using VB.NET 2008 can't use lambdas with non-value returning methods. This affects the ThreadedMethod class, so we'll make ExecuteMethod return the value of the function. This doesn't hurt anything.

Public Class ThreadedMethod(Of T)

    Private mResult As T
    Public Property Result() As T
        Get
            Return mResult
        End Get
        Private Set(ByVal value As T)
            mResult = value
        End Set
    End Property

    Sub New()
    End Sub

    'If supporting .net 3.5'
    Function ExecuteMethod(ByVal func As Func(Of T)) As T
        Result = func.Invoke()
        Return Result
    End Function

    'If supporting only 2.0 use this and' 
    'comment out the other overload'
    Function ExecuteMethod(ByVal d As [Delegate]) As T
        Result = DirectCast(d.DynamicInvoke(), T)
        Return Result
    End Function

End Class

Declaring and initializing a string array in VB.NET

Array initializer support for type inference were changed in Visual Basic 10 vs Visual Basic 9.

In previous version of VB it was required to put empty parens to signify an array. Also, it would define the array as object array unless otherwise was stated:

' Integer array
Dim i as Integer() = {1, 2, 3, 4} 

' Object array
Dim o() = {1, 2, 3} 

Check more info:

Visual Basic 2010 Breaking Changes

Collection and Array Initializers in Visual Basic 2010

New lines (\r\n) are not working in email body

' '   

space was missing in my case, when a blank space added ' \r\n' started to work

How to start/stop/restart a thread in Java?

You can start a thread like:

    Thread thread=new Thread(new Runnable() {
                @Override
                public void run() {
                    try {
                        //Do you task
                    }catch (Exception ex){
                        ex.printStackTrace();}
                }
            });
thread.start();

To stop a Thread:

   thread.join();//it will kill you thread

   //if you want to know whether your thread is alive or dead you can use
System.out.println("Thread is "+thread.isAlive());

Its advisable to create a new thread rather than restarting it.

Highlighting Text Color using Html.fromHtml() in Android?

First Convert your string into HTML then convert it into spannable. do as suggest the following codes.

 Spannable spannable = new SpannableString(Html.fromHtml(labelText));
                    
spannable.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.parseColor(color)), spannable.toString().indexOf("•"), spannable.toString().lastIndexOf("•") + 1, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
            

Maven compile with multiple src directories

This worked for me

<build>
    <sourceDirectory>.</sourceDirectory>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
        <configuration>
        <includes>
            <include>src/main/java/**/*.java</include>
            <include>src/main2/java/**/*.java</include>
        </includes>
        </configuration>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

NodeJS w/Express Error: Cannot GET /

I had the same problem, so here's what I came up with. This is what my folder structure looked like when I ran node server.js

app/
  index.html
  server.js

After printing out the __dirname path, I realized that the __dirname path was where my server was running (app/).

So, the answer to your question is this:

If your server.js file is in the same folder as the files you are trying to render, then

app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/default.htm'));

should actually be

app.use(express.static(__dirname));

The only time you would want to use the original syntax that you had would be if you had a folder tree like so:

app/
  index.html
server.js

where index.html is in the app/ directory, whereas server.js is in the root directory (i.e. the same level as the app/ directory).

Overall, your code could look like:

var express = require('express');

var app = express();

app.use(express.static(__dirname));

app.listen(process.env.PORT);

Use Conditional formatting to turn a cell Red, yellow or green depending on 3 values in another sheet

  1. Highlight the range in question.
  2. On the Home tab, in the Styles Group, Click "Conditional Formatting".
  3. Click "Highlight cell rules"

For the first rule,

Click "greater than", then in the value option box, click on the cell criteria you want it to be less than, than use the format drop-down to select your color.

For the second,

Click "less than", then in the value option box, type "=.9*" and then click the cell criteria, then use the formatting just like step 1.

For the third,

Same as the second, except your formula is =".8*" rather than .9.

Create hyperlink to another sheet

This macro adds a hyperlink to the worksheet with the same name, I also modify the range to be more flexible, just change the first cell in the code. Works like a charm

Sub hyper()
 Dim cl As Range
 Dim nS As String

 Set MyRange = Sheets("Sheet1").Range("B16")
 Set MyRange = Range(MyRange, MyRange.End(xlDown))

 For Each cl In MyRange
  nS = cl.Value
  cl.Hyperlinks.Add Anchor:=cl, Address:="", SubAddress:="'" & nS & "'" & "!B16", TextToDisplay:=nS
 Next
End Sub

Sending HTTP POST Request In Java

Updated Answer:

Since some of the classes, in the original answer, are deprecated in the newer version of Apache HTTP Components, I'm posting this update.

By the way, you can access the full documentation for more examples here.

HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("http://www.a-domain.com/foo/");

// Request parameters and other properties.
List<NameValuePair> params = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(2);
params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("param-1", "12345"));
params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("param-2", "Hello!"));
httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(params, "UTF-8"));

//Execute and get the response.
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

if (entity != null) {
    try (InputStream instream = entity.getContent()) {
        // do something useful
    }
}

Original Answer:

I recommend to use Apache HttpClient. its faster and easier to implement.

HttpPost post = new HttpPost("http://jakarata.apache.org/");
NameValuePair[] data = {
    new NameValuePair("user", "joe"),
    new NameValuePair("password", "bloggs")
};
post.setRequestBody(data);
// execute method and handle any error responses.
...
InputStream in = post.getResponseBodyAsStream();
// handle response.

for more information check this url: http://hc.apache.org/

Check folder size in Bash

# 10GB
SIZE="10"


# check the current size
CHECK="`du -hs /media/662499e1-b699-19ad-57b3-acb127aa5a2b/Aufnahmen`"
CHECK=${CHECK%G*}
echo "Current Foldersize: $CHECK GB"

if (( $(echo "$CHECK > $SIZE" |bc -l) )); then
        echo "Folder is bigger than $SIZE GB"
else
        echo "Folder is smaller than $SIZE GB"
fi

Get height of div with no height set in css

Can do this in jQuery. Try all options .height(), .innerHeight() or .outerHeight().

$('document').ready(function() {
    $('#right_div').css({'height': $('#left_div').innerHeight()});
});

Example Screenshot

enter image description here

Hope this helps. Thanks!!

When should I use GC.SuppressFinalize()?

That method must be called on the Dispose method of objects that implements the IDisposable, in this way the GC wouldn't call the finalizer another time if someones calls the Dispose method.

See: GC.SuppressFinalize(Object) Method - Microsoft Docs

How to format DateTime columns in DataGridView?

You can set the format in aspx, just add the property "DateFormatString" in your BoundField.

DataFormatString="{0:dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm:ss}"

How to initialize a list with constructor?

ContactNumbers = new List<ContactNumber>();

If you want it to be passed in, just take

public Human(List<ContactNumber> numbers)
{
 ContactNumbers = numbers;
}

How to confirm RedHat Enterprise Linux version?

Avoid /etc/*release* files and run this command instead, it is far more reliable and gives more details:

rpm -qia '*release*'

insert/delete/update trigger in SQL server

the am giving you is the code for trigger for INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE this works fine on Microsoft SQL SERVER 2008 and onwards database i am using is Northwind

/* comment section first create a table to keep track of Insert, Delete, Update
create table Emp_Audit(
                    EmpID int,
                    Activity varchar(20),
                    DoneBy varchar(50),
                    Date_Time datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT GETDATE()
                   );

select * from Emp_Audit*/

create trigger Employee_trigger
on Employees
after UPDATE, INSERT, DELETE
as
declare @EmpID int,@user varchar(20), @activity varchar(20);
if exists(SELECT * from inserted) and exists (SELECT * from deleted)
begin
    SET @activity = 'UPDATE';
    SET @user = SYSTEM_USER;
    SELECT @EmpID = EmployeeID from inserted i;
    INSERT into Emp_Audit(EmpID,Activity, DoneBy) values (@EmpID,@activity,@user);
end

If exists (Select * from inserted) and not exists(Select * from deleted)
begin
    SET @activity = 'INSERT';
    SET @user = SYSTEM_USER;
    SELECT @EmpID = EmployeeID from inserted i;
    INSERT into Emp_Audit(EmpID,Activity, DoneBy) values(@EmpID,@activity,@user);
end

If exists(select * from deleted) and not exists(Select * from inserted)
begin 
    SET @activity = 'DELETE';
    SET @user = SYSTEM_USER;
    SELECT @EmpID = EmployeeID from deleted i;
    INSERT into Emp_Audit(EmpID,Activity, DoneBy) values(@EmpID,@activity,@user);
end

How do I view Android application specific cache?

You can check the application-specific data in your emulator as follows,

  1. Run adb shell in cmd
  2. Go to /data/data/ and navigate into your application

There you can find the cache data and databases specific to your application

How to merge a specific commit in Git

The leading answers describe how to apply the changes from a specific commit to the current branch. If that's what you mean by "how to merge," then just use cherry-pick as they suggest.

But if you actually want a merge, i.e. you want a new commit with two parents -- the existing commit on the current branch, and the commit you wanted to apply changes from -- then a cherry-pick will not accomplish that.

Having true merge history may be desirable, for example, if your build process takes advantage of git ancestry to automatically set version strings based on the latest tag (using git describe).

Instead of cherry-pick, you can do an actual git merge --no-commit, and then manually adjust the index to remove any changes you don't want.

Suppose you're on branch A and you want to merge the commit at the tip of branch B:

git checkout A
git merge --no-commit B

Now you're set up to create a commit with two parents, the current tip commits of A and B. However you may have more changes applied than you want, including changes from earlier commits on the B branch. You need to undo these unwanted changes, then commit.

(There may be an easy way to set the state of the working directory and the index back to way it was before the merge, so that you have a clean slate onto which to cherry-pick the commit you wanted in the first place. But I don't know how to achieve that clean slate. git checkout HEAD and git reset HEAD will both remove the merge state, defeating the purpose of this method.)

So manually undo the unwanted changes. For example, you could

git revert --no-commit 012ea56

for each unwanted commit 012ea56.

When you're finished adjusting things, create your commit:

git commit -m "Merge in commit 823749a from B which tweaked the timeout code"

Now you have only the change you wanted, and the ancestry tree shows that you technically merged from B.

mysqli_fetch_array() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli_result, boolean given in

That query is failing and returning false.

Put this after mysqli_query() to see what's going on.

if (!$check1_res) {
    printf("Error: %s\n", mysqli_error($con));
    exit();
}

For more information:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/mysqli.error.php

SSH Private Key Permissions using Git GUI or ssh-keygen are too open

I was able to fix this by doing two things, though you may not have to do step 1.

  1. copy from cygwin ssh.exe and all cyg*.dll into Git's bin directory (this may not be necessary but it is a step I took but this alone did not fix things)

  2. follow the steps from: http://zylstra.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/overcome-herokus-permission-denied-publickey-problem/

    I added some details to my ~/.ssh/config file:

Host heroku.com
Hostname heroku.com
Port 22
IdentitiesOnly yes
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_heroku
TCPKeepAlive yes
User brandon

I had to use User as my email address for heroku.com Note: this means you need to create a key, I followed this to create the key and when it prompts for the name of the key, be sure to specify id_heroku http://help.github.com/win-set-up-git/

  1. then add the key:
    heroku keys:add ~/.ssh/id_heroku.pub

How do I create a dynamic key to be added to a JavaScript object variable

Square brackets:

jsObj['key' + i] = 'example' + 1;

In JavaScript, all arrays are objects, but not all objects are arrays. The primary difference (and one that's pretty hard to mimic with straight JavaScript and plain objects) is that array instances maintain the length property so that it reflects one plus the numeric value of the property whose name is numeric and whose value, when converted to a number, is the largest of all such properties. That sounds really weird, but it just means that given an array instance, the properties with names like "0", "5", "207", and so on, are all treated specially in that their existence determines the value of length. And, on top of that, the value of length can be set to remove such properties. Setting the length of an array to 0 effectively removes all properties whose names look like whole numbers.

OK, so that's what makes an array special. All of that, however, has nothing at all to do with how the JavaScript [ ] operator works. That operator is an object property access mechanism which works on any object. It's important to note in that regard that numeric array property names are not special as far as simple property access goes. They're just strings that happen to look like numbers, but JavaScript object property names can be any sort of string you like.

Thus, the way the [ ] operator works in a for loop iterating through an array:

for (var i = 0; i < myArray.length; ++i) {
  var value = myArray[i]; // property access
  // ...
}

is really no different from the way [ ] works when accessing a property whose name is some computed string:

var value = jsObj["key" + i];

The [ ] operator there is doing precisely the same thing in both instances. The fact that in one case the object involved happens to be an array is unimportant, in other words.

When setting property values using [ ], the story is the same except for the special behavior around maintaining the length property. If you set a property with a numeric key on an array instance:

myArray[200] = 5;

then (assuming that "200" is the biggest numeric property name) the length property will be updated to 201 as a side-effect of the property assignment. If the same thing is done to a plain object, however:

myObj[200] = 5;

there's no such side-effect. The property called "200" of both the array and the object will be set to the value 5 in otherwise the exact same way.

One might think that because that length behavior is kind-of handy, you might as well make all objects instances of the Array constructor instead of plain objects. There's nothing directly wrong about that (though it can be confusing, especially for people familiar with some other languages, for some properties to be included in the length but not others). However, if you're working with JSON serialization (a fairly common thing), understand that array instances are serialized to JSON in a way that only involves the numerically-named properties. Other properties added to the array will never appear in the serialized JSON form. So for example:

var obj = [];
obj[0] = "hello world";
obj["something"] = 5000;

var objJSON = JSON.stringify(obj);

the value of "objJSON" will be a string containing just ["hello world"]; the "something" property will be lost.

ES2015:

If you're able to use ES6 JavaScript features, you can use Computed Property Names to handle this very easily:

var key = 'DYNAMIC_KEY',
    obj = {
        [key]: 'ES6!'
    };

console.log(obj);
// > { 'DYNAMIC_KEY': 'ES6!' }

What's the function like sum() but for multiplication? product()?

I prefer the answers a and b above using functools.reduce() and the answer using numpy.prod(), but here is yet another solution using itertools.accumulate():

import itertools
import operator
prod = list(itertools.accumulate((3, 4, 5), operator.mul))[-1]

join list of lists in python

Late to the party but ...

I'm new to python and come from a lisp background. This is what I came up with (check out the var names for lulz):

def flatten(lst):
    if lst:
        car,*cdr=lst
        if isinstance(car,(list,tuple)):
            if cdr: return flatten(car) + flatten(cdr)
            return flatten(car)
        if cdr: return [car] + flatten(cdr)
        return [car]

Seems to work. Test:

flatten((1,2,3,(4,5,6,(7,8,(((1,2)))))))

returns:

[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 1, 2]

How to save SELECT sql query results in an array in C# Asp.net

    public void ChargingArraySelect()
    {
        int loop = 0;
        int registros = 0;

        OdbcConnection conn = WebApiConfig.conn();
        OdbcCommand query = conn.CreateCommand();

        query.CommandText = "select dataA, DataB, dataC, DataD FROM table  where dataA = 'xpto'";

        try
        {
            conn.Open();
            OdbcDataReader dr = query.ExecuteReader();

            //take the number the registers, to use into next step
            registros = dr.RecordsAffected;

            //calls an array to be populated
            Global.arrayTest = new string[registros, 4];

            while (dr.Read())
            {
                if (loop < registros)
                {
                    Global.arrayTest[i, 0] = Convert.ToString(dr["dataA"]);
                    Global.arrayTest[i, 1] = Convert.ToString(dr["dataB"]);
                    Global.arrayTest[i, 2] = Convert.ToString(dr["dataC"]);
                    Global.arrayTest[i, 3] = Convert.ToString(dr["dataD"]);
                }
                loop++;
            }
        }
    }


    //Declaration the Globais Array in Global Classs
    private static string[] uso_internoArray1;
    public static string[] arrayTest
    {
        get { return uso_internoArray1; }
        set { uso_internoArray1 = value; }
    }

How to search and replace text in a file?

Besides the answers already mentioned, here is an explanation of why you have some random characters at the end:
You are opening the file in r+ mode, not w mode. The key difference is that w mode clears the contents of the file as soon as you open it, whereas r+ doesn't.
This means that if your file content is "123456789" and you write "www" to it, you get "www456789". It overwrites the characters with the new input, but leaves any remaining input untouched.
You can clear a section of the file contents by using truncate(<startPosition>), but you are probably best off saving the updated file content to a string first, then doing truncate(0) and writing it all at once.
Or you can use my library :D

How to use jquery $.post() method to submit form values

You have to select and send the form data as well:

$("#post-btn").click(function(){        
    $.post("process.php", $("#reg-form").serialize(), function(data) {
        alert(data);
    });
});

Take a look at the documentation for the jQuery serialize method, which encodes the data from the form fields into a data-string to be sent to the server.

How do you get the Git repository's name in some Git repository?

Unfortunately, it seems that Git has no such command built in. But you can easily add it yourself with Git aliases and some shell magic.

As pointed out by this answer, you can use git rev-parse --show-toplevel to show the root of your current Git folder.

If you want to use this regularly, it's probably more convenient to define it as an alias. For this, used git config alias.root '!echo "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)"'. After this, you can use git root to see the root folder of the repository you're currently in.

If you want to use another subcommand name than root, simply replace the second part of alias.root in the above command with whatever you want.

For details on aliases in Git, see also the git config man page.

How to run Java program in terminal with external library JAR

For compiling the java file having dependency on a jar

javac -cp path_of_the_jar/jarName.jar className.java

For executing the class file

java -cp .;path_of_the_jar/jarName.jar className

How to display a list using ViewBag

To put it all together, this is what it should look like:

In the controller:

List<Fund> fundList = db.Funds.ToList();
ViewBag.Funds = fundList;

Then in the view:

@foreach (var item in ViewBag.Funds)
{
    <span> @item.FundName </span>
}

Using AJAX to pass variable to PHP and retrieve those using AJAX again

In your PhP file there's going to be a variable called $_REQUEST and it contains an array with all the data send from Javascript to PhP using AJAX.

Try this: var_dump($_REQUEST); and check if you're receiving the values.

Circular dependency in Spring

Circular dependency in Spring : Dependency of one Bean to other. Bean A ? Bean B ? Bean A

Solutions:

  1. Use @Lazy Annotation
  2. Redesign you class dependency
  3. Use Setter/Field Injection
  4. Use @PostConstruct Annotation

Convert string to variable name in python

This is the best way, I know of to create dynamic variables in python.

my_dict = {}
x = "Buffalo"
my_dict[x] = 4

I found a similar, but not the same question here Creating dynamically named variables from user input

Angular.js: set element height on page load

$(document).ready(function() {
       scope.$apply(function() {
                applyHeight();
            });
});

This also ensures that all the scripts have been loaded before the execution of the statements. If you dont need that you can use

$(window).load(function() {
       scope.$apply(function() {
                applyHeight();
            });
});

Insert HTML from CSS

Content (for text and not html):

http://www.quirksmode.org/css/content.html

But just to be clear, it is bad practice. Its support throughout browsers is shaky, and it's generally not a good idea. But in cases where you really have to use it, there it is.

How to call a method after a delay in Android

So there are a few things to consider here as there are so many ways to skin this cat. Although answers have all already been given selected and chosen. I think it's important that this gets revisited with proper coding guidelines to avoid anyone going the wrong direction just because of "majority selected simple answer".

So first let's discuss the simple Post Delayed answer that is the winner selected answer overall in this thread.

A couple of things to consider. After the post delay, you can encounter memory leaks, dead objects, life cycles that have gone away, and more. So handling it properly is important as well. You can do this in a couple of ways.

For sake of modern development, I'll supply in KOTLIN

Here is a simple example of using the UI thread on a callback and confirming that your activity is still alive and well when you hit your callback.

  Handler(Looper.getMainLooper()).postDelayed({
            if(activity != null && activity?.isFinishing == false){
                txtNewInfo.visibility = View.GONE
            }
        }, NEW_INFO_SHOW_TIMEOUT_MS)

However, this is still not perfect as there is no reason to hit your callback if the activity has gone away. so a better way would be to keep a reference to it and remove it's callbacks like this.

    private fun showFacebookStylePlus1NewsFeedOnPushReceived(){
        A35Log.v(TAG, "showFacebookStylePlus1NewsFeedOnPushReceived")
        if(activity != null && activity?.isFinishing == false){
            txtNewInfo.visibility = View.VISIBLE
            mHandler.postDelayed({
                if(activity != null && activity?.isFinishing == false){
                    txtNewInfo.visibility = View.GONE
                }
            }, NEW_INFO_SHOW_TIMEOUT_MS)
        }
    }

and of course handle cleanup on the onPause so it doesn't hit the callback.

    override fun onPause() {
        super.onPause()
        mHandler.removeCallbacks(null)
    }

Now that we have talked through the obvious, let's talk about a cleaner option with modern day coroutines and kotlin :). If you aren't using these yet, you are really missing out.

   fun doActionAfterDelay() 
        launch(UI) {
            delay(MS_TO_DELAY)           
            actionToTake()
        }
    }

or if you want to always do a UI launch on that method you can simply do:

  fun doActionAfterDelay() = launch(UI){ 
      delay(MS_TO_DELAY)           
      actionToTake()
  }

Of course just like the PostDelayed you have to make sure you handle canceling so you can either do the activity checks after the delay call or you can cancel it in the onPause just like the other route.

var mDelayedJob: Job? = null
fun doActionAfterDelay() 
   mDelayedJob = launch(UI) {
            try {
               delay(MS_TO_DELAY)           
               actionToTake()
            }catch(ex: JobCancellationException){
                showFancyToast("Delayed Job canceled", true, FancyToast.ERROR, "Delayed Job canceled: ${ex.message}")
            }
        }
   }
}

//handle cleanup

override fun onPause() {
   super.onPause()
   if(mDelayedJob != null && mDelayedJob!!.isActive) {
      A35Log.v(mClassTag, "canceling delayed job")
      mDelayedJob?.cancel() //this should throw CancelationException in coroutine, you can catch and handle appropriately
   }
}

If you put the launch(UI) into the method signature the job can be assigned in the calling line of code.

so moral of the story is to be safe with your delayed actions, make sure you remove your callbacks, or cancel your jobs and of course confirm you have the right life cycle to touch items on your delay callback complete. The Coroutines also offers cancelable actions.

Also worth noting that you should typically handle the various exceptions that can come with coroutines. For example, a cancelation, an exception, a timeout, whatever you decide to use. Here is a more advanced example if you decide to really start utilizing coroutines.

   mLoadJob = launch(UI){
            try {
                //Applies timeout
                withTimeout(4000) {
                    //Moves to background thread
                    withContext(DefaultDispatcher) {
                        mDeviceModelList.addArrayList(SSDBHelper.getAllDevices())
                    }
                }

                //Continues after async with context above
                showFancyToast("Loading complete", true, FancyToast.SUCCESS)
            }catch(ex: JobCancellationException){
                showFancyToast("Save canceled", true, FancyToast.ERROR, "Save canceled: ${ex.message}")
            }catch (ex: TimeoutCancellationException) {
                showFancyToast("Timed out saving, please try again or press back", true, FancyToast.ERROR, "Timed out saving to database: ${ex.message}")
            }catch(ex: Exception){
                showFancyToast("Error saving to database, please try again or press back", true, FancyToast.ERROR, "Error saving to database: ${ex.message}")
            }
        }

ERROR 1396 (HY000): Operation CREATE USER failed for 'jack'@'localhost'

I had the same error. But command "FLUSH PRIVILEGES;" didn't help. I did like that:

CREATE USER 'jimmy'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'test123';
UPDATE mysql.user SET USER='jack' WHERE USER='jimmy';

Java String import

Everything in the java.lang package is implicitly imported (including String) and you do not need to do so yourself. This is simply a feature of the Java language. ArrayList and HashMap are however in the java.util package, which is not implicitly imported.

The package java.lang mostly includes essential features, such a class version of primitives, basic exceptions and the Object class. This being integral to most programs, forcing people to import them is redundant and thus the contents of this package are implicitly imported.

Load image from resources area of project in C#

I looked at the designer code from one of my projects and noticed it used this notation

myButton.Image = global::MyProjectName.Properties.Resources.max;

where max is the name of the resource I uploaded into the project.

How to add a new row to an empty numpy array

In this case you might want to use the functions np.hstack and np.vstack

arr = np.array([])
arr = np.hstack((arr, np.array([1,2,3])))
# arr is now [1,2,3]

arr = np.vstack((arr, np.array([4,5,6])))
# arr is now [[1,2,3],[4,5,6]]

You also can use the np.concatenate function.

Cheers

Round double in two decimal places in C#?

This works:

inputValue = Math.Round(inputValue, 2);

Change the jquery show()/hide() animation?

Use slidedown():

$("test").slideDown("slow");

What is AF_INET, and why do I need it?

it defines the protocols address family.this determines the type of socket created. pocket pc support AF_INET.

the content in the following page is quite decent http://etutorials.org/Programming/Pocket+pc+network+programming/Chapter+1.+Winsock/Streaming+TCP+Sockets/

Error converting data types when importing from Excel to SQL Server 2008

There is a workaround.

  1. Import excel sheet with numbers as float (default).
  2. After importing, Goto Table-Design
  3. Change DataType of the column from Float to Int or Bigint
  4. Save Changes
  5. Change DataType of the column from Bigint to any Text Type (Varchar, nvarchar, text, ntext etc)
  6. Save Changes.

That's it.

Which @NotNull Java annotation should I use?

If you are building your application using Spring Framework I would suggest using javax.validation.constraints.NotNull comming from Beans Validation packaged in following dependency:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
        <artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
        <version>1.1.0.Final</version>
    </dependency>

The main advantage of this annotation is that Spring provides support for both method parameters and class fields annotated with javax.validation.constraints.NotNull. All you need to do to enable support is:

  1. supply the api jar for beans validation and jar with implementation of validator of jsr-303/jsr-349 annotations (which comes with Hibernate Validator 5.x dependency):

    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
        <artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
        <version>1.1.0.Final</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
        <artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
        <version>5.4.1.Final</version>
    </dependency>
    
  2. provide MethodValidationPostProcessor to spring's context

      @Configuration
      @ValidationConfig
      public class ValidationConfig implements MyService {
    
            @Bean
            public MethodValidationPostProcessor providePostProcessor() {
                  return new MethodValidationPostProcessor()
            }
      }
    
  3. finally you annotate your classes with Spring's org.springframework.validation.annotation.Validated and validation will be automatically handled by Spring.

Example:

@Service
@Validated
public class MyServiceImpl implements MyService {

  @Override
  public Something doSomething(@NotNull String myParameter) {
        // No need to do something like assert myParameter != null  
  }
}

When you try calling method doSomething and pass null as the parameter value, spring (by means of HibernateValidator) will throw ConstraintViolationException. No need for manuall work here.

You can also validate return values.

Another important benefit of javax.validation.constraints.NotNull comming for Beans Validation Framework is that at the moment it is still developed and new features are planned for new version 2.0.

What about @Nullable? There is nothing like that in Beans Validation 1.1. Well, I could arguee that if you decide to use @NotNull than everything which is NOT annotated with @NonNull is effectively "nullable", so the @Nullable annotation is useless.

How to hide the Google Invisible reCAPTCHA badge

I have tested all approaches and:

WARNING: display: none DISABLES the spam checking!

visibility: hidden and opacity: 0 do NOT disable the spam checking.

Code to use:

.grecaptcha-badge { 
    visibility: hidden;
}

When you hide the badge icon, Google wants you to reference their service on your form by adding this:

<small>This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google 
    <a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy">Privacy Policy</a> and
    <a href="https://policies.google.com/terms">Terms of Service</a> apply.
</small>

Example result

generate days from date range

SQLite version of RedFilters top solution

select d.Date
from (
    select 
    date(julianday('2010-01-20') + (a.a + (10 * b.a) + (100 * c.a))) as Date
    from (select 0 as a union all select 1 union all select 2 union all select 3 union all select 4 union all select 5 union all select 6 union all select 7 union all select 8 union all select 9) as a
    cross join (select 0 as a union all select 1 union all select 2 union all select 3 union all select 4 union all select 5 union all select 6 union all select 7 union all select 8 union all select 9) as b
    cross join (select 0 as a union all select 1 union all select 2 union all select 3 union all select 4 union all select 5 union all select 6 union all select 7 union all select 8 union all select 9) as c
) d
where 
d.Date between '2010-01-20' and '2010-01-24' 
order by d.Date

How do I list the symbols in a .so file

You can use the nm -g tool from the binutils toolchain. However, their source is not always readily available. and I'm not actually even sure that this information can always be retrieved. Perhaps objcopy reveals further information.

/EDIT: The tool's name is of course nm. The flag -g is used to show only exported symbols.

How to get the Facebook user id using the access token

You can use below code on onSuccess(LoginResult loginResult)

loginResult.getAccessToken().getUserId();

Git Server Like GitHub?

For a remote hosting As others have said bitbucket.org offers free private repositories, I've been using it without problems.

For local or LAN network I will add this one scm-manager.org (A single executable file, is really simple to install, it's made on Java so it can run on Linux or Windows). Just in case you install it, these are default passwords.

Username: scmadmin
Password: scmadmin

jquery draggable: how to limit the draggable area?

$(function() { $( "#draggable" ).draggable({ containment: "window" }); });

of this code does not display. Full code and Demo: http://www.limitsizbilgi.com/div-tasima-surukle-birak-div-drag-and-drop-jquery.html

In order to limit the element inside its parent:

$( "#draggable" ).draggable({ containment: "window" });

CS1617: Invalid option ‘6’ for /langversion; must be ISO-1, ISO-2, 3, 4, 5 or Default

Turns out this was a problem, because the ASP.NET MVC 4 project was referencing a specific version of the Microsoft.Net.Compilers package. Visual Studio was using the compiler from this specific package, and not the compiler that was installed otherwise on the computer.

A warning or something would have been nice from VS2019 :-)

The solution then is to update the Microsoft.Net.Compilers package to a newer version.

Version 1.x is for C# 6 Version 2.x is for C# 7 Version 3.x is for C# 8 How I got to solve this was not immediately obvious. Visual Studio could have suggested or hinted that by me selecting a new version in the project settings that setting now conflicted with the package installed into the project.

(I ended up turning on Diagnostics level MSBuild logging to find out which CSC.EXE the IDE is really trying to use)

https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/519531/c-7x-versions-do-not-seem-to-work-in-vs2019.html

How to finish Activity when starting other activity in Android?

The best - and simplest - solution might be this:

Intent intent = new Intent(this, OtherActivity.class);
startActivity(intent);
finishAndRemoveTask();

Documentation for finishAndRemoveTask():

Call this when your activity is done and should be closed and the task should be completely removed as a part of finishing the root activity of the task.

Is that what you're looking for?

Downloading Java JDK on Linux via wget is shown license page instead

Oracle has put a prevention cookie on the download link to force you to agree to the terms even though the license agreement to use Java clearly states that merely by using Java you 'agree' to the license..

The method that Oracle wants is you to download it with an agreement. After that, this script cn be modified for your specific Linux

#!/bin/bash
#Author: Yucca Nel http://thejarbar.org
#Will restart system
#Modify these variables as needed...
tempWork=/tmp/work
locBin=/usr/local/bin
javaUsrLib=/usr/lib/jvm

sudo mkdir -p $javaUsrLib
mkdir -p $tempWork
cd $tempWork

#Extract the download
tar -zxvf $downloadDir/jdk*tar.gz

#Move it to where it can be found...

sudo mv -f $tempWork/jdk* $javaUsrLib/

sudo ln -f -s $javaUsrLib/jdk1/bin/* /usr/bin/

#Update this line to reflect versions of JDK...
export JAVA_HOME="$javaUsrLib/jdk1.7.0_03"
#Extract the download
tar -zxvf $tempWork/*

#Move it to where it can be found...

sudo mv -f $tempWork/jdk1* $javaUsrLib/

sudo ln -f -s $javaUsrLib/jdk1*/bin/* /usr/bin/
sudo rm -rf $tempWork
#Update this line to reflect newer versions of JDK...
export JAVA_HOME="$javaUsrLib/jdk1.7.0_03"

if ! grep "JAVA_HOME=$javaUsrLib/jdk1.7.0_03" /etc/environment
then
    echo "JAVA_HOME=$javaUsrLib/jdk1.7.0_03"| sudo tee -a /etc/environment
fi


exit 0

VB6 IDE cannot load MSCOMCTL.OCX after update KB 2687323

To Fix the Problem:

Make a Batch file with the following code:

@echo off
reg query "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\typelib\{831FDD16-0C5C-11D2-A9FC-0000F8754DA1}\2.1"
if %errorlevel%==0 GOTO DELREGKEY
if %errorlevel%==1 GOTO REGISTEROCX

:DELREGKEY
reg delete hkcr\typelib\{831FDD16-0C5C-11D2-A9FC-0000F8754DA1}\2.0 /f

:REGISTEROCX
if exist %systemroot%\SysWOW64\cscript.exe goto 64 
%systemroot%\system32\regsvr32 /u mscomctl.ocx /s
%systemroot%\system32\regsvr32 mscomctl.ocx /s
exit

:64 
%systemroot%\sysWOW64\regsvr32 /u mscomctl.ocx /s
%systemroot%\sysWOW64\regsvr32 mscomctl.ocx /s
exit

Commit history on remote repository

git log remotename/branchname

Will display the log of a given remote branch in that repository, but only the logs that you have "fetched" from their repository to your personal "copy" of the remote repository.

Remember that your clone of the repository will update its state of any remote branches only by doing git fetch. You can't connect directly to the server to check the log there, what you do is download the state of the server with git fetch and then locally see the log of the remote branches.

Perhaps another useful command could be:

git log HEAD..remote/branch

which will show you the commits that are in the remote branch, but not in your current branch (HEAD).

Mask output of `The following objects are masked from....:` after calling attach() function

It may be "better" to not use attach at all. On the plus side, you can save some typing if you use attach. Let's say your dataset is called mydata and you have variables called v1, v2, and v3. If you don't attach mydata, then you will type mean(mydata$v1) to get the mean of v1. If you do attach mydata, then you will type mean(v1) to get the mean of v1. But, if you don't detach the mydata dataset (every time), you'll get the message about the objects being masked going forward.

Solution 1 (assuming you want to attach):

  1. Use detach every time.
  2. See Dan Tarr's response if you already have the data attached (and it may be in the global environment several times). Then, in the future, use detach every time.

Solution 2

Don't use attach. Instead, include the dataset name every time you refer to a variable. The form is mydata$v1 (name of data set, dollar sign, name of variable).

As for me, I used solution 1 a lot in the past, but I've moved to solution 2. It's a bit more typing in the beginning, but if you are going to use the code multiple times, it just seems cleaner.

Checking to see if one array's elements are in another array in PHP

if 'empty' is not the best choice, what about this:

if (array_intersect($people, $criminals)) {...} //when found

or

if (!array_intersect($people, $criminals)) {...} //when not found

How do I loop through items in a list box and then remove those item?

Here my solution without going backward and without a temporary list

while (listBox1.Items.Count > 0)
{
  string s = listBox1.Items[0] as string;
  // do something with s
  listBox1.Items.RemoveAt(0);
}

Taking screenshot on Emulator from Android Studio

Please use ctrl+s on Windows or ?s on Mac (while the emulator is focused). Your Desktop should be the default save location.

Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already

If it's a local development tomcat launched from IDE, then restarting this IDE and rebuild project also helps.

Update:

You could also try to find if there is any running tomcat process in the background and kill it.

How to use the 'main' parameter in package.json?

For OpenShift, you only get one PORT and IP pair to bind to (per application). It sounds like you should be able to serve both services from a single nodejs instance by adding internal routes for each service endpoint.

I have some info on how OpenShift uses your project's package.json to start your application here: https://www.openshift.com/blogs/run-your-nodejs-projects-on-openshift-in-two-simple-steps#package_json

Visual Studio build fails: unable to copy exe-file from obj\debug to bin\debug

For me this was being caused by having a command prompt open in the targeted folder (C:\users\username\source\repos\project\project\bin\debug\app.publish).

Not sure why DEBUGGING requires access to the publish folder, but closing the command window solved the issue for me.

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

This answer is a follow up to DaRKoN_'s answer that utilized the object filter:

[ObjectFilter(Param = "postdata", RootType = typeof(ObjectToSerializeTo))]
    public JsonResult ControllerMethod(ObjectToSerializeTo postdata) { ... }

I was having a problem figuring out how to send multiple parameters to an action method and have one of them be the json object and the other be a plain string. I'm new to MVC and I had just forgotten that I already solved this problem with non-ajaxed views.

What I would do if I needed, say, two different objects on a view. I would create a ViewModel class. So say I needed the person object and the address object, I would do the following:

public class SomeViewModel()
{
     public Person Person { get; set; }
     public Address Address { get; set; }
}

Then I would bind the view to SomeViewModel. You can do the same thing with JSON.

[ObjectFilter(Param = "jsonViewModel", RootType = typeof(JsonViewModel))] // Don't forget to add the object filter class in DaRKoN_'s answer.
public JsonResult doJsonStuff(JsonViewModel jsonViewModel)
{
     Person p = jsonViewModel.Person;
     Address a = jsonViewModel.Address;
     // Do stuff
     jsonViewModel.Person = p;
     jsonViewModel.Address = a;
     return Json(jsonViewModel);
}

Then in the view you can use a simple call with JQuery like this:

var json = { 
    Person: { Name: "John Doe", Sex: "Male", Age: 23 }, 
    Address: { Street: "123 fk st.", City: "Redmond", State: "Washington" }
};

$.ajax({
     url: 'home/doJsonStuff',
     type: 'POST',
     contentType: 'application/json',
     dataType: 'json',
     data: JSON.stringify(json), //You'll need to reference json2.js
     success: function (response)
     {
          var person = response.Person;
          var address = response.Address;
     }
});

Scroll / Jump to id without jQuery

Add the function:

function scrollToForm() {
  document.querySelector('#form').scrollIntoView({behavior: 'smooth'});
}

Trigger the function:

<a href="javascript: scrollToForm();">Jump to form</a>

How to decode HTML entities using jQuery?

The question is limited by 'with jQuery' but it might help some to know that the jQuery code given in the best answer here does the following underneath...this works with or without jQuery:

function decodeEntities(input) {
  var y = document.createElement('textarea');
  y.innerHTML = input;
  return y.value;
}

Is there a way to do repetitive tasks at intervals?

I use the following code:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "time"
)

func main() {
    now := time.Now()
    fmt.Println("\nToday:", now)

    after := now.Add(1 * time.Minute)
    fmt.Println("\nAdd 1 Minute:", after)

    for {
        fmt.Println("test")
        time.Sleep(10 * time.Second)

        now = time.Now()

        if now.After(after) {
            break
        }
    }

    fmt.Println("done")
}

It is more simple and works fine to me.

Windows 10 SSH keys

Warning: If you are saving your keys under C:/User/username/.ssh ( the default place), make sure to back up your keys somewhere (eg your password manager).

After the most recent Windows 10 Update (version 1607), my .ssh folder was empty. This is where my keys have always been, but Windows decided to delete them when updating.

Thankfully I had backed up my keys... But... I bet some people will be reverting their PC's today.

Specified argument was out of the range of valid values. Parameter name: site

I had the same issue with VS2017. Following solved the issue.

  1. Run Command prompt as Administrator.
  2. Write following two commands which will update your registry.

reg add HKLM\Software\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\InetStp /v MajorVersion /t REG_DWORD /d 10 /f

reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\InetStp /v MajorVersion /t REG_DWORD /d 10 /f

This should solve your problem. Refer to this link for more details.

What's the fastest algorithm for sorting a linked list?

A Radix sort is particularly suited to a linked list, since it's easy to make a table of head pointers corresponding to each possible value of a digit.

How to make cross domain request

Do a cross-domain AJAX call

Your web-service must support method injection in order to do JSONP.

Your code seems fine and it should work if your web services and your web application hosted in the same domain.

When you do a $.ajax with dataType: 'jsonp' meaning that jQuery is actually adding a new parameter to the query URL.

For instance, if your URL is http://10.211.2.219:8080/SampleWebService/sample.do then jQuery will add ?callback={some_random_dynamically_generated_method}.

This method is more kind of a proxy actually attached in window object. This is nothing specific but does look something like this:

window.some_random_dynamically_generated_method = function(actualJsonpData) {
    //here actually has reference to the success function mentioned with $.ajax
    //so it just calls the success method like this: 
    successCallback(actualJsonData);
}

Check the following for more information

Make cross-domain ajax JSONP request with jQuery

PHP - regex to allow letters and numbers only

try this way .eregi("[^A-Za-z0-9.]", $value)

How large should my recv buffer be when calling recv in the socket library

If you have a SOCK_STREAM socket, recv just gets "up to the first 3000 bytes" from the stream. There is no clear guidance on how big to make the buffer: the only time you know how big a stream is, is when it's all done;-).

If you have a SOCK_DGRAM socket, and the datagram is larger than the buffer, recv fills the buffer with the first part of the datagram, returns -1, and sets errno to EMSGSIZE. Unfortunately, if the protocol is UDP, this means the rest of the datagram is lost -- part of why UDP is called an unreliable protocol (I know that there are reliable datagram protocols but they aren't very popular -- I couldn't name one in the TCP/IP family, despite knowing the latter pretty well;-).

To grow a buffer dynamically, allocate it initially with malloc and use realloc as needed. But that won't help you with recv from a UDP source, alas.

android : Error converting byte to dex

First, build -> clean project -> rebuild it again.

If its not working, then in your build.gradle, set the multiDexEnabled as true

eg:

defaultConfig {
    applicationId "com.example.myapplication"
    minSdkVersion 21
    targetSdkVersion 27
    multiDexEnabled true
    versionCode 1
    versionName "1.0"
    testInstrumentationRunner"android.support.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
}

How to check the presence of php and apache on ubuntu server through ssh

Another way to find out if a program is installed is by using the which command. It will show the path of the program you're searching for. For example if when your searching for apache you can use the following command:

$ which apache2ctl
/usr/sbin/apache2ctl

And if you searching for PHP try this:

$ which php
/usr/bin/php

If the which command doesn't give any result it means the software is not installed (or is not in the current $PATH):

$ which php
$

SQL join on multiple columns in same tables

You want to join on condition 1 AND condition 2, so simply use the AND keyword as below

ON a.userid = b.sourceid AND a.listid = b.destinationid;

Calling UserForm_Initialize() in a Module

From a module:

UserFormName.UserForm_Initialize

Just make sure that in your userform, you update the sub like so:

Public Sub UserForm_Initialize() so it can be called from outside the form.

Alternately, if the Userform hasn't been loaded:

UserFormName.Show will end up calling UserForm_Initialize because it loads the form.

How to return data from promise

I also don't like using a function to handle a property which has been resolved again and again in every controller and service. Seem I'm not alone :D

Don't tried to get result with a promise as a variable, of course no way. But I found and use a solution below to access to the result as a property.

Firstly, write result to a property of your service:

app.factory('your_factory',function(){
    var theParentIdResult = null;
    var factoryReturn = {  
        theParentId: theParentIdResult,
        addSiteParentId : addSiteParentId
    };
    return factoryReturn;
    function addSiteParentId(nodeId) {   
         var theParentId = 'a';
         var parentId = relationsManagerResource.GetParentId(nodeId)
             .then(function(response){                               
                 factoryReturn.theParentIdResult = response.data;
                 console.log(theParentId);  // #1
             });                    
    }        
})

Now, we just need to ensure that method addSiteParentId always be resolved before we accessed to property theParentId. We can achieve this by using some ways.

  • Use resolve in router method:

    resolve: {
        parentId: function (your_factory) {
             your_factory.addSiteParentId();
        }
    }
    

then in controller and other services used in your router, just call your_factory.theParentId to get your property. Referce here for more information: http://odetocode.com/blogs/scott/archive/2014/05/20/using-resolve-in-angularjs-routes.aspx

  • Use run method of app to resolve your service.

    app.run(function (your_factory) { your_factory.addSiteParentId(); })
    
  • Inject it in the first controller or services of the controller. In the controller we can call all required init services. Then all remain controllers as children of main controller can be accessed to this property normally as you want.

Chose your ways depend on your context depend on scope of your variable and reading frequency of your variable.

Python Pandas Counting the Occurrences of a Specific value

An elegant way to count the occurrence of '?' or any symbol in any column, is to use built-in function isin of a dataframe object.

Suppose that we have loaded the 'Automobile' dataset into df object. We do not know which columns contain missing value ('?' symbol), so let do:

df.isin(['?']).sum(axis=0)

DataFrame.isin(values) official document says:

it returns boolean DataFrame showing whether each element in the DataFrame is contained in values

Note that isin accepts an iterable as input, thus we need to pass a list containing the target symbol to this function. df.isin(['?']) will return a boolean dataframe as follows.

    symboling   normalized-losses   make    fuel-type   aspiration-ratio ...
0   False       True                False   False       False
1   False       True                False   False       False
2   False       True                False   False       False
3   False       False               False   False       False
4   False       False               False   False       False
5   False       True                False   False       False
...

To count the number of occurrence of the target symbol in each column, let's take sum over all the rows of the above dataframe by indicating axis=0. The final (truncated) result shows what we expect:

symboling             0
normalized-losses    41
...
bore                  4
stroke                4
compression-ratio     0
horsepower            2
peak-rpm              2
city-mpg              0
highway-mpg           0
price                 4

Add Text on Image using PIL

First install pillow

pip install pillow

Example

from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont

image = Image.open('Focal.png')
width, height = image.size 

draw = ImageDraw.Draw(image)

text = 'https://devnote.in'
textwidth, textheight = draw.textsize(text)

margin = 10
x = width - textwidth - margin
y = height - textheight - margin

draw.text((x, y), text)

image.save('devnote.png')

# optional parameters like optimize and quality
image.save('optimized.png', optimize=True, quality=50)

JavaScript: replace last occurrence of text in a string

Well, if the string really ends with the pattern, you could do this:

str = str.replace(new RegExp(list[i] + '$'), 'finish');

JQUERY ajax passing value from MVC View to Controller

Here's an alternative way to do the same call. And your type should always be in CAPS, eg. type:"GET" / type:"POST".

$.ajax({
      url:/ControllerName/ActionName,
      data: "id=" + Id + "&param2=" + param2,
      type: "GET",
      success: function(data){
            // code here
      },
      error: function(passParams){
           // code here
      }
});

Another alternative will be to use the data-ajax on a link.

<a href="/ControllerName/ActionName/" data-ajax="true" data-ajax-method="GET" data-ajax-mode="replace" data-ajax-update="#_content">Click Me!</a>

Assuming u had a div with the I'd _content, this will call the action and replace the content inside that div with the data returned from that action.

<div id="_content"></div>

Not really a direct answer to ur question but its some info u should be aware of ;).

Setting the JVM via the command line on Windows

If you have 2 installations of the JVM. Place the version upfront. Linux : export PATH=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/bin:$PATH

This eliminates the ambiguity.

jQuery .ajax() POST Request throws 405 (Method Not Allowed) on RESTful WCF

You can create the required headers in a filter too.

@WebFilter(urlPatterns="/rest/*")
public class AllowAccessFilter implements Filter {
    @Override
    public void doFilter(ServletRequest sRequest, ServletResponse sResponse, FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException {
        System.out.println("in AllowAccessFilter.doFilter");
        HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest)sRequest;
        HttpServletResponse response = (HttpServletResponse)sResponse;
        response.setHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
        response.setHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "GET, POST, PUT");
        response.setHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "Content-Type"); 
        chain.doFilter(request, response);
    }
    ...
}

Creating a generic method in C#

I like to start with a class like this class settings { public int X {get;set;} public string Y { get; set; } // repeat as necessary

 public settings()
 {
    this.X = defaultForX;
    this.Y = defaultForY;
    // repeat ...
 }
 public void Parse(Uri uri)
 {
    // parse values from query string.
    // if you need to distinguish from default vs. specified, add an appropriate property

 }

This has worked well on 100's of projects. You can use one of the many other parsing solutions to parse values.

Error: unexpected symbol/input/string constant/numeric constant/SPECIAL in my code

If you are copy-pasting code into R, it sometimes won't accept some special characters such as "~" and will appear instead as a "?". So if a certain character is giving an error, make sure to use your keyboard to enter the character, or find another website to copy-paste from if that doesn't work.

How to call another components function in angular2

If com1 and com2 are siblings you can use

@component({
  selector:'com1',
})
export class com1{
  function1(){...}
}

com2 emits an event using an EventEmitter

@component({
  selector:'com2',
  template: `<button (click)="function2()">click</button>`
)
export class com2{
  @Output() myEvent = new EventEmitter();
  function2(){...
    this.myEvent.emit(null)
  }
}

Here the parent component adds an event binding to listen to myEvent events and then calls com1.function1() when such an event happens. #com1 is a template variable that allows to refer to this element from elsewhere in the template. We use this to make function1() the event handler for myEvent of com2:

@component({
  selector:'parent',
  template: `<com1 #com1></com1><com2 (myEvent)="com1.function1()"></com2>`
)
export class com2{
}

For other options to communicate between components see also component-interaction

Dependency injection with Jersey 2.0

Late but I hope this helps someone.

I have my JAX RS defined like this:

@Path("/examplepath")
@RequestScoped //this make the diference
public class ExampleResource {

Then, in my code finally I can inject:

@Inject
SomeManagedBean bean;

In my case, the SomeManagedBean is an ApplicationScoped bean.

Hope this helps to anyone.

The type or namespace name 'Entity' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Data'

I found the root cause is when you install the nuget packages through the UI the scripts won't run sometimes. So I'd recommend open Output view while you do that. If you don't see the license agreement window when installing Nuget, there is a better change your IDE isn't doing the job right. So that's why a restart, cleanup and rebuild helps!

PS: That adding anything under System.Data.Entity.* helps because, that triggers the Nuget installer to work properly. But this I found a quite unreliable way.

So just watch the output window, you MUST see something like a successful nuget installation message at the end. Most the time when there an issue, Nuget installer won't even kick off. That's when your restart of IDE is going to help.

When things go well, Nuget package manager and IDE (I used Installer term above) would do the change, compile the solution and keep you happy! But when its not give a little help by restarting IDE and watching that Output window!

Why does JPA have a @Transient annotation?

As others have said, @Transient is used to mark fields which shouldn't be persisted. Consider this short example:

public enum Gender { MALE, FEMALE, UNKNOWN }

@Entity
public Person {
    private Gender g;
    private long id;

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.AUTO)
    public long getId() { return id; }
    public void setId(long id) { this.id = id; }

    public Gender getGender() { return g; }    
    public void setGender(Gender g) { this.g = g; }

    @Transient
    public boolean isMale() {
        return Gender.MALE.equals(g);
    }

    @Transient
    public boolean isFemale() {
        return Gender.FEMALE.equals(g);
    }
}

When this class is fed to the JPA, it persists the gender and id but doesn't try to persist the helper boolean methods - without @Transient the underlying system would complain that the Entity class Person is missing setMale() and setFemale() methods and thus wouldn't persist Person at all.

How to iterate (keys, values) in JavaScript?

The Object.entries() method has been specified in ES2017 (and is supported in all modern browsers):

for (const [ key, value ] of Object.entries(dictionary)) {
    // do something with `key` and `value`
}

Explanation:

  • Object.entries() takes an object like { a: 1, b: 2, c: 3 } and turns it into an array of key-value pairs: [ [ 'a', 1 ], [ 'b', 2 ], [ 'c', 3 ] ].

  • With for ... of we can loop over the entries of the so created array.

  • Since we are guaranteed that each of the so iterated array items is itself a two-entry array, we can use destructuring to directly assign variables key and value to its first and second item.

cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

When working on a supercomputer, I received this error when I ran:

module load python/3.4.0
screen
python

To resolve the error, I simply needed to reload the module in the screen terminal:

module load python/3.4.0
python

How can I compare two ordered lists in python?

Just use the classic == operator:

>>> [0,1,2] == [0,1,2]
True
>>> [0,1,2] == [0,2,1]
False
>>> [0,1] == [0,1,2]
False

Lists are equal if elements at the same index are equal. Ordering is taken into account then.

Store query result in a variable using in PL/pgSQL

You can use the following example to store a query result in a variable using PL/pgSQL:

 select * into demo from maintenanceactivitytrack ; 
    raise notice'p_maintenanceid:%',demo;

getting the error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘{’ token

{
int main(void);

should be

int main(void)
{

Then I let you fix the next compilation errors of your program...

How to get the fragment instance from the FragmentActivity?

You can use use findFragmentById in FragmentManager.

Since you are using the Support library (you are extending FragmentActivity) you can use:

getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.pageview)

If you are not using the support library (so you are on Honeycomb+ and you don't want to use the support library):

getFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.pageview)

Please consider that using the support library is recommended even on Honeycomb+.

How To Inject AuthenticationManager using Java Configuration in a Custom Filter

Override method authenticationManagerBean in WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter to expose the AuthenticationManager built using configure(AuthenticationManagerBuilder) as a Spring bean:

For example:

   @Bean(name = BeanIds.AUTHENTICATION_MANAGER)
   @Override
   public AuthenticationManager authenticationManagerBean() throws Exception {
       return super.authenticationManagerBean();
   }

Android Facebook 4.0 SDK How to get Email, Date of Birth and gender of User

You can use the GraphRequest class to issue calls to the Facebook Graph API to get user information. See https://developers.facebook.com/docs/android/graph for more info.

How to send a pdf file directly to the printer using JavaScript?

This is actually a lot easier using a dataURI, because you can just call print on the returned window object.

// file is a File object, this will also take a blob
const dataUrl = window.URL.createObjectURL(file);

// Open the window
const pdfWindow = window.open(dataUrl);

// Call print on it
pdfWindow.print();

This opens the pdf in a new tab and then pops the print dialog up.

How do I clone a range of array elements to a new array?

Building on Marc's answer but adding the desired cloning behaviour

public static T[] CloneSubArray<T>(this T[] data, int index, int length)
    where T : ICloneable
{
    T[] result = new T[length];
    for (int i = 0; i < length; i++)
    { 
        var original = data[index + i];
        if (original != null)
            result[i] = (T)original.Clone();            
    return result;
}

And if implementing ICloneable is too much like hard work a reflective one using Håvard Stranden’s Copyable library to do the heavy lifting required.

using OX.Copyable;

public static T[] DeepCopySubArray<T>(
    this T[] data, int index, int length)
{
    T[] result = new T[length];
    for (int i = 0; i < length; i++)
    { 
        var original = data[index + i];
        if (original != null)
            result[i] = (T)original.Copy();            
    return result;
}

Note that the OX.Copyable implementation works with any of:

For the automated copy to work, though, one of the following statements must hold for instance:

  • Its type must have a parameterless constructor, or
  • It must be a Copyable, or
  • It must have an IInstanceProvider registered for its type.

So this should cover almost any situation you have. If you are cloning objects where the sub graph contains things like db connections or file/stream handles you obviously have issues but that it true for any generalized deep copy.

If you want to use some other deep copy approach instead this article lists several others so I would suggest not trying to write your own.

Access to the path denied error in C#

I had this issue for longer than I would like to admit.

I simply just needed to run VS as an administrator, rookie mistake on my part...

Hope this helps someone <3

SQL Server stored procedure creating temp table and inserting value

A SELECT INTO statement creates the table for you. There is no need for the CREATE TABLE statement before hand.

What is happening is that you create #ivmy_cash_temp1 in your CREATE statement, then the DB tries to create it for you when you do a SELECT INTO. This causes an error as it is trying to create a table that you have already created.

Either eliminate the CREATE TABLE statement or alter your query that fills it to use INSERT INTO SELECT format.

If you need a unique ID added to your new row then it's best to use SELECT INTO... since IDENTITY() only works with this syntax.

PHP Constants Containing Arrays?

Yes, You can define an array as constant. From PHP 5.6 onwards, it is possible to define a constant as a scalar expression, and it is also possible to define an array constant. It is possible to define constants as a resource, but it should be avoided, as it can cause unexpected results.

<?php
    // Works as of PHP 5.3.0
    const CONSTANT = 'Hello World';
    echo CONSTANT;

    // Works as of PHP 5.6.0
    const ANOTHER_CONST = CONSTANT.'; Goodbye World';
    echo ANOTHER_CONST;

    const ANIMALS = array('dog', 'cat', 'bird');
    echo ANIMALS[1]; // outputs "cat"

    // Works as of PHP 7
    define('ANIMALS', array(
        'dog',
        'cat',
        'bird'
    ));
    echo ANIMALS[1]; // outputs "cat"
?>

With the reference of this link

Have a happy coding.

The endpoint reference (EPR) for the Operation not found is

As described by Eran Chinthaka at http://wso2.com/library/176/

If Axis2 engine cannot find a service and an operation for a message, it immediately fails, sending a fault to the sender. If service not found - "Service Not found EPR is " If service found but not an operation- "Operation Not found EPR is and WSA Action = "

In your case the service is found but the operation not. The Axis2 engine uses SOAPAction in order to figure out the requested operation and, in your example, the SOAPAction is missing, therefore I would try to define the SOAPAction header

Dictionary with list of strings as value

To do this manually, you'd need something like:

List<string> existing;
if (!myDic.TryGetValue(key, out existing)) {
    existing = new List<string>();
    myDic[key] = existing;
}
// At this point we know that "existing" refers to the relevant list in the 
// dictionary, one way or another.
existing.Add(extraValue);

However, in many cases LINQ can make this trivial using ToLookup. For example, consider a List<Person> which you want to transform into a dictionary of "surname" to "first names for that surname". You could use:

var namesBySurname = people.ToLookup(person => person.Surname,
                                     person => person.FirstName);

How to install beautiful soup 4 with python 2.7 on windows

I feel most people have pip installed already with Python. On Windows, one way to check for pip is to open Command Prompt and typing in:

python -m pip

If you get Usage and Commands instructions then you have it installed. If python was not found though, then it needs to be added to the path. Alternatively you can run the same command from within the installation directory of python.

If all is good, then this command will install BeautifulSoup easily:

python -m pip install BeautifulSoup4

Screenshot:

Installing very very beautiful soup

N' now I see I need to upgrade my pip, which I just did :)

Command not found error in Bash variable assignment

You cannot have spaces around the = sign.

When you write:

STR = "foo"

bash tries to run a command named STR with 2 arguments (the strings = and foo)

When you write:

STR =foo

bash tries to run a command named STR with 1 argument (the string =foo)

When you write:

STR= foo

bash tries to run the command foo with STR set to the empty string in its environment.

I'm not sure if this helps to clarify or if it is mere obfuscation, but note that:

  1. the first command is exactly equivalent to: STR "=" "foo",
  2. the second is the same as STR "=foo",
  3. and the last is equivalent to STR="" foo.

The relevant section of the sh language spec, section 2.9.1 states:

A "simple command" is a sequence of optional variable assignments and redirections, in any sequence, optionally followed by words and redirections, terminated by a control operator.

In that context, a word is the command that bash is going to run. Any string containing = (in any position other than at the beginning of the string) which is not a redirection and in which the portion of the string before the = is a valid variable name is a variable assignment, while any string that is not a redirection or a variable assignment is a command. In STR = "foo", STR is not a variable assignment.

How/when to use ng-click to call a route?

You can use:

<a ng-href="#/about">About</a>

If you want some dynamic variable inside href you can do like this way:

<a ng-href="{{link + 123}}">Link to 123</a>

Where link is Angular scope variable.

php.ini & SMTP= - how do you pass username & password

Use Fake sendmail for Windows to send mail.

  1. Create a folder named sendmail in C:\wamp\.
  2. Extract these 4 files in sendmail folder: sendmail.exe, libeay32.dll, ssleay32.dll and sendmail.ini.
  3. Then configure C:\wamp\sendmail\sendmail.ini:
smtp_server=smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port=465
[email protected]
auth_password=your_password
  1. The above will work against a Gmail account. And then configure php.ini:

    sendmail_path = "C:\wamp\sendmail\sendmail.exe -t"

  2. Now, restart Apache, and that is basically all you need to do.

how to save canvas as png image?

try this:

var c=document.getElementById("alpha");
var d=c.toDataURL("image/png");
var w=window.open('about:blank','image from canvas');
w.document.write("<img src='"+d+"' alt='from canvas'/>");

This shows image from canvas on new page, but if you have open popup in new tab setting it shows about:blank in address bar.

EDIT:- though window.open("<img src='"+ c.toDataURL('image/png') +"'/>") does not work in FF or Chrome, following works though rendering is somewhat different from what is shown on canvas, I think transparency is the issue:

window.open(c.toDataURL('image/png'));

How to remove a column from an existing table?

If you are using C# and the Identity column is int, create a new instance of int without providing any value to it.It worked for me.

[identity_column] = new int()

Accessing inventory host variable in Ansible playbook

I've found also a nice and simple way to address hostsvars right on one of Ansible's Github issues

Looks like you can do this as well:

 - debug:
    msg: "{{ ansible_ssh_host }}"

How to simulate key presses or a click with JavaScript?

Focus might be what your looking for. With tabbing or clicking I think u mean giving the element the focus. Same code as Russ (Sorry i stole it :P) but firing an other event.

// this must be done after input1 exists in the DOM
var element = document.getElementById("input1");

if (element) element.focus();

Auto logout with Angularjs based on idle user

View Demo which is using angularjs and see your's browser log

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html ng-app="Application_TimeOut">
<head>
<script src="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/angular.js/1.2.20/angular.min.js"></script>
</head>

<body>
</body>

<script>

var app = angular.module('Application_TimeOut', []);
app.run(function($rootScope, $timeout, $document) {    
    console.log('starting run');

    // Timeout timer value
    var TimeOutTimerValue = 5000;

    // Start a timeout
    var TimeOut_Thread = $timeout(function(){ LogoutByTimer() } , TimeOutTimerValue);
    var bodyElement = angular.element($document);

    /// Keyboard Events
    bodyElement.bind('keydown', function (e) { TimeOut_Resetter(e) });  
    bodyElement.bind('keyup', function (e) { TimeOut_Resetter(e) });    

    /// Mouse Events    
    bodyElement.bind('click', function (e) { TimeOut_Resetter(e) });
    bodyElement.bind('mousemove', function (e) { TimeOut_Resetter(e) });    
    bodyElement.bind('DOMMouseScroll', function (e) { TimeOut_Resetter(e) });
    bodyElement.bind('mousewheel', function (e) { TimeOut_Resetter(e) });   
    bodyElement.bind('mousedown', function (e) { TimeOut_Resetter(e) });        

    /// Touch Events
    bodyElement.bind('touchstart', function (e) { TimeOut_Resetter(e) });       
    bodyElement.bind('touchmove', function (e) { TimeOut_Resetter(e) });        

    /// Common Events
    bodyElement.bind('scroll', function (e) { TimeOut_Resetter(e) });       
    bodyElement.bind('focus', function (e) { TimeOut_Resetter(e) });    

    function LogoutByTimer()
    {
        console.log('Logout');

        ///////////////////////////////////////////////////
        /// redirect to another page(eg. Login.html) here
        ///////////////////////////////////////////////////
    }

    function TimeOut_Resetter(e)
    {
        console.log('' + e);

        /// Stop the pending timeout
        $timeout.cancel(TimeOut_Thread);

        /// Reset the timeout
        TimeOut_Thread = $timeout(function(){ LogoutByTimer() } , TimeOutTimerValue);
    }

})
</script>

</html>

Below code is pure javascript version

<html>
    <head>
        <script type="text/javascript">         
            function logout(){
                console.log('Logout');
            }

            function onInactive(millisecond, callback){
                var wait = setTimeout(callback, millisecond);               
                document.onmousemove = 
                document.mousedown = 
                document.mouseup = 
                document.onkeydown = 
                document.onkeyup = 
                document.focus = function(){
                    clearTimeout(wait);
                    wait = setTimeout(callback, millisecond);                       
                };
            }           
        </script>
    </head> 
    <body onload="onInactive(5000, logout);"></body>
</html>

UPDATE

I updated my solution as @Tom suggestion.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html ng-app="Application_TimeOut">
<head>
<script src="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/angular.js/1.2.20/angular.min.js"></script>
</head>

<body>
</body>

<script>
var app = angular.module('Application_TimeOut', []);
app.run(function($rootScope, $timeout, $document) {    
    console.log('starting run');

    // Timeout timer value
    var TimeOutTimerValue = 5000;

    // Start a timeout
    var TimeOut_Thread = $timeout(function(){ LogoutByTimer() } , TimeOutTimerValue);
    var bodyElement = angular.element($document);

    angular.forEach(['keydown', 'keyup', 'click', 'mousemove', 'DOMMouseScroll', 'mousewheel', 'mousedown', 'touchstart', 'touchmove', 'scroll', 'focus'], 
    function(EventName) {
         bodyElement.bind(EventName, function (e) { TimeOut_Resetter(e) });  
    });

    function LogoutByTimer(){
        console.log('Logout');
        ///////////////////////////////////////////////////
        /// redirect to another page(eg. Login.html) here
        ///////////////////////////////////////////////////
    }

    function TimeOut_Resetter(e){
        console.log(' ' + e);

        /// Stop the pending timeout
        $timeout.cancel(TimeOut_Thread);

        /// Reset the timeout
        TimeOut_Thread = $timeout(function(){ LogoutByTimer() } , TimeOutTimerValue);
    }

})
</script>
</html>

Click here to see at Plunker for updated version

How to get the last value of an ArrayList

This worked for me.

private ArrayList<String> meals;
public String take(){
  return meals.remove(meals.size()-1);
}

How to compare datetime with only date in SQL Server

DON'T be tempted to do things like this:

Select * from [User] U where convert(varchar(10),U.DateCreated, 120) = '2014-02-07'

This is a better way:

Select * from [User] U 
where U.DateCreated >= '2014-02-07' and U.DateCreated < dateadd(day,1,'2014-02-07')

see: What does the word “SARGable” really mean?

EDIT + There are 2 fundamental reasons for avoiding use of functions on data in the where clause (or in join conditions).

  1. In most cases using a function on data to filter or join removes the ability of the optimizer to access an index on that field, hence making the query slower (or more "costly")
  2. The other is, for every row of data involved there is at least one calculation being performed. That could be adding hundreds, thousands or many millions of calculations to the query so that we can compare to a single criteria like 2014-02-07. It is far more efficient to alter the criteria to suit the data instead.

"Amending the criteria to suit the data" is my way of describing "use SARGABLE predicates"


And do not use between either.

the best practice with date and time ranges is to avoid BETWEEN and to always use the form:

WHERE col >= '20120101' AND col < '20120201' This form works with all types and all precisions, regardless of whether the time part is applicable.

http://sqlmag.com/t-sql/t-sql-best-practices-part-2 (Itzik Ben-Gan)

Python Requests - No connection adapters

You need to include the protocol scheme:

'http://192.168.1.61:8080/api/call'

Without the http:// part, requests has no idea how to connect to the remote server.

Note that the protocol scheme must be all lowercase; if your URL starts with HTTP:// for example, it won’t find the http:// connection adapter either.

How do you stretch an image to fill a <div> while keeping the image's aspect-ratio?

if you working with IMG tag, it's easy.

I made this:

<style>
        #pic{
            height: 400px;
            width: 400px;
        }
        #pic img{
            height: 225px;               
            position: relative;
            margin: 0 auto;
        }
</style>

<div id="pic"><img src="images/menu.png"></div>

$(document).ready(function(){
            $('#pic img').attr({ 'style':'height:25%; display:none; left:100px; top:100px;' })
)}

but i didn't find how to make it work with #pic { background:url(img/menu.png)} Enyone? Thanks

Upload artifacts to Nexus, without Maven

Using curl:

curl -v \
    -F "r=releases" \
    -F "g=com.acme.widgets" \
    -F "a=widget" \
    -F "v=0.1-1" \
    -F "p=tar.gz" \
    -F "file=@./widget-0.1-1.tar.gz" \
    -u myuser:mypassword \
    http://localhost:8081/nexus/service/local/artifact/maven/content

You can see what the parameters mean here: https://support.sonatype.com/entries/22189106-How-can-I-programatically-upload-an-artifact-into-Nexus-

To make the permissions for this work, I created a new role in the admin GUI and I added two privileges to that role: Artifact Download and Artifact Upload. The standard "Repo: All Maven Repositories (Full Control)"-role is not enough. You won't find this in the REST API documentation that comes bundled with the Nexus server, so these parameters might change in the future.

On a Sonatype JIRA issue, it was mentioned that they "are going to overhaul the REST API (and the way it's documentation is generated) in an upcoming release, most likely later this year".

python: unhashable type error

I don't think converting to a tuple is the right answer. You need go and look at where you are calling the function and make sure that c is a list of list of strings, or whatever you designed this function to work with

For example you might get this error if you passed [c] to the function instead of c

Python vs Cpython

Python is a language: a set of rules that can be used to write programs. There are several implementaions of this language.

No matter what implementation you take, they do pretty much the same thing: take the text of your program and interpret it, executing its instructions. None of them compile your code into C or any other language.

CPython is the original implementation, written in C. (The "C" part in "CPython" refers to the language that was used to write Python interpreter itself.)

Jython is the same language (Python), but implemented using Java.

IronPython interpreter was written in C#.

There's also PyPy - a Python interpreter written in Python. Make your pick :)

Error java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded

It's usually the code. Here's a simple example:

import java.util.*;

public class GarbageCollector {

    public static void main(String... args) {

        System.out.printf("Testing...%n");
        List<Double> list = new ArrayList<Double>();
        for (int outer = 0; outer < 10000; outer++) {

            // list = new ArrayList<Double>(10000); // BAD
            // list = new ArrayList<Double>(); // WORSE
            list.clear(); // BETTER

            for (int inner = 0; inner < 10000; inner++) {
                list.add(Math.random());
            }

            if (outer % 1000 == 0) {
                System.out.printf("Outer loop at %d%n", outer);
            }

        }
        System.out.printf("Done.%n");
    }
}

Using Java 1.6.0_24-b07 on a Windows 7 32 bit.

java -Xloggc:gc.log GarbageCollector

Then look at gc.log

  • Triggered 444 times using BAD method
  • Triggered 666 times using WORSE method
  • Triggered 354 times using BETTER method

Now granted, this is not the best test or the best design but when faced with a situation where you have no choice but implementing such a loop or when dealing with existing code that behaves badly, choosing to reuse objects instead of creating new ones can reduce the number of times the garbage collector gets in the way...

"Are you missing an assembly reference?" compile error - Visual Studio

I found this issue in Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.4.4

I resolved most issues by discovering that the

packages.config

was missing the appropriate reference

eg:

<package id="System.Runtime" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />

Error :The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized

The answers did help, but I think a full implementation of this will help a lot of people.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;

namespace Dom
{
    class Dom
    {
        public static string make_Sting_From_Dom(string reportname)
        {
            try
            {
                WebClient client = new WebClient();
                client.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
                // Retrieve resource as a stream               
                Stream data = client.OpenRead(new Uri(reportname.Trim()));
                // Retrieve the text
                StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(data);
                string htmlContent = reader.ReadToEnd();
                string mtch = "TILDE";
                bool b = htmlContent.Contains(mtch);

                if (b)
                {
                    int index = htmlContent.IndexOf(mtch);
                    if (index >= 0)
                        Console.WriteLine("'{0} begins at character position {1}",
                        mtch, index + 1);
                }
                // Cleanup
                data.Close();
                reader.Close();
                return htmlContent;
            }
            catch (Exception)
            {
                throw;
            }
        }

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            make_Sting_From_Dom("https://www.w3.org/TR/PNG/iso_8859-1.txt");
        }
    }
}

Is there any kind of hash code function in JavaScript?

The solution I chose is similar to Daniel's, but rather than use an object factory and override the toString, I explicitly add the hash to the object when it is first requested through a getHashCode function. A little messy, but better for my needs :)

Function.prototype.getHashCode = (function(id) {
    return function() {
        if (!this.hashCode) {
            this.hashCode = '<hash|#' + (id++) + '>';
        }
        return this.hashCode;
    }
}(0));